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, BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1876. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 49. ?.1 J.,_ - _ , 1 Tlnnifl t%f IntAfMt. oMASONIC DIRECTORY. Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M. TV. H. PARKER. W.\ M.\ J. C. WOSMANSKY, Secretary. Merte 2? Monday In every month. Hesperian Chapter No. 17, R. A. M. J. F. 0. DcPRE. M.-. P.\ J. D. CHALMERS, ReoorSer. Meets 3d Friday night in every month. nofriTiProi>0 Pnminil "Wn Ifi CUM uuuaiuouiu uvuiiuu 11 u. iu, u? ? w. *u< .T. T. ROBERTSON. T.\ III.-. M.\ JXO. G. EDWARDS. Recorder. Meeta let Tuoeday night in every month. Db7~JoSFs7 THOMPSON^ '"DENTIST, Offers his professional services to the oitizens of Abberiite-and the surrounding country. Ofgcjp?-Oyer Citizens' Sayings Bank, 5 v. JubhetbSklle, ^ c. CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON , Have on-hand a large stock of flits' I,infill Rum Shirts AT VERY LOW PRICES. A large assortment ot r;; -. .Ladies* and Gents' Merino Vests & Shirts, *7 ' * T ? > ,e 1 BOULEVARD SKIRTS, Silk Scarfs and Ties. GIVE THEM A CALL. _The Star Shirt! i * V"* ^ i -; L ' tllVIDg iriou IUCDO QUUHt wo spsivy ? commend them for a good fitting and durable 8birt. - X-r V 7 < K- -wl -' Collars, Linen and Paper, LATEST STYLES, With Cravats and Scarfs to Match. QUArtiES & PERRIN. Cottage Bedsteads! Two hundred Bedsteads jast received, wa nted eio.oo ranted all hard wood, ao prices from $5 00 to ^ J, D. CHALMERS. Boots and Shoes! ertrrTKm '> -T :,! .HjJS ?"?"? "O- \ "Is Oar <tbcfc~of BOOTS aDd SHOES ia now complete, and at the Lowest Prices for CASH. Call early and got a bargain. DuPBE, GAMBRELL & CO. 0m -n . r>riTT?n r ' v. jhr jzzx-u v^xj, Boot and Shoe Maker, Over Parker & Perrin's Store, ABBEVILLE, S. I., Desires to say that he is folly prepare.} to meet all demands the public may make iu his liue He keeps constantly on hand a large let of tht beat material and employs only thu fluent wo; k men. He keeps a full stock of custom mad Boots and Show, and guarantee* tlio motn entire satisfaction in every instance. k i - * T ? M. GOLDSMITH. P. KIND. . i GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS (?a<?Ktt IBO-N WORK-i), COLUMBIA, S. C. Manufacturers of SteamEaeinee of all Horse powara, Circular &ad Malay Saw Miila. Grist and Sugar Cane Milln, fUnr MilV O na mentai Honaa and 8tore F.ontf, Irou Riiiinga, Agricultural Implements, etc. Biatu and Iron Caatinge of ail kinds made to order on. short notice, and on thV moat reasonable terms. Alao, manufacturer! of Co^tou Pres^ea. S. B. NOHRSLL, HAMSSMSA1LI MAKER, Nw* ""irtp-ins ox.D'srxso *" ' Over Parker & Rerun's Drug store, Has ft eupply Of Northern Harness Leather and other material for Mak ug and Repairing Saddles apfl Bftrnga^. ^ ^ ^ - OARPEN'FRY Tb^ndeftaiSiied hereby gives nqticft that he is prepared to do all kind# of C^fiiFf W anfl BiRlfllng. He il&f repai?fl* Cott^rt bin a, Xbrash'ers and F.-.D3. A fall eupply of Gin Material aln?j>j on <^hfl? * Fftritoera Hrhfrt qn$st>?d to' Sring I tlieii #Id| bp eftrlyh\ Che teaton to allow (inu I to htft tfcenfcpeopftrlxprepared. AlW Aknit for thti Taylor dot too. Git), the BhAok* Cotfc)nTreiBi?,^fia1rtPkimlB of Rubber and Leather Baiting. ' C. B.1 SMITH, " Abbeville C. H., S. V. Jfr eam'; 16/iul'a V\1 Uuf - ' PLANING MILL, -O Columbia. S. (J. F.W.WIN G, Proprietor. C > liili v C-: MANTPACTUP.ER OP Sash, Blinds, Doors, WINDOW AND ? " DOOR FRAMES, 111JJ1UU 11IUI KIIIIUM M I PILASTERS, Mantelpieces, MOLDINGS, BRACKETS, Handrails, Newels,,, Balusters. SCROLL WORK of all Description. All Work Guarantied A No. 1. In Old Man's Dream. Oh, for on? hour of youthful Joy ! Give back my twentieth spring ! 1 d rather laugh a bright haired boy Than reign a gray haired king. Off with the wrinkled tpoils of age , Aw?y with learn g'n crown ; Tear out life'* wiscLm-written page, And cast its trophies down. One moment let my life blood stream Fr >m boyhood's fount of fame ; Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of We, of love, and fame. My ilstenlng angel heard the prayer, And, calmly smiling, said : ?4 T$ T atlvArA^ hldr Thy batty wish had sped. " Bat is there nothing in the tr&ok To bid thee fondly stay, While the swift seasons harry book To B?d the wiahed-for day ?" Ah, truest soul of woman kind, Without thet what wer? life ? One bliss I caj lot leave behind? Til take my precious wife. The angel took a sapphire pen And wrote in rainbow hue: 11 The man would be a boy again, And be ajiusband too. " Ai 4 is there nothing yet unsaid. Before the change appears ? Remember ' thy gifts have fled With these dissolving years." -- nuj, JOO, i MULUU uuo iaiui uium. My fond pafernal Joys? I could not bear to lose them all; I'll take my girls and boys." The smiling angel dropped his pen. " Why, this will never do ; The man would be a boy again, And be a father too!" nd bo I laughed. My laughter woke The household with its noise, I wrote my dream when morning broke To please my girls and boys. ? Oliver Wendell Holmet The Emerald Ring'. In one of the splendid palaces of t Russian capital, a fair your)g girl tlir< herself upon the crimson cushions the divan in the embrasure of a lar; window. Alarm and anxiety were c picted on her features, and she constai ly clasped and unclasped her am hands, and nervously arose and look out into the street, and then reseat herself as if awaiting some painful i telligenoe. it was the fair yom Natalie Radetski, the beauty of the Rt sian court, upon which nature and ft tune had showered every gift, and f whom even the stern features of ti Emperor Nicholas would relax in something like a smile as he looked upi her beauty and grace. Hastily the door opened, and a youj man advanced towards her. "I am to bid yon farewell, Natalie he said, in a voice broken by emotio " Oh, Alexis ! what is it ?" cried tl young girl. it T ^iorvlooeo^ omnornr ?i he has ordered my arrest." "The emperor will pardon you will go to him," said she. "He will n refuse me. He has always been so ki to me." " Alas ! my Natalie. He will refn you this. The emperor believes i concerned in a conspiracy, and he ne\ forgives. I am innocent, but he w not believe it. I know not what is be done with me; but if I am sent Siberia " " To Siberia ! Oh, Aleife! it canr be?it must not be I" For a moment neither spoke, length, with a powerful effort at ee control, the young man said: ' Natal let me place this ring upon your flng and promise me that you will wear always in memory of what my love 1 been to you. The emperor will foi you to marry. I do not wish t thought of me to make you alwt wretched." He placed upon her finger a ring, which was a single emerald of gn brilliancy. " Do not take it off, nor read the scription, till you hear oertainly tha have boen banished," he said. A sbr of horror ran through her frame, but went on, firmly : "Then read it; will comfort you. Now I must go. 1 emperor allowed me this interview, ? thi< guards are awaiiing me." He clasped her convulsively to hrpftsfc. kissed her brow and lips, i laying her gently npou the divan, pas out. In the street the guards awai him. Tbe words of her lover did not d< Natalie from attempting to save h She sent a petition to the emperor, ploring an interview; bnt it was det her. She waylaid the empress. "My poor child," said the erapr kindly, "I would gladly take yen to emperor, even at the risk of incuri his displeasure; but it is too late. Ah Potemkiu has been sent to Siberia life." Natalie heard her not. 4 Lift her up," paid the empress " has fainted." But Natalie had not fainted. 