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MRS. FRANK LESLIE. THE wITCHLING WIDOWS - How a Pretty Young Widow Striftl and Toiled and Arhiecd a xrun cess. Frkuom the New Yor. Jjurnalist. It has so often been' sated jiat .,women know notingpbi Vo businezs, that it has come to /hcepted as a truism by unthinly people. Yet hundreds of bus-p men owe not a little of t eir >.-css to cool-headed, saacious -s. A frequent moditi . ,.e fist statement is that cation f el i silai! economcs, but e to orap large business - are uttl t' (1 are unes," or it thley do LTe beCcomeC enter or lose thtbrcious manity which is the principal tin of'wornan. The utter talbitv of statements is rnowhere more Arikingly shown than in the case of .,Mrs. Prank Leslie. With executive ability, capacity for work and news paper genius possessed by few men, s'e preserves all the charm of her womanhood id is as popular in the social as in thc business world. Through the force of her own personality, she is at once ene of the most attractive as well as nit important figures in the profession of journali-zm. For Mrs. Leslie n-ts a journalist, and a good one toe, before she became the head of the great publishing housg which bears her rname. in the manaenient of her ten 1lnblications, employing :300 edi tors, artists, engravers, printers and others, Mrs. Leslie has displayed the very highest business u(tialities. An antiring worker, she is found in her office every day, from nine to four o'clock. She signs all the checke and money orders, makes all contracts for supplies of every sort, lopks over proofs of all articles before they are published, and approves the make-up of every periodical before it is sent to press. She is the head of the whole establishment. No woman in Araer ica has ilustrated higher and grander qualities-a broader capacity, a loftier courage, or a more indomitable per severance under the storm and pres sure of heavy difficulties and burdens -than she. The story of her life reads like a romance. Miriam Florence Follin was born in the French quarter of New Orleans. She began early to write for the magazines, her first ap pearance in print being at the age of tLirteen. She was a hard student and an accomplished linguist. She trav '. extensively anid published several in -esting volumes 'E c aS of h '- g.Her literary work was crisp, flesh and evideneing that editorial faculty for getting at the root of things which has been so re markably developed in her later work. From the date of her marriage to Mr. Leslie she became his most valued ad viser and most efficient coadjutor in all matters affecting the make-up of him many publications. She assumed at once the editorship of the Ladis Magazine, and maintained a general and careful suporvision over the con tents of all the fther periodicals. To rare literary ability, 'Mrs. Leslie added unusual business ctpacity, and her husband soon found her advice no less valuable regarding the mechanical and business departments of his establish ments than concerning the let ter-press of his publications. When Mr. Leslie died in 1880) there was no time left for the beautiful young wvidowv to mourn. She was and 'is as'dlainty and refined as the most tenderly cherished lady alive, yet there were before her stern, nupleasant duties which demanded the heroic strength that often fails a powerful man. The Frank Leslie business afl'airs seemed almost hope lessly entangled. The high credit, the existence itself of the house, were imperilled. A great sumi of money was needed, and needed at once. By a legal process : nd in response to her husband's w1h, MIrs. Leslie abandoned her Christian name of MLariam Florence and became in the law and to the world "Frank" Leslie. -To the business world she became even more than Frank Leslie. When the slender, swecet-faced, gentle-voiced woman wailked inzto ter husband's office, and putting back the sad an noneing folds of her crepec veil, announced she had come to stay, her gentle, gracious femininity won the sympathy of those about her. But wvhen she came the next day as ear-ly as the earliest clerks, and the next day and the next, something mor-e than respect and sympathy for the brave little woman came into their regard for her. She sat at her desk like a Napoleon over his war- maps. She dcyceloped a remarkable faculty of know in g news, for seizing upon the very things that caught and charmed the puLblic mind. A thousand and one things in the history of ilitustrated newspapers originated in her brain, and were exectuted for her lfppers. All day iong she bent to her desk, and was her- own wise counsellor-. The best of it all was, that Frank Leslic was not afraid. Big contracts did not frighten her-, ntotes to pay did not cause her to get nervous, reading inter-mi nable pages of proof did not fret her, thinking out new features for- her paper did not per~plex her-. Always cheery in her speech, and with considerate and hope ful words for her emnployas, it is no wonder that both men and women fell in love with the nev. Frank Leslie and gave her the best work of which they were capable. The dying w~ishies of Frank Leslie have beeni carried out, but only after his widow has encoutn tred and triumplhed over one long succession of difieultics andl obstacles. Her pluck and genuine'ability has won for the hearty sympathy and kindly fece'ng of the newspaper press. The averag e journalist is a genmleman, andi if there is one thing which he adimires more thai another- it is "'grit." A bil ity he iespects, but courage, esp~ecially in a beautiful wonmn, he enthusiasti cally admires. 