~The cattle reported sick and dying in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas, have been thoroughly examined by the U. S. Veterinary Inspector. They were found to be simply suffering from tuberculosis, brought on by exposure to the severe ‘‘northers’ of a Texan winter, — Richard Shinnick, keeper of a low barroom in Richmond, Virginia, seve. ral months ago sold out his business and went West, leaving behind his wife, who was consumptive. On the ASth the woman, seeing the approach of death, confessed that one night about a year ago she saw her husband murder & man in his barroom, rob him of a roll of money, and throw the body Qrough a trap doo into an old well under the floor. Mr. Carroll, City Treasurer of Staunton, and W. H, Crawford, Clerk of Bland County, visi- ted Richmond ast year and have not been heard of since, Itis belleved they here murdered by Shinnick. George Kades, an old man, was sentenced at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 20th, to 13 years’ imprisonment for killing his step- daughter. The girl was in bed and refused to arise when called. Kades entered her room and almost hacked her to pieces with a shoemaker’s knife, -—Al Rochester on the 2Uth, Walter B, Duffy made a personal assignment for the benefit of his creditors, His lia- dorsements, amount to about $250,000, The assignment In no way aflects the Rochester Distilling Company, of which Mr. Duffy is President. Monroe Brothers & Co., lumber dealers, of Cleveland, Ohio, with four branches at other points in that State, and one at Ann Arbor, Michigan. mated at 3274,000, cattle dealers, of Colorade City, Texas, have made an assignment, braska, failed on the 20th. Tomlin's assets are reported at $76,000,” just enough to cover the Mabilities. » Jacobs & Sons, at was burned on the evening of 19th, Loss, $25,000; insurance, $18. 000. Alexandar Jacobs, the store, was severely burned, The Protectory, at West Chester, York, was destroyed by fire on the evening ef the 20th. Loss, $50,000. The main building, which was heated by steam, was supplied from the burned bwilding. ' — Elizabeth ‘Grund, aged 16 years, man of the Republican Oty Central Committee of St. Louis, died on the 20th in that city of hydrophobia. Some tims ago she was bitten by a was playing, but nothing was thought of it until, about eight days ago, she the fearful disease of which she died. —Mauries Nugent was shot dead by Thomas Bailey mn a saloon in Sag Fran- cisco early on the morning of the 21st. This is the seventh murder within sig weeks and the fourth within a week 10 that city. J'rank Sanders, the mur- derer ot the ‘Swilling family, reported to have been burned to death, escaped that penalty, but was taken from the morning of the 2lst aad lynched, William Mussel, charged with murder, Was taken fram the jail at Eaton, Ohio, on the night of the 21st and iynched by a mob. The lynchers, it is said, inclu- ded “‘the heawiest taxpayers and best men of the place» ~—News has-been received at Little Bock that at three o'clock on the 19th, in Vitenia, Arkansas, “every business house in the town was simul. taneously set en fire and burned to Thomas Harris, residing about a mie from Vitomia. The Harris Brothers lost great quantities of corn, fodder, cottonseed, hay, ete,, they being con- sidered the wealthiest farmers in the county. Total loss about $150.000. No one has yet been arrested.” A fire at Galveston, early on the morn- ing of the 21st, destroyed 28 dwell- ings and two grocery stores. {.oss $120,000; insurance, $75,200. ~—Peter Conroy, a young married man, went home drunk in Weehawken, with his wile and thsew a cup at her. The cup miesed its aime but struck Con- royls three-year-old daughter, who was sitting in a bigh chalk. The childs skull was fractured by the cup and one of her arms was brokea hy her falling to the floor, Her recovery is deubtful. John E, MeCrrmack, aged 15 years, and William Smith, aged 80, were killed - by falling through an elevator opening in & factory in Brooklyn en the 224. ~Oe tue evering of the 21st 28 the family of Casper Carl, of Cleacfleld Ownship, near Edenburg, Penna,, were rising from the supper table, three masked men enteced the house, tied the old man toa chair, “‘abusing him se- verely in their efforts to quiet him," and then demanded his momey. He refused their demand, when they pro- ceeded to ransack the house, securing shout $450 in gold. ~The Peusion Appropriation bill, sported on the 21st, provides for a otal expenditure on account of pen- sions of ¥70.254,500, The estimates were §76,204,500, and the appropriation for last year $76,075,200. Included in the bill are appropriatiens of $72,000 for salaries of efgliteen pension agents, and §150,000 for rents aud incidental sxpenses, and a