Vol. I. WoodMdge, Middlesex County, N. J., Thursday, February 15,1877. No. 45.NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Washington's Birthday!MUSICAL AND LITERARY

AINME:

IN THE NEW SCHOOL BOOM,

OF IKE

.First Presbyterian Church,OF THIS PLACE OK

Thursday Evening, Feb. 22.a - AT 7:30 O'CLOCK.

AN 0YS1EK. SUPPERASD OTHEB

ItEFBESHMENTS

Trill be prepared in the basement optheSchool Room, to be served

JUPON THE ETJROPEAN PLAN,

after the entertainment.

Tie proceede arising from the entertain-ment and- supper will be devoted to the

CEMETERY IMPROVEMENT FUND.

TOOra LEGHORNS A SPECIALTY.

THE MOST PROFITABLE

FAMILY FOWL!HANDSOME, HAEDY,

HELP THEMSELVES.MATURE EARLIER,

LAY MORE EGGS.My fowls are carefully bred from the choieest

PRIZE WINNING STRAINS,

and- are up to the

STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE.

EGGS NOW KEADY,at S3 per setting, two settings, S5.

J. BLANCHABD EDGAK,P. 0. Box, 336, Bah way, IT. J.

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AD VERTJSEMENTS.

TWO HOUSES AND LOTS FORSALE OR TO LET.

THE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR SALEor to rent, the well-built house on Green at.containing twelve rooms, with 2 acres adjoin-ing ; three minutes walk from the Railroadstation. Also, the one, next adjoining hisown residence, containing eight rooms, -withone acre of land attached.

For particulars and terms apply toGEO. G. HUCCE, Woodbridge.

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B. VAN WAG5TER, M. D.

SS St. Marie's Avenue,

OFFICE HOUBS, BROOKLYN, N. Y.

8 to 9 A. M., 5 to 7 P. M. febl

Woodbridg-e.tot

Washington's BirtJulfiy,

The entertainment announced last week,the advertisement of which •will be found inanother column, to be given during the even-ing of the 22d in the Sabbath-school room ofthe 1st Presbyterian Church,' promises to bean event ef unusual interest and enjoyment.The exercises, commencing at 7:30 P, M., willconsist of readings, recitations, and vocal andinstrumental music—the last named featureof the entertainment consisting of selectionsupon the piano, guitar and flute. The com-mittee have secured the services of Profs,lloesling and Miller of New York, and in ad-dition onr friends will be pleased to knowthat the following ladies and gentlemen havevery kindly signified their intention of beingpresent and assisting in the literary and musi-cal exercises of the evening: Mr. & Mrs. T. J.Rayner, Mrs. Dora Dow, and Misses Marsh andHall of Rali-way; Misses Adele Manning, G. P.Frazee and Julia L. Arnold of Perth Amboy;Mr. F. A. Habnel of our own town, and otherlocal talent. Several of those above men-tioned are well known to our readers, andneed no word of recommendation fromus, while the others are valuable additions,and will add materially to the variety and ex-cellence of the entertainment.

Supper will bo. served prior to the enter-tainment to those wishing it, and during anintermission in the exercises.

We trust our friends of Woodbridge andvicinity will avail themselves of this oppor-tunity of spending a pleasant and profitableevening, such as the programme offered can-not fail to afford.

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.fc LL PERSONS CONCERNED MAY take

•J-~A- notice, that the subscriber, guardian ofCiiarles W. Coven tree. Frederick J. Coventree,aad George C. Coventree, late minors, now offnll age. intends to exhibit his final accountto the Judges of the Orphan's Court of theCounty of liJdlesex, in the term of April,Ib'ii, next ensuing, for settlement and allow-ance, the sarne being first audited and statedby the Surrogate. DAVID P. CAKPENIKK.

Dated, Woodbridge, N. J., Jan. 29, 1877.feblti

TyEYf JEBSEY : Middlesex County Surxo- j.jJN gate's Offices. Upon the application of \Charlotte E. Mawbey Administratrix of Henrv {Itlawbey late of the said County oi'iiiduiesex, jdeceased, I, William Heiley, Jr., Surrogate of jthe siiid County of Middlesex, do hereby Iorder and direct the said Adiajnistratrix to jgive public notice to the creditors of the saiddfcGfised to bring in tlieir dtibts, demandsand claims, undt'r oath or sifDrmation, against |the aaid estate within nine months from the•date of this order, by setting up a copy of the |order, within twenty days after the date here-of, in live of the most public places in saidCounty for the space of two months, and&iso by advertising the same for the like spaceof time in the INDEPENDENT HOUP. one of thenewspaper printed in this State. And if any.creditor shall neglect to exhibit his or herdebt, demand or claim, within said period ofnine months after public notice given asaforesaid, such cereditor shall be foreverbarred of his of her action against the saidAdministratrix1.

Given under my hand this Sixth day of..February 1877. '

WniiiAH RBILEX, Jr.,feb8m2-$G. 7-5. Surrogate.

T>IEKETT & PATERSON

are offering

GEEAT BARGAINS

% in all their Departments, viz:

X>RY GOODS,

DRESS GOODS,

CLOTHS, FLANNELS,

HOSIERY, NOTIONS,

HATS, CAPS,

BOOTS, SHOES,

' GROCERIES,

&c, &c,

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CAWS AND EFFECT.

BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN.

Nine metaphysicians, perclied aloftOn the top of a dry pine tree,

Have talked all day in a marvelous wayOf divine philosophy.

Ho -wild Coloridgean rainhles theyAll over the realm of tows—

They stick to their text, however perplexed,The doctrine (and practice) of caws.

The biggest crow on the nearest limb,Gave first, with never a pause,

A clear, profound, deliberate, soundDiscourse of proximate caws.

A theologue in a cassock clad,With a choker under his jaws

And a cold in his head either sung or saidA treatise of second caws.

A fish hawk lit on the topmost limbWith a pickerel in his claws,

When small and great began to debateConcerning efficient caws

And when, at the close, the congress rose,I saw two old crows pause,

And what they said, as they flew o'erhead,Had the sound of final caws.

Jfo longer in me, O Philosophy,Thy devotee expect;

In spite of thy Jaws, here's a chain of caws,And not one single effect.

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THE IE¥OX LIBRARY.

The Lenox Library, New York, thepicture gallery of which has been opento the public twice weekly for nearly amonth now, is by no means ready yetfor the larger uses for which, it was de-signed. Visitors who have already seenMr. Lenox's collection of paintings, andB;IW the best and largest private picturegallery in America, will remember doorsat • either end of both the upper halls,where the sculptures are placed, and thelower, into which one conies directlyfrom the court. These lead into fourrooms, each extending the whole widthof the building, and each to con-tribute to the completeness of thelibrary proper. One of those at thenorth end will be used as a readingroom and for similar purposes, and ofthe others at least two, those at thesouth end, will contain the books whichMr. Lenox intends to send to the libra-ry. Part of these are already there.The upper room, which is spacious andlofty, being, of course, of the sameheight as the picture gallery, is emptyas yet, though the shelves are all up.That below is of the same size andshape, and has book shelves which, arevery plain, simple and serviceable onevery wall. A gallery circles the room,about ten feet high, and the shelves be-neath it are by no means completely,but passably, well filled with books al-ready. The books are, of course, notyet arranged, and Mr. Moore, the sup-erintendent and librarian, who, withtwo assistants, is busy over them, doesnot expect to have them catalogued andin their places before nest Fall at thesoonest.

The library is especially rich also inbooks pertaining to the history ofAmerica—if supplemented by the simi-lar volumes in the library of the Histor-ical Society the conjoint collection wouldbe the best in existence. These booksMr. Leonard is fond of caning his "ex-travagance." He is himself a bibli-ophilist of a most ardent character, andhas left the impress of his characterupon his library even more deeply thanupon his collection of pictures.

The library building itself is worthespecial mention. It is simple, digni-fied and full of the repose which itsuse demands that it should have. It isMr. Hunt's best work in all theserespscts. I t is built .of white juarblj,in the Neo-Grec style of architecture,which is _popular now at the Ecole desBeaux Arts and among all French arch-itects who are not still building in Re-naissance; there are two stories, each ofthe same height, and very lofty; thewalls are done in rough plaster, whichis extremely pleasant, and the broadstairs are of marble, with the tread ofthe underside planed off, and withiron railings. The whole is heated bysteam, the engine-room, with four boil-ers and the ventilating apparatus, beingin the basement, and each room beingheated from, the top, so that every ar-rangement for comfort has been madeas carefully and completely as the atten-tion bestowed upon considerations ofelegance and art.

