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«M tamed bftMot toy five <tt*eoton of the iutt, Stale OadUsret Ptmn- i shot dead at Unlostown by N. _ j, a taember-elect of the Legls- The affray took place in the room latter at a hotel, and It is believed • been aaoaed by a domestic s&j-sSi. ̂ gnrtendwred. He* afpadwate of ftfncetem College, a»d had borne an excellent oharao- ter... .James Smytfe ft OH,' manufacturers of vara* aadoatoob goods. fJtfladelptiia, have failed ft* about f5Q0,ttV, the assete conriat- fitff fOtMBiMUy or Mock, machinery and tiie realVB^boiooKtaff to the Ann. A MicrWAJRLY sad and distressing ita|fedy is reported from Syraoaae, N. Y. e, fadthetr ndkr ftttura. Ml* Imrtm had reoetwd th© ad- oi Mr. Qeoqp W. Oates for some |g. announced for ••Bed upon his >'«• betvothed, and, at ranging eome of toe ehaadMler. Se bad jmd * v* nWde ooat deboenl struck the of.4fee dumben was «*a standing near, a In theatric. She f« > 1ft. Gates could to fall into hifl anna , Gaorge, fou KaVe Id IM&MVM" BemippoMd M caused, fay fright, ai •bout the der •rations, fell from Ml in ita and. one KhMLewis her ieoMik: bare to ihe pointed to the bullet-hole and asked lot her smell- ie was able to walk to Mttee^but- expired immediately.... Ptokaqfville, Masa, after a separation of - % T[ j-1 k-: V4f 1 •'Is' ae noftbi from his wife jrho again de- A toJ>Te with him, MemamX Mont- tyJOBd his younir eon and daughter amxuver. and fixed at his wife and her fif»rln««i Tlnimm wilft saved the two girls at the burning of the Oal- Bulldjmg, at Providence, R. 1, was ted in die Mayor's office Christmas with a purse containing #875l f _ Shore and Mic a qui payable Feb. 1. THERESA STUHLA, of tied Charles KtUee, was Judge Gardner and sentenced to the JoHet penitentiary. Sbe eleven months to> will be _ - - a *tejhadited' " " Wm erased a Jewraatists at j at Limerick Christmas night between civilians and the soldiery, in which the latter were roughly handled. WESTOATE, who implicated himself in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, and received free transportation from South America to Ireland, has been released. < * ADDITIONAL NEWS. THE Commissioner of Agriculture has prepared a revised table showing the grain production for the year ending Dec. L It is as follows: Bushels- Corn .....1,835,000, 0" Wheat 610,0 «,o 0 OatsIT.. 4TC,OOO,O(KV Briar...... .......... «,0tti,ooo Rye 20,ooo,oo« B a c k w h e a t 1 3 ,000,uoo Shc her dis­ ease; that two jurors favored her execution, ome n whom had kept a brothel and the mother was put on the jury to convict her. pitiful story of death and heroism eomea bom Brookings, Dakota. While Mrs. BaztKa* wae abeent from her house, eng^red, In SblMLeqpae work at the barn, her three little children were left alona. It is pre­ sumed they were playing with the fire, for upon the mooter's return two of them were burned to death, and the clothing of a third, ftmtontfcs old, was on tire. The mother's efforts to eave the little one Dost her life, as the baby died of its *bd the mother was so badly burned itte is despaired of. who deliber itelv killed --. . - --• --» He willed his property to his •rather tat Lexington, HL, asked permission to fie with his boots off and confessed to eevexal murders before he was swung off The Creek factions are at war in the "vicinity of Okmulgee. THE SOUTH, I-. I. JONES was hanged for murder itlMMUt, Miaa. Before his execution he aafeed the nseof his liberty and two good pbiUAi for about an hour, and then he would cheerfully meet death. » "WHO. SMITH, a lad of Covington, Ga., Vljiile intoxicated, killed two white men and .a aggro who attempted to arrest him....a SSilfW,* Arkansas, wasar- t Dallas onkMpicion of being a train- jealed about Ids person were two pairs of brass- a large bowie-knife-- .. . Station, Va., a freight and 'tf> on the Chesapeake and Ohio I Swae.ha oolliakm, klllingtt ve persons wundUg two o&ars. The victims I'Su xaulMy employes. 9A8UUiOTON. ••• AIE department estimates lor theap- |WHl«tlt> tiUa la coarse of preparation by the House Of lUqageeatatives are in amount ana Judicial expenses, $21,. r civil expenditures, $<J4,1S1,- ' Columbia, •; • GENEBAL. 1u - m tiie tMited MXisi' flj> lih mint I ililin Till 22 numbered Wb&tmanma of six Over the week ended ĵ ^^^mo ̂than in the TMM, FWSBT, of the Naval Observa- Wtrtington.has oompletedacalcu- 0 theodsM o< the great oomet of Îke oitittto be a very length, a period of about TO6 identical with a very «!} m a and MB A. &, ttsMof the death of Con- n distanoe is only the oenter of the at its aphelion son's distanoe :4tevolttOon, 798,68» wotlCkdy tobeseen, after it TotM... . .2,«3a,o«o,ooo JOHN TOWSTBEND, Bert Cowaa and W. Sain were killed during aa affray in a saloon near Pine Hill, Abner Webb, the oldest citizen of Balti­ more, has passed away at the ago of 100 yeara THE Pope has agreed to the proposi­ tion of England to accredit a diplomatic agent to the Vatican upon the same condi­ tions as Prussia is represented N. B. JONES, a Creek Indian ,̂ has been interviewed at St. Louis in regard to the cause of the warfare in progress near Okmulgee. He states that Chief Chicopee commands 700 voters who sympathized with the South in the late rebellion, while Chief 8t>iochce has KX) warriors who sustained the Union, and that ever since the war there has been a struggle between them for political