RARUS, KIXH OP THi: TURF.
Haw llr ■. Handled fcv m Mfcllftal He*
Trainer— The irn Tr*er Ifce te" •
• Work liana.
Tho following article from the Boston
<Robe trill IK; read With in to rout by
lovers of the home :
By his recent achievements ir. the
West, and his crowning feat at Hartford,
when hd trotted three beats in 2:15,
2:18J and 2:lSj, Rarus has proved him
self to be the best trotting horse that
ever graced a race track ia this or any
other country. The horse, now in his
eleventh year, ia the property of R. R.
Oonkling, an old resident of O roe n port.
Long Island. Although born at Greeu
port, llarus is essentially a Brooklyn
horse, for his repeated successes are due
to the carefaJ training of those who have
ha<l him in Charge ; and sines* the horae
first appeared in public, abont aevi*n
years ago, the ribbons have ln*eu held
over him by Brooklyn drivers. He first
appeared on tho turf at the Suffolk
county fair, held iu Kiverlu*ad st-vvu
years ago this fall. There he was en
tered for the " four-year-old stakes,"
'he prtie being a purse of #SO. llarus
is a bay horqe alxmt sixteen hands high.
The horae possesses a long atnde, easy,
open gait, and is what might Ik* called a
natural trotter. He was born a trotter,
as was Dexter, and no trouble was ex
perieiieed in traiuiug. Seldom or never
does he br**ak, but moves around the
track with the regularity of clockwork.
In the case of trotters descended from
good-bhxxled and well-trained pareuta,
even while in the pasture field, colts are
more inclined to trot than gallop ; but
Barns' auecstore, at least ou the father's
side, were not traiued trottera. In his
hook entitled " The Trotting Horse in
America," the laU* Hiram WiKxlrufi made
the statement that the natural gait of
the horse was to trot, but many promi
nent horsemen deny that such is the
case, while others, equally prominent,
pin their faith to the statement maae by
old Hiram. Be that as it may. Rarus
trotted by the side of his dam when iu
the pasture, field-at least ao sav those
who have leu acquainted with the ani
mal almost from the day of his birtlu
Ranis' progenitor, before he *As pur
chased by Mr. Oonkling, pqafanned the
ignoble duty of drawing a fish cart for
a Fnlton market fish dealer. The sum
paid for the stalhou was some two hun
dred odd dollars, and Mr. Oonkling sent
the horse to his stock farm at Greenport.
All sportiug men, as ia natural, believe
that blood will tell ; but the ease of
Barns is a glaring exception to the rule.
George Wilkes, of Wilkt*' Spirit of the
A"and Mr. Conkling, have used
every endeavor to trace the pedigree of
the stailiou ; buf instead of discovering
that once he was a trotter, they find that
he is of set**We stock, and his occupa
tion through life was that of propelling
11, vers butcher carta foe different owners,
llarus' dam was by Telegraph, her
mother being a Black Hawk mare. She
:s still alive. Ranis has one full half
brother, wbjuee beet performance was a
mile in about 2:40. The Fulton market
stallion is father to twenty other horses
beside the king of the trotting turf, and
the beet of them bear no better reputa
tion than that of fair road steppers.
After his performance at River head, the
colt Rarus did nof • appear again on the
tmf that year ; kia next appearance be
ing at HornaUaviHe, N. Y., in the fQI
lowing spring, where he was entered iff
the *2:45 class. Young Mead haudlW
the ribbons, but was unable to win the
race. In the same year Rarus trotted a
mile at Providence, R. L, in 2:29, and
short ly afterward trotted two races at
the Proepegt Park course in about the
same time. James W. Page, who now
keeps a livery stable on Dekalb avenue,
and is an excellent trainer, hail llarus in
charge during the fallowing year, and
was very successful. By hard work and
careful handling Page put Rams on re
cord as a horse who aould do his mile in
2:22 without a skip or break. In his
third year llims was taken to Philadel
phia by Jim McMahon, who need to
drive Fi *ra Temple. The horse was en
tered in two races, but didn't succeed in
getting a place in either. When Rarns
returned from Philadelphia Mr Conk
ing gave Johnny Splan charge of him,
and Splan has handled the horse ever
smoe. When he took charge of the
horse Ranis' present driver was training
horses at the Prospect Park fair gr**unds.
Although yet a young man, Splan
handled some very good horses before
be took hold of Rarus. He drove Kan
sas Chief and JBella, both of whom could
oo a mile away down in the twenties,
beside® several other good ones. Much
of Rarus' good fortune is dne to Splan's
excellent nguAgenieat, and the trainer
has been rewarded by a long series of
successes. *"
Two yearn ago Rarus was able to do a
mile in 2:2R and since that time he has
"tH-en lee>!-ihng his time, until at Buffalo
be electrified the trotting world by gam
ing the reoortfaf *2:I3J, which is three
quarters of*e feooad better than Gold
smith MaiiJaßest time. The now fam
ous trotter %ytrong grip is his excellent
averages, ajui some of them seem aimply
unapproachable. A few days ago, in
Rochester, B.mis attempted to beat the
average of fclß, trotting three heat*, but
the horse was so tired out by his bercn
>un efforts at Buffalo that he failed.
Mr. Conkugg was recently offered #65,-
000 for Rrrua, it is stated, and without
a moment's hesitation refused to listen
to the proposition. The horse has made
a fortune for both his owner and his
trainer. anJL; if he doea not meet with
any abcideigl Rarus will still further en
rich the two fortunate individuals who
are benefited fay his winnings, and most
likely l>eat#hie present record. Some
trainers, especially 4he old-timers, be
lieve that imdet oertaia circumstances a
trotter will j|o better under saddle than
to harness. One reason that trotting
under saddle is not championed by the
majority of drivers is, that as they "grow
old, and a 1 dancing yeare added to their
obesity, they would be incapacitated
from rilingL There are many horses
who to-day nave won good reeorda that
would have scored nothing but .'ailnree
had they been compelled to trot under
the saddle. * Like men, there are, as a
horseman Adyles them, level-headed
horses, who "seem to understand what is
wanted, anl light-headed hones, who
would lie aairisky a* the Irishman's flea,
were they not kept cloee down to their
work. With this last class drivers have
more perftfcf control when seated in a
wagon than astride the animal's back.
Rarus is what would be called a level
headed horse. T)f the trotters who bsve
gone l>efore, Rarus more closely resem
bles Dexter in action than any of the
other great* ones, and tbers are some
who are inclined to the belief that there
must have been a dash of Hambletonian
blood in thai horse's father. Dexter's
gait is as good as Rarua', and Bonner's
horse has if anything more and better
action than poukling'a. It is more than
probable that had Dexter been kept on
the track he would have beaten what ia
now his faestetime. but his owner, Mr.
Robert Tlonaer, preferred to keep the
famous trotsr for his own private nse
rather than week to make him a paying
i-pecnlation allowing him to continue
his turf canfr. Dexter was trained at
the FasbioiKS Hjrse, by Hiram Woodruff,
and his besfjfciaie was 2:16, which was
made whenjljtt trotted agninst Ethan
Alien and rucuing mate. This time did
not go on ffi&gd because Dexter was
beaten bv Apen and mate. A horse with
a history iu "some particulars like that
of Rarus w.ifl flora Temple. The njare
was though! -nothing of in her early
youth, and £as at one time the property
of a butchemilio either bought or sold
her for lesfc than 8100. When Flora
Temple made a mile in 2:40 she
trained the now occupied by
Rarus, whi&£ was being the best trotter
in a land ofotters. The mare never
beat 2:21, but-she earned more money
with the exception of Goldsmith Maid,
than any hflrse that hAs yet appeared
before the public as a candidate for
trotting honors. Barns may not fear
any rivalry lyom Goldsmith Maid, as the
owner of the mare, Henry Smith of
New York, lias retired her from the turf,
una the Mai# te now at his stock farm
near Trentog* where she will be used
for
On the occasion of Rarus' first appear
ance on at Riverhead, Frank
W. Mead drove the trotter. It is said
by his friendsi that yonug Mead tanght
Rarus his steps. In the rscv at River
head three heats were trotted, all of
them laving won by Rarus. The winner's
* best time wss 2:421. Frank Meed wsa
then s l>oy of seveuteeu, end wss without
i doubt the youngest traiuer aud driver in
11 the country. At this time Oonkling
' wanted Frank's father to buy a half in
terest in the colt, lull the latter refused.
Mr. Meed, sr., who is a tvwideul of
' Brooklyn, in the course of conversation,
' rexmtly, said he horn stly believed that if
" he had ofllsred Oonk ng #1,500 for s half
interest in the lior e the latter would
' have gladly aooepte the terms. Frank
s Mead is now*n*arlv twenty-three years
" old, and is one of the uiot successful
* trainers in the. conn try. He is at pres.
' enl in Springflel '.
* Fashion Note*.
', I "rose* for autumn are cut with long
I corsages.