81o\ but resolutely, she rose, and makin ?oi >n?o nl vocna/at.fn I Qn }im isRlOTI tf) vi ? empress, bpgged leave to retire. When Natalie reached her own ap ment, she drew from her linger the 1 ihat Alexis had placed npon it, and r he inscription carved upon the inf m French: " Death is the only c soler," it said. "We shall meel heaven I" There is no place more dreary, ir terrible, even in imagination, than mines of Siberia. Among the condemned in a la quicksilver mine in the very heart of country, thousands of versta from Petersburg, stooped at his daily to form whose tall and noble proporti evefc his ooarse habit scarcely ehrouc His delicate frame, unused to labor, exposed to the rigor of an Arctic mate, soon yielded to the nnhenlthii of his occupation; and he was fast si ing under his trials. Yes, death wc oome, gentle death?and his heart lea with a momentary joy. The struggle was not long. A days of confinement to a hard palle "'few nights of suffering, and the 1 ? ' _ . i i wmcn even au imyen'u unww not stop, went f*rtb. The victim released. Three months after this, the gr chamberlain of Bussiu presented h Belf before Mile. Radetski, and 6 moned her to the presence of the peror. When conducted to the palace, majesty dismissed tho gentleman waiting, and Rigued her to approi His stern features were contracted b expression of deep displeasure. " Why does Mademoiselle Bade wear mourning ?" he said. " Does mourn for conspirators who would t vert the government and bring dest tion upon their country ?" "No, sire," she answered. "I\ mourning for one whom your maji saw fit to condemn, but to whom, your express command, I promised hand." " We will not discuss the past," plied the csar, coldly. " I sent for | for a different purposo. I have chosen | a husband for you." I "Mercy, sire!" exclaimed Natalie, i clasping her hands, imploringly. " Do ! ' not force me to marry." j "Force, mademoiselle! that is an ! ngly word. I, your emperor, recom 1 mend your acceptance of the suit of a young nobleman of high rank. There . are reasons of state which make me ex j pressly desire this marriage. And, j Natalie," he added, his harsh tone and j manner softening visibly, " grief should not be eternal. Life is not given j us to waste in idle sorrow for what is irremediable; and new ties will bring you solace, and, in time, happiness." As she pressed her hands to her bosom, in a momentary spasm of pain, he observed the glittering emerald that enriched her finger. "So splendid a jewel is hardly befit *? ryinnmiYin rrarVt morlomniR^llA. t bLLl? m *MVLUIIU1Q ? ? ! May I see the ring? - " Poor Natalie murmured faintly : " Your majesty -will r.ot take it from me ?" j " I will return it," replied the em peror, as he examined the inscription. "Death, the consoler!" he murmured to himself. " Yes, death is the great healer and oomforter." His rigid features relaxed into an ex pression of deep piety as he remarked | her wasted appearance and pallid fea tures ; but nothing of this was percepti ble in his tone as he said : " It is my j will, mademoiselle, that you should be j married a month from this day. The | time will come when you will thank me | for this decision. You can now retire." As soon as Natalie had left, the em peror rang his bell for Dr. Seckendorf, his favorite physician. "Seokendorf," said' the csar, "go and see Mademoiselle RadetskL Find out if she has any organic disease. Be turn here and report, but say nothing of l what you observe to any one else." i In a few hours Dr. Seckendorf was i i again admitted to tne presence 01 me ! czar. . . "How is your patient?" inquired Nicholas. . ! " I fear very ill, your majesty. She has aneurism of the heart." " Is there any immediate danger f" " There may not be, if she is not ex : cited. But violent agitation or grief j may prove fatal." i " What has caused the disease ?" he : " Her constitution has always been 5W I frail; but I think "? here he hesitated, of i " Say out what you think," said the ge i czar, impatiently. le | "Then, with your majesty's permis lt-1 aion, I think that the sentence of Count all | Potemkin was her death-blow." ed I The czar paced his'cabinet impatient ed j ly. " She will get over it, Seckendorf. n- i A happy marriage will make her forget ag j ail that. There is nothing like happi is-1 ness for a woman's health." >r- " I do not presume to contradict your or majesty, but I doubt whether Mademoi he selle Ridetski is able to bear either hap to piness or sorrow very long." I an I The emperor dismissed his physician j I nflar oninin ill or liirtl tft Visit his natient , daily. In the meantime the preparations for the marriage went on. A costly trousseau was provided for the bride, and all the beanty and rank of the capi tal invited. The emperor himself was to grace the ceremony with his pres ence. Bnt still Dr. Seckendorf visited his patient, and his face grew grave as he looked at her. One morning he reached her mansion at a later hour than usual. Her attend ants informed him that their mistress had not yet rang her bell, and they hesi tated to disturb her. He went at once to her apartment. The'attendants drew aside the curtains of the bed. With one hand supporting her head, which rested upon the pillow, lay the pale sleeper, less brilliantly beautiful than_.wi.au, with proud step and careless grace, she trod the gorgeous salons of the capital, but far more lovely. Death, the consoler, had stooped to kiss his victim, and had not disturbed the peaceful smile that rested on her Una Tn her hand she held the ring ce which she had taken from her finger, he and she bad passed away while reading iys its inscription. Gently Seckendorf replaced it npon in I the marble finger, from which it was sat j never more to be taken. " Truly," he murmured, " for her, in- j death is the consoler." fci; per , h? ! Servian Martyrdom Defined. : f | 'he | Emilio Castelar, ex-President of ind ; Liberia, io a letter to the Herald writes | .is follows : Unhappy people! Their his ! martyrdom is one of tne most heart ind j rendering trng' dies in the pages of his sed [ torv. Their mountains are the highest ted' of Calvaries, and, perhaps the most I bloody among the crucifixion of nations. >ter ; Persecuted, martyred, their life during im.'tbe last three long centimes seems like im- | a continuing death. Their oppressors tied cast a portion of them from the bosom | of the cities to the bosom of the woods, ess, j and compelled tbem in a savago state to mnnnfoin foofnocooe an/1 I Mia. jui mu irig ! to cloth themselves in thob;irks of trees, ttis ! TboRe who remained in tho city carried for | their heads bowed upon their breast? | and their eyes fixed on the ground. II I ihey raised their heads it would bo said she i that they elevated it to look for the lighl of heaven"and not for liberty. If thej vly, I raised their glance it would be Baicl thai g a they elevated it to look at their tyrants, the t and" this would bring down death. Some were dragged from their families, sc art- that thoy might not