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We JRtlenrj fHaindtaler. J. VAN PLYXJL, VTTBLISHKH. HcHEKRY, ILLINOIS. AWBICULTURlli AND DOMESTIC. The Hmeit I«nd. ••The daylight waning and the darkness near; So little done, and still BO much to do! Before) me the long night of cloud and fear, Without one star to pierce the shadows through. I bear the rumble of the swaggering wains; I hear the burden of the harvest song; And, through the hazy lightin happy lanes, I see the sun-browned reapers pass along. And I must lay my sickle down and go From the dim holds that look so drear and lone; Alas! that I have BO few sheaves to show! I shall not hear the Master say " Well done I" With what regret I look back to the past, When the long shadows loomed so far away: And morning seemed on every wakening blast, To waft the whispers of an endless day! So many misspent moments, wasted hours. Playing with pebbles on the sea-washed strand; Searching for butterflies, or gathering flowers, I n s t e a d o f t o i l i n g I n t h e h a r v e s t l a n d . * r - And now the night, stol'n on me like a thief, While yet I dreamt that it was scarcely noch; •Sad thai the sunshine is so very brief 1 Sad that the shadows fall so very soon! O for one Other hour of God's bright day In which to work with sinew, heart, and wiU, Ere yet I leave the fields and pass away To that mysterious sleep waere all is still! -- WUliav\ jLeighton, Around the Farm. Wis are quite sore that in these plants "(artichokes) fanners may defy drougths in producing food for hogs and fodder for cattle.--Moore's Rural. THE Poultry World says cooked corn meal and potatoes served at regular time, for three or four weeks before slaughtering-time, is the best food for fattening fowls. AN article that will be dear for at least another year is starch. Many mills in New England will not start up, as the stock of potatoes is so small that there isn't enough to go round. A men is known by his cattle. If he is kind and attentive, and has a gentle word or pat for them, it has a soothing effect, and they will stand around and enjoy his presence, secrete more milk, and take on more fat.--Des Moines Register. IT seems to be quite a unanimous opinion among those who have tried crosses of the Jersey with other good milking breeds that the result is a cow unequaled by any of the pure breeds for butter or cheese. We predict that this cross is destined to grow in popular favor.--Rural Home. ACCORDING to an old soldier once serv­ ing in St. Helena, the great Napoleon had a leaning toward rural economy. He would carry a stick about as thick as a walking-stick, with an iron spud at the end, and, anywhere he went, if he saw a weed, he would always spud it up.-- London Times. HORSES and cattle require just as much light and sun influence as we our­ selves do. Nothing can thrive without the benigu influence of the glorious sun. Dark stables are a source of many dis­ eases which baffle the owners, and too often the veterinarian also, as to origin. Windows should never be placed in front, the many otherwise-perfect sta­ bles to the contrary notwithstanding. Concentrated light is in many cases the cause of shying, sore eyes, etc. The windows should be behind, if practica­ ble, but may be on the side if well back.--Country Gentlemen. A FEW years since a sandy garden had a potato plot in it. There came a drought, during which about half of the potatoes were hilled up with rounded piles of dry dirt. The others were left until a rain had wet the ground, and then hoed with flat-top hills. In tho autumn those first hoed were not worth digging, and the others yielded abundantly. On a dry, loose, mellow plains-land one plant­ ed his potatoes deep and did not hill, and had a fine crop, while his neighbor, the same year, alongside, planted near the surface, hilled high, and with more expense had less crop.--Mirror and farmer. IT was only a few years ago that swine breeders were vieing with each other for the greatest weight of carcass ; but this is now all changed. Hogs that will weigh 500 pounds are sold at a loss price per pound than those of 250 to 300 pounds. The ^market in England has long favored light weights. London is chiefly supplied with pigs of less than 200 pounds weight. And this tendency of the market to pigs well fatted but of small weight is just what the farmer should entourage, for it is exactly in the line of. his interest. It costs more to make the second hundred pounds of a pig than the first, and still more to make the third hundred pounds, and so every pound added becomes more ex­ pensive.