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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Domestic Recipe*. Gumbo.?Prepare fresh okra pods and ripe tomatoes in equal parts by measure; oook till soft; strain through a co'ander; add butter, pepper and salt; servo with slices of nico toasted bread. Cherry Jam.?To every pound of I stoned cherries add half a pound of sugar and a gil I of red currant juice, j Boil the whole together until it stiffens, j then put iu jars; cover with egg paper when cold. To Can Haspheruies.?Fill the can full 01 tho berries, set them in a boiler of cold water, and bring the water to i the boiling point. As tlie berries set- i tie, add more till the juice reaches the j top of the can, then seal. In this way j tho syrup is undiluted with water. Or ' put the berries in a stewpan with a little water, let thorn boil four or five minutes, ; .lip iuto cans and seal vp. Cauliflower Pickle.?Select the ! closest and whitest flowers, pull them j iu bunches, spread them on earthen ! dishes, sprinkle salt on them; in three ! days put them in eartheu jars, pour ! scalding salt water on them; let them j stand six or eight hours, drain them ! carefully; then put them in glass cans, ' cover with vinegar and seal up tightly. Elder flowers and luids add a very high i flavor to pickle and horseradish. Either ! the leaves or the root will keep pickles : from molding. Dried Raspberries. ?TheSe are among j fclie choicest of our dried fruits, and may I bo prepared with comparatively little | trouble. Pick them over carefully, spread them on earthen plates, cover j with netting to keep insects away, and dry in the sun. Those who have hot-bed sashes may place clean boards under the sashes and on tho boards put tho berries. In this position they dry rapidly. In localities where raspberries abound, drying them may bo macle quite profitable, as they bring at wholesale from twenty-five to thirty-five cents a pound, and at retail from five to talents more. w neu ary, tney may uo pnt in paper bags, tied tightly, and kept in a room clean, oool and dry. ToCi^anIbon Kettles.?Tho taste of iron which is communicated to food cooked in new iron vessels may be prevented by following the subjoined directions. Fill the vessel with dry hay, pour over it boiling water until it is full, and let it boil all duy, then empty the vessel and grease it thoroughly with clean fresh drippings of fresh lard; repeat tho process until no more grease is absorbed, then wash it clean and use it two or three times for cooking fat meats. By tliat time anything can be cooked in it without being tinctured with the extract of iron. A New Wat to Prepare Currant : Jkllt.?A recipe lor making superior ;1 jelly without heat is given in a Parisian j journal of chemistry, wliich may be worth trying by some of our readers. , The currants are ro bo washed and < squeezed in tho usual way, and the \ juice placed in a stone or earthen vessel, ami set away in a cool place in tho cellar. In about twenty-four hours a j considerable amount of froth will cover l the surface, produced by fermentation, and this must be removed, and the whole strained again through the jelly bag^ then weighed, and an equal weight powdered white sugar is to be a&Jed. This is to be stirred constantly until en- | tirely dissolved, and then put into jars, tied up tightly, and set away. At the end of another twenty-four hours a perfectly transparent jelly of the most satisfactory flavor will bo formed, which will keep as long as if it had been cooked. To Dkess Haw Tomatoes.?Few persons take the little trouble it requires to make this common dish palatable. In the first place, carefully remove the peelings, either after scalding the fruit, or with a knife if time does not allow of their becoming ueifectly cold before being used. Only perfectly ripe tomafr*r*Q cVinnlrl laafon tcivct i thin, and sprinkle generously with salt, I more sparingly with black pepper, and ! to a difh holding one quart add a light I tablespoonful of sugar to give a piquant ] zest tc the whole. Ijastly add a gill of j best cider vintyar ; although, if you would have a dish yet better suited to please an epicurean palate, you may add a teaspoonful of made mustard and two I ' tablespoonfuls of rich sweet cream. Watermelon Rind Preserve.?Pare i off the outside green rind, and lay is in cold water for four hours; then change the water, and put it on to boil. There should bo enough of this fresh water to cover the fruit well. As soon as it has boiled five minutes, take it off, and put the rind in ginger tea, where it must remain all night. The next morning put it on in fresh ginger tea, and let it boil until you can run a straw through the pieces. Take the rind out of the tea and cut it into small pieces an inch or two in length. Add the juice and rind of four, lemons, and some sliced white race ginger for "one large melon. Put one pound of sugar to one pound of fruit, and boil them together for one t mi . i ? * i * ? iiour. xne lemon peei snouia De cut ' thin, and boilod with the rind in ginger 1 tea. Carefully remove the seeds from the slices of lemon, lest a bitter taste bo 1 imparted to the preserve. 1 (loentlonii and Answers. Is smoke any protection against frost ? According to the experience of several of the members, yes. Somo months ago Dr. Sylvester, of Lyons, Wayne county, N. Y., told the American farmers' club how he saved the fruit of a valuable orchard by keewing smoldering fires ne ?r the trees. In France and Germany the production of clouds of smoke is a common appliance against frost. A plan recommended and said to be perfectly successful, which has gone the rounds in various scicntific journals, oonsists in mixing gas tar, sawdust and old straw, and pi line: up this mixture in large heaps in tho vineyards or orchards to be protected. This mixture remains inflammable in spite of all kinds of weather for more than a fortnight. When desired lor use small heaps are made from these large ones, say abont two feet in diameter, and distributed in and aronnd the orchard. Once lighted they burn several hours, producing a dense smoke. The clond thus raised about tho vines or trees considerably decreases the radiation from tho ground, and therefore prevents frost, which is most liable toward morning during tho spring nights, when it does its greatest harm to the swelling buds. How prevent earthworms from entering plant and flowerpot:. ? Place a piece of perforated metal over the holes beneath the drainage material used. To kill them, water as hot as can be endured by tho hand is advised; it kills them at once and does not injure the roots of the plants. Indeed, the use of -water quite warm to the hand for plants is fast coming to be a common practice. The contents of tho teapot are al30 efficacious in plant growth. What will clear house plants from lioe ? A few drops of carbolic acid in a pint of water. Which is the simplest method of removing warts from oows' teats ? Mix three-quarters of an ounce of nitric acid, one-quarter of an ounce of muriatic acid and one scruple of ammonia together; apply it by dropping it from a sharp stick, one drop at a time, on each warfc nutil enough has dropped on to penetrate them. When selecting fowls for eggs alone, what rules are given ? Whon buying fowls for producing eggs only, choose when you can, of course, the non-setters; but if you must use the oommon fowls, select those of medium size, with dark colored beaks, clean, close feathers, and bright red combs. Avoid all fowls having light, yellow bills, paleness about the eyes, and ruffled necks, that walk about in a clumsy, jerky fashion, as they will almost invariably prove sickly, and will lay hardly egga enough to pay for their keeping. '^Avoid also an extra large fowl, and an " ' uncommonly small one. Fowls with darkish beaks are usually good layers, because they are always healthy. Fruit Garden. Pinch dwarf trees info shape and thin J out the fruit when it is too thick. Raspberries that have done bearing i should have the old fruiting canes cut < out and burned; leave but three or four of the new canes, which should be cut back at the height erf four or five feet, and the laterals to eighteen inches. If more blackberries are raised than cau bo used in the family, or sold, a supply should be dried for winter. Never pluck until fully ripe, as some varieties turn black long before they are fit to eat. If the grape canes have been properly J tied up and pinched back, they will not require much attention now except a little pinching off of the laterals and the ends of the