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BATABD-moat go. The silver men have Miau. / ^ "And what ia so rare aa a day in June?” • ’ W r ' The unternfied president ia calmly talking about calling another special session. ^ There *re plenty of patriots here, who will cheerfully accept the place on the Mississippi river commission which Glen. Harrison “declines with thanks.” Cpicaso has school room for only 40,000 of her 125,000 children of school age. The average attendance in the whole conrae is only 410 days, not quite two school yean, and yet, by reason of the high, ornamental branches, music, German and the like, the coarse is constructed to extend over twelve years, and all the expense necessary fm it kept ap. Not one child in a hundred takes the course. The movement to abolish the “scollops’'’ in pnb^o education is growing. The new Williams & Guion steamship, Arizona, has made the run from Sandy Hook to Queenstown in seven days, nine hours and twenty-three minutes, the fastest time on record. When the old Cunarder Scotia made it in a little more than eight days, yeara ago, it was unprecedented. Since then the fastest was by the Inman's City of Berlin, seven days fifteen hours and forty-eight minntes. We may aee it done in four or five days yet. Columbus sailed west from the Canaries thirty-six days before he saw land.

The Detroit Post and Tribune, crowing over Charley Foster’s good qualities, told hew he was a banker, a dealer in general merchandise, a hardware merchant, a grain trafficker, a partner in a spoke factory, and stockholder in a barrel factory. The Detroit News responded, “Aye; but he never held a 'stock' attacked to a gun barrel.” And we are glad of it—-not particularly that he never shouldered a musket, but that that gun ia spiked. In this Ohio campaign, the first of the 1880 contest, those in whsss mouths the taunts of rebel were found, are'quiet in the presence of two union veterans, while they themselves follow a civilian. This is as it should beThe war ia long ago over. We hope the

civilian will win in Ohio. -

Leo Milder, a greenback talker, said last week in a speech in Lewiston, Maine: “It ia a great wrong to stamp one dollar on a piece 6i coin that is worth eightyfour cents, when it can juat as easily be stamped on apiece of paper worth nothing;’’ and so it is, from the view ef the ailverites, and we call their attention to it. Mr. Miller is.an illustration of the strength those “daddy dollar” folk have

i given to the fiatists. Under the specious

com of silver they yelled and stormed for a remonetization which should make eighty-four cents pass forone hundred cents. Once done, what is to stay the logic that if Ike government can fiat sixteen cents it can fiat one hundred ? There is no halfway house on this journey. It must be settled that the government can make paper money or that it. can not, and this is a question that applies to the legal tender

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the report of the Amer-

and steel association, which, in those industries, argued a steady rethrn of prosperity, the cotton dealers come with equally strong testimony, There has never been a better «M* n than the one just closed. The Atlanta Cenatitution says there ia scarcely a i that does not furnish its man who $5,000 to $100,000. The | cleared by a single person ia put down at $200,000. The profita in Vew Orleans ato estimated at $10,000,000. A. feature in this is that the payments are •each. This rise in cotton has caused a strengthening in cotton goods. The Lewi (Maine) Journal publishes an interwith a prominent manufacturer i that some of the mills are now ; enormous profita ou the rise of He adds that a lively desprang up in January, i has been growing better ever , wool market|s also a rising too, is advancing in price, more buyers in the market

