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Programmes, Dodgers, Bill-Heads,

Statements, Pamphlets, Circulars,

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Peaceful Times.Fashion no more bloody weapons,

Armorer t stay your active band ; nest now from your murderous labor ;

Calm and tranquil is the land.

You shall bent the swords to plowshares, Into prunlng-hooks the spears,

For among the troubled nations Peace her glorious standard rears.

Stealing over land and ocean Like a stranger from afar ;

Quiet is the wild commotion,Silenced is the cry of war.

Tumult, strife, and discord ending, Shrinking back before her glance ;

Harmony from hoavon descending As her gentle steps advance.

White-robed, she her watcli is keeping, Olive branches in her baud,

And the dogs of war are sleeping Throughout all the weary land.

Now tho nation's mourning daughters Raise no more their hitter wails ;

Ships are sailing on tho waters, C’ommoreo spreads their suowy sails.

Doves are flitting round your dwelling, Armorer; lot yonr labors coaso ;

Music o’er the land is swelling. Whispering words of joy and peace.

A CASE OF LARCENY.If there was one man in the. world

whom Jack Morrow did not like, it wasPoliceman 326, of the ----- precinct.For more than a year he and this par­ticular officer had not been “on good terms. ” The policeman omitted no op­portunity to annoy Jack, and Jack, on the other hand, omitted no chance to torment the policeman.

Jack’s object in life—as far as business went—seemed to be to sell ns many newspapers ns he could. But whenever the brass buttons and glazed cap of No. 326 came in sight, immediately the ques­tion how lie could most effectually bother the officer drove all else out of his mind.

At such times tho oflicor, spying tho boy afar, would mutter to himself:‘ ‘ Hollo! there’s that young villain ajjain. ■ I’d like to get a chance to send him out of the city. What’s he np to now, I wonder;”

And tho two would eye each other askance, until, perhaps, it would come into Jack’s head to rush round the corner of some building, and shriek at the policeman some saucy remark about his red nose, or “Where did ye sleep last night ?” Ho made faces, too, that would frighten a blind man. And ho could make such absurd motions with his grimy little hands, that often and often the policeman, thinking himself insulted by some gesture, ran after the young mountebank, declaring revenge. He never caught him. Of course we cannot commend this conduct in Jack—ho hardly knew better—-we are only telling the fact. v

In this fashion petty hostilities were kept up between the man and tho boy, till, at length, No. 326 came to dread Jack almost as much as he dreaded a Water street row. He hated tho very sight of him, and de- tenninod to get him convicted of some misdemeanor, and thus sent away tor Ouo summer’s morning-, nhont o’clock, when darkness hod hardly boffin to give Way to daybreak, Jack might have*been seen, in the dim gaslight, in the deep inolosure of one of the windows of a Broadway building, fast asleep.

His head was hanging down on his breast, his right hand was in his pocket, clutching his money, and his left hung by his side. One of his knees was drawn up before him, the other, resting “ a-kimboo ” on the stone sill, just as a Turk would have done it. Taken all together, with his ragged hat and nonde script clothes, the boy made quite a study for a picture.

In the next window, and the next, crouched several more little fellows in various stages of sleepiness, nodding, and dreaming (perhaps) of golden days to come. They were waiting for the morning papers that were just, now being printed, while the whole ground shook with tho machinery of the giant presses that thundered under the sidewalk.

No one disturbed the drowsy news­boys till Policeman No. 326 came along. Now No. 326 had made up lus mind that the newsboys should not sleep in these windows, and seeing Jack Morrow in the group, ho proceeded with a relish to execute his resolution.

He walked up to Jack and took lum bv tho collar, and pulled him out of the vnndow upon the sidewalk. Jack kicked and wriggled like a fish. It did Wo good; tho policeman held him firmly,

“Lommo go! lemmego'” the boy.

v, “ Git along with yer!” cried the offl oer. “Clem-out! Ef I catch yor here again I'll lock yer up.”

“Yer won’t!” said Jack, savagely. Ye won’t look me up, now I tell yer.

Ye wouldn't take me no furdcr’n the end of the block. ”

“Wouldn’t I?” said the officer. “ We’ll see! just come alougnow, then!” and he began to carry Jack off.

“Look hero, orficor,” said Jack, set­ting his feet in the pavement, and hold­ing back, “ where was you at arf-past Toven last night! Was you on your beat, or was you dowu in. Steiner s cel-

: with your badge in your pocket, an’

“ What, ’thout a collar, and ’thout shoes, and ’thout washing of mo ?”

Just then tho clock strode three. The artist looked at his watch.

“ Yes, come just as yon are. Oomo any time. Hero’s my card, and hero are your twenty-five oente.”

Jack took them both, and road the first, and tucked tho last deep into his pocket.

“Mr. Henry Palmer, Studio Building, 10th street. Well,” said Jack, “ I’ll go to call on him one of these days—won my korrigo-horscs gits over the whoopin’ cough.”

Thou he got down and stretched him­self. In ten minutes more ho was flying over the wide sidewalks with a bundle of

say you have known the boy two yeshe

papers under hisarm, intent on business. Busineusiness proved pretty good that day, too, and on counting over his gains, Jack concluded that his affairs were improv­ing.

But fortune is fickle. Before evening his joy was suddenly turned to grief.His old enemy had been on his track.Ho was arrested on the street by Officer 320, and carried to the station-house.Tho officer would explain nothing. When Jack’s name was taken down, at the sta­tion, tho sergeant asked the officer what the charge was against him.

“ Larceny,” said tho officer, loudly.Jack knew well enough what tho word

meant.“Larceny!” echoed he, half stupe- _____

lied ; “who’s been stealing anythin’ ? I i witness against tfieir neighbors, hain’t took a tiling,” and looked around from' one to the other of tho men pres­ent.

“Put him in 42,” said the sergeant.In another moment Jack found him­

self in a felon’s cell. The door was shut with n loud clang, the heavy bolt was drawn, and he was left alone.

Officer 326 had taken the first step in his meditated revenge. His real purpose now was to protect himself from Jack. Jack boil soon him off duty withoutleave, drinking in a low saloon, and ho knew that this fact, if it was known, would cost him his place.

Jack’s sensations on finding himself really in limbo were miserable enough. Ho suspected the true cause of his un­just arrest, and he could not help seeing that if the officer were wicked enough to swear a theft upon him, ho would also be wicked enough to swear to all tho particulars before the judge. Therefore Jack made a thousand dismal pictures of himself cast into jail, or into tliOj peni­tentiary, and he wept and trembled all night long.