requirement that the Secretary of the Treasury shall provide suitable rooms mn public bildings for pension agents, ~~ While the cashier of the First National Bank of Milwaukee was eat ing ts dinner, on the 21st, an unknown thier stole about two thousand dollars Jin five-dollar uotes, about half of which were unsigned, ~ A telegram from Jersey, says that Austin who a few weeks about 200 times aroun town, New pringstei was whirled the main shaft sn — A ~A freight train on the Reading Railroad ran into the rear end of a coal | train near Bridgeport, enna., on the | morning of the 31st. One engine was | wrecked and thirty-five coal cars and i 8ix freight cars were damaged. —A fire at Oskaloosa, Iowa, eatly on the morning of the 28d, destroyed the Post-office, T¥mes Building, Opera House and several stores, causing a loss of $60,000. The insurances amount to $25,000, W, J. Flanigan’s steam cotton gin and grist and saw mills, at Morton, Missfssippi, were burned on the 22d. Toss, $30,000; no Insurance. Agger & Sanning’s turni- ture factory, in Cincinnati, was burned on the evening of the 21st, Loss, $23,000. tly ~—Louis Pascal and A. Vincenti were arrested in Mobile on the 21st on the charge of robbing a man in New Or- leans of $4000, ~—George F, Schmitt, a jeweller of Chicago, was robbed of nearly $800 worth of diamond rings on the night of the 21st. Three men entered his store on pretence of purchasing, and one of them threw red pepper in his eyes while the others grabbed the rings, — "he body of a woman was seen floating mear the life-saving station at Bridgehamton, Long Island, on the 17th, which, it is thought, might be that of the missing Miss Harvey, of Newport. —There is an epizooty of *‘pink eye” among the horses in Buffale. The | street railway companies on the 22d | reported eighty-seven animals on the | sick list, ! —The farm house of Caleb Russell, | | ear Saybrook, Ohlo, was burned early | When the | | on the morning of the 23d. { neighbors arrived at the scene, Rus- | | sell, who was eighty years old, and his | | wife, aged fifty, had escaped from the | house, but they were so much over. { come by the heat and smoke that they | died shortly afterward, A demented | | som, who slep up stairs, was burned tg death, i ~—A passenger train on the Asheville | and Spartanburg Railroad was thrown | from the track near Fletchers, North | | Carolina, on the 23d, by the spreading | of the rails, Ten or twelve passengers | were severely injured; ome of them, a woman, is not expected to recover. ~In Medina, Ohio, about 1 ¢’clock on the morning of the 23d, five men | seized, bound and gagged Town Mar- shal Frazier and took him witk them to the court house. Here they broke ‘a window in the office ot the County | { Treasurer, and, entering, placed the helpless Marshal in a corner auc! flung !a heavy overcoat over him. They | then attempted to blow open the safe, | { containing $30,000. Three attempts | were made in succession, amd after three hours of fruitless work, they no- | ticed lights beginning to awpear in the windows of the houses near by. | They hastily left the building, and | i seizing two horses and two wagons | belonging to ‘citizens, * drove off, i i In Minneapolis, about 10 o%lock on | {the evening of the 22d, three men | {in a sleigh drove up to the jewelry | | store of J..R. Elliott. Two or them | | jumped from the sleigh while the third | | held the horses, “One gr the men car- | ried a heavy stick of with which | he smashed the large ~gless show window, in which we ye of dia mounds, watches and jew ,Rurriedly | seized all at hand and thr®¥ them into i the sleigh, while his accomplices kept { the crowds of people that swarmed the { | Streets at bay with cocked revolvers. { Before anything could be done both | men jumped into the sleigh and drove { rapidly up the slreet, the driver wildly | { lashing the horses and the robbers i standing with revolvers pointed at the crowd. They secured between $6000 and $7000 worth of diamoeds and watches,” —Indian Ridge Colliery, at Shenan- doah, Penna., operated by the Reading L-oal and Iron Company, wae ou the 23d | compelled to suspend work for ea inde- finite time, owing to a ‘squeeze’ on the mine openings caused by reinoving the pillars or supports of the roof. The crush began on the 22d, and continued | on the 23d. *‘Itis possible that it may | | be<f such a nature and extent as to | cloge the present opening of the mine, and almost entirely destroy it.”” About five hundred men and boys are thrown | out ef emplovmen,. ~—&lexander Higgins, of German- town, a brakeman cn the Cheater Creek, Penna., Railroad, was k lled on the 2d by falling under hie train, —Wkile dynamite cartridges were | being avarmed at 2 railroad cut, near | Elizabethtown, Penna, on