-- Wallace's Monthly. The Rural New Yorker does not care whether high or low authorities declare that ground moles eat nothing but in­ sects, but says that tbe assertion is simply false, and any man who pos­ sesses skill enough to catch a' live mole can prove it to be so. Without, says our contemporary, at this time going into any argument on this mooted question, we will simply state one fact easily deter­ mined by our highest authorities or anybody else, and that is, the ground mole will devour earth or angle worms when in confinement, or at liberty, and those worms are not insects. Further­ more, this worm, Lumbricus terrestris, is the mole's principal animal food, if our own personal observation has not led us far astray. But leaving the food out of the question, a vigorous ground mole will lift up and kill a row of plants in far less time than a thousancf of our most noxious insects, not except­ ing grasshoppers and potato beetles. It is to be feared that our authorities who talk so glibly about the useful mole, know little of cultivating gardens infest­ ed with these pests. One season of gar­ dening with a dozen moles per acre would satisfy them to dispense with these se­ cret subterranean assistants. About the House. IF a loaf or cake has become rather too stale for the table moisten it a little and then heat it through in the oven. To REVIVE the color of black cloth garments, use a mixture of two pints vinegar, one ounce copperas, one ounce ground logwood, and three ounces bruised galls. BIV BROTH.--Gut in pieoes a pound of beef, put it in a stew-pan with half a pint of oOld water, a piece of carrot, one onion, a quarter of a pound of bacon cut in pieces; set on the fire and sim­ mer twenty minutes ; then add a pint of boiling water, salt and pepper; boil three-quarters of KM hoar. Strain AND serve. FRENCH ROI-IJS.--Into one pound of flour rub two OUNCES of butter and the whites of three eggs, well beaten ; add % tablespoonful of good yeast, a little salt, and milk enough to make a stiff dough ; cover and set it in a warm place till light, which will be in an hour or more, according to the strength of the yeast. Cut into rolls, dip the edges into melted butter to keep them from sticking together, and bake in A quick oven. JJEAN SOUP.--Pick over the beans, wash them, parboil <them, pour off the water, and put them on in fresh water with a few slices of ham or beef. Boil them all to rags, strain through a co­ lander, return to the pot, and add a little chopped celery, onion, a bunch of herbs, and boil slowly half an hour. Strain and serve. CLOSING CRACKS IN CAST-IRON STOVES. --Good wood ashes are to be sifted through a fine sieve, to which is to be added the same quantity of clay finely pulverized, together with a little salt. This mixture is to be moistened with water enough to make a paste, and the crack of the stove then filled with it. The cement does not peel off or break away, and assumes an extreme degree of hardness after being heated. The stove must be cool when the application is made. The same substance may be used in setting the plates of a stove, or fit­ ting stove pipes, serving to render all the joints perfectly tight. THE Journal %f Chemistry says the following is fatal to all sorts of vermin that prove such a vexation of spirit to the good housekeeper : Two pounds of alum dissolved in three or four quarts of boiling water. Let it remain over the fire till all the alum has dissolved. Then apply it with a brush, while boiling hot, to every joint or crevice in the closet where ants and cockroaches in­ trude, to all the pantry shelves, and to the joints and crevices of bedsteads. Brush all the cracks in the floor and the mopboards with this mixture. A cement of chloride of lime and powdered alum used to stop up rat-holes, and the walls and cracks and corners washed with the above-mentioned hot alum and borax, will drive away rats as well as insects. Booth and McYicker. We learn privately that Mr. McVicker of Chicago has gone to New York to se­ cure the Lyceum Theater on Four­ teenth street and Union square for Ed­ win Booth's reappearance. We hope it is true. It will give Mr. Booth A good chance to get some of his money back with Mr. McVicker's able management. If true, this will account for the demand on Jarrett & Palmer to'give up the name of " Booth's Theater" for their house on Sixth avenue, which they refuse to do, having leased and managed successfully under that style and title. It is natural that McVicker and Booth should wish to acquire back the name of an estab­ lishment which was, and is still, a syn­ onym for stage perfection, for the ad­ mirable setting of every play that has ever been produced on its boards. Mr. Booth built the house, and in it, by the lavish display and a too generous liber­ ality, perhaps, he wrecked a handsome fortune, and for a time, at least, severely impaired his health. "Edwin Booth's Theater" might do for a name, although too similar, perhaps; but how would "The Phoenix," or " Booth's Phoenix," do for a headlight ? Bather neat. Rising from the dead ashes of misfortune, you know.