Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FIJI ISLA>DERM. Their Ceremonial Dances?School (Jeosrnphy Turned Into a Sonit?The ISrcat State 44 Meke"?A Flylnit Fox and a Club Dance. A correspondent writes as follows from Fiji, in the South Pacific ocean: It was amusing in the morning to watch the country people streaming into the town in large and small parties ?in canoes or along the paths on the banks of the river. They had their smart dancing dresses tied up in bundles, some with their faces already painted, and their hair done up in tappa in the j oddest way possible. All the time the " lall" (native wooden drums) were inakiug a great row in the square, and when all the people were assembled we went and sat down under a canopy of mats which had been put up to screen us from the sun. First came the school- j children. They passed us in single file, I and passing inside the advancing file j coil Oil themselves up in the center of the square. Rich child as it passed halted and read a verse from the Bible. Then they unwound themselves, and came up j in the same fashion with their writing i on slates. Then came a dance on the " meke." They retired a little, divided into bands, and then came forward in a ! sort of dance, turning first to the one side I and then the other, moving in the most j perfect time, and chanting as they came. ! All their movements were graceful, and j the way in which the tuue, if one can so call it, was first of all sung by those in front, and then taken up, a third lower, by those behind, was very ; effective. If I have time I will translate the "meke" for you. It was " com- j . posed for the occasion." When they i had com9 close enough, on a signal they j all sat down and began a geography les- ' son. The native teacher called out the ! name of a country, as " Peritania," j (Britain), aud one of the cliildren, in a low minor key, began to chant " Peritania as matanitu" (Britain is a king- { dom). Then a third higher some other words, where Britain is, etc., and then, with a swaying motion of their bodies and a rythmical clapping of hands, sometimes beating the ground, sometimes pointiug on one side, sometimes on the other, and sometimes joining hands overhead, they all joined in a chant descriptive of the extent, govern- j mcnt, etc., of tho British empire; in | fni't, MfifrrnnVir tnrno/l infn a I Jk IVV. Vj WUVVA ? *AJ V iivVi JLAAIW H rather pretty song. Ia this way they went through nearly all the countries m Europe. Then came the event of the day, the great State "meke." The first was the "Flymg Fox Dance." From the halfhidden roads leading out of the corners of the square came two bands of men dressed in "likus"(a sort of kilt) of green and colored leaves. These were : beautifully made, the leaves lying very j thick one above another, and reaching ; below their knees. The men were very fiue specimens of humanity; some had their faces blackened or painted black and red, and their heads done up in the most elaborate way with white tappa. 1 Garlands of flowers and leaves hung round their necks, and they had garters and armlets of bright-colored leaves on 1 their arms and legs. To describe the dance is far beyond m/ power. There must have been over 200 men and about sixty cnildren taking part in it. The two parties approached each other in the j usual 44 meke " form, an odd mixture of march arid dance, and after various evolutions every man threw away the huge palm-leaf fan which he carried in his hand. This was the end of the first .act. In the next part the flying foxes procetedsd to rob a banana treb. A pole was set up in the middle of the square, and on tho top of it a banana plant, with ' ajjunoh of artificial fruit made of husked cdcoannts full of oil. The two bands advanced, and seemed to consult, and I then messengers were sent from either party, to see, I suppose, that all was safe. They went flying arouud the square with their arms stretched out, making a noise like a flying fox. With a great deal of dancing the main body approached the tree, aud one of them climbed up, while the little flying foxes circled round, and finally clustered under the tre >, crying with delight at the sight of the fruit. The fox in the tree hung by his legs and flapped his arms, when another climbed after him, and they bit and scratched aud squalled just as big bats do, and the first-comer was turned out. The whole dance lasted 1 about half an hour, and between each ! figure there was a slight pause. The j time was wonderful?every 6wish of their likus was in nuisnn, aud they were most clever in adapting themselves to auy inequality in t.ne gronnd. There was a j mnairt.il a/vnmiiiinnnpiif nf nniirA flrnmR aod hollow bamboos, played by about I twenty gaily-dressed old gentleman. Next came a club dance: The square was snrronudod?except on one side, where stood the great church?as I ought before to have mentioned, by plantations : of bananas and bread-fruit; so that one saw nothing of the preparations and formation, but heard the chant of the j dancers before they came in from different paths. From either sidefltdvanced a party, each about eighty strong, marehing three abreast, armed with short spears made of bamboo, cut into i fantiistic shapes at the end, or with the slmfts painted or covered with a matting of reeds. As the two parties approached each other?very, veiw slowly?they chanted, and swung their bodies from J side to side, thrusting and parrying with thoir spears, which were held overhead; every hand and every foot moving exactly together. When about twelve yards from each other, each body wheeled away from us, and we saw advancing between them from some distance another body of men, of about the same strength as both the others, but twelve abreast, and armed with clubs. This "meke," in which over 300 men were