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w * THREE SONNETS ON LIFE. I. Fair Lift, thou dear compnnion of my days?> Lifa with the" rose-red lips and shining teyes? That led'st me through my Youth's glad Paradise And stand'st beside me still, in these dull ways My older feot must tread, the tangled maze Where cares beset me and fresh foes surprise; On the keen wind and from the far-off skies Is borne a whisper, which my heart dismays. That thou and I must part. Beloved so long) Wilt thou not stay with me. inconstant Ifepi Nay, (hen. the cry upon the wind grows I must without thee fresh adventure prove, And yet it may be I but do thee wrong, And I shall find thee waiting where I rove ?Louise Chandler Moulton. Prisoner I was within a noble hall. Ringed round with many gracious images And through it floated strains which might appease Hie soul's sore thirst for music. On each Fair pictures hung,'to hold the eye in thrall? ~ Hiyh mountains, clothed in cold, immaculate peace, A light of water between wavering tree?, Wild seas, wherefrom drowned mariners seemed to call; A table stood there, heaped with fruit and wine, Bui lo! the fruit turned ashes at my gaze And to my taste the gold juice seemed like brine. Here mus> one die. then, with no chance for strife. Loathing the impotent beauty of the place; T'nen these words shivered past me: "This r~*?' is Life."' ?Philip Bourke Murston. III. We are born with pain; being born, we wail and cry; Childhood thrives best upon a mother's tears: Youth is a storm of futile hopes mid fears; Kffjgfa Manhood is marred by passion, utterly ; Bgrfjfe Age, though ho hath seen so many follies Hath not decreased his sto*o when the crave nears; Folly and noise fill all our littlo years, Till, as we are born with pain, with pain we die. J And over us God's dome of azure towers, Where suns and systems whirl and keep their place, k| vnd we call Life this piteous broil of ours, And stoop to observe, with foolish earthward face, Bp*" j While that vast pageant of stupendous Sweeps on, eternally, through silent space. ?Herbert E. Clark. Bf' ' LEOXIE'S LILAC. About 12 o'clock one bright February day in Paris Madame Ulan-het sat waiting for the arrival of her belated scholar. Miss Cora Hell, a young American whose habit it was to "spend a couple of hours three times a week in so-called "elegant conversation" in .* . theFiench language with that worthy dame. The little 'ipartment where the teacher lived had formerly been a garret over the dependance of a suburban boarding-house, taken under some stress of circumstance by its ? present occupant, and little by little, ? through taste and perseverance, it had been made to "blossom like the rose." Xo wonder merry Miss Cora liked her tri-weekly French lessons. The walls of the large room, divided into two smaller ones by screens, were hung with fluted chintz, all flowers and leaves of brightest hue. A tiny porcelain stove diffused, when called upon (but that was not too often, for madatue, like all French women, believed in economy in wood), a friendly warmth. In both windows, whose paues of glass were polished like the speckless boards of the flooring, were kept plants and birds. A great green I box of mignonette in flower sent out a luscious fragrance. Vines were made to start from behind every pictureframe and out of every china jar upon the shelves; and somehow or other they grew like .lack'sbean-stalk, strong and green and luxuriant. Best of all, a flood of geniid sunshine came in on all sides, for the garret boasted of various windows. "Where madame slept one could And out by peeping behind a screen at the white-curtained bed with thecrucifix above it, but where madame cooked no one ever guessed ; yet she had a fashion of producing from unknown corners a series of luncheons that were nectar and ambrosia to her youthful visitors. Days there had been in madame's past experience when the poor lady had known what if woo cniHoiof niirvn alonrl^r^ct'. of rations, but now the fame of her exquisite embroideries in chenille and : silk was noised abroad, while her ocEpgH casional scholars, like Cora Bell and u gPjffig few liberal Americans of the same set, made up an income 3uflicient for . the widow's wants. Madame Blanchet, sitting at the open, window overlooking an ivycovered wall that just here formed the boundary of the Bois de Boulogne, felt quite wistful with regret over tlienonKgi appearance of lur favorite scholar. " .She will not come now," the widow Mp said to herself, as the inevitable man-, fel clock struck a cheerful, loud-voiced ; "one." "Truly- She has twined herself into.,Kiy""heart, that chere petite Cora. -ITow shelaughs and dancesand siAg? her life away! Just like that %& '> .another one?so many years ago." A shiver ran over the little woman's frame, and she closed her eyes as if to banish some painful image. "My pretty Cora will never know so sad a fate "as hers, thank le bon Dieu." A light step upon the stairway, and Cora, blooming with health and animation, came intc the room. "Don't scold, dear madame. There is time enough yet for a chapter of our book before "they send for me." The lesson began, but Cora's attention wandered; her thoughts flew off at a tangent; her eyes grew dreamy; a deeper rose-color . settled in her cheeks. At last a little white protesting hand was laid across madame's page. " Blancliet, dear, I want to confess to somebody. Won't you be my . priest? You know that papa is in America attending to business always, and that mamma is forever going out. I've nobody but that stupid Parker of mine, and talk I must?1 must. Oh, Blanchet, if such a thing can be, I am too happy ! All of this dear blessed morning he has been with me, and mamma has given her consent, and we are to be married soon." And then, the Hood-gates loosed, came a stream of joyous confidence. Cora never thought to look up at her listener until she felt a hot tear, then another, drop upon her hands clasped in the widow's lap. Sr""' "What is it, dear madame?--what Ehave I said to pain you?" the girl asked, wondering, to be answered by a fit of bitter sobbing. With kind and gentle words Cora soothed her friend's emotion, and at last Madame Blanchet was able to speak once more. "Forgive me, dearest young lady," she exclaimed. " In truth I never can forgive myself. I owe it to you to explain my weakness. See here: this i-mi Iihtu nffon panorht. * ^lUClllC W ?VU lie* T V/ Vl vv?t* ^ . fflgc' v. a glimpse of in my desk. Look at it? ' Hi judge for yourself of her youth, her p kB innocence,* her beauty. She was iuy m only child, and I have lost her forever. [, Hgl Years ago she knelt as you do now, li"'1 I3r aa{* poured out to me the wealth of HRkI her leve and happiness under circumstances like yours. The rest is too ' painful for you to hear." IZ 7 " Tell me more," the girl said, tenderly. "I would be selfish indeed if I refused my sympathy at a time when all seems so bright before me." Little by little *ae story was revealed. Ten years before Leoni Blanchet had been sought in marriage by a wealthy Englishman, to whom her mother "had given her with some t; misgiving, watching her go from that ' modest home into a life of luxury with many anxious fears. The husband Leonie had chosen was handsome, i young and winning; he had made good J ? his claimto.a rank and station far . aboVe Leonie's expectations. Leonie 3 adored him. What, then, was there to ] apprehend? The widow could not tell, but still! Leonie's first letters came to her so full of boyant pride, of confident happiness, that for a time the mother could not but reflect. it. The young couple were absent upon their wedding journey in the South, and had reached Home, when a thunder-bolt fell upon the pretty, trustful bride. The man whom Leonie believed to be her husband had left his true wife in England?a gay, fashionable beauty, suUiciently "emancipated," according to the notions of her class, to mock openly and lightly at her husband's latest fancy. "But this is not for you to hear, my child," the little French teacher said. Cora, who from motives of delicacy hail avoided looking at her friend, glanced hastily up, struck by the suppressed passion in her voice. "What a transformation was there! In place of the quiet, repressed, demure personage she had been accustomed to see, Madame Blanchet's eyes were a-fire; her cheeks glowed with a dull crimson; lior tpfth wptp rlinfliPil "Do you know what I would have done to him?" she went on. "I am a Corsican, and the blood runs hot in our veins when It is stirred by wrong?va!" The brief passion was spent. It was succeeded by a calm even more full of meaning. Cora waited until her friend could trust herself to speak. " They parted then and there," Madame Blanchet went on, in a low tone. "He did not defend himself, lie simply laughed at her--mypoor, heart-broken, humiliated child. He said she was too innocent for the times she lived in. And so she was. bon Dieu, too innocent. She put all of this into one liist letter to me, and she tied?tied into the night." "And now?" the young girl said after a long silence. "Now she is sf, peace," the mother answered, quietly. " The Holy Church received her in its bosom. Leonie is one of the sisters of the convent of the Sepolte Vive. For some time past I have b?en laying up money in order to take the journey to Rome, but until recently it was all I could do to live here, and to go away from my employment meant starvation. Oh, it' I could but have seen her, I would have starved?ves, gladly ?but that is impossible. All 1 can do is to visit the outside of the convent upon her 'day.' Once a year each sister has a 'day,' when she is allowed to throw over the convent wall a flower, in token to her watching friends that she is still alive, but that is all. I j know what llower my Leonie would I choose?a bunch of fresh white lilac!" " 'Sepolte Vive'?buried alive!" the young girl repeated, sadly. A shadow seemed to fall over her life, and her budding happiness. A few months later saw the Roman spring unfold in all its glory. A party of tourists were visiting that relic of medieval days, the convent of the Sennifp l'ivo Mnst, of them turned back disappointed at the threshold, but a group of three people lingered until the rest of the sightseers, after a colloquy held through < revolving barrel in the wall of the convent, had reluctantly dispersed. Over this barrel was traced an inscription: "Who would live content within these walls, let her leave at the threshold every earthly care." Upon these lines a woman dressed in black, standing apart fiom her two companions, kept her eyes Qxed, while her lips moved in prayer. The order of nuns who have thus , condemned themselves to a living , death subsist on charity. It is only when their supplies are totally exhausted that they are allowed, after ; twenty-four hours' starvation, to ring < a certain bell, which the outside i world interprets, " We are famishing." 