A FAMILY OF GLADIATORS. The DpKrrmlntitu of Unmnrl C'mnbr, nf I.lv nMonr Mnnnr Thn llrrnlrnt l'lulit In IIik Wllrli-riirnfi on llnrord. William Combo, 0110 of tho fow rrol veterans of tho.-n-ar of 1812 surviving un til this year, died a few days ago at tho residence of his son, at Arlington, Minn, lie una bom at Hpringficltl, Otsego county, New York, in the year 1790. At tho time of William's birth, his father, Samuel Combe, of Livingstone Manor, who had Berved in the Revolution, was a conspicuous figure on tho then borders of civilization, and for many years after ward he and his six stalwart sons bore a prominent part in the many sanguinary conflicts that marked the early history of tho Western frontier. The Combes were of warrior stoek, and traced their ances try turougn tne i nritans 01 Jlnssacliu- setts colony back to the reign of Eliza beth. Kamuel Combo and his sons were mon of great physical strength and indomita ble courage. Tho youngest boy is men tioned in old records of his native county and regions further West, as a giant in stature and a Milo in strength. William Combo, whoso death is just announced, was a dragoon in Capt. liar- ris's company, and was with (leu. Win- 1 field Scott at Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, anil l'ort Ueorge; and Ins gray cent was more than onco made n special target by tho British marksmen in the fights at Niagara, Quoenstown Heights, Kackett's Harbor, and Handy Creek. At tho close of the war he settled at Jordan, Ononda ga county, New York, but being of a restless disposition, and fond of exciting adventure, ho was ever longing for an op portunity to take part again in scenes such as had been his delight in the past. When the rebellion broke or, his son ; having entered the army, Urj .. I lmiu shouldered a musket and fought at South Mountain and Antietam. Only one of William Combe's brothers is known to survive him. He is Charles Combe, now a resident of Brooklyn, L. I., and in his 81st year. Tho youngest brother, Jonas, men tioned above as the giant, was of a tur bulent disposition, and was constantly involved in fights, out of which ho al ways marched with flying colors. His prowess was universally acknowledged. Ho rarely fought one hum at a time, sooruing to engage with fewer than from three to half a dozen of good size and weight. The crowning achievement of his lii'o as a gladiator, and perhaps the last as ho was never heard of after the occurrence of tho incident here related was his victory, single handed, over a mob of 150 infuriated and reckless Frenchmen of Detroit, just after the close of the War of 1812. The present city was then a village, or more properly a trading post, inhabited mainly by French Cunadians of the ruder class. Jonas had aroused the ire of some of the men, and afraid to assail him except in force, they arranged a plan by which he should be annihilated without the possi bility of a failure. This was no less than that tho whole community of adult Ca nadians should surround him in the woods beyond the settlement, and end his career by beating liira to death. Jo nas was unarmed. Each of his enemies carried a club or a stone. They formed a circle about him, and at a signid closed in upon him. Wetting his broad back firmly against the trunk of a giant oak, Jonas calmly awaited the onslaught of his yelling foemen. Closer and closer they came, their ranks growing more and more compact at every step. At last the press was upon him. Club strokes thick and font luliieil ilortu ujmii bin head itud shoulders, and jagged stones whirled by Btrong-armed marksmen cut and bruised his stalwart body, and his days seemed numbered. Suddenly he dashed for ward and charged the center of the mass in his front, and men fell about him right and left as ho moved onward, forcing a way with his huge body, and dealing crushing blows on all sides with his brawny lists. It was a sight such as had never been seen since tho day when Sam son slew the Philistines. The French men were dismayed. Those who were still unhurt parted to right and left in open disorder, and tho young Hercules, with body streaming with blood, with nothing left upon him but his boots, sought safety in rapid flight toward the deeper forest and the broad waters be yond. Jonas was never seen again, al though about fifty years ago it was said that a man answering his description was drowned in the Mississippi; and a little later old trappers reported that one similar in many respects was killed in Oregon. Characteristics of Prentice. The truth is, says his biographer, CV'orge D. Prentiee was altogether de void of tho smallest apprehension in re gard to potential " dilliculties," as they aro termed down there. He had nono of the extreme nervousness generally evinced by fighting men. He was al ways self-possessed, very quiet, rather preoccupied than otherwise, apt