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II, J, PELTUS, PmUYCSJTEK.

BLOOanKGTON,

INDIANA.

HERB AHm THERE,

! Prakce Jbas 14,750 mile3 of railroad now in operation. New Hampshire was shaken by an earthquake Saturday.

Busing-the month of July, 56,607 immigrants arrived in this country

A congress of anti-vaocinationists

is to be held soon at Vienna, Austria, The Treasury officials at Washington are preparing for a flow of gold from ILurope.

.ike liora inayor or xonaon is a

Methodist, and a regular attendant at class meetings. The spring wheat crop of the North

west will be a full average in quantity f

and of good qualityThe Krupp cannon factory in Germany is crowded: with orders, and works 13,000 men. Dk. Hamilton is authority for the statement that the President's wound fifteen inches long. What.es in Boston harbor -and sharks in New York harbor, are the sensations in those cities.

the newspapers are two small,

Hebrew sheets : and the railroad iuir

provements are yet to be made.

It is expected that there will be thirty thousand uniformed militia at the Yorktown celebration. The President wrote to his mother last Thursday, assuring her of his confidence that he would recover. The Kentucky State Board of Agrilultara reports the shortest' crops in Chat State, this year, since 1854. Ara bull right in Marseilles, France, Sunday, the amphitheater seats fell, killing 12 persons, and wounding 150. Mjracoxous cures in answer to

prayers." are reported from a faith camp-meeting at Old Orchard, Maine. The winter wheat crop of Illinois is dosely estimated at 22,154,279 bushels this year, ? against 54,000,000 bushels last year. Leo Hahtm ashs, the Russian Nihilist has officially declared his intention to' become a citizen of the United -States.. . Thb latest reports: show that the wheav crop in England is a'little below the average, while in France it is conaiders.bly below. Wilson, a farmer, recently shot by his brother-in-law, Band, in the southem part of tie State, is getting well with: seven bullets in his body. It is said that General Robert Lo wry, the I democratic nominee for Governor of Mississippi,; was taught to read by his wife after their., marriage. - The Czar has recently received models of weapons and engines for assassination, with a bitten request that he would select oneto be used on his own pencil r , - v Tees law of compensations appears to tie in: foil operation in the crop prospects; The wheat yield is short, but the potato prospect is uncommonly fine. " It is stated that the traveling expenses of 100,000 "drummers" employed by the merchants of the United States arei.OOOiOOO a year, exclusive of sfiiaries.

GikSTELAR is battling for universal surf -age in Spam, while our great and good Woolsey talks about a restricted suft rage and an .aristocratic civil service.1 itr is asserted thai the crucifix which Columbus held in his hand when he first, landed upon the American soil; is now in t&e possession of a lady ia. Golo-xeda

Mr. Brown, the President's Private Secretary, states that the President contracted dyspepsia in the army, and has never been entirely free from it since.

las new telegraph line, the-Mutuai Union, is rapidly approaching completion, and. will open for Western business in October, if it isn't gobbled in by Jay Qould. . , . . , . Governor Porter says he will not call an extra session of the .Legislature, and has not been asked to do so by more than two members of ,the General Assembly. i

I Xiukd Francis's barn,' on Rolling s Pritirie, Iiaporte county, full of grain, ; noj-ses and implements, was burned by I , an unknown incendiary. Loss, 500: r no insurance. 1

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'A TW3BiVErYEAKrOiJ colored girl in

Poria, -Bl-recently gave birth to a

hejdthy, well-developed child that weighed thirteen pounds. Mother and child were doing well at iast&ccounts2 ' ' t ' . i ' 4No fewer than 50,003 or 60000 nejroesare still annually conveyed to thf j Turkish and Egyptian ports in the Bed Sea, where theyare disposed of to dejders from fXl parts of the Sultan's i dominions. 1 ,r Commissioner of Pensions Dudley sf reported to be considering the advif lability of recommending an act -of Congress pensioning all Union soldiers who suffered in rebel prisons during the late irar. . - r

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: During the last fifteen , years of - slavery the South, raised 46,675,591 bales of cotton. During the first fifyeajrs of freedom, that is from 1865 to 130 the number' of .bales produced V was 56,438.336. - ' I ; - The Bight Reverend Joseph C. Talbfltt. Episcopalian, Bishop of the Diocese of Indiana, is lying dangerously ill at Indianapolis, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. This is his third attack, and a fatal result is feaiedv

The plans filed in New York city - for the construction of new buildings n the city during the second quarter of the year involve an outlay of $17,500,000. Among the structures con- - templated are . eight places of amusef raent, costing 415,000., . , "? CoNSUX WiX30N,writes that Palestine is fast asleep. There is only onegood I iwagon road in all the Holy Iiand, the

leading from Jerusalem to Jaffa;

The resources of the 2,115 National

Banks on Thursday, June 30, 1SS1,

amounted to $3,325,833,200.75. They

had in circidation notes to the amount of $312,223,852, and held individual deposits to the amount of $1,031,731,-

043.42. ;

THE Jieat on the Colorado desert is

terrific- At Yuma the thermometer freauentlv rej?ei9ters 125, and the air

is so rarefied that objects 100 miles distant appears very near. A man requires five gallons of water daily to

quench thirst.

The German Government has allowed the Catholic clergy to exercise

their old influenco upon the public

schools Jin regard to their administra

tion. "Different dioceses have been in

stituted, the payment of clergymen's

salaries renewed, and the rights of the

order for nursing the sick enlarged.

feeble T acts m every department or tneoivu !