31rs. Leslie said the -other day that she had never been attacked, but had always received the kindest treatment at the hands of the gentlemen of theC press. It is but just to add that she has deserved every word of praise which has been~ bestow ed tipon her. The s'ory of the way she wor-ked tup the nmurder of Presmdent Garfield abundantly ju-tities her rank among the foremiost editors on tile wveekily press. .It was only a short time alter she came into possession of the property that Gartield was assamiated. The first r-umor-s of the event rea :hed her about half-past nine on Sat urday imrning, July 2. Within an houre t wo artists were on their way to Washing ton, and before sunsct were diligently at work sketching the scenes of the tr-agedy. One of them returned to New York by the midnight train with their united sketches. The whole stair had be n ordered to report for dutyeamr Sunday morninm,.-and, by diligent work that day, the following night, and through the fourth of July, the paper was able to come out on Te.sday morning with full illustra tions of the chief events and person acs The following Friday an extra tIum:ber was issued, and on the next Truesday the regular edition, with fuller dfetailsandilutansmkg three illustrated papers published in a single week, an achievement without parallel in newspaper history. The death of Garfield made :t still severer demand on MNrs. Leslie's ability to grapple with a crisis. It occurred Iate on Monday evening, September 19, and t:e "Illustrated" newspaper ha'd gone to press when the newi arrived. Sit immunediate!v ordered the presses stop ped. destro'ved the part of the edition already puilished, set the whole force of the establislmnt at work preparmyii a new edition with engravings of the sketches sent in over early Tnesday mnorning by the artists at Elberon, and before 'Wecdnesday night had on sale a paper full of illustrations of the dcath bed scenes. A week later she seized another opportunity. The body of the dead President Garfield was to be conveyed to Washington on the Wediesday after his death, :uid funeral cervices to be held in the Capitol on Friday, before the removal of the revn- Z for Cleveland for the final cerema.ldes. Mrs. Leslie resolved to anticipate the usual day of publication the following week, and deposit in Cleveland papers containing full illus trations o the scenes at Washington on iMonday morning. She sent for the President of the American News Coini pany, and communicated her purpose. Ile was incredulous and doubtful; she iisisted it could be done and should be done, and it was. Not less than 30,000 copies of the "Weekly" were sent to Cleveland, where they sold so readily that it is believed as many more could have been easily disposed of. Such achievements as these soon vindicated M1rs. Leslie's claim to suc ceed the founder of the great publishing house. The expen.ses were necessa rily enormous, but the outlay was more than returned in a circulation higher than the paper had ever before reached, and in the establishment of public confidence in the new pub lisher. There is nobody in the busi ness who possesses more thoroughly the confidence of the heads of the great news companies with whom publishers of illustrated papers mu111t have the most intimate relations. The money got from the englrin91us sale of the week at tlk .J of the Garliein A OTZ19was that. which largely repaid the loan from Mrs. Smith and put tile great house upon its feet :igain. It is now a splendid property, worth nearly or quitc a million dollars and this lady is the owner and head of it all. Personally Mrs. Leslie is a most charming woman, a petite, graceful fligure, a shapely, well poised head, set urson perfect neck and shoulders, and crowned with mass of golden brown hair, "a head full of first qual ity brains," as an enthusiastic writer recelr remarked. She has a clear, bright~ complexion, and the mio-t glo rious great grey eye. imnalinable. Eves full of sympathy, of kindliness, of laughter. lier kindness toward young writers is well known. She is ever Ieadv with advice, and oftentimnes unostentatious vet substantial assist ance. It is difficult to indicate in cold tpe the charmi of a thoroughly woman iv womanhood like M1rs. Leslie's. There is that subtle magnetism which words cannot express. 