a TIMELY TOPICS, ————— The inquiries of Professor Cobn, of | Breslau, indicate that short-sightedness | is rarely or never born with those sub- | jet to it. and that itis almost always | the result ot etrains sustained by the | eye during study in early youth. Ten pounds of tobscco out ot every | eleven that is vsed in this country is grown here, We grow about 391,000,000 | pounds. import about 7,000,000, export | about 321,000,000, leaving 77,000,000 for | consumption. It is estimated that there | are sboul 7.000.000 smokers in the | United States: thus the yearly average | per smokey is eldven pounds, A number of English coal mines are | being worked under the ocean. In | Northumberland the net available quan. | tity of coal under the sea is estimated at 403.000.0600 tons, andon the Durham | const under the sea, including a breadth of three and a half miles, with an area of seventy-one square miles, 734,500,000 | tons The latter mine is in a vein of an agereg ate thickness of thirty feet, dis tributed in six seams. Engineers are considering bow it can be worked sue cesefully in the future. It is some consolation to know that the prophets of disaster to our steady. going old planet do not agree among themselves. Two of them have de. duced from the Bible the conclusien that things will go on 8s they are til 1887. Then peopie must look ont for a tremendous cateciysm; the Star of Bethlehem will reappear, and moral, yhysical and mundance convulsions will | oliow. Others, however, equally en titled to credence also, have set the date of the event as November 13, 1881, It gives one a vivid ides of the incal- culable Joss to the country in materiel wealth from the wanton or accidental destruction of our forests that the dam- age from forest fires in but three States, New Yok, Michigan and Wiseonsin and in but a single vear, 1871, is ealima ted at the ehormous sum of $15,000,000, As a consequence of similar desiruction settlers in Mirnesota have been com- pelled this winter to burn their farnis ture, farm implements, outhouses and even the doors of their dwellin-s to keep from freesing. Others have paid from £17 to $90 a cord tor firewood. No wonder the Minnesota Foresters' asso- ciation 18 pressing so energetically the need of renewing their woodlands, “ Murder," according to the San Ber- pardino Tomes, ‘still stalks red-handed through the Pacific coast.” The record of violent deaths for a single week is given as asample: At Cacamonga *'a man undertook to shoot another; his hand was struck up, the pistol dis- charged, nd a young man entirely in- | pocent of the row now lies at the point of death: at E! Monte, Hunt, who is known tn have murdersd one or more men in Utah and others in Arizona. and was allowed to elude the law, bu'chered one of the best citizens of Los Angeles, and came within ‘a hair's breadth of killing a citizen of the Monte at the same time; in Reno, on the seventeenth, a man shot another over a game of cards; at Bodie the people arose in their indignation ani lynched a wurderer who had been ar- rested and allowed to escape; at San Diego, a day or two since, 8 saloon keeper shot two men in self-defense and they are now in a dying condition.” The Tomessavs this record is repeated week after week, and thinks it about time that jurors should begin to convict murderers, and that a severe penalty should be imposed upon carrying a deadly weapon of anv kind. A Japanese Railroad Statiem. A correspondent of the New York Hera'd, writing from Yokohama, Japan, thus destribes the scene at a railroad station: Yegods! whata motley crowd’ Japanese of all classes, from the govern- ment official with his foreign uni'orm to the coolie with his very scanty cloth ing despite the cold weather, awaiting for the start of the train. Native swells of the shopkeeping order, with their wadded Japanese kimonos as coals, tight-fitting foreign diawers as trousers and the toy bag, about six inches long and three inches high, that the Japanese consider the very height of the fashion, they have done their best to copy from the foreign residents of their country Then there are the young girls, car- r ing their own as well as their lovers’ luggage, it they are in hopes of soon enjoying the happy siate of matrimony, or taking the burden of their world:y goods, made heavier by the sad thought that they are still likely to remain in a state of “single blessedness.” The married women hobble along loaded down with bags and parcels, and with a equailing brat strapped to each one's back, who by way of revenge pulls its mother's har in the exce:sof its d comiort. In many cases under the eyes of their husband (more terrible in Japan than those of the law) the poor women bear with sn outward good grace the indignities Leaped upon them. The Japs are all perched on high wooden shoes, and the author of the ‘* Clanging of the Wooden Shoon would certainly bave changed his mind about the music made by them could he have heard five hundred Japs- nese walking over the stone floor o! the railway station at Yokohama. Tie tran leaves every hour and a quarter, and when the gates are thrown open to ad- wit passengers an cfficial (for the rail- way is government property), stands in his foréign clotiies and with a pair of foreign station master’s pincers, as at home, snips & piece out of each one's ticket as he passes through. The train itself is a minia'ure affair (as indeed is everything in Japan), and is divided into first, second and third ¢lasses. The carriages of the first remind one very much of the street cars in New York, except Lhat they sre in co upartments, | each section being large enough to seat eight people. The second class differs in no respect from the first, except in tue absence of the divisions, and in that they are, perhaps, not quite | 80 comfortable, though in summer, owing to their being so very much cooler, foreigners invariably prefer to ride in them. The third-¢lass carriages are such ss no European would deign to be feen in. They are as near being | prion cells on wheels ~except that they are ineffably dirtier~as it is possible to imaeipe any structure that is not actu- | ally = prison. The windows are barred with iron, and seats are conspicuous by | their absence. As soon as the natives get in (ard they are crowded together like a flock of sheep in 8 cattle train) the doors are locked, only to be re- opened when the train rilops at some way station. The engineers are nearly | all foreigners, with assistant native firemen. 