... stirring incident, which, doubt, was the means bestowing upon the narrator the boastful epithet THE BIG BEAR OF ARKANSAS. The story related in the cabin of Mississippi steamboat, after the hunter has first expatiated on the unrivalled merits of himself as ...

... road, little girl named Smith (residing in the same neighbourhood and, whose parents are in bumble circumstances), walking a short distance in the rear, observed her to drop something which she afterwards picked up, and it proved to be purse of some value ...

... his miserable flatterers were persuading him that his word would stop it. Let the present Government take warning from this story of King Canute. There are parasites enough proclaiming the impossibility that the hem of the nether garment of Free Trade should ...

... designated her situation a dropsy, and scouted the idea of anything criminal. To rebut the charge of guilt, a marriage of long or short duration with a certain grey head was blown about ; but, lo ! at the appointed time nature moved and the dropsy was cured. ...

... ignorant of the marriage service, lder that the clergyman was only reading just to tinae '—Bristol Journal. of a £5 Note.—A short time since, a fyd, lttln at East Ham, called upon the Rev. W. Streatn Car 01 that parish, and in the course of conversa- tbe ...

... one were never more strangely blended, or rather say held together continual and irreconcilable opposition. Tbe succeeding story, The Siege of Dunbeg ; or the Stratagems of War, is humorous, and may be founded on fact, as places and dates are given, but ...

... fire upwards, destroying a staircase which formed the sole means of communication between the different stories. going down into the basement story, Mr. Brake, tbe superintendent of the West of England fire brigade, had his attention attracted to two holes ...

... February number commences with a continuation of The Ladder of Gold, an English story, by Robert Bell, and the portion is illustrated by two well-executed etchings. The story is hardly sufficiently advanced to speak with confidence as to its merits; but ...

... the m mined resolution is expressed that the hours o be ten consecutive hours. Manchester, Preston, Ashton, Bury, Oldham, in short, Lancashire, is in the same state excitement tion. On Sunday last very large assemblage and managers took place the White ...

... decline giving insertion, however, to the detailed account furnished us, as it no means instructive, and we understand the story is denied by at least one party concerned, as a fabrication. Bristol Times. A Miserly Lady.—About three weeks ago, a maiden ...

... This magazine opens with a continuation of The Ladder of Gold, not a mere driblet, some stories to be continued are given, but about forty pages. The story, though not unexceptionable in its moral, is still very superior to many of the modern school ...

... kind ; but Judge Lumpkin will be satisfied with nothing short of retractation, and '' expression of regret for the wrong inflicted on an unoffending people. The Hull Advertiser relates a story of a substantial tradesman of that place, a widower, who ...