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YKf, PsM!*** SILTICWS ftEVIEVr THE EAST* | £ t.tiMii number of buildings in Front «nd Brown streets. riiiUdelphis, belonging to the estate of tb® late Thomas H. Powers, v&taed *t #75.000, were burned. v T ^XTHONT C0M8T00K, followed by nine poJieemon in dtusen's drem, raided ft pool-room in Barclay street, New York. Fourteen em- «ft» ,tv •*-|j0yftSVCT« token to the Tombs, and #760 in frm .t&ohev and 50,000 pool- tioksta seized, ihe ̂ -t , Wfualiv for pool-selling is (2,000 tine or im- * Srisonment for one year. ' ̂ ' COU JOHN CETOBCH HAMILTON, K s<*n *-r if Alexander Hamilton, died at Long Brinch, *« ••fci 'his SWih year. He was born in Philadelphia, tr, -0) *Bt« ffethertbea being the fflrst Secretary of the - ': • Treasury. He ,was about 12 fears of age wheu ' " fiitt father was killed in the duel with Aaron £$«* ! •- Burr "Tug" Wilson and ex-Aldennan Liu. , , , Jcime8 Dunne, of Brooklyn, are matched for a * " prize-fight for #2.500 a ride, the battle to ooMBf .>>»'• »t!v ai Mississippi or Louisiana. JII*.,- •••'• ' AARON O. BURR, the adopted son of «. > Aaron Borr, died in New York city, aged 74* .pa w the ton of a French Count, and was -»b % - • '• ' • * # " " • ##» *>} il *•<*>• ' intM " - • W: :-.u .-kfOk hwomottvM, throwing two oar* into the V |4 ininnnK balf * do^en persona *'Li' SPECIALcrop reports are published by 11 1 m papers from the region ttMMed 'X-f^rtbo Chicago, Milwaukee and St PMl Qftcn. f. • •' w*f. * • <jnie wheat yield shows a large increase; earn, ' mi ijfnfrhaU to a two-thirds crop; oats, immensely y, j, ^#nbnndaat ; and ijeand Iwtej it* above 4b® ~ * INBIAWB attacked a wagon' train near • *»<€«» . ?Oifton, N. M.. anfi kilted two of tlie teamsters. ®»e teamsters captured a wounded Indian, ***<!-? <«oalped him and then roasted him alive, A * V », jtopatch from L^rdsborg, N. M., says : "the " •v^P^1,"t*""'*'<rati*ens w preparing to t%ke the settlement of ' JbmffW .bjlB-Wiao <j«e~gtioi> into their own hands. A- * »«Wecret <*ganizati<Mi is being formed to wipe ont the Apaches. New Mexico has already over Arizona will furnish more than this nurn- - jjl ,̂,5, .per. Globe C"itv and the Gila valley already A PBKENIX (Arizona) dfepatcfr" «KJ*: j,̂ ater reports from Tonto Basin confirm the .. pews of the last Indian depredations. In the *$gfat at Sixty's four Indians were killed and at Tewki-tsbury'B KX Mr. Chnrch was killed. Jtedley suid his man, who went in searcii of Mitle,* are mifising and sripposed killed, a-8 the frHitin were seen near. Hszeltou. and his si»- «er an wf& Reports say sixty to eighty Indians oamped on Coon creeK, evidently bound down ' Salt river. Buildings have been burned, stock • Wiled and driven off, and crop laid waste^ tuning great loss to the settlers. The people jpire taking measures to protect themselves. :'̂ r IN a fire at Fresno, CaL, about fifty 1 were burned, mostly business hooaeo, I five hotels. The losses will probably ' W®®?"00- Much of the property if trains- fond.....The recklessness of a freight-train Engineer on the Little Miami road caoaed a eol- k 1 near PcfBter's Crossing, Ohio, wrecking ' % IN a fc 'Monaec wei l>d»»ngj :J*eachr*>( "'""iontainH 28,928 namea, on whidi ia *• t**laim of 76,659 populatMD. fvns SOVTTOb NkasDe Soto, Miss., cm the JCobile %jbA Ohio railroad, the mangled remains of six "'̂ ftagroe* were foimd on the track, having been '1/1 tuoiover by a train. They had jurt been paid •j t wexe boosd home. One negro was arrest- » fd on rtrQBc annMeiaD of having, in eottnectiOT othen. nmrdertd and roMwd the men . 4nd placed wair bodies on the tack. &M* C.-'D CAFX'. JOHN S. WISE, Beadjoster can- <4jjpdatefor Congregeman-at-Largfi in Tirginia, l̂Hr - 1, $Ma«jMohn fi. Crockett, Pn^ecrtting Attorney ' 0t"Wythe ooonty, in an affair of honor near •' *• Wttmailat>(iqr> Va. Both ml without effect »v'ta a; . kstlw finrt nmnd; in the second Crockett'̂ Bhtoi waot off^ha,lf-cocked ; us (he third Wiee'B *e» j< . ti î poo mis fire, while Crockett's bnUet wwit; ttati '<, Bide of the mark; and then everybody waa aatr »>«• »»S.'M ̂ *• .tia<j s t5 jjiexpioGion on boardtheriver steamer u '•* Vkndkon, nt New Orleans, >?WJOS th® deatfesi fey II'-,; ..*> 'gNMingaad drowning o£ eigM or ten |IOBOU% *ai1 •*! and the wounding 9t many othen Martin i nd , , . Becket, who was & jail at Hamr-toc Court Boose, Dei., for criminally aasamting a IS- f. year-oid white girl, was Uke.ii thsnoe by a mob "JUSAi •' •••<.• ' n' . - VPUOVCUUL* %.4<: A, V^SHHIOTON dispatch M( î. thai *a&&i i *)v General Brew#ter has rendered an jjfe , Wfeion cm the issue rused between George W. Ctartis and Representative Itubbell, ttie'̂ rc«i- wnt of the Republican Congressional Coimuiir < #e. pn the unibjeet of political aeeesHmeutH,., to - which he holds that a member of OcmgAes is not in officer of the United - DtoteSi. so ttiat a gift to him tof, iimr/i gfn'PWgn par poses does not fall within the * , •Utate reguTriting political assessments. Th* Attorney C^neral has also given an opink>u to tte,Secretary ̂the Treasury that the request -'jm* tiransportatioii'.companies to be allowed to • 't 4ahesome00^000 Chinese IaboH#S through tkia -^omptry frwp Cuba to China cannot be granted * IBder the.law as it now stande. ' lift- • ,1 *m • •fits ';KJ 3"< itTbg t)Se names of hie aooomplioes, and had been sent to Caracas. of inquiry tods that Gen. Justified in relieving Gon. Warren of His "»mmml at the battle of Five Forks, Executive OonuaittM of the trvmk haes hate inorsased the gross rate m eattletftCO ONRTS P«T!00 pannds, on the \mM ot CUaago to Sew fort THBII Americans and aa Austrian, bridle on a debanch at Ningpo, China, bratally assaulted a Chinese Captain of a war jnnk, and at latest accounts the safety of all foreigner* was jeopardised by the indignation among the ttativee. GBOBOB P. MABSH, United Stales MHriotfT to Itahr. a post be has hdd eontinu* ously for the past twenty-one years, having been appointed by President Lincoln in 1801, di«d suddenly at Valnmbroxa..,.The London 2'inie* severely censures public opinion in America for not more forcibly con­ demning (be dynamite projects of Irish agitators against England.... A cable dispatch says that 300 houses and some large warehouses were