18+ + Bound to Have It, Elder Traverse was once the most roted man in Eastern New York as a | camp meeting leader. He had a power- | ful voice, was a fluent speaker, and in | the prime of life could get away with | any man who ever sought to disturb | his meetings. 5. | The elder was once hiplding a camp- | meeting near Yonkers, and word | reached him that a notorious rough, | known as *‘ Chicago Bob,” intended to | be on hand on Sunday for a row. He | made no reply and took no precaations, | and when Bob appeared on the grounds | with a cigar in Lis mouth snd a slung | shiot in his sleeve, the elder didn't grow | pale for a cent. b had come out there to run things, and be took a for- | rd seat. When the peopie started to | sing he began crowing, and thus created | confusion. t * [lobert, you had better git down,” | observed the elder, as he came forward. “ Chicago Bob sits down for no man,” | was the reply. “Qit down, Robert,” continued the | elder, as Lie put his hand on the loafer’s arm. * Here goes to clean out the crowd!” crowed Bob, as he peeled off his coat. Next inatant the elder hit him under the ear, and, as he fell over a bench, he was followed up and hit again and again, and while in a semi-vnconscious state he was carried cff by “is friends. Next day he was the first one to forward for prays. The elder put aii hand on his Lead and asked: “ Robert, are you in earnest?” “yl am n “ Are you really seeking after faith? “You bet | am! ff faith helps a mar. to get in his work as guick as you did rday I'm bound to haveitis I have sell my hat!” He didn’t get it very strong, but did no more crowing while the meeting lasted .— Wall Street Daily News. An Towa clergyman regulates his mar. riage fees by weight, the rate being four cents a pound for the groom snd two for the bride. FOR THE FAIR SEX, | Spring and Summer Goods. | The first importations of soring goods | are not the light woolen fabrics that will be worn in the earliest spring davs, into house and street dresses to be worn | in the warmest weather, Two features | are noticed in the new fal rics first that figured goods in artistic and, Indeed, | decorative designs are most used, and are usually secompanied by a plain fab. ric for combining with them: and seo | ondly, the absence of all dressing in the fine cottons, which should give jaune dresses to understand that all st rch The cotton satteens are first shown and rank highest in price of these new fabrics, as they are marked fifty cents a yard. These have closely.twilled sur faces with a luster like satin: the grounds are dark, either plum, brown, blue or the deepest garnet, and these are strewn with rather large tigures ef some graceful flower, such as fleur de lis, fuchsias or lilies, with pale-green fol age: to go with this figured fabric which now makes the over dress, or at least the jacket waist, is plain satteen of the color of the ground. The batistes show great improvement over those of previous seasons: they are as soft as muilmuslin, and almost as transparent, yet they are beautifully warked with Japanese designs and quaint color. ing on the rslest cream, lavender, and pink grounds. They ire usually sup- plied with a wide border of lar. er figures than those in the body of the Iabrie, and this border may be stitched on plainly for trimming dcwn box piaits and around the foot of the skirts, basque and sleeves, or else it nay edge wide flounces, or of itseif form narrow ruf fles for trimming the whole dress. Car nation pinks, chrysanthemums, dwarfed peonies, and other flowers (ear to the Japanese are repeated in their intense colors on the most delicate grounds ol these sheer soft batistes; the price is forty cents a yard; the border is aear one selvedge only instead of on both sides, like those of last vear, Scotch ginghams bave come to staple goods for sienmer dresses, as ex- perience has shown that they are iar better for washing and wearing than any other ginghams, either French or American, and are worth the difference in the price. They are now sold for forty cents a yard in exquisitely e qualities. and colors that are waiini not to fade by washing, though some © the dark shades are changed by per spiration. The newest patterns in these have wide stripes made up of many smaller stripes, and alo large plaids, or else perfectly p'ain colors. The fa- vorite combination of colors seems to be pink with bize, and there are three times as many blue and while ging hams as of any other color; besides these are stripes in new contrasts of color. such as olive, red, black, and buff lines forming an inch-wide stripe beside a pale blue stripe two inches broad, shading off into white; another pattern has a series of alternating pink and pale bine and a broad white line; a third is made up of dark red, blue and orance-yellow. These colors are also shown in the large plaids which are to take the place of the handkerchief last year. Thongh made in Scotland, these are altogether what merchants call fancy plaids, the clan fartans having dis«ppeared for the present, The solid-color ed Scotch wmephyr ginghams, espe cially in pink and blue—ihe lat ter either dark light—wiil make charpnng summer dn trimmed with the whi e cotton embroideries that are imported in larger quantities than at any previous season. The furnishing houses are already making these dresses with a short skirt and very simple over skirt, accompanied by the beited shoot ing- jacket, with wide box-piaits in front and back, or else with a voke and full basque, either shirred at the waist in front and behind, with the belt on the sides only, or it may be with the belt passing all around the waist; the wide round collar, like those worn by chil- Gren, is edged with embroidery, or may be made entirely of the French machine embroidery on eambric that is now im- ported in half and three quarter-yard widths; there are also square cufls of this embroidery worn outside the sleeves. ©1131 China patterns are shown in per- cales, especially in the blue and white patterns of old Nankin. The merchants have shown their faith in these colors and designs by importing them in great quantities; these goods sre said to wash well, especially in these clear blue shades. Plain ground: wilh a border in contrasting color are also liked in this soft- finished percale, and dark groands promise to be particularly useful, such as dsrk solid green with pale blue arabesques for the border, seal brown with French gray boyrder, or dark blue or garnet with gray or cream-color for the trimming. These ere thirty cents a yard. he f or $08, with plain meshes and heavily wrcught points sre imported for trimming batiste and lawn cresses. There are also new Hamburg embroideries that copy the designs