11er voice is sinularly sweet and pleasing and in peech she is winning and direct. She :resses with exquisite taste. In her. fice in plain business-like black, bat t the oper-a and receptionls she is splendid in diamonds and laces that erec ear-ned by thle resour-ces of her >w n strong brain. She has many ~vamn friends among the best known iteary and artistiC people of the day, n this country and in Europe. While There is Life There is Hope. Stant of thc diseases of this season f the'rear- can be aver-ted by a sinall mount of car-e and at little cost, by he timely use of Ewv Atxx's Tor-Az CNCONA CoRI.AL. It cures Diar-rhw-a, Dysentery, Chol ra Mlorbus and like complaints. 2So ra celcr should be without a bottle, as t will prevent any disease that would 110 doubt arise fr-omn the change of ater, food and climate, without its se. The most valuable medicine in the wor-ld, contains all the best and ost curative pr-operties of all otheri onics, Bitters, etc., etc., being the gre.test lUiood Pur-itier, Liver- legulan tor and Life and .llealth-IRestor-ing Agent in existence. F"or 31~alaia, Fever and Agoue, Chills and Fever, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sick htead che, Ner-vous Headache, Chrnon ic iematism, etc., etc., it is truly a tierculean IRemedy. It gives new life nd vigor to the aged. For ladies mn .elicate health, weak and sickly- chil 3renI, nursiin mthers-. See circulars iapecd with bottle. Cn.r.Es-ros, S. C., Sept. 1, 1SN5. IL. U. EwBAtNK, Esq., Priesident of The Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., Spatanbur-g, S. C.: Dear Sir-I have used a case of your Topaz Corndial in :nr faimilv, and its a Tonic and Appe tizer 1 cani cheerfuliv recommend i-. to all who ar-e suffering frm D~ebilitv nd lack of appetite. M1y children, 'pe1cilly , have been much benefitted y its use. lRespectfully, - IILTSoN LEE. Ask your- dr-uggist for EWn1ANK's foraz CIxcu~oNA Cornnut. and take o ouiiei-. Tm-: Tor-az CixeroxAx Comnlm~. Co., Spartanbur-g, S. C., U. S. A. Commi-ee of Mont hi Ca roli:mr. 3uIr. L. A. R~a:som,. who was appointed ivteChief of thd~ Bureau of Statismics of ie lnited tates Treasury. D epartmn:t to -Iepare rellort on the: in:ternal (0ommer1ce .f~ Sou Carolina. has comnpletd the work , ri forwarde1 d the report to Was:Ihingtion. [D iintins a sketc the i-ilwayv -and iieean manufacture I r01h - n. n trie ou t the tt freh 1's fro the- '.tatO. abl eporvint f the rodulcon d bus'-ines of theL principal cities of1 S'uthi roina. wih special reports (In thet mlines ,( V.cle wil ublished by the United tates T reasury Dehpartmeut. One. ti. on the 20th of 3larebi is reprec enited br .300 on the 24th (If April; hr :300 imes 300O. canaling 9i0000, on the 25th ot Mar: hy :7.UO00,t400 on the :ud of July, and 8~ S~.t1.(0.00 on the 8thi of August. e d' kI~nd,o 2Ja.q. We will lend a~ hand in killing that fly on the 20th of arch '$t W.I1.INGU U.N LET I M:t. WiNuITOrox. ). C.. July 16.-It looks now as if Congress will not inislh 'work :uit 0.o ho(wimre beor .uut. A' letast the (: >nst over , w velo ' tenlii Itii' ntI Ithe situaitll of ite apprpri::tin bills i:1 both, ends of thet Capit'll to setedownI to Ite ido of sui ai fate. The prspect -isf sitting three ct'ks Vet. :111d possibly ger. lhas a rather tptinglZ e'etI upo'n mot Of Tt. Tebvi'uw w , im'prie ty, of resort li- to their shirt sleeves r of tain-_ off their colil'rs :mdA entit's wlhen they tilld it neerTtSSary1 lo make ::c pech.ll :nakes. a !lon are in t'he h:i i 1 e i thicrt A ' ilmer W'se lsis ll ets away Gu. eetig lannin wi !ath colh1er1. The: Spl' Ie~ clr rpin down" oneaftr~m~hr,:~dknowvS t the me-m len will snTwo or' t-he week of hlt wealrt. :~ari m ,ore thani h:dlf Ihie lo)use b::s i:,, -d So t::t ther: Ilice is uot a quorumll preV:em. Tile fot-orhCON ,ress re'ind in !ses:ion. I remember. 'until the 15th o!f .\uist. iiTheeocalts E::kl rotton theInane fr til' tir:, ,te ::tfter the war', anid the impeachm'nt of I tlkn:i and otsi her natters ke't thini here. tut they h:al ' htir e et t "lia'n a1: qu1rum. hle iembers hwvi to be sevnt for :nai coma I .eled 1t aCttend! ii' essian De:ath hts beenI husy1. inl Conguress since thle pent Adiniltzration e"Iune int-o power. 