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n W l> I il li Mi? TI ??? ? W??? Midsnmmer. Around tbis lovely valley rise The purple hills of Paradise. O, softly on yon banks of haze Tier rosy faoe tho summer lays ! Becalmed along the aznre sky The argosies of cloudland lio, Whoso stores with many a shining rift, Far off their poarl-white peaks uplift. Through all the long midsummer day The meadow sides are sweet with hay. I seek tho coolest sheltered seat, Otlfl frtrfifit ? Where grow tho pine troes tall and bland, The ancient oaks austere and grand, The frin^v roots and pebbles fret The ripples of the rivulet. I watch the mowers as they go Through the tall grass, a white-sleeved row; With even stroke their scythes they swing, In tune their merry whetstones ring. Behind the nimble youngsters [run, And toss the thick swaths in the sun; The cattle graze; whilo warm and still, Slopes the broad pasture, baeks tho hill, And bright, wheu summer breezes break, The green wheat crinkles like a lake. The butterfly and bumble-bee Come to tho pleasant woods with me; Quickly before me runs the quail, Tho chickens skulk behind the rail, High up the lone wood-pigeon sits, And the woodpecker pecks and flits. Sweet woodland music sinks and swolls, The brooklet rings its tinkling bells, Tho swarming insects drone and hum, Tho partridge beats his throbbing drum, The squirrel leaps among the boughs, A.ntl chatters in his leafy house; The oriole flashes by; aua look? Into the mirror of the brook, Where tho vain blue-bird trims his coat. Two tluy feathers fall and float. As silently, as tenderly, Tho dawn of peace descends on me. 0, this is peace! I have no need Of friend to talk, or book to read; A dear companion here abides; Close to ray thrilling heart He bides; Tho holy ei!ence id his voice, I lie, and listen, and rejoice. " HANG TEE BABY." j 'Then you won't go, Alice ?" "No, Herbert?I am Borry?but the baby 1" "*0h, hang the baby!" and Herbert flung out of the room, slamming the door behind him. Alice stood looking at the door, growing whiter and whiter. Then she gave a heart-breaking cry, fell on her knees by the cradle, and" hiding her face in her hands, sobbed bitterly. She had looked forward so loner to (to ing to this particular party. It was j given by Mrs. Mount joy, one of the J leaders in society, and all who were emi- j neut in politics, diplomacy, or literature, as well as distinguished in the j fashionable world, were sure to be there, j She had been kept at home so much | since baby had been born, that she | really felt the need of a little variety and ! relaxation. But baby had been threat- i ened with croup a week before, and the fond mother had not yet recovered from ' her fright. Baby, she admitted, was now better, "but not fit," she declared, "to be left, at leaRt with only the nurse to look after it. Nurses are so careless, every ooay naa toia ner, even tiie beet I of them. So she felt it her duty to give |\ up the party. She had not asked Her bert to give it up also, and even said there was no i eason ho should stay at home; but still, in her heart of all hearts, she hoped he would. "He said, -hang the baby;' yes, he ! did, darling," she murmured, with in- 1 dignant emphasis, as she bent over the ittle unconscious sleeper. "It was your papa who said that, and he has gone to a brilliaut party, with such '-.thoughts of his wife and child I Did you come, dearest, to estrange us from each other?" awful idea called for bitter sighs. ;i&pJHHorberfc had said such beautiful - things in her trusiijg young maidenhood. "Never shouMtfheir lives run in J^parate channels, as those of some married people of their acquaintance did"? ' ^"faever a joyiweepted that did not make them one"?"never a barrier should . . oome between tbem." And now to think : (4tHat this wee babe, with its golden curls, this beautiful little helpless creature should part them, as never strong hands - ' j She pictured the gay assemblage, and */'- her Herbert dancing with fair young j girl3, smiling on others, and leaving lier : \ die of heart-break. ' Her imagination, always too vivid, jJ ' ytewed him in his triumphs, until her j1 , misery took almost the form of madness. ! ^ " He didn't want me to go," she said; acted as if he didn't, and then he j K^ngbretendcd to throw all blame on dear, fea^lelpless baby." t t. 'iSfl Suddenly she heard the sound of car- ] "75-iago wheels outside; they stopped at the door; the bellhing; and a fairy-like figure t>tood on the threshold of the 15 room, in all the wistfulness of expectancy, with dimpling smiles and laughing eyes. j " Oh, Mabel!" cried Alice, starting to her feet with a glad cry. " This is ; indeed, a surprise. I'm so glad you've come. My darling sister !" . Forthwith ensued a scene of rapturous welcome. Then the baby was exhibited, and one would not have dreamed ' that a tear had ever stained the cheek pf ! Hi ft nronil mnthpr Tlnn frliA Trieifrn-'a trunks were ordered to be carried upstairs. ' " But where's Herbert? In the study ?" I said Mable at last. All the light, -went out of her sister's j, eyes; her hands fell. " He's out?out, /Iear," ' " Good! Don't be angry, because 1 I'm glad, for we can have such a nice Little, chat. You didn't expect me." 1 " Of conrse I didn't." J "Well, I didn't think of coming, as i' you know, for a month yet. But I ' thought it would be so nice to surprise i; yon." 11 "Oh ! I'm so glad." " And then Panl is coming," she said, < blushing, " next week, to Btay a month f( he has business here; and he wanted me 1 so badly to be here too. I declare," 1 she said, laughing, " I'll have to marry 1 him soon to get rid of him." ! i "Ob, Mabel ! don't marry him unless you're ccrtain you'll be happy!" cried j < Alice, hysterically. " Be sure, first, I he won't go to parties, and le?ave you , ! a?lone with ba?by," she sobbed. 3 * " What ' T? TfprVtprfc ttt <1 r?a*4v V ! ' queried Mabel, quite subdued. "Yes, lie is; and when I told him I ] couldn't go on account of baby, he said, 1 4 hang ba?baby !' Yes, you little an- | gel, your own father said those awful j 1 words, and then he si?slammed the door." ... , " He's a viper 1" exclaimed Mabel, with sudden vehemence. * A nice \?ay f.-\ froof Q Tfclfn 1 "l ! TAH r* UnK- 1 Z *- - 1 IV.KV c? a.x* jvu M uuuy line that! But wby couldn't you leave baby ?" " " Because bo was threatened with croup last week." " But he's well enough now?Bleeps deliciously. He'll not wake up all the .... night, perhaps. And the nurse would ~\lmve taken good care of him." * "I should have been thinking of fire, j and all that." *' Oh, nonsense! You ough* to have gone. But Herbert has no right to be- , have as he did; and he must be nun- J ished;" and Mabel threw her wraps on the bed, and took her seat by tbe glowing fire. " It won't do to let bim get "the upper hand. Ah ! I have it. I've I thought of a Bplendid plan. A charm- j ing, delightful little plot," and she; clapped her hands in glee. i, "Oh, Mabel, what is it?" and Alice elid do nil at her sister's feet, gazing in I' her face with expectant smiles. "What j < are yon going to do ?" ]1 " I'm not going to do it. I shall stay , 1 here and watch baby. Yon are going to j ] the party." i " Mabel! impossible!" i " Quite possible. In fact it must be ; done. You. mnat let Herbert soe that < yon're as pretty as anybody, and quite as 1 ranch adesired. It is decided. You are < to go to the party and play a part. Let 1 rao arrange the programme." < " Bnt, Mabel, I haven't a dross pre- i pared?or anything. I gave up going a 1 week ago, you Bee, when baby was I threatened with the croup." "Pshaw! You shall wear one of mine, one of the most bewitching, bewildering of dresses, bought from my last allowance from Uncle Curtis. Only : to see it will throw you into ecstacies. j Worth never composed anything more j lovelv. I want to see it on you. Come, i come, call your maid; I am all impatience. We'll shame our bad husband into good behavior, see if we don't. No irresolution, pretty Bister, mine, I'll stay at home and fancy myself mis tress here, and count your pictures, vases, and pretty things, and catalogue them, so as to make mamma happy with a letter to-morrow. Order John, or Jack, or Bill, or whoever your coachman is, to get the carriage?if that's impossible, send for a cab." In less than an hour Mabel led her sister to the great French mirror, and laughingly introduced her to the loneliest and best-dressed woman she had almost ever seen. Alice trembled a little when she found herself actually on the way to Mrs. Mountjoy's; but her sister's urgent will had conquered, and her heart was hardened by Herbert's emphatic expression concerning the baby. She was reassured, however, by Mrs. Mountjoy's hearty welcome. "So glad you've come, my dear," she j said. "Your husband said he feared 'baby' would keep you at home; but I i i i i i ? -11 xr j* j toia mm ic was au nensenso. iou uiu right to consider the matter." Herbert, like many handsome society men, was a little spoiled and selfish without knowing it. He loved Alice j devotedly; but he was not unwilling to j receive the sweet smileB and honeyed > words of others; while, with a man's in- | consistency, he was not desirous that his i wife should play the part of a married ' belle. It was while he was dancing with one j of the most noted aud beautiful women , of the metropolis, who was more than will- j ing tolisten to his nonsense,that Herbert, looking up from the face leaning against his shoulder, while the dreamy waltz music "thrilled hearts sensitive to sadneps as to joy," encountered the sparkling face of his wife, and saw her arrayed in the freshest and most graceful cos tume in?the room. She was moving : quietly along with an escort in uniform. [ "Pray, don't stumble," said his part- j ner petulantly, for from that moment the grand repose of his manner was j gone, and the lady on*his arm might 1 have been made of wax, or any other j ductile material, for all he cared now. "How the dickens came she here ?" j he muttered to himself, as he led his partner, absently, to a seat, deaf to all her pretty words, blind to her fascina- j tions. It certainly is Alice?but that dress?the prettiest thing here! and I left her quite determined not to come. I don't understand it. Dancing with that military puppy. Guinnett, too. She knows I hate him." With these amiable thoughts, he laid ; himself out to gain the attention of his | wife, and mnke her explain. It was I some time before he had the chance, so I he was obliged to content himself with j following her graceful motions, angry j with himself and with her. "Alice! Can I believe my eyes?"