daucing, was wild and picturesque, and the men tine, ; well-made fellows,as they were all chiefs, j or men of high birth. The dresses in this dance were even more brilliant than in the last. Each man had a liku of strips of pandanus leaf, dyed black, yellow, and red in strips. Their bodies and faces were elaborately painted black aud red, and their heads were done up iu folds of very line tappa, white or brown, or in some cases (what I have never seen before) of a bright blue. They had sashes of white tappa, in thick folds, terminating sometimes in stream-! ers, and sometimes in a long train, not allowed to touch the ground, but looped up again into the sash, something like the thiugs ladies used to wear a little while ago. Each man of the front rank of the larger body had a splendid large breast-pliite of ivory and pearl-shell. Many had a larg% boar's tooth hung round their necks? rather an effective ornament?and armlets, garters, and bracelets of shells, ivory, or black waterweed, according to his fancy. The next dance was the most graceful of all. It is called " The Waves of the Sea," and represented the sea coming up on the reef. The dresses of the men were much the same as in the l?.st, but ?dhere were a'so a number of children in l??h|ht likn", and with garhm s of leaves and-flowers. First of all, they formed a long line, then breaking the line, dan ceil forward, ten or twelve at a time, for a few steps, bend down their bodies and spreading out their hands, as the little shoots of a wave run up on the;beach. Then wave after wave rolled in, and then at the end of the long line ran round, first a few at a time, some falling back again; then more and more, as the tide runs up on the shore-side of the reef, and nothing but a small island of coral is left. The band kept up a sound like the roar of the surf; and as the tide rose and the waves began to meet and battle over the little island, the dancers threw their arms over their heads as they met, and their white tappa-covered heads shook as they bounded into the air, like the sprays of the breaking surf. The people sitting round screamed with delight. The idea of the dance^ could not have been more artistically ca'rried out. A Daring Robbery. A despatch from Wapakoueta, Ohio, says: A daring robbery, unprecedented in the history of Auglaize county for boldness, was committed in this place. Lewis Myers, the county treasurer, was going iiomeward at about ten o'clock, p. m., and just as he got opposite the first alley east of his residence three men threw a heavy blanket over his head and pressed him to the ground. Mr. Myers guessed their object instantaneously, and attempted to throw away his office keys; but his quick-eyed captors detected the attempt and prevented it. They carried him back into the alley, and guarded him until about eleven o'clock. Then they carried him bodily to the court house, unceremoniously throwing him over the fence in the alley east of R. D. Marshall's. The back door wa3 then broken open, and the-treasurer was carried into the hall and requested to open the office door, but he refused, even under the threat of torture by burning. To show At. in Aorunof a firn TTQQ cforfibl liiCJ V?CIC XXI COiUVOVj ? iJt v n c?u ovma wv4 in the narrow passageway between the vaults, and Mr. Myers was held over it until the heat burned the legs of his pantaloons and scorched his feet. After being nearly suffocated with the smoke, he unlocked the door and admitted them. He still refused, however, to open the safe, protesting that the combination to unlock the inner doors was unknown to him, being known only to his son. They would not accept this, and presenting a cockec revolver to each temple compelled him to open the safe. While two of the robbers were rifling the safe, a third stood guard at the back hall door, and from certain sounds Mr. Myers inferred that one was at the front door. At a little after midnight the robbers departed with their booty, except one who stood over the county treasurer, revolver in hand, until the three o'clock train came in. Then he vanished. At six o'clock Mr. Myers was discovered by the janitor, gagged and tightly bound to a chair, where he had suffered during the long hours of the night. The loss is between $31,000 and $32,000, wholly in greenbacks and bank notes. The robbers overlooked in their haste a package of $20,000 in government bonds belonging to Samuel Bitler, of the Farmer's Bank. It was in an envelope, and wrapped up in an old piece of newspaper. Mr. Myers' hat was found where it had been dropped in the street. His watch was found where it was thrown over the fence. The thieves took it from him, but had the discretion not to keep it. A Novel Accidental Discovery. More novelties are the result of accident thau is generally supposed. The origin of blue-tinted paper came about by a mere slip of the hand. NVilliam East, ah Euglisli paper-maker, once upon a time set his men to work, and went away on business. While the men were at dinner, Mrs. East accidentally let a bluebag fall into one of the vats of pulp. Alarmed at the occurrence, she determined to say nothing about it Great was the astonishment of the workmen when they saw the peculiar color of the paper, and the great anger of Mr. East whenjhe returned and found that thewhole vat of pulp had been spoiled. After giving the paper made from it warehouse room for four years, Mr. East sent it up to his agent in London to be sold "for what it would fetch." "For what it will fetch!" said the agent, misunderstanding the meaning. " Well, it certainly is a novelty, but he must not expect too much." So he sold the whole at a considerable advance upon the market price, and wrote to the mills for as much more as he could get. The surprise of Mr. East may be imagined. He hastened to tell his