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T*- / . * . jf-' r In the Wheat Field. When the lids of the virgin Dawn unclose, When the earth is fair and the heavens are j calm, And the early breath Af the wakening rose Floats on the air in balm. I stand breast-high in the pearly wheat That ripples and thrills to a sportive breeze, j Borne out the field with its Hermes feet, And its subtle odor of southern seas ; While oat of the infinite azure deep The flashing wings of the swallow sweep, Buoyant and beautiful, wild and fleet, Over the waves of the whispering wheat. Aurora faints in the fulgenl lire Of the Monarch of -Morning's bright embrace, And the summer day climbs higher and higher Upon the cerulean space : The pearl-tints fade from the radiant grain, j Ana the sportive breeze of the ocean uie>, , And soon in the noontide's soundless rain Theliehlseems graced witli a million eyes: Each grain with a glance from us lidded fold, j As bright as a gnome's in lu's mine of gold. | While the slumbrous glamour ot beam and heat Glides over and under the \vind!e<? wheat. Yet the languid spirit of lazy Noon. With its minor and Morphean music rife, j Is pulsing in low. voluptuous tune With summer's lust of life. Hark ! to the droning of drowsy wings. To the honey-bees as they go and come, To the "boomer" * scarce rounding his sultry rings, The gnat's small horn and the beetle's hum : And hark to the locust?noon's one shrill songLike the tingling steel of an elfin gong Grows lower through quavers of long retreat To swoon on the dazzled and distant wheat. Now Day declines ! ai:d his shafts of might Are sheathed in a quiver of opal haze; Still thro' the chastened, but mngic light, What sunset grandeurs blaze ! For the sky. in its mellow luster, seems Like the realm of a master poet's mind? A shifting kingdom of splendid dreams? With fuller and fairer truths behind ; And the changeful colors that blend or part, Ebb like the tides of a living heart, As the spleudor melts and the shadows meet ! And the treses of Twilight trail over the wheal. Thus Eve creeps slowly and sh\ ly down, And the gurgling notes of the swallows 1 tease, They flicker aloft through the foliage brown, j In the ancient vesi ir peace : But n step like the step of a conscious fawn i Is stealing?with many pauses?this way, 'Till the hand of my Love thro* mine is drawn, Her heart on mine, in the tender ray; Oh, hand of the lily, Oh, heart of truth, Oh, Love, thou art faithful and fond as Ruth But I am the gleaner?of kisses?Sweet, While the starlight dawns on the dimpling wheat! Tlit ttumlk, oriis romnionly ca'kit "bi:inl>k-bcc." ?I'tntl Jlrunilton Ilttync. " CHIPS." Chips wu^ hungry. Well, there was nothing remarkable in this. ;i( least to Chips, as lie was often hungry. His bill of fare for tlie day ran tints: For breakfast, one lion**. with crusts; dinner, .nothing: supper, ditto: dessert, moralizing rejections. You see, the remarkable fact would have chanced had lie not been hungry. "When Chips v.;i; thus carnivorousiy i disposed lit* exalted in rank, I the height of Ins j?;?sit ion depending upon the kPenness of his appetite. 11' J he was moderately hungry, lie was a I lord; if hungrier, he became a duke; at the very hungriest?a prince. At this (p.'H-li he was a prince. "When ia this state Prince Chips often held imaginary conversations with invisible individuals, wherein he i r was expected to he answering such j questions as " "Will your lordship deign | to partake of this saladV" or, ""Will I your royal highness condescend to ae- j cept this mutton?" with the general I answer, spoken in all complaisance, 41 No, thank you, my good fellow, I have sufficiently dined." Chips palace overlooked the sea? being at the foot ol" Liberty street. It was large?for Chips; moreover, it was well ventihii'd. "Well," soliloquized Chips, "folks needs fresh air in j winter as well as summer, an' when j they wants things to keep they alius put 'em in the cold." And again: "A ; feller might growl, hut Old Jack j wouldn't let up on his toes all the same." In addition to hcing a prince , Chips was also a philosopher. Every j morning his royal highness emerged j from his palace with his implements of | trade?his box and brushes. "A prince i i.i? i ..j . ) ' i..:... i UltH-'KlIljr IIOUIS . \IIII l'.\r],iil!l, III ? wilder. Well, why not V "When it pleases our noble lords of the present day to metamorphose themselves into stagedrivers cannot a prince, with equa* right, be a bootblack?. Every evening he returned to his palace and bed of straw. "Straw!" you cry. "Well, why not again? A few centuries ago royal personages received visitors of state sitting upon rushes. It was merely a revival of ancient customs. Chips was not " to the manor born," that is, lie had not always rejoiced in a title. | He could remember a time once i "when lie had slept under a roof and washed his face. For off? Oh, very far off; down among the shadows of that strange | distant past lie could dimly trace a | '* ray of light. It was the thought of a p gentle face that had once bent over! him?eyes with their light of love i shining into his; lips with a tender ! curving, whispering low, "My son." lie fancied that he remembered, I sometimes, how a .strange white pain had settled upon the face, how the j brightness in the eyes hail been but the gleam of tears, and th" smile upon 1 the lips became sadder than any sigh. ; lie was not quite sure of this, however. It might have been but a fancy of his, but there was one thing that he remembered well: A picture of a ( darkened room, and a lace resting upon pillows whose whiteness was not ! purer, and a voice crying out, faint | yet strong in its intensity of emotion: "My hoy, promise me?mo, your mother, dying?that you will never, . ' never take what is not yours!" And > seeing dimly the clouds that rested j above him, and awed by the shadowy wings that hovered near, lie had prom- : ised. The vow stood out amid the bewildering chaos like a star that shines j among the somber clouds of a mid- j night sky, and he had kept it ever Now to-day it was not alone the j bill of fare that troubled Chips, although that was not such as an Astor, | much less a prince, would have rel- j ishc.l. liut. alas, some one, unknown,: had stolen his box ami brushes. Yet his philosophy deserted him not. " When a feller's <,r?t property," lie j soliloquized, " he must expect ter be burglarized when he don't lock up his safe." He walked up Broadway?he did not care to go homo to the palace? and stopped before a restaurant. Oh, but there was such a tempting . display?such llakey pics and great; doughnuts, and?and in the center? how brown, how nice--a crisp, fat turkey. Chips, looking, was almost inclined to believe himself hungry. As it was, he amused himself watching the waiters inside, fancying the great bustle and preparation was all for him. j One spruce servant stopped another, j What was it he was saying V " His imperial highness dines hero to- j night, Sam. Bring in the turkey in the i window." "Darn his imperdenco!" muttered j the hoy. " ITe thinks I can swallow a ! whole gobbler. Blamed of I'll step j inside his old grubshop a'tor that!" He turned and pursued his way with ; a highly dignified, much-injured, air. j If imagination alone could create a ! poet?as some modern scribblers seem to believe?Chips would have rivaled j Shakesjieare himself. Apart from the crowd, however, . standing in the shadow of old Trinity, j the fair vision of the tempting fowl coming again before him, he inur- j mured: "My eyes! but that gobbler wor a buster!" lie sat down upon the | steps and rested his face in his grimy hands. What is it you say??he looks j little like a prince in that ragged old COSt ana MHTXCTeu-m jicit r uu, uui j you know lie is in disguise. " I wish now," In* soliloquized, after a- space given for silent reflection, ** wRen they passed ronnci the hat fur th?ru meet in' house ch;ips to chip in ^ ftl: tbe Chinee Injuns, that a few coppars hed a rolled right town here," I Chips hail been to church once. He had " seen and heard." Now, after a few moments' meditation upon his fallen fortunes: "If that feller hadn't nabbed my traps," he muttered. "Darn him!" in a sudden heat of passion. A man was passing then, sleek-looking, corpulent, with immaculate dress and spotless tie. " My boy," lie said, in reproving accents, "you cannot realize the enormity of your offense when you utter such expressions as the one which just new sullied your lips." Chips glared at this reprover a moment, lie was blazing with anger against the unknown thief: but that person not being at hand he transferred his rage to this individual so conveniently near. Moreover a man is never particularly angelic when particularly hungry; neither is a boy. "(Jo to blazes !