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BLACK FRIDAY. m A P< A History of that Eventful I>ay and Itn ltemilU. The death of Albert Speyer, a prominent, figure in the eventful dny known as "Black Friday," loads a New York :. paper to give the tallowing graphic ^ account of this financial stoim which swept like a whirlwind over New York: 'i In the (all of 1869 J:iy Gould and .Tallies Fisk, Jr., found uiemseivcs S( greatly embarras-ed. Millions of money ? belonging to the Erie railroad company u had been lost in speculation, and some p decisive strp had to be taken to regain tj it or the two "bosses" ot the Erie were g likely to be overthrown. The government at this time was pursuing a policy favorable to keeping the bus- _ incss of Wall street entirely to itself without interference from the operations of Hie treasury. The administration was -r averse to doin? anything which would j. even look like an attempt to influence t] the market price of gold on the street, and, with this object in view, it an- t nouncrd that no sales of gold would be made from the treasury except at reg- ? ularand stated times. Fisk and Gould 1. I? >c 1A 11 SJXW 111 ID1S pOilcy, I1 it UUUIU uc uiftiu- y tained, a chance to make a corner in jj gold, which would result in enriching v them and those whom they might induce to joiu them. With sufficient capital at their disposal, they leit con- ^ tident of producing the "corner/' ?nd ^ t'D3 only element of uncertainty that ? entered into their scheme was the possibility that the government might come to tbe rescue ot their victims by j throwing a large quantity of gold on t[ the market at the moment wuen the j -- - vise began to tighten. The scheme n was to purchase all the gold in the country outsi'Je the treasury vaults, ail the paper representing t goid on presentation, and enough on n margin to hold the market cntinly and n 1__ 5 4 fA nn'co thp supremely, ?uu tiiciuoji iu w~ price of snccic to any rale desired. n Gould and Fisk entered into a combination for this purpose with Belden, Heath & Co., ar.d a few other large j, capitalists, an.1 the work of hulling tlie (] market began. The conspirators were prepared to secure and hold Si 1.000 000 ' of gold when they began operations in t, the.goid room on the morning of Mon- u day, September 20, 1869. Albert Speyers wa3 fit this time a member of the stock exchange and of the old board, and one of the best g known men on the street. He was em- jj - ployed by William P. Belden as one of the agents to buy the gold in the gold room and put up tLie price as the pur- t poses of the conspirators required. On the 20th of September gold opened at D 135, and Mr. Speyers began his operations. By Thursday he had purchased v over $35,000,000 in gold, and the price t had been raised from 135 tc 150. The ^ entire city was in a ferment of excite- j. ment. The bears fought and roared s in vain. The bulls had the situation com- j pletely under control, and were deaf to prayers am threats alike. Ruin stared ^ thousands in the face, and the effects ot the panic were not confined to Wall p street alone. They spread through the u city, and threatened dire disaster all ^ over I he country. The mails and the telegraph wires were burdened with v .? appeals to President Grant and Mr. Bouiwell, secretary ot the treasury, to c unlock the vault3 of the nation and f avert the threatened calamity by the f sale of government gold. The subtreasury was besieged, and General But- t tcrfield was appealed to for relief. But [ darkness saitltd down on the city on the E 23c! of Septem t er, and still no word of f hope Sad couu from Washington. t Blark Friday dawned upon a city c wliichf was apparently upon the verge of j. bankruptcy. The ring had began operations with the intention of securing j $110,000,000 of gold, about all which t the country contained, and they already ? giasp. The faiiureottEe^EflHH**^ tioif to give relief, by opening ti?f? yatihs . . ." of the treasury, rescued in" ttie spread-^ ? ing of the wildest rumors. It was said o that GejPc'faT Grant and Secretary Bout- r "were members of the ring, and b Fisk studiously.helped the rumor to a grow as it passed from mouth to mouth, t ^ * Consternation was visible on all faces, j \.v* ItwasonthismorningthatMr.Spesers, a upon going to Mr. Belden's office for u further instructions, found Fisk ?nd Gould in consultation with his princi- b pal. He received his orders to continue to buv up to lGi). and starttd fcr the \ gold room. In a sworn statement af^er- 1 ward he said this order came from Fisk " himself, and was indorsed by Belden, . ? although Fisk, when the crash came, ? repudiated Speyers altogether, and swore that lie never engaged him to make any purchases for Lis account, c When Mr. Speyers reached New street he found it packed with a surging mass of men, and all full of excitement. He s elbowed his way through tho crowd i; and reached the gold room. Taking his e stand at the fountain he began to bict for c gold, wildly and recklessly, as it set med to his companions; ollering 160, when it s was selling in other parts of the room t for from 150 to 155. He stripped oil" his __.COiit and hat, and yelled liis bics so b . ^"loudly that his voice could be heard .ubove all the din ot the packed room, e He was surrounded by a mob ot angry. e infuriated men, who were being ruined by the rin&; which he represented, but c he never blanched for a moment. Somebody whispered to him that a threat b had been made of shooting him in the I tstock board. Upon hearing this he a * rushed from the gold room, forced his I " .way to the stock board through the tj ? throng of excited and furious men c who blockaded New street, taking his stand in the midst of the y ' - no less excited brokers, shouted: m kv i unaeistana uiat mreaici nave Dwn v -made to shoot me! Here I am, gentlemen, ready to be shot; now shoot!" ]( The brokers hissed and hooted at him, l and lie was finally forced out of the n ^ room by one of his friends. The friend N calied a carriage and tried to induce w him to go home, but he refused, insist- sj ,s ing on returning to the gold room, hi which he did. The incident gave rise a to the runior that Mr. Speyers had become crazy, which was promptly con- o: tradicted under his own name tbe next Iday. It was also said afterward that a n part of the plot oi the ring was, if the tl speculation failed, to pretend that Speyers was crazy, and on this ground to re- tl pudiate all contracts made by him. While Mr. Speyers was hurling de- si fiance to his imaginary foe in the stock si board, an event had happened which h completely upset the calculations of his 1 principals, and turned the tables upon the ring. Secretary Boutwell . tele- g graphed to uen. tsutterueid to announce ti that ;the government would sell $5,0a0,COJ in gold on the next day, and the y news was promptly made public that st the treasury hud at last came to the a' reliet of the city. The announcement fc was received with thanksgiving, and the news spread rapidly from one end of ir the city to the other. Within two o minutes after the reception of this w dispatch gold dropped from 1(J2? si v to 135, and a shout went h _ up from the crowded street which was V heard far up Broadway. That shout ai was the death-knoll of the conspirators, and everybody but Mr. Speyers seemed tl to follow his " instructions,1' and while n the bears were selling to each o her for from 135 to 140, he kept on loudly bidding 160 and biking millions of dollars at that rate. He had heard of the seccotsry's announcement, but he thought re that a paltry $4,000,000 thrown upon U] the market at this crisis wculd not t\ serve to save the bears Hesocn learned T however, that the fail iu price was a d< permanent one. ile then addressed the 1 al excited crowd, admitting that lie was I A unable to lulfill his contract as the pur- r. j?U _ ties for whom he had been purchasing ti had desposited no margin with him. He had trusted to them to make him ir fi od. and they refuse! to cover their a losses. "Who are your customers?" p shouted a man who had just sold him a I million. "James Fisk, Jr., and Wil. i< r Ham P. Belden," was the Answer,which S wps received with an outburst of a groans and hisses. Mr. Speyers forced v his w>.y from the room, jumped into a A carriage, and w:is driven to his home, c (Like his principals, he was invisible o afier this until the excitement of Black a Friday had measurably subsided. o The disastrous results of this mon- is strous conspiracy are well know n. a Scores of wejl-known firms were crip- c; pled, and fome were utterly ruined. s< When Mr. Speyers agreed to act ??s ii broker for th. ring he was consid red :i ii very wealthy man. Fisk repudiated w him after the bubble had burst, de- o claring that he bad never ordered him c< to buy gold lor him He brought suit ai against Smith, G. uld & Martin to re- b cover the morey which was due hiai on t< the transactions of that memorsble b week, but Mr. Speyers never recovered w anything. He compromised with h:s creditors as best he could, and then established himself in the real estate tl business in Cedar street. About a year c< ro i.e was elected president of the Ibemarle fertilizer corup:my, which Dsition he held at the time of his dentil. A Wicked Village. d I write this Jrom a country village }j staining about 1,(HK> inhabitants. It l! a lovely little town, nestled on a side- c ill to break oil the raw winds of winter n id the hurricanes ot summer. When ? arrived ttiis morning it seemed to me | i if there couid not be a bad man or a J ' ai :ii u..k 1! oiaing woman in uit- vmugu, uut iuul ours have passed, ana I nrn a wiser 1 mn- I came here to see old Mrs. !l rown about a pension she wants from J1 le government, and when we had ' nished our business I said: " I see vou have four ciiurches here." 1 " Yes; but we never have any sermons f rorth listening to." 11 "The men look intelligent and smart.'' j1 "Hump;i! They are regular pokes! 