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The Silent Melody. 1 "Bring n e my broken harp," bo paid; " We both are wrecks?but as ye willThough all its ringing tones have lied, j Their ochoes linger round it still; I h'.d some golden str inge, I know, < But that was long?how long !?ago. ? " I cannot see its tarnished gold. * I cannot hear its vanished tone, Scarce can my trembliug fingers hold ^ The pillared frame eo long tinir own; We both are wrecks?a while ago , It had some silver strings, I know, { "But on them Time too long has played The solemn strain that knows no change, 4nd where of old my fingers strayed 1 The chords they find are new and strange? ' Yes! iron strings?I know?I know? We both are wrecks of long ago. " We both are wrecks?a shattered pair? ; Strange to ourselves in Time's disguise ... 1 What say ye to the lovesick air That brought the tears from Marian's eyes'; ! Ay! trust me?under breasts of scow Hearts could be melted long ago ! " Or will yo hear the storm-song's crash : That from his dreams the soldier woko ] *.,,1 I.?]><. i'rtcli 4XIJV*. J 11111 A UVW VJtV When battle's cloud in thunder broke ? . . . Wrecks?nought but weeks!?tho timo was ' when We two were worth a thousand men 1" i And so the broken harp they bring i With pitying smiles that none eou'.d bl.ituo; i Al&s! there's not a single string Of all that filled the tarnished frame ! But see! like children ovtrjoyed. His fingers rambling through the void ! 1 "I claf-p thee ! Ay . . . mine ancient lyre ... Nay, gtiiio ray wandering fingers .... * Thero ! They love to dally with the wire As Isaac played with Euan's hair. ... i Hush! ye shall hear tha famous tune That Marion called The Breath of Juno !" And so they softly gather round: Rapt in his tuneful trance he scorns: His fingers move: but not a sound! A silence like the song of dreams. . . . " There! yo have heard the air," lie cries, "That brought the tears from Marion's eyes!" Ah, smilo not at his foud conceit, Nor deem the fancy wrought in vain: To him the unreal sounds are sweet? No disiord mars the silent strain Scored on life's latest, starlit page? Tho voiceless melody of cge. Sweet are the lips of all that sing, Wh?>r> Vfi?iirr,V mnsio breathes lllisonnllt. But never vet could voica or string So truly shape our teudc*rcst thought As when by life's decaying fire Our fingers sweep the tuneless lyre ! ? Oliver IWndell Jioluus in Atlantic Monthly. A DOCTOR'S STORY. It is not so far back but that I can remember very well liow and when I com ' menced the practice of medicine. By wav of necessary introduction to my story, J must say a few words of that time. When M. D. wa3 tacked to my name, I owed nt two shrines, my profession and?my Angelina. Her name was not i- i _:r.. I..: >?,.( AUgCilDtl, t)Ut 111^" WUO ut'iutj a uuucot little lady, desires she shall not be dragged before an inquisitive public. Let, then, the abstract, Augelina, represent the real woman. I conceal my own name for eimila. reasons. Of course I had a rival. Name, liichard Somers; age twenty-six; general appearance, striking and handsome; character, very bad. Neither my' affection for this gentleman nor his affection for me would have started a conflagration on any river of which I know. We disliked each other heartily from the first. Being a much handsomer man than myself, be might have been a dangerous rival. However, he saved me all trouble. He committed a forgery which was discovered sooner than he expected. He was arrested for the offence, tried and convicted. 1 was one of the principal witnesses against him. When the eentenco was passed unon him he requested a moment's con vereatio:: with me. I shall never forget the look of hatred on his face as lie hissed qu! : "You have mined my love and my life. Remember that, and fear me!" I am not a timid man, and attached but little importance to his implied threat. I thought it simply the bluster i of a self-defeated and disgraced rival. i Shortly after, Angelina and I were married, and, as the story-book says, "lived happy ever afterward." So much by way of introduction, now to my story: Wo had been married a little over two years. During that time I had heard nothing of Suniers. His sentence had j1 been a comparatively light one?a year ]? and six months. Alter his discharge j1 from prison, however, I neither saw nor heard of him. For so young a man I had beeu very ' successful as a physician. Perhaps my ' success was principally due to my strict attantion to practice. No matter how ; late, or dark and stormv might be the : ? * ?1. A. T 1-1? 4.,-* liigut, J. pruuipwj Hiifuuf'.i u# mi muumouses to the bedside of suffering. One night, a little -while before the hour of retiring, the door-bell rung, and shortly afterward a man entered the room where wo were sitting. IIo was not prepossessing. His hair was short and thick, :ind the general cast of his features villainous. He evidently belonged to that variety of fowl known as the jail-bird. Nevertheless, wit-ioat hesitation, I put on my coat and hat and prepared to go with him. " A gentleman,"liesaid, "hasbroken his leg." I thought it a pity that, if ho wero Buy thing like his messenger, he hadn't broken his neck. I did not tell my wife where I was going, for it was a distant part of the town, and in anything but a respectable neighborhood. I did not wish to make the little woman nervous. On oar way my friend, the jail-bird, was very uncommunicative. He answered my inquiries about tho injured man in surly monosyllables. Ho was apparently in no huste, lor he walked very slowly?more slowly, I thought, than was consistent with the welfara of ray patient. At last we arrived at our destination. It was a very dark-lookiug house, in a very dark little* street. My guide led me Tip two flights of very dirty and rickety stairs, that creaked objections to our weight up^n them. In the third story, we stopped before a door, which, to my surprise, my j companion opened with a key which he I took from his pocket. Was he afraid j that a man with a broken leg j would escape ? I was still more snr- ! prised when, on entering the room, I j found it empty ! He motioned me to a ; chair, and, remarking he would soon re- ! turn, left the room. For the first time I was somewhat j nervous and suspicious. The empty | room, the last action of my guide, his j carelessness on onr way as to the health I of the supposed injured man, the lonely house and neighborhood, all combined to make me suspect foul play. I stepped to the door, only to find it j locked from the outside?to the window | culv to find escape impossible there. It I wns many feet from the ground. j My suspicions were now cf rtninties. I was trapped. None of my friends, not even my wife, knew where I was. I i might be murdered in this den, and my I death remain a mystery. I snpposo I waited about an hour be-1 /ore I heard the key turn in the door. 1 Then, to my dismay, half a dozen men enterc-:!. When n itnre made the jais-bird who liad led me into this trap, she did not break the mould. These gentlemen were of the same pattern. All wore the en mo hang-dog, murderous look. One ' of them raised the Jight in the room, 1 which had betn burning low. With ] hardly a glance at me, they took seats 1 upon'the floor and began to play cards. < Soon the door again opened, and < another man entered. I hardly had a i hope as I looked at him, for I saw the 1 esulting face of my enemy?Dick Som- i ers! 8 At a glance he saw that I recognized k Hill Mil lim. With a malicious leer be stepped orward, and quoting his own words of wo years before, be said: t "You bare ruined my love nud my ife. Remember that, and fear me !" "Somers," I said ? for my life I wouldn't have called him Mr. Somers? ' I know that you have trapped me here | or the purpose of revenging yourself j ipon mo, but remember, sir, thnt I v lave friends ! Remember law and jus- e ice!" j "I fear nothing," ho answered. "Rerenge on you is dearer to me than life, j. md though for mo the bottomless pit ^ ivere yawning, I would have it." E I saw it was useless to appeal to this oian, and I sullenly waited for what a ?eemed fato. a At his command the ruffians searched g me. Oue of them, who appeared to be .. i kind of treasurer for the gnnc, secured j tny watch and pocket-book. Then thc-y Hd/I Tci tli stout roDes to a chair. | i. Somers did not address me again, but 'n =at upon the floor and gambled with the j rest. Preseutly be rose, and saying he j. would return by daybreak, left the room. c He evidently felt I was in his power, c and seemed in no hurry to completo his j revenge. t When he had gone, the card-playing a was kept up for a couple of hours. Then e they all stretched themselves upon the Hour and slept. The door opened iu- f ward, and acros3 it was the burly form ^ of the treasurer. In spite of the appar- , ent hopelessness of a trial, I set about j Revising some plan of escape. r The first thing was to free mypelf. I y have large wrists and small hands. In , tying me they had not taken this into j consideration. Without much difficulty ( I liberated my bauds; then, of course, it j was the work of but a few seconds to en- j tirely free myself from my bonds. < Taking the precaution to place the ] ropes in such a position that should any { of the gang waken, 1 would still appear ] to be bound, I thought upon mychances ( of escape. They certainly appeared very ] few and small. The fact of the men up- , on the floor being asleep, seemed little f iu my favor. I could not move the ruf- j *iau who was sleeping at the door with- j out waking him. As I have before stated, escape by the windows was impossible, j Every plan that suggested itself had in- j surmountable objections to it. I had j almost given up scheming iu despair, , ami concluded to adopt some nopeiessiy ( desperate measure, when I thought, of \ the contents of a bottle I had in my j pocket. i In searching me, the ruffians hail not , disturbed it, thinking it of no importance. It contained chloroform. I also 3 had a sponge in my pocket. In a mo- j * rnent I had resolved what to do. Draw- j ing the bottle from my pocket, 1 Boaked , the sponge thoroughly with its contents. | Slowly, painfully (I could hear my heart beat), with all the caution that a man uses when his life may depend on the slightest noise, I stepped to the Bide < of the ruffian. I placed the saturated 6pouge to his nose. I saw him quickly yield to the influence of the vapor. From man to . man I stepped. One by one they were made senseless, helpless. i The man at the door was the last. I drew him away, first sectiriug my watch and pocket-book. I also found in his possession a blackjack, which I took the liberty of appropriating. Then, opening the door, I stepped into the hall. I still moved about cautiously, feeling that all danger was not past. I thought there might be a watcher there, but, to my relief, I saw no one. I descended the first flight of stairs, and reached the second story in safety. I had gone 1 about half-way down the second flight. My heart stood still, for I heard some ono enter below: then, in the muttered 1 oath, I recognized Seiners' voice. I ; crouched down upon the stair next the wall, hoping he might pass me. But as he came up, his hand brushed my face. Iu p. moment he had me by the throat. ) I knew him to be by far the more powerful mnu, and it was not a time for sent- 1 pies. Quickly, it being so dark he could ! uot see the notion, I raised the black- ' jack?I had hold it since I left the room * ?and brought it down heavily upon his ' skull. His hand left my throat, and, a life- ' less mar,a, ho rolled down the stairs. I ' found hiiu at the foot quite still. I mado good my escape, not stopping to see if I 1 had killed him. I do not know to this j day whether he is living or dead. I never saw nor heard of him again. ' When I arrived home 1 found a very 1 frightened littlo woman, but I did not ! tell her till long afterward the history of that uight. I have never since been in 1 such a fix, and if discretion and a rea- ' tunable supply of cowardice can pre- ' rent it, never will be in the future. ^ I The Loss of the Loch Art!. The good ship Loch Ard, from London ' to Melbourne, foundered off tlio Australian coast a few months ago, and out seventeen passengers and a large crew only two persons got ashore: Miss Eveline Carmichael and Midshipman Ihomas Pearce. As the morning cleared somewhat, the cliffs were seen close to the ship, and the captain gave orders to have the boats lowered and the passengers placed in them. By this time the seas were breaking clean over the ship, and she was bumping very heavily. Pearce, wit i five others, were clearing away tha port lifeboat, and the grips having been cut and the chocks knocked out, they were just about hooking the tackles 011 when a heavy sea struck ] her, and knocked the boat over the side, and all with her. Pearce got ashore by the help partly of the boat, partly of a table. Shortly after the ship struck, the cabin filled with water, but most if uot all, of the passengers were up and dressed. Six life belts were obtained from the lazarette, but the tags were in such 'tad condition that it took some time to fasten them on. Four ladies and twi. men wore them. Miss Eveline and Miss Raby Carmichael ran up the companion ladder, and at the deck the captain said, "If you are saved, let my wife know I died like a Britfsh sailor? at my post." He was only married six weeks before he left London. A sea swept the ladies overboard. Miss Eveliae found she had hold of a hencoop; she was joined by Eeginald Jones and Arthur Mitchell. They neaul the screams of the persons still onboard; the ship was sinking fast. The three floated into the entrauce of the gorge, and then the two men abandoned the hencoop for a spar, but they were caught by the undertow and carried out to sea. Miss Carmichael, who must now have beeu a long time in the water, caught sight of Pearce, on shore, and screamed out to him. He bravely swam out, found that she had become insensible, and got her safely to laud. Ho then climbed to the top of the cliffs in search of assistance. He struck a path, and followed it for several hours until he fell in willi a man employed on Glenaiuplo Station. The two men returned to the shore, got down the dill's with the help of a rope, and then found to their horror, that the lady had strayed away. They did not. discover her till loug after dark. Even then she was only funnel by r ncciilcnt, for she Iftv in a comatose state nnder some bushes. T!io midshipman and this young lady were the only survivors. A California Watering Place. Like Tahoo, a f.ivorito summer resort of Calii'omians, is one of the wonders of tho world. Hero you have a sea of fresh water, fifteen hundred feet tleep, cold as snow and bluer than the sky, renting in a vast mountain basin elevated more than six thousaud fer-t among tho crests of the Sierra. All around it rise mountain elopes, clothed with frag: ant forests of pine, fir and cedar. You row out in a skiff a hundred yards from shore, rest on your oars and look over the side to find your-1: self hanging, like a feather in empty space, with sixty feet of water below yon, transparent ns the air. Row 1 farther out. and suddenly the green bot- 1 torn falJs off in a submarine precipice, j leaving the unfathomed depth as per- e ['cctlv blue as the deepest sky (for their c jolor ia litorally ali one, only a shade larker in tho water, or a shade filmier n n tho air). Down in these gorges of 'i slue ice-water lie the great trout, look- r ng up, perhaps, and seeing our skiff n glimmering overhead like a shining i] peok of cloud, ti MARRIAGE IN JAPAN. urlouA Wedding CiiNt'jros of tlip .Inpnnrae Tlie lower orderB of the Japanese mploy some married couples to mako latches for their sons, and those agents | re called nakodos, or go-betweens, j Jetrothal sometimes takes place in the j afancy or childhood of parties, but it is j ery often deferred till they are old nough to wish to have come voice In j ho matter themselves, which, however, 3 denied them if they have parents livng. When, by reason of the death of lis parents, a young man is left free to aanago the matter in his own behalf, le chooses a pair of go-betweens from mong the friends and acquaintances, ,cd through them makes inquiries for a uitable helpmate, and when they re)ort the discovery of ono, he sends them I o solicit the hand of her parents. If the proposal suits her parents the ' >o>rroin iu mnrln nn<] bv theil* COUniv- '< ""ft""" uce a meeting is arranged to take place >etween the young people at some teamuse, unless they already know each ither by sight, where the betrothed j an only c.ist sly glances at each other, I mt are' permitted to hold no couversa- j ion, as that in the present state of .flairs would be a breach of Japanese stiquette. In arranging matters for the wadding, ixing the day for it, etc., other go-beweens are employed, whose office ex)ires only when the two are made one. : ?irst, tlie young bridegoom semis the ' jo-betweens with the presents to the I jride-elect. These may consist of a i variety of things, varying according to | he taste and ability of the bridegroom, | >r his parents, provided only that cer- j ain things are in the number; as, for , netance, some edible seaweed, and no- . ihi, or strips of dried and powdered j iwabi. The preparation of the latter j s made chiefly in the department of Ise. j [f noshi cannot be obtained, a kind of j hied fish will answer the purpose, j But, whether the presents be few or j many, the bridegroom must send a writ- i ;en list of the articles along with them, | 'or which a specified form is furnished ] n the Japanese works on the subject. I These presents being received, and ! :he wedding-day being fixed between the bride's pareuts and the go-betweens, aothing remains to bo done but to \wait the appointed time. Meanwhile the bride and her family are occupied in preparing the numerous presents to be made by them to the parents and relatives of the bridegroom on the night af the wedding. In the evening of tho day set for the nuptial ceremony, the bride, dressed throughout in white (the color of mourniug in Japan), is escorted in the pango ar norimou (palanquin) by her parents and invited relatives to the house of the bridegroom. At the present day she is met in the entrance of the house by certain females employed to receive her, called machi joo-roo, who conduct her into a separate apartment where she takes a little rest. It should be stated that she left her father's house having her head covered with watabooshi, a cap made of floss silk, which entirely concoals the head and face from view, and is not removed until she has become a wife. When a suflicieut time has elapsed for the bride to refresh herself, botii she and the bridegroom proceed separately to the best room, where the young man seats himself at one end of the tokenoma, a sort oi' open closet or recess in the wall opposite to the entrance, which is considered the most honorable place in the Janenese house. And the young lady takes her seat at the opposite end of the tokonoma. The go-betweens, also sit down, the male by the bridegroom aud the female by the bride. Two other attendants, male aud female, usually young persons, each bearing a vessel with a long handle used as a receptacle for sake, are likewise present to wait upon the bride and bridegroom and fill their cups. The long-bandlc-d flasks liave a paper butterfly fastened to each; i large and small one represent a male *nd female butterfly. The attendants who bear them