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• . . • dk*?SJ iA */ *? ;# 'fx '•Vg mm ....Hie salt against the Government brought by the heirs of Stephen A. Donglaa for certain oottoe eapfontd by the United States Oovern- bl|ttMS6ipi>i during the war, and sold as abandoned p»oper|$, has been aettljjd. a jndgment la favor of clwniMit. ' s \ THR testimony so far gathered 1>y the f§4TX jp^4A^3P, TfS jjfL Congressional committee in the matter of 8ew- ' ' -*rd, Minister to China, indicates that he has been guilty of conduct unbecoming a diplomat M PUBLISHES. 1 ILMNOI& '^MWMESTIC NBWl m. fC.s.i "'ay ; raS'i -vfe ft;./ ' iM- •̂v ' if ¥K .* ' :i: frry & ^ -A- '* ,-iifrSfc ifefe anto Mmt THB danger of who] ft cciinotory at Moaongahela City, Pa., la located above a burning coal mine, •aftkQable"to be burned out from below;... %bBX«ddence of United Stole® Senator McPher- .. mm bornefl st Woodbrid ̂K. J., a few days : ;,|jjp*. 'The Senate and famUj 1ml %mmsw -:Jfptocs»i>e. . " TECS statue OL Charles Sanmer, au­ thorized by the modWng in Faneuil Hall, in JHwrdi, 1874, was unveiled lately by Gor. Bioa •The statue is In (be Botton Public Garden, "* ' COL. OWEN JONES, member of the "' IPhiladelphia bar, ex-member of Congress, tjblonel of the First Pennsylvania Cavalry dur- •. Hg the late war, and a millionaire, was found ,. «Jpad wifcMi} a quarter of a mile of kip house on Chrwtma* night Jkpopkay was tba oaftu* of jtfs death. I*« Wmt. Fos Christmas week, in his Chicago •, Manager Haverly announcee the en­ gagement of Mr. and Mrs. 3. 0. Williamson, in tkeir successful comedy of " Struck Oil," and tkelaughable after piece, "The Chinese Qhes- tfon." The interior of the theater has been taimmed and decorated with evergreens, cut flowers and plants. Since their appearance test season, Mr. and Mrs. Williamson have been playing to big houses in the East and in Cali­ fornia, and return laden with fresh laurels. Mrs. Williamson (Maggie Moore) has several : SMw songs which die will introduce In addition to the old ones. S. D. KICHARDS, who murdered Mrs. Barleson and her three children in Nebraska, a abort time ago, has been arrested at Steuben* •file, Ohio. The morater has made a full con­ fession of the murder of the Barleson family, attd also acknowledges to three other murders, *l|l neighbors of hi*. tie la a Quaker by birth •ad religion. " A DISASTROUS fire broke out at Gard- ipBr, DL, tbe other night, consuming si* of the %ost pxuaiButtfc busiuesa houses in the town. 35»e fire originated in the basement of a drug •lore, and is thought to have been the work of 4b incendiary. The place is without a fire or­ ganization, or water for fighting fire, and, as a oonsequence, very little was saved. The total lies on buildings and merchandise will reach #5,000. ; THE incipient Indian war in Oregon y'tm been stamped out, and Chief Moses 'and fttveral of his fellow-warriors have been ar- jpfsted and placed in durance rile... JLt Janes- "#1116, Tils., aha. Malinda Maek has been oon- of the murder of her husbang (tod sen- to the State prison for life. . ̂ , The South. t THE Georgia Agricultural College at Pahlonega burned last week u Yellow Jack " mm his grip upon Memphis with amazing ]tfnatity. In spite of weeks of "killing frost," Jbere were two deaths from the pestilence in . (hit aorely-afflicted city during the week which ;'iided on the 14th of December. A KEW OHLEAKS dispatch ansonnees Ibe disappearance and supposed murder of Xott Clark and Bill White, two colored men, Bear Caledonia, about fifty miles below Bhreve- port, while on their way to New Orleans, where •ley were summoned to appear before the Uni­ ted States Grand Jury as witnesses intheelec- ffcn troubles. They were taken pmmmirm ot IjjF a mob, and it is supposed were killed. . AT last accounts the reign of anarchy All Breathitt county, Ky., had ceased. The «- rival of State militia at Jackaon had a quieting effect They were quartered in the Court House Four horse-thieves were lynched at Obrning, Clay county, Ark., a few days ago. ' THE trials of the fraudulent election •aans at C îarl̂ î n, 8. C., will commence in J|>rlL Chief Justice Waite will sit in these ^paea with Judge Bond. /V Mlltal. A DI8PATCH from JaoksdmrlBe, Fla., •ays the State Canvassing Board has completed ttte canvass of the votes of the November elec­ tee, and given the certificate to Sail, Demo- #ratic candidate for Congress. THE Teller-Blaine committee met Dec. 26, formally acknowledged that they are ("powerless cm account of want of funds, and ad- Jburned to meet at the call of the Chairman.... JL W. M. Mackey has served notice of contest 4ita Gen. M. P. Conner, who obtained a certify ;.