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I-WE KY ; bcIN. :VNNLRO . C., I1?SA Th)1INING, JUL 17, 77 1.NV. 7 NEW AI VERTISEMENTS. FANCY CAtDs all styles With natne, 10cti post paid. 'J. H. IIlt;DED, Nassau, Rons County, New York. Revolver a'd Cartridges (or $3. A fino nickel llated, seven shot., p cket re volver ;a Ilrst-chuis rlile. Sent t.. "v. D., or on reccipt or pri'Ci. U. W. -WIl,,Is. 1'.' . 1I1x 9,718, New York. TRIFLING With a Cold is Always Dangorous. USE WELL ' Carbolic Tablets, a sure romedy for Coughs, and all Dis eaos of the Throat, Liingsi, Chest and Mucous Monhrane. PUT UP ONLY IN BLUR BOxE. old by all Druggists. C. N. CiIITTENTON, 7 sirth f.venuo, N. Y. Tho Tip Top Package is tho lsr oat and boats gf EAD A nm fi. P tnc. i .In lt r101 tu. on Pun, Hot of Ele'gest r0h! stoano lhy,t Stum 1tianIilmnld wilt) goldl. A nm~mlivt SXe,,,a l'in, Ouldl-platod Wandling Rting,set Houatnitd 1:ar laant, Ladies' Flomerlnd 1tvereill111tlin.,,adlel,'Fnn~y Not uIi aid I)rini (olh.lplatnt.ull est f-' i -p. ( lt4 ,)nt. tr ouc Ci and dt e,tfe Lot s pn1u. n.t.sdf. GO ' (hell. . Ji~t 'fA )7.V'AR' JNDuCrxFN.A'rts rE)a 1:E"wr l. BRIDE, Clinton Placo, Now Yor' pack ncqiairntance cards, 1 pack: 'handkerchIef flirtation, ' '1pack scroll all sorts, fur only 10 cut, s andistanp. " LaOrd Co., Middloboro, Mass., Wonderful Success. ,00 of the CENTENNIAL EDXO4ITION D. scribed and Illustriated. Sold 'L (0. days. 770 pages only $2.50, treating .'- !t ire bistory wonderful exhibits, etc. 'llhttrated, anid $1 chCaper than any other. One new agont Cleared $350 In 4 weeks. Agents wanted. 1itUnAtIn linos., Pubs., Sanusomn Street, .Philadelphla, Pa. CA U T N "ar" of falsely cl"nel en fr prof offlicial and ,worthless books. -U 1C cpy curious lore letter, I pk; comie cards, 1 pack IDpiug questions cards; all for 1 ets. and stamip. Fun Card Co., Middleboro, Mass. Sy1phur Soap. "Thoroughly Cures Uenses of t he Skir, tieaul ies the Complexion, Preventw 'atd remiedles Jfheu Ilntlsm-and gout -licals Sores and Abraslonsof -the Custiclo and bountcracts Contaglon. SOLD BY ALL DRU(ol5T. PIICEs-25 Celuta per take ; Box((3 Cakes) 70 Centsl. 'I N. 1.-Sent by Mall, Prcpald, on receipt of price. C. N. CILITTKNTON, ProV'r, 7 Sixth A. entue, N.Y. H A comic oil chrom1, 7s11, mored worth 250., I 1:k. love card,, I pkmic envelopes, . tack. comnid Ilards, t pilthk scroll, 1 24 plfgi took -'i:n all sent fo, only 5 sct. stamtnps, Neivel'tyCo., Middlecoru Mass. July 2-i EYO iMONEY -,QO TO P4!N E N B R '8. JUST .UCFIV.EJ, beautiful line ofLadies' and Gents' Na~tions. Hamburg Edgings and Insertions, at 7cts.. 10cts. and l'd cts, per yard. 4ANpQoIE AsSORTMENTJj OF White an arooy a0 ag1 prices. 4ARAsgps, sILK and CQ9J1QN. Genta' Unh~undied Shirts, WVamsutta Mills, $12 per dozen. Pereaio Shirts, $12 erdozen. .BE1AUTIFULJI DRESS GOODs, Only 12& cents per yard. ~CAICOEs ,and BLEACHINGS, Always in great variety, RTY OREBLM.E MADE IEACH P4IR NV'ARgTTED. pon't fail to Call on the Leader of Low PRIOES, apri i 17 pOMETHING NEW. Tie A utomatic Fly Brush. AN ORNAMENT. A CO1MFORT. A NECESSITY. LONG SOUGHT, FOUND AT LAST. yerybody Should Have it. COME AND GET ONE CONNOR & CHANDLER. juno 19 1O OUR VUSTO1YERS HO an ingebted to us fur P)VIS IONS or PHOSP1 ATES, we would respect fully call attention, that your hills are due on or beforo the first of November. W. are depending on you for payment AT QNCE, to enable us to meet obligations nade to assist you, and which aro due at that time. In order for us, as wcll as you, to .gain ta n our credit, it is necessary to mee' our promises prompty. BDsaty, Bro..% Son. oct 12 ESconstan 1y or, hand a fulup ply ?., 5holce FAbIILY GROCERIES and .PLANTATION SUPPqES. His sil has ree fly been replonishgd, and he is now rea4y. to supply the want. of all. -oet12 JUS' RECEIVED, One car load seod Potatoos, One ' " " Oats. --ALSO, A full line of Plantatice. Hard ware consisting of Lay Iron0, Pl'ow crel, Ste 1 Plows, 'low 1oIulds, Spades, SL >vels , Tranes, Clevic.s, .AliCes, Screws ( c.