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Sun-Song. bt x. b. b0bi5b05. What makes the birdB bo merry ? What makes ?o ripe the cherry ? It is the Sun that comes aloDg To mellow fruit and mellow eong; This makes the birds so merry, This makes so ripe the cherry. What warms the blood that rushes To bring the tint that blushes? It is the Sun imparting heat To rosy lips to make them sweet. This warms the blood that rushes To bring the tint that blushes. Why are the flowers growing, With odors overflowing ? Because the Sun each blossom lores .aiore man me noiiey-uec wu wm For this the flowers are growing, With odors overflowing. ?Scribner. Saved ly a Flash of Ljfltity. My came is Hunt. Yes, sir; Anthony Hunt. I am a settler on thia Westeru prairie. Wilds! Yes, sir; it's little else than -wilds bow, but you should have seen it when I and my wife first #moved up here. There was not a house within sight for miles. Even now we have not many neighbors; but those we have are downright good ones. To appreciate your neighbors as you ought, sir, you must live in these lonely places, bo far removed from the haunts of man. What I am about to tell of happened ten years ago. I wap going to the distant town, or settlement, to sell some fifty head of cattle?fine creatures, sir, as ever you saw. . The journey was a mto oronf. irith m? tlmn it ia nnw and my wife had always plenty of commissions to charge mo with in the shape of dry goods and groceries, and such like things. Our youngest child was a sweet little gentle thing, who had been named after her Aunt Dorothy. We called the child Dolly. This time my commission included one for her?a doll. She had never had a real doll; that is, a bought doll; only the rag bundles her mother made for her. For some days before my departure the child could talk of nothing eke?or we, either, for the matter of that?for she was a great pet, the darling of us all. It was to be a big, big doll, with golden hair and blue eyes. I shall never forget the child's words the morning I was starting, as she ran after me to the gate, or the pretty picture she mitut?. jLiiuru itic ouxuc uuuuicii owccwr and prettier than ethers, sir. as yon can't bnt have noticed, and Dolly wa? one. "Avery great big doll, please, daddy," she called ont after me; "and please bring it very soon." I tnrned to nod a "yes " to her as she stood in her clean whitey-brown pinafore against the gate, her nnt-brown hair falling in cnrls abont her neck and the light breeze stirring them. " A brave doll," I answered. " for my little one?almost as big as Dolly." Nobody -would believe, I dare say, how fnll Ay thoughts were of that promised doll, as I rode aloDpr, or what a nice one I meant to buy. It was not often I spent money in what my good, thrifty wife would oall waste; but Dolly was Dolly and meant to do it now. The cattle sold, I went about my puro.hnnp.a. onnn linrl r?n nf nnrr?AlR to be packed in the saddle-bags. Tea, sugar, rice, candles?but I need not weary you, sir, with telling of them, together with the calico for shirts and nightgowns and the delaine for the children's frocks. Last of all, I went about ? tho doll, and found a beauty. It was not as big as Dolly, or half as big; but it had flaxen curls and sky-blue eyes; and by dint of pulling a wire you could open or shut the eyes at will. "Do it up cnrefnlly," I said to the storekeeper. " My little daughter would cry sadly if any harm comes to it." The day was pretty well ended before all my work was done; and, jnst for a moment or two, I hesitated whether I shonld not stay in the town and start for home in the morning. It would have been the more prudent course. Bnt I thonght of poor Dolly's anxiety to get her treasure, and of my own happiness in watching the rapture in her delighted eyes. So with my parcels packed in the best way they oould be. I ionnted my horse and started. It was as t?ooa ana sceaay a norse as yon ever rode. sir; bnt night began to Bet in before I was well a mile away from the town; it seemed as if it wer8 going to be an ugly night, too. Again the thought gtrnck me?shonld I turn back and wait .till morning? I had the price of the cattle , von see, sir, in my breast pocket; and robberies, sir, aye, and mnrders, also, were not quite unknown things on the prairie. But I had my brace of snre pistols with me, and decided to press onward. The night came on as dark as pitch, and part of the way my road would be pitch dark beside. But on that score I had no fear; I knew the road well, every inch of it, though I could not ride so fast as T should have done in the light. I was about six miles from home, I suppose, and I knew the time must be close upon midnight, when the storm which had been brewinc broke. The thunder roared, the rain fell in torrents; the best I could do was to ride onward in it. All at onee, aa I rode on, a cry startled me?a faint, wailing sound like the cry of a child. Reining up, I sat still and listened. Had I been mistaken ? No, there it was again. But in what direction I could not tell, I couldn't eee a thing. It was, as I have said, as dark ss pitch Getting off my horse, I felt about, but could find nothing. And while I was seeking, the cry came again ?the faint moan of a child in pain. Then I began to wonder; I am not superstitions, but I asked myself how it was possible that a child could be out on the prairie at such an hour and in such a night. No; real child it could not be. Upon that came another thonght? one less welcome: "Was it a trap to rr>n Art mtt xsrorr onrl cmann-vn. O Miuuvi V** "?,T ?UU vuouato "in { There might be midnight robbers who-would easilv hear of mv almost-certain ride home that night, and of the money I should have about me. I don't think, sir, I am than other people?not as inn^JH^jerhaps, as some; but I oon'JBEeidea made me uneasy. My bw^Mfcwas to ride on as fast as I could, SOTget out of ihe mystery into safe. .quarters. ,Tust here was about the darkest bit of road in all the ronte. Mounting my horse, I was about to urge Mm on, when the cry -w, came again. It dijNiound like a child's the plaintive wail of a child nearly -jchausted. - tjuih- ??q0(j me I" I said, undecided wiiat to do. As I sat another moment, listening, I once more beard the cry, ' fainter and more faint. I throw myself i'-T* -J cS my horse, with an exclamation. " Be it ghosi or be it robber, Anthony Hunt is not one to abandon a ohild to die without trying to save it." And how was I to save it ??how find it ? The more I searched about the less could my hands light on anything, save % the sloppy earth. The voice had quite ceased now, so I had no guide from that. While I stood trying to peer into the darkness, a)l my ears alert, a flood of sheet lightning suddenly illumined the plain. At a little distance, just beyond a kind of ridge or gentle hill, I caught * a glimpse of something white. It was dark again in a moment, but I made my way with unerring instinct. Sure enough, there lay a poor little child. Whether boy or girl I could not tell. Tf. PApmfld to be three Darts inspnsihln now, so I took it up, dripping with wet,' from the sloppy earth. 'My poor little thing f" I said, as I hushed it to me. " We'll go and find mammy. Yon are safe now." i- xi.~ ?i. Ann j:i Huswer nits cmiu juoo pun uut its feeble hand, moaned once, and nestled close to me. . With the child hushed to mj breast I -rode on. Its perfect silence soon showed l- that it slept. And, sir, I thanked ^ **Grad that he had let me save it, and I {tfoapght how grateful some poor mother - f CvJ31* ^ wa8 ponder for that, wondering what extraordinary fate had taken any young child to that solitary spot. Getting in sight of borne, I saw all the windows alight Deborah had done it for me, I thought, to guide rae home y" T~ j in safety through the darkness. But presently I knew that something must be the matter, for the very few neighj bore we had were gathered there. My : h- art stood still with fear. I thought ! of some calamity to one or other of the j children. I bad saved a little one from | perishing, but what might not have happened to my own. Hardly daring to lift the latch, while my poor tired horse stood still and mute outside, I went slowly in, the 1 ! 1 ?? /?/-vTToror1 nvpr with the j onna 111 iu%y anus i flap of my long coat. My wife was | weeping bitterly. i "What's amiss?" I asked in a faint voice. And it seemed that a ^-hole chorus of voices answered me. | " Dolly's lost!" j " Dolly lost!" Just for a moment I my heart turned sick. Tben some inj stinct, like a ray of light and hope, I seized upon me. Pulling the coat off the face of the child I held. I lifted the i little sleeping thing to the light and saw j Dolly I I Yes, sir. The child I had saved was ; no other than my own?my little Dolly. ! And I knew that God's good angels had j puided me to save her, and that the j first flash of the summer lightning had shone jngt at the right moment to show | me where she lay. It was her white j snnhonnet that had saught my eye. My darling it was, and none other, that i I had picked up on the drenched road. Dolly, anxious for her doll, had wan- ? 