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L. M. STRONG,
8* TTOBNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, Lund and
■\ Collecting Agent, Dodgoville, Win. Particular
if to'ilion given to tbe settlement of estates in tbc
jK, Ull iy Court. Office in Court House. [Up Stairs.]
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■ hi VI- r. D. WIOCINTON.
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S. W. REESE.
S. TTOKNKY AT LAW. Land and Collecting Agent,
B\ Dodgeville, lowa County, Wis. Particular at
■ntlon ghen to collecting age.n-ies, and payn.ent ot
t|v :, in lowa Countv. Office in the J ost Office Dntfil
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J. II CLARY.
j t TTOBNEY AT 1-AW, Mineral Point, Wis. Of
ißA Hoe 111 Thomas’ Stone Block. ! 111 •' J
J R ROBERTS.
SynTUiV PFBl.lt’. Deeds, Mortgages, &r„ drawn
B\ wi:h accuracy, at bis Hotel on Main Stive*,
f...lgevillo, Wis. * l nbv - Utl l
R ARUNDELL.
1 t I'NKR AT. DMA LEU in stoves, Hardware. Tin,
I ) Sheet-Iron, and Copper ware, Ac., lowa Struct,
Biposite the old Post Office., Dodgeville, \\ is. [nl-ytj
T BEECH,
’illlVSK’l \N AND SI K(1 EON, Dodgeville, Wis.
■ Office opposite the old Post Office. ffl-Uj
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WXIITNE Y SMITH,
5* t\\ \!■; 1{ \M> (TBUIKB, Mineral Point. A\ is.
Leather of all kinds, also Hair for Plastering, al
■t :,ys --ii hand, cheap for cash, .lob Work done at abort
H, a ice and on moderate terms. [u2ti-ttj
WISCONSIN HOTEL,
jOsEP II HOCKING, Puopuif.tok.
Is MMS HOTEL is a large stone building,
m 1 well furnished to neeommodate tbetrav
iting public. The table will be supplied \\ itb
aiyhe delicacies (be market affords, served feg,|.
ii. in good style. Boarders hy the day or
1-kek, ftirnished with all mvessary eoliv.-nienees at
4 asonsalde rates. The Proprietor returns thanks to
jibe public for the patronage heretofore extended to
•lim, and respectfully requests a eontiimanee of the
Same, Oood Stabling attached, and an attentive ostler
BBways en hand. [nlfi-vi-tfl
SCHALL’S HOUSE.
-iSLti' 207 A 2itP Kniulolph Street, Clticago Illinois.
This house is eeiilrnlly loeated. in the business
Hart of tbe city. near (be Post Office, (be Court Mouse,
Bud all I lie principle Kail Bond Depots Tbe aeeom-
SSeidatioiis are gt*od. and cheaper than most ol tlto
Bi.itels In this vicinity. fn4l-tlj
MASONIC.
KGULMI MEETINGS of Dodgeville Lodge. No.
■I \ ijcja, F. AA. 31, on the first and third Eri
■l i' evenings of each monib, at their Hall on lowa
Rlreet. Transient tiretlmtn visiting Dodgeville, are
Btordiallv invited to attend.
Henry Duxstan, Sec'y.
To widow's tears to orphans’ cry,
All wants our ready hands supply,
So far as power is given ;
The ak#d clothe, the prisoner free,—
Such are tbe deeds sweet masonry
Bevealed to ns from heaven.
EYE AND EAR.
)“-■ K. lIOUGIIM AN, Oculist and Aurist, tin skillful
operator for all diseases of tbe Eye and Ear, will
Hisit Dodgeville, Tuesday Oet. 28th, and may be found
||t tbe principle Hotel, for thin day only. Parties afflict
kl are invited to call and have their eases examined,
filt cases found incurable the parties will be so Inform -
*il. and not encouraged when there is no hope of relief,
bite the persons calling for an examination may rely
■ pen the Doctor's opinion, as the Doctor will not re
ftive any ease which ernnot ts'iietitted. No chaiges
l>r Examination. C. E. 110UGH3IAN, M. D. 0. A.
I RAIL WAV TIME TABLE
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•Mil. & Prairie du Chienß. Way.
)N and after Sunday August 31st, 1862, until further
notice, Trains will run as follows:
ii OIX ii EAs T .
pass arena:
■ Mail and I'\press Trains, at 11:37 A. M.