1 'Jiere isn't a man in Farmville who r nows enough to ask boot in a horse 1 ade." " Hut the women look happy," I projsted. "Then they look what they ain't," E tieanswered. 441 don't believe thereisa r appv woman in the whole village. If s ou knew of the awiul carryings on ere you wouldn't look for happy v rives." 44 What nwful things do the men do?" ; "You'd better ask what they don't y o! It's a wonder to me that Farmville q iasn't shared the fate of Sociom and r iommorrow." 1 44Do they drink?" v 44Do they? Didn't I see even old e )eacon Harris weaving this way and t liat as he climbed the hill last evening? \ t's a slipperv path, of course, but sober c aen don't climb a hill sideways." t "Do they gamble?" J "Gamble! What did Mrs Potts tell me .< hat her brother's wife told Mrs Davis p ota month ago? Four of the leading c icn in the place were caught playing s IieCKerS lor lJ.lt; fuuji waia. I.uivuoa. |t ice example, isn't it!" n "Is Mrs. Potts nice?" j F " Nice! Why, she's the worst eossi p t a town! It's a wonder the men don't i uck her in the mill-pond!" v " And Mrs. Davis?" i " She's a. hypocrite! She'll talk sweet f o your face, and abuse you behind your 5 >ack." ^ " Mrs. George is well spoken of." "By whom? I've known her fifteen ears, and I never heard a human being peak weil of her! She eats opium and c ies like a trollop!" "Isn't Mrs. McHenry all right?" "All right? Why, no one can live in v he house next to her." "Tne postmaster seems like a eood 1 aan." I ventured to remark. "Good man! Why, my husband al- a rays believed he was the very man who brew a yaller dog down our well! I t lon't say that he steals letttrs, but I now that when I sent two three-cent _ tamps in a letter to my daughter in A llinoy, she never got it.'' "But there must bo one good man F lereP" "There must, eh! Well, I wish you'd v int him out to me. I'd like to polish :p my spectacles and take a good look ? iim." "And isn't there one faultless roraan?" s " Well, I don't want to seem vain and v onceited, because none of us are long or this world, but I expect I'm the f nuitless one you are inquiring after !" s I think I shall go out on the evening rain. Mrs. Brown sajs that every t louse and lot is mortgaged, every busi- s iess man is re:tdy to " bust." and every amily has at least one scandal abr iu tI hem. On my way over to tlr .ji- \ office an hour ago I asked a grocer if he ;ncw oia iurs. urown. " Know her !" Why, she's a gossip,^-iar, a hypocrite and a dead-bea^Tjmd oo lazy to change het-stocifingc more ban twice a year.?iff. Quad. BeneTOleirt Yr. Wlxham. At a meeting of the Ladies' Benevlent\ society, held the other day, it was esorsted that a committee of four indies ie appointed to canvass for donations, nd in ti*e course of their perigrinations liis committee yesterday dropped into itr. \Vixham's office. He received them s a gentleman should, and alter the isual formalities one of them beg n: " Mr. Wix'uam. we arc askintr aid for ! icnevolent purposes." 1 "Ah! yes. Benevolence is a bump vhich should be cultivat d. Are you ooking aft r poor folks? ' 'Weave." j "Very proper?very proper. You all ( lave children of your own?" , "Oh. yes." J " Ail ol them are well-fed, well- . lothed and well-cared for, are they?" j "Yes, sir." s " That's very proper. I presume their t toekings are properly darned, buttons n their places, and they say their pray- c rs when they go to bed? Am I ; orrect?" I The women looked at each other in a E ly way, and then at him, and one of c hem said: 5 "We shall be happy for any contribution." f " Yps'm, yes'm. You don't want this ?, ontribution lor your own families, ' h?" I "No, sir!" answered four voices in horns. "Well, I am somewhat inclined to v enevolence. Hardly a day passes that -j don't do something for charity. iLre's -v n old account of $26 against Mr. . a know he's hard up and having a close j( ime to get along, and yesterday I can- , eled the debt." , p One of the canvassers turned red, ? rhite and blue and looked out of the D rindow. That was her husband, but g Vixham didn't know it. a 44 And yesterday I found a poor, for- c >rn-looking little boy out heie crying rith hunger and cold. He said his ? ame was Tommy , and no lived at ^ fo. 36 street. lie hadn't been t( rashed or combed for a week, and I felt id for him. 1 was going to take him e. ome and feed him, but he slipped H way. | J Another woman suddenly looked ov* j f the window, and her puise ran up to j, iOa minute, but Wixham was as in- | j, ocent as a lamb of any knowledge aatitwasher boy. v "Then you won't aid U3?" queried j, ie spokesman. b " Oh, ye3, certainly I will. I was C( imply figuring to see how much I could ^ Dare. I signed a note with Mr. ist fall, and I had to pay it yesterday. ri 'hat makes me feel rather poor." i The '.hird woman di.ln't turn red, but reen, but Wixhtan couldn't have posively known that it was lier usband. 44 Let's see. Lei's see. I want to give ou all I can spare. Mr. on I p ;reet, owes me four months' house rent, |fl tid I'll give you an order on him ? >r $-20." j JThe four women rose up. They rushed J* i a solid body for the door. They went j j1 ut in a heap. Some were red and some I J? rere pale, and all mad. i hey tried to I, Deak. but tlirv rnmrln'h. find <ls t.h<?J astened to get away from each other, I, iHxham held up the half-written order . ad gasped: "How very, very singular! Perhaps aey thought they couldn't collect ttie loney."?Detroit Free Press. o Garments of fcilass. v? When Sarah Bernhardt made up her l( lind to visit th's country she deterlined to wear on the stage some novel- 11 j that no other woman had ever worn, j w he geniu3of Worth wa3 unequal to the | c< jmands of the artiste, and she was | BI aout to give the idea up in despair, r t last ono of her friends suggested a j Jjliraent that was at once novel, beau- \ . ilul, original and practically possible. j |E His idea was to array the divine Sarah |j11 1 garments of spun gia33, glorious in j1)1 !1 the colors of the rainbow, not trans- n' arent, but as flexible as the sofUstsilk. i ai 'he world laughed and looked upon his P lea as an advertising scheme. But i arah encouraged him and at last it was | nnounced that he had accomplished ];1 rhat the world deemed impossible*. 01 lessrs. Attlebury & Co. ot this'o! ity, says the Pittsburg Tdcyraph, j01 ne of our prominent glass iirms, jal re actually engaged in the manufactute d f articles of dress from a material that eJ ? composed of a combination of glass ? nd silk. Experiments have been ^ arried on for the past few months in a :cret manner, and the firm ha? given the " npre.-<sion that they are now engaged i making some part o Bernhardt':} t( wardrobe. The firm obtained the secret i manufacture from the original dis- 11 jverer ot the great secret. The articles 81 re as flexible as cotton or silk, and can e washed or tied in knots. The ma:rial is not fragile, and is unicflamma- v le. The exact moc'e of manufacture a 'ill be kept a secret for sometime yet. a ?? a Erie, Pa., claims to make more boilers ^ lan any other city in the world. One (* rncern turns cut 1,2?'0 annually. t FOR THE FAIR SEX. T <? luctHtone'tt Daughter. Miss Helena Gladstone, a young of aughter of the prime minister of Eng- Ha inti, is causing quite a sensation in Eng- a; t ind and on the continent by the moral tio ouraie developed in her recent deter- wr lination to enter an active and useful his arcer, and give to the young women ot paj 'norland a very noble example. A tai London correspondent ot Ute lean- err nit political journal of the con- bk inent, the Belgian Independent, on nnounccs that this young lady lias Ito assed her examination, and now re- I-<a urns to Newham college to study for thi he position of preceptress in that insti- hi] ution. The idea of the daughter of the stc irime minister becoming a teacher, or, pe s some other authorities state, secretary In ,nd active agent, is something so new o the aristocratic feminine world of Eu- us ope that it is making an "epoch," as thi hey say. ' an Prices of Fui'St ke T1 A New York paper says: Sealskin w] acks come from ?75 to $300. Dol- C!l nans made of this