Hir f.aglUb C'aaalna. Mr. Joeojib Elliott, ibc veteran m. nin:r reporter of the New York Jl.-mld, who Las recently been on a v :t to England, Las be: n 'n'.ervicwed l.y a C raj hit- reporter, and expressed, ia verr plain terms, Lis opinion cf tie English climate and racing ftock, as wcll'as tie raa.-s of fpeetators of English racing. We give so much of the interview as bears on these points: "Well, Elliot, what do you thick of England 1'' '1 tLink it's an infernal climate, iiihaliited bx a race of heathen bar l'iria:i.. I Lad a letter to TatterEall, ar.d I delivered it just before I eame av6v. I had been there many days, 1 joking at the pales; but 1 didn't want t i be coached, and I delayed presenting the letter. Said Tatter-i-;;ll: "Mr. Elliott. Low long do you Kav in London?' .Said I, "if my writ eh is correct I i-ball be out of this town in about two Lours.' 'How do you I ke tbe country? 'Well, I Lav n't seen anything in it to like. It ai-tiears to nie to be only partly civilized, and how in tbe name of H A you arc going to civilize such material as you have got here, passes n.y comprehension.'" ' ?ut at any rate the horses ex reed yours in ftyle, Fpeed and rtroiipth." No, they don't. There are more 'weeds' running in England than I had anv idea of. I saw four hun dred "race-hori-es on Newmarket Heath; thatis more than we have ia all America, for we have little above three Lundred. I said to Mat-Lew Iawson, who Las tLe best stable there : 'You won't pretend to race some of tho?e scrubs?' 'Ob, we!!,' he said, 'we'll work, 'em all in curir.g the season. There's to much running in England that every one of those weeds can win something.'" "How many race-horses have tb-y in nil j-.ngiuna : "About three thousand. Their t-vstcm of handicapping is vicious, l" don't believe their Lories get food, ininaie or growiu 14""' Thev put their winners into the stud too early, and fail to give them the time and experience our horses get. Jlf-idrs, the way racing is conducted ::i England is ia the hishest degree i orrupting to man and horse. Every li'.'Je Tu'tiic housekeeper has his 'i.j'.k.' T.ojkmaking' is the vice cf ti.e nobleman and the roustabout. TLe money git? into the hands tf the 1 i.:;im r.-r at lat. the people are i i a:id, and still they game from St. V li s t ) St. James." -And you don't think the climate . i" i:rj;-!at,d the be.-t for the horse ? " I think il'fc about the worst; hu 1 iid, f-'ggy, wheezy, breeding con sun.piion and affections of the throat and ncftrils. I was ordered by mv t!oetr,r to go cut of the country fi nally." "Did you f.nd Trance any better?" "Altogether better, both in climate and manners. They Lave taken to n . ing there in recent years, but their I, - are sounder than the English, r.nd they carry off their own purses. I went to Yinecnnes, Longchamps, li'rand lVc and Chanlilly courses. The L r.-rs of the Hue d' Aumale at ('hanti'iy were manificcnt animals. I tM tl. editor of the London sport us paper when I returned that the 1.-st race lnre in the world was tbe American, and next the French. He c ;.:! I was the most prejudiced man he lmd ever seen. Hut I told Lim then that no English horse would win u:n thing at , and I remarked :!.' winner French. "Why don't you turfmen challenge m: the other side if our horses arc up 1 English standard?" "Sanford is going over this year with a large part cf Lis stable, par ti, 'iilarly yearlings. He was preccd- d by Ten Eroeckand Hailan. Ten Ei week was freipientlv the winner." "Which are the favorite sires of England now "I suppose they call old Cathedral, Macaroni and Elair-Athol the best. The lirst has to be lifted up, he is so oM and broken. I attribute the de c'.iv.e of English stock, as I have paid, partly to the malign influence of rac ing, as conducted in England, on the st ;i J. A Hcrby winner at two years ( ' 1 is magnified into a sire. 'Who.-e stable did you find the i ". in England." 'Oh, the Newmarket stibles. Newmarket seems to be the immcmo r.l home of the Eruish horse and j (key. The three brothers Dawson, l ive each about sixty horses. Mat thew Dawson's stable is probably the best in Englanl. It is lighted with gas and kept open until ten o'clock at n Lt when the ga3 is turned out and trainers go to sleep. All day the horse is kept amused by people con versing near Lim. He is interested, his mind helped, and his habits are cleaner. We shut the stable doors, li e horse remains in solitude, Lis habits grow vicious, and Lis strength or:en subsides." "Still, you do not like England?" "No, the spectators of the races there ere the lowest eanaille cf the cr.i'th. Such an audience as you see m .! ri me l'ark, or the Craneh, or at Lexington, is unknown in England. At tbe new track near London there v. as n tariff for admission. 'We w :h't 'ave it, you kuow,' cried the ti:'. b. And they cleared away that lruee like so many pioneers, inundat ed the field, aud laughed at authori ty. At the Durham races the colliers came in, noisy, and fighting, Lea'.h r'j'sli. 1 saw one fellow, who held ti c rtake for two others, seized, and tin y began to gnaw at his fist with th.-ir teeth to make him drop tbe money. At ,the mob swept the I., i t, knocked me dewu and ran over me, and lastly a man on horseback pih'ped over me. At tbe health of New 11,111 Let 1 took a horse, afraid to go on foot longer, and being pretty old and matured, I soon felt very iore ; so I siw a numlterof press vans on the track wita reporters inside, driv ing ovtr the course and paiuting as th t proceeded. 1 Lauded in my card to one cf the gentry, "Joseph Eiliot, sporting editor of the New Yelk Herald," and said will you per mit me, sir, to ride with vour driver?' No, EI! be damned if 1 do?' Wby, sir, in the House of Lords I saw "a great placard: T.eware of pickpock ets.' Sporting Louses Eke Jim Shaw's are inaccessible from the thieves and ruffians around them. Woinin arc unable to attend the greater part of the races with respect 1 went to the Tower of London w ith a cab ; it happpencd to be a free day; a policeman said to me : 'You are a stranger, ain't you ? Well, don't you go there to-day ; they'll pick every, thing off of your body ; they'll strip ycu. Come back on a shilling day.' j 1 hld up my Lands and Eaid: 'AW' (Jod ! is there any place on this island ! where a man is safe?" 