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gP Mr. Bryant's Last Poem. the twenty-second of febbuaby. [jpW Pale is the February Btv, Hj|y And brief the midday's sunny hours; jK? The wind-swept forest ceems to sigh BBSI?? For the sweet time of leaves and flowers. Sgra Yet has no month a pronder day, Not even when the summer broods EgCwyi O'er meadows in their fresh array. Or autumn tints the glowing woods. I For this chill season now again Brings, in its annual round, tho morn When greatest of tho sons of men, Our glorious Washington was born. Lo, where, toneath an icy shield, Calmly the mighty Hudson flows ! By snow-clad fell and frozen field Broadening the lordly river goes. The wildest storm that sweeps through space, And rends the oak with sudden force, Can raise no ripple on his face, Or slacken his majestic course. Thus, 'mid the wreck of thrones, shall live Unmarred, undimmed, our hero's fame, And years succeeding years shall give Increase of honors to his name. My Russian Bishop, __ I I" Keep her steady, Mac, and tell Brown, in the engine-room, to stick to her present rate of speed. Seven knots, all things considered, is decent going, * even down-stream, on one of these Russian rivers; and then we are in duty bound, you know, to economize the com- i pany's firewood, cheap as it is." " Ay, ay, Captain Burton," cheerfully : responded my tall, raw-boned first offi- I cer, entering with national alacrity into I a question of thrift. Macgregor, chief mate, and Brown, ! chief engineer, were, with myself, John ! Burton by name, the only three Eng- 1 lishmen on board the Fair Helen, a fine ' steamer, of light draught, but considerable engine-power, belonging to the j Anglo-Rusbian Steam Navigation Com- j pany, and built expressly for service on j the Dnieper. We were pretty far to the ' north just then, in the government of j Mobilew. where the great river first be- | comes navigable for anything bigger than a skiff or a flatboat, and were coming down now with a string of rafts in tow. Macgregor left me on his ronad of , inspection, but I, who had just then no ! call of duty, remained idly leading! against the taffrail, and gazing, now at i the summer sky of greenish blue, now I at the swampy and reed-grown shores, J where herds of block buffaloes and I flocks of sickly sheep browsed on the i rank grass, and once again at the brown j waters of the sluggish Borysthenes, now 1 swollen by recent rain. Astern of the ! .^steamer was the long array of rafts i which we were towing, composed of tim- : ber, cut down in the forests farther I north, which forms a valuable article of } export to the more pastoral and treeless j south of Kussia. Most of these rafts had shells or straw-thatched hovels built J upon them, to screen the laborers from | sun and rain; and at the edge of each j I some half-dozen men, witn long poles in their hands, kept watch, in case the clnmsy craft shonld ground among the shallows and mud-banks. 9 ' I had now spent over two years in I Russia, and had acquired some little 4 knowledge of the country, and, what was harder, a tolerable smattering of its very difficult language, while there were '" those who regarded me as singularly luoky in having been appointed, young ,. . as I was, to the commaad of the Fair * Helen. The duties, however, incumbent on me as skipper of a river steamboat in Russia, were not much to my inclination, and I believe I should long since have resigned my post and gone back to blue water and a sailor's life, had it not been that I fell in love, and that my love was returned. Pretty Annie Clements, only child of | the English manager of Prince Demi- j ~ dofFs paper mills at Mohilew, was the , enchantress whose bright eyes detained j me in Russia, and only two months had j elapsed since our troth-plight had received the sanction of Annie's father. Mr. Clements, who had from his youth I up filled lucrative positions in the ! * . Czar's dominian, and had saved money, ! was a good type of a class of English- j men who may be described as Anglo- j < Rjisjatfns. His industry and business ; . -Tliabits had given ifm a marked superiority over the people among whom he uweu, uuir ui uio same urne ue wuo ilubued with au almost superstitious respect for the government under which he had long lived, and for every abuse and every freak of administrative tyran- j ny on the part of the higher powers. "This must be Bykhow!" said I, j starting from my reverie, as I canght j sight of the copper-coated cupola of the ' Church of St. Michrel, overtopping the wooden roofs of the tiny town; "but what have we here !" I added, as a boat put off from the wharf and was soon alongside of the steamer, which had slackened speed in obedience to a signal from the shore. " Why, it is a bishop 1" And, indeed, the most prominent personage of the group which presently boarded as was, to judge by his garb and mien, a prelate of the Russian Church.-* He wore gracefnlly flowing VaKaO. Af oltHAflf ftw'flflfol ncmn/tt o?/1 a AVWVU) v* c*? mvow VSAAW4b(*l auu UiO I quaint mitre, with its narrow edging of j purple and gold, which distinguishes a | Muscovite bishop. Behind him came j three attendants?his chaplain, his cro- | sier-bearer, and another, who tinkled a ; litt.'e silver bell: at the sound of which j our Russian sailors and deckmen dropped upon their knees, and struggled : with one another who should be the first j to kiss the bishop's ungloved hand, on "Which glistened a great amethyst ring. J I found the bishop, who was a young man, not more than two years older j than myself, very urbane and affable. | He spoke French, and German too, I fluently, and was in tone and bearing quite a citizen of the world. The bishop's business with me was soon 6tated. He wanted a passage to 1 , the city of Kiew for himself and attendants; and also for a party of ecclesiati- j cal students from the great monastery of Glinka, who were bound for the same * place, to be solemnly inducted within the pale of the Rnsso-Greek priesthood I by the Archbishop of Kiew. There i were, moreover, some three or four ! nuns, who desired to avail themselves of the same opportunity for returning to | their abbey. At first I was somewhat Duzzled. ! r Truth to tell, the vessels of the Anglo- j Russian Navigation Company did very \ little business in the passenger carrying | line. By towing, by the transport of j light goods, and so forth, we earned a I decent dividend; but although we had j an elaborate printed tariff of charges, j "the neat private cabins, "and "saloon" for first-class passengers, had come to j be sadly conspicuous by their absence. However, the bishop, with his easy way, made things pleasant. Russians, he ! said^with truth, needed, in fine weather, j bat scanty accommodation. Students, j riuus, and himself, conld rough it, only thaokful for a speedy journey. And the payment he would leave to me to apportion. "A compliment," added the prelate ! with a laugh and a shrug, "which I assure you, captain, I would not offer to my own countrymen. But you English have a conscience." I did not forfeit the national reputation for fair dealing, by charging his worthiness?for such I believe to be the correct designation of a Muscovite bishop?too much for the meagre comfort which I was able on board the Fair Helen to supply to this clerical company. We set to work with hammer and saw, and as all sailors, even Russian j freeh-water mariners, are handy fellows, we soon knocked up some rough cabins J for the nuns, while I gave up my own J quarters to the bishop. As for the students, the weather was fine, and a set . of hardy young fellows might surely make shift to keep the deck. There were, as it turned out, four duds, Ewo or inem Deing I&ii, Dnny Tavorniks, of that she-grenadier aspect so common ainoog the Bnssian peas apt ?