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? . __ I THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1876. VOLUME XXIY.-NO. 21. g ____?^_?_???.?? ?? 1 ~ i For?riT< ness. Like bads of Hi ring, Bweet words are l orn from darkness sn<l despair, And waft new fr<gr*Tire through thesnnny air; 01 d spirits sing. Ah ! yo > lio fonpht, And nobly fought a? warriors fit to die, Shall >e the pover of brotherhood defy, By deaih untaught ? Tho tight and wrong Are buried with tho data of those who sleep In th; wsrm stillness of earth's bJBom deop, And. life is strong. Forgive ! Forgive! Than sings tho -ui light as it geatly glides Into each burdened heart that doubt divides? Forgive and live! Forcive! F^ri;i?e! Oh ! ye to wh-m the pitying heaven had deigned Mar.'a sovereign rights by tyrant power disdained, Forgave and live! Oh. love divine! Arise, arise, th-1 ?ou's may worship thee; That souls u.ity glorify thy name, and sco Tutir strength in thine! Mm, yc* 9re kings ! Bnt ?trife wi 1 ilbLo ye brutes, unfit to swsy Tho kingdom cf tho future, formed to-day The least of thiugs! Eternal God ! Fill th?>e rreat L?-ai s with Thine eternity, Let u: ion *tie<\ with flowers of liberty luO do. 1 ,, sou ! OVER NIAGARA FALLS. Tbe Story of (be .Until of the .111st and lirr Perilous Trip. Iu the ypar 1846, says 6cribner's Monthly, a small st< amer was built iu tbe eddy just above tho railway suspension bridge to run up to the foils. She was very appropriately named the " Maid of the Mist." Her engine was rather weak, but she safely accomplished the trip. As, however, 6he took pas sengers aboard only from the Canada side, she did little more than pay expenses. Iu 1854 a larger, better boat, with a more powerful?ngine?the new "Maid cf the Mist"?was put oo tbe route, and, as *h>' took passengers from both shores, many thousands of persons made made this most exciting and impressive tonr under tbe fulls. Owing to in K.it? ?v>or> fo OUUiO XU XJOJ aj/p/iunm uv.i, ^ uisu again oocfined her to the Canadian shore for the reception 0/ pas-engtrs, she became unprofitable. Her owner having decided to leave the place, wished to sell her as she lay at her dock. 'Ibis lte could Dot do, but bad an offer of something more than half of her cost, if he would deliver her at Niagara, opposite the fort. This he decided to do, after consultation with Kobinson, who had acted as her captain and pilot 011 her trips under the f ills. The boat re(jnirod for her navigation an engineer, who also acted as fireman, and a pilot. On h?-r pleasure trips she had a clerk in addftiou to these. Mr. Robinson agreed to art as pilot f><r the fearful vojage,and the engineer, Mr. Jones, consented to go with him. A courug? ous machinist, Mr. MoTutyre, volunteered to share the risk with them. They put her iu complete trim, removing from her deck and hold all superfluous articles. Notice was given of the time for starting, and a large number of people assembled to see the. fearful plunge, no one expeoticg to see either boat or crew again, after they should leave the dock. This dock was just above the railway suspension bridge, st the place where she was built, and where she was laid up in tLe winter, that, too, being the only plac? where she could lie without danger of being crushed by the ice. Twenty rods below the eddy tho water plunges sharply down into the head of the crooked, tumaltu<>n* rapid reaching from the bridge to th(i whirlpool. At tho whirlpool th^ danger of being drawn under waa most, to l>e apprehended ; in the rapids, of being turned over or knocked to pieces. From the whirlpool to Lewiston ia a wild rush and whirl of water the whole distance. About thr<?#< o'clock in tho afternoon of July lo, 1861,-the engineer took his place in tna hold, and, knowing that their flitting would be short at the longest, set his steam valve at the proper gauge, and waited?not without ansiety?the tinkling signal that should start them on tbeir flying voyage. Mcln tyre joiued Kobinson at the whwl ou tho npper deck. Robinsou took his place at the wheel and pulled the starting bell. With a shriek from her whistle and a white puff from her escape pipe, tho boat ran np the eddy a short distance, then swunfr around to the right, cle red tho smooth water, and shot like an arrow into the rapid under the bridge. She took the outside curve of the lapid, and when a third of tho way down it, a jet of water struck agaiust her rudder, a column dashed up under her r-itftrboard side, heeled her over, carried away her smokestack, started her overhang on that side, thr^w Robinson on his back and thrust Mclutyro against the starboard wheelhou^e with such force as to break it through. Every looker-on breathed freer as she emerged, shook her wounded sides, slid into the whirlpool and for a moment rode again on an even keel. Robinson rose at once, sciz-d the helm, set her to the right of the largH pot in thn pool, then turned h^r directly through the neck of it. Theni e, after receiving another drenching from its waves, she dished on with <nt further accident to tho quiet bosom of 'tv- river below Jjewistou. Tim a was ft?jompli*hed tho most renarknble and perilous voyage ever made by men. The boat was seventytw^ fpet long, with seventeen feet brendth of beam, ei^ht feet depth of hold, and carried an engiue of a hnndred horse-power. Robinson said that the greater part of it was like what he bad always imagined rmist be the swift sailing of a large bird in a downward flight; that when the accident occurred, tho boat seemed to be struck from all ! directions at once; that she trembled like a fiddle string aud felt as if she woul'J crumble away and drop into atoms; that both he and Molntyre were holding to the wheel with all their strength, bnt produced no moro effect than if they had been two flies; that he had no fear of striking the rocks, for he knew that the strongest suction must be in the deepest channel, and that the ...mnin {it .1.. H.?t iUUM I ' LU.llii iU blt.ll. I'lUUlUt^ tlliVL Mclutyre was .somewhat bewildered by excitement, or by his fall, an ? e rolled up by his si "0 but did not rise, he quietly put his foot on his breast to keep him from rolling around the deck, and thus 1 nished the voyage. F< or Jones, imprisoned beneath the haches before the glowing furnace, \vn? thuvu on his knees, as he related aftetvnrd. and although a more earnest pray v was nev. r uttered, and few that were s'iortfr, still it seemed-to him prodigiouriy long, i'iio effect of this tiip upon Reunion was decidedly marked. To it, as *3 lived but a few years aftervnri!, his i(.arh was commonly attributed. BntkVji8 WftS incorrect, since the diee.ise whuj terminated his life was o intruded New Orleans at a later day. * v V Ho was/' Kd Mrs. Robinson to the writer, 1 twei* yearg cam* homo that day than when he went | om " Ho sunk iuto his chair like a per(?n?) overcome with weariness. He dei cideu to abandon tlie water aud advised | his plus to venture no more abont the ! rapids. Both his manner and appear: aucf were chauged. Calm and deliberate I before, he became thoughtful and | serious afterward. Yet he had a strange, ! almost irrepressible desire to make this ; voyage immediately after the steamer j was put on below the falls. This wish ; whs only increased when the first "Maid of the Mist" was superseded by the new j and stancher ono. Robinson was born I ia Springfield, Mass. He was nearly six j feet high, with light chestuut hair, blue eyes and fair complexion. He was a kind hearted man, of equable temper, few words, cool, deliberate, decided, lithe as a Gaul and gentle as a girl. He neither provoked nor defied Providence, j nor foolishly challenged the admiration of his fellow men. But -when news I came that some oue was in danger, then j he went to work with a calm and cheerI fnl will. Benevolent association in different cities and countries bestow honor and I rewards on those who, by unselfish ef! fort and a noblo courage, save the life of i a fellow being. This Robinson did rei peatedly ; yet no stone commemorates | his deeds. A Poor Girl's Devotion. Yesterday morning they pulled poor j Krtto Ledford out of tho waters of the : Kaw, says the Kansas City IVmcs. It was evident at first sight that the doceased had made a determined effort to die, lor the water was shallow, so shallow that tho suicide had not depth sufficient to 6ink in. She died from grief, and her story of trouble deserves more than the ordinary notice. 