of the braid trimmings that jadies have been crocheting of late for cotton dresses. — Harpar's Baar. ———— Married After a Ducking. Opposite Maysville, Ky., is a little Ohio village where marriages are execu- ted with such extraordinary neatness Gretna Green of America. The other afternoon a couple might have been seen making their way into Maysville irom the wiids of Lewis county. Annie F. Stamper, aged sixteen, a very preity blonde, was the ’ady, snd Leander P. Scraggs, aged eighteen, six feet three in his siippers, was the gentieman. They | had eloped ; they were pursued by Mr. Stamper, and thev bad rideen all day to get tothe river. Now the river was filled with ice, and to cross to Gretan Green seemed impossible. Two hardy boatmenr, however, volunteered to row them to the haven of matrimonial biiss, and just as the boat was midway in the river the elder ‘Stamper appeared upon the shore and shouted to his daughter to come back. The irrepressible Scraggs determined to be chivalric and salute Mr Stamper. Standing up in the skiff to do it, he gave one wave of his hat and awav he went overboard. Mr. Stamoer pointed out Scraggs’ legs and roared and screamed with laughter at his dilemma. The crowd that had been cheering the lovers now laughed at them, too. Secraggs was fished out with a boat-hook, and, with chattering teeth and trembling knees, and very muddy clothes, started off with Miss Stamper for the nearest local milLister, who made the twain one flesh before old Swmper recovered from the fit of laugh. ter into which Scraggs’ dilemma bad plunged him. A Strange Case A letter from Dayton, Ohio, gives the following particulars of a little girl's strange malady: One of the strangest sented by a young girl, thirteen years of linm Anderson, a respectable and well- | to-do family living on Springfield street, in our city. The child, to all appear- | ance, is in a comparatively healthy con. dition, yet there is no one, I dare say, She is completely senseless, has no | strength and at times is unable to swallow. Generally she ean hear and taste, but her parents are confident that she occasionally cannot do either. Yet in spite ot ali these misfortunes, she isa | beautiiul chila to look at, and no one | to see her could notice anything to indicatethat she was as un-| as she is. Bhe was! born in Montevideo, 8. A., and at the | age of two years (according to her! parents) she was as smart a child of her | age as could be found in a day's travel, | They say that her troubles began when they crossed the equator with her, Bhe | fell in a fit, which lasted alternately for | three days, when it was discovered that | she had lost her mind. From that time | to this sie has grown continually worse One peculiar feature of her malady is | that upon the same day each year that | they supposed they crossed the equator | she is bereft of some power. This year | she lost the power of speech. All the | ablest physicians of this place and Bal. | timore, Md., where the family lived be. | fore they came to Dayton, have tried to | understand the child’s case, and have | failed. Some have gone so far as to | make it a special study, but all to no | avail. Even so inflammable a thing as cotton | can now be used for the construction of | fireproof buildings. I' is converted | into & paste~by chemical treatment— | which becomes as hard as stone. It is | molded into large slabs, and designated | a Grape Culture. The grape ought to be as widely dis. | geminated ns the apple, and there ia no | ood reason why it should not be, The our oity population, but to supply the agricul Counting of the Electoral Vote, A fuw minntes past twelve o'clock the door anonneed the arrival of Preatdent and the Renate of the United Vie ight hand the Vie Ntates, who then filled inte the chambey i # moat at thoy il the Nenators in the 1 home, Thiscan be done at so small cost that no man who owns a home with depriving his family of grapes. An eighth of an acre in vines will supply a family and leave a surplus to sell, Any well-drained land that will produce aixty bushels of corn to the acre may be xpi oted to produce good grapes, Ww alls prepared borders, with a good supply of bones, are desirable, but by no means essential. A dressing of wood ashes is an excellent fertiliger, but any manure goad for corn will be good or the vines, The wvarietics which do well under the greatest variety ol ciroumstances, anl bear neglect best, are such as the Concord, the Hartford Prolific and the Ives Seedling. There are grapes of much better quality than these, but they are good enough to suit the popular taste, and are hardy. They can be relled upon to bear fruit every season in generous quantity, The Ives bins a thick skin, and is particularly de. sirable to pack in boxes for winter use They have been for years before the public, are thoroughly tosted and ean furnished very cheaply hy any purseryman, A oheap trelils of chest. nut posts and wire wi | be all the gap port they need. A four months’ supply of grapes will promote health in the family, save doctors’ bilis and prove an important part of the food supply he About Horses, The stomach of a horse has a capacity of about sixteen quarts, while that of the ox has 250. In the intestines this proportion is reduced, the horse having & capacity of 190 juarts against 100 of the ox. The ox, and mesrly all other animals, have a gall-bladier for the re tention of a part of the hile, secreted during digestion. The hor:e has none, and the bile flows directly into the in testines as fast as secreted. This con- struction of the digestive apparatus in- dicates that the horse was formed to eat slowly, and digest continually bulky : when fed on hay, throngs the The horse hay in with i it passes very rapidly stomach into the intestines. ean eat but five pounds of an hour, during mastioation, four times ils weight of saliva Now, the stomach, to digest it well, will contain but about ten guarts; and when the animal eats one-third of his daily rations, or seven pounds, in one and one-hall hours, he has swal- lowed at least two stomachifuls of hay and saliva, one of these having passed to the intestines, Observation has shown that the food is passed to the in. te:tines by the stomach in the order in whieh it is received, If we feed a horse with six quarts of oats, it will just fll his stomach: and if, a3 soon as he fin- ishes this, we feed him the above ration of seven pounds of hay, be will eal suflicient in three-quarters of an hour to have forced the oats entirely out of his stomsch into the As it is the office of the stomach to digest the nitrogenous parts of the feed, and asa stomachful of oats contains four or five times much of these as the same amount of hay. it ia cer tain that either the stomach must se- erete the gastric juice five times as fast, or it must retain this food five times ns long. By feeding the oats first, it can oniy be retained long epough for the proper digestion of the hay: oconse- quent y it scems logical, when feeding a concentrated food tke oats with a bulky one like hay, to feed the Iatter first, giving the grain the whole time between the repasts to be digested. The digestion of the horse is governed by the same laws as that of man; and we know it is not best for aman to go at hard work the moment a hearty meal is eaten, so we should remember that a horse ought to paves little rest alter iis meal, while the stomach is most active in the processes of digestion.