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No. 8 arrives at Htate Line at 9-.S5 p. m. and No. 10 at 6:45 a. m. No 2 leaves Chicago Dally, except Saturday. N. 10 leave Rlohmond daily, except Sunday, and Lqoansport for Chicago dally, so.1 leaves aai llv. except Hatur rday and Sunday. Ail outer trains run except Be anday. K4UM BHaaal Dlwlelaa. NOVKMBKR 2, 187S. OOIMO WEST. No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. 10. PittsburgDres.Jnnc, 2:45 pm 2:15 ami 84 am 0:40 am 1032 pm 3:57 pm 635 pm Columbus. I London .1 i:iaam 230 ami 85 am 60 am 1035 a 63 am 730am 8:50 am 10:50 am 1136 am 7:30 pm 8:44 pm Oiiopm 1135 pm 00 pm Xenla.... Morrow 12:85 pm 1:43 pm 3:10 pm 12:40 pm l:H5pm 3:45 pm 4:33 am 6:30 am 3:40 am 65 am 8:55 am Cincinnati Xenla Davton 735 am 90 am 10:30 pm Richmond Ind 'polls 12:40 pm! wsm OOIMO KAST. No. 1. No. 3. No. 5. No. 7. Ind'apoUs. 100 am 3:30 pm 7:10 pm Hienmona 10 pm DaytonXenla . 8:30 am 5:35 pm 35 pm 110 pm 40 pm 12:30 am 930 am 7:10 pm 40 pm 60 pm 7:15 pm Cincinnati 6:50 am 8:18 am 1:30 pml 9:45 pm 80 pm 11:15 pm 40pm,120am 6:14 pm 1:51 am 6:15 pm 2:55 am 8:40 pm 5:19 am 2:15 am 11:50 am Morrow Xenla ... London 935 am 10:38 am 8:48 pm dOpm Columbus. 11:40 ami Dres. Juuc. 1:58 pm .Pittsburg. 730 pml Nos. 1, 2. A and 7 run Dallv to and from OtnalnMti. Non. 1 and DallV between inal Xenla and Dayton. All otner Trains Dally. except Sunday. r.K.nii, - Qen'l Passenger and Ticket Agent. C. B. 4k FtTwayie Hallr xl. OOIMO NOKTH. OOIMO SOUTH. O R m'l Aex.lO0 am Portland ac... 90 am O R ml ex.35 pm Portland ac....40pm Arrival Pfssrtsrtsf Malia. ROUTES. OPESt. CLOU EH. ' Cincinnati, throu)U... Cincinnati and way : Chicago, through Chicago and way ........ ; Columbus and way . Dayton and way. . Indianapolis, through. Indianapolis and way.. Ft. Wayne and way...... ABBA. 60 ami 6:30 am 60 pm 10:30 am 70 am 70 pm 40 pm 9-.30 am 8:00 am 7:30 pm 12:30 pm 12:30 pm ::iu am 80 am 10 am 70 pmj 3:30 pm 9:30 am ' Monday, Wed 'day, Friday KLOOMIMOSPORT. 110 ami 12:00m Tuesday .Thursday at'd'y 120 m 120 m 20 pm COIO.BOB fTOBNKR. . Tneaday and Friday.. UBKXTT. Mondav and Friday 12:30 pm 60 pm 90 am 70 am Lake Shore via Wlnche'r, 9:30 am Office open from 70 a. m. to 7:30 p: m. Un Sunday, from u to uio a. m. . W W. DAVIS. P. M. H. M. PETTJ&1CCIIU. Si CO., 40 Park Row, New York, Are acents for the Rlohmond Palladium in that city, and are authorised to contract for inserting advertisements for us at lowest cash rates. Advertisers In that city are re quested to leave favors witn tnem. Hereafter the Pacifio Mail Company will dispatch but one steamer per month from San Francisco for China and Japan. The Omaha Republican complains because toe Mayor ot the city has re moved to Chicago, and still holds onto his office. One hundred and ten car loads (1.100 tons) of fruit and vegetables were shipped East fromJSacraniento during the last season. A valuable mine of cinnabar has been found near Virginia City. Mon tana. A thousand pounds of ore has been sent to Sau Francisco t be tes ted. Rufus Kinjr, ex-Postmaster of Sil er City, I. T. indicted for embeizling fiJ.UUU postal money orders, ; on ar raignment, Nov. 21, entered a plea of "guiity." The Danbury man's last is: "The churches : were well filled Sunday. The shape is an improvement, but the trimming 13 not wholly satisfactory, - They set a little further back on the head than the summer styles, "we think." . California pays a greater internal revenue tax than five ot the Mew England States together. Thus Maine. Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhodo Island, and Connecticut pay altogether $1,814,549, or $553,000 less than California pays. In Castro Valley, Alameda County. Cat., there is a forest of Australian turn trees covering over 100 acres. The trees were planted only three and a half years ago, and some have attained a height of fifty feet and a diameter of twelve inches. A volcano has broken out in the Piute Mountain, ten miles east of Eureka, Nev. There is a heavy black smoke constantly issuing from the rater. Several gentlemen visited the place and brought back specimens of lava which had been thrown out. A yonngman at Austin, Nev., the other day made a serious mistake. He ' bought a nice dress pattern for his sweetheart, and a pair of red flannel drawers for himself. He delivered the wrong bundle to the young ladr. Result: a broken head and a ruined frying-pan.