fur are very expen- ^ iv<\ The prict-s run from $300 to $575. av A muff, with collar or boa to match, a] rill cost from $20 to $75. Caps of seal erj re from $6 to $25 and hats are from or' >1*2 to $25. Fur-lined garments come at tjj 'arious prices, all depending on the W( luality of silks used. Circulars cost Ar rom $50 to$100. A "Princess" fur- ra: ined sack will come to $60 and all the rav up to S130. A handsome sick nade of Sicillienne silk and lined with yC he "entire fur" of the squirrel are f.e 'allied from $50 to $100. A chin- te] hilla set can be had for $25 |)e in to $50. A muff and hoa ol m, iudson Bay sable is prized at $75 up to Vf{ >125. A set of silver fox lur ranges in n ice from $75 to $130. A set or seaitter can be houcht for $75 up to $100; a (jj( et of tiger cat f n* $30. Fur trimmings yy :ome in widths from three-quarters of w, .n inch to one and a half inches on the Crt iclt. The chinchilla bands are from $2 ^ o$5pervnrd. The genuine silver fox 'v(, ? troru $6 to $13 per yard. The Nor- y( vtij siiver fox fur comes much cheaper; ^ t is from 75 cents to $2 per yard. Blue cj( ox costs from $1.25 to $2.50 per yard. Sealskin bands are $3 and upward per 0f ar<^* iin Fashion Fancies. pr The Bolero is the name ol a new hat i ?f the Spanish shape. pr Dress enps of spangled illusion are w] vorn by young married ladies. sii Combs, if worn at all, are now placed SC1 ow on the left side of the head. co _ _ W( Butterfly bows of ribbon are scattered ^ .11 over the new lace muffs*. pe The Japanese fashion of arranging di he hair is to come next, it is said. T1 Silk dresses are not very dear since of ^yons satin became fashionable. j *u A little circle of fringe is sometimes I laced arjund ornamental buttons. j Six plaitin.es of different colors are tjJ( ised to trim some black velvet skirts. Englishwomen think that serge makes fCj he best of costumes for all weathers. be Gold bracelets are worn outside the w( leevc above the elbow?by some 7omen. White plush is the newest trimming cr bridal robes. It is becoming and El lately in effect. a s House dresses are made to fiv, rather 00 ((filter than last winter, and nn lonr/pr litest dressing gowns. Bi Sicilienne and brocade, in pale colors, ?" ire tlie favorite materials fop. young 0 adies1 evening uresses.>- ? ' co Sheljjewelry ig fast going out of fashOIL and the imitation of it is bought by b? he very few persons who wish to wear t j( st< Red plush bonnets, Mother Hubbard yc :loaks and lace-trimmed muffs make up at he uniform of the London ladies nowa- cs lays. ts Chatelaine bags'are worn far back on ;he left side now. Those which accompany street costumes have a stiff lining, op rhose meant for house wear are limp. gi Fringes, having each strand finished j*1 vith a jet ball, are used to trim satin Ul Irtsses! '' Tight slecvc3 are sometimes left open sj, it the wrist and finished by a bead ge. [h qt Something Now iii Entomology. tli Last Sunday as Mr. Jones was returnng from church with his family he dis,overed a new and singular-looking hug >n his front door step. A3 he was somehing of a scientist he was naturally ? jleased with the new specimen, and, ^ orming his pocket handkerchief into a r; ;<>rt of cags, he pounced down on It, tnd succeeded in capturing it. ^ " Bring the microscope, children,1' he ? . sailed, "and tell your ma to hurry; I ,J vant lier to look at it; I'm sure it be- " ones to the Hcmpitera class and is a tew specimen. Here, Chnrlie, put your * sve to the ocular suit and tell me what ?? ou see." ?r "Oil, pa, ain't it splendid ? It's got ir our winjrs, eight eyes, and, oil, mj! .| ,in't it a sparkier, though P Red, and , ;reen, and yellow, and?oh! it's getting .way, ain't it, pa ?" " Then it isn't dead!" cried Mr. Jones, n ecstacy; "I w-a-s-n't q-u-i-t-e sure whether it moved or not. Let me look! fes! it's a terrestrial, I think, after ah; bli t belongs to the genus Pentatoma?tiie ar utenna) have that peculiar flexible se: ook; and yet, now that I look again, an he eyes seem to indicate that it is a th hytocoris, in which case it will be very br estructive to your ma's plants, and we su lust kill it at once. I'll ask Professor lif ill. It will be, in any case, a valuable fei ddition to science. Maria, where's the w( hloroform?" pli " Up on the clock shelf; what are you of oing to do with it," a*ked Mrs. Jone3. tei rho had been giving her undivided at- lai :Ut.ion to the baby. co " Kill this bug as soon a3 you have ca xamined it," answered Mr. Jones, in va lofty voice. 441 shall present it to the Kn 'uuwib auieiiiiiu; zisaui'miitm? pn " Well, I guess not, Mr. Jones," broke bis i his wife, who was looking with mucn th iterest at the new specimen. "I paid kn wo dollars for that bug last week to it rear on my new 1 onnet, and I mU3t tic ave dropped it off when I came in. It Joi elongs to the genus milliner?, and Tl ouldn't be any deader if it had been sci aked for a century. Science will have tin 3 get along without it. Jones, it's al- J Hi' cady classified." Poor Jonesl? Free tin Vess. j it 1 coi Habits of the Beaver. foi I am well acquainted with the habits jot' f the Northern beaver. Several years a* go I bougfit up several hundred acres ?S( f mining lands near the south shore of iake Superior, in Ontonagon county, j lich. On Carp river, a strall stream Pa 11 it crossed a part of my land3, the j !l.n eavers had built several dams, and ei? jrmed extensive pond3, in which they uilt their houses or lodges, as the Inians call them. These lodges are uilt in water several feet in depth, and lie entrance is several feet under wa er, sai ut the lioor of the lodge is built at of -ast two feet above high-water mark. j 'he floor is built solid from the bottom tlii f the pond except the entrance. on Although the beaver is warmly clad au< "ith long, line fur, he is very sensitive bel ? (tin f-nlil nrwl rnrolv if ovnr t.hfl 1 ond or lo.-ge during the cold weather, lea ie lays in his winter supply of fooii, 1 rhich mainly consists of the bark of a hei ?rtain species of poplar. He cuts down opi nail trees and cuts them into short ieces of one foot or a little over in pra mgth and takes them into the pond, opi hese pieces of wood are dragged up i ito the lotige as often as food is needed, wc ad the bark is gnawed oil'; and after us sjins? denuded of the bark they are by j ( o means thrown away as useless, but j sid "e taken under the ice and carefully onl laced in the dam, to strengthen it. 'J They built one dam a little below the foe >ot of Carp lake, which raised the 1cm >ke thirty inches. The lake is a small \ tie; about one mile long and a fourth tiu t a mile wide. I measured the stump thi F a maple tree that they had cut down, > tid it measured fourteen inches in t iumoter. There were no less than j [even dnms on the stream, ail in sight j C f our buildings, wliere we were mining bir >r copper. opi The beaver possesses gre;it engineer- for ig skill, alwajs building his dams in Iff ie form of an arch, giving it strength | cia > resist the pressure of the water. Th? | tw ndiau3 used to tell me many singular j am "aits of character that tins animal pop- j 1,2 ?sses.?Forest and Stream. w: ?? arc Dr. X . who has been in the habit of , bo isitinjr Madame A. three times a week 01 s medical adviser, was rather taken co: back the other day by the servant who wc nswered the bell siiyine: "Madame cal l. wiil be unable to see you to-day, ap octor, became shu is s*ck.?Boston bo Commercial Bulletin. Pa lie Valne of Weather Prophecies. vp \ Washington iettcr to the Boston raid says: Professor Cleveland Abbe the signal service was asked to-day: ls the weather bureau paid any oflicial intion to Mr. Vennor's prognosticans? A. To Lest'he accuracy of his rk, wc have occasionally compared Efi 3 predictions as published in the news- ind a pers, which accounts, of course, con- a-^cd i n telegraphic and typographical a : ors for which Vennor is not responsi. t]?. \ with the real facts. ^Vo find that e-quarter of his predictions are veri- .., d, if they arc intended for the St. * ' wrence valley. If they are meant for 31>8G( is locality, as those who would give ringef ai creau ior preaicung tnc recen" >rm here must believe, then not ten Cmigr r centum of his prophecies come true. wa3 ; view of his continued failures, one or . o brilliant successes would not justify * ri. in adopting his system of foretelling 111 e weather. ?KKrc Q.?Upon what arc liis methods of 291 it nouncing the weather based? A.?He < ! : c-ps his system a secret to himself Kcoil lere are, however, a few ways in w jich a comparatively truthful guess 1 , n be made at the woather months cos end. T e first is by observing the A erage weather during each month for entire long period. If we find that, for sev- with al months, the average has been wet m,-. i cold, it may be predicted that, du ing a j e immediate succeeding months, the 1Sg() iather will be the reverse, that is y or warm. Then we can get at the ' 1 litter in another way. When January, u ibruary aud March have ccrlain can,_ aracteristics, the fatter part of the W?K'C :vr, October, November and Decern- fired r, will have corresponding charac- ljuilt ristics. Thus the weatlier may wero foretold, in a genera., sense, some cre,i unths ahead. *3ut no man in the (]i0 , arid has ever devised a plan which ill foretell special storms on certain "" .ys, or which will oiler a genuine pre- 1 ction for a long period in advance. Tu e are sometimes asked to give the best! rather several days in advance in the llU)1( se of festival occasions. Unler favor- . tr lie conditions ?ve can do this, with a ry good chance <1 successful pvedic- c? f m. For instance: The chances are thai lhc P U i:tst 1UVV UHJ'S (?I yj.UgUSl Will 01! li"" 1 ?ar, bec-iuse the records show tlmt '"ore is is the case five times to one. This, Ai course, relates to a particular locality, kille d cannot be made to cover t he whole tonV untry. I suppose all Mr. Vennor's Tl edictions are made by these methods. . .. Q.?Have you watched the weather edictions of the New York Herali, ,)asl [rich are cabled to Europe ? A.?Ye?, . During the first months of that ulecti rvice I very thoroughly and carefully j reCci mpared their predictions with the | j)..m ?ather in Europe, and am satisfied U,,\j at there is not more than seventeen , r centum,of verifications in the pre- "m stions made by the Herald'bureau. lere arc ab.mt twenty-five per centum mark ca- es that might be cons idered doubt- Go 1, making h little more than forty per l0 tii titum of predictions wlii ill come near gt(l)f e truth. A perfectly independent in- ' stigation was made by the director of e London meteorological office, and rcccl arrived at precisely the same ti zure? 1,10 r -ty-one per centum. This is really no i>?liu tter than could be done ly guess- Smtc jrk. mills Attaching a Water-Wheol. oi^s A correspondent of the New York j? u - enini] Font met General B. F. Butter on an,j itcamboat on Long Island Sound. The , rrespondent says: 1 .. Who has not heard of General ltler's attaching the water wh^-'lc of Lowell mill 10 bring the millownevs itapi immediate term in his suit to re- year ver the wages of un operative? It timt as a good opportunity to ask him if nn in e story was true. " Not a bit of it," ! replied; " but yet it had a founda- coirl ?n in fact, which is more than the SlflU Dries told about me generally have. If expo >u will look at it there is an absurdity $8,01 the start, for you can't attach real ,.onB tate?and the water wheel is real cste-without further process of law. w it this is the way it was: A The mills for convenience pay their 15cn >eratives quarterly. Now, a poor Irish ior i rl lushed into my office one morning ?29, a state of great excitement telling me qj at she was obliged to leave on account Cit the illness of her mother, and that ie could not got lior wage3. She in- 111611 sted with feminine vehemence on ray 1,89 osecuting them ator.ee. I told her by pnrij e time the suit could be decided the pens larter would expire and she could yor en get her money. But this did i50( it satisfy her. She wanted immo- '* ate justice. "Mr. B1 tier,1' she 1 :claimed, "why don't ye lUatch the atther wheelP" "Well, "Fell," I re- Tbo icd, "you come in at two o'clock and liubi will see in the meantime w5 at can be >nr." On her departure 1 went over v.llS the mill and found out the amount of Mis{ ages that was duo to her. When she * ' turned I handed her the money, which 11 x)ok pleasure in advancing, and told ftnl >r to sign a rect ip , which she did. Loci She gathered it up with alacrity and aton ns so profuse in her exclamations of flrP, atitude that I could not get in a word Avnlanuh'rtW onrl elm oUJrvwrtr? r\ f ihklVM JllKs WUL Ui e office with, " Good for ye Misther ltier; I knew ye'd get it by stopping e Wfittlier wheel, didn't I tell ye so!" That is where the water wheel story me Irom. Tl Iho Seaweed and Its Uses. tll0r [n tropical climutes the little air- 7-'10 adders which support the sea wracks all ii e of great service; for the masses of n0vc iwced are several hundred feet lout? cJiy d of considerable height, having stems e thickness of a man's thigh, and st!V" anchea and drooping stems which ll:01 pport innumerable forms of ar una! cold e, such as corals, crabs, worms of dif- was ent kinds, together with mosse;. and o.? ?eds of the sea, and being beside a *, ice of deposit f r innumerable eggs various creatures. In Scotland the . ider parts of the sea wracks kr.own as xv,lic igles, are used j:s too:1, and when bcon oked are considered choice (iiet for on t! ttlo. The stems of a very hard, homy motI ricty of the seawracks are used as ife-handlcs. They are cut ra snort w? . 3ces,and while still moist or green the j Cl ide is forced in at one end. When i to il c stem dries it clings Lively to t'ie i sciiL ife-blade. iJcing gnarled and horny resembles buc^s-horn, and when coulj iped with metal and fu ly finished . , mis a neat, inexpensive knife-to an die. >"tc* ic rose-tangles are higher up in the cxl'' lie ol vegetable life, and their delicate v.or< its render them very beautiful. Of fir csc dulse is an important variety t-> unci', e Scotch and Irish, who, beside usir.* lo?,. as food, both in its raw state and ,.,ri( Dked in rniik, tind in it a substitute I : tob!ic<o. Ciiirsgucii int.se is nn cont" ler kind of rose-tangle from which "cIo( lourishingjelly is n.ade. The Chinese room c one variety of rose-tangle as a var- \ir. ( jli for their paper lanterns, and as a LV0UI] ief ingredient in other glossing prorations; 27,0(10 pounds arc brought w nually to C:tnton and sold for six to ,iml rhteen pice per pound. wbicl __ Mr: .VIIS Josh Hillings' Wisdom. N-Iin, rue man who gets bit twice by the ,|rtS8 lie dog is belter adapted for that kind (,I(J j-, business than any other. L'here is a great deal of religion in j' |!ta s world that is like a life-preserver, Ml88 !y put on at the moment of danger she < rt then half the time pal on hind side wiw i fore. I and b Sxpeiienceis a school where a man | j ? rns wh?it a bii; fo'd he has been. i ... The man who doesn't believe in any reafter ha3 got a dreadfully mean ^ inion of himself and his chances. 5 There are two kinds of fools in the OOO. ?rl?j?those who can't change their iik inions and those who won't. ei<,ht( good doctor is a gentleman to whom pay three dollars a visit for advising * ' to eiit less and exercise more. Jut in the world men show us two es to their characters; by the lireside i <?> 11 ly one. :>iuck The world is fitting ur> with educated (our* ils ?mankind read too much and -j-? rn too little. . 2very man lias his follies and often- 1 ies they are the most interesting Vlllc' ngs he h;i3 aot. cxpei ? Da A Successful I'oiniriumtr. (1"nw jodin, a Paris iron master, lias com- 'j led community of work and t!.e <?c?rative store in a palais social he indctl at (iuise, near Compei:<r.e, in wo,u' if). Godin make.* his workmen assotcs in his business, -riving litem in cnty-five per cent, of the net profit. i?cc? ;! houses his wholo community of 00 persons in a large mansion of three j s.,*,vt ngs, each four stories high. There '' . ; ex tons; 7e grounds and gardens, a Rl? ' spital anil a store wl em everything the first quality can l<ari jtv nearly ""'!1 :t prices. The huuory employs -mil o mien, suitinir the hours to those qt ringfor children; t.-.kes the boys as . prentices wh< n they leave school, and ards and iod&cs the aged anJ inea- . ;t citated for the good they have done. ! 1 tc 1 * ft. f -J>' EWS EPITOME. Eastern and Middle States. :s Sahoknt, the woll-known journalist utlior, died in Uoston a low days ago, Hxty-9cvcn yearj. kike ut Atlantic City, N. J., destroyed iViudsor liotol andtio Dullmor* Iioubc, ig u loss that will nj^rojiii'.o ?10,(0). N'cw York city during 1880 there were 3 deaths. 27,530 births and 9,002 mari. J)nring 1879 thcro wore deaths, ! iiiriln nml 8.44G marriages. il?o total ntion nt tho port oJ." New Yoik in 1880 320 SOS, the largest number that ever 31 in one year. Tno number ol failures ! city during the past year was 344, with gate liabilities ol ?19,291,582 and ?8,140.i assotd. Ii.lkiislie," tho homo ot James R. e, tlie well-known financier, was conjd ono of tho finest ol tho numerous r and attractive villas at Newport, R. . few mornings ago it caught Are and was }\y destroyed. Tho bouse was filled costly fl-orks ot art ol every kind, and Cceno estimates his loss at ?250,000. Sew Yokk daily paper says that the year was remarkable lor tho destruction of iships, no le?s than 147 having been lost, ese 107 vero British, 10 French, 9 Ameri8 German, 3 Spanish, 2 Danish, 2 Nor in, 2 Kussian, 1 Italian, i owuuisu, i I: and 1 Austrian. Seven ol' them wore of wood and 140 ol iron. Fifty-?ix stranded; 32 eunk by collision; 31 loundat iic-a; 12-are missing, with no clow to nanner oi their destruction; 6 were sd, 3 gunk hy icebergs; 3 abandoned at uid 1 was capsized. r. Mount St. Vincent hotel, one of the knewn landmarks in New York, situated 9 upper end ol Central p.iik, has Been oyed by fire. An adjoining ait gallery, uning many art treasures belonging to aik, was also dutnagod arid a part ol ii uts destroyed. llio less is estimated w i th in S100.000. r a Qro in Kingston, N. Y., two men were d by tailing walls and damage amounting ; ?out ?23,000 was done. IE gross debt ol Boston is .