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, ' PHOSPHORESCENCE. Behind the swiftly moving ship, strange light Float# on the waves and danoea in the spray; ^ Brighter than moon and whiter than the day, Its myriad points leap dazzling to the sight And make the whole sea fair in darkes night. No scienco yet has fathomed, or can say, Where lies the shining secret ?f its ray, Or at what hour the water will be bright. Such momenta and such mystio lights there are In human lives. The days' deep currents flow Miraculously calm, and all things glow With radiance borrowed from no sun or star, 'Twixt golden past and present lies no bar; pffiV ' The future, golden, draweth near too slow I ? \frtYithhf. I (j| TIIE BALLOON TREE. The co^onel sai(* : Wo rode for several hours straight 3^^- from the shore toward the heart of the I'e& island. The sun was low in the western i| sky when we left the ship. Neither on M the water nor on the island had we felt a breath of air stirring. The glare was : upon everything. Over the low range g of hills miles away in the interior hung a few copper-colored clouds. " Wind," said Briery. Kilooa shook his head. Vegetation of all kinds showed the J effects of the long-continued drought. The eye wandered without relief from the sickly russet of the undergrowth, so dry in places that leaves and stems crackled under the horses' feet, to the yellowish brown of the thirsty trees that skirted the bridle-path. No growing thing was green except the belltop cactus, tit to tlourish in the crater of a living volcano. Kilooa leaned over in the saddle and tore from one of these plants its top, as Dig as a uauiornia pear ana oioaiea with juice. He crushed the bell in his fist, and, turning, fiung into our hot faces a few grateful drops of water. We rode all night. At sunrise there was a pause of hardly ten minutes for the scanty breakfast supplied by our haversacks. Then we were again in the saddle, making our way through a thicket that grew more" and more difficult, and under a sun that grew hotter. "Perhaps," I remarked finally to my taciturn friend, "you have no objection to telling me now why two civilized beings and one amiable savage should be plunging through this infernal jungle, as if they were on an errand of life or death ?" "Y63," said he, "it is best you should know." Briery produced from an inner breast pucket a letter which had been read and reread until it was worn in the creases. "This," he went on, "is from Professor Quakversuch, of the University of Upsala. It reached me nt "Vnlnnruiun " Glancing cautiously around, as if he feared that every tree fern in that tropical wilderness was an eavesdropper, or that the hoodlike spathes of the giant caladiums overhead were ears waiting to drink in some mighty secret (f science, Briery read in a low voice Igj^ir >m the letter of the great Swedish K botanist: Br "You will havo in those islands," wrote giS the professor, " a rare opportunity to js| investigate certain extraordinary accounts gft; given me years ago by the Jesuit misled eionary Bateaux concerning the Migratory Tree, the cereus vagrans of Janseniua ' and other speculative physiologists The explorer Spohr claims to have bekeld it; jSc but there is reason,as you know,for accepting g>> all of Spohr's statements with caution. That is not the case with the assertions of my late K valued correspondent, the Jesuit missionary. *? Father Buteaux was a learned botanist, an accurate observer, and a most pious and conffifi ecientious man. He never saw the MigraH tory Tree; but during the long period of his Pfl labors in that part of the world he accumulated, from widely different sources, a mass of testimony as to its existence and habits. K Is it quite inconceivable, my dear BriKj er.v, that somewhere in the range of Hj nature there is a vegetable organiza?*-. tion as far above the cabbage, let us Bay, in complexity and potentiality, as the ape is above the polyp? Nature is continuous. In all her scheme we find no chasms, no gaps. There may be missing links in our books and classifications and cabinets, but there are none in the organic world. Is not (all of lower nature struggling upward to arrive at the point of self-consciousness and volition? In the unceasing process of evolution, differentiation, improvement in special function, why may not a i >lant arrive at this point and feel, will, act?in short, possess and exercise the characteristics of the true animal? " I have no doubt that if it shall be your great good fortune to encounter a specimen of the Migratory Tree ^escribed by Buteaux, you will find that it possesses a well-defined system of real nerves and ganglia, constituting, in fact, the seat of vegetable intelligence. I conjure you to be very thorough in your dissections. According to the indications furnished me by the Jesuit, this extraordinary tree should belong to the order of Cactaoere. It should be developed only in conditions of extreme heat and dryness. Its roots should be hardly more than rudimentary, affording a precarious attachment to the earth. This attachment it should be able to sever at will, soaring up into the air and Iawuy 10 aiionier pmce beitx-ieu u> iuiou, up a bird fihiffe its habitation. I infer that these migrations are accomplished by means of , th( property of secreting hydrogen gas, with which it inflates at pleasure a bladder-like organ of highly elastic tissue, thus lifting itself out of the ground and off to a new abode. Buteaux added that the Migratory Tree was invariably worshiped by the natives as a supernatural being, and that the mystery thrown by them around its cult was the greatest obstacle in the path of the investigator." " There!" exclaimed Briery, folding up Professor Quakversuch's letter. "Is not that a quest worthy the risk or sacrifice of life itself? To add to the recorded facts of vegetable morphology the proved existence of a tree that wanders, a tree that wills, a tree, perhaps, that thinks?this is glory to be won at any cost! The lamented Decandolle of Geneva?" "Confound the lamented Decandolle of Geneva!" shouted I, for it was excessively hot and I felt that we had come on a fool's errand. it was near sunset on me secona day of our journey, when Kilooa, who was riding several rods in advance of us, uttered a quick cry, leaped from his saddle and stooped to the ground. Brieiy was at his side in an instant. I followed with less agility; my joints were very stiff, and I had no scientific enthusiasm to lubricate them. Briery was on his hands and knees, eagerly examining what seemed to be a recent c disturbance of the soil. The savage was prostrate, rubbing his forehead in the dust, as if in a religious ecstasy, and warbling the same falsetto notes that we had heard at the holy woman's hut. " What beast's trail have you struck?" I demanded. "The trail of no beast," answered Briery, almost angrily. " Do you see this broad, round abnision of the surface, where a heavy weight has rested? Do you see these little troughs in the fresh earth, radiating from the center like the points of a star? They are the scars left by slender roots torn up from their shallow beds. Do you see Kilooa's hvstfirical nerformance V I tell vou we are on the track of the Sacred Tree. It has been here, and not long ago." Acting under Uriery's excited instructions we continued the hunt on foot. Kilooa started toward the east, II toward the west and Uriery took the southward course. To cover the ground thoroughly we agreed to advance in gradually widening zigzags, communicating with each other at intervals by pistol shots. There could have been no more foolish arrangement. In a quarter of an hour I had lost ray head and my bearings in a thicket. For another quarter of an hour I discharged my revolver repeatedly, without getting a single response from east or south. I spent the rez mainder of daylight in a blundering effort to make my way back to the place where the horses were; and then g& the sun went down.leavingme in sudden P darkness, alone in a wilderness of the f-: extent and character of which I had !not the faintest idea. I will spare you the history of my sufferings during the whole of that night and the next day, and the next night, and another day. "When it was r dark I wandered about in blind de? spair, longing for daylight, not daring ..