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A WOMAN'S TERRIBLE AtiOKY. Fearful McoVie at thf> Denthbed of a. Hydrophobia Victim. The denth of Mrs. Lizzie Webber from hydrophobia iu the Boston Hospital was attended by most horrible symptoms. Oil the 3ist day of July she was bitten through the nail of the middle linger of the right hand by her pet dog, a black-and tan. Some boys in the street were worrying and teasing the dog, until at last tho animal, goaded to anger, turned and bit fr'x persons, four adults and two children. Five of them promptly had the bite cauterized, mid tire sixth is unknown. Mrs. Webber, to punish the dog, grasped him aqd cuffed his ears, when lie bit her tinger as stated. Three hours after the infliction of the bite bhe wont to the Massachusetts General Hospital to have the same operation performed, but the doctors told her it was too lato to be of any service. She thought no more of t he matter,and experienced no ill effect, until a recent Friday, when she had a severe headache, and the next day she experienced a severe pain extending from the right shoulder down to the hand?which she thought to be a touch of rheumatism. On the succeeding Sunday she was chilly all day, and at night experienced a violent heartbeating, and great difficulty in breathing ?the breath comiug iu short, quick gasps. Two prominent physicians were iu attendance, but she could not take their medicine. They decided the case to be a bad cold. Monday the patient kept her bed?the breathing difficulty increasing, with great uervousuess. The slightest noise, such as the ciosiug of a door or the moving of a fan, or sound of a footstep, would cause liar to jump violently to the floor, and it required the united efforts of. her attendants to quiet lur. She began to show great aversion to water ; but the doctor bad no suspicion of the real nature of the disorder, which gradually grew worse and worse. She expressed a desire for various articles of food and driuk, but when they were offered to her she found herself utteily incapable of eating or drinking anything; in fact, from Suutlay morning uutil the hour of her death, Tuesday afternoon, she ate and drank nothing. At times, Tuesday afternoon, f>he felt quite easy, and the next moment the severe gasping for breath would come on, and she would jump up and down and dash wildly about. She would grasp her attendants by the drees and thrust as much as she could into her mouth, telling them at the same time, however, that she would uot bite them. She was next seized with severe and unmistakable convulsions, accompanied by frothing at the month. Morphine was given. Then a pail of scalding hot water was procnred, and the patient's feet placed iu it. Oue of the lady attendants poured hot water upon the head of the victim, all of which she bore without flinching, in fact she declared it made her 'feel better. At times she would stamp her feet upon the floor so rapidly aud violently as to shake the house, aud in the meautime her difficulty in breathing increased. Another trial of the water pail caused her to bound back to the other side of the bed, and experience a severe convulsion. She was taken to the hospital, in a sort of ambulance, held by fastenings around her body. On the way she made a growling or barking noise. At the hospital, where, about three-quarters of an hour after her arrival, she was lyiug apparently comfortable, she sudden gave her arniB and feet a violent twieh, her countenance turned black, aud she breathed her last. After her death a consultation was had by the physicians at the hospital; the best authorities upon the subject of hydrophobia were looked up and quoted, and it was unanimously .decided by the physicians that it was "a genuine case of hyJrophobia." United at Last. A quiet wedding occurred in Middletown, Orange County, N. Y., wit in the the last few months, at which there were no guests, the mother of the bride being the only witness of the ceremony besides the officiating clergvmau. In 1862, a young gentleman, who was betrothed to the lady, enlisted iu the Uuion army. His sweetheart maile no effort to dissuade him, and with a breaking heart bade him adieu, and quietly buried herself in her home with her widowed mother, the only living member of her family besides herself. For a time all went well, and loviug letters cheered the gallant soldier. After the battle of Chancellorsville, his letters suddenly ceased. Letter after was written to him and his comrades, but all that could bo learned was that after that terrible battle he was missinc. His stricken sweetheart never entirely abandoned hope, and lived on, hoping against hope for his return. After many weary years, her patient troth has been rewarded, and she ih now a happy bride. Some time during the fight he was taken prisoner, and soon after he wan seut to a Southern pison, where he was kept about a year. He fiually escaped and reached the seaboard, where he conceived the idea of personating an English sailor, and getting to England on a blockade runner. After much delay and many disappointments, during which his courage almost failed him, he succeeded. He remembers sailing through the blockadiug squadron. After that all is a blank. Ho learned afterward that he had been taken ill, and soon af ec insane. On his arrival in England he was takeu to an insane asylum by the captain of the blockade runner, where he remaihed until :i year ago, when he was discharged cured, but penniless. He succeeded, through friends in the asylum, in obtaining a situation in a mercantile house, where he won the esteem of the principals, to whom he told his story. A leave of absence was given him; hecuuie to Middletown and found his old sweetheart, now o Io/Itt r\C utill fa.1 f.lifill fj 1 liift a &auj wuuvj-V"V/J UIUI *?*???