--St. Louis Republican. "Home, Sweet Home.w " Clari, or the Maid of Milan," pro­ duced in 1823, contains one piece that is known in every English-speaking country--" Home, Sweet Home." Clari is a beautiful peasant girl, who has ex­ changed her father's lowl/ cottage for the splendor of a Duke's palace, and be­ come his bride. But she pines for the simple life she has led, and as she en­ ters, fatigued and melancholy, she sings this song. The words are by John Howard Payne, an American, and, though the musie was called by Bishop a "Sicilian air," it is now generally agreed that it was really composed by him. " It is the song," says Clari, "of my native village--the hymn ot the lowly heart, which dwells upon T every lip there, and like a spell-word brings back to its home the affection which e'er has been betrayed to wander from it. It is the first music heard by in­ fancy in its cradle ; and our cottagers, blending it with all their earliest and tenderest recollections, never cease to feel its magic till they cease to live." The air is heard again during the play ; a chorus of villagers sing it when Clari revisits her home. The Catacombs. Borne and the adjacent Campagna lies upon a stratum of soft, porous, volcanic rock, called tufa. It is in this that the catacombs--the Christian cemeteries of the first four centuries--are excavated. They consist qf g.lleries, from five to eight or ten feet high, and from two to five feet wide, hewn in the rock, and connected with cross galleries, forming an intricate network of subterranean pas­ sages. Opening into these are many small chambers called cabicala, square or circular in form, with dome-shaped roof. Numerous shafts pierce the su­ perincumbent soil, giving ventilation, and admitting light. The whole num­ ber of the catacombs now known is some­ thing over forty. A few communicate with each other, but they are mostly sep­ arate, like adjacent cemeteries in the open air. The entire extent of the gal­ leries is estimated to be not less than 600 miles. A New Story. In No. 47 of the Chicago Ledger, of date Nov. IS, commences a highly in­ teresting serial story, bearing the title "Baffled at Last." This tale will be finely illustrated, and will be found one of the most entertaining romances of the day. For the terms of the Ledger see our advertising columns, or address THE LEDGER, Chicago, 111. A NEW, WONDERFUL and simple way to atop consumption and cure colds, by Dr. J. H. McLean's Cough and Lang Healing Globules, which dissolve, creating a gaa which is inhaled, coming in contact, cures throat and Jung dis­ eases. Trial boxes, 25 cents, by mail. Dr. J. H McLean, 814 Chestnut street, St. Louie. Sin INe BULL DEFEATED. Graphic Account ot the Battle Between the Indians and the Fifth Cavalry--Sit- tlhg Bull's Tactics--A Most Remarkable Scene In Indian Warfare. The correspondent of the New York Herald describes the operations leading up to the battle between the troops under Gen. Miles and Sitting Bui], and describes the battle. As the General's command was on the march Indians ap­ proached with a flag of truce. A con­ ference was held with the chiefs, but this was finally broken up by Sitting Bull, who announced his determination to fight. Both parties then retired, and Gen. Miles moved on the Indian camp. The correspondent describes: On every knoll, dispersed through the whole field, appeared the savage forms of the Sioux. Hither and thither, to and fro, were riding perturbed horse­ men like a nest of ants when routed. Even beyond the heavy mass on the divide appeared another mass, doubly massive and heavy and black, which even a glass could only make out an im­ mense throng, without being able to de­ tect riders, A more magnificent spec­ tacle was never beheld, or a scene more worthy the brush of painter or peneil of artist On the knoll immediately in front of the first were assembled the bearers of the white flag. One com­ pany and most of the officers went for­ ward between the two forces. Indians soon swarmed to that point by the dozen; but no meeting could be ar­ ranged here, so Gen. Miles directed that it should take place on a small hillock immediately in front of -Ins line, and that