-r / - to sleep or even to stop, and in conpJki tinual terror of the unknown dangers ? that surrounded me. In the daytime p7, I longed for night, for the sun scorched ~ its way through the thickest roof that the luxuriant foliage afforded, and drove me nearly mad. The provisions :in my haversack were exhausted. My T- canteen was on my saddle; 1 should j?i'' have died of- thirst had it not been for HE the belltop cactus, which I found twice. But in that horrible experience neither 1 the torture of hunger and thirst, nor the torture of heat equaled the misery , of the thought that my life was to be sacrificed to the delusion of a crazy botanist, who had dreamed of the impossible. The impossible? On the second afternoon, still staggering aimlessly on through the jungle, I lost my last strength and fell to the ground. Despair and indifference had long since given way to an eager desire for the end. I closed my eyes with indescribable relief; the hot sun seemed pleasant on my lace as consciousness departed. Did a beautiful and gentle woman come to me while I lay unconscious, and take my head in her lap, and put her arms around me? Did she press her face to mine, and in a whisper bid me have courage? That was the belief that filled my mind when it ?truggled back for a moment into consciousness; I clutched at the warm, soft arms, and swooned again. Do not look at each other .and smile, gentlemen; in that cruel wilderness,in my helpless condition, 1 found pity and benignant tenderness. The next time my senses returned I saw that something was bending over me?something majestic if not beautiful, humane if not human, gracious if not woman. The arms that held me and drew me up were moist, and they throbbed with the pulsation of life. There was a faint, sweet odor, like the smell of a woman's perfumed hair. The touch was a caress, the clasp an embrace. Can I describe Its form? No, not with the definiteness that would satisfy the Quakversuchs and the Brierys. I saw that the trunk was massive. The branches that lifted me from tne ground and held me carefully and gently were flexible and symmetrically disposed. Above my head there was a wreath of strange foliage, and in the midst of it a dazzling sphere of scarlet. The scarlet globe grew while I watched it, but the effort of watching it was too much for me. Kemember, if you please, that at this time physical exhaustion and mental torture had brought me to the point where I passed to and fro between consciousness and unconsciousness as easily and as frequently as one fluctuates between slumber and wakefulness during a night of fever. It seemed the most natural thing in the world that in my extreme weakness I should be beloved and cared for by a I cactus. I did not seek an explanation of this good fortune or try to analyze it; I simply accepted it as a matter of course, as a child accepts a benefit from an unexpected quarter. The one idea that possessed me was that I had found an unknown friend, instinct with womanly sympathy and immeasurably kind. Ami aq niorht. carno on it seemed to me that the scarlet bulb overhead became enormously distended, so that it almost filled the sky. Was I gently rocked by the supple arms that still held me? Were we floating off together into the air? I did not know, or care. Now I fancied that I was in my berth on board ship, cradled by the swell of the sea; now, that I was borne on with prodigious speed through the darkness by my own volition. The sense of incessant motion affected all my dreams. Whenever I awoke I felt a cool breeze steadily beating against my face?the first breath of air since we had landed. I was vaguely happy, gentlemen. I had surrendered all responsibility for my own fate. I had gained the protection of a being of superior powersin. " The brandy flask, Kilooa!" It was daylight. I lay upon the ground and Briery was supporting my shoulder. In his face was a look of bewilderment that I shall never forget. " My God !" he cried, " and how did you get here? We gave up the search two days ago.*' The brandy pulled me together. I staggered to my feet and looked around. The cause of Briery's extreme amazement was apparent at a glance. We were not in the wilderness. We were at the shore. There was the bay, and the ship at anchor, half a mile off. They were already lowering a boat to send for us. And there to the south was a bright red spot on the horizon, hardly larger than the morning star?the Balloon Tree returning to the wilderness. I saw it, Briery saw it, the savage Kilooa saw it. We watched it till it vanished. We watched it with different emotions. Kilooa with superstitious reverence, Briery with scientific interest and intense disappointment, I with a heart full of wonder and gratitude. I clasped my forehead with both hands. It was no dream, then. The Tree, the caress, the embrace, the scarlet bulb, the night journey through the air, were not creations and incidents of delirium. Call it tree, or call it plant-animal ?there it was I Let the men of science quarrel over ttie question 01 us existence in nature; this I know: It had found me dying and had brought me more than a hundred miles straight to the ship where I belonged. Under Providence, gentlemen, that sentient and intelligent vegetable organization had saved my life. [At this point the colonel got up and left the club. He was very much moved. Pretty soon Briery came in, briskly as usual. He picked up an uncut copy of Lord Bragmuch's "Travels in Kerguellen's Land," and settled himself in an easy-chair at the corner of the fireplace. Young Traddles timidly approached the veteran globetrotter. "Excuse me, Mr. Briery," said he," but I should like to ask you a question about the Balloon Tree. "Were there scientific reasons for believing that its sex was?" "Ah," interrupted Briery, looking bored; "the colonel has been favoring you with that extraordinary narrative? Has he honored me again with a share in the adventure? Yes? Well, did we bag the game this time?" "Why, no," said young Traddles. j "You last saw the Tree as a scarlet spot against the horizon." , " By Jove, another miss!" said Briery, calmly beginning to cut the ^ leaves of his book.]?New York Sun. ?=* i Signers of the Declaration. One of the most remarkable circumstances attending the fortunes of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was the tranquillity in which their lives were passed, and the late day to which they were protracted. Most of them lived to a crood old acre. crowned with civil honors bestowed by the gratitude of the republic, and some of them perished by the mere decay of the powers of nature. Of the fifty-six who affixed their signatures to that document, twenty-seven lived to an age exceeding seventy years and forty to an age of sixty. Only two of the whole number, Gwinnett, of Georgia, who fell in a duel in his forty-fifth year, and Lynch, of South Carolina, who was shipwrecked in his sixtieth year, died a violent death. Twenty-one lived to the beginning of the present century, and three were permitted to see the great experiment of a representative confederacy confirmed by the events of fifty years. Of all the delegates from New York and New England, only one, Whipple, of New Hampshire, died at an earlier age than sixtv. Never in the world had the leaders in any body and grand political movement more reason to congratulate themselves and their country on the issue. The exertions and perils of their manhood were succeeded by a peaceful, honored and ripe old age, in which they witnessed the happy result of the institutions they had aided in devising, and they were gathered in j their graves amid the regrets of the generation which was in its cradle . when they laid the foundation of the ; republic. A comical incident is related of an i eminent English nobleman who was presiding at a press dinner. He concluded his few feeble remarks by pro posing the "health of Gutenberg.' Some one pulled his coat-tails and whispered that he was d?ad. "I re gret," continued the nobleman, ? to anaeunce that intelligence has just been received that Gutenberg 1b dead/' THE GREAT NATIONAL PAM THE TBIiLOWSTOJTB TRACT AITS XT! XABY W0NDEB8. An Area Two-Thirds the Size of Connertlcut Destined in Time to B(C?m? the Mecca of American Traveler#. A writer in the New York Observer says of the great Yellowstone National park: Few people, probably, realize its immense area; and it may be questioned whether there are many who could describe, with any approach to exactness, its situation in the great "West. For the benefit of all the uninformed, it may not be superfluous to state that it occupies the extreme northwesterly corner of the Territory of "Wyoming, that its northern boundary is about forty miles south oi the Northern Pacific railway, and that it covers a territory of sixty-two by fifty miles, which is two-thirds the acreage of the State of Connecticut, and will approach tllftt 01 iMHSSHCIlUSCttS II. Hit! addition of 3,300 square miles be made to its present area. Or, to furnish another comparison, if a parallelogram be marked out on the map, extending north from New York city to Poughkeepsie, and east from Poughkeepsie to Hartford, it will about represent the length and breadth of the people's Western pleasure ground. Within this great tract are comprised some of the most remarkable natural phenomena of the continent. Nowhere else, indeed, are so many extraordinary features grouped in such close proximity. Nature has here been prodigal of her bounties; geysers, waterfalls, lakes, canons and mountains whose tops are capped with perpetual snow, combine in lavish profusion to make the district one of unrivaled attractiveness. It cannot be doubted that, when easy means of access shall be provided, the Yellowstone region will become the Mecca of American travelers. At present the park may be reached in either of two ways: Vntprina it frmn thfi Wfcst. Via Dillon and Virginia City, or from the North, via Bozeman on the Northern Pacific railroad. In coming by way of Virginia City one takes the Union Pacific road to Ogden, and thence journeys by the Utah Northern, to Dillon, Montana, where a wagou road starts for Virginia City and the park. By either route the journey is long and fatiguing, and the round trip from Virginia City, through the park and back again, can hardly be made, if one proposes to see the country with any thoroughness, in less than a month. It will not be many years, however, before the Northrrn Pacific will push a narrow guage toad from Bozeman up the valley of the Yellowstone, making the park directly accessible from the east. As yet everything, of course, is in the rough. Visitors procure their outfit at Virginia City, exchange their wagon for horseback at the entrance of the park, camp out at night and enjoy about the same kind of life that tourists experience