supremacy. George R. Davis, a merchant at Wiewaka," says every Creek is armed, is a dead shot, and as brave as a lion....Four horse-thieves were lynched at Prineville, Ore. ANNA O'BRIEN and her mother were drowned in a cistern at Syracuse, N. Y. The latter perished in attempting to rescue her daughter A wedding of extraordinary brilliancy took place in Newport, R. t, where Bishop < 'lark united O. H. P. Belmont, a son of the New York capitalist, and Miss Sarah S. Whiting. THE Spanish-American Claims Com- ission, after an existence of eleven years, journed sine die; Awards were made in enty-eight cases, amounting to about ,',300,000, and eight cases, involving $4,0*8,- 600, remain in the umpire's hands for de­ cision ... A)soar Wiide sailed from New York on the 27ui of December. MB. RANDALL stated in the House the other day that for two years Capt. John P. Trout, of the regular army, has had leave of absence with full pay, during all which period he has drawn $;>,(KXI per annum from thePullman Car Company. XLTHTH CONGRESS. «y one now living.. of Guatemala, irih at present administers OMUKbry, desires the ad- • land as a Stiate of the Amer- is also made Affairs Committee of Con- _ t of this factt and that ; visit to this oountry was for . of helping the scheme along, t the lire months ended Nov. so , , - . , migrants landed In the United ;;̂ Masea. IT is entreatlJ Reported that Gen. tan has become a convert to , in which Mis. Sherman has LSO much ceaL TOREION. * THE famous Bern avs murder trial ia turn has resulted in the oonviction of f bteothera John and Armaad Pelteer and tftpriantenoe to death... .A Dublin dispatch aagw the signs of distress among the small fsymsasand laborers are becoming more via. me ia some dtetricte, and the Government ia bMag pressed to establish relief works.... Bpfjwar demonstrations have been made la many Italian cities over the execo- Wan at Dverdank at Trieste, par- , Weals rly at Borne, where the deceased had , kaan a indent in the School if Engineera ...Jl LetiMic dispatch says that of the . ; twelve starts who died here last session * ik the University, one was killed ia a dutf iad si: committed suicide J"; DAVITT, in a speech at Berm<mdaey, '"}••'&&" %tglaiMl, said emigration was no cure for r; s : Hi iBaeaattnt to Ireland. A system of pub- would be far more cred- tatesmea than forcing workhouses, and then _ to the ooontry. But, if ; the winter and firing fiO.OUO families nlaiid, they would go to swell the ie( IfceMew toetand, which was grow- 1 the tHasMo, where they would , in republican ideas. From his kMWtedge of New Ireland in Amer- ka ha OOuld tell Lord Derhar Sift .InglMt ntntssmen before loiw ::5-" The Senate adopted a resolution, at ita session on Dec 22, in favor of giving a re­ bate on tobacco in case the tax be reduced. The Civil-Service bill was considered Mr. Brown's amendment to limit the term of the Commissioners was lost Mr. Saulsbury'B proposition that the Commissioners take an oath to perform their duties with­ out. political bias was. adopted, .and their "salaries were fixed at #8,500 each. The House adopted a resolution to adjourn to Wednesday, Jan. 3, and fixing the hours of meeting at 11 a m., after that date. The Army Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, instancing the case of Lieut. Fred Grant, secured an amendment providing that Aids-de-Camp shall receive no addi­ tional rank or pay for staff duty. Mr. Brown offered an amendment designed to prevent the appointment of political pete to army paymastershipa, but a vote disclosed the lack of a quorum. There was nothing done worthy of men­ tion in either house of Congress at the ses­ sion on Dec. 23. There was a little personal controversy in the Senate between Messrs. Hoar and Beck, while the Pendleton Civil Service bill was under consideration, which caused a slight ripple of excitement at the moment, but it was soon forgotten. Shortly thereafter both the Senate and House adjourned over the holidays. Upon the reassembling of the Senate, after the holidays, on Dec. 27, debate recom- meqped on the ! cndleton Civil Service bill Mr. Beck «dd he would sooner eee any son of his breaking scone on the roadside than seek­ ing a department office. Mr. Hawley's amendment to prohibit the solicitation of political contributions by one Government oilicer from another was rejected by 18 to 27. A new MWiion was adopted forbidding the retention ia ofliee of any person habitually uvin^ ii-juor to exoe-M. The bill then passed by #.• to Ct. The noes were Messrs. lirov/n, of Georgia. Call, of Florida, Jonas, of Louis­ iana, Mcpherson, of New Jersey, and Mor- ran. of Alabama. The bill provides for a >oard of three Commissioners to pa-is upon the qualifications of persons desirous of en­ tering the public service. A chief examiner is alKo appointed io act with the board and travel around the country, arranging the preliminaries and conducting the examin­ ations. Appointments are to be distributed pro rata among the States, according to pop­ ulation. Political predilections are to be ignored in making selections, and those ap­ pointed must not be addicted to the ex­ cessive use of ardent spirit Neither Sen­ ators nor Representatives are allowed to recommend any one to the ooard, except in the way of certifving to the character or residence of applicants. There was no quorum in the House, and