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The London Times says that the desire to construct the largest single roof in the world was achieved in the roof of the Midland Railway Station at St. Tancras, which now possesses that distinction, having eclipsed the roof the Imperial Riding School at Moscow by a few feet, the span of the former being 240 feet, and that of the latter 235 feet. The roof to cover the large new station at St. Enoch Square, for the Glasgow Union Railway, has a span of 198 feet, and a length of 518 feet. The roof of the new joint station of the Midland, the Great Northern, and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways has a span of 210 feet. A machine for melting snow in cities, which often forms a source of much annoyance and obstruction to traffic during the winter months, has been invented by John Mullaly and John T. Hawkins, of New York. It is claimed that the process has been brought to perfection. Super-heated steam is employed for the purpose, and by a simple contrivance the .-team at the same time creates a draught in the furnace which increases the heat. One snow-melter is said to be capable of clearing off from one to fifteen miles of streets in twenty-four hours. The inventors estimate the cost at from onefifth to one-tenth the expense of the present system of carting the snow away, and have made a proposition for undertaking the work to the Street Cleaning Department of New York. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has made his report; the following is a summary: The cash receceipts of the office during the fiscal year ended June SO aggregated $1,747,215. The total number of acres of public lands disposed of during the year was 6,524,326, of which 2,875,910 acres were absorbed by homestead entries; 607,985 acres were obtained by entries under the Timber Culture Law; 1,008,000 acres were approved to various States as swamp lands; 1,001,078 acres were certified to railroads under land grants of Congress ; and 640.692 were disposed of by ordinary cash sales. The total disposals were 545,945 acres less than those cf the preceding year ; 21.806,517 acres were surveyed during the fiscal year, and 680,253,094 acres had been previously surveyed, yet leaving to be surveyed in the land, States and Territories of the United States, 1,132,665,244 acres. The London .Daily Telegraph, in a leading article, says: England, much as she loves and desires peace, must wage war from end to end of the world, rather than permit the Russian flag to be hoisted at Constantinople. Lord Derby justly said that for British interests, the Eastern question centered in Constantinople, and we hold it clear to all sensible Englishmen, that the first overt invasion of the Turkish Territory, the British fleet, with the assent of the Sultan, should most assuredly cast anchor in the Golden Horn. Those to whom such a step might appear like help for the Turks, may take comfort, for it would be simply an act vital to British security, and accomplished in the name of, and for the protection of British rights. If it were not done Asia, from Scutari to Shanghai, would know and proclaim immediately that we had abdicated the scepter of the East, and commerce all along our Ori ental lines would be at the mercy of a iuture iiiack Sea squadron. The S. Y. Post, speaking of the war prospects m its financial columns, says ; Looking over the whole situation, how it ia iiitiJusfriDie to come to any other conclusion that the war, even if it is confined to Russia and Turkey, which is hardly among the possibilities, will be all that is needed to awaken the dormant industries of thi country, and give us a degree of profitable activity in every branch of business, such as has not been seen for many years. So far as the price of gold is affected by the foreign trade movement, it must be borne in mind that, as respects breadstuffs, one of the greatest sources of supply for wheat will be cut ofT, a good part of the wheat which supplies the world coming from Ruesia, and that there will be an enormous demand for our breadstuffs and provisions, in fact all products; that there also will be a great demand for coarse manufactures, and particularly for everything that comes under the head of war supplies; that this demand will directly help the transportation lines of all kinds, and will indirectly stimulate every branch of industry. It must not be forgotten, however, that at least a part of what our exports will gain in this way will be lost on cotton, of which we have an enormous crop this year. vvneiner tne domestic consumption of cotton can be increased so as to compensate for wfeatever reduction there may be in the foreign demand, is another question. The Centennial Exhibition. lOctobcr Report.. The International Exhibition of 1876 has now taken into its treasury $2,210,263.24, a sum greater than th total receipts of any other World's fair ever known in a single month, in a single week, or on a single day. and in a few weeks it will have surpassed all other exmoiiions in tne aggregate of atten dance. J he following summary shows the attendance during each month: MONTH. DAYS. f'APFI. FRKK. TfiTA r.. jprrim Mav.. 19 378,080 SOS. ) fiSlftlO SIHii I'M m June 26 7,1SU 1,002,25 H47 8H3 41 July 2'i ti,5l7 269,929 31S 109 23 August.. 27 :(7,f,8l 2;i;,:jO 1,175,311 4 lo, 659 25 Sept 2i 2,l;W,991 aox,69s 2,439,689 918,081 00 4,7:0,833 1,458,356 6,209,215 2,210,263 24 The following table shows the total attendance, krest single day's attendance, and the total receipts of all previous exhibitions, together with our own as far as it lias gone, the highest number present at Vienna on any given day heing estimated : Total At- Lartrest in Total Place. Days, tendance. One day. Receipts. IxJlrion, '51 114 l,039, 1 95 10H,1S J2,l 18 960 00 JParis, 55 200 5,1.12,330 123,017 64oVjO 00 London, '62 171 6,211, 13 67,91 2,042,650 04 Pans, '67..., 217 ,i5,969 173,923 2,10h1fi70 00 :"". 'I3 lK6 6,740,500 100,008 1,(82,880 00 I mJadelp a, '76..124 6,209,218 2 73,919 2,210,263 24

IT'S TIME TO GO TO BEB.

