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The Haymakers. j In tho clover meadows ( Sharjvcned scythes are swinging, ' Ringing out their niorry music to the mowers thero; : In tho noontide shadows, < Fading flowers two flinging Fragrunt, dying odors to the fickle, fleeting air. 1 l.iko tho fading flowers, ( And as grasses wither, Leaving only perfume to ih c mocking morn- ^ ing >rceze; Let ns all tho hours? i Flitting, none know whither? j Breathe cut lives of sweetness, though they < be devoid ot ease. Hither como the rakers, ! 1 Carelully to gather Ilea] 8 of dead and well-dried l'olioge lor the j j winter's store; So should pleasure takers, Not dispel, but rather I Treasure hopeless memories?the withered joys ot yore. j Only in the sunshine Will our hay be making; ? " # Greater its dead \alue than when growing t fiesh and green; i So a mortal lifetime Freed from all heart-aching ! f Finds it lull liuition in the closing ol the eceno. ?S. T. Clark. i The Old Sea Captain's Story. ! *' Captain Gray, wnat is a land lub-1 < ber P" j j The old sea captain laughed one of his ; j hearty, rollicking laughs, as he met the < gaze of the serious browi eyes lifted to j j iiio intc. . "A land-lubber? Why, m-* boy | that's what the sailors call one w o ha J j ' . never been on the wide blue ^ea. It! strikes me that twovery good definitions j of the word are sitting close beside me j j now, waiting for their sailor friend to J t begin his yarn. Well, I'm ready? ; 2 what shall it be ?" j c . . . '* A true story," exclaimed Walter. | " A'love story," coyly added fifteen-1 ] year-old Alice. i j 1 he old sailor looked thoughtful a I moment; then he said: j c "Very well, it shall be both a true j story and a love story?something! .. ' - . which happened in my own life. I j " Thirty years ago I was not the old r man you see me. These gray hairs i were as black as the raven's wing then, j x And these wrinkled cheeks had been , r bronzed ber eath the skies of many j t climes. i ( - 4*irom a mere hid I had always lovrd j the sea, and the sea must have loved me; j for from a poor cabin boy, I rose | * trough hard work to what the world , . .Us :i successful man. and the owner and captain of as stanch a vessel as 1 eyes could wish to see. ! "I had one daughter named Nellie,the [ * prettiest girl (so evtry one naid) for' . miles ^around. She was all I had to love, and with a fond father's pride I /- gave her the finest of clothes and senti her to the best of schools. Then, when she came Home from school for good * such pleasant times as we had ! But1 alter a while a cloud came over my j x . happiness for I begun to see that my | > pretty daughter couJd not always stay i with me. * Admirers began to be attracted to our cosy cottage, and one, I soon saw, i Nelly liked better than any of the rest. ' ? John Estey was his name, and that lie , tf?s a lair appearing lad I couid not but: admit, but lie was only a common sailor | before the mast, and in my pride I said i that never should the daughter of the j captain of the Ellen Gray wed with one ; , . 80 far beneatbher. Besides, quite lately j there had been another who had seen and fancied my daughter, and who had confided to me his wish to make her his wife. Mr. Morris was older than she > to be sure, by some ten or twelve years, I but he was very rich, and I thought to ; f.-r- myself how well Nellie, with her beauty a and lady-like manners, would grace his i s elegant home. !a * I hadn't told tfellie as yet of my , t ideaf for her future; But as she had al- ^ ways been one of the gentlest of girls, 11 g didn't expect any opposition. "But one afternoon as I came home i s from the river and walked quietly up j - the.garden path, what should I see but i s John Estey and Nellie seated close to- ; j ^ether on the stoop. And, to my great j indignation, the audacious fellow had ! j nis arm arouna my girrs waisu j.ney r were evidently far away in some world , f of tbeir own, for my presence was un- ? known until, like a bomb-shell, I burst r in upon them. What 1 said I do not re- x member. 1 wa.< very angry; but words spoken io passion are soon lorgotten? and it is well for us all that it is so. | " I know that I must have said some '< cruel, bitter ihingu, for when I had ! j . finished John Eitey rose from Nellie's ( . , side, and his (ace was very white as he , replied quietly, his manner in marked ' f oontrast to my wrath: < " 'Captain Gray, 1 love your daughter, t and she has acknowledged that she c loves me. Surely that is no cause for j the insulting things you have said to ( me.' , \ . "Just then Nellie began to cry. :fi 44 Suddenly his calmness left him. j ( 14 4 If you were not her father,'he said,! t 41 would not bear such words from you; , t - Jtojt as it is?' 44 Here Nellie came and wound her ? Arms around me, where I stood nursing my anger. . * Father,' she said, 4 we love each other so!' : . "'Love! between a boy and a girl!1 I exclaimed; ' stull and nonsense!' I "Then I turned to John and pointed j ' to the gate. "'Go!' I said, fiercely, 'and never] come near my daughter again. She is not for such as you.' " With a parting, pitying look toward Nellie, who was sobbing as if her heart j : -i would break, John went away. "The next day I told Nellie of Mr. i Morris' proposal, and of his wealth and high station. She listened till I had finished; then she said gently.but with a look in her eyes I had never seen in them before: j "' I love John Estey, father, and it would be a sin for me to marry another man.' " After that, when it c? e time for my next cruise, J made up my mind it! wouldn't c<o to leave Nellie alone In our ! cottage home as I had always done j hitherto; for, foral:I kne ,that scamp (as I called him) might iuJuce her to j . marry him while I was away. ! " When I told Nellie of my intention J ot taking her wilh me, she only an- i swered: " ' Why, father, you know I have always wanted to go with you on a cruise, but you never would take me before.' "So we started. T had her cabin fitted up as pretty as a little parlor, and thfi Havs wpnt hv merrilv. In the even ings we sat together 011 the deck, and j Nellie would sing, in her sweet voice, ' Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep,' and 'A Life on the Ocean Wave,' and all the familiar sea ballads I loved. The . ' 4 three weeks were drawing to an end, and I began to hope that Neilie was , . - - . coming round to my way of thinking:: so I said one morning, j ust as we sightea the home port: i "' Now, Nellie, like a good girl, make your lather happy by consenting I to do as he wishes.' " She flushed an indignant, rosy red ' .? as she sprang to her feet and confronted : * ' me. j v . Father, I have told you that I can , never love any one but John I would . rather die than marry Mr. Morris.' i " Then, in my turn, I got anery. " 'Very well,' I said; * we will be . . in port in an hour's time, and I have to j eo to L-?(naming a town gome miles - diBtantJ before we go home. I had in-j tended to have taken y ou with me, but you shall stay here a 11 day ill 1 re- i turn.' I * " That frightened her, as I knew it i would. I " 4 Oh, father, please do not leave me j s aione on me snip, vv lai xi sometning 1 n should happen?' jl . " But 1 was obdurate; and when she ' n saw that her pleading had been of no v avail, Nellie saw me go without another 11 V... * word. ii " I smiled myself as I locked the j a cabin door. e "4 I'll see,' I thought,' if a seventeen- i Jear-old girl can set her will against t . mine.* . t " So off I went. But I was not so s hard-hearted as I tried to be; for j r thoughts of my little Nellie locked in j 1: her cabin all alone troubled me all day. s . < " and as soon as I could I transacted my a business and hurried back. " It was growing dusk as I reached the dock wnere the Ellen Gray wa* ii moored, and the first thing I aaw was a i W&' *. W' - ' ; jte* ' ~r< . -i- ' - :Y.'