Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 10, Bloomington, Monroe County, 19 July 1884 — Page 2

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THE HEWS CONDENSED. THE EAT. Wsaw going to church at Erie, Pa., Adam Brabender, President of the wrecked Erie Oomkj Strings Bank, was arretted on the charge of having embedded the funds Of the institution, 150,000, and was committed in default of $100,000 bail The maffiaery boose of S. & 3: fcommerish, at New York, has failed for $90,000. The paper of J. de Riviera A Co., sugar-dealers in the same city, has gone to protest, but fhcy churn thai with $1,000,000 in goods on hand they will soon be able to resume. . . . TheTeronto champion lacrosse teamr defeated the Americans, jnst returned from Europe, at New Yotk. A RE3S broke oat in a bakery at Bradford, Fa. Mrs. Beibley, and her two children and a Swedish servant girl perished in the flames: A gentleman named Clark, of Dun ver, Gala, made a heroic attempt to rescue lira. Beibley. Two women were badly injured in leaping from the burning building. Thb dry goods firm of Halsfcad, Haines A Co of New York, made an assignment with preferences of $417,000. Liabilities are estimated at from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. The failures are also 1 announced of Jdhn W. McFarland, an iron manufacturer of Alliance, Ohio, and J. M. Hamburger, a picture dealer of New York. . . . The weekly .statement of the New York banks shows a gain of $7,550,900 in reserve, bringing their surplus above the legal requirement by $23,861 ,50), the largest amount of idle money for years Pof. PacksrcLactmg President a! Bowdoin College, died suddenly The damage by fire at Warn A Co.'s furniture factor?, Williams burg, N. Y., is estimated at $&00,000. THE WEST. Bobjek? Sw Aisbs, agent of the Southern Sanm Railroad Company at Garnett, Eas., also agent for the Wells-Eargo Express Company at that place, has beet: prosecuted several times for dehveringpackages containing hquor to parties in Garnett and vicinity. The packages were sent from Kansas Cit$y and the agent was not presumed to know what they contained. He has been fined $50 in each case. In consequence of the prosecutions, several express companies have withdrawn their aganras from Garnett and other Kansas towns. p TWBrVB acres in the Toledo (Ohio) lumber district were burned over, the property destroyed belonging to the Mitchell A Rowland Lumber Comptmy, in whose yard the fire started; Nelson, Holland A Co., and J. B. Kelly. The loss is $365,000, and the insurance about 1340,000. The police of Milwaukee hare arrested a man carrying on his person $10,000 worth of diamonds, on which he was endeavoring to obtain advances from pawnbrokers. . . . W. S. Jackson, a Colorado Springs banker, has ten appointed receiver for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. W. JL McGtjuu, President of the Cincinnati and Eastern Railroad, recently lost his life by afal from the door of a baggageear CD the trestle-work near Winchester, Ohio. It is now learned that he had been securing money on forged notes, the amount involved being about $30,000, and the conviction grows that he committed suicide. . . . Four farmers from Macedonia, Iowa, appeared in Council Bluflfe, with search warrants issued by a Justice of the Peace, and demanded bottles of liquor, enforcing it with drawn revolvers. They were soon arrested for carrying concealed weapons, and were threatened with tar and feathers. . . . Joseph Smith, son of the "prophet, and two others from Utah, are at Richmond, Mo., comparing tike Mormon. Bible with the original manuscript from the plates alleged to have been given by an angel to Smith, Sr. but the rcasona for the comparison have net been made public..,. Maud S. white exercising at Cleveland, trotted a mile in 2.12J. , "Bracr and "Charley Hamilton ware hanged at Werrensburg, Mo., for the murder of Carl Steible,a German.... .A sanitary circular, urging that precautions be taken to prevent and counteract the inroads of cholera and. suggesting the cleansing of streets, alleys, etc, has been issued by the Illinois State Board of Health to cities, towns, and villages Everett A Weddett. private bankers at Cleveland, made an assignment Their assets are reported to greatly exceed their liabilities, which amount to $1,000,000, and it is expected that the suspension will be only temporary. Thk Cincinnati Coroner has just returned a verdict on account of the deaths in tike riots there some months ago; He finds that the rioters were killed by the officers of the law in the discharge of their duty in preserving the peace, which is anything but satisfactory to the Germans. A KBWbyplay George R. SheweR, entitled "Shadows of a Great City," was produced at McYickers Theater, Chicago, this week, for the first time on any stage; and scored an immediate success. It is under the management of Joe Jefferson's sons. The scene is feid hNew York, the first act giving the audience a v?ew of a pawnbroker's shop in Catherine Market. The second is laid at Blackwell's Island; the third and fourth on the Harlem River; and the last scene is a banker's mansion. The play is highly melodramatic, and the company presenting it is a very strong one.

