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1 STORMY SIMMERS, The Tornadoes oi me Laat Decade?The (treat Storms oi the Past. The occurrence of great and destructive storms is frequently marked in hist jry. Perhaps the most terrible one on record is what is known as the great storm of November 25-27, 1703, in Eugland and throughout Europe. In that frightful tempest, lasting throughout the greater part of the two days, the number of persons drowned in tfhe Thames and Severn, and lost on the coast in ships blown from their moorings and never heard of afterward, was i. * i i _ i r\ aaa i mi i # estimated at o,wu souis. ine loss 01 property sustained in London alone, by wind and flood, was estimated at the enormous sum of 2,000,000 pounds sterling. In the county of Kent a great number of trees were torn up by their roots, the Eddystone lighthouse was completely destroyed, and immense numbers of cattle were killed and drowned. In the West Indies, from the third to the eighteenth of October, 1780, terrible hurricanes devastated the whole country. At Barb/kdoes over 4,000 inhabitants lost their lives iu this tempest, and the destruction of British and other vessels in West India harbors was frightful. Another terrible hurricane visited the island of Barbadoes August 10, 1831. In this tempest over 2,500 inhabitants were killed, and over 5,000 wounded. Many of our readers will remember the fearful hurricane which swept over Ohio and States lying to the westward as far as Iowa, in June of the year 1860. The violence of the wind which attended this great storm was declared by many to have been without a parallel. Great destruction to trees, crops, roofs, vessels, ! and some loss of life, were the results along the broad track of this tempest, reaching in width for many miles. In the year 1866, tremendous gales swept across the American lakes and the Atlantic coast from the sixth to the eleventh of January. The same hurricane reached Europe, and the steamer Amalia went down with a cargo valued at $1,00'*,000. Many wrecks and great loss ; of flfe were reported in various countries, showing that an unusual atmospheric perturbation pervaded different parts of flip (rlnho af tho co m o fima A frightfully destructive storm was the tropical hurricane which struck the coast of Nova Scotia with terrible fury on the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of August, 1873. The loss of life was frightful, and that of property was estimated at the time from four to five millions of dollars. About nine hundred houses were destroyed, the damage done to wharves and crops could scarcely be calculated, and the number of vessels known to have been destroyed during the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of August was 1,032. In the neighborhood of the gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic shores of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, the loss of life was not proportionately large, 1 being estimated at less than five hundred in all. It is notable that the month of June, 1871, was prolific in thunder and rain storms, especially in the Western States. June 16, there was an awful tornado at Eldorado, Kan., that nearly destroyed ; the whole town. On the eighteenth, at i several points in Wisconsin, violent and ' destructive tornadoes were reported. J The same day a terrific hurricane at | Scranton, Iowa, demolished houses aud ! carried light buildings ten rods, killing ; the inmates. The same day Westerville, Iowa, reported a terrible tornado, and the vicinity of Springfield, HI., was visited by an awful cyclone, pulling up j trees and whirling fences in the air. On June 19, same year (1871), there was a i terrific thunder and rain storm, flooding the country in Kansas and Minnesota, and i on the twenty-eighth of the same month there was a great storm on Lake Superior, attended with furious winds from all points of the compass ^whirlwinds), twirling the waves into spires, or ; water-spouts, and attended by a destructive tidal-wave at Duluth, Minn. On July 9, 1871, Dayton, Ohio, was visited by a violent tornado, in the path of which many houses were demolished , and churches and bridges blown down, several persons being killed, and the total damage to property in the city and | country estimated at at least one million dollars. Battered Hulks at the Piers. The great iron-works of New York are in the neighborhood of Tenth street, Rost. river h nl steamers that are being dismantled or refitted lie at tlie adjacent piers, which are covered with a miscellaneous and dingy heap of fragments? ' the separated sections of marine engines, rusty boiler-plates, battered smoke- ; stacks and green copper sheathiugs. Few things are more melancholy than a ! dismantled ship. Some time ago I found the ruined hulk of the Ocean Queen at one of these wharves; in the palmy days of the Panama route to California, she 1 had been true to her name?but what forlorn changes time had made in her! ' Her broken rigging draggled from the I masts and spars; the seams between her timbers gaped, and the paint was peel- . ing off. The two funnels were battered ; and red with rust. The once cozy little staterooms opening on the upper deck, in which the warm tropical winds had fanned the grateful passengers, were dism*l, chilly and destitute of furniture; every bit of gilt and upholstery had been ; stripped off her once gorgeous saloon ; and the engine room, in which her large heart of fire had burned, was a shadowy, echoing void. Close to her lay the ironclad \Montauk, in a still more woful condition of wreck, her thick plates dimpled with the hemispheres of hundreds of cannon balls, which had struck them without penetrating; her deck torn up by shells, and her smoke-stack bent and indented. Side by side with these shattered veterans were new white riversteamers, and larger sea-going steamers, into which engines and boilers were being placed by demon-like mechanics? mechanics, dressed in black and greasy ! overalls, whose fierce-looking eyes were set in ebony faces, and whose hammers were rained upon the bolts and plates with vindictive energy. As the ring of the hammers was borne over the water it became musical, and several piers off it sounded like the strains oi an iEolian harp. The Secretary Bird. A curious experiment tcok place the other day at the Jardin d'Acclimatization in Paris. A nest of living vipers was thrown into the inclosure where the secretaries or snake-eaters (from the Cape) are kept These birds have the bright eye of birds of prey, powerful . beaks, and vulture-like bodies mounted on legs like those of a wading bird. Whenever the secretaries saw the snakes they fell upon them with shrill cries, and an exciting struggle ensued. The reptiles, lixed on the ground by the strong feet of the bird, twisted and hissed, and bit ; but they could make no impression 011 the rugose skin, and they were chopped into mince-meat with a few strokes of the beak. The secretary is also, it may be remark**!, a great destroyer of rodents. i AX ALUMNA TRADITION. The River .UouMcr thai Swallowed a Deer and nu Indian, but Died from the Effort* of Gulping Down the Red .1Ird'? C'utioe and Mu*ket. A correspondent of the Times, of Gadsden, Ga., writes : I notice that in your paper have been published imperfect descriptions of strange water animals of huge size being seen in the Coosa. That monsters of which we can find no name "" 41 > r? 4- vi TT'lr ro 011V 1U UXllIliUl UXSIXJIJ HC1CU1 Luni 11111 U1IIUJ years ago there can be 110 doubt, if the tradition of one which was killed at the head of the Ten Islands, in St. Clair county, be true. It is said that in 1816 and 1817, when North Alabama was first being settled by the whites, there came to that county from Carolina, Jacob Green, the father of Mr. Abe Green, his son-in-law, Mr. Wood, and perhaps Mr. Dill and Jeremiah Collins, father of Rev. Jesse Collins, now of St. Clair, all of whom afterward settled in that county. When they first came on their tour of inspection in search of a new home, they were attracted to Fort Strother, on the Coosa, in consequence of its being the spot where Gen. Jackson, in the Creek war, had nine militiamen and one captain shot for mutiny in his army, on its march into the Creek nation, on the opposite side of the river. During their visit in search of homes, they were induced to go on to the islands to ascertain if they, or any of them, were of sufficient size to make a settlement. In order to reach them they procured Indian canoes, made of the bark of trees, in which to cross over the water to the islands. These bark canoes were very j small crafts, only of sufficient size to I carry one, or not more than two persons. ' Having prepared themselves for the inspection of the islands, they set out, and on approaching one, they saw a strange animal of immense size and length, about the color of a cat-fish, but more in the shape of a snake, which seemed to have drifted upon the edge of a small island, and was partly out of the water, making movements and contortions like it was in the agonies of death. They approached it. It was partly covered by the water and partly on dry land, but was of such enormous size and strange shape as to baffle all their ideas of such animals, or their names in the whole animal kingdom, but that was certainly a water animal of the snake genus. After watching its movements and holding a short consultation, they determined to kill it, if bullets would do so. They then approached more losely to it and fired several rounds, until they discovered that it was dead. They then went to it for a close examination to ascertain what it really was, and discovered from the sharp protuberances and unevenness of its body on one side and the evenness of the other that there must be something in it. When they discovered that they had never seen or heard or read of such an animal, they proceeded with their tomahawks and butcher-knives to open it, and in doing so, to their utter amazement and surprise, they found in it a bark canoe, the horns and skeleton of a large deer, the skeleton of an Indian, also an old rifle gun, such as the Indians of that day used, and a bow and arrows. From finding the above-named articles in it, and their appearance, they concluded that some weeks previously an Indian had killed a deer, put it in his canoe, and, while crossing the river, the monster had swallowed the canoe, with the Indian, deer and other articles in it. The flesh of the Indian and deer had been digested, but the canoe, the gun, the bow and arrows, and bones were so indigestible as to sicken the monster, and so enfeebled it that it had floated to where they found it, and could not escape from them. When others came to the country and this adventure was told them, they were incredulous, and pronounced the whole story to be a lie. Those who had destroyed the monster became more sensitive, and declined speaking of it any more, although they knew it to be true. A Great Singer of Former Days. ! Bubini created an immense enthusiasm upon his appearance in 1831. The fascination of his uoice was irresistible. Even his brother artists would linger at the wings while he was singing, loth to lose a single note. He made his debut at the Theater Romano, his native town, in a woman's part, when he was twelve years old. He was afterward engaged to play the violin in the theater at Bergamo and sing in the choruses. A drama was about to be produced, into which a cavatina was to be introduced, but there was nobody to sing it. Bubini waR mentioned, and a few shillings were offered him to undertake it. He accepted, and received great applause. Some time afterward he was engaged as tenor aft Pavio, at thirty-six shillings a month. Sixteen years afterward he and his wife were offered an engagement at ?6,000. But he always cherished that song which first brought him into public notice, and used to sing it when he was in the height of his reputation. The