'Katie Donovan was the only daughter of a poor but hard working farmer near Mnncie station, a few miles west of Kansas City, on thm Kannnn Pnoifta railroad. TCatio did i not agreo well with her stepmother, and left home abont two years ago and came to Kansas City to work for herself. In dne time she met, loved and married a brakeman named Edward Ledford, who was employed on the Missouri Pacific railroad. Soon after marraige Ledford was arrested with others for an alleged theft of goods from a railroad train. Ledford was sent to jail in Lawrence, wh<re ho aided and assisted Bad McDaniels, the Mnucie train robbt r, to make his escape. McDaniels was killed ia tho pursuit and Ledford escaped. Hh wife, then only seventeeen years of ag? and devotedly attached to her husband, took his disgrace much to^heart^ She went to work for a living, and while she could reach her hus aud sent all her earnings to him in jail. She at all times appeared grief-stricken and sad on account of her liusl and. Sho continued to work, sad, disconsolate aud often sick with grief. One morning she left her place of employment after dressing herself in her bett calico dress. It was her sLroud. She saiu she was sick, and was going home. Sho bade her benefactors farewell, but iustead of goiiig down to Muncie, she w< nt out and paid one or two little trifliug debts for sewing. Then she went to the Kansas river, and selecting a shallow place, in the cool of the evening, laid herself down in the water and died. Pour jjirl. Hers was a brief his- | tory?raised in the Kaw bottoms, stepmother, no scbouliug, no friends, early marriage to a worthless scoundrel, and a tragic close to a life which to her seemed all sadu( s?; all barren of beauty UL OUU^Ll JUC. The Depths of Mining Shafts. The Baltimore American .says: rweuty years ago the deepest uiiuiug shaft* iu the woild reached only about 2,000 | fett below tho surface. The very deepest, we believe, was a metalliferous mint I in Hanover, which hud been carried down to the depth o 2,200 feet. The deepest perpeudicular shaft to-day is the Adelbert shaft in a silver-lead mine in Piizibram, in Bohemia, which has reached a depth of 3,28 ) feet. The attainment of that depth was made the occasion of a three days' festival, and still further noticed by the striking oil of a large number of commemorative silver medals of the value of a florin each. There is uo record of th-j beginning of work on this mine, although its written history goes back to 1527. Quite recently an tlegant commemorative volume hiia been written and printed, which is most inteiesting to those who have a ta*te for either the actualities or antiquities of mining industry. There are two other localities, however, where a greater depth has been reached than that at the Adelbert shaft, but not in a perpen dicular line. These are at the Rocksalt borehole, near Spereuberg, not far from Berlii., which a few years ago had been bored to a depth of 4,175 feet, and the coal mines of Viviers Remus, in Belgium, where the miners, by shaft sinking, together with boriDg, havo reached a total depth of 3,542 feet. Turning from these two miues, no shaft in unbroken perpeudicular line has as yet exceeded the depth of 3,280 feet. Although the depths to which the shafts enumerated have penetrated into the interior of the earth in the art and practice of mining may appear mighty, and may be an expressive witness of the great progress made in mining pursuits, yet, on the other hand, the above results may bo considered insignificantly small when we compare them with the extent of the earth's crust aud the diameter of the earth. The deepest borehole in the wot Id is the j artesian spring at Pottsdarn, in Missouri, : which reaches a depth of 5,500 feet. Slimmer Showers. It in about time, says the Boston Advertiser, that the newspapers and the j readers of newspapers should cease expressing wonder that a shower at the eud of a very liot day " did not cool the air." The idea that the weather is usnally rendered more bearable by such showers is contradicted by experience, andisopposed to common sense. In very rare cases a permanent change of wind begius at tho same time as an evening i shower, and then wo have cooler weath- j er. But in niuo cases out of ten a dead , j culm follows tho shower. The gronud j | is both heated and soaked with water, ; I which rises in the form of sttam ami j charges tho atmosphere. A dry air is j I not very oppressive even at a high tern- j | perature, but add an excess of m<>if.ture j to an already heated atmosphere, which is at the same time disturbed by scarce- j 1 ly a pnfT of wind, and their effect is al- , | tnoft intolerable. This is the condition J j a summer shower usually leaves behind j , it. Tho wonder should therefore be ex- j | pressed when a thunder storm does mod- , I erate tho temperature or improvo the j I quality of the atmosphere. His Seat.?The following dialogue is i ] said to have taken place in the entrance : 1 way of St. James' Hall, London, be- j j tween Rubiuftcin, who was about to i begiu a coueert, and an impassioned old ' lady: "Oh! M. Rubinstein, I am so j glad to see you. I hivo tried in vain to j purchase a ticket. Have you a seat you j could let me have?" "Madam," said j the great pianist, " there is but one seat: at my disposal, and that you are wel- j i come to, if you think tit to take it." i "Oh, yon! and a thousand thanks. Whero is it?" waa the excited reply. " At the piano." smilingly said Rubin* ctein. Only a Xewsboy. "Little Bob" was a newsboy who drifted into the capital of Virginia nfttr the close of tbo war. Ho hobbled about the city on crutches, but he was energetic and vivacious, and, in spite of his affliction, managed to dispose of more papers in a day than any three of his competitors. What were his antecedents, how he lost the use of his limbs, perhaps no one gave himself the trouble to inquire. He wis born in the first tumults of war. Father perhaps he never had known; to a mother's care he owed little. Misshapen, friendless, ignorant, he survived the perils of childhood, and somehow gathered elements of character which would befit a much higher station than that in which Little Bob lived his few brief years. After he came to Richmond and had won for himself a successful place in his humble sphere, Little Bob looked about for a friend. And him ho found in another newsboy, yet more helpless than him self. Tills was "Delaware," wno was older than Bob, and who had lost, both legs above the knee. These two curious little folk, the elder not more thau twelve, might be found at all hours of the day together, and doubtless shared the same squalid cot at night. "Delaware" eold but few pipers, while the younger partner each night had gathered a goodly amount of nickels. But "Delaware" never suffered on that account. Bob paid for his food, and it was from Bob a little store that the nightly lodging was secured. Once in a while the two had a dramatic treat from the highest gallery in the theater, and up the stairs it was by the aid of Bob's crutches that both were able to climb. So the two fared for several years, the ties