'lis strange how pa does act sometimes When I have got a beau ; He seems to think it just the time Authority to show. He nevpr thinks himself once youni, But thinks me old instead ; Then raps upon the floor and shouts " It's time to go to Led." Now all was silent when at last. His saddened heart to cheer, I said ycu must not mind papa, He's" getting old and queer. He sat as still as any post. And not a word was said ; When lo ! another rap and shout " It's time to go to bed." Said poor (Jeorge " May, I now must go, And let folks go to bed ; He s knocked upon the floor now twice, He'li next knock on my head." " But you must come again, dear George, licuiember, pa is old ; If he was young like you and I I'm sure he weuld not scold, But poor George never came again, The knocking scare! him out, And always when I've get a beau Pa's got to bang and inout. But I have got another now, And Johnny is his name ; 'TIS true papa'yet hansand shouts, But Johnny he is g&uie. " I think your papa has retired It was no sooner said, When instantly the rap and shout " It's time to go to bed." I quickly bade dear John good-night, Up to my room did go, And what hapiened juite soon after You very soon shall know. I crept quite silent down the stairs, While John outside did wait ; I threw my shawl about myself. And joined him at the f ate. Hours at the gate passed pleasantly Bet ween d. ar John and I ; I could not now enumerate No, not if I should try. Ta says dear John has common sense In not staying eo late ; . But knows not kalf the sparking done By us dewn at the gat. Dear papa no more raps and shouts For us to go to lied ; There isn't so much siHing up ijinee John and I were wed. Peughkftyisu: Press. MADAME MIGAAD'S FOKTOE. " Do you believe in fortune-tellers, Becky?" It was the charming relict of Migand who asked the question, and the not young and palpably maiden lady sitting opposite her at the table balanced a spoon upon her attenuated forefinger with an air of profound thought, but made no answer. " Very strange things have happened to members of my famiiy who have been the subjects of such prophecies, and I have enjoyed their supernatural seeming with a delight that leads me to a super stitious faith in thehidden intelligences," pursued the widow, as she poured a delicate stream of amber honey over the artistically browned inufhn upon her plate. still Miss mecKy smootu set ner aentafivories complacently into the crisp breast of a youthful chicken, sipped leisurely her mocha and studied the monogram upon the china with a listener's eloquence. " Do you know, iUiss Eecfcy, that 1 think this world of ours a stupid place. I find myself weary of everything, even " Your widowhood, that same stupid world is saying." Miss Becky's voice was smooth like her name. iStul Madame Migauu started at the interruption, making a small red blotch of marmalade upon her spotless damask, and blushing slightly at the ac cident. " That is as it may be, my friend ; but certainly I could welcome anything less terrible than an earthquake for the sake of a breach in the decorous monotony of existence." "Ah! It is as the world has said madame will marry. Well, in marriage life passes out of" the delicious rule of mono-any things, and there are always excitements, I am told." Becky. Ay. The world is partly right, perM. I married very young, and there a great deal in habit; but I want a i You are wise in your condition, haps, is a great change, and to take another husband at once would be only going 'from the white bed to the brown ' only exchanging the blue fire of gout for the less vivid flames of some less mature distemper!" The widow of Migand was, as Miss Becky Smooth had been informed, somewhat eccentric. Her history was quite as remarkable as her capricious self, but she had been the lawful wife of the old miser from whence ever he brought her and having prepared him in due form for his final rest, she retired to classic shades for the conventional year of crape, and at its expiration shook herself out in colors like a rainbow in spirits like a tomtit in a fruity thorn-bush, in fancies like a humming-bird and the world, looking on, gave noiseless " Bravos!" asMigand's dollars rattled in its cash-box, while society clasped his widow to its eider bosom. What Miss Becky Smooth hinted at was quite true; but while Madame Migand really contemplated for the second time the sacrifice of marriage, she halted upon her election. The world insisted that madame would never take Migand's fortune out cf the name while handsome Richard lived, but the amiable spinster across the table did not so well know the flashing oriole the small, yellow-belted insect hovering and buzzing among the painted teacup flowers ana the open sugar-bowl opposite as to be wholly certain that Daisy Gordon was not the favorite, and that his prospects would be injured by the sad story she told of poor Amy Frost and his share in digging her early grave away in the city of Lindens. " It is easy for some women to die of a broken heart, Miss Becky, and no one be particularly to blame. Many of us come into this world provided with constitu tions ready to seize upon the first deeent pretext to retire from the ungenial undertaking of life. Miss Frost may have been of that fragile make, and Daisy cannot help being handsome and clever, and all that, you know." Did this mean that she would marry him? Miss Becky was still uncertain, and, being uncertain, lost her point. " Do you know, Miss Smooth, that I have a fortune-teller among my ser vants? No! Well, I have, and if historical descriptions are at all to be relied on, I make no doubt she is the veritable sibyl who foretold the wonderful fortunes of Josephine in the Isle of Martinico. I have never put Saur's powers to the test myself, but I am in the humor for it tonight, and, with your permission, shall ring for her!" Surely the world was right the widow of Migand was, wit hout question, eccentric! Miss Becky Smooth, always complacent, nodded her head kindly so kindly, indeed, that the relict started in alarm lest that thin neckt-hould break, and the smiling countenance come rolling ov er the butter-dish and the jelly-glass' through the sauce-trough and the pal ad plat, into the midst of her painted teacups and her honey-pots. Still, she rang the bell, and there came a n egress in to