- women who take the vows, and the other two, slight, delicate in manners and appearance, and unmistakably ladies. There were twenty-three students, wellgrown lads enough, but apparently Bhy and ill at ease, and wh"> huddled togeth shunned conversation. Nor wag the I nuns very communicative; but the bish- i op, who was a fluent and agreeable talk- ] er, made amends for the taciturnity of i the rest. At Stostitza, where we stopped to take . in firewood, and where the overseers of 1 the rafts went ashore to hire fresh labor- i ers in the room of a dozen fever-stricken : wretches on whom the miasma of the i muddy river had done its work, and who had been left behiuil it at Bykhow, a saa i procession went by the wharf alongside of which the steamer lay. This consisted of some thirty political prisoners, < Poles, as we were told, implicated in an 1 abortive revolt near Minsk, and now on < their way to Siberia. They wore of all ranks and ages; some with delicate hands i and faces that told of culture and refine- ] ment; others who showed the marks of < honest toil; but all bore themEeives with I a certain air of quiet dignity which 1 seemed to impress even the half-6avage : Cossacks who guarded them. There i was something in the proud endurance I of the captives which touched me. They 1 were in chains, their clothes were worn and ragged. Their faces were wan with : the privations of a Russian prison, and all were footsore and weary. Yet it was impossible not to admire the patient < courage of their demeanor. " Bah ! They are not of our century, i these Poles," said the bishop, taking a ] pinck of snuff and offering to me the i gilt box with suave courtesy. "They ] sacrifice themselves for a dream." We were a long time at atostizia, ior tlie overseer's new hands were hard to coax away from the vodka shops, thongh , when they did arrive they certainly turned out to be fifteen as strapping fellows as I had ever seen; men, too, who walked with the steady step of old soldiers. Of this, however, since consciption passes half the peasantry through the ranks, I thought little, but gave orders to cast off the moorings, get up a fuller-head of steam, to make up for lost time, and push on to Rogaczew, our next halting-place. Four versts down the river, I caught the gleam, among the tall reeds of the bank, of Cossack lance-points, and soon, rounding a head-land, descried the kafila of prisoners. These latter marched but slowly, and their mounting guards, under the orders of an officer in green uniform?a major, as I guessed, by his medals and the glitter of his epaulettes ' - ' < ? ?-IV. 1,1 were anving mem uu wnu uiuno mm threats. Just as we came abreast of the captives, I heard the overseer of the ' rafts shouting hoarsely orders which ' seemed worso than useless, for by some 1 mismanagement of the poles, the rafts- 1 men had grounded one of the cumbrous 1 structures on a sand-bank. Thtf tough tow-rope jerked and creaked. J "Stop her, there below?reverse en- ^ gines!" I called out; but scarcely had , I done so before to my utter amazement the travelling bishop drew from beneath his purple-hemmed cassock a silver ' whistle, and blew a long, shrill note. The eflect of this signal-call was magical ' in its rapidity. Wading waist "deep in the water, the raftworkers whom we had taken in at Stostizta hurried to snore, , scrambled up the slippery bank, and rushed like so many tigers upon the 1 escort that guarded the prisoners. ! "Ha! traitors! Cut the villians down!" ^ thnndflrefl the Russian maior. whisking out his saber and aiming a heavy stroke at the first assailant who reached him; but a cudgel parried the blow, and in leas time than it takes to tell it the officer was disarmed and dragged from his saddle. Of the nine Cossacks, eight were dismounted and bound without any Berious resistance, but the ninth eluded the hands that clutched a1, his bridle, fired, wounding the man nearest to him, and wheeling his shaggy steed, rode off at a gallop, pursued by a storm of pistol-balls and curses. "Help I captain ! cap " gurgled in choking accents a well-known voice; and I looked round, to see Macgregor vainly struggling in the grasp of three ecclesiastical students, one of whom held him by the throat. Another of these interesting neophytes was pi essing the muzzle of a revolver to the forehead of tliejsacred hemlsman; while five or six had found their way to the engine-room, to judge by the sounds of scuffling that proceeded from the hatchway. ' Secure him 1" cried the false bishop, pointing to me, and three young fellows, all well armed, and all with their black robes disordered and revealing the very secular garb which _they wore . beneath, rushed upon a; e. Bewildered as I was, the English instinct of giving : as good as I got, prompted me. One antagonist, shinned by a well-directed blow, dropped like an ox beneath the pole-axe; a second was tripped up, and the pistol wrested from his grasp; but , then a flash of blinding fire glared before my eye, and next all grew black and hushed and quiet, and the very world seemed to swim away from me as I fainted. < When I regained my senses it was night. The stars were twinkling above us, and the wash and lipple of the river i were the first sounds which reached my : dulled ear. How my head ached I The throbbing pains it occasioned me made me try to lift my hands to my brow; but ' I could not stir. I was bound and help- j less, and I groaned aloud. , "Is it you, Capt. Burton?" said a 1 lugubrious voice near me. "Deed, then, ] but I'm glad to hear ye speak, though , it is that way, for I thoch ye were dead." I "What has happened, Mac ?" I asked feebly. "Can you not help me get up ? Who boarded us?pirates, or " "Nae pirates, captain," interrupted , the mate.* " The job's a poleetical one, nae doubt ; and Sharpe himself was a saint to you fause-tongued loon o' a bishop, as he ca'ed himself, the ringleader o' the gang. And as for helping ye, laddie, how can I do it, seeing I lie here, tied neck and heels, like a calf for the shambles? Brown, and the fireman, and the rest of the crew, are all in i irons be ow, witn tne natcnes Daucneu down over them. The overseer and the raft-laborers have rnn off, frightened, pnir chiels, ont o' their bits o' wits, and the major and his Cossack reivers are about as comfortable, Captain Bur- i ton, as oursells. Our best hope is in the coming o' the police." Bat alas I when the police and mili- < tary, in the gray dawn, came lagging up in obedience to the summons of the 1 solitary Cossack who had ridden off unharmed, we found that from the Polish frying-pan we had been promoted to the Russian fire. The major, who had passed some hours in impatient durance, tied to a willow tree, with a gag between his teeth, and a cord around his ! wrists, actually foamed with rage when we were hustled into his presence. " Bat for yoar help, English hounds," 1 he reiterated, "yonder rebel scam < could not have interfered with the i emperor b justice. Prisoners have been rescued, loyal soldiers have been i braised, disarmed, and deprived of i their horses. I myself Here, corporal take the scoundrels away. They shall suffer for the success of tbeir rascally accomplices." Macgregor and Brown, being able to walk, were sent off to Kiew, each with his right wrist chained to the stirrupleather of a mounted policeman, while I, on account of the weakness caused by a severe blow on the head inflicted with the butt-end of a pistol, was conveyed in a jolting country cart to Tchernigov, where I was duly lodged in prison. Very bitter were my reflections as I lay on my hard pallet-bed, watching the scanty sunbeams that played upon the barred window of my ceil, and listening to the shrill squeaks and pattering feet of rats distressingly tame, that haunted the iail. What was I to do ? Mv 6m ployers would probably supersede