1 i moAfc me jn j uwoii uui uuocvu w ?ww. ? | afternoon. For some Lours she was not ! mif-6ed. It chanced that my two older iris had gone over to our nearest neigh bor's, and my wife, missing the child I just afterward, took it for granted she : was with them. The little one had gone ! on and on, until night and the storm j overtook her, when she fell down frighti ened and utterly exhausted. I thanked i Heaven aloud before them all, sir, as I j said that none but God and His holy I angels had guided me to her. It's not much of a story to listen to, Rir. 1 am j aware of that. But I often think of it in j the long nights, lying awake; and I ask ; myself how I could bear to live on now, #-~w> fKn nnnr littlfi r?rv bad l run awaj uum mv ? in the road, hardly londer than a squirrel's chirp, and left my child to die. Yes, sir, yon are right; that's Dolly ; ont yonder with her mother, picking ; fruit; the little trim light figure in pink I ?with iust the same sort of white sun1 bonnet on her head that she wore that i night ten years ago. She is a girl that j was just, worth eavinp, sir, though I say ; it; and God knows that as long as my ; life lasts I shall be thankful that I came ! on home that night instead of staying in j the town. Fashion Notes. Many of the new dresses are made enI tirely without linings. i Checked cotton braids are used for \ trimming linen dresses. The military jacket is one of the latest styles for young ladies. Ladies in mourning wear black lace mitts with a cuff of crape. Velvet overskirts, with polonaises of delicate fabrics, are largely worn. * Shetland wool is oeuer iuau Zirpuyi for shawls and hoods. It washes well and keeps its color perfectly. " Short belt3, starting from the side I seams, are worn with baby waists. The ! ends of the mantle, are passed under ! these belts. Beaded net is shown for mantles, j When made up these garments are trimmed with lace, above which is placed fringe and chenille tassels. Lisle thread stockings are growing in favor on account of the perfection of their fit. They come in all the desirable shades, and are very durable. I Gold Bands dotted with jet flowers are worn with the Roman coiffure. A loug, narrow band is over the brow, and a broad one further back serves as a comb. j Small white handkerchiefs, with the j edges scalloped and wrought with a i color, are formed into pretty pleated j bows for the throat, to wear with mornJ ing dresses. | Pretty neckerchiefs for the balcony ! are half squares of pale blue or roseJ colored silk in basket open-work, yet j brocaded and edged with fringe that is j tied in the hem. The coolest and most desirable tie for i lo/i.oo in tliA sheer-lawn tie, which has the ends" handsomely embroidered in colors. These ties wash to look as well | as when new. JBonnets grow smaller, and the capes j on them grow larger. Some of the rei cent importations in the capote shape j have large capes made of foundation i covered with shirred silk or gathered lace ' ruffles. A small bow of inch-wide white rib| bon is worn at the throat with dark i morning dresses and linen collars. Nari row satin ribbons of dark Agrippina red ' are worn with black grenadine dresses. 1 Those at the throat have long loops 1 haDgiug, and the two ends are then carj ried down to the left hip and fastened on I the back of the basque, from whence j hang loops and ends. Pins for the hair are ornamental balls, j Some are of red gold, and others of the I palest yellow Roman gold, and there I are massive silver pins. The knobs are ; cube-shaped, or else round faceted balls. | Squares with hollow centres have peni dent chains to which balls are attached, ; or else there are thick liauging rings. Some are dotted with pearls or with turj quoises, and others have cut steel faceted i upon them and glittering like diamonds. Large round collars are made of three rows of Valenciennes lace, each an inch wide, laid in knife-pleatings, and finished at the top by one standing row of the pleated lace and an inner pleating of crimped crepe lisse. A vino of embroidery heads the upper pleating, and some collars have loops of narrow satin ribbon down each side of the front and in the ' middle of the baok. Caffs to wear outside of tight sleeves are made to match the collar. Other new collars similarly mad* ere sharply pointed in the back and front. A favorite style of dress for young girls is the ' blouse " polonaise. It is made loos? to the figure, is held in by a belt and is sometimes fitted in front with two darts. Thin materials make up very well in this way. The fronts of this style of dress are sometimes left open all the wav down and a puffed front. insert ; ed. They have small mantillas added for street wear. Many pretty effects are given to the simplest dresses by the present taste for embroidery. A princesse i dre^s for a young girl, of dark bine j linen, has a front or plastion of light I blue zephyr, embroidered in dark shades. ! The flounce and ruffles are also emi broidered. . 11 . Peculiar Indian Food. We have received a specimen of the j " camas," the food upon which the In| dians of Idaho largely subsist, and which j gives the name to Hig Camas prairie in i Idaho. It is a bulbous plant, throwing i up a stalk not larger nor stronger than ' a wheat straw. Tbis rises, in a wild j state, to a height of two or three feet, and is thick set with small, thin, loose, ! bell-shaped flowers, which, as we have i them, are dried, and contain the seed of ?i,a nlont TVip -nutritions r>art, i? t.lin j IUO fi?. ? i bulb, out of which each straw grows. It ! varies in size from one' to two inches in j diameter, and in appearance closcly rej sembles the onion, but is free from odor. ; It is a dry bulb, starchy in quality, ami j considered gelatinous. When dry it can . be easily pulverized, and, with pulver" ized grasshoppers, is again dried, and ; the flour thus made worked into breisd a j Riiid to bo highly nutritious. July is j the digging season. The bulb grows i about four or five inches below the snr! face of the earth. The digging of the j bulb is the only cultivation the gronnd I receives, and the flowers being dry and i ODen when the bnlb is drv. the seeds fall out, and the new crop is usually sown by the act of harvesting. Our readers will remember that the camas is the direct cause of the Indian war. The Camas prairie was the jjreat harvest field of the ; Indians. Settlers plowed np the ground ! and turned in cattle and hogs?the latter j being especially partial to camas. The destruction of this, their chief food, has I aroused the Indians more than onoe.? ! ' Sacramento Record. I FOK THE YOUNG PEOPLE. Tbo Swallow*. Dear birds that greet us with the spring, That fly along the sunny blue, That hover round your last year's nest, Or cut the shining heavens thro', That skim along the meadow grass, * Among the flowers sweet and fair, That crown upon the pointed roof, Or, qniv'ring, balance in the air; Ye heralds of the summor days, As quick ye dart across the lea, Tho' other birds be fairer, yet Tho dearest of all birds are ye. Dear as the messengers of spring Before the buds have opened wide, ' Dear when our other birds are here, j Dear in the burning summertide; [ But when the lonely autuain wind About the flying forest grieves, In vain we look for you, and find? Your empty nestabenoath the eaves. PnyliiK off the IHUIer. Sim Tyler and Bud Sampson sat whis periug behind their raised desk-lids. The school-room was so quiet and the whisperiug bo lond, that the tired little woman on the platform heard it, and came softly up behind Sim to see what it was all about. " Get out!" cried Sim, suddenly, feeling a smart pull at his hair. " Tell teacher 'f you don't stop that I" (I don't know whether teachers do stach things nowadays; but that was in the days of hair-pulling, when boxed ears and rapped knuckles were taken as a matter of course.) "I'll have a word with you two, after school!" said Miss Anderson, shutting down the desk-lids. Sim gave one scared, upward glance, saw who it was, and subsided into redfaced studiousness. He remembered that in these after-school interviews, " frnm TrnrriK thev often came to blows." j "Ehm! ehm 1" coughed Bud, across the aisle, when Mi6S Anderson's back i was turned. Sim caught a dirty white note in the j leaves of his " Colburn." This was the ! note : i "Git al the boys you can and all the ' tin pans and girls and things to mak a ! nois and then les al giv old dodge a regi gler Serrynaidar surv him rite for orj dren us out the mil wunt it." Sim turned the note over and wrote "al rite" on