aa adjournment to Dee 30 was voted. u:, "I Wkk I Was In Dixie." Dan Emmett, says the St. Louis Re­ publican, ia almost too old to pick the iy more, and has passed out of " some of the songs he wrote and aang will stay in memory. Em­ mett will be recollected by some of the old citizens of 8t. Louis as a musician and banjo-player connected with Stokes' circus in 1841, when he used to tickle their ears with the lively strains of "The Other Side of Jordan." He is the author of "Dixie Land," which is not a "rebel" ditty, as many have sup­ posed. The following ale the words of the original song from Emmett's own nMurascript: "I wish I was In the land of ootfeMU Ole time dar am not forgotten; In Dixie land whar I was bawa in Arly on a frosty mawnin. "Old missus marry Will de weabor; Will he was a gay deceaber; When he pat bis arm around her : ' • He looked as fierce as a forty-pounder % " „ • '".M V" > ̂ ̂Hit; ' tsfct .'A&'j "His faoe was sharp as a butcher's But dat didn't seem a bit to greab *er; Will run away, missus took a decline* Her face was de color ob de bacon riUk "While missus Ubbcd, she libbed ia el«h*t< When she died, *h« died all ober: How conld she act de foolish part, _ An marry a man to broke her heait? j , ' "Buckwheat cakes and cawn-meal Makes yon fat and a little fatter. Here's a health to de nex' ole missus, An'all de gals as want to kiss na. "Now if ye want to dribe away sorrow. Come apd hear dis song to-morrow; Den hoe it down an' scratch de grabble To Dixie's land I'm bound to brabble." The general chorus to all the wwof i: 1 wish I waa in Dixie, hooray, hooray! In Dixie land , We'll take our stand w To live an' die in Dixie; Away, away, away down souf in Df a r i e f . . Hk ftlsnntisfa Monthly.] ,0(»irom6n in New fork eir living; of (base so small it in independent business as before remarked, their rent is made a matter of reoord in the public prints; yet there is no reason why all the retail business of the city should not be represented by women, the men being the employees. This is not a joke; it would be simply an economy of force. Women in busi­ ness are not unknown, but previous to a very recent period efforts of this kind have been made to tide over emergen­ cies, to accomplish some temporary ob­ ject, and were to be apoligized for and explained, especially in this country. Of late we hear occasionally of a girl going into business "like a boy"--bo- ginning, working up, or being taken by her father or a relative, and given a place that a boy would have occupied if there had been one to put in it. This is really encouraging. It is custom, not exceptional capacity thafc puts men into the money-making and money-dis­ tributing places. Women who are igno­ rant of the details of business give men credit for a vast deal more knowledge and wisdom than they possess, or than it is possible for them to put into the management of affairs. The amount of stupidity encountered among even suc­ cessful men by those who have to do with them in a business way would be a revelation to many women, and relieve them of any fear of not being able to compete and "hold their own" in a contest of sense, judgment and intelli­ gence. As for business "nerve," wo­ men will be found to have fully as much when it is put to use; they may not be so reckless, so willing to take large risks, but still they will probably be found capable of "respectable" failure, that is, failure for a good round sum-- and also of sometimes blundering into a "big" success, setting up picture gal­ leries, fast horses and a fine house on the "Avenue." Is this very dreadful? Is it so much better for women to ride behind horses which they do not own, bought with money they did not earn, and kept by men to whom they also owe the food they eat and the clothes they wear, and to whom in the nature of things they must l>e subjected? Bnt all wo­ men do not care for fast horses, prob­ ably few of them would. The inaiority of women, who by inheritance or by work become possessed of money, make good use of it--a use that is helpful to others, or that assists such agencies as they believe are doing good in the world. Men will grow in strength, and in the knowledge and love of what is best and truest, if women and girls will think and act for themselves, use their own judgments, and do what they be­ lieve to be right, irrespective of opin­ ions that represent no responsibility. The wrong things in this world are those that degrade the character, that lower thfe moral tone, that weakens the moral forces, that prevent the develop­ ment and free use of faculty, and, final­ ly, that place one human being in an un­ reasonable subjection to another. A free girl, or a free woman, is the proper companion for a free man; but subjec­ tion on the one side must imply humili­ ation and mastery, which will make - J f c . -- ' n I # l | • i r f l ttaVSUQBdVOO - Dvmv<w»«rp> * have it in their power to girls more than mothers; let them see to it that they do it. Instead of scolding and fretting, and speaking in a way that makes them feel that they have no place in the world, let them help to find a place, as they do for their sons. Encourage them to go into business, pay them saleries as book-keepers, take them into partnership, start them in a pursuit for which they have a talent, and in every way help them to be user ful and honorable in the