**%% ?? * ?? memory. They were quietly married, and are now in Euglaud, wlier? lie proposes to remain lor a number of years. Origin of Names. A largo number of names derive their origin from the seasons, as Winter and Spiiug; many others from the elements, as Frost, Snow, Flood; good or bad fortune; points of the compass, as North. South, E'ist, West; dignities, offices, agriculture, utensils and astrouomy; and also from auimals, as Wolf, Lamb, Lion, Cat; vegetables, minerals, colors, arms, etc. But bv far the most numerous class of Hurnames are those which had their rise in certain trades or professions, of which a few are?Webster, a weaver; B;iily, a bailiff; Fletcher; a maker of arrows (from the French JtecfieJ; Tucker, a cloth fuller, to say notliiug of the very obvious Butcher, Baker, Carpenter, etc. A search in the old statute-books will furnish plenty of such names as Robertus de Bakester (Baxter ?) Simon Ironmonger, John Day laborer, etc. Another very fertile source of derivation was from places, as Gilbertus Anglicus, Godefridus de Maunville, Henricus de Hessia, Guliemus Parisiensis, etc., and most of the names terminating in by, ham, ton and ville, belong to this class. Further a large number of surnames were originally patronymics?that is to say, names formed by the addition of son, or some other word expressive of a similar relation to the paternal name. The Normans superadded Fitz (the old French for fll*), as Fitz-Allan, Fitz-Gerald, Fitz-Walter ; the Irish O, as O'Donnell; the Scotch Mac, as MacDougall; and the Welsh Ap, as Apthomas. It was once remarked to the writer as cnrionB that Ben should be such a common name among the Hebrews, and considerable surprise was manifested when it was pointed out that it was originally a prefix, Ben-had ad being simply the son of Hadad. / A Light In the Window. Off the coast of one of the Orkney Islands, and light opposite the harbor, stood a lonely rock against which, in stormy mguis, tuo uonts 01 reuiruiug fishermen ofteu struck and were lost. Fifty years ago there lived on tliis isiiuhI a young girl in n cottage with her father ; and they loveil each other very tenderly. One stormy night the father was away on the sea in his fisherman's boat, and though his daughter watched for him in much fear and trouble, he did not come home. Sad to tell, in the morning his dead body was found washed upon the beach. His boat, as he sought the harbor, had struck against the " Lonely Rock " and gone down. hi her deep sorrow, this fisherman's orphan did not think of herself alone. She was scarcely more than a child, humble, poor and weak ; but she said in her heart, tlmt while she lived no more boats should be wrecked, no more boats should be lost on the " Lonely Rock," if a light shining through the windowwould guide them safely into the harbor. And so, after watching by the body of her father, according to the custom of her people, until it was buried, she laid down and slept through the day ; but when night fell, arose, and lighting a candle, placed it iu the window of her cottage, so that it might be seen by any fisherman coming in frqm sea, and guide him safely into the harbor. She sat by the caudle all uight and trimmed it, and spuu ; but when the day dawned she j went to bed and slept. ! As manv hauks as she had soun before for her daily bread phe spun still, and one over, to buy lier nightly candle; and from that time to this, for fifty yeurs, through youth, maturity, and old age, she has turned night into day, and in the snow storms of winter, through driving mists, deceptive moonlight and solemn darkness, that northern harbor has never once been without the light of her caudle. How many lives she saved by this candle, and how many meals she won by it for the starving families of the boatmen, it is impossible ts say. How many dark nights the fishermen, depending on it, have gone forth, cannot be told. There it stood, regular as a light-house, steadily as constant care could make it. Always brighter when daylight waned, the fishermen had only to keep it constantly in view, and were safe; there was but one thing to intercept it, and that was the rock. However far they might have goue out to sea, they had only to bear do a q for that lighted window, aud they were sure of a sa.e entrance to the harbor. But what do the boatmen's wives think of this? Do they pay the poor woman ? No ; they are very poor ; but poor or rich, they know better than that. Do they thank her ? No. Perhaps they think that thanks of theirs would be inadequate to express their gratitude ; or perhaps long years have made the lighted casement so familiar that they look upon it as a matter of course, and forget for the time the patient watcher within. Beavers at Work. I n almost nnv stream in the mountainous parts of Wyoming Territory, you may find more or less beavers or beaver dams. But Green river and this whole region, writes a member of Hayden's surveyiug party, surpasses any place I know of as a resort for these animals, now so scarce east of the Mississippi. T?* tiurlinv nn fliia r?r*ualr xa l/UU\'U U|/| vuiu VAWtt was thirty or forty yards across, uor would it have beeu much wider iu the more opeu valley below had it not beeu impeded. But for a dozen miles the beavers had so dammed it aud choked it with their houses, that the water spread out to a mile or more iu width, and hundreds of dead or liviug trees, once far back from the margin, were standing equally far out in the water. Some of the dams measinjed 100 or more feet in length, and were built on a curve, with the hollow of the curve up stream, yet so substantially that they were standing the beating of the freshet with slight damage. All along the bank of the stream the hillside was bare of aspens, aud their stumps, cut off close to the ground, showed what had destroyed them. Some of the stumps were of tr<*0H ten or twelve inches in diameter, aud seventy-five yards from the water, yet there was no doubt that these rodents had felled those trees, trimmed off the branches, peeled away the bark, aud then dragged the log all tho way to the water to put into a new dam or repair an old one. Tudeed, we surprised some of them at work. Most of the dams were shorter thau those I have mentioned, aud ran from one to another, so that there was a net-work of them supporting a growth of willows, and each enclosing a little basin of deep, still water, in which would rise like au island the domed top of their home. But the houses of many were under the bank, and of others beneath the dams, as we coulu see^ by the paths to them, which showed plainly through the water. Wherever the willows grejv closely to the