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A Dreadful Dlaaitrr. An occident occurred Mouduy muralug on tho Dod ham Branch ?>f the Bosu>. ano Providence railroad, between Forest bJU and Roslindalc, at what is known as Bussej Park Bridge. The . o'clock train from Dcdham, consisting of seven cars und hag gage car. under charge of Conductor Til den, broke through the bridge The en glue and three cars weut over safely, but live others fell through the bridge to the road beneath, a distance of 80 feet. The last ear. which was the smoker, turned completely over and struck on top of thc others, all being crushed almost out of shape. The cause of ibo accident is said lo have been the breaking of the bridge. lt is stated that the bridge ls a compatatively new one, and thal the accident was caused hy a truck of one of the ears giving away, causing thc car to strike against the abut ment of the bridge. Thc smoking car after it fell caught lire, but thc lire department was promptly on hand and prevented any spread of the llames. The bodies ot* the dead have all been removed, and of the wounded some are al hospitals and some have boen taken home. The latest estimate of thc casualties is ;;? killed and about 50 wounded. That the horrors of lire were not added lo thc terrible disaster was due to thc promptness with which relief was sent. A chemical engine from Koslindale was at the scone within SO minutes after the wreck occurred, brought by a letter-car rier, who gave an alarm of Uro upon ob serving Haines issuing from thc d?lais. Thc thunes were soon extinguished anti the lire men then did excellent work in rescuing thc injured. The stoves hi all the cars were securely fastened to the Moors by iron bolts and Ibo doora of Ibo stoves were locked. In only one car did the stove up set, although in one instance a stove was smashed ch ar through the roof of the car iu which it had bien. A case of extraordinary pluck on thc part of a woman occurred at JclVerson Medical College, Philadelphia, recently. The lady applied to have a tumor removed from her arm. Tile physicians decided to have tho operation performed in the pres ence of the st nih nts. and when the hour for the clinic arrived arrived the Indy was invited into tho amphith??tre. The doctors told her thal they would have to adminis ter ether, as the operation would prove very painful. She refused to allow this to be done, and then the physicians tried to induce her to lake a glass of brandy, which she likewise re I used. They next offered her a glass of wine, bul the lady simply waved it away, saying that she would be able to undergo the operation. The doctors consulted for a moment and decided tc take thc woman at her word and go ahead. They bared her arm to the shoulder, laid her on her side and then buried the knife in thc Mesh, cut a big gash over six inches in length, pulled Ma- bleed ing pieces apart, removed the tumor, scraped thc linne and then sewed the paris together. During all this time thc patient never moved. Not a cry escaped her. and as she gritted lier teeth her face became as white as a sheet. Thc physicians ami stu dents looked on with amazement at the plucky woman and marveled how she could endure the terrible pain without a Whimper. After thc op?rai ?on was over. Dr. Urinion, turning to thc (loo students, said: "There is not a man among you who could have stund this operation as heroic ally as this lady has. " Oaring and .llvilcrlouu Murder, A darin.:, and mysterious mulder was committed in ( lliarlcstotl Thin s lay. William Henry Baxter, a colored boy sixteen years old, employed al Wena r's ?ron works, on i ho lbeck alley, was called to thc Moor by some boys. When Baxter reached the door, one of the boys stabbed him in thc left breast. Frank Whitman, a black smith, was at work in the rear of the build ing, and say s he saw two or three boys come to the door and heard them call Max tor in a few moment bc saw Baxter return and cling fora little while to his bench, then fall to the Moor, Baxter Vomited, shook as if in convulsions and died in a few minutes. No one was found who saw thc blow struck. Thc wound was made with a w ide blade, probably a dagger. It entered the breast jus' above thc left nipple and evidently pierced the heart. Mr. T. W. Sires, manager of thc ?ron works, found llaxter dying. The hoy- was then taken home. Nobber thc lather nor mother of the boy knew of any quarrel thal might have led to the murder. The police aro now working on tia- matter. Whitman, the blacksmith, thinks ia,- ((mid identify one of the mullereis. Thc scene of thc murder was between Meeting and King streets-a public, open spot-Hie crime was Committed in noonday. While