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GKWBVA, Joly 1.-The Alabama claims
arbitration tribunal, in dealing with
the direct claims of the Amerioan Go*
vernment, will oonsider separately the
eharaoter of Confederate cruisers, and
award damages according to its findings.
BERLIN, July 1.-The arbitration on
the San Juan boundary question will
now proceed. Bismarck is about to ap*
point international jurists to examine
the papers submitted by the English and
Amerioan Governments, aud report to
the Emperor.
American Blatter?.
CHARLESTON, July 1.-Arrived
Steamship South Carolina, New York.
Nsw YORK, Jane 80.-The Herald's
special despatch from Madrid says: The
resignation of Captain-General Val ma?
sada has been aooepted. Ce bull?s acts
temporarily. The Government bas an?
nounced its intention to introduce im?
portant measures for the relief of the
Spanish Bank in Havana. It decrees
that the notes of that bank shall be re?
ceived as legal tender of Government
dues.
The imports of Bugar last week were
valued at 81,000,000.
WASHINGTON, June 80.-It appear*
from an official statement just prepared
at the office of Internal Bevonue that oe
the 1st of May, tba quantity of apiriti
in bond was 8,672,417 gallons. Tb?
number of distilleries running June 2.
was 215; daily capacity, 217,682 gallons
The decrease in number of distilleries
since 1st of June is 20, while the in
orease in the capacity of those in opera
tion ia 9,860 gallons. The decrease per
tains to small establishments. The in
crease of produotion is accounted foi
from the fact that the tax is now sixty
one cents, but on and after the 1st o
August, by the new law, it will be seven
ty cents. It is probable, judging by tb
information received, there will be i
still further increase of 'manufacture, si
ss to fill the bonded warehouses bet wee:
now and the 1st of August.
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i?3i??TOi???6a ul xvu niui tcaniuvju
have been printed and delivered at th
folding rooms of the capitol. Thre
more are to be added, making in al
about 8,000 ootavo printed pages.
The Treasury boys 81,000,000 wort
of bonds on each Wednesday, and sell
81,000,000 in gold each Thursday durin
Joly. The Treasury has called i
81,500,000 of three per cent, temporar
. loan certificates.
BOSTON, June 30.-The Irish ban
arrived this morning, and prooeede
direct to the quarters prepared for then
at tho Everett House. To-morrow mon
inga public reception will be given tb
band by the Irish societies of BoBtc
and vicinity. Weather to-day the botte
of the season.
BUFFALO, July 1.-Dobbs* pork est
bliahment was burned lost night; lo
875,000. The bogs' iu the upper fioi
were roasted alive.
NEW YOBK, July 1.-Weather la
night and to-day intensely hot; tl
thermometer continuing at about nine
degrees. Reports from the Eostei
States represent the heat as being ve:
great yesterday.
The World, to-day, says Greele
nomination at Baltimore is a foregoi
conclusion, and there are no iudioatio
of a formidable opposition. It add
There Will be but two candidates. F
our part, we shall advise nobody to vc
for Grant, and as between the murnini
alternative, of voting for Greeley
aiaying at home, we have no counsel
offer. Our duty may more oleat
appear after the otnvass has made soi
pro grecs. . ..
Long lists of ann-stroke victims t
published this morning. ' .
The Federal Council of 'Internation
held a meeting yesterday. The lu ten
tional Congress, to be held in Philad
phia next week, is to seek the establii
raent and re-union of all the elements
the association. The General Conn
of London bas suspended all Engl;
speaking sections of the United State
WASHINGTON, July 1-Evening.-1
publio debt was roduoed last mot
82,031,035; coin, in tho Treasury 88
149,108; currency 815,321,689; coin c
ti tic at es 832,086,800.
Roger C. Weightman, one of the c
est and mont estimable citizens of Wa
ington, is not expected to live.
Telegrams to the War Department!
credit th? reported killing of Gene
McKenzie and others by the Indians,
recently stated.
Probabilities-The baromoter i
probably continuo falling on Tuesd
with South-west winds and in?reos
cloudiness, over the lakes. The area
highest temperature will move* Noi
eastward, followed by cooler weat
South and West of New York. Par til
olondy and close weather will prevail
the South Atlantic and Gulf ooa
The area of rain will move Eastward i
Northern Canada, Light local rc
will prevail at a few placea from Loo
ana to Cape Hatteras.