of friendship, through benefits received and conferred, growing closer and more firm as the time passed by. What were the confidences exchanged?what the topics of discussion between this . deformed Damon and crippled Pythias of tender years and lowly race ? None may say, for of them and their thoughts the world has not time to concern itself. But iu its way the talk of these two must not have been altogether base and depraved. For, one day, "Delaware" and Bob were bathing in the neighboring river and " Delaware," helpless, got beyond his depth. No other help was nigh, and Bob vainly tried to save his partner's life at the risk of his own. Then he took a little store of savings and starved himself for a week to give " Delaware's " body decent burial out of the potter's field. Bob never got over the death of his friend. MissiDg him at his side in their accustomed employment, Bob gave it up after a while and rented a little stand on the thoroughfare?a lurge deal box set up on end, and XUriJlfSUtfU wiin it ouuuty ui only the newsboy and bootblack might bu>. But his business did not prosper, and the town was no longer the same as when he had a friend to share all that belonged to him?of sorrow and of limited joy, and of that little sum which the day's labor had brought. So Bob begun his wauderings again, this time iuto that Northern country of which he but dimly knew and cared. The rest is told iu a newspaper item touching n crippled boy who was drowned the other day while bathing in the Delaware wh?*ro it runs by Philadelphia. The paragraph found its way back to Richmond, and the body was identified as f hat of the crippled boy who went there by the name of "Little Bob." Thus these two lowly friends met death after the same mauner, and the l iver whose waters dosed over the head of the one bore the same name by which the other was known. This is all. The two boys count for but little in the sum of human life, and their story, perhaps, for lesb. lint to some it may appeal as oeanug a iii<i)iU not altogether without its ueo ami effect in this every day world, made up iu huge part of such as these, and in its higher circles, here and there of : ome less woi.hya passing moment's thought. ?New York World. Fashion Notes'. The revival of old materials is noticeable. Smyrna Jaco has taken tli6 place of cluuy. At present polonaises are preferred to tunics. Scarfs of India silk are draped as overskirts. Long, slender waists are decidedly the fashion ol the day. Black lace confections retain their plaoe for summer wear. A. novelty is black net, embroidered in lines and dots of straw. Close fitting long waited habits are the fashionable overdresses worn abroad. Belts and chatelaines, more than ever, for the convenient carrying of fans. Tho crimson parasols from Paris are adopted only in rare instances in England. Sleeveless jackets of ecru cashmere lace, wrought in colors, for midsummer wear. Dressing sacks and light kirts for luncheon no longer shock the most fastidious. The popular contrast in colors for both bonnets and dresses at present is navy blue and red. The blouse differs from the polonaise in that the bodice is made loose, and confined round the waist by a Delt. Jackets and cardinal capes are the popular shapes; but mantles and mantillas are the more stylish garments. On somo of the imported dresses pockets occupy the entire length of the skirt, from the belt to the hem that borders it. TXTrvi-oforl wifh anlrl fin*! m'lvfir threuds interwoven, and lace with colors introduced, are worn as trimmings for fete dresses. Linen wraps, Lisle thread gloves, Japanese fans, sun umbrellas and flat sponges (filled with water) worn inside the hats, are peculiarities of the toilets seen at the Centennial Exhibition. Badly Bi ought Up. There was a sad Bcene at tho Brock ville (Canada) conrt honse, a recent morning, when James Kelly, a child of only seven years of age, from Prescott, was brought before Judge McDonald for stealing a watch and chain. The prisoner was a bright little fellow, whose head only reached just above the prisoner's dock, and who was all alone, not a friend appearing, although it seems he has a mother. The judge, previous to passing sentence, remarked that he had made inquiries in JFreecott, and ascertained that the little fellow had fallen into very bad hands ; in fact^ was being trained up as a professional thief. The child was sentenced to three years' confinement in the reformatory prison. The Rcdijients.?P. T. Barnum seems to be great381 in the dead languages. He closes a two-column letter on a local quarrel in this impressive manner: " In closing, I suppose I must imitate this learned savage, who overwhelms me with his Latin quotations, so here goes: ' Procul ! JProcul!' Epluribue unum?mcrie tekcl?einc qua non ?little Indian, Ugh ! Lawyer ?? bah/" THE CENTENNIAL. An Intrrmtlnar Letter A boot Jap tin and her Contribution* to the Exhibition. I have made frequent allusion to Japan. Her marked sympathy with the Uuited States in the Centennial movement, also her material aid rendered in the variety and value of exhibits, this in itself will allow a more extensive notice of a country, and a people, with whom our relations are social in a certain sense, educational to a degree; as I notice a great interest in the Japanese in the matter of educating their youth in our country, and the increasing extent of our commercial relations; hence it will be of value to the general reader to know a few details not found in the school books. The emblem of the Japanese empire consists of the sun represented by a golden ball on a red ground for the imperial standard, and by a red ball on a white ground for the national flag. In anoieut times the flags had a double crest, the sun and moon cn-Fcent shape, the flag shaped liko a pennant. The Shioguns, of the Ahlikass'i family, introduced the vertical fl g .-< -100 years tgo. Und'-r the Sliioguns of the Tokugawa family, thn emblem of the sun alone figured on the flag, and has now been adopted for the new flags of the different departments. The Japanese adopted the deoimal system for weights and measures many centuries before th^ Chinese. The unity of the wfeight is called the 4'Mome, "or the modern namo of "3?n," which is the same as the Chinese " Mace," and is equal to thr? e grammes, 756,521. This unity is divided into 10-100 10U0 parts. Ku-war-me \s the highest unity and equal to 1,000 mome, or three kilos, 756,521. For various kinda of goods the "kin," calltd catty by foreigners, is used. It is equal to 160 mome, or 601 grammes, .04, or nearly one and onethird pounds English. It varies according to the nature of the goods and the locality. For their measures of capacity for cereals, liquids, etc., they have the kaku=10 Do=100 Sho=l,000 Go?648,2690 Japanese cubic lines, or 180 liters, thirty-nine, find are in the shape of TT?r?