B Way Freight “
PASS MAZO manik:
I tt.iil and Express Trains, at 11:50 a. m.
■ VI ay Freight, 020 “
a oi\a west.
PASS ARENA :
■ Mail and Express Trains, at f- W-
I Way Freight, 10:20 a. n.
pass mazo mamk:
I Mail and Express Trains, at 4:22 r. v.
I Way Freight, 0:85 a. m.
■ KAIL ROAD TIME TABLE
CHANGE OF TIME
'p 0 take cfleet Monday, May 12, 1862.
JISERAL point rail road.
jH, GOING SOUTH.
..'.gji.i'uvo Mineral Point at 6:40 a. it.
Darlington at 7:4t “
at Warren at 8:40 '•
■X , GOING SOUTH,
!v c Warrmi at 10:00 a. w.
Darlington at HAHJ
W at Mineral Point at 12:00 m
0. IV. Cobb, Receiver.
Written for (ho Chronicle.
The Ranger’s Farewell.
Farewell dearest parents and friends for a while,
The cause id' our country hath culled us from homo,
To defend the (lag traitors attempt to destroy,
And bury foul treason for all time to come
The battle is raging, brave soldiers are falling fast,
And rivers of blood o’er Southern soil flow,
The Southern rebellion lias swept with one blast,
Many thousand bravo patriots to pain, death and
woe.
Hut the great Union army is still marching on,
Under the prestige of victory the old banner waves,
Baptised in the blood of many brave hearts,
. In triumph its folds still shelter their graves.
And should Dodgoville be forced to yield up to the foe,
One true hesrted Banger in death’s cold embrace,
Be assured Huh lie ft-M while bis comrades like Im,
Were battling with rebels for Union and peace.
And while we are absent from that we love,
Contending witi[ traitors or our foes in the North,
Our hearts will hack to those dear ones at home,
Who await us to Join thorn round the old homestead
hearth.
Fond parents and sisters, dear brothers and friends,
Await for the coming of peace once again,
And we will return singing new songs of joy,
Union and peace triumphant doth reign.
Camp 3Lessmore, Oct, tith, 1802.
Banger.
Juan’s Twenty Years’ Experience
in America.
chapter in.
This matter of a liberty war in
the State of Rhode Island, as Juan
learned afterwards, was something that
had been brewing for some time. The
version of it that Juan obtained runs
something on this wise: When the
colony of Rhode Island joined the
revolutionists who had taken up arms
against Great Britain, that colony was
managing its political matters under a
charter granted by James the Ist to
Rhode Island and Providence Planta
tions. This charter made soil the leg
islature, that is, that the number of
acres not the number of people should
vole, and that if a man had not acres
ho could not have voice nor vote in any
public matters ; and, with this charter
as a basis, Rhode Island was taken into
the order of things which wore iuagu
rated at the revolution. For some time
matters went, smooth enough, but times
bad changed, and the circumstances of
the people bad changed, and many na
tives burn in Rhode Island had no vote
in the electing of legislatures though
some of them possessed considerable
wealth. Murmurings against this state
of things were heard from time to
time, but still the old King James
charter held its ground and Rhode
Island’s vote was a certain number of
acres vote, and it was in the year 1812
that young Poke, who was then a mem
ber of the Rhode Island legislature,
raised his voice against it, he had many
sympathizers, and gathered around him
a good many followers, he was elected
governor by public aelamation. The
powers that were, that is, the number
of acre powers, had command and were
resolved to keep it, the popular sover
eignty with Duke at its head, however,
wanted command, and took up arms to
get it, hence the “Doke war,” as that
fizzle of a raid is called among Rhodc
islanders. It may bo well enough to
observe that popular sovereignty has
been made the law of that State since.
