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,
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For of papom and oU#r >nf **Mt ooa4dr###
BEALS & FOSTER.
10 Spruce Street, New York.
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AGUE REMEDY
IN TUB WOUriD
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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 •!
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Confined Strictly to Newspaper Adver
tiling and to American
Newspapers.
W. MIM aor tons. .mas. to ■—f
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Malaanadpsatatoato Oaasdi.
The Nature of the Service which H it
Our Business to Render to
the Advertiser.
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The System of Arrangement tor News
paper Files.
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The Amount of Money to be Expended.
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•AMI haw . pwtoy tosar ondarstaadrag of wfttoUsp
, oaHlitosfclslii.fS.Un""* • UsitoU
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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
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( toltti.adrrrtwing
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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.
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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.
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