«fcte of election as Bepresentative fn "Charleston (8. C.) district SENATOR BAYABD, says a Washington î legram, has formally entered the field as a Ipadidate for Che Presidency. His headquar­ ters have been established at his home in Wil­ mington, DeL, where an organization is now Iteing rapidly effected. Hie sinews of war will act be wanting. It is expected that he can con- > tfdently rely upon all the necessary material aa- . #rtaaoe from New York; beside, hia olm fort- line ia ample. Wamhington, , T^E Senate has confirmed Q. M. iberton, of Nebraska, United Statea Attoi'- for the District of Nebraska; W. C. Win- fard, Washington Territory, Associate Justice if thp Supreme Court of the United States of that Territory. Postmasters--James A. Hud­ son, Saginaw, Mich.; Samuel W. Abbott, li»- Hominee, Mich.; Julius Bopes, Ishpeming, llich.; Mra. Heater A. Birdsong, Bellaire, 0hio; Sylvester Sherwood, Brainard, Ipnn.; E. W. Miller, Elkhart, Ind.; Mrs. E. M. Sheed, La Grange, Ind.; Harshall M. Murdock, Wichita, Kan.; Robert fiyfle, Decatur, 111.; William H. Humphrey, JLewistown, I1L; William B. Sheriff, Paris, HL; Alexander G. Jones, Chester, I1L; Francis M. .ifiyon, Streator, HL; W. H. liven, Mendota, Jill.; James H. I4oyd, liberty, Ma; Howard T. JCoombs, Carrolton, Mo A. S. Williams and Beverly B. Douglas, Representatives in Con­ gress from Michigan and Virginia, respectively, Ified at the capital last week. v AFTER examining the whole subject, fbe First Comptroller has decided that no por­ tion of the #30,000 appropriated for the use of the Senate to investigate the frauds in the elec­ toral count can be applied to the purposes ef Jbe Blaine committee. The committee will, therefore, have to wait for a separate appro- ydation, in which case the House can have a 'W&4noe *t debating the Southern question.... Jftie House Appropriations Committee expect tahaveaU the appropriation bills passed and ly Sofr. *>«**e farthea ̂ and a gentleman. The refusal of Mr. Seward to produce his books has created a very unfavor­ able impression on the majority of the com­ mittee. . f \ " DISPATCHES of Deo. 23 report one of the heaviest snow-storms of aeveral yean in Canada and the State of New York. The snow was three feet deep on a level at Buffalo, Mont­ real and Quebec, and badly drifted, causing se- rioua interruption to trade and travel. A NUMBER of counterfeit notes on Canadian banks are in circulation. They in­ clude ones, twos and fours of the Dominion Bank, fives of the Bank of Commerce, tens of the Ottawa Bank, and others... .There have been distributed during the year from the De­ partment of Agriculture over 50,000 tea plants, and as many more will be distributed during the coming year. THE house of John O'Brien, near Dublin, Ontario, was burned, the other night, and his wife, son and daughter perished. Him­ self and other members of the family, while walking through a furious storm to the nearest house, were badly frozen. O'Brien will die. COL. FRED GRANT has left to join his father upon his trip to China.' FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. . A CABLE dispatch from London says, under date of Dec. 23: " It was reported last night in dub asd Tr>i!!l*ry circles that Count Schouvaloff had notified the British Govern­ ment that the Czar intends to propose the Duke of Edinburgh as the Prince of Bulgaria. This proposal is intended as a special sign of the friendship of Russia toward England."' THE marriage of the Duke of Cum­ berland and Princess Thyra, of Denmark, was celebrated at Copenhagen on the 21st of De­ cember. The Duke of Cumberland is the son of the ex-King of Hanover, and second cousin to the Prince of Wales. The Princess Thyra is the fifth child of the King of Denmark, is sis­ ter of the Princess of Wales and of Princess Maria, wife of the Grand Duke Alexander, heir apparent to the Russian throne. The