—Flanler and Farmer, n3 4 m Hevipes Lexox CAxE.—One cup cf butter,iwo cups of sugar, three and a half cups of flour, one scant cup of milk, two whole eggs and yolks of two, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, grated rind of two large lemons, Bake in layer cakes. Icing for the cakes ~whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth, one pound of powdered sugar, juice of two lemons. FourcHETTE.— Bits of nice salt pork, about one third of an inch thick, two or three inches square; bits of ealf's liver the same size. Puf these alternately on a long skewer, beginning and ending with pork; lay it in the oven across a dripping-pan, and roast as you would a bird, basting occasionally. When done slide the pieces irom the skewer, and serve on a hot plate, To Keep Toxarors Wrote. —Fil a large stone jar with ripe tomatoes, then add a tew whole cloves and a little sugar; cover them well with one-half cold vipegar and half water; place a piece of flanne! over the jar, well down in the vinegar; then tie down paper. In this way tomatoes can be kept a year. Should mildew collect on the flannel it will not hurt them in the least. Srurrep Eco Praxr.—Cut them in salted water; scoop out most of the in- side, and pound this to a paste in the mortar, with a little fat bacon and some mushrooms, previously chopped up, a little onion, also chopped, pepper and salt to taste, and a Jittle crumb of bread soaked in stock. Fill each half with this mixture, lay them in a well but- tered tin, and bake for about a quarter of an hour. At the Water Office. He stalked in early yesterday morn- ing. One could ses that he had some- | thing on his mind and that be inten‘ed to have justice if it broke his neck. Walking up to one of the windows in the long railing lie bo dly demanded : “J want to krow of some of you folks in here if the river dried up last night?” It was a long time before apy one re- plied. Then one of the clerks said that an event had taken place, he had re. | ceived no information to that effect. “Oh, you haven't! Then, perhaps, your old pumping works have been | flown up?” i being onstitut, lave] for assem blod, In parstanc i hat the vols be connted and de # HAY nthe | t and Vice-President ont § 4a o 1881. {1 booomos rth day i NEWS EPITOME. Eastern and Middle States, Tue marriage of Flora Grace, a child lose than twelve years old, who by force and fraud Erie, Pa., a was married at to Louisa Grace, man old enough 10 be her father, has been dis solved It that i McClellan has been elected president of Uh is announosd Clenoral Ghoarye Underground Railroad company, of city, and that he is to go to Earops to place the bonds on the market famous for hav {oa Lewis, who has become i “Uiraoe Darl 10 the amd has gained the name of Hw g "of America, has again come front ¥ y 8 fo-maviel Two musicians bel Fort as all BRINE Wo Adams in Newport i i | i which had been cut by men who had been They 1 they were wore going down for scued by Miss cries for aring for eels the third time whe having heard thels who hed} hastened to their Assistance arched roof of the {, in Buffs Rd A FEW mornings ago the ald New York Central rails 3 Cand ils i" thi removal of with by Hi contributed F to thi overwelghted spow and weakened th formerd greatly to its support earth, burying of persons and several railway iron, wood, glass y b & pum ber th a tangled mass of When the debris was « of four wad benea { al Dodies Hien lorks in the reali found last two members of a them « company's employ Wel ue family were Masa, , ne dav Killed Ix Dorchester, bir death in recently heis wher was fore ir father death Fase serious railroad accidents in one Amy burned that reported, Nin persons Were otherwise 8 OR stove iv S100 GOO was of Pitts swept ieinity burg, I's Peres Cooren has just celebrated his nine. birthday in New York Euglish AWAY L A BOs Pus pedestrians, Rowell and i } “i gone into for their match w training Sehuvikill, ther rivers the Hudson, Delaware Susque- hanna, Raritan and o the to rise rapidly ; it iia h of Petmwylvania, for i : For James A. States, States, 155 voles, In of the United State 4 has received a it James A. Garfield y whole ™ to the vote for Vice-President, “Whe said the Vice-President, “1 refore.™ of Of of the whole number of cloctors appointed, ig oted President of the United States for ommencing on the fourth day of duly als the four years © March, 1881. " ud 1 do of the oil ai be 1 8 major further declare that Chester A. State of New York, having us of th whale # for jour of March wived and Senator front of thy * Good would have telephoned down?” “Well, then, if the river didn't dry up and the pumping works are all right, | how happened it that I couldn't get any water at nine o'clock last eveniny “Cold or hot? | “Cold, of course ! Who said anything | about hot water P* ‘““Then you couldn’ get any?" “Didn't I say Icou'dn't? I paymy | water tix, and a8 a ratepaver, a tax- ayer and a citizen I demand my rights. Now, sir, why couldn’t I get any water | at my house last evening?” “It wouldn't run, eh?” “Wouldn't run! Why, blame your | ears | Haven't I been telling you that | it wouldnt ran? Suppose there had | heen a fire in my Louse?" i “In what part of your house?” ab- | sently queried the clerk. “ In any part, sir, from ceilar to gar- | ret | Suppose I had wanted a pail of | water to drown an incipient conflagra. tion P” i * You couldn’t have got it.” “No, I couldn't; and I want to tell you right here and right now that I figure my damages at $100 1” ** One hundred,” replied the clerk, as he marked the figures in pencil on the desk, “Yes, sir; and I won't pay my next juarter's tax 1” “Won't pay next wrote the clerk. “And you take notice that if this thing happens again this winter I'll make this water