wife, who found courage to confess her siare in the fortunate accident and to claim a reward, which she received in the shape of a new cloak. Mr. East kept iiis secret, and for a siiort time supplied the market with the novel tint, until the demand far exceeded the supply, and other makers, discovering the means used, competed with him. Savings Bank Salaries. A New York correspondent says: The whole amount of savings bank deposits in Gotham is over 8200,000,000, and the total cost of taking care of them is 8725,000. The salary list is an interesting study. It gives one an idea that the men who run the savings banks don't do it out of philanthropy altogether. The: 3's money in it for most of them, and juite a good deal for some. One bank pays its president a salary of 810,000. Another pays a treasurer 812,000. A third pays a secretary 810,000. Another pays 822,000 to a president and secretary. It is curious how things are mixed as to the compensation of the officers. One bank pays a treasurer 812,000, and gives only 83,000 to its president. Another is run by an actuary and an assistant, who together get 811,500. In another there is neither president, secretary nor actiuiry, but comptroller, treasurer and accountant gather in 817,000 between them. One bank employs nine bookkeepers, and another thirteen. One keeps an appraiser of real estate at 83,000, another keeps one at 8000. A bank with deposits of nearly 830,000,000 has an expense account of $93,000, and one with deposits of $2,000,000 expends $36,000. A Knowing Dog. A gentleman in Westchester county is the fortunate owner of two dogs, one an Newfouplander, and the other a little black-and-tan terrier. One cold night last winter a friend who happened to be at the gentleman^ house heard the little dog barking at a furious rate, and inquired the cause. " I'll tell you," said the gentlemau ; " both dogs occupy one house, and the big dog, on the principal that might makes right takes the inside. But here's a piece of canine strategy. The little fellow runs into the yard and barks and barks, till the big fellow comes out to see what's the matter, when the black-and-tan takes the opportunity to slip into the kennel, and so secure the snug inside berth. Strange to say, as often as this trick has beeti played on the big dog, he seems to grow no wiser, but is sold every time." LIVES THAT ARE HOPELESS. ___ Women who nve Serving Mfe Seutenrrn for Alnrdcr?~>(God litis Forgiven Ale, but AInn Will Not "?The Cnrgin?!Smith Tragedy. [ From the Detroit Free Press. ] Over the grim stone walls of the women's ward at the Detroit house of correction clambers a woodbine, and birds have been there and built their nests. Under the iron cornice the sparrows are rearing their young and chattering to each other ail day long. It is pleasant to see those cold walls thus covered, and yet one sighs at the remembrance that the ward holds some of the j saddest hearts in the world. The other day, as our reporter entered the women's ward, the first person he saw was Orilla Smith, a woman some thirty years of age, who has already served eleven years of a life sentence. She and her husband were sent to Jackson for life for attempting to poison his father, or rather for poisoning him with intent to kill. The dose was not successfully administered, and the victim was the witness i who sent him to prison. Three or four years ago the husband was pardoned out | to die, but the air of .liberty revived him, , and he mastered the disease that had I brought him near death's door. A year or two ago he was married again, and all these facts are known to the wife, who Daces nn and down the corridor, and weepingly asks : 44 Have I not suffered enough ? Have I not been here a lifetime?" , She was transferred from Jackson two ! or three yeara ago, and at present is an assistant in her ward. Men have considered the life sentence too severe, and as she has been immured eleven long years, and her husband is free, her friends have hopes that she will be par1 doned within another year. The tortures of conscience and the pangs of sorrow have made her look like one of sixty years. If set free to-morrow, she would shrink from the public like a frightened 1 child, and the merry shouts of happy children would fall upon her sore heart like clods on a coffin. It was not so hard to bear until she began to hope. For years her face was pale and resolute, | and the flash of her eyes proved that she had determined to live on, and make no sign while waiting for death. Now that , there is hope, she trembles like a leaf when a strange step sounds on the stairs. Hope and despair fill her heart by turns, and she is fast wearing awav. Yet her cell is one of the cosiest on the corridor. Sitting at a mending table at the head of the laundry room was Rosa Schweistahl, a woman now sixty-five j years old. She was convicted of hus1 band-poisoning, and the sentence was for life. Ten long years have rolled away since the prison door first shut behind her, and she will not have to stay another ten. Gray-haired and trembling, she ; knows that death will soon come to set ! her free. There are tears in her eyes as slip lnnlrn nn hnt. no rav of hrvnp flashps ?~ ~ ?