Stjrviuo euuvv luin uiwu slanderers or bigots, who Beeing refuse to believe, or believing deliberately misrepresent.

At the recent accident on the Grand

Trunk IMlway, the engineer, John A.

Haworth, of Montreal, was found dead

with his arm around the whistle rod. In the instant of time before his death,

he had managed to blow the whistle

twice for breaks, and died in the act of

performing this duty.

WhUiE in some parts of Europe in

tense heat has been experienced this

summer, m others severe cold has oc

curred. In Switzerland, during June,

vegetables froze in the fields and grass

in the meadows. In the North of

Scotland ootatoes and turnios were

badly damaged. Captain W. H. Howgate, who has figured so largely in the public eye during the last two or three years, and who was arrested the other day, for

a $50,000 deralcation and taken as a prisoner to Washington, is quite ill at

his residence in that city. The woman

in his case was a treasury clerk.

The Supreme Court of Nebraska

decided, Friday, that the high liquor

license law of that State is constitutional in every particular. This law requires saloon keepers to pay a license of 1,000 and give bond in the sum of $5,000, in cities of over l6tXX) inhabitants. In the smaller cities the license tax is $500. At Venango, Pa., a few days ago, two children , while playing among the weeds around a well, wore bitten by snakes. The mother went to their assistance; leaving a kettle of hot water on the floor,into which a third child fell while she was gon e. The children all died. The final settlement, of the great Irish Land Bill question is tersely summed: up as follows: "Gladstone, swearing he-would ne'er consent, consented, 2ind Salisbury, swearing he would ne'er Telerit, relented. The home-rulers, swearing the3f would ne'er repent, repen ted. And England is safe again." It is said that on last Sunday the Presideni awoke from a troubled sleep and said: "I dreamed that I was dead, and the doctors were dissec ting me." The account further represents that the dream cast him down greatly, and he did not recover from its effects for a considerable time all of which may be true, and then -again it may nok It is estimated that the total amount paid annually to foreign shipowners for carrying American products abroad is not less than $150,000,000. An other large sum is expended by Americans traveling in Europe for passenger fares; etc; so that it is probable that we -pay back to the people of Europe in these ways many more . millions than they pay us in settling the balance of trade against them. Ex-G)Vi DingiiEY, of Maine,' claims that, asa result of the prohiJitory liquor law in that State, every brewery and distillery has been closed ; that the bar-rooms have been greatly reduced in number, there being at present but 700, and these 'mainly secret;" that the liquor sold in these places does nos exceed $1,250,000 in annual value, or $2 per inhabitant, against $15 in the other States.

A TABUS of official statistics shows that the wages of thirty-six different trades in France in 1877 averaged fiftytwo per cent, higher than in 1853. Tne lowest increase given is forty, for. colliers, arid the' highest seventy-four, for bakers; The compiler notes that the rise has. been highest in those trades in whiclrrmachineryi has come largely into use The price of bread has.-remain-ed stationary. Commissioner of Pensions Duiley has issued the following order, which may be of interest to ex-soldiers hav iug claims pending in that department: DjepAHTMENT OIP THE INTERIO R, PE2OTON Oftice, Washington, Awg.lD.Jr Ordered, That in ail pension claims wJiereln more than one disability is alleged, the ola I mac t shall be advised upon ooiaplotion of the proof or any one of the alleged disabilities of the-evidence still necessary to the establishment of the others, and that this office xrpon reauest therefor, wilX issue a certificate for the disability thus established ithout prej ndice to any righfei he may h are on account of disabilities then not jjroven. V. W. Dudley, Commissioner. The celebrated Sprague divorce case will bt tried at Providence, R.p f., early in September. The Judge before whom the case will come gives the counsel notice that if any evidence of an indecent nature is to be presented, he will hear it in private, to prevent the foid details from being sent abroad over the land to corrupt the morals of the young. This action of the Judge is highly commendable, but is reflects with corresponding severity upon those who would publish and those' who would patronize the pruiientdllth. During the last fiscal year 30,000,000 local letters and 11 ,000,000 local postal cards were delivered in New YorK City The-total number of ma il letters delivered was 51,000,000, and of letters collected 95,000,000, and this is but a small part of the vast busmess done in the New York post office, done, too, as the Tribune says, M with i pjraiseworthydispatch and an absence ofcompiaiat that must be called remarkable," yet ttiere are foolish theorists in the country who tell us that the civil seryice of the government is denioralized, debased' md utterly Ineaclenti The

THE NEWS,

. Ones of the most promising evidences ofpernanent prosperty and probable political peace and toleration in Mississippi is the rapid subdivision of her great plantations into to small farms. Where tnere were 42,840 plantations in 1860, of the average number of 370 aores each, in 1871 we find 68,023 farms, the average of which was 103 acres. In 1880 the process of subdivision shows still greater results, the number of farms being increased to 75,205, and the average number of acres to each farm being decreased to 185 Another point of importance is that the soil is cultivated more thoroughly now than before the war. Notwithstanding the area of cultivated land is less than in I860 the production of cotton is twice as great. Comparisons are often consoling. We complain of . the few hot days of our heated terms, but suppose ve had heat such as is described by a British officer's wife in Burmah by the following incidentt fiA friend gave my husband some owl's eggs, which ho left in a plate in the drawing-room, the coolest place in the house, being in the center and surrounded by other rooms. The eggs were on a table in the corner and were forgotten. Some days after I saw one of the eggs moving, and slightly chipped. Presently out came a little owlet. The other eggs followed suit, until they were all hatched. This may seem impossible to any one vi he has not lived where the thermometer is generally 105"

