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Tho Spirit Ideal. [Posthnmous poem attributod to Edgnr A. * Poo. This jioem was not published until I many years after .Mr. Foe's death. It is H written in the style of tiis "Haven," which B fact will he readily recognized by all adinir ers of his poetry.j Fro:n the throne of life eternal, From the home of love supernal, I Where angel feet make music over all Iho B Mortals, I have come to meet you, Come with words of neace to irreet you, And to tell you of tho glory that is mine forevermore. Once before I found a mortal Waiting at the heavenly portal? Waiting but to catch sonic echo from that ever opening door, Then I seized his quickened being* And through all his inward seeming, Caused my burning inspiration in a fiery flood to pour. Now I come more meekly human, With the weak lips of a woman Touched with tire from ofT tho altar, not with banting as of yore, I>ut in holy love ascending, With her chastened being blending, I would till your souls with music from the bright celestial shore. As one heart yearns for another, As a child turns ti> its mother, From the golden gates of glory turn I to the earth once more, Where I drained the cup of sadness, Where my soul was s-tung to madness, And life's bitter burning billows swept my burdened being o'er. Here the harpies and the ravens, Human vampires, sordid cravens, Preyed upon my soul and substance till I writhed with anguish sore. Life and I seemed then mismated, For I felt accursed and fated, Liken restless, wrathful spirit wandering on It*. ?f,T?inn slinrn Tortured by a nameless yearning* Like a fro:5t-iire freezing, burning. Did the purple pulsing life-tide through its fevereil channels pour. Till the "golden bowl." life's token? Into shining shreds was broken, And ray chafed and chafing spirit leaped from out its prison door. But while living, striving, dying, Never did my soul cease crying, "Ye who guide the fates and furies, give, oh! give me, I implore ! From the myriad hosts of nations, From the countless constellations, Une pure spirit that can love me?one that I, too, can adore !*' Through this fervent aspiration, Found my fainting soul salvation, For from out its blackened fire-crypts did my quickened spirit soar; And my beautiful ideal? Not too saintly to be real? Burst more brightly on my vision than the , fancy-formed Lenore. 'Mid the surging seas she found me, With the billows breaking round mo, And my saddened sinking spirit in her arms of love upbore. Like a lone one weak and weary, Wandering in the midnight dreary, On her sinless, saintly bosom, brought me to the heavenly shore. Lil^ the breath of blossoms blending, Like the prayers of saints ascending, Like the rainbow's seven-lined glory blend our souls forevermore. Earthly love and lust enslaved me, !>..* ,KIr.vr. JmtV ni<V X>Ut M1V 1HVOI 4 V/ * K> IKIVI ^ , And I know now first and only how to love and to adore. Oh my mortal friends and brothers, We are each and all another's! And the soul that gives most freely from its treasure hath the more. Would you lose your life you find it; And in giving love, you bind it, Like an amulet of safety to your heart forev ermore. 3HAR3ISD IN HASTE. "I demand"this, because I consider marriage with such a girl as I know Violet J)u llayne t<> be, the only hope left of reclanning you from a life of dissipation. On no other condition will I advance the largesum for which | you ask. In spite of all that has passed, your still affectionate mother, " Eugi:xia Arden." The written page looked as hard and i."'" ... unchanging to Max's fancy jis its author. There was that bill which Hardy had indorsed for him falling due within three days. It would be total ruin to poor Ilardy if it wjis not met. That 'j? - must not be. He had drawn Hardy into this scrape, "ind lie must see him harmless at all risks to himself. Max strode up tad down the room, uiting bis long, fair mustache. Marriage ! lie had never seen his mother's ward. She had arrived at Arden after the estrangement between mother and son; but, at all events, there was 110 one else he wanted to marry. "What a lovely face was that girl's he hadnvt at Mrs. Muntfort's reception ! She had made him feel like echoing Geraint's, "There, by God's grace, stands the one maid for me !" "Pshaw!" shrugging ltis broad shoulder?. "A man could not be in love with a girl lie had talked to for one evening, whose very name he had failed to hear?" What use in reflecting? There was but one course open to him to save Ilardy's honor and his own. * lie sat down, and dashed off in heavy Mack letters: " Motiiku : You are using the power given you l?y mv father's will?as you have always done?tyrannically. But I have no alternative?I accept your conditions on these terms : First, that the young lady he told that I am marrying as my only means of obtaining a sum of money which is a matter of life and death tome. Secondly, that the marriage take place to-morrow afternoon. I will run down to Arden on tiie 3 o'clock train. You can iiave a clergyman waiting in the grand I drawing-room, who can unite the happy pair at once. Your son, "Max Arden." There never was a gloomier wedding. A heavy fall of snow had impeded the train, so that the early winter twilight was already falling when Max Arden stood in the great, dim room by the side of his veiled bride. The clergyman hurriedly repeated the solemn service. The responses were duly made, and it was done. " Embrace your wife, my son," said Mrs. Arden, with a vain attempt at cheerfulness. "Wife !" cried the young man, drawI..If .... ? 1.;L. 111H llllll.-M.il up iw 11 ID mix iuvii a flash in his eyes. " I liavo no wife. This young huiy understands the terms of our bargain. I have made her Mrs. Max Anh'ti?to that you could compel me, mother?hut no woman shall he wife in more than name to me whom I have not loved and chosen?ay, and wooed on mv bended knees. Js my horse saddled, Stevens V I return to town to-night. In the future, as in the past, our paths lie separate. ***** Scene?the heart of the Black mountains. Time?September, when they 3 re at their loveliest. Dramatis persona;?for one, a tall young man, with a wide-awake pushed back from his good-looking, sunburnt f;ire, a gun over his shoulder, but little thought of shooting in Ids mind. He was peering through the houghs at what? Only a girl whom he had once seen in town, and of late watched many times from his leafy covert, reeling, as unvia says, i her " j>erfections with an invisible and I subtle stealth to crec]> in at his eyes." .She sat on the other side of the mountain brook, busily sketching; and as he watched, her sketch-book fell into the little stream. In a second he had sprung after it fished it but, and was presenting it with a low bow, saying: " May I not claim acquaintance by virtue of this I happy chance anil our last meeting?" " Our hist meeting!" The young I lady shrank-from him in undisguised terror. "Good iieaven. Miss Harding! how have I alarmed you V lio I look like a I tramp in my shooting-clothes? In- j deed 1 am respectable. My name is ! Arden?Max Arden. 1 had the honor of an introduction at Mrs. Montfort's J reception, last winter." A sigh of relief, then hesitatingly: ^ " Oh, yes. 1 remember you quite well, Mr. Arden; but I?I?you must excuse me?I have heard of you since j 44 You have neard of me; nothing to my credit, I fear," lie said, slowly, after waiting in vain for her to finish, " and you wish to decline knowing me. Is it not so? Well, I must submit to your decision, bitterly as I regret it." Then lie lil'ti-il his hut anil left her. Now which of his wild doings had come to those dainty cars and brought this l?low upon him V for blow it was. He was surprised to lind how severe a one. For, after all, what did lie know of her? And yet, with unreasoning intensity, he longed to look into her face once more, perhaps inquire the reason of the soft, regretful gaze that had followed him as he turned away. l'atter! patter! J>ig drops broke in upon his meditations. A true pelting, blinding, mountain storm was coining up. Arden hastened to take refuge in a small cave he knew of. Was it kind chance or irony of fate? The cave was occupied. A sketch-book, an umbrella, a slim serge-clad figure presented themselves to his view. He began to retrace his steps. "hon't go away," said the fair occupant, hastily. " I would not force my company upon you," he returned, stiflly. "Pray, pray, don't let me drive you out into this pouring rain," she entreated ; "you are punishing me severely for my late rudeness. I was so surprised and frightened then?I?I scarcely knew what I said." She put out her hand to detain him. Like a tl;ish Arden's mind went back to the last time soft lingers had lain in his?on that strange bridal day. a I f va?i toriclw.ltor ?t_ ic nrniivn .11 ...v ..... ... lent to accepting my friendship," he said, allowing himself to he drawn into the cave and seating himself so as to shield her from the rain which now began to beat in. "Now, yon might almost as well be outside as do that," said the girl, reproachfully. ""What a deluge it is!" peering out over his shoulder. The damp air heightened her color and sent little rings of golden brown hair curling madly over her pretty forehead, her violet eyes shone, and Iter face?it was the fairest that e'er the sun shone on. Max Arden thought so as he answered dreamily : "I wish it could last forty days!" " What a good