At seven in the morning his door was opened, ns were all the other cell doors. Ho walked out. A number of officers stood around. There were forty or fifty prisoners, men, women ap'd children, and they were bidden to move off up stairs. There were three “ vans ” in tho street, and into these vans the prisoners were put. Jack was pushed into tho first one, and it rumbled off with its scared freight up tho street.

In ten minutes it stopped before a huge gray building of stone. In some way or other, Jack hardly know how, ho, with all the others, was ushered inside this gloomy building, and into a lofty, but a very dark and dismal room. The prisoner’s corner was a sort of cage made

- - . ears,it seems very singular that you should mistake him for another. As the case is now made public, it is my duty to warn you that unless yon con clear up this matter tho commissioners will be

dforced to entertain ft complaint against Tyou of the most serious character,”

Officer 326 turned as white os a sheet, and bowing mechanically, moved away without saying o word.

“Oomo,” said tho artist to Jack, “let’s go to my studio, where we’ll get some breakfast; and I’ll make some pictures of you. Then you can go hack to your business ns soon asyounko.”

They went together, and before long Jack was luxuriating over chocolate, toast, drooped eggs nnd hominy iu the artist’s studio.

Tho place looked like a gorgeous palace to the boy’s admiring eyes, and wo may bo sure that when his picture was drawn by his now friend, it proved ten times more piquant and smillni ness iu Jock’s heart.

His introduction to tho kind painter was luokfor Jack Morrow. And he never showed liimsolf unworthy of his gifted acquaintance. The two are good friends yet.

Policeman No. 326 did not retain his badge long after tho transaction just re­corded. Ho was unfit for his place, and justice sooner or later overtakes those who abuse their privileges or bear false

heir neiah

Execution of an Innocent CHrl.The French Minister of Justice has

just received a report of a very sad and extraordinary affair, which is not un­likely to create some sensation. Thirty years ago a young girl named Marie Guemic was found poisoned in her bod. She had been betrothed a short time be­fore to a young man, with whom her younger sister Madeline was said to be desperately in love. The poor girl was at once arrested, tried, and finally con­demned to death, which she suffered calmly and valiantly, without uttering a word of complaint or of justification. Everybody felt tho greatest sympathy for the poor old father of tho two girls, who was giving signs of tho most violent grief. Ho had come into possession of some money which tho girls hod in­herited from their mother, but his grief did not seem to be lessened thereby. A fortnight ago tho old man died, and be­fore his death confessed to his parish priest, Rev. Abbe Barrcau, that he was himself the murderer of his eldest daughter. He had, moreover, allowed suspicion to rest on tho younger in order to inherit tho money. The poor victim had died innocent without uttering a word in her defense because she knew

j who was the murderer, and rather chose to die than to denounce him to justice.

of iron bars. Outside of these bars I ajui.rproyeJack

The Civil Rights Bill.Already litigation is springing up

from tho Civil Rights bill. Two colored men called for drinks at tho bur of Willard’s Hotel, in Washington. The drinks were furnished them, after which they entered the barber shop of Carter^»*a-^U^ono4fhre^

saw a large uamber olt,»^,* ;‘l®yeeHre,P^ed *3some tuttingjQLuiaV^'-rrrK'hOOnt thorn on i shaved there, whereupon they went

j saying they would get satisfactionOn a high platform was a man who j through the prosecution of tho pro-

uresently began to read something in a i P^^tor. -6 i n . tvery rapid way, and above lum, still | The manager of the Public Library higher, was another mau, who looked i Hall refused admission to a negro bar­like a gentleman, and who soomed to 1 her who applied for a ticket to the first he paring his finger-nails with a pen- | circle, among white people. A galiep-

| is set apart for the colored, and no white Pretty soon the people in tho cage he- i person is allowed there. A suit was at

gan to be taken out, one after another, j once entered.and they did not come back again. Jack The first case in North Carolina iiuuer

- - - ? - ... ---- «... n:-.:i «.:n before

Met a Fellair.There is a being who has caused more

trouble to womankind than any other. It is the “fellow” who is always being “met,” and thereby keeps anxious females on the watch at windows at all sorts of nnholy hours.

How many'years of her life does a woman spend looking out of the window for mon who are overdue 1 the ledger says. I have not lived half of my three score and ten years yet, and I am sure I have wasted tune enough in the fruit­less operation to have made myself mis­tress of all tho hieroglyphics ever dis­covered. One thing only have I learn­ed, tliat men, like the peasant woman’s' “watched pot that never boils,” never comes when he is looked for; and that hasn’t done me any good; for, still, whenever I have occasion, I invite the influenza by sitting in a strong draught with iny eyes fixed on the flirtIr ' point possible, with visions of hospi ambulances and woeful telegrams before my eyes, whenever any one from my grandfather to my little nephew doesn't “arrive himself” in proper time. All woman do it. and many thanks they got for their anxiety. You may cry your eyes weak and your nose red, go through all the agonies of hope deferred, become angry, get over your anger to plunge into the depths of woe, make sure that yon are bereaved of your best-beloved relative, nnd wait iu calm despair to know tho worst, and when he comes, bo he brother, husband, or son, grandfather, uncle, or oonsin, perchance a lover, he hasn’t the slightest idea of your suffer ings, and inquires, “Well, Polly, wliat’s the matter? You look solemn ?” Solemn ! Well, you know enough not to fling yourself into his arms and cry, “The sea has given up its dead,” or anything of that sort. You say “Ah!” in an oflended toue, or an unnaturally calm one, and perhaps remark that “ dinner was burnt to a crisp four hours ago;” or that you have “ sat with your bonnet on ready for the concert from

THE J0H»n TRAGEDY.

A Desperate Strij* a Tlllnae Bunking

As a young i the main street I his attention wul suing from Hayi| ran to the reside the senior memb formed him of J| ried to the ) and as quickly fire, On cub on l__ . cits tluitl ioramitted.

The suspioio j tainty by the remains of a hiJ floor of the back had been almost]

j through Jlrnstown, N. Y.,

by smoko is- fills’ bank. Ho

David Hnycs, io firm, and in-

Hayes hur- a window, ibdnod tho isaw blood

itonce had'been

, i made a cer- j(- the charred

' jring on tho a bed that

seven mitil nine,” and wait for some ex­planation. It is sometimes vouchsafed, and then generally proves to be—1 * Met a fellow.”