The Baltimore American elucidates a subject of meloneholic interest in these days as follows : "The hotel plan of cutting a wetermelon like a tulip, and putting a lump of ice in it, is all wrong, because ice should never touch the pulp; but the burial of the uncut melon in ice for two days is wise. Then cuUengthwise, and eat between meals. People deal unjustly with this fruit sometimes by eating a hearty dinner first, and then topping off with a

melon, and then if a moral earthquake sets up in the interior, they charge it to the melon. The watermelon was

intended as an episode an interlude

a romance without words a nocturne in green and red not to be mingled

with bacon and grrens. Its indulgence

leaves a certain epigastral expansion, but this is painless and evanescent.

The remedy is to loosen the waistband,

and take another slice."

ENANCtfiiiST Moody is end eavori n g

to make it Sunday all the while at

Northfleld, Mass., where he and Evan

gelists Whittle, Saukey, aud others

are holding three religious meetings of various kinds every day. This is not directly a m6veme:at to convert sin

ners, but a summer gathering of Christian workers for recreation and im

provement. The clergymen of the re

gion round hold aloof, staying away from all services, and discouraging their people from attending; but the gatherings are, nevertheless, of con

siderable size, being composed largely of visitors from a distance. Mr. Moody

retaliates upon the clergy by such remarks as these: "I don't believe a

man can preach Christ acceptably and preach and work in Sunday School,

and attend funerals, and meetings,

and lawn parties, and 'parties where

they dance, and fai rs where they have

grab-bags. The HoJy Ghost sets a

man apart; from the world."

The following appears to be a sensi

ble view of the condition and prospectsn

of the President: "The danger from.

the wound of the President is not that

it is a deep one in the sense of direct

penetration. It is because it extends

a great distance in an almost vertical

direction in the muscular tissues forming the walls of the abdomen. Being thus deep and narrow in an almost di-

lectly descending direction, tho ball

having deilected, it is a hard wound to

-drain. Such a wound heals by granu

lation, that is, by the growth of new fle3h, which is accompanied by the

discharge of pus, which must have a

free outlet. The incision in the lower portion of the wound was made for the

purpose oi neiping tne now or puis.

The upper part ot the wound has now

a chance to heal. The last operation

will not only reduce the extent of the wound but will enable it to drain much

better. For these reasons the caise

ought now to be great ly simplified , un

less there is suppuration taking place

around the ball. In that case there is no help bul: to extract it."

The duties of a locomotive engineer

are described by an expert as follows:

"He must keep his eye on the track

ahead, watching the switch targets by

day and lights by u ight, lie must be on the lookout for a danger flag at all

times. He must keep informed of how much water there is in the boiler

by constan tly tiying the gauge cocks-

must neither have too little nor too

much. He must watch the time so as

not to run ahead of time nor to lose time. He has the throttle and reverse

lever to attend to, and must see that

the latter is in the notch which will use theJeast amount of steam that make use of the expansive qualities it

possesses. He must be sure that the pump or injector, whichever, the engine is equipped with, i3 working all right and putting the proper amount of water in-the boiler continually. He

must watch tho steam gauge and tlie gauge which indicates the amount of compressed air contained in the reservoirs, to be used for applying the brakes. He must watch his air pump and not leu it stop, in order to have plenty of compressed air whenever he has occasion to apply the brakes. The whistle must be blown and? the bell rung on approaching stations or obscure crossings. If he is running a freight train he must also use good udgment In keeping out of the way of first-class trains. In all eases of danger ahead he must reverse his engine, sand the rails, and apply the brakes, or, if he has not tho ail brake, ho must then whistle brakes 1 And t b is very busy man is at all times when on duty exposed to great danger from broken rails, collisions, defective machinery and many other causes of accidents; Certainly to act weE his part ho must be a man of superior intelligence and 'neryo."

Home fctomsa KaAjkoad building is now going on in this country at-the rate of 200 miles a week. A rioh vein of silver has been discovered near Fort .Sill, in the reservation of the Kiowa Comanch.es. A Braid wood, 111,, Marshal named Stewart, has been arrested for boating a prisoner so severely as to eauue his death. During the past fiscal year 135,229,002 were collected by 'the . Com? missioner of Internal Kevenuo and paid into the Treasury. The colored Bishops of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church have arrived in London, to take part in the Methodist Ecumenical Council. Parties from the Rosebud Agency state that Spotted Tail was killed for seducing another Indian squaw, and they say this was the 150th offence. Anticipating a cold winter, Chicago coal merchants have raised the price from 7.25 to $7.76 per ton for range and nut coal. They claim there is a scarcity. Danville, one of the most important centers for leaf tobacco in Virginia, reports the certainty of a short crop thereabouts. What there is will be of poor quality, The St. Louis Board of Polios Commissioners have instructed the police to arrest every man known to have, or suspected of having, fi realms on their persons. A team of English professional cricketers U being formed to visit America and Australia, with Shaw as Captain. They will sail from Liverpool toward the end of next mon th. A San Antonio special says Loren C. Porneroy, alias Charles L, Royal, was arrested Sunday, charged with appropriating a valuable letter while postmaster at Hebron, Ind. Professor Parkhurst, tho astronomer, asserts that there is no reason to fear a collision between the earth and the new comet, as the latter will n ot come within 60,000,000 miles of our planet,, - In the case of McGrath and MeKevitt, the dynamite fiends, the Liverpool jury found both persona guilty, and sentenced McGrath to penal servitude for life and McKevitt for fifteen year3. An American missionary has obtained, after an interview with General IgnatiefT, Bussian Minister of the Interior, a letter to the authorities allowing hint to preach to the inhabitants