'Terhapsyou might find that wick edness in the sporting classes chiefly." "I don't know. The whole nation seemed to me to bo brutal. At the ; Ljtcl where I stopped, a well dressed ! man would enter and say loud enough ! to be heard by all: 'Waiter, who's I 'That's an Anier- ican, sir!' i'Ob, a Yankee !' 1 was a witness to four resectable lookicz' English women opposite the L rd J Mayor's residence, drinking four piat3 of fctror.g porter each, in a public bouse. It seemed to me the t the Eng lish womea didn't wash. TbrOIdThlrteea Stem. Although the Spanish and Mexi can cessions comprise towns which far antedate the earliest settlements within the original thirteen States, it is to the latter that we must first turn in any attempt to broadly grasp the history of population within tbe United States. Lut we shall fail to reach the full significance of the situ ation if we onlv give to ourselves, as reasons for treating this portion of territory first in order, its present pop ulation, exceeding that of any other section, its earlier political develop ment, or jis more conspicuous figure in American history. It is not more, but rather less, on account of these than en account of the actual contri butions which this section Las made to the population of each one in turn of the other geographical divisions of the United States, early or recent, that the writer on population must turn first to Jamestown and Fly mouth, or he will read Lis theme backward. St. Augustine (15C5) and Santa Fe (152) were, indeed, planted before English Cavalier or English Furitan sougLt the mere northern ianus ior settlement; but St. Augustine and Santa Fe were a barren stock, and tbe populations that to-day occupy the regions in which these were planted in the sixteenth century Lave 1 poured lortn states uunaea in penury I and neglect Jong aiterwara. v nen ! the trreat province of Louisiana came ; to us. in 1 S03. more than three cen- ; turies after the discovery of the main : 1 jud of America, it contained, from the delta of the Mississippi to tbe Fuget Sound, scarcely twenty thou sand white inhabitants. That this vast territory now contains more than fire millions of inhabitants, who will by lfij be eight millions or ten, is not due to the robustness of tbe stock which Jefferson annexed with the soil, or mainly to direct immigration. In like manner, when we received Florida from Spain by the treaty of 1319, not consummated, however, un 1S21, the w Lite population was but twelve or fiheej thousand, so slight had been the fecundity of the Span ish settlements. And when, in 1822, Congress directed the Fostmaster (ieneral to make provisions" for a post route from St. Augustine to Fensa ccla, that officer was obliged to re port the next year as follows : "Diligent inquiry has been made, and it docs not oppct r that there is a road between these places on the route designated on whic'i the mail can be conveved. There are Indian paths which pass through different Indian settlements, but none, it is un derstood, that extend for any con siderable distance in the proper di rection." And so late as the first date for which we have the statistics of nativity in the United States, it was found that of the frce inhabitents of Florida mote had been born in the original thir.cen States than in Flor ida itself, while less than six per cent of the free inhabitants were of for eign birtn. itic lexas annexation, again, now counts about 830,000 souls; but w hen Texas levoltedfrom Mexico it contained probably not more than 40,000, of whom by far the greater part had come from the States. In of the free inhabi tants scarcely more than one-third including, cf course, an undue pro portion cf children, were natives of Texas. In the same way the first Mexican cession, w hen ta' en possession of by the United States, embraced but a small white population. Of this tract it is true that, in the furious excite ment caused bv the discovery of gold at SuUer's Mill, in 1848, it was set tled more largelv than anv other had been bv direct immigration. Yet of the first eightv thousand gold hun ters w ho pressed into the valleys of California, more than three-fourths were born in the Kast, of whom one half, as nearly as might be, were na tives of the original thirteen States, while probably not less than two thirds of the remainder would be found to be cis-appalachian in their origin could wc go but thirty years further back. Tlcru I.ct lAtnttr la 111 City. It was while crossing an enclosed lot of Charles O'Donnel, at Long lane and Darby road, on Saturday, that Samuel Fulton, 71 j-ears of age, was set upon by four bloodhounds, and, although his cries brought in stant assistance, was so terribly torn that he now lies at the Pennsylvania Hospital in a critical conditiou. It is about IS or '20 years ago that the first two bloodhounds, of which the writer is aware, appeared at the beer house of Engel & Wolfe, then situa ted on Dilwylie street, above Cal lowhill. Thev were of the German breed, a male and female, of a brown ish black in color, and compared with all other dogs that ever did "deiirht to bark and bite" as Dr. Watts so sweetly savs of immense sizj. Since then, by importation and natural in crease, the number has grown until scarcely one of the many beer brew eries is without one or more of them, while tbe (Jermau butchers as a rule take a pride ia seeing who can own the b'ggist aud savagesL There are three varieties, the Siberian, tbe llus- sian and the Uerman, in this city. The best specimen of the Siberian, the most lerotious of all, can lie found within the walls Of the East ern Fetiiteutiarv where auy one can interview them by becoming a pris oner, and then, breaking out of his cell, skirmish around the yard of nirhK The Russian and German. varying in size according to the pu rity of tbe breed, are to be found among the manufacturers of beef and beef and pork, and are w ithout ex ception the most ungrateful, vicious, dangerous and untamable brutes that exist among tbe so-called domestic an imals. It is as much as one was can do when attacked to escape unharm ed from their fangs, and when a poor old man of "I is attacked by four of them at once, it is no wonder that tbe hospital report says: "A large piece was torn from one of bis legs, and his body terribly lacerated, and be is in a dangerous condition."