What bothered Juan was that there
should be fighting for liberty, in a laud,
that of all others, according to his no
tion, people had the most and the best
liberty in the world, and Juan’s philos
ophy of liberty got a good deal befoged,
and lie almost came to the conclusion
that a great deal said about liberty is
mixed up with considerable fudge. What
is liberty ? What do politicians great
and small, legislatures groat and small,
all manner of blabbers great and small
mean by liberty ?—Juan was puzzled;
be had heard most thundering speeches
in the old world where Royalty ruled,
about liberty; Daniel O’council liberty,
Fargus O’conner liberty, Robert Owen
liberty, W. Cobbctt liberty . So drilled
had ho been in his liberty philosophy
that, to his notion, to get away from
the shaddow of Royalty especially to
got where Democracy was the reigning
element, that that would be liberty in
the acme of its glory, and this was to
him the puzzle that in a very lew hours
of an cxistanco in that bind ho found
people as violent, perhaps a little more
murderously violent, about liberty than
he had over seen people before. And all
manner of people were violent; the very
husk and kernel of society in Providence
DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1862.
during this liberty commotion, was shak
ing and rattling—in the church and out,
on week day and sabbath, this tempest
filled the atmosphere, and praying peo
ple and swearing people were smitten.
In one church in that city, Juan was
told, the praying folk split into factions,
and hurled anathamas at each others
heads. 8o desperate became this pray
ing light that one party split entirely
away from the rest and built a church
of their own. Every pot house and
groggciy became a rendezvous for one
faction or another ; should anyone of a
differant stripe unluckely stray on the
premises, oh ! his head —his heart —his
liver ! and even common men, who, in
other times might be civil and good
natured, if they met in a narrow lane
looked daggers and sometimes used them
on one another; why, it was hard to
tell, and they themselves were bothered
to know the why, but a liberty phreuzy
had seized them, impelled by it they
took different sides, one felt ugly to
wards one another and must threaten and
fight. Man is an anomoly, said Juan,
when his brain is turned by the whirl
of liberty. This “tempest in a teapot”
of a Rhode Island war, did not last
long, and people settled down pretty
civily to treat each other some what
rationally once more, Juan being a
stranger, and, withall, a foreigner, did
not get much mixed up in this liberty
muss. It was to him, however, a sort
of theme to muse on, and for many a
day and night visions of liberty and
ante-liberty, Democracy and ante De
mocracy soveregntyisms and republi
canisms, came over his brain, and ho
came to the conclusion that a decent
batch of good common sense is a most
desirable commodity in all forms of gov
ernments, be they repubics or what
not.
[to be c'ontnli;ei),]
The Battles of Corinth and Hatehie.
The crisis of the battle at Corinth was
Saturday forenoon, when (he rebel Gen.
lingers, with 2,000 men, essayed to cap
ture our battery “Ilobinet.” Once they
came forward and were repulsed. Again
they advance.
The 2,000 men, massed in a single
column, eight deep, moved forward in
silence, (len. Rogers at the head, regard
less of the shower of bullets which
whistled about their ears and decimated
their ranks. The decisive moment—the
turning point of the engagement had ar
rived. Every battery bearing on the
column was double charged with grape
and canister, which burst over tl eir de
voted heads. Scores were killed at every
discharge, but they moved steadily on,
maintaining the silence of the grave.
As fast as one soldier fell his comrade
behind stepped forward and took his
place. They charged up to the battery,
reserving their fire until they reached
the parapets. Twice repulsed, the third
time they reached the outer works and
planted their flag upon the escarpment.
It was shot down and again planted,
but shot down again. They fired from
the parapet and through the embassures,
and had partial possession of the works.
But their triumph was of short duration.
According to previous instructions, the
gunners fell back behind the works, and
battery “Williams” and battery “Bob
inct” threw a murderous fire. It was at
short range and the missels were aimed
with fearful accuracy. N o body of men
could stand that fire, and they re
luctantly withdrew. This charge upon
the battery was a magnificent but fool
hardy affair. The intensity of the fight
may be judged from the fact that 260
dead bodies were found in and about
the trenches, within a distance of fifty
feet of the works.
Then came a splendid column by a por
tion of Colonel Mower’s brigade and
they were routed and almost annihilated.
The attack upon the fort was twice repeat
ed and as often repulsed. Col. Rogers and
Col. Boss were killed, and several other
well-known and important field officers.
The fighting where Col. Mower made
his charge was for a great portion of the
time hand to hand, and of the most
desperate character. As they retreated
down the hill towards the timber, their
starting point, batteries, "Robiuet” and
‘Williams’ played upon them with double
charges of grape and canister, and made
their retreat take the character of a rout.
In the meantime skirmishing was going
on in front of battery “Phillips,” result
ing in a sharp little fight, lasting fifteen
or twenty minutes, at the end of which
time the rebels retreated.
