i a U HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. XI. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, FATtHURSD AY, DECEMBER 8, 188L NO. 42. Afternoon. Sing, my heart, a cheerful song,' Though the shadows, growing long, Show tho sua descending; Lifo hath boon a Joyous day Faith and lore nhftlt smooth tho way To a happy ending: Sing, my heart, a song of peaco Whilo tho shadows still increase. , 'IIail, oh heart tho calmordays Groot tho cooler, milder rays Of tho sun descending; If old ago should come apace, Wolconio it with gentle grace, Tatieut wait the ending: Sing, my heart, a song of peaco, ' Whilo tho shadows still Increase. C, C. DavtO ', AUNT JEMIMA'S ADVICE. " No, my dear," said Aunt Jemima, nn old lady whose logic was far superior to her syntax, " don't you never ask no advice of nobody, but just find out your own opinion and what it's founded on. If it ain't got no foundation, 'taint worth saving; if it has, be sure it's a good one, and then just stick to it. Don't let nobody do your thinking for you. We've got to give in our own ac counts when tin) last reckoning comes, and straight or crooked, right or wrong, we havo to meet the judgment. No body can shift or shirk that, and the sooner we learn to be responsible to kind cf depend on ourselves, and sort of bear our own weight tho better for us hero aikl hereafter." "Oh, Aunt Jemima, how solemn your tone is, and how you shake your bead at me, when all I asked was your advice about the picnic to-morrow! Frank Abbott asked mo to go with him, and just by the same post comes a note' from Kate Hunter I do like Kate; she's so pleasant and she begs me to go with her and her brother Harry." "Jest so jest so!" exclaimed th old lady. " That's jest what I'm talk ing about. You've got what I call a double invite, and you come to mo to decide which of 'em you ought to take np with. Now, see here, Gussie Staf fc V J. You're a mighty nice girl, and I lve you most as well as if you was my tat'ral born child; but I ain't going to tpile you for all that. You've got senses of jour own; you'vo got your eyes, ears and judgment. Go to work and use nil three. First try your eyes, and they'll show you that Frank Abbott is one of the haud-tomest young men going, and if you listen to him you'll tind him as slick a talker as there is np here in M'ateiford. Now, it's your judg nicnlV turn, ar,d what does it say? lake curt, C'ussie; don't be deceived, lhautv's only skiu deep, end Satan LiuiHcltV a smooth chap as far an words go. Look deeper; compare Frank's idleuem with Harry Hunter's industry, r.ud you'll find that he has spent his fail.ei's money, while Harry has already nuiile a nice home for his mother and sister. Besides, Frank's nothing but a flirt, und if limy Hunter shows a young lady auy attention he's sure to mean it." " Thank you, Aunt Jemima," cried Gussie, laughing heartily; " thank you I will be sure to pay attention to what you have said. I knew you could set me right, and I rely on yonr judgment." "There !" exclaimed the old lady, getting quito excited and shaking her forelinger adnionihingly at her merry favorite. "Ain't I jett done telling you not to rely on nothing nor nobody, but to exercise your common sense and make up your own mind ? Why. bless ui, if it isn't twenty years and more since I advised any one, and never from that tiino till now has any one in duced me t speak a word of counsel." "Why,' what happened then, auntie?" inquired Gussie, with becoming serious ness. "I'll tell you, dearie, if you just sit down here on this stool at my side. Never mind narry Hunter. Ho is sure to go by at tea-time; but that won't be for a half-hour yet. I'll tell you when to look" "Oh, nuntic, I hope you don't think I was " "Certainly not," chuckled Aunt Je mima, eujojing theblushes that mantled GuRfie's rounded checks, as so many evidences of her regai d for Mr. Hunter. "I only thought you might want to send his sister a message about the pic nic. But I was going to tell you about my experience in advico giving. You eeo I was younger than I be now. I didn't wear caps nor specs, and my hair wasn't much gray, neither ; and yet the girls all called mo auntie, and sort of come to me with their troubles, even then. There was one in particular that seemed to set great store by what I said, and u as al way s wantin g my opinion, if sho bo much as bought a pocket handkercher. " ' Aunt Jemima's got so much ex perience,' she used to say. 