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Ballad of a Baker. Joe Brown he was a baker man, A baker man was Joe ; He ne'er was known to want for anght. And yet he kneaded dough. And he was rugged, hearty, too, And had a long life leased. And all because he rose up with His early rising yeast. . To never cheat bis customers. This man was earlv taught, And yet his loavee were always light. His pie-crust rather short. Aud he was generous-hearted, too, And kin j*unto the needy? And neat and tasty in his dress. Although his cakes were seedy. With him none dared to bandy jokes Whene'er he sought the marts, For well they knew his repartees Were sharper than his tart*. And when I say his skill was great In getting up a muffin, His pastry filled the months of all. And needs no further pnffin". "l is said he was a temperance man If so I can't tell why He mixed with wheat and corn meal, too, A trifle of the rye. When age at last o'ertook the man, His form grew bent and sore. And, like the cake he used to bike. Hi* head was frosted o'er. Aud when he diod all mourned his loss, With no sectarian bias, For he had been a friend to all, A good man and & pie-ons. HIS KFTrAPH. Deneath this crust of upheaved earth A well-bred baker hep." And like the roJjB housed to mould, We hope^tlaj^hrll tiBe. * THE HEIRLOOM. The pearl cross was an heirloom. Etta wore it the first time I ever saw her, jiml I noticed its beauty as it rested up ou a knot of deep. blue, hbbous at her t liroat. Ribbons ami pearls both suited her fair eomplexion, deep golden hair, and brown ejes^large and soit as a fawn's. w* Q ; ,. I think loved Henrietta Raymond the tirst hour in which I met lier at a Rinall party my Aunt Hilili gave in honor of my return from a long business trip iu western cfties.'' When the party was over Aunt Hilda told me Miss Raymond was the niece (if a new-comer in ^our midst, a retired clergyman, who had taken a house very near our own. Had she been a great heiress or a very tine ltyJy, I might never have drawn her into rtiy heart of hearts, as I d!d very soon. But she was a loving girl, possessing no worldly wealth, and wo met on tents of perfect social equality. I was au orphan, who owed education, care, everything to Aunt Hilda, who had au income ISO very narrow ^that it must have cos. Jisr many aots of self-denial to support hie. But at "tl)6 time I met Etta Raymond"L bad- obtained a good situation in a commercial house in New York, and was putting all my spare funds into Aunt Hilda's keeping for her own comfort. I had been absent more than a year on business for the firm, and was enjoyr\f a } wAfifh'tt ilnrfttinn. ti vauuuuju. va ? y when I met, wooed find won Henrietta Raymond. I courted her with all my heart; and when she acknowledged she loved me, my cup of happiness was full. Her uncle, Mr. Raymond, when I placed my worldly prospects before him, was averse to an immediate marrirge-, but gave his heartv consent to our engagement. How the time speeded away, and how much of it we spent side by side iu that happy summer. A year passed, during which I was retaiued closely at my post in the counting-house, :naving -responsibilities and duties tin.t kept- me fat into the night. As siuumer-drew near, I was troubled by frequenit attack#? of vertigo, and I looked forward to my month'* vacation as a much needed rest as well as pleasure. To my great disappointment it was postponed* until September, and I was really when at last I packed my trunk and look the train for borne. tore I saw ]$tta 1 was prostrated by an attack ofgffeter that threatened my life, depriving me of consciousness for weeks. When I recovered there fell upon me a blow that caused a dangerous relapse. I was blind. Our only doctor said hopeIrtoel^r imahmKIv lilinrl i ' IC.-K-MJ , XXlV.14i.MM.IJ - It was impossible for many bUter months for me to. feel resigued or patient. I prayed to (lie, rather than to Jive in my youth' and strength a burden upon a weak and aged woman. My gifts to Aunt Hilda were melting away fust under medioal expenses, and there was only her own small incoifle for our support. But for Etta, I believe I should have taken my owu life in these dark, despairing days. Yet she was a very ankel of comfort. She refused to accept my offered release from her engagement, and actuallv proposed an immediate marriage and immigration to New.York, where she was sure she could find work. Oh, my darling! how my heart wrapped von close in these dark days, "When all other hope or joy seemed .atricken from my life. Every day as I Bat in onr tiny parlor, helpless and idle, Etta came to me, pressing her soft lips upon my blind eyes, and whispering words of comfort. She read to me, talked to me, sang and played upon Aunt Hilda's oldfashioned pinno all my favorite airs. If the weather Was finp we walked out, Etta leading me to' retired spots. But I mourned for my future ! What was life to be to me ? I must learn'some uew pursuit to win bread, or depend upon charity, I was well again and strong, and every drop of my young blood was in revolt at my enforceu idleness. At Christmas' time, Mr. Raymond's only son came from Chicago for a visit. I had heard of Albert Raymond from Anut Hilda. From his mother ho had inherited a fortune, and he had loved his cousin Etta. Because of her refusal to be his wife ha had gone to Chicago, where he was adding to his heritage by successful land speculations. I was prepared to ba jealous of Albert Raymond, for Etta always spoke kindly of him, giving him warm sisterly affection: But after he came, though he was cordially pleasant with me, I hated him. Before he^had been home a week 1 kne^ that lie ami iitta nau some secret between them. I could grope my way by that time to several of the neighboring houses, and was often Etta's visitor, as she had been mine when I was gettmcr well. More than once coming across the gardeu, I could hear Etta and Albert conversing in aa animated, eager tone, to stop abruptly th? moment I appeared, or awkwardly to intro luce general subjects I was sure were not the subjects of the original conversation. A visitor came from New York to Mr. Raymond's, a frieud of Albert's ; and Etta insisted upon my inviting him to my aunt's house. He was a gruff-spoken man, and talke.1 incessantly of my affliction. Knowing how I shrank from any conversation, from anv sympathy upon his subject, Etta hacl always delicately led all such talk away from it. But, to my surprise, she encouraged this stranger, and fairly wrung from me every symptom, both pending and during my illness.. When he went away, she accompanied him home, though I offered to escort her over a little later. It was a week after this, and Albert had been away, when he returned suddenly. Coming into the room, he said : " Etta, it will be all right." Then seeing me, I am sure, he made Kom? awkward explanation about money investments. But Etta grew very silent, and soon after I heard a pencil over paper.. . Albert was writing! A few minutes later he left the room, and very soon Etta asked me to excuse her for a moment, and followed him. I groped ray way to the table, where I was sure I had heard Albert writing. Nothing there ! I felt about, till a email piece of paper was found close beside Etta's chair. She had traded to my blindness for its remaining undiscovered. I was half mad with jealous pain, and I somehow got to Mr. Raymond's study. Will you read that to me ?" I asked. WW?? Without other answer, he read : " I must speak 10 you. Will wait iu | the summer-house." J s " Thank you !" I said, " What is it ?" he asked. i " The wrong note. I will tind the , _ (other." ^ I weut away then, to the summer- j g i house, softly as a thief, guarding my ^ i steps on the frozen ground. They were j,? there, and I could hear Albert's voice 1 P1 As I came near, I heard Etta?" Ah, I ^ ; Albert, I will love you all my life for j I this !" , w She was crying too. i could tell that | Q] by her broken voice. j 8. I turned away and weut home. It was I J : a cold day, and I was utterly miserable. ; ^ Aunt Hilda insisted upon nursing me, q | and I submitted, brooding over my a secret pain, seeking no sympathy. . n It was but natural Etta should turn ni from the blind lover, who was but a dis- j, appointment, to the handsome voung j a] man of fortune who had loved her so j C( long. I would try to give her up, not j ai ' in anger, but tenderly. g But I could not. Albert returned to j ^ Chicago, and everv day Etta became j *n < * * - it.. ! AU dearer to me. ."sue was uie iigut ui j m life. She gave me every Lour Bh'e j 8j could spare from her duties to her e3 uncle and liis house, and she spoke of i onr future as surely to be pasBed I m together. I had no courage to tell her J ai I suspected her secret, and ouly in my j w lonely hours did I dwell upon the re- j 8j J membrance of Albert's visit. j The long winter wore awa^ the early ; i spring was gone, and when May bios- j jj , soms were bursting Etta came one j ^ morning to see me. I ~? " Do you remember Dr. Sanderson ?" i ' she asked. ! " Your cousin's friend ?" ' ^ " Yes, He is a great oculist." i Qf My heart