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? ? [Farmer stebbins at Ocean GroYe. Dear Brother John : i We cot here safe?my worthy wife an' me? An' pitcned our tents within a grovo contig'us to the sea; We're harvested such means of grace as growed within our reach; We've 'tended all the mornin' talks, we've heard the Bishop preach: ? An' everyi hing went pleasantly, until we had a f whfm? jf. My wife and I?one breezy day, to take an ocean swim. C We wouldn't ha' vent'rcd on't, I think, if Sister K Sunnvhopes 0 Hadn't urged us over an' ag'in, an'said she knew mi the ropes, r An' told how safe an' sweet it was " in ocean rills f, to lave," V An' "sport within the foaming surf," an'"ride the 9 crested wave"; f An'so we went along with her?my timid wife an' me? J Two inland noodles, for onr first acquaintance with jy the sea. 3 They put me in a work-dav rip, as us'ally js dono? j\ wampus an snori overnauis an sewea up into one. I had to pull an' fuss an' jerk to make the things go 'round (You are aware my peaceful weight will crowd three hundred pound). They took my wig an' laid it up?to keep it safe, thev said? An' strapped a straw-stack of a hat on my devoted heaa. They put my wife info a dress too short by full a third? 'Twas some'at in the "Bloomer"style, an' looked a Dit ansnro. Yon know die's rather tall an' slim?somewhat my opposite? An' clothes that are not cut for her are likely not tc fit; But a- we was we vent'red in?my faithful wife an me? An' formed our first acquaintance with the inconsistent sea. Miss Sunnyhopes she went ahead, a-lookin trim an sweet; She'd had her bathln' suit all fixed an' trimmed fron: head to feet: An' I went out an' grabbed the rope, just as she tok me to An'wife came next, a-!ookin' scared, scarce knowin what to do. But Sister Snnnyhopes to me a smile o' sweetness pave. An' said. " Now watch your chance, an' jump?hen comes a lovely wave!" I must ha' jumped, I ruther think, the wrong time o' the moon: At any rate, the lovely wave occurred to ine toe soon. It took me solid, with a rude an' unexpected shock It be?" '>"? stoutest pair o' horns there is in all mj flock. An' then. to top the circus out, an make the ac' ir "re fine, . I trie1 *o kick the lovely wave, relinquishin' th< une. On country fairan' 'lection days, in walkin' througt a crowd, I'm rather firm to jostle'gainst?perhaps it make; me proud; But if it does', that wave discoursed how surenesi never pays; An' seemed to'shout, " How small is man, no oddi how murh he weighs It sat on me, it jumped on me, in spite of right 01 law. An' whisked an' whirled me all about as if I'd beer a straw. An' then it laid me on the beach, right thankful foi my life: An' scramblin' up, I gave a gaze to And my faithfu wife; But she hud sort o' cut the wave, with all the edg< she had, An' stood a-holdin' to the rope, uncommon inoisl and sad: While Sister Snnnvhopes, with smiles, was lookin proud an' gav. A-floatin' on her dainty back, some several rod: away. She looked so newish-pretty there (an' knowed li too, the elf>, The crowd was all admirin' her. an' so was I mv self. An' while apain I grasped the line beside my wif< of truth, My eyes would rove to Sister S., her beauty an' hei youth ; When all at once another wave, tremendous broat an' deep. Come smashin' down on wife an' me, an' tossed tu in a heap. Head over heels, all in a bunch, my wife across o me, An' I on some nnlucky folks who happened there to be: My hat untied an' floated off, an' left my bald head bare. When we cot oat,if I'd ha' spoke, it would ha' warmed the air. We drank a good part of the sea?my gaspin' wife an' I? While Sister S., still floated soft, a-gazin' at the sky. We voted that we'd got enough, an' crawled out of the way Before another wave arrived, an' bid the eea goodday. We looked as like two drownded rats as ever such was called, With one of 'em a mighty fool, particularly bald. But, like a woman true, she said?my watchful wife ?to me, " We will not mind: there's others here that looks as bad as we." Now Sister Sunnyhopcs, by-'n'-by, came back into our tent, As sleek or sleeker than before, an' asked us when wc went. Says I," My dear good Sister S., please do not now pretend Yon did not see onr v'yage through, and mark its doleful end. If you would play the mermaid fair, why, such I'd have you be; But we're too old to take that part?my faithful wife an' me." Wilt Cnrlfitnrt. in Tfnri^r^a Wrtkhi. A HAULED MEALER. After days of fog a perfect morning had dawned at last tor Bar Harbor. As the lipht fist faintly stirred, then qniv ered into (nUne^ in the east, earth and sky and sea shone with that magical brilliance which in coast regions follows an eclipse of mist. The islands in the bay raided their clear forms ont of the intense blue wa'er. Beyond, the n. n;n? v.. urn*.-".'**'"*" '" soft outlines. Close at hand, like a boat boilt and decked by fairiep, lay a yacht- arrived since tbe night before, her i-louder mas's and spars bung with strings of mary-c^lored fluttering flags, ontlhied as-ainst the deep green of the Bar Island cliff Even the prosaic village, with its thickly windowed bai racks and nncompromi'icg white-painted hotels, took a certain charm from the charmed light, and the air, mingling the perfume of the sea vuih that of numberless wild oses, seemed tt) breathe from paradise. R .bert Arnold stood in the doorway of Rodick's ho'el, taking in the scene Nothing bnt foe had been visible on bis arrival she night before, and all was new and interesting - His eyes dwelt with delight on tbe plnmy islands, the illnmined yacht, the exquisite bines and ocean greens, and noted with amazement and cariosity the singularities of Bar Harbor architecture. Fresh from a lone conrs? of *tudy in Swiss seminaries and German mining sc-hools America to him was less the land of bi birth than a problem to be investigated America t?nd Americans. Ho had bet n at hf me too slort a time to feel familiar with either, and his shy and ' Btndious habits and lack of familiarity witb societv were a barrier to easy acquaintance. He lingered now, watching with a veiled interest the crowd descending to breakfast. Papas and mammae with llieir broods of lively, noisv children; college students, brown with tan a"b<l muscular with oar practice; girls innumerable, ia all styles of blonde and brunette bat all pretty, as it seemed to him, marvelou?dy pretty, and wonderfully well dressed, with ease of manner and aplomb such as no other girls of bin limited experience had ever possessed. There was a difficulty in this nniversul prettines*. Like a bee in a wilderness of flowers, his eyes hovered over the broad field of beauty, sated by possibility, and puzzled whereto alight, while gay pood-mornings were exchanged and an increasing clatter from the dining-room beyond showed that the morning meal was well under way. A rattling sound attracted bis attention ; and looking oat, he beheld a most astonishing carriage drawing up at toe door of the hotel. It was simply abroad elastic plank swnng between four wheels, fitted with a couple of Beats, and drawn by a rough small horse?a "backboard," in short, familiar enough to New England eyes, but a most remarkable vehicle to those of Robert Arnold, who had never before seen anything like it ia any quarter ol the globe. Its ocoapant, besides the boy who $ drove it, whs a yonng lady in a careless wraD or shawl, and a bat tied on " anyhow" over a thick knot of auburnchestnut hair, who descended without a word, and floated past him without a glance, but whose face and air produced sadden excitement in the breast of oar young meta lurgist. "Who was that," he demaoded of the hotel clerk, a true son of tbe soil, who, availing himself of a brief leisure bod come out to snuff the morning gale. rhit?-wbo? Oh, her. She's one oi them hauled mealers." "Oue of?what did you say?" Mealers?baaled mealers." "What under heaven is a hauled mealer?" demanded Robert, completely mystified. The clerk surveyed him with a contempt bat sliebtly tinged with pity. "Whv, where were you brought np?' he" said. " Hain't you never heard before of a meah r ? Mealers sleep out. and com9 in for meals. When they're hauled in buckboards like that one they're hauled mealers. See? G^s> you ain't one of our country people? "Yes, T an. I've been one, at least, but it's fifteen vears since I've been in the United Sta'tes, and I never came t^ M'-unt Decert befoie, and never heard of a mealer. Do you know this lady s name?" . , ,. , , " Well, ves, but it s kinder slipped mv m< m<*rv tor the mc ment. Mustv? Mustard?Musgrovc. That's it?Mis* Mueprov<>. She's staym' over to one of them s all cottages on the bank, and she's made an arrangement with Ira HigginV folks to be hauled down to hor meals." By a happy chance, aB Robert considered it, he fom d himself, when he strolled in to a belated breakfast, seated opposite the "hauled mealer." She seemed to have no party with her, but a pretty girl in a blue boating suit horl rtnlla^ n nVtaiv* nlncA tn Imra anrl UHV4 KA IJlv> 4 ? V.UU11 ViVOU IV was chattering away in girl fashion, while Miss Musprove trifled with her toast and languidly stirred a cup of ambiguous ooflfee. With every glance he ventured Robert found her face moro and more interesting. Not beautiful exactly, not sirlish exactly, but fair with youth and the full fairness of womanhood. There was an arch srftne*-s in the mouth, a sweet gravity in the beautifully set dark brown eves. The chestnut hail* rippled like the hair of a Greek bust. The very + *1 wvt f b A n*?