me as commander of the Pair Helen. Of Siberia I had no serious fear, but a long imprisonment might end only in expulsion from Russia. Annie -was lost to : me. I knew the rooted prejudices of her father too wall to believe that he i would ever accept a son-in-law who had i conspired against the imperial authori- < ties. And who was to persuade Mr. i Clements that I was blameless in the : matter? I could fancy him in his arm- ; chair, stolidly declaring, in reply to < Annie's pleadings on my behalf, that < there was no smoke without fire, and ] that as I had made my br<d, so I must.j lie. And so weeks went by^ i " Mr, Burton, or Capfa^ Alton, you 11 are free!" It was an af raaihffho I i spoke, pleasantly boots with his gold-mounted riding-whip is ho stood on the damp stone floor of my cell, with the door open behind him, admitting welcome air and daylight. " Yonr innocence, and that of the other British subjects oonfined at Kiew, has been at last fully proved by the confession of the principal rebel, Count Demetrius Sobieski, wounded and taken it Wilna. Ah, I see you do not know of whom I talk. Well, he was your passenger." " The bishop?" I asked, half stupefied. HIT? " iCO, tliO U1DUUJJ) IC^ilDU IUD gcugral with a laugh. "The students and the last batch of raft-laborers being, all af them, disbanded Polish soldiers, who were willing to risk their lives for the rescue of the Minsk prisoners; an exploit in which they sneceeded only too completely. As for the nuns, two of them were men in female apparel, and the others were simply Polish ladies of Qoble birth, whose husbands were among the exiles, and who were resolved to aid in their deliverance, or to follow j them to Irkutsk. Your vessel, the Fair I Helen, you will find at Kiew, with your I mate and engineer on board of her. And now Mr. Burton, it only remains for me, on the part of government, to express our regrets &c." Annie and I are married, years since, and I command a ship of which I am part owner; but we do not live within LI? ? ~ i frx frnnfiflv tut) rilLlgO Ul giccu-uuu-nui nuuuvt posts, that mark the Czar's dominions. Kid Gloves and Their Production. Very few persons who are daily wearing kid gloves ever stop to think how \ oiany hands are required before a glove i jan be put on the counter, ready for the 1 justomer. The materials used in making a kid [ jlove are either the skins of kids from > jix weeks to three months old?and ' these furnish the best article?or the | skins of lambs of about the same age; j there are also the skins of sheep, but [ these make but a poor and inferior arti- j 3le. The first process of making a glove . is the tawing. To facilitate the removal i jf the hair or wool, the skins are placed j in a solution of lime, where they re- ! main for some time, after which tiiey are j placed in ruuning water to remove the J iime, and after being taken out of this j tho hair easily comes out with the aid j [>f a blunt scraper. This process is re- j peated two or three times, until every j liair and small particle of flesh adhering i to the skin are entirely removed, and the | skins then are ready for the tawing op- j jration. Foi this purpose they apply j mi ingredient of the yolks of eggs, alum, 1 salt, etc., a polluted preparation, in j which solution the skins remain for sev- j eral weeks, so that they may becrme j .v thoroughly saturated, which gives them j the necessary whiteness, after which ' they undergo the various coloring pro- ? uesses. The dyeing requires consider- j ftj able skill and a fine eye, for the compo- j 3ition of the various shades. The color j is applied to each skin separately with . a brush, each requiring from one to four |. i applications of the color according to j the shade desired. The only exceptions j, to this are the very light shadep, the so- j , jailed evening colors, which are prodnc- j, 2d by immersing 200 or 300 skins at one time in a vat containing the coloring . matter, which will soak through every particle of the skin. After being thor- , jughly dried in a room heated up to 180 j leg. Fahr., the skins reach the cutter to | be cut in square pieces; this is a most I i - ' ? * - -i. ?i : I PJ .teiicate operation, ana not omj requires i jkill, bat good judgment. The gloves ! . have to be cat with the grain of the i ?kin, running from the head down, and ! ^reat waste of material would result from j J the employment of any but the most j 3killful hands. One skin will cut on the average from three to four gloves, ac- i lording to sizes required; though when ! je large sheep skins are used, one skin will j g{ ?ive from nine to ten inferior gloves, rhe squares thus cut are put up in pack iges of from six to twelve pairs of ^ gloves, and by means of a punch and a 1 ^ powerful press, are cut out in pieces j ready to be sewed. The sewing on fine gloves is all done ' .v by hand, and requires the beat seam stresses. Over 0,000 stiches are requ red to sew a pair of ladies' gloves, and [1 the best hands cannot finish more than j ' four pairs in a day of twelve hours. For ! . the sewing of lower grades of gloves I ^ there is now a machine in use, but, even with this help, the best hands cannot j y sew more than twelve to fonrteen pairs ; ^ per day. The making of button holes, | putting on buttons, packing, etc., all ^ require extra hands, each trained in their ; special vocation, and thus a glove, before j j( being ready for sale, passes through no I ^ less than 200 different hands. ^ ^ The largest glove producing countries j are France, Germany, Belgium, Austria and Italy. England also makes some few gloves, but mostly heavier goods, Buch as driving gloves, etc. France and Jy Belgium make the finest goods, using P only kid skins, while Germany makes all ?f kinds of lamb and sheep skin gloves, and Italy produces nothing but a very low j ^ priced article. The consumption of gloves in this country, in proportion to jits population, is still very small. Last year there -was a total importation of 700,000 dozen only, while France alone manufactured 2,000,000 dozen, of which one-half were exported. The production of Germany and Austria can be safely calculated at 5,000,000 dozen per innnm. The production of gloves in this coun- ! fcrv is still in its infancy, and limited to j heavy goods, such as driving and lined | gloves for winter wear; but the time is not far distant, when we will be able to , produce the greater part of the gloyee needed for our home consumption. More Quickened Conscience. A fair to medium Detroiter went home to supper the other night to find that d: his wife had entered the house only a S moment before him, and he naturally in- sc qtiired where she had been. fc " Richard," she answered, in a very sober way, "I have been to consult r tc fortune-teller!" \ fc " What!" he exclaimed, turning pale j it in an instant and staggering back i sf against the wall. j st J1 Yea, I have been to consult a for- w tune-teller," she went on as the tears ol came to her eyes. I hi " Bosh! madam ! Fortune-tellers are ! s< hiimhncrs?swindlers?liars 1" j tt " "Richard, this fortune-teller told I T me?" * i m " I won't hear it?I want none of their | ui nonsense 1" he interrupted. i oi " Richard, it concerns you !" tc "I don't care! I want my supper? I have no time for foolishness !" " Riohard, she says that you are?" "I toll you I won't hear any of her ^ balder-dash! She lied aboat me, of a oourse, and I'll make her take it back or n, go to prison !" a, " Richard, won't you let me say that fj 3he said yoa were gradnally killing yourself by too close attention to business ?" ^1 " Did she say that ?" " Why of course she did !" tl "Lizzie, forgive my harsh woule. I ! 4- ^aII 4-Ua 4-^iflt art/1 fllA f.rilf.Vl ! DCC luan l-llt j liCU tuo U UUU ?UU V"V ?J. only. After supper I'll get a carriage fct and we'll ride oat, and while we are down town you'd better get that new ?? bonnet yon spoke of!"