FOR THE TOrX PEOPLE. ltewatr'a Racr. Little Ho**, happy lleas. Pretty lipaaie. Little Bee* rail a race. Down by the sea. On the beach little crab. Happy and Tree, Ban for the briny waves. Plunged in the sea. Little Be**, pretty Be**. Tear* on her face. Saw cxabbie running fast- Now for a race. Little Boss, frightened. Cried for her mother * * Crabbie ran one way, "* Beas ran the other. Karwrr Swift and the KlepSnst. " Fun ahead, hoys! fuu alive I" shouted Farmer Swift to a group of lads who wore playing "four old oat," as he drove into his owu doorvard, late oue Uot September afternoon, fifty years ag. The bovs dropped bat and* ball, ami gathered a Knit the cheery, good-uatured man, us be dismounted from his chaise and went on w.lli his animated talk. "I've driven straight from Rrattle boro'. The great New York caravan is on exhibition then* this afternoon and even ing. 1 should have gone in and looked at the animals, only it didn't seem as if it would lie just "the right thing for a family rnnu to go to a show without his wife and children. 80 1 thought 1 would wait uud take you all with me to Greenfield to-morrow and see it there. "1 walked around aud Kicked at the big teut *0 that I could tell you all about it. and asked a large strapping fellow, iu a ml shirt and ahiuy belt, wno shvwl outside, for a pictured bill to bring home to show the folks. But be was one of those big-feeling, important fel lows, and he and a lot of the other showmen male fun of me, called me 'Jonathan,' 'Greeny,' 'Yank,' and so forth, and said I hud better run home to my mother and save mv quarter. 1 told him that same qnarterSra* what he was atter, but he wouldn't get it out of me or any of my neighbors, and that we would all see the show too, without going oat of our on town for it. Thrv all laughed, and the head out said: 'I guess not, Jonathan." But I calculate to be as gixxl as mj word. " So, George, you jump on to the bay oolt, and ride np to Frizzle Hill and on to Saunders Mountain. Horace, TOU take the white filly and cut down to Tiffany's Ferry and Prindle'a Cross roads," and both of you stop at every hout e on the war, and tell all the boys and girls that the big New York caravan, on its way from Brattleboro' to Green field, will e. u_o along here some time in the night, and that I will stop the whole thing, so that all who shall get here be fore sunrise to-morrow morning can see the elephant and camels, sure, and per haps get a sight of the other animals. " Joseph, yon may tackle the brindle steers into the ox wagon, and go down to Moose Plain and bring up a good big load of those ripe sugar pumpkins. Jane yon and Esther run out into the garden, and pick and husk a basket of sweet corn and bring it here to the door yard fence. Wife, now I've got this business off my mind for the present, I guess I'll have a bit of supper."' These various instructions were all obeyed with alacrity and carried ont to the letter, and at the usual early hour fqr retiring, quiet settled down over the old farm house. " I shan't go to bed," said the farmer, '• for fear of sleeping so sound that the caravan will steal a march on me after all. Come, major," and the stout, healthy, pleasant-faced man, and the large brown bouso-dog stretched themselves ont upon a buffilo robe, on the floor of the broad, open stoop, both prepared to sleep with one eye cpeu. Between three and four o'clock of that clear, dewy September morning there came a steady tramp and a smoth ered rumble from far up the dusty road. Major pricked np his ears and gave a quick, sharp bark at the unusual sound. Farmer Swift sprang to his feet, and going to the chamber door, called out: " Fun alieid! fun alive ! Up. np ail of you 1" The old chanticleer, roused by the extraordinary bustle, sounded out a clarion call from his roost, which woke every "cocko' the walk " in the neigh bor hood, and simultaneously sent back a eocx-a-doodle-doo, which went ringing off acroaa the hills and woods and mea dows, being taken up in turn at the farm yards on the Brattleboro' road, and sent onward across the long plain, nntil by the time the great, tramping, rum bling caravan reached Jason Swift's red farm house, every family from Saunders Mountain to Tiffany's Ferry were awake and tumbling ont of bed, and starting off for run across Iho dew-wet fields to the old red house. Farmer Swift bent his tall, sinewy form down behind the high board fence, snd as the hnge, long bla.'k column came hurrying down the hard, white road, a big yellow pumpkin rolled noiselessly down the green slope, directly under the feet of the monster elephant. The lusty, hungry fellow was not slow to re cognize it as a luscious morsel. He had a special fondness for sweet pumpkins. Farmer Swift hail heard one of Ajax's keepers say so the Jay before. It was a long time since he had had pumpkins for breakfast, and he now caught up this one that lay so opportunely in his path, by a deft twist of his trunk, when in a twinkling, thump went the bright golden sphere down upon the trodden track, and lay in crisp, inviting fragments at his majesty's feet. Giving long, low gar gling notes of joy, always so touching when elephants utter it when they are pleased, he wheeled about and fell to eating with a keen relish. Of course Ajax immediately became an impassible obstacle in the way of the long line of animals on foot and in the heavy, gaudily-painted, wheeled cages that were behind him. The weary, hungry creatures that were nearest Ajax, and on foot, hearing him munching his food, set np each his peculiar cry of hunger, and soon from the whole line of cages, whose wooden slides were always kept open when the caravan was moving in the night, that the poor imprison ed animals might have fresh air, came forth such a din as was never before heard in that quiet, jog-trotting neighborhood. The keepers and drivers shouted, scolded and prpdded, and then coaxed the elephant to go on, but to no avail. Just before one pumpkin would be finished by the hungry old Greek, another would come stealthily down the grassy slope and up plump to his feet. It was some time before the astonished and now thoronghly-enraged keepers discovered the sonrce from whence came this seemingly inexhaustible supply of golden tid-bits for an elephant, so tooth some to this one, the lorn of their cara van. Soon the pale gleams of the morning disclosed to them their "Jonathan," "Tank"' and "Greeny" of yesterday, and they were obliged to confess to them selves and to each other that he had the best of them now. They looked around over the broad, rich fields and at the big barns, and wondered were the latter filled with pumpkins. They straight way implored Farmer Swift to feed the elephant no more. To this he request ac ceeded with a sly twinkle in his eye, for now ran np from the roadside bashes, from corners of the fences, and came down from the tree-tops and out of the and horns, troops of hurrahing boys and girls, eaeh with a cream-white, snccn lent earof Hfweetcorn.and showered them in a pile before the delighted Ajax. At this juncture the old fellow himself seemed to enter into the spirit of the fun, and at intervals, while crunching the tender ears of corn and uttering his soft notes of delight, he went through, what he conld in his harness, with his manual of feats and tricks, as if to re ward his yoong friends for his unexpect ed though very acceptable oollation. The caravan men were quite angry, bat they ooald not help themselves until the heap of com had been eaten, and the boys and girls, young men and maidens, and not a few fathers and mothers, had inspected the large line of caged wonders, down to the monkeys, the birds of paradise and the anacondas. Farmer Swift had mollified the men before the caravan had resumed its way, for ho life! nuietly ordrml hi* hired men to milk the oow*, and hiiolJwt son to gather * hnibl-lM*lM(iiil of '' early harvest*,'' and a* tli* rich. hearty lever age and tho Urge, spicy, mellow apple* were psnsaed Rroniul to the not loug ago irate keeper* and teamster*, thev ac knowledged both the corn and the pnmpkius, and light mg their pipe*. Stod-hnmoradly went ou tlunr way, and c rattling, rumbling caravan, headed by old Ajax. soon disappeared.