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A -------------------------- VOL. XX, NO. 50. Hor Ontarig Obstrurr, FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 18 PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT., EVERY THURSBAY MORNING, A WEEKLY POLITICAL, CAGRIOUL- « TURAL & BAIRD % PD, "PARSONS. TERMS .--$1 per aan; if paid in a vance ; if not $1.50 will ed, subscription taken for less than six i. No and A until all arrears are pa Ie Agyeamsive, .$0 08 4 A Por aueh Th, rat insertion .... Subsequent i ons, per line . 002 under 6 lies pe r annum ..... 5 00 Ing money, when ad- drossed to th y Office, pre: paid and regester- ed, will be ator risk: Advertisements: io) by Nonpareil, and charged according to the space they oc-- cupy. 10 OBS AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. -- VEL { The Subsctiber in returning ais sincere Yhunie > the very liberal pal n him in the past wi a generally" that navn moved into lage of Pri Png he will in fut ove give his whole atten fon to his business as Contractor, and 18 hide rtake Stone Work, Brick- Hog. and everything connecte Ra which e will execute on the short- est notice and in the best and most durable style, a Lik the very lowest lgure at which a good n be done. The best material and 0d Jo on workmanship Prince Albers, April 5, 1870. . PA usic. PROF, HARRINGTO Teacher of Music, Port Perry. Also dealer in Musical In- i inform the SPENCE. struments. Resldence,on Union Avenue. Iss 8, Music. solicited. Perry. 8, HARRINGTON, Teacher of Applications by Post or in person Residence, on~Union Avenue, Port Business cards. Advertisements received for without specific instructions, will be incre 0 antil forbid and charged accordingly. advertisement will be taken out untilpaid for. A liberal discount allowed, to Merchants and others who advertise by the yedr or half-year. BEF" These terms will in all cases be strictly e dto Job Department. Pamphlets, Hand Bilis, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c., of every style and color, executed promptly "and at lower rates than any other establishment in the County. BEF Parties from a distance getting hand bills, &c. printed can have them done to take home with them, J. BAIRD, H, PARSONS. wafessionnl & 1 RS. JONES & "KENNEDY, Physicians, Surgeons, &c., &c., Port Perry. WW. M WiLL COX LICENSED AUCTIONEER » ETURNING my sincere thanks to my \ numerous friends aud patrons for their liberal patronage bestowed upon me as Auctioneer during the past eight years, I would now beg to offer my services to all who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or other property to sell by Auction anywhere in North Ontario, the township of Mariposa or Cartwright. My long and extensive practice as Auc- tioncer has enabled me to judge the value of Farm Stock with an accuracy second to none in the County, and this is of import- ance as it the Auctioneer is not a good judge of the value of Stock he may soon lose far more than his fee in any sale. Bill stamps always on hand. rgery :--Second door west of the Presby- Sale Bills arranged and notes supplied pi Chureh, A.D, & | free of charge. oes, M. Dy. ALEX. REXREDS, MPs | Days of may be armnged st the Opserver Office, where a Sale Register will : be kept Connty of : D eT ro a a Ac-| Terms Liberal, Ww MW, eouchenr, Ofiice, oppoeite the town hall. Port Perry. meme me eer H. ANGSTER, M. D., Physician, Sur- «J , geon and Accoucheur. Coroner for the County of Ontario PORT PERRY. Office over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of «ueen and erry Streets, Office hours from 9a. m. te 12 m , the dwolling recent! Paxton. HY & RAE, PO cel Sat 1 Port rt Perry, Sept 4, 1877. The Subscriber begs to announce to the Public that he is acting as Agent for Ma J L. Warkis during his absence, and is prepared to conduct Sales of all kinds on the most reasonable terms, Favors are respectfully solicited All communications sent to Port will be promptly attended! to C DAW I'S, Auctioneer, Perry fa, Milla WB FRANCIS RAF, WD. juv's The _ R. | BRIKEN, rent, London 1. R.