the leg. When it became known in the camp that the officer had been wounded, several Seminoles armed themselves, and sought to assasfdnate Daly, but were restrained by Cunningham. The encounter is said to have resulted from a drinking bout.. .W. H. Beale.and a man named Bowie fought a duel to the death at Dallas, Texas. They were close friends before the fight, and no cause can be found for the quarrel Seven stores on Market street, Chattanooga, valued at $50,000, were swept away by fire.

TH SOOTH.

In a quarrel on a street corner in Baltimore, a sporting character named William MoGowan was shot dead by Gus Slater, a nephew of the most prominent gambler hi the city. McGowan last year killed Owen Gorter on the same spot. Tsa in monument to a woman raised in the United States was unveiled at New Orleans, in memory of Margaret Haughery, known as the Orphans' Friend, whose benevolence was extended to all worthy calls for assistance. Thb Louisiana Board of Health has instructed quarantine officers to detain all vessels coming from Toulon, Marseilles, or other cholera-infected ports.... Paul Morphy, fiie world-renownea chess-player, died in New Orleans. Xbkbb men were executed at Port Smith, Ark., for murders committed in Indian Territory. A Jvja was fought at Loader Station, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Railway, at thirty paces, between Lieut Cunningham, commander of the Seminole scouts, and a railroader named Daly. The weapons used were pistols. Three shots were fired, resulting in the wounding of Cunningham in

WASHINGTON. The pension appropriation bill provided for 150 additional special examiners in connection with the Pension Department, The places will be filled by competitive examination. Twenty-five additional appointments in the Patent-Office will also be tilled in accordance with the civil-service rules. At the solicitation of some of the leading trade and industrial organizations of the country the Secretary of State le st winter directed the preparation of a circular letter with a view to securing through Consular officers the fullest obtainable information concerning the condition of labor throughout the world, and especially in Europe. Very full returns have been received from Consuls everywhere, and are now in process of preparation in the Bureau of Statistics of the State Department for the press. The material embodies information relating not only to the rates of wages paid to all classes of laborers but to the prices taid for the necessaries of life, clothing, rent, food, etc., not only from the American standpoint as to what the necessaries of lif e comprise, but the actual nature and quality of the articles consumed. , Within the limits of Washington a Chicago express tntin collided with a local passenger train, and several persons were killed.

POLITICAL. A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., tells how Gov. Cleveland received the news of his nomination by the Democratic convention: The first intimation the Governor received of his nomination was when, sitting in hit private