- Some two years since a well known down town lumber nercbant possess ed one of these villainous pets that be Lad raised from puppyhood. As it grew towards full size he was com pelled to keep it chained because not a workman ia the yard dared to lay a band on .even a lath but the dig would Sy at him. He bad fed tbe dog always himself, and therefore! imagined that be would never attack Lim. llut one day, when removing! and return it filled with food 03 usu al, tLe dog flew ath'ua, and the chain only saved him from a bite. Then he .1 ... 1 1 1 . ? took a stick and soundly whipped the chained bloodhound. Kut the next day tbe villain was shot, for when the lumber merchant that night un chained Lim be barely escaped with bis life by a flight to a board pile, where Le wa all-night bssicgef. It was only last summer that the writer happening at llridgeport, op posite Norristown, saw slowly stalk across t he road and into the yard of a large factory a most superb female of the S.berian breed. Tbe watch man cf the factory was standing by. and with bim tbe visitor conversed about tbe animal he had just seen. I'll show you something, he said, and opening a stable dor out jumped a pub as big a3 a fu.l grown Spanish pointer. This, be said, w as one of her pups, and nine months old, but I have an older one, a brother of the pup, and he introduced an immense fellow. This, he said, is 13 months old and weights 190 pounds, inint of what chances an unarmed man wonld have with a bound of this weight Do you ever chastise them was inquired! No, be answered, would not dare. Tbe fact is that these bloodhounds are danc-erous. even to their owners are utterly useless to any one, and are kept only because of a competi tion between a certain ciass 01 citi zens as to who shall own the biggest and most ferocious. r'liladeljjlua Times, ItnrkbOBC. An admirable character is the man of backbone. How few there are among us who have a good spinal column. A sound physique argues obedience to God's laws, and there are few things more desirable than "a sound mind in a sound body." A. steam eugine, if it work wtrrl, must have a scums' in some substantial material or else when the fires are started there will be a confusion and . .-t .1 ruin. And in oruer 10 nave iue mmu work up to its best power it should be set in a frame work 0. healtny nerves and tissues with a powerful muscular development. Our man of backbone regards his body as a sa cred treasure, not to be abused; a piece of machinery the conditions and powers of which it is important to understand. Hence he is temper ate in catinz and drinking while be endeavors to secure that measure of exercise which will serve to keep his powers in proper working order. The man of backbone has intelli gent convictions of what is true, and what is duty, and whatever be tue consequences he determines to act on these convictions. He is, withal, very frank in the expression of his views, letting men know where Le sta ids on the great questions of the day, and allowing his name to be as sociated with his personal views. 'Backbone" can give a reason for toe faith that is in Lim, whether that faith concern things Eecular or re ligious. He i? mild without weak ness, stern without the ii3e of invec. ive, indignant against wrong and without hatred of the wrong doer. 1 be Morjr of a Hose. A rose with so pretty a little story and so full of romance as this ought to be beautiful, and so is the Chero kee Itose. Here is the story told of it. "An Indian chief of tho Seminole tribe was taken prisoner by bis ene mies, the Chcrokees, and doomed to torture; but fell so seriously ill that it became necessary to wait for bis restoration to health before commit ting him to the fire. And, as he lay prostrated by disease in tbe cabin of tbe Cherokee warrior, tbe daughter of the latter, a young dark faced maid, was his nurse. She fell in love with the young chieftain, and wishing to pave bis life,, urged him to escape. But be would not do so unless she would flee with him. She consented. Yet, before they had gone far, impelled by soft regret at leaving home, 6he asked permission of her lover to return for tbe purpose of bearing away some memento of it. So, retracing bcr footsteps, she broke a sprijr from tbe white rose which climbed the poles of her fath ' ft.... n 1 ..nr. - 'i r, A. if .1 nr'n f her flight thronsrh the wilderness, planted it by the door of her new home in the land of the beminoles. And from that day this beautiful flower has always been known in Florida and throughout the Southern States by the name of the Cherokee Rose." Kennedy for I'oIMn by Ivy. It seems to me that I read a'l kinds of cures for ivy or mercury poison except tbe right one. I have always endeavored to keep it before the pub lie but have failed. It is to dissolve sujrar of lead a bit tbe size of a haz- lenut in half a teacupful of sweet milk or warm water. Apply as warm as can be easily borne whh a soft linty piece of linen rag. Three or four applications are sulhcient to ef fect a cure. If the poison is on the face and Bearing the eyes or mouth, this astringent wash may be con stantly applied. It is a marvelous cure and by watching closely one can see tbe fevered blisters turn from white to yellow during the applica tion. This remedy for ivy poison should prevent a great deal of suf fering. It is well where a member of a family is easily poisoned to keep sugar of lead in the house all the time. Let it be labeled and kept where it can be found the moment it is wanted. Keep it well wrapped up that it may not lose itsstrength.