KAYAIiO TAYLOIt.
Wo copy from the Legislature Re
cord, the following remarks of Sena
tor EVKKIIAKT of Chester on the life
and death of Bayard Taylor:
Mr. President, in presenting this res
olution it may not be improper for me
to add that Mr. Taylor was one of my
Opnstituents. I knew him very well
and for many years. He was born in
Kennett Square. Chester county, about
a half a century ago. near one of the
most important battle fields of the
Revolutionary war.
Th*r* beautifully How® the Brmmlywirif,
On utd forwvwr from tUwn to U*cliin*—
Cmlor tlp bridge* und *rchwi f tr*,
(hitting lht Utitl'U|Mi un*l cooling tli* bw*,
Farting tlirir pitftiir** utul •witliintf tlt.ir •tor**,
Flowering, perfuming th lnuou ihorru,
(• I AMI tig the -<|uir>t 1, diaportlng
Hwm'twtiing the tunutffr'e rami of lot, —
With dreamer* In of the MiumV ihriflf,
In the huuiitml ilelta of the lit midy win.
There, in a pleasant district, in the
midst of cultivated people, his blame
less and ambitious boyhood forcast the
meritorious man. With a high purpose,
correct principles and exceptional gift*,
ho passed through all theteHts and lures
and straits of life untainted und un
harmed. Ilis industry seemed like an
impulsive instinct or an obligation of
conscience. It was not spasmodic or
erratic or aimless)or misdirected, but dis
criminating and constant. It was more
serviceable than friends or funds, and
insured them both. It made him
prompt to siexe occasions and meet emer
gencies. It exceeded his necessities
und increased with his success. It made
his volumes valuable ami out-number
his matured years. He traveled and
girdled the globe with his journeys.
He viewed nearly "all places that the
eye of heaven visits''—regions grim
with perpetual rock, or ice, or sea, or
sand, or attractive with arable areas, or '
wilderness of tloral bloom, or forest j
shade. Nature in all her contrasts of
motion, forms and colors, growths and
waste. And her phenomena front the
arctic twilight to the torrid noon—
through all the seasons and through all
the zones.
Hut he was no less a devotee of tiooks
—those stores of quaint and current
learning—those sweet friends of scbol- ,
ars, those arsenals of genius, those si
lent oracles of thought which mould
the character of persons, States and
eras. He was fond of art—the delicious
trophies of the chisel and the pencil j
which multiply and |>erpetuate the
changing phase of beauty—and deco
rates the porches and temples, the Val- !
hallos and Vaticans, with the immortal
counterfeits of nature.
lie cultivated language, which opened
new Bources of intelligence and new
fields for energy. His efficient render
ing of Faust shows his thoroughness in
' German, while his facility in divers
tongues amazed those who heard him
in their native speech, as in some sort
they were amazed who heard the Apos
tles on the day of Pentecost. Hut his j
labors are manifested in his production-;
they allure the imagination alter Ids
wandering steps as if fragrant, like ,
those of Venus, who left behind her a
trail of flowers. Over that middle, tide
less Sea, bordered with continents and l
gemmed with islands, amidst once '
worshipped elements and glorious cities
and storied coasts—by altars of love and i
fountains of song, and monuments of \
genius, and cradles of religon fro n ;
.Jupiter to Jesus. Over the solemn
■ wastes of glowing sand, where liagr'
seed still camp beneath their camel j
skins and wave the hostile hand, and
where the Howadjis on their pilgrimage
carol, as they plod their dreary wav, tlic
holy verses of the Koran or the Kaaba.
Along the alluvial shores where the
Lotos blooms and the Apis reigned— j
where every temple was like a city, and I
every city like an empire—and whose
wonderous ruins still seem to echo the
vaunt of Osymandiaa, "I am king of
kings, and who would exceed my fame,
let him surpass my works." Over the
strange and fable-ridden region of the
farthest Hast, with ita white elephants
and pagodas and its pomp of silken
fleece and jewel craft. Amidst the
swarming multitudes and unvarying
customs of the flowery realm of old
Cathay. Through those curious Me
diaeval towns, with their grand Cathe
dral towers, where the old Masters
carved and painted, and the great Com
posers swelled the litanies with their
incomparable music. Over the vine
t clad slopes of Grenada, rile with the re
miniscences and relics of Moorish
chivalry and taste. Along the glitter
ing gulches of the Pacific Sierra*.