world--not by talking but by doing. Give the girl of the period a chance, and she will prove herself worthy of the period. Fixing His Harm to Win*. & Tho writer met the jockey of Ruther­ ford while dining at the winter palace in 8t. Petersburg, a short time after that huge sporting wrangle, and in the course of a conversation on turf matters the astute proilder of horse-flesh said, with a child-like and ingenuous smile, as he passed the beans: "Would you# like to know the dead inaide facts as to , how that race was won?" "Why, von rode the best horse, dida't you?" we asked. "Not a bit of it," replied the jockey, with a grin. "The fact was, that Ruth­ erford was only about the fourth choice, and was not rated at more than eighth or ninth in the pools. True Blue, Katie Peace, and Thad Stevens all had the call over Ruthy. But it happened that my horse was a 'bolter,' and to steady liim and prevent his flying tlie track I put blinders and goggles on him. You noti:ed them, I suppose?" "There were two horses rigged that way," we replied. "Exactly; Stevens was a nervous critter, also, and as soon as his trainer saw how the goggles steadied my horse he put 'em on Thad, too. The day be- for the race a big idea occurred to me. I got a couple of pair of magnifying lenses and quietly put 'em in plaoe of the plain glasses in the goggles of both horses. Oatch on to the idea?" "Well, partly." "The only difference was, that in Stevens bridles I fastened the glasses with the bulge inside, so as to make them diminishing glasses. Don't you see?" "Like looking through the wrong end of an opera glass, eh?" "Exactly; the result was that while Rutherford was encouraged all the way by the course seeming only a couple of hundred yards long, the quarter flags appeared ten miles apart to Stevens. You see a horse can be discouraged just as well as a man." "Great scheme, that." "Well, I should smile. Ruthy thought he was in for a little quarter race, and it kept up his heart so that when he had nearly done the last mile and swung into the home stretch, and I called on him to let out his last link, he thought the judges' stand was right under his nose, so he came home like an express on a down grade, but Stevens, who thought he had about 15 miles further to go, went all to pieces, as you remem­ ber, and almost laid down on the track; he was mentally caved in, as it were," There can be no question as to the genuineness of this story, but we de­ liver it to the intelligent reader at the importer's risk for all that.--San Fratlr Ci»CQ Font. > Mfi tberos boo bl bv the though while;? ali tiwpini up an*! denrn |#ays; the nfeeep in the fork* of stuck* on bam* ^barrel was filled bunghole, even ; was out all the on the east side of a washed-Qfjfaff FIRE. A Botdier'a Whan ttle. la|t|ed hi SIGNS AND A South Carollaa Bala Twenty-six years ago, according to the Pee Dee (S. C.) Herald, it rained so hard that a pot eighteen inches deep was filled and ran over between Sunday night and Monday morning, and a etongef perch waa found hanging to Omeaa For . ^ ^ , :Prae Press.1 Whenever yprti can find a soldier who under fire and shoots to make cvfrry bullet wound or kill, you will find lift v who* are nervously thorwing away ammunition, seeming to reason that the reports of their muskets will check or drive the enemy. And yet this nervousness need not be wondered at, for they arc playing a game of life or death. At MHlverfi^Hill, seventeen soldiers, belonging to an Ohio regiment, took cover in a dtr ditch, which answered admirably for a rifle pit. A Georgia regiment charged this little band three times, and were three times driven back. The fife was low and rapid, and the loss in front of the guns was more than 100 killed in ten minutes. Regi­ ments have bCHa engaged for an hour, without losing half that number. The gre of this seggputeen was so continuous that McClellan forwarded a brigade to their support, believing that an entire regiment had-been cut off. At Mine Run the writer was just in the rear of a New York regiment which was Sttddenly^attacked. A single com­ pany of Confederates, cut off from the regiment, and dodging around about to rejoin it, suddenly debouched into a field and found itself face to face with the Union regiment. Fighting com­ menced at once. A regiment fought a company, both lying down for cover. I lay so near a third sergeant that I could touch his heels and I watched his fire. Every time he pulled the trigger he elevated the muzzle of his gun at an angle of forty-five degrees instead of depiessing it for the enemy lying down. I saw him repeat this operation fourteen different times. The man in front of him fired as many bul­ lets plump into a stump in his front, and the man on the other side shot into the ground about ten feet away. Others must have been wasting bullets about the same wav, but the little company was shooting to kill. In that ten min­ utes of fighting the New Yorkers suf­ fered a loss^ of thirty-six killed and wounded, ana then a bayonet charge doubled them back and opened a gap for the little**band's escape. I walked over the ground and found one dead and one wounded Confederate. Not a gun, blanket, knapsack, or canteen had been left behind. Any soldier will no doubt fight bet­ ter under cover than he will in the open field, but cover does not always insure good fighting. At Pittsburgh Landing five thousand Union soldiers ^skulked under the river bank, safe from the enemy's ̂ fire, and many of them threw their guns into the river rather than fire a*" shot. Again, at Yellow Tavern, five of Custer's men, dismount­ ed and lying behind a fence, held five companies of cavalry at bay for twenty ^mu^^^Bm^kjUm^tv^n^y-fonr men, return. "„?