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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2095, 21 September 1875, Page 3

Sale . op * Pledges,, etc. —..Messrs Gudgeon and Co. have received instructions from: Mr James ■; Ji'A.p/-to\ sell by auction at their Eboms, Brown street, on Wednesday next, the 22nd inst, at 11 o'clock, a quantity of Jewelry and < lothing, together with a Miscellaneous Collection of other articles. The remaining portion of .the; .License, with occupation, of the MacVaytown Hotel, Ohinemuri,' for the time being, for 14 weeks, will also be offeredl to competition.-^Advt. It is some time since we were called upon to record anything in tlie way of "selling off" or "immense reductions" in the clothing department. But we are now reminded that Messrs J. Cosgrave and'-'Coi,' are calling 'a' sale of drapery and clothing at their establishment^-'in 0-wen; and Albertstreets. The stocks in these establish-, ments embrace £20,000 worth of goods. sdtapet'y'and v'ivintcr'-clothing-will now be the order of the day.—Advt. At Banbtiry, Oxpn, recently there was jfc great demonstraition..against: HieGqmpulsory Vaccination Act, the occasion .being the release from Northampton Prison of a man who suffered 14 days' imprisonment 4 rather than have his child vaccinated. He was. met, at the railway station by a great number of persons, gome of whom carried banners denouncing the Vaccination Act;- and bands of music played. Speeches were made by the Rer. Hume-Bbthery, of Cheltenham, • a relation of Joseph Hume, formerly member for Montrose, and others con- " neotedwith the National An ti- Vaccination League. White/ the released man^ received a purse of gold, and resolutions were past against the Act. . Genius'iNi Advertising.— This is a specimen of how they do advertising in Sari-Francisco. " TelU that man to take his hat off in court,' 1 said a judge the other morning;to an officer. The offender, who turned out to be a lady wearing a fashionable sailor hat, indignantly exclaimed, " I am. no man, sir ! HThen," satdhis'Honoiv-I am no judge of anything but good wine, and the best is He:dsieck''s champagne, which I always get from F. and P. J, Cassin, at 523 Front street." : . : : Among;'■ the ,young .ladies, wh,o are this year attending the; course of'lectures in the St. Petersburg Academy ©f Medicine , are two Tartar'ladies^^■(Mahoraedan) who h.ave completed their prelitninary studies in a-school at Odessa.' : With reference to the regent anticle in the Russian Gplos on the subject of an Anglo^Bussian* Alliance, the -Journal de ' Sf'PetCTsbourg: contends 'that; Russia stands in no need whatever of fresh alliancea. . The "alliance of the three Emperors is, it says, in itself quite suffi-". cient as a guarantee of peace. Best thing to do, when you go shopping Tfith ladies—Take notes.—Judy. Oould Do Without Him.—Speaking of Parson Brownlow, an old Tenuessean,: who had been abused by the venerable paralytic, said: " God's hand is on his coafc collar, fellers, and when God gets his clamps on a reptile, I let go, for I ain't no use then. '—American paper.