?Vr? ?reat crowd of people, seemincly much xcited over something. Then I missed ;he Ellen Gray; though I strained my >yes I could see no sign of her. "Trembling and shaking under the nfluence of a terrible fear, I asked some >ne who was passing: "' What is the matter? What is the 2rowd for?' "The man did not know me, or he jertainly would have used more cauiion. Bluffly he replied: "'There's been an accident, sir. A aarge loaded with iron ran into the Ellen Gray, and sunk her. The captain tvas away, they say, and the crew had rone off on their own hook. Only the ;abin-boy was on board, and he was picked up half drowned, and taken to [lis home. So it isn't so bad as it might be, for no lives arc lost.' " I gazed for a moment wildly into his face, Lsrdly comprehending his words, then flinging up my arms, I cried in a yoice of agony: " 4 Nj lives'lost? Man, I am a murderer ! My daughter was on that ship!' "Then a merciful darkness came over my vision, and I knew no more for a l: ? - TTTl- ? T +/-v T frmnH mvsplf llllie. V* WCIl JL uam>. w ? j in a druggist's shop, where I had been carried, and I could hear as in a dreatn low voices about me saying: " How sad! Of course the poor girl must have goue down with the ship.' "Then suddenly I remembered all, and cried out: "'My child! my child! I have killed my child!" " Then I lost consciousness for the second time,and when I awo"ke I was in bed, and some one was seated beside mo. It was John E3tey. With a sharp pain at my heart, I recognized the manly, handsome face of the lad my girl loved. No, liad loved. Alas! uirough her unaaturai father's own act her sweet young life had been made a sacrifice to i moment's angry passion. "John saw thit I knew him, and bending over my bed, he took my hand, is he said: "' Are you better, captain ?' "'I do not wish to be better,'I answered ; ' if I dared to pray I would ask bo Lord to let me die. But I am a nurderer?I have killed my child?I iare not pray.' " 'Don't feel that way, Captain Gray, low could you know what was to hap jenP' "His gentleness--he who had such :ause to hate me?went^straight to ray leart. "'John,1 I exclaimed,'can you forgive me for my angry words ? I see iow how wrong I was, for I had noihn<r against you save that you were Lot ich. Oh, John, how 1 wish I could )Ut my child's hand in yours and say ake her. My daughter, my beautilul ;hild!' "Captairi^1 faid John, huskily, 'are ?ou sure of that! Cuu.d she not have jeen saved by some chance?' "His tone and the expression of his acc showed me he was keeping sorue,hing back. 'John!' I almost shrieked, why do you speak in that way? For nercy's sake do not wait if you have iny gooG news for uie!' "Then he told me how shortly after [ had left, seeing that the Eilen Gray vas in port, he had gono down to the lock, and Vowed himself over to ihe ship, to try and obtain some word of Mellie, who he knew had gone with me >n my cruise. To his surprise lie had found the ship deserted by all of the :rew save the cabin-boy, who told him .hat Ellen was on board locked in the :abin. ' In a trice he had picked the lock; icd that very day the two young peo)lc took matters into their own bands, md, going before a minister, had lighted each other their vows. ** Nellie held back at U rat,'said John, for she feared that you would never orgivc her But I said it would all :ome light in time, and that if we waited ve might be separated forever. So she jonsented.' " As he told me all this, I, who had ilways prided myself on my strength, >roke down and cried like a oaby. "Then came a step outside, and a weet voice I had thought never to hear igain called out: "Father! dear father!' md there was Nellie clasping me round he neck with both soft arms as if she vould never let me go, and weeping and ,mi]iTi.<7 all tncet.hpr. "They were happy days, and years iter that, John ana Nellie came to live vith me in our cosy cottage near the tea; and I hardly could tell whica I oved best?my son or my daughter. " As to the Ellen Gray, I scarcely felt ltr loss at all. In my great thankfulless that God in His mercy had kept me rom living with the dreadful thought ilways belore my mind that I had been ny child's murderer, I had Dot room to nourn." An Author in Close Quarters. Early in 1859 Charles Collins wrote a >ook about the then unknown country ^oloraoo, and Pike's Peak, in whic'i he ;ave a glowing picture of the whole egion. This book had a good deal to lo with stimulating emigration. After he rush to rikc's Peak had been going >n for some time, Collins, with the late D. Richardson, setout lor that place. Collins kept distributing his book all ilong the route and collecting his subicriptions at the ranches previously :anvassed, until after some days of ravel both began to be aware of the fact hat a great many of the emigrants, who lad gone out weeks before, seemed to be oturning. Their wagons no longer >ore the bold inscription " Pike's Peak >r Bust," but it was transformed to this .'ffect, " Pike's Peak Busted." The two ravelers unaware of the depth of cling ;?% n?/i oiflPhifinowAo f.hiH f hnnalit. ittle of it until they had traversed about >ne-half the route, 300 miles from St. Toseph. Here was a famous stopping )lace, know as Jack Morrow's ranch, a >lacc where Collins and Richardson had letermined to put up at that night. Colins, who was well acquainted with borrow, got some distance ahead of ?.ichnrd3on, in whose wagon, beside iirrself and the driver, were ?, number )f emigrants, also bent on trying the iew country. Collins, as he drove up to Monow's ranch, was considerably surprised at ;he sigbt. The place was everwhere swarming with miners and emigrants, ill excited and savage about something )r another. There was loud talking everywhere, and loud threats against lomebody who in every breath came in for the mo3t violent and bitter execration. Collins was about to toss one of tiis bocks to Morrow, who came forward hastily when he saw him, and getting up close to him he said, in a voice liusky with suppressed excitement: 44 Collins, frit!" " What do you mean?" said Collins jx cited. 44 Git out o' here quick," said the exited ranchman, as he waved hi3 hand ind disappeared. Collins, now thoroughly aroused, ;hrust his book back under his seat and t>ade his driver get out and mingle with ;he crowd ana find what was the matfllO /IriTTOT* m> I .Ci 1u n. icvy liJiauivc Wiv un * vi 4V ;urned with a face white as a ghost, ind told Collins that the miners were jfferine: a reward of$2,000 for the bodies >f Collins and Richardson, dead or alive. Saving heard that they would be along ;hat way they had come to a stop at Morrow's ranch and secured a coutle >f ropes, intending to hang them. Collins quietly slid down irom his juggy and sauntered out to the edgv of he crowd. Here he heard himself and tichardson denounced in the most un paring manner. Seeing there was no ime to lose, he instructed his driver to trike another route, while he himself ircled around the crowd until he eached some tall grass, when he took o his heels. After running for more han a mile he stopoed. Like a flash he question crowed his mind, where pas Richardson? He turned around nd struck across diagonally for the old oute, in reaching which, some distance rom Morrow's jraneh, he presently let Richardson's team moving along jisurely. I. required br.t an instant 5r Collins to inform him of the true Late of affairs, hearing which he was ot less frightened than Collins himself, 'lie result was that they struck off on a ew route, and finally reached Denver /ithout further adventure. Denver was hen a settlement of about one thousand ahabitants, all living in tents. Soon Iter their arrival there the two pro mpted 120 acres of land each. Becomng disgusted afterwar I, they threw up he land again. To this day Collins uings his hst down on his knee and ays with an emphatic air ot comic egret: " And fools that we were, this and is now the heart of the town ?and old in less than ten years afterward for , thousand dollars an acre." The population of Leadvi He, Colorado, 9 estimated at from 25,000 to 30,000, and t has nearly doubled ia year. " General Garfield's letter of Acceptance. General Garfield has forwarded from his home at Mentor, Ohio, to Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, the following letter of acceptance of the nomination tendered him by the Republican National convention: Mentor, O., July 12. Dear Sir: On the evening of the eighth of June last I had thenonor to receive from you in the 'presence of the committee of which you were chairman, the official announcement that the Republican national convention at Chicago had that day nominated me as their candidate for President or the United States. I accept the nomination with gratitude for the confidence it implies, and with a deep sense of the responsibilities it imposes. I cordially indorse the principles set forth in the platform adopted by the convention. On nearly all the subjects of which it treats, my opinions are on record among the published proceedings of Congress. I venture, however, to make special mention of some of the principal topics which are likely to become subjects of discussion. Without reviewing the controversies which have been settled during the last twenty years, and with no purpose or wish to revive the passions of the late war, it should be said that while the Republicans fully recogonize and will strenuously defend all the rights retained by the people, and all the rights reserved to the States, they reject the pernicious doctrine of State supremacy which so long crippled the functions of the national government, and at 0110 time brought the Union very near to destruction. They insist, that the United States is a nation with ample power of self-preservation: that its Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law of the land; that the right of the nation to determine the method by which its own legislature shall be created cannot be surrendered without abdicating one ol the fundamental powers of government; that the national laws relating to the election of representatives in Congress shall neither be violated nor evaded; that every elector shall be permitted freely and without intimidation to cast his lawful ballot at such election and have it honestly counted, and that the potency of his vote shall not be destroyed by the fraudulent vote of amr other person. The best