destroyed by fire at RadziwiUow, Kiwsia, and 3,000 people are homeless.It is reported that the Kussian steamer Moscow was sunk by a boiler explosion and 200 men lost. IfsiXiiK*, who was convicted at Ber» Unof sellihg plaqg ot the coast defenses of Germany* to the Russian Government, gets six years' imprisonment Sagastft, the Spanish Pritoe Minister, was the recipient of a small boxifrom Granada, which, upon being opened, was found to contain mtro-glycerine Four­ teen persons were killed in a riot between rail­ way laborers and pessRrnts at Dombrova, Prov- ince of Dolnau. Austria. WAOKKB'S new opera, " Paraifol," was presented for the drst time Beyrouth on the 36th of July, and created great enthusiasm. The author WM oiled before the curtain and acknowledged the honor conferred on him by the audience A cable dispatch from London states that the Catholic Archbishop, Feehan, of Chicago, will be elected a Cardinal at the n$xt ooosistoiy at Rome. IN a oourt -room in Dublin a shot WM fired at the Recorder by a man named Fitxpat- nck, who had been non-suited as plaintiff. S ,ve over 300. Other sections are oi^anizing pidly. Hie citizen# throughout Arizona are •:|»a*isiii""!P^®g 'or.the arrival of Gen. Crook." : ,_X Uhmizoo telegram reports that " the wheat - fcsrtBSt is nearly all finished m the soatheni ^*"j */:• four tiers of counties of Michigan,' which for- ; , nish 80 per cent of the crop of the entire Sate. oMNtits ^Indications are that the crop will considerably Rtfe. \ * s ;#xeasd that of 1880, when the yield of Michigan .̂- .̂̂ was 31,000,000 btwhels." •••'• THE new directoiy of Jtfiimeapolis At A Cabinet meeting;, in Wa îington, Vie other day, (he opinion of Attorney General Brewster on the subject of political asjteamaeut® 1 the chief topic of discussion, Th® opinion I 5" aecompaaied by a letter from Secretary Folgw, expresjiiug hie views. The subject was leueteny nisenseAd. The Pre«ident expressed ii.K.kli views fteelf and f̂ ly. They were, in to- that no perwa in any one ef the exeea- ' declining to obntribnte shall be subject to discharge of crit- aad no attempt to injure him on j p --1 will be countenanced or tolerated. of Delaware nomi- -*" , • wted Albert Curry for Governor and Waahing- Hastings for Congressman-at-large The ^'«ute Ootumittee of the Independent Bepubli- ftt -Pennsylvania have formally rejectedthe i for harmony ̂ r°po^ed by the Stal- u .1 •"•"wwm.' < 4 .(• ©•HPTBoafci-mKHox reports thatfbrty- ' '"-"inij . feline natioail banks ^organized l̂ Eqiiiation -Mil feady^ee of the postage of th® law to extend is*.,; '»- Mr. Walker RSaias SOB sf es*-- ' : " .̂ P îretary Blaine, has been appointed *--'-tint .«ltflMunselon behUfof tut- 'Umted States before ̂ CommiBgioaere of Aith«M ••'H- THK President has referred a supple- , *»^PenU1 Petition, bearing 49,000 signatures, from ' V *(• G*,rfield Of New York city, asking the V' -,â °S !̂.!ergeiStMlu,on'to ̂ Secretary of . • ' ' liWar together with several other andsimllsr 1 petitions. " 'i m Coiotisgiojam EatJM reports the en- " SU, ,%! «»Utt5tiQns of Intecnsl-rgTenM taxm' for w pwt fiscal year--#146,520,273--has baen - ' • j •"connted for ana turii&sS into the treasury. "FFI ' • • S®®® H. BBTHABU, who " would 1 bave shot Gniteau if he had been ablstobov.. jtii; row a »»to};duraig the trial," was the other OTfowdby th® district CommiBBioners to 1" ' IKwfcsaa ,̂, - THUBK American prospeeiUnn ' were found dead in the Sonora Valley, Mexioo. It is believed they were murdered by the natives, who, however, charge the Apaches with the «rime. 't#!r '•» *» -" *jl« J*>. - • f A NKW YORK Herald South Amerioan J. oorrespondent telegraphs that one of the ,v,f" *' 1 , 4' * gn« of Lord Cavendish and Under Secretary Airke has been arrested at Puerto Cabello . *b%t. ,ba made, eoaf^pajon. THI WAR HI EGYPT, Alexandria' dispatches ot July 24 state that 'the Khedive had signed a decree declaring Anibi Pasha' a rebel, mi had issaei i, general forbidding the army to obey Ms oaatr -The Khedive had also proclaimed that the English were promoting the intareatu of the country. An evasive answer received by the Bntish Government from the Porte to a proposal to immediately dispatch troops to • Egypt had decided them that the toe for farther delay was past The wster m the Mahmoudieh canal at Alexan­ dria, fell fourteen, inches in the forty-eight hours, and the supply to the pnblic had been greatly diminished. News from Cairo was to the effef* that there were 8,000 starving, home­ less persons there, who were dying by hun­ dreds. The Country was represented as in a terrible state of anarchy Atrocities equal to any ever jjerpetroted in Bul- gsu'ia Were being committed with impunity. Au eye-witness from TautaU staled that eighty- five Europeans were tortured, dfcemboweled and torn tb p'Tee, and that- -women were violated Kfed't&rtrnwL The soldiers partici­ pated, in tb^strocities. Two Germans, sheltered fcythe station-master until the train was ready to start, were caught entering the train, their heads held over the carriage door and their throats cut A skirmish between Kogltth and Egyptian troops oeotnred at Ramleh, 4 few miles from Alexandria, on July 24. The canmltias were few, and the British remained in possession of the town. An Inspector of Survey who arrived at Alexandria reports the total force of Arabi at 100,000. The latter dis­ patched 9.000 man to reinforce Cairo. There were twenty war-ships, half of them En­ glish, in the harbor of Alexandria. Arabi sent a letter to Gladstone before Alexandria was bombarded, but which did not reach the Premier until after that event, containing dire threats about the confiscation of property, de- strnctiou of the canals, and a religious war. In the House of Lords Earl Grannlle announced tbaf 15,000 troops would be sent to Egypt. He said the feeling of Europe waa in favor of En­ gland's action. De Freycinet, the French Pre« mie'r, in a conference with a committee of the Senate, said that France would confine herself to the. protection of the 8nes canal, and in other operation* Great Britain must &et alone. Tbe Bntish Government has chartered thirteen steamships plying to Amerksna port#, to convey troops to Alexandria. , A terrible story of the atrocities at Tantah, £gypt,' is related by an escaped eye-witness: ** fWw women carrying, tied to bludgeons, the dismembered aims sad legs of massacred Euro- peane. The soldiers and the r*bbia fought for . loot A ftoifamia iibeik, with twenty Bedouins, eavod the inhabitants of Hit. Jewish quarter and took them to his village. An­ other Sheik saved myself and party. A mob from.Alesapd<ia murdered three employes of the Cadastre and their families and burnt their bodies with petrolewm. The mob killed twelve Chreeka. 