Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1879 — Page 4

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

JVOBBIGN NEWS. The preliminary examination at Sligo o/ KilleD, Davitt and Daly, on a charge of atditioD, resulted in the two flrat named being btid for trial without bail, while Daly, the editor, was released on furnishing secniity for his appearance. Delane, for many years leading editor of the London Time*, is dead, at the age of 02 ' South American advices report a great battle between the Chilian army and the allied forces of Peru aud Bolivia, near Iquique, in w hicli the latter received a crushing dofoat. Davitt, another of the Irish agitators arrested for sedition, has been held for trial. Schouvaloff, Russian Minister to Great Britain, has been recalled. The French National Assembly convened at Paris on the 27ih nit. Killen, the third of the Irish agitators, arrested for sedition, was committed for further trial at Bligo on the 28th nit The accused was offered bail, but refused to furnish it, and was hustled off to jail in the midst of a great uproar. Intelligence comes from Constantinople that Ahmed Mnkhtar Pasha, tho Turkish General, has been massacred by Arnautsat Unsinje. DOMESTIC! INTELLIGENCE. Kast. By a collision on the Ware River railroad, near Palmer, Mass., seventeen wore injured, some of them badly. Tho barns of tho Eighth avenue horse-car line, located at Eighth avenue and Fiftieth street, New York, were burned last week, over ICO horses perishing in the flames. One flroman was killed and three others seriously injured by falling walls. The loss is estimated at #250,000. The largest commercial transaction i'vi r accomplished by a single individual in Arnenc&lias just been consummated in Now York. William Jl. Vanderbilt, for #25,000,000 in crisp Government bonds, turned over to a syndicate represented by Dn-xe), Morgan A Go. 250,000 shares of Now York Central and Hudson Itiver railroad stock. During tho past year 2110 fishermen from Gloucester have been lost. Edison says he has completed his electric light, and will exhibit it fully at Christmas in Menlo Park. South. The trial of the desperado Currie, who killed tho actor Porter, at Marshall, Texas, has been again postponed, on account of the non-appearance of important witnesses for the prosecution. , A distressing story of a double Indian massacre comes from El Paso, in Northwestern Texa-*. A party of fifteen men went j m pursuit of depredating savages, and fol- | l<w d a tis i to the Camdelena mountains, ! where th» Indians ambushed them, killing j all bin one or two. When the news j r- 1 .•hod El Paso a strong party organized and lon tic trail Arriving at the scene of j tin mass* re they commenced to bury the dead. While thus employed they were fired j upon and eighteen killed. A destructive tornado visited the s utheastern section of Louisville, Kv.,a few I days ago, a mdishing »nd unroofing a large ] numl»er ( f buildings. West. Deunis Kearney has been fined S2O! b. a Sui Francisco Police Justice for curving j concealed weapons. At Manistee, Mich , on the morning | of N ■ -4, the fine steamer John A. Dix struck >•: an Icr ihai lay in the hot om of Like Mich- I ) mo, and sunk in a short time. At Ludington, I Midi., about the same hour, the steamer City j of Now Y ork ran aground and soon filled with ! wafer. No loss pf life in citbf r case. Advices from Los Finos Agency to Nov. 25 report that the late “Chief Ouray has 1 ; 'calculated his power and cannot deliver the murderers of Meeker and Thornburgh if he would. The situation at the agency is far from enviable. Humors of an impending attack prevail, and the bnilaing in which the Commissioners and thoir escort lodgo has been looplioled and provisioned..” A horrible double murder was committed in Cass county, 111., a few days ago. Too viclitns were two German brothers named Eichenand, and the murderers John and Robert, Taylor, also brothers. It was a cold--11 oded and unprovoked deed. , POLITICAL POINTS. Official vote of Nebraska at the late election for Supreme Judge: Cobb, Republican, 1(1,11:1; Wakcly, Democrat, 20,827; Saxon, Greenback, 4,725. Senator Booth says the California R< publicans arc for Blaine for President, in nrefeieace to any other man. The Indiana Republicans will hold ♦heir State Convention at Indianapolis on the 25th of February next. Congressman Washburne, of Minnesota, says the Republicans of his State are for •'(rant for President. WASHINGTON NOTES The President visited Philadelphia on Ttianksgiving, dinod with Bishop Simpson, attended church at the suburb of Frankford, and donated #25 to the building fund of the church. The Postmaster General has ordered that lottery letters should be returned to the senders from the Dead-Letter Office. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Gen. Grant has manifested his interest in tho Nicaragua canal project by informing Admiral Ammen that he will be in Philadelphia on the Pith of December and be pleased to discuss the matter with Mr. De Franco, of Nicaragua, and others. ’ It is proposed at Washington to offer tho General #2S,(XX) salary per annum until the canal is in operation, when an increase is promised.