the 22d, | fifty of them were exploded by a spark, William Cahill was killed and three other mean injured, one of them named | John McManus, of Lancaster, perhaps fatally, ~In Carnegie’s Bisel works, at JMomestead, Penna, on the 23d, while a ladle containing six tens of molten steel was being swung from the smelt. lng furnace to the ingot mould, the cracie broke .and the metal was thrown mto the pit below. An explosion fol- lowed, severgly burning four men. All are expected Lo recover, ~The Directors of the Canal Na- tional Bank of Portland, Maine, re purt that the loss to the bask by the stealings of Blackstone is $56 500. Robert J, Callakine, 17 years of age, employed as a stemper in the ety dis- tribution department of the Chi 0 Post Oflice, was arrested on the ni t of the 224, for rcbbing the mails. ip was caught by a decoy letter. ~When the ticket agent of Al. baugh’s Theatre in Washington opened his office on the 234, he found that the safe had beeu blown open and. robbed of $470 in money and $500 ‘worth of jewelry. { i i i | | i i i 3 : Froude says: “The Providence which watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, ut times, a heal. thier issue than could have been accom. plished by thelr wisest forethought. We ean easily manage if we w! only take, each day, the burden angointed Rak 50 oa on an 0a ov benvy or we 1 re fen of to-morrow before we are called : SENATE, Congress adjourned on the 22d until the 4th of January. In the Senate Mr, Foreign Relations, reported a bill to pro- traflic. ask its consideration as soon as possi- ble after the holidays. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pensions, reported a bill to amend the pension laws, which was placed on the calendar. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution, which was adopt- merce to report in the River and Har- bor billas to each public work for which an appropriation 18 made there- | i Equivocation, ——— sh ———— We lingered, in the act to part, The last word still unspoken, | By the quick beating of my heart The silence faintly broken. i He beautiful she seemed and pure— Ah me! how I should miss her, Unable longer to endure My wish, 1 asked to kiss her. { | | i A blush of deepest rose o'erspread Her face, as If to mask it, A#, with a woman's art, she said, “Why, Frank, you should not ask it ! le te el tae IRLS WON THE RACE. | | THE Xx £1 BS | work, if begun. Adjourned. HOUSE ‘In the House, on the 22d, a con- priation for the militia, from the Committee on Post-offices, reported a bill requiring all grant railroad companies to construct The Oklahoma bill without action ourned, Was the House ad- FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Never trouve yourself! to do himself, You cannot dream yourself nto a yourself one, Do not despise a twenty cent cigar or a two dollar dinner because another man pays for it. 2 rlhood farm, Every summer of my spent on Grandpa Adams’ | host of delights, but I doubt it. wen vet can poplar trees, and «¢ I : : when I close my eves the sway of their ar of stately tops, harper when the th t changeful silver of thei gleamed like the crest of a { billow. | walk bordered with ir buttons and ribbot The lower w | garden {| bacheld hidden beh indows wert 1 w lila piumy iii lag-ston | syringa bushes and the big | formed the dooy- time-worn | € irdered with ‘3 : 1 i, Droad-ieav scraggy tufts of chic plantain and the golden plume of is ' (SFE tealthy marauder, an crew whiel Uncanny patient weeding eliminate, high priced theatre than it does to take a back pew in a free church, that. one which he receives from others, and Without a belief in personal immor- ig in an abyss, 15a iy * and a dong line of curr h for f hens, and an astdn sho the chosen ambus ! chuckle of disine: proach of every wi There | reigned thre were sun ene 1 but him who is wanting in gooduess: i8 rich, but him who abounds in virtue, The sweat of one’s brow is no longer a curse when one works for God; 1t actually a blessing, The mind 18 weak when 1t has once given way; itis long before a principle Whatever you would not wish your neighbor to do to you do it not unto him. This is the whole law; the rest is a mere exposition of it. Baa habits are the thistles of the heart, and every Indulgence of them Is a seed from which will come forth a new crop ef rank weeds, Charity towards the weaknesses of human nature is a virtue which we de. hard to practice ourselves. There are many things that we are have Great effort from great motives is the The easiest iaber ds a burden to him whe has no wmetive for performing it. A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides inte it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star, Memory and hope are set like stars above the soul—the one shining dimly through the twilight of the past, the other lighting the archway of the fu. ture, A zealous soul without meekness is wrecks, A meek soul without zea! is like a ship in a calm, that moves not as fast as it ought. It is better thas joy should be spread by restrictions. 