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was ocvered, ■ ~ irinkTheir tea*snd chattel: i news and fashions, — >tr neighbors' prospects, itr neighbors’ SatUngs, a the husbands, iy son* snd daughters, .he spacious mansion old Decon Brown; >j. Duff and sister, St’s Wt'O and daughter, tley’s wife and mother, <!«r, wit h h r kn t‘ Ing, tut down some stitches,) r. Eli Kathtuirn, dly words and wishes, wer ewell” that evening, ihottld find some ailing,— ental reservation.) nk Unmarried parson— Citsh Potter—le maids snd spinsters; s village blacksmith, m it ltn ms wue and children seven; IBpftnd from school came la is and losses. ■ With them came the young schoolmistress; ■ And, in short, a goodly lmmlwr ■pß d assemble at the circle,— Spllore than thrice the usual number,— ■ Many that did very seldom ■g O© to hear the Sunday pr aching. IB; Why did Deacon Bowen’s mansion Iff: Draw so many, many people? 1 I What, thi k yon could be the reason? I $ What could be the gr at attraction? §p Deacon BoWen kept a bowrder, gi: Kopt the young, unmarried parson IT Barton Obadiah Potter— Who was looking for a partner ,i ’M .ncst the fair ones or the parish; ft Bo said Rumor, ever busy, i Busy wtth the news and gossip. Just before the next month's meeting Of the ladies’ sewing circle, Parson Potter wen a journey,— Journey to his native village. i Soon ho came back to his parish. And was met by alt his people: Not alone he gave them greeting, "With him came a dark-eyed lady. And the pirson oiled th it lady Mrs. Obadlah Potter. Now the ladles' sewing circle Has about its usual number. AY-

A DESPERATE BOAT FIGHT.

In Mav, 1778, a fiat boat loaded with kettles, intended for the manufacture ■of aalt at Bullitt’s Lick, left Louisville with thirteen persons—twelve armed men and one woman—on board. The Boat and cargo were owned by Henry ■Crist and Solomon Spears; and the company consisted of Crist, Spears, Christian Crepps, Thomas Floyd, Joseph Boyce, Evans MoOre, an Irishman named Fossett, and five others, and a woman whose name is not preserved. On the 25th of May the boat entered Salt River, and the hands commenced working her up with sweep-oars. There was no current one way or the other. While in the Ohio the great breadth of the river secured them Against any sudden attack, but when tljev came into Salt River they were witliin reach of the Indian rifle from the shore. It became necessary, therefore, to send out scouts to appraise them of any danger ahead. In the evening of the first day of their ascent of the river, Crist and Floyd when ashore to reconnoitre the t» nk of the river ahead of the boat. Late in the evening they discovered A Iresh trail, but for the want of light they could not make out the number of Indians. They remained out all night, but made no further discoveries. In the morning, as they weie returning down the river toward the boat, they beard a number of guns, which they believed to be Indians killing gamo for breakfast. They hastened back to the boat and communicated what they had heard and seen. They then pulled on up the river until 8 o’clock, and arrived at a point eight miles below the mouth of the Rolling Fork, where they drew in to chore on the north side of the river, now in Bullitt County, intending to laud and cook and eat their breakfast. As they drew in to shore, they heard the gobbling of turkeys (as they sup Jtosed) on the bank a here they were going to land, and, as the boat touched Fossett and another sprang ashore, with their guns in their hands, to shoot turkeys. They were cautioned of their danger, but, disregarding the admonition, hastily ascended the bank. Their companions in the boat had soaroely lost sight of them, when they heard a volley of rides discharged all at once on the bank immediately above, succeeded by a yell of savages so terrific as to induce a belief that the woods was filled «ith Indians. This attack, so sudden and violent, took the boat’s company by surprise, and they had barely time size their rifles and place thernin a posture of defense, when Foa.set! and his companion came dashing down the bank, hotly pursued by a large body of Indiana Crist stood in the Ik>w of the boat with his rifle in his band. At the first sight of the enemy, he brought bis gun to his face, but instantly perceived that the object of his Aim was a white man, and a sudden idea flashed across his mind that the enemy was a company of surveyors whom he knew to be then in the woods, and that the attack was made in sport He left his gun down and, at the same time, bis white focman sank out of his sight behind the bank. But the firing had begun in good earnest on both sides. Crist again brought his- rifle to his face, and, as he did so, the white man’s ■head was rising over the bank, with his -gun. also, drawn up and presented. Crist got the fire on him, and at the «rack of his rifle the white man fell lorward dead. 6* intent were the Indians on the ’ pursuit of their prey, that many of them ran to the water’s edge, and struck snd •hot at Fossett and his companion while getting into the boat, and some oven seized the boat and attempted to draw it nearer the shore. Repulsed in their efforts to board the boat, the savages withdrew higher np the bank, and, taking their stations behind trees, commenced a regular and galling fire, which was .returned with die spirit of brave men rendered desperate by the certain knowledge that mo quarter would be given, and that it was an issue of victory or death to •every soul on board. The boat had a log-chain for a cable, *4*nd when'she was first brought ashore, the chain was thrown round a small ; tree that stood on the water’s edge, and j Abe hook run through one of the links. | This had been done-before the first fire [ was made upon Fossett on shore. The HE£ °p halong the sides, leaving an open ganggfcwy through the middle of the boat