water's edge for some distance there would be roads through them at frequent intervals, the stems gnawed off ami the weeds trodden down smooth. "Busy as a beaver" acquires a new force when we think how ceaselessly he must work to get his daily food, collect his winter stores, keep his house in order, repair his dam, and guard against enemies. We saw none of the animals themselves. They are rarely seen by any one, being able to detect your approach by the jar of the ground, if not otherwise, and hide themselves.?lioKton Herald. A Unique Case. There is now in this city, Bays the Wilmington (N. C.) Star, one of the most remarkable specimens of humanity that has been known to inhabit the earth since the days of Adam. He is colored, and goes by the name of Dr. George Thomas, and seems to have literal control of his entire physical nature, being able, by the simple exercise l>f his will, as it were, to change at pleasure the location of the machinery of his body ; beside which, he is possessed of muscle of the consistency of iron, which he is capable of developing to a remarkable degree. For instance, he takes a solid bar of iron of about three inches in circumference and some three or four feet in length, holding it in one hand, aud bends it by striking it repeatedly across his disengaged arm, the blows being sufficiently vigorous to break the limb of any ordinary mau, but which do not seem to have the slightest effect upon his own, the muscles of which are as hard as the iron itself. He theu straightens the bar in the same manner. He asks you to feel the pulse iu his wrist, ami it beats with the same regularity aud power of that of an ordinary mortal; but, by a sudden but almost imperceptible movement of the muscle of the arm, the pulsation suddenly ceases altogether, but is in reality removed from its original position. By the exertion of the same power it is then restored at pleasure to its proper place. He can also remove his ribs from his side to the abdominal region, where they can be distinctly felt, and return them to their proper place at will; while by the exercise of the same power the heart is changed from the left to the right side of the body. Two of our physicians, we learn,* examined this remarkable specimen of humanity, and were astonished at the extraordinary developments which resulted from a practical test of the wonderful powers of the man. One of the physicians was asked to place his ear to the region of the heart, and its beatings were regular and distinctly noted; but suddenly there was an entire oessation of the throbbing, and on the instant his companion, who had his ear to the right side of his body, exclaimed that he oould then detect the beating of his heart on that side. NEWS SUMMARY. !W ?" Eastern and Middle States. en An old man jumped into the Harlem river, New York city, from the top of !.r* High Bridge?a distance of 132 feet? and was killed. '8 The city election in Newark, N. J., n. resulted in the selection of a Republican jjr mayor and nine aldermen, the Democrats getting six aldermen, a gain of ADRIFT FOK SEVEN DATS. The Terrible Sufterlnjr* of a Boat'ii l'r< i Without Food or Water?Reacne Com | Too Late for One illin who bnd be Driven to Drinking from tlie Sen. A New Orleans Times reporter intf viewed tlie five men of the Bteamsh Gussie, who for eeveu nights and six daj | without food or water, were the sport the waves in the Gulf of Mexico. Sin | med up, the haiTowiug details of th< ; snff rings are to the following effect: The steamship GuBsie, Captain Ric i aid Hill, owing to the fact of the tan at Iiulianola being destroyed by tl j storm, left that port with a cargo of ct i tie und without the necessary supply , water. Captain Hill made for Bout j west PasS t replenish his water ai and then proceed on his journey I Havana. On the morning of the 19th i September the weather was fair, wii ; northwest, blowing about seven knots i hour. At 10:30 p. m. the same nig Southwest Pass light bore north nort ; east, distance nine miles. At 10:35 p. : j the ship was hauled for the light-, wh< ! the starboard shaft broke. Finding j impossible to remedy the evil, and loa I to drift around at the mercy of the wiud Captain Hill concluded to send a boat Southwest Pass for assistance. Tl ' boat was launched, and at midnight tl wind veered west by north, blowing good six-knot breeze. South Pass w sighted, and after some delay the ti Rio Grande took the Gussie in toi bringing her to the city. j In the mean time the unfortunate m< ! were passing through the terrible orde ! of shipwrecked mariners. After leavii the ship, the boat's crew, consisting < ' John Duffy, chief officer; Dau M j Donald, Mat. Bayron, John O'Neil, Di i Crockett and Joseph Davis, pulled f | the Southwest Pass Light, secure in tl ; seaworthiness of their metallic life-boa | and without a thought of the dang | that threatened them. Not a man ; them but thought he would reach tl i light in three hours at the most, yet i i hour after hour slipped by and they four ! that they made no headway against tl I i. ,i T? I curreiii, ufo^uir ucoci kudu numr.. u i oouraged by Mate Daffy, they bent ' their oars, but to no avail. Dayligl i found them with their compass and tv ! lamps out of sight of laud, exhausted l i their exertion, without food or wate : and a prey to the elements. On tl 1 morning of the 20th they saw a sliij supposed to be the Medorn, and so cloi that they could see the men at woi on board the vessel, but iu vain th( tried to signal her by means of a shi j hoisted on an oar. She was soon lost l view and despair beset them. Dav i gave out and lay exhausted in the bo ! torn of the boat. On the second df they saw a steamer, low down 011 tl ' horizon, bound eastward, but at t< [ great a distance to see them. Trul, j then they gave' themselves up for log Bayron, however, managed to improvii a sail out of three shirts, and slow j they breasted the current until the ga ! reached them, and for three days the I were storm-tossed on the crest of tl i waves. Then followed a calm, yet tl ! sea rau high. Their parched throa j craved for water. McDonald desperat j ly drank the saline which surround* | him, but found that only augmented h ! thirst. Desperately they glared