- Ohio Farmer, Tbe Wb.ile Which AalliM-ked Strain ftbip. A correspondent writes as follows from Cork to the London Daily Tele grapi : "Great excitement has been caused here by the fact that the whale which is supposed on Sunday morning last was the canse of breaking off one cf blades of the fans of the Canard steamer Scythia has been picked up outside Ballycotton Bay, in tbe vi cinity of the spot where the accident occurred. The monster was first found by a gentleman who was going to Dublin in his yacht He took it in tow, but, finding the weight too great, transferred it shortly after wards to the Liverpool tug steamer British King, which brought it into Cork harbor. Tbe animal measures forty-four feet long from the extremi ty of the under jaw to tbe end of the tail. Jt lies on its side in tbe water, disclosing a gash of about three feet in length, commencing at the angle of the upper and lower jaws, and ex tending towards tbe tail. It is a clean cut wound, just such as would be inflicted ty the blade of a propeller, ' and it must have been a tremendous blow, because tbe jawbone, which is fully eighteen inches thick, is com pletely severed. Judging from the advanced state of decomposition of j the carcass death must have ensued j very soon after tho collision. Not-! withstanding the very unpleasant smell thousands of people were along side during the day, and tbe shore ! boatmen were enabled to reap a rare narvesu 1 ne scytuia was wt Liverpool to-day by the tog Storm King. The Boj the ' lot lie was rinsing the glasses when tbe old lady entered the store. It was Lot weather, and the soda fountain looked so tempting that she conquer ed her avarice and walked over and told tbe boy that she would take a "Do you wish for a fly in it?" be inquired m a whisper. "A fly ? gracious, no!" she re nlied. a look of diseast on ber face. "Just as you say, madam," he went on, as he drew some lemon syr up. "Feople are so different in tastes, you know. Some object to flies and ,i.nr I'll mix some uineapple svrup with this lemon, and now ill von have a trreat deal of gas a id a little water, or a irreat deal of water and a little gas." "I'm purty thirsty," she said. "Well, then, you want more wa ter than gas, and there won't be so much danger of an explosion." "Explosion ?" she queried. "That was the word, madam. We have had but few such accidents here this summer, and I truly hope that we may have no more." "Does soda water blow up folks?" ' That depends on the state of their health. Some people could stand here and drink it all day, while oth ers might get the glass tipped up this wav, and bloom ! they'd go." "Bust?" "Yes'm fly into a thousand piec es. You never saw & human being explode, did you ?'" "Mercy, no !" "Well, yoa don't have the least yarning. They may be laughing or talking and all at once tbe store is filled with false bair, monogram gar ters, bustles, corsets, feet, teeth and rolled plate jewelry. It makes a great mus3 around here, and if we had'nt three of the smartest negroes in town to pick up and sweep out we'd have to shut up the store for a whole af ternoon after an explosion." He stood with the glas3 in bis band agitating tbe syrup and waiting ; she said : "I did'ut suppose it was dangerous stuff." "Well, as I told you, it depends on the state of the system. If vour liver is torpid and vour digestion impaired one glass of so la water would blow you higher thnn Gilderoy's kite, and the coroner would be lucky to find as much as your spectacles to hold an inquest on, if your system is all right you might drink a hundred glasses and feel no disastrous enects. -ow, then, you'll have a good deal of water and but little gas, eh ?"' She made a deprecatory motion and asked : "How's the stuff mad?" "Well, I can't go on and explain all the process. There's marble dust, acid, gas, sugar-coated pills, giant powder, cologne water and kerosene all mixed together and tbea distilled. The distilled liquor is then placed in a retort, where a chemical action sep arates it, and the gas forces it up sep arate pipes." "Kerosene and pills 1" she gasped. "That's what I said, madam. You look innocent and honest, and I hope you won't say anything about it. I tend this fountain in order to support a widowed mother and seven father less children. If yon should say any thing I'd be discharged, and if I were discharged I should commit 6uicide. lou'll have plenty of water cb 7" "No. sir. I won't she replied. "Do you suppose I'd drink acid and kero sene ?" "Not in their crude state, madam, but this process " "I don't care for the process !" she snapped. ''I wouldn't touch the stuff!" "It is a i. .'.U beverage madam, and the doc " "Well, I don't want any. When I go to swallowing tar and lard and kerosene you'll know it ! S'posen I drank some and exploded 7" "Don't mention it !" he whispered. "Don't ppeak of it!" "I'm sorry for you young man, but there's a constable living right in sight of our house and I think I I !" "You'll drive me to a suicide's grave, you mean !" She lowered her spectacles, took a long look at him, and went out with out replying. Tbe Biggest Sperling Yet. Ijand and Water, (London,) tells of the capture, in the Mysore dis trict, India, of a herd of elephants, numbering forty-nine head. An irri gating canal winds through a dense jungle, at some points approaching a small river, at others stretching away from it into the jungle, la one place a bend of tbe canal form3, with tbe river, an enclosure in the shape of a horseshoe, containing about fifteen acrep of wooded ground. To this place elephants resort during the monsoon, crossing the canal at three or four points where the banks have become trodden down by constant use. la order to entrap tbe entire herd two lines of chanes were stretch ed across the river at the ends of a horseshoe and a trench was dug od the river-bank to cut off escape on that side. Tbe elephants having crossed into the enclosure, the fords were barricaded with cocoanut trees, the canal deepened at those places, and two deep trenches cut from the canal. Meanwhile a deep, circular treuch was dug, enclosing about an acre of grouud, and two parallel trenches were also dug, leading from the horseshoe to this small enclosure. Drop-gates were made to prevent the animals leaving the Leddah when once they bad entered it A large force of men were now directed to drive tbe herd iuto tbe Leddah. The first attempt failed, tbe