For the Palladium.

THE WM MK. BV 8TAMLKY. They talk of the town and la gay delights. lis tollies and bunions and tinsel show, Bat give me the country and rural sights. . with songs of the birds where the forests grow, ..,..,-,,; : With murmuring streams and the wild cas cade. The beautiful vale and the hill-tops high. The green sunny slopes and the sylvan -shade,. . To temper the heats of the summer sky. You Jostle along In the city's throng, A stranger to those that you see each day; With pride and conceit you are sure to meet, Tho' much that Is lovely Is there, they say. ! TIs nobler by far than the city's strife, To Iratch, to attend to the growing plants Expanding In beauty with wondrous life, ' Away, far away Croat the city 'sfaaunts. Those fountains from which come the flow ing streams, : That polsa .pollute d destroy and sprawl r To such an extent, that it almost seems :.. That virtue and honor and truth are dead; The Happiest spot in the world is not Where en vy and hatred and vice abound ; It .must be confessed that the homes are blest, i Where kindheao, contentment and love are ' found. . A home, such as these is the home for me, Embowered away in some quiet dell. And dearer by far than a home could be, With giltl lag pomp wbese the heartless dwetl; . With nature around ua on every hand ' Her beautiful, glorious works displayed, As well In minute as the great and grand. The storm beaten oak and the tiny blade. What volumes of thought to the mind are brought! The wonderful space where the worlds re volve. The blades of the grass over which we pass, Are mysteries deeper than man can solve. From the N. Y. Sun, Dec. 25th. THE WONDROUS MUSICIAN. Haw Bliad Tana Bceanse a Croat PI. aalst-An Iaterestina; Sketch of his Early Life lsnpravlslng at Years af Age Ills Strange) Lave af Waaderfal Pawera of Inaltatlan Likes and Dislikes. si VPs Hv is uv u cau avaavray, i4i John Bethune, the guardian and man ager of .Bund lorn, in answer to the Sun reporter's questions. "I have travelled all over this countrv and Europe with him and have invited the scrutiny of the most scientific men as to his mental peculiarities, and not one of them has ever pronounced him an idiot. Charles Halle shook his head and pronounced him "a most singular and inexplicable phenome:.i- ii ' i :!. i uuu Willi marvellous iiiueiuiai kiiib. Moscheles. the preceptor of Mendels sohn and Thalberg, entertained Tom and myselt several days at Chelsea, where he has a handsome villa. He tested bis abilities m various ways and every test was satisfactory. Hi declared that his power of analyzing cnorus execeueu compreneusion; uuu when he had tried him in every conceivable manner be exclaimed: "He is more marvellously gilted by nature as a musical wonder than any creature that ever lived. Mr. Bethune rapped at the door of Tom s room, lie caretully opened it a little and peeped cautiously at us. "It's me, Tom' said Mr. Bethune; open the door. When the reporter was introduced to him, Tom put out his hand in i hesitating, timid manner, drew him sell away toward the grand piano and looked annoyed. "This is a friend of ours, Tom," said Mr. Bethune, "who writes for the newspapers." Tom made a face and turned his back His attitude even more than his face had expressed repugnance and annoy ance. Go on practising, then, said his guardian. That s just the way he acts toward everybody. He never talks with a stranger and not otten to me. V benever he asks a question it is invaria blv about music. Does he play on any other instru ment beside the pianor l es. a little on the flute: but be does not caro for any instrument but the piano. One day some one of the family was trying to give him some religious instructions. When they began to talk to him about the music in heaven he brightened up and ask ed, Are there any pianos there: A PET IN THE FAMIL Y. "Was he blind from childhood?" "Yes. born blind. We thought when he was a baby that he was an idiot. As soon as he began to run about the yard he became a great pet with all the family. I used to notice his fondness for musical sounds by his coming to me wherever 1 sat play ing my flute. He would crawl to me, put his bands on my knees stand up and begin to jump, and as long as 1 would play he would continue to jump, and no matter how long I played he never ceased to jump nor seemed fatigued All sounds seemed to interi est him and when any of the other children cried he appeared wild with delight. He soon learned the sound of carriage wheels, and when we had visitors he invariably came up to the house to listen to the babies crying if any came. As we lived on the planta tion in tieorgia, most ot the visitors were from a distance, family connec tions or intimate friends, who generally came to spend several days. If there were babies in the party, lorn knew the precise hour in the morning I when they were bathed and dressed, and nothing prevented his being there on the long piazza, listening to the cries of the little ones as their nurses made their morning toilets. His mother had seventeen children, and ; he always seemed delighted when she whipped any of them. Their cries were music to Tom. Yet he did not seem at all cruel as he grew older. He talked no baby talk, but, beginning at an earlier age than most children, he uttered his words distinctly from the first. He attached no meaning to them, but repeated what he heard at random. He never attempted to make his wants known by words, although he had at two years a very large vocabulary. When he wanted anything he whined, and his wants had to be guessed at. He was always in the ! dining-room at meal times. His mother had never tried to teach him I anything. She said he had not sense I enough to learn. My father said he knew that was a mistake, so one night v:i V - ' . 1 . -n while we were at tea he said to Tom, 4 oiv u. rep?siru me