111C lIe haI nlt respecticd parties. and both sides. :nd both bnmhes of Congress: ha;ve jull'ered. Vice-Prei(dents', Ierdicks :md Se1ito Aliller. of Califor"nia1, have passed aw:ty fromi tie 'einate Chambr. while froll tle Ho'use wIrt clld IC,1e - Senta1Ztives; Evzms. lRankin. Elwood, Dun (,:ml. Ilizhn and coile. ThIs is proimly as logadahrol!" any pre'.ious ssin Tiert has bei mauch :xciing tilscussion in Congress s ove' thte vetoed pension Ihills. During one of the stOrm1iei sessions of the I louse, one lepuh!!can icnher :fter tnother had arraignet'd the President in im.i',uget' mire posit i ve than parli (inientary. Gov. Curtin, of P(-Ilsylvallia. poured oil upon the trouled waters bv qiuotting an ncit rlhymie. lie P'rt hesptoke the I'r's idet el ut, reSpe :m01d a!Lccnt* -peeCh, Said it did not know what the pending bill was alot, but ite I loUs hid rest olved itel into a politicall meting". "Sup1pose th-at members quit quwarreling,. and turn their attentioln t public btusiess. Let them remember that their nothers taugt them: Itad bitc Let dogs dcliglht to hirk and ite For God ha-s mlade. thiem s. Let bears :unt Ilins growl and fight For 'tis the'ir naturt'. too: But little, lcdklhrp'ttle bas were :. e ts scraitc eacih 011hr's eyes t111 et." When tihe 1ltuihter hadi suisidet Mir. Allen. o' .ississippi, spoke. Ile said he hought. lie ought to apoloize for discussing p'itsiton atnnter-. as le had heen a Conf'.td cr.te private. It was sliid that C(onfede'r tes ouglt to have hought of this mtiiiter of penions twventy-iV yclrs ago. lie ackniowlelgted thiat, at the beginntiI-s of the war, he liatd not given the mlatter that dlie considerat ion to which it had probabkily bee~n cititled. (Laughte) Ilie hai been quite a voung boy then, hut along ah.u: the third ear of the war lie iegan to liithd seriously of it, andi so mu11ch had lie beel im-pressed w ith the l':ict that the c"siSe he was pur uing would bankrup, the LUiited States Gov'ernmet in pesilnig t' widows of il soltlirs lie was kilingi' that imily, gun in hand, he retetettd' lit';ts ac s Ve or SIX State'. witi the enemy in his front rather than1 slavx a who tlie armyl . The suiimier social seaso has cloe.cd wili tirs. Clevelani's hat nid-day reption, which was held on Fr'l~ti'. She ld six otf these in all. and sonie regrret was ex presse(d that tihe'y were' ts he disctntinuedi. D urin:: her bi nef sitjournt - lt the W\hite House'the news' lad:' has.' ena ILflir ev.idenlce of real life hiere, atit a ''reit tdeal of its hioi low gli~ter. tSomes ofti he l e'xp!'rit'nces of those who attende het itr he-t retception were w..heni the dotorkeeper' reachet.d hlis hamd for' that diplomiatle pi'ce of card-iboard they oulid nit have been nmttie aLstiheid than f he had :isked them to ptI'aii: admiiissionh ee. A fe. of tihe wise tnes wtent (tit to the nearest stltioner'l. ,nd prov.itded' them-li lstc with hslaik ca:rds, usiing the Whlite louse pe ad iak ftor the iscrjiptin. Tlwt mn who camne ttgtht'r hatd one t'ard,. un11( one of thiem thou.igbt lie !hadt solved the riddle hiv wr.'iting on it. "3!r'. Blank antd rientd."' A vounagi lhi'rcane with two half rown girls. 11ml5 they picked up thire ieces of white ptaper. Ona one they. wrote hir namles and iiemd~ed it antd the two lin sc'raps to thle tushier. This mnotley. o'ltlection of calrtds w'.as kept for 3Mrs. Clevet. ad to look over. A Bas~e rkII Dig. Tht' rival nines ws.ere made up11 of btoys mderl'I 131, ar.d 31ajior. As I r'eachied the rr'oundt it wats his inninir, and~t his mlaster, wsho claimedt the pi'iviiege of str'iking~ fur hIm, was att the bat. The do'' w'as ri'ghit Ishind with one paws. ini ~dvane,' ail his ves 0on the striker. Ini t':me the tw'wistrs. anti 3Iajori matde severail false' ta'rts; but iimily,' as the btall went tmudini froml tihe >t, oItT he ruishedl for irst bite ht~is ear's lapping,. his Iplumelike tail t ' tria i::t Ibe dudat. But thie short-sitp wa'..s too itnimblet or the cdog, aid ju:>t before lie re"chied thet hse the imll arrived the~re, :mId lit'camet lowly back. his til' h~ingi~ low. al a '.'ry iournful exp'rss~ion in his irealt (y.'. "3!taje's oui' de t ut!" cii'd lie 1boys, ad immentdialtely t cciv itn'.mthod~c by'. w.hichi lie ctould re"triev'.e this dhisaster, the die seetmedh to reatiin his siits. daished lto the tIlI. andish si-. eedilt.y in. his m ni i t a tf l eft tier btefre anyil of the othiers mdlt 1 '-lt'w. thait tilt halhs timt. we'Cre thirttwn. tt him directly' we're' quite as sw.'ift sf thtose d'livet'ed fromi l b ts to base': I:md in juistice :ts hitm, I neve.'r saw.. im ''mufft."' Wht'n a !rto~pted his grreat lowe'r jaw. inito w..huich hit pro~jcitile seetiied ts slit: then, ws.ithi tail itnt with Isow balls. ther- ctclthinig them ia his muoth, or (t s'tppilng them-t with his O:tl onet. When lie caugh'il ta hallihe carriedl i at full speed tso te neare1ist thrwer, atnd not5 a few.. phrtyers were put tiut byv his quick Drts. 1 lot kan lalustak otf G;ahesion. Tex., a Frii' r'emiovedl :mi ''arian tumlr wt ..eigh-u nliitee'n p1 s'i5 fro thsllIle to-yearl' li tlauchter tsf it. HI. ilulret of I ebha. Fori thet (sixmonhs he hih ha be.n treaitedl or ktroy, witttnos.gn ofpi callovem'nt, -ad ien head ha roi:: hirger.