to give any one unacquainted with him tho im pression of phlegmatic temperament. He was of medium height, large limbed, stooping a little in the latter part of his life; neat though careless in dress; looking more like u rustic shop keeper than a poet, wit, or urban jour nalist. His face was plain homely would not be too strong an adjective his features somewhat heavy; his eyes small and hazel, very expressive when lighted up by conversation. His head was finely shaped, his brow being broad, noble, intellectual noticeably at variance with the lower part of his vis age. In the office he was usually taci turn, seeming morose at times, though not really so. When spoken to, he al ways replied with noticeable courtesy ; and if ho began to tidk on any topic lie felt an interest in, his entire uppearauee and demeanor changed. He was irregu larly industrious. Few men worked harder when he did work, and fow avoid ed labor more eagerly when labor was not to his mind. He frequently wrote in a single day four or live, even six, columns of the Journal; and then he would not write another line for a week. Generally, he had performing periods extending from one to threo months ; after which he would eschew manuscript completely until the toilsome fit re turned. Such Hair. Lucy Hooper, in her last Paris letter, says of the German hair trade : " The highest-priced hair is pure white, long tresses of which are sold not by the pound but by the single hair, each hair being valued at about half a cent. The most valuable of the natural hues is pale gold ; a switch of that color was dis played, valued at nearly $100, even in that wholesale mart. The greatest curi osity I saw at Wetzlar was a switch of light brown hair, measuring six feet in length, and for which 8100 had been paid to the original owner thereof. This un- Earidleled braid is to be reserved for ex ibition at our Centennial." Pepper Vineoab. Take six large red peppers, slit them up, and boil them in three pints of strong vinegar down to one quart. Strain it, and bottle for use, It will keep for years. SO. Amrrlrnii Inmltnlp, New Yorh-Jnilwra Iff port, Nov. 14, 1874. To the Board of Managert: Genti.emex After a full and Impartial ex amination of the articlod doncrilted, the uudor Bigncd judges make the following BTOttT-AUHTnACT)! That Sewing-macliiue No. 4110 (Wheel er fe Wilson's New No. 0) was claimed to bo so great an improvement, both upon tho well-known family machine made by the same company, and upon all other sewing-machines, as entitled it to recognition as a new nnd valuable in vention. Under these circumstances, an extremely thorough and minute examina tion became both desirable and necessary, not only of its novelty but of the skill and workmanship manifested in tho fitting and adjustment of all its ports. We have risen from such examination with an ample conviction that the claim, in all its essential features, is well founded. At the commencement of our ex amination, we were provided with several complete sets of all tho working ports an they canio from tho manufactory, and were at liberty to make our own selection for the construction of a complete ma chine in our presence. We thus hnd. to a large degree, n demonstration of the 1 nicety of the manufacture. Every part was j formed to fit every other part with exact ! precision. So accurately, for instance, ; did the several rotating hooks fit in the same hearing, that while entering it. each one of them, without such contact as required force, manifestly compressed the air within in reaching its proper seat. The' judges enumerate and describe sonio of the points of novelty and excel x:iri' of the machine. Among others: The simple and efficient device for pro ducing variable motion for the rotating hook ; Tho independent take-up lever, which secures tho tightening of the stitch un der the best possible circumstances; The peculiar form of the hook and the use of a bobbin holding a great quantity 01 me tinner uueau; The simple device for producing aud varying the tension of the lower thread; The hollow steel needle-bar; Tho facility of applying aud using many useful attachments the hemmer, binder, corder, rultler, &c Having completed the construction of our trial machine, in the way indicated, it was mounted upon a convenient stand, 1 anil BUDinuieu 10 every variety 01 test as ' to the range of work that could be execu 1 1 . ..