compass of his voice was marvelous; he could begin on the high B flat without preparation, and hold on it for a considerable time. At Milan the people flocked in crowds to hear this wonderful effect, and never failed to encore it. One night, raising his eyes to heaven, extending his arms, inflating his chest and opening his mouth, he endeavored as usual to give forth the wonderful note. But B flat would not come. Greatly disconcerted, the tenor brought all the force of his splendid lungs into play and gave it forth with immense vigor. But he could feel that he had in some way injured himself. He went through the performance, however, as brilliautly as ever. When it was over he sent for a surgeon, who very soon discovered that he had broken his collar bone?it had been unable to resist the tension of his lungs. "Can a man goon singing with a broken clavicle?" he inquired. "Certainly," replied the doctor; "and if you take care not to lift any weight, you will experience no disagreeable effects." Aud he did go on singing. He Wanted Pie. A great big burly fellow, who from all outward appearances was certain ly able to work, rang the bell ol a residence of East Baltimore the other day, and demanded of the lady who came to the door, something to eat. He was furnished some bread and butter, a piece of meat and cheese, and a pickle, nicely wrapped in a piece of paper. He wanted to know if they had any pie in the house, and was told in return that there was certainly none for him if there was any, whereupon this beggar threw the luncheon in the street, and in language, more .forcible and coarse than gentle ears should listen to, turned away. He rang the bell at the next door, but a lady had overheard him at her neighbor's house, and looking out the window bade him be gone. Then the tramp took up one end of u string of abuse and in the vilest language spoke his filings. A courageous little boy overheard him, aud said he would call the police. Thru the tramp van nwnv. WANTED TO OET OX A JURY. [ ? A Jury Agree. The Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle lias the following piece of pleasantry: Presently the stillness of the court | room was interrupted by the entrance ol i a man who came in with a shuffling, uneasy step, and with his hat in his hand. He halted and leaned against the railing. Nobody took the slightest notice of him, i however. At last he took courage and J spoke: " Is the judge in?" The clerk immediately awoke his honor. " Well, what do you want ?" "I'm looking for a job, your honor. 1 I've been looking for work over a month." " There's nothing for you here." " 1 thought ye occasionally gave jurymen a job. I don't read newspapers any, and bein' a stranger in town, I haven't got any prejudices agin anybody, j A pard of mine wrote down to me at Reno last week, and said that the jury business up here was brisk, an' it would pay to come up. As I'm a stranger to i you and a little hard up, I'll start in and serve for a case or two for half price, till you kin see what I can do." " What are your main qualifications ?" I " My strong suit is makin' a jury ! XT^. Ii.vi'no nrr/lr flrof llllllft if T'm ' agree. j.'jw jitxico ciu uunf, u ... ~. ! on 'em. I just lay low till tliey take the first ballot, then jine the majority and argue the rest into it. I can discount any lawyer talking. I can show 'em up points they never tumbled to before. Sometimes I have to use force, but seldom. Once, down at Truckee, in a murder case, there were a couple of fellers standin' out agin hangin', and after arguing with 'em as smooth and gentlemanly as I could for over a quarter of an hour, I went for 'em with chairs, and by the time I'd busted half a dozen pieces of furniture over 'em, they was glad to come in with a verdict of ' Murder in the first degree,' and the feller was hung not long afterward. In these justice courts ' I can get on the jury, and if you'll just give me the wink as to how you want the I case to go, I'll guarantee to fetch in the verdict you want, or not take a cent." The man was told to drop round again in a day or so, and they would try and make a vacancy for him. In order to do it, however, some regular juryman will probably have to be discharged. A Wonderful Black Hills Care. A traveler in the Black Hills writes as follows: I paid a visit to and explored a ? remarkable cave on Wliitewood creek, four miles below Deadwood city. The entrance is large, of sufficient extent to admit a hundred men, formed into a square phalanx, is of semicircular form, and fifteen feet high in the center. I entered it provided with a torch of pitch pine, accompanied by a miner as a guide, who had before explored the wonderful subterranean vault. About fifty feet in * ** ~ r% a we lounu our torcues luuispcuouuic, u.o the cave had turned at right angles from the opening, excluding all light. The floor being of siliceous formation, descends rapidly at this point, but the descent is not so great as to render upright walking unsafe or difficult. Passing down over this floor, some two hundred feat, v e came to the end of the first and main chamber, where another crossing is encountered of easy entrance, which leads, by a gentle ascent, to a capacious upper chamber. Entering this, we are fascinated with the surrounding splendors. Formed by the percolation of the water from above, and thickly studding the roof, are gorgeous pendants, of all sizes, from an inch to several feet in length. These stalactites are mineral-stained, their vari-colors reflecting back their bright hues in the glare of the explorer's torch with blinding brilliancy. Pushing ahead through this wonderful underground retreat of fair splendors, the rear of the second chamber is finally reached, when another entrauce or connecting passage is encountered, and this leads up into a third chamber. With tremulous, cautious steps we enter it, probably no white man's foot ever before having pressed its alabaster floor. We find the splendors and novelties have