~ sayhe towethe th now conier d tio be in wtfark well or neov. The rt; eratl ons known ity Mivnr, s..' Thecw 'nlyo .Biitrcse 'ekentire in itn-ie (trksl toa of chtil ci's. old upo whom Xi.,oordatw, p iterom ti y cioienerW llsineLdn The know w/dt epl alfr mathe -erwa hi ptossya GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Facts of Interest Gathered from Various Quarters. A terrible storm prevailed on the 15th at Ncwark, Oio. Th-re is a Zenuine smallpox scare in the Eastern l)idtriet of Brooklyn. S.iturdar epresentative Morrison made an infavorale report on the tariff bill. Iluh W. Brooks, alle. Maxwell. has been sentenced to be hanged on the 25th of August. Terribly destructive storms passed through the Kankakee, Ill., section Friday and Sun day nights. Farms were laid waste, buildings un roofed and crops scattered to the winds by storms in Illinois, Wednesday. The rugt weavers who have been on a strike at Philadelphia, have returned to work under protest. One hundred houses have been destrovcd by fire in Koden. Poland, turning :300 fami lies out of homes. The strike at the Knights' cotton mills at Natic. IL I., extended from 175 weavers to Q0 other hands Tuesday. At a Chicago hoarding house fire Tuesday several pcople were injured by jumping from second story windows. The Sultan has declared for peace, and hais ordered that the army and naval re serves disband. Gallo, the man who fired a revolver in the Bourse severd months ago. has been sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. It is again reported that Sartoris and his family are shaiefully treating Nellie. Cen. Gnt's cup of sorrow was full when he died. One hundred and twenty convicts, in I)ade coal mines. Ga., have barricaded themselves in a building and defy the au thorities. Sterious rioting broke out in Belfast, July i:3, between Catholics and Protestants. 3any persons were injured and sent to hos pitals. The Victoria election returns indicate that the members of the new Parliament are, with two or three exceptions, Govern ment men. The report that the Czar, the Emperor Williim and Emperor Frances Joseph will nieet during the coming autumn at Konigs berg or Kiel has been revived. Rumor has it that Gen. Gordon would have been favorably considered for the Cabinet, but was "too near Wall street." How about Manning and Jordanw About 12 miles from Elmira, New York, in Wvnkoop Creek section, the farmers were exhausted Wednesday night, having been fighting forest lires since Friday. 0)pt1inPoter Van Pelt 3onday ended with his own h:ind a g.reer of useful ness and not a little distincion'ta3nWs reporter for the News York Jlerald. The citizens of Augusta have sent to the Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, Treasurer, $500 for the Parliamentary fund. Augusta sent in Jan uary a'0out $600 for the same purpose. Ex-Sheriff John Renoc, of Sumter County, Tenn., was taken from jail at Livingston on Tuesday by a mob and hanged, for the attempted murder of his brother-in-law. Mrs. Caroline Benedict, a well-known woman, who for many years has resided in the little village of Mottville, in the town of Skaneateles, N. Y., died recently after a fast extending 53 days. One of the deputies at the Lake Shore yards, Chicago, Tuesday shot and tried to kill a man who remarked that his gun looked as if it had come from a pawn shop. Trouble was narrowly averted. An epideiie of typhoid fever has visited the little village of Waterford, situated in lie Northwest corner of Racine County, Wis., remote from railroads and entirely isolated. Small pox of a very malignant type has broken out at Santiago, Chili. The dis ease, which is epidemic and becoming worse every day, proves fatail in 70 per cent of the tersons attacked. The Londsdale (Company's cotton mill, at Ashton, Ri. I., shut down Tuesday in consequenCe of a strike-28 spinners lock ing ute mployees. Cause-insufflie~nt ayndtedischarge of an overseerfo M(rs. Mary J. O'Brien, the wife of John .J. O'Brien,~ehief of the Bureau of Elec tions. died of blood poisoning after a pain. futl illness lasting over ten weeks, at her home, N. Y. The grand jury have indicted Bernard P. Verlie and William Hlogarty on the charge of keeping their barber's shops open in viohationa of the Sunday law, in Boston. These will be test cases. The reported purchase by C'hina of 1,600 tons of German steel rails has caused many coleting rumors in England regardling the intentions of the Chinese to immedj, ately construct systems of railways. On Saturday last a p~umn, which has been infesting the neighborhood of Pilot Grove, Texas, for several weeks, tore to pieces and devoured the one year old child of a farmer lvng on Burns's tract, The old sugar commission house of J. dle Rivrs & Co. has suspended, and Henry C. le Rtivers. the head of the firnm, is mlissin:. It is thought that his mind is unsettled anid that he w:tndered( away, not knowing where ie was .iag. A .solier attempteid suicide in Rome Sunday, and among his effects was found a paper dhecharing that he hiad been designated by a secret society to kill the King, but that ie nreferredi death rather than do as in structedl. lie would not betray the society, .Jutdson (C. ('lements is the first ('ongress man front