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Ituui Lint Year.

New York, January 10.—R. G, Dan & fjo'g vreekiy review says: The year opens with the expected improvement in the money markets and in collections resulting from disbursements which have been larger than osoal. The hopeful feeling In most branches of trade continues also and the railroad outlook is improved. It is becoming clearer every day that one great obstacle to prosperity is the fear font debasement of the dollar may produce violent contraction, withdrawal of foreign investments, collapse of credits and a disaster which will be felt by every branch of trade and industry, The iron and steel manufacture naa beea so rapidly extended that shrinkage of credits has forced sales in many cases at prices below cost. On the whole, the prospect is considered less bright than it has been for many years in this industry. In the sotton manufacture also the shrinkage of credits has severely strained many concerns and prices of goods have been very low, but further reductions have been made during the past week in bleached cottons. The woolen manufacture is doing fairly though •xtending but moderately and buying wool with caution. In the boot and shoe manufacture, the outlook is regarded as especially favorable. Reports of trade from different cities are stiH much influenced by reviews of last year's great business, but generally indicate a large volume of traffic in progress for the season with marked improvement sinee the monetary pressure abated. Boston notes larger sales of boots and shoes and of leather and stronger hides, firm wood and quite lumber. At Philadelphia the leather and shoe trades are dull wool is in little demand, some un easiness is seen regarding ob ligations in tobacco. At Chi cago receipts of grain equal last year's increase is seen in butter and cheese, hides and wool, but decrease in dressed beef, cured meats and lard dry goods and clothing sales exceed last year's with excellent payments" and the shoe trade increases. St. Louis and Cincinnati note better trade. At northwestern points business is unchanged or comparatively quiet. Higher cotton produces greater activity throughout the south, sugar and rice receipts at New Orleans are good. Tbo money markets throughout the country are less Btringent and reports of collections more favorable. Foreign trade continues favorable, exports showing a large gain over last year, while there is some decrease in imports. Tke merchandise movement supplies no reason for the advance in foreign exchange, nor does the local money market, and the treasury has put out during the week, $1,500,000 more cash ti»*n has taken in. For some weeks to came, at least comparatively easy money might be expected if there should be no disturbance arising from legislation.

The business failures occurring throughout the country during.the past seven days number 403 as compared with a total of 348 last week. For the corresponding week of last year, the figures were 373.

EMMA ABBOTT.

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Chi«a«o, January 10.~-It is probable that the will of the late Emma Abbott will be opened to-day and the disposition of her immense fortune will then be known. It is thought that after liberally providing for her surviving relatives she has bequeathed a large sum for the establishment of an institution which will assist young girls possessed of voices of

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remise, but who are poor, to receive without cost. It is also thought that the* document makes provi-

sion for the cremation of her remains and her venerable father is so confident that that will be the case, that he has already enterred into correspondence with the crematory at Detroit, During her lifetime the late prima donna frequently expressed a horror of being laid to rest in the cold ground. If, howover, her will remains silent on tins point, the remains will be interred in the spring in the family lot at Worcestor. Mas#., where her husband is buried, &nd where she had just completed the erection of a magnificent monument,

N URNACES TO CLOSE* Thomawttd *e» Will b«Thrown

vj..,' Ovt of Work T*-HI*h«. Pnrre«» BO, January 1,0.—All the Iron •y luraaces in the Mahoning and Shenaitge -valleys will be indefinitely closed down to-night All told there are twenty-three ""n~'c |n this district and several thousand men will be thrown out of employment The operators claim that owing to the high railroad tariff and the present excessive prices of coke they are unable to continae operations except at a heavy low.

Last month the coke men reduced the price of their product tweaty-fiv© cents per km in the belief that that would be acoeptable to the furnace operators, but the tatter demanded a greater reduction •f which the coke manufacturers could jiot concede except at a loefc

Th*«tlw«rC*X.tBdaar Mill* Oh aba, January 10.—Hundreds of

out of town sport® are arriving here this ihon^bBg to iriinen the two ounce akin glove fight between Harry Gil more, of Outada, and Jimmy Lludsey, the N«braskan welter-weight, and which comee •ff here tonight The battle is at catch weights for a purse of six hundred dollar*. of which the loser wiU% get one hundred dollars as a balm to hia feelings. ftilawre has been (minedunder ti* superri^on of Tommy White. As usual he has the worst ol the match as he will enter the ring weighing somewhere In the neighborhood of 135 pounds, or wtbidenibly ton than Lindsay's bare boaes would tip on the balance. Oilmore however, reliee on h» superior sparring airily to «w»d his opponent to the grass. Liedaay has a good right hand, bat as hit previous %ht with GUmore demoostiated it js o* little vm to him as against a man wbo fe nimbi* oa his feet. As usual both men sura confident

,,•• S*M«$nx for Tbte Hews, «B'y

FARM-HOUSE'HEATH THE HILL. O! Utt tam-DosM'nettli tbe 1x111,1 can see it standing stUi.