The shoe factories Everything points

r, and it is a revival that by political manipula-

By easy degress the South Band Herald has ceased to whip the devil around the stump, and now avers flatly “that if Churchman and Maelntire hold to the political doctrines of the republican party they ought to be turned ont of office, and men put in their places holding sentiments in harmony with the voice of the people and public weal. We do not want such men at the head of the benevolent institutions.” The infamy of such a declaration can not be made plainer by comment If men vote a certain political ticket, they should not be allowed to remain at the head of benevolent institutions. let the mantle of charity cover this with other sins! Here are men whose life work has been their profession; their profession such ss to be as fas removed from politics ss the preaching of the gospel ; they devote themselves fo it in a way that makes Indiana renowned for the care of the unfortunates within her boundaries they take no further, part in politics than the simple exercise of the right of citizenship in voting; they allow no consideration of politics or persons to enter into their management of the trusts committed to them. But these men must go. Their professional places must be given as political rewards; an unfried man succeed,, so efficient a professor as Mr. Churchman, and a country dentist to the disgrace of the state presides (sic) Over the education of the state’s deaf mutes. A more disgusting picture could not well be drawn. Gertainly no stronger argument could be made than our cotemporary »f South Bend makes why its party should not be permitted to manage affairs. A party that acts upon such an infamous policy as our co temporary lays down, and its party has acted upon it, is not fit to rule. An Advance in Life Insurance. The greatest reform that has been made in life insurance for twenty^years, has just been adopted by the Equitable life of New York, one of the largest and safest companies in the world. It strikes at the root of much of the dissatisfaction that exists with life insurance as practiced by most companies, and places the contract on a basis of honest dealing which will shield companies from charges of unfairness and relieve them of much litigation. It if not a chimerical attempt, either to secure business at the expense of old members of the company or by a plausible scheme which really confers no benefit in the long run, but is a substantial addition to and admission of the rights of policy-holders, from which no class is exempted. It is so manifestly just, and at the same time so advantageous to the honest policy-holder, that all companies will be compelled to follow the lead of the Equitable, or see their business fall away. Some day it will be wondered that companies have not always made these stipulations, but none the less credit is due to the Equitable for boldly taking the following positions: 1. Policies will be made incontestable after three years from their date. 2. Each ordinary policy will provide for a definite surrender-value in paid-up assurance, in case the policy is forfeited after three years from its date. 3. Each tontine policy will contain a definite surrender-value in cash, !n case of withdrawal at tbs end of the tontine period. 4. The contract will be concisely and'clearly expressed, containing only snch provisions as are necessary to protect the policyholders. These provisions are made applicable to all policies, those now in force as well as those to be issued. The Equitable takes the ground that if fraud has been practiced in obtaining a policy, it can be detected in three years; if it is not discovered the company is to blame. This ends the practice that a company can take a man’s premiums regularly for years and then when he dies contest the Jpolicy, perhaps upon trivial grounds and where there was no intention to deceive. In other words, it makes a contract and agrees to fulfill it, subject only to the limitation of three yeara in which to determine if it was made in good faith by the applicant. The form of contract, toe, is to be of the simplest form, “concisely and clearly expressed.” No one but those who have been called npon to study life insurance policies, can tell how great a benefit this will be if fairly carried out. The provision of a definite surrender -value expressed when the policy is issued, is perhaps even more important than the other agreements. As it is now, no one can tell what a surrender value is. Each company determines this for itself, and apparently few have an established rule maintained at all times. What is the value with oue company may be greatly less or more with another, on exactly the same policy. To know just what the policy will be worth at a given time will greatly simplify and help life insurance, all the mom, so as it is made a part of the contract. The provision in regard to tontine policies is of great value to the holders of that class, although the general public is not much interested. But taking them altogether, we repeat that no such substantial reform has been made in the business ef life insurance for twenty years. With the addition of the New England nonforfeiture law, it ia hard to aee how the policy holder could be protected more

fully.

CUBMBHT OOKMKHT. The saving in railroad repairs made by using steel rails is estimated to be 019,000,000 anupally. With iron about 11 per cent has to be relaid annually. With steel only about 5M. About 100,000 miles of track are built in the United States, and to relay 11 percent of this in 1872 would have cost 088,530,000 at the price of nils then; to replace 534 per cent now, the avenge share needed for repain to-day, coats 018,562,000, a*difference of 070,000,000, or more than 3 per cent oa the capital stock of all the railroads in the country. In 1872 it coat the Brie road 02,539 per mile to ritay iron nils. Since then the road bm been laid with steel nils, the amount of new rails needed has thereby been reduced, and the price of the rails has fallen besides;

0o that the rails now purchased for repairs coat but 02S8 per mile yearly. This, on tbs entin line of the road, is a saving of 01,800,000 annually. So that In spite of low freights roads an making money. The committee of the New York state legiilaturc on transportation has heard the history of a fast freight line—the Merchanta’ Dispatch. The company has a nominal capital of 03,000,000. Of this, only 0750,000 was paid la, but it dedans annual dividends of 10 per cent on the whole, or about 40 per cent on the cash capital. It waa organised in 1853, but paid no dividends until 1875, the profits during that time being used to build itself up, among other things increasing the rolling stock from 600 to 3,451 cars. Vanderbilt’s New York Central, and Lake Shore roads hold a majority of the stock. Tin American express company holds about onequarter, and the remainder is owned by private individuals. The company has 4,000 agencies at home and abroad, has specie.: contracts with nearly every road, and makes special rates with nearly every body. The head of the largest grain firm in New York testified before the committee that his firm never shipped at tariff rates, thus illustrating the extent to which freighting is done by special bargain. Julia Smith, of Glastenbury, Conn., one of “the sisters.” says “scissors.” Although married, she refuses to pay taxes on those cows,-and they are again seized for 078.57 taxes and costs, and her husband bids them in at 078.57, and he and his better half depart happy at vindicating principle again. The famine raging in Cashmere is killing thousands in a population of a million and a half. The district has about 80,000 square miles in the Himalayan valley. It consists of lofty mountains and fertile valleys watered by rivers fed by melting glaciers. Famines are of frequent occurrence there and throughout India, coming from both drouth and flood. General Ewing’s election would be rightly claimed as an approval of his financial views, and would undoubtedly prove a national disaster. It might lead to tne nomination of an inflationist, on an inflationist platform, for president of the United States, thus carrying forward the disordering quarrel over the finances into the campaign of 1880. If this should be done the business of the country will again be brought to a standstill.—[Boston Herald. As the south has accepted the amendments, as she has said to the country, leave us alone, we will solve this difficult race problem bequeathed us by the war in patience, honesty, and justice, there is nothing left her but to do so. The voters of a renublic are its rulers, and we must settle this race question on the • tosis of political equality, or act the part of liars and hypocrites.—[Vicksburg Herald. The field seems to be pretty clear for Mr. Sherman at last, and I am sadly constrained to add that I fear he will be our next president,—[Washington correspondent Charleston (S. 0.) News. A careful survey of the murders, suicides and other great felonies committed in the chief cities of the United States during the last ten years shows that a heavy fraction of the perpetrators were atheists or free-think-ers.—[New York Evening Post. A small squad of sneaks are trying to capture a whole army of stalwarts in the republican party. But they can’t do-it.—[St. Louis Globe-Democrat It is extremely probable that no competent arbitrator would have decided that the present condition of the business of the Fall River mills warranted an advance of wages. But