in Palestine and the East. One cannot do much more than twenty miles a day, and ought to remain at least three weeks in the park /?oin oxron O norfial IrloQ At lf.Q U'ftfl. lu g((UA gvgu W JL/Ul UlUi 4UVM V*. <VW t> WM ders. These will strike him when he first encounteis the geysers at the Firehole river on his way to the Yellowstone lake. He will have read of the famous Iceland geyser, the basin of which is seventy-two feet in diameter and four feet deep, and which throws a spout 150 feet high; but that will hardly prepare him for the "Excelsior" of the Yellowstone, the basin of which ha3 a diameter of 250 feet and a depth of thirty feet, and which spouts with more or less frequency anywhere from 200 to 500 feet in the air. No description can do justice to the grandeur of such an exhibition, or paint the wonderful effects produced by the coloring of the silicious crust which forms the geyser basins. So beautiful are these deposits that they tempt the cupidity of travelers and are ruthlessly broken and destroyed, that the fragments may be carried away as mementos. Vandalism, indeed, is rife throughout the park. Game is wantonly k;lled, the natural features are everywhere defaced and camp Ores are heedlessly left to ignite the trees and consume acres nf rvrinolnca n'nra 11 Jl n rl It is not, however, the geysers, grand as they are, that form the chief attraction of the park. As the traveler coraes out of the wooded borders of the Yellowstone lake?the loftiest of its size in the world?its background of snow-clad mountains invites his admiration; while the great falls and canon of the Yellowstone, when he reaches them, compel his wondering delight. Here the mountain torrent leaps first over a cliff 162 feet high; then rushrs for half a mile in a series of foaming cascades; then precipitating itself over a sheer height of 350 feet, whirls and dashes for eighteen miles through a gorge whose marvelouslytinted walls rise to an elevation of 2,500 feet. Along the top runs the road, from which occasional bridlepaths lead for purposes of observation down the sides of the cliff to shelves of geyser formation, where the hot springs mingle tneir waters wiui mountain torrents of melted snow. What the park chiefly lacks, besides facility of access, is suitable hotel accommodation at the principal points of interest. And this will undoubtedly be supplied, though not, it is to be hoped, in the way contemplated by the interior department in its recent negotiations. Under the proposed agreement the lessees were to enjoy the exclusive privilege of erecting hotels, running stages and operating telegraph lines within the park for ten years, paying only the nominal rent of $2 an acre for 4,400 acres in tracts of 640 acres each. These tracts comprised about all the important objects of curiosity and interest in the place, and their cession under the "lease would practically give the lessees entire control over the park, not only for building houses and exhibiting the phenomena, but for establishing a gicrantic cattle ranch, if they should elect to utilize in this way the rich pasturage of the river bottoms. No one but those who have some such ulterior motive in fostering the scheme will dissent from the strong condemnation which it received from Senator Vest's committee, or will disagree with the committee's conclusion, that " nothing but absolute necessity should permit the great National park to be used for money-making by private persons.' Three Coins to the Dollar. It was in an uptown New York hotel the other evening. A somewhat pretentious and self-opinionated politician was treating his listeners to a flatulent exposition of bimetalism, the coinage and the new nickel. He knew all abuut it, and nobody could get a worci in eugewise. At length one of the auditors said: "By the way. have you seen those new coins?three to the dollar V" "What are you giving me? There ain't no such coin," s:dd the oracle. Reiteration brought more emphatic denial, until a wager was made as to whether the United States treasury did or did not produce any coins three of which made a dollar. The gentleman maintaining that it did drew from his pocket two bright quarters and a fifty-cent piece, saying: "These three United States coins make one dollar. Thetfager does not require them to be of uniform value. Selah." It was a trick, and not an original one at that, but it bottled up the oracle. A Cure for Stammering. An English physician cures stammering by causing his patients to keep the lungs well filled, to draw long and frequent breaths, speak loud and pause the moment they find embarrassment in speech, taking a long breath before going on. His theory is that stammering is due to attempting to speak with empty lungs. In singing the lungs are kept inflated, hence it is that inveterate stammerers are sometimes compelled to sing whatever they wish to say. A Chinese paper has appeared in New York, edited by Wong Ching Foo, who will no doubt feel like hitching an "1" to his last name before he has been long in the editorial hai? ness. ltats arc not taken in exchange for subscriptions, we believe.?-flTorristowii Herald, NEWS OF THE WEEK. Xaitern and JCJ.ddle Statea. Whtlk fonr men wore at work in a quarry near Pitlsburg, Pean., an explosion of a can of dynamite, which one of them was trying to thaw out, instantly killed one man and fatally injured two otba -s. Th? Gloucester (Ma? .) fishing interests have suffered to the ?zt< at of ore* $125,000 on account of the sr v? caused by the predicted great Btorm of Wijrgins, the Canadian weather prophet. Many vessels could not get crews and were foraad to lay over a trip. A carriage containing! our men was run into by atra:n near So ?flrvill3, N. J.( and two of the oosup^nt*?ec.-Sheriff Peter A. Voorheesand Abraham "Voorhees?were inFtantly killed, the third i na n had his collar t one broken and received internal injuries, and the fourth, after heing' thrown thirty feet in tho air, escaped witlisli jnt Druises. Just about the time tl wit Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, predicted a groat storm would sweep the Atla ntio coast, heavy winds, rising tides and severe snow-falls prevailed in some sections; hut the weather was generally declared lo be' no worso than is expected this timo of year, and but for Wiggins' prediction would h ave attraoted no particular attention. "A cheat funeral " is the way in which ome of the New York papers refer to the obsequies in that city of Elliott, the prizefighter, killed by Dunne in a Chicago restaurant. Thousands of persons gathered in the vicinity of the house where the body lay, and thousands more lined the ijidawalks of the streets through which the funeral cortege passed. Richabd CoiitHKT, acting sergeant of the Long Island City (N. Y.) police, was shot and instantly killed while seat)3d at his desk in the station - house bry Patrdnan Patrick Caeey. Just pro* ions to the murder Casey had his revolver fixed by n brother officer. Tb en ho walked to tho desk" at which. Comisky was seated nnd asked him why lie kept following him around whife on post. Comisky replied that it was lo ma Vefcim do his duty. Ca=ey instantly retorted r "TTien I'm going to kill ?ni) " nnd rlrnwi? uz his revolver fired the fatal shot. Johk S. Stben, c <1 Philadelphia, shot his brother's wife and t.^ien put a bullet through his own temple. B 3th wounds were pronounced fatal. The man is believed to be demented. An eight-year-old bevy died in New York the other day of hydr >phobia, caused by a dog-bite received three- years ago. The lad sufferod great agony Itel'ore death came to his relief. Spabkb from a burning barn at Middletown, Pa., were borne by a high wind all over the town, and set fire to a number of buildings, one of which was destroyed. The roofi of several houses were on fire simultaneously, and for a timo there was a panic among the citizens. Patbiox Eoan, ex-ttsasnrer of the Irish land league, whoso sadden disappearance from Dublin recently excited much comment, arrived in New York the other day on an ocean Bteamer. Ho states that private business matters alone bring him to thie country. Tnz farmers in Beveral New York counties struck against the New York city wholesale milk dealers because they refused to pay more than threa ce nts a quart for milk, the demand of tho fanners being three and one-half cents. Tho far mera have combined and formed an association for their protection. Tho total milk supply of the city is about 10,COD can3 a day, and by the strike the quantity was lessened to the extent of 2,000 canB. Ehmett O'Neill, a Schenectady (N. Y.) broker who failed recently, flod, and then it was discovered that by means of forged mortgages and notes he had fleeood many farmers and others out of not less than $260,000. It is proposed to hold an intnrnational dairy exhibition, probably at Utica, N. Y., to begin early in October next awl last until late in Jannary. The proposed exhibition is intended to be the largest ever given in the United State*, and dairy and agricultural products from all countries will be exhibited. An independent convention at Providenco, It. I., nominated ex-Governor Spraguo for governor. A bill prohibiting the cremation of human bodies under heavy penalties has been iutroJucoJ into ih3 Pennsylvania semte. Not guilty was the verdict of the jury in the case of Nicholas L. Dokc-b, the young lawyer on trial at Uniontown, Penn., for the murder of Captain A. C. Nntt, cashier of the State treasury. It will be remembered that Captain Nutt had charged Dukes with ruining his daughter, and