the room. Not a pretty piece of bronze mulatto flesh not a bit of cream-tinted humanity an eighth remove from white clay but a negress with a presence like a cloudy Summer night that brouebt an atmosphere of thick darkness with her with teeth glaring like so many marble slabs ranged rouud the mouth of a coal-pit, and a way of looking at one with the whites of her eyes thoroughly impressive. "A very remarkable domestic!" thought Miss Becky, and she could not have thought more strongly by reason of her nature if Madame Migand had brought a tame gorilla into the apartment in the same capacity. 'Fears like young missis done ring fo' Saur!" said the - concentration of midnight, with a majestic wave of a voluminous white aprou. " I want my fortune told, Saur." "Ki-yi! Yous tink ole Saur kin tell fortin ! 'Clare to goodness, Missy Mego, Imos' forgit!" "NoDsense, Saur! A true witch never forgets which way to ttroke the black cat. There is my hand ! You ought to be able to read a" good fortune out of it ! It is clean, considering the age!" " To be shuah, 'tis clean, but dat got nothin' 'tall to do wid do fortin !" And Saur adjusted an immense and carefully-wiped pair of iron-bowed spectacles astride the low bridge between her involuting orbs. " You's got a mighty leetle han', Missy Mego, but it done go fur to hoi' a beep ob trubble. De las' part ob you 'ma life gwine fur to be de mos' cumfuitublest. You's bed a bad spell when you's a halfgrowed pickaninny, and you's los' a frien'. 'Spect like as not young missy marry gin two, free times but keep a eye out, Missy Mego ; you's fin' a fa'se sweetheart un'er a paintee face, an' a treu lub un'er a brae cloak! Sho, go 'long dar. honey! dat all ole Saur kin tell!" The widow smiled a queer little smile across the table; the cuckoo upon the mantle flew out from its hiding and cooed its melancholy note of time; the door-bell startled the silence with sudden peals, and Saur rolled away. "Hi. miny, 'tis dat disrespectabul Massa Richard Mego. He in do blue pahlah. lie done look like a skeercrow in a cawntiel' like de berry ole debbel hese'f. He gone fo' to say dat he had

on monkey dres, an' he fotched youn's dominoes'. ' You are crazy, Saur. Show him in here, and let us know what all this is about. It is the quickest way to dispose of him!" " He done show hese'f in," grumbled Saur, and a voice behind her, round and full as if from Stentor's lungs, called out : " A fair evening, ladies! What were you saying of me, cousin mine?" " Ah, Dick, you should not follow so close upon your announcement unless you would verify the truth of the old proverb in regard to listeners ! But why this priestly dress? What confessional have you been ravishing of its secrets?'' " M'ardi-gra? ! Mardi-gras, madame ! Would you ruin my reputation with Miss Smooth by insinuating that I would, under any pressure of circumstances, obtain goods under false pretenses?" " Are you going to the ball, Richard Migand?" asked the fair relict of his cousin, a frown distorting her small mouth and struggling with the nervous muscles about her duky eves. "Yes; and I brought dominoes for you and Miss Smooth, if you will condescend to cover your charming faces, and look down upon the city in carnival clothes !" Madame's face brightened. " The thing of all things that I should like !" she said ; and Miss Becky Smooth again bowed too kindly for the safety of -the . complace ;nt countenance, thinking, doubt, while the small cords in the in. ,neck leaked assent, tnat she should never know quite how eccentric was the relict of Migand unless she followed her out in all the unusualities about which the dear world told her. " You's mind old Saur, missy, an' keep a eye open ! ' said the black, as she tied the lace full over the widow's pretty face. "You's never kin know wher' you'm gwine fo' to fine it, but dere's de han'-writin' on de wall eberywher' leastwise for dem's dat's got de wision. Pears like as if dar s sumfin gwine to , come 'long ob dis masticatin' derange- ! ment. Ole Saur feel it in her bones 'clare to goodness I do!" What a bewitching, bewildering whirligig of red devils and white angels, f gray nuns and spangled dancing girls, of monks and mountebanks, of fauns and fairies, of courtiers and clowns, of noble dames and bare-armed milkmaids, of booted cavaliers and rattling plowboys, of drab-backed Quakers and reu-breasted Bohemians at this mardi-gras ball ! A sensation of dizziness overcame Miss Becky Smooth as she looked down upon it for the first time. The hoarse roar of the multitude, broken by shrieks of laughter, by shrill, many-voiced cries of delight, by ringing huzzas and the high notes of French horns, came to the attenuated maiden's ears like the farofT echoes of some dream-orgy; but the widow of Migand leaned far out of the box, panting to join the tumultuous cosmos below, intoxicated with its music, its madness, its changing, many-colored lights, and watching the dancers with nervous foot until her eye had singled out from that giddy throng two waltzers conspicuous even in this carnival of licenfe and folly. "It is impossible, Miss Becky," said the relict of Migand ; " no gentlemen could so transform himself." But Miss Becky still thought the Robert Macaire clasping in mad abandon the scant-clothed beauty with whom he danced wonderfully like that pinkest of pinks, Daisy Gordon, and she kept her eye upon the crown less hat, and smiled in an amiable way as ever and anon a break in that chameleon-hued wave of humanity gave her a clear glimpse of the noble drunkard s lace blotched with paints, of his flame-hot eye3 disfigured with poultices, all framed in disheveled hair against a dizzy background of color. By and by there was a rustle of drapery and a moving of chairs in the next box. Then came a popping of corks, a clink of glastes, and a voice said, all too loud lor prudence : " To our royal selves, rim belle.1" The relict of Migand drew suddenly close in her chair as there followed a pause, and, after a soft feminine treble, with a touch of reproach in it, spoke out, " But you love the widow of Migand, Daisy." "Soft, ma belle! It is the money of Migand to which I bow. When that is won you shall drink red wine as water, thou fatal fair one. Fill up I" And again there was a clink of glasses, the box-door swung upon its hinges behind the riotous Macaire and his Bean lilyclothed Night. Again the rslict of Migand leaned far out the box, looking, with glittering eyes, down upon the

palpitating populace, aud again Miss Smooth bethought her that the dear world was not so far wrong in its dictum regarding its positively peculiar darling. Presently she said "Home!" to the man in the monk's gown standing behind her chair, and gave him her hand adown the staircase. And the next day there was a headache ia madame's boiloir, and Saur rolled to and fro with ammonia and black coffee, muttering, as she went: " Ki, yi ! wat we'dem tell youn's? Ole Saur kin tell fortun', shuah ! Wat e say? Keep e eye open, sumfin' done gwin fo' to happen ! Mighty joyful fo' Massa Dick, sartin ! He'm a heap mo' Vpectabuler dan dat Goddcu sooney wat been hangin' roun' he am, fo' shuah !" And Mis Becky Smooth retreats before the majestic wave of the voluminous white apron, kisses the tips of her skinny digits to the clever world, and nods until the slim neck fairly breaks, ap.d the spare, complacent countenance rolls away out of sight, with one unvarying assertion upon its withered lips: " Most charming widow of Migand ; but a little peculiar !''