Sitting Bull draw up his line on the other side. This was substantially agreed to, and the two parties met at this point, with the two lines duly formed. A long, earnest, and eager conference began this time, with a little anxiety on the side of the Fifth, by reason of offi­ cers and men going back and forth. This conference was even more protract­ ed than on the day before, the Sioux showing their anxiety for the result by constantly riding to the council circle, eagerly consulting each other, and then returning to their eminence, the line of warriors that had been formed being en­ tirely broken up by these movements. After long, anxious consultation, many of the chiefs were found willing to agree to the terms, one offering to go himself as hoBtage if his tribe would be allowed to hunt buffalo awhile. At this point, however, Sitting Bull angrily broke up the conference, preferring fight to yield- in*\ Each party retired to its own side. Gen. Miles sent A final word to Sitting Bull to let him have his answer prompt­ ly or he would open upon him with his guns. No answer was returned. As Gen. Miles and his party moved slowly back to his lines, the Indians on the plains withdrew to the heights, and crowned these and tho high ground be­ yond the rocks in front. From the pru­ dent precautions taken by Gen. Miles against surprise or treachery to his com­ mand, the Indians seemed to have had an idea he would rather await than make an attack, so they watched with extreme eagerness his first movements. A mo­ ment sufficed for preparation, and when the wished-for command to move for­ ward was given every officer and Soldier joyfully responded and their eagerness could scarcely be restrained. Maj. Casey, with Company A, was directed to move along and clear the ridge on the left, Capt Carter, with Company K, to clear a high knoll on the right, Capt. Snyder, with Company F, to guard the Rodman gun, while the line advanced direct to the front. The advance was not handsomely done, owing to the too great eagerness to get forward. After advancing a FBW hundred yards line was deployed as skirmishers, opening up like a fan. The deployment was beau tifully made in perfect order, sweeping over the ground with its long, waving line, climbing the hills and descending the valleys like a long ripple over the billows. Capt. Carter's oompany, which had been ordered to carry the height on the right, crowned by about seventy-five Indians, without firing, moved steadily forward, closing upon the Sioux. The latter gave way before the little line with­ out venturing a shot. Meanwhile the main line was rapidly advancing. Com­ pany A, moving steadily, swept aside the few Indians on the left ridge. The line had now rcached the creek, beyond which was the battle field. On the precipitous rise immediately before us, composed of high, gravelly knolls, were the main body of Sioux. The ravine of the stream divided to the right, one portion running far to the right, the * other extending to the north and left along the advance. On the left OF this branch was a very high ridge, commanding thewhole plan of the field, and distant from the ravine a few hun­ dred yards. This was covered by In­ dians. The prairie beyond the heights, on which the main body of the Sioux hai taken up position, was rolling, as usual, each swell rising higher for sev­ eral miles. The ground on the rigbt of the right branch of the stream was S'milar to the one on the left, but not so high. The plan of the Indians, it appeared now, was to get the Fifth regiment to pass the main force, and thus B come entangled in the ravines and low ground, while by crowning the surrounding heights they would be enabled to pour a concentrated fire on the mass and re­ peat the Custer butchery. Gen. Miles was not the man to be thus intrapped, and by Capts. Carter and Casey's moves defeated the first part of the pro­ gramme. His plan was as perfect as its execution was complete. The line was now moving out of the ravine and up the precipitous knolls, the Indians giving way gradually and EASILY M front, not yet firing a shot, the armistice apparently restraining both forces. The line now rcoved out of the ravines and up the precipitous gravel buttes in the following order : Capt. Casey, wtth Company A ; Bennett, with B : Lymims, with I; Butler, with C ; Carter, with K. In the line Lieutenants Pope and liosseau, with H ; Forbes, with G. In reserve, Capt. Snyders, with F, in charge of the Bodman gun, and McDonald, with D, in rear of the train. As the line approached the sum­ mit of the height the Sioux began their wild war dance in our front. This was the