1 Two Lents are observed by them during the year?the one common to all i Catholic Christians, and another held ] WivAPn "November and Christmas, i In the intervals the sisters receive and ( partake of whatever food may be be- ; stowed on them by visitors. Two of the three loiterers were , young and handsome, radiant with ill- ] disguised happiness. That they were new-made husband and wife none | could doubt, and it was a pleasant j sight to see the wife order to be brought . from a carriage awaiting them a "hamper of abundant dainties, and with ] the aid of her husband proceed to un- ; pack their store. To gain answer from the convent the young man knocked briskly upon the barrel-head, which, slowly turning, revealed a shelf within. . " What wilt thou, stranger ?" came , a voice, faint and far as the note of an ] vEolian harp. So strong was the , sense of remoteness and of desolation , produced by this sound that involun- ] tarily the young wife clasped her hus band's arm in shuddering. " Oh! it is too sad," she whispered in his ear. "1 tiunK i wiu go oaejt 10 , the carriage and leave Madame ] Blanchet with you?may I not V" "Nonsense,darling. Who is it who ( has contrived arid carried out this , little expedition, I should like to , know? Come, cheer up, and bestow J your bounties upon the good sisters j within. Depend upon it, they will , relish them." ] Their presents were given, and in exchange our visitors received a series ! of cartolini.or tiny slips of printed paper folded like homoeopathic powder papers, ^ and intended to be swallowed whole j by the believer, who might thereafter ( hope for a cure of any mortal ailment possessing him. As their colloquy with ] the unseen sister came to a close, the J young man signed to Madame Blanchet 1 to draw near. The mother had kept a , veil over her face while standing by in silence, but now she sprang forward, ( and putting her lips to the opening , uttered with feverish anxiety a few sentences of wild pleading unheard by her companions. Faster and farther were the pitying accents that smote her ear in return. "' Sepolte vive,' daughter. The grave gives back no answer." j " Let us wait beneath the garden wall, dear friend," Cora said, as be- , tween them her husband find she sup- . ported the steps of the trembling ' mother from the spot. "It should be at about this time that the flower is , thrown, and oh ! how it will comfort ! you to have it from her hand !" Underneath the ancient wall of the , convent garden the little group waited J in silence. It was a moment of feel- , ing too profound for words. As the hour drew near the mother left her , friends and went to kneel alone upon j a grassy mound where her cheek . might graze the wall, as if caressing it. For a time all was silent. Tlien ; a bell sounded the hour with slow and solemn strokes. A bird burst into ' joyous caroling in the tree above where Cora stood. "It is a good omen," she said, glancing up into her husband's face. As the last stroke of the bell died upon the air something white and fragrant fell at the feet of the kneeling figure. "It is Leonie's white , lilac l" L'ora crieu, siarung joyousiy forward. But the mother did not ttir. The : token had come too late to awaken joy . or sorrow.?Harper's Weekly. 1 Men of Mean*. ] A wealthy young fellow was court- ( ing a girl of experience, and when he \ asked her to marry him she was slow ] to accept. ( "Mydarling," he said, "you should . have no fears. Don't I tell you I love < you devoutly, and life would be a blank ] without you ?" " Yes." " And you need have no alarm about our substantial comforts, for I am a man of means." , "That's just what I don't like. I've J seen so many men, and heard 'em talk, ' that I want to carry a gun when I see one coming'round. There are so many 1 men of means, and so few given to ac- ! complishing what they mean, that a girl fee's like voting for a prohibitory 1 tariff and stopping the growth of the i whole lot." The bank account was shown, and \ lie tuo gUl v " I should like to have that hand," < said he, critically, jis he looked over the t shoulder of a fair card player. "You ? may, if you like," was the soft reply. And Mhen next morning he eame a j little to himself, he found that .he'd t proposed and been accepted. I c THE FASH AND HOUSEHOLD. Planting Fruit Treed. In planting fruit trees, says the Gardener'a Monthly, aim to have them so that the hot sun will not have full effect on the ground about the roots. The great heat in this way injures the trees. Many who have trees in gardens plant raspberries under them. The partial shade seems to be good for the raspberries, and helps the trees. Blackberries would, no doubt, do well in the same situation; and strawberries, It is well known, do not do badly grown in this way. .Unnajjement of the Dairy Coiv. The general management of a cow under the best circumstances should be as near as may be as follows: The cow is fed at 6 in the morning and is thoroughly well cleaned with a card and brush and the stable is cleaned and littered. If the cow's coat is loose the brushing should be thoroughly dune and the udder made quite free from any loose hairs or dust. The cow should then be milked. About 9 o'clock she may be watered and put into a yard in line weather. The water * ? i -- - i. i-.i 1,1 U..i siiouici not ue ice euiu, uui it i? ui<i? u from a well. At noon the midday feed is given and the cow will lie down and rest. At 4 she may be turned out and watered, and at 6, or earlier when the days are short, put in and fed for the night. Before she is milked the cow is again well cleaned, and, after milking, the stall is littered for the night. If it will be eaten, a little hay or fodder may be then given. Corn Fodder. A farmer says in the Rural New Yorker: " I find corn fodder much better for cattle than fodder corn. 13y the latter I mean corn which has been sown or drilled thickly for fodder alone. I find that the stosk never appear to relish it as well or eat it as clean as they do from corn which has produced ears. I think the mistake is made of sowing too thick by most persons who grow fodder corn. Some years since, when visiting one of mifmnat nrnminonf shnrthorn breeders. he tolfl me that his most profitable crop was corn planted about twice as thick as in ordinary field culture and thoroughly cultivated. In this way most of the stalks make small ears, just suitable for cattle, and the yield of corn and fodder combined made the crop worth more than when grown for grain alone." Celery Among Potntoe*. Having, like many, rather a small garden and needing to economize space I tried setting the plants in line between two hills of Early Rose. After several years' experience of the plan I find it answers admirably. The two things work very well together. The following advantage: First, of course, two crops off the same piece of ground. Then the hilling of the potatoes (they receive the last banking up just before the celery is set), leave half a trench already made. One spit more in the bottom completed it. The plants when first set get nearly all the shading they need from the potato tops, then in their rankest vigor. Thus the scorching heat of summer is kept off the plants while they are making root. Before the summer is ended the potato tops have died down and the celery has commenced to grow vigorously. Now the potatoes arj ripe, and being dug leave abundance of mellow soil ready at hand to be scooped into the trench, and eartiiing-up proceeds with ease iind rapidity while the plants are rushing along in all the luxuriance of their autumnal growth. The only possible objection I can imagine to this plan is thedanger from paris green, with which the potatoes are dosed at least twice. In careless hands this might be, but I take care to sift the objectioial coinpound as far as possible on the potato tops only, and after several seasons experience have found no ill effect from growing the celery in such close proximity. For our dry inland summers I believe in the trench l'or celery. Last season, while some not in a trench either was entirely arrested in growth or Killed outright, that in the trench kept fresh and green and maintained a modest advance during the most scorching weather and came right along the moment the autumnal rains began to fall.?Frv.it Recorder. CleanlliiONs in Mutter .linking. A writer in the American Culti razor says: x always k.cujj Ull? ULnv and make butter l'or family use, because we relish that which is made at home better than that found on the market. "When butter is bought nt the stores, even though it be nicelooking, we never know whether it was neatly made or whether it is even wholesome. In my own butter making I try to have it as free from all im- j purities as is possible. In order to have good butter the milk must come from the stable pure and clean. Some 3f my neighbors, with unblemished reputations for cleanliness in other respects, seem to take it as a matter of ?ourse that the milk may be brought from the stable every morning with a scum of filth covering its top. Butter made from such milk I regard not only is filthy, but also as absolutely unwholesome. 