How Commodore Ammen (fuelled a Mutiny. Washington Correspondence Chicago Tinios.J From all accounts the captain of a man-of-war must be a very unhappy being. He has his separate cabin, dines alone, reads alone, and when he ascends to the deck all of the officers at once cross to the other side to leave him one side unobstructed. He could not be more let alone if he had the small pox. Officers claim that this unbending rigidity of behavior is alone one of the most potent elements of discipline with a crew. The crew of a inan-of-war is largely made up of reckless, dangerous men. In numbers they would always be able to seize upon the small arms of the ship and overpower the ollicers, and turn the vessel into a piratical cruiser. To keep down a gang of reckless men of this class the slightest infraction of a rigid discipline cannot be passed over unnoticed. Ast'ry told of Commodore Ammen, of the navy, the inventor of the steam ram, illustrates how important is unhesitating action in case of a mutiny. So severe are the penalties for mutiny, and so closely are the men held in check, that mutinies of late have become very rare. At the close of the war Ammen was the captain of a Pacific mail steamer. He had shipped as a part of his crew a lot of soldiers, men who had been sailors before the war, but had served since that time in the army. They were a reckless; bad lot. Almost before the steamer had left New York it was evident that there was going to be trouble. Thee sailors flaunted at the grub furnished them and said they must have as good as the cabin passengers. One day the affair culminated by this gang forming and coming alt. When they entered the saloon they were headed by two desperadoes who had incited the mutiny. At their appearance several army officers on board volunteered their services to Ammen. He thanked them mildly, but said he would not need their help. He walked forward languidly toward the mutineers, and without giving them an opportunity to say a word, took out his watch and said: "Now, men, I want you to go right back to the fokesel. I will give you one minute to go." Ammen has the appearance of a benevolent old deacon who would weep with pain at the necessity of killing a fly. His voice was as soft as if his mouth was lined with plush velvet, and as sweet as a maiden's whisper when Adulphus first encircles her timid waist. When he said simply to his men, " Now, I want you to go back to the fokesel," the loaders grinned. This mutiny was to succeed too easily. So during the minute they scoffed at the old man. At precisely sixty seconds after the expiration of Ammen's remark he raised a pUtol and shot one cf the ringleaders dead, Will you go back to the fokesel ?" said Ammen to the second ringleader, pleasantly. The man hesitated : flash! a report, and he too fell dead. The deadly persistent blandness of Ammen's composure drove terror through the ranks of the mutineers. They went forward, and there was never any more trouble. This prompt action alone saved a very rich ship and a large number of pa.'sengeis from plunder, outrage and murder. A Dangerous Occupation. The miuer ia continually exposed to danger. Besides the ever present possi bility of accident, he is compelled to wort -an an atmosphere always more or less loaded with foreign gases, and equaling in temperature that of the plains of Bengal in the hot seassii ; he is frequently obliged to wield his tools in awkward and constrained postures, inimical to health; and he must always labor in darkness that is only relieved by the feeble flashes of light from the lamp that he carries with him. So extensive are some mines that it frequently requires an hour to reach the surface after the work is done ; and as the miners, during the winter months, often descend the shaft before sunrise, and do not return to the surface until alter the sun is set, they sometimes see as little of daylight as the miserable ponies and other beasts of burden that pass their whole lives in the under world. The descent into the mines ia dansrerous. if made by ladder or cage. Another danger is the accumulation of coke-damp, which causes death by suffocation, and the terrible explosions ef fire-damp. And to these sources of accident must be added the caving in or falling of any portion of the roof or sides of the mice. Many accidents are caused by the carelessness of miners themselves, grown fool-hardy in the constant presence of a terrible danger. They will sometimes open their safety lamps, to see better or to light a pipe, well knowing that the consequence of their action may bean explosion, involving the destruction of many lives beside their own. In former times the sufferings of English miners were terrible; but of late their comfort has received some attention. The mines are ventilated as thoroughly as possible ; barracks are provided for the miners to change their under-ground clothes, and arrangements are in some cates made for drviutr those which have become wet during woik. Owners of mines are prohibited from employing women and children in the under-ground work ; and no person under the age of eighteen - is to be employed at the entrance of any mine, to have charge of the steam-engine, or windlass, or other machinery lor letting down or bringing up the men. Inspectors are appointed for the express purpose of visiting mines and seeing that the statutes are complied with. But, notwithstanding all these precautions, accidents of various kiml-j are continually happening, and willhapien, so long as mines exist.. The census of Brazil has just been taken. It indicates a population of 9,930,000 souls, including 1,510,000 slaves and 213,000 foreigners.

UEXERAL OTES.