( ind. Dannwn Ja ih, County (€ darrister, AL Ofled ine Brock str wn ars soehrane, Esq., Salty. Hea --Sime we strect, opposite the Tost ( Mee YOUNG SUT, 1 Barrister, At- in Chaueery, 1 W. luris TTORNLY AT-L A 3 igitor in Chan- crv Notary Public, , & nonrs punctually ny 9a. m to 5 p.m. 1, L)ua at 8 per cent on all zinds of fool security. Office, Bigelow's Royal Arcade, PORT PERRY. J. A. MURRAY, 1A Patterson & Fenton, Surgeon Dentist Office over Corrigan & Camp- bell's Store, Port Perry. All work done in 'the very latest and best style and warranted to give satisfaction, Port Perry, March 28, 1877. C. N. VARS, L. D. 8. TEETH fase Hive and gs good be 1, Gold and Silver., , Teeth ext without pia by producing local anmsth- Cowan's new Drug Store, King esia, blocks, gm Ae o AS. THORN. V 8, EMBER of le, Veterinary Institute, M Chicago, Il]. .. Gold pr = | North Ontario: on all the latest princi- oh of the art, and as cheap as the cheap- as the best. Teeth filled Medalist for the SR All parties s can call at the bn RB SeTV , Port P days of Sules, va n Majors Oct. 10, 1876 WM. GORDON, Licensed Anctioneer, Valuntor. &e. NOR the Township of Brock, Uxbridge, K Scott, Thorah, Hapa, Mara, Mariposa and Eldon, p@y™ Parties entrusting thei ir Sales to me may rely on the utmost attention being given to their interests. WM GORDON Sunderland, Brock. T. 1. ICENSED Auctione 4 of Brock, Thoral M WALSHP, for the Township & Rama in -.,in the Cou nty of Victoria R» Orders ie ft at this will Ded tually | flice, or at his reside nce sttended to. Debts col= inington, otherwise, and mces made. Remember-- the North Ontario Auction or "JAMES W. BALL, rppvssan CLERK, ° TOWNSHIP OF EAST WHITBY Conveyancing and General Insmance Agent. Office in the Town Hall, from 9a m. till 5p. m The Clerk will be home for township business on Mondays and Satmidays JAMES W. BEALL, Tp. Clerk. Business hours Columbns, March 28, 1877 a in W. BURN HAM, Clerk of the Third Divi- +) + sion Court. Office in Bigelow's Block, Port Perry. Office hours from 10a m. tod p. m. T. . FORMAN, INSPECTOR of WEIGHTS § MEASURES For the County of Ontario. Port Perry, Nov 1, 1875. 45:tf Jew Marriage Act. Port Perry, July lst, 1874. ENRY CHARLES having been re- appointed Marriage License Agent-- (after sixteen years duty) continues to fur- best examination on Horse Practice. Author | igh Licenses as herctofore--at Port Perry. of 8 Prise y on cing. Gradu- nish Lee y a 16, 18¢ mY Dr. Thora 40, announce that he has bein» at Port Perry, and is entrusted to and scientific ers left at the Medical Hall of Mr Allison, will receive prompt attention. The Veterinary Stables may be found taken up his 20w pre| his care manner. Lio treat all ost skillful ne Lilly street, opposite Cossitt's Factory. nt "Porty, Oct. 18, 1873. i R. RIOCFARDSON, Re-appointed Issuer of Marriage Licenses. Under thie New Act. Office, lot 10, in the 1st con. Brock. |rehitects, &¢. Brock, "Ang. 5, 1874. = H%ez CAG Farm Souter sus C. FoRIAN, 2 and other' Documents 'neces. to secure Patents of Invention, p) on Yo of the atodel of the Inven -Y CUDLIPP, Kndmrecr, &o. had considerable practical ex perience in France, the United States " Jol on fn ihm | Her Majesty's P ivy Ah Hai Construction, I am pre PENNE, PANS DETAILS, ESTI- 1 Bui Di ut aes figure i orders addressed to mo, Port Pers Post Office, will receive immediate atten NB. [am prepared to erect he ion of y size or kind. apr ; en Feb8, 1877, Marr inge licenses. One door west of the Walker House Port Perry. OHN CHRISTIE, > TOWNSHSP OLEBRY, | ssuer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, 5 Commissiorier &c. 9ffice-- Manchester. WHITBY STEAM MARBLE WORKS. J. & R. WOLFENDEN, YY HOLESALE, and Retail dealers in Foreign and American Marble Man- tlew, Monuments, &c., Dundas St , Whitby. Also, Agent for the Scottish Granite. Also Building Stone cut to orde-. JOHN NOTT, Agent, Port Perry. Whitby, July 29,1874. Ww SPENCE, Coxractor, BurLoen, &c. | 3 PORT PERRY, hotels. |THE WALKER HOUSE PORT PERRY -- HE Subscriber having leased the above hotel, it will be his endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the hens and patronage of the public. THE WALKER 'HOUSE whether for extent or quality of accommo- dations is equalled by few Hotels in the Province and surpassed by none out of the best cities" Commercial © Travelers, the Traveling Public, Farmers and others doing business in the Village and the general "public will | find in THE WALKER HOUSE all that can be required in the matter of accommodation and moderation in charges. The Charges are No Higher at the Walker House than at any other Hotel in Town. The House is fitted up throughout in FIRST CLASS STYLE, | The Tables and Bar supplied with the choice of the market and the utmost atten-- tion paid to the convenience and comfort of ALL GUESTS. An abundance of comfortable Stable and Shed accommodation, and attentive hostlers. W. B. McGAW. Port Perry, April 20, 1876. por PERRY HOUSE, PORT PERRY. JAS. V. THOMPSON, PROPRIETOR. The above House is now most comfort. ably furnished, and Guests are cared for in the Home Style. Good Liquors and Cigars, also, first class Stabling and good Ostlers.-- Additions have heen made which make: this the largest and best House in this section of country. Fare $1.00 per Day. ree HOUSE, PORT PERRY, The Subscriber having leased this comfort. able and convenient Hotel, will spare neither labor nor expe in providing for the com. fort and convenience of guests. The Tables will always be supplied with the best to be had in the market. Only choice Liquors and at the Bar. Any quantity of firstelass le and Shed accommodation properly | attended to by careful Ostlers CHAS HOLT. Po® Perry, March 8, 1876 I 3 ERE HOU By GEO Having leased the will be mye ef vor v particulir so as to merit the bation and patronage of the public, Manchester, Oct. 6, 1875. By T. MASO! The public will please feel at home. Whitby, Nov. 9th, 1876. ( UEE H 0 s Corner of Cameron and Laidlaw Sts. D CAMPBELL, CANNINGTON, Ox. This Hotel is now furnished in the best | style, and offers every accommodation to trave: Je rs HOUCK. appro- TARIO AOTEL, WHITBY, PROVRIETOR. UU PROPRIETOR | gay First class Sample Rooms. Vivier attached, | Caunington, Oct, 20, 1875. 43 AS ANEeaN HOTEL, PRINCE ALBERT. W. H. PARK, - - - PROPRIETCR. Having purchased the above pleasantly situated Hotel, 1 bave thoroughly repaired and renovated the entire premises even to | the Sheds. The Hotel has been furnished in First-Class Style and Stocked with the best Liquors and Cigars! Strict attention paid to the comfort of guests, The table and bar well supplied, < W._ H. PARK. Prince Albert, June 12,1875, anche d---- IA RMSTRONG HOUSE, (LATE ALBION,) WHITBY, ONTARIO. E ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR. ONly First Class House in Town. B IN fIOUSE, late Jewett House, Kent St et, Lindsay. Board, $1.50 per day. E. BENSON, Proprietor. RoYaL EXCHANGE HOTEL, WILLIAMSBURG, CARTWRIGHT, E. BRYANS, Proprietor, The Subscriber having succeeded Mr. Mason in this pleasant and commodious Hotel has spared neither labor nor expense in re-fitting nd renovating the entire premises. The Bar suppl lied with a superior class of Liquors and the best brands of Cigars. The choice of the market provided for the Tables. stabling and attentive Ostlers, E, B. 3 'Willlamsburg, Dec. 6, 1875. RYANS Excellent fae QUEEN'S HOTEL, WHITBY, ONT. McCANN & TAYLOR, Proprietors. Every accommodation for tha traveling public. 1 oF DIVISION COURTS FoR THE Gounty of Ontario, For the year 1877. ea Poi O i ls! 4 G28 2 2Rlal2e EEE EERE Whithy.. HIYA vols aaj ai Brougham. 3 2 2 4) 8 2 Port Perry. 51 6 0 21135 5) 812127 xbrie 6] 410 Bi 6] 9,13(21 2 ntl] ale! | | I | 24 fi 18 13 ul G. H. DARTNELL, Junior Judge. Whitby, Dec 27,1876. above excellent [Motel | -- to conduct it in, well cared for, and all Guests | PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 1877. MUNEY T0 LOAN 1 MORTCACES WANTED. HE Subscribers have large sums of mon- ey placed in their hands for Investment on improved Farms, V Properties, and othr Securities in this and adjoining Counties at the lowest current rates of interest. As we have funds on hand at all times Borrowers candep nd on getting their money with the «east possible delay. WANTED TO PURCHASE, Any number of Morignges for which the high- est figures will be allowed. 