room off the executive chamber. In the Capitol, hard at worlc on routine executive business, ha heard the boom of a cannon, the reverberations of which echoed back from the hills opposite the stately edifice. Fhe Governor bad coxae to the Capitol at the enstomary hour, and examined a number of papers requiring his early action. He remained quietly at work until half-past 12 o'clock. There were leas than the customary number of chance callers, and nothing occurred to distrxb the ordinary routine of the day. kt about lutlf-past 12 o'clock Gov. Cleveland, with Ad jt Gen. Farnsworth, retired to the Governor's private room in rear df the Executive chamber, to con&ider some matters concerning the Stat camp. They were hard at work and apparently oblivious of the fact that a National Democratic Convention was in progress at Chicago. Every other moment a blue-coated messenger interrupted the discussions by a bulletin of the voting at Chicago, received from the Assembly, telegraph office. When the announcement of Pennsylvania's change was made a few friends of the Governor, who had by this time dropped Into the office, applauded vigorously. Soon after came the formal announcement of the first ballot. SUU the Adjutant General continued callin? off the figures from the proof in his hand without watching1 to see if the Governor made the corrections. At about 1 :4 Gen. Farnsworth with the soldier"? instinct, first heard the cannon shot, fie held un his hand and said, "Listen 1M They turned, and then came another roar from the brass "baby waker that the Young Men's Democratic Club liad stationed at the foot of State street. Gen. Farnsworth promptly jumped to his feet and raid: They are Jfring a salute.Governor, over your nomination." "That's what it is," said Col. Lament "Do you think so?" said the Governor. "Well, anyhow, well finish up this work," and at It they went again. If any doubt remained as to what the booming of cjiinon meant, it was soon dispelled by a telephone oaU, which said: MTeU the Governor he has been nominated on the second ballot." Col Lament, the private secretary of the Governor, conveyed the news. Tfte Governor smiled. He did not seem to be at all nervous or excited. Handshaking followed, and then the Governor said, suddenly: "Lament, I wish you would telephone that to the mansion. Sisters will want to hear it. The Colonel did so.

Thb National Bone of Temperance of America held their convention at Halifax, N. S., last week. An increased membership was reported.... The Baltimore and Ohio Company has purchased the Pittsburgh, Cleveland ana Toledo Bead, and will honor the paper indorsed by Commodore Garrison and the Andrews brothers. Bowdoin College, of Brunswick, Me., hed its annual commencement exercises last week. Among others, the degree Doctor of Laws was conferred upon ex-Secretary Blaine, who attended the exercises, and addressed the alumi at the annual dinner. In the National ase-B:iU League contest the Bostons lead with 40 games won; 'the Providence has now 38, New York 34, Buffalo 27, Chicago 26, Cleveland 21, Philadelphia 18, and Detroit 13. In the Union Association St. Louis has now 36 games, Boston 26, Chicago 25, Baltimore 23, Cincinnati 21, Philadelphia 15, Washington 14, and Kansas City 3. In the Northwestern League the Grand Eapids and Quincy have won 36 games each, Bay City 34, Peoria 31, Saginaw 30, Milwaukee 23, and Minneapolis and Muskegon 19 each. London dispatch: "The cholera plague at Toulon and Marseilles appears to be extending. The number of deaths at the former place Monday was ten and at the latter fourteen. The people of both cities are leaving, and it is feared they will spread the plague. Foreigners now arriving in London are subjected to medical elimination. Persons infected are taken to the hospital. These precautions are taken to prevent the entrance of the cholera in the city." FOREIGN. Tee Swiss Republic protests against the quarantine in Italy, which is enforced equally against the Swiss and people of other nationalities. A letter from a Chinese official to a wealthy and influential Chinaman at San Francisco announces that the Pekin Government has determined to combat the French, at the same time ordering a tax to be levied on all Chinamen living in the United States. A secret treaty is also said to exist between Germany and China whereby the former will support the latter in a war with France. Mb. Andrew Carseoje, the Pittsburgh millionaire, has quarreled with his English partner, Mr. Samuel Storey, M. P., over the management of their half a dozen halfpenny newspapers. Carnegie furnished the money and Storey the brains for the journalistic enterprises. Storey was making the papers too radical. Hence the quarrel. . . . At Whitehaven, England, Irish Nationalists made an attack on an Orange procession. Shots were exchanged, and several persons seriously injured. A telegraph boy was killed The Gladstone party refuses to accept the compromise offered by the Tory Peers through Lord Wemyss on the ' franchise bill. Tins probably ends the negotiations for the present. . . . China continues to maintain her bluster in