1% tied the visoera of one of their victims to the tail of a dog and es.?eied him With petroleum, which was set on to amidst cries ef joy ixxxn woman sad children. The mob - was dispersed «gbt times. Finally two Sheiks arrived and dispersed it Three mptsires ef the -Cadastre who, with their families, were murdered' at Tantah, defended themselves bravely against their ssssitanto, many of whom' they killed, until the snob, brails in at the bade of U» house and dis- tbem.': Alexandria dispatohes of July state that Omar Lufti, formerly Governor of AlMfcndria, has been appointed Minister ot War aad Marine in place of Arabi. An officer who deserted from Arabi stated that under the pro- tectkm of a flag of truce, the rebels were coo- fortificatioiia near Atookii', and were aw tonaidnbla preparations near Ro- setta. The English experienced much trouble in moving their heavy ordnance, by the use of which they intended to dislodge Arabi, and gunners and guns from the fleets were being sent to the fnqnt A London dispatch an­ nounced that England and Prance h&cl decided to invito Italy to participate in meuiuea taken for'the. protection of the Suez canal; end it was expected that England would also invite Italy to join ih the restoration of order in Egypt " An attempt Was made to gufpte the BrttUh outposts at Baarieh on the sught of tbe 96Uv but it was a signal failure, tbe ̂ gypU&ns beat­ ing a hasty ntreat under the ire of the Thirty- eighth regiment The garrison at Aboukir, numbering 2,000 then, declared ite loyalty to the Khedive, and an Egyptian vessel was diapatelsei to take off the men and spike the guns. Arabi telegraphed the Sultan depicting the sending of Tuririah tmess to Egypt It is believed he will, if defeated, destroy Cairo, join the Soudan insurgents, and proclaim the independence of Upper Egypt Tfce Khedive can not be Induced .toojte aaifesty totbe ehief rebel offiesrn, to induce them to desert Arabi Pasha. The center of- the groat square at Alexandria wag being; filkiwftcafe#,.and booths, and retail trade wm zzmvingc Dispatches from Alexandria of July 27 state that a conflagration in the native quarter ef Alexandria, believed to have been set by incen­ diaries, destroyed many houses. The mosques at Mukbebe were occupied almost daily by preacnern exhorting the people to take up the cause of ArahL The latter's government at Cairo announced that many Bedouin chiefs and the best classes of Moslems were aiding hin ̂ Arabi proclaimed that any person found dis­ tributing the Khedive's letter dismissing the former from the Ministry of War would be court-martialed. He slso wrote to the Sultan, stating that he wotild oppose with force any Turkish troops dispatched to Egypt Admiral Seymour informed the Khedive that Kngland had no intention of conquering hie country, but wae determined to suppress rebellion. The House of Commons adopted the motion for the Egytiaa credit 2^5 to 19. In the French Chamber of Deputies, De Freycinet announced that Turkey had aoosjitetl the proposals of the conference for her intervention in Egypt. De Ltisseps undertook to prevent the entrance of the British corvette Orion into the Sues canal, but hits protest was set at naught and the war ship went on her way, her commander even omitting the formality of paying the etts- tonmry carifcl dues. It is said the Orion WM the bearer of instructions materially modifying the situation at Port Haiti poihwi w immm. A MI to pwrtBs aittUiia training ir heots hr jUittjmtt bjr using waoooopied military bsaasks, and the Itt le psyMrs. Qsiflsld >50 -̂ OO t̂sssaayadseness M* on the salary of the late PruHsut, sad wste passed by the 8sa- ate July t2. Mr. Ooctoeil secured the adop­ tion of resufuUsus asking information as to the expenditure ia eaeh Stats during the last three yean for pobhe buUdings, harbors, forts and areenala. A resolution was passed that the Secretary of the Interior report his reason for ordering a double pension for Gen. Ward B. Burnett The Revenue bill was taken up. Amendments to retain tbe stamft taxes on per­ fumery and playing-osrds were voted down. The first section was passed. An amendment to the second seotion was adopted fixing the annual tax on dealers in leaf tobacco at $12, exempting flunners or lumbermen who furnish supplies to their employes. Mr. Mahone moved to make the tax on snuff and man­ ufactured tobaooo 8 cents per pound. The House passed Mr. IVenster's bill to regu­ late the carrying of passengwra by steamships, tbe measure having been revamped to suit the views of the President Mr. Kasson precipi­ tated a tariff debute by calling; up the bill to allow a drawback on foreign materials used In the construction of vessels for foreign ac­ count, and the bill went over to Mon­ day. Portal bills were passed to make the rate on second-class publications delivered by carriers two cents per pound; to fine or im­ prison any one personating a postoffice in­ spector; to punish Postmasters for making false certificates of the arrival or departure or mails, and to provide tbat BO bidder for mail servioe shall be required to furnish a check or draft, Mr. Flower sought to introduoe a con­ stitutional amendment by which tbe President can approve or object to any item of an ap­ propriation biH Indian bills were passed to open to settlement the lands in Color ado lately and White River .688 to lease three and increasing the saiarv of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to •6,000. Tbe Senate psssed a bill, at its ses­ sion on July 94, to refund to the heirs of John W. Forney (27,684 paid by him to oever tie defalcation of a clerk in his office when he was Secretary of theSenate. Mr. Allison presented the conference report on the Legislative Appro­ priation bill, announcing disagreements