&c lwhich \.ill ha sold low " -.CASH. I.keep consiantly on hand . full supply of PLANTATION and FA '. t., ,j I have on land sever'l br-:ids of first class FIliiTILIZh )S which I an preparedll to all for (ash or on tilo with well a >,roved securities oi a money basis, or with at cotton oi:tion if parties" desire. All parties' in want of Fertilizers will do w(l! to call on me cefore purchasing F. ELDER. feb 20 The Latest Novelties JUST ARRIVED beauil Ie(lection of Lan :-.a Camubrics, in1 all the new t'esirable Odlors and Patterns. A beautiful line of Hamburg Edgings, and Trimmfinfgs-nf all kinds. Cailicoes of atest styles and' at greatly redn11eed prites. A large assortm-ent of Fans, Biuons, Combs, and inot~bis of all k inids. CallI on uinder0signed before mankin g your purchases andV you will be satisliad that the LATEST, BEST ANND CHIEAPES'. GO(iODS are purchiased of SOL WOLFE. juno 26 TC)IL:B3T so.A] JUsT REEIVEr\ Nggross of the geanine prown W~iio Soap. .ALSO, Twenty-Ave dozen assorted Soaps,at the Drug Store of april ?A DR. 'R R1 ATKEN. A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE, ------ - ISCIDE.STS I-X TI/E LI' ,01".1 L.STON. The Story of tho California H3ank Presideont's gifo--How Warwick Mar tit Collected. an Old Dobt and 'Dotty M,.rtin got a Silk Dress. A. San Francisco correspondent c f the New York "sun. writes : To-day we have spcnt at Bolmont, the mag unifil.enit counItry seal of the late Wm.111 C. Ralston. We have boen the gu.sts of Sonator Sharon, into whosio hamiti Bl3 uont fell after ltzdston's suitido Belmont is situ atedi about tventy- five miles from San Francisco. It contains about 210 acres of irrigated land, in the -'iddle of which is a pialace, which cost ti],500,000. There are twenty live splendid horses, greenhouses fillet with thoisusainds of rare xotics, and orange, ban ana and lomca trees growhig in the open air. It was hero that Ralston used to hold those magni'ietI f S, even down' to the eve of his bankruptey, wheli he found hinself in debt to the fabulous sum of 81(00,000, amil, broken-hearted, left the president's seat in the Bank of Califoi'nia, and went cut to the bay and drowned himself. Senator Sharon, who is Considered to be worth anywhiore from ten to twenty millions, rAow keeps up Belmont and entertains his friends' there every Sunday. It is here that he enitertained Lord J,)uf'rin, General Shermanu, and, in fant, where he has cntertained alost every person of note who has vis ted the Pacific coast. But Ralston used to entertain his friends here by the hundreds. It was no uncommon thing for him to have fifty people at breakfast. No fairy tale can suirpass the real story o IF Rals ton's princely entertainments. He would often charter a train of Carr out of San Francisco, fill them with his friends, and, withrbands of music, vino and pum)tuous ban.. 'Pet, make t night of it at'Belmont. "Do you. think Ralston's )ind was sound when he was doing these startling things ?" I asken .3eniator Sharon, as I wandered and wondered th rough mirrored rooms and among )maibles and bronzes, and over Au Ih,.sson and Axminster carpets. "Do you not think it was incipient in sanity ?" "Yes," replied the Senator. "I think Ralston's mind was wrong for a year before his suicide. His tin altishness was a mania. Ho liVed -itirely for his friends. He wo .ld wear the (oarsest clothes, eat the commonest food himself, but when it came to a friend, or even a casnal uequaintalce, he delighted to startle him with the mbst lavish entertain.' mnoit. - "You were his partner ?" I sug~ gested1. "Yes, we built thme Palace Hotel together' ; b)ut before it wvas lhalf (lone, I saw that Ralston was on tihe verge of ruin. I don't think now, wvhen I look back, that poor Ralston ever had a hundred thousand dol Jars free from all debts int his life." "And lie died owing ?" "He died owing sixteen millions. He was president of the Bank' of California, but the bask's capital wvas only a shell for yoai's. It was all used to carry on his ningnific'nt schemes. Why, w~hen lie died h was carr'ying Belmont at 'an expengo of a hundred thousandi dollars a year ; carryinig four ililiohs in the Palace Hotel, a hotel which 'cost six millions in gold ; carr'yi~ a million or so in the Grand Hotdl and adja' cent prloperty on l\ontgome'y street; building' a miliosdollar -' 'piiate residlenco on Pine" street. and, be, sides, wvas carryinlg -severdl manu facturing' compapiies, 'and keeping up the cre'dit of thu -Bank of Cali% fornia to aL t61 mfillion-dlollar standa ard when it das an insolvent shel11, hogelossly bmikrupt." "And youi know how the bank stood ?" 