'Weare algo appraisers for the Canada Per- manent Building Society, the cheapest and largest ey Institution in Canada. Paid RR Cantal 31a care. Instalments re-payable Lands Bought and Sold. Several good farms for sale. : 74%~ Agents for several first class Fire In surance Com panies. Collections made and a general agency busi- ness transacted. Z%~ DEBENTURES BOUGHT.-%% JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, General Agents, Office In Mr. Ross' Ontario Buildings, Port Perry. Port Perry, Oct. 11, 1572, JAMESLUND, D, MONEY, LAND & INSURANCE BROKER, ONVEYANCER, Commissioner for hd Aftidavits in Court of Queen's Bench, &e. MONEY TO LOAN In any man Bought, prompt The ps Tw, without 0) r to suit borrowers, M Note: Ug! Ne per cent, and own time for payment of intere: St once year (not in advance), and he can at any time, just as circumstances permit re without pr binding the i such sum, whether large or sma it direct reduction of prineipal, immedis cancelling the interest on the sum paid. ra charge is exacted on such repay Loans made from 2 3 hg or good productive tows property. In all ences where the tit] Th bor: ans up to five I not cost. the ¢ . 1 | not' 10 ex th ed twenty dollars. As [ am acting ax Agent and Valuator for both Companies there ean possibly be no publi- city in the transaction. If the title is perfect the money will be paid liere in two weeks after making applica- on. 'iof JAMES L Parrish's Block, Cor, B = st ND, I Buseom xbridge. Uxbridge, MONEY TO IA). The undersigned hasany amount of Mone y | to lend upon Farm and Town Property, at | Unusually Low hates of Toverest!| | | | Loans can be repaid in any manner to suit | the borrower. | Also several Improved Farms, and Wild | Lands for sale, cheap. | Investments made in Municipal Dcben- | tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks, Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, Official Assignee, Broker, &e, Orrice--Over the Dominion Bank, McMil- lan's Block, Brock st., Whitby. Whitby, Aprit 10, 1873, MONIKY [Private Funds.) !'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent in- | terest. | LYMAN ENGLISH, BARRISTER, &0., Oshawa 4 PORT PERRY LIVERY STABLES, | November 21, 1866. C. M° KENZIE, PROPRIETOR HE Subseriber having now fully ec nipped |" L bis new and extensive Livery Stabl>s with | a supply of superior Horses and Carriages, is prepared to furnish first class LIVERY RIGS On Moderate Terms. C. MCKENZIE. Port Perry, Aug. 6, 1873 THE ONTARIO Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co'y Head Office, Whitby, This Company is now fully organized and is prepared to accept risks on Farm Buildings i their contents, country School Houses and Churches. Those wishing to insure and thereby support a Home Insurance Company have now an opportunity of doing so, either by applying to the Head Office, or to any of the local Agents of the Company. Our rates will be found as low as those of any respon- sible Mutual Insurance Company in Canada. Head Office--Opposite the Royal Hotel Brock 8t., Whitby C. NOURSE, Sceretary. W. H, BROWNE, General Agent, The. VICTORIA MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company of Canada, HEAD OFFICE,....... HAMILTON. TO is decidedly one of the best companies in the Dominion, and parties having property to insure will do well to consider the many advantages of insuring with this Company. T.H WALSHE, Agent, Cannington, Ont. Cannington, Sept. 26, 1876. For Sale or to Rent. DWELLING HOUSE and half an acre of land in the Village of Manchester. wees Apply to MRS. HENRY LYLE. lericd, Taking Her Down. Two girls, both young, and one very bean tiful, sat conversing in a comfortable sitting, room in & mansion at the West End. The handsomer of the two, Maude Pierson, wore a traveling dress of brown merino, and was evidently resting after a journey, In spite of certain languor born of fatigue and her unbecomming dress, the girl was undeniably a beauty, of a gorgeous brunette type. Hercympanion, passing pretty, was of the same dark tint, but smaller in figure and far from Posssasing Meude's great beauty. 'Tell me about everybody," Maude said, -- 'I'm fairly hungry for gossip after vegetating nearly two years in that abominable place She has left me an ample fortune, however, so the time was not all with my aunt. together thrown away.' 'Dead ?' cried her companion. 