SUNDAY OH YBM

Drinking with Alligators—Dry nnd W«0

T**»•<»—Troploni Bnnoty. mirlnn Hi ■m Sf [Oorrapondwee of the Indianapolis Now*.] ^ ^ trovers,*!

Fear Mgrua, Fla.. Jam 17, UTS. - - Coming from Fori Meade to this place there is little to interest any one. Our field of observation embraced a half swampy region from twenty-five to eighty-five mil. in width, and one hundred and twenty-five miles in length. Every section of accessible land within these bounds had to be examined in order to determine ils character, so that we formed a pretty intimate acquaintance with the landscape. The inhabitants are few; and about of a character, geueraHy, as I

shall describe as composing

the music of <

the assaults of myriad of 1

can philosophically sill he can find much to admire and study in Florida. We have all read tbs poetry of this land of flowers and romance, bat the reality of solemn prose Is better. Stern facte there are which tarnish its sheen, and if there are any modern Ponce da Leone searching for the foontafn of perpetual youth, or for anyth mg else which can be bad without an adequate compensation, don’t come to Florida hoping te find it Babto*.

HOW A MURDERER FELT.

all its legacy of privation and [New York Times.

A S0VDAY PaOCBSSTOI. We had explored the land about Ponte Rosea, Oyster Bay and Corkscrew river down to Big Cypress swamp, and were on the return northward toward Fort Thompson. We were anxious to get across the Caloosahatchee before the commencement of the rainy son, and with this object "in view were forced to make a “Sabbath day’s journey” toward the “Mount Zion” of a “promised land” somewhere outside of Florida. On our way we met a proceesion that for oddity of appearance and tor an enduring place in memory could have no equal anywhere on this globe. It was headed by a man on horseback without a saddle or bridle,with a pipe in hiamonth, a child in his arms and another behind him. He was followed by a woman riding a mule man-fashion. She may have had a blanket or a deer skin nnder her, but she certainly had neither shoes nor stockings, but held a pipe in her month, one child at the breast and another behind her. The rear of this proceesion was brought up by another woman astride of a jackass waving the longest pairs of ears that we had yet encountered in this semitropical region. Like the one in front of her she held a child both in front and rear, was guiltless of hosiery or gaiters, and smoked a pipe in nnisen with her companions. Col. P., the leader of our party, rode a spirited animal that had behaved very well until this novel cavalcade hove in view. He got past the horse and mule without much difficulty, but when ue came opposite the third an»m«i his mare plunged into the undergrowth and, although an old trooper, he could not regain the road until the cbject of fright was out of sight A brief conversation we had with these native Floridians will still farther illustrate them. As we approacSed the head of our party, bade them good morning. The salutation was returned, “Mornin’^' and then a question to the next one of us: “Where mout you uhs be goin’?” Receiving a reply to this, the next was: “What mout be your business down huah As it would have been impossible to have made him understand what we were doing, an evasive answer was returned. The first woman as she rode up, accosted us: “Mornin,’ people; ” and then to one of the party, in our second wagon: “What moat your name be?” The scene was ludicrous and provoked us all to smile, but not a dimple of mirth disturbed the stolidity of a single Cracker countenance. We inquired the road to Fort Simmons, more for the purpose of haring something to say than anything else, and were answered about to this effect:

turn

er way.”