! t. : i ?i. i??i. ?1,? ! IIU &U1U, lib lllbl, 1U IUC Ui IUC , dance. " I should think you might, rather," j was the nonchalent reply. "Pray, how did you come?" "Pray, how did you come? I rode. | Did you walk ?" "Well, but-" " Excuse me. I'm engaged four deep ! already;" and Herbert was forced to j move aside, as a pompous acquaintance i claimed her hand. " I'd like to knock that fellow down," I he muttered, angry in earnest. Another pause, &nd another tete-a-tetc. No satisfaction given. Herbert had ! hardly the grace to redeem his dancing engagements. " About the baby, Alice?' he asked, anxiously. She put her rosy lips to his ear, and ! in a subdued voice exclaimed: " HaDg the baby!" Herbert started, and changed color. !, To be sure he had used the same lan- j imam)! hnt from her is was fnn PTAKiipr. i ' ating. How bo got throngh the evening ; he oould hardly tell. When, at last, J they were together in the carriage, driv- j mg home, there might have been an op<n rupture, bnt for the determined ! calmness of Alice, -who took everything as a matter of course. One glance in the beautiful nursery unsealed his eyes. There by the fire 1 Bat Mabel, in all the abandon of a negligee toilet, her luxuriant tresses falling ip glossy freedom over her shoulders, while the little fellow on her lap, clutching at one long, shining curl, crowed ! and laughed, as well as he could for " auntie's " smothering kisses. A sudden revulsion of feeling came to the father's heart at sight of this sweet j iiome-picture. " Aha! I know who contrived this j plot," he said. "But I am glad to see fou, Mabel, nevertheless. , " Wasn't she-the belle of the ball?" j inswered Mabel, saucily. " There's no doubt of that. At any ! rate. I didn't get a chance to dance with ! aer." i " Of course. Who ever heard in so- j jiety of dancing with one's wife ?" she , said, sarcastically. " 1 see that she fol- j [owed my direclions implicitly. You nust learn, sir, that a house divided | ( igainst itself cannot stand?that is, if me half is flirting at a party, and the ! jther half at home crying her eyes out." i, " Oh, Alice?were you really ?" "I should think she was. I can as* j} jure you that I myself, saw half the ' bouse dissolved in tears, and so wretched f that " ; x "Mabel, hush I" said Alice, implor- : ugly. | ^ " Traitor, do you turn on me," ex- j s claimed Mabel, with mock displeasure. 1 "My child," ehe went on, tossing ; f the crowing cherub, " tell your selfish j { papa that he also has some obligations, ; 1 ind that if you had known you were to 16 be the bone of contention in this family, i \ pou'd have staid in the garden of angels, where you were wanted." \ i Herbert was strongly affected by this ' 1 uid&cious outburst, but it bad the effect 1 t :>f leadiug him to see his duty in a new , 1 light. It taught him to reflect; opened 1 liis eyes to his selfishness; and made j 1 him, from that eveniug, a better and j ' more considerate husbaud. i ^ Six months from that time Alice -was : Iressed for a party. Bat this time the ' party was given at her own house, and j in honor of Mabel's marriage. Even j ^ the bride did not look lovelier; fornoth- j t ing now occurred to mar Alico's happi- 6 ness; and happiness, after all, is the best1 preservative of beauty. i c "Ah ! how charming you look," whis- . * pered Mabel, with an arch glauee, as j' they passed each other in the dance. I " Prettier, even, and it is saying a great i [ ileal, than when I cured your husband, j1 by sending you to Mrs. Mountjoy's !' party." j J The Itainhow i 1 The time of day at which a rainbow j ( appears is generally regarded by far- j mere, shepherds, and others accustomed j ( to outdoor work, as a weather-sign; . thus, if it appear in the morning it is , looked upou as the precursor of wet and ] stormy weather, but if it appear in the evening, then it is thought to "precede f dry and fine weather; hence the follow- , ing doggerel: i " A rainbow in tho morning t Is tbe shepherd's warning ; ' But a rainbow at night Is the shepherd's delight." Meteorologists tell us that there is J1 some truth in this popular notion, and j > the reasons they give are these: A rain- 1 bow in the moening is seen in tbe west i when the east is clear. It is indicative i nt ? - 1 J ? 3 1 ' LF4 WilW ttUYttUlO VI l/UC iOiU'VlUUU lOWrtlU 1 the observer, and, moreover, from the i time at which it happens?morning?it points to the increasing moisture of the i atmosphere. Wet and stormy weather c is the natural sequence of' such a con- t juncture of circumstances. On the other hand, when a rainbow iB seen in ( bhe evening, we have a reversal of these 1 circumstances, for the bow appears in ^ the east when the west is clear; the rainclouds are receding from the observer, t and the atmosphere is becoming dryer, t Fine weather necessarily follows. J I ;.?2 FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE. .">Iy Neighbor. 0 blithely on the garden gate One day I was a-swinging, The hollyhocks had grown up high, The birds and I were singing The skv was bluo as harebells are, Or eyes of my sweet mother; The air that kissed my cheek, as soft As hps of baby brother. But while I was sofeood and gay, Up the street my neighbor flow? 1 hate her 'cause she wants her way 'Bout everything we do? And so I shut the gate and said : "You needn't run at such a rate, I'm not a-going to play with you, And you shan't swing on our gate." I didn't tell yoa, but she has A temper that is shocking, And oh ! she made a face at me, And then ran off a-mocking. But as she ran off out o' sight, Such a shadow fell on melt was not cast by tree or shrub, Or from aught that I could see? I've tried for weeks to run from it, But for my pains my labor? \yuf uu j uu luiuh a ouauun wrnco When ono don't love her neighbor ? ?A. 0. Plymplon. Daniel. "Oh dear !" Baid Margie, "I haven't brought Daniel in !" "Why can't you leave him out all night ?" said I. "Oh, because I'm so afraid a cat might catch him 1" Margie was already iu bed, and so wae everybody but me; so I went softly down stairs, unlocked the front door, and stepped out on the long piazza. What a beautiful great moon ! what dark shadows on the grass! and how quiet! It seemed a shame to go to bed, and I hated to disturb Daniel, curled bo peacefully into a feathery ball on his perch. But I lifted down the heavy cage, carefully, too, lest I spill water from his Baucer, and he began, as usual hen waked up, "Took, took, tooK, took, took !" in a sort of whispered clucking. L carried mm to tne tartnest corner ol the kitchen, shutting every door as 3 retnrned, that the household need noi be roused by him in the morning ; and the last thing I heard as I left him in the dark was his cosy little '' Took-took, took-took!" This Daniel is a beautiful red-bird. Till I came to Kansas I did not kno-w what a red-bird was. Of the many here, Daniel was my first acquaintance ; and I found him about the size and shape ol a robin; a gray-red all over, except a peon liar black mark across the face and down on the throat, as if he had put hie red beak through a black ring and held it there. His eyes are like jet beads, and on his head is a tuft of feathere which he can erect when he chooses. This occurs when he is excited in any way, whether startled, or vexed, or even when in very good spirits, as a horse moves its ears. A single feather is not red all through, except the long ones on the wings and tail, but is mouse-color, red-tippeJ. ThiB undertone of gray softens and enrichee the general vividness of hue. In winter Daniel was not very red, except his bill and breast; but as spring advanced he grew brighter and brighter, till he became gorgeous. With increase of color his voice returned also, which during the cold weather was wanting. Some boys caught him in a snare two winters ago, and gave him to my little daughter. I was reluctant to keep him imprisoned, but Margie begged so hard that I yielded, hoping he would escape some day. Red-birds are hard to tame, but under