delving for informatica on the subject Of the eil y's health, I ascertained what I believe is not generally known in Now Orlean8-that leprosy exists here to a considerable extent, il has been known in a vague sort of way that there were some cases of the dreaded disease in the lower parishes, but not that it prevailed to any extent in Xew Orleans. There are now under treatment in the Charily Hos pital no less than ls cases. I am informed that the victims nf thc disease do not know with what they are alluded, and are going about their usual vocations. OIK of these, a woman, is a cook. I am told the nature of their disease is concealed so as to spare them from isola tion. Perhaps the distinguished medical gentlemen at the hospital know liest what is proper in the premises, imt thc unpreju diced observer would say, far better these unfortunates be shunned and forced into isolation than that they spread the malady by contact and by bearing children, which they are now lu danger of doing inno cently.-Cor, Chicago Tums. 11.- "Holiness Bvangellata," A special to the News inn/ Courier, dated Haleigh, N. C., .March 14, says: "Yester day a party of people known as 'Holiness Evangelists' arrived here. Some were while and some colored, In the afternoon one of them-a woman--preached on the street. Last, night they went to thc col ored churches, where Ino most, oxtrnordi tobi the negroes that all jewelry must be given up. They took earrings from the ears of negro women, and they took also other jewelry. They kept this and have not returned it. To day the negroes are greatly excited about this matter, and have made complaint to the .Mayor. One of the Evangelists ls reported as having pulled down pictures in the colored church, say ing they must bc bumed. Mayor Dodd issued orders this afternoon that hereafter neither these Evangelists nor the Salvation Army shall bc allowed lo conduct services on the streets. These Evangelists arc sahl to lie the same w ho were ordered out of Columbia, S. C., by a vigilance committee." Are tho words used by a lady, who was at one time given up by the most eminent physicians, and left to die. Reduced to n moro skeleton, pale and haggard, not able to leave her bcd, from all those distressing diseases peculiar to Buffering females, such as displacement, leucorrho a, Inflammation, etc., etc. She began taking Dr. Pierce's "Favorite! Prescription, and also using the local treatments recommended by him. and now,.sho says, "as good as new." Prlco reduced to one dollar. By druggists. 'i'*i bi- tear in his a<-< minta la, hi a eaah Jer, a i i hue; In a reporter lt ls a Winnini ? M mnl i nie. I'lUCH. Leproay lu ,\i-\? Orleann. .'Ai Wood n? New," UICNKRAL, IX KW 8 NOT KW. Hmm ol Interest UatUered from Various Quarters. Beecher's lifo is being written iu baste by nt least a dozen umbitious scribes. A lire ut Lumlierton, N. C., on Monday, destroyed 17 buddings. Loss $100,000. The Prince and Princess Colonua are to visit Papa Mackay in .May or June. The French Chamber of Deputies, hy a v,>tc of His to 848, has passed the bill sur taxing cereals. Moonlighters have wrecked thc houses of ten tenants on Gen. Stewart's estate In West Clare, lrelaud. Dr. T. G. Ford, of Louisiana, having been pardoned by the Governor, has been released from the parish prison. Mrs. L. C. Duet and her child were killed hy a locomotive while walking on the track at Gainesville, Fla. Mr. Parnell reports his health much lui proved and his appearance ls said to cou Jinn his report. Lieutenant, now General, Cicely, ol tho Signal Service, is lecturing lu Washington on Arctic subjects. Mr. Blaine ls lo go to Europe iu May. if he docs not chango his mind before that lime. Miss Cleveland dined with Mrs. Beecher at the latter's home in Brooklyn ou Sunday afternoon. Cardinal Manning has heartily endorsed thc policy advocated by Cardinal Gibbons towards the Knights of Labor. Thc official arrangements for thc World's Exhibition iu Paris in ISSU, arc now com pict e. The total of persons killed in thc nul road wreck is now put at 2-1, and th? w ounded at about 1?0. Wm. H. Travers continues to grov weaker and now sccs nobody but his inti male friends, Gcnoral Sheridan ts lo build a summe home near New Bedford, on thc Mussaclui setts coast. Senator and Mrs Edmunds will not lenv Washington for Vermont until thc midd! of May. Senators Sherman and [ngalla, with th oilier members of their Washington part\ have arrived at Havana. Thc Now York, coopers have renounce all allegiance to the Knights of Labor, au have gone buck to work at reduced wage: The melting of snow and icc is cnusin overllows of the Missouri river and i tributaries. Kx-Aldertnat) O'Neill