/l /\f f ll n liUIll VI ?no ciuur* UUU ? ill * '4. lUt slender wrist were fall of character ami 1 grace. Her morning dress of creamy woolen ^tuff, with only a knot of yellow laco under the collar, was simple ' enough. No ornament, no contrast; i but it snited her and that is all that auy dreP8 can do for any woman. Tc t the rest t-he added the charm of a delightful voice, low, clear, expressive, 1 and when she laughed it wa3 more delightful still. ?' Bnt you will come," he heard the girl eav, ccnxicgly. "I'm not sure. I have something tc do this morning." " Oh, don't do it. Let it go for thit one day. \\ e uant you so much. 1 " Not as a chaperon, surely. Youi i sister is going with you." ! " No, not asa chapeion. "VVewantyoi for yourself. Do come, Lila." "So that's her name?and a preth ? one, too. Liliaceae, the lily genius; shf is rather like a golden ii.y," meditutec : Master R' bert, while apparently deep ir his breakfast. ! "Well, Sue, I'll consider the matter , and send word over by 11 o'clock," sail the flute vioce opposite. "You bad thing! I'm dreadfully suspicious that that means you won'i ' go," pouted the other. "No: it rmlv mnans that I am nol sure." The two rose and wont out together. Kobert heard the rattle of tlx 1 buckboard as it dashed down the street ? and thought, "At dinner ehe w:ll bt , here again." But neither at dinner, tea Dor break fast did the fair vision appear; and wher r the buckboard drove up it brought onlj , a little maid, who de'ivered a ti essage and presently drove away again with t tray of breakfast. It was rot till dinnei r of "the second day that ho had anothei i Rlimp'ie of too lady who nad occupies , bis thorn hts during a considerable portion of the interval. She wore blacfe 1 now, which suited her as well as ?;L?ite ' She looked pale, and Robert hearc something of a headache, but her smile ' w ts undirnmed and lier voice as sweel as ever. A fortnight passed, and the situatior remained unchanged. Shy by nature ; and stiff by habit, Robert made no advances to the closer acquaintance of hif r fair neighbor at table. A bow when she i entered the room, another bow when she Jeftit?tuat was all; yet gradually there grew over him a sr-nso of inti, mate relation with her. Do knew hei dref-ses, her attitudes; he guessed at > her moods, and followed the slight and mobile changes of her charming face. Miss Musprove neither detected nor 1 suspected this close observation on the i part of her silent vis a vis. She saw only a gentleman-like, taciturn young man, absorbed in his breakfast or his dinner. ''Bather an uncommon face,'' sue sain 10 nerseir, "not quite ^mencan," and then she forgot him. She usually brought a book or newspaper with her to table, and busied herself wi'h it wnen no one was sitting with her; bnt this was not often, for she had a large following of youDg girls, who *ero forever running across the room to discuss plans or whisper im portant secrets. Several of these girls were pretty, and more than one bit of graceful by-play wa? aimed across Miss Muse rove's shoulder at the insensible Robert, but he never found this out. The " hauled mealer" was the first woman whom he had ever looked at closely, and he did not seem to see any face but hers. Motherless, sistprless, brought up in an almost conventual atmosphere of study, he had seen but shadows in a glass so far; now the shadows were taking substance. and like Philammon, the youthful monk of the Laura, he was filled with zeal and bewilderment. How many things tbpre weie that he had not even Buspected ! Was it possible that the world was full of women like this woman, so sweet, so noble, so entrano ing in all their looks and ways ? And then he told himself that this could not be. There wag but one; she ^as unique, incomparable, not merely a specimen of a type, llow many youthful lovers have thought and will think the same as the tide of life flows on ! Accident did our shy hero a good turn at last, as accident sometimes will Walking by h'mself one afternoon along the wild shore beyond Sanl's Cliff he came upon the lady of his thoughts at a moment of evident difficulty. Her little dog had slipped and fallen to the bottom of a rather high shelving cliff, the tide was making in fast, and she was evidently hesitating whether or not to climb down to his assistance?a question complicated by the doubt as t< whether once down she would be able to climb up again. Rnbert grasped the situation promptly, and proffered help which was gladly accepted. To his ex perienced powers the cliff presented no difficulties, and in five minutes the rescued terrier was in his mistress' arms, and the sweet voice which Robert knew so well was uttering cordial thanks. The dog had lamed himself in his fall, and limped and whined when set down Another opportunity. "May I carry him home for you?" Robert asked " You are quite too good. I fear you will find him troublesome." ? Oh, not at all. I like docs." So the two walked on over the cliffs, with sea vistas on one hand and mountain glimpses on the other, and before they reached the little brown cottage in the field Robert's shyness had fled under the spell of his companion's cordial ease and tact, and he found himself talkiup fluently and with pleasure as ho had never talked to a lady before in all hitlife. " What a bc-autifnl view!"' ho said, gazing seaward from the door of the cottage. " I think so. It is my favorite of all the many beautiful views at Bar Harbor. You must como and see it often, Mr Arnold. My little piazza is quite at your service any afternoon if you warn a quiet place in which to study or smoke and cannot find one to your taste at Rodick's. I never use it myself, except in the morning and evening: but I hope you will occasionally como there also to see me. Thank you so much for you* kindness to Tatters." " What a frank, charming creature!" thought Robert, as he made bis way across the stubble fields toward the hotel. " How few girls are capable of such unaffected sinceritv, without any hesitations or arrieres pensees. Dear me ! if t' ev only knew what an attraction it is!" Which reflection might lead to a doubt as to whather Mr. Arnold's experience of tho sex at Bar Harbor had or had not been blessed to bis perceptive faculties. "Saw you walkin' with Miss Mus grove end carry in' her dawg," riimarked the clerk, with a grin, as lie came in. "Didn't know you ut first j Thought maybe 'twas him come back.' Him??who? Robert was too proud to ask, but the pronoun ranklod in his m'nd. Not for long, however. As time went on and acquaintance progressed with his charmer, and no "him" appeared to mar tne harmonious flow of events, the circumstance passed from his memory. He went often to the little brown cottase in the stubble field, spending solitary afternoons there with a cigar and ti mioeralogical treatise, and now and then a morning tets-a-tete with its fair mistress. Sunset usually brought a rush of idlers to the piazza, and their appearance was his signal for flight. Quite at his ea-e now with Miss Muss<rove, he wax shy and d fileult of access as ever to all others. He invariably reconnoitered the premises from a point of observation in the fields, and the flutter of alien petticoats on tho porch would suffice to send him back again to the hotel. Miss Musgrove, who treated him with the frankness of an older Bister, rallied him occasionally on this peculiarity. "I can't help it," he would say ; "ic is my bringing up." " But you are not shy with me." " No; but that is different. You are so- what shall I call it??so simpatica. You understand?you put me at ease." "So would these other ladies pretty soon if you gavo them a chance." But Robert only thook his head., jj&So, lapped in a foolish paradise, unwilling or unable to analyze the deepening 6pell which held him, Robert, Arnold drifted through July, through August and into the heart of that golden September, which is only known to | the dwellers of the North lands, and anddenly, liko a frost in ripe roses, came the blight of hope. Mi.is Musgrore went suddenly awny for a couple | *f days?to Portland, her maid said. People were quitting the island in shoals by that time, the hotels were nearly empty, and the loneliness of those two diys was in part accounted for by the empty tables and the closed , rooms. Bnt when the third morning came, and Kobert, with a sense of re| vivincr life, stood riadv to help his friend from her buckboard, theappalli ing apparition of a gentleman Fitting at her side presented itself?a broad. 