Among the anow clad hills of the Polar
North, where they sang of Thor and
Odin, and where the Vikings unfurled
their icy sails for voyages of booty and
adventure.
And then how easily he leads us, as it
were, through the ivory gate of dreams,
into the ideal land—into the world of
airy form—through galleries of grace*
and vistas of delight, amidst vivid pic
tures and obvious passions, instructive
fancies and attractive shows all harmo
nious as reality. What facility and
eloquence, what tenderness and sweet
ness, what spirit and fitness, what
splendor and wisdom in bis versus? His
Muse may not indeed, with exulting
strength, soar upwards with the might
ier Bards, to the highest heaven of in
vention. But sweeping along with
easy wing and inspiring breath, over
various featured nature, abe transmute*
the voiceless landscape and the latent
thought into imperishable song. How
exquisite his Idyls of the fields. How
enkindling his heroic strain*! What
melting pity in hit tones of grief I
.what rythmic grandeur roils along hit
Wines!
And then what vigor, clearness and
simplicity in hia prose. Nothing super
fluous or incongruous or insipid—not
weakened by cant, or blurred by vice,
or wasted on subtleties, but rich in mat
ter ss the waters that abound in pearls.
Thus bis labors, by their scope and
flnisb. by their diversity, tone and fresh
ness have won unusual favor. They
have supplied the place of reckless pub
lications and fostered a worthier taste.
They have inspired sentiments of toler
ation, faith in energy, freedom in
thought, hope in progresa. They have
been an unfailing source of edification
end entertainment; they have solaced
many weary hours, and idle lives, and
restless spirits; they have given an ex
ample to the adventurous and a model
to the studious; ibey have discussed
many topics—the association* of scen
ery, auathetio charms and the moral of
. events, the mystery of the affections,
the philosophy of motives, the fashion*
of race, the civilization of epochs, the
I apotheosis of virtues. His labor* fa
miliar to two continents and to many
languages, tinged by bin own peraonal
• ity are recommended by it.
1 He was a gentleman in heart and
bearing—a genius with proverbial ec
centricities or contrasts—learned with
out pedantry—flattered without ego
tism—appreciative, catholio and gener
>iiß in his views—close as a brother in
his attachments—just us an arbiter in
criticism—grateful, but not resentful—
persistent against difficulties, but not
obstinate in error—aspiring to distinc
tion, but not vain of success—betraying
no envy and exciting none. With
teeming recollection* and honest cour
tesies, trusting, reciprocal, congenial,
his very presence was an inspiration.
The friend of Freilingrath, Humboldt
ami Thackeray—whom Whittier loved
so well—whom Longfellow compared to
his own ideal prince—whom l'owers
spoke of as "almost an angel"—whom
the nation honored with high respon
sibility ami trust. Hut, alas! the ova
tions which greeted this distinction were
but the heralds of his obsequies. His
civic lAurels have become his burial
wreath—and admiration is emphasised
with sorrow. Few dead have had such
mourners. IVoplo and poets, philoso
phers ami kings have contributed their
tear*. And yet no favored birth or
: fortune blessed bis opportunities or
aided his condition. Not his, the glam
our of abounding wealth displayed in
charities or taste. Not his, the eclat
won by the soldier's peril in the stress
of battle., Not his. the impulsive ap
probation of the crowd, moved by
| flattered vanity or pride.
| None of tiiese tilings formed his
I fame, or magnify hi* loss. They rest
! upon other causes. It is the absence of
that unwearied spirit which shed its in
tellectual stores profusely as the orien
j tal Chief hi* diamonds. It is the si
j lonce of those golden strings, which,
i like Ilavid's, might'calm the tumbled
I passions with their melody. It ;s the
i unawakenin ■ trance of these precious
| properties which imbued his manhood
I with fascinations. It is his works and
worth and lutal zeal which claim our
gratitude and grief, and will embalm
| Ins memory in the human heart for
j ever.
A WIFK Willi IS SFI.HU.M AT IIOMK.
• Bj M*\ AW'f
When the peddler rang Mr. Bird's
door bell, the other day, Mr. Bird
I himself opened the door. Mr. Bird
: had the baby upon his arm, and there
i were four children at his heels.
"Is the lady of the house in ?" asked
j the peddler.
"Certainly she isn't?" replied Mr.