growing canes. If mildew makes its appearance, dust the vines with sulphur. Hand pick caterpillars and ot her insects. If fine bunches are desired for exhibition, remove all imperfect berries and thin the others with a pair of a sharp-pointed scissors. Young vines should be kept tied to stakes or trellises, and all surplus shoots removed. Set out new strawberry beds with runners that liavo been struck in pots, and keep the old beds clear of weeds, Where young plants are not needed, cut the runners as often as necessary.?Agriculturist. Coincidences of the Present and Former Presidential Campaigns. The Republican candidate for President, Gen. Hayes, and the present President, Gen Grant, are both natives of the same State, Ohio. The last two Presidents, Mr. Lincoln and Gen. Grant, both hailed from tbe same State, Illinois, at the time of their election; and wo came near having a third Republican candidate, Mr. Washburne, not only from the same State with Gen. Grant, but from the same towu, Galona. Mr. Conklin, a leading Republican candidate for tho nomination, and Mr. Seymour, a leading Democratic candidate . ? !it for his own peremptory declination, are both residents of Utica, N. Y., and are brothers-in-law. The four latest Democratic nominees, ~ 1? ?.1 rivi JVicUiellan, aeymour, ureeiuy mm j.udeu, have all liailed from New York. In early times wo had threo successive President??Jefferson, Madison and Monroe?from the same State, Virginia, from which another President, Wash' ington, had previously been taken. Of the first six Presidents, four weie from Virginia, and two?tho Adamses, father and son?from Massachusetts. The old and great State of New York has never had but one President?Martin Van Buren?and that one only for a single term. We mean only one President elected to the office; for, although Fillmore served as President, he was only elected Vice-President. Seven Presidents?Washington, Jefferson. Madison. Monroe. Harrison, Tyler and Taylor?were natives of Virginia. Tennessee has given ns three Presidents, two of them Andrew J's.?thongh one of these, Andrew Jackson, was a native of North Carolina. Peoplo differ entirely in opinion as to which State the next Presideut will hail from; but wo venture to predict it will bo either from Ohio or New York.? New York Ledger. The Tortures of a Turtle. A big, green sea turtle splashed impatiently in the narrow limits of a large oox in front of an eating bouse. One 3ye rested reflectively on a sign which innounced that the turtle which to-day s, to-morrow is cut up and cast into the sot, while the other was closed as if in neditation. The turtle sighed, and a reporter leaned over the box and gently inquired : " Why that sigh ? Is it that you are :hinking of the dark blue sea from whence you have been ruthlessly torn ? [s it that you grieve for an absent turtle naiden, whose eyes had learned to light ip with the tiro of love at the souuq of four gentle jaws as they clashed in greeting, or over whoso chcek the soft rosy slush of affection came at the tender irfiKsnrfi of vour fins?" "Ah !" replies the turtle, " you will never know the anguish thut lends this josom. If thou wouldst list, I could ;ell thee a tale thnt would make thy aeart bleed, of a family proud and dis;inguished, fur noblo blood courses in ;heir veins, but 1 will not. I would jnly have you know that my very shell jreeps at the thought of the existence I javo led for twenty years?to think that [, a well meaning turtle, should be forced into the life of a ' bunko steer3r.'" "What mean you ?" said the reporter. "Bend lower, while I whisper," said ;he turtle, in an excited voice; "they aever cook me. Know that for twenty pears I liavo done duty at this place, a few davs to be stared at by little boys md gloated over by gourmands, anticipating a rare meal from my flesh, and then to be put in the cellar for a few .lay8 while the public eats soup made from veal and liver. I cannot stand this life long. It is bringing me in sorrow to the grave." Here the turtle dashed a tear from his eye with his left fin, silently swallowed a fly, and retired into his shell to mourn alone. Milk Poisoning in England. At a meeting of the sanitary board of St. Pan eras, Dr. Thomas Stevenson, medical officer of health, made some disclosures which have come under his notice in reference to the London milk supply, arising out of-threo cases of enteric fever, which had been reported as having occurred in well appointed houses in tho Regent's park. One circumstance was common to the whole of these houses?namely, that the milk supply was from the same source, and the mother of one of tho patients had complained that the milk was " dirty." He at once communicated with the milk vender, who declared that he had taken every care with his utensils and otherwise to prevent such a thing happening. Having stated that he had the milk direot from a country farm, Dr. Stevenson wrote to the medical officer of the district in which the farm is situated, and had received a reply to the effeot that a more likely place for mischief to proceed from it was difficult to imagine. Until the last few days the cows on the farm had had access to a pond containing crude sewage, a culvert opening directly into it. The house of the farm was skirted with a sewago pit. There was also a shallow fifteen-feet surface well, containing only a few inches of filthy water, and 4rom either of these sources camo the water supply. The dairy of this "farm," so called, was simply an offset from the scullery of the house, badly ventilated. The farmer admitted that lib not only supplied tho vender who had the milk walk in Regent's park in question, but the medical officer had ascertained that he also supplied one of the largest refreshment contractors in London. The members of the sanitary board thanked Dr. Stevenson for his valuable report, which they considered of the highest importance. It was resolved to request the medical officer of health to further continue bis investigations and report again at tho next meeting. A Forgery Test. When light is passed through a liquid and then through a spectromicroscope certain bands of colors are absorbed, and by the comparison of solutions of known substances it is found that the particular position on the spectrum where the absorption takes place is constant for the same substanoe. In this way it is possible to say that human blood is contained in a liquid; also to point out colored inks, such as Prussian blue, carmine, aniline, etc. An application of these principles was recently made in court by Dr. Van dtr Weyde, in a case of counterfeiting a signature. The defense claimed that the certitioation was a forgery, and that the ink was not the same as that employed in the bank. Dr. Van der Weyde'a tests, however, showed that the ink of the genuine writing and that of the alleged forged signature gave ?. iactly the same absorption spcctrum, hence the conclusions that in both instances the same ink was used. It remains to be seen what faith will be put by the court in the accuracy of this scientific test. HERDING ON THE PLAINS. A Greenhorn In the Saddle of aCnllfornln Broncho?The Annual Rounding Up nnd (tramline of Cnltle. The grazing facilities of Colorado, which are not interrupted tho year round, even during the mo t severely intense cohls of the winter, bring into pleasing prominence at this particular season the system of annual 14 roundups," which bring such joy into the cow boys' and herders' hearts, and which are the Longchamps of the prairies for the stock growers' and the ranchmen's bronchos; for then they nerve themselves for miles oil miles of swift ruling and dexterous ourvetting, and their only alternative is to answor with unfailing readiness every plunge of the spur and every check or turn of the rein. This whole Territory seems to be one vast pasture field for tho hundreds of thousands of cattlo that are owned and raised here. Good succulent hay, thick meadow, and huge tufts of buffalo grass are everywhero to be found, even beneath the snows, and upon these the cattle, liorBes, sheep, etc., subeist bountifully ; in consequence no winter provender is provided, and stock is allowed to roam at will during the year, eating whatever congenial food the fields afford, drinking at tho creeks, springs and rivers, and finding shelter in tho ravines or valleys of the rolling prairies. Often a fierce storm sweeps thousand* of head before it away to the Arkansas river on the south, or the Platto on the north, and not infrequently one man's herd will be found divided into portions one hundred