elephants stampeding back into tbe horseshoe after a few of them had entered the enclosure. A second effort was crowned with success. First came a female with ber calf; then seven other females, and after a while on came tbe entire herd with a rush, males, females and calves of all sizes, "like a herd of rather large pigs. jostling and pushing one another through the gateway." When the last were in, down went the gate, and they were all secured. The catching of the elephant9, one by one, was the work of several days. The men ride ia among them oa tame beasts, and put ropes round their legs and necks, after which tbe tame elephants drag them out in spile of all resist ance, and they are chained, one by one, to trees, to be trained at leisure. They do not mind the tame elephants mixing with tbcm at all, even with men on their backs, but they object strongly to the mea oa the ground, who have to put oa the ropes. The clever way in which the tame ele phants help is wonderfuL They move close up to the wild ones, and understand Loir to put their legs so as to shield tbe men from all kicks. They take bold of the wild ones' legs and trunk with their own trunks, and are invaluable. The Xaturml lliolory of Swlodlfi. The swindler is perennial, and al ways busy. His methods vary with time and circumstances, but at bot tom he is always tbe same. And there is, in the permanent propensity of men to lm swindled, a ncver-eod-inir inducement for him to concoct bis swindling schemes. He simply fur nishes what the public call fo.. What is the basis of this irrepres sible tendency to be "taken in What are the fundamental conditions of its development? We refer chiefly to tbe amazing gullability which "induces or suffers men nractical meD. so called to honestly eater upon mechanical ard financial schemes of enormous prom ise and certain failure. Tho swind ler has a motive that cannot le mis taken; but what is the motive of the victim? Is it native stupid;ty, invin cible ignorance, eagerness for sudden riches, or what, that makes capitalists, notoriously shy of taking hold of en terprises ef real merit, so ready to in vest their money in palpable frauds? There is need of another Darwin to study tbe genesis of the various species of swindles. Do they follow a consistent law of evolution, and mark successivu stages of individual unwisdom and popular incapacity for learning? It would be a curious study a consumedly interesting study: we fear it would be a3 humii itating to human pride and disastrous to our theories of popular progress. To say the best, it does take man kind a terrible while to learn any thing, by experience or otherwise. A good deal of light has been cast on many phases of gregarious fool ishness of human sheepisbness, as Sir Arthur Helps cleverly character izes the tendency of men to "go with the crowd," right or wrong by tbe study of epidemic delusions, wherein whole communities, often whole na tions, have gone mad with some dom inant idea, as of witchcraft or the like; but such studies throw little di rect light on the philosophy of swin dles. Those take possession of crowds; these are limited in their operations to individuals. Besides, epidemic delusions are al ways of an emotional character, and have to do primarily with spiritual affairs, though their manifestations and results are often enough grossly physical; while the swindle has al ways a material object. To use a rough but sufficiently accurate figure, tbe one usually speculates in corner lots in the New Jerusalem, tbe other in swamp lots in some wildcat city of the Far West. The one trades on tbe transmutation of the base metals of human weakness and wickedness into celestial gold by tbe violation of all social and moral principles; the other oa the conversion of common lead into double eagles by some im possible circumvention of the laws of nature. Ia both there is a firm, often in tense, belief ia tho incredible. In both there is a confident expectation of getting a very large something out of nothing, or what is worse than noth ing. In both epidemic and individ ual delusions, too, the victims are oft en men who, on other subjec's, are shrewd, sane, practical. I he social conditions and current beliefs, which prepare the way for the reign of tbe first, can be clearly made out. Is it possible to do the same for tho second? To estimate how far the two rest upon a common ba sis of misconception as to the condi tions of existence, and how far the ditiona of heredity, environment.want or knowledge and greed cf gain? We are inclined to think it is quite possible; but we leave it to the future Darwin of this department of natu ral history to undertake the task. It will be sufficient for us, when time and space permit, to notice a few of the determining conditions which make the trade of the swindler so en ticing and remunerative. Why Some People are l'oor. Silver spoons are used to scrape kettles. Coffee, tea, pepper and spices are left to stand open and lose all their strength. Potatoes in the cellar grow, and the sprouts are not removed until the potatoes become worthless. Brooms arc never bung up and are soon spoiled. Nice-handled knives are thrown into hot water. The flour is sifted in a wasteful manner, and tbe bread pan is left with the dough sticking to it Clothe3 are left on the line to whip to pieces ia the wind. Tubs are left in the sun to dry and fall apart. Dried fruit3 are not taken care of and become wormy. A short, stubby fellow, with b;s bat on one side of his head, and bis pant3 rolled np, walked into a Bcston oyster house the other evening, and holding the stump of an unlit cigar betwen hi3 clenched teeth, looked around and inquired : "Got'ny oysters ?" "Yes, sir," said the oysterman, as be cast his eyes over the half dozen baskets full lying around loose. "Well, bow much be they a dozen?" "Eighteen cents." "Eighteen cents ?" "Yes, sir, eighteen ceu's." "Shucked ?" "Opened, of course, ifym waiit'em opened." "Well, gi'm me one uot shucked ?" "Oue ! What do you waut of one oyster?" "Well, said the customer, confident ly, leaniog over the oyster stand and taking his eig ir from bet wee u bis teeth. "You see I'm going' to a social party out here near Albia to night, an' some of the boys might get a foolin'. I've been 'round a good dual, au' I tell yer there's noth' in' so cooliu' on' bcalin' like for a block eye as a good, big oyster. 