1 .1 1 J 1 1 buouiuereti, nauasome, Drown navai officer, with an evident air of proprie> torship about hire, which was as un; pleasant as it was unaccountable. ; Who is that?" Robert demanded of ? the clerk, who had come out, as usual, at the sound of the wheels. "That? why that's him." "Her brother?'' "No; she hain't got no brother as s ever I heaid. That's him, I tell you? Miss Musgrove's husband. He's a i lootenant or something and his ship's been cruising down to the Isthmus.'* 3 " You said she was Miss Musgrove." " Wa'al, so she is " r And then it flashed upon Robert that in the island vernacular married wemen l and girls were alike "miss" with the difference of a letter in orthography, r but no difference at all in pronunciation. ? He saw it all now. Such a stnpid, such [ a ridiculous mistake as it was! But ! the consequences were no less hard to bear. ( Ho went to his room and sat down to [ think it over. The more he reviewed the matter the more unnecessary his sufferings seemed to him, and'tbe more t diwtmctly his own fault. Beginning with a wrong impression, ho hail never t given himself a chance to correct it. He had shrunk with a foolish shyness from ^ people, when half an hour of their company would have revealed the trntb. ? une question, ine rnosi trimug acciaenr, would have revealed it; but bo never asked the question, and always pre* vented the accident. The girls called , her Lila; he bad avoided using any name, with the instinct of a lover, when ' he spoke to her, and had said "you,'' while of her ho never spoke except to himself. So he had gone on and on, plunging deeper and deeper into a vain affection, and what a fool he had been ! The only comfort was that she had not been in the least to blame, and that she need never know his mistake or the pain . it caused him. A little note reached the brown cottage tbat afternoon. ' Dear Mrs. Musgroye?I am leav1 ing Bar Harbor so suddenly that I Lave ' no opportunity to make my farewells to you. A chance has offered for a min1 eralogical tour in the provinces, and ! when this note reaches you I shall be on my way to the Grand Menan. Please accept my most cordial thanks for all vour many kindnesses to me, and with my congratulations on Lieutenant Mus1 grove's safe return, believe me, " Your? faithfully, Robert Arnold." Mrs. Musgrove, sitting on her piazza with her tailor beside her, read this farewell billet smilingly. "He was really a nice l>oy," 6he said, " shy and etiff, you know, but of good stuff. You would hare liked him, Ned." So, with an unconscious heart on shore, and a sad and sore one at sea, ended the brief and tragic romance of the "Hauled Mealer."?Harper''s Bazar. The Alexandria Riots. l"he chief mate of the steamship Bifrost, which arrived at Dover, England, with a cargo of cotton seed from Alexandria, gives the following acoount of the massacre which occurred at that tewn on Sunday, the 11th of Juno, and of which he was an eye-witness. He sa?s: "Oar vessrl, with one or two others, was lying alongside the quay in t.hfl hnrhnr at Alexandria. We were discharging a cargo of deals. In the morning I went out with one of the officers for a ride on horseback, and roturned to the town about 2 o'cloca in the afternoon. At that time everything appeared to be quiet in the town. About 3 o'clo ik we suddenly noticed batches of Arabs running about the town brandishing sticks, with which they attacked every European they came across, beating them in the most horrible and cowardly manner until they had killed their victims. 0 e gentleman, who had taken refuge on hnnrd nnr vorcaI. afterward w?nt to see two of Lis friends who had been taken to the hospital, but they were so terribly mutilated that one of them {he conld only recognize by a button on his coat, and the other by a part of his mustache, the sknlls of the unfortunate victims being completely battered in. We saw one Greek marine running for his life down the street toward the quay in the hope of getting on board one of the English vessels. He was followed by a large crowd of Arabs, who were carrying sticks They had evidently been chasing im some time, for the poor fellow was nearly exhausted. On reaching the qnav he found the gate closed, and he tried to scale it, but before he hud time to do so some of the Arabs reached him and knocked him down Some one opened the gate and the Greek managed to regain bin feet and run toward the quay, but one of the Egyptain soldiers stabbed him with a dagger, and he then ran into the street acain, wh^rc ho was overpowered by the Arab". The man presented a very <hastlv a pearance. His face was battered,* and his clothes, which were very much torn, were covered with blood. The general belief was that the soldiers and police killed more people than the Arabs. One gentlemau we had on board told us of a family who had been taken to the police station for shelter, bnt were shortly afterward found there murdered. We heard of other cases of this character. We took several families on board, our deck being crowded with them. At night we moored oil the quay, and took every precaution in cas > of an attempt to board us. We had a number of Arabs employed discharging our cargo. Ab soon as they heard the cry thut an attack was being made on the Europeans they left their work like one man and seized on anything which they could ?ay hold of which would serve as a weapon and ran up into the town. We transferred a great many of the refugees to other vessels, but had about eighty passengers, including children, when wo left Alexandria. Wo disembarked tho greater part of them at Malta, bring- ' ing about twenty on to Dover. One gentleman, whose family we bad on board, had fallen a victim in the massacre. Besides decapitating him they had mutilated him in the most barbarous manner. Literal Answers. Literal answers aro sometimes quite witty u Will you kindly put my fork into a potato ?" asked a young lady of her table neighbor. " With pleasure," he responded, and piercing the potato coolly left the fork extended from it. As;ain, we hear of a very polite and impressive gentlemau who said to a youth in the street: " Boy, may I inquire where Robineon's drug store is ?" "Certaiuly, sir," replied the boy, very respectfully. " Well, sir," said the gentleman, after waiting awhile, " where is it?" " I have not tho least idea,-' Eaid the urchin. There was another boy who w&b j stopped by a middle-aged lady with: " Boy, i want to go to D? streo." "Well, madame," said the boy, "why don't you go, then ?" Sometimes this wit degenerates into punning, as when Flora pointed pc-nsivelv to the heavy masses of clouds in the sky, saying: "I wonder where those clouds are going?" " I think they're going to thunder," ; her brother replied. Also the following dialogue: 41 Holloa, there! bow do you s-ell ; ! your wood ! " By the cord." " How long has it been cut?" "Four feet." " I mean how long has it been since j you cut it ?"' " No longer than it is now." Suear-cane produced in Louisiana ! and Mississippi occupies 150,000 acres, j and yields annually 208,7;>0 hogsheads ! of sugar. j Good corn growing weather, but per| baps you don't want your corns to i t grow. SUNDAY READING. flow He Applied It. "How far may we go in coqformit; to the world ?" is a question that is fre quently naked in men's hearts, if not ii so many words. Have yon never heave the story of a lady who wanted a coach man ? Two or three called to see he about the situation, and in answer ti her inquiries, the first applicant said : " Yep, raadame, you could not have i better coachman than myself." She replied: "How near do you think you conli drive to danger with ut an accident?" " Madame, I could go within a yard o it, and yet you would be perfectly safe.' " Very well," she said, "you will no suit me." Tho second ono had heard the que* tion upon which the first one had bee: rejected, and therefore he was read, with his answer: ^ - ?i? r M jjanger, maaame, wny, i couiu unv within a bair's-bieadth, and yet bo pei fectly safe." "Then yon will not suit me at all." When number three came in he wa asked: "Are yon a good driver ?" "Well," ho replied, "I am carefc and bare never met with an accident. " But how near do you think yo eonld drivo to danger?" " Madame," be eaid, " that is a thin I never tried; I always drive as fa from danger as over I can. The lady at once replied : "You are the kind of a coachman want, ard I will enpage you at cnce." Get such a coacbman as that to guid your own heart and lead your ow character. Do not fee how near jo can go to sin, but see how far you ca Upon airav frnm it. Tf von do not tak that advice, and if the spirit of Go doeB not work in yon pnrity of life, b and by the church will have to hold u its hands and say : " Who wcnld have thonght it These were the nice young people c whom so much was expected ; thes were the good people who used to say 'You most not be too strict,' and wher are they now. To avoid the worsi keep clear of the bad." Iti'llcioan Mown nuil Note*. Mormon missionaries are reporte as making many converts in Alabami The work of revising the Old Test* ment will not ba completed for tw years. In two years Lather's Bible, the r< vision of