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? gg; Two Ways. AJTEB THE WHIPFEfO. Pouting and sobbing and bitter thorght; Foicefol regret that can come to naught; Smarting reproach and doubt of 'ts mother (God! that thote two should offend one another!) ; Fears taking ho 1 that may keep it in check Till tossed by seme sudden release to its wreck. Alack, who the b.tter successsion can know That follows the wrong followed fast by a blow ? ' AFTEB THE KISS. Vanishing anger and softened dismay ; A half-naughty little one, yearning to pray: Unconsciously yearning and sobbing the rest, Pressed in its grief to a grieved mother's breast Neither angel nor sinner all good to withstand, Only God's little child with the world close at hand, O mothers! weak petting may oft be amiss, But never came harm from a sorrowful kiss. DIYEBGENT PATHS, The sun lacked an hour of noon, and was beginning to pour down, scorching !->? nnnn tlio r>ieoo r?f nnrn-lftTid in the bottom. The laborers stopped at the end of a bout to wipe the perspiration from their heat d brows. It seemed a long way across the lot, and the dry sand, unshadowed as yet by the young corn, looked tar less inviting than the closely cropped turf under the siady elnj9 in the pasture lot near by. The little spring, which bubbled from beneath the gnarled roots and lost itself a few paces further on in a tangled growth of cat-tails and wild grasses, seemed to beckon the tired men to forget their toil and rest beside it. Old Hiram rubhed his shining bald pate with the remains of a red silk handkerchief, and, settling his paltn-leaf upon his head, aimed a savage -blow at a thrifty young burdock, standing so close to a stalk of corn that it had escaped the tooth j of the cultivator. "Now, lads," said he to the three or four younger inen who stood each at the end of a new row : 44 les' git back here agin afore the old horn blows, an' so hev time ter rense out our mouths afore dinner." 441 declare. Hi," said John Marvin, 441 believe I'll take a rinse now, for I'm powerful dry. Joe, just keep inv row along won't you." asked he, carelessly, of the voung man next him, who had already loosened the earth around two or three hills of his own allotment. The other nodded, and proceeded to bring the idlers task along side his own by a few swift strokes of his hoe. "Marvin leisurely climbed the fence an<1 strolled down the declivity, chopping off the heads of such mullein stalks as were within reach, and picking an a stone to fling at a golden-winged woodpecker that was foraging on the half-decayed trunk of a blasted tree growing near his path. He was just ont of earshot when Hiram remarked: "John'sagood natu red chap, but he's mighty lazv. How manv rows hev we fetched np for 'ira sin' we begun on to this twenty acres." 44 This makes ray third one to-day," said Joe, langhing, " but I guess I'm the only one that he's asked this morning. John don't like to work very well, that's a fact." 44 Ef 1 had to pay the hands ou this farm, I should a'most benotioned to dock 'im when Sat'dav night, come 'round; " put in another of the tuen, as he unearthed a Canada thistle. li Pshaw, Tom," answered Joe, with a srnile, 44 John's a philosopher and looks upon work as one of the necessary evils existing in this lower world, ne calculates on dodging it, so far as possible." 14 Ef that's w'at you call a feelosifer. Joe,"said old Iliram, <4theym animals as * * ? * _ i?_lJ is not o mncn count in a corn-nem. You've ben to sohnle, w'ich is a better chance nor workin'men, as old as I be, hed w'en they war boys; an' sohez John, though I guess be never wuz overly fond ay a book." Half-way across the tield the laggard overtook his fellows. 441 say, boys, if it's as hot as this tomorrow, I believe that I've got to go to tor*n to see about some Summer clothes.'' Tom winked at Joe, who looked grave but. said nothing. That night, after the milking was done. John, with a cigar in his mouth, strolled out into the orchard, where Joe was seuted under a tree, 'aying the fading twilight under contribution for raysenough to enable him to extract the pith from a coarsely-printed article in an agricultural jour ual, transferring now and then a thought to a note-book, which lay upon his knee. 44 T say, Joe." said the former as he came up, let's go into the village to-morrow. I want to see about some clothes, and can't stop to wait for a rainy day, and you can make some errand in as well as not, so let's go and have a good time. Let's lay off a half a day anyway." Joe closed his note-hook, and deliberately folded his paper, replying as he did so, " Can't afford to loose the time, my bov, don't need any clothes, and, beside, the work on the farm is already two or three days behind the point where I should want it to be if I were carrying it on mv self." " If you were carrying it on yourself!" said the other, wi h acurl of his lip, very nearly approaching a sneer; "what does that have to do with laving off half a day? You don't suppose a fellow is to take as much pains for old Foster as lie would on a farm of his own, do you ?"' 44 Why not, John, dosen't he take a great interest in the men that he hires ? Aren't we welcome to read his hooks and ? papers when work is done, and doesn't he take as much pains to look afrer our wel fare as though we were friends instead of merely hired laborers?" 