Princess. Thyra is about 25 years of age. A MOURNFUL incident of the cold term in France ia reported in the cable dis­ patches to have occurred on Christmas day. By the breaking of the ice on a pond at Chapelle Moche, a town near Paris, forty-eight children were drowned. THE official inquiry at Berlin into the Pommerania disaster has resulted in the ac­ quittal of the Captain and officers of the ship from all blame on account of the terrible dis­ aster. .. .A Vienna dispatch says that 40 per cent of the Bosnians who returned to their homes will have perished by spring if the weather does not moderate. MONCASI, the would-be assassin of King Alfonso, has at last been sentenced by the Spanish Supreme Court of Justice to suffer death for his crime, all pleas of emotional in­ sanity and otherwise having been ignored.... Advices from Mexico state that a revolution is going on in Gaudalajara, caused by the levying of an onerous tax. Several citizens have been killed in the streets, and numbers of promi­ nent gentlemen imprisoned. A LONDON cable dispatch says: "The steamship Emily B. Souder, which left New York on the 8th of December for Turk's island and San Domingo, foundered at sea when two days out of New York. This news was tele­ graphed by Lloyds' agent, who stated that two of the crew had just landed at Kingston. What became of the passengers, officers and re­ mainder of the crew is not known, but the sea­ men picked up believe that all the others on board the steamer have been drowned.... A great conflagration has visited the city of Hong Kong, China. It broke out on Christmas, and raged all day Thursday. We alse have news that the palace of the Khedive of Egypt, at Cairo, used as his winter residence, was partially destroyed by fire By a river changing its course, in Hayti, recent­ ly, one town was entirely and another partially destroyed, with great loss of life... .Yakoob Kahn has surrendered himself to the Wngllah- THE SCItAl ' -J tOOK. " Every one who takes a newspaper which he in the least degree appreciates will often regret to- see any one number whieh contains some interesting and important articles thrown aside for waste paper. A good way to preserve these is by the use of a Scrap-book. One'who has never been accustomed thus to preserve short articles can hard­ ly realize the pleasure it affords to sit down and turn over the pleasant, fa­ miliar pages. Here a piece of poetry meets the eye, which you would long since have lost had it not been for our scrap-book; there is d witty anecdote-- it does yon good to laugh bver it yet, although it may be for the twentieth time; next is a valuable recipe yon had almost forgotten, and which yon found just in time to save much perplexity; there is a sweet little story, the memory of which has cheered and encouraged you when almost ready to despair under the pressure of life's cares. Indeed, yon can hardly take np a single paper without reperusing. Then hoard with care the precious gems, and see at the end of the year what a rich treasure yon will have accumulated. .r AT CMUMOM. The rectcfr had finished the morning service, and had retired to his study to don his surplice for the sermon. He left the door partly open, and little Charlie, who was at church for the first time, was so placed that he could look in. There was a.very decided sensa­ tion when he informed his mother, in a whisper so loud that it was heard all over the church, that he could "see the minister changing his shirt." How TO rear a mule--Tickle his 1>H ^ 1 i A' > FXESH TOPICS. A VERY comprehensive copyright law has been enacted in Spain. It protects TELEGRAMS, TICTTRPAPOT NRTINLNN, RPAOFLHAA in Parliament and elsewhere, lege! doeu- sorts. • ;-.i! • -• v--v, ! 