W^RiiiAMSPOKT, July 1.-The mill ?
boom men, who struck for ten hoi
met in Market Square this morni
They were addressed by several speak
amid great enthusiasm. At ll o'ch
some 2,000 formed in procession
marched down town to a few mills I
were in operation, and persnaded
men' to join. Thia afternoon f
marched to the mills up town, t
few mills are rnnning. No disturbai
so far. f The Mayor issued a proola
tion this morning, ordering all pla
where liquor is sold, to close until r.
tho 4th of July.
NEW YORK, July 1-Evening.-Ste
trial was resumed this morning. L
crowds are prosent, and hundreds tui
away. H. D. Carley; the parlor ma
tho hotel, testified that the pistol w
was handed him by Miss Hall was ?
ver-plh'ted whitehondled six-sho?
The pistol produced by Coroner Yoi
which had a brown wooden handle
only four chambers^was handed witi
and he was positive it was not the
handed bim by Miss Hall. Considera?
ble interest was manifested when witness
stated tbat the pistol produced by Coro?
ner Young was not the pistol given him
by the woman at the hotel. Witness re?
sumed. The ladies gathered around
witness, and one said: "You better Bay
nothing, Henry; it might endanger your
position." Stokes did not go into the
front parlor, where the lady found the
white-handled pistol. Miss Grace Hall
testified to finding a pistol in Parlor No.
1, near tho lounge. The pistol said to
be Stokes' was uno wu her, but abe failed
to identify it, but was positive the one
she found did not have a white handle..
BOSTON, July 1.-The labor party bab
decided on a conference at Germania
Hall Assembly Booms, in New York, on
Tuesday afternoon, July 30-Judge
Davis and Gov. Parker having declined
their nominations. Gov. Parker, in his
letter of declination, says: "I have
always beena member of the Democratic
party. For nearly thirty-five years, I
have shared its triumphs and defeats,
adhering tu its faith, because I consider?
ed its suooess essential to good govern?
ment and to the elevation of the laboring
classes. Having been pluaed in the im?
portant public position as the nominee
of that party, I am bound, in honor as
well as by inclination, to stand by its or?
ganization, and abide by the decision of
its National Convention. To be the can?
didate of one party, while supporting
the nominees of another, although the
two may agree substantially in principle,
would be inconsistent, and I therefore
respectfully decline the nomination ten?
dered me by the Convention yen repre?
sent."
ANOTHER "SLEEPING BEAUTY."-A
very remarkable case of lethargy occur?
red at Winterport, Maine, a few days
since. A daughter of Howse Mayo
went into the yard on Tuesday, May 7,
to bring in a little child, which had,
unawares, got ont of the house. While
Miss Mayo waa stooping over the child
she became suddenly dizzy, and com?
plained of it to her mother, who put her
tc bod. The girl fell into a profound
sleep almost immediately, and ber
mother, upon trying to awaken her in
season for supper, was surprised to fiud
her efforts unavailing. After the family
had eaten supper they again tried to
awaken the girl, but btill without avail.
The family becoming seriously alarmed,
the neighbors were called in, but they
could cob suggest any method by which
the fuir sleeper could be aroused. A
physician was also summoned, and he
called in three other medical men, who,
among other methods, sat the girl in a
ohair and poured water from a few feet
upon her head and shoulders, but even
this failed, and the bleeping girl was put
again to bed. Except when she was dis?
turbed, her breathing was slow and re?
gular, and her pulse healthy. At 2
o'clock, on the following Sunday after?
noon, she turned over in her bed, and,
awaking, called to ber mother, asking if
supper wasn't ready yet, and further
said that she was really hnngry. She
then got up and ate a hearty meal, aud
has been in excellent health ever since.
The case excited great interest in the
town, and the recovery of the sleeper
was a theme of much wonderment.
[Btvigor Commercial.
THAT MULE AND THE FORTY ACRES.
When Grant was candidate for Presi?
dent, four years ago, his carpet-bag and
scalawag partisans promised the pcfbr ne
S?roes of the South who voted for him
orty acres of land and a mule. This the
deluded blacks took for their enfranchise?
ment. Now Wendell Phillips threatens
them that, in case of Greeley's eleotioc,
they will loee the mules and land they
didn't get. That is about as bad as the
Radical stumper, who swore to the ne?
groes that the land was all mapped out,
and the mules selected, but the/d-d
Democrats had stolen the surveys and
owned all the railroads, so that the covet?
ed long-eared equines couldn't be distri?
buted, nor the lorty acres enjoyed for
the present.