Georgia to secure a renomina tioni. Eight years ago .Judson ('lements defealtd Dr. Felton, the famous Indlepend et, who had wrestled the( Seventh District from tile Demaocracy. The :zed mother of Congressman ('ole was informe~d of her son's death in Balti more on Friday last. The shock completely prostated 1her. alnd she (lied Sunday after non, a couple of hours before the funeral of her son took place. The sr'nsational reports put into circula tioni as to dlithiieuties bettweenI Russia and the powers regarding Batoum have be'en charaterizeda in otlitcial (quarters a< non snse, possibtly origitnating in stoc-k ex chnige- schxemes. The b oiler of a piortable engine e'xplodled at Alton, Illinois, Tuesdlay and injured five mni, t hre' fataitlv. Besides the wrecking o' the thirreshiing 'machine and the burniing f all the whieat adjacent, three or four horses were killed. MIr. Cyrus W. Field is endeavoring to serve ai p~rocess onl Jaimes Gordlon Bennett in a suit for- libel. Thus far the effort haxs provedt unsuccessful, lie difficulty being he f:'t: that the defendant resides ini Paris, is often in Amnericai, and has no residence in England. Dr. lRob'rt Taylor. fornmerly associated with Dr. L. A. Sayre, of New York, re prius the cure of a case of tratumatie teta nis. or' lock ja1w, resultant fronm a woutnd, which- is salid to be the only instance in which a fatad cioncluiton to such an attack as beea ive'rted. Shortly hefo~tre midnight of 31onday the Illinois Mlalleable Iron Works, situated near he Northern limits of Chicago, took fire aed the buildings were burned to the nrond. Lo ss on' building, stock and ma hinery e''iiated at $411,tl00. Only $5,000) worth of insurance known. ls. I uth A. Mudgett's boarding lhouse in Chiicago wa-s burnt MIonday mor'ning, andl the inmlates only escaiped tdeath by jumping from a second-story window. Onea of the persons thuns escaping was Ir ert, whose face wais badlly bi rt, and jijs.,;-tjrtnot iter n tioj The French are playing "eek-a-Boo" with the Germans. Sixty thous:and repeat ing rifles will be distributed to that portion of her atmy on the Alsace-Loraine front by August. Gerian forces confroting iemt have recently been armed with sinilar weapons. A number of Berlin ji urnalists have been ind(cted for a breich of the press laws, in pui h ing doelllents relating to tiht case of Captain Sarauw. recently conviced of selling information to France reLarding German fortifications, while the cie was under consideration by the courts. Many large towns in ulisin have no pe riodicals at all only bc'ause there were no parties who could suit ile local gverior in the capacity of citors. As regarids leln oflicial matters the governor lrforms the role of a censor. Thus, for irstance, thw session of the loc:a reprc-ntativ-u. ti:ough open. cannot be ds-ihed in le tewspapers without the governor' periii:sion. After a week's investittion of the vari ous rumors which iinve been floating :! t, there is good autority for stating that :n extradition treaty between the United States and Great Britain has been signed. sanys the New York Star, and that the coaven'ion provides. in addition to the customary clauses, for the surrender of dynamite mis creantsc. Statements prepared at the Treaury D partmient show- that tile receipts of the government so far this month are decidedlyi less than the expenditures. :at undi s an improvement occurs before the end of IiL month the public debt statement to he i sued on Autguast 1 will show little, if any. decrease. Payments have been unusually heavy. over .1s.000,000 having been paid out this week oa pensions alone. A largely attenled mIass i meeting was held Monday evening at St. George'.; 1T:0, in pursuance of a call upon "al] English. Scotch and Welsh residents of P'biladelpia to show Mr. Gladstone and their co untr men 'aeross the sea' tit in America. a- in, Great Britain, there is a responsive throb to the appeal for justice to Ireland." The following cablegram was ordt-red to be for warded to Mr. Gladstore: "The Engllih. Scotch and Welsh residents of Philade phia,. in mass meeting assembled. extend to you their sympathies in the struggle for justice to Ireland, and ask you to persevere in the ifght to the enld." San Francisco dispatches, of July 12, give further details of the earthqutake in New Zealand. The severity of the shoeks caused the inhabitants to rush in all direce tions. The second shock produied a vol eino, mgntiieentlv and awfully grand. which illuminated the country for sixty miles. The escaped natives. gathered in groups on the hill sides, the smoke, and huge masses of lire resemling meteors, presented a panoramic view in all its real istic horrors which human nature desires not to witness, at least again. and tlhe seers of the forest not at all. Once and a while some man has courage enoL.rh to marry a Vassar graduate. but as a rule the gnE 'c M I. ? very wll. Out of nearly 700 graduates, only about 20(p have been drawn in the nuptail noose. The full blown buds left have taken ip various callings. There are 17 physicians. 