$26.G-5!i,45G; :li iii a reduction ol ?54,581.831 during the yef.r. F. Xcw York legislature organized by ing as speaker Georgo H. Sharpe, who vc;?l <-i!;lity Kopuoncan votes uu iuhj-uuu ociutic votes cast lor Erastus Brooks. 10 senate Lieutenant-Governor Hoskins i tho opening addresi. tssACiicsETrs lurnis!je3 more veal to the :ot I hail any other S:atc. vkuxou Co it nei.l, in his annual mejsago e New Voric legislature, saya that tho i debt- "s 5 6,936,879.83, and that during ast ye: r it has been reduccd ?8,000. The ;>ts for the year were ?10,353.927.34, and aytnents were ?12,905 711.90?leaving a ico in tho trca3ury ol ?3,448,215.38. Tho s tax has been increased lrorn 2 8G 3-1000 to 3 A mills. The revenues of tho canals ?1 200,134 63, and tho expenses ?889,14. Tho nmnbor oi echoolhouscs lis State is 11,899, ol teachers 30,730, ol pupils 1,031,593. The average be.* ol prisoners in the three prisons nton, Aubarn and Sing Sing?wis I. Piotn the reports ol 12S savings banks pears that the number ol depositors last wan 912,803, an increaso of 85,011; and the ainonut on deposit was ?335,401,570, oreftsc of ?-"10 709,239. Ol Are insnrnneo >aniss 1.G7 : rc now doing business in the !. For charitable institutions the total ndituros during the year reached about 30,000. Tho total number of insane per in tno various asyiums uuiui^ mo jrcm 0,543. r the annual auction sale of pewa in Mr. jher's church, Brooklyn, $700 wja paid Irst choico, nnd tho to!al sum realized was 536. IE Dixon Crucible company, ol Jersey , N. J., the oldest and largest ertablisht in the graphite trado in this country, lailcd lor about ?1.000,000. Tlie comfs failure was brought about by tho susiion oi Fowler, Crampton & Co., Now k importers ol chemicals, who owo about ),000, and who hold a largo quantity ol Dixon Crucible company's paper, which concern will be unnb'e to meet at mat urity. company's assets will about equal its lilies. [ivrRvni!.Ki.ECT A. G.Poktek, ol Indiana, Hiurricd a low days ago ir. New York to i Cornelia Stone. iin hand-ome Hodge opora house building the Gargling oil building, adjoining, in kporl, N. Y., logethor with a number ol l'S and ofllco9, h ive been destroyed by entailing a I033 < 1 about ?150,000. "Western and Southern States (E weather at Columbia, S. C., haa bcon coldest over known in that region, the mometur going down to one degree below . Tnc poi.ds in and about Columbia were ozen hard, and tho people enjoyed tho lty oi skating. Tho coldest previous w&i in 1832, when tho thermometer (ell to 1 r1#?r rpj nlincn riTCt. A(. Other noiut9 1Q South, also, tho weather was intensely . Near Ilk-hmond, Va., a colored man frozen to death. ? account of tho unprecedented cold ilier fears nro entertained lor the safety ol Florida orango crop, only one-third ol :h has been gathered. The weather has the coldest there si aco 1857. Tho orange.' 30 trees at Jacksonville, where tho tlierlctcrfell to niueioen degrees abovo zero, ) nil ticzcn. tfuinnali is to have tho electric light, stock lie amount ol ?300,000 having been subic 1 f r tho formation of a company, hn Bruens, twenty-five years old, while ing the inside ol a cask with brewer's i, at Memphis, Tenn., was killed by the osioti of the cask. Two other persons ) injured. m:v Ai olvstink, oi Chicago, visited hi ,'.i lamily al Ojs, led., and vainly tritsl l ti'Oin to drink l'tom a bottle which h;d, itml which was alterward louud to tin poisoned whisky. About eleven jU at night Henry sought his uncle's bed, leveled a revolver and began firing ind Mrs. Augustine were both mortally ided. Then Henry went downstairs and revolver shots killed his cousin Christian wounded another cousin, James, alter i ho lelt tho house. ss Kate Campbell, ol St. Jo3eph, Mo. visiting at the residence ol her lriend, iio Wood, at Hamburg, la., and while ing lor a ball Miss Wood's diess cniifji cm the stove. She ran, and in pa-sing Campbell tho Salter's dress was ignited. Campbell was so (rightfully burned that . . . M;aI1 Witr\ i 11CU 1I1U Ut'At JilWi IUUI liso badly burned about tho lace, arms (iily. e amount. ol bullion produced by T>ad(Co!.) smelters lost year is $.5,288,000, n and ore shipment ol tho entire State, 00,000, an increase over 1879 ol $3,003,suv Washington, a coloisd youth ;ot> years old, was hangoI at Jackson , lor tho murder of II. II. ilil. list July, i; Marion house, two-story Irnme, in on, Mich., was burned, with four stored !io iir.st lloor, and tho adjoining biick , containing the Jackson City bank and ,tores. L >ss about ?75,000. u United Slates commissioner ol agricn'.ias lea-ed 200 acres ?,1 land at SuminerS. O., for the purpose ol eslalilishing <in imental tea (aim. magi: to tho amount ol S'icO.Of.U wii by a 111o at (ho factory ol Hutord & Co., manufticlurers, lJo.dc Inland, 1:1. Fifteen and olosva were destroyed. s. Hahuikt N. Cooritit, a colored in, died a lew days aj;o near St. Louts 115 years and weighing 4C0 pounds. small stores at Waco, Texas, l.avo destroyed by fire. cl ltd) rtrs wero engaged in Hi g snow in a railroad cut lear BanIowa. when they were struck by a papain mi l mowed down 1 ko grass. Six iveto cinslio 1 to death un lor Uio wliclj ne man !??st a leg. to iMtttssix, one of the most piominctil i.tn.s of O do, a leading lawyer it Calu-n:id a in iii ol wealth, has commiKel sui- ) L?y shooting himscll through tbe head. Prom Washington Mr. A. S. Logan, a lineal descendant fit the celebrated Indian chiet of the Six Nation of tbat name, has been appointed by Secretary Schnrz to a position in the interior department. ? -r. I~l. W.. Ah iUB I'onuu Ullieis ion Iiuuiujvuii IU. CarliBlo, Penn., to visit, the Ponca obildren a) tho Indian industrial school, and thence prococdcd directly to their reservation in th? Indian Territory. CJro.v tho expiration ot tho ten days lor wiiich tho Picsidont appointed Mr. Ramsey, secretary ot war, to act as secretary ot the navy, tlmt gentleman was reappointed for ten days further; but Mr. McCiell&n, chiel warrant cleric of the treasury department, refused to honor sevoral requisitions for money made upon him by Mr. liamsey, being of the opinion that Mr. Ramsey could not legally serve as secretary of tho navy tor more than ton days. At a cabinet meeting the conclusion was readied tlmttheintontof the law was simply to relievo the President from an immediate embarrassment occasioned by a sudden vacancy in the cabinet, and that the authority to appoint or as:ign another member of the cabiutt to porform tho additional duties for ''"t-a ri;<i rmi-. Axfpnd bpvontl the one an pointment, its object being simply to tide over tho interim until a regular appointment could bo made to fill the vacancy. The r eceipt's from customs for the month cf December amount to nearly .?13,000,000, and from internal revenue to nearly $12,000,000. The followi ng is a statement ot tho United States ourreney outstanding January 1, 1880: Old demf.nd notes ?60,745 00 Legal-tender notes?all issues. 346,681,016 00 One-yeur notes ol 1863 46,085 00 Two-year note* of 1863 12,550 00 Two-year coupon notes of 18G3. 23,350 00 Compound interest notes...... 241,210 00 Finctional currency?all issues. 15,523,468 45 Total ?362,528 424 45 It is beliovcd in Washington that the boginning of work on the Panama canal will cicato SUCD OppOjlUOH in Ainonua mm lu'j bill incorporaiipg the Nicaragua Canal company will bo p.mse<l by G'ongross without <1C!RV. During December the reduction in th< public dtbl was ?5,699,431, anil lor the past &ix months, ?42,990,559.39. On January 1, 1831, tho total debt, less cash in the treasury, was $1,899,181,735.99; cash in tho treasury, ?222,299,739.41. Tub increase in tho public revenues for 18S0 over 1879 is shown in the following table: 1880. 1879. Cus toms ?200,139,133 ?153,418,844 Internal revenue.. 131 240.466 110,617,597 Miscellaneous... 1. 28,117,141 23,487,490 Total ?359,490 740 ?293,553,931 Congressman P. Ii. TiioMrsoN, of Kentucky, a membor ol tho House committee on the census, estimates that in tho next congressional apportionment (he States to gain Congressmen will be: Arkansas, 1; Culi' - i- n *- t. T 1. TT? ???? lonilft, 1; VjUUI^Itt, ij j/mvu, l, nuums, 3; Michigan, 1; Minnesota, 2; Mississippi 1; Nebraska, 2: North Carolina, 1; South Carolina, 1; Texas, 4, and West Virginia, 1. The Stutoa losing representation will be Florida, 1; Maino, 1; Now Hampshire, 1; Vermont, 1; Now York, 2; Pennsylvania, 1. The representation Iroin the other States will remain as uow. Dl'MNG December the mints distributed standard silver dollars amounting to 481. The following is a statement ol the coinage executed at the mints daring the calendar year 1880: Denomination. Xb. uj I'irc-s. Value. Double eagles 887.450 ?17,749,120 00 Eagles 2 169 016 21 090,160 0^ Hall-eagles 4,566,'53 22,831,765 00 Tht co dollars 1.036 3 103 00 Quartoi -eagles.... 