A Base Proposition, [Detroit Free Press.] A Detroiter who has the reputation of being hard pay was waited on the other day by a man who began: “Mr. Blank, I hold your note for 075. It is long past due, and I wanted to see what you would do about it?” “My note 7 Ah ( yes, yes; this is my note. For valne received I promise to pay, and so forth. Have you beeu to the note sharers with this?” "I have, but none of them would have it” •‘Wouldn’t eh ? And you tried the banks?” ‘‘Yes, sir, but they wouldn’t look at it” ‘Wouldn’t eh? And I suppose you went to a justice to see about suing it?” “I did. but he saida judgment wouldn’t be worth a dollar.” “Did, eh ? And now what proposition do you wish to make?” “This is your note for $75. Give me $5 and von can have it” “Five dollars! No, sir! No, sir! I hare no money to throw away, sir!” “But it is your own note.” “True, sir; very true; but I’m not such au idiot as to throw away money on worthless securities, ao matter who signs them. I deal only in first-class paper, sir, and when that note has a negotiable value I will be pleased to liscount it Good day, sir—looks like settled weather again.” Contain c on Foster. [Washington aped&l to the Cincinnati Enquirer.) Chairman Robinson, of the Ohio republican executive committee, only let out the fact but suppressed the details of why Conk Ling refused to go into Ohio this fall and make

We moved on. keeping our eyes some time to . the rear. Not a head m that Cracker procession was turned to observe us.

A DRY AND THIBSTY LAND.

The present time is known as the dry season in southern Florida. The experience our party had for a few days win givs a better idea of the character of the country than any detailed description. We would travel all day sometimes without a droo of water, and

when the site was chosen for the evening camp resort to digging in some low piece of ground for something with whish to make

obsequious bow to Gonkling, told him that he had called upon him to iuvite him to make two or three speeches- in Obux Conkling looked at the beefy chairman with a scorn that no pea can picture, and said: “Are there no republicans in Ohio to conduct their own campaigu?” “Ob, plenty,” said Robinson, “but we would be pleased to haws you come into thrstate and make a speech in Foster’s interest.” At this announcement of Foster’s name Goukling assumed a meditative air: “Foster, Foster, Foster,” said he; “you mean Charles Foster, I presume?” Robinson, rather taken aback, said: “Yes, sir, Charles Foster.” Gonkling turned on his heel to go, but before doing so said, sneeringly: “So Charles Foster has turned to be a republican, has he? I am glad to hear of bis conversion; but I never knew that he was a republican

before.” .

Exports-mad Imports.

The excess of exports over imports of merchandise for the twelve months ezsded May 31, 1879, waa 0269,709,876; for the twelve months ended May 31,1878, $241,860,939; the excess of exports over imports of gold and silver coin and bullion was, for the twelve months ended May 31, 1979, 05,284,616; for the twelve months ended Mat 21,

1878, 07,243,901. AntsmsIU's WUL

The pleadings kt the Antonelli will cane at Rome, have been dosed, and judgment wilk be rendered in ten days. The defease pleaded that the suit of Countess Lambertini, who

claimed to be tbs daughter of the late Cardinal Antonelli, should be rejected, because sacriligeous children, that u, children of

priests'; had not even a right to claim par-

entage.

Tfce Aim and Object. ; [Judy.] Benevolent old gentleman: “Fbr my part I am not against the use of stimulants in moderation, but why get drunk?” Sad case: “Why ge’drunk? Whasher good drinkin’, not ge’ drunk?” And Hot CsnllaMd to ths West, Either.

and thirst, we encamped near a shallow pond in which alligators were bathing, curlews were wading and fish were dying, and around which buzzards were flying awaiting their prej. The whole country appeared otiedup. This pond, into which all the impurities of the surroonding land had flowed, furnished ns our only water supply. It was about the color of tan ooze, but Vas drank by both man and beast, to the great disgust of the alligators whose slumbms were disturbed in obtaining it. That night every man in the camp, without regard to color or previous condition of servitude, crawled out of tent or wagon and rolled on the ground in the agony of nausea and the raging of intestinal strife. There was a loathing next morning of alligator bathing water, accompanied '>y a lack of appetite for breakfast, fortunately about 10 o’clock a shower of rain fell and we caught enough to relieve pressing necessities and enable us tcrecover sufficient heart and strength to press onward in our work. Three days afterward . passing near the same locality the water reached the shoulders of such of the party u were obliged to dismount and assist in getting the wagons through the slongli. This experience gave us a taste of southern Florida in both its dry and liquid state. If the rainy season, which commences iu June, had caught us south of the Caloosahatchee we would have needed boats rather than wagons and harness as means of conveyance. Hence the necessity for the “Sabbath day’s journey* mentioned above.