'She's a lirst-rato judge of things.' "Well, one day 6he was shopping, and I with her as usual. She was going to buy a silk dress, and let me tell you, my dear, that it was not a trifling matter to buy a silk dress in those days. " Folks were different then they did not throw their money away, but sort of thought it over a spell before they spent it, and tried to be sure that they got the worth of what they gave. There was a great pile of silks on the counter that had been opened, displayed and pushed aside ; the clerk was fetching a lot more, and yet Fanny (that was her name) didn't seem any nearer being pleased than when she ilrat started in. "You've got a notion in your own mind, and nothing here strikes your f anoy, isn't that so V " Why, yes,' she admitted, and tried to describe a dress she had seen at a young friend's the week before. It was a costly brocade, and far be yond the oontents of Fanny's purse to purchase it; but, us a perverse whim would have it, that was the only kind she liked or cared for. What color was it V I asked. "She began to tell, but I couldn't quite make it out fron her description Just then the young man, who was well nigh exhausted rolling and unrolling and we could scarcely see him behind tho piles he had raised around him opened a piece that I thought mighty fine. It wasn't just exactly a brocade, but yet it had a small figure in it ; its color was changeable green and blue ; and it was what I called a good, service able article. " There, Fanny,' says I, what do yon think of that?' " ' La ! I don't know,' says she, a-rais-ing her eyebrows kind o critical-like ; ' it isn't just my idea.' "The poor young man was shifting from one foot to the other ; he looked as uncomplaining as Patience herself, and I guess he'd been glad of a monu ment or anything else to sit on for a spell. "As you read in stories, its a great privilege to wait on a really pretty voung miss, but just consider how you'd like it if you were a clerk, and your tea time was passing unnoticed, while your customer, however nice-looking she might be, kept shrugging her shoulders at everything, and making you nearly smother yourself in piles of goods. "As for me, I couldn't stand it no longer. I pitied the young man, and I says to Fanny, quite decided, says 1 : " 'fanny, take that dress, even it it ain t just your exact idea. .None 01 ns get just what we want in this world, and if we find what is serviceable and looks well we ought to be thankful. I advise you to take it,' says I. " She looked sort of undecided for a minute, and then, breaking out into good-natured smiles, she said : " ' Well, Aunt Jemima, I am glad to take your advico. I never could be sat isfied with my own tastes. In fact, when I see so many things I can't tell which I want, and I dare say I have tired you.' "Mere sue gave the young man such a melting smile that he forgot all about his supper, and frisked round, doing up the silk into a parcel, with his admiring eyes fixed on Fanny as long as she was in sight. " Now vousee, Gussie, my dear, that I actually committed the weakness of advising that young lady, and from that hour my trouble began. " There was a family living hero at that time much esteemed for the enter tainments they gave. Dare was their name a mother, repnted a rich widow, with two daughters and their invites were sent out for a great party, so that Fanny had to hurry up the making of her new silk, which she expected to shine in on the occasion; "1 took a great interest in Fanny; so, when I went over to see her dressed, and found she needed some trifle from the dry goods store, I ran off to get?it. " I noticed great bills stuck in the windows about damaged silks just re ceived and for sale below cost, but I didn't think much of it till, by-aud-bye, when the party was over, and poor Fanny who had promised to stop in and tell mo how she had enjoyed her self arrived in a flow of tears. "'Oh, Aant Jemima,' she cried, 'I can never tell you how wretched I've been to-night! I shall always hate that Mary Dare. She has such a mean, jealous disposition, and never loses an opportunity to hnrt people's feelings and make them appear silly. It seems there are cheap, damaged silks in town, and she pretended to mistake mine for one of them. "Why, how nice you look !" says she, coming up to me when I went into the parlor. "I declare those damaged silks make np almost equal to the genuine article I" I didn't understand her. " This is real silk, Miss Dare," says I, feeling dreadfully uncomfortable. "Oh, yes, I know I" she returned, winking and laughing; "butreallynow.it doesn't look at all bad. Any one, in a poor light, would take those water-stains for changeable shades." Then I saw her whisper to the other girl, and set the story going. Wasn't that ill-natured in her, Aunt Jemima!' exclaimed Fanny, in a burst of indignant weeping. " I agreed with her about the young lady's temper. To tell tho truth, I never did set mueh store by the family, and when they were found ont, some months later (they went off in the night leaving piles of unpaid bills and rent cf their house and furniture still due), I wasn't among the astonished part of the community. I hadn't ex pected much better of 'em. Folks that'll invite you to their house to make you miserable ain't generally of much ac count, " Fut, you see, this little occurrence kind of set Fanny against that dress. Of course, any one with half on eyo could see it wasn't one of the sp'iled silks; but Fanny was very pretty and had lots of admirers two things that are apt to make enemies of other young women, and she had her share. " Among them, Mary Dare's