2 996 7,490 1:0 Dollars 1,636 1,636 00 Total gold 7,628,493 $02,233,279 00 Dollars 27 397.355 27,397,355 00 Hall-dollars 9 755 4,877 50 Quarter-dollars ... 14.955 3,738 75 Dimes. 37,355 3,735 50 Total silver 27,459,420 g27.409,706 75 ? in n-ff nm 7G nvo cems iv-jj-j iu Three cents *1 24 9.j5 748 65 Cents 38,961 955 3S9 6 IS 55 Total 39 009,865 ?391,395 9-5 Grand total 74 097 778 9lf,084,381 70 It has boon ascertained that tho Indian wars between 18G5 and 1879 cost something noitr ?23,000,000, and that forty officers, 526 pmntes and thirteen cili^ans with tho army were killed. Foreign News. liOins Auouste Ulanqui, a prominent French communist, is dead ia his seventysixth year. During his eventlul and stormy iifo he was conflaed in thirty-four French prisons. Tiie district governor of Orenburg, Russia, lift? resigned because tho central authorities relused to provide 600 000 rubles to reliove tho distress of tho Kirguiz and other inhabitants of the provinco who, because of the successive bad cattle years, are starving to death by hundreds. The liu9:-ians and Turkomans have been lighting, with heavy losses on both sides. Tiie Gallena and Tarnet tribes of Siorrti Leone, Alrica, have been slaughtering each othorin great numbers. Prisoners were either killed immediately or put to horrible tortures A band of lorgors ol bonds and receivers of stolen bonds have been arrested in Ali uiu Italy. They belong to an organisation comprising Italians, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Poles and Americans, having branches and agents in tho chief cities of Europe, and weru selling forged or stolen French bonds in Ita'y, Italian bonds in Franco, and eo od. The gros3 revenue of Great Britain for 1880 wns in round numlmis S'110,000,000. 1 he minister ol Holland to Spain was found dead in his bed at Madrid. Moxstek land league mooting* aro being I.old in various parts of Ireland. At ono which was held at Drogheda the riot act was read and the crowd dispersed. vVar between Greece and Tnrkoy is now regarded as almost cerlain, Greece having rejected all of!era of mediation and insisted on the execution ol the treaty ol Berlin. Tiie British government intends to cruab tho rebellion of the Boors in the Trausvaal, South Allien, tsnd then lay belore parliament the question of residing the territory to the Dutch settlers and recognizing their republ c. The famine is spreading turough liussia, and it is said that of the 7,000 German colonists on tho Volga, one ol tho best agricultural districts in tho country, not moro thau six lamtti s aro wholly ablo to support thoiusc'.vc?, tho remainder being compelled to bog lor food. 1*iie Berlin correspondent ol a London daily papor telegraphs as follows: "Heports receive I here of a demonstration iu the United States with tho o'ljoct of protesting against the antiJewish agitation hero aro producing a very unfavorable impression, the feeling being that Germany can tolerate no intervention in home -iV..:--, n tm'oiim utntn " Tlin nthnp flnv n larfio crowd, mostly compose! of students, ^mashed in tho windows ol a Berlin restaurant much frequented by Jews and mobbed all the Jews they met. Largo and stormy meeting!! against the Jews continne to be held, and the crusade seems to be gHining tone, tho fist lov being substituted for tho tongue. In tho province of SaratoU", Russia, 750,000 peasants arc starving, and in tho jirovinca of Samara upward of a million persons are reported to bo in absolute vant. gnskiiai, Mokioses, one of the ablest officers in the civil wars ol Spain, is dead. A dispatch from Paris announces thedoath of Hector-Martin Lcluel, a celebrated French architect, at tho age ol seventy years. Tin: Kussiun troops under General Skobelell have been badly delealed by tho Turcoman!!. A nkw play by Tennyson?" The Cup"? bus met with great succors in London. Air Claremorris, Ireland, a process-server, guarded bf constables, was on his way to .-jeivo a writ when the party was halted by n i! tcli dug across the road and ass l ilted with n tliower ol stones thrown by a crowd ol p. asanls. Ttie police charged upon tho crow 1, ) killing ono man fatally wounding three others I and injurin; several more. Ti.'EitK lias been another violent shock o! J C;trti.fpiake at Agram, Austria. Los An jolts county, Cal.. with 5,?80 iicivs ot' land in vines, raised in 1673 53 OOO.ftM) pounls of grapes, making 2,500,000 gallons of winu and 300 of brandy. TENEMENT HOUSE HORROR, A our A lew minutes before eight o'clock in the BUI morning a flro broke out in a New York tenement house?a flve-etory brick building on Madiaou street?and ten persons?tw o women T nrifl ftiorht. m n WhPfl cjf.llAr A<1 I to c tll6 by the smoke or burned to death. Several other inmates ot the building were also injured by jumping Irom the windows or rool. the The cause ot the Are was the explosion of a 178! gasoline machine on the first floor, which two StO plumbers were using to thaw out some frozen water pipes. They were working directly under the stairway, and in some way the gasoline in the machine caught fire and the alsc burning liquid was scattered in every direc- wh tion. The house is an old one, and the wood was very dry and rotten. The flames T rushed up the narrow, steep stairway, and a1* tho iron ladder ot the lire-escape was placed ^ directly in lront ot the windows opening on t^ei tho hallway every avenue of escape was cut b!o< off. The flame9 spread vory rapidly, and tho Pre' first intimation many ol tho occupants had ol any danger was when the thick volumes oi smoke and fiame9 poured in at tho doorway and of their rooms. . q Tho scene was a terrible one at the time ol by j tho arrival ol tne firemen, who were ou tho tioi ppot eight minutes after the alarm tounded. Pot At Madison aud James streets was collected wei an eager crowd, who could only see thesmoko cen rising above the buildings. The window forj casings were on Are, and Irom the windows ber leaped hungrily curling tongacs ol flame?. Tho floors and partitions were in a blaze. At . ; first it seemed to bo an ordinary Are. But nna tuJdonly the laces ot the lookers-on grow son pale. Agonizing shrieks and screams rang out to" from the upper stories, and a thrill ol honor ll01j ran through tho spectators at the thought ot ner the uassiuys 011 tno iourta ana tno ohendan? on the flfih lloor. ^ mary oueriuun, uie cove ring tne rrr, naa Inc callcd to her mother and sisters, and running dia to the scuttle had pushed it open and had j sprung to the rool ot No. 37 Madison street, tret The flro followed her, cutting oQ the escape *D<? ol tho others. A column ot llame and smoke ton feet in height shot up through the scuttle. Policemen Ilaly and Davis, of the Oak street _ r?n.r station, climbed to the root Irom James street and saved Home ot the inmates. But lliu A shrieks that rose above the roar oi the flames, ft f the crackle of shivering "lass and shoots ot the cor crowd told ot many human beings suffering a horrible death. The little court into which d the house opened was so intensoly hot from tho Are that the llromen could not enter it to Urn p(J' luiso their ladders. At last, getting upon ad- Wo joining buildings,they poured torrents of water Md upon the Are. Tho moans within grow tainter. Those ot tfce victims who reaped ?? death by inhaling flame were smothered by the black hot smoke. In half an hour the liouso was gutted and ^ t.he flames were practically extinguished, she Half reluctantly flremen and policemen begun ^ the search ior tho dead. Thero was an exclamation of horror ns the first man who crept 510 up tho blackened stairs reached the fourth Wh floor In tho kitchen in the rear lay tho body Rye of Mrs. Bridget Cassidy, burnod almost to a Bar cii^p, while near her wore her three children ? ?01 aged respectively six, eight and one yaais? 0*' evidently smothered by the smoke. Ou tho Ha; other side ol tho hall were the bodies of Ellen ^ Kgan, aged two years, and John Walsh, a boy Por of thirteen year9. Tho little girl, almojt a baby, had quickly succumbed to the noxious Bui fumes and was found dead under the bed. On the fifth floor were tho bodies of Mrs. Sheridan and three children, aged respectively fourteen, ^ live and threo years. John Egan, four years old, Annie Egan seven years old, and Minnie p?t Egan, aged nine, wore iniured, but not seri- st ously. Lat Wiliimn G. Patton, the plumbar engaged in ^ thawing out tho lrozen pipes, and 'Jiinothy no Hamilton, an assistant, were arrested, the q0" former being p'ton ?10,003 bail while the Oat latter, who received tome slight burns, was Bal sent to the hospital as a prisoner. Be< Uo ____ no Poi ' CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. QW Oat Senate. By Upon the opening of the Senate after the holiday reco-s a number ol doouments from various departments were submitted by the Be Vice-President....To a question ol Mr. Burn- Sbi Mile Mr. Eaton, chairman ol tho committeo on ^ foreign affdiis, replied that no action bad yet bren taken by tho committee on Mr. Burn- jn< fide's joint resolution deprecating the c >n- Wi situation of an interoceanic canal by European Kj powers, but that early action would be taken 5? in the matter.... Among tho bills introduced were: One by Mr. Kernan regulating the Ob coinage of the standard silver dollar; one by Pe Mr. Whyte for the purchase of Washington's ? sword, now in the possession of the heirs of George Lewis, to whom it was bequeathed in Washington's will, and one by Mr. Butler directing the seorelaiy ot the interior to lurInnnhinrr thn ullAnnf] frauds m in tho enumeration of South Carolina.... A X communication from General Garfield, declining to accept and renouncing his appointment as United States Senator Irom Ohio, was read and oidered to be placed on the ll'es. 1 llousc The IIoubo began business alter the holiday receas by the making ol reports by committees, after which tho bill authorizing a change lor molting or refining U.'