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The Wind-Swept Wheat. it Faint, faint and clear? ?j Faint as the music that in dreams we hear? Shaking the curtaiu-fold of sleop g. That shuts away tl The world's hoarse voice?the sights and Rl sounds ot clay, 3 Her sorry joys, her phantoms, false and fleet? 9j So softly, soltly stirs a The wind's low murmur in the rippled wheat, fc w From west to cast Ol The warm breath blows, the slender heads ai drop low, A As ii in prayer. ^ Again, more lightly tossed m merry play, They bend and bow and sway, t) With measured beat, ai But never rest. Through shadow and through w w sun " Goes on the tender rustle of the wheat. Dreams, more than sleep, ni tv.il ? t;..??:?; . _?,l l.,ll? ; <> #.?rn CC JTIlli UI1 Lilt; USIUU11J? iit'Uil, UUU nmu Dead years send back ?j Some treasured, half-lorgotten time. m All, long ago, al When sun and sky were sweet, b( In bappj- noon, ,n We stood, breast-high, 'mid waves ol ripened ar grain. til And heard the wind make innsic in the wheat! g^. Not lor to-day? p] Not lor this hour alone?the melody, {.p So soft and ceaseless, thrills the dreamer's I j ear! Ol all that was and is, ol all that yet shall be, It holds a part? Jn Love, sorrow, longing, pain; pj. The restlessness that yearns; j tej The thirst that burns; i 'I The bliss that, liko a fountain, overflows; 'IS xiio ueep repose; Good that wo might have known, but shall ^ not know; The hope God took, the joy ho made complete? in Life's chords all answer from the wind-swept bn wheat. w' ?Mary Aivgt De Verr. SO THE POT-POURRI. ? ?! w It was just after the roses had done \\ blowing. They were all sitting by twi- It light in the yellow drawing-room? th somehow it always seemed twilight sli longer there when it was dark every- ne where else?and Rosamond got up and nc stirred her pot-pouri in the old claret- stj colored Chelsea jar between the win- lo dows; and such a sweet faint odor of 1 h? rose leaves stole through the room that j in the old people felt as if they were young i ro and the time was June again. I se " It is too powerful," said Miss Effing- be ham, waving her big peacock-feather w( fan. wj " Too powerful?" said Mrs. Penn, w< putting away the silver curl that the j gel neighboring fan brushed into her still j tin soft brown eves. "Not for me. Noth-1 Ar ing is so pleasant to me as the pot-pourri, lifi and in the old jar, too. It is not the m< rose, but it is the memory of the rose, tin It brings back all my youth. And al- j nr though"age is pleasant enough as it! all comes to me, yet youth was so very ws sweet, my dear;" and the silver voice ) sti paused, while a slender hand went j fin searching through the purple gloom for no another old hand, and found it?the; bri hand of the speaker's husband. " People let think it so sad to grow old," she said. th( "But every year has been to me like an- em other step on an upward path to para- spi dise. One'9 wings are growing all the for way. And one has so much to remem- mc ber, to look back on when one pauses, a i to sec in new lights. Do you suppose w:i that either of us would change places goi with Rosamond and Beltran there, who Ar have life before them. rul "Not I," said the voice that re- kn sponded. mi " Not that you would not be glad to live your seventy summers over again, Paul?" " I am sure of them now, at any rate," j said the husband. " I have them, j SIU Nothing can take them away from us." j wj - And we ask nothing more," she said, | raf " than to be laid in the same grave when ; jn< the lon<j night comes." i rai " And the endless morning," he mur- j mured. frt "And even that endless morning can I tai hardly be blighter than some of the i so mornings of our youth?than the morning when we first made the pot-pourri, tin Paul, You remember that morning, j co] Paul?" ag "Do you remember it, Aunt Persis?" n :iskod Rosamond. is : Shall I ever forget it?" she said, with ! a low sweet laugh. " Why, when I am j dead, remembrance of that morning will! bloom out of my grtu-e like a flower! < And yet it was much such a morning as I wj any day List month?only so glorious, so j 0f gilded, so full of sunshine! But what a , ?r; gray and lowering, showering dawn it; ^ had*! If *e had never had that little j sj, quarrel, Paul. Ah! I was so sad when 1 parted the curtains that daybreak. I i ar, thoughti I was done with life?and it1 *tj, was a pity?I so yoiing.^ , j t], iicix* uosamona pincuuu neitruii ouiiu. (r(> " So young. And might have been so i blessed," said her old aunt Persia. " If j \y I gave, that morning, just the swiftest j (jr glance across that'garden to Paul's win-j sjr (low. and saw that he sat there over his ' p], book, he could not toll. And then I i |j,' dre.-ssed me; and I thought of some girl v0 bttng dressed for her grave. And then I i ]lP pinned up my white frock?a la laveuse, ; W} you call it now. Rosamond?and went j j01 down to the rose garden to pick the flow- i p() or with the dew on them for the pot-1 Tl pourri that grandmamma had bidden me i T1 never to forget in the time of roses." j sa, " ' It wns the time ot roses, ] km We plucked them as we went,'" j bu I T1 sang lieltran, half under his breath. j tj1( " And I plucked them till the basket on j w my arm was heaped. The rose garden ; was just as it is to-day. on a terrace Higher than the rest of the garden. And \ gv urn I turned about I saw Paul had i _n come down, and was walking in the pop- ,rr lar alley of his grandfather's garden, ?u bare-headed, with his hands behind him 1 str and his head fallen on his breast. Ah, j L, l?rm- hnintifnl hp wic! so tall so dark. ! so like :i fallen star. And I loved him j ;n so; and we had quarreled. I had been j ni, miserable just forty-eight hours It J t.? seemed to me that I had never been i w] happy. I had lost my youth; I was old; s., I had I'ome into the shadow. There was I ,i another young girl,"she said, after amo- ! i1(1 ment's pause, as if even the sorrows of j js youth had their sweetness that it was i good now to remember, "that Paul's I gu grandfather had chosen for him to marry. I may speak about it now, I suppose; lr he long since ceased to care; she was, :*he is. my nearest friend, and Paul has always loved her as a brother. She lias Ind many suitors since; with one of them she plighted faith, and so she has V kept her tryst with death. But I?I sn thought that because I adored Paul, all ef the world was at his feet; and when his 1 di grandfather said this other was to be his ' choice, with her great fortune at com- j di mand. and I remembered that I had pi only this old house and its belonging* n; for my own fortune, whv, then I lookod iu .. 1 W._ |,? m.,a ,l well alter my jover. hk, hc m, , v, lover. I had felt sure of that, although w lit* liad never said so, never exactly si said so in words; but we do not always fr need words. And now, all at once, a'l t< in a twinkling, as if the sun had gone j s< out at noon, he was the lover of another si irirl. And I could not have believed or h dreamed that the fortune would have > si made any difference with Paul, or the ir grandfather's wish, or heaven's thunder- j bolts even, before I saw it for myself. : ei I saw it myself. I saw him go and turn j si the music as she played upon the harp, | is and bend over it with the color on his ! tl cheek and an angry tire in his eye when j ff the eye fell askance on me. I saw him i e< lift herfrom her saddle at her gate, just1 down the street, and go in with her r and stay till, an hour afterward, a groom j A came and led the horses off. I saw him : li loitering with her in the lane, but they j n a\a not. know I saw. and I heard his ! h miserable old grandfather come hob-1 e bling up our steps, rubbing his hard a hnn<!i and talking to my father of Paul's si Iuck v hit. And so I knew that he had e forsnken mfi?me, the child that had a worshiped him from the cradle, j t< Am! I meant to die as soon as IJ ii couid; but in the meantime, if it killed J v me itself to hide it, they should never a know I cared. Yet I was not angry; si in some way, some strange way, it was t Paul who was angry, who would not speak to me, would not glance at me, would not come near me, said sharp n and bitter, almost insolent, things in my r: pre.nence, aftd seemed to try to Jmrt me \ all lie could. It was not, in his manner, f< aa if he had found some one still dearer g to him than I, but as if he hated me, I ' thought, for just existing now. Ah, well, " ; broke my heart! And :is I gatherei losejroses [that morning I remeraberc* iat we had been going to make grand lamma's pot-pourri together. But ] ithered them with my Daek turned t< iat garden across the high box hedqe ad the dew on those roses was salt ohn, the old house servant (he had bcei pnr? nnrl rrnnn tins mnnv 51 VP:ir} Canifi igging out the big Chelsea jar?tin ime jar, Rosamond. It has never ha< nfck. I wonder, if you can sav as mud >r it after half a century! John left it ith the spice boxes and the dish of salt i the marble step, to be handy for me ad I began to shred the roses into it nd as I scattered the velvet petals, i vept over me in a surge that just so tin fiys of my life bad ?one, and I too wai withered flower; and as I knelt betov< le jar, all at once my arms fell across it id ray head fell between them, and ] as crying such a storm of sobs that 1 onder no one heard me. But sornt >e did hear. Directly a shadow fell hereon me and the sunshine, and a voic( ade my heart stand still and my sobs .'ISO " ' What does it mean ?' cried Paul, [ demand to know. I will have no ore of this. What are you unhappy )out ? Because you have abused me, 'cause you have outraged all my feel gs, because j ou have refused even to iswer my letter? "4 What?what letter ?' I stammered, rowing back my head, with the tears [ earning all over my face. What letter ?' lie cried. 