/-w1oTi onnorolinTAo tuifVi n.rlintrnnnl iron rod stretched across the top, the upper surface of which is on a plane with the rim of the box. Cjo of the richest exhibits of the Japanese is their "Ikanbari," from the name of the inventor. Something like -pa-pier rnachc, only that this is made from numerous layers of their paper, which are adhered by glue, prepared from fern roots and unripe persimmons. Porcelain, ceramics and pottery are the moat important features of Japanese industry. Japanese legends attribute the invention of pottery to Ooseitsumi, who lived in a time of Oanamtichno-mikato, 6G0 B. C. In 29 B. C., human figures were formed of clay aud buried with the deceased members of the imperial family, thus obviating the necessity of their servants accompanying their masters to the grave. I am assured this idea was heartily relished by the servants, who, a3 compensation for jiviDg imperially in the kitchen, were required to be buried in the same grave with their masters, while alive. In the six century a Corean tile manufacturer came to the capital to teach his profes IP 11 -l i_ XI. ^ Al_ sion, ana irom mas 10 me siitcoum uoutury continued to flourish. At this period a new article was introduced called Raku, by a Corean. It was a common black earthenware. The beginning of the making of real porcelain was under direction of Goro dayu Shonsui, a native of Ise wbo went to China, where ho studied tho art. On his return he settled in the province of Hizen, which is to day the most important center of the porcelain industry. The different kinds of porcelain manufactured by this pioneer and continued to the present are, Some-tsuki or blue, are painted with cobalt oxide nnder the glaze ; the Kanyu or Hilkiisthe Cragull; die Seldzi or Seladon ware, the Arkai, or tho red ware ; and the Gosai, whioh latter means five colors. This is ussd for the porcelain painted with verifiable colors upon the glaze. It is now called Nishkide. In 724 A. D., a priest named Giyoki introduced the .potter's wheel into Japan. Vegetable wax ia a valuable production of Japan, which seems to have escaped the attention of correspondents. It is t Hi A r\f onrrAHfil fvnoa {JIUUUUCU ItV^JUU DUO UU1U Ul OUVUtlU Ul UVO, belonging to tho genus Rhus, amongst which the Rhus Succedrica is important. The lacquer tree, Rhus Vernicifera, also yields wax. The Rhus Sylvestris is the wild wax tree. The cultivated wax trees were imported from tho Loo Choo islands. The berries, the size of a small pea, and united in bunches, contains the wax between the kernel and the outer skin. They are crushed, winnowed, steamed, placed in hemp cloth bags, steamed again, and afterwards prossed in a wooden wedge by hand. To facilitate the flow of wax, a percentage of Te no abura (oil from perilla o cimoides) is added. This wax is made into candles; tho art was introduced from Loo Choo toward the end of the sixteenth century. Another tree yielding a kind of vegetable tallow is the cinnamomum pedunculatum. There is also an insect producing a kind of wax exclusive of the honey bee. They are identical with the Chinese " pela." They live upon the ligustrum ibata. It is wooaeriui trie variety 01 designs made from this vegetable wax. Candles are painted and of a variety of shapes, crude and artistic. This wax tree as well an the wax insect conld be introduced into the United States with the most productive fruits. There is nothing known to the varied fields of agriculture or horticulture, and their results in any part of tho world, but can bo reproduced in America, and the necessity for this introduction is apparent, when we consider how different elements exhaust themselves; and a balance of power can alone be preserved by promoting supplanting gifts whoee strength will take the place of tho effete productions of a soil devoted to a specialty for generations. Let our people study Japnu and her resources, and tho consequence will be a resulting profit. J. B. The Turkish War. By a boldly executed series of operations, the Turks have possessed themselves of the Timok valley, the ridges overlooking which form the natural fortress of Servia on tho northeast. To make this advance of use to the Turks requires, however, the prompt use of large bodies of troops?more than they seem able to command at present. The advance, however, proves Servia to be thrown entirely on tho defensivo, and with little chance just now of being able able to bring into play that branch of military science known as the offensivedefensive. This is a sud change from the confident advance of Tchernayeff a month ago, who started ont on an easy march for Adrianople via Sofia. We are likely to see better ighting on the Servian side now that the Servians are on their own sou, nniess mo great, puwero can stop the war altogether. Event?, however, are hardly rip* enough for that. Vert Mean.?A very mean storekeeper in Ontario recently charged one of his femalo clerks, who had ridden in to Gobourg with him, fifty cents for the use of the baggy and fifty omits for lost tim?, bnt the yonng lady had him fined 820 and ousts for carrying passengers without a license, THE GREAT CORN BELT. Its Extent of Territory and the Crop Produced?The Rain?Corn at Fifty Cent* per Acre. A correspondent, writing of the crops and crop prospeots, gives us the following: A* large part of the Northern States has been visited by a common calamity. The region embraces much of western Pennsylvania, most of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and the eastern parts of Kansas and Nebraska; and it includes the great corn belt of the United States, where is grown the surplus of corn that enters into the markets of the world eithor in the form of grain or of provisions, viz.: pork, beef, lard and butter. On no other part of the earth's surface can so much corn to the area be produced, and in no other part is the quality so good. It is to be addad that intensity of production is limited to a region not mncn larger man the State of Illinois, eqnal to about 120 average counties, and that the corn producipg counties lie, a few in Ohio and Indiana, perhaps five in each, in the whole of central Illinois, in southern Iowa, eastern Kansas, and Nebraska, and in the river counties of Missouri. It is from these counties that the actual commercial surplus comes. Elsewhere the supply is absorbed by the local demand. A commercial corn crop must be planted from the fifteenth to the twentysecond of May, or it will be a failure, because the field is so large that, if planted later, there will not be time to work it. As soon aa the corn appears, teams, harrows, or other implements are ready to stir the ground and kill the weeds, and not a day, not an hour is suffered to pass unimproved. Ihe whole business is reduced to a complete system and may almost be called a science, and, except as to some slight differences, as to check planting or drilling and in the use of implements, all the farmers agree oi\ common methods, and the work progresses with the promptness and certainty of a huge piece of machinery. In uniformity, in vastness of extent, in capital invested, and in generally successful results, no other example of rural commercial industry in the world is at all comparable to corn growing in this great corn belt. The three great cities, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, which stand at the outer augles of this region, have been bailt up and are sustained by this wonderful grain. Well, the corn crop for 1876 was planted in due season, thongh under a great disadvantage, for the ground was cloddy and hard, and many teams were broken down, so terrible heavy and nrcant was the work : but it was all in. and the triumphant farmer waited for a little soason. The story is eoon told. Rains fell continually, and on low, level ground it was impossible to work the corn, and the mournful observer traveling through from beyond the Missouri almost to the Alleghanies sees thousands upon thousands of fields where the corn, never yet touched since the day of planting, is from six to twelve inches high, yellow standing in water. No work, no poasible favorable conditions, can make it worth fifty cents an acre. On rolling, high, quickly drained land, the corn looks well, and the estimate is?perhaps it is high?that tlw-re will be half a crop. There were twelvo days during Jane when an ib credible amount of rain fell in central Illinois, statod to have been 43,500 cubic feet to the acre, or an amount equal to twolve inches on a level. As there was no discharge over so vast an area of the prairie, there could be only one result. Meanwhile there is a largo stock of hogs raised since the scarcity of two yeard ago, and plenty of cattle, all looking