Bird. "She is out; —perennially and
j eternally out."
"Go down to the Woman Suffrage
j Club rooms, and if she is not there, go
' to the society for the prevention of
| cruelty to unimnl*, ami if she isn't
j there, visit the hall of the association
| for alleviutiug the miseries of the Sen
| egnuibiatis, ami if she has finished up
there, look at the church aid society or
at the Uth Ward Soup House, or at
! the home of the one-legged, or nt the '
| hospital for the asthmatic, or at the
i -St. I'olycarp Orphan Asylum, or at
some of these places. If you get on
her trail, you'll see more papers, and j
strong-minded women, and under-
I clothing for the heathen, than you j
I ever saw in the whole course of vour
life."
"I wanted to sell her a cold handle
flat iron, just out. Do you think the
would buy one?"
".She will if you can prove that the
naked cannibals in S-negatnhia are
yearning for cold handle flnt irons.
She would buy diamond breast-pins
for those niggers if they wanted them,
I believe."
"I intended to offer n new kind of
immovable hair pin, which "
"All right. You just go down to
the home for the one-legged, and per
suade those cripple* to cry for immov
able hair pins, ami she'll order them
by the ton."
"lias she any children?"
"Well, I'm the one that appears to
have 'em ; just now anyhow.'
"Because I have a gum top for feed
ing bottles; this is the nicest thing
you ever saw."
"Now," said Mr. Bird, "I'll tell you
what I'll do. You get those paupers
to swear they can't eat the soup they
get at the *ou|>-hou*e with spoons, but
they must have it from a bottle with
a rubber-nozzle ami Mrs. Bird will
keep you so busy supplying the de
mand that you won't have a chance to
sleep. You just try it. Buy up the
niers ; bribe 'em I"
iow'll T know her if I see her ?"
"Why, she's a large woman with a
bent nose, and she's talk.* all the time.
You'll hear her talking as soou as you
get within a mile of her. Hhe'll ask
you to subscribe to the Kcnegamhia
fund, and to the asthmatic asylum,
before you tn get your breath, rrnb
ably she'll read you four or five let
ters from reformed cannibals. But
don't you mind 'em My opinion is
she wrote 'cm herself."
"Hball I tell her you told me to call
on her?"
"It don't make any difference, but
mention incidentally tliat since she
left home, the baby has had four
fits, Johnny has fallen off the pear
tree and cracked his skull, Mary and
Jim both have something like croup,
and Tommy has been bitten hy Jones'
dog. It won't excite her; she won't
care a cent. But I'd like her to have
the latest news. Tell her if she can
manage to drop in here a minute be
tween now and the Fourth of July, she
might maybe wash the baby and give
the other children a chance Co see how
she looks, But she needn't come if it
will interfere with the huppiucss of the
onc-lcggcd mendicants, or make her
list lunatic patient* miserable. Mind
aud mention it to her now, will you?"
"I will."
"All right then. I'll go in and put
some freli sticking piaster on Johnny's
wkull."
And with the baby singing a vocif
erous solo, and the other children
tdiuging to bis legs, Mr. Bird retreat
ed and shut the door. The jteddlcr
had determined to propose to a girl
that night. He changed his mind and
resolved to remain a bachelor.
HOW FAHI
He was a seedy, threadbare looking
ing individual, and occupied a whole
seat in the ladies' ear. The conduc
tor inquired for tickets; the thread
bare man shook his lo ad sadly.
"Well, money, then. Be quick.
Come mau, brace up."
"No money," still sadly.
"Get off at the next station."
"Yes, ir, of course."
The xlutioii was reached, the man
got off but got on ngaiu a* soon a* the
train began to move, and resumed hi*
old jiosition.
Again the conductor approached.
"What! you here? 1 thought I
told vou to get off?"
ex, sir."
"Well, did you ?"
"Yc*. sir, of course."
"But you got on again."
"Y-*, sir, of course."
"Well, my friend, next time I want
you to get off, and May off. I)o you
understand that?"
Obtaining no answer, the irate con
ductor passed on. As the train *tu|-
j>ed at the next town, the conductor
looked in the car —the seat was empty.
Satisfied, the conductor j>a**ed
through the ears a> soon ax they were
out of the city. There sat the thread
bare jwrsonagc in the seat very much
interested in the scenery.
The conductor gave him u vicious
dig in the ribs.