of the district of Caucasus. A mountain, twenty miles east of Mount Idaho, I. T., on the ihh inst, sent forth a column of fire and smoke several hundred feet in height, with trembling of the earth distinctly ielt seventy-five miles distant. Commissioner Dudley, of the Pension Bureau, is considering tho advisability of recommending to digress a new act, the object of which will be to pension all soldiers who wore in rebel prisons any length of time. The Masealero Apache txe giving the settlers in 3?ew Mexico considerable trouble. Tho Indians are divided into small bands, ana are committing murders and depredations, lite citizens have taken the field against the red savages. A cordial invitation has been extended by the United States government, through its. Minister to Germany, to the family of Baron Steuben, Inspector General of George Washington's army, to become the guests of the Nation at the forthcoming Yorktown celebration. The assault made by Guiteau upon McGill at the jail, is believed to have resulted from nervous excitement. He desired General Crocker, the jailer, Thursday, to inform his sister m Chicago that he. was. well, that he re-

crrectea tne assassination, ana was praying daily for the recovery of the President. As the arrangements for the York town centennial celebration are developed some idea of the , grand, scale on which it is to be conducted is afforded. It is believed that the various States are contributing at least 30,000 of their cilizen soldiery. The Governors of the various States, with their staffs, will alone form a small regiment. Within the pa3t few days a remarkable revival has commenced in the quarter of Chicago which is largely occupied by houses of ill-fame. Minnie Brooks, for years the proprietress of one of these houses, has teen converted, and has abandoned a life of vice. At her house prayer meetings are being held for fallen women, which are already meeting with good results. The latest report from Rosebud Agency is to the effect that prow Dog and Black Crow conspired with other Indians to assassinate Spotted Tail, with a view of making Black Crow chief in place of the murdered man. The criminals have been arrested and sent to Fort Niobrara, where they will be tried uuder the laws of the Tearitory. Yung Wi Chaing, the Assistant Commissioner of Education, attached to the Chinese Legation at Washington, states that the removal of the Chinese youths from Hartford is not on account of any fear of their being Americanized, but because the Imperial Government wishes to avail itself of their services. Special agent Bigelow, after a tour o investigation in the Dominion of Canada, found that one-third of all the mail sacks, and four-fifths of all the pouches used by the Canadian Post Office Department belong to the United States. It is likely that the State Department will make a demand on Canada for compensation lor the use of the property.

Mysore, one

ries in Hindostan, drought.

Foreign.

territo-

is suffering from

of the largest

At Adrianople the Turkish revenue oflieers have been detected in a gigan-

sy stern of fraud on the government; "The Bight Honorable W." E. Forstor, Chief Secretary for Ireland , will retain that office as long as the coercion bill is in force. One of the Greek brigands who captured Colonel Suter, last April, was arrested near Athens with 13 ,000 francs in his possession. Signor Mariuetti, a distinguished Alpine traveller, was, wi th two guides, overwhelmed by an avalanche while ascendiug Mont Bosa. Tho London Times says that the land bill in Its present shape gives the tenant farmers' nil that reasonable men expected, or- even demanded, a year ago. The Chilians have suffered a disaa trous defeat at Pisco, forty-two leagues south of Lima. It is reported that of tho Chilian force of 400 men only S!G escaped. A light attended with loss of life, occurred at PtUtavabg iithcru Riw&tej '

between a mob and Imperial troops, the latter being engaged in quailing an anti-Jewish riot. Live stock in Great Britain during the past two years has been diminished by more than 12 per cent , 'there being a decline of 2,000,000 sheep and 1,000,000 lambs since 1879. Frederick William, the j, Crown Prince, has interested himsell in the anti- Jewish persecution, and, as a consequence, the... authorities, are more energet ic than usual in suppressing them. On account of threatening letters from the dynamitist Irish patriots the Ministerial white bait dinner, given every summer by,. the. Premier of England to his colleagues, was attended by a guard of police., The House of Lords has succumbed to the inevitable, waiving their proposed amendments (with a protest, however,) to insure the speedy passage of the bill, with the magnamimous lesigti of thereby aiding the solution of tho Irish question. The Parn ell branch of the Irish Land League at Cincinnati, p;issed resolutions severely eondeminj Irishmen who favor the use of ilyuamite and other Nihilist methods tc promote the cause of Ireland. The House of Lords looks upon the Irish land bill as a very bitter dose, which it is compelled to accept as an expediency. It will be considerably amended by them, however, before it receives the royal signature. The Orangemen in Liverpool have enlisted 400 laborers to reap the harvests of "boycotted" farms. Sixty of the recruits started for Dublin Tuesday. More disturbances will attend this movement as a matter of course. Prince Bismarck is going away for a few; months7 rest to Varsien, and is this week arranging matters of policy with his ministers, prepared, wbiu he returns to the capital, to find tlie church question settled and tlie elections concluded. In the House of Commons Parnell told the. members that on account of the imprisonments under the coercion bill, Ireland felt no gratitue'e for the passage of the land bill, wl ieh, moreover, he attributed to land league agitation. Afghanistan dispatches state that tho battle between the Ameer and Ayood Khan lasted three hours, and that 800 or 400 men wore killed on each side. General Hume, in command of tho Anglo-ludian contingent at Qiietta, had from 6,000 to 6,000 men with him. His nearest o.5tpost was seventy-eight miles from Candahar. An investigation by a member of the Bussian Imperial Government into the Jewish persecution at Khar Kofi" suggests be fact that in that city the Jews outnumber the Christians, and monopolize trades &nd accupations. The Minister of the Interior has called for statistics cm trh point from the Gov

ernors of Western view to regulate

things.