; , Lace sleeves . woru iu silk
' evening dreases,
i] Mitts are very much used iu black,
white and colors.
Chip bonnets of dark shade* are pre
errel for autumn waft, sud velvet for
winter.
leuig loops of ribbon called L*>uis
XIII. bows, are seen on imported
dresses.
Nearly all the new flowers for hounets
have birvls amongst tliem in some form
or other.
Breasts and heads of birds and whole
birvls will Ire much used this winter in
all garnitures.
In England, a tiny thread of gold sup
porting a solitaire diamond is the favor
ite engagement ring.
1 The brunettes have it all their own
! wav—red black and gold are to be the
fssliiousble winter colors.
Handsome garnitares for fall hate are
made of the hands of cashmere feathers
on which are two heads of the merle
! bird.
Hatiu and brocade are the materials
most used at present for making hand
some dresses that will be worn in the
dl and winter.
Among new imported millinery goods
' is a velvet called the Medieis velvet,
which comes iu several shade® of colors
i combined in one piece.
A Bag tiers t rab fishing.
She sat upon a rock, fishing for crabs,
f She had her Jog with her- a Skye ter
rier—such a one as a Broadway vender
would charge yon #lO for. His hair was
I long and as soft as silk, bine ribbons
[ hang from bis ears, and his neck was
t encircled with a nickel-plated collar.
: But all that counted for nothing as
. aguiust the fearful scene through which
. he was abont to pasa. He lay close to
the basket in which the Fifth aveune
* belle dropped the crabs as fast aa she
< caught them. He was, no doubt,
- dreaming of his happy home far away,
i where he was wont to take his daily nap
t on a #IOOO sofa. Now and then a green
* bottled fly skipped from ear to ear or
1 lighted upon Lis back where the pup
. couldn't reach him, and at such times
he whiaked his tail wildly till the in
, trader was away. On one of these ape-
cial occasions, after whisking off the fly,
the little silken taii rested upon the
edge of the crab basket and the end of
f' it dropped inside, latitude 47, lougitoJe
| 6*2. The feathery edge of it struck a
. crab in the ejv, and the claws closed
, on the appendage simultaneously.—
I The dog, oh, where was he ? A jelp, a
t howl, and then in silvery tones came the
, "ti yi! t! yi!" as the astonished >np
. sailed over the plain and through die
clover with a string of craba connecting
[ him with the empty, bounding basket,
I and all their clawa clutched one with
I the other ; and for a minute there was a
mixed scene of dog, oralis, basket, dust
l and flying gravel, and the tail was told.
. There was no more crab fishing that
day.— Poughketpir (X. I".) Eagle.
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| Yellow Feier.
' Yellow fever is a most mysterious, and
in many respects an incomprehensible
, ( disease, aava a New York paper. The
f • few general facta that seem to hare been
? learned abont it, after close and varied
I observation, are not infreqnently con
. i trad io ted by new experience. One of its
i widely-suppoeed peculiarities ia that it
; cannot live at certain elevations, 2,500
- ! feet above sea-level being anfficieut, it
1 is thought, to exclude it completely.
, Yet, long before Cortex invaded Mexico,
i the natiTee of the country suffered ter
s ribly from an epidemic which was, be
r yonil all rational doubt, identical with
f j what ia now known as yellow fever.
This epidemic—it was called mafaizti
i hautl— prevailed repeatedly, with great
j virulence and mortality, dnnug the six
>l teenth and eighteenth centuries, on the
. table lands at Mexico, from 7,200 to
. 7,800 feet above the sea. II it has raged
. at that height, it may rage at an eqnal
. height again, and thus the favorite and
t now universally accepted the<wy be over
f ! thrown. It ia surprising how very little
t | ia known ot the yellow fever as to its
. symptoms,consequences,general course,
t and treatment; tor, while it has been
. recognised only about 200 years as a
distinctive disease, it has been a fearfnl
' scourge at least since the beginning of
t the fifteenth century. It used to be
! called the plague, and it ia little leas
, hideous and deetractive than that fright
, fnl pestilence, now happily confined to
t the hot and filthy East.
Sagacity of Chickens.
* The artfulness of common chickens is
illustrated by this funny story, pub
i lished in I,and and Water: In former
i days it was difficult for visitors to get
1 anything to eat at John O'Groats, the
1 extreme north of Scotland, there being i
' no batchers or bakers within miles.
When visitors arrived, it was the custom
: of the proprietor of the little inn to
chase and catch a chicken, plnck and I
* i roast him at once for the visitor's dinner,
i l ln course of time the chickens became
j very artful They kept a sharp look
out, and when they saw a carriage com- j
ing along the road —they conld see a ,
long way down the straight road from '
* the inn—they bolted with all legs into
the heather, and did not reappear until
the visitors bad eaten their bacon with
out the chicken and taken their depart
ure.
j That birds learn from experience is
qoite eertaiu. The following fact proves
it: When the telegraph wires were first
pnt np between Berry dale and Hems-
I dale, the gronse were continually flying
against the wires and killing themselves,
and in one season the driver of the mail
cart picked np ao less than forty brace
of gronse that had been so killed. Of
late years not a gronse has been fonnd
killed by the telegraph wires. They
| seemed to have passed on the warning
that telegraph wires were dangerous.
The Burning of the Martyrs.
The following is from Strvpe's account
i current of the expenses incurred at the
burning of Cranmer, Latimer and Rid
ley: In the Oxford edition we have the
items for Ridley and Latimer:
j For three losds of wood faggots to
born Kidley and Latimer........ 12s Od
Item—One load of fir faggots 2 4
For the carriage of these four loads.. 2 0
Item—A post 1 t
[ Item—Two chains 1
: Item—Staples 0 5
i Item—Four laborers 2 8
roa BUBitrao CBANMKK.
, ' For 100 wood faggots 0 0
For 100 and a half of fir faggots 3 4
For the carriage of them 0 8
, To two laborers 1 3
Total 41 15s fid
This sm>ll snm was the expense of
, burning at Smithfleld three of the most
prominent churchmen of the age.
1 Professor Stewart, of San Francisoo,
■ puts forward this theory as to why
* earthquakes have become rare in that
i region:—"At all seasons of the year
f there is vastly more moisture in the air
in the Atlantic States than in California,
i and I firmly believe that onr overcharged
1 coast is being constantly relieved of its
plus electricity by the iron of the over
> land railway, and that California earth
: quakes are now appearing in the form
1 of frightful tornadoes and electrical
t storms east of the Rocky Mountains."
AUSTRALIA.
IslsrvwUaa rn. Almsi *• Wsrld'sUrvai.
cat Island.
Of the sntire area of Australia, which
ia very little lena tliau that of the whole
of Europe, abont oue-flftli, or half a
i million square miles, in the middle, i a
barren wilderness, which can only Ik*
explored at thetKwt of frightful hard
ships and at the risk of life itself. In
the southern portion of this desert there
are dotted, here and there, hills of soft,
white, yielding sand, tliiekly clad with
apitiifex, scrub i*ak aud other low sbriitw,
with an tveaaional group of eucalyptus
trees ; but in it* northern part not even
this nieau vegetatiou sp|*ears, sud the
sandhills are bare. The fierce rays of
the sun in summer often set the |*arohed
foliage of the wilderness iu s blase, aud
devastating fires prevail, which give rise
to hot winds that render oppressive the
outlying settlement*.
Australia has none of the great moun
tain chains and mighty rivers to which
we are accustomed ou this continent.
Its highest range of hills is the \\ arm
son#, or Blue mouutaais, which attain a
height of 7,000 feet above the sea level.
There are no great inlets except the
Gulf of Carpentaria, on the north Coast,
but the harlKtr* of Hyduey and l'ort
Darwtu are a* useful and grand as any
iu the world, uot omitting liio Janeiro,
Constantinople, Hong Kong or riaii
Francisco. The enormous expanse of
country is* almost entirely level, giving
indications that it wan onoe the t>ed of
the ocean. There ave many salt marshes
and lagiKui* iu the center and west, and
in the east a few rivers which alternately
expose their dried beds to the bakiug
rays of the atiuaud overflow their banks.
The largest navigable river in east Aus
tralia is the Murray. long and severe
droughts sometimes prevail. In 1865
there was no rainfall in central cr south
Australia, and cattle and sheep died by
thonsamls daily.
From a pajwr read before the Geo
graphical society of New York, by Mr.
Jess Young, who was the astronomer of
the Giles expedition, sent out in 1K74 to
explore the interior of the inland conti
nent. we get many interesting facts re
garding Australia, which are here given
without much regard to councetion.
So dry is the soil and climate in the
interior,"so little variation is there, that
Mr. Yonng often left delicate instru
ments uncovered in the open air over
night, anJ never found ou them the
slightest particle of rust from dew or
other moisture. Great eucalyptus tree*
are one of the features of the more
favored parts of Australia. Some of
them are of enormous growth, 350 to
400 feet high, and one specimen in the
Warrugong range, which is lying ou the
ground, measures 420 feet in height, or
rather length. A peculiarity about the
trees is that they begiu to die at the lop
and die downward, and that they usually
shoot the bark instead of the leaves.