"Didn't I tell you to get off cud
stay off?"
"Yes, ir, of course."
"Well, you didn't do it?"
"Yea, sir, of course—"
"What?"
"Not—"
"Well, now, my friend," went on
| the conductor, "do you know what I'm
j going to do with you ? I'm going to
make an example of 'lx-at*.' The
hrakeman and I will kick you from
one end of the statiou to the other
j when we stop."
"Yes, sir, of course," auswered the
seedy man, meekly.
True to his word, the irate conduc
tor and hrakeman laid in wait for our
meek but |>ciuiilcft.* friend, and when
the train stopped in Worcester, th>v
seixod him by the collar and kicked
I him from one end of the depot to the
| other.
"There!" said the conductor, "I
| guess we are rid of liirn."
The train steamed out of Worcester.
The man of ticket* went thr<aigh the
l routine, and when he came to the
1 ladies' car he saw the much abused
hut pnticnt individual in the same
sent, gazing southward.
lb* approached him.
"Well, my man, I see you did not
get enough ?
"Oh, yes, sir, of course."
The astonished conductor thrust his
hand* into bis pockets, nnd drawled
out:
"Well, now, where in Heaven's
name nre you going?"
"Well, conductor, I am going to
Boston, if my pluck and my pant* hold
out."
"You can ride," said the conductor,
as he passed on, and the last words he
heard were a triumphant:
"Yes, sir, of course."
A WOSDEKFI L LAMP-flllltXKY.
from CHI City tlwh-k
When Grandfather Lickshinglo
heard it read from a newspajier that
Mrs. Peter Ripley, 6f .Sherman, N. Y.,
had a lamp-chimney which they have
used constantly for thirteen year*, he
rapped savagely on the floor with his
cane, and said :
"Now what the dickens is the use of
puttin' such stuff n* that in the news
paper? If they want some informa
tion about lamp-ehimnevs, let them
come to me and get it. When me and
I our grandmother broke up hmiso
eepin we had a lnmp-ehimncy that
wa* a lamp-ehimnev. But you ran
tell your aunt's folks that it wasn't
made in these shoddy times. I paid
three eenta in gold for it the day after
we were mairied. That was away
hack somewhere in 1700. We used
it night and day for seventy-nine years
and eight •
"Why, grandpa, you didn't have to
use it in the daytime, did you ?"
"Didn't have to —no! But we did.
Used it at night on the lamp, and in
the daytime we used it to drive nails
with. Hometime* the children cracked
hickory-nuts with it, and the Street
Commissioner borrowed it several
times to pound rbeks on the street.
One day ha thought sure he had lost
it His workmen had left it on the
track, and the streetcars ran over it
seventeen times before it was found."
"This iamp-chimuey has been in a
railroad collision, twenty-two lampe
had exploded under it in its time, a
mule kicked it through the side of a
stable, and it came out of it all with
out aa much as a crack. But it'e
broke now," said grandfather, with a
heavy sigh.
"Then you were foolish enough to
allow the hired girl to attempt to clean
it, were Vou ?" asked mother.
"No, but we might as well. When
we quit kccpin' house I gave it to a
friend who lived in Bos* county, Ohio.
He was hard of heerin,' an* wanted it
for an ear-trumpet. One day William
Allen tried to tell my friend that a
greenback currency was the only thing
thut would save this country, and
busted the chimney into a million
piece*;" and grandfather hammered
the floor with hi* eanc, and said it was
a sad, sad day for this country when
Old Bill Allen was l*>rn.
A NINUI'LAIt Of XT'K HENCE.
MUX. OWKNHI.AOI.i:, OF OKEOON, CONKS
TO 1.1 FK IN IIRU COFFIN JUST |IK
FORK BURIAL.
From tli* !'wrtUi<l Orvgomßii.
Particular* of a very singular oc
currence have just come to light. It
appear* that a Mrs. Owcnsiaglc, who
live# about five or six miles southwest
of this city, was taken suddenly and
violently ill several duyx, and in a
short time died to nil upjH-nranee.
The remains gave every indication
that the vital spark had forever flown.
