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A St Petersburg- dispatch says: The news from Aerquez on the 18th states. In a sortie, on the 10thT the Turcomans captured sixty soldiers, whom thmr immpfimtelv murdered. The

Ashkbad Turcomans captured and

killed 100 Persian riders. Thk majority of the Senate caucus committee on .Refunding will advocate that; the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to issue $300,000,000 certificates bearing 3 per cent, interest, and $400,000,000 bonds bearing not more than 3per cent, interest. 1 A Cape Town dispatch says: Gen. Colley'a artillery opened fire upon the Boers and the infantry advanced, whereupon the Boers retreated out of range. "It is said the Boers: had received reinforcements from Heidelhurg. Their force opposing Gen, Colley ' numbers betw een 2 , 000 and S.000. They returned the British fire. The engagement seems to have been trifling; AnsaROHuNGA3UAN farmers are

agitating for a protective tariff against the increasing importation of America

and Russian cattle, grain and provisions. "With this protection they want a decrease of the rate of interest at the banks to four per cent. It is a sort of granger movement adapted to suit the needs of the time, place and .people. Thb New York coffee house company has agents who serve a cup of coffee

Norway ships large quanties of ice to" New York. B- " '. , -Three inches of snow fell at New Orleans on Sunday. , Oil has been struck in a mine near Can-yon City, Colorado. Last y ear Peoria, 111. manufactured ,1,900 000 gallons of spirits. It is s ta ted i hat the population of China s not over 125;00,000. The steamer Bengal Tiger blew up Friday morning opposite Cincinnati. Gortschatoff; the Russian Chancellor, has retired from active public affairs. Bishop Eider, of Cincinnati, has issued an order prohibiting round dariahif?.

The Cincinnati Commercial is the champion of Senator Bruce for the Cabinet. , Profj-ssok Remskn, of Baltimore, says there is no such thing as ozone or malaria. The merchants of Chicago will establish a commercial telegraph line to

New York.

A brother of Secretary of War Ram- hot to street car drivers at the termini, ftpH ' nntfVf)A at St. Pan!. : this week, for nothing? next week at

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up finally, and now it isra

be&uty and a joy forever. s The safe of the Union Iron and Steel Company, Chicago was blown open Sunday nia ut and 510,000 stolen. - A railway accident near Oswego, ' New York, resulted in the death of fivamen by being burned to death. . 'Jt Is believed that Senator George H. Pendleton i3 working for the next Democratic nomination for President. Mrs. SWpard, Jiving at Whitevale, Out, Friday killed; he: ? two J boys, one th ree years and the other S6 ven ncontbsold. She then stabbed herThe 'Mercantile Bank River plate, lifted, Londoii, has resolved to wind up. Liabilities, 344,000; assets, inter esss in water works and other enterprises in the Argentine Republic Tjee message of the Governor of Connecticut this year omits the word "God," the first time such a thing ever happened ia - the history of the State. ..... Women have the right to vote at

school meeting, to he elected as school ofSceisand as town clerks in Vermont, by a recent; act. of? the Iiegislaure. ., -. .. . . , . CUifokxia sends about 25i000 barrels of flour to China every year, which indicates that John is cultivating a tssto for food, other than ius favorite rice. . : . " ' ; ...... . e private telegram from Chili, says Lima surrendered unconditionally after CfcoriUos, Burraea and Mirafloreiy had bit -ea taken and destroyed '. with greats laughter. ( V T: The State debt of Connecticut is over i 7j00d,000; The city of Hartford as a iebt of 13,000,000 and the general debts-, both State and municipal are said to be increasing. The United States Court of Claims has awarded $56,000 to the heirs of the late Admiral Bahlgren, of the "United States. navy, , for. the use of his patents and' improvements in rifling guns. . JDafMiW ,BftW has been disappointed in his efforts to extort a subsidy - from Congress. He wanted sixty-five - million dollars, and the committee quite properly sat down on- it. ' The Sen ale committee on privileges and electrons, by a vote of four to three, decided to call the Kellogg case up in the Senatea an early day. and press-it to n vote.- . r Tub co i n an d currency as circulated in tlua country now amounts to $1,S00,000,000. bb; Includes the bullion in the treasurv, 'and w an increase of $13700,000 within a year, v The telephone war rages in St. Louis. Pec ding the protest of the merchants at the increased rental demanded this year, the company have begun 1 o -ake y out the boxes. More monopoly. G seat slaughter is reported to have occurred Sri the" battles last week between the Chilians and th Peruvians preceding rhesurrender of the city of limn to the former. No definite figures given. ."V Cu in a V;la teas to have tbe best . miners in the w or id v and-trades one-half of ail the quicksilver produced on the Pacific coast about thirty-five thousand flasks t6 be used in washing on t . refuse gold surer a4 evenly race has gone over it. "'J :. " ., Oe mun took the entire census of Ala ska. K & t ra ve led thousan ds of miles in -all 3or:s or ways and endured great hart&Mp, to find oat that there were

?50 J4fj r .pl iu thevvast territory, of

wn-ii'j.i aro whites.

V Thl colored 'delegation- that visited 'tiar field dlda't urge the appointment

of saiy particular person to office, did

not even suggest the name of anyone

for olrice. Couid there be any more con v i n si n g proo ? of the inferiority of

i the colore j. race?