the other side; then sent it back with that endorsement. Miss Anderson was prowling around distrustfully, and Bud crammed it into his pocket, with a hasty glance at Sim's answer. | But pockets have other holds some| times than those at the top, and notes ! have a way of slipping through to the j floor. Bud's did. i "The little-good-for-nothings!" said j Miss Anderson, picking it up at recess. "I hope Mr. Dodge will give them a | good horse-whipping. I'll tell him so !" l ive minutes Jater a sman doy was on j his way to the mill, with a note from the j teacher, informing the miller of the | childish bit of revenge the boys were J planning. The miller's blue eyes twinJ kled with fnn as he read it I" "Think they're going to drum me [ ont of camp, do they?" he said, chuckj ling merrily. " I'll fix 'em I" Two o'clock came, and with it an I ominous sound of rattling pans, and j drums, and things to make a noise. Kub-a-dub-dub I up the hill they came, rub-a-dub ! They tramped into the mill. The dusty miller pushed hie dusty hat off his forehead, and gave the j little army the benefit of one long stare, | then turned to his work without a single ! word. "Goody I" cried .bad, spying an immense drum in a corner. "Guess he wouldn't have left this round, if he'd known we was coming 1" "Don't it make a splendid racket?" said round-faced Susy Piper, thumping away with both her dimpled fists on one of her mother's milk-cans, the only thing she had been able to appropriate without suspicion. " Don't you b'leeve he hears what 8 1 noise we're making ?" asked Sim, a little ansiously, when they had drummed vigorously for half an hour without detecting any signs of uneasiness on the part of the miller. j "Yes, course," answered Bud. "He'e , mad, and won't speak, that's all. Le't j keep at it till he has to." ; So tney pounciea away lor anotnei j half-hour, with an energy worthy of a i better cause. "Awful hot 1" sighed Jemmy Allen, j one of the smaller boys, fanning his red j face with a limp straw hat. " Don't yot I s'pose he's ever going to speak ? It'e I such fun to hear him rave when he'e I mad?if he don't catch you !" I "O!" said Bud, reassuringly, j " Don't give up yet. He's most cravj : now. I saw the corners of his mouth ! twitch when he emptied that sack ol 1 meal." "I'm going homo!" whinod two or three, as the half-hours slipped away, and tlie jolly miller went in to his five o'clock supper. "0 don't!" cried Bud and Sim, together. "Just wait and keep drumming. He'll come out pretty quick, and j then you'll see fun. He can scold evet so much better'n Miss Anderson. Keep a-drnmrnin'!" Rub-a-dub dub! how the old mill rang ! Such a Babel of sounds waB surely never heard before within its walls, j " The miller came out at last. He looked cool and comfortable, and his ' eyes twinkled more than ever. "Well, boys and girls;" he said, | cheerily, " tired, be ye? 'Fraid ye've worked too hard for such a hot after: noon. I'm any quantity obliged to ye j for coming up?been thinking of sending ' * 1 1. i.~ ~ J _ , iur u iiunt uu ye i\j uurno auu uiuui m#y rats away. Plagued me moat to death all the spring; but I guess this'll fix ; 'em. I see this 'ere big drum into BosI ton the other day, t^nd thinks says I, ; that's the very thiDg to skeer 'em with. | " Well! s'pose fyou want to get some j cupper now. Can't pay ye much, 'cept in good will. Here's a cent apiece all ' 'round to buy some candy with. When ye don't want to play, come up and help me again some time. Good-night!" The children stood there for a mo1 ment or two?a blank-faced company; i then turned and marched in melani choly procession down the hill. The jolly miller laughed ns ho heard ! Bud mutter sorrowfully, " Sold for a j cent /"?AnnaF. Burnham, in Youth's Companion. Washington's Women Lawyers. In F street, not far from the patent ; office, Washington City, over the high basement door of a nice-looking brick ] dwelling, is this sign: "Belva A. Lock , wood, Attorney-at-Liaw." entering, n 1 during office hours, we find three ladies 1 and two young men. The ladies are ! Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, Mrs. Maric-lla M. Ricker and Mrs. Lavania C. Dnndore. The young men are studying law uuder Mrs. Lockwood's tuition. , These ladies have good practice in the conrts of Waehiugton. Mrs. Lockwood is of medium size, with a halo of gray hair aronnd a fresh, rosy face; dark eyes that are calm and look as if they were listening. } Mrs. Ricker if? yonng, handsome, talented, rich and independent-minded, ' yet circumspect and self-respecting. ; She intends to practice criminal law. j Mrs. Dnndore is fine-looking, a good j lawyer, and has at times a "snap way,' j bnt is said to be a pleasant lady. The Fifth Avenue Kotrl, New York* Hon. Hiram Hitchcock ha? been indnflp.d to tnlro nn inf-ora?f it> t.Vio Tfiffch j Avenue Hotel on account of the im| paired health of Mr. A. B. Darling, who 1 is now in Europe. Mr. C. W. Griswold j retains his active interest in the firm. I On the 1st inft hotel commenced its j twentieth yeai with a reduction of price : from five to /our dollars per day, and all j extra accommodations in the same ratio. ] The incomparable situation of the Fifth i Avenue'Hotel and its superior accom j modations throughout will continue to I make it more tbau ever the favorite re; sort of travelers. Intruding your aches and your pains npon those who are trying to get a glimpse of the cheerful side of life is like a mischievous boy holdiDg up a newspaper or something else between your eyes and the object you wish to see.-Z>r. E. B. Footed Health Monthly. -- HISTORIC HOAXES. i 1 Incredibilities Eaxerly Swallowed?The ; Great Clie?tor Cat Hoax?A Wonderful . Jumper?History of the Bottle Trick Swindle?The Frenchman who Wanted to 1 Serve Itlmicir up In a Stew, and Others. In August, 1815, just before Napoleon I. started on his exile to St. Helena, a quantity of handbills were distributed through the city of Chester, England, at the direction of a very respectable-looking, Quaker-sort of a personage, informing the public that a great number of genteel families had embarked at Plymouth to proceed to St. Helena with the troops appointed to Ruard the ex-emperor. Now, St. Helena, the bills Btated, was cursed with a plague of rats, and the British Ministry had pledged itself to clear the island of those noxious animals for the benefit of the resident citizens. Accordingly all good Britons were called upon to furnish their quantum of grown cats or thriving kittens for the carrying out of this purpose. The government was willing to pay the piper, and in addition to free transportation in ti vessel, to be specially chartered for the purpose, offered for each "athletic, full grown tom-cat" sixteen shillings; for each "adult female j.uss" ten shillings; half that Bum for every vigorous kitten that could "swill milk." The result can be imagined. Within three days over three thousand cats were collected in Chester. The city was a pandemonium, and one street in which the cat merchants had been directed by bill to assemble was the scene of positive and bloody riots. Meantime some mischievous boyB let the cats out of their bage, and a colossal hunt had to be organized among the hoaxed spectators. In one day five hundred of the obnoxious felines*were thrown into the river Dee, and Chester for months was afflicted with swarms of stray cats as a result of the freak. Eleven years later more than twenty thousand people of all classes were drawn together at Norwich, England, by the following advertisement: ' 'St. James' Bill, back of the Horse barracks. The people are respectfully informed I that Signor Carlo Gromi Yillecrop, the I celebrated Swiss Mountain Fiyer, from Geneva and Mont Blanc, is just arrived in this city, and will exhibit with a Tyrol- I ese pole, fifty feet long, his most aston- ! isliing gymnastic flights, never before witnessed in this country. Signor Yillecrop begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this city that he has selected St. Jameb' Hill and the adjoining hills for his performance, and will first display his remarkable strength in running up the hill with his Tyrolese pole between his teeth. He will next lay on 1 his back and balance the same pole on his nose, chin, and different parts of his body. He will climb upon it with the astonishing swiftness of a cat, and stand [ on his head at the top; on a sudden he will leap three feet from the pole without falling, suspending himself by a k -1 ~ J "CTtTT-ill olan rnftllr ' BUeilC'UB UUIU VJlliJ. UU TT 1U U.UU 1 on his head up and down the hill, bal 1 anciDg the pole on 'one foot. Many other feats -will be exhibited, in which Signor Villccrop will display to the audience the much admired art of top' ping, peculiar only to the peasantry of Switzerland. He will conclude hie per1 formance by repeated