Some faces spsak not. They arebooks in which not a line is written,save perhaps a date. Others are greatfamily Bibles, with Old and New Testa-ments written in them. Others aremerely "Mother Goose" melodies andnursery tales.—Longfellow.

"One million dollar men" are abroadin the land.

HIS HQM3B AND BIJAE.

AN HOUR AT THE CENTRAL STATION COUET.

Seven strangei-s from Canada enteredthe Central Station in single file andsat down on seven different chairs with-out looking to the right or left orspeaking a word. Every man kept hiseyes on Bijah'a feet as the old janitormoved around in his semi-embarrassedmanner, and to hide his embarrass-ment he hummed in a bird-like voice:

"Oh ! the beautiful, beautiful thaw,xVnd the beautiful, beantifnl slush,

The birds they do sing, as if it were springAnd the children do holler for mush."

Nevertheless when court opened theseven men were still gazing from theirfourteen eyes at Bij all's soles.

THE GROUND HOG EXCUSE.

"Adam Crane, where did you getdrunk yesterday ?" blandly inquiredthe court of the first man out.

His Honor's kind look gave Adamnew courage, and he explained:

"It was ground-hog day .your Honor/'"So it was; but what has ground-hog

to do with whisky ?""Our family has always celebrated the

day, Judge. If it is a cloudy day wohave baked goose for dinner and con-gratulate each other on an early spring.If it is a sunny day we always getdrunk and smash windows. That'swhy I got drunk. It has been a regu-lar custom for years and years, and Ihope you won't hop on to me with abig sentence."

"I can't help about it's being a cus-tom, Adam Crane," softly replied thecourt, "nor can the people of the Stateof Michigan make it cloudy or sunnyfor the ground-hog. Our folks herefound you driven into a pile of rubbishup to your shoulders, pulled you outand brought you here, and it is nowmy painful duty to give you the coldgrip for thirty days."

"Blast the ground-hog ! muttered theprisoner.

"No swearing, unless you raise yourright hand," replied the court. "Thefact is, Mr. Crane, there is too muchfooling with the weather, and there aretoo many signs and too many prophets.One day the goose-bone predicts a reg-ular old silver-plated noreaster, andnext day Gen. Myers brings on a thaw.This having to use a wheelbarrow in themorning and a hand-sled at night hasdisgusted me."

"I don't control the weather." gowledAdam.

"Can't help that; you will have totake your little ground hog under yourwm and go up."

A MUDDY MYSTERY.

There was a great outcry on Beau-bine street. It was at midnight. Fourpolicemen heard the outcry and rushedfor the oufcerier. He was found on acrosswalk, and he at once demanded toknow the name of the party who hadhit him on the back with a hunk ofmud.

"Hunk !'' echoed the first officer ashe gazed at the man's back.

"H—unk!" gasped the second as hetook a look.

"Hund—adori !" said the other two ,in chorus.

The mud extended from the crownof the man's head to the blister on hisheel, and it was plain that he hadfallen.

"I d'maisd th' 'rest of party hiz me!"he shouted at the officers.

They argued that he had fallen down,and at the end of eleven minutes hethoughtfully remarks :

"Whaz I waz fall down f'r ?"It was then discovered thSt lie was

very drunk, and he was gently led downand put to bed.

"This is a tough case," said his Honor."Yes, and, lots of mud," replied the

farmer."And there was some whisky, I sup-

pose.""I s'pose so, but I want to get home

worse than any bear ever wanted pork.I haven't been drunk before for forty-one years, and. I won't drink anotherdrop till I'm even hundred years old."

"Well, you can go home," said hisHonor. "You'd better let the mud re-main on your back, and when you gethome tell your -wife that you were struckby a landslide."

The farmer didn't approve of theplan. He backed up to the first wallafter getting out, and he rubbed hisback against the bricks until his coat-tail buttons were torn off.

THAT CELLAR DOOB.

A saloonist on Fort street east has acellar door in a convenient spot for theboys to slide on, and they have slid upto the door and slid down it and crawl-ed back till the old man was forced tosing:

Doze bat, bat poys, dey come aroimdt,Und slide upon dot door

Undil deir preeches all vear oudfcPehind—also pefore.

He complained of the annojrance,and a boy named "The Demon of theMarket" was nabbed on the slidingscale.

"I am horrified to hear of such con-duct," said his Honor, as he lookeddown upon the ragged imp.

"Didn't hurt the door, did it," askedthe Demon.

"But it hurt the mail's feelings, sir.If you owned a cellar door, all nicelyfrescoed off with sky-blue paint, wouldyou want a gang of boys sliding downit?"

"Can't a boy have any fun with noth-in' nor nobody'?" asked the lad.

"Yes, lie can. Take your snow-shovtl and toss the flakes off the walk—get a hoe and open the gutters—huntup lost children and restore them—at-tend auction sales—look for runaways—hunt for pennies in the market—why, there's oceans of fun in this townfor a boy of your age."

"I'll keep off n his door," said theDeinon; "It wasn't much of a slide any-how."

"And will you try to be a good boy ?""I will""From this day you will try to change

for the better, will you ?""I begun to change the minute the

officer got his claw on me!" was thehumble reply, and the boy was allowedout. Court adjourned, and the sevenmen from Canada ross up in unison,cast a farewell glance at those enormousboots, and they silently filed out behindthe crowd.

DIAMOND GUT DIAMOND.

It is the same here as in Cairo or NewJersey. The other day when a Tarheelwith sunken eyes and high cheek bonessat down on the steps of a grocerybeside several others, he sighed heavilyand asked: "Gentlemen, if any of youfound a five en the sidewalk, wouldyon hunt for the owner?"

"I would," came from each individualwith promptness and dispatch.

"Haven't any of you lost a five, haveyou '?" anxiously continued the man.

"I have," answered one, and the echowent all along, the line.

"Describe her, gentlemen," he remark-ed. One said his had a figure "5" onit. Another said his had a picture ofDe Soto discovering the Mississippiriver. A third said the words UnitedStates were plain to be seen on the billtint fell out of his vest pocket.

"Gentlemen, this five don't tallymournfully remarked the Tarheel.'None of you have hit the descriptionwithin a miLj and a sand-bar."

"Lei's see it," asked two or three atonce.

"If s a five, and I found it on thewalk," he whispered holding out hishand. The five was a nickel. Someof the crowd leaned back and heldtheir hands on their outraged hearts,while others rose up, carefully brushedtheir cat-tails and said it was time togo home. Only one of the victimsseemed to appreciate the situation. Hechuckled and gurgled and gasped,and asked the stranger what he would

take."Whisky straight," was the prompt

reply."So would I if I ever drank," said the

citizen, and he lounged down town toget up a bet on the weather.

AUTISTIC EFFECT.—As a horse anddray were yesterday quietly standingon Jefferson avenue, near Griswoldstreet, the owner walked out from thecurbstone and gave the animal a severecut with his whip. •

"The horse was very quiet—why didyou hit him ?" asked a pedestrian.

"That hoss knows why I hit him,"replied the man. "I've trained him totake an artistic position when he's onthe street, and there he was, one lpgbent up, his fore feet spread apart andhis head down. See him now ! Lookat the hang of that tail—the carriageof that head, and take a glance at themfeet!"'

The man looked, and when satisfiedwith the pose the drayman continued :

"Now then, look at those other plugsaround here. Would any man, havingany harmony in his soul, or any eye forartistic effect, pass by my dray if hewants a load of grindstone taken to thefreight house ?"

A PROHIBITION MOVEMENT.—The Mar-

shalltown, Iowa, Times publishes thefollowing:

, Jan. 20, 1S77.—Mister editor I for-bid anyone marrying John Henry for 1 wasengaged to him the 1st of January, for if hegets married he will hsii'to suffer the penaltyof the law. I remain as ever his intendedwife. SOPHA BAKEB.

JACK BULLET'S BROKEN HEART.

A hundred men were digging forgold, and they had named the place"Joe White's Dream."

Singular name, but they were singu-lar men—brawny, rough, grizzled, andsome of them wicked. They were menfrom the East, digging, delving, in asort of mad frenzy, for the goldenwealth of California.