[Lancaster {Pa.) Intelligencer.
A gentleman once asked a little girl,
an only child, how many sisters she had,
and was told "three or four." Her
mother asked Mary, when they were
alone, what induced her to tell such an
untruth. "Why, mamma," cried Mary,
"I didn't want him to think you were so
poor that you hadn't but one child.
Wouldu't he have thought we were
dreadful poor?"
The Bev. Father James A. McEvoy,
of Fitchburg, Mass., died recently at the
age of 111 years. He was probubly the
oldest clergyman in the country. He
was a native of Meath County, Ire?
land. He was born in 1761.
The following ludicrous sentence is
the result of a compositor's erroneous
punctuation: "Ctesar entered upon his
head, his helmet upon his feet, armed
sandals upon bis brow, a cloud in his
right hand, his faithful sword in his eye,
an angry glare."
It was Henry Wilson who, in the fall
of 1853, said in a speech: The time
had oome when the uniform of the State
militia should no longer be disgraced by
being seen on the back of a Catholic
Irishman or an infidej Dutchman.
An old farmer said of hts clergyman,
whose sermon lacked point: "Ah, yos,
he's a good man; but he will rake with
the teeth upward."
An Indianapolis man is acquiring
wealth by buying up all the poor old
blind horses and getting work out of
them.
Two Decatur County, Ga., negroes
engaged in a quarrel recently. Result
a broken skull, a shattered shovel, sud a
vote less for Grant.
Au alliterative San Francisco sheet
jocularly gibes Judge Joachimsou's judi?
cial javelins.
A Mr. Herod is running for Congress
in Indiana, but his oppoueut expects to
out-Herod Herod.
Flii?ncl?l ?Mi* Co minc retal.
LONDON, July 1-Noon.-Gonaols
92%. BODCIB 91.
FISANKFOUT, July 1.-Bonds 96Jg.
PAIIIB, July 1.-Bentes 5if. 5o.
LIVERPOOL, July 1-3 P. M.-Cotton
opened dull-uplands 11%@11%; Or?
leans 11%; sales 1U,OOO bales; specula?
tion and export 2,000.
LONDON. July 1-Evening.-Consols I
closed 92%. Money 92%@92%, on ao- j
count. Aoierioan securities uucbanged.
LIVERPOOL, July 1-Evening.-Cotton
dosed dull and unchanged.
NEW YOBS, July 1-Noon.-Sales of ]
futures Saturday evening 7,400 bales, as
follows: July 24%, 24 13-16; August 25,
"25%; September 22%, 23; October 20%,
20%; November 19%. Cotton nomiuai;|
sales 814 bales-uplands 26; Orleans
26%. Flour dull and declined. Wheat |
.duli and heavy. Corn quiet and un?
changed. Pork dull, at 13.20@13 25.
Lard dull-steam 9%@9%. Freights'
dull. Stocks dull. Mouey easy, ut 3.
Gold quiet, at 13%. Exchange- long |
9 J? ; short 10 > J. Governments firm and
I steady. State bonds dull and quiet.
7 P. M.-Money easy, at 4@5 on call,
i Exchange strong, at* 9J'8@10. Gold
13JU'@14. Lounn ranged from 1@4 for
carrying. Governments dull but steady
j -new 5s 13%; 81s, ex-interest, 16%; 62s
114%. States dull and heavy. Tonnes
sees 74; new 74. Yirginius 42; new 50.
Louisiana 6s 52; new 50; levee Gi 55;
levee 8* 73. Alabama 8s 83; 5s 60.
Georgia 6? 70; 7s 88. North Carolinas \
34%; new 21. South carolinas 50; new
29%. Cotton ia fair demand and hold?
ers free; sales 1,518 bales-middling up?
lands 25% ; Orleans 26. Southern flour
dall and declining-7.15(3)9.80 for com?
mon to fair extra; 9.40(a) 1*2 75 for good
to choice extra. Whiskey dall-buyers
90; sellers 91. Wheat l@2o. lower.
Corn a shade lower; fair business; ex?
port at a decline; home trade buying
rather moderately, at 62@63, per steam?
er, for Western mixed. Pork dall, at1
13 20Cfl.13.25. Beef-plain mess 7.50@
9.50. Lard dull, ut 8%@9%. Freights I
a shade firmer. Sales of futures to-day
13,950 bales, as follows: July 24. 24%;
August 21%, 24 5-16; September 22%,
22 13-16; October 20!^; November 19%,
19%; December 19 5 16.