thoughts and energies of our people should be directed to those great questions of national well-beine in which all have a common interest. Such efforts will soonest restore perfect peace to those who were lately in arms against each other, for justice and good-wilt will outlast passion. But it is certain that the wounds of the war cannot be ^ j 1 ,u? completely nurtitu, uuu iuc s^mt ui brotherhood cannot fully pervade the whole country until every citizen, rich or poor, white or black, is secure in the free and equal enjoyment of every civii and political right guaranteed by the Constitution and the lawB. Wherever the enjoyment of these rights is not assured discontent will prevail, emigration will cease, and the social and industrial forces will continue to be disturbed by the migration of laborers and the consequent diminution of prosperity. The national government should exercise all its constitutional authority to put an end to these evils; for all the people and all the States are members of one body, and no member can suffer without injury to all. The most serious evils which now afflict the South arise from the fact that there is not such freedom and toleration of political opinion and action that the minority party can exercise an effective and wholesome restraint upon the 'party in power. Without such restraint party rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt. Th% prosperity which is made possible in the South by its great advantages of SOll ana camare Will never ut* leuuzeu until every voter can freely and salely support any party he pleases. rorULAR EDUCATION. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which reither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. Its interests are intrusted to the States and to the voluntary action of the people. Whatever help the nation can justly afford should be generously given to aid the States In supporting common schools; but it would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of the revenues of the nation, or of the States, to the support oi sectarian schools. The separation of the Church and the State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute. THE NATIONAL FINANCES. On the subject of Dational finances, my views have been sc- frequently and fully expressed that litMe is needed in the way ot additional statement. The public debt is now so well secured and the rate of annual interest has been so reduced by refunding, that rigid economy in expenditures and the fai thful application of our surplus revenues to tue payment oi tne principal 01 uie debt will gradually but certainly free the people from its burdens, and close with honor the financial chapter of the war. At the same time the government can provide for all its ordinary expenditures, and discharge its sacred obligations to the soldiers of the Union, and to the widows and orphans of those who fell in its de fense. The resumption of specie payments, which tbe Republican party so courageously and successfully accomplished, has removed from the field o! controversy many questions that long and seriously disturbed the credit of the 1 government and the business of the country. Our paper currency is now as national as the flag, and resumption h s not onl.v made it everywhere equal to coin, but has brought into use our store ! of gold and silver. The circulatirg medium is more abundant than ever be fore, and we need only to maintain the 1 equality of ail our dollars to insure to labor and capital a measure of value from the use of which no one can suffe r loss. The creat nrosDeritv which the country is now enjojinc should not be endangered by any violent changes or doubtful financial exper'ments. THE TARIFF. In reference to our custom laws a policy should be pursued which wilt bring revenues to the treasury, and will enable the labor and capital employed in our great industries to compete fairly in ; our own markets with the labor and c ipi tal of foreign producers. We legislate loi the people of the United States, and not for the whole world, and it is our glur> that the American laborer i3 more intelligent and better paid than his foreign competitor. Our country cannot be in dependent unless its people with their abundant natural resources possess tin requisite skill at any time to clothe, arm and equip themselves for war, and in time ot peace to produce all the ueces- , sary implements of labor. It was tl e manifest intention of the founders of Uu government to provide for the comm >11 ; defense, not by standing armies alone, but by rai<n* among the people a greate: , aimy of artisans whose intelligence an<> ' skillshould powerfully contribute to the safety and glory of the nation. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. ' Fortunately for the interests of commerce, there is no longer any formidable opposition to appropriations forth; improvement of our harbors and great navigable rivers, provided that the expenditures for that purpose are strictly ' limited to works of national importance The Mississippi river, with its great tributaries, is of such vital importance ! to so many millions of people that the saf. tv of its navigation reauires txceu tional consideration. In order to eecure to the nation the control of all its waters. , President Jefferson negotiated the purchase of a vast territory, extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific ocean The wisdom of Congress should be in 1 yoked to devise some plan by which ' ttiat great river shall cease to lie a ' terror to those who dwell upon its banks, and by which its shipping may safely carry the industrial products of 25,000,000 of people. The interests of agriculture, which is the basis of all ' our lAuterial prosperity, and inwhu h seven-tweliths of our population are engaged, as well as the interests ot manufactures and commerce, demand that the facilities for cheap transporta tion shall be increased by the use of all uui ?ie!ib wnicivHyuiocs. CHINESE EMIGRATION. The material interests of this country, the traditions of its settlement and the sentiment of our people have led the government to offer the widest hospitality to emigrants who seek our shores for new and nappier homes, willing to share the burdens as well as the benefits of our society and intending that their posterity shall becoiile an undistinguishable part of our population. The recent movement of the Chinese to our Pacific coast partakes but little of the qualities of such an emigratioi either iu its purposes or its result. ? is too much like an importation to b< welcomed without restriction: too much like an invasion to be looked upon without solicitude. We cannot consenl to allow any form of servile labor to be introduced among us under the guise ol emigration. Recognizing the |gravits of this subject the present administration supported by Congress, has sent to China a commission of distinguished citizens for the purpose ol securing such a modification of the existing treaty as will prevent the evils likely to arise from the present situation. It is confidently believed that these diplomatic negotiations will be successful without the loss of commercial intercourse between the two powers, which promises a great increase ol reciprocal trade and the enlargement ol our markets. Should these efforts tail, it will be the duty of Congress to mitigate tlie evils already felt, and prevent iheir increaso by such restrictions as, without violence or injustice, will place upon a sure foundation the peace ot our communities and the freedom and dignity of laber. THE CIVIL SERVICE. The appointment of citizens to the various executive and judicial offices ol the government is, perhaps, the most difficult of all duties which the Constitution has imposed on the Executive. The convention wisely demands that Congress shall co-operate with the Executive departments in placing the ?ivil service on a better basis. Experience has proved that with our frequent changes ol adminisf.ration no system of reform can be made effective and permanent without the aid of legislation. Appointments to the military and naval ser vice are so regulated by law and custom as to leave but little ground for complaint. It may not be wise to make similar regulations by law for the civil service. But, without invading the authority or necessary discretion of the Executive, Congress should devise a method that will determine the tenure of office, and greatly reduce the rro certainty which makes that service so uncertain and unsatisfactory. Without depriving any officer of his rights as a citizen, the government should require him to discharge all his official duties with intelligence, efficiency ard- faithfulness. To select wisely from our vast population those who are best fitted for tho mnnu nffifip.q tn hfl fillfld. remiires rti acquaintance far beyond the range ol any one man. The Executive should, therefore, seek and receive the information and assistance of those whose Knowledge of the communities in which the duties are to be performed best qualifies them to aid in making the wisest choice. The doctrines announced by the Chicaeo convention are not the