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W ' Chi istian Koth's htory. [Stuttgart, May, 1SS2.] I've called, Mr. Consul, Ihis morning, to ask, if you please, yonr advice On a matter that gives me great worry?"Let's hear It (wants money I know)." Here's my citizen-paper?("All right")?I was born In the Sclnvarzwalder Kreis, At Schramberg, and went to America forty-five years ago. Tes, I'm near seventy now, and you see that my step is unsteadyPlenty of trouble. I tell vou?I settled in North Illinois, Antf there, ever since, I've been working and saving np, so that already I've got a nice farm, Mr. Consul, that goes by-ar.d bye to my bo vs. IIow many children ? There's four, three boys and a L'iri. We've had seven; But when the war came along, my William and Carl marched away. Both of them fell on the field, and last winter the good Lord in Heaven Called home our dear little Minnie?she's twelve years old to-day. Tee, the old woman is living. She's there with the boys on the place. And onr Lina keeps house for them all. Next spring she'll be just twenty-four. She's the handsomest girl in the county; there's sunshine all over her face; I can bear even now her sweet voice as she told me farevyell at the door. Why I left ? Well, perhaps, Mr. Consul, 'twere better the truth weren't told. But do matter?it wasn't my fault. My old woman and I had a fight. She is pick and can't work any more, and she's idle We're both Retting old; So she's cross, and will have it that I'm always wrong and that she's always right. It hasn't been always that way. In the days when we worked for our bread Ai>d hadn't a dollar laid by in the bank, she and I were all good And happy together; but since we began to be get ting ahead She has tried to be boss over me, and I didn't intend that she should. And when our poor dear Minnie died, 1 had hoped that the fight would die, too, But no! it lived on just the same, and one day, about four weeks ago, The old woman sent out for a lawyer, and then, for the first time, I knew That she wanted to separate from me?from me, who have borne with her so. And the boys they all tried to make peace; she would listen to naught that they said, But my Una stood up by my side?though she spokv; not, 'twas easy to see, As she put he r sweet arms round my neck and rested her beautiful head On my bier.st, that her dear heart was full of the tenderest pity for me. Audi said: "My Christina, we've labored and struggled together till now; Onr children are grown, and you want us to separate, now we are old ? No lawyer can part us, Christina, no lawyer can sever our vow, But I'll leave you and go forth alone on my way through the rain and the cold." Then my poor Lina cried, and she bade me reflect, and the boys they said " Stay I" And I paused for a moment and looked at Christina?she said not a word. One word would have kept me. Hut "no, it came not, and I hurried av/ay, And my Lina's sweet voice, " Oh, dear father, come back," was the last that I heard. And so I have wandered back here to the scenes of my childhood and youth ; nave stood by the grave of my father and motherhave seen the old home On the hillside at Schramberg?and yet, Mr. Consul, i to tell you the truth, I find that 1 tannot be happy while far from the ' loved ones I roam. For my sweet Lina's words, " Oh, dear father, come j back,'' always ring in my cars, And I'm going this day; tut for fear there should come on the journey some ill, I There's no telling, von know, what might happen, , perchance, to a mat of my years, I have come, Mr. Consul, this morning to ask y^u 1 to draw up my wilL j And I want yon to make my old woman entitled to f all that I've got f In case of ray death. After all I can trust her to do ? what is fair ^ By the chik'rtn in case she surviveo me. Just say , that I, Christian Roth?" What! ! Is your name Christian Roth ? Here's a letter ad- . dressed to you here in my care.'' j A letter! My Lina's handwriting, and postmarked at Scott, Illinois; | Here, quick, let me read it: "Dear father, my { mother implores you to come. She tenderly asks your forgiveness; and now, she j and I and the boys Are lovingly waiting your coming, and eager to welcome you home." ?George L. Catlin, < "IT." j ppmr Tww nT*T?\r?v AT.PX V. ROBERTS. 1 [The original of this translation, by Mrn. Rosalie Ortheiler, of Albany, N. Y., is a prize story written for the Vienna Allen meir e Zeiiuug. There were seven hundred and fifty contributions banded in, and of these Mr. Roberta' "It" took the first prize, 300 florins. The judges were some of the most enlightened men of German literature- Bauerufeld, Laube, Gross and several others.] 6 Returning from a business trip, I antovorl mr Trifft'n hnnrlftir. SlTli'l ffinnd ' her kneeliog before a low-chair, oil c which sat a boy-baby with large, round c and wondering eyes. She got np and c camo mstling in her silken robo dt> * cbambre to meet me. She reached out ^ her band and greeted me not more a heartily nor yet more formally than we v were accustomed to greet each other in * thoee days. ? " There it is," said my wife, pointing 1 to the child. ? " What ?" asked I; but ehe stooped * down before tbe little btranger, held a 1 biscuit close to bis little upturned face, ^ and hah* turning toward me, replied: ? " Well, you know?did we not read of ; c it in tho newspaper? Don't yon remem- i P ber?the day before yesterday ? And is T it not beautiful ?" * Now I did recollect that a few nights before she had held the Gazette nader i the light of my student-lamp, and point- 'J ing with her finger to an advertisement, s said to me: "Please read that." It was * the well kuown appeal, the cry of de- j t spair from a bleeding heart, addressed ! v "to good people." A cbildwus offered j c for adoption to persons well off. "What i i ' .would you think of our taking it?" my I ' wife bad said, pnd I had returned the j v paper to her with a shrug of my bhoul- I f ders. 11 " But, Martba, what have yon done?" I < cried J, in a tone vibrating with anger. ? "You have really?" t Certainly, as you see. And then it j I belongs to me; I myself have settled j 1 everything with tbe poor mother, who is ; 1 in reality to be pitied. I have sworn \ 1 to take good caieof it; and eo I will in- < deed." She took tho little head, with its j b'onde silk curls, between her white t hands and fondled and caressed it. i "Is it not so, little one??you will bo ' loved ?" : 1 But the sorrewbat sickly and delicate | t lifctle face showed no sign of understand- | * ing, except tLat out of ihebeart-sbaped j i little mouth came one of tbose sighs that 1 Eound so strangely from children. ; i I at once gave up all serious objection. Had we not been accustomed for years to act independently of each other? Our marriage "was not a happy one, although we bad not married lor j love. During tie noise and bnstle of i the crowded exchange, oar fathers bad | contracted this union. She had to tear ! her heart from a beloved one, and in ! mine glowed a passion notyet outspoken, j But parental wishes conquered. We ! chose to be obedient children; and so ! it happened. j At the commencement we were to I each other u silent reproach; after which followed a declared war, until finally we came to a polite but gloomy peace. j To be sure she was beautiful, the was i good and bright and sparkliog. Others i called her an ngel. And I? Well, I ' believe that I was no monster either, i The analysis showed the brightest ccl- j ors, still the sun was missing. We were Rix years married and had no children. Pernaps had heaven sent us them?well, this child belonged entirely to her ! I beard later that Bhe had given the mother a thousand dollars, the price of a set of jewels which she sold secretly. ' Why did you not tell me of it?'' said I. half angrily. I "Because it would have been too j Jate if I bad waited for your return to ! the city ; and besides I wanted to have ! it entirelv for my*elf; I want to call it ! my own," said che, poutingly. I My horses, my dogs; her canaries, ! her gold fishes?that I could endure ; j but fbat she wanted to have her child ; for herself alone, that wbs too much for j me. The thought of it tortured me ! one, two days long. On the third day, I mv xrite having gone out in her carriage, j there came a veiled woman and de- j znnnded entrance. It was the mother. Lifce a nhudow she glided into the room, ; aid, with a half-suppressed sob, brg^ed f t<>rtee berchild once more. Shecculdnot : part from him forever without imprint- I jn^ one mote kiss upon his cheeks, i ! opened my safe quickly: " Here, my rood MonntQ," said I, " take that, they have not given ycu enough." Hot tears fell down ber wan cheeks; she begged me not to judge her too harshly; she had another child, a cripple and helpless; she herself was sick and would not live mnch longer, and what was to become of the children ? Then she thought?I myself had to finish tho sentence, which a violent tit of coughing had interrupted. "Yes," she had thought, " I will sell the healthy one, in order tbat the money may help the cripple when I am dead and gone " No, she must not ba judged harshly; we rich ones know but little of the trials and temptations of the poor. Wheu my wife returned I pavo her an account of the call I had hud, adding that I had given to the unfortunate one exactly the same amount as she had "And now," said I, "you see the child belongs to both of us." She bit h< r lip with her little white teeth. " It is all the same