Provinces, with a

this condition of

THE STATE, Oil has been struck in Shelby township, J'efferaon county. There are thirty-one fully equipped military companies in this State. Two hundbed men are now employed on the new State House. It is probable that Governor Porter and other Indiana speakers, will take a hand in the Ohio campaign next month, William Bbigham, an eccentric old miser, died at Valparaiso Thursday. Ho appeared to be very poor, but left an estate worth $5,000. James Miller, a prominent young farmer south of Bushvilie, choke! to death from the effects of a, wheat-beard lodging in his throat. Money enough has been subscribed for a new First Presbyterian church

building at Crawfordsville,to cost $11,000. The contract has been let and the work begu u . . A big burly negro, employed by a well-to-do German farmer near Inglefield as a hand, fell in love with his employer's' daughter and was discharged, but the infatuated gir folio ed him to Evansville and married him. Kev. E. H. Babin, of ConnersviUe, is organizing a troupe of colored jubilee singers, with which ho expects to take the road in a few days. The doctor is -connected with a church , at Austin, Tex., over which hangs & debt tie hopes by this means to pay off. If the law of this State against carrying concealed weapons was enforced with even a little vigor, the fearful work of the ready revolver would be greatly diminished, and security for fife and property greatly increased. John Taylor and wife oi Center ton, who have figured conspicuously in the justice's court lately, were on Saturday night taken out by a masked mob and terribly beaten with thorn bushes. The cause is given as cruelty to their children and general meanness. Miss Dora, the eleven year old daughter and only child of Hon. B. H. Bur rell, of Brownstown, accidentally run the end of a parase!i handle down her throat Saturday, and grave fears were entertained for a while that the injury

woina prove iavai. one is now in a fair way to recover. On Sunday night, while P. M. Haynes, a lawyer of Washington, was walking down Alain street, ho was struck on the back of the head by some unknown person with a brick, inflicting what is thought will prove a fatal fracture of the skull. Charley Crosson, with whom he had some trouble, and who is now missing, is supposed to have thrown tho brick. Mrs. Morris Epiey, of South Bend, was bitten by a rattlesnake on Friday, while out gathering green corn. The fangs entered at a point a little over

the heel. She died Monday morning at 2 o'clock, having, given birth to a child about an hour before. The child is living and apparently healthy, although it is claimed the poison entered its system. On the evening of July 9, at an icecream party at the residonco of John Holler, Jackson township, Madison county, Dallas Cook threw a stone through a window, striking Wm. It.

Houghman in the forehead. The blow stunned Houghman at the time, but he apparently received, and a few days since he complained of bis, head, last week was paralyzed, and died on Sunclay. Cook has been arrested for murder. . While a young man named Zimmerman, with his father-in-law were taking home a load of furniture for Ins new house, near Milton, the fire from their pipes communicated with I he straw in which the furniture was packed, and before they noticed it a tierce little conflagration was raging in the back of the wagon. Pile team became frightened, and ran away, down the pike. at the tho top of their speed, and the wagon aud furniture were destroyed.

VENTBILOQUISM.