'You are not in mourning, and--why, Maude, you said you were going to Lady Ralston's this evening.' 'So Iam. in November. Cora, the news. since I left?' But, 'You conceited girl!' laughed her friend. 'Bah! What is the use of dupli city? For, between should be an I was ourselves, answer three together: tion since she made Mrs. here. She is a niece, I old Mrs Mortimore, three years ago and money.' , 'But who is she?' month. believe, 'er name is W orthingloneLst, her Worthinton.' 'Esther - Worthington?" cried Maude, sharply. 'What isshe like?' 'Tall, slender, very fair, with del- icate features, and unmistakeably a beauty, who sings exquisitely ; and having been on the continent with Mrs Mortimore, speaks two or three different languages with fluency.' Jlow old 7° 'About your age, I juige--twenty four or five. Maude broke into 'Mrs. a parsf langh. Mortimore's neice?' 'Well, that is rich ! young Lord Fredrick Seymour isin love with her!" 'Ile is certainly very devoted,-- Everybody thinks it will be a match. 'A match!" cried Maude, inan- other burst of mocking merriment. 'Lord Frederick Seymour and Esther Worthington! Well, well! I tell you,' she said with a touch ~ of sar- casm in her tones, 'it will not be a match! 1 will take her down.' 'What do you mean ?' 'Will this belle bo at Lady ston's this evening.' 'Probably. But do tell me, Maude, what you know about her ?' 'I know enough to cool Lord Fred- erick Seymour's ardor,' said Maude; 'and he learn the truth.-- To think of that girl's daring to move in our set! 'Well, as to that,' Cora replied, 'being handsome accomplished, re- fined, and heiress to double your tortune, Maude, I cannot see where the audacity comes in, especially as Mrs Hursey has her for a guest, and we all know how particular she The Seymours themselves are not prouder than the Horseys.' "You wait until the evening! I suppose sho thinks nobody here knows her. I'll humble her! She won't attend any more fashionable parties after I've told my story!' «But what is your story ?' "You'll hear to-night.' «Tell, me now? Cora said coax- ingly. No. Let mo liedown a while and rest or I lial) look like a ghost this evening.' A very brilliant ghost it would have been to resemble Maud Pierson as she entered lady Ralston's saloon afew hours later. A evening dress of granite velvet, cut to display the beautifully rounded shoulders and arms, and trimmed with rich black lace ornaments of diamonds, and a ¢lustor of white flowers: 10 her hair, all hightened ber queenly beauty. Tooking across the crowded room sho recogmied her rivelin a tall slender girl, who wore white lace over a peachecolored satin, and or- naments of fretted gold. Lord Frederick Seymour was already in attendanco apparently, for he was leading this lady to the head of a quadrille just forming when Maude entered. The sight stimulated anew all the hatred of Esther Wor thington that had been roused by Cora's description. : A cool-hearted calculating wo- Ral- will is. Manchester, June 20, 1877; man, devoted. to dress, wealth and Aunt Maria has been dead six months, and requested me not to wear black and retarn to town tell me Who is the belle ot the idiot It I did no know handsome. Frederick Seymour ?' 'One question at a time, theugh I ean Now is Lord The Leen the object of Lord eymour's special devo- her debut last | It was singuarly char acteristic of Iursey introduced who died left her all her, j erick Seymour. she | And so luxury--selfish te her heart's core, carrying the smiling face of a belle over a bitter envy of all more for- tunate than! herself--Maunde Pier: son had never felt a touch of woman- hood until her heart opened to young Lord Frederick Seymour. | An orphan dependent upon an aunt devoted to the trivolites of fashiod Sunies education had been superfictal; andan undue value had been given in her thoughts to the ad vantages of birth position and for- tuno Miss Pierson was very proud of the blue blood in her own veins; Maud's success as a belle was as much a triumph to her aunt as to herself. When the long illness get in that drove Miss Pierson to the seclusiun, and quiet of a country home, her niece had begun to hope that the attentions of "Lord Fred." were