On this day all work had ceased.The men formed in a circle on the grass,and in .the center was Jack Bullet. Hishands were tied behind him, there wasan old blood-stain on his face, and fromhis wolfish eyes he sent murderousglances from face one to another and atlast called out:

"I wish I had knifed some of ye!"None of the men replied. Some

were pale, others nervous, and noneseemed to relish the business on hand,which was the hanging of Jack Bullet.By-and-by a meek and humble lookingman named Elder Graves by the boys,entered the circle, and standing withone hand on the prisoner's shoulder,he began :

"Jack Bullet, this is a solemn morn-ing for us all! Here is the rope—thereis the limb—and we are gathered tohang you! You came to Joe White'sDream weeks ago, poor, hungry andill. We fed and nursed you, and whenyou were well enough to work a fullclaim was staked out for you. Howhave you repaid us, Jack Bullet ? Youhave stolen dust from the men, broughtdiscords and jealousies among us,incited rows and riots, and last nightyou were detected when about to mur-der your partner and steal his few hun-dred dollars. We try to be white inthis camp, and to use all men right,but we cannot turn you lose to preyupon some other party. The men aregoing to harg you !"

"Let 'em hang—I can't die but once!"sulkily replied the prisoner.

"Jack Bullet," said the Elder. "1 ama praying man, and I want to pray withyou before you swing i I am sorry foryou. You are a strong man, and youare to die like a dog. Maybe you havea mother in the East, or you may havea wife and children. God help them !"

The Elder sank down on his kneesbefore the prisoner and prayed such aprayer as the rocks have never echoedagain. Before he had finished therewere tears in the eyes of half the men,and Big Sam bent over to Curly Jimand whispered : •••;•

"Now that's what I call religuni—thereal old bang-up religuni such as weused to git way back in New Hamp-shire !"

When that prayer had ended a newspirit came to the men. They scannedJack Bullet's face and saTv that it hadsoftened, and as Elder Grave steppedaside the President of the camp cutJack's bonds and said :

"We don't want your blood, thoughyou sought ours. You are free to go,Jack Bullet, but don't you ever enterJoe White's Dream again !"

The reprieved man moved awaywithout a word, nor did he look backas he was in view. When he had dis-appeared from sight the miners returnedto their work, each one so busy withhis thoughts that but few words wtrespoken. That day two weeks a mancame up from "Cardboard City" andreported that Jack Bullet had beeneattn up by a grizzly. Every man incarnp felt glad then that his town hadescaped the disgrace of a hanging, andin the afternoon we saw Elder Gravesshoulder a spade and turn down into alittle valley. It was a beautiful spot,always full of the mellowest sunshineand the prettiest iiowers. When theboys had knocked off work for the daythey all descended into the place, forwhat reason no one knew, but by asort of common consent. In the centerof the valley the earth had been heaf>edup like a grave. At its head was aboard—at its foot a wild rose. On theboard Elder Graves had cut with hisknife:

JACK BULLET.AGED POBTY.

Somebody ought to be Governor ofLouisk.na, and so forth.

Men. may not have given him.a chance.

BUT BOD \vni !You wouldn't think those rough

men had sentiment in their hearts, butthey saw through the Elder's motivesin an instant, and the roughest man inthe lot stooped down and carefullyrearranged one of the sods.

Three weeks more went by, and oneevening Jack Bullet came into JoeWhite's Dream, alive and well. Hestood on the little square in the centerof the town, and he said not a word tillthe wondering men had gathered abouthim. Then he pointed to the 'grave "inthe'valley, his eyes filled with tears, andhe chokingly said :

"Boys,..! sneaked back here thismorning to kill some one in revenge,but I cum across that—that gravedown—down thar, and—and !"

He held out his hands to the men.and the tears blinded him so that he-could not see a face. Elder Graves-went down on his knees again, everyman with him, and there were moretears and a prayer so beautiful andtender and true that Jack Bullet sobbedlike a child. His heart was broken,and all the Satan in his nature was-driven out in a moment.

Joe White's Dream was a rainingcamp for many months after that, andJack Bullet was one of the best men in..it. The headboard grew gray as the-rain beat down and the sun shone, and:the wild rose grew till it covered all thegrave, but no one disturbed a sod.The grave was a sign—a beacon-light,as it were, and perhaps miners wereright when they said of our town:

"They've had a revival up thar, an'they are the best chaps an' the hardestworkers on the slope." M. QUAD.

BEATHTC A DEAD-BEAT.

For some days past an unknown fe-male has been in the habit of makingan afternoon trip on the Woodwardavenue cars, generally . getting aboardat Jefferson avenue and riding to Bradystreet. The first two or three times shepaid her fare promptly enough, Lut thenext trip she wrote something on ftcard, handed it to a gentleman, and he•ppdd her fare. The next trip she wait-ed till the driver rang the fare-bell, andwhen she saw him looking through, thedoor she advanced and held tip a cardon which was written:

"I am deaf and dumb."

The driver didn't want to create ascene, and she rode as a dead-head.Next clay slie went through the sameperformance, but when she boarded thsear the third afternoon he was readyfor her. He, had every reason to believeher a fraud, as she had been heard tospeak in a car coming; down. Whenshe entered the car she took, a* seat andbegan reading, seeming- to have noearthly interest in the faro question.There are no conductors on the route,and the driver contrails both doors.Before Brady street was reached theunknown female was the only passen-ger. She rose and rang the bell at thestreet, but the driver paid not the leastheed. She rang again, and he hurriedup the horse. Then she tried to pull",the bell off the car, but the man never-turned his head. The woman rushedto the door and pushed and tugged'till she was red in the face, but not aninch would it biidge. Rushing to thefront door she pounded the glass in a-furious manner, and by and by thedriver "acci lent illy" looked arnuntl.She gestured wildly, and as he shookhis head in a stupid way she held up-her card which said: "I am deaf anddumb." The driver fumbled around'for two or three minutes and broughtout a placard on which was printed:

"So am I!"

They were then about half a mile-above Brady street, making excellent,time, and the woman's indignation wasiso great that she shook her fist at the-driver and screamed out:

"I'll have you shot for this !"He held up his card, shook his head,

and paid no further attention to her-blood-curdling threats.. At the turn-table, a mile and a half, above Bradystreet, the door slid back and the wo-man jumped into the mud. She bless-ed all his relatives back to the revolu-tion, but he did not seem to hear her.As he started off she called out:

"You are a monster, viilian, sneakand thief!"

He gave the lines a shake, got thecard from his pocket, and she was not-too for avray to read the answer:

"So am I!"—Detroit Free Press.

GOES TO THE HEABT.—During the

past week a well-dressed and intell.gentlooking man has secured a good manydrinks of beer for nothing. His planis to call into a saloon, give theproprietor a searching " glance, andexclaim:

"Why, I thought for an instantthnt DaniJ Webster had returned to.life."

He calls for beer, and as he sips it heagain whispers:

"I don't say that you will get a gov-ernment office right away, but you just•wait. I'm going to Washington—know'em all—great influence:—can't haveyou behind a bar—suppose youwouldn't object to the Detroit postoffi.ee,no matter who's elected ?"

They rinse out the glass and saynothing about pay, and the man goesdown the street and touches anotherheart. ,

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A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT. VULGAR SALUTATIONS.

"This is, indeed, a difficult ease to de-cide," said Judge Duffy at the Tombs-Police Court yesterday, twirling1 hismustache reflectively and gazing at ahuge Newfoundland dog which pant-inglv struggled to free itself from thechain held by the court policeman."You, Jolm Koler," he added, "claimthe clog as your property, and you, PaulKanitz, say the animal is yours. Nowit stands to reason that one of you ismaking a false statement, and underthe circumstances I am . at a loss whatdisposition to make-of the animal.

The object of the dispute ceased his^struggling as if in sympathy with the.-gravity of the court, and, giving a final•wag to his tail, sat quietly down toawait the judicial decision.

"It is clear to my mind," resumed-Judge Daffy, fingering a law book andfixing his eyes on the dog, "that Kanitzis the prim a facie owner, because theanimal' was in his possession at the timeof arrest; yet if Koler's statement iscorrect the apparent owner is in realitybut a trustee and the dog the propertyin trust."

At this the animal again grew rest-less, but an admonitory twitch of thechain by the officer caused him to re-new his attention to the exposition ofthe law.

"In the absence of evidence furtherthan that already adduced," JudgeDuffy continued, "I can decide this caseonly on the intelligence of the propertyitself, and as the animal is capable only•of indicating his former proprietor byiinstLnct, by instinct shall I decide the•case." The words were evidently wellweighed, and the Judge closed the law•book indicative, of his determination.

"A- decision by instinct," murmuredthe general audience, and all breaths•were hushed in admiration of the Solo-mon-like wisdom of the magistrate andall eyes were turned on the dog.