flights in the air, L up and down the hill, with a velocity almost imperceptible, assisted only by his pole, with which he will frequently ' jump the astonishing distance of forty 1 and fifty yards at a time.' * Of course Signor' Nillecrop did not turn up, and after a furious row, which ' resulted in many arrests, what were left of .'the 20,000 fools went home to nurse ' their bruises and get ready to be hoaxed 1 again. ' This most glaring yet successfnl of t old-time hoaxes was perpetrated in 1749. j The Duke of Montague wagered that let a man advertise the most impossible' 1 thing in the world he would find fools ' enough in London to fill a play-house to see it and pay handsomely for the priv| ilege. "Surely," eaid Lord Chesterk i field, "if a man should say he would ! ] jump into a quart bottle, nobody would j believe that." A wager was made on ' this basis, and the following advertise1 | ment inserted in the papers: " At the new theater, in the Hay1 j market, on Monday next, the 12th inst., ' j is to be seen a person who performs the ; several most surprising things following, viz: First, he takes a common 1 [ walking cane from any of the spectators, : and thereupon plays the music of every i j instrument now in use, "and likewise I J sings to surprising perfection. Second, i i he presents you with a common wine bottle, which arv of the spectators may i first examine ; tftis bottle is placed on a j table in the middle of the stage, and he ; (without any equivocation) goes into it, ' ' in the sight of all the spectators, and | sings in it; during his stay in the bottle j any person may handle it, and see plaini ly that it does not exceed a common ' j tavern bottle. Those on the stage or in j the boxes, may come in masked habits ' "' i * ^ - i-l \ ,1 >*** ' j (ll agreeaDie ui mem; f uuu iuo ! former, if desired, will inform ti;em who J they are. Stage 7s. 6d." ! Another section of the advertisement cannot fail to interest the believers in ' Spiritualism. It says: "Note.?If any gentleman or ladies (after the above performances) either single or in company, in or out of mask, are desirous of seeing a representation of any deceased person, such as husband 1 or wife, sister or brother, or any in' timate friend of either sex, upon making a gratuity to the performer, shall be gratified by Beeing and conversing with 1 them for some minutes, as if alive; likewise, if desired he will tell you your 1 most secret thoughts in your past life, and give you a full view of persons who have injured you, whether dead or alive. J For these gentlemen and ladies who are : desirous of seeing this last part, there is a private room provided. At the designated time the theater I was crammed from pit to dome. When i -the appointed hour passed and the con! jurer did not appear, a horrible uproar ' 41-?rv Ati/liartna I rusu. UUU yuiouii iu mo uuuivuvu yjiv- i posed, if the lookers-on would pay I j double price, to crawl into a pint bottle, i Finally some one threw a lighted candle I on the stage. "Within ten minutes more the theater was gutted, the benches j converted into a large bonfire in the i front of the building, and Jne drop curI tain hoisted on a polo, presumably as a banner, to the triumph of public gullibility. A number of people were blamed for this hoax, notably Foote, the actor, who was one of the lessees of the theater, but the real author was the Duke of Montague. One would think that this lesson had been enough ; nevertheless, within a month idiots enough were found to make the following prospectus profitable?at 1 AAni i/v Al*/* fll/J O 1 A.llOA IlOUOl IrU IUC piupigLVi vt i'UU mu uvuwvj who caused its publication : Lately Arrived from Italy, 8IGN0R CAPITELIiO JUMPEDO. i A surprising dwarf, uo taller than a comI moc tavern tobacco pipe, who can per| form many wonderful equilibres on the | slack or tight rope; likewise ho will | transform his body in above ten thouI sand different shapes and postures, and i after he has diverted the spectators two I hours and a half, he will open his mouth wide and jump down his own throat! He I being the most wonderfullest wonder of j wonders as ever the world wondered at, would be willing to join in the performance with that surprising musician on Monday next, in the Haymarket. He is to be spoke with at the Black Haven, in i Golden Lane, every day from seven to 1 twelve, and from two to all day long." | Busy as the French were with their i national troubles, they found time dur! ing the darkest days pf the revolution to | go booby-hunting. In March, 1792, an I "entertainment" was advertised in the Place de Grene. A certain Professor Bussy declared his intention to wnlk f^m'nna ciMa nf the snuare to the other I ; in mid-air, naked, and without artificial I J aid. Ail Paris turned out and spent an j unsheltered afternoon in a terrific rainI storm, to be disappointed. Next year j another swindler hired a court-yard in the Ruq du Temple, and got five' francs a head from 1,700 people, who wanted to see him burned alive in a charcoal furnace, and afterward reappear, phcenixlike, in the smoke from the chimney, i This personage found a rival a month later in a man who promised to publicly convert himself into a stew, acting as his j own butcher and cook, and then serving i himself, done to a turn, around to his j * / audience in the guise of a waiter. When the rage for mesmerism was at its height a so-called Professor Missmer (note the imitation) called for 10,000 people to assemble in the Ohamps de Mars and be mesmerized by him in three simple * motions, after which they would be able 5 to go about exercising the new force by c themselves. Three times the number ti called for paid half a franc apiece for the t: pleasure of learning that they had been ? swindled out of the gate-money. This c hoax led to a horrible catastrophe, for t the people who were victimized began, d -? ?"-"1 fl/rUf omcinrr fhAmsfilvfiR. and uo uouai, u\j u^uu uiuwuq . 9 in the disturbance twenty-one women and nearly fifty children were maimed or suffocated. Where They Go. American hardware goes to Denmark, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Danish West Indies, Porto Rico, Gibralter, British North America, British West Indies* British possessions in Africa, Cuba, British Guiana, Hayti, Africa, China, Japan, Cisplatine Republic, U. S. of Colomb a, Venzuela, Brazil, British Australia, Mexico, Argentine Republic, New Zealand, Sandwich Islands, and many other countries. American agricultural implements go J to every country where they are -enlightened enough to use such things. American nails go to Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Danish West Indies, Porto Rico, British West Indies, Africa, Cuba, British Guiana, Hayti, U. S. of Colombia, Venzuela, Brazil, British Australia, Mexico, and various other countries. American glassware goes to Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Danish West Indies, Porto Rico, British * ? v West Indies, Africa, uaoa, jsrmsn uui- > ana, Hayti, Oisplatine Republic, U. 8. } of Colombia, Venzuela, Brazil, British ? Australia, Mexico, Sandwich Islands, < and other countries. American cutlery goes to the United i Kingdoih; Franco, Honduras, Cuba, 1 British Gaiana, Hayti, U. S. of Colom- j bin, Venzuela, Brazil, British Australia, Mexico, etc. ( American pumps go to Germany, the \ United Kingdom, France, Cuba, U. S. < of Colombia, Venzuela, Brazil, British Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, Sand- < wich Islands, and other countries. American belting goes to Germany, ' the United Kingdom, Cuba, U. S. of Colombia, Venzuela, British Australia, j New Zealand," and other countries. , American machinery goes to Germa- < ny, the United Kingdom, urance, uuoa, Hayti, Africa, Cisplatine Republic, U. j S. of Colombia, Venzuela, Brazil, Brit- , ish Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, i Sandwich Islands and other countries. ? American coal goes to Danish West Indies, British North America, Cuba, j Hayti, Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, ; and will soon be burned in Europe. American paint goe' to the United 1 Kingdom, the Danish West Indies, Por- ! to Rico, British North America, British West Indies. Cuba, Hayti, U. S. of Colombia, Venzuela, Brazil, British Australia, Mexico, Sandwich Islands and other countries. American car-wheels and cars go to Europe, Asia and South America. American fire-arms go to every quarter of the globe, and in the hands of American riflemen American rifles hove hit the "bull's-eye" oftener than any other rifles made. Tnrkey has bought $27,000,000 worth of American arms and cartridges. American clock and watch manufacturers are causiDg consternation in all the cities of the Old World where timepieces are made, and their products are found everywhere on land and sea. English railroad offioials