which was begun in 18f-3, wi be ready for the public. The Catholic clergymen of Londoi England, are about to inaugurate a cri sade among the Irinhmen of their floct against connection with sccret societie; An Indiana man who has attende camp-meetings for half a century th:infc they have degenerated into the "ric man 8 picnic, mo inmiBier b eymui uu the loafer's resort." The "wickedest woman in England, Jane Jobnt-on, lias been converted an is preaching, although eighty-four yeai old. She has been in Leeds prison 24 times and in other jails nearly as oftei In Vickfrburg and Memphis tb Sunday laws are being enforced so vig oront-ly as to seriously interfere wit travel The tra infer of passengers froi the trains to the boats is prohibited. There are twenty ministers in th Irit-h Presbyterian ehurcli .wiio nav bpen over fifty years m the ministr The oldest is the Rev. S. McCnrdy, ( Stowartstown, ordained in 1817. It is probablo that the next genen conference of the Evangelical allianc will meet in Stockholm, Sweden, i September, 1883 The qneen of Swede is warmly interested in the wotk of th alliance. Mrs. Lansing, for twenty years ami? "???? in U!nrrnf traq to fl ll/uoij IU t ( during the bombardment of Alexandra and Rev. J. B. Dalos, of Philadelph.it her brother, has gone to Europe t mest her. The famous Salvation army of Eng land has just held its seventeenth anni versary. A feature of the occasion wa the reception of a letter from the queer expressing gratification at the goo work of the army. Rev. James Creeding, of /daircountj Ky., is now a septuagenarian and ha never accepted a cent for his ministers duties. "Honest men," an admirer c the venerable clergyman says, "feel lik kisping the ground this man walks upon for it is holy." Canning Fruits and Vegetables. Having the cans or jars, theoperatioi is simple. The fruit, whatever it ma; be, in a syrup just strong enough t< properly sweeten it, is brought to the oouing point, ana wnen tne air nas ai been expelled from it,itisaconce placed in the jars, previously warmed with ho water, and when these are well fillec the oover is screwed down tight. Gooc jars well filled with boiling fruit, anc promptly covered by sore wing dowr the cap3, will insure success. Manj years ago when canning wa3 not sc general as it is new, we showed ho* any common widemouthed bottle conic be used; but at present jars made for the purpose aro so cheap that il is not necessary to resort tc any makeshifts. Among the first things to be put up in this manner it rhubarb. This can be readily canned and green gooseberries may bo treated in the same manner. Strawberries and raspberries come next, and aro bettei preserved in the same manner than bj any other; but these, especially the strawberry, while vastly better wher preserved thus than in any other man ner, come far short of retaining theii original flavor. Peaches aro easilv pre served thus, and aro nearly perfect, a< are pears, especially theBartlett, apple; and quinces. One who has put up the quince in this manner will never pre serve it according to the old pound for pound method. All the highly fla vored apples preseive-d by canninc make a fluer apple-sauce than can be produced in any other manner. Tne usual process ia to cook the fruit, 01 whatevi r kind, in a syrup made of font ounces of sugar to a p-nt of water hen the fruit is cooked tender, trans for it at once to the jar, and add the syrup to fill up every cievice; if there are bubbles ol air, aid them to escape by the use of a spoon; see that the jai is solid full of fruit and ?yrup, and uj to the top, before the cap is screwed on While fruits are easily preserved in the family, vegetables are more difficult We have many inquiries about preserv ing green peas, green corn and tomatoes. Those who make & businesi of canning find green peas and greet corn among the most difficult things tc preserve. They can only bo put up ir tin cans by long boiling processes, noi practicable to families. If any of oui readeis have found a method by whict either corn or peas can be preserved bj any process practicable in the family we ask them to communicate it for the benefit of others. Last autumn we made an experiment with tomatoes Thoroughly ripe fruit was cooked as foi the table, omitting butter and all othei seasoning, and pur, n? in ordinary fruit jars. About three out of twelve failed, but those which succeeded were vasth better tt an the tomatoes purchased ir tin cans.?Americrn Agriculturist. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Coke is to coal exactly what charcca' is to wood. Of (he 8,000,000 tonn of ore now an 11 nail|y raised in the United States, f pi rtion belongs to the clay cr carboniferous mealies, while the remainder tak^s the form of either hematites 01 osides. ' ? Dr. It. Ricciardi has analyzed sij specimens of the lava ejected frorc ifctna in 1G09 taken at different depth* ol one and the same btrearn and in the same perpendicular plain He found the only differerce to consist in the various layers in th<J different proportions of iron in the highest Btage oi oxidation. Atu. recent meeting of the Photo graphic Society of Frence, M. Jansec handed round a magnificent proof of the lato partial eclipse, and said a few words upon tho long discussed questioc of a lunar atmosphere. In spiakine npon this subject he said: " Hnpposc foi a momeut that the moon is surrounded by an atmosphere, what would be t e result if we took a photographic view of it during an eclipse? Tho lnnat disk wonld bo sharp ODough, but there would bo a gradual decline in densitv as in a vignetted portrait. This is exact ly the contrary wbioh took plaoe, a< the proof will .-how The lunar disk is tery hbn'p nnd (ho negative is rathei intansilied ue-ir the disk, prohably from rc'racti-d ligjht." M. Jansen appears to doubt tho existence of a lnuar atmosphere. GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES, j As Sec Forth by Michael G. Mulhall. the J Eminent Engllah Statistician' In the history of mankind there is no | parallel to the growth of the United ( 1 States, which at the beginning of the i present centuiy was not mnoh ahead of r Portugal, and at present stands before 3 Great Britian, occupying, therefore, the foremost rank among nations. First let a us consider the population and wealth, for men and money are two of the prin . pcial factors in all I'.hat goes to make up i national power. Per In f Population. Wealth habitant. " 1800.... 5,300,000 $ 1,110,000,000 #210 t 1810.... 7,200,000 1,500,000,000 215 1820.... 9,000,000 1.950,000,000 200 1830....12,900,000 2,200,000, 00 215 ' 1840.... 17,100,000 3,900,000,000 230 a 1830.... 23,200.000 7,400,000,000 320 V 18G0....31,500,000 16,800,000.000 530 1870....38,600,000 31,200,000,000 810 1880....50,300,000 49,800,000,000 990 0 f I ? . It is remarkable that in 1840 the share of public wealth to each inhabitant was not much greater than at the beginning of tbe century ; but in the ensuing forty years the increase has been more rapid than in any country of Europe. In 1840 . Great Britian stood for more than five ? times the wealth of the United States n (the valuat^n of the former country in ~ that year oemg Jti,iuu,uuu,uuu;, Dm , now you are nearly six milliards of dol? lars, or ?1,200,000,000 ahead of the , ir United Kingdom; for,while that country , has only doubled its wealth in forty , t years, yon have seen yours multiply twelve fold. The highest relative in- ( urease in the United States, compared , _ with population, wag between 1850 and : 1870, while the decade ending 1880 has only a.ided twenty-four per cent, to the individual share of publio capital. Be? I P/m-q nninnr fnrfhflr if, rnnv hfl Wfill tn j r , j ? ' take the chief items of wealth in the United States: Railways $ 5,220,000,000 Farms 9,615,000,000 i 1 Cattle 1,820,000,000 >f Manufactures 5.255,000,000 6 Houses 13,300,000,000 . Furniture 5,420,000,000 ' Forests, mines, canals 2,793,000,000 6 Bullion 720,000,000 ' ? Shipping 315,000,000 Public works, etc 5,252,000,600 Total $40,770,030,000 d The national debt, amounting to i $1,650,000,000, should not be deducted . from the above, since most ol it is ueia 0 by Americans, and the same may be Raid of municipal or other local debts. Until the publication of the census re[T port lor 1880 I shall not have an exact official statement of the various items of wealth; but in the meantime the above may be regarded in every instance as approximately correct?that 18 is, within a margin of five per cent. 8- either way. There can be no doubt <1 that the influx of emigrants from ;s Europe has in a great measure tendod h to the increase of public wealth; but it d is no less certain that such a rapid rise of population has kept down the raf;io ? of wealth per inhabitant, and hence d the increase per head in the decade s ending 1880 has been less than in 0 the preceding ones. It may bo interesting to observe that the*1 growth of e wealth in the decade just ended world be 8.?fBoient to buy up the whole Ausk trian empire, or to pay for the aggregate value of Italy, Holland and Belgium. Nevertheless, the average of mnnl+k inViaVii 1 ant. ia loon Tuifh unn ncanu Pi-. ? J [V than in Great Britain or France, as e sho\rn thns F; Per in>f Wealth. habitant. Unitod 8tat08 $49,770,000,000 $ 900 , Unitod Kingdom,.. 