*' be growled, turning his bark. Thereat was this philanthropic personage greatly shocked. He stood for an instant gazing at Chips like an accusing angel (instance of smile far-fetched), then turned and passed bv ? not on the "other s:de," the crossing being too 1 >- -.1?1 ? 1 o?v..i..'il ii.w.c r.n IllUlKU . ill' r*r> vnn vnuw v?? his way lu me?this kind-hearted gentleman?deploring the degeneracy of the rising generation; afterward, in the warm glow of his own hearthstone, with the savory odors from a well cooked dinner idling the room, he forgot to sigh. Left alone Chips' heat cooled. " How unbecoming a prince to allow such trilles as the omission of a dinner?" here he drew himself tip sharply. Had he not dined two hours previously at Pelmonico's? He went over again the orders he had given. " Waltz in ver turkey, boss, llring on that puddin', plenty o' plums!" Of what was he thinking, to be wishing for dinner? Well, but let us leave him now, here under the shadow of Old Trinity?than which there is no place more fitting, some people might say. 1 think if Chips had been consulted just then?a restaurant! But then, you know, he was seldom consulted. Oh, by the way, did you ever have the honor of Mr. Christopher Memyifs acquaintance? Indeed, it is an honor! .Ju.->t come with me and I'll introduce you. Xojupon second thought, I will not. Mr. Christopher Mcmyu is very busy just now, and would not wish to be disturbed. Hut stand here outside and you can take a peep at him within. Is he not a line-looking man? Mr. Christopher Mcmyu is just eight-and-thirtv, reputed to be wealthy, and?such a pity! match-making mammas declare?married. Such a dear woman; such a pretty, tender-hearted litue woman, such kindly beaming eyes as she has, snch a helpful smile, glad and sunny for all! Mr. Christopher Memyu does not agree ;it all with match-making mammas. There was a little boy once, too?a dimpling, crowing, gleeful young tyrant, whose hair exactly matched thclittle strip of sunshine that every morning comes in at his ollicewindow. But alas ! Greenwood holds many a sunbeam like that which lighted Christopher Memyu's home, and it holds his. There is no needless repining, though. Perhaps the wifely eyes will always grow dim at sight of that shining curl that lies between the leaves of her little Bible?right there at the place where the mighty heart of Israel's kinir breaks forth in its anguish, " Oh, Absalom, my son, my son !" And, perhaps, a little quivering pain will always reach the father's heart when he hears a voice 1 like unto "-the one that is still" crv out "Papa!" But their eyes are not shut to the | sunshiny of life, and none of its work is left undone?av, it is better done. It is he " who never felt a wound" 1 who jests at scars, and it is not the old veteran, furrowed by the bullets'falling ' hail, who sleeps at his post. "What did you say y Christopher i Memyu has put aside his papers now : and is coining out. Yes, he has turned ; 1 you can see his face better now, and? ' Why, why, what is the matter y lie is ' as haggard and pinclied in features as ] any man of sixty. Surely, Mr. Chris topher Mcmyu must he in trouble. At all events, it is not for us to stand and 1 watch. What! you will lose your f train V So we will if we do not make haste. What can he the matter with 1 Mr. Christopher Memyu's? Chips does not sit long on the old ' stone steps. Somehow he seems grow- J ing reckless. lie thinks he will go t "home." Alas, the pitiful word! ' There?no. lie will pro hack down ?' Broadway, he thinks, and so he comes 1 now down the street, llere is the 1 restaurant at whose window he stood ? an hour ago. lie does not stop there now, observe; he walks hastily by, ? with his head turned the other way in * a very resolute manner indeed. I Chips has almost decided to become 1 a king. He walks or; and stops right 1 in front of that same counting house. ' The light shines out Avitli genial warmth; it attracts the boy and he softly climbs the steps. The snug olliee looks cheerful. The man with his back to him seems comfortable. " He's a swell an," mutters the prince to himself: "he's"?with a 'sudden thought of happy compromise?"et two dinners." The man turns about. Chips see his face and recoils. "What sadder sight does the world hold than the despair of a human face. Moved by that instinctive pity which one wretched mortal has for another equally miserable, Chips presses nearer the stove, as if thereby he was closer the suffering. Suddenly the man flings up his arms, " Humeri, ruined!" he cries, and sinks down, his head buried in his hands, resting upon the desk. There is soni'-thing sacred in misery. Chips felt it as he moved quietly away. Within Mr. Christopher Memyu, banker, with millions slipping from his grasp ; without, Chips, bootblack, shelterless, supperless. Of the human world tonight, these two?seemingly so far apart, measured by that great ; divining rod, capacity for pain?were I not, perhaps, so far distant after all. * "Only a few weeks," muttered the ' man?"hut a few more weeks and I j could safely tide it over, hut now?" Something comes to him just here, something that causes him to start and recoil with a shiver of horror, hut 1 something that keeps coming and ! coining and coming. In that drawer yonder lies $50,000. 1 Xo one knows it is there hut him, for he holds it in trust for one who is on 1 his way across the Atlantic by this time. If? | The devil, they tell us, tempted ' Christ in the wilderness for thirty days, and in the end Divine Majesty rose triumphant. Alas for us for whom the tempting is oft hut thirty seconds, < yet whose voice rings not out in the ' cry, "(Jet vhee behind me, Satan !" lint Christ'',(her Memyu has been the soul of honor. Never before has he had cause to blush for act of his. Shall ho now??no, no! lie turns away. Then the devil takes a new departure, lie knows his man's weakest point. " What of your wife," he whispers 1 ?"she whom you have never per- 1 nutted the winds of heaven to visit too roughly. How can she, cradled in ' luxury, hear privation and poverty? Think of the woman you love?" Christopher Memyu stn tches out his . ]i;inil Tlifi devil Iiiis won. Chips walks slowly through the ; streets. Yes, his philosoj hy has quite deserted him. lie struggles, but cannot regain it. A hard line creeps around the corners of 1 is mouth, a ' strange light dawns in his eyes. " Darn it !" cries the I oy, standing still on the hard pavement, ' "I'm hungry." And in this cry and the I hanker'.-; groan there is equal pathos j and equal despair. Somebody passes him hero?somebody walking hastily and with a desperate look upon his , face, too. It is the man whose head was lient above his desk an hour ago? the man who fought that terrible battle of a moment's space, and who is rushing now to ruin. lie jostles against Chips as he goes heedlessly on. A breath of wind blows open his coat; : something falls, but either he is deaf or insensible now to sound; he goes, i blindly on. The boy stoops and picks up the packet. Is he dreaming? lie rubs his eyes, pinches himself, stares. ! The amount i? marked upon the wrap- ! per, A wild joy leaps up in Chip#' 1 heart. The irresistible tide of hunger he whelms him. Oh, what a dinner will have! The old gobbler? lie stops with a quick cry. He has no right to this money. Then wary old Satan comes to him. The boy stands in the windy night. Up above him the 1 stars shine; below the gas-jets llare and < dicker; within a tumult?a Waterloo. ' Napoleon or Wellington, which is lie? ' He trembles in his excitement. His eyes shine like the lamps in the street. He turns partly toward the other side , ?the side on which is the restaurant. He is so hungry. There?hush! Through the night, just here, where the battle is fiercest, he hears his mother's dying cry, he remembers 11is promise, lie looks up toward tIk* stars?the stars that shine down upi n him as if smiling a blessing. " You'll let Him know," lie says, in a choked sort of voice. lie starts on a run; how he tlics! The man is far ahead, but he gains on him at every step. "Say. hold up, mister : t nristopher Memyu turns, for Chips has hold of his coal, panting, breathless. IIo crams the packet in the other's hand. " Yer dropped it." he says, answering the man's look of amazement. Yes, he is amazed, bewildered. Christopher Mcmyu. " J Joy," he says, with a sudden thought, "do you know what this packet contains?" "You bet; ain't it a pile, though? (Jolly, what a chase I had. You're a walker, you are." ' Hoy !" Christopher Mcmyu is trembling. " You are poor?" Chips waits a full moment. "1 hain't had no grul> to-day," he says at length. "I'm hungry !" "Why?why!" The man can scarcely stand. "Why did you not keep the money?" Chips draws himself up. Did ever hero on ancient battle-ground look grander? "She's up there," lie says, pointing to the starry sky. " I told her I never would, an' she'd a knowed. Uesides, 1 know it's mean." The next moment he was amazed, for Christopher Mcmyu has caught him right in his strong arms. " God bless you, boy !" he cries, his voice choking with sobs. " You've saved me !" Chips slept in a bed that night; no king could have fared better. And there is another son in Christopher Mcmyu's happy home. Happy, i'or honor dwells there, and, withal, he keeps his title. For of good fellows you will hear him oft declared " the prince." A Kide on a Crocodile. Waterton, the eminent naturalist and observer, has made the most ex- 1 tended observations upon the habits of the South American crocodiles. They were lished for by wire hooks forimd of four pieces of hard wood a foe t long, barbed at both ends; to the.