The friends and relatives were con
vinced that the lady was dead, ami
{(reparations were accordingly made
tor the interment of the remain* Satur
day, the laxly was dressed for burial
ami placed in a coffin. The friend*
began to collect at the residence of the
bereaved family. Suddenly u slight
moan was heard to issue from the
coffin in which the body bad recently
been placed. This very unexj>eotod
noise greatly startled the assembled
neighbor* and the people were about
to rn-li from the room, when the hus
band of tin: supjxNMsl deceased lady
approached the coffin and wo* aston
ished to find the Ixxly moist and
warm. A closer examination dixclo* d
the fact that the woman was breath
ing. Restoratives were applied and
the supjioxed dead came hack to life
and soon was üblc to sit up and con
verse. It is m-cdlcs* to add that the
father und other member* of the fam
ily were overjoyed to have the wife
and mother restored to them. Singu
lar as this circumstance may seem, we
arc assured that it is true in every
j mrticular.
A HE AI TIKI I. SENTIMENT.
Shortly before bis dejmrture for In
dia th" lamented Hcbcr preached a
sermon which contained this beauti
ful sentiment:
"Life hear* u* on like the stream of
n mighty river. < fur lat glide* down
the narrow rhannel, through th- play
ful murmuring of the little hrook and
the winding of it* grassy borders.
The trees shed their blossom* over our
young heads, the flowers on the brink
seem to offer themselves to our young
hands; we are happy in hope, and
grasp eagerly at the leautie* around
us; but the stream hurries on. ami still
our hand* are eniptv. Our course in
youth and manhood is along a wilder
ilood, amid objects more striking and
; magnificent. We are animated at the
moving pictures of enjoyment and in
dustry passing us; we are excited at
' stmeshort-lived disappointment. The
I stream l>car* us on. and our joys and
| grief* are alike left behind us. We
may hb shipwrecked —we cannot
bo delayed ; whether rough or smooth
the river hastens to it* home —till the
mar of the ocean is in our ears, and
the tossing of the waves is l>ojnath
our feet, and the land lessens from our
eyes, and the floods are lifud around
ns, and we take our leave of earth
and its inhabitant*--until of our fur
ther voyage there is no witness save
the Infinite and Ktcrnal."
•HJOD KXOWH WHICH WAS KHJHT.'*
from lh htWdirfCHMf.
In one of our Iwirder states a father
raised a monument to his two sous
who were killed in the late relicllion,
fighting on opjxisite sides. The monu
ment is of plain white marble, and on
one of the side* is the name of a son
killed in the Union army, on another
side is the name of a son killed in the
Confederate army, on the third side is
the inscription, "God knows which
WB* right.' From all we can learn
the story is true. We hnve here, an
example of even an earthly father
throwing all animosity to one side.
He raise* a monument to his own sons,
honoring one no more than the other,
showing the same fatherly feeling for
both, loving one as well as the other,
neither harboring ill-feeling against
the son who lost his life in the Cuion
army, and vice versa, for the son who
lost his life in the Secession army. Is
not this a picture of charity and love
which true Christians should admire.
It commends itself to our hotter in
stincts. Why therefore should not our
congress at Washington throw aside
all aifimosities caused by the late war,
and be like the father who gave his
two sous, one to the North and the
other to the Houth, and say, as he did,
"as each fought for a principle and
the war ts passed, we are no longer to
be judges of which was right." How
soon then would we hava happiness in
this bright ami lieautiful land of ours,
knowing no Houth, no North, oo East,
110 Wert, nothing hut one country and
one common humanity.
We haven't any more fuu to offer
folks—its Lent.
THE VALIANT IIOAK.
Vtotu tti* llftltJiwrfl ilmrMUf.
Whenever a Republican of the
visiting statesman type feel* the need
of venting hi* noble rage upon some*
Ixxly who cannot Btrike hack and of
giving hia patriotism an airing, he
rise* majeatically ami makes an as
sault upon Jefferson Davis, When
the bill was un in the senate on the
morning of March ltd to j>ension the
veterans of the Mexican war, Mr,
Hoar, formerly of the Electoral coin*
mission, arose and moved that Jeffer
son Davis 1m: excluded from the bene
fits of the bill "because he had made
| himself odious." This, Mr. Hoar
: doubtless thought, a fine and heroic
stand to take. To make Mr. Davis
the "arch-traitor" has a certain ad
vantage —it gives the ".Stalwart Re
publicans" something tangible to throw
their spite at. Why he should be
hated more than General Lee or Stone
wall Jackson or General Joseph E.
| Johnston has never appeard. lie was
j not the author of Secession. He wax
: only the fly on the wheel of a great
movement. It carried bim as it did
j others. The causes which led to the
' war of Secession were rooted in the
events of fifty years before. Nay,
j when the New England ships first be
; gan to bring slaves from Africa to the
Colony of Virginia the seeds of the
war were planted. To make Jefferson
Davis the cause of the war is about a*
rational as to make Washington the
I cause of the revolution. Bingle men
j count for little in great eras like these.