TROPICAL.

Fort Myers is on latitude 26° 40’, and Indianapolis 39° 50'. These figures are not exact, but very nearly correct, as the maps. indicate. They show a difference ot 13° between ‘ the places of writing and publishing this letter, and naturally enough greater heat would be expected to prevail in Florida than in Indiana, twill venture to say, howevsr, that you have suffered more from the heat in Indiana than we have here in Florida. Sometimes we have been obliged to stop and lie by for a few hours at midday, but only when the weather was calm. Whenever we bad sea breezes, which was pretty much all the time, we could prosecute our work at all hours of the day without interruption. At night olankets were indispensable, and refreshing sleep brought appedte and vigor in tbs morning. Here we have found the only cocoanuta so far in Florida. They were transplanted from South America some yean ago. The trees are bearing, and we ate some of the froit, but it is said they will not thrive so far from the equator. The tree, is something like the cabbage palm in trunk aad foliage, but the fruit grow* in clusters like grapes. The banana doss better her* than at any point further nosth, and bettor on Indian river than St John’a There is next to no attention paid to fruit cultara here, and until a new race of people take possession of the country its c&pabilitiea^wjlLjbe unknown It will never be developed By Crackers, who have little more ambition than the reptiles inhabiting the swasspe with them. To fill their stomachs with eearae food and lire in torpor, is the dream of happiness for each. We see birds of gaudy plumage aad tress of exqaisite flowsr and foliage. The lofty magnolia with its white blossoms resembling bouquets adorning the tree as with crowns.

“What Is the prevailing gauge ou your western roads?” asked n Bostonian of on*of the Chicago visitors. “The mort-gage,” was the whispered reply. Cause aad Kffeet. ' [Lafayette Journal.! Back-bone creates back-down.

smaller flowers of every shade of color, with creeping vines and hanging mosses and the deep greaa ef the leaves on bush and tree, bespangled with ripening fruit of arpry hue, make a landscape of enchanting beauty. The cabbage palm adds to this tropical scene. Rearing its trunk high in the air aad sup-

porting a huge bud around which dusters the only leaves It bears, it lends • wefrd

The Author of Cheap Postage, [Chicago Hews.] ProbaMy not one person in a thousand in the United States is aware that the so justly celebrated Sir Rowland Hill, wjbo was the means of the introduction qT the penny postage system into Great Britain and Ireland, is still living. But such is the case. Though born near Birnsingham in 1795, and

met., the court of common council of London, having regard to the vast benefits conferred npon the commercial community by those measures of postal reform with which his name will ever be assodated, paid him a

graceful compliment by sending a deputation to his house at Hampstead to confer upon him the freedom of the city of London. The

now be sent from Eo-ypt to San Francisco for a smaller snm than in 1839 was charged on a letter coming from the city dt London to Hampstead, a distance of a few miles. It was in 1837 that Sir Rowland published a pamphlet first developing his new postal system; in 1838 it was recommended by a parliamentary committee for adoption; and in 1840 penny postage was carried into effect In 1846 he received a testimonial from the public amounting to 066,800, and was subsequently made secretary oi the general post office.

A Bad Muskrat.

A sad accident occurred to Andrew Banks, a well known farmer of Cedar county, la., a few days ago. He was driving along the road, and while in the act of crossing a bridge, discovered a muskrat in the creek or slough. Reaching out to strike it with his whip, the wagon gave a sudden lurch, throwing him out and striking the back of bianeck on the end of a plank. He was unable to get up and remained there until assistance arrived, when it was found that he was completely paralyzed, in which condition he has remained ever since. He is perfectly conciouB, but has no 'teeling-io,* his body, and cannot, the doctors say, recover.

Hurricane at Baltimore.

A storm from the southwest passed over the central part of Baltimore about about 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon,, coutinuiug about half an hour. In the track of the storm the streets were deluged, and in the vicinity of the custom house and the Maryland Institute between forty — J —

unroofed, destroyed.

more than a quarter of a mile wide, its fury was spent before it reached the eastern confines of the city. In the northwestern section there was only a slight rain without wind, and in the northeastern section a heavy rain for a few minutes. An loaoet Roe to Maples. [Laporte Argus.]

Small bugs are attacking the young twigs of the maple trees aboat the city, and they threaten to do a great deal of damage. Up to this time they have done but little mischief and few people have observed them at alL They hatch out from a cocoon on the twigs, and suck the sap until the leaf dies, in Chicago they have attacked the maples aad nearly denuded them of leaves.

KtUed by Ughtateg.