carry American waircnes. Hundreds of other kinds of American manufactures are exported. American petroleum lights the world. A Hindoo Hospital for Anlmalfl. While in India a recent traveler saw much of the Hindoos, where they are numerically stronger than the Christians in the United States. He says their religious ideas manifest themselves in many ways which challenge our respect for their consistency. In their eyes all life is sacred, because it emanates from deity, the life of beast and bird, nay of reptile and insect, as well as that of man. To carry out this idea, they have established a Hospital for Animals, which is one of the institu- j tions of Bombay. It is on a very ex-1 tensive scale, and presents a spectacle j such as perhaps cannot be seen any-: where else in the world. In an enclo- ' snre covering many acres, and furnished i with sheds and stables, are gathered the I lame, the halt and the blind, not of the : human species, but of the animal world j ?cattle and horses, sheep and goats, | dogs and cats, rabbits and monkeys, j beasts and birds of every description. Among them are to be found even Bick J little monkeys, whose ailments have ! made them forget their usual pranks. ' Long rows of stables where, filled with | broken down horses, spavined and ring- j boned, spending the remnant of their i lives in comparative ease and comfort. In one pen there was a number of ema- I ciated kittens supplied with plenty of; milk to restore them to health. The ' Hindoos send out < arts at night through { the streets of Bombay to collect all: ahmdoned. animals and bring them in ' fc-py to^the hospitals. Rabbits, whom | no one would own, are furnished with i comfortable warrens. In a large enclo- j """" rf,n?n a Vinn fired rfnes mnrfl i O UlU M ?-0-> wretched-looking, if possible, than the i "whelps and curs of low degree" to be found in Constantinople. These poor creatures, so long the companions of men who starved and kicked them alternately, still 'apparently longed for human society, and when visitors entered gave feeble signs of recognition and welcome. Then there are birds underg&ing reconstruction ? dilapidated chickens, sick crows, cranes with broken legs, and even sea-gulls with wounded wings to be nursed until they can once more 1 weep over the boundless sea. 11 A Vivid Temperance Lecture, ' j A paper published in Stockton, Gal., j says : A story of a most horrible death j' from thirst comes to us from near Gray- ' j son. A yonng man who had been em- j, ployed as a hand in the harvest field, ; got on a spree at a saloon about ten miles from Grayson. The saloon is I kept by quite an extensive rancher, 1 during the busy season only, and is j j liberally patronized, 'l'iie young man j, got pretty drunk and wandered down | f the road about a mile from the saloon, j and lay down and went to Bleep. He ! t was seen lying there the next day by j * persons who passed with teams, but no !1 attention was paid to him, on the sup- j | position that he waa only drunk and not i j worthy of attention. Daring the day, j he frequently asked the passers-by for a ; t drink, but his appeals were unnoticed, : being considered the requests of a! 1 drunk for more drink. Before the day jc was out he seemed to be delirious, but! j! no notice was taken of him. The sec- j t ond day, his tonguo protruded from his j t mouth and was much swollen, and the : c piteous appeals were still made. Final- i < ly, a tender-hearted butcher passed i j that way, and he saw that the man was 1 ( suffering horrible agony. He lifted him 11 to his wagon and took him to Grayson, ! i where he soon died. It was ascertained ? that he died from thirst. He lay nearly J two days in the hot, scalding rays of the i v Rim lifiln]p?a and dnomed. The inhab- i t itauts of that vicinity are said to feel j? terribly over the occurrence. It seems t < quite natural that they should. ; J, " c The Magic Carpet. ; 1 You have often heard mentioned, no j * doubt, the story of a wonderful carpet, j c which it was said would carry people c where they wished to go. It is a curious k story, and comes from the Arabs, who 1 tell so many large stories. According to i" the legend, a wise king of old had woven j c strong silken carpets, large enough to i hold many people. "When he wished to j ii take a journey, he had one spread out, j his attendants and baggage arranged * upon it, aiyi then?when ready to btart ? ?he ordered the eight winds to take it p up and carry it wherever he pleaded, d wbicb, as the story says, they very obe- " :liently did. * Wide Delta embroidered in gay colors, 8 like those worn a generation ago, are g, now fashionably used with black silk or ti grenadine dresses. * 7 NEWS SUMMARY. Baitein and Mlddl* State* The Delaware Democrats met In convention t Dover and nominated John W. Hall for ovemor and Edward L. Martin for Congress, 'he platform adopted declares that "in accordance with the time-honored and constitnional faith of the Democratic party, we hold bat the only honest and lawful money of the eoDle of the United States is Kold and silver oin, or a paper currency convertible into suoh oin at the will of the holdercharges that he Bepublican party is responsible for the iepresBed condition of business; denounces 'the conspiracy which, through corruption ,nd fraud, gave the eleotoral votes of South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida to Rutherford i. Hayes for President and William A. Wheeler or Vice-President, against the clearly ex>res8ed will of the votors of those States .sserts a firm conviction " that the refusal of he Bepublican members of the Electoral Commission to investigate the charges of raud, wherebv the certificates of election were ;iveu to the Hayes electors in the said States, vas a violation of public duty and a betrayal if the trust repoaed in them and indorses ,nd approves the investigation instituted by he House of Representatives " for the pur>ose of exposing to the whole country the neans by which said frauds were perpetrated ,nd the will of the American people defeated a the election of their Chief Executive." During a storm at. Phcenixville, Pa., Robert fownsend and Edwin Roberts took refnge unler a tree, which was struck by lightning. ?ownsend waa instantly killed- and Roberts atally injured. A slight waah-out occurred on the New joDdon Northern railroad near Northfield terms, Mass., and a train was stopped until he track had been relaid. The train had gone orward again but a short distance when the rack suddenly caved in, throwing the engine J A J _1_ ? /not LOU U3UUCI UUWU a gv/igo awuv tvuv leop. M. J. Patee, engineer ; George Arnold, ireman, and Ralph Boot were killed. Knons <fc Ives, dry goods dealers of Hartord, Conn,, have failed for over $100,000. John D. Candee, editor of the BridgeDort Conn.) Standard, was Bhot while scuffling rith a burglar who had entered the rooms vhore he was stopping with his family at Saratoga, N. 7. Mr, Candee was not dangermsly hurt. .At Westfleld, Mass., H. p. Kimpton, late Inancial agent of South Carolina, was arreted upon the charge of having been engaged in swindling operations while in office, jy which the State lost thousands of dollars. Vernon Brothers' paper mill near Nortbamp:on, Mass., was burned to the ground. Tbe Ire throw 150 men out of employment and entailed a loss of $112,000 ; partially insured. Dennis Kearney made an addresB at an )pen-air meeting on Boston Common. Portions of New England and the Middle 3tateB have been visited by a terrific tornado, which resulted in a large loss of life and immense destruction of property. At Wallingford, Conn., the storm nad all the appearance if a tropical whirlwind, the track which it crossed being about 200 rods wide. Everything in its path was swept away as by a broom, md a scene of desolation and death was the result of its fury. Trees of the largest size were torn up by the roots: monuments and tombstones in the burying grounds were overturned; the Catholic churcn, built of wood, eras scattered like chaff; houses were demolished, and two stories of the High School?a brick building?were torn off and whirled about as though they were pasteboard. Houses were carried from their foundations all the way from a few feet to an eighth of a mile, and many of them took Ore, but the flames were extinguished by the torrents of rain. When the storm had spent its force it was fotmd that about thirty-six houses had been swept away and as many more partially demolished. Diligent search revealed the horrifying fact that a large number of persons had been killed and many more injured. Up to mionignt twenty-one ueaa bodies had been recovered ana laid oat in the district school house, presenting a ghastly sight, some of them being ter ribly mutilated. Over fifty persona were in jured, many dangerously. One woman bad & child in her arms when struck by the tornado, and when their lifeless bodies were recovered it was found that they were both almost scalped. Thetwhirlwhind came upon the people just as they were preparing for supper. The pecuniary damage to buildings alone exceeds $100,000. At other points the storm was also very disastrous, although not attended with the lamentable loss of life as at Wallingford. At Woburn, Mass,, Joseph Leathe, the station master, was instantly killed by lightning, and at Walden, Conn., Mrs. Maud Chapman suffered a like fate through the same agency. Bridges were swept away in several instances, trains delayed and travel generally impeded. Many buildings in Northern New York, Massachusetts and Now Hampshire were struck by lightning, while the loss of crops can hardly be estimated. By an explosion of the boilers of a sawmill near Sunbury, Pa., the engiueer and two other persons were instantly killed, while two more men were fatally injured. The explosion could bo heard a long distance, and pieces of iron, bricks, and the forms of human beings went flying* through the air as though Bhot out of a cannon. 