the dispute with France, and the latter is reported as firm and determined. A week will settle the question of whether it will end in war or. peace. England, it is reported, is inciting China to fight A train conveying the Emperor of Austria found the rails misplaced at a gorge near Podgoritza, evidently with murderous intent,... The British Government has information that Osman Digma has seized the port of Asis, sit miles from Suakim The cholera epidemic at Marseilles is spreading. The people are fleeing from the city in large nunibers. The railway stations are crowded with people trying to secure passenger tickets. JLMTT01f AI E1VS. To A reporter at Lockport, N. Y., Gen. Butler said he did not like the Democratic nominees, but he would take no definite action until he had read the letters of acceptance of all the candidates. The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the British grain trade, says: "Trade in foreign wheat very dull. The market is decidedly weaker, especially for American, the supply being excessive." A dispatch from Starkville, Miss., says that in October, 1882, B. J. Parish's two boys, aged 12 and 14 years, died suddenly. It now turns out that a negro named Newton Carpenter, living with Parish at the time, poisoned water which the boys drank. Newton confided the matter to a negro woman who a few days ago told Parish. Carpenter was arrested and said he got the poison from a negro doctor, Ned Macks, a notoriously bad character. Macks was also arrested. A posse of half a dozen men had them in charge, when the prisoners were seized by a disguised mob and hanged, . . . A masked mob took Dick Jones, a negro, from jail at Owensboro, Ky., and hanged him. The jailer fired on the party, killing one man, and fatally wounding another. The mob then shot the jailer, who died soon after. After damage of $50,000 had been done by fire at the mission of San Jose, in California, the old church was saved by the use of claret wine as an extinguisher D. B. Buford fc Co., of the Bock Island (III.) Plow Works, have made an assignment. The liabilities are $500,000, while the assets are placed at $800,000 Burgert & Hart, wholesale boots and shoes, at Toledo,; Ohio, have made an assignment, with liabilities of $100,000. It is understood that a successor to Judge Drummond will not be appointed until December, when Congress meets. PostmasterGeneral Gresham will then be appointed almost without a doubt. In the meantime business in the United States Circuit Court will be seriously delayed. Another reason is urged for the acquisition of Cuba by the United States, It would add to the sanitary safety of the nation. We are constantly threatened with the importation of yellow fever front Havana. If that city were controlled by Americans it is urged that it would be a most healthy city, and the contagion-breeding menace would be removed. The horse Sour Mash was driven twenty miles in 77:35 in Hampden Park, at Springfield, Mass The Court of Errors of New Jersey has released two