4i I should like to know what you mean by merely hired laborers? I'm as good as old Forter any day, and don't see any reason whv I should slave mvself to death on his far in, because he is sharp enough to leave books and papers around where we can pick them up, just as no leaves salt where the cattle can lick it. He's a keen old chap, and thinks that if the men take an interest in keeping up things, as he calls it, he will get more work out of them ; hut he don't come it over me, 1 can tell vou." " Now, John. I arn really very sorry to hear you talk in that way, fori think Mr. Foster is trying to do ns all the good that he can. Tie expects his work done, of course, since he pays for it, but a good man can always get a little more from him than from anybody else in the township." ""Why, yon act as though he had hired yon to blow for him. Expect to have yonr wages raised, don't you?" ' I certainly shouldn't object if I didn't receive now as mnch as I could have the conscience to charge. I mean to be worth more next year, though." 44 But see here, John ; " calling after him, as he was moving away, 44 you won't be anery if I speak plainly to you ?" 44 Why, no of coarse not." - 14 Well, then, I'm afraid that it will make trouble, if yon try to get off to-morrow, for the boys think that you 4sojer' just a little now and then. They're sure to complain loud enough for Mr. Foster to hear of it, one or another of them, if they real charge him, I suppose." 44 Humph! you have guessed it very nearly," he replied. 44 I cannot encourage loose business habits in h man whose only capital lies in his muscles, and I nev er refuse a men leave to go when he asks it. Each must judge for himself as to the I number of holidays which he requires, for II wish to satisfy those whom I employ." In a few minutes, Mary closed her book and was gliding through the halt-opened door, when her father said: 44 Child, there was a young man from the village out here, yesterday, while you were down at the lower farm, and he wanted to know if I should object to receiving him as a son-in-law." The girl opened her eyes very wide. 44 So you are getting tired of me father?" 44 What put that into your silly pate ? ' 44 Why, sir, you know you have brought us up to consider your own occupation the most healthful end among the most worthy of earthly pursuits. Mow, of course, if I were to go into the village for I suppose I was wanted since you arc speaking to me?where would be all my girlish fancies of A little farm well tilled, and a little wife well willed,' and all that ?" 44 Nonsense, girl. I thought that young Granger's name was Joe not Will? This time the rich blood, mounting swiftly to cheek and brow, left no doubt as to the fate of the young man from the village. 44 Is that all father?" 44 No. Just see bow much that saucy fellow, the mere mention of whose name brings up so much color, is entitled tocall on me for. Expect he will be asking for it one of these days." 44 Joe has your note tor five hundred, sir, and he only takes up half his wage* every month." 'Oh ho! so you can tell without looking, can you, Miss Bookkeeper? Then it has gone so far as that, has it? Pray,howmuch do I owe you for butter and eggs?" 44 The egg money belongs to Kate father." 44 Yes, yes, so it does. You girls have that fixed to suit yourselves. What were the ?>roiits on your flock of sheep last year?" 44 About two hundred dollars, sir, and there was not quite a hundred dollars' worth of butter sold. But I must go and skim the milk, if you are through with 11 me. "Don't be in a hurry, child; to-day is your birthday, isn't it ?" 44 Yes sir." 44 IIovv old are you ?" 44 Why, father, you know that f atn twenty, don't you ?" 44 Suppose I should, puss, if I stopped to think about it; but it is easier tp ask you than to reckon up. IIow much will you eivefor the lower farm ?" 44 Why,I haven't enough to pay for the stock that is on it, to say nothing of the farm. I haveu't over eight hundred dollars besides my flock of sheep." 44 Go to iny secretary, and bring me that largo envelope that is in the little drawer on the left side." The girl did a9 she was bidden. "Open it, child," lie said, as she again stood betore him, "and see if you will agree to the provisions of the document." Hastily running her eyes over the paper, she threw her arms around the old ma 's neck, exclaiming, 44 Why, you dear, good father, if you meant to give me the farm, why did you put in the deed that I was to pay you a dollar for it ?" 44 Because a gift, without a consideration therefore, docs not constitute a legal i transfer. But, Mary, has Joe e\er asked: you to be bis wife ?" 44 He has said that he should, sir, if I ' were not the daughter of a man in so 1 much better circumstances than himself." ; 44 What uid you tell him ?" "What could I say, sir? lie didn't! ask me to say anything." 