The largest shoe manufactory on the Pacific Coast has hittly discharged all its Chinese help, and employed three hundred white men, women, and boys, finding them more profitable. The people of the New Hebrides shave with the teeth of the shark, an oyster shell, or a piece of bottle glass, ard perform the operation with the sk.ll if accomplished barbers. The most methodical suicide on record was that of a man at Youngsville, Pa., a few days ago. He rose early, prayed, embraced his wife, kindled the tire, r ked the cow, aud then hunghims . f. Twexty-XINE thousand dollars have been received from a VirgiuiaCity (Nev.) gambling ealoon in on? year in the wny of !:ceme. Th? ..oney is collected mc'-hly, and gambling is cot rest.k ttd at all. A Buxn tramp was restored ta sight at F.rie, Pennsylvania, by a the rough washing, administered at the almshouse. He will probably sue the city for inflicting a cruel and unusual punuhmenL The dog Bob, a wonderful fighter, was cut short in his successful career in St. Ixniis. He won one thousand dollars for iiu owner by Killing anotner deg in a contest, but soon died of poison that had been rubbed on his opponent's skiu. It has been proposed to establish penny banks in connection with the public i-chools of New York. The candy shops and chewing gum venders might" suffer, but good results would be obtained. The experiment has been tried in London, where in a few months children had deposited no lets than $3,620. The town of Gotha has granted a site for the cremation of bodies, the Duchy of Saxe Gotha having allowed the rile to be established. Previous to cremation, however, all bodies are to be examined by competent medical officers, that the cause of death may be properly ascertained. Amoxg the odd and exceptional articles at the Centennial Exposition is the telemeter. It is a small brass instrument used in warfare to measure your distance from the enemy you desire to shoot, by observing the flash of his gun. It records and translates into distance the interval which elapses between the flash and the report. The Czar Alexander receives, in rouno numbers, 25,000 a day income; the Turkish Sultan, 18,000; the Emperor of Austria, $10,000; the Emperor of Germany, 8,200; the King of Italy, G,440 , the Queen of England, f 6,270 ; the King of the Belgians, $1,643; the President of the French Republic $500, and the President of the United States, 137. A sixGri.AR case of suicidal avarice came to light in Baltimore the other day. A miser named Mannahan, who had been ejected from boarding-house after boarding house for non-payment of his board, died -of starvation. After hi death it was found that he had 2,600 on his person. He had carried on his savings up to the last, and perished of "privation rather than spend a cent of his money for food. After the execution of Captain Jack and several other Modoc chiefs, the tribe, to the number of one hundred aud fiftythree, were removed to a reservation in the Indian Territory on the border of Missouri. Climatic influences have provrd very unfavorable, and in three years fifty -eight have died. There ia no physician upon the reservation, and light diseases, like whooping-cough, prove fatal. INFORMATION as to the portraits on The bust on the one postage stamps. : cent stamp represents I-ranklin; twos Jackson ; threes, Washington ; fives, Taylor ; sixes, Lincoln ; sevens, Stanton ; tens, Jefferson; twelves, Clay; fifteens, Webster; twenty-fours, Scott; thirties, Hamilton ; nineties, Perry. The seven, twelve, and twenty-four cent amps are not now issued, but many of uem are in circulation. Scenes on the Battlefield. A correspondent of the London Standard writes from. Nissa, Bulgaria, as follows: We came upon a number of Servian corpses, most of them in that early stage of decomposition when the body swells to an unusual size. Some, however, could enly have been dead a short time, for their bodies were still almost warm and unstifi'ened. We had not dreamed what fearful havoc our two batteries and the cavalry attack had made on Friday. The defeat of the Servians must have been much nit re severe than we imagined, as the enemy had left his dead and wounded behind, close to the river's bank. The poor wounded ! What terrible torments they must have endured, lying among coi pses, and deprived of all cons.ilation, all help! How many grcana and sighs must have escaped the quivering lips and t een lost in the empty air! Near an adjutaut lay two photographs, which must have escaped from his dying hand ; one represented the dead man," but in uniform of a liussian Major or Colonel, and the other a young womau with fair tresses, a prominent nose, and light-colored eyes. The photographs had been taken in Moscow ; on the back of the man's stood in pencil, "Nicolay KoinotF." I know not in what relation the woman stood to the officer ; but whether wife, sister, or betrothed, it is certain hia last thoughts were of her. Not far from him lay the body c f another officer, hia right hand pressed on his breast, where the splinter of a shell had hit him, and grasping a piece of paper. A strong man, he appears to have struggled long with death, hia face, which had the unmistakable Kusiian typo, being distorted from pain. It was with difficulty that ihe paper was removed from his hand. It was a letter, without any date, in Cyrillic writing, and evidently lrom a child's hand. Colonel Mehmed, who was once in the liusfian service (he is a Circassian from Daghestan, subjected by Russia more than fifty years apo) aud understands Russiau, translated the letter into Turkish, and then one of our Cossacks, a Pole, who had been brought up in France, gave me the contents in French, as followa: Dkarf.st Father: Be good enough, to come back from the war. Since vou faave heen away mother weeps continually, and Bhe dreams every night that thou liest dead under a tree. Come to us, dear father, for mother lias become so pale, and is always crying. I am very good, bo- that she may not cry etill more, aud when ihou eoiuest hack will remain jrood, aud never be naughty again. Hut thou must come soon, father, iiud must kiss mother, that she may liccome red agaiu, d also kiss thy little Minka. The independent farmer can rest under a shade tree and see his crops grow. He can also see the wcedgrowing at the gam time.