'Are you aying with me s:ill ? Have you reived no letter from me?no letter that rave John ? Do you pretend to say?1 "' I pretend to say nothing,' I rerned, in a storm and fury of irreprcssie tears, springing to m.v feet, and starts' to run awav ana nine mv face out of ;ht and pray that every fresh flood of irs might drown out my very beingpretend to say nothing but that you ive broken my heart.' "But he had caught me, and he held e by the arm, and got my hands and pt them and would not let me hide my ce. "' I have broken your heart ?' he said, such a grave and tender voice. ' I ive not broken your spirit. Tell me liy you spurned my letter ?' "'I?I never had your letter,' I bbed. "'Never had a letter telling you? lling you all you knew without it, but suring you that, grandfather or no andfather, only you should be my ife: and if not you, then no one? 'hat, never had that letter, little one? is mislaid, then; and we have had all is misery for nothing?we, who worip each other.' And ? and ? well, tver mind about the rest. There was body to see us two young creatures uidin? in the garden as the first young vers did. I don't know that we should ive cared if there had been. And all a breath, as if the earth had rolled und under a new heaven, the sun emed to be shining as it never shone fore, the birds to be singing, flowers :re full of life and fragrance, the world is the most beautiful place, and we ?re on our knees shredding roses tother over the old pot-pourri jar, and 3 garden ringing with our laughter, id every once in a while Paul was cing my cmn wiui ms linger to ukikc 1 look him in the face with my eyes it all at once dared not, and saying mouth was the sweetest rose of them ?ah, yes, you did, Paul?and then lie is plunging his hand into the jar to r the petals. And suddenly his gers were touching something like heap of rose leaves, and he was nging up a paper, a lotter?that very ter which he had given John just as ; old fellow was coming in* from ptying the jar of last year's leaves and ces; and he had dropped it there and gotten it. John is so forgetful-rl an, of course, he was. Ah me! what day that was! We trod on air, we ilked in the mid-heavens. Have you in sound asleep, Paul? To be sure, id, Rosamond, if you want that other le for pot-pourri?the English, you ow, call it notch-potch? Ah! what xsic that is!" and she paused to listen. ' Gather ye rosebuds as ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying,' " lgBeltran, stepping through the long nrlrt-vir intrt t}|P inw lijrllt nf tllfi risiniT >on, the rich strain of his tenor seem; to roll upon the dusk sweet :is fragice from a flower. Rosamond lingered to loosen herdress >m Miss Effingham's chair which dened it. Miss Effingham was crying ftly to herself. "Ah, see," she murired, working the knobby fingers in s lace mittens, and forgetting whose ntemporary she ]vjis?" see how selfish e is! She remembers all her own part it: she forgfts mine. For .I also?it so long ago?I loved Paul."?Harpers izar. A River of Burning Oil. The fire opposite Parker City, Pa., lieh destroyed eighty thousand barrels oil, presented some uncommonly und scenes, as described by a PhilaIphia Times correspondent: A solid eet of flame ran down the ravine to e river. Great clouds of black smoke nse in the air. The flames rolled over e ground and leaped many feet into e air. The heat was most intense. It nerated gas in the United Pipe Line mk No. 76, known ;is the Grant, eller & Co. tank, situated three huned feet north. A most terrific explo>n followed, shattering the heavy *te-glass in the winnows una stores 01 e city, and slinking the houses to their ry foundations. The explosion was ard for ten miles. The roof of the tank is scattered around the country for a lg distance. One piece, weighing fifty unds, was found four miles away, le scene.that followed was appalling, ic tank contained twenty-two thoutid barrels, and the explosion laid it rel with the ground. Solid waves of rning oil rushed down the hillside, icy reached the river, but did not stop pre. For a while the consternation is complete. Every one looked lor the mes to strike directly across and fire e city. The anxietv was intense, rerything depended upon the current d the wind. The scene at this time was und beyond description. The river of ;rning oil, with its flames and black loke/rolled its folds upward until the avens were darkened. The citizens, Tor-striekMi, rushed in wild dismay all directions. Their faces were inched. Women and children were ying. and strong men were paralyzed ith fear. Happily, the wind wns 'ons enough to change the course of e llames to below the city. In half an iur they began receding. Then they vided, hugging both banks of the river. i?' coming was overwhelming and blinie. The receding was a fitting iish to a picture that never has been ?r.? SUCCZlllg. A correspondent writes to the New ork Sun, inquiring for a relief from leezing. A number of letters were reived by the Sun, giving alleged rcmecs. One writer, who signs himself Experience," says: If your correspon nt desires to avoid sneezing let him ess upward?from underneath?the iRrtl cartilage. This is the method lopted by duck hunters when lying in le marshes' if their proximity to the ater gives them an inclination to leeze, since the least noise would ighten away the ducks. To sneeze is ? catch cold, and the inclination to do > should be repressed. I have not leezed these fifteen years, ever since I ltd in my new set of teeth. Sneezing lould not be indulged in by those wearlg a full set of false teeth. Another reply received says: The tsiest way to stop an inclination t< leeze without attracting any attention i to press the tongue as far back apt in si le roof of the mouth as possible for :i iw seconds. It is a never-failing reinBy the way, did the Sun or anybody rer hear of a colored person sneezing! .n article in Temple Bar in 1873,1 be eve, written by one Walter, who had lade sneezing peculiarities a study, whe ad had an extensive experience ir ountries inhabited by colored people nd also had availed himself of the re alts of the observations of other travel rs, asserted that neither in Africa nor ir nv of those countries is a native knowi 5 sneeze. For several years after read isr this article I was in a community rhere there were many colored persons nd I made it a point to note if they eve: neezed. I never saw or heard one o hem sneeze. A fellow in a cattle show, where hi iad? himself conspicuous by his bluster ried out: "Call these pri/.e cattle Vhy. they ain't nothing to what ou ?lks lnised! My father raised the big est calf of any man round our parts No doubt of it," said a by-stander and the noisiest." ? . ... 0 . - , _ 4 1 TIMELT TOPICS. \ Lesser Friedberg, a notorious Chicago I pawnbroker, has had a sharp trick 3 j played on him. One Saturday night , | three men called on him and offered to . i sell him a gold brick, alleged to have i ! been made up of watch cases\and jewelry, , : melted down to avoid identification. b 1 He produced his aoid and scales to test i | the brick, and while his back was turned i [ the acid vial was replaced with one con, taining water. Of course the brick stood , the test, nnd he paid the men 82,800. He , I afterward found his brick was worth . about seven cents per pound. 2 j There is iin old proverb about a fool 31 and his money, but it has no connection ; with the fact that a New York girl has . I iust paid $250 for a yellow yachting [ i dress embroidered in red, white and t ; blue, with designs representing marine ; scenes. On the front of the skirt is a . | sailing ship; on the corners of the over. skirt, sailors climbing masts and unfurl; ing Hags; on the drapery, a lifeboat, fully manned: on the sleeves and ribbons, m:ists and flags, and on the pearl buttons, , I sunset scenes. When not in actual use, I this gown is to be kept in the family pic| ture gallery. 