is said to pass li leisure lime in Sing-Sing in tho carne: Study of St. Augustine's confessions. The health of ex President .lames I Fish continues to grow worse, and it thought that he will bc pardoned to avol his death in jutson. The British aristocracy is being dil ci ally "worked" in tho etl'ort lo insure largo attendance at Mrs. .lames Brown Pc tor's debut, which occurs on ibo 20th inst Liz/.ie McGowan, aged 15 years, of Ct copec, Miss., while tempi rar Uv insan took sufllcicnt Paris: green to kill 25 pcrsoi and died in l? minutes. An engine and teador went through tl railroad trestle near Marietta Ohio, kilih thc engineer and the Aroman and serious scalding the conductor and a brakeman. The report that there was a coolness I tween the President and Secretary Km colt is denied by thc pres* and denouue hy Mr. Clovclaud. Finnie Kusch, a Mew Orleans with who follow ed tho occupation of rag pichi was found dead in bcd with $'1,400 CO coaled about her shabbily-furnished rooi The white and colored women In Kans are being organized to vote at tho comii spring election which promises to bc an t citing one. Beyond a lew scrimmages In Loud? derry and elsewhere, St. Patrick's day w observed iu nu orderly manner ihroughc Ireland. Thc New York Engineering .Xi ir* sa tho disaster on Forest Hill Bridge, m Posion, was duo to its defective const rt lion Thc Treasury Department has rccciv au opinion from thc tlrsl Controller, to t effect that Congress failed to approprii moue}' for the agricultural .stations. Tho Illinois Legislature has voted do\ a resolution to .submit a prohibitory amer mont to the people at tho next general eli lion. Thc vote was Bli yeas, !)H nays. An Ottawa, Ont., dispatch says thal ; Other fast sailing schooner has been add to thc fisheries protection cruiser licet I use during the coining Bummer. The French Chamber of Deputies, bj vote of 828 against 238, approved thc I imposing a duty of live francs per 1 kilos on wheat imports. The case against the parties churned wi the shooting of Culbreath, in Kdgetie has been postponed, on the ground of ? si nce of defendants' witnesses. The Governor of Tennessee has slgl the bill submitting to the people a prohi timi amendment lo the Constitution. '1 election will be held next September. The silk mills in Union Mills, N. have been obliged to shut down, owing the strike in the mills at Paterson. O 200 nu n and women arc out of cmpl ment. At a meeting of Congregational mil ters in Chicago a Statement highly eulo,! tic of the Kev. II. W. Beecher was adop und ordered placed 011 the records. The Duchess of Otranto committed i chlo at Paris Tuesday by blowing ber bru out with a revolver. She was ovcrw rou, with grief at thc recent death of ber li band. Charles Reilly, the famous short stoj the Princeton Brow its for several seas past, has just been secured by thc Sav uah Southern League Club. When last heard from, Secretary Bay had met the lady only twice to whom is said to bc engaged, both of those th having been in public places. The British war ellice authorities li made arrangements for transportation fr Canada to London during the coming 1 -.011 of 8,000 horses for artillery trains. The Hon. Willis I'. Pocock, twice Atl icy General of Virginia and a member he Constitutional Convention of iv lie ! Monday in Appomattox county, nj M) years. Stockholders in Kichmorid and W Point Terminal want President Sully 'OSlgO, in order that they may elect, i ninan to his place. They say Mr. Si s too fond of sjM'culatlon. Some boys in Augusta tried to pla iraclicai joke on the Salvation Army ti explosion of powder in an adjoin louse. Quite a panic ensued, but DOD? vas hurt. Dominick Gray, who killed his inf hild in Its mother's anns and nearly kll he mother a few days ugo, died on Sum ililli in a hospital in New York from limn tremens. bettors from Prague refer to an cai uako on Saturday around Pe/Ibram, 1 ny that the village of Birkenlierg was 1 roy cd, tho inhabitants taking refuge 'rngue. On Tuesday Robert Furnace and Jc i nnings, two farmers, while c rossini abroad track about a milo from Nokon H.. in a wagon, were struck by a !i nd instantly killed. The strike on thc Mahoning divlslor he New York, Pennsylvania ami 0 nil way ?till continues, but trains are r lng ami freight ls liebig handled ns fofl Wei Ved. Over 700 architectural Irou workers lu Cluciuuatl and Covington have struck. They dcmaud nine hours for work aud tho same pay they now receive for ten hours' work. When Theodore Tillen was told of Mr. Beecher's death and asked whether he had anything to say, he shook his lund sadly and answered: "No; it will do no good now." There will ho lour nu n lu (he United Buttes