-e :in :iniin;il of sollie kind, 1 and with rope attached tins bait was held over the river or pond, and if once taken the struggles of the creature only served to hook it the more (irmly. Waterton was probably the lirst to ride a cayman, and the fall owing is his account of a capture novel in the extreme: ' 1 placed all the people at the end of the rope and ordered them to pull till the cayman appeared on the surface of the water; and then, should he plunge, to slacken the rope and let him go again in the deep. 1 now took the mast of the canoe in my hand (the sail being tied around the mast), and sank ilown upon one knee, about four yards from the water's edge, d? tcrmincd to thrust it down his throat in case 'he ^avc me an opportunity; I certainly felt somewhat uncomfortable in this situation, and 1 thought of (Vrberus iin the other side of the Styx ferry. The people pulled the cayman to the surface; he plunged furiously as soon as lie arrived in these upper regions and immediately went below again on their slacking the rope. I saw enough not to fall in love at lirst sight. I now told them we would run all risks and have him on land immediately. They pulled again, and out lie came?" inonitriiin, /lorrcinhim, informed This was ;ui interesting moment. I kept my position (irmly, with my eye fixed steadfast on him. "JJy this time the cayman was ivithin two yards of me. I saw he tvas in a state of fear and perturba:ion; I instantly dropped the mast, ;i>rnn<r mi -mil iimtmd on his back. r.,...|3 j ! -:urning half round as I vaulted, so . hat I gained my seat with my face in i right position. I immediately seized lis forelegs and by main force J ;wisted them on his hack; thus they , served me for a bridle. lie now seemed to have recovered from his surprise,.and probably fancying him- j' self in hostile company, he began to dunge furiously and lashed the sand ( ivith his lung and powerful tail. I ! .vas out of reach of the strokes of it iv being near his head, lie continued * o plunge and strike, and made my ,s leat very uncomfortable. It must J lave been a line sight f??r an unoccu?ied spectator. The people roared out . n triumph, and were so vo"iferous 1 hat it was some time before they '* leanl me tell them to pull me and ! uy beast of burden further inland. 1 was apprehensive the r? ;]>: ' night break, and then there would j lave been every chance of g 'ing . lown to the regions under water with he cayman. The people now dragged ' is about forty yards on the sand; it was '] he lirst and last time 1 was ever on a ,'J ayman's back. After repeat*, d atempt> to regain his liberty the cay- : : -i i 4 .':i t 11U11 JJJIYt! lil <11111 IH'I'il.'lir II illli J1111 . liroiigh exhaustion. I now o tic uj? his jaws and firmly se- . tired his forefeet in tin- ]>osition I had 1 ield tlK-iii. We had now another severe struggle for superiority, but. lie vassooii overcome, and again reinained ( pliet. While some of the people were j trcssing upon his head and shoulders ^ [ threw myself on his tail, and by ' tceping it down in the sand prevented ^ um from kicking up another dust, j lie was finally conveyed to the canoe, md then to the place where we had ( daced our hammocks. Thev cut his j hroat, and after breakfast was over t 'ommeiieed the dissection." Progeny in "Whose Veins Flows the Mood ) of the Five Races. " Xow, if I told v<iu the cold fact ' hat I saw human beings in whose reins How the blood of all the live races nto which mankind is divided, you wouldn't believe it, would you? And run would say I never carried a little liatehet, using mild language, wouldn't roil?" said a well-known histrionic gentleman, just returned from the p Sandwich Islands, to a reporter. " No, I would not believe it," was he frank reply. ,, " Well, lit re's the case, and it is a I ! genuine one: The present Mrs. IJrown, i ' if Honolulu, was born in the Hawaiian 1 ' kingdom. Her father was part negro j j md part American Indian, ami her j j mother a native Hawaiian woman. m . Mrs. Hrown's wins, therefore, ilowed j' the Mix id <if three races- the negro, (lie j Indian and the Malay. S?? far sogood. 1 )C Ii V Mrs. IJrown's first linsliand was j t Chinaman; and a daughter 1 ?y that marriage, now tin- wile of the He". ' s Dr. Lyman, a clergyman at llilo, united . ? in her veins the blood of four races-- j the yellow or Mongolian lieing added , to her mother's mixed life Mood. Now j Mrs. Lyman is the mother of children l?y a Caucasian father, and doesn't that make these innocent little ones carry a 1 very mixed kind of Mood, uniting, so 1 to speak, all the colors?white, black. red, yellow and brown?"?X'ln Fran- ' ttisw t'h roil /' /c. A Remarkable Cow. 1 A Kentucky cow, raised on the farm ; r>f Kr.i-tus Ellsworth, of East Wind- j - " " > ?i (tn . *(>r 11 ill, llil> 11 i i-ii hi rvm 'ii j > "i ?. - - , April 1 (?, 1S77, she gave birth (<? twins. : tine male and one female; ami Mareli. ; 10, 1878, she gave birth to triplets, two t males ami one female, making five ; calves in eleven months ami three days; / on July 0, 1870, shega ve hirt h tot wins, j I lot]i males; on October 7, 1SS0, slie j gave hirth to triplets, two males and 1 one female, making ten calves in three j' years, five months and twenty-one days, j ' The calves have all been of good size, j healthy and handsome, and have all i 1 been raised-on the farm. Ontonagon county, Michigan, the ^ largest and richest county in the State, < bus no telegraph communication with < the outside world, t PUBLIC LANDS. 1'ncfnl Information for Settlers. There are now public lands open to settlement in nineteen States and eight Territories. In the following land offices are established, which are in . barge of a register, where the land records are kept and where all applications concerning lands in each district lire tiled and inquiries answered: Alabama?Huutsvillc, Montgomery. Arkansas?Little Uock, Camden, Harrison, Dardanelles. Arizona Territory?Prescott. Florence. California?Sun Francisco, Maryviilc, Humboldt, Stockton, Visalia, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Shasta, Snsanville, liodie. Colorado?Denver City, T.eadvillc, Central City, I'ueblo, Del Norte, Lake City. Dakota Territory?Mitchell, Watertown, Fargo, Yankton, Hicmnrck, Dcadwood, Grand Forks. Florida?Gainesville. Idaho Territory?Hoise City, Lcwiston, Oxford. Iowa?Pes Moines. Kansas?'Topeka, Salina,Indei>enrionco, Wichita, Kinvin, Concordia, Lamed, Wa-Kccnv. Louisiana?New Orleans, Natchitoches. Michigan?Detroit, Jinst Saginaw, Heed City, Marquette. Minnesota?Taylor's Falls, St. Cloud, Dnlitth, Fergus Falls, Wort Illusion, Crookston, licnuon, Tracy, Kedwood Falls. Mississippi?Jackson. Missouri?lioonviile, I ronton, Springfield. Montana Territory?Helena, Bozeman, Miles City. Nebraska?Norfolk, Beatrice, Lincoln, Niobrara, Grand Island, North Platte, Bloominirton. Nevada?Carson City, Knreka. New Mexico Territory?Santa Fe.I.a Mesilla. Oregon?Oregon Citv, IJoseburg, I.e Grand, Lake View, The Dalles. I'tali Territory?Salt Lake City. _ Washington * Territory?Olympia, Vancouver, Walla Walla, Colfax, Yakina. Wisconsin?Menasiia, Falls of St. C'roix, Wausau, La Crosse, Bayfield, Kau Claire. Wyoming Territory?Cheyenne, Kvanston. There art' two classes of public lands, one being disposed of at ?1.25 per acre and tin; other at $2.f>0 per acre. The latter are the alternate sections reserved by the government