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Subject to the action of th+ Primary election.* For the House of Representatives t the solicitation of many farmers A and other friends, COL. JACoI H. BOOZER, consents to become a can didate for the House of Representa tives. We that know him can recom. mend him, as a safe and reliable mat in whom we can trust our interests Call to see him, enquire of us, inforn yourselves fully, know him, vote for him, and be a happy people as w< are. NEIGHBORS. THOMAS S. MOORMAN Is a candidate for nomination for House of Representatives I announce myself as a Candidatt for the House of Representatives, subje.-t to the Primary Election. S. POPE. T HE HON. W. D. HARDY is an nounced by his frien'.s as a candi. date for re-election to the legislature. His manly, straightforward conduct, coupled with his ability and expe rienee, commend h..n to the favora ble consideration of the people of hi; County. R. EDITOR : We would respect i1 fully nominate MR. GEORGE S. MOWER. for the Legislature. Conser vative, practical and well equipped it all that makes the man, hei. s eminent. ly fitted for the position of Legislator. MANY VOTERS. C ArT. 0. L. SCHUMPERT is hereby announced as a candidate for the legislature. He was a gallant soldici and has always been zealous in the catise of the State. He has ability and qualifications such as would enable him to assume and maintain a high position in the councils of the State, and fully protect at all times the rights of his native County. DEMOCRATS. T he friends and admirers of DR. J. Wm. FOLK will be pleased to learn that he has consented to be put in n'mination for the legislature. A young nman of energy, integrity and perseverance, he would make a good representative of the people. The many friends of ALLEN 3. NICHOLS present him as a candi late for the House of Representatives, smbjeet to the primary election. He is a suitable ima to represent New berry County in the halls of Legisla tion. For Clerk of Court, E RENEZER P. CHALMERS is hereby E nominated for the office of Clerk of Court for Newberry County, sub ject to the primary ciection. * Y. MCFALL is a candidate for . Clerk of Court for Newberry County, subject to the nrimary ele tion. For tSonty Auditor. C OL. JO. S. REID is announced at a Candidate for Auditor of New berry County WL. OSEAL is hereby nomina . ted for the position of County Auditor, subject to the primary elec tion. For Probate Judge. J ACOB B. FELLERS is hereby an. notunced as a candidate for re-elec tion to the office of Probate Judge for Newberry County. Oounty Oommissioner. ;R. JNo. A. CROMER, is nomnina .LU ted as a candidate for County Commissioner. Subject to Primary Election.* For fSounty TreasuPr.r MJ R. EDITOR: Please announce th~ name of J. D. SMITH as a suitable candidate for the office of County Treasurer. This Is done without his knowledge or consent, but feeling as sured that he will serve the people a. the people in future as in the past, wi take this liberty of proposing his name trusting- that he will accept if choser in the Primary Election. MANY VOTERS T he many friends -of CAPT. 31. H GARY announce him as a candidati for the office of County Treasturer subject to the primary election. I hle name of A. H. WHEELER is pre sented to the voters in the primar' election as a suitable person for Coun ty Treasurer. For Sheriff. rp he many friends of CAPT. W. IV RBISER would repeCtfully announc4 him as a suitable candidate for Sheriff subject to the result of the primary. HTOS0. COOK is hereby announce< Ias a candidate for 'the officee o Sheriff, subject to the Primary elec tion. T he many friends of WARREN ( PETERSON announce hinm as a car didate for the office of Sheriff, subjec to the primary election. T GRIFF. WILLIAMS is hereby nom .nated for the office of Sheriff, sult ject to the result of the primary. For School Commissioner. Trhe many friends of G. G. SAL lEsq_ nominatn him an a anialn Vattru. TIE WAY OF TIIE WOfLD, ~ There sate a crow on a lofty tree, Watching the world go by; le saw a throng that swept along - With laughter loud and high. "In and out through the motley rout,' Pale ghosts stole on unseen, There hearts were longing for one sweet word Of the love that once had been, But never a lip there spoke their names Never a tear was shed; The crow looked down from his lofty tree, " 'Tis the way of the world,"he said. A singer stood in the market-place, Singing a tender lay, But no one heeded his sorrowful face, No one had time to stay. He turned away; he sang no more; How could he sing in vain? And then the world came to his door Bidding him sing again. But he reeked not whether they came or went He in his garret lay dead; The crow looked down from his lofty tree, "'Tis the way of the world," he said. There sate a Queen by a cottage bed, Spoke to the widow there; fAd she not know the saic hard blow The peasant hadto bear? And she kissed that humble pleasant brow, And then she bent her knee: "God of the widow, help her now, As thou hast helped me." "Now God be thanked," said the old, old crow, As lie spend from his lofty bough; "The times are ill, but, there's much good still In the way