conscience you must have!" gayly; "now, I should be too afraid of being drowned with the rest of the sinners." " Miss Harding?" " "VV'Iim tnlil vnn rnv nnmfi was Miss Harding?" " My guide, Luke Smith. He claims to know everything." " lie certainly seems to know "a great deal." " lam camping out near liere, and seeing you so constantly, naturally inquired about you. It is a lonely spot to see a lady." " I am staying at the Mountain house, six miles from here," she explained. " I drive over every morning to sketch this lovely glen, and the carriage comes for me again at 4 o'clock. I should be going to meet it now but for the rain." "Blessedrain !" murmured Max. The young lady frowned and appeared to regret the momentary intimacy into which she had been drawn. There was a few minutes silence while she turned over the contents of her portfolio. Once more nature favored Max. The wind blew a loose sketch to his feet, which he looked at in amazement. " Why, it's me !" he cried, exultant and ungrammatical, "iind a capital likeness, too." " You?you are quite mistaken in? in any conclusions you may draw," stammered Miss Harding, blushing, and clothed with shame as with a garment. "You need not imagine I sketched you because?that is?you are not to think?anything." "I don't. My mind is entirely vacant except lor 11 strong desire to possess mv portrait. You probably do not prize it very highly." " I do not prize it at all." " And I would give?even unto the half of my kingdom for it." | " Would you give that ring which looks like an heirloom ?" Instantly it lay in her hand. " Oh, no! 1 was only jesting. I cannot take it." "You must. You named your price and I agreed, so the bargain is concluded. It is an heirloom, as you | supposed; and I rejoice to see it in v.mr liniicuuainn 7 'llu'.'IVS lVIPJint" losing his head a little as he gazed at her flower-like face?"to give it to the girl I loved; but now?" "Well, now?" she echoed, softly, with averted face. "Now, I may never tell my love, because"?with an effort?"I am a married man." " Mr. Arden!"?angrily ? " because of that foolish sketch you think that I? You say this as a warning?" " A warning to myself, perhaps." "As if you needed any!" " You are right. I am past that." lie buried his face in his hands. There was a long silence. Then the girl said, in an altered voice: "The rain lias st<:>2>pc<l; 1 think I will go." 1 * * * * Max Arden stood on the dark veranda of the Mountain house listening to strains of music from the ballroom, nn/l n-'if/'Mrwr flip ilnnr*i?rs (liincimr in ""u w,,v * O time for queen among them moved the girl he loveil. llow more than fair she looked in her white evening dress. Presently she seemed laughingly to dismiss her little court, and came out alone upon the veranda. Max stepped forward. He had to apologize for startling her, but he was afraid she was sick, he said, as he had not seen her for so long. "Only a week," she answered, oh cc fully. " It is mv mother who was ill but she has recovered now, thank you. So we are going to-morrow." " Going where?" with an eagerness he could not repress. " Why should I tell you, Mr. Arden V" with cold surprise. " That I may follow you. By what right? Because I love you." " So soon ?"?incredulously. "Ay; 4even so quickly one may catch the plague,'" he quoted, with a bitter laugh. "And the pursuit of happiness is one* 01 me unauenai.'iu rights of man, you know." 44 I>ut when man fancies his happiness to be a woman and she does not like pursuit, has she no unalienable rights ?" merrily. "Donot jest with me." She wiis silent l'or a moment. Then,, in soft, vibrating tones: "No, I cannot jest. I have something serious to say to you, Mr. Arden. I, too, am married, and, alas ! to a husband who casts me oft. Hush, and listen. I was persuaded into a hasty marriage, .partly by love of his mother, partly, perhaps, by?interest in him, which she had educated' me to feel. Besides, I met him accidentally in society, and fancied I could?like him. Max, take your arm away. Believe me, 1 was not told by what means he was forced into marriage ! What ! 1 IS 4. L? kul'fllllJ^ co 1111", jlila ou|>|hiou duiuv; one should come. I)o get up." "Not till you forgive me." " Well, in that csise"?with pretended reluctance?" 1 had hotter forgive you at once." * * * * . It is riot five years since Max married in haste, hut he has not yet repented at leisure?nor lias his wife. A Strong- Man's Feat. A story of remarkable human strength is reported to the following effect: At New Philadelphia, Ohio, a Swiss named John Winkler, of Stone Creek, Tuscarawas county, exhibited a I remarkable feat of strength and phvm" ; cal endurance. On a wager of *100 j he carried a barrel of flour, weighing ; about 225 pounds, to Canal Dover, a distance of three miles, in fifty-live | minutes. Under the wager lie could i have rested fifteen minutes, hut he j stopped but four minutes of the time, j and came in on the homestretch but little fatigued. The longest span of wire in the J world is used for a telegraph in India j over the river Kistnah. It measures more than 6,000 feet sind is stretched between two hills, each of which ie r.fS ' .f-'\ "" A STRANGE OCCUPATION. A Now York "Professor" Who Hencwit T,ost Niim's, Knr*, Kyolashcs, Ktc. On Fourteenth street, not far from Broadway, Now York, is a certain show window, in front of which not less than ten thousand people stop every day. The window is rather larger than usual, projects outward in hay form, and is lined inside with plate-glass mirrors. Suspended in the center of the window by line, almost invisible wires, are two cork legs wiiirli, operated hy elocK-woru, move [ in ;m up-and-down motion as in walking. On shelves of lliiek glass, supported Iiy depending wires, is the curious collection that attracts the thousands of passers-by. Noses, eyes, ears, joints and limbs, all arranged in a certain kind of order. Above the shelves is tins strange announcement in <(ilt letters: : Legs, Abms, Noses, Eyelashes, Etc., : : Made and Kenewkd. : Pkof. K. W. Wkigiiton, Proprietor. : Pushing through the crowd that was collected around, says a correspondent, I entered and asked f<>r 1'rofessor "M'eighton. A gentleman behind the glass case reiimved an enormous jewelers' magnifying jjlass that was screwed in his rijjlit eye, scanned me carefully, and not detecting the absence of a nose, or ear, or arm. or leg. finally said : " I am Professor Weighton?what can I do for you, sir?" " I wish to know, professor, by what process you renew legs, eyebrows and noses. It seems to me a rather odd I and dillicuit profession." " It is dillicuit?you arc perfectly i right as to that?but I cannot agree j with you that the business is at all odd. It is the simplest thing in the world. Look, for instance, at this nose I am perfecting," he continued, pointing to ii i 4-1. ?<?? l.i. 1.1,1,11 lilt* uiiriuiia-iijuiviiif* tiling in* uiuc Mtv ii eyeing through the magnifying glass. " This nose is almost in a state of completion, yet I'll venture to say you couldn't tell me what sort of a nose it will lie, (Jrecian, Kouian or retrousse !" I admitted that I would not have known it was a nose if he had not kindly informed me. The professor smiled proudly. "I thought so," he said. " By tomorrow morning this will he one of the prettiest Grecian noses you ever saw. See what a handsome llesli tint I am giving it. It is for a lady on Fifty-second street." " JIow on earth did a lady lose her nose?" " It was a curious accident, which almost rendered her inconsolable. Her father is a well-known scientist and inventor. "While watching an interesting experiment in his laboratory a few weeks ago she stooped over to examine the eccentric of a cog-wheel. JJcing short-sighted she incautiously bent too low. The wheel was revolving rapidly ?a si/, and a whiz ! and the nose from the "bridge down was shaved clean off. The family nhvsieian was sent for and wanted to make a nose from the arm, hut, aside from the pain of that operation, the uncertainty of turning out a well-shaped nose raised objections, and I was ordered to prepare a wax substitute." " Do you mean by 'natural meat substitution' ureal nose of flesh V" I asked. 