?Free Pr'ss. ei Rapid Transit in New York. fa The whole length of the elevated road m is about four and a half miles, and the entire trip can be made in about twenty minutes, though the average time is tt about twenty-five minutes. This, however, is a wonderful improvement on s? the slow, crowded horse-oar. which usually occupied an hour in making the q same trip. The cars on the Sixth avenue road are models of comfort and neat- w ness, and the motion is as smooth as that of an invalid chair on heavy velvet car- li: pet. During the first few dayR they were crowded beyond convenience, but, now mat ine noveny 01 riaing in uiem ai has worn off, all passengers can easily obtain seats. The faro is ten cents for ec the whole distance or any part of it, ex- m cept for two hours in the morning and rs the same in the latter part of the after- ai nooi, when it is only five cents. This is fixed by the company's charter, and tr jannot be changed, and ,its objeot is to snable the working classes to get the ti benefit of the road at the price they can ifford to pay. The samef rule will oper- lil ?te on- the Third avenue road, which prill probably Mejn running order by t? October, or possibly sooner.?Nem York Letter. ( oJ nEBMMlH FOB THE YOUNG PEOPLE. Forty, Leas One. Over by the tangled thicket, Where the level meets the bill, Where the mealy alder-busheB Crowd around the ruined mill, Where the thrushes whistle early, Where the midges love to play, - Where the nettles, tall and stinging, Guard the vine-obstructed way, Where the tired brooklet lingers In a quiet little pool, Mistress Salmo Fontinalis Keeps a very private school. Forty little speckled beauties Come to learu of her, each day, How to climb the foaming rapids, Where the flashing sunbeams play,? How to navigato the eddies, _ How to sink and how to rise, iiow 10 watcu ior passing ptirua, How to leap for paasing flies,? When to play upon the surface, When beneath the stones to hide,? All the secrets of the wator, All brook learning, true and tried ;? "That's a good-for-nothing skipper " That's a harmless yellow-bird " That's the flicker of the sunshine, When the alder-leaves are stirred "That's the shadow of a cloudlet " That's a squirrel come to drink " ThaU-look out for him, my darlings!? Hi's a fierce and hungry mink " That's the ripple on tbe water, When the winds the wavelets stir " That^snap quick, my little hearties!? That's a luscious grasshopper." So the clever Mistress Salmo^ Uives ner counsel, aay Dy uay,? Teaching all the troatly virtues, All life's lessons, grave and gay. Well she knows the flashing terror Of King Fisher's sudden Tall! Well she Knows the lurking danger Of the barb'd hook, keon and Bin&ll! Well she tries to warn her pupils Of all evils, low and high ! But, alas! tho vain young triflers Sometimes disobes?and die! What was that which passed so quickly, With a slender shade behind ? What is that which stirs the alders When no ripple tells of wind ? What sends Mistress Salmo darting Underneath the stones in fear Crying, " Hide yourselves, my darlings! Our worst enemy is near !" "I am bound to understand It," Says one self-proud speckle-side ; "When I soe the danger's real, Then, if noed be, I can hide." So he waits alone and watches, Kaau shaHnw nn.HR &cain. i Soob a Qf drop on t&e water,? Dashes at it, might and main. " Missed it! ' Well," he says, " I never ! " That's the worst jump made to-day!. Here another comes?now for it!" Splash ! He's in the air?to stay !., When the alders cease to tremble. . Silence comes and son-glintB shine, Mistress Salmo Fontinalis Calls the roll,?just thirty-nine! ?James Richardson, in St. Nicholas. The Old Emperor illoncolloThe old emperor Mongolio lived on ie top of a high mountain. I may 'en sty, he lived on the top of a very ( gh mountain. It was precisely fortyre thousand miles high, and it ended : most in a sharp point; and on the top, 11 said before, lived the old emperor ' [ongolio. There he had been sitting r ages and ages, and very uncomforta- I e he found it, I can assure you, for he ;ver oould change his position in the ast, for fear of losing his balance. In;ed, he was so very uncomfortable that 3 screamed and roared day and night, ithout ever stopping save occasionally I i take breath or to eat his dinner; he ~?'1 "n lnn/1- tVinf nnhnrlu'* r?nnlri I MCULLltru DU lyuu uunv uwwvmj I eep for ft thousand miles around; aud ) that country was known far and wide i " the country of the sleepless peo!e." As you may imagine, there was nothg to eat on the top of the mountain, id the old emperor had an excellent spetite; so every day he used to get is dinner in the following way: He had a fishing-rod, and a line fortyire thousand miles long; and every dav, hen he began to feel hungry, he would t tbe line down into the forest on the irth below and catch an elephant; and i soon as he had caught one he would ive the line a tremendous pull, jerking le elephant up in the air above his sad, and catching it in his mouth as it ime down. But alas ! one day u very, very sad ling happened. It was dinner-time, and the old em-; Bi-or, who was very hungry, having j een screaming rather louder than i. sual for the last four-and-twenty ours, let down his fishing-line, and ! aited for a bite. Pretty soon there j lme a twitch at the rope, and he knew j lat the elephant had taken hold. So i e waited a moment, and then gave a owerful jerk?but? The elephant was a young and lively ne, and struggled furiously when he : >und the hook fixed firmly in his iroat; in his struggles he became eningled in the long hanging branches of huge Banyan tree, and there he stayed, edged absolutely tight. The emperor twisted, and the emperor oiled, but it was all of no use, the elehant would not come. At last, gatherig up all his strength, and uttering a sarful yell, he gave one tremendons srk?the rope broke?he lost his bal- ' ace, and toppling off his seat the old ' mperor fell! own! | Down ! Down! Whizzz ! Smash! Crash I Rattlety! Rattlety I Rattlety! j Bano ! I !| That was the way he fell. And when j k last he straok the earth he went disctly through, and came out on the ther side; and so nobody ever knew hat became of tho old emperor Mongoo.? Wide Awake. Dizzy DlntanrcH. The other day, ono of the school-chilren said to a chum: "The Little choolma'am told us this morning that )me parts of the ocean are more than >ur miles deep !" That's easy to say, thought I, but try ) think it, my dear I Fix on a place >nr miles away from you, and then aagine every bit of that distance fetching down under you, instead of raight before you. Perhaps in this j ay you may gain an idea of the depth j ' ' ' i M? ! t tue ocean; duc just uuuhiuci mo i eight of the air ?which, I'm told, is a >rt of envelope about the earth?more lan nine times the depth of the ocean ! efc, what a wee bit of a way toward the ioon would those thirty-six miles take s! And from the earth to the moon is lly a very little step on the long way ; > the sun.?St. Nicholas. "The Worst ?f It." Several years before his death, Mr. debater started off from Marshfield on trouting expedition to Bandwioh, a eighboring town of Cape Ood. On pproaching the fine stream he alighted om his wagon, and just then he met le owner of the farm through which le stream ran. j " Good morning," says Webster, " is | k*. i. Q?? iur? uuy iruuii ucic ; "Well," says the farmer, "somepeo- j le fish here, but I don't know what j :ey do get." " I'll throw my line in," says Webster, ' and see what there is." Webster walked the banks of the j ;ream trying his luck, and the old j irmer followed him. Soon Webster relarked: " Yon have some bog on your farm?" "Yes," says the farmer, "that ain't le worst of it" Fishing still further along, Webster tys: " You Beem to have