on the proposition to transfor the Burgeon Gen­ eral s records and on tbe distribution of rooms in the new building for the State, Wat' and Navy Departments, and a new conference wm ordered. The Revenue bill was taken up, tbe pending amendment provid­ ing for a reduction of the tobaooo tax to 8 wnti per pound. Mr. Sherman said scheme would cut off f21,000.000 of revenue. The amendment was rejected by 18 to 38. An amendment by Mr. Mahone wise adopt­ ed,, for a rebate on all unbroken factory packages of cigars and cigarettes. In the House, the views of the minority of th© Judici­ ary Committee on the subject of the Northern Pacific land grant were presented by Messrs. Payson and Knott and they were ordered print­ ed and laid on the table. Mr. Cannon sub­ mitted a conference report on the Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill,agree­ ing to all the items exoept that for the transfer of records from the Surgeon General's office to the Adjutant General's archives, and a far­ ther conference was ordered. Bills were referred: To collect from th© Kansas Facifio Railroad Ooinpany tbe cost of surveying and conveying cortain landfe; to dccleu'o forfeit lands granted the Northern Pacific Company and still remaining unpatented, and fixing the duty on imported hay at 20 per cent, ad valorem. Mr. Fowler proposed a constitutional amendment granting tb© President the right to veto any distinct item of a bill, Mr. Atkins Introduced a bill to allow no claim or account against the United States unless it be filed within six years from the passage of this act The Dem­ ocratic members of the Senate held a canons and resolved to insist upon m full and free dis­ cussion of all amendments to the Tax bill, and to oppose any attempt to reach a final vote upon toe bill nnlm suoh ample opportunity was afforded. . The conferenoe report on the River and Harbor bill was adopted by the Senate, July 2& The Revenue bill came up, tbe question being on Mr. Hale's amendment to the sugar duty, striking off the latest addition of 25 per oent, which wag adopted. Mr. Harris moved to re­ duce duties 011 all imports 10 per cent after January, and an equal amount at the 00m- nu^ucement of the next year. Mark L. Joslyn, ' of Woodstock, I1L, was nominated by the President for Assistant Secretary ef tbe Interior. ., In the House, the regular order of business was the bill to allow drawback on imported material used in the construction of vessels for foreign account which was recommitted. Mr. Washburn of­ fered a resolution for a naval court of inquiry to investigate the loss of the Jeannetto. A resolution was adopted to print $00,000 copies of the agricultural report Mr. Page explained the conlerenoe report on the River and Harbor bill, to which the House refua&fl to agree by a vote of 82 to 87. Mr. Conger made a favorable report to the Senate, July26, on the Deuster bill to regulate the carrying of passengers by sea. Mr. Hale secured the postponement of the Revenue bill, andthe Senate went into committee of the whole on the naval appropriation. Mr. Hale showed that with thirty-nine steam vessels in active servioe the American navy has over 1,40© commissioned officers, while the British navy, which has over 300 men-of-war, has but 2,700 officers. Mr. Cameron moved to recommit the bill to the Appropriation Committee, with in­ structions to eliminate provisions in regard to the oiganisation of the navy. Mr. Hale stated that out of a force of twenty-five Commodores only one was doing actual duty at sea. The bill then went over without further action. The President sent to the Senate the name of Harrison Allen, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Marshal for the Territory of Dakota. In the House, Mr. Pound secured the passage of a bill providing that in all suits for trespass on pnblic lands the actual expense of survey or esMmateshaU be included in the bill of costs. A joint resolution was passed to authorize the loan of tents to Russian refugees in Foote county, Kan. An act to incorporate the Oregon Short- tab, Idaho * Line railway in Utah, ' and Wyoming was therartof the ocean, the tempera- tart in tone places being at 82. The heat from the water Bwelled the corn until the hatches were nearly bunt off. On arriving theCaptain wanted the oon- signee to tike the cargo at the invoice," •Hit nA Ifefased. The consignee told the oaptaut the! he would measure the cargo and share equally in the shortage or OTerpltifl. Captain W. was somewhat surprised to reoeive in addition to his freight money $600 as his share of tLe overplus. The cargo, in faat, had gone $1,000 over the invoice. the A Mississippi Pilot's Story. going d le in his iission to climb up beside prim old grayback, lie in his life. the passenger, who was going down river for the first time in nis life, who big: secured perm the pijot a , never told a li "Many alligators in the river?" asked the stranger, after a look around. "Not so many now, since they got to shoo tin' "em for their hide and taller," was the reply. "Used to be lots, eh?" wl don't want to tell you about 'em, stranger," replied the pilot, sighing heavily. "Why?" " 'Oause ydu'd think I €ae a-lyin' to you, an' that's sumthin' I never do. I can cheat at keerde, drink whisky or chaw poor terbacker, but I can't lie." "Then there used to be lots of 'em?" inquired the passenger. "I'm 'most afraid to tell ye, mister, but I've counted 1,100 allygators to the mile from Vickaburg cl'ar down to New Orleans. That was years ago, afore a eliot was ever fired at 'em." "Well, I don't doubt it," replied the strangdr. "And I've counted 3,459 of 'em on one sand-bar," continued the pilot. "It looks big to tell, but a government sur­ veyor was aboard, and he checked 'em off as I called out." "I haven't the least donbt of it," said the passenger, as he heaved a sigh. "I'm glad o* that, stranger. Some fellers would think I was a liar, when I'm tellm* the solemn truth. This used to be a paradise for alligators, and they were so thick that the wheels of the boat killed an average of forty-nine to the mile." "Is that so?" "True as Gospel, mister! J used to almost feel sorry for Hie cussed brutes, 'cause they'd cry out e'en most like a human being. We killed lots of 'em, as 