temporary devices of a party to attract votes and carry an election; they are deliberate convictions resulting from a careful study of the spirit of our institu- J ions, the events of our history and the best impulses of our people. In my judgment these principles should control the legislation and administration of the government. In any event, they will guide my conduct until experience points out a better way. Ifelected.it will be my purpose to enforce strict obedience to the Constitution and the laws, and to promote, as best I may, the interest and honor of the u'linlo fwiint.rv rfilvin? for SUDDOrt UDOn the wisdom of Congress, the intelligence and patriotism of.the people, ana the favor of God. With great respeot, I am, very truly yours, J. A. Garfield. To the Honorable George F. Hoar, Chairman of Committee. ' A Fortune for a YFiuk. A writer in Golden Days tells a " true story" of how a gentleman refused $150,000 for winking his eye, and thereby preserved his honor. The gentleman", who is called Mr X , occupied a confidential position in a great railway corporation. It was rumored that the company was aoout to assume charge of a languishing railroad. If so, the 'stock of the latter would rise in price. Now, one bold speculator?or operator, as they are called in broker's parlance?was an intimate friend of Mr. X . After long reflection, he came to the conclusion that the best thing he couid do was to call on Mr. X , ask in confidence for some definite information on the subject, and ofl'er to share with Mr. X the profits of any venture thut he might make on " points "given by him. This he did. "Mr. X said he," if I knew that the transaction which it is rumored is to take place in a few days were really to occur, I could, by buying up the stock of the company that is now in the market, make both you and myself rich men. Can you not, by a word, say whether the rumor will be realized or DM I1UI I " I cannot say," Mr. X replied. " But a word," the broker persisted. " It shall be share and share alike." " [ cannot say," Mr. X repeated, as before. "You need not speak, then," the broker said, excitedly. " Lift your arm, nod your head, lift your eyebrows." *"I cannot," Mr. X replied, as calmly as was possible. " Do you not understand your own interests?" the broker burst forth, hotly. "Mr. X , you are a poor man! Now, if you will only heed me, you may become a rich one in a day. Are these reports true? If so, I can clear three hundred thousand at a siroke? The half of that sum shall be yours. I do not ask you for a word; you need not open your mouth. Only wink your eye! It is possible for you to make one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, sir, simply by winking your eye?" Ilow vast a sum to Mr. X , who, though intrusted with grave secrets, was still only a clerk, receiving but a moderate salary! He was staggered for a moment, but soon regaining his composure, he looked the eagerly-expectant broker in the face, and answered: " I cannot do it," and left the room instantly. The broker went away crestfallen. In the absence of all definite information he feared to take the great risks which always a'.tends speculating in the dark, nnri riirl nnt-. invpst, ?vriv nf liis mnnpv. la a few days, however, the whole matter was settled. The great comDany really did take in the smaller, and the stock almost doubled in value. A few days after that the broker met Mr. X on the street, and smarting keenly under the feeling that an mormous fcain had slipped through bis lingers, just for the wunt of a word, he rashly upbraided Mr. X for what lie called bis " obstinacy.*' Mr. X , like al men of true power, kept his temper, and turning to his rash reviJer, he said: " The temptation with which you assailed me was great, indeed, but I had a i rust to fulfill, and my honor is beyond price." Although every one should do his duty for duty's own sake, still it is always a pleasure to see great deeds of honor meet with deserved reward. It was so, I am glad to say, in Mr. X??"s case. Hid capabilities and his perfect reliability soon secured liim one of the very highest positions in the company whose secrets lie had guarded so well, and he is now paid a salary that is at least haif as large as tLiat which the President of the United States receives. Palm-Lear Fossils. Mr. E. F. Johnson, the expressman, brought, into the Gazelle office some very interesting fossil remains which he had just discovered. In speaking of his discovery he said: " A year ago my son reported that he had found upon the bluffs northeast of town a petrified fish-tail, but imbedded in loo large a rock for him to carry. ITe has often urged me lo go with him and get it. I finally went, and to my astonishment found Lliat lie had discovered a very fine impression of a palm-leaf, and I soon found three other perfectly-printed leaves of the same variety. The leaves were of enormous size, the rib3 diverging from the base just like palm-fans, but upon n very in urn migci duuv. The cstimntcd size of r ne leaf, calculated from reliable data furnished by the ratio of divergence, is found to be eight fret long by six feet wide." Mr. Johnson also found several sections of palmtree trunks, one ol which he brought to the Quzettc oftice, together with the impi'essions of the leaves.? Colorado Springs Gaz.tle. ______ "There's music in the air," as the man said when an accordeon fiend fell out of a third-st'.>ry window ju9t after lift had started on the thirteenth stanza of the "? wanee River." NEWS EPITOME, Eastern add Middle StatesA lire at Tyrone, Pa., destroyed about thirty buildings, including all the banks, the opera house and the postofflce. The damage is estimated at #150,000 and the insurance at 830,000. Colonel William Tilden Pelton, nephew and seoretary oi Samuel J. Tilden, died at a New York hotel the other day, aged fllty-two years. The deceased, it will be remembered, was an important witness in the presidential " oipher dispatches " investigation made by the Potter congressional committee. Lee A Murdoch's shoddy mill and one dwelling house at East Douglass, Mass., were destroyed by Are a tew days since, causing a loss of about $130,000. The Salvation Army has settled upon Cape May as the place most in need of its labors. A statement prepared by the receivers ol the Reading railroad shows a total indebtedness between the Philadelphia and Reading raihoad and the Reading Coal and Iron oompany ol $200,007,914 19. A Maryland-born colored woman living at Syraouse, N. Y., has hair as white as snow. But, then, she has passed a century of liio, being ia her 102d year. She is a oripple from a fall about one year ago, bat otherwise ae well as ever. Fred Grablo, engineer, and William Blaok, fireman, were killed by a boiler explosion in a Pittaburgh (Pa.) iron mill. An iron-clad building used as a boiler-room was completely wrecked. " ' " *"* ? -t- -? +Yiaf. Tiie rush to .bong uranun w w -? the hotel proprietors have been compelled to turn away hundreds ol people. Large temperance meetings are being held at Asbury Park, N. J. The "Women's temperance convention began there the other day and attracted multitudes. A wagon containing nine persons on its way from the Glen House to the summit of Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, was tipped over and Mrs. Ira Chichester, ol Michigan, was instantly killed and live other persons were injured. The New York mercantile agenoy of Don, Barlow ?Jfc Co. has issued a circular showing that the number ot failures in the United States during the first six months of 1880 was 2,497, with liabilities amounting to $32,838, 763. During the same poriod in 1879 ths number of failures was 4,058, and the liabilities ?65,779,390. fliA Dfimo. /it a LueuuuK m non * emtio national committoe W. H. Barnum, of I Connecticut, was elected permanent chairman, and F. A. Prince was chosen secretary. The committee appointed by the national Democratic convention at Cincinnati to inform General Hancook and Mr. English ol their nomination for President and VicePresident perloimed their duty the other day at General Hancock's headquarters on Gov ernor's Island. The committee proceeded in a body to his residence, and niter Governor Stevenson, chairman ol the Cincinnati convention, had been introduced, a letter was read signed by the lull committee and tendering the nomination to General Hancock, who replied as follows: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee?I appreciate the honor conferred upon mo by the national Democratic convention lately assembled in Cincinnati, and I thank you for your courteay in making known that honor to me. As soon as time permits to give the subject that carelul atteution belonging to it, I shall prepare nnd will send you a reply of a formal nature, accepting the nomination by the Democratic party to the office ol President ol the United States." The members ol the committee were then introduced to General Hancock, who was in mourning for his lourmonth-old grandson and namesake, whose death had taken placo a lew hours previous, William H. English, who was also presont, having come on from Indiana, was then formally