%j x I across her face at the sound of the mew i footstep. She is not hoping for a pardon. If one were granted to her she might not be able to find kith or kin to give her a corner until her hours were numj bered. It would give her liberty anil sunshine and new scenes, but what are those privileges worth to a trembling i and penniless old woman, who might die | by the roadside before her pardon was a j week old ? There is more sympathy for | her because she is,so old. She pleaded ! guilty when arraigned for trial, and she ] neither defended nor protested. Ten i dreary, dismal, slow-passing years have been tolled off on Time's far-sonnding bell, and her sentence is not ended? only nearer the last day. Her heart has been pierced again and again by the stings of conscience, and many a night, when deep silence reigned throughout the corridor, the sentinel has caught her whispered words ' God lias forgiven me, but man will not!" The end may not come this year nor next, but is not far away. Some morni ing when her cell door is thrown open she will seem to sleep on. Some one will call her name, and bend over her, and then the word will pass through the prison that "grandma" is dead. Less than a year ago Julia Cargin was a contented wife and a happy mother, having all the comforts of a home and as clear a conscience as any other woman in the land. Yesterday, when our reporter saw her in the sewing room at the house j of correction, her face was haggard, her j eyes sunken, her hair turning gray, and \ her forty years of life seemed to have 1 doubled in a few brief months. She came to Michigan with her husband to visit a friend uamed Smith. The home of the Smiths was not pleasant. While she had considerable property in her own name, he had none, and was not anxious to accumulate any. Mrs. Smith had been thinking of securing a divorce, and had brooded over her situation until it seemfd far worse than it really was. Soon after the Cargins arrived, Smith and his wife had i some hard words, and as he left the ! house the wife cried out: " I would to God that he was out of the world!" Before she had time to retract or repent, the Cargins offered to put her : husband out of the way. If, before the 1 awful crime was actually committed, the wife repented in the least, she gave her victim no warning. In the dead of night she crept away from his side and retreated to a distant room, and the Cragins crept in and murdered him as he slept. Only a wife with the heart of a i fiend or the mind of a lunatic could have drawn away in the darkness, and listened to the murderous blows, and waited to be told that her husband was : dead. They carried the body to the J barn, along with the bedding, scraped the stains from the floor and walls, and then set fire to the barn to burn up all evidence. The plan, however, was not successful. The flames were subdued by the neighbors before they had destroyed the fatal proofs, and arrest, tria1, and sentence followed. The Cargins were sent for life, the husband going to Jackson. Mrs. Smith, who only helped to plan, was given a sentence of fifteen years. Both women were sentenced at the same time and arrived at the prison together. Their oells are side by side, and a hundred times a day they look into j each other's face, shudder at the past, and refrain from speaking a word that | may call up it in a stronger light. Both ; have children. The murderess left two 1 behind her, and the plotter three, the J. 1 jit _ i.1 ?1.1 rru youngest uarmy inree years uiu. iiiej ilo not accuse each other, as one would expect them to do. They never speak of their children to each other. When their eyes meet they remember the awful deed committed that night, and they turn from pale, haggard faces to walls and bars. The Cargin woman could not answer questions yesterday. A look and word broke her down so that she could not speak. The wife of the murdered man sat down and tried to tell her story, and it was painful to see what a wreck she had become. She could not remember how her husband was killed, or what the witnesses against her testified, or what defense the Cargins had. " I got up and went away from him, ami then Homebody killed him," she gaspingly explained. She seemed hard and cold at lirst, and one would have said that she had au evil face,but the mention of her children melted her in au instant and set her to sobbing. When asked about her two eldest children, she gave their whereabouts; but when the name of the youngest was mentioned she threw up her j arms and sobbed out: "My baby! Oh, my baby! Why ; don't they let me see him just once more ?" They took the little boy from her arms j when they led her away to jail. He clung tightly to her neck, his innocent l heart knowing nothing of her awful j crime, and every day since her long : sentence began he has looked into the ! faces of strangers, and tearfully and piti' fully asked: " Where's mamma ? When will mam! ma come home ?" rra _ x .. .1 1 i. xne two oiaer outs went ijuieu^ awnj from her, dimly realizing that a happy home was forever broken up, and that the whispers of men and women around them of a horrible murder implicated the mother who had sung them to sleep and taught them to pray. The baby clung to her just the same, aud its name has only to be mentioned to wring her very soul with grief. TilE PUBLIC DEBT. Decrease of ?nrly Four Million in August. The following is a recapitulation of the public debt statement: DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN COIN. Bonds at six per cent $814,341,050 Bonds at five per cent 703,266,650 j Bonds at four and a half percent. 