—-touri can Cultivator. When Lightning Will Strike. We may now endeavor to ascertain nn.ter what oouditious damage from lightuing is possible, ami wiiat are the mean* by which the ri*k may l>e lessen ed or avoided. An isolated tree, stand ing either n|Hin a wide plain or upon an eminence, i* obviously likely to deter mine a lightning discharge, to "attract the lightuing," to use a common expres sion. The top of the tree is the nearest point to thecfond; ami since the tree is a l>etter conductor than the air, a line drawn vertically through it to the cloud marks the shortest and easiest course along which the electricities nicy pass. If, when the charged cloud arrives di rectly over this point, the tension is sufficient to overcome the resistance aluug that line, a discharge will take place, and the tree will be struck. Hut if the tension lo not sufficient, the cloud will pass harmlessly over. Hence it appears that a person standing during a thunder storm l>eiieat*- a tree so situated is existed to some risk. On uo account, therefore, should the traveler take refuge under an isolated tree; generally he will do well to avoi.l its neighbor hood altogether; but should he be over taken by the storm when on a plain with no aheiter near, the tree mar still be made to afford him aome protection. If he take up a position near it, but uot under it* branches, he wilt probably escape uuhurt should the lightning de scend upon it. The safest distance from the tree is that which is equal to its height. To approach much nearer than this is to incur the risk of i>euig within the iuflueuee of the stroke; to remain at a much greater distance away is to place one's self in tho same conditions of iao lation as the tree itself. It will have been remarked by all otservera of the phenomenon thai whenever a tree has been struck by lighUnug it has generally occupied an "isolated position. In de scribing the position, howeVer, it is uot meant that the tree is necessarily stand ing alone, but it is not one of a num erous group. When there are many tree* together, their collective conduc tivity is often sufficient to cause an uu destructive discharge of the electricity. This is especially likely to happen when the trees are wet with rain,for tnen their surfaces are covered with a film of water. —('A mmbert Journal. Hatching Silk Worm-. The Paris correspondent of the Balti more Sun writes: If a recent discovery be found as practicable in application as it seems to promise, and I am assured it will, a very jfreat aud important change in the production of silk will be eiTccUxt. It is the obtaining of two yields in the year of the raw material instead of one, as at present The moth, which is the last stage of the caterpillar's existance, lays its eggs in May or June, and they remain in a dormant state until spring of the following year. But occasionally tliey are seen to" hatch spontaneously, ten or twelve days after they are laid. Mr. I>uclanx, professor of the faculty of sciences at Lyons, who is my inform ant, tells me that he entered on a series of experiments on this sub ject and discovered that the hatching, or, perhaps, I should say forcing pro cess, can be effected, and results satis factory produced at will. How does he do it ? By rubbing the eggs with a fairy liard brash, subjecting them to the ac tion of electricity, or more simple and sure still, by dropping them for half a minute into concentrated sulphuric acid. I am told that a Mr. Balle has effected the same results by chlorbydric, nitric, ascetic or tartaric acids. A submersion of a few minutes in heated water at fifty degrees centigrade (or say 122 Fahren heit) is of a like efficacy. The operation by any mode must l>e performed when the eggs are nof over the second or third day's age When this new method is accomplished, the mulberry tree is in full vigor and the weather favorable, so that the rearing of the worm is not liable to any severe climatic effects or sudden atmospheric changes. The eggs from the second batch are productive of a more prolific Erogeny than those from the batch that ave been hibernating, if I may nse the term, for many months. I learn that this discovery is opening some other fields of application, and, before long, what may not be produced ? How the Esquimaux ldre. In the winter season the Esquimaux live in hats built of snow, and we may imagine what must have been the neces aity and distress that could first have suggested to a human being the idea of using such an unpromising material as a means of protecting himself from cold. Be that as it may, the snow " igloe,"' or hut, affords not only security from the inclemency of the weather, bat more comfort than either stone or wooden buildings without fire. The construc tion of them requires considerable tact, and is always performed by the men, two being require. 1 for it, one outside and the other inside. Blocks of snow are first cut out with some sharp instru ment from the spot that is intended to form the floor of the dwelling, and raised on edge, inclining a little inward around the cavity. These blocks are generally abont two feet in length, two in breadth, and eight inches thick, and are joined close together. In this man ner the edifice ia erected, contracting at each successive tier, until there only remains a small aperture at the top, which is filled by a slab of clear ice, that serves both as a keystone to the arch and a window to light the dwelling. An emtiankment of snow israised around the wall, and covered with skins, which answer the double purpose of beds and seats. The inside of the hut presents the figure of an arch or dome; the usual dimensions are ten or twelve feet in diameter, and abouc eight feet in height at the center. Sometimes two or three families congregate under the same roof, having separate apartments com municating with the main building, that are used as bedrooms. The entrance to the " igloe " is effected through a r.ind iug covered passage, which stands open by day, but is closed up at night by placing slabs of ice at the angle of each bend, and thus the inmates are perfectly secured against the severest cold. " What'* In a Name." Mr. Ivory Nate, of Berwieh, Me., is dead. The marriage of Mr. Walter Marriage, jr., of Montreal, is announced. Miss Tillie Ondash lias become insane and been taken to the aavlnm at Oah kosh. Mr. Charles M. Pillsticker is one of the parties to a snit in the conrt of common pleas in New York. Mr. Europe Kelsey. an "oldest Mason in the United States," has just died at Free- 1 port. Me. Snsan Honesty has been ar rested at Washington for theft, where on the same day Willian Locksmith was sent to jail for having skeleton keys in his possession. Clara Samblinbru fell out of a window on Greenwich street, New York, the other day. Miss M. J. O'Fake and Pbeez Huff, Esq., figured in a recent scandal in Brooklyn, where, , by the way, reside Messrs. Conrad Cask, William J. Chin and Valentine Butterfast. Mr. French Smoot is a ' popular Mason of Georgetown, D. C. The Chicago Time* announces the death, "gthis son-in-law's" of "Pie ordeored." Havelock Veals was recently drowned in Lake Tupper, N. B. Mr. Gnstavns St. Gem has been appointed surveyor of the port of St. Louis. The Rev. GOBII Ding is preaching in Oregon. What our great men are doing- ! Thomas Ewmg has been blown up in a Mississippi steamer. Disraeli is a tramp at Ottawa. James Madison has been acquitted of a charge of burglary at St. Louis. Daniel Webster, a shoemaker, of Washington, has been t> ghting in a lawsuit about a pair of boots he made for John C. Breckenridg*. NEWSPAPER *EN AW ERIK. Som< Hrrrsi t MI lo.lilr. Aei-Saip* .1 Animal I.lie. Tlie Idack cat of Pio Nono, Morcllo bv name, i* well eared fr at the Vati can. A pig has been added to tho attrae tiona of Tipton, la., having eight legs, i two backs and one head. { A cat at F.lgui, 111., has hutched out a 1 breed of nine chicken* ami is caring for them in a very motherly manner. The mare of Mr. William tlriffiu, of i ltnshviUe, lnd., a few nights smee gave birth to a six-legged colt, which is alive i atnl healthy. A pig at Sunny Poiuf, Tex., uot long •go killed two colored children an 111 fiuit ami a little boy of two— eating off the head of Lite former and an arui and a leg of the latter. A dog ill Nebrnska deliberately walked iu front of a rairoad train, laid it* head on the rail ami was killed, Uvause of its grief at the death of a child, its favorite playmate. The chicken of Mrs. Itirmingham, HI High strict, St. 1< uis, is two years old, nearly three feet iu height and weighs thirty-seven pouuda avomlupois. Its mother weighed only five pounds. The Newfoundland dog of a resident of Charlton, la., when his master cut off its rich coat of hair hid himself for very shame in a cellar, which he cauuot be