miles apart. This renders it necessary that, in order to ascertain tli? increase, and for the DurDOse of branding calves, there should be an annual round-up of the cattle in each division or district, and a subsequent division of the same to the various owners. I was much pleased tho othor day, says a correspondent, when Messrs. Iliff ard Hittson, the cattle kings of tho West, invited me to attend one of the annual " round-ups " of their stock. The cattle kings havo their headquarters at Deer 'frail, about fifty miles east of Denver, on tho Kansas Pacific road. There are immense corrals for the cattle, attended by 200 laborers. A mile or two below the settlement, in a beautiful little valley, the cattle were to be collected, aud 200 or more hardy riders started over the prairies in all directions. Our party went on a lope to the springs and creeks to the south. The cattle could be seen everywhere on the hills and in the lowlands in herds of from fifty to five hundred, and tliey invariably broke and run at our approach. Then follows a spurt of speed that would rattle anybody but a cowboy to death in his saddle. Up the sides of the rolling hills and down the other; helter-skelter onvncQ flm infnrraninff nrniria lanr^o tiatt UV/1UOO tuu 1UUUI ? VUiUg JkrA.M4-l.AW *t?UUU y Aiv n and then dashing across the dried bed of a creek, or tearing up the precipitous wall of an abrupt gulch; frequently in imminent dangor of going over your broncho's head when he stumbles into a prairie dog's hole; stopping your animal at full speed, wheeling like a flash of lightning, and hurrying back to your former tracks; dodging here and there, with head bent down to the pony's flying main; twisting and turning as the running herd twists and turns. Such is the excitement of rounding cattle on the vast Western prairies. Utterly disregardless of tho danger to life and limb in this reckless horsemanship, with his sombrero brim flapping in the wind, and his short whip constantly cracking; and a wild halloo upon his lips, tho cowboy seems to enjoy this sort of thing, and can sit down to his meals after this hard riding with the same ease and unconcern aB though he hadn't seen a saddle that day. We rounded about 1,000 head tho first day, and having Btaked our ponies, reposed on the grass for tho night. Before midnight a heavy storm arose. My companions were to their feet almost on the instant of the fall of the first rain drop, and into the saddle without a moment's delay. The cattle were surrounded, V\m ^ 4-/-v nrt r? r>n 11 \ Kf Vi All ti'i n l\l ottt * uui It\j uv axui. M u^u tuu ?iuu as it can blow only on the plains, the cattle were away before it to the south on a thundering gallop. Every man broke for the front to head the herd off, but on they swept. The darkuess was terrible, and nothing could bo seen but the dark, moving mass of cattle, and nothing heard but the dismal clatter of their hard hoofs on the sand. The lightning flashes but faintly revealed them through the falling torrents of the rain; and when it did-, it was only to view the bent heads and straight backs of the flying creatures. Tho herd had stampeded, and on tho following morning a now " round up " was found necessary. Five days sufficed to gather all tho cattle, and tho selection of each man's property was beguu. This is colled " cutting," and it requires great skill in the managcmeut of tho horse or pony you are riding. The cowboy rides into the inclosuro and cuts off the animal, which he instantly recognizes from the main herd, and repeats this process until he has secured all of his master's property. Then it ie driven home, and the calves branded. The cattle are again turned loose to subsist on whatever nature provides for them. The pleasures of tho " round-up," with its night herding and camp life, are unsurpassed, and for a genuine sarnplo of roughing it in its most inviting phases are unsurpassable. A.11 classes and grades of men are huddled together hero, and the characteristics of Western me are Drougnt into almost oorrusive prominence, and invariably make a favorable impression upon the visitor. How the Story was Told. A Dresden correspondent narrates, with unmistakable feminine zest, that there was an " audience of one hundred and twenty spectators," many of whom were ladies, at a case of cremation there. Two bodies were burned for their delectation. The iron doors swung open, the corpses were slid in, and then, through a thick glass door, "the audience of spectators " silently watched tho process of incineration. "The play of flames over the bodies" gave rise to some little murmurs of applause, but when the dark masses, like burnt roast beef, were succeeded by masses of brownish coals through which the white ribs and shulls showed grimly, a breathless silence of admiration held them all. Then the tamping was knocked out of the doors and the ashes collected and passed round the audience on a salver for inspection, the ladies examining it minutely with more than one sense. The lady who writes this adds at the bottom of her letter that sho forgot to say that the bodies were those of a Newfounland dog and a cut. They, however, represented human bodies, and she says, with a genuine sigh, "but the experiment was as satisfactory as if they had been 1 humans.'" Ingratitude. Says the Danbury News: The morn j ing was clear and beautiful. The wift went to church. During the service tho sky filled with swift tumbling clouds, and the rain began to fall. He was in a barber shop at this juncture. He run home with the rain descending upon his exposed frame, got her waterproof and an umbrella, and hurried to tho church. He was ail out of breath and tho clouds were all out of water when he got there. She was coming down tho front steps when she observed him standing before the building with tho stormproof paraphernalia hugged in his arms. As sho j reached him buo observed : " Oh, you're very good to bring these thiDgB, now that it's cleared off; if it hail b'een raining pitchforks you wouldn't have I made your appearance." Imagination. Tho other day a man look homo a j book containing several anecdotes show-1 ing the power of imagination, and after reading them to his wife ho tenderly said : "Now, Angelina, von may imagine that you hear mo kissing M:ulalina in the other room, and you wo how wicked it wonld be to accuse uio of such a thing." "Julius John," :>ho replied, in a smooth voice, "if ever I imagine such a thing you'll- need a doctor within 1 "'een minutes, and I'll send for him, n j matfter what the book says." WORK OF A SESSION. The Work of CoD^rc**---Lint of More Important Bills Panged. Daring ihe last session of the United States Congress there were introduced in the House of Representatives 4,105 bills and lG-i joint resolutions and in the Senate 1,045 bills and twenty-fire joint resolutions, making a total of 5,150 bills and 189 joint resolutions. Of this number about 140 public acts, 130 private acts, and thirteen joint resolutions and iivo private resolutions have becone laws, including the following : An (in.t nrnvirlintr Hi* /1n/?ln'w>4-i/vn of intention to become a citizen of the United States may be made by an alien before the clerk of a United States court, and making all such declarations heretofore made before such clerk legal. Extending until the twenty-third of June, 1877, the provisions of the act for stamping of unstamped instruments, documents or papers. To enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government. Making appropriations for the pay-1 ment of invalid and other pensions for the year ending with June, 1876. Providing that no person shall be prosecuted, tried or punished for any offense not capital, except unless the indictment is found or the information is instituted within three years after such offense shall have been committed. Providing for the separate entry of packages contained in one importation. Confirming pre emption and homestead entries of public lands within the limits of railroad grants, in cases where such entries have been made under regulations of the land office. Extending the time to pre-emptors on public lands. Defining the tax on fermented or malt liquors. Providing that in cases of extradition in every case of complaint and of a hearing upon the return of a warrant of arrest, any depositions, warrants or other papers offered in evidence shall be admitted and received for the purpose of such hearing, if they shall be properly and legally authenticated so as to entitle them to be received as evidence of the criminality of the person so apprehendod by tribunals of a foreign country from which the accused party shall have escaped, and copies of any such depositions, warrants or other papers, shall, if authenticated according to the laws of such foreign country, be in like manner received as evidence, and the certificate of the principal diplomatic or consular officer of the United States, resident in such foreign country, shall be proof that any such deposition, warrant or other paper or copy thereof is authenticated in the manner required by tbis section. Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense. Authorizing the appointment of receivers of national banks. To reduce the number and increase the efficacy of the medical corps of the army. Providing for the redemption of unused stamps. Exempting vessels engaged in navigating the Mississippi river and its tributaries about the port of New Orleans from entries and clearances. Arnflndino' Rfinfcinnn 3.893 nnrl 3 nf the revised statutes, providing a penalty for mailing obscene books and other matters therein contained and prohiDiting lottery circulars passing through the mails. Providing for an expenditure of $200,000 for the completion of the Washington monument. Providing that no voluntary assignment by a debtor or debtors of all his or their property, heretofore or hereafter made in good faith for the benefit of all of his or their creditors, ratably and without creating any preference, and valid according to the law of the State whero made, shall of itself, in the event of his or their being subsequently adjudicated bankrupts in a proceeding of involuntary bankruptcy, be a bar to the discharge of such d 2btor or debtors. At any time after lue expiration of six months from the adjudication of bankrnptcy, or if no debts have beeu passed against the bankrupt, or if no assets have come to the hands of the assignee at any time after the expiration of sixty days an J before the fiual disposition of the oause, the bankrupt may apply to the court for a discharge from his debts. This section shall apply in all cases heretofore or hereafter commenced. Extending the duration of the court nf />r?m'minQir*nf>rn of AlftHnma nlaima f.r> tho first of January next. Appropriating 8200,000 for tho construction of military posta at certain points on the Yellowstone and Musselshell rivers. Removing tho political disabilities of General G. T. Beauregard, of New Orleans. Authorizing the secretary of the. treasury to issue silver coin to au amount not exceeding $10,000,000 in exchange for un equal amount of legal tender notes, aud declaring that tho trade dollar shall not hereafter be a legal tender, etc. Providing for tho restoration of tho original writing of the Declaration of Independence. Prohibiting supplies of special metallic cartridges to horstile Indians. Appropriating about $130,000 to pay tho claims adjudged by the Southern claims commission in favor of loyal citizens whose property was taken from tl>?m rlnrinrr fViA lot.A xenr fnr milifarv US08. Authorizing the employment of one hundred Indian scouts in the army. Providing for the printing and distribution of the reports of the commissioner of agriculture for the years 1874 and 1875. An act for extending the time for the redemption of lands hold by the United States under several acts levying direct taxes, and for other purposes. He Thought it was a Tnnnel, A young couple boarded the north bound Kentucky express. It was at once observed by the passengers that they wore "some spoons." The young man, woo ortnTioinfnrl vrn4*V* ovxu^umj) nvv[uniuiiou muu vuoivhU) for as tho train approached the tunnel about ten miles back of Covington he prepared for business. Just before the road reaches the tunnel, however, it passes through a short, dork bridgo. As tho train shot into the bridgo the young man, not to miss an^inch more of the supposed tunnel opportunity than he could help, tliTow his arms around the girl's waist and proceeded to spread his mouth all ovor hers. Just as he got properly adjusted, had secured a moderate suction power about the girl's sweet mouth and was tightening his grip around her shoulders till the bones fairly snapped, the train as suddenly whizzed into daylight as the moment before it rumbled into darkness. Tho young man dropped tho girl as if she wero poison. To aggravate the matter still more, after they did got into tho tunnel some ono in the immediate vicinity touched up a green light and nipped another embrace just about half way up. People who can't repress their freshness ought to liiro a stall. A Fight iii the Black Hills. The following is an extract from a letter received by Mr. A. Calder, of Seaforth, from Mr. A. B. Campbell: About the first of Juno I started for the Black Hills, but did not get there, an you will see by the papers, and there is a poor chance of going there now. Wo were attacked by the Sioux, and our party were about one-third killed. Your humble Bervant had the pleasure of a bullet through the leg and another in the side, with a hatchet cut on the shoulder, ft was terriblo for about ten minutes. On the first rush we lost our mules and wagons, and eight men out of nineteen. I began to think my time had come. I am now about h( aled of my wounds, and entirely ho of the Black Ilills fever. The party attacking us were between fifty and one hundred. After we left our mules we kept behind trees and rocks, and had a chauce to revengo a little. I havo suffered fearfully with the side wound, but the others were not very bad. I will bo able to be about again in a month or so, although I have to lay pretty low now. Wo were within forty miles of Custer City. I am now on tho line between MinneGota and Dakota, and expect to stay a wuile. SUMMARf OF NEWS. IatarefCloa ltea>? from Hone ud Abroad. Gen. Boisrond Canal was elected president of itfayti, and bis inauguration was celebrated by the people with great joy Hallett Kilbourn haa entered Buit against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the serjeantat-arms of tho House, and the members of the real estate pool committee, claiming $150,000 damages, for injuries sustained by reason of false imprisonment without cause Tho unemployed workingmen of New York city held a mass meeting at whioh they denounced the city officials for not furnishing them with work when it is within their power to do so. The broken Mechanics' and Traders' savings bank of New York is believod to havo been robbed of 3100,000 by W. H. K. Bennett, an assistant cashier .... . The last day of the boating regatta at Saratoga drow together an immense throng. The firat event waa the aenior single acull race contested by Yates, of the Union Springs, Ackorman, of the Atalautaa, Kennedy, of Yalo, and Riley, of the Neptunes. Riloy won in 13.21J, Kennedy Becond, in 13.37?being exceedingly faBt time. Tho foar-oarod race, on which 80 much interest waa centered, drew out tho 8ho-waecae-mettes, of Monroe, Mich.; Argonautas, of Bergen Point, N. J., Boaverwycks, of Albany, NorthwoBterns, of Illinois, and tho Atalantaa, of New York?the crack clubs of the country. The Northworttoma won in 18.04%, the Michigan crow second, and the Atalantaa third A son of Timothy Donovan wont down a woll at Greonburgh, Westchester county, N. Y., to investigate it, when he waa overcome by foul air and fell lifeless to the bottom. The father went to his rescue, but also became asphyxiated by the gas. Cornelius Donovan then attempted to got out the bodies of his brother and nephew, but foil a third victim to the deadly gas. The bodiea wore recovered by grappling irons. The Republicans of Arkansas havo nominated Joseph Brooks for govornor. The party now has two oandidatos in the field?all efforts to harmonize the faotions having proved unavailing Gov. Porter was nominated by th3 Democracy of Tennessee. The platform adopted indorses the St. Louis deolaration, and calls for rigid economy and opposes any increase of taxation, in view of the shrinkage of values aDd goneral impoverishment Stock is being subscribed for in Paris to build a new oable between Now York and that city. At a sale of shorthorn cattlo near Paris, Ky., tho famous bull Fourteenth Duko of Thorndale was sold for $17,900 Tho following nominations for Congress aro announced: Third California district, Bop., Horace Davis; second district, fl. F. Pago. Third Vermont, Bep., George W. Hondoll. Fourth Maine, Dem., J. H. Donworth. Third Virginia, Dem., John B. Kenna. Fifth Maine, Dem., W. H. McClellan. First Vermont, Bep., A. P. Ohilda. Third Ohio, Dom., John 8. Savage. Eighth Ohio, Dem , George Arthur. Fifteenth Ohio, Dem., William W. Poston. The