printers of Deckertown who were sentenced to long terms in State prison for criminal libel perpetrated - by their employer. . . . A dispatch from Parker, Pa., says seven men were buried by an embankment caving in. Frank Gleason and Michael Miscabrough were killed, and Bernhard Singer, William Piper, Charles AUick, William Kenturach, and John Schalk injured. Singer and Piper are hurt internally, and will probably die. The value of the total imports of merchandise of the United States, exclusive of specie and bullion, for the calendar year 1883, amounted to $687,077,666, against $752,843,507 for the previous year, showing a decrease for 1883 of $65,768,841. The value of the total exports, domestic and foreign, exclusive of specie and bullion, for the year 1883, amounted to $795,175,701, against $767,781,946 for the previous year, showing an increase for 1883 of $27,193,755. Tbe value of the total imports of specie and bullion for the year 1883 amounted to $36,209,318, against $22,500,913 for the year previous, an increase for 1883 of $13,708,4 05. The value of the total exports of specie and bullion for the year 1883 amounted to $31,843,440, against $56,038,134 for the year previous, a decrease for 1883 of $24,194,694. The total foreign trade of the United States, imports and exports, exclusive of specie and bullion, was, for the calen dar year 1883, $l,482,250,367,against $1,520,825, 453 for the previous year, a decrease for 1883 of $38,575,086. THE MARKET. NEW YOKE. BBBVE3 $ 7.00 8.00 Hogs 6.25 5.75 FiiOUB Extra, 6.00 ((6.35 WheatNo. 2 Chicago. 92 $ .98 No. 2 Bed 97& .98 COBN-No.2 .60 .62 Oats White 38 9 .44 POBK Mess 15.25 (315.75 CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 i$ 7.25 Fair to Good 5.25 W 6.00 Butchers'.. 6.00 6.50 Hogs 6.25 & 5.75 PLOUK Fancy "White Winter Ex 6.25 6.75 Good to Choice Spring.- 4.50 & 5.25 Wheat No. 2 Sprincr .80 & .81$$ No. 2 Red Winter. 87 & .90 COBN No. 2. 61 3 .63 Oats No. 2 .29 & .SO Rye-No. 2 60 m .62 BABLEX No. 2. 60 .62 Butteb Choice Creamery 17 .18)s Fine Dairy... 18 g .16 Cheese Full Cream 08 3 .09 Skimmed Flat 03 & .04 EGGS Fresh. 15 .16 Potatoes New, per brl 2.00 2.50 POKK MeSS 22.25 (322.75 LABD 07 .07& TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Bea .86 ,87& C03N No. 2 .54 .55 Oats No. 2 .32 & .84 MILWAUKEE Wheat Na 2 80 .81 CORN No. 2 47 .48 Oats No. 2 32 (& .38 BABLET No. 2.. 54 .56 POBEMeSS 16.26 &16.75 LABD. 7.00 B 7.60 8T. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 84 .85 Cobn Mixed. .46 & .46 Oats Na 2 26 .27 ItTE. 65 .56 POBX Mess 16.00 316.50 CINCINNATI. Wheat Na 2 Bed. to 91 Corn 53 .55 Oats Mixed. 34 .35 Poke Mess 16.00 16.60 LABD ttVAKATJtf.-" -07 DETROIT. FXoun 6.00 6.60 Wheat No. X Whita. 1.01 (9 1.02 Corn Mixed .63 g .65 Oats No. 2 Mixed 33 .35 POBK Mess 19.25 (19.75 INDIAN APOLIR Wheat No. 2 Red 86 (9 .88 Cobn Mixed 48 & .50 Oats Mixed 80 3 .32 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle--Best.... 6.00 6.50 Fair. 6.5Q 6.25 Common. 3. 75 4.6 JIOGS 6.60 COO Sheep 4.W 9 4.50