1 guess youM letter gi'm nie two. How much is't." Bitttle of the Revolution Below we give a list of all the im portant battles of the Revolution. They bijran April 19,1773. They closed iiciuuer rj.nsi six year and six months, lbe British sent 134,000 so'diers and sailors to this war. The Colonists met them wiih 230,000 Cnniineuials and oO.OOO mili tia. 1 he British let loose Indians and equally savage Hesians. The Colonists had for allies the b.ave and courteous Frenchmen. The lead iug battles of tbe war. those particu larly worthy of celebration, are Con cord and Lexington, Bunker Hill. Long Island, White Plain?, Trenton. Princeton, Bennington, Saratoga, Monmouth, King's Mountain. Cowp. ens, Eutaw Springs, and Yorktown. These are of national interest Many of tbe others are more especially local. The disposition is to celebrate them all, victories and defeats to recall the deeds of our ancestors, and have a good time generally. Our readers will do well to preserve the following list of Revolutionary battles : 1 Lexington (first skirmish) April 19, 1775. Ticonderago May 10, 1775. Bunker Hill June 17, 1775. Montreal, (Eathen Allen taken) September 25, 1775. St. Johns, besieged and captured November 3, 1775. Great Bridge, Ya. December 9, 1775. Quebec, (Montgomery killed) De cember 31, 1775. Moor's Creek Bridge-,Febuary 27, 1776. Boston (British fled) March 17, 177C. Fort Sullivan, Charleston June 28, 1776. Long Island August 27, 1776. Harlem Plains September 16, 1776. White plains October 2S, 1776. Fort Washington November 16, 1776. Trenton December 26, 1776. Princeton Jaaaary 3, 1777. HubbardtJn July 7, 1777. Bean'ngton August 16,1777. Brandy -ine September 11, 1777. Fi-st battle at Bemis' Heights, Saratoga September 19, 1777. Paoli September 20, 1777. Germantown October 4, 1777. Forts Clifton and Montgomery taken October C, 1777. Second battle of Bemis' Heights, Saratogo October 7, 1777. Surrender of Burgoyne October 13, 1777. Fort Mercer October 22, 1777. Fort Mifflin November 15, 1777. Monmouth June 23, 1778. Wyoming July 4, 1778. Bunker HilL It. I. August 29, 1773. Savannah December 29, 177S Briar Creek March 3, 1779. Kettle Creek, Ga. Febuary 14. H79. Stony Ferry June 20, 1779. . Stony Point July 16, 1779. Paulus Hook August 19, 1779. Chemung (Indians) August 29, Savannah October 9, 1779. Charlestown (surrender to British) May 12, 1780. Springfield June 23, 1780. llocky iiount July 30, 1780. Hanging Rock August 6, 1780. Sanders' Creek, near Camden August 16. 1780. King's Mountain October 7, 17S0. Fish Dam Ford, Broad River No vember 18, 1780. Blackstocks November 20, 17S0. Co 'pe e Jarua y 17, 1781. Guilboro March 15, 1781. Hockirk's Hill April 25, 1731. Nicety-Six (besieged) May and June, 1731. Augusta (besieged) May and June, 1731. Jamestown July 9, 1731. Eutaw Springs September 8, 1781. Yorktown (Cornwallis surrender ed) October 19, 1781. l"se for Sweet Corn oa the Farm. The finest fodder is raised from mammoth sweet cora sowa for that purpose, it being of large growth and suckering fri 'y on good soil. I f o be fed during short pas. irage in sum mer it should be wilted at least twenty-four hours before feeding. If for winter use, it should be well cured before storing, as it contains so much sugar that it beats quickly. Our practice ha3 been to wilt it two days, turning it on the second , day, and then set it up in large shocks, and there let it stand till wanted, load by load. We find it the best and cheapest feed, and on our rich garden lauds as profitable as most of our vegetable crops. We sow it in fur rows three feet apart, eight or ten kernels to a foot ia length. - After one or two workings the shade '. cov ers tbe ground. It can be cut with a bush book or what is better, with a stout reaper, and left in bundles, if you have two smart men to remove them "lively." Some of our largest pork raisers also grow largely of the earlier sorts to begin laying on fat before the Dent corn is ready. It is especially serviceable where clover does net nojnsh, so as to furnish Bum mer hog feed. As soon as it is fairly in the milk they begin to feed, cut ting up from near the ground. Scarcely a butt is left, while of field corn much of the stock is refused by the bogs. By the time tbe early sorts are fed out the large evergreen sorts &T3 ready. This feed includes excellent thrift, and prepares hocrs nicely for profitable feeding of the main crop, and brings oa earlier pork aad more ol it. 1 have never known any one to be dissatisfied with tbe results of the practice. The tiood of It. As "to tho good of it'" says Gen. Hawley, iu aa address on rifle shoot ing, it can provide in our country our strongest protection against a foreign war. There is no nation in the world but would hesitate to at tack another whose soldiers were practiced , long-range marksmen. Skill in accurate shooting wonld counterbalance military discipline. A regiment armed with breechload ers aad drilled in marksmanship alone would put to route the best drilled regiment of regulars before the latter could march half a mile. Raw troops who know they can shoot well pos sess confidece which otherwise would only come of months of training. It is therefore for the good of any na tion which does not maintain a regu lar army thut its citizens should know how to haudle tie best firearms effec- j tively. The introduction of. long- range shooting has - done much to improve the geneml skill of our peo- j pie in the use cf the rifle, as is shown at every target shoot in the numerous rifle clubs which have been formed all over the country. l lilixloic Bad Language. Yesterday afternoon a man who had been beaten in a lawsuit, stood at tbe corner of Griswold street and Justice alley aud cursed high and low. He w as spuuting away in vehement tones when the lawyer asked : "Are you swearing at apybody in particular ?" "No, blast you, no !" ripped'out the indignant man. "Well, itV tojbad too Lave all that wasted. I wish you would usd a few of the biggest and best oaths on Hannibal Hamlin, the man n ho raised the rales of postage.'