There Is an absence of edible fruits,
except a few berries and some small in
digenous peaches. The scrub, of which
we have spoken, is generally a species of
eucalyptus, and it covers fully one-fifth
of the whole colour. The monotony ot
traveling through It can ouly be under
stood by experience. " For days and
weeks and months you may be in it
without seeing twenty yard* in any
direction. It is in this scrub that so
many live* have been lost from time to
time." The kangaroo affords sport and
food for the natives and for the hunts
man among the eoioniata, aud the tail of
the animal, as is well known, makes an
excellent soup. The Australian bear
has scarcely energy enough to move.
Insect* are wonderfully prolific, mos
quitoes and flies being particularly
abundant. " The native children are
sometimes hardly recognisable, so com
pletely are they covered with flies, filling
their eyes, noses and months." Spiders
are very common, a* also are ants, the
tarantula being the most formidable of
the former and the bulldog ant the
worst species of the latter. These ants
are an inch or more in height aud abont
two inches long. They all fight fiercely,
and their sting is not to be desired. The
fish are whales, seals, sharks, codfish,
snappers, mullet, and hosts of other*
not found in any other part of the
world. There are no ruminating ani
mals, no pachydermata, and no earni
vora, except the uative dog or dingo.
Australia, however, is distinguished by
the great majority of marenphial or
pouch enl animals, of which there are
uow few traces in any other part of the
world. The birds of Australia are the
emn, resembling an ostrich, aud the
more common varieties.
Of the natives of Australia, who are
rapidly approaching extinction, Mr.
Yonng gives a far more favorable report
than those we are accnstonied to get As
the result of his observations, he de
clares that " the Australian black is not
naturally so depraved as many other
races better caret for aud better known.'"
He has never found any trace* of can
nibal habit* among them, and none of
torture or of scalping. " Any native
whom I asked has scooted the idea with
disgust, and I have seen their graves
and heard them bury their dead." They
are treacherous, as are all uncivilised
races, but they are not bloodthirsty.
They have little or no religion, thongh
they belieTe the spirit is immortal.
They also fancy that the dead will some
times return In another shape, beuce
they carry a dead body ronnd and round
the grave at some distance, in order to
pnzzie the deceased as to his where
about*. They are also in abject terror
of an evil spirit, c died Chinehi. There
seems to be no government among them,
bat when anything is in dispute it is re
ferred to one or two of the oldest men
for arbitration. The celebrated boom- '
erang, so well known as one of their
favorite weapons, is a curved piece of
thin wood, which, by means of a com
bination of forces, can be thrown with
great dexterity, making the most carious
evolutions, and puzzling any one stand
ing near as to where it is going to stop.
It is unsafe to seek shelter behind a
tree, for one may be taken in the rear
or on the flank.
The oontinent of Australia, a* Mr.
Yonng likes to call the great island, is
divided into five colonies. The largest
is Western Australia, with Perth for it*
capital. Queensland ranks next in size,
and has Brisbane for its capital. Then
comes New Bonth Wales, with Sydney
for it* capital, and, last, Victoria.
Victoria is sitnatod in the most sonth- ■
easterly portion of the continent, and its
most southern headlands enter the tem
perate climate of the fortieth parallel.
The mean temperature of Mellxmrne is
fifty-eight degrees eight minutes, which
is eight degrees higher than that of
London. This is now the richest, most
prosperous, and most thickly populated
of the colonies, though New South
Wale* is steadily gaining on it Vic - 1
toria is best known to the world, for it
owes it* wonderfnl sncoes* to the gold
discoveries of 1851, which, in the year
1852 alone, amounted to #70,000,000.
New Sonth Wales ami Victoria are the
largest gold-prodncing colonies, thongh
each of the other* add something to the
enormous general yield. Bat, as in
California, the cultivation of the earth
and the growing of flocks and herds mid
more to the comfort and wealth of the
people than the digging after precious
metal.
Farming un a Brand Scale.
The Napa (Cal.) Register says: John
Finnell, one of Napa's pnucely farmers,
has recently purchased 19,000 acres of
land in Tehama county, at a cost of
#850,000. The property is known as the
Thomas estate, and ha* on it a #25,000
residence and alxrat 8100,000 worth of
fencing. With the land and improve
ments, Finnell get* 2,200 head of cattle,
1,240 hogs, and a lot of horses, mules,
etc. This entitles Mr. Finnell to a place
in the front rank of the great farmers of
California. His home place in this val
ley, comprising 1,000 acres, and besides
keeping 500 of it in a high state of culti
vation, be has for the past four years
been paying #35,000 per year rent for a
large tract of farming iand in Colusa
county, frqm which he has derived a
handsome income. We understand it to
be the intention of Mr. Finnell to re
move with his family to his new place in
Tehamu county next spring. The new
property has never been pat under the
plough and it is thought will prove very
productive.
Fairbanks & Co., scale manufacturers,
already get three gold medals at Paris.
I'Uln lllnt* on l>rtN.
The following timely nuggontioim,
token from a rooont laauo of tin* Chiongo
Kvening Journol, will Iwwr repetition:
A largo display of jewelry in litiblio or
an extreme aliow of (Iran in tlie street
are alwaya ont of order, acooidtug tho
Iwwit oonuuott aeuae aa well aa tlie Beat
inanuaU consulted in tho Boudoir of true
ladyhood, A woman may ho faultlessly
droaaod for a drawing-room, and at tho
namo time IMI all out of keeptug for a
railway or atroot oar. There ia a tiiuo
and a plaor for diamoiula an.l a timo and
plaoo for rioJi dtea*, and tho prudence
or modoatv which oauaoa ladle* of g>od
aouao to hide their jowola and adka from
tho geticml public, and hriug Uioiu out
only at the aoiroe or private diuuor,
aliould reveal to leas tasteful alatcra tin
IMM,t gunk* to follow in the indulgciioo of i
auoh In (iirice. The#e aaino example#
almi loach other good leaaoua in tho art
of true riohnoaa in attire ty wraring
pure pcufta or other rich atonoa wliou
diamonds new ha'Toud Uie reach of the
puree; aolii) gold when pearls or Uieir
equivalent are not attaiuable; jot, i>or
haps, when aoliil gold la out of tho que#-
tion, arid no oruamenta alien neither'
diamonds, pearls, gold nor jet ia at
hand.
A great mixture of colore and mate
rials ia never countenanced hy jxoople of
prosier culture IU dreaa. The English
woman who recently rigged herself in a
suit made from a!lk handkerchiefs of
many hues, made so excellent a cornea
ture on good taste as to gam world-wide
comment. Two colors or three at moat
are JMMMIIIY allowable in a giddy young
ereature's toilet, but one tint, to relieve
the black ami white of ailk or mtialin, ia
quite sufficient for Uie uiaturer person.
Colors thrown against iach other usually
make a daub, and iu the same way are
(uuuful eflrota produced by uniting a
variety of materials. Silk aud caiicii ,
make a team as ridiculous an a h>rc and
ox, uo matter how well matched in color; ;
ostrich feather* are poor accompani
ments to delaiuee, aud swan's-down
trimming on gmgham would prove the
wearer a gooae. Then the elaborate t>ou
uet is ill at eane with a traveling suit or
house rig, and a poor shoe or soiled
stocking, by one little revelation, will
upset all admiration for liiu ixistlieat
upper toilet.
street Yarne* in New l'ork.
Writing about the streets of New
York a correspondent says; A very
marked peculiarity is found in this re
spect, inasmuch aa there is a predomi
nance of what may be called christened
uatues. Just look at this series con
sisting of Catharine, Jane, Elisabeth,
Ann, WiUuun, John, Charles, Jatues,
Thomas, Jacob, Hcurr, Oliver, Amos,
and Horatio. All of our I'residents
who bore a part in the war of the revo
lution are commemorate*! except
Adams. The latter is a strange omis
sion, aud may be explained bv the fact
that this name was identified with the
Federal party, and New York was an
anti-Federal city. Coming down to
mere statistics, it may be said that the
streetaof New York contain 500 miles
pavemeut and also I,'iOO miles of gas
pipe, to which may be added .100 miles
of sewer. There tire also more than 100
miles of street railroads, which have
Iveen very profitable, though uow to a
large degree damaged by the elevated
rvunla. Speaking of street names, oue
might imagine that there had been an
intentional "alight"' toward New Eng
land, which the old Kuicfcerlioeker
bated so eordially, for while so many of
our streets are called after revolutionary
heroes, there is an omission of Knox,
Proaeoti, sud Putnam. Another point
of intcreaUtig remark is the omisaiou of
our great victories. London lias its
Trafalgar square, its Waterloo road and
its Illenheitu park, but New York has
no Saratoga,*Monterev, or llueua Vista.
Not a victory indeed is recorde*! in
street, square, or even "place," and the
question arises ia it to late too suggest a
change ? _____
London Houses.