LEARNING TO DANCE.

Bow Maria Taftlloitl Was Taught the Art b Ur Father. The exercises of a dancer must begin wlxen she is between . 7 and 10 years old, and they must be carried on with daily assiduity and through terrible fatigues, until the child is shown to be physically unfit or until her limbs acquire a suppleness which, compared to those of ordinary persons, is as Indiarubber or wood. Out of 1,000 foals only three become crack racers, but it used to be reckoned that from among 1,000 coryphees you could hardly expect to find a Fanny Elssler, a Cerito, or a Carlotta Grisir and connoisseurs would add that there had never been but one Tagiioni. Dr. Louis Vernon, who was director of the Paris opera from 1831 to 1836, relates in his memoirs how pitilessly severe Philip Tagiioni was in the training of his daughter He had only two pupils, Maria and a Mile. Louis Fitzjames, who never attained celebrity. These girls had to practice four or five hours every day. Backing headaches, overpowering latitudes, nauspa, were excHses never accepted by the implacable father, who held that every day should be marked by distinct progress. Being much consulted about the organization of ballets in the principal continental theaters, Philip Taglior4 traveled a good deal grid he generally took his pupifs with him; but on one occasion he left Maria to continue her exercises under the famous dancing master named Coulon, and letter's pupils all laughed when the lean, awkward, plain-looking girl first joined their lessons. "The idea of such 8. little hunchback as that thinking oi becoming a dancer V was what these young ladies said. Maria's mother, daughter of the Swedish tragedian Karsten, was deformed, and Maria herself derived a spicier-like appearance from a shrunken chest and a pair of very long arms. She was never a beauty, though she grew in her maturity to have a pleasing countenance for she was very clever and with a serenity which success brings. In 1831, when her reputation as the first dancer of the day was established before a London audience, a handsome album containing six portraits of her in costume, drawn from life by A E. Chalon, B. A., was issued by a Bond street firm. She is depicted as a Tyrolienne, a Neapolitan, and a Flora, and all these likenesses are ratbor flattering, yet they do not show a pretty face, and, of course, they can convey no idea of the exquisite grace, the iloating lightness of step, and the bounding strength which characterized Taglioni's dancing. The stage slang by which the French describe the elasticity of a dancer in ballon, or baloon ing power, as to which it may be said that the word "balloon" is itself believed to be derived from Ballon, a famous dancing master in the seventeenth century. Nobody ever had so much ballon as Tagiioni; she seemed to fly from the stage as from a springboard, and her superiority over all her rivals lay in her being able to repeat her feats of agility so much oftener than they, and to pause on one movement for a much longer time without any apparent effort. It was her father's prime maxim that the moment effort becomes visible in a dance it ceases to be dancing, but turns to gymnastics. Foote and Benton. I happened to be in the Senate on April 17, just before the memorial fracas between Foote, of Mississippi, and Colonel Benton. They had had an unfriendly encounter not long before, and it was well understood that Benton had made up his mind that Foote should not henceforth name him or allude to him in debate. Foote was on the floor, and in speaking of the late "fckrathern Address" referred to Benton in terms which everybody understood. In an indirect way he became more and more personal as he proceeded. Colonel Benton rose from his seat with every appearance of intense passion, and with a quick pace moved toward Foote who was addressing the Senate from his desk near the main aisle. The Vice President demanded "order," and several Senators tried to hold Benton back ; but he broke loose from his keepers, and was moving rapidly on his foe. When he saw Benton nearing him, Foote sprang into the main aisle and retreated toward the Vice President, presenting a pistol as he fled, or, as he afterward expressed it, as h'e "advancedbadrward." In the meantime Benton had oeen so obstructed by the Sergeant-at-Arxns and others, that Foote, if disposed to shoot, could not have done so without firing through the crowd. But Benton, with several Senators hanging to him, now proceeded round the lobby so as to meet Foote at the opposite side of the chamber. Tearing himself away fiom those who sought to hold him, and throwing open his bosom, he said ; "Let him shoot me ! the cowardly assassin has come here to shoot me ; let him shoot me if he dares ! I never carry arms and he knows it : let the assassin fire! He was an embodied fury, and raged and raved, the helpless victim of his passions. I had never seen such an uproar in a legislative body; but the Sergeant-at-Arms at last restored order, when Mr. Clay suggested that both parties should voluntarily enter into bonds to keep the peace; upon which Benton instantly rose, and said: 'Til rot in jail, sir, before I will do it! No, sir! Til rot in jail first 111 rot sir!" and he poured forth afresh torrent of bitter words upon the man who was then so well known throughout the Northern States as "Hangman Foote. n George W Julian! Reminiscences. Two Pairs of Joking Brothers. A ludicrous incident took place in Liverpool. There are two brothers who parted many years ago when boys, one of them going to America to seek his fortune, a'rid the other remaining in Liverpool to make it. They have both been eminently successful in that respect, and not long ago the brother in America determined to visit the brother in England. The time of the visit was settled by correspondence, and the American act sail. The Englishman is a notorious wag, and arranged that an acquaintance should meet the American as his brother, and conduct him to the hotel. The American, who was also a