to me,'' said she after a moment's reflection, and with that she pressed a tender kim on the little boy's month. It sounded almost like a challenge. "Onr child P I scarcely ever saw it. And the changes that were made in our household for his sake were made entirely without me. Sometimes, after the most important thingB were decided, my consent was then asked. " We are obliged to have a nurse, I hired one, Anselm"?1 nodded silently?" We must fit up a nursery ; that room is too warm for the child." i nodded silently, but I heard the eound of the workmen, who were already busy in the hall What could I do better ? Was it not all done for our child ? My wife and I did not talk much about the child, and when we did mention it we used only the name "It.1 But this " It" conld be heard through tlio house at almost any time of the day. " Hush! not so much noise! It sleops! It must have its dinner. It should be taken out for a drive. It has hurt itself !' And so the whole house began to turn round our " It." This nameless neuter vexed me. " It must have its own name," said I, one day. " I entirely forgot to ask the mother ?I mean the woman?what its name is,"' answered my wife. 4 She intended to come again. But she does not enmp. rVia is rnrlainlv sick. Now. I call it Mf>x. Max is a pretty, short name; is it not?" "Him," returned I. between two draughts of my cigar; " Fritz would also be a quite pretty name.'' "Ono cannot change the namo row on account of the domestics," answered she, shortly; and then called out loudly: "Is Max up already?" Never mind, was it not our child ! Once, though, I played my justifiable part toward our child. At dinner it wa% always served at a little table in an adjoining room. At Hicli times wo could hear, between the scanti]y-:lrop2>ing phrases of our conversation its merry prattling, accompanied by tie clattering of its spoon. My wife had no rest; there was a continual going and coming between us and him; the soup might be too hot and he might eat too much! "Wife," said I, very quietly but very decidedly, "from to-morrow it shall eat j no .*4- Aim oVyl/* Tf nl/1 I n ibu uo au uui lauivi xu m v*u I roar with its twc years '* From that time on " it" ate with'tis, j He sat there in his high chair like a j prince, close to my wife; both opposite ! to me like declared enemies, us it were, j The yellowish paleaess of poverty hail rielded to a fine aristocratic pink in his i iittle cheeks, wbicb, now becoming ! quite chubby, sat comfortable on the j stiff folds of the napkin. It worked i powerfully at its soup; and now that it ; had finished, set up the spoon like a seep j terin its little round fist on the table. My j wife and I had exchanged a few words, I ind now again we sat silc-nt. Apparently ! on account of this EiJencc, its iargeeyes j aegan to open wider and wider. They itarcd on me, stared ac my wife, with a surprised, almost frightened expression, is if they had a presentiment that all aras not right between us. I confess chat the^e eyes embarrassed me, and :hat I had a feeling of relief when Frederick entered wi'h a dish. And 1 ;hink that my wife felt the same. And the following days thero were :he same large, wondering eyes, like an ippealing question, r,taring into the panses of.onr conversation. It sounds ridiculous, but it is nevertheless true; were culprits before the child, we ;wo grown persons! And by degrees Dur conversation Decame mora amnated. The occasional prattlings of the ittle one were noticed and spoken ibout; indeed eometimes there was nntual laughter at his attempts "to ipeak. Ah! how light, how bell-like pure j founded her lauglitei! Had I never then I leard that before ? And what was the natter with mc, that 1 sometimes bant >ver my writiDg desk, listening, as hough I heard irom a distance these lame silvery tones ? "With the first sunDy spring days "It" )egan to play in the garden, which I sould overlook from my ee&t in my j )ffice. She was generally with him. j[ j :ould hear the sound of his little feet 1 >n the pebbles, and theD her footsteps, sow she would playfully chuse him, ind a chorus of twittering sparrows Fculd join their notes with the merry aughter. Now she would catch him ,nd kiss his cheeks over and over. Once opened my window; a warm, balsamic ir streamed around me and a butterfly imxerta in anu jis ou my juBbiiiuu Fust then fclie canoe out of a freeD,vite prown bower; she was dressed in a lazzling white negligee, trimmed with lostly lace; all ovt-r her streamed the .olden sunshine, except that her face ras overshadowed by the pink of her jarascl. How slim she appeared! how graceful n her movements! Had I been blind ? nmlvfViA mints nv.d wmi riffhfc: he was in reality beautiful I A sweet mile transformed her features; she was lappy?certainly in this moment she fas?and hjpr happiness came from her :hild. Then a voice made itself heard n my breast, which said very plainly: 'You are a monster?" I got up and falked to the window. "It is a beauti ul day," called I. I know how cold and mosaic it must havo sounded to her. It :ame like a heavy cloud-shadow over a innny landscape. She answered something that I did not understand; but :he brightness was gone from fct r little j 'acc. Then she took up the child, who j was stretching out his arms to her, and ' sissed and caressed him befc.ro my ! >yes. There it was when the first feeling of ! iealouRj was yroused in me; u jealousy ;mly, but what a (strange jealousy, { vbicli could not make clear to itself i who was its object! If ' It" said mamma" to her, there came a pain in :behoart; and the caresses with which I ;he overwhelmed him almost drove me ' wild. I was jealous of both! It pained me that I bud no part in this iveuving of love; that I was not tbe ;hird in the union. I exerted myself ;o gain a part of their love. I did it rery clumsily. The child persevered in a certain shyness, aud she?had I j aot kept nrsself forcibly away from ! her dnring these long, long years? , One day at the dinner-table, afttr a kirmish of words, came a great stillness between us, a stillness mere painful than it had ever been. I glanced 3own at the flowers on my plate of Saxon porcelain, my displeasure showing in my face; but I felt plainly that" It * j bad its eyes fixed on me, and also her : 3jeB! It was as if those fcur ej es ! tmrned on my forehead. Then sound- j ?d suddenly m the stillness, " Papa !" ind again louder and mere courageous, j Papa!"' I shuddered. " It ' sat there | xnd stared, now very much frightened, j >ver at me, wondering, perhaps, ' whether a storm would be raised by its " Papa " But her face was suffused with glowing redness, and ht*r lialfjppn lips trembled slightly. There came a flood of gladness over I ny heart. Certainly no one but her I lad taught him this "Papa." Why did j [ not spring up, bound toward her^ and ! yith one word, one embrace, strike ou : he loneliness of these last six years? ! }ne right word in this moment and all vould have been well. It remained J inspoken ; I seemed to have lost all ?ower to act; but on a certain page )f my ledger are still traces of the ;ears I shed in anger at my own stupidity. There was no doubt about it; another ?pint had stepped in wilh its little jurly head?the Bpirit of love ; and hat made me a stranger in my own house. A precious sunshine brightened the rooms, even when the one in tho ; tieavens was hidden by clouds. The 'ace of the servants and even inanimate ; jbjeets streamed baok this radiance. ' But me, only, tho sunshine did not ;ouch. . j 1 felt myself always more and more unhappy in rr>y lor elineBS. Jealousy j $rew in me ; it gave me all sorts of j foolish thoug'ta. I wanted to rebtl; igainst the little untoerat, but thub : >?oula be ridieu'.ous. I wanted to give j ler the cho:o.' between him and me. | I, audacious one. I knew very well ! which side her heart would choose. At ! another time I was ready to take steps i in order to find the mother, and, with j the power of gold, forco her to take back her child?behind my wife's back. That would be cowardly. I could no longer fix my mind on business. I mistrusted even mysolf. People asked what was the matter with me. I feigned illness. T!ie sunshine would not let itself be banished, and the spirit of love was 1 stronger than I. With his flaming swo^d he drove me oat. " I must take a long purney, Martha." My voice | tromblt d as I eaid this My wife must have noticed it; for something like ; inoisc, naming puy phouu m uer i beautiful eyes. A', my taking leave 6he | held tho little one toward me aud asked in soft, caressing tones: "Will you net | say adieu to our child?" I took up the | little oue, perhaps too roughly; at all I event*, he began tc cry and re^idt my | caresses. Then I put him down aud hastened away. : I traveled in uncertainty through the | world and behold I after the first few i days in addition to an ordinary traveling companion, bad humor, there came | another fellow who told me plainly that ] I wa^ a fool. First it sounded like a whisper, then louder and louder: "You | area downright fool." Finally, I read ; it in tho newspaper before me; it was I traced on the blue mountains; the loco! motive shrieked it to me. Yes, I be! lieved it; why did I not then and Ihere I turn my face homeward ? Well, the ' fool must first travel it all off before i everything would be right again. At last, one day, with a violent beating of tho heart, I again entered my i dwelling. What a solemn stillness ! reigned there! I could now hoar the j sound of whispering voices; my wife I tnwjird me: " It is verv sick. very sick," moaned shv", " It will surely die!" I tiied to comfort her. Only a | short time, however, proved that her | fears were but too well grounded. I During the night wo both pat by the little bed; she there and I here. Each : of us belding one of his little hands. I Ahl those feverish puleo beate! ?every i stroke sounding like an appeal: " Love each ether, love each other; bo good I" We felt eventually these throbbings and we understood th9 appeal. Oar eyes met full and earnest through th?. glittering tears, as in a first holy vow. j Words would have seemed a sacrilege I then. Not long after we laid our darlinj in ! the warm spring earth. When wo again sat down at our table there was a stillness between us; but it was not tho same stillness as that which the little stranger had broken in upon wiili his parting "Papa." Uy the wall stood his high arm-chair, and on the little board before it lay his spooni scepter. My wife reached her fine, white ! j hand over the table, &nd asked: " Did I you also love it ??at least a little ?'