board sweat!” * Perspire,” suggested the elerk. ‘* Well, perspire, then, and don’t you orget it.” * No, sir » “If it wasn’t winter I'd sink a well.” “Yes, sir.” “And be independent of this mo- noyoly.” * Yes, sir.” “ And I want it understocd”—~he was going on, when the door opened and in walked a eitizen, who began: “What the dickens ails your old pumping-works P _ And the clerk with the far-away look in Lis eyes had to leave his ledger and come forward and explain that the pumping-works were all right, the river was all right and the board was all right, and that it the water wouldn't ran it was, perhaps, because it had got vixen. Delroit Free Press. quarter's tax,” having turn to its chamber, Senators then the House, RETR A A Determined Office-Seeker. My army, and when hedied he left nothing. The responsibility of the family is on me, and I think 'vegot as g od a claim as any one else on the gevernment.” “What kind of a piace do you want?" “1 don't care what it is, but I must have work at once.” Mr. Sherman as- for every one place, and there was very little chance. She very deliberately do, and declared that her she would day and black couldn't do hetter if he woula come up his shoes, for her. every he He In less than a 1 Every morning she walks to the department with the step of a business little woman who is proud that her delicate hands can be the support of others. She receives 8100 a month and supports in comfort her mother and sister. This brave, bright young woman is Miss May Macauley, ormerly of Atlanta.— Washington Letter. EE — cm At the Castle of Simonetta, about wenty miles from Milan, a surprising echo is produced between the two wings of the building. The 1eport of a pistol is repeated by this echo sixty times ; and Addison, who visited the place on a somewhat foggy day, when the air was unfavorable to the experiment, counted fifty-six repetitions. Tt is stated that the sound of one musical instrument in this place resembles a great number playing in concert tin a —— Mississippi is the only State which did not build a mile of railroad in 1880. : Tue large brick building in Waterbury, ma edd by fire 5, O00 | $125,000. to $200,000, with an Iinsarance | York citizen, was examin i » member of the Brooklyn | tional guard » isan teddge comm Western and Southern States, Wis, pt BOWL destroyed one -hal lems than Tir en S00 (x, gine of & train on the Texas Centy { railroad fell through a bridge, throwing express, two baggage and iw Snot DEsscn er flown a fiftes embankmer DErsOns wale IO “, Pan worst eighty yards, and several childre re killed of the town Mons nurs, we willy ugh non Tur greater Ind § foes of part of destroved by fire ut $100,000, The For 3, af Indianapol } arned on the same has been alx larg of J. « guson & ( was also bury joss of $500 000 ons of New Orleans have floods caused by heavy breaks tn the canal levees, and 8 gre { damage has been done x explosion in a lnseed-ofl mill ai Bt, Paul wl th | TY iniature has passed Davitt, the the « of sympath and denouncing arse of the iritish parliament in rearresting him as jas A Creveraxp (Ohio) dispatch reports a fright coal New Lisbon was about = mines, miusted As 2 | ful disaster at the Robbin § ond of the man named Smith t the railroad go into | mine the superintendent caatic ing into a certain room as it contained fire track was filled with water, Smit order and attempted to pass through the bidden room with a lighted lamp in his hat imadiately a terrific explosion occurred ch a hole was blown through fifteen feet of roof, and carrving deat} About twenty me six of arth composing the { and destruction all around the and man | wore at work at kill number | killed outright minded, it out of the main entrance as if from a cannon a w A mule and train of eight cars wen aly | the driver. i sections of the West and South, In Indians {| Orleans is estimated at $100,000, | Praxx Evaxs, who drove a stage at Coshooton, 0., for a year, voted at the presidential election Just year and did all that a beardless young man tho other day, and was discovered to be a Woman. Ture visited the Reports from 8t. Paul, Mion, Milwankee, Wis, Omaha, Neb,, and other points state that the amount of travel Northwest has been by gnow and the obstructions fo precedent, In many places the ware more than thirty feet deep, ratiroad trafic was almost entirely sus. pended, and it was feared much suffering would follow from an exhausted supply. of fuel. In Minnesota the snow was so deep that the tele graph poles were hidden, and families ware obliged live in one house and burn the vacated buildings, A Cmrcaco dispatch says that a big * corner is forming in the provision market which will dwarf even the great one of last year, Within # woek there were purchased 26,000,000 pounds of short ribs, 24,000 barrels of pork, and 10,000 tiarces of lard, are without snow-drifte to From Washington. Tuy sccrotary of the treasury has received grom Philadelphia a contribution to the con science fund of a $500 United States note, in- closed in a letter, of which the following is a copy: “Iam attending professionally (med jeally) an old lady who, twenty-seven years ago, was an employee in one of the subordinate branches of the United tates froasury, At that time sho took a sum of money from th government, - She confessed it to mo last woak, and has commissioned me to return it. I have carefully calonlated the interest, which, with the principal, amounts to a few dollars under the sum of $600. I inclose in this a $500 note. The patient is now entirely blind and partially varalvzed.” Tug following estimate is made of the total amount of mail matter passing through tho mails during the year 1880 : Total number of letters, 512,031,224; postal cards, 168,048,012; newspapers, 496,706,182; pieces of all classons, 1,605,502, 892. { i Tur following islands in the British West Indies have been admitted to the Universal Postal Union Bt. Laois, Grenada, Tobago, I'he postage on letlers to thelr admission into the ountrion is, by postal union, reduced from thivteen cents U five Collie grder has been lssuod “The orders of 24, 1880, ue following general it the postofiice department July 14, 1880 ferrin bay excell ing from tu | by the department, are horelby ards furtiali i i i y | card matior exoept postal | i i 1 wo modified as 10 permit the sending by mall of | but all eands i furnished by this de the printed oards at third class rates] sther than postal cards partment, containing any writing oxoepm address, sland] Ix Phils order will take affect its receipt by postinasters Prosi to Iw charged with lelter postag: immediately upon i i Le | Alipes, | Abbott at has nominsted United Pats lent Dory Mistes oonsul India { sie Benate has confirmed the nomination of | John ¥ allector of Philadelphia, and Charles H. Burns, for Now Hampshire an Territories has | favorably the hill cresting the | Hartranty, customs af | United | Blates sttoraey ! I'un Benato agrend WO report Comin ities Torvitory of Pembing, 10 consist of the northern | part of Dakota Pix chief of the bureau of statistics reports i that the total value of the exports of petrolew | and petroleam products for 1850 was $34,508, | 648, and during the same period in 18579 $37, 236, 467, AcooRDrwa to the census bureau the bonded | indebtedness of the cities and . towns of the | United States, containing 7.500 inhabitants | and upward, is as follows No. | Populs Total bonded cities on obi 9% 14.99 yi in 72 | Aan ITY. 408, 253 iT, 468 Mal Bates Bu CRINTA. Lastorn, wddie southern, L Western, 5 | NB2 964.171 ; AIA TET AH | Bie Tax breaking of the ice in the upper Poto- | mao at Harper's Ferry, Va, » fow days ago, | body of water over the frozen river st George. | town, D. C, snd Washington. This heavy | body of water soon broke up the ioe into thou. | sands of huge cakes, that sped tumultuously | down the river. Then the released waters rose rapidly and in & short Gime the southern sec tion of Washington was completely sab. The water came as far north as Pennsylvania the principal thor | oughfare, causing great inconvenience and | damage property. The ridge upon i i i { avenue, wo reine tion to the international exhibition of 1888, svar he shall deem that toquate preparstions therefor have been made, to invite the partiel. i here shall be no expense to the end, now method of electing a President and Vice: Provident, Htate shall be divided, immediately after each ih the Biate, under the apportionment, bas Bop- an elector shall be volod lpr, the the greatest putiber of voles to bo elected, no matier if it is not s majority; that the foal eanyvass of the distriet votes shall be made in ench Htate by the governor, chief-justice, and sooretary of state, who shall certify the result of the Benate, and this certificate shall be final tificatos shall bo oponad and the voles counted in jolut session, snd the persone having the largest number of electoral votes shall be des The eredentials of Thomas C. Platt, Senator elect from New York, 0 succeed Benstcr Ker. nan, and of Thomes F, Bayard, Bensior-cleot from Delaware, to succeed himself, were pro- sented, My mittes, reported favorably, without amendment, the Bouate joint resolution for an invitation to foreign nations to be represented and fake part House, On motion of Mr. Whitthonu bill making sn appropriation to prosdente & search for the steamer Jesnneite wis reforred on appropristions with in structions to report 18 back in one week | | Mr. Atkins proceeded briefly to explain the pro vistons of the legislative appropriation Lill sppropriate Ad $17,151,000, an increase of §46.000 000 from the estimates and sn increase of #1 YOR! The princips { Inrrease wis Ouse of $617,000 in the Interns! revenue department to the memory of Evarts W, Farr of the House from New Hamp Meossva, Hriges, Hall , Enlogies late member were delivered LY Biske and Bherwin The Vice-President and the Benate appeared iu the House s of the elect as proceeds vote of Bheorgia, wii than that Garfield The © Arthur nm { took meats and the oounting i with, The i WES Cael On A day Oldie not counted lured elected rficld and 144 and 165 formality a the Renate sontad to the fend by hana ad: Hu ETE lish inciuding island, the space between them and the main feat under | Horse-car travel in many instances had | to be stopped, the water coming up to the seats | of the cars and compelling the drivers to make | thelr escape on the backs of their horses, while the passengers were taken to high ground in rowboats water In one large hotel the guests were taken away on the backs of stalwart colored porters. About 200 feet of the Long bridge were In the evening the water subsided, but not before damage estimated st more than $200,000 bad been done. Poreign News, wither war on ite hands in ng Koffee, ruler of the Ashan- med the aggressive and an 1 to begin hostilities against the Americanmarkeman, has d« tod English 3 wm shot $1,000 8 at at f+ a On the same day reported to have been Shetland islapos, wit crew North Stafford loss of 0a Haeary i in the abou i in Nova Sootis in Boptem bey a wan interidad fo be private it 1,000 persons, many of { fore down the fence whic 1 him with a broach Fi Herr Von Ludwig refased king of Hanover pt the challenge, but repeated the insults A rx in the Victorias Docks, London, re Had in & loss of $2,300,000 A pean body was found at Montreal, Canada a & barrel marked “poultry.” It is believed | work of resurrestionist students Among } hey great bes in Russia that 5 dren for grain and leaving the Md and hunger was buried in the family | Fechan's churchyard, at listroms 18 & the Ary i iin Nt han, Seothnd n defested by th uth Africa with heavy Joss, Man 11 hon ule member of parlia speaking in Manchester, Tur Basutos have De nN sve agro, said if Englishmen ge their temper toward the id indead be dogs and lid not long for the day when Mr. Parnell, month would stand in the d join the United States, dl within a oneress at Washington an honored and wel somod spokesman of thelr wrongs, Sevex thousand miners are on strike in York. Tux recently reported defeat of the insurgent Boers in South Africa, by the British forces | under General Colley, turns out in reality to for Boers, Generdl y was obliged to retreat and to leave all ounded on the feld, the his In Sweden and Norway, in showy weather, posts for the birds, Tre most notable matrimonial event that has marriage of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the wealthiest woman in Great Britain, to William Ashmead Bartlett, her private scoretary. The bride is sixty-seven years old, and has be- came famous for her philanthropy. The bridegroom is a handsome young American, thirty yoars of age. He was educated in Eng- land, and some years ago became his wife's private secretary and confidential adviser. Much opposition to the marriage was devel oped among the relatives of the baroness, and tho contemplated ceremony has been a subject of discussion in English upper circles for many months, Previous to the marriage Mr. Bartlett assumed the name of Burdett-Coutts before his OWN BUIDAING, C—O IOI CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. Senate, Mr. Conkling introduced a resolution of in- quiry, which was