heightened 1 S J I m Deauty ana increased m iiuuiuei? ?a we have advanced. Reflecting over our heads, and from all sides, was a solid mass of crystals, some of them exquisitely tinted. There are also here beautiful coral formations and petrified mosses in endless variety. In times past, and not long past, either, this cave was a great retreat for Iudians, as well as wild animals. The former were wont to go into it for shelter against the inclemency of the weather, and probably against pursuing enemies. In the back part of the first chamber I noticed the marks of old camp-fires?half burnt faggots, ash heaps, bones, etc. The walls and ceiling were also smoke-stained. The immense opening is large enough to accommodate with lodging and feasting room several hundred Indians, crowded together as closely as they usually live in their tepees, and I have no doubt large bodies often dwelt together therein. It must have proved to them a happy refuge when the fierce storms of winter were howling without, for the temperature of that immense cavern is uniform and quite comfortable at all seasons. A Wonderful Map. Colonel W. L. Wood's Centennial map, upon which he has been at work for eight years, is now being revised and corrected. This map, which is twelve by sixteen feet, will doubtless be the most complete work of the kind, not i only for ordinary purposes, but for edu cational, scientific and commercial uses, that has ever been prepared. All available sources of information in the general land office, the coast survey, the , hydrographic office, the explorations of 1 Hay den, Wheeler and JPoweii, tne varij oris State surveys, railway offices, etc., ; are being made use of in. the work of correcting and adding to the details of j this gigantic work. The names of counJ ties and many additional names of i places, mountain peaks, etc., will now be added. In fact, the additions will nearly . equal in number the names , wliicli had been placed upon it at the > time of its exhibition. It will show not J only the ordinary political divisions of i j tho country and all the cities and towns, but also in all the Statesand Territories i containing unsold lands, all the townships surveyed, all base and standard hue% principal meridians, land offices | and districts, lighthouses, military and Indian reservations and private land j j grants, all public laud grants to railI roads, with their "indemnity limits," and all completed railroads and canals, ini eluding all the principal railroad stations | and important railroads projected The ; map will also, as one of its new features, ! exhibit by red figures the intersections of all the lines of latitude and longitude, j thus enabling one at a glance to perceive ! the true geographical and geodetic posii tion of any point in question. The . publication ?f this map in atlas sheets i or as a whole, in either its original or iu j reduced forms, will probably be author! ized by Congress, for the pibenefit, I at the next session, m Minstrels on a Russian (tain I)ar. A letter from St. Petersburg has thefollowing: The Russian minstrels also take a prominent part in these "gulanies," but only a stationary one. One or more +ivw-\v?a nre fllw/ivs en traced. for V/* VMW-? - V 0**0 I such occasions, and delight tlio motley crowd from temporary stages erected on ; the grounds. These stages nre simple? j mere semi-circular covered platforms three or four feet above the ground, anil i open in front. No dressing closets or greenroom are required. The Russian minstrel does not blacken his face or don resplendent broadcloth and impossible 1 shirt collars and fronts. He dresses in the traditional national costume?a short black velvet coat, without sleeves, displaying the wide shirt sleeves of colored | silk or .calico, and wide trousers 6tuffed into top-boots ; their head covering is somewhat in the shape of a lady's jockey hat, with a huge bright buckle on one | side. The performers mingle with the ' audience until called by their leader; , then they mount the stage and form a semi-oircle, with their leader in the center. All stand erect ; we see no i gorgeous chairs, no orchestra. At a sign ' from the " middle man" the singing begins. The charm of vocal music per- | formed by trained Russian singers has often been acknowledged by different i travelers. There is both harmony and j melody in their peculiar tunes, and the i voices are simply excellent. The con- ' viction is soon forced upon the listener ' that instrumental accompaniment to such singing would be superfluous if not positively injurious to the effect. The pieces generally consist of solos and choruses, and the selections invariably ; begin with songs of a sentimental or seri-1 ous character, gradually changing to the . comic and burlesque. To the latter class dances are also added, taking the place of, but not in any way resembling, our "walk arounds" and "breakdowns." This part of the performance is initiated with a lively tune by the chorus, beginning with measured strains and gradually increasing the rapidity of measure, accompanied by clapping of hands and stamping of feet. Suddenly a dancer emerges from behind the circle of singers, dressed as ! they are, but generally with some ad-! ditional trimming of gold lace. His i arms are akimbo and he glides with steps in curved lines from one side of the stage to the other. At some particularly lively notes of the chorus he breaks out into a few fantastic steps and orroirt hlH llPfMlliiir skim niing motion. But the measure grows more rapid, the voices louder and the clapping and stamping more energetic, until the dance co-aes to a climax, and the frisky youth breaks out in a series of steps and skips and jumps, in time with the singing, entirely bewildering and "fearful and wonderful" to behold. The excitement and frenzy are shared by chorus aDd audience, who utter yells and shouts of encouragement and delight; the legs and arms of the dancer are in a continual whirl. Now upright, now in a half-sitting posture, now stooping forward and now leaning backward, he keeps on until utter exhaustion compels him to retire behind the chorus with the mine peculiar skimming motion with which he had made his appearance, and disappears amid thunders of applause of the delighted audience. The same performance is repeated at various times during the afternoon, and is always witnessed with the same intense interest and enjoyment. Pearls of Thought. He who surpasses or subdues mankind j must look down on the hate of those be- : low. We every day sacrifice principles , tt a ootoom fhrnnffh fpflr of beinc ! U 111 VU HV V0WVM ?