well at present. How they are to be fattened is a question. But Ihere Ls one hopeful view, so far as the whole region is concerned, to the effect that the corn crop of last year was the largest over grown, and heavy lots are on hand iu central Illinois, estimated to be 50,000,000 of bushels, which will largely increase tbis year's half crop. It is manifest that while the rain was falling wheat, oats, barley, and rye must have suffered, and that, therefore, there is shortage eo far as these products are concerned. Certainly the wheat crop must be short, and yet only a few days sinco wheat fell nearly fifteen cents a bushel. Tho reason for this wonderful decline is alleged to be tho deficiency of suitable storage in New York city and the damage wheat is suffering by tno hot weather and on account of the low condition in which it was harvested last year. There are said to be 4,000,000 bushels in Now York and scarcely 2,000,000 in Chicago, all below good grade, and now comes a low grade from much of this year's crop. There is a pretty large wheat producing region not yet mentioned. Commencing on a line 100 miles west of Kansas Citv. we have a eountrv 150 miles wide where the rains were timely and where an immense breadth of most excellent wheat was grown, whioh is now moatly thrashed. This includes all of western Kansas and Nebraska; and besides favorable weather prevailed in threefourths of Iowa, where not only wheat, but corn, oats and all vegetables are good and abundant. Thus, while the loases by wet weather have been enormous, a vast amount has still been saved and the wealth of the country ia materially increased. Married, and Within a Week Insane. O.ifl of the saddest records we have ov<-r made in these columns, says a Colorado paper, is the following : Some time since a gentleman from this county, who is on9 of our most prominent business men, was united in marriago -with a charming and accomplished young lady from one of the cities of the bay. The couple went to San Jose to spend a few days of that usually blissful period, the first of married life. The union took place on Suuday, and very early Thursday morning the bridegroom was awake;.ed by hearing the young bride at prayers. Suddenly her praying was chauged to singing, and this was followed by loud laughter, until the awful fear took hold of the gentleman's mind that bis beloved wife had lost her reason. Thinking that a change and the quiet of a country home would be beneficial, the couple started at once for home. The lady's malady grew steadily worse during the journey, and no benefit was derived at their new home, and a few days sinco it v/as found necessary to take her back to her parental associations in the hopes that a mother's care would prove the panacea. The spectaclo as the party passed down the road was one of the most pitiful and saddest that could bo imagined. The bride of a week had become a raving maniaa, wild and violont, requiring the strength of several persons to hold her. Her husband's grief was terrible beyond expression. Ruined. A man who was not clever at conundrums, in attempting to get off one at a tea party at his own house the other evening, became exceedingly mixed. He intended to ask the old question: " Why is a woman like ivy t" the familior but gallant answer to which is: " Because, the more you're ruined the eloper she clings." But he put it: "Why is ivy like a woman ?" which none of the ladies couM tell, and so the unfortunate man told them himself that it was "because the cloecr it clings the more you're ruined/' The Rnssian Mennonites, One of Dom Pedro's special objeotain visiting Europe is to prepare the way for a wholesale immigration of the Mennonites of southern Russia to Brazil. The czar yet allows to these people four years, after which, if they do not immigrate, they must conform to all the laws of the land, even to the performance of military duty?a duty that ii as repugnant to them as though they were Quakers. Whole colonies are, therefore, meditating a general flight. Their vigor, sobriety, industry and intelligence render them valuable as immigrants, and the enlightened ruler, Dom Pedro, naturally envies the United States its good fortune in winning them as settlers. Two vessels, one from Bremen and the other irom Hamburg, have lately landed large parties of Mennonites at Castle ^ * - ? nr TT i_ rm_ 1 ^ iu? .V uaraen, new xor&. jm?y unug mo ?uformation that for months past the agents of the Brazilian government have songht them in German territory on their way to America, and urged them to take passage for Brazil; but on their applying to the German authorities for advice they were told that they had better settle in the United States. They were informed that ten years ago a steady tide of German immigration set out for Brazil, and the German government was obliged to aid the immigrants in getting back to Germany, the poverty, sickness and neglect under which they suffered having decreased their numbers frightfully. Two years ago the Prussian government ordered the exodus stopped. At the same time the agents of Brazil TiArsnftdfld manv Enerlish peasants to visit their country, and Great Britain had to provide passage foi them back to her shores. The Mennonites in Russia have written to a well known German resident of New York city that the emperor of Brazil will give to every immigrant 160 acres of land for $1 an acre, the purchase price to be paid within ten years without interest. During the first year the settlers are to be gratuitously supplied with food and the necessaries of life. The emperor asks that the Russian colonies depute representatives to visit, at his expense, the proffered lands in Brazil. Forty colonies have united and elected four delegates who will, within a short time, start for Brazil. These colonies are all anxious to depart from Russia. Although one of the Mennonites' leading divines is the chief agent of the ?* " A ?1 ? 13 .Brazilian government, it wuuiu bbolu* that they are not attracted by the emperor's offer. They are apprehensive of a curtailment of their religious liberty in that country, and they doubt whether Dom Pedro's successor will be as liberal and wise as he is; and, moreover, they fear that as laborers in a country so lately worked by slaves their social status will be unenviable. Those Mennonites who have immigrated are almost all in the United States, and are happily settled. They are highly valued as settlers here. In addition to the government of 160 acres free of cost to all who become citizens, private enterprise is sending out inducements to the Mennonites to land here. In Wisconsin they are offered forty acres of land apiece near a main route of travel, and in the Southern States a houso and ten acres of cultivated land at $10 per acre, to be paid in a few years, *- - ? ?