The claused or Flondas new state

constitntzou prescribing an educational

qaaimc?.t; m for the suffrage takes -effect this yes- r. The superintendent of flvikCRbfo puts the state s illiteracy at

per cen t. Tills includes whites as well as blackst but not in so great a nam be?. ; - r: - JoKtr Fow?lbf, of Richmond, a man who had caused his family a great deal

of trouble by for mer exploits of a question ibfe character, has appropriated

mHJ liCJongmg to hi3 wife and left the country? Several old charges are It&niri ng. oyer him that probably hastened his flight. " tr; ,A Bcrjt, has ben introduced nto the i Wisconsin Ig:?l-) ture makhig it a felony call ;i uian a uV-d scoundrel. Wisconsin Ms - getting entirely two moral. The next Mil will probably be : to punish a man for saying Mdang.it." The telegraphic consolidation will receive the consideration of the legislature? of several of the Statea.jIt is doubt. sd wheter sny State has the power to take acslon to the matter ae- the subjeffebeloiisgs exclusively to the .'Nationaii Cong?cs;sv - ? HAHrf3 SrfcNJ?Rwas kindne3s itBeUto young erii beginning life. On one occdon, when much . pressed for

rtirutf.fie auswiRid a young'- lawyer of Baltimore as tit what course of study he should pursue in a ten-nage letter. ; The ymiu -ymv was not a frlend even

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the rate of two cen ts per cup. It is exneoted to be a great preventive of in: toxicatton, as it heats and braces better than alcohol. In the summer the company will sell cold drinks instead of hot ones at the same low rate. Jtjsc now a startling prediction, more definite than mother Shipton's prophecy is going the rounds of the press. It is said that a comet i3 on its way to collide with tUe earth and knock it h. w. and c, but the government astronomers do not seem to be posted in this matter, nor do they seem to be alarmed a particle concern -the awful report. Chicago's receipts for 1880 include about a hundred and sixty-five million bushels of grain and flour, a billion and five hundred million feet of lum

ber, six hundred and fifty million of shingles and a hundred and twentyfive million dollars' worth of hogs, horses, cattle, and sheep. O; course Chicago received other things, but jt is hardly worth while to mention anythin g'less than billions or hundreds of millions. The Nevada Legislators make no bones of using "lubricators" to accom

plish their ends, as the following from

a Carson City correspondent indicates: "On Friday night, just before the train left for Virginia, the sight of a negro bearing on his back a sixty-pound sack of coin, and closely followed by John Allman, a ; weh known promoter of legislative schemes, caused a flurry of excitement among the riffraff of the lobby." - ,:; i:, The Buffalo Express says that a man is not necessarily your friend because he compliments or flatters you. Perhaps not, but he puts you in good humor with yourself, and that is a good deal in this world of indigestion. The friend who is always telling you of your faults may be a good sort of a moral mustard plaster in this way, but he heats you .up too much. At the same time, if he' lends money at the moment he is not to be despised. UknEB the English-postal telegraph system the rate for messages to any point in the- United Kingdom is twenty-five cents for twenty words, date and signature not counted. The government has 101,854 miles of wire operation. The number of messages in 1880 was 26,547,137, The Western Union Telegraph Company, had in 18SG, over 233,534 miles of wire and carried 29,215,509 messages. These are suggestive figures. A watc-HMAKeb of Copenhagen has constructed a clock that needs no winding up. It is keptgoing constantly by means of an electric current, that operates on the spring and main trans an unvarying and permanent state ol tension. Attenaon to the electric battery once or twice a j3Tear is ell that i3 necessary to keep the clock in motion for an indefinite time.' There is an odd refinement of civilization in New York, where coachmen are arrested and imprisoned for permitting horses to stand a moment without blankets where the suffering quadrupeds are led to stables and care fully cared for, and where ill clad, hungry, nan, homeless boys and girls are left to perish in the streets lrom cold. - - Fob the last year the transactions of the New York stock exchange foot up 9800,000 shares sold. This is far ahead of any year on record, and almost equal to the two preceding years put together. The profits of stock brokers on commission alone lor these sales must have amounted to $12,000,000, or 13,000,000. The wealth of some of our railroad kings is estimated as follows : Vanderbiit, $200,000,000; Osgood,$4,000,000; D. 6. Mills, 30,000,000; Flowers, 3,000,000; Jim Keene, ?20,000,000. The wealth of Jay Gould cannot be esti

mated, but it is predicted that in ten years he will behe wealthiestrman in the. country. r The Sprague disgrace will soon be ventillated. in the courts, Mr. Sprague havinep petitioned for a divorce from

his wife. The petition recites the facts of their marriage, that he has always performed hipartof the marriage covenant,while she has willfully and' without cause violated every requirement of said covenant, having been unfaithful to her marriage vows, and guilty of other gross misdemeanors, etc., for

which he prays the court to grant him

-a divorce.

A gentleman traveling in Virginia last summer had occasion to take a stage ride in order to visit the Natural Bridge. Riding on the seat with the driver he fell into conversation witb him, and found that he was an old hunter, who was ayeteran in killing deer, bears, and smaller a game. Tassin g a stream the traveler in quired if it contained fish. "Lots on 'em," was the reply. "What kind?" "Mostly trout." said the driver. "All these mountain streams are full of trout." !They must be fine eating," was the next remark; "Fin e eatin5 !" exclaimed t be driver, "you just go up to the mountains and ketch half a dozen trout about twelve inches Jong, clean 'em without washm' 'em, ruB in some

salt, role 'emin Injin n.eal, and bake 'em in the ashes good eatin1 ! why,

stranger, by heavens, thy beat ham.

The Anderson ville prison pen has

just been visited by a correspondent,

who found oaks fifteen feet high grow?ing on part of i t, while near the south

ern limit was a thrifty cotton field

The caves in which the men burro W'

ed are all gone. On the north hill,

which ent its slope down to the south, the rains of fifteen years have carried away their roofs and have washed the

earth away tin til they have gullied f

ravines thirty feet across at the top, and deep with crumbling, precipitous sides. On the south hill, facing the north, the caves are marked only by the depressions of the ground where the roofs have fallen. The hollows have not entirely filled, and probably

never will, now that they are covered with the rneaeer grass and weeds of

nnthrn Georgia. The stream which-,

was such a horrible agent of death is now a clean brook, about four feet wide'and ten inches'deop. The sides of which, trodden by the feet of tens of thousands of men daily were a sogy quagmire, and in some places impassable. Interesting Items. Tammany in New York City has reorganized. . An earthquake shock was felt at Orange county, New York, Tuesday.