seemed to stand still. "He came from New York solely to j w, ! see you, and lie warned us that we must : jj( ! give yon no exciting hope for some j m ' months. Perfect tranquility, he told I y ! us, was the great hope for the recovery J >?] of your sight. i jjj j "Recovery of my sight," I cried, j aiJ i "He thinks that possible?" ; "He thinks it more than possible. tfe, If you improved in strength as you gj( i have done all the winter, he was certain ' 1 - 1-3 nnAAAnftfnlln f)?iq i ' ue C'OtllU O LIUVJCOOX Ul J J U^>V1U 1U1U i yg month." : ije ; I could not speak. Very gently Etta j ^ told me of lier cousin's kindness. He i p had goue to the city solely to find this (j8 I doctor, who was no more his friend j mi J than he was the friend of any other uo I patient He had brought him to see j ut me, aud then burdened my Etta with ev j his secret instructions. Even Mr. Ray- f0; raond and Aunt Hilda were ignorant of I ^ this loving conspiracy. It humiliated me to think of the part II had taken, the unworthy construction ^ i I had placed upon Etta's outburst of gratitude. But she should never know ^ T had doubted her, even for an hour. ! no " Tell me," I said, "when this doctor j an ' will come again." ' yjj " He is here, waiting to see you." < Up ]. He came in soon after, and there was J j no reluctance then in my answers to his j ^ I searching questions. He examined my 1 ge I eyes closely, and gave me a promise of j ne ' sight in less than two months. j at ! And he kept his word. After the m? | operation he gave strict directions ior i bandaging and confinement in a dark cj] ; room, till, at the end of six long weeks j0 ; he came again, and let me see once more j>e ; the blesfed daylight and Etta's face, i From that hour I gained hope and jjt | courage again, and when my eyes were , ; completely restored returned to New ;.York. I was expressly forbidden to _ J resume my old duties, but the firm w gave me a position as salesman and a , good salary. Etta waited another year for me, when 3? I my great-uncle left me a legacy that , J , enabled me to marry, having a sure in- nQ Icome- sei : It was not until we had been married t over a year that Etta asked me one day , i if I could spare her seven hundred dol- f 1 lars- riel "Certainly," I replied. 1 "Do you wonder what I want of so ?. i much money ?" she askod. j I did wonder, for we had no secrets in *-w - ' * i-i en : our life, and my wife usually torn me ; where she epent her money. "I will tell yon," she'said. "I want to buy back my pearl cross." Pi " You sold that!" I cried. " I thought , ; you valued that above all yonr posses I 008-'" \ ats " But not above your eyesight J Dr. Sanderson was paid $500 for the opera- . ! tion, not the $50 vou supposed." f, 1 " Etta!" P1 " That was part of our secret. Albert . , would have' given me the money, but I would not let you owe your sight to any .J I one save me. So he took my cross, and .. i sold it for $700 here in New York. The , j man who bought it agreed to keep it for , ? : a time for me, and to-day Albert told me j he could get it again." * I shall always think the cross' had ~ i iiovar Koon nnt, nf Alhert's oossession. j and he was too delicate to give it again to ^ Etta. But he was in New York on. a j wedding tour, abont to sail for Europe, _ and he gave his cousin the opportunity . j to redeem the heirloom. . My wife wears the pearl cross when; ever'she is in gala dress, and I never see !1^ it upon her fair throat but my heart swells in loving gratitude to the faithful I woirau who sacrificed it, the dearest . treasure she owned, for me, to restore to , . i me the lost blessing of sight. i. I i , ~?: ca A Turkish Assault Four Centuries Ago. J H< I J. W. De Forest has an article in gr Harper** Magazine on "The Turkish Hi Wars with the Hospitalers," from whioh fla wo make an extract giving an account of be a Turkish assault on the city of Rhodes wi am inlnn/1 fV?of nomo At IL1C ClliCi til* wi au idacajliva vi tuui juhu*v ?a. iu the Mediterranean?July 27th, 1480. foi Mr. De Forest says: To prevent the con- Af ; struction of supplementary defenses, a ire i cannonade of twenty-four hours was pa hurled through the breach. At sunrise on i on the 27th of July came the assault, wt ; The defenders, Jving on the inner slope pa j of the mound of ruins, worn out with ol long watching and continuous uproar, were mostly sunk in that deep sleep of i utter weariness so well known to the : soldier. Before they fairly awoke and . commenced their battle, groups of Turks j? had scaled the ramparts on either side *J;6 of the gap, and were firing down into it, while a body of some five hundred had 86 succeeded in flanking the line and entering Jew street. ! The grand master, conceiving tliat the j hour of martyrdom was at hand, unfurl- | ! ed the great standard of St. John and j ? called upon his knights to follow him to j m< i death. Their first charge broke and i | slaughtered to the last man the unbe- j iievers who had penetrated the city. | Next they rnshed to the captnred ram- | " parts; the stairs were choked with rub- ve ! bisli, but they.mounted on ladders, the | *h Tnrks meanwhile hurtling stones and I ? " ] pouring in missiles. Twice wounded, *n twice pushed down the ascent, D'Aubus- *r< sou was the first to reach the summit, . and the first to drive his half-pike into j au Osmanli. Several others fell under se ' his thrust, and meantime his companions ^ j were by his side, swiftly regaining the m walls. " le Palreologns hurried forward a chosen ; a' body of janizaries to the support of his j ^ escaladers. Twelve of them, bound by w . a solemn oath to slay the grand master, j a* fought their way up to him, and pierced ! ar i his armor in three places. His followers, : horror-stricken and roused to franzy, : rushed on the assailants with renewed w fury, sweeping them down the steeps w j and out of the breach. A general rout tc followed, bearing away the pasha himself, and tumbling back the fugitives ! into the Turkish entrenchments, while i the swords of the Christians sprinkled te : the way with their blood. st It was the final effort of the invaders, c< and the final triumph of the defenders, j II On the 19th of August, after a furious ! rt niege of three months, Palseologus with- ir drew his armament, carrying away 15,- I( 000 wftunded and leaving 9,000 dead. It b | grieves one to learn that the renegade w escaped the bow-string of his wrathful r< master, and was merely punished for his ci failure with the loss of bis dignities and rc j banishment to Gallipoli. hi j , 0] The reduction of the salaries of judges; p: increased taxation of banks and capital; ir i and the revival of the whipping-post? o< 1 these are measures that have been un- o: [ dergoing discussion in the Kentucky tl i legislature, and are thought to be popu- ci | lar among the people. & THE DUMB MAN. tory of the Moat Remarkable Inmnte of Massachusetts Prison. There appeared recently before th overnor's coancil what Warden Chan erlaiu of the Charleston (Mass, tate prison regards as the most r< larkable case in his experience. Th dumb man" was examined in refei uc? to a petition for a pardon that hi lends have presented. " We saw him for a minute or two la* eek," said Mr. Haynes of the goven r's council to a New York Sun corn xmdent, "and the brief intervie' auntcd me the rest of the day. W ad taken up the papers of Micha< ''Donnell, sentenced for the murder c little girl. He had served ten years 7e asked the warden to bring O'Dor ell in. Soon after a tall man in priso ress walked in, and his appearanc ad manner were so strange that non )uld spe8k for a few minutes. We sc id looked at the man in amazemenl "is hair was perfectly white and sofl at there was a fixed expression on th ce that was terrible. He looked like an struck dumb with terror?like eep walker. There was absolutely n [pression whatever on his face excep lat of fear. He walked like an auk at on. We put a few questions to him id lie simply answered yes or no ithout the change of a muscle. Th ght was so painful that we sent hir vay, and then asked the warden abou m. It seems that he was a well-to-d' ishman who lived in a town near by id had a small piece of land. In lu irden he raised vegetables and wa oubled by thefts. , One night h sard some 01^ in the garden, and as h ten said?for he has never spoken sine it?he fired at random into thi irden to frighten the thieves away. I is so dark he could see nothing. Thei ! went back to his house, llie nex oming the body of a girl about fifteei lars of age waB found in the garden ae charge that O'Donuell had firei lied her. He was tried, convicted, id after his sentence for life he actei ;e a man from whom every emotion o eling had gone. The vacant expres )n came into his face, his hair turnec lite, and for ten years his manner ha* ten unchanged. He does the work tha' i is told to like a machine, and obeyi e prison regulations, but he neve] eaks except to answer yes or no. ' H< known in the prison as the duml m. The petition for his pardon doei it come from him ; he' did not know il itil summoned before the council, and en when informed