words, but stood stilL My father repeated the order and at the same time sat the little fellow down. He then lifted him up and repeated the order. Tom instantly sat down. He then told him to get up, and lifted him up. Then to sit down, and he dropped on the floor. The next time he told him to get up. Tom lumped up. Every body after that began to teach him something, and he proved an apt scholar. Tell him the name of any

thing as you presented it to him, be would put hia hands on it, smell it, and pronounce its name. Any num ber of objects might be presented him in this manner, and he would never forget the names nor the objects to which they belonged. He never forgets anything that he is taught." 1 :- t KARNING BY SOUND. ' How did b learn the alphabet and to spell?" i. t oimplv bv renetitton.'as I told vou he learns everything by .BjouixL. ' We tried him with the raised letters for the blind, but he took no interest in them. He takes no interest in the commou affairs of life. He does not know the value of money or the nature or necessity for any business transaction. He has never asked how a piano was made. If the pedal gets out of order or a string breaks he says, The draft is wrong." He cannot bear to hear anything about business. letters he detests. lie takes all mine and Mr. Warhurst'a letters that he can find and throws them out of the window. If I ask him what for, he answers: "Because I don't like to hear you read them. I hope vou won't get any more. He is a mystery to everybody that knuws him. When he is at home down in Virginia, where I always take him in the summer, he takes no particular interest in what is going on around him. He will stand all day listening to the mowing machines, and he always does the churn ing ot the butter trom choice, because he likes to hear the sound. We have always, as far as possible, permitted him to do whatever he chose. He is so tractable if we tell him anything is wrong' he will not do it again." Have you ever told him that he oaght not to cut up those singular antics on the stage?'. We have, and he tries to restrain himself, but those motions 'seem in some way connected with his faculty ot remembering or composing music. When he is composing a piece he acts in the same manner, but the movements and contortions of his body are much more eccentric and violent when he is alone, or in his room with those with whom he is familiar." 'What makes you think that he will become a great composer?" lie has always been a composer. You know that we accidentally discovered that he could play the piano when he was Jabout four years old. About that time a piano was purchased for my sisters. The very first notes struck brought Tom to the house. We had already discovered:. his powers as a singer. VV hen two years old he improvized seconds to every song that he heard, singing in concert wun my sisters ana otners. When he came up to hear the piano we lilted him to the key board and permitted him to indulge his curiosity in running his fingers over the keys and smelling them. He was then taken outj but was content to listen on the piazza. As long as any one played he was happy and quiet, but iretted to get to the instrument when the music stopped. ASTONISHING THE FAMILY. One night his mother had neglected to fasten her cabin door, and on the same night the parlor and piano were accidentally left open. My sisters were awakened before daylight the next morning by the sounds of the piano. Some one was playing all their pieces. As soon as they were dressed they hurried to the room and there sat Tom playing with both hands. No one disturbed niin, and as the family rose all gathered round to hear him. His performance was imperfect, of course, but it was a miracle to us. After awhile he was allowed to play whenever he wished, and he wished to do so all the time. He mastered everything he had ever heard, and then began to compose. After playing over his acquired repertoire for several hours, he would go out in the yard and begin to run and jump and caper just as you see him on the stage, only with more vehemence, and then return to the piano and begin to play something of his own. When asked what it was, he answered, "It is what the wind said to me," or "the birds," or "the trees," or something else said to him. In that way he composed his "Rain Storm." He was not quite five years old when he gave us that composition, after listening to a summer storm, while Btanding in a corridor' that connected a wing ot the house with the main building, and where he heard the pattering ot the drops on the roof and the water running off through the gutters. It had been his custom to come and stand in that passage to listen to the combination of sounds to' be heard there during a storm from h'i9 babyhood. Another reason that makes me think he will be a great composer is that he prefers classical music, and the best compositions. He never amuses himself when recreating with any trifling study, and his improvisations in the way of interludes thrown between the themes of the great composers are admitted to be very fine. I could make ten times as much money by letting him play in spectacular dramas, where his wonderful powers could be brought in. 1, have received offers from numerous parties to do so but I regard the amount of money made as of small moment compared with his develop-, ment and his happiness. He is taking' lessons now. Come to-morrow and ee him take a lesson." FOND OF PRACTISING. Before leaving the reporter tried to engage Tom in conversation. He' asked him if he would not come and spend the evening with a friend of his who was a splendid musician. "No.", said Tom very positively, "I don't want to go. I had rather stay here and practise." He turned his face away as he ran his fingers over the keys, then stopped suddenly and asked, "Isn't it getting rather late ?" The reporter took the hint and left. The next day he returned to see the music lesson. Tom learns by imitation and repetition. Sometimes the professor, ! who is a fine pianist, gives him a little instruction in nngering. He waa