The United States Supreme Court has decided that the income tax is constitutional. The well known firm of Field, Letter & Co., of Chicago, has dissolved, Mr. Xeiter retiring. Eighteen lives were lost by the foundering of a boat at Ohebourgh,

France, Wednesday. A Canadian farmer- claims to have discovered Charlie Boss. He says he is with the Indians. The Pennsylvania railroad will negotiate a $10,000,000 loan at 4.1 per cent, interest bond. Mount Baker, in British Columbia, is in a state of eruption and throwing out large clouds of smoke and ashes. A correspondent at St. Petersburg

eay3 there are no indications of the dispatch of reinforcements to General Hkobeloff. George Guys, a well to do farmer living nearj Dayton, Ohio, committed suicide by drinking a mixture of eider and Paris green. The Pope and Cardinal Jacobini, Papal Secretary of State, strongly favor a conciliatory policy on the part oi the Church toward Belgium. The Worlds Fair Commission has rented the In wood site. The time of the lease dates from to-day to January 1st, 1884. San Francisco has petitioned Congress to cranfe the application of the Nicaragua Canal Company for a char

ter. The farmers in Germany are complaining that the importation of American products is seriously affecting their interests. ai The telegraph monopoly has received a slight check, several injunctions having been tiled agamst the consoli datioo. . The Bussians appear to have completely routed the Turkomans in Central Asia, after hard fighting and heavy losses on both sides. The recent snow fall in Spain was the heaviest known there for thirty years, and the thaw which followed it has caused disastrous freshets. Shocks of earthquake continue to be felt almost daily at Agr am, in Southern Australia, where the terrestrial commotion appears to have become chronic. Alarming reports of the prevalence of thesmail-pox in various localities reach us from tho East and the West. As a wise precaution, every person should be promptly vacillated by a skilled and reputable physician. Cincinnati is exercised over having the electric light to illuminate her streets, and has recently appointed a committee of five to inquire into the feasibility of adopting that method. A man and a woman of La Crosse, Wis.,were Thursday convicted of manufacturing spurious silver dollars, and sen t to Sta te?s Prison . The fire-fiend is after the glass manufacturers. McCully & Co. 's glassworks at Pittsburgh were destroyed by fire Thursday loss, $27,000; and the Kentucky Gluss Company works, at Louisville, were damaged by lire Thursday to the extent of $10,000. The trial of the indicted leaders o the land reform movement in Ireland closed . at Dublin last night, resulting in a failure to convict. The jury, after being out several hours, reporied their inability to agree upon a verdict3 standing ten for acquittal and two for conviction an announcement that was received with rapturous applause in and outside of the court room whereupon the Judge discharged the jury, expressing the opinion that, with the exhibition just witnessed, he was satisfied that "a free and unanimous verdict' ' was impossible. The anticipated measure for the repression of alleged lawlessness in Ireland was introduced in the British House of Commons the other day, and an exciting debate at once began. The bill looks to the summary arrest of all who are concerned in treasonable acts," and virtually suspends the habeas corpus act. An amendment to the effect that the Government should extend relief, to the oppressed larna tenants of Ireland before proceeding to .punish them for agitating demanded reforms is now nnder discussion. A St. Petersburg dispatch says Tbornton, an English millionaire, and

; owner of one of the largest cloth manu-

facturles in the world, has discharged 1,500 weavers at a stroke, arid announces tb at his mills will be closed in a few weeks if trade does not imnro vo Russian advices state that the other cotton mills are on short time or' closing, because of the accumulations .of stock and slack trade. Tho failure of last year's harvest deprives the peas ants of means to buy cotton goods. The cloth trade is in asimilar condition.

was severely injured while coasting the other day. Her right leg was fractured, and she was otherwise injured. ;f Traa demand for plate glass is increasing to such an extent that the.DePauw works in New Albany have been compelled to put on both a day and night turn. The weekly papers throughout the State, at least the fortunate ones, are burdened with a stupendous array of delinquent taxes. This is a fat "take." J a MRS Heudek, an old citizen of New Albany, fell on the ice and broke his shoulder and badly bruised his face and head. Scarlet fever and measles have become epidemic in Delaware county.

The country schools are being closed in many local! lies.

Allen Marts, of liooueviile, has lost eleven head of horses by feeding (hem chopped cornstalks which were found undigested and impacted in their stomach. While Frank Kriegbaum, of Elkhart, was chopping down a tree a limb fell, striking him in the eye, but not destroying H,and tearing down through the cheek. Miss Nellie hort, a daughter of John Short, of Seymour, was severely scalded by the breaking of an earthen pi toner in which she was carrying boiling water. This largest and best crop of ice ever put up at Laporto is now stored. So clear is it that a newspaper laid underneath two cakes, making 44 inches thick, was easily read. Mrs. Settles, a married lady in Cook town, a suburd of Decatur, deserted by her husband, attempted suieid lately by shooting herself. She will probably recover. EvAjfSVJM is much agitated over an application for a charter by a steam heating company. The papers sensibly advocate the getting of some privileges before a monopoly is created The friends of Bradly Lewis, of

Madison, who died the other day very suddenly on his way to Canaan, believe he was foully dealt with, and are to have a post mortem examination. Jab. Jj. Halford, during several years last past city editor of the Indianapolis News, and previous to that employed for some time on the Journal, has resigned his position on the News to accept one in the Tndtenapolis & St. Louis railroad company that of Eastern Passenger Agent. Smith W. Stead, a baker of Brookville, had about fifty dollars taken from his money drawer, the other day, and it appears hinted that it had been taken by J. F. Curry, of the firm of Best k Cu rry, butcher?. Curry hear! n g of it, caught Stead by the hair aud beat him about the head in such an unmerciful manner that his life is despaired oL Curry has been placed under bonds to await the result ot the injuries.

The family ot" Joan P. Teter, living

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MAYIJOIN Till?, CHOIR IX-VISIBLJS.