Two children of Mr. W is well, master mechanic of the H'-'lem railroad company, were killed by lightning yesterday afternoon to front of their home in Morrisania, New

York.

John W. Dent, a law student, was killed near Cohoes, New York, Saturday noon, and two companions injured by lightning.

Hast Frank

our jexebanges governor of led has never been

[Pike County Democrat.]

Landers is talked of through as a desirable candidate for .Indiana next year. Mr. Landers

never been beaten lor any office for which

he has ran.

Last year not a pound of cream of tartar was imported. A few years ago millions of pounds came annually from England, and France. Manufacturers at home now supply all that the country needs, and prices are thirty percent lower than formerly.

The senate iu executive seeuon Saturday rejected the nomination of D. T. Corbin as chief justice ef the supreme court of Utah. The advene report of the judiciary committee was sustained by a majority of four, the division befog almost quite upon party Moss.

■ The seventy-five bear walk contest between O'Leary aad Orossland, at Chicago, was finished at sloven o’clock on Saturday night. O’Leary made 250 milea and three

Crossl&nd

laps, aad <

i 225 miles and three laps.

[Hiddiebary Record.] aXirS. ^

A Talk with Oox—He Has a Dream.

[New York BatL]

“How much money did you gft by the robtarr. altogether?” the reporter asked. ‘Well, I got 022.50 in money, 030 on the cluster ring in New York (Bella pawned it for me), 01.50 for the cameo set and the long chain from Sternberg, $20 for the solitaire ring from Cohen—about 060, that’s “I suppose they’ll hang me,” said the prisoner in his usual tone of voice.

“Do you think so?”

“Yes,” replied the murderer, “I s’pose so. I knpw what de law says. It says 1 took a life, and de penalty is death. I wouldn't be believed if I said to de law that I didn’t mean to kill hep—that I wouldn’t hart her for anything. The law says 1 shall be bung, and I suppose I wilL I don’t want to die that way. I don’t sed how I will be able to stand it I never could stand such things. When I was in the army I was detailed three times to witness executions—all of them hangings. I

didn t see them.

“You turned your head away?”

“No, sah; I simply didn’t go. Twice I was very severely punished for not ’beyingorders, bat I couldn’t stand the sight and nothing could make me. I couldn’t never bear seeing any one in pain—never. I never hurt an

insect purposely.”

“You were arrested coming ont of a church, where you heard a powerful sermon on hell. Did that impress you iu such a manner that

you felt it better to confess?”

“No; I don’t ’sider that the sermon pressed on me at all. You don’t seem to remember that I go to church always; I always have. My pastor will be ’stouished when he hears of this. No: that sermon didn’t seem to worry me. I’m used to ’em. But did you know about my dre_m? I call it a dream. I don't know what it was—it was a kind of

feeling, Igntss.”

"Why, coming back from New York on the ‘dollar boat! wasnp all night. I was a-listening to some young fellows—white men—a-einging on the deck. I listened to them till very late, and then I came in aftd went to bed, and I noticed I didn’t sleep. I was kinder restless like. Well, all of a sudden I seen myself, and. I seemed to see a crowd. They were very angry and they had hold of me. That’s all I seen—just this crowd. Every man in the crowd was a a strange man, their faces were strange to me, except this gentleman (Detective Schmittenberger.) He was there. He seemed to

have hold of me.”

rsSwRr, 3153!?K)' i “Co&oMer the Litteo, .How beont

Thff T hViov* ao. —{laUly A. Braddoek U Sunday Afternoon.

A Fire-cracker oaU to hteebum, a Torpedo, "Thwete^more than oat way to ‘go off’ on the The rotund Terpedo winked tlowly end g«mYely-~ Then from Johnnie’s pocket they both stoned forth* They boarded on ook leof just loanchad on the voter; ** me well,” Mid toe Ornokar, ‘‘we’ll row quite owoy, Where no one win nee na to ahow his devotion And sacrifice na to this gloriooa day.” How gtdUy they felt aa they palled down the The one’s Cbm wee scarlet, the other’s pal* drab; “This seeing the world is superb,” said the Crack-

it tit the Torpedo, as he sank ’neath

And just as he said It hia oar caught a crab.

Then upward swift-flying ft 1 Bang! ban^l went his head “Oh had we but stayed, 1

plodlng,

“For country aad flag we had valiaattiy died.”

_ -{July Wide Awake.

SCRAPS.

The plum Is yearly becoming more subject

to insects.

Nickel has been discovered in Towns

county, Georgia.

Illinois has 45 circuit judges, evenly di-

vided in politics.

Weeton, unfortunately, win lecture; there ia no hope of escape,—[Chicago Times. American males are becoming almost as

n the south

There is more bullion in the bank of Eugland to-day than at any previous time since General 3. W. Custia Lee has tendered his resignation as president of Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Ya., and it will

probably be accepted.

