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- Miss Lightt |
asant |18 K the g Mids - Tyler-has re-
o0 | turned to her home at Mt, Airy, Md.
riday | Continued sickuesgs prevails throughout
din- | th¢ community, Ppeumonia, catarrhal
§ wag | feVer and measels predominate at this sea-
stime
gton,
f Mr.
ther's
‘potntment here'on Sunday, &nd notwith-
‘standing the terrors of war and scarlet
everybody said, **We like him,” waich you
new minister in’ bur midst or whether itis
due to the soft balmy air of spring that! we
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, Aldie is alive once more.
main
er, the birds sing sweeter, and even the |
frogsiover in’ the swamps croak louder
than they ever did before. Every thing
speaks of life. Indeed the whole world |
seemd bright torday, uad we draw a long |
‘breath and are thankful.
Thd Rev. Mr. Stanton filled his first ap-
‘ever | combined, everybody was out and
«ow is a mighty good thing, for the
preacher. - e
Mr Stanton is quite a feverent speaker
and his discourse upon that occasion was
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and character excelled by few of his pre-
decessurs. And then you see, he is good-
looking which goes a long way with some
of us “Methodist sinners’ anyway.
Our merchants who hgve been delayed
‘ater than usial tl}is spring by sickness
other causes,! have .returned from
their ahnual tripto Baltimore with a fine
lot of goods which they are offering at
prices to suit thei public. = .
" Migs Fannie Palmer, of Gum Spring, is:
spending the week in the village.
"Phe many friends of Mr. R. 5. Peirson,
formerly of this commuhity but for some
years past a resident of Eagle Lake, Tex.,
éfi'illdbe lad to l8arn of the success he has |
attained in his Sputhern home.. Ina recent
¢ommunication to a gentleman in the
village, he states that he holds the position
of Town Serg _lg;ggd_ tax collector ot
Eagle Lake at a fine salary, We wish him
son, and our physician is kept ' equally as
busy as he wasduring the entire winter,
Mr. Frank M Green has invented a “'self
shutting” gate appliance, which is us mar-
| velous and complete in mgeouity as it s
simple in mechanism. We beliove Mr. G,
expetts shortly to have hisinvention patent-
ed JUNO.,
DIE NEWS AND GOSSEP.
4 1 1) die has ected. We are anableto |
|} say! Whether it 1s owing to the advent of a |
are bEving once again, anyway the fact re- |
h
p grass is greenet, the flowers, bright- |
marked by a deliberate earnestness of {
thought showang forth a breadth of mind |