CINCINNATI, July 1.-Flour in fair de?
mand and Arm, at 7.25(0,7.50. Coru
firm, at 49. Pork demaud light and
holders firm-oity 14 75. Lard iu good
demand-summer 8(2$%; steam 8%;
kettle 9. Bacon firm-jobbing sules 5%
for shoulders; 7%@7% for sides. Whis?
key quiet and weak, ut 85.
LOUISVILLE, July 1.-Pork demaud
light aud holders firm, at 12.00. Buoou
firm and in good demand, at 5% fur
shoulders; 7}? for clear rib; 7% for clear |
sides, packed. Lard quiet and un?
changed. Whiskey quiet and steady, at
85.
ST. LOUIS, July 1.-Flour dull; small
business. Corn dull aud lower, at 39.
Whiskey 88. Pork dull, at 11.80@12.00.
Clear rib 7%@.7%. Lard dull aud no?
minal, ut 8.
BALTIMORE, July 1.-Cotton dull
low middling nominally at 25. Flour
very dull and nominally unchanged.
Wheat dull and weak-new white choice
1.80; fuir to prime choico 1.60@1.75;'
old Western 1.60?1.65; old Pennsyl?
vania 1 65@1.70. Corn-white South?
ern Arm, ut 83; yellow Southern firm, nt'
64; mixed Western quiet, at 63%(&64.
Oats firmer-mixed 4G@48; white 49@
50; Southern 50. Rye quiet and un?
changed. Provisions quiet. Pork un?
changed. Bulk meats unohauged. Ba?
con active, with a jobbing demand;
prices unchanged. Sugar-cured hams
and lard unchanged. Western butter1
fairly active-choice 17. Whiskey quiet.
AUGUSTA, July 1.-Cotton nominal
middling 23%; receipts 6 bales; sales 13.
PHILADELPHIA, July 1.-Cotton dull
but not lower-middliug 26@26%.
NonFOLE, July 1.-Cotton dull-low
middling 21; receipts 150 bales; stock
946.
NEW OBLEANS, July 1.-Cotton nomi?
nal-middling 24%; receipts 180 balts;
Bales 400; stock 23,557.
SAVANNAH, July 1.-Cotton dull; no
offerings-middliug 24; receipts 58 bales;
sales 25; stock 1,478.
WILMINGTON, July 1.-Cottoo quiet
middling 2i}4; stock 1,074.
CHARLESTON, July 1.-Cotton dull
middliug 25; receipts 150 bales; stock
7,250.
GALVESTON, July 1.-Cotton nominal
-good ordiuary 20%; stock 816 halos
MOBILE, July 1.-Cotton dull and no?
minal-middling 24; receipts 29 bales;
sales 50; stock 2,425.
BOSTON, July 1.-Cotton dull-mid?
dling 26%; receipts 1,545 bales; sales
200; stock 10,500.
A few days ugo, a couple of Boston
runners entered a restaurant in Port?
land and ordered dinner. One was
pleased to order a plate of baked beans.
When he came to settle, he asked the
price, and was informed that forty cents
would be satisfactory. The runner was
astonished and exclaimed: "Isn't that
b--1 of a price for beans?" The man
of grub got mad, and said that was the
price, and must be paid. The runner
still uttered the same pions exclamation
ot astonishment several times and paid
the scot. On going out of the door ht
turned and yelled it again, but the beau
man waa silent. The next day the res?
taurant keeper received a despatch aud
paid the telegraph boy forty cents.
Judge, if you can, of his utter disgust,
when, upon opening it, ho reud: "Isn't
that a h-1 of a price for beans?"'
So ,;: eat has the trafilo become be?
tween America and Eoglund that it is
now a ferry, steamers leaving either side
every twelve hours; seventeen steam?
ships belonging to the Cunard line,
eleven to the loman, five to thu Mutual,
five to tho White Star, ten to tho Allen,
six to tho Guion, and aa additional num?
ber to tho French and Germun lines.
Au enterprising widow in Iowa, baa
realized 850,000 from policies on the
lives of ber two deceased hush Ands.
Admiral" Jubn 0'K.tefe'? Luck.