11 The commerce of the world for 1876 | | amounted to ?1,355,260,000,000. In the] i same year Europe and America, with a population of 3/3,000,000. had a com- j j iuerce valued at $1,172,828,000,000, while j i the trade of the rest of the world, with a | 1 population of 850.000,000, amounted to ! I only $182,431,20u,000. It appears from i j the table prepared by Prof. Numan j 1 Spallart, of Vienna, that in the years j 1867-8., the total value of products ex- | | changed among" the various nations of; the two hemispheres amounted to the j ; enormous sura of S 1,069.988.480.000. In 1 : 1872-3 the aggregate liad risen to $1.397-1 : 908,160,000. an increase oJ' 31 per cent, in I | five years. June 30, 1879, marked the end of the ! I first sixteen years of operation of the j j United States homestead law, during j | Which period the number of entries was ; 384,848. The average- size ol farms is j t about 120 acres, making the aggregate j | area occupied 40,181,760 acres, or 3,000,-1 000 more than New England contains. Last year emigration was so active that titles to 6,000,000 acres, representing the ; movement of 50,000 families to public j I lands, were issued under the homestead ! | law alone, and a much larger quantity J I of new land was also purchased from the I government and railway companies. Joaquin Miller, speaking of Sitting Bull, thus explains how his Sioux high- i ; ness came by his name, the key to the i conundrum having been imparted to ! j him by the Indians themselves^ "An ; Indian is never honored with a distincj tive name," said Mr. Miller, "until he j | has done something noteworthy, and i ; which reveals a marked trait of char- j ; acter. When Sitting Bull was a young man he was shot in the legs and disabled, j i but he sat bolt upright on the ground : 1 and continued to fight with the fierce-? I ness of a wounded buffalo bull, and it; was this incident which drew from the ! ! tribe the appellation of Sitting Bull. The following are the heights of the ! principal monuments, domes, etc., in the world: St. Antoine column at Rome, i ; 135feet; principal tower of the Smith- i I sonian Institute, Washington, 145; j Trajan's column at Rome, 145; ,'Napo-1 1 lean's column at Paris, 150; Washington j j monument at Baltimore, 180; the great j ' obelisk at Thebes, 200; Bunker Hill mon- j | ument at Boston, 223; column of Delhi, 262; Trinity church steeple at New j York. 26-1; the contemplated dome of the Capitol, 300; dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 320; tower of Manlius, 350; tower of the cathedral at Stras- j I burg, 460; dome of St. Peter's Cathedral, , j Rome, 465; Great Pyramid, 481. A monograph on the "true |burial place" of Christopher Columbus hast ust been published in London. Sir Travers Twiss, the author, discusses the i question of the true burial at length, and j concludes that the claim recently put ' forward by the Bishop of San Domingo is without foundation. The general be1 lief has been, it will be remembered, that i the great discoverer's body, after king I taken from Spain to San Domingo, vas | transported to Havana, where it vas 1 allowed to rest in peace. The bisl?p contended that the remains are still in ! his cathedral, and that those who m-; j tended to remove them to Havana took i away the wrong body. The Washington Star, speaking of tic j process of hand-shaking which the Presi-' j dent is required to go through, says: ' Some folks seize the President's hand; ] in both of theirs; others merely touch j; the tips of his fingers; some grab him j above the wrist, and then others think the harder they press the hand the more honor they enjoy. The old ladies always ; stop to ask bow Mrs. Hayes is, and when Mrs. Hayes assists the President in the reception, all the ladies, both young and old, invariably look back after passing to see what she has on. The ! old men want to add a word or two of i j advice on political management as they i pass, and the young man, when from I rural parts, tries to appear as if he made ; a practice of being introduced to Presidents every d.ty. One of the most durable kinds of wood I is that of the larch tree. The tree grows' i ' in abundance anil to perfection, 'on the sandy coasts of the Baltic. There the ! Romans became acquainted with it dur- j i ing their Germanic wars, and so highly did they value it that they transported it, at immense expense, across the Alps i down to the river Po, and thence to Rome. Vitruvius praises it much as building timber, and Plinius declares it I to be the best of all resinous kinds of wood. The great floating palace which j the Emperor Trajan built for a summer ! residence on I^ike Nerne was made partly > | of cypress and partly of larch, find when, ; aftei the lapse of fourteen centuries, this j palace was discovered on the bottom of I the sea and raised from the mud in j j which it lay imbedded, all those'parts I i of it which were of latch were found to I | be perfectly sound. In the English I marine the larch was introduced in 1800 from the Scotch forests of the Duke i of Athol. and the frigate Athol. built in | : 1R30, is sti 11 in active service and in excellent condition. Contrasted with the enormous ironel-irU of most of the old world navies :irc the new gunboats of China. They arc practically only floating gun carriages, but are heavily armed with guns ; j that are said to- be more efficient than | the thirty-eight-ton gun which is the 1 ! boast of the British navy. The Chinese gunboats have been named after the letters of the Greek alphabet, and eight have been constructed. Their magazines and machinery an* under the water line, and the single thirty-five or thirtyeight-ton gun they carry lies flat upon j the deck. It is moved and loaded by hy- ; drawlic power, so that only five men are : required to handle it. Its projectile weighs 536 pounds. The advantage o I a fleet of little vessels, thus armed, over the cumbersome ironclads is that they are easily managed, draw ver> little water and present an exceedingly small target for the enemy to fire at. The whole fleet costs no more than a single big ironclad, and is jus heavily armed. In addition to the chief gun for which they arc built, the Chinese gunboats | carry two twelve-pounders and two Catling guns. The latter ones are i -.1-1- _ j ...til. _ MOUIHl'-Umil're, tviui iv uuuuic 31UI.J1 screws and rudders .it bow imdstorn. Words of Wisdom. Whenever we have to establish new 1 relations with any one, let us make an J ample j)rovision of pardon, of indulgence ' and of kindness. It is wonderful how silent a man can he when he knows his cause is just, and r how boisterous he becomes when he knows he is in the wrontr. Happiness consists in the constitution of the habits. I No pleasure is comparable to standj ing on the vantage ground of truth. No one is so srreatly to be feared as the ' man who is willing to tell you all he I knows, because the chances are that he i will tell you a great deal more. _ i He who brings ridicule to bear against f j truth finds 111 his hand :i blade wirnout i h hilt. The most sparkling and pointed ,1 j flume of wit flickers and expires against f j the combustible walls of her sanctuary. Cheerfulness is just as natural to the 1 heart of a man in strong health as color e to his cheek; and wherever there is , habitual gloom there must be either bad ! air, unwholesome food, improperly r severe labor, or erring habits of life. The deaths in the United States last ; year by yellow fever reached a little over 14,000. - NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States. On the third day of tho races at Charter Oak j Park, Hartford, Conn., the chief attraction was j the lree-for-all race for $3,000, in which Rains ; and Hopeful woro announced to appear; and , much disappointment was caused when it was 1 stated thnt, Rarus had been sold by his owner, i Mr finnWlin. to a Now York eentleman for ! ?36,000, nnd would not start. Mr. Conklin , and the horse were then expelled from the I track ior not fulfilling their engagement. I The New Yoik Board of Health haa caused j J warrants to be issued against a number of j persons who keep poultry on their premises j j contrary to the health regulations. In the I basement ol one house 300 ducks and 200 hens I 1 were found crowded together. | A Boston dispatch says the schoonerr Stephen | j Bennett, of Camden, Me., was seen bottom up | : neur Phoenix Island. She sailed from Boston I ! in ballast for Baltimore, and it is supposed ' was capsized in the recent great gale. She was in command ol Captain George Bennott, j j part owner of the schooner, who lived at West Koxbury, Mass., and there were on board as i passengers Mrs. Bennett, William Richards, j aged eighteen, and Mr. Bennett, of Maine, j nephew ol the captain. Besides the persons 1 named above, ttiere were four seamen and a I steward on the lost schooner. 1 At the State Convention of the New Yor k j Greenback party, held at Utica, Harris Lewi a and John M. Wieting were nominated for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor respectively by acclamation. The other nominations were: Secretary of State, P. McCann; Comptroller, John A. Shannon; Treasurer, Julian Winno; Attorney-General, George Wright. The platform adopted demands that the national bank currency shall be withdrawn and that ail the money that is used by the people, whether gold, silver or paper, shall be issued by the geneialgovernment, and be made a full legal tender for all debts and dues, public and private, the volume oi such money to be about ?50 per capita, or sufficient to meet all the requirements of trade; that the established vol * -1 nUnll k^? l'n/tPOUQOrl Imm UIIIU (H II1W UUUUUUV Clilkli IVXJ luviwuwvu .. time to time ip direct ratio with the increase in ?he business and population of the country, so as to maintain for the dollar as nearly as possible a uniform purchasing power; that all new issues of paper money shall be used to cancel the interest-bearing debt of the nation, to promote needed public improvements and to pay current expenses; that the surplus money now in the treasury oi the nation shall bo used to cancel interest-bearing debts; that the national government shall issue no more interest-bearing obligations, and that all outStanding bonds shall be paid and canceled at once; that postal savings banks shall bo established; that taxation ol property 6hall bo equal; that salaries ot public officers be reduced; that reliable statistics be collected to the end that labor may be lully and justly compensated; tnai equiuiuio mwou i?m?