As I stmr ft fa say ftlMhood'g happy days. Wliea every ^bing was new sad beautiful to vi e*,

From morning till the sunset's opal tlas I can see the orchard trees, and I bear tbs bum of bees

In tbe boUyhocks and roses near the wall. And where tbe brooklet flows, a barefoot arcbin goes *H«in jptoagt&s cat-o'-aine-tails talL Down to tbe pasture spring I walk, anil lightly sing,

As happy as In merry days gone by, When I wandered in tbe wood, half lost in solitude,

Or climbed tbe friendly mountain, looming high. How I love that farm-house wide, with its trees on either side,

Where I played, and laughed and wandered when a boy! can see tbe swallows fly down the chimney from tbe sky. And again I dream a dream of vanished Joy. Wherever I may go I'll find no place, I know.

That will my mind with sweeter fancies fill. Fond memory guard the door, and time pass gently o'er That humble old gray farm-house 'neath the hill. —Moses Gage Shirely, in Boston Globe.

A BALANCED ACCOUNT.

The Thief Bill Was Settled with a Neat Check.

The following veritable ease of kleptomania came under my observation a few years since, the principal actor in which was the wife of a respectable citizen, who resided in a fashionable quarter of one of oar Atlantic cities, says an ex-attorney in the Now Yorlf Weekly.

A shrewd and thrifty young client ol mino, who kept a fine establishment upon one of the principal dry-goods thoroughfares of the town, retailed laces and similar ladies' furnishing materials, and had a well-selected stock, which attracted a continualrun of goodly customers.

From time to time he missed trifling articles from the counters, but could not- account. for their mysterious disappearance.

He directed his book-keeper toSpen a fictitious account in his ledger, to which' he gave $he title of "Thief's Accoun to the debit side of which were charged all articles that were missed—and which were invariably stolen by some person or persons who visited the storo.

So the Thief Account" was regularly kept up for nearly a ysar, and a very considerable number of items found their way to the debtor side of it, the aggregate value of which had reached upwards of two hundred dollars, at the close of the first twelve months of my client's business.

But, as yet, no clew had been had to the actual cause of this unprofitabfe leak, and for a long time—despite the most careful watching of strangers—the account remained open, and increasing, upon the young merchant's books.

One day there entered the 3tore a* well-dresSed, lady-like person, whom the store-keeper knew by name, for she had been there before—who bought some trifling articles—and while waiting for the parcel to be made up, the merchant—who stood a short distance from her—observed a small but valuable lace collar slipped from the counter, where there were several paper boxes of goods open,* and though he was greatly astonished and could scarcely credit it, yet he was satisfied that this lady had drawn that collar into her capacious muff!

It had disappeared, at all events. II might have been accidental—it toat so, he at first believed for surely, that nicely-attired lady, whom he knew moved in good society, and W|io was supplied generously with pin-money by her highly respected and liberal husband—could not be a thief.

At night, bo said to the clerk at4he desk: "Charge'Thief's Account' with one lace collar—teiyiollars for it had gene, and this was always the rule in such cases.

And three days subsequently, having thought the matter over, quietly, and called to mind some oases of so called kleptomania, of which he had read and heard, he conoluded that this must be an instance akin to that disease, which certain persons are afflicted with, and which Webstor defines to be "a morbid and irresistible impulse or desire to steal"

Bcri lay olient was himself an industrious, honest young man, who was not overburdened with capital and he could ill afford to thus lose his goods, or permit this stylo of genteel robbery to go on unchecked. So he said to his bookkeeper: "Mr. Quill, draw off the 'Thiers Ao*unt»' and give me a fair copy of it*' "What part, sir?" "The whole."

When the olerk handed it to him, he asked: .••• "How much does it figure up?" "Rising two hundred ddllars, sir.1* "Is the last item charged—the lace collar?" "Yes, sir ten dollars." "All right I am going up-town, Quilt If any one calls for me, personally, say 18feall W back in an hour."

And, putting on his hat and overcoat, he disappeared. My olient had never called at the house to which he was now destined, but he had a slight acquaintance with the gentleman who resided there.