at ea< | other. Hunger gnawed at their vital yet they refrained from cannibalism. Sharks surrounded the Boat, curvetir in the water as if in anticipation of tl | dainty morsels of human flesh in sto for them, if possible lending additiou i horror to tiie scene. xne ping w: . taken out of the bottom of the boat, ai the -water entered in nntil she was ho i full. Then the men in turns lay do\< i in the water until thoroughly saturate! ; thus distilling the water into the I body. In vain, the uufortunates sa; i they attempted io think of a horeafte] | the most trivial things in their life passe i before them like a panorama. Bayrc j thought of watering the cat on the Gu sie, and imagined that he was revellir {iu the troughs. McDonald had visioi of glaciers?all seemed in their seni i delirium?to be iu Elysium only to r j turn to the full realization of the su roundings. On the morning of the seventh d* i the brig Coquette, Captain Cognel, hoi i iu sight, and with ft last expirir g effo ; they signalled her. The brig saw tl i sign of distress and bore up for then | reaching them only to find that, wii the exception of Bayron, all helpless: j lay about the boat. " They were take 1 aboard and kindly treated, but despi I the efforts of the captain McDonald diet The Wife's Choice. I The Evansville (Ind.) Journal say ; A certain man in this vicinity, whoi ! name we are not at liberty to give, wei | iuto the army, and at the close of tl war his family could hear nothing fro: him, and for four years after?eight fro: i the time, he left home?they still heai ! nothing from him and believed him to I { dead. The woman, feeling no doubt i | his death, was married to another, ar I they lived happily together for s: j months, when, to the surprise of all, h< 1 first husband returned and gave whi ' seemed to the family a sufficient cam : for his long and mysterious absenc ! But now what could be doue ? The t\i j men met and in a friendly manner tall? | the matter over and each felt that no 01 ! was to blame for the circumstances. Tl ! parties agreed, however, to leave tl i wife for a few days, and at an appoints ! hour and moment the three should mei I and the wife should decide whose wil 1 she should be. The decision was to 1: ' fiual and the man not received shoul leave the vicinity. With this arrangi ment each complied. The decisive m< ment, the important time arrived an the woman decided that he who had bee her first husband should be her Inst. Tl i other procured his divorce and left f< j other parts. > \* ..i...... i>..i.i. A Jiuun it uinmnvji v? mui. George Hosley, formerly af Arlingtc I Vt., turns up at Ross, West Coast, Ne I Zealand, after being missing for twent; j one years aud writes home of his adven ! urea. He had started to return to tb ! country eight years ago, after accurn i lating a small fortune in the gold di{ ! gings, but reports of an El Dorado, six j miles off, drew hini away, and the staar I er had sailed when he had only discove j ed the rumor worthless, Starting slioi j ly nfterwi.rd with two companions fi ! supposed gold fields, several hundr* j miles away on the West Coast, the boat was wrecked in a terrible gale, at | he alone reached the shore by swir j ming, badly bruised and bereft of r ' his provisions, clothing, and 81.500 j gold. He wns two hundred miles fro j civilization, and lived on birds, berrie and such, for six weeks when a sb: sailed ten miles from the coast, but ni noticing tho smoke of his fire, left hi in despair for three weeks longer, wh< n amol 1 anVinrmor fruVIr Viim nflf t,r> TTol i tika, the nearest settlement. He hi ! been in the gold fields up to the da ' of his letter, July 22. 1877. I An Interesting Fact. In Hildreth's " History of the Unit< States," it is stated that Manhatti Island?afterwards called New Amste dam; now the oity of New York?w bought by the Dutch from the Indiai for sixty guilders, or twenty-four dollai aDd this only about two hundred ai fifty years ago. And yet, if the pu chasers could have securely placed th twenty-four dollars where it would ha' added to the principal, annually, intere at the rate of seven per cent., the acc mulation would exceed tho present ma ket value of all the real estate in the ci and county of New York, Jj. tux cc. ks By ft unanimous vote the striking lie miners employed by' the Susquehanna it- Coal Company at Nanticoke, Pa., deof cided to resume work. h- At a convention of New York workingid men, held in Troy, resolutions were to passed favoring a currency of gold, of silver and treasury notes and a retireid ment of national bank bills ; opposing an the granting of publio lands to railroad ht corporations ; asserting that labor has a h- right to a full share of the wealth it m. creates, and favoring legislation and en other methods of improving the condiit tiou of labor. A ticket was nominated th -with John J. Junio for secretary of la, State. The New York Herald devoted over three pages to what it alleged was the ie "confession" made by William M. a Tweed about six months ago and preas sented to" the attorney-general of New '8 York. Tweed furnished the confession us the price of his liberty, but the attoruey-geueial refused to use it, and it was returned to the " ^oss." The statement published by tlie Herald is a startling record of conspiracy and crime. of It is a complete history of the famous c* "ring" transactions, and gives the lu names of the State Senators and memor bers of the New York State Legislature 16 who were bribed by Tweed, describes the methods employed to corrupt legise* lators and control local affairs, and preof sents a long list of checks and vouchers 16 showing the sums paid by him to his lfj confederates and aids. * The remains of Major General Custer found a final resting place in the ceme*7 tery at West Point, on the Hudson, where they were interred with military JQ and religious ceremonies. ,y A meeting called in New York to r give public expression of approval to the !e policy of President Hayes was addressed p( by George William Onrtis, and a series of resolutions in harmony with the call rIf was adopted. >y The Franklin Savings bauk, of Allert ghcuy has suspended payments. P Western and Southern StateB. it- I Ex-Gov, Hendricks, of