earning Prudent's "Reveil des fees." He accomplished the whole of thai

difficult study in two sittings. When the' professor is playing for him hia antics are grotesque beyond expression. He hops on one leg with hut head almost touching the floor for eight or ten minutes, then stands up, - - i , n 3 1pegins a seesaw una oi aance, uisse through his teeth, rubs his ears, shakes his extended fingers before his eyes, and then, trembling with pleas ure and expectation, rubs bis bands, whispers "That's easy," takes his seat, and plays precisely what the teacher has just executed, it he misses me bngenng the teacher gently recunes the mistake, and Tom takes it patiently and obeys implicitly. The landlady of the house where he has stop ped tor the last ten years, whenever he comes to New York, says he is the most amiable creature in the world. and so pious and conscientious that everybody loves him. He says hist I prayers every nigat oeiore ne goes to (bed. Mr. Bethune thinks he is not much attached to any one, but the reporter observed that he was attached to Mr. Bethune. He acts on the slightest hint from him, and there is no doubt but that the desire to please his guardian has influenced Toms development in the taste for classical music. - EDUCATION NEEDED. it is to be regretted that he has been so much indulged in following the bent ot his own inclinations. There is no doubt that if he had been placed under tuition for the blind and imbecile, or rather idiosyncratic, his powers as a musical artist would have been better developed. 1 be tact that he so readily acquired a vocabulary and then learned the use ot words shows that he conld have learned other things. I ndeed, it seem1) that his mental powers are extraordinary . ..... in many respects, ins eccentricities . i? . T T 1 111 are those ot genius, lie snouia De given the usual education for the blind, and supplied with books of raised letters. He should be controll ed in his inordinate taste for incessant expression of musical ideas and train ed to exercise his other intellectual powers, which may be dormant, but are certainly not entirely extinct. Such teaching would make a composer of him sooner than the exclusive course of study he now pursues. His health is perfect, his moral suscepti bilitics fine, his disposition excellent, and there is not a doubt but what Mr. Bethune and his family have done everything in their power to render him happy and provide tor bis tastes. necessities, ana idiosyncrasies. If there has been an error it has been in too much indulgence. He rusticates on Gen. Bethune's farm in Virginia every summer, and while there enjoys the same kind of pleasures he has from childhood. He converses but little with any one; never takes long walks: does not care to ride or drive: is happy jumping and dancing in his odd way about the grounds: listening to the mowing machines, the winds. I the birds, the trees, and all the sounds ot nature, playing the piano and churn ing the butter. A Disease-Des troy Ing Tree, The following paragraph, appear ed lately in the Medical Times and Gazette, and has been copied into some of the newspapers:' "M. Gimbert, who has been long engaged in collecting evidence concerning the Australian tree, Enca lyptas globulus, the growth of which is surprisingly rapid, attain ing, besides, gigantic dimensions, J has addressed an interesting com munication to the Academy of Sci ences. This plant it now appears, possesses an extraordinary power of destroying miasmatic influence in fever stricken districts. It has the singular property of absorbing ten times its own weight of water from the soil, and of emitting antiseptic champhorous effluvia. When sown in marshy ground, it will dry it up in a very short time. The English were the first to try it at the Cape, and within two or three years they completely changed the climatic conditions of the unhealthy parts of the colony. A few years