great wag, on the trip decided to play exactly the same joke cm his brother, asking an acquaintance) whom he met on the ship to personate him for a few hours. The acquaintance entered into the spirit of the joke, and when the vessel arrived at Liverpool was found by the personator of the English brother and driven to the hotel. The real American brother followed more leisurely, chuckling oveir his joke. In the meanwhile the English brother had also gone to the hotel, bursting with merriment over his joke. It happened that the two real brothers met in the lobby of the hotel, and, though they had been parted so many years, they knew each other. At first, with blank amazement they greeted each other; and then, as they explained their mutual jokes, laughed long and heartily. But the climax was yet to be reached. An explanation in regard to the gentlemen who had personated them, and who were now, as tbej' imagined, playing a huge joke on each other, showed that they were also brothers who had been separated from boyhood, but who did not know each other when they met The first pair of brothers hurried up to their parlor, and after the situation had been explained all around, the comedy of errors was pleasantly ended by an old-fashioned English dinner. New York Tribune. Good Health by Inheritance. I left home when I was fourteen; but after that, until I came to America, ived in the same hardy ways, a little better, perhaps, and a little worse. For the old man believed in ale as well as milk, kept it always in his cellar, and gave his apprentices about two pints each day. Some of them, poor fellows, are now under the sod, who but for that might still have been alive. Drink also killed the old man. But I had a healthy nature and an unfailing appetite. I could take my stmt, but seldom more; and there was more variety of victual of a moro generous average in quality. So I shot up to be a great, strong fellow, fond of books and of long, lonely walks when I could get the chance on the moors and by the river ; a dreamy sort of chap, who used to wonder what was coming when I should go out into the world to fight my battle, and not at all sure I was going to win; for at that time the chances in England were very poor, and my only hope was in the New World. Once, when I had grown to be a young man, I found myself going to the tavern for an extra pint of ale and good company. I did not like that. The old man was on his last legs then, and I saw what was coming ; so I swore oflf for two years; kept strictly to my purpose, and got the reins back into my own hands. I think that was the turning-poiqt between my own life and the life of my shipmates who have fallen by the way; but for that I might have been where they are, or been unable to hold this pen and tell my little story. Since I came to America in 1850 my splendid constitution has stood out against a new climate with its trials of heat and col'd, the ordeal of the workshop week-days and the pulpit Sundays the first nine years, and since then the subtle enemies of the regular ministry, and I seem to be still as well as ever. But I can lay no special claim to this good health now on the ground of my own deserving. I never could ; but, as you see, I was born to be well, raised to be well, and then shut up to be well on hard work and wholesome fare, until I began to come near the time when every man is either a fool or a physician. And so if by and by I get sick, after this vast advantage, I shall know at least that I am not the physician; but I hope to stay well without brooding much over the conditions of health, or taking medicine, or eating and drinking "messes," or wishing I might have a little more of that rare cut if I durst, or saying hard things about mince or apple pies. It seems very sad to me to be all the time saying: "Did this man sin, or his parents, that he was born" sick? But such questions have to be asked and answered; and you, my dear Lewis, are the man to answer thiem. Mine is a more cheerful and I think a more thankful task, to give you this brief hint of some conditions of life which may help to put the painful question out of court, and give the young folks as good a chance as I had, but with nobler aids and outlooks in this better world. Rev. Robert Collyert in Home Science, Jackson and the Beggars. General Jackson turned a deaf ear to the numerous applications made to him for charity. In 1830 a large number of Irish immigrants were at work on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Georgetown, and, the weather being very hot, many of them were prostrated by sunstrokes and bilious diseases. They were without medical aid, the necessities of life, or any shelter except the shanties in which they were crowded, Their deplorable condition 1-sd to the forma

tion of a society of I rish Americans,

with the venerable Mr. McLeod, a noted instructor, as president. A committee from this society waited on the President for aid, and Mr. McLeod made known the object of their visit General Jackson interruped him by saying that he "entirely disapproved of the society; that the fact of its existence would induce these fellows to come 100 miles to get the benefit of it" Mr. MoLeod represented the deplorable situation of the women and children sick in the streets, without bread or a house to cover them, and without their protector cither dead or dying, and observel that the evils which the President anticipated could not flow from the society. Gen. Jackson started from his seat at this part of the interview, and said there had been three beggars at his house that day. Mr. McLeod replied that there had been four or five with him before breakfast The President clinched his hand, and with great vehemence exclaimed that if the treasury of the United States were at his 'disposal, it could not meet the demands that were daily made upon him, and he would not be driven from that house a beggar-man, like old Jim Monroe. Ben: Perley Poore. The New Orleans Sugar Exchange is open.