story got whispered round, and though there wasn't one of the lot who was not ready to say the worst she could of Mary's veracity, they all somehow agreed to accept this story of tho silk dreas. "Does that strike you as strange, Gussie ? Just think a bit, and you will remember a dozen Buch cases in your own knowledge. "But to go on with Fanny's green silk, that I had advised her to buy. She soon heard the story, and vowed she would never wear 'the unfortunate old thing' again. " Of course, that was only silly talk. She put it on, that very afternoon, to go out riding with Judge Stanley's family. Miss Jessie Stanley, the judge's daughter, had been abroad and traveled everywhere with her aunt, Miss Parker, who was Mrs. Stanley's sister, and a most elegant lady, so every one in Waterford said. "Fanny was the very first they Lad asked to share their drives, and I was glad of it, seeing. how uncomfortable she felt over the Dares' story. I sort of took a peek or two out of my win dow, which ain't just as handy as I could wish for noticing that way, but I man aged to get a glimpse of Fanny, In a white chip hat, with daisies, andablaok jacket, and though the judge's family looked grand enough, I thought she hadn't no need to hang ber head. "Bat there's no relying on the humors of yonng folks. I had run over to sit a bit with her mother, when she came all in a flurry. She did not see me at first, and so broke out, in a half crying tone : " I wish I had never seen this horrid green silk that Aunt Jemima advised me to buy. Just think! Miss Jessie had a delicate blue Frenoh mnslin on, and Miss Parker's was a lovely buff, and my changeable green just killed them both. Miss Jessie said so her self, and I know she will never invite me again.' " ' Fanny !' cried her mother ; but Fanny saw me, and altered her tone. " 'I don't mean to be cross, Aunt Jemima,' says she, 'but this dreas seems bound to make me unhappy. Miss Stanley and Miss Parker looked so cool and elegant in their exquisite French muslins and Valenciennes laces, while I must have seemed like a com mon country girl baside them in this old-fashioned green silk.' " ' And yet that same silk cost a right smart price,' says I, 'and it is real pretty, too, to my thinking.' " I just hate it I' says Fanny, burst ing into tears again. 'I know the Stanleys have heard Mary Dare's story about it a being damaged thirty-cents-a-yard things. Sue Foxly, the dress maker, told them. She was there sew ing, and she's a shameless gosBip.' " ' So much the better,' says Fanny's mother. 'Nobody credits a story teller.' - "'Oh, yes, they do I' cries Fanny. ' She get's half her custom for the amount of gossip she carries.' " " Why, Aunt Jemima !" exclaimed Gussie, "that seems just like Patsy nare. we ail Know sue carries tales, but it is so amusing to listen to her, that we all get her to sew for us. Of course we don't believe half she says. " Aunt Jemima shook her head, with a twinkle in her eye. " I shouldn't wonder if Patsy Hare was some kin to Sue Foxly," says she ; "but which half of Patsy's tales do yon :'v( credit to, Gussie ?" Gussie laughed and couldn't tell, then Aunt Jemima went on : "After that awhile, young' Philip Stanley comes back from Europe. He Ivad been studying how to be a doctor in foreign parte; and I havo heard that he gave his mind to hi? work whilo there, and was ever after i credit to his folks. You'd have thoi ht so, any how, from the fuss they made about him. They wasn't content with a small celebration, but had to give a big grovo party, so that all the town-folks could come and make him welcome. Of course, Fanny was asked, and of course she wore her best dress girls didn't have one for every day in tho week then and mighty pretty she looked, though she didn't know it herself. "Everything was of the finest and best, and the young doctor was bo agreeable to all the girls that they just forsook the other young men and clus tered 'round him. "The heft of 'em was dressed in thin white stuff, and some one compared 'cm to fairies. This set Fanny thinking over her green silk, and made her dis contented, as usual. 'By-and-bye up comes a storm; the rain catches the poor fairies, and sends 'em flying from the dancing-ground into the shelter of the pavilion, where Fanny had gone some time before to sit by Mrs. Stanley. They were all either damp or draggled, and as the day grew cooler after the rain they shivered like a lot of wet sparrows, and had to put on shawls and things to keep them from getting cold. "Then came Fannv's turn. She looked as fresh as a blush-rose in a cir cle of green leaves, and Philip Stanley told a person I was intimate with that he never knew green silk was such a becoming material for a lady's dress before, and that if he ever manied his wife should always have one." un,Aunt Jemtma!" cried Gussie Stafford, clapping her hands and break ing into a pleased laugh; "you're telling me about mamma and papa, un der different names." ' Not so very different." returned the old woman. "Elizabeth Frances was your