that his chances r pardon were deemed good, hit inner did not change. It appears that a strong point mad< the prosecution when he was convict was that he saw the girl, knew whe e was, and maliciously shot her; bul has lately been learned that he die t know her. It was All Hallow'een, d there is a superstition that if t gin places a cabbage over her dooi on that night, she will marry hixr to first passes under the threshold, le girl went to O'Donnell's garden tc < nnkhnira fnr that rinrnosp. VlflT t tile uauk/Mgv *v* ^ , ver been there before, as was allegec the trial, as showing O'Donnell'f ilioe, and was shot. These facts hav< en satisfactorily proved to the conn , and Mr. Haynes savs there is nc nbt bnt that O'DonneiTs pardon wil voted. ______ >w Decatur Reached Constantinople. The Philadelphia Press says: A [ respondent desires to know when th< ivilege of trade and navigation in th< ack sea, and commerce with all th( irkish ports of the empire, was firs anted to Russia. It was conceded b] 5 Treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardji ii 74. From the conquest of Constanti pie in 1453 np to that date the Blacl i had been closed to the commerce o: foreign powers. British and Frencl: Lps were not admitted until the Treat? Amiens in 1802. The merchant ves is of the United States were not allow to enter the Black sea until the nego .tion < f our first treaty of commerce th Turkey in 1830. The English gov iment was much opposed to any sucl Qoession to the United States. Th< rrespondence of Mr. Rhind, our nego tor, shows this. Count Orloff, th< issian ambassador, however, earnest supported our claims, and as Russii >s all-powerful at that time at Con ratinople, His interference camet eat weigkt with it. Mr. Rhind tool vantage of the Ramazan fast, whei a English ambassador supposed it t< impossible to transact any business th the aid of his Russian ally, to pusl b treaty through. It is a curious fac at the United States was the first na m to force an entrance through th< wed straits of the Dardanelles. Ii 01 Com. Bainbridge, who had a secre ;ssage to convey to the sultan from thi 3y of Algiers, sailed from Algiers fo: rastantinople in the American frigat* Jorge Washington. >As he knew hi raid not be permitted to proceed up b b capital, he made show of coming U chor ofl the castles of the Dardanelles the meanwhile firing a heavy salute i the wind blew Btrong up the channel ider cover of the smoke of his own an< e reciprocated salute, he spread all hi nvass to the breeze. Before the Turk uld discover his maneuvers he was on range* of their cannon, and speedinj Q TT O T7 \U 1 Hi unrOi TrAlrv>itv that it wa tposBible to overtake him. When h st anchor off the mouth of the Goldei Dm, and displayed the stars and stripes eat was the surprise and consternation 9 was supposed to be a pirate, as th g of the United StateB, never havinj fore been floated in Tnrkish -waters is unknown. Having no knowledge o nerica.the Turkish authorities were in rmed the vessel was from the new world ter considerable delay, and threats c iprisonment in the Seven Towers fo ssing through the Dardanelles with t previous permission, the commodor is admitted to an audience at th lace, and eventually accomplished th jects of his mission. England's Military Strength. Major-Genera] Sir Garnet Wolselev an English magazine article justpub hed, says : At no previous period ha igland been so strong in a militar nun ah now. Were war declared tc arrow about 400,000 drilled men wouli 11 into line, if required, supported b; 2 field guns, manned and horsed b; e royal artillery. That number woul i roughly made up as follows : Stand g army ac home, 99,000 men ; arm; id military reserve, 40,000 ; militia ,000 volunteers, 180,000, and second 18S army reserve, 10.000- total, 414,00C l this calculation I have put the figure ry low, andfhave left out altogethe e 10,000 yeoman, who would be avail >le for home service. I have not take: to consideration the number of regula oops that would be available for wa hen the Mediterranean garrisons wer rnished by militia. It will thus b en that we could at once take the flel ith two fully equippe?Larmy corps c ore than thirty thonsanasoldiers each aving a similar force of regrtlar troop home as a reserve. When I oompai ie military strength of Eugland nov ith what it was in 1854, I am amaze i the conditiono of military weaknef id helplessness into which we wer hen we began the Russian war of thfi ?ar, as I am at the ignorance of thoe ho are now croaking over our suppose ant of strength, and alleged inabilit ' fight. . New York's Potter's Field. The New York city cemetery or Poi ir's Field as it is commonly called, w? arted on Hart's island in 1869, and h? msequently been in use for nine yeari ; covers about four acres of land, lei ither than more, and there are burie i it between 30,000 and 40,000 bodiei # is impossible to tell just how manj ecause for the first five years the ere buried helter-skelter, without an scord or any system, and their numb) in only be estimated. There were f iany buried in these first five year Dwever, that the whole gr?und is fu : them, and it is impossible to dig it in any part of the lot without tun ig out dozens and dozens of decayin )ffins. In 1874 the burying in reguh rder was begun, and now any bod mt may afterward be claimed by frienc in be exhumed, as many bodies ai rery year. SUMMARY OF NEWS. a ' Eastern and Middle Stater : Spring elections in a number of cities and 0 ! towns of New York have been held. James i- ! Benton, the Workingmen's candidate, was ) I elected mayor of Utica, defeating both the ! Democratic fend Repnblican candidates; in '* ; Elmira,'Granville D. Parsons,'Greenback and I 6 | Labor Reform candidate, was elected mayor r- i over the Republican and Democratic nominees is j by 424 majority, and the same party elected i five of the seven aldermen chosen ; in Oswego, . i Thomas Pierson. the Greenback and Working I men's candidate, was elected mayor by tibont l" I 300 majority : in Auburn, the combined Demoj crats and Nationalists elected Martin L. Walley ! mayor by 214 majority, while the regular e ! Republican nominees for mayor were elected in Rochester and Newbnrg, and the Democratic I candidate for that office was chosen in Troy, j The Prohibitionist party of Rhode Island, in ' convention at Providence, nominated the preal j ent State officers for re-election. n j A bill for the protection of savings bank de- J :e positors has been passed by the New York e State 8enate. tt j The New Hampshire Greenback party held a i ; convention st Portsmouth and nominated , * j Samuel Flint, of Lyme, for governor. *' A fire in Spartansburg, Pa., dostroyed nearly ,| 6 I every business house in the town. Twenty a families were made homeless, and the damage , ft I done reaches $100,000. o The ship Bertha, of Portland, waa sighted ( it j by the steamship Bolivia, in mid-ocean, with h j the American ensign, union down. The mate j of the Bertha stated that on the previous day j ? ! Captain Hill and three seamen had been washed '? j overboard. A navigator and two seamen from e ! the Bolivia were Bent aboard the ship. ti , Special Bank Examiner William J. Best, who I j f I Via a hftpn encaced for a lone time in examining |, 0 the affaire of t&e Union Dime Savings Bank? , . one of the largest institutions of its kind in ' New York city?haa prepared a supplementary 1 8 I report stating that the concern is in a safe 1 8 I condition, and charging that the troubles of e | the bank were due to a conspiracy of several i i members of the bank's board of trustees to in- i 0 i jure it. 1 - J Henry Schmidt, of New York, while in a f : drunken rage at his wife, who refused to give ^ 1 i up her earnings to satisfy his craving for i 1 | liquor, poisoned her, his daughter, and t t mother in-law bv putting arsenic in their < 2 coffee, and then fled. The mother and daugh- t ter were rescued from death, but the old lady 1 : , was left in a critical condition. Schmidt was t 1 | captured and locked up. ( > The railroad bridge over the Raritan river at 1 I New Brunswick, N. J.?a wooden structure f 25W feet long?caught fire near the draw and . 1 was almost totally destroyed. 1 ; The porgie ship Alabama, lying in the har- f 5 j bor of 8onth Bristol, Me., waa destroyed by , j. | fire, causing a loss of $50,000. ~ , The large commission and 'packing house of i Ashael Troth & Co., Philadelphia, haB sus- t r pended. , t ^ rrrr - TV CI r, ? 1 LIU aurntJ ClttVUJgn 1IIUU, U1 UUDWU, uu our- | > pended. It is believed the depofritors will be ' 3 paid in full, bnt a long time will be required to . \ wind np its affairs. [ i A fire in Jersey City, N. J., destroyed live f l | dwellings and made over one hundred families 'destitute. Loss on buildings and to occupants, c ' ! about $25,WO. 8 Robert McAdam and Charles Patton, boys c 5 aged about twelve years, quarreled in Philadel- I pnia over the possession of a stick of candy. 