informed of his nomination for VicePresident, and he briefly thanked the committee, saying that he would at an early daj iormnlly and in writing make the acceptance usual on such occasions. The Democratic national committee an< the Congressional campaign committee paid ( visit to the reaidenco of Mr. TiWen, in New York, and presented him with a copy of th< resolution of respect passed by tho Cincinnat convention. Mr. Tilden cordially returnet thanks. A carious nccident took place on a train o the Long Island railroad at East Rockawaj the other day. Twenty-seven Italian iaborert were swept Irom one of the platlorm cars bj a heavy wire rope attached to a derrick at th< side ol the track and which sagged as the traic swept by. Two or three ol tho men won fatally injured, and nearly all tho rest were hurt more or less seriously. M. K. Waite & Co. have filed notice witb the New York secretary of state thai I they have discovored a mine of gold ore ir the town of Northampton, Fulton county, ! N. Y. Throe 25,000-barrel oil-tanks near Brad, ford, Pa., were struck by lightning and de> siroyed. Western and Southern States. At Chicago McCormick & Co.'s elevator, containing 50,000 bushels of oats, 10,000 bushels of corn and 2,000 bushels of wheat, together with an adjoining warehouse filled with stoves, was destroyed by fire, causing a total loss of ?75,COO. Several farmers near Wabash, Ind., have been arrested for cutting the dam which supplies that city with water. They desired to stop the back-water ovorflow on their (arms. A St. Louis dispatch says the scheme to in vado the Indian Territory and settlo on me government lands is gaining strength daily; that thousands ot iamilies are preparing to enter the Territory and that il the military are instructed to eject them there will probably be a conflict. Peter Sullivan was killed and another boy had his leg broken by an explosion oi blasting powder in an old lockup at Holyoke, Mass. Sullivan's body was blown through the root. Armour A Co., a Chicago firm of pori packers, have been engaged in an immense speculation in pork. The Arm began buying pork as lar back as December. Their cast purchases amount to 165,000 barrels, and loi August, September and October delivery about 250,000 barrels. They began buying tc hold when pork was out at $10 to $10.50, and the other day it closed at $10.80 to $10,824 having touched $14.30 on a preceding Thursday. George Allen Prioe, a colored man, was hanged at Cincinnati lor the murder of Villic Black, a tobacco merchant, who had discharged the condemned man from hia employ lor stealing tobacco. Daniel Washington, a colored man, woj hanged at Chester, S. C., for the murder ol Allen Collins, a colored witness who had been summoned to testify against him in a horsestealing case; and at Goldaboro, N. C., on the same day, Alexander Howard, also colored, was hanged lor murdering an old white man named Autry. The census returns make the population of San Francisco 233,000, including 20,5.0 Chinese. A mail rider and his horse in Meriwether county, Ga., were struck by lightning and both killed. During a Are at the dwelling of a man named Turnrose near Franconia, Minn., two ol his children?girls aged throe and eleven years?were burned to death and another daughter ol seventeen received probably latal burns. General Grant is on a visit to Colorado and a banquet was tendered him the other night at Denver. The South Carolina Republican State convention, in session at Raleigh, nominated a ticket headed by Ralph P. Buxton for governor. Iho town of Van Meter, la., was submerged to the depth ol over three feet by a waterspout. Several buildings were demolished and considerable damage was done to crops ir the surrounding country. Chicago has made arrangements to receive 30,000 knights and 12,000 ladies at the triennal conclave of the knight templars in August, One hundred thousand other visitors are also expected. Colonel Cash, the surviving principal ia the recent duel in South Carolina, has been arrested charged witti the killing ot Colonel Shannon. Mrs. Brown, on trial for killing lier husband at Indianapolis, Ind., has boen found guilty and condemned to death lor murder in the first degree. General Weaver, Groenback candidato lor President, has opened iho campaign in Alabama by a8peoch at Scottsboro. During a storm in Michigan a boat containing a man named Miller, his wife, two children and a boy mmod Rose, was upset in Lake Winnebago. The boy Rose was drowned. The rost clung to the bottom of the boat twentv hours, the woman having a flltcen-ycnr-old boy lashed to her back, The boy died the next night and tho others at last accounts were in a critical condition. Tho census returns lor Wisconsin show that the population of some counties has decreased since 1870. Jefferson county has a population ol32,137 lor 1880, against 31,040 lor 1870. Dodge county has 44,122, about 4,000 less than in 1870. Part ol the city of Waterloo, Iowa, was flooded by a heavy rainstorm. Two boys and one girl were drowned, and an estimated damage of ?25,000 was done to property. While S. Rickley, president ot tho Capital City hank, of Columbus, Ohio, was sitting at his desk ho was shot in the forehead and nrobablv latally wounded by Andrew Eichen berg, a dyer, who then shot himself, dying almost instantly. Mr. Rickley's refusal to loan Eichenberg money was the c&use of the deed. Memphis, Tenn., has been visited by a slight shock ot earthquake. The official cenans returns of Detroit, Mich., show the population to bo 116,027. Colorado has been visited by a damaging storm. The river at Pueblo rose eight feet in less than an hour, and the emigrants camped along its bottom lost nearly everything. Ten miles ol the Denver and Rio Grande railroad were washed away between Pueblo and Colorado Springs, and every bridge, cnlvert and cattle-guard lor a distance ol twenty-one miles was more or less damaged. Hailstones lell to the depth of from two to three feet. Prentiss Nelms and Tom Konkey, both colored, while being conveyed to the jail at Hernando, Miss., charged with murder, were taken from the offloers by a band of men and I killed. - . .. .... ,.--^7. ? "j - . -?jvrvr;, - v From Washington* The treasury department has purchased 381,000 ounces of 'silver for coinage Into standard dollars. A statement made by the postofflee department shows that the issues ot postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards daring the past fiscal year amounts to ?31,932,619? an increase of nearly 83,500,000 over the preceding year. This percentage is abont doubls the average rato ot increase during the previous five years. The greatest proportionate increase is in postal cards, the issues of which amounted to $2,753,470, against $2,217,917 lor 1879. The largest actual gain was in postage stamps, whioh during the year aggregated $22,414,928?an increase ot $2,297,669 over the preceding year. The issues of newspaper and periodical stamps in 1879 amounted to $1,088,412, and fl,262,903 lor the fiscal year of 1880. The postofflee department has ordered the establishment in a few days ot a large number ol additional money-order offices. A Washington dispatch says that owing to the small appropriations made by Congress lor the government printing office, a discharge ol about twenty-five per cent, of the lorce now on duty in that department will in all probability soon become necessary. The President has appointed Ornnge Judd, i ol New York, and ol the American Agriculluritt, to be a member ot the board of Indian commissioneis, vice Barstow, resigned. The treasury department has prepared a statement showing in detail the operations connected with the retirement and refunding ol the United States bonds and thejwnount ol interest saved by the transaction. The entire amount saved by the relunding Irom December 1, 1871, to July 1, 1880, is stated to be | 108. ine loiai amount ot oonua rolunded is 91,395,3471800. At a cabinet meeting it was determined to investigate the recent Narragansett disaster on Long Island Sound, in order to determine if the steamboat inspector* were in any -way responsible. According to the report ot Colonel Worthington, statistician ot the agricultural department, the wag?a of farm laborers throughout the United States have inoreased during the I last fiscal year. The report says that in the | Pacific and mining States and Territories the 1 ranfte of monthly wages for farm laborers without board is between $30.75 in Montana 1 and $22.50 in Washington Territory. Of the States east ot the Mississippi, Minnesota pays her farm laborers better than any othor Northern State, the monthly wages with board [ being $16.33, while Vermont pays $12.62. In tho Southern States the prices paid range from .