in the land grants to railroads, etc. If a person desires to purchase for cash, he applies at the land oil!re, pays his money, gets a receipt for it and a certificate of purchase,"the complete title to the land being given bv the commissioner of the general land ollice at Washington if the proceeding of the register is found regular; if not, the money is refunded. J3ut cases of refunding scarcely ever occur, so that no anxictv is felt on that score if the * ' ('(Tl llic;il(* is oiirr UHuuiicu. Heads of families or citizens over twenty-one alone can locate under the pre-emption law*. Ii such settle upon a quarter-section of unoccupied land they have the right of prior claim to purchase on complying with the proper regulations. The homestead laws give to any citizen, or applicant for citizenship, over twenty-one years of age, who will actually settle upon and cultivate the land, 1(50 acres of ^I ,i*r> j>er acre land, or half the amount of per acre land. The settler must occupy and cultivate his farm for live years before his patent will lie issued. The fees will range from $7 to and must he paid to the register. In order to obtain a title to a timber :*luim on the public lands of the United states, according to the amended law, luit ten acres on each quarter section iced lie planted to timber, or a corresponding portion nil eighty and fortyicrc tracts. The following are theconI i t i( nis: Five acres on each quarter section are to be hrnkcii the lirst year. Topped the second year, and the addiional live acre.* broken. Thetrce planting on live acres must be done tin; third .'ear, at the rate of 2,700 to the acre, ivhich means that the trees must stand four feet apart. The fourth year the villaining live acres must be put in in lie same manner. Cultivation of the rees must continue for eight years, at he end of which time there must lie J75 living trees per acre on each of the ;en acres. The fees and commissions n timber culture entries range from 5l;? to $18. There has been some rein .ic <,? tin. U-in<l of timber trees .lint should be planted, intended, of oiirsc, to make all efforts to obtain ands under this act legitimate to present fraud in securing them. The land ommissioner named the species of rees that must he planted, hut his atest decision is in effect that any kind >f tree may he planted that is known o he valuable in the locality on which lie land is to lit; located. Of course, very one who desires to create a home 'or himself and family on one of these racts is more deeply than any one else nterested in informing himself upon his subject, and in securing the very test species and varieties obtainable.? "ruiric Fanner. Poison in Hook Covers. The use of poisonous dyes to color lie covers of hooks is happily not a omiiion practice. Yet book publishrs are occasionally careless about the Materials used in coloring their books, lately in Troy a child, while playing vitli some water color paints, looked ibout for a palette, and seized a small took, attracted by the bright green olor. lie mixed the paints, on the over ol' the book for some time. Then ie was suddenly taken with corivulions. Physicians who were hastily ummoned declared that he had been loisoned. They administered antidotes, nit the child went into convulsion after onvulsion. and it was only after three * ? f I...4 ?l?.<i,.!.,n IJIV.S I<U"?i unit, uiu avcd his life. 'J'lie child's wealthy larcnts afterward had the physician nvestigatc tin* manner of ils being toisoned. They discovered that the lye with which the brightly-colored look was covered contained the poison, n wetting the paints on the book over the child had innocently wet lso the dye?and soon transferred nine <i|' the poison to its own lips. I'll ere was a comical side; to the invesigation, although it was no consolaion to the parents?the book was oiind to be a report of the society for lie prevention of cruelty to chilIren.?New York- Trihunr. .JefTerson's Monument. The 11.-w nioiiuinent granted by 'nngress to mark the grave of Thomas felTerson, ;it Monticeiln, \'a., will be haped in accordance with a nn-moandum found among the papers of he deceased. It will consist of ;i cu ical die of granite four feet square, in which is set a granite obelisk about fi.i.i in lici<r|it. the whole stand " ' ' " * v * v - n ? ' ng on a granite platform, compascil of wo stone steps, each nine inches in K'ijrht. The height of the monimient vill be eighteen feet. The following ascription, in sunken letters, will be nit upon the obelisk: ; Hero was Imrieil Thomas .Jefferson,author of: :tlu* Declaration of American Independence, of: ;the statute of Virginia for religious freedom,: :ainl fattier of the I'niversity of Virginia. : On the die will be inscribed: Horn April 2,17-13, O. S. Died July 4,1S2C. These words were penned by the rreat statesman for his epitaph. "Woigrlit of a Million Dollars. Mr. K. J?. Klliott, thy government ictuarv, lias computed the weight of l million dollars in gold and silver coin, is follows: The standard gold dollar of the "nited States contains of gold of nineenths fineness, 2.V8 grains, and the tandard silver dollar contains of silver if nine-tenths of fineness, 412-.r> grains, n round numbers the following tahle ( presents the weight of a million (hilars in the coins named: Description of roin. Tons. ilnnilnril j{old coin \':1 i;uul:i r<l Oliver coin SO.V ul?si?lir?ry diver coin 85 linor citiu, live-cent nickel loo Egypt as It Is. The Kgypt of to-day is soon seen : \rah towns of mud huts, long lines of oaded camels and donkeys, and their laked or half-naked drivers, and lazy Arab hoys and women hegging for tackslieesh ; the fields of the Nile and lie <Tr:it river itself : the mosiiue and " r ' i ninaret : the hooded women and tur(iiiii'd, long-robed men ; the acacia i ud palm: and in (lie two great cities, uxury nlung with poverty, dirt with lespotism ; all the plagues, including in aliiiormal government ; sugar mills uid palaces, and an equable teiuperaure, with a sunset that never fails to illurc and detain Hie eye.?Jinn. >N. ?S. ' 'o.v. Budding fruit trees is in order this nontii. Cut off the buds, leaving a 'shield" of wood with them, then ivitli a sharp knife make a T shaped ;lit in the bark of the stock to be budled and insert the buds. T'icre are 112 species of woods in S'i rth Carolina. In the entire South rn States there are only fourteen >ther varieties which arc* riot found In rhftt State, ^ The Dead. The dead alone are great, While heavenly plants abide on earth ; Their soil is one of dewless dearth ; But when they die a mourning shower Comes down and makes their memorice flower With odors sweet, though late. The dead alono are dear. When they are here strange shadows fall From our own forms and darken all; But when they leave us nil the shade Is round our own sad footsteps made ; And they alone are dear. The dead alone aro blest. When they are here clouds make their day, And bitter snow-falls nip their May ; But when their tempest time is done The light and head of Heaven's own sun Brood on their land of rest. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "William Tell had an arrow escape. Gum Arabic?The language talked by a toothless pasha. The bachelor's refrain?a lass! The maiden's refrain?ah men. If the mosquito would only stay to hum?but they do not; they stay to sing. "Yes," said a farmer, " barbed wire fences are expensive, but the hired man doesn't stop and rest t-vcrv time he lias to climb it." A woman who waits for lior husband to return from the lodge has an object in view, and more than likely another in hand. Stoves are supposed to be a somewhat modern invention, but the Egyptians were warmed by Alexander the (Jreat 1J. ('. 300. " They tell me you have had some money left you." said Iirown. " Yes," replied Fogg, sadly, "it left me long ago."