44,100,000,000 1,200 11 Fran:e 37,200,000,000 1,045 e As regards the items that make np n your wealth, it is comparatively easy n to trace their growth, the first on the 6 list being railways. The. mileage and cost of railways have increased as follows: J ftaxlway l, Capital cavitalprr t Miles. outlay, inhabitant. ' lfiSO 9.020 $ 302,000,000 $13 0 1800 30,630 1,127,000,000 36 1870 52.974 2,410,000,000 62 r- 1831 93,671 5,205,000,000 101 i- Not only ia the railway oapitol at .3 present three times as mnoh per Lead i, as it was in 1860, bnt it has served in a d prodigious manner to develop yonr agricultural resources and enhance' the valae of your farms and lands. The s increase of public wealth in railways ,1 alone Bince 1870 has been over $5,000,if 000 weekly, or very little short of e $1,000,000 a day, deducting Sundays, i, It is perhaps more in agriculture than in iinfthinR else that one can realize the unprecedented rise of industry in the United States in one single generation, which appears by comparing the i returns of 1880 with those of 1840: 7 Per inhttb ' 1840. 1880. 1840.1880. Acres, tillauo 44,850,000 100,140,000 2.0 3.3 ) Grain,million bushels--- 61o 2,643 3j 52 I Value of fitll } .crops >410,000,000 *1,995,000,000 *24 *40 t ^ cai tie- -aU*372,000,000 ?1,820,000,000 *22 *30 ; 1 Thus, while population has only 1 I trebled, the growth of agricultural inl tereBts has been five-fold; and, whether 1 i we regard the value of crops or of cattle, 1 r the ratio per inhabitant is almost ? ) double what it was forty years ago. t r Manufactures have risen five-fold in i I value since 1850; but, as the protective s tariff gives an artificial increase to the 1 t price of iron, coal and manufactured 1 > goods, I have not here so safe a guide $ k to follow, viz: c i P I Value. inhab. I 18:50 $1,019,107,000 $44 18U0 1,885.862. "00 59 ? 1 1870* 4,231,240,000 108 r 1880*. 5,250,000,000 105 0 ' The most remarkable increase during ? ' the last decade was in the production of p 1 ron and of cotton maaufactures, the f( ' former having risen from 1,580.000 to " 4,100,000 tons, or nearly trebled in ten ' yeurs. As for cotton goods, the con- ^ ' sumption of raw fiber ?n the United 1 States rose from 530,000,000 to 911,000,- " 5 000 pounds?filipt is, from fourteen to " eighteen pounds per inhabitant. P While recording such a gigantic stride, it will not do to ignore one im- b ' portant feature in which you have gone ? 5 back, namely, shipping, the figures for h ! all tonnage (high seas and internal ti 'l waters) being as follows : a Tons per Tons. 100 inhab. , . 1820 1,280,000 12 ' . 1830 1,192,000 9 ; 1840 2,181,000 13 < ' 1850 3.535.000 15 t ! 18G0 5,354,000 17 a r 1870 4,146,000 11 > 1880 4,213,000 9 There has been, nevertheless, a steady > increase of trade, for the value of im. ports and exports Las doubled since I860, and multiplied ten-fold since 1830, viz.: 1 j Commerce 1 i ,per Imports. Exports. Total, inhab. , 1830..$71,000,000 $74,000,000 $145,000,000 $11 ( 1840.. 105,000,000 132,000,000 237,000,000 13 1 ^ 1850.. 178.000,000 152,000,000 330,000,000 14 1800 .302,000,000 401.000,000 703,000,000 24 l 1870 436 000,000 393,000,000 829,000,000 22 , 1880..608,000,000 836,609,000 1,504,000,000 30 The foregoing tables suffice to show, ) as in a bird's-eye view, tho marvelous j growth of the 'United States in less than half a century, for the epoch of ' r progress can hardly be said to have r commenced before the middle of the decade, which tnded with 1850. ' The First Monument to a Woman. In New Orleans, at a meeting of the t Margaret Monument association, the I plan was adopted for the decoration of the trianRle at the junction of Camp > and Prytania streets, and the contracts } let for the erection of a monument to I Margaret Houghery, the recently de- . ceased bonefactress of the orphan asy- j lums of that city. It will be one ol the ; handsomest works of art in tho United ; 1 States. Margaret was tho widow of an ' Irish sailor. She could neither road l r nor write, and it is said she never wore|a . kid glove or a silk dress in her life; yet J she mado an immense fortune in the : baking businoss, which she herself ex- J: 1 pended to the amount of hundreds of ' thousands in building and endowing asylums for orphans, re> ardless of their t faith. Her pall bearers were the gover- * 1 nor and mayor and the most dis- I tingnished of the citizens, and hers was r f tlie grandest funeral ever known in New ii Orleans, the streets through which it 0 moved being choked up for hours and j b i rendered impassable. This is said to j i ) be the first monument ever erected to a j j( ' woman in the United States i j ! Ouite Proper. j i Young Dibbles was telling one of his i j. circus-pofcter stories at the breakfast ; q i table, when Bankson, opposite, said, I ^ s with an air of disgust: "Oh, don't spread ; _ it on 30 thick." The landlady, who was ! mentally figuring on her marketing, P' allowing forty-five cents for butter, suddenly looked up and exclaimtd: 1 i '4 No, fapentlemen; don't spread it on so L i hick, and it will last longer." el re Tho arm of a man, foreleg of a quad- pi raped, wing of a bird and fin of a fish th all present the 6ame bones, varied and el modified. ' at [JEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle State*, A. passenger train on the. New York and Canada railway, running at high speed, came nto collision with a "wild-cat" engine two nilea north of Putnam Station, about half way ( >etw3en Whitehall and Tio< nderoga. Both iDginea were instantly and com iplotely wrecked, ["he baggago and drawing-room cars were i hroirn from the track into Lake Champlain, ine of the engines careomuj: ovor upon tne Jaggage car. Edward Loqnurd, engineor of he wild-cat engine, was killod. His body , raa badly brokon up in tho wrcck of his i ingine. The esgineer of the passenger rain was badly scalded and seriously i njured internally. Tho fcremen of both ingines were injure, but not fatally. None >f the passengers were killed, but a great nany suffered severe injuries, which may irove fatal. The engineer of tho "wild>at" should have waited at Dresdeu 8tation vnd allowed the passenger traiu to pass him. le was found with the top of his head cut clean iff, and only spoke & few words, which were, ;I forgot all about it," from which it seems he lad forgotten his business. Tho place where he engines met is one of the most narrow and irecipitous on the road along Lake Champl&in, The orops on Long Island have suffered severely through the drought. Frank H. Smith, a Harvard student, who van recently shot by an army sergeant for en1 * 1 A Ufa Aio/1 -from f.liA of. *unilg U iUik ax UflWJ, i'iu., u?vw ?Mw w. focts of hie wounds. Rev. Joseph BAnTLnrr, ft retired Congregationalist minister, of Oorh&m, Mo., seventy years of age, committcil suicide by drowning. He had shown signs of insanity. A cincuLAR haa been prepared by the Penn Bi-Centennial association, of Philadelphia, snd will be forwarded to the governors of the different States, inviting troops to visit the Quaker city and take part in the military dieplay on October 27, the bi-centennial anniversary of the landing of William Penn. Captain Webb, the English champion swimmer, defeated twenty-two competitors in a fivemile swimming match off Nantaaket Bunch, Maes. Two boarding houses, a barn and outbuildings at Rye Beach, N. H., the well-known summer resort, were destroyed by fire. The Vermont Greenbaokers were represented by 200 delegates at their State convention in Waterbury. The convention nominated for governor, C. C. Martin; for lieutenant-governor, John Jenner; for treasurer, Fletcher Tarbell. The following Congressional nominations were made: First district, Dr. Kidder; Second district, H. D. Dunbar. The sale of Oanonchet, ex-Governor William Spraguo's famous house in Bhode Island, was tttendel with considerable excitement. ExGovernor Spraguo and son, armod with rifle and pistol, guarded the house and grounds and prevented tho immediate approach of spectators. The property was bought by Francis D. Moulton for $G2,250. Next year, probably, a grand hotel and club-house will be built on 1- v- *9 vr?? avwi I LIU prjpurwy UJT ^uiwuuiw, VI ?on J.uia, aua others. Wo:hk has been quite generally reaumod a) the Harmony Mills, Cohoea, N. Y., tho acone of the recent great strike. At a meeting of the State committee of the New York Anti-Monopoly party, beld in New York city it was decided to hold a 8tato convention at Saratoga on September 13. Wdili: Alexander and John GilchriBt and their un married Hater Margaret were in tho aittinf?-i oom of their reaidenco in Weat Charlton, N. 