* ! Her voic9 trembled. "My wife ! my sweet, ray own wife !' called I. Then i fell at her feet and held her hands fast in mine. "I love thee, my wife, ob. wife 1" After the first emotion had subsided I pointed to the arm chair: " The little one came to teach us love," whispered 1. " And when it had finished its teaching it went again to the angels," added she. through her tears. One day the physician stepped out of my wife's room, with a smiling face. He touched the little arm chair as he passed it, saving: "Let it 6tand there; yon will need it again." Really? Was it possible? Had I decsrtfili lion-iiiiots ? As I held my wife closc to my heart in my irrepressible joy, I eon Id not forbear to bend down to her blushing little face, and say: "AVe will love it dearly, very dearly. Is it not so The Country Newspaper. The following is from an article by A. H. Dt?akins, in the Metuchen (N. J) Enquirer: The country newspaper holds a very different position to that of its more pretentions rival, the city sheet. One is to bo found iu the mart, the counting linnoQ onrl at tVio briQv morp.Vmrif'fl ?!_ bow for ready reference. The other circulates amongst the quieter rural districts, and supplies the reading matter for the farmer and the artisan when the day's work is done. A country newspaper has its peculiar sphere ; a sphere which tho city press cannot, and cares not to invade. The little local items gathered by the reporter, from the different news retailers as he journeys along, interest cnlv the people of particular localities. These locals, unless they wero sensational or cf jrreat importance, would never bo published by a city editor. No man understands this fact better than the country editor, and ho scours the neighborhood faraod neur for cnrr? nt events. He kDows that it is to his auvantapfo to publish what maj be termed a news letter. The planting of crops, harvesting and other laboiious work takes up so much time that propie iu feubnrbAn districts want all the ivnt they cau get to refresh and strengthen their weary bodies. As a consequence having but little mtiriMnnit? fnr- writ.incr thpv rlnnprrl vn"" -.-j npou their paper for a convenient t.nd easy method of conveying the news of th? neigh !io? hood to "far-away friends nud relatives. Thus the country newspaper p-rfortos a miseion which no i other journal does or can. A city e litor having a picked staff of j well trained salaried journalists at his ' command, does not, as a rnle, care to' introduce tho efforts of occasional con- i tiibutordj being too busy to return re j jectfcd manuscripts, many a happy little | effort is consigned to the flumes by ; him. With his country editorial J brother tl:e case is quite tho lcvoree ; ; having but few immediate helpers, he | gladly welcomes the effusions of out- j 'jdei s. To tnie fact we are indebted for the j vxnl.K'Ar.*<nvt / . t wtnr\Tt ? ? lifovnvir rrnm i U Ul^aillUU Ul UittLJJ U. X I \J^X i*ij pc^AJJ, I which first sparkled forth its brilliance I in some little out-of-the-way country I sheet. The author of the gem has been introduced to the reading world, and perhaps, as in many instances, anothar lias been started along: the rongh high, road which leads to honor and wealthEvery day the country is learning that ; poets, writers and authors do not all | live in some city Grub f-treefc. Thus the country newspaper offers a ! wide field for tLo cultivation of home tulent. Suggestions aro received from subscribers in a kindly spirit by the wise editor, and he becomes through that the custodian of many a precious secret. As a matter of fact ho has to bo a kind of sponge, taking a great deal in and requiring a very hard squeeze to bring anything out. The power which a good country newspaper wields has never been estimated. It is a recognized educator of the country masres, and in times of civil commotion its utterances are corefally woighed. That power will never depart from it as JoDg as it keeps a high standard of morality, so that its pages can be scanned without feir of moral taint by ull who read it. Long m <v its power continue unbroken, and its honor unsullied by contact with ring or other corporate forces. WISE WORDS. Pleasure is the mero accident of onr being, and work the a'ost natural and holy necessitv. Idleness is bard work to thoso who are not nsed to it and dull work lor thoso who are. More helpful than all wisdom is i.ne draught of simple human pity that will not forsake u.?. "Wedo not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Nature never sends a great man into rbn world without conlkiiug the secret tu another soul. Wit is sometimes like a eword, keen j and cruel, sometimes like a sunbeam, | bright and geniul. A moment is bnt a brief nnd fleeting passage, yet howoltenarc vast interests secured or lost in that circle of time. Instead of complainicg of the thorns among the roses, we should bo thankful there are roses among the thorns. As pure and fresh country air gives vigor to tbo system, so do puro and fresh thoughts tend to invigorate the mind. He that is proud eats np himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle, and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. Know tlie true value of time; snatch, seire and erjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put oti till tc-morrow what you can do to-day. MEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States, Of the five thousand striking operatives formerly bmploycd in the Harmony Miila, Cohoes, N. Y., all but about one hundred have either moved away or found other employment. Near Mifflin, Pa., a freight train, consisting of more than 100 cars, became disconnected al the center while descending a heavy grade. The roar Bection followed the front part with constantly increasing speed and finally plunged into it, wrecking thirty cars. Two tramps on the train were ki led inBtantly and a third was seriously injured. The Vermont State commiiteo of the National Greenback-Labor party have issued a call for c State convention at Waterbury on August 15. A cojtvkntiox of workingmcn to the number of 150 delegates, held in Pittsburg, nominated t, full State and county tickot and candidates for Congress. A tight in the freight yards of the Erie railroad at Jersey City N. J., resulted in one man?an Italian laborer?being driven off the pier into the water and drownod, while several other men were severely injured. Mast deaths and a large nnmbor of cases ol prostration Mere caused in New York by the excessive heat. Timee men wero killed and nine injured? eeveral tatal'y? by .the premature discharge o] a blust on the West Shore railroad, uear Milton, N. V. By the falling of the roof of amine slope near Fottsville, Pa., threo men lont their lives, ttisnor Levi Scott, senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, died the other da] at his homo, near Odessa, Del., aged eight} years. South and West. A womah and two children were found Bt&mid to death in a lonely place in Van Buren county, Ark,, in the mountains. It is believed that the woman fell sick, and the children being too young to secure aid for her, perished miserably. A third child was still alive and had gnawod a piece of flesh from the arm of one of her dead sisters. It died soon after tho discovery was made. A cyclone in Arkansas killed twenty headol cattle near Van Bnren, and of three men who were herding them one was killed outright and the other two fatally hurt Neab McAllister, Indian Territory, the Bev, W. J. Spaugh, a Methodist minister, who had I incurred the onmity of some young IndianE i whom he had corrected in school, was set | npon in a lonely spot, and after a determined ! struggle, killed. Afteu all the missing had been accounted for it was found that l;ho number of lives losl by the sinking of the excursion steamer Scioto in the Ohio river, was not far from one hundred. ; Gov Smith, the thirteen-year-old son of a well-known citizen of Kirkwood, a,suburb ol St. Louis, quarreled with his grandmother about hie food at the breakfast table and threw | the dishes around, whereupon he was whipped j by his father. After a crying spell Guy went into his grandfather's room, and in a minute returned with a double-barreled shotgun, and walking up to his father he deliberately placed the muzzle ol the weapon within a few inches ol his body and