"The claimants will take up positionsat the further end of the court-room,opposite each other," ordered the Judge.The rival owners, looking mystified,placed themselves in the positions re-quired and scowled at each other.

"Now," said the Judge, "when I givethe signal each of you whistle simul-taneously and the officer will relase thedog, and the animal, thus free to choosefor himself, will, as_ a matter of course,go direct to his lawful owner."

"Officer, are you ready ?""Yes, your Honor."The audience rose to witness the de-

nouement. The court looked around tosee that there was no foul play andthen took up a cross-legged positionon the magisterial chair, the better tosee the result. Every eye was rivetedon the animal.

All being in readiness tha Judgeshouted:

"One, two, three—time. 'Koler set up a whistle, long and loutl

that sounded like a locomotive's tryingto emulate the Centennial loghorn. Itfilled the court-room, tingling the earsof the Judge. Kanitz pulled, pantedand whistled short and skull by jerks.Never was such music heard in templeof justice before. The standing audi-ence strained with intense interest, andeven the court arose spasmodicallyfroni its cross-legged position andleaned half over the bench.

The dog, releassdfrom his chain, lift-ed his head and stepped briskly in frontof the railing. He looked first at Koler,then at Kanitz, wagged his tail at theJudge and darted through the openfront door, down the stone steps andup Centre street with the speed of thewind.—N. T. Herald.

AD VERTISEMENTS.

BEST TO BE READY.—Seventeen color-ed men leaned up against the south•wall of the Central Market yesterdayin a row, and by and by one of themremax'ked:

"Well, now, dis is eurus weather.Pears like I could hear de buds startingouten de trees. Will Brudder Gardnerplease 'splain what sort ob weather isgwine to prevail aroun' heah in 'bout aweek?"

"G-emlen," replied the aged man ashe walked down the line, "de best, wayis to be on boaf sides de qutshun, an'den you is ready for de main emer-gency. Before I left home dis Boon Itole de ole woman to git out my whitevest an'linen cote an'put all de but-tons back on. Den when I got downtown I contracted for de use of fo'thermometers and six snow shovels, an'I'ze puffickly willin' to let de weatherblossom out or freeze up. Deres nuffin"like talon' time by de padlock."

If there is one thing more disgustingthan anothtr—as indeed there is—itmust 1)8 the .nefarious practice of mak-one's salutations scanty 01 slangy, acustom which, though infinitely morehonored in the breach than in the ob-servance, has invaded all ranks of so-ehty. From the Prince of Wales onhis throne to the "beggar on the Bowerythe clipped coin of courtesy is current.The moat common (in both senses ofthe word) of these phrases, is the atro-cious abbreviation "Thanks." It is truethat we have the warrant of Shaka-speare for it, for does not Franklin re-mark, "For this relief much thanks,"but as the bard of Avon was notoriouslyloose as to cases and numbers, we maybe pardoned for declining to accept hisauthority. A judgment should lightupon the individual who makes misuseof so- simple, gracious and manly aphrase of courtesy as "Thank you," onewhich in its proper employ fits all pos-sible cases that may arise between per-sons bearing to each other any possiblerelations. A judgment did indeed ovt in-take the two children in Mr. Long-fellow's poem who, at the tournamenton the feast of pentecost, drank of thevery cool draught and

"Gave many couiteous 'Thank!'"They died miserably, did those children,and deserved so to die, since "Thank"is even more atrocious than "Thanks."imagine in the last scene of "Lear"—scene so tender an J so true—the dyingKing saying:

"Pray yon undo this button. Thanks !"No ; the word is an insult to kindness,

and dishonors those who use it andthose towards whom it is employed.

Another almost equal atrocity, thoughless epidemic, is the vulgarizing of part-ing salutations. "So long," possibly anAmericanization of the Oriental "sa-laam," is the worst of these, though itis not much worse than the "au river,""au reservoir" and "olive oil," where-with Americans of limited mental,moral and philogical gifts counterfeitthe French au recoir. We have themost perfect of parting salutations,"Grood-by," infinitely .preferable to ourthinking to the "adieu"' or the "fare-well," which always has a suspicion ofbuskins and footlights about it. Manypersons who are habitually addicted tothe use of "so long" have no adequateidea of the ineffable meanness of the

! phrase. That can only be obtained byI the process of substitution. Letiisim-I prove Shake peare—popularize and! nineteenth-centurize him, as it were.I Can the lovers of Yerona • charm us if

their passionate praise be"So long ! So long! Parting is such sweet

S'OITOW

Thai I shall say 'So long' till it be morrow,"or thy fallen Cardinal compel our pitybv breathing a long "»i long" to all hisgreatness ? Much of the force anddignity of the fine passage where DeQuincy describes his opium dreamwould be lost if for "Everlasting fare-wells !—and yet again—everlasting fare-wells!" we employ "Everlasting so 'lonu'sF' or even "Everlasting au reser-voirs !" Then, again, in the Viceroy ofIndia's rather gushy verse,

'•lai-tiTi-uH, und yet again farewell! And yetNever iiiro well if farewell Ije to be fere

Alone and disunited. Love hath setOur lines in music to the self-same air"—

if "by-bye" be substituted for "farewell"the poem-cannot fail to lose some of itsneatness and sweetness. Thus restoredMr. Aldrich might become the authorof a ridiculous copy of verses beginning

" 'Ta-ta !' I have to say fei-taTo such n host of pretty things,"

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NAVIGATION OF WOODBBIDGECHEEK.

A few weeks ago a leading manufac-turer and" shipper of this place sug-gested that some public movement bemade in order to obtain an appropria-tion .from Congress to improve tlienavigation of Woodbridge Creek. Withthis object in view a gentleman pro-mised t© give us for .publication a statis-tical statement of the average tonnage,within the past five years, shipped andreeeived at the docks upon said stream,but that gentleman has not fulfilled hispromise.

The necessity for a movement in thedirection above indicated cannot be toohighly estimated by the business menof this place, and especially by themanufacturers and clay miners. It iswell known that the bar at the mouthof the Creek has been increasing rapid-ly, while the bed of the stream has beengradually filling up for several yearspast. Even now we understand thatvessels of more than sixteen feetdraught cannot come to our docks,while by a .reasonable expenditure ves-sels of the heaviest draught could beadmitted. • -

We believe "that daring" the term ofHon. Amos Clark an appropriation forthis purpose was inserted in the Riverand Harbor bill, and passed the House,but was stricken out in 'the Senate. Atthe first session of the .present Congressappropriations rto improve the naviga-tion of other streams in New Jersey•were passed, where the public necessityfor such improvements mas not so muchdemanded, notably the appropriationfor Belleville.

A movement for an appropriationmight not be in .time for this Congress,unless the appropriation bills go overand necessitate an extra session; but atany rate our business men should loseno time in making, preparations by anarray of statistics, and a showing offacts, t© obtain an appi-opriation at theearliest ipossible day. Considered sim-ply as an enterprise this movementshould interest every property holderin Woodbridge, for nothing would con-tribute more to the growth and pros-perity of this place .than the proposedirnproveaaent, as it would not only in-creasa tke present facilities, but wouldoffer indiscements for .the establishmentof other manufactories.

PBE8IDENT-.MAKOTG.

Many sensitive and sensible men ofthis country are seriously ponderingover the effect which our recently adop-ted system of President-making is pro-ducing upon the minds of statesmen ofother countries. It must be confessedthat there is sufficient cause for medita-tion upon this subject at home andabroad, and ,an equally sufficient causefor speculation as to what manner ofgovernment we are now living under,•when one niaa may make or suninake aPresident.

The appointnaeBt of the ElectoralCommission was an infringement uponthe letter, as well as the spirit of theConstitution, tolerated only because ofthe necessity of the case, and with thehope thai it might prevent serious pub-lic trouble. It was reasonable to sup-pose that the ten Senators and jnem-bers, constituting two-thirds of SheCommission would be more or less con-trolled by party convictions; but itwas not reasonable to suppose that .theSupreme Court Judges, who constitutedthe remaining thirl of the .Commissionwould be controlled by a like feeling.

This Electoral Commission, or theSupreme Court portion thereof, notonly falls short of public estimation,

:and we might say, short of their solemns, but their partizan action in theof Florida, has raised a more ser-

ious question than that of making thePresident, to wit: whether the SupremeCousfiof the United States is an impar-tial judicial, or a political partizan

We have no heart to write, or eventhink upon this subject, for whatevermay be he decision of the Commission,it will 1 e t n satisfactory to the country,and worse still, will drag down the Su-preme Court from its heretofore exaltedposition, and cause that branch of ourGovernment no longer to be honoredand respected as in days gone by.