Yes, meeting “ a fellow ” is reason

Who is. “a follow,” I wonder, that ho should ontweigh wife, mother, and sweetheart, daughter, niece, and aunt? Why should “a fellow” have such in­fluence? No one oversees “a follow,” or hears liis whole name. Ho is never iroduced. Ask after him, and you hear hat ho is not the sort of follow to bo in­troduced. Ho is never brought homo. Apparently he is not good enough; but he is important enough to upset a house­hold, to keep moals waiting, to keep icoplo up until midnight; to have myt lim is ample excuse for anything for­

getful or neglectful.

English Servants.Mr. Conway, hi his last Commercial

letter, says; There is no doubt that tho English nobility have a way of omploy-

Ji irRT£oa£hnian or footman is good look­ing in his livery and of the required di-^.“'T^if-lmownlruke recently adyer-

waited two hours before anything was ( the Civil Rights bill came up done with him. Then his name was | United States Commissioner E. Ft. called, nnd a policeman near the iron : McCJnigg, at Wilmington. A negro door beckoned to him. ! named Francis Holmes had W. H. Ger-

Ho tooked his ragged hat and wont | ken, a saloon keeper, arrested out into the court room, and was put upon a high stand. Tho talkinggentlomau began to say something to him. Ho was puzzled, and he did not hear.

for re­fusing to sell him liquor. Tho commis­sioner dismissed tho case on the ground that the Civil Rights bill did not apply to bar-rooms.

say; demanded the ;

iy<your belt an’ olnb

What do you gentleman.

“I haint said nuthin’, sir,” said Jack. ;“Listen, then,” said the gentleman, j

impatiently. ‘ ‘ Y'ou are charged with tho larceny of fruit and cake from a refesh- mentsaloon in Nassau street.”

“ I didn’t do nuthin’ o’ tho kind, sir !” protested Jack. “Who says I did?" t

“ Officer Smith, No. 326, take the wit­ness-stand,” cried the gentleman.

Officer 326 was duly sworn, and testi­fied that he had known the prisoner for two years, nnd that he was a “quarrel­some and dangerous boy.” He had fre­quently suspected him of potty thieving, ho said, and then he went on coolly to state that at half-past two o’clock, or a little before, on the previous morning, he had seen him put his hand through the screen of a refreshment stand in Nassau street, and take several pieces of cake. Ho liod tried to arrest him then, but the boy eluded him and ran away.

Jack stared.“ What do you say i” asked the clerk

of him. “ Ask the officer any questions you like."

Jack was confused. He declared over and over again that he had taken no cake, tliat ho hadn't been iu Nassau street, tliat he never stolo anything, but his assertions produced no effect.

The judge said something to tho clerk, ’ •—1 ‘—** liiuuls into

A Brave Roy.Teimy, of Alleghany,

__„ ___ wuhis ’brother-in-laij The body waft, though not to the I recognizable. Till sickening oppeara'| besmeared walls, and the smell of and bedding.

Mr. Yost was a single man, slept in

blyi render it iin-

presentod a fith its blood- [ and counters, ned furniture

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and, being a He was

Je, and was in i known that 31« five kim-

; and this fact ersons to kill

gkt possess r. Yost, in

John Yost,Ins biSM'i TitedT tho theater.

About eleven o’clock,tpe perform­ance was over, Yost w^tq his shop toget his bulldog to put j tie bank. The party then went to ih® ■ Sir William Hotel, where they reifined till nearly twelve o’clock. Yosilejt his brother and friend, and went tcliin. room in the bank. Nothing was Senior heard of him afterward until liheeiAabis were dis­covered as above stated^

The most mfl’irctnMElfcapvy of the murder is that Yost hadStired to bed, as liis clothing liad bcfliYremovod, and that an entrance had keen effected by tho murderers through ijifl rear windowTliis window is rcaclicdby moans of an

of the building.alley running alongside ^Yost must have been a;‘” noise of the villians, whi was awake, attaeked very powerful man.weig] and must have given I] hard fight, for the count feet in length, rw office, was completely blood, as were the walls and doors. Blood was also spattered behind the counter. The body was then dragged into the back room, whieh was set on fire in two or three

:ened by the seeing that he

Yost was a g240 pounds,

assailants n about sixteen through the neared with

The Franking Privilege.A bill which passed the United States

House provides that the CoogresHional Itcoord or any part of it, or speeches or reports contained in it, shall ho carried free in the mails on the frank of any member or delegate, to ho written by himself; also, that public documents al­ready printed and ordered to be printed bo carried free on the same conditions. A second amendment was adopted pro­viding that seeds nnd agricultural re­ports may bo sent free in tho mails, the franking to bo allowed until December, 1875. The New York 7Vmes says:

We understand that the plea for this so-called “ temporary ” revival of tho Congressional frank is thattlie accumu­lation of public documents is so great that moans must bo provided for their circulation. The law) abolishing tho franking privilege was passed at the last

don of the Forty-second Congress.___sox effect July 1, 1873. Since thatat Jo, one would suppose, the printing of public documents might have been ar­ranged to fit the new and more economi­cal order of things. But Congressmen have not relaxed ouo whit of their eager­ness to print stuff that nobody reads, nnd put into muslin covers good paper spoiled for all uses but that of the tmuk- mnker and the junk mill. It is said that the capitol is choked with printed matter iu sheets, pamphlets, and hound volumes. The eypt is a mausoleum of statesman­ship in type; the folding rooms are filled with reports and executive documents; and members are knee-deep in their own eloquence, or they are inundated with that of their colleagues. It is to dispose of this vast accumulation thatthe general delivery has been ordered. Tho agri­cultural bureau has had its own special allotment of its printed reports for dis­tribution; Congress has also ordered its proportion; and by the now schedule, both lots are included in tho flood of matter to bo distributed, to say nothing of the garden seeds which are added to the mass of free mails. It is precisely this great volume of printed stuff that has provoked so much complaint. Con­gressional correspondence has never formed a considerable element in the burden of tho mails when tho frank was permitted. But books, pamphlets, speeches, and seeds have literally made tho mail-icarriers and postal service groan. This all comes back again for the next nine months.

DOWN THE COLORADO.

Tl»« 8tory of a Trip Through the Cniiyon* ns Toll! by Major INnvell.

downay, waaii'tyou___fils mouth,

or lie'd.flx* him.”“ Jos’ let go «*Vl»y epUar.The offloer, in Wmoment after, giving

the boy a shake or two, did let go, and then Jack cried out : -«•

“Now, you sec here ! Ef yer touch me agin I’ll break ye. I’ll go with a lot of other fellers tliat see’d ye drinking, an’ ’ll swear to it ’fore the p’Uoe com- mish’ners, an’ they'll fix yon. Now I’m goia' hack to sleep, and don’t you never say a word. I’m n-goin’to my'velvet couch, and I don’t want to be dis­turbed.”