•o that the gens of th* Indiana raked the whole length of the gangway, and their fire was constant and destructive. Spears and several others of the bravest men had already fallen, some killed and others mortally wounded. .From the commencement of the battle, matiy efforts had been made to disengage the boat from the shore, all of winch had failed. The hope was that, if they could once loose the cable, the boat would drift out of the reach of the enemy’s guns; but any attempt to do this by hand would expose the person to» certain destruction. Fossett’s right arm was broken, and he oould no

longer handle his rifle. He got a pole, and placing himself low down in the bow of the boat, commenced punching at the hook in the chain, but the point of the hook was turned from him, and all his efforts seemed only to drive it further into the link. He at length discovered where a small limb had been cut from the pole, and left a knot about an inch long. This knot, after a number of efforts, he placed against the point of the hook, and jerking the pole suddenly toward him, threw the hook out of the - link. The chain fell, and the boat drifted slowly out from the bank; and, by means of an oar worked overhead, the boat was brought into the middle of the river, with her side to the shore, which protected them from the fire of the Indians.

The survivors had now time to look round upon the havoc that had been made of their little band. Five of their companions lay dead in the gangway ; Spears, Floyd, Fossett, and Boyce were wounded ;Crepps,Crist, and Moore remained unhurt. It was evident that Spears’ wound was mortal, and that he could survive but a few moments. He urged the survivors to run the boat to the. opposite side of the river, and save themselves by immediate flight, and leave him to his fate. Crepps and Crist positively refused. ■ »