IN MEMOEIAM,DK. E. B. FBEEMAN.

The County Board of Freeholders at a meet-ing held in New Brunswick on Tuesday last,adopted a series of resolutions, relative to thedeath of the late Dr. Freeman, which will befound in another column. This manifesta-tion of {he respect and esteem with which oarlamented friend and fellow-townsman was re-garded by those who had been associated withhim in the relation of fellow officers is an ad-ded proof of the worth and popularity of thedeceased. These resolutions are no idle com-pliment, but express the true feelings of theBoard, and we, who have known him longerand better, and in whose houses he has gonein and out from time to time in the characterof friend and pln'sieian, can truly testify tothe truth of the sentiments of his official as-sociates.

WASHINGTON HEWS.

February 12, 1877.GEN. GRANT'S NEW POSITION.

It is reported that upon the -comple-tion of the negotiation now pendingbetween Nicaragua and the UnitedStates for a treaty concerning the sub-ject of the proposed inter-oceanic shipcanal, President Grant will be tenderedthe position of president of the corpora-tion or company, which, under theprovisions of the treaty, will be author-ized to undertake the said this factexplains the sudden purpose recentlyformed by President Grant to go toEurope as soon as his terra of officeexpires,' the visit abroad being in theinterest of the company, for whom hewill be empowered to negotiate a loanamong the capitalists of Europe, theEothschilds being already mentioned asthe first to whom the project and aninvestment in its stock or bonds willbe recommended.

In the course of the past eight yearsthe President, both in official life atWashington and in relaxation at LongBranch, established relations of closefriendship with many of those foreigncapitalists, either in person or with theirpartners in this country, and the in-timacy thus formed is regarded as oneof the many reasons that induced theselection of the President for head ofthe company as well as negotiator ofcapita in aid of the undertaking, notto speak of his unswerving honesty asa public man and his" energy and prac-tical experience in the army, as atVieksburg and elsewhere, in conduct-ing great engineering enterprises.

SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION.

The House committee which inves-tigated the South Carolina electionswill make their report during the pres-ent week. All the points have not beendefinitely acted upon, though they agreeHayes and Wheeler carried the State by700 or 800 majority.

ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.

Hon. A. H. Stephens to-day com-pleted his sixty-fifth year. His condi-tion is so much improved that heacknowledges himself, for the first timesince the beginning of his late illnessto be better.

SECRETARY JIORRILL.

Dr. Pope reports that SecretaryMorrill's condition has improved de-cidedly. The preliminary symptomsare much relieved and the fever almostgone. He sleeps quietly, takes nourish-ment freely, and the indications of liisrecovery are promising.

Feb. 13th.THE FLORIDA VOTE.

The counting of the electoral votesproceeded yesterday in regular orderand without delay after the HOUSP haddebated two hours and voted on theFlorida report. The debate was neitherlively nor interesting. Few men cansay much in ten minutes, and as the re-sult of the vote was certain it was oflittle consequence what any man said.Mr. Knott endeavored to offer a resolu-tion referring the matter back to theCommission, but this Speaker Randallvery properly ruled out of order. Mr.Field and others declared their beliefthat Florida could not be counted forHayes except by a fraud. Mr. Fiyeretorted by charging fraud in otherStates on the democrats, and Mr. Carr,the successor to the seat of SpeakerKerr, who threatens to become a dem-ocratic war-horse, told his party friendsthat they had eold themselves in votingfor the Commisffion and deserved to losethe election.

I£ was remarked by a democratic af-ter the arljournmeai that Mr. Carr hassucceeded to nothing of Mr. Kerr's ex-cept his seat in the House. There wasstoppage at Illinois, it having been de-termined this morning to make no ob-j action to the ineligible £leetor there,bacause it would be futile and onlycause needless delay. The whole ses-sion in joint meeting was eminentlygood-natured.

THE LOUISIANA CASE.

When Louisiana's turn arrived threecertificates were read, two of which

were from Kellogg, and then came aridiculous and somewhat disgracefulscene in "the reading of what proved tobe a sham certificate in favor of PeterCooper, apparently got up as a republi-can joke on the McEnery certificate.Senator McDonald and Mr. Hoar triedto get the reading stopped, but when itwas once begun some members wantedto set it through. The Vice Presidentsaid that he had received it throughthe mail.

The abjections to the Louisiana votecame from both sides, Senator Howewith others offering one set to the re-ception of MeEnery's certificate, on the •-ground that he had never been Gover-nor of the State and that the McEneryelectors liad not been appointed inaccordance with any legislative author-ity.

From the democratic side there werethre.! Sats of objections, the materialparts • of which have already been men-tioned. Senator McDonald and othersobjected on the ground that there is nolaw in Louisiana appointing electors;that McEnery is the rightful Governorof the State and Kellogg is not; thatthe Returning Board had no lawfulauthority to count the electoral vote ;that if it had the.statute is void, becausethe authority they exercised was greaterthan is permitted by the State constitu-tion; that under the statute they couldhave no jurisdiction because the Boardwas unlawiully constituted ; that theyexercised judicial functions in a man-ner expressly forbidden by the statute ;that the result they declared is ill op-position to the true result; that theReturning Board offered to sell the voteof the State; that two of the electorsare clearly ineligible and therefore inany case only six Hayes electors oughtto be counted ; that Kellogg, who asGovernor gave a certificate to himselfas elector, could not lawfully do so, andwas under the Louisiana statute in-eligible because that forbids any oneholding two offices at the same time.

Mr. Randall Gibson and others ob-jected to the Hayes electors and to thereception of the vote on the groundsthat Louisiana lias not a republicanform of government; that no canvasswas made on which to base a certificate;that the alleged canvass was an act ofusurpation, and hence fraudulent andvoid; that Ktllogg coukl not be electorbecause he was acting as Governor;Joffrion, because he was a Supervisor ofRegistration; Marks, because he wasDistrict Attorney and candidate forDistrict Judge, and B.urch, because hewas Senator, member of Control, Ad-ministrator of the Deaf Dumb Asylumand Treasurer of the School Board inhis parish; and section 117 of the Lou-isiana statutes forbids one person tohold more than one office. Joffrionwas especially excepted as an elector be-cause the statute also eleclares that noSupervisor of Registration shall be acandidate for office.

Mr. Wooel and others obj acted to theHayes electors on the ground that theywere not appointed in the manner di-rected by the Legislature.

MEETING OF THE CCMnSSION.

The Commission met at the close ofthe proceedings to receive the certificatesand papers and then agreed by an un-partisan vote to adjourn to eleveno'clock to-day. The open hearing willtake up ten hours and run throughtwo days, and the Commission should,therefore, begin to sit in private forconsultation on Thursday. Mr. MattCarpenter will open for the democraticside to-day.

ANXIETY CONCERNING THE RESULT.

Both sides are extremely anxiousabout Louisiana. In is admitted byrepublicans that the case is very dif-ferent from that of Florida and thatsome of the objections raised are verystrong.

Feb. 14Before the Electoral Commission to-

day the objectors stated their cases.Mr. Jenks, for the democrats, made aclear and succinct presentation of theaction of the Returning Board to showfraud. Senator Howe followed for therepublicans, and in an eloquent address,which suprised many persons, laboredto show intimidation. His instanceswere confined mainly to Gucbita par-ish, and he gave the Eliza Pinkston &f-fair as true and as political in its effects.

The Coinmision took a recess andMr. Carpenter began his argument atfive o'clock. When twilight fell theSupreme Court room, where the com-mission sits, was lit with candles, theSmoke of which was very annoying andsickened several persons in, the roomand in the narrow reporters' gallery,and the Commission, after littening un-til half-past six to Mr. Carpenter, ad-journed until to-morrow at ten o'clock.

MR. CARPENTER^ ADDRESS.

Mr. Carpenter opened in a strikingmanner, saying that he did not appearfor Samutl J. Tilden. I voted againsthim and would vote against him again,believing that the greatest calamity tothe country, except one, would be hiselection—that one that he should bekept out by fraud or force. I appearhere in behalf of 10,000 distranehiseeivotes in Louisiana. If you refuse toconsider the fact—that 10,000 lawfulvotes were thrown,out, don't you give alicense to posterity to accept and con-sent to any fraud ?