>u lares und transportation bo established; that the Legislature pass a law giving to mortgagors ol real estate the right of redemption lor nve years alter sale; that laws be enacted to prevent land monopolies; that the State prison contract system be abolished; that no political assessments be permitted in the party on candidates lor office or officeholders; that the legal rates of interest be reduced; that debts due lor labor done take tie precedence of all other claims, that no more public lands be voted to corporations; that a tariff be established which shall protect American industry and manufactures, and that the government faithfully perform its pledges made to the Union soldiers by Riving them 160 acres ol land on being discharged, in fee simple, and an equitable payment p*r month ol each soldier, accordinz to the value ol the lull legal-tender dollar. Resolutions were also passed expressing spmpathy with and extending the hand ol fellowship to the workingmen's party ol San Francisco and praising Denis Kearney. The centennial ol the revolutionary battle ol Newtown was celebrated at Elmira, N. Y., with great enthusiasm. The governors ol New York, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, and a number of prominent army officers, were present. A monument was unveiled and an address delivered by General Sherman. The day's proceedings terminated with a display of fireworks and a reception. George W. Hardie, employed in the New York county clerk's office, was drowned in presence ol his wile and sister while celebrating his lorty-second birthday at Long Branch, N. J. A monument to the memory ol General Custer was unveilod at West Point. General N. P. Banks delivered the oration and John MeCullough, the actor, recited "Custer's Last Charge." During the first eight months ol this year 76,809 emigrants arrived at the port of New York?an excess ol 22,65-1 over the corresponding months last year. A wild Texan steer escaped Irom a slaughter house in New l'ork and created a panic on Filth avenue by charging right and left, scattering pedestrians and vehicles in every direction. Before ho was shot the brute tossed five , men and one woman, und injured a child and two policemen. A wonderful feat iu marksmanship has been performed at the Columbia Rifle Range, West 1 End, N. J. Mr. A. G. Holcombe scored thirtyBeven consecutive bull's-eyes at 500 yards, and made 199 points out ol a possible 200. Charles Drews, oldest of the four men under sentence ol death at Lebanon, Pa., lor murdering an old man named Raber in order to , get the insurance on his lilu, has made a lull ( confession, telling how the crime was com- ( nitted by his confederates. Lena and Frederick William Susick, one and . tlree years old, children of a painter living ; at Linden, N. J., died a few days ago from the elTt;ts of eating toadstools that had been gatherer und cooked under the impression they wert mushrooms. Other members of the lamil; were also made very sick by partaking ] of the )oisonous lood. Rev. V. II. H. Murray has a eotumunica- 1 tion in he Boston papers denying that he went to inn Francisco clandestinely in order ( to escape ?is creditors, but that he went there < <vr> hnuinnu . hla /laktl small onil Wn I ( should huvtboen-uble to meet his obligation* had not his jroperty been attached by impatient credilob; that his estate ia valuable enough to pay 11 creditors and leave a surplus, and if not lie vtfi g0 to work and pay all he < owes, and that .0 retires lrom public life, de- 1 clining to renin* in a seryico in which his motives are tranced aud views misrepre < settled. Senator Conklingwaa temporary president < and Vice-President Vjieeier permanent president of the KoputfliCfl State Convention at < Saratoga. Alonzo B. ?ornell was nominated 1 for Governor upon the^Mt ballot, receiving 234 votes to 106 lor Kobttson, 40 for Starin, \ 35 lor Potneroy, 34 lorjjjgcock nu(] i |or j Sloan. The remainder ol the state ticket is j aslollows: For Lieutenant^overnor) George G. Hoskins; Comptroller, J \v. Wadsworth; Secretary oi Slate, General J^.Carr; Treas- ? urer, Nathan D. Wendell; Atvt.ney.Qeneral1 1 Hamilton Ward; State Engtoer> Howard c Soulo. Tho platform aaopteu pledges the t party to "national supremacy, ?,IIUi rights, t free elections and honest money/ arraigns t the Democratic Hopreaentatives i'Congress t as guilty both ol revolutionary atUj,pt8 nn(] ( nullifying schemes; declares an uttompro. { misiug opposition to any attempt to rej^j (c national election laws; asserts that ti, jje_ i publican party "neither justifies nor toli^^ , military iuterleronco with elections," ^llt ? "seeks only to protect the ballot-box from xo interference of force and fraud;" charges th. the Democratic party " forced the extra ses ? sion of Congress without warrant or excuse, 1 prosecuting its partisan purposes by rovolu- ( tionary methods und persiitently obstructing resumption," and that "its Southern element answers conciliation only with violence;" attlrms that "tho sncces3ftil,rc3iimption of specie payment?, despite Democratic prediction and hostility, is tho crowning element ol the lie- i publican financial policy," and that "ourj whole currency should lie kepi at par with, the menetary standard of tho commercial world, and any attempt to debase tho standard, to | depreciate the paper or deteriorate tho coin, | should bo firmly resisted;" protests "against rim niirtisun and unpatriotic creed which ox- I pels old Union soldiers from their well deserved rewards and advances Confederate soldiors to their places;" maintains that the j economical administration q1 State affairs has i been achieved through Republican measures, and that the attempt ol' a Republican Legislature to relorm unequal tax laws was unwarrantably defeated by the present Democratic executive; and in -conclusion affirms that , moneyed and transportation corporations, bo- I : ing created for public use, should be so super' vised and regulated ''as to secure the just and j impartial treatment ol all interested." At the State Convention ol the New York Prohibitionists, held in Syracuse, a lull ticket, headed by John \V. Mcars lor Governor, was put in the field, and resolutions were adopted ' denouncing the license system; declaring thai J woman's voice should be heard at the polls, and asierting that as the Republican, Demoi cratic and Greenback parties are " hopeleasly I wedded to the rum power," a separate prohibition party is "an indispensable political I necessity of the times." Western and Southern States. Ilenry Stuart and William Elliott wore j handed at Fort Smith, Ark., lor murders committed in the Indian Territory. Stuart was I about one-sixteenth Choctaw blood, and about i twenty-nine years old. When ho was nine ! loon his parents moved to Harttora, uonn., I and ho attended the medical department of I Ynlo College. At tw enty-two years ol age he was h surgeon on the steamers between Now York and the Isthmus und Calilornia. Later lie traveled extensively in South America and Kurope. In 1873 he married in Kansas, and soon alter returned to the Nation to livo. His crime was being accessory to the murder of ])r. Jones, ol Caddo, whom he accused ol causing his arrest lor introducing liquor in the Nation. Elliott was ol line appearance, but ol commonplnco history. He was born in Ohio in 1847, and received a limited education. Several months ago he arrived at Muscogee I and took up his residence in the house ol a disreputable woman, where, in February, he murdered in cold blood ft man named Brown, (luring n ilruiikcn caroiinul. Stuart whh cantured hi Missouri; Elliott in the woods while asleep, near the scene of his orime. General John B. Hood, a noted officer in the Conlederate anny, is dead in his forty ninth year. He died in New drleana ot yellow levor, his death saoceeding that of his wile by only a lew days. A Dead wood (Dakota) dispatch says Colonel N. A. Miles has arrived at Fort Keogh with his command, consisting of seven companies of the Filth Inlantry. He brought with him nearly 1,000 hall-breeds, who have been iurniahing arms and ammunition to Indians between tho Yellowstone and the boundary line. | Ho has cleared the country ol all roving bands ana unven sitting xjuub iouuwo miuoo ?.ud American lines, besides breaking up the illicit traffic in arms and ammunition between the half-breeds and hostile Indians. The campaign has been very successlul, considering the small loss to Colonel Miles. The famous Whitehall gold mine on the narrow-gauge railroad near Fredericksburg, Va., formerly owned by Commodore Stockton, has been purchased by Boston capitalists, and operations will be resumed in October. Some years ago this mine yielded $146,000 in seven months. The miners in tho Cumberland (Md.) region struck because of the retuaal of the coal companies to advance the rates for mining to fllty cents per ton. Over 2,000 miners and 500 laborers were thrown out ol employment. Charles Do Young, tho San Francisco newspaper proprietor who shot Kalloch, workingmen's candidate for mayor, has been admitted to bail in the sum of $25,000. During a heavy