The Board of Education building, in
Elm street, yesterday had some attrac?
tions for the aspirants to honor suob as
Farragut and Nelson won in shrouds
and smoke. There were twenty-six of
them, all boys, some of them plainly
dressed, some attired in hue raiment and
bearing all the murks of gentle rearing,
and one shambling fellow, whose collar?
less shirt, sieve-like shoes, coarse, dirty
clothes and unkempt bair seemed to in?
dicate that he had no right to bo there;
that hts proper sphere of life would be
acting the part of a wharf rat or market
bummer. He spoke to nobody and no?
body spoke to bim, yet there was in
that face the look of reliance and resig?
nation.
The boys were waiting for the exami?
nation of applicants for the cadetship ic
the Annapolis Naval Academy, in the
gift of Colonel W. B. Roberts, of the
Fifth Congressional District. At 10, the
boys filed into the room. Colonel Bo
berts came smiling and ?olly as usual
Marshal Tooker came soon after, witb
Judge Shandley, Michael J. Kelly, Dr,
Harrington, W. F. McNamara and Jamel
Hayes, all of whom, with the exoeptiot
of Shandley, ?re members of the com
mitten to make the award. Several o
the Christian Brothers were present, t<
encourage their boys, one of whom the;
hoped would carry off the honors fron
the public Behool. Mr. Duffio, of Qram
mar School No. 29, of the first ward, wa
also present, to back and bet if neoessar;
on Ins favorite, the rugged boy above re
ferred to. Tooker took a high seat ii
the educational synagogue, and th
lesser committeemon clustered abou
bim. They looked grave. Then ther
Wore Superintendent Kiddle and hi
assistant, Mr. Harrison, who conducto
the mental examination, and Dre. Ski
and B. J. O'Sullivan, who felt the littl
fellows to Bee that they were sound i
wind and limb. AU but eight wer
ruled out of the race, either on aocour
of beiug under the age of fourteen c
for some physical disqualification. The:
names being called, they filed within tb
railing, aud took their seats. Last I
enter was O'Keefe, the "ragged buffer,
as he was dubbed by a spectator withot
the building, and hi* appearance attrac
ed much notice, but little or uo con
ment.
The examination lasted from about ]
A. M. uutil nearly 3 P. M.; but befo
it was half through everybody was iut
rested und amazed at the collarle
O'Keefe, who stood by the desk wit
open mouthy distended nostril, spurklii
gruy eyes, aud head thrown forward
catch the questions put by Mr. Hurriso
While at rest iu that uttitude he remin
ed the beholder of a sprightly dog cate
ing Hies. This is perhaps au uugen
rous comparison, but it is nevertheless
homely one. Without hesitation
answered nearly every question quickl
his eye still set upon the propound*
then his mouth would close un instai
ouly to open for the next qnestic
There was smiling all around the roo
aud the whisper passed, "That b
wins; seo if he don't." And he d
He evidently saw that the eyes of t
nation-i. e., that fraction represent
by Tooker, Hayes, McNamara, 1
Harrington and Kelly-were upon hi
and, to use his language after, he "{
in his best licks." The committee,
tiring, remained ont an hour, and
turning, Joseph Tooker arose with gr
dignity, und, after shaking his bea
proclaimed that John O'Keefe had w
the go:tl; end the committee would so
port to Colonel Roberts. It was a s
disappointment to the other boys, v
were well dressed and had beauti
white skins, to see the honors borne
by that frizzly-headed fellow, who i
destly took tho bauds of his teaet
Mr. Duffie, aud others who rushed i
ward to congratulate him. The yoi
admiral in embryo did not want to
the e'ilect of his triumph upon the
feated, but suddenly disappeared bel
the reporter could seize his hat and c
to follow.
From neighbors of tho young ct
the reporter learned that young O'Ki
has been attending school pretty re
lurly since he was eight years old, asi
ing to support his parente and tl
sisters by selling papers in tho more
and evening, and running errands al
Washington Market and thu piers,
has some reputation as a "wharf r
and many stories aro told of Joh
O'Keefe ?living from tho yard urtu
vessels into the river, swimming ni
a vessel's bottom and makiug nude
corsions to upper air iu the riggiu
merchautmeut. lu personal appuuri
be is one who can elbow bis way iu
world. He has a bright, sparkling j
eye; black hair that does not look u
hud ever made the acquaintance <
comb; muscular limbs, a moderate-s
head und an aqualiue nose His gu
a shambling, unguinly one, and wht
the street selling papers he has all
appearance of u saucy, over-grown n
boy, who feels that, no matter how
world wags, he is 6uro to "be gay
happy still."
lu front of tho office of au eve
newspaper the reporter found the u
boy-admiral wholesaling to other t
and taking him in, he escorted hit
the Herald office, with a view of
versing with him.