Margie's loving care Daniel seems to have forgotten his former free uuui, uuu ui mo uwn uuuuru rtiturua i/U Lis cage after being allowed the range of the room. It is so funny at such times to see him look at himself in the glass on the bureau ! For a better view be will hop upon the pincushion, and there will gaze at the beautiful bright creature before him, till Margie has jailed me, and 1 have called Cbarley, md Cuarley has called Kate, and we stand there whispering : "Did you shut ;he door tight?" "Do see him 1" ' There, you've scared him off I" " No, ie's only turning round." Suddenly, )u ne darts to tue dock o? ft cnair, wnere le slips on its carved top till he slides )ff; but he recovers himself before ouching the floor, and, wiih a dipping light, gains the summit of the ward obe. Here he "views the landscape )'er," and decides on the German ivy as he next point he will visit. Now he is more picturesque than ever, >n the broad window-sill in the sunlight, ill tip-toe to reach over the brim of the all pot-plants and take delectable little ntes from the delicate green leaves vhose color is such a contrast tc his >right red! If I hadn't shut fast all those doors o-night when I left Daniel, this is what [ should hear to-morrow early, in clearest, airiest tones : " Peechoodle, pee lnwllo nppr>linr>dlo rippfVinnrlln I" Then I should get another nap, by iad by cat short by the quick staccato : ' Peechoodle, peechood' 1 p .echoodle, jee!" Another pause. Then, suddenly, " peecliooJle, peeshoo',?choo, choo, choo, choo, choo!" Pause again. " Rrwhit! r-r-r-wliitt! you do, you do, pou do! you do, you do, you do! jr-r-r-r-r 1"?the trill 'way down, under lis breath. This contents hitn a good while, so hat I get 'most asleep again. Suddenly ings out a loud whistle whose wildvood notes can not be put into human vords; and in despair at being broad iwake in spite of me, I say aloud, " Oh, Daniel, Daniel!" though Daniel i8 too ar off to hear me, and might only feel )leased if he should. But by the time le purrs again I grow good-natured, for lomehow that uniqutf note makes me rant to hug him ! A dozen times a day Margie exclaims n true Western phrase, "Just listeu at Daniel, mamma!" and again, "Oh, I hink he is so 'cute 1" And in view of ler pleasure and his apparent content . cannot nna it in ray Heart to let mm oose yet, although I always think, 'I will sometime, perhaps 1"?Wide 4 wake. The .Moon, Iroin a From'* Point ol View. Upon a time, in a certain valley, rhere once flowed a considerable stream, he waters suddenly failed and the itream died away. Upon the unfortunate frogs who. Iwelt there, in vast numbers, the hot iitmmer sun shone its fiercest rays unlindered. The waters dried away, and hundreds >f wretched frogs died on those scorchng fields. Dying fishes gasped with heir last breath for a drop of cool wa;er, and joined their wails to tho3e of )ur suffering kindred. At length, one old trout, who had ield out to the last, confessed: "Miserable I! and wicked! I have ;aused this drouth! And now I have 10 power to remedy the evil 1 have lone!" At this, all of the frogs who were not pet dead gathered around the tough old ;rout, and listened to his words. " That was an evil day," gasped the jpeekled sinner, "when I poked my lose out of water- to dare a saucy kingisher, who was mocking the whole fish ;ribe in his usual dashing manner. Catch me, if you can !' I cried, darting ibont at my ease. " But the bird beguiled me. He nade me believe that, if I would only york rt little hole through that dam ;here, I could descend with the escapng waters to the stream below, and nake my way to the sea, where, as I ieard, the fishes wese all kings, and ate lothing but diamonds for dinner. "I euticad all the trout that JL couia nflaeiico to assist me, ami we wriggled >nr noses into the gravel for a long ;ime. apparently to no purpose. Bat, at last, a little leak started, and >nr water dripped away, drop by drop; jut not in sufficient yolume to carry us ivith it. " When the waters had receded, bo as ;o mate the stream very low, back came hat artful kingfisher, to dive for us in ;he shallow pools. KBfew ' "And now, what the drouth had e destroyed the tempter has gorged hi self upon. " ' Oh-h-h! Boo-hoo-hoo !' " ! The frogs freely forgave him becat I he cried. But tho problem remained, how ^ the sapply of water to be renewed. At this juncture, an earnest, mee eyed polliwog flopped feebly, and sa: "Show me the place where these wat< leak away." Astonished at her manner, the sobbi trout indicated the spot. "Drag me thither by my tail I" ( claimed the heroine, resolutely. Then the frogs used their last rema: ing strength to do as she bade them, a waited, in exhausted surprise, to' ? what would happen next. " Good-bye 1" wept the brave litl polliwog, wriggling with feeling, a; groaning some. "If any of you si vive me, tell it to your children that laid myself in the breach 1" With those few farewell words s crowded herself into the hole, out I their sight. ] Presently the stream began to ri | and the pools to fill up. Tho frogs e : knee-deep in water, and the fishes sw? I upon their sides. j Day by day things mproved, and t I fishes becrun'to sit up in bed. while t frogs were heard incessantly blessi: the little polliwog. One night, she a peared to tliem in the sky, as all t world sees her to-night; returni: . nightly, for many nights, to beam ; them; growing larger and brighter every, appearance.?Fleta Forrester, > Nicholas for A ugust, Bonn<l to Get the Paper Out 11 The following interesting account ! taken from the Monck (Ontario) Timt { The recent destruction of the Detn Free Pres* office by fire reminds one ; | our staff of an incident which occurr j while he was working on that paper j the summer of 1873. The night was n 1! comfortably warm, and all the windo 1 i of the composing room in the top etc i were open, but the numerous gas-ligl | made the temperature of the off 1 several degrees warmer than the outsic Swarms of insects from the river fli through the jets, filled the cases a: . were "setun." The click of the tyr : | an occasional " Bless me " from an v ; fortunate who bad a galley to corre< : the rattle of the dummy box whene\ the telegraph boy put in special 1 associated presB dispatches, and an am ble "I wish I was rich" from Tc W , was all that disturbed the sti nesB of the night, when, at about elev o'clock, a cry of " fire " was heard frc . the pavement below, followed by t [ patter of feet going in the direction the nearest fire alarm box. Tom p \ I his head outside, and instantly withdn it, and from the gash underneath 1 ' j huge moustache issued an uueartL I I *. 1 1 | " Lireai guns, uujra, mo umtu 10 | fire I" There were a few "rashers" 11 moment before, but now all were rue ! ers, and printers and reporters we I helter-skelter down the stairway, soi 1 with boots in hand, others with coa f and one of an economical turn took 1 ' lunch along. Self-preservation was t 1 rule, and all hands worked toward tei firma and salvation. It was soon asc< i tained, however, that it was the adjoi ing building (now occupied by the Ft ' Press) that was on fire, and a hint tb | there was fat on the copy hook up-stai reversed the order of march, and tl printers in a few minutes were soon their cases. In the meantime the Ci Hall bell had pealed out the alarm, ai soon followed a general alarm, as the fi had got under great headway. A pap box factory in the third story was all flames. In the basement was a pai and oil store, and the cellar was fill with the most inflammable and explosi stock. Mr. Harmon, foreman of t! Free Press, one of the shrewdest ai kindest typos in the city, and on tt night the coolest, was determined th the paper should come out if possib] and took the chances, providing a fir escape for an emergency and keepii ' posted on the progress of the fire. : breeze springing up, stray masses smoke would eddy through the corn windows at one end of the compoaii - w\/iyv? txt tin olioofa nf flam A flTrpnf. nn : the other end, still twenty-five printe I worked on, and editors and reporte I plied their pencils in the next roor ! with only a brick wall between the i and the bulk of flame, and were real ! under fire, as the office roof was fr quently in a blaze. Below was a litt j sea of upturned faces, and half a dozi steamers pounding awajt, and spittii I out fire, which, together with the hoar ! shouts of the firemen, giving orde | through their trumpets, the shrill whi I ties of the steamers calling for fu< made the scene peculiarly exciting i those at work in the fourth-story, who | chances of not being blown into etern: ! depended upon the success of the fir men or availing themselves of the fit escape in season. By great exertion t! fire was kept from the bas-jment, and three hours it was subdued and tl ; paper was ready for press, containing i i account of the conflagration. mmm A Diver's Encounter with an Uctopu j A paper published in Australia giv this incident of a diver's perils: M Smale had fired off a charge of djnami j and displaced a large quantity of ston | at the bottom of the river. He we down to prepare for lifting these ston by the aid of chains into the pur While engaged in rolling over a larj Btone he saw something which ho su posed at the time was a piece of clea looking