more than those called for by the ordinary requirements of so- ciety. : It had been a great blow to her to be suddenly whirled outof the vortex of London guiety, to be I baried alive in the little towh where much of her childood had been pass. ed under her aunt's caro, But she was far too polite to murmur loudly, and when her relative died, it was with the firm conviction that all Maud's tender care and devotion were directed by warmest affection. | Miss Pierson that Maude should re- | turn to London six months after her death, and wear no mourning In one of their last i pid she said 'to her : 'You will soon be twenty-five, Maude, and you shall not bury yonr- self this winter. It might ruin your prospects of a good match' And Maude, secretly exultant, wept copiously as she assured her dear aunt that "Society had no charms for her were she to be de- pr ived of her life long companion. Yet the six months dragged wear- ily when she thought of Lord Fred- Would he love her better for her golden charms, or did he know her fortune, after all it was small, compared with his own princely income? IIad a fairer face eclipsed her memory ? Carefully during the long summer did the beautiful brunette cherish her own charms and gloriously did they repay her care when sho burst upon her old friends more superbly handsome than ever, at Lady Ral- ston's reception. Esther Worthington, looking at her as she entered the room, turned to her companion, saying in a low tone: 'Is not that Miss: Pierson?' 'Yes. Isshe not handsome ?' 'Magnificently so! I can scarcely imagine a more quoenly beauty.-- She was not a very pretty child dark and thin. Will she recognize me, 1 wonder, as easily as Ido her?' "You were children when you last met 2' *About twelve years old ; but we lived near each other for six years before that. Will she look down on me now as scornfully as she did then?' 'Hush, you pain me!" was the re- ply. 'Try and forget those dark days. 'Nay, for they will make the happy ones. all the brighter,' was the gentle reply.-- ¢ Bow to your partner !' For the music of the quadrille sounded in the long room, and aiten- tion was required to the intricacies through which Miss Worthington and her partner proposed to lead their set. When it was over, Ksther leaning on her partuer's arm turned, to find herself confronting Maude Pierson. With a sweet smile, she extended her hand. 'Have you forgotten me ?' she ask- 'I remember you well,' was the reply ina freezing tone, "and I mnst confess my surprise is very great to meet a charity girl amongst my friends.' : ¢A charity girl!' cried several voices. 'Yeu may doubt me," said Maude, answering them, 'But let Miss Wor- thington deny, if she can, that she was taken from a charity school to be the nursery maid of MrsJhurton my aunt's cousin and neighbor. Let her deny it, if she can, that she did a menial's work for years in their house. She may palm herself off as Mrs. Mortimore's niece upon strang- ers, but I, knowing her, decline the honor of her acquaintance.' The delicate, beautiful Miss Wor- fhington grew very pale during this insulting address, but sho drew | erect as haughtily as Maude Pierscn 'herselt, as that young lady cepsed to speak. 'All you have said is quite true,' she replied, 'and the only reason for concealing the facts you now force upon my friends was the request of my dear aunt, Mrs Mortimore. Mrs Hursey, Lady Ralston, and several others of those who favor me with their friendship, know well the family history you force me to re- You will pardon me for obtruding my private affairs upon you; but -since Miss. Pierson has attacked my veracity, My parents wete late to our friends here. I must detend it. married against the wishes ot my mother's father, who carried his re sentment to the grave, and cut my When Iwas and my was mother out of his will. a babe my father died; mother, ill, feeble, penniless, taken to the workhouse where she, Morti- more, was in Canada at the time, too, died. Mrs. Her sister; and unaware of my existence. 