Jefferson Davis acted his part accord
ing to his ideas of duty just as Robert
E. Let; and Stonewall Jackson did.
Mistake* be may have made in iioticv,
as they did in the field of war, but lie
j never stained his baud* with useless
j blood and never dirtied them with any
| participation in frauds. He did what
lie could to ameliorate the horrors of
tin- war and since its close ha* accept
ed imprisonment, detraction, calumny,
with unshaken fortitude. Sometimes,
stung by unmerited reproach and
j slander, he ha* broken silence and
every word that he has uttered has
i l>ceti distorted and misinterpreted by
1 bim enemies for jxditbal effect. For
this reason we have ourselves severely
critici*-d his utterances, knowing that
they would thus lie used by an un
scrupulous adversary. A magnani
mous foe would l>e content to let him
j live out the remnant of his days in
jx-acc. The hand of God has boon
I heavy enough upon hiin. Death has
invod.-d his family and taken its most
cherished members; his fortune has
been impaired; his health is infirm.
Is not this enough? Yet when the
United Hlatex is considering the pay
ment of iiensions to the veterans of
the Mexican war—in which Jefferson
Davis render knightly service—Elec
toral Commission ILiar, stained
through and through with the infa
mies and peijuries of the gnat fraud,
aris'-x p. ay that Jefferson Davis has
made himself odious and should be
excluded from the benefit of the act.
Thc fraudulent administration that he
helped to count in has given offices to
General Longstrect and Mosby. It lias
given a cabinet office to Kev. There
was no principle at stake with Hoar.
He merely wished to make a cheap
sensation by striking a broken old
man whose chief offense is the pa
i tient dignity with which he has borne
the hooting* and slanders of his ene
mies and w ho, despite all that may be
said of him, is as much entit!ef to
gratitude for bis services on the fields
of Mexico as though he had never
represented the people of the South in
their war for independence.
A MAI) CAME.
| FMR %h*> Kmii Frttortero Km LHI *T.
About two weeks ago, as the over
land train was parsing Cheyenne, the
attention of the passengers was attract
ed to the lamentations of a poor Irish j
immigrant, whose berth had Iseen rob
bed during the night, and every penny
of his scanty savings stolen, and whose
family, would, therefore, arrive beg
gars in a strange land, The charita
ble passengers at once In-gati a sub
scription which finally amounted to
something over $250. When the
.money had been handed to the sufferer,
n pious, plausible looking man, dressed
in black and adorned with a white
cravat, drew him aside at one of the
stopping places, ami said ;
"My joor man, I am truly sorrv for
vou. N our sad fate touches me dec ji
lt. I am myself well jirovided with
this world's goods, however, and to
will give vou $250 more. Here is a
SSOO gold note. Give me the 9250
vou have and keep the rest. May
heaven blew* you."
The poor Irishman did as requested,
with many blesnsings on the generous
stranger, who insisted that his gift
should not be made known. When
the passengers reached this side of the
bay the pious looking philanthropist '
was nowhere to be found, he having
evidently gotten off at Oakland for
reasons of his own.
The next morning the immigrant
ro |mi red to a bank to get his note
changed. The teller picked up the
bill and began narrowly examining it.
"There—there is nothiog wfong
with the bill, is there?" gasped the
poor fellow.
[Now, the clever reader has seen all
along what was going to happen. He
has read lots of just such incidents as
this. It's the ofd—old story. Well
—well see about that ]
"Nothing in the world is the matter
with it," said the teller, quietly; ami
he handed the man fifty ten*. That
ended it,
BIHIXF.SH I'KOMI.HKH.
A CItKKRIJfO rROBI'KCT OK KKVIvmo
TKADK Klt'iM A 1.1, PARTI OK
THE COUMTIIY.
; Vt'itn IK/ ?•. TURK TISMW.