But the boat was gradually nearing the southern shore of the river. At this time, the Indians, to the number of forty or fifty, were seen crossing the river above, at a few hundred yards distance, some on logs, and some swimming and carrying their rifles over their heads. The escape of the boat was now hopeles, as there was a large body of Indians’on each side of the river. If the boat had been oarried to the opposite side of the river as soon as her cable was loosed, the survivors might have escaped; but to such minds and hearts, the idea of leaving their dying friends to the mercy of the Indian tomahawk was insupportable. The boat at length touched the southern shore; a hasty preparation was made to bury the dead in the woods; Floyd, Fossett, and Boyce got to land, ai d sought concealment in the thick; ts. Crepps and Crist turned to their suffering friend, Bpears, but death had kindly set in and cut short the savage triumph. The woman now remained. They offered to assist her to shore, that she might take her chance of escape in the woods; but the danger of her position and the scenes of blood and death around her, had overpowerod her senses, a;:d no entreaty or remonstrance oould prevail wish her to move. She sat with her face buried in her hands, and no effort could make her sensible that there was any hope of escape. Crepps and Crist seized a rifle apiece and ascended the river bank. At the top of the hill they met the savages and charged them with a shout. Crepps fired upon them, but Crist, in haste, had taken up Fossett’s gun, which had got wet as he swam with it to the boat on the opposite side—it missed fire. At this time, Moore passed them and escaped. The Indians, when charged by Crepps and Crist, fell back into a ravine that put into the river immediately above them. Crist and Crepps again commenced their fight The Indians rallied and rose from the ravine, and fired a volley at them as tuey fled. Crepps received a ball in his left side; a ballet struck Crist’s heel, and completely crushed the bones of his foot They parted and met no more. The Indians, intent on plunder, did not pursue them, but rushed into the boat Crist heard one long, agonizing, shriek from the unfortunate woman, and the wild shouts of the savages, as they possessed themselves of the spoils of a costly, but barren victory. Crepps, in the course of the next day, arrived in the neighborhood of Long Lick, and being unable to travel further, lay down in the woods to die. Moore alone escaped unhurt, and brought in tidings of the defeat of the boat. The eonntry was at once aroused. Crepps was found and brought in but died about the time he reached home. Crist was so disabled by the wound that he oould not walk. The bones of his heel were crushed. He crept into a thicket and laid down. His wound bled profusely. He could not remain there long. His feet were of no use to him., He bound his moccasions on his knees and commenced his journey. Piece by piece his hat, hunting-shirt, Kind vest were consumed to shield his hands against the rugged rocks which lay in his way. He crawled on all day np the river and at night crossed over to the north side upon • log that he rolled down the bank. He concealed himself in the thicket and tried to sleep; but pain and exhaustion and loss of blood had driven sleep from his eyes. His foot and leg were much swollen and inflamed. Guided by the stars, he crept on again. Between midnight and day, he came in eighty of' a campfire, and heard the barking of a dog. A number of Indians rose up from around th* fire, and he crept softly away from the light. He- laid down and remained quiet for some time. When all was still again, -he resumed his slow and painful journey. He crawled into a small branch and kept own down it for some distance uppn the rocks, that he might leave no trace behind At daylight he ascended an eminence of considerable height to ascertain, if possible, where he was, and ,how to shape his future course; but all •round was wilderness. He was aiming to reach Bullitt's

Lick, now about eight miles distant, and his progress vu not ahalf *mile an honr. He toiled, bn all day; night came on—the seoond night of his painful journey. Since leaving the small branch the night before, he had found no water—sinoe the day before the battle he had not tasted food. Worn down with hunger, want of sleep, acute pain, and raging thirst, his sufferings were not to end here Guided again by the stars, he struggled on. The morning came—the morning ol the third day. It brought him but little hope, but the indomitable spirit within him disdained to yield, and during the day he made what progress he could.* As the evening drew on, he became aware tbat he was m the vicinity of Bnllitt’s Lick; but he eonld go no further—nature had made her Inst effort, and he laid himself down and prayed that death would speedily end liis sufferings.

When darkness came on, from where he lay he could see the hundred fires of the furnaces at the licks all glowing; and he even fancied he oould. see the dusky forms of the firemen as they passed to and fro around the pits; but they were more than half a mile off, and how was he to reach them ? He had not eaten a morsel in four dajts; he had been drained of almost his last drop of blood; the wounded leg had become so stiff' and swollen that for the last two days and nights he had dragged it after him; the flesh was worn from his knee and from the palms of his hands. Relief was in sight, but to reach it was impossible. Suddenly he heard the tramp of-a horse’s feot approaching him, and hope sprang up once more in his breast The sound came nefirer and still more near. A path ran near the place where he lay; a man on horseback approached within a few rods of him; lie mustered his remaining strength and hailed him; but, to his utter surprise and dismay, the horseman turned suddenly and galloped off toward the licks. Despair now seized him. To die alone of hunger and thurst, in sight ol hundreds and of plenty, seemed to him the last dregs of the bitterest cap that Fate could offer to mortal lips. Oh, that lie could have fallen by the side of his friend in the proud battle!—that he could have met the Indian tomahawk, and died in the strength of his manhood, and not have been doomed to linger out his life in days and nights of pain and agony, and to . died by piecemeal in childish despair! While these thoughts were passing through his mind, the horseman, a negro, regained the licks and alarmed the people with the intelligence that the Indians were approaching. On being interrogated, all the account he could give was that some person had called to him in the woods, a half mile off, and called him by the wrong name. It was manifest it was not Indians, and forthwith a number of men set out, guided by the negro, to the place. Crist’s hopes again revived when he heard voices, and saw lights approaching. They came near and hailed. Crist new the voice, and called to the man by name. This removed all doubt, and they approached the spot. A sad and mournful sight was before them, A man that had left them but a few days before in the bloom of youth, health, and buoyant spirits,, now lay stretched upon the earth, a worn and mangled skeleton, unable to lift a hand to bid them welcome. Tliev boro him home. The ball was extracted, but his recovery was slow anq doubtful. It was a year before he was a man again. The woman in the boat was caried a prisoner to Canada. Ten years afterward Crist met her again in Kentucky. She had been redeemed by an Indian trader, and brought to Wayne’s camp on the Maumee, and restored to her friends. She informed Crist that the body of Indians which made the attaok on the boat numbered over 120, of whom about thirty were killed in the engagement The account was confirmed by the Indians that Crist met with afterward, and who had been in the battle. They told Crist that the boat’s crew fought more like devils than men, and if they had taken one of them prisoner, they would have roasted him alive. Crist was afterward a member of the Kentucky Legislature, and in 1808 was a member of Congress. He died at his residence in Bullitt county, in August, 1834, aged 80 years.