"Look here, Admiral," said thi
porter, "what did you run away ft
quickly utter the examination?"
"Becauso I didu't want to stay
have them fellers, with white papei
lars, stare ut me. I jist let out for h
you see."
"How long have you boen ut sein
"Since I was eight years old. I Rf
the mornin'Bellin pupers, go to so
then swim, dive and duck under pit
North River. Say, young feller, wb
atkin' these questions fur?"
"Oh, I'm going to put you iu tin
raid"
"The - you are! Well, I -
caro if I answer. Drive on your waj
"Do the police not arrest yoi
swimming down there?"
"No, they can't catch ns. We just'
gets in auder the wharf, pulls off our
clothes and breaks oat. When the
peeler comes we beat back on the home?
stretch, and lay to under the pier till he
leaves. He can't fetch ns there."
"How often do yon swim?"
"I cleans meself in the salt water
three times a day; don't use soap, fur,
ye see, salt water'n soap don't 'gree.
Can I swim at 'Napolis?"
"Certainly; thot's part of the institu?
tion."
"Then I'm till hookey, old boy."
"Do you make much money welling
popers?"
"I makes a li vin', but that's all. I
don't let my mother know it, 'eau
she'd knock the liver out of me."
"Why?"
" 'Cause she thinks I'm too big to ped?
dle papers. I needn't work. My father,
Timothy O'Keefe, earnB $16 per week,
and my sister, yoanger'n me, earnB S3,
in Uncle Dennis O'Keefo's tobacco fac?
tory. I can get $4 per week there if I'd
a mind to work after school hours. He's
pretty well ofT, and owns two houses in
Brooklyn."
What do the boys in your class in
the First Ward think of your look?"
"There are some 'quills' iu my class,
but they wouldn't say nothin'. They
kaows me. If they did give me any of
their lip, I'd put a bead on 'em."
"What do you mean by a .quill?"*
"They are them nobby fellows, ye!
know, what dresses ap good and look?)
down npon a poor boy."
"Well, Admiral, when you get down
there to Annapolis, you will find that
the boys will haze you; make yon do
their work: act as a drudge. Don't sub?
mit to it, but be respectful to your supe?
riors; and in your intercourse with your
messmates carry jost as high a head as
any of them. Do you support Qreeley
or Girant?"
"Greeley every time, me boy, I've
done with Grant."
"Why?"
"'Cause he's got too many beats
'round him. I s'pose down there,
though, all are for Grant? I'll tell 'em
I'm for Greeley."
"Admiral, you spoke of putting heads
on your classmates. Are you a fighter?"
"I kin box pretty well. I have bad in
my time some tights, and none of 'em
got the better of me."
The impression left upon the mind of
tho reporter is, that the new candidate
for ad mission from the Fifth Congres?
sional District, "rough diamond" though
he be, will prove himself to be a worthy
representativo of the District, and one
that the genial Representative of the
Distiict in time will be proud of. Aboy
who had been a waif upon the streets
and can carry ofTsuoh honors as O'Keefe I
did yesterday, eau do even more toward
making himself a respectable member of
society. The only drawback he has to i
encounter is poverty, but Principal
Duffie, of Grammar School 29, will start
a subscription to fit him out for his new
life at Annapolis.
{New York Herald, 28th ult.
The fast lino from Cincinnati to Wash?
ington that runs through regular as a
clock in twenty-two hours, has a way of
"letting go all holts" upoo down grades
that is rather striking than otherwise.
An unexpected jump of two inches to the
right or left would send one by a fast !
line to another, and let us hope a
better, world, for while a maintain
towera up cu ono side a dreadful, yawn
iug abyss starla from the edge ut the
track on the other. And these grades
wind down in the most graceful manner.
We stepped upon the platform of the
car while whirling down and round one
of these grades, to get a better view of
the magnificent scenery, when the
brakesman bawled in our ear:
"Better get off the platform."
"Why?" we asked.
"Platforms are dangersome."