speak of their conn ing try?even at the fireside with thfcir chil ead ! dren, or in tho uuptiul couch with their side j wives. Terror reigned to such a de son- I gree that the old men and the womec ; in ! went in search of the strongest in the j tribe and said: "Slay us before leav tore ing us to the will of the oppressor." the j How often has the mountaineer, on do I parting for the wooJa, caught his be cromeu oy wie uuu, gn/.cu uwu uu with the ecstatic eyes of love, driven his hunting knife to her heart, launch iug forth an agonizing wail and receiv ing in return a dying smile from the martyr glorified and transfigured. T1k principal hero of Servian iudepeudenw killed his own and honored father will his own hand. In that eternal captivity, in those ages of misfortune, this racf acquired a mixture of puthusiasin and dissimulation of pride and self-abnega tiop, of strength and astuteness whicl: hardenod it and gave it tho cunniDg and t, a j patience of tho weak, as well as th< Sat, I energy and the might of the strong, mid j WAS i " Crooked " Whisky Sentences. and j Iu sentencing the "crooked " whisk] dm- [ men in Indiana, several of the prisoners nm- who were revenue officers, before sentenc* em-. was passed, pleaded their honorabh ' wounds and faithful service in the arm} his and various other reasons in mitigation in 1 Judge Ore^ham admitted the unploas ich. antness of his duty, but could not allov yan j sympathy to malco him forget the crim< : they had committed. He drew a de tski cided contract between the officers ol she the government and distillers. Tin rob- former are trusted seivants in the paj rue- of the United States, while the lattej are not trusted, but watched by govern rear menfc officials. Therefore the furmei 3flty ought to have increased punishment, by He then announced that those officer) my who had betrayed their trust Bhoulc have two vears in either of the peni re- tentiaries tnov might prefer, and pay i yon fin* of 81,000 each. THE NEW TARIFF BILL. What It Propose# to Do?-The Changes Made In the Dntlable Articles. Mr. Morrison, ^chairman'of'the ways and means committee, has introduced in the United States House of Representa tives a new tariff bill. The]|principlo of the bill in, in tho first place, to abolish all combined duties, simplifying the tariff by fixing a specific rate of duty, and making that specific rate a fixed rate, twenty-five or thirty per cent., ad valorem ; and seooudly, to reduce in general the dutifla on those articles the importation of which is now prohibited by the high duties that are imposed upon them. The new bill lowers tho duty on wool more than one-half, and reduces corre spondingly all duties on woolen fabrics. It places on the free list every article, with the exception of raw wool, in i-a"? j .1. ciuuiug ujr-ett, cm;., wrnui 10 uku iu manufacturing, the consumption of which now amounts to $3,000,000 an nually. This is chiefly in the interest of the manufacturers. It imposes a duty on ooffee and tea which, although light, will yield a revenue of $19,000,000 per annum. It changes the duty on cigars to a specifio duty, bo as to do away with all undervaluation. Its most important rates as fixed are as follows : Manufactured oottons, not exoeeding one hundred threads to the square inch, two and one-half cents per square yard. Bleached ditto, three and one-half cents. Colored and stained ditto, three and one-half cents. Finer goods, unbleachcd, three oents. Bleached ditto, three and one-half cents. Colored ditto, four and one-half oents. Goods of the same description and lighter, unbleaohed, three oents. Bleached ditto, thre? and one-half i cents. Colored ditto, four and one-half cents. nrmAa nnf or7?flO(1ir?D' ften hnn I i.' iUCi gwuoj MVB w?.-Q ... dred threads to the square inch, un ; bleached, four cents. Bleached ditto, four and one-half cents. Colored and printed ditto, five cents. Goods of lighter description, exoeed [ ing two hundred threads, four and one half cents. Unbleached ditto, five cents and seven and one-half cents. Yarns, a uniform rate of duty, ten cents, twenty cents, thirty cents and forty cents per pound. Spool thread, six cents per dozen and nine cents per dozen. Gimps, galloons and laces, thirty per oent. * Cotton shirts and drawers and hosiery, thirty per oent. Ootton braids, laces and trimmings, thirty per cent. * Wool of the first quality, six cents per pound and ten cents per pound. Wool of the second class, five conts per pound and ten cents per pound. Wool of the third class, tbree cents per pound. Woolen cloths and shawls, seventy cents per pound. Flannels and wool on fabrics, twenty cents, thirty conts, forty cents and fifty cent* per pound. Italian cloths, nine cents and fifteen ceiits per square yard. " Carpets, ninety cents, sixty-five cents and forty oents per square yard. Pig iron, $5 per ton. Bar iroD, one cent, one-half cent, and three-quarters of a cent por pound. Wire, three cents, four cents, and five cents per pound. Sheet iron, one cent per pound. Kailroad iron, $10 per ton. Steel rails, $15 per ton. | Cfgars, 83.50 per pound. Leaf tobacco, forty cents per pound. Silka, twenty-five, thirty and forty per oent. Coffee, fonr cents per potind. Tea, ten cents per potind. The free list comprises all articles of aniline dyes, medicine, and all raw ma terials. Too Many of Them. It i3 onginniug to be apparent, says the New York Tribune, that as one of the results of the Charlie Ross excite ment we are to have a miserable multi plication of seven-year-old liars Every few weeks a precocious humbug ia pina fore is discovered in some out of the way village, who sets the telegraphs work ing and detectives running in half tho cities of tho United States by a tale of adventure that ought not to impose even upon the habitual reader of dime novels. The little romancer has all the characters of the soul-curdling drama, and all the stereotyped forms of expression, at his tongue's end. Se gives us the usual reminiscences of " a big house,'" and a "papa," and a "brother," the usual narrative of rapidnight journeys in com pany of strange men, the usual old i woman who kept him in a meanly fur nished room. All the quidnuncs of the village ply him with leading questions > and stimulate his powers of invention. For a wiiilo he is the popular idoL Then it is discovered some day that there is 1 no mystery whatever about, his past life ; | but the young rascal has enjoyed him self hugely lying and being petted for I, it, repeating the stories he has heard, ; adding the embellishments suggested by ' his questioners, and enriching the whole ; mess from his own resources. Every child loves fiction and the mai7alous, 1 ii.fvoniAnfl' inrpn. auu LUUOU UUllUA VU uaw tors of strange stories. But it would be better to confine this talent to the nur sery than to force it into unwholesome growth by the aid of the telegraph and the newspaper. Esquimaux D?g*. Ten Esquimaux dogs mak? a full team, and will draw a sledge twelve miles an hour. On a good surface, six or seven dogs will perform in a day a journey of sixty miles, even with weight amounting to a thousand pounds to draw. When there is no suow, the doga are made to carry burdens in a kind of pauier, and one of them will travel thus with a weight of twenty-live pounds upon his back. As a general thing, they all have names, to which they will readily answer, and they are more at UR'UtfU IU 1/liCiL JUiivotoio vu?4.