3 > Patton drew a pistol and shot McAdam through t i the head, instantly killing him. e I Western and Southern States. \ > The carnival season id New Orleans opened i i with the arrival "of King Carnival, the snr- I : render of the keys of the city by the mayor, a L and the occupation of the city by the King of 1 Misrule. Over twenty thousand persons wit- e ' nessed the ceremonies. ? I Hot Springs, Ark., the famoms watering place, ' I has been pirtially laid in ashes. A fire broke c I out in a shanty, p.nd before itoould be subdued ? ) the fiames had destroyed 250 buildings, to- I 3 gether wi:h an immense amount of goods. ' Among the buildings burned are three hotels, J two banks, post-omoe, a daily news-paper office, > J Western Union telegraph office, ana various c I bath and business houses. The loss is estimat- f ed at $200,000 and over. Cincinnati's board of education has appro- ' , | priated $2,000 to prepare a full showing or the j city public school system and students' work, 1 | at the Paris Exposition. j 31 A hard money l&ague has been formed in tbe l West with headquarters at Chioagp. George i | W. Allen, of Milwaukee, haa been elected ] , president. i 1 The fifth annual oonvention of the National < | Butter, Cheese and Egg Association met in < Chicago, and was called to order by President { Herny Shriver, of Baltimore. About fifty ' members of the Boston Produce Exchange ar- < rived in the morning. Many hundred delegates 1 from all parts of the country .were in attend- 3 ance. . \!f The trestle platform used in building a new ' iron bridge across the Potomac river near ' Williams port, Md., gave way while thirteen ( men were at work upon it, throwing them into ! the water. Three of the men were fatally in- j jured and three othera seriously hurt. The steamer City of Chester caught fire at \ Memphis, Tenn., and many of those on board were compelled to jump into the river for their , lives. The moBt of them were rescued by j small boats, but two men lost their lives. The ] Bteamer was totally destroyed. j Paul St. Pierre, his wife and two children, t lost their lives while in the cabin of a propeller < which was ran down and sunk by a steamboat ' at New Orleans. i At Fort Wayne, Ind., two sonB of Matthew j Lynch, aged twelve and fourteen, were killed by the explosion of a railroad torpedo with which they were playing, and a third Bon, aged 1 two, was fatally injured. Thn National Dairvmen's convention, in ses- . . ision at Chicago, adjourned to meet on the first ! a Wednesday in March, 1879, in New York city. .T. F.'Joyce, of New York, was elected president : 1 for the ensuing year, and it was decided to t hold an international fair in the fall, probably : e in New York. r A raid on illicit stills in Johnson county, j 3 Tenn., by government officials, resulted in the ; 9 seizure of fire distilleries and a large quantity j of material used in the manufacture of whisky, j 3 A number of' arrests were also made. , J In Harrison, Ohio, at a town h&ll meeting, a 1 ^ new gasoline machine was being tested by ] . persons unskilled in its operation, when it , exploded, killing F. Rapp,.member of the town j ] council, and a little girl. A. Probst and F. Fisher, were dangerously injured and many I others slightly hurt. " < ? A severe snow storm in Nebraska began 1 on the 10th and continued for three days. The ' 1 Union Pacific railroad was blockaded by snow 8 and all traffic ceased. Great loss of cattle is B reported. a Eleven bnildings were destroyed by fire at I' Hnlbardston, Mich., and & loss incurred of j, ' '911,WU. . From Washington. 6 Committees of both Houses of Congress : s have made reports in favor of Captain How'? gate's plans for a scientific and exploring ex- ! if pedition to the Arctic regions, and a bill appro- i . pri&ting the sum necessary for expenses ban been pat upon the Honse calendar. According I to the plan proposed, the explorers will push as 1 11 far north as they can, build themselves nooses, r and await a favorable opportunity to go on further and build other houses. In this way they e will be enabled to gradually extend their invefr_ tigations until the great problems of the Arctic regionB have been solved. 0 The House committee on banking and currency voted to report favorably Sir. Phillips' postal savings bill as amended.' During a debate in the House on the timber seizures, made by order of the secretary of the 1 interior, it was stated that a mill at Fort Saint -? Francis, owned by British subjects, has a con8 tract for furnishing all the timber for various v English enterprises, and is busily at work, ' while the timber which ia being sawn, is all J" taken from the public lands of the United 3 States. Y The House'committee on educatiotfand labor, y I has agreed to report favorably a joint resoiuJ tioii restoring the eight-hour law, and provid| ing that the Kame be recognized as a day's labor : throughout the enlire government service. ^ j The Senate committee on commeroe haa ? agreed to report in favor of James Gordon " Bennett's reqiest that the Pandora be allowed I. to sail under the American flag and that naval s officers be detailed for service on that vessel in r the proposed Arctie exploration. [_ Dr. Mary Walker appeared before the police board, in Washington recently, asking au appointment as a special policeman. She said 1 this was necessary to protect herself from r insults from boys, becanso she wears male e oostnme, and would soon make the boys feel q that womeu had some rights they wero bound j I to respect She claimed^ that she was the only " eligible woman in the United htates ror sucn position, having discharged the duties of asi, sistant surgeon during the late civil war. The 18 board promised to consider the application. e Many petitions from printers and publishers r in all parts of the country, asking for the aboi lition of the duty on type, have been received recently by Congress. Type-founders from all iS parts of tho country have presented petitions 6 alao against & reduction of the duty, it A large delegation of workmen from the ie different navy yards of the country held an ind terview with the secretary of the treasury in regard to the enforcement of the eight-hour y law. The President has nominated John V. Hoyt, of Wisconsin, to be governor of Wyotoing Territory. fc- The act amending the laws granting pensions yj to the soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812 and their widows has been approved by the President. J' The director of the mint hps informed tho j JB House committee on coinage that the capacity [ >d of the mints would be doubled by the erection i B. of two new mints and the reopening of the old j mint at New Orleans. ,y Senator Morrill, of Vermont, recently called j up in the Senate th^,bill to provide for a com- ! J mission on the subject of the alcoholic liquor ' traffio. It authorizes the President to appomt, I JO by and with the advice of the Senate, a com- i B, mission of five persons, who shall be selected ]j solely with reference to personal fitness and capacity for an honest, impartial and thorough investigation into the alcoholic liquor trafilo, 1_ primarily, in its relations to revenue, and also ig to taxation, and its genera! eoonomic and ir Bcientifio respects in connection with the public y and general welfare of tho people. The com? missioners are to serve without salary, but the bill appropriates $10,000 for tho necessary and 'e incidental expenses of the commission. The bill was adopted. B? Foreign News. The Czar of Russia has received the following telegram from the Saltan of Turkey :41 On ,, the occasion of the anniversary of your majeB ty'b accession to the throne, I offer my con- tr gratulations, with the desire of renewing onr fe friendly relations." The Czar sent the following reply : "I thank youf majesty for your congratulations, which I received simultane- JS ously with the news of the Bignature of peace. I perceive in thia coincidence a presage of tl good and lasting relations between ub." , ai Cardinal Franchi has been appointed secre- cc tary of state by Pope Leo XIII. ja The treaty, signed at San Stefano bears the cl title : 11 Preliminaries of Peace," and contains ^ twenty-nine articles. The opening articles relate to Montenegro, Servia' and Bulgaria. The indemnity is fixed at 1,410,000,000 roubles /at tin nnn\ i,?4. i inn nno mn MnWoa aro tli covered by territorial cessions. Nothing is b< fixed concerning the terms and period of pay- ft. ment of the 310,000,000 roubles (.f246,140,(foo). rJ NTo guarantee is stipulated, nor is there men- ^ tion of the Egyptian or Bulgarian tributes or of of the Turkish fleet. The treaty simply states fu that Russia and Turkey shall agree subse- ^ qnently about the payment. Advices from Bonne Bay, Newfoundland, m state that great distress prevails tyere, as the result of the. [scarcity of fish last season, and w that half the people of the place are living al- m together on herrings. w. There has been a large Are in Panama. The gl flames spread over three blocks of business b< bouses, causing a damage estimated at $500,300. jV Count Sclopis, the Italian statesman and ]? aresident of the,Geneva Board of Arbitration on the Alabama claims, is dead at the age of PT iighty. al A dispatch from Trieste says the