fired. Mr. Smith sank to the floor and expired. The boy was arrested. Dispatches from various points Btate that the Western wheat crop has fulfilled all expectations. It is one of the largest that has ever been grown, A WATEBflPOxrr in Taney county, Mo., exnrra* d milfl in tvirJfV> cnr? orrnnf away many fielda of corn and wheat and much stock. Bevies county, Ark., was tho sceno of a tragedy recently which resulted in the death of a guest at the hands of George and West McCravin, they killing tho man for his money. In arresting tho murderers Constable Hetherly was accidentally killed by one of the arresting party and George McCravin was shot dead by a deputy. reparations arc nearly completed at Denver, Col., for opening the National Mining and Industrial Exhibition. A small boat capsized on Lake Michigan, of! Muskegon, and two sailors from the steam barge Hilton and three other men were drowned. LiQHTNRfo Btruck a new three-story brick building in Texarkana, Ark., and the walls fell on an adjoining s iloon filled with people, crushiug more than thirty of them to death. William Ritter, a nogro, in jail at Henderson, Ky., cn a charge of assaulting ar.d killing Helen Brewster, a mulatto girl twelve years oi age, was taken from tho jail at that place by a crowd and hanged to a tree. F. E. Pond, ono of the editors of Turf, Field and Fan?, was drowned while on & fishing trip in Northern Wisconsin. Thomas Egan was hanged at Yankton, Dakota, for murdering his wife in 1S-S0, From Washington. Fubtheb nominations by tho President William E. Stevens, of New Hampshire, to bo consul of the United Slates at Sruyrrva; Stephen H. Smith, of Tennessee, to be consul of the Uoited States at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the following nominations : John Davis, of tho District of Columbia, to bo assistant secretary of state; John M. Francis, of New York, to bo minister resident and consul general to Portugal ; Eugene Schuyler, of New York, to bo minister resident and consul general to Rou mania, Servia and Greece, The department of agriculture will henceforth publish a monthly bulletin of freight rates for the information of farmers. The cen&us bureau has issued a special bulletin showing the number and size of the farms in the United States in 1880 and the kind of tenure by which they wero hold. The number of farms was 4,008,907. Of these, 2,984,306 wore occupied by the owners, 822,257 were rented at a fixed money rental, and 702,244 wore rented for shares of the products. Of the total number of farms, 4,352 were less than S acres in extent, 134,889 were above ,'J acres and less than 10, 254,749 were between 10 and 20 acres, 781,474 between 20 and 50 acres, 1,032,910 between 50 and 100 acres, 1,695,983 between 100 and 500 acres, 75,972 between 500 and 1,000 acres, and 28,578 confined 1,000 acres and upward. The secretary of tlio treasury has issued a bond-call for $10,000,0CU of the C per cent bonds continued at 3% per cent from July 1 1881. The principal and accrued interest will bo -mid at the treasury department on September 13, and the interest will cease on that day. Tho following is a description of tho bonds: $50, Noi. 801 to 900, both inclusive; $100, Nos. 5,501 to 0,500, boii inclusive ; $500, JNos. 3,eui to 4,150, both inclusive ; $1,000, Nos. 19,001 to 111,000, both inclusive; $5,000, Nos. 6,401 to (>,900, both inclusive; $10,000, Nos. 12,501 to 14,650, both inclusive. Official returns to tho agricultural department show that tho yield of all tho cereals except corn will be above the average. In the star route trials a witness testified that on one Arizona route tho empty pouches were the only mail matter generally carried. It will be remembered that on the day bo foro Gii'teau'a execution a large bouquet was sent to him and subsequently remove;! by the j.iil oflicials on tbo suspicion that the flowers contaiued poison. It was reported that the bouquet wan Kent by the prisoner's eij!er, Mis. Scoville. A Washington paper says that Dr. Alesatidi r McWilliams, tlie assistant physician of the jail, to .k charge of the flowers and handed a r.iKo from the center of the bouquet and another flower to Dr. W. C. Tilden for analysis. Dr. Tihlen, nt the laboratory of the Army Medical Museum, made an examination and found that there were plain traces of arsenic in the rose?a suflicient quantity to have killed several men had they taken it. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the fctlowing nominations: Lewis Wallaco, of Indiana, to bo envoy extraordinary an 1 minister plenipotentiary to Turkey; Henry C. Hall, to bo envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Ceutral America; J P. Wickereham, of Pennsylvania, ministor resident and consul-general to Denmark; M. J. Cramer, of Kentucky, minister resident and consul-general to Switzerland; John A. Ilaldeman, of Missouri, to bo minister resident and consul-general to Siam; S. 1$. Axtcll, of Ohio, fo bo chiof justice of tho Buprcmc couit of New Mexico. Maktin Buf.i.l, formerly ono of tho publishers of tho Xatinna'. Km, and for fifty years a journalist in Washington, died a few daya ago, aged seventy-six. Tiik military department of West Tointha; be^n discontinued. General Howard has beo:i ordered to the department of the Platto to relieve General Crook, who lias been ordeied to Arizona. Colonel Wesley Mcriitt, of tbo Fifth calvary, has been appointed superintend* eut of West l\?int Academy. Foreign News. General Michael Skodeleff, the famous Rassian general, died suddenly at Moscow of heart disease, aged thirty-nine years. General Sliobeleff came prominently into notice during P.ussian war w:th Turkey, in which he displayed the most rocsleos bravery, and consequently became the idol wf his soldiers. Ax Aloxandiii (JJg\pt) dispatch saya that threo thousand Egyptians undor General Ynseuf have MitKckud tlu False Prophet and have been defeated. They lost 2,000 men, four guns and 3,000 rifles. Tho Falso Prophet, with 7,000 rneD, is marching upon Sennaar. Ths weather in England haa reoently b<?n i injurious to growing crops. Ths Dutch ironclad Adder his been lost at ( ' sea. Snveral bodies have been washed ashore, i At the Marlow regatta, at Marlow, on tho Thames, the Hillsdale crew from the United States defeated the Marlow crew with compar- | ativeeaee. A London dispatoh says that " 283 outrages, of which five were murders, were committed in ] i Ireland during Juno." i A railroad collision at Cork, Ireland, re- > [ suited in injuries to thirty persons, twelve of whom were not expected to recover. i Durtng a riot atTredagar, Wales,, between > the Welsh and Irish residents, many houses of 1 [ Irishmen were sacked and a number of persons , i severely hurt. At.t. the consuls at Alexandria, Egypt, with their staffs, went on board of vessels in the 1 harbor. , Arab: Bet, the Egyptian war minister, re- i fused to obey a formal summons to Constanti! nople from the sultan of Turkey. ( By way of San Francisco come reports of a j ! terrible hurricanc which visr.ted the Frien lly I islands on April 25. At Vanran the bnrk Don i Guillermo, Captain Johnston went down at her < f anchors. The captain, officers and six seamen J , were lost with her. Five boys were saved. ] The hurricane was accompanied by a tidal 1 wavo fifteen feet high, which swept over the island and did terrible damage. All the natives' houses and many of the Euro' peans' houses were carriod away, and cocoanut ( trees -were snapped off like pipesteme. The island presents a scene of widespread desolati'nn At TnwfmtPB. n.11 t.hn rhllrohA* vArA Ho. i , stroyed and 2,000 houses were leveled, and the I , eopra lioosea with their contents and every- j tWsj: near were swept away, it Bchoorwr vne ] carried ialaad and the German bark Oa?llis i fouaSered. ' Several Russian officers holding high po- ! eitions have been arrested in St. Petersburg on tbe charge of being Nihilists. 1 In a duel between two Mexican officers, at 1 MatJ.moras both were killed. Mexican troops had a fight in Jalisco with a . , band of robbers unler Manuel and Jose Go- i , raez. The two leaders and seven other ban- ( dit'.i were killed and the rest of the band scat- ! p terod. I Durino a firo in Pfiris an explosion of gas i [ resulted in the destruction of twelve build- j ings, the death of twenty persons and injuries J , to forty more. i In the British honse of lords the royal assent i wan given to the Irish repression bill. ; 'j uii: .r]'tN counties of Ireland aro to be pro CM III KM lilllin II1U 1 UWIVU av-v. A tratn with 217 pci eons on board ran off I ilie rails botweon Tchcrny and Bastijeur, Busi sia; 178 persons wore killed, and those who 1 , were saved were more or Iors injured. ?? England nnil Egypt. | War between England and Egypt began by the bombardment of Alexandria by the British fleet nndor command, of Admiral Seymour. The ultimatum sent to Arabi Bey, the Egyptian. leader, was the surrender of the fort? at the month of the harbor within twenty-four 1 I honMW or the bombardment of the city at the exp .ration of that time. The Egyptians having refused to surrender the forts the British fleet 1 opened fire at sunrise. From dispatches sent \ 1 to England wo glean the following particulars of the manner in which hostilities began: " Early this morning the remaining British j subjects embarked and, save a few Italians and Greeks, the European portion of the population ' of Alexandria deserted the town. Those who ' romain are principally