?Boston Transcript. " Prisoner, this is the third time this year that you have appeared before this court. What has brought you here now, eh?" " The police, sir!" This bit of conversation, which we find in an exchange, is both timely and expressive: "I think this ice cream tastes a little cowy," said he. "Mine tastes bully," said she. A lad who had been bathing was in the act of dressing himself when one of his shoes rolled down the rock and disappeared in the water. In atti-inptin*r to rescue it he lost the other one ? n -----also, whereupon contemplating his feet witli a most melancholy expression, he apostrophized: " Well, you're a nice pair of orphans, ain't you?" Their house in the country was raised a few feet from the ground, and Tommy, to escape, a well-deserved whipping, r;in from his mother ami crept under the house. ' Presently the father came home, and hearing where the hoy had taken refuge, crept under to bring him out. As he approach! d on his hands and knees, Tommy asked : " Is she after you, too?" A French photographer boasts of having been able to catch the impression of a (lying bird. There is nothing at all wonderful about that. A man who has no scientific attainments whatever, without any cll'ort on his part, caught the impression of a Hying bat. It was a very clear impression, lie was offering a resolution at a ward meeting when the accident occurred. "Guess we're all right now !" puffed the old gentleman as, mopping the perspiration from his forehead, he reached the steamboat landing with his wife, just in time to be too late; " guess we're all right." " Guess we're all right, do von?" rejoined she, catching a glimpse of the steamer as it appeared around a bend in the river; " guess we are all right! Well, I guess, we're all left." And so they were.?Detroit Free Press. THE JESTllKTIO YOl'NO I,ADV. There was a fair itiniil named Louise, Who, for handy-work, painted a frieze; The room was quite !<% Vet she cared not a fi:;! I no M aiuur, u niiiv k iv. uw.i.. . . Hut, alasfor the l.ady Louise? Who worked at her task by degrees? The style of that day Had long passed away Ere she'd come to the end of her frieze! So, in time, to the group at her knees (The grandchildren whom she would please) Sue said: "'Twill improve it, I'm sure to remove it And that was the end of her frieze! ?Jnfl .Sine;/, in St. Xicholai. Recent Changes in Niagara. Geologists assert tluit ages have elapsed since the cataract of Niagara liegan to retreat toward its present position. But the following facts show that they have not made allowance for the rapidity with which the waters wear away that rocky dam. Says the Hew Dr. Prime, of the New York O'usercer : One who returns to Niagara after a long absence notes the marked changes taking place in the face of the cataract. My first visit here was made [in the year 1814, thirty-seven years ago. Then the broad expanse of Table Rock was the platform on which successive thousands stood. Many crept softly to the verge and looked into the abyss.1 Others more cautiously lay on their faces and gazed at the crystal current as it broke into jewels and fell in a stream from the awful height. Now the broad platform has fallen, and the work of undermining is going still further on. In forty years more the present standpoint will be in the .lontiiu lw.liiw l$nf-, more remarkable I'""' - is the change in the shape of the Horseshoe Fall itself. Then it was a perfect segment of aeircle, so nearly like the heel of a horseshoe as to suggest the fitness of its name. Xow vast masses of rock have been dislodged in the J middle of the curve, making a sharp and wide diversion of the current, so that the torrent pours into a midway gulf from which the mist rises constantly. This does not diminish, hut. perhaps enhances, the interest of the cataract. It. hreaks the circuit, destroys the perfect symmetry of the curve. It proves that the recession of the fall is going on with far greater force than Mr. Lyell and his brethren in geology calculated when tliev supposed they had estimated the ages by the progress up-stream of the verge of Niagara. If in half the lifetime <?f a modern man such changes have occurred, what may not have been wrought l?v these mighty forces of nature in 5,0lj() years ? 1VISE WORDS. Do not waste time in useless regre1s over losses. A nod from a millionaire is a breakfast for a fool. Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience. A wise man makes more opportuni ties than he linds. One forgives everything to him who forgives himself nothing. An hour of triumph comes at last to those who watch and wait. We should believe in works; words are sold for nothing everywhere. To be happy in heaven it is not necessary to be miserable on earth, j Recollection is the only paradise i from which we cannot be turned out. What wits we should be if we only 1 uttered the bright things we think of j when the occasion has passed. If'we could read the secret history j of our enemies we should liml in each 1 man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. A happiness that is quite undisj turbed becomes tiresome; we must ! have nps and downs; the dilliculties which arc mingled with love awaken i passion and increase pleasure. Every increase of knowledge may possibly render depravity more de-1 i praved, as well as it may increase the ; strength of virtue. It. is in itself onh power, and its value depends on its apj plication. Painted lace is very much employed on light dresses of one or more colors, ! such as pale hluo merveillcux and palo pink moire; the painted lace, colored to correspond with these, two shades, would, however, only he used to trim i the principal portions of the dress? the sleeves, bodice and edgings, to the drapery. The llounces, panels or anything requiring a large amount of garniture, would be of tho same lncc with the designs left uncolored. NEWS OF TEE WEEK. S ASTERN AND MIDDLE STATB& James Redden (colored) waa hanged at Newcastle, Del., for assaulting a twolve-yearold whito girl. George Lee, of Newark, N. J., defeated Courtney, Wallace Ross, Hosmer, Riloy and othors at the Saratoga Lako regatta in the professional three-mile boat race. The annate.ir championship was won by F. Holmes, of Pawtuckot, R L A rmn at Newport, R. I., partially destroyed the Cliil house, a summer resort, and two adjoining cottages. General Chaules J. Powers, a prominent Rochester (N. Y.) lawyer, slipped and fell in the street sustaining injuries that caused his death. Ho was forty-nine years old and had sorved with distinction in the late war. Tub Pennsylvania Stato trade and labo convention mat in Philadelphia and after passing a scries of raoolutions indorsed the nomineo of tho Labor party for governor, Thomas A. Armstrong. Martha and Flora Croslcy, aged respectively fourteen and eleven years, and Minnie Poddick, aged twelve years, were drowned in tho Juniata rivor at Huntingdon, Pa., by tho upsetting of a boat. William H. Allen, president of Girard college. Philadelphia, died tho other day, a<;ed seventy-four years. A run? at Haverhill, Mass., destroyed a morocco factory, a sash and blind factory and a shoo factory and badly damaged three dwelling-houses, causing a total estimated damage of ?100,000. J At Haverhill, Mass., Georco Rogers, aged fifty, shot his wifo in G. H. Hoyt's box factory and Iheu shot himself. Both were iUIlttU. WniLE Frederick G. Ango was driving to Bangor, Me., lie was stopped by two men, who demanded his money. Ango refused the demand and was fir?d upon and wounded twice. He roturned the fire, but without effect, and finally handed the robbers his pocketboolc containing $480. The highwaymen then took to the woods, and Ango drove rapidly to Bangor and had his wounds dressed. A mobtoage for $100,000,000 was recorded the other day in the office of the recorder of deeds in Philadelphia. It was executed jointly by tho Philadelphia and Reading railroad and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron companies, and covers the entire property of every kind, real and personal, together with all rights, privileges and franchises, including all leasehold interests. The Hotel Brunswick, the Pleasant House, Central Hall and another dwelling at Old Orchard Beach, Maine's well-known summer resort, were' leveled by tho flames. At the Hotel Brunswick tho guests escaped in their liightclothes, losing their wardrobes, money and other personal effects. SOUTH AND WEST. Robert Pabkeb was hanged at Aiken, S. C., for tho murder of his wife by poison. T of tho desoeradoes who robbed a stage in Arizona and murdered tho express messenger and another man 'were lynched at Globe. At Madison, Fla., two colored prisoners, charged with murder, wero shot and killed in a train by a crowd. Governor Cameron, of Virginia, has refused to commute tho sentence of Mary Booth (colored), aged fourteen years, who is to bo hanged on November 17 for poisoning Mr?. Gray and Travis Jones, of Surrey county, in t'if early part of April, by putting arsenio in their coffee. Many new cases of yellow fever and numerous deaths have been reported from Brownsville, Texas and vicinity. Tho quarantine guards extend along tho Rio Grande from its mouth to Santa Maria, a distanco of sixty miles. Business has been practically suspended in the afflicted region and ranch destitution provails. 