41 Certainly. The skin is removed from a certain portion of the arm, the proper preparations made, and the arm then bound tightly over the missing nose. The flesh soon adheres to the face, then the arm is detached and the nose is shaped. The advantage of this style of nose, while it may not be so shapely as its predecessor, is its durability. It will never come off. Now, a wax nose will look very pretty, and when her friends see Miss J} they will probably be more than ever in love with her beauty ; but it doesn't last and will need constant repairing. It is scarcely so good as a celluloid. Have you ever read Poe's 'Story of the "Wax XoscV' Well, it may be exaggerated, l.i.f tl.nn. ic > frr/.rit ilenl of triltll ill it. ,MIU VliVAV^ AO t V n * v UV Miss 15 could never live in a very hot climate. Her nose might melt, and would certainly soften." "This is very interesting, professor," I remarked, " but is not your business small? I do not recollect seeing many peopfc Avith artificial noses." "This branch of my business is not large. AVe have, however, a good deal of repairing on old noses. The demand l'or legs and arms is steady and pays well. In addition to the number of people needing cork limbs, thelimbs must be totally renewed every few years and that keeps the business up." " I)<> you often have to lit ladies with cork limbs?" " I take their measure. Great precision and care is necessary. Great skill is required to make the cork of exactly the same size and length as its fellow. The more, perfectly this is done the less limping you will observe." " Vanity is the strongest point in sonic people, j'lie operation 01 renewing eyebrows ami lashes, for instance, is not at all cojiil'ortaltle, yet yon will see jtlenty of people come here and submit to it, even though they an; already tolerably well supplied in those essentials. "Wcjisc real hair and a needle so line it is almost invisible. The hair is threaded through this needle and run through the skin." " I suppose this business is for the most part confined to the gentler sex V" "Not by any means. It is altogether a mistake to suppose women more vain than men. Not long ago I had an order trom a young man of this city for a three-quarter-inch dark brown lash. It is a positive fact that that young fellow, even in an ordinary tenminute conversation, will close his eyes at least six times to display his long, silky lashes. If you will step this way I will show you through our operating rooms," and, entering a door the professor led me through a suit of spacious apartments. a niimiu.r nf winner women workintr L " um?'v? "? *T r> " "" n at small tables, each table covered with little instruments and things, the like of which 1 had never seen before. On some of the tables were noses in different stages of completion?some were just out of the mold, others were modeled and turned, awaiting the professor's finishing touch. At one table two girls were threading needles with line, silky hairs, and sewing them in little squares on a thin, transparent gauze. 'These girls," said the professor, "are making some of those beautiful arched eyebrows you may sometimes see in ballrooms. These sewed on the net are the less expensive kind, and are only used on special occasions. The real brow is very expensive, and can only be made by a person of great skill. I have an operation to perform ? 1 :< 1:1 lllis JlIUTIlOOIl, USUI It JUUIIM' JUll Jllilj be present." " Kill Nye " Accepts a Post mastership. Anion*; rccent commissions issued by Acting Postmaster-General llatton is one 1 r? "Bill Nye," lately appointed postmaster at Laramie City, "\V. T. Nye is (lie editor of a paper called the ])<tif>/ Jimmeramj. In accepting the nomination he says: To My Dear Genkkal: I have received the news by telegraph of my nomination and confirmation as postmaster at Laramie, and wish to extend my thanks for the same. I have ordered an entirely new set of boxes and poslollico outfit, including new corrugated cuspidores for use of clerks. I look upon the appointment myself as a triumph of eternal truth over error and wrong. It is one of the epochs, as j I may say, in the nation's onward | march toward political purity and per-1 feet ion. I don't know when I have noticed any stride in the affairs of state which so thoroughly impressed me | with its wisdom. Now that we are co- j workers in the same department, I j trust that you will not teel shy or backward in consulting me at any time ! relative to matters concerning postof-! fice department affairs. lie perfectly j frank with me, and feel perfectly free j just to bring anything 01 mat khiu ; right to inc. Do not feel reluctant be- j cause I may appear at times cold and ! reserved. 'Perhaps yon think I do not 1 know the difference between a general ; delivery window and a three-em quad, j but that is a mistake. My general in- j formation is far beyond those of my years. With profoundest regards, 1 remain einceroly your6, ? Bill Ntjs, P, M. v;%7 OUTWITTED. Hon- an Knclisli Telegraph ."Hana?er In Kf[.vptTriril to Karn S5i000 awl n Title, iind 11 <i iv Hi- \Vh* Outwitted by His American Subordinate. The successor to the Egyptian throne always rewards the person informing him of the death of his predecessor by promoting him to the rank of bcv, and paying him 100,000 piastres ($5,000.) When Said Pa>ha, to whom Ismail Pasha, the late khedive, succeeded, was dangerously ill at Alexandria, Ismail Paslia himself was at Cairo. It is said to have been proved beyond a doubt that Said Pasha died of slow poison, which Ismail Pasha had personally administered, and when Ismail subsequently did the same thing successfully to many others Egyptians said that the victims had been "saided." 15e this as it may, Said Pasha was seriously unwell at Alexandria, and tin; ambitious Ismail was anxiously awaiting at Cairo the news of bis demise. At that time the Eastern Telegraph company had not yet established their lines all over Egypt, and Cairo was joined to Alexandria by a single line belonging to the Egyptian government, and which was managed by a certain Mr. Thomas, an Englishman who is still in the service of the country. Mr. Thomas knew how anxious Ismail Pasha was to receive the news of Said Pasha's death, and he further knew that the reward to the person lirst informing Ismael Pasha would be the title of bey and 100,000 piastres? both of which would be very acceptable mi I...It l.r. U>-\ir. XIIUIIIU.^ IlllIlDrii., clWVl >> JIKyit iaw resolved to get. Ilis olliee was in Alexandria, but knowing that the news must come over the telegraph wire which he controlled, he told his subordinates at Alexandria that he was going on a visit of inspection to Cairo, where he might stay for some time. IFc asked them to bo very careful during his absence, especially as to the important news concerning Said Pasha's health?about which poor Ismail l'aslia was very uneasy?and, mounting his dromedary, started for Cairo. The Cairo olliee was then managed by a young American from Baltimore named Tinney, to whose surprise Mr. Thomas, instead of going to the hotel as he had always done, took up his rpiarters at the telegraph station, where, besides staying all day, he also p;issed the night. He never left the olliee for one minute, having his meals brought to him there, and always being near the instrument to see what passed over the wire. The system by which the telegraph was worked in Egypt was by impressions of dots and lines on paper bands, and not by sound as it is in America, and Mr. Thomas kept his eye on the slip for fully ten days and nights and yet the news he was so anxiously expecting came not. Young Tinney was at a loss to understand what all this meant, and was much annoyed by the manager's proceedings, who he thought suspected him, and therefore watched him. Mr. Thomas had by this time become quite nervous, t!:e effects of sleepless nights were plainly visible in his face, and at about 3 o'clock one afternoon, feeling exhausted, he told Tinney that lie was going to take a little rest on the lloor, giving him strict orders to call him in case any telegram came about the death of Said l'aslia. Tinney then, for the first time, discovered what I ..11 Wl.nmno' tinvwjfv \V!1? fllIf 11 it. (Ill iUl. 1.11UJ1KIO UUAIV.bj nt?./ and us soon as the latter was fast asleep he called in the Arab nookkeeper, from- whom lie learned in a casual way, as il' in no way interested, that the hearer of the news of Said [ Pasha's death to his successor, Ismail Pasha, would receive the rank of bey and 100,000 piastres. Hour after hour passed; many business and other telegrams came, but not the one expected. At the commencement Mr. Thomas awoke every time the instrument ticked and asked what it was. but at last he slept so heavily no ordinary noise would wake him. About two hours after midnight "tick, tick, tick" went the instrument. Young Tinney became all ears and eyes, and he knew in a few seconds that Said Pasha had just then expired at Alexandria. lie immediately tore away the slip, unscrewed the instrument, took away, part of it with him, and pulling <>11 his boots, left the room, making as little noise as possible. For further security he went nn In the store above and disconnected ! %%r the wire. lie then ran as fast as lie could in the direction of the Ezbekieh road, where he knew Ismail Pa.sha lived. Arriving at the little kiosque the latter then occupied, he was stopped bv the guard, hut upon telling 1 tint that lie had ran all the way from the telegraph station to give the pasha new of a revolution that had broken out in Alexandria during the night, he was kept in the basement until word was brought from upstairs that Ismail Pasha would receive him. The moment he saw the telegraph operator enter he knew what had happened, as nobody had been more anxiously expecting the news than himself, not even Mr. Thomas. Tinney told him in English, which language Ismail Pasha understands, that Said Pasha was dead, and then gave him the slip off the instrument. Ismail asked him his name, and upon his saying George Tinney, the pasha, who was now viceroy of Egypt, wrote something on a piece of paper, and handing it to him, said: " Tinney Bey, I thank you very much; here is an order on the treasury for 100,000 piastres, and the irade naming you bey will be the first I sludl sign." Battle With a Bear. Montreal has a noted character called Joe Beef, who keeps a saloon and eat ing-houso lor sailors and 'longshoremen. lie lias a hear pit under his canteen on Common street. It extends all along under the house, and is reigned over by a big black bear, weighing over four hundred pounds. There are also a she bear and two comparative young cults, which Joe reckons among his domestic pets. One afternoon recently, while a colored preacher was holding services in the "singingroom," tiiree American strangers came to visit the place, and the trap door was thrown open to show the bears. While Joe went into the barroom, his little boy, six years old, went too near the edge and fell into the den. The old bears were in a dark corner, but one of tin; cubs at once ran toward the child, who had uttered a frightful.scream. The cook laid down on the floor, and, reaching down, caught hold of tins little fellow and raised him up. The she bear had heard the child's cries, and, with a growl, rushed toward the trap door and seized the child just as he was being lifted up. The little fellow was in an instant dragged into the den, encircled by the claws of the she bear. Joe, hearing the noise, came to the door, and seeing his child as it were in the jaws of death, did not hesitate for a moment to think, but leaped from the floor to the pit, lighting <?n the head of one of the bears, lie managed bv a frantic effort to tear his child from the ? 