Grandiloquent Peasants.

With regard to the long words which the Irish peasant is so fond of, it must be borne in mind that in the outlying districts many of the “mountaing” men, as they are called, still speak English as a foreign language and carry away from their early sohooling a good many bookish words which they reserve for their conversation with the “quality.” A ragged native once offered to carry my “thumperies," i e., traps, and another, an assiduous fisherman, has spoken of having “perused the stream for several hours.” On this point it seems that the Highlanders rej semble the Irish. Only the other day, when I was stay .ng at a shooting-bos in Boss-shire, my host related to me how his gillie had diverted him by replying to his remark that the wind was very good for driving deer. “Yes, it’s jeest classical.” Muoh that is pie* turesque and quaint in the speech of Irish peasants is due to his surround? ings and the conditions of liis life. In • asmuch as seaweed is largely used in agriculture, one can realize the feelings which prompted S' 1 countrywoman — called in at anemergency to do housemaid's work, slid seeing some alga employed as an ornament —to exclaim: -Glory to God, to think that I should live to see the manure in the drawingroom.” So, when in reply to the question of a friend of mine whether he had seen any rabbits, a native answered, “Yes, your honor, whole funerals of them," he only employed the word representing the greatest combination of length and numbers with whioh his experience had rendered him acquainted.—The Spectator. \ Ax advertiser in a Boston paper asks for “a careful man to look after the house wad be company for her dog during her absence in Europe." ) ■ .... • ' u : /

A GREAT POSTOFFICE.

What a “Smash" la, and Howlt la Handled. While the rush of New York's outgoing mail is' at its height, and men are working tooth and nail to make some progress against the inundating flood that comes in from the business houses, the rumble of heavy wagons comes faintly in through the open doorways at the northern end of the building and a growl of pardonable profanity passes around among the hard-worked men as they think of over 100,000 extra pieces suddenly to be dumped upon their hands. This is a ‘‘smash" in the vernacular of the postofiice. It is break in the levee to the inhabitants ot a Mississippi town, and can be conquered only by the most herculean efforts. It differs from the western flood chiefly in the frequency of its coming. It is at such times as this that the splendid efficiency of the New York postoffice is shown to perfection. The magnificent spectacle of a regiment of trained men working together with the precision of clock work, and a keen intensity which causes great mountains of paper to dwindle away into a thousand receptacles, is worth going a great ways to see. But few are privileged to see it. The postoffice is a hard nut to crack. It is a nut with two shells. All can penetrate the outer husk, but when it comes to cracking the inner shell, the penetralia of this hive of industry, one must have uncommon good luck to make a success of it. Exactly how big ai “smash” it would take to overwhelm the office is one of those problems that have never yet been solved, for the reason that the office has always come out triumphant from the severest trials. Considering that the daily average of pieces handled is two and a quarter millions, and that the run of mail matter is always more or less irregular, the working force At the disposition of Postmaster Pearson must of necessity be large and flexible —that is to say, some must be qualified to move from one place to another whenever stress comes upon a particular department. But when, on the contrary, the constant pressure of the regular work is brought into consideration one cannot help wondering that the office should be capable of performing one of the tremendous spurts which so frequently is recorded by it. It is safe to say that there is no busier spot on earth than this clearing house of Uncle Sam’s. No one can spend a couple of hours within the great rotunda and wonder that so many of the employes are cultivating shortness of sight and open spaces on the tops of their fiends. The ceaseless pulse of labor which beats there clay and night, week day and holiday, year in and year out, is enough to make the mere spectator dizzy. The bi postoffice is always busy. The first thing which happens to a piece of mail matter when it enters the office at either end, is the stamping of the day and hour upon it. This recoi'd is never omitted. It is the department’s badge of honor, for one can always see with what celerity his mail reaches its destination after it has once been branded withjtbe familiar “P. O. N. Y.” Next comes the distribution, so divided up into “large” and “close” assortments that the utmost speed is attained by several handlings. In the case of mails coming into town, as much assortment as possible has alread taken place. The bank letters, for instance, have been placed together, and they are always bundled first. This one department is no child’s play, for the Mew York banks receive from 2,00 J to 4,000 letters apiece every day. Then comes the separation of box letters from carrier letters, by distributing clerks of the highest degree of expertness, and then the more “close” distribution, either into the boxes of the different carriers or of the box tenants. If it be near the carrier hour of departure the clerks are concentrated upon their mail while the box delivery fills up the chinks of time between whiles. These are somewhat familiar processes, however, and do not need enlarging upon. —New York Herald.