of the world, I trow," NIRROW EStJPE. -- Colonel Augustus Chopleigh, late of Her Majesty's Indian Army, lived in stately retirement upon his sung little estate . in one of the pleasantest of the home counties. From an outsider's point of view, the Colonel seemed to possess most things which are generally considered to constitute mundane happiness. Yet with all this, the Colonel had two eternally grinning skeletons in his cupboard. The first was the possession of a ne'er-do-weel son, and the second was the non-possession of a wife. Augustus Chopleigh, junior, al though a ne'er do weel in the eyes of a parent, was, after all, but an ordinary, "every-day young man." Hle betted a little, it is true; he be longed to a club where play was sometimes high of an evening; he could drink his claret like a man, he was a connoisseur in cigars; he possessed two or three long tailors' bills; and he was given to staying in town sometime for a week at a time. Still, after all, what could be expected of a high-spirited young fellow who had received a first rate education, and was therefore unfit ted for any serious walk in life; who was good-looking, who dressed well, who found life at stately Dum Dum Hall a little monotonous at times, and who had a handsome annual allowance ? But iiir the eyes of the Colonel all these little peculiarities were hein ous crimes, and the poor old gen tleman, as he pondered in the soli tude of what he called his "study," saw very clearly that unless the young man was settled in life with a well bred, welt-connected girl, he -would infallibly follow, at headlong pace, that broad road which leads to destruction. Often alone at Dum Dum Hall, deprived of the society of his son, and not caring very specially for that society when offered, it was hardly to be wondered at that the Colonel yearned for a suitable partner in his exile. The memory of the departed Mrs. Chopleigh could hardly be said to be yet green, for she had succumbed to an aggravated attack of jungle fever some twenty years before, when Augustus, junior, was but a stripling in plaid dresses and ,bare legs. It might be said that the remedy was easy. Why didn't the ,Colonel take unto himself a second Mrs. Chopleigh ? There were plenty of eligible spinsters who f would have jumped at an offer from - such a fresh faced, active, wealthy gentlemen, who was but little be ~yond the Lime of life. There was, . however, an almost invincible ob t stacle. Unlike most military men Colonel (.hopleigh was painfully .shy ; perhaps remembrances of the departed Mrs. Chopleigh, who wai known as the Dum Dum Tartar had driven out the youthful assur ance which had won her; at an3 rate, the flutter of a petticoat awak , ened feelings within the gallani * Colonel's breast whiCh were not ti be gtl.re fra g koaea bt flli mutinous Sepoys; or by the stiffest bullfinch in the country. He had loved at a distant a score of times, but had never placed himself with in speaking reach of the various objects to his affection. Suddenly matters took a different turn. A yuung lady of strikingly pre possessing appearance-Millicent Vanjohn, only daughter of the Rev. Aloysius Vanjohn, the only vicar -had been espied by the Colonel proceeding up the lane which ran parrallel with his grounds, as he .paced along his favorite shrubbery walk. "I am fifty-five, he said to him. self, "I am-well, I am well looking, my waistcoat is of decent girth; I have a good complexion; and a man is only as old* as he feels. Why shouldn't I? I may be called an old fool. Well, there are plenty of older fools in the world. I-yes I will !" Miss Vanjohn was walking at the identical hour the next day after that, and so on for more than a week, and each day the same little dumb comedy was played-sheeps eyes on the part of the Colonel, blushings and lookings-down on the part of Miss Millicent Vanjohn. Did Miss Vanjohn walk up that lane so regularly with a fixed pur pose? Of course she did. Punctually at four o'clock every afternoon, Mr. Augustus Chopleigh, Jr., met her at the top of it. It was rather an odd thing to do-the laughter of a well-known parson meeting sub rosa the son of an equally well-known colonel. The following conversation explains it: "Oh, Gus! I begin to feel bo awfully guilty, meeting you like this! Why cai't we love each other openly? There's nothing to be ashamed of in it." "For more than one reason, my darling. I've a bad reputation down here; all fellows have in country places who go up to town, belong to a club, drive down to Ascot, and so on. If the old man were to know that I was spooning you, he'd rush off to your fat'ier and warn him. If your father were to know, he'd rush off to mine and tell him that I wasn't a fit aspirant for the hand of his daughter." "But is your father such a terrible old gentleman, then? What is he he like? I've never seen him.' "No, I don't suppose you have. He fights shy of anything with a petticoat on it like the plague. I've known him cut a good run short be cause there were ladies alone with him in the same field, and he was afraid that in case of accident he'd have to assi: t them. He's a tall old fellow, wit c a fresh complexion and a gray in ustache, and always wears shephc rd's plaid trousers, summer and winter. Why, what's the matter?'' "0 dear ! 