O may I jchi the choir invisible Of ttio&c immortal dead who live auiii In miudsmado better by their presence live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds ot daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime tnat pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's

search To vaster issues. So we live in heaven ; To make uatiying music in the word, Breathing as beauteous order that controls Wit h growing away the growing life of man, So we inherit that svect purity For which we struggled, fulled, and agonized With widening retrospect that bred despair. Kebellous llesu that would not be subdned, A vicious parent shaming still its child Poor anxious penitence is quick dissolved; Its discor tsouenehed by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable ait. And ull our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, Tnat watched to ease the burthen of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better-saw within A wort liter image tor the sanctuary, And shaped it forth before--the multitude

DivmHy human, raising worsnipso To higber reverence more mixed with love--Thai better sell shall live till hnmau Time Shall fold its eye-lids, and the human sky Ue gut 'tiered like it scroll within "tie tomb Unread forever. Tli is Is life to come Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That r urest heaven, be to other souls Tho cup of strength m some great agony Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty Be the sweet presence of a goo i diffused And in diffusion even more intense. Bo sluOl I join the choir invisible Whose snuslc is the gladness of the world. ljG7. George Eliot.

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NELL'S PBOMISS.

She. came flying down the path, her lone: straight black hair streaming behind her, her great eyes sparkling, tbe dark, thin irregular features fairly alive with vivacity. She looked to the very life like the wild creature of 15 that she was; but into the face of the beautiful, lair-haired girl whom Nell Havilaud was coming to meet there flashed such a look of love that a stranger would have known that hr girlish sister was very dear to the heart of Alice Haviland. The two were orphans, supported by the industry of Alice, the oldest, who was well known in the town as a very skillful teacher of music. The younger was of entirely a different nature from the quiet, steady, lovable Alice. The townfolks said that her baptismal name of Eleanor was altogether too grand and stately for such ahoydeuish creature, and so it had become shorts ened to the monosyllable "Nell." "Alice," said Ntll, "you can not guess what I have done?" "Something impossible for anyone else to do, I presume," said her sister, smiliup' in to the eager eyes. "I climebd into tbe old oak and tied my handkerchief to the top," said the ghi, pointing triumphantly to the fluttering white morsel. "Did you?" said Alice, absent-mindedly. "Oh, dearP'said Nell,pettishly, "you don'S hear a word T say. I guess you are thinking of Gnddard Tres&il. I wish you were not engaged to him, for you don't seem to care a bit for me now-a-days. "Kell.e," the love In the tones rebuked the girl, "I shall ever leve and

miles south of Union City, were going ! cart? W darlmsiter, come what

the besaid

to church in a sleigh, when the horse fcgan kicking, striking Miss Susie Teter in the forehead, fracturing her skull, and , causing the . brain to protrude. Nicholas ' Allen, of Boonvilie, aged eighty-rive years, is dead. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, serving under General Harrison, and iu one of his engagements in which he

lv around Nell's waist, tho tasters

went into the house. The humble suppnr was over. Alice was sitting at ton little piano, weaviiig as wee t harmouy from the ivory keys, when she heart! a step on tho walk which summoned her to the door. "Alice!" and her hand lay iu the hand of her betrothed. God d aid Tressil. The tall, handsome young fellow that stood before her was the heir of

took part was wounded by a poisoned "The 01iifsr"the great mansion, around

arrow, snot

into him by an Indian,

aud had a narrow escape from death.

Diedrick Dammkr has been arrested at Osgood on charge of adultery with a Mrs. Teh del, and lodged in jail. The husband of the woman died very suddenly last July, after taking a dose of 1 aud n u m , a nd a va mm t has been issued forDamoier's arrest, and that of the woman if she can be found, charging them with causing TendePs death. One of the board ing houses attached to the Normal school in Valparaiso, burned Tuesday, But a small portion of the contents were saved. Ninety students roomed in the building. Almost all their property was destroyed. Loss, 12.000; insured for $7,000.

The Terre Haute Gazette tells of a shrewd swindle perpetrated on a Parke

j county gudgeon named Charles Adams

while coming on a train from fit. Louis to Terre Haute. He met a man who was quite talkative, and who learned from Adams that he had a brother who had gone (o Kansas many years before. The stranger enquired of Adams his name and home and then said: 41 Well now, that's queer. That is right singular to be sure. Why, I have your brother's corpse with me in the express car on the train. Ho died a few

which lav its extensive farms "the

best place in the country." . "It is too line a night to remain indoors, Alice. What do you say to a moonlight row?" "It would give me much pleasure," she said ; and running up-stainj for a shawl, she paused a moment, and opened the d;or lo Nell's chamber. The sound of her low, regular breathing satisfied her, and she went downstairs to rejoin her lover. They walked slowly down the path, drinking in the intense lovalin ess of the night. The moon was at its mil. Great golden stars seemed melting into- blue ether, and white weird drifts., like phantom fleets, floated across the sky. The calm ocean ended their walk. Each of its waves seemed tipped with a diamond .crest, and the reflexes trembled in pearl and azure. Assisting Alice ante the boat, Tressil pushed out so as to clear the shore. The little ski fF rocked lightly on the slow, faint swells of the outgoing tide, and tho oars splashed with a m usical rhythm very pleasaut to hear. A silence fell over the two. It was broken by t he voice of Tressil. "Alice I have something Important to say to you to-night." "What is it about?" she questioned, wonderiy. "About Nell." The words were

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lavs affo in Kansas, and I am takintr uesnaiingiy, u ne was nerving

his remains back to his old home In j ? ??" T,.?, , - ,5 A limit iVollV'J tin

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Parke county. Ho was a good, merch

ant and left all his property to his brother. ' And if you are the man, you have dropped into a right rich thing. There in my pocket (opening his coat and showing an envelope) are ten thousand dollars in United States bonds. He also left ten thousand iu goods." The man from Parke county was inwardly pleased, and when they arrived at Terre Haute, lent his com

panion, who happened to be short,

all the money he had.

but if it had been $180 been all the same.