44 What would vonr answer have been ; if lie lm<l ?" " That niv father began life with 1:0thi in jr. and that his daughter has been taught j ! not to consider an industrious young man I like himself as unworthy of a much better i wife than I could make him." ' Tut. tut. I can't allow that. My Mary I is worthy of any young man in the land.'' I ? ? ? ? * ? ? ? ? ? , 'l'en years have passed since the above conversation took place. Farmer Foster is seated at twilight nil- ! dor the old porch, with a grandchild on each knee. The last load of hay from the i meadows on the hillside is passing, on its i way to the barn. The old man seldom re-! mains in the fields all day now, for he is ! needed at the bouse to mind the children, be says; and Mary, but a tritle more matronly in her appearance, quite agrees j with him. A bearded man, with a rake upon his ' shoulder, walked behind the wagon, stops j to close the farm-yard gate. As the child-' ren run to meet him, we notice that he j extends but a single hand, for the posses- j sion of which a playful scnfHe takes place, j Joe's right arm struck liis last blow for ! I freedom at Five Forks, hut lie often qniet-1 lv remarks that it is surprising how* much j work a man can do with one hand after ' i he is used to it. Seating him>elt upon the lower step, he ! bids the little girl ask mamma if a poor J cripple can have a bowl of bread and milk. The tiny sprite laughs and runs into the house. Returning presently, eherepli-d, "Yotb ! tbir, if be won't carrjr off the thpoon." Just then a bov, riding up to the gate, calls out, " Mr. Granger, I brought upyour mail from the village." "Thank you. my lad," anawered our / ly get the idea into their heads, and yoo know, kind a? he is, he won't stand any nonsense." 44 Neither will I," answered the other, hotly, " and if any sneak says that I shirk my work, because I don't grub like a nigger all the time, it won't make any difference with my going to town when I choose to." Next morning, as the old farmer sat on the porcu after breakfast, readiug his newspaper, John came around the house and asked leave to go to the village for the alternoon. Looking over the top of his spectacles, the old inan said :?14 Well, John, we are pretty well driven, you know ; last week's rtiin has given the weeds such a start that we shall have brisk work to prevent their getting ahead of us; though, of course, you understand that and wouldn't usk to get off unless it were necessary. You can go." As John passed through the gate, Mr. Foster turned to his daughter, who sat near by, busy with the farm accounts, and said; "Mary, just see how many days and iialf-days that young man has laid off Since ine spring worn cuuimeuucu. Running her nimble fingers over the pages, she said : 44 Why, father, you don't iutend to charge them to him, do you." "Certainly not, child, I only want to know if old Iliram Foster isn't loosing too much money by hiring a hand who has so much business off the farm in the busy season." ' lie has been away three whole days and five half-days, since work in the 6Ug ar-busb stopped. Shall I go back any further than that?" A No, that will uo. I guess that I shall have to recommend John to turn his attention to something not quite so confining as farm labor, after his month is up." ' Thot mpoim Kir that vou will dis mmmmmmmaMaaeammmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmm old friend, "you needn't get off fromyoi horse, I'll come for it." Opening a nowspaper and glancing rapi< ly over its columns, Joe said, " There another strike on the railroad, and tt militia have been called out. Bless mi if the discharged brakemeu. haven't bee stoning the troops until thev have pri voked them into firing upon them. Let see, here's a list of wounded: Patric Morrow, James McCaffrey, Bernary Coyl Mat Ferguson and John Marvin." " What!'' said old farmer Foster, ''ca that be the young fellow that used to wor on the farm, Joe ?" u I fear it is, sir. John was railroadin the last that I knew anything about bin He was conductor of a freight train for while, but was so careless and unstead that he bad to go back to a brake." '' Poor fellow# I am sorry for bim," r marked Mary. " He lias no home to e to." " I'll just drive down to the village and see how badly he is hurt," said tt younger of the two men, rising. '' W were boys together, and if John is i trouble, I must do what I can for for him, Late that nipLt, Joe returned, bringin with him in c hired conveyance, his ol schoolmate, stretched upon a bed. H had found him upon the Hoor at the rai way station, and refused to leave him t the care of the town authorities. The poor fellow never recovered L former vigor, but docs light work abot the farm, and lectures soundly all id) young men whom he chances to meet. " I have a right to preach," he sayi "since I luinished a text ir. ray own pei son." Items of General Interest. Thus far Milwaukee has given Si,500. 000 to railroads. Southern Illinois expects a big crop c peaches this year. During the winter of 1870-71, Kansa packed 30,000 hogs. Iu 1871-2, 43,001 The tobacco plants in Viiginia arelal er and fewer this year thau ever know: before. A recxnt contested election in Eng land cost oue of the candidates S53,G2i3 and the other $42,168. There is a female patient in the Stock ton (California) asvlum, whose iusanit was caused by tight lacing. A daring attempt was made by a gani of burglars to blow up the safe of th New York and Erie freight house at Bui falo. Four buildings on Broughton street Savannah, with their eontents, were de stroyed by tire. The loss is about $100, 000. In Dallas County, Ala., meningitis i ore vailing among the negroes to a vcr; dious extent, and the mortality i great. During 1871 Northumberland county Pa., mined and shipped 1,213,003 ton of coal, being an increase over 1870 o 187,581 tons. Genton, the Communist, who was con victed of participating in the murder o hostages, and teuteuced to death, ha been executed. A law of Pennsylvania makes the tak ing of money at the door of a theatre oi Sunday illegal, wherefore it is invaiiabl; taken at the window. The richest sugrr planter in Cuba i said to be Senor Barros, who has six fac lories, and whose iueome is reported t be 84,000,000 per annum. \ r* i i *-? v.vwfh crt ??A1 1 tX O lmCJ ll'lt n rAnaiLi; iu iiuuu v-uu/iiiKi aim.