adopted, concerning appoint monts in the New York custom house... Mr Blair introduced a joint resolution, which was referred, proposing an amendment to the Cone stitution, which was read. Tt prohibits after the vear 1900 the manufacture and sale any- where within the United States and Territories of distilled aleoholie and intoxicating liquors, or any intoxicating lignors mixed or adulterated with ardent spirits or with any poison whatever excopt for medicinal, mechanical, chemical and solontific purposes, It ‘also probibita the ex- portation and importation of such liquors, and their transportation through any part of the United States excopt for medicinal and scien- tific uses, oto... Eulogies in memory of Evarts W, Farr, late a member of the House from New Hampshire, were delivered by Messrs, Rollins . Blair, At twelve o'clock the Vice-President an- nounced that the time appointed for the counting of the electoral vote had arrived. he Senate, with the Vice-President at ite head, then proceed- ed to the hall of the House of Roprosentatives, Upon its return (at 1:40 o'clock) the Senate received from Mr, Hamlin the report of the tellers of the two houses, accompanied by a proninble reotting the result, with a resolution that the two houses ave of the opinion that the Constitution and laws have been dnly executed, and that no further declaration of the facts is necessary. Adopted. ...The pension appropria- tion bill was taken up and passed. The bill & priating $200,000 for the ereo- tion in Washington of a fireproof building, to be used as 8 hall of records, was passed... Messrs. Pendleton, Anthony and Bayard were constituted a committee to make arrangements for the inauguration of President-elect Garfield ++. The postofficé appropriation bill was consid- ered and an amendment was offered appropri- ating $1,000,000 for subsidies to American mail steamship lines, but the Senate adjourned 1 1 that duly declared bv th 5 the ¢ of the two houses, and declaring sion that the Con i he Jaws have been Prose that the two houses are of opt stitution and t and that no further declaration of these facia is necessary. Adopted. By a vote of 150 yess took up the river when Rosas. Cox and § # . duly executed, and hs previous criticism by Mr. Cox upon certain pro visions of the bill. The bill was debated with out sction being laken upon it Jesh Billings' Experience. Josh Billings, after having beeen told by & man “i drank and sold lager beer, and who appeared to be reliable authority on the quesiion, that the bev. age was not intoxieating, thought he would try it. He drank three glasses, and narrates his experience as fo lows: and I can taste it now. If any man should tell me that lager heer was not intoxioating, I shud believe him, but if he shud tell me that | wasn't drunk that nite, but that my stemmick was cut of order I shud ask him to state in a few words just how sn man felt and acted when he was setup. If I wasn't drunk that nite I had some of the most natural simtums that a man ever had and kept sober. In the first place. it was shout eighty rods from where I drank the isger beer to my house, and I was jest over two hours on the road, and a hole bursted through each one of my pan aloon peex, and 1 didn’t have any hat, and tried to open cuped awfully, and saw everything in the room trying to get round on the back side of me; and silting downon a chair 1 did not wait jong enufl for it to get exactly under me when 1 wus going round, and [ sat down a little too soon and missed the chair by about twelve inches and couldn't get up soon enuff to take the next one that cum sions. And that ain't awl. My wife ssid | was as drunk as a beast. If lager beer is not intoxicating, it used me simighty mean; that I know. Still I hardly think lager beer is intoxicating, for 1 hav been told so. I do not want to say anything - III 555505, 51.3 [Keokuk Constitution. | Every Time, A man, or even a piece of machinery that does its work right every time, is able.” And certainly none the lieve the {ily of mankind, and which does so every time. Messrs, Jones, Cook & Co., Bay State Bre , Boston, Mass , write: We have used St. Jacobs “every time.” We therefore heartily recommend it as a pain-healing liniment. great orator, a man may have a poor voice and yet be a great orator, a man may speak incorrectly and ungrammati- cally, and still be a very great orator; all that is needed is to have an earnest cause thoroughly at heart, and have heart and cause so truly wedded that so that when he speaks he pours out his own self, exalted by that with which he is filled. : : : {Cairo (T1.) Radieal Republioan.} What We Know About It, “ What do you know about St. Jacobs Ofl P said one of our oldest subscribers. This was a fair question, and we an- swer, that we are reliably informed that a gentleman of this city who has suffer. ed untold agony, and spent a mint of money to get relief from Rheumatism, in desperation bought some and tried it, and declares that it is the best remedy for Rheumatism he ever heard of. An Italian scientist has invented a new gauge, by means of which he not only tells how much rain has fallen, but also the hour in whieh it feil, and how long the fall lasted. Can't Preach Good No man oan do a good job of work, preach a good sermon, try a law suit well, doctor a patient, or write a good article when be feels miserable and dall, with sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and none should make the attempt in such s condition when it can be so easily and ohea;ly renovated by a little Hop Bitters. See “Truths” and * Proverbs” other column, I STS" A new use for iron and steel has been found. In Germany quite a number of steel sleepers are in use, and in England the advisability of substituting wrought fron for wood sleepers is being seriously discussed. ~~ 4 Almost Discouraged! Sooh expressions Are very common Smong those afflicted with a Cough or Cold. They have called on the docior and he pre- soribed, They have usod nearly everything which has been recommended, but are no bet. ter. Hope abandons them, and they look with distrust upon all medicines. But there is an old family remedy advertised in this er which possesses true merit, Allen's Lung Balsam will cure your Cold or Cough. Try it, and you will receive new hope and a per- foot oure, It is pleasant to take and perfectly harmless, The city draggista sll sell it. .That part ot the country known as the Northwest, composed of nine States and one Territory, has a population of 19.184 664 Of the increase since the last census one-third of the amount lied in these States. D'BULLS Ses "SYRUP. without taking action upon it. i Bt i E § alls, nature’ i Eis ik 3 5 A » engers who travel by rails Of the passeng Te ots 0a Lening, out of every million and one-hiall persons carried ore is kil : ot, ‘0 pu it mtly, out of every forty million Aorently carried one mile one 14 killed and four injures, troubies will cause bloat, bat Weroer's ! Sate Kidney and Liver Cure has never failed | to remove it. | The Ameriosn dollar contains more | silver than the like eoln of the British empire, Germany, Franoe, a, | Austria, Holland, Belgiom, Sound is 80 essential to good health | thet we surprised 10 know any ons would | risk loss of rest trom a Cough or Cold, when gives eireshing slumber, ted Bintes : | $29.4 00,000 in fighting and watching dians in the Western States and ! tories. overnment has spent over Pa, ealled my attention to your Cream § i 3 § i i i was indooed 10 purchese a stock, that the Balin Bordentown, N. J. October 26, 1880, On Er p———— Preparation ok earth pone, ri and Cr oan Snoring with pais cas health greatly improved. desler in boots and shoes, Itheea, N. Y. Price, 80 cents. Eiy's Cream Baim Co, Owego, N.Y. Will mail it for 80 cents. GREAT HORSE MEDICINE. DR TORIAY VENETIAN HORSE sid hotles al $0 cents; 33 years eslabl in the world for the cave of Osler, (8 raises, Sore Throats, eto. TOBIAS POWDERS are warranted to cure I + Worms, Hots; give & fine cost; Inoresse (he te and cleanse the uFinsry organs Certified wo oF Oul D McDaniel, owner of smne of the fastest Tensing horses 15 the world, and 100 others. 88 conta Bod by drug iis Depui—~48 Murray Street, New York THE MARKETS, : NEW FORK | Bess Osttio—Meod, Natives, live wt, Onlves— Good 10 Pritae Veals, hae caren Divensed. oven Fioar—- Ex. Blate, good to fancy Western, to fancy... ... Wheat~N0, 9% Red, covenersns No. i While. cunsonssss Rye—Btale, soove ec sosen | ov-—Two-Howed . Corn—Ungraded Westery Mixed... i Boulnern Yellow, Osta— While Sale, cosas. Mized Western... Hay Meodigm to Prune, Biraw-Loug Rye, per ¢ Hops State, 188] convener anenss | Pork--Weus. uid, for export Lard~Cily HeMD. sysesresrss Petrolenm~0rade sone. . OF Butter—8tate Creamery Dalry. covnncasonnnsess i Western Imitation Oresinery ¥octory Chosse—State Paciory Skime Wesbors., ... i is sod Penn, seman Potaioss Slats, Gb Early Bose, ... 7 Mirai gd fh gm Eh LE ] 25 iy 10 13 a @ 21s | Blosrs—EXIve....... Lan be Western “ers Bhar oe WoStart, « sosnns. oss Hogs, Good to Cholos York * Fiour--Oity Ground, Neo, | Spriag.. 8 Wheat—~No, 1 Hard Duluth Cora No, 3 Western. Oat Bll0, sovsesssvssnsssnnssnesus | Barley-—Two-rowed Boel — Western Moss oocee.... { Hoge—live,,.. Hogs—City D aes 5 LUE 20s SSIES 3 Pork—Extra Prime per bbl 000... . 12 Fiour—Spring Whes! Patents... .... 6 Corn—-Mixed and YelloW.erees +. oo. | Oste—Extes White... .. rena 1 CeReER ELE € Busuges sunene B - tn we BE 2ge8 - - ! Wool — Washed Combing & Deistie.. Unwashed, - : WATERTOWN (MASS } CATTLE Bea! Oattleo—dive weight... ........ Bh TEER RER sar rahe Senna { p~ sonny EE i BORE. .0nnesneesssssssieasetmtiits ou oy Gike Wy La Bxe Uy PHILADELPELA, | snd faney....... 4 78 00 Wheat No. 2 pessnanasans nsanes 1 J 3 16 ssssnass BB i B sevens aren LT REERRE SERENE « es Oorn-——3s Osts-— M1 a wasn Full Creass...oee | ern asnneOSIEITIE STRICTLY PURE | Tp nah | What The Doctors Say! | DR FLETCHER of Lex | recommend your * Bateam medicine for coughs and ooide™ ty the use of “Allen's Lung DR. J. preparation for Consumption in the Wr rears Srate. 1 i he ] pager A amg As sn Expectorant it has no Equal, It contains no Opium in any Form. | J.N. HARRIS & CO, Proprietors, CINCINNATL O. $1000 deposited tn i - bank against any other | saw machine in Americas. This is the | cheapest machine made, and warranted to saw logs easier and faster than any other, We are the oldest saw machine United States Manufacturing Co., Chisage, III, Our WELL AUCERS will bore a well 75 feet deep and 2 fest In dlameter fn a day. This would clear you $80 ina day. Bend for our Pictorial U. 5. MANF'G CO., Chicage, Ill. RED RIVER VALLEY 2,000,000 Acres heat Lands beat tn the world, for sale by the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba R.R. CO. Three dollars par nore allowed thessitier for breaks ing and oulti For particulars Apply to 4 D. A. McKINLAY _____Kand Commissioner, St, Paul. Jinn, RISTADORO'S ;7oicc, ot 0 audard onevery well ted tole letfor Lady I Sold by Drusgls fo Badin ITT to nye. pay till Carved. Dr. J. 871. Ohio $1 TSNLRT agEva navn sample/ree. 335! or. BRoxsow, Detroit, Mh Food—cures Nervous Debility ARV ran eo cue drat © 10] LV i for GIFT to Allen's PUTA, 318 Fist Ave. T. $777 ila i Danek. emorrhages. Forse bom Nome, or from sny cutee, : is boi2s ol sn Ee Crating Throat. ssure cure De i ta 654 nasypeusive : Sores, Ulcers, Wounds, ~ Sprains and Bruises. i and , . ith the Ext eS ree Tee Extract jay is The Extract is « for this @ “ Cmgareh Care” es Ponty For mmal-! cane of iE Pir Ointment will sid ia Inflamed or Sore without pain. : Earache, Toothache and . Faceache. 2 When the Rxteact 8 | ons hoi eating . Piles, 1 pei iain mtr: BRL iy ST b of giothing is Ineonvadent. For Broken Breast a Br NO a a i that can be apy Female Complaints. By Ah gg | CAUTION. Pond’s Extract Fi “ease a words “Poad's Extranet™ bioen in a and gas Picture trade. a os Taper, sree other Fonuine 3 wm having Ponds & 4 Tu er al te Sully ot De Price of Ponda Extract, Toilet Artl- cles and Specialties, PONTE EXTRACT... 500, 81.00 1 80 Cniareh Cave... 6° Teer. aes vans KS Inkmier. oon Nasal sy Medioated Prepared only by POND'S LX T2A0T 00, i NEW YORE AND LONDOX, | For ssle by all Deageiuta and Pabey Coutts Deslets. od or | »> ine wm Sf a ih Leet, Sew York Toliet Creams. ..... | Peatifrice a i 3 iL § - - | RATS, ' RATS, RATS. MICE, MICE, MICE. CROWS, Prof. Mitchell's MAGIC WHEAT. £3” NATURE'S REMEDY “68 Don't Die in the House A Magic Bxterminator of RATS, MICE, MOL CROWS, CROWS, &e. 5) i CROWS. Price, 25 ots. per Package. . 89~S0LD BY ALL phigain Sn os SLAY. Agents. P D.M Stiger &Co., 58 Barclay Bend us your Address ON A POSTAL CARD, AND WE WILL SEND Pa? 5 A TERESIING “Spit ala EHRICH BROTHERS, 285 to 295 Eighth Avenue, NEW YORK. NCYCLOPADIA o= IQUETTE BUSINESS So ¥ —s sheapest and only Co, CELLULOID EYE-CLASSES. Representing the choicest selected Tortoise- Snell and Amber. The lightest, And strongest known. So d hy Opticians welers, Made by SPENUER OPTICAL "FG. 00., 18 Maiden ork. ar UN ous 80 Cards. Sent free by —— of i H. A. BROUSS, $34 Essex St. , month, Grad offices, Address Varexnas Bres., Ww 3 Boys. aT pISO'S CURES .
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