185,000,000 Total principal- $1,702,607,700 Total interest 25,519,618 DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONEY. Navy pension fund, at three per cent $14,000,000 Interest 70,000 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $19,357,600 Interest 669,019 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal tender notes $358,040,096 Certificates of deposit 50,430,000 Fractional currency 19.172,114 Coin certificates 38,525,400 ToUl principal $466,167,610 Total unclaimed interest 7,057 TOTAL DEBT. Principal .... $2,202,132,971 Interest 26,265,694 Total $2,228,398,665 CASH IN THE TREASURY. I /V?tw *1 no tvu QQC VA/IU * > *UVj WW Currency 11,828,507 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 8,265,412 Special deposit held for the redemption of certificates of deposit as provided by law 50,430,000 Total $177,428,855 Less estimated due military establishments, for which no appropriations have been made.. 4,500,000 Total $172,928,855 DEBT LESS CASH IN THE TREASURY. August 1, 1877 $2,059,339,318 Septembor 1, 1877 2,055,469,779 Decreapo of debt during the month 3,869,538 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1877 4,688,443 Teach the Danghtcrs. Teach them self-reliance. Teach them to make good bread. Teach them to make good shirts. Teacli them not to paint or powder. Teach tliem to do marketing for the family. Teach them how to make their own dresses. Teach them how to wash and iron clothes. Teach them how to wear thick, warm shoes. Teach them how to cook a good meal of victuals. Teach them that a dollar is only a hundred cents. Give them a good substantial, common-school education. Teach them every day, dry, hard, practical common sense. Teach them to regard the morals of beaux. Teach them all the mysteries of the kitchen, the dining-room and the parlor. Teach them to have nothing to do with dissolute and intemperate young men. Teach them that the more they live within their incomes, the more they will save. Proierbs Concerning Noses. Wa linro nn fAwpr f.ban fnnrfp.An lish proverbs relating to this important feature of the human face divine. They are as follows : 1. Follow your nose. 2. He cannot see beyond his nose. 3. An inch is a good deal on a man's nose. 4. He would bite his own nose off to spite his face. 5. He has a nose of | noses. 6. As plain as the nose on your face. 7. To hold one's nose to the grindstone. 8. To lead one by the nose. 9. To put one's nose out of joint. 10. To ; pay through the nose. 11. To have a I good nose for a poor man's sow. 12. To i thrust one's nose into other people's busii ness. 13. A nose that can smell a rat. I 14. Every man's nose will not make a i shoeing horn. A Little lValk to Church. A good story is told by the Troy (N. Y.) Pre** at the expense of Hon. Neil Gilmour, superintendent of the State department of public instruction, who lias been visiting his parents in Scotland. On the first Snnday at home, his mother, who is nearly eighty years I of age, invited him to attend church [ with her. He accepted and proposed to get a carriage, which offer his mother declined, informing him that she always walked to church. The dutiful son could do no less than follow the example of his good mother, and ro they started for the church. After walking what seemed a reasonable distance and seeing no church, the uneasy official asked how far the church mi?ht be, and was somewhat astonished to learn that it was only four miles awar. . Gen. F. A. Walker's article in The International ItevieWy just published, upon the display of goods and wares at the Philadelphia World's Fair, last year, points out the gratifying fact, that in several prominent mechanical specialties the long established supremacy of this country is easily shown to be unimpaired. In reapers, locks, sofas and sewing machines America leads the worl 1, while in scales for commercial use, Gen. Walker says that " time and recent invention have not impaired the superiority of American goods. The great house which was founded at St. Johnsburv forty years ago, not only ! maintains the positive merit of its productions, but ships its goods to every quarter of the j globe." , The Cheapest and Best Advertising ; to reach readers outside of the large cities. Over l,0t)0 newspapers,divided into six different ! lists. Advertisements received for one or more lists. For catalogues containing names of 1 paj>ers, and for other information and fqr esti; mates, address Reals & Foster. 41 Park Row (Tihns Building), New York. Are You Costive? if so, be careful of disease. Avoid it by taking ' Quirk's Irish Tea. Price 25 cts. A l?f*ion Taught by Experience. Amoug the many valuable lessons taught by experience, there is not one of greater moment to the invalid portion of the community than the following, viz: That alterative treatment ! is only permanently successful when aided by i invigofatnn. When ibe functions o/ the body I are disordered, tho use of a genial tonic with which corrective properties are combined is | the speediest means of regulating them. Such I a tonic is Hoatetter's Stomach Hitters, the ! most ]>opular, as it is the best article of its j class. For more than twenty-five years it has been used with signal success as a remedy for, J and preventive of malarial fevers, as a means 1 of imparting strength to the debilitated, and as , a curative of dyspepsia, biliousness, consti- i pation, kidney troubles and uterine weakness, j ' Not only have multitudes of those whom it has cured borne testimony in its behalf, but it has ' been repeatedly commended by the medical ! j profession ana tne press. , For Severe Coughs nnd Lang Complaints. Canton, Pa., Nov. 28,1873. I Messrs. Seth W. Fowle A Sons, Boston: Gentlemen?About ten years ago. after having had a sovere attack of the measeis, I was I troubled with a severe cough, and was threat ened with consumption. My father having died at the age of thirty-one with consumption of the lungs, and my aunt having been carried off with the same complaint, it seems to be hereditary in our family. At the time alluded to, I was induced to buy a bottle of Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, and can say conscientiously. I believed it saved my life. I was blacksmithing at the time, and often felt pains in my chest and lung, which the Balsam re; lieved. I cheerfully give this statement, and hope you may have success with so beneficial a preparation. " Yours truly, A. J. Merritt. I 50 cents and $ 1 a bottle 8old by druggists. Physicians of high standing unhesitatingly give their indorsement to the use of the Grsef! enberg-Marshall's "Cathoiicon for all female complaints. The weak and debilitated find wonderful relief from a constant use of this valuable remedy. Sold by all druggists. $1.50 per bottle. 