0 dear ! Gus, don't go on, please don't, or I shall die of laughing !"' "Why, what is i re to laugh at in it, Millie ! By Jo' if you saw him in a temper you w aldn't laugh !" "Why, my dear t Gus !-he's he's in love with m ! "The old boy-nay father-in love with you? Nonscnse, my dear nonsense, I say. Why, he's more afraid of a girl than of an earth quake, or a boa-constrictor, or any thing. What on earth makes you think he's in lave with you?'' "Why, Gus, every day when]I come along hc re he's walking in the garden. I've always taken him for the steward, or some one, and he makes such eyes at me. Oh, you'd laugh if you could see him. I try not to, but I know I blush and look awfully silly.' "By Jove, Miillie, it's no laugh ing matter-that it isn't. A man's father his rival in love 1" That evening Mr. Gus appeared at home at an unusually carly hour. "Well !" was the greeting of his parent. "You're not here so pre cious early, with that goody-goody face, for nothing, I' m sure, you young 'scamp ! When you turn up punctually to dinner, I know you want something out of me. But, mind, not another halfpenny do you get. 1've already advanced your quarter's allowance, and if you've been squandering it on actresses and race-meetings, and unlimited 1, and dinners at the Bristol, I don't help you. And not only that, sir, but I'm going to put a stop to it. Once for all-and Augustus Chopleigh's a man of his word-I don't care if Stulty, or Golding, or Moses, or any of them come down and dun you at this very door, not a rupce do you get out of me." "What a deuce of a hurry you're in, father!'' said the young man. "I don't want any money."~ "Well, what the dickens is it then?" said the old gentleman, see ing that his son looked confused. "Wh y- well, I'm in love that's all," replied Gus; -'and I'm going to be married to the best girl in England-a perfect lady, well bred. well connected, and The effect of this speech upon the old colonel was electrical. He umped up from his end of the ta ba.at atnnantPaekanho WAs toward his son and shook his hant heartily; his face beaming witi pleasure as he exclaimed : "You'r sure of what you say? It isn't Fi fine of the Jolity, hey? A lady, wel bred, well connected -" "I've been a bit of a scamp, per haps, father," said the young man "but I've never gone in for low form so when 'I tell you she's all that could be wished. you must believe me." "Of course I will; of course I do!' roared the colonel. Who is she!' "Well, I don't want to give you her name just now, for many rea sons, but you may take my word for it that she's nobody to be ashan ed of," said Gus. "All right; all right; I won't ask any more questions. So long as you are going to steady down with a good. ladylike wife, I don't care, said his father. By gad, Gus, I thought you were going to be a mill stone round my neck for the remain der of my life. And now, my boy, you've astonished me, I'm going to astonish you. What do you think is about the most unlikely thing I should do?" "Give up hunting?"replied Gus, "or sell your orchids? or put up for the county? or-" "No, no; nothing of that kind,' said the Colonel, chuckling. "I'm -I'm going to be married, too." The son affected the greatest as tonishment. The Colonel contin ued: "But look here, my boy, it won't interfere with your prospects, and and--when I say I'm going to be married, I mean that I have my eye on some one, and I rather think ahem ! that that some one has a reciprocal eye on me. I'm not such an old bird, eh?" "Not a bit of it," replied Gus; "and may I ask who the fortunate object of your attentions is?" "Well," answered the Colonel, laughing, "I've a good mind not to tell you, you dog, as you keep me in the dark about your inamo rata. But I will. Do you know Miss Vanjohn?" "Tall girl, brown hair, brown eyes?" asked Gus, innocently. "Yes. yes-that's the one ! She's going to be Mrs. Chopleigh the second," said the Colonel, rubbing his hands 'gleefully. ?-I think-then that if I can screw up my pluck, I shall speak to her to-morrow." That evening the Reverend Aloysius Vanjohn received an un expected visitor in the shape of Mr. Augustus Chopleigh. Urged by the desperate aspect of matters, the young man had resolved to face the terrible parson, as he believed him to be, and to lay the whole state of affairs before him. To his glad surprise, the reverend gentle man, who was really a good fellow. and thought very well of Gus, laugh ed heartily at the notion of the Colonel's suit, and promised Gus, that Millicent should marry him when and where he pleased. "I say, Gus," roared the Colonel, as they were leaving the smoking. room for bed; "promise me you'll bring Mrs. Chopleigh here directly after you're married." A few days after, Millicent Van john was quietly and unostentatious ly made Mrs. Augniatus Chopleigh in London. Faithful to his word the young man wrote informing his father of his marriaga, and telling him that he should run down on the following day to introduce his bride to her new father. The Colonel was at dinner--that is to say, he was playing at dinner, for what with his own consuming passion and the eager expectaticn with which he awaited the arrival of his son and his daughterinlawY, he sent away almost untasted every dish that was set before him. The door-bell rang. The Colonel jumped up to answer it himselt, but checked the movement. "No, no," he said; "I'll have it a surprise to the last."