- 1. t? at six per ceni. interest), me mono iui the asking A Notable Liquor Saloon. A few days ago a young man was arrested at the instance of the saloon keepers in tho lYibune building, New York, for carrying a banner bofore their establishment, inscribed: "Rum and Tobacco?the Devil and his Wife? 8hamo on Yon 1" His employer was Sir. Himan C. Dexter, a house and sign painter, at 40 Broad street, after whose name in the city directory is printed the same injunction. He was announced to speak before the American Temperance Union in Bleecker Hall. Mr. J. B. Gibbs, the president, said that Mr. Dexter had planted his bauner before a very bad place. Passing by the same saloon, he saw a woman standing before it, tattered, and evidently ruined by rum. She repeatedly yelled bitter oaths to the proprietor inside. The speaker felt that it was an invocation honestly offered. Tho woman had been wrecked by liquor, ant I felt from tho bottom of her soul tho ill3 that the traffic was casting upon society. Mr. Hunter said that tho saloon did a big business, and his heart burned to think that Horace Greeley's memory was so outraged. He had often almost shed tears in dwelling upon the fact. He would like to give a little information regarding this saloon. A young man whom ho once met was invited by a friend to take a drink in the place, but " a i.u: i?4.K rr;? Raul ne preierreu tuaiiig ? uum. x?io friend told him that he would take him to a bathing establishment and took him to the top of a four .story building wbr-rc baths of wine could bo had at a dollar each. On objecting to the prico, the young man was told that the baths on the story below were fifty cents each, but that the wine there had been bathed in by customers on the top floor. On being used in that story it was carried by pipes to tho one below, where twenty-five cents was charged, and after being there used, was conducted to the floor below, where, the young mau was f ' ? ?At -1 j.1. - ru? tOICI, IE Wft8 DOIUCU lor miw huiijuu. iuo | young man subsequently took occasion to visit the building, one niglit between twelve nnd one o'clock, when it was closed, and when the bottling took place. He found, the speaker said, men standing naked in the wine butts. The wine, the men said, was nil intended for the Baloon.?New York Sun. A Man in a Bear Trap. Newell Alexander, a Micmao Indian, aged about sixty-nine, who was on his way from Quebec to Houlton and Woodstock, and who passed throngh Winn, was caught in a bear trap which was set by Alexander McMain, of Mattawamkeag, in the woods. Ho had lain there ! four days, when Edward Hamel and John Savard found him, having been attracted to him by his hoarse aud faint cries for help. He had heard the carriages praying up and down the road, and had cried for help, but the sound of the wheels probably drowned his voice. Somo persons heard, but were afraid. He had plenty to eat with him, but could not eat as ho was nearly choked for want of water. He had in his possession a dinner with which ho dug clown tliroe feet irto the <'urfch, aud was | dipping up tho mud aud sucking the | water from*it. He had au axe with him j with which lit! made a wedge, driving it j behind his log, thereby easing tho pressure somewhat. He was caught just above the ankle of the right foot; but fortunately no teeth entered his leg. He is now at a physician's with his wound properly dressed, and it is expected he will recover. A Petition.?The Madrid correspondent of the Independence Beige writes: The Jews of the Uuited States havo addressed to the king of Spain a petition praying him to rcstoro to tho descendants of the Jews, expellod by tho kings of former ages, their civic rights and religions liberty. It remains to be seen whethor tho Ultramontanos will permit the government to extend the benefits of article two of the new constitution to tto Jews. THE CHOLERA, Awful Devastation of a Villa*e Population In India. The Bombay Gazette describes as follows a calamity which has fallen on a villuge in India through the ravages of cholera : One of the dark spots in Indian village life is the periodical visitation of some epidemic, which enters almost every hovel and carries off one or more of tho occupants. The villagers may have been living happily together, their minds perplexed about nothing more serious than the state of their crops, their cattle, or the ordinary gossip of their little community, when suddenly the destroyer appears, and the scene is instantaneously changed from peacefulness into terror and confusion. A sad instance of this faot hai occurred in this presidency within the last few days. \I7Ua?<^ tttoo nnno a fhnVlTlff. TT IX D1.C UUOiO TTW VMWV M ??*. ? ?QJ pleasant little village situated on the sea shore, there is now a deserted collection of huts. Not a human sound is to be heard iu the place from morn till night. Most of the inhabitants are dead, the victims of a terribly sudden invasion of cholera, and the survivors have left everything in their huts and fled to the adjoining mountains. It is one of the most alarming, and we might almost say awful, visitations which we know of in the history of any village in this presidency. Golwood, the place we are referring to, is midway between Bombay and Surat, and on the Bombay, Baroda and Central India railway. Being close to the sea, the officers of the company have hitherto looked upon it as a kind of sanatorium, as it possessed many of the advantages enjoyed by Teethul and Bulsar, the recognized sanatoria of Gua! fV?n ofArtrla ^CiUbi ULDiO IIUO ^uaiuo VI vuv; gWMu trains used to change, and many of them had their residences near the station. Altogether, the population of Golwood could not be more than 200. Last week Cholera, which is now preying around Ahmedabad, suddenly entered the village, and slew victims right and left. On July 4th., the first day of its appearance, no fewer than fifty-seven people out of the small population died; twenty more died on the sixth; and when we had our last advices from Golwood, there were eighteen new cases, of which three-fourth3 were hopeless. The few survivors and every poor wretoh who could move have fled to the adjacent hills, where they are now huddled together, and struggling to exist on such food as they can find in that barren 'locality. Such was the terror and helplessness of the people when the outbreak occurred, that they did not bury their dead, and bodies lay rotting in the streets for two whole days, during which the stench was abominable. No reason for the outbreak has been assigned, and the fate of Golwood furnishes one more instance of the mysterious movements OI cnoiera. me misery 01 mo peupie | was aggravated by the fact that there was no doctor at hand. A Mr. H. B. Wharton, permanent way inspector on tho B. B. and C. I. line, has a house close to the village, and when the epidemic appeared the people ran to him for help. He was the only European in the station, and they naturally thought the sahib might be able to help tham. He happened to have a small supply of cholera mixture aad chlorodyne, but it was soon exhausted among so many applicants, and Mr. Wharton could do nothing but listen helplessly while tales of death were being told him on every side by panic stricken people. Mr. Wharton says that tho cholera was the most virulent he had ever seen in the course of a long experience. He saw people die within thirty minutes from tho moment of attack. Tho village was filled with lamentations, and natives rushed wildly hither and thither. Many people died in the streets; while running away th^y were seized with the pangs of the disease and dropped on the SpUli UliU DUUU upucui James Gordon Bennett's Daughter. The retirement of Miss Jeanette Bennett, daughter of the late James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, to a convent, has been closely discussed with a view of learning whether it could be explained by any special disappointment. There is, however, saya a New fork corr ispondent, not the slightest probability of this character. The fact is that of the two children of the once famous editor, the son bears a strong resemblance to his mother, and the daughter is very much like her father. I do not refer so much to the features as to the character. It is evident that the dashing, sporting, driving, yachting proprietor of the Herald shows little likeness to his father, who never drove a horse, and never was on a yacht, and had no caro for those active sports in which his son delights. The senior Bennett was a very peculiar man, and was little understood outnido of his own editorial rooms. Notwithstanding the boldness of his columns, ho was very timid, and was constitutionally shy of the public. He never attended any festal occasion, and never