1 have one neighbor who, instead of :rying to keep the filth from getting into his milk, does all his planning in Revising the best way to get it out. lie strains the milk as soon as possible, ind uses a strainer with a piece of fine 2loui ilea over uie ooiluuj. j his e* the milk a double and pretty thorough straining, and takes from it all that lias fallen into it, except such as have dissolved in the milk. While he takes the best of care of the milk after it reaches the house, he allows it to come from the stable in the filthiest condition of any I ever saw. In summer, the most of the cows in this section run in pastures during the day and are kept in large yards during the night, so there is but little difficulty in keeping them clean. But during the winter the difficulty is greater, and great care is needed in keeping cows in a clean and healthy condition. I give the plan which I have, adopted, and which has proved very satisfactory in my experience. I have plenty of room in my stable, and I give my cow an apartment by herself, measuring about twelve by sixteen feet. I never tie her to anything, but allow her to run loose. In one corner of her room I make her a warm bed of poor or spoiled hay by covering a space of about four by six feet to a depth of from four to six inches. T tea, 1 Vi,.r at- tliA rmnnsitfi <?ncl of the room, some ten fret from her bed. Iler standing hours are spent mostly at this end of the room, while she never lies ilown anywhere excepting on her bed. The result, is I always find her dry and clean. There are several advantages in this method. The cow has a much wanner and dryer bed, and it takes less bedding than when the cow is tied. The same bed, with slight additions, will last for a long time. It is very seldom, indeed, that my cow soils her , bed in any way. Again, her freedom fives her a better chance for exerc'se, iind keeps her warmer and healthier. I have never found any dilliculty in training a cowtolieas I wanted, when kept in this way. Almost any cow, excepting such as have been long Drained to lie in filth, will seek a dry place to lie on, and will keep herself juite clean, if she h;is a chance to do so. This plan is adapted more especially to the large number of New England people living on small farms or in villages who keep but one cow. Hoii*nhi>)i1 Hints. Fresh meat, beginning to sour, will sweeten if placed out of doors in the :ool air over night. Milk which has changed may be j sweetened or rendered fit for use by ! stirring in a little soda. Kerosene will soften boots and shoes | hardened by water, rendering them j joft and pliable as new. Boiled starch is much improved by ;he addition of sperm or salt, or both, )r a little gum arabic, dissolved. When cooking a large fowl or joint )f meat it may be covered with a but;ered paper to prevent its being :corched. Salt will curdle new milk, hence, in >reparing milk porridge, gravies, etc., he salt should not be added until the I lish is prepared. ' NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. Fbedebick W. Eames, fi prominent manufacturer and president of the Eames Vacuum Brake company, of Watirtown, N. Y., was shot down in his factory by Charles Higham, pattern-maker, employed by the company, and superintendent of construction. The homicide grew out of litigation between Mr. Eames and the firm of Thomas Prosser <fc Son, who had been running the factory under r. transfer made to them by the oompany while Mr. Eames was in Europe. Mr. Eames had sued to set the transfer aside, and the case had been decided in his favor and the sheriff ordered to put him iu possession of it _i,? . ?,,,i while taking posses iuu wuian * UKU _ . sion of the factory that he was shot. Higham charged that Eam03 had struck him with a ^ne. A pnoniBiTOBT amendment to the liqnor law was killed in the Pennsylvania legislature by 151 to 27 votes. Pkteb McCunn, of Fall River, Mas'., was carrying a lighted kerosene lamp to gnido his visitors?Mrs. Mary Connelly and her tivc-year-old daughter?downstairs, when, being under the influence of liquor, he tripped and felL The lamp exploded, and the burning fluid scattered over the three, inflicting terrible bums. All three were fatally injured, the woman and child dying in af'w hours. A bill against treating to drinks and a bill making eight hours a day's labor wore defeated in the Pennsylvania senate and house, respectively. Two Italians have been fighting a bloodies* duel in Brooklyn. After firing several pistol shots at each other they were about to have recourse to knives when a policeman took them in custody. Feank Labkin, a prominent professional ball player, living in Williamsburg, Long Island, while crazed by rum, shot and dangerously wounded his wife, next shot and slightly injured a policeman, aud then cut his throat with a razor, inflicting a serious wound. Larkin was a member of the Baltimore professional base ball club, and was a heavy drinker. J'eteb CoorEB is to havo a monument erected to his memory in the small park 1 ack of the Cooper institute, New York. Ueoiige jp. m>BK, n:e iormer prusiut-ui u. the People's Passenger ra-lway, of Philadelphia, and Pntr.uel Work, his brother, and a farmer director of the road, were arrested and gave bail in the sum of ?fX),000. The Works are charged by Charles S. Barrah, the recently elected president, with conspiracy to cheat, eml ozzlement and fr u 1. The amount allowed to have been stolen and squandered is between 5900,003 and ?1,0C0,000. Aftek the Irish land league convention in Philadelphia a convention of tho Irish race in America was held, the number of del*pates being 1,155. Mrs. Parnell, mother of the Irish agitator, and thirty-two other lailies were among the delegates. Oongressman-elcct M. A. Foran, of Ohio, was elected permanent chairman. A cable dispatch was received from Mr. Parnell, regretting his iin bility to be present, and counseling moderation and prudence. A permanent organization of a new Irish national league was feinted, and a platform adopted which rets forth the wrongs of Ireland, pledges the new movement to the policy of the Irish national league, and expresses confidence in Mr. Parnell and his associates. The Irish land league of America met in national convention at Philadelphia, <!&": delegates, representing ull parts of the United States and Canada, being in attendance. James A. Moonev, of Buffalo, N. Y., presided. The secretary's report showed that there arc now 848 branches of the league in this country. The treasurer's report -licred ti balance on hand of $4,915.50. A plan for uuitirg the nationel league was il opted. The officers nnd cre^ of a schooner which arrived recently at Gloucester, Mass., from Ihe banks of Newfoundland, report having disro\e el an immense turtle, which was at first thought to be a ve^rel bottom up. The ?chooner passed within twenly-five feet of Ihe monster, which wan at least forty feet lorg, tlriry feet wide and thirty feet from the apex of the back to the boltom rf the ui d rthell. The flipi ers were twenty feet ltng. tfonth and Weit It h.n l)9en discovered that the fire in the iarge colliery at Ashlaud, Pean., which has been burning for several years, is extending :n the workings in another mine. Steps will be taken to smother the flames. Two men wore practicing shotting e.t Kittanning, Perm., when enj of them shot info twn mnq of Arctic nowder stored in ft car at the depot. A terrific explosion followed. The whole town was shaken, houso.j within two squares of tho depot had scarcely a pane of glass left, several houses and can were badly damaged and a number of per sons were injured. Spkcial reporls of the condition of the wheat crop in 18^ 5 in the great grain States of the West and Northwest give promis3 of a crop not.cqual perhaps to that of last yeart but one at least up to the average of crops i for several years past. Labge prairie fires are reported from Da- i kota. Kate Kane, the only female lawyer in Milwaukee, threw a glass of wator in the face of Judgo Mallory, in the criminal court, nnd was fiued $.r)0. ' Dubing afire in Grand Army hall, Sacra- 1 mcr/o, Oal., its west wall fell outward nnd crushed the adjoining one-story saloon, /*nrrvinp nil its occupants into the cellar, killing and wounding many persons. At midnight air. dead bodies and twelve injured persons had been taken out of the ruins, while a number still remained in the fatal pit. Twisty-five building?, comprising almost the entire business portion of Aurelia, Iowa, have been burned, the total loss beiag about $100,(XX). A heavy snow storm in Nebraska and Wyoming has prostrated telegraph wires in every direction and i inprded railroad travel. , The schooner Two Brothers capsized off the California coast, and all haads, com- , prising the captain, live sailors and a pas. , senger, wire lost. A emeus exhibiting at Dover, Del., was , attacked by a crowd armed with rifli s and revolvers. The crowd opened fire on the wagons a3 they were being hauled to the depot for embarkation, accompanied by a i guard of showmen. Eight or ten of the circus employes were shot, Charles Hender- | son, one of the proprietors, receiving wounds ( which it was thought would result fatally. , Dissatisfaction with the show was the cause of the attack. Wiatt Banks (co'ored) was 1 inged at j Franklin, Texts, in presence of 2,000 spec- i tutors, for murder. Hj ascended the scaf- i f jld firmly, and spoke to the assembled multitude for ovtr two hours. A kehies of tornadocR in the States of Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and Iow.i have occasioned great loss of i life and limb, beside the wholesale destruction to property in town and country. The tornadoes seem to have bean developed al- ] most simultaneously and wholly apart from t each olher within a large barometric de- < pression which existed at the tirtie i over nil the territory east of the Rocky mountains. The village of fleanre- { gard, Mis--., was almost entirely destroyed, < tl e number of killed being estimated nt f over twenty, and v. st.U larger number were ( mortally injured. At Wesson, one mile away, the western part of the town was j wrecked, thirteen persons killed and twenty ( I or thirty wounded. At America.