From the interior of our own Btate
' the report* are cheerful. The impor
tant crops of Central New York are
in a promising condition. The jobber*
in the large distributing cities, whose
trade in of a magnitude not generally
appreciated, way that not only in the ex-
I tent of their transaction* increasing,
hut that the retailer* show a more hope
ful npirit and that collection* are more
readily and promptly marie. Manufac
turer* are of like temper. Iron mills
j that have been idle or running on half
time are resuming, and have order*
far ahead. Hoot and shoe *hop* arc
preparing for an increased demand of
from twenty to thirty per cent, lluild
, ing in being pushed on to an extent
uuite unknown. In Ohio the acreage
devoted to wheat i* estimated to have
increased some eighteen per cent.,
| though the fruit crop i* unpromising.
The trade with the Houth and the in
terior trade of the cities in the Btate
i* larger by from ten to twenty-five
i jar cent. tiian last year. The j*<rk
| packer*, for the find time in four
I year*, are reaping a profit from their
venture*. The iron manufacturer* arc
running on full time, with order* in
advance of their capacity. In Indiana,
the rolliug mill*, lumber dealer* and
machinery maker* are actively occu
pied, while the jobbing trade i* fair
and collection* good. The only draw-
Imek i* in the danger of disturbing
legislation by the demagogic Legisla
ture which was the product of the
•"National" craze. From Chicago the
most encouraging sign* arise from an
active emigration to the We*t, the de
cided extension of cultivated land*
and the demand for machinery, build
ing materials and supplies. Jobbers
estimate the volume of trade in the
ordinary line* at from twenty to forty
pef cent, larger than hist year, while
there is a very decided improvement
iu payment*.
In Michigan the lumber interest
'is prosperous and active, the general
manufacturer* the same, the iron in
tenwt very much depressed, jobbing
fair and collections generally much
improved. Wisconsin reports arc
particularly emphatic a* to nearly
every line of business. Minnesota ac
count* are equally so, especially with
reference to the milling interest.
I/wiisville and the Booth generally
have felt the losses resulting from the
epidemic leu* than was expected, and
there arc many indication* that the
approaching season will be more pros
perous than any of the last *ix year*.
Several general facts staud out from
the mass of details which are given •
by our correspondents, and which we
have briefly summarized. One is that
credit throughout the country is rela
! lively in a sound condition. Goods
are sold on somewhat shorter time,
more care is exercised lwth in making
debt* and giving credit, payment* are
more prompt, failures are becoming
far lea* frequent. In connection with
this fact may be noted an almost en
tire altsence of speculative spirit.
Jobbers are selling more of staple and
serviceable jjood* and less of luxuries,
are selling in smaller lots, but more
frequently, and purchaser* how a de
cided tendency to take the advantage
to be had from buying cheap for cash.
Another important feature in the situ
ation is that when business men, when
questioned in regard to their pros
; |>ects, have nothing to say in regard
[to the government finances or the
currency, except to express a uniform
hojw that Congress will not do any
; thing to interfere with the present
1 policy.
A DIPHTHERITIC WORM.
, WHAT WAS KOrXD IX A LITTLE GIRLS
THREAT.
From tU Elmtr* AdrrrMwr, M-rcii IX
The five year old daughter of Mrs.
Jennie Marsh, of Waverly, who i*
visiting friends in Klmira, was taken
with diphtheria shortly after her arri
val here last week, and is yet prostrate,
hut doing well. Yesterday morning
the mother, in looking in the child's
throat, saw a mierocwvfu moving. Bhe
took it and another out They are
easily seen with the naked eye, though
a glass helps one to the "true inward
ness" of the critters. The largest one
is. fully one-quarter of an inch long,
covered with hair, with a head some
thing like a caterpillar, tapering body
and long hairy tail. Its body i* form
ed in rings. It* color is about that of
ouo of those dark vellow "thousand
legged" worms found under old boards
and stones. The smaller ooe is about
one-sixteenth of an inch long, being
whitish in color, and requiring the
glass to bring out it* "beauty" of con
formation. It is not a pleasant thought
to imagiuc such things iu your throat,
hut they get there, and from there
into the blood, heart and other organs,
producing paralysis and sudden death
when least ox jxvted. They are vege
table parasites and exist in large colo
nies in the diphtheritic membrane.
Dr. J. M. Flood is considerably inter
ested in the mammoth bacteria that
have come under his oheervatios,
which greatly exceed in axe anything
he ever saw.
A pound party—A roectiug of the
pi.**