Adientnre of the Old Mississippi. It was in t-,e summer of '5'J on Ixi.ird the ste.'uner Chester Ashley, that were laid upon account f Y.tve wati r on the Arkan-as River. The lat had Iwime so overrun vvith rats that we were in danger of having the whole freight list to j pay for. Our cargo consisted almost entirely cf bacon and flour, mi 1 they had perforated this in every direction. Asa! last experiment to get rid of them, we had the entire load carried ashore, and i then commenced a grand rat hunt. The j animals all took the hold, and among the j innumerable salt boxes r,d under the j duunage found shelter, so that but few j could le disiodged and killed. It was in j this emergency that the eeniu of the i chief engineer .shone forth with dazzling i briiHaucy. i " Let's," said he, " turn s'oam into the hold and run 'em out." Tais whs .-.cried upm. While he was raising steam in the nigger boiler, th ! rest of us went around ppuig up a;l places of egress, and stopped them ail ex-1 icpi. one noie wuicu lauic uirouuu tur i deck a few feet from the chest. l ins ice chest was a favorite resort of the ol rodents, for in it was kept the delicacies of the table, l'ies, fruit and choice cakes were always there, i supjM se the rats looked uimjii this place as a sort of free Saratoga. At all events, they would put in a fvw hours of every n:ght there, and this might represent their seasons. The ice chest was about eight feel square, i tit the opening on t p that is ouropeuiug; the rats had theirs through the back, close down to the deck. This we also left open, and this arrangement left the rats only one hiding place on the main deck. Steam beins now ready, and a cock opened to admit it into the hold, 1 ! took my station where I could seethe! "varmints" as they defiled from their untenable cover to oue they thought more promising and it was a study for a sawmill man. As the steam filled the hold, they commenced their line of march ; first came a venerable looking old chap, one on whose head the frosts of many winters had settled. He passed along with a measured gait, slowly moving his head from side to side, as though hesaid, " Boys, I'm afraid you've got ua this time,"' and he seemed to be astonished that no missiles were hurled after him, but was allowed to enter the ice chest unharmed. lUiring his march another not a sister kept his head out of the deck hole and watched his progress, and when he saw him safely housed, out he came, and made the march unmolested. This seemed all they waited for; they then poured outin one unbroken stream, and they were all there The wife whofe l3le 6rst smile-! that lay 'I he fair, frid l.rkle ol ycsler ee ; The ageii sire ; Ihe uiairun gray, and all the young bucks just kept coming until I thought they had some way of ge'.tiug from the ice chest to the bole again and were keeping up an unbroken circle. But at length there happened breaks in the procession, then these breaks became more frequent and of greater duration, and after a while they J came in single individuals and in more of a hurry, for the hold was getting hot, and later they came slower and had less hair on them, and the last one looked sick, didn't seem to care whether he got auy where or not, and as he passed me he cast a look of holy scorn and holy sadness, as if to say, " You fellows think you re smart ; you ought to be ashamed," aud to tell the truth, 1 was. I felt the same impulse to save hia life that actuated l'ocohontas on an historical occasion, and from an association of ideas I named this rat John Smith. Andnowthey were all in the chest and the hole plugged. We called a council of war as to the best way to finish them. The engineer wanted to carry out his designs and t urn the steam on them and cook them alive; but the "old man wanted some fun;" he had a couple cf imported Scotch terriers, full blood and long hair, and here was just such a chance to try their mettle as he long had yearned for. So he raised the lid on top, dropped them in and closed the door with the remark, " Go for 'em, boys." Then he took out his watch. They must have went " for 'em," for the sounds that followed were a mixture of yelps, howls and tiny squeaks, mingled with a rattling, surging sound, as though the life within was combined and trying to knock out first one end of the chest and then the other. The "old man" would sing out at intervals: "Go for 'em, boys!'' then he would wink at us, shut one eye, double himself up, and raise his light leg as though he was in an ecstasy of enjoyment. At length nil inside became quiet, and he looked at his watch again. "Sixteen aud a half minutes," said he. "Now, men, let us turn the chest over and count the rats, for I think them pups have knocked the spots out of former records." AVe turned it over, the lid Hew open, and a whede fioer of rata came pouring out like bees from an upturned hive. We had to clear the track until they all escaped, and when we looked in the box those dogs were in more pieces than ever dogs, not made into sausage, were before. They lcoked as though they had been dead a month, aud only one solitary rat kept them company and it was John Smith. Wild Sheep Hunting. From Hatteraa Inlet to Oakraeoke Inlet a distance of twenty-five mile stretches a strip of bleak sand-hills. One-half is totally desolate this is claimed by the salt waves of the boisterous Atlantic ; the remaining half is laved by the waters of Pamlico Sound. Upon this half vegetation is plenty ; immense canebrakes, and forests of low trees so low that a man has to stoop, anel in this painful position, with great difficulty, slowly pick his way. (This tree is called Oopou, or Judiau tea; its leaves are gathered, dried and used by the natives of that locality asa substitute for the genuine article. It resembles in flavor the tea called "English breaklast.") These forests are the homes of great herds of wild sheep sheep of the common kind strayed from the folds of man, which had found a secure shelter and abundance under the dark-green leaves of these fantastic trees; there multiply ing till now they are looked upon as common property, and often an object of the hunter's search. They are difficult of approach, keeping far into the depths of the woods. It is a most tedious work pushing your way through the high reeds and canes, which rise to the lower branches of the trees ; but, look sharp, and you may catch a glimpse of the object of your search cjtiietly nipping the leaves above him. if jios-ible, you el rive them upon the aanu-hilis, where they are more readily shot. The Slesh of the younger sheep is very tender anel sweet a most delicious repast to one who has crawled through such obstacles for ill CKpture.

A Thrilling

Hard on ibe pit. Dog.