1'ije Hocking Valley Manufacturing company's works at Lancaster, Ohio, have been destroyed by lire; estimated loss, $135,000. Two men wero instantly killed, another was fatally injured and several more wero seriously wounded by tho explosion of tho boiler in a tile factory at Solma, Ohio. JJisrATcnES state th'at Ben Ficklin, a town in Texas, was all washed away except eight houses, and that forty persons wero drowned. Tho majority of tho victims wero Mexicans. Mrs. J. M. Stratton, wifo of a successful lawyer at Leland, 111., shot her husband and then horself, both dying immediately. They liad been married only a short time, and it was supposed lived happily together. Mrs. Charles IIovev, ?i young married woman living at Thetford, Mich., during a fit of temporary insanity drowned herself and five-year-old child in a tub of water. Thirteen Indians engaged in tho recent rebellion ia the Greek Nation were captured. tried and found guilty, and were publicly whipped at Cano Creok. Croek Nation, each man roceiving one hundred lashes od tho bare back. There were eighty-two new cases of yellow fever and eight deaths in ono day at Brownsville, Texas. Fire destroyed tho greater part of the business portion of Farmerville, La.; total estimated los3, $80,000. Pratt, tho cashier of the First National bank at Kewanee, 111., which was recently robbed of ?20,000 by men who had left a valise in tho building, has been arrested, charged with complicity in tho robbery. It is charged that the locking up of Pratt and his assistant, Miss Harris, in the bank's vault, by tho robbers, was pre-arranged. Another of the alleged perpetrators has been captured at St. Louis, Mo. A heavy snow-storm has been raging in Leadville, Col. The Michigan Republican State convention at Kalamazoo nominated a full ticket headed by David II. Jeromo for govornor. Tucson (Arizona) dispatches give details of numerous outrages committed by Apaches in Sonora, Mexico. A band of Indians raided tho Calabassns valley and killed about twenty men, women and children. After committing tho murders the Indians fled into Arizona. The Southern cotton crop is reported to be late, but good. Tiie Kansas Democrats have nominated a full ticket headed by George W. Glick for governor. Convkjikbatk bonds are again in demand. [ At Kiclsmond, Ya.. the brokers'have been paying :ts high as ^T.'jO per thousand. FROM ir.i,s7//.vcro.v. A Wasiunoton dispatch says that General William T. Sherman will a4: to bo placed on the retired list of the array in Novomber of ]S,s!.' Ho would bo retired under tho army compulsory act on February S, ISSt, at which date ho will be sixty-four years of age. A tei.e<ikam from tho navy department at Washington has been received by Admiral Clitz, e Mnmandii'g tho United States naval force in Asia, announcing that Commodore Klmfeldt's treaty with Corea has been rejected, requesting that a ship of war bo sent to Corea, and staling that Mr. Young, tho TT..:t...l nnvnf ( ! fHiinn. wihilil nssnmn d:;?lmi-iti<; control of lliu question. Captain Alfred Hopkins, commanding the navy yard, Ponsacola, Fla., lias informed the acting secretary of tho navy that yellow fever is spreading in Ponsacola, and that extra precautions aro neccssary. Precautions for the safety of tho men wero accordingly taken. The secretary of war has approved the I recommendation of tho Mississippi River ! commission for tho apportionment of the fund appropriated by tho last Congress for improving tho navigation of tho Mississippi j river, and it is supposed that work upon tho j river will begin at once. <ii r.i.'.u'.i hUi-lo'.oii i:? now at tho Xalior.al j Army .Medical m'x-ecm in ihisviiy, but 'will in>i )m> exhibited to tins public. The filial disposition of the bones of the assassin l.as not yet been determined upon and cannot be j until Judge llagner decides as to tin? validity i of Guileau's will, in which In- bequeathed his j body to Dr. Hides. The experts who were engaged i:i the microscopical examination | of (Juiteaii's brain have completed their work. It is understood that they .already j disagree in their conclusion respecting his sanity, and that there will probably be two j reports rendered. Hv direction of tho President the military . department of West Point lm? been dieontimu-d, and hereafter t! -< Military Academy will ho under the* supervision and charge of : Die perioral of tho army. The secretary of war ha- received a dis- | ! atcli from General Pope antioimcin,',' t!io ! arrest by tho military of Captain I'.iyiio ami | ?ix i ?f his followers for invasion of tho Indian ! Territory. FOREIGN N?JWS. Tiii;f.i; thousand f-I:i|?-.:??it.eM at Glasgow, j ScoJand, liavo struck work. A revival of thn attacks upon Jews is ro- i ported from tho interior of Poland. In consequonco of tho disturbed stato of the country in tlia vicinity of Athlone, Ire- j land, noUliOM nnJ police, on oars, scour it j nightly, MiHTM > A Hong Konq dispatch says that four thottsand natives have died of Asiatic cholera in a Bingle Phillipine province, but the epidemic is now decreasing. J Hunter, a notary of Montreal, Canada, windled a large namber of widows, orphans and ladies and then absconded to the Unit?d States. His liabilities are more than $150,000. He held a high social position and snent much money in extra vacant livinsr. Dtranra a heavy gale off the JNewfoundlano coast a number of vessels and some of theii crews wero lost. A Calcutta (India) dispatch says that there has been fearful rioting between Hindoos and Mohammedans at Salem in the presidency of Madras. One hundred and fifty Hindoos and three Mohammedans have been arrested. An eye-witness of tho disorders says that headless corpses of Mohammedan men and women wero lying on every side. Houses of Mohammedans wero burned and tho principal mosque was almost razed to the ground. Dead pigs wero thrown into wolLs with the corpses of Mohammedan children. Tho Mohammedans are a small minority of tho population. Advices from Japan gives tho following account of the massacre of the royal family of Coroa: At about 5 o'clock on tho evening of July 2.'? an organized band of insurgents took possession of the main thoroughfares in Sc-Oul, the capital of Coroa, and attacked tho> royal residence and tho headquarters of the Japanese legation. The Japanese onvoy and consul escaped with about twenty followers and made their way to the palace for protection, but they found it already in i ho possession of tho rioters. They then retreated to Jinscn Port, fifteen miles distant, being repeatedly assailed on the way. Four of tho party were killed, threo were woundod and several are miss ing. The survivors finally made their way to a British ship. A Japanoso vessel that was sent to Corea returned with the announcement that all the Japanese at Se-Oul had probably been slaughtered, and that the capital was in a state of anarchy. Of the royal inmates of the palaco the king alono was spared. The queen waa murdered. His heir and his betrothed, both children, wore killed by poison forciby administered. Thirteen ministers of state and other high dignitaries were slain. The proceedings are said to have been directed by tho ex-Regeut Taiin-Kun, by somo said to bo tho father and by othors tho uncle of tho king. He has always been a violent opponent of foreign intercourse. Japan acted with promptness and pmdence. A naval and military rendezvous has been established at Shimonoseki, the nearest port to Corea. A fleet has been dispatched to tho scene of disorder and troops have been gathered to await the development of affairs. Reparation must be absolute and unconditional or war will ensue. Late telegrams from Corea state that the uncle of tho king lias seized tho throne. The Siberian plague is appearing to an alarming extent in most widely separated quarters of European Russia. The annual report of tho wheat crop in Franco shows it is excellent in twenty departments, good in forty-five, fair in eleven, poor in nine and bad in one?that of Corsica. Cholera is creating fjreat ravages in Japan nnd in tlio Phillipino islands. At Yokohoma out of 775 cases within twenty days ">72 cases proved fatal. At Toldo about eighty cases and fifty deaths occur daily. An unusual scene witnessed recently in the harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, was the keel-hauling of three Arab sailors on board the Egyptian frigate Sonda for mutiny. They wero first Hogged and then tied to a rope and hauled up to the port side yardarm. They were then dropped into the sea, dragged under the keel and hauled up to the star>oard yardarm. They were soon dead. The South African Caffre chief SecocceDi, hi? son and fourteen followers have