Mounting tbo stone stops, he nag jenily, and was admitted. '•Is Mr. O—— »t horned »«Yos, sit,** said tbe servant, shdwina the merchant at once into tbe parlor, where, after •haking hands with the gentleman of the bouse, he was just about W open up his business with him, whan he heard a light footfall, and immediately hi* wife entered the apartmeat to accompany her husband down to dinner—where she was evidently astonished to meet the dry-goods dealer, who as quickly observed that the lady he remembered had upon her neck his missing ten-dollar lac© collar! wife, *ir»* said the gentleman, presenting her to my clteal* who said: "Yes, str—I bxm m*t the l»d be torn.* Then to h©r he added: "How dt like jour cow coUar, madam?*

*The wbat, sir?n she replied coolly. "Your new lace collar, madam. It i» rery becoming, certainly." "This?" she said. ^Yes, madam." "Ob, it's-not very new, though." "2io? It is not anew pattern, but it Is very pretty^'I have a few more like it, and that is the first one that left my store, out of a late New York invoice." "Your store, sir?" she asked. "Yes, madam. That collay was upon my counter three days ago, I am certain.* "I think not, sir!" "T am sure of it, madam. It was* taken away and without being paid for, too." "What do you mean, s^r?" said the lady, heightening a little in color, and growing not a little indignant at my slient's coolnoss and seeming effrontery. "Just what I have said, madam. That lace collar on your neck was taken from my counter on tho day and hour you were in my store, on Tuesday last repeat that it hasliot been paid for aud it is not the first article I have missed, in a similar way, in tbe past year. I know of what I speak. I can prove in a court of justice what I have now alleged here. And I havo brought my bill here for settlement," concluded the'merchant^ handing the "Thiers Account," that Quill had pren^red, to $L&r astounded husband. "This seems to me to be almost extrajudicial proceeding, sir," began the husband. "What are all these items here?" "Your lady, possibly, can explain them, sir. I can't." "But—what—how—when," muttered the man, confusedly. "I can't answer that, sir," continued my client, noticing the sudden disappearance of the lady from the unpleasant scene. "All I know is that these articles have mysteriously disappeared from time to time from my counters, and that I have found the thief who stole*the ten-dollar lace collar who was seen to take it by myself and another from my store. This party must pay my bill, here,-or I shall immediately take legal measures to collect ah 'I can of this amount."' "But this bill amounts to two hundred and eight dollars, sir." "Does it? I did not notice the sum total precisely," said the merchant, indifferently looking* it over. "Yes, you're correct, sir it is two hundred and eight." "You don't want me to pay—that is, you don't expect me to pay for other people's—" "Do you' know these 'other people' you speak of, sir?" "No. But-" m: "Neither do I. I do not know one of the offenders. Will you give me your check, sir, for this bill? It is your misfortune to havo such a wife but I can not suffer for it" Zi"r' "You don't pretend that one person took all these goods, do you?" "I pretend nothing only I have simply endeavored to state tho matter as clearly and politely as the circumstances of the case will warrant You do not care to bawe any publicity given to this affair, and I am quite willing to avoid it, I ass (re you. Now, sir, will you accommodate me with your check? And I will receipt the bill," concluded my client, rising. "How much did you say?" "Two hundred and eight dollars."

The man went to his desk, wrote hurriedly for a moment, and said: "Here it is. Let this bo the last of It, sir." "With all my heart," said my client "Good-day, sir."

Tho lace merchant returned to his store within .the hour. "Has any one called to see me, Mr. Quill?" he asked. "No, sir."

Then handing him tho' check, he said,pleasantly: "itfere, Quill take this, and balance tho 'Thiefs Account' Is tho amount correct?" "Exactly, sir—to a dollar. "All right. We shall not be troubled with one of our old customers any more, I think."

And the fictitious account in the ledger was forthwith closed, satisfactorily to the merchant, who gave me the above facts afterwards, but without mentioning the name of the unfortunate kleptomaniac.

Too Kiakjr ror Hun.

Undo Humsted-*-No, James, I can't stay all night with ye. I'd like to but New York 5s an awful dangerous place, and I must bo gettin' home.

James Upton—New York dangerous! How do you make that out, uncle? Undo flumsted—Why, I see there wore over two hundred thousand mysterious disappearances hero this year.

James Upton—Where did you got your figures? Unole Hums tod—From tho Federal oensus.—Puck.

A Conscientious Yoath»

Studious—Tom, you area ia*y ffttlow. Why don't you apply yourself to something?

OtiosuB—That is just what I am doing. You havs often told me that a follow ought to devote himself to what he can do best, and I believe in it 1 am giving my entire attention to loafing.— Munsey's Weekly.

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Hiss Uptown—One of the Six Hunt dred! Oh, Colonel, hadn't I better see mamma first?—Life.

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