(a ^iuwvkuv alone would require, for they are never car esse tl, and suffer mnch hard usage. The Fortification Bill. The Dnitcd States House committee j on appropriations completed the Forti i fication bill, appropriating for the pro tection, preservation, and repairs of for I titrations and other works of defense, I 8100,003; for the conversion of heavy | ordnance, 8100,000 ; for projectiles of j heavy ordnance. 825,000; for carriages i for heavy guu?, 815,000; for proving | ground and proving cannon, S'25,000; ! for torpedoes, 850, OCO. The estimates j were 83,000,000, but the committee cut : down the appropriations to 8315,000. No Sign.?A grocer in Newport who has been doing business for nearly fifty years, and has no sign to designate his placo of business, gives as his reason for the omission, that all his old friends know where to find him, and the balance would either come for money or to get credit, and as he has no desire to see either of these classer, he prefers to re main as he is, even though " a wicked and perverse generation may seek for a *ign," The Texas-Mexie&n Border, What is generally kiown as the Texas border, says the Ne w Orleans Bul letin, extends from the city of Browns ville to the Pecos mountains, a distance of oyer five hundred miles by land, and in a direct course. If, however, the dis tance be measured along the tortuous and winding Rio Grande, it would reach fully three times that number of miles, owing to the extreme irregularity of itc course throughout the entire distance. The river on both sides is lined by bluffc ranging in height from twenty to thirty five feet, and in order to facilitate the crossing of cattle deep gullies have beer cut in these bluffs by the Mexican raid era, though when driving the cattle from Texas it makes but little difference hoM high these bluffs aro or whether there be any pathways cutthrcugh or not; the great thirst of the oattle, they being kept from water for a long while, urget Al- lio oV?al1nnr ofyAflrr llLi111 l/U piUii^O 1UW vuo ouuuvn. umwmm, below, through which they can easilj wade to the opposite shore. Along the entire border there is a road running or the Texas side, into which the pathways and roads from the interior all merge al last; and, if this were perfectly patrolled; the dangers which constantly threatei the inhabitants of the interior would b< greatly lessenecL As it ia now, it is un safe for any person to travel uriaccom panied by a strong escort; any travelei met by tne raiders is liable to be mosl brutally murdered,, and instances art known where the innocent have beer quartered and mutilated in the mosi horrible manner, without any reason ex oept the fear that they might mak< known the whereabouts of the raiders About one-quarter of the distance be tween Brownsville and the Pecos moun tains is situated Binggold barrack" where the United States soldiers are a present stationed under command o Gen. Potter, who has immediate charg< of the border; but these troops are s< few in number that they afford little if any protection against the treacheroui and daring Mexicans. There are abou five or six hundred men, equally dividec between Brownsville and Ringgold bar racks. The entire district of Texas ii in command of Gen. Augur, whos* headqtiifcrtera are San Antonio, fully 151 miles from the Rio Grande. The Rio Grande /arely, if ever, reache; a great-er depth than two and one-half o: three feet, and therefore offors but littli protection as a border line, and is no ob struction whatever feo the crossing, o cattle in any numbers or. at any time The officers of the Rio Bravo have dis covered the shallowness of this "grea stream " in a very unsatisfactory man ner?their vessel being now aground a Brownsville in about three and one lial feet of water. The country borderinj on the river Lj covered for a long dis tance inland by a species of vegetatioi pcculiai to that country, known a " chaparral," a very tough and prickl; shrub, which grows to a height of be tween eight and ten feet, aud offers ai inesistible obstruction to travel ; th cactus plant also grows there to abon the same height, and is an eqnall; troublesome impediment to man o In order to rfeoli the rivei roads have been eu% through this shrut bery, and offer 4ho only means of intei course with the interior. All the ranche for some miles inland, are occupied b Mexicans, who are unquestionably at complices of the raidem, but who neve allcw themselves to be ciinght in in overt act of depredation, merely afford ing a harbor of safety to the raidei when occasion demands. Retrenchment at West Point, Mr. Hamilton (Dem.), of New Jersey who has charge of the bill t.o cut dow the expenditures for West Point, said i the United States House that figure and facts showed there was large rooi for retrenchment. The estimates ser in for the military academy amounted t $437,000; but the committee on appr< priations had cut them down to JWiy 041, and tho committee believed that r< duction could be made without impai: ing the utility of the institution to an extent. It was a mere lopping off of e: travagance. He asserted that the prei eut compensation of the superint&ndei of the academy was better than that < any government officer except the Pres dent, he receiving by direct pay and a lowauces about $7,000 a year. The con mandant of cadets would receive b this bill S3,000 a year, with a furnishe residence, which, with other incidental was equal to SI,500 more. This offic< now receives $G,000 a year, or somethic like it. Four professors at the academ receive $3,500, and lour orner proie Hors, who are not army officers, recen $ 4,000. This bill now proposed to gh them $3,500, a furnished house, fuel an light", equal to $5,000 a year. He oon pared this compensation with thac of a sist&nt secretaries of departments j Washington, who received only 83,500 year, without r*.uy house or other alio; ance, and with that of the governor < New Jersey, who only got $5,000 a yei without any residenoe or other co: tingenciea. But ".he people of Ne Jersey, don't know anything about e: travagant modes of living, and that wi the' reason their State was hot in deh They had lived in something like the o style of economy and prudence, not : the hifalutin stylo of living that pr vailed in Washington. This bill pr posed that army officers stationed West Point should have the same pi and allowance as they had in the arm; ! As to the pay of cadets, he said 1 should be very sorry to destroy tl utility of West Point. He was an adv cato of that aavlemy, and he desired see it upheld. Ho had a brother wl graduated there, and he himself he been on the board of examiners, so th he knew something about the instit tion. When his brother was there tl pay of cadets was twenty-eight dolla per month, and now this bill propose to give them forty-five dollars. E trance to the military academy w eagerly sought for. It was the road distinction. It was the road which 1< Tnylor, and Jackson, and others, to tl Presidency. He did not wonder th the aspiring youth of the country soug it by scores, and nobody could dou that if it were allowed the acaden i would be filled up without any charge all to the country. ! Sixty-three Persons Burned to Deat The Goloss, in an account of the t< j rible railway accident near Odessa, Rt | sia, says that the train was conveying 4 | recruits of Onmana and Qmiew frc : Elisabethgrad to Odessa. Some ra | had been removed from the lino whe i it runs overa.high embankment, andt I engine driver failed to notice the da j ger signals. The train went off t I rails, and the carriages rolled down t | embankment. Piled one upon anoth | they took fire, and though only thr j persons had been killed on the spt ; sixty-three wero burned to death, addition, fifty-four of the recruits we badly burned or wounded, so the tol number of victims was 120. ! Joking.?Mr. Holmau, in the Unit 1 States House, ridiculed the dispatch of our ministers abroad. Mr. Monr replied that if the foreign missions we to be abolished because of some ridic lous letters, the House of Represenl tires should share the same fat? for soi of the speeohes of its members. Tl wm greatly enjoyed by the morabera. 