that during an niter, cation in a hotel between ihe two men the former was shot dead. The judge expressed dissatisfaction with the verctbt; citizens of Unioctown hanged Dukes and tho jurors in effigy, and an indignation meeting was callod. New Youk city is to have a Chinese thoatre. A fibe at East Hartford, Conn., destroyed the house of Hannah and Elisabeth Judfon. Both women were burned to death. Augustus 0. Boubn was nominated for governor by the Rhode Island Republican State convention at Providence, together with a foil ticket. At an indignation meeting held in Uniontown, Penn., speeches were made and resolutions passed condemnatory of the action of the jury which rendered a verdict of acquittal in the case of Dukes, slayer of Captain Nutt. The jury were hissed when thoy appeared on the streets, and most of them left town. A dozen effigies of Dukes were hung on gas lampB {and telegraph poles, and the excitement over the acqaittal was intense. Couth and Weft. "Bob"Oochb\n (colored) was hanged at Clayton, Ala , for murdoring M. 8. Drew, a storekeeper. A coaiiESPOMDKirr who reached Helena, Ark., by ti Mississippi steamer from Memphis, says that at many points there were not more than two or three spots of dry land for forty miles inland between the two cities. Scorcs of the best farms in Arkansas and Mississippi were under water and most of them had boen abandoned, the owners and laborors having tied to higher ground. In many places the cattle were standing in water which overflowed tho platformr, and almost every gin-house was fillel with oolorcd people. Four men on a train near Van Burcn, Ark., suddenly drew revolvers, shot the conductor and a brakeman, inflicting mortal wounds, and then s'.arted through tho cars brandishing their weapons, their intentions being to rob tha passengers; but tho engineer put tho train at high speed and tho robbera became alarmed and jumped off. Rewards amounting to $0,000 wera offered for their capturo and the country wns aroused, f>00 peoplo joining in the search. All four were captured. during the floods along the Mississippi a houRe near Helena, Ark., occupied by eight adulte and four children, toppled over, and the four children were drowned. The Chicago, St. Louis and Pittaburg Railroad company has made to Conrad Baker, of Indianapolis, and the Union Trust company, of New York, as trustees, a fm.t mortgage for $22,000,000, due and payable October 1, 1932, with interest at five per cent. The mortgage covers all the property of tho company. A onk-8tor? frame building filled with lodgers near Deadwood, Dakota, caught fire at midnight with terrible results t o the fifteen sleeping inmates. The sleepers were all in the loft, acoessible only to tho floor below by a ladder. Eleven of the mon were roast 'd alive, and the other four were seriously injured by jumping from the only window in the loft. A train ran into a mail coach near Crawfordsville, Ind., killing the driver and Mil ton Rnsk and Elizabeth Clark, passengers. A correspondent who has made a steamboat trip along tho overflwing Mississippi from Helena, Ark., to Memphis, Tenn., says: "Between Helena and Memphis nothing was to be Been escept water, which wa< over everything. Houses half-submerged met the eye all along the route, with occasional strips of levees, upon which could be seen cattlo that wore ganut and will die from hunger unless food is carried to them. At Austin, which is tho county scat of Tunica county, Miss., the water flowed through the streets and flooded nearly nil of tho country. Mrs. J. H. Hannah, residing a few miles below Austin, finding her dwelling entirely surrounded by water, and driven to desperation by the fact that f-he had no provisions, deliberately committed suicide by taking a dose of morphine. Two negroes, Tom Brown and Aaron Smith, were drowned in tho overflow back of Austin by the capsizing of a dugout. Tho water invaded nearly all the dwellings in Austin, whioh has no lovee to protect it, as it was thought to be above high-water mark. At the Sunday services in an Austin colored church the minister occupied the roof, while his congregation listened to him from skiffs. Nearly all the plantations on the Mississippi river between Helena and Memphie were submerged," j aa Thb Illinois lower house has passed a bill to poniah wife-beaters by whipping. Ax Pasha was arrested at Fort Fettarman, Wy., for murdering bis five companions while on a prospecting tonr in Colorado some years ago. Pasha was arrested a short time after the crime had been committed, but escaped. Am earthquake shock sufficiently heavy to shake houses, upset furniture, smash crockery and windows, and send many women out of thtir hemes screaming with fright, has been felt in Harford county. Md. Clabence Hitk, sentenced to twenty-five years' imprisonment as one of the James gang of bandits, and pardoned by the governor of Missouri, died of consumption a few weeks after his release. Thk marriage of Judge David Davis, of Illinois, late acting Vice-President of the United States, was solemnized at .Fayetteville, N. C. On account of the bridegroom's exalted position, and tho fact that he had tried to keep his approaching nuptials a secret, hifi marringo ar**?ed much interest The brido is a native of Massachusetts, but her home Bince early yonth has been in the South. She became acquainted with Judge Davis while visiting at Bloomington, 111., fifteen years ago, when Bhe was a young lady of twenty-five, and was a warm friend of the judge's first wife. Judge Davis is sixty-eight years old. After the marriage the happy couple left on an extended wedding trip, and will go as far as California, returning to Judge Davis' home at Bloomington in June. From Washington, Iw reference to tho $2,000 check which Rerdell testified ox-Senator Dorsey, one of the defendants in tho star-route case, had given toCongr3~s:nm Belford, of Colorado, the following explanation is given in a Denver dispatch: 'Frjm authentic sources it is learned that in July, 187J, Judge J. B. Bissol, of Leadvillo. won .?<2.003 from S. W. Dorsey. in a game of poker while on a train going to Denver, for waich amount Dorsoy gave liis check. This is evidently the check referred to by Iicrdoll an having been given to 'J. B. B.,' claiming to mean Congressman J. B. Belfori." The commissioners appointed to revise the civil service rales and regulations?Messrs. Eaton, Gregory and Thoman?preiented themselves before Chief Justice Waite and we:o sworn into office. Reab Admibax J. W. A. Nicholson, lately in command of the European station, has been placed on the retired list by operation of the law. He is succeeded in command of the European station by Rear Admiral Charles H. Baldwin. The secretary of the treasury having dirocted that the word " cents " be added to the new five-cent piece, the superintendent of the Philadelphia mint, who designed thn original coin, is eneaeed in preparing a device for the back of the proposed coin, which will include the denomination of its value in unmistakable terms. No order hasi however, been made suspending the coinage of the new five-cent pieces, and the mint bureau reports that they are being issuel from the Philadelphia mint at the rate of naarly $5,0C0 worth a day, which amount ii said to be sufficient only to supply about half the applications made for Ihom. The treaty of peace between the United States nnd Madagascar, whoso envoys are now in this country, has been ratified at the state department and proclaimed by the President. The chief of the secret sorvico division of the treasury department his been advisod that a most dangerous counterfeit of the slandard silver dollar has made its appearance. The base coin has the exact weight, ring ai d appearance of tho genuine, and resists the acid test uuless the outer coating of silver is pouoi rated. It would readily be accepted as genuine by merchants. Several nf the pieces have only been discovered upon reaching a sub-treasury. General Thomas J. Beady, one of the defendants in the star-route cases, appeared on the witness stand and tes'.ified that in July, 1876, he was appointed second assistant postmaster-general and retired in April, 1881, Witness specifically denied all the charges in nAntioftfmn Ttri+Vi +Ko laffinr* nnf of c+or-rr?nIn contracts madoagainst him by tho prosecution. The two ambassadors with the unpronounceable names from Madagascar viBitod the state department and made a parting call upon the President. The ambassadors expressed profound appreciation of the kind reception they had met with in this country and the many courtesies extended to them. The President expressed tho hope that their visit might lead to closer relations between the two governments. Absistant Tbeascbeb A. N. Wyman has been appointed by the President United States treasurer aa successor to James Gilfillan, resigned. Ln the eight months ended February 28, 1883, there arrived in the United States 800,484 emigrant, against 375,033 for a like period of the previous year. Foreign New*. Dubino a heavy gale along the English coaat the fishing fleets suffered severely. Eighty Hull vessels arrived in a damaged condition, twelve of them having lost me g bere of their crews. Three vessels foundered, one with a'.l hands. A LAitGK socialistic gathering in Paris came into collision with the police and military and a riot followed. Louise Michel, the female socialist lender, addressed the crowd from a billposter's luddo.