-. u?. Japan clover growing on his land for 4 years, and advises his frieuds to shun i us they would a partridge pea. There are said to 1)8 very valuable oi lauds in Tennessee, which for develop ment await the opening of railroad* some of which are now building. A max in Howard county, Ind., is th proprietor of a well' which flows hot waier ami gas irrigating and illuminal ing his premises at oue and the sum time. The house of John Williams, a colore man living near Fort Norfolk, Va., \t;i burned. Two children who were left i charge of the house were burned t death. Several attempts have bei n made r( cently to burn the village of Pawling Duchess County. The Catholic churc was fiied, and was entirely conbume recently. Emkky N. Beap.se, of the late drv-gooe firm of Bearse & Bridges, of B( ston, w; arrested at Cleveland, Ohio, and brongl to that city, charged with setting fire t his store and swindling the iusuranc company. Supplies of grass seed are poirring int the fire devastated regions of the Nortl west. Besides that which has been suj plied from Green Bay, one tho: san bushels have been sent from Milwauke to City Barks, and ninety-four tor fiom Raciue to Ahnapee. Two valuable diamonds have been <3i? covered in u gravel claim in the vicini1 of Placetville, Cal., and it is thought tin; "many a gem of purest rays serene'' lir buried within the mineral wealth of Ca ifornia. The large>t stone weighed t\v and seven-eights carats, and is estimate worth from S200 to ?300. The government troops at Matamorc have been reinforced by a detatehmer of 300 men from Tauipico, bringing wit them SCO,000 for the treasury. Th United States Consul lias remonstrate with the authorities against the appeal ance of the black rlag, whieii still floni from the fortifications in and around th city. The news from the Rio Grande, h wi be seen, is of a very important charnct The crisis at Mat am or as cannot now 1 far off, and before the end of the week i fate will doubtless be decided. The re olutionists appear to be confident enoug of success?but as the other side seei to have the most men and mo>t gui (and possession), it remains to be set whether that ctiufidence is or is not mi placed. An Official Oath. In New York the army of laborers c public works, have to swear to their bill The following is the oath administered : ' You, Michael Flanmgan, do solemnl swear that buzzie?wuzzie?wuzzie?wu; zie?wuzzie?wuzzie?wuzzie?s'whelp ; God. Ki-is the book!" The laborer nods, kisses the Bible an walks on to !?e f allowed by the next i line. For this work the clerk receives i the aggregate about eighteen tbousar dollars a year. _ ___________________ / In Sonth Glastonbury, Conn., Intel two young men by the name of Dalfo and Donovon had a quarrel. They wei each tiDed 814 and costs before a justic of the peace ; and a few nights ap Donovan purchased a bottle of whisk; which was given to the sister of Dalto and a young woman named Alice Jone His own sister, Nellie Donovan, taste it, and not liking it did not take mori The former two were soon seized wit J couvnlsions, and it wan expected or j would die. The whisky has been sent f Yale College to be analyzed. lr A Kentucky Wonder. , A correspondent gives the following ;* account of a natural bridge up in -the ; mountains, which, in Rome of its proportions, at least, exceeds in curious in ; terest the celebrated Virginian geological n contortion of the same nature : J" In Garter county, Kentucky, there is a * great curiosity called the "Natural Bridge," which well repays a visit to those attracted by strange and sublime scenery. It spans a stream called Little " Carry, which falls into Little Sandy river. k This bridge is 219 feet in the span, 196 feet high, 12 feet wide, and 5 feet thick in the middle and 30 feet at the ends, being arched underneath and level on a the top. One hundred feet below it $ there is a cascade with a fall of 75 feet, and*two miles distant there is another ' ~~ cascade with a fall of 200 feet, From >? the bottom of the ravine a spruce pine has grown up to the height of four feet above the bridge, making its entire :v neignt :suu ieer. e The sides erf tho ravine are so ragged " that, were it not for a natural stairway, a person on the top of the bridge wishing 'jj to get under it would have to walk two miles. It is interesting to compare the dimensions of this bridge with those of the celebrated Natural Bridge of Virginia, 0 which is 90 feet in span, 80 feet wide, 50 feet thick, and 220 feet high. The bridge 18 is not the only natural wonder of the neighborhood. It its vicinity are two e streams known as Big Sinkey and Little Siukey, which emerge from the ground '' good-sized streams, and after a course of about two miles again disappear. There is also an artesian well which formerly threw up a jet about four fret high, of the size of a common barrel ; r but, having been obstructed by stones and trunks of trees thrown irto it by ^ persons desirious of finding ont its ! depths, it now only plays to the height of a foot above the level of the pool. " > Some years ago, in the month of August, tiie writer encountered an enor>r raous rattlesnake crossing tho road near u the bridge. In length he just reached across the road, and in thickness he r_ seemed to measure iu the middle of the 1 body about as much us an ordinary ' churn. I tied my horse, got some good rocks and tried my best on him ; but my volley only caused him to mako the y woods ring with his rattles. So, not liking the look of his eyes, I mounted g mv horse and made a flank movement, e leaving my hero in possession of the - field. I told an old citizen what I had seen. He said, "signs of that snake have been found there for twenty years. > I suppose he lived in one of the large . caves around the bridge. s Iron in the United States.?Thenurnv ber of hands employed in the primary s production of iron in the United States is roughly estimated at 140,000; 58,000 of ^ whom work in the rolling mills, 52 000 in f preparing ore and fuel, 25,000 in preparing fuel for rolling mills, 12,500 in blast fur* naces, and 2 500 at forges and bloomeries. J Add the 800,000 engag-'d in manufacturing s articles of iron, and we have a total of; 940,000. The approximate value of the ,, pig iron manufactured last year was S75,v 000,000. Adding to this the product of the rolling mills and forges, the amount is J s ?138,000,000. Adding, again, the value j of articles manufactured of iron and the j value of the iron manufacture of the coun-1 rT try for the year is ?900,000,000. Of rails j 9 we produced in 1853 but 87,000 tons, ana I in 18G9 the amount had risen to 580,000. Of steel rails we laid in the latter 3 ea?* j II 50,000 tons, 15,000 of which were of domestic manufacture, and it is further esti' mated that the quantity of steel rails laid this year will reach 150,000 tons. e !' Rich Men's Sons.?The late Erastus e Corning had two sous, one of whom is j dead. The survivor, Erastus Corning, jr.,! (1 becomes heir to some 88,000,000. For Lt; many years he was one of the secretaries 1 of the New York State Agricultural So 10 ciety, took an active part in its proceed? ings. Ex-Governor E. I). Morgan has two. Mr. A. T. Stewart is childless. Mr. Lc-n a 1 i_;_ .1 ; 11 I r.cx, WilO proposes ro nana tus name uun u ; J to posterity as lounder of the Lennox Libra, ry, the edifice for which is now in course I I* . i ,8 j of construction, is a bachelor. William lb it As tor has three sons and two daughters; 0 the sons are thoroughly familiar with every ;e branch of the business of the vast Astor estate, and are in daily attendance at the 0 office m Prince street. Commodore Van> ; derbilt has two sons and three daughters; d the eldest son, William, is a very superior e busines man. He has a son, Cornelius ! Vanderbilt, Jr., who is married, lie is now , treasurer of the Ilarlem Railroad. i" y it A TF.nnmc cyclone has caused great ><s loss uf life and pecuniary damage iu the |. vicinity of "Madras and to the city itself. J The storm approached so suddenly that j d i many vessels in the roadstead were una-: | ble to put to sea and were wrecked, most j s of llieir crews being lost A portion of 1 the immense pier leading into the harbor was carried away, and many of the j 1 iir?ii?f?a in fbp eitvandits suburbs utterly ! [(? ! J - , (-j j destroyed L Tlie Markets. I fi sew yomk. | besfcaxih.?Prime toEx.Bullocfcs$ .13 to .13H' | First quality I2?fto .13 II j Secnnuqiia) 12 to .IV " I Ordinary thin Cattle .ll)ito 12 r. Inf r or low* st jirade .11 to .llJi I M?lch Cows 30.00 'a.65 CO livo 0") ts Dressed 5.V<f f. S?iEi.r 06 ?r .07\ ; , Cotton?Middling .23J?to .V4'4 j *' Flopk?F.xn-i Western 7 20 to 7 45 I III Slate Extra 7 30 ti 7.(0 | ~ whkat?Red Western .. 1.86 to 1 88 " date 1.71 fa, 1.90 11 Riv?Wfstern 9J to .95 s- Bakt.et?State 7*. to .80 ! ; Cons?Mixed Western .75 6$ 70 I Oats?western 53 to .64"1. j Hops '71s. ' 0 <h 75?"is. s5 to 50 ' ; po?:k?Mess il 12 v<9?3.87>i ; I I-ard 0e7?a .<9lt PetboleDN?Crude 13s Kenned .23,*^ I ill j bctteb?St-Jte 83 to .35 Ohio W R. 18 ? .25 " Fancy 25 to -26 Western ordinary .18 to *22 Pennsylvania tine.... .34 to 37 , v . Ohkbk?State Factory 16 to -'6 Skimmed.... 10 $ .11 ; Ohio 14 to .16 j Eoo*?state 16 to .25 i but1alo Bekf Caitl* e.70 & 6.30 ? **r /s r. /IA j shkep a.u \u. u .... d | Moos-Live 4 fO to 4 50 Flops *.??>;$ 6 f.2'i ! 11 ' Wheat?No. 2 Spring 1.64 ? 155 n ! Cobs t>4 65 ; Oath 40 to 46 d i Kvx 69 to *5 ! bmu.kt '0 m 95 ! Lal.0 09 to .191-2 ausaXY. ! Wheat 1.95 ? }'0 J I Ryb?State >7 @ .90 n | CoBK?M'XtHi 71 fi .72 .a Barley -State .90 ? 1.19 | Oats -"ate 10 #8 .69 1 Purr inir.PBTi. -o I Floub 8 60 & 7 25 ' Whhat?Wegtern Red. 1 91 ft, 1.93 '> ; Wbite 2.00 to 2 ?0 a Cob?--Yellow..... f5 to .69 , Mixed -68 ? -?n I VrrBoi.ry?Crude . lfiKreflned 72 O Oloyeb SIOCD 8.00 <a 9.01 Timothy 2.75 $ 2.88*4 V, BALXMOJUA a Cottoh?Ix>w liiddlings. 22x# .28)4 ie Pro cm?Extra 7.76 to 8.75 n ; Whbat? 