1 BANK BOBBEBT. Haw a Bank wom Robbed Tea Year* Ago.? A Daring Burglary. The burglary at the national bank of Northampton, Masa., and the snooessfnl flight of the thieves with nearly $1,000, 000 -vrorth of plunder, recalls to mind the robbing of the Concord national bank, of Concord, Mass., some ten years ago. In some particulars the work of the thieves was similar, bnt the annals of crime will be searched in vain for a more skillful or daring robbery than that of the Concord bank, an outline of whioh is given below. On the twenty-fifth of September, 1865, the Conoord bank, was entered in broad daylight, during the absence of the cashier at dinner, and robbed of $310,000 in United States bonds, notes and securities, being the entire luncis 01 ine inaanuion. xne maDner in which the robbery was com mitted for a long time remained a mys tery, so adroitly was it oontrived, the skill of the thieves being only equaled by that of the detectives in tracking them and finally recovering the greater portion of the money. It subsequently transpired that the thieves had watched to "set" the bank for a long time, mak ing oocasional trifling inquiries so that they could noto the habits of the cashier, the location of the vault and other items necessay for the aooomplishment Of their nefarious plans. They then turned their attention to the street door, and after working fifteen days and nights, off and on, succeeded in fitting a key which gave them access to the interior of the , I building. 'JL'UlS, nowever, wua mo euiu- - . est part of their labor, as, after getting * . into the banking room, which "was jip * t I stairs, they had seren more locks before f 11 they could reach the strong box or safe, ^ f in the inner recess of the vault. It 1 j seems almost incredible, but it is never j theless on reoord that eighty nights were I spent in the bank, and as an instance of J 3 their daring and the way they worked 1 t together, each took his turn sleeping on 6 1 the floor, while the others- worked. < . They were inside the main vault twenty 1 3 or thirty times before they got into the I 3 safe which held the prize they, were la- < ) boring for, the lock oeing of a combina- i tion pattern, and the slightest turn of 1 a the index after the removal of the key ? f prevented the thieves from setting the 1 3 new key, and as this could only happen * . by accident, the chances of ultimate t f success were next to notiiing. Uaffled 1 . on the very verge of success, it was de- i . termined to use gunpowder; but there t was a man who slept in an adjoining * . house, not twenty yards from the safe, 1 t so it was arranged to choose a bluster- t f ing night when the equinoctial gales 1 j were blowing. The safe was to be ^ . wrapped in wet blankets and everything t a done to smother the noise. But the 1 s gale did not blow, so it was determined f y to carry the safe bodily away in broad < i daylight. ] With this end in view the habits of 1 the cashier were studied, and it was found that he was absent from the bank about two hours each day. According ly on the twenty-fifth of September, 1865, everything being in readiness, ' after the cashier had locked the bank : and gone homo one of the gang boldly ! walked up to the front door and, un locking it, walked in. As he did so a littlo girl camo up and asked for Mr. Cheney, the cashier. He told her coolly I that ho would not be back until two j o'clock. He then went up stairs and | shortly after a man camo to the door and I knocked for some time. His accomplices, ! postcdin sight with the horse and wagon, ! became frightened, thinking the plan ! had been detected. The une in the building found the key of the safe in the vault, but the cashier had omitted to move the index, which left the lock at the mercy of the thief. Had the index been set even the key would have been useless. The work of plunder then oommencod, tho daring thief remaining within the vault nearly half an hour, during which time he actually gathered together everything of value " * * " - V_ 4 TT ? i.V? in the keeping 01 tne Dans. - no weu took bis departure, locking all the doors behind him oxcept the street door. He was met on the road a few miles away out by his confederates, and they ail drove off, leaving absolutely no trace be hind them. As soon as the loss was dis covered the chiof of police of Boston sent several detectives to Concord, who, after making a thorough examination, reported what little they had been able to gather to Superintendent of Police Kennedy, of New York. It was the im pression at first, so cleanly had the work been done, that the thieves were in col lusion with some official or employ of the bank. The case was then put in the hands of Chief Detective John Young and Captain Jourdan, of New York. Captain Jourdan, whoso experience with criminals was very exensive, came to the conclusion that the robbery had been committed by some one known for a long time to the police, and that the sf ! thieves must have an agent to negotiate ' the stolen bonds. Captain Jourdan caused the arrest of a known criminal There was proof upon which ho could have been convicted of counterfeiting. He offered, if he should not be prose cuted, to do anything in his power for Jourdan. He was set at work on the Concord case, and soon found a man who agreed to furnish him with $20, nn/i n+ ooTTi>nfTT-fW/i ?ar r?