Austrian w< steamer Sphinx, from Cavallo, with 2,500 Cir- dl :assians on board, caught fire and went ashore in ear Cape Elia. Five hundred liveB were lost VfThe Kaffirs at Cape Town, Africa, jrere de- -x Seated by the British in a severe engagement ind had many killed. John Tammore, foreman of Riordan'a pulp mills, Merriton, Ontario, was instantly killed tb ind two others seriously injured by an ex- ai slosion of dynamite. ai A London dispatch says : Trustworthy pri- of fate advices from India state that the Moham- j0 nedans are greatly excited in consequenoe of m ,he overthrow of Turkey. Serious trouble is ^ wen apprehended unless the government^takes "? lome anti-Rnssian action shortly. It is be- re ieved that 200,000 Moslem volunteers to serve -w< igainst Russia could be raised without diffi- tn :n,ty" ===== tfa CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. g1 i sa Senate. Petitions opposing the transfer of the life- i laving stations to the navy departmont were . iresented in the Senate by Messrs. ConkHng, 21 Anthony, Blaine and Withers A favorable eport was made by the committee on military tffairs on the resolution authorizing the restorition of ex-Surgeon-General Hammond to the irray retired list Mr. Beck's ronolution debating it inexpedient to raise taxea to provide 'or the $37,000,000 demanded for tlie sinking 'und was discussed, chiefly by Mr. Beck, who lesired its passage, and was referred to the inance committee. Adjourned. PnfiHnnn rpmoriHtraHnp atroinat the Daasace >f the bill transferring the control of the lifelaving service from the treasury to the navy lepartment, and agaiust the passage of any )ill levying tax on income were presented.... Fhe Senate resumed consideration of the bill o authorize a long bond forthe investment of lavings. An amendment by Sir. Blaine, makng the rate of interest four per cent, instead >f 3.05, was agreed to after which the bill was lasBed. The bill, as passed, provides .that in ien of that amount of four per centum bondB inthonzed to be issued by the act of July 14, .870, the secretary of the treasury shall issue a mm not exceeding $100,000,000 of ooupon Kinds of the denominations of $25, $50, and ulOO, redeemable in coin fifty years from the late of their issue, bearing interest, payable :emi-annaally, !at the rate of four per centum >er annum. The bonds are to be dispoeed of or coin, or for United States legal tender lotes at their nominal value, and such legal ender notes shall be reissued, and their proceeds and the ooin received for suoh bonds ihall be applied to the redemption of outstandng bonds of the United States which are releemable and bear the highest rate of interest >f suoh bonds. Adjourned. rm.. rx* f Vi o A C JLI1U DOUOVO A ODUUiOU WUOiUbl BMV/u Vi huw o&nt resolution relative to Ohineae immigra- b( ion, which requests the President of the Jnited States to open correspondence immediately with the gorernmenta of Chin* and Great Wl 3ritain, with a vlew of securing a change of E abrogation of all stipulations in existing xeaties which permit the* unlimited immigra- e ion of Chinese to the United States. Mr. ear- O jent, of California, spoke in favor of the reso- /ution, after which it was laid on the table in jrder to give his colleague, Mr. Booth, an op- ti *>rtunity to speak in regard thereto. Aa- jn iourned. A large number of petitions remonstrating igainst the transfer of the control of the life- tb javing service from the treasury to the navy it. lepartment, protesting against the passage of iny bill to impose a tax on incomes, and nrg- T; ng the appointment of a commiasion to inquire nto the alcoholic liquor traffic were presented. ... .The House bill making appropriations for. d ;he West Point military academy was reportea. al Mr. Conkling, from the committee on com- .. nerce, reported a bill in aid of a Polar expedi- 11 tion designed by James Gordon Bennett.... Mr. Blaine addressed the Senate in regard to :he Halifax fishery award of $5,600,000 against the United Stated urging that the award waa _ excessive and should not be paid. A bill proriding for a commission on the alcoholic liquor question was passed by a vote of 29 to 19. Ad- bt iourced. th House. Mr. Maish, of Pennsylvania, offered a resolution, reciting that while the Union Pacific ? ind Central Pacific Railroad Companiee owe ? the United States 828,000,000 of accrued inter- ou ast on bonds guaranteed by the United States, the earnings of said companies have been con- M jumed by dividends declarecTon capital stock ^ in violation or their charters, and directing the judiciary committee to report whether it is ex- _ pedient to enact such laws as will prohibit the ? payment of dividends on said stock until the indebtedness to the United States is liquidated. ?_ Referred A resolution was passed authorizing persons having claims against the Chinese . indemnity fund to present them The bill to t_ satablish the Territory of Pembina was adverse ly reported air. iveiiey, oi i-ouuBvivamo, __ made a speech upon the resumption act. J, Dnring his remarks he said : " With $65,000,- 11 300 of gold in the treasury, with none in the bands or the people, and with <700,000,000 to * be redeemed, the resumption act is a measure { of insanity. The enforcement of it is driving ? the people to pauperism, to lunacy, and to suioide, and is creating a moneyed oligarchy, . . (Those wealth, compared with the body of the f. people, will be greater than that of the moneyed oligarchy of England. Instead of business reviving everywhere, prices continue to shrink, wages to fall, employment for skilled or unskilled labor becomes more difficult to obtain. This will contLme and grow worse from month to month, nntil that menaoe to confidence, the resumption act, is repealed." th The fortification appropriation bill waa /-i passed The bill appropriating $260,000 for a. fire-proof building for the national museum, ^ was referred to the committee of the whole.... b< A message was received from the President bc vetoing the bill authorizing a special term of jj court, in.Mississippi, to try timber land plunderers. The message said there was not suffirient time to hold such special term and that aaiiM nnf rtfanovo fnr Mai tuc ^UVOlUUJOiJl vuuiu iiuv Uivpuiv ?wi uuuf because no funds were available Mr. Garfield spoke in reply to an allusioD to him, made by Mr. Kelley in his speech of the previous v< day. Adjourned. ? flv Mr. Springer, of Illinois, offered a resolution pi authorizing the committees on expenditures in BC the several departments to employ each a clerk or expert pending investigations, and the com- . mittee on post offices and post roads to employ ir two experts. Agreed to by 188 to 104.... After o] debate the House passed the deficiency appro- B( priation bill. It appropriates 86,500 for tem- Q( porary clerks in the treasury ; $20,000 for clerks to investigate fraudulent land entries, etc.; 425,000 for clerks in the general land ci office to bring into the market the public lands ai in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama if and Florida ; and 84,000 for lighting and heat- u ing the pension office. Adjourned. . The bill authorizing the issue of a long bond ** for the investment of Bavings was referred to I the committee on ways and meanB... .The bill ai appropriating money for the payment of 8< Southern mail contracts, for services rendered prior to 18G1, came up and provoked a pro- ' longed discussion. Mr. Willits, of Michigan, A read from the Confederate archives to show B< that eighteen of these elaima had been paid by q the Confederate government. He also quoted g irora a report uy .nr. jmibkku, ud uuaicuiuiiw ? postmanter-general, in which he credited him- n self with 8502,000 paid on account of servioes ri rendered prior to May 31, JL861. Mr.