-ii. 1 1 ...j ted upon it properly and well, and with out other adaptation than simple changes of needle and thread. The mere list of operations performed in our presence without the slightest hesitation or failure and without the discoverable loss of so much as a single stitch, would convey an inadequate idea of the complete success achieved, Beginning with a needle measuring but 17-1000 inch in diameter, ami opera ting with the fiuest thread upon Lice goods, the same machine passed through all the stages of muslin, and broadcloth of all conceivable thicknesses and fold ings aud ridgings, and then with waxed threud stitching through portions of heavy harness leather. After this demonstration of its range of work, we entered upon the nicer tests required for 0 family and light manufac turing machine. In this department we witnessed all the varieties of work on j hemming, felling, and braiding, and also a degree 01 success in single nun iiotiDte rnrHiiier which we hnliovo unparalleled. The varied kinds of work 011 a lady's boot were then performed, and each of these with the same marked success. In deed, whatever the test, and wliatever the work presented, tho same unfailing perfection, was exhibited, not only in the work as a piece, but in the execution of each individual stitch. With much pa tient examination, we were unuble to discover a single defect. j ! j The minuteness of this report is a sim- I pie reflection of the care with which we ; have endeavored to examine these claims, j I We find the chief advantage of this ma- 1 chine to be in the use of a modified form : of the rotating hook as a substitute for ' 1 tho shuttle, the hook currying the upper , I thread around the bobbin containing the ; j lower threud, and thus producing identi i cully the same ellW-t as the shuttle. The ' i superiority of this rotary motion over the ! reciprocating motion of the shuttle ma- : j chines cannot be disputed. The "lock i stitch " which is thus secured has always I ranked highest on account of tho permit- ' ' nence, beauty, and general desirableness I j of the stitching when done, aud the -wide ' range of its application. ; To these conceded advantages there j have been added, in our presence, the severest and most searching tests of its I capacity and usefulness upon every j ordinarily possible kind of work, and ; we can do no less than bear witness to j the entire und remarkable success which I has attended its action in every part of j our examination, it is a maentne wmeti b)l the proof mifntiittrd, we are satis- fir.il tmtxt rrvntitall.il Hitprrwde all other now known with which it comes in coni pi ttiion. As the only conclusion to which we can arrive after an investigation of the several merits of each of the sewing machines submitted, an investigation wliicli we have endeavored to make pa tiently and completely in every respect, nnd associating these with our best judgment upon the merits of the sev eral machines which ore in use but not on exhibition: M'r recommend for the Wheeler A 'ilxon Sew Xo. 0 Sewing-machine, the, highest award which it is in the ower of the Institute, to bestow. The IJoard of Managers unanimously approved the report, and recommended for this machine the Gold Medal of the Institute.. John A. Bassett, 1 Moses S. Beach, I II. W. Steele, Judges. John Matthews, Heuben Bull. J The Board of Direction unanimously approved this recommendation, and awarded the Gold fedal to Wheeler & Wilson, the only gold medal awarded for a sewing-machine by the American In stitute for many years. Dr. Sigl, editor of the Ultramontane newspaper Vatcrland, was tried on Nov. 80, at Munich, on the charge of insulting Prince Bismarck by stating that tha at tempt upon his life at Kissingen was only a comedy. Dr. Sigl did not appear, and the court, therefore, without calling upon the jury, sentenced him in contumaciam to ten months' imprisonment. It has been ascertained that the river Nile rises about five inches every century, and relics of pust times ravt been found at a depth of sixty leeb below the surface. Hence it must have been at least ten or twelve thousand years since the first settlement of Egypt. The Sandwich Islands are twelve in number, and altogether about tho size of Connecticut and Rhode Island. WHEELER & WILSON'S SEW 6 SEWISU MACHINE. SEWS OF THE DAY. Item of Intercut from Home and Abroad. William W. White, of North Bergen, N. J. found doad In bin bed. Ho was one of the old Bcttlera Tho BoHtou Typographical Union elected John Vincent president Nine stores and the Harriman House, in Main Btreet, Bangor, Mo., wore burned Wra. Ei-van, 17 years of ago, whilo being driven from a saloon In the tmbuvb of Waterbury, Conn., by the proprietor, Jacob Becker, ehot and killed tho latter, the ball entering the head through the right eye A Htonn in tho Boy of limbny ragod for several days, and many boats and over seventy persona are missing. . . . John Chaiuberlin has purchatied the house recently vacated by the Euglinh Minister in Washington for $90,000, with tho intention of tumlng it Into a gilded gambling house Balances in the Uuited Mates Treasury : Cur rency, el4,G82,656 special deposit of legal tendon for the redemption of certificate! of deposit, $411,080,000 1 coin, 77,823,327 in cluding coin certificates, 22,107,400 ; outstand ing legal tenders, 