made a speech, even in reply to a toast, for he avoided all such occasions. As an editor, he kept himself in his little office. He rarely appeared in the street, coming and going in his carriage, and never went to church. His only place of public resort was the theater. In later years he abandoned this habit, and became a very close reclnse. This was a natural tondency which his daughter has inherited. Were she forced by circumstances to battle with tho world, as her father did, there can be no doubt of her success, but*being left to pursue her own inclinations, she indulges her natural love of retirement. Young Bennett, however, inherits from his mother a love of society. The Currency Issued and Retired. Tho controller of tho currency of the fltnfna hns made a statement \J lil KJ '-J MWV ? ? showing the issue and retirement of national bank notes and legal tender notes under tbe acts of Juno 20, 1874, and January 14, 1875, to August 1, 1876. The amount of national bank circulation retired and suvrendered from January 14, 1875, to August 1, 187G, was ?39,697,990. The amount issued between tho same dates was 815,475,965, showing a decrease of national bank circulation of 824,222,025. The amount of legal tenders deposited fro*n June 20, 1874, including ?3,813,675 on deposit at that date, to August 1,1876, for tho purpose of retiring national bank circulation, was $61,590,141, of whichamount 825,310,346 remained on deposit August ! 1, 1876. The additional circulation issued sirfce January 14, 1875, was 815,475,965, of which amount eighty per cent, in legal tender notes, pr 812,380,772, has beon retired, leaving tho amount of legal tender notes outstanding August 1, 1876, $869,619,228. A Cool Robbery.?One of the coolest and most audacious cases of robbery ever put on record is that of Ira Gladding, of New Britain, who was discharged from the Connecticut State prison recently, after having served a term for horse stealing. He was released in the morning, and on the night of the same day ho climbed the prison walla, broke into the shoe shop, and stolo a pair of boots. Several days after' ward h6 was reoaptured, b mn Ian* gtrinhing in durance vile; r.. The Little Big Horn Battle. A correspondent who was with Colonel Reno in his desperate resistance to tho hostile Indians after their massacre of the gallant Onster, thns vividly tells us of the dangers and hardships of the brave band surrounded by savages, and who were so mercifully delivered from a terrible fate by the commands of Terry and Gibbons: Three o'clock came, and still the battle raged; many had fallen, and every hour added fearfully to the list of killed and wounded. At the present rate of mortality how long would we last ? I made a mental calculation and said about ten hours; but when we became weak in numbers the savages would rush down in a body and finish us at one fell swoop. Oh, it was terrible, terrible; but the end would soon /vimo A IrAftdv the Indians were mass ing in a ravine just in front and preparing in overwhelming numbers for a grand charge. Brave old Benteen saw it and determined not to wait for the onset; he sprung over his feeble breastworks, and calling on his company to follow him, dashed into the ravine. The Indiana were taken completely by surprise and broke, but too late, for Benteen was upon them, and, before they could get away, he had killed ten and wounded as many more. The savages were evidently astonished, and no longer felt safe in the ravines. So far we had fought only on the defensive, and the Indians seemed to regard us as their certain victims. But Benteen's gallant conduct filled us all with a new oourage and evidently alarmed the enemy. The day was hot and we had no water; man? had not tasted a drop of water since the night before, Mid some not for thirty-six hours. The men's tongues were dry and swollen; few could speak plainly, and the wounded begged piteously for a drink of water. The narrow river ran at the foot of the bluffs scarcely two hundred yards distant, but the timber on the opposite side was lined with Indian sharpshooters guarding every drop of the precious fluid. Who could go down the side of that steep hill and come up alive ? Not one. A ravine was found leading down almost to the river, and again Benteen formed for a charge. He said he would make a feint against the hills, pour a few volley8 into the woods below, and, while the Indians were confused, the men must run down the ravine, fill the camp kettles and get back under cover. The strategem succeeded admirably; the Indians no longer trusted to a purely defensive policy on the part of the troops ; and when the men sprung up, shouted and poured in volleys, there was excitement and coniusion in the savage ranks everywhere, and even the men beyond the river thought the soldiers were coming down upon them. Under cover of the smoke and volleys tVia mon trifli lVi? ramn kettles had reached the river and filled them, when the Indians discovered what was going on and rallied. They fired heavily, bnt it was too late ; scores of kettles, containing many gallons of water, were on their way up tho ravine, and an abundant supply for present use had been secured. Two men were killed and six wounded in tills attempt to get water for their famishing comrades; but the loss was considered light compared with the servico rendered. The Indians had taken every precaution to out us off from water, and they no doubt felt greatly discouraged when they found wo had beaten them. The water revived both onr spirits and courage, and the men went at their work with a will. The battle lasted all day, and at night the Indians drew off to their village near by, leaving a strong cordon of pickets about our cump. It was a horrible night, and we lay on onv arms amid the dead and djing. The Indians were holding a grand scalp dance below us, and I could not help thinking, while these infernal fiends were holding their orgies on the plains, perhaps burning the bodies of scores of prisoners they had captured alive, the people at home were quietly filling the churches for evening worship. I need not lengthen out the horrible recital. Suffice it to say that with the dawn of the morning the battle was ushered in again and raged until one o'clock in the afternoon, when the Indians drew off in great haste, and we iJ 411 LUli tLiC/LAj JUV? lu Luaiuitu uum obligations about seventeen millions of dollars. The cui-rency balanco now on hand is $12,590,350, a decrease of about onehalf million as compared with the preceding month, and an increase of over I $8,000,000 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. Tho treasurer's books show that the total amount of legal tenders now held for the redemption of tho notes of national banks, including liquid ating and failed banks, is 825,336,716, of which 8672,000 are gold notes. Dtiring the month there was deposited by national banks to secure circulation 8826,350, in bonds, and there was withdrawn, for circulation surrendered, $2,149,250, which shows a reduction in national bank circulation for tho month of 81,226,610. The total debt of the United States, less cash in the treasury, was, August 1, 82,098,301,311.06. What ails this nation is want of confidence; and it suggests a train of painful reflections to see a mother of a fnnoilv of religious boys so pcrupulously particular in looking the pantry door niter her. , liue vV reiiei wus ui uii-.u. n.u ovcuug we watchcd, but no one came, and we lay down to rest again in doubt. No Indians were about, however, and early the next morning General Gibbons' column was descried coming up the valley. Never was the grasp of brother's hand more welcome in a foreign land than the sight of those blue jackets. General Terry was with General Gibbons, and when he rode into our works