Some of the Tricks which Ventriloquists Have Playea Proiessor Dixoa, "Who were tho greatest ventrilovuists?" "Well, there was sni old Athenian named Eurykles, who is spoken of in history as a master of the art. Then there were Professor Alexandre and Louis Brabout, of modern times. They were both Frenchmen. Brabout lived in the fourteenth century, I believe, and was said to be the best ventriloquist the world ever knew. Alexandre In ed at an earlier period, and was noted more for his mimic powers. than for his ven triloquial powers. Professor Love, of England, was celebrated in the art, and was rivaled by Professor Harrington, who died the other day in Revere, Maas. Of those living to-day, Frederick McCabe and B. D, Davios are the greatest. Da vies is now retired in Australia, and McCabe has recently signed a contract to go there this season. Davies was tho first ventriloquist to introduce figures' as an assistant to tlie art in America. "McCabe a great practical joker. Several years ago he was on board of a Mississippi river steamboat, and forming an acquaintance with the engineer was allowed the freedom of the engine room. He took a seat in the corner, aud, pulling his hat down over his eyes, appeared to be lost in reverie, Presently a certain part of the machinery began to squeak. -The engineer oiled it and. went about his usual duties. In the courbe of a few minutes the squeaking was heard again, and tne engineer rushed over, oil-can in hand, to lubricate the same spindle Again he returned to his post, but it was only a few minutes until the same old spindle was squeaking louder than ever. ' Great Jupiter,1 he felled, 1 the thing' t bewitched.' More oil was administered, but the engineer began to smell a ra t. Pretty soon the spindle began to squeak again, and, slipping up behind McCabe, the engineer squirted a halo pint of oil down McCabe's back. There,' sand he, I guess that spindle won't squeak any more." The joke was so good that McCabe could not keep it, and he often tells it with as much relish as his auditors receive it "At another time McCabe was confronted by a highwayman, on one of the lonely streets of. Cincinnati, as he was returning to his hotel from a moonlight picnic. The lObber presented a cocked revolver at the,, ventrilo quist's head, demanding his money or his life. McCabe's quick wit saved him. He threw his vaioe behind the robber, exclaiming,. 'Hold, villain, you are my prisoner V The frightened scamp turned his head, and McCabe dealt him a blow that felled him to the ground. He then secured the revolver, and marched the scoundrel to the police italion, "Louis Brabout, the great French ventriloquist, was also a great joker. The story is told of him that he fell in lovo with a beau'ful young novitiate who was soon to take the veil. The sentiment was returned, and Brabout arranged for an elopement. His inamorata succeeded in .getting outside of the convent walls, and the two hurried away to the house of a neighboriug priest. The holy man was awakened and requested to perform the marriage ceremony. His lefusal was a thing to be expected, bat Brabout was too cunning for the old man. When he said 4No!' most emphatically, and was about to raUe a commotion and have tho novitiate returned to the cloister, a deep, sepulchral voice was heard coming from the bowels of the earth. It said : . UI am thy father, and am still in torment. Marry this couple... to each other and my probation in purgatory will be over." "The frightened priest called upon all the saints to protect him, and proceeded to perform the ceremony with greater alacrity than he had evershown on a similar occasion." "Do you ever play jokes" "Not often. 1 am not given to such sports as a general thing, but occasionally amuse myself at the expense i others. Last year 1 was traveling with a musical combination; One day

while riding on tne cars, I . tnrew my voice into a covered basket, and set up a ferocious barking like a dog, The lady beside whom the basket was sitting gave a scream and bounded out of the seat. Then I made a cat join in with the row, and a brakeman came running pell-mell to quiet the disturbance, lie jerked the lid off of the basket and found nothing but a. lot of delicious peaches the lady was taking home. The crowd Was considerably mystified. Then I set a bumblebee buaxing about the brakeman's ears, and he retreated. A gentleman who was standing near heard a wolf growl so ferociously behind him that he jumped about two feet high. Then the lady was led to believe that a mouse's nest had found lodgment in her pocket and ihi circus was complete. But I don't believe mucU in such capers, and generally forego the fun I might have if so disposed." t 44H 5,

summons to depart, only indicated by pointing with her finger to the door i she was suffocated, by rage, and could net ut ter a syllable. The intruder, on his side, was so completely overcome by astonishment that, after remaining transfixed for a moment,, he made one bouud toward the door, and vanished without the utterance of a single word.' -:. "V" --.. r-r ... ... Tho Wealthiest Colored jffian in Georgia. A special dispatch from Atlanta, Ga. to the Cincinnati Enquirer, says : His name is Henry Todd, and he lives at Daricu, in this State. When a youth his master died and left; him his freedom as a reward for his faithful attention during the slaveholder's last sickness. Young Todd was so esteemed by the family that they insisted on his remaining in their employ, and paid him a handsome salary. He was sort of assistant overseer on the plantation . By the kindly aid of white friends he soon became a land owner, and then a prosperous farmer. In a few years : his affairs showed the result of industry and natural business talent in a snug little fortune. His quiet mannner and strict uprightness guarded him from the bitter prejudice which in. those days both races felt for the average "free nigger." Henry Todd soon had money enough to hold slaves himself, and he purchased several as a matter of economy. When the Confederacy fell he lost twenty negroes and some money in Confederate bonds. This severe blow was in a measure counteracted by his good fortune, having on hand a crop of cotton, which then demanded 50 cents a pound. After . the war he continued his farming operations, but also engaged in the lumber business. His remarkable success continued, and up to to-day he owns two large lumber mills and exports very extensively. He is 76 years old, and has an excellent education. He is worth 100,000 in good investments. He lives in a neat country, home, surrounded by a family of live children, who enjoy the luxuries of life. Every Summer ,they leave the coast and spsnd the hot months at a house which they own in one of the cool mountain nooks of North Georgia. Henry Todd has careful ly kept from active participation in politics, though he has frequently been solicited to be a candidate. His example is in every way healthy for the negroes of Georgia. He is public-spirited and generous, giving freely to charitable objects. He has educated his children well and will leave them rich. A Female Philosopher, from Concord. Oaicago fntcr-Oceiin. A young lady on the WehSide has just returned from Boston. .While there her uncle, who is a reporter on a sporting paper, took her to the Summer School of Philosophy at Concord. She heard some one read an essay on, , ,The absoluteness of absolutism," and became infatuated with the doctrine taught, !Chawles," said she to her lover the other evening (he is a clerk in a harness store) "Cbawles, do you realize that you cannot differentiate the indissoluble absoluteness, of the absolute?" "No!" he replied, "to tel! the truth, I don't," and, as it was the first time he had seen her since, she got back, the suggestion struck him with alarm. "Do you ever stop to inquire," she began again, "into the incohation or the rudimentary incipience of the rhapsodical coagmentation of your thoughts of love?" "Well, not to speak of,"; he said. "Then, if there is one drop blood in your heart that pulsates for me; if there i one conceit, nuoscopic or psycological, that in the incogitancy of your dreams, or in the perquisition of

your waking hours, absorbs a thought

of me, 1 beg that you would eliminate

any abstruse or tqin vocal particles of

distrust irouv the. profound and all-

transpiet: oiis anuormanty or your

love." "Great heavens, Maria, have you swallow ed a dictionary?" '4No, I have not," she-said with a stern and! forbidding look of displeas

ure. "I have been to the School of

Philosophy at Concord."