It was only $1S

it would have

A Disgrace to the Cloth. New Haven Palladium. The wife of a certain poor man died, and the afflicted husband began the funeral arrangements. All else being adjusted he called upon her pastor and asked him to conduct the last sad rites. The minister consented and naked what carriages had been engaged for the funeral. Having been informed, he requested his bereaved visitor to secure another which he named, because that was one. which the parson and his wife were accustomed to hire for their o wn use, and after the services nt the burial ground ho wished to extend his ride somewhat. The newly made widower, too rnueh astonished

About 2S ell?" she repeated in sur

prise. "Ys, where is she going to live after wo a ro married?" . "Going to live? Why, with me, of course," said Alice, wondering what would come next. "It cannot bef Alice. She must be sent to a boarding-school or somewhere." "Why, Qoddard, what put that into your mind?" exclaimed Alice. "She woulu not stay at a boarding school for one moment. Jt would kill her to separately, for I am all she hits in the world, and I promised mother, when she was dying, that I would never leave or forsake the child-sister entrusted to my care.'? "But, Alice, mother and Isabel said --" "Go T ;?d, please tell me precisely what i.u and mother and sister have said, ao i hat I may kno w just how the matter stand?." "Well, they say that they can welcome, you, very gladly f as a daughter and sister, but they cannot end are, the idea of having Nell .under., the same roof, and she must abide somewhere else." "And you Gcddard?" said Alice, imploringly. 'What can I do, Alice?" said he.

in a sort of helpless way that struck

Houth Bend was Friday

a terrible fire. A TJtftGE fire at Michigan City last week burned up $20 000 worth of lumber. Joseph M. Siiawjjan and Benjamin Ash by, pioneers jai Pike county died last week.

Dearborn county -expended $9,737 on the county paupers in the poor house in 1880. Secretary of State Hawn and Adjutant Carnahan, of Lafayette, were inducted into office on the 17th. Wheat in, the north part of the State, where there has been till latelv very little snow, is said to be nearly ruined. ,

Samue' McBoNAiiB, a well-known citizen of Wells county, was kicked on the head by an unruly horse the other day and seriously, if not fatally,injured. The Dearborn county commissioners have decided to build the county infirmary on tho old site in Manchester township. Estimated cost $17,000. Miss Katie Adcqck, of Madison,

to object, left the parsonage and re-i-a chill to the curl's heart.

iiirnfxrl f n his Iwtmn in iu. hnusfi of hia it- it? ms.rij j.? Am tctvn rv-

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v latner-ia-iaw. vvnen tnat gentleman part between you anct my Mster 'JSell?"

iearnea wnat nau pasgeo, ue eciarea "Yes. Alice."

that.no such man that should bury Do not blame him to harshly. Ho

his daughter, so he sent for another

clergyman. As the iast notes of the funeral hymn were dying away, Parson Number One, v. ho had waited at homo wondering where his carriage was. crossed the threshold of th house of mourning, and taking in the situation he quickly departed. The next day lie sent for the widower to call at his study. The lat ter obeyed, and tl ere for two long hours he lislend lo a lecture on his disrespecttut treatment of his late wife's pastor, In vain the poor man protested hia inn ocence of any such intenr; the parson was not be mollified, ui want you to miderstatrd." said he, "Chut when I marry or bury any one! am paid for my services. As for that other fellow, he's always ready . to do a n y dirty work . 1 1 -Ail whi eh ha ppen ch! in "the year of our Lord 1880, in an old and populous Connecticut town. To tho credit of our Htate bo it said tnat this clergyman was born aud reared else u here. ItEV. Isaao Moses, rabbi of Milwaukee, lias been sued for Hbaf' by a parishioner, whom he called 'a lying old thief."

had been much harassed by his proud, haughty mother and sister concerning this disagreeable subject, and manfashion he thought that that it could he arra n ged so meho w , so that th ia troublesome Nell could bo sent quietly out of the way, and he could enjoy tho scciety of th-e only woman ho had ever loved, in peace. Alice tought a desperate battle between love and d uiy, ' Tt. seemed to her that she cotdd not give up her betrothed for another's

sake; that she co u,d not thrown away her life's happiness for her younger

sister; but the stratum of loyalty to duty that ran through her nature like a silver chord. ga?o her strength. So it was detei mined, and though it .was a white face that met Goddard Tressil's it was a resolute voice that ;said : "Goddard, 1 have chosen, I cannot leave my sister." He tried to break this decision by passion pleading, but the t ones were linn, and unshaken as she said, sat last: 'Goddard it would be unjust to say that T do not lovo you, for you know (hat T do, Out 1 can not be false to my charge," And they parted- lie to walk homo

as it pursued by furies, thinking bitterly of "woman's obstinacy, V and yet in his secret heart honoring the girl who walked bo unflinchingly in the path of duty. Alice went up stairs, and burying her face in the soft cushions of an armchair, with the friendly darkness around her. nature took revenge for

the self control of the last hour, Her eyes throbed and burned like balls of fire; her heart beat in high, surging waves, but the hand was icy cold that she placed over her moush for fear that a cry might escape her lips which would awaken KeU. But despite all her nrecautiou, t here came a sound of

bare teet on the floor, and a little

white-robed form knelt down her, and tho dark face with its eves, peered into hers, " "What's the matter, Alice?"

"way. JNelh i thought you were

as een. Come, near, go back

vou will catch cold up here."

44 1 den' t want to go. What is

trouble, Alice?" persisted the girl. And Alice told her all. Nell kissed her sister passionately, then, clinching her little brown hand, she said fiercely: "I hate those proud women 1 I hate Goddard Tressil! And 1 will pay 'em back for what they have said for every word!" "Hush, dear!" and Alice dried her

tears hastily . . ' 'Nell, I want yon to to promise me something, Will you darling?" "Anything! said Nell, impetously. 1 want you to promise me that, if it ever lies in your power to do ' a favor for any one of the Tressil family, I may depend upon your performance of that favor." ... "Oh, Alice! anything, anything but that!", "J fomise mc, Nellie!" a ring of decision .in her voice. There was a silence for a few mo-

3 ments. Then, in subdued tones, came the words :

"I promise." V The September suu, with its ripening tints of amber, lay warm and golden, ou the golden, walk and terrace of the cliffs. The waves of the ocean crept slowly shoreward, drifting into fantastic shapes, and then brealciiig.scattored the pearly spray far up en the land. "Mo ther," and Isabel Tressil stopped before the open door of the pleasant

sitting-room. "I lost my bracelet down in cove this af ternoon, and I did not tice that it had slipped ofT until I home. I, must go and recover it fore the tide comes in." "Cannot Goddard go for you!"