President’s Message in Brief.

Foreign Relations. —The message states that the relations of the United States to all foreign nations are of the most cordial and friendly character. Polygamy. — The violation of the statute on polygamy by the inhabitants of CJtah forms the subject of a brief but sharp chapter. The President thinks that the time has arrived tvhen some decisive action ought to be taken upon this important matter. He recommends i hat citizens of the Territory who are guilty of polygamy be deprived of the right of suffrage and debarred from jury duly, and that a test-oath be required to ascertain whether, in fact, they are polygamists. Financial. —The message congratulates Congress and the country upon the accomplishment of the resumption of specie payments. As an additional step in resumption, it is recommeuded that the legal-tender notes bo retired, and that the coinage of silver dollars shall cease. This latter recommendation is made through fear that under existing conditions there is danger that the country will be drained of its gold, and that silver will . wholly replace gold unless the coinage is suspended. It is further recommended that legislation fixing the ratio between gold and silver bo deferred until after the Monetary Congress shall arrive at some definite conclusion. Sinking Fund.— Inasmuch as it has been the policy of the Government, since the adoption of tho cons itution, to pay all debts as soon after they are incurred as possible, the President iccommends a sinking fund be provided for the payment of all obligations within a limited time, and, if the resources of the Government are not sufficient for this, that then a tax on tea and coffee should be levied, as that will be the only means convenient, and the only one less felt by the people. Indian Bureau. —The President discourages the renewed agitation of the question of the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Depar ment, on the ground that such a discussion rends to obstruct the officers of the Indian Bureau in the execution of their duties, and produces no good. Nicaragua Canal. —The President earnestly favors the inter-oceanic canal project, and expre ses the hope that legislation to facilitate the work may be enacted without delay.

Supervisor* and Marshal*. —There is quite a lengthy passage on. the subject of Supervisors and United States Marshals which is sa stalwart as the meet radical could wish. The President recommends the passage of appropriat ons sufficient to pay Supervisors and Marshals for their service daring the portion of the fiscal year for which no appropriation was made, and also recommends similar appropriations for the future. Washington Monument.— The message urges Congress to make an appropriation sufficient to oomplete the long-neglected Washington monument Foreign Commerce.— The message directs the attention of Congress to the condition c-f our foreign commerce, and asks that all possible legislation to extend our commerce be enacted, especially in respect to the carrying trade. Civil Service.— The President asks Congret s to devise some means for putting an improved civil service upon a permanent basis which shall be beyond the reach of the politicians. He suggests the appointment of a commission which snail have the power to make all appointments under the General Government, the touu e of office to be good behavior.

THE PENSION OFFICF.

Commissioner lientley's Annual Report. pon. J. A Bontley, Commissioner of Pensions, has completed his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. It shows that on the 30th of June last there were 242,755 persons in the United States receiving pensions from the Government The pension-list is now larger than at any previous time. The present list is composed of 125,150 army invalid pensioners, 81,174 army widows, children, and depehdon! relatives, 1,844 navy invalids, 1,772 navy widows, etc., 11,021 surviving soldiers of the war of 1812, and 21,104 widows of deceased soldiers of that war. During the year 31,346 new names were added to the list, and 008 namos which had previously been dropped from the rolls, mainly from failure for three years to claim their pension*, were restored, and 13,407 were, for various reasons, dropped. The aggregate amount of one year’s pension to all pensioners on the rolls is #25,403,742.15, but the actual annual payments exceed that sum by several million dollars. This arises from the fact that nearly all the newly-admitted army and navy casos have several years’ accrued pension duo at the time of admission, which is paid at the first payment. During tho year the first payments to new pensioners amounted to #5,7(53,758, of which #4,375,147 was paid to army and navy invalids, widows, etc., and #7,388,(511 to survivors and widows of the war of 1812. The first payment to pensioners of the war of 1812 will rapidly fall off, while a material increase may be expected in tho army and navy cases for several years, owing to tlio removal of tho limitation npon the commencement of pensions by the acts of Jan. 25 and March 3, 1879. ' Tho above-named acts were passed aftor the cs'imatos for the pensions for the fiscal year ondiDg June 30, 1880, were submitted, and were not, therefore, taken into account when the appropriation was made, and there will bo a deficiency in the pension appropriation for the current fiscal year as nearly as can now be estimated as follows: #5,000,000 army pensions and #30,000 navy-pensions, which should be provided for, in order that the pensions for the June quarter may be promptly paid. Thero were on the 30th of June 13(5,645 unsettled claims for arrears, an increase over last yoar of 16,258. To them are to be added about 40,000 old claims which wore revived by the Arrears act of Jan. 25, 1879, or called up from the rejected files since that date, for further consideration, and theso, with the new claims filed since the close of the year in excess of th» number settled, added to ihe number shown by the record, will aggregate fuily 200,000. 'Since the passage of tlio Arrears act now invalid, widows’, minor children, and dependent re’atives’ claims have been filed at an unprecedented rate, tho invalid claims being more than double the rate of the receipts at any previous period except in 1866, and the widows’ class exceeded any year since 1867, and twice as numerous as any year since 1871. It is estimated that at tho closo of the year there will be not loss than 250,000 unsettled cases before the office.