3S2,000,000 D. B. Logan, one of tho party of twelve who loft Wisconsin last August, bound for the Black Hills, was recently killed In a skirmish with tho Indians, and tho other mombers of the party were scattered in the engagement, siuco which no traces of them have boon found, aud i( trei that all of them have perished forgo Teak, an employee in the paper mill at Valley Falls, N. V.. hud his loft arm torn off near the bhoulder while putting a belt on a pulley. John A. Oilman, superintendent, while making his usual tunr of inspection through the Duquesne, Pa., mines, was fired on by some 1111 known person and fatally wounded. The minors employed by the. company have been on a strike for some time, aud conse quently the pit was unoccupied at the time tho assault was made Pour men wearing masks rode up to the house of a farmer about twelve miles north of Claiksville. Ark. They shot tho farmer, choked his wife, robbed him of 5GO0, and escaped Samuel Payson, postmaster of North Wan-en, Me., ami hia wife were found .j hi their beds. sulVocated bv coal gas. Another couple were nearly dead when dis covered A resolution passed tho North Carolina Senate, providing for a conference of the Joint Committee on the Public Debt with tho creditors of tho State, and calling a moot ing of tho committee in Raleigh on Jan. 14, 1S75 Mayor Stokely, of Philadelphia, re ceived a letter signed " Secret Six," threatening 1 violence if employment was uot sunnlied for the starving poor, and complaining that Italians 1 were working ou the Centennial buildings, ex cluding actual citizens A Philadelphia : paper was libeled, having charged that a lnem I her of the Common Council had picked the I pocket of a marble statue of George Washing ton ou Chestnut ttrcet of a silver suulf box. i Bv a railroad accident in Town, several nftimrtlK f 0f the Iowa division of the Illinois Central railroad were badly injured A during attempt was made to rob tho Hochlaga Bank of Montreal. The burglars succeeded in blowinc the safe open, but tho noise made frightened them away, 'when tho contents of the vault were in sight A duel was fought at Havana between Diego Meudo Figueroa and l'epe Cas tellanos, resulting in the death of Castellonos. The lAftatit Herald publishes distressing accounts of the famine in Asia Minor The house of a farmer named Androis Petit, living near Port Nelsou, Ontario, was violently broken into by a gang of desperadoes, two of whom entered Mr. Petit's bedrooin while tho rest guarded the sou's bedroom with revolvers. The ruffians carried off cash to the amount of 57,000 Indian outrages are reported near Pioche, Nev. The citizens are without anus, and ask for military protection Tho boys of tho high school in New Orleans repeated their visit to the girls' lower high school, and forced the colored girls to leave. The school board hps passed a resolution dismissing all the public schools uutil further notice Anew El Dorado, in the shape of rich gold mines in the northern wilderness of Wisconsin, is re ported. It is claimed that ore sent to New York from this point averages $1,700 per ton. In the sections of Nebraska and Kansas visited by grasshoppers, farmers have been compelled to feed wheat to work animals. Many poor families aro already compelled to live ou wheat bran. Thousands of women and children go about their houses barefooted. Nearly $ 50,000 are required to feed tho inhabi tants uutil next fall, and an much more to clothe tliem Small-pox is raging at Horel, Quebec, in the most virulent form Thirty two thousand Germans have immigrated into Strasbeurg since the war. Ex-Judge Beverly Betts, of New York, has a summer residence at East Jamaica, Queens county, and it is in charge during the winter of his graudson Beverly Itobiuson. The house was visited by burglars and a desperate fight ensued, the burglars finally escaping, and Itobinson being wounded by a pistol shot The bill adopted by the United States Senate ltepublican caucus, relative to the finance ques tion, embraces the following propositions: Redemption of the legal tenders shall begin on the 1st day January, 1870 ; silver coin is, mean- time, to be Hubxtituted for fractional currency. ' Free baukiug is authorized, aud is to lie ac ! compauied by the retirement of legal tenders j to the amount of eighty per cent, of the new j bank note imued, till the whole volume of the j legal tenders iu reduced to 300,000,000. This is a modification of a proKitiou that developed much Htrengih last year. The Secretary of the Treasury is to use the surplus gold iu the Treauury, on the first day of January, 187U, for the redemption of legal tenders ; and, if thin tmrphiH iu not KUtlicieut, ho is to sell at his dis cretion any of the bonds of the United Ktatcs now authorized by law to procure gold with which to meet the demand for specie. Charges for coinage at the Uuited