are therefore called by these names, and the ideas expressed by the symbol is, that as butterflies always go in pairs, so tho husband and wife should accompany each other through life with a like constancy. Bet.veen the briile and groom is placed l tray bearing three lacquered cups, one upon another, the smallest at the top. rhe two butterflies pour a little sake "rom both their flasks into the upper most cup, while tho bridegroom holds it to be filled, grasping it with both hauds. He then eips tho wine three times in a 3low, formal manner, and passes it to the bride, who takes it in her hands and tabes three timilar sips under cover of tier veil, when she hands the cup to the fenale butterfly, who sets it asido. The second cap and the third are filled and smptied in like manner, so that each party drinks nine times. Hence the ceremony is called xan-xan-kvdo, and forms the most important part of the nuptial rites, for it makes tho parties tiusband and wife. While this drinking is going on one or two male singers aro seated behind the screeu in tho same room, chanting songs of congratulation to the happy pair. They are now married, and the bride and groom proceed to another room, where they pay their respects to their parents by drinking sake together; nominally, but not really, ?oing through the san-san-kudo again, ifter that they are conducted to another room, where the bride removes her veil ind exchanges her white dress for one af bright and gay colors, and tho groom puts on the kami-shimo, or Japanese lull-dress, distinguished by tho wingliko shoulder-pieces, and full trousers, and then again they drink to each other tbreo times three cups, iu natural congratulation at the happy change that lias come over them, indicated by their change of dress. This being done, there follows a fcaat to all in the house, who assemble in ono room, and regale themselves with tho faro that is set before them; oud, having kept up the festivities till about the dawn of day, tho wedding party breaks up. Three days after tho bride usually pays a visit to her own parents, when anothei entertainment is made, to which the relatives of the family ore invited. Henceforth tho married woman is regarded as having been absorbed,as it were, into the family of her husband, and to have surrendered her relationship to her father's Louse. Her duty to her father-in-law and mother-in-law supersedes all tho obligations of lilinl piety. The common people, in their matrimonia I rites, endeavor to npo as fur as possible their superiors, the daimios and other great people of the land.?Japanese Times. Fingers for Forks, Miss Edwards, in hor book of Nile Travels, gives a lively description of her dinner with the British Consul at Luxor, a very learned aud cultivated Arab, named Mustaphn, who spoko English and several other languages fluently. For hor amusement, he had the dinner served in thoroughly Orienttal stylo. Each dipped his own spoon in the soup, dived in the stew, aud pulled on pieces of fish or lamb with his fingers. Having no plates, wo made plates of our bread. Meanwhile, Mustaphn Aga, like an attentive host, toro off au especially choice morsel now and thrtu, and handed it to one or other of his jruests. To eat gracefully with one's fingers is a fine art; to carve with thorn skilfully is a science. None of ns, I think, will soon forget the wonderful way in which our host, attacked and vanquished the turkey?a solid colossus, weighing twenty pounds, and roasted to perfec fci 011. Half rising, ho turned hnck his cuff, poi?cd his wrist, and, driving Lis forefinger and thumb deep into the breast, brought out a long, stringy, smoking fragment, which ha deposited on the plate of the writer. Thus begun, the turkey went round the table amid poals of laughter, and !7as punished by each in turn. The lilsflT, which followed, is always the last lish senvd at an Egyptian or Turkish linner. After this, our spoons were changed, rod the sweets were put upon the table. Pho drinks throughout were plain water, ice water, and lemonade. Some native ausicians played in the ante-room durag dinner, and when we rose from the ible wo washed our hands as before. FOR THE YOUNG TEOPLE. The nirert Squirrel. A Lion to the Squirrel said, " Work faithfully for me, And when your task is done, my friend, Rewarded you shall be With a barrelful of finest nuts, fresh from Sly own nut-tree." "My Lion King," the Squirrel said, "to thid I do agree." The Squirrel toiled both day and night, Quite faithful to his hire ; So hungry and so faint, sometimes, He thought ho should expire. But still he kept his courage up, and tugged With might and main. ' 'How nice tho nnts will tasto," he though t "When I my barrel gain !" At last, when he was nearly dead, And thin, and old, and gray, Qnoth Lion : " There's no more hard work You're fit te do. I'll pay." A barrelfnl of nuts ho gave?ripe, rich And Vig : but oh ! Tho Squirril's tears ran down his cheeks Ho'd lost his teeth, you know. Who Put out. the Tea Party? One day, when I -was a small girl, my little t-ister Katy and I found in tho yard a dry-goods box, in which the new carpets had been sent home. As usral, we ran to where grandma sat knitting and nodding: " Oh, grandma, mayn't we have it ? " cried I. "Yet hab it, dranma? " echoed Katy. "You know we never had a babyhonse." " No, ncbber had no baby-'ouse." " Oh, say yes ! " "'Ay 'et*!" "Do, do! " "Pede do! " Then before she knew what she was to do, or say, or what she never had done, or said, we coaxed her to the back door and pointed to our treasure. She couldn't refuso us, and the box was given to us. John made us r. card-board chimney, and cut a square window iu either end, for, of course, wo set it on its feet, turnl ing its back to the lane against whose fence it stood, looking into tho yard. Grandma gave us red curtains for the I windows, aud a big striped apron, which : hung across the front and did for a I door. We had to have a door, for, j when we took tea, the chickens came. I without invitation, peeping inside, look! ing i?for crumbs. And, seeing what ; looked like a party, down flew, with a I whir and rnotle, a flock of doves, saying, I " Coo-oo ! how do-oo-do 1" and prinkI ing themselves in our very faces. Yes, I wo rpdllv had too manvof these surprise I parties; for, another time, it was a wasp j that came to tea, and flew from mo to I Katy, anil from Katy to me, till we flew, I too, to hide onr heads iu grandma's lap. i Then she gavo us the apron, which was j very grand, thongh the blue stripes were walking into tho red ones, and there were a good many little holes which let small arrows of light fly out. I That was when we lighted the chandeI lier, and they (the holes and tho arrows) j were the very things to let people know j what grand doings there were inside. | Then, when our crockery was arrangi ed on the shelf at the back, a stool set in the middle for a table, our two small I green chair? placed one at either end, and a good m.iny nails driven Into the "walls'' to serve as hooks?then we I gavo a party. The dolls were invited, | of course, and their invitations Katy | wrote on her slate. To be sure, tho ' letters looked a good deal like Jack and i Jill?climbing up hill and tumbling j down again?still the dolls understood j us. There were no little girls invited, i becauso little girls couldn't have squcezj ed in unless they were willing to be i hung up like the extra dollies. But oh ! wouldn't they havo liked to !f?o? Wo had ice-cream, just mads of vauilla, cream-candy, and water?delicious ! Then there was a whole tea-potful of chocolate-tea, which was a chocolatecream droj) scraped fine and mixed with j water. Do just try it sometime. Thimble-biscuils, too, and holes with cookies i round them. I never expect to no as ! happy again as I was -when I dropped j the curtain at half-past four precisely, I and lighted the chandelier, which I for! got to say was a candle cut in two, stuck j in cologne-bottlcs of different shapes and | colors. | We well knew?for didn't we go ont j twice to look??how splendidly the light i streamed through the two windows and ! the eight holes. Why, the chickens I knew it, ton, on their perches, for they 1 opened one sleepy eye after another, i solemnly changed legs, and dozed oil | again. Theso long rays of light, play| iug truant, ran down the lane and flashed | into the eyes of nnughtv Lilly Quinn, j who was going home from a vie.it, whistI ling, and with his hands in his pockets. Of courso the dolls arrived promptly, J and took off tlioir shawls in the bed: room, which was that convenient shell | that was turned into anything on short ; notice. The baby-dolls had to go early j to bed under the table, and you cau imj agine how much pleasanter it is to say, j " Bed-time, children !" than have it said | to you. Mr3. Green was a perfect little Mrs. Herod in her treatment of her chil! dren. Indeed, their yells under punj ishment were heart-rending; but when ! she was only dear Katy she was tender i as one of those cooing doves. So we ate up the ice-cream, and turned ! the tea-pot upside down to squeeze out i the last drop of chocolate-tea. Mrs. Green was just doing this very thing ; when tho most droadful event happeued. Orasb !?bang!?clatter!? the whole : world had turned upside down. Oat : wont the lights, and everything fell to! gether in a dismal heap; but whether up or down nobody could tell. There ! was a splash of cold, cold water in my ; face as the wash-bowl aud pitcher fell ! and crashed beside mo. Katy lay witb i her small nose buried in the butter-plate. The house had tumbled over!! For a few seconds not a sound was ' neard, but then there was a half-stifled j burst of laughter, which quickly died ; away as some thickly shod feet scamj pered down tho alley. Yes, the