her mother, ........ "I don't know where he is.V ''Very well, be oareful about the tide," said her mother, anxiously. "I will be-earem!," said Isabel, confidently. "Adieu Ma Mere." She went down to the foot of the cliffs, which gave her home its name, by a broad, gently-sloping path. Then her path lay along tho sands to the cove. Two long parallel walls of rock made oft from the shore, and. during high tide the little cove thus formed was a mass of tossing foam, but now it was a long, narrow stretoh of sand. Isabel Tressil at length reached the cove and began to search anxiously for the missing bracelet. It was a present horn Goddard, and she valued it very

highly. She was about giving it up for j lost, when suddenly she caught sight I of it, almost hidden by a mass of sea

weed. Isabel caught the bracelet up hastily and turned to go saying to herself: "I must hurry or "be caught by the tide." At the thought her eyes turned towards the termination of the point around which she must go. Her heart almost froze with horror at the sight that met her gaze. The waves curled at the foot of the point, soft as "carded wool." . a l4Help!Help!" .. The cry sounded faintly above , the beating of the tide on the rocks, and reached the car of Nell Haviland, who stood watching the waves as they slowly encroached upon the sand. Some one is in the cove." said the girl .and, running along the edge of the cliffs, ehe bent over the rocky precipice. Bhe saw a woman, evidently half dead with terror, crouching at the foot of the cliff. . "She will be washed away before can get help. I must help her myself," said Nell to herself. , . There was an almost imperceptible path down the precipitous wall. Though she was as used to climbing as a.goat, Nell found it no easy task to descend. When she had nearly arrived at the base she called, ""You must climb up this path; I will show you how." The woman, who had not heard Nell before, turned at the sound of her voice, aud Nell Haviland stood face to face with Isabel Tressil. . "Oh, Nell!-dear Nell, save me!" she cried, clasping her hands Imploringly. A vow registered itself in Nell's soul. "I will keep my promise if I drown." "Take hold of that little hush," she said, "and put your fool; there," pointing to a little projecting stone. label's terror caused her to catch . at tbe guiding hand instead of the seemingly insecure bush, and her excess of weight caused Net! to fall downwards. A stone dislodged struck Nell's foot, ank to her dismay she fou nd, herself unable to step. Bhe braced herself against the wall and urged remorseful Isabel to attempt to scale the cliff. She tried iu vain. The unused muscles

retusea to perform tne tasic given them. Then, with the cold, crawling waves around them, they screamed in unison. No answer. At last, with , a moan of utter despair, Isabel gave it up. "Nell, it is no use; we have got to drown. But I cannot, cannot diel Oh, God, have mercy!" and, iu an abandonment of agony, she buried her face on Nell's shoulder. The words of, a grand old nymn she had often hear Alice sing came back to Nell's mind, Nell put her arm around the trembling form cf the terror-stricken woman, and then tbe strong, young voice sang out clear and sweet a a bugle-call, flinging a grand defiance into the very face of death. "Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly." . . The cold sprav struct the brava

I young singer harshly in the face, as if

to stop utterance, out tne next secona the words?, "While the billows near me roll. While the tempest still is high." ,

Floated over the water. Strength

(Mime back to Isabel: her voice join ea Nell's and stead fasti v they awaited

the seemingly inevitable. "Goddard!" Tne anxious face o his mother startled him as he entered

the hall. "Bo gro and look for Isabel.

that I kept my promise," and Nell turned her face away to watch with a curious sort of expectancy the gigantic billow slowly crawling toward her. It swept over her, and then she felt herself lifted up and borne, off; but to; the benumbed sense of hearing it seemed as if au agonized voice called Nell, my darling!" and theujarkne&3--nothingness. . -. ..Mi ..V Was it Providence that called Alice Haviland to the cliffs at that moment? But she bent over them fust as God

dard Tressil began his as;ceut. WhatJ

was that object buried almost in the water below him? She recognized it. Only an angel could have steadied the feet of the light figure that swung itself recklessly by Goddard Tressil and his burden. " She reached the end of the path just as the wave bore away the form of her sister, and a great cry broke from her iios : "Nell, my darling!" ......... The covetous waves dashed the helpless body at her .feet, and then strove to bear away tWo victims. But the soft arms of Alice Haviland seemed to have been endowed with the strength of cast-iroD for seizing Nell in astrong embrace she fought the billows until they shrank back conquered by the power of love. Soon Goddard Tressil relieved her, and how, she never knew, she reached the top of the cliffs, but when, thefe unconsciousness overtook

her. , ' 9 ' - Slowly Alice drifted hack to life. She found herself in a large, pleasant chamber. Where am I?" ; she questioned feebly. ' Goddard Tressil bent over her. "You are at the clifls," he answered. Kecollections came back, and starting up, Alice exclaimed: "Where is Nell? I must go to her," ,"She is doing well, and mother is dividing her time between: Isabel and sister Nellie; that is," he added, imploringly, !she will be my sister if you can ever forgive my cowardness, of three months ago." .-. If we failed r to surmise Alice's' answer, the wedding bells that rang so merrily six months afterward would have told us whether she rofusedr to forgive him or not.