A Hundred-Dollar Bill.

We have a story with a moral for our numerous subscribers who are in the habit of carrying SIOO in their pockets A Hartford gentleman had a roll to that amount when he went to his butcher’s on Saturday. Monday he called on him and said he must have dropped the roll in his shop. Butcher said a man he knew by sight came in just after the gentleman was gone Saturday night, and, after paying for his meat, stooped down, picked up a roll, said he had dropped his money, and walked off. On the following Saturday this man returned and was told about the other man’s loss. He at once sent him a check for the amount, and said he was in a neighboring town the week before, and was paid SIOO just as the train was leaving, so he thrust it, as he supposed, into his vest pocket. When he was at the market he missed it, and, looking down, saw the roll on the floor, which he put into his pocket again. A week after, while feeling in his coat, which he had not worn during the week, he found another roll in one of the pockets. He at once posted to the butcher’s to find if any one had lost the sum. He was to have been arrested the following Monday, and would have had hard work to prove his innocence of the theft.

Crude Petroleum as a Remedy in Consumption.

Dr. M. M. Griffith, of Bradford, Pa., reports some of the most astonishing results obtained by the administration of crude petroleum to consumptives. He claims that out of twenty-five cases of well-marked tuberculosis eo treated twenty are to all means of diagnosis cured; the rest been materially benefited; and none have been under treatment more than four months. The nausea attending the use of ordinary crude petroleum led him to adopt the semi-solid oil that forms on the casing and tubing of wells.b This, made into three to five-grain pills by incorporating any inert vegetable powder, was administered from three to five times a day in one-pill doses. The first effect, he says, is the disappearance of the cough; night sweats are relieved, appetite improves, and weight is rapidly gained. It is to be hoped that Dr. Griffith lias not mistaken some selflimiting phase of throat or bronchial disorder for true consumption of the lungs; also that continued trial of the alleged remedy will justify the high opinion he has formed in regard to its efficacy.

Save the Rags.

“ A penny saved is a penny got,” is a maxim as true as it is old. And there is many a neglected opportunity in almost every household by which pennies that are otherwise allowed to go to waste might be saved to the family. Take the one item of rags. How few housewives think of saving the little scraps of calico, of linen, and the old, worn-out clothes, and selling them to the paper-manu-facturers? Thousands upon thousands of dollars are thus wasted every year that ought to go into the family coffers. If housewives ana their children • and helpmates would carefully save all the rags through the year, and lay aside the receipts from the sales, they would be astonished, when the holidays came around, at the size of the fund accumulated from this source. The recent rapid advance in the price of rags renders it doubly important that the matter should be attended to. If the “gude wife” don’t feel like bothering her head and hands with the matter, then let her encourage the children in the work. It will pay to save the rags. Don’t neglect it

The Advance in Paper.