ma's name called for her two grandmas, according to the proper way of doing things; and, though your pa called her Bess,' I often call her ranny." "And it was through her desoised green dress that papa fell in love with her !" mused Gussie, tracing a flower of mai color in ner own pretty gown. "Oh, it wasn't just that foryour ma was a mighty pretty girl; butl'spect the contrast between them damp girls, in draggled finery, did set her off like. Any way, I told her so when she com plained to me about the green silk (it was a habit she'd got into), and at the same timo told me that Philin had spoke to your grandpa for her. " ; weu, says J, 'you're what I call a girl in luck, Fanny; and if you ain't thankful for it and do your best to deserve it, never call me Annt Jemima again ! And now about that green silk; 1 1 i -r m -. . . ... ' rcmeiuuer wuai i say, ior it s the living truth. Don't never ask my advice any more, for I don't never again intend to give it to no one.' savs I. And I lmv kept my word. " Gussie, come quick I Hush I don't make a noise I Kemember the window's open, and he may hear you. It's Harry Hunter there he goes! As fine a fellow as there is in the State; and if you trifle with his feelings you're not your Aunt Jemima's pet-that's all. " 1 give no advioe not a word of it; but I ha7e my opinions, thank good ness 1" A Slight Mistake. " That's a fine linn ha rnn'u .nt there," said Yeast to a friend who had recently laid out considerable money iu a now resilience. " Yes," replied the friend, "I think made a urettv craaA harem" n " "Any incumbrance on it," quoried Yeast, cautiously. "Well, yes; my wife's mother is stonninc with Tin inn, nnn Vint ). U ' juwv ft.. liL. health is not the best, and the chances are But Yeast suddenly remembered that his Wife had told him i.n linm tl and he started off at a pace that would nave uuue creuit to a professional pe destriaa. Statesman. FOR THE LADIES, filrl roitbora. At every station in Finland, lays the author of "Land of the Midnight Sun," I had a young girl for a driver; and these children of the North seemed not in the least afraid of me. My first driver's name wan Ida Catherine. She gave me a silver ring.and was delighted wnen sue saw it on my linger. I prom ised to bring her a gold one the follow ing winter, and I kept my word. She was glad indeed, when at the end of the drive, after paying, I gave her a silver piece. Another driver, twelve years of age, was named Ida Carolina. The tire of one of our wheels became loose, but she was equal to the emergency; she alighted, blocked tho wheel with a stone, went to a farmhouse and bor rowed a few nails and a hammer, and with the aid of a farmer made every thing right in a few minutes; she did not seem in the least put out by the ac cident; she chatted with me all the time, though I did not understand what she said, for 1 did not then know the Finnish language. She was a little beauty, with large blue eyes, thick, fair hair and rosy cheeks. Mnrrlnge Customs of A.plrtillnn Nntlves When a girl is betrothed her mother and aunts may not look at or speak to the man for the rest of his life, but if they meet him they squat down by the wayside and cover up their heads, and when he and they are obliged to speak in one another's presence they use a peculiar lingo, which they call "turn- tongue. This queer dialect is not used for concealment, for everybody understands it, and Eome examples of it show that it has much in common with the ordinary language. To give an idea of the state of formality into which life has come among these sup posed free-and-easy savages, mention may be made of the duties of the bride maid and groomsman. When the mar ried pair have been taken to the now hut built for them, for the next two moons the groomsman and the husband sleepon one side of tho firo, the bride maid and tho wife on the other, tho new married couple not being allowed to speak to or to look at one another. The bride is called a "not-look-aronnd," and the pair in this embarrassing position are a standing joko to tho young people living near, who amuse themselves by peeping in end laughing at them. JS a I lire. Fashion Kolcs. Bed and white make an admired com bination for evening wear. Esthetic yoting ladies cling to the small sunflower floral garnitures. Whether bodices are plain, gathered or plaited in qncotion of figure. The most fashionable flower garni tures for ball drosses are of water lilies. Velvet, plush, moire aud satin all frequently appear in the same costume. Ladies' riding hats are a little lower in the crown than they were last season. Some large hats have the crowns completely surrounded with silk pom pons. Young and slender women l refer low round waists with belts for evn?ug wear. Ulsterettes reaching nearly to the knee take the place of long ulsters thin season. Heavy double box-plaited ruchings adorn the bottom of the skirt of many handsome costumes. Bhine crystal ornaments are now made so flee as to simulate diamonds wonderfully well. Bed paper fishes with blue eyes are