'If., at 9 p. m., tho front door suddenly opened and flvo marked men pushed into the room with drawn revolvers. Two attacked Alexander, two John, and ono Margaret. A terrific struggle ensued, in wliich Alexander grabbed, a three-tined steel fork and used it ao effectively that ono tine broke off in the body of ono of the burglars. Tho burglars then knocked Alexander down with tho butts of their revolvers, handcuffed, bound and gagged him. John suffered a simitar fate, and Margaret traa handcuffed and gagged. After securing the family the robbers took the gag from Alexander's mouth, and with a pistol at his head asked him to discloae the hiding place of the key to the safe. Alexander refused to tell, whereupon he was again gagged, and, with John, waa taken to the cellar and tied to a post. Margaret waa left upH '.aire. Tho robbora then began to aearch for . ihe key, which they found between two feather beds. The safe waa aoon rifled. It contained $800 in money and $150,000 in bonds ?.nd mortgagee. The robbers left with the booty, and Margaret aoon afterward slipped tho handcuffs over hor wrists and liberated her brothers, who broko the handcuffs from thoit wrists with an ax and hammer. The American bankers' convention held their annual meeting in Hnrntoga, N. Y., re-elected I'rosidcnt Georgo S. Cue, of New York, aud listeiiud to the reading of various papers on financial topics. Delegates from all parts of the Union wero in attendance. South and Wort. Fifteen tons of powder exploded in the lardy powder works, Vallejo, Cal., killing two nen ami seriously injuring one other. " /vp wij tiiva kaon lilt. puuvu ui "10,> ??" lotifiod by tho authorities of Prague, Bolemla, that Ilermau AbeleB, foity-five yoaraof ige, owner of a large milling establishment in hat city, had absconded with $280,000 belonging to bis creditors. Chess Thomas was banged at Palestine, Texas, for the murder of Houston McMeans. Io mot his doath calmly, saying be had no resets, and was resigned to bis fate. Thomas md McMeans had long been on ill terms, and lad threatened lo shoot each other on sight. Jeeting on the street they both drew their pisols, but Thomas fired first, killing McMeans. Special correspondents in the West and ^ outhwest report an improvement in tho | reather, little damage to the wheat crop by ( scant rains, and large crops of corn and cot- ; dq nearly ready for harvest. . A construction train having on board fiftyoven laborers was thrown from the track near ^ I'areca, Miun., turned completely over and ient down an embankment. Thirty-two of 1 lie laborers wore injurod, two of them with robably fatal effect. In Piko county, Ky., during a bloody affray etween the McCoy and Hatfield families, one f tho Hatfields was shot and cut so badly that i s died. His friends banded together, caught ^ ireoof the McCoys and tied them to trees , nd shot them dead. 2 A crowd of men attacked the Campbell t toys, desperadoes, in a house in Caldwell ounty, Ky. The Campbells killed one of tho ( rowd. The bouse was then set on fire, and ; s the Campbells were driven ont th9y were ; hot dead. , A riHE at Huntsville, Mo., destroyed the ourl-house of Randolph county and many of t he county records. ( Alexander Wieber, a saloon-keeper of ^ ivansville, Ind., his wife and soven-yoar-old ( on. were butchered in their home by personB t ybo had ontered it for the purpose of robbory. t Two men were arrested on suspicion. Two mon entered tho First National bank c n Kewanee, 111., locked the cashier and a lady distant in the vault and carried off $20,000. { Ex-United States Senator Georoe R. Dendfl died at his home in Kingston, Md., aged j lixty years. 1 In Chambers county, Ala., "Bole" Brooks j md Charlie Griffin, convicted of the murder of 'J me McCann a year ago, woro lynched by a a irowd. They had been granted a now trial. ^ The Iowa Democrats havo nominated a full t jtate tickot with T. O. Walker at tho head for secretary of state. a After long and at times great suffering from j rancer of the tongue United States Senator t Benjamin Harvey Hill dkd at Atlanta, Ga., iged fifty-nine years. His doath bad teen ex- J jectcd and upon ita announcement tho Atanta church bells, fir? bells and locomotivo a mgine bolls in the various railroad yards be- (' ?an to toll, and continued tolling all day. B 2vory business houso, public office and the a lepota were draped in heavy mourning. Nearly e ivery residence on Peachtroo street, tho stroet c lpon which Mr. Hill resided, was hung in n >lack. Many business honsos were olosed g luring tho day, and iho Atlanta city council, ? ward of trade and the Atlanta bar ? taseed appropriate resolutions of sorrow. Che record of Mr. Hill's life, briefly told, is as tl ollows : Born in Jasper county, Ga., on Sop- 0 ember 14, 1823, bo was graduated from tho ^ Jniversity of Georgia in 1844, with high honors, r n 1845 ho was admitted to tho bar and began tl iracticing law in La Graugo, Ga. His entry ito public fife bogan as a memborof the ^ leorgia house of representatives in 1851, and J j<] o was elected to tho State senate in 1850 and B bGO. In 1855 ho was the unsuccessful "Amer- ^ :an" candidato for Congress, and as tho candi- r( ate of tho same party was defoated for gov- \\ mor in 1857. Ho was a presidential elector on al le FilUuoro ticket in 185l>, and on tho Bellvorett ticket in 18G0. At the State convention g( f 18G1 bo advocated remaining in tho Union tl ntil ho found that secession was inevitable. e was a Georgia delegate to the Confederate w rovisional congress, and a Sonator in tho rog- iu lar Congress. In BG5 he was arrostod by the d< eileral authorities and i n prisoned in Fort afayetto. At tho eloso of tho war he was ftl ected to tho Forty-l'ourth Congress and was Ik i-olected, hut resigned his seat beforo tho ex- P; ration of his second term to take a seat in p? .e United States Senato-, to which ho was n( ected in 1877. Hii term would have expired A uct March. 88 A pabtt of 8ix smugglers, with forty p*c animals, who encamped for the night in ft canou in the Swiaholm mountains, Arizona, were ail, save one, drowned in ft cloudburst. From Washington The treasury department haa received -flo-j.i 4? v.u UlliUitW I1U11LO U1 au UApJOlHUU IU DO A1C1U IU Bome, Italy, in 1888 and 1889. The treasury department has addressed letters to the collectors of Now York, Baltimore^ Philadelphia, Boston and Portland calling their attention to the act of CongreB3 making prorision for the establishment of catt'e <fiarantine statioas, and stating that it is the desire of the department to provide proper shelter for imported cattle at those ports as soon an convenient. Foreign Now*. Herrk.x Beiel, Liebknccht and Hasenclever, Socialists, have been condemned by the Leipaic court to two months' imprisonment for excessive abuse and insult to the federal council. Herren Liebknccht and Hasenclever are members of the German reichatag. Official returns show that two hundred and thirty-ono outrages, including two murders, occurred in Ireland during the month of July, against 283 outrages, with five murders, in June. Tho total number of evictions during July waa 321 families, representing 1,619 persons. Of the families evicted, half were reinstated as tenants or caretakers. A dispatch from Jamaica says that Westgate, the self-confessed assassin of Ix>rd Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Dubliu, has arrived there, and that the evidence implicating him in the crime is strong. The vessel conveying Lieutenant Bove ami tho members of the Italian Antarctic expedition has been wrecked off Cape Horn, South America. All on board were saved by the British vessel Allan Oodin. Troubles of the most serious kind have broken out in Corea, the relations of whic'i with Japan are not altogether friendly. There is also a powerful party in Corea strongly op posed to tho recently concluded treaties with the United States and England. Three hundred delegates were present in Manchester at the sitting of the annual convention of the Irish land league. A resolution or sympathy was passed relative to the deatli of Miss Fanny ParnelL A report was presented stating that the Highl&ndB of Scotland were ripe for land agitation. It was resolved to altei the title of the land league to the "Land and Libor League of Great Britian." Besolutiona wuro paooou icuviuwouiuug w lAiiuoia iu Ireland the juatice and expediency of aiding the cause of the laborers and recommending payment to Irish members of parliament for their services in the oause of the land league. Toe Catholic bishop of Three Rivers, Canada, has issued a pastoral forbidding the women of his dioceBe to wear bangs or frizzes. A fabmeii has been shot dead at Cruaheen, county Clare, Ireland. A number of persona have been sentenced in Dublin to long terms of imprisonment for assaults growiug out of the land troubles. Ariunc.emf.nts are being made to res'ore Cetewayo, the deposed king of the Zuh 8, a present in London, to his throne. m ?: J.lib upeilillg KJL ail ciiiiuiuuu iu i/auiiu or multaneously with the unveiling of a statue of Daniel O'Connell was made the occasion for a huge procession and tho delivery of addressee, in presence of 100,000 spectators, by Messrs. Parnell, Uillon, Davitt and others. The procession of the various 'rades was three miles While