Senate who think tiny rOSCUlblc Edwin Booth', but only oneof then?, Daniel, of Virginia, really hems any resemblance to the great tragedian. The British Cabiuet has decided on a land purchase chemo based upon revised rent nls. I nder this scheme, therefore, land lords will fare worse than (hey would un der Mr. Gladstone's bill. T. J, Brennan, who has been the private secretary to Secretary .Manning, will be made corresponding secretary ol tho West orn National Hank, New York, of which Mr. Manning is to bo president. Thc listless manner in which the Mar-1 (juts of Lorne has bceu discharging many of his recent public duties is explained by tho announcement thai, ho is engaged on a political essay of considerable magnitude. There is a rumor in London that (he Kmperor ot Germany will abdicate his throne on the 22d inst., but lu this country it is thought that he abdicated some lime since. Alfred S. While, tho fastest stenographer ill the wor'd, who was reported missing from his home In New York last week, has been found in Chicago in ii high state of in dignation against thc mau who attributed his absence to opium. Some Democrat i ollttciaus in New York are howling vc. Mayor Hewitt's appointment of Ji. P 0. Boyle?, to bo President of tho R> ' of Hen I th. Tho Objection is that Hoyles is a Knight of La bor. The Baltimore Manufacturer?' Itecordis officially authorized lo nnnouuee thal Hie new cottonseed oil mills, about which there has been much discussion, will positively be built, all reports to the contrary not withstanding. It ts8cmi-oflicia)ly slated that IT persons, mostly students, have been arrested lor connection with ibo recently discovered plot to assassinate Ibo Czar. One of thc prisoners is a woman. Thc Republican members of tho Phila] del pula delegation lu the House of Kcprci scntatlvcs has decided unanimously to re arrange the congressional apportionment for Philadelphia, so as to provide ? Demo eratic district for Mr. Randall. Thc annual meeting of tho National As sociation of General Passenger and Ticket Agents of the United Stutt s and Cunada began at thc Arlington Hotel, Washhigtou, Tuesday. Olllccrs were elected for the cn .suing year. A lady was importuning Loni Rothschild to direct her son Into ll paying business. "Madame," said he, "any business is good selling mulches even is a splendid business, if you do enough of it." Thc wife of Senator elect lliscock, ol New York, is said to be "attractive ami petite," with an idea in the back of lu i shapely head that Statesmanship begat when her husband was born. Doyle's stntuc of General Albert Sydiiej Johnston has been successfully cast by (lu Ames Company, of Chicopce, .Mass , ??in will bc unveiled with appropriate ccrcmo oles at New Orleans next month. Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, cab ' a bowl of mush and milk before going lo ; Washington dinner and one on his rollin lhere from. Ile eats little or nothing at tin dinner and drinks no wine. In this waV he says, be is enabled to retain his health Rx Assistant Postmaster General Brad) of Star Route lanie, is soon to marry Mrs Yates, a handsome widow, who has bcci for several years a clerk in the Sixth Au (liter's ofllco at Washington. Oefi. Brairj was loft a widower about two years ago, Thc committee of Washington mcrchaiil having in charge tho arrangements for ? carnival, after the style of (hat held in Nev < ?ricans, have decided to postpone the i von until next fall. They still Insist, however (nat au unprecedented carnival will bc heh ai that lime. Gen. R. s. Bragg, of Wisconsin, i- e<>n lin? d to bis bonn in Pond du Lae by blind ness. His eyesight failed bim while h> was i ail driving and paralysis has complete Iv blinded one eye. The general think ih:it his loss of sight is noi permanent. Thc; Philadelphia /,'rr->rif announces ol thc authority ol (Jarrett I hal the llalthnor and Ohio will he at the head ol the nev railroad combination, that he has not soh mit to Gould or anybody elsi , und he wil not part w ith his telegraph or express bust nets. A dispatch from Ottawa, lil., where lb Supreme Court is in session, slates that "i hearing of arguments on a motion fora nev trial fur thc sovcu condemned llaymarkc Anarchists, began Thursday morning. Th court room was crowded willi spectators Decision has not yet been rendered. Thc Government lias begun its sui against thc Hell Telephone Company in th I tilted States Circuit Court al Boston. Th suit ls to annul two patents held hy A. <! Hell, un the ground that he was not th original inventor and that the patents wer fraudulently obtained. Thc Pope has abandon) d the idea of ii| pointing Cardinal Schlnllino to tho Pa pi Secretaryship