The bousea of London, saya a corre
spondent, are mostly built of yellow
brick; but those of s more pretentious
character are of a yellowish sandstone,
which soon lecunea blackened with the
smoke that enslirunds the city. Iron
buildings are not known here—at least,
we have not met with any in our wan
derings over the city, they Wing sn en
tirely American institution. A stranger
in London is astoiualiud at the appear
ance of most of its publto buildings and
churches. Tbey are built m.wtlv of
white marble; but the smoke has black
ened them to such an extent that were
it not that ttoeir baao* and sometimes a
portion of their cornices are white, they
might be supposed to tie of black mar
ble The columns in front of St. Paul's
Cathedral are densely black; and so is
most of the vast structure. If s jwit ot
black paint was poured over the mag
nificent statues of <Ju*en Elizabeth and
Iter four maids of hou<>r, which stand in
front of the cathedral, it would scarcely
be noticed, so black have they become.
Tho National Gallery, on Trafalgar
qqnare, is decidedly black, and the
grand old church of St. Msrtin-in-tho-
Fielda, on Trafalgar square, is, if pos
sible, blacker. The walls under the
portico aud most of Uieotdurnus in front
would never be supposed to be ot pure
white marble. As there is scaffolding
being erected around it, the purpose is
posaibly to clean it of the accumulated
smoke of age*. They probably tlnnk
with the gamin, who, when asked why
he did not wash his face, replied,
"What's the nsef It will only get
dirty again."
A Yew Plastic <utn.
A rival to India rubber and gutta
jmroha lias been found in a new elastic
gum which has been namisl balata.
This is the inilky sap of a tree that
flourishes on the banks of the Orinoco
and the Amazon, in Month America.
The operation of winning the gum is
similar in every respect to that employed
with caoutchouc and gutta pcrchs. It
resembles gutta percha so closely iu its
general properties that much of it is
shipped from Guisna and sold yearly for
gutta percha, although it has many
points of snperioritv. It is tasteless,
givesan agreeable odor on being warmed,
mav lie cut like gutta percha, is tough
ami leathery, is remarkably flexible and
far more elastic than gutta percha. It
becomes soft, and may be joined piece
to piece, like gutta percha, at ationt 120
degiees Falireuh-it, but requires 270
degrees Fahrenheit before melting (high- |
er than gntta percha). It is completely
soluble in benzole and carbon bisulphide
in the oold. Turpentine dissolves it I
with the application of beat, and while
it is only partly soluble in anhydrous
alcohol and ether. It beoomes strongly
electrified by friction, and is a better
insulator of heat and electricity than
gutta percha. on which account it may
find considerable application for tele
graphic and electrical uses. Caustic
alkalies and concentrated hydrochloric
acid do not attack it; but concentrated
sulphuric and nitric acids attack it as
tliey do gutta percha, which it closely
resembles in all other properties.—/'n/y
--trchnic Review.
The Olive as an American Product.
The olive lias boon successfully grown
in California and in Month Carolina.
General A. 0. Jones, of the Department
of Agrienlttirc, after a careful investiga
tion of the matter, is oonfldent that there
is no good reason why olive culture
should not lie profitably added to the
list of our industries. The forthcoming
annual report of the department contains
a paper, in which is given a large
amount of information with regard to the
I soils and climates most favorable to
: these trees, and the inducements they
offer to the cultivator. 11l full bearing,
; the olive tree yields from two to three
bushels of fruit, producing from fifteen
to twenty pounds of oil. An acre of j
i land, properly planted, should contain
about 100 trees, and grass or other crops
may be cultivated between the trees to
advantage. Throughout the Mediterra
nean region the olive is an importaut
source of industrial wealth; and since iu
many parts, the climate of our country
is not unfriendly to the tree, its culture
may prove a great and valuable addition
to our resources. San FYawiscn Rul
letin.
AItTIFHIAI. ILK
An Apearslaa Mklrk Will Tarn Oai Thirty
Tan* hi t'lrwr If* IS • 11*1 H II Is
ft)Nf.
The ice factory recently opened iu
West Klcveuth street wa* visited by a
Herald reporter, aud it proved to bo an
object of much interest. The ice, pro
dneed in blocks of about five hundred
(•omnia each, measuring four feel square
and ume inches thick, was so clear tlist
lite hour could plainly he told on a watch
dial through the entire Uilckuess of the
! block. Printed bills aud bottle# of
champagne were fmseu tight iu the tee.
The Bill* were read with the greatest
rase through the side ofeths block iu
which they hail been embedded. A ther
mometer eiulxxtded with Fahrenheit#
ecalc was frozen into the block at a point
marking nineteen degreoa below Uie
(reeziug point.
The ice generating apparatus is run,
in the present liMUuoe, by a steam en
gine of tweiitv horse power. Ou the
right baud of the engine is the refrigera
tor, a copper tubular vessel, enclosed in
a wooden Un alsuit aix or aeveu feet
(square. The refrigerator is clisrgcd
with liquid ether, evaporated, when re
required, Bra vacuum pump, which
stand* ou tne left of the eugiue and is
connected by copper Ynliea with the
refrigerator. The ether is drawu sway
■ u the form of vapor and passed into a
copper tubular coudeuaer, where, under
a low degree of pressure, aided by a
stream of water, it is again brought back
to its ongiual state and returns through
the ether cooler into the meter, which
regulates the fiow of Uie liquid ether
iuto the refrigerator. The same eUier
\ IN used routiiMiously with inappreciable
loss. To utilize the oold produced by
the eUier a strong, uncougealahle brine
is circulated by a machine called the
hriue pump through the tubes of Uie re-
I frigerator, parting with its heat to the
ether vapor on its passage. Thus it
loaves that vessel at n temperature in any
degrees below the freezing j*int and is
then used in the freezing tanks, return
ing afterward to the machine to be re
ouoled. For the manufacture of ice
blocks the machine ia furnished with
large wo*qeu tanks (placed at the left of
UlO vacuum pump) of any convenient
ihmensious, which tanks are filled with
the fresh water to be frozen. In the
tanks a number of hollow metal calls are
fitted and so connected with the refriger
j aUr and with each other that the cold,
leaving the refrigerator at a temjxerature
of from fourteen to twenty degrees
Fahrenheit, is continually circulated iu
side them, Uius causing the water in Uie
tanks, on each aide, to congeal until Uie
required thickness of ioc has been ob
tained by the process of successive
layers, but done as closely and compact
ly as nature performs fur admirable
work iu wiuter ou the lakes and pond*.
When the blocks are frozen solid the
cold briueia pumped out of the cells and
replaood by brine of the ordinary atmos
pheric temjM-rature. The ctrculaUou of
this comparatively warm brine, for a
few minute* in the cells, louacua the ice
from their sides and renders its removal
very easy. A knotted and looped rope is
frozen into the block, z hook is inserted
in the loon sud the block is hoisted
away. It is Uieu carried by means of a
traveler iu any convenient direction for
delivery at the door of the factory.
It is claimed that thia machine,which,
however novel here, tiss been in use for
about nine years in England, can pro
duce thirty tons of ice daily at a cost of
one dollar a ton. It requires an en
gineer, two firemen and two laborers to
work it. If will root, however, from
$75,000 to SIOO,OOO to put it in ruuning
order, so that the invention could only
be made available to ourpuratiuna or pri
vate individuals commanding a consider
able amount of capitnl.—AVic York
Herald.
A Yellow Fever I'ea Picture.
The following communication, ad
dressed to the chairman of the New Y'ork
Chaml>er of Commerce by the president
of the Howard Association and the act
ing mayor of Vieksburg, Mi**., is a vivid
jven picture of the terrors of yellow
fever, as experienced in Uiat city : "Our
entire force, a* well as the physicians,
nurses and well nut see, are solely occu
pt*l iu this fearful struggle with death.
1 Victors do not pause for necessary
deep, and continue their endless rounds
even when the dread destroyer is in their
own households, and we therefore fail to
have repnrl*)frotn them of Uie number of
races under treatment. They have tried
to report in person, but we liave always
to request their immediate departure to
my other and. later cases. Most of us
on duty at our rooms and elsewhere have
fever m our families, but we are trying
to supply the calls for doctors, nnrsee,
medicine* and food, and to do so under
such rules and regulation* aa will pro
tect u* from impostor* and enable u# to
meet the wanta of all the needy.
"lYiero is, bow#Tr, but little uaoger
of charily going astray or lying wronged
when the entire city and its suburb# i* a
vast bownital, with every chamber occu
pied and no outlet save to the grave.
The struggle i* now *o desperate that
we can scarcely realize other wants than
the immediate necessities of the sick,
dying and dead, and this takes over 82.-
060 daily of our funds and fully a* much
from outside organization*. Hut a* the
fever iMsen* we then shall have distress
in another form. The children will beg
for breaL Death's honor* are reduced
for want of subject*. Nature will assist
itself, and the survivor* of the wreck
will lie helpless manner* afloat, without
rudder, sail or motive power.