'What Mies Pierson has so deli- cately told you of my childhood i quite truo. I was taken was allowed to attend school winter, wero faithfully performed. When was thirteen, my home and found me out. I have been her until, at her death, ing up so much ot your time; and i g up AC y from the workhouse to fill the servant'splace; but my employers wero kind, and 1 in the I think they will testify that it my duties were menial, they aunt returned Since then charge, and the kindest love was lavished upon me I became the guest of my friend, Mrs. Hursey.-- I hope you will pardon me for tak- man to charge that upon you in my presence.' Prosecutor--Pshaw/ You don't comprehend at all. His honor, means, did not the prisoner my to you, 'I was drun 1 : Witness, reflectively-- Well, ho might have said you wore drank, but I didn't hear him. . Attorney for prisoner--'What the court desires is to have you state the prisoner' s own words, preserving. made use of in reply. Was it first person I, second person, thou, or the third person, he, ebhe or it? Now, then, sir--with severity--upon your oath, didn't my client say, 'I wes drunk ?' Witness--getting mad--'No, he didn't say yon were drunk, but if he had, I reckon he wouldnt have lied any. Do you suppose the poor fel s|low churged the whole court with being drunk ?"-- Exchange. Romantic Infatuation. AN HEIR TO A THRONE FOLLOWING THE TRAVEL OF AN AMERICAN BONGSTRESS--A LONE CHASE WHICH CULMINATES AT THE TIFFT HOUSE IN 1 | serravo. Some time in the spring of 1873 there ap. peared at the court of the Queen Dowager Josephine, of Sweeden--then sojourning at the summer palace at Rosendal--four young and beautiful girls, whose remarkable tal- ent as musicians bad attracted the atention of musical connoisseurs of Europe, as f through the mediumship of Ottilie Weigren you desire, with Miss Pierson, to de- | secured them the friendship as well as the cline tho further acquaintance of a accept workhouse girl, I can only your decision with some regret fo a deceit that was only in accordance with the wishes ot the dead.' 'Stay a moment,' said Lord Fred: erick Seymour, as the friends of the beautiful girl would have presse more warmly than ever around ber; 'Let me speak one word. request of Miss Worthington, I have refrained from mentioning the hon- or she has conferred upon which is the crowving pride anc happiness of my life. ed her to become my wife to giv me, an me the precious treasure of her love, she told me the story you have jus heard, and I, too, joined my en treates to those of her aunt. stood that even in our society ther are some ignoble enough to coun her early fact, a character that could keep he noble, pure and lowly home - to which the misfor. fortunes of her parents demned her. Miss rest.' With and pride he led ber through th group of friends who spoke warm ost words as she passed. Finding her a scat fountain, he said : near 'I am glad they know it, Essie, for a secret is a'troublesomo burden 'But, you--oh, Fred, if it shames you"-- 'Hush ? I never honored you highly, or loved you so fondly, as did when that girl found taunts answered by your own digai- We will not gpeak Rest herve till I bring ice, and we will return to fied frankness. of it again. you an our friends.' 'Maude,' Cora said. as thegirls un- bound their hair in their own room before retiring, 'I don't think your little scene was altogether asuccess. From tho warmth ot her friends, when Esther Worthington returned Lord to the drawing.room, and Frederick Seymour's devotion, really imagine you placed that lady upon a higher pedestal of favor than ever, in your amiable endeavor to take her down. ee eee A Scene in Court. A man was caught in the act o theft, and pleaded in extenuation that he was drunk. Court--to Policeman who was witness-- 'What did the man say wten you arrested him ?' Witness-- He said he was drunk.' Court-- I want bis precise words, just as he uttered them; he didn' use the pronoun he, did he? He didn't say 'he was drunk.' ' Witness -- 'Oh, yes he did-- he said he wis drunk ; be ackowledged the corn.' Court--getting impatient at the : witness's stupidity--You don't un derstand me at all ; T want the words as ho uttered them ; didn't he eny '1. was drank ?' Witness, deprecatingly-- 'Ob, no | your honor. By the When I ask- 'Not,' he added haughtily, 'That I value my future wifo loss, but I under- misfortunes a shameful and even ignore the beauty of true even in the con- Worthington will you take my arm to the conser vatory ?