kelp moviDg about in front j where he was working. In a few secon this object came in contact with tl diver's arm, about which it quick coiled, partly holding him. Immediate Mr. Smale touched what was coil< round his arm ho became aware of L position, and tried to extricate himse! but found it a more difficult job than ] anticipated. Catching hold of the pa I hanging from the arm, ho walked towa the end of it, when he saw he was firm held by one of the feelers of a lar| octopus, better kuown among sailors j the devil-fish. Mr. Smnle tried to pull the fiBh ( from its hold of the rocks, but witho effect for some time. At last the fis | perhaps tbinkiug he had not got suf cient hold or power over his prey, loo ened itselt from the stones and quick transferred its feelers, or arms, arow -rliTT/vn'a Inry u unrl Tn fill ft llOS j tion Mr. Stnale thought the best thii ! for him to do was to get on deck as boc as possible, and he quickly made tracl j for the ladder which reaches from tl | deck of the punt to the bottom of tl river. j Tho diver was certainly a curioi i looking object when he came up. Th huge, ugly-looking thing appeared bo entangled all over him, holding hi in a firm embrace. However, M Smale's fellow workmen were not loi i in freeing.him from the unfriendly hi of his sub mariue companion. The body portion of the octopus w only about the size of a lurge soup plat with eyes in its head like those of 1 sheep, but it possessed nine nnns, ea< ! about four feet in length, at the butt: thick as a man's wrist, tapering off ' the end to as tine a point as that of i pen-knife; thus it could spread over i area of nine feet in diameter. M | Smale declares it was powerful enouj ! to keep three meu under water. mmmm Vienna Bread. Sift in a tin pan four pounds of flou bank it up against the sides, pour ; one quart of milk and water aud m into it flour eaougU to make a turn on j ter, then quickly ami lightly add or ! pint of milk, in which is dissolved 01 I ouuce of salt and an ounce aud thre ! quartere of compressed yeast. Lea' the remainder of the flour against tl sides of the pan, cover -with a cloth ar ' set in a -warm place for three-quarte 1 of an hour, then mix in tho rest of tl l/i iii AI-- i. ?:n l i uour until ilk: uuugu win icuvu iuu uu ! torn and sides of the pan, and let th j staud two honrs and a half. Finnll; ! divide the mass into one pound piece i to be cut in twelve pieces each. Th ' gives square pieces, about three inch< and a half thick, each corner of whic is tat en up and folded over to the cei ter, and then the rolls are laid oir bread-board to rise *or half au hou when they are put into a hot oven tin bakes them in ten minutes. tot Bijah as a Peacemaker. The other day, when the thermomel marked " red-hot and growing worse and when Bijah was almost melted in tse a shapeless mass, he received an offic; letter from the Board of Police Comm raS sioners which tickled every one of 1 ribs in qnick succession. The letl ;k* was to tlie effect that his increasing a id: and care, with dne respect for the gr< 3rs work he had already done and a des to see him take on a youthful lo ng around the chin and ears, had indnc the Board to grant the old janitor lea ix- of absence for several weeks?pay to on just the same. hi- " Oh I gratitude, where is yc ad sting ?" exclaimed the old man, as iee folded the letter napkin-fashion a wiped his eyes. " If anybody had p tl| eented me with a pair of skates, ad couldn't begin to feel as I do over thii He thought of the shores of tho moaning sei 1 He thought of a trip to the West; In fancy he haunted the Northern woods, he As he pulled down his linen vest. of He plauned a trip to the Arctic Sea, And another to Mexico; 80 And also thought of old Vermont, Iaj. And her mountains capped with snow. But the public couldn't spare him. soon as it became noised that the < ]je man meant to walk his feet out of to' jje for the summer, there was great co Qg motion around the station-house. The children they came and wept sad tear u The women they gasped, " Good-bye !" Old men and yoang ertendod a hand DS And brushed a tear from the eye. And when he came to think of 1 " rflnfihfl bin rAHrilntinn tunn harllv nlifilrf That one string bean he had so carefu tended and sheltered and protected ^ almost ready for eating. Two cabbagi struggling for a place in this sad wor . pined for his assistance. The beets, i 18 paragus, cucumbers and tomatc ' 8; seemed- calling him to stay and see t caucus out, while the onions? j Each onion it wopt a smarting tear . As it softly whispered: " Old man, don't clea ^ When he had come to consider i w* things Bijah decided to remain at hoc Further, he 'made it known that ^ would devote one hour per day to rece: . ing calls from people in sorrow and d je tress and in need of sympathy a * advice. j Saturday was the day set to recei the first calls, and during Thursday a ' Friday Bijah was busy with his prepai / tions. Knowing that he would have ' do with the incorrigible small boy a or the big bad boy, he fitted up a spa j: room at the station and put on the dc ^ the sign: " The badness spanked out U_ 'em in here?no charge." The room ^ fitted up with a stout bench six f< )m long, a buck and buck-saw, four go k rawhides, a clothes line, an arm-cha 0? with a bar and padlock, half a bunoh inj. shingles selected for use as spankers, 3W fifteen - cent looking - glass and otl articles of no particular value to anyo j but the owner. ^ This room is provided with arm-chai a lemon-colored matting on the floor basin in which to wash out tear-stain handkerchiefs, a bundle of soft rags ne wipe the children's noses on end a bo ^ of poetry containing such consoli ' couplets as? jje Oh! mother, wipe away that tear? I'Jl spank it out of him, ne'er fear. }r. And n- . O ! wives, bear np and oome 10 me? ,ee There's happiness in store for thee. iat The hour of four o'clock p. m. h irs scarcely struck when the door was open be and a little woman with a sharp face a: at a long, thin nose was admitted. S ty had been weeping. There was a quiv ad to her chin as she folded .her fan, a: xe she sighed with a terrible dreariness ier she took a chair aud begun: in " Mr. Joy, you see before you t nti wreck of a once happy wife." ed " Once happy wife, bat now perfecl ve reckless, even about new hats. I sc he madam?proceed," he replied, ad 41 My husband is out every night t lis midnight," she continued, as the tea at came. " Once he called me darlin e, now he refers to mo as Sarah Jar e- Once he patted my head and prais 3g me; now I can't come near him but ! A 'wants to know if I have been eatii of onions again. It has been growing i er him for a whole year, and to-day I a ig the saddest woman in Detroit. Wh fit shall I do?what can I do ?" rs He solemnly picked up the dictionai rs looked under the head of "Z" for a f< n, minutes, and closing the book, lean m back and said: ly "Madam, I find nothing in No e- Webster's writings bearing on your ca? ;le but I think I see the remedy. Wh Jn you go home give the house a go* ig sweeping and don't leave any app se cores or base ball clubs in the cornel rs Then put on a tidy dress, pin a cle is- collar around your neck, shine up yo >1, earrings, tie on a white apron, and to you hear the old boy coming up t ao nn.Ui tn-rnahf. nfn'lro nn n livplv snncr n.i ty give him the biggest smile you can aj e- not increase the size of your mout e- That's my remedy, madam, and if yon lie try it I'll bet you a wooden leg agair in a paper of pins that he'll light his pi Lie after supper, take a seat beside you < an the porch and start out with pet nam containing four syllables." She was red in the face as he pause iSi | but she remembered that she had on two hair pins in her head, one shoe w -ea untied and there were three greas spots on her dress in plain sight, a: she cooled her temper and said: ^ j "Maybe it is my fault, and I'll folic n ; your advice." "No, madam. Nothing so discourag a husband as to come home at night ai fiud a dog-collar and bear-trap on t P* lounge, and a slip-shod wife limpii around with the camphor-bottle in o ? hand and the biscuit-pan in the oth< I and wishing some peddler would cor je along with cinnamon essence. Goc | day, madam?como back if it doesi J | work." . i Tho next caller was a matron of fori 118 ! .... . 1.1/ . ,, wearing a nan-ueuani, naii-repema , ' look, and alio explained: . " Bijah, three days ago my htisba ' , camo home crosB. 1 frit that same wa , too, and whsn ho found fault becau ^ the water boiled out of the potatoes, j-* gave him to understand that I did] marry him to become his slave. 0 ? word brought on another, and I 1< ut him-" . " The plot thickens?proceed." ' I am ashamed of my conduct, anc " think he feels the same, but is it n duty to go to him and ask his forgh \ ness ? No! I never will I" l "But you liko him ?" "Kinder." " And ho likes you ?" ' | "Yes?kinder." ! " And you had a pleasant home ?" 