The paper-makers seem to have become crazy upon the subject of prices of paper, ano aro rushing things in a manner most remarkable. Within a period of sixty days the prices of print and book papers have advanced ovei 50 per cent. Paper that was being sold in September at cents per pound is now put upon the combination price-list at 10 cents per pound. At a meeting of tho Chicago Division of the American Paper-M ikers’ Association, hejd in Chicago on Nov. 25, the following prices to dealers were fixed upon : Straw print 8c per pound No. 1 news (30 per cent, wood) 9e per pound Ext' a news (all rag) .10c per pound No. 2 book (machine finished) 11)j»c per pound Sized and super calendered bopk. .12)£c per p und These are tho manufacturers’ prices until the next meeting of the association, which will occur the latter part of December, at. which time another advance of from to 2W cents per pound may be expected. A flock of 1,500 sheep was burnt d to death by a brush fire near Ventura, Ca!., the other day. The fire surrounded the stock before the herder ponld drive them out of danger.

THE NATION'S FINANCES.

Animal Report of the Comptroller of the Currency. Hon. John J. Knox,Controller of the Currency, in his annniLi report to Secretary Sherman, gives a brief history of the growth of the debt of the United States, and the financial operations of the Government from the beginning of the war to the present time. The report says: * The total number of national banks organized from the establishment of the nationalbanking system, Feb. 25,1863, to Nov. 1 of the present year is 2,438. Of these, 307 have gone into voluntary liquidation by the vote es shareholders owning two-tbirds of their respective capitals, and eighty-one have boen placed in the hands of receivers for the purpose of closing up their affairs, leavigg 2,050 in operational the date last named. “Sinoe my last annual report thirty-eight banks have been organized, with an aggregate authorized capital of #3.595,000, to which #2,399 440 in circulating notes have been issued. Thirty-eight banks with an aggregate capital of #4,450,000 have voluntarily discontinued business within the said period, and eight banks have failed, having a total capital of #1,030,000. The insolvent banks included two, with a capital of #700,000, which failed after having gone into voluntary liquidation." The report is accompanied by tables exhibiting the aggregate average capital and deposits on May 31, 18<9, of all olasses of banks other than national, and the oapital and deposits of the national banks on June 14 following. The aggregate capital of the various olasses of Rate, savings and private banks, says the Comptroller, “has diminished from #719,400,000 in 1876 to #656,500,000 in 1879, and the aggregate deposits have fallen off from #2,075,300,(XX) in 1876 to #1,893,500,000 in 1879—a redue ion of #62,900,000 in capital and #181,800,(XX) in deposits during the last four years. The national-banking capital has diminished #45,100,000, but the deposits of the national bankers are almost precisely the same that they' were in 1876. Savings banks with capital show a reduction of about #1,000,000 in capital anil the same amount iu deposits. The capital and. deposits of State banks and private bankers are less bv #17,(XX),000 and #B3,ooo,UX)t_rospectively. The greatest reduction, however, is in tho deposits of savings banks without capital, which have diminished #97,500,000.” Upon the subject of the funding of the public debt the Comptroller says: “The great war debt of the United States w s contracted in less than four and a half years. In 1835 the country was entirely out of debt, and on Jan. 1, 1861, the whole debt of the Union amounted to but #66,243,721. During the next six months it increased at the rate of about $4,000,< 00 a month, being, on the Ist day of July, 1861, #90,589,873. During the next year it increased at the rate of more than #36,000,000 per month, and at the close of the fiscal year ending July 1, 1862, it had reached #524,174,412. At the end of the succeeding year it was considerably more than twice that amount, being, on July 1, 1863, #1,119,772,138. During tho following year it increased nearly #700,000,000, reaching on July 1, 1864, the sum of #1,815,784,370. During the next nine months, to the closo of the war, April 1,1865, the debt increased at the rate of al>out $2,000,000 a day, or about #60,000,000 a montt, and for the five months next thereafter, about $3,000,000 per day, or about #99,000,000 a month, reaching its maximum on Aug. 31, 1865, at which date it amounted to #2,845,907,626. “ An aggregate of more than #1,276,000,000 of temporary obligations of the Government, of which $830,000,-. .00 tore interest at 7.30 per cent, was funded within tho three years which followed the close of tho war, and the skill and good judgment displayed in so doing can only be fuliy appreciated by those wdio aro familiar with the difficulties and delicate conditions under which this great work was accomplished. “The temporary loans, certificates of indebtedness, 7.30 notes, and all the other it mis of the debt, except the legal-tender notes and fractional currency, which have been largely reduced, have been paid, have matured and ceased to bear interest, or have been funded into 5-20 6 per cents., of which more ihan one thousand six hundred millions (#1,602,583,350) were issued. •* Ihe acts of July 14, 1870, and of Jan. 20, 1871, authorized tho issue of bonds for the purpose of refunding tho 5-20 6 per cents. The former act authorized the issue of $1,500,000,000 of bonds, $200,000,(X;0 of which were to bo 5 per cents., payable ten years attor ds> f r. at the pleasure of the United Rates; #300,000’000 of 4J4 per cent.s, payable