Rochester free-to-i?ll race was contested by Smuggler, Lucille Qoldduat, Fullerton and Bodine, and was witnossod by twelve thousand people. Smuggler won in tl.reo straight heats in 2.15%, 2.18 and 2.19^; Lucille taking second money. President Qrant has addressed a message to Congross asking for authority to incroaee the present cavalry foroe or to call out five thousand volunteers to aid in the Indian war Grasshoppers are appearing in large number* in Nebraska Congressional nominations: Alabama, seventh district, Dem., W. H. Forney ; Missouri, thirteenth, Dem., A. H. Euckuer; Arkansas, eecond, Hop., J. A. Williams, and Samuol Murphy in the fouri-h ; Michigan, eighth, Dem., Fred. H. Potter Jenkins Showeli, colored, was hanged in the presence of an immense throng, at Snow Hill, Md., for rape committed on a white and a colorcd woman ....Another insurrection in San Domingo is reported....The 2.2C race at Rochester, N. Y., had oleven horses start. Great Eastern, a comparatively now horse, won in throe straight heats, in 2.19, 2.21 and 2.21%. The New York yacht Madeleine defeated the fianadian Yacht Countoss of Dufferiu bv ten minutes in the first contost for the Quoen's cap Mr. Disraoli is to be made Earl of Boaconfie'.d There will be held iu the Pomological building on the Centennial grounds the following exhibitions of agricultural products : From September 4 to September 9 a display of peaches ; from September 11 to September 17, Northern pomological products ; September 19 to Septomber 23, autumn vegetables; Soptember 25 to 8optember 30, cereals; October 2 to October 7, potatoes and feeding roots; October 17 to Ootober 21, autumn butter and cheese; October 23 to November 1, nuts ; and from October 21 to Novomber 1, autumn honey and wax Mrs. Frar.kP.owinan, of Rochester, N. Y., was killed by Victor Smith, who boarded with lior, during a quarrel. Smith then committed suicide by blowing out hia brains. By the breaking of a coupling, an oil train on the Jerssy Central railroad was separated near sm?1 r?n hninrr nin inf.n hv an ftnmnA in the rear, the oil was sot on firo and $76,000 damage inflicted Cuban insurgents fired Fort Jaquea, in the district of Cienfuogoa, and the Spanish garrison of fourteen men was bnrned to death A waterspout near Lynchburg, Va., made a gap in the roadbed of the tho Virginia Midland ninety fett broad and fifty feet deep, into ^Lich a freight train was precipitatod, and the engineer and a brakeman killed The dory Centennial, in which a man u:iilod from Misaaohuaetta for Europe, ha* put into a harbor in Walea for provisions. O'Loary, the pedeatrain, walked five hundred milea in six days in Now York, haying half an hour to Bpare The yacht Madeleine having been ancceaBful in a race with the Countea8 of Dufferin, the Queen'a cupromaina n American handa for another season. The old champion yaoht America accompanied the contestanta over the courao, and aucceeded in beating the Counteat' time by nineteen minutes Sixteen thousand government troops have been dofeated in Mexico by the liiBurguuio n. oampiu uaou ui juwuiry, valued at $20,000, loft by the drummer of a Philadelphia house in Hayne'a hotel, Springfield, Mass., was stolen by thieves. The Servians captured the Turkish town of Brisanski Insurrection is broaking out all over tho Columbian province, Cantrai America The wife of P. 8. Osborn, of Palmyra, Me., while insano, drowned horeolf and daughter, Eeven yoars old, ia a pond A French chapel at Ning-Koce-JFoo, China,was reoently attacked by n&tivoa during mass, and the priest and aoveral of the congregation were killod Jamea Boyd, Democrat, has boon nominated for Co:i^rosa in tho Pennsylvania seventh district Tho engineers of the Mississippi improvement annoance that they now have a navigable channel with twenty-one feet of water A shooting affray, growing out of political troublea, occurred at Bell's station, Tenn., in which one man was Villod and nine wounded. During an altercation between Patrick Monahau and hia stepson, Jamos Malheam, aged seventeen yeara, in Now York, tho boy fatally Btabbed tho old man A niue-year-old daughter of a man n -.med Bower was foully murdered and outraged by somo unknown party near Hempstead, L. I. Her remains were fouud in a pieco of woods, and showed signs of a tenilie struggle for life Rev. Edward P. Jinith, president of Howard university and ex-commifccioner of lndiau affairs, diod on the Guinea coast of Africa in Juno Tho New Jeriov rubber works at New Brans wick, N. J., were burned, causing a Iosb of 5350,000, aud throwing three hundred porsona out of work. rou fY-FOURTH CONWRliSS. Ti-.o Hutluri* cf (lieucl-ul Interest Trat.nAOted 8i.katz. The Sonato took up the Lill eetablielung poat routes throughout tlio country. Mr. Hamlin ollored an amendment appropriating ?150,003 out of any monoy in iho treaaury arising from the revenues* of tie Poat-ollicc department for the tinc.il year ending June 30, 1877, in addition to tlio auni s])propriatcd for iliiuuu ocuuo *.?jr lauiwnu, {huvjuuu luau tu*j poctiTiiiBtor-ginoi al ahull only apply this anm. . as) far ais it is possible to do eo, to tho fast mail trains on tl;o New York Central and Hudson River railroad, aud L ko Hlioro and Michigan Sontliern railroads betwooa New York and Chicago, and over t!io Pennsylvania railrond and its connections between Now York ?nd St. LouiM, Now Yoik and Chicago, aud New York aud Cincinnati. Mr. Paddock (Rep.), of Nebraska, suboiittrd an amendment a* ?n additional section to the bill, to restore tho franking privilege, roported by him froiu tho committee on post-offices and post roads on tho twenty-fifth of May last. [It provides that it ehall be lawful to transmit through the mail, free of postage, letters, paokages, or other matter relating exclusively to the business of the government of the United States; and also that senators, representatives and delegates in Congress, the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives may send and receive through the mail, free of postago, letters and documents.] The amendment of Mr. Paddock restoring the privilege was agreed to?yeas, 80 ; nays, 15?aa follows [Republicans in roman, Democrats in italics, and Independents in small caps] : Yeas?Allieon. Burnside,ChriBtiancy, Cooper, Oragin, Davis, Dawes, Dennis, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Gordon, Harvey, Howe, Ingalls, Kelly, Key, Maxey, Merrinion, Mitohell, Norwood, Paddock, Patterson, Randolph, Ransom, Saulslmry, Spencer, Stevenson, Wallace, Wost, Withers?30. Nays?Anthony, Bogy, Booth, Camoron (Wis,), Clayton, Cockrell, Ferry, Hamlin, Kernan, Logan, McCreery, McDonald, McMillan, Morrill, Oglesby?15. The bill was reported to the 8enate, and the amendments made in committee of the whole wore agreed to, Rf cor which it was road a third time una passea?yeas, zo ; nays, la. j . Mr. Windom (Rep.)> of Minnesota, from the committed of conference on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, submitted a report that tlio cj/j-inilteo bad agreed upon the bill, and it was read and agreed to. Mr. Sargent (Rep.), of California, called up the conference report on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill. After somo discussion the report of the committee was agreed to withont a division. Mr. Windom (R&p.), of Minnesota, from the committoo on appropriations reported the Senato bill appropriating $800,000 to pay judgments of tbe court of claims. Passed. Mr. Edmunds (Hop.), of Vormont, moved to | take up- the propoHcd constitutional amendments prohibiting tho appropriation of money for the support o* aoctarian schools. Agreed to?yeas, 23 ; nays, 13. The bill to carry into effect tho Hawaiian treaty was, after considerable discussion, read a third time and passed?yeas, 29; najs, 12. Mr. Logan (Rep.), of Illinois, called up the report of the conference committee on the bill to regulate tho distribution of artificial limbs to soldiors snd sailors who were dieablod in the late war for the Union. Tho report was agreed to. The debate on tho resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the appropriation of public money for the support of sectarian schools, was continued, and after considerable discussion tLo roiolution waa defeated?yeas, 28; nays, 1G; not two-thirda voting in tho affirmative, na required by tho Constitution. Tho vote was aa follows: Ybah? Mesar-. Allison, Anthony, Booth, Boutwell, Jiunce, Burnaide, Cameron (Wis.), Christiancy, Clayton, Conkiiug, Cragin, Edmonds, Forry, Frelinghuyaen, Harvey, Jonos (Nev ), Logan, McMillan, Mitchell, Morrill, Morton, Oxiesby, Paddock, Patterson, Sargent, Spencer, Wadlelgh