8end for almanacs, Graefenberg Co., New York. Thousands are entitled to increase of peneion. They having l>een pensioned at rates below what their disabilities warranted, others as their disabilities have increased since first pensioned. All such can have their pensions increased, and those who are not pensioned, but entitled to pension, can secure the same by addressing, with stamp, McNeill A Birch, Washington, D. C. No fee till claim is allowed. CHEW The Celebrated "Matchless" Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York, Boston, and Chicago. Elrjraiit Cookery. It is easy enough to have your breakfast and tea rolls or biscuits, waffles, crullers, muffins, etc., nice, light and nutritious by using Dooley'a Yeast Powder. Try it. A Satisfactory Teat. One of Osgood's Four Ton Combination Scales was set | in n public street in Bingham ton eighteen months ago, and tnc heavy travel of the street has been over it daily. Competent men examined it recently and certified that one pound on the plaftorm turned the beam. The selfadjusting irons attached to wood levers prove saperior to iron levers in every case. See prices advertised. The Markets. NEW YOBJC. Beef Cattle N'tive 09 ? C8* x'exas and Cherokee.. 07*? 09if Milch Cows 40 00 ?70 00 He*8 : Live 06* ? (6* Dressed 08* ? 07* Sheep 04* ? <5* Lambs 05*? 08* Cotton: Middling 11*? 12 Flour: Western: Good to Choice. 5 60 ?6 00 Etato: Good to Choice.... 7 00 ?8 00 Wheat: Red Western 1 30 ? 1 39 Ho. 9 Milwaukee 1 31 ? 1 81 Bye: State 87 ? 81 Barley: State 48 ? 48 Barley Malt 1 08 ? 1 06 Oata: Mixed Western 81 ? 42 Corn: Mixed Western..... 68 ? 66 Hay, per cwt 60 ? 70 Straw, per cwt 10 ? 66 Hops 76'e?08 ?15 75'i 12 ? 16 Pork: Mens 130> ?1810 Lard: City Steam 11 *? 11* Fish : Mackerel, Ho. 1, new 2100 ?26 00 " Ho. 2, new .13 CO ?14 00 Dry Cod, per cwt 4 76 ? 4 75 Herring, Scaled, per box.... '<2 ? 25 Petroleum: Crude .07*?f9* Refined...14* Woo1: California Fleece 25 ? 36 Texas Fleece 29 ? 31 Australian Fleece 48 ? 66 Butter: State V8 ? 27 Western: Choice 14 ? 20 Western : Good to Prime. 23 ? 24 Western: Firkins........ 10 ? 14 Cheese: State Factory (9 ? 11 State Skimmed....... 06 ? 08 ; Western 07*? 10* ! Eggs: State and Pennsylvania.... 18 ? 18* uuirralo. Flour 9 76 ?10 25 Wheat?Ho. 1 Milwaukee............ 1 60 ?170 Corn?Mixed 47 ? 44 Oata 40 ? 40 Rye 68 ? 98 Barley 82 ? 83 Barley Malt 1 00 ? 110 PHILADELPHIA. Beef Cattle?Extra 06*? 06 Sheep 05 ? 07* Hogs?Dressed 03*? 09* Flour?Pennsylvania Extra 6 70 ?6 76 Whe3t?Red Western 1 34 ? 1 34 Bye 6 ? 6i Corn?Yellow 6 *? 61 Mixed 69 ? 60* Oats?Mixed 31 ? 82 Petroleum?Crude 0 *?09* Refined, 14* Wool?Colorado 26 ? 80 Texas 24 ? 32 California 27 ? 30 B08T0K. Beef Cattle.. 06X0 w* i Sheep G5X0 MX i Hogs..... 06 0 09 | Flour?Wisconsin and Miuueeota.... 8 00 0 9 CO Corn?Mixed 63X0 66 Oats? " 53 0 69 Wool?Ohio and Pennsylvania XX... 43 0 50 California Fall 19 0 30 BRIGHTON, MA68. Beef Cattle 06*0 07* ' Sheep 06 0 06* Lamb* 07 0 10 j Hog 07X0 09 WATIBTOWS, lease. Beef Cattle?Poor to Choice 6 75 010 00 Sheep 5 75 0 8 00 Lam be.... 7 CO 0 9 60 REVOLVER Free ' Add'* J. Bown A Son. 136 A 138 Wood 8t, PittaburgTPa VlltCl INIA Improved FARMS FOR HAIjE. At low prices. Send for Catalogue, Mape, etc. Inclose stamp. M. BATES, Xante tbi* paper. 1103 Main St., Richmond, Va TEXAS! Send One Dollar and receive by return mail a beautifully colored and correct MAP OF TEXAS* with Pamphlets, Circulars, and Valuable Information of the Lone Star State. Address, N. R. WARWICK, Agent, 138 Vine Street. Cincinnati, Ohio. HEADACHE. DR. C.W. BENSON'S CELERY and CHAMOMILE PILLS nrc prepared rxprewW to cure SICK HEADACHE. NERYOITS HEAD. ACHE, DYSPEPTIC HEADACHE, NECRAL41IA, NERVOUSNESS, SLEEPLESS. NESS, and will enrc any case. Office, 106 w nr.. Rnltimnre. Did. Price 50c? postage free. fcold bv all (frn?i?u and eonntrv ntorc*. REKERENCE?11 oward Bank, : .Baltimore, Did. The Beet Tru** without l*l~ Metal Springs ever invented. 6*-^rirL'No humbug claim of a cer- [ N&fhflUP' . <*^a? tain radical cure, but & guar* vfc \ antee of a comfortable, secure and satisfactory appli* \ ance. We will take back and j pay full price for all that do not suit. Price, single, like cut, 84; for both sides, 80. Sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. N. B.?This Truss will cube more Ruptures than any of those for which extravagant claims are made. Circulars free. POMEROY TRUSS CO., 740 Broadway, Sew York. "1 A Special OS* I TO THE READERS OF THIS PAPER. I a Oenulne 8wlss Magnetic Time* Keeper, a perfect Utm for everybody desiring a reliable J'mie-Fiece, and also a superior Compass, usual watch size, st?l works, glass crystal, all in a superb Oroitle Hvntrng-Ca?e, warrant^ to denote correct time, and keep in order for two years? I'erftction guaranteed?will be Clven away to every patron of tliis paper u a Free 01 ft* Cut out tbi! COCPOJT A1TD Mitt IT, COUPON. On receipt of this Coupon and DO cents to psy for packing, boxing and mailing charges, we promise to send each patron of tlsia papers Genuine Swiss Magnptic Tihk-Keepeb. Address, Magnetic Watch Co.f A8HLANP. MASS. This is your ONLY OPPORTUNITY to obtaln this beautiful premium, so order AT onceThis offer will hold good for SO days. If currency cannot be sent conveniently, poetage stamps will be taken instead. An.ftrtJ TT7?n can be made in one day with 1X00(1 Well our 4-foot Well Auoxb. Rend for our auger book. If. S. AroKR Co.. St. Louia, Mo. Waircd?Improved Farm* in exchange for desirable , City Property; also, uanted City or Villi** Property in j exchinge for gooj Fonna of 95 Acre# in Michigan. Add'8 C. H. Upton, eg Ka?t M.-vin St.. Rochester, W.Y. 1 "PT?"