later, its plantation was undertaken j Bet apart for educational purposes, on a larger scale ia various parts and snail be distributed to the severof Algeria. At Padrock. twentv 1 al States of the Union, according to

miles from Algiers, a farm situated on the banks of the Hamyze, was noted for its extremely jtestilential air. In the spring of 1867, about 13,000 of the eucalyptus were plant ed there. In July of the same year! the time when the fever season naa.l oof. in tint, a oincrln raeo ocenred: vet the trees were not Am ? t- 1-1 I",- . I more wan nine ieei nign. pince then, complete immunity from fever has been mantained. In the neighborhood of Constantino, the farm of Ben Machydlin was equally in bad repute. It was covered with marshes both in winter and summer. In five years, the whole ground was dried up by 14,000 of these trees, and farmers and children enjoy good health. At the factory of thh Gue de Con tontine, in three years a plantation of eucalyptus has transformed twelve acres of marshy soil into a magnificent park, whence fever has completely disappeared. In the island ot Cuba, this and all other paludal diseases are fast disappearing from all the unhealthy districts where this tree has been introduced. A station house at one of the ends of a rail wayviduct in the department of the Var was so pestilential that the officials could not be kept there longer than a year. Forty of these trees were planted, and it is now as healthy as any other place on the line. We have no information as to whether ths beneficent tree will grow in other than hot cli mates. We hope that experiments will be made to determine this point. It would be a good thing to introduce on the west cost of Africa If you want to see if a law is good or not. enforce it.

GOING TO THUNDER.

mt mm M stager A la MaefcctTa. A few years ago a new opera house was built in a city in the interior of Pennsylvania, and soon alter its com pletion it was engaged by a theatrical company, which began its season with a representation pt "Macbeth. They were a little short banded,, and the manager enraged a man named Steh. bins to help behind the scenes. Among . other things, stebbins was instructed to rattle the thunder out of the sheet iron concern made for that purpose. and he was told to produce the detonations only when the manager gave him the signal with his hand. That night, when the performance came off, Stebbins thundered along all right as the curtain went up. and during Tthe witches' scene. But when Mac beth began his soliloquy, a fly lit on the manager's nose, and as he lifted hishand to brash it off, Stebbins mis-: took the movement lor the preconcer ted signal, and just as the warrior on the stage uttered the words, "Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair," the new man rolled out a most terrific clap, which made the audience jump iii tueir eeais. luacoein iook a private swear, and repeated the line, Whose horrid image doth unfix mv hair?" but Stebbins seeing the mana ger gesticulating wildly at him, imagined that more thunder was wanted after the word "hair," and so he shook out a fresh lot of awful reverberations and as the manager still stood there shaking his fist at him, Stebbins thought perhaps the man was worried because there was not enough thunder so he pounded and shook and rattled and jumped around with that artillery of heaven, until the perspiration rolled off him in streams. When he stopped for a second to take a better hold, "Macbeth" would begin again. Whose horrid image " Stebbins. "R-r-r-rip bang cr r-r-rash boom! boom! K-r-r r-r-rattle-attle-attle boom boo-oo-oom." Macbeth. "Doth un " Stebbins. "C-r-r r-rash-rash-rash-rattlc-attle cim bam boom!" Macbeth. "Fix my " Stebbins. Br-r-r-oo-oo-oom bim bim boom de him-bam-boom-r-r-rin-bang c-rr-r-rash!" Macbeth. "Hair, Gentlemen and ' Stebbins. "Boom oom de-bim bam-boom." Macbeth. "Ladies, there is an" Stebbins. "Coom-o-oonicrash!" Macbeth. "Uproarious lunatic behind here who wants--" Stebbins. "Rattle-attle-attle-bim!" Macbeth. "To be suppressed. Excuse me for a minute while I shake the-" Stebbins. Bim! Macbeth him!" Stebbins. bim-boom! Everlasting liver out of 'R-r-rumble-umble-boom And while the audience roared, Macbeth disappeared and in a minute returned wrestling with Stebbins. A frightful conflict ensued then and there on that blasted heath; and while Macbeth pommelled Stebbins with his claymore, Stebbins whanged Macbeth over the head with the thunder so the battle raged until one of the witches pulled Macbeth off, while "Banquo lent the .thunderer a rag with which to bind up his bleeding nose. The program was changed next night, and stebbins was discharged; but he will go into another and better world with the firm conviction that Macbeth was mad because there was not enough vim in the thunder, al though Stebbins felt certain he did his best. Max Adeler. Rational AM la State Schools. Hon. G. F. Hoar's educational bill now before Congress, is intended to offer a premium to all States to estab lish schools for the free education of all its children between the ages of six and sixteen years. The measure is not of any great importance to the older States, where schools have already been established. It is claimed however, that the establishment of such an educational fund would stimulate the newer States to the building up of a public school system as effici- ' ent in reaching all classes of the community as the schools of the Middle States and New England. Mr. Hoar's bill provides that all moneys realized frnm ttiA esIa nf mihlin lands slinll Tw their population, provided that the States claiming their proportion shall establish free schools, make annual reports, and show that moneys pre viously granted to them have been j used f ir the purposes required by the act. Other sections prescribe the manner of the distribution, the dispoB1UOU to uv uiaue oi uiuuevs noi ciaimed or not allowed, and penalties for misapplication of the funds. To furUU'.M St it rj ii ci.i i : an in complete system, it is provided that for the first five years the distribution of the fund shall be according to the ratio of the population of ten years old and upwards who cannot write. The editor of the Oconomowoc Times has triumphed. The village hotel-keeper sued him for $97 worth of dinners,' which the aforesaid editor had eaten at his table. The voracious journalist proved that the dinners were always preceded by conversations like the following: "Harger, I've got a nice dinner to-day come in." "No. I thank you, I'm going home." Fay would prevail on him to stay, and after dinner the following colloquy: "Everything in there all right, Harger?" "Everything excellent" '"Dessert all right?" sExcellent." "Ice cream all right!" "Delicious, Mr. Fay." "Very well, remember this in your paper next week." The jury decided that the editor was not only entitled to his dinners as a dead-head but awarded him $63 to boot, and gloriously vindicated the freedom of toe press. The Cincinnati Times sums up Butler's "fix" thus: , "His aim was to secure the gratitude of Congress by an increase of their salaries; but instead he lost the Governorship of Massachusetts, his control upon the House of Representatives, and the last remnant of his K sit ion with the great mass of the publican party. It is a worse wreck than Pavia. for even honor is hot saved."