1.86 a 8.00 loo** .68 0 72 Oath.... II 60 The Well that Leaked. When the General Manager <?f the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway was pushing that great enterprise southward at the rate of three miles a day, he came across a veteran Missouri farmer, who, for fifty years had lived on his frontier plantation undisturbed, even by war*, pestilence or famine, so far from disease and telegraphs was he. One night the advance men came upon his farm-house, when the following dialogue ensued : " Then ye're gwine to build a railroad, are ve ?" "Yes." " Whar am it comin' from, and whar am it gwine to go." "From Sediilia, in Missouri, down through Missouri, Kausas, the Indian Territory, and so on through Texas to the city of Mexico." "Are you's gwine to run it through mv plantation ?" '"Yes." "Do you hear that old woman? We've got to move !" "Not necessarily. AJ1 we want is the right of way." "You can have that air ; but who'd o' thought a railroad would ever hit us?" " You've got a good farm here " u Yes ?fair to middling." " How many acres ?" " About four thousand." " Not many improvements ?" " No?it takes so long to look after the cattle that I can't improve much." "Have you got a good well on the premises ?'' " Yes?a crippin' good one ; only in leaks a little." " Leaks ? How's that ?" "You see we dug down forty feet when we came to rock, but no water. Then I walled it up, and we haul the water frnm the river, about fortv barrels COU1U LllllMUI , MlUlUliiLl'U UJ tut: niruiui y of her own mistreatment. The man awoke and begged for me icy and help, but the louder he begged the harder and faster she applied the cane, until exhausted with her labors. She then took her clothes and left for the house of a neighbor friend, where she remains, despite the entreaties of her husband, who escaped from his situation by the assistance of the neighbors, to return. To Purify thf. Br.oon.? A physician savs that he considers the following prescription for purifying the blood as the best ever used. One ounce yellow dock, one half ounce horseradish, one quart hard cider. Dose, one wineglassful four time: a day. Invest your spare cash in first-elasi Railroad Bonds, paying you good inter est, write to Charles W. Hassler, No 7, Wall street, New York. A telegram from Calcutta states thai Deputy Inspectors Cowan and Forsytl have been removed from office because they executed Kookah rebels after receiving orders to the contrary. If you desire rosy cheeks and a com plexion fair and tree from Pimples Blotches, and Eruptions, purify youi blood by taking Dr. Pierce's Goldci ? . TJ1 _ If. .Medical .Discovery. n nus 110 equai ioj this purpose. 59f Insignificance of the Earth.? M. Reclus, a celebrated astronomical writer, says this earth is the lowest in rani among heavenly bodies. Were nu astronomer 011 some other planet exploring tlie immensity of space, this planet wt inhabit, owing to its small size, might readily elude his intelligent view. The sun is 1,255.000 times larger ; ami yet, that enormous ma^s is only a speck?r m< re point, which seems lost amid eighteen millions of stars which are dis coverable by instruments in the Milk} Way. A Fixed Fact in Pharmacy.?Consider ing the multitude of diseases, it is amazing that we live: In view of the counties: remedies for them, it is wonderful that \v< /I!,, TTnf/.rtmi.itf.lv }i<nr*.v??r nil tli<> <lh. eases are rralitirs; whereas most of the ' remedies'' are / umbugs. One exception to the latter rule demands the recognition and approval of the press. We refer t< Die. Joseph Wai.kek's Vineoar Hitters Of the Doctor himself, we know nothing but of his medicine we can speak from ob servation, f?>r it seems to have found it: way into almost every household. Prob ably it is more extensively used in thi< countr\,as a.family romedy.than anyothei preparation, although it has not yet beer before the world three years. Wherevei we go we hear of it. and whenever w< hear of it. the comments on its efficacy ar< eiithusisastic. We have questioned suffer ers from liver complaint, remittent fever fever and ague, chronic headache, vertigo irregularities of the bowels, indigestion rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, kidney dis eases, and affections of the lungs, as to its effects, and the uniform answer has been, " 1/ is doi/iff me goody Believing thai " what everybody says must be true," \v< have no hesitation in admitting thai Vineoar Bitters is the Great Medica Success of the present century.?Com. Cakes, Custards, Ice Creams, Ac. have the true delicious fruits which the} represent when flavored with Burnett'.* Superior Flavoring Extracts. Greai care should be used in selecting the gen nine, both in regard to taate and health, ?Com. Rupture can be cured without suffer ing. Elastic Trusses are superseding al others. Before buying Metal Trusses oi Supporters, send for a discriptive circu lar to the Elastic Truss Co., 663 Broad way, N. 