first hostile demon­ stration. Many might have been killed now by the Bodman gun, but that the dis£ke to be the first to break the armistice pr^ailed with Gen. Miles. The Bod- gun was pushed forward on the 'IGHI and all was moving forward in G°*I OR^<:R» WHEN a shot from the rear pasted through Lieut. Pope's oompany, ana was at once returned by the eager MEF» "WHO were tired of waiting. This COMPANY was at once ordered to clear thejravines and knolls from whence the shejt came. Lieut. Bousseau, with Com • PAIJY K, was ordered to take the left and Cafter the right ravine. At the same tinie the line advanced rapidly, the main front, when the Sioux dashed in circles along the front delivering a rapid firi and then disappearing behind the swtlis. Their riding was magnificent, but the fire was quite ineffective. While THIS WAS taking place the flank move- M^ATS advanced apace. Company K soon cleared the ravines. Carter and Lyman doing the same on the right, where they encountered heavy firing in parsing through what had been the camp of pitting Bull's band. Meanwhile tbe gallant RosseSu, worthy of his great brother's reputation, moved straight up the lofty height under a rapid fire until he reached the summit and secured the key of the field. It was handsomely doae, and without loss of life, aided by the booming *>f the Rod­ man. THE SiOux, now driven from every important point, flanked and foiled, made wide circles, and many came around to the rear or flank and rear of Company i£, which had been ordered to remain with the train until it was out of danger. These Indians in the rear took possession of each height, and dismounting did some close firing. Here Mergt McPhelan, Company E, was wounded severely from a shot The Indians now fired the prairies in front, and amid the lurid flames the fight con­ tinued until no Sioux remained to op­ pose the advance. Company E was then directed to clear the ravines on the left rear, where water was to be found, of the few Indians collected there, while the command moved back and camped on the high ridge. In this action only two men were wounded, this being due to the fact that the fire of the Indians was so well kept down by the new arms and good marks­ men. Sergt. McPhelan, shot by a sharpshooter in the rear, and one private of Company I was the total loss of the Fifth regiment. Of the number actual­ ly engaged, or the loss incurred on the side of tho Indians, it is impossible to speak with any certainty. The Fifth had 398 all told, and the Indijans cer­ tainly greatly outnumbered these. Sit­ ting Bull's forces are estimated at 600 on the liold, but did not take part in the fight. It has sinoe been heard that there were three bands, in all 1,500 warriors, of which only a few took part. Six dead Indians were seen lying on the field ; but, as they had full opportunity to carry off their dead before they oould be reached by the troops, it is reason­ able to believe a great number were killed. Whatever their loss in killed may have been, more severe was the loss of several tons of dried buffalo meat and a large amount of camp equipage. For this they had fought, and by the loss of the fight the prestige of Sitting Bull was diminished. His punishment for the destruction of a gallant band of cavalry was accomplished by infantry altoe, TOOT a cavalry soldier or officer be&ng on the field in this engagement. Gen. Miles displayed that S perb hand­ ling of troops that, distinguished him during the war, and on the Southern plains. The Indians were so complete­ ly baffled by the rapidity of his move­ ments as to be unable to make any for­ midable opposition. The next morning tho sun appeared early, and a fight oc­ curred with the pickets of Company E, arising from the chasing and nearly cap­ turing of one man who was straggling ; but the Indians were speedily driven off. The main trail was then resumed and pressed, rapidly to the Yellowstone. Skirmishing continued most of the day. Tbe prairie is being fired all along the line of march, and ponies and lodge poles picked up all the way. The im­ portance of the above engagement and pursuit will finally appear in the fact that this day the whole of the Minne- conjous and Sans Arcs have surrendered aiid given five of their principal chiefs -- Bed Skirt, Black Eagle, Sunrise, Sit­ ting E^gle, White Bull, and Foolish Bull--to Gen. Miles as hostages that they will go at once on to Cheyenne Agency. They give the number of their lodges as 1,300, but this is considerably overestimated. These chiefs leave to­ night, under guard, for Cheyenne Agency, via Buford. These tribes broke from Sitting Bull