- At Mine Run a Unien regiment went into the fight with sixty rounds of am­ munition per man, making a total of perhaps four thousand bullets. This regiment was placed to act as a check to any advance of the enemy in a cer­ tain direction. They did not see thirty Confederates during the whole day, and yet it was twice more supplied with ammunition. It fired away at least twelve thousand bullets and yet only killed two Rebel skirmishers. One dool man will do more execu­ tion with his musket than thirtv men firing at random. One must Lave a will strong enough to crowd down all emotion, and oblige his hands to cease trembling at the word, Out of every regiment jaot more than one hundred men are fighters. These shoot to kill. The others shoot at random and kill only by accilcent. Thirty cartridges woflAd last a good fighter for all day's fight, The ordinary soldier would fire out- his sixtp in an hour and a half, and like enough have his eyes shut half the time when he pulled the trigger. A member of the Second Michigan In­ fantry hit the case pretty well at Black- bum Ford. When the skirmishing be­ gan lie counted his cartridges and said: "Just sixty of 'em, and I'll fire three a minute, and have these fellers licked in just twenty minutes to a tick!" K Frfnch Dinner. "What an ingenious people are the French," writes a friend from Paris. "I dined at the table d'hote of a charm­ ingly kept family hotel, and I think the motto of that dinner might well have been multum in parvo. While wait­ ing for the bouillon to bo served I counted the number of people at the table; there were thirty-two, including myself. Following the clear bouillon was a fish, deliciously boiled and served with a marvelous sauce; tlieu came a joint of mutton; each dish in turn, which was beautifully garnished, was placed first upon the table to be viewed by the guests and then removed to a smaller tublc at the side of the room where stood tho maitre d'hotel ready to divide into portions. The joint of mut­ ton, by no means a large ono, was cut deftly into thin slices and passed round by a waiter, another following with dishes of potatoes, peas, etc. Then there came a salad, and then a pair of plump fowls. These being removed to the carver's table, then began the (to me) most interesting part of the whole performance. By means of g> pair of carving scissors and a sharp knife these pair of fowls were so cut that each one of the thirty-two people re­ ceived a piece; the drum-sticks, the thighs, the wings even were divided into parts. There was a dainty entree a pate, and then came an omelette soufle, followed by coffee, cheese, etc., and dinner was over. Of course, we had plenty of excellent bread, and in front of each plate stood a bottle of good wine. I know I arose from the table with my appetite quite appeased. If I had not eaten a great deal, I had, at least, seen much; and^1 know, too, that before midnight I had a craving for 'something light.* But still, I re­ peat, the French are a wonderfully oiev- er people."-- Itogress. ITOBY is becoming scarce, and, in :spite of the fact that celluloid is em­ ployed largely as a substitute, it is not wholly satisfactory for all purposes to which ivory is put, and a more satisfac­ tory substitute is wanted. LONGFELLOW'S study remain* just as he left it. Not a book nor a pieee of furniture has been more#* Old Sawa and Xtodarn Sfgas. -*-• tho SuperattftftoMb * > 1" "Matrons who tow the cup and aee , ' The ground* of fate ia grounds of te||: It has l>een said that no human "being exists who is without superstition, and often the greater the intellect, the high­ er the intelligence, the more unaccount­ able and puerile the belief in signs and fatalities. Selden remarks that they who are against superstition often times run into it ou the wrong side, and adds, If I wear all colors but black then I am superstitions in not wearing black." One man laughs at another because he The Borrowing Fiend. Of all the nuisances beneath tl& eim the borrower is the meanest, the worst and the most difficult to abate. He is wears his shirt turned wrong side out ,without feeling, without principle and for luck, but the man who laughs will not start on a journey on Friday or cross i funeral on its way to the grave or see tho new moon over his left shoulder. We none of us believe in signs, and it is only by way of joke we allude to the bad omen of 13 sitting together at table, of being unlucky if we spill the salt, of expecting a stranger if we drop a fork and the point sticks in the floor, or ex­ pect company if the rooster crows on the door-step. It is said that all signs fail in dry weafher, but who ever saw a cat wash her face that it did rot rain soon after? The fact is, we are all, every one of us, full of queer, quaint ideas natural or inherited, idiosyncrasies of character which makes us individual, things that we do believe and don't be­ lieve all in one breath. Four people meet and shake hands across--a rare occurrence indeed--and some one of the four