* w MQ ? . ?, 0 blamed by people whom we despise. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest sou is, and the most massive characters are seamed with scars. Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm as electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its power by a subtle | presence. When the million applaud you, seri- i ously ask yourself what harm you have ; done; when they censure you,' what ! good. We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. I Abuse, like other poison, when ad-, ministered in too strong a dose is thrown , off by the intended victims, and often : relieves where it was meant to destrby. The transmutation of meals is a small affair compared with changing shame to glory, reverse to success, sorrows to ' pleasures; yet true wisdom can do all 1 this. Bashfuhiess is more frequently connected with good sense, than we find assurance; and impudence, 011 the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. Many new years, indeed, you may 6ee, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These, virtue, honor and^knowledge alone can merit, alone, can produce. The First Umbrella Carrier. 1 Though Jonas Hanway, the philanthropist, did many a Christian deed in his life, he is not remembered so much for his benevolence as for his umbrella ! He was the first mau in England who ventured to brave public opinion by carrying one of those necessary articles. Jonas Hanway was born in Portsmouth, 1712, and died in Loudon, Sept. 5, 1786. The earlier part of his life was passed in ! mercantile pursuits as a partner in the j house of Dingley <fc Co., of St. Petersj burg, in which capacity he visited PerI sia?where he probably picked up his ; umbrella idea?and published, as the 1 result of his observations, a 44 Historical Account of British Trade over the Caspian Sea." The success of this work led him to continue the use of his pen, and 1 in 1756 he published a 44.Tournal of ; Eight Days' Journey from Portsmouth 1 to Kingston - upon - Thames," which j caused the amiable Dr. Johnson to re! mark that 44 Jonas acquired some repui tation by traveling abroad, but lost it all by traveling at home." He wrote nearly seventy pamphlets, mostly on ; philanthropic subjects. He was a noble philanthropist, but a poor ahtbor. j Having expended what property he hud i in charitable schemes, Lord Bute, the ! premier, gave him office as a commissioner of the navy, a situation which he ' held for twenty years. He was an in1 defatigable worker in the cause of philanthropy, and several of the most worthy i charitable institutions. of modern times were originated by him. He instituted the Marine Society, he establisli! ed the Magdalene Charity, he was the i father of Sunday schools, and the friend ' of the chimney sweep. No public calamity oocurml that he did uot endeavor to alleviate. But it is the shade of his umbrella that has kept his memory , arreen for prosperity. An Old Man's Warning. Soon after dinner yesterday an elderly man, having the appearance of a suburbanite, Lustily entered a Wood- | ward avenue ilrug store and excitedly called for the proprietor. When that J gentleman came forward the stranger called out: * < "Say, don't you know that paris green is a rank poison ?" " Of course I do," was the reply. j "Audyetyon leave a dozen big cans i of it out here ou the sidewalk, where fatal results may occur at any moment!" 1 "Oh, they are put out there every , day ns signs that we have the poison for sale." " Take them right in?take 'em in this I moment!" exclaimed the old man, war- < ing his hand as high as the chandelier, i " Suppose a boy comes along !" , "Yes." , "Ands'pose'n bethinks that stuff is sugar, and eats a lot of it! Where will ; the law put you ?" " Oh, don't get excited. No one can i get at the contents of the cans." i "1 will get excited, sir, when human ] life is in danger ! I call upon you to ! put those cans down cellar at once !" , " And I refuse." " You do, eh ! Well, sir, let me warn vou. Some day a poor, innocent child, oarely able to toddle around, will come along here and see those cans. He will snppose them to contain milk. He will get down on his hands and knees and lick, lick, lick at a can with his rosy tongue. In an hour he'll be dead, and the dark shadow of murder will fall ' athwart your door. Men will hiss your < name, you'll go to the wall, and at last. : driven to wild despair, you'll"? "Have a glass of soda?" interrupted the druggist. The old man looked at him keenly, glanced toward the cool fountain, and in a very soft voice he replied : "Well, I don't care if I do. Put in sarsaparillft syrup and plenty of water." When he had drained his glass he * ' 1 -- ?A ? ? Ait / 1 *\AQOA/l I Uttered & Sl?jQ UI HtttiDlUUUUU^ unit piusncu out without even a glance at the cans.? Detroit Free Press. An Arraeniun Mother-in-Law. ! A war correspondent writes : " I shall report on the manners of the Armenians after a more careful study of them, but 1 two incidents which occurred in this and 1 the neighboring house deserve to be re- corded. At noon the pan in which an j omelet was being cooked fell down, and 1 the servant obstinately maintained that ' a young woman on the roof of a house opposite had caused the mischief by her evil eye, and with difficulty was prevented from going over and taking vengeance. The married sons, contrary