$12.26 in Louisiana to $7.32 in South I Carolina, the average being $9.60. Tho Hon. John Allen Campbell, late third I assistant secretary of state, died at hia residence in Washington, a few days &30, aged forty-five years. Foreign Neva. The Marquis ol Ripon the new viceroy ol India, has reached Bombay. Pierre Lorill&rd's brown colt Iroquois won the race lor the Chesterfield cap, valued at $5,600, at Newmarket, England. The village ot Guisa, in Cuba, has been destroyed by flro. Fierce Egan, the well-known English author and journalist, died in London a few days ago, aged sixty-six years. Switzerland, in the vicinity of Qeneva, has been shaken up by a severe earthquake. Two men wore killed and a portion of the summit ol a mountain lell, overwhelmi >g a large wood. An earthquake at the island ot St. George, one ot the Azores, has resulted in the formation of another island 600 yards distant and about 18,000 square yards in extent. Thomas Boothroyd, a wealthy larmer ol Howard township, Ont., was attacked by a boar, which threw him down and bit him in the side and throat, completely severing the jugular vein and causing his death in fifteen minutes. An official decree has been published in r>?;nrr full rATTI,'a?ion ot sentences to I all individuals convicted ot participation in i the insurrection of 1870-71 and subsequent T insurrectionary movements. 3 It is stated that there are already grave i dissensions in the new British cabinet. { Tho special correspondent ol a New York paper reports bolter times in Ireland. ( Dr. Paul Broca, a French senator and an r eminent surgeon and author, is dead in his i flUy-sixth year. r The weather throughout Spain is intensely ) hot, and many eases of sunstroke are rei ported. j A timber raft with lorty persons on board ) was dashed to pieces in the rapids ol tho river Dnieper, and all perished. i Tom Taylor, a well-known English dramat tist, and at one time editor of London Punch, i died in London a low days ago, aged sixty, three years. Tho capture ol Arica by the Chilians is con. sidered a death blow to the hopes of Pern, . but President Pierola still urges war to the bitter ond, and is taking the most energetio measures. Great damage to the standing crops has been 5>'istained in the western oounties ol Ontario bv the recent storms. Two thousand Turkish soldiers, whose time of service had expired, threw down their arras und domanded their pay, but were overpowered and confined to their barracks. This occurrence induced the sultan to dismiss 0 mun Pasha, minister of war. Tho Russian wheat harvest is reported to be a failure. Lima, the capital of Peru, is to be besieged by the Chilian army ii the terms of peace proposed by Chili are not accepted. Bolivia, being en tie fled with the offers of peace made by Chili, has withdrawn trom the contest as Poru's ally. Six actors were seriously injured by leaping from a burning theater at Perpignan, France. A London dispatch says that at the annual dinner of the Cobden club J. W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore a-jd Ohio railroad, related a hitherto unpublished anecdote which 1 excited great interest. He stated that on the : termination ot the civil war in the United ' States Mr. Kiciiora oooaen wrote u> mm ana urged forcibly that the Fedeial government should adopt a magnanimous policy toward ' the Southern leaders. The letter was readat ' a meeting ot the American cabinet, and produced so great an impression that it turned the scale in favor ot olemenoy. The national holiday of Franc??the taking ol the Bastile by tho French revolutionists in J 1789?has been reitored, and was celebrated this year with a grand military review, illuminations and fireworks. The streots and houses oi Pan's were profusely decorated, and 1 there was general rejoicing, i ?The Census In the Cities. The following are the census returns from a few of the prominent cities, compared with their population in 1870, and showing the gain of cach: C,lia. 1880 1870. (Tain. Rxhosier, X. Y. 87,057 62,336 24,671 1 Wheeling. W. Va. 31,671 19,003 12,633 Denver. Col., 34,00(1 8,000 26,000 St. l-onls. Mo., 375.0(10 310,0W Gi,93? Peoilj, III., 27.540 22,819 4,691 . Slifiliillcld, 111., 19,000 17^64 1,636 1 ClIKllinitl, O., 25(1,(100 216,239 33,761 ' Plitla lelphia, Pa., 843,000 674,(122 IC.8,978 , Chicago, III.. 474,404 298,977 176,427 District of Columbia, 175,(KJO 13l,7UO 43.300 Providence, It. I? 104,500 68,904 35,596 I Lowell, Mass., 40.928 20,272 Nashua, X II., 13,.1*7 10,543 2^444 Klmira, X. v., 21.493 15,863 5,635 I Cleveland, O., 155,946 92,829 65,117 Xcw Alb'ny, Ind.. 17.500 15396 2,104 Jelferoonville, Ind.. 10,000 ? ? liliiKhampton, X. Y? 17,100 12.692 4.408 Troy, S. V. 57,000 46,465 10,535 Merlden.Ct.. 19,108 10,495 8,513 Waterbury, Ct, 22.000 10,826 11,174 Auroru. III., 12,007 11,162 Joliet. 111., lllioO ? ? Sprltisfleld, Mass, 31,500 26.7>'3 4,797 Louisville, Ky., 120,000 100,7.13 19,257 PottMown. Pa , 5,250 4,125 1,125 Cam leu. X. J., 37,00 1 20 045 16,9\5 New Haven, Conn., 60,000 50.H40 9.160 II irlfcrd, Conn., 4l.o?o 37,IN) 4 820 MliinntpolLs, Minn., 45.UOO l.l.ilt* 31.934 St. Paul, Minr., 40.(00 20,030 19,970 ltrook yn. X. Y., tod 000 396.099 153.900 uuiliey. III., .10.000 24,052 5,943 Jacksonville, 111 11,500 - - trtlfM 11.i\ ill 1 litHk Island, 111 12.WS - Koine, X Y 12.519 ? ? Reading. Pa 43.230 33,930 9.300 Wi Imlugton Pa 42.noo 30 |W59 llarrUbiirK Pa 30,412 -UW 7,303 Chest'T (and sulmrbs) Pa 23,1*10 9485 13 525 A'lelilown Pa IS 162 13 884 4 273 Xorrlstown Pa 132UU 10M 2 457 ChamliC'Sburi: Pa 8000 63>8 1692 West ('hister Pa 7 035 5 630 1405 I/h-k II av- n Pa 5 825 6 9W 1161 PotlMown Pa 5 250 4 125 11 25 Coiishokocken Pa 5 000 3 071 1929 New Castle Del 3 X00 1 900 I 9o0 Milwaukee Wis 130000 71440 58 560 Detroit Mich 119000 79 577 39 423 Danbury Conn 11500 ? ? Pan'llicket HI 19538 6 619 12919 Wonnsoeket it I 16010 11 527 4 483 Newport KI 15 4?5 12 521 2 834 1.iIi . o'11 It I 13 771 ? ? Warwic k UI 12135 ? ? Utlca N Y 33 923 23 80J 5 119 l|o,toll 365 000 250 520 114 474 Haitiinorc 350000 267 3.54 82 646 Albany 87 584 76 216 11368 Dayton O IV* 751 30 473 8 278 St. Joseph Mo 35 000 19 565 15 445 Kwis-sCitv Mo 65 000 32 260 32 740 New Yolk City 1,207 215 952 292 254 923 1 PitsburisPa 153 883 86 076 67 807! Allegheny City Pa 78 472 53 186 25 292 ] Indianapolis 75 031 48 244 26 787 i Nashville Tenn 43 377 25 865 17 512 Omaha 32000 16 000 16 000 KvanSvUlB 29 000 26 07 5 2925 Norwich Conn 21 050 10 653 4 397 I Salt 1-akn City 21000 12861 8 130: Oswego X Y 20 622 2i> 910 ?lec. 278 Poughkeepsle N T 20 0*9 20 080 9 ' Cohocs N Y 20 122 15 357 4 765 Itloonnnuton III 20 000 14 590 5 410 1 Pawtucket It t 19 538 6 619 12 919, Ncwburch N Y 18 000 17 014 930 Sandusky O 15 821 ? ? KaelneWls 15 5O0 9 880 5 620 West Troy NY 11 532 10 694 8.38 Danbury Conn II500 6 542 4 958 Mad is n Wis 10 300 9 170 1 124 Saratoga 11000 8 537 1 563 Dauvi'ic til 9 000 4 751 2 249 Lansincbuitc N Y 7761 0 804 9.50 Watered NY 4 313 3 631 080 ; Green Island N T 4 000 5135 865 A California heroine, who lives upon h er father's ranch in Siskiyou county, was recently introduced to a hear in the absence of her lather. She did not close and bolt the doors and take refuse under the bed. She summoned the rWs. und turned them loose upon her visitor. Bruin miule a masterly retreat to the nearest tree. Rliss 1 Jennie took down her father's Winchester rille, and walking to the foot of the tree, took deliberate aim and lired. Fortunately, the first shot proved a i mortal one, and the bear fell from his perch dead. Miss Jennie is said to be a young lady of diminutive physique and unusually quiet demeanor. i An Unfriendly Grip. A writer upon the English railroad system tells the following story in the t* Boston Commercial Bulletin: While act- ai ing as a pilot guard I came very near n losing my life through showing the d; jnreen light one night instead of the red. fc But I was pushed for time and took the d chances. I was placing a number of It empty wagons in a sliding which crossed o another at an acute angle. Seeing a it passenger carriage not (juite clear of the ei track which I was using at the point T where the two tracks intersected, I o turned on the green light and rushed a ahead to pu3h the carriage clear. I n thought it was a single carriage, and as fl the3e passenger carriages are light, they ii are easily pushed by one man. But 1 there were forty more behind it, a fact I a did not not discover in the dark. b While endeavoring to push the car- z riage I suddenly felt what seemed lo be ii a heavy hand laid on my shoulder. In A I iwofanf T \rytarrr TirViof tjtoq fhft mttt.tiPr h The pressure tightened. Like Fitz A James, I was in no maiden's grasp a The engine-driver had kept pushing on v slowly, the wagons had reached me, fi and I was caught with my breast e against, the bunter of the carriage I was d endeavoring to push away and the s bunter ol the first wagon was pushed in ii against m^ shoulder. I could not shout, n for my breath was being crushed out. c Fire flashed Irom my eyes and my brain r seemed as if it would burst. The bun- t ter slipped past my shoulder, then the r side of the wagon began to tear my e clothing and flesh but I was slightly re- I lieved. g Just then the wncons were stopped? E the engineer had brought the engine to a i stand, having a presentiment that all i . was not right. His fears were realized I when he found me. The musclcs of my I shoulder were lacented, but I received r no internal injury. A month later I got out of bed and went around some time with my