SUeE8T10MB Of TALUS. Do all your mending onoe a ireok. Eat slowly and you will &ot oxer eat Late at breakfast, hurried lor dinner, cross at tea. A plaob for everything and every thing in its place. Fob ventilation open your window both at top and bottom. A wayls lay your table neatly wheth you have company or not Wateb as hot as can be take, is excellent in case of nausea and vomiting. Salt sprinkled on a carpet before sweeping, lays the dust and brighten the colors very much. Machine grease may e removed from wraps and each goods, by dipping the fabric in cold water and soda. A cup of hot water is a good tonio and stomach cleanser, and a sure our$ for constipation It should be taken in the morning and evening; just after rising and! before retiring. Kebose3tb oil will soften leather hardened by water, and make it as pliable as new. A few drops of the ou on the handa, after being in the water, will prevent them from chapping. To heal cut fingers with rapidity, saturate the part with alum water; it will sting sharply for a little bit but will soon stop for good and heal, quickly. I have tried it several times. The deposits of fine coal ashes found on the ledges of the kitchen range or stove, surpasses polishing powder and fluids for cleaning nickle plated ornaments on stoves. Sifted ashes would scratch th e ornaments! Hebe is a receipt for French pickles : delicious;; one colander of sliced green tomatoes, one quart of sliced onion, one colander of pared and sliced oucumtiers, two handsful of salt; Let it stand twenty-four hours, then drain through sieve; acid one half ounoe of celery seed, one-half ounce allspice, one teaspoon oi! pepper, one tablespoon of tumeric, one pound of brown sugar, two tablespoons of mustard and one gallon of vinegar. Hebe is my receipt for omelette: Three ta blespoonsful of milk for each egg and a pinch of salt for each one also, beat the egg quite light pour into a pa a in which a piece of melted butter the size of a walnut has been melted, watch very carefully, the bottom must be lifted up incessantly with a clean knife so that the softer parte run in, :in this way it will be cooked through without turning it over. It should be cooked only about three or four minutes. Three eggs are enough for an omelette for a small family. "A Darter nv My Own." According to the Hour, Sam Kimper was a ferryman on a western river, who, although much addicted to drinking,, was a good, straightforward fellow, si-, ways courteous and correct in his dealings. One night as he was "poling a man and a woman in a buggy across the river he heard her say, "What will my fater think ?" Further talk ensued during which he recognized the voice of a dec tor's daughter living a few miles down stream. He did not like the man s voice and was confirmed in his prejudice when the fellow began talking about going to Cincinnati and not letting her father know of their movements for a week. The girl began crying and the fellow answered roughly. She begged him to take her back homo, "Take you back home," said he in a rough laugh. "Let a bird out of a cage after you have fairly caught it? Oh, no! I love you too well for that" By this time the boat was nearly across the river, and Sam said to the stranger "Mister, the current's pocty swift today; there's aright smart freshet on. Becon 111 have to ask you to make the lines fasit ashore while I hold the boat agin the bank' The man got out and stood ats the bow of the boat Sam; poled it against the bank with such violence that over went the man on to

the shore. Sam let the boat drift away and turned to the girl, amidst the howls aud curses of the man in the water, said.: "Beckon ye don't want hitn. no more, do ye?" aNo! no9abe exclaimed. . The girl being in doubt about her ability to drive home, even after she had reached the other shore, Sam let his boat go doxw the stream What are you going to do ?n asked the feirl. oat ye down to the steamboat landin' fur your town." "That will be a dread ful lot of work all for a silly girl." "I've got a darter uv my own, said he. Pretty soon he stopped poling, and the girl said he must be verytired. "Not a bit of it4" said Sam. Tm slowin9 up so's to reach there about dusk." "Just what I wanted to ask. you to do," said tho girL "Thonght so," said Sam. Tve got a darter uv my ota." Sl"11 va3 favorable, and vf'iivi drive off the)ff;. -.i' praised that her f utw am handsomely. "I donTl ; :ey' said Sam. "Tve got a I; -v : &7 own. There's one thing 'v V said Sam; "if doctors don't j ? ;stuti' from bad, nobocly does, ; r ; ouW send me a good solid V ilToVomethin' seein' 'twill take y&o oft three hours to pole the boat b5K.w Jiie promise was readily given and in a few minutes down came the doctor with a bottle of brandy and two men tc pole the boat baek; but Sam said the' brandy would be more useful as well as better company. The . doctor wanted to know how he could repay him and Sam answered, "You caq repay 100 in kind, ef ye ever get a chance. I've got a darter uv my own, ye know." Thebe are no persons more solicitous about the preservation oi rank than those who hfire no rank at alL Observe the hffhors o a country christening, and ybu will ftnd no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford. Siunstone.

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