? - Tbe man gave it to Hamlin right and left for eleven minutes, snd then the police interfered. General Scuexck, U. S. Minister to England, has been usiug an old American anecdote to good advan tage. To the wife of a British cabinet-officer, who assured him that, "EugUad made America all that she is," he said: "Pardon' madam, yon remind mo cf an answer of the Obio lad iu his teens, who" attending San. day school for the first time, was asked by bis teacher. 'Who - m. you ?' He replied, 'Why God made me hbout so long (holdiDg his bands about ten Inches apart) but I growed the rest'" , Xeio Advertisements. JOHN F BLYMYER, DEALER IN Hardware, Iron, Nails, Glass, Paints, Tha following is a partial Est of goods in Stock: Ctrpenter's Tools, Flanes, Saws, Hatchets, Hammers, Chisels, Plane Iron? dies kc, Black smith's Goods, Bellows, Anvils, Vices, Files, Hammers, Ac. faIer7 Hardware, Tab Trees, Gig Saddles, Hames. Buckles, Rings, Bit3 and Tools. Table Knives and Forks, Pocket Knives, Scissors, Spoons and Razors, the largest stock in Somerset County. Tainter's Goods, a full stocky White Lead, Colored Paints for inside and outside painting, ITiints in oil, all colors, Varnish, Turpentine, Flaxseed Oil, Brushes, Japan Dryer, Walnut Stains, Ac Window Glass of all sizes and glass cut to any shape. The best Coal Oil always on hand. Our stock of Coal Oil Lamps is large and comprises very elegant styles. Ditston's Circular, Mu!-?y and Cross Cut Saws. Mill Saw Files of tbebest quailty. Porcelain-lined Kettles. Handles of all kinds. SHOVELS, FOllXtK. SPADES, RAKES, Mattock3, Grub noes, Ticks, Scythes, Sneaths, Sledges, Mason Hammers, Cast Steel, Step Ladders, Carriage and Tire Bolts of all sizes. Loooking Glasses, Wash Boards, Clothes Wringers, Meal Sieves, Door Mats, Baskets, Tubs, Wooden Buckets, Twine, Rope all sizes, Hay Pulleys, Butter Prints, Mop Sticks, Traps, Steelyards, Meat Cutters and Stuflers, I races, tow Chains, Halter Chains, Shoe, Dust and Scrub Brushes, Horse Brushes, Cur ry Combs and Cards, Door Locks, Hinges, Screws, Latches and everything in the Builders' line. Caps, Lead, Shot, Powder and Safety Fuse, &c, fcc, The fact is, I keep everything that belongs to the Hardware trade. I deal exclusively in this kind of goods and give my whole atttention to it. Per sons who are building, or any one in need of anything in my line, will find it to their advantage to give me a call. I will always give a reasonable credit to responsible persons. I thank my old customers for their patronage, and hope this season to make many new ones. Don't forget the place STo, 3, "BAEE'S BLOCK" Apri! 8 '74. JOHN F. BLYMYER. m FOLLANSBEE 4 C0,C. & ( Hlnrliai! f Uave now opened Merchant Tailors, I a Lare and Complete Assortment of (iooils for And Manufaurer of t Gent's, Youth's and Boys, Fasteioi ClotMm an3 Mm GqoSsl! 121 Wood Street, corner Fiflh Avenue, PITTSBURGH. prL KETSTOXE IIMXU BOOHS, 293 Liberty Street, Pittsburgh. !'., TT. n. 81 MPS OX, Proprietor. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. rTKAXSIENT CUSTOM SOLICl.iD. eei 13 New Firm! NEW GOODS! LOW PEIOES! XfHaving purchased the Interest of Mer'srs U. F. Rhoads k Dro's., In the grocery l)U?lne?, tre i respectfully announce to the pnMIe that ire Kill continue the business at the old 9lunJ, j ( Xo. 2, User's IJlot k. ) j i In addition to a full line of groceries (fresh an I ( of beet qualities), GLASSWARE, QUEENSWARE, FLOUR, GRAIN, & MILL FEED, We wlU make a specialty or A T ri J. JLJ X 9 Carbon Oil, Land Plaster, C A L C I N E D P L A S T I B, FREDERICK AND CLEVELAND WHITE LIME, Cumberland Lime, GUANO, mubrnAiLb, &o.,i We have Urge warehouse anJ lime house near the Depot, and will furnish Country Men-hart and Fanner storafre rami at reasonable rates. - W.t ALTFATHER & Co. SOMERSET, PA. March 5J, 187 J. IMPORTANTTO ALL. Protection of your Family from poverty. sn.I In ease of sudden death your estate trom bankrupt cy; or In event of a long life a cumpeteiiev tor your old ae,e. ean be eeared lr yon now avail Tuursrll of to Ueeennial IMviiend plan furnished by the . NEW JERSEY ! Theonlr Company that ean or Issue the aVove '"-"'. tnw mwi liberal and .lair in it provisions of any in the world. . ThoM who wish to avail themselves of Its many MnetiUean hare the neeessnry documents turnih edihein to nil oot, and additional and hrant Information, by applying by letter or in ijron to F. E. GOODELL, , MAX4QLK BRANCH OFFICE, 88 Fourth Atc, IMUsburjf, Ia. A ffMnmMlthlA nmnn f . tw ,.l. 1 t il l. .. I i ' i i . i.ui.'t iu uiiiiiiiimui. . Joining counties to present the aboev plan of in- aranoe to the public, to whom a permanent ami i detirabU poehlonwUl be glven.Addrera as above. J MitceKaneous. Fall and Winter Wear. They have s complete ansortmcnt ol Toadies ITurs, DresiH Goods, XVI t Skirts, Hoop Skirls, -Silastics . , ! J loves, Mhoos Cwiini Sandals, And Pelt over Shoes, MEN AND BOYS' i ! Clothing, Boots and Shoes, HATS AND CAPS, GLOVES, Undcri'lutLing for Men and Women A large assortment ot HARDWARE -A.isrr QUEENSWARE, Carpets Oil Cloths, &c. A large stock of fine and man Q rJ jiy ihc Barrei or Sack j PflCeS S3 LOW aS POSSib'r. iC & O. HOLDERBAIDI, Somerset, Pa. Oct. 30. I NEW STORE! I SCHELL k. WILSOX wlj Inform their ! friends and the poidic generally, that they have opened a store at a j ii ii in t t , ?n ,h: "ne ,rthe p w b r r R., an.! now offer trrcbaniiie, con ! siting or DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, QUEENSWARE, HARDWARE, HATS & CArS, I BOOTS A- SHOES, j Ac, Ac, Ac, AU ol which will be sold sheap for CASH or ex : ehnnire 1 fn'roducc. i WA VI KI Lumber of all kind?, Hoop.poles, i Cro.Tlc, Bark, Staves, fcc, Al, Wool, lluU i ter. Kirn, j XvTr-LE STTG--A.H, j Baron. Grain or all kinds. Furs, Shrep-Prl!. and . Hoeswr.x. fur which e will pay the hij.'lif.-l prices In t;!"h or lltxx's. j SALT AND FISH. ; always en haml. Give us a e:'I an.l lie .-onk'.nceil in.il we iinfU'.l lo Uo uu'iiKis an-.I eiiunot 1 un ler sciiell & wilsox. WIKE & YOUNG, BUTCHERS AND DEALER.