many a gallant fellow did not feel ashamed to let his general see tears of heartfelt gratitude rolling down his cheeks for deliverance from a horrible death. United States Treasury. The debt statement of the United States for July shows a reduction in the public debt for the month of $1,138,033, which is about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars less than the reduction for the corresponding month of last year. As compared with the preceeding month the amount of legal tenders outstanding has decreased $152, 1 Ttrirli ftiA enmn riArind UUU, IU1U liuiu^wu >>ivu t last year over live million dollars. The amount of fractional cmrency now outstanding is less than thirty-three million dollais, p. decrease of over one and onehalf millions of dollars daring the month. The decrease in fractional currency sinco July 1, 1875, has. been ?8,000,000. Estimating that S15.000,000 of fractional currency have been lost and destroyed since the date of first issue, thero is now outhtanding in fractional currency not more than eighteen millions of dollars, and that amount is likely to bo redeemed in subsidiary coin within the next four months. The coin balance on hand, after deducting coin certificates, is 830,530,685, a decrojt.se of over fifteen and one-half millions, as compared with the corresponding period of last year. Of tho coiu balance now on hand $5,574,137 are silver coin and 82,505,000 silver bullion, leaving the actual gold balance about thirty-two and one-half millions. ? ?:--.l it.:.. 4.1? ?? Little Jacob Strains. I haf ron funnyjleedle^poy Vot gomes echust to my knee; Dor queerest Bchap, der createst rogue As efer you^did see; He runs, and scbamps, and schmashes dings In all barta off der house? But vot off dot ? bo vas mine ton, Mine leedle Yawcob Strauss. He get der measles and der mam be, Und eferyding dot's oat; He sbills mine glass off lager bier, Poots sohauff into mine kraut; He fills mine pipe mit Limburg scbeeee? Dot vas der roughest choose, Td dake dot vrom no oder.poy Bat leedle YawoobJ8trauss. He dakes der milkban for a dhrum, Und outs mine cane in dwo To make der sohticks to beat it mlt? Mine oraoious ! dot vas drae. I dinks mine head vae sobpiig anat, He kicka crap eooch a touse; Bat nefer mind?dor poya vas few Like dot young Yawcob Strauss. He asks me questions eooch u deeft: Who bainte mine noee bo red ? Who vaa it onto dot sohmoodth place oodt Yrom the hair upon mine hed ? Und There dsr plaze goes vrom der lamp Yene'er der glim I douse? How gan I all dese dings eggsblain To dot echmall Yawcob Strauss ? I eomedimes dink I schall go vild Mith eooch a grazy poy, Und viah vonce more I could haf rest Und beaceful dimes enshoy; Bat yen he vaa aehleep in ped, Bo quiet ae a mouse, I praye der Lord, "take anydings, ? But leaf dot Yawcob Strauss." ?Detroit Free Prest. Items of Interest. What kind of sweetmeats were there in the ark? Preserved pairs. Leisure is sweet to those who have earned it, but burdensome to those who get it for nothing. The chimney sweeps of London have formed an association for the purpose of " elevating the bosiness financially flAAIotlv " auu OVVM?ujr? A man never really understands the doctrine of total depravity till he has worn a pair of white pantaloons to a picnic, and sat down on a plate of custard pie. A treatment for lung and blood diseases, practiced in Milan, Italy, con sists in putting the patient into an apartment containing compressed, medicated air. If a' ladle of molten (pig) metal be poured in a stream on to a chilled cast iron body it will cut a hole in it more rapidly than if poured on a cast iron body that has not been chilled. Lieut. Craycroft, the only surviving member of one of the companies exterminated with Custer, happened to be in Kentucky at the time of the massacre purchasing horses for the regiment A debtor, severely questioned as to the reasoii of not paying a just debt, replied : "Solomon was a very wise man, and Samson a very strong one, but neither of them could pay bis debts - ?.! -* ~?-rr " WltfllUUU UUUUUJ Tlie number of Indian warriors in the hostile country is put down at 27,000, including women, 68,000. Indian population out of Alasfca, 295,000. It is declared that the Sioux and Cheyennea alone have 22,000 warriors. A Concord (N. H.) man found in a white oak tree, near the heart, a wisp of hair twenty-seven inches long, which had evidently come from a woman's head. The growth of the wood over the hair indicated thirty-five years. "Did she not return your love?" inquired a sympathizing friend of a young man who intimated that he had had some difficulty with his sweetheart. " Yes, she returned it, and that is exactly what the trouble is. She said she didn't want it." Hermann, the magician, was naturalized in Boston the other day. While taking out his papers he pleaded poverty ami then drew out a 85 note from j ? the city clerk's vest and presented it in payment of his fee, mnch to that officer's amazement. A subterranean forest bed has been discovered in London, consisting of peat, with trunks of trees, most of them standing. All are of species still found in Britain, the oak, alder and willow being abundant. In the peat are found' bones of the great fossil ox. Only a woman's hair I Who has not some time in his life picked such a golden thread from his best coat collar and fait his heartbeat quicker for it? Or gazed upon a tress laid away in some nook and not felt the influence of tender memories ? Only a woman's hair! And yet wo rlo not like it in the butter. A mother of four children in New Orleans has been convicted of regularly sending them out to steal. By practice they became very expert, and the profit of their thieving enabled the woman.to buy a honHH au.l live comfortably. She devoted herself to the sale of the stolen articles and the general direction of the children. A good story is told of Spurgeon. His habit is Jo shut himself up on Saturdays. One Saturday a man called and insisted on seeing him. " Tell him," said the visitor to the servant, "that a fiervant of the Lord wishes to see him." The message was delivered, and tie Allowing returned: "Tell him that L am engaged with his Master." A young clergyman, modest almost to bashfnlness, was once asked by a country apothecary, of a contrary character, in a public and crowded assembly, and in a tone of voice sufficient to catch the attention of the whole company: " How happened it that the patriarchs lived to such extreme old age?" To which question the clergyman replied: " Perhaps ; they took no physic." . V ???? mof 0? T)fifcroit A lUlCUlgHIl pitpui Ciijro V - man has a piece of bark from a tree that grew on the farm of an uncle whose grandfather's brother-in-law started with Gen. Jackson to the battle of New Orleans, but was detained by an attack of cholera morbus, and h6 would send that to tho Centennial Exposition if he had any adequate assurance that ho would ever get it back again. Behm ?fe Wagner, in their annual review of the population of the globe, state that Europe has an area of 2,700,000 square miles, and a population of 303,000,000. Asia, 13,000,000 square miles; population, 799,000,000. Africa, 8,700,000 square miles; population, 206,000,000. America, 12,000,000 squate miles; copulation, 84,000,000. Australia and Polynesia, 2,500, COO square miles; population, 4,500,000. He complained that life was a failure, that there was nothing now under tbe sun ; that he had found out the coldness and hollowness of friends-hip, and lhat no sensation could arouse l ici m i*, the apathy that was steeping Li* soul in torpor, when a man tossing pi-cknges of brown paper from a w:<r<h< ;i.so wagon smote him on the pi* of fclie stomach. and gave him a sensation which knocked the wind and the non*en?e out of H;m at oqg and the mbm time: ^ ^