FOB AND ABOUT WOMEN.

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; Disraeii'B Feminine Foe. Birmingham Pos' They say that the big bunch of hothouse flowers which arrived from a distance on the night before the interment was sent by a fair and persevering enemy, with whom old Lord Beaconsfield had been compelled to maintain a continued warfare ever since he was first known to her as young Disraeli. The lady was young, too, at that time, and very fair. Her husband was Disraeli's most intimate friend, and she knew that ... his advice had always bee:a to foregot the marriage in consequence of her well-known hierh snirit and uncertain temper. But

what man in love ever listened to a friend's advice? The pair were mar

ried and started for their continental honeymoon according to custom. On their return Disraeli paid a visit to his friend at the beautiful mansion he had hired at the instigation of his bride a house far beyond the means he then had at command as a beginner in the literary career of which he lived to become for awhile the leading star. , To a close observer like Disraeli ifc was soo a easy to perceive that all h ad not gone quite so merry as the marriage bells which had to lately chimed for the wedding, and by degrees the great author unfolded to his friend a taio of woo founded on facts of temper too terrible to relate, to which Disraeli the bachelor could see no remedy buta speedy separation, expressing his conviction that his friend had fallen into trouble, and that tne sooner he could manage to get out of it the better, :. He bade him remember that domestic troubles from his wife's temper would destrov his literary talent, and

that, after a brilliant debut, he would sink to nothing, and that, from what he had already heard, he should think that there would be- found sufficient motives for separation, and that he

would assist him in the plea by every means in his power. "I shall never dare to propose such a step," moaned the husband, in a despairing tone. "Oh, leave her to met let mo talk to her," said Disraeli, . confidently.. "I have never yet been defeated by any woman." At this moment the folding oors of the drawing room burst open with wrath, and before the speakers stood the enraged wife in her nightgown, witili her hair dishevelled and a dangerous fire in her eyes. Tho room adjoining was her bedroom, .She had heard every word of the conversation and rushed like a fury to the defense of her domest ic hearth. With a shrill battle cry she rushed upon the enemy, and reizlug tfie back of the chair on which ho was seated, drew . it. from under him as the most expeditious way of inducing him to obey the unite

A Kornan Catholic Church. The extent and elaborate organization of the Romau Catholic Church throughout tlie world are illustrated in a striking manner by an official list lately published at Borne under the direction of the Pope. The enumeration of hierarchical ti ties in the East and West together includes a total of 1,135 offices., all of which except about 100 are at the present moment occupied. Of the dignitaries who v rank next below the Supreme Pontiff, there are sixty-three, and of patriarchs, comprising both the Western and the Eastern rites, there are eleven. The Archbishops of the Latin rite number no less than 1S7, with 000 Bishops. The Oriental rite ia administered by only fifty-one Archbishops and Bishops together: Of officials bearing the title of apostolic Relegates there are six, of apostolic vicars twenty-six and apostolic perfects 1021! But of the Bishops, and Archbishops as many as 290 are appointed to titles called in partibus i n thulium.. Pour members of the College of Cardinals are over eighty years of age, and only three are under fifty. Twenty-nine, or nearly half of the sacred College, are between seventy and eighty years old; fifteen are be

tween sixty and seventy, ana twelve

are between fifty and sixty. There are

twelve .Roman ...Catholic Bishoprics

and one Archbishopric in Great Britain, while in Ireland there are

twentv-four Bishoprics and four Arch

bishoprics, In the whole of the British

dominions the number of Roman Cathol ics prelates was recently estima

ted at 118.

V Gaorgia Cyclone . Amerlcus (Ga.) UepubUpan...

Mr, Z. T. Baisdeh gives up the fol-

lowinc story of a whirlwind that

visited his place about 12 o'clock on

Mondav. searinsr all his hands and

some visitors very badly: A whirl

wind occurred m a twelve-acre corn

field that was about four , feet , in

diameter and sometimes a hund red

feet high.- The body of it was perfectly

hlack. with fire in the center and

emitted a strong sulphurous vapor that

could be smelt three hundred yards

from it. The whirlwind would divide into three and move rapidly over the

field, twisting up the corn stalks by the roots and carrying them up. These three m inor whirlwinds would , then come together with a loud crash, cracking and burning, and shoot high up into' the heavens. Three you ng ladies who were visiting Mrs. BaisdenJ went within about 150 feet to observe it. but received such a shower of burning sand upon their faces and necks that tbev ran affrighted to the house. . Mr,

Baisdensays that he cannot account for this strange phenomenon, and it certainly frightened all who saw it. The strange part was that ifc contained fire yet did not appear to burn the corn that it did not tear up, and its sulphurous vapor sickened and burnt all who got close enough to get a lull breath of it. i .