the latest novelty in Japanese hanging ornaments for rooms. - Lonar collars uro worn by children. girls in their teens, young ladic, ma trons and elderly women. Ombre de Burmah is a new cloth for ladies' suits. It comes with u wide fancy border for trimming. Some novel imported hats are made entirely of a thick network of erystuls and boads, which inlhe evening glitter use a mousanu coioreu gems. Medium sized fans are carried instead of the immensely largo ones bo lately popular. Beautiful evening fans are made of rose-tinted ostrich feathers, with mother-of-pearl handles Portia fans are also shown, made of delicate mauve-tintel feathers, with sticks of chased silver. A single wide ruche at tho edge of the skirt is a favorito' trimming for simple dresses. It is five or six inches wido and is laid in treble or quadruple box-plaits placed an inch apart. It is then stitched in the middle and the edges are allowed to fall forward and almost meet. In the line of winter chapeau there are a few pronounced changes, which might be classed as exaggerated style. The "huge" poke takes the lead in society Headgear, This style is very becoming to some faces, and particu larly when the wearer tips the bonnet over tho forehead. Girls as Wood Engravers. A contemporary asked a wood en graver why he did not employ girls. His reply was: "I have employed women very often, and I wish I could feel more encouraged. But the truth is that when a young man comes to me and begins his work be feels that it is his life's business. He is to cut his fortune ont of the tittle blocks before him. Wife, family, home, happiness and all are to De carved ont by his own hand, and ho settles steadily to his labor, de termined to master it, and with every incitement spurring him on. He can not marry until he knows his trade. It is exactly the other way with the girl. She may be as poor a the boy, and as wholly dependent upon herself for a living, but she feels that sho will prob ably marry by-and-bye, and then she must give up wood engraving. So she goes on listlessly; she has no ambition to excol; she does not feel that all her happiness depends on it. She will marry, and then her husband's wages will support her. She may not say. so, but she thinks so, and spoils her work. Leffcl Mechanical Newt. Our Legacies. If somo hand is quite still That we have loved and kept in ours uatil It grow so cold; If all it held hath fallen from its hold And It can do No more, perhaps there are a few Small threads which it held fast, Until the last, That we can gather np and weave along, With patience strong In love. If we can take But some wee, eingle thread, for lovo's eweo Bake, And keep it beaten on the wheel A trifle longer; feel The same thread in our hands to add unto, and Hold nntil our own grow cold, Wo may take heart, abovo the wheel, and With weak hands, which begin spin Where those loft off, and going on Grow strong. If wo bend close to see Just what tho throads may ho Which fillod tho quiet hands, Perhaps some strands So golden, or so strong, may lie there still, That we our empty hands may fill; And even yet May emilo though still our eyes be wet. HUMOR OF THE DAY. An exchange asks " Do beets pay?" Dead-beats never pay. It takes just three people to keep a secret properly, but two of the three must be dead. In view of the buckwheat season the New Haven Register calls in a loud voice for scratching posts. When six young ladies sit down to talk about a new dress pattern a small boy with a tin horn is a refuge for the weary. "Are you feeling very ill ?" asked the physician ; "let me tee your tongue, please." "It's no use, doctor," replied the poor patient; "no tongue can tell how bad I feel." No woman would be happy to be the only woman in the world and havo all the men worship her. She wouldn't be satisfied. She'd want another woman or two to envy her Boston Post. It is useless for physicians to arguo against short-sleeved dresses. The Con stitution of the United States says : " Tho right to bear arms shall not bo infringed." Buffalo Express. It is feared that the enormous manufacture of wooden toothpicks is utterly destroying tho forests of America, but then the young man who spends all his salary for good clothes must have something to eat. Hawk eye. TJntil. churches are furnished with mirrors women will continue to keep their bonnets on during tho service. Without a looking-glass a bonnet once taken off could never be put on again. That is to say, we never saw or heard of such a thing. Boston Transcript. "Will you hold my baby while I look ont for my baggage ?" asked a woman of a railway employe in a Ouicago de pot, the other day. "No," said the roan, "but 1 will hold your bagfoge while you look ont for your baby." He held a baby fjv a woman once and she never came back for it, and that wa what made him so careful. Sights oa ft Bond in Palestine. The old maratime plain of tho Philis tines (which is another name for Pales line) lay along this coast, from Gaza northward, and it was considered a land worth