storm at New Orleans and vicinity, the orange crop was badly damaged and several coal boats were sunk. The damage done will reach ?100,000. A1X1 -? ~ ITnoin.ilrTT olortti'nn rrJtro UlUCiai rtJLUlUB Ui LUC IVCIllU^nj V1WK.VU s.. V Governor Blackburn a majority ol 43,917 and the rest of the State ticket somewhat smaller majorities. The Greenback candidate lor Governor polled 18,954 votes. Four boys, whoso ages ranged from six to thirteen years, were run over by a freight train near St. Louis. They were loitering about tho track when a switch engine moved down suddenly and caught them nil. Henry Path had both legs cut otF, one above, the other below the knee. John Goebel lost bolli legs below tho knees. Richard Kopf had both legs badly mangled, but not entirely amputated, and Henry Reinhold had his right leg crushed. Path and Goebel were fatally injured. Dudley Haskell, a young man employed in a law office at Sun Francisco, entered the cigar store ol George Schwartz, a well-known local politician, and asked him to retract an offensive statement made at a public meeting the previous evening. Schwartz refused to retract, whereupon Haskell drew a pistol and shot him dead. The Republicans of Minnesota, at their Stale convention in St. Paid, renominated Governor Pillsbury on a platform which heartily praises the Administration and its financial policy, favors tho enactment of laws regulating tho civil service, demands retrenchment in national and State governments, opposes monop olies, etc. A heavy hurricane in and about Morgan j City, La., did great damage, sinking two steamers and lorty-flve coal boats, blowing down a cnurch, school-house, sawmill and other buildings, destroying much of the sugar [ cane and Iruit crop and causing an estimated , pecuniary loss ol $200,000. A Baltimore paper publishes a report of the burning ol the lil'e-saving station at Cobb's Island, with all its contents, causing a loss ol? about 910,000. The station is one ot the most important to commerce on the coast, and it is charged that the fire was the work of wreckers, whoso busir.oss in tliat vicinity had been broken up. Joseph W. Hunt, president of the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railroad, while attempting to cross a side track where an engine was shifting cars at Delphos, Ohio, was caught between the bumpers and crushod into insensibility. He fell to the ground and several cars ran over him, causing instant death. The deceased was quite prominent in railroad circles. The first bale of new cotton was sold tho other day in Louisville, Ky., at, auction, bringing twenty cents per pound. It came from Trezevant, Tenn. From Washington. The Secretary of War says that our government did all that was required under international law years ago in sending a commission to treat with Sitting Bull and request him to return to the United States. At this time he was in Canadian 1 erritory, and he refused to accept the proposition made by General Terry ind Commissioner Luwrence. The Canada'n officials have since assumed tho responsibilty of taking cure ol our refugee Indians, and if they prove troublesome tho burden rests upon them. No demand can now be made upon the United States to receive back Sitting Bull and his followeis. Thn Trnnnnrv Dftnartmnnt has nlaced $<15. 000,000 in gold to tho credit of tho superintendent of the Assay Ofllco in New York, to be D9ed in payment for foreign gold and gold bars now being received by European steamers, in payment ot balances duo this country. This is the largest amount probably ever required lor that purpose. Tho Internal Revenue Bureau has prepared a statement showing tliut the number of gallons of spirits produoed during the fiscal year ot 1879 was 71,802,617, against 56,103,053 in 1878, showing an increaso for 1879 ol 15,789,564 gallons. Tho debt statement issue! shows the deirease of debt lor August to be $3,527,395.93. Hie following is tho Treasury statement: L'ash in tho Treasury 8243,696,228 40 Gold certificates 15,128,700 00 Silver certificates 3,281,850 00 Currency certificates 35,175,000 00 ( lietundiqg certificates 4,396,5u0 00 | Legal tenders outstanding 346,681,016 i." j: Fractional currency outstanding 15,762,064 90 1 The payments lrotn the Treasury by war- j rant9 during the month of Augint, 1879, weie as follows: On account of civil and miscellaneous $4,218,733 80 j On account of war 3,019,774 43 j ' )n account ot navy 1,111,773 61 i ( Jn account ot Interior (Indians and pensions) 9,847,009 13 I j Totul ?18,197,290 97 The above does not include payments made >n account ot the interest or principal ol tho niblic debt ot the United States. The totul number of standard silver dollars I | coined during tho montli of August was 2,787,050, making an aggregate of 40,237,050 ! joined to September 1. : Up to September 1 tho receipts ol retunding 1 certificates lor conversion into lour per cent. ' jonds aggregate ?35,700,000. J The total issues ot the lour per cent, loan 1 >y tho Treasury Department up to September 1 L amount to ?740,795,300, leaving 726,700 ?' lot yet disposed ol. < Foreign Mews. Tho Swedish steamer Nordenskjold has been ( ost on the coast of Japan. The officers and :rew were saved. The Nordenskjold was . ltted out lor tho express purpose of going to j he assistance of the Nordenskjold Arctic exledition, and sailed lrom Maela, Sweden, on ' he 3d ot June for the Arctic regions, well 1 squipped for a voyage ol two years. Her 1 ommander had instructions to lollow the < :ourso ot Professor Nordonskjold's exploring j ihin Vnrra. lrom which no tidinns have been ] i cceivod lor more than a year, and it iound to iid her crew, ind if disabled to take her place. The Lou Debntci (Madrid newspaper) relommends that Spain should tree nil the slaves n her dependencies, and to substitute a seven rears'period ot slavery. Mr. Longman, tho last ol the original partin the eminent Jinn ol English publishers, w Sid. A 'eneva (Switzerland) correspondent reports ,ttf (l CJirrilv^rc. containing a party ol AtneriUj t,011i-jsta, drivinc lrom Martigny to Chamouij^ W)l8 0VHr?urnc(]. a iatly named Mrs. Wn^ ()j \ow Vork, lell into a gorge I and was kn.^ The scullin nia(C|, nt Ilalilax, N. S., between Smith, < ?|mt p]aco, and Wallace Kosi, of St. John, was,ou forinor. A Paris dispatCiMay8 fjltoen persons have [ been killed and man. more injured by tin explosion of flre-damp.(J tjlc c0)l( mines at Bonchamp. 1- ranee. Reports receivod by th rtftjj)ln jniniHtry ol agriculture indicate that.cr{ t,li8 y(31ir will be poor. 1 ho wheat crt. w . ou|y to n third ol unit 01 10/0. , , The Spanish government dfc . , I vend20,000 troops, with umplo tn'l " w"j J the threatened general revolt in Ct^ ? 'I1'")' 1 has decided to instruct the Spanish11 I ' ot Washington to insist that the IJnitelP'1 , t compel Cuban refugees and filibuster* | i epect neutml obligations. ro* j | Sir Garnet Wolsoley, commander of thj ' British troops in South Al'riea, telegraphs that King Cotywayo has only two or three Zulu followers with liitn. His prime minister, two I of his sons and three ol his brothers have surj rendered, with 050 hoad of royal cattle. Arms j and cattle are being surrendered daily. The Chilians have abandoned the blockade ol Iquique, Peru. The Emperor ot Germany and the Czar of ( Russia have had a cordial meeting at Alaxan- J j drowo. I The waters of tho River Theiss, in Hungary, j I continue lo subside, and the site ol the sub- | merged city Szogediu will 1*1011 bo dry. Eight | more corpses havo recently been found its that. [ city. It is reported that the Emperor ami the j Crown Prince ot Germany have appirved the 1 moiect of an international exhibition at Her 1 iin in 1883. According to ofliciuls statistics the lliiliun harvest 'of thin year shown n deficiency ol 10,000,000 quintals ol maize, 5 000,000 quintals of wheat and 2,000,000 quintan* ol other grain. News of The Yellow Fever Epidemic. Life in Memphis is deaorined ns being only a little more wholesome tliim death. Yellow flags ate displayed at every turn and musing. The hospital sign was counted in eight place* along one short square a few days ai>o, aince then two othera liav? been added. The curlew bell now tolls at nine o clock n?d alter that hour the streets are deserted. In Ihe last epidemla a crowd of nurses and doctors "kept the town alive. In this epidemic the oily sign v . : of life iB the encampment of colored troops on the bluft. The reveille and the five o'clock matinee, when the band plays, are, as a correspondent says, " the cheerful characteristics of the present campaign. Fire alarms last week relieved the monotony, bnt since the watchfulness of the authorities has been redoubled even the torch doesn't flicker." Among the recent deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans occurs the name of Mrs. Annie Marie Hood, wifo of General J. B. Hcod, of the Confederate army, who lives in an eleRnnt mansion where the surroundings are of the best. A recent Washington dispatch says: " Much anxiety is expressed at the headquarters ot the National Board ot Health with regard to the state ol affairs in New Orleans. The fever seems to be spreadirfe, and to bo in a dangerous locality. The National Board has received a telegmphio dispatch from there for additional aid, and has sent $10,000 to the health authorities of the State, to be used in tho work ol isolation and disinfection. The National Board also telegraphed to Dr. Bemiss to spare no effort to stamp out the disease if possible. Should the feverr continue to spread, New Orleans will be shut in under the rules ol the board, vory much as Memphis now is. It will not be practicable to empty New Orleans, or to established camps, as was done at Memphis; but there is much reason to hope that the disease may be more perfectly controlled by sanitary measures in the former city than in the latter." A Memphis dispatch' to the New York Herald says: " Up to date 873 cases of fever have officially been reported to the Board of Health?453 white and 420 colored. The total i number ol deaths loot up 233?whites, 183; rnlnrpd. 