Beaten at every point, and disappointed
in their well conceived and nearly exe
cuted plan of capturing Corinth, a gen
eral movement, as if retreating, was
plainly perceptible along the entire rebel
line.—This was about half past twelve
on Saturday, and virtually the end of
the engagement here. Our troops stood
in line in readiness to receive them at
every point, should they desire to renew
the attack. It was thought that an at
tempt would be made to mass the rebel
troops at some other point, but this ex
pectation was not to be realized. The
enemy slowly took up his line of retreat
in the direction of Chcrvalla.
A night’s rest and bivouack refreshed
our wearied troops, and with the fresh
men to the number ol* 5,000, under Brig.
(Jen. McPherson, which arrived from
Jackson during the night, at dajdight
they started to pursue the retreating reb
els. Gen. Bosencrans followed the rebel
army untill near the Hatchie River, the
bridge over which stream den. Hurlburt
had reached with his division from Boli
var, and destroyed, near Pocahontas.—
The rebels found their retreat cut off in
that direction, and attempted to retreat
towards Chevalla, when they met the ad
vancing column of Bosencrans. There
was lighting all day Sunday and to-day,
and this evening we have the gratifying
intelligence from Gen. Bosencrans that
the enemy is utterly routed and de
feated.
A large number of bis men, those
who escaped the casualities of Friday
and Saturday, are killed and wounded,
and we have more prisoners than we
can provide quarters for. It is a low esti
mate to say that in the engagements here
and on the liatchic, not less than 10,000
rebels are killed and wounded. Prob
ably fully that number have been taken
prisoners.
An immense quantity of artillery and
all of his baggage trains are in our pos
sesion, and we may safely count upon
the utter destruction of the flower of the
Southern army.
I rode over the held very soon after
the battle closed, and can say with cer
tainty, that the rebels lost four to our one.
This is owing to the fact that we greatly
excelled them in artillery and position. —
They were compelled to meet a cross lire,
come from any quarter. We lost but very
few on Saturday. On Friday avc lost
more, and this because it was necessary
to meet them to know their force and
position. Clod bless Gen. llosencran-',
says this armv, and the country will say
‘Thing vv de Siiackassks.”—At the
late Cross Keys battle, near Union
Church, Va., one of (len. Fremont’s
batteries of eight Parrot guns, supported
by a squadron of horse, commanded by
Major T. S. Richards of Reading, was
in a sharp conflict Avith a battery of the
enemy near at hand, and a perfect storm
of shot and shell were flying. The com
mander of the battery rode suddenly up
to the cavalry, and exclaimed in loud,
excited tones, “Pring up de shaekasses !
for Cot’s sake, hurry up de shaekasses,
im-me-di-ate-ly ! The necessity of this
order, though not quite apparent to our
readers, Avill be more obvious Avheu avc
mention that the “shaekasses are mules,
carrying mountain hoAvitzors, Avhich are
fired from the back of that much abused
animal, and the immediate occasion for
the “shaekasses” Avas, that two regiments
of rebel infantry were at the moment
discovered descending a hill immediately
behind our bat teries. The “shaekasses, ’
with the liOAvitzcrs loaded Avith grape
and canister, Averc soon on the ground.
The mules squared themscKcs, as they
avcll kncAv lioav, for the shock. A ter
rific volley Avas poured into (he advan
cing column, Avhich immediately broke
and retreated. Two hundred and sev
enty-eight dead bodies were found in
the ravine next day, piled closely to
gether as they fell —the effect of the
volley from the backs of the “shack
asses.
ECWThc rebel Gen. Lee, brags that
he and Stonewall Jackson “turned Mc-
Clellan’s right Aving.” Out of this ar
rises a question which might afford some
lio-ht and easy employment to our de
bating societies, namely,—“who turned
Santa Anna’s left leg”—which, as some
of our readers will recollect, is a wooden
one.
jy ■■An editor in the village ofMitch
clb (\ W., says: “One little garden
patch of ours Avas very profitable last
season. The snails eat up the cucum
bers, the chickens cat up the snails, the
neighbors cats oat up the chickens ; and
iioav, if avc can get hold of something
that will cat up the cats, avc will try it
again.