MISCELLANEOUS;

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The Deaths Jast Year. New York Wan. During the year 18$) the number of deaths in the city were 31,86(3, or" 3,524 more than inl879.The increase was chief ly caused by the greater mortality from what are known as zymotic diseases, such as measles, diphtheria, typhoid fever, and the like. But there was also a larger number of deaths from all the enumerated causes, exeept scarlati

na, wbcrninc: cough, and yellow

fever, from which last two persons died in 1870, while only one ease proved fatal. ; And yet t he table of deaths for the year affords no evidence of the prevalence of any great epidemic which was specially destructive to life. It is true the mortality from diptheria; was uore than double that In 187931,469, against 071 but the city suffered less than usual from the disease in 1879, while its companion, scarlet fever, carried off in that year 1.477 to 675 in 1880. ... The long and exceptionally warm, summer brought about an increase of nearly a thousand in die deaths from diarrhceal diseases. They numbered 8,960 in 1SS0, against2,96o in 1879. In both years, as also in all years?: ninetenths of this mortality was uuiong children under five years of age ; and of the total mortality about forty per cent, orl2,034j was among such infants. . '' , When wo remember that the class of diseases known as zymotic are preventable by sanitary precautions, and that both in the United States and in England they are res)onsihle for more than a fifth of the mortality, we can understand how greatly the average of human life will be increased when sanitary science has more certainly established its theories and reduced them more generally to practice. How to save life at its beginning is the great questien ior sanitarians, and the test of the efficiency of their efforts is the decrease in tne proportion of deaths of children under five. ... Consum p i ion carri ed off more than fifteen hundred more deople in 1S80 than in 1879 5,s6fy against 4,48, There were also over four hundred more deaths from pneumonia 2,976, against 2, 554; and bronchitis was more tal, the deaths frc-nj. it being 1,441, against 1,263. Brigh'-'s disease earned on? about a twentieth of those who died, and cancer, which both here and New England seems t" he on the-in-crease, was the cause &f about jone death in every forty-four, The following table gives the principal oauses'of mortality-; ! Ceusumptlcn.. 5,SC8 Diarrhcaul diseases; a,96J Pneumonia,.. ......i 2,76 Cerebml and nervous diseases a,T82 Bright's disease i....;.. 1,473 Diphtlieria .....1,459 Bronchitis 2,441 Heart disease l,l$2

The man wh "pushed thing

worked with a wheelbarrow. "Welt," whispered daybreak! be dawned if I ain't broke!'1- ' V John TCellv's amver : "Angels

ministers of "Grace, defend s!" Fitz John Porter is misMng a great; o)portunity. He should lecture; A woman who goes to church to. show her sealskin sacque is acque- ; religious. f Small dishes are decorated so handsoroely now that pickles lookmnappy in them.

A child, seeing a bill on a ; tKegraphpost : 1 'Ob , mamma, look v A message has fallen down." V ; . Some women are like shot-guns. They would attract no attention if it was not for tiieir bangs "What will you give me if I restore your eyesight?" asked the qiiack. V -c iWiU see," replied the blind mR: 7 President Hayes, after the fo?rtb of :next March, will return the 4g?-'. i lied position of all Ohio man. Mr. Ever was married to Miss ijcyThe friends of tin; victims were shocked when the press called her "a thing of beauty, because .she was a tfoy lwr Ever."" . ,. . "i-.-; . : A Philadelphia papei asserts that a

Brooklyn boarding house took fire the? other night and the flames got so far as the pantry, when they weat oukfqr; : wast of fuel. ' :-. If isaid that sharks will not bite i. a swimmer who keeps his legs in motiohl If you can keep kicking; longer than a shark can keep Waiting, yojill be aU right. T. 'X?: -! : The Boston Posit says: "The census gives the United States credit lor only 1,713,900 asses. That is erima facie evidence of fraudtin nerationJ It isn't hall: enough. f T j An exchange makes the foUwing classification of mendacity : "If an m truth is a day old it is calleti a lie: if St. is a year old it is called a)ehoodf -but if it is a century old it JB .lied legend.1 t i. f)k: i . The astonish men t of the li ghtning when A lax defijd it was nothing a? . compared to the feelings of tine young man who makes his best biv to a bevy of - voiing ladies aud bucstX asnspender

I button in the aet.t . ;i T: ' '

Alfr TnnvsOn iddreseH his

grandson, age! eighteen months,: as 1 glorioUs poefe that nevioR has written aline." If this sort of pOefe were .k more plenty the editorial waBtet asketB of the country wouldn'have to be en

larged as often as they axe ; .

One of the discoveries made by' thei" . latest Arctic v,exploterif i ,nhat the ' length of the polar nig it is 141? days.. u What a glorious phx?e that would . be," said Brow9,'?in vhich to tell ImS , man with a bill to call -arouud day after, f to-morrow and get his anoney;" -' The question V whefciier damn" :is swearing was answered by Henry s ! Ward Beecher on a -recent Sunday . "There are a great many jieoplej" he . said, "who do not object to my saying condemned, but if I cleave the con off they are horrified; arid yet con- -uemned and damned v mean precisely . the same tningv" ; . $ , f-, t r That wasfv witty-iii'an who, beingf: ; detained dy a hoow bl ckade, penned. ? a dispach which ran th as : J'My deax ' sir. I have every motive for' '. visiting-

you except a locomoti ve." S) was tho ? other who, under similar elrcumstan? ee3 telegraphed to his firm hi N. York: "shall hotbe in the office .today,wI have not got home yesnayeK.,, ? "Why ' Jennie, yon fodsish girl J come into the houssl v whaj are yoirf out in the snow for vitlsout; wraps ?s: "Oh, nothing much, ma. ' ; Ypn see Augustus has just ealkd and here are his footprints in the sd ow: I'am neasr: uring to get the right s53 for those j slippena, and do you kn ow, I don4t, believe Pvego'; half cloth snougb5 in ; them;" ' -, 4, ' - v 'a A young nian who was desirous of. .j marrying the. daughter of a wellr : known Boston merch jtn trafser many

attempts to broach the subject to tbe

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said: TMr O- . rjfrifcaa filing to let me have your daugater Jane?' 1 "Of; coureeIam,"gruffiyahdquicklyreplieil ' .if the old man ; f'and I wish you could get : , ;!? t Some likely" fellnwtoBjATr theireat:

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'PU2E3 Mr. SUFERI WTifiNBNT "DON'T? FiRb oFE BTorles ev bR Bukday as Us boys wiTj ran Awlul Bxampol of a bAD Boy in e aci i oF TheM, '.' 4 j . i'lVli: IT TO THE jQIRLB. 1

., The Great Monpjpoly)

Indiauapous Ntws ' ! " -The railroad question is pushing:

itself to the, front as a matter of ppfr f lie concern everywho're, VAlready... it has occuniedy the puVjlic mind, more