We thought of the many we had seen
made in our time. These were political !
platforms, und like good advice, always
asked for, always given, and never fol?
lowed, they were not "dangersome."
"What's the matter now?" we bawled
at our brakesman.
"A goin* down/these heavy grades,"]
hu responded, "it's bard, work for the
locomotive to keep ahead1 sometimes,
tho thing is just run over."
We retired to our seat in the car with
aa idea. It is not often that one gets an
iden, and we cherished this. It struck
us that sometimes the train did run
down the locomotive. We saw it done
in the Cincinnati Convention, when the
people took the management from the
hands of the organizers, and it looks as
if it would be done at Baltimore. It
could not be attempted at Philadelphia,
because it wus there on au up grade. It
took all sorts of whistling, bell ringing
aud blowing to keep up even the ap?
pearance of motion.
As we sat cogitating this beautiful
illustration, a bird known to the vulgar
us a fly-up-tJie-creek, made in one of
nature's severest fits of economy, with
one digestive organ running throngh it,
rose from a gorge near by and flew
Euralie! to the train for some distance,
laving no tail, it balanced its long neck
with its longer legs, and gazed with won?
dering lack-lustre eyes upon the train as
it thundered along. That, quoth we, is
a Boarbon Demoorat, the Dan Voorhees
of the woods.- Washington Capital.
A morning paper tells us of a negro ;
who whistles a "a tune in French."
MARRIED,
At Madison, Fla., on tho evening of tho 25th
Juno, ult.j bv the Kev. Ooo. 8. Audorson, Mr.
GEO. li. DIAL, nf Columbia, 8. 0., to Mba
A Ul A N NA J. LIVINGSTON, ot Madison G
H., Fla. No canis.
err I bo Jacks inville and TV.nbaasec, Fla.,
papara pifase copy.
Notice.
A S .!;.> l-h day ot July ia a legal holiday,
/\. ??.i Notre mu! Draft* talliog due on that
da? at i''io Otr.iliua National bank mutt be
u till ou the 3 I dar- W. B. QULICK,
J ah 2 I Cathior.
^LiACtlon Salen.
AxHtton Sale on Account of Shipper.
BY JACOB LEVIN.
THIS (To?eday) MORNING, 10 o'clock. I will
noll, before my store, in lots to suit par
chasers:
1,500 Ibo. sugar-cored HAMS.
2 500 lbs. smoked Shoulders.
2,000 lbs. dry salted Meat.
?ale positiva. _ jntT g
Barbecue.
THERE will bo a BARBECUE at the Fair
Grounds, on the 4th of Joly, nuder the
management of J. M. ROACH. Tickets can
be haj on the ground. Jnly 2 tntb2
Palmetto Steam Fire Engine Company.
1-*v THE REGULAR
I monthly meeting of
thia Company will
be held in their Hall
IT H IS (Tuesday)
IEVENING, at 8
'o'clock. By order.
T. P. PURSE,
July 2 I _Secretary.
?rae Brotherhood Lodge No. 84, A.F.M.
- A. A REGULAR communication of thia
y?%rLodge will be held THIS (Tuesday)
/V* .E Vii NINO, ia Masonic Hall, at S
o'clock. By order of the W. M.
Joly ai G. M. WALKER. Secretary.
For Salo.
BOXES FIRE CRACKERS, for Fourth
of July purposes. HOPE A GTLE8.
50
, Preserving Kettlet, Furnaces, ftc.
At Ihe Sign of th? Golden Padlock.
TUST received a fall ?apply of PRESERV?
AI ING KETTLES, Charcoal FURNACES.
? FRUIT JABS of the best makes, Preserve
SKIMMERS, ?o., in ?tor? and for sale at low
prices Xor cash, bj JOHN C. DIAL.
! Joly 2_ f4
Lime, Cement and Floater.
QA ?fa BARRELS fresh STONE LIME.
OUI/ 10Obarrels fresh Hydraulic Cement.
1 20 barrels fresh Calcined Plaster, for sale
i at reduced prices, by JOHN C. DIAL,
j Joly 2_4_
I Dissolution of Co-partnership.
THE co-partnership heretofore existing
ander the firm of CARROLL A SPELL?
MAN waa dissolved OB tho lat instant, by
mntnal consent. Mr. JOHN AGNEW baa
Snrehaaed oar entire stock of Carriages,
uggies, Ac, and will carry on the balinese
at oar old stand, where we will be employed
and pleased to see cor old customers Mr.