16 | "Y-yes." 10 " Madam, tie the strings of your bo ' net in a hard knot, take a sniff of harl horn to strengthen your nerves ai ,18 walk right homo from here. Beg grinning as you enter the gate, jun m into the door without a word and win r* you catch sight of him picking tho cc ^ ; pet tacks out of his early supper, wi i tlin broom on the melodeon. the duf i pan on the ceil tor table and tlie pc as ] and kettles on tho wood-box, do y< j call out in your best way : 1 Hollo, o ,ft , pard, let's kiss and settle for a hundr* 31 ! cents on the dollar !' He'll break rig i down like a yearling calf under a load a i grindstones." a 1 " But be ought to come to me." IU ; "Madam, don't wait; didn't I ha rj" I three difit'rent wives hang off on m ' i and didn't they all die while waiting f ; me to give in first ?" " I?I'm awful proud, but I li] 1 John," she mused ; and she headed f ,r? i mo as she went out, having agTeed ! carry out the programme to the letter. 1X I "Blessed are the?the?what do y< call them fellers ?" said Bijab, as ] 10 : Innked after her. "He'll cave in ie ; he'Jl feel happy, and the song of tl J mulberry will woo them to sleep. Lei i have a rest."?Detroit Free Press. ie . ! The earliest ecclesiastical buildings Ireland are doomed huts, built of loos . j uncut stones. Outside t'uey look li] 'jg ! cairns, aud their only ornamentation I a cross formed in the wall by whi B' J quartz stones. A Btnall hole serves as jg I -window, and tue doorway naa a uniei a8 ' one great block. Perfect examples < ^ such structures exist on the Great 9e j_ ig, an island off the coast of Derry. a r, Ii you want to draw a man ou it take a sketch of him while he is walkii I or drivinc. Grenadine Dresses, ;er A black grenadine dress is still conaidered an essential part of a lady's sumLto mer wardrobe, though it is not thought ial as dressy a toilette as it was before colia ored grenadines became fashionable, lis The newest black grenadine dresses are fcer made of the bourette grenadine that has ge thick irregular threads on a very 'sheer jat fine fabric. These are made np over oillr in nrinfioaofl ni? aIbo TPifVi an ok over-dress that .gives the princesse ied effect. The most stylish over-dresses oi ive grenadine have a baaqne front, a draped go scarf-apron, and the long prinoesse back. These are lined from the neck tc >ur the hips with silk, but the drapery belie low this and the sleeves are without linnd ing, and in these parts alone is the beaure tiful transparency of the grenadine I shown. The skirt is then made of silk, s." and merely trimmed with grenadine a-.- flounces. There is a special fancy thif season for making the sleeves of all thiE dresses without lining, and this is invariable with new grenadines. These sleeves may be regular coat shape witL frills below, or they may only reaoh tc the elbow. White lace cuffs are won: on such sleeves when the frills are noi used, and are seen on the short elbo^ sleeves as well as on those of coat shape, 5711 Black satin is more used than silk foi m" pipinff, cording, and all outside ncces sories of these dresses. The favorite 8? trimming is French lace imitating Chantilly designs. It is from two to thret inches wide, and is put on in thicklj j-a clustered knife-pleatings around thf ,n edges of scarf, polonaise, basque, over[j" skirt, and all drapery, and a jabot gath' rfl? ered in shell shape is made of this lacf g8 for the front from the neck down. II 1^' wider lace is used for knife-pleating, j one or two rows of satin piping are laic g on the pleats to hold them in place, k0 Sometimes a heading of iet is used foi the same purpose. Yerv small jet buttons cut in many facets" like diamondf I are employed to button the basque-waisl r' of grenadine, dresses. The basque if a" cnt quite short in front, and a wide bell j6- of grenadine folds crosses the front Iron he the under-arm seams. The back of th? basque is a long postilion, sometimef is- pleated, but oftener gathered into twc pieces that each end with a bow of ribbon or else a tassel of jet beads. Th< vo front of the basque has pleated draperj Qd passing around the neck and trimming the bosom, or else it has lace laid in i to PntYinorlrmr qrinnro or nflrhftns it if Qd pleated like a vest. The skirt of suet ire dresses has a square trained back, with two soarfs of grenadine draped acrosf of the front and side gores. The simplest is pleatings m one or two rows are con Jet Bidered more stylish this season fo] od grenadinp dresses than those mor< ir, elaborately made. Next in favor aftei of black bourette grenadines are those a brocaded in scroll patterns or else dottec ier with satin. These are made in the waj JliOb UCOUliU^U) MJL\A U& AlULUWVl nivu AMVV V4 fringe. The Spanish blonde laces ii rs, flowered designs are. very effective or , a these dresses, but they do not wear well ed The new grenadine lace, which if to wrought on fine grenadine, is the mosl ok fashionable and also most durable, bul ng it is very expensive. The embroidered tulle and grenadine which is sold by thf yard is another rich trimming. Ribbor in a succession of loops is also a favorite trimming for grenadine. The double' faced ribbon that is satin on one side and gros grain on the other is used, esad pecially for dresses piped with satin, ed The jabot for the whole front of e nd basque or a polonaise is sometimes made *11 ? JJ LI AT. ^ ho or riDDon loops, una BumemiieB wic er loops appear in the shells of a lace jabot. Qd When trimming with lace a pretty plan aB is to pleat the lace in clusters of three or four pleats; then leave a plain space, be and put some loops or else pointed ends of ribbon on the space; inch-wide ribbon ;ly answers for this purpose. On trimmed >0 demi-trained skirts a panel down each ' side iB made of similar loops. ill For plain grenadine dresses the canirs vas square-meshed grenadines and those ,gj with stripes are used. When silk linie' ings are too expensive, the glazed black e(j percale, or else twilled silesia witb he lustre, is used. There is a black silesia Qg now made, with white on the wrong on side, which is very useful for suoh linings, and is the best substitute for silk, iat Colored Grenadines. ?Colored grenadines in bourette patterns and in mixed oashmere colors form part of the most m dressy toilettes that have been preed pared for the summer. They are combined with silk of contrasting color, and ,re this silk forms really the dress proper, )e> while the grenadine only appears in the en draperies on the silk basque and skirt, 0(j and always in the transparent sleeves. : Thus a beautiful dress has the basque :8t and skirt of flesh pink silk. The bourette an grenadine with it has the quaint colorin. ing of India shawls, mingling olive, old Q8 gold, pale bine, and dark cardinal red lie' This grenadine forms the new curtain q<3 over-skirt formed of two breadths Q(j draped from the front of the belt down h, on the sides, and joined behind on the L'll train. These breadths curve outward iBt ; in front like cnrtain hangings, and are p0 | edged with wide fringe that shows all on , the India aolors. The sides of the skirl es j have bows of the pink silk showing c cardinal rea lacing, xuree narrow sn? l(3 ; pleatings trim the skirt. The elbow ]y ! sleeves are of the transparent grSnadine. as j The basque, entirely of silk, is edged (e. I with loops of pink and cardinal red, and Q(j I has soft pleats of the grenadine foi | bosom drapery.?Harper's Bazar. >w | Burglar Finnegau's Adventare. :es There are many happenings in ever? ad day life that present comical features. A be | burglar entered the house of Paul H. tig j Wolfrom, in Troy, N. Y., at about 2 ne j a. jr. In order to get into the house he ! broke open a window, although the front ae | door was unlocked. After rummaging ?d- i around he lighted a lamp, pulled all the a'fc i crockery out of a drawer, and enmt within an inch or two of finding a dozen 7? silver spoons, but didn't; he tried tc at open an unlocked closet door, behind which was a valuable silver service, bul id he didn't; he found a pocketbook, and y, | rifled it, expecting to get some money, 86 hnt didn't* >ia nnarfilifid a lot of ladies' 11 | and gentlemen's clothing to _get somea't | tbiDg from the pockets, but didn't; the ne ! pantry was filled with edibles, to which jft i he might have helped himself, bnt 1 didn't; he then started np stairs with t the burning lamp in the most nnburglar11 like manner. Arriving there he awoke a ' lady, who. thinking he belonged in the 'e- ' house, walked fearlessly up close enough to touch him, and asked who was there. I " Finnegan," replied the intruder. She i asked the question again. " Finnegan," I he replied, and then suddenly started down the stairs with great haste, tumbling half a flight. Instead of going out the unlocked hall door he smashed a- through another basement window, "S- I scaled a fence and was gone. Then, id : womanlike, after the danger and man in i were gone, the aforesaid lady started | curdling yells of "Help "and "Police!" an The spoils which tbe burglar secured ! were two boxes of matches, although i there was a quantity of valuables and a ! sum of money in the house, its 1 Big Snakes in Vermont. e(j | The St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger says: ^ | "Some six years ago a menagerie of . wild animals came through Richmond, | and broke down a bridge about a mile j east of the village. At the time numerve I our reports were afloat that they had e | killed some of their large snakes and | some had got away. Within a year or j two the boys have brought reports of Ij0 seeing veiy largo snakes in the vicinity or j of the accident. A few days ago Wilfo i liam Fields, a