As far us c.ui i. , arr.c-1. say the New York . V, ! the p;tz dog made Lis! first apitMrjicce in Germany several Imit .1 t v. . . .. t . 1 . 1 - " .' - - i..r t w - sav " he w;ts t.r. i:rh- there by u'.-,r.V but from what pirt ;he world is not mentioned. Fit'u-ert c.r ixtto ye:ir a;o the Spits came hither iiii the ra-t tide of uumigtatioti lnm the laiierla at j l:rt i;i i iekrn .1 .s :;r;- -I'. v. Ai-stj eight or ten year sjo, when the to-He 1 and King Charles had enjoyed their day, and sv.inelhing ist-w in connection wit a 1 the Hack and-taa ws.U-m.in.l...l vl AS SI j"L, uie cpuz hi i;!- puppylii-Ki r:j appearance, aud the cutiLing lit dling bundle of fr from which ie his .ie : -!- j-ecrei two uiaeK eyes t i in-trous line, met with j general favor and cmr.iandd fancy prices. , peppy fix weeks o;,l s-.ime-tiun'as..! I as !.ii.U 3- - Kl-ir.g Cwr iJer-d clit-p; while the full a row n animal brought from ,VJ to Saiee then, however, in this kind of there Itn a dvcihte dog lV-h. While i:i the puppv ttate, or until thev to t-e six. eu-ui or ten !UOiUt et.I.thev p.sy: ana shay s.me utile fonJ::ci for master ! or mistre-, but when a year or more of age they bec-ine utterly devoid of auction, and will snap nd snarl at the very W-st friend-, v-n severely biting the hand that tee !s use m. Like the cat, tie Spitz shows more a hkiiig for the Lotte t than the iktsoq wccnpviuj it. lie is ex ceedingly treacheioi.-, ana you cannot tei! at what mor.a-nt it may sei.ze its fancy to spring up and l ite your hand r legs, or eve n your io-e, if he can r-3t:h it. In summer the Spi-z i a perfect nuisance, a- he shed:. Lis -at from June to September, and those w ho have them una iiie'.r iioors ai.d clothing covered i with hair. In the fail the Spiiz appears ' with a new coat, but he isa dirty fellow, j and unless washed eve ry day or so would j iooic lite a cur that you would let 1 inclined to kick him iiui the --.ree ;. The natural eohrof the Spitz .;- hite. though sometimes they are K ra u i : !i fur : a jet black, and not a white hair to 1-e seen. Has the Spitjs any chh1 traits" yes; he is very inteh: .-eti nr.-i can taught all kind of nicks, and !t raw.t O, 1-e eh of -1 v dog he lies far over :mv other st vciea dog; but then he must be let sever el alone. You mav thistle and cax ,il spe-ak to him in the kindest m.rt of way, but to no purpesse; he won't even wag his tail, and if he cocdesctnd- to turn an eye towards you, his k;-k seems to Aiy : " I ain't making any new aeon t:tances," or, "keep your tH-imce." He don't even reciprocate the aue-ntioiis of his master, and take his unchaining for a run out doors as a matter ; co-r-st-. I tell you what, the Spit ain't a sa c dog to play with, and you'll get bitten a--sure as you live, some time or other, if you bother him, for he seeni. t harbor resentment. When full grow n all the play has gone out of him, and he's a different d-.-g altogether than when a puppy. All he stems to care for is to lie stretched out with his nose resting en Lis paws, and then you'd beue r look out and not put your hands on hisa. Subject- for Thought. j Having searched in all kinds of science, j we discover the foilv of neirleetintr those ! things which concern human li.'e ar;d inj volvmg ourselves ia difficulties al-out questions tu.it are t ui mere notions; we should conn uc t-urselve to nature and i reason. Fancies beyond the reach of i the understanding, and which have yet j been made the objects of belief these i have been the source of all the disputes, errors and superstitions that have pre vailed in the world; such notional my j teriea can not be made subservient to the ; right uses of humanity. j It is much easier to think aright with- j out doing right, than to do right without i thinking aright. Ju-st thoughts may ! fail of 'producing just deeds, hut just j deeds always beget just thoughts. For, when the" heart is straight, there is hardly anything which can mislead the understanding in matters of immediate j concernment: hut the r urest understand- j ing can do little in purifying an impure j heart, or the strongest in straightening a crooked one. Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn uh.itever it touches, which can invest naked j fact and drv reasoning with an unlooked j for beau tv," make flowerets bloom even on the brink of the precipice, and when nothing better can be had, caii turn the j verv substance of reck itst-lf inta mos i and'liche-n. This faculty is incomparably j the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibitions of truth to the minds j of men. i It you want to be miserable, think about'yoarself; about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pav you, what people think of you, and hen to you nothing will I pure, j You will spoil everything you touch: you will make tin and misery for yourself j out of everything which God sends you; you will be ::s wretched as you choose oa j earth or in heaven either. The God of "the true, the good. 3nd j the beautiful," is painting everything that trrowa in this part of the earth in colors beyond the ower of man to transler to canvas, r K.wer, grass, ":'.' in fact everything that comes from His creating hand, attest the faultless taste, the wonderful wisdom of Him who reigns on high. Why will people whisper in a sick room ?' Some one has said, " It is better to slam stove doors, rattle shovel and tongs, or make similar noise, than to whisper in the presence of a sick person." Quiet ways are preferable, and very ncce.-sary," but inveterate whispering should be totally banished from the sick room. A'S obseryatorr is to be built at the foot of Niagara Falls, c.n tbe American side, for the use of visitors who wish to view the falls without elressing in waterproof suits. It will be constructed principally of stone and iron, and will extend from near the foot of the inclined railway to a point at the entrance of the" shadow of the Pock." which will make it about one hundred feet long by twenty-four feet wide. At the end of the building next the lau win oe a panor oi.serai i j , the whole front of which will be of heavy class, throuch which the visitors caa ebtain a fine view of lite falls and be protected front the descending spray. "My friends," said a returned missionary at one of the late anniversary meetings," let u ave.id sectarian bitterness. The inhabitant of Hindostan, where I have beeu laboring for many years, have a proverb that, 'Though you k-uhe a do's tail in oil aud bind it insplints, yet you caunot get the crook out of it.' Now, a man's sectarian bias is simply the crook in tbe doa-'s tail, which caanot be eradicated, and if hold that every one should be allowed to wag his own peculiarity ia peace."