The Book Agent from Boston.

She was a book agent from Boston. “Comprehend my manifestations of acumen and experience,” * she remarked sweetly. “I personate the sweet flower by the wayside, t The quicksilver reposes entirely in the bulb on snch occasions as I fail to accom? ish my laudable tically impossible to induce me to personate the guileless finny denizen of our native streams. J Of course it is needleas to deny that I have certain pecuniary objects in view.§ I observed the number of gentlemen entering this edifice and set to music, to speak.** You perceive that it is necessary to imitate the allegorical ship cf the desert to provide neoessary material for the sustenance of the larvae type.! Have yon descended suddenly to the concussion produced in the atmosphere through my individual effort*** May I hope to see yon assist the helpmeet of your father’s brother to a greater elevation And they all bought a book. [•Get onto my style. +l'm a daisy, I am. Hit’s a cold dav when I get 1 ft. JCan't plav me fur a snekee sl’m afrer the scads. **J piped, the pla-e off. SI have to hump my el to vet vrub. ***Do you tumble to my racket? *S*Will you ante np?]

Equipped fur the Enterprise.

Little Bob Miggsundertook to entertain his sister’s beau in the parlor while she primped. “Do you make ink ?” asked Boh. “No, I do not, Bobbie ?” “Why don’t yon?” “Oh, I have other business.”'^ •‘Couldu’t you get more money by making ink?” “I don’t know.” - '/< ■ “Cause Pa said at supper that you had more gall than any man in Atlanta of his knowing!” Then the young man wrote “P. P. C.” all over-the face of a visiting cafd and put out for the nearest beer-dive.— Georgia Cracker. Fort SdmTkr has literally fallen. It * now only one-story high, and has but half a dozen guns, not one of which could be used. The government pays ibout S2OO a mouth for watchmen, who keep lights burning on the fort for veasals.

A YEAR'S DISASTERS.