beau' i tiful house was tipped over, and tho teai party put out, as an extinguisher it : slipped over a candle, or a hat clapped ; upon a butterfly. Inside, there was a j confused heap, with legs uppermost? | table-legs, chair-legs, little legs in white j stockings, and, mixed hopelessly up with : these, the dolls, the dishes, tho candles. Tbis heap, however, was silent only i for a moment. Then, a feeble cry strugj gled up through it?a cry which, reachj ing tho upper air, grew louder, doubled I itself, became two cries, and rushed out j through a window, which, having lost j its way, was where the roof ought to bo. j Then growing fast and shrill, the cry ran , toward the house, waking up the lirown baby, who at once joined in. The roostnv o-n rl 4' rtol i n /-? | ex >vuuuu. ouuucuij, uuu icciiu^ iuui | something had happen d, thought it i could do no harm to crow, and that agi tatod his household to the last hen. ! Then to the cackling and crowing, Bcppc j added a bark of duty, and nearly turned nside out, tng^ing at his chain, and ! howling betweou times. The canary j began his scales, and the scream grew j and grew and rushed into the house ' through every door and window. Uncle j John was reading the paper, but, liear| ing the fearful uproar he dashed into the ; yard, turnod back the house with one j hand, with the other picked out from the I heap of legs all the white ones, j and dragged ub from the wreck of I our residence. It was quickly done, but not too soon, for ft lif.lle flame, which was hiding under the close mass ! of ruins, now hopped merrily up on the tarletan skirts of Alice Isabella, the I prettiest of the dolls. i While we were being taken to grandma I to be cried over and comforted, and the I poor old house lay on its side forgotten, j that flame finished off poor dolly, ran i up to the roof, nto up tho reJ striped j curtain in the tw inkling of an eye, and, ! in fact, made 6hort work of tho whole j thing. Wo knew nothing of this that I night, but were so honored and indulged ! as to make us think that everything else i had turned a new leaf as well as the house. Tho next morning, grandma, coming into the breakfast-room, was called to the window by Uncle John, who wjb looking at something in the yard. There was a forlorn little figure sitting on a t log among tho charred embers of tho burnt house. It was I, sobbing as if my heart would break, and beside me gl was Katy, wbo etood sadly by, trying with the corner of her apron to dry my tears. But her eyes were wet too, and in the fat aims were squeezed a leg and , shoe, which was all that was left of Alice mt Isabella. vei What wicked eyo had watched the sis festivities through the window, or what < cruel heart liad yielded to the temptation to turn over the house upon it all, we never knew. I heard that Billy 8aj Quinn was punished that night for th I coming home late to supper, and now of i looking impartially at the matter over all these years, I am inclined to think it was that very Billy Quinn, and no other, j0 who put out the tea-party.?St. Nicholas. ' tu ~ dc A Perlious Railway Jonrney. I Having received authority from a head ^ ' official to travel in " carriage-van or on 0f j the engine " during a lengthened tour se I in Scotland, I chose tho latter for the tu ! first stage of my journey, and accordingI ly stepped upon the engine of an express ti( i which was about to start for the North. I had barely time to salute my smoke- ^ ! beerrimed companions, when the birring qj j whistle of the guard and shrill respond! ing scream of the engine announced our tt ; departure. Ouce fairly clear of tho be- to j wildering intricacies of sidings, crossings to | and signals, we wero soon driving on our ? i way at real express speed. Wo watched sr I with interest and admiration the setting : 6un casting its farewell rays on tho lofty &l spires tapering above the clouded atmo- te : sphere of tho city, and setting the villas on the hill-side ablaze with all the splen- * dor of burnished gold, till a curve iu the lino shut it out from view. I now directed my attention to my companions ti in travel, who were destined to play so tt conspicuous a part in tho incident I am J* about to relate. The driver was a mid- w : die-aged, intelligent looking fellow, with | deep care-worn lines iu his weather- p ! beaten features, indicative of the arduous ri | nature of his calling. The stoker, who 0( | had kindly given me his seat in the corner opposite the driver, was a young lo I man of perhaps eighteen or twenty CJ j years of age; his face and eyes were j brimful of kindness and mirthful good- 1{ nature. I was civilly treated by both, di but I could notice, when attempting to la ! start a conversation with the driver, that h' | he did not wish his attention drawn from ^ \ his all important duty of looking out for ti j signals; my remarks were consequently ti j confined to the stoker, who stood with his ai ! face to the front and his hand grasping ai i the weather-board overhead. I asked if there was much danger of accidents occurring on that part of the line. Ho q innrriiino-iv t-onliail that Bill, his | | mate, sometimes remarked that if they Rl i wished to keep clear of accidents they w I would require to wear red leased spect- <*' j acles; which meant I suppose, that to tc j be safe tlioy should require never to run ; at all. We were still darting onward at, ^ | the rate of forty-five or fifty miles an j j; hour, through a comparatively level tl ' part of the country, with no object of j interest to attract our attention. Happen{ing to look around, I observed the driver ! engaged in putting off or on the " feed " fi : that is, the apparatus for supplying the r< ! boiler with water from the tender. He I seemed to have some difficulty in getting b( it to work, as he stepped back a pace and 0i j gavo it a wrench with his foot but sud- el ; deuly his other foot slipped from under n I him, and, to our horror, he fell backward I over the side of the engine. Forgetting ! for a moment my own danger in quitting 1 hold of the handrail, I immediately j J sprang to his aid, and in doing so nearly I knocked overboard the stoker, who, t] i being between me aud the driver had d ! clutched hold of ono of his feet as ho ? ; fell. I looked over the side, and couldI see the poor fellow's head sweeping the c ! ground with fearful velocity, while one ? j of his legs lay over the feed-pipe under s the tender, and his hands insecurely J 1 grasped the nnder footstep of the engine. a We speedily put forth every effort to ? ; lift him on the engine; but, owing to his ^ peculiar position, being actually sitting t : under and astride of the large upper u j footstep of tho engine, our utmost exer c i tions proved unavailing. I looked up ? 11 helplessly into tlie face of the stoker, t : which showed all tho symptoms of des- s pairing agony as he wailed: "Oh, my fi ! God ! .his head will bo dashed to pieces u ! on the slag at Roy ton cutting." I shall [ never forget the tone in which these t ; words were uttered, as the poor fellow b i stood in the twilight holding on by tho t ; i foot of his comrade. "Shut off the i! steam aud whistle to the guards," he ^ ; shouted, as if the omission to do so had ? i j just occurred to him. I hastened to do [ j as directed, and managed the first part ? | of the order successfully; but after re' peated wrenching and twisting at several t , cocks and handles, I managed to emit a c sound very unlike a brake whistle. "Put * on the broke," he again shouted. I did v . ! so, and felt greatly relieved as I noticed t | our speed greatly lessening. We were l ; now approaching the dreaded slag with J , i which part of the lino was ballasted, and ' ; I could notice the dismay of tho stoker c ; as he alternately gazed to the front and 1 ; then to tho head of his comrade, which , i was, if possiblo, still nearer tho ground, n j and ever and anon striking violently r : agaiast the hard sleepers. His hands ? , | were gradually relaxing their meagro r 1 hold of the footstep. I felt that the ] ! moment had arrived when something I must bo done to save tho poor fellow's t I life; but ere I could decide what would * j be best, I was horrified to hoar tho J : stoker erv out: "Lot cro;" and at the , , j same instant the driver rolled over the ! embankment. To give two, sharp whis- R J ties, reverse the engine, and put the I | brake hard down, was t.'ie work of but a i few seconds to the practised hand of my , companion, and it brought the train to a . stand within a short distance. We were soon by the side of the driver, whom we i found,'to our delight and surprise, inj stead of a mangled corpse, only a little ! stunned from tho fall and a few slight ; bruises on his head, where it had come ! in contact with the sleepers. We lifted j him on to the engine, and drove iu safei ! ty to the end of our journey.?Scottish ] j Railway Service Journal. | s Vermin in Wool and Yarn. Moths and cockchafers are sometimes } \ very troublesome in wool warehouses, i I but not difficult to remove. Draughts i j are great enemies of moths, who never j c | settle where there is a current of air; to j c ( prevent their breeding, therefore, it is j i only necescary to maiutain a good circu- ! [ ! lation of air. A good way of storing | | wool is to have tho partitions never of i ^ ' boards but always of laths, to keep tho f compartments as small as possible, and 1 j to leave a space between them and the c ' wall. The wool or yarn is stored iu J ; this way wiro-nettiurr in so mo of the i I windows, and a woolen chirnuey to s j carry the air up aud out of the room, is < ! all that is requisite to give the necessary 1 j circulation. The ban.lies of yarn should i be so placed that a space is loft between j each, anil the paper if possible bo left, . i off. For the cockchafers it is recom- j t i mended to mix two parts pulverized i j ' borax, ono pert flour and one part pul- j i ' verized sugar. This mixture should : l ! rather bo blown iuto tho haunts of tho j ? j inseefs or placed upon pieces of card- i, ' | board near them; in a few days they will . i have completely disappeared.? Textile I ' Manufacturer. ! t ??? !; j New York Newspaper Expenses. f : A correspondent in tho Philadelphia J | Timrx Ins boon Riving somo interesting .] I statistics about tho Tribune, and snys, u | among other things, that its composition ' Dills Avon: reduced tftw.uuu in one yeiir, i i ( or over $G00 a week. Ho might have I t i adde I that economy practiced in other <] ! departments of the same paper bad ro 5 } duced its running expenses from July, , j 1877, to July, 1S78, j net 81,250 per week : compared with the expeuses of tho pro- | ' vioui year. My informant, who is curious in such matters, says that the | inquiry madi? preparatory to this reduc- j tion shows what it costs to ran the city | t departments of tho various leading I ? papers and the average amount of local | 8 news they publish. The figures aro as i 0 follows: Herald, City E litor Meighan, C twelves columns per day, $1 500 per 1 week; Sun, City Elitor JBogart, nine a columns per day, SI,200 p?