"The fever may subside by the mid
dle of Octolyr, lint no work or traffic or
commerce of any kind will come to us
uutil the middle of November gives as
stinuioes of no contagion. We are help
less to set the wheels of onr life in mo
tion sooner, and must need the good
will ami kindly offices of those more
happily situated. Till then, if there
wus not another case of fever to occur,
we should still be isolnted and stricken,
for no one would come to us uor desire
us hi come to them."
Hntrle* on Pnblir L.uuK
A Utile hss liecn prepared at the
General Land Office, in Washington,
showing the number of entries upon the
public lands made in each MUte and
Territory, under the Homestead and
Timber-'Onltnre acts, since the passage
of the original Homestead act, May 20,
1862, to June 30, 1878. The aggregate
number of entries in each year were as
■ follows; 1863.13,356; 1864, 7,921; 1865,
1 12.968; 1866. 15,973; 1867,19,869; 1868,
23,542; 1869, 3.054; 1870, 34,443; 1871,
42,094; 1872.38,514; 1878,34.670; 1874,
25,179; 1875, 22.230; 1876,21,886; 18< 1,
23,086; 1878, 24,013; total, 384,847. The
figures for 1878 include only half the
year, from January 1, to June .10, inclu
sive. Bv Mutes the entries were as fol
lows; Alabama, 19.222; Arkansas. 33.-
660; Arizona. 147; California, 17,146,
Colorado, 5,493; Dakota. 15,513; Flori
da, 12,623; Indian*, 19; Illiuoia, *73;
lowa, 13.796; Idaho. 1,161; Kansas, 61,-
034; Louisiana. 7.438; Missouri, 23,827;
Miohkait, 22,821; Mtoueeota, 51,675;
Mississippi. 9.690; MonUna, 1,160; Ne
vada, 632; New Mexioo, 319; Nebraska,
47,962; Ohio, 167; Oregon, 8.025; Utah,
3,275; Wisconsin, 21,437; Washington,
6,473; Wyoming, 164; total, 384,848.
Fortress Monroe.
Fortress Monroe, situated near Nor
folk, VIL, is the largest fort in the United
MUtes. It was built in 1821, and named
in honor of the President. It is a baa -
tioned work, and built of granite, the
form lieing hsptagonal. The walls are
thirty-five feet high, with a moat sur
rounding thorn, from seventy-five to oue
hundred aud fifty feet wide. Facing the
sea is a water battery of forty-two em
brasures surmounted by a grassy slope,
which constitutes a delightful promen
ade. The area of the fort is aliout
; seventv acres, twenty-five of which are
taken into the parade ground, and beau
tifully ornamented with live oaks. There
is but one way of access to this strong
hold hy Rca, and but a narrow strip of
fortv rods by land. The famous Hamp
tou Roads wash its base, which every one
familiar with our late war will rememlier
an the scene of many a naval conflict.
The wrecks of the Cumberland and Con
gress, and not far distant the Merrimac
1 still lie inert in its waters.
NEWS SUMMAjcCV.
1,-t.rn an# Middla stalaa.
A heavy storm in i-.rtlmis of I'snnsvlvanu |
ami other Hlt*# has <loiir a great ilaal of
damage, washing away railroad bridges and
culverts and delaying holns. Two freight
Wains hreke through a bridge near Jamestown.
Pa., killing the tlroman am! two hrakxnuw) aud
severely injuring two Mnriueers. Hy the laoak- j
lug of a dam near Erie, l'a., the asters of Mill j
( reek Were let loose and oainorushing through >
the oily in s uiizhly mass, oorrylug away .
bridges, dams and buildings along Iho route.
The house of James Hodawurth, on tlie hank#
of Uu> stirs ui, was thrown Into the torrent aud
the proprietor and a daughter of sixteen wr
drowned. Throe train men lost thoir live# In
the flood near MeodvUle, IV, a locomotive and
one train Iwiug submerged
New York oily ha# contributed over #228,000
for the yellow fever sufferers.
Hy an explosion of a glveenne magazm# on
the Curtis farm, near llradford. Pa., N. H
Pulvor. J. 11. Ilurkholdar, Andrew P. HlalM
aud < 'Larle# Page were Instantly killed. The
tuagoalue contained seventy pounds of uttrx>
glycerine and 100 pounds of dyuamlte, and
the men were literally torn iah> pioons, whtoh ;
were unrecognizable except by the clothing.
Philip Ist, a farmer near Last Palmyra, N.
Y , ws> instantly killed by the exidoatou of a >
boiler while threshing, audthrni others received
lujut los more ur lea# severe.
Ur the bursting of a dam above May's
1-andtug, N. J., that town wa# submerged and
great lose to property was caused. Bridge#,
lumber, coal pile#, and all other thing move
able were borne away by Iho flood. Tlie peo
ple were aroused by tbe crashing 111 of wtudows
and doors, and tbe rush of a current of muddy
water carrying lumber, slick#, cuai and stone#
through their house*. A scene of the wildest
eioiteuieot followed, men. wuuieu and children
shouting and screaming fur txelp. The to## to
coal and lumber men alone 1# estimated at
••n.OUU.
The Massachusetts Democratic Stale convcn
Uou wo# held at Worcester, sud after a stormy
session lbs following ticket was nominated
Fur governor, ltenjarulu F. Uuller , Ueatenant
fovernor John F. Arnold ; secretary of Htate.
horles M. Htrauss : atloritey general, Caleb
(.'ashing , auditor, John Boyle O lteilly ; treas
urer. D. S, Hkilllngs. The resolutluu* adopted
denounce the InsUUatkio of I'resident Hayes
a# a "monstrous wrong.' declare there ought to
be a change in the government uf the Htate,
favor the free exercise of the right of suffrage
hy ail alike, and call for public economy and
reform. While the proceedings which resulted
In the nomination of the above ticket and tbe
passage of the foregoing resolutions were tu
jirogress, the lieiuocrstic HUte committee,
which refused to acknowledge the action that
had been taken, held a meeting and issued an
address " to Iho lieuxucrot* of Massachusetts "
reciting that (h* eunvsciUou hall was In posses
sluo of a moii publicly announcing Itself as
acting iu Uie Interest of Benjamin P. Hatter."
and proclaiming that the convention be puet-
IMined, to meet at Fancutl Hall, Hostou, ou the
twenty-fifth.
The Connecticut Drmocrats met iu oonveu-
Uou at New Haven aud renominated Uie pre
sent Htate officer* by acclamation Colonel I
1-oomis declining a rriiuminatiou for ltouten
anl-guvrnsur, Charles Durond was subsUlated
in hi* place. The |uslfurm adopted declares
theaotiou by which President Hayes was sealed
" a huh] plot an>l unparalleled fraud, ' favors
hard moitev and huuest payment of the debt,
(lein -'Hires the resumption act and declare* that
" whatever currency Is Issued should be far the
beu-lil of the whole people."
Li Secn-taiy llobeson. of New Jersey, and
ex-t>ovemor CurUn, of Peunsvlvanla, have
been nominalod far Congrses - tbe former by
tbs IU publicans and the latter by the Demo
crate.
I'd ward M alloy, a private detective, was shot
and lustantly killed iu New York by "The."
Allen, a notorious local politician and gambler,
who recently wa* prominent before the public
as a frieud nd supporier of Shape, the bank
rupt editor of the .tdwsvalc. The vbooUag wa#
done in the gambling bouse of Allen, who
claimed bis pistol had gone off aorideutallv ;
and as there were no witnesses to the tragedy,
the truth of his statement could not be aeoer
tained.
The Massachusetts Republican Htate oou-
V'Utlou met at Worcester and nominated
Thomas rallot for governor ; John D. Iug, 1
lieutenant-governor ; Henry B Pierce, secre
tary of Htate , Charles KndtnotL tressarer .
Jutiut L. Clarke, auditor, and (icorge Marston,
attiwuey-geuaral The platform adopted favor*
bard moucy and the resumption of specie |v- I
moots, commends tbe President and his ad- j
ministration, aud call* for public economy and
ctvtl service reform.
While laboring under mental derangement,
George H. Muurw, aged forty, principal ufa
New York city public school, committed suicide
by shooting himself through tbe bead/ at
Mount Vernon, N. Y.
The faabionbls world has been stirred by
the marriage of Mia* Jeonnette Bennett, sister
of James Gordon Bennett, irixpristor of the
New York Hrralil, to Isaac liell. Jr.. of New
York. Tbe ceremony was performed at Mr.
lleunett * summer rasideuoe in Newport, IL 1.,
and lbs numerous pre*, hi* displayed were
estimated to be worth a hundred thousand
dollar*.
Wasters and Clout nor rv States.