He offered to prove that the Boardwhich threw out the 10,000 votes hadno jurisdiction. As to the point allegedthat the Electoral Commission was ex-ercising unconstitutional judicial power,he showed that it was not, citing as onepoint of his argument that its decisionwae not final, it having to be referredback to the two Houses. He went onto show the powers of the central gov-ernment to inquire into elections, andasked, May not the Senate appointcommittees to inquire into them ? Maynot the House do the same thing ? Maythey hot appoint a joint commission?The commission, exercising politicalpowers, he said, is a purely legislativebody. In this he he was assisted by afavorable suggestion from Bradley.

POWER OF THE COMMISSION.

He dwelt upon the point that theCommission is certainly entitled to as-certain what electors were duly ap-pointed, and showed that four yearsago the Houses went back of the re-turns and threw out the vote of Louis-iana in 1872. If they could throw outthe vote of a State for neglect, couldnot they throw it out for fraud ?

He argued also that electors are notState officers, saying the United StatesConstitution creates the office of elec-tors; the State has but one power—thatis, to fill it.

THE LAW OF LOUISIANA.

Finally, he held that if the LouisianaState law of 1868 was in force thewhole Electoral College goes down un-der its terms. If the law was repealed,as he showeel, then under the presentlaw of 1872 the State had no right toappoint electors at all, for the law of1872 contains no provision for the ap-pointment of electors-,

COUNSEL TO SPEAK.

The eounsal who will speak on thedemocratic side are Messrs. Carpenter,Campbell and Trumbull; on the re-publican side, Messrs. Evarts, Stough-ton and Matthews. The arguments arelimited, by resolution of the Commisionto four hours and a half to each side.

STATE NEWS.

GENERAL HEWS.

The celebration of the battle of Mon-mouth tak^s places on the 28th of June,1878.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Companyhave just, commenced selling excursiontickets to places in Monmouth county.

Elizabeth city has fixed its tax levyfor 1877 at §284,000, a less sum thanlast-year, and has adopted resolutionsfavoring more equitable taxation.

The Somerset Gazette, advocates theabolishment of Lay Judges in Somersetand Hunterdon counties, and the ap-pointment of one Law Judge to do ser-vice in both courts.

The stockholders of the BelvidereFair Grounds decided at a late meet-ing not to sell the grounds, but themortgage thereon will not be foreclosed,and a sale brought about in that way.

"Auntie" Collins, of Keyport, motherof Mr. Joel Collins, was 97 vears old onthe 1st of February. She is still active,and on the evening of her birth day shewas visiting at one of her neighbors, re-maining until 10 o'clock.

Adelaide Hampton (colored) diedsuddenly at Englishtown on Sunday at11 o'clock. She was a woman of un-usnal intelligence as a linguist. Shecould speak Italian, Spanish, Frenchand German tolerably well.

Hon. E. W. Runyon, Judge of theUnion County Circuit Court, was onTuesday evening last elected Presidentof the Dime Savings Institution ofPlainfield, to fill vacancy occasioned bythe death of Elston Marsh. ,

The death of Mr. David B. Lum, oneof the oldest residents of Union, is an-nounced. He was a member of theLegislature in 1840 and 1841, and formany years a Justice of the Peace, andonce Sheriff of Elizabeth under the oldborough charter.

The old furnace at Oxford, whichdates back 30 or 40 years before theRevolution, lias just gone into blastagain after having been repaired andenlarged. This generous company stillkeeps its works going, though othersare mostly lying idle the land over.

General Miles has elefeated the hostile •Sioux under Crazy Horse.

Secretary of State Chaclwick has been •inaugurated Governor of Oregon,:, viceGrover, resigned.

The criminal proscutioai- against ex-Secretary Belknap for eon-opt practices-has been abaneloneel.

Rear Admiral Jamesi-Alden, U. S.navy, died at Sin Francisco, Tuesdaymorning, of congestion of the brain.

The Main Legislature has passed theBank bill fixing the State tax at I percent, and the rate of interest at 5 percent.

The House has passed the legislativejudicial and executive appropriation bill,which reduces the President's .salary to$25,000.

The men in the Stanton colliery, near •Pottsville, eleven hundred in number,have struck on account of a - reductionof wages.

Work was suspeneleel at the PublicPrinting Office in Washington on Satur-day, throwing six hundred persons outof employment.

Controller Kelly reported the NewYork city elebt to the State Senate as$148,107,557.76, and the. sinking fundas $28,179,102.79.

Another Russian gunboat arrived atSan Francisco on Monday, from Vladi-vostoek, making eight Russian vesselsnow at San Francisco.

It often happens on the Labradorthat seals taken in nets sniak 50 feet be-low the surface are found frozen solidwhen brought to the surface.

The falling off' in Mongolian immigra-tion at San Francisco still - continues,the excess of departures over arrivalsfrom China during December being1

600.

Chief Justice Curtis, of the SuperiorCourt of New York, has denied the ap-plication for «n injunction against theextension of the Elevated railroad acrossthe Battery.

The Ait a California says that, fromcauses not easily explained, California,and San Francisco in particular, fur-nishes more cases of paralysis than does,any other section of the country, if not,of the world.

The Times Berlin dispatch says it is.expected that Austria, in reply to theRussian note, will decline to adopt war-like measures against Turkey. Ger-many is likely to offer her good officesto arrrnge a common course between; •Russia and Austria.

Governor Safford, of Arizona, hastelegrapheel tho Secretary of War forarms, and will call out a company ofvolunteer scouts, mostly Indians, for •sen ice against the hostile Apaches.Dispatches from Tucson, state that theApaches are killing and plundering thesettlers in southeastern Arizona. Ten .whites were killed in the Senorita:Yailey on the 4th inst.

In Lonelon the Registrar in Bank-ruptcy has decided in favor of theUnited State on an appeal from . the •decision of the trustees in the liquidationof Clews, Habicht & Co. This decisionwill enable the United States to provea debt of £29,980, which the trusteesrejected on.the ground that it was duefrom the New York house, because theLondon house had not yet received theremittance at the time of" Henry Clews& Co. 's failure. The answer was thatHenry Clews &Co. received remittancesmerely as agents of Clews, Habicht &Co. The decision of the trustee wasoverruled with coats.

The Times Vienna correspondent saysthe mass of the people in Roumaniaare averse to war. The minority is.divided into two sections, one of which,heaeled by the Ministry, favors permitt-ing a passage for belligerents through.the neutral zone, and the other, led byPrince Charles, advocates co-operation,with Russia anel the proclamation ofthe Hospodar as King of Roumania.The Austrian authorities have formedlarge depots of forage and stores alongthe frontier. The concentration ofAustrian troops there exceeds anythingwithin the memory of the inhabitants.Telegrams-relating to this movementof troops are suppressed at the localtelegrajjh stations, It is believed bymany in Vienna that Austria has agreedwith Russia to occupy Northern Turkey.

An explosion occurred at the Lafiiii& Rand powder mills at Mountain..View, near Paterson, on Weduesdaymorning. The building blown up waacalled a "wheel" house, where the pow-der is ground, and is detacheel fromthe main buileling. One man was badlybruised, but it is thought he will re -cover. ' • ..

. £& li >v sty .; tot

Charity Benefit.As was anticipated by the rapid sale of

tickets the Opera House was filled to over-flowing on Tuesday evening last to witnessthe performance of the sparkling Frenchcomedy, "The Pride of the Market," given inaid of the poor of the city, by the AthenaeumAssociation, assisted by some superior ama-teur talent.

The main points of the comedy are as fol-lows:

Miii-ton, the "pride of the market" (Mrs. T.J. Eayner), is by sfcrategeni carried off (o tbepalacs of the Marquis de Volange (Mr. Wil-liamson' , for which he is offered the choiceby the King, upon the application of themarketwomen of Paris, led by Javotte (Mrs.Dora Dow\ of either marrying Marton, orgoing to the Bastile. Marton, who has alover to •whom she is .engaged, releases theMarquis upon his consenting to the marriageof his sister, Mdlle. de Volonge (Miss JennieClarfc\ to the Chevalier de Bellerive (Mr. E.Laing , who is under condemnation of deathfor hilling a nobleman in a duel; the Marquisconsents, the pardon of the Chevalier is ob-tained, and the general joy is made complete.