The officer made no further interfer­ence, and Jack scampered back, and limbed into the window, and soon fell to as deep a slumber as he had been in

before, and in about the same atti-

nnder your coat! and just then JOck put , lus hknda intonthere a^njallu'^Zdfeh^^u

~—“• Jack c rfed out with .a. voice that

iiue,Af half-past two he woke up. The

stone bed was bard, and it hurt him.opened his eyes and yawned. To

liia astonishment he saw a man before him, near a gas-light, busy drawing upon a book. Jack looked at him with au-

•lou’l“ifoep still,” said the man; ove for a minute or two. I’m making

rtureof you.”WhatTl you gimme!" demanded

tit IV1’ said the mau.

and Jock lay still and mVen the man woke

im a square pieoe m which was drawn hiniHelf.it?” asked Jaok, iu a

?!ilfwisii ' utuilio.

f'said;

Freddie Tenny, of Alleghany, only ten years old, is a mate of the boy who stood on tho burning deck, if some one would sing him into fame. His father and mother being away for all night, Freddie was loft to keep house and take care of his younger brother, a five-year- old. During the night Freddie was awakened by smoke and nearly suffo­cated. He saw that the house was on fire, the floor having caught from the coals tliat had fallen from tho stove in the dining room. He gathered up his little brother and set him put in the cold, and then proceeded to carry water in a pail and put out the fire. He extin- guislied the flames, took his little brother back to bed, and both slept till morning, when Freddie called in a family who lived in another part of the house to see what had happened. Two holes were burned through the floor—one two feet in diameter and the other ouo foot. The little fireman had saved the property and probably some lives, and hod all the fun to himself. He was charged to take good care of his little brother and keep house, and he did it like a mmi.

___^.a voice that washeard *U over the court room: He drew OUt of his pocket the card the artist had given him. He remembered that the clock had struck three on the previous morning while the sketch was being drawn. \ .

“If you’U send for him, sir,” he eagerly sli^utedto the judge, “ be knows I wasn’t ill Nassau street at tlie time the pTeeomansoz I was.” And Jack told the whole story.

•' There seems to be something wrong here,” says the judge, “Mr. Clerk, send for Mr. Henry Palmer, roqm in Studio Building, 10th street, and have him brought into court. Prisoner, you can step down and be seated. Call the next ease.”

Jack obeyed, and the business of the court wont on.

In another hour the,artist arrived, in company with oni offloer. He was put upon the wiuess stand. In a moment it was all plain. He testified where and how he had seen the boy at the tipie in question, fast asleep. He was ostdhished at what he heard of the charge made by the policeman, and from his sketch book he produced a leaf, upon which was Jack’s portrait.

The judge made Jock take the position that he waa in> when the picture taken, • and than, with curious he compared the The resemblafioe the hour and the picture was fln; the edge of the n W«s h£ < ‘ ‘ ’

•< You , to Jack!,"and

ourself; and 06

wfth the.sketch, perfect. And there

tty minute when the ed was penciled on er by tho artist, as it °

Of it, fi&AVO Jou not again.”*'

Jack, bowing.sjudgSwitwill

uni for this boy. eve yon

swearing

x>y. I should be, reluoti on guilty of wilful perji a erjune against Urn, bnti

£t!Acli:uctiuit to thereluctant erjuiy in mtasyon

Used for a footman of exactly five feet eleven nnd a half inches in height, whose solo business it would be to stand at the back of his coach beside another of like station. A youth, now in the employ of a lady of my acquaintance, applied for tho advertised position, and says that his character was not asked for; he was taken into the servauts’ hall and measured, nnd dismissed for lacking the half inch demanded by the duke. There is a pas­sion for tallness in servants, and of one noble family at least it is a rule to admit no man servant under six feet. There are six of these eminent personages in their fins mansion. Tho English ser­vants are good looking, neat, nnd consti­tutional fluukeys and fiimkeyesses. They are very shrewd, and have their class rules as well defined as trades-unions. Downing street does not -possess more pigeon-holes nnd red tape than a man­sion of the wealthy. An upper house­maid would die at the stake before she would do a bit of work that came within the province of tho under housemaid. A swell butler would throw up his position iu the face of the Lord Chancellor him­self if ho were expected to black his own boots. There are many boys of thirteen kept in brass buttons, and in many an instance tho sole duty of this boy is to brush the clothes and boots of the but­ler, the master of the house haying his own separate valet. Of course it is not pride winch has made tho inflexible laws of etiquette among these servants, by which they refuse to step out of uu offi­cial groove of function. It is the deter­mination of their class to preserve tho conventional number of the servants re­quired for any first-olnss household. They particularly dislike servants from other countries, especially the Germans, because if well paid and well treated they will do anything requested of them.

When the body i gag in the month, bound. The room was air-tight,worth $250, and about $200. They pooketbook, but therethe latter.____body of the murdi severe contusion was dii

MfmTtfd there was a anil the arms were

Yost slept a- was found

’fttoll wortli 'chain and a o money in ~ held. A

[ivered on the back of the head, ouo bulet was found just above the right car, tnd one pene­trated the brain at the top of the head. The body was badly Ijnrned. Two chambers of Yost’s revolver had been discharged in the door of the vault. No evidence of an attempt to'rob the bonk was discovered.

Lands Giving Oat.The mbiilntante ■'Af./terilfeHetf oF'&o

West almost boundless, and capable of giving homes to immigrants for Fury to oome. ...................

The “Awful Event.”The total eclipse of the sun is one of the

grandest and most awe-inspiring sights it

Dewdrops of WisdomMost people would succeed in small

things, if they were not troubled with great ambitious.

It is far easier to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it like a gentleman.

Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, bounty, friendship and fidelity may be found.

Never despise humble service—when large ships run aground, little boats may pull them off. .. ,

If you are a coward, and friends com­mend you for your coara ;e, it isn’t of you they speak; they tak > you for an­other.

In seeming opposition o the natural course of thiugs, sombTnid! rise by their gravity, and others sink b; their levity.

Buy not, sell not, where elf-rospoct is bartered, for that once lo t, the main­spring of honor is rusted a d decayed.

It is so ungenial to the hi man mind to do nothing, that if a good < ccupntion be not provided, men will e cupy them­selves perilously, os in gimi g and drink­ing.

Plain men think hand erne women want passion, nnd plaii ’ omen think young men want politoiwas dull writers think all readers devoid ' taste, and dull readers think wittyw ters devoid of brilliancy.