1*1 SaVagC MIOIIMC1H11U nun in iiiiih. In another instant lie handed the little fellow up among the almost paralyzed spectators. The moment the child was out of the pit the she hear growled fiercely and sprang on Joe, who had no arms to defend himself. The savage brute seized him bv the right knee, throwing him oil his back. Her teeth were driven fully half an inch into his llesh. He was then completely at the mercy of the animal, whose lameness had disappeared, it being enraged at. having the child taken away. Joe did not lose presence of mind, but seized a brick I which lay near him and struck tinbear on the nose with all his might, j The brute let go her hold and Joe quickly got on his feet. Joe was then i rescued from the pit, his legs being I covered with blood. The trousers ' which he had on were torn to shreds and his stockings were saturated with blood. The child had n^t been injured at all beyond a slight scratch on the head. The Brooklyn-New York bridge will be the largest suspension bridge in the world. The length of the main span is 1,595 feet iix inches. The entire length of the bridge is 5,989 feet. | ? SUMMARY OF NEWsT 'astern and Middle States. At Boston, Mass., Captain Matthew Webb, the English champion swimmer, performed an extraordinary aquatic feat. He remained in the water constantly, with tho exception of fifteen minutes in every twenty-four hours, for 100 hours. Ho almost gavo out several times, but succeeded in finishing tho task, losing twonty pounds in the effort. Fibk destroyed John Hurd's largo grain elevator at Bridgeport, Conn. Tlio building contained 50,000 bushels of oats, 10,000 bushels of corn and wheat, and thirty tons of mixed grain. Tlio total loss on wiu vuuuiuk and contents is about $l'5i?,000, on which thoro is an insurance of $12,500. At Syracuse, N. Y., an express train struck a carriage containing Joim D. Millonee, aged twenty-seven years; hi:i wife, aged twenty-four years; Mrs. II. B. C'omstock and Mrs. Munro Burgess, tho two latter being elderly ladies 011 a visit from Marathon, N. Y. The three Indie.? wcro killed and the man was seriously injured. For tho first timo in several years tho various factions of tho Now York city Democracy havo united upon a local ticket. Tijk estate of Edward Clarke, president of the Singer Sowing Machino company, who died a few days ago at his homo in Cooperstown, N. Y., is valued at $25,000,000. A M'.w trial was refused in Philadelphia to J. R. Black, T. A. McDevitt and C. Price, convicted of conspiring to defraud tho United States in Rtar route mail contracts. McDevitt was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and to .pay a fino of $503; Prico was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and to pay a lino of $100, and Black's sentenco was postponed. "Cedar Croft," the lato Bayard Taylor's homestead, near Konnett Square, Pa., has been sold at auction for $11,050. A hilt, has been introduced in tho Vermont house of representatives providing that prisoners bo rendered insensible before execution. Jost.vii W. Fr.ktcner has been nominated for governor by the Now Hampshire Prohibitionists. New York's historic old postoffico wasRold at auction tho other day by tho Federal government for $(150,000. Arout 1,000 churches from all parts of tho United States and Canada wcro represented at the Universalist general convention held in Philadelphia. R. O. Storks & Co., manufacturers of woolens, at Dedham, Mass., havo failed. Tho liabilities are given at $130,000 and nominal assets at $225,000. A coal train, consisting of a locomotive and fifteen cars, was precipitated into tho Susquehanna river near Otego, N. Y., by tho giving way of a bridge. Tho fireman was iiiiieu ana uio engineer suvoruiy mjuiuu. South and West The following is an account of tho killing of cx-Cohgressman and Colonel A. W. Slayback, a prominent St. Louis politician, by John G'ockril), managing editor of tho St. Louis I'ost-Dispalch, an evening paper: About fifteen minutes beforo 5 o'clock r. m., Colonel Slayback, accompanied by Judge W. H. Clopton, entered tho office and passing diTectly through the city editor's room entered tho room of tho managing editor. John Cockrill was sitting at his desk and the foreman of tho composing room, Victor Cole, and tho business manager, John McGuflin, were also in tho room. From Mr. Colo tho story of what happened is learned. He says as Slayback entered he said: "You are here, aro you?" Cockrill was evidently expecting trouble, for, according to Mr. Cole, his revolver was lying on his desk. Ho mado somo reply to Colonel Slayback, when tho latter said: "Is that pistol for me?" Cockrill said: "It is for you if you want it," or "when you want it." At this Colonel Slayback pulled a pistol, a self-cocker, and as ho covered Cockrill, McGuflin jumped forward and grabbed tho pistol just as tho hammer fell, catching tho hamrnor on his hand, between tho thumb and forefinger, thus preventing tho pistol going off. At tho samo instant Cockrill grabbed his pistol and fired as he roso. The ball struck Slayback in tho left breast, and he fell, dying almost instantly. There was a crest commotion, and a rush was mado for the room where the tragedy occurred. When outsiders reached the room they found Slayback on the floor dead andCockriil knoeling beside him wiping blood from his face. The news flew over the city, and soon the vicinity of the Post-Dispatch oflico was the sceno of the wildest excitement ever known in the city. When the crowd began gathoring Cockrill and McGuflin went out of the back door of the office and entering a cab were driven away. Colonel Cockrill afterward delivered himself up to the authorities. Tho trouble arose out of political matters. At a political meeting Colonel Slayback denounced tho conduct of tho Post-Dispalch. On tho following afternoon the paper referred to his remarks, and retorted sharply. Colonel Slayback was tho law partner of Colonel James 0. Broadhead, tho Democratic candidate for Congress from the Ninth Missouri district. William Austin was hanged at Lancaster, Ky., for murdering his aunt, Miss Betsy Bland. Paul Fbinole (colored) was hanged at Mansfield, La., for assaulting with intent to murder Alfred Smith. Edward Belton, another colored man, had already been hanged for participating with Pringle in the assault, and John Mobile, a third participant, was sentenced to imprisonment for life. Colonel Cockrill at tho ooronor's inquest gavo tho following account of tho shooting of Colonel Slayback in St. Louis: "A few minutes aftor 5 o'clock I was sitting ? ? J n_; Tit. at my UCSK lailUIlg Willi iUr. iutuuiuii, tug business manager of Iho paper, and Mr. Cole, tlio foreman. Tho door was closcd. My pistol was lying on my desk, for I had intended to placo it in my pockot on chang'ng my coat and leaving the office. Suddenly the door opened aud two men entered, closing it behind them. I was facing the door. I recognized Colonel Slayback and Mr. Clopton, a lawyer, who had a few days before assaulted two members of his profession in a private office. I realized that I was to bo assaulted and arose from my chair. Colonel Slayback'a bearing was that of a man bent upon violence. Iiis first words were: 'Well, I am here.' lie started as if to draw off his coat. I was in a cornor next to the front window. Instinctively I movod my hand toward tho weapon on tho desk. Ho saw it and suddenly readjusted his coat, and said, ' Is that for me?' at the samo time throwing his hand to his hip pocket. My reply was ' No, sir;' but I secured my weapon as he drew hi3. Ho presented it at mo and I hoard him cock it. I shouted ' Don't do that,' and at the same time, while his weapon was pointed at my breast, I fired, believing myself at tho moment a dead man. I know nothing of the effcct of tlu shot, for ho closed with me aud thrust his revolver against my side. At the name time Clopton approachoJ mo from behind, and tried to wrest my pistol from my lmud, which was hanging by my side. I shouted to Mr. McGuflin : 'Don't let these men kill mo.' Ho tore Colonel Slayback's pistol from his hand and pointed it at Clop Ion's head, under tho impression, I presume. that ho was trying to shoot me. At that instant Colonel Slayback released his grasp upon me, and I realized for (lie first limo Hint lie had been hurt. I left the room whilo Mr. Cloplon was culling for a doctor, my head bleeding from a cut receivcil when I was forced against tho window in the scuttle, ami 1 went into the lower otlice to wash my. self." The coroner's jury found that Colonel Slayback was killed by Cockrill, but exjii t-.