induced to leave. The cat of Fanner Kobiuaou, of Oro, Out., being given a nest of rabbits of tender age, byway of a tid bit, killed all her own kittens ami adopted tlie rabbits in their stead. Two martins in Lancaster, Pa, an owl having taken puasoMtou of their nest, which was built iu a small box, plastered up the eutire front with mud aud kept the intruder there a prisoner till he died. A cat at St. Loins, having observed that all of her kittens but two were drowned, has become an advocate of natural •election, and uow selects the two of her progeny that please her best and kills the rest herself. The black aud-tau terrier of a gentle man residing on Druuimoud street, Mon treal, squeezed itself through a hole un der the veranda and fell luto a vault be neath. where it rem&iued for eighteen dava without foot! or water. A crow with its foot fast in the mud attracted the attention of Mr. Asa 8. Greene, of Snrry, Me., the other day. On going to the s|K>t investigation showed that the bird wa* firmly held by a large clam. The crow finally escaped by biting off its toe. The cow of Mr. Carter Courser, of Glen Sutton, Canada, has given birth to a creature with the body aud limbs of a goat, while the head slightly resembles the human cranium, haviug a forelieaa three inches high. The body is of a white color, while the head is nearly black. The hogs of a Georgia farmer being troubled with tlcas, their owuer was told to auuoiut them with lard and tar. He hail no lard but tried tar. For sev eral days his hogs failed to come up, and he concluded to look for them. He found them in a bed in the woods, all stuck together like damp postage stamps. A parrot was seut over the Chicago, Burlington and Railroad the other day. The cage, inclosed in pa per, was put on a coffin and was soon forgotten. As the tram men were.pass ing through the ear they heard a sepul chral voice issuing from the coffin, cry ing, "Lcnnue out!" They were startled and thought a dead man had come to life until the bird was discovered. A parrot belonging to a Han Francis can annoy-xl} by its persistent chatter ing and screaming a lodger on an upper floor of the same house, who, being di rector of a faro bank, desired to sleep by dav. At last be got a rod and line, baited the hook with a gaudy tly,dropped it near the nuisance's perch, got a bite, landed his prize, wrung its ueek aud dropped its lifeless body upon the bal cony beneath. He was arrested, but triumphantly acquitted. The horse of Mr. Charles Burokhardt, of Cincinnati, ran away the other day, jumped over a wood-sawyer at work on a pile of wood, plunged through the summer-doors of a l>eer-aaloon, wreck ing the interior lodly, went out again throngh the plate glass window, knocked the sprinkling arrangement off of a watering-cart, tried to jump into an ex press wagon and finally sprang through the windows of a street-car; he was then secured somewhat braised, but other wise safe and sound. The cat of a lady living at Laclede, Mo., recently disappeared for three days, and was finally found nuder the hack stc|>s of a grocery store in the neighbor hood, with one fore-paw bitten off aud both hind legs disabled,apparently from an injury in the groin. By his side lay *a dead dog. weighing abont forty-five pounds, with both eyes scratched ont and the skin of his entire body torn and lacerated. It was evident that the two auimals had had a deadly combat, aud that the cat hail proved the victor. The cat has been tenderly nursed by its mis tress, and has entirely recovered. Flying-Fish. The mechanism of the movements of the flying-fish through the air has been described with much detail by I'rofessor Moebins, of Kiel, who concludes, from the observations of those who have pub lished on the subject and his own, that the flying-fish dart from the water with great speed without reference to the course of the wind and waves. They make no regular flying motions with their pectoral and ventral fins, but Hpread them out quietly, though very rapid vibrations can be seen in the out stretched pectoral fins. The hinder part of the body, while the fish moves in the air, hangs somewhat lower than the forepart 01 tue body. They usually fly farther against the wind than with it, or if their track and the direction of the wind form an angle. Most flying-fish which fly against or with the wmd con tinue in their whole course of flight in the name direction in which they corne out of the water. Wiuds which blow from one side on to the original track of the fish bend their course inward. All fish which are at a distance from the ves sel hover in their whole course in the air near the surface of the water. If in strong winds they fly against the course of the waves, then they fly a little higher; sometimes they cut with the tail into the crest of tfio same. Only such flying-fish rise to a considerable height (at the highest, by chanee, five meters above the surface of the sea) whose course in the air becomes ob structed by a vessel. In the daytime flying-lish seldom fall on deck of the ship, but mostly in the night ; never in a calm, but nly when the wind blows. For the most part they fall on ships which do not rise higher than two or three yards aliove the water, when they are sailing on the wind, or with half wind, and are making a good course. Flying-fish never come on board from the lee side, but only on the windward side. Before vessels which pass between their swimming schools the fish fly iuto he air as before predaocmis fish or cetaceans.— llarprr a Mngminr. Rosewood. It has puzzled many to decide why the dark wood so highly valued for pianos, and in these times so cleverly imitated, should lie called rosewood. Its color, certainly, does not look like that of a rose, but when the tree is first cut, the fresh wood jmssesses a strong, rose-like fragrance; hence the name. There are half a dozen or more kinds of rosewood trees found in South America and in the East Indies and neighboring islands. Sometimes the trees grow so large that planks fonr feet broad and ten feet in leDgth can be cut from them. These broad planks are principally used to make to rn for piano fortes. When grow ing. th< rosewood tree is remarkable for its beauty; but such is its value in manu- as an ornamental wood, that some of the forests where it once grew abundantly, now have scarcely a single specimen. In Madras the government has prudently bad great plantations of this tree set out in order to keep up the supply. ■KN WITH (JDIKB NKRYKS. Tlir •• JMppra •• mi % l(rlon la whl. lt Nome NiNrillna Tklna* **• UrM. • In February last, writes a New Y'ork .VKII cornniHiudcut, I was riding in n sleigh frtim Shirley to (lre>uviile, in Maiuiv 1 was a tsimniercial traveler, and my companion in the cutter, Mr. Long, was an old schoolmate from New- York, now a saw mill owner of (irecti ville. Hiding just behind us tu a rude pung were two Canadian Frenchmen, whom he had lured to work HI Ins mill. At the foot of a long lull 1 sprang from the sleigh to warm my f<*et ov walking and as i leajasl out, Uie Isiani seat, on the extreme end of which my friend sat, tipped up and he fell into the deep snow. He jumped Up uud laughed. Just then 1 saw the Frenchmen tumble backward out of their sleigh exactly as le>ug had done. It was a ludicrous mim icry, and 1 could not understand it. \Yc stopjied their laay horse and laugh *HI at theiu as they came up, but they only pointed at lamg, muttered some thing in mongrel French ami slus.k their heads seriously. One of them had struck ou his head and sprained his neck. " Well," said ljoug, *' I'd BO idea those fellows were jumpers." ••Jumpem?" 1 asked; " what a jump erw?" " Why, ihdn't you ever hear of jump ing Frenchmen ?" " Never in my life." " These are jumping Freuchtueu. They tutuhlevl out td that sent just he caus.