been killed. The kijling was done by Mampoer, the chief put into Secocceni's place by the British. The corporation of Cork has passed a resolution condemning the roceut sentence of Mr. E. Dwyer Gray, tha Dublin newspaper publisher, and demanding that he bo released. The corporation also resolved to confer upon Mr. Gray tho freedom of the city. England and Egypt. General Sir Garnet TVolseley, in a dispatch to the var office, recounts an engagement at Magfar in winch he held hiB ground the wholo day against 10,000 Egyptians. His forces numbered about 2,000 men. In his details General Wolseley says: " I advanced this morning before daybreak with the Household cavalry, two horse artillery guns, thirty mounted infantry, 1,000 men from thfc York and Lancaster reiriment, and the marines. After some skirmishing I took possession of tho dam which the enemy had constructed across the canal between the villages Magfar and Mahatta. During tho operations two squadrons of the Household cavalry charged tho enemy's broken infantry very gallantly. I soon found that the enemy were being largely reinforced from Tel-el-Kebir. I could see trains arriving. I thought it inconsistent with traditions for tho queen's army to retire before any number of Egyptian troops, and so decided to hold tho ground until reinforcements arrived. All day long I have had an Egyptian force of 10,000 men, with ton guns, in iny front and on my right flank. The precision of tho enemy's artillery firo was very good, but fortunately they fired common shell nearly all day, and when they did liro shrapnel their fuses were badly adjusted. The enemy had their cavalry regiments in line. Our horses, having been reeeTitly on board shin. were not in condition to gallop much. Thetwo horsewrallery guns were served with pluck and ability. Our casualties have been slight. Captain Hallam Parr was wounded through the leg. Lord Mclgund received a wound through the hand. Captain Parr's mounted infantry distinguished itself. All'tho troops engaged did well. To-morrow I shall attack tho enemy's position at Holenkc, and hope to take possession of tho dam which they constructed there this morning." On the following oveningGeneral Wolseley ;olegraphed as follows from Ismailia: "I unshod mi fiLmin this mornincr at daybreak. The enemy had a strongly intrenched position at Mahatta, nnd from the bold way in which they attacked mo yesterday I hoped they would stand their ground to-day. They withdrew their guns, however, last night. They had twelve in action yesterday. The force at my disposal this morning was the First Division and all the English cavalry, with sixteen guns. My intention was to pivot on my left at the dam we took yesterday, and swing round my right to take the enemy's position in the Hank and drive them into the fresh water canal, sending the cavalry completely round their position to I occupy the railway in their rear, and, if possible, capture their engines and rolling stock. This operation was very well carried out. All the heavy work devolved on the cavalry and artillery, which were well handled by Major-General Lowo. Ho attacked the rear of the enemy, who had a large camp at the Mahsamch railway station, which ho took, routing the enemy with considerable loss, taking live Kruppguns, seventy-live railway carriages laden with provisions and a large quantity of ammunition and rifles. Notwithstanding tlio fact of our horses being unfit for heavy work and the long march which the reinforcements I ordered yesterterday had to make, I have every reason to bo satisfied with what has been done. Tho guards, under the Duke of Connaught, made a very trying march yesterday across tho ilcscrt. Tlicy wore well handled by him. T! ie losses yesterday were : Tho Household cavalry, one private killed and livo wounded and ten horses killed; tho Horso artillery, two privates and livo horses killed; tho York and Laucaster regiments, 0110 private killed and live wounded; the. Marino artillery, one private killed, and tho Mounted infantry, two ollicers wounded. There havo been fortyeight sunstrokes anion-,' the privates, one fatal to-day, so far as I havo yet been ablo to ascertain. Major Bibby, of the Seventh Dragoons has been severely wounded. Admiral Heyinour lias organized a boat servico along tho canal, on which wo shall havo mainly to depend for supplies until tho locomotives get to work. Tho army owo the navy a deep debt of gratitudo for tho nssistanco they have rendered." An Alexandria dispatch says: "At about 3 o'clock in tho afternoon two heavy guns, recently placed beyond tho Waterworks hill, opened lire 021 tlie enemy on tho left bank of tho Mahmoiulioh canal. About twenty rounds wero tired. Several shells exploited in tho midst of the enemy's intreuchments, causing considerable damage. Tho enemy replied feebly. The British forty-pounders at Kauik'h cannonaded the enemy's lines today. At about ~> v. m. a conflagration was observed in tho rear of tho enemy's ......... I (nn lil.l.Atltl Unmlnli. Tho British man-of-war Minotaur shelled tho enemy's outposts in tho direction of Aboukir this afternoon. Tho shells seemed to burst in tho midst of tho enemy's position. Tho Minotaur tired with increased rapiiiity until sunset. Tho enemy's reply was weak. There was altogether littlo activity in tho rebel lines. Tho impression gains ground that the bulk of Arab! l'asha's men have becu withdrawn from Kafr-el-l)war." wiuy six iteau Araus were iiuuiu on mu lie-Id of battle at Ramses, but inside Kamsea were found several small pyramids of stones freshly creeled, beneath whieh dead natives wore probably buried. Though the eugagomcut was not serious, so far as hard lighting is conccrnc:!, tho soldiers aeled splendidly. The dilliculties of the ground were fearful, while tho heat of the sun delie.< exaggeration. General Wolseley's object has been achieved, says a dispatch, and the llritish have gained bo much more fresh water, for the canal had been carefully dammed at Ramses. Tho British lo.it a good many horses and mules. Said I'acha informed lit )utf<-rin, the British ambassador, that the Turkish council of ministers had resolved to publish the proclamation a:;aiust Arabi l'asha and to accept ! the military convention with England comformably to Lord Dalfcrm's i'i<"posa's. Eight men were hilled ami sixty-one wounded on the Jiritisli side in a battle at Kassasin Lock. 'I lie Ivryptiam rMe.clied the iiritish troops, and after con--iil< ra!t!e lightiti^T were repulsed witli severe lo =. Arabi l'asha was in the field during the action. General Wolseley telegraphed I'roni Ka:sr-i:i ; l,ock the following account of the engage- ) ment: " Major-Gcncral Graham, command- ' ing this post, was attacked last evening by ' about twelve guns and eight battalions. Our > mvn bqhaved extremely wqII oud ijjlUmd i I severe iocs upon the enemy. At first General Graham had only five guns, two and a half battalions and a small detachment of cavalry and mounted infantry. Being reinforced by another battalion he attacked the enemy in front while the First cavalry brigade, under Colonel Sir Baker Russell charged tnem in flank, sabering a considerable number. The cavalry were well handled by Major-General Drury Lowe. General Graham's dispositions were all that they should have been. His operations were carried out with the coolness for i which he has always been well known. Arabi Pasha was on the field during the action. The cavalry charged by moonlight, but were unable to secure the rebel guns, which the enemy withdrew during the night. The latter left, however, all their ammunition. Our killed aro Surgeon-Major Shaw, six marine artillerymen and one infantry sergeant; The wounded aro one major, two captains, two lieutenants and fifty-six men." A New York Herald dispatch gives the following graphic account of the British cavalry charge at Kassasin: "The cavalry now advanced in echelon form, the Seventh dragoons leading. Under cover of these the Life Guards formed for a charge, and at the word of command the dragoons opened right and left to allow them to'pass. tho brigade major had passed down the line the word, 'The cavalry aro to chargo tho guns.' Sir Baker Russell in front scouted, 'Now we have them. Charge.' Aw.