arm in a sling. The company kept my situation for me, but I did not avail myself of their kindness; I had had enough of railroading. A Monkey Hangs Himself. At Goldsboro, N, C., occurred one of t.hfi most novel suicides of the centurv. the victim being a monkey owned by Mr. Rockwell Syrock. The animal was quite a favorite with aJ the children for miles around, and knew most of them. For several years past Jocko's owner has been in the habit ot visiting all of the hangings in that portion of the State, taking the mischievous animal with him. The monkey always seemed to take an especial interest in such horrible proceedings. On the twenty-fifth of last June Alex. Howard, acolortd man, was to have been executed lor the murder of an old man, but the governor respited him. The gibbet made for carrying out the sentence had been erected before the executive interposed his power and postponed it. Syrock visited the jail with the monkey and examined these preparations. The animal seemed to be unusuaily curious, and ' watched the scaffold and trap with j earnest eyes. Since that time he has j been playing hanging in his master's , barn. One morning he was found dead, ' suspended by a clothesline to one of the ] ralters of the building. The following figures show the numerical strength of the foreign mission work of the Presbyterian church: Ministers, 208, of whom eighty-three are J natives; licentiate preachers, 147, all natives; medical missionaries and 1 teachers, 11; American women, 209; native teachers, Bible readers, etc., 516; communicants, 12,607; scjolars, 17,791, of whom, in boarding schools, 1,317. A rat poison is advertised that will make rats go away to a neighbor's house and die. It fills a lonfe felt want. Rich in muscle-producing material beyond all other loods and medicii.ea ore Malt Bitters. Some families in Brooklyn have been poisoned by lemon meringue, which the baker had prepared in a copper vessel. Nothing of an acid nature snould ever he nnnbed in a coDner vessel. The ace tate of copper never agrees with even a strong stomach. Equally adapted to the feeble or robust, male or female, are Malt Bitters. In the Persian gulf last jear a million and a hall dollars' worth of pearls were found, and thirty divers were appropri- I ated by the sharks. Music.?They had been to the opera and heard the finest music by thu leading talent. They went home to hear the Baby's wild solo until it was quieted with a dose of. Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup, which at once removed the flatulence. The London Times is gnimbling at . the lack of public parks in the great ( English metropolis. Great FraUe. Albert G. Mann, oi Cottage Homo, HI.,says: ! " I have been prostrated lor three or mora ! years with Kidney Disease, at times I was not ! able to put on my boot?, my wife has olten pulled them on lor me. I was not so bad as j that all the time, but I never knew what it i was to bo without pain in my back until I 1 commenced usine Hunt's Remedy. Since I commenced to take Hunt's Remedy I have | been free from all pain, and take pleasure in i saying that it is the beat medicine that I ever knew for Kidney and Liver Diseases." Trial , size, 75 cents. I Yon can got an elegant lithographic map in j six colors, descriptive of the great trip across i the American Continent, free, by sending your ! address to J. R. Wood, General PassoDger Agent C., B. & Q. R. R., Chicago, ill. Are Ton Not In trood Ilenlth J II the Liver is tbo source ot your trouble, von can And an absolute remedy in Dr. Sakfoud's Liver Invigoratob, the only vegetable cathartic whieh acts directly on the Liver. Cures all Bilious diseases. For Book address Dr. Samforp, 162 Broadway, New York. j The Volute Belt Co., Ittnrihull, Mich., Will send their Electro-Voitaic Belts to the f afflicted upon 30 days' trial. See their advertisement in this paper headed, "On 30 Days' Trial." Veqetixb ia not a stimulating bitters which creates a fictitious appetite, but a gentle tODic which assists nature to reatore the stomach to a healthy aotion. 25c. buys a pair ot Lyon's Heel Stiffeners and make a boot or shoo last twice as long. THE MARKETS. Hzwxomx Beet Osttle?Med. Natives, live wt.. 08 0 10* Olives?Common to Extra State..... 04 0 OA Sheep ?f*0 06* Lambs 06*8 07 Bogs?Live...? ? 04X0 05 Dressed W 0 06X Floor-Ex. State, goodto fanoy.... 4 CO 06 00 Western, Rood to fancy. 4 80 0 7 25 Wheat?No. 2 Red 1 15 0 1 16* j No. 1 White 117 0 1 17* Bye?State 85 0 87 Barley?Two-Bowed State 63 0 65 Corn?Ungraded Western Mixed.... 40 0 51 I Southern Yellow....... 68 0 58 Oats?White State...... 40 0 43 Mixed Western^ 35*? 87* Hay?Retail gradoa 95 01 05 Straw?LoDg Rye, per owt.......... 1 15 0115 Hops?State, 1879 25 0 34 Pork?Mess, new 13 00 013 50 Lard?Olty Steam 7 12*0 7 05 Petroleum?Omde........ 07*@07** Refined 10* Butter?State Creamery 16 0 22 . Diary 17 0 IS ! Weatern Imitation Creamery 12 0 17 i Factory............. 12 0 16 | Cheese?State Factory 08*0 10 Sklma 06 0 06 { Western 06 0 08 i Eggs?State and Penn 14 0 14 Potatoes, Early Rose, State, bbl old 60 0 62 i BUTTALO. Flour?City Ground, No. 1 Spring.. 6 00 06 75 Wheat?No. 1 Hard Duluth 110 0112 < Corn?No. 2 Western 44*0 44* Oats?State 41 0 42 ' Barley?Two-rowed State 66 0 70 > BOBTOH. ' Beef Cattlo?Live weight 04*0 06* e Sheep 04)40 05* J Hogs 03X0 06* | Flour?Wisconsin and Mlnn.Pat.... 6 00 0 8 26 ; Corn?Mixed and Yellow 54 0 66 I / Oats?Extra White 41 0 -16* ' Bye?State 1 05 0 1 06 Mj Wnnl?W??h?l flomhlno h Delaine.. 48 <a 48 Unwashed. " " 35 ? 8C ( WATEBTOWN (MASS ) 01ITL1 1UBJUIT ' Beef Cattle?live weight 03X? 06% " Sheep OUX \ Lambs 0 Ai'C4 06 a Hogs 05#@ 05^ 5 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. good and fancy 4 78 0 5 00 Wheat-No. 2-liod 1 UX& 1 14."* Ryo? Htato 83 (4 85 I Corn?State Yellow 51^(cj 62 Oats?Mixed :-C (4 36 nutter?Creamery extra 20 Q 24 Olieea^?New York Full Cresin 10,'<@ 09if Potrolenm?Ornde 06j*<a07)tf Roflned gs * * i Life In the Polar Beglong. It is impossible to form an idea of a impest in the polar sea. The icebergs re like floating rocks whirled along a ipid current. The crystal mountains ash against each other, backward and >rward, bursting with a roar like thuner, and .returning to the charge, until, >sing their equilibrium, they tumble ver in a cloud of spray, upheaving the :e-fields, which fall afterward like the rack of a whip-lash on the boiling sea. 'he sea gulls fly away screaming; and (ten a black, sbining whale comes for n instant to the surface. When the ridnight sun grazes the horizon, the oating mountains and the rocks seem nmersed in a wave of purple light, 'lie cold is by no means as insupportble as is supposed, We passed from a eated cabin a', thirty degrees above ero to forty-seven degrees below zero i the open air without inconvenience. l much higher degree of cold becomes, owever, insufferable if there is wind, it hfteen degrees below zero, a steam, I s if from a boiling kettle, rises from the J rater. At once frozen by the wind, it ills in a fine powder. This phenom-1 non is called ice-smoke. At forty egrees the snow and human bodies also moke, which smoke changes at once nto millions of tiny particles, like eedles rf ice, which fill the air, and nake a light, continuous noise, like the ustle of a stiff silk. At this temperaure the trunk of trees burst with a loud eport, the rocks break up, and the arth opens and vomits smoking water. Lnives break in cutting butter. Cigars ;o out by contact with the ice on the card. To talk is fatiguing. At night he eyelids are covered with a crust of ce, which must be carefully removed >efore one can open them. ?Professor Vordenskjold. UN FERMENTED MALT BITTERS TRADEMARK MALT AND HOPS^| BlTTEBS RESTOBB THE APPETITE,E.NBion THE BLOOD. To accomplish this great work no medicine or food In the world so successfully combines the element* necessary to success as MA1.T BITTKK3, p'eparpil from Unfrrmenttd Malt and Hop* by the MALT HITTERS COMPANY, and free from the objections nrged against malt liquors. Under their energetic Influence the stomach is alive, the liver active, the kidneyB healthy, the bowel* regular, and the brain at rest What more Is aeslred to preserve health and cheerfulness! Sold everywhere. MALT BITTEB3 COM PAXY. Boston, Man. m 'X*y Itching Humors, Scaly Erup|1 Lk I |\| Hons, Scalp Affections, Salt V X\ 1 XI Itheum, Psoriasis, Scald Head. A1* * Ulcers and Sores infallibly curea U niCCAQPQ by the Ccticdiu Bexidiks, ulOCHobOi which have performed miracles of healing unpiralleled in medical history. Send for Illustrated Treatise, containing testimonials from every part of the Union. Prepared by Weeks t Potter, Chemists, Boston, Mass. Sold by Druggist*. FRAZER AXLE GREASE. FOK HALE BY ALL DEAJXKI. liMntaf Ui MEDAL OF HONOR Mi tk^JmUmM md Paris HrjTtitiimt Chic?|0. FRAZER LUBRICATOR CO., NwYorfc. 5 g |= 3 Are sold byall Hardwaro and Harness Dealers. There is no one owning a horse or male bat what will find In this line of goods, something of great value, and especially adapted to their wants. COVERT M'F'G CO, west troy, n'. y.. Solo Manufacturers. SORE EARS, CATARRH. JlAnr peopeare afflicted with these loathsome dlseasos hit very fcR' >v<*i j.