8ix firemen and a workman were severely injured by an explosion of a barrel filled with benzine at a fire in New York. The annual convention of American bankers was held at Saratoga, N. Y. During its sessions various papers were read and resolutions in iavor OI D&ru muuoy auu oywujr opcuiu i*rsumption were paused. Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, was elected president for the ensuing year. Four members of the Columbia College boat crew that won the recent match at Henley wero received with great enthusiasm on their arrival in New York. Each member of the crew was carried aloft on the shoulders of sturdy college 3tudenta from the ocean steamer to a vessel that had been chartered for the occasion and that was covered with bunting and the colors of Columbia College. Salutes were fired and the students cheered themselves hoarse. At the pier a committee of the board of aldermen presented an address of welcome that had been parsed and in which the visitors were invited to hold a public reception in the city hall, to receive the congratulations of the citizens. The horses wore taken frem the carriage in which the four oarsmen were seated, and the students pulled the vehicle through the streets, tho unique procession attracting great attention. Arrived at Delmonico's restaurant, speeches of welcome were made by a college professor, in the absence of President Barnard, and Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, and the proceedings terminated with a collation. Twenty-four viotims of the terrible tornado at Wallingford, Conn., were buried on the Sunday following the disastrous event, and about 10,000 persons from all parts of the State attended the services. Subscriptions for the destitute families are bting taken up throughout the State. Exc ssive rains in Northern Now York, Western and Southern Vermont and Western Massachusetts have caused great injury to the crops in those sections. Oats and potatoes have Buffered severely from rot, ana me damage done ie estimated at $1,000,000. Another fact that attracts considerable notice is the finding of dead and bloated bodies of millions of fishes in the lakes and rivers, supposed to bo from the effects of PariB green which has been used to destroy potato bugs, but has been washed off by the rainfall and has permeated the water. Many of the fish have been opened and found to bo bloated most about the stomach, especially when they were found to bave swallowed and partially digested the potato bugs that were carried off the vines and into tiie water-courses by the volume of rain. Pennsylvania will have a new county, to be known as Lackawanna county, and tho :oanty seat to bo at Scranton. The majority in favor of the divinion from Luzerne county is )ver 6,000. Western and Southern States. A dispute at a picnic noar Frankfort, Ky., ed to a desperate shooting and stabbing affray jetween two parties of men, three on a side. Lb out thirty shots were fired and three men vera seriously wounded boforo a stop was put o the row. The Louisiana Democrats held their convenion at Baton Rouge, nominated candidates ind adopted a platform which favors a ereenjaok currency, demands the repeal of the reramption actj approves the House presidential ilection investixatiou and expresses sympathy or me i&uur cmuBun. The Topeka National Bank, of Topeka, Kani&b, h&w Buspended payments. * Tbe most appalling railroad accident that iaa taken placo in tbe West for some time iccurrod on the Pan-Handle route, at Mingo function, Ohio, a few days ago. Shortly after me o'clock in the morning an eastern express rain which was behind time and was running it lightning &peed collided with a freight train joining from tho west. Both engines were sompletely demolished, while a passenger car illed with emmigrauts and two mail cars were oiled down an embankment and smashed into iplinters. So terrific was the shock that per10ns asleep in their houses noarly a milo off vere awakened. Tho scenes that followed the iccident are described as heartrending. The njured passengers were buried under the uiiis of the cars; and aB it was very dark their Thereabouts could only be distinguished by litiful groans and cries for aid. Help soon irrived from Mingo station, about one mile listant, and the work of rescuing the wounded md extricating the bodies of tho dead began. Che men toiled hard, but it was not until after iaylight that tbe last victim was recovered. Che bodies were, in many oases, blackened, orn and nnrecognizable. The dead and rounded were taken to Steubenville, where the ild railway hospital, which had recently been liscontinued, waB brought into use. It was oon filled to overflowing, and several adjacent louses were thrown open to receive tho maimed ; aniTnrinr? ThA citizens vied with each ither iu their efforts to be of assistance to the mfortunate victims. Fifteen persons were ;illed aud about forty injured. The accident 3 attributed to a mistake in time. The South Carolina Republican convention Fas hold in Columbia. No State tickot waB lominated. The platform adopted charges ho Democrat* with being ''unfaithful to the iledges of 1876," denounces the House presi[ential election investigation, asserts a belief i the fair oleotion in South Carolina of Hayes ud Chamberlain, and declares it inexpedient o nominate candidates on acconnt of the doner involved in organizing or voting. The Texas Greenbackers in convention asembled at Galveston, have nominated a State icket and adopted a resolution in oonformity ith the principles of the party. The Colorado Republicans have nominated a State ticket, headed by F. W, Pitkin for gorernor, and adopted resolutions opposing subsidies by Congress, asserting that the government should provide and be responsible for honest national money sufficient for all the legitimate needs of the country, with gold, silver and paper equal in valne and alike receivable for all public and private debts, ahd that the interest-bearing debt of the nation should be, as soon as possible, reconverted into a popular loan, represented by small bonds or notes within the reach of every citizen ; accepting the resumption of specie payments as practically accomplished, and calli ig for economy in national expenses. By the explosion of the little steamer Fannie W., on the Bigbee river, near Waverly, Miss., the captain and engineer were fatally injured, and about eight other persons severely scalded The total number of deaths by yellow fevei at New Orleans, up to the 11th, was 126. Alabama has been carried by the Democrat) by 80,000 majority. An old family feud in Edgefield County, 8 C., culminated in a desperate encounter a' Edgefield during which Brooker Toney sho' and killed Thomas Booth and James Booth anc was then killed himself. One other person wai mortally wounded and six more were injurec moro or less severely. Governor Hampto: who was attending a political meeting near by ordered out a company of State militia, anc there was no more fighting after the soldien reached the scene of encounter. There have befen over 100 caaea of yellov s -i. n? lovor, at uiouaua, xuuoo< One-third of the town of Shasta, Cal., ha been destroyed by fire. The portion burnei embraces the greater part of the bnsines streets of the place. Fonr men entered the express car on a trail running between Omaha, Neb., and E&nsa City, Mo., covered the conductor and threi other persons with revolvers and robbed th safe of $5,000. They then compelled the oon ductor to stop the train and disappeared in th darkness. A case of yellow fever was reported in Mem pbis and grqat excitement ensued, 1,200 per sons at once leaving the city. A Mempbi dispatch says: "Dr. Brown, secretary of th Memphis board of health, lias