Indiana, has ly ! returned from his trip to Europe, je , The election in Ohio has resulted in )0 the success of the Democratic Stute v, ticket by majorities variously estimated at between 10,000 and 20,000. A large ?e vote was polled by the Workingmen's ly ticket. lc The Republicans were successful in jg | the Iowa election, their whole ticket ie beiug elected. The Green backers developed considerable strength. e- The Democrats of Ohio will have a ;Q majority of about forty on joint ballot in is the Legislature, which will give them a h United States Senator to succeed Hon. s, Stanley Matthews. After a desperate battle lasting over ig two days the Nez Perces Indiauu under ie the command of Chinf Joseph surrenderre ed to the United Stateii troops, comal manded by General Miles, at Snake as Creek. The camp of the hostiles conid tained 350 men, women and children, of Jf whom 150 were fighting warriors. The German-American bank of Quin ?? cy, 111., suspended, with liabilities ir placed at $90,000. jf' A boiler in J. E. McKendry & Co's. MJ heading factory at Muncie, Ind., explod|U ed, instantly killing th? engineer and g_ fireman, an.I seriously injuring three jg others. as From Washington. President Hayes was visited at the e~ White House by Hon. A. H. Stephens l" and Hon. Robert Toombs. iy The Bureau of Statistics at Washing,e ton reports that for the three months up to October 1, 1877, the number of ie immigrants landed at the port of New Q York, was 20,109, of whom 11,462 were males and 8,647 females?the number [v during the same time last year being J on ftsn m ? te Postmaster-General Key has received J. a communication from the British post| ollice, requesting the friendly assistance | of this government in putting a stop to the reprehensible habit of sending live specimens of the Colorado beetle by mail 8: to Great Britain. 3e at * Foreign News. ie A great Republican meeting was held ,n in Paris aud addressed by SI. Gambetta. In St. Petersburg, a socialistic plot ' was discovered, which ^extended to Moscow aud other Russian towns, and over GOO arrests were made. ix A frightful epidemic prevailed iu the ?r Russiau departments of Tiflis aud Kutes, and the mortality was enormous. jo Henry Meiggs, tho well-known raile. road builder, died in Lima, Peru. r<? Frederick Simsdale,a London solicitor, !(* has failed for $1,500,000, hiB assets being 16 $600,000. ie The School House Conspiracy. ;>t The scene is laid within half a mile fe of the Clay School, Detroit. Twenty>e one of the largest boys gathered in " .e iUa ? lcI soiemn council in one curuui uj. mo jmu b- anil decided that they were too big to be >- licked bv any school teacher walking the d face of the earth. . After arriving at that in decision a conspiracy was entered iuto. le The biggest boy in the crowd was to >r bring on a conflict with the teacher as soon as possible, and the other twenty were to back hiin. " Death to cowards !" shouted one as the plan was all fixed. >n "No backing down?no hesitation 1" w cried another. y- ''A rush together?one wild yell? t- one mad struggle, and victory will be is ours!" yelled the smallest of tne lot. 11- It was a desperate plan. g- The school-house was not defended by ty even a Gatling gun. a- It might be the commencement of a r- rebellion which would not end until t- every school-house in the land was or turned into an establishment for the id sale of mourning goods. iir Scene second came fifteen minutes id later. The innocent teacher looked a- around upon her scholars without the ill least suspicion that a fierce rebellion was in brewing. The clock ticked the same as m ever. The.boy across the street poundis, ed on an old tin pan the same as ever, ip The big conspirator was suddenly seen ot to throw a paper wad across the room, m He was ordered to come forward. He jn said be didn't have to. ;i- It was a moment of peril, but the fi8 teacher didn't realize it. Sbe walked te down the aisle, took the big conspirator by the collar, and in ten minutes he wondered whether he was down cellar or up in the garret, while twenty other boys grew white around the mouth, 3d bent to their lessons with renewed euro ergy, and mentally whispered : :r_ " Be still, "thou wildly beating heart as ?wait till I grow a foot or two more !" a8 The big conspirator is now thrashing s them in solemn succession. He reached number eighteen yesterday, r- " at The prisoners in the penitentiary on re Blackwell's Island, New York, recently st refused to work bccause their supply of 11- tobacco was withdrawn by the comraisr sioners, and a serious revolt was averted ty only by the prompt arrest of the ringleaders. Good News for Humpbacks. "Thank God, the days of the humphack are ended,'.' said Dr. Sayre, at a recent meeting of the Cork branch of the British Medical Association. His method of treatment of spinal diseases is to give complete and continned rest j day and night at the point where the inflammation exists, perfect freedom from J compression and at the same time abso- i lute immobility, so euabliug consolidation to take place. His process involves the temporary suspension of the patient in a peculiar apparatus by which the weight of the head and shoulders is taken i;^ ? uu buc o^iuCj auu tuu a^iiuuuun ui u skin-fitting shirt coated over with plaster of Paris. A sufficient vacuum for the patient's food is secured by laying a cotton pad or India rubber bag beneath the shirt, over the stomach, until the outer case is hardened, after which it is removed. Dr. Sayre exhibited a patient, a young man of nineteen, who had suffered from an angular curvature of the spine, the angle of this curvature being about 130 degreeB, and was only able to move about by putting his hands on his knees or catching at the furniture. After six weeks' treatment the patient was perfectly erect and had gained threequarters of an inch in higlit, he had taken, unassisted, a walk of four miles, and the bone was rapidly developing. In the case of another sufferer, a little boy of seven, affected with curvature of the lumbar vertebrae, marked benefit had followed a very brief treatment. Au Amherst (Mass.) farmer lately offered one of the young ladies wbo teaches in the public schools there a bushel of potatoes if she