*, Ga., the ,, destruction of property was very, heavy, and 1 ^ twenty-five persons lost their lives. In the j r other States mentioned much damage was ^ dono to property. General Cbook started from Willcox, New Mexico, with 300 troops, 'JOO Indian scouts and twenty-ono wagons in pursuit of the manradirg Apaches. ^ Charles and Frederick Warp, brothers, i ( engaged in renl estate operations, wore found ( dead in thoir shanties near Cree City, Dako- | tu. It is thought that they were murdore:! j by cattle men wlnse business has been se:i- ; ously injured by tho enterprise of tho Ward , Brothers in placing emigrants cn the rich ( lands hitherto ufol only for grazing pur- j poses. Several towns havo been settled by ] the deceased, they organizing pariies of emi- ] grants and setting them n;i in new towns on J the territorial prairies. The two men were I y well known in Chicago and New York. I Henhy D. McDaniel, the romocralic can- 5 didn to, haa been elected governor of Georgia j without opposition. i Mi be tlmn 1.T0 lives were lost during the ( recent to-nalo in Mississippi, and over 103 ( in Georgia. About 1,000 persons were in- i jure d. I11 somo instances whole families 1 were wiped out of existence. At George- i town, Miss., the tornado struck two charchss, 1 demolishing tliem, killing several worship. 1 era, and fatally injuring ono of the minis- I tcrs. A Baptist minister belonging to Green '1 Spiinga was also killed. | j ?t*a Elevzs men were arrested for participating iuthe murder of the-Ward brothers near Cree City. Dakota. Eliza Pinkston, who excited national interest in 1877 by her testimony before the Louisiana returning board, died a few days ?ince in the Ccnton (Mis?.) jail, where she was Ferving a term for grand larceny. William Pack, convicted at Annapolis, Md., of whipping his wife, was given twenty lashes on his baro back. Ho made piteous niipeBls to the sheriff as ho laid on the heavy blows. This is the first enforcement of the Imw punishing wife-beaters in that county. Gbeat destruction of property resulted from the sudden visit of a huge waterepout in Caldwell county, 8. C. Memobial day was observed at Savannah, Ga., Montgomery, Ala., and other Southern citics by decorating the soldiers' graves with flowers. One hundred vossels, carrying 4,250,COO bushels of grain, chiefly wheat, corn and flaxFeed, are lying in the liver and outside tho harbor of Chicago awaiting the announcement that the Straits of Mackinaw are open, which will be the signal for their departure. A conflict of authority between tho United States and tho State courts has taken place in Mifsouri; nnd in consequence the United States circuit court at Jefferron City ordered the imprisonment of three judges of the Lafayette county court for contempt of court in refusing to obey a mandate of the United States court directing them to levy a special tax of $2,000 to jay r.n ins! ailment on the judgment obtained in a suit upon the county bonds. Prom Washington. Peesident Annum has retnrna^ to Wash ingtonfrom his Florida trip in improved health. A site for the Garfield Memorial ho<pit;l has been purchased for $37,000 in the suburb! of Washington. Mas. Frances R. Phillips, tho wife of the solicitor-Kenernl of the United States, fell dead of apoplexy the othor afternoon while preparing to go out. Tue commissioner of pensions Ins issued a circular warning pensioners and applicants for pensions that unscrupulous persons are traveling throughout the country ciaiming that they are authorized to represent the commissioner of pensions. No special examiner or other person employed by the pension office is authorized to receive money, either as fee or expenses, and all such examiners are provided with certifka'es bearing th? signature of the commissioner of pensions and the secretary of the interior. Subofon-Geneiial James C. Palmer, of the rotired list of the United States navy, died at his residence in Washington, aged seventy-one j ears. Andbew Mason has been appointed superintendent of the New York assay office in place of the late Superintendent Van Wyck. Charles P. Williams, of New York, has been appointed consul at Rouen, France. The supplemental report of the Jeannette court of inquiry states that the court, having concluded the examination of the survivors of the Jeannette who have recently returned from Siberia, and after mature consideration of the evidence adduced, they find that no modification is necessary in tho conclusions reported list February. Foreign Hewi. In the case of Timothy Kelly, the third prisoner tried in Dublin for taking part in the murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke, the jnry disagreed and the prisoner was remanded for a second trial. The announcement of the jury's disagreement was received with cheers by the largo crowd outside the court-room. Mb. Habbinoton, member of parliament for Westmeath, who has just completed a term of imprisonment in Ireland, made his appearance in the house of commons the other dav and was introduced by Mr. Par ell and Mr. Arthur O'Connor. M.-. Harrington took his seat amid cheers from the Iriflh members. Two thousand houses have boon destroyed by a fire in Delhi, India. Fire has destroyed the largest oil warehouse in Hamburg. The firo involved a loss of three large buildings and 1,500 hundredweights of oil. A collision between an English and a Spanish steamer off the Spanish coast resulted in the sinking of the latter, with five of the persons on board, and tl.e loss of two men on the former. Official announcement is made from St. Petersburg that tho long-deferred coronation of the czar of Russia will take place at Moscow on May 27. The festivities, which include eight grand balls, will be prolonged until June 8. Sui-Ximan Pasha, a prominent Turkish general in Turkey's war with Russia, is dead An explosion of dynamite in a factory in Laperucca, Spain, resulted in the death of seven or more persons. The sentence of death against the Nihilists, Boganovitch and Boutsevitch, ha") been carried out in St. Petersburg, the former having been hanged and the latter shot. A cable dispatch from Rome announces the death of Cardinal Roger Luigi Antici Mattei, aged seventy-two years. Soldiers are now on guard at Windsor castle. The organized Fenians in Great Britain lire said to number 150,000. There is likely to be a large emigration from Ireland this year on account of the prevailing distress. Advices from Victoria, British Columbia, state that two Presbyterian missionaries wero drownod by the upsetting of a boat, a id that the Indians had risen against the Chinese mineie and were killing them. Lktterb threatening to blow up public buildings have been received by the Dublin authorities. France is about to send 1,500 troops to Tonqoin, in anticipation of the war with the Chinese. In conscqnence of tho approaching coronation at Moscow the international horticultural exhibition, which wns to take place in Russia this May, has been postponed until May, 18Sfi. rwnce Battciyany, a prominent patron of lie English turf, died suddenly in the inclo?urc for members at the Newmarket trick, i'ngland. His death occurred just before .lie race for the ' Two Thousand Guinoas Stakrs. Ho was about eighty year.i old. The second trial of Timothy Kelly for par:icipating in the murder of Lord Cavendish ind Mr. I a:ke, at Dublin, resulted again in i disagreement of tho jury. A fatal explosion haB5 taken place in 3 French mine. Nine bodies of miners were ccovered after tl coxplcs'on, andasli.7 men "ailed to answer to tiicir names at the rollMil, it was feared (he number of victims vould be largely increased. Hklev Makcoyxtcii, who attempted to ;hoot Kini; Milan in the cathedral at Bo!jrade, and who subroqrently tried to comnit suicide, has been tried, convicted and entenccd to de:ith. At a fire in a Warsaw (Poland) cabinetmaker^ workshop sixteen employes lost tlnir lives. An international chess tournament was :tarted in London, three of the fourteen contestants being Americans. TnE sovon prisoners?Dr. Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher, Whitehead, Dalton, Yneljurgh, Wilson and Cnrtin?who are . harmed with trenson-felony in connection nth the unlawful use of explosives, were Amtninniirvn in TlntP El^Hlll i rnmf;iu iui ... -? Slrpct police court, London. A police in. spt'cfor testified that Bernard Ga'liglier. iftcr his arrest in Glasgow, had offered to urn informer. A bkoion abounding in india rubber tree? ms bec-n discovered in Bolivia, and hundreds >f people are rushing thither from various lections of South and Central America. York in this region is attended with some isk, as is proved by the fact that the sava;ea killed twelve Brazilians who wero colecling gnm. An Accurate Tinic-plccc. * * * "While on the subject of IValthatn watches, we- may mention hat we have ic. n a letter from the 'ommander of the Gordon Castle (Casio linn f>f fi+ram wild Wilt! 