plenty of mosaitoes here ?" "Yes," he replied, "that ain't the orst of it." Webster Btill kept on throwing his | ne into the deep pools, and then said: I " You havo plenty of briars here?" I: "Yes," said the farmer, "and that' b't the worst of it." , Mr. WebBter, getting somewhat dis- j mraged in a hot August day, bitten Dy os'quitoes, scratched by briars, and not lisiug a single fish, dropped his rod i id said: ' "I do not believe that there is any out here." 1 " And that ain't the worst of it," Bays , le farmer. ; " Well," says Mr. Webster, " I should , ke to know what is the worst of it ?" I " There never was any here I" says ! ie farmer. ( Mr. We bs tea enjoyed the joke, and j jta^toMitto^iis particular friends, i SUMMARY OF NEWS. Eastern and Middle States. At Elmira, N. Y., Colonel Alvin Buokbee. a hotel proprietor, shot and fatally wounded his wife, dangerously wounded his mother-in-law, and then killed himself. Colonel Buckbee was a young man and at one time was under-sheriff of the county. Domestic trouble caused the tragic occurrence. Troy, N. Y., has been the scene of a daring robbery. Two mep gArrotted Thomas Bnckley. treasurer of the Albia Knitting Mill Company, on the Albia horae-car, securing $3,000 which he was taking to the mill to pay off the hands. The robbers escaped in a hack which, driven by an accomplice, had been following the car. Seven wooden buildings comprising the rendrock manufactory of J. R. Band J: Co., near Patorson, N. J., wore blown to pieces the other day by an explosion of nitro-glyoerinej used in the manufacture of rend-rock. The windows aad ceiling of buildings a mile distant were shattered, so great waa the force of the explosion, but no one was hurt, as the workingmen of the factory were fortunately at dinner. , Loss, $5,000. i The Manhattan Club, of New York city, gave a reception to the Hon. Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Addresses were made by A. S. Hewitt, Fernando Wood and others. The centennial of the massacre of Wyoming - A ?? or\f\ MAvn hr til WD1UU UVtJI 0\J\J dul/licid nuu uihwwmv.??. Indians and Tories?was generally observed throughout the Valley of Wyoming. At Wyoming, Pa., memorial exercises were held in the presence of over 80,000 people, among whom were President and Mrs. Hayes, Governor Hartranft, Secretary Sherman, AttorneyGeneral Devens and "others. An original ode was sung, poems were read, and addresses de- , livered bv the President, Congressman Hendric 1 B. Wright and others. The festivities were oontinued for two days. The New York city authorities having pro- i hibited the sale or discharge of Are crackers and other fire works on the Fourth, and no appropriation having been made for the customary pyrotechnical display in the evening, the day was consequently celebrated with less i noise and fewer acoidents than in previous years. Ex-Governor Samuel J. Tilden sailed for ? Europe a few days ago, on an extended tour. i David Trumbull, who roved in the Yale boat ! in the recent race with Harvard, and Colonel Charles M. Coit, treasurer of the Chelsea Ravings Bank, of vVarwick, Ct, were drowned in New London harbor while trying to save a little son of Colonel Coit who had fallen overboard from a yacht. The little fellow was saved, but tho father and the student lost their lives. < A - * J?J J ?v?;?.*-TT_ftirrV>f r?rw"?fnra livinf? ULie UUUUTOU nuu uut;-v>ei.> cm or near the line of the new elevated railroad 1 in New Yojk have memorialized the grand jury to compel the company to run its trains with less noise and smoke. The doctors say the rumbling of passing trains is detrimental to the health of their patients. The railroad oorporation has employed Edison, the inventor, to invent some means of abating the cause of complaint. Dr. James C. Ayer, well known throughout j the country as an extensive advertiser of medicines, died at Winchendon, Mass., where he ] hod been under treatment about a year for , paralvsisjind insanity. The trial of Benjamin Hunter for the murder 1 of John Jf. -Armstrong, at Camden, N. J., resulted in a verdict of guilty by the jury. The oaae was one of unusual interest, as the accused had been a man of standing in the community. On the trial witnesses testified that Hunter had kil'ed Armstrong in order to 1 obtain the insurance on his life. A man named Graham swore that he had been' hired by Hunter to kill Armstrong, and detailed the cir nnmotiin?m nf thft mnrder. Hunter's defence was a denial and alibi. During a severe storm a large tree at Robs Grove, near Pittsburgh, Pa , fell on a picnio party who had taken refuge under it, instantly killing ten persons and more or less seriously ; Injuring fifteen more. The picnic party was composed of German Lutherans, and the wife and daughter of the minister were among the billed. John G. Sinclair, of Bethlehem, N. H., has failed for $100,000. Fires: Crocker's Fertilizer Works at Buffalo, N. Y., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 8100,000, on which the insurance is 818,000; at Elmtra, N. Y.t Beod ?fc Cooper's foundary and architectural iron works were burned, i entailing a loss of 815,000, covered by inBuranoe, and at Newark, N. J., the destruction by the flames of Owen McFarland's building resulted in a loss of about 825,000, which is partially insured. Ira. b. wngnt, tue aerauuuig treasurer ui South Iladley, Mane., has been fotind guilty of embezzling $29,000 and sentenced to five years ia State prison. The flames have destroyed a portion of the Taunton (Mass.) Tack Company's building, causing an estimated loss of $75,000; insurance, $60,000. Western and Southern States. Tho Indian uprising in the West continues. ; A courier recently arrived at Baker City, j Oregon, to ask for arms and men to go to the t assistant of a company of fifteen scouts who j were surroundod by Indians near Canon City, j Two of the soouts had teon killed and the rest ! were in greatdangej^ofbeing massacred. The steamer Capital City and an elevator at Mompliis, Tonn., were destroyed by fir?, and two men on board the vessel were burned to death. The pecuniary loss reaches $250,000. Throughout Ohio and Indiana a movement against trie use of agricultural machinery has ashumod large proportions, and many farmers have become seriously alarmed, as scores of reaping machines have been destroyed, and on other machines notices have been posted threatening their destruction if the ownors do not discard their use and employ men te out the grain. Dispatches from the frontier indicate a very serious enmmcr u campaign wun u? iuuuuo. Orders have bcon sent to the different commands on the seaboard, directing detachments to proceed forthwith to Fort Leavenworth, to I rcoeive further instructions there regarding | their destination. Army officers say that at no time since the extension of settlements west of the Mississippi river has the situation in the Indian country been fraught with' so much peril. Dick Dawson (colored) was hanged at Thomaston, Ga., for the murder of his brothern-law, Frank Cunningham. At Steobenville, Ohio, John, Stewart, while drunk, applied for more liquor at the saloon of one McCann. Being refused he took a position en the opposite side of tho street, behind a tree, and when McCann and his little son appeared Stewart shot and killed them both. A passing citizen was wounded by the shots fired by Stewart. Iu consequence of a notification received by Governor Gear, of Iowa, that tramps are infesting Marshalltown and other points in the State and have taken possession of railroad trainB in some cases, he has issued a proclamation nrging upon tho mayors and sheriffs to be prompt and diligent in preserving the peace and calling attention to that portion of the rovised statutes authorizing them to call out the militia .