KOSSUTH.

iolaees of aa Alsaaet Forgottea Ceieortty. A writer in the Frankford Gazet te Germany says: The following advertisement ap pears every now and then in the Corner di Torino: Lessons in German, English, and Hungarian given st moderate rates, by Ii. Kossuth, 164 Strada Nuova. The advertiser is none other than the once celebrated dictator of Hungary. He is now almost utterly forgot ton, even in Hungary. He has grown very old, and is now so poor that ho will gladly - give you a lesson lor a smjrle franc. : This would seem' Terr hujniliatinir for him,' and yet he is proud of his poverty. He says: "Three years ago my friends at home, in Hungary, offered me a present of 50,000 florins. I rejected the offer, and never have regret ted it, even when I was hungry, ant bad no money to pay for a fire." I had occasion, the other day, to call upon him. I was no stranger to Kossuth. Twentv years ago he had given me, in London, a great deal of valuable information for my book, "Hungary in 1849." I found him in a very small room, in the fourth story of a dingy old building. He sat alone in an easy chair, poring over an old volume. When I entered he did not recog mze me. l recognized him, and was shocked. What a change these twenty years had produced in hia once handsome and interesting face! His hair was entirely white, his cheeks wan and hollow, and his eyes utterly dimmed. His form, once erect and proud, was now painfully bent He almost groan ed as he raised himself to bid me welcome. He was deeply moved when I informed him who I was. His face brightened as he warmly clasped my hand. "Oh, yes; oh, yes," he said in German, 4-I know you now. Every body forgets me; no one calls upon me: no one cares any more for me. Why should I remember those who once were my friends?" To this I objected. I asked him how he could be forgotton when his friends in Hungary wanted him to return to his native country, and take again an active part in its affairs. Kossuth smiled very bitterly. "Ob, yes," he said, "return to Hungary dishonored, with an oath of allegiance to the Hapsburgs who murdered my friends and kinsmen, who set a price upon my head. I am neither a Deak nor an Andrassy. I asked him how he got along. "Well, he said, sadly, "were my crood children and mv poor wife alive yet, I would be happy, even in my old age and poverty. But they are all dead, and I am very lonesome. That is what renders my exile here, where people are so kind to me, so distressing. It would be no better in Hungary. I have no kinsfolk anywhere but in the New World." "Why. then, not go to America again, where your name is still re vered? I ventured to say. "Oh," he replied, "I have often been solely tempted to go to the United States, but there are two obstacles in the way. In the first place, it would cost more money than I have to spare; and next, I am almost sure that, in my enfeebled condition, I would be unable to bear the sea voyage." All this was very melancholy, and I hastened to change the subject of our conversation. I showed him the proof-sheets of the chapter on Andrassy in my new work on Austria. He put on his spectacles, and holding the paper in his trembling hand, read carefully what I had written. Meanwhile I had time to look around in the room. Against the rear wall stood a narrow, plain bed. On the walls hung portraits of Mazzini, Bixio, Kisz, and, strange ly enough, of Louis Napoleon. On the book shelf by my sidel noticed Victor Hugo's "Annee Terrible," Kinglake's "Crimea," and ten or twelve well-worn grammars. On a table, close to the bed, lay a loaf of bread and plate of dried meat To my dismay 1 lound that my glancing around the room had attracted Kossuth's attention. "Yes" he said, with a smile, "you see for yourself now that I am very poor; and yet when I left Hungary in 1849, 1 was charged by all the mean organs of the Hapspnrgs with having enriched myself at my country s expense; Do you know what my whole income was last year? Within a fraction of 800 lire!' (Xess than $200.1 I shook my head sorrowfully. Hs told me what he thought about the chapter on Andrassy, gave me plenty of valuable and interesting information on the subject, and then dismissed me, saying that it was time for one of his pupils to make his appeaaance. The Commerciaagoes into estacies over the economy of the Swiss Reoub lie, which pays its President only a little over $3,000 in gold. That's nothing. tThe Republic of Ohio, with 300,000 more people, and more than twice as much territory, pays its Governor only $4,000 in curreney. Cin Times.