struggles. This Joshua found. Dut in vain do we look for the "roses of Sharon and the lilies that grow" in this land so renowned once for its roseate beauty. Still, we are told that in the vernal season it is carpeted like a Texas prairie, with flowers of various hue and loveliness. Along tho dusty afternoon road wc pass innumerable caravans of camels, led by Arabs on donkeys. The Arabs generally sits on tho remote pjint of the es cocygis of the auimal, and without stirrups. He swings his bare brown feet and legs, while the little beast, like Juhis, alongsido of his father, trots inequo pede. Plenty of women, with fnee3 here apparent, and in long, blue, cheap cotton man tles, and sometimes with head crowned with burdens of fruit, pitchers, straw or wood, are mot in the way. Some ruins, mostly of churches, here and there ap pear, while square, windowless, Turkish guard-houses are seen at intervals, at whose doors are the white-dressed, fez capped Turkish soldiers with guns and cigarettes. These are the police who are supposed to guard the road; but to our observation no guard is needed, except in the dark mountain passes, and there Turkish engineering has been careful to have as few guard-houses a possible. There is not much to see on tho road until you come to Bamleh. Beggars und backshish, and some old relics as crusading reminders are here, and one very conspicuous object. The latter is a square tower and winding staircase. It is off the road and has a fine view of the surrounding country. It is over 1,000 years old, and has many Moslem associations. Bamleh has been the scene of much contest. Indeed, every little spot here in Judea is full of memories, from the time Israel came down from the Moab mountains into the Jordan valley. The road is not to be mentioned for its ! convenience and perfection, only for its historic relig ious and testhetio interest It was built in 1869, by forced labor, and in deed its rough and stony incomplete ness looks like anything but the result of cheerful work. It is supported by tolls, so much per head, on every animal on the road. One should not complain of the road when it is remembered that before 1869 there was not a bridle path to Jerusalem. It is said that the sultan promised the Empress Eugenie to build a road to Jerusalem if she would come that way, and this royal courtesy is the origin of the road. Congressman Cox. The Bt. Louis Republican says if a11 the big farms in Missouri were divided up and sold, leaving one-half, and in some cases only one-fourth to the owner. it would be an advantage both to tho proprietors ana to the state, NEWS OF THE WEEK. Victoria 0. WoonnoLL arrived In New fork the other day from Europe, where she has been for eome years. Fma at East Cambridge, Mass., totally destroyed the works of the American Rubber company, consisting of five buildings, together with valuable machinery and stock, causing a loss of t5OO,OG0. Br the caving in of a stone quarry at Rondout, N. Y., two men were killoi and two others soriously hurt. A kitmbeb of girls employed in the rag room of a paper mill at Holyoke, Mass., have been taken down with smallpox. Dcnuia a fire at Bcranton, Ta., an old lady, named Mrs. MoOarthy, and a Mrs. Reid wert burned to death. . Mb. Hunter, the Philadelphia tax recolTcn has made a report declaring that thousands oi dollars have boen stolen annually by a ring oi clerks in the offices of the tax receiver and comptroller. A man died the other day in a New York hospital of leprosy. P. M. Swalh, a Boston drug broker, has boei crippled by tho Paciflo bank troublos and hai suspended, owing about 1200,000. Four othei failures took place in Boston. Jom Hajxiabd, president of the broker Mechanics and Laborers' Savings bank Jersey City, N. J., found guilty of concealing tiio insolvency of the bank, was sentonced tf eightocn months' imprisonment Mn. AXDBZW Caexmu has made the princely donation of $250,000 for free library to be built at Pittsburg, Pa. Ht a collision between two traius near Thompson, Conn., tho conductor and engineer of ono train were killed and abont ten pnijoiif were injured. South and West. Focb men in a wagon passed through Aber deen, M:ei., Bta'ing that they wero from a point near the Alabama lino and f oing t Arkansas. They encamped throo ".iles west of Aberdeen, and next evening some persons pawing by found them lyin ; dead on inattfeattM, covoroil with quilts, each with his head split open as though with an ax. A boileb in Jamoa Henry's shingle mill, Grand Rapids, Mich., exploded, killing tho en gineer and another man. The mill was do. atroyed, and a residence adjoining badly shut tered. The Osago City (EauBas) savings buik baa suspended. The Danford bank at Hmincwell, Kansas, has also suspended. Cruio JonnAX and Parker Jordan (colored) were lvnched in LeQoro county, Miss., for tl.o assassination of Robert Caliua, a white man, and James Holland mot asimilarfato at Darda nolte, Ark., for a murder committed to yean ago. TwEsrrr-xwo Ktati'9 were i-c-preniit-d at tin National Butter, Cheefo and Egg