< they saw me tumble, aud they couldn't have hel|>ed it to save their lives. This country is full of jumpers. " " Can't they control tlu-ir txuniuct iu auv way ?" "Oh, yt; iu incut WAVH, wlicu thev arc not jumped; but you jump ouc of them ami'over he gov>." *• Jump one of them ! Corns explain. You'll have to make your joke plaiuer." "No joke, 'jK.u honor. By • jumping ' one of tlietn 1 mean mirpriniug him. Startle him iti anv way ami you ect hint going at once. I'll nhow you n lot of them when we get to <lroeuville." We were tit the upper half of Maine. Greenville is at the lower end of Moo*e head lake, wltielt is the source of the Kannebetf river, and the renter of n vast lumber region. It eoutaina scute fifty houses, among whu'h are two large hotels, which are tilled with pleasure seekers in summer. More than half of the lumbermen employed in the wooda tu winter, 1 learned from L., are l.'aua diau French, or half-breeds. Most of these, he raid, are juwjiers. " Now follow nte into the dtuiug rootu," he added, its he hitched the two horses in front of a small hotel, through the window of which we could see a dozen red-oli irtod men at supper. I fol lowed htm in. As he entered the room he raised his hands suddenly above las head, pointed his fore tiugt-r* at the ceiling, and said " 4 Sh-h!" so as to t>e heard by all. The men around the table instantly sprang up, pointed their fore fingers at the cetliug, and every one snid " Sh-h !" One knocked over his chair, and some crockery was broken by the jog that the table received. The two Frenchmeu who had followed tli lr em ployer also repeated the same gesture and said " Slt-h !" The men around the table fiuahed, and then turned pale as they resumed their seats. They recog nized long as he saluted tliem in their peculiar French-Indian patois; but they were surly and indisposed to talk. We soon withdrew. "Well," AasJ Long, "they're jump "What did they do that for?" f naked. "They couldn't have helped it if their lives had beeu at stake." I wanted to investigate this strange phenomenon, if indeed it wa-. genuine, but I wae to start next morning for Ban gor. "I have never seen uny of these quee ereaturetr down along the eoast," I said. "No," said Long, "they are confined to Canada and the frontier mainly in the 1 limbering region. There are thou sands of jumpers in Maine. By the way, you are coming lack in April. Just make a stay of a fortnight and I'll show you more jumjiers tlian yon can cciuut, and nx>re odd and exciting' tricks than vou ever dreamed of. J unifiers come in out of tire woods in the spring, and they will be loafing around her® lu April, drinking whiskey and spending their winter's earnings." I promised I would do it and I did. I * tared there neatly a mouth. What he told me is a fact. Jumping Frenchmen are as thick aa dog*. Jumping or chout ing, or moving suddenly when startled, in peculiar to m<wt of them. 1 har> seen an many an twenty-tire jumper* all to gether. Touch one of them when he wan uot expecting it on the neck, or even on the hand, and he would cry out, tremble, turn pale, ami catch hi* (irewtb, and bin crying out would be pretty cer tain to start the others. There are many different kinds of jumpers. Some, when startled, fiercely strike out directly in front of them, hit ting whatever is in the way. An I made it my busmen* to watch these men. I saw a good deal of thin hitting, most of it harmless, as they generally struck only the air. They like to tease one another, or jump one another, as it in called there. Thin in their principal Boureo of fun. and whenever lucre is a gathering of them they warily watch to avoid a jump. Occasionally a man when laughing is jumped either by a sudden noise or a chip hitting him ou the back. j Then he fling* away whatever he lias in his hands. 1 saw one )H>urmg milk into his coffee. I shouted to him " Fling it!" and he tlung the pitcher acros the room, smashing it against the wall. A gong hung behind a door, but it had not been used for rears on account of its startling effect on jnmiers. One day j a stranger tapped it. A man whom I was trying to talk with struck aimleaaly into the air, and another knocked a friend into the great fireplace. Any of these jumpers can be mode to strike anybody that stands near nuough, by shouting to him "Hit him!" Long i tells me that seven wore knocked down in a second, the general assault being in duced by a clumsy waiter dropping a tray. I saw one fellow who sneeaos whenever anyliodv else sneezes, or even when anybody indulges in a simulated ! sneeze. His nervous system seems to 1 be easily imposed on. I saw another who, though he does not know a word' of English, will repeat any short sen tence spoken to him suddenly. " Good morning; how d' do?" I said to him. "Good morning; how d' do?" he re peatod after me, with excellent articula tion. The Wheat frop The plowing prophecicft flint have ln-en made on all Hides as to this year's wheat crop bill fair to be fulfilled. It in almost imjxiaHiblo to obtuin accurate data respecting tho crops, both from the nntu'e of the subject, the wide ex tent of territory which a review must take iu, ami the re pons of interested parties. The bout informed authorities estimated last year's wheat crop at .380,- 000,000 bushels, whereas in reality it reached 350,000,000 bushels. There seems no disposition thin year to lie modest in making estimates. Few place this year's crop lelow 400,000,000 bush els, and those of a sanguine disposition inerease these figures by 25,000,000 or 50,000,1100 bnsheis. Many predict con fidently that Minnesota's crop will reach 60,000,000 bnsheis, and that lowa and Kansas will follow with 45,000,000 and 30,000,000 respectively. Even Dakota, it is said, will produce 15.001),000 bnsh eis, aud Nebraska 25,1X10,000. Of course some allowance must be made for these figures, but the indications are now that the present crop of wheat will be by far the largest ever produced iu this coun try, and will probably reach 400,000,000 bushels. Harvest is over in the Southern winter wheat districts, and the wheat ia reported to be excellent in quality and the yield large. It will be impossible to give figures for some time to come, as statistics of this kind are always diffi cult to obtain.— American Milltr. "Sweets to the sweet," ssiil the swell of the boarding bouse, passing the syrup to the daughter of the proprietor. " And beets to the beat," remutked tho latter lady, shoving a dish of that vegetable toward the yonth. The observation cast a gloom over the company. A 1/Oal Colony. The iliwcovery of a mottml iti North Carolina, with a number of wrll-prtv ncrvisl corpses of an unknown nsUonali ty, luui revived a hope of Sir Walter Kulcigh, 11 tot aoute trace might vol ho f. <iin,l of the famous ltounoko Colony. Tho rcimtii a ami contents of the mount) lire undergoing eitreful examination, aiu! if it itiHMxilile 11 ilMiiWihai Uiey xrtthe Itimnuae Colony loot found no ilouht it will he done. The humau mind ilia likes AII uuaolv*hle mystery, especially one three centuries old. It WAN in lf>H7 tlint the (AIHOIIN lost coheir, tbeaiihject of NO much search, spec illation aud ro inniicc lmided at ItoAiioke, and formixl a friendship with Manteo, who wan made u Christian, a feudal hurou, an the Lonl of Roanoke, the ilrat gentleman iu America. It waa that colony that gave hirth to Virginia Dare, the Ilrat child Inirn of I'.iigliah |iareuta oil the Cuited HtuUoi ami a female, by the way, wbioh would have entitled womau to imtuo Mp'htn of priority if ahe liad not heeu unfortuiuitely loat, without per|>etuatitiK heraelf m jHaitcrity. It wait three reara, ou account of war, H|>anpih armaria and home trouhlea, before a alup with ait|>- plica ami the governor of the ooloUT, Virginia l>are' grandfather, returued lu It >auoke. All that remained of the colony, or Manteo and the friendly ludianii'to tell of ita fate wan the inscrip tion, " Croatau " on the Imrk of a tre. No neiircli wan made then. Afterwards Italeigh sent five times to seek his colon ista, bat no sign or trace of them ever appeared. The ludiaus at a later day claimed to hate adopted the eolouista, uuil their physical characteristics give some color to the theory of adoption and amalgamation. The lost colony has been the theme of mauv a story aud of great deal of illm'tiasioli, which the Curious delvtr iu the old and half-forgotten will Hud attractive. Xmhvillc (7Vnn.) Atnrrnan. Water iu the Kar, TIIISH* who bathe in salt water should put plugs of cotton in their ears, if they don't wish to run the risk of becoming deaf. Mr. Samuel Sexton, surgeon in ch:, f to the New York hjar Dispensary, iu u recent communication to the Mrtli ral lirvuni, estuuaUw that a thousand people of New York city are sent to their physicians to l>e treated for i<ur distiastw every year, whose trouble has arisen from getting water in their ears while bathing, or from catching cold at such times by exposure or neglect. It n|i|K-ars from the doctor's researches that salt water is jteculiarly irritating to the delicate structure of the inner ear. Very cold water, of the freshest kind, may, however, be eqully harmful. Surf-bathers are especially exposed to such iujuncs, since a breaker may strike them ou the side of the head and drive the water into the ear; the same result may ensue if the bather gvU a sudden mouthful from an uuexjieeted wave, the water then te'ing forced through from the mouth to the inner ear. Man, the doctor thinks, is not natur ally amphibious. Animals fitted for aquatic life are provided with various ar rangements for keeping the water out; seals, for instance, ha TO a movable mem bniue in the ear, which closes and shuts out fluid; the muscles of fhe water shrew are -competent to shut the ear pasaagea. People who are blessed with very small openings to their ears run tlic least risk in bathing. A man should never dive, says the doctor, if he wishes to pre serve his hearing. When in the Hurt, he should take the wave ou his chest or liaek, " closing his mouth aud nostrils;" though how a man can close his nostrils the doctor does not state. But the pledget of cotton for the ears is essential, and every battier should be provided with it.