shopkeepers, who prefer any risk rather than abandon their property to , tho mercy of the mob. They have barricaded 1 their houses and will resist to the last any at- ' teirpt on the part of tho mob to break in when ! tho bombardment begins. "A.t 11 o'clock the Invincible, Monarch and 1 Per elope moved out and anchored outside the 1 harbor. The sceno now was impressive in a ' liig'i degree. Slowly all the foreign eteamora ino-ed from their berths and steamed out of ' the harbor. The merchant steamers presents J no regular order, but tho war ships of the 1 various nations steamed out in squadrons, ?a- 1 luting as they passed the admiral's flag. Bands ' placed national airs. Scarce a breath" of wind ! was blowing. The various ensigns drooj>ed J against tho masts. The bright Eastern iiky ' overhead, the deep blue sea, tho white clotted I ere vh clustering on the rigging and the knowl- 1 edge of the change which would soon tnke 1 place rendered tho stately procession of war ' ships extremely impressive. The merchant } stri.raers were all crowded with refugees, those 1 who had held on to the last in hopes that mat- ' tern would not come io an extremity. By half-past 12 tho American squadron of three ? ships, two liussian vessels, one Austrian and 1 one German alone remained. "At 1 o'clock a steam launch towing a large e boat full of Egyptian officials was seen ap- 1 proachint; tfce English flagship. It contained ; Raghib Pacha and tho otner members of tho e past and preacnt ministry. They wero re- c ceived by the admiral and the Hon. Mr. 1 Lainban, flag lieutenant, and a guard of 1 marines, tho baud playing and a general ] salute being lired, as they came as a J deputation from the rulers or Egypt. They ' had not received the admiral's demand to sur- 8 reader the forts, and had come off to inquire 1 the reason for the hostile preparations. The inerview was conducted with great courtesy on both sides, but the Egyptian officials looked blank indeed upon the admiral informing them that lie had s<>nt in a demand that tlio forts commanding the harbor be iin- e mediately dismantled. The members of the- j deputation talked somewhat excitedly among \ themselves in Turkish, discussing apparently c what Arabi would en.v to the demand." Tlw> c soon after returned to ehore, and at 7 a. ji. the t finst gun was fired. E The special correspondent ot the Associai ed a Press with the British fleet telegraphed the fol- J lowing detailed account of the engagement: a "A British naval officer has furnished mo the J following account of the day's operations: The bombardment commenced at 7:45 this morning. The ironclads Superb, Sultan and Alex- j andra engaged and totally destroyed Fort g Pharos and the lighthouse batteries, which are e at the ontrance to the new port, and were intended xo dominate the approach to the inner harbor. The flagship Invincible, the Monarch ? and the Penelope took ap commanding posi- ? tiona outside the reefs, and, assisted from the outside by the Temeraire, attacked with de- ? I struct ive effect the strong position of r. Fort Mcx, with tho lighthouse and , ! ..i TKA ofo. & Bliuru UltVbCl lCC* xuu luucaiu 10 ii ao ow i tionod so as to command the lighthouse r batteries, Foit Pharos and Fort Mer. at tho same time, i.nd was thus in a position to cooperate both with the division outside, and that ? inuide the reefs. Tho gun vessels Bittern, * Ccndor, Beacon, Decoy und Cygnet attacked P the Marabout batteries at tho entrance of the P harbor, aivl, taking a close and destructive n range, soon silenced them; after which they ran in and shelled Fort Mex, on the southern side of tho ontiane to the anchorage or outer harbor. The Invincible, under cover of her own gnns and those of tho Bittern, then landed ^ a party of blue jackets and marines, who entered Fort Mex aud blow up the ? heavy puns. The bombardment practically V ceased at noon, though some heavy guns are at w ; this hour still shelling Fort Napoleon, & large i work, situated at tho sotuhorn angle of the r inner harbor and dominating the town. The fort does not reply. On the whole the Egyptians fought their batteries with more determi- ti natiou than had been expected. Several of the g earthworks, behind which guns were mounted, jj were foiad to be mere heaps of eand. One shot went clear through tho Inllexible." n Tho London Standard's correspondent on d board the Invinciblo telegraphs: "The fortu tl and batteries on the sea face are a heap of Q ruins. ' The Egyptians stuck to their guns tin- n til the forts were crumbling. The aim of the Egyptian gunners was chiefly dirocted ngaiast C tho Penelopo and Inflexible, and they fired p I ptincipally round shot Their elevation was 0 I bad. The Invitcible was seldom hit. The i j armor of the Suporb was penetrated. The Egyptian officers set a good example to their 1 men, often jumping upon tho parapets to see n the effects of their fire. The party of marines which landed from the Invincible to blow up Ts?. ?? ? i 11 rurfc 1LLUA. DIVW oiiTumi ucau i; iUg luotuu ?,u? ? fort. Tlio Egyptians had no shells, which fact JJ accounts for tuo small number of casualties on C the British vesso'-." A Another correspondent telegraphed as fol- n lows: "At half-past 10 the khodive's palace, called the lias cl Tin, or the Harem palace, lying behind the forts, took fire, and at the 0 time I write is still burning. The fight was e' nearly over all along the line by 12 o'clock, although the ships nil continued to fire in order +1 to compleie the dismantlement of the forts. Several small magazines in the course of the n afternoon were blown up by our shell, a b large one in Fort Ada being destroyed by a a lucky shot from the Inflexible. At 1 o'clock a volunteers were called for on board the Invin- , cibletogooshoretospikethogunsof Foit Mex, which the fire of the ships had failed to dm- 1< mount. The work was dangerous, for troops I might liavo been lying behind the fort. How- n ever there were plenty of volunteers, and twelve men were chosen for the adventuro, Lioutenant ,, Bradford being in command and Major Tnlloch being lieutenant. Lieutenant Lam bton accom- 0 panie.l him. This duty was skillfully and rapidly performed. To eflect a landing the _ men had to swim through tho surf, but no ? opposition was met as they landed. Tho guua * were burst with charges of gun cotton, and the "H party returned on board ship without a single f< I casualty. i( I "Of tho ships engaged with Fort Mex tho j Penelope was struck live times, and had eight I men wounded and one gun disabled.' The Inv'ncible was struck many times, but only six e : shots penetrated her. The foroyard was struck ? and the royal brace cut away.. We had six j wounded. The Monarch was net hit once, j probably owing to her ability to shift " ground, whilo, on the othsr hand, she f< was, in movement and practice of her guns, in| terior to the Invincible. Uptil 5 o'clock tho c | ironclads kept an occasional fire, but the forts i did not reply during tho lat'er part of tho ! ? afternoon. Ono wing of tin palace is in It ruins. This was inevitable. Siuco the pal- j h aco lies behind Forts Pharos and A *a, j jj those portions of the town in tho lino | of fire must also liavo suffered. Tho j ' Egyptian gunners fought their guns '< exceedingly well, stickii-g to tbom until tho I o forts wero crumbling ruins. Tho parly who j jj landed to distroy tho guna of Fort Mex saw i several dead lying inside, and tha total loss of | . | tho enemy mu-t liavo been heavy." Thecasu- | i nlties on the English shi| s tho fir?t day was j o 1 fivo killed and twonty-seven wounded. The United states minister at Cfiistautino- j I plo was asked by tho sultan of Turkey to act j , as mediator between England nud lvjypt; but, j | under instructions from this government, do- ! b I clinod to interfero j h On the second day of the attack on Alcxan- j j i dria tho bombardment was renewed by the i i ! British gunboats Inflexible and Tcmeraire, j , which opened fire on tho Moncreiffe fort ! ? j that had or en repaired in the night. The firing j B | of tho guuboata met with no response. A flag I jc of truce was hoisted at noon on the arsenal, j | whero the minister of war and the official divan j | are. The higua! to ccaso firing wns then given. 1 | Toulba Pacha. tiicd to communicate %\illi A-!? i j miial Seymour. When told that as n prolimi- i ljj unry condition to negotiation tho forts must 0, I bo surrendered, he refused to accopt ' . "J.' , ^ WUW.l.H the terms. It Is thought that the flig was displayed simply to escapo the fire. It was reported that the Egyptian troops had ovacuated the town, which was reported to be almost empty. Many buildings in the city were in flames. It was thought the losses of the Egyptians would approach 2,000 in killed and wounded. The London Daily Nm>s' dispatch from off Alexandria svw "Before the bombaidinont recommenced Admir.il Seymour sent Lhe Bittern umler a Hag of truce to demand the surrender of tbo forts for the purpose of avoiding further bombardment, Dut without result. All reports confirm previous statements aa to the manner in which the Egyptians worked their guns until they were fairly blown from the batteries by the explosion of fhells. Tl.o Monarch fired 200 heavy shells and 6,000 poun Is of shot from the mashine puns. There was .-omo splendid scientific firing, and the oftichl reports of this first practical trial of modern fighting ships will be rrconlH of the utmost value. Some houses in b'ort Mex, apparently of concrete, withstand the firo of the heaviest guns of the Monirch.