'P is r s'1 v THE Woodhulls are reported living in splendid style in London, near Syden­ ham Palace, sporting coaches, liveried servants, and all pharaphernalia of a stout income. The wonder is whose money they're living on. MICHIGAN and Illinois rank as among the first of Western States having little or no State debt to pay. Illinois has for years been virtually ontof debt, that remaining being only such as payment wonld not be accepted on until due, and for which there is ample provision. Michigan is nearly out of debt. All her bonds will be paid before they fall due. " THE Massachusetts and Connecticut papers are complaining of the effect of the free-pass system upon the legisla­ tors of those States. Sessions are greatly lengthened, they say, by the ab­ senteeism occasioned by members go­ ing to and from their homes. Some of the Western newspapers enter the same complaint. Wisconsin pays her legisla­ tors a salary for the session, withont re­ gard to its length. ' BY the prompt interposition of Con­ gress the thieves who robbed the Man­ hattan (New York) Bank have been de­ prived of their chief leverage for ex­ torting a heavy reward for the return of the stolen property. They took away, among other valuables, $1,500,000 in Government bonds, and for the restitu­ tion of these the modest sum of $500,000 in cash was demanded. But the bank proceeded by a new route to circumvent the thieves and their go- between lawyers, and obtained from Congress the passage of an order di­ recting the Secretary of the Treasury to issue to the bank duplicates of the stolen bonds, whereby the latter are rendered non-negotiable and worthless. TBE citizens of Vincennes and vi­ cinity, in Southern Indiana, are moving for a grand centennial celebration in commemoration of the surrender of Vincennes by Gov. Hamilton to Col. George Bogers Clark, Feb. 25, 1779. Hamilton was not able to "hold the fort" on that occasion, and gracefully yielded np his" stores, Indians; soldiers and all" to Col. Clark and his band of Virginia boys, who at once ran np the stars and stripes, which have waved over that city and the Northwest with­ ont molestation ever since. A prelimi­ nary meeting to arrange the programme was held in Vincennes recently. The celebration will doubtless prove a great event, as it should, in that region. ONE Julius Baumer, a resident of Chicago, and a naturalized citizen of the United States, was expelled from the German empire while visiting his parents. This act of the German Gov­ ernment the United States authorities considered a violation of the treaty of 1828, and an official correspondence en­ sued. The German Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs, in answer to a letter from Minister Bayard Taylor, defends the action of his Government in the case, and says he cannot recognize an obligation to replace the damages in­ curred, as alleged by Baumer, through the action o$ the royal Government. It is now Mr. ̂ varts' turn to talk back in behalf ofMr.I^aumer. broad enough to prevent any but a very active man from jumping over them, BO that one man may often be within a few yards of another and yet be «nfl.blfl to join him without making a detour of perhaps a couple of miles. The enemy in vnrious ways took advantage of their knowledge of the course of their canals to commit wholesale plunder of namflln, etc. The climate was cold and dry, but the sun had so little power that our parades, instead of being, as in India, in the very early morning, were in the middle of the day. There was little or no sickness, either among officers or men. The latter had even less liquor than their superiors (who had next to none), but did not suffer in consequence. Of newspapers, magazines, letters, we never saw one between the 1st of No­ vember and thte last of February." THB COB»ICAN VANL>BTTJ^» .. There are two sorts of vendetta--the dlfect (as the son avenging his father, or the brother his brother or sister), and the indirect or truftsversal, where the feud is kept up by distant relatives. So long as there remains one member of the two contending families the field is open to reprisal. One writer estimates that in thirty years 30,000 men were sacrificed to this barbarous custom; an­ other places the murders between 1359 and 1715 at 300,000. A report to the Council-General in 1852 stated that since 1821 nearly 5,000 assassinations had occurred in that island, and the situation was so serious that Prince Bonaparte was the only person in the island allowed by law to carry a gun. Toward the end of the second empire the prohibition was removed, and the vendetta broke out again with renewed force and barbarity, the murders being absolved and even encouraged by pub­ lic opinion. If the man who falls leaves an orphan in the cradle, his wife or sis­ ter will keep, for twenty years, his blood-stained clothing, to nerve the or­ phan's arm. The most crushing re­ proach that can be offered to a Corsican is to have failed in his obligation. In the Middle Ages any one who backed out was fined, and, if he remained con­ tumacious for a week, banished. The number of men in a family gives it an importance greater than the amount of wealth. Recently a young man declined to marry a rich girl, pj?