returned fror Grenada, Miss. He reports the fever ther perfectly appalling. He saw seventy cases i: one day, and never saw snch distress as exist there. He saw a mother and two children sic in one bed. The fever is among all classes an scattered over the whole town. They nee doctors, nurses and disinfectants. The bus ness houses are closed, and many of the peopl have left the town. Twenty-seven nurses hav gone from Memphis to Grenada, and more wi probably go." Another dispatch from Grenad asks for orange leaves and nurses, and Baj the situation there is fearful?worse than i Memphis in 1873. A vessel landed at Louii -J" - -rr- t 1 iU. ;u vujb, a.y., jutivmg no verm u^oou ui uuo icmu. malady on board. Six cow boyB found a band of eight Indiai on the Nueces river, Texas, and a sharp figl ensued, resulting in the killing of four Indiai and the capture of another. One of the co boys was wounded. The end of the Oregon Indian war is ai nounced with the surrender of Oitz, the su viving medicine man, and a party of eixl Indians. From Washington. A detailed statement of the receipts of intern revenue for the fiscal year ending Juno 8 1878, shows that the $111,089,319 collect* during the year were from the followir sources, the collections from the same soure for the preceding fiscal year being given ti purposes of comparison : 1877. 1878. Spirits $57,469,430 $50,420,0 Tobacco 41,106,547 40,084,5! Fermented liquors 9,480,789 9,937.0; Banks and bankers 8,829,729 3,492,0; Stamps, penalties, etc 7,108,689 7,165,2i Total $118,995,184 $111,089,3: xne f resident nas accepted mo mvuauun < the Minnesota State Agricoltoral Society to 1 present at its annual fair, which will be held St. Paul. Under a Uw passed June 10,1878, two tho sand claims for horses lost by enlisted men the late war have been filed and large nnmbe of other claims are being presented. An editorial in the Washington Hepublicc says the government is determined to stop tl raids on the Mexican border at all hazards, ai that it is not improbable that there may be oonfiict with the Mexican forcea. Foreign News. The international pigeon shooting mat< between Captain Bogardns, the Americi champion, and Anbrey Coventry, the best sh in England, came off near London, and w won by Bogardns, who killed 79 birds to h opponent's 78. The match was for the char pionship of the world and $5,000 a side. There are 47,000 sick Russians in Bnlgai and constant reinforcements are needed keep up an army. Cardinal Deacon Lorenzo Nina has bet appointed to succeed the late Cardinal Franc as papal secretary of state. A dispatch from Tiflin reports that an e ploeion had occurred in the mines of the fort tications of Ears, in Asia Minor, resulting a fire which destroyed the best portion of tl city. The Austrian army of occupatio has already met with a loss of over in killed and jvounded. The Franco-American conference in Pari in the interests of American relations betwe< j the two countries, have agreed upon a proje of treaty. The draft submitted propones U abolition of the French prohibitive laws ai tho redaction of French and American dnti thirty to fifty per cent. The greatest rednctic is upon wines and silks, the tariffs upon whit are recommended to be arranged on a slidii scale for three years. The Anstrian army of oconpation in Bosn haB had a fight with insurgents which last< eight hoars,in which the latter were eventnal defeated, losing 500 in killed and wound< ] and 700 prisoners. I The session of tbe International Monetai j Conference opened in Paris. II. Leon 81 I was elected president on the motion of tl I Hon. Buben E. Fenton. After the nominatic ! of secretaries, and the delivery of a short a> j dress of welcome by the president, Mr. Fent< briefly explained the objects of the conferenc I He thanked the Powers who responded to tl | appeal of the United States. Ho hoped tl I j ? I UlBUlJgUlBUCU UIUU taiXUJg pau IU iuu wuiv j ence would facilitate the accomplishment of j work which would further the pacific in teres I of the world. It was announced in the British Parliamer I the other day, that the English iieet wou 1 leave Constantinople when the Russian Go i ernment withdraws its forces. I On account of floods and loss of crops gre j suffering exists in India. In Cashmere, tl Maharajah is taking energetic steps to relic the sufferings of the people, wtio, in mat parts of the country, are subsisting upon herb weeds and unripe fruits. i The London Daily Neios says: Clancy, tl I Fenian, convicted in 18G7 and sentenced to ii j prisonment for life, will be released upon ; ticket of-leave on the 25th of September nei Advicea received by mail from the west coa of Africa say that great mortality prevail* there, particularly at Tagos, where nearly quarter of the European population died i fever ana dysentery during tne two monn ending July 4. A military tribunal at Port au Prince hi passed the death sentence on nine persons wt are prisoners, and upon thirty-two who are i ! concealment, Gens. Tanis, Salomon and Che' | alier included. i Property embargoed during the insnrrectio in Cuba is being restored to the form< owners. During a disturbance in Ottdwa, Ont., b< ' tween a faction known as Union men an { Orange Young Britons many shots were flre< j several houses were wrecked, and a number < I persons wounded. A number of arrests wei made, ti e straets were crowded with excite { people and the police had their hands full i j preserving order. | President Alcantara, of Venezuela, hi : broken up another revolutionary plot by th j timely seizure of arms, ammunition and coi I respondonce of the revolutionists. The American exhibitors at the Paris Exp< I sition have received more than a proportional ' share of medals and other awards. Specimen ! of American coal and wheat receive gold mec j als, aud it is understood that American canne | fruits and meats have taken the highest prize ! in their class, ? , The House Presidential Election Invettlcn lion. j After a recess of several weeks the Investiet : tion Committee mot again in New York. Mi ! Potter, the chairman, stated that as Mr. Hii j cock wan not present he would not go on wit j the examination until that gentleman was pref ent. Upon an inquiry from Mr. Butler Mr. Pol ter stated that Senator Matthews had been sun: moned to attend, but he did not think th Senator would be at hand for examination. Mi Butler then said that Mr. Matthews, '*as dit tinguished as ho is, isbouud like any other citi ! zenof the United States, by the subpeena unde a resolution of the House of Representatives.' Mr. Butler said further: '"I certainly shoul not press tho attendance of Mr. Matthews her to his personal or professional discomfort, hai he stated that as the reason why bo did no come. But if all this means that he does no mean to obov tho sommona of the Houso o Representative?, then my judgment as a mom ber of that House is, that the sooner the.issm is made aud determined and settled the bette for the ascertainment of the rights of the citi zen, the rights of the Senate, and the right and privileges of the House. If Mr. Matthew; can set at naught our subpeena 1 do not se< why any other citizen of the United State connot do the same thing." Tho genera concluded his rcmaiks by saying : "1 move hit, as a inumuer ui iijis cum milieu, iuai.ii. ui I entered upon the records that Mr. Matthew: refuses to appear, and that the contempt o J the summons of the House of Representative! be reported to the House for such action as ii their judgment the House would consider i proprr enforcement of the rights of the repre sentatives of the House." Mr. Poiter re marked that it would be better to await th< presence of Mr. Hiscock before voting upor Qen. Butler's motion, and there the mattei rested. The first witness examined after the recesi was William H. Roberts, associate editor of thi New Orleans Times. In answer to a qaestior by General Butler, witness said ho believed Tilden and Nicholls got a majority of the yotei cut in LooijUna. He had been sent from New Orleans before the Be turning Board bad an- T? nounced its dodeion, to visit Got era or Hayes wbic and ascertain what would be his attitude to* well ward tho several State Governments in ease he ably were made President. Tho witness gave the the] committee the snbBtance of his conversations as i with Governor Haves and other leading Be- asth publicans. He had a conversation with Mnrat the Halstead, editor of the Cincinnati Commercial, sand who gavQ bim a letter to Governor Hayes. Wit- in r< ness then desoribed his visit to Governor Haves couf i at Col umbos as follows: " I was presented to ' him, and, after a little conversation, I gave A him my letters to read. After he had read is n ; them, he asked: ' What do you want to know, rpot Mr. Roberts?1 I said: 'Of oourseI understand . , the delicacy of the question I