'ortunate enough to save lift; at sea, tnd who lor his gallant conduct was iresent?d in S pteinber last with a Jold Keyless Waltham Watc'.i 1 y the ['resident of the l'nitcd States, on beia]f of the London Local Marine Hoard, [{eferring to this Presentation Watch, le says: " When I left London the vatch was six seconds fast, and on my irrival at .Singapore it was only three ictonds slow, a most (xtraordinary jerformance for a watch, a? I carried t on my person ihe whole time. I :ompared it every day with my :hronometers on the passage out, and t seldom or ever differed one second 10:11 them ; in fact, I found it almost, f not as gojd as my chronometers, vliich is a great deal to f ay for a vatch (ar.ie.l about and subject to all finds of j ilts."?London, England. fhe Watchmaker, Jeweler and Silvtrmith, February 5,1883. A CYCLONE'S AWFUL FOBCE. Almost Complete Destruction or 8everat Southern Towns* and a Large Loss of Life ?Details of a Terrible Calamity. Below we give details of the series of tornadoes which wrought such terrible havoc itl several Southern States. Their greatest force was manifested in Mississippi, where one town was swept out of existence, several other towns suffered great injury, many per. sons were killed?probably more than fifty? and a great number were fatally injured. In Georgia about twenty-five lives were lost and many persons were injured. Tennessee, Alabama and Iowa also suffered great injury to property. At Beauregard, Miss., where twenty-three persons were killed, ninety wounded and the town entirely destroyed) an eye*witness gave the following account! About 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon rain fell accompanied by thunder and lightning, and this state of things continued for an hour Or so, when the sKy assumeu a cupiici?. ?? hne, and presently it became very dark. About 3:30 a rumbling sound, like that of a heavy freight train in the distance, was heard, proceeding apparently from the northwest. Gradually this portentious noise increased in intensity. The people became alarmed at what seemed the subterranean moaning* of an earthquake. The thunder roared in tho sky like detonations of tho heaviest artillery. The discharges of lightning were r.lmost continuous, and tho course of the fluid through tho atmosphoro rosembled tho fall of streams of molton metal. Accompanied by this terrific phenomena the tornado burst upon the little town, sweeping away the buildings, trees and other objects in its path as if they wore mere toys to be tossed about ar.d played with at tho pleasure of the ^torm. For a few minutes tho cyclone raged in the midst of the town and then passed onward, swerving to tho northeast, and leaving d?solat on behind. When the violence of the wind had somewhat subsided tho nooplo who had a^caped destruction ventnreu forth to succor the less fortunate whose dwellings had been overthrown. The path of tho tornado was about a quarter of a mile in width, embracing the ontire business portion of tho town along Main street. Even solid brick slruc'nres were completely demolished. Abont thirtysix dwelling houses and twenty odd stores wero blown down, and tho fragments scattered in all directions. Beauregard is a town of nearly f?30 inhabitants. Scarcely a resident escaped injury, and without doubt mrny of those injured will die from tho iffots of their won: s The space that was a town was dotted here and there with rudo log fires, around which wero grouped clusters of men keeping watch nvfir fhfl rpmnins of some de id victim of t!ie storm. The wailing and lamentation of the I bereave J ones were pitiful to hear, and the awfnlne.'s of the calamity was simply heartrending. The town was in a delorable condition. The wounded and dying were lying around without shelter or any comforts, and their groans were terrible to hear. Women and children were wandering around in search of loved onos, who had either perished or were buried beneath the ruins. Dead horst s and cattle were lying around on the main stn e: without the means at hand to remove tt 0:11. There was not a single house left standing 'n the whole town of Beauregard, and the only leu'inblanco io a structure still in exigence were two parts of two dwellings. Under the ruins of store; and dwellings many helpless and unfortunate inhabitants were buried. The cyclone moved in a northeasterly direction, and near Aberdeen destroyed much property and some I ten lives, mostly negroes. Nine or ten lives were lost near Starkville, mostly at a negro church where services were being held. One negro man there was taken up bodily 100 feet into the air and literally blown to pieces. From Wesson, Miss., comes the following story of disaster: The wind for three days had been blowiug a gale, and the lowering clouds indicated a storm. Its approach was heralded by deap rumbling sounds; the windows in the dwellings shook with violence and many anticipated an earthquake. The thunder roared and the lightning flashed with alarming force and vividness. Fences were torn down and trees which had 6tood the stormR of years were uprooted and inft ..n.70 nira,. Vnaf nf tlio r.iilrnfifL jinoniinu,. - ,, in Weston, the damage was slight, but in the weste;n portion of the town the destruction was terriblo. As soon ns tho storm had somewhat abated and people began to look about loud peals of church bells were rung ont, and people ran in all directions toward West Wesson, the rain, meantime, pouring down in torrents. Reaching Peacn Orchard street, an indescribable scene was witnessed. This street is lined with a large number of houses in which the operatives of the cotton mills are domiciled, and here the greatest destruction occurred. The Wesson cot'on mill employs about 400 operatives, and is one of the most successful mills in the South. It is thoroughly equipped with modem machinery and ligh'e 1 by electric light. People were seen on nil sidos sobbing, nnd the groans of the wounded beneath the inins were appalling. The work of removing the dead and extricating the wounded from the ruins was soon begun. One man died from excitement. The t jwn was almost totally demolished, and even the v oids surrounding it were to a great extent swept away. The number of killed was estimated at thirteen, and lf>0 or 200 dwellings were blown down. The number of people with broken limbs was o^timated by tho physicians at seventy-five. The wounded were removed ns fastas possible tc the houses which had escaped injury. Special fcains from adjoining towns soon arrived with physicians and other assistance. The tornado also slruck tho Mis:-issippi Tillages of Red Lick, Aberdeen, Lawrence and Tillman. Lawrence suffered heavily in loss of property, but no lives were lost. At Tillman several people were killed and the town was in ruins. At Aberdeen eight or ten lives were lost, about fifty persons, most of them negroes, injured, and a portion of the town destroyed. Asido from tho looses sustained in the towns mentioned the devastation of the country Ijing in the path of the hurricane is very great, croiKi, farmhouses and stock, and in some case?, human jug being destroyed. At Americus, Ga., and vicinity the effects of the storm were appalling. At midnight the wind came np from the southwest and rain began to fall. The wind increased to a Sile, and at 4 o'clock a cyclot.? passed rough Sumpter county diagonally, passing one mile east of Americus, demolishing everything in its course and doing frightful damage to life and property. The track of the tornado was fr.?m three hundred to a thousand yards wide. The rain poured in torrent* and the lightning Cashes, followed by peal after peal of deafening thunder, made up a scene at once sublime and appalling. Houses were blown down, forests leveled and all vestige of fences swept away. Cattle, swine and horses were killeu by hundreds. All the farms and plantations in the track of the storm were laid in ruins and all the gruin crops destroyed. Twenty-five people were killed and 200 wounded in the county. Many houses and mills, with their content*, animals and children were blown hundreds of yards. In North Alabama foveral towns suffered severely, and at Chattanooga, Tenn., many dwellings and stores we o unroofed, fencesthrown down i.n.l trees uprooted. The edge of tho cyclone nlso struck Aloorhead City, N. t'., blowing down several houses. In Harrison county, Iown, the cyclone carried away many farmhouses and barn a and killed a great quantity of stock, beside which o iiuiuuer ui 1111*9 wcic ic|;t>ikcu iwu SELECT SIFTIXGS. Four pounds of gold, worth about $1,000, were collected from the soot adhering to the inner linings of the chimney of the Royal mint in Berlin. For a sum of money two package wrappers at Davenport, Iowa, entered into a contest. The winner wrapped 3.300 bundles in a single day, using 4,000 yards of twine. A prosperous moving village of about four hundred inhabitants follows the end of the track of the Northern Pacific railroad as it crawls westward across Montana. The greatest pawnbroker's simp in the world is the Mont de Piete, in Paris. It charges one and a quaarter per cent, a month, and it does a business of 30,000,000 francs a year. The question whether a clergyman could marry himself was decided some twenty or thirty years ago by the British house of lords in an appeal from Ireland, where a Presbyterian minister in the county Down had married himself. It was decided he could not. Birds of a feather do not always ilock together. The Bodie (New) Free Press says a schoolboy at that place caught several snow birds in a trap, and among them was one