Tbe eight children of George Lvach the
oldest M-veotceu rear- of ire wore murdered
in cold blood at Hark ley. Tax asu Lynch, tbe
father, wo# awakened at midnight by a pistol f
shot, the ball striking him In the breast He
stvrang up and saw a masked man standing In
the middle of the room, pointing a pistol at
him. Another ahot being fired. Lynch fell un
conscious, aud when be recovered be found
himself lu the lane, outside the premises. Tbe
asssssiu. thinking Lynch was dead, seized a
hate hit. pat ibe wilue.se* out of the way. and
then set fire to the bousa. The distracted j
father saw the house barn and fall In oo the
lodic* of hi# children The 1-die# were ex
humed and an inquest beki. Heveral of tbe
skull* showed hot-net mark.. Lynch was not
thought to be fatally wounded.
J 11 Slater, a Democrat, bo# been elected
Lulled States Senator from Oregon by the
legialotare of that Htat.
Edwin French, a well-known citizen of Cleve
land, 0., died at W!l!onght>y, a town near that
city, on a recent Saturdav. Fearing that the
grave might he robbed. Mr. Julius £. French,
a * >u of the dead man, hired a young man of j
Ibe place named K. liltss, to'watch It. Bliss
visited the grave several tune* during tlie early
port of the following Monday night He wont
there again about one o'clock, when he discov
ered that the body of Mr. French was gone. !
and saw algns indicating that the robbers were
not much more than ou: of sight By the side
of the empty grave was found an old coat, and
leading from it were fresh wagon track*. Tbe
grave had been hastily opettod and the body
dragged out bv the neck The troll showed '
that it bad born dragged some distance on
the gross and tbeu put into a wagon. Oil
the war the fine broadcloth coat in which
tbe hodv had been clad had l-een drawn
off and left Tbs tracks of at least twro men
were plainly risible. It wa* found that tbe
hodv bad beeu stolen by a young man and a
imTeaslonal grave robber named Joiner Tbe ;
latter wo* arrestM. and said the bodv was at
ths Hom<eopathlc college in Cleveland, which
was searched. The sawdust on the floor of
the diseecting room, which was about four
inches thick, was found to have been disturbed.
Prying up ths boards, tbe bodv was found tu
a box readv to be lowered into the pickling
vault*. Wsrrsut* were sworn out for the
arrest of J. W. Covert, a student, H 1.. Hum- ;
ner. Janitor of the college, and T. G Minor for
secreting the body. l>r. N. Schneider, J. E.
Smith, S. A. Boynton and H. 11. Baxter, mem
tier* of tlie college facultv, were also arrewted.
Mr. French had l-een a friend of tbe oollege
and had given (Kill toward erecting a new
building for it.
An Indian outbreak in Western Kansas
cansed Intense excitement in Dodge Oitv and
the surrounding country. Boring bands of
hostile* attacked and murdered farm. r,
bnrned their house# and drove off tlie stock.
A l>and of 300 Indian* attacked a cattle camp
(wentv mile* from Dodge City, killed one man
and dispv rued tbe rest Ho bold were the sav
age* that tliev attacked and destroyed a farm
house within two miles of Dodge City and in
plain sight of the inhabitant- of that place. A
partv of citizens, together with s company of
United States troop*, numbering seventy-seven
men in all. eugaged with a large body of In
dians and were rooted, losing one man. Tlie
Indian# fought with unusual bravery. <'miners
were dispatched lo all points to warn the peo
ple, and the running of traina at night was
stopp d.
' Five men entered the Bank of Baltimore, in
Baltimore, Md.. and while some of them en- |
gaged the ceshler in conversation, one of their
untnber entered tho safe n the president's
room and removed two tin boxes containing
bonds and bank notes of the value of #€2,000.
From Vfaahlneton.
The secretary of the trcosnrylia* ordered the
exclfkngc of greenbacks for silver to be stop
ped, owing to a question concerning its legality.
From reoent retnme made to the deoart
ment of agriculture it is believed that tlie out
ton crop# this year will equal the great crops
raised lief ore the war.
A quarrel occurred in the store of Chancelet
Chaix. st Ht. Charles, I-a.. between Charlie j
llapliste (colored), aud Mr. Valoour Ht. Martin,
ex-deputy sheriff, whtcih resulted iu Baptiste
being stabbed and instantly killed by Ht.
Martin. The latter was lodged in Jail. During
the night a crowd of from 100 to 200 colored
people broke open the Jail, and. taking the
prisoner therefrom, riddled him with bullets,
tho content*, it is supposed of fifty guns.
The funeral of Matilda Htanley, late queen
of the gypsies of the United Htates, took place
at Dayton, Ohio, in the presence of more than
20,000 persons. Tbe ceremonies attending the f
burial did not differ essentially from any Chris
tian service. The gypsy qnoen died iu Vicks
burgb, Miss . last February, and bor body had
beeu embalmed In such a manner as to retain
a life-like aspect. A dozen chiefs and their
tribe* from different ports of the United Htates
were present to pay their last respeoU to the
deceased.
The secretary of the treason ha# iasned the
cventy-first -idl for the redemption of five
twenty bonds of 1865, consols of 1865.
W. V. 8. Wilson, assorting teller in the office
of the redemption division of the treasury de
partment. has beeu itreated as a defaulter, an
cxaniinatiou of his books leading to the dis
oovery that #I,OOO had been abstracted from a
package consigned to him for delivery to the !
custodians of Uie vaults iu the geueral order of
business.
H. E. Offley A Co.. Washington bankers,
have suapetided and made an assignment.
Isaac Cohen, a labor agitator, was arrested
U other dzjr, oltarnd with making an assanlt !
and craalliig a dlsuirbane# at Uw agricultural ;
dapartniaul, th* complainant batng Commit- :
sinner \ hoc.
The Mmlthsoniau lustituU rajort that Pro- j
foeaor fetors, of tUnion, has announced the
dlan>T*rr of a new planet of the eleventh mag •
nltnde.
K<tward Mcl'hersnu, chief of the hureau of
migravtug and orlnUng. has rastgnod, to he
rniate lailiuoal editor of the Philadelphia Vr—t.
Aeonrdtug to a statement |*epared at ths
treasury department, the cost of collecting the
United stales revauus la the Usual year 1177
was •d.gVO.filt >O, and in 187* the oost was
♦ 6,fta,757.W. The total nomher of persons
employed In ooliectlug the revenue Is 3,U*.
Porniarn Mown.
Furty-aU Hoaulausand Servians and upwards
of ZUO Mussulmans have been executed In (
Ilusnia hy the AueUians.
A ilertlu dis|*teh says it is rumored that a
new plot agauset the Ufa of ths Kmpsror Wll
'lain has been discovered and that several ar
reels have been mada
A flood lasting Ihrwe days has dona great
damage in the vicinit y of Newmarket, Ontario,
buildings were floated "(, mill dams earned
away, an iron bndge ou the Northern railroad
eerlouslv damaged and thlrteao other bridges
destroyed, four persons tin drowned.
A recent steamer from Liverpool for the
Dinted rttsles hed as paaaeogera 4w Mormons
from (iertnauy, MwtUsrland and Oreat lbUain
Aocurdmg to a I'arta dispatch the superior of
the Ttappists at HepPFuoda, In ths depart
ment of Alitor, has purchased lend in fwmsyl
vauta for *lO monks from Kept Loods, Mount
Miliary i Ireland j aud Mariasleln. 'lbs monks
will themselves erect a monastery, and other 1
buildings.
The sum of Vd.OOO, suUcnbed in France for
the yellow fever suferers, has been retmUed
by Minuter Noyes.
The reoent eleotlons in (Canada have resulted
In a signal nctnry for the I Vmsorvatives The
government party X largely la the mluorUy.
"I'rotecUun against the L'ulted Mutes " eaa
the election cry.
The Vellew fever Sessrit.
tin the thirteenth a better oondlttoo of
affairs clisted in moot of the tdagoe-strwken
<*Uo* aud towns, owing to ths prevaieaas of
cool waalhsr. In New Orleans there sere
eighty Sit deaths aud t) Dew ansae—w falling
off from |>rcvV)U reports, iu Memphis the
fever was of a milder type aud yielded more
readily to treatment. The number of deaths
was ninety-three. The fever smitten towns of
Mississippi continued to send out reports tell j
lug of death aud deeOtutiua, and ths governor |
of the Hiale issued a proclamation appointing
a day for the people to "repair to their
respective places of worship and offer up their
united |>ottUou in prayer to Oud that lie will
withdrew from our jwople this terrible afßlo-
Uou, and that in Ills Infinite goodness and
mercy He will restore them to health sud bring
peace to their mourning households. North
of ths Ohio there were several oases of " yellow
Jack " reported and ths utmost precaution was
taken to prevent the fever from Using an apt
detuic furtn.
lnspatches of the sixteenth staled that there
tied been frosts in variuus places ui the fever
districts, and a feeling that the worst was over
htgan to be manifested. The number of
deaths in the infected ciUee and towns up to
dale were as follows New Urteens. X.WI ;
I talon ltouge. La., HO ; Flaqaemine, La., 37 t
Morgan City, La.. 8 ; Port Lads. La , . Mem
phis, Teun , l.Ptfi . rireuada. Miss., 2XI: Holly
*imngs. Miss.. 76 . \ icksburgb. Miss ,k66 ; Can
tun. Miss . M i l'ort Gthaon, Miss., 36 , Ocean
Miriugs Miss., 9 , Oreenville, Miss., 49 ; l.ska,
Miss.. 12 ; Hickman, Ky ,36 Louisville, Kr. a
7 ; Gallipolla. Ohio. 9 . i lucinnsU, Ohio, 6; Ht
IXMUS. Mo., 10 : < hlcago, 1 ■, Cairo, 11L, S . total,
5,306. The number of cases at Mew urieana j
up to date was <.K£. At Vtcksburgh It was over
3,600. In Memphis about 6.000 people had
been taken with the fever.