in fifteen years; and #i;000,000,000 payable in thirty years from the date of their issue, and bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. The act provided that these bonds should not bo sold for less than jhoir par value in coin, and that the proceeds should be applied to the redemption of tbe 5-29 bonds. The latter act increased the amount of the 5-per-cent, bonds to $500,000,000, and provided that the whole amount of bonds issued should not exceed the amount originally authorized; and the subsequent act of Jan. 25, 1879, authorized tho refunding or exchanging of any other 5 or 6-per-cent, bonds which were redeemable at the pleasure of the Government. “The whole amount of the funded debt, on the Ist of July, 1871, was of which $1,437,097,300 consisted of 5-20 bonds, and #194,567,300 of 10-40 bonds. On the first day of August, 1871, nearly $66,000,000 —$65,775,550 —of new 5-per-cent, bonds had been subscribed for, chiefly by the national banks. During the same month an agreement was entered into by the Secretary—Secretary Bontwell’s report, 1871, p. xvii.—with Jay Cooke & Co., for the sale of the remainder of $200,000,(:00 of said bonds, and, in the month of January, 1873, similar arrangements were made for the sale of a large additional amount. The remainder of the $500,000,000 —$178,548,300 —was sold during the next three years, the Secretary of the Treasury stating, in his report of Dec. 6,1875, that he had ‘the pleasure of tnnouncing to Congress that the funding of $500,000,000 6-per-cent. bonds into those bearing 5-per-cent, interest has been accomplished.—Secretary Bris cw’s report, 1875, p. xii.’.’ Referring to the resumption operations ot tho Treasury Department, tho report says: “The act of Jan. 14, 1875, required the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem ‘in coin tho United States legal tender notes then outstanding, oh their presentation for redemption at the office of the Aesis ant Treasurer* of tho United States iu the city of New York, in sums of not less than sso,’ on and aftor Jan. 1. 1879. At the time of the passage of this act the leading industries and general’business of the country were very much depressed. The agricultural classes were largely in debt, and the failures of mercantile establishments and manufacturing corporations in the three years previous represented more than $500,900,W0. During the succeeding years an era of economy supervened, agricultural products greatly increased, and the balance of trade was turned largely in our favor, the excess of exports over imports for the fiscal year 1876 being more than $79,000,000, in 1877 more than $151,000,000, in 1878 exceeding $257,000,000, and for the year ending Sept. 30 last more than #294,000,000. For 1878 the excess was more than three times as great as that of 1876, aud more than two thirds greater than that of 1877. “The Resumption act not only fixed the day of resumption, but authorized the Secretary, in order to prepare and provide therefor, to" use any surp.us revenues not otherwise appropriated, and to issue, sell, and dispose of, at not less than par in coin, any of the bonds of the United States described in the act of July 14, 1870. Under this aot, the Secretary in 1877 sold at par in coin #15,000,000 of 4Lfs, and #25,000,000 of 4’s, and in April, 1878, $50,000,000 of per cents, at a premium of I}£ per cent The coin in the treasury continually increased, so that on the day of resumption the Secretary had sl35 i 382,639 of gold coin and bullion, and, in addition, $30,557,533 in silver ciin, the gold coin alone being equal to more than 40 per cent of the United States notes then outstanding. . “The Comptroller has for a series of years presented in his reports the’following tables, showing the amount of treasury notes and of national-bank notes outstanding at the dates named therein, with the currency price of gold and the gold price of currency at the same dates: “On July 1, 1864, SIOO in gold was worth $238 in treasury notes; on Aug. 31,1865, the day when the public debt was aUits maximum, it was worth more than $144; and on Jan. 1, 1870, $120; since which time the treasury and iptq* ‘eiqir; Suuionoj op; £q aoos oq £bui ‘otoo pjoS 88 J9Avod atnstjqorna otmse 9qt poqo’Bor qoB9 ueqii jU9B9.id oq} jo Sammaeq oqt jpun ‘oniua. m possojo -ui XpunpuaS OAuq sajou quuq-praop*p. oqj gives the value in cents of the standard gold dollar in legal-tender paper dollars on July 1 of each year from 1864 to 1878, and also on Jan. 1 of the present year: Cents. 18(54 252.1 18(55 142.1 1866 151.6 18(57 139 4 1868 142 7 1869 136.1 1870 116.8 1871 1872 114.3 1873 115.7 1874 llu.P 1875 114.8 1876 112.1 1877 105.8 1878 100.6 1879 100.0 “During the last fifteen years gold coin has been used by the banks in comparatively small amounts as a reserve, and by the people only in the payment of customs duties and in purchase of foreign exchange. If it was used for home purposes, it was first converted into paper money; but since the day of resump'ion the treasury note and the national-bank note have been generally preferred in business transactions to coin itself. “ The old forms of tables, giving the amount and kind of currency in circulation, are now obsolete, and must be superseded by new ones, which shall include not only the paper currency but also the coin of the country. The total amount of the circulating medium cannot, for this reason, be hereafter accurately given, such total being affected by estimates of the amount of the coin in the country. The latter amount is estimated by the Director of the Mint to have been $427,( 00,000 on the Ist day of N ve Tiber, in this year, of which amount $121,009, ( 00 was in silver ooin. If tßis estimate i# comet, tlja