.Hon when at or above the standard was reported and passed. ....Tho army appropriation bill, which appropriates S26,19J,800, was passed Mr. _ Springer introduced a bill for the apportionmtmi ol lepresantatives in Congress among the several States. Reler.-ed to tho census committee. COD! The Health of Cities. g* Statistics compiled by the national board of health show that for the year iW ending Octobor 31, 1880, the more im- ^eb portant cities of the world rank as follows in comparative healthfalness. The death rate shows the number of deaths to each 1,000 persons during the year: Death Sci Cily. Population. Rate. Chicago 503,298 ,....17-9 ,, , Philadelphia 850,000 .....18-3 it St. Louis 333,677 18-8 ">d Boaton 375,000 20 ffo Baltimore 393.796 20-9 seve London 3,254.260 21 Leeds 318.921 21-8 p Glasgow 589,598 21-9 _ Now York 1,203.223 23-4 Paris...- 1,988.806 24 v Brooklyn 556,889 25-8 Kistj Now Orleans 216,359 27-7 ?cl< Lyons 342,815 21-7 rctu Berlin 1,096,644 29-3 Dublin 314,666 32-9 [St. Louis Western Watchman.] fflosio Hath Charms, ctc. H. One of the great manufacturing interests of Boston is the Emerson Piano Company, whose pianos are used with H high appreciation and satisfaction throughout the world. In a recent con- K7 versation with Mr. Joseph Gramer, one Kg1 of the proprietors, that gentleman re- EL marked: I have used I hat splendid Pr. remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, in my family, and found it to be so very beneficial tnat I will never be without it. It hag cured H me ol a severe case ol rheumatism, after other remedies had failed. If a person of fair complexion exposes H himself to the electric light for some time in examining the action of lamps, ?p, the hands and cheeks will show all the |*en symptoms of " sun burn " even in mid- that winter, and lie will develop freckles or. {".*} his countenancc as quickly as when he tiier goes about unprotected by a sunumbrcll.t in midsummer. 'p' Work lustmeii, w'h Before you begin your heavy spring work wit! niter a winter ol relaxation, your system E needs cleansing and strengthening lo prevent an attack of Ague, Millions or Spiiug Fever, At or some other spring sickness that will untlt S3 yoa lor a etason's woik. You will save time, rrm much sickness and gi eat expense il you will X use one bottlo ot Hop Bitters in your latnily ?-(1cr?j this month. Ste other column. a10 The females and males more nearly approximate cach others in numbers in Maine than in any other New England State, the excess of the former being vqij only 717 in a totai population of 648,945. o("cs t: ' j [Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.] A Strong Conqueror. ccording to an Illinois exchange, days of rheumatism are well-nigh abered. St. Jacobs Oil enters a amatic territory, and conquers every ject. That's right. We believe in it. he appointment of a secretary of war lischarge the duties of secretary of navy also, is nothing new, but ler a return to first principles. From time General Washington appointed first secretary of war, in September, J, until May, 1798, when Benjamin ddart was made secretary of the m fho goprofarw of wnr also di9 rged the duties of chief of the naval eau. Judge Black at one time held commission of secretary of state and ) that of attorney general. Tbat was en he was in Buchanan's cabinet. The Tidy Ilouiewife. ho careful, tidy housewife, when ah<i ia ng her house its spring cleaning, shruld r in miod that the dear inmates of her Be are more precious than houses, and that x systems need cleansing by'parilying the )d, regulating the stomach and bowels to font and cure the diseases arising from ug malaria and miasma, and she should w that there is nothing that will do it so fectly and surely as Hop Bitters, the purest best cl all medicines. See other column. at of 1,511 orders for relief; issued nembers of the New York Associa1 for Improving the Condition of the jr Jast year, only sixty-five per cent. *e ever presented; of these four per t. gave a wrong address, an d nine per t. were found unworthy, so that TT.oinllf nor oonf rvf fh<? whftlft nUTTI ?? were not relieved. . A 1'liynlciar of Great Prominence 1'birty-sixth street, New York city, was ib'otocven help Mr. Wm. MeKee, ol Pater, N. J., suffering the agonies always atdaat upon diseased kidnevs. As an ic*t nan and practitioner ho prescribed i cured him by using ono bottle ot War's Sale KHney and Liver Core. 'he number of spoken languages in Lia is said to be 243, and including lects 549. fuch valuable time is Bave by promptlj iting Cold at its first appearance. Nothtakes tbo place ot Dr. Bull'a Cough Syrup Coughs, Colds, Irritation of Throat, etc. ce 25 cento. ?wo hundred paper barrels per day i be made by machines now in use. fKGETiNE.?No medicine has attained such treat reputation as this justly celebrated npound. GREAT HORSE MEDICINE. R. TOBIAS' VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT In t bottles at 1IO cents; 32 years established. It Is the I la the world for the cure of Colic, Old Sores, Sprains, ises, Sore Throats, etc. TOBIAS' CONDITION IVDERS are warranted to cure Distemper, Fever nns, Kots; give a flne coat; Increase the appetite and inse the urinary organs. Certified to by Col. D. latiiel, owner of some of the fastest running horses he world, and 1,000 others. 3ft cents. Sold by druga. Depot?48 Murray Street, New York. TUB M A ItlfVTS. Pictorial 1 HIST0RY?f?W0RLD Embracing full and authentic accounts of every nation of ancient and modern times, and Including a history <n the rise and fall of the Greek and ltoman Empires, ths middle ages, the crusades, the feudal system, the reforms' tlon, the discovery and settlement of the New World,etc; It contains H7J line historical engravings, and Is the most complete History of the World ever published. Send for specimen pages and extra terms to Agents. Addrest Xatiohal PcnusuiNO Co., Philadelphia, Pa. CELLULOID #4 EYE-CLASSES. Representing the choicest selected TortoiseShell and Amber. The lightest, handsomest, , and strongest known. So d by Opticians and jewelers. Made by SPENCER OPTICAL M'FG. CO., 13 Maiden I/ine, New York. STOPn MIF i F R NKW XOBK Cattle?Med. Natives, live wt.. 09)^0 10'.? res? Good to I'rl me Veals 05 0 Oi ep.. 04 0 05Jtf Qbs ana,, OB 0 0C }8?Live 0 !Ji0 05,'i Dtp wed 0(1 0 00 ^ or?Ex. Stato, good to fancy.... 4 10 @0 fO Western, good to fancy A 05 ?8 30 oat?No.2 Ilea 1 30 @1 J8& No. 1 Whlto 1 I2Lj01 14 i?State 07^0 08 ley?Two-Howetf State !HJ 0 1)8 a?Ungraded Western Mixed.... 64 0 08 Southern Yollow 65X0 68 b?1White State 4SJ{0 45tf Mixed \Vestern_ 12 0 43 r?1'iimo 1 25 01 00 iw?Long Rye. per owt 1 05 01 10 s?State. 188J 1? 0 23 k?Mess old .13 05 013 50 d-Olty Stoara 8 'JO @ 8 i)2tf roleum?Orndo ....... 00,'i'?07.if Itcfluod 09Jt ;ter?State Creamery 22 0 I'O Dairy 22 @ i8 Western Imitation Oreamory 24 0 20 Factory 14 0 23 !eso?Stato Factory O9J?0 13<rf flklms 05 0 08 Western.. lo 0 V2% [S?State and Fenn 30 0 3t otoes?8tate, bbl Early Robo.... 1 75 (& 1 b7 BOVFALO. ers Extra .{5 40 <5$0 55 nbs Western 5 25 0 6 55 iep Western 4 5J 0 5 01 [js, Good to Choice Yorkers i 53 @ 4 65 or?City Ground, No. 1 Spring.. l> 0:) <$5 75 eat?No. 1 Hard Duluth 1 25 0 1 25 n?No. 2 Western 54 0 54 ,s?State 37 0 38 :ley?Two-rowed State.... 78 0 80 BOSTON. it?Western Mess 9 50 010 00 gs?Livo 05X0 OS gs?City Dressed 07 0 07'j ;k?Extra Prime per bbl 10 00 @13 75 inr?Wisconsin and Minn.Pat.... 7 25 0 8 60 rn?Mixed and leUow 41 0 42 a?Extra White 60 0 52 o?Stato 1 07 0 1 07 ioI?Washed Combing h Delaine.. 