*nt. of V/VU Hi UUUUO (Mil TO?WU.J M(V ? their par valne on the following Satur day. Carofnl watching of and skillful diplomaoy with this man with a prudent use of threats, induce:! him at length to divulge the name and the hiding place o- of the robber tho police wanted. He was taken in a little cottage on tho banks of the Delaware river near Cam den. Having arrested him the detec tives nearly tore the house and barn to pieoesinthe vain endeavor to find the lost securities. Finally Captain Jourdan by digging found a glass jar containing $100,000 in United States bonds and in the sandy bank of the river a box with 7ft nrm n*n Hnnrln ptn. The whole y |U|VUV amount of $199,331 was thus reoovered, a triumph of detective genius such as has rarely been equaled.?New York Herald. The White Hoosf. The debate on the proposed constitu tional amendment limiting the United States Presidential term was closed by Mr. Knott, chairman of the judiciary committee, who, in the course of his remarks, thus pictured the allurements of the Presidential office: A salary of 850,000, a mansion sus tained in a style of luxury that few per sons dreamed of, fnrnished, repaired aud heated at an annual expense of 825,000, with the very air breathedthere perfumed by rare exotics, propagated in a $55,000 garden house, maintained at an annual expense of $5,000; a private secretary at $3,000 a year to do the PrQoi/iAtif.'si wrilini?; two assistant secre taries, at 82,500 a year, to do the work of tho private secretary; two clerks at $2,250 to do tho work of the assistant secretaries; a steward at $2,000 to supply the President's table with the choicest wines and the richest viands that could tempt or satiato his appetite; with $6,000 a year for books, periodicals, sta tionery, telegrams and other contingen cies. If the children of Israel sighed for the fleshpots of Egypt, what must be tho anguish of a sensitive soul when taking a last long farewell of such salary and luxuries. The bill was defeated by a vote of 144 yecifl to 106 w-ys, 1 MICHIGAN GIAST, owerfal In Mnacle bnt Weak In IMIid? Remarkable Feata of Strength. Charley Freeman, along back in the airties, says a Michigan paper, appeared 3r the first time among a gang of labor rs on the Flat Bock and Gibraltar canal, nd he moved among men like a son of Jiak. He looked eight feet high, at jast, and three feet across the shoulders, [is arms sprang from his chest as large s any middle sized man's body, and ipered down to a hand three inches hick, and when donbled into a fist, as tig and hard as a rail-splitter's mauL le gave ont his age as seventeen, and he ras growing. He hired for the wages nd work of an ordinary man, but when .e seized a shovel it wont through the lay like a breaking-up plow, and the an die soon came off if the blade held. L? n?i1irow ftT TTOJI hnf. ft fpftthflr in hlB .and. It sank to the eye in the wood, nd the helve splintered. He dealt out trength by the wholesale, and he could iot weigh ont his foroe in the measure f ordinary men. When hw stood among the gang of la lorers the contrast made them look like hildren. The strolling Indians would tare in amazement a few moments, and hen with a deep "ugh!" get cut of ight of hidfcas fast as their dignity rould let them. He was put to do the rork of three pair of oxen. That was emoving the trunks of trees cut in ten >r twelve foot leDgths, ont of the way of he diggers, not Hitched to them like >xen to snake them away, but with his ight hand under the end, raising it rom the ground, then balancing it aaross ds left forearm, he shot the sawlogs far o one side with all the ease that a skill til workman piles his split oordwood. Lnd thus day after day the giant moved mtil the canal was bruit. He appeared again in the boats that >lied along the Huron river, Michigan. Is was engine end tackle to handle leavy freight. What others could not I ihove or roil, he could pickup and oarry | >r toBS. When the heavily freighted >oat struck on the ripples he just step )ed out of the stern and boosted her >ver. Nobody would have felt surprised f he had taken the whole boat and cargo 'ight under his arms, as a woman carries i dough tray, and marohed across by and, when they came to long bends ifi he river. Nobody ever said he did his, because they never wanted to ex iggerate his feats any moro than we do low. But navigation did not pay, and that itopped, too. Some of the "fancy" leard of the uncelebrated giant, and ook the notion that there was money in lim. He was as simple as a child. Lny one could lead him. It never got hronffli his skull that he was remarka )le. The sharpers meant to keep liim to and speculate on his prodigious pow jr. They coaxed him off eastward. At Buffalo they sent him into a dock saloon ivith a sixteen-hundred-pound anchor inder his left arm, just as a chopper car ries his ax, to pawn it for drinks, and ihe keeper was glad to treat him for carrying it out again. Thus he and his friends traveled on his muscle to the sea coast and acroas to England. They intended to get a soft thing on somj English champion. They had too much of a good thing. A friendly sparring, as an experiment, with a professional boxer showed that a match with any liv incr pusrilist was impossible. The giant's face could not be effectually reached. Blows on the body might as well have been planted on a sandbag. "When his unskilled maul came down it csme with the force of a pile driver, and no matter what it met the obstacle went to the earth. By the ruse of representing him as large and strong, but green, they made a match of science and skill against power with a noted pugilist. The parties came on tho ground, but at first sight of him, his opponent turned awaysaying: "I cameto fight with a large man, not with a mountain." Seconds, referees, and all hands declared the match fairly "off."j Finding nothing could be made ont of him, his sharp at tendants deserted him. From Michigan to Liverpool the route had been one of continued dissipation, and he contracted the seeds of disease. Deserted in a strange land, ho was uncared for; an ohject of awe and curiosity, useless to anybody else, and helpless to care for himself, he soon died of consumption, and was buried in a pauper's grave. Thus Derished perhaps the' most mag niflcent specimen of physical manhood that the United States ever produced. He never learned a lotter, he never felt a refining influence, he never had a real friend. The Dynamite Fiend. A report presenting the results of their investigation into the Bremerhaven explosion has been published by the Bremen authorities, who intend it to rectify false rumors and stimulate fur ther inquiries. It states that, according to his o vn deposition, the name of the perpetrator was William King Thom son. He was born in Brooklyn in 1830. His parents, who originally immigrated from Hamburg to America, are now liv ing in Virginia. Thomson was taken pris^per when running the blockade during the late war in the United State i. He escaped and fled to the South, where he passed under the name of Thomas. He mentioned one Midlers Skidmore, of New York, as an accomplice. With the above exceptions he made no reference to his former crimes or accomplices. His wife supposed his name was Alex ander. He had a tattooed arm. There is no evidence that he entered into rela tions with the underwriters or plotted against the safety of vessels previous to 1875. Nor is there any evidence except an insurance of 3,000 marks on the bar rel which exploded that he insured any goods to be shipped by the Mosel- or Deutschland. Observations made by Thomson point to the conclusion that he intended to hand a small box to the officers of the Mosel, declaring it con tained greenbacks, and that he intended to have this box insured. In June, 1875, Thomson insured goods on the steamer Rhein, which had started from Bremen for New York, for ?9,000, through the Barings of London. His wife's evidence shows that previous to his departure in November. 