50. The ner centum ol'deaths amontr the whites ai compared with the colored is startling?while but twelve per cent, ot the blocks have died over lorty per cent, of the whites have paid the death penalty. Some physicians in the beginning ol the epidemic were of the opinion that the present type ol lover was not so malignant as that ot last year. The figures above will not now justily such conclusions. When it is taken into consideration that the spread of fever has been gradual this season and that all the benevolent associations have been better prepared to nurse the sick and give them proper attention, the death rate is alaiming. There is also another noticeable ieature connected with the present epidemic. Many who passed unscathed through the dreadful scenes of 1874 have been prostrated, and again instances are numerous ot persons who have been stiicken in previous years suffering an attack ol the \ fever. The weather has been sultry all day. j To-night at eight o'clock a steady rain began . tolling." The death at New Orleans ot General Hood and his wile left their large tamily ot young children in a destitute condition, and subscrip- j tions lor their benefit are being raised. ' The fever is spreading in the suburbs of Memphis and ranging toward the country. A Memphis dispatch says: " John Johnson, resident member ot the State Board of Health, i has begun to enforce the rules for disinfecting t houses wherein yellow fever has existed, 1 whether the patients died or recovered, me a trouble is not so much above the ground as j below it, and bo long as vaults reeking with u tilth and the excretia of yellow fever patients a are permitted to exist, the lumigation and dw- ^ infection ol houses wiJl turn out to be a signal i failure. Next year the same causes will pro- c duce like effects under the same conditions, i atmospheric and otherwise." j In consequence ol the uuueual violence of t yellow lever at Havana during the past sum- i mer and the latality ol the disease in vessels a which loft that por,, the royal order ol No- ] vember 4, 1848, has been revived and will be { enlorced. It provides that no vessel carrying i above sixty persons, including passengers and crew, shall leave Havana without having a ( physician and a clergj man on board. Vessels y will inevitably be detained il the order is not . complied with. [ A Pair of Hippopotamuses. : t "Butone, and only one, in the eoun- \ try, ma'am; a beauty, isn't lie?" said J the keeper, holding a bunch of fodder. Then lie laughed in a pleased, subdued sort of a way, as if it was an excellent < joke. i ' He knows me, ma'am, and will come j when I call, though ever so sleepy; and they doze mostly all daytime. Their home ways, in their own country, is to travel round nights, procession-like, t half a dozen together, the mothers with J i the one baby "following close: in that t way they show their sociability with their kin, visiting rivers and fountains,' being always particular to have apatri-i arch to lead." t r " Have a bite, my beauty?" called the , c ' ? !,? 1 ?, Kueper, witu uiiuuiug, vunu, ouu utt i huge beast bestirred his ponderous j? frame, turning the funny little sleepy jH eyes toward his friend. " Here, Bunt, have a scratch?" and with that an ex-1 ceedincly coarse brush was thrust be- ? tween the bars. Tlie burly, quadruped h lowered his ungainly phiz and secured r the coveted petting. " He'll give up any | j contrary fit for such a rub, nia'am. If I j can only get his eye upon the brush, I'm [ sure of him." j Slowly munching his lunch, the crea-; ture moved the massive, elongated, tri- i angular head, the aueer bits of eyes peer- j ^ ing out inquiringly, yet with a most, A " aon't-matter-to-me" air, almost pa- ' thetic In its expression of loneliness. i ' He's an ashen one, lady?young, too; ' but he can king it over the old one opposite?an old veteran from Indian jungles, and nigh onlotwenty years old; black as i ? Egypt, too, as jou'll see." i s "Here, Nimrod, speak to the lady; I i show your manners," and the kindly | " keeper gave the slowly rising " hunter" , p it gentle poke, then hurriedly placed be fore him his usual rations. A strange j ^utteral sound?a sort of under-ground H "thankee"?the accredited vernacular!;] t)f this midnight-walking family, was o suphoniously snorted out, after which : vJ lie addressed himself to his meal. " Nimrod, ma'am, is a one-liorner, as h we keepers say; now Bunt has two, but ^ I can't rouse his ambition if I tell him of ^ it fifty times a day; he.just don't realize L liow much higher up the scale he is than ? tiis black grown-up cousin. Eating and j b sleeping is all they care for. Bunt's I slow-paced and cumbersome, and needs 1 :i heap o' care; he's growing, and snoozes 0 the whole continuous time, leastwise lie's at it'eopt when I rouse him for his constitutional. His teeth keep him un- E easy and fretting now and then?it's the ,, xge for that?but like these two horned y creatures better'n the trunk ones over yonder, "pointing to a crowd of elephants. " Bunt was now fully roused; he oven (J condescended to acknowledge my pres- h mce, and settling himself for good behav- j] ior, was very gracious to passers-by. Those wonderful horns! often more than y ;wofeet in length; what weapons of of- v fence thoy were! The hinder one, I noted, c iViis shorter than that in front, and less ! ',j ;urved: both were smooth and pyramidal j in form. They appeared as if resting I h jpon the upper .surface of the muzzle; s (ometimes they obstruct tlie vision, but ? ivhat necessary forces they become when c -.lie burly owner is attacked by enemies, i> >r deep brushwood or tangled forests are '' :o be traversed! Very little hair had! Bunt, or his duskier comrade Nimrod; a ! "ew bristling spikes edged the erect, deli-! u :ately ?pninteu ears, and a lively little i J juncli supplemented the brief tail, look-1 [j ng for all the world like a pretty dust- | .. irush tied on. The legs, short :ind stout, j ? ivere not models ot grace, but sturdy s xavelera. The three bitr broad toes were ; y ligniticantly stout and well developed? u v.,. o Vcihc?n rhinneproM hubv. I menu. ! ^imrod'sskin, rough and tough, laid over lis shoulders like great folds of parch- i _ ucnt, but then lie wa9 n veteran, and j ? icyond caring for looks; in Bunt there I <J ,vas an utter absenceof this overlapping,! v nit he Wits young and fair. I A Such abide as Nimrod sported would j ? ind a ready market anywhere for the j t nanufactureof walking-sticks; and from t lie horns, often beautiful through much j | lolishing against trees, would be fash-1 -| oned lovely boxes and drinking-cuns; ! * iiili-ed, Eastern nations aflinu .tliat; j, 11rough their use the presence of poison | an be discovered A great satirist, liv- ! ngA. D. 43, mentioned in his poems that j ? -he noble ladies of his day were wont to I .ise these horns as cases for their essence, j Dottles and oils?very convenient dress-1 \g-cases, to he sure, and could hesiung *<n girdle or belt it desired. ,'Ticv were greatly counted on among ohlifft'ie'its, ' believe, ma'am P" said the lookot' k'iopt'i*, with a half-suppressed . w"V7"m' I Jinswercrt, glad enough to j an* my littK where so much had been L'?N>ously given?"oh, yes! j the old KomftiVi. respect to this branch of the vliydermatsi family.} Pompey even intrC, j jL jnto tjic c;r. , i cus, and, strangely ennUeJi, ^ W}IS ]|()p_ ored with a placo i the ti'-?iniphal pro-1 | cession of Augustutand Cleo,.,.tm. The ! dull-looking crcatuo wjis also .epn>. I sented tin the coiiiftof the period?\],e two-horned ones, I nean?for, new sorare, thev seem to ha<> been best known j tit,.n. 'I'lien for a lojr time all knowledge of them wits l<t; but when the ? Port uguese opened t li*-,vay to the Indies t by t lie (.lap" "f (*<?odHopo they were * I a"'ain found, and in l'?8\ntroduced into Kngiand. Did you cveriear of rhinoc- J J eros birds? No? Well they are the j best Iriends of these *epy animals, i They lind t heir living on eir backs, for j swarm* ui ui h. .MI?. WUM Iuanmuio m| serfs congregate on tlx1 voVjj skin, and | in return lor sui'li nuiplu r:tli,n)j keep :in | eye out i r enemies, und>ith slirlll I 1 cries novel' !:iil to waken '^mkuroo.': wlio liurriedlv beuth-s lur^i/anr! flees! i for safety."