't.?Com. a day, and fill into it ''We don't use raor'n five barrels a day ; all the rest leaks out somehow. I was gwine to do another well next year, 'nvnrvo T onn "?rn fllO Trofor llOllloil UIIK J/JL X 1111^ tuv TV<?W'X uuVMV.14 on the cars cheaper than I can build !" For thirteen years this old planter had hauled forty barrels ot water a day to empty into thut rock-bottomed hole, rather than dig a new well or bring water in a pipe from a spring only a mile away. An Injured Wife's Revenge. ? In Louisville, a woman who had been subjected to a long course of abuse and outrage from a drunken husband, took the following method of revenge the other day. lie had returned from one of his usual debauches with more than usual rum aboard, and throwing himself upon the bed, fell into a deep drunken sleep. While thus dead for the time being, a brigh* idea struck the wife by which she might revenge her wrongs and free herself from bondage. Accordingly she proceeded to pack her clothes, and having done this, so as to have them ready for immediate removal, she took a large needle, ana, carefully threading it with a large and strong thread, she approached the bed where the husband was lying, and wr pping him up in a strong quilt, sat down and carefully and securelv sewed him up in it, simply leaving his head out. Having completed all the necessary arrangements for the successful operation of her plans, she seized the cane which had so often been the instrument of her torture, and began laying it on the sleeping man with all the force shj l.i 1? -i.: u.? Keep the Hair Unblemished.?"I am like as old hemlock?w.thered at the top," said a venerable 1 Indian Chief, pointing to his thin and bleaching 1 locks. Thousands of men end women in civ lizea ' society, much yonnger than the old Sagamore, are ! like him, "withered at the top," simply because they 1 have neglected to use the means of preee: ving and beautifying the hair which science had placed at their disposal. If Lyon's Kathaxros be faithfully applied once or twice a day, to the fibers and the scalp, it is Just as impossible that the hair sli uld i decay, wither, tall out or become harsh and fuzzy, as I that a meadow, duly refreshed with uightly dews and | sunlit rains, should become arid and barren of green blades. This matchless preparation not only keeps the hair alive and the sk n of the head in a healthy and clean condition, bnt actually multiplies the filaments and imparts to them a lustre, flexibility and j wavy beauty unattainable by any other mode of treatment. It does not, like the metallic and sulpha- ^ roue hair dyes, dry up the natural moisture of the scalp, but supplies nutriment to the roots of the hair cl, and vigor to tho fibers. Chapped Hands, face, rough skin, pimples, rng-worm, salt-rheum, aDd other cutaneous affections, cured, and the skin made soft and A smooth, by using the Jcnipeb Tab Soap made j by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. It is ins more convenient and easily applied than other the remedies, avoiding the l rouble of the greasy me compounds now in use.?Cbm, . Cunduraugo has latelv effected some remark- ^n' able cures of Scrofula and Rheumatism, and is jn rapidly winning its way into favor with phym- h? cians and people as a most valuable alterative of and blood purifier. are r it h Caution.?Purchasers of the Peruvian Syrup (a pro- ant tecUd solution of the protoxide of Iron) are cautioned 1 ."tin Rpintr deceived by any of the prep (rations of ma Peruvian Bark, or Bark and Iron, which may be offered them. Every bottle of genuine ba< Peruvian Syrup (notPeruvian Birk> blown in the glass. Examine the '!"! BmTLF BEFORE PURCHASING. tlbl 111 Special Notices*. mil Causeless Dcprestloa. Thia expression is often used, bat it is manifestly ab- PrJj surd. Gloom and melancholy are not 6pontaneour. a ' They are unnataral mental condi''.ons and usually have as ma corresponding causes. If there is no apparent reason Di: for despondency, it i-? a symptom of phyrical disease. In ^ ' nine case-* out. of tor the stomach, the liver and the bui bowels are responsible for the cloud which rests upon the an< brain. In all such cases immedia'e and permanent relief are may be obtained by the use of Hostetter's Stomach Bit- s'^ ters. If the digestive organs are weak an invigorant is tk necessary ; if the liver is disordered sn alterative is r y required ; if the bowels are constipated or irregular a "r gentle aperient Is needed. In that famous vegetable ?? remedy these three medicinal properties are commingled with several others of a scarcely leas important charao- jfi ter, and hence it .p.-edily cures every species of hypo- 8r( chondria arising from material causes, by removing the ^ causes themselves. GL In the summer, when disorders of the stomach and J. bowels, bilious complaints and all diseases which affect its the ussimilating and secretive organs are especially prev- ''J alent, the importance of having this invaluable tonic, La alterative and corrective in every dwelling, and within ga the reach of all who travel by land or water, cannot be ? over-estimated. An it is a staple article throughout the ?nnnt,n it would be next to impossible totiud a settle- iti ment, near or remote, unprovided with a stock of this w ' famous vegetable restorative. ? Ragged stockings and protruding toes are not seen on feet where SILVER TIPS are worn. Paients remember this, they la<t twice as long. f For Sale by all Dealers. TO CONSUMPTIVES. bo TO CONSUMPTIVES. ? The advertiser, having been permanently cured of that v dread disease. Consumption, by a simple remedy, is ? anxious to make known to his fellow safferers the means of cure. To all who desire it, he will tend a copy of the in prescription used, (free of charge), with the directions for preparing and using the MUM. which they will find a . snu: Opre for Consumption. Asthma. Bronchitis, / and all Throat or Lung Difficulties. ! Parties wishing the procriorion will please addresa %i Rev. EDWARD A W[f?SON 1 2M South Third street.. Wilnara.sr.urgh. N. Y To wade streams, climb mountains, as well a.