The acting of Marton is always excellent, andon this occasion she excelled herself. Hersurprise and joy,, in the second act, at thebeautiful furniture of the Marquis' palace atVersailles,, and her assumption of the part ofthe great.lady, in the third act, were greeted•with rounds of hearty laughter and applause.To this lady, who is ever foremost in all good•works, is due the eminently nattering success,which attended the entertainment, as it wasmainly through her exertions that the playwas so ably cast, and effc.'ively placed iiponthe stage. Mrs. Dora Dow, as Juvotte themaketwornfin, acf . l with much spirit, par-ticularly when she confronts the Marquis inhis palace, and threatens him with the pun-ishment which he may expect fn in tbe King.Isidore, the baker, and lover of Marton, ^Mr.A. C. Hnnn; . was irresistibly funny as usual;this character was a difficult one to play, butMr. M. made the hits in the happiest mannerpossible. Mr. Williamson was a typicalyoung noble of the court of Louis the XIV,haughty, audacious and fascinating. Mr. H.L. Stephens as the fussy, dandified old Baronwas inimitable; he both looked and acted thepart to perfection. Miss Jennie Clark madea charming Mdlle. de Volange and playeelherrole in a highly creditable manner , speaking•with force and naturalness. Mr. Laing ren-dered, the character of the Chevalier withdignity and effect. Mr. T. J. Rayner asDabois was a mode! valet, irreproachable inappearance and stoical composure. Thetableau at the close of the second act, whereMarton gives the Marquis his choice betweenthe Bastile find a marriage with herself, was•very striking.

Tbe scenery and costumes were equallyadmirable, the former reflecting much crediton the manager, Mr. Will Stephens, and thelatter being a marked proof the kindness ofoar fellow citizen, Mr. J. H. Stoddart,Messrs. Gordon and Baumann deserve thethanks of all for their knindness in givingtiie use of the Opera House, and the donationof tiie plants and iioweiti used in the marketscene.

O'iviiig to unavoidable circumstances anumber of the finest singers of the MetuchenChom! Union were not nhle to be present,neverthelt;»H the elioiuses of tiie peasantsweie well rendered, particularly the first,"Behold, how brightly breaks the morn."The pianist of the Union, Miss Haii, was aisoabsent, nnu Mrs. G-. B. Lindsay kindly vol-unteered her services in playing the ac-coui paniments.

A pleasant feature of the uvcning was thepresentation of baskets and bouquets of choiceflowers to Mrs Eayner and Mrs Dow.

The people of Railway and their friendsfrom out of town are to be commended lor sogenerously aiding by their presence andpatronage this enterprise in behalf of thepoor of tbe city.

The entertainment announced last week,the advertisement of which will be found inanother column, to be given during the even-ing of the 22d in the Sabbath-school room ofthe 1st Presbyterian Church, Woodbridge, pro-mises to-be an event of unusual interest andenjoyment. The exercises, commencing at7:30 P- M., will consist of readings, recita-tions, iand vocal irnd instrumental music—thelast named feature of the entertainment con-sisting of selections upon the piano,- guitarand axute. The committee have secured theservices of Profs. Moesling and Miller of NewYork,.a»d in addition our friends •will bepleased to know that the following ladies andgentlemen have very kindly signified their in-tention of being present and assisting in theliterary and musical exercises of the evening :Mr. & Mas. T. J. Eayner, Mrs. Dora Dow, andMisses Marsh, and Hall of Rahway; MissesAdele Manning, G-. P . Frazee and Julia L.Arnold of Perth Amboy; Mr. P. A. Hahnelof Wasdbradge, and other local talent. Sev-eral of those above mentioned are well knownto our readers, and need no word of recom-mendation from us, while the others are valu-able additions, and will add materially to thevariety and. excellence of the entertainment.

Supper will be served prior to the enter-tainment to those wishing it, and during anintermission in the exercises.

We trust our friends of Eahway and vicin-ity will avail themselves of this opportunityof spending a pleasant and profitable even-ing, such as the programme offered cannotfail to afford.

FUSES.—A Dwelling-house on Bridge andBiver streets, belonging to Jacob Fetter, tookfire on Tuesday afternoon from a spark froma passing locomotive, burning tbe roof andtipper story,

The hub factory of Mr. Urmston caught fireon Wednesday morning, but was extinguishedbefore doing serious damage.

"EAST LTNNE. "—The Glassford family willperform this affecting drama at Gordon'sOpera House on Thursday evening

&TJSSIAU WIVES."

A story has been going the round ofthe French, papers which, if it had anytruth in it, would show that the atroci-ty of the Eussian, like the charity ofsome less holy Christians, begins verymuch at hotne. The excuss for believ-ing in the tale is to be found in thesupposed fact that its truth was provedin a court of justice by the woman whoacted as the heroine in it. Tins simplewoman seems to have imagined thatshe might get from a Russian magis-trate some sort of protection against ahusband whose favorite pastime it wascruelly to torture her. She has beenyoked by her playful husband to theshafts of his cart, and driven along for1G versts, in dotibl?, harness with thehorse, under the furious blows of aheavy whip. Having survived this or-deal, she. was brought home again, htrhead was shaved, and after she hadbeen smeared idl over with tar she wasrolled in feathers and then turned outof the house. In this plight she resnrt-ed to the person whom she fondlyimagined to be most benevolent, or atany rate the least savage in the village.She went to the priest, but instead ofchaining any shelter or relief was rudelystruck by the pious man, who calledthe husband and advised him to ad-minister castigation. It would havebeen well for the woman if she hadtaken the broad hint afforded her bythis reception, at the Pope's rssidence,and had returned home to suffer insilence the torment to which she wasfated. . But she was ignorant of Bus-sian law, and she could not persuadeherself that she was utterly withoutremedy in such a case as this. So shewent to law, and brought before thecourt; both the. husband and Pope.Here the Procurateur General at oncedeclined to enter into any argument onthe subject of the husband, explainingthat the whole matter was one of mere-ly private family interest, and that hus-band and wife, could always come to anunderstanding among thenisdves with-out the interference of the law. Thepriest's cass was a little more difficult.But the worthy man represented thatfacts of this sort "occur often andinevitably among the 1 >tv. r orchr "in Eussia, whereupon the court with-out further discussion acquitted boththe accused persons.

A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—Senator Chris-tiancy will have to rise to a personalexplanation in the, Senate, says the NewYork Graphic. A paragraph has beengoing the rounds of the press for sev-eral weeks to the effect thut his recentwedlock has been blessed with an off-spring. The sex of the child, t i eweight and even the name have beenmentioned by painstaking and accurateparagraphers. Tie irk lie's of Mr. andMrs. Christiancy are writing their con-gratulations ; baby clothing is beingsent with tender messages from allparts of the land, and gifts of the ortho-dox sort on such occasion are shower-ing upon the Christiancy family. Now,Senator Christiancy is an honest, sin-cere man; while he appreciates thethoughtfulness of his r e i d ^ h e eelsthat he is very undeserving of thesekindnesses, and feirs ih t when thetruth is known be m:y b : a w s - d ofsecuring those pi ts lender false pre-tenses. Mrs. Christkncy has no needof baby clothes, neither has SenatorChristiancy, nor have either of themneed of toys and trifles of gold and sil-ver cups and spoons, that are beingsent them. The fact is that they haveJoeen misrepresented before the publicby a wicked and mendacious press.They have no baby at their house andhave not had one. The present Mrs.Christiancy has never been a mother.They are very grateful for the kindnessof their friends, but it's a delicate mat-ter and if worst comes to worsi and .henewspapers keep up this talk the Sena-tor will rise in his seat in the Senatechamber some day and denounce thenewspapers."

ITS EFFECT ok BUSINESS.—"Effect of

the Senate's late action with the prom-ise it gives i or the future ES alreadymanifested in business circles: Firstbootblack to second do:

"How much did yer make this morn-in', Cully t ' ' "

"Half er dollar more'n I did yester-day mornin', "Skinny, an' I'm goin' termake a fortin."

"How d'ye know that, Cully?""Coz I know wot's sent. bizness a

boomin'. It's ther compromise bilLYer jest orter seed them old fellerswat's been anxious fur months goin' furstyle again! I tell yer business is jestgoin' up a whoDpisf. And it's all alongo'them old duffers at "Washin'ton !"