and West?28. Nats?Messrs.Bony, Cockrel), Cooper,Davis, Eaton, Gordon, Jones (Fla.), Kelly, Kernan, n.ej, ittcuroery, mcuonaiu, maxey, worwooa, Kando]ph and Stevenson?16. Meaara. Barnum, Withers, Whyte, Saulsbury, Wallace, Bayard and Donnis, who woald have voted agaiuat it, wore paired with Meeare. Dawea, Hamilton, Hitchcock, Cameron (Pa.), Robertson, Windom and Wright, who would have voted for it; and Mr. Ransom,who would have voted against it, wan paired with MeBara. Howo and Ingalls, who would have voted for it, ho having two of the affirmative aide to pair with him to make the pair oven where a twothirda vote waa required. Mr. Windom (Rep.), of Minueaota, called up the report of the conference committee on the Indian Appropriation bill, and it waa agreed to without diaousaicn. Mr. Logan (Rep.), of Illinois, called up the Houae bill to authorize the President to accept tho servicoa of volunteera to aid in auppreaaing Indian hoatiliriea. He aubmittedan amend-' ment in the nature of a substitute, authorizing the President to increase auch companies of cavalry regimentB as he may think proper to one hundred men each, providing that the total number of men enlisted shall not exceed 2,590, and appropriating $1,634,700 to pay the I expense of such increase. Agreed to?yeaa, 29; uays, 11?and tho bill aa amended wan road a third time and passed. The Chair laid boforo tho Senate a moasage fri m the President, returning, without hie approval, tho Senate bill to provide for the sale of a portion of tho reservation of the confederated Otoo and Missouri bands of Indians, and tho Sac and Fox Indians in Kansas and Nebraska. Also, another moasago from the President, stating that ho was convince!, after further examination, that his message returning tho bill without his signature was premature, and requested that tho bill might bo returned to him for his signature. A motion to refer tho message was rejected, and tho question being on iho paesage of the bill, notwithstanding the objections of the President, it v/as passed by a unanimous vote. Mr. Conkling called up tho Seuato biLl to amend section 3,012 of tho revised statutes of tho United States, so as to allow repayment by the secretary of tho treasury of tonnage tax whero it was oiactod in contravention of existing treaty stipulations. Passed. Messrs'. VVindomandMcC.- iy .i reappointed a committee to join with tno committee of tho House of IU:presontatives to wait upon the President and notify him that Congress was ready to adjourn. Mr. VVindom, from the^committee appointed to wait upon tho President, reoorted that they had discharged that duty, n T">- 1 k lU.i I. ? I 3 . ?uu luu x i OBiuBuntjjjuuu tiiaL lie uau uu lurmur communication to make to Congress, and Mr. F*rry, the presiding officer, announcod the Senate adjournod sine die. H008I. Mr. Landers (Dem.), of Indiana, introduced a bill to secure the prompt resumption of specie payment. After discussion the bill was referred to the committee on coinage, weights and measuros. Mr. Lawrence introduced an amendment to the Constitution for that known as the Blaine School amendment, as follows: Article XVI. Sec. 1. No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting tho free exercise thereof. 2. No public property or money raised by taxation, or from aijy publio fund or property in any State or place subject to the legislative power of Congress, shall ever be given to or be under control of any religious sect or denomination. 3. Congrats shall have power to enforco this ariicle by appropriate legislation. Referred to the judiciary committee. Mr. Waddell (Dem.), of North Carolina, called up the Senate bill allowing the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. to carry the mails on its new iron steamships. After some discussion as to whether the bill was sufficiently guarded IAJ UAUIUUU U1U luoa U1 iOUU^UUitUg bllr Viidiiw for extra subsidy, the bill was passed with an amendment striking oat the words "except such as may lawfully exist nnder the law of the seventeenth of February, 1865." Mr. Bug by (Ind.)i of Illinois, from the committee on invalid pensions, reported a bill giving a poneion of $30 a month to the widow of Capt. Yates of the Seventh cavalry, killed with Custer. Parsed. Mr. Randall (Dom.), of Pennsylvania, from the committeo of conference on theExocutivo, Legislative and Judicial Appropriation bill, reported that the committee had come to no conclusion tliorcon. He explained that after contesting and examining paragraph after paragraph, the committee had come to an agreement on all matters except the salary of [no irreeiuexib tuiu mo wuncn ui u>o uiuiuudio of Cougress. Tho Houso conferees wore unwilling to yield to either, and the Senate managers had declarod their Uxod intention not to yield. It had been therefore agrood that these questions of salaries should bo submitted to the two Houses. Mr. Lord (Dea.), of New York, offered the following preamble and resolution: Whereas, The Senate has refused to yield to the existing conferences between the two Houses on tho Legislative, Executivo and Judicial Appropriation bill, which difficulties relato to salaries of members of Congress, and to tho President; and Whereas, We are apprised that any further conference of tho subject will be useless, and can make no change m the determination on the part of the Senate; therefore Resolved, That tho conferees on the part of the House be and choy are hereby instructed to recede from such points of disagreement. Tho resolution was aereed to. and the same conference committee was reappointed. Mr. Lord (Dem.), of New York, offered a resolution reciting that the right of suffrage prescribed by the constitutions of the several Statos is subject to the Fifteenth amendment, and that the excrcieo of paid right should be faithfully maintained and olfeerved by the United States, and that it is asserted that the exercise of said right is in some States, notwithstanding the efforts of good citizens, resisted and controlled by fraud, intimidation and violence, so that the object of the Fifteenth amendment is defeated, and that all citizens, without distinction of race or col. r ure entitled to the rights conferred by said amendment, and declaring that all attempts by force, fraud, terror, intimidation or otherwise to prevent a free exercise of the rights of suffrage should moot with cortain condign and effeotual punishment, and that if any case which has heretofore occurred or may hereafter occur in #. Lo? kr.Ai. 1,1.11 UlUULi tiUlUlllsO VI UJUiUDl UOO UCUU U1 CXi Chi A VJ U committed by one clans or raco on another, prompt ; uniabment of the criminal or crimiuals is imperatively demanded, whether the crimo be one punishable by a flue aud imprisonment, or one demanding the punishment of death. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 174 yeas to two najv. On motion of Sir. Banning (Ind.), of Ohio, the Senate bill repoaling so much of the Army Appropriation bnl as limits tho number of Indian soouts to 300, and continuing in force tho statute which authorizes the employment of 1,000 scouts, wai Ukou from the tablo, and after explanation by him, passed. Mr. Springer (Dem.), of Illinois, subin tted the report of the 3ommittoo or. f seigu affairs in regard to tho Voue/.uelan c aims, together wttli tho following roeolu ion : Ilesolvod, That the President of the United Statos is hereby icquested to withhold furthor demands upon tho government of Venezuela on account of tho awards cf tho mixod commission undor tho convention of April 25, 186G, until the fourth of March, 1877, aud the seoretary of State is authorized aud diroctod to suspend all furthor payment t?