\ Six persons were arrested for*esisting Ihe police, who drove the crowd into othor streets. The people reassemble J, broke into some bakers' shops and overturned carriages. They were charged by the police and cavalry and a number of persons were wounded. Eabthquake shocks have taken place in various parte of the province of Quebec. In a battle with smugglers at Salinas, Mexico, two corporals and a private wore killed. Nineteen of the persons arrested in Paris for rioting have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, the severest sentence being six months. Pbdjoe Gobtschakofp, ex-chancellor of the Russian empire, and for many years Russia's leading statesman, is dead in his eighty-fourth year. Pbofessob Wiggins, the Canadian weataer prophet, in an interview expressed himself satisfied that the storm which he prognosti| cated had taken place as ho announced. He /loninroH fhnt it was as an astronomer and not as a weather prophet ho had made hiB predictions, and that to a man acquainted with his system it was as easy to predict a storm 100 years in advauce as one only twen. ty-four hours distant. The roof of a theatre in Havana fell in upon a coffee-house, demolishing that building and killing a number of the inmates. Intelligence from Paris Bays that the receut disturbance there is due to the fact that 00,000 persons are out of employinont. Many foreigners are keeping away from the city owing to i(s uiifc-etile.l condition. As many ns 1,200 persons have beon arrested in the province of Andalusia, Spain, for complicity in the anarchist movement. Of this number 100 are charged with murders, agrarian outrages, and with being abettors of the "Black H ind" society. Sixty of nficrtnftpc Imun fKfiir nnmnlipifu in four murder?. Pivkks Hay thufc there are 400 bodies in the hold of (!n- wrc rked steamer Cimbria. I.onwin Y'.'wr-.' correctntentat Paris, speakintr of I.'k1 rumor that President Grevy intend.'d *u resign, pays 1 lint the general [.o!i;i'.al situation, tho constant strides of radicalism, the chronic instability of cabineis, the insulls of reactionary organs and the threats made at anarchist meetings explain iho desire of M. Grovy to ie.<igu the prosi lieicy. M. De Lessee has left France for Tunis, North Africa, to direct surveys in the projcct to ronvert the Desert of Sahara into an inland sea. Mb. Paknell's bill to amend tho IrMi land act was opposed in the British house of commons by Mr. Gladstone, and was defeated by G3 yeas to L'.'O nays. The Vienna town council has resolved to hold an exhibition in 1884 of articles connected with city improvements. Every mnniVmnlitv in Eurone. America and Aus tra'.ia will bo invited to semi exhibits. In order to keep German emigrants a3 much as possible under tl:o supervision and control of the German laws, the German government has purchased 1,000,000 acres of land in Mexico, and is negotiating for 'J,0C0,00u acres more for colonization purposes. OxroicD defeated Cambridge by threo lengths in the aumnl boat-race of these two leading English universities. Tue physician who attended Prince Gortschakoff at Baden-Baden states that there wore enough grounds for suspecting that the prince had been poisoned. In his will, made on his deathbed, the princo requests the authorities to suppress any inquiry as to whether he had been poisoned. The theory of Romberg, that neuralgia is the prayer of the suffering nerve for healthy blood and more of it, is now generally received by physicians. ; A NABBOW ESCAPE. D?t*U? of tht Terrific Explosion la Engllak G?Terum?ni Building*, The utmost consternation was created in London by an attempt to blow np the English local government board offices near the houses of parliament. One account of the occurrence Bays: Every part of Westminster, the abbey, the houses of parliament, the great structures of the public offices, the clubs and dwelling houses were violently shaken to-night by a tremendous explosion, At 9 o'clock p. u. precisely a groat detonation was heard, followed by the crash of glass falling from thousands of windows. A deliberate attempt has been made to blow up part of /vAlonn *Ko r>ai4 n/?nnniorl hv tuu ^UTCIULUCiH U1UVCO) bUU |?U1V wvuj/tvM ?/ Sir Charlefl Dilke and the local government board, in the immense building bounded by Parliament street, Downing street, Charles street and. St. James park. The apartments in question front on Charles street and are almost level with the pavement. The walls are of great thickncrs, and of solid masonry, and the windows protected by a massive stone balustrade. Opposite, fifty yards away, is the King street police station. Fifty feet away a sentry guards the Parliament street front. Charles street is dark and unfrequented at night, which partly explains the extraordinary fact that no lives were lost. The dynamite was placed on the window-sill inside the balustrade, where the fuse when burning would be concealed from the view of any one passing. The force of the explosion was terrific. The great stone balustrade was obliterated, the massive masonry rent to fragments, and the pavement shattered and ground to powder. A wooden structure opposite was blown into splinters, and a mass of stone was driven through the wall of the house beyond it. Inside the offices there remained nothing but splintered wood, brokon plaster, walls burst asunder?an indescribable scene of destruction. The stie-jt was completely covered with tho fragments of broken plate glass blown bodily out and shattered to atoms. Tim firw-irq of iho Kinrr street nolice station were burst in by the blast of air, ana the detachment present was prostrated. Broken timbers and masses of stone were sent flying into King street. People crossing at Parliament street were knocked down. A hansom and horse were flung acrcm the sidewalk against the front of the Whitehall club, in which the great plate glass windows were driven in a shower into the rooms. Everywhere the greatest consternation prevailed. People poured out of their houses, the broken glass cracking under their feet. In the house of commons the alarm was general. Many members left immediately, the lobby was emptied, and people rushed out of Westminster hall. Some two hundred polioe and a detachment of the fire brigade took possession of Charles street and drew a cordon around the building, which no one but members of parliament and public officials were allowed to pass. As the alarm spread IhousandB flocked from all i arts toward Westminster and the most intense excitement prevailed, the report rapidly gaining currency that the house of commons had been blown up. No one to-night pretends to explain the motive or purpose of the act. It is ascribed to the Irish Invincibles, as a matter of course, and is described as part of a Fenian plot, a threat and a warning to the government. One thing only is certain?it was a deed of frightful recklessness and atrocity, and only an inexplicable good fortune prevented it from being attended with the most serious fatality. beverai auempia nave ai!-u uecu wuuo w blow up the building occupied by the London Times. That paper made the following statement: "An explosion at onr office occurred at 7:-15 o'clock on Wednesday evening, but the falling of the canister prevented any serious damage. There is reason to believe that two attempts of this kind were made by the same miscreants." FACTS AND COMMENTS. If the estimate of Rufus Hatch, now in Europe, be correct, the demand for American food products during the coming year or two is likely to be of vast proportions. He states that according to his information not more than half the available acreage of Europe will be seeded this season, owing to the floods and consequent bad condition of lands covered by floods. The surplus of grain and provisions existing in this country now and that of 1883 will be wanted across the Atlantic at liberal prices. The devastation and distress in Europe are widespread, and affect both Great Britain and the continent. The assertion that the soldiers of the guard of President Garfield open the tomb, identify the body and exchange receipts as often as they relieve each other, is explicitly denied by Lieutenant Burbank, the oflicer in charge. This is the order of the secretary of war: "Until otherwise ordered by competent authority, no one save Mrs. Garfield, the wife of the late President, must be allowed to view the remains in your charge." Lieutenant Burbank n /iAi?