^Reagan, h of Texas, said that he haa not Been any of bis p reports since the end of the war, but if the ? gentleman from Michigan. Mr. Willi ta, was , right, he would concede to an amendment so as to exclude from payment such contractors t< as were paid by the Confederate government, tl Mr. Blount, of Georgia, folt it to be his y, boundcu duty to say for his section that he J would not cast his vote to pay any gentleman for carrying mailB in the South who had hither- r< to been "paid by the Confederate government Without coming to a conclusion the HouBe adjourned. e, Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, offered a joint reeolu- y, tion proposing to amend the constitution, so as to authorize the issuing of an indefinite el amount of treasury notes to be need to retire a: United States notes not bearing interest, and u to reduce the interest bearing debt, and to be ^ legal tender except where existing contracts r1 call for coin The diplomatic appropriations 11 bill was considered in committee of the whole, a when Mr. Hewitt, of New York attacked the re- w cent fisheries award, and assailed the policy of a President Hayes....A joint resolution fixing . tho time for paying whisky taxes was reported from the committee on ways and means.... The naval appropriations bill was reported. It ?j appropriates 414,048,684 A resolution in- j( viting the President to recognize the Diaz government, in Mexico, was offered, but ob- 0I jection was made. An evening session for ^ general debate was held and the House ad- n journed at 9:50 i'. m. The result of the attempt to restore the models damaged in the late fire in jjj the patent office at Washington bids B( fair to more than realize expectation, p About 5,000 models have already been y< restored, and from present indica- 61 tions the whole number capablo of being put in good condition will reach at least 5,000 more than the com mission era estimate, or about 15,000. Q On a Coffee Plantation, Coffee culture is very interesting, and st le growing crop is very beautiful. The ti< eee at maturity are from five to eight et high; thev are well shaped and ^ ashy, with a glossy dark-green foliage, tj id planted eight of nine feet apart, w] he flowers are in clusters at the root of ie leaves, and are small, bat pure white id very fragrant. The fruit has a rich in )lor, and resembles a small cherry or 0f rge cranberry; it grows in clusters, eh ? ' - ^ - i 1 --?J U or os? to me uruuuucB, uuu ?ucu n omea a deep red is ripe and ready to be ^ ithered. The trees are raised from M >ed, and do not begin to yield until the aj tird year. In Central America they or jar well for twelve or fifteen years, al- er tough, in exceptional cases, trees 84 renty years old will yield an abundance fruit. The tree is particularly beauti- 8t il when in full bloom, or when laden ed ith ripe fruit. cii The process of preparing coffee for *8 arket is as follows: the ripe berries ben picked are at first put through a nc aohine called the " deapulpador," pa hioh removes the pulp; the coffee- (a ains, of which there are two in each g1 jrry, are still covered with a sort of ? utmous substance whioh adheres to go e bean; they are now spread out on ca rge "patios," made specially for this co lrpose, and left there, being occasion- an ly tossed about and turned over with ooden shovels, until they are perfectly y. They are then gathered up and put to the " retrilla," a circular trough in Inch a heavy wooden wheel, Bhod with eel, is made to revolve, so as to thorighly break the husk without crushing e bean. The chaff is separated from ^ e grain by means of a fanning-mill, 8n id the coffee is now thoroughly dry tr< id clean. After this, it is the custom od some planters to have it spread out on 86 ng tables and carefully picked over by no e Indian women and children, all the id beans being thrown out. It only ov mains then to have it put into bags, le' bHiVn J nn J 1 f 1Q U /1 T7 ^ 31gliCU UUU IUIUIVCUj UUAV4.v AW AO r shipment to the port. On some of at e larger plantations this process is hs eatly simplified, with considerable ving in time and labor, by the use of iproved machinery for drying and J saning the coffee.?Scribncr'a Maga- oo ne. Ri ^ """ The New Silver Dollar. We give in the above two cuts a repsentation of the new silver dollar now )ing coined, as directed by the silver 11 just passed. The new coin is the ? ark of Mr. George E. Morgan, an nglish engraver, who has been in the 0) rvice of the United States since ctober, 1876. His depign was selected ^ om the two specimens submitted to e finance committee having the matter ^ charge. The new dollar is two per g int. lighter than the trade dollar, but B; lere is no apparent difference in either ^ ie size or weight of the two coins, be cuts represent the actual size of the ^ allar. The mints will coin the new h ollar as fast as their facilities will v; low, but some time will elapse before j* can be put into general circulation. p " Radix," in one of his recent New York let- * re, makes a good point apropos of ];fe insurice investigations and troubles [generally, by lling attention to the fallacy of judging of B e reliability of companies according to their g ilk. Many such institutions seek to dazzle g e public eye by printing their large gross as- F ts in the heaviest type, and by laying great 0 ress upon the nominal millions under their 0 ntrol to win confidence and prevent any close alysia of the whole statement. He points it the plain, but often forgotten fact, that p en conceding the equally good quality of the % sets of two companies, it 1b not necessarily L e one with the most millions which is safest e r the policy holder, but the one whose net rplus bears the largest ratio to its whole pro- ? xty. Judged from this sound and searching g incipal, " Iiadix " iinds the JStna Life Insur? t na rvimnanr nf Rdpfford. to be one of the - rongest, if not the very strongest, institutions the kind in the oonntry. With a little over enty-fonr millions of assets, it has about four id a quarter millions of clear surplus. The ecial commission appointed by the Legislare of Connecticut a year ago to investigate i the life insurance companies of that State, y of the i^tnathat It is " not only solvent,but lancially sonnd, and under the management officers and directors of large experience, nnd judgment, and unblemisned character, id entitled to the entire confidence of policy ildersaand the public." Taking the above eta ana this official indorsement together, it is i ident that the writer's estimate of the 3Stna one that can be everywhere safely indorsed. One of Mr. Greeley's Letters. The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald says lat the following letter from Horace reeley wonld have been printed long jo but that it was lost, and has only 3en unearthed within a few days among >me old letters of the Zetogathean iterary Society of the Wesleyan Unijrsity, at Delaware, Ohio : New York, June 23, 1849. j Dear Sir: My attainments anywhere ;ar the boundary of scholarship are so jrv meagre that I dislike to receive ion a compliment as your society has e lid me. I never spent a day in any * >rt of a seminary above a common :hool (which was exceedingly common ( t my time.) Since I was eight years 1 id I have only seen the inside of a ? ihool house in winter ; teince fourteen * at at all; and our terms did not aver- c je five months per annum in those c ays. I know a little newspaper Latin t id French, and might have mastered a 4 ttle Greek the same way, it tue bar- j j arians had known enough to use an t itelligible alphabet. Of mathematics , learned what is contained in Adams' t rithmetic ; of grammar just enough to ;e clearly that Lindlay Murray knew , Bry little and blundered shockingly. ^ .8 to cnirograpny, mine tipeunH iui it3lf, not very clearly as to matter, bnt uite distinct enough as to manner, [owever, I know a little of what may be shed up on a tolerably busy and lgged journey through the world, aving always loved books better than lay and devoured newspapers with inme avidity. Thanking your society >r the honor intended me, and meaning ) justify it by a faithful obedience to le maxim, "Live and learn," I remain ours truly, Horace Greeley. James H. -Baker, Corresponding Sanitary Zetogathean Society. News, news, send us the news, whatrer happens, what any one doe?, f you raise big pumpkins, potatoes or ggs ; if your neighbor falls and breaks rm8 or legs ; if you have a visit from ncle or cousin, or the festive book gent comes round a-buzzinif you appen to raise a five-legged calf, or j nything happens to kick up a laugh, j 1 hy", send them right in by railroad or j < irt, and bring sweet peace to the ' i liter's heart.?Cape Vincent Eagle, I i [other*! Mothcra!! Motliern'!! Don't ul to procuro M? a. Wins'.ow's Soothing Syrup ' >r all diseases incident to tho period of teetb- ] ig in children. It relieves the child from pain, j ires wind clie, regulates the bowels, ana, by iving relief and health to the child, gives rest tv le mother. It is an old aud well-tried remedy. 1 False Economy. , Is it true economy to use chcap, adulteratep 1 iking powdor, which is highly injurious to 1 aalth, merely because it is cheap ? Common { tnse and experience say no ! Dooley's Yeast . owdor, which has been known for twenty f >ars as an absolutely pnre, wholesome, and in i rerv respect, reliable article, is within the f inch of all those, who practice true economy in . lis respect. 1 I Never Felt Better. 