-.-i-d no opinion as to whether tho act was criminal. J! i.Tt'i.'XS from every county but two in Ohio put the 1)< moeratie plurality at about "0,0(0. A St. Loris dispatch says that tho funeral df Colonel A. \V. Slayback, shot by Colonel Cockiiil, v.'as perhaps tho largest ever witnessed in that city. A great number of leading business and professional men were present, and several societies took part in the funeral procession to the cemetery. In Tit ton, Ga., (Jn'eii 1J. Mayo and Martin Ilarroll, two turpentine producers, who had i|iiarreled, met in tho court grounds; and when Mayo asked for a rot Taction of certain tilings stated in n letter to him from llarrell, the latter fired at him. Pel ween the two men and their friends forty or fifty shots were exchanged. Iioth principals fell, mortally wounded. One of , Harrelfs supporters, named Jordan, was in- i btantly killed and a man named Vickers was 1 severely wounded. V,'am Sm'pk, a Cincinnati gardener, I sixty years old, killed his son, William S.'.iibe, Jr., and then put an end to his own ( life. Tot at, number of yellow fovor cases at I I'ensas ola, Fla., up to the 17th?1,727; ' deaths?1M. ! I At .Mimien, Neb., Sheriff James Woods ] and two citizens were shot dead by four i iiorse thieves. ! Tin: twenty-second annual fair of tho ; North Carolina Agricultural society openod l at lialeigh. Tho exhibition is the best ever ' made in the State, particularly as to live ' stock, machinery and farm product#, f '* . . - ' Cotton pickers are bo scarco in Texas that one cont per pound is being paid. Editob Cockbill was admitted to bail at St. Louis intho sum of ?10,000. The charge against him for killing Colonol Slayback is uiurder in the second degree. Eugene Bogakdus, a son of Captain W. H. Bognrdus, the notod marksman, and himself a crack shot, fell from a railroad train in Alabama, sustaining probably fatal injuries. Rains havo severely damaged tho cotton crop in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. The National Cotton Planters' association, in session at Little Rock, Ark., has ro-elocted F. C. Morehead president. Hon. John D. Defbees, late head of tho government printing office in Washington, died a few days since at Berkely Springs, Va., in his seventy-third year. On account of tho repairs to tho "White House not having been completed, President Arthur took up his residence temporarily at tho Soldiers' homo, where a cottage has been prepared for his use. A defect has been discovered in tho redistricting law of Tennessee, which it is thought may throw out tho Tennessee delegation to tho next Congress. It has been suggested that tho governor of Tennessee call a special session of the State legislature for tho purpose of remedying tho defect. Frcm Washington The following shows tho exact financial condition of the postoffico at tho close of tho fiscal year ending Juno 30,1882: Total receipts, $41,87G,410.15; total expenditures, $10,039,(534.75; excess of receipts, $l,83fi,775.40. This is the first year sinco 18G5 that tho receipts of the department exceed tho expenditures. Tiik recoipts oi tlio patent ouico irom nu sourccs during the last fiscal year were $930,864.14; the expenditures (not including printing) were $651,719.60; surplus, $271), 14-1.64. Tlio number of applications received for tho fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1881, including reissues, designs, trademarks and labels, was '2-1,906; during tho last fiscal year 30,062, an increase of 5,150; The receipts of tho oflico for tho fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1881, wero $7!#,895.52; during tho last fiscal year ?930,801.14, an increaso of $140,968.62. UrwAr.D of 350 presidential commissions of postmasters will expire during the next session of Congress. Samukl J. Tildkn'h incomo tax suit camo up tho other day before the United Statos supremo court on defendant's appeal from tho judgment of tho New York circuit court overruling his demurrer. Upon motion of Solicitor-General Phillips, who appearod for tho government, the suit was discontinued and dismissed. Advance sheots from the census office show that in the United States in 1880 there wero 2,GSG wool establishments, employing 101,489 hands, and turning out annually pr .ducts to the valne of $267,182,914; 1,005 cotton establishments omploying 18.5,472 hands, and turning out products of the value of $200,950,383; 1,005 iron and steel establish, ments employing 140,978 hands, and turning out products of the value of $296,557,685. Tin; following is a list of the more important claims filed with tho board designated by Congress to audit the claims arising from tho illness and death of tho late President, James A. Garfield : Dr. D. W. Bliss, $25,000; Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, $14,700; Dr. Robert Iteyburn, $10,800; Dr. D. S. Lamb (for examination of tho body at Elberon, N. J.), $1,000; Susan A. Edson, $10,000; Henry S. Little, receiver of the Central railroad company of No<v Jersey, for laying special track at Elberon and running special trains, $3,239.91. Thomas A. Edison, has now taken out in all 287 patents, 154 of which have beon in connection with electric lighting. jl he cost 01 raiiruuu rnuu iruusiJuruuiuu for tho last fiscal year was $10,373,515, against $9,793,155 for the previous year. Tho increase in mileaijo was 8,994 inilea, or 8.9 per cent, increase. This is the greatest increase in length of railroad routos over made in nny ono year, and is greater than tho entire railroad mileago in 1851. The appropriation for the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1883, Is $11,130,000, and the estimate for this item for 1S84 is $12,000,000. There aro now more than 100,000 miles of railroad service in operation, reaching evory State and Territory of tho Union. The cost of tho star routo service during the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1882, was $5,553,849. [This was $1,403,500 less than tho cost of tho sorvico for the provious year. The estimate for all items of transportation for 1884 reaches the sum of $25,493,120; the appropriations for the same items for 1883 amount to $20,041,000, showing a decrease of $517,880 in favor of 1884, including tho additional expenso resulting from the growth and development of the postal service. The 118th call for tho redemption of $15,000,000 of the five per ccut. bonds has boon issued by the secretary of the treasury. The annual report of thr second comptroller of tho treasury for the last fiscal year shows that the total nuinbor of claims cases buttled during tho year were 20,099, representing $100,703,074; number of claims received from second, third and fourth auditors, 17,133, representing $10o,:s:)7.0."?2; numbor of miscellaneous claims, including soldiers' pay and bounty, 11,4G."?, representing $3,310,240; number of cases not involved in presont expenditures, 3,5GG, representing $oG(J,022; number of contracts filed, 1,055; requisitions rocorded, 12,G;"?I). Foreign News. Sib Garnet Wolbely, tho Dnko of Cambridge and v-ther prominent English officers consider tho Channel tunnel, now underway botweon Franco and England, dangerous to tho interests of Great Britain. A cyclone in Cuba has been productive of great loss to life and property. At Herradura 300 huts and houses, including tho greater number of the tobacco drying establishments, wore demolished. Two thousand palm trees wero blown down. Seven hundred and sixty houses were destroyed at Consolacion del Sur. Tho bodies of fiteen persons drowned by tho overflowing of rivers have been recovered and many moro porsons aro missing. Tue Egyptian army is to be reorganized by Baker Pasha, the English oilicer ill ine service of Turkey. A fiul-ndly understanding is said to have been arrived at between England and France in regard to Egypt. The Gorman ship Constantin, Captain Kuelilken, came in collision with tho steamer City of Antwerp, fourteen miles off Eddystone, England, and both vessols sunk ; no lives lost. Mb. Paenell presided at tho opening of tho Irish National conferonco in Dublin. Nearly 800 delegates wcro present. Mr. Egan tendered his resignation as treasurer of the Irish laud league and rendorod a statement showing that ?244,820 had passed through his hands, and that there was a balance remaining of ?:!2,000. A schemo for tho establishment of tho Irish national league was adopted. .fiEcituiTiNO for the new Egyptian army, to consist of 10,000 men, has began. A lateb dispatch says that fourteen of the crew of tho steamer City of Antwerp, sunk by collision with the ship Constantia, off Eddyslono, England, wero drowned. The committeo of tho now Irish National le.igtio hijvo adopted an address to tho Irish peojilo in substance as follows: Tho landlords have combined with the purposoof breaking tho spirit of tho tenants. Tho dismay which tho present scale of judicial rents has created among tho applicants to tho land courts ren cicre it moro accessary now than ever that tho tenantry should bo reunited in vigilant and lawful association for tho purpose of protecting themselves from injustice. Tho inspiration of all our struggles is to transfer nil local power audpatronage from privileged strangers to tho hands of tho people, and so fortify tho pcoplo for tho work of self-government. j National Harvest Reports. j Tho departmont of agriculture at Washing- ( ton reports that tho averago yield of oatg will bo somewhat higher than that of last | year or in 1871), and tho product will bo 1 nearly as largo as that of wheat, probably i about -l 1S,(K?0,(HH) bushels. The averago yield of rye is 11 7-10 bushels, making a crop of 20,00(1,0!)