truthful, sober man, was : on tho farm of Jonathan Fay close by )n i tho railroad, and was startled by seeiDg i10 ' two large snakes of the color of boa_ i consfrictort". He says they were full ie six feet long, and when they saw him |;'8 | they raised their heads and opened their j mouths and darted out their tongues, j He says they were as largo as his arm. . i Mr. Fields did not stop to interview j them. Dr. Bromley, a few days ago, | when driving through the Jonathan Fay . I farm, thought he saw a rail across the I8 I road. This proved to be a huge snake which moved out of the road. The ^ doctor thinks he was ten feet long. Mr. ?j Fay's men have found a snake-skin some ten or twelve feet long, supposed to be e" shed by a monster snake. Making all duo allowance necessary for exaggera. tion, it is quite certain that there are :t, -ptwo monster reptiles, anuproDftDiyiuree ig ?as the skin found and the one seen by the dofii^flg^reKpond. SUMMARY OF NEWS. Eaatara and Middle Statei< Tbe Maine Republicans held their State convention in Portland and unanimously renominated Governor Connor. The convention wae addresaed by Senators Blaine and Hamlin, Representatives Hall and Frye and others. The platform adopted favors temperance legislation. declares the government's pledges in regard to bonds and greenbacks should be redeemed, and that our " currency must be made as good as coin and redeemable in it,' opposes the payment of Southern war claims, and deprecates any change in the navigation laws. The treasurer's office of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City railroad company at Camden, N. J., was entered by five masked men, who bound and gagged the night watchman, blew open the safe and made away with its contents, consisting of about $1,500. Police Commissioner Dewitt C. Wheeler, ol New York city, has been adjudged a bankrupt, with liabilities amounting to about $150,000. Richard H. Smith, a young Jersey Citj (N. J.) policeman, has been murdered undei circumstances Of peculiar atrocity. He wai found lying in bed by the side of his wife witt hia head crushed and eight stabs in the regiot of the heart. The wounds on the head hac been done by a window weight, while those or the body were committed by a carving knife, both weapons having been found in a vault it the back yard. The murdered man's wif< asserted that when she awoke there was i towel saturated with chloroform over her face a MViiol /tnntaininc the drUK Wa8 fOUnd OI tho floor of the bedroom, although the quan > tity it contain ed was not enough to produce in . sensibility in an adult A close examinatioi , of the room failed to indicate how the mur r derer had obtained an entrance. Tho Vermont Greenback party met at Bur ' lington, adopted a series of resolutions anc thon adjourned for three weeks, to meet a St. Albans, when a State ticket will be nomi j nated. The platform adopted calis for a papei f mpney that shall be a full legal tender, th< abolishment of all useless offices, and a gradec | income tax on all incomes exceeding $2,000 1 declares that tho public lands are commoi , property, denounces the passage by Congresi of the Joint resolution doclaring tho principa | of bonds payable iu coin, and asserts tha there shall be no privileged class of creditors . The Congressional committee appointed " t< ' inquire into and ascertain the causes of genera 1 business depression, especially of labor, and K ; deviBe and propose measures of relief," begai l its sessions in New York, the members presen , being Messrs. Howitt (chairman), Rice Thompson end Boyd. Representatives o: 9 different labor elements and others will be ex > amined and invited to address the committer UX1 IUO OUUJCUli ui iuijuuj. Kearney, the California labor agitator, wh< recently came East to organize a party, anc General Bntler have bad an interview a Brighton, Mass., daring which an exchange o: opinions took place npon the labor question railroads, national finances, etc. According t< the published report of tho interview a unani mity of opinion npon most or all of the topici discussed exists between them. On the closing day of the trotting meeting in Buffalo, N. Y.f the horse Rarua trotted < mile in 2:13#, beating the fastest time eve: made. Boyal B. Gonant, cashier of the Eliot Na tional Bank, of Boston, astonished the dircc tors of the institution by calling a meeting resigning his position and acknowledging tha he had misappropriated 870.000 of the bank'i money. He had used the money in speculat ing in mining stocks. John B. Clark, a sixteen-year-old boy livinf in New York city, was bitten by a dog som< time ago. , In about a month later he wai seizod with*symptoms of hydrophobia and in i few days died, after having shown all the ter rible phases of the disease. Mrs. Smith, widow of the Jersey City (N. J/ murdered police officer, has been arrested' charged with being implicated in her huabana'i death. New York sn^k thieves entered John C Ring's house and carried off $30,000 in bonds, bills and gold. A tent in Philadelphia, filled with Sunday school scholars, was struck by lightning and e little girl was instantly killed, two more chil dren were fatally injured, and several othei > persons were prostrated by the thunderbolt, > Dennis Kearney, the California labor agitator, made his first formal public appearanc< ! in Faneuil Hall, Boston. The hall was denselj . cacked with workingmen. The speaker gave a history of the rise, progress and success oi the labor movement in California. During hit i address he was frequently applauded. 1 0. M. Blanch ard & Co.'s sash and blind fao [ tory and Lovelace & Doolittle's planing mil and box factory, with nearly one million feet ol Dine lumber, at Oswego, N. Y., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about $75,000, or which the insurance is about 835,000. 1 C. D. Parkhurst, a merchant of Potsdam, N. Y., his wife and son, were all drowned bj : the capsizing of a email boat. A eevere thunderstorm which prevailed ir , the vicinity of Hartford, Onn., the othei afternoon, inflicted a great amount of damage, ? ? >?1 mama ni?r?rtlf Km UrtKfninrr fill OOVOIW (JCtruUD nolo ouuua uj uguwuuigj muv fall of bail was aup&ralleled in violence and ' in the size of the BtoneB, and the tob&coo crop in many places was greatly injured. 1 Western and Southern States. A party of masked men entered Monroe, La., took four colored men from the jail anc hanged them to the limb of a tree. Three ol the colored men were in jail charged with tb< murder of a constable, and the fourth wai i awaiting a new trial on the charge of having killed another colored man. J. H. McVicker, a well known Chicago theatrical manager, has failed for $650,000. . At a meeting in Chicago of general managen and general freight agents of the railroad* ' leading from Western points to the Easterr 1 seaboard an advance was made in eastern, bound freight rates. t The South Carolina Democrats met in con l vention at Charleston. A resolution Indorsing i Governor Hampton and all the 8tate officers and renominat ng them was nnanimonsly adopt 1 ed. The resolutions adopted reaffirm the plat form of 18T6, urge nnitv of purpose in th< I denounce party fusion with Republicans, invit* | immigration, request President Hayes to granl . amnesty to illicit distillers and declare foi ' " exact and equal justice to all citizens with 1 , out regard to race, color or pre/ious condition.' In the absence of a State convention the ' ] Wisconsin Republician State committee hat i published an address and submitted a plat1 | form which commends the aims of Presidenl | , Hayes, declares for fraternal relations betweer , the different sections of the country, rejoicef , in the prospect of speedy specie resumption ! takes grounds in favor of hard money, anc j asserts that the House election investigatior has not discovered any improper action on th( part of the President. Great damage by a terrific tornado was don< . 1 in portions of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. A1 I Liberty, Ind., the Methodist church was badl] t injured, and the residence of J. M. Darco wai partly burned. At Eaton, Ohio, the corn wai flattened out over a larpe area, and apples anc ' I pears covered the gronnds in the orchards. I report from Docatur, III., says a storm passec i through that section, blowiDg down corn ant ( fruit trees, and wrecking two churches. Several dwellings wero also unroofed. At Clinton 111., tho damage done to buildings ia eetimatec 1 | at'$20,000 At Hopedale, 111., an extensive fill [ factory, railroad warehouse, a hotel and severa ; | residences aro in ruins. A number of peraoni [ | were seriously injured. I The Domocratic State ticket in North Carolina was elccted without opposition. Botl houses of the Legislature are Democratic b; ' I decided majorities. 