> holders of certificates awardod by snid mixed commission until said time, unlem Uongrcsa shall otnorwise direct. After discussion, the resolution was passed. Mr. Raudall (Dem.), of 1'ouueylvauia, made a conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill. Ho explained that tho material point of difference between the two Houaos had beta the transfer of the Indian bureau to tho War department. Tho IIouso had three limes indicated its purpose to have ouch transfer, and had parsed a spooiai bill for that transfer, which had been aenwto the benat? on the I twenty-fifth of April last, and had ever ainoe remained unacted on in that body. The time had come when one House or the other must yield in that particular. The bill as originally passed by the House appropriated $3,979,602. The Senate had increased it?by restoring the provision for the Indian bureau?to t4,958,361. As agreed on in conference it appropriated 34,670,117. whioh was a saving over last year of $690,487. Tho report was agreed to. The Speaker pro tem. laid before the House a mepsage from the President, with communications from the secretary of war, Gen. Sher man ana ut>n. ouariaau, ruuuujuiuuuujg au mcreate of the cavalry force of the army by 2,500 m6n. or authority to call out five regiments of volunteer cavalry of 1,000 men eaoh. .Referred to the committee on military affair?. Mr. Singleton (Dem.), of Mississippi, from the conference committee on the Consular and Dipiomatio Appropriation bill, reported that the committee had come to an agreement thereon. The House conferees had jielded to the Senate in rogard to the salaries fixed by law, and after consultation had allowed a certain number of diplomats to be withdrawn. Twenty-two consuls have also been withdrawn. The bill as it now stands saves $208,000 from the appropriations of last year. The committee had also agreed to increase the salary of those who are to be withdrawn until they receive notice of their discharge. The report was agreed to. Mr. Rusk (Rep.), of Wisconsin, from the conference committee on the bill to regulato tbe distribution of artificial limbs to soldiers and sailors, made a report which was agreed to. Mr. Randall (Dem.), of Pennsylvania, from the committoo on conference, made a report on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. Mr. Holu'. u (Dem.), of Indiana, desired to have a separate vote on the amendment in regard to salary, but was informed by the Speakor pro tern, that the conference roportmuet be act'.d on as a whole. The report was agreed to without discussion or division. Mr. Band til (Dem.), of Pennsylvania, submitted the report of the conference committee on the Indian Appropriation bill. Agreed to without discussion. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President in regard to the Iliver and Harbor bill, stating that if it had been compulsory to expend the money therein appropriated, he would have vetoed it, but as it waa not he would take care that no publio money should be exponded on useless works, or upon any that were not dearly national. The message created quite a sensation, and after an excited discussion,was referred to the committee on commerce. Mr. Banning (Dom.), of Ohio, made a conference report on the bill to increase the cavalry foroe for servit e in the Sioux war, and proceeded to explain it. The House receded from its proposition to authorize the raiding of ** AAA Aatra1??* on?1 rtftanta flio ni?rtriA U.UUV YUlUiibCOi w?TO?lJj vuv j/?wj;usition to increase tbo regular cavalry force operating against the Sioux by 2,500 man. The report was agreed to?yeas, 107 ; nays, 39. On motion of Mr. Grounse (Rep.), of Nebraska. the bill providing for the eale of a portion of the reservation of the confederated Otoe and Missouri Indians, and the Sao and Fox Indians, in the States of Kansas and Nebraska, was taken up and passed by a twothirds vote over the President's veto. The Speaker pro tern, announced that the hour for final adjournment having arrived,and thanking the House f..r its courtesy, the first eession of the House of the Forty-fourth Congress stood adjourned without day. A Life Saving Apparatus. A writer for the New York press tells of a new life saving apparatus which he saw on Rockaway beach?one of the city's great bathing resorts: As my donkey trotted along I saw a young man, tanned and freckled, wearing a fancy blue combination flannel bathing suit trimmed with red braid. He carried o rubber life saving apparatus in one hand and & loner reel of twine in the other. He showed me how he used his apparatus on a drowning person. He ie an expert swimmer. He swims out with the rubber sack, which is circular, in his hand. To it ono end of the twine is attached. A man on shore holds the reel and runs the twine off. When the swimmer reaches the drowning mao, he catches him as he rises, or dives for him if ho is sinking, and qlips the life preserver over his head. It fits like a collar around the drowning man's neck, keeping his head above water. Then keeping by his side aids him, if necessary, as the man on shore draws him in. When he reaohes the shallow water others give him their aid. Iu this way three have been snatched from the imminent peril of a watery grave this summer. 1 Yery Bad Place. Coney island is a eort of Sodom nnd Gomorrah visiting place i-ear New York city, where tho ronghs go to spend the Sabbath and indulge in deep carousals. A Sun reporter, speaking of a visit there on a recent Sabbath, says : P mentioned profanity as one of the features of the place. I have been at political meetings, from the free and easy primary, through every grade up to the dignified national convention. With caucuses I am not so familiar. I have known a President's message to come into a composing room after the forms were locked up. I have seen whole galley of type pied at two o'olock in the morning. I saw the Prince of Wales fall on his knees .and bump his royal nose on the floor of the orowded ballroom. I have participated m many exciting scenes, uut if all the profane ejaculations provoked and uttered at all these occasions were collected together and rolled into one, and mnltiplied by the lightning calculator till he was black iu the face, they would be as nothing, as the dust in the balance, when compared with the constant, incessant ebb and flow of curse, curse, curse, at Coney island. Crossing Niagara on a Tight Rope. Signorina Spclterini, the rope walker, crossed the rapids below the suspension bridge at Niagara on a rope stretched from shore to shore. This is the third since Blondin. She appeared on the American side dressed in low neck, short sleeves and silk tights, carrying a balance pole weighing forty pounds. Crowds thronged the bridge and the inclosurea at the ends of the rope. At 5:30 Spclterini ventured on the rope, advancing in a slow walk to the center over the boiling caldron. A tumble would havo been death. Still this fair girl, not over twenty-two, had nerve enough to sit down on the rope, and make the ladies on shore turn their backs on her in painful suspense. Then a sprinkle of rain came up, when she resumed her dangerous journey. When she came off the rope her brow was covered with big drops of perspiration ?she seemed dizzy. A large man received her?her employer. "Ze rope es sleepry," she said. " I mos fall. Ze contrao says I go back again. Sail I ?" she asked, in broken English. The people all said "no, no 1" and so the manager was satisfied. Steam Boilers. A deputation waited upon Mr. Cross, the British home secretary, the other day, to ask for legislation on steam, boiler explosions. Mr. Hugh Mason stated that during the last year sixty-seven persons were killed and ninety-six wounded by steam boiler explosions, and on examining the plates of the boilers, they were found to be worn to the thinness of l-32d part of an inch. In many other investigations cases were worse, the plates being worn to the thinness of l-64th part of an inch. No explosion ever occnrrod without the boiler giving due warning. It would say: "I am going to explode unless you stop working and repair me," but such admonitions were generally disregarded. He suggested periodical inspection as a remedy, and asked Mr. Cross to introduce a short bill to enforce the investigation. Mr. Cross promised to take .an early opportunity of consulting the board of trade upon the question, to see how far they could help him in the matter. At our request Or agin & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., have promised to send any of our readers, gratis (on receipt of fifteen cents to pay postage,) a sample oi Dobbins' Electric Soap to try. Send at once. * Pimples on the faco, rongh skin, chapped hands, saltrheum and all cutaneous affections cured, t'.io skin made soft and wiocth. by tho uso of Jdnipeb Tau Soap. That made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York, is tho only kiud that can bo reliod on, as there are many imitatious, made frum common tar, which are worthies.? Coin. To avoid tho clanger ot infection, the liijou of persons suffering from ?kin diseases of a contagious nature should bo washed with Glbxn's Sclphcr Soap, which is not only a remedy bus a disinfectant. Depot, Crittenton's, No. 7 Sixth avenue, New York. Hill's Instantaneous Hiir Dye contains no inotallic poi*o:>. * A great many people have asked us, of late: ' How do you keep your horse looking so sleek aud glor.