— Trihurir. She Failed. The other day, soon after a Congress street woman had decided to build a big cuke for supi>er, she heard the musical voice of a peddler crying in the wilder ness; "Great big huckletierries—eight cents a quart—three quart* for twenty-five cents!" "Nothing like taking advantage of discounts," said the woman as she ran fir # dish, and in five minutes she had her three quart* of berries and the jhhl dler had her silver quarter. Time passed ou. She sat in a rocking chair looking over the fruit, when all of a sudden she turned pale and liegan breathing hard. It wa* not a ease of heart-disease or spinal meningitis, nor had a new wrinkle suddenly developed itself on her forehead. She had simply figured; "Eight cents.per quart—three quart* for twenty five cent*— three time* eight is twenty-four !" Her son came in just as she had slip ped a revolver into her pocket and tied her Unmet strings into a square knot and when he asked her where she wa* going she solemnly replied: "Harry, I am going to kill a peddler —a seven-story hypocrite and deceiver who gave me wholesale rate* on these berries! Tell your father to engage three lawyers and be at fhe Central Station in half an hour t" Hut the strawberry man passed on had sought other shady aud innocent neighborhoods, and she returned to her darkened home with a toothache tinder her ear and her heart lieating at 115 degrees in the tthadet— Frre iY< at. Home Peroration. Decorative art was once known only to the rich, but now it is familiar to the middle classes, who crave forma of beau ty. Let us dwell for a few moments on lion see nud the art of furnishing rooms. Itooms sre quick tell-tales of character and taste, or the lack of it, and each room should express something aud lx> 111 harmony with itself. There are ele gant drawing-rooms which chill yon as you enter, and simple, coffy sitting rooms in which every chair says, "do sit down with me," and a welcome comes fr>m the very walla. Household taste is but a synonym for household culture, and she is a wise woman who surronnds theme she loves with objects of beauty. It is not an impossible fact, for women can accomplish much in this direction. know one who has changed, as if by manic, an ugly seven-gabled house into a marvel of beauty. It is by n thousand little felicities, a pretty bracket, iui ar tistic gent of a picture, statuette or bust, a gauzy eurtiiin veiling some little recess, a pretty hsnging basket, a graceful stand of flowers, a tiny cabinet of choice treas ures, a cosy chair, or comfortable divan these and many another object, trifling in itself and easily manufactured, are the " traps to catch sunbeams," which shim mer and lighten up and glow through the dwelling where taste dwells in nuity with utilities and love. Tho Frigate Bird. I see a small blue point in the heaven. Happy and serene region, which has rested in peace above tho hurricane 1 In tli at blue point, and at nn elevation of 10,000 feet royally floats a little bin! with enormous wings. A gull ? No, its wings ore tdack. An eagle f No; the bird is too small. It is the little ocean eagle, first and chief of the winged race, the daring navigator who fnrla his sails, the lord of the tempest, the senrner of all peril—the mau-of-war the frignte bird. We have reached the cul minating jxiint of the aeriea, commenced bv the wingless bird. Here we havo a bird which ia virtually nothing more than wings, scarcely any body—barely us large us that of the domestic cock while his prodigious pinions are fifteen feet in span. Tho great problem of flight is solved and overpassed for the power of flight seems useless. Bnoh a bin!, naturally sustained by sncli anp port, need not allow himself to be borno along. The storm bursts; he mounts to loftv heights, where he finds tranquility. The poetic metaphor, untrno when ap plied to any other bird, is no exaggera tion when applied to him;literally, he sleeps upon the atorm. When he chooses to soar bis trtty seriously, all distance vanishes; ho breakfasts at the Senegal; he dines in America. — Alichelet. Whirlwinds are produced I y violent and contrary currents meeting and strik ing upon each other, pro hieing a circu lar motion. They generully occur after long calms, attended by much heat. SUMMARY OF NEWS. Cutera and Middle States. Amtrrw J. herein, a New Turk bnilder. has been atljmlaetl a benkrnpt. Ills liabilities are i<etihiatoil at over #'i,OUU,UOO, with email aeeete. Hubert W. Greeve dint I be other night at hie fartn, in Mouth Kingston, 11. 1., In eone<|Ueiice of teliiK bitten by a be|. killing dog on the loth of A|>rll last. Hixt)r four ceeee of suuetr.ike uine of wbU-b Were fatal occurred in New York oity the other day. A bridge over the Krte railroad near I'or Jervle, N y.. gave way eilddruly, prc-lpUatlng four ladles wbo wort, -landliig ou U to tbo track, a distance of twenty (set, and Injuring all four, ono of tboiu fatally. I bo recent hot weather has been followed by ten Kb. storms tbroiigbout Uie l a-torn and Middle Mates At Nortbaaiptou tbo axblblUou building, grand stand, -beds and fences wera i blown down, causing a damage of about #II,OOO. At Mlddletowu, N. 1., a cburrb steeple was blown down, set oral bouses were unroofed and many trees ti|>rooted. At Albauy, N. ¥., the storm raged furiously, leaving a scene of ruin and desolation lu Its track. Mix teen build lugs were destroyed, luany trees were struck by lightning and several car horses were killed, the damage done reaching #IOO,OOO. At tilou cester. Ma— , a bouse was struct l.y lightning aud two of the inmates Julia Mcl'hee and Mrs. (leurga ltterw were killed five other houses were also struck by lightning. At • t'oucord, N. H., the Mbatteck House was destroved by lightning, entailing a loss of • iU.OOO. The lloston 1 letting Conijiaiiy, of lkwtou, lis- susiwuded payflMßts, Its treasurer, John M. Tap|iaii. having used lbs credit of the con oern for I'ilvate st'oculatlon te Uie extent of over #OOO,OOO, Tappa!) conveyed a large amount of pro pert v t > tbo .ximpany to make good the In—. The liabilities of lbs corpora hot) are given at #3'J,OOO ; nomiual assets. #'.),000, aud uotes payable. #<;JH,OOO. Ibe failure of the Hostou llelluig ( ompany Ws f..Hoard t v the SU'l i.-l-c of the New York HelUng I' •tnpauy, the busteo— relations of the two iviucnrvw having teen very close. Ibe New York corporation bad a ctpitel of #nuo,ooo, and employed a large force of work men at its extensive works iu Handy Hook, (ouu. The NaUoual Greenback la lor party of New York met iu couvenUuu at Syracuse. At the tlrst day s session the four contestmg dele gaUnus from New York city were exrlodwd. Borne of the excluded delegates thereupon proceeded to furm a second couveution, but tbo idea was eveutuallv alandoned. tin the secoud day John I' Hally, of l uca, was elected cbairuiati. After two ballots Gideon J. Tucker, of New Y'ork city, was uomuiated for judge of the court of ap|-als The platform adopted favors the Use uf paper money In legal pay ment of all debts, snd the immediate payment uf all government bonds in pajier money ; de mands the rr|>ual of the national banking act and <H|tial taxation uf all property , calls for the adoption of laud limitation laws, legislation looking to Uie oontrol of railroad* by ibeHtate, a labor bureau, the abolition of ouu net later ooiiUact, a tax on ail income* over tI,OOU and reduction of official salaries recommend* in terna! Improvements and is opposed to Chinese cheap labor. Western and kssUsis States. Tbs Colorado Demorrmt* in Stats