\TGTriMG Procured or No Pay, for every JL LjXvXXl jo wounded.ruptnred,accidentally injured or disea.?ed Soldier. Address, Col. N. W, FITZGERALD, U. S. Claim Att'y. Washington. D. 0 1 If ft LllXn Men to trarel and take order* o MllliyiCiU Merchants. Salary 81 SCO a year V fill and all traveling expenaee paid Address Gem ManTg Co., St. Louie. Mo. i Mf AJlTTfl K- INGRAIIAM A CO.'S III I III I# m* are superior in design and not I I al II a M .ft equalled in quality, or as timeU11IIU11.I1 keepers. Ask your Jeweler for wr them. Manufactory?Bristol. Ct. | A KE? TO BOOKKEEPING! The Best Text Book and Self Instructor in the World. Sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of Fifty Cent*, by the author, GEO. B. WELSH, Savannah, Georgia. <?in tn CDC $1U 10 $ud worth |5t sent, poet-paid, for 85 Cents. Illustrated Catalogue free* J. H. BUPFORD'M HON8, Boston. [Established 1%30.] Ho! Farmers, for Iowa! Send a Pour a I Card for description and maps of 1,200,000 Acre* of R R Lands for sale on long terms. Soil first-class. Tickets FREE to land-buyers from Chicago and return Address J. R. CALIIOCN, Land Commissioner Iowa R. R. Land Co., 92 Randolph Street. Chicaoo. or Cedar Rapid*. Iowa. nfpm For SIX BEAUTIFUL PICTURES, 1*111 ITJ (different subjects,) 14x17 inches; I I M 11M Or for FIVE PICTURES* 17x22; I I H iII Or for FOUR PICTURES* 19x24. SRI1 Yjm Fac-simile copies of FIXE STEEL I I m^VEX'ti RAVINGS* made by the celeg fl brated GRAPHIC process, printed on I iftl Heary Plate Paper for framing, ft B Send ten cents for Illustrated-Cst? B alogne containing orer 100 pictures. Address, The Daily Graphic, $1.00 $1.00 Osgood's Heliotype Engravings. The choicest household ornaments. Tries One Dollar each. Send for catalogue, JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. . w BOSTON, MASS. . ^ $1.00 $1.00 AGENTS WANTED FOR THE mILLUSTRATED HISTORY? The great riotS It oontains a full account of the rt'gn ot terror in Pittsburgh, Baltimore. Chicago and other Cities. The conflicts between the treopa and the mob. Terrible oon. flagrations and destruction of property. Thrilling scenes and incident., etc., etc. Sena for a full description of the work and our extra terms to Agent*. addro*. Nationai. PcniJtHrxo Co., Philadelphia, Pa. "The Best Polish in the World." NATURE'S ^EMEDY.'V tcgsmtx A SOURCE OF GREAT ANXIETY. Boston, Mam.. June 5.1871 My daughter has received (treat benefit from the use Of VEGETINK. Her declining health waa a aooroe of great anxiety to all of her friends, A few bottles of ths VEGETIHE restored her health, strength.and appetite. N. II. TlLDEN. Insurance and Real Estate Agent, He. 4fl 8ears Building. DR. WARNER'S HEALTH CORSET. With Skirt Kupporter and Self-AdJ??tln* Pads. *j Secures Health and Comtort of at Jf Body, with Graci and Bbautt of ?E\ 7^ Form. Three G&rmente In one, V n\ Approved by all pbjalciana. fi&SS&g-L AGENTS WANTED# iS^xiVnultSck 82111 P]es b7 mall, in Coolly $S: FlWLWTrl Satxeen, $1 75. To Agenta u I /Mi a V I 28 cents 1 esa. Order stse two I J inches smaller than walat mea1 WteiltUiF Mi eure 0Ter tbe dre S TVgureer Bms351 Broadway-FT. Mark this! Upas the Condition of the stomach and it* nnr allies, the liver and the bowels, depend physical health and clearness of intellect. If these organ* are inactive or in a state of irritation, the toning, regelating, soothing influence of Tarraxt'* Seltzu arrrtknt is urgently reqoired. Sold by all druggists. Washburn & Moen ManTg Co. WORCESTER, MASS. k Silt Xanafictotrs East of Chiaga, of i f Biffl m m lea!' X 1 A STEEL Thorn Hedge. No other Fencing so cheep or put up so quickly. Never rusts, steins, decays, shrinks, nor warps Unaffected by Are, wind, or flood. A complete barrier to the most unruly stock. Impassable by man or beset TWO THOUSAND TONS SOLD AND PUT UP DURING THE LAST YEAR For sale st .the , leading hardware stores with Stretchers, and Staples Send for illustrated Pamphlet U1 ^ NITED STATES T.I la'leE ~ INSURANCE COMPANY*; IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, our 261, 262, 263 Broadwa ?0B6ANIZKB 1810 XJCTC Q07 1 7fi *9 nJOL I Of V*T)U?. 1)11 WIV/f. r SURPLUS, $820,C ( EVERT APPROVED FORM OF POL' 1 ISSUED ON MOST FAVORABLE TZB ALL ENDOWMENT POLICIES ^ AND APPROVED CLAIS , MATURING IN 1877 WILL BE mm AT 1 1WHWW ON PRESENTATION. TAMES hmht.t. _ . PPTismT. POND'S i, EXTRlt 1 CATARRH.?Pond'p Extract is nearly*?" rifle for this disease. It can barer"1celled, even in old and obstinap?*The relief is so prompt tha' no/'"0 has ever tried it will be withou' f _ . _ CHAPPED HANDS AND FACE.-#^8 A v Extract should be in every fW*^ g|n rough weather, ft removes the116/8 and ro-ighuese, and teoftens af?Ho ales the skin promptly. . RHEUMATISM. -During severe and c?/^!e ??rt' weather, no one subject to f18 0 *i] 0 Pains should be one day witholnd Extract, which n'wnvH relit days SORL LUXDS, CONSUMPTION*. COLDS,?This cold wcathej the Lungs sorely. Have Pondjfract 011 hand always. It relieves t|h and aaoo cures the disease. l C'HILBlfUXS will be promptly rfl and ultimately cured hy bathing iflicted laof* wUn Poud's Extract./ Ul F1HHTKD LIMBfcj.?Pond's Exfiwarla- . tol.v relieve?* the pam end liaurcs, SOKE THROAT. QIINSY, pi MED tare TONSILS AND AIR HADES are promptly cured by the ttPond's 1,801 Extract. It never fails. / HISTORi nntl Uses of Pond's f*ct, in rwimnhlet form, sent frce tyilatinn to \rr POND'S EXTRACT CO., 98 Md Lane, W New York. Sold by DrJ. Biei Af Q a day at booia. AmU wanted. Outfit an* (PXS Unaa fraa. TRUE IpQ., AnrniU. Mafna $5 to $20 g^n^ci^uffgJR ?CC awsok In your own towr. Ternu and 95 ootiH ??? tree. H. HALLKTT A O)., PoctUnd. Maine. AWTpri-Tr*Te,in? 8al?em?o. ? moct& All I CU ^nd ?,j expooMftMil. No Prddltnf . Addreaa J&*'+n City lamp Wort*, Cinrinmati, 0. mm %0JUJYt*. J. B. Gaylord ft Cv, Chicago, ill. ?W 1/ MAGNCTKTEIMJSFIIBJJC. Metal A j AAraoi^TU. AcmiTi WATTTfCAIHIeD, 250 of the M?t oovelttw. ^^Fw"b?n<ffi>rCatalog. Va: * Co.Chlcagg fiMA i M?th. Agante irutd. 