Grandma—“Yea, children, when I was young as you are, I used to walk in my sleep.’ Tommy (eagerly>-“say, gran’ma,

what time did yau make?”

A Maine boy of eleven has been arraigned for trial on, the charge of having caused the death of another lad of eight years. As far as boy murderers are concerned. New England can certainly claim the-championship. The executors have got Brigham Young’s estate about divided up among themselves, and now the* heirs are very unreasonably beginaing to ask about their share. The impudence of some people is perfectly amazing.

—[Hawkeye.

Mr. Gladstone lately wrote to a correspond* ent: “I am opposed to coffee palaces, as I believe they are more deteriorating than beer shops. The Btimulating properties of tea or coffee are greater and more injurious

than those of malt liquors.”

The Prince of Orange was very superstitious as to the numbers six' and eleven: if one of his horses had such a number prefixed to its name on a racing card he at once withdrew it—and queerly enough he died on the eleventh day of the sixth month. On the boulevard Rochecouart, S, the preoccupied poet, meets B., the absentminded Wagnerian. 8. (abstractedly): What kind of weather is it?” B. (examining the sleeves of his coat): “It rains.” They pass on dreamily and in silence.—

fFrench paper.

A project to rebuild Carthage upon the site of the ancient city is before the bey of Tania. The proposal is 6y M. Gay, an old French public functionary, and the project is urged by M. Roustan, the French consol gc-„ *T to that country, and by the German consul Italy does not look favorably npon the plan. They say Job was a patient man, but the question is, did Job ever go to a Sunday school picnic on a warm day, and arter amusing the children all day long, come home in the evening and attempt to take off a white shirt? We don’t pause for a reply. We know he never did.—[OU City Dernck. The oldest clergyman, probably the oldest man in England, died this week, aged 101 'tears and 6 months. He was ordained in 800, and held* one living for sixty-eight years. In his case there is not the slightest question as to his extreme age. He preserved his faculties entire until within a few weeks of his deafth.—[London letter. Lord Beaconsfield said to a member of the Manchester chamber of commerce, who came to toll him recently that the chamber intended to vote resolutions condemnatory of ministerial policy oa the eastern question: “I have beard a great deal about Mauchrator ‘clayed cotton,’ which is disgracing the English name in China. Please tell your chamber that if they attend to my business I will try

and attend to theirs.”

The following curious advertisement appears in the columns of a German medical journal: “Through the death of the late proprietor, a good practice (surgery) in a wealthy part of the country is to be disposed of, either by sale or lease. The present owner, daughter of th» deceased, is young and sinrle, and wouk t object to marriage with the buyer or teran-, if suitable arrangements

were made. Address,” Ac.

Mr. Dorkins hurried into the house and exclaimed: “I’ve got another, ay dear—a gqed one. If you were on the top of a church spire, on the back of a goose, how would you get down?” Mrs. DorLins thought she’d jump down, tilde down the lightning conductor, fly down onjhe goose, fall down and

then gave it up,

injuring R. Pinney, ea Matt. Pyle waa horribly i

The pleasure steamei ' Minnetonka, exploded wharf on the upper The boat is com pie fire teet of water. The

lows: C hurt and terribly

hody.probabjy

Dean and wife, of

braised; D. D. Walker, of 8t

and Mrs. Walker, slig Blakely, mother of Mrs. of fixty-two, eeriousiv suffering greatly. ‘

slight bruises. Tb

the boat, ■ and careh

^T'k^SSiSr d scalded, will die; ” *

crushed and mang!

ere were fifteen

The cause was clumsy machinery

In the senate Mr Beck from thn

on appropriations,'reported without amend*

popular ia England ai ia Uio aontliera lUUs. !^thIrcpaSiioaiia aiwd " 1 "*’

Beau Brummel raid that the finest perfume of the toilet was the perfume of clean linen.

“Why, if you wanted,.to aid pick it off the back of the

Dorkins, exultantly.

A Scotchman reminds the public that the

that ha

get down you coaid

goose,” said Mr.

exultantly,

th

great movements of reform

have taken

place in the religious lifeef the world have been rendered neceesary by strong, united churches being dead religiously—‘Aad dead religiously, according to my reading, because an outward unity had stifled inquiry And the removal of the competitive element paralyzed all desire for action. This was ao la Europe when Luther came. It was so In England when Wesley came. It was so ia Scotland

when Chalmers came.”