-' Alexandria Given Up to Hlnunhter and rillnec. Alexandria dispatches give the following ac:onnt of the terrible scones of slaughter which :ook place on the third day of the siege: "The weather waa too rough to admit of a onewal of the bombardment this morning, jven had the continuance of active operations seen decided upon. At daylight those on the British ships saw a dense cloud of smoke langing over the city, with great tongues of lame shooting up from tho Grand square and tho European quarter surrounding it. ' A llag of truce wa9 jeen flying from the ltas-el-Tin palace, and mother from the arsenal, and tho Helicon, with t (lug of truce, followed by the Invincible, Monarch and Penelope, steamed slowly*into tho inner harbor, the remainder of the fleet staying jutsdde under weigh and moving slowly. Adaural Seymour had given notice to the Egyptians that their next flag of Iruco must mean ibsolute and unconditional surrender of the forts,and the Helicon was sent to seo if tho terms liad been accepted. Sho retumrd at 8:40 with the information that nobody could bo found either at tho arsenal or on board the Mahroussa, md that she had failed to open communication ivith tho enemy. The admiral then orderon First-Lieutenant Forsyth to go on shore with the steam pinnace, and find out the actual condition of things. Accompanying the lieutenant ivaa Mr. Boss, purvoyor to the fleet, who is well acquainted in Alexandria. He landed *nd proceeded inland for some distance, but met not a single soul. But for the crackling jt the flames iu the European qnarter and tho sound of falling walls and beams the city won (1 have been as quiet as tho Rrave. He found that many houses in tne Arab quarter had b?en badly injured and partly burned by tho bombardment. An incoudiary firo in tho center and European quarter covcred the area of a mile equare, and a largo part of tho population bad fled toward the canal. A wing of the palace wai badly c amaged by shells, and the buildings in tho Arab quarters were badly injured but not entirely burned down. It was found that the firo of the Invincible had been very effective Bgainst the Bas-el-Tin fort. Upon reporting this state of affairs to the admiral it was determined to land a body of marines and sailors and make a general reconnoissance. " It was evident that Arabi Pasha had used the flags of trace to delay the operations of the fleet, and even the retreat of his men. Before leaving the city he had released the prisoners irnm 1T1? Tail (ind fiven over tho citv to them I E.nd the Bedouins to plunder and burn. The released convicts set the city on fire, and committed tho most horrible atrocities on the Christians and Europeans who fell into theii bands. It was a night of terror and horrors i uch as has not been witnessed even in the East lor many a long day. A body of about 100 Europeans managed to fight their way through tho pitiless mob during the night, and this morning appeared on the beach signaling to the fleet for assistance. Armed boats wero sent to receive them, and they wero taken on board the telegraph ship Chiltern, where they no?v are. rhey tell frightful tales of the horrible scenes 3f yesterday and last night. It appears that A.rabi, so Jar lrom trying to save tnem from the thieves and murderers which he had let laoao upon the city, allowed his soldiers to aid in tho outrages which were heaped upon them. According to the refugees, tho Europeans, sov3nil Imndi ed in number, barricaded themselves in their houses, and in tho banks, consulates and 31 her buildings around the Grand square. The mob attacked tho houses, battering in the loors and setting fire to the buildings. Men, women and children who fell into their hands ivero killed, a iter being mutilated and ireated in i bo most barbarous manner. Tho cinds and feet of the unfortunates were in nany instances tied, so that they were poweress to make an effort to save themselves, ind then they were cast into the burning juildings to bo roasted alive. Women were brown to the ground and stamped upon until ife was fairly ground out of them, and tho nhuman fiends kept up this caruago until laylight. The huudred who escaped bad touglit i refugo in tho Ottoman bank, he strongest building in the square, n which they barricaded themselves ind fought back the mob all night one. They report that tho entire Grand iquare is destroyed and the streets of the Suropean quartor leading from it are ablaze on dl fides. 'J he fire ragos over an area a mile <lii are, and all that portion of the city is doomed i j destruction. Tho English church, which vas one of the promincut buildings on the quare, ia said to have been destroyed by a iliauce shell dm iug the first day's bombardnent. Several shells havo been fired within ho last two hours into that portion of the city ihere the conflagration broke out, in hopes hat ihoy may scare pillagers. That many pilagcrs remain ia evident from tho fact' that cveial fresh fires have broken oat in tho last liree hours." FORTY-SEYKNTH f/?NftBESS. Senate. The House joint resolution to allow to the mployes of tie government printing office pay or time lost during the Garfield obsequicd rae passed.... The Rollins bill providing lor a ommiBsion to inquire into the Babject o! onstructing iron or steel steamers for comcercial purposes, convertible by the governaent into ships of war, was reported favorably nd placod on tho calendar Messrs. Hawley, liller, of New York, Hill, of Colorado, Bayard ud Hampton, were appointed to attend the lewburg, N. Y., colcbration. The lax Dill was considered ana iaia over ...The House joint resolution was paasod ppropriating $50,000 to enable the United tates to take part in.the International Fish ihibition to bo hold in London. Ilounr. On motion of Mr. Hiecock, of New York, the enate joint resolution was passed, authorizing m payment temporarily of certain employes f the war department....The speaker anounced the appointment of Messrs. Beach, etcham, Curtin, Burrows, of Michigan, nott, Townsend, Ellis and Iianney as the aeict committo on tho Newburg centennial coloration. Tho Senate amendments to tho deficiency ppropriation bill were non-concurrcd in..., he itundiy civil Bervice appropriation bill was aesod, ai amendment being adopted approriating ri5,000to enable the President to prolote civil service reform. Lameness iu Horses. Dr. D.D. Slade, professor of agricalaral zoology, Harvard 'university, ives in the American Agriculfuri.it a ery full account of the symptoms that all enable owners of horses to detect ifferont varieties of lameness and beir treatment. He says : Shoulder lameness is frequently duo 3 a strain or to direct violence, and is hown in repose by the hanging of the imb, from disinclination to move theluseles, and during motion by the ragging and difficulty to bring forward be limb, which is done by a rotatory lovement. It is also shown by the inching when tho foot is lifted and arried foiward and backward. The ositive signs before mentioned may r may not be present. If tho elbow 3 affected, there will be a singular haDging " of the limb and excessive nd/lintr nf lb a Tiptid in motion. In splint. lamesnoss is uenally much acreaeed by exercise. Press are on the imb stows tenderness, and there is inreased heat, with more or less swelling. l small splint in developing mar give inch more pain, shown by lameness, ban one fully formed. RiDg bones and ssified side cartilages, ia their early tages, may be recognized as causes of peculiar stiffened gait, with tho weight hrown upon the heels. The lameness early or entirely disappears before the ony deposit appears about the middle nd lower pastern. Strains of posterior nd other ligaments and tendons of the )wer limb evidence themselves by the jcal symptoms and alteration in gait, lut there are cases of temporary lameess, from very obscure causes, attributble only to a sudden strain cf some gament whoso exact situation can nly be surmised. Tho short, quiet step of the horse, rith that inflammation of the feet nown as chronic laminitis in which the 'eight is thrown upon tha heels of the jre limbs, is easily recognized. In the ss frequent atfoction, navicular disuse, tho weight is thrown upon the ;es, the gait is short and the lameness, light at first, i3 increased by exercise, lorn?? are discovered by rapping and inching tho sole, at the space between txo burs and tho qu.rters in the fore sot. Disease of tho frog is self-ovieni by the peculiar odor. A sand racl: sufficient to prodncc lamenerp an not escapw observation. Accidental 5juries to the feet will generally be : nown by tho history cf the case. Lame-1 oss'in and about the hip joint is mobt j jquenMy the result of strain, and is ! 