1 Rnch is the verdict after taking a dose of ' uirk's Irish Tea. Sold in packages at 25 cts. 1 Renovation, not Prostration. Did any enfeebled human being ever become rong under the operation of powerful cathar30 or salivants ? It is sometimes necessary to gulate the bowels, bat that cannot be done r active purgation, which exhausts the vital rcea and serves no good purpose whatever, lie only true way to promote health and vigor, tiich are essential to regularity of the organio motions, is to invigorate, discipline and purify e system at the 3ame time. The extrapr- i nurw of Hoatetier's Stomach Bitters I cases of debility or irregularity of the organs digostion, assimilation, secretion and dis.arge, is universally admitted. Appetite, >od digestion, a regular habit of body, active rculauon of the blood, and purity of all the limal fluids are induced by this superb tonic id corrective. It has no equals, moreover, as preventive of chills and fever, and other types malarial disease. To immigrants and travelb it is particularly serviceable as a medicinal feguard. A Campaign Slander. When Dr. B. V. Pierce was a candidate for ate senator, his political opponents publish; a pretended analysis of his popular medi168, hoping thereby to prejudice the people ainst him. His election bv an overwhelming ajority severely rebuked his traducers, who nght to impeach his business integrity. No itice would have been taken of these camjgn lies were it net that some of his enemies nd every successful businessman has his full iota of envious rivals) are republishing these igus analyses. Numerous and most absurd rmulas havo been published, purporting to me from high authority ; and it is a signlflnt fact that no two have been at all alike? nclusivelv proving the dishonesty of their thors. " OHEW The Celebrated " Matchless" Wood Tag Plug Tobaooo. Thx Pio5ejb Tobaooo Ookpaitx, New York. Boston, and Chicago There are probably a hundred or more peros in this and neighboring towns, who daily ffer from the distressing effects of kidney rablee, who do not know that Johnson's Anyne Liniment is almost a certain cure. In vere cases, gTeat relief may be obtained, if t a perfect cnre. We notice mat agricultural newspapers all er the country are now exposing the worthiness of the Urge packages of horse and ttle powders. We put the ball in motion and lim the credit of it Sheridan's Powders are solutely pure and are the only kind worth iving. ^ The Greatest Discovery of the Ate ia Dr. bias' celebrated Venetian Liniment! 30 mis before 9 public, and warranted to cure Diarrhea, Dyientery, ilio, and Spaama, taken internal!;; and Oronp, Chronic leomatiim, Bore Throats, Oats, Bralaes, Old Boras, d Piim in the Limbs, Back, and Cheat, externally, baa never failed. No family will ever be without it ter once frfring it a fair trial. Price, 40 oenta. Dr. )BIAS' VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT, In Pint ittlee, at One Dollar, ii warranted inperior to any her. or NO PAT, for the cure of Oollo, Onta, Brnli.i, d Sores, eto. Sold by all DrsniiU. Depot?t O Park ace, New York. The Markets. mrw toxx. * Mf Cattle?Native 08 0 09% Texas and Cherokee. 08X9 08X ilchOows tO 00 070 90 ogs?Live, 03X? 04 Dressed MX IMP ........ 1*1*19 10 imbs 06X0 OCX >tton?Middling 10X0 11 our?Western?Good to Oholoe... 8 80 0 8 75 State?Good to Choice 6 00 0 8 00 Buckwheat, per cwt 1 40 0 1 80 heat?Bed Western. 1 31 0 1 83 No.? 2 Milwaukee. 1 33X0 1 28 re?State ; 79 0 75 irley?State............... 63 0 88 irleyMalt........................ 68 9 68 ackwheat 80 0 80 its?Mixed Western 36 0 38X )TD?Mixed Western 47 <# 83 ay, per owt.... 68 0 80 raw, per owt 48 0 CO ops 76V-67 040 ....TBI 13 0 14 irk?Mess 0 87 010 40 irrt?City Steam 07X0 07X ;ab Mackerel, No. 1, new 17 00 018 00 " No. 3, new 9 60 @10 00 Dry Ood, per owt 4 35 0 4 80 Herring, 8 ?'ed, per box.... 18 0 17 (troleum?Ore O7X0O7X Beflned, lljf ool?Oallforr jfleece 30 0 38 Texas " 30 @ 83 Anstrallap " 44 0 40 State XX 41 0 44 ntter?State.,,. 38 @ 38 Weaterr. -Choice 15 0 30 Weetcrn?<3oodtf Prime.. 84 @ St Weetern?Flrklna 07 Q 13 im*??State Factory 10 0 14 State Skimmed...... 07 0 L9 Western- 0S#@ 18 ;ga?State and Pennsylvania. .... II 0 IB BUTTXLO. loor.. ...? 6 78 ^ 8 00 heat?Ho. 1 Milwaukee..... 1 27 @ 1 80 3 rn?Mixed 44 @ 48 30 ? S3* re...'. 75 0 77 uley 75 @ 78 irley Malt 80 ? 88 ftrrr.i'nwt.ptnA. #ef Cattle?Extra. . . 08tf@ OA* leep 08 @ OCX oga?Dreeaed 08 @ MX lonr?Pennsylvania Extra 7 35 (3835 "heat - Bed Weatern. 1 38 & 1 40 re 88 @ 87 orn?Yellow 68 0 M Mixed il 9 at*?Mixed 83 0 84 etrolenm?Crude 09Jf?U9# Befiaed, 11X rool?Colorado.... ?... 89 0 34 Texas M r4 8'i California 31 0 49 borrow, eef Cattle 06 0 06V beep 06X0 07* o& Ot 3 MX lour?Wisconsin and Minnesota.. 6 25 0 7 78 om? Mixed..... 88 0 87* ats? " 34 0 86 fool?Ohio and Pennsylvania XX. 68 0 88 California Fall 48 0 83 / BBIGHTOH, Kin. ?ef Oattle.., 06*0 08* heep 08 0 09* arabe.... 07 0 10 [OR. 07X0 06 W1TEB20TO, KUU leef Cattle?Po j r to Oboloe 8 80 0 6 80 heep 7 00 0 T 7S , mf* 7 nn @ s no rhe Great Limestone Belt ofKansas. He Attractive Region of the West By Major H. Inman. The " Great Central Plains " are a geogriph * *--i A# TTmv+amm HnvMSwl cm leaiurw u1 uuo omra va iummm v>w ? rith a remarkably nutritious vegetation, for ?ntnri?8 they were an immense pasturage for ?nntless herds of buffalo, antelope and other uminating animals, whose habitat was the ar-atretohing green prairies that to-day form >ne of the most beautiful agricultural portions >f the Mississippi Valley. Less than ten years igo this region was believed, by the mass of he people in the East, to be an unprofitable leeert, but it is now the acknowledged garden >f the Continent This truly magnificent counrv can claim the most luxuriant soil of all the 'Great West," and a climate that approaches >erfection, at least. Dr. B. E. Fryer, one of he moBt eminent surgeons in the Army, and rho was stationed for years at fort Harker. oar miles from the Town of Ellsworth, deilared this to be the " most perfect climate in he world." The whole oountry is traversed >y a series of oonstant streams, sweet and rholesome springs and spring-fed pools. DeMona water is also always obtained in wells, >y digging, at easily-accessible depths. It it dready conceded that the United States is rapdly becoming the granary of the world, paricularly in the production of wheat Kansas, in Empire in itself, is taking the lead in the snltnre of this cereal, and in a short time will >e acknowledged qneen of all the States in the irodnjtion of this great staple. The State, jspeoially her peculiarly-wonderful fertile cenxal area, comprised in what is now known as he " limestone belt," under the test of only a 'ew years, has proved to the world the imnenne average its soil is capable of. Each fear increases the limit of the wheat-belt, as he lrontier is pushed toward the mountains, vithin which are found the greatest poseibiliies, agriculturally. It is a remarkable fact that nearly all the ands of the Kansas Pacific Railway are iniluded in the limestone region under considerition, and that south of this limit, in that di eotion, it ceases altogether, and the country presents another geological formation, the soil )f which is very sandy, and which, though at ^resent, from fullness of its very primitiveness s capable of producing good crops in seasons )f abundant rainfall, lacks tbe inherent qualiies of self-fertilizatioB, and must rapidly riete iorate In thiB particular the 8moky Hill Valey is immensely superior to the arenacious ands of the region south, which is drained by he Arkansas and tributary streams. It is well mown by every farmer that lime, in some of ts combinations,- constitutes the eswntial ingredient iu all the more valuable grains and :ra?ses. Its presence in the soil is consequenty to be considered as a condition of fertility, ft also acts as a constitutional ameliorant, of nuch power, and, when mixed with or underying to jig h or Tiscid clay, it renders them ffi abTeanff OcmstxfSeMlr fflOfS BOitfeptibre to t&e action of atmospheno forces. Soil in which there is a doe admixture of calcareous matter, is cot Bo liable to be injured or rendered plaxtic by an excess of moisture while under crop. The quality of the wheat raised in this great "limestone' oelt" is conceded, ia all markets, to be the finest grade known. It produces the familiar brands of so-called Southern flour, for which St. Louis is justly oelebrated. This is easily accounted for. from the fact that the soil in'which the wheat is grown possesses a due admixture of calcareous matter, which n&a a tenaency 10 m&aeuie auu 01 uio (jmui much thinner, and the farina itself in much greater quantity, and in richer quality, than in grain grown on the land* which exhibit a deficiency of this earth. All our millers will testify to the peculiar floor-making properties of our wheat, in this essential, surpassing that raised in other sections, and it is attributed entirely to the fact?which the analysis of the soil confirms?that this so-called "limestone belt" possesses all the requisites of the beet wheat land in the world.. Band, it is well known, is injurious when it enters too largely into the composition of cultivated soils; in other words, it is useless beyond a certain proportion. That the " limestone belt," or " wonderful wheat region of Central Kansas," as it is sometimes called, has the amount of silex or silica?the basis of sand?fixed in the proper proportion, is evident, from the faet that it requires peculiar conditions to "todge" the grain in the field, even after the mo a terrific showers. Considering the question of the relative fertility, particularly in its connection with wheat culture, present richness of soil and endurance must enter as essential elements of success, and the capacity of the selffertilization of the land, an ingredient not to be overlooked. The latter quality a limestone region cdone can possess, u only a limited knowledge of agricultural chemistry clearly demonstrates. Viewing the subject of wheat culture, then, in all its aspects, so far as Kangas