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One Au lovek . up for a drive « harnessed her village to get the tri-weakiv mail. ol suilry dav, but a wery i fresh with undried night was loitering and rus hour 1.a breeze « Ii ff 1.10 and i Lhe LEe a $i0IE belated bird, in ¥ he tall poplar branches, “Better along Lig Lie drive her middling aaart,”” said grandma, wind’il die | dewn by ten o'clock, and I reckon 2» a powerful hot day, “Grandma,” said Sue, “if you tied “Ewgdom come’ her the old mare couldn't make over mile in forty minutes,” “I don't know that,” said graadpa as be unfastened the gate for us to ride down the lane, “she used to | be considerable of a traveler in her day, | and once m awhile she lets out even ' now, and shows the old go ain’t quite i711 iv tail a about | dead yet,’ “Don’t you think we had better take one of the colts, dear,” said I sweetly, “perhaps she may {and run away with us." | “Go ‘long with you, sauce box,’ said the inflexible old gentleman, “I wouldn't give five coppers far your necks if vou were behind one of them frisky colts.” So away we drove out of the bloom ing lane, and onto the dusty, level high- way, which marke! the good two mile distance to the village, We sat crowded in one seat for there was always a drawn battle as to who ahould drive, the things were easier adjusted if we all kat together so that the reins could be easily shifted. carried a big gingsam umbrella, which flapped in the wind like a yellow sailg Kitty held valiantly on to « big earthen crock filled witli Butter, and bothd to the village storekpaper, and I fenipo- rarily handled the reins, We had. no whip, we had long ago found it to be a matter of utter indifference to the mare whether we wished to go slow or fast, and the sight of the old girl playing tag on the village gres or skipping rope in the stable yard, would have given us less surprise than fo behold her break from her hippety lop gait, We reached the/village, deposited the butter, took in exthange a mighty jug of molasses, gathered in the mail, care. BA wor ROME Se ac over to Lg sire of | no mist The Baptist Welly, The Advocate ind Gugrdian, The iWestern Beacon, The Souter Clariong yes, all DIAMON 8, An Advan dF in Thelr Enropean Value That ¥ a Soon be Felt Hove TS ———— sn ecto mie were there: and we laboriously turned the old mare and garted her fae home, The breeze had Hown away, like a belated bit to fin its flock, and the Sun was as ardget as grandpa had | prophesied : “Ob, burgy hep up; said I, linding * ecstacy of holing the mOIasses jug | to my breast palling “Do for | heaven's sake hit her with the umbrella, Kit, I'm | A recent felegram from Europe wp. nounced “a'great revival in the du. mond trade of Brussels” znd great sales of diamonds to Americas. Bo fax a8 concerned 4 revival of the diamond | trade generally in Europe that is a) night, but Mz, Dreyfuss, who is cred. ited with knowingall that isto be know, {of the dimmand business, says that | “Brussels is no more & market than i “Don’t | New York. There are only two seat ¢ | markets, Amsterdam and Antwerp vasty on the said Sue, whose grasp on h upon me; scorching.’ “I'm afraid she might kick You do it » y lines » | and next to them stand Paris and Lon. {don. But itis quite true that not only {is there a gratifying z-tivily in the diamond trade, but a noteworthy Crease in valpes, The most precious of | Blones are warth now, in the European | markets, 15 fo 20 per cent, more thas {they were 4 month ago, They had | been appreciating gradually for &8 yea | past, but have made their principal t jump within 8 few weeks, As yet this y | advance is hardly felton this side of . | the water, but it will bs just a8 soon us importers will bave 10 replace thelr pre | sent stock by pew purciasesin Earope, There are still bere dealers who have Lhe Cau and others whoare com of was rather languid, reach- “Here, give it to me;” said L iing at the ambre “I wish to gracious she would mur the only thing to save us fm stroke, HT i La FREE] IB over and spate! n ahd " i ives siill~ But my first whack with the smbrella ith a gentle flourish of the tail, thongh Wreamily | mandful of a setding fig, while at strang® voice said 1 I get out and lead heg for for | Wks met w i {old mare's as the | Sane moment a t*shal me itto or would you wait lons « nough ite ang tie {to get a charge of dv { the dashboard + We looked behin 11k 53 hia , And Lhere, rawn by in a 160g 174t y hand Fipt ag gorsamer a satin