'Wes, I knew it at last ; but Ralston was too proud to 'tell me. I had twvo millions in thb bdhk, and wvhen we pushed Ralston to''tell us how it stood he hadn't the 'face to do it. Blroken-hearted, he' looked away vacantly, and said: 'The cashier will ,tell you,' and then, grandly andl dublimely, rather than, tell 'of his ow~n misfor'tune, put on his hat, walkbd heroicaly to the beach 'and ~howned himself. "And "thk e~ect on tLhe people "Simply awful ! It wtgs dreadful. Hundreds oLfb'ank men" shed 'tears in the street--not because Ralston had ruined tlieih, but because -thoy loved him-because all San Francis co loved the man. He had taken sixteen millions of dollars from tho capitalists of' San Francisco and given it to the people. They wor shipped him; and what wonder that they should ?" Mr. Edhnond L. Goold, a guest of Senator Sharon to-.iay and a per sonal friend of Ralston, gives tuo the following incident in the life of the unfortunato man, which atrords a clue to his character Mr. Ralston in' 1848 was a clerk on a Mississip'i steamboat. He as generous and poor. One day ho went into thohanking house of Lako & Martin, in St. Louis, and accosting Mr. M[artin familiarly, said : "I say, Martin, can't you lot me hav $500 ?" "I don't soo how we . can, Billy," said Martin, "unless you can give us some security. Who can you got to indorse -for you ?" Ralston scratched his head a mo nment and admitted that he couldn't give any security. Said he : "Mar tin, the fict is, I'm broke-dead broke-but I've got a chance to go in. with C. K. Garrison -down at Pahama, and I must .havo $500 to got there." . ; A fter a while Mr. Martin decided that he would lend Ralston $500 on his oisAn account and run the risk of payin ait, and giving it to him, Rals ton started down the river to join Commodore Garri'son. This was in '48.' "Did Ralston ever pay Martin ?" I asked Mr. Goold. "I'll toll you how it was," said Mr. Goold. "Ralston ..forgot all about it, or else he lost track of Martin But fourteen yea's afterwards I met Martin in New York. H was broke then himself--gone all to ---pieces hadn't a dollar. Ralston at' this time was at' the neridin of his glory, spending money dy" the mil. lions. Well, one day Martin came u:p to in looking very seedy, and asked me if in my travels iii Califor, nia I had ever met a.' man by the name of Billy Ralston. "Billy Ralston ?" said I. "B-i-1 1-y R-a-l-s-t-o-n I why I- .know a man by the name ' of William C. Ralston-nsed to be with CommoN dore Garrison in Panama. - It was Fritz, Ralston & Garrison in San Francisco, but now Raldton is at the head of it." . " "Well, 'Mr. Goold, that's the same Billy Ralston that- borrowed' five hundred dollars of me down in St. Louis .Li '48. Do' you think he could pay it back now ?" "Pa, it back !" said Mr. Goold, "why you're joking., Pay it back I Ralston pay five hundred dollars -! Why, Martin, Ralston can pay five milion dollars." "Wbll," said Martin, "when you see Billy in Frisco, you just tell him 'bout me-and if he ain't strapped and if' 'twont break him up, I just wish he'd pay m that t4e hundred dollard." . '" ." "The fact of it is," said Mr. Goold as lie told thp" - torf', "I thought Martini was jokidfg. ''I had no idea that Ra'inton owed hita anything. But whuen I got back -'to California I thouglit I'd baniter Ralston about it. - ( 'one day when I was in Rglston's room, I said jokinglyt "' "o'ea nice looking fellow, lialston, to be cheatingsan old friend out of fiva hundred dollars," ain't you ?" "What do you mean 7." said Ralston. - ' "Why, when I was in New York the other' day, a ihan by the fianne of Nlartin". . "What I" exclaimed Ralston, jumnpingsto his fdet, "Warwick Mar S"Yes, Warwick Martin" "Where's his address ?"' "Hero 1." Lie shouited to the cashier of t)1e bank; "telegraph ten tho'iisand dol lars-to the credit -of Wam'*ick' Ma' Sin-quick I" and -Ralsto'n' ane tround like a crazy man. '- * "The next day,*' continvq&L Mr. Boold, "Warwick' artin rq ~d--a bologram from Labb & ~VW ' 8.4 Pine street, te5 call and # d4ci'Ve something deposited to hNd eredit:' "By jingo!" said MartiEigh1l8, 4vye WI'l bot: Billy has sont my ;that "five mundr'ed dollars; .-If he -has, "Gletty, you can pick out a si k-drdss at Stewartt's;" then -'he hurried %g to Dbes & Wallasm. - 1 l ' - "I called '" iso see about sorne noney," kaid 'Mar t' lq~dking Mlrough the 2lank soi-don at Mr, bees. "You'say I h'Avo'sonme toan siodit here"^ - - '-" "How abueh areyou expectin~ asi w~ho from" * asked' th4 ud-efully, As is the custom in - continued on fourmt auA -