?h irper's Jj&g. 4 - ~ ky-iM Dickens' Dying Prisoner, On a recent Saturday morning an aged man went into the office attached to the iron foundry of Messrs. Adams & Story, in Philadelphia. While the attention of the clerk was attracted away from him he approached the fireproof, the ?i.:?u ,, ? uuici uuui ui rviuuii w aa upcu, oiiu uu- j locking the inner one with a false key, he took therefrom two $5 bills and a check for $50, together with some documents which happened handy. Before he had succeeded in making off with his booty, however, one of the employees chanced to eaze in his direction. " Wkat are you doing there?" asked the detector. "Nothing," answed the detected, but the employee was not to be fooled by such a reply, and upon making an examination 4ie found what has been related above. The aged pilferer was then nabbed and handed over to a policeman, who was soon summoned, and who took him to the Twelfth District station house, where he gave the name of David Suiter. On being subsequently confronted by Lieutenant Axe, he was identified as Charles Langheimer, the man made famous by Charles Dickens. When Dickens saw him he was impressed with his apparent sufferings, and tho novelist devoted several pages of his u American Notes " to a descrintion of the cell, and in particular of the " dejected, heart-broken appearance of this criminal whose lile has been cruelly tortured out of him by the solitary confinement system." Langheimer had. decorated his cell with colored drawings made with dyes extracted from the yarns he was working with, and the cell is still shown to visitors as one of the curiosities of the place. He had made a. flower bed in his yard, which Dickens iescribed as " looking for all the world like a little grave." According to the ?reat novelist, Langheimer was to have lied years ago from the effects of his imprisonment, but he is still hale and hearty at the advanced age of seventyiix years. When arrested he had been jut of the penitentiary two years. Dr. E. B. Foote's Health Monthly avers ;hat "it is now possible to reproduce ;he voice and the handwriting at a great listance by means of an electric wire ind suitable apparatus, and an instrument is being perfect ed which will make i photograph in Boston of a person siting before a camera in New York." The Product* of Indigestion. Inability ot the stomach to act upon the tood s productive ol serious and speedy miscliiet to he entire bodily economy. The circulation anguishes and grows poor; leanness, pallor, ind a loss ot muscular and organic power su>erveno; but, worse than this, the lunctions LHSOciated with and dependent upon digestion, uch as evacuation ana the secretion of bile, ;row irregular, and the organB whose business t is to discharge those lunctions become badly lisordered. This disastrous state of things is liore readily and thoroughly rectified with lostetter's Stomach Bitters than any known nedicinal agent. The stomach being invigorated, the lile-giving principles ot the blood ire increased, the system properly nourished, eanness and debility overcome, and the >owels and liver thoroughly and promptly egulated. Gaps made in the flesh by abscesscs and ultors speedily disappear without leaving a scar vhen Henry's Carbolic Salve is the agent emlloyed to heal them. This standard article !urc8 the worst sores, eradicates cutaneous sruptionti, relieves the pain ot burns, banishes >imples and blotcheB lrom the skin and has jroved to be eminently successful in remedyng rheumatism and soreness of the throat und 'host. Sold by all druggists. A cough, cold or sore throat requires immeliate attention, an neglect oftentimes reaulta n some incurable lung disease. "Brown's bronchial Troches" will almost invariably eive oliel. Twenty-five cents a box. $1.^7a.H7 Profit* In 30 Day*. What ?10 hai done in Wall street by legitinate stock speculations. Pamphlets containng two unerring rules for success mailed free o any person upon application. Address, A. SIMPSON & CO., 49 Exchange Place, New" York. II you arc tatisfled to have a poor organ, or un the risk of having a poor one, take any ir^an that is offered you. But il you desire to suro of having the very best, insist on havng a Mason & Hamlin, and do not be pernaded to take any other. Judge for YoutmU. By sending thirty-five cents,with age, height, olor of eyes and hair, you will receive by re urn mail a correct photograph of your future lusband or wife, with name and date of mat' inge. Address W. Fox, P. 0. Drawer 31, ruYtonville, N. Y. Chow Jackson's Beet Sweet Navy Tobacco Insist on having C. Gilbert'* Starches. Why not make up your minds, at present, what hotel ou are going to stop at when you arrive In New York ? he Grand Central on Broadway la now kept on both the merlcan plan at $?30 to S3.00, and the European plan t $1.00 and upward, per day. THE MARKETS. **W TOBK. l^ef Cattle?Med, Natives, live wt.. O\\'0 C8V Lives?State Milk O2if0 03 lwep 02^8 0* imba W>t0 OS*,' Cogs?Live 0i*,0 04 Dressed 04^0 04* lour?Ex. State, good to fancy 4 0 $ 4 83 Western, good to fancy 4 40 0 5 85 7heut?No. 1IW 1 10X01 11 White State Ill ?111 ve?State 67 0 87 iirley?Two Kowed State 70 0 70 orn?Ungraded Western Mlxod.... 44)^0 4GJ*; Southern Yellow 46^0 46# <ats?White Str'e 32 0 38 Mixed Wontern 27 0 3J# [i?y?Bntall grades 70 0 80 fraw?Long live, per cwt 40 0 45 [op??State, 187d k 07 0 18 ortt?Mess 8 60 9 8 60 *rd?City Steam Gi.i-5.0 05 83 etroleura?Crude 04J,'?06J,' Beflned?06,Ja Tool?State aud Penn. XX 80 0 36 utter?State Creamery 16 & 17# Dairy 13 0 16 Western Creamery 09 0 15 Factory 15 0 17# Ueeae?State Factory 01 0 10# Skims 01 0 02)4 Western Factory O3#0 05# :ggs?State and Pennsylvania 15 0 16X PHILADELPHIA. lour?Peun. choice and fanoy 5 35 0 5 50 ftieat?I'enu. Bed 1 118 0 1 08 Amber 1 1U iu | ye?State 68 0 81 ora?State Yellow 47 0 47# at*?Mixed 31 0 81 utter?Creamery Extra 17 0 19 lieene?New York Factory O5)j'0 05.V etroleuw?Crude 06 0C6 Refined, 0 X BUFFALO. lour?City Qronnd, No. 1 Spring... 4 76 ? 8 23 1 Cheat?Ked Winter 1 01 0 1 01 orn?New Western 40 0 40 aw?State 38 0 6 iarlej?Two Rowed State 05 0 75 BOSTON. i"pf?Cattle, live w^bt 04^0 04# beep 04*0 05# log* O4#0 04# lour?Wisconsin and Mlun. Pat..., 0 00 0 8 00 orn?Mixed and Yellow 60 0 61 at*? Extra White 40 0 43 ye?State 67 0 70 ' )ol?Washed, Combing k Delaine.. 39 0 40 Unwashed, " " . 28 0 29 BQIOHTON (MAMS.) CATTL2 HABKKT. rttf?Cattle,live weight O3#0 04\ Qfep 13#0 08)4 ?mti? i?X0 08 off H 04 04 # !11 *7K protlts on 20 dayi Investment of ?1 Aft >11/0 1 In St. Paul, August 1. ?P1UU roportional returns every week on Stock Options of $2<>, . $50, - tlOO. - ?500. (llclnl Reports and Circulars free. Address i' Pi>Ti'f!it WftJHP > cn Hankers. X"! Wall St.. N. Y T%/f"X?"\T While we wan: asents at S3 to SKI per (lay at home. Address rn ? ntttita wlth "amp, WOOD NAFETK TAR VING LAMP PP., Portland. Malpe. >1A a cmnn Invested in Wall St. Stocks mates ) i (J 10 u> IU U (J fortunes every month. Booksent free explaining everything. ddress BAITER ft P., Bankers. 17 Wall sCn. Y. IIA PAT.?With Stcncll Outfits. What costs 4 (lla ct?. sells rapidly for (JO cts. Catalogue free IIU 3.M. Srx-icKK, 14a Waah'n St., Boston. Masa. 1*1111 ftl Habit i. Skin Dlieaset. Thou 3 Ml 11EM sands cured. Lowest Prices. Do not fa #rlU ITI to write. Dr. P. K. Marsh. Qutncy. Mich IOKSEMKIV, LOOM! The worst case< of Founder In Horses cured In 24 hours Never falls. .H lpo.il. Address (,' H. YKAKI.Y. Mlffllntown. Pa. | kJPIil Ai\I> WO.HlfilV WAIVTKI>. Will HliN Kiinrantec S7.> per month. Write at once, i nUll W. P. WHITOHKR ft CO..Cincinnati, li. ' ^ Year. HowtoMukelt. Nm> Ai/erte M f f'OR k VOVRR. <?t. T.r.nl?7M .. FRECKLE, TAi A few applicat freckles, tan, sunbi and render the con and beautifying the Sent by mail, postp JOHN Any one annblo to read magic or !? killed la organ-playing mm >w<?w from the Organ not tnlyikepwtth?f7 dn> bat all the other parf, by the m<t tli> SELF - OBCKAJJIST. With thla new lareatl?? etilly attached to the key-board of any Organ, a little boy or girl, knowing a tune, can j? as well a* a wiilc teacher. Adapted to Famtllea, 8npday-8choolw, and Lodge Meetings. Addreaw for Circular and Terma THE SELF-ORGANIST ST& 00.. Brattlfboro, Vt. // ^/ New York, \ <2fe ff a>/ isd Thauita, Ct \?W, ?<#SETHTHOIIASxA KCLOCKS7) V TOWERS, /& ! \\ W.\ nv^TPVR /?%r // \v houses, xjfc // For Beauty of Pollth, 8artng Labor Cleanliaea DuxaiJUlcy and Chcapneg*JCTneqnale<1. i lioaaa BEOtt*Piroproton. Canton, Uu DR. JUDGE'S | If HIT The (treatFattening Hemedy and Blood ft nillll Purifier; Dyspeptics should nevor b? II IV i I without It. It restore* the appetite, A IS gives strength to the weak, makes the eyes bright and sparkllnfe; the cheek* plump and rosy; the breath pure and iweet. Price, Sl.OO. For sale by all OrnggUt*, or ? na a an sent by Kxpress. This it tV genuine T || M IT article. Betatre of Counterfeit*. I.B |l 111 Da. J. D. JUDGK k CO., Physician*, IIV||i II 70 Beach Street, nostou, Ma**. BmiH Ikl I I >1 | I I Immediate relief, cum e?*w ill J J JSipS JSL B W.W uttu I lull VnUu ytllo* tcrapptr Masprinted on it in black a Pit* q/S'ontt and Dr. J. P. XilltT't wignaturn, rhtla, 81 a bottle. Bold byalldrtyrjttU, S^ntbynujlbyJ.P.Mn.Ltn,M.D., Propt, & W. car. Tenia and Arch Bte., EhUa3?..Pa. HOMES fl THE WEST! Excursions to Lincoln, Nebraska, Le*ve New York and New England the Third Tuesday In every Month until December. Excursion No. 27 leave* If. Y. Tuesday, Sept. 10, *70. Fare about half rsjulsr rates. Fast train* and Unit-class accommodations guaranteed. For descriptive Land Circulars, Information about Tickets, etc.. send address on Postal Card to CHAD. F. BA.IJLE Vji_317^roadway, New York. WSW MASONIC I for I-odires, Chapters, nHiw and Commandorlea, manufacturtd by i>f. C. Llll<i/ Jk Co., Ooiuro(nu, O. Send for Frit* Lists, pjp WKnight/ femplir Uniforms a Specialty. Military, So.irty, and Firemen's Qood?._ DfllEBT TIY PI4I1 This Is a new Instrument with 12 keys, with notes porfecflv tuned, well finished case and has the appearance o. a Parlor Organ. It will give more pleasure to the Children than anything yet mads. S?