* Gus entered. "Here I am, father !" he said. "Yes, yes; but where's--?" said the Colonel impatiently. Gus went out, and reappeared with Millicent. The Colonel staggered at first, and something like a frown gathered on his brow. But he recovered himself, and with a smile that illu minated his face, said addressing Millicent: "I am indeed delighted to wel come you to my house as a-daugh ter." Then turning to his son, he added, "Gus, my boy, you've had an uncommonly narrow escape !' Plant sunflowers everywhere, where you can find a place, about the barn or fowl house. It is well known that this plant is especially valuable for its health giving qual ties. All that is needed is to press the seed under the soil, and the plants will care for themselves. Or the margin of the sink drain, nea: the out-house or pig-sty, or in the unused runs of the poultry yard these plants will be filling the place of the health committee, and thi fall crop of seed will make a valna ble change of diet for the fowlh dnring the winte and spring. isteUnnens. BROADBWIIM'S NEW YORI4 LETTER. How shall I pass the Sabbath ] said to myself last Sundiay. If ] go to bear the music at Central Park, they will say I am a heather and if I go to Coney Island they may think I am a publican. I will bie me to Greenwood, and there commune with the spirits of the departed. Here repose hundreds of thousands of those who were once the moving spirits of the two great cities near it. As you enter the stately gate-before you is the tribute which the trustees of Greenwood have raised to the mem ory of the late treasurer of the corporation, and who may be said to have guided its destiny for over forty years Much of the beauty and order that glorifies this City of the Dead is due to him, who now reposes peacefully in its bosom A few yards to the left is a rich cross which the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have raised to the memory of Louis Bonnard. Louis Bonnard was a Frenchman, who came to New York many years ago. and on gaged in the manufacture of scien tific instruments; he lived in two wretched rooms in the most disre putable part of the city; he denied himself the commonest necessaries of life; and was found dead in his wretched apartments. To the great astonishment, of a few who knew him-a will was discovered leaving $200,000 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ani mals; and the secret of the bequest was supposed to lie in the fact that Louis Bonnard believed in me tempsechosis, and thought that when his spirit left his body, it might be transferred to a horse or a dog, and he did not want it to be abused. At all events the breath was scarcely ont of his body when an army of relations, who never knew or cared for him in his life, appeared to contest the will-they fought Henry Bergh in all the courts-and the ease was finally decided in favor of the Society. Thousands pass the Frenchmans' grave without stopping to take a second look, but if the dumb brutes of the land could sing or speak not one in this vast assemblage of ghosts would h.ve a grander pean or a louder praise-than Louis Bon nard. Facing his tomb on the Hillside to the East is a beautiful little Gre cian Temple, beneath which lies all that was mortal of John Ander son, the inventor of Solace Tobacoo. John Anderson may not have been the greatest man whose remains re pose in Greenwood, but in his day and generation, he brought much consolation and comfort to the chewers of the cud. As great a man as General Scott, sent all the way from Mexico for a 10 pound box of John Anderson's Solace ; and an eminent Presbyterian divine whose eloquence electrified New York forty years ago, seldom went into his pulpit of a Sunday without a paper of Anderson's fine cut in his pocket. John A-Aerson's shop stood on Broadway at the corner of the City Hospital grounds and almost opposite to Pearl Street; and it was at his store that the young dudes of a couple of genera tions ago, used to buy their cigars of the pretty cigar girl, who was murdered at the Elysian Fields. The girl was the great attraction of John Anderson's store, and he never fully recovered the shock of her loss. He retired from business many years since, and dying left a fortune estimated at two or three millions of dollars. The Anti-To. bacco League may have but little reveree or respecd for this dead benefactor of his race; but the sol dier on the march, the hunter in~ the forest, the sailor called out of his warm bunk of a stormy night to clew up and, clew down, the hod carrier staggering under his tremendous load, and the ragged homeless tramp without a roof to cover him, will with kindness re member John Anderson. A few yards from John Anderson's imposing mausoleum-a magnificent granite shaft-perpetuates the fame of Mrs. Oswald Ottendoffer, the