Record of the Notable Mishaps , Involving the Destruction of Human Life. A Ghastly Catalogue of Accidente by Flood and Field, on Land and Water. Sinking Ships, Colliding Trains, and Exploding Mines the Chief Causes of Death. / JANUARY. The lonjr chapter of the year’s disasters involving: the destruction of human ltfe ‘ opened on the 2d day of January, when twenty-seven men were killed by a railway collision at Toronto, Canada. The other accidents during: January which we have thought worth recording are as follows: Thirty-two nuns and pupils in the Roman Catholic Convent at BpileviUe, 111., burned to death. Seven men killed and twelve injured by an explosion of tire-damp in the Ferfay coal/mine at Arras, France. Two hundred Chinese lost by the wreck of the steamer Huai Tuen, fre m Shanghai for Hong Kong. Railway train caught tire from oil on the track, near Bradford, Pa., and eight persons fatally burned. Eleven lives lost in a coal-pit at Cwmamma, Wales, by the breaking of a cage rope. Steamer City of Columbus, from Bpston for Savannah, wrecked In Vineyard Sound; one hundred lives lost. A family of eight persons burned to death in Renoir County, North Carolina- Bark Emma and ten lives lost on the Now Jersey coast. Ten men killed by a colliery explosion in France, and a dozen by a similar accident in England. Ten men drowned by the upsetting of a raft at Carthage, Tenn. Loss of three Gloucester fishing schooners, with fifty-six men. Fifty-nine lives lost by an explosion in a Colorado mine. The ship Simla, with twenty souls, lost in the English Channel, and a steamer goes down on the Welsh' coast—the loss of life by the two disasters numbering thirty-six. FEBRUARY. Thirty-five people drowned by the breaking of the ice at Thesis, Austria. Six children burned to death at Crockett, Texas. Forty natives killed in Weet Africa by an explosion of gunpowder. A cyclone sweeps over Georgia, Mississippi, and the Carolinas, killing upward of 400 people and destroying a vast amount of p-operty. Ten lives lost by the foundering of ,ae bark Ada Barton, off St. John, N. B. Six persons killed and eight wounded by the fall of a railroad train through a bridge near Indianapolis, Ind. Gasoline explosion in a store in Alliance, Ohio; eight persons killed. News from Corunna, Spain, of the sinking of a Spanish vessel and the loss of nineteen men. Fifty fishermen on the Caspian Sea carried, out on the ice and drowned. The floods in the Ohio River this month were the worst over known. At Cincinnati the water was over seventy feet deep. Among the disaitrous incidents was the fall of a large board-ing-house in Cincinnati, killing fourteen of the inmates. Nineteen miners killed by a fire-damp explosion four miles from Uniontown, Pa, Seventeen passengers killed by the explosion of the boiler of the steamer Kotsai, from Hong Kong for Macao. MARCH. One hundred and fifty-four lives lost by an explosion in a oblliory at Pocahontas, Va. Thirteen people buried by a snow avalanche In Utah. Fifteen people killed by a similar accident in Colorado. The ship Bombay founders at sea, and the crew of nineteen perish. APRIL. The town of Oakville, Ind., destroyed by a cyclone, and five persona killed. Storms in Alabama, Georgia and Pennsylvania'cause great destruction of property and kill some twenty people. Five men killed at Port Arthur, Canada, by an explosion of dynamite. Thirteen lives lost by the burning of a steamer on the Chattahoochee River, in Georgia. Loss of the steamer Daniel Steinmann off Halifax; 124 people drowned. Seven persons killed by a railway accident at Cisco, Tex. Eight men lose their lives by a railroad accident at Scranton, Pa. Five children burned to death at Gadsden, Ala. Many people killed and maimed by a fire and panic in a theater at Bucharest. Fifteen lives lost by the wreek of the Danish bark Alba, in the Shetland Islands. Five persons drowned while boating in the Hudson River, near Sing Sing. Collision in mid-ocean between steamer State of Florida and bark Ponema. Both vessels lost and 135 persons drowned. More than forty persons killed by the falling qf a train of ears into tbe river near Ciudad Real, Spain. French banker PaquebotYun down and sunk by Norwegian bark Venus; twelve men drowned. Fourteen inmates of Van Euren County Poor House, near Hartford, Mich., burned to death. Explosion of powder magazine of San Antonio, near Havana; twentyone persons killed and many wounded. Extensive forest fires in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, burning several villages and many square miles of timber land; a number of persons perished in tho flames. MAY. Five men killed at' Waterford, N. Y., by the explosion of a bleacher in a straw-board mill. The French brig Senorine foundered off the great banks of Newfoundland, the crew and passengers, numbering sixty-two, perishing. The British ship Syria wrecked on the Fiji Islands; seventy passengers, all coolies, were drowned. By collision between freight and gravel trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Connellsviile, Pa., fourteen laborers were killed. Several shocks of earthquake throughout the peninsula of Cyzicus, Asia Minor, several villages wore damaged; many houses were destroyed; and 200 persons killed. Nineteen lives lost bv the foundering of the ship Alantine off the Magdalen Islands. The bottom of the ferry boat at St. Alberts, P. Q., broke through, causing the drowning of seven persons. By the explosion of a boiler in the Whitney Marble Works at Gouverneur, N,. Y-, seven men were killed. Ten women were blowd’to pieces and two others wounded by an explosion of dynamite at a factory in Ayrshire, Scotland. Five persons killed by a .boiler explosion at Dubuque, lowa. _\ _ ■ ~ JUNE. Eleven men drowned in a flood,-caused by a cloud-burst, in camp on Frenchman's Creek, Colorado. Schooner Six Brothers and fourteen men lost off Newfoundland. Eleven men drowned at Thompson's Falls, Montana. News from Greenland of the loss of the Danish brig Elena and ten of her crew. Two Americans and twelve Mexicans killed In a railroad accident in New Laredo. Several persons fatally injured by the wrecking of a train on the Burlington and Missouri Railroad. Deaths from lightning reported in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Twentyfive persons killed by the breaking of an engine axle on the Manchester and Sheffield Railway. England. Forty persons overwhelmed and drowned by a water-spout in Russian Turkestan. Fourteen men killed by the premature explosion of a blast near Tampico, Mexico. Thirty people killed by the explosion of a powder-mill in Italy. Abridge across the river Vistula, in Germany, upon which many people were standing, was swept away by a flood and twenty of them were drowned. Six Italians drowned at Somers, N. Y., by the upsetting of a boat. july. Steamer Amsterdam, of Netherlands and American Navigation Company's line, wrecked on Bable Island in a fog; three passengers tort. Twenty - four miners killed by a colliery explosion in British Columbia. Ten persons drowned by the foundering of a schooner off Beck’s Beach, N. J. Twenty passengers killed and forty seriously Injured by' a railway accident near Manchester, England. Five men killed by tbe explosion of a locomotive boiler at White?, Haven, Pa. Lightning struck the farm-houseof Nathan Miner, near Maryville, Kan., killing big four uftughr ten while asleep. . AUGUST. Ste&mer dir of Merida burned at He* muTZ Uvn tost. Transfer steamer ' - it, i -