Careful Martha. Burling tou Hawkeye. , A1, "Are you j, prepared for death?" the clergyman asked, with a termor of emotion in his voice, as he took the sick woman's hand in his own. A shade of patient t nought crossed the invalid's nice, and by-and-by she said see didn't believe she was; there was the bedroom carpet to ne taken up yet, and the paint up stairs had hardly been touched, and she did watVS to put up new curtains in the diuiug-room but she, thought il sh9 did not die until next Monday &he would be about as near

ready ar a woman with a : big family

and no ?jiri YT expected to be,

She road all tho books of science. lier 11 ngers were covered with ink, . She hooted at marriage alliance, She talked of the missing link. She quoted savans and preachers f greater or less renown Platonic in all her features, r " She at last married a clown. . Fans increase and parasols diminish. Basques are single anti double breasted. Alligator-skin belts are adapted-for walking suits. Pocket handkerchiefs are no longer worn at the belt. Fabrics intended for evening are selected by gas light.

Bluff or white chamois gauntlets are worn at riding parties. ' .,. r " ?

Bosom bouquets are pinned low on the right of the corsage. 2 . A prudent girl f "Mary is a very -good, prudent girl. She " says to me one day as she was breaking the curd:1' "Mother, I will never let loose my affections oh no man till I have proved him to be pious and in good circum- I stances.'" ,. , ' .- ... ,.; Remark about bachelors : Dean Stanley remained a bachelor until he wasr forty six. Miss Anthony has done the same thing until she is but-let us not pursue this painful subject. ; A flatterer strikes a snag: "Madam," . 5 he gallantly observed, "I have your , image photographed upon my heart. S "Inaeed,." she said, "a sort of negative ;? impression of me; I suppose." Women's rights: Bir William Hamilton sawi "On earth there is nothing . great but man." Thanks, Sir William? ho, thanks awfully. Now, what have i you to say. Mrs. L-ivermore? , " ' . Mrs. Lucy Hopper in Harper's Bazar , paints Parisian trades people in black I y; colors. She declares that, as a rule, they are thoroughly unreliable, and assens "that nearly every Ereneh dressmaker or milliner looks" upon her ' American customer as her lawful prey, if ; to be fleeced and cheated as seemeth' best unto herself." , " ; ' ' One of the newest agonies of this1 in? f tense age is for a young gentleman to y' send to his adored and adorable a largesized Japanese parasol covered with those rapturous pastoral decorations so common to Japanese high art." This J siguiues: "Shall I sit in the shade with you this afternoon?" And she ' generally does., . It is hard work to think of nothing and yet be engoged in thought, but a. courtier in the days of Queen Elizabeth thus explained how it. could be done, when asked by Her Majesty r 'What does a man think of when he thinks of notlnng?" "He thinks of a woman's promise?' was the reply. This fellow no doubt, had been promised something and had failed to see it The side-saddle has been roundly b used and ridiculed, but the London , v Academy thus comes to its defense -tl A side-saddle, with the extra crutch, affords quite as sure a gripin fact a . more powerful one--than can be ob- , .mined astride a horse, and it is only in

physical strength,which may too. often he oniy abused, that a man has any : advantage as a rider over a woman;The only. case where strength is Wftntea with a horse is to conquer vice, and?-l" no woman should ride any horse the character of which is not guaranteed. : It is not suitable for any lady to take' " up the duty of a horse-breaker." : : The records of suicides do not often - contain such evidence of disregard of physical sufferings as was shown by a woman named Coyne, who lived near ? Manchester, England. This woman, who had passed the middle age. poured', parafflne oil over her head, and when it had run down upon and .saturated her clothing she set fire to it. Theinjuries she sustained resulted in her death in a very few minutes This case has only been equalled in recent' times by a Gloucester gentleman, . whav ( built a funeral pyre in the yard Of his: ' house, and, having set fire to it, mounted to the top and there, -awaited . his end, which soon came. r 'r ' '

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A youthful wife is one of the won-, dersV cf Saratoga at . present; not so much because she is only 17 as that her husband is 60. The difference in their ages is fully apparen t,for he looks all of his years, while her face, manners and dres are extremely girlish. More than that, she has a baby a dof of a thing only $ months old ; it seems like a doll in its girl-mother's arms,; and she is mighty fond of display lug it. When the nurse brings it to her m the

midst of a party of young fellows, and she demurely walks off to her room to give it nourishment, they get mad with envy at the veteran husbaud. . That makes the young women jealous of her, and al tog ether she is a highly aggravating little creature. Tne most affecting thing she has done yet was at a big hotel bop. v She wore a dress quite low in the back, and was ravish- , ingly pretty. While she danced, her venerable spouse sat on the veranda , smoking and chatting with a circle of men old and youug. Suddenly she ran out to him, put her hands on his knees, bent her hed-into his lap, and said, in the tone of-aE chilli vto.?a'paT i. - A 4

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lamily . -Jane owe was com nere. j and about 1S30 removed with her rather to Oswego county, where she was -married to Guiteau, who was a French v Hugeuot, Charles, the assassin, was :f born in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1841. V Bubsequeutiy, bis mother died, and his: -rather married Marie Blood, of Cazenovia. His father died alout eighteen months ago, but his stepmother is stOl living in Freeport, Illinois. The Kew York Sun says: 'While s conducting reyivai meetings in Milloci-. TiiVia. Kf!. Vm.ii nati. . at. i

bibired several letters written to hex n .f by Charles J. Guiteau, .-'prefacing the $ ; act with the statemeuVm substance h& that Guiteau was formerly an infidel, -who had leen converted through her S : . efiorts, and that since his conversion :v "4

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