publisher of the greatest German newspaper in the United States, the Staats Zeitu. This great pa per was started by Mr. Ule, whoc died some years ago, leaving his widow with a large family, and the control of a great,city journal. Mrs. Ule was equal to the task, she not only qualified herself to perform~ and understand the minutest de tail of her exacting business; but she guided it on to a course of prosperity, which it had never known in her husband's life. But even thc management of her great business; nor the care of her fami ly were enough to occupy her ca, pacious heart and brain. The cry of want and the demands of cbari ty ever found a response in her sympathetic soul; and no worth2 ~or ever left her door unsatisfied. Nw Yotk hae :nan. noble womiel wtsb hav te n aifie and glorified, by every good and gracious deed, and yet among them all it would be difficult to find a match for his dead saint. lIer loving benefactions were of them. selves a colossal furtune; and dying -she did not forget in her bounty the humblest workmfri who was associated with her in her life. She lies beside her first husband, Mr. Ule, who helped to found the great fortune which she used so wisely and so well; and as I passed their graves which a wild briar now unites. I reverently uncovered, re membering the gracioas promise, "Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy," and few on this earth were more merciful and charitable than she of whom I write. In a little dale a hundred and fifty yards to the south, Lola Mon tez, the Countless of Landsfeldt, quietly sleeps after a boisterous and stormy life, She was an extraordi nary woman. She spoke, with the fluency of a native, every language of Europe, and while there -was a slight foreign accent in her Eng lish, her French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian were so per fect that natives of the different countries iysisted that she was a countrywomen. She was born in Hindostan and spoke Hindostanee as her native tongne. She saw every phase of life from the slums of Paris to the har dsomest women in Europe, the favcred mistress of a King, a woman who went decked with jewels that would have paid a Prince's ransom. She who spent millions in her time died in this city in the extremest poverty; and charity, which weeps at the sins of the Maadalene gave a few feet of earth in Greenwood to Eliza Gilbert Countess of Landsfeldt. But 1 feel that I must hurry away. The city is greatly exercised, that is to say the pious portion of it, at the Sunda) Music in Central Park. Petitions are being circulated in all the churches against it. That is to say that the million of people in New York are to have no voice as how they shall pass their Sab bath, but they are to be controlled by the three hundred thousand nominal church members, the great er part of whom are now enjoying themselves in the mountains or by the seaside. The absurdity of the de mand is more apparent when you reflect that there is not a church in the city of any consequence, which is now ministered to by its regular pastor. The great majority of these christain shepherds have gone to Europe,-foreige air and foreign travel being absolutely necessary for them to recuperate from the dreadful mental strain of getting up one sermon a week, on a salary of from $5,000 to $20,000 per an num. Does it occur to these saints that there are four hundred thous and people in this city who daily toil for ten hours; but to reach that daily toil they have to riLe at five in the morning, and some of them walk miles to work, and miles home again at night. During six days they are penned up in close factories where hundreds work in a room, and where a breath of pure air never comes. No won der they seek the Park on Sunday and listen to the sweet strains of the music and breathe the fresh air, and smell the grass and the flowers and thank God for even these blessings, brief though they be. One half of our churches are closed; pastors and people could not endure the air of the city. Let the poor people enjoy what God and the corporation give them;green fields, fresh air and music. It will do them more good than all the ortho dox sermons that were ever preach ed and bring them "N?earer, my God, to Thbee." Tbe running down of old Mother Mandelbaum, tbe notorious receiv er of stolen goods, by Pinkerton's detectives, has been one of the marked events of the week. The associate and protector of thieves for a generation, she has accumulat. ed over a million of dollars. The police are said to have protected her-.-at any rate, she has continued for twenty years to slip through the meshes of the law. Should Justice fail this time it would be a public calamity. I don't know that it has any re ference to the election, but the Brooklyn Common Council, this week, advanced the salaries of the city officials 20 to 25 per cent. Po litical banners must be paid for, and provision made for soap, and as the day has long since gone by when we may look for flights of quails and showers of manna, we have to take our chance, milking the city cow. The weather has been intolera ble, Thursday being away up among the nineties. To cap the clmax, stocks took an upward turn, and for a day or two the market was at fever heat. The election, too, is firing our blood and it must be gratifying to tbe country to know that both parties are going to be successful, and consequently every bodyv saiied. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertion and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent, on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributs of respect, same r e nr square as ordinaty advertisements. Special Notices . . ..4=2 15 ceLt per line. Advertisements not marked with the num. ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged acco;ding!y. Special contracts made with large adver Users, with liberal deatoson above rates JOB PRI.] TIW DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH, TERMS CASH. i LIGHT WOOD KNOT OF NORTH CAROLINA. The following bit of witspon the part of a North Carolina girl comes to us from the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, the fashionabie Virginia summer resort and water ing place: Among the regular .habitues is Colonel B-, a. wellpreserved, handsome old beanof uncertain age. His society record isbrilliant and though he has raised many hopes, yet season after season has ended and the Colonel has yielded his liberty to none. His special strength is pride of family, boasting as he dues, in season and out of season, not only the bluest South Carolina blood, but the most direct Huguenot descent. During the past summerthere ap peared flitting about the broad piaz za and through the long drawing. room a bright dashing girl from the "Land of the Sky." The Colonel, as usual, began the scheme of mo nopoly, and the ambitious young belle seemed nothing loth to ac cord to him the coveted position as chief of staff. It began to be whis pered about that,the colonel was really in earnest for once in his life. Those who knew him best watched him closest, and were sure he was on the eve of a victory. His gait was more martial, his manner more lofty than ever before, and the poor ancestral Huguenots were dragged to the front without mer cy. Unfortunately a bit of eaves dropping in the dim star-lighted se clusion of what the Colonel thought to be a deserted corner of the piaz za told the story of such woful dis comfiture that he fled the place within twenty-four hours afterward. He had evidently 'proposed in his most pompons and condescending manner, and had beard with amaze ment a quiet negative, from the young lady's lips. "But I think-I am sure," said the Colonel, hardly able to control his indignant pride, "you da not understand, you do not appreciate, Miss, the honor that has been con ferred upon you, that you so lightly decline. I am a Hugunt af South Carolina !"' "Ah, Colonel, it is you who for get," said Miss --, with her most roguish smile. "You do not ap preciate the honor to which you as pire. I am a Lightwood Knot of North Carolina !"-Harper's Mazg azi?e. KERR KRUPP AND HIS GUN FACTORY. Herr Alfred Krupp, the proprie tor of the great steel-works, at Ei sen, Germany, where the guns which bear his name are manufac tured, employs 20,000 men, who operate 1,541 furnaces, 439 steam. boilers, 450 steam engines, and 1,622 machines for working iron. Besides being the owner of the works at Eisen, he is the owner of 547 mines in various parts of Ger many. is entire possessions are said to be worth $40,000,000. He is described as a tall and rather stern-looking man, with sloping shoulders, a long neck, and fdll white beard, hiding a sensitive mouth, and a facc narrow at the jaw and broadening above the thin, well-shaped nose. His dark eye is keen and penetrating, his forehEad expansive. He is delicate, nervous and intellectual, and looks like a clergyman. His only son and heir, Fritz Krupp, who will succeed to his immense estate, is a young man of fine education, who is already acquainted with all the details of' his father's business. He traveled considerably in this country. He Is an inventer of very, many val uable contrivances used in the works at Eisen. Herr Krupp's es tablishment has turned out 20,000 cannon. A UHEET-IRON HEX. The Chicago lInter-Ocean is re sponsible for the following. "Char lie Kugle, an ingenious fellow in Barnesville, 0., has constructed a sheet-iron hen that promises to lay him a golden egg. It is fnished up to life, full size, cackles, clucks, and looks with one eye at a time so naturally that it will deceive the oldest hen-hawk in the county. It is so aranged that wheni a hawk, mink, or polecat pounces on to it the back springs open and the wings fly up and force the assailant on to a ravenous buzz-saw that makes 1,705 revolutions per min ute. After moving half a minute the .saw stops, the heni closes up, folds its wings, and begins to cackle as though it had just laid an egg. One winding up will answer for three massacres, provided the rather delicate ;machinery does not get.. clogged up with too much.- blood, bones and feathers. He set a fresh ly-painted one out in the su to dry last Wednesday which attracted the attentiozi of a fine old cat belon ' to a doctor who had been po a good deal of iun at the fool thi .~ The hen is theft, 64 the ,M Mew