oonveo poll at Pueblo, nutnlualod W. A. H. Level* :>d for governor and Thorns* M. Patterson for t'oogrtw*. The platform demand* fr*>* coinage of aiiver, repeal of the rratimpUun art. and the gnbetitnUun of greenbark* for national bank note* , the lloue procidentia] alacUoti invosU gation 1* approved. Bam Hi**, the notorioas Tex a* desperado, who rerwutlv added to bu untueruu* erima* bv killing a deputy sheriff near Galveston, ha* teen captured by a xjuad of Ktate troops after recißtvtng a fatal wound. The Texas Democratic State eoaveottoa vu lirld tn Ausbu, On the nineteen til ballot fur governor the vote stood : Hubbard. De vine, 613. Necessary to a choice, 1,002. The convention then adjourned. Jhe bUKinea* portion of the town of < 'elicit*- burg, Kv.. comprising several blocks of stores an 1 residence#. wa* totally destroyed by fire, causing a kiss estimated at 1100,1100, upon which there ts lilUe muranor. A builsr attached to a threshing machine on the farm of Benjamin \Y**H. near Belleville 1U , explodrd. instantly killing two men, mor tally wounding two and severely injuring three others. The accident waa charged to careless ness or inefficn-ncy of the engineer. Twenty thousand people were present at a snlliters' n union in Nrwark. Ohio. The lYesi dent. Attorney-General 1 leven*. General Bher man and Governor Ihahop took part in the aaremnuw*. L. 1). Atchison, a balloonist, while making an * seen-lon at Kim wood. 111., fella ..istanoeuf 2Do hundred feet and waa instantly killed. General Mackenzie, with 800 I'ntted Hiatal tr\.p* has again crossed tbs Iho Gri nde into Mexico lu pursuit of cattle thieves and raiders. Wilson Howehina, who lived near Flavanna t'ourt House, Vs.. murdered hi* wife, mother in taw, and one child, and then killed himself. A eati. seven years old. who saw his father attack his mother, took the baby out of its cradle and fled to a place of safety. The Texas llemocrat* in State convention withdrew the two regular candidates for gov rrnor after balloting many times and nami natod O. M. Kobert* for the office. A difficulty in St. Ix>m* between the mayor and a vquad of hi* marthai* and the emjiioyees of a railroad oompany who were attempting to lay a new track nearly ended to a sanguinary riot. Several men were wounded and the par tially laid track wa* torn up and burned. Tbe Ohio National Greenback party met in cvuivcntion at Columbus and nominated a ticket headed by Andrew Boy for secertary of State. The platform adopted denounue* the national banking system and other financial law*, demand* that "the government aha!! issue a full legal tender pej-er mooey. reoogtiites the mutual depeodmee of labor and c*j*ta! and deprecates all atteuipt* to autagoture them, a*- ■eit* that the public land* should be set apart for homesteads for actual settler*, and is op posed to any further i*ue of intervet-hewnug bond* for any purpose whatever. During an affray tu Nashville Tenn.. bs twoen Samuel 11. Hick* aud four la-others named Baiter. Hick* and James F. Baxter were killed and two other* were wounded. The trouble ongnatcd in charges of a criminal na ture made against Judge Nathaniel Baxter by Hick* at a political gathering ou the previous evening. George W. Burleigh, an old resident of Ohio, and a man of fine education, came to Gapron. lIL, last May, ostensibly to open a barber shop, lieoently be aim- anted that he would give a lecture and at the conclusion would shoot himself through the hwehead in order to give the audience an opportunity to wrtlnes* a tragedy. At one dollar admis sion the house wa* crow Jed. and after deliver ing a lecture which is described as hav ing tiern of wonderful power, the lecturer snddrnlv drew a revolver from his |iorket and. before fie could be |>re vented, blew hia brains out, falling into the amis of two friends who had stationed themselves near at hand in order to jm-vent the execution of the design. Bur leish had announced that the proceeds of the lecture should be used in paying his funeral expenses, aud what was left over be invested in sctenUfic work* for the town library. From Waiktagtoa. Professor lUiey. the entomologist of the ag ricultural department, left Washington a short time ago for New York, to study the habit* of at) insert which is reported to be committing serious ravage* on the juniper or red cedar, and other forest trees in central and western New York. The President has removed Postmaster Park er, of New Orleans-a brnther-io-law of Gen eral B. F. Butler - and has appointed O. 8. Badger to the (dace. Aeeordtng to a oommnnieation recently re ceived at the navy department. James Gordon Bennett contemplate* sending another expedi tion to the North Poa-by wav of Hpittbergao using hi* celebrated yacht Dauntless for the purpose. A. B. Levisce, one of the Louisiana presi dential electors, has been appointed Tutted States revenue ageut. The sixtv-third call for the redemption of S 20 bonds of 1*6.1, consols of 1H55, has been issuod from the treasury department The com tills* <* v of agriculture ha* ap pointed Professor Gvote. of Georgia William J. June*, of Virginia Point, near Galveston, Tex ; P. H. Anderson, of Kirkwood, Missis sippi, and Professor Oomstock of Cornell Tui versitv, observer*, under the control of the entomologist of the department to make in vestigation* and study the action of the cotton worm during the present season. He has also appointed Professor Law. of Itbaca, N. J. | Profe*Kir 11. J. Dotimmk. of Chicago; Dr. It. F. Dyer, of Ottawa III.; Dr. D W. Vayles, of New Albany. lud.; l>r. Albert Dunlap. of lowa Citv, Iowa; Dr. lUnea. of Kansas, and Dr. Hal moti, of AshevillS. X. C , as examiner* to inves tigate the origin and devise a remedy for the hog cholera. Foreign Nsw. France Ha* snggrnted a joint protest of the power*, at Constantinople, against Turkish outrages in Ttie*aly. Queen Victoria ha* conferred the Order of the I Sartor on bnrd Heacon*Ald. The second international pigeon shooting matrh t*-tweeo Captain llogardn* and Mr. t'holmondolev Penned, in England, was won hv llogardn*, who killed two birds more than his opponent. Captain Dogordn* lost the third international p goon shooting match in England, his oppo nent. Mr. Wallace, killing soronty-one bird* to the Captain's sivtv-two. I Ate advice* front Now Zealand state that the Kritish ship lioch Ard, Captain flibb*, from London, for Melbourne, with a cargo valued at ♦850.00(1, was lost near Cape (itway on the morning of June 1. Mis* Evey Cartftchael was the only passenger saved out of seventeen and a midshipman named Thomas Pearoo is the sole survivor a crew numbering thirty-two. Twenty-four thousand English nailmakers struck for an advance of thirty per oeut. in their wages. The engagement of tho ltnko of Connanght, Queen Victoria's son, and Princes* Miry Louise of Prussia is announced. The House I'resltleoltot Klectlen Inveailga tloo. The sub committee at New Orleana, of which Mr. Htengor is olisirman, has granted the request of decretory Sherman to be permitted to summon; ninety-three witnesses to prove Intimidation in the Fellcisna parishes. Mr (Monger says the sub-committee will give the fnlleai ovipurtunllv for lit* taking of testimony. After its fortnight's WMi lb* mn summit.- to mot at AtlanT* City. N. J., Messrs. Potter, j lluUor, Hlscox ond Hpringer being in attend anre. Mr. Hballtbarger, Necrslary Hhermaa * oounwil, was itoo present, Th# only witness rtarmord M Iteprrasulalive Dati forth, wbo I testified that ho was a memter of the iiouoe onruuiltlr, Uikt had visited New Orleans, and that ho thero mot J. K. Auderwou, wbo b<l , told witness that i'.