3 be reoignizo.l by tho peon liar want j f movement of the hind quarter, aud j : of lone: ttandiug, by tho waiting of lie muscles of the region. Stiflo joint i imencBH, either tho result of taxation r of disease, may be knovvn bv the j i racing of tlui to.?, and by iho lr.col 1 : pmptoms. Bono spavia is m imitated j y positive signs, but more especially ; y the stiffness in tho bending of the 1 ock joint and by thedraggingand sud- j i en catching up of tho limb, and above : II by tho disappearance of all lameness : uring exercise, to reappear after rest, j og spavin, a disease of tho true hock I ; >mt, gives rise to a similar lamenes-i. j < |, Tho counties of North Texas, twen- j ; r-threoin nurubor, will r.ins 210,000 lies of cotton this yoa", nn incroujeof ; ae per cent, over last jear, ( ???? THE IHPENDOG FATE. An Iatwreatln* Cbnptrr from the Llf* mt Prominent Bostoniaa. (Boeton Glebe*) The readers of this paper were more or leu 1 amazed At ft moot remarkable statement from 1 one of our leading citizens which appeared In c yesterday's issue. SO unusual were the dt- f nnmolinnao nnnnaofjvl with It. And Rrt mtlflh Comi ment did it occasion on the street and in social * circles, that a representative of this paper was t commissioned to investigate its details and q verify its facts. The article referred to was a _ statement made by Mr. B. F. Larrabee, of the . New York and Boston Dispatch Express com pany, whose office is on Aroh street. Mr. Lar- c rabee was fbuhd by the newspaper man in his c private offitie, and on being questioned, said! f "Well, sir, logically I have been dead, but really I am as yon can see me, A little Over a I year ago I was taken sick. My trouble was not severe ftt first and 2 thought it was the result of a slight cold. Somehow I felt unacdonfatabty c tired dt times, although I took an abundance of : sleep. Then, again, I had dull and strange , pains in various parts of my body. My appe- ' tito was good one day and I had none wliatover a the next, and my head pained me much Of the t time. A while afterward I noticed much that u was peculiar about the fluids I was passing and , that a sodiment, scum and a strange accumu- J lation appeared in it. Still I did not realize \ that these things moant anything serious and I c allowed the illness to run along until on the g 23th day of October I fell prostrate while walk- 1 ing along Tremont street. I was carried home and did not go out of the house until the mid- 6 die of December. I then wont down town and \ attempted to attend to my business until the i 13th of last January, when I was taken with a . very severe relapse. My symptoms were terrible. I was fearfully bloated; I suffered severe pains in all parts of my body and it was almost impossible to get my breath For six > days I never laid down and never slept I was : constantly attended by my regular physician, ' Doctor Johnson, and Doctor Bowditch also c came to see me nearly every day. There was t no doubt that I was" Buffering from Bright'* . r\$ 1><Mnn?*a in fni?m OT1/1 Ulocuau Ul II1D A1UUOJQ 1U A WO HV/lO? tunu uuu last stages, accompanied by other troubles iu | my liver and heart. In spite, however, of the ' skill of the physicians, I kept growing worse, and finally they tapped my side in the vicinity of the. hoart, taking away forty-six ounces of water. This relieved me for the time, but I soon became as bad as before. Then the doctors gave me up ontirely, declared I could not live more than twenty-four hours, and my daughter, who was residing in Paris, was telegraphed for. Still I lingered along for several weeks, far more dead than alive, but never giving up hope. One night ?it was on the 20th of April, I very well remember?my attendant, who was reading to me, began an article which described my disease and Bufferings exactly. It told how some severe cases of Bright's disease had been cured, and so olearly and Bensibly did it state the case that I determined to try the means of cure whioh it prescribed. So I sent my man too the drug storo, procured a Iwttle of the medicine unknown to my physicians and friends, and took the first dose at 10 o'clock. At that time I was suffering intensely. I could not sleep; I had the short breaths and could scarcely get any air into my lungs. I was terribly bloated from head to foot, and the motion of my heart was irregular and painfuL The next morning I was able to breathe freely; the pain began to leave me and the bloating decreased. I continued to take the medioino, ana t-o-aay, sir, ,1 am as wen as i ever was in my life, and wholly owing to the wonderful, ( almost miraculous power of Warner's Safe Kid- ] ney and Liver Cure. I do not know what this medicine is made of, or anything else about it, but I know it savod my life when I was given up by the doctors and had really been dead for weeks; that it has kept me in perfect health ever since, and has cured many of my friends to whom I have recommended it There are a number of very remarkable cases in Lynn and Salem, as it in this city, that it has cured. My recovery is so remakablc that it h^s excited much attention, and physicians as well as others have investigated it thoroughly. I am glad they have, for I feel that the results of such a wonderful care should be known to the thonsands in all parts of the land who are suffering from troubles of the kidneys, liver or heart, in some of their many dangerous forms." The representative of the press thanked Mr. Larrabee for his very frank and clear statement, and was about to leave the offloe when a gentleman stepped up to him and inquired if he were seeking information about Mr. Larrabee'a sickness and recovery. The scribe replied that he * as, whereupon the gentleman saia: "And so am I, and 1 have come all the way from Chicago for that veiy purpose. Kidney troubles Beem to be alarmingly increasing all over tho country, and I have a very near relative who is afflicted much as Mr. Larrabee was. I have been to see the physicians of whom Mr. Larrabee speaks, and I tell you, sir, it is. simply wonderful." 41 What did they say?" asked the man of news. " Say I why, sir, they fully confirm everything Mr. Larrabee has stated. I went to see Dr. D. A. Johnson, at 20 Worcester street. He was absent when I called, and so I stepped into the Commonwealth hotel, where Mr. Larrabee was living at the time of his Bickness. Messrs. Brugh & Carter are the proprietors, and I asked thorn about Mr. Larrabee's case. Mr. Brugh pointed to the electric annunciator and said, I 'Why for weeks and weeks every tim* that ] do 11 rangi Baia: xnai means iuu utt&ui ui illt. j Larrabee. No one around the hotel ever dreamed that he would recover, and when the doctors would come down from his room they ] would shake their heads and say there was no t hopo. The arrangements for the funeral were : made and his recovery was simply a miracle.' , " I then called on Dr. Johnson, who said that , Mr. Larrabee's case was a very remarkable one. J He was his family physician and expected his t death every hour for a number of weeks and j never callfid to see him during that time but , he was prepared for it. The doctor said the recovery was due to Warner's Safe Kidney and 1 Liver Cure, and if he had friends, male or l female, troubled with Albumen or any kidney i troubles be should certainly advise them to ( use Ihis remedy. Dr. Johnson said kidney . difficulties are more common than most people 1 think, and that many symptoms which are 1 supposed to be other diseases arise from the 1 kidneyB. Ho said that ladiea after gestation ( are specially subject; to albuminous troubles which require prompt attention. 1 " Well, I then came down and called on Dr. H. 1 Ingereoll Bowditch on Boylston street The old doctor was inclined to be reticent, but fully confirmed all I had previously learned. He had attended Mr. Larrabee, and supposed him beyond all hopo. and ho was afterward restored, as ho said, by Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver ? Cure. ( "I next went to see Dr. Melville E. Webb, at < the Hotel Clunv, for you see I was determined to be thorough in tho matter. I found Dr. 1 Webb a most clear-headed and well-informed ' gentleman, and he said: " 'I know of Mr. Larrabee's case from having thoroughly investigated it as a medical director of a life insurance company, and it is one ? of the most remarkable cases I have ever met. J Mr. Larrabee had all tho manifestations of a ' complication of diseases, and in their worst forms. Ho had albumen and casts in the urine, j and a ternbly diseased liver and spleen. In- ] deed, he was so bad that he threw himself upon , the door, and, with his head upon a hassock, i atmoctivl for breath. Ttwan on tho niffht when ho waa so bad, and when all his medical advisers had long given him up, ihat he began using v Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. The 9 next morning at 10 o'clock he was able to breathe freely, and has been ever since. I subjected him to the most thorough examination t possible, after his recovery, ana "I can't fiud \ out about him." His kidneys, liver, lungs and c heart are perfectly well and sound. I can only I add that, from what I have seen, I would un- a hesitatingly recommend this remedy.'" > c The conclusions from the statements above c made which come to tho newspaper man as well 1 as the general public, must be two-fold. First that a modem miracle of healing has been performed in our midst, and that, too, by the " simplest means and one which is within the reach of every one. It should be remembered that Bright's disease is not usually a sudden complaint. Its beginnings are slight and its growth slow. The symptoms by which it may f be detected are different with different persons, e no two people usually having the same. This r fart was manifest in the case of Mr. Larrabee, H and be bad no idea of the terrible complaint t whicb had attacked him until it became fixed upon him. Secondly, testimonials of Buoh high character and so outspoken in tone, conclu- e sively prove the valne of the remedy and ita n superior natnre to the proprietary articles with which the public havo been flooded. "The . greater