Belmont sunk m a storm near Ev*.«vllle, Ind.; sixteen lives lost. Sefcl teen men suffocated in an undergrei ta canal at Braye, France. Seven coif U burned to death in a mine at ShamokinJ L five people fatally poisoned at Shelby*!! Ind., by eating biscuit in which arsenhfl kd been put by mistake. A gale on tho foundland coast causes considerable lot Jot life. Seven men killed by An explosions a * coal-pit at Paisley, Scotland. Ten mML longing to Orton's Circus perish in a biffing sleeping-car near Greeley, Col. SEPTEMBER. I Destructive fire in Cleveland, Ohio. I .(no persons killed in an accident on the MAfaan Central Railroad. Distillery expiosiofl/Pekin, ill.—several killed. A rapid risoßEthe Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers, destflring over $1,000,000 worth of property, ■lews from China that the province of Kia»-See had been inundated, and seventy thKsand lives lost- Fifty-two lives lost by th* sinking of the British gunboat Wasp, off Tory Island. Seven persons killed an*'much property destroyed by a qyclone in Ailiegany County, N. Y. Twenty lives lost by a fire in a sulphur mine in Sicily. j . OCTOBER. Sixty persons killed by a railroad accident in India. Oyer 300 lives lost by a hurricane in Iceland- Ten soldiers burned to (death in a fire at the royal palace at Copenhagen. At Esseg, Austria, fourteen children, while playing in aboaton the river Drave.capsized it and all were drowned. Ten men idrowned at Chicago by the washing away./during a gale, of a hut in which they were lodging. Ex. Gov. Moses sentenced to three months in the Detroit Penitentiary for forgi ry. Five men killed by a powder taill ex] losion at Cumminsville, Ontario. Twenty-e iven persons killed and 400 injured by a syclone in Catania, on the island of Sicily. Th Japanese cities ot Yokohama and Tokio w re visited by a terrible typhoon; in the _ itter city 3,000 houses were wnolly or partially destroyed; twenty people were lftUled; the loss of life at sea wa9 appalling! Six men killed by a boiler explosion all Beltrami, Minn. A storm on the coast of Lower California wrecks a steamer and sfveh sailing craft, the loss of life reaching nearly 100. Eighteen men suffocated in a coal mine at Youngstown, Ohio. Sixteen persons trampled to death during a panto in a Glasgow theater, caused by a cry of fire. Several vessels wrecked and many lives lost by a hurricane in tbe Bahama Islands. NOVEMBER. Nine persons slain by a boiler explosion in a New Orleans sugar house. Six men die at Sunbury, Ont., from eating pork affected with trichinae. - A railway train goes through a bridge at Hempstead, Texas, drowning twelvd passengers and wounding forty.. Seventeen lives lost by the sinking of the American ship Andrew Johason, off the coast of Brazil. Nine men drowned by the capsizing of a boat near Halifax, N. S. Several persons killed by a boiler explosion on an Alabama River steamer. An unknowndisease, supposed to be caused by a long drought and the consequent drying up of the springs and brooks, carries off many people in Southwest Virginia. 'Twenty persons drowned by the sinking of the steamer Durango, in the English Channel. Seven men killed by a boiler explosion at Elizabeth tewn, Ky. Eight men killed by a railway collision at Henning’s Station, Tenn. DECEMBER. A vessel founders in the China sea, and sixty Chinese find a watery grave. The schooner Mary Joseph wrecked off' St. Johns, N. F., and the passengers and crew, thirteen in number, drowned. Four schooners, with all on board, lost on the Newfoundland coast. Six men killed by a gas explosion in a mine at Sbamokin, Pa. A conflagration at Trenton, Pa., causes the death of six'persons. Five people lose their lives in a similar way at Newport, Ark. An orphan asylum in Brooklyn. N. Y., burned, and twenty-five children cremated. Thirty negro oystermen drowned in the Rappahannock River, in Virginia, during a gale. Seventy-five men killed by a colliery explosion in South Hungary,