immediately after the fight, he going with a few lodges toward Fort Peck. Too much credit cannot be given Gen. Miles for his energy and ability in this whole campaign. The Nameless French Flag. Figaro reminds us that the French army has no fl igs, and that on the 2d of June, 1871, the War Minister issued an order that the standards then in use were to be handed over to the artillery. In exchange, small flags without any in­ scriptions were served out provisionally. The provisional flags, which have now been in use for five years, only cost 25 francs, apiece, while the silk standards, with their ornaments, cost 280 francs. It is not, perhaps, a question of expend­ iture which hinders the War Office from replacing the eagle. The fleurs-de-lys are out of the question ; so is the Gallic cock, which has been monopolized by the Orleans family; the lady in Phrygian cap who symbolizes the republic, and who is playfully called Marianne, is only in favor with Radicals ; and the moderate republic has neither symbol nor song. Taken alone, the tri-color belongs to the L evolution, the empire, and the younger branch of the Bourbons. Perhaps it would be prudent, until the Conserv­ ative republic is more firmly established, to leave the top of the flagstaff in its present nude condition.--Pall Mall Gazette. A CALIFORNIA man was married in double-quick time the other day. Tak­ ing his affianced with him, he drove in a buggy to the residence of a Justice of the Peace, where he halted. The Jus­ tice then went on with the ceremony, ordering the twain in the carriage to join hands, and in a minute from the time the buggy drew up to the Jnstioe'S door, the newly-married couple were off in their equipage agaiv CRUSHED T9 DEATH. Nineteen Chinamen Trampled Upon In a Theater--Scenes and Incidents. - [ From tbe San Francisco Chronicle.] At about 12 o CIOCK last mgnt A fright­ ful accident occurred at the Royal China Theater, No. 626 Jackson street, which in its horrible details and scenes of ter­ ror was unequaled by any event which has occurred in the Chinese quarter for many a day. The entertainment at this theater last evening was given as a bene­ fit to one of the most popular actors who perform at the theater, and the heuse WR8 crowded from the bottom of the pit to the outermost recesses of the gallery, every bencli being occupied. In the neighborhood of3,000 men had crowded into the place, quite a number of Chi­ nese females being present, but only two or three white men. At about 12 o'clock, while the drama at present run­ ning there was being played, a small fire in some matting in the gallery, which had caught by the sparks from a cigarette or cigar in the hands of some careless Chinaman was discovered. The man who made this startling discovery, regardless of the consequences, even if he had foreseen them, sounded the alarm immediately in his own tongue, which everybody understood to mean destruction and death by burning. The utmost confusion prevailed, and a panic ensued. The large numbers of Chinese in the auditorium rushed frantically for the door, while those packed in the gal­ lery did the same. Some twenty-five or thirty men from the lower part of the house reached the door first and were al­ most simultaneously overwhelmed by the frightened crowd which was surg­ ing down from the gallery. The DOOEFT which are double and each about twelve feet high by six feet wide, were closed, but the resistless torrent of yel­ low humanity poured down the stairs, through them without attempting to open either, and the consequenoe was that the foremost crowd, about thirty in number, were scarcely out before the stairway broke, and the massive door fell upon and crushed them to the floor, while over it crowded and jostled the dense audienoe without a thought of the oonsequen<?es. In the meantime, the premature fire, which had made no headway, was summarily quenched by a Christian Chinaman named Adam Quinn, who, besides stamping upon it, took off his coat and covered it. The aotors upon the stage were entirely ig­ norant of the cause of the panic, and did not stop to inquire, but oontinued with their performance, which had the effect of staying many of the frightened Chinese who were trampling everything down in their efforts to effect an exit. The passage of the dense crowds through the entrance and the heart-rending shrieks of the crushed and dying under the doors alarmed several policemen on Jackson street, who immediately en­ deavored to effect an ontrance into the theater and sent to the police station for assistance. Officer Duffield, a special on Jackson street, was one of the first white