!) bushels. Tho indicated aver- ( ago yield of barley is 2.'! bushels per | uere, aggregating 4."i,(HX),(H)0 bushels. Cali fornia, New Vork and Wisconsin together produce more than half, or 27,000.000 bushels. The product in 1-S7'.) was 11,000.000. Tho prosj eel for buckwheat is good for a nearly average product, 11,000,()U) to 12,000,000 j , bushels. The general averago of the con- * ililion of poiatous is 81. The returns indi- ?: file a probable yield of SO bushels per aero j ^ un an area of nearly 2,000,000 acres. j , The yield per acre of corn wili be reported ! in November. The condition averages 81, j * Ileimr very high in the Sou!li and compara- | ^ lively low in the States of tho largest pro- s .taction. In Illinois (with 8 per cent, do j [ rcasc of area) the condition is only 72, in ; 1 low.i 70 and in Ohio 87. T^ieso three States I '\ produced 40 per cent, of the crop of 1870. A r careful comparison of changes in area and ; condition indicates an average yield of 2"> { mshels per acre, against 28 in in 1S71I and 18 j I la*< year. Tho average wf a series of years ; i is between 2<i aud 27 bushels. New England ! f ivili produce, according to the October r;:- i f urn, 7.000,0: i:) to 8,000,'KX); tins Middle j J 'iliiles. S2.0,|0,().'X): the Southern States, :?|o,- 1 i >.J0,tK*0: those north of Tennessee and west t if Pennsylvania, l,2."j0,000,000, an aggregate l.USO,000,000. Later returns may slightly educe but cannot materially increase thi* ierimnto. ' ?i| E ... ^ ; THREE MEN KILLED. An Affrny In Which Three Prominent Men Jjont Their Lives. Intense excitement was created at Knoxville, Tenn., by the* killing in a shooting affray of three of the city's most prominent citizens?General Joseph A. Mabry, Major Thomas Q'Connor and Joseph A. Mabry, Jr. The difficulty began in the afternoon at the fair grounds, by General Mabry attacking Major O'Connor and threatening to kill him. O'Connor replied that it was not tho placo to sottle their differences, whereupon Mabry told him ho should not live. It seems that Mabry was armed and O'Connor was not. Tho cause of tho difficulty was an old feud about tho tranter of some property from Mabry to O'Connor. Later in tho nftnmnmi cftnf fn n'pAn?r\nfliot ho would kill him on sight. Tho next morning Major O'Connor was standing in the door of tho Mechanics' National bank, of which ho was president. Goneral Mabry and another gentleman walked down Gay street, on tho opposite sido from the bank. O'Connor stepped into tho bank, procured a shotgun, took deliberate aim ai General Mabry and fired. Mabry foil dead, being shot in tho left side. As he fell O'Connor fired again, tho shot taking effect in Mabry'a thigh. O'Connor then reached into the bank and got another shotgun. jUiout this time Joseph A. Mabry, Jr., son^ef! General Mabry, came rushing down tho street. Ho was not seen by O'Connor until ho was within forty feet of him, when ho fired a shot from a pistol, the ball taking effect in O'Connor's breast, passing through tho body near tho heart. Tho instant Mabry fired O'Connor turned and discharged tho shotgun at him, tho load taking effect in young Mabry's right breast and side, and ho foil pierced with twenty buckshot, and nlmost instantly O'Connor fell dead without a struggle. Young Mabry tried to rise, but fell back dead. Tho whole tragedy occurred within two minutes, and not one of the three spoke after he was shot. General Mabry had about thirty buckshot in his body. A bystander was painfully wounded in tho thigh with a buckshot and another was wounded in the arm. Four other men had their clothes pierced by buckshot. The affair caused great excitement, and Gay street was thronged with thousands of people. General Mabry and his son Joseph wero acquitted only a few days previous of the murder of Moses Lusby and Don Lusby, father and son, whom they killed a few weeks since. William M?bry, another son of General Mabry, was killed by Don Lusby last Christmas. Major Thomas O'Connor was a native of Virginia, forty-eight years old, and v... president of tho Mechanics' National bank of Knoxvillo, a director and stockholder of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, and also of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Land company; was a member of tho firm of Cherry, O'Connor & Co.. who leaso tho penitentiary, and he munofl < 1 w? 1miTrr?cf. wnrrnn niMTiiifnntnrv in tJiA South. Ho had large mining interests and was interested in several large railroad contracts in the Southern States. He was one of the richest men in the South, being worth nearly ?2,000,000. In politics ho was prominent, being a member of the National Democratic executive committee from Tennessee. General Mabry was about sixty years old and was vice-president of tho Knoxville and Kentucky railroad. His son Joseph was twenty-two years old, had recently been elected a justice of the peace and was trying a case when the shooting began. Report of the Director of the Mint. The report of tho director of the mint of tho operations of tho United States xnints and assay offices during tho fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1882, shows that the imports of foreign gold coin and bullion were in tho first half of tho year ?30,100,230 greater, but during tho last half ?28,311,047 loss, than tho exports, tho net gain for the year being only ?1.781),183. The total amount of gold deposited was ?G0,75fi,C53, which was $71,000,000 less- than tho preceding year, while tho silver purchased for coinage and deposited for bars was about ?3,000,000 greater, and amounted to ?33,720,401. Notwithstanding the decrease in the deposits of. gold the coinage was greater than that of any previous year in the history of the mint. At the commencement of tho year there was on hand 548,61)7 of uncoined gold bullion, ?32,848,471 of which, in addition to the deposits of tho year, was consumed in coinage. Tho total coinago was 11,2I?G,003 pieces, of the value of ?80,413,4-17.59, being nearly ?11,000,000 more than in any previous year. About one-half of tho coinage was in eagles, one-third in half eagles and tho remaindor in double eagles. The silver coinage consisted of $27,772,075 in silver dollars and ?11,313.75 in fractional coin, a total of $27,783,388.75. Of the minor or base motal coins 4G,S05,725 pieces, of a value of ?(344,757.75 were struck. Gold bars of tho value of ?37,505,120.0-1 were manufactured, ?12,147,074.00 of which were of fine gold for depositors at the New York assay otlice. JbiEo silver oars or tno vaiue or $/,769,898.15 were also made, chiefly at the same iur.titntiou. The purchases of silver for ooinago daring the year amounted to 23,627,229.37 ounces of standard silver, at a cost of $24,136,042.1'.), an average of $1,021.') per ounce. Of the coinago of the silver dollar during the year the mints distributed $15,747,463, leaving in the mints $35,365,672, tho balance of this and previous year?' coinage. Tho production of gold for the fiscal yoar is estimated at $31,500,000 and of silver $41,700,000, a decline of $5,000,000 in gold and an increase of $2,600,000 in silver upon tho estimated production for the previous fiscal year. The consumption of the precious metab in tho United States for use in the arts during the year is estimated at $12,000,000 of gold and $7,000,000 of silver, of which $7,000,000 of gold and $6,000,000 of silver was of domestic production. Tho total coin of the country is es .imated to havo been at the beginning of tho year $439,776,753 gold and $171,45'J,766 silver, a total of $611,236,519: and at tho close of tho year $500,776,753 gold and $199,409,766 silver; total, $700,236,519, a gain of $61,000,000 in gold coin and $28,000,000 in silver. On July 1,1881, the total paper and spccie of the country amounted to $1,469,342,603, and on July 1,1882, to $1,513,710,432, a gain of about $74,500,000, of which $26,500,000 was gold coin and bullion. At the close of the fiscal year the treasury held $319,501,055 in paper and specio, tho banks $203,833,800 and the remainder, $1,020,372,577, was in active circulation. Of the total increase of $74,500,000 the treasury received $15,500,000, the people gained $71,000,000 and the banks lost $11,500,000. In twenty of tho chief mining countries the production was: Of gold, ?107,773,157, and of silver, $97,059,460, which was an increase of ?1,"100,000 of gold and $3,000,000 of silver over tho production of 1880. The coinage executed at the mints of the fifteen principal countries of tho world during the year 1881, was: Of gold, $130,.