would wheel them heme through the streets at an hour when tho greatest number of students were taking, their walks. He had them loaded on the wheelbarrow ready for her, and she pluckily wheeled them home, telling him that when he had more potatoes to dispose of in that way to let her know. Headquarter*. New Yokk (state Association j For the Protection of Fihh and Game, > Syracuse, N. Y., June 23, 1877. ) To Colwell Lead Company, GSHDentre Street, New York Gents. ? We fasve carefully examined your 8hot here on exhibition, and have also received the unanimous report of all the clubs on the grounds of the State shoot in favor of your shot. We cheor/ully pronounce it a very perfect article, and recommend it to the sportsmen generally throughout the country. GREENE S y. IT H. President. JOHN A. NICHOLS, Vice-President. CHA8. B. WBIOBT, Secretary. A Grand Kecord. Nearly thirty years liaTe elapsed finse Hostetter'h Stomach Bitters was first brought to the notice of the American public. To-day it is the most popular remedy on this continent for dyspepsia, liver complaint, constipation debility, nervousness, urinary and uterine complaints, gout, rheumatism, intermittent and remittent fevers, and is widely used in Pouth and Central America, Mexico, the West Indies aud Australia, as a preventive and remedy for malarious disorders, and for many other maladies to tho relief of which it is adapted. The record of its victories is wri;tenintho testimonials of thousands whom it has cured, to many of which the widest publicity has been given; it how won the emphatic sanction of leading members of the medical profession, and it has repeatedly been made the subject of V?tt hnmn or>.1 fftrfiian nman CUVUmiUltIO MJ KUV UVJUV HUM .v? V.Q.. Comment on the above facts is unnecessary. We leave the public to draw its own conclusions. Wonder Upon Wonder. Given away?A strange, mysterious and most extraordinary book, entitled "The Book of Won-' ders." Containing, with numerous curious Eictorial illustrations, the mysteries of the eavens and earth, natural and supernatural, odditios, whimsical, strange curiosities, witches, and witchcraft, dreams, superstitions, absurdities. fabulous, enchantment, etc. In order that all may see this curious book, the publishers have resolved to givo it away to all that desire to see it. Address by postal card, F. Gleasou <fc Co., 738 Washington street, Boston, Maae. .. ,;j The Mile*' Alarm Money Drawer is an article almost indispensable to merchants. Being capable of a variety of combinations, and simple in its construction, it recommends itself to merchants as an important part of their store fixtures. TiTl-tepping has lbecome no prevalent an ingtnwu arrangomont like that of the Miles' Money Drawer ia indeed a necessity. Tbey are sold by Messrs. Fairbanks <t Co., 311 Broadway, New York, and the hardware trade generally.?A". Y. Express. The Latent Faxhlon for Ladle*. Onr attention has recently been called to the liaritan Mafelasse Cloakinqs. something cntire1iMit ir? 4>iow<lv nf hpaw. thick, warm, woolen goods, specially adapted for ladies' wear during the cold woather now approaching. These goods are the handsomest, and most stylish ever seen, and so far as price is concerned, are a miracle of cheapness, They are intended for cloaks, sacques, dolmans, circulars and jackets, for both ladies and children, and are to be fonnd at all the leading dry goods stores in the country. Be particular to ask for the Raritan Cloaking*, and take no other. Make no Mistake. ? In Dooley's Yeast Powder you get the best article of the kind in the world. The cans are always full weight, the article itself the purest and"strongest possible, so that a smaller quantitv than UBnal suffices. Do yon want your baking alwajs perfect? Don't fail then to use dooley's yeast i'owdkh. ' . (By telegraph.) To Unities Bros., No. 145 Fifth avenue, Ntw York Iowa State Fair first gold medal on Haines' upright piano fortes, dl list have two .uprights immediately. A. REED & bQNS. Chicago, "III., 8cpt. 28, 1877. Fnlrbaukn' Hcnlciu In the mouth of August flftv carloads of scaloe were sent out from the scale works, and ninety-nino carloads of materials for manufacturing scales were received at the works in the same month.?St. Johnsbury (17.) Caledonian, Sept. 21. Fr?e ! Lrlnnre Ilonr?.?A splendid 1 <{ page family literary paper, full of Choice Storiea, Sketches. Poetry, etc., gent three months, with a pair of beautiful n-u ?nit*ble fur framing and adorning the walla ofay home, frer to any one Bending 15 cents (stamps taken) to pny mailing expenses. The publishers, J. L. PATTKN 4 CO., tflv! William St., New York, ijiiarmilef every one ilouhlf nilur of money sent. Newsdealers sell Lkiburf. Houhs, price 7 cents. The Markets. HEW Tons. beef Cattle N'Ure 09*0 11* Vens and Cherokee.. O)<Ji0 09 Milch How# 40 00 070 CO Hcrtj : Live 05.5*0 05* Dressed O7A?0 08 Sheep 01 >,(4 C5& Lambs 05X0 00 Cotton: Middling 11?0 11 % Flour: Western: Good to Choice. 5 40 0 8 40 State: Good to Choice C 31 0 0 55 Wheat: Rod Western 1 32 0 1 5:1 No. 3 Milwaukee 1 53 0 1 26 Eye: 8tato 78 0 &0 Barley: State 7S (4 82 Barley Malt 68 0 70 Oata: Mixed Weatern...... b2 0 33 Corn: Mixed Western 67>*0 C8>f Hay, per cwt, SO 0 70 : Straw, por cwt 60 0 55 I Hope 76's?08 (?15 75's 11 0 13 | Pork : Mess 34 15 ?14 25 i Lard: City Steam (9 0 09 X Fl?b : Mackerel, No. 1, new 19 00 @20 00 " No. 2, now 1175 012 60 Dry Cod, per cwt 6 60 @ 6 00 Herring, Scaled, p?r box.... SO 0 22 Petroleum: Crude .O9,tf0O95? Refined...15,5$ Woo': California Fleece 2) 0 25 Texas Fleece 30 0 36 Australian Fleoce 44 0 49 State XX 41 0 44 Buttftr: State '.6 @ 30 Western: Choice 20 0 21 Woutorn: Good to Prime. 20 0 25 Western: Firkins 12 9 18 rthnoaa.. RtntA Factory 18 @ 13^ State Skimmed. 13 0 11 Western C9 0 10% Eggs: State and Pennsylvania.... ID @ 21 uurrAbo. Flour 7 76 0 8 2^ Wheat?No. 1 Milwaukee 1 23 0 1 29 Corn?Mixed 6 X0 51 Oats 25 0 30 Bye 98 0 98 Barloy 83 0 83 Barley Malt 1 00 0 110 PHILADELPHIA. Beef Cattle?Extra 04 0 06 if Sheep 05 0 05X ; Hogs?Pressed... 08 0 08)? Flour?Pennsylvania Extra 712 0 7 25 Wheat?Red Woetern 11"2 0 1 P3 ! Bye 65 0 67 Corn?Telle* TO 0 67 ; Mixed 61 0 il Oat*?Mixed *. 