exclaims "there will be a wedding." You mention that you dreamed of some one dead and the suggestion is at once made that you will hear good news of the living. If you rock the cradle when the baby is not in it it is a sign of death. ' If a door breaks suddenly that will be news from a far-off land; if your right hand itches you will get money; if your nose itches it is a sign that you will kiss a fool; if you are single and stumble in going up stairs you will not be married this year. There aro peculiar sensations which be­ token bad luck. A shiver of the scalp denotes that some one has walked over the spot where your grave is to be. If your ears burn it is a sign that some one is talking unkindly about you; personal signs are more frightful than those of inanimate tilings. Unlucky Fridays are numerous, but there is hardly any day of the week that is not unlucky to some one. but give a dog an ill name and hang him! Friday is not in good odor, perhaps be­ cause it is hangman's day. YotSig peo­ ple do not care to get married on Fri­ day. Actors are as a rule highly educated and accomplished men, but they are very superstitious. If the first ticket to a new play -is sold to a cross-eyed man, good-bye to luck; that piece will never succeed. When the "Black Crook" was first played in New York, at Niblo's Garden, a lady with a small child by the hand was the first one to enter the theater. Mr. Wheately, the manager, turned the lady round, forced her into the hall, and let several men rush in; and then he made a polite apology ana escorted her himself to her seat. "There would have been nothing but failure," he said, "if a woman had been the first to enter--it's bad luck; always admit a man first." ^Sailors, gambler* and colored people are very superstitious. The weather is almost controlled by superstition. The goose bone is as much belidPtsed farmers as if it really by its ~ the ensuing season. The a pet superstition, for no; authentically state that th<» mal comes out of its'hole in to make the meteorOloi tions attributed to it. of a wood fire, like the c; of footsteeps on the snow^ to indicate an immediated On the walls of old of wood fire there will ap; spots composed of tiny are called "wild geese," aiij|gj timate rain. It is a popular b that pork which 1 right time of the m act ugly in the pan that you can see the cow's hoof in a b are manygootl people #! leave homo and l'orget sometliing'whii compels th^m to go back will aly sit down to, avert tho bad lucli must inevitably follow if this. To call one member by the name of another who is believed to be very unlucky., S fortunate in possessiiu^H|Kky n or days; seven is popflflny beli be a lucky number awRhe sevi can cure all diseaspif includin evil. Tuesday is generally beli be a fortunate day. Evil da; very prominent in the Saxon ci and at one time there were so that the whole year seemed to be eW' dangered. The southern people are fond of Tuesday, and it is their great national fete day--mardi gras. In India it is considered unlucky to marry on a rainy day, and "Happy is the bride that that the sun shines on." On the con­ trary, "Blessed are the dead that the rain rains on." Dean swift in a letter to Sheridan, rhymes Thursday with "Cursed day." The queerest reason for the existence of an unlucky day is given by the Malays, who avoid the 24th day of the new moon, because on that day Mohammed lost his front teeth! ________________ Too Late to Mend. A sharp disciplinarian is Gen. Galli* fet. While directing the maneuvers of the French army on review at Chalons recently he noticed some error in the movements of a dragoon brigade under the command of Gen. Clermont Ton- nerre, one of the oldest officers in the service. Quickly he directed the latter to repeat the movement. The veteran complied, after consulting with mem­ bers of his staff, and through the evo­ lutions constantly received suggestions from them. At last, "Retire, gentle­ men," cried Gallifet, "you annoy the general." "No," said the other,'"they assist me. I do not understand these maneuvers, and have asked these gen­ tlemen to refresh my memory, so I may not seem ignorant before the troops." "You do not uuderstaud the drill?" cried Gallifet, palo with emotion. "How can vou expect it?^ was the re­ sponse. "I am in garrison, with two small squadrons and a miserable insuf­ ficient drill-ground. But I can learn it in eight days." "In eight iays," said Gallifet, "it will be too late. I am obliged to ask you to resign. Place your command in the hands of the otth est of your colonels."' Bound to Tell. At a dinner party the little son of the host and hostess was allowed to come down to dessert. Having had what his mother considered a sufficiency of fruit, ;1m waa told he must not have any more, when, to the the guests, b« every one of If, you don't give me some xaofeXU teU!" A fresh supply was immediately given him, and as soon as it was finished he repeated his fclir at, whereupon he was suddenly and swiftly removed from the room, but he had just time to convulse the company by exclaiming: "My new trousers are made out of ma's old bed­ room curtains!"