-nt by Express on receipt of One Dollar. BLACK & PERRY, Manufacturers, hl'KllfKFIELl), ITIASS. MOILER'S TO CflILlJV|g_OjL Is perfectly pore. Pronounced the best by the high est medical anthfiritle* In the world. Given highest award st 12 World'* Expositions, and st Paris, 1871 rioldby Druggists. W.H.Bchl-ffeHn 4c N.Y. CURED FREfc. ' J An infallible and onexce!!ed ketcwly foi F its,Epilepsy or Falltn^tckueas warranted to effect a speedy and I'EimAMEMT care. flVIM " A free bottle >? of my IIIV renowned specific and a valnab I I .1 Treatise sent to any suitor S I II sending me his P. 0. and Si press address. Da- II. d. aoor. IH3 P<yirl Street, New Tort. WVTlTm I ft Cures Kidney, Bladder and HTINT'S j|1 y ^ |J tlou one Incoutlncnce of _ _______ Hunt's Remedy cures flflluTlllllI Paln ,n 1he Back, Hide or V L III L 11 v I-olns, Nervous Prostration HI 11 III 9||| I and Brlgbt's Disease of the AvUJJIJUa' A Kidneys. Mnnt's Bernrdy cures all Diseases of the Ktilneys, Bladder and , Ifrinnrv Organs. Try Hunt's Remedy. Send for poiip'.ilet to WM. K. CLARKE, Providence, B. L AHUNlt* WANTED FOH "BACH from the JfOTTHof HELL." Bv one who has been there I ' I'aUof thellOTJSTACHE.' oy mo uuruuguju juwujo uuiuumt. 44 Na mailt ha ana P. A. and J*. I." By Jostah Alleu's wife. The three brightest acd best-selling book* out. Agent*, yon |can put these books In everywhere. Beit terra given. Address for Agency, AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO., Hartford, Ct., Chicago, 111. JWARIER BR-5'S CORSETS I jflHVnctlred th? HlfljM*. 1'ciUIatth? recant PARIS EX.VifSITION, Hf over alt Amerlroa con.p. tltor*. Tb?h HRf FLEXIBLE Hit-.;OS?BT Jgfnf (120 booeai la WAm*A*T~5 tottobraa* TP* down ov?r the hip*. Prfc 1.2*. Their MM .OT soft and flexible and ontalni n? yJ*^^bon<?. Price by nail, ItM. For u!? by allltadin t arrr'-?:z WABIfKB BB08.. S51 Broadway . i. (SmSSSj UN'K BOTTIJS WAKKANYiCD .A HilVUM perfect cure for all kinds ot PILES I mMW] Two to fonr bottle* In the woni HR3RM canes of LEPROSY. SCROFULA, liiLMSmI salt RIIEI.'M. RHEUMATISM, KIDNEYS, DYSPEPSIA,CANCER, ftjlTujlaU CATARRH.um! all diseases of the nUJj|0S| SKIN anil IILOOD. Entirely VegeII 11 table. Internal and external use. Money returned In all case* of fallnre: none for 2U yean. Sold everywhere. Send for pamphlet $1 a bottle. H. P. FOVTLE, Borten.1: Mason ?fc Hamlin Cabinet Orguns Demonstrated best by HIGHEST HONORS AT A LI WORLD'S REPOSITIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS, vlt: at Paris, 1RG7; Virnxi, 1(573: Sijrnioo, 1875: Piilldzlmix, 1876; Pxjus. 187S,and Giavd Swidish Gold Mxd.il, 1(<78. Only American Organs ever awarded highest honors at any such. Sold for cash or installments Uuraikjltxv Catalogues and Otu liars with new styles and prices, sent free. MASON HAMLIN ORGAN 00. lioston. New York or_Chloa?o Hialthy Child Food Insures robust manhood. Feed your rtiUdren on Ridge's Food. Ask your druggist for It. Trhl Cans, 34 ccnts. t, !; r T , , i ? e will pay Agent* a Salary of1100 per month and i ezMniei, or allow a large commission, to sell our no-* j ana wonderful Invention*. Wt mean wiat tat tau. (3ample free. Address SHERMAN A CO., Marshall, Mich. 1 PURFTFAS <c?wU 0 Willi I fcflWl and larg? consum-rs; larg- 1 f t sfo:k In the countiy; quality and ttrms the best. Ountrj storekeeper* sbnulil call or write THK WEL1.S TEA COM PAN Y, Ml Fulton St.. N. Y.JP. 0. Box4S60 TRCTTI IB MIGITTTI /SEN. /W\saSSaS555a/?\ LMXaM)sA?!7.'sas3L-^LiJ m< MM. tt? liM m4 fl?M ikM |M lyNHM/ win ?m ?*. Mrf tk? 4?u ?r VKpr A44pm. PrW. MAXT1NUL4 * * VK* tBL,lM?<lb? rWMMW^i a Scarlet Bouk of Fiee Masonry. Thrilling A account of Imprisonment, torture anil martyrdom of Masons for the past WO years. Jr Graphic Illustrations. Magnificent binding. /\f\ Hire chance for Agents. KKDDIN'GACO.. / ? MaMinlc Publishers, 731 Broadway, K. Y. A B B 0 T T AC A DEM Y, Now for tw?nty yea's under the cbar?e of Miss MoKEK.V, oll'fs special advantages to young ladles. The tlfty-first year opens on Thurntlay, Sept. 4. For admission or information apply to Miss PIIILENA McKKK.V, Principal. An<lovertJlfa??. A KAKECHANCE. For JMUe, an established i Greenhouse ami N ursery business, having a good and rapidly Increising trade. A splendid opportunity for one with a small capital to engage In a pleasant and paying business. Tie i lace contains 'J'J acres. Buildings new and good. Terms easy. For full particulars a dress Kuernc Barker, Chnrchvllic, H. VOUNG MEN SVw'K'liViol B month. Every graduate snaranteed a raying altnaIon. Addrew K. Vaittuine, Manager. Jfnesvlila wit. i~i tfilllBiFMB ?gfcg? " i s~T KiDScRi8PflSRiis.,,;;zM:r,,l'i,t'; ml:: A YKA H nud to agent*, br.tflt Kre P4 4 4 Ailtl"*! F < . v'CKKHV. Anrtwt*. M?1n? A .Month ai>l expenses utiaranteed io Agents tJP # 4 < *111 lit trc SHAW * ' < ? Al'Clim. J I IDUAM'C vi i inivi w N AND PIMPLI ?WBV? ions of this prepar srn, pimples or blotc iplexion clear and f skin it has no equal, aid, for 75 cents. F. HENRY, OUR 24 COL -*r*7Wr* - f |',mpf-fa1 U[ ?trw ^ # Lay the Axe to the Root Ii you would destroy the cankering worm. For any external pain, sore, wound or lameness of man or beast* use only MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. It penetrates all muscle and flesn to the rerylwne, J expelling all inflammation, soreness and pain, and healing the diseased part as no other Liniment erer did or can. So saith the experience of two generations of sufferers, and so will yon say when yon hare tried the " Mustang," 10 NOT BEGIN YOUR SINGING CLASSES BEFORE EXAMINING L 0. EMERSON'S NEW BOOK, The Voice of Worship. While containing a large and valuable collection of Church Koike In the form of Tune* and AnUiema, tt la perfectly fitted for tbe Staging School and Convention oy the large number of Songi, Oueta, Qleea, kc~, tad lta wall made Blementary Courae. Price, $9-00 per down. Specimen Copies mailed for 91-00. / Send for drculan and catalogues, with fan list of standard Singing School Book a. The new 80<ent edition of Pinafore (complete) sella ^ finely, aad fallal txa ($t00), Sorcerer ($LOO), Trial bf m Jury (80 centa), are In conatant danaafl. ^ EMERSON'S VOCAL METHOD, Br 1* O. Kvmsoir ($1-40), la a valuable new book for Voice-Train log, containing all the essentlsls of atody, plenty of exercises, and plain eiplanatJona, aad coating much less than the larger worts oa the Mme subject Subscribe now for the Xcsioal Bxooxs, aad receive weekly all the news, and plenty of good music, for |UI per year. Jk Prm: Wain Sous, a charming new Sundayschool Song Book. OLIVER DIT&ON Jb CO., BosUn. O. H. BITSOIV * CO., (MS Broadway, law Tsrlu jr. is. ninmniv *. ro.. ? ?M ChwUnt lltmt, PhllMlilphty ' imHii yintEitebllihtd! Host SuocMBftU rHSIB 1M8X&UKSNT8 U*ve ? SUmUrd y*Jna the Leading Markets Of the World [ rerrwtiere recognlied u the 7IKS8T IX TOKB OVER 80,000 Htdtudlnuw. new Dement ooMUnUy. &* Work and Lowest Price*. tar Send for * C?Ulc*pj?. Tremont St.ano- malUui SL. Boslim. Mai , J Ai qaponifieg Mm tk( Old Btlkbli OoM?Btnt?d L/t FOR FAMILY SOAP MAKING. Direction* accompmjrlug each can for ~n?Hnc Hart Soft and Toilet Soap qnlcVly. IT 13 FULL WKIOBT AM) 8TBMXQTJL The Market ta flooded with (to-called) Concentrate Lye, which la adulterated with aalt and naln, and war malm toop. / 8AYM MONMT. JJTD 907 TBM SaponifieR MAD1B7THI PennBylranla Salt Mannfg C*., PHILADELPHIA. ^ jAkuHv ~TKODTF?~ TatfcabartUoda, la the beat ottaata, vflktkiM markata, aad oo the baa* tans, akag the Aim MtoaeapeUa A Maattoha B*y, o3e 8lP*a lhd?r 3,000,000 ACRES * ICalaty ia tha IiaM RED RIVER VALLEY OFTHE NORTH. Ob laa?ttae, torn ptleaa aad aav??M* Fii?i*la> at Hi tafl InfBwaartaa ?Pad firea. in^l| D. A. McKINLAY, Land Oom'r. Kf.K.AK.av I AHEAD B ClBI^%Vr |1LLTHETIMK The rery beat jooda direct from the Importer* at Halt the usual coat. Beat plaa e?er olftred to CJub^ A*enrt uid lir|6 Buyers. ' ALL UTJUOO uoAjwrM r&jv. Htm termi FKFR. rhe Great American Tea Company, 31 tnd 33 Te??r Street, 1T?w ?ork. | ? joi4?aff. i A r r\rTfl W*nt?d for a Uv, Book Out 1 AlXJull A ?5 sell* fast. Chance for all to J make money. " LIFK OF J BUFFALO BILL," The famous Scout, Guide, Hunter and Actor?written by himself?la the liveliest and easiest book to teil that baa appeared lor year*. Agents already at work are making . big tales. Send at once and secure territory. For arealars and liberal terms spply to FRANK E. BLISS, Hartford, Coft*. THE WEEKLY SDN A large, elght-pa^e paper of 90 broad columns, will tie sent postpaid to tmy address until Jautmry lit, I860. FOR HALF A DOLLAR. Address THR SUN. N. Y. City. _ Tltla Clata-Hwut btaUtaked IMS. n r ii o I o ll O r cnoiunoi Hew Law. Thowedi of Soldiers sad hetriertWet Pension* d*te bock to dJacosris or dsstt. fkuMM AddifH with fUmp, 6EOMB E UKOn, r.O. Drawer aaa, Wash tmhws, P.O. POCKET IHCTIOJrABV.Wt.WKiWw.ii in<l J J?r. Kootr'sHcnlth Mo:>Uily,oue y> ?r,SOc. ? J ! BANISHER. ation will remove :hes on the face, air. For softening Price 50 cents. Address RAN & CO., .LEGE PLACE, N. Y.