*nor*nnrlnnf nf f ho 11(13 (idaui'cu (i vuiicopuuutuu v/a. wn v/ Philadelphia Press that the order is rigorously observed, and that no one except Mrs. Garfield is allowed, upon any consideration whatever, to enter the vault. A Miss Martin, living near Auburn, Mass., being thrown upon her own resources for support by the failure of her father, who was at one time very wealthy, determined to go into the business of pickling and preserving. Iler friends, knowing what an excellent housekeeper she was, took all she could make the first year. The second year she made more, and sold all. The third year she made more yet, and was unable to supply the demand. The fourth year she increased her facilities, and her reputatiou had by this time spread so far that she did a very large business, and even sold to some of the larger stores of New York. Xow her profit from pickles and preserves reach the very comfortable sum x _ ai a rvrvrv ,1 a 01 ifOjUUl' lO *>1U,VW, <tUU OlIU \JU1J works from May to November. From figures only recently made public it appears that in August, 1870, 780,728 German soldiers crossed the French frontier, followed during the war by 22*2,762 others. The soldieis remaining in Germany were 400,000 At the close of the armistice the German army counted 936,918 men. The army besieging Paris numbered 180,000 men, while the Paris garrison numbered 230,000 men. The number of combats in which at least one company, one squadron or a battery was engaged was 766. There were 333,341 French prisoners sent into Germany. The French lost 107 flags, 7,441 cannons and 855,000 firearms. The loss of the German army was 129,000 men, of whom 48,862 were killed *and 88,838 wounded; 17,572 were killed on the field and 10,710 died in consequence of their wounds. A Mexican naner calls attention to the value of certain kinds of wood found in that country. It says: The large tracts of precious woods covering the coast regions of Mexico are beginning to attract their merited attention. Jioth the domestic and foreign press devote increased attention to the matter. .Both the Pacific and the gulf coasts of the republic contain large tracts of finest cabinet woods, from which, however, on [y small quantities are exported. The woods, which in American markets are in constant demand at good prices, are recklessly burne I as common fuel. Few branches of industry are more surely prolitable than this, and if capitalists would give the matter due attention they would develop a large and almost unexplored source* of wealth for themselves and of beneiit for the country. If a company were organized for large export of these woods to the United States and Europe, the results would certainly be gratifying. Of Doctor Hugh J. Glenn, of California, the extensive wheat farmer who was recently shot by his discharged bookkeeper, the San Francisco Jiulletin says: "Doctor (Jlenn was one of the remarkable men of this age. Educated as a physician, an unexpected event made him a landholder, and in a few years he became the largest farmer on the globe, and the only wheat-grower in America who chartered his own ships and sold by telegraph his own grain in Europe, dispensing with middle men entirely. His payments for labor and supplies on his great ranch have reached as high as 1600,000 in a single year. In addition to this he owned a 70,000acre ranch in Oregon, stocked with 30,001) head of cattle, neitner ninci nor cattle of which he had ever seen. lie also owned a large cattle range in Nevada. He was a man naturally given to large and bold operations. lie never lost his balance. Losses never disturbed him nor great profits elated hiin. Last summer his finest wheat field took fire, and a $100,000 crop was destroyed in two hours; but Mrs. Glenn said ber husband slept sounder than she had known him to sleep for months. Physically, I)r. Glenn was an almost perfect man. There was not a weak spot in his round, well-knit body and broad shoul ' : -v.: ders. He could ride a mule eighteen hours a day without fatigue, and has often done it when personally superintending his ranches long distances apart. Dr, Glenn wa3 an indulgent father,and there never was anything too good for his family. He was a popular man in his own neighborhood, which, for so large an employer, is high praise. When he ran for governor he received every vote at Jacinto except three. His untimely death was a terrible shock to his many friends all over the State." HEALTH HINTS. A teaspoonf ul of the white of an egg well beaten and mixed with lemon and sugar taken occasionally will relieve hoarseness. Says Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. A Maryland medical journal has related a case of fatal tetanus, or lockjaw, following vaccination in a strong man of forty years. To prevent the hair from falling out apply once a week a wash made of one quart 01 oomng water, uue ouuuo ui pulverized borax, and half an ounce of powdered camphor. Ilub on with sponge or piece of flannel. If stung or bitten by an insect, snake or animal, apply spirits of hartshorn very freely with a soft rag, because it is one of the strongest alkalies, and is familiar to most persons. The substance which causes the so-called poison from bites or stings is, as far as is ascertained, generally acid. Hence the hartshorn antagonizes it in proportion to the promptitude with which it is applied. If no hartshorn is at hand, pour a cup of hot water on a cup of cooking soda or saleratus, or even the ashes of wood just from the stove or fireplace, because all these are strong alkalies, and hartshorn is only best because it is the strongest. Eating Fifty-Three Eggs. " Talk about eating sixty quail in thirty days; that is nothing. I can eat two quail a day the rest of my life if anybody will find'em; but I'd a little rather try it on yellow-leg snipe," said Mr. Charles F. Murphy, the fishingrod maker, of Newark. "If Dolph jaKes was anve uo couia eai a uevy every day. He was the fearfullest gormandizer I ever saw. Did I ever tell you how he beat me out of $2.65?" "No, Murphy; how was it?" said the listener. " Why, I was settin' in the Astor lunch one night and in came Dolph. He walked up to the bar and took a drink. There was a big dish of hardboiled eggs at one end of the bar, and he began going for the hen fruit. He picked up an egg, cracked it on the liar, picked the shell off and ate it. 13ut he didn't stop; he ate another and another until he had swallowed five. I was watching him, and it made me real mad to see him so greedy. So I said: 'Dolph, you had better eat'em all, hadn't you?' "' So I will, Charles, if you'll pay for 'em,' said he. " Go right along,' I said; '111 pay if you finish the dish.' " TT? ? <-<4-V* rt O " Xlt? never atuppcu. umu iio u?u eaten twenty-five more. He then took a drink, ate an oyster stew, a plate of crackers, and finished the dish of eggs. There were twenty-three more. Fiftythree eggs was what he ate, and they had the cheek to charge me five cents apiece for 'em?just $2.651 was out. I never spoke to Dolph again. I wouldn't associate with him after that."?New York Gastronomer Waggish Customers. A gentleman entered a Portsmouth (N. II.) drugstore and asked for the "dark possibility of bright ideas." The clerk looked nonplussed and he said he hadn't it in stock. The customer then explained that he wanted?a bottle of ink. Which reminds an exchange of the joke played by a waggish lawyer friend who, wishing to purchase some candied dates, inquired of the bewil dered attendant in tne store 11 ne naa any " chronological confectionery." The Frederickton (New Brunswick, Can.) Reporter says: "Nobcdy can but admire the persistent enterprise manifested by the owners of St. Jacobs Oil in keeping the name before the public. It received a big ' send off' in the House the other day by the Hon. Mr. Perley, who warned his colleagues in the Government of the danger of Bear Killers receiving two bounties for one nose; the judicious use of the Oil causing rapid growth." Appropriate. A well-known Presbyterian clergyman, somewhat famous as a wit, was approached by a Baptist clergyman with the question : "Well, brother, we're going to have a new bell for our church. "What sort would you recommend?" There was a twinkle behind the Presbyterian parson's glasses, and he answered promptly : "By all means a diving-bell." to consumptives. "Golden Medical Discovery" is a concentrated, potent alterative, or blood cleansing remedy, that wins golden opinions from all who use it for any hamor, from the common pimple, blotch or ernptdon, to the formidable scrofulous swelling or ulcer. Internal fever, soreness and ulceration yiold to its benign influences. Consumption, which is but a Bcrofuloos affection of the lungs, may, in its early stages, be cured by a free use of this God-given remedy. See article on consumption and its treatment in Fart III of the World's Dispensary Dime Series of pamphlets, costs two stamps, postpaid. Address Wobld's Dispensabt Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Great Britain has no less than 1,674 generals in her army, but only 250 of them are in active service. A Lady Wants to Know The latest Parisian style of dress and bonnet; a new way to arrange the hair. Millions are eipended for artificial appliances which only make conspicuous the fact that emaciation, nervoas debility and female weakness eiist. t"\_ t(( vawamfa "d^aenwnfmn '' ia anlrl X id W3 O X" QTUlilU X IVJVtil/Wwu AW UW4V4 under a positive guarantee. If need as directed, art can be dispensed with. It will overcome those diseases peculiar to females. By druggists. The Scotch Duke of Athole is probably the most extensive tree planter in the world. During his life the duke has planted 27,000,000 sprouts, covering lf>,000 acres of his private estate._ What's .Saved Is Gained. Workingmen will economize by employing Dr. Pierce's medicines. His " Pleasant Purgative Pellets" and "GoldeL Medical Discovery" cleanse the blood anil system, thus preventing fevers and ot!ier serious diseases, and curing all scrofulous and other humors. Sold by druggists. The single mining district of Dortmund in Westphalia, produces almost 25,000,000 tons of coal a year, and 82,000 miners are employed in 200 mines. We feel that we are doing the public a favor in calling their attention particularly to Hood's Sarsaparilla. Tliis is not a patent medicine, but a proprietary article, possessing real curative properties, and its effects are very positive on Spring Debility, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, and all troubles caused by impure blood. Give it a trial for that "outof-sorts " feeling from which so many suffer, and which is neculiar to this season. Dubing the past four years 198 boys and girls in France have taken their lives, of whom a large number wero under twelve years of n?e and one only seven. A good name at home is a tower of strength abroad. Ton times as much Hood's Sarsaparilla used in Lowell as of any other. "Itoaffh on Rntn." Clears out rata, mico, roaches, flies, bedbugs, ants,skunks,chipmunks,gophers, 15c. D'g'sle. If you are hairless and cappy, there is one way, and no more, by which you may be made caroless and hapny?use Carboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum. It will positively make new hair grow. pc?lpilr cEM FOR cures. . Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago. Backache, Headache, Toothache, ^ureThroat.Snrrlllnii.NprNlnn.BrnliH, Burn*, Scnldft. Fruit lilies, A!SD ALL OTIIEll 110111!,* PAISS AN1) AdirS. SoUUj Druf?l?l?nnrt l)??l?ri?T?rTwber?. Fifty Cenu* bc?tl?. Dirrctloni In 11 i.an|iii(ei. 13 TIIE CI1AU1.ES A. VOUEI.Kit CO. [nummiii 11 H '""""" r B>lll?ore, MJ..C.5. A. x y y~u?t1 ~ 44 BioIM?PI1W The Quick, complete core,annosingKidnay, Bladder, Urinary Diseases. |1. Proggiata. Twer Axle Grease. One greasing lasts two weeks; all ethers two or three days. Do not be imposed on by th? humbug stuffs offered. Ask your dealer forFraeer's, with label on. Saves your horse labor and you too. It received first medal at the Centennial and Paris Expositions. Sold everywhere. mother Swu'i Worm Syrup. Infallible, tasteless, harmless, catliarticjfereriahnee^reetleganeae, worms, constipation. 25c. Stbaiohteh your boots & shoes with Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners, and wear them again. We use 21,000,000 spools of thread a year and 3,000 or 4,000 cords of wood in making the spools. * THOUGH SAM RHEUM Doe* oot directly Imperil life, it la a illiln ?fnJ, Tax*. tioc* and rtaolnta complaint, Patient endurano* of It* numerous rery amall watery pimple*, hot and smart**, require* true fortitude. If the discharged matterftioks, Itchea, and the *eab* leave underneath a reddened marface, the disease ha* not departed, aad Hood's Sana* pari II a, In moderate do***, thoold be oontlnoad. FAMOUS CASE IN BOSTON. "My little four-year-old girl had a powerful erupttoa on herface and head. Under her eye* it wm regular scalding red and ion, like a bun. Back of her left ear we had to share her hair oloee to her head. Fire or fix physicians and two hospitals fare up her case a* incurable, save that she might outgrow it. When It began to maturate J became alarmed. In three weeks, with Hood's Sanaparilla, the sores began to heal; two bottle* Iam." JOHN CABEY, 164 D Street, South Boston. ATTEST: I know John Carer. He is an honest, good man, whose statements are worthy of entire credit, I believe what he says aboat his child's sickness. CLIHTON H. COOK, Milk Street, Boston. HOOD'S 8ARSAPARHJLA. Sold by Druggists. $l;sixfor$5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD ?b CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Mm. A Quick Recovery. It fires as great pleasure to state that the msrohaat who was reported as being at the point of death from aa attack of Pneumonia, has entirely recovered by the ass of Dr. Win. Hall's Balsam If or the '.Lungs. Naturally hs feels gTateful for the beneflta derirod from using this remedy, for the longs and throat; aad In giving publicity to this statement we are actuated by motives of public benefaction, trusting that othen may be benefited in a similar manner. Durno's Catarrh Snuff cores Catarrh and all affections of the mucous membrane. Edey*s CarboUo Troches core colds and prevent disease. "Best Cough BaliiamPn thefWorld." Tit it. Price 10c. f. w. Kin a if an ? Co., Augusts, Maine. Childhood. Manhood and Hoary Age Kx? claim In Unisont "Behold the Conqueror." During a brief visit to the ancient town of Warwick, B. I., recently, our agent extended his trip to the southeastern extremity of the town, to look abou among the wonderful Improvements which have been made in the appearance of Warwick Neek during a comparatively brief period, and while con versing on this subject with Col. Benjamin S. Hacard, the popular proprietor of the Warwick Neck Hotel, he learned that the greater part of the handsome summer residences had been erected inside of a doten years; and he also learned that Col. Hazard had been a great sufferer from a chronlo disease of the kidneys and bladder over fifteen Tears, the most painful form of It being a stoppage or retention of the urine, which was so rer7 seme at timee as to disable him for his accustomed work, and eren confine him to the bed, when a surgeon's assistance would be required to relieve hiss. He was being doctored a large part of the time, bat coald get no permanent reliof. At times his sufferings were terrible from (harp, cutting pains through the kidneys and bladder; and he had suffered so long and so sere rely that he had become discouraged of getting well again, especially a* the doctor stated that It waa doubtful if a man of hia age, with such a complicated disease of long standing, ould be cured. But last summer, when he was suffering Intensely from one of these attaoks, a gentleman who waa boarding at his hotel urged and persuaded him to try a bottle of Hunt's Bemedy, as be had known of some wonderful cures effected by It. Mr. Hazard says he had no faith in it, bat consented reluctantly to try it; and after taking it only two days the intense pains and aches had disappeared, and be commenced to gain strength rapidly, and in lees than wsek was attending to his accustomed work, and haa never had a return of the pains. Mr. Hazard Is over seventy years of age, and on the 36th of November, 1883, when our agent met him, although it was a very cold and blustering day, he was in the field with his team at work pulling and loading turnipa, aa hale and hearty a man as you could wish for, whereas last August he waa unable to stand up to oversee the work then going on is this same field. Hunt's Remedy had given him health and strength again, and he recommends It to his relatives and friends, several of whom are now taking it, as he considers it moet excellent remedy for all diseases of kidneys or bladder. tion of the menta, aa ?BqV atonic, of Hoatettert (TuBa. Stomach Bitters. Not the stomach, makee W. - and kidney trouble!" l^w STOMACHand oonqaers as well " pre rent! fever and QlrVPK#^ am#. Yottale brail III KaDrnujctaU and Mat. ___5_P. _ _ IBEz- er? cenermlly. V WIEBOBU CQMPQUBD OF ^ FUSE COD LIVES [ L OIL AND LIME, J To Consumptive'.?!)Ixny have been kappy to (jive thoir testimony in favor of the use of "Wilbur'* Pure Cml Liter Oil and time." Experienco ha* proved it to bo a valuable remody for Consumption, Asthma, Diphtheria, rn'l *11 disease* of the Throat and Lungs. Manufacture, only by A. B. WlLBOB, Chemist, Boston. Sold by all druggists. WnPHH Mf AtMOing hmmitm Pby* BlIllHl icIan u Ll'I'V Office In New York P I | for the Core of 3. S. R D EPILEPTIC FITS. From Am JournalofMcdicine. Dr. Ab. Meserolo flat* of London), who make* sp?daity of Epilepsy, has without doubt treated and enrtd more cases than any other living physician. Bis success ^ i .imri. h?(.n Minnlihlnc: we have hoard of cases ol over 30 ronrj' Handing successfully cored by Mm. Hs ha* published a work on this disease, whlen be tends with a large bottle of bis wonderful cure free to any snrfjror who may send their express and P. 0. Address Wt oJvljn ait7 uno wishing a cure to addrew l)r. AC. HKSEHOm. No. ?? John Bt.. Wew York. THE SUN EV^srr THE SUN'S first aim is to be truthful and useful; it* second, to write aa entertaining history of tho times in which wo live. It prints, on an average, more than a million copies a week. Its circulation w now lirycr than ever before. Subscription: Daily (4 pact's), bv mail, 55c. a month, or 86.50 a year Bunjay (8 paRfx), 81.20 per year. Weekly (8 pages). 81 per year. _ I. W. ENGLAND, Publisher, New York City. _ It relieves at once Burns,Pile*, Chapped Hands or XJm.I Coras, Bunions.Scalds,Bruises,Soreness of feet,bands,I eyes, etc. ;ltchingfromanycaiise. esc. Ask your drug J L?a gist, or scad to n Fulton 8treat, M. Y.^?I ffSpTthlsML Y^SInger, $20 With S< set of Attachments Free. Warranted perfect. Llcht running fSZn /^UB quiet,handsome and durable. Sent Hn flT on test trial-plan when desired. BM ? fI /gift Happy Home Orgaall i sets VBl iMTISQB Heeds, 12 stops: Mechanical Sub BaitK, octave coupler. J knee swells, Yjf TVl with #3 stool and$lBook(onij'ITS. 40Sn f\MRHM sired. Elegant case, magnlrlccnt ^5gr??KSB** tone, durable inside and out Clr11 i 1 cular.withtestimonials,free. Ask """* G. Payne 4 00. ,47 Third ar,Chicago IMITATION STAINED GLASS. Indescribably beaatifui. Easily applied to window glass. 1.000 references, wimples, etc.. l!5c. In stamps. , AGENTS' HERALD. 