If you love others, thejr 11 love you. If you speak kindly to tl‘ m, they will speak kindly to you. Ik re is repaid with love, and hatred i ith hatred. Would you hear a sweit |md pleasing

possible for man to witness,

a cen- It is startling, therefore,

to be told that the boundary for proftt--i-i- .• « s . . anqable immigratiou is nearly reacln that tlm npw-oomers from Europe must seek a MUMMiie older States.

Gen, Baton, in an. interesting article in the North American Review on “ The Great Middle Region of the Uni­ted States,” declares that a large part of

rUiless forthis great middle region is wol________cultivation, and can never support a set­tled population. It will not answer even for profitable grazing. He pronounces most of the railroad schemes through this region to be frauds on the pubHc, as no large settlements can ever be formed along; tho routes. The chief difficulty lies m the want of water. There are no streams, springs are hard to find in dig­ging, and the water is very impure. The soil is very fertile, but tliis is of no avail while water is wanting,

Homes.Never in the history of the horse, says

a Boston paper, has the market been so dull or the prices so low as at the present time. Bound road horses, without speed, that were formerly bringing $300, will not now fetch over $150; trotters that can show 2:40, and that lately brought from $2,000 to $2,500, can now be bought for from $800 to $1,000; while 3:00 and 2:60 horses, that, a short time since, $600 and $800 waa thought to be low for, are a hard sale at from $260 to $500.

Tboubuh.—A young lady in a „ village accepted an invita-

ion from a young gentleman to ride, and when the young gentleman came

lorse and buggy the lady found to get in, so closely had

to the prevailing fashion of dress tightly about her,

^ , be excused, and, ^house, let out two or three

her dress, when she was enabled to into the buggy.

iniu

get

ispoi .of them is to take place April 5th, but will, not be visible in this part of theE^yerJ^bne seems in a nqvTwor.-,.;

a world filled with awful sights and strange forebodings, and iu which still­ness and sadness reigii supreme; the voice of man and the cries of animals are hushed; the' clouds are full of threateningsand put on unearthly hues; dusky livid or purple or yellowish crim­son tones chase each other over the sky, irrespective of the clouds. The very sea is responsive and turns lurid red. AU at once the moon’s shadow comes sweep ing over air and earth and sky with frightful speed. Men look at each other and behold, us it were, corpses, and the sun’s light is lost. No wonder was it that the great Light Giver of the heavens was worshipped by the Persian followers of Zoroaster, under the sym­bol of fire, and iu tho onoe splendid kiudom of the Peruvian Inoas received divine adoration. Well might the poet write iu “ Manfred ”

Catching Cold.Mrs. Samuel Starkey has a few good,

sensible remarks on this point, that she gets off in her own inimitable way. The trouble is, us she says, people don’t realize “tliat an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of euro”:

“Don’t wait till the cold weather drives you to it before you fix up com­fortable clothing for winter. That is a serious mistake, and too often the mis­chief is done, nnd the severe cold taken, and the shattered system is enervated nd broken, and one is rendered au in­

valid (or all winter, when, perhaps, one the pleasant days spent in getting

roudv for «Ke oliongro would Have pro-vrintert ft nil. .“ There is not n month m the year m

wltidl.folks, shoiildnot slipwhite dresses in July nnd August for fliuinols, when iu the evening a sudden storm would come upon us, nnd the wind veer round to the northwest. There is little danger of sudden colds and attacks of pneumonia, if one dresses in accord­ance with tho weather.”

Here is tho way she “dishes up” those yellow-faced girls who are always complaining of a “ pain in the stomach.” There is more truth, perhaps, than poetry in it. The preventive remedy is self- evident :

Don’t I know that one-half our girls do more eating than they do work, or sfcqdy or thinking? Gluttons! they cairf pass a cupboard without being drawn to it as by a magnet. Ons minute they will munch candy, then nuts, then pickles, then cookies, fruit cake, pickled peaches, crackers, pie— just one hiekery nut, one more butter nut, a bit of rock candy, one of those hot nut cakes to see if they are good, andthenapieeeof mincepiothat ‘looked louely.’ ”

When Major Powell and his party set out in their boats to descend the Colo­rado river, which dashed over falls and precipices and through a narrow channel, with walls of solid granite or marble, in some places fully a mile in height, on each bank, the expedition was looked upon ns full of dangers. The Major and his party went through and the story is told by the leader of tho party in Scribner's magazine. While told in n vein of exceeding modesty it is yot full of thrilling interest.

Major Powell tolls us that they encoun­tered dangers along the whole route, but the men of the party showed no signs of holding back, however dark and dismal or full of terrors the new canyon they were about to cuter might be, until the perilous voyage was near ns end. Then they came to one canyon that was evidently more full of dangers than any they had passed.

Capt. Howland, of the party, and three men declared that they would not attempt its passage. Major Powell fully comprehended the danger before him, but he felt that unless tho passage of this canyon was attempt­ed his long and perilous trip was not oceomplishcd, and he determined to go on. The night before the loader did not and could not sleep, so important seemed the occasion, nnd so great the excitement within him.

Ho made his preparations as though feeling that he aud his party were not to come out of tho abyss alive. One set of the records was given to Capt. Howland nnd his men, who were to go around by land. Letters were given them to friends at home, aud keepsakes were intrusted toCapt. Howland. MajorPowcllsnys,too, that some tears wore shed at parting, each party believing that the other was taking the most dangerous way, nnd that they would not meet again. Now let Major Powell tell tho story of the trip:

My old boat having been deserted, I went on bonfid “Tho Maid of tho Can­yon.” The three men climbed a crag that overhung tho river, to watch us off. Tho “Maid” pushed out, we glided rapidly along tho foot of the wall, just grazing one great rock, pulled out a little into the chute of the second fall, and plunged over it. The open compartment was tilled when we struck the first wave below, but we cut through it, aud then the men pulled with nil their power to­ward tho left wall and swung clear of the dangerous rock below.

Wo wore scarcely a minute in running it, nnd found that, although it looked bad from above, we had passed many places that were worse. The other boat followed without more diffi­culty.

We landed at the first practicable point below, fired our guns as a signal to tho men above that we had gone over in safety, and remained a couple of hours,

climb thoy reached us, when wo ran two or three miles further, and turned again to tho northwest, continuing until night, when wo ran out of tho granite once moro.

At twelve o’clock on August 2!)tli wo emerged from the Grand canyon of tho Colorado, nnd entered a valley from which low mountains were seen coming to the river below. We recognized this ns the Grand Wash.