am about to ask 8X1(1 you. bnt in case you become President of the seei ' United States, what do you propose to do with ^ 01 ' the respective State Government of Louisiana?' Hes^iahedid not understand what I meant. ' I said ihit there would be a row over the Na- % tional question, but that if we were sore that T > he was friendly to us, the opposition to him get] would be less virulent He asked how our peo- |ato , pie were feeling on the subject, and I said that two L they thought if they bad to throw oyerboard and t anything, they would throw over what they teat 1 considered to be of the least value. I said we moc s must have the State at all hazards. He asked 1 me to explain the situation. I said that we F i had carried the State by 18,000 majority, but SO( the indications were that they would be count- wit! 1 ed out. He said that he did not want the of . Proai'rlonpv nnlnsa hft aot it. fairlv." the Witness said farther that at this interview whi . Governor Hayes denied saying?when he sup- An posed he had lost the Presidency?that he felt sorry for the colored people of the Sooth, as ? reported in the New York Herald. Witness 8 1 said that having received assurances he, as a $4. B friend of Louisiana, urged all whom he could influence to stand by the ooont. Upon cross1 examination he said there had been nothing in cto s the way of a bargain, agreement or underanbd* a tti b ing. 'Adjourned. 0 I or 0 A Remarkable Trick. ne< There was nothing very remarkable in ^ - the appearance or dress of oar conjurer. '' An elderly man, short and sparely made, I e dressed in dingy white ootton, with very typ a tight sleeves to his robe and very tight e legs to his drawers; he might have been a a respectable servant out of place, but 1 actually was a small landowner who had 1 d taken to conjuring for his amusement. d When he entered the room he spread a i- white cloth upon the floor and sat down ?ioi ;? upon it with his back to the wall, the oS U door of the room being on his right ^ la hand. His spectators were disposed in ve s the following fashion: Mr. Smyth sat Q on a chair nearly in the. middle of the jjj I* room, I was sitting on a sofa near the pre door, the Parsee merchant stood in the 1? 18 doorway about an arm's length from me. ^ !t The servants stood about in groups, the ? is largest group being between the door V w and the conjurer. As soon as he had settled himself he turned to the Parsee <? and asked for the loan of a rupee. The f .y pedlar at first demurred a little, but on ? being guaranteed against loss, he pro- B duced the coin. He was going to put it -p into the conjurer's hand, but the latter g refused and told the Parsee to hand it ? ;(i to Mr. Smyth's bearer. The bearer 8 ig took it, and, at the request of the con - 5 as jurer, looked at it and declared it to be A] or really a rupee. The conjurer then told U1 him to hand it to his master. Mr. r: )3 Smyth took it, and then followed this $] 29 dialogue: Conjurer?Are you sure this Ai M is a rupee? Sm.vth?Yes. Conjurer? -p 31 Close your hand on it and hold it tight. JL 01 Now think of some country in Europe, st ? but do not tell me your thought (then 19 the conjurer ran over the name of sevof eral countries, suoh as France, Germany, 1 3 A M 11- - Rl Kussia, TUTKey ana America?lor me ? at native of India is nuder the impression J that America is in Enrope. After a moment's pause Mr. Smyth said he had e* ra thought of a country. "Then open your ? hand," said the juggler, "see what I" m you have got, and tell me if it is a ^ ie coin of the country you thought of." _ It was a five-franc piece, and Mr. Smyth 'J a had thought of France. He was going ? to band the coin to the conjurer, but the latter said, "No, pass it to the other J :h sahib." Mr. Smyth accordingly put the in five-franc piece into my hand. I looked ? ot closely at it, then shut my hand and g, " thought of Russia. When I opened it Pt Q. I found, not a Russian but a Turk sh t silver piece about tne size 01 tne nveia franc, or of our own crown-piece. This to I handed to Mr. Smyth, and suggested u< that he should name America, which he ? did, and found a Mexican dollar in his $ hl hand. The coin, whatever it was, had m never been in the conjurer's hand from ?* ? the time the rupee was borrowed from J' in the Pareee merchant. Mr. Smyth and J is hisbearerbarOjot^^tiem I'lusely erSmyth and I ^^Kec^ver several times the five-franc piece, the Turkish coin, and the dollar; so the trick did not depend on a reversa^ ble coin. Indeed, it could not, for the ct coin underwent three changes, as has Q 10 been seen. I need only add, for the in- g >d | formation oi tnose reaaers wno snow not; ? e81 India, that a rupee is only about the size ! j of a florin, and, therefore, about half the I ig ! size of a five-franc piece. The juggler j ! performed several other tricks that day, | ia ; but they were of a common-place kind, ; ? ' 3d < and in no way comparable to the coin ! uj |y | trick, which I have never seen rivalled ! ] ' by any other conjurer in India or Eu- ! on ^ j rope.? University Magazine. j iy, "? ie | A Michigan woman hid her cow under )n I the hay to keep her out of sight of the **; tax collector, and a newspaper calls it a e I case of cow-hiding by a female. 18 | ??i 16 j Serve an Injanctlon on Dlieue r- : By invigorating a reeble constitution, renova& ! ting a debilitated physique, and enriching a ta i thin and innutritions circula ion with Hob- ^ ! tflttfir'fl Stomach Bitters, the finest, the most ?ti it, highly sanctioned, and the moat popular tonic ~ Id and preventive in existence. It strengthens I] v- the stomach, remedies torpor of the liver and H bowels, and gives a healthful impulse to the U af secretive and discharging functions ef the ie kidneys and bladder. Not only does it arrest e and prevent the recurrence of malarial fevers, 1V but it furnishes the only adequate safeguard against them to persons who have never been . ' ' afflicted with those maladies, but would be ^ liable to incur them if medicinally unprotect- Ui 16 ed. It eliminates from the blood oertaiu im- Di Q* purities which the most skillful pathologists w a assign as the exciting causes of those agonizing complaints, rheumatism and gout, and it j st is, moreover, an excellent remedy for an en- _ id feebled or overwrought state of the nerves, fti a and for menUl despondency. a it is CHEW The Celebrated is ! "matchles8" 10 | Wood Tag Plug \ in Tobacco. i > r. i Tim Pioheeb Tobacco Compart, i ."j New York, Boston, and Chicago, i v iQ | == ft >r; The Markets. ? stbwto**. i i ? ' DA*f Tittlfl N*Uy6?#???? ^ ? ! : ; B#ef Tpxm and Cherokee.. 06*0 09 StSS 0 a S:.\:..."." "'** !?k k n ! cotton?Middling.........-.....?. 11*0 u* p Flour?Weatern?flood to Oholoe.... 4 85 0 7 00 State- F?ir;to Choice...... 425 ?5(-0 ? Buckwheat per cwt 1" ? 1 " H e Wheat? Bod Western 1JJ* 0 J " n ^HSo. 3 Milwaukee 85 010 J( 8| ? , Barley Malt....... ? bo 0 9J m 0 ! Buckwheat. . ]* is | Cfetn?MixertW*tmrn.... M 0 , tl 5 sis jw ? ? 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Those who have BH ice always Keep a box on band and uo^^B induce them to be without a supply. HH CotUfe Gingerbread. JSH ake one cup of butter and lard melteflBK ler, add one cup New Orleans molasses^^N i this one cup each of sugar and cold w^^BI large teaspoonfols ginger, two eggs beHH four cups of flour, having in It three tpoonfals Dooley's Yeast Powder. Ba^HB lerately hot oven. H IBM or upwards of thirty years Mrs. WIN8L^^H DTHING 8YEDP has beeu used forchi^^H 3 never-failing success. It corrects the stomach, relieves wind oolic, regr^^H bowels, cures dysentery and dianfl^H Jther arising from teething or other ca^^H old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a L-BH Windsor Hotel, New York. B ince the reduction of the rate per 00 there has been an increase in nun^^B 1 it would appear this was ft most as move. The Windsor wu never bEH radive to tho traveler than sow. KUI t la ft dangerous thing to allow the dia?^H? dysentery to ge unchecked and there ^M| ?d of it. 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Alcoj If) flfin Acres of Choice Pi JUiUUU 1 A ^ Ds, In be?t Lnmber Dliu > V" nf itllchlcnB. W Send far Illustrated Pamphlet, fall of faete. O. At. BARNE*. Land Cwaalwloner, Laartnit Bite ^ILM si H W M The GREAT REMEDY Tor CORPULENCE ALLAN'S ANTI-FAT partly vegetable and perfectly harmless. It ?e on the food Id the stomach, preventing Its heli iverted Into far. Taken In accordance with d :tlona, It will retloee fat pctwa Trom two to Bi and* per week. Corpulence Is not only a disease ltse!f, hut tt rblnger of others." So wrote Hippocrates c* jusanu years ago, ana wnai was iruo urcu ?? uu? ! le?a so to-dav. ? .old by (iruzplsts, or sent, by express, upon rfl ,pt onil-30. Quarwr-dozen J 1.00. Adclrcvj, H BOTANIC MEDICINE CO., H Proprietors, Buffalo, JT. 3M NYHU 33