--you are pale and need an air of tender eflection, the 80 insulting He didn't say you patronage of royalty. It may be readily understood why the advent of these fair artists, who from childhood had been gro- teges of the King, created a great sensation among the susceptible youth attached to the court, and passing hours of idleness amid the beautiful scenery and charming pleasures of this favorite abode of the Queen | | Dowager. Among those attracted by tho beauty, either of the place or 'of its fair visitors, was a young noble who has since become prominent in European politics, and who stands next in succesion to the throne of a kingdom. He had ever been 1 | fortunate in love ; but at last he met his fate } | and suffered a defeat wounding to his pride but more wounding to his heart. To one of this quartette of beauties he became deeply and devotedly attached ; but though it was apparent his affections were not engaged t | elsewhere, she would give him no encourage- - | ment, and all his advances were met with the coldest indifterence when they could not be avoided altogether. The talent of this quartette of beauties caused them to be invited to visit varions European courts, and through Austria, Prussia, Russia, Holland and the t | Rhineland, the devot d Prince followed the object of his heart's affections. Presents of value and letters borne by the hands of em- bassadors, were alike quietly but firmly ré- fused, and the lovely girl, to all remonstran- ces of friends at the extremity of her cold- * | ness, declared herself 'wedded to her art.'-- At length in the fall of 1876, she, in com- pany with three fellow graduates of the Conservatory of Music, Stockholm, left sud- denly for the United States. Not even their nearest relatives knew of their intention to leave Europe. As to the Prince Paul K-- he was nigh distracted. Compelled to re- main in Burope, and not daring to relinquish the dutics of his high station, he was forced to abandon the pursuit of the object of his adoration in propria personae, but trusty messengers were sent in every direction to discover something of her whereabouts, when all doubts were set at rest by the ar rival oflispatches from New York. After giving concerts in connection with the Oto 3ull and Thomas orchestra, the quartet, Inst spring, secured the services of John D. I | Mishier and commenced what is to be a r | musical tour of the United States, to be com- pleted at San Franc dsco, During their va. cation this summer, they were continually followed to various watering-places by a tall dark, foreign looking gentleman, who seem- ed to be interested in their every movemeat. When they retired fora month to a quiet Berks county farm-house. he took board at the village hotel, and was observed to watch them at every opportonity.-- When they started on their concert tour, he was an attendant at every concert at every town, and invariably stopping at the samo hotel as they did. His conduct was at last explained, and the whole story came out by his action at the Tiff House, at Buffalo, where he seized the opportunity to have an interview with the lovely blonde who bad rejected the Prince. What passed at that interview can only be surmised ; but ce'= tain it is that this watchful emissary had' 'been sending regular reports to Europe to' his royal master, and that he had obtained' (|an interview under instructions, Whit ever his , instructions may bave been, it is certain that the result of the intetview was unsatisfactory, for he immediately after left for New York. There can be no, doubt that he was deputed tojoffer the brilliant song- stress the share of a throne, and there can 'be no doubt that she refused it. It will gob be so very astonishing~-since princes are but men--if his royal lover should come to. press his suit in person. Ner willit be astonishing--since this cold beauty is after all 8 woman--if the persistance of &' prince should at last persuade her tolopk with' | favor upon his suit, © © r e 1 | were drank - I wouldn't allow sng' the precise form of pronoun that he