peculiarly marked. Its right wing was perfectly white, and some longer than the left, which wsis of the usual color. The tail was a bright red and contained only four feathers. England's Richest Martinet. England's richest baronet is said t be Sir John Itamsden, of Byram Yorkshire. Ilis rent roll is computed at $350,000 a year, lie owns almost the whole of Iluddersfielil. the great manufacturing center. The little hit he doesn't own was a very Xaboth's vineyard to his father, who, according to popular tradition, once offered toite Quaker owner to cover it with sovereigns if he would sell it. "Edgewise; friend Itamsden?" quoth the Quaker, "in that case it is thine, otherwise all Huddersfield must belong to thee and me." "Edgewise" was rather more than j the oaronet could swallow. A hoy with atop tried to spin it. Jiut ins nana got a morn ngiu n r, The sport didn't spoil, For St. Jacobs Oil Cured his hurt in less than a ininit. A red-haired clerk in Savannah, Slipped on a puce of! anana. Great pain ho endured, But St. .Jacobs Oil cured, Ilenowgossdancingwith Hannah. Canary colored diamonds are much sought after at present, as indeed are all curiously colored stones. Pink diamonds are another of the fashion of he moment. A WOMAN'S KXFBR1EKCE. ' What a Lady of Great Prominence Has to ' ear About Ber Box. ] (Boston Globe.) } On a recent trip by a represent atire of this paper to the city of Haverhill, Mass., a 1 most important incident occnrrod, which J cannot fail to be of the neatest interest to ; all, and especially to our lady readers. The newspaper man met a lady a trifle past middle age with luxurious white hair that contrasted strikingly with piercing black eyes. She possessed a straight, full habit, womanly, but commanding, combined with manners wholly lady-like, and yet pro- J nounced. Any acute judge of human nature could see at once that he was in the presence of an unusual personage?one destined to accomplish more than most of her sex, and to exert jin influence far reaching in its poweri Tins lady was Mrs. ra. n. muguic. Almost from childhood 9he has taken a special interest in the bodily troubles of her sex and has probably been more successful in relieving suffering and saving lives than any other woman in America. Indeed, she seems to have been to women what Florence Nightingale and Dorothy Dix were to the suffering soldiers. The instances of women who wore in the greatest agony and apparently beyond tho reach of human aid, that she has restored to health and happiness, nre almost innumerable, and it was only natural that the scribe should bocome *pec ally interested and wish to conterse with her more in detail. "Ilo:v long have you l ean engaged in the practice of medicine, Mrs. WinRate?" " For more than twenty-five years." "Along time, corlainly. How did you Inppen to enter the field at thnt early day whan women in the professions were specially frowned down upon?" "I think I must have inherited a taste from my father, Proiessor J. C. Wood, of Harvard c.l'ege. He was eminent in tho profession, a hard worker and equally earnest in his recreations. He hunted considerably, and I remember when only nine years old I esed to diFS^ct the birds and animals ho had killed. I felt infatuated with medical science even then, and the infatuation has continued up to the present time." " And did you begin your studies so early in life ?" " I can hardly say when I began, for I cannot ie:r.ember when I did not read medicil literature. You would scarcely believe it, hut 1 wps a slender girl and did not weigh aver 12) pounds, but I used to sit up night after night until 2 o'clock in the morning poring over mv studies and never dreaming af the tlitfht of lime. It seemed as though calls for my attendance on the sick always -ame unsolicited. I certainly cannot fix tho 1 t"" when I fir<t began practicing. Of course o t of my patients wore women, and the . alural sympathy I felt for my sex has in.:ioa?ed during all theso years where I have !?eo:i brought so closely in contact with them and have learned to anticipate their needs and sympa'hize with their sufferings. After tho opening of tho Boston Medical I College I appeared before the faculty; passed " T L..1 rxnminntion ana received a cupiomn. x imu practiced for years previous to that lime but thought il desirable to receive another diploma, which 1 did without any effort." ' Your experience with the many and reriona diseases of women having been so extensive must also bo valuable. Can you give me some facts regarding them." " I find that woman seems born to suffering, and where she avoids it, it ia by reason of some care on her part or owing to some sj e ial renewing power. It is true some | women go through life without unusual suffering, but they are none the less in danger, for there are critical periods all along their pathway when the utmost precaution is required. The innumerable complaints called female weaknesses; the irregularities of life and changes of the system all indicate the perils which hang over every woman's career, and which, unless attended to, may result disastrously." " But is there no way by which these terrible troubles can be avoided?" "That has been the problem for years. T'>e habit' of life and the demands of fashion are clearly at war with the health of women. I have been, perhaps, unusually successful in my treatment cf their troubles, but there have been many cnses that seemed specially stubborn. I recall one in particular. I had exhausted all the usual expedients and the results were not satisfactory. I became worried over the case and really did not know what to do, but finally thought I would try some hing out of the usual line. I i? ./i ? iom?-riv rnrommonde;! IlilU UCfWU II VVIM?.M . J very highly mid so I procured Rome and made a chemical analysis of it. I fonnd it was perfectly pure, and that the ingredients wero unusually valuable. So I began {riving it to my patient, changing it. however, into [ a bottle of my own. To my great joy it I geemed to have an almost immediate effect and a complets cure was the result. Since [ then I have used it constantly in my practice and have cured every form of female weak-, ness, as well as displacements, dropsical tu| mors, cellu dropsy and all such troubles. I have also use.1 it with the best results in cases of pregnancy and gestation. Indeed I have found it of untold value and benefit. "Have jo:i any objection fo giving me the name of this remedy of which you speak ?" "None whatever. It is Y?arner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure." "Why, that is a proprietary nied'.oino!" "Certainly, hut what of that ? I havo but or.e end in view in the tren tment of mj I patients namely?their restorat.on to health. In the accomp'.ishn o.it of tbis end I presenile what 1 Lelio/e to be beneficial, nc matter what the professional consequencemay I.e." " I notice in the Now York papers that Doctors Hammond, Agnew and othler prominent physicians are taking a similar stanl, Mrs. Wingate." " Yes, and all independent thinkers in the profession are bound to do so. I am, however, 011 the bo3t of terms with my profess: 1 i it ? ?> ??,i luutu urt'Liircxx un j isu tmi nco, >u ?uv lady produced a beautiful gold medal mounted in the form of a badge which had been presented her by the medical society, known as the Ensipn of the Humble Family, of which she is a prominent member. After examining it closely, the reporter remarked that the medical profession evidently were proud of what she had done, as she might well be in tho possession of such a medal. " I am proud of that" she replied, " and I was also pleased a short timefdnce to receive an offer at a large salary to take the profe.'airship in the new medical college at Walla Walla, on tho Pacific coast. I do not know how thoy heard of me out there, but I was obliged to decline their offer." " And so, in your experience with the diseases of women, you have found success, and that Warner's Safe Cure has been a most efficient reireJy." "Yes, I have had unusual success and the remedy of which yon speak has been proven of great benefit. There are, however, somo ba?e imitations of it to be found in the market; these are bad and should be avoided, but the genuine remedy is one of tho very bist." " And has not the practice of your profess ion injured your lieaitn.'" " No, I sim better now than ever before in iny life. I froze my limbs last winter, while riding one cold night to see a patient and was obliged to remain indoors for ovoc two months. Otherwise I am healthy, as yoa cnn see by looking at me." " And may I publish this interview, Mrs. Wiigato " Yes. If what I have told yon shonld be the means of assisting any women 'jfho may be suffering, I shall bo perfectly willing to have it published/' FASHION NOTES. The most daring liberties are taken in color combinations. Old rose and garnet make an admirable combination. Shaded straw and chenille "bonnets are largely imported. The low-heeled English walking shoe grows in popularity. The pouf in the back is a feature in new costumes and wraps. .Tot liids f;iir to bfi sis nnnular as ever in decorative dress effects. Old rose and rose boreale are the new names for ashes of roses. There is a return of favo r to butto boots in preference to laced ones. Pearl, silver and gold-headed pins are used to secure bonnet-strings. Ribbon bows and cock's-conib cockades decorate costumes as well as bonnets. Louis Quinze shoe buckles are now used in Paris to fasten collars as well as hats. Large buckles or slides are the preferred ornaments on large hats and bonnets. Kid slippers are cut very low, and when the stockings are embroidered the sandals are plain and vice versa. (Jirls of all ages above two and under seventeen wear their front hair