49 0 60 Unwashed, " " 35 0 30 WATEBTOWN (MASS ) CATTLE MABKXT ef Cattle?lire weight 03X0 04}$ rep O3,'-j0 04 0%0 or, Ou^'0 05;i PHILADELPHIA. )or?Penn. good and fanoy 5 69 0 5 75 :eat? No. 2 Red 1 18)tf0 1 18^ o?Jtate 94 14 94 rn?Stato Yellow 6fiX0 16 V, tu?Mixed 4i>^0 4-,% :tter?Creamery Extra 35 0 35 eese?New York Full Cream 13 0 13^ trolenm?Crude OCjtf0O7>f Bettned 09;-; Vegetine. he Barks, Roots and Herbs FROM WHICH VEGETINE IS MADE EN POWDER FORM, SOLD FOR Krt Panto n Parkapfi. VEGETINE. >r Kidney Complaint and Nervous Debility. ISLISBOHO, Me., Dec. 28, 1377. Stiyixj: ear Sir?I had had a cough for eighteen years, when I imeiiccd taking tho Vegetine. I was very low; my em was debilitated by disease. I had the Kidney lplalnt, and was very nervous?cough had, lungs sore, en I had taken one bottle I found It was helping me; is helped my cough, and It strengthens me. I am now to do my work. Never have found anything like Vegetine. I know It Is everything it is recommended Mrs. A. J. PENDLETON". Dr. W. Ross Writes: roftila, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Weakness, [t. Stitixs, Boston: lave been practicing medicine for twenty-live years, as a remedy for Scrofula, Liver Complaint. DyspepKbeumatlsm,Weakness, and all diseases of the blood, vc never fuund Its equal. I have sold Vegetine for n years and have never had one bottle returned. I Id heartily recommend It to those In need of a blood iler. Dr. W. ROSS. Druggist, Wilton, Iowa, pt, 13,1378. ,.r_ cgetlne in Powder Form is sold by all dragi and general stores. If you cannot buy Itof them, >scflfty cent* In postage stamps for one package, me dollar for two packages, and I will send It by rn mall. VEGETINE PREPARED BY R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. m ??r. _ u IP^ELY'S^SS rur , f/inp... nil Hay Fever,Cold ta the J unFflM RPlU" ^3 Head, etc., insert with O Po&ni'JLyc"v,ts,U??llttle fltlKer 8 Part|cie of LATARR^rOLDS I^rnlthe Balm Into the nosR 1 V,HFi111trl's; draw strong i^rCl/SATlWALDUrT,01JI breaths through the nose. It will be absoibcleansing and heal:als 9? \ tag the diseased memFor Deafness, R ^.'LlCfSOM^''JM(h:ciii\or.My apply a L .. particle into and back ?r the ear, rubbing lu I A Cure at Last. iclflcs witliout number for tlfe cure of Catarrh have extensively advertised, and doubtless there is some e in all of them, but the evidence la overwhelming Ely's Cream lla'.m goes more directly than any other le seat of the dlsea.<c, and though It Is a comparay new discovery It has resulted In more cures within nt ?nr nlx/trr.'itlnii tlum nil llii> others nut to it.?From the WUkes-iiarre, i'a., Union UucUr V Oec. ?79. rice?50 cents. On receipt ol 63 cents, mail a package tree. Send lor circular, 1 full information. LY'S CUE AM BALM CO.. Owego, N. Y. Sold by all Druggists. Wholesale in New York, Philadelphia, ^recuse, Boston, Chicago and oilier cities. E OBEATEST DISCUVKHY OF TIIK AUK, *UMK C'UKB Foil UirEIMA rbM. nplete euro gunrant. ed by using one bottle. Sent ;elpt of price, $:4. Address J. 1!. DKCK.KK.fc CO., E. 78th St., New York. DON'T" YOU WANT k HOME BY THE SEA." IC.C. LINDSEY, Norfolk, Va. IMP MCkl J.earnTelegraphy. Eurn$4i) to Sinoa II1U III til muiitti. Graduates guaranteed paying i. Address Yale.mi.ne Hitos., Jauesvllle, Wis. iritVLAMD PAUM.?,S7 to CtX per Acre. Short winters, brcezv summers, healthy climate, egue free. 11. 1?. ClIA.MllKltS, Federalsburg, Md. ? A A MO\Tll: AGENTS WANTED! sB%R| 75 llest Se'illnji Artlc.es In the world, a yilV mniple/rw. JiT Hkqxso.n. Detroit. .Mich. TIjKIV'.S Itrnln Fooil?cires Nervous Debllltj t Weakness of Generative Organs. 81?all drugglita for (.'ir'i'r to Allen's Pharmacy, { 1 It first A ve.,.vY, 7??1 A YEAIl and expends to agents g i (illlilt Free. Address * 1'. O. VlCKEltY. AUeibln, .Maine, C. TimiUUiOO I-'X I'nrlvated Restorative for Nervous Debility, $|. Trial box, 10c.424th Aw., X.Y. J* X Week to Salesmen. N*<> Canvassing. >) Address W. (.'. P.iwks .t Co., Schenectady, N'.Y. TP nmt selling our l'.ubt.er Stamps and Mtiolo '* Samples Free. Cook A Uisgell, Cleveland, O. Morphine HabltCnred In 10 ? 8 in J? -? dny- >'?? pay nil Cured. li VIVI Ln. J. Shu'hjlnh. Lebanon Ohio. < f * .1 53M IHEOKW.-irtf oebmim remedy. FOE R.HEU1VIATISM. Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. No Preparation on earth equal* Sr. Jacom Oil u a ta/a, tu re, simple and cheap External Remedy. . A trial entalla but the comparatively trifling outlay of 50 Centa, and every one mffering with pain can have cheap and poiltire proof of its claim*. Direction* in Eleven Language*. SOLD BY ALL DBUGGI8T8 A ED DBALBB8 iHlfEDIOnTE. A. VOGELER A CO., lialtlmtrre, Md., XT. 5, X y Y y~'j?a HOP BITTER^ (A medicine, not a Drink.) AJTD tsm Ptezbt axd Best MidicalQUAU THEY CTJRE | Will be paid for a caae they wl'.t not care o^^ help, or for anything Impure o? lnjurloua found in them. g 9 tbem before you sleep. Take no other. If E X) I.C. latin absolute and Irresistible core for 1 *2 Drunkenness, use of opium, tobacco utd H 00 narcotics. 8 kmiM Si.vd ros (Interna. nM| Eg All tbm fold by droT^Irt*. B fl Hop BISttrt Jlftf. Co., Rivfc?t?r, N. y.,4ToronUi,Onl. B RED RIVER VALLEY 2,000,000 Acres Wheat Lands bail k Ik* WokUL fliriaii br iM a Pail, UMpriU 4 BaiMi 1.B, CB. Tfc>M4?ll??wM??BMMttlMM*totohrafr fas uid ywdnltM tfir to D. A. MoKJNLAY, 1?U O??? ?! ir, IK, F??l,toa, ~3K AfiCMTC ujAWTrn rno iuc Will villi I Ball Is tho " Original" Concentrated I.yc an<l Sellable Family Soap Maker. Directions accompany each Con for making Bitrd, Soft and Toilet Noap qnickiy. It Is full weight and strength. Ask your grocer for MAPOflflFI Elt, and take no otlicrr. PENN'A SALT MANUFACTURING CO., Phila. Tlili Claim-Douse Established 1803. PENSIONS. New Law. Thousands of soldiers and heirs entitled. Pensions date back to discharge or death. Time limited. Address, with stamp, GEOltGE E. I-EMOW, P. 0. Drawer :ia5, Washington, I>. C> Literary Revolution. 3/*C*lTO each, formerly Jl.00 to $1.25 each: vCill I O r. JMcaulay's i.tfe of Frederick the Great. II. Curiyle's l.ife or Robert Burns. III. Ltr * martine's Life of Mary Queen of Scots. IV. Tito*. Hushes' Manliness i" each, formerly il.fiO I of Christ. o v/ci? i a rarli: I. Arnold's Light of Asia. II. Goldsmith's Vicar of Woke Held. III. Baron Munchausen's Travels and Surprising Adventures. For ?IX CKMTN: Buuyaa's Pilgrim's Progress. Illustrated catalogue sent free. AMKKICAN HOOK EXCHANGE, John B. Alden, Manager. Tribune Building. New York. NATRONA w* Is the best in the World. It Is absolutely pure. It li tlie best for Medicinal Purposes. It Is the best for Baking ana all family Uses. Sold by all Druggists and Grocer*. PENN'A SALT MANUFACTURING CO., Phlla. ellnlr I?ye Is the S A.FKST ncously,producing the most natural shades^oM^ack^ir .ipp.ledL^ft *s a standanl pri-pa-atlon and a favorite on cverv well appoin ted toilet ror Lady or Ge:>tleman. Sold by Droughts and applied t>r Hair Iiresse s. C. X. CttlTTfc.VlU.N, Agi 'F' P Y A !S T SouthWBttorn !. iMM.' "sssssr It is tho rurrcpo of this Company to supply the need of a State Bureao f Imaagre tiou, in a not to fiubtiorvotho luirjicfca of any individual, raliv.ay, or other corporation. t'*f lolandtb-mijhtov eouL Information furniplicd tboso wlchinK to eettio In Texas. OorreKj>ondpnco solicited. Address W.W.LAN O JPres.ffate ilasierTcxas State Grangt) oris. O.Duval, Hee. Auntin, Texas. PXjWSX PI, AY- ! PLAY^J PHTSI For Reading CluH. tor Amat ur Tlieatriials. Temperance Plays, Drawlwr-Hoom I'l.ivs, Fairy Plays. Ktlrluplan Plays. Guide Hooks. Speakers. Pantomimes. Tableaux l.lKhts, Magnesium l.^lits, Colored Fire. Itunit Cork, Theatrical Faee Preparation*, Jarley's Wax Work*. WlgB, Beards :.lld Mustaches at reduced ptTces. Costumes, Scenery, Charades. ?\v .ataloj-'Ues sent free containing full description anil prices. Sixt ti. French A Sox. ::S K. 14th Street, Xew York. ^r-r-nnn onviAin no DCMTIWn illU UufUnC DU I IIIU Ull II-I1IIHV nn ORGAN > n t for our LATEST Ilu'stbited Catu.ocvi (32 pp. ?o I. with SKWK.it sxvI-Ks,?! $61 r.nil unwar I; or :Wi?r Oitf/icr.uli<lup. iyiUffeC. M '.SON ? IIAM 1.4N OH ?aN CO.. 1S4 Trclii"iit St., HUSTON; -Ml Ka?t 1-1 til St., K F\V YllltiC: 1411 WaWh Ave.. CHICAGO. MANHATTAN LIFE Insurance Company, NewYork. State Aeenls wanted ,ti S"me of the best states. Local Agent!! wanted In e\ery City and large Town. Apply dircet to this Company. < >v< r IV' years hi business. Purchase values j^ivon in > a?ii alter three years' existence of new policies. WANTED. A Book Cnnvasscr. Lady or <; nileman. to solicit Subscriptions in every niy.Town aid Village, for a first-class. olil oslniilMiril .Monthly .Mainline. Aililri ,?s. stating <|lia:illcatK.iis. to WALDKN JAMKS, Statu n ", New York. WAWl'Kl*?Agents everywhere to sell uur goo<H by sample, to fami.ics. Wo give attractive presents lti'1 first-class gofds to your customers; wo give yojj goo<l oroflts: we prepay a:l express charges; wo furnish outfit tree. Write for partial nrs. PKOPl.K'S TKa CO., lloi jOJS, St. Lonls. Mo. P.* >1PlIT-KT of our PATKNl' DHKSS RKKOItMS contaln.ng Specialties in I iidergarments. Corsets. Waists Skirt an.I Stocking Supporter*. Shoulder Braces, Ac., foi I-adles * Children. Sensible. cheap k health wi hieing Mrs.A.Fletcher A Co.. H II. lltli St.N'.V. I'ree to ,\ 11. Agents Wanted tor the Handsomest and CHEAPEST BI3LES ESi^SS^jSg Clticlnna ti.j >. ^ CASH PREMiUM>. Tl" Aft ?Chotxtt III Iho world -Importers' prices I PBl\ ?Uns-Ml C..!iiiutiv hi America?s'ap a I bnwi article?!'N'.i.ms V yl'o iy -T.-a ie oilllnua ly Increasing?A ;.-i,i> uanlel everywhere?best tn-lili-oiiK Ms?don't waste time?sen i tor Circu ar Holt'I' W'KLLS, lit V'esey St.. N. Y. V. Q. Hoi I2S7 WAIl I tUlll.iM.mw. b.N?UtC0^Clwu>i^J nip > C PIIDCruI Consumption Is also riOV/ 9 VUnC Hie best cough medicine.