cnnveutiim, held i'j Cedar Rapid, Iowa. Moke than lilty liiuMin;,--, compri ing tho busineas portion of Aiigit-t:, Ark., were de stroyed by firi', i-ntailing an estimated total loss of f 200,000. Tkk earlier, president aud directorx of Dm I n ken f'itr.nniH' I an!t nf lYI'di cniin'y, fia.. b vi- l .i-i indie:?;!. At tho N'a-liorat Dairymen's convention, in '.Vin llapi Is, Iowa, iho manufacture of oleo nnrgarinn and other adulterations in dairy pro Iiic'h was drnomicod. Dej.eo.vte8 from all parts of the United Si.ites and Canada wero present at the IrieL national convention held in Chicago. Tho cou vi nt ion adopted resolutions favoring full supp'irt by all the Iriaii societies of this cong I i v of the land loagno in Ireland. Two colored mou in jail at Oxford, N. C, or. charge of murder wero taken away by a boJj of masked men and banged ; and on the same day at Yazoo City, Miss., two colored men who confessed to having murdered three men were lynched. l'ltF.siliEXT D. O. Eels, of tho Cleveland (Ohio) Commercial National bank, was eitthig in his oflicc, cutting coupons from some bonds, and at the name timo talking to a friend, when an unknown man who had entered the office quietly walked off with a box containing $117, UO'J in negotiable bonds. Tho box wafe not missed for nearly half an hour. H.viiRV Weston, foreman of tho Gold Tark Mining company, Leadvillc, Col., was Bhot and Killed by Bagley, a discharged blacksmith. Bagley fortified himsolf in his cabin, which was surrounded by a crowd and besieged for eight hours. Finally a largo quantity of giant powder waB placed near the door aud ignited. Tho explosion following tore tho cabin to pieces and Bagley was found with a bullot-holo through his heart, having evidently committed suicide. John T.vyloii, head of tho Mormon church at Halt Lako City, Utah, has just taken to him self another wife, a wealthy widow. I'liiE aud an explosion at Minneapolis, Minn., caused tho dcaih of tlireo firemen and a citizen and the destruction of a cotton mill and four flouring niilU. The pecuniary loss is about $570,000. From Washington. Skcbetart Fomer has issued call for $20, 000,000 of the extended six per cent, bonds of M61. Tub government receipts during November fall a little short of $30,000,000. The expend!-' turos aggregate more than $18,000,000. Tue appendix to the report of the secretary of the navy this year contains the report of the naval advisory board, convened last June to re port to the secretary some plan for the general improvement of the navy. The board recom mend the building of thirty-eight unarmored cruisers, five steel rams and five torpedo boats, the whole to oost in round numbers $29,000, 000. DuniNO November there was a reduction in the pnblio debt of $7,219,126. The debt leea cash in the treasury is $1,778,285,310.65; cash in the treasury, $215,012,866.00. A uarulB tablet has been placed in the Bal timore and Potomao depot in Washington to mark the spot where President Gar Hold fell. Dumno the last year the life saving service rescued from wrecks 108 persons. Di'Ei.so November tho following coinage wa8 executed at the United States mints: Total gold, 1,221,830 pleoes, worth $9,098,360; total silver, 2,300,000 pieces, worth $2,300,000; total ruinar coins, 5,310,000 pieces, worth $53,100; total coinage, 8,861,886 pieces, worth $12,851,760. The total foreign commerce of the United States during the last fiscal year was $1,675, 021,318. Exports were $902,877,818 J Import, 1612.651.628. W. H. Tbesoot and Mr. Walker Blaine, with two secretaries from the state department, havo departed for South America as special commis sioners, with instructions to urge a settlement of the conflict of Chili with Peru. Foreign News. Pdbino the recent Btorm in Great Britain fifty barges were sunk in the Thames and many vosscls went ashore. In London forty porsons were injured by falling walls. The Bank qf Prinoe Edward Island, t small institution, has suspended payment. The cashier, Mr. Brecken, who has fled, is enid to have permitted worthless ovordrawals to the amount of $300,000. Seven persons were drowned In "the Tbaufos by the sinking oi the steam-yacht Lucerne after i collision with the ship Dundee. Elevkh persons have boon sentenced to im prisonment in England for bribery in parlia mentary elections. AirniCB Lefboy, whose murder of an old merchant In an English railway carriage last July created great exoitemcnt throughout Eng land, was hanged at Lowes, Sussex. Six out of a crew of seven seamen wert drowned by the capsizing of a vcesel in Tiinitj bay, Newfoundland. The body of the Earl of Crawford aud Bal. carres, who died in Docomber, 1S80, has beet tolen from the mortuary chapel in Scotland. A Panama correspondent reports thai .Arty officers and nearly 1,000 men employed cn Do Leeseps' canal have died of fovor since last January. 