is concerned, an inspection of the Smoky Hill Valley, and the arenaceous region south, ooupled with a fair idea of what the culture of wheat requires, the conclusion can lead only in one direction?to the infinitely superior advantage, of the " limestone belt i Prospectively, from purely physical causes, this great inland region must reach the podtion of one of the richest agricultural portions of the United States. Only a very few years ago?not a decade?husbandry here was purely tentative. From absolutely no dew, eight years ago, this region is as favored in that particular as any that can be named. From lying outside of the "rain belt," so termed, , this region has had to be "taken in." The < quantify of water in the streams has augmented, springs have burst forth whore none existed before?in short, , just the converse of that meteorological phenomenon has been evolved here, under the march of civilization, which takes in a heavily-timbered country under the same social conditions. The following statistics of the rainfall dearie nm? thn ??mracv of the foregoing state ment: The Fill of Bain and Melted Snow, in inches, At Forts Hays, Lamed and Dodge, for the last five years, as shown by the Daily Meteorological Records kept by the United States Government at the Posts named : CENTRAL SOUTHERN KANSAS. KANSAS. TEAR. . Fori Fort . Fort Hay?. Lamed. Dodge. 1878 21.52 18.28 19.00 1874 87.06 27.78 28.06 1875 32.08 17.80 16.86 1876... 86.90 18.49 21.65 1877 35.40 81.89 8L48 Total ' 162.96 115.14 ' 111.44 Average ner annum. 32.59 23.03 22.29 These axe some of the facta in relation to the agricultural possibilities of this region.and these, coupled with the story of the pan harvest, are sufficiently confirmatory of the inducements this portion of the Great Plains offers. Under the liberal policy of the government, and theiTansa* Pacijh Railway Company, immigrants are invited to this really superb region, with the assurance that its beauty and inducements dknnot be exaggerated by any peapicture. For further information about Kansas, and especially the region described, address LAND COMMISSIONER KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY, 8ALINA, KANSAS. , (in ta ME $1U 10 2F?Fb?S: Tortb 95t nnit, po?t-p*J<l for 85 OenU. ifiufltrfttM OtUlogn* free. J. H. BUFFORD'M HONS, Bwtw. {Bfbllihed IBM.) USE THEi??? mi ^ooQusMidM by thi scricol* PERFECT B UTT E R ?fr%!Sa?il mm V I I bk II to u.d o cul, per pound to tfii - ? - Mllinc Tklae. Ask your Drag III A D I P*4 <w Merchant for It, or wroe Ll Li L U H Z ? Winxa, Biohaxiwo* k Co., ** w ? W l? Proprietor*, BarllnyUm.Vt. HOMES IN THE WEST Excursions to Lincoln, Nebraska, Leave New ion ana new miwbii i? Third Tuesday In every month nnnl December. Excursion No. 9 will lurt TUEHDAY, MARCH 10th. Fare abant hair rental Rates. Faat trains and flratolaaa acoommodatiom guaranteed. For deaoriptife Land Circulars, Informs tion-abont Tickets, ete., eend address on Posts] Card U PLINY MOORE, a 17 Broadway. New York ^.TOBOMOOKrOTIDOT ^ P1JBE COD LIVER I LOII AID IIME. J Ta the Consumptive.?Wllbor's Csmpoanc or Cod Livcb Oil asd Lncr, without prunning Um very nauseating flavor of the article aa heretofore utsd ia endowed by the phoephate of lime with a heslini property which readers the oil doubhr efflcaciouB. Remarkable testimonial* of its efficacy own to those trhc desire to ass them. A. B. Wilbob, Ohemiit, Boston. USE Tt?K Peerless Wringer. rr IS THE BEST. N. Y. Office?.-100 Chambers Street. MCX-? FACTORY?CINCINNATI. O. The Standard of the World, TR fAiRBAWigl SCALES. AGENTS FOR | Miles' Alarm Money Drawers, \ Oscillating Pump Co.'s Pumps, Enterprise Co.'s Goods, The Improved Type Writer 1 ? ? . P? ? !!#!> O. A A i FAI if oaimivo a vu.< 311 Broadway, New York. FAJRBAXK8, BROWN & CO., HH Milk Street, Boston RANDALL PULVEEIZIW vV ffll iA A ROTARY* VERTICAL ITS VALUE ESTABLISHED IT HAS IN Economizing Time ! Sarlni Labor an No Wonder there are To meet the growing demand and rarious want? sir** and styles of this unequaled implement TOB THo IT IS THE ONLY PBACTIO made. Canlbe changed from a jointed to a (tiff harro* doee no(. Involve a lawsuit fob lirprn?0e?nt5t o' its imitators. Agents 1 ranted. Send for Deecriptire Circular to moiyn'i pamicmiAK AjtwajMn *v ? 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Mien. (&i?pps?i _EI ^BLum. tarfli ? oo.. ui m mi. UllUUAO Agmer-H Coitlaadt St.. lTY. rTTflTfrp fiTTTtfi 11 ?<n tend lor trial to vjlvlvili OJEiXillo new customers who send " ~ ?* ?*-' i <uMi Phaar 1UC. ana ffiuvu wtmmty um h?vimu?-w - --j- -3eed?, Inclodifif the choicest DonbU Portulaea* Striped Pttunia. sad Ne\c Japan Cojromb, mixed eolort of each. Catalogue fr*4. L. W. Goopell, Ambent, IiH. WORK FOR ALL In their own looalitlM, omnvutinx for the Flretid* Paper /n the WerlilwitB Mammoth OhromM rraa But Oommi?aoD* to A?mto. Tons* *nd Outfit IfcM tJdmi P. O. V1CKJBRY. Awnwu. CikcwjumTrct. OwTrrrt Wawtkp/ ^ I1G1C MUSICAL 01511 IT. 1 uuv< ?/ Irt^M * Mate*!.. | <09FflbertSL,Phila<r*.P?. Blame no one bat yonmlf, for we ulc bo moot, till teetod, for our Five-Ton Wefon Scale. Freight prepaid. Price 950. For free Lithocnph Price List, addreee JOjTM OF BmOHAMTOW, Bii>?ham>mi, JL Y. /^PHOSPHO-WIUmiE,; . f JHkVh? ?"? * *K?lte?n* Tenia,* f \ Believing Mental sad Physical I IM-KkJ PBoamsiov, yflB *? JWH?ayoTT8Ha8a. anggr. ... . ^ntf 'all *rap*Lrinemt?*crf*Br*iii ?nd Harra Byataca. D^wa. Depot, a Pl*tt Bt.. Ig.T. THE CLMR70TAHT! " Tba OMaamat' ? ia tha raratt of or* 100 mtOagt br one of oar 1 aiding cUirTor?ntu, arranged is UblaU ana it oan b? aaailj adapted to anr complexion. paid for 25 eta. PIKE A GO , Publisher*. 40 ffiftl StNWt, Bottoo, MtM. P. O. tddMaa, Box20i3. rr I r I PrflBBDt, Past and rntnre. BATTLING nEUAll D WITH THE WCmVIVl , Now read*. this ataitliac <mw tamperanoa bode. Kf Boo. J. A. likcvt. ProgTM of GmPCL Twiiw. ' mm uo tne 01?i*hy Mcveneat otar the whote / land, with biofraphiae, portrait*, addrcaae* tad Jaoi> ,tj deata of tba wonderful work of Great Tempanino Asoatlaa. March?. Remoldt, aad other?. Tnwaliw wuhpowerf aJwota, nrrtunecU and illaaUationa of | #9#ryftin?. Addreaa, T. BELKNAP, Habxitobd, OOMIL Invalid Pensions Increased, < >* *' BOUNTY.?VolunUara TaanllttiayIbetween JMr I. 18?, and April 1,1864. with 9 month*' prior Mrrioa, eaa cat unpaid balaaoaof MOO. PKN8IO& for wovada and disease (an alight disability), to soldier*. sailor*,widow* and childran. War 1812, Penaiona V> aornrora and widow*. Change in law aa to period of aarrica and data of marriafaT^UNTY to egldlert daahijjwMfl tfoonaa or mjurj, uu ?uw m# #?? .? ?.y 23,1861, for f*r?e twuts. rctardleee of tmm of eerrioe, ft not paid. ADDITIONAi BOUBTY to 8 and f me*' roll, and vidgart, if only $100 hu been paid. Now Orison* PRlfl MONEY. EKNBST P. EROOK. LaU Ohiaf Olerk.U. 8. nanltary OomalMion JLgtaOf, Attomaf at Law, Wo. Ill Baww Btroet, New York. * PATOfTS WANTED FOR THE IGTORIAfciHISTORY'"? WORLD > larf* doable ?ohwin Mwtudh'^t moetooaWfte Histon of the World erer pabUjhed. It Mill at K<Ot. 8?ad for fpecnnen pagea and extra tarrak to JjWta, aad aee whj it sell* Miter than any other book. AddTM. > f Natiohal PCTLitanw Co., Philadelphia, Pa. , / ??} EVERETT Him Fronting Union SqnaHe NEW YORK. ' . 1 / nfl4 Finest Location in the City,: Enrcpm Flat?Bestanraiit Cnsgrpassed. KMBWER Jb WE A VBB, Pmrlefto* BABBITT'S TOILET Sf^P, Virrr^^ tor^tiia r-b, .c Th* FINEST TOILET aOAPta zm ihay tit mrat rtgrtaiU tUt wj t? tti mmi/tdw. , wJK'JJlK.te 2X1 gamplt b<g, eooulmlat 1 c?lw *t > on. M?fi, it ht ti * . drtu so mtlpt of 1* cab. Addmi Tt#W8iyafB?ga?^SANDAL-WOOD . ? i i - * .} <?i j., ?t * A poaitm remady for all dlHUM of tha Kidney*, f Bladder aod Urinary Orcaaa;*laoiood in Dr*p> ; rical Caaaplalata. B Mtw ptodnoaa rlotaiaaa. oarUin andepaodjrlnlta aaMoc. It la faat rapaaaadlo all other ramadlaa. Sixty oapaclaa owa is rtx or ait dajm. Ho othermadMna mbdottda. j*" '! H ?.K it*# Bo ware of I ml tat Una, (or, gia< to Ita in ,, (sooaaa.aany bat* boon offered; eoaae ara moat daocar one caiuin* pilaa eto. ODIWA5 DICK * t'O.'S Smmimi fq/l Cap comtmMng Oil q/ flgmliiltoooit, $old of if? . rtorM. ii) /or etrenlar, ar und Arm tol nU / lfooatar StreM, tf*? Torii. THE . GOOD OLD JTAHD-BY XEHCif KDSTASG LMMEJT FOR MAM AND BEAST.' rr -I EruBLMBKD 35 Tiixi. JLfwmj* mm, Alwwr rmdr. AJwtyi h*ndj. Hm nerer yet f?Ued. !0Un> I mUlitmi koM ti??l U. Th? w^ota world apptovoa to glarioa* old Mostanf?the oMt tad Ohaapwt Linunao tn exlatanoa. 85 oaato a DOtUa. Tha MniUajt liftiaao aorta whan nothing eiaawlQ. SOLD BY ALL MTOIOIKK VMtpMW. , QURK <2I'RE for Lane !fr^a?e?-^per Du' O Ulled WW-ky and Rock C'amly. 83tnd#4 per gallon; 70 eta. and 81 P*r BotUe. _ N. VAN BEIL, 88 Chamben Stre?tN ?w_York. . II' ' & JillAMElt . r<3t HARROW. ; PLATE WHEEL HARKOYV. BY ABORTIVE IMITATIONS. ro EQUAL ! d Money! Kernrlnur the I-nrxo^t f'ror?! Over 10,000 in Use! or THt ?AXXXK8 thiou?hoat tbe oountry, It) different BOCQHLT FULVsamyo THK son. ar? made. Al? JOINT WHEEL HARR0W ' at the pleaanre of the operator, in -< moment'* lime, cud v PatxSts to the Mlltr or porchiii?*r, as is the rat* with WARRIOR MOW Kit t O.. I.ITT1.K *Af.l.*, >. V. /