--Boston Herald. < without worth. He is the torment of decent people, and ought to be the .com­ panion of demons. He is a fonl blight upon civilization*an ulcer upon society. The depths of language cannot reach him, nor the vilest expletives do his case justice. It is true that we cannot live alone in this world. We must have the help and co-operation of others as we should be fully as willing to aid others as wo are ready to ask aid of them. We should be accommodating, as we hope to be accommodated in return. Very few men can have all the implements sometimes necessary or convenient to use about the farm. The very best of us are sometimes forced to borrow, and we should be willing to lend. But the trouble is with the chronic borrower-- people who have no implements of their own, and do not care to have them, because they fancy it is cheaper to bor­ row. It is these that need paralyzing. They cannot reciprocate the kindness, for they have nothing to lend. They have everything to gain by borrowing and nothing to lose by lending. They are well aware of this fact, and you can rest assured that as long as they can find a neighbor so foolish as to accom­ modate them they will not buy a single implement. It is in direct opposition to their principles to spend money for that which they can get for nothing from a neighbor. Borrowing would not be such a great evil if implements were carefully "used and returned in good order. But these chronic borrowers break the back of the spade and send it home covered with dirt; they break the handle of the fork and send it home without thanks or the offer to get a new one; they run the Baw upon nails and send it home rusty; they bore the augur upon bolts and send it home with the bits nicked; they used the plow until it is dull and sent it home covered with mud; the sacks are sent home dirty and mice-eaten; and so with every blessed article they borrow. It is sent home either rusty and dirty or broken, if by good fortune it escapes being both. When the favor of lending is extended to us it is as lit­ tle as we can do to bring the articles home in good condition. We ought to return them in as good condition as we got them, the wear of good, careful usage excepted. Nine times out of ten the chronic bor­ rower does not bring the borrowed ar­ ticles home at all, and the lender is forced to send for them to get them again. This is another thing that makes the evil of borrowing so * well- nigh unjiparable. And the borrower should never forget the fact that he has no right to relend the article to a third party. He should keep it in his pos- segsipn, and hid akm& tiil he i§ done with it, and theh reteEBHflilt'a^hout de­ lay. It is certainly ah litthflHHie bor­ rower can do to bring thgHnie home in as good condition as^Bp got M as jioon as he is through using it. There is no economy or gain in cliron- Ijborrowing. I have known men who ;e lost more time in running to and use his grindstone 'hdstones were ie w other articles, m going after articles est labor it would yield t to purchase the arti- balance to pay for borrowing cannot ^ desire for fair ion that if chronte bor« I be onest do not asks he odiiliMileturn no exertion to be lie Implements have lue, and their UMj^^ a matter of dol- lars and ce&tfc I^^Hfcihem, take their value, withooLiM^^Bjfcfor them, is just as dishaa^HM^^K|ire labor and fail to pay from the merchant's ' Is notonl* disfpnest, .HH^^Htss and indo­ lent. It from dis­ honesty bl^^^Kp^frigiit laziness. The chronio^PiPww is too lazy to ex­ act himself to procure implements of his own. His general worthlessness and sliiftlessness is shown in his pre­ ferring to lose time in borrowing ,rather than spend it in honest labor to procure the wherewithal to purchase nix own implements. Continual borrowing is the shift of a lazy man. More than this, it has a tendency to make men more shiftless or worthless. If we get into this habit of borrowing we sustain a further loss of energy. We come to do other things ou the same principle. Anu when we come to honestly consider the inconvenience, the loss, the dishon­ esty and the laziness of borrowing we will sec the wisdom of Polonus' words: Neither a borrower nor a lender be. For loan oft loses lKtth Itself and friend. And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Ohio Farmeiv Common Errors. tempers the wind to the lamb," was long attributed to the psalms of David, until oft-repeated corrections have convinced people that the senti­ ment belongs to Maria in Laurence Sterne's "Sentimental Journey." The epigram, "Spare the rod and spoil the child," is still often quoted as one of the proverbs of Solomon, and is rarely attributed to its author, Butler, (see "Hudibras," part II., canto 2, line 843). The nearest approach to any such phrase to be found in the Bible is the text, "He who spareth the rod hatetli his son." (Prov. xiii. 24). The refereuce to "pouring oil on the troubled waters" is often supposed to be scriptural, though the Bible does not make any such allusion. "Man wants but little here below," is an expression no olde» than Goldsmith's "Hermit," though it is generally quoted either as scripture or from a line of an ancient hymn. "Mansions of the blest" are mentioned in the Revelations, not of St. John the Divine but to the monk of Eversham (A. D. 1496).