in a straight Vandyke band, and the back hair slightly crimped and llowing on the shoulders. Haby and little girls' caps show tho* same variety in style that appears in the bonnets of old people. .Some have plaited poke brims; others resemble capotes, Kanchons and (ireuze bonnets. Alligator skin croquet shoes in the natural leather color, in maroon, terra cotta, all the new colors, and black, will be much worn, with stockings to I match the color of the shoe, which also i matches the predominating color of ' the costume. j Sprays of line flowers, like forgetme-nots, lilies of the valley, mountain daisies, rosebuds and tiny green leaves, violet, arbutus blossoms and the like, j made of precious stones made of a color matching that of the dower they , represent, are made into brooches and j lace pins, and are taking the place of : the jeweled-eved animals, insects and serpents so long in favor. Crape muslin dresses come in pale | ' hlne. ere am white and shrimp pink, j j with the embroidery done along the ! | edge in abundant quantities to trim | j tiie skirts with two or three gathered ( rallies, and to edge the overdress; they jj are sold for $1'> a pattern, and they | | are used at present tor simple evening % toilets, and are very effective as () transparents over satin or velvet ' skirts. ^ A Parisian bonnet is made of prim- t ro>e-colored crepe and myrtle-green I velvet. The brim is edged with three ( rows of iridescent beads, their smooth, \ jatin-like surface reflecting the deli;ate tints of pale green, primrose and pearl color. Upon the left side of the aonnet is set a cluster of soft, myrtlejreen feathers. The strings are of myrtle-green velvet, lined with primrose satin. A Strange Story. The Strathmore family is one of the oldest in Scotland, and its head has been an earl ever since 1423. A cor- < respondent of the Mail and Express f/Mtw /?Ar> rtttnf innrj f li nr Q WrilCb LUclO IUI iuui gcuciaviuuo vuvtv has been a mystery at Glamis castle which no one has ever been able to fathom. Some said it was a ghost, others a mysterious hidden treasure ; but rumors of a more or less uncanny nature floated round the country and have done so for about ninety-three years. Four earls of Strathmore have seated themselves in ancestral state at "Westminster, and yet all the while the real ep.rl, the eldest of the family, was alive, hidden in the vast old feudal palace at Glamis. He died only last year, aged ninety-two years, and he < was a monster. lie stood eight feet in height. His head and the upper part of his body resembled that of a toad. His akin was marked with black and white splotches, and his hands were webbed. He could not speak or hear, but his eyes were bright but wild. lie never showed signs of reason, and in order to avoid legal difficulties this horror was hidden in a building erected on purpose. His jailers were paid handsome annuities to keep silent. As each earl succeeded to the estate he was taken to see this terrific creature, and it is said that one of these gentlemen almost lost his reason in beholding the loathsome and gigantic horror. Last year the poor wretch died and the secret has come out, owing to difficulties concerning the disposal of the remains. "nocture Sound nucl Well." Hatciieh's Station, Ga., March 27,1876. R. V. Pierce, M. D.: Dear Sir?My wife, who hnd been ill for over two years, nud had tried many other medicines, became sound and well by using your "Favorite Prescription." My niece was also cured by its u?e, after several physicians had failed to do her any good. Yours truly, TnoMAs J. Methvi.v. "James C. Flood, of bonanza fame, will build a $1,000,000 house on the top of the highest San Francisco hill. Young men, and middle-aged ones, suffering from nervous debility and kindie 1 weaknesses, send three stamrs for Part VII. of Dime Series Books. Address World's Dispensaby Medioal Association. Buffalo, N.Y. Between 45,000 and 60,030 elevators are now in operation in the United Suites, of which 15,000 are in New York. Sick and bilious heac'flshe, and all derangements of stomach and bowels, curod by Dr. Pierce's " Pellets "?or anti-bilious granules. 25 cents a vial. No cheap bases to allow waste of virtues^ By druzgista. England, France, Spain and Portugal aro all active in acquiring new territory in Africa. The Frnzcr Axle Grriute Is tho best in the market. It is the most economical and cheapest, one box lasting as long as two of any other. One greasing will last two weeks. It received first premium ai the Centennial and Paris Expositions, also medals at various State fairs. Buy no other. " Hitchu-Pniba." .inn/MfinrrKiilndl'. inev^aicK, tuui^icic buic^uuvj, Blndder, Urinary Diseases. ?1. Druggistd. The I h<> oT llrnrkcts. Thou little tricksy Puck! With antic toys so funnily bestuck; Light as the singing bird that wings the air, (Cnrboiine, Carboline restores the hair.) ( nil trine. Ladies are particularly recommended to try Gastbink for hcalache, nausea, etc. All druggists. ___________ "Rough on Rnfa." Clears out rate, mice, roaches, flies, bedbugs, ants,skunks, chipmunks,gophers, loc. D'g'sts. Diphtheria poisons the blood. Convalescents should take Hood's SarsaparilLt to neutralise and eradicate tho poison waiter. .Untlier Swnn's AVorni Syrup. Infallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic:feverishnesa, restlessness, worms,constipation. 25c. Ladies <fc children's boots <fc shoes cannot run over if Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners are used. Califobnia produces half the quicksilver in the world. SICK AM, OVER. Ten! Liver torpid, boards costive, blood sluggish, stomach wenk and full; your digestion is impaired and tho organs inictive; your perceptions are dull and stupefied ; your temper irritable and peevish; you are unlit for business or companionship. What you need in A SPRING MEDICINE Like Hood's Sarsaparilla, that will stir up your slow blood, rouse your liver, start your digestion, and lift tbo fog from ycnr brain. Capt. J. P. Thompson, of Lowell, Reg. of Deed*, says: "1 have never found anything that hit my wants aa Hood's Sarsaparilla; it purifies my blood, sharpens my appetite and makes me over." "Hood's Sarsaparilla has worked wonders in the case of my wife, who was troubled with sick headache and biliousness for years. She is now free from them."? Hosier B. Nash, PittsfieW, Mars. "Hood's Sarsaparilla enrod me. X can eat anything without that awful distress, and hire a tremendous appetite."?Park Patten, Gardiner, Mo. HOOD'S SAIISAPARLLLA. Sold by Druggists; $1, or six for <B5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO.. Apothecaries, Liwell. Mass. Petroleum V. Nanby. D. K. Locke, Petrjleum V. Nisby (Editor "Toledo Hlnde") writes: I had on a foreHnger of my right hind ono of those pots, a "run-round." The finger became inflamed to a degree unbearable and swollen to nearly twice its natural sire. A friend gave me Honry's Carbolic Salve, and in twenty minutes tho pain had so much subsided as to give me a fair night's rest, which I had not had be. fore for a week. The inflammation loft the finger in a (lay. I consider it a most valuable article tor me nousehold. Edouard Reintard, of Now York, writes: It Rives me great pleasure to My that a single box of Henry's Carbolic Salve effected a complete cure of Piles with which I had been troubled for over a year, and which nothing else that I used would cure. |=f| THE GREAT GERMAN " i REMEDY for pain. Relieves and cures 55I RHEUMATISM, Sciatica, Lumbago, k Jfl BACKACHE, HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE, QUINSY, SWELLINGS aoOVB Soreness, Cuts, Bruises, Dl'ltNS, KCALDS, And all other bodily aches irjj FIFTY CENTS A BOTTLE. Sold by all Druggists and "fllHnhmjjjl' Ppa>en' Directions In 11 Iwj& II ISa?BalUawr*, Id., C. 8. A, NYNU?IT aUTETVII^i What the great reg f A I P I TtQV gtorative, Hosteller's iflJ^) 1 IILKr Stomach Bitten, will JJV CEltlKATtD *1^ do must be gathered I ?- ._nu.r>u 09 ?na 'mammies to i% fc STOMACH^ ^ whjch thflfMb,eare VH fP %Jf so subject. For sale WlM I 9 IB bv nil Druggists And 4 | | p|D Dealers ircner.illv. tjkmfcjmllrw.lji CURIS WHERE All ELSE FAILS. S Brat Couch Syriin. Tastes Rood. LS] Use In lime. Sold by drufori.HtN. LJJ "DTTne Roaches,Mollis, li U 'JOAntn, Klies,Floss. r Rat*. Mico.W.iterBiiip.Cockroacht'a: y I.icP on birds, chickens; Currant and <J ^^-^" "Cabbai;* Worinsde>troyedonlyby r??. ' ?r'r Fnur Exterminator*, No I'oison. No llnilitW^ ftc. to fine, sift botes at all stores. I<).*> Broonu* St., X.V. Vosciiiilr Sill "ilornx. f'or~l7000 tliinp*i or. AHCklTC U/AUTCn EVERYWHERE to sell the HUtNIO nANICUh.wi I'm mil v Knitting llnrliln? ever invented. Will knit a pair of ft ickiiiKs Kith Hill, and TOK plvCr inSUmitluteH. Ii will tlso knit a great variety of fancy work, for which there is always a roady market. Sen I for circular and terms :? tho two.ifmlv knittim; machine i'd.. H?3tnpmdnr Stukkt. Huston, mass. Ufa Kivpn energetic ladies iii a hu i fa b| of good address to Hell wall 11u ' ore HKST-IT.ASS, CIIKA1'. and n'll readily. For particular* addre>-H Nll.AS II. i'AINF, Room 11, Standard Block, Clrvrliiml. Oliio._ f ^aevtiYkK's nietnn Fi.txtR CK..?iaiii|<?ur ?lli t-r. l.. l.l...?IUIU< O.Solr.lgtO'alallurjIII. TM.OH I l)A TROPICA I. FIll'IT CI l/H ICK IT?Winter homes, combining health, luxury and a J ucrative business. Ten to forty-acre tracts in the I "Orange Belt." AddrossA.W. Lawton, Auburn, n.Y. FRFE'? "HEALTH HELFER" rntitl',rf,c- Health. H.H.Boi lul.But' .lo.N.Y ; r C C f By return mail?A full description of 1 l ? Moody's Now Tailor Synteinot Dnwi tatting. P,\V.Moody,t Co., 3 1 W. wli. Cincinnati, O. * KIG ADC cheap by the hundred as by tho million. ( l-IPflilw Send Ji.j for wimple*, or price lint. TUB * tf VILLAGE sTOKK CO.. llmmiKponT.Coxy. y rnillif! UCII If y"11 want tobecomeTKLEORAPH I UIIHU mCll UPKHATOKS nnd be guaranteed ^ mpl'iynient. aildre?? I'. \V. K1..VW, At>\, Ohio. a A KCtltH Wanted for tho Best and KaMontsollinx ? t\ rictonal Book* and Bibles. Prices reduced S3 per ( ent. National PcnLl8Ui>o Co.. Philadelphia, Pa. V. tlBIIIBI Worphlne nubltCnred In 10 ( UrlliKM i1,0 ?daT"* *'?WMHCur?l ? ?