CUSTOMS RETURNS.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1669, 6 May 1874, Page 2

CUSTOMS RETURNS.

' Amount of Revenue collecteld^a.t: the ■ Port of Thames for May sth, 1874:— - Custom Duties - '- ." ■ -~: i'£3l 12 2

Evest description of Dyeing and Cleaning" clone on the shortest 1 notice at the Thames ■Pyxing Eata^hmen\;.neaT^cbriaci^^*Biiqh*'' mona and Rolleston-streetil-^-ADy^;"'"• IJ\? MoNBTEE--CißAßiK«^>TO:.:Siißi!i-18.-m.the. : # refcurned. All men's and bW clothinfc much,under.cost. Sale.|n consequence of the scarcity of money, till, the<&<! ofcihii'nibnthD Be in Jim© for the first-of the=bargains. Thia is the orily genuine sale, fieldvwheron you will receive ss. in cash "fpr^very '&£ worth of goods, you purch'aVe. a*t Joseph Moses,' Thames Qlptn,,Hall.. Closed from sunset Friday till. sunset MijiWaf J~£iiyT. •liEBUTTiNG v ETiDEircß^—Wife:'" JBusi- 5 ness; i indeed![ Sji fypu; jsaid last w,eek, when cook actualljr ; can,-swear "she "saw ypucome out 'of "the Kings "Head when she, Trent; for the beter J^Husbirid I —(hic)-TTbe carefu')ny jJear: gal !'• cause I !don't care tuppens^^boui/date?!^ T;shall; ; 'p^pljr for a "jburijinent; an calltwo frei'gh; o' mine,,r—both on the cont'neht' 'present |'timefr.(hic) —an' they'll shwear.never, saw Ime go.int' Eingsh Armsh'ai/alt, .; '; i It appears^that we. ha^eiittcitlyet h^ard the last of ,-, Gb ;H^)Bates of American-flkg notoriety. IMe I writes to the^aily^'^f ews about' »^plan of his for " poultry fying " the British Isles :—" Import," saj-5.he,.,/' 2,oQP^;live and healthy prairie chickens into*[Englaiid| Ireian^ : and Scotland^ and.let them loose *w grburids fivdurabieito'^Heirexistence^ and they will produce more of their kind in sevehyears than there are^afi"p'resent^inhabitants;:in; geant r!is^ l!defermin%dii:tb;'-niike ' himself a name.,. Talk of " Bates and^Kfs' flag "—why ,this ; list fsubjeci;&'^?ba^es Banner-gher entirely ! '"'il'^ '. Ui^^W"'^ , A VAtuABtB Dqo,—A.Bibl^pnd^^,^ paper tells a story of &, very sagacious Uog and a very fopUsh plan, and the man owns the dog...^Hevis a-married man,, and the other^evening told^^ Kis ypiibg!wife that he was'gbing to'the '"'lcidger The wife anxiously-looked for the return,of.her husband, into, the, small hours.of the morning"? andjfinally itherelwasli iLeratching at the door. She opened it. The dog was there tand something more. He had,inhis mouth a bloody handkerchief and a' found piece of ivory, ibiit the^blbßdy handkerchief suggested for her a terrible story.'^ShVput oh'he^-fiionnet^and followed the dog. jriloi^d her to the lodge, which" wis iir'air upper' chamber of a high building, and there on the floor-in one; corner was herhusband/with^jbadlyr swollen eye. and a. bleeding npse, and ii se-lesslegs.,/IHe,^^^-^^'^!^:"l^!!!^, but there was a reason for that^ which disappeared in a few hours.- That young man ndwwiintsto "dispose iof a i very! faithful, well-meaning dog/:? i He also: wants to find the man who hit him-on the rn6se!ihctle gambling-house.^;'^:; ■ndi^y^J- -S^ni, " •, ■ Thb-Puleix STAifta.r-.OurpuMt stairs were crowded, but. not with. the old >wives of Dr. John Erskine's time. That4?vput .man, who.was.one of.my predecessors in the Old Greyfiarsjrbelonged to an ancient Scottish family. He wa» eminent aa a divine, and wa^ leader of thl JEvaiigelioal party in the ihurch courts, as his colleague. Principaljßobertsoiii was of th^itoideMite. Dr. Erskine was remarkable for his simplicity of'manner and gentle temper. He returned so often from the pulpit minus his pocke r t-handkerchief, and could tell so little' tbw or where 'it was lost,-'that'" Mrs. Erskin%,atlastsbigah>tdsiispectlthat the handkerchiefs were stolen a 9 he ascended the pulpit, stairs by^ some of the old wives who lined it. So, both! to" baulk and detect the culprit, she sewed a corner of the handkerchief to one of the pocket's of his coat .tails. Half-way, up the stairs, the good dootor felt a tug, whereupon he turned,round to the old woman whose was the guilty hand, to say, with great gentleness and simplicity, " No' the day, - honest woman, no' the day; "Mrs. Erskine has sewed it in/—Autobiography of t Thoma« Gruthrie, D.D. * J