StatoBmiutHare to be abolished. The charge now made has the effect to send gold bullion abroad to be coined, and it is urged that if coinage is at the expense of the government gold will bo brought to the United Rtates, and having been turned into A nierican corns will be lees easy to export The Pacific Mail Company's steamphip Japan, from Han Francisco and Yokohama for Hong Kong, was burned at sea when sixty miles out from Yokohama. A few of her passengers aud crew arrived at Houg Kong. The Iosh of life mostly Chinamen returning home from Ban Francisco, was very large A twelve years old daughter of Judge Lowell, was assaulted near her father's residence, ai Chestnut lull, Massachusetts, by a negro. After robbing the child he left her to her fate. Bhe bad been skating, and was returning home through a dense piece of wood when the ruffian waylaid her. Khe managed to drag herself home and relate the horrible story. The negro was arrested Weston, who in his attempt heretofore ban failed, succeeded at Newark, N. J., in walking five hundred miles in six days. He had about twenty-five minuteu to spare when the last mile was finished. The bullion product of Nevada for 187S is estimated at 960,000,000 During a furious storm recently the lightning struck the powder magazine iu Scutari, Turkey, and caused a terrible explosion. A portion of the city wall was overthrown, many houses were demolished, and 200 persons were killed and wounded Eddie Collins and two other boys named Boget and Stevens, of Penna Manor, Fenn., opposite Trenton, war drowned while playing on a pond The coal operators of the Lehigh, Upper Lehigh, Wyoming, and adjacent anthracite fields met to consider the fixing of the basis of wages to tho miners for 1875. There was a general domand that the price of coal of all grades be reduced at least fifty ocnts a ton, but the operators contend that If a decrease is made there will be no profit left. The miners agree that the present wages are sufficiently low, and they will resist any attempt at lowering them by stopping work. Between 15,000 and 20,000 men will Join In the threatened strike. The Problem of Pauperism. Dr. Charles S. Iloyt, secretary of the New York State Board of Charities.gives some exceedingly interesting facts rela tive to pauperism. Dr. Hoyt says he has found that pauperism becomes in 0110 sense a disease. When one member of a family once enters a poor-houso tho others follow inevitably. Dr. noyt said that before he began tliis work ho had the opinion that a great many of the in mates of poor-houses were those who had seen better circumstances; but he had found that this was not the case. The majority of paupers faro better iu the alms-houses than they ever did before entering. In the poor-house of 0110 county lie found 86 inmates. These 8(5 inmates came from 07 families, 25 of them were under sixteen years of age, and 12 were born in tho house. These per sons had lived an aggregate of (SU9 years at the expense of the county. Home of the inmates had pauper fathers, 28 had pauper mothers, 3 pauper graud futhers, 5 pauper grandmothers,9 pauper brothers, 17 puuper sisters, 11 pauper uncles, and 13 pauper aunts. The 07 families which were represented by these 0 paupers, had proilucea 11)1 ilepen- ! dents, 21 lunatics and 25 idiots, 2M i drunkards, and 4 State prison convicts. ; Of these inmates, 22 were parents of chil- j dren, 17 of whom were also inmates of ; the institution, SM said to be self-support- j ing, and 0 bound out. These facts show- 1 ed the tendency that pauperism had of passing from generation to generation. A new era is opening upon the system of public charity by the enforcement of a rule that excludes children from alms- . houses. This is to be one great remedy for pauperism the placing of children in orphan asylums instead of iu the alms houses. In 1808 25 per cent, of the in mates of the poor-houses of tho counties of Broome, Tioga, Cortland and Dela- ware were intelligent children. In that i venrsevernlhwlipsnnd rretl,.,e,1 nm.le I mnmpnb fnr ,r.W theso nl.il.lr..,, in an orphan asylum in Binghamton, where they ore supported by paying a small mimjirr capita. The consequence is that the children are being taught aud prepared for lives of usefulness aud the paupers tu-e decreasing. In all but four or five of the counties in New York State the supervisors liave adopted the rule of sending tho intelligent children to asylums instead of to the poor-houses. I5y this means there are fewer women in the alms-house, from the fact that they will not stay where they cannot have their children with them. On tho whole, Dr. Hoyt said pauperism was on the de crease. The amount of pauperism re sulting from crime and dissipation still remains the same. Hog-Packlug Statistics. The J'rice Current, a leading authority upon hog-packing statistics, gives a very full preliminary