Gr ant County Republican Nomina
tions. —Sheriff. N. Goodenough ; Clerk
of Court. J ,W. Blanding; Treasurer,
Samuel Moor; Clerk of Board. S. F.
Clise; Register, E. T. Mears; District
Attorney. Jos. T. Mills; Coroner, 11.
A. W. McNair.
The Minnesota Indian War.— Col.
Flandrcau having tendered his resigna
tion, Gen. Pope has appointed Col. Mont
gomery. of the Wisconsin 25th, to the
command of all the troops on the south
side of the Minnesota River. *
Distress in the English Manufac
turing Districts.
English papers of late dates give dy
plorablc accounts of the distress in the
manufacturing districts. A visitor to
Wigan writes to the London Times an
account of the sights he saw, from which
we take the following extract:
“I spent some time in visiting the
houses of the operatives, and though I
found many cases in which the average
of two shillings per head was not reach-
I od, yet my own inquiries confirmed the
i first impression given by the statistics
as to the comparative superiority of the
condition of the unemployed popula
tion. I saw, for instance, one family of
i eight —husband, wife and six children
—living on fourteen shillings a week ;
a widon and seven children, living on
eleven shillings, with what they could
make out of a very small shop, which
for weeks past had been next to noth
ing. An overlooker and his wife with
five childred hud to subsist on 14s. a
week, 10s. half wages, and 4s. from the
relief committee, and they too had a
small shop, but for six months they had
got nothing out oFit except .£4O of doubt
ful debts. " He had to do something to
wards the support of his mother, a very
respectable old woman, who lived close
by, and with a daughter-in-law and
child, had nothing else to depend upon
but 3s. a we k from the Relief Com
mittee, This was one of tho oases In
which the parish officers offered no re
lief but the workhouse —as she had a
docent house and furniture, some of it
old and curious enough to fetch a price
in Wardour street —of course, she had
refused it. In another street, a man
with a wife and eight children had six
days’ work from the parish, equal to 7s.
(id., and six tickets from the Relief
Committee, equal to Gs. —13s. Gd. for
ten. A little further on, a man with a
wife and four children, and an old uncle
of eighty-two years of ago, had 12s.
Od. a week for the seven. In another
part of tho town I found an overlooker
and his wife and two children, his daugh
ter and her family living in tho same
house —eight persons in all —with only
ten shillings among them. This was
one of the cases where there had been
a long struggle before applying for re
lief. They had sold and pawed nearly
all their' clothing, and had run deeply
into debt besides. The case had only just
come under the notice of tho committee,
and no doubt will be more adequately
met at the next visitation. In this part
of the town, where the cottages tire
newer and better built, and inhabited
generally by a higher class of opera
tives, I saw many cases which had not
come before the Relief Committee at
all, where people were pinching and
screwing in every way, suffering tho
severest privations to eke out a few shil
lings earned by o.tc of the members of
the family, rather than sacrifice their
pride of Independence.”
While industrious labor is starving
in England, in this country, wc are
suffering more from the want of that
labor, than from the war. Rut owing
to the foul and misrepresentations ot
this country by the London liwcs and
kindred sheets, those poor men will re
main there and starve with their fami
lies, rather than come to this laud of
plenty and prosperity.
What to do with the Contrabands.
This is a matter that seems to puzzle
the government at present, and will be
likely to be a puzzling matter for some
time to come. There is no body in the
free states, or, at any rate, but very
few, that want them to blend and mix
up in society here. There seems to be
no home for them in the South at pres
ent, and they arc* accumalating on the
hands of tho government in such numbers
that something must be done. The fol
lowing is an outline of the Fomeroy
plan of South American Colonization,
but from late intimations, there seems
to be some difficulties in the way of
that being succcsful:
It is Senator Pomeroy’s intention to
go with five hundred able-bodied negroes
as the first colony, in a first class steamer
sailing from this city between the sth
and 10th of October, A few women
will accompany the expedition, but none
with large families. The first colony
to tro as pioneers to smooth the way for
others. Tbe expedition will land at
Chiriqui on the Isthmus, two hundred
miles north of Aspinwall and the Pan
ama Railroad. If no objection is made
by the Chiriqui government on arrival,
a lauding will be made in Chiriqui La
goon, a line bay overlooking northward,
with several rivers flowing into it from
the south.