1 j At Mount Vernon, Ohio, the Democrats | Congressional convention balloted 1,255 timei I before a candidate was nominated. The boiler of tho tow-boat Brilliant expiodec I while near Gallipolis, Ohio, and three of he: crow were billed outright, while several othen 1 I wore hurt more or less severely. i The Mastin Bank of Kansas City, Mo,, h&i | suspended. j Tho Democratic campaign in Indiana wai | oponed by ex-Governor Hendricks, in a speecl j at Indianapolis. j A boiler in a sawmill at Enterprise, on th< K#n?win rivor. W. Vn... blow nn. killincr J. Parr I George Avery and Frank I>ilworth, and fatal l ly wounding" four men. The mill was blowi | into atom*. Loss, $8,000; no insurance. | The disaffected savages in Oregon and Wash ington Territory are continuing their depreda^ tionH, killing and plundering whenever the; get au opportunity. A Bois3 City dispatcfc Hays five men aud two women were murdered I by Indians on Bonneau river. From WaahinKtoii. j Sitting Bull has made o'-crtures to the Indian ofliee for permission to return to the United ! State1), insisting that he should not be held acj countablo for auy criminality on liis part dur' ing the Indian war. The government authorij ties declined to entertain his proposition. I Tho sixty-fourth call for tho redemption ol ( five-twentv'bouds of 18G5, consols of 18(55, haf j been issued by tho secretary of tho treasury, j The call is for $5,000,000. | On the 1st of August the total national debl I was $2,804,896,091.97, less?269,316,170.12 cast i in tho treasury. During July the debt was deI creased $206, 306.97. Tho custom receipts for I July wero $11,198,270, and internal revenue, 49,90-1,854. Compared with July, 1877, this ie I an inrrearo in customs of ?1,137,409, and in inj ternal revenuo, $1,140,279. Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum has aont copies of ft letter to the collectors of all the districts in tho 8outh where troubles have arisen on account of illicit distilling, setting ; forth the willingness of tho government to deal leniontly with all who will abstain from violations of tho law. The Congressional commission appointed to reorganize the army, disbanded for tho summer after being in session oight days at White Sulphor Springs, Va. It is reported that tho commission haH agreed upon a bill reorganizing the army and making changes in tho conduct of military afTairs. It was agreed to hold the next meeting in New York on November 19. Tho excess of United States exports over impo-ts for tho last fiscal year amount to $166 539,917. Washington has been visited by a fierce wind and rain storm, which completely inundated the lower pai t of tbo city, uprooted trees, unroofed houses, aud did considerable damage. The total number of pieces coined at the United States mints during 033 100, and ill i?mmkj r M ? mmmm that ever crossed the Atlantie?reached England after a voyage of forty-five days. The Nautilus started 011 her dangerous cruise from Boston and was manned by two brothers named Andrews. The vessel is nineteen feet ' long and twenty-seven inches deep. i After five postponements the champion rowing contest between Edward Hanlon and WaK i tor Boss' came off at St. Johns, N. B., and was . decided in favor of Hanlon, Boas' boat upsett ting three-quarters of a mile from the starting i place. i Cardinal Alexander Franchi, pontifical secre1 tary of State, and archbishop of ThesBalonica, died in Bome the other day, aged fifty-nine. In ! the conolave which elected Leo XIII., he was one of the few cardinals who received a large I number of votes. The Liberal party in the British Parliament [ has sustained a signal defeat npon the vote of i Lord Hartington's resolution of censure r>t the . government's attitude and Lord Beaconsfleld's policy in the peaco congress. The resolution . was rejected by a vote of 19B to 338. , Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury have been presented with the freedom of the city of Lon, don. The proceedings were followed by a . grand banquet. Presenting an individual with . the freedom of the city of London is regarded in England as one of the highest compliments , which oan be paid a public man. [ There have been popular risings throughout i Herzegovina. The Mahomedan governor and , other officials at Mastar have been assassinated. > The Austrian troops sent to occupy Bosnia, > in accordance with the terms of the Berlin t treaty, have been meeting with armed resist, ance by the inhabitants. At one place seventy i Austrian hussars'were killed by the insurgents - and at various other points engagements nave - uken place. i i Strange Things in Bee-dom. Spvprnl vpftrs ftc/n when the seventeen 1 year locusts visited us, says a correst pondent, I noticed, one morning in Au gust, that the bees were going to the ^ woods pretty lively. There were no l flowers in that direction, and the weather , was such that no honey-dew could be ? looked for. I followed them to the * mountain, and there among the rock t oak, their busy hum could be heard for . a considerable distance. An examina, tion proved that where the locusts had I punctured the small branches, a sweet > substance exuded, whioh the bees were | collecting in considerable quantities; in fact some gathered twenty pounds from r this source. Its taste was rather un pleasant, but the bees wintered well 3 on it. While the bees were working on this | substahce one cool morning, about sun[ rise, the fc^ was stealing softly up the f ravine towards my apiary, which ifl situ, ated at the end of a deep ravine, the > workers had then made their first sally. ' In a moment everything was shrouded in one of those thick fogs that come in a moment and are gone as soon. Just at [ that moment I came to the scene ofr action;' no bee was visible except one now and then issuing from a hive, but - as quickly returning. I heard a str&nge sound, as it were in the clouds, increas? ing in volume. It was the sound of B the main force of fifty hives?heavily laden bees hovering above the thick fog in vain trying to find their hives. It ; was a soul-thrilling sound^only to be 5 heard once in a life-time. Half-a-dozen J swarms on the wing at once is nothing . to be compared to it. Like everything else, it came to an end. The sun gently ) lifted the fog, and then such a rush?the , approach of a sudden shower would never produce a smuch commotion. The Markets. srw Ton*. Beef Oattle?Native 1-8 0 (9* Texas and Cherokee. C6X0 0-X Milch Oows 30 CO 070 30 Hogs?Live. 04 0 04 K Pressed Oi7<0 CO?.' Sheep 0IX& 08# Lambs 08 0 07 X Cotton?Middling 11 0 11 Flour?Western?Good to Oholoo... 4 88 0 7 00 State?Fair to Ohotoe 4 33 0 8 00 Buckwheat, per cwt.. 1 07 0 1 08 Wheat?Bed Western. 1 11 0 1 '133tf No.- 3 Milwaukee. 10) 0 1 00 Byo?State 64 0 68 Barley?State 73 0- 7*X BarleyMalt 6} 0 88 Buckwheat 80 0 80 Oats?Mlzdd Western.... 81 0 86 Corn?Mixed Weatern 48 0 49 I flay,per cwt 68 0 47 i Straw, per cwt 80 0 40 n^A 4a IMma 10 A U uuinr-wuw M/ A*iu.u,,.(,a,,f,,M( __ w Pork?Meat 10 CS @10 75 1 Lard?City Ste&w.07 ^ 07 ' PlJh -Mackerel, No. 1, now 14 CO 010 00 " No. 9, new 9 80 (ill 00 Dry Cod, per cwt 8 75 0 4 00 ' Herring,8 tied, por box.... 18 0 55 Pitroleiun?Oru 07^007#' Beflned, 1C\ Wool?O&llforr ifleece 0 & 37 ) T6XM " .... SO 0 ar [ Australian " ,.... 18 0 41 1 State XX, ?.?.??.?....?.? . 14 0 14 Cutter?State..,-., 10 0 33 Weeterc -Choice 16 @ 31 Weetorn?<ioodK Prime.. 08X0 08X Weatarn?Flrklna (69 C8 1 OheeM?State Factory........ 09 0 10 I State Skimmed C6X? 07 [ Western- C6X& 07* j Eggi?State and Pennsylvania 11 0 18 , Beef Cattle?Extra . . C9 0 CJ* ' Sheep............ OS 0 COX Hog*?Drewed 06 0 Ofl* Flour?Pennsylvania Extra S CO 0 6 BO Wheat-Bod Western 43 0 45 , Byo 60 0 63 ' Co-n?Yellow...... 49 0 60 ? Mixed .... 4i 0 46 1 Oav -Mixed 81 0 33 Petroleum?Orndo C8%&18% Beflaed, 10% Wool?Colorado , If 0 36 Tosaa 18 0 'SI - . California..,, 20 ? 25 ; arrriLc. i in our 4 25 ? i 81 ' Wheat?Ho. 1 Milwaukee 1 10 <3 110 - Corn? 42 48 I Oats.... 81 4 8) > By 60 0 62 k Barley f0 0 IS : Barloy Malt 10 0 90 " ' BOSTOH. ' Beef Cattle 08 (? 08* Sheep 06*$ 07 X , Bogs 06 ? OS* , Flour?Wisconsin and Minnesota.. 8 75 0 7 SB ' Ocni?Mixed 61 0 53 ' Oats? " 82 g M 1 Wool?Ohio and Pennsylvania II. 82 & ii% i California Fall 20 @ 8J i warcBiowx, MASS Beef Cattle-Poor to Choice 4 90 0 6 60 I Sheep 8 00 @7 78 , L. mbg i no 1 Clear the Way For the escape from the system of ita waste j and debris, which, if retained, would vitiate t the bodily fluids and overthrow health. That r important channel of exit, the bowels, may be 3 kept permanently free from obstructions by us3 ins: the non-griping, gently acting and agree1 able cathartic, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, l whioh not only liberates impurities, but invig1 orates the lining of the intestinal canal when 1 weakened by constipation or the unwise use of - violent purgatives. The Btomach, liver, and , urinary organs are likewise reinforced and 1 aroused to healthful action by this beneficent 3 tonio acd corrective, and every organ, fiber, 1 muscle and nerve experiences a share of its 9 invigorating influence. Unobjectionable, in flavor, a most genial and wholesome medioinal . Btimolant, ana owing its efficacy to botanic j sources exclusively, It is the remedy best ad. apted to" household use on account of its safety, wide scope and speedy action. 3 Medical Students will be pleased to learn 3 that the Faculty of the Louisville Medical College (Louisvillo, Ky.,) now gives three com1 plete courses of lectures in seventeen months, r and so arrange their prices that a student 9 saves $297 in his medical education, and gaios his third course of lectures; all other colleges B give in this time only two courses. Beneficiary privileges are limited, we see, to five per cent, of the class. Next session begins October 1, 3 1878. 