->r nthnr citizens when deemed expedi ent. The Arkansas Democrats have nominated State officers and adopted a platform opposing enforced resumption, favoring the equalization of the greenback, gold and silver dollar and endorsing the Ho.use presidential election investigation. William Sutcliffe, a professional swimmer, while bathing in the Mississippi river at New Orleans, was struck by a passing barge and drowned. At Independence, Iowa, Clarence Shaw shot and instantly killed Miss Mattie Sherwood, the daughter of a prominent citizen. He then shot and killed himself. Jealousy was the supposed cause. James Gilmore, long employed in the United States Expres.? Joffice at Cincinnati, stole a I package of money aggregating 815,000 and de- [ camped for parts unknown, leaving behind a j wife and four childron. A body of fifty volunteers, under Captain j Hperry, were defeated at Willow Springs, i Northern Oregon, by a large force of Indians, j Captain Sperry and nearly all his command ! are reported killed or wounded. The uprising xmong tho Indians of Oregon and adjoining Territories continues, and hostile bands are roaming through that portion of the country, increasing in numbers daily. From Washington. The amount of money coined in tho mints : during Juno was $6,890,140, $4,766,290 being in gold pieces. The amount coined during the ' year ending Juno 30 was $81,118,921 50. During June the publio debt was increased : $2,149,381 18. For tho fiscal year ending June j 30. 1878, tho publio debt was decreased $24,371,391 44, against $39,000,000 for tho preced- 1 ing year. A large number of'army officers have been retired from active duty on account of disability incident to the service. Tho aggregate of appropriations made by the last Congress is $157,203,933.77, as follows: Military academy, $282,805; fortifications, $275,000 ; consular and diplomatic, $1, 076,135; navy, $14,151,603.70; post-office"! $33,256,373; pensions, *'29,371,574; Indian j *4,721,275.50; army, $25,583,18G 01; legisla* tive, executive and judicial, $15,428,881; sun' dry civil, $24,750,100.56; river aud harbor I $8,307,000. The publio printer, the secretary of the Son- j ate, and the clerk of the Honse of Representatives are now ongagod in an examination of the I property recently purchase! nndcr Jaw of Con- | gresa, consisting of 25,000 bcund volumes of I the Congressional Globe 40,000 unbound volumes of the same, 46,000 metal plates and 24,000 composition plates for printing the Conarexsional C/lohe, the two-story fire-proof build- ! tag, and the copyright for the complete work, i Congress appropriated $100,000 for the pur- j chase of this property. Forelatn News. Six hundred MormonB, comprising five hundred Scandinavians and one hundred English and Welsh, bound for Salt Lake City, Utah, sailed from Liverpool recently. The Emperor of Morocco?3Iu'ey JHnnsan? ia r)njtr? Considerable progress has been made by the peace congress, which has ceded Bessarabia to Bnssia, the Dobrudja to Bcamania, and declared Servia and Montenegro abeolntely rree. Austria has armies, 60,000 strong, prepared to enter Bosnia and Herzegovina. She intends to establish dril administration in each province. Mchemet Ali, the Turkish plenipotentiary, is greatly dissatisfied at the proposed seizure of the two provinces, and considers * III 11 ? that the poWers have combined to despoil i Turkey. | t George Gessler, the absconding county I i treasurer of Canton, Ohio, was arrested at ? Hamilton. Ont., on a charge of bringing stolen 1 goods inio the country. Be is charged with { embezzling oyer $60,000, half of which he brought to London, Ont., and deposited in * local banks. The Greek ministry have resigned in oonse- j quence of objection by the premier to some a promotions made by the minister of war. The Americans in Paris celebratedjthe Fourth c by a grand concert and picnic. t The only boat raco ever gained by an Ameri- i can crew in England has been won by a crew s from Columbia College, New York city, in the t series of international matches, at Henley, on s the Thames. Two crews of four men each t * * - *1 M/U.G t I rum America uiuuieu iu uicnu Columbias and Sho-wae-cae-mettes, of Detroit t Michigan. The raccs occupied two days, and 1 on the first day the trial heats were won by J both American crews. In the single-scull race Lee. tha American, was defeated by an accident after he had as good as won the race. On the second day the Columbia crew defeated their opponents," the Hertford crew, who were com- , pletely exhausted by their efforts to kdfcp up J with the tremendous pace of the Americans, ( the boat of the Englishmen running into a { bank and their bow oarsmen fainting. The ? next race was won by the English crew; the Americans from Detroit contested the raco for 1 about a mile but were compelled to Btop on -? account of the sickness of one of their number, fi Thirty persons were killed by an explosion in 1 a petroleum factory at Lyons, France. A fire at Mandale, India, destroyed 4,700 f houses. England and Turkey have signed a conven- j tion, by which England agrees to resist further encroachment on the part of Russia, in Asiatio c Turkey, and in return the sultan transfers the I island of Cyprus to England on condition that 1 she restores the island in case Russia gives up j all claim to Batoum, Kars and Ardahan in Asia Minor. Sir Garnet Wolseley has been ap- J pointed governor of Cyprus. 1 The Berlin correspondent of the London * Times telegrapns that he learns from perfectly * trustworthy sources that in St. Petersburg, t and still more in Moscow great indignation is g felt at the result of the congress. Russian . diplomatists in general and the plenipotenti- , aries at Berlin in particular are spoken of with ' contempt. They do nothing, the poople say, ? but make concessions, and are ready to accept t any humiliation to gain the approbation of j n.mupo. ^ Oat of twenty-two supplementary elections , held in France for Deputies to the French Assembly, seventeen districts returned Bepublicans. f The Home Presidential Election Investlga> 1 tian. . f Mr. Bonlds Baker, of Texas, appeared in E obedience to a summons of the committee, but ( refused to testify. Several other witnesses j who had been summoned failed to appear, and the committee held a secret session to dotermine upon what course to pnrsue in such cases. General Butler a Enounced that he was t in favor of exercising the fullest power con- ^ ferred by the statutes. The additional correspondence be tween Mrs. Jenks and Anderson * over the Sherman letter was submitted, and * added but little in the way of information or e corroboration of testimony already given, al- j though the reading of it created a good deal of . i -- iV. !?.. A /for- a 1 LLLurrimeLiL iu uio iwui( <*4nv* w > farther short examination of Mrs. Jenks she ' was discharged sAd the committee adjoorned. f After examining General Thomas C. Ander- 1 Bon, Thomas H. Jenks and James ?. Anderson . apon points connected with the testimony previously given by them, the committee called to the stand E. L. Weber, the brother of Dob Weber, whose name is associated with Ander- i Bon's in the Sherman letter. Weber took the stand and read a voluminous": statement, in ? which was included the declaration that he had ? seen and read tho letter several times and was g familiar with the handwriting of Secretary ? Sherman and had no doubtj therefore, of its c authenticity. Witness detailed his brother's I possession of the letter, testified that he had repeatedly heard him say that Secretary Sherman had told him that he would be provided v for and protected, and finally said that when E the inquiry came to be made about the letter j he searched for and found it among his i brother's papers and destroyed it to pre- I vent llfl I&IU1I{? liilU auj vug u>uv a ?mmwu? He swore that the eleotion in the two Feli- ? cianas wag peaceable and orderly ; that bis ? murdered brother informed him there was no ? p-ound for entering a protest, and that he ; knew this statement to be true. He was pre- I sent when Anderson signed the protest which I Fitkin and Jadge Campbell swore had no existence ; that it oontained a number of blank spaces and that he saw Campbell affixed and ? sign the jurat to this protest after Andereon ^ had left Campbell's office. Upon cross-examination Mr. Cox read a letter which witness had written in March, 1877, giving an account of his brother's death and the state of terrorism * existing in Louisiana. Witness stated that the letter had been written to create political capital, that the statements in it regarding out- c rages committed upon Republicans were not true, and that his brother had not been killed on account of his political acts, as was affirmed I iu the letter, but on account of personal mo- : tires. Adjourned. j I When the committee met again the examina- G tion of E. L. Weber was continued. Witness * testified that in November, 187G, he held a j consultation with Secretary Sherman, who j informed him that he (Sherman) had been c told that witness's brother was hesitating to let the protest stand, as it was against the C facts ana would endanger him ; that Sherman * then told witness his brother would be pro- ' vided for away from East Feliciana if be did not propose to go back thero. Witness also swore that he baa seen his brother and Ander- . son talking with Sherman in a Now Orleans ^ restaurant, and on the following day his ( brother showed him a letter which they had C obtained from Sherman. Witness swore further I that Messrs. Kellogg, Packard and T. C. j Anderson had requested him to use- his in- ' fluence to havo his brother's protest made and afterwards to let it stand, and that j as a reward he was declared elected to tho j State Senate by 600 majority although he had j been defeated by 1,200 majority. "Referring < to the visiting statesmen, witness swore that C Governor Kellogg said to bimon November 27, 1 1876 ; " We are beaten after all, we have stretched the law as far as we could, and the result is we have only elected the State ticket, f a majority of the legislature, and only six j Hayes electors out of the eight," and that the j returning board was induced to change this ii. ? nl/u>tinn Vitt Mm viaitinir nfcatflH- , rt-HUlL ao LU IUC ciovuvu ?0 ? j mon. After witness had described an alleged i attempt to bribe him, subsequent to his arrival ] ?1)( As the time h would remind its a candidate for the past ten years it cAnArmifl nn-nriAra, 0w?w-.w?? ww every quarter of ? The DAILY S post paid, 55 cents THE Who does not out the United Sta greet its welcome counsellor, and fr departments mak ?? J ? r I rt j OIU-C?. X oi JJLLO . Vilt sidered, makes it ten, with $10 casl rumj n Washington, not to testify, by promises of m appointment to offioe, the committee adonrned for a week. The witness was oomn&nded to appear before the aub-eommittee n New Orleans for the purpose of being crocs txamined. Mr. Potter has written a reply to Secretary Jherman's letter asking that witnesses to prove rand and intimdlation in Louisiana be called. Or. Potter says the committee will give Mr. iherman an opportunity to call Mr. Stonghton, .b requested. The letter closes thas: "Should t later appear that any testimony as to wrong ir violence before the election would be proper o the inquiry pending into frauds and wrongs d the returns after the election, or to the conpiracv referred to in the resolution appointing he committee, they (the committee) will oonider whether it may be practicable to take the estimony you propose; and that in contradicion, or whether the reports of testimony taken >y former committees of the Senate ana House nay not be used; and any application from on in this respect be will duly considered." Not His Sister. Young Schrobiker wan going along fourth street the other morning, says a Cincinnati paper, when he saw a lady in ront of him, with a biaid hanging down ler back. " Umph ! Well, if that aint my sister late 1" he mused. "Wonder where ihe's bound for ?" and reaching forward, le gave the braid a quick, hard pull. There was a surprise, but it was diferent from the one he had planned for. A woman witn dx&ok eyes, snapping ike a bonfire, threw up her hands to latch her falling switch, and then tnrned ound and gave him a look that made lis bones ache. And when he saw that t was not his sister, but a frantic-lookng woman whom he had never seen beore, he felt that he would willingly give limself for a cancelled postage-stamp, tnd consider it a tip-top bargain. He )luehed and mumbled, and bowed, and itared, and chattered out an incoherent ipology that he had made a mistake, and haj; he thought sure she was his sister, ma all that; but no words could appease he wrath of the woman who had been nsolted in that shameless and public nanner, and the words of vitriol she lashed upon him as he beat a retreat iround the corner, are burning in his sars yet. Ti. * H/?VivnK_ ill 19 BttlCJ IU vuau ilu wwmww ker will never mistake another woman or his sister without first assuring himlelf that she is not armed with black syes like daggers, and a tongue like a azor. He was a bachelor, had traveled exensively,and could speak any language, lead or alive. Hieroglyphics were lothing to him. But when he returned lome the other day and talked to his lister's baby, and when it cried and was jacified by its mother saying: " Did his laughty wauty uncle wuncle come lomey womey and scarey my little putiey wutsey,"he just leaned over the jaok of the chair and wept. The Markets. * mnr tobk. Im/ Oittld?** 08*6 09 H TeXM and Cherokee,... 07 0 08K liloh Cows....*. 85 00 060 00 [og*?Uve ? 04X0 04 K Dr?0sed.>..>. 06*0 OS he?p C4H0 11 r.7*0 08 lottoa?Middling 11X0 17 "lour?Western?Good to Oholoe.... 4 35 0 7(0 State?Good to Ohoioe B 75 0 7 o0 ?- -<?i?. t <u an-] ijUCaWUt?k inu vn ??? ? ?* ? ? Pheat?Red Western 110 0 110 No. 2 Milwaukee 109*0 111 tyo?State 60 f ? Jarley?State ? if 25 tarleyMalt ? 0 " iuctwheat...... 80 0 fiO tots?Mixed Western. 80 0 32* lorn?Mixed Western 41 0 47* lay, per owt J? 0 itraw?percwt 80 0 <0 [ops 76's?01 002 VI 06 0 17 'ork?-Mess "CO 010 ?0 <ard?Olty Steam U Tah?Mackerel, No. 1, new 18 00 016 00 " No. 2. new........ 8 00 @11 Co Dry God, per cwt............. 8 CO 0 8 00 Herring, Scaled, per box 18 0 18 'etroleum-Srode 09 009^ Eeflned, 11* Fool?California Fleece 20 0 2C Texas .' .. ? ? 80 0 11 Australian " 44 0 42 State XX 81 0 83 Jntter?State..... 1? 0 ?0 Western Oholce.. 18 0 ?0 Western?Good to Prime,... 80 0 C8* Western?Firkins 12 0 18 llieea??State Factory 18 <S) C2 State Skimmed...........* 08 <S> 05 Western. * ? 08*0 07 fgg^?Stalojnd Pennsylvania...... 12 0 ' 14 PHILADELPHIA. 09 0 09* 00*0 log*?Dressed 05*0 J15* flour?Pennsylvania Extra......... 4 75 0 6 50 Vheat?B?d Western 80 0 93 lye ... 59 0 50 Jorn?Tellow....................... *2 0 46 Mixed 48 0 43 tats?Mixed 29 0 29 totroleum?Crude ?..C9 009* Beflned, 11 Fool?Colorado 18 0 25 Texas 33 C4 33 OalUornla 22 9 26 srrriio. flour...... 6 76 ^ 8 36 Vheat? No. 1 Milwaukee 1 07 % 1 07 torn?Mixed 41 3 43 )ats 29 3 3 J lye..... 64 0 64 Parley 71 9 71* Jarley Malt 80 9 83 Boaroa. Jeof Cattle 08 & 08* iheep .. 06 06 lop 06 9 06V Hour?Wisconsin and Minnesota... 7 38 9 9 26 torn?Mixed 66 9 63 )at?? " 83 ? 86 Vool?Ohio and Pennsylvania XX... 68 9 06 California 34 9 49* EEIGHTOH, MASS, 3?ef Cattle 06*? 07* iheep 06 9 09* jamb*. 07 0 10 IOgB 07*9 08 WATXBToinr, mn, 3eef Cattle?Poor to Choloe... 