At night wo camped on the left bank in a mosquite thicket. The sense of relief from danger nnd tho joy of suc­cess were groat. When he who has been chained by wounds to a hospital cot until his canvas tent seems like a dungeon, nnd tho groans of those who lie about him are an increasing torture —when such a prisoner at last goes out into the open field,what a worldhosces 1 How beautiful the sky, how bright the sunshine, what “floods ef delicious music” pour from the throats of the

Ixo—.V f-rnrev+l»r» «*£ <wvvH»yand tree, mid blossom. The Brnfc how* of convalescent freedom seems rich recompense for all the pain, the gloom and the terror.

Something liko this was the feeling we experienced that night. Ever before us had been an unknown danger heavier than any immediate peril. Every wak­ing hour passed in the Grand canyon had been one of toil. We had watched with deej) solicitude the steady disap­pearance of our scant supply of rations, and from time to time when wo were hungry had seen the river snatch a por­tion of the little left. Danger and toil were endured in those gloomy depths where often the clouds hid tho sky by­day, and but a narrow zone of stars could be seen at night. Only during the few hours of deep sleep consequent on hard labor had the roar of the mad waters been hushed; now the danger was over, the toil had ceased, the gloom had disappeared, and the firmament was bounded only by tho wide horizon.

The river rolled by in silent majesty; the quiet of the camp was sweet, our joy was almost ecstasy. We sat till long after midnight talking of Grand canyon, of home, nnd, more than all, of the three men who had left us. Were they wandering in those depths, unable to find a way out t Were they searching over the desert lands above for water ? Or were they nearing the settlements with the same feeling of relief that we ourselves experienced!

Delay.Trtflto Mio BWCotnosH of delaying,Till tho hour shall Vomo for saying

That I lovo yon with my soul; Have you never thought your heart Finds a something in tho part

It would miss from out tho world '.’

In this rosebud you have given, bleeps that perfect rose of heaven

That in fancy’s garden blows ;Wake it not by touch or sound, - Lost, perchance, ’tworo lost, not found.

In tho opening of tho rose.

Dear to me is this roiloction Of a fair and far perfection,

Shining through a veil undrawn ; Ask no questions thou of fate ; Yota little longer wait

In tho beauty of tho dawn.

Through our mornings, veiled and tender, Shines a day of golden splendor.

Navat isaE j»v <lav ;Ah! if iovo bo mailo complete,Will ii, can it, bo no sweet

As tliis over snoot delay V

Hums of Inlerost. time rocks—Rooking tho cra-

-Pull a dog’s

-It’s

hismul

hoping they would take the smaller boat aana follow us. Wo were behind a curve

could/uot■in the cauyunaud could_/) come wowo had a succession ot rapids and inlls,. ,t . r . -T-Z -T.---

A little stream came in from

Fashion Notes.Tho cool, fresh-looking linen lawns,

•says a fashion journal, are the lowest priced, most durable and tasteful of all cheap fabrics. These cost from twenty- five cents to forty cents a yard. The designs arc waved stripes of coral, blue, or black. There arc .also many plaids in color, and the usual dots, dashes, stars and lozenges.

1 Pin-head checks cut to form bias bands will bo much used for trimming goods of solid color. This will be especially popular for blue and white summer silks, brown and white, and

When tho dress is

Old die.

How to signal a bark- tail.

A good excuse for borrowers- Lent.

A little boy iu Albany bit tongue while rocking on a chair, bled to dentil.

Benjamin Franklin was a pi inter, and he snid: “ My son, deal only with men who advertise.”

Five men speak up promptly when tho name of John Smith is called in the Ar­kansas Legislature,

A young man has .sued his barber for cutting off Ids mustache. The barber says iio didn’t sec it.

Red used on a railroad signifies danger, and says stop. It is the same thing dis­played oh a man’s nose,

j When a Chicago man gets rich, he ! writes to Eastern publishing houses nnd | tells them to send “kali a ton of books

with gilt on.”On the plains of Texas is found a little

(lower called the “ compass flower,” which in all changes of wind and weather points its leaves invariably to the north.

Tho Sultan of Turkey is in the enjoy- mmit of nn income of ten millions of dollars a year, and his entertainments are fabulous for their splendor, variety and quantity.

The man who predicted a mild and open winter, becauseu ______ the hair on squir­rels’ tails were not as thick as usual, had hia cars fro sen four inches deep the otlur morning.

The other day the town clerk of Fab- port, 111., advertised that “ all persons not having licensed dogs must call on tho under,signed within thirty days and ob­tain one.”

echo, speak sweetly i self.

Fortune mid futurity guasead at. -

A wise mau aims at nothi reach,

A flow of words Begin nothing

aidered how it is I

your-

uot to be me,

A Famous French Surgeon.A Paris correspondent tells the follow­

ing amecdote: Dupuytreu wns a famous surgeon, but bmsquo and unpolished a outranee. One day, as he re-entered his house, ho found installed in the ante­room an old priest who had long been waiting liis return. “What do you want of me!" growled Dupuytreu. “I wish you to leok at this,” meekly replied the priest, takuig off nn old woolen cravat, which revealed upon the nape of his neck n hideous tumor. Dupuytreu looked at it. “You’ll have to die with that,” he coolly remarked. “Thanks, doctor,” simply replied the priest, replacing his cravat; “I am much obliged to you for warning me, as I can prepare myself, as well as my poor parimiionors, who love mo very much.” The surgeon, who was never astonished at great things, looked Upon this priest, who received his death sentence unmoved, with amazement, and added, “ Gome to-morrow at eight o’clock to tho Hotel Dieu, and ask for

The priest was prompt. Tho

An Unhappy Confti’.He is a solemn looking h f about ten

surgeon procured tor nua » ax*.,,,in tue hospital, and in a month s time the man went out cured. When leaving betook out of a sack thirty francs iu small change. “ It is all I can offer you, doctor;” he said; “I came here on foot from B-— in order to save this. ” I he doctor looked at tho money, smiled, and drawing a handful of gold from liis

bad place.tho left, and below there was a fall, aud still below another. Above, the river tumbled down over and among the rock's iu whirlpools and groat waves, aud the waters were white with foam. We ran along the left, above this, and soon saw that we could not get down on that side, but it seemed possible to let down on the other, so wo pulled up stream for two or three hundred yards and crossed. There was a bed of basalt on this north­ern side of the canyon, with a bold escarp­ment that seemed to be a hundred feet high. We could climb it and walk along its summit to a point where wo were just at tho head of the fall. Here the basalt seemed to be broken down again, and I directed the men to take a line to tho top of the cliff and lot tile boats down along the wall. Ouo man remained in the boat to keep her clear of the rocks and prevent her line from being caught on the projecting angles. I climbed the cliff and passed along to a point just over the fall, and descended by broken rocks, and found that tho break of the fall was above the break of the wall, so that we could not land, and that still below the river was very bad, and there was no possibility of a portage. Without wait­ing further to examine and determine what should ho done, I hastened back to the top of the cliff to stop the boats from coming down. When I arrived I found the men had let one of them down to the heqd of the fall; she was iu swift water and they were not able to pull her back, nor were they able to go on with the line, as it was not long enough to reach the higher part of tho cliff which was just before them; so they took a bight around a crag, and I sent two men back for the other line.