circulating medium on that date was composed Treiururynotes ou(standing • &J6.6M National-banknotes outstanding.... 887,181418 Gold in the treasury, lees certificates held by the banks Sllrer in the treasury. ®e Ooin the banks (Oct. *)-.••••;;•"• 421.8,141 Estimated amount of coin held by the people 231.475.518 Total .#1.165,tftri.504 "The estimated total currency of the mantry on Nov. 1 thus appears to hare been moro than #1,165,000,000, which amount is at least #880,000,000 in excess of the highest point reached between the suspension and tbe resumption of specie payment" The Comptroller urgently recommends that all the national banks shall take advantage of the present influx of gold to accumulate in their vaults an amoont equal to the total cash reserve required by law. He iudnlges tho hone that the reports of another year may show them to be possessed of at least #100,000,0c0 of gold coin.

HISTORICAL SUN HARKENINGS.

Diminished Light of the Sun Not Caused by Eclipses. In 536, 567 and 626 we find mention of long periods of diminished sunlight. Schnurrer records that, in 733, a year after the Saracens had been driven back beyond the Pyiences, consequent on their defeat at Tonrs, “the sun darkened in an alarming manner on Aug. 19; there appeared to be no eclipse by the moon, but rather an interruption from some meteoric substance.” Thero was an eclipse of the sun, annular, but nearly total, on the morning of Aug. 14; it is mentioned in the “Saxon Chronicle,” which tells us that “the sun’s disk was like a black shield.” The near coincidence of date suggests, in this case, a connection between darkness and the eclipse. In 931, according to a Portuguese historian, the sun lost its ordinary light for several months; and this is followed by the doubtful statement that an opening in the sky seemed to take placo, with many flashes of lightning, and the full blaze of sunshine was suddenly restored. In 1091, on Sept. 29—not 21, as given in some of the translations of Humboldt’s “ Cosmos ’’—Schnurrer relates that there was a darkening of the sun which lasted three hours, after which it had a peculiar color, which occasioned great alarm. A century later—or v jn June, ll 91, according to Schnurrer —the sun was again darkened, with certain attendant effects upon nature. Here the cause is easily found: On June 23 there was a total eclipse, in which the moon’s shadow traversed the continent of Europe from Holland to the Crimea. The eclipse was total in this country between the coasts of Cumberland and Yorkshire.

Erman refers to a , sun darkening on Feb. 12, 1106, which was accompanied by meteors, and we read in the cometographics that on the 4th—or, according to others, on the sth—of February, in this year, a star was seen from the third to the ninth hour of the day, which was distant from the sun “only a foot and a half.” Matthew Paris and Matthew of Westminster term this star a comet, and we may take it to have been the same which, later in the month, was observed in China under the sign Fisces, aud which at one time was supposed to be identical with the great comet of 1680; this body, however, probably was not sufficiently near the earth, and even on the assumption of a denser composition than usual with comets, to account for a diminution of the solar rays by its intervention. On the last day of February, 1206, according to a Spanish writer, there was complete darkness for six hours. Iu 1241, “five months after the Mongol battle of Leignitz,” the sun was so obscured and the darkness because so great that the stars were seen at the ninth hour about Michaelmas. In this case, again, the darkness referred to was undoubtedly due to the total eclipse of Oct. 6, of which Prof. Schiaparelli has collected a full account from the Italian writers. Lastly, in 1674, from April 23-25, Kepler relates, on the authority of Gemma, “The sun appeared as though suffused with blood, and many . stars were visible at noonday.” Schnurrer thought this phenomenon was wliat the Germans call a “ Hobemraucli,” notwithstanding the visibility of the stars. From the above brief summary of what have been considered sun darke (tings we see that in several cases the diminution of light has been due to the ordinary effects of a total eclipse, while it is clear that there are no grounds in the historical evidence for any prediction of a period of darkness. The nervous in these matters, and it would really appear that such exist, may take consolation therefrom. —Nature.