*587,383, and of silver, $100,705,824,11 total of $237,093,207,an increase of about $5,000,000 over tho coinage of 1880. The circulation of thirty-four countries, embracing nearly all of tho civilized portion of the earth, is given as: XJaper, $3,825,220,078; gold, $3,353,673,743, and silver, $2,620,769,8:55; a total specie emulation of $5,974,443,583, and of paper and specie, $9,799,663,661. Of the latter $1,698,986,763 was held by banks and national treasuries, leaving in circulation outside of banks and treasuries an active circulating medium of paper and specie amounting to $8,100,670,898. He Sat Down. "Wo were running through South Carolina when a great big giant of a fellow with a terrible eye and a voice like a fog-horn boarded the train at a small station. I think most of the passengers sized him up as a chap whom it would be dangerous to argue with, but the eiant wasn't satisfied with that. lie blustered at the conductor, growled at the brakeman anil looked around as if seeking some one to pick a fuss with. Everybody answered him civilly, and he had two or three seats to himself, but the man who wants a row can generally iind some pretext. About the center of the car a pale-looking chap about twenty-five years old occupied a seat and was reading a newspaper. After a time tin* giant rubbed along to where the young man sat and growled out: "Stranger, what may be the first cost of such a hat as yours?" The young man looked up with a Hash in bis big blue eyes and then turned to his paper without replying. " I lev ! Did you hear me!"' roared the other, as he leaned over the seat ami lifted tiie hat olT the young man's head. Quicker than one could count six a shining revolver came from you couldn't tell where, lifted itself on a level with the big man's eye, and the white lingers clutching the butt never trembled a hair's-breadth as a quiet voice uttered the words: "Drop that hat!" The hat fell from the giant's grasp, und the quiet voice continued: " Xow you sit down or I'll kill | you!" The muzzje of the weapon was not >ix inches from the man's eye, and I saw him turn from red to white in ten seconds. He backed away at the ommand, sat down in a seat opposite, Hid never stood up or spoke smother ivord during his ride of twenty miles, lie hitd ji "navy" nnder his coat, l>ut something in t lisit quiet voiee and Mne ve warned him tliat the move of a in<;er on his p:irt would ersish a hnllet nto his head.?Ditwit Fr<< Pits*. An Established Theory. There is a theory advanced by sciolists that if yoii whisper in the ear of t sleeping man the impression ?>f ymir | vords will lie conveyed to his mind a.; v a dream. We recently experimented vitli this thenry and found it worked cry ssitisfsirtorily. A noted Wsvlern ieont who boasted of having slain ndians wsis stopping at the hotel vhere WC reside. We entered his oojn and whispered in his ear: "We ire at'iicked liy Imlians! The* red I iends are upon lis!" Did he sprint? tp, tfrsil> for a knife smd Mindly rush orward for a fray? II.- did jirise rom the lied. Ami he crawled under t. There csin he no doiiht that tlm heory is correct.? 'Boston- Post. A cardinal's income iu Home is estlnated atgi^oo a year. The Wells In Sahara. French enterpriae is steadily persevering in the work of redeeming the desert of Sahara by means of artesian wells. A large number of wells have been sunk along the northern border, more than 150 in the province of Consantine alone, and the work is advancing into the interior. One of the curious phenomena which the digging of these wells has brought to notice is the existence of fish and crabs at great depths. The learned engineer, M. Jus, who for twenty years has directed the work, avers that he once boiled and ate a|crab which had been drawn up from a depth of 250 feet, and that, moreover, it was of an excellent flavor. May the good work begun by St. Jacobs Oil continue until rheumatism and neuralgia have been banished from the earth.?Albany (N. Y.) Press and Kn ickcrJjockcr. Those days are lost in which we do no good. Those worse than lost in whidi we do evil. Gone! Inflammatory rheumatism, cured by St. Jacobs Oil." Ira Brown? Chicayo Tribune. A boy is never so happy as when the family is moving and he walks through the streets to the new house wearing a table on his head.?Texas Siftings. Coin;; enlirely vegetable, no particular care is required while using Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets." They operate without disturbance to the constitution, diet or occupation. For sick headache, constipation, impure blood, dizziness, sour eructations from the stomach, bad taste in mouth, bilious attacks, pain in region of kidney, internal fever, bloated feeling about stomach, rush of blood to head, take Dr. Pierce's " pellets." I3y druggist*.* The franc became the monetary unit, ef France in 17!)f>, but gold coins of this name were Ill'st made in 1200, and silver coins in 1575. Favoritism is a bad thing, but Dr. Pierce's " Favorite Prescription" doscrves its name. It is a certain euro for those painful maladies and weaknesses which embitter the lives of so many women. Of druggists. As pure and fresh country air gives vigor to the system, so do pure and fresh thoughts tend to invigorate th? mind. If bilious, or suffering from impurity of blood, or weak lungs and fear consumption (scrofulous disease of tho lungs), take Dr. Pierce's " Golden Medical Discovery " and it will cure you. By druggists. We judge ourselves by what wo feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we havo already done. Incompnrnble. PouonxEEPSiE, N. Y., May 31,1881. H. H. Wabneu & Co.: Sirs?I suffered ten years with kidney and gravel complaints. The only thing that did me good was your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. I pronounce it an incomparable remedy. CruatES H. Helmes. .The trouble and worry and wear and tear that comes from hating people makes hating unprofitable.^ 1 Ladies, send 25c. to Strawbridge it Clothier, 8th and Market sts., Philadelphia, and receive their Fashion Quarterly for six months. Now music and 1,000 engravings in each number. A tunnel is projected under the Elbe, between Hamburg and Steinwarder island, to cost $5,000,000. Mensman's Peptonized beef tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, forcc-genernting and life-sustaining propertics: invaluable for indigestion,dyspepsia,nervous prostration, and all forms of general dei)ilily;al o,inall enfeebled conditions,whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if re . suiting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard J: Co.,|n-G|)Vn,N. Y. Sold by druggists 25 Cents Will Buy a Treatise upon the Horse and his Diseases. Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid by New York Newspaper Uuion, 150 Worth Street, New York. Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners keep new boots and shoes from running over. Sold by shoe and hardware dealers. " ICougli on itata. " Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bedbugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15o. , DiU"isls' : fjjpl Deacon Smith buys Carboline, tha de<Saorizul petroleum hair renewer and restorer, aiul since its improvement, recommends it to all his friends as the perfection of all hair preparations. The Science of Life or Self-Preservation, a medical work for every man?young, middleaged or old. 125 invaluable prescriptions. TWENTY-FOUlt HOURS TO LIVE. From John Kuhn, Lafayette, Ind., who announces that he la now in "perfect health." we have the following: "One year ago I was, to all appearance, in ?i... nt fnnanmntinn. Our best chysi cians Rave my case up. I finally got so low that our doctor said I could not live twenty-fonr hours. My friends then purchased a bottle of DR. WM. iiALL*S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS, which considerably benefited me. I continued until I took nine bottles. I am now in perfect health, bavin# used no other medicine. DR. DeWITT C. KELLINGER'S LINIMENT is an infallible cure lor Rheumatism, Sprains, Lameness aud Diseases of the Scalp, and lor promoting the growth of the Hair. * I) K.ST TUI.S.H KVfcU l,"SEI> Send for circular. N. Y. Elastic Truss (Jo., removed to74-1 Broadway, N.Y. A" IJKAINFOOD!?Mosfreiiable tonlo tor the JSruiii mid (Generative Organ*. It positively cures Nervous Debility and restores lost virilu powers. Sold by druggists. SI; O for S->. I''n? hy mail on receipt of price. JOHN H. AIXFN, Chemist, 310 First Avenue, New York. 'Jo Cents will Buy a Treatise upon tho Horse aud his Diseases. Book of 100 paces. Valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid by NEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION, ISO Worth street. New York. FOB Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, ^ Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily rams, Toofh, Ear and Headache, Frostod Feet and Ears, and all ether Pains and Aches. No reparation on earth equals St. Jacobs On ? a safe, sure, simple and cheap External ltemedy. A trial entaiU but tho comparatively tiilliug outlay of CO Cents, and every ona sutferinj with pain can bavo cheap and positive Fro?f of ita claims. <> Directions In Eloven T.nngnageg. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS , IN MEDICINE, i A. VOGELER & CO., liattlmorc, IWrf., U. S. A. N Y X U?12" . Tho true antidote to , '!? U*' v ' * m i? M the offocta of miasm* [> : ?*.L " Hoatetter'8 Stomh:> ? J EB *1^0 nch 13 it tors. This medicine is one of the A iEo>t pepular remeof 03 a?" of 6UC<1 c-^sful proprietary 'tip, "l"-'1''11'-'0. a"<J 'n ' -:^V i:n:n"ti!to demand :'g' jV'^Vv'fX tlv,-. wherever on tUsCon-A fever nr.d afjuo .*? '' .-/? .*>" > >>5' ' '?*? ?*'? >. A wir.<?ci # ? 1*7 v '- -.'?# " t:,u '" St \ psvparativ* for nn . ciHi3t**rins ft nwwirion* nt:.n?Hpliim\ X*K- 1 rv/ifrrtl Hintingtlioli??r, and { i>4* 4infi*or*ting th* *t<> > V 7,*rp-? f. nach. For snl* t?r /ill * ? #. - I ;* ; Drtitrefots nud Do.al- n *ers icpnoraHy. ii AC5EWTS WANTED-ASK 5 to ..JTw.