Father Chapelliere, a missionary priest, with four Indians, was returning from a fishing excursion on Lake Maskegs, in Canada, their boat upset and all five were drowned. Ddbino the trial of a man who was brought to Dublin tinder the coercion act on a oharge of murder the Dublin Freeman'* Journaj published a letter declaring that the jury in the case were permitted to wander about tho hotel in which they were lodged and to drink to excess. The foreman of the jury denied these charges and asked for the protection of the conrt. Thereupon Mr. E. Dwyer Gray, proprietor of -the Freeman's Journal, who is also a member of parliament and high sheriff of Dublin, and was at one time lord mayor of that city, was brought to conrt; his request for time to prove the troth of the statements contained in tho letter was refused and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, to pay a fine of ?500 and at tho expiration of his sentence to find sureties for his good behavior in the sum of JC9.000. The affair occasioned nppusinrifirl cnnsfdflrn.hlo fiTnitfimflnk. SnoAnhoa expressing indignation at the sentence were made around the new statue of O'Connell, and tho mayor of Dublin, together with Messrs. Parnell, Dillon and Davitt, waa obliged to issue a proclamation requesting the (people to remain calm. More than 100 persons have been killed by marauding Apaches recently in tho vicinity ot Uree, Mexico. An insurrection has broken out in Borea,and the king and queen of that country are report ed to havo been assassinated. The Japanese legation was attacked by natives belonging to the anti-foreign party. Japanese men of war have been dispatched to Seoul river. Corea is a kingdom of Eastern Asia, the greater part of which occupies a peninsula which stretches south from tho northern part of the Chinese empire. Its area is about 80,000 square miloe. The kingdom is divided into eight provinces. Tkrt LrJnrr Itinnofo nnmiiiftllv ft. vAooft.1 nf fho 1UU VMUM0- ? ' *" ' " "*W Chinese empire, at least until the recent treaty with the United States by Commodore Slmfeldt modified this dependence, is absolute within his own dominions, and is the subject of almost divine honors, it being a sacrilege to touch his person. The most striking fact in relation to Corea is tho extraordinary exclu9ivcueas which it had maintained toward all other countries until Commodore Shnfeldt last 3pring concluded the treaty with the United States by which a number of ports are opened to citizens of this country, general friendship is declared betwen the two nations, and citisens of each are entitled to respect and projection in the other. It is probable that tho mtipathy on the part of Coreans to foreigners i the cause of the revolution. England and Egypt* i The British ironclad Superb throw shells nto Arabi Pacha's earthworks near Ramleh. it is reported in Alexandria that Arabi baa a arfjo forcc near Iemailia, Tho cable between Alexandria and Port Said is workmg. The Mohammedans in India are excited because he Porte has decided to co-operate with tne iuglioh in the military movement in Egypt. , Nows has jiiat been received of a skirmish | 0 the westward of Alexandria, beyond ihe tfex forts. The sailors and mariners stationed Here drove a number of Arabs back with the . Ire of a small field-piece. There w&anoloss )n the Englisk sido. Foreigners have formed a vigdance oommitee in Alexandria for the protection of then , >wn interests. ...... ' General Alison having written to the com- ( nander of the German gunboat Habicht thai lecuiity can now bo guaranteed in Alexandria, ho German sailors who have been guarding c he German hospital wero withdrawn. This renoves tho last foreign landing party. A London dispatch says there aro 40,000 men sither on their way to or in Egypt, and thai ho preparations for the war are most complete. : fhe energy of the government in the matter is , 1 surpriso to its friends and opponents. ^ A dispatch from Alexandria says. The ?cots Guards and Grenadier gnards landed and i narched to Itamloli. Thousands of Arabs colected along the line of march, and were much mpresaed by the appearance of the troops, j The Europeans regret their having to1"6?' t uch an unworthy foe, as it is believed that ^ nauv must fall victims to the Remington rifles , if Arabi Pacha's troops, who aro now in- j renched in a very strong position. t Goneral Sir Garnet Wolseley, commandor r ,f tho British forces in Egypt, arrived at Alex- j ndrii 011 tho transport Calabria, with the f lousehold cavalry on board, and immediately a 00k charge of operations. A dispatch from Alexandria states that the I ultan of Turkey p-rcniptorily ordered Arabi e >aeha to lay down hit anus. 1 Nutives from Kar-el-Dwar report that 1 h irabi Pacha called a meeting of the tlema | t doctors of law) and obtained from them a j u etwa deposing tho sultan, and naming tho. herilT of Mecca as caliph. Arabi, they say. is lso organizing tho Bedouins, and has appoint- | t d commanders for tlioso at Charkies and at j j larbieh in Upper Egypt. Two dectet's of the khodivo have been pro-. inlgated. One authorizes the British admiral | iad the commander of the troops to occupy 1 uch points on tho Isthmus of Suez as tney , onsider useful for military operations against I10 rebels, and invites tho Egyptian author-, lies to acquaint the inhabitants, particularly , g ho canal employes, with tho decree. Th'! b ther authorizes the Biitish authoritiesto pre- 0 ent 1I10 importation of coal and munitions of j p ar along the boa*t, between Alexandria and j y ort Said, and in the event of coutravention of j jo ordor to seize tho prohibited articles. f General Sir Garnet Wolseley, the English j . mimandor, with the authority of the khedivo, | as i-sued a proclamation to the people ot gvpt, representing the solo object of the j ri'tish to be to restore the authority of the . Iicdivo. It savs that all po.iceful inhabitants ill bo kindly 'treated, tho mosquos will be spected and all snnplics paid lor. Goneral ^ rolseley adds that. I10 will bo glad to receivo j 11 chiefs who are disposed to assist in repressig the rebellion. General Wolseley held a mferenco with Admiral Seymour and all the i ^ morals. Tho London Daily Trleqraph has 10 lollowingdispatch from Alexandria: "'Major t] eneral Alison held a consultation to-day with > 11 enoral Sir Garnet Wolseley, tho result of . hich is that tho loriuer will retain local com-1 II iand of tho British troops ponding the pri sent ; (| ^liberations of tho conference. General j 'olseloy to-dav inspected the military po- j tiona at Ramleh and eurveyed the country ' ound from tho tower of tho water-works. A , ?I .ftvy mirage obscured the view beyond Arabi ] VI isha's first line of intrenchmeuts." An encoimter between a British mounted , itrol and a partv of 500 Bedouins occurred jar Bamleh. Five of the latter wero killed, belief iu tho hopelessness of the struggle is id to be spreading among the Egyptians. An Extraordinary Storj. Another remarkable story has to be added to the long list of curious and exciting narratives connected with the Nihilist cause. The 8t. Petersburg correspondent of tbe Voltaire guarantees the authenticity of the following facts which are said to have materially in- ' creased the anxiety felt in the Russian crpital for the czar's safety. Shortly offor nnnninc nf t.hfl Mnnnnw fiihihi. tioD, wbich was recently inaugurated by the Dufee Vladimir, a young man demanded an audience of the obief of police at St. Petersburg. He refused to state bis errand to any of the subordinate official*, so after being carefully searched be was admitted to the presence of the general. Here he stated at once that he was sent by the revolutionary party, and explained his mission on the following term?: "The emperor is prevented from going to Moscow throngh bis fear of our schemes. His dread will cease to be justified when he grants a constitution. Then he need fe?r no conspiracy, and can go with safety wherever he pleases. It hae fallen to my 1 ot to inform t ou that if the emperor persiets in ms reacr.onary policy nothing can pave him. Neither my friends nor myself wish to murder him treacheronsly. Aleiander III. is warned as was Aleiander II. We do not assassinate, bat we render jastice." At this point of the in terview the police officer seemed anxious to call in assistance, but the young Nihilist stopped him and added : " I do not wish to be subjected to the indignity of torture. 