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Evening Star, Issue 3499, 11 May 1874, Page 3

A correspondent, writing from a New Jersey camp-meeting, tells the following:— ’ Many people sleep in the same tent here being separated by a partition. ,A young fellow from Camden had become interested in a pretty daughter of a religious farmer. Last night, while a dozen of cold-hearted fellows were trying to sleep, they heard him say. in a low, sweet voice, ‘ Now, Caroline, dear, let me seal the vow, do !” ‘ No, James, I cannot; What would my father and mother say ?’ But, Caroline, you have promised to be mine now let us seal the vow—let us, do let us—won t you ? Do kiss me !’ ‘ No. James, I cannot, oh ! I cannot-’ I„ a moment the tent partition parted, and a big-whiskered brother, who wanted sleep, shouted, ‘Per &ods sake, Carrie, let him seal that vow. He 11 keep us awake all night if you don’t, ihe vow was sealed.” A colored man, died recently in New ?i,T ing real estate value at 700,000 dollars, and owing 160.000 dollars back taxes. He lived in the most miserable manner, going about in rags, and scarcely eating enough to support life. A woman, living near the Hoathcoto .Kiver, Canterbury, having a number of ducks, was surprised the other day to notice one of them kicking up some extraordinary capers, with its legs in the an, and its head under water, As it was near the side, the woman reached the legs of;the duck and began pulling them, and thinking that the head was entangled in weeds. But she tugged and tugged all to no purpose, and the head suddenly gave way, the head being down the gullet or a huge eel which she caught sight of and which she stated to have been as thick as a man’s thigh. Imagine the situation.

La,t j 4d esrtipements, N OTIC E. The Monthly Mtetinggof the UNION PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY WILL BE HELD THIS EVENING, In the office, Princes street, At Seven o’clock. WANTED, an Apprentice to Dressmaking. Apply Mrs Buchard, Birch Cotta-e u-eorge street. ° ’ TO LET, Cottage, at Caversham. W. Dalrymple, Agent.