^ferring to marry a poorer one, who fom. " seventeen mus­ kets in the fanrny"--i. e., seventeen male relatives, who would be bound to defend the new member of the house­ hold in an emergency. OLIVE LOGAN, in one of her gossipy - gine had burst, he rolled, terrified, down -- T --AU:" 1--the bank. When ho learned the real letters from |jondol̂ tells this story: "(fn her last trip ood the ocean one of Brother Belcher's elders was on board, and in a brotherly spirit was exceedingly attentive to t^at 'very nice little Mrs. Henderson.' He ̂ rapped up the tootsies in his own shawl on the storm-tossed deck; he brought the c^p of tea to assuage the blinding headache ̂ caused by the bad sea waves; he shared the prayer-book at the marine service in the saloon on the Sabbath; he min­ gled his voice with hers in the harmo­ nious strains of the ' Old Hundred.' Not a word breathed a soul till the last day; the joke was too good to be curtailed by an hour. Then they opened out on him, in a body; Mrs. Henderson was Lydia Thompson, and he had been pay­ ing undne attention to the great bur­ lesque blonde! The poor old staggered, put his hand to his brow and asked them to throw him overboard." Ttts writer of an article giving sonal recollections of the Afghan cam­ paign in 1841, published in Once a Week, says: u The Afghans are a mur­ derous race, but certainly not brave. Whenever attacked by our cavalry, no matter how superior the enemy were in numbers, they always turned tail, and the leaders were as certain to be the first to fly. The country about Can- dahar is, in one respect, very peculiar. The irrigation of the cultivated land is admirable, and is carried on by iheans of a perfect network of small canals, THB SAD-LOOKING LADY. One evening, says the Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle, as the accommodation train was coming up from Carson, an ethe­ real-looking lady, who was sitting on the right side of the car, attracted the at­ tention of the other passengers. It was a very cold night, yet, as the train neared Gold Hill, the sad-locking lady lifted the car-window to the highest notch. What possible object could a woman have, thought everybody, in opening the window on such a chilling night? She leaned her head far out into the gloaming, and it fiaf^d across a young man just behind her that she contem­ plated suicide. Bushing up, he grasped her shoulders to draw her away from a horrible death, but suddenly he let go his hold and resumed his seat with a quiet smile. The sad lady was simply unloading an overburdened stomach of roast turkey, oysters, and cranberry sauce on the back of a switchman. The poor man was leaning over to lock up his switch when the deluge hit him in the back of the neck. Imagining for a moment that the steam-chest of the en- extent of the disaster, his remarks il­ luminated the night air like an "electric light. - \ JTOLICB PHILOSOPHY. A badly-frightened stranger, whose dress betrayed the fact that he hadn't much ready cash, called at the Central Police Station yesterday and com- ilained that two men had been follow- him around for several hours with a to robbery. Well, you'd better leave your money herfe until you get ready to leave town," suggested the Captain. M I haven't got any--not a dollar," was theVeply* M Theil how can they rob you?" " Thatis so--never thought of that!" chuckled Uhe man as his face bright­ ened. "kfter they've gone to the trouble of knocking me down and drag­ ging me into some alley they won't find a red in my\pockets--ha! ha! ha! " He went aVay highly delighted, de­ claring that a \great burden had been taken off of mind.--Detroit Free Press. a which •ad, m Kost oases, t - fgr i U WHILE six robbl tenoed in court a one of them, address! marked: " Infamou with which words he and flung them with the Judge in the stomi lie prosecutor on the added five years to the were being a&t- Gergenti, Sicily, the oourt, re- ! Assassin!" ok off his shoes plence, hitting and the pub- The Judge *ender's sen- GOTEBNING CHILDREN. BY HABRIET E. S.