of State, made vacant by th death of Cardinal Jucobini, in COUSCquoilC of thc opposition of Germany and Austri to the appointment lt is now ex pee tc that Cardinal Yunnutclli, Papal Nuncio fl Vienna, will be appointed. Advices from RllStchllk slate that th recent executions at that place have OXOi Derated popular feeling in St. Petcrsblir far more than the press is permitted to r< veal. The clergy ute said to be especial I aroused, und ure st longly agitating th question of interference in Bulgaria. At Mill river water works, near Bridgi port, Conn., three quarrymen were (billin in a hole w hich contained an UDCXplodc dynamltocartridge. The friction explode (he charge, instantly killing (wu of th men. Peter Dully und an Italian name Antonio, und seriously wounding ;!() mon After.Mme. Nilsson's marriage in Park on Saturday, the wedding parly drove to hotel where a quiet bro'ikfasl w as served "? shall not sing any more in public, sail the newly made Countess, "oxcept Sil hesitated-"well, perhaps once in a tvhll for charity." The Count and Countess ii ?end to live in London, where they have ni perh residence. The Vigilantes or haw and Onie: ( lui if Crab Oichard, Ky., waited on Mn Eliza Fish, a Ihpior seller. They took h mt in the yard and were whipping \ f .vhen shots were fired from over th- . fg_( md three of the Ku Klux wore Itift dosi Their names are .John Long, WaVLf T/u >in and John Hasty, There hyffo clue A rooster on the plac? of Mr / 1 taith In Ked .?ak, n^;,!,; f j, mt? veil and n mamcd\J?g? f .sixteen da' shire it was dis.-^ 1UK, takcn out< T? ilrd isa rcgo^jf J)r Taim(.,. ,m(| u "" I riv'/f*1"1 health, and crov ,\\/HB If he had never experienced .? onf-Wxi fast. -^President Cleveland has signed a petitli isking the memliers of tho .Madison Hquiv Theatre Company to go to Washington ai <\fo a performance in the Interest of tl ,-.ors'fund, ile is said to bc thc semi j 'dent who atllxed his signature lo in , ,iinent, President Arthur bavil *n a similar invitation to Kdw Sooth. ,y i^'^Sftor Dorsey gavo a magnifi?e lT!" "?V his hotel tn landon, at whh H i l?lil f?>r 41 guests. Th ?f?,fi0 t(*H ,on** ,>a w"' was decorated lavishly with rare Howers | and fruits. The meuu cards were painted with a separate design, that of Mrs. Nellie Graut Satoris having a vory correctly paint ed portrait of her father. Lord Lausdowne has cabled his English agents to oCor his tenants reductions of 15 per COllt. on die judicial rents and 25 ou tho others-but with tho condition that they pay half tho costs of all his efforts to com pel them to pay tho full rents. Tho ten ants decline this condition because these costs will he more than the proposed reduc tions themselves. Sunday the police of St. Petersburg were informed that an attempt might be made on thu lifo of the Czar on that day, lt being thc anniversary of thc assassination of his father, and as a result the police arrested near the Imperial palace several persons who were discovered holding dynamite bombs tu their hands ready to throw them at the Czar as he emerged. Two hundred arrests have bccu made in all. At a meeting of Richmond and Danville security holders, in New York, it was de cided to levy another assessment on tho stock and pay off the receiver's certificates. The plan of reorganization has bccu noti fied to provide the payment of 2 per cent, interest on new bonds in 1888 aud 5 per cent, thereafter. It is also proposed to foreclose the road and organize a new com pany before July 1st. .Jefferson Davis has written a letter con tradicting the rumor that he was about to visit Washington, lie says that he will never see the Capital again. "It would bc pleasant to view thc scenes which were once BO'familiar to mc," he adds, "though 1 doubt if 1 would hardly recognize thc city now, as it basso improved and grown. Ni), I shall never again see Washington. I'm getting too old to travel." O.-car Wilde's mother, Lady Wilde, who is famous as "Speranza." the patriotic poet of the Dublin Nation, is said to be in such straits that she will have to go to the poor house or die of hunger, unless her country men c. me to her aid. Uer husband, Sir William Wilde, who died long ago, in vested much of his money in lam! in coun ties Wicklow and Clare, from which Lady Wilde has not received nuy rent for six years. Thc remains of Captain Eads have ar rived at Jacksonville. Touching the cause of his death lt is stated that ho suffered from cold contracted winter before last, but careful nursing, it was thought, would bring him through.. On March 1 lie went yac hiing with friends. On his rellim he complained of severe pains in thc breast. Medical advice was summoned and every thing possible