PetrUaetiost of Bride.

Dr. Jorsck, of La., in a letter to the New Tork Sun of Saturday. says: - - "Mr. Fredric Haller is by profession a lawyer. He early acquired, however, quite a fondness for the natural sciences, especially geology. He has perhaps the largest and most complete geological cabinet in Louisiana. Something over a month ago he married, taking as his bride a charming young girl of 16. As physician to her father's family and an intimate friend I was an honored guest at the marriage ceremony. I am sure I never saw a more beautiful and happy bride. -Next afternoon she and some three or four of her most intimate friends went into Mr. HaUer's "Rock Study," to look over the cabinet of curiosites. Among the curiosities which Mr. Haller had gathered were several round boulders brought from Arkansas. The boulders on being broken presented in the cen tral space a crystaline formation, :- and era usually not much larger than the double fists. One of these, however, was unusually large, meas ' uring twenty one inches in circumference. Frequently the internal surface, always hollow, contains water, or rather a concentrated solution of silica in water. This fact i . . . . was anown to one oi tue young ladies, who mentioned it. , At once it was proposed to break the large one, and several ineffctual attempts were made by them with a geological hammer. They called to their aid a colored man-a servant on the place, who was requested to break open the rock. A pitch er being placed underneath the boulder as the - man held it, one sturdy blow of his stalwart arm cracked it and the fluid within ran out and was collected in the pitch er, soarcely lesing a drop, there being a half pint of it The bride, without ever giving it - a thought, conceived the notion of drinking the water from the boul -der. She poured most of it into a glass tumbler, nearly filling it and, lifting it to her lips, she drank first to the health of her husband. then to that of the unmarried friends in the room, wishing them shortly to be happy brides like herself, and drained the glass. But in a few minutes the youthful bride complained of excessive pain in the stomach, and'began to realize the rashness of her action. A messenger was sent in haste for her husband and myself. Mr. Haller' s office being near my own, we received the message almost simultaneously, and we rapidly drove together in my buggy to his house. When we arrived she was dead, a period of fifteen minutes having1 elapsed from the time of taking the fatal draught to the time of extinction of life. They were just laying her out on my arrival To my surprise I found she had grown in that short period so rigid as to render it difficult to straighten her limbs. In the course of three-quarters of an hour her entire body became as hard and inflexible as bone. On more minute examination and inquiry I found that the dissolved silica she had taken into ;her stomach had been absorbed and transmitted by the chylopoietic appara tus and blood vessels throughout the system, and that her whole body was a petrifaction. The case being so singular and so sudden, the husband and the bride s family consented to a partial post-mortem examination, other medical men coming to my assistance. Ave found it impossible to cut through any porton with our seal pels. Dr. Furgeson broke hia scalpel in the first attempt We were able only to break through the chest with a hatchet, finding extreme difficulty in entering the thoratic cavity, the contents being all soiidihed. The hcarjb was found as solid as stone, resembling a piece of cornelian as to both color and onsistency. A cheerefnl view comes from the East in reference to the financial prospects of the Government: The revenues are expanding, the inter nal revenue being back to almost the volume reported previously to the financial crisis, whilst the import duties are also increasing in amount The panio paralyzed the manufacture of whisky and tobac co, from which the internal taxes are chiefly collected, whilst it check ed importation and caused a larger amount of goods than usual to go into bond. As the depression is alleviated, affairs are returning to their normal condition, and hence the increase of the revenues. It looks now as if no increased tax ation of any kind will be necessary and the fact, as reported from Washington, that the estimates of the departments can be reduced twelve millions without injury to the public service, ought to make this relief from additional taxation a certainty. A young girl near Marengo, s wonderfully marked by rattle snakes. Running partially around her neck, side by side, are . two snakes as natural as if alive, and the skin being transparent they seem only lying in -wait for a victim. On the front of the neck and breast are the rattles as though a . breast pin making a perfect picture and shedding rsjjlarly every yw. " ...