-r week; Times, City Editor Pullham, nine columr, per day, $900 per week; Tribune, City E litor Shanks, ten columns per j day, S7C0 per week; World, City Editor b Hnlph, eight co'umns per ilay, $700 per | week. ? Cincinnati Commercial. A DMMARY OF NEWS. , p g Cas em and Middle States. The jury looking into the murder of Police- J in Smith, of Jersey City. N. J., brought in a a rdict accusing Mrs. Smith of the crime, astcd by some unknown accomplice. o Considerable excitement was caused at >adville, Mass., by the mysterious sickness of v roral of the operatives in a curled hair F :tory, two years ago, when three persons are f id to have died from a painful disease, ought to bo blood poisoning, from the hair I diseased animals, principally Siberian horses, r my of which died from a peculiar malady. A ( w days ago another operativo died, and one ber dangerously sick ; both evidently cages tho disease of two years ago. The annual meeting of the National Agriculral congress opened at New Haven, Conn., legates from all parts of tho country being f esent. They were welcomed by Prof. W. H. * rewer, of Yale College, and B. C. Yancey, of 1 Borgia, responded. President P. T. James, 1 1 Atlanta, delivered an address on the value 1 scientific education to the farmers, and ' veral other papers of interest to agricul- j ralista were read. Tho Connecticut Prohibitionists, in conven- ' jn at Saybrook, nominated a ticket headed by isse G. Baldwin for governor. At an auction sale of 50,000 tons of coal in , ew York a slight advance in prices over those ' a month previous was obtained. i About sixty paper makers from all parts of < le Union met in Saratoga, N. Y., in responso I i a call for a convention to take action looking i relief from lower prices and overproduction, here are !)G0 mills in the United States, and ' is asserted that 400 would bo sufficient to ipply tiio aemana. The New Jersey Greenback party convened : Elizabeth. Members of the Sta'te commito were elected and a platform adopted mianding that the greenback dollar bo made fall legal tender for all debts; that all bouds 3 immediately paid strictly in accordance with le original contract and the issuance of irther bonds be prohibited ; that the resumpon act and national banking act bo repealed; mt taxation of property bo equal, Chinese bor bo prohibited as well as competing prison bor, that eight hours constitute a legal day'tf ork, etc. A lire in tho oil-cloth manufactory of the eters' Manufacturing Company at East New k, N. J., destroyed property valued at 6150,10, on which tho insurance is 538,000. General Benjamin F. Butler has published a ng letter, accepting the invitation to be a indidate for governor of Massachusetts. The United States bankruptcy law, which as enacted and went into effect in March, !G7. is now inoperative, having been repealed iiring the last soseion ef Congress. On the st day of its operation in New York city j undreds took advantage of the final chance id rushed into bankruptcy, among the petionors being a clergyman, merchants, policians, actors and gamblers. Tho rush connuod until the very last moment at midnight, id the aggregato liabilities were very largo id assets small. Frank Mulligan and Peter Choppy were inantly killed and an engineer was injured by collision of two coal trains between Locust ap and Alaska, Pa. Of tho 200 boys in tho State Reform School, ; .Tamesburg, *N. J., forty wore taken down itb the scarlet fever the" other day. Several saths occurred, and arrangements"were made | i transfer tho rest to safe quarters. At East Cambridge, Mass., a lad twelve ' ssurs old, stabbed his brother, aged fifteen, in j le breast with a jack-knife, almost instantly j illing him. The boys were quarreling over | le possession of a rabbit-box. Western and Southern States. I There were forty-five petitions in bankruptcy led in the Chicago district during t*o days | ;cently. Portions of Iowa and Dakota have been visi- j ?d by a hurricane which prostrated many [ uildinga, killed a number of horses and did j Hmr H/.vnrn damage to nrouertv. During tho torm immense hailstones foil, tome of them I earlj- five inches in circumference. Near leiubeck, Iowa, one man was killed by a falling | arn and another by lightning. Tho Conservatives of the thirdlVirginia conressional district have nominated General oseph E. Johnston for Congress. Two coaches of an excursion train jumped ie, track near Lockwood, Mich., and rolled own an embankment. Thirty persons wero ijured, several seriously and three fatally. At Livingston, a small town in Winona ounty, Minn., the boiler employed to run thr'asLing-machine upon the farm of Mrs. ' Yitz exploded with fearful effect. August j ehuelling, a neighboring farmer ; Michael 'einare, Georgo Lawrence, Charles Schneider, laborer and a stranger in the neighborhood, nd a boy named Otto Fritz wore instantly ! illed, being crushed by fragments of tho j oil.'r or of the wrecked thrasher, or scalded j o death by steam and hot water. A man j amcd Winderline was mortally hurt. The | anso of tho disaster was, clearly, ignorance j r negligeneo on tho part of tho engineer, i Vork had beon stopped to chango tho sieves of j he separator, and the engineer neglected to i hut the dampers and open tho valves. Ttie j re burned fiercely in tho furnace, and the mused st3am ran up quickly, causing an exilosion of tremendous force. The boiler was rn to pieces and the fragments hurled among he laborers with tho fatal effect above decribed. Tho thrasher was thrown 200 feet by ho force of the escaping steam. The Kansas Republicans, in convention at ropeka, put a Stato lickct in tho field and .dopted a platform favoring greenbacks in j >!aco of national bank notes, and declaring | hat all tho obligations of the government | hould be honestly discharged. ATon* Doan n nnnr widow livinc neifrHillS- I >oro, ilo., murdered her two small children by I uttiug their throats. When arrested she said I hat she was too poor to give them food; that I 'ue murdered the baby first, and that when she I mdertook to put the little five year old boy on I ho bed to kill him, ho clung to her nnd begged j liteously for his life, saying. "Oh, mamma, ! lon't kill me, don't kill me!" Sho heeded not j he appeal, but threw him on the bed, and :fter cutting his throat, struck Lira on the eido | f the head with a pieco of iron to completo ler work. While Thomas C. Ilughoy, aged forty-three, ;nd A. H. Blackiston, aged thirty-three, promilent lawyers of Comlierland, Md., were ex,mining papers at iho former's offico, a quarrel .rose which ended in Hughey's drawing a >istol and firing, almost instantly killing 31ackiston. Hughey was arrested. Another frightful nitro glycerine explosion? ho second within eight days?took place at S'egaun e, IVIich., and resulted in the death of hree men, who were blown to pieces, while a ourth was lauded on a shelving rick almost miujured. An elevator iu St. Louis fell a dfrtanco of oont thirty-five feet, carrying down with it ufns Murphy, who was killed outright, Frank ;allahan fatally injured, and George Foster *ery seriousiy injured. The Tennesseo Greeubackers convened at Nashville, nomiir.ted Judge E. H. East for governor and adopted a platform which dcnantls tho abolition of national banks, "an Lbsolute paper dollar equal to gold and silver," t graduated incomo tax, tne eHcaDiisiimeiH ui v labor bureau, n stop to the importation of Chinese cbcap labor, etc. The Fountain House, of Waukesha, Wis., t popular summer resort containing over four nindred gnests, has been destroyed by fire, damage, *130,000 ; insurance, 475,000. The Democratic Stato ticket was successful it tho election in Arkansas. From Washington. Kearney, tho California labor agitator, has lad an interview with the President at tho iVhite House. The revenue receipts of late have been do .Teasing, being much sm tiler than they wero luring the same period last year. At a recont cabinet meeting the application >f Governor Axtell, of Now Mexico, for troops o aid in suppressing local troubles was donied. Tho commissioner of pensions says that tho j ict approved June 19. 1878, making it unlawful ! or any attorney, agent or other person to dc- j uand or receiv'o for his services in a pension ,'aso a greater sum than ?10, lias been the neans of saving the government and tho penioners a largo sum of money, although it has icen in operation only a short time. It has tlfo been the means "of breaking up certain J [iiestionablo practices which have long been , mrsued by claim agents. About sixty-five clcrks have boon discharged j rom tho land ofiice. Tho law regarding (lie destruction of timber s to be rigidly inforced hereafter, tho secroary of tho interior having issued a circular nstrncting the agents oi tho laud oflico to I r.t tl,n i,l liaKO p IT mutual f.