1 said, and we hurt a pile more. I sailed with one captain who alius carried one thousand bottles of liniment tb throw over the wounded ones!" "He did?" "True as you live he did. I don't 'spect I'll ever see another such a kind, Christian man. And the alligators got to know the Nancy Jane, and to know Capt. Tom, and they'd swim cut and rub their tails agin the boat, and purr like cats, and try to smile!" They would?" "Solemn truth, stranger. And once, when we grounded on a bar,! with an opposition boat right behind, the alli­ gators gathered around her, got under her stern, and jumped hc£r clean over the bar by a grand push! It looks like a big story, but I never told a lie vet, and I never shall; I wouldn't lie for all the money you could put abroad thw> boat?" There was a painful pause, and after a while the pilot continued: "Our ingines gin out once, but a crowd of alligators took a tow-line and hauled us forty-five miles up Btream to Vicksburg." They didr "And when the news got along the river that CMhifl Tom was dead, every alligator an the river daubed his left ear with mud as a badge of mournin', and lots of'em pined and died." The passenger left the pilot house with the remark that he didn't ~ " the statement, and the old the wheel a turn and replied: "Thars one thing I won't do For love nor money, and that's make a liar of myself. I was brung up by a good mother, and I'll stick to the truth if this boat don't make a cent!" doubt gave SKLF-LOV* is the instrumental oar preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind; it is neo- essary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleas­ ure, and we must oonceal it.-- Voltaire, passed. A Joint resolutt6n was adopted to pay the widows of Ministers Hurlbut Kilpatrick and Garnet qa amount; eqaal to one sal­ ary. The House conferees refused to consent, to the clause in the general deficiency appro­ priation for the payment of mileage to Senators for the extra session. On reconsideration of the oonffereooe report on the River ami Harbor bill the House yielded, by 111 to 82. The Senate had a long debate on the Naval Appropriation bill, at its session on Jnly 27. A motion by Mr. Cameron to recommit the measure with instructions to eliminate all general legisiabon was defeated by twontv-uine to thirty-four. This proved an exnauHting day's work, and the measure was flung atiide without action. A new conference on the Japanese Indemnity bill was ordered. Williams offered an amendment to the Sunday Civil bill to allow CharleB H, Reed not exceeding (5,000 for hii tervieee m defending Guiteau, the Attorney General to. fix the smouut The Naval Appropriation bill wes token up. The House passed a bill to place Chicago among the claasUEM ports, making - the salary of the < Customs Collector $7,000 per annum, and al­ lowing a naval officer sad aurvoyor. Mr. Kas- m reported nok the lull to make tbe duty on imported bay 20 per cent ad valorem. A joint resolution was passed appropriating f1,600 for memorial cards to accompany the address on the life of President Garfield. A Senate bill was passed granting to the 8t LOHW and San Francisco road tbe right of way through Choctaw and Chickasaw lands, au amendment to secure the consent of the In­ dians being lost. Mr. Williams reported a dis­ agreement in tbe Conference Committee on the Japanese Indemnity bill, and a further at­ tempt to arrange the issue was ordered. In ao^ordaooe with tbe request of the Committee on Foreign Affairs the resolution railing for tbe instructions to Admiral Nicholson »t Ato» andria was tabled. A Yankee Captain's "Cote Trick." , A good story is told of Gapt. Fred Wording, of London, who, forty yean ago, was in command of the schooner John. The Captain was carrying a cargo of corn from a port in North Caro­ lina to Savannah. He knew that it was the custom to measure out the corn and if the cargo fell short of the bill of lading the Captain was responsible for the shrinkage. He also knew that in load­ ing the darkies had stolen quantities of the corn, and he waa afraid the cargo would run short. On the passage down the Captain ran his vessel into the Gulf Stream and allowed her to remain there some time. The waters of the Gulf Btream a^g||0B? 15 to ̂ warmer . . . . Ingenlus Contrivances Which Pay. Borne people hardly realize ho~v many men have become enormously wealthy from some simple invention which per­ haps took shape in the brain during an idle moment. A few years ago a Nevada man invent­ ed a card table, which, by a touch of the foot to a spring, would eause the table top to flop over, and in a second the cards are supplanted by a large family Bible lying open before the man whose turn it is to deal. Thus a quartette of players pn Sunday can, if surprised, resolved themselves into a gathering of pions investigators of the Word, and sit as if listening to the pgbls of religious consolation which drop from the lips of the reader (dealer.) It is a thiag that no Christaiu family can do without, and the demand in large cities already ex­ ceed the supply. Brooklyn takes 5,000 a year, and wants more. Only a few years ago a man conceived the idea of making paste diamonds for actresses. He sells a necklace of dia­ monds, with earrngs, bracelets, etc., in­ voiced at $500,000 for $26, $10 cash down and the balance in installments. For $10 a month he sends a man along to steal the diamonds from large hotels. The manager feeds and transports the diamond thief, and gives him a suit of clothes a year. This plan takes im­ mensely, and results in about $10,000 of free advertising. In 1876 a poor shoemaker in the State of New Jersey, invented a shoe blacking which would eat leather and cause boots to go into a swift decline. The boot­ makers furnished the blacking free to hotels and barbershops, and the boot- trade is thereby made a paying busi­ ness. Thus aie American industries encouraged. ~ Workingmen in England. The extreme* of soeietv seem to be arther apart infEngland Mid the working classes appear as a whole to fare harder than in auy other nation of Europe' Thomas Wright, a journeyman engineer" says that the condition of English work­ ingmen is worse than it was in the Middle Ages. Then they had abundance aceordiug to their needs, now