^CBESSY. Do not be cross and severe with the dear little ones under febic. Bel­ ter govern them by love titan fear. Learn them to fear the loss of your love more than the smarting of the rod. In­ stead of punishing them when they are restless and mischievous, give them something With which they can amuse themselves. I have known children to sit for hours stringing buttons, and looking at pictures, who, minus these amusements, would have been boister­ ous and uncontrollable. They should not be stinted for playthings, though they need not be expensive. A rag doll, if tastefully dressed, often answers the purpose of a china or rubber one, and a little unpainted wooden cart will be drawn around by a wide-awake boy with as much zest as a painted one with steel appurtenances. Still, we would recommend1 the latter when the ability ia such as to permit it. A wor more regarding the punishment of chil­ dren. We know of a child who was made deaf for life through fear of whipping. She was years old, and her little sister, two years younger, after filling her ears with corn, said," Now if i you tell mamma she will whip you." Previous to that the mother had told them if either came to her with any complaint of the other she would punish them both The older one, standing in the greatest fear of the whip, allowed her ears to be filled with corn, and then dared not re­ port it to her mother, who, after a while, however, accidentally discovered it. An effort was then made to expel the corn ; but, living in an isolated region where it was impossible for them to procure the services of a skillful sur­ geon, only a part of the kernels were removed. One was allowed to remain in her ear until it sprouted. It was then taken out* by a bungler, who so injured the drum of the ear that she has ever since been hopelessly deaf. She is now an old lady, and one of the kind est and best of women, ^nd can hear only by use of an ear-trumpet. Through dread of the whip, with which she was already too well acquainted, what a shadow has been cast over her life' Oh, then, ye mothers whose little ones, are disposed to be a little headstrong and disobedient, take them kindly in your arms and tell them, if they do not obey you, you cannot love them, nor give them the pretty things you have heretofore; and, in the end, you will conquer. Learn them early to repeat little poems suitable to their age and understanding, and sometimes, when they are troublesome, tell them to stand beside you and repeat a few lines In doing this their little minds will be turned into a different channel, and they will become subject to your will. Praise them, flatter them, caress and pet them, instead of frowning upon them for every little offense. How many a mother, on seeing her little one robed for the coffin, feels her grief in­ tensified at thought of the blows she has inflicted on the dainty limbs, for the most trivial offenses. It is also a dangerous practice to shut children in the dark. Some have been frightened into idiocy in this way. f recollect tearing up a costly dress for my mother, who shut me into a dark clothes-press, where the dress hung. In my case there was, doubtless, more anger than fright. I have forgotten what the pen­ alty was for tearing the dress--I pre­ sume nothing terrible, as she was very lenient. She has now passed to a bet­ ter life, and how much sweeter to me is her memory thanthough all my recol­ lections of her were connected with the childish terror of an uplifted rod. No doubt there are cases of protracted ob­ stinacy in) children, whefi*{lie use of the rod is indispensable, but it never should be used in a fit of passion, or with in­ discretion. In regard to the education of chil­ dren, they should be taught to read and spell, and learn a little of drawing, mental arithmetic and primary geogra­ phy before they are sent to school, as the chances for physical devel­ opment are far superior at home than in the school-room. Many a little spine has been curved, and the body become dwarfed and diseased for life, from the effects of over-confinement, at