The boat was in very swift water, and Bradley was standing in the open com­partment holding out his oar to prevent her from striking against tho foot of the cliffs. Now she shot out into the stream and up as for as the lino would permit, and than wheeling, drove headlong against the rock; thou out aud back again, now straining on the line, now striking against the cliff’. As soon as

check silks, trimmed 'A- will make pretty travel JUS

Now square shawls foy early spring' days have plain centres, with lighter band for borders, nnd are reversible. Thus a light gray shawl with dink gray border on one side will have the other center of dork gray with light border. Tho fringe is richly tasseled.

The broad-burred Mexicaines intro­duced last summer became very popular, and now re-appeoriu wider open squares and stripes. These are of thin, wiry silk, amt are to bn made up over blue, ecru, pink, black, violet, and, indeed, cardinal rod silkij, for watering-place dresses. These Mcxicnino goods are also shown in plaids of two colors, such as marine blue with ecru, or mauve and coin, or else pale pink.

The twilled plaid silks introduced by exclusive modistes last summer are now largely imported for sea-side costumes. The prettiest patterns are lavender grounds barred with ruby, ecru with navy blue or prune, pale pink with dark brown plaids.

icccoCUugt

The Crops of 1873.The Department of Agriculture of the

United States report for 1873 gives tables' showing the estimated quantities, num­ber of acres, and value of the principal farm crops of tho United States for 1873, which are interesting and valuable. From these tables wo take tho follow­ing :

The corn crop stands first. There were 39,197,148 acres, 932,274,000 bush­els, worth $447,183,009.

The hay crop was second in value, having grown on21,894,084 acres, aggre­gating 25,085,100 tons, worth nearly $340,000,000.

The wheat crop was on 22,171,676

pocket,"put it in the bag along with the thirty francs, saying: “It is for yi

and the uriest went away. Boyears of age, and he wetusa mg face os lie drops into the coroner’s o ice and re­

poor;” and the priest went away.our

iome

■der, wasn't it ?” ’s that l” dxolaiu

head clean' off!”

claims the

adds

“Host glorious orb! that wert a worship erarealed.'The mystery of thy making waa -revs

To see this sight blotted out of the heavens still is, and indeed mitst everbe, appalling; and even the oold-blooded

lust becomes tremnloiscion vous emotion. Dreadful as

with ner- ' e specta­

cle is, it appears to be but a faint "oelos- tial sign of tliat yet more <dire eolipseers ere the *birth

-Iramor-

tial sign or that yet foretold by inspired of astronomy was oelebmi talized in medinval song ; t

“Dias ins, dlas Ula Bolvet siooluin in favllla, ”

which is to oome upon the earth, when its history is closed, its destiny oonsum- mated, olid the “snn shall be darkened and the mooq shall withdraw her shin-

marks“Shocking murder,“What! What’

coroner, springinj“Chopped her

tiuues the boy, carelessly.“Where—when—what strset?”“And she was a perfectly lady I'

the boy.“Gome on—half! a dollar—other coro­

ner—get a hack!” calls the oorouer, get­ting into his overcoat.

“I was speaking of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France in 1793—regular put up job I” demurely replies the lad. “If you want to read the particulars of the case I’ll fetch over Hie book."

The coroner sits down and contem­plates the steaming end of the stick of cordwood protruding from the stove, and the clock on the desk goes ahead with its labor of ticking time into eternity.

years later the celebrated doctor, feelingj . .. v . i------ if 0jroath to be hear, bethought himself the good cure and wrote to him. Ho came, and Dupuytreu received from him the “ last consolations” and died in lusarms.

i I* Look.—The practice of leaving the theater “ to see a man ” between the acts

been severely past, but hereafter it is lit gardod more favorably, in a Chicago theatre one fora savedhia life a few seat which he left waa his temporary absence b a pistol discharged by a

Au Invitation.At a meeting of

York Journal q/ the management thocriticised. After the offered a resolution writer of that aimhfo!

position he

Hints to Horse Fanciers.If your horse is in tho habit of kick­

ing. Use a low board nnd your horse will soon get over it.

Keep your horse fnt; dou t allow any one to get a lien on him. ■, ,

When your horse refuses to toko up an oat, consider liim as havingfailed. , .

To make your homo very fast, tie himwith halters. , , ,

Look carefully after the bits of yonr horse, or you may soon bo looking after the bits of your wagon.

If yon have the proper address you may receive a couple of linos from a horse, but on no account drop a hue.

However well you may be attnohed to your horse, you must be certain that your horse is well attached to your oar-

When you toll a horse to “ get up,” look well to his “get up.,T Some horses get up within the buggy, but, like deep sorrow, “leave then traces behind.” ; : i

Cura fob a Raitueswakb Bitk or Smimn Brnw.—A physician in Oregon writes; Take the yolk of a good egg

‘put it in a teacup, and stir in as muol

sixpence. I have tried this remedy te a number of poses, wid never knew it to

it down to him, but his attention was taken up with his own situation, and he did-not see what we were doing. I stood on a projecting rook waving my hat to gain his attention, for my voice was drowned by the roaring of the falls, when just at that moment I saw him take his knife from ito sheath and step forward to out the lino. He had evi­dently deeided that it was better to go over with his boat as it was, than to wait for her to be broken to pieces. As he leaned over, the boat sheared again into the stream, the stem-post broke away, and sho was loose. With perfect composure Bradley seized the great scull oar, placed it in the stem row-lock, aud pulled with all his power—and lie was a strong fellow—to turn tho bow of the boat down stream, for he wished to go bow down rather tlian to drift broadside on. Ouo, two strokes were made, a third just us she went over, and the boat was fairly turned; she went down almost beyond our sight, though we were more thou a hundred feet above the river. Then she came up again on a great wave, and down and up, then around behind some great rooks, and was lost in the tumultuous foam below.