-t well from them; thl< Is owiug to Improper tiMtniert only, as they are readily curable U p:operty treated. This b no Idle boast but a fact I hav* proven ovsr and over attain by my treatment. Send tor my little hock,/rtt te a&. it will tell you nil about the** naatteri and who I am. My lar?>e Book, 373 pages, octavo; price, ?3. by mail. Addrrss DB. O. E 8HOEHAEEK, Aural Surgeon, pia. Tills Clalm-HtttM Eftetoliahed 1S6P. PENSIONS. [Ve vr Uw, Thousands of Soldiers and heirs entitled. Pensions date back to discharge or death. Time limited Address. ? "' stamp, ( lOOBGE ?. LEWOJT, P. O. Drawer IMS, Washington, P. C PETROLEUi T7fin71TTWIJ iElLY Hr FMIll H All wooderftl oibeUnct Is ackaowledged by wbyn dans throogboot Ate world to b? the beat rttnedy dto severed for the c*r? of Wound* Burn*, RhevouUtot Utm Dlanaaea, l*li?a, Catarrh, Chilblains, kr. U ord? that every mm may try it, tt is put *p tn 1.1 aod 9ti oaoI boWlas for hooaehoW use. Obtain It from your dnwEtt, tad jm wfl tod tt softener ta aayttuta* you tow trm "o? 30 DAYS' TRIAL. We wtl noi oar Kactro-Voltek: Belts and etto Electric Appliances upon trial for 3u days to those afflfctK. with Mtrvom OebOily and ditaut* j a perw%at natmt Also of the Liver, Kiilaeya, KheuiaattaJ. Paralyda, t< A mrtarttmrmmtad tr?t>t$. Address Voltais Belt > o., Marshall, Mich. . t\ Fits, Spasms and Concisions mjgk ^ Cured by the use of YV williak s. puncrs epilsps? sirnm. Hi-Uil for(r?? copy o t Kph.iiht Joi-malIo Wk. B. EtSieBI 1'KSICK, WLulcule Druggist, St. Juacph, Mo. iffik TOO'O MAIT OB OLD, flVl ?Ml?l?iariMl KtHttik i*w FT J lif I kMt; iwrtk *f Wr m V^H V9f k?l4 k?*da. t to Ul?k**, f\rM<U?a 1*4 Jm mt/Mti |b? kiir ui *b*ra, i**'I t? Tl^Hp * v\ ***Wf^b?twedeely8IXwel?fwUe &V#Kw?v OrMt Sp*?,?h Du?ti 17 iW k?? M??C fu,iio<>>jmrT'D"L/<ioK^L.t*? ^BSr^ WAIVTED-MKfll of Integrity nnd ability to selJ Trcc?? Vine? aud Miruha. Permanent Smptoyment to good Salesmen. Address D. H. PATTY t CO.. Nurserymen, 7'*> *road Street, Nenrt N. J. SOOD AGENTS WANTED S'WlZn irtlcles ever patented. Big pay. Addre-s CHAS. ilAHKISON, Xo. M72 Broad Street, Newark, X. J. ftmilBI Sorphine HabitCured la 10 IB^IIBBUl Ioa0d?y?. So pay till Cared. Ml B VIVI Dk. J.Stjcmiinh.Lebanon,.Ohja >< TTrKHA.lI! Ilurruli! From Ifeilco toM*lne,' i~l the Great .'.'aoipaUn Sow?. Price, 3ftc.. mallei >y raoslc dealers, or the Chicago Music Co., Publishers. nOPV T> A Tfc RECEIPT fwttt fttb U\JMT A Mr AU. dtretflow to laaka ?m <Joal to thow iold for *2 to 15, for one-third the qiodit) ad Receipt* for 30 kinds of Ink, ffUc?lflr?,30cU.by rennim*ll. AddrmH.BLKD3QHP.M,Alvarjdo,Tua? *s I MID.1* Plnnts! \vi:l pacs to rt\icii you "t A D u A O ti1 safely at (fl.flO per 1.' Oil. Also jft u :)ilu?i Celery at -a.30 per l.n.n. Cat.ijuiie f 1 co. I. K. Tlllln.-bnst, 1-a Piiune, Uu k'a Co., 1'a. "5? "f A TK.\ r. ??d uperuk'i to agpnt* *K / / # (>iu:l! Fret. A.l'lrea V ' ' ' i\ Q. VIOCF.RY, Au^'uat*. Main* ItAPA A MII1VTH I AGENTS WANTEDI 7."? B st Se.llng Artkiea lu the wornl; i # W W Mii.pii'/y-ee. Jai Hbq.s50s. Ddrult, Mich 11/A WTen t-t the W. n.Icr of Ih. Ac. th? R.i?!ln Fit* ' W A II I fcU If.- tNSU. J WORTH 1 CO , lloi SIS!. SI. U'lM. Mo AWARDED , ij^lPlGHESTHONORS i at all the sreat intF Worlds Exhibitions THIRTEENYEARS.'^^j % pAMERICANORGANslfej! ^^4Jj $L HAVE BEEN AWARDED SUCH AT ANY. "MUSICIANSGENERALLY REGARD TH EM / MASON 8c HAMLIN ORGAN CO. Vegetine ^ ^ ~k>$ Purifies the Blood, Renovates and Invigorates the Whole Syitew. ITS KXOIOIKAL rsopssna AM * Alterative, Tonic, Solvent and Diuretic. - m Tisnm la made eic!oak?ty froa the Jntees of carefully aelected barlti, roots Md herbs, and to stronfly co<>centrated that It will eflectotil/ eradiate from the tfttevi every mat of Scrofula* Kcrofttloaa Hamor, Tumori, Cancer, CaBMrow Hamur< En RlpelM, Salt Bh?Ut Syphilitic DlMiM". Canker. FalntneM (t the Stomacll. aad all dlieaaee Cut aria* from fnpora blood. Sciatica, Inflammatory aad Chronic Bhenmatliin. Neuralfla, Govt and Spinal Complaint*, ean only be effectually cared tlflUfb the blood. fee Ulcere aad EraptlTi DlaeMM tt the Skin, Foatnlea, Pimples, Blotchea, Bolts. Tetter. Scaldhcad aal Ktnicworm, Tmithu baa never failed to ? fleet a pvmanent con. For Pains 1a the .'Back, Kidney Complaints, Sroptf, FeCsale Weakness, t?ncorrhoea, srtatne fro? Internal vlceratioo, aad ntertne dlseaaea and Genoral Debility, Tsoanxs acts directly npon the canaaef these complaints. It Invigorates and strengthens (to wbele system, acta vpon the ? ? ?n*? emrm ikgjUoo titd regulate* the borele. - ^ For Cat&rrh, Djriftpda, Hubltiud Co*tlTeneia, Pslpltntioa ?(the floart, H*?dache, Plica, 9Terv?vaaMp, tad fi?ner?J Prostration of th* Herrou Syiten, no '& medlda* he* erer flren rtfcfc perfect aatiefactloc m to* Viciti.ii. it poriflee blood, deeoeeeiO of 0>e organ*, end poeaeeM a oomtittnf power over the mttou 17 item. The remarkable con tRcted by Tsumra toare Induced many phyddaM lad apothecartee whom wt ;-y. know to prescribe and o**S to ttetr own .. . .-:j Infect, Viomxila th*hsetremedyy?ldJ*crrrtrt<lfor the abon dieeoeee, end * Xbt only reUekk BLOOD PCKXFIEB yet placed Ikfor* Utepablfc. TegeUnefi Soli by all Draft la li. gg NYN 0?No SHU "'3 REMEDY FOR CURING M Comlis, Colds, Broiciife Astlmia, CONSUMPTION, And all Throat and Lung Afiectlon*. Indorsed by tin --?i Prett, Physicians, C1*V and Afflicted People. THT IT. YOUB KMEDT IS ms line mm. Sold by *11 Jfrdlcine Dealer*. important to the Fair Sex J THE ORB AT BWQLIfig REMgDY.OBm Lwwi -fwR ocpn, (or whlt??,) P&lnfal JCdstmatioc. Ulceration, Ot^ . ri*n Disease*, Abaaot MwtfaoUkm, all diMMM.kuowi u feiLftla weakness. Thoy hj>TCbeenu?ed to Bnitanrt . for jeanM*periodic#! tad xanlatinc pill. Sold 07*11 v l Drcgplits eterywher*. Prfeo $1.00 per box or ?U bccat \33E2 /he (olca of these Boots llxl Shoe* are inula with two ' 1, tMckner ic? of best sole leaCher. with a coating of infcbc: ; betweeu tiled. The on terfole la protect-d from wtv by UoMlrlch'i Patent Ikixmcr HteclBlvet>. and they are guaranteed, U mUioear any otter tele made. . ' 5 Inquire for them of any BTjot and Shot dealer, and taie , r: do other. HALF SOI.EC may be iiad of U. C. Goopaica, M -7 Church Street, Worcester.llaas., or 40 Hoyoe Aveuoe i Chicago, nia. Send taper pattern of else wanted, with SO centa in stamps for mstps the. or 41) cents fot boy's 'V-. slifl. and a pair wil. be sent by mall. ; My re/ertaces-AH Sswl^j Machine Oompanlss In the *J fri Dnlted Slates. < RED RIVER VALLEY 2,000,0)0 Acres Wheat Lands boat u A? yfat S. for sals by ths St. Pail, Minneapolis &laiitoka R,R. CO. Thro* dollars per sera af iowad thasiMlw for lins> lac SJ?d oulUratiaa. For wrtloiilan apply ta D. A. McKINLAY, . J8& Ia?< CwimlMtwtr, Ht, FmI. Klaa. NATRONA nm & fee best la On World. J Is absolutely p*ra. llti J best for Medktoal Poiioe*. It is the best far Baitag m0' 4 aU Family Uses. Soiibr #t Q ran lots sad Orscso. PENW'A SALT lANIffACTUmMB C9n >Mg BAHIEli V. BKATTY'8 . . ^ * '."J ORGANS 17-STOP ORGANS tab-bass k Oct. Coupler, begat k shipped only 197.73. New Pianos S18S to $1 #>0. Before you buy an Joitruruent be sure to see nur Kld-tummer offer (tartrate*, AddPMi ni VT*1, ? *?ATTY W?*hln?t/vn. X.J. ffHWEse I wrlU positively euro Forai.le \Vcaknm. ?uch u Fall In; of the Womb, WhlUK Chronic Inflammation or Ulceration of the Wortfj jicldental Hemorrhage o* Hooding, Painful, Suppi ku>d nnd Irregular Etu truatlon.&c. Anolda.i tL'able remedy. Send pot tal card lor a pmnohli t, if Ith treatment, cures and oertlficatcs from pnyslc. ini and jpatlontu, to Howirth ? liiiManl, U ilea. .V, Said Gy all Druggists? >1.30 per t?ttla. B. "VT. PAT^E & SOlfVCOBNLm, H, I, aaftfABUUtBU 1MO, Patent Spark-Arresting En. *ln?,mounted and on skid*. Vertical Engine* with wro'l ... bolter*. Eureka Safety pow* ers vlth Sectional bouersca^l exploded.^^^^^^, SAPoilFIEm The^r^u ^" A cnrloiCty to r v?f r one, and a u?c??ilt? to nil hiutlenty of |l!??ory or U?li?lon | , THE KOHAK OF MUHA1MK.D; transited from lbj Arabic by George Sale, i^erly publ ?bed ?t new, beautiful Type, ne.it^Hoth-bocM edition, prto S5 cents, sinl 0. tents f<C pyst-tpe. CaUlrpe of m?y standard workf, r*markab?F on In price* with extra terra to clubs free. &\y wht.-w ?(m saw thisi tdverllMineat Ahkicim Book KxciuhjE, Tribune Building. N. Y. D.VKES* BEARD ELIXK MJUZ. B ^*v ?% ? * u ft^aauiM. ?. tw< SI4f7v3tff ?lWV?'?in?ffvta * > U L* 0 g 1 U^l V fl?* W ?M- U *<fi* li? M|M m4 MMflA N v*r --'"r-?-- ^ noOi^Ag'Mkr^u?.m. ?? KllffM I-earn Telegrartiyaad IVIISjilT] earn S4Uto yioua r month. K\ *-j uT.i'ifiil - guaranteed a paying clto* -# atton. Addicts It. Va!i'iitife.i, Manager, J*nc?vUle,Wl>. ftR tw iWfl ptritrit taw. kaytM wortt p frw 10 AdOtm Imai A Co.. PortWlt^ $70 A wm SUadWMbonuMtfrBtd*. Oc$ay V* Outturn*. AddnS Tsrat Oa, AngmU.MftiM ' CCfi A WKBK In yonr ottntown. Terma and$5Outfit aOO fr>> /.irtruM H. Hafcf.tr k ry~ l'.irtland. Main* $5' $S7.$|s4Mg|| AND UPJMMS: J FOR EASY PAtMENTs| |^r| $5 PER MONTH FOR 12 MONTHS, OR $658 PER QUARTS FOR ' -fe t >W ? ^^^lOQUARTEPS^^WARrS^fefr' J i?j|^CATALOGtJ!?: FREE.%^^ i,S UNEQUALLE D"- TKfc?i>OR? THOMAS'." .? maHEH | BOSTON NEW-^ftK 8* CHICAGO) - - - ? ----- ?-???i