8tudents should at once apply, as above, 1 for catalogues. 5 Everybody knows that so long as there | is proud flesh in a sore or wound, it will not heal. [ The obstacle is speedily removed and the flesh 4 reunited by Henry's Cakbouc Salve, the finest embodiment in existence of that supreme purifier, carbolic acid. Its emollient ingredients modify its pungent acid basis, so that it ' nover cauterizes, stiugs or scarifies the diseased r part. Sores and eruptions of all kinds are j cured by it. All Druggists sell it. We have a list of a thousand country weeklies, in which we can insert a one-inch advertisement one year for two dollars and a quarter [ a paper, or for the same pr:ce we can insert fifty-two reading notices (a new one every 1 v ? li*jf nf ween;, averaging eevuu jjih.b cu.u. papers and other particulars, address Beach Jc Foster, 10 Spruce Street, Now York. f Grace's Salve, manufactured by Seth W. J 1 Fowle ?V Sons, Boston, is becoming more and more popular every day, and its hales are rapi idly increasing. It cures Cuts, Burns, Scalds, i Felons, Salt Ithpnrn, Scald Head, Ulcers, Flesh Wound?, Ac. 2-> cents a box. By mail 35 cente. CHEW I The Celebrated "Matchless" Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, Now lork, Boston, and Chicago. I The evil consequences resulting from impure j ' blood are beyond human calculation, bo are j j the vast sums expended 111 worthless remedies. ' I Parsons' Purgative Pills make new rich blood, j and taken one a ni^ht for three monrha will i change the blood in the entire system. The relaxing power of Johnson's Anodyne I Liniment is almost miracnlonp. A gentleman I whoso leg was bent at the knee and stiff for j twenty years had it limbered bv its use, and j the leg is now as good as the other. IMPORTANT NOTICE.?Farmer*, Fnml. l;es and Others can purchase no Kerned; equal to Dr. TOBIAS' VENETIAN LINIMENT for the care of Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Croup, ' olio and Sea. sickness, taken internally (it is perfectly harmless; see oath accompanying each bottle) an' eiternully for Ghr>nic Kheumatism, Headache, Toothache, Sore Throat, Onta, Burns, Swelling*. Braises, Mosquito Bites, Old Sores, Pains in Limbs, Back and Che*'. The VENETIAN LINIMENT was introduad in 1M7, and no one who fcas used it bat continues to do so, many stating U it wao Ten Dollars a Bottle they would not be without it. Thousands of Certificate# cai. be seen at the Depot) speaking of its wonderful curative properIlea. Bold by th? Druggists at 40 eta. Dep.* 42 Hnrray Si, Nrw,York. I NittMou Cookery. . Nothing is bo well calculated to promote good ^B| health and good humor as light, easily di- HH geeted, nutritious cookery. With that unrivaled ? article, Dooiey's least Powder, in the kitchen, Mg elegant, white, light and . wholesome bread, rolls, biscuits, cako of every kind, and oorn Bfl bread, waffles, muffins, buckwheat cakes, etc., BR are always possible in every household. nH For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WINSLOW8 EH SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children IB with never failing success. It corrects acidity HI of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulate* HsB the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, BB whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 ota. a bottle. BB Baowire Bbojohial Tboohm. for < origin mid etHd> EH NEW Information to Yonnc Alon cent fn?< B0 AiMWM DR. W. H. MQwgLEY, 8pabta,WH. h WATCHMAKERS' Tooli and MUeriaU. Send for 99 Prica Lilt. Q. B. SMITH A 00 ,333 BV?,BY J^tLAHS BAL,r>-S Trap*, <Jkc. Price LUt free,' H| VI Addreai Great Western Qan work?, Pitta b oryfa- Pe. MB OBGAISSllHim I A mm A DAY to Aaente canvassing for the WriiMS HI / Visitor. Terms end Outfit Free. Addreet P. O. VIOKKEY, Atunsta, Maine, WS don't guarantee a fort one, bat you eu make MB COO to ISuO olean each month. Onljr $3 capital required U>commence. HH A. B. MORHR Hubbardstoc, Maw. B| 01 fl fn tf>innn Invested in Wall St. Stocks nuke* BH u)iU IU (blUlJll fortune* er?ry month. Book tent y w IU wxuuw fTMazpUusinxrorTttatnfe _ MB Address BAXTER A 00.. B<nk*rs, ITWMSt.V.t, Rfl CHAPMAN'S CHOLERA SYRUP H Core# Dysentery, Dlarrbos.1 and Summer OompUinta" of Ohildrnn. Price 50o. GEORGK MOOHE, Propria- H 'or, Great F?ll?. N. H. Bold by >11 Druggists. simple, east, profitable, h EVERYBODY HISOWN PRINTER 8?nd6c for handsome catalogue. National Ttpi Co., Bum Philadelphia, Pa. Largnit auortnati. Lotceti prictt. Collegiate nn?l Commcrcln! Institute. MB OtnerAl Russell's School, New Haven, Coon. 44th mat. Preparatory to College. Scicniitio Schools, or Business. Thorough physical training by military HM drilling, gymnastics, etc. Foil iaXormAtion sent on ap- BH plication. . WU CLOCKS EKg& I wiiWlBlr Agency?8 Portland St, K. Y HBMififcBBJaRgg 1 WrTP*"* W? Ue?r>??*, mA |W*? pHl'i ?H| W*?B8aateeai n Tr A Q ?The choicest in the world?Importew H XJEirLS# pricee?Largest Company in America? staple article?piaaaee aTSirybody?Trade ooodiinlljr DOB increasing?Agents wanted a>Si| where best indos?- HBE menU-don't wisto time-tend tor Circular to R9H KOBT WRLL8.4? Veeey 8t.. W. Y.. P. O. Box M8T- |M $1175 I'JJjtoijS SSJSS! $106 3 9 Stocks (Options or Privileges), often dcnbles In 91 MB hours. Full details and Official Stock Kichange Be- H porta free. Address T- POTTER WIGHT Sc |H CO., Bankers, 38 Wall Btreet, Saw Yotfc. ; $10 S $25Novelties Catalogue * Outfit Free ?piiS*LS H J. H. BTJFPORD'8 SORB, Manufacturing Publishers H 1*1 to 147 Franklin Street, Boaton. Maaa. aagiOMngq nwiy any j?qi ^DK MAH*- DR. BECKER'S \ Q / > CELEBRATED ^g/^EYE BALSAM Clll4S^CCL I8A8U1JS0UBK TfU^Wr For XKFLAKEX), WEAK EYJ* F Vv S STYES and SORE EYELIDS. y/7 F VN. SOLD BY AIL DBUOGISTC / TH \ ^ DEPOT, 6 BOWERY, ?. Y. ( -*7^ ?A beot by mail foe aa? BRACE'S SALVE. JOKMVUXK Mich., Deo. S7, 1877.?Hunt. Fo*U?: V sent you CO cta.f or two bozei of Grace's Sal re. I barf had two and hare nsed them on an nicer on mj footled it ii aJmoat well. Reapectfnlljr yonrs, 0. J. VA* KM. i ? . Price 25 cent* a bo* at all drageiita, or sect hr maO on receipt of 35 cents. Prepared bj 8KT0 W. FOWLE & SONS, 8? Hanfion Are.. Boston Jfaas. I i i I |Bil Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion1' Sonr Stomach, Sick Headache, PEOF. BCHEM'S Illustrated HISTOBT OF The War in the East, or conflict between Bcsbia and Tubkzt ia the IHt book tot lite agent*.. Has 750 octavo paces, 25 tngrarinfaof Battle Bcknu, Fortreaaea, Generaia, etc.,andia the only complete wortcpoDiuoso. uaanonm. mn ? sight. Price S3.0U. Term* jn?qualed. Agentt Watt- B] td. AddressH. g GOOD8PBBD A CO.. New York. $5,000! I One of the Bond* issued by the Canada Silver Mining HH Company if redeemed each year at S.j.000 eiah. H Cost 810 per Bond. For particulars address ImmwUately, enclosing stamp. II. I.71LACH, Secretary. jX LONDON, CANADA. Agents wanted. I Paints Ready for Use 9 For Farmers and Manufacturer*. fl They are uniform in shade, and the color can always D be matched. Any one can paint with tbem. The* baro H Tory superior covering properties and do not, like the |B so-called patent plints, contain either water, benzine H or alkali. These paints are in Liquid Form, and are M sold in Gallon Cans and Barrels. Tflay are also pat ap M in small cans of one to fire pounds. &nri for sample S card showing different shades. F. W. DEVOE 4 CO., cor. Fuitcn and William 8ts.. New York. ___ |B mWT08ITT(Jtl|lnUittwitp?rtofih?iuK. I ?rn tor ialc. For a eopr of U* "Statu Padlelf?ac? M teed," tddrett 8. J. OUmor*. Land Com'r. Sanaa, Kaaiaa. M PENSIONS I ARE PAID every soldier disabled In line ffk. K of duty, by Accident or othAmrlse. A fzA i B IVOISD of any kind, loss of FIX- JBT j B 6ER,TOEor?YE,?RCFTrRE, Mil B II but slight, or Diteate of WJIflS. B BOl'STV-Discharge for Wound, Injur- ?M m les or Bupture, gives FILL Bounty. JjfeMl HB lost flforses, Officers' Account* jEUy B and all War Claims settled. BE- MK' t B JECTF.D CLAIMS REOPESED. HH ' B Send 25 cent# for a Copy of Acts NH B on PESNIOXH, BOUNTY AXPfin H tAHD CLA1S8. Mend stamp rorj Kf U B C WM^F. Cl'MMIJfCS A CO., SkA.B B V. a CLAIM AGT"S and PATENT ATXTS, ?HE1 H Box 5HO. WasUnston, D. C._V^? BOSTON TRAHSCHIPT, I Daily and "Weekly, Quarto, % I BOSON, MASS. B The Largest, Cheapest and Best Family Newspaper H in New England. Kdited with spacial reference to the varied tastes and requirements oi tne home circle. All the foreign and local news published promptly. Daily Transcript, 8 l"0 per annum in advance. 9 Weekly " " " " <5 copies to one address,) 87.oOp annum in advanco. H SEND FOB SAMPLE COPY. I ft ^^2.50 to $8,000Sw 1 / /seththomaK \\ I fxOLOS^S/l I Vi' \SraWZLL. VTSASWIIIy/^ j 8 V, \ KEEP GOOD / JJ I I I en? I 11 vi m y?a w w We will insert a one-inch advertisement, thirteen j times, in one thousand American weekly newspapers. | Advertisement may appear three months every week,or , every other week six months. HALF INCH FOR $4f3 | FOl'R LINES FOR 8'<JS0 TI1KEK run For cash payment entirely in advance, five per cent, discount. No extra charge for making and lending cats. For catalogue of papers and other information address BEALS & FOSTER, 10 Spruce Street, New York. FLY BRICK Ciant FfrKilltr. KILLS all the g, room in T Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo,H. Y RT?D 33