On the sixteenth there was still no evidence
ot the farther spread of the dieasss, while the
number of death- and of new caees ooatlnnwd
to show a slight decrease. Memphis was the
chief center of ths scourge, and the mortality
there was somewhat larger than had been
anticipated. 11l deaths having been reported,
of which thirty-six were colored. At Vieks
burg there were eighty-five Dew cases, and
notice was sent ont by the people of that oitj
to Ue country, stating that the responses to
appeals fur aid had been so generously met ,
that it was believed uo further help would be
required for the 1 •resent. At tireoada. Miss.,
aii attempt to revive business proved an utter
failure, aa, with a few trilling exceptions, there
was no one in the city lo boy and the people of
the surrounding country stli) keep sway from
lbs plague ridden place.
Waile the fever was abating at New Orleans
on the seventeenth, and the re peeing there was
great at the constant decrease in the death-roll,
yet in other places the indication* were not
so fsvorahl* as ou previous day*. Memphis
was skill suffering terribly, the number of
deaths on the data aieoUunoJ reaqjnng 101,
while the disease was spreading in the suburbs
and surrounding country. The following I "Sin
ful incident shows how terrible have been the
ravages of the disease in some Instance* Ths
mavar of New Orleans received a telegram
from llev. Marks Mosea. formerly of a syna
gogue in that city, but now of I'roridenoe, R.
1., requesting information rewarding bis family,
who lived iti New Orleans and from whom the
alarmed father had not beard for several data.
An inquiry elicited the sorrowful fact that Mr.
Muse* wife, two sous aged twenty-one and ten
years, and daughter aged twenty, had all died
the week previous, the only remaining mem
l>er of the family being a foor-year-old (laugh
ter.
The continued falling off In the death-rat e
00 the eighteenth indicated that the diseaae j
had done it* worst There were ninety-one
deaths in New Orleans, twelve in Vieksburg,
and thirty-eight m Memphis up to noon.
Among the dead in New Orleans was £. J.
Oay, s millionaire sugar refiner, who was con
nected with of the oldest families in the
Htate, and had been identified with every great*
commercial enterprise the city has koown since
the war. A case without precedence ia yellow
fever annals was presented in the person of an
Italian fishmonger in New Orleans, who had
been taken with yellow fever aix weeks previ
ous. was pronounced entirely ctred. was taken
down again on the sixteenth ai.d died on the 1
eighteenth.
A Cincinnati dispatch states that in the lum
ber camp of Wells A 00., near LJnn.se. Mont
calm county, Mich, an epidemic had been rag
ing among the men far a week past, whtoh
Pr. Levaly prooonooed black jaundice, or yel
low fever.' One of the men, Thomas MoG tiara,
was taken, and a* no one would nurse him or
give bun medicines, the unfortunate man wa*
soon delirious. None of the cstissns of Km ore
would receive htm into their houses, and the
patient was plaoed uudar a tree tu a drenching
rain, and aoon after died fiom the disease,
which, the doctor said, was dear y yellow fever.
The remains were plaoed in a box and boriad
under the tree where he died.
On the nineteenth the report# showed that
while Ibe fever was decreasing in the towns it
was spreading in the rural districts of Louisiana
and Tennessee. The plantations were suffer
ing heavily, and nurses and physicians were
called for. In Canton. Mis#., the fever had
abated to such an extent that a card wa#
isened by the citizens of the town, declaring
they were In no further need of provisions or
money, and heartily thanking the people of all j
section* for the aid so generously extended in
time of need.
Ilow the Ala-La Indian* Trade.
A corrocqiondent in Alaaka writing
about that country, oars: The Aleut*
and the Indians on the main land north
of Sitka ar<\ when their faculties have
not been muddled with liquor, the very
dhrewdent of trader*, who often take aev
eral daya to conclude a comparatively
insignificant bargain. Tbey will buy
but oue quality of black tea—a high
priced brand, which ia imported ex
pressly for this trade from China. The
Htigar must be either white lump or a
quality of brown which can be easily
boiled into flat cakea, aa these natives
have adopted the fashion of the lower 1
classes in Kuaata, who do not allow the 1
sugar to melt in the tea, but hold a
small morael lad ween the teeth, which
import* aweetnee* to many long draught*
of the gentle stimulant. In purchasing
calicoes the people are also particular.
TheT cut a small square of a piece of
goods they like and carefully count the
number of threads it contains. To any
subsequent bargain the same teat ia ap
plied, a d no piece of goods is purchased
unless it contain* the same num> er of 1
threads to the square. The traffic in
glass and coral beads also requires great
nMention, aa the nativee thoroughly un
derstand all the different qualities, and
fashions change from year to year, so
that what was all the rage one season
may prove unsalable the next
Patent* at Auction,
At a recent sale of patent* in New
York the following pnoee were obtained;
An improvement in game tables for
$375; )>atcnt attachment to coasting,
8325; a clothes line patent, 875; im
provement in scroll aawing, 850; blaring
toy patent, $75; a bag bolder, the object
of which is to enable the bug to l>e read
ily fixed on a support which shall bold
tlie mouth of the Img open, and firmly
sustain the weight of its contents as it
is piled, 81,100; improvement in com
bination locks, 82,000; a process for
hardening iron while lieing forged,B37s.
a can opening patent, 81,050; one on
curtain tassels, 81,000; a machine for '
making spikes, 8000; cloth cutting ma
chine, 8500; ehiittcrworkera' patent,
8600; folding wardrobe and bedstead
patent, 83,100; sea-sounding and alarm
apparatus, 8350; an improvement for
the meeting rail of sashes, 8350; a com
bination of a cane and rifle,or a shotgun,
8425; a tree sawing machine, $450; a
patent on oscillating chairs, 8L000; an
apparatus for drying fruit aud smoking
meat, 81,020; a patent for mechanism
for self-closing and self-opening hatch
doors, $1,900, and a gas regulator, 8300.
If but B Ply HIL
The Carthage (DL) (JOaeU* records
Mialollowing interesting oeee: Mx, Jmms
Howard, ofWalkmr, married an interest
ing young lady named Hymoods, sboot
a year ago. and they hare Heed oojriljr
and happily together e*er since. M
tha other morning, at breakfast, an in
qutaitiv* and hungry fly drrq>ied down
from his psroh on ths oniling, and,
stretrbing his legs, began skirmishing
around lor his breakfast. He crawled
slowly around Mr. Howard'a eolfee eop
moe or twice, sniffing the dalhaoua
aroma, and wondering how he could
manage to get a drink, whan his foot
•lipped, he loet his grip, and in a mo
ment more wee floundering around in
tha liquid. His struggles attracted the
atteation of James, and be pulled him
out and playfully toaeed bim acroaa the
table. The unfortunate fly alighted in
s wet and bedraggled condition an Mrs
JL's piste. *Bbe indignantly grabbed
him and flung him hack into her hus
band's piste. James gaaed steadily et
her s moment, and seeing blood in her
eye, deliberately picked up the fly, and,
with a hand trembling with suppressed
rage, threw it hack on her plate. Then
liegau a regular game of shuttlecock be
tween the two, and that fly flew back
and forth until he waa completely worn
out Then the young wife, bunting
into tears, seised her bonnet and rushed
from the house to the residence of bar
parent, vowing she would never come
! >ack, and James went out to the barn,
•wearing to himself. In an hour or two
the father of the much-abused wife came
over with a team and removed all bar
baggage, and now they " meet aa friends
no mure." They have separated for
, good, and thus two lives are rendered
miserable by the kingl* misstep of a fly*
On snob small things do our destinies
depend 1 ___
Ulwi'i Ink far the ittiatf.
Mr. Kdtaon has shown his latest in
vention to e New York Jkbrm44 reporter
who recently visited hie Uhomiory.
" Have you seen the blind writing ink ?
Hold on; 111 get some," said the pro
feasor, aa he reached to a high shelf and
took from among a score of vials one
labelled "Proson." Into this be poured
water, and in a moment be waa writing
with the fluid on s sheet of paper. The
marks a ere greyish white. In aboat a
minute after be had finished, the writing,
etrauge to say, begin to swell and harden
until it became eleraied unite percepti
bly above the paper. " Now run yonr
finger over it and feel if yon ma trace
the letters," said lbs inventor. The re
porter did so, sod, sure enough, the let
ters could be distinguished by the touch.