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Total .1,101 More than two-th ird b of the dea th in. New Y ork last year were, therefore, brought about by these eig hi diseases.

ami ueany one-mui or uiem were eiitirely than the tariff Hfition, ac, . , caused by consumption aJpne, ol all. cording to the report :.f the committee

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Bhe went down to Ehe cove and has hot returned," He waited to hear no more, but in a moment was running in the direction of the cove. Hark! Above tho roar of tbe surge, steady and clear, surround eil the death song: "Oh, receive my soul at last." Ho reached the cove aud commenced decending the path ac a break neck speed as his horrible gaze discerned two women at the foot. They both looked up as he called, ''Hold on for a moment." TUe possibility of Mng saved took away Tsabel Tni-ssil's strengtb, aud her horror-stricken brother saw her fall forward into the embrace of a foamcrested wave that just swept up. But no. The pale face of Nell Haveland gleamed from the water, and the almost exhausted voice said, irJ?ake her, quick!0 ... i'ressil snatched tbe senseless form of m sister, and groaned, "Oh, God! must f leave you here to oe drowned, Nell?", You cannot take us both. Tell Alice

sutlers the most. Leaving out consumption, the majority of the other deaths were from diseases which may properly be classified as preventable. .. The "deaths by violence were niore thn three hundred grc-ater taan tue year before, and numbered 1,360? One. person was killed by lightning during the year, 2lQ by drowning, 237 by frao? tures and other wounds, lo$t by vehicles, 93 by scalds and burns, 2U) by falls, and 30 by suffocation ; and 1 individuals took their own lives. That is, violence, was responsible for about one in 205. , The proportion of suicides bo the population in New York re mains about the same sis it was determined many years, ago by Que telet. He gave it as one in 7,797 of the inhabitants. Last year ic was one in 7,788. The nroportion is low compared with that which obtains in Park and Geneva, for instance : We have not the d etils regavdi ng the suicides for the full year, but tnose for the quarter, en d mg with last' September are classified in 'the.. ...report of the Health Department. During; that quarter ; there were tbirty-seveu, suicides in New York, ot which ...twenty -nine Avere males ajid eight of females. Only eight natives of the country committed suicide to twenty-nine roreign -era. Nineteen of these were Germans, six were Irishmen, and one each, came from England, Italy, Spain aiid Switzerland. We see, therefore,- that

suicide with us is chiefly m imported

e3nme.

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A Hare Old IBiblo, ..There is' an old Bible up in fhe con g -sessional library at Washington v?hich it is well worth a walk to the capitol to examine. It is of Italian oriiarin, aud it

is supposed to have bewi written m tho

thirteenth or fourteenth century, but tho actual date is unknown, it is written in Latin, uponwellum. in clear, bold charaeterti, and extremely uniforta. The writing is iu two columns, about three inches wide, with a margin

of about two inches, 1 1 is emoelltihed

with 146 mlnature pajating ah i upware' of 1200. smal'er illuminurlons, which are beautifully executed, and are ai briilian t to-day as the day they were done. The initials of books and prologues are two and u half inches in height, and those of the chapters are one inch in height. It is contained in two la rce volumes, and ost the kov-

emment $2,200. in gold when. gold was ac a high premium, and was purchased

ai a sale of the library of Henry Per kius, Hanworth Park, near London, in June, li73. ...The skiasln the fiifit vol

ume Imve all been repaired, except

five: in the second voluuiu tbey itrc

nearly all perfect.

meree, who has had the subject under , fc 3 consideratUVn! The qaestion now iii f. eluded, the committee: sayj is' whether; frv f the railroads shall control natiobal r legislation and declare what shared of s the profitSf o)? commerce the pu" J shaU have. The committefj prepared a; series of fdurt een questions to whicn ? thev asked and received one hundred? ; ?

replies from some of tlue most thoughtful and intelligent men hi the count try. Th e questions were such as tliese ; '"Should vaiiroaife treat all shippers alike? If so, ho w can the discritni-r . nation against indiyMuafe and" communities be nreventetlV Is it consisten t: with the public1 weal' to; give dow-' i

rates to some smppewi and nign to others, on the ground of development :t of localities? It is rigbt tii&t railroad ; companies should be regulated in th in tereist of the pu bile; Bsvi gife and iri tl ' suranco companies areSJ . Im? the uui t con trolled power of l&je railroad, cor-r . , porations responsible in aar degree for the growi u g spirit' og com m u u ism j

ana tne autagomsm or. iator aim canital in the United titatttt.' . What of

the English system of rei?ulatioh by -x commissioners, the new theory upon which charges for passengers - and' transportation are based,3 and the practice of companies and managera in giving lrge sums to control elect- '

ions.: - .-..', '. - The replies wet o unanimously in favor of correcting railroad aousea by

Adam's measubo to be a Allure, and -nti. t 8ti

j antagonizes the system of' rebate;. 11? - f r

urges the control of rtiilfoads hy .pest- . n .

and u supervision by a a executive uf! power, endorses tmv . Ft'Ken !fci!i,s ami suggests a national board :-.fE: lu&oad1?" ii

commissioners. -. I l.r i 1 - . Tho Bporteif, J ? It is a gre it mistake to suppose that ail that is required to make u cood reporter is a literal edu oath m A -rt portors position is pnorqtrMg tact, " j udgooen t, courage and ' a nUorough knowledge oi the worhl, and , the r&vix college grad uat e can no more hold mt . isfactorily a importer7! position than 1 the reporter could salisfuctorilty fill

professor's chajr. Reporters are boin

--n o t made. Tiiey nay o oecome a. class as indispensable to itui demands oi modern civilization us e" locomo j tive or, the electric tei$grapli and If, x . while the tired world v-UiDCirs, tttit ,f

conscious or tne midnight; inunpr through wind ami rain of the dailjj newspaper reportertif for ' t ne tugnt he wouid siiHpend hisr labors then tht ; pub.iq would realize the debt ho Awes to the ,;knight of the notie3 oook.,,s " .v. h '

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