A riRiltU'.

l . i A I.J : TKlTilS AMI TUIFLEH. A- -1 i L: . A:.! A I Ji.r.i' 1 :-.rt :- It t .; ; s; erte-t s,': hi.'Ji- r ;:. ; w ,--" v, hat J - .'.j '.:' i v e rve we k,; i vim; - it.cre.-sj Tin wkh and ii hor '. fa I practic NvF.W U H Ih, He the garden fence neighbor that it w. to v. h tt-.e te; alio i LIT. r t : a i r- t . . -: t ii to ; i verse, I to y:c". j fiuence. He- w-u i j"-' then his wi!( ::l the i Lou-.-that if 1 le wr.n t. r- t ai; i ne a ave i" As a cr. r was e 5iUrr..r a UeheM a ci'i j .-. see a Tiin, .Le wa eating a l,:::ai,a, e.;..-l tl.e i fruit i:"H the '.;pjery si- -;-.e but insirad i-f chi-:irg the .-a.: .. ; and a.-se-d or.. As Le ing vu: f the ssi-i-ii, fcavlt-p r. thirst, he slipped o the pi t .:. e t-anai..!, ju: !. liiiing, tr-Ke "hat a rival ci tojkt i;::we s lite the ;:. .ue-:. M ::.'. It is tst sr the cot'-ner L. .1st is 1: h I, Sard. .a jLr.i.ix. ?!.- . Servian his tranintet his native t !.: A p V.'.!kvi , i :: . a : tea i;:-ue liar .-aal . j, ... it bids em of 'Ws : cvi.ie U:e It r; Vt: i... t i A 1. L It is :r everv tat: b: ' ! ... 1 ii U n.;.r s:u a Ci-, w-.-n meat there is in it. The t-y some harnieles biri, & pig. hor-e, Lis little tisier, r wv Here isa hor-e o--' right at L;U.d fr--ni an Eastern raj-er: i'iiree l-.v-, who j were racticiijg with a pi-l-.l &t Ltr:j ford the o'.iser day. r.cc;k-r:i;y trotting mare jlajt, n:::;eiir.g a wound that will rrd;-b!y pr.".e '.-.'.id. The animal has a ree.uti t i a: I iva'aed at Sl'MA 0.' Cists whereshexil their little sisters e.r tl.eir.st Sc are too common to need tbe rfVr:.ce t-f any case sthand. BlXLlXUTOX Jl.l'ri-J'y : A ycurg man applicant for adtaissu.n to C rnt-li l."i::vt rsi-.y spillej ink &'.' r.i.':!,i'.i-i!i papers, ru:-': i with hi u.ngue, suela-i ti over i :- exit th- Mvss je a : at i the ' gJ:':r:' the -:.! el every s 'Ute-uec name of the iViberc-f !;'-(. wasiii!sg:en," scid that "u Brutus, eiise-overeu amenta,' SJ . li'.rv ? pr.d l..r.l H aud srvt-nty-was at bast six bund nine nui- iron tr.e earth to the bkr.k and nearly twice as far to the sua ; bat when it was aseeri-iiaed that the- : cant was Robinson, the Uinor. Si-i.scs, New York, oarsinsn, ins papers were marked one hundred aad twenty-:". ve per .est., and he wei.i in-jti.es.'; Uva.rc class., 1'HlI.Jtr.El.rHIA lJv":-'ni: Mull;:;- is entirely bald w:tH the txcvptiva c-f a single lock, wh-rh lie t - ..? .' .."y over the side of his head. A short i:;::e ago s-oa,e young la-;:es aSed i ira f-r hi puetograps, and jr.st ! taa he had a picture taken .f the Sop of h:s he-..:i. Abo' t a week afterwards he went i-s-t the photographer's place sal noticed aa immense crowd studying a picture ia the window. He lookei ;nar.dl.-.ur.l that that disgusting animal e,f &a snift had printed a greatly enlarged ptctcre cf his bald head, wuh the t lack 1.cS rucaiiig around the edje, and had labelled it "Eclipse of lae raeon; the l-henomes-em as it apjeared at -nantr-past eleven." That picture s: at all over the world, and it is now ra.t-I sniviiz the archive of every s-cict:t-.ac institution from Hung Koi g to the Fraiiklia lustitme. A Eeiy, a Pie, and a Cartwheel. H'.!irWJU .J. l-.r.:j.-A Pine street woman bought a pie at a baker's last night to rive Ler hr.-:-,ir:d aa srreeable surprise. neit they casae to eit down to tbe evening meal the pie had disappeared. William, tht ir'ulovel son, was softly seated at his fitte r's left band, and the blush ea his yombful cheek proved bis tuilu "Liil, where's that pie! the old man. "Pie?" queried the boy. " Yes, pie."' " W.s it kiaJe-r round ;".u -."' " Yes., sir." "And kinder brown?"' JeiaaiK aau &:t,2cr " Yes, sir." " W ell. nw, it 1 don t believe I lent it to Johunv Slade to use for a wheel lor his cart! 1 thought it was kinder s-oii ; bat I eion't think much of Jo! nry, ard 1 wanted to see his cart t-reas coma sn-5 man. 11, veu scoundrel, vou arc !yH-r !' exclaimed the old man. "Own t:p,m w, or I'll Hog ye! ' "Well you sec we,!, ; ;l.er. :: I u that pie up it was because a feller w.-r-wiirs. here looking f.-r vou, and 'say ing that you were to "have a il.'.-. u :" oc this vear ia this ward, and 1 w&s all confused to pieces." , . That was another, bat bestacK to it, and "father" has been waiting at home all dav for the man to call st:aia. Within the pat five yesrs live re-w tin TiroiuiSIBS- i-a u-i i-ae promising- l'.-. : '. i-t Cfaur.. he eea organized, ia Pittsburg, Pa. beer " Pitchy paeknk-s" has been i proved as to read " biturah.ous . i-e . ity !

ihDlhhh '6 1'A S t Lilians

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