The London East India company, being made up of merchants, saved erery bit of paper bill memorandum and what not from the start in 1599. This accumulated mass of “paper,” covering nearly four centuries, has just been tureed over to an English scholar, Dr. Birdwood, for inspection, and he is unearthing a host of carious thing*. He finds that this company, out of which sprang the great Anglo-Indian empire of to-day, was organized because the Dutch raised the price of pepper from three shillings •.pound to

six.

The elephants, of all other wild animate transported hr steamer, areoonftaed indie strongest kind of boxes, and the boxes thera-

4

attempt

the bUfwaa

cagTBmTASrS 732? quorum. Ia the house a joint resolution was passed 79 to 66, authorizing the president to appoint one or more commissioners, not to exceed three, at a salary of 05,000 each, to take steps with a view of^entenug into a further treaty of Mexico. An effort to go to the business on the speaker’s table was defeated by

the failure of a quorum to vote. IMweaM— I* Germany.

Last year’s coMoripte of the German army,, , taken from all ranks and olames of the com- | munity, furnish interesting evidence of l spread of educadoa in the German empi The conscripts numbered 140,197, and it was found that of this whole body 130,939 had received elementary education, and that , 6,283 had gone beyond the elementary ataga < into the higher branches. No country lathe world but Germany, and ao state of the |j American Union could make such a showing

in the educational line. A Stegular Fast. [Onetanatt Enquirer.]

The beet paid workan in the ootton mills are, above all others, the promoters of strikes. The reason given therefor is that their work is more monotonous than any other, which makes the men uneasy and desirous of excitement. They are called the “mule" spinners. It is thought that iu a little while improved machinery will enable mill owners to do away with that kind qf work altogether, and with it the

incitement to strikes.

England nnd the Iron Business.

Earl Granville saVs: “I believe that there ia no country, possibly with the exception of the United States, which Iras the same natural and acquired privilegee for iron making as this country, and as long as some of the great iron producing countries are ruining their finances and their population by their enormous standing armies, and while others are tying an absolute log to their feet by protective and prohibitive duties, I, for one, utterly decline to fear their competition with ns.” : • I

The Mississippi Levee Commission.

The president has made the following nominations of the Mississippi levee commission:

I0D, Of I

Louisiana! tenant -Colonel Q. A. Gillmore, Major Gyrus B. Comstock and Major Charles R. Hater, United States engineer corps, and Henry Mitchall, onb^cMataadgawmte inratj; Ancient Copies of Homer. The British museum is about to acquire a well-preeerved Egyptain papyrus, belonging to the time of the later Ptolemies. It contains nearly the whole of the thirty-fourth book of the Iliad. The museum has secured another papyrus, even more ancient, recently found in an Egyptain tomb, and contaiuiag an almost complete transcript sftha eight teeuth book of the Iliad. Ministerial Crisis In Germany, Berlin dispatches state that Herr Hobreoht, minister of finance, has resigned, aad Dr. Falk,' minister of ecclesiastical affairs, is about to resign, the latter on acoount of religious differences with the emperor. It U also expected that Dr. Friedeathai, minister of agricultare, will resign. | A Show tor D»r* Hereso. [Columbus Republican. 1 There is not half so much said about Grant or Tilden as there was six months ago, while other candidates are loomiag up, Aad it is very possible that the leader* of the < parties In the next presidential contest i be men who have yet been scarcely mentioned in that connection.

[Ctodaaatf Enquim.] There is trouble brewing for Franklin Landers, of Indiana, if he propose* to hut for governor. The swallow toils are after him, while the Ragged Reubens are not rallying to his support as they should. ^

[ Ttptaa Tlmts,; |

The old original Fourth is at band. Let us suggest that some orator might make a 1 point by remarking that this has been a good

year for votoea. ■

Th* Cap Cate'S gotoCaMda.

The trustees of the Sportsman challenge cup say it most be rowed for on the Thames or Ttne, aad will not surrender it to Hanfoa

to take to

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of boxes, and the boxes them-

selves are secured in the firmest manner. Ia a storm the lions, tigers and hyenas prove the greatest cowards. They also suffer a great dead from seasickness and whine about it The elephant wtoen tew sounds when he te seasick, teat he sways his peat head from sidtt to looks ^unutterable Iftiftiflffii** The bone te Hie most nsrvons and ssosittve animal that gem Ip sen, and a hen shows the moat utter disgust with life when seasick.-

[Beaton Advertiser.

i death of Baron Rothschild. Stable event to the British to daty will amount to no 1

“A Matron” writes from Philadelphia: “The habit of a healthy babe^te to eat apd sleep

VUkem Tribe**] The Indianapolte"News is one of the readable exchangee coming to thte office Fxraft ireppllae Jr To renev s wsntag stork may be | any whoM ooBstftation and rigors lapidated a*take wholly past assailing.^ mg gym i as a tonic «f