men who essayed to stem the panic-stricken tide flowing out of the doorway, and he was obliged to use his club vigorously before he oould stop a single man in his way. Half a dozen stalwart policemen, from the watch which was just about to leave the station for duty on their respective beats, re­ paired quickly to the scene, and the combined efforts of a dozen officers were necessary to stop the outgoing Chinese. The work was accomplished by knockc ing several Celestials about, and the re­ mainder, realizing that the danger in the theator, wha ever it was, had disap­ peared, fell back on the crowd and checked their frantic companions. By this time Capt. Douglas, with a dozen more policemen, arrived with large crowds of white men, who, hearing the alarm, had rushed to the spot. The railing of (lie stairway leading from the gallery to the lower floor had given way, and several of the frightened men had fallen down, only to be crushed under foot by their equally terror-stricken companions. The tide having been checked, the officers raised the prostrat­ ed door and removed the dead and dy­ ing from beneath it. Some were stone dead, while all under it were more or leas injured. Nineteen were conveyed to the street dead, and seven others who were rapidly dying. The bodies were ranged along the sidewalk. The entrance to the ^heater, a hall about forty .feet in length by some twelve in width, occupied' on one side by a couple of Chinese fruit vend­ ers, was cleared away, and the panic- stricken audience allowed to pass out. The news of the accident spread like wildfire, and over a thousand Chinese, men and women, from all parts of Chi­ natown, thronged to the scene, and the sidewalk, the entire length of Jackson street, between Kearney and Dupont, was completely lined with half-nude Ce­ lestials, gazing with blanched faces at each body aa it was carried out into the street. One stalwart Chinaman, weigh­ ing about 170 pounds, was brought out and laid upon the walk, his clothes torn and his body lacerated by the many feet that had trampled relentlessly over him. His face was black with suffocation, and the crimson fluid was running in a stream from his nose and ears. Life had not yet left him, but in his dying agonies he writhed and crawled about the pavement, swinging his bare arms in the air, and shrieking for the relief that could not come. At the right of the doorway, and at the foot of the four or five steps from the theater door to the floor of the hallway, IS a stairway descending into a dark alley. Several of the foremost Chinese of the crowd that were crushed under the falling door had been precipitated down these stairs, and two were brought up with broken limbs. One was placed at the front entrance in a sitting posture against a box of fruit, and the other, a young man of high degree, was taken into Yu Hum Clioy'S--the manager of the theater'S--office. A -few moments later Dr. Stivers, the City and County Physician, arrived and examined him. As the unfortunate fellow lay upon a low bench covered with matting at one side of the room, he was turning over Mid over and groaning in agony. As the doctor felt his limbs to ascertain the nature of his injuries, he yelled, "Oh, no, no; me no hurt," as if fearing that his exerucinting agonies were to be in­ creased. The other man, somewhat old­ er, who had been plaoed near the door­ way, sat iu stolid silenoe, his pale face, under the flickering rays of a gas-jet, re­ cording the most excruciating suffering1. About fifteen minutes was consumed IN. the passage of the crowd of Chinese from the theater, and the acting of the play by the company was continued until the last deputation had departed, when tho actors and actresses rushed in a body to the doorway to discover what had trans­ pired, indulging in many guttural ex­ clamations of terror at the long line of dead bodies placed upon the pavement. With much trouble the crowds whiok had assembled upon Jackson street wet®, driven by the police up to Dupont street, where an unsuccessful effort was made to disperse them. Nineteen of the twenty-eight taken from the hallway and removed to the street were found to be dead. Dr. Stivers examined several who betrayed no OUTWARD SIGNS of in­ jury, and said they seemed to have been suffocated to death. Eight or ten boro marks of violence, several bleeding at the nose and ears, the crimson STRE^ST running across the walk into the gutter, while the faces of three or four otheVs turned upward in the light were blacik and discolored. Several of those take® from under the door lived A few mo­ ments after being removed, their agonis­ ing