Wo stood speechless with fear; we saw no boat; Bradley was gone. But now, away below, wo saw something coming out of the waves. It was evidently a boat; a moment more aud we saw Brad­ley standing on deck swinging his hat to show that ho was all right. But he was in a whirlpool. The stern-post of his boat remained attached to tho line which was iu our possession. How badly she was disabled wo knew not. I directed Sumner aud my brother to run alongthe cliff and see if they could reach him from below. Rhodes, Hall and myself ran to the other boat, jumped aboard, imuhed out, and away wa went over the

A wave rolled over us and our

acres, producing 281,254,000 bushels, woith $332,594,000.

The cotton crop stands next to wheat, having grown on 9,350,000 acres, aggre­gating 4,200,000 bales, worth $312,480,

The oats crop grown on 9,751,700 acres was 270,340,000 bushels, worth $101,175,750.

The Potato ,:io,^grovj)i(OiLil,2y5,139 nearly i'ffi.OOO.OOO.

Tho total acreage in com, wheat, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, potato®, luiy! tobacco, andootton was 107,182,238, and the value of the crops $1,677,288,621.

The average yield per acre is esti­mated as' follows : Corn, 23.8; wheat, 12.7 ; rye, 13.1; potatoes, 71.9 bushels ; hay, 1.14 tons; tobacco, 775 pounds; cotton, 208.9 pounds.

Bow to Destroy Ants.A chalk mark at least half an inch in

depth, around the upper edge of sugar buckets, barrels, etc., will not admit one ant into the interior. Tho same mark drawn *n tho edges of shelves will also prevent the approach of an ant, as they are not able, to crawl over the chalk. But if they mo numerous among jam and jelly pots, toko a large spouge, wet it in cold water, squeeze it nearly dry, and then sprinkle flue white sugar oyer it. Place it on the infested shelf, and next morning dip it quickly mid carefully into a bowl of boiling water. I tried tlm M- iieriment in my jelly closet, and killed at least a hundred the first morning. Have set the trap again, and shall continue to do so while one ant remains. Rod pep­per dusted over their huuuto will also de­stroy them, but the sponge is the surest

jthod. _______

g^T^O^OOO, largely esc— ,vnv former year. *.is-----Since the suspension of specie pay­

ments in 1862, the State of Massachusetts has paid for premium on gold to meet its liabilities up to January 1, 1875, tho sum of $2,917,763.07.

Mrs. Jepsou, who lectures in and around Boston, was born deaf and dumb. From girlhood she has gradually acquired (he faculty of hearing and speaking, un­til now there are only a few letters which she cannot utter distinctly.

Seldom in tho national history has there been so general ft release of old stagers from the cares of public liio. Ot the twenty-live Legislatures in which elections have been hold, only foul' have returned the present Senator,-!.

The hunting for Indians’ skulls and thigh-bones on tho plains is reported to be very profitable business. Tho skulls me worth $1.25 for combs, and tho thigh of tho red man makes knife-bandies tliat are equal to ivory in appearance.

A French traveler arrived in Paris the other day from the (lape of Good Hope, bringing with him a diamond larger mid more beautiful than tho celebrated Re­gent’s diamond. It is of tiio pur®4, water, and is worth more than $1,400,000. It was found in an old abandoned nuno called the Devil’s Table.

It is snid that kerosene and rats have no affection for each other. Tho kero- sene is not particularly sensitive, but tho rats are, nnd refuse to live in tho same cellar or shed where kerosene is kept. A great quantity of kerosene is not neces­sary, as they only require a steady odor of it for a brief season to be looking up another boarding-house.

The Bt. Louis Democrat tells this anecdote of Senator S.'burz : Who1a candidate in 1368'ne_ suspected that a friend was secretly using or promising money. He went to him and said . 1will not have one vote cast for mo for gain of any kind, or the hope ot 14 i n elected with one such vote for mo and 1 know it, I will not accept; and if ever I find it out afterwards, I will resign the office.”rroM fferteSbackwoods audience his idea, of tW gentleman iu tho metropolis- -'‘Philip Ilone is the most gentlomanly ^ man in New York, boys, and 111 toll you how I know it. When he asks you to drmk ho don’t hand you a glass—lie puts the e cantor on the table, nnd walks off to tho window and looks out until you have finished.”

Gibbs, of Helena, Oohmuto, is a mur­derer who has escaped conviction through a legal quibble. Thirty vigilantes sur­rounded bis house m tho night and o6m- mnudod him to come out to be 1‘uug. Ho refused. They set lire to tho house. When the flames had grown too close foi a longer stay inside, Gibbs sprang snd-deuly out of a window with a revolver in each band, mid began firing rapidly at his assailants. ITiroo of timm werehis assailants. ,killed, two wounded, aud the rest lied, leaving ft coil of rope behind tnem.

A Mau who Always Eiadf* Water, Capt. John S. Godfrey of New Hamp­

shire will shortly visit California on a professional tern- for the purpose of lo­cating living streams and springs of water, and also iqineral bodies of every description. Capt. Godfrey claims no supernatural power in the accomplish­ment of his work, but declares it to besimply a sensitive oi current of elect '

not ho*. All l kuo-w is, that Bradley soon picking us up. . Berow long ue

cliff and waited until Sumner and my brothel- came up. After a difficult

_______ itriojtyr i*erful as to attract him ;

dminera

, or powerful

ing streams and mi tho surface. Dium located all tb* wells

plf, so pow- libly toi liv-

..Jite beneath , lafo war he tlie use of the

omy under Gen. Howard's command,

Ho Had His Revenge.Many years ago a rich man foreclosed mortgage on a poor man, mid, with

contemptuous words aud gestures; turned the poor man into the street. Tho poor mau came to Chicago and became a rail, Komvire; the rich man wont to Bt. Loins and bought a newspaper. Time at lost made AH things even, and tho St. Louis journalist cauio to Chicago last week with a linen duster, and by accident met ms debtor of many years ago. The latter recognized his heartless creditor, but did not jeer at his misery or refuse to help him. “ Smith,” he said kindly, “letby­pass be bygones. I will do what I can

Take this note to Mr, W ebbfor you. iiUto inis note io mx. » and ho will find you a berth on the Van Buren street oars as driver." And Mr. Webb did, and Smith froze muo toes,eight fingers, two thumbs, his nose, ami > xi. thid, night- The debtorboth cheeks, was avenged,

and at Hampton Falls, N, H., where land was rendered valueless for want ofwater, he located si supply all needed demani

which now

ioICobh ron FiiovuiN Fust.—I have tried almost everything that «8ftioned, hut found nothing^qual to nurture of turpentine and emiqu gum.

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