A Story of Steel Pens.

Few persons who use steel pens on which is stamped “Gillott” have any idea of the story of suffering, of indomitable pluck and persistence which belong to the placing of that name on :hat article. A long depression in trade in England threw thousands of Sheffield mechanics out of work, among them Joseph Gillott, then 21 years of age. He left the city with but a shilling in his pocket. Reaching Birmingham, he went into an old inn and sat down, upon a wooden settle in the tap-room. His last penny was spent for a roll. He was weak, hungry, and ill. He had not a friend in Birmingham; and there was little chance that he would find work. Tn liis despondency he was tempted to give up and turn beggar or tramp. Then a sudden fiery onergy seized him. He brought his fist down on the table, declaring to himself that he would try and trust in God, come what would. He found work that day in making belt buckles, which were then fashionable. As soon as lie had saved a pound or two he hired a garret in Bread street, and there carried on work for himself, bringing his taste and his knowledge of tools into constant use, even when working at hand-made goods. This was the secret of Gillott’s suocess. Other workmen trudged on passively in the old ruts. He was wide-awake, eager to improve his work, or to shorten the way of working. He fell in love with a pretty and sensible girl named Mitchell, who with her brothers was making steel pens. Each pen was then clipped, punched and polished by hand, and pens were sold consequently at enormously high prices. Gillott at onqg brought his skill in tools to bear on the matter, and soon invented a machine which turned the points out by thousands, in the time that a man would require to make one. He married Miss Mitchell, and they carried on the manufacture together for years. On the morning of the marriage, the industrious workman made a gross of pens, and sold them for $36, to pay the wedding fees. In his old age, haviDg reaped an immense fortune by his shrewdness, honesty and industry, Mr. Gillott went again to the old inn, boughtthe settle, and had the square on which he sat that night sawed out and made iuto a chair, which he left as an heirloom to his family, to remind them of the secret of his success.

The Death of Tompkins’ Mother.

The gentleman of this city who was so absent-minded that he put his umbrella to bed and stood in the corner himself all night has furnished another illustration of mental wool-gathering. He came home late the other evening and his wife asked him where he had been. “Been down to Tompkins’house; his mother is dead,” said he, sleepily. This was accepted as a sufficient excuse at the time, but was hardly regarded as such the next morning at the

breakfast-table, when the wife alluded to poor old Mrs. Tompkins. “What’s the matter with her?” said Dream thorp, pausing, with his coffee-cup half raised to his month. “Why, she’s dead, you silly fellow,” answered his vis-a-vis. “Is she?” replied the unoonacions husband. “Whenaid she die?"— Exchange.

A Baflled Parent.

There is a baffled old man in Williams- , port. Pa., and he is disgusted, too. It seems that he learned that his daughter Intended to elope upon a certain evening with a lover upon whose suit he frowned. So he locked his child up in her room, and sat down stairs listening for the sound of the lover’s carriagel- - • But that disgraceful young man tied rags aronnd tho tires of his sulky, so as to muffle the noise, and he' drove softly up to the back gate. He then sent a boisterous, rickety hack around to the front, and engaged the man to make as much racket as he could for the money. When the infuriated father heard it he rushed out with a shot gun, just in time to see a female figure jump into the hack and efrive off. He fired two rounds of buckshot at the concern, rushed out and got his horse, and started in pursuit. Meanwhile the insidious outcast who loved his daughter persuaded her to slide down the lightning-rod, and then fled away with her in an opposite direction from that in which the enraged parent had gone. The bereaved old man had caught up with the hack about eighteen miles out of town, and he not only shot the driver, but he burst the door open and dragged forth—a man, dressed in a waterproof cloak. The father was immediately arrested for highway robbery and assault and battery with intent to kill, and the prosecutors say they will press the suit unless he comes down with a handsome dower for his daughter, and then gives the couple his paternal blessing. There is no use of trying to explain the mental condition of this old man. The English is copious and vigorous, and all that; but it fails utterly in these extreme cases.