-1, ; Wholesale and Retail, FRESH MEATS, j ALL KIN US, SITU AS j BKKF, roiliv, Mt'TTOX. VEAL. L.MB, SU S.Uir', PUDDIXfj. UULOGXA AND LARD, OUR OWN RENDERING. j Market days, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur i days. inar:0"7 iSTEYEION & CARTMGHT, ' Manufacturers of I : Galvanized Iron Cornices, ! Window and Poor Heads. Fln!nl. Ti.rrw fhtm. ncy t aji. immature, and all kind' of linlvaiuj. ed Inn Ornamental Work. Tin Kx.nr.ir, .Srs.ut-' ! lnir. and all Uln-ls of .Tob Work pruuipilv alu-ad-; ed In. , ' ' J ?so. 15S JFoderal fif., Allegheny City, Pa. mays JliwUaneons. JTw. PATTON. CO. hurst. N EW GOODS. THE NEW FIRM OF 'o. 1, ilaer's IHock, an r.-w In rrlj't -f ttk of x - o th? it !; waiit-.'f thr pvti-ie. iu.rrh.i.el w:rh tn Lie I.,: t-n Jayn ami ;nee the .Jcvliae ir rh fic'!..f St ii-K-Siihl I imiic. thev are ritaii-.l t- oiler ;i:Tial intiuemnt. to all In w;int M ,C'ii ol every .ievririm in wh varier r a iaaat t fuuti nywhT e!? ia town, cimpri.lritf tcn era! jii"Ttment. Thrj rail fjeiul attention tu their lunee a.ftr(rc'rit of Blcacboxl aa.! UnMrncI cil Mu.lius GINGHAMS, SHIRTING, TICKING, BOYS AND MENS' IIEAVV PAXT STUFFS, in Cottonailc, Double and Irish Jeans, Satinets, Cassimeres, kc, DRESS GOODS, in Plain and Corded Alpaccas. Pop lins, Cashmeres, French Merrinoes, &c, STABLE A FANCY NOTIONS, HATS &z GAXJS, BOOTS &z SHOES, TOBACCO AND CIGARS, n-iiDArvnj: The l"tasf.TTnicnt of Carpetins and Oil Cloths erer brought to town. A kirsre stock of tiuiH'ns ware. lrUT!i;iii(M to le u to t lie tun- in :i-rt-cient, styh-s aixl rirei. wo reiietmliy 6"li'-:t a call iroia th c in vt:ml of wi-l. ft 1 . : s DR. T. RKOWN. Xo. S2 SE(TiM) A V Y. -V V K, ftivei-n WkkI udI .Market Stivet. 1'itt- -hum. oiitinut-s In L'l.unotco hi cure in c;i.-s of PKl VA1K hlsK 1SKS. His ri'ine-lii'S are iTiar-il hy liiiii-iii' No jatit nt will le M'nt to a tiruiiijit inr his mi-.!ii-:i!ft. H ivinic h.iil a l:trif eijuTu-iire in a i nn Ui e of over 3 yrapt. he ran in'iiro rHi f in a W'W .iays. Tt rms low anil cures iert;iin. 1'1-d-ate !i-f:i-!i. liv-r c iainr. Kilitaiin f 'he heart, srri'-tur.-s. iSiseni-s of the l.l.oMi-r an. I ki.l n'T, t'l'riiral 'Ivliility n'l nervousness yi'-l'l reail ily to liis tnitment." Ail letters rur.tainicj s te or ii .-tne s:.im; iT"nitly answem!. yifJi Cook & Beerits' FAMILY GROCERY Flour and Feed STORE. We w .ul I ci-t reject fully announce to oui friends ;in.I tlic jmhl ic nencrally, in th tnwo and vici::i:y it! Suurt'I, that ic Lave oat-l cuun our Nnwt.-re m 2IAIX CROSS STREET, And in aJJltinn to o full line of th, best Confec'tioiicries Xollom, Tobacco-, Cigars, do., Wc will en.'.oavor. at ailtlaies, tr r'pply .mr cus tomers with the BEST QUALITY O F FAMILY FLOUR, COHX-MKAL, O. I TS, SIl EL L ED COIiX, - OATS COIIX CHOP, BRA X, MID D L IX G S, An-1 cv.-ryrMn; jartaininij to the Fee l It'i.:rt tuLDt a: the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. rou CASH ONLY. Also. ire 11 select! 9tiM.lt of GlitJwnr: St'tiewnn. VotMnware, T.ru.'lies 01 ul LkiK atht STATIONERY VTMuh we will sell as cheap as the cheajct. Pleae call. eTimir.e our tresis of all kimls, and be sati-tleil from your own juoment. Ion't forsret where we stay OnMAIV CKUSS Street, Somerset, F Ayer's Cathartic Pills, For the reliof anil cure of all deranire ments in the siom ju:h, liver, and bow els. Theran-a mill aperient, ami an p xeellent purgative. Being purely voire. table, they contain no mercury or mine, ral whatever. Muelt Serions .irkne; and suffering is prevent ed bv their timelv nse: and evpry family should have them on hand for their protection ami relief, when reiiuired. LonK excnenee has proved them to be the saf ft, sure-t, and best of all the I'M with whirh the market alKuinds. By thesr occasional usi, the bluod is punned, the corruptions of the vs tem expelled, obstructions removed, and thu whole machinery of life restored to it healthy activity. Internal onrans which become eloired anil slutrzish are cleansed by Arfrr'n FiW, and stimulated into aetion. Thus incipient disease is chanzed into health, the value of which change, when reckoned on the vast multitudes who enoy it, eaa hardly be computed. Thenr suear coasin makes them pleasant to take, and preserves their virtues unimpaired for any length of tune, sa that they are ever fresh, and perfectly reliable. Although, searching, they are mild, and operate without disturbance, to Uiocou9Utution,oriuet,or oceii nation. Full directions are (riven on the? wrapper to each box, how to use them as a Family rhyi and for the following complaint-, which Uicso I'il ft mniilly cure: For Ityaprpaia or Flirtla. T.iates sm Uarier and Lom of A plt, they should lie taken moderately to stimulate the stom ach, and restore its healthy tone and action. For liver Com plaint and its various vwip tnnis. It I lion Ilialacb, nick llrad acke, Jauariire wtireew sticIiBoaa. isil loas C'olie and Hlliaa I'nfrt, they should be judiciously taken for each t as, to correct the diseased action or remove the obstruction hica cause it. For Dyasiferw or niarrhera, bnt one mild dose" is generally reipnred. For Hheamaliam. .mt, C; ravel. VaU pilafina f ike Heart, ia ba ia. Hark and I Mi mm. thev should be contin uously taken, as required, to change the diseased action of the system. Willi such change thviMI Complaints disappear. For ltropay and 1froMirat ftwrvlUajra. they should n taken in large and freipient doues to produce the effect of a drastic purge. or MuppreMion, a larire dose shouhl be taken, as it producer the di-aired. effect by sym pathy. As a liinnrr Pill, take one or two Pif7 to promote digestion and relieve the stomach. An occasional do.M! stimulates the stomach and boweU, re-tores the appetite, and invigorates the system. Hence It is orten advantageous where no serious derangement exists. One who feebi toleniblv well, oilen finds that a doe of these fill m'ake- him li-el decidedly bettor, from their cleansing aud rcuovatiDg effect ou the digestive (ppaxalud. FREPARED BT Dr. J. C. A TER CO., Traciical Chemist, LOWELL, M ASS., V. S. A. OR SALE BY ALL I8CJGIST-: -YTYTIERE- PATTON HIST I
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