\;muuanu.?r ~ ... . I:cir district^ and report to the commissioner ill instances of violation of tho law, tegothcr j vith tho names of witnessed, in order that i iroceedings may bo instituted against the I lepredators. The public debt statement for August shows j l decrease in the debt for the month of 80,- | 73,504.78, and the following balances in the > rtasr.ry: Currency, 82,122,171.97 ; special i and for redemption of fractional currency, j <10,000,000 ; snecial deposit of legal tenders j or redemption of certificates of deposit, >-1!),- ! 00,000 ; coin, 82S8 120,700.57 ; including coin j nd f-ilver certificates, 844,017,850 ; outstand- i ug legal tenders, 8310 681.010. Tho paymonts I nade from tho tfoasurv by warrants during j ho month of August, 1878, were as follows: i )n accouut of civil and miscellaneous, $4,- i 170,805.30; war, 83,245.588.71 ; navy, .$1,- j 140,541.78 ; interior (Indians and pensions), '2,1)1(3,018.01. Total, 812,379,557.40. Tho amount of coinage executed at the Jnited States mints during August is 3,345,- j 70 pieces, valued at 88,502,400. ForolKn News. It is announced in an important article in i ho London Times, which has been sent by olograph to tho Toronto < 1 that Secretary | Ivarts has proposed in a cibpateh, which he ' ent at tho instance of Cot stress complaining f tho injustico of tho Haiifax award, that Janada shall form a customs union with tho Jnited States. H) desires that sho shall dopt tho American tariff. Martial law has been declared in Ituseia temlorarily, on account of tho increase of crimes rruir.uf fhn SUn b-"'" *" Tho international monetary conferecco in 'aria adjourned without any definite action ;aving been taken. The insurgents in Bosnia aro yielding to the Luutrian army of occupation. In portionB of Spain brigandage prevails to ] ach an extent that travel is unsafe, and the the refect of Madrid has decided to send four Lo endarmes with each train to the Pyrenees. frc By a .'railroad collision near Sittingbonrne ' unction, England, eight persons were killed 161 nd thirty severely injured. <1? The town of Miskolez, capital of the Circle f Boreod, in Hungary, has been almost entirely ja(j lid waste by a storm. A thousand houses Fere destroyed by the rainfall, and over 400 icrsons were killed. The population of the ilace was estimated at about 20,000. jr( Three young ladies, named Maggie and ; jizzie Leo and Ada Edwards, wer6 drowned up rhile bathing in the river Ottawa, at Pembroke, it( )nt., recently. 14! do otj The Yellow Fever Scourge. ,, lD A Memphis dispatch of the twenty-seventh nti iays the fever on that day was the worst thus co 'ar, the deaths aggregating thirty-two and f0: lumber of now cases ninety-six. Out of a co x>pulatien of over 40,000 only about C,U00 re- te; named in the place, the rest having fled. The wc .'oliowing telegram was forwarded to President g0 Hayes by the mayor and other officials: "In tr aehalf of tho yellow fever stricken South, we ro" -nunnMfnllw rpniifist: rnn to exercise vonr dis- no :retionary powers in the appointment of > bo special commission of the ablest physicians and 0t jhemists in the country, for the purpose of 0T scientifically investigating the causes, nature, th reitraent and future prevention of the fearfui <jfl Dpidtmic now raging. Congress will undoubt- 11 edly make a suitable appropriation to reward the commission for Services so valuable to the Fi country." Another Memphis dispatch says: pa "It is estimated that nearly GOO persons are ar flown with the fever. Sixty additional nurses fij have been telegraphed for to c^me from Sa- ft, vannah aud Charleston, and a number have th arrived from Mobile. Poverty and distress 0f prevail to an alarming extent, and many have hi been side for several days without being able te to secure tho attendance of a physician. Nearly th all tho local physicians pass the nights beyond p( the city limits and como in only during the day. 01 Several have absonted themselves, and do not w come in at all." fC At Vicksburg, Miss., advices on the twenty- p< seventh say the fever there was'npresiding with b< fearful rapidity. The following dispatch was te received by Supervising Surgeon-General Woodworth, at Washington, from C. E. Bent, deputy 6i collector of customs at Vicksburg: "Twenty- m three deaths yesterday, six hundred cases 51 under treatment, aud "the plague spreading ti with fearful rapidity. Groat Buffering and C( destitution among the poorer classes. See the ^ United States authorities, and urge the impera- ^ tive necessity for Government aid. Rations 0 required immediately. Weather unfavorable." Hf Another dispatch from W. G. Paxton, grand h commander of Knights Templar says: "Disease b and destitution walk hand in hand in this city. w Eight hundred cases are under treatment The p weather is very unfavorable. Wo need everything. Trains and steamboats all stopped." In New Orleans the yellow fever roport on tho twenty-seventh showed one hundred and ^ ninety-four new cases and forty-nine deaths, a Some hope was aroused by tho successful b treatment of a patient in the last throes of f, death by a new method. The remedy con- . sisted in sprinkling the dying man with ice itrm hnnra trVlfin ftlfi fftVW disaD- 0 waioi 1V/1 nn\j aviuu, ~ K peared and the patient fell into a gentle sleep. fc At Grenada, Miss., the situation of affairs j| on the twenty-seventh was somewhat better _ than before, a number of persona who had , been prostrated having recovered; and as they ? were the first who had not succumbed to the t dread disease, it was thought tnat a change t for the better was coming. Physicians and c nurses from other cities continued to arrive, c and all were working hard to check the terrible plague. T A dispatch from Canton, Miss., soys : "Send 8 us two nurses immediately; fever increasing." t The New OrleanB Timers correspondent at ] Canton, Miss., under date of the 27th, says: c "I arrived here Sunday last. Pretty tough c times. Not a single business house o'pen ex- E copt two drug storea. Once a population of t 3,500, but now only seventy-five whites are to c be found here. Mayor and family sick; and board of aldermen fled. Court house locked up, and officers gone to some safe place. Noth- 1 ieg but hearses and coffins to be seen on the 3 streets. Some thirty-fivo or forty cases of f yollow fever here. Many colored people have j died within the past "few days. The few , whites now here are scared, because not a eiuglo case of yellow fever has been doctored } successfully. No person attacked has recov- J ered." ] A dispatch from Port Gibson, Miss., to the j Howard Association, of New Orleans says: i ' Fever very fatal, and no abatement. Two . hundred and thirty cases and thirty-five deaths J to date. Ice 'is wanted more than anything ] el->e. Nurses "doing well. Our expenses are ] SO per day. New York, St. Louis, Jackeon f and Colombia aro aiding. But one or two con- i valescent persons so far." A St. Louis dispatch of the twenty-eighth ? says: "St. Louis is swarming with refugees 6 from the fever-infected districts of the South, f and every Southern train that arrives brings i fresh additions. No fears are felt that the . scourge will take hold here. St. Louis welcomes ' all who come. Among the arrivals to day from New Orleans was W. H. Kells, a prominent . and intelligent citizen of that city. In an 1 interview this afternoon he stated that when i1 be left Now Orleans the streets were almost ? deserted. People confined themselves to their houses, seldom leaving them except when ' absolutely necessary. Whole families were \ swept down by the scourge. Said he : The c. worst ravages OI IUO levur me uuuuucu iu uiuos portions of the city where the lower classes live. The higher classes li*vo not saffered ho much. Tho city undoubtedly brought the fever upon herself through not taking sufficient sanitary precautions. The impression prevalent apparently all over tho North, and even in New Orleans, that tho disease did not originate in that city, is erroneous. It is commonly supposed that the germ of the fever was brought to the city by a ship from Havana." When the scourge began in New Orleans, the lower portions of tho city were reeking with filth. In Memphis the plague was still on the increase, and it was feared the horrors of starvation would be added to the terrors of the situation. Tho physicians and nurses were overworked and all were fleeing from the city who could get away. Forty thousand rations , wero cent by tho Secretary of War to Vicks- j burg, and relief from all parts of the country , came pouring into the afflicted citvs. New Orleans dispatches of the twenty-ninth j say : "The board of health diacmsed tho pro- , gross of the epidomic. and tho members were j unanimous in tho belief that it was utterly be- ( vond human control, and would havo to run j its course. Unless somo great and rare j , meteorological change takes place, tho proba- , bility is strong that tho city will bo swept ( throughout. Many of tho best physicians in | J the city are now refusing to visit new cases, j having" their powers already taxed to the ut- \ most. This situation of affairs is far from j hopeful. The number of now cases of yellow fever reported to-day is 140 ; deaths, 49. ( j In Memphis a frightful condition of affairs ( ! existed. Tho follo>ving dispatch tells tho j I melancuoiy siory: - xxio scuurge is iu?;icuouiB | | in virulence every moment. To-day the i deaths numbered seventy-two; new