4 60 9 IN iheep 7 00 9 7G0[Ainba 700 <4 B 78 as come for the n Mends and well a sir consideration, ai relies for a contin tion which have lie Union. UN is a four-page 3 a month, or $6.5 WIT'IT1 VV JuJli know the WEES ites, Canadas, and pages weekly, a: iend. Its news, t e it essentially a. T"V TIT 3 jjoiiar a year, p the cheapest nei 1 we will send an ISHEI E"W TO] The United States Debt The debt of the United States reaohed its highest figure October 81, 1865,when if ?0 Kft? fUQ daft, nf which I ?? , __ - ? $2,852,957,477 bore interest March 1, 1878, tie total debt of the government was $2,114,889,885,of which $1,741,782,500 was bearing interest. Thus it ap- ( pears that the interest-bearing debt of the United States has been reduced i $611,174,977. The annual interest on the intereet-bearing debt October, 1865, was 8149,421,362. By the reduotion of ( the bonded debt and the funding of a part of the debt at a lower rate of inter- ' est, the annual interest of the public 1 debt March 1,1878, was at the rate of 892,063,358, showing a reduction in the ! annual interest account amounting to , more than fifty-seven million dollars. For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WINSLOWS SOOTHLNG8YRUP h&a been used for children with never-failing success. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, curea dysentery, and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle. CHEW ] The Celebrated " Matchlxss" Wood Tag Ping Tobaooo. Thx Piomaa Tobaooo Cowan, New York, Boston, and Chicago. i Hemember Thi?. 1 That when voh buy a can of Dooley's Yeast i Powder you take no chances, for It is warranted absolutely pure, full strength, and full < weight, and ,it cannot fail, if properly used, to produce the most positive and satisfactory results; not only in biscuits, rolls, muffins and fancy cakes, but in all kinds of batter griddle cakes as well. Accidents will happen, and it is best to be always prepared fcr them. Sufferers from Cuts, Burns, Scalds, Wounds, Bruises, and Sprains, will find immediate relief in the use of Grace's Salve which also cures old Sores, Felons, Corns, Ulcers, Ac. Cramps and pains in the Btomach or bowels, or in any part of the body, no matter how severe or what the oause, can be relieved by Johnson's Anodyne Liniment used internally and externally. More than twenty years ago we bad chills and /ever, and the recollection of it makes ns shake even now. Bat this disease no longer terrifies ns. Parsons' Purgative Pills are a sore preventive. Snoh names as Dr. 0. W. Holmes, Washington Irving, and Ex-President.Van Bnren, have borne testimony to the efficacy of Whitoomb's Asthma Remedy, which is for sale by Druggist a. The Greatest Discovery of the Ace is Dr Tobias' celebrated Venetian liniment 1 30 ear* before the pnblio, end warranted to o ore Diarrhea, Dyasotery, Oolio, and 8psams, taken internally; andCronp, Ghroelo HheqmatUm, Bore Throata, Out*, Bruises, Old Sore*, and Fain* in the Limb*, Back, and Ohest, externally. It haa never failed. No family will ever be without it after once girinc it a fair trial. Prioe, 40 eenta. Da. TOBIAS' VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT, in Pint Bottles, at One Dollar, ia warranted superior to any other, or NO PAY, for the cur* of Oolie, Onta, Braises, Old Soroa, etc. Sold by all Druggists. Depot?10 Park Plaoe, New York. The Millf.ii and Millwbioht. The best milling paper. Simple copy free. Simpson <fc Oiult, Cincinnati, 0. 50,000 j Langhton.WUaon A Co..ChicagoAGENTS WANTED For the But ind Jlufc*Stlllng Pictorial Book* and Bible*. Prioe* rednoed 33 per cent. Address, Jones' Book and Bible Hons*, Philadelphia. Chicago, or 8t Lonis. ifrli ? ""-r rum ? ff9m UmiWa pmiuf rm*S ^ Uw*rkslik??a<p?ftMlM**r tela. Ke JflHT J*I?JMail? aW?*rU>*la Pi?pi*-^j>cta.atir otu. L.L.asirra .iHOwwwmHI, CHAPMAN'S CHOLERA SYRUP Onree Dysentery, Diarrhoea and Summer OotnplainU of Children. Prion 50c. GEORGE MOORE, Proprietor. Great Falli, N. H. 861d by all Drngyiil ? $102 $25 Bellini? oar FlncArt Novelties Catalogue A Outfit Free application to i J. H. BUFFORD'S SONS, Manafactaria* Publlahm, 141 to 147 Franklin Street, Bocton, Maaa. Eitabllahed nearly fifty year*. ggg1 MW/A/S/IFE&SMLECO. 265 BROADWAY. Af. Y I 11 ? 11BBEB ^ c d icine C<^ ^ enewal of subscrip vishers everywhert id support. Upon tuance of the hearl hitherto been est* sheet of 28 columi 0 per year. KLY t [LY SUN? It cir. T J u:M xi ueyuiiu. xNiimty ti ad regard it in th< )ditorial, agricultu journal for the fan >ostpaid. This pri wspaper published extra copy free. nf tli a w v/x 011712 - 4 " -* _ * TH! Bbowh4* Bkokohiai. Tatkma, fateangh* *bA ooM ? wnra ggg%ffii&.%>yrsaAgg ? W A DAT to AmuUou rutin* for tha VlniMf *fc / TUItMi Tenni and Outfit Fr?i. MdrtM w# P. a VIOKKEr Anpih.MilM CLOCKS lilffMI WUVWilW Agtooj?H Oortlaadl BL, W. T. mi? a a ?The choioeet ln^th? world?Importer* j increasing?Areata wanted *r?7wher??t*?i, mdutBOTte-doot waste tlma-aend for Oinrularto BMW WF.LL8,43 V?7 St.. M.Y., P. O. Box U8ff. $10. $20. $60. $100. InTMted jodiclooaly in Stocka (Opticus or MtOtM). la a sore road to rapid fortune. Tall doUila and Official Stock Kxohanjre Reports fra*. AddiMi T. POTTER WIGHT A CO, BsnSrs. 35 WaU 8tmt. ITawYock. Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Somr Stomach, Sick Headache. GRACE'S SALVE. lent yon 60 eta. for two boxes of Gnet'i Salra. I bar? had two and hav? nsed them on an nicer on my foot^nd it Im aJmoct welL BatpaotfnUr yonn, 0. J. VjLW Hxw. Pnoe 25 centa a box at aHdrnggfata.oraantbymafl r^m DR. BECKER'S \ / CJELEBBATED rA?/^EYlE BALSAM ni irrrfi nismouss mOTxarr H?IOTLAMBI>,weaxeye* W F Vv^ BTYBS tod 80BE EYELIDS. X/ F \V SOLD BT ALL DEUOOISTi, / VI \ DEPOT, 6 BOWERT, V* Y? ( ^ ?A BEST BT MAIL JOB ?> f/ * raosB 'V ff /SETHTHOMAS\ \\ KCL0CKS> u, ^wawnx. vwma&f J \\ \ HEEP GOOD / II Wbo Wants Machinery? We h?va far *! orw 1,200 Mm and Mooid-ha&i lie MAW-MILL Md VENSkAL WOOD* H WORKING MACHINERY of ?*?y de*cripfcioe, H Portable and Stationary STEAM ENGINES and BOILERS from 1-2 to COO h. p., WATER WHEELS, GRIST SOU MACHINERY, MACHINISTS and BLACKSMITHS' ) TOOLS *f atecy Tiriitr, PUMPS, FIRE APfA* H RATUS, COTTON aad WOOLEN MACHIN- Bjfl ERY, BELTING, CIRCULAR SAWS, H SHAFTING, PULLEYS, etc,, etc^ all fnfljr described in oar printed List No. 17, with price* annex- BBC sd.whioh we will mail to the addre** of any party desir- BH ing machinery upon receipt of (tamp. HM State plainly just what machine or machinal yon an BM in want of, asd dont boy until yon have carefully read oar list of tbo greatest bargain*- erer offered in the way ' of new and seoend-hand machine*. Low ipecial freight- ^Du ace obtained for onr cnstomori to any section of tht HN United States or Canada. Address S. F. FORSAITH & CO., HaAbiists and Heneral Kaddu Dedss, 9 MANCHESTER, N. H. N. B.?Village and Town Fir* Engines, Ho** Car- ^Hl riages. Ladder Tracks and Fire Equipment! a specialty. H9 Send for Kire Engine circnlaw. Homes in Minnesota. I inala'sssisre I r>_n nmvmT.fm Mff.T.mW bmEZ Baotartwyt. aadJWjjTBM north otbt Twencr Wfllloa Polhu*. ftatafc intdand FW? FLOUHLNG BOLLLM* Uta&k B| dr?d e 1 evan Itnn . of Ht0Mf Dm I matestMUingCflimProflnCt fir In tlw Wow m Th? UitwSrW to 12m United BtatM. One hundred ud twemty IktomM BHl due nusunoi fflrmiwH &<S5fifift!B:'^SKK rill SOZ B nin crowd*! Land oOom bM ejwd witb tiuonga ?( Lspnoasto. WUoon*in, low*, md K?nn? *I?o oomiag. W? tnrite tha world into th* E.T1PIRK STAT? Sm^S1877 Ed?1 CS8~ " VS&SWSZkK CH """ ,afc^ffigsM. gj A Safe and Baliabia Snh?tltiit* for Onlnlw#> B8 The only 25 cent 188 AGUE REMEDY M I2XT Tan WORZiD n CUBES ? sanmmsl and all KALABI4L DISEASES. SB loldbjr *11 DraffUU. Mill*d FREE ?? r*o*ip? otprlMb Writ* V> DUNDA8 DICK A CO., ? Woo mm mat. Jfr* Tom, for tkdr Ua c*at book, suited to Um ihmii of thli p?p?r FREE 09 Application. HTJP * 5UU. I HH itions, THE SUnH j, that it is again^K its record for theHj by sympathy andjH snded to it fromjH as; price by mail,flj ?991 SUN. I culates through-^H miiaa-nrl familiAsIBi 1VIAWUIUU e light of guide^H ral, and literar^M dly and the fireWH ice, quality con^Hj [. For clubs o^H Address SUNJ p* MB