35 0 88 Petroleum?Crude OPij0O3^ Beflned, 15 Wool?Colorado 23 0 24 Texas 21 0 82 | California 27 0 33 BOSTON. Beef Cattle 08 0 08 V i Hboep 06 X (4 Hogs 06 0 09 j Flour?Wisconsin and Minnesota.... 7 60 0 9 00^ Oorti?Mixed ts 19 ?'-n i Out*? ? P8 <4 eg ; Wool?Ohio and PenuHylvanla XX... 48 (S 60 j California Fall...-. 27 & 33 j BRIGHTON, MASfl. Bsef Cattle 06* <3 07* Sheep 06 0 06# rjitnlin. 07 @ 10 Ho** 07X9 01 TITXHTI**, MASS. Cattle -I-oor to Cliolco 8 60 (ft fl 60 Sheep 7 00 0 7 73 T*nih? 7 00 <S 9 00 nil in n in i in in A , j, ^ i ? For Dyapcpala* Weaknein and Debility. Epsom, N. H., May & 1870. Dear 8ir?Having received great benefit from tne use of Peruvian Syrup, I am willing to add my testimony to the thousands of others con* stantly sounding its praise. During the late war I wan in the armv, and had the misfortune fr\ Kn fnlrnn rxMiirvnak nn^ wo a rAnflnn^ in ilalia. w wu iun&u jvi lov/uvi y uuu nag wuuucum uauobnty and other Southern prisons several months, and bf came so much reduced in health and strength as to be a mere skeleton of my former self. On being released, I was a lit subject for a Northern hospital, where I remained Fomo two mouths and then came home. My physician recommended and procured for me several bottles of Peruvian Syrup, which I continued to use for. several weeks, and found my health restored and my weight increased from ninety ppunds to one hundred and fifty, my usual weight, and I*have been in my usual good health ever since ; and I can cheerfully recommend it in all cases of weakness and debility of the system, whether arising from an impure ttato of the blood, dyspepsia, or almost any other cause, believing it will in most cases give entire satisfaction. Yours truly, Geo. S. Bixnv, Sold by dealers generally. CHEW The Celebrated " Matchless " Wood Tag Plug tobacco. The Pioneeb Tobacco Company, New York, Boston, and Chicago. Time will tell, and time has told that any man'B a fool who pays old prices. When Jones, of Binghamton, Binghamton, N. Y., offers Five Ton Wagon fcoalen, on trial, freight prepaid, at $50 each ; free price list. I Am Bllloaa. Quirk's Irish Tea will make a new man of yon. Sold by druggists at 25 c!s. a package. J. P. WARP; West Texas Land, Tax Agency, Abstract Office; ??A3V SABA, TEXAS. Lends bought, sold, protected; Titles investigated; Taxes paid Information as to value, location, in any portion of the State. Parties wanting homes in Teiu, investments made in Land, can do so with tafety, through my office; a reasonable fee chargod and all butine** guaranteetl to be correct. TH33 NEWARK DAILY m WEEKLY COURIER, SEW ARK, NEW JERSEY. F. F. PATTEB80N, Editor and Proprietor. THE LEADING REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER OF NEW JERSEY . Ternu?Daily, 88.00 per annum; Weekly, 82.00. Advertisement* inserted on liberal terms. Send for Price LUt. _______ WI14A|IB Admit AtedicalTreatise "TH1 % ra J B HW So rare* or Lite, or Silt Itll U Wf Pamrbvation," a book for TIIVOCI C S Fiftr orUrin?l''crescrii3 IfllOCLr tions, either oneo t whio&wortT ten times tho price of the book. Gold Medrf awardt the author. Tue Bonton lUrnll siys: "The8cience Lifo Is beyond all comparison UP A I the most extraordinary work UbHI rn Physiology ever published." II laMl illufl. Pnmphlot.BMnt free. Ad's Ba|l||igi|^ 1)R. W. it. PARKRR. No. 4 TilW HulflnchStreet,Bos.on,Mats. | g| | I1UNHAH VI PIAJFOS' fl Dunham & Sons, MariiffaurCTV ml Warerooms, 18 East 14th S*e,i _ [Established 1834.] 0 HK?fT9Mb. Send for HUutraled Oirtular ami PrU^ pro ^bedford's unm showsupobht? KM ARTICLE OVER ALL OHERS.FOR SOAP gAKWaSEMT FREE BTMAIL #1APP11CATIOH TfliLKLAffTHOKY" 104- BEAE SX NEWYCMC. Washburn &. Iffoen ManTg Co. WORCE8TER, MASS. ^ Sail Mm&ctain Zist of Chlago, ct J TmSI:, ._l: -j A BTEEL Thorn Hedge. No other Fencing so Cheap or put np to <;uickly. Never rusts, stains, decay*, shrinks, nor warps. Unaffected by fire, wind, or flood. A complete barrier to the most unruly stock. Impasvabfe by man or beast TWO TH0U8AND TONS SOLD AND PUT UP DURING THE LAST TEAR. Tor sale at the leading hardware stores, with Stretchers and Staples. Send tor illustrated Pamphlet. kfildaki H*?14:4d MArtWNSAFE&SCMECO. S65_ BROAD, ''4_V /V K g clovetittino h 1 CORSETS. 1 Ea The Friends of this 121 yrrffl^uNHivAiuDcoRSET M BMMffSl SSSRwanannow numbered by fc"l FEtTO Wrm millions.'R3 m\\\\ \\\v V/ //////Pric<aarairuchr?ducwllj| Ea \D\\V\\ \kf/Ay MEDAL RECEIVED El Ea N^YAU ulfftv AT CINTCNNIAL. En SI WWW l/fl/ffl Get the Genuine, and 1JSJ M JMm ff/ijk beware of miltition*. cpi Ed sfDWi / ft/ H8S^ AiKAuoros En H/w iPJ \mTHOMSON'S H raO/i M\\ W"miiieakailh iranRI njl II !f \\\ / The best goods nidi-EH P51 ^AL l/l/IHl/ (il]\u\v^ See thatjh? nam# of g5| SI ^StiHU IIV8PC Thomson ana mo |*i H Trade MarK.a Crown.ii* SS ~H ^ 1/stamped on every Conetisteel. rZ POP'S JSJtTBACT. POND'S EXTRACT. The People's Remedy. The Universal Pain Extractor. Note; Ask for Pond's Extract. Take no Other. 'Hvar.far I will speak of excellent thing*." 'UNO'S EXTRACT ?Tho great Vegetable I'ntn Df?troyer. Has beonln use over thirty 'corn, nnJ for cleanliness ana prompt curative > fri* cannot be excelled. Ill ;,i)RE\. No family can afford to be with* <'iii I'und'rt Extract. Accident*, Bruises, Contusions, Cuts, Hprninn, arc relieved al!,! >'( lustautly by external application. Promptly Mlievcs pains of Bnrns, Scalds, Excoriations, Chafing*, Old Mores, Boils, Felons, Corus, etc. Arrests Inflammation, reduces swelllaps, stops bleeding, removes discoloration and heal* rapidly. LADIES And it their bent friend. ItosAuaros th? paint to which they nro peculiarly subjectnotably fullness and pressure In the head, nauje<' vertlito, etc. It promptly ameliorates and pernently heals all ltlnds of inflammation. -nd ulcerations. UEMOIIUIIOIDS orPII/ES And lr ..sthoonfr Immediate relief and ultimate curc ?.o case, how. ever chronic or obstinate caa 'c_:, resist its regular use. VARICOSE VEINS. I" - ,uo ODly sure cure, BLEEDING from any Mi^bc. Kor this It is a specific. it has saved * a...reds of lives when all other remedies failed .i arrest bleeding from nose, stomach, ' j and elsewhere. TOOTIIA'" :(i, Earache, Neuralgia and llhevivtitiffin arc all alike relieved and often ne-xaiientlv cured. P?? > slCIANS "f all schools who are acquainted