—t Kgliolana riarlsb iu the worot trail-dosed parish of tbo Htelo. Ander •oii told willies* I hot he bad boon II rod uiwo. | Anderson alto sirako of baring tuado a |>roteet on which the rote of Fast Krllriaii* waa thrown 1 out and of hartng put In circulation a story ; Uiat during the period of registration bo bad rlalted Now Orleans and Informed tlif liejiub. liran oommlttoo, including Oor. Kellogg, that bia |iarlah waa I •ouocraltr, tbo ooiorod vote being largely on that ai.lo, aud that be bail : beet) advised by (lor. Koilogg and (he Itepubli oau committee oitbor not to return to tbo oar tab at ail or to come away aud make such a protest aa would throw the imriabout. . ud< r *un -aid bo bad-put tbia a lory in circulation in the hope that tbo democratic rotmnlltee would make him au offer of money, when by tbo offer of money be bad tbemgood aud faat, be would npoae the alltbora and blow tlu-m sky-high. ! The wltneoa did nut bear Anderson <|*asUou U>o trull) of the proteat our ousuniaui that there bad been an interpolation before ad j.iurtiing the committee held a consultation hecretarr Hbertuan being pruerni -in tngard to ' the convenience of wUncaeea. Congressmen William I>. Keller, I'.agetta Hale and Mr. Courtiand I'arkerappeared a* wuneeaca and Instilled that lhay bad visited New Of lea Us j in Surember, 1 "Tfi, at tbo rt"(ueel of Oeutwe) ! lirant. The evidence of witnesses waa intended l to abow that everything done by the returning , 1-oard during the jrtesldeuUal count waa logular ' aa far aa they or the other member- of the Republican committee were concerned. Cougreamau l>anforth waa recalled and aaked by Gen. butler whether there waa any doubt that. If the Rare* electors were elected, Pack : ard waa sleeted governor of lyoutalana. The . • line— replied that there waa no discrepancy ( or difference between the vote* cast fur flayes I aud thosecaat for Packard except in Natchito ches where I'ackard bad ADO or 800 more totes : than Hayes. Kx4<>ngre—man J. HaieHyptew, | f Now Orleans, waa examined by c hairman . I'otter. Ho teetifled that at the time tbo lie I publican Tlaitura wont to 1 .ouiaiana be met U. i A. Water, a supervisor of elections, at the en -1 trance to the custom bouse on Canal street, aud Weber aaked bun. " Can I take the premise of gentlemen wbo are bare to pro tide forme ,if 1 am driven our of my pariah T' Witness j said in reply, " Whom do yon meant' Water named Matthewsand Khermauae|iecially. Wtte ne— then aalil " i heae a ontiemen aland very close tu the incoming President, personal!v and politically. and I think you can trust t Kern." Weber remarked that he had toco deceived a good many Urnea, and aa be did not feel like Lakliig any man's verbal promise, be would de mand a promise in writing. Witness said that thai was the only way. The next day be xgxin met Weber, who exhibited a letter, which wit ness read aud then rrturmd to him. Weber made no apodal remark but appeared to he pleased with the letter. It purjiortod to be : signed by Jubh Sherman. Witness had seen hberman a handwriting. Would hut swear that the letter was In Hberman handwriting, hot there was nothing to make bun think it waa not his bandrnting. Witness pro-umod it Waa his He oould not give the purport, but the published letter, the original of which te had hastily read, seemed to him to be substantially correct. On cross-examination, witness said he oould not -wear that the signature to the ,otter W eter showed him was genuine. Secre tary Sherman made a statement about his going to New Orleans in 1876, at the request of General Grant. He slopped at Culumous. on the way, and bad a general conversation with Hares. Adjourned. The examination of Secretary Sherman waa begun b* the commutes and lasted four boara He said that oo November 17, 1*76, the nailing lUqmblioan* called oo the Iteturaim- Board to pay tho.r reepeola They said that they rajfcr to Ne Orleans to witueas the count, not to ittterfsf* with the official duties of the board, and they ni rwwl the bope that the proceed ings would be outtdualed openly. Tbe lusrd adopted a resolulioo Minting five gruUrmeu on each aide to be present as witnesses. The witness aaid that he waa never ahma with any member of the board, but treated thetu the same as any other cos.rt before wtacb he appeared as a witness or advocate. He never mentioned the duties of the board or alluded t<> the investigation to any member. He did not remember meeting either Weber or Anderson, except in a casual way. He had a Sotuewbat mdehuite rmoUertiuii that Weber and Anderson came to htm at lbs restaurant, engaged in a abort inconsequential talk and then went away. Mr. Stoogblon was present. Mr Sherman denied tbe truth of the testimony of James K. Anderson in regard to a cooveraa non between Mr Sherman and Weber and Anderson, in which the secretary said that they oould be provided for elsewhere than in fxuinaana Tbe witness testified that he never oould have made a speech about controlling patronage, nor did any body mention to him anything of a forged protest. When in New Orleans ho vrao very cautious in hia exprvasicna as were his associate*. Wit ness was shown the letter alleged to have boon written to bun by Weber and Anderson, dated November JO, 1*76. and said that he never re ceived such a letter and never saw or beard of it unit) it was published. Any such latter would have excited his reernUncnL He never suggested to these men crapluvment far anv service they might render In connection with the lletumibg Board, or tn any otbar way, u-r waa any pr-'tnisc of reward even iutimaled. With fyferwnos to the alleged reply Secretary Sherman said most emphatically he did noil write sorb s letter at Uie same time, however, ae he asserted when this investigation began, there were things m it that be would hare writ ten to these or any otbsr men who were en gaged in the performance of what be believed to be their d It* if be bad beeu asked, bnt be did not;think be wrote tbe latter. He believed ha did say in -nvariation with various gen tlemen that all llepublioana in Louisiana who stood by their guns deterred credit- If he had been a citizen of 1 .omnaua. witnem said, he should probably have been killed in resist ing attempts to intimidate Witness produced a letter written bv him to Governor Hayes, dated Ntm-mber 23, 1X76, and the letter's reply The letters referred to tbe condition of affairs in lyouistana General Garfield wae the next witness and testified that he had Tinted New Orleans on the invitation of General Grunt in 1*76. Witness behoved then had been lutinu datum in Iximstaaa. and that many of the statements of E. 1.. Weber were tnoonsiatatlt wilb train. On crow-examination by General liatler witness said be believed Packard had been honestly and lawfully elected governor of I-omaiana. Adjourned. A scnwblo current of air is abont three feet per aeeond, a gentle vrind double, a brisk wind sixteen feet, a strong wind thirty-three feet, a violent wind from sixty-six to eighty feet, while a storm whioh overturns treea is 150 feet per second ,540.000 (eet in an hour, or at the rat*' of 110 miles. For qnvtnli of thirty year* Mr*. WIXRLOWB SOOrHING Hl kCl'ku been -:sed for children with never-fading success. It correrts acidity of the atomach. relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, coree dysentery and dlarrbiea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle. •Seres! Trenqalltaer e< (be rve* The surest tranquilizer of the nerves is a < molictne which remedies their nuperaenwUve nos* by iuwgormting them. Ov< r-tetiaion of this nerves always weakens them What they nenl, theu. is a tonic, not a sedative. Tbe latter is ouly useful *hen there is intense mcu'al excitement and an immediate necee ! sity exists for producing quietude of the brain. Hostetter's Stomach liitter* restores tranquil ity of the nerve* by endowing them with tbe vigor requisite to bear. without being J-.rred or disturbed unbealthfully, the ordinary im prcsaloos produced through the metiia of sight, hearing and rrflection. Nay, it does more than this, -it enables them to sustaiu a degree of tension from mental application which they w.iuld tie totally unable to endnre without its assistance. Such at least is the ir- rcsuitihlc oonclnaion to l*> drawn from tho tcnti monr of business tod professional meti. littera teur*. clergymen. tod other* who hare tested the fortifying and reparative influence of thi* celebrated tonic and nervine. Hostler's Yeaal Pander. This truly nurivaled baking |K>wder stand* on it* merit* alone: and because of it* perfect pa rity and eicellence. and from the fact that evenr package 1* strictly full weight, the peo {ile have adopted it in their hoo-ehold*. and tare the utmost cvtiMg&og in it. It alway* doe* the work tlTactually, go** much further in use, and make* better" and more wholesome and nutrition* biwnits, bread, roll*, muffin*, cake* aud pastry than any other powder in the country. We have * li*t of • thousand country week tie*. In which we can insert a one-inch adver tisement one year for two dollar* and a quarter a paper, or for the mm* price we can insert fifty-two resiling notice* t* new one every week I averaging seven line* each. For lit of paper* and other particnltm, aditrea* Beat.* A FOHTRR, 10 Spruce Htreet, Sow York. WORT ITT A Pt.acK rs KVRRY FAXII.T.