- constant I use in dry. heated rooms, the CABLE SCREW WIRE Boots and Shoes are the best ?Not affected by the ? weather. Farmers and mechanics, t'y them. IJ SECRET AND MURK method of enticing fish, game, Ac. Send 25 cents -or recipe. } A. BAIN. Rochester. N. Y. 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CARI.ETO.N A CO. PuNi-hers. New York ; Iron in the MAKES THE WEAK STRONG, s I '.vi I * " The Peruvian Syrup, a Protect' 4,1 ed Solution of the Protoxide of ~ ? >1 /\ a va 7. % %\ si o Jl/f }?/> I j. run* .iw tt/z/n/tricu i/v Hwi/v ; Me character of an aliment, ?s easily digested and assimilated | | with the blood as the simplest ! ' food. It increases the quantity T 4 0/ Xature's Own Vitalizing * ) Agent, //'o? in the blood, and cures "a thousand ills,11 simply > j by Toning up. Invigorating and 1 Vitalizing the System. The en1 ; riched and vitalized blood per- 0 , mcates every part of the body, repairing damages and waste, o: . j searching out morbid secrc- tt ' Hons, and leaving nothing for disease to feed upon. p' This is the secret of the won- ?n derful success of this remedy in ^ ' curing Dyspepsia, Liver Cora- a ' plaint, Dropsy, Chronic Diarrhcra, Boils, Nervous Affections, ^ j j Chills and Fevers, Humors, ; Loss of Constitutional Vigor, Diseases of the Kidneys and '! Bladder, Female Complaints, ?; and all diseases originating in j a bad state of the blood, or accompanied by debility or a loio ? ' -f* i }\ r> on c//>iv? -f h/d/i I _ OllVIV V/ III V C7 ?/ / I l/V ^ ,; /row Alcohol, in any form, its %11 energizing effects are not fol t lowed by corresponding reao t, Hon, but are permanent, infu] sing strength, vigor, and new ( life into alt parts of the system, and building up an Iron Con~ stitution. s ' i Thousands have been changed ti by the use of this remedy, from p *; weak, sickly, suffering crea- * l tures, to strong, healthy, and w happy men and women; and f invalids cannot reasonably hes~ itate to give it a trial. See that each bottle has PERU* - V1AN SYRUP Mown in the glass. Pamphlets Free. ! J. P. DINSMORE, Proprietor, No. M Dey Bt, New York. Umid by I>*u*siata (OMrftUyv t lllllllai II 1 7 ISA Ho Person ran take these Bitters accordto directions, and remain long unwell, provided ir bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other ans, and the vital organs wasted beyond the point repair. dyspepsia or Indigestion. Headache, Pain :he Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest. Disess, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Had Tasto the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the , art. Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions 1 the Kidnevs, and a hundred other painful symptoms, the offsjtrings of Dyspepsia. In these complaints las no equal, and one bottle will pyive a Letter guare? of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. ?or Female Complaints, in voting or old, rried or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the n of life, these Tonic Bitters display so decided an uesce that a marked improvement is toon percep le. ?'or Inflammatory and Chronic Rhea? ntism and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and InterItent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys 1 Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Discs are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally iduced by derangement of the Digestive Organs. They are a Gentle Purgative ?? well as Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit of acting a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflamtiow of the Liver and Visceral Organs, and in Bilious 5eases. For Skin Dlaeascs, Eruptions. Tetter, Salt eum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Caricles, Ring-worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eves, Erye!as. Itch, Scurfs, Discolorationsof the Skin, Humors I Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature, : literally dug up and carried out of the system in a >rt time by the use of these Bitters. xrateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitrs the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustaiusd sinking system. TALKER. Prop'r. R. H. HrDONALD do CO., uggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco and New York. rvSOLD P.V ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS. Y N. U. May 18 No. ? _ for flrst-clav Pianos. No discount. No < Agents. Address U. S. PIANO CO.. 8tl udway, X. Y. GEXTS Wanted.?Agents make more money at L work for us than at anything else. Particulars free. STINSON A Co.. Pin* Art Pnhlirhrrt, Portland. Maine. I O 31 EST, energetic, God-fearing men and vomm, can have pleasant, profit<ble work; no risk or capI. Write H. L Hastings. 19 Lindall 8t. Bn'on. Mas*. E V EBY B EST.?Agents aw wanted every. where to sell the American Lamp Wick Co.'s Patent mp Wick. Every family which u-es Kerosene must vethem. 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