they rare­ ly have a sufficiency. Of five million operatives, only one third find employ­ ment; another third have partial employ­ ment. while the lowest third find little work, and are often without any employ­ ment, He believes that only on© m twenty is able to live comfortufly, andlay by something for a time of need. In 1868, 3,794 persons died in London of atrophv, or lack of nourishing food. Mr. Wright gives a sad picture of the homes of the .poor. "In every requisite of health, their dwellings are inferior to most stables. We have seen piggeries in comparison with which the same might be said of them. Any master of hounds wou'd be indignant if he were asked to kennel his hounds in such dens for a single night; while any master of hounds or owner of horses who fed his animals as scantily as some of the poor are fed. would be in danger of prosecu­ tion by the Society for the Prevention of Groelty." .L. '. .. At Chamennlx. That night we saw the sun bid the giant of the mountains, and all its snowy brethren good night, ere it went into its own rest, Ite last, long, • lingering kiss rested upon Mont Blanc, ana the moun­ tain blushed, at first a faint, rosy pink which deepened into exultant red, as if it gloried in such a lover, sure to reiura with the (lav-break to bring back those blushes with morning kiss aa rapturous. The great fields of ice were lilac, almost purple in the shadow; the flitting white clouds flamed with color; a rose-oolored veil seemed to droop from peak to peak. All that great waste, all that coldness and awfiMness, beeame in that atmos- Sliere a aoene of tender, exquisite eauty, the influence of light. The parting ray of that summer sun, its last sweet caress, made glad that region of eternal snow, as one word in this world of ours will often make a barren, desolate life joyous. The darkness fell upon us; we be­ thought ourselves of the morrow. Ar­ rangements were to be made for ascend* ing the Flegere. Mules and guides must be engaged. "Leave it to me," I said, seeing that the others, now the excitement was over were beginning to droop wearily. They gladly did so. I watched them go through the hall, each take from the table a candle, light it, and like a quar­ tette of Lady Macbeths, slowly p«nm down the passage and disappear. I smiled at the queer procession. How far we all were from home! How strange it all was, deliciously strange; yet how the homesickness would creep in when candle-time came! I went to the offioe and found the portier, who made it easy for me to ar­ range in person with the guides for all the details for the morrow's excursion. I made my way back to the apart­ ments upstairs, where I found the maid­ ens and the matron sitting around in different stages of undress, sitting or lying about, "talking things over." I have been told that men never sit on the floor with a stocking in one hand, head on a chair, talking thing things over in that delightful hulf-hour before the light is put out; and I am sorry for them,' since they know not what they minq All the way up stairs I had "pondered: "This time I can have left nothing un_ done. They cannot ask me a question which I cannot answer. I don't know why, but we had not that faith in each other when either of us went singly to make arrangements, that we ought to have had. Each was sure of her own particular self, of course. I knew it was like going on the witness- stand when I entered the room. But I was self-confident this time, and was r jsitive I had accomplished everything; had settled on mules, guides, prices, time of starting and/etnrning, and had even ascertained the amount of the ex­ pected pour-boire. I threw open the aoor. "There, that is done," I ejaculated. "We start at 7 o'clock to-morrow. Everything is attended to." The first question put ail my compla­ cency to flight. That fifth part of us who came from San Francisco, who had been in parte known and unknown, faced me, with her hair-brush poised above her beautiful hair and asked: "Have you engaged the mules' tails?" "No," Baid I, a little indignantly, "I neither mentioned their tails, their nigh ears nor their off hind legs; I engaged five mules." "Then you must go back directly," retorted she from California, "you must indeed, my dear! Three times have I engaged mules to carry me--the last time at Sorrento--and their tails have been let out to somebody else--some native--who has been dragged up by them," The maidens set up a shout of laugh­ ter that must have, startled the house­ hold, but there were tears in the voice from the Golden Gate. I went back and engaged fiVe mules' tails. But there is nothing like experience. Now, if those mules resembled Georgia mules, it would have been rather interesting to see a native climbing a mountain-side by aid of their caudal appendages. The Alpine mules are willful enough, as we found out later, bnt their willfulness seems to be more equally distributed. It takes a southern darkey to > develop the hind legs of the animal. after money. Generally all the woman care for is to get married. rllwfN» Bol even very MqueunUb abom the good looks or the oontrarv of the man. Bru­ nettes sure more in demand than blondes. Blonde girls have the reputation of be­ ing 'insipid. Ladies <10 not like a big mustache. They prefer just a little one. it neater; ; : Beer Net Intoxicating. [Testimony of Josh Billings.) I have finally cum to the conclusion that lager beer as a beverage is not intoxicating. I hav ben told so by a German who A Novel Will. The will of the late State Senator George F. Baker, of California, is a pe- quliar document. "I hope and expect that out of respect to my father's mem- oiy my mother will never marry. Should she do so, the sums I have bequeathed to her must be paid to her, free and independent of any husband she may hereafter have. Knowing the difficulties attending the efforts of women to gain a livelihood in the world, it is my desire to provide for her, my said sister Lulu, beyond any peradventure, the comforts of life, and, knowing the tyrannical and unmanly ^conduct of many husbands towards their wives, I desire that said moneys shall be absolutely free in my sister s hands. Should my sister be at any time so unfortunate as to have a husband