report of the pork pack ing in the West, lletnrns have been re ceived from points which packed last season nine-tenths of all packed at interior- points, which give the aggregate packing to dates, ranging from ilth to Kith of December, at 279 points as 1,190, 000 head, against 1,097,000, an increase of 93,000. These points packed last season a total of 1,887,000, out of 2,08-1,-000, the whole number packed at in terior points during the season of 1873 and 1874. The average of weights in dicates a falling off of about 21 pounds per head, or 10 per cent, from the last season, with fully a corresponding de crease in the yield of lard. Xo estimates are given for the season as it is desigued to fiUTiish such information two weeks later ; when such estimates can be more satisfactorily and reliably calculated. The packing at the sis principal cities is oiven nt '2 I 10 000 lipnil in d.ire n.r.,,W fp-1 1,1 A"JI,.,,,,M K "Ate, against 2,070,000 lnut year. The interior points not heard from inu'keil 11)0,951 head lust season, nnd should these points show a j corresponding increase this season, the total packing at the interior points, m round numbers, is 1,100,000, and includ ing tho six leading cities, aggregates 3, 40U.000 head, against 3,280,000 last year. The Wheat Crop. It would appear, from ti long article in j a Xew York paper, that the wants of j Great Britain in the wheat line average ! about 850,000 bushels per week, and j America being this year about the only I source of supply, we may expect steady j prices.' Iu the crop year 1872-73 Great j lintaiu imported about 1(10,000,000 bushels of wheat, and her estimated re quirements for the crop year from Sep tember 1, 1873, to August 31, 1871, from foreign imports, have been placed at 00, (HtO.OOO to 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. France, usually n large exporter of wheat, lias been in the present crop year an im porter to the extent of about 40,000,000 bushels of wheat, and Eussia, that has had in some previous years as high ns 00,000,000 bushels annual surplus wheat for export, had scarcely half the amount from her crop of 1873. The United States in 1873 had a wheat crop estimated by the Agricultural Department at 277, 372,000 bushels, which probably, iu fac, exceeded 310,000,000 bushels, ns about 88,000,000 bushels have already been ex ported, aud 221,250,000 bushels are approximately required for seeding 20,' 000,000 acres of wheat, and the food re quirements of about 43,500,000 people. The Congressional Library. The Congressional Library at Wash ington contains 274,157 volumes, an in crease of 18,405 volumes during the past year. The present rate of increase will swell the library to 500,000 volumes in loss than twenty years, to more than 1,000,000 in fifty years, and to 2,000,000 volumes before a century passes; this, too, without any increase of the present extremely modest appropriation of $11,500 for the annual purchase of books. The librarian says that no enlargement of the capitol likely to be agreed upon can possibly furnish either permanent or appropriate accommodations for so great a library as this is becoming, and he con cludes that a separate building, con structed with reference to its present necessities and future growth, is de manded ' alike by a wise regard to economy and public policy. We never get excited in reading of the mysterious disappearance oi "a handsome young lady about eighteen years old." They are generally heard from in about a week, asking the old man if he will forgive and forget, and if they may bring Charles Henry home. WAS1IISGT0X MATTERS. Senate. A bill was introduced providing for the re demption of mutilated United States currency by the postmasters of the several cities and towns of the United States. The Senate bills removing a number of political disabilities were passed. The Committee on Commerce reported favor ably on the bill to constitute Patchogue, on tho south side of Long Island, hi the State of New York, a port of delivery. Mr. Hurlbut, from the Railroad Committee, reported a bill chartering a double-track freight railway company from tide-water on the At lantic to the Missouri river, aud to limit the rates of freight thereon. Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Numerous petitions were presented from temperance organizations.ministors, and others, in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, and other StateB. asking Congress to prohibit the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic liquors in the District of Columbia or Territories of the United States. Itef erred to the Finance Com mittee. House. The Legislative Appropriation bill was con sidered iu the House, ami during the debate a discussion arose iu regard to the franking privi lege, Messrs. Kelley and Maynard speaking in ravor 01 its restoration and Mr. Uarhcld against ; The House, in considering the Legislative ' Appropriation bill, rejected a motion to increase : the clerical force of the Bureau of Education. . The House passed the Legislative Appro- i priatiou bill, after a heated discussion over tho I allowance for the Department of Justice. The bill introduced iu the House by Mr. I '.nines proposes to rpjieal all taxes and stRiup I duties imposed bv the internal rcveuuo laws. except such as relate to distilled spirits, fer- j lnented liquors, tobacco, sin 1 IT. cigars j to hi- 1 crease the tax ou distilled spirits ten cents per j gallon, and to repeal the second section of the ' act of June 6. 