If objection be made on the part of
the present adminstration of the State,
or if the coal and gold deposits, or the
commercial and agricultural resources
do net prove as good as is promised, a
second trial will be made on the perhaps
equally desirable shore of Honduras.
and the colony may settle, in the lan
guage of the paper of permission from
this government, “at any point within
the tropics,” even though it should bo
tho valley of the Nile. But no objec
tion is anticipated at Chiriqui. Of course
tho colony is to be entirely in harmony
with existing law. It will plant a city
with municipal regulations under tho
State authority.
The President has given Senator Pom
eroy a letter, charging him to “maintain
tho republic abroad,” and the Secretary
of State has endorsed it in such manner
as to prevent any action on the part of
the colony which may involve our govern
ment in any event. The expedition will
be supplied with provisions' furnished
by the government, which will be dealt
out as soldiers’ rations during tho voy
age and thereafter, until tbe first crop
shall have been gathered. It is tbe in
tention to make the colony speedily
self-supporting. To this end agricul
tural and mining impliments, with saw
mills and a few domestic animals, will
be taken.
Two million acres of land have already
been negotiated for, and Senator Pome
roy goes clothed with ample power to
negotiate for all that is needful. The gov
ernment will give to each adult unmar
ried man 20 acres, to every family of
live persons forty acres, to every family
of over five persons eighty acres. UKUi
qua Laguou is whore Uolumbus landed
on his second trip, and got gold by digg
ing up Indian graves. Much gold is be
lieved to be in tho streams which take
their rise there.
We do not want the contrabands in
tho free States, and they cannot stay in
the South. We trust that Mr. Pome
roy’s voyage will open up anew land to
the black man where the oppressor 'will
follow him no more.
Important Arrest of a Domestic
thief —A Most Accomplished Six
Years’ Operator. —Ellen Wagner,
alias McNair, McNabb, Davis, Burns,
Smith, and a dozen other aliases, was
arrested yesterday by Detective Farley,
of this city, and Detective Frost, of
Brooklyn.
This is one of the most important ar
rests that have been made in a number
of years. The prisoner has been opera
ting in this city and in other cities,Jinclu
ding all the fashionable watering places,
and several other states. Her method
was to answer advertisements in papers
where a domestic or housemaid of any
kind was required for service. After se
curing the place she would remain
long enough to discover the locality of
the silver ware, jewels, and other valu
ables, and would then, with the aid of ac
complices, “clean the house out.”
She usually boarded at the most fash
ionable boarding bouses, dressing in el
egant style, and acting the lady in all
particulars. She is not above twenty
years of age, and is very highly accom
plished, having, during the six years
which she has devoted to crime, paid
particular attention to her education.
She is aa accomplished pianist, and con
verses readily upon all topics. When
arrested at her boardiug-bouse in Blecs
kor street, tbe detectives ascertained
that she was in the habit of eating from
her own dishes, they being silver, and
that she used silver spoons, forks, nap
kin rings, baskets, &c., all her own prop
erty. Here she passed as the wife of
Lieut. Col. Davis, of the Union army.
When an advertisement appeared which
attracted her attention, she would leave
her boarding-house, stating that she
would be absent a week or ten days.
She would then put on tbe garb of a
domestic and make application for the
place, which she usually succeeded in
getting. Her appearance was prepossess
ing and her manners engaging, so much
so that she has often made a companion
in respectable and wealthy families.
Having succeeded in robbing the house
she would return to her boarding-house,
and become Mrs. Lieut. Col. Davis in
silks and jewels. About 6700 worth of
the property was recovered. A large
quantity of the silver ware stolen by her
had been melted up and could not bo
recovered. Several parties have ident
ified some of the property recovered as
belonging to them, and others who have
suffered from her depredations are re
quested to call at Police Headquarters
to identify her and the remaining prop
erty. The police have been on her
track eighteen months, and Detectives
Farley and Frost are entitled to a great
deal of credit for having made this
arrest.
®ssrA printer out West, whose office
is half a mile from any other building,
and who bangs his sign on the limb of
a tree, advertises for an apprentice boy.
He says, “a boy from the country would
be preferred !”
jßgf*“Mr. Brown, I owe you a grudge,
remember!”
“I shall not be frightened then, for I
never knew you to pay what you owed. 1 ,
ft®* Wood wanted at this office on
subscription.
NO. 6.