addicted to gambling, intoxi­ cating liquors or other vice, or to be of ajlazy or spendthrift habits, then I direct that my executors, or the court having control of my estate, shall personally and directly expend such money, and paying the living expenses of my said sister Lulu, and the maintenance and education of any children she may have. I trust that no such necessity will ever arise, but unforseen calamities over­ take the best of wives who are so un­ fortunate as to be wedded to depraved and unmanly men who forget their vows and their duty, becoming monsters and brutes when they should be com­ panions and protec^rs. , Why December 25 Is Christmas. Before Pope Julian's time, Christmas, which (Btsemts to have been first officially instituted a church feast day by a de­ cree of Pope TeSesphorus, between 142 A. D. and 154 A. D., was a movable feast. Indeed, it was the most movable of all the Christian festivals. It was usually celebrated by the Eastern branches of the Christian church in April or May, while in the western part of Europe days in January or other monthsxwere observed as Christmas, St. Cvril, Bishop of Jerusalem, obtained from IPope Julius I. authority to appoint a commission to determine, if possible^ the precise day of Christ's nativity. From the chronological archives of the Reman censors, establishing the times of occurrence of certain events of the same period of the Roman Government of Palestine, the theologians of the east- en and western divisions of the Chris­ tian church agreed upon Deo. 25 as the date of the birth of Jesus, and thereupon this became the officially decreed and generally accepted Christmas Day. Women and Matrimony. The keeper of a matrimonial bureau in New York makes some astonishing re­ marks born of his experience in his de­ lightful business. The men, most of them, want money and lots of it; the women are not so particular about that, exoept widows. Widows «n alfrsjM ning, same man drink eighteen glasses, and if he was drunk it was in German and no­ body could understand it It is proper enuff to state that this man kep a lager beer saloon, and could have no object in stating what was not strictly thus. I believed him to the full extent of my ability. I never drank but three glasses of lager in my life, and that made my head ontwist as though it was hung on the end of a string, but I was told it was owing to my bile being out of place; and I ttiot it was so, for I never biled over wus than I did when I got home that nite. My wife thot I wus going to die, an I wus afraid I shouldn't, for it seemed as though everything I had ever eaten in my life was coining to tbe surface; and I believe that if my wife hadn't pulled my butes off just as she did they would hav cum thundering up,, too. O, how sick I wuz! Fourteen years ago, and I can taste it now! ' I never hed so much experience in so short a time! . If any man ahud tell me that lager beer was not intoxicating, 1 shud believe him; but if he chud tell me that I wasn't drunk that nite, but that my stummick was out of order, I shud ask him to state in a few words, just how a man felt and acted when he was set up. If I wasn't drunk that tiito'I hed sum of the most natural simtump that a man ever had and kept sober. y» In the first place it was about eighty rods frum where I drunk the beer tu mi house, and I wuz just tew hours on the road, and a hole busted through each one of mi pantaloon neeze, and I didn't hav any hat, and tried to open the door by the bell-pull, and hiccuped dreadful­ ly, and saw everything in the room try­ ing to get round on the back side of me, and sitting down on a chair, I did not wait long enough for it to get exactly under me when I wuz going round, and I set down a little too soon and missed the chair about twelve inches, and could not get up soon enuff to take the next one that cum along; and that ain't nwl, my wife sed I wuz as drunk as a beest, and as I sed before I begun to spin up things freely. w If lagar beer is not intoxicating it used me most almighty mean, that I know. Still I hardly think that lager; beer iz intoxicating, for I hav ben told so, and I am probly the only man who ever drunk enny when ibis liver was not plnmb. I don't want to say anything against a harmless temperance beverage, but if ever I drink enny more it will be with my hands tied behind me and my mouth pried open. I don't think lager beer is intoxicat­ ing, but if I remember rite, I think it tasted to me like a glass of soap suds thftt a pickle hed ben put tew soke in. Influence of Hate. IftetroitT'rec PressTJ "Yes, sir," he said, "my grandfather was a very peculiar man. He was ex­ tremely sensitive to influences that do not generally affect other men. His peculiarity was that his temperament changed according to the hat he wore. And he wore all kinds of hats." "He must have been a good many varieties of one man," said the listener. '•He was. Now for instance, when he wore a Derby hat he was merely com­ monplace. He behaved himself like an ordinary man, and had no special char­ acteristics--nothing calculated to attract the attention of a bulldog, if I may so express it." "Well, there's nothing peculiar about that." "No; but just listen; When he put on a slouch hat his character changed en­ tirely. He became ruffianly and desper- ttetd Lfeh In flSeUr* V ate, and swaggered around like a bravo or an advance agent out of a job. His best friends were afraid of him, and he had only to put his sombrero on to keep away the most. energetic bill-col- lector." "If I were like that I would have a felt hat riveted to my head," said the other man. "Then when he put on a cap with a vizor he became simply low. He used to hang around bar-rooms, although he was a strict temperance man, and he consorted with car conductors and statesmen, and that class of people." "So long as he didn't associate with poets it was all right." "He never got so low as that. But you ought to have seen him when he put a silk hat on. The moment he ap­ peared on the street in a beaver he did look so respectable that people used to come up to him and ask him to accept the chairmanship of mass meetings or to serve as a director of charitable associa­ tions, and on one occasion he was act­ ually