includes the lesa," and the remedv * which has been proven so valuable and has 4 saved a life after it was brought down to death's lf door, must unquestionably be certain in all minor troubles which are so disastrous njileM * taken in time. 1 c Young1 Love's Dream. i They are young mariiod people and havfl instcone to housekeeping, and the neighbors who assemblo at their front windows to witness the harrowing sight 0 of their parting for the day declare that a the following is a verbatim account of ? their conversation: j5 " Good-bye. Charley, now be careful 1 the street-curs don't rnn off tho track with yon and?kiss me, Charley?there p was something I wanted to tell yon? ? let mo see. Was it hair-pins ? No, I s got them?w-h-a-t could it have been?" "I'm due at the office, pet," says I Charley, bracing up and looking very V handsome and manly; "was it some- j thing to eat?" " Why, of course it was ; there isn't a bit of mashed potatoes in the houee, E nor a mouthful of bread and bntter. *< Wo want a half yard of beefsteak?see ? and havo it cat bias ?o it will be tender ? and a loaf of eweet bread, Charlie, j and a strawberry sbortoako, dear, and t;< ?and anything else you think of, dear." p "But, my little wife," siys Charlie, ^ looking very wise, " these things must all be made before we can eat them " ? "Must they? oh, dear, and I never learned to d? fancr wo:k! I never. . crocheted a biscui lit to rat, and I j couldn't paint a tomato to ?>.ve my life. Oh, Charlie, go to tho ready-made stores, do, there's a darling He did; nad thov hud ?; pict'jre^qTio nualof lobater and strawberries with ! i: baker's rusk and lemonade, bat Charlie j }n has written to hh mother to cmiin at | t? oucc and rnihe t'loni a 10:15 visif, they I J are po delightfully Mhutrd they cau : a make it pleatant for her now, he says ? i Ik(ro>t Pout. I UiiuntercU on the I fort i\ : j Dr. Louis, of New Orleans, v.ho is j something of a wag, ca!!?d orj ; colored ! u minister, and proponnde.: a fe.v iu?ziiug i ii questions. " Why i> it," wtid ho. "tLat j h| you are not able to do the mii'atU-fl that j. the Apostles did? They v.vre protected '' against all poisons and nil kinds of J r perils. Howi-< it yon are not prcta^cd : ra now in tho samo way ?' j * The colored preacher K'.-pondrd j 'A promptly: "Dou't knuw about tLat, iootor. I spect I is. I've tiikeu a j p mighty fright of strou;; melicinc fron 1 vou, doctor, iir.d I i-< nltvo yet." j A ? ... ri Every man is owiisiouaUy what he ! DUght to be perpetually. j "T? ? ??.?-??rr F1CTS AND COMMENTS. i In this day and ajje of enlightenment ' t takes a Mormon newspaper (the Utah ! Veirs) to boldly declare that for upward if fifty years the Mormons have testiled to the world that the sick are lealed in this age, as in former times, brough "the prayef of faith," and it ,dds that there are thousands Ot people ,ble to bear testimony to the truth of he statement, and that in all kinds of liseases, also in injuries through accilent or otherwise, the Mormon ordinanco >f laying on of bands lor tne sick naa >roved efflcacionp. Wfcafc is called officially 4,Tho Wel:ome liod(?ing fiotise " has been opened n New York. It Is an idea of the JVomen's Branch of the City Mission, ind its purpose is to provide shelter for he swarms of friendless females who rrive ih New York and have nowhere o go. It is intended to afford a home cr girls looking for work. The conlitiocs are generous. Each inmate i3 upplied with a clean comfortable cot >ed. In payment for board and lodging ttch inmate is expected to do two hours' pork a day id cleaning the establishnent or aiding in the making of sheets ind the like. A French commission of fifty members, all leading men of France, have ho inundation of the Sahara end its :onversion into a sea nnder conoideraion. They have resolved themselves uto three committees, one of which is >xamining the practical difficulties to )e overcome, the second the physical, ueteorological and hypienio ccnsejuences of the work, and the third the political, commercial and mara'ime remits to be expected. If the three subiommissions report favorably, a fourth rill be formed to decide whether tho vork should be undertaken by the State )r left to private enterprise, and on vhat terms. Representation in legislative bodies s much smaller in the United States, n proportion to population, than in iny of the leading countries of the (Forld. While tbe United States, with i population of 50,000,000, hive oulv 569 Senators and members of Congress, 3ermany with 45,000,000 has 397 delegates; England, 34,000,000, has 658 nembers of parliament; France, 36,100,000, is represented by 950 senators ind representatives; Spain, 17,000,000, population, has 387 deputies in the ;ortes; and Austro-Hungary with 35,)00,000 people has a legislative body of 1,600 in the two houses. If the United States had a representation in Congress ipon the fame basts as Austro-Hungary, ;here would bejno less than 2,286 members of Congress and Senators. The Women's Silk Culture association of the United 8tates, whose hea<2Juarters are in Philadelphia, continne leir efforts to introduce this now domestic industry, and are meeting with jnconraging success. They have offered J500 in ten premiums, ranging from 5100 to $10, for those who produce the :en largest amounts of cocoons during the present year, and 850 additional in :hree premiums for the best three pounds raised by colored people. The um of the association is to create a aome market for the sale of small quantities of silk, and persons interjsted in the project can secure, on reasonable terms, information, books of instruction and the mulberry cuttings ind silkworm eggs required for trying :he experiment, by addressing the president, Mrs. J. Lucas. The under;aking appears to be in the best of sands, and its projectors should receive aearty support from the public. Accident in a Sulphur .Mine, The Gazzetta Piemontese reports a terrible accident in one of the sulphur mines at Caltanisetta, in Sicily. The rope by which a wagon heavily Ialen with snlphur was being drawn up an incline out of the "Tumminelli-' pit mddenly snapped. The wagon thereupon commenced descending again, and there being no possibility of stopping it the wagon rushed at a tremendous speed to the bottom of the pit and was instantly dashed to pieces. 0*ing to ;he high friction the brimstone burst into flames, with the most disastrous results to the miners, who were all at work at the time. As soon as the fire was jxtinguished there were no fewer than ;hirteen bodies taken out of the pit, the victims having all been suffocated and aurned to death. There were, in addiuncord nf f.hirtv miners who had eceivod injuries, chiefly barns of a nore or less serious character. "Threw Amy Her Supporter." Dr. Pizkoe: A neighbor of onra waa sufferng from "female weakness" which the doctors old her could not be oared without a aupport>r. After considerable persuasion my wife inInced her to try your "Favorite Prescription." ifter using one bottle she threw away the sopporter and did a large washing, which she had lot done in two years before. Jams Mtt.t.xh, 4246 Jacob street, Wheeling; W. Va. The enrolled militia of Massachusetts, conisting of every able-bodied male citizen be ween the ages of eighteen ana lonv-nve, namicrs 245,000. Woman and Her DImum ? the title of alarge illustrated treatise, by Dr. : B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. 7., sent to any address for threa stamps. It teachee successful self-treatment. Sf.yier coun y, Ark., boasts of a colored roman 125 years old, and Atlanta, Ga., follows nth one who has attained the age of 123. 1_ I If your lungs are almost wasted by oon'sump- ] ion Dr. Pierce's "Qolden Medical Discovery" vil! not cure you, yet as a remedy for severe oughs and all curable bronchial, throat and ung affections, it is unsurpassed. Send two itanips for Dr. Pierce's large pamphlet treatise | >n Consumption and Kindred Affections. Ad- | lress World's Dispensaby Medical Associa- ; "ion, Bnfftlo, N. Y. A mountain 290 feet high, composed chiefly f magnetic iron, has been discovered in the ] tate of SinalOa, Mexico. < "All Ought t* Know." { Titosvelle, Pa., March 12 188L H. H. Waeneb & Co.: Sirs?I am folly satisI'jd that your safe Kidney and Liver Core aved my life, and that I would have been dead nonths ago had I not used it. I look upon it ?s a great blessing to mankind and a remedy hat all ought to know. J. A. OouiAMT. Tiie markotable timber of North Carolina is stimated at 5,226.000,000 feet, board meaauro, lostly long-leaf pine. The new circular of the Cayuga Lake Military cademy, Aurora, N. Y., is a handsome book oi 0 pages, full of information. Maj. W. A. Flint ! Principal, Henry Morgan, Esq., President. 25 Cents Will Bay t Treatise upon the Horse ana his Diseases. , 3ook of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner if horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent poet>aid by New York Newspaper Union, 150 Worth ' Jtreet, New York. For dtspepsia, indigestion, depreesion of spir- j ts and general debility, in their various forms; lso as a preventive against fever and ague and ther intermittent fevers, the 'Terro-Phosphor- ; ted Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, 1 lazard <fc Co., New York, and eold by ill Drug- ' ists, is the beat tonic; and for patients recover- , ag from feror or other aiokneaa It haa no equal. 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