1 Ireland tho proceedings against the two sub-inspectors of police who were declared by tho coroner's jury in county Kilkenny to bo guilty of murder havo been quashed by tho court cf queen's bench. Miss Reynolds, a ccnbplcnous no-rent agitator, has been charged with abetting a criminal conspiracy to prevent lie payment of rent. A Dobu.n cable dlepatoh to the Now York Uerald says: It is generally believed here that tho present orisia Is the most important of the whole land movement, for the poople have clinched with tho government and have thus far successfully resisted all the strength of co ercion. It is a startling fact that two-thirds of tho routs are not being paid and that the ton ants have no intention of paying them without heavy reductions, which tho landlords refuse. The land courts are bo slow that the ft is yet no remedy whatever for the troublos, Tho Life-Saving Serrlce. Tho following is a synopsis of tho report of tbf superintendent of tio lil'o-saving service: Al the close cf the fiscal year the service included 183 stations, of which 113 were on the Atlantic, thirty-four on the lakes, and six on tho Pacilic. The number of casualties on tho Atlantic coast within the scope of the service was 151; on tb lakes, 01, and on the Pacific coaxt, 0. On board the vessels wrecked wore 1,830 perBons, of whom 1.851 wero saved and twenty-six lost. The lumber brought ashore by lifo-ttaving appli ances was 403, and succor was afforded to 407 at the various stations. One hundred and seventy-eight vessels were helped by tho life saving crews to get off when stranded, and were piloted to places of safety. The estimated vaJun of tho vessels wrocked within the scopool tho service, togother with their cargoes, was $1,031,752. Of this amount $2,828,C30 was saved and $1,220,072 lost. The general super intendent of tho servico recommends the estab lishment of additional stations at a number of points on tho Atlantic coast and tho lakes, urges -that the compensation of keepers and crows be increased to a living rate, and makes an earnest appeal for legislative enactments and appro priations which, in his judgment, aro necessary t'i keep the eervico from decay and dissolution. A Hoy-lYdiiler's Strange Whim. The boy peddler, with twenty-nino fine suits of clothing, twenty-four over conts and thirty -three pair of kid gloves, has his homo in Reading, Pa., and is well known to all traveling commercial mon who get along that way. Periodi cally the boy breaks out in local adver tisements announcing an addition to his extensive wardrobe, as follows : "Thomas Jefferson Cummings has the honor to announce that he has just added another suit to his fall afternoon wear, and now his fine wardrobe con sists of forty fashionable full suits, twenty-four overcoats," etc It is his boast that he can appear on the street every day in the month and wear a different full suit of clothing each day and allow at least three changes on Sunday. Cummings is about eighteen years of age, peddles notions, with a basket on his arm, helps to support a widowed mother, pays cash for all he gets, sells close and works hard. On the streets of Heading his appear ance is that of a Beau Brummel. His dress is exceedingly loud, his weakness running to green kid gloves, corn-colored ribbons, pink eye-glasses and silk hats of the latest style. In the country, on business, his appearance is that of a poor, humble, meek and lowly Hebrew, and his customary salutation to the people he calls on is: "Have pity on a poor boy and help him along." The vounc man r pyppcvIi'tio-Iv affable and agreeable, and succeeds in selling large quantities or goods at very fair prices. The farmers have a strong liking for him, and when they visit Beading on business and see the well dressed young man sweepLiar past in broadcloth, kids and gold-heau cane, they little dream that the young mk.' is the peddler boy they know so well at borne. Mis savincfi bi-a enfivolv imwAotnyi rn n j uiyeouu ill clothing and articles of adornment. At uu jo uuu DCCU iur wce&a. 10 is then OUt On thn COnntrv birrlm-ai-a n,'n - w.j .0,.,u, fum ing money in a small way. He neither smoKes nor annus, and has no expenses worth speaking of. Then, suddenly, he will brAalr nrtt. In nomtinn v - " - A.VMMAU, sou tuu fashions for a week or more, and as suuaeniy alter disappear. He generally leaves home on Monday morning, in variably starting before da that his acquaintances may not see him m ins oouniry maKe-up. He carries a large basket filled with goods, and ho orders his fresh supplies shipped to -"" ivAULa uuug ma route, un. ouiuraay nignt ne generally returns, looking decidedly weather-beaten, but if there is an opera or theater in town ne is generally in the front row of the paraquet by 9 o'clock, dressed to rival the most fashionable swell in the land. He is quito a favorite among commer cial men, who know him as "Collins, the boy miiiiorjBjrew j8 oarrently reported that he is to be married, and that an insurance has been placed on him (marriage insurance) of $125,000. Cum uiings claims that he has the largest wardrobe in the world of any person of his age. He is five feet five inohes tall, and weighs 129 pounds, I
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