— Grace'* Salve ia now firmly established as the best rem edy in nee for the immediate relief of Onto, Kuril*, Sprain*. Wound*, Felon*, Clcera, Ao. It nhould be kept in every house. We know of no way that we can benefit onr reader* more than by calling attention to John eon's Anodyne Liniment. It i the oUJeet and most valuable patent medicine in the world. Evervbodv should keep it in the house. It will check ttiorrleea and dysentery in one boor. If the fountain is pure the streams will be pure also. Ho with the hlsod. If that be pure the health ia established. Parsons Purgative Pills make new rich blood, and taken one a night will change the blood in the entire *ys tem in three month*. The UrsalNl Discovery ai me Age 1* Dr rob las' oalahratad Vaosttan tuolmant I gi ynar* batara ths pablte, amt warranted to our* Dtarrhaa, D| uutirrt Uollo, and Spaam*. takan intarnalty, and Uroap,Uh*oaio Khsamalum. Hon Throat*. Out*, Braiaoa, Old Soros, and Pains In tha lambs, Baok, and t/jast. oitornallr It ha* osssr fall ad. Ifo family will sw bs srithoot It aftar onoa giving It a fair trial. Pnoo, 40 oante. Da TOBIAS' VICNKTIAN UOKSR LINIMKIfT. in Pint Bottlaa, at Ona Dollar, ia warrantad snpartor to any othar. or NO PAT, for tha eura of Oolls, OoU, Braiaoa, Old Horaa, ato. Sold ay all DragglaU. Dapot— IO Park Plaoa, Naw Yoak T)m> Mrtett. .• WM 5 1 Khaafi. JNji ®| uA... - "*2 rj* Oott , . aledlttiir .Li 1 . in Floor-W-winru <*od to (lliotoo .d ' mat-rur to (***>• * J® Buakwlianl, Pl —{ * J " Wbas'.-Ited Wootwn. J * • ri Mo. J WiMtoi ll T -t*Ul. " f ! ftartojr tftato , ....... ]J ? L DiltHoooo** .••••#© * ▼ Uuekwumk • ■? 5 El* (MM— Kltad Wootara • # •• tlero—MitM Hay. jiarcwt " * " HUM, " 2 Jr. flop*—Ojtdta I'rinio... .i* ♦. JJ NA-Mmo. -. ® Ufd-attr umm —• • - No. l. •* M ® f'• *• *o.t.i>ow • • DryOnd.por o1 # •*J Urriu*, fiaalad, F"' ._ J* # J! ctrointti -find* UI*dWW 8#*84d....M wr,< '-Oallfurnt* n*r0.........~< • Jj t.m. • l2 1 i! AuK.MIMn " ■ • " MUM XX M 2 J1 Bolter—MUM* 14 # SO VoUre-OhMa* ... .... Id • SO Wiwioro- F airjto Trim*.. 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MM GOBS Jtl!'Viif3„Ta4rsJSrK mmßFjms&Sr ▲ ■I DaT u i(MU uifumt tar to* Ftrrrlli % / i*ti*r. Trm.**KjloMU Prao Adarw #o# f iQMIt. MoMu MIT IURQ ■ ■ILLMo CHAPMAN'S CHOLERA SYRUP < <m Urwr it-r. OturtMM rnt "ra®" of ttbitdM (nMk OBOKtiK MUORK, •or. lOMt K*!)*. ft H IUM Of M 01—111 CLOCKS VMV VMil/ Ijionnr-M (lioMulM tL. $lO. S2O. SSO. SIOO. lemud )o<ltc*M.tr i> moot* rOptMn* or PilMtaM) * roM! t Own* Foil tMoiM omM >#* Moot K.p -rl. fr A4or*. T. rOTTW WIi.HT too . Hint 11. U Woll Wrpot. Mow To# rrt; (Q - r mimmm u> to* n-lomm I r. A~. pnoo. UtryitlMyiyalMono*: otooU .rt.ei.-pil nor .ioi|lio#-Trd* aoaiuoolM | lorrMO'.ow triU wootod .i.i I.''*. boot Mm* | noii. .tool . Mm. -oood far I'irr.Ur M JtOBT Wt!iA V.MI t. M.T.. f o. Ita tm. •Tfltas Pint Art Novelties t-JZZ?* Outfit Free USL is J U. tH'KFORIV* -Oft*. M.eotaotoriac Potlttan 141 u 141 f-'rootUo Miml, bono. Moo* IUr! B*arfr tfi >iori GRACE'S SALTS. Jdrccmxc, Mich . Doe If. l*Tf.—lboOr*. ftl 0081 ml* at*, tar two be trout Or**."* Hot** I h**r hod I*c M h. etl tbB • u Jo* a?"/ logroll si t. tioMti *oU. Moot*, idoar rant*. O J. \* MOO* Pnc* ?J cool. * boi ol *ll dracgut*.or eort h mil CMS roomi* of )!a il PWM bf Mbfil M, POM i.i- A- M# He or Ml* Am, BoUooTmooq i mhhhhhhhhhmmmh^ 1 Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sour Stomnch. Sick Headache. • MTW km * • cf #rtW** lb mil IViftr M#w> •Irwd." edAeww I J■ irlla#4 am r s -a##h. Imim. r —** , FOR $750 W* rfll in**rt 000 lack .drrrMoonoct thirtooo lino*, in <mm iboo**i>l Anmcmn oookls nmpHori IdoHinlit t**rrfm*' Itjroo nxath* rrorj vimt.or .t7 aUwr wrrk I I month. IIU.r INCH ... POM *IU POI K I.INK* IOK ru TIIKKP LINICr* KOH UH I Far c**k p*rn*Dt nurolr ia Mnitt. Br* par 004. diMoMt Ko **tr elm. tar nattnw **d mo4io cuts For of papom and oU#r >nf **Mt ooa4dr### BEALS & FOSTER. 10 Spruce Street, New York. I LJ 11 h# o J w H 111 ■ llalwiluF llltlfl A BmU aod Rrllab • NabaUlvlr fur t| ukuliar The only 25 cent AGUE REMEDY IN TUB WOUriD CCHKS I. MALAHUI. nIMKAHKR. •mi *1 .11 1V,., i*l, M. mFBtl rMIH •' PrtU. W.IU i.. llTM'ii I'lCk I 1.. * *,, nor, K*o Wm*. Mr lot ... mat tn.tr* in u. r,.Or. of U.UMI*' FRCF Botanic Medicine Co . Buffalo,N. Y Who Wants Machinery? W. htm for ral* on>r I ,?(K) new and ..eocd hand ! machin*, al prion, far bolao th.ir trao ralua, oumpria. 'nc V W-Ul 1.1. and ORNBKAI, AVCMHI. WOKHIMi .11 aCUINBKY of .rrj dMcrlption, Parloblr and Stationary STKAII KMUIMKS und ttOII.KKS from l-lf to (ilKl h. P..IVATKH WHKRI.s. 1.11 IST 1111.1. MACHINERY, MACHINISTS' and BI.A C K H.lf IT II S TBOI.S of .T.rr rarlaty, PC MPS, EIRE APP4- BATI'S, CMITTON and WfHU.KN MACIIIN. KRY, BKI.TIN4I, ( IHCFLAR SAWS, SHAKTINH, PCM.KYS, Mr., rtr„ all folly <lnscribed in our printed Li#t No. 17, with prion# annex #d, wbioh w# will mail to tha addr### of any party desiriny maotinary open receipt of stamp. Htate plainly Jud what msohiee er maohina# roe are ta w*nt of, aod don't buy ontd yon have cirefnuy read ! our list ©f the yreatest brsins ever offered in the way ol nw and machines. Low rjhboi *1 freifht uc obtained for ©or cu#terriers to any section of ths I United Bta es or 1 anada. Address S. F. FORSAITH & CO., Machinists and General Machine Deaihrs, MANCHESTER. N. H. R. B —THUda and Town Ph. Enfina*. Ho*. Oar- W, l*fTrn oka aod Fira Kquipmaala aapaoiaHp. 1 Band for Fir, Ka*ui aircalan Geo. F. Howell ft Co, 10 Spruce St, Rev York. The Object of Our EstsWishment fMhlibiu) t !• #ivewet mm) plaeiaa •! aa!^^atßaTOs?attc mm '—kit •< "W ItmibMt IW iaad. Confined Strictly to Newspaper Adver tiling and to American Newspapers. W. MIM aor tons. .mas. to ■—f m* *~~r - nsdanua u - HZz ,1,1 .fsdmrfctoag, W* oabaad*. * • d, " u- * < •• 2i^:.rs:^sitr7Knss Malaanadpsatatoato Oaasdi. The Nature of the Service which H it Our Business to Render to the Advertiser. cc=r-sf=S; srr vrJtXz rsr . Sr£S SmV ' ss ri 2SS f —a* far a** pnrpmm* m—i*€ %Mm *>— i ■■■<, ih •!>• om# jr^l , j^ZX e 222 l triS ; rs ££££: in.- -STT^ i MM , -it'*T doss U# apacdfcd atoataa Car Stoat MM. sfcwttosr usatrastof V Our Promise. Uw mm u> b* cbnrgwrfl. ta ea) tatfsiwe.""J* I ttAB Um pihtuhaw' eebedale Sm that wvH IJt ~M f (of ikm la# >i eeiiiaare of at) adraalafwea •* I ooAaiialy U ibaw bj a°y ya wwh aithoat t P fu ®t< T - The System of Arrangement tor News paper Files. '."TTSSJ I I>p bs wtafcaa U ■.< rt Us sw mlm. j w.,-14 wtosk b. si. B>4 iw( is • <MMur. . asms j to a dirawory. ar s boat is library nialagas. > r < The Amount of Money to be Expended. ?VmaMWltobarsba4tMtoapsrtoM a. adwMtto •AMI haw . pwtoy tosar ondarstaadrag of wfttoUsp , oaHlitosfclslii.fS.Un""* • UsitoU , "'ilr.'tow Mil. S tor ""t Using ca.'ong for u imslsl "f fc *■ sad to sab; mtttmg ft* appmrol tod oar cwtoooto* dwiasfod to i magaitnd* of t> s.paoaa, to tot berug aaatoto platad aa aipanditow .iraodtvg MM or ftM. t.Mto ? £Z too torn wwd. ,1 t U. ■ . mbmsooi Of tfc. SoaotMlHSl U -torn had tows > aakaj ; " HOO macb manor arm JOB prwpawd to> dsoofs ( toltti.adrrrtwing I I, ' ■ The Confidence of Our Patrons a Matter of Prime Importance. , II to a anttar af prims iratmrUaca to as. for (to onrpoM of maintaining oar inflnanoa with pablnhara. thatltahall oomn to ho nndrrstood among Uam thai oar fUloMOta nbont Ito adwrt lung to bsdoan. or aoi to ba dona, u. to to raltad a poo. aad to Uto nod oar .looting with oar adrortUtog patron. moot ba npoa j boon of BBtanl ooafldaaca and good faith Our Customers Entitled to Our Best Services. Wbooarar a r doing tba mdwrtiaiag to* any lodlrtdnal. or Brm. a* oaaoidar ibam aotiltad to oar i boot aornoas If ta| on. goot using o papar wfcioo wo know to ban 4 tb# bast for Uo p irpaaa. aa to* • *nw giro Us masons Wa oft on aipsod • goad daalaf tun. tor rary small sdrortl-ort. mo6h mora Uso Us prodts aa Ibair psiranaga aoald ssrraat. toli wa nra eoeUtot. as tbar sotrart to ns what tboj Vara to dto poraa. and inflnanar in anr d'motioo tba pstrooaga af thatr frtands mad aanoaintaaoas. w Arirarr /ram .Vw rsrk " Am M, I*7V Taa rnara ago Mossrt Oaa. r Bow^lI * tuhad Uatr sTrortistax saao ay ta Haw ark WJ- hj** roars au tbar abrorbed tcr bastoato o. ndnotad bf m. floopar, Who was tba trsl to go toto Uto kind of mtorartss Ktm thojr bars Ua Sa ting So most ogtanslro and oomptato sdrartmng n sot 100 which has arar baso ,h% would hardly ba pMtobto in soy °* | h '* Jii? uU'to "^SLju. no!toT hU* inf"ruwt|oo °jy mtarastioc to adrartiatoa to plboad raadily to Ua to posnl of tba pobhc. Geo. P. Howell ft Co, 10 Spruce St, Rev York. ■ T*U W
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