1875, Thom son anxiously waited for a letter from England, which he concealed when it arrived. Percales, Cambrics, Etc. All kinds of wash Roods will be used this summer for street suits, a fashion journal says. The foulard percales are brought out in cheviot (twilled) stripes, checks, blocks, and irregular plaids of one oolor on a white ground. Giugham patterns are especially liked in the fine cambrics that are sold for forty-five cents a yard. Blue and gray " gingham plaids," and all the quaint old oolors, browns, snuff-color, and blue and white cottons, worn by our grandmothers, are reproduced. Cream color is especially liked in cambrics, French jaconets, and percales. There are also many "lace bordered" cambrics; thus cream colored grounds have figures representing blaok laoe for borders. The dark solid colored glazed percales also reappear in navy blue, brown, and gray, to which are added cardinal red and myrtle green. The latter are warranted to wash, but will scarcely be liked for dresses, though they will be nseful as pipings ?wd ing9, THE CUBAN YOLUiTliSHiW. rhe Men ?vho Leave 8paln to Serve la the Army In Cuba. A correspondent writing from Spain 3ays: The system of recruiting for the army of Cuba is as follows: Each volun teer receives, on enlistment, $50, he en listing for one or two years' service; if, at the end of one year, he likes to en gage for another, he receives another 850. When the lad in bright Cadis City receives this sum, knowing that he has to embark within a fortnight, and hav ing no care, no definite love of home and parents, he goes to the bad forthree days. You see a cab rattling down the narrow streets of Cadiz, and lo! five Cuban volunteers (peasant lads of eighteen years) are its occupants; you t o Af\rr&n nf enter a wine tmup uuu w>u ? ^? these boys come in and buy their tum bler of Moutilla or sherry. In three days they have spent, what with cabs, wine, women and sweets, every sixpenoe of their $60. They are amazingly proud, even before they are habited as soldiers. I saw four of them?boys of eighteen or twenty?sitting on the Cadiz wharf the other day. A gray-haired, courtly Spanish gentleman passed, and said: " Are you conscripts I "No," said the spokesman, who had a soldier's cap, "we are militaires." Of the four, one was barefooted; one only had a military badge?a blue, red tasseled cap. These lads are, almost without exception, from the interior of Andalosia. They teannot get work; $50 is a heaven upon earth; they have no idea what Ouban life is; they volunteer, go, and only twenty of every hundred return at the end of the two years. The rest die of vomito and fever. If one comes back minus a leg or arm no must uwg iujl uu uiw hood ; for pensions there are none, save for those who have served for twenty four years. The ?0vernment pays, $20 -for the passage and food of each private soldier, and the boats generally carry 800 men each, and make-the passage to Cuba in sixteen or twenty days. On board thev are not badly treated. Two day? in each week they have bacon or pork, and during the rest rancho?t. e., pottage of beans, rice and dried chick peas. They sleep in the hold on a long row -of sloping planks, each man having a rag nrwl a Viarfl nillnw At seven A- M. flll are summoned upon deck. At sundown all are ordered below, and at eight P. il the order is passed along the dark and reeking hold: "Silence?not a word." The volunteer in Cuba { enerally suc cumbs to the climate?twp jty per cent only (it ie calculated) return; yet, during this and last month, no lees than twenty five thousand have been drafted off to Cuba. It is wrong to say that the Cuban volunteer is ill-treated. The treatment is not bad. These fellows are well fed. It is the climate which kills them. Among the ranks of these men are found faces and men of the worst and lowest criminal type?men who have enlisted simply because they do not care whether they live or die, but only want the flffv ilnllftramen who. the moment they can get into the hold of some ves sel bound for New Orleans, escape to a free State. Bat the mass, the majority, of the Cuban volunteers are idle or un fortunate peasant lads, who, spurred on by the scarcity of work, and tempted by the promising bait of $50 down, a year's service, and at the end of that $50 more gratuity if they chose to re-enlist, or a free passage home, give in their namee and go to Cuba, to be turned into in human and wicked brutes; to be hard: ened by gazing upon tortures and hor rors which would make their mothers' blood ourdle; and then to go into the teeming swamp-beset military hospita] Spring1 Goods. i The first importations of spring goods received at the wholesale houses, a New York fashion journal tells as, are soft woolen do beges, arranged, as most naw fabrics will be, to show three different patterns in a costume, viz.: plain grounds, graduated stripes, and plaids. The natural beige brown is the popular color among there goods, and is shown in the plain part of the costume. The ' a j I stripes consist or tnree ioqw UX UUXI/l ? \ dark, medium, and light?and are of graduated width. Merchants eay that these graduated stripes of three tones are conspicuous features repeated in ah the various kinds of materials for spring suite, from silk down to cambric. The plaid part of the beig: costume shows the same tones arranged in cross bars. The French costumers make the sieeves, lower skirt, and flounces of ihe plain stuff; the stripe forms bias bands on the flounces and on the overdresses ; | while the plaid is used for the overdress j entirely. Black and gray shades are also much used in these costumes. I tionrfomriA units for -the earlv spring the choicest materials are the damask figures wrought by the Jacquard loom as rich and heavy looking as the brocaded Iampas used by upholsterers: These will be used for habits, polonaises, and other overdresses with skirts of silk or velvet. The best colors are cream, faded looking pale blue, darker gray blue, French gray, and the rich dark blue that Ohina collectors know and like to call " old blue." Cream colored damask is imported in larger quantities than any other shade ; there are also a great many cases of cafe-aulait damasks. Cream ooJor will be even more abun dantly used next season than it is at present. Importers show three shades of cream color in fine tissues, grenadines, and damasks. The first and lightest is Str,r ivnrv f.hfl next, a tint deeper. ?fV/' ?VJ j ? , ? ? - - k ia ?>fe vertf, like half ripe wheat; and the third is ble mur, or ripe wheat. Machinery Sail. . The civilized nations of the world were informed that the machinery hall on the Centennial grounds had in round numbers 400,000 square feet, and they wero requested to say what space thoy wonld require for the display of theii machines, and of the machinery pro cesses used in any of their industries. Great Britain demanded 37,225 feet; Germany, 10,874 feet; France, 10.13S feet; Belgium, 9,375 feet; Canada, 4,80( feet; Brazil, 4,000 feet; Sweden, 3,166 | feet; Spain, 2,448 feet; Austria, 1,53? 