cases, 140. j, There is hardly a house in the city not entirely [, vacant which does not contain one or more j perrons down with the disease, or lying dead, j awaiting burial. The increase of the malady among the colored population to-day is frightful. while it does not seem to relinquish its hold upon the white people. Every honr in | the day new victims are reported, and physicians go from house to house on the run. The j county jail, which in 1873 was in the heart of i j the infected district, yet was free from , tho fever, now contains seven cases . The prisoners, numbering nearly 100, are now J ' being removed to the Forrest Trison Farm, on ' President's Island, where they will be kept under a strong guard. The "atmosphere is thick with tho pe stilential poison, and as the ' number of victim* increases thero is a corre- i spouding increase in the alarm among the well >} ones who have thus far escaped, and large | numbers are moving into tho country, somo ;( j preferring even to tako up their abode in j J I freight cars on the liues 9f the railways, rather j ; j than risk their lives here. There aro plenty of j j thieves at work. Not a day' or night pasees ' that numbers of burglaries do not occur." l ; From other points tho reports on the twenty j ninth showed a continual increase in the | number of victims to the plague and a spread 1 of tho disease. At Canton, Miss., the fever was I; [ increasing and four doctors were down with it, I i ouo having died. In tho vicinity of Grenada, I < Miss., it was also spreading. At Vicksburg, 1 Miss., tbere were one hundred new cases of j fever and twenty deaths. Meanwhile contribulions for tho sick were being taken up all ov. r i the country, anJTeven in Liverpool a meeting ' . to devise means or aia ior mo huuo em ?*? ; held. In Now York city boxen were placed in many of iho hotola and restaurants, so that the | charitably-inclined of iimitod means might j contribute small sums, and thus sweil the heavier contributions of merchant* and business men. Up to tho thirtieth there wero l.CGi dca'hs in | five Southern cities aud towns, distributed as ] follows: New Orleans, '.'2(1; Memphis. 35G; I Vickaburg. 108; Grenada, 14'.); Port Gibson, 35. j In New Orlesas there were 10!) new cases aud 81 deaths, the whole number of cases being 1 about 4.000. A. telegram of tho thirtieth says: j 1 ' Prom Carrolton to the United States barracks, i a sweep of nearly twelve miles, the yellow I fever scourge asserts its sway. The first did- j ( trict is btill by far the most afflicted, and tho j more fashionable the street the more rapid tho I disease spreads. Corpses aro now hurried to burial at night, and the spectacle of hearses 1 hurrying out with their r?pil!y putrifying burdens, unattended by a single carriage, is , a frequent one. The latest tendency of the ' dise.se, almost invariably shown in fatal I cases, is congestion of "the ikidneys," At j ! Memphis there wero sixty-eight new ca.-e* and [ ( sixty-live deaths. Physicians and nnrs> : rom j ( other points continued to arrive. ' Pound ! 1 dead in a house" had becomo a common j j report of visiting nurse?. The following ap- j peal by a committee of citzens shows the appalling condition of affairs in tho stricken J city. " The unprecedented spread and fatality ; of yellow fever, causing au entire suspension | of business, has loft sevoral thousand poor | > people in the city who aro destitute of the | s moans of subsistence and nuable to procuro ( work. A largo porti :>n of theso aro now sick, and the numbar is constantly increasing. Much ! ?.h tlio committee dislikes to aek aid from the 1 charitable abroad, who have so generously responded to former calls, necessity and humanity compel them to request further and prompt assistance." At Vickeb;irg ICO new < cases and thirteen deaths were reported. f A Washington dispttcli gives the official j repoit of the Burgeon general of the marine j hospital service for the week ending on the ( thirtieth, as follows: i In New Orleans, to date, there has been a total of 2,877 eases and 867 de.iths. At Vioksburg thero are now 800 cases, half \ of which have occurred in the last week and i fifty-nine in the last twenty-four hours. I llHHH In Memphis there were 241 deaths daring i week. A; many places in Mississippi ana i uisi&u?. the deaths of yellow fever refugees i im Grenada and other points are reported. < It St. Loois there were eight cases of yellow < rer and two deaths from the fever. At < arantine below 8t. Louis there were six cases j d one death, besides twenty doubtfnl patients , mitted during the forty eight hoars ending ] it evening. < A.t Cairo, I1L, one death is officially reported; Louisville, four; at Cincinnati, four deaths d nine cases, two during tho last week, all | >m infected places. , rhe total number of deaths in infected cities ( > to the first is as follows: New Orleans, ( )03; Memphis, 509; VickBburg, 223; Grenada, . 3: Port Gibson, La., 48; total, 1,932. This es not include the deaths of refugees in tier cities. There were eighty-four new cases and fiftyree deaths in Memphis on the second. A imber of colored nem assembled before the mmissary department and made a rush r the doors. They were kept back by the lored guard at the door, but a second atmpt being made the guards fired, badly rnndiog one man and dispersing the rest, me agitators who were talking to the crowds, fine to create trouble, were promptly ar3tod. New horrors were discovered in conction with the pestilence. Several dead dios were found, partially eaten by rats, and hers in a sickoning stago of decomposition, ping to the inability of friends to attend to eir burial. In New'Orleans the record of tie w won 105 notr i>quoa and 77 Hpftthg. Of tho 391 persona who had died up to date 401 ire children under eleven years of age. om Fort Gibson. Miss., the following dinitch was received: " Four- hundred cases id flfty-flvo deaths out of Ave hundred and 'ty persons remaining in town. About twelve indred have fled. The distress is very great. ie sick dving with no one to give them a drink 1 water. At Vieksburg, where all business id ceased, the suffering was intense. A ilogram fiom W. M. Rockwood, president of ie Howard relief association stated that of a jpnlation of 10,000 remaining in the city le-third could still take care of themselves hile the other two-thirds must be provided ir wholly or in part until frost; that 1.500 arsons were sick and from one to every mem3r of a family were down with the fever. The ilogram concluded by stating that two of the actors were dead and eight more tick and that rery call of every kind, whother for a box of instard or a coffin, for beef tea or a permit for nrial in the Howard lot, comes to the as>-ociaon. All resources and supplies will probably irry us for, say, fifteen or twenty days at lost; and welcome, cheering, life-giving frost iay not greet the eyes and gladden the hearts f the survivors for more than sixty long and iddening days." At Baton Rongo, La., there ad been eleven deaths ; many were sick, all QBiness was at a standstill, and a cry for aid as sent out to the country from the suffering aople. The correpondent of the New York Graphic thus summarizes what he has een in France : Paris Exposition falls >elow Centennial at Philadelphia, as ollows: Smaller grounds. Fewer rees. No hills, dales, groves and rnn,ing streams as at Fairmount Park. No luildings for interior beauty and.simplicl-w* sxt /iAwpfrnrtKnn flnnol kf\ fliA PflnfAn. ! Ujr \JL wuou uvtivu vvjuui iv iww x/v^wm lial Agricultural or Horticnltural Hall. *o circular railway to save legs and >reath iu gettiDg about. No such free oilet conveniences. No press pavilion ipen from the start. Nothing equal to mr government building exhibit. No woman's pavilion. No special outside tructures so unique, individual and atractive as the various State buildings, ffo system of cheap hotels. Fewer good Samaritans found among landlords. No uch cosey retreats for beer among the rees. No encampment of citizen solliery." No "State Days." No "Grang>r Encampments." Jio free toilet conveniences, such as wash-bowls, towels md soap. Far less provision for gensral accommodation of the public. No jewspapers printed on the grounds and listributed gratis. No bulletin boards vith latest telegraphio news. Paris Exposition ahead in Trocadero Palace. Better and simpler system of arrangenent in the various national exhibits. Better ventilation in Main Building. More convenient of access to city. No nsli and over-crowding of street cars. Entrance foe cheaper than ours at Cen;ennial. Entrance system simpler. Mora paintings and statuary. Better trrangement of art galleries. Lpss sunmustroke and fever. More elegant ountains and elaborate squirts. But But less water to wash with. More aniques. When we Demornlize the Stomnch 3y excesses or imprudence in eating, we canlot hope to c scape the consequences for any ;roat length of time. The moflt robust digesion must succumb to abasos of that important anction. But supposing that we have been oolish enough to enfeeble the stomach, is the lamage irreparable ? By no means. The dvsleptic has only to do two things to insure his iltimate recovery. First, ho should adopt an >asily digestible diet Second, he should use vith regularity and persistence Hostetter's ttomach Bitters, the leading gastric invigorant )f the ago. The multiform symptoms of dys}epsia, and the almost invariably attendant lisorders, biliousness and constipation, will isBuredly cease to persecute the sufferer if the tbove advice ia attended to. Who that has niffered the torments that chronic indigestion nflicts will neglect to take advantage of a omedy which, if the most positive evidence of Jie medical profession and the public is to be received with due credence, is an