with Pond'rt Extract recommend It in their * ?A?imonf1oMAn front practice, noiiaiciwusui .... hundreds of Physicians; many of whom order It for use In their own practice. In addition to tho foregoing they order lis use for Swellings of all kinds, Qninsy, Sore Throat, Inflamed Tonsil*, simple and chronic Diarrhoea, Catarrh tf'>r which It Is a a/jertflc), Chilblains, Fronted Foct, Stings of Insects, Mosauitos, etc.. Chapped Hands, Facc, and Indeed oil manner of skin diseases. TOILET USE. Ketnovea Soreness. Ronghness and Smarting) heal* Cuts, Eruption* and Pimples, it retire*, invigorate* and re/renfiM, while wonderfully Improving tho Complexion. TO FARMERS?Pond's Extract. No Stock Breeder, no Livery Man canafford to be without It. It is used by all tho leading Livery Stables, street llallroads and first Horsemen In New York City. It has no equal for Sprains, Harness or Saddlo chnflncs. Stillness, Scratches, Swellings, Cuts, Lacerations, Weeding*, rneumonia, ?.onu. ism rhasa, Chills, Colds, etc. Ita range of actios Is wide, a?d tho relief It affords Is so prompt that It U Invalurble in every Farm-yard as well aa In every Farm-house. Let It be tried once and you will never be without It. CAUTION ! Pond'? Extract has bren Imitated. '1'he genuine article has tho words Pond's Extract blown In cach bottle. It Is prepared Dy the only pcrnous living who ever knew how to prepare it properly. Keluse all other preparations of Witch Haael. This Is tho only artlclo used by .Physicians, and In the hospitals of this country and Europe. HISTORY and Uses of Pond'n Extract, lu pamphlet form, sent free on application to PO^D'^ EXTRACT COMPANY, M Haider - " \ / BOSTOI WEEKLY THifSCg The beat bally ampip? pnblichad; eight 9/ n' tlx oolnmns reading. .. j M Tenn*?f 2 per uinnm; oiube of kTMt** ""^'SPECOTKK COPY GRATIU MiADir enp ILL ?I I 'VIlk ~ In their own locslltfM, etOTWiia| Cor/f??*. Visitor, (eoltrtrad) Weakly MidTlotitf Paper in the World, with o?Si? ?2Big OomroiMiona to Ayentg. ' Address P. O. VICICEtt Y, A Bp** ?*?"?? ^ j?r? Read^&. PHIMGO fEDOER A lame 48-Colajnn FanflftKS ^ 1'*? """ *?gg Bryan's Eltftric Belts Are worn without inoon?*^f*fi?* other diieaaea that arProm A<JOT ?' "**' 'oro? or nervous exhaustion Without T*lnS Me?Uclrte?j? / ri&auM^*SWSsr"> "TAie IT EASY!" Common S?e Chairs and Rockers, With or without **4 Writing Table. ^ (JM 'fe?fJ?ut^.1**? all Ann Chain, MH 2wn_,u**d 0,1 my No. 4, 6.13 TWSL: M ot16,give,icomplflte satlsfnc Vl&Af ?o?j.canbeset at any desiru v|HH rB*dlng or writ in/ /HHR J35rfifr * *U9? dininK table f iOD, _ SI, 4*cr onttinit table ; the U4im; none of yonr 7x9 : ?8x3# ioches. car" HBUg b? *ot ?ot of order; alt* "?$?!* ,mtd? upon h o rji ??.-jio tUaiD for nin*. ^ o^t v 111 ^>*110n<?aga^ Co .V ?3. V. I Three Thousand MIlea Away, id another hemisphere, sparkles the Seltcor Spring. In every d?* store in America you may obtain it* eqatvalentj pot it in your pocket and carry it with you to the .world'* end, ifjronohooM. Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient U limply the living fountain of health, [a the form of a Crder capable of being converted into a hobbling, hing far. rimilr. of the liquid prodac of nature in one A^^WMSSniir Aj & remedy in maL^ioui ftTen.etoiawh, gorajlvnte. irregular tie* of the bowpfo, mmua' fll?oraer?,- mental depression, headache,'an overflow of bile, dropsical aft. menta, nansea and comtipatlon, it has no equal. Sold by alldrngglsfa. ' ' .- -/ j mill ite-x H ' ,uw?iU.?i hi.,i J Thin new palerit OVercSgT tf~lhe~Sasr-Bty 1WT HH TRADE, and equallv applicable* for Ulston, Slutiui-Jackets, and Cloaks. For Sale at Wholesale, and right* to manufacture granted only by ( r 'f |; JOHN PARETIe CCbii .?ii . WHOUMW OfOTHWBB., 376 6c 378 Broadway, New York. jy 8END FOR ILLDSTKATKb CrEOULAS . - i ?< f . t i / *i:; . Ui thb M NITED STATES y* B*y n g u' j g * SMWPP' -"jassss*: hoSETS, $4,827,17632 ; 'stfTOS, $820,000 5TVTKRY APPROVED FORK OF POLlfe? 3SUED ON HOST FAVORABIiE TEEM3 ALL ENDOWMENT POLICIES im> "u , 'f?j:I 'W-ii tfVKOm CXAXBSS MATURING IN 18?7 wa-LBF-i?Sf|flT7^ ON PRESENTATION. ' TAJM3S BUHLL. - - PRESIDENT. . .... ?;! .-f.H : "VEGETINE," - i w vin \ ... . . , : ? p. . . . i !. 847s a Bo ton Pbyiician, " has no nu! aa ft blood purifier. HarinRof its ninny wondorful cure#, after*11 other remedy had failed, I Waited the laboratory and convinced ropelf of ita gonnine merit. It ia prepared from barks, oota and herbs, each of which la highly effective, an d.hey are corapoanded Ifi 1 ach a mainer a* to produce aaonishing result*." > '1' "VEGETINE " la the Great B16d Purifier. ~ YSGETINE.l Will cure the worstcaae of SorofuU. VEGETINE Is recommended by ?hjrsicUnfl and Apothecaries. ''At 1 VE&ETINE. Has effected some msveloas care* ra ca/os of Cancer. VEGETINE Cores the worst cases of Janlcer. VEGETIKE . Meet* with wonderful suc?si in Mer<arial disease*. ' VEGETIPfE Will eradicate Salt Rbearafrora tin system. VECrlTfNE Removes Pimples and Ham<ra.rom the Face, TrwiL^iT\n? v juun xu Cares Constipation and Regulate the Bowels. VEGETINE la a valuable remedy forHeadacha / YECrETINE Will cure Djspepsi.t. VEGrETIUE ! Restores the entire jstem to a healthj condition. ViGETINE Removes the caoies of Dizziness. YEGETINE i Rolieres Faintnis at tbe Stomach. ' YEGETINE t,i Cures Pains In te Back. { "YEGETINE I Effectually con Kidney Complaint. TEGETINE *' ft effective in is oura of Female Weakness. 18 7EGETINE 1$ the great rmedy for Goneral Debility. I ^ VEGETTJS E '? Is acknowleged by all classes of people to be th? hfe and mo? reliable Blood Purifier in the World ^ /ECETINE > i~: PREPARED BT r i R. STEMS, Boston, Mas ! | Veptino is Sold by All Druggists. \j -id WilaBu. TOOg^Ji iPSj S3S03gJ 1BE^&n?5!MMI i <i''iir ,i < *>JIE9^ rvH Y j |H >? Rfln ' A1mm^^B9Eh - -roduUlrvjua^KlBI > renwrq (ht|W^^DB Ure.of yoar ^;hH Tho i ' o*? zxxfc^Hfl^Hj i With finer fcird^H^^^H iad Upen? ablt to - -tnfc; AoHtoHn mm*". S<tt(?! cents. Cir<?F!^^ni oeen in 124 Suk^^HB m alee It one ? In tb>w?ork..fe^B^Wm > mand " males ma.x^^9HIH it, et K^iwSSBB ' 'u?d 1 ' Dae TcrvT^B^^HH >' 'g*p'* c !eeTo^uJ^B^^HH| (o any PCL^HKBHH Siim ple? hflHHH Prices. ? | g MIMMmIB ACBMBHBj 11m it ,w!"wsm CoiiHffi J.JI WSSBm .1 ^i?nn :ofl xfjH UcH u-fl JBBH i}WR B B