#l J.brjcrijic.vri,Lebanon, OhlCk i nAAN HOl'H for ell who will make Hpamtnne profit- * \ Valile; srikh!payinitbusinessit yuucandovoteyom LUfc whole time to it. MobbaT Hii'i.. Box 788i N.Y n j LYDIA E. PINKHAM'8 VT.ffTITA'BLE COMPOIMD. Ts aPofltlve Cure For all those Palnftil Complaints and \Tn> uml to oomnoD to our 1 (it female pop ala ties. 1 Medicine for Woman. Inrcntedby aWoau, i Prepared b^alTomaa. j n* Grain! Bsdleal DWrery Sim the Sin ?f lD?t*f> I C9*It revives the drooping spirit*, invigorates and J harmonizes the orcraalc functions, rlw elMthfty aad I ttrmneis to the *t?p, restores tho natural lustre to the I eye, and plants on the pale check of woman the treeh I rosea of life's spring and early summertime. fl t3F"Phytielans Use It and Prescribe ft Freeff^B It removes faintness, flatulency, destroys an nieitag H for stimulant, and relleres weakness of the sfoi?eh. H That feeling of bearia; down, _eaoiing pain, wslf&e lia end backache, Is always permanently cured by Its as* in For the cure of Kidney Complaints ef either MS I M this Conpoaad Is BJiaorpeeeed. W t.tdta k. nxiniAsri blood pramp IS will eradicate every vestiijo of Humors from the JMM Blood, and Rivo tone and strength to the system, at Tfli man woman or child. Insist on having it. MAW Both the Compoand and Blood Purifier are pwpiiel '71 at 233 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Km, trie* at m either, $L Six bottles for 13. Bent by mall in (be lent M of pills, or of lozenjea, on receipt of price, $1 per beg forelther. Mrs. Plakham freely answers all lettenflC J Inquiry. Enclose Set. stamp. Send for pamphlet, J Ko family should he without LYDIA E. IDKBttl J LIVER PILLS. Thcv cure constipation, biliousnce^ and torpidity of the liror. IS cents per box. flySold by all Drngfiats/'Vl 0> I I THE CELEBRATED A "KIDNEY-WORT" ^ THE SPECIFIC FOR KIDNEY DISEASE8, LI FEB ^ ."ROUBLES. CONSTIPATION, PILES, , FEMALE WEAKNESSES AND I RHEUMATISM. | PHYSICIANS INDORSE HEARTILY. I "I have found Kidney-Wort to work like a charm. ] doing all that <t claimed for it. After o&iaf It ?m>l J years In mypractice I, ? "regular physician,' can <ndort* I U heartily. It his done better than any remedy I erer J used."?R, K. Clark. M. D.. Sooth Hero, Vt. I DANGEROUS KIDNEY DISEASE. I "A itroko of paralysis prostrated me, also dangerously -fl diseasing my kidneys. The doctor* failed, bat Kidney- m Wort cured me."?E. Slade, 18 Blackjtone Street, JH Boston, Maa?. fl "My kidney treat.Irs had luted for eight yean. I flj often passed blood. Kidnoy-Wt-rt curtd w."-Mlnhsel Mm Coto, Montgomery Center. Vt. KIDNEY DISEASE AND RHEUMATISM. "Two of my friends had my trouble," says Mr. Elbridge Malcolm, of West Bsth, Mo. "I waa glrenup te die by my physician and friends. We all had kidney t disease and rheumatism. Mino waa of thirty yean* m standing. Kldnoy-Wort h-ia entirely eurtdaii tjkree of me." U '' I had kidney t roubles for many yean. Kidney-Wort W curtd me.''?J. M. Dows, of Diel;old Safe Co.. Z: Uoaal I , Street, New Orleans. J CURED AFTER TWENTY YEARS. ' J thank CU*\ that I fjQZld OOt tbl TiltOM J of Kidney-Wort," writes C. P. Brown, of Weetport, M N. Y. "It has r<rr?f m* of a twi'Dty years', case of feerrible kidney disease." KIDNEYS. LIVER AND CONSTIPATION. " Tbemosi satisfactory resolts," writes Jaa. F. Dud, of North Acton, Me,, "in casta of tidneyud Bw troubles and com-ti pat ion, hare followed from the ** ol Kidney-Wort, by momben of my family." r Kidney Troubles and Rhenmatlrah '' My attending physician gave me op. I'd had-rbearaatiam and kidney troables for thirty yean. Many doctors and numberless remedies did me no good. Xy friends, too, thought my death was certain. KidneyWort has entirely cured me." so writes ElbridgeMalcolm. West Bath,.Me. LITER DISORDER. 'HB "Please tell my bro. soldier*, and the public, too," M appeals J. C. Power, of Trenton, III., through the 8t. ^ Louis Globe-Devi, and Home and Firctlde, that Kidney- M Wort cured my liver disorders, which I'd had for twenty H yean."?lJ-S-1?. RHEIJ.WATIS.M. I "I baTetricdagreatnnmber,"trnlyremarkal(r.W. *LM N. Grofo, of Scranton, Fa., unaerana01 uk, ^2, u, "but there Is no other remedy like Kidney-Wort for W runny rheumatism and diseased kidneys." f J INFLAMMATION OF BLADDER. . M "Chronic inflammatii r. of '.ho bladder, two yMfi* 9 daratlon. was my wife's complaint." write# Dr. 0. H. Sumtnerlin, ofSsnHill.Ga. " Her unne often contained mucus, pus, and was sometimes bloody. PhyiidKM1 prescriptions?my own incloded?and domesticrMwdiM fl only palliated her pains. Kidney-Woit, however, Aa* S rnHrrlj/ cured her." A NEW DISCOVERY. I ' HTFor several year* we hare famished the H Dairymen of America With an artlflcloi colorfor butter; so meritorloM that it art' I with great succeM everywhere receiving the highest and only prizes at both International J .Dairy Fain; 1 tVBut by patient and scientific chemical re- V search we haro Improved in several point*, aad I a Law rtffirn *hla flA* M fJkil hftt il% Uutoortd.i\ I It Will Wot Color the Butf ntillk. It U 1 Will Not Turn Rancid. It la the a I Strongest, Brlghtot and I Cheapest Color HHadet I V ' HTAnd, while prepared la oil, W io compound od that it Is Impossible for It to become rancid. I I ty BE WARE of all Imitations, and of all M other oil colors, for thej are liable to become, H rancid and spoil tho batter. H I t3"If 70a cannot fret the "improved" write M H to know where and how to get it without extra H expense. , W V WZILS, RICH1RDS0X * CO., DarilaftM, Tt. | Advertising uaeats!!! "It has become so common to write the beginning of an articlo in an elegant, interesting manner, I "Then ran it into some advertisement, fl that wo avoid all sach, fl "And simply call attention to the merits- . of Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms as . V possible, "To induce peoplo "To give them one trial, which so proves H their value that they will never use anything I "Tire Remkdy fo favorably noticed in all J 9 the papeis, " Religiors and secular, is "Having a large sale, and is supplanting I all other medicines. - "There is 110 denying the virtues of the M Hop plant, and the proprietors of Hop Bit- M ters lmvo t=hown great shrewdness jj "And ability "In compounding a medicine whose virtues Hj are so palpable to every one's observation." I Did She Die? M "No!" " She lingered and suffered along, pining cway all the time for years," H "The doctors doing her no good;" H "And at last was cure 1 by this Hop Bitters H the papers say so mucn auoai. u "Indeed! Indeed!" ^ ? "How thankful we should be for that medicine." A Daughter's Misery. 9 "Eleven years our daughter suffored on a 1 bed of misery, B ,rFroin a complication of kidney, liver, rheumatic trouble and i.ervcus debility, " Under the enro of the best physicians, I " Who gave Ik r disease various names, ' But no rjlief, "And now she is restored to us in good mBW health by as simple a remedy as Hop Bitters, that we had shunned for years beforo using JH it."?The Pabents. ^ Father is Getting WelL My daughters say: IB " How much better fatlier is since he used Hop Bitters." " He is ^ettinu' well after his long suffering from a disease declared incurable." "And we are so glad that he used your Bitters."?A Lady of I'tica. X. Y. V r,TOBO*S OOKPOTJID Of ^ 1 |ptjre cod lives I k OIL AO LIME J I To ihr CniiNiunptive-Wilbor'H Compound I if Cod-Livkh Oil and F.imf. without poiwrasinff the fl ory nauseating flavor of the article a? heretofore used, M I endowed by tlio Phosphate of I.ime with a healin* H iroperty which renders the Oil doubly efficacious. Re- S narkahle textinioninls of its efficacy can he shown. Sold fl j- A. K. WiLuOH, Chemist, Bcgton, and all Druggists. Itrcllere?atoneo Burns, Pile*, Chapped lUndsorLlp* Corns, Bunions.Scalds,Utilises,Soreness of feet,hand*. eyes,etc.; Itchliiflrfromiinycfitiso. eftc. Askyourdnyj hd gist, or scud to 92 Fulton Street, V. Y.?J ruc ciim ls the people's m IF1C OUN newspaper. h riicri- is no mystery about it* loves nn<l liatee. It 1* BH or tlio honcht man against the rngutw overv time. It s for the honest Democrat uvainst tlio dishonest (cpuhlirnn.aml forth** holiest Iiepubliciui asaKainat 'B lie dishonest l>i inorral. Subscription: Daily (4 V ap*), liy mail, .V?*. anion i lj. ur xo.">0 a year: ^ ii'.xi'at is iw:.i, $1.20 per year; Wp.ekly (8 m| aKOf), S| i? r vear. 1. W. KM.I.AX1). I'iiIiIMiit. N' W York City. I Pleasant and Profitable Pastime J "OK ALL. To advertise our regular business we will M nil fur SI .<)<) a complete sumplo outfit, from whirb ou can eaaily make fn.m *:! to $lil per day. Address, ,ith si* cents for return pontage, 1 llK DANA BICKOKI) CO., Kt7, Kg* and Hi Broadway. New York City. JiM.W AND NOT \ M I |^l>y watchmakers. Rymail 2Sc. Circular* V >CI L Ufrw. j.s. Hilicu JCo.. 3H l)pySt.. N.Y. M 'AIIVC klCU '/>!lrn t?l*(traphy here and we will H UUFIU Hltls Bive you a situation. Circular* free. B Al.KXTIXK BROS., .IniiCHvllle. Win. C lA #0A per dayat heme. Samples worth $Afre?. _ _Address STIN80.N & Co., Portland, Me. 1 D /"I COLKMAN HUSINKS8 COLLEGE, 9 J% Di \j? Newaru, N. J. Write for Catalogue. 9 70A WEKK. 812adayat home easily made. Costly Jr L outfit free. Address Tut'E Jc Co., Autrusta, Me. ! ! 1 Sure Cure fur Epilepsy or Kite in 'U noun, free to ^B 1 poor. l)it. Kul'XK, s)+t Arsenal St.. St. Louis, Mo. -.^b CC ? week m your own town. Tuna* and $4 K1W "* DQlrw, Addr*U,BALL*TT*<X>.,PoitlwUB, \