done to arrest the disease, bul without avail, and at 12 o'clock on Tuesday morning, thc 8th inst., he expired? The family ot ('harlie Morris, colored, living near Mlllcdgovtllo, Ga., twelve in number, have recently been poisoned in some mysterious manner. One child is dead. Other members of the family are in a critical condition, lt is supposed that the poisoning took place on Friday, and that it is tho outgrowth of voodooism re cently practiced among tho negroes living on (ha! plantation and in the neighborhood. Thc affair is causing much excitement and will bo investigated thoroughly. I : l< : 11X11 ANNUAL ST AT K SI K N T oi DM- Valley Mutual Life Aasoolatlon of Vi ral n lu* an file?! with he Comptroller General ef Sont n Carolina. ASSETS OF ASSOCIATION. Ponds and Mortgages which aro unquestionably solvent $93, 77?5 87 Property, Heal Instate, Furni ture and lixturos. 14,128 18 Cash on hand.. 4,018 17 Cash in hands of agents and in process of collection,. 17,27<? G6 lotal Assets.8121?, lilt) 18 LIABILITIES, Individual credits due Mem bers.$ 1,208 08 Amt. duo female assessment account. 1,004 08 Bills payable. 15,000 00 $17,297 00 Net Assets.?111,892 17 Iii.Ipili A Dliliursemenia Hurlen Year IM85. Cash on baud December 31st, 1885 .$11,801 12 Premiums and Annuals.. 44,448 65 Interest on Redemption Fund invested. 6,224 GI Advance payments. 6,400 ll Assessments. 185,782 48 Investments paid in. 11,211 30 Pills payable. 15,000 00 Aggrcgato Receipts.$283,492 55 nisntJIWEJIKNT.M. Death losses pai l.8208,631 80 Paid Agents. 10,002 81 Advance, payments. 6,404 17 Salaries, postage,bixes, print ing and all othor expenses. 28,023 10 Dividends. 8,640 00 Invcstinonts. 15,007 26 I discount. 817 32 Cash on hand Deeembcr 31st, 1880. 4,018 47 Aggregate.$283,492 55 Amount of insurance in force July i d, 188(5.$14,128,000 Amount of I man ance m forco December 31st, 188(5.$11,152 (500 BXTltACT FROM REPORT OF HON. AJJBX. U. ll. STUART, PRESIDENT, JAN. 1, 1887. We ho-, j met every death loss as it matured, and sinco wo commenced busi ness-a little more than eight years ago wc bavo paid to policy holders tue aggregate amount of $801,529 32. In Accomplishing this great work our policy holders have for tho last eight years, boon furnished with safo insuranco, at less than one-half tho cost thoy would have had to pay in most Northern In munice Companies. This was proved/ hy actual figures, from authentic soured" in my July Report of 188(5. ^ Active and reliable agents oatf obtain i boral contracts by npplv?lft(C' to LER HAOOOD, Manager, Coh ^^j^^ c> The tVealera Uolo^ j" " UmA w X 1 he Western 1 "jon Telegraph company ?PPM? to btv |n a wor?!C Wfty Umn CV(.? t he staten (.nl fur t|1(, ,p,ftrU.r ending tho 1st inst^. snhmiued lo the directors Thurs i?y, \*4 worst ever made. From rc|>orts ( <^ntly put out it was believed that th? company would earn 1J per cent, for tho jurrent quarter, but tho statement shows only three fourths of one per cent, earned. Even this is based on the usual "estimate," ind for the corresponding quarter of IORI y ear the estimate was $390, 154 in excess of what thc int nal earnings proved to lie. bin- estimated net earnings nie tho smallest iver reported. No dividend, either In cash . r scrip, was declared, hut it was decided IO issue $1.200,000 of new stock to take up the scrip given for dividends last year. A immiUee was appointed to form a plan Tor laking up the, securities guaranteed hy the Western I nion issuing therefor a col lateral trust lamil nt live per cent. ..ll Knock* Hie 0pet*V And everything in the nature of emp ilons, blotches, pimples, ulcers, scrofulous tumors, and incipient consumption, which s nothing more nor less than scrofula of [ho lungs, completely out of tho system. lt -'imnlaicsnnd Invigorates the liver, tones ip the stomach,*f*auTatcs tho liowels, pu 1 fi es the blood, nm) builds up tho weak daces of the body. It ls a purely vegeta .lc Compound, and will do more than ls j homed fortt. We refer to Dr. Pierce'?\ . thhlen X'i teal ?imymr/f." BRIC-A-BRAC. Tho best skirt-supporter*-A woman. Makes tracks-The railroad buildor. A stirring speech-"Poss mea spoon." A regular toper is u very irregular citizen. An Unfortunate man says ho has one suit that will last him all winter- a lawsuit. There arc two very loud colors worn by schoolboys this season, rattan and yeller, and they usually go together. A smart young man picked up a flower lu thc ball room after all the girls bad gone, and sang, " 'Tis tho lost rose of some ber." If conscience is what makes cowards of us nil, there ought to be a great many very brave men these days. Young ladies who arc anxious to marry should bear in mind that a scaled proposal cnn bc sent by mail for two cents. You can't expect a man to exert much of an Influence in this world who ls too lazy to exert himself. "No more personal reflections!" exclaimed thc editor in chief, as ho threw a crooked looking-glass out of the olllce window. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man: but for one man who cnn stand prosperity there arc a hundred that will stand adver shy. "Why do you shiver?" was asked a poor Utile boy at thc city hall. "That's the only way I can keep warm, sir," was the pathetic reply. California is no longer the favored ground of the miner Thc annual value of thc fruit product is almost equal to that of thc mines. When Clara was asked w hat she would do if a nice young gentleman should ask her hand in marriage, she naively replied. "1 don't think I'd no." A German dermatologist says baldness is catching. Yes, gentlemen with bald pates complain that they catch it from all quar ters. It may be of interest lo know that a chemist bas discovered that fair qualities of rum and whisky can bc made from sorghum molasscss. A young lady recently made thc nsccnl of Mont Blanc, lt is rumored that she thought her husband was oil thc top with another woman. A young man who left his charmer's front gate in a hurried manner and lit nwnj out in the street asserts that her father was afflicted with palpitation of tho feet. "Ma'ma, what is hush?" "Why, (har, what makes you ask such a question?" " Cause when 1 asked sister what made hordrCSS stick out behind, she said 'Hush !' " The Yankee seamen used lo bc thc best in tho world. The crews shipped now a days are almost wholly made up of men of foreign nationality, chiefly Gel mans and Swedes. A Wyoming man recently blew out his brains because he had thc rheumatism. ll bc thought that his rheumatism w its caused by too much brains he must have been sad ly mistaken. "A farmer's wife" wants lo know il wc can recommend anything" to destroy the "common grub." We guess the next tramp that comes along could oblige y Oil, if the family ca 'I stand your cooking. It, will harrow up Ihe feelings of senti mental people to learn that the ballad "Combi Thro' Ibo Bye" does int refer lo a Held of grain, but lo a little stream in Scot land. There are others who use it to ri fl r to a mixture of grain and w ah r. An Inquirer asked what ho sin,old do w ith a horse that w as troubled w ith pei ?od leal dizziness, and thc editor answered hi tin se words; "Our advice would bc lo take the horse some day when he is liol dizzy and sell bim to a stranger." "What comes idter T?" asked n lon of a small boy who was learning I he alpha bet. "Von do, slr, to see Sister ?Josie. There was au audible titter among the more advanced pupils, which of course was quickly suppressed. "There is a single sentence in thc En; llsh foreign enlistment act which contains six hundred words." A longer sentence was that of a New York judge the other day. In contains twenty years. A southon! Dakota man recently prom iso I his dying wife that ho would meei ber in heaven. When tho fad became known that tho man was an editor, the joke was regarded as too good to keep. The colored folksat Washington have ri solved that tho Freedman's Bank swindle was "the most sinful swindle that over stained earth or slea ked high heaven." This lets the trade dollar oui a little. "Well, I swow! ' declared Farmer Jola . . "these literary chaps have the durcie t Ideas. Talkln' about the shudder of tin grave! Now who ever heard of a hole in the ground makin' a s badder'.' " Beeeher'i Belief, lu a recent letter to Dr. Morrison of Baltimore, Mr. Beecher said: "Thc for mutated doctrines, ns I hold thom, aro: A personal God, creator and ruler over all things; tho human family universally sin ful; the need and Possibility and facts ol conversion; the divine agi ney in such a work; Jesus Christ the manifestation of God in human conditions; His ofllce in ic demotion supreme. I do not behove in tho Calvinistic form of stating the atonement. I do not believe in thc fall of the human race in Adam, and of course, 1 do not hold that Christ's work was to satisfy ibo Vaw broken by Adam for all his posterity Tho race was not lost, but has bcOrl .ascending steadily from creation. I am LAI hearty ac cord with revivals and lOV'ival preaching w ith thc educating f. i;.s of tho church! and in sympathy withal) ministers w ho in their several wj^ryfi'8eek to i)uii,i ,,,, ,,"." hilo the im.'