shrieks filling the air and exciting the lamentations of adjacent Chinese who witnessed the writhing contortions. One Chinaman, who broke frantically through the line of policemen and passed one of the dying men, threw up his arms and yelled in horror at the agonies of his countrymen. As soon as the bodies were taken from the hallway, and the wounded who could walk had been led into adjoining houses, the Coroner was notified, and the dead bodies taken to> the morgue. All Sorts. ONBSTI & Co. do business in Sen Francisco. IN Philadelphia a boss dressmaker i called a forelady. » SQTTIRRBII-IJOOK fur is used to line oape and cloaks. The fur is inexpensive, ye durable. THE Minneapolis street-car company has issued half-fare tickets for schooK children. A CAUFORNIA horseman recently ac­ complished the feat, at Los Angeles, of riding 100 miles in four hours and forty- five minutes. THK thickest armor-plate for vessels yet produced has just been rolled in Sheffield by Messrs. John Brown & Oow It is twenty-four inches THINK, HENST WABD BSECTUIK SAYS: "An impudent clerk can do almost as muoh injury to his store as the neglect of the" proprietor to advertise his stock." A DROVE of 30,000 homed cattle was recently driven from Texas to Kansas, by 700 drivers. The outfit alone cost $50,000, and the herd brought $320,000. A YOUNG lady of Green Bay, Wis., found a husband by walking off the abutment of a bridge into the river. In other words, she is to marry the young man who saved her from drowning. Or fourteen school-girls whose appear in a paper printed in Minneapo­ lis, one is a Carrie, another a Frankie, another an Addie, another a Minnie, another a Junie, another a Hatties an­ other a Susie, another a Nettie, and two are Nellies. THE London Spectator says that the practice of hoarding money prevails to s large extent among the poorer classes in England, especially in the rural dis­ tricts, as well as to a limited degree among eccentric and old-fashioned peo­ ple of better circumstances. WITH the exception of the pyramid of Cheops, the spire of the Strasburg Ca­ thedral, 464 feet in height, hits hitherto been the most elevated building in the world. It has now been exceeded by the lately completed spire of the Bouen Cathedral, which is 494 feet high. AN industrious watch-dog at North Raynham, Mass., took the hydrophobe, killed a hundred fowls, put to death a number of cats, and bit eight other dogs. The dead-animal man is preparing a touching account of the tragedy, whioh he hopes the S. P. 0. A. will publish. LORINO PASHA, the American officer who, it is presumed, lost his life on the second disastrous Egyptian expedition into Abyssinia, was Gen. W. W. Loring formerly an officcr of the United States army, and afterward a Confederate Major General. At the close of the rebellion he accepted service with the Khedive of Egypt PERSONS buying batter in the paiiat w common now, are told upon inquiry, with the seller's blandest smile, that, "there's no charge for the pail." If, after it is empty, however, it happens to be weighed, the buyer finds that he has paid fifty cents a pound for cheap tin, a heavy iron handle and a liberal amount of solder.--Boston Bulletin. THE whole number of Popes to Pius IX. is 257. Of those 104 have been Ro­ mans and 103 natives of other parts of Italy, 15 Frenchmen, 9 Greeks, 7 Ger­ mans, 5 Asiatics, 3 Africans, 2 Dalma­ tians, 3 Spaniards, 1 Hebrew, 1 Thraoian, 1 Dutchman, 1 Portuguese, 1 Candiot, and 1 Englishman. HAMLET plunged his sword through % the arras in Bristol, England, the other evening, and Polonius fell seemingly dead upon the stage, whereupon a gen­ tleman started up in a high state of in­ dignation, and, exclaiming aloud, "It is most disgraceful that all these people oan sit quietly here and see an aged per­ son deliberately murdered," bounded frantically out of the theater. THERE was a boy in Martinez, Cal., the other day, who doubted if the other boy's gun would carry* hot as far as 150 yards, and challenged proof by posting himself as a target at* that dis­ tance for the other to shoot at The doctor had several of the leaden pellets to excavate from below his epidermis, and he is presumed to have been con­ vinced that the gun will carry 150 yards. THE blithesome shepherd gings His artless gong*, And echo's wandering voice THE notes PROLONG. A maiden'* E\ » striken mine, - My cheeks flush red. And, like a FLOWER OPPRESSED, >HE droops her head. I love tho mystic voice That UACK again Returns iu purer tone* The shepherd's strain. I love the maid WHOSE soul. Reflecting luiue. Would speak its kindling thoughts in looks divine. --Bdgrtuim.