1 * * " ff\e\ J. -r\ i trrtt I leet; isuseifl, i,ouu ieet; .ueuuuuu, uck | feet; Italy, 585 feet. And the great re ! mainder of 314,265 square feet is de | voted to the youngest nation of then I all, the United States. At the present 1 writing 1,150 applicants, exclusive o i foreigners, have applied for space. | The foreign exhibitors have beer given the position of honor at the east ern end, where the grand entrance is England, that furnishes from one-thir< to one-half of the whole foreign display oconpies very naturally the most im portant place in the center, and on th vts-twJ-K nvrnrviiA ia fv\ "Rnlflrinm I liumu UTC7UUU AQ w I Brazil and Russia. A Wicked Joke. At Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a few even ; ings ago, Robert Wilson, ten years o j age, was left alone while bis mother al : tended a wake in a neighboring resi j dence. Suddenly the door was opene I by a masked lad, who rushed wildly in raised a stick, and threSened to ki] Robert. The littb boy received such Bhock that ha fell senseless to the flow and remained unconscious throughou ' the night. He has since reoovered ?ufE ; dently to explain the cause of his frigh< i but is ?tlll in a rery critic#! conditio*!. It is claimed that sauerkraut is really a tonic. Yes, it's Teutonic. Tom Paine's birthday was celebrated by the different associations bearing his name in the United States. Laborers in the Michigan woods are working for their board. That's what the -woods are for, we believe. An exchange wants to know, since w-o-r-k is pronounced wirk, why pork.' should not be pronounced pirk ? She asked him if her new drees wasn't as sweet as a spring rose, and the brnte said it was, even to the miner attraction of still having a little due on it. When a man dies nowadays worth $1,000,000, the first question everybody asks is: " How many wives does he leave ?" The recent death of a Canadian judge makes it neoeesary for forty cases which h? had taken into consideration to be tried over again. The Carthaginian inscriptions, to the number of 2,084, which went do*n in the Magenta, have been all safely recovered by the divers. In act has been introduced in th4 Pennsylvannia Legislature to protect minors, learning useful trades, against' * the tyranny of onions. The governor of Virginia pardoned * criminal on condition that he shall never, use ardent spirits, wine, or any other in toxicating beverage. The saying that " there is more pleas ure in giving than receiving " is sup-i posed to refer chiefly to kicks, medicine* and advioe. "Will you take something?"said a teetotaller to a friend, while standing near a tavern. ** I don't care if I do, was the reply. " Well, then let us take a walk." ' It was John Tan Bur en who, being sfcnrmed bv highwaymen one night, said: " Gentlemen, 1 haven't got any money, bat 111 give you my note for three months." . . ?. . Statistics of insanity show thai ewes of mental derangement are more numer ous, in proportion to population, in Her. vada and California than in any other: States in the Union. t A justice of the peace at Green Bar, - Wis., charges $10 for marrying a eeuplo and $2.60 for divorcing them. He writes ''misrepresentatioBacross the' faoe of the license, and the thing is done. Now pick almanacs: They are dead ripe, and are wprth about ' two* "and a half cents a pound, rag measure; None carmine unless branded " 1876." Ask ' your druggist for that kind, and take no, other. Punch once told a droll story of a man who, being suddenly raised to riohes, * exclaimed, in the fullness of bis satisfac tion: " Oh, that I could stand in th? > road and see myself ride by in my car riage." Recent statistics show that on the en-., tire globe there are 3,704,000 Methodists i in full membership, and 23,707 Metho dist ministers. The number of Metho t'-i- _ -n?x qk/i nrn anA nt OlStS Hi VTrCUii-i^l ittttU. *a ' ui/vjuvv| n preachers 13,000. A Salt Lake Mormon Iwritten to the Centennial committee proposing to exhibit hi:3 nine wives at Philadelphia, "to illustrate one of the social phases of American life." He adds that his wives are anxioun to go.. The conductors of the San Francisco lying in hospital have petitioned the country authorities for an increased al lowance oil the ground of the unusually great number of applications, " especi ally by young girls.' I ; Prof. Toury of Baltimore bought sam rtlAR of the kerosene sold in the scores, and found by experiment that more than half of the stuff was very danger ous, giving off inflammable vapor at a very low temperature. It was iuciden tally stated at the Lon don bankruptcy court that tho strin gency with which the provisions of tho new adulteration act have been carried into effect has caused a number of fail ures in the milk trade. Among the New York lawyers it is said that David Dudley Field's income is 8375,000 ; Samuel G. Courtney's, 8200,000; Brown, Hall & Vanderpool's 8225,000; E. W. Stoughton's, 8200,000, ? ^ iT7_ ir oiRnnnn UI1U YY iil? iXJ.* JU * clx ya j yAwjww* ^ j , Charlie Rosa* father has received from some philanthropist a few mysterious words which he is to repeat at midnight while he walks areund the four quarters of a freshly-killed and cut-up pullet, the reward being the immediate return of hi son. The Independent says : We had it from Vice-President Wilson's own lips that about a year before his death he advised Gen. W. T. Sherman to be care ful in his public utterances, as he was very likely to be the next Republican candidate for President. A singular death took place the other day at Lincoln, England. A grocer named Picker, who keeps fowls, was re cently feeding them, when a bantam sparred him in the left thumb. Mortifi cation set in, and all efforts to save the unfortunate man's life proved unavail ing. The French do not bury in single graves, like their English brethren. They buy or hire a plot of ground four or five or nine or ten feet, squnre, if they 1 are rich, and there dig one grave deep enough for all the family. Over this 1 they build a little house in stone?a chapel?in the sides of which, are writ ten the names of the dead below. A Detroiter who didn't exactly know how to get a letter registered, sent some money away the other day, and wrote on the envelope:'' Registered with a two dol lar bill inside." Fearing that this might not be strcmg enough, one of his friends wrote: "I'll swear that 1 saw Jim pnt two dollars in this." The man who fools with that letter will get into trouble. A little boy, when picking the dram stiok of a chicken, swallowed one of the tendons whioh are so numerous in the legs of a fowl, and was very nearly choked. The tendon was, however, ex tracted with great difficulty from the lit tle fellow's throat, when he exclaimed : 44 Oh, mamma, it wasn't the chickabid dy's fault; it was because cook forgot to take off its garters. Nearly a century ago Old Port Royal disappeared beneath the waves in an earthquake, and now, in calm and clear weather, you may look down into fifteen fathoms of water and see submerged houses, towers, and churches, with sharks swimming quietly in and out of the open windows of their belfries. An ? J rt/1 American diving company buuutiu.?. to rescue treasures of untold value, but succeeded only iu bringing up a bell, covered with puzzling inscriptions, which they gave to the museum. Pork is high and hogs are scarce. This has been the case lor two years. For want of care thousands of hogs have been lost in the Western States by var ious fatal diseases, "Where they are well cared for, there is no cholera or other diseases. In general, disease is simply the result of the most inexcusable neglect or. bad treatment. When well cared for, no stock pays better or in creases faster than swine, and no other pays better for care in breeding, and well selecting breeding animxui'. A4 ptMKsnt prices pork payi.