Joaquin Miller will again walk into the lecture field.

There Is Health Ahead

For cheerless dyspeptics who will use Hoststter’s Stomach Bitters, which will enable them to digest, restore the'r appetite*, steady their nerves, and drive away the b ues. it with such a prospect there are any of them who neglect to profit by the above suggestion, why, they deserve to suffer, that is all. Let them ask any one who has used the B.tiers if it is a good modicine, and if they receive a truthful reply it will be an affirmativa Biliousness, bowel troubles, debility, rheumatism are all c mquerod by this highly esteemed and professionally sanctioned specific, which has also won a national reputation as a remedy for, and means of avertiug, intermittent and remittent fevers. It has a cheering effect upon the despondent invalid, and may berthed upon to produce decisive, and not palliative t ff, chs. It is tho one thing needful for the cure of dyspepsia, and nothing will supply its place.

Every Dweller in the West

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The Best Rubber Boot.

There is nothing better for a farmer or outdoor man than a good rubber boot, and nothing so exasperating as a bad one. Competition among manufacturers has led to such a cheapening of quality that until lately it was a hard thing to find a rubber boot really worth the money asked for it. The Candee Rubber Co., of New Haven, Ct., however, has lately put on the mai ket a boot designed to meet the call for a real good, substantial article, and to denote its freedom from adulterative mixtures it is called the “95 Per Cent. Sterling Boot.” It is n ade, on honor, as pure as can be made, and is warranted three months. By an ingenious contrivance a space is provided at the top of the leg for recording the date of the sale, by punching holes in the spaces provided—like a railroad ticket—so that there may be no trouble about the warrant The upper and leg of the “95” Boots are doubled, and the soles are one-half inch thick, of solid rubber from toe to heel. Ordinary rubber boots are barely a quarter inch thick in the thickest part, and enly oneeighth at the shank. A descriptive circular cau bo obtained by sending a postal direct to the company; or the “95” Boots can be found at most of the stores.

Published Testimony establishes the fact that Scovill’b Blood and Liver Syrup is a sterling remedy for scrofulous and all similar disorders of a formidable type. Also that it cures white swelling, carbuncles, eruptive maladies of all kinds, gout and rheumatism. It moreover promotes a secretion and flow of healthy bile and directs it into the proper channels. The deplorable ailments produced by mercury are also remedied by it Druggists sell it For throat diseases and affections of thi chest, “ Brown's Bronchial Troches” are oi value. For Coughs, Irritation of the Throai caused by Cold or Unusual Exertion of th( vocal organs, in speaking in public, or singing, fhey produce beneficial results. Fob one cent purchase a postal card and send your address to Dr. Sanford. 162 Broadway, New York, and receive pamphlets by return mail, from which you can learn whether your liver is out of order, and, if out of order or in any way diseased, what is the best thing in the world to take for it It costs but one cent to send a postal card to the Mason and Hamlin Or&an Co., Boston, New York or Chicago, who will return, postage paid, their catalogues and circulars, with much nformation about organs. No one should buy an organ without seeing these. Get Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffener applied to those new boots and they will never run over, and will last twice as long. Young men go west. Learn telegraphy. Address It. Valentine, Manager, Janesville, TVis. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco. 91,425.50 PROFITS IN 30 BAYS. 910 in legitimate Stock Speculations in Wall St. pays immense profits. Pamphlets explaining everything sent free. HKATH A 00., Brokers, 1227 Bro dway, N. Y.

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Cmnastlw Cured. An old phnloUn, retired from practice, having had placed in hi* bands by an East India missionary the form ala of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent core lor Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lang Affections, also a positive and radical core for Nervons Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after having tested Its wonderful curative power* in tnousanda of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to hlssuff ring fellows. Actuated by this motive, and a desire to rell’ve hum-ti suffering. 1 will send fro < of charge to all won desire it this recipe. In German, French or English, with full dl fiction* for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addrw-smg with stamp, naming this paper. W. W. Sll KHAR, IAD Powers' Block. Rochester, it. Y.

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