cheap ols on hand tha low at profit, tr 4 Litany i Tiny 3 11d 151i sRANINOG DAY, ger YOURE Dian, t Live degau 5 pp is &eepiuy f the i 5 copnne pelied sell irrespe values, but the popula: exhaust those so and remove tigi! the market down, and it Earopean lendene «1 | monds may come to be t expensive luxuny, ere ik A letter received Le i from he pri al 8000 0s fit FTIR 1 ther re ser I ! LY regarded as one ol he Gaal y % that 1} dealers says that | #1 ¥ wh ii 3 © wk of ri? damon ¥ urices tha he again fell . hese's herapd or sirdge tra oll mire. #31 be & § tall tiered akg Son rt ike the $ ip As the sound « pace came fiving to overtake us, 3 t foe pricked up like a Her an § arn he oan dn ' Le Ss ta the wind, I i the spume of went up atl a Taps y .d 3 S568 jug.’ and ng the road wits AuUOWIH., ADC, OYIDAwAY, Lhe Lancife! distinction in fava of “id wine stone: no longer exists, Eoept in 8 ardent | imaginations of Ofida and other sto; writers. and in UB emsy creface ac. corded by their réders. Defers onls ! | consider the color hid perfection of Liv stone submitted fr their jeden not where it comeffrom. A Be bios white stene 1s a fle blua-whitd stone. whether it comes fom Brazil § rron Africa. African famonds wed rated 4 low at first, becade nearly allof the The road behind her unrolled like an earliest that ented the marke were old gold ribbon fringed with fame. The | off color, but sinc@then other Ad bet sound of her breathing was like the ad. | ter deposits have bin found. an Oneglance over | of the finest stonesh the marke are from the cape, “The private perpns who purchases abroad * per thing bus Paris or London, paying very much 1 over there than the h ¢ a. in 5 i nu umbrella sailed out * i UY win the tween ber teeth,’ ‘ pias 1% IF AWE. 1% 1 shouted 1. ful i db i wt i } > or Saad hes 20 ant ng out I’ thu seal,’ i. n abead of that mn or die faster flow mare, cried ¥ A] and the of a brass band. my shoulder showed me the sbanger two lengths behind, | breathisg heavily, “Get long ferever | On, my beauty, ” She VaIs Alu ep } (+0 my njee girl! to 1 shouted 1 a white ) the mare. eak of herself, She leaped through the $ust lke a rub- ber ball. 1 looked ev ler shoulder | bere, even wil again-three lengths behind and losing. paid, In the road before 8 appeared a band | of famil Waving milk pans | made would have duties h4 Ec { A Crab Tha@Oan Cone: sins A ————— of ths hanks i iar forms, and shouting “Whoa » i But the mare, regarliess of ‘the voice | Palatka, Fla., han A vemarkablo pet. in | to which she had listated so many years, | the shape of a largé land wrab, Lord {darted by the restraning group that | Timothy Dexter, as this thing is called, { sought to stay her ami bravely passed | has developad a peculiar dean of | the second quarter, | intelligence as a mathersatioflin ana A last glimpse oves uy sipulder dis | detector of spurious mouey, Mr Blan | covered the total bias down of the | Will place a package bf bills bom Jon | stranger horse, whighhiad turned tail | Timothy to be counpdand hi dendship and was disappearing vn the road. will grab the bundieiwit h his eli baron The old mare died night, but she | claw, while he rapid shutfios ome thay died in a blaze of glog fas a victorious | bills with his right, W es warrior dies on the | field, his prow. | finished counting Ma Blank Bys down ess has won, She live g enough to | ® printed slip with til figures ¢, LL accept sugar from our Bis to a cloy- | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 $d Lord* Timothy ing extent, and I think§ } brave equine | scuttles to it and ts off Wo proper spirit appreciated our age and our | amount with his clas, The wonderful tender ministrations toy last, fish can detect a spuious colmer bill at “After all,” Said Kil she brought {a glance. 11, in punting, bk eomes her fate ypon herself ; Befuld not hold {across a bogus Wl, Lora Timothy her in.” immediately sets 1 a vigoroud -ihrasi:- “And I would not ing with his legs fd claws, could, said I. *'I'4 The bank examiner, when Berg last, did than live to ha ¥ tried to pass off In Lord Piugothy an “Yes,” interlop \ exoellont countsfeit of thos Priced day, ‘‘and don’t you a States $10 noly Series 1880, When son I turned back | Lord Timothy ame to it in hie rogular race, Was because ye course of counig he clearly indicated each time you glandnke: that Le could © be fooled by dancing erat me. I didn’odd The teller in one &y ~y i done so if I er die as she ; on,’ al this late he only rea je you the 80 scared ur should- you die,” Pe § a minuet uporthe polished desk, Mr. Blank § teaching Loved Sime v to write Pittsan’s system of shor onsis this be citatl Da not poultiosa of the boil on anothe, Nothing is bow for u that
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