Stories of the Proctor.

A certain ungraduate, who held an open scholarship at a hard-working college, and for whom a brilliant career was predicted, had the misfortune to be detected in a billiard room after 9 o’clock at night. Now it happened that the proctor knew his captive as a student of great promise, and was unwilling to subject him to the degradation of a fine; on the other hand, he could not consent to defraud the university. After a few minutes’ reflection a delicate compromise suggested itself. He conversed aflfably for some time, and then inquired, with much apparent interest: “By the way, Mr. Princeps, have you subscribed to the (Eharity Organization Society?” “No, I have not.” “Well, let me recommend you to do bo. lam a member of the committee, and shall be happy to subscription at once, if it is convenient to ___ » you. “May I ask what is the usual donaiton ?” “Ten shillings—l am much obliged to you. Good-morning Mr. Princeps.” The other legend runs as follows: A famous young orator was returning one night from the Union' Debating Society, and solacing himself with a pipe on his way home. Meeting a proctor within a few yards of the union, and suspecting that uncompromising zeal had led his foe to lie in ambush till the close of the debate—an unpardonable atrocity in the eyes of undergraduates—he determined to be even with him. So, having given up his name and college, and made the usual appointment, he spent the rest of the evening in making a round of the public houses, and returned to his room with his pockets nearly bursting, and a , smile of triumph on his brow. Next morning he called upon his captor, bearing in bis hand a fat calioo bag tied up with red tape. “Mr. Spduter, i think?” Spouter bows assent. “ Ab! you wore smoking in the corn market last night, Mr. Bpouter. I must trouble yon for ten shillings. Spouter unties his bag and oat rushes a torrent of halfpence. “Will you oblige me by counting them, sir? I can only make 239,” Spouter left Oxford next morning, and did not return till the following term.— CasselVs Magazine. It is now five years since 8. N. Silver, of Auburn, Me., began eating only one meal a day. He spends an hour in eating, but eats no more than he would if he had the other two meals daily. He is twenty-five pounds heavier, and is able to endure more than when he ate three times a day. He never has a cold. “It i* a problem of perfect assimilation of food, says he. “Twore wife, too, has eaten but one meal a day for three ware, and she is in perfect health. He says that fifteen or twenty I of his acquaintances have adopted his {system. [ ■ ~' _ ,t I I ~ orW^^kfaSy owe 0 we® 1^