--All the Fear Round. A COUNTRY preacher waa exhorting his unbelievers, and his text waa "The Flood." As he waxed eloquent he said: "And Noah warned the wicked that they might repent, but they heeded him not; and the floods came and drowned them all, and what do you suppose they thought than?" mmmmmrn DM There isli' fhiUtogMoatt wi mlfwn ahofi auftlwwtM ' b#if] sure ha ttomgfan of th» iniilt̂ mistake that toe sex of erting this pressure is of aay quence in the mind of the waltzer. < does not care anything about ymnfr- men--in fact she does not car* anything- about young men in any circumstances.. --but she needs to be supported in or­ der to be able to waltz. A girl's arm is., not strong enough to yield the desired support, and hence there is no satisfac­ tion ia waltzing with otlier girls. What she wants is support, and not a yoaaf man, and if she could obtain the former without the latter she would be per- - fectly contented. This opinion has been so forcibly and freely expressed by countless young ladies when reproaiidjM&j with their alleged desire to walte withr young men that we can not have tho ̂ least doubt that it is literally and' strictly true. 4 « Young men when practicing the waltz;! step occasionally clasp a light chair in ! their right arms, and seem to find it a. • great assistance. This shows us that, while a young man must clasp some­ thing in order to waltz, it is not abso­ lutely necessary that he should clasp a< girl. Now, could young ladies of the- Methodist denomination be supplied: with some mechanical contrivance which would close around the waist and yield them that support which they declare to be indispensible, they would un­ doubtedly be able to waltz as cheer­ fully as the practicing young w>yy, waltzes with a chair. The invention of "McGonegal's Pat­ ent Irreproachable Waltzer" meets pre­ cisely the case that has been supposed and it is indeed remarkable that it should have been placed before the pub­ lic in the very week in which a sermon on the subject was preached. Indeed,, one can hardly help suspecting that the- minister was acquainted with, and per­ haps interested in, the invention, and took an opportunity to aid in its intro­ duction into serious families. The "Irreproachable Waltzer" consists of a- stout frame of light wood of about five- foot in height, and remotely resembling an old fashioned kite frame. At the top of the frame is a padded "rest" for a lady's hand, and at about the middle- of the frame is a. jointed arm, capable- of being placed around a young lady's waist and securely fastened in that position with a thumb screw. The frame has two feet furnished with cas­ tors, each one of which has a universal joint, so that it can turn freely in any direction. The whole affair weighs only five pounds, and it is made to fold together, so that a lady can carry it in her hand either with or withont a shawl strap. When the fair«owner of one of theses frames desires to waltz in a perfectly- unobjectionable way she unfolds her- "Irreproachable Waltzer," clasps its arm around her waist, and, putting her hand on the "res^" begins to waits. She finds that the machine gives per­ fectly satisfactory support to her back* and that it revolves in keeping with the movement of' the waltz with the? greatest ease. No one, however fastidi­ ous, can claim that the "Irreproaohable- Waltzer" is objectionable on the score- of morality, and, as it never treads on g any girl's dress, and never .ifti-guiltv of | losing a step, it muBt lil^idatlv prefef ble in every way to the ordiaary youbg man. With the help of this new invention > waltzing will be stripped of its present objectionable features and will become popular among the very strictest of Methodists and Presbyterians. It is. to be expected that it will be hailed, with enthusiasm by all young ladies^ who will be simply delighted to find that they can waltz without the annoy- icg presence of young men, whose only value as waltzers is, according to the best authorities, the suppon whiojjk they give to their partners. Hunger. There is nothing like hunger to take- the energy out of a man. The most awful cry on earth is the cry for bread. This was the cry of the Prodigal Son ajtan he would fain partake of the Ullilii that the swine did eat, and could not get even that without stealing it. It- was a wise thing for the prodigal to get home. He felt the pangs of hunger,, the wages of sin. We know that Satan promises large wages if* we will serve him, but he pinches his victims with hunger. He promises us luxuries. Liar! Down to the pit with thee! The- wages of sin is death. But this young- man was wise in time and went to his- father's house.--Rev Dr. Talmage. AT Moore's chapel, Bedford county, Tennessee, a few^lavs ago, during divine* service, a stray swarm of l>ees jnAdV ajv* attack on the horses, and caused a com- F plete stampede, stinging some of ' them most to death. The meeting broken ny/or the time. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BKEvaS. ....$ 6.00 0 7.9B Hoas coo « COTTO*. .L«MP FLOUR--Superfine 8.30 & 3.75 WHEAT--NO. 1 White... 1.07 @ i.a» No. 2 Bed 1.07 @ 1.08 CORN--No. 3 .«9 & .TO OATS--NO. 2 46 # .46 POUK--Moaa 18.25 @18.75 •lOVj®) .10* •:rr 6. AO 3.00 4.40 4.33 6.25 4.75 .93 >56 .90 J61 .79 , .38 .36 1100 & FL.75 4.35 & 5.50 @ 6.6) & 5. Ml <<? 5."0 & .»« <£17.35 MX® .10& .94 « .95 .61 .5? M .36 .63 -* .54 .73 © .74 /- 1100 017.35 * >10K@ 10J4; LARD. CHICAGO. to Fancy Steen.. Cows and Heifers _ Medium to Fair ;. HQOS. FIOUB--Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choice Spr'gEx. WHEAT--No. 2 Surina. 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