"The blind," continued Mr. Edison,
"am very sensitive to tench. By writ
ing with this preparation they can com
municate with each other, and a great
field of happiness end mental improve
ment is opened to them. lam not yet,
however, qnite * .tiufled with the prepa
ration. I wish to mska the elevatioo
more marked.
rnae Reform af BWSr Wis „
The prompt reform of those bodily evils,
(-cifsrblrd difMticm, incomplete ssstmilstvin.
inactivity of ths Hear. kidney* sad btadtar, as
•*ll as of lias nrrrooi symptoms abioa tbsse
ahmncU sr —penally prons to beget, is al
ways seoomplished by ths ass of Hoststtsr's
fUomaeh Bitters, a madieiud seorsdltod by
pbymnitna. pronounoed pars by analysts, and
•miiwotiv wbolesoms and agreeable, finely
uch s rastorsUvs is prsfsrahie to stipulate be
and tndig>-'ible mineral drugs and ntissue-
Uoaed mwtrmus. The nation st large assur
edly think. o. lodging by ths unp*ea*dn-t
J.mi'iJ fur ths article from Mains to tha
PaeiAc, a demand now supplemented b* lm
maoae orders for tt remivad from tropical
America. Mexico, ths British and rtpmuah
Colonial possessions, and eissshsrs. Doth at
horns and abroad it Is reoogqised as a stand
ard rsmed* and preventive, ths dsi'Mv ansae
of Its effect, reoommaoding it mujahai n.
Ths deetrortlvs prcgr— of that insidious
fas to Ufa and health. harof aiu, amy be ar
rested by the aid of Hoonll's Blood and Liver
Svrup, a botanic deponent which rids the sys
tem of everr trace of serofnloas or synhflftte
poison and enree eruptive and other diseases
indicative of a tainted sond tion of tha blood.
Among the maladies which it .remedies are
while • wetting, salt rbram, oarbtfneles, Wttooa-
Dsss. ths diseases incident to women, goat sod
rheumatism ,
For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WDffllOWB
SOOTHING RYBCT has been used far children
with never failing noma It oorrsets acidity
of ths stomach, relieves wind ooiie, rsgolstss
the bowels, cores dysentery and diarrhoea,
s Lather erisrng from berthing or other oanses.
An old and wsU-trtsd remedy. SS eta. a bottle.
CHEW ~
Ths Celebrated
"Minsuas"
Wood Tag Plug
Tossoca.
Tns Planum Tunsooo Oouran.
New York. Boston, and Chicago.
AvmrSa M America at Parts.
The cable annoutu* • most of (he prises wan
at Pans. Ths Hows Heals On. must foot satis
, fted with their share. -They take the gotd metal
(ths highest sward), ths stfeer medal in etass
8, (th- only sward to in araie manefaetursrV
and the hroitss medal in class 64 (.the highest ta
that class).
vu. —'syTiSKrsrßk
, gather. add one cap New Orleans molasses,
eur into this oar cop each of sugar and ooid
water, two large taaspoonfols ginger, two aggs
Hasten, and foor caps of flaw, having in it
these large teaspoonfals Dooiey's Yeast Pow
der. Bake in moderately hot oven.
111., writes Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo, N.
Y.. ions Sfld. I*> : ' Gentleman-Pisses find
inclosed fli.OO, far wbioh sand me. by expreae,
Anti-Fat. 1 have taken one bottle and! lost
Ave and one-quarter pounds."
l henmatism is the most painful and most
trouhleeoms disnast that afflicts humanity. It
comas when we least expect it and whan we
have no time to be interviewed by it Ths only
reliable remedv that we ever found is John
son's Anodyne Liniment.
Nesrlv all di sea ens that afflict humanity orig
inate in the stomach, liver or bowels, and
might be prevented if people would nss a Litis
j common sense; bat they will not. They rather |
take Parsons PorgaUvo Pills, because one M a
dots.
To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten
the breath, use Brown'• Camphorated fiapoaa
osous Dentifrice. Twwnty-flvs oecU a bottle. I
INPORTCIf SoriCk-fsraiw, FamW
ns aad Otaare ma purchase wo Remedy wjual ta Dr
TORUS' VRRKTIdW URIMgWT far in evss af
Cbefaca. Dwrrtite*. Dr*elam. Cream' etU aad hs
■llkun. UkM intern sltf <W M part—Us msmllli ass
mtt eemmparnne e.oh bottle) aa I •tlsraalts *st
(Wh Khsaiaarisi. HssllsahS. TwUmle, Bees
Throat, Oeta. Km Rwsi :■, taaa. MnaWs
Rites, Old Seres, rabw a limb. Baek sod Obeet The
YKWrriAfi UitlMSffTwas otrodoosd la MW.aad
no was who has seed H tat i utassil U> da so. naas
23X1- wmldm
DS W1" noBI la- I nOBUAOOI tan vsmaiwttairo wi w §
at Uw Ik—o.aomk no iMwvadarfal aaratsva smas
lias lbi.l hi Iho lVocritta at 40 ela. Ds* If
Mmrrmrh*.. floa York
lkt lartsu.
atw nil.
naaf OaitlT '*"** - —. <* * t H
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Has flivd to Prist. —. OS B M
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So. I. new •00 B | SU
Dry Ood, per ewt Iff B4 01
Hsrrlag, Rcalsd, par box IT B
PatrolsuiL 08 B>lt RsUasd, 1"M
Wool—Ohltforata Flsms MSB
Taxis II 6 11
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mate XX 14 # >4
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tggv—RUteand motisvlvanla...—, TOhB
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now iva gin
Wheat—Ro 1 Kllwaukss..— 10) B 1 01
Oorn—Mixta B
lata * • 10
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Barley TO S TIM
Barley Ma1t..... 80 B M
MUeMUni.
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Rye ... MB'*
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Oslo—Mixed Wlt'2 SO
Petrol earn—Grade OTHBOT* Rrnt, IB
Wool—Colorado MAM
Texas II 2 S
OaliloraU egg
BOSTON.
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--absnio should have at hand s hot of Orsso's
Mn alt Is n ready ratasdy for mMnO
■Mb M Cuts, IB uisßß, Contused Woods*
Barns, fiosldn Pttantmd Ndu sad Kraptkms
mmil by opstaMonsta ths (salary, dye-bouse,
or printing oflks. Only 38 orate • has.
ipraß^fHlSfttfiSlHfciflßKSkiJfifiSßHkHSS;
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The War in the East,
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TME CHEAT fflEtflEOY
ALL KIDNEY DlfllAfltfll
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Curefl Dyipeptia, IndigcfltioD*
Sour StomacK Bick Headache.
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R. A CIAIM W* - WB*h
QAPONIFIER
Is ths Old lihilli OuwBMtTSTil Lye
FOR FAMILY SOAP MAKING.
ri ITL--liiiwstsilna T" —*~ exakUwYlard.
haft wilaM Saas mkl>.
rr a rcu wsir amb gra**rsr&
jr^ajES^'sstSfisnsaa
b*** *o**r. Asm srr rsts
Saponifieß
MADS BY THE
PannsylTunin Salt BLnnuf g Co.,
PHILAPBLPWIA.
MAKE HENS LiT.
Aa nacllah Vateeiuaiy Basaaaa aad Ohaadm aow
- wSS
make hsaa lay lika Shsridan'e Omddioo Poedera.
Dees saa leas manful Be oaa put fmd
Bearer. Mauw-
BaUbUahed IMS.
Gargling Oil liniment
Yellow Wrapper fttr AnHnal aad While fee j
Human Flesh.
isooonron . {
liurnv and Scalds, Sprains and Bruises,
C hi.bia.ns. Frost Bite,SrhißhaJt. Windßills, |
. Scratches or Grease, Foul Hot in Sheep, i
1 Chapped Hands, Foundered Feet,
Floh Wounds, Roup in I*asltry,
External Person., Cracked Heels,
Sand Cracks, Epizootic.
(raits of all kinds, lone Back,
SiifasZ. Ringbone. Heraorvhoii arPdesi
Poll Bvr). Tootkacl.-.
Swellings, Tumors, Rhr' .dthsm,
, G.iruti in yowa, Sweeney,
Crstkcd Tests, Futula. ManKV.
Csllvus. bawietie*. Caked Breasts, 1
, Horn Dietcmoev, Suae Nipples,
Crownsctlb, Quittor, Curb, CMa Sore*.
'! lOsail I'leers, F scr, Corns. WfMSWBS I'
Ah x.s or the Udder, Cramps, Boils,
Swelled Legs, Weakness of the Jeirrt* I
Thrush, Contraction of Muscles. 1,
Hrrrkaat's Garcllmr Oil la the standard U
XdateMOt of the United Stales. Large size. I
Si; arediura, joc; small, ajc. Small alse
tamily use, jc. Manufactured at Lock pot'.. ■
S. Y; Merchant's Gargling Ofl Company. I
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