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About twenty years ago Mr. BetsyMustard, or Ferguson, sued Col. Fergu-son, of jRaith, near Kirkealdy-, to havejt- declared that slie liad been marriedto Win. That action was settled by

. Col. Ferguson paying to the pursuer.£2,000. Tlie money was lodged in theRoyal Bant of Scotland in the jointnames of the pvxrsuer and her brother,Dr. Henderson. She alleges that Dr.Henderson drew £1,000 of that moneywithout her consent, and applied it tahis own purposes, and she brought an•action against the bank for payment ofthe £1,000. Recently the case came upin the Edinburgh Court of Sessions, be-fore Lord Carriehill, for proof on aremit from the Second Division. Whenthe pursuer was called she appeared atthe bar gayly dressed, and with abunch of mistletoe stuck in her belt.She said she would examine the wit-ness herself, but as she was not a law-yer, and did not understand technical-ities, and was not a learned gentleman-—[great la-aghter]—she presumed thecourt would allow her counsel, Mr.Navay, to watch the case. After a gooddeal of discussion the Lord Ordinarywas obliged to allow Betsy to have herown way. William Turn!:nil,.account-ant of the Royal Bank was called. Bet-sy—Will you be able to hear me ? Noanswer. Betsy—You must speak LordOrdiftary—"We will, take your age, Mr.Turnbull. Betsy—Oh, Mr. Turnbill isof age, what's the good of that?[Laughter.] Did Mr. Henderson cometo the bank by himself, or did anybodyaccompany him, and on 'the 11th ofMay was the check made in your room,or where ? I t was not made in my offi-oa Betsy—Did you affix stamps to thechecks'? Witness did not seem to un-derstand the question. Betsy—Thestamps, God bless me, don't you knowthat? [Laughter.] Can you tell mewhat was on the stamps ? I don't know.Was, there anything on the stamps ? Icannot tell. Any initials ? I cannot tell.Why were they not indorsed on thebank ? A check is not worth a strawTinlcss it is indorsed on the bank.—Lord Gurriehill-—Put your questions,and do not indulge in these remarks.Betsy—Why did you pay on the 11thof May £500 without any initial or anystamp, any name or anything, or anydischarge on the deposit receipt ? It isnot reduisite; that is not our custom.Betsy—You are a queer Eoyal Bank. Iwould advise yon after this to make ityour custom. Witness—"Sou are notentitled to control the deposit receipt.Betsy—If we cannot control our meanswe are nothing—a nonentity, [Laugh-ter.] Lord Currishiil—You must nottake up tlie time of the court in thisway. Bc-isj—Yon must allow me tohave my own way; that is what thecourt is IUTP, for." Lord Curriehill—"You must not make speeches." Betsy—''I am not making a speech, but, Godbless me. I must say something." LordCurriehill—::I will nuL hava tin.- time oftlie court taken up in this way." B_'tsy—"Oh! but you must have the tima ofthe court taken up in this way. That iswhat the court is for, and from thenewspapers I sae that your lordship sitssome days doing nothing.. [Laughter.]It does not matter where the checkswere made, though they were made inthe moon, if I was not present." LordCurriehill:—"Now, Mrs. Mustard!" Pur-suer—"I am not,'Mustard.' I am 'Mrs.Mustard or Ferguson.' I have beenMrs. Ferguson for. eighteen years, andno man on this earth can overturn me."Lord Ordinary—"Never mind that."Pursuer—"Oh, yes! but I do mind it.I am Mrs. Ferguson in the face of thewhole world, and, by George, I will notbe called Mustard." [Here the pur-suer came down upon the desk with asound thump-of her fist, timid roars oflaughter.] She then continued: "Why A. FLOOD,

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HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CAL.

HEE RESOURCES.

EDEEKA, January 21, 1877.In my last letter I endeavored some-

what briefly to give you an idea of thec ty of Eureka in this far-off land, flint-ing it "would be of considerable interestto your many raadt-rs. I BOW craveyour indulgence, while I give a briefsummary of her resources, and their ap-plication to the uses of civilized society,and also make a few calculations abouther prospective population; prefacingthat I do so, with the view of removingfrom the minis of strangers the impres-sion that "Humboldt is an out-of-the-way place and will always be so."

Humboldt County contains an areaof about three thousand square miles, allof which is productive of somethingthat can be converted to the use of manor beast—not an acre in the couniy ex-cept, the. sand bars near the rivers, andthe sea beach absolutely barren—in

- some way or another, either now orhereafter. Unlike many counties inCalifornia, Humboldt has no less thanfour great resources upon which to de-pend for her future wealth and great-ness, viz.: agriculture, manufactures,grazing and commerce. Perhaps one-«igbth of the whole county is agricul-tural land. Some of this would ranknumber one in any country, and whilesome is indifferv nt, on an average it willcompare favorable with same amountin any other part of California, or anyother country. Every foot of agricul-

' tural land can be brought under culti-vation without detriment to anyone,because the farmer is not obliged to ltta large portion of his land lie idle tograze his stock upon, and grow timberon his farm, as he does in many othercountries, because the grazier must beseparated from the farmer, and thetimber grows on Lind that cannot beconverted to any other use. Allowingthat my estimile of the amount oftillable land in the county is correct,we would have 1,200 farms of 160acres each, a quarter-section; and al-lowing that 40 acres in actual cultiva-

• tioii is enongh for one laborer to man-age, we would have 4,800 able-bodied jmen engaged in tilling the soil! and iftwo persons be allowed to every labor-er, which is certainly a fair average, thewhole population deriving their sub-Bistance directly from this one rtsource,would amount to 14,400. These figuresmay seem eshorbitant, but, neverthe-less, they are comet.

The second great resource of thecounty is her manufactures, or, in com-mon parlance of the country, lumberingbusiness. By this I mean nothingmore nor less than the business of cut-ting down trees, sawing them into lum-ber, and cither exporting it in its rawstate, or making it into doors, sashes,etc. This on account of its present im-portance, and the extent to which itmay be increased, should perhaps havebeen rated No. 1, as last year the lum-ber export amounted to 1,000,000,000feet, and was shipped to the flowers'kingdom, far-away Australia, the Islandsof the Pacinc, the South Sea Islands,and different ports in South America,and has found its way almost all overthe world. It is impossible to calcu-late to what extent this branch of busi-ness may be carried, or what amountof population may find employment init. All the lumber that has yet been•Cut came from the immediate vicinity ofHumboldt Bay; and the vast forests alittle distance from it are as yet un-touched. Probably one-fifth of thecounty is now an interminable forest, awilderness of timber, some of it quite re-mote from navigation, but railroadshave already brought some bodies of^imber into immediate proximity withthe bay, that' would have remained un-touched for years to come. And wemay very reasonably calculate, that bymeans of .railroads or some other bettermode of conveyance, yet to be discov-ered, the whole of this vast forest willbe made to yield to the enterprisingspirit of the universal Yankee nation.This business will give employment tothousands for scores of years to come,and. that after a century has passed asfine specimens of timber will find theirway to market from Humboldt as haveyet been seen. If Humboldt had noother resources but this, it would besufficient to make her a rich, populousand powerful county.

WM. H. "WYMAN.

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Mr. Gale, a New York lawyer, and anotherNew Yorker named Hogan, have begun suitfor $25,000 damages in. Newark. It seemsthey were mixed up in a seizure of furnitureat the Orange Mountain House, were unlaw-fully arrested, and now demand the amountstated as the damages done to them by falseimprisonment.

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. J.

CHARTERED 1831.

ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS,

Januuary 1st, 1877.

Municipal and other CorporationBonds $313,200 00

Bonds and Mortgages, on propertyworth double the amount loaned. 343,950 00

Call Loans with Collateral 45,500 00Eeal Estate 19,823 05U. S. Bonds 25,000 00Interest Due and Accrued 28.836 07Banking House and Lot 39,000 00Premiums 5,406 25Cash on Hand 25,654 G8

$846,370 U5

Due Depositors $798,535 81Surplus 47,834 24

$846,370 05Total number of open accounts, 2,595.

PHESIEEST:

WILLIAM C. SQTJLEB.

VTCE-PBEStDENTS :

JACOB B. SHOT\VEI,L, ABEI, V. SHOTWELL.

S1ANAGERS :

W. C. Sqtiier,J. B. Shotwell,A. V. Shotwell,Eilcn Haydock,Isaac Osbors,Joel Wilson,J. M. Meliok,Ferd. Blaneke,J. J. High,John Bowne,

Joseph

B. A. Vail,Henry Spear,H. H. Bo"wne,1 F. Shotwell,

3. T. Crowel1,

Dr. L. Drake,J. L. Freeman,T. W. Strong,Wm. Hershon,

Smith.

TBEA8TJBEB :

JOSEPH S. SMITH.

SECSETAEY :

J. C, CODDINGTON.

OFFICE HOUES: 9 a.m. to 4 p. m., and onSaturday evenings from 7 to 8.

JP EYES,MANUFACTUKEE OF

Carriages & Light Wagons,(Opposite the rear of Chamberlin's Hetel,)

CAMPBELL ST., BAH WAY, N. J.

jS3~ Repairing neatly executed.

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