172, which reduced by ten per , cent, the duties on manufactures of cotton, . wool, iron, etc. j The House refused to adopt the resolutions ' against government subsidies, to investigate ; the district safe-burglary prosecution, and to i inquire into the acts of certain annv ofliceni in the South. The Connuittco 011 Elections report a resolu- ' tiou uccianug Snyder (ltep.j, tne sitting mem bei from the Hecoud Arkansas District, entitled i to nis scat, and dismissing the contest of liell for the same. Another Warning. One more terrible warning against the j foolish practice of playing with firearms i is contained in the story of the shooting of a police captain in Brooklyn. Ac cording to the !'t;itement of the man who 1 tired tho pistol, he was examining it, not , tliinking it was loaded, when he snapped : h. ai, iitipi. uouriH! aim Kiiieu mm in- ; stantlv. This unhappy event, which has 1 """T " " 1'"" " " i" ""ht to have some influence on the P""'1" l Icn. ,lamll.,! ',1'. minds of men who handle loaded or unloaded; but such casualties do not appear to be very long remem bered bv anvbody. An old farmer who has watched the I weather forty years, says that when the ! first snow is followed by ruin, such is in- i variably the case with every snow storm ' of the winter. Indisputable Evidence. St. Ki.mo, 111., Julv 8. 1H71. It. V. Pierce. M. 1)., JttifTuIo. N. V. : I wish to add my testimony to the wonderful curative properties of vour Alt. Kxt.. or (Jolilen Medical Discovery. 1 have taken great interest in this medicine since 1 first used it. I was badly alllictcd with dyspcimia. liver deranged and nil almost perfect prostration of the nervous svs tcm. So rapid and complete did the discovery effect a perfect cure thut it seemed more like magio and a perfect wonder to mvself, and since that time we have never been without n bottle of the discovery and Purgative Pellets iu iue iiuuse. j ney are a sona, sound family : phj-siciun in the Iiouse and ready at all times to fly to the relief of sickness without charge. ' We have never had a doctor in the house since j vie first began the use of your pellets and discovery. I have recommended the use of these medicines in several severe and compli- : cated cases arising from, as I thought, an impure stato of the blood, and in no one case ; have they failed to do more than accomplish all they are claimed to do. I wiU onlv mention one as remarkable ( though I could give vou I dozens). Henry Koster, furniture dealer, of I this pluce, who was one of the most pitiful i objects ever seen, his face swollen out of shape, : scales and eruptions without end, extending to i the body, which was completolv covered with I blotches and scales. Nothing" that he took I sceiuod to effect it a particle. 1 tiuullv induced t him to try a few bottles of the (iolde'u Medical Discovery, with daily use of thepollets, assuring him that it would surely cure him. He com- j meuced its two some six weeks since, taking two : pellets each night for a week, then one each I night, and the discovery as directed. Tho re sult is. to-day his skin is perfectly smooth, and the scaly eruptions are gone, lie has taken I some seven or eight bottles in all. and considers I ; Vurea- , Jnis case uau Datne.l the skill ' . f,t om. )eHt physicians. Messrs. Dinifor,! I Co., druggists, of this place, are selling largely of your medicines and the demand steadil'v increases, and they give perfect satisfaction iii I every case. Respectfully, i W. H. Ciiampi.i.n, Agt. Am. Exp. Co. If your horse is lame, sore or galled, you HhmiM line Jolntsnn's Amniine Liniuunl; ' vhhIi the pint with oantiloHoaj) itiid wami water, j rub dry. with a clean cloth, then apply the liiii uient. rah iu well with the haul. Coin. ' Have the readers of this paper ever used any of Varwrnn' J'urgatire I'M ? If uot. why iioty They art) the best family physic be. widen beiiiK the greatest anti-bilious' remedy there ia iu this country. Com. Iu cold weather the best collar you can wear U the Elmwood. It makes the neck warmer, while it fits bo nicely you do uot feel it arouud your neclt. Auother advantage ia, it knepg clean longer than any other collar. Com. The Markets. KKW VOMlv. lle-f Cuttle Prime to Extra llullovka .Mio; .14 Common to (lood Texan 09ta, 'lo1, Milch row. 40.00 OO.liO Hoifi Live U ( .07 i' Urefneil Kheep Luiulm ( 'ottoil Middl ing Flour Kxtia Western stutM Kxii-a Wheat Ked Weat. ru No, 'i Spr-hitf Rye State Hurley Slate llarley Malt OntH Mixed Western Cora Mixed Western Hay, per cwt Kti-aw, i.er cwt Hops !U. 35irMt Pork MerS Lard i'iell Mackerel No. 1, lu-w ' No. i. new Dry Cod. i-r cwt .04s,i ,II7, .06 t ,('M .u'.a .uy 4.7 lo! ri.