to the Turkish custom, live in the house of their parents, but the law of the Armenian church forbids the mother-in-law, during the llrst four years of the marriage, to say a single word to her daughter-in-law. The young wife sits dumb aud motionless the whole day in a corner of the room, without any occupation, unnoticed by her husband or any one. Only in the very poorest families, in which the women must work, is the daughter-inlaw driven by blows, cuffs, and kicks to labor. The only variety for the poor young creatures is a visit five times daily to the church. Now, it happened that in the house next to us the mother- 1 in-law had not spoken to her son's wife for si x years, two years more than the allotted term, because she was childless. Yesterday, for the first time, the entreaties of all the young women of the neighborhood on their bended knees had induced the deeply-offended old woman to address the first words to her daughterin-law. " A Rich Man's Lonely Death. Daniel Stewart, of Hobart, N. Y., was one of the most talented men of that section, and had a conside.*able fortnue. He was a member of the Assembly in 1853 and 1869, and on the fourth delivered an oration at Hobart, which was of unusual brilliancy. On the twelth he slept on the floor of a bar-room in a state of intoxication, and in the morning indulged in more potations and went to his store, where he fell asleep on a coffee sac^. After a wliile he was carried to a room above his store, where he was laid on the slats of a bed, and at night he was fnnnd to be dead. He had not partaken of food for several days, and when found had been dead five or six hours. His wealth goes to relatives in Scotland. In addition to his terms as a legislator, Mr. Stewart served as head clerk in the Clinton prisoD at Danuemora. Pond's Extract for over twenty-five years has t>een recognized in medical writings as the great epccific for pain, congestions, piles or any sore| ms*. If Von are Bilious tone up your liver. Take Quirk's Irish Tea. Sold !>v druggists at 25 cts. a package. The Market*. NEW TORI Be i cattle?Native...., 11 ? lt>i Texas and Cherokee.. 0 V0 09 Milch Cows S5 O.i <?40 00 Hogs?Live 03 l?t.# 03 X Dressed 0X0 07.1* Sfceep 05X4 M Lambs .. 07 4 [Cotton?Middling 1 \0 12X Flour?Western?Good to Choice... 7 30 4 9 5 State?Good to Choice 6 8') 0 6 5 Wh oat?Red Western 1 00 4 1 10 No. 2 Milwaukee 1 70 4 1 71 Rye?Stat- 02 4 -3 Barley?State 6 0 f3 Barley Malt 121 4-1 25 Oats?Mixed Western 34 4 4 Corn?Mixed Wretem 6.j 4 f,7 [ Hay, per cwt . 7o 0 75 1 Straw, per cwt " 0 4 7^ Hops 7?V-Oj 415 ...,75'e 8 4 1? Pork?Mens. 113) 014 3-) I Lard?City Steam 11S0 11X Fiah?Mackerel. No. 1. new 20 01 020 00 " No. 2. new 4 5 0.7 00 Dry Cod, per cwt 5 to 0 5 0) Herring. Scaled, per box. 22 0 22 Petroleutn?Crude 07 47 Ib-t.ied....18X Wool?California Fleece ^ 0 31 Texan " 8 0 32 Australian " <3 0 45 Butter?State : 1 0 24 Western?Choice 18 0 12 Western-Good to Prime.. 10 0 17 Western?Firkins 11 0 15 1 Iheet*?i.iate Factory 09 0 10 State Skimmed 03 0 C6 Western 0* 0 C9 anH Pennsvlvania 19 0 19X ' *BB=? BCPTALO. Fiour J 7 60 A 9 fO j Wheat?No. 1 Miiwaukee 1 (50 0 1 70 Com?Mtxed S5.JtfA 65X lata 4 A CO Rye '.8 A 9 J Birley..,.. 8 A 83 Barley Malt 1 n0 A 1 10 philadelphia. Beef Cattle? Extra.. % o?V A 06J< i Sheep f?5 A 07 IIo?a?Dressed 08XA 09* Kloirr? Pennsylvania Extm 9 '0 A 9 60 Wheat?Re;l Western I 80 A 1 80 Rve (8 A 78 I Cam-Yellow ?2XA '3 Mixed *.... *2 A 62 Oata?Mixed 36 <4 38 Pf-tro'enm?Crnile G9\A1) Refined. ...13* Wool ?Colorado 22 A 27 Texas 25 A 30 California 56 A 35 boston. , Beef Cattle 05* A 09X Sheep 05^(4 06% Hoge 06 A 09 F.oar?Wisconsin and Minnesota.. 8 00 A 9 00 Com?Mixed 63XA ?? Oats- " 6i A 59 I ! Wool?Ohio and Pennsylvania XI.. 50 A MX California Fall 16 A 21 BBIOHTON MASS. Beef Cattle 06XA 07 X i Sheep (5 A 09X Lamb* 07 A M Ho.* 07* A 03 watxhtowk, mass. ' Beef Osttle?POO'mioire,, f 75 A ? f0 6 71 0 ' 0 I I T *w> <*to nn Revive the Drooping Energies. When the physical energies droop, revive j them with that safest and moat active of tonics, j H^tetter's Stomach Bitters. By a timely use of this salutary and agreeable medicine you j will save yourself from positive disease: for. be j assured that t he languor and loss of strength and appetita which troubles you is in fact the j precursor of some malady of, perhaps, a sen- ' ous nature. Appetite, trrnlpiility of the nervous i system, and pristine vigor, will assuredly be re- I stored if the Bitters are used systematically, and I the alimentary disturbance, which in nine canes , otit of ten gives rise to debility and nervousness, be entirely removed. Regularity of the bowels, active biliary secretion, the expulsion of impurities from the blood through tne kid ncys, are also among the beneficent effects of | this admirable restorative. , Physicians of high ^standing unhesitatingly | give their indorsement to the nse of the Graefenberg-MarshaH's Catholicon for all female ^ complaints. The weak and debilitated find won- , ierful relief from a constant use of this vain able remedy. Sold by all druggists. $1.60 per bottle. Send for almanacs, Graefenberg Co. ( New York. Good Material la Always Reqnlalte j to great results. You may have the best flour, eggs, milk, shortening however, aad still have poor bread, cake, pastry, etc. Why? You didn't use Dooley'a Yeast Powder. With this last magic element to give order, harmony and union to the rest, the result is a mathematical certainty. Try it, and be convincod. CHEW The Celebrated "matchless" Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Cohpant, New York, Boston, and Chicago. W\ At.U la Va.lr , i/rui nivrr ivi oait iu ? vi? j Well stocked and doin? a good business. Cause of selling, continued ill health. A good chance for a person with $5,000 cash, to obtain a well- ( paying business. Address, Chas. A Osmun, J 13 Seventh avenue, New York. A in A WEEK. Catalogue and Sample FRISK q4:U FELTON A CO., 119 Nasaan St., New York STC1I WINDING WATCH. Cheapest in the , ' tm World. Send 3c. stamp for circular. Ad's DALZELL WATCH CO..B-I Broadway, New York. dlfi * . At AAA Invested in Wall St. Stocks makes $10 to $1,000 ts^ssssfss^ 8*nt Address BAXTER A CO., Bankers, IT Wall 8t, N. Y. N. F. BITRNHAX'S ** 1874 ?? WATER-WHEEL I* declared the STANDARD TL'KHINK." by over G-iO persons who use it. Price* reduced. Wew pamphlet, free, N. F. B LJR.NHAM, Yobk .Pa. PROFITABLE CASH BUSINESS! ! Manufacture and Bottling Carbonated Drinks, Soda Water, Ginger Ale, Pop, Sarsaparilla, Tonic Beer, Root Beer, Champagne Cider, Sparkling Wines, etc. Apparatus, Materials and full printed instructions. Persons without experience can conduct the business. Highest Prize Medals at Vienna, The Chilean Exposition, Centennial at Philadelphia, and Grand Centennial Medal struck in Gold, American Institute, 1876. British Cotsmissioners' official report to Houses of Parliament, says: " Mattheici' Sotla Wat-r App'treUutei art mar nil of tngtnuity." Illustrated Catalogue on application to JOHN MATTHEWS, Manufacturer of Soda Water Apparatus, First Avenue, ?6lb snd 27th Streets, New York. Business Established Forty-five Yeary. Peril;*. ' Etcjs, In Currency or Rtampt. .? i NATURES REMEDY.^V TOGETIKDi The Dbeat Btaoo Pumn A SOURCE OF GREAT ANXIETY. Boston, Mass., Janet, 1879. My daughter has received great benefit from the use of VEGET1NE. 'lor declining health was a source of great anxiety to all of hsr friends. A few bottles of the VEGKTINK restored her health,stren^th^and appetite. Insurance snd Real Estate Agent, No. 49 Sears' Building. Yegetine In Sold by All I)r??yt?U. THE NEW Providence Line TO BOSTON. Via PROVIDENCE DIRECT. A WHOLE NIGHT'S REST. ONLY 42 MILES OF RAH.. TIME 60 MINUTES. THE NEW MAGNIFICENT STEAMER HJT a sa oh uaetta ("The Palace Steamer of the World,") AND THE WORLD-RENOWNED STEAMER Rhode Island, <" The Qneea of tho Soond,") Will on and after MAT 7 lease (daily) Lom Pier 26, N. R., foot of Warren Street at o P. M? arririn* at Providence at 6 A. M. and Boston 7A.M. No intermediate landings between New York and Pron dence. United stateS T .i FB INSURANCE COMPANY, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 261, 262, 263 Broadway. ?OBflAJflZll 18W-* ASSETS, $4,827,176.52 SURPLUS, $820,000 EVERY APPROVED FORM OF POLICY ISSUED ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS ALL ENDOWMENT POLICIES AID APPROVED CLAZM8 MATURING IN 1877 WILL BE HUB AT 7% I OK PRESENTATION. JAME0 BUBLL. - t PRSSIDBNT. fjjf GOOD OLD STAND'Blf. MEXICAI MUSTAI6 LUIMEIT. FOR MAN AND BEAST. E8TABLlSHXDr35' Years. Always eim. Always ready. Always bandy. Uaa new yet failed. JWrtjr million* have letted it. The whole world appro* th? glorious old Mustang?the Beat and Cheapest Liniment m existence. 25 cents a bottle. The Mustang Liniment cutes when nothing else will. SOLD BY ALL MKDICINK VKIfPfCRfl. THE SUN. 1877. NEW TOBK. 1877: . The SDN continues to be tlie strenaone advocate of reform end retrenchment, and of the sabetitatkm of statesmanship, wisdom, and integrity for hollow pretence, imbecility, and fraud in the administration of public affairs. It contends for the government of the people by the people and for the people, as opposed to government by frauds in the ballot-box and in the oountmg of rotes, enforced by military riolcnoe. It endeavor* to supply its readers?a body now not far from a million of souls?with the most careful, complete, and trustworthy accounts of current events, and employs to itfais purpose s numerous and carefully selected staff of reporters and correspondents. Its reports from Washington, especially,sre full, accurate, and fearless; and it doubtless continues to deserve sad enjoy the hatred of tboee who thrive by plundering the Treasury or by usurping what the law does not give them, while it endeavors to merit the ounfldenoe of the publio by defending the rights of the people against the encroachments of unjustified power. The price of the Dailt Sun is 55 cents a month, or 96.50 * year, poet-paid; or, with the Sunday edition "?he Sunday edition alone, eight pages, 91*20 a year, post-paid. The Wkexxt Sun, eight pages of H broad columns, is furnished at 81 ? Jew. post-paid. Special Notice.?In order to introduce Tib Sun more widely to the publio, we will send THB WEKJCLY j edition for the remainder of the year, to Jan. 1,1I7S, ' i**t-paid, for H?t' a Dollar. Try it Address in mjNt H, Y. OHffi j <66 trSfteSSEr'TTn rZ?,.?S 85 to $20 K.'J?TLv.fe rHWZJZxJS. 655 g $77 $Z-U?&S?: .'jrtS* * |1i)> day at home. Ajenta wanted. Outfit and V1.U tanna free. TRUE A CO., AuguaU, Maine. Drum tiro8 7,bot?s-?u'70rt,la"-ni cat^r**If Cf ULf CnWMTKBKOPKWo?M.ChleMe.Dl? EEVOLVER Free with box cartridme add'a J. Bown A Co . 136 * 138 Wood St.. Pittaborg, Pa. A CLr\e\A \I7a11 can be made in one day with w x> 11 i '?. w? T A rata A UWU ww vu ggcrim for <mr anger book. P. 8. Accra Co., St. Louis, Me. iAtlA A 9foMh.-i|uti wanted. 36 beet sell \ *(*%l| Lug articles in the world. Ore sample fm. fWV Address JAY BRONHQN, Detroit, Mich. WAIUTCn?Traveling Salesmen. *85 a month All I CU i?<j ^j| txpenaee paid. Na PeddllBf* Addreaa Quern City Isimp Wnrkt, Cincinnati, 0. i|||P||l|a year to Arents. Onto ami a xjHI|||S-' fih-4 Gun /rue. For terms ad. iPfcUU |f dress, J. h'ortJk A Co.. Si.Lomu,Mo. A OBNTH- heapMt Cbromoi In the World* XX 26 assorted, post-paid, SI. or 3 f?r 26 oente Joirm<KVTAL Chbomo Co.. 3B Nassau St., New York* SWAKTHMORE Colle?e-For both sexes ;nnder care of Friends. All expenses covered by ?350 a r?*r. Knwp. H. Maoox. AM., Prest.. Swarthmore, Pa. dfe PdlHtf Made by 17 Agents In Jan. 77 with kid ? m my 11 new articles. Samples free. W WWII f Address C. M. LMngton, Chia^ew C^I.BC'TltlC BEI.TH.