10 book keepers, 2 organists, 5 chemists. 15 school principals, 2 fiarmers, 1 census clerk, 2 in surance agents. 2:30 teachers, 6 artists, I law clerk, 5 librarian., 1 copyist, 12 music teachers, 3 astrononiical assistants, 2 jour nalists, 3 giymnastic teachers, 2 missiena ries. 3 public readers and 4 authors. Yet they say women have no chance. A special dispatch from Grape Creek. Illinois, says: "There is prospect of a riot over the itnportation of negroes by the Grape Creek Coal Company, to take the places of the striking ineiilrs. The striokrs declare the new men can't work under an v circumstances. and that they will resik force with force. The Sheriff of Vermil. lion County has forty special cielmites on the ground, and will do all in his power to maintain order if the ne-groes conclude to go to work. There were over a.thouadl strikers when the present strike btegan. but the number is now reduced to se'veni or eight hundred. It is rumored that the commercial rela tions of the United States with South America are to be still further stretngthened by the laying of a direct cable ftrom this :ountry to Btrazil and the Argcntiue ('on federation. It is probable that the cable ill be in operation by .Jantury 1, with he inmnediate result of raducing tihe rate per word from $2.91, the present tarilt, to $l. Unuder the present system eleven "r pc-ts" are requisite between here, and Rio. ;hile wvith a direct cable the message couldi e sent with only three "repeats." Uy using cable code, and paving only $1 a word for transmission. ta merchatnt can .send a ong dispatch to South America for atn in iitesimal amount. Punishmient" in Old Times. The following brief record is reprinted rom the Ibiartford, ('onn., u'aant, under latcof Sept, 7, 1701: H ARITFORD,) Sept. 7-Iast week, Davhd sampbell and Alexiader Pettigrew~ were ndicted before the Superior ('ourt. sitting n this town, for breaking openi aitd rob ing the house of MIr. Abiel Abbot, of Winsor, of two watches, to which indict nent they both plead guilty, atnd were' entenced eac oi(f them to) receive tifteen ~tries. to have their right eairs cut off. and o be br'anded with a capital letter B3 on~ heir foreheads: which punishmnent wvas in ited otn them luset Friday'. Pettigre.w led so aineh fro'm the amputattionm of his~ 2ar that his life wa.s ill d ttger. FOR COUOHS AND CROUP USA TA.YIjOR'S g EET 09 tt, /aar 'Tbe sweet gu, as gathered from a tree ofthe sama~name, grwing along she small streams In the 8,nthern Statem, contains a stinltng eipeciorant principle that loosens he phlegm producing the early morning cough, and stimu ats the child to throw o~ff '.he Ta<e membrane In croup and whoopig-congh. When combined with the heating mnci laginos prInciple in the mulltin plant of the old fielde, pro' ets in TAYLOoR's CesaoxuR RE-EDT ow Swrr orsf An Mer.i.erY the fnest known remeedy for Conch,, Crang, Woopit-Cough and Consumption; and so pr.1mable. any chid is ptie.ed to to'e it, Ant roar dirzirgst for it. Price, 25o. andi $1. WL TE A. TAYLOR, Atlanta, Ga. Use. DR. BtoGERs' HeCKLE'oRRiY CoRDIAL fort D ,a ysentery7 and Children Te'.hing. For sale h2 THRESING MACHINES L. E ASPECIALTY. in ... --wa-I,', no ratiun; eb-aus it reaIy for mai rha. THRESHING ENGINE S adHOS 1,w NZiills. andi Ntatndard Implnemnts gen A. B.FAR QUHAR, PeinnlnS Agrieniturol Works. TORK. Pa. alA!T iorR.COTT'S 'ei: iE[N1SAiTEletric Corsets. Na rtt ui-ales. Tr'rrt--? givenf. DR. SCOTT, a42 Brog~way. NEW YORK m ihl xLADY aetivei andt A QUESTION ABOUT Bro C' IS fron ANS TVER ED. T*, rn-tion has nrobaObly been 'a3kod thersands :t How can 1;rc.wn's fron Bitters cure ever thin;:'" Well. it do-t. !-it it doescarey ditU fo ~ich a reputable phy:-ician wo)ud pascrib" 11.11 PhiyAiciansi rect;:niz.. Irn as the t-r,fe*orgt ngot known to th' pro'es-.on. and inquiry n: :ny - chmical :rm wil subvt.:Aro t;a.a 4rtion t-.t t.ro are moro pripnrations of iron tian of aLy other si' bstanco use.d in medicino This sho*s can c1,iely that iron is zaoled r, to the n:,t iznprtut fact ,rin 13::ecc , --nlp.etico. it is, : r. rek fact. that pri.r to t-e disex Itr~ I' .- 1? 1N tiT TER,*nonn r -r ironc2:nn'ratioadn h.ar. ento::: BROWN'SIRON'lTTER . h 0ad-che. o' prcduce corSti.tItn-nil ot l ir o: n:iNCi::esden.J'AZWN-SI MON TTEiL Ispetniq Malaria, (llills ' :ul Fever-:, Tired Feeling.(en-ral De. Vry:an i ride, P.nek or Li:nbs U e:c aml Neur - ;-a--fr all these -ilm.nnts Ir i is prescribed d::. BROWN'SIRON BiTTERS jtc :innato. Like a!l other tho:-mach medicines. it acts r: '!vy. When taken by no tbi fir-t symptom of hrerit i% renew-)d enerrr. Th inaselasc hon heer.