a tender age, in an ill-constructed, poorly-venti­ lated school-room. If all could be edu­ cated on the kindergarten plan, there would be less sickly children; but, as this is impossible at present, the best way parents can do is to teach their children at home until they arrive at an age when they can better endure the confinement of a school-room. There are many paren î who have neither the time, inclination nor ability to do this,* and the children of such must suffer the physical disabilities already named. Let us hope the thoughtlessness and indif­ ference of parents on this very important subject will grow less and less, until all are enlightened and convinced of the wrong they are doing their little ones. Again, parents should not allow their children to grow away from them as they grow older. Keep up the little acts of Give «listening ear to all the plans foolish, kindly advising them for best. Do not teach them to fear or to dread the sound of your appi„. ing footsteps, but rather to meet with open arms and a feeling of dence which none but you can ever j spire. You will then find in them companions and friends who will nevl desert you in your Reclining FTT'JWLELTT, 11MS. :-- r BCattOMY. * We have but a faint notioii of ecoj °my in this country, and there are fe persons who seem able to exercise if spirit in their mode of living. As general thing, young people, clerks an| the like, calculate to live fully up to amount of their income, if, indeed, the] do not outrun its limits and become ii volved in debt. So with married of humble means; they spend as much as they get, and of become involved in debts they cannol liquidate. Now there is a mmpf ̂ rtil| which, if adopted, would make peoj quite independent. In the first place, let a man's $&com< be ever so small, he should calculate save a little, and to lay it by, if only or $10 a year. This will be sure to kc him from running in debt, and, as soonj as he finds that he has a sum of money ] saved, there is a natural incentive add to that amount, and thus, unwft-l tingly, as it were, he begins to aocumu-l late. « This operation once commenced, he-1 will be surprised to see how fast hia means improve; and then the slow, but' sure, increase of principal by the accu­ mulation of interest is a matter of clear gain. Never purchase any article of dressy or luxury until you can pay for it ; this is a most important rule to observe, and the credit system, in fact, has doi quite as much to ruin debtors as ors. A vast number of little expei but large in the aggregate, would saved if one always paid the monej the same at the time of purchase] place of having it charged. ~ Pay go, is a golden rule, and it is true eco! omy. ?£a»y a ppor man could build a housed over/his he&d, and ,own it, with the price of the cigars and tobacco he W used, to say nothing of the worse than. useless "drinks " of beer and bad spir­ its, in which, from time to time, he hap allowed himself to indulge. Avoid any habit, however simple it may be at the outset, in which is involved unnecessary expense; one leads to another, and aU together will empty your purse, and sap the marrow of your physical strength. It is not so much what a man's income may be, as it is what he spend*; , that graduates his means. Strive,! yx, to adopt the true principle of ecHl V^yott-kavethe indepem Ice. ' VITAX. STATJ.»TIVS OF A JFJEOPMB"' SIONAL MAJF» Dr. B. W. Richardson, in bis lecture# upon the "Influences of Occupation on Health and Disease," gave some inter* eating statistics of the rates of mortality among persons engaged in different pro­ fessions and occupations, derived from the official publications of the Begisfefar General. He calculated that, taking 100 to represent the rate of mortality among ̂ all males in England and Wales aged 15- years and upward, the rate, after dqe* correction for the varying ages in the different occupations, was equal to 6& among barristers, 71 among the clergy,! 102 among solicitors, and 106 among physicians. THE MARKETS. NE# YOBK. Bxstaa HOGS COTTON.... FLOUR--Superfine WHEAT--No. S CORK--Western Mixed... OATS--Mixed RYE--Western POUK--ME«a CHICAGO. Bnvas--Gholce Graded Steera... . Oows and Heifers Medium to Fair. 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