^ went tho long line, disappearing almost instantly in the darkness and dust. Away behind them went the Seventh dragoons pressing on the flank of the guards. We who remained in the rear had the full benefit of the storm of shot and shell which greeted the advancing horsemen, of whom from this moment we saw no more till tho battle was over. Led by Sir Baker Russell they charged straight at the guns, sabering tho gunners as they passed, dashing into and cutting down the flying infantry. General Russell's horse was shot under him, but he seized another and kept with his men. When the battle ended a scene of wild confusion ensued. Some guns still fired. Bodies of infantry kept up a fusillade. Meanwhile otir infantry had had a hot time. Hundreds of shells burst in the confined space. Tim slioltep nf tranches afforded but Poor I I protection. The Egyptians camo on with much spirit, and were gaining ground when the roar of guns on their left and rear, followed by the rush of cavalry, proved too much for them. From that moment they thought only of flight." Toulba Pasha, commanding at Kafr-elDwar, and ono of the foremost of Aribi Bey's generals, has been poisoned. Immediate Belief. Colonel W. Ilalbert is notoriously poor nay. A few days ago he entered a drug store on Austin avenue and asked lor a bottle of Dr. McFraud's Kidney Encourager. The clerk, who had been informed that all the bad debts contracted would be deducted from his monthly stipend, produced the bottle. " Do you think," said Colonel Ilalbert. reaching out for the bottle, "that one bottle will relieve me of hiy disnniiramul L-i<1 nBV? *< " " Yes," responded the clerk, still holding on to the bottle, " I know it will relieve you right off. It will relieve you of $1 in cash before you get out<n? the store with it." The colonel groaned, and, remarking that the remedy was worse than the disease, took his discouraged kidneys to the next drug store for relief.?Texas 3iftings. The Naming of the Kangaroo. "When Captain Cook first discovered Australia he saw same natives on the shore, one of whom held a dead animal in his hand. The captain sent a boat's crew ashore to purchase the animal, and finding on receiving it that it wits a beast quite new to him, he sent the boatswain back to ask the natives its name. " What do you call this 'ere animal?" said the sailor to a naked savage. The latter shook his head and said : "Kangaroo," which means in Australian lingo, " I don't understand." When the sailor returned to the ship the captain said: " Well, what's the name of the animal?" The sailor replied : "Please, sir, the black party says it is a kangaroo." The beast has kept that name ever since. A new industry reported is that of sending frogs to England. Disease* of Women. . . Lnrcro treatise for threo stamps, Riving means of successful self-treatment. Address Woiii.iTu Dispensauy Medical Association, Buffalo, N._Y. Near Houma, La., lives a thirteen-year-old girl who has growing 011 her face a lightbrown beard about two inches long. Epilepsy (Fits) . .. cnnnaccfnllv trflnfpjl. Pnmnhlet of particu lars one stamp, address World's disren8ajk Medical Association, Buffalo. N. Y. It is estimated that GOO,000 acres of United States soil are given up to tobacco, and that the crop will reach $40,000,000 or $50,0(0,000. Young and middle-aged men suffering from nervous debility, premature old age, loss of memory and kindred symptoms, should send three stamps for Part VII. of pamphlets issued by World's Dispensary Medical Association. Buffalo, N. Y. Five thousand miles of new railway have been completed in the United States since the 1st of last January. "A Fortimnfe T)ny." Cob. Washington and Warren Sts., 1 Trenton, N. J., Sept. 2,1881. J H. II. Warner & Co.: Sirs?It was a fortunate day for my wife when she commenced the use of your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure after suffering from kidney disease for seven years. She is now perfectly well and healthy from its uso. James Kelly. The French scheme for making an artificial sea in the interior of Africa has been oKntwlnnofl Frazcr .VVIe OiC ino. One greasing lasts two weeks; all others two or three days. Do not be imposed on by the humbug stuffs offered. Ask yourdoaler forFrazer's, with label on. Saves your horse labor and you too. It received first medal at the Centennial and "aris Expositions. Sold everywhere. Pure cod-i.ivkij ou? from selected livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard <fc Co., N. Y. Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physiciansdeclarejtsuperior tonllother oils. Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York. Skinny Men. "Wells' Health Kenewer" restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia.Impotence, Sexual Debility. ?1. Druggists. Send for pamphlet to E. S. Wells, Jersey City, N. J._ Thoso who nse Carboline, as now improved and perfected, tho great petroleum hair renewer. are always distinguished by the bonsti fill soft texfureof t he hair produced by the tist of that most exquisite of all toilet preparations Tlio Science of Lite, or Self-Preservation, o | medical work for every man?young, middle aged or old. V2r< invaluable prc.-criptions 2~i C'cnlM will ltity u Trrntlse iijioii tlit Ilorso and his Diseases. Book of ICO pitRi'i. \ nluabli to every owner of lior.i*"?. Pofltago stamjw taken. Sonl postpaid l>y SKW YORK NEWSPAPI'.U UNION, 150 Worth street. New York. ^ s*. rh,lt torri,,I,s ???urc? tf AST ETTofc r-sirsc CEIEEHATE9 ' 8^) remittent, liesiilcnaf I ? if.tiH ni tl?. n^^i'ilM;nrtilianan) ?3 tffe 1" r.TjawSanci.?tVi Million |n>nti<j5 H Ro fh vs ImpurtiM iaft ytur.?I'rfrva lower " f.? M ra?wi.-Uoa i |j fl ij 0lii7 W-'Uc Hi jn.?Sciiifor tirculir. 10 Ibu. flood Etia. lc or Itlixetl, for $1. 10 ib*. ? ' !?<> or nfjct'J, t':r $2. 10 lb:i. Cl&oice SSiitcil or I?iisc<U i"or ^3. Prnd for pound Rami-le, 17 rti. extra for po'tnge. , Then r<C iiji :i (Tim III (!;? world.? I.aix?'at v.irl.-ty ?t'li'A a cvorylicxlv.?OM' ht Tea Ilouse lu Amcrlrs.-->.'o c'lronuj.?Nj ; Btral-i'n biMiuess.?v'aluj for money. ituu'X WEIJa, V.n.v St.. v.. i'.o. t:o\ TRUTH K&ffi/Sv ml will, far ccnij, *itl? af*. 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VEGETABLE COMPOUND. la a Positive Cnre For oil tho?e Painful Complaint* and Wt?law?? o common to oar best female population. A Medlclno for Woman. Inrented by aTTomm, Prepared by a Woman. _. . Tht Grentwt M*dltal DliecTrrj Slate 11w D*wn of Mst#ry, tyit revives the drooping spirit*, invigorates andharmonizes the organic functions, give* elasticity and firmness to the step, restores the natural lustre to tho eye, and plants on the palo cheek of woman, ths (rub roses of lifo's spring and early summer time. . . C37"Physlclan3 Use It and Prescribe It Fceely It removes fointness, flatulency, destroys all craving. [for stlmulAnt, and relieves weakness of the stomach. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weigh*, and backache, la always permanently cured by Its use. For the euro of Kidney Complaints of either MX thia Compound Is unsurpassed. LYDIA E. 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A., 1633, since which time It has 7 steadily grown in public favor, ana is / now acknowledged ana admitted by the ' I v-S trade ?o be the standard liniment of the NjjS' conntry. When we make this announceIkflr incut we do bo without fear of contra* . Sr ft diction, notwithstanding we are aware jrVjKl there are many who are more or less J j)v Prejudiced against proprietary rem edit* /if ||I*especially on account of the manyhum/I (U'klhugg on the market; however, we are pleased to state that such prejudice does not exist against GARGLING OIL. We ao not claim wonders or miracles for our liniment, hut we do claim it is without an equal. It is put no in botjj ties of three sizes, and all we ^_^_^rjjBft?a?k is that you give k a fair I-T-i7T trial, remembering that the Oil l)Ut llP with w"'te wrapper (small) is for human and fowl flesh' au(1 tbat with yellow wrapper (three sizes) for animal flesh. Try a bottle. As these cuts Indicate, the Oil is used success- f fully /or all diseases of tUe human, /oiel and animal flush. Shake well before using. Cannot be Disputed. m One of the principal reasons of * _ the wonderful success of Mer"JfijgKi chant's Garbling Oil is that it ia ' TfT manufactured strictly on honor, i Ita proprietors do not, as is the fV~~ cnse with too many, after making ite for their medicine a name, diminish itA curative properties by using Inferior comuonndd, but nse tne very best goods to be bought in Mthe market, regarajessor cost, ror half a century Merchant's Gargling Oil has been a synonym lor k honesty, and will .continue to Oe 1-80, long as time endure*.' For 1 srvle by all respectable dealeri throughout the United States ar d other countries. a Our testimonials date from 1838 to the present. Try Merchant'! 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 bottl# well corked. 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