-H) 4.7S (a, S. 10 1.-J5 1.10 .08 1 30 l.M (V 1.27 (M 1.10 1.4a . .I9iH, .fi'JIf . .'7 (rf, .'Jl . .45 (4 .05 . .40 (rf, ,1'rfl a . ( .u .19.85 20.50 . .13XC MX . 13.IMI (a 14.1 1) . 10.00 la 10.60 . fi.OO (.. . Ml Herring, Healed, per hox .30 04 .35 Kenned, 11'. Petroleum Crude.. . Wool California Fltece. . . . Texaa " .... Auntialian " .... Butter Hiate Western Dnlry Won tern Yellow. . . . Western Ordinary. Pennsylvania iine. Cheese Slate Faetory " Skimmed.... Western Eggs State ALBA Wheat Bye State Cora Mixed llarley State Oats State .3-2 .33 ., 34. .45 .0 .30 .22 . .lfi.'-B .05 ,15 .81 (a .43 .JS .it .'20 .lftV .04 o .10 .30 1.38 .85 .87 1.36 1.38 .87 3 .! A 1.60 .6i,VS .63 BUFFALO. Flour 5.35 S 7.00 Wheat No. 1 Spring 1.05 (5)1.06 Corn Mixed 85 (4 .85 Oats 66 oi .67 ltye 96 ($ .04 Barley 1.30 1.50 BALTItiOBK. Cotton Low Middlings lS'.rt .1V Flour Extra Of 1 8.25 Wheat Bed Western 1.25 (a 1.25 Bye 05 (4 1.00 Corn Yellow .84 ( .87 Oats Mixed t4 ( .'-4 Petroleum 4.t6 Oi 5.' 6 eHIHtlKLVHIA. Flours-Pennsylvania F.xtra 5.75 OV 6.00 Wue.it Western U d 1.3 1 (i 1.2H Bye l.i 0 C M Corn Yellow HI M .83 M ud 81 r) ,81 O..U Mixed '5 0 .MX Fetroleum Crude os.saoa.V ileaued, Hi So Uncertain Sound. When a man discovers a great truth, it tt his duty to proclaim it liu foUoT,X The use of Dr. Walker's v'laegar Bitters cannot be too strongly rocoimefe the invalid public. To those .'vl1. n tried it, nothing Heed bo said th...' perience is their proof, pure and po 1 . as Holy Writ. To those who have nvl tried it, these truths cannot be too often repeated. It is a certain vegetable spe cific, which aids faltering nature against the triumphs of dyspepsia, bilious difl' orders of every kind, malarious fevers, constipation of the bowels, liver com plaint, spring and fall debility, etc., etc. It costs tint little, and can always be at hand. It is the poor man's friend. It saves a doctor's bill, and the time lost in driiug live, ten or twenty miles after liim ; besides being free from nil the poisonous medicaments of the pharmo eoponii. It will not stimulate yon to day to leave you weaker to-morrow. Its benefits are permanent. Com. MUSICAL GIFTS For the Holidays ! Klne Jilt trillions (Price SI.OO) of lliese Kit-mint I'nllrrtiitnn or Hound .Music, rntltlrd OHMS OP STRAUSS. Instnunsntal. OKMS OF SCOTTISH BONO. Vocal. CtKMH OF HAORF.D SONO. 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TElia or PAVEBp aUwayii oleaa and In alohabetioal order, hoMa 4,000 1.ettera, oan be uaed oa a dealc or bung to tha wall. We prepay Espreaa Ghargea. Send for olrouiar aoa priuu uaa wtui ijjuu ralaxaaofal C. A. COOK. CO, OHoaco, IU. alddreu uwaAcas w. milaT' 1 otvr-rtcyiti A''.-.V J. ' r 1 VolL-ni'a ('ft. flimr Hitters nro n pure), preparation, nloiicilv fi; tho Sierra Nevada mountains of t.a!u ' nia,tho medicinal iiropcrtics oi um aro extracted tlicrefioin without tfva usw of Alcohol. Tlio question is nlrmste daily asked, "What is thn cause of tt unparalleled success of Vixkoak Hrf- TKRST ' Uur answer i.s, mat niuj iran tho cause of disease, .-11111 tlio patient re covers bis health. They are tlio Rieat blood purifier and a life-giving principle, ft perfecl Renovator and JnvlRorator cf the system. Never before in tho history of tlio world fans a medicine been componnuea possessing u.o iciiiii qualities of Vinkoar IirrrKtts in henlin.tr the tick of every disease man is heir to. 'Vt$ are a gentle Purgativo os well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation ofl the Liver and Visceral Organs, in wuous diseases. The properties of Dn. Walker's i.neoar Bittkrs are Aperient. Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Dvurctw, Sedative, Counter-irritant, Sudorific, AUoror tive, and Anti-Bilious. it. 11. Mcdonald a co Dnit'eists nnilOon. Airtn.. Sun Francisco. Californls, and cor. of Wiuhinrton nml Chnrluin Sts.. N. Y Sold by all llraRgl'B Tr-tlr. nTYTnT u.-No. m. Ali K.NTS 1VASTK1I Iminwllsli-ly, In neii "Ml viry dcKlrable Ki:w Patent nrlii-li-s h.r hnu 'flppraanrl otliera. It. tf. UAI-r.m.LI., i m-Mnrr. .m.i THE PIAHO-MRP. Cabinet Organ. I'atrnted Jtecember, 174. A new nd beautiful musical In t rumen t or improve ment upon the Cabinet Orgnn being a combination ot the iiianuforta ni orpan. To a eou.pleto I'lve-Octavo Double Reed Oritiin, Is added a Pinno-Htirp, the tones 01 which are between thto of the pianoforte and harp. 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