- m. tt. V i:.|. !lv m our NEW SOOX: ? ? .T. /*IS?A?S n/rans"? : i IJIaJJlr 6SSLSSHT i; M v> t;|, :;.i- \tv \ .->1 /' 'jv. v.-: ) itr it* i v ! ! ib- :. its . ir'.Miil ileitis. Its , / . - IN roiiMtn-r in im-li I v. lisi! ir? crim-r? v ;:n it i.Tli,',. its illalill.-s. .\r>' :n f.n't t>vriy | . I :i:i ,??f Ji;'? in Hit' ' itv. Don't < :i<li* tim# ?-?liltijr I a '.u ;Ls. !,v.t mmiu for <Ni' ulur* slum? full tuM.s of j . cu'.t- iitj. to Aplitv >V0. IVo-pivam now I??iljr i . li.: . iii ji v iu t; :.-liurft. AtMir-."; i L VJU'OI.ASSIIR03..C.'i h'.Siivaat'i St., Phiiad?lpfcia.P> ! 1 ^ ^ Z &Y'T tarn VTHiJfVifnsfuiiT'Tri ! ''! ?, ri Iirst('oLCliSvrni>. 'i ii*!?ij J j i,M?i in f**> '' t V *1 rn k jf?* ts. ?*4 e< ^V" >SP" *."K?nilTl k | l, /> f:; i I . \\:iiilril t'<r tin; i'.raf n:i.| l-Viyt^st-svIlin ! pr ' i ". sji'iil Iti'. li s. I'r'-'X to.liii'.-.l ,.i pur (j, i . t. .nm i.'.M. i'?'i?f.iM!is?; I'd., Pa. ? PilSM Ify?>a w.nnt to lenrn TVl.vrranhy ina sk l4#Uai?l L7iCfi I'tiw months, nml !u? certain of u ^ tjtii;itio!i, aiidiC33 YaluntlUu .iir-w,, Jauusville, Win r a NOVEL IN VJENTION?a lnuitaebsprotMtoT: fit? 1 J\ any cup. Send 5J5o. for uaniule. or tawp for Lfarticu. A law. Ag*uti wanted, fi, At (iLLBEHT, Mead rule, Pt? * I " ^ B I ^ 11^ ! I HAS BEEN PROVED f The8URE8T CURE for KIDNEY DISEASES., | Docs a lamo book or a disordered uriue indi. I cate that you oro a victim? DO NOT i HESITATE) two KIDNEY-WORT at onoo, I (drtufiflata rooommend It) and It will speedily I overeoniothodiseaso and restore healthy action. jl It Is a 8URECURE for all 1 | DISEASES of the LIVER. , II It has specific notion on this moat Important organ, enabling It to throw off torpidity and In- , 11 action, stimulating the healthy secretion of the 41 Bile, and by koeplng tho bowels lnfreooondl11 Uon, effecting its regular diachmyo. | I UMalnrSn If you arc suffering from I I Iwl O lailCIa malaria, have the chllla, I aro bilious, dyspeptlo, or constipated, Kidney. Wort will surely relieve and quickly cure. I in the Spring, to clcanso tho Systom, every ono should take a thorough course of it * - 1 1 I I q/I|a<2 For complaints peculiar io | hflUIPga youjfez, such as pain and I weakness^, KIDNEY-WORT la unsurpassed, | aa it will act promptly ond safely. Either Sox. Incontinence, .etantion of urine, . I brick dust or ropy deposits, and dull dragging 1 pains, all speedily yield to its curative power, ii mn time on tho KIDNEYS, " li For Conitipatloa, F aj riles, or Bheumatiam It Is a permanent euro. k f SOLD BY DRUCCIST3. Prfce?U_gQ f MERCHANTS GARGLING OTL la the oldest and tbo standard liniment of the United Sfatcs. Large size, $1.00; medkim 50 cents; small, 25 cents; small sizo for family use, 25 cents; Stcrehant's Worm Tablets. 25 cent*. For salo by every druggist and dealer In general merchandise. For Family Uso. The Ganrlinflr Oil Liniment with Wuite WKAPPEn. prepared for human flesh, la put ii3 in small bottles only, and does not stain the skin. Price 25 cents. The Gargling: Oil Almanac for 1888 Is now in the hands or our printer, ana win be ready for distribution during the months of November and December, 1SS2. Tho Almanac for the coming year will be more useful and lnstructivo than ever, and will bo sent free to any address. Write for one. Ask tho Nearest Drnggtet. If the dealers in your place do,not keep Merchant's Gargling Oil for sale, insist upon their sending to us. or where they get their medicines, and fret it. Keep thebottlo well corked, and shake it before using. Yellow wrapper for animal and white for human ' ilesh. * . - ,'v [ Special Notice. The Merchant's Gargling Oil has been In upc as a liniment forfonlf a century. All we ask Is a fair trial, but bo sure and follow directions. The Gargling Oil and Merchant* Worn Tablets arc for sale by all druggist* and dealers In general merchandise throughout the world. ' Manufactured at Lockport, N. YM by Merchant's Owivling'Oil Company. Sccrmry. | dttf RDItlk Is unfailing and infallU x 0 &MAn| htj bio In curia* EpOeptie Fits, Spasms, ConndCURES AND ^ sioni, St. Vitus Danoe, A Alcoholism, Opium Eafc< \L *. ir.R, Scrofula and au' *** * Norrous and Wood DtoHVAn Tjr eases. To Clergymen, ^ Lawyers, Literary Men, - Merchants, Bankers, QPInflh Ladioe and all wboas KSfft sedentary employment JHBmL / causes Nerroci Prostra/nONk / tion. Irregularities of iji the blood, rtomach, fir XgL *. ' / ' bowels or Kidneys, or B . J.. who retjuiro a nerre H tonic, appetizer or ALJSSsSsS stimulant. 8AJ4ARIJBLTAN NKKVINE is inGrTtTgTTrtKF' I, >yy vnltmbla. Thousands few MCm#rAILS. nrocl&hn it the most wonderful Iniiffonnt VII EPo'Q ty f BJ uZA that ever sustained the JP^HvIN^ -?j?ssiJF ?HE DB. S. A. RICHMOND JLEDICAJL CO* Sole Proprietory St. Joacph. Ma. KIKSMJUM WUffiamnat CO JIPETIT!ON lor SIXTEEN YEARS; do otlicr Aranric.in Organs having been found equal atujr. Also CHEAPEST. Style 109; 3^ octarea; sufficient compass and power, with but quality, for popular sacred and secular music in schools or families, at only ?22. ONE HOOKED OTHER bTYXBSm S:M), 8*7. SCO. $72, 878. 803. 8108.8114. to 8500 and upward. The laruer ttylet art viholly iuu rirnlrd bit am/ other Ornnn'. Also for easy payment*, NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE. RlflUAA This Company liar* commenced rlnlnll\ th? manufacture of UPRIGHT I IHlUUV GRAND PIANOS, introducing important improvement!; adding to power and beauty of tone and durability. Will no t require tuninv one-quarttr ?, mueh at other I'ianos. ILLUSTRATED CIR- I CUI.AUS. with full particulars, TKzr.. THE illASON ?fc HA.ULIN OIM3AN AND PIANO CO.. 15-1 Twniont Sr.. Boston t 40K. I 11li St., N. Vorlt: H'J \Vnbn?h Ave.tClilcai*. c E ngines. I Reliable, Durable and Economical, will fvrnUh n Jf horte poicer icith 1$ lest fuel and nater than any other jEnji'ne built, not fitted with an Automatic Uut-o!T. 8ond for Illustrated Catalogue "J," for Information and Prices. B. W. FnW Jc Sows, Boi 8du, Corning, K.Y. Hj if ii m Parnonn' l'urKiUlve Pills make New Rioh Blood, and will completely chance the blood in the eo> M tiro system in three months. Any person who will take jH one pill each night from 1 to 12 weeks may be restorrd H to sound health if such a thing be possible. Sold evsry- H where or sent by mail for eight letter stamp*. I. S. JOHNSON Sc CO.. Boston, Jltus., for- B mcrly Bangor, Me. FEAZER I AXLE GREASE I lirM in the world, tier the gennlne. Every tiaekuite tans our trade-mark nnri N marked 1- rnzer's. WOLD EVERYWHERE. M FIVE-TON ik? a r I 1:1 Iron ?uj Steel, DouUt Drua Tiro Ue?n 9 Jcr.'l p?}? tlio tr.liht. All lUci cqtullj li?W, fl : |H ior fr? took, Aihlreta ^ H jjj MSES CF DiMHAMTON, KOCH'S CONSUMPTION I (SSKWi. iiisraffHiwrastt inuu important i/iUUU I i-lill arationaimeanjc* Ml (MSSTOE TMi I i> offored to all kflUcMd with ijmptomi of Ion: rthfftAddrw, Box 78a, H. it. oity. mm CRANDALL'S, ofi9 3d Ave., N. Y. y!B|wrx Ectah. 1441. Mnfrora of ilnby Sifm fl,H' t'lirriaaea, Ve/5?^S&$i5Pr\. lofljiede.t. Itleyeli-K, Ilob? flQCS?v?il/S *>y ,,n'' Howes, ti~#jg5ylit5San53ciali?,WttKOn?andTMr ^CYyIlloekH. Kot.iilsales. h?ntO. O. D. to auy addreM. Illujtra. " ,m tt<i Ciivulan tent tree. . Civ **I WiSTI V05IT! I?I|?1 ?Mvlt\ If }? tin * Lmuriaal V* vk ikiri or ? b??*j rr*"tb ( h*ir n b*!4 fil"wl V 3 O ??j. ?r ? THICKEN, STfULNOTMB* ud fcj SjJxJJ |H| I> VIOOftATC lb? HAIR u<ntr<iii'i k? b?ab*;r?<l. TTry ib? ticfti Sp&a'i* Wi?w??rj ?b*h feci NSTIR TtT FAIUD. lotiuNLT SIX CfNTS Or. J. COMA. LIZ, tUi Oosim. Uiu. Jfevtre cf 4ll ialtetfeaj._ ENGINESgS^S!|' prnts Tire AULTMAJ.' ? TAYLOR CO.M?o?fl?ld.O. Bfl.7 b B _ Jewelry, Silverware, retailed K? 53 A Ak! flfi at whnlpMio rate*. Pncelint fren. D^H U 3 C3 a \D B2 K?O T. W. Konm-dy. P.O.bo?lC0. N.Y BH mtMm power Uil VII ASaaJA* VMfei MEV V m HEAD! I NIE SCIENCE OF T.TFE: OR, SELFPJtESEKVATION, ?a medical treatise on Exhausted Vitality, N'erroni ml Physical Debility, Premature Decline in Mao; 1 ?n indispensable tro.itiso for every man. whether oiinif, middle-aged or olil. PIIE SCIENCE OF MFE< OH, SELFI'UKMKItVATIOX. ? beyond all comparison the nvwt extraordinary ikon Physiology ever published. There is nothing iu.lenT that til- married or finale can either reijuirt rwisb to knur hut uiiat is fully explained.?Turonta hi: scienci: of t.p'B; ok, self, I'IlEsivKV/.tion. HB ii'triirtd thom> in health hmv (o remain no, and tho inili.: Iriw to become well, Contains one hnndred and |^H] \eiiiy-tire iuviiliciMn pi-<criptions for nil forms of ? t'-'i ivliirh ii first I.v?t physician would .lur^u iroiu $3to $10.? LowIoh in: scikn'cr: or life; oh, selfpkesekvatio.v, xntninn ."40 jhcoi, fino itteel eunravlnc*, ts superbly ni t in Kivwh lutiyliii, eniN.-wil, full pilt. It is ? . rvi-l of rt nii'j beauty, w>irr.uitod to tin a Iwtter ediril Iifi.k in every wnso than can bo obtained ol*?hero t .' Si tho price or tile inouoy will bo rofund1 CT'ry inntinci!.?Author. m; sciente of life; ok, self. 1'KEsEKVATIO.N, so much nij* rior to all other troati?s on medical bjeiiM tliwt cuiup.-tris.m is absolutely impossibly.? Him ill: science of mfc; OK, SELFfkenEKVATJON, ontl.ym.iil, w;cnre|y Msiled, jk>-?tpaid, on receipt of icc, only $l.'Jo(n?wed:tion). Sinn!! illustrated samples, rito author cm bo consulted on all idiseaM* requiring ill and exporienco. Ad'lrenj EABGOY MEDICAL INSTITUTE, or W. H. r.UHiliK, M. D? BnJflucb Stwct. BoatoSi Mm*