16pp. SH46 (lUc.): feat? less in its denunciations of Hundry humbugs. Indorsed by 600, UJ0government officials and citizens, liareehmeu to com monty. Subscription 60c. NEW subscriber! ONLY 25c. 820 to finder of Inncest word, each edition of Herald. L. LU3I S.1HT1I, Philadelphia. Pa. KILLS Roaches, Bed-Bugs, Mic?, Moths, Flies: Fleas, Ants, Lice nJuIjlitjSU on Body, Birds, Chickens; Insects, Infallible remedies. No Poison. No Danger. All AAAfl B - Stores,iftcto60c. Ijfllm I MU 405, Broome St.. N. Y. Use only UUUlHIl SHver'&ro jStove*Poll^i^lega^j^cnt~Bi7i^riT CONSUMPTION. Xharo a positive romedy for the above dlioase; bylta uia thousands of cases of the worst kind and of fooz standing havo boon cured. Indeed, so strong la my falin In lu omcacy, tliat 1 will send TWO BOTTLES FREE, together wltb a VALUABLE THEATISK on this disease, to any auJTuror. Give Express and P. O. addreaa. __ .Pit. T. X. amcun. m PoarlBt., Now York. iffl CURES WHERE ALL USE FAILS. S H BestCongb Hyrup. Tiw* tee good. CI Use in time. Sold by drngglsta. g| P|)|ip For distributing circular*, one bottle In (lili each community of my Wnfoker Grower; I lllak will grow beautiful Mustache and Whiskers on any face in SlUdays. Send two3c. stamps; nopoatals. J. ritANK WILLI AMS, llftrolt. .Mlrh. rnn to- t.a. m. B^nuw CoImw *?r?vi?r. A Showing tha Aaclaal Tampla ud Muoaia Maiura ^ #?yt?mili dlKovarad la Mazlm; alio, Ua larp naw jF iituitrmUil Calalofia of Vuoolc bonia and rood^ /\#\ with bottom prlraa; lio.ixrtUuUnof IhaTarrlotn / V \i,a luiinnioffere.J K. a. M. REDDING A CO BMon!crnbl.?i?i?aaa llaaulaciLrar^ Til liro?Jw?y,Ji?w I?l_ C U n D T U A 11 n By Mail. Satisfaction guarOil Un I "llnliU anteed in every respoct. Send Ii>c. for specimens and terms. CLARKE, Stenographer, 4 Gi'rmantown avonue, Philadelphia, Pa. s03ES?E??J Wfi&m. CAI ^by watchmakers. Br mail Sac. Circulars 5 U u free. J.S. Bmcn ACQ.. 88 Per St.. h.t. CCC a week In your own town. T?rm? and So outtlt jpvv free. Addressh. Halwctt A_Uo.. Portland, Me. A grnt(i Wanted for the Beet and Faatest-sellln* J\ nrtonnl Bix-ks and Bibles. Prices reduced.?! per oent. National PfUi.iauiNO Co.. Philadelphia. Pa. CT> f 1 COLEMAN BUSINESS COLLEGE, a Ajm V^f a Newark, N. J. Write for Catalogue. #7Q A WEEK. $l2adayathomecasilymado. Costly $ I C outlit free. Address TliUK A Co., Augusta, Mo. 4 A A dnv at homo, la samples, worth ,$5,by return mail f'tl'REE. Address MASON A: CO., Montpelicr.Vt A Sure Curo for Epilepsy or Fit# in 2( nours. Free to pour. Du. KltusE, M4 Antonalat., St. Louis, Ma VnilUP UCII I'oarn telegraphy here and we will lUUnU mCH give you a situation. Circulars free. VALENTINE ifltOS., Janewville. Win, (R (n (OA per day at home. Samples worth $5 free, gu IU Addrsis Stinson A Co., Portland, Me. NATURE'S OV WILS0N1A MAGNE IMPORTANT TO THOSE WHO IIESITA' of any disease (except in some raro. very extreme canes), Reference, by permission, Park National Bank, New WILSONIA Appliances are MADE TO FIT THE DIFFERENT PARTS nf M All diseases that are curable, and some that are considered READ THE SUBJOIN For fuller information, price lists, etc., address print The Pastor < Bins: I have personal knowledge of tho very marked pinal difficulty, amounting to partial paralysis, contim: practice; the other, groat distress and enfeeblement fn head. In each case tTie cure has been entirely satisfactor, One writes: "I got * Wilsonia' for Neuralgia of the twenty-five pounds in weight." Another: "Ihailastrok Since. I dragged one toot in walking, and could not walk I can use my limbs as well as when a boy." Another: "I Knees. 1 got ' Wilsonia,1 and am no-.v itliio to walk and pepsia, Rheumatism, Constipation an 1 L)i*?e of the K! atimo. I bought' Wilsonia,' and am m well as any one at Wilsonia Magnetic Cloti ofwomwR ^SwATHBEWI^pl THE HOPE flSl ^ LYPIA E. PINKHAM'S f VEGETABLE COMPOUND. I A Sore Can tor all VBKALB WEAK- I N ESSES, Including LeneorThoa, Ir. I r?pltf and Painful Oltnutrnatloa, I Inflammatloa aad Ulceration of ^. I the Womb, Flooding, FBO* I LAPSUS UTERI, <fcc. I VFleMnt to the Urte, efflcidotu ud Immediate I la 1U effect It Is afreet help la pregnancy, sad re- . M Ueree pels during labor and at regular period*. M FHTBICUHIOTlir AITO PIMCKIBI IT TOUT. M WFom iuTOuxmsa of the jreneratire orgaM of either eez, U fieecondtono remedy that luu era M been before the publics and for all dlieaeee of tke 1 tam it to the OnaUtt Stmtd v in Us World, I CT* KIDNEY COMPLAINTS of Either Sex I Find Great Belief in Ita Uae. I I/TDIA r. FnntHAM'9 BLOOD prmjruut I will enullcate every restto of Humor* from ttt Blood,at the tame time wfllgiTe tone andftresfftb to I theijeicm. AimarreUotiaInreiuh??jtheCompound. tyBoth the Compound and Blood Purifier ere I pared at <33 and *35 Wertera Avenue, Lffna, Hut I Price of either, fi. Six bottle* for $5. The Compooad B Uientbjmafl In the form of pill*, orof loa*at*a,ea I receipt of price, $1 per box for either. Mr*. Flnkham I freely answer* all letter* of Inquiry. Enclose 3 cent 1 (tamp. Send for pamphlet Mention thU Paper. m ttt,nru B. PnrxxjJtB lim Pilu pare Con*tlp?? M tlon. Biliousness and Torpidity of the liver, ti cent* JtySold by all Prggjgj^jjt o> jflH | HA 8 BEE^ROVED# | The6U1U8T CUKE for | I ! KIDNEY PI8EA8B8* I I | Doee a lame bacfcoradieorderediiiTtolML ^ eate that yoc are a victim? THHH DO *OTX I liiauTAH I ON ZXEOTrr-WOET at ?W4,I| I I (druggists rooommend 1U and it will speedQy IP I umuumefbe flleeeee endriaim iheeltTijanWi 1 " MIBI ?nr aalt 0 1 ] DISEASESofthe LIVER.! I Zthaaapwlflo MtfeaoalUaaMrttBpartMl ! J onmn.fiaMtTigtttotnrow'off tncpldltTaod^. ' I I !T*fTTTl1*Hy>g thnTllMiltTlX ITlHTHTnr*! nf _ I BOe, aandby kMvatth? berwals infiniMil )( ; Malarla.lSsr^S5SC 1 wbCUom, djiytytte, or dmtljiMli IUm^ I ; Wart wlll>snl7nll?v? and qvioklyom. I la ttw spring, to oimiim tto Bjrin.tnr I . oaMhonld tata > thorowh oocm oftt \ . 1 ' Ladle8, . I ?lt^Fia ao> LuumpOJ fid I 3?m Btx. In?7Trthwno?,r?tnrtlffn of ?to% htek dn?t or ropy Aepoatto, ?od dan diacgh* ~M p*tM.?n?p?dflyytoMtalti ouiattwpw. J p .-? i wnAotoittha optima?tt?xnann% 1 xjTTOAarD Bowir&ja yownnt^ . am^o>|thonm>HmlH?>pomwil?i? . I ~^P'AMOWD" 3111? * Best Oyw Enr Ml JWPOB BILE, WOOL, OB COTTOff.-? DRISSKS, COAT?, SCARFS, HOODS. YARN, STOCKINGS, CARPET RAGS* RIBBONS, FCATHKRS, or any Uria tm fancy articla eMlly and perfectly colored to aoy 1 hada. BUek. Broma, finu, Blae, Im>||^ ObIImI Bed, K?tj Bin*, teal Bim% Dtn T> Greea, Tern Cotia sad SO other be* oolon. WsnaM #aet and Durahlo. Sach package win - ^ ^ ooloronetofburlha.ofgood?. If ycuh*ve nerar ^ niedDjn li/ tli? cnoe. Too will be delighted. Sold by dnmJett.or eend na 10 cent* and any oolor wanted eent poet-paid. 24 oolored aamplae and ft *et of fhaojr oard* eent to a So. rtamp. WXLM, KIOHABDMH A CO, Barib?t*?,Tt GOLD ami SILVER PAINT. 1 Bronze Paint. Artists' Black. Tot gllilng Taney Baakets, Tmmee, La&po, ChgkMk^iadtbriUttMiiofflBByDBiMI Bqnaltoanyof the high priced kind* and only 10ota.apackaffe.at the drngglats.orpoet-paldftcm VTZVL*, BTCHABP80X* CO? Bartt*?to?.T? _ . ilppc] I Btebla IpplU&M an rat a 30 Vtj* TAtl, rn uru adi u vnimn no ni n ill men unLij luuna un ubuj * WHO are 101101111* from Nunvoca Dnxurr, I J" L08T vrraijtt, lacx or Nan rottca An I Vioor, Wasti^o WzAKxrssrs, and ail kindred J diseases. 8peedy relief and complete restora- I tlon of Health, vioob and Manhood Gcabab- i texd. The jrrandeat discovery of the Nineteenth Century. Send at once for 111 nitrated Pamphlet free. Address % Wxik?SJSl!i?^FJw^, ; ^VJ doe* it Into tvtry home loth* UNION, veart^^ / nukingextraordinary ofllr*. We will MltiM^A ?ie?t Femily Paper publWd, entitled 44 YOUth. 30 cents. In ooe^ent po*Ux* ?Ump?, to help pn| Bpoetag* and eoet of this adrertltetnenti and to txehH person v?vin?ndf|rM th*fol)owinf i Our Cotnbifl beat Eoflbli Ntedlet, pot on In improved ntMU Each packan contain! the xollovinf 1 4 paper*, ViaM eaebi alio, I ?tael bodkin*, 8 long cotton darner*, > , BihoTt cotton darner*, 1 extra flna cotton darner*, ! ^ wxL J yarn, 1 wanted, 1 motto, 1 carpet, end J button ^KciirhHto"eighty.'' VTrtu" to-d?y. Add ^ i mite is unfalllnjj and lnfafc -i ll^vn rAia. ^?SSF? j ^*41 P?,Htlmulant. Samaritan <111 Dig 1 Pmyervinclalnvalnable. i If M * Thousands proclaim It the most wonderful In- ".*? vlgorant that ever snstalned the sinking system. For sale by all Uruggists. TTTE DR. 8. A. RICHMOND ! MKDICaL CO. Sole Proprietors, fit. Joseph, Mo. j uonsumpnon ban do kuidu t I -HALL'S 1 lungsBALSAM I Cures Consumption, Colds, Pneumonitis Influenza, Bronchial Dlmrultlcs, llronchltls. Hoarseness, Asthma, Croup, whooping ai Cough, and all Ulseanes of [ho Itreatnlnjr M Organs, It soothes and heals the Membrane of the Langs, influmed and poisoned by tho T| disease, and prevents the night sweats ana *jj tightness across the chest which nccoiunany It, Consumption Is not an incurable malady. I1ALIAS IIALSA.II will cure you, even I t i ?g w "?IL Reliable, Durable and Economical, trill farntih m \or$4 poutr uirA >?' Iru fuel and tcatrr Oian any odur Engine built, not fitted with an Automatic Cat-off. Send ' Tor Illustrated Uatnli jrue "J," for Information and Pncea. 15. W. Payne 4 Sons. Bo* aju. Coming. N.Y. SENT FREE OF POSTAGE A BOTTLE OF And a Sure Care for Corns, without pain ores. ponse. on receipt of 25c. Agents Wanted. Ad drew A. .if A JO R, 231 William Street, New York. COURTSHIP CARDS in six acta: 10r. a set. Burlesque Nations. Sc. Stamps taken. WISKIi iSc CO,, 1?K> Eaat oOth Street, New York. CPCP f Br return mail?A full description of 1 ? K? ? Moody's New Tnilor System of Drow \ Cutting. D.W, Moody A Co.. 31 W. Wh.Cincinnati.O. ] VN REMEDY. J TIG APPLIANCES. J rE.?The Wilsosia Comtant will undertake the cox* 1 ?nH if * rum be not effected, will refund the money. I York. "" ' " -1 THE BODY, and TO BE WORN OVER THE .UNDERCLOTHING. 1 incurable, yield to ths benign iiiflnenc# of'' Wilson!*.* ED TESTIMONIALS. 'V iipal office, 25 East Hth stroot. New York. .if the PfiESBYTKRUX CnuocH, JAMnsnritn, N. J. ^ benefit of your garments in two cases; one of w>riou? led fur two yearn, anil unrelieved by the bent medical j ira diabetes, with swollen feet, and troubled eyes and f y. Yours truly, liENJ. S. Kverxtt. I Kidney* last August. I am cured, and hav? gained fl oof Fan lysis 18 years ago, and bad Rheumatism erer fl one.f"'irth of a mile. ' Wilsoniit' enrod me, end now fl had Rheumatism for 2.1 years, with Anchylosis of ths , fl am free from pain." Another: " I hail Catarrh, Dyr- [ Idneys. I was confined to my room for several weeks at . my ago (63) could sipoot." lino* fin 26 East f4th Strut, J