arrested on suspicion of bein^ a bank president," "How is it," inquired the other man, doubtfully, "that we have never heart} of your grandfather?" "He died young. The. it hap­ pened was this: He once went out in a silk hat, and a man came along who mis­ took Mm for the receiver of a savings bank who had received all that was left of the unfortunate depositors' money after the sihash-up. This man struck him on the head,* and broke down the hat. It then resembled the discouraged- looking tile always worn by inebriates on the stage. True to his peculiarity my grandfather at once became pro­ foundly intoxicated, although as I have said, he never had drank a drop in his life, and he died in fifteen minutes of delirium tremens." "Let us adjourn to the nearest bak­ ery," said the man, "and I will purchase the establishment for you." Eeenomical Devices* People who reside in crowded eiMse are desirous of ©eonomisitig space, are glad to use a peculiar kind of furniture, which is mad® to serwtw© or three pur­ poses at once. An elaborate writing- desk, with ink, pens and paper, is really a wash stand. An elaborate etagere, or book oase, is » bed OT a wardrobe. A Ah»ir can be turned into a foot-tub. A "chromo" proves to be a looking-glass; a slop-bucket and pitcher and basin is a praying-stool; and a candelabra with wax candles proves to be an arrange­ ment for concealing towels and tooth brushes. Why can't the piano be made to serve a double purpose? TH> population of Tombstone, Ari­ zona, is 6,300, twenty-four nationalities bsins lejpwsnted. is the Lactate Sola. It is only about half as dear M the Vittoria, which we tried ~rst; bnt it ip a little worse. We did no* naasrstsnd, at first, why there were no bella in any part of the- dirty * house, but we soon discovered, that there was nothing to be if we could have rang for it. It is a very old and not uninteresting sort of barracks, re good' and its rambling terraces give views of the harbor and of JEtna. The rooms, too, are adorned with quaint old prints which give it an old time air. It can be fairly said of KM management, that the attendance is. aa good aa the food. ' , ^ I do not know how long it would take to starve a person to1 death there, or to ̂ disgust him with victuals to that extent that death would be preferable to dining, - but we touched close u|fon,tfe» probable limit of eadurance in five days. It was. a lengthy campaign of a morning to get a Bimple early breakfast. It was a work, of time, in the first place, to find any­ body to serve it. When the one waiter was discovered and coaxed into the din­ ing roftm, I ordered coffee and the usual accompaniments. In about fifteen minutes he brought in a pot of muddy liquid and a cup. I suggested then, in- reason, a spoon otight to go with it. A spoon was found after some search-- sugar, also' I got by importunity. The procuring of milk WM a longer process. Evidently the goat had tb be hunted up. . By the time the goat came to terms the coffee was cold. I then brought up the subject of bread. That was sent, out for and delivered. Butter, also, was called for, not that I wanted it, or- Could eat it when it came, but because butter is a conventional thing to have- for breakfast. This butter wqb a sort of poor cheese gone astray. The last article to be got was a knife. The knives. were generally very good, or would have been 2 they had been clean. By patience, after tbiss you could have a red mullet and an egg and some sour oranges. All the oranges in Sicily are sour. The rea­ son given for this, however, is that all the good ones are shipped to America. The reason given in America why all the ' Sicily oranges are sour is that all the< good ones are kept at home. When the traveler reaches Malta and Tangier-he will learn what an orange really is. I do not know that I can say anything morein favor of the Hotel Sole, except that the proprietors were as in­ different to our departure as to our com­ fort while we stayed. We left at ten o'clook at night, to take the train for^ Malta. We procured a facchion outside' to move our luggage, and not a soul con- nected with the hotel was visible. The landlord had exhausted himself in mak­ ing out our bills. There was some dif­ ficulty in separating our several ac­ counts, and when the landlord at last brought a sheet of paper on which the various items were set in order, and the figures were properly arranged, he re­ garded his work with justifiable pride, and exclaimed, "It is nnconto magnifi- 00." We agreed with him that, in some respects, the account was magnificent. A Succession of Surprises. Mounting the camel is not difficult, bnt it has some sweet surprises for the: novice. The camel lies upon the ground with all his legs'shut up under him like a jacknife. You seat yourself m the broad saddle and cross your legB in front of the pommel. Before you are ready something like a private earthquake be­ gins under you. The camel raises his. hind-quarters suddenly, and throws you over upon his neck? and before you can recover from that he straightens up his knees and gives you a jerk over his tail, ane while you are not at ah certain what has happened, he begins to move off' with that dislocated walk which sets you. into a see-saw motion, a waving back and forwards in the capacious saddle. Not having a hinged back fit for this movement, you lash the beast to make him change his gait. He is nothing loth to do it, and at onoe 6tarts into a high trot which sends you a foot at every step, bobs you from side to side, drives your backbone into your brain, 'and makes castanets of your teeth. Cap­ ital exercise. When you have enough of it, you pull up and hnmbly inquire what is the heathen method of riding a dromedary. : • , T / Carelessness of Health. The late Hon. Clarkson N. Potter's- illness Was primarily due to the neglect of proper precautions to preserve health. Of vigorous and robust health, he thought he might make unlimited drafts upon it. He started to Albany to argue a case without taking breakfast, and when he began his argument in the afternoon, no food had passed his lips that day. He was insufficiently clad-- wore no underclothes and* had on a pair Of low-cut shoes. 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