.gc of Jesus Christ, by whose faithfuliie^ generosity, and love I hope to bc .savjc^'ftn(i brought home to heaven. " A lliimnn Iii,.ly In . llarrel. Thc Adams Kxpiess Company received nt Dalton, Indlann, on thc 1 Ot li a barrel from New York, via the New York A New England railroad, for delivery lo the American Express Company and to be for warded to parties in New Brunswick. Tho American Express Company refused to re ceive the barrel on account of certain, gus plcious marks on lt resembling blood. The barrel was then taken bink to the train office of the Adane Express. On the bar rel ticing opeiK d the head of a woman was discovered packed in straw, and enough was seen to convince the officials that other portions of a human body were contained in the barrel. Thc hood was carefully re placed and the barrel, with Its contents, taken to .Jlnkhum's undertaking establish ment, on Howard street. Although thc lilian is surrounded by mystery, it was generally l>ollovod that tho body was in tended for some medical college. A OCRKR FAMILY OF CHINKS InW come to light near Now Brunswick. The Don nu ads livo in a mis?rable hut in tho mit skirts of the city. Tho i nully con.,mts of ono woman and two men. Only OOO of the men is ever seen, and Had i \.\,< n ho goes into tho eily to collect n ula <>n property. The woman has not been cen for years. Their hut, is enclosed by a "stockade" fence of heavy timbers. About a month ago it was rumored that tho woman had (lied. Her husband de clarad he would kill any ono who attempt ed to enter the enclosure, around Iiis house. Eater it was discovered timi he bud bought one collin from ii collin (h ider, and that ho then gave a cai (K il ter an order for a hundred collins like it. Itccent investigation shows that the death resulted from starvation, Now Bruns wick must afford a flue climate for cranks. Th? .Vorth l'nrollua Ueiu. North Cnrollnn has acquired considerable notoriety in the production o? quartz crys tals with highly nioditled an 1 exceedingly' rare planes, Quite recently Professor \\ . B. Hidden, of mo Emerald end Uiddcnite mine, Alcxnobcr couuty, sent to O. von Rath, Uouu, Germany, a number of these raro crystals. They attraotod much atten tion, and were carefully llgured hy that eminent scientist, who i-smd a pamphlet giving illustrations Of tho crystals and a tull description of them. PoidTXOAL rowan in State government? is very evenly divided in tho United States. Of tho thirty-eight Legislatures, nineteen are reported Democratic and the samo number Republican. There aro twenty-two Democratic Governors and sixteen Republican Governors. EX. 00V. A. II. STEPHENS' COUSIN. I mn ii si cousin of tito lato Kx-Oovornor Moxaudor H. su plu ns, ami have boen postal clerk on different ra ll ronda ?mon 188b. tfor o n years I have boon n sufferer nom a can cer on mv face, which Kiew WHIM- until dis charge oi multor became profuso and vor-y ultcntdvo. i boca mo thoroughly disgusted with ld od pu ri dor? und pronounced thom humbugs as i hud tried many without relief. Finally i w as indu ?. lo usc n lt. H., u h oil wus nbotit Hm l t of Kt bruary.aud continued Its uso inuit tho Juttor part of Aprl. Thopf. fcnslve discharge decroasod nt oneo anti Ibo hardno8S around tin oancor dlsnpp ared. it improved my nouerai lu nilli und I rapidly Ku I ned llesh and strength Tho discharge g uditali v deoreesod u u the cancer became loss and less m si/.,' mitt: nothing remull?a ox coptai-cnr lo toll tho tue o? a once danger ons cancer AH who have soon ino since i have comuioncod tho uso of ii n ll. bear tes timony lo my groat linprovomont and in? soaroii HIV ?ile shows that lt on red Ibo can cer, i ?in i thal li a H. comes squarely up to what it's recommended, und I cannot sny loo much In prntsu of Ibis wonderful medi cine. I liavo triedllioin all, but b. ll H. stamin ut the top na :i idood purifier. ?hu above ls copied from the Al bens (Ha > linuuer-Wntchinuu, being tho voluntar) lau joii'Ko ot Mr. iuir.es A. Greer, which fcdlioi Oiu.lt indorses "Mr. (hoer ls un lunesl, upright oltl/.on of Athens, w o had a laid cai ocr. mid Ins numer ous friends thought thal ho e..uta not Uvo vor) long, as tho oiinoor was gradually sap? ping Hu- foundatlOU of his constitution, ?jilt now looks weil and hearty." TWO AGAINST MUllTKKN. s?e\. ral physicians have pronounci d my dis? e ise blood p ison c used hy paint or loud In the palm om iii. y cu d liol eui O me. I list tami mer na d eighteen bottles of a t rgoly udvc: tise i blond medicino, which did mo nu more good than so much w der. I h VC U8ed only two bottles ol' II. ll. H. alni nra proud lOMiy Clint I bavo received urou er bonolll from them than (Vorn the olgblociii and um now rapidly recovering, 'lhere la nc qu' si lon about' the superiority of B. i>. H over nit idooti romedles ilia Keynolds Sim t. W. ll. WoOUY. Anglia, i.ii, April '.Mst issG. 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