absolute spejific for the complaint. Can (lie Truth Overtake a Lief Investigation discloses the fact that the lad; reported in the Associated Press dispatches, ibout August 10th, to have died in Chicago ifter two weeks' use of some reputed remedy for corpulency, had not taken Allan's Anti-Fat, but had used'a preparation put up by a regular physician in Luzerno, Pa. Allan's Anti-Fat is manufactured in Baffalo, N. Y., by the undersigned. Wo have already sold over 100 000 bottles of it. It has therefore been taken by thousands, and wo challenge proof that it has aver harmed any body, unless the reduction of abese pc-rsona from '20 to 60 pounds, leaving them healthy and strong, unconsidered a misfortune. Furthermore, we hereby offer $5,000 reward for evidenco showing that it contains poisonous or injurious ingredients. We also offer $5,000 if we cannot prove that it has relaced numbers of persons as stated herein, and ilways without injury. It is said a lie will outtravel the truth any time; but we trust that those uowepapers that have misled the public by saying that physicians attributed the lady's 3oatti to the use of Anti-Fat (which is only put up by us. t'.ie term "Anti-Fat"' being our trade mark), will correct the false impression they liavo conveyed, by publishing this refutation. "BOTANIC MEDICINE CO.. Buffalo, N. Y. They ilon'r Ituow It. Somo people don't know that they are being swind'ed every time they buy an inferior, short-weight, baking powder. It would be far better to buy and use the old reliable Dooley's ifeast Powder. Every package of the Dooley Powder is warranted absolutely pure, and strictly full weight. Sold by grocers. C. J. Van Ness, of Jonesvillo, Mich., writes that he has used two boxes of Grace's Salve on m ulc?r on his foot and it is almost welL He ivanta two moro. Price 25 cents per box at the irug Btores, or sent by mail postage paid for 15 cents. Seth W. Fowle A Sons. Boston. Mass. The Markets. 5SW TCBX. I3s?f 08 A COX Tsxssiini* OborotM. OS <?t lj ililoh Cow?..,, 35 00 035 00 aOflj?LlVO 04 0 04 X Drcwed C5 0 C6>; ;hcoj) P8J?? 04)* [<. >725)3..,,., 03 0 Cfi!? ?olioa?Yldoiicg 11>?'0 l'.Ji Jlour?Qood to Chclcf... 4 !5 0 7 00 BtaU? Fair to Choica 4 23 0 5 00 Buckwheat, per cwt 1 53 0 1 G> Krbeat?Hcd Veatsrn 1 03 0 1 12 No.? 2 Slilwav.kse 95 0 1 15 Sy??Stite 61 0 62 26rloy?State 73 c4 S?i ley Malt S3 0 {0 Snct^beat ?... 8P 0 SO 5sia?Mixed Wc?t?rr. 2'-V0 ?4* 3ara?M<*?it VTeatern 48 0 44* T.y, p:>r c*: 4> 0 ?3 Jtraw, per ewt,.... SO 0 <0 ilops?Good to Prime M 0 11 fork?Mess ,...11 (0 011 37 [>&rd?City Srccin.................. 07 0 07 fish -Mactcrel, No. J, 53 00 i*J0 00 '? No. 2, cew 12 CO 013 00 DryOort, per cat............ 4 ?7 0 4 50 Hcrriiig, H *'ed, per b:i.... 18 0 19 'atrcieuja?Cr? .......06%QCM K-?".'d, 107? >Vool? CJallforr iTl.it.cs 50 0 57 TOXA* " 20 0 57 Ac8tr?.'l?o " ?8 0 <3H' states* 13 0 '.i IJnUor? 16 0 13 WpMcrr ?Cb'-ice...... .... -6 0 ?8 Western?'J-icd t< Prime.. 16 0 o.' YV'eetern?Firkins 15' ?<?? ?8 Jhe?*?? State factory 05 A 0*2i fi) <? O N'.sie Vss'pra-..... '8 <$ O'X IgSi?State and PeaiitrrlTSKia. ... i4 & .9 Btrrrii.0. ?!OB?.??.c ...??? i 2* 4 '5 yh6tt-No.i Saiv?slri-p 1 '3 (S 1 Jcrn?MJze-3 ?3 6 ? 8i 4 ?A lye... ............ 68 (3 88 Ujrlsy W <3 M friilcj iliV. to o Oi) fcu.tosr.P5:i. 3?6f . C3 $ 8* 3heop. IS <3 (.634 tegs?Drcea&l *XJ <3 Cfi>? .lor.r?JVcosjh'ioM Kttri 5 00 & e 25 5"isoat-Re?S Veatwc . 10 (i 1 11 . ? (i 4' To-u?3ol!o'.v.,... v.... 61 @ 6U< 40 r? <3 >ai -MiXffrf 16 ,A 27 X .^tro'en^?Gimcis 8<Sj el. lo* ffool-CoIora^o..., . 20 @ 2j Texas 18 0 v'3 CAliJ'or:.ili 30 9 25 wsxo a. Jsri CtHle...... 8 ig CSS* ihcrp 04X0 07* TugH. r>6 ^ C5>t ttoJir?WacoEisia ar.a lilanraota.. 6 75 <3 7 56 torn?Mlz&l. El ^ C3 >Ms? " 8; & 81 Vw)!? Ohio und Peaiutylvanla IX. 52 ? 36H California Fall 20 & 8J WAT1BTOWH, MATS. 3?cf Oat! it?Poor to 01:0! .- 10 4 ( iJ Jbwp,.,.,, ,? 7 00 / jaw be ? 7 00 A ' Gaps made in the <fe?h by abaoewea annw ilcera speedily disappear without leaving war, when Henry's Carbollo galve i0 the agenwB employed to heal them. Thio - standard artuaej sores the worst sores, eradicates ctrtaneoo^H srnptions, relieves the pain of burns, banishe^B pimples and blotches from the shin and ha^H proved to be eminently successful in remedy-H ng rheumatism and soreness of the throat ancM jhest. Sold by all Druggists* For upwards of thirty years Sirs. WINSLOW'^B SOOTHING 8YBUP has been used forchildre* ivith never failing success. It corrects aciditjM af the stomach, relieves wind colic, regtflate^H the bowels, cares dysentery and diarrhcea^B whether arising from teething or other cauaeaH An old and well-tried remedy. 25 eta. a bottleM CHEW B The Celebrated H "Matchless" h Wood Tag Ping H Tobacco. ?9 The Pioneer Tobacco Cokpajtt, b New \ ork, Boston, and Chicago, H| If tbere is anything in this life that will giv^B one a foretaste of holl, as some represent it^| that thing is Neuralgia. It is the refinemen^B of tortnre. Cat there is a simple and inespen^H sive remedy for it. Johnson's Anodyne un^H ment snuffed up into the head will give insta;^! Pare rich blood gives us health, long life an^H a "green old age," but how few pay auv attei^H tion to the state of their blood? Parnon^H Purgative Pills make new rich blcod and take^J one a night for three monthH will chango thfll blood in the entire system. To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweete^f the breath, use Brown's Camphorated Haponi^B coo us Dentifrice. Twenty-live cents a bottlf^H IMPORTANT NOTICE.?Farmers* Fa ies and Others can purchase no Remedy equal to TOBIAS* VENETIAN LINIMENT lor the cur* Oholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Croup, < olio and sickness, taken internally (it is perfectly harmleea; tH oath accompanying each bottle) an1 externally f^^B Ohmnio Kheumatism, Headache. Toothache, So^^B Throat, Outs, Bums, Swellings, Brulsee, Mosqui^H Bites, Old Sores, Pains in Limbs, Back and Chea*. T^^H VENETIAN LINIMENT was introductd in 1847, noone who Das used it but continues to do so.ma^H stating if it was Ten Dollars a Bottle they would bewitnoat it. Thousands of Certificates can be at the Dopot, speaking of its wonderful curative prop^^B lies. Sola by the Druggists at 40 eta. Depot Murray St., New York. ~ Bbows'b Hkovciiial TBOflngg, tr? .-oagns aod oolJB (2*Q a day to Agents to sell a Household Artic^M Addre-ss HucUcye 31'Pa Co.. Manoc. Oh^M Anontc tend for circular. 810 per day cuarmte?^H Hytilllo jj0 ppddlinn. Lock Box 548, (Jricac^M A Ann A 310NTH-Asenu Wiratrd^ieb^H . t.inll selling articles in the world; one sample yWUU Address JAY BRONSON, Detroit, Mich.^J 1Af A UTCn Men for one year, to begin work nAll I til once. Halary fair. Bunlnes* first cla^BS ^^^^^^^MoaiToa OLASS Woag3~Cu.cnniATi,0?|^K T>OUT CHESTER (N. V.), mLITA^H X INSTITUTE.?O. WINTHROPSTAEB,Ar]^B Principal. Limited to 25 boys. Terms moderate. Ann i VP retail pnee ?<280ool? <J65~PIAN^B ORGAIS asgTgfl^jagu <4> mm A DAY to Agents canvassing for the Flreal^H K / Vlaltor. Terms and Outfit Free. AddresslH y * P. O. V1UKKRY, Anguata, Maii^B tfilfl +n tfilflfin invested in Wall St. Stocks aa^^B U)1U IU U)iUUU fortunes every month. Book a^^H Y free explaining everything. ' Address BAXTER 100..Bankers. 17 Wall M*?H 13 |a^L|^r.i.awi<Mlir?a3UI<>n. iH nra^i?inrwS'nu ?iw ?? ?u?? L ( < f .fa^dwlii?. V^rT JBT p~.U.i?)OTtotk..kifc?<lr a?Ul Jm0\ <.co.eJI7>?M?i>fcU'. *JI?? r11 i.i A CJ ?The choicest in the world?Import^Bj X JCiilLV^# prices? Largest Company la AmtricH staple artiole?pleases everybody?Trade continu^H increasing?Agents wanted everywhere?boat wdu^H meats?don't waste time?send tor Circular to ROBT WELLS. 43 Veeejr St.. N. Y.. P. O. Box l^M $102$25 lelling^mr FlneArt Noveitifl Catalogue A Outfit Free U&fl J. H. BUFF0R_D'S_80N8, Mannfacturlng PabLUh^JJ 14110 147 Established nearly fifty gw BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PmcJB Jllua. Catalogue & Lecture*. SJiooks^JjMWt Circulars Frh. Outfits Wamthd. Wl tlGIC MUSICAL CiBIHET. j TBEO. J. BARBACWQ Kvsryonsa Mmcan. < 8t'0 FilbcrtSt., Philad'a.|^J PROF. SOHEM'S .ILLUSTRATED HISTORY <^E The War in the Easfl or conflict bstwe-n Russia and Tubkkt Is the for lire ajenU. Has 760 octavo page** 25 eciravinp^^B Battle Scenes, Fortresses, Generals, etc., and ia onlv complete work published. Has no rival. Sell^^l sight. Price S3.GO. Terms nneqnaled. Jgenti fd._ Address H. S. G00D8PEED & CO., New Yor^H BnSnl JonesVZLLS Mich., Deo. 27, 1877.?Jfutn. rovUEH sent you SO ctn.f or two boxes ol Grace's Silve. I had two and have used them on an nicer on ray foot^^B it is almost well. Reapectfnlly yours, O. J. VaH KHj Pnce 25 cents a box at all druggists, or sent hr ^H| on receipt of :{.? cunts. Piepurcd by SGTH.H t'OWli: & HONS. SO Harrison Ave.. Boatrn,M^P v v n fi 3^H I |i v Hvi l I Ki vil Sour Stomach Sick IF" YOU ARE S Going to KmsJ Send for Frc Gu!d?, givinK fall and reliable lion in regard to tbe Cheapest, Moet ProdnctiTa^^H B#st-Locit?d Farming Linds in the Stale. Addre^HB J. E. LOCKWOOD. Gt?g!!."??,a&M mm in the we? Excursions to Lincoln, Nebrask^H l/Cayf New Vork und New Enaland Third Tueodny In every Month until DrcHB bi r. Kie:ir?ion No. 1.j will leaTe Tl'EMD^^H MEPT. 17th. Fare about fanJf Knlex. Fact trains and tirst-ch;s accommooa^^M guaranteed. 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SEND FOR SAMPLE COPY.^H QAPONlFiE I3M j Is the Old Beliablo Concentrated j FOR FAMILY SOAP MAKH Direction* accompanying each can for making ^^^0 I .Soft and Toilet Soap quickly. HH IT IS FULL WEIGHT AND STRENGTH. IH The market in flooded with (so-called) Concent^HB Lye, which ia adulterated with salt and roam, and^MH i nakt tixtv. W SA r/T HONEY, AND BUT THE SaponireRI MADE BY THE BB Pennsylvania Salt Manufg C(H i PHILADELPHIA. ( /^ethtthomak h <C LOCKS/I i u, y>V, mawxii/ H ^^JLEEPGOOD/ JMH