36 boat aoOAjlAII Eg articlea in tba world One unpl* tree fWU Aadraaa JAY BKOXlffN, Detroit. Miab. s9rfln^ fejcmftttf UUU dreaa. /. WoA409., St.lo*U,Mog% pAM Made by I7AgenU la Jan. 77 wit* V fall < t myl3iiew?*t(cl?s. Bampleafree. VWyUI iddiwaa I- M. LinlnfUm, Qfegga. flMllli habit CTRED AT HOitUS. OrlUIR sj^&tos&asr'S: ifriha cay*. DR. F. K. WR8H. Qaincy, Micb. UHUyttxjt,TteeJrrof G otter, Flute,Cornet faH^^^^Alt'DrTUKi PatOuiter.the beetle uae. r^^^^^^^^TDaalar ia Juncal Inatrnmenu, Muk, 8tringa Catalognea?aa. la) Tremoot BcBowoa. rnstoi vemr traiscbipt The bMt funity lewtpaper'ubliahed; sight pifM; fifty six oolamns resting Ternm?92 p?r ibbbb club# of eleven, Sift P* 1 nana, is ad tubs. HPEt4.lI EN fOPY GRATIS. Notice to Taxpayers. Every taxable inbabitat of the State of Mew York should read the recent a* of the Legislature in relation to text-books for the Cannon Schools. Copies will be supplied, sfrati*, on applfation, by D. APPLETOMi CO., Publishers, 649 & 55iBr?mdvray, New Yerk. To Druggists and (hen Wanting Pare Goods. The Forein WW., wise (marked as reqoaed) one dozen or more aaeorted bottles, safely boxed, r bottle, fire to a gallon: Mounts in Sherry.T^Twta. I Old Port. 80ct*. Holland Gin V " 8*- Oroix Rnm JH " Jamaica Rom 9- " I Cognac Brandy.,..$1.35 Scotch or IrisFPbisky 95 eta. The order with cashaegistered Letter, or P. O. Order may call tor any numk of each at the above importers' prices. Address JRRIGN WINK OOa P. O. Box 14ft7? New York. KEEP'H HHIKJ8?only ods qnalitar-The Best Keep's Patentwtly-made Drees Shuts Can be flowbed aa en as hemming a Handkerchief. The very beat atx fo?7.00. Keep's Custom Shirf maae to measure, Oollmr ^ 81eeveBnttons giveFith each half do*. Keep's Shirts. Keep's Shirts are deered FREE on receipt of prioe In any pert of the Uhn?no express charges to pay. ! 8am pi. with fnll dfchous for self-measurement Sent Free to any arfeea. _ Mo stamp required. Deal directly withse Manufacturer and get Bottom Prices. Keep Msntctoring Qo., 16ft Meroer 8t.lt. Y HIYEHYEW ACADEMT, ' POUCKEEPSIE, N. Y.( 0TI8 BISBKBf. X., Principal and Proprietor, Numbers, its klafi by hundreds in, all the honorable walks 01 Ills. n1* mugs irom iweive to twenty years in age. Next se<>n opens Sept. 13th. Those wishbig to enter ?hoy mass on early application. ianoteasilyearned fathesetimes III f f f bat it eon be made in three month* W f Ml by any one of either sex, in any m ml P*rt of the ooantry who is willing M I to work steadily otthe employment lv | | I that we famish. 800 per week in year own town. Yon need not be away from hf* 0T*r night. Yon eon give your whole time to the wftor only your spare moments. We have agents who i meting orer 020 per day at the business. All w^ngage at onoe can make money foot. At the preeonl "* money cannot be made so easily and racial* at otfther business. It ooota nothing to try the hnsinnes ***? and 85 Outfit free. Address at onee hajjtt a- co? Portland* Maine. B?OK AGSNTBI THE COMING BOOK! Who* n?t heard of the " BURLINGTON " " Htvkeye Humorist 1" His Nr^??* ie-ready, and is overwhelmingly rich and racy. P perfectly urea is table. Agents can secure territorf prompt application. Address, AMB^AN PUBLISHING CO.. Hartford, Conn., or F. 0. BLISS A CO., Newark, N. J. "CEAPEST AND BEST! Ckago Weekly Pest! (32 Column*.) One 7?r, Posiugc pa d *75 rte. Ten pies, '* 05 " T.?heterms to Agents. Address, THE POST, Chicago. H& and Goal Scales ! ** (oed Cmnbiwolion **?Patented January 20, 1874 j September 1?, 1878. We will dehrtr and t*t in ctmxpor&rr, the regnlhr sixes of these Scales, at tbe follog prices: Four ton, 850: Fire t n. 855; Six ton, O: Ten ton, 810O: Twenty ton, 8250; Forty ton.r >0* Etcry Seal*fully warranted. Tortiee who prater to set the Scales, suitable direction*^, and a libera! discount mode. Satisfactory rpfecea siren of the superior strength, durability and arr't if <*'* Seales. OSGOOD 6c CO- Blnghwmfen, N. Y._ fiBBITTS TOILET SOAP. ^VCmiUd fcr Om Tetiet aad Ike Calk. Mo artMefcU mi doeoptlre tdoti to oorer raninw ud Oltowto? tafrHtOU. A flrr y-r*n of ekstifceptotatoDt M. T. MatMft JM J.Tke FIXEST TOILET UOAP la Ihe WerU. 4X4 mwrt* 94f??.W# mU ?ftd in its mamnfactum. pie box, con taialnf 3 raket of t 0a. Mch, Mat fine to oay *dI to receipt of It cent*. Addnse HE 600D OLD _STMD-BY. eucai mmliumeit. FOR MAN AND BEAST. ESTABLISHED 36 TxutS. Always cures. Alwsyv 67. Always handy. Has never yet failed. Thirty lionj haw tesud it. The whole world approreo the riooa old Mostanc?the Beet and Obeapeet Limmeot >ii?tanoe. 26 oecta a bottle. The Mnetaac liaimeot as when nothing else will. SOLD BY ALL MKPIOIXF VKWPKXS GRACE'S Iajve! A VEGETABLE PREPARATION* sntcd in the 17th century by Dr. William Grace, geon in King James' army. Through its agency he ?d thousands of the moet serious sores and wounds ; baffled the skill of the moet eminent physicians of day and was regarded by all who knew him as a lie benefactor. 2o oenta a bo*. For Sale by Drag generally. Sent by mail on receipt of pnoe. paEd bj SETHW. KOVV I.E ? SONS, Harrises Awenne* Boston, Mnso. SANDALWOOD ositire remedy for all diseases of the Kidneys, dder and Urinary Organs; also good in DropLi Complaints, It never produoes sieknees, is tin and speedy in its action. It is fast superseding ther remedies. 8ixty capsules cure in six or eigh . No other medicine can do this, aware ef Imitations* for, owing to its grest ess, many hare been offerM; some are meet dangeroausing piles, etc. [JNDAH DICK dIt CO.'S Genuine Soft Cmp, containing Oil of Sandalwood, told at all drug t. Atk for circular, or tend for ont to 86 and 87 iter Street, Norn Tori, 1YNU No?7 HEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS i please mv that you saw the advertise- d it In this paper. 4