-A NEW, CHEAP. PER S i FECT Care for premature debility. Send for oiren lar or eall on Db. H. KARR, 833 Broadway. NewYort. OT?VCT d^lVT?1 Procured or No Pay, lor every IT Pi 11 io wounded, ruptured, accideatilIt injured or diseased Soldier. Address, Col. N. Wi FITZGHRALP, U. 8. Claim AtPy. Washington, D. 0. I Af A RITDCI Men to travel and take orders WAI\|I CV Merchants. Salary 81200 a year fill and all traveling expenses paid Address G?M Man'fg Co., St. Louis, Mo. ADIIIIfl habit ct red at iiu.hk. llPlIMB No publicity. Time short. Terms mod" M ? or Ml Testimonials. __ Do. DbTf. E.'mARSH. (Juincy, Mien ECLECTIC MEDICAL INNTITCTE, Chartered 1845. fl,5?3 StndenU. WOMEN'H MEDICAL COLLEGE* AND SCHOOL OF MIDWIFERY, Givee extra facilities for a thorough medical education to both men and women, by a graded coarse in the oollege without ths need of office instruction. For full infor. mation address John M. 8cupdeb,M.D..Cincinnati,O. A1A 1 AAVI A DAY HUHE made by Sill tn S/K nSSpisrsa!: vlU lu ?flv worth 95* sent, poet-paid, for 85 Cents. Illustrated Catalogue free. J. IT. BUFFOKD'S HONS* Boston. (Established 1880.] Patents Secured! Also Trade Mark*, Designs, Registration, 1'iLsaporUl, etc. Fee after allowance it obtained. CaO on or address, HENRY GBRNER, Patent Bight Gazette Patent Agency, 24 Barclay Street (P. O. Box 1544). New York. BOSTOI WEEKLY TBHSOUPT. The best family newspaper published; eight pages; fifty* six columns reading. Terms?92 per annum; clubs of eleven, 916 pat nnnwv In idfUCA. HPECIMEN COPY GRATIH. VIOLIN STRINGS! Genuine Italian Violin Strings, also f<? Banjo or Gut tar, 15 sa-i 20c. each, or ? I .oi) and 82 * doz. Sent by m.-uloii rereiot of price. Do.tlen! Send ezri for oat* Mngne. J. fS.AEM.Fit, Importer of Mudcal lustra n.ut, m i Sting*. IOG < liantbrr* St.. .AewYork, HEADACHE. OR. C.W. BENSON'8 CELERY and CHAMOMILE PILL8 are prepared ?xpr<wlT M core 81CK HEADACHE. NERVOIJ8 HEADACHE, DY8PEPTIC HEADACHE. NECRALHIA, NERF01J8NE88, 8LEKPL^SgNE8S, and will care any case. Office, 106 N. Eurnw St., Baltimore. Md. Price 50cn postage free. Sold Uv all drnmliti and coaatrv -tores. REFERENCE?Hownrd Bank, Baltimore, aid. - Maize Flour Toilet Soap! ? - Maize Flour Toilet Soap! ? - Maize Flour Toilet Soap! ? * great discovery !?* newsoap compound ! It soothes, softens, sod whitens the akin, has wonderful healing and superior washing properties, and is equally suited forth* bath, nursery and general toilet. It is delightfully per. fumed, and sold every where at a moderate price. Regis, tared in Patent Office. 1876. by the manufacturers, MoKKOWF, VAN HAAGKN A CO.TPhfladelphla 10 0,000 Facts for the People! for the Fanner, the Merchant, the Horseman, the Stock-raiser, the Poultry-keeper, the Bee-keeper, the Laborer, the Fruit-raiser, the Gardener, the Doctor, the Dairyman, the Household?for every family who wants u> save money. The liook of Ihr lOtls Century. FACTS FOR AOEMT8. Male and Female Agents coining money on it. Send to us at once for hxtrs terms. INGRAM, SMITH A LACK, 731 Walnut Street. Philadelphia. P* _ XT HEP'S SHIRTS?only one quality?The Best. IV Keep's Patent Partly-made Drees Shirts lan be finished as oasy as camming a Handkerchief. The very best, six for 9?.0O. Keep's Onstom Shirts?made to measure. The very beet, six for 89.00. An elegant set of geuniccGold-piate Collar and Sleeve Buttons given with each half do*. Keep's Shirt Keep'* Shirts are delivered FREJC on receipt of prio* In any pari of the Union?no * spree* charges to pay. f ample* with fall directions for self-measurement Sect free to any address. No stamp required. Deal directly with the Manufacturer and gist Bottom Pnoea. K-ep Manufacturing Co., 165 Mercer 8t, W.Y. mmf M is not easily earned m these ^^F ^^F times, bat it can be made in M M M three months by any one at %MM M M M either sex, in any part of the "w * country who is willing to v .iwiii, -i the amnlorment that we furnish. p66 p?r week in your own town. You need not be away from noma over night. Yoa ctn rive jortr wnole time to the work, or only /oar pan momenta. We hare agent* who an making over 820 per da/ at the business. All who engage at once can make money fast At the present time money cannot be made so easily and npidly at any other business. It coat* nothing to try the business. Terms and S3 Outfit free. Address at ones, ff. 1IAT1 JtTT <r CO., Portland, Maine. $1.00 $1.00 Osgood's Heliotype Engravings. The choicest household ornaments. Price One Dollar each. Send far catalogue, JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. _ BOSTON, MASS. . ^ ^ $1.00 $1.00 . Those Terrible Headaches Generated by obstructed secretions, and to which ladies an especially subject, can always be mlieved, and their recurrence prevented by the use of TaBRAMT's EffibtkSCXBT Seltzer Aperient. Procurable at all drug stores. " The Best Polish in the World." mag DR. WARNER'S HEALTH CORSET. A With Skirt BawMtw ud Self-Adjusting Pads. , Secures Hialth and CoufortTOf MJf Body, with Gates and Bsactt of TiL Form. Three Garment* in one. JLjL/a. Approved by all physicians. ARImR agents wanted, CHuIVmbA Sam pies by mail, In Cootil, *2: nWiVfT Satteen, fl 75. To Agents at // l| Vl?5 cents less. Order site two I ?Hf(IW / Inch** smaller than waist met* ISSff ?y / sore over the dress. wmHBBa& Warner Bros. 351 Broadwy,5,Z BABBITT'S TOILET SOAP, CartraiWl 'jn th) Toilet ?a 1 wi. Both.* N? arUiTki ud deceptive odan U ootct coam and dslctsrtot tnprJtcqU. After yt :rtcl ctotitrexpt teas* ^tha manofc*' " " B.T ?..' ?'* -<* &?/ 4 . n-ctaJ av off?r lotha mMU Tfca PIJCEST TOILET SOAi I. the \V o.UL OmJjr lit mmrmt tilt %*4 ia k* aiaa?/a*r*w. Samp!a box, eoauiakaf I eake? of < oa. each, uni ft<m to ia; addi?M ?B racalpt ai It ceaU. Addrn. IH VOtO VERITAS. dJtmr nine nan txparitooa wa baa* decided to offer oar pare California Wine# and Brandy to familiea br the gallon or single oaae at greatly reduced price#. Thaee Win## aredsueious for family nee, while their strict purity randan them invaluable for medicinal and meramental purpoaas. A trial i* only nece##a17 to show their superiority over adulterated fareigh goods. 44 Crown Prince," the choicest American Champagne, a specialty. Send for circular and prtoa list to CHAMBERLUf A OQ.,46 Murray St., Wew York. W. Y. N. P. Wo. *9 W,iSL^,T??4?Jtf,SRSSSK RMI Uiwt