Agnew will also close np the business of the
firm of Carroll A Spellman, collecting all out?
standing debts, and paying the indebtedness
of the late firm. We respectfully solicit for
tue present proprietor a continuance of the
patronage so ?berallv extended to the under?
signed. A. F. CARROLL,
P. SPELLMAN,
j COLUMBIA, S. C., July 2,1872,
A Card.
FBOM. the above announcement cf Mosers.
CARROLL A SPELLMAN, ie will ba
been that I have purchased their entire in?
terest in their Carriage establishment. Hiv?
ing secured their services and that of their
employes. I propose to carry on the manu?
facture of BUGGIES and CARRIAGES, aa
well as thu repairing of same, in all its
branches. I also propose, in the fall, to add
to my own manufactured gooda a full stock
of NORTHERN VEHICLES, and will then be
prepared to offer to the public- a ?tock supe?
rior to any in the State. In the meantime, I
I will sell the present manufactured stock of
the Ute firm at reduced prices, to make room
for new work now in ooaree of construction.
Mr. M. J. CALNAN will bo my agent in
transacting tho busineae of my Carriage ea
tabliahmeut, and ia closing np the affaira of
Carroll A Spellman. I respectfully solicit
from the public and the friends of the late
firma continu a m-e ot their patronage, and
will use my beat i-ffjrts to deaerve the ?ame.
July 2 3_JOHN AGNEW.
An Attractive
AND novel plan, that offers the rare in?
ducements the Indian
Girl Wanted
To extend tc her cuatcmsrs long ago, hu
been adopted, which is, "to give extra
quantity in every fifty cents worth bought;
alao,
To Sell Cigars
BY the box at remarkably low rates." Here
is' the place to get the "LITTLE GEM.'*
STULTZ'S PANCAKE, and the finest SHOK
INO TOBACCO._Joly 2
For Sale.
_ A NO. 1 FAMILY HORSE, perfeot
fljlimi, ly >ound and gentle, sold only on ae
XfWIc?unt of the owners going North for
?M Jl .the season. Apply at this office.
June 30_3
Yellow Corn,
AT reduced prices, for cash, at the South
Carolina Railroad Depot. 700 bushels
of the above can be had in lots to snit pur?
chasers, and at Auction Room, with the dif?
ference of drayage. JACOB LEVIN,
Auction and Commission Merchant.
June 30_,_2_
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT.
. Ursuline Instila'*, Valle Cruds, July 2.
J?\9^ EXERCISES open at 4 P.M., (D.
/ff^3ta_ v- > at which parentB and friends
Hw^B??*1'" -respectfully invited to at
fMr OOffCEBT MUSIC.
Entrance Marob ..3 Pianos
Ave Maria-Vocal Duo.2 Guitars
Mardi Gras-Duett.3 Pianos
Sweet Vale of Avoca-Vocal Trio.Harp
Indian Drum-Vocal Quartette,
1 Piano and 2 Goitars
Spanish Vickory March.6 Guitars
Home, Sweet Home.SPianoB
O, Quain Pulchra Eut-Vocal Quartette. .Harp
Oberon-Duett.3 Pianos
June 30_2__
Citizens' Savings Bank of 8. C.
ALL SAVINGS DEPOSITS made in this
Banu on or before the 5th day of each
calendar month will bear interest for that
month as if deposited on the 1st instant.
J. C. B. SMITH,
June 30 5 _ Assistant Cashier.
' Meats, Smoked and Pickled.
FRESH to hand
Prime Smoked Tongues,
Prime Smoked Beef, , .
"Diamond" and "Orange" brand Hams,
Elm Citv Breakfast Strip*,
Elm City Sugar cured tickled Round?,
With full supply ot standard and fancy
Groceries, y picea, *o., at WWJiricea.
Juuo 2*_GEO. BYWMERB.
Now Butter and Cheese.
1 i \ TUBS choice May BUTTER.
?AJ 10 boxes new enttlng Choese.
Ju8t recoived and for sale by
j ? neC_JOHN AGNEW A SON.
Fruit Jars.
THE bent in market, comprising all the
good qualities of FRUIT JABS, for aale by
Jone *>fi LO KICK fr. LOWRANCE.
Everybody is delighted wilh the QUEER'S
DXLIOUT. It cures all kinds or breaking oat
of the rkla, boils, Ac.