-y ?" We tell them it's the easiest thing ui the world; give Sheridan'? Cavalry Condition Powders two or three timoa a week. * Liver Complaint. By B. V. Pieroe, M. D., of the World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N.Y., author of " The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," etc., eto. The liver is the great depurating (purifying) organ of the system, and has very appropriately been termed the 1' housekeeper of our health. I havo observed in the dissecting-room, and also in making poit-iaortern examinations of , the bodies of thoee who have died of different diseases, that, in a large proportion of cases, tbe liver has given evidenoe of having at some time been diseased. Liver affections are equally prevalent in beasts. Every butoher knows that the livers of cattle, sheep and swine are ten times as frequently diseased as any other organ. &. healthy liver each day secretes aoont two ana one-nair pounds or tnie. wnen it becomes torpid, congested, or if, from any can.de, it is disabled in the performance of ita duties, it is evident that the elements of the bile must remain in the blood, thus irritating, poisoning and perverting every vital prooess. Nature attempts to rid the system of these noxious materials by means of other organs, as the kidneys, lungs, skin, etc., which become overtaxed in performing their additional labor, and are unable to withstand tho pressure. Tbu brain, whioh is clie great electrical center of all vitality, becomes overstimulated with unhea>tby blood, and faiLs to normally perform ii.n luuunuuu. neaco, cnere ia auunaus, ueaaache, impairment of the memory, dizziness, gloomy forebodings, and irritability of temper, when the blood ia diseased, the akin manifesto discolored spoto, pimples, blotches, boils, oarbuLclea and scrofulous tumors. The stomach and bowels, sooner or lat$r, become affected. < and constipation, piles, dropsy, dyspepsia, 01 diarrhea, is the inevitable result. S'/MXTOJI8 OF LlVEE CoHPLAINT. A sallow color of the skin, or yellowishbrown spots on the face and other parts of the body ; uul)ne?B and drows ness, with frequent headnchi; dizziness, bitter or bad taste in the mouth, dryness of the throat, and internal heat; palpitation of the heart, a dry, teasing cough, sore throat, unsteady appetite, sour stomach, raising of the food, ana a choking sensation in the throat; sickness and vomiting, distress, heaviness, and a bloated or foil feeling hbout the stomach and tides ; aggravating pains in the Bides, back or breast, and about the shoulders; colic pains and soreness turough the bowels; constipation, alternating with diarrhea; piles, flatulence, nervousness, coldness of the extremities, lush of blood to the head, with symptoms of apoplexy; numbness of the limbs (especially at night), and chills, alternating with not flashes; kidney and other uriaary difficulties, dullness, low spirits, and gloomy forebodings. Only a few of these symptoms will be likely to be present in any oase at one lime. Tezatment. ? Take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, with small doses of hit Pleasant Purgative Pellets, which act as au alterative on me liver. For liver complaint and the various affections caused by a diseased liver, these remedies are unsurpassed. The Golden Medical Discovery does ndt simply palliate the disease, but it produces a lasting j effect. By its use, the liver aud stomach are . changed to an active, healthy state, the appetite is regulated, the blooa purified and enriched, aud the entire system renovated and restored to health. Tne Discovery is Bold by . druggists. B. V. Pierce, M. D., proprietor, \ World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. . Loss of Appetite. In persons of sedentary and literary pursuits, if the brain is overworked and the muscles underworked, the appetite is very apt to 1 fail, from a general atony of the system. The ) Peruvian Syrup restores the tone of the diges' tive fcjdtem, and consequently the appetite, by supplying a pure blood to organs too weak to make it without assistance. Hold by all druggists. * A gentleman in the eastern part of the State, who was about having his leg amputated on account of ita being bent at right angles aud stiff at the knee, heard of Johryton's Anodyne Lininvent. After using it a short time his leg became straight, and is now as serviceable as the other. ' * Vegetine has never failed to cure the most inflexible case of canker. Mjlnt who are suffering from the effect* of the ward weather and are debilitated, are advised by physlolanj to take moderate amounta of whisky two or three time, daring the day. In a little while those who adopt this advice frequ>ntly Increase the number of "drinks," and In time become confirmed Inebriate*. A beveragewhlob will not create thirst for Intoxicating liquors, and whlob U Intonded especially for the benefit of debilitated persons, whether at home or abroad, is Dr. Schenck'i Sea Weed Tonic. Containing the jnice* of many medicinal herb.-, this preparation does not create an appetite for the lutoxicatlngcap. The nourishing and Ufa-supporting properties of many valuable natural productions contained In it and well known to medical men hare a most fitronttttienlng lnfliie_.ce. A single bottle of the Tonic t>ill demonstrate its valuable qualities. For debility arising from sickness, over exertion from any caose whatever, a wlneglass/nl of Sea Weed Tonio taken after meals will strengthen the stomach and create an appetite for wholesome food. To all who are about leaving their homes, we desire to say that the excellent effects of Dr. Sohenok's seasonable remedies, Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, are particularly evident when taken by those who are injuriously effeoted by a change ot water and diet No person should leave home without taking a supply of these safeguards along. Fot sale by all Druggists. The Markets. NEW TOHI. Beef Cattle-Prime to Extra Bullocks C9# Common to Good Tez? %. 063tf? 01% Milch Cows 40 00 08J 00 Hoga?Live C6J4 Dressed..... ? ? Sheep 03X? 08)6 Lambs 0 % 4 07X Cotton?Middling.. _ IS Floor?Extra Western 6 26 if 6 65 State Extra. S 35 g 6 60 Wheat?Bed Weetern 8J #101 No. 3 Spring 92 ft 1 t/0 Aye?State..... 83 (4 8; Barley?-State 90 Q 9> Barlr>?Malt 1 85 $ 1 06 < Oats?Mixed Western.... S3 <? 41 Hrtrn K3 f* Mi Hay, per cwt BO 0 9 J Straw, per cwt 40 0 91 Hope 7B's?10 020 ....old* 04 0 00 Port?Mesa..., .........18 40 ?13 40 Lard 10 K0 10? Fish?Mackerel, No. 1, new.-. 17 00 017 00 " No. 2, now 7 60 0 0 i t Dry Cod, per cwt 5 GO 0 6)' Herring, Scaled, per box.... 20 0 i Petroleum?Crude 10>i ilOtf Refined, 1' Wool?California Fleece 14 0 25 Texas 11 ...?. ? . 14 0 25 Australian " 85 0 41 Butter?State 20 <? 80 Western Dairy 26 0 27 W'-ati-rn Yellow...,. 23 0 26 Western Ordinary 13 0 17 Ohoesft?State Factory..... 05 0 09)4 State Skimmed 08 0 CS Western 03 0 08 Ekk8?State.,, 16 ? ltX BUFFALO. , Flour 6 28 010 00 Wheat-No. 1 SprlsiR 1 18 0 1 15 Corn?Mixed 49 0 43 Oats.....' 84 ? 84 Hyo 70 (A 70 Bar'.ey ? @ ? P EILAJ5 KLPHLL. Btef Cattle?F.xtra 04 9 0*5* Sheep 04X0 15X Hc^a?Dressed... 0V% & 10 Flour?Pennsylvania Extra 5 87X0 8 SO Wheat?Bed Western 80 0 1(5 , Bye 63 0 6J Corn?Yellow 59 0 60 L Mixed CS 0 68 . Oats?Mixed 84 0 S4 ( i6trolmini?Crude 13X@13X Beflned, 17X WATKBTOWH, MASfl. | Beef Cattle?Poor to (Jholoe 4 75 0 9 00 d WJ I W | Lambs 3 CO i? 6 BO A CRNTFNNIAT. WONDER for n 3-cent A stamp. ITKM OFFIOK, Vlneland, N. J. 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The value of this great element In the treatment of scoh dlieases as Rheumatism, Paraly.!?., St. Vitas' D.inc?, Inflammation of the Kidneys, ate , I remains ucques'loned by the highest medical anlt.iH. ties. Bat !iow apply It to any part of the body cuntli::<. oiinly. conveniently, find economically f 'i h Invention of Colllnn' Voltaic Piaster meets t In great pjpular want.aud famishes electricity to mllli . * of nnbappy Invalids in so perfect a minner m to oil i!Isnge the admiration of the medical facility. Culiif.o' Volinlc PJft*ter? consist of silver and lino plato. oaref.jlly attached together, and imr>?dde<1 la a higl ly medicated pur?us piae-er. For Local Pains, I,ameii. " Soreness, Numbness Weakness. and Intlammatlon r | the Lung', Liver, Klrtneys, Sgleen, Bowels, Blad - Mean ?au the m??t speedy, bhIh uud effective rrmeiiy et?r off. .1 the ?nd ar? w?rr?m?d superior to every t t- < .* luster before the publlo. Prion 2o crou. Vallr.' <. t receipt of prlo , and warranted, by W&KKS A 1". J. TEH. Proprietor*, Boston. Ask lor COLLINS' VOLTAIC PLASTERX. N V N U No aa WltlTINO TO AOTERTIMEli , TT pifiun any that you BRwtae aav(r;:.v< went In thin onner. I