A Uvol? Mete. It is singular what faith and de- . votion still exist in the Southern mind for Alexander H. Stephens. He is the Grandfather Smallweed of the American Congress, and has t been for half a century. In his hslest and best days the breath of his own voice was enough to kneck . him down, physically. His style is that of a superannuated Cicero, with no toga knocking against bis shrunken shanks, but drFcd ii gumbogin nankeen vest and modern clawhammer coat and tilking the indescribable half - bree d which is called English in the Southern

Stater: ' Theinoet remarkable man. i' says oar enthus'sti V friend Col Culpeppah, from Cu!p ppah Court House; one of the mastab . minds brow that is mo' than mo tal fresh from natnr s mon'd." He is a true-born child of this h mis a phere, sab! Verdant as the moun tains of our country; bright and flowing as our mineral licks; unfil ed by withering conventionalities as air our broad and boundless praries. - Bough he may te, sah. So air our barrs. Wild he may be, sah. So air our buffaloes.. But he is a child of Nature, and a child of Freedom, sah, and his boastful answer to the Despot and the Tyrant is, trat bis blight home is in tho sunny South, sah, by - ." This, or sometliing like it every South ern born gentleman believes in his honest gushing soul to be true; and his touching faith in the quiv ering old genueman wno djuiks in the Washington of to day like an owl'scared out c f his luins. is enough to disarm criticism, if it docs not always insure respect Ohio State Journal. God did not take the three He brews out of the furnace of fire, but he came down and walked with them in it - He did not remove Daniel from; the den of lions; he sent his angel to close the months of the beasts. He did not in an swer to the prayer of Paul, remove the thorn in the flesh; but he gave him sufficiency of grace to sustain him. ' - ; A great religious movement Las taken possession of Wabash College. Booms where two weeks ago students were wont to congregate to pass their time away in idle amuse ment now are made to resound with the voice of prayer and thanksgiving. Men who one week ago were trying to fortify tnemselves in unbelief are now earnestly working to save souls for Christ This awakening has been very -sudden and spontaneous, and is all-prevailing. A writer in a paper at Newburyport, Mass., mourns the religious degeneracy of the times and relates the following: "There is a bitter sar casm in the story told of a minister on our seaboard, which, though very likely to be hypothetical, has a terrible under-current of truth. It is said that in the afternoon service he found but a handful of hearers, the ' rest having gone on a steamer excursion for pleasure. He entered tho pulpit and said thus; as the story goes: ''My hearers, I have brought a sermon, but it is useless to preach it. I find my duties as a minister are very much simplified; the times have cha nged ; there is but one virtue to be recommended, and that is money; but one sin to be rebuked, and that is pover ty; so you see my occupation is gone, the ministry is played out, and I must go to farming. Keceive the benediction." An editor, who has been keeping a record of big beets, announces at Inst that "the beet that beat the beet that beat the other beet is now beaten by a beet that beats all the beets, whether the original beet, the beet that beat the. beet, or the -beet that beat tho beet that beat the beet." Schuyler Colfax is to day, as he lias always been, the most popular man in the United States. Malice and slander do not effect his fair reputation; and socially he is ns warm a favorite with the majority of his political enemies as with his friends. The oft quoted Biblical proverb that "a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country," does not apply to Mr. Colfax, for in this county, where ho has been so long; and favorably known, he is fairly idolized by the people. Mishawaka Enterprise. When Abraham Lincoln had to defend a fellow charged with stealing half-a dozen prime hogs, the case against hia client was so dearly proved that he told him as much. Not at all discomfited, the accused said: "Never mind about that; just abuse the witnesses, and spread yourself on general principles, and it will be all right" Sure enough, it was so; to Lincoln's astonishment, the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. Congratulating his client on the result, hs could not help saying the aflair was past his under standing. - Ths rouge's explanation set his wonder at rest "Well, squire," said he, "you see, every one of them ' 'ere fellows had a piece of them hogs." . The farmers in the vicinity of Lafayette. Ind., are complaining of their young fruit trees being girdled by the rabbits. Some of them have as many as a hundred that the rabbits have injured.