1 could have killed you, but we do not commit murders uselessly." With these words the youth stepped back a few paces, and knocked two large buttons with which his cuffs were fastened against his forehead. The buttons being full of violent explosive substance, burst, and inflicted such wounds on the young man that he expired in a few moments, leaving no trace as to his identity. The sensational incident has reminded the publio iL ?t jl- -1? A 1 a T r WJiib lutJ murder ui ^ifiuuucr xi. was preceded by similar warnings?London T( If graph. Remedies for Vegetable Poisons. The riost dangerous of the vegetable poisons at this season of the year are tbe hemlocks (inc'uding the hemlock dropwort, water hemlock and the com mon hemlock), fool's parsley, monkshood, foxglove, black helleboro or Christmas rose, bnckbran, henbane, thorn apple and deadly nightshade. In a case of vegetable poisoning, says Knowledge, "emetics (the sulphate oi zinc, if procurable) should be used at once, the buck of tbe throat tickled vrifVi a foaf.Vior and nnninna rtf tepid water taken to excite and promote vomiting. Where these measures fail the stomach-pump mnst be used. Neither ipecacuanha nor tartar emetic should be used to cause vomiting, as during the nausea they produce before vomiting is excited the poison is more readily absorbed. Vinegar must not be given "until the poisonous matter has been removed; but afterward it may be given m doses ol a wineglassfal, one part vinegar to two parts water, once every two hours in mild cases, bnt oftener?to half-hourly doses?in cases of greater severity. Where there is stupor, the patient Bhould be kept walking about, and if the stupor is great cold water may be dashed over the head and obest. Strong coffee may be used where the narcotic effect of the poisoning is very marked. It is all important that in cases of vegetable poisoning a medical man should be sent for at once." Sad End of a Sad Story. Our Vienna correspondent, referring to the late painful case of suicide by two young girls, observes: The poor girl's account of her lover's indifference and bis father's hardness of heart mignt oe aeemea exaggerated n>a not subsequent circumstances shown them to be true to the letter. Old Count Oondenhoven was so shocked at the whole event that he lsft the castle the same day on whioh the corpses were found. The young counts ordered a decent faneral for the girls, and made the oardener cnt all the flowarH to ha found in hot-house and gardens to deck their coffins and their grave. The old count, on returning to Ottenheim, heard of this, and immediately cave orders the very reverse of those given by his sons. The girls were buried outside the churchyard wall in lithe early morning, when no one knej' ci the ceremony, and when no friendly hand could throw earth upon them pith a rritvincr heart;.? T.rmtinn N"p.wa. I 1 Monster Timepiece. / The large clock nt tbe English hclee of parliament is the largest one in' jhe world. The fonr dials in this clookire twenty-two feet in diameter. E?ry half minnte the minnte hand mdves nearly seven inches. The clock frill go eight days and a half, thusindicaj'ng any neglect in winding it up. lphe winding up of the striking apparf.,U8 takes two hours. The pendnlnm lj fifteen feet long; the wheels are cast ton; the hour bell is eight feet high and isno feet in diameter, weighing ntply fifteen tonj, and the hammer il'ne weighs more than four hundred poinds. , This clock strikes the quarter M.urs and by its striking tho shorthand] re- . porters regulate theiv labors. At fiery strike a new reporter takes the pltf e of the old one, while the first retire* to write out the notes that he has tijfcen during the previous fifteen minutest GrflfttMt Discovery "Ince 1492. 1 For coughs, colds, sore throat, bron. dtls, laryngitis, and consu mption loita eail^nb ,es. nothing equals Dr. Pierce's "Golden M -teal Discovery." It is also ? great bloody t.tier and strength-restorer or tonic, andI fof^ver . complaint and costi ?e conditions or the Jewels ? it has no equal. Sold by druggiata. Jn ( Suicides in London averaged la8t y|tr i day. The bodies reclaimed frc^-i the Thames were two per week. Whal'? Suved > Gnlned. 1 Workingmen will economize by em^oying c Dr. Pierce's Medicines. His ''Pleasant urga- ? tivo Pellets" and "Golden Medical Disj *erj cleanse the Hood and system, thus printing \ fevers and other serious diseases and cif ig ^ (scrofulous and other humors. Sold H iruggiats. ^ 2: Georgia's State geologist says the golu lines | >f tho State yield 250 per ceut. on theUpUai [ nveated. -? r Youn", middle-aged or old men a-^g * from nervous debility or kindred ata should address with two ?'amiM, fc large treatise, World's Dispessaby Medic*. Asso ciation, Buffalo, N. Y. ^ Soicel J. Tilden's library in NA York :ontains some 16.000 volumes. lr Mitlnrlal Fever. Erie, Pa., July 18, *81. H. H. Warner & Co.: .bVrx-Your Sai< Kidaey nml Livfr Cure ha. (-ntirelycMedrieof malarial fever of two years' standing, ft*. hioh T L could nevei find any relief. Miss KATiJ >o. It is said that there are 2,252 women Iu n farming in the Stato of Indiana, t la Mensw\n's Peptonized beef tonic ;the only T )rcDaratiou of beef containing its ent.e nuiriious properties. It containsblood-mak^K, force u ;enerating and life-sustaining prope, es; in- w. raluable for indigestion, dyepcp9ia, ie^ous ,rostration, and all tonus of generd Ailitr * tlao, in all enfeebled conditions wl. Jer Oe t eault of exhaustion, nervous prostrat . overPork or acute disease, particularly it jilting la r'om pulmonary complaints. Caswe lazard ^ i Co.. proprietors, Now York. Sold by "ggista. Tin- Krnzer Axle <Jre:iKC . u 8 the best 111 tbo market It is j(0 moat T cononiical and cheapest, ono box ting_ns ane as two of any other. One gre ag will & ist two weeks. It received tiist p. mim ut bo bo Centennial and l'aris Exposes, al-o ?nj uedals at viir'"iw *' >>< It'iv 'f other. ^ " Rouah on nts Clears out rats, mice, r,'achc9> I*"' afL' .edbugs, skunks, chipmunks, gopfers. 15c. ^ )ruggists. Oraat improvements have rccentl^0" J111 6 * a Carboline, a deodorized extract* petrole- T1 m, the great natural hair renewei, jertect a? n exquisiielv perfumed hair drtssi g auu re- ^ torer. Sold by all druggist*. h&j 525 Cent-Will Bur 1 Treatise upon the Horse and hit Diseases n of 100 pages. Valuable to e ?y owner f liorses. Postage stamps taken. ^ lid by New York N ewspaper Union o0 w orth trcct," New York. _ 25 CENTS, A TB^TISE SE3EL and tolS di >oiHon. A Table with an EnKjavlM? iha is WW raluable collection of Beceipto and d ;'-h otlier ynuaoio 90-PAGE BOOK? OrtiXTB VE COPIES I ?J I j ' JN COPIES 1 I One, Two and Three-Cent Btampf" ?J^ Adar?? HOUSE BOOK * 64 wor|h 5TRKE" The Seiraoe of Life, or Bolf-Pre^onrsttee. ft medioal work for every man?yotuig, middleaged or old. 126 invaluable prescription*. 23 Cents will Bay a Treaties upon the Hone and bin Diaeaaes. Book of 100 ixmes. Valuable to every owner of horwi. I'ootajfo stamps taken. Sent postpaid by NEW YOttK NEWSPAPER UNIOH 150 Worth Street. Now York. Mfirnhant'? CARGLffiGOH. Liniment f? for human, fowl and animal flesh, was JJ/L first prepared and introduced by Dr. Mj Geo. W. Merchant, In Lockport, N. Y., /SI U. S. A., 1833, since which time it has iflj steadily grown in pabiic favor, and la ttvj now acknowledged ana admitted by the fyji trade lobe the standard liniment of the vjP country. When we make this annotrnc?n ment we do so without fear of contradiction, notwithstanding we are aware there are many who are more or le*? OrV? prejudiced against proprietary remediea i |f iJB ^espIieiaJly on account of the manyhum/I ?J\lAbi)gg on the market; however, we are 1 ' pleased to state that such prejudice doea not exist against GARGLING OIL. We ao not claim wonders or miracles for car liniment, but we 4c claim it is without an e<|tial. It is pnt od in botties of three sizes, and all we CfcAask is that yon give i> t fair I T remembering that ihe Oil pnt np with white wrapper (small) is for human and fowl flesh, and that with yellow ^wrapper (three sizes) for Animal flesh. Try a bottle. As these cats indicate, the Oil is used successfully for all diseases of the human, fowl and animal fiuK Shake well before using. Cannot be Disputed. jm One of the principal reasons of fc' * the wonderful succesa of MerIT/5i chant's Gargling Oil is that it Is manufactured strictly on honor. Ita proprietors do not, as is the 0086 with t0? many- after making for their medicine a name, diminish its curative properties by using Inferior compounds, but use tne very best goods to be bought In Mthe market, regardless of cost For half a century Merchant's Qargling Oil has been a synonym for honesty, and will continne to be so, long as time endures. For sale by all respectable dealers throughout the United States and other countries. a Our testimonials date from 1833 to the present Try Jterchant's Gargling Oil Liniment for internal and external use, and tell your neighbor what good it has done. Don't fail to follow directions. Keep the bottle well corked. i-> 11 n re Burns and Sprains and Bruises, uunto scaidg Htrlnirhalt, Windgaua, Chilblains, Front Bites, Foot Rot in Sheep, Scratches or Grease, Foundered Feet, Chapped Hands, Roup in Poultry, External Poisons, Sore Nipples. Curb, Sand Cracks, Poll Evil, ('racked Heels, Old Son*, Galls of all kinds, Epizootic, Lame Back. Swellings, Tumor*, Hemoorhoids or Pile*. Flesh Wounds, Sitfast, Toothache, Rheumatism, Rinj?l?one, Foul Ulcors, Hpavius, Sweeney, Garsret in Cows, Farcy, Cornn, Whitlows, Cracked Tea's, Weakness of the Jolats, Callous, Lameness, Contraction of McucIm, Horn Distemper. Cramps, Swelled Lees,. 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