-i tirmer. the dige'stian improvi. t!he bowels are ac.iv--. In ,,.n-n the e:fect is usnally more rapid and nr.rka'w.. The eyns begin at one t:, hrdtten: tbe skin cl-A:-e rp: healthy colr cr es to thv, cheeks: trousne.. .:sppeaars: functional darna';o-ments !,c'rmFe ren j.r. and if a :anrsin r m.th-r. ar-undant Instene is :mp;lied fo:- the child. Remember Dran's Tr..n -tc-r- i -the ONLY iron nieicne that is not in Thl: Gntir h-A Trad,- ar!k nnI erse:1 red lincs oe swtpper. TAXE NO OITIEIR. IIC AURANTIl1 Most of the diseases which affliet mankind are origin ally caused by a diSordered condition of the L IV E R. For all conplaints of this kind. such as Torpidity of the Liver. Biliousness. Nervonrs Dyspepsia. Indiges tion. irregularity of the Bowele. Constipation. Flatu. lency. Eructations and Barning of the Stomach (sometimes called Heartburn). Miasma, Malaria, Bloody Flux. Chills and Fever, Breakbone Fever. Exhanstion before or after FeverA. Chronic Diar rhoa. Loss of Appetite. Headache, Foul Breath. Irregulsarities incidental to Females. Bearing-down ain T;.&c STADIGER'S AURANTII is Invaluable. It is not a panacea for all disease", but all diseasesoftbe LIVER, will URSTOMA CH and BOW ELS. It changes the complexion from a waxy, yellow tinge. to a ruddy. healthy color. It entirely removes lo. gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST AL TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE .BLOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONIC. STADICER'S AURArN1Qi For sale byallDrcggists. PrIcaSI.Co perbottle, C. F. STADICER, Proprietor, 14 SO. FRONT ST., Philadclrhia, Paz 7t. - _ -Z - - The Best WOR" AND) FOR A mCommercial College Lexington, Ky. Highest Honor and Geld Medal over all other colle;;a:. nt te~ lWorld ixposition, mor systemn of !look-keeping anal Generaltiuunine-.Ednaeation. Couo) traduat..in Bu.I. ne.'. :,o Teachers empoyed. Costtef Full iduosieaCourne, lracludtnr Tition. sitiony and Board, about $90. Short Sland, Tytpe-Writing and Telegraphy specialtics. Nto Va. eation. Enter New. Graduate. Gjuaranteed Sueress. For circiIrs adress W.EH. t.3UTH. Preset, Lexington,Eg1. TRP ECZE1MA ER Ge-otlemen-It bc ritt o t'o 'ar thalt I tin ak: win- e t~wil-.. I i. 'iav hei troutbledu At te. te.na: of co :de:e a't fal it i cur or n .k:::: tut < I.m :::!a. thr.:e year :TraLi ou Ulta. and Shi:n Diseas~es miailo fSHLEY )OLU The etbh.-Gulanoisa-hightly concenltrated (radie Fetilizer lotri all crpS. ASIIJLET CoTTON AND CORNY COMP( two erops anti also largely used by the Truekt A'SII LEY ASII ELEMENT.-A very ch~al tilizer for (:otton, Cornt and smuall Grain Croj Vine. e'tc. As IiLEY D)ISSOLVED) UONE: ASHILEY Grade:s-lfor use alone andi in Coinpost he'ap. For Termtis, Diretiont ~lTtininiak and fi publ icatioann of thle Com:painy, adtdress THlE ASH1LEY PHOSPJ Not2:ily These pills were a wondcrful discovery. No others or relieve all manner of disease. The information ar box of pilis. Find out about them, and you will always be thank ful One pill a dose. ParsonsPills contain nothing harmful, are easy to take, and cause no inconven the marvelous power of theso pills, they would walk without. Sent by mail for 25 cents in stamiZ. llu h a nro-mnn onss e nahnl T S J.T6HSON & the I m f ; weinan's pecu liar m11! f litions. It is a l*reedy for WOL.\N ONLadfor one ., E ,i .\L, jX CL .\. f <: a s. it is a speellfivIr . .1-rIaIn :lkld U411itionIs Of the woi-.:ed .ontrl4 the M i. In.- t r-1: V:0 1 1(-,i T o re""julate :IIall!h der;nr~yenta::dirre-cguiarities ofiWt MONT! A, IX SI S KNESS. I. p n: t r :: for it 1!w; er: ' r l p t l ar',s tif t this tr o~be:au reglatng wersis impy to di: e:,v(,t t:e. !nt,. eta o. of thoul saI:o ivin-.: wi .n wh :ir' e to-day X!iti, in the ' to ouu:.d h a'th and~In hisp~cs Brad!ldls' 1-em-ale Regiator is "'tiet: \ m'.t:b es compound, aind is th )e' ia of !xliea I h-niee and pitrati cal goree dieLtd tward--, t he beneft~it, 'if It 14 the .t ii n ii of a learned l.,ician whose sp:-.-in:t was W ANNN"' anui whose(i fami ICn ie enviable and bumtll bScau-. of is win sderfu suc cess in the ;tiantIn cture of female comailihitz. TIlE i VGULAiTOR is the G1 :.\NlEST l:EMEDY known, and rich iv ( k-..es ts WVO3N' S .UEST FRIEND! U u . it contn-!s a class of functions the ru ie e:ents of which cause more ii! i:ea tha a!' uthir causes combined, anl tih, iresene her from a long train of tiswhib ,roly embitter her life a n p'iem lreiv eini her existence. Oh wf lhvmg witnesses can ify-t b ;,:mnin etieets! 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BLE PUANO, tAmmnoniated Guano, a complete High UND.-A complete Fertilizer for ihu'-. rs near Charleston for vegetables, etc. >and excellent Non-Anmmoniaied Fer s, and also for Fruit Trees, Grape ACID PilOSPIIATE, of very Big >r the various attractive tand instructi EATE CO., ChiarlestoniS.20. like them in the world. Will positively curs3 ound each box is worth ten times the cost of a do more to purify the bloodandcurechron, ictu health than $5 worth of any other r'emedy yet discov -'red. Ifpeople could 100 miles to get ' c :trated p -..24 I