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(Urntii IHaimlcalcr I. VAN SLYKE, Editor Mtf Publither. mcheniiy; ILLINOIS. W E E K L Y l E W S R E V I t W . THE EAST. Db. Charles Thomas J ackson, an enli­ st fieut Boston physician and scientist, is dead A |' distressing accident is reported from Lowell, Mass. Five bova who attended a picnic near that eitv got on" a freight train in the evening with the intention of riding back to their homes. About two miles from Lowell the train passed nuder a bridge. It being dark at tho time, the picknickors did not notice the bridge, and, lieiiig seated on top of the freight cars, tlu-y were swept off and instantly killed A number of delegates while proceeding from Sutton. N. H., to the Free-Will 1 lap tint Convention at East Ware, (stopped at the house of a man named Daniels for refreshments, and were poisoned by eating potatoes on whose vines Tarn-green had been used. Four of the parties are in a very dan­ gerous condition, and the proprietor of the house cannot live. Thomas Scott and Mrs. Heftnw, walking on the track near Mt Carbon, Pa* were , killed by a fast express train. Rev. Db. Wm. Adams, President of the Union Theological Seminary, who has preached in New York since 1834, ia dead. The death of the Rev. Dr. Adams deprives the Presbvterian Church of one of its wisest and ablest patriarchs, and the Christian world loses a nmn who was mighty in word, deed and ex­ ample. A fatal case of yellow fever is r®-* . I nvu per wuw ;... w ported at New York. The patient arrived a few \ Four aiul one-half per cents.. A*™ dn/w frrfvm MnrHnimiA. Four wr rants The Democratic Convention of Io-tpi, at Des Moines, placed m nomination the follow­ ing State ticket: Secretary of State, A. B. Keith, of Crawford; Treasurer, Martin Blim, of Blackhawk; Auditor. C. A. Barker, of Des Monies; Attorney General, C. A. Clarke, of Lmn ; Land Office Register, D. Daughertv, of Tteoknk... .Tho Republicans of Delaware have nominated John W. Henston for Congress, WASHINGTON. A Washington telegram says: "The census returns as they come in are being care­ fully examined at the census oftioe in order to detect'fraud or incompleteness. Particular at­ tention is feeing paid to returns from those States where it is alleged that fraud has been committed and a wholesale inflation of popula­ tion made. All returns are. however, subjected to the closest scrutiny. W hilo some apparent in­ congruities and irregularities have been discov­ ered in returns from South Carolina, nothing that positively shows fraud has been brought , to light. If there has been fraud it will be de- tooted and remedied, (ten. Walker savs that nothing upon which official action could be taken has yet been die covered. When it is dis­ covered action will be taken promptly." The internal revenue receipts for August of this year have been #1,069.127 more than for the corres ponding month of last year. The customs receipts for August were $19,600,000, against 617,000.000 in July....A Washington dispateh states that since tho pas­ sage of the Bland Silver bill there have been " I'll! men; umc wtn -- ,, coined J68.18U.750 in standard silver dollars. ! £avo alarm that tho boat was Of this sum only $19.886,443 is in circulation, on fire. The most lntense^xcitonicnt prevailed THE LAKE DISASTER. i*«rttcnl«r* of the 1,0m of the ITfarine CUy, on Lake ICuron. The steamer Marine City loft Alpena, Mich., on the afternoon of the 29Mi of August, with a full load of freight and passengors. At about 4 o'clock p. m., while off Sturgeon point, fire was discovered in the hold, and before any as­ sistance could be rendered tho fire had gainod - such headway that nothing could be done to save her. The crew then commenced to launch the life-boats in order to save the passengers. The tug Vulcan wks in sight at the time, and came to the rescue as fast as possible, but be­ fore she could get there many had become panic-stricken and jumped ovcrtoard. The boat of the life-saving Sturgeon Point station, together with the lx>ats of the Marine City and Vulcan, and a number from the shore, picked up a lurgc numl>er of persons. J. L. Jones, of Alpena, one of the passengers, gives the follow­ ing details of the disaster: " I was standing at the engine-room door on the port side talking with another gentleman when he smelt smoke. We looked into the fire-room door and saw the tiro and flames 111 the starboard bunkers, among the wood and coal. We called tho attention of the fireman and engineer to the same, and efforts were at once made to get a stream of water on the lire. Tho hose was promptly got out. I then went up into tho cabin. As I owned the cabin door I fomul it full of smoke and immediately boat lapsing immediately, as is frequently the case, into idle habits as far as exercise is concerned, an attempt was made to ©iigage regularly, for however short a time, in some pursuit that would insure brisk muscular movement, so that the health acquired by exercise during tho vacation should not bo lost; and, more­ over, that the body when the next holi­ day | 'oriocl comes round should be found in fair condition to undertake the in­ creased physical strain thrown upon it. THE PENSION BUREAU. days since from Martinique. ITHB WEST. j A large aerolite passed over Cleve­ land the other morning, brilliantly illuminating j everything. When over the lake it exploded j with such force as to severely jar many build- j ings, fragments shooting off in different direc- ! tions like the bursting of a monster skyrocket j The side-wheel steamer Marine City, 1 •bound from Mackinaw to Detroit, was 1 destroyed by fire ons Lake Huron, j off Alcona, Mich., on the afternoon j of the 29th nit. She had 130 passengers on board. When the flames were discovered a j panic ensued, and before anything could be 1 done toward saving life a large numl>er had ! jumped into the water. A tug-boat which was j passing succeeded in rescuing many, and others j got ashore in yawls. The steamer was valued at $30,000 and was insured for #15.000. A dispatch from the West chronicles j the death of Ouray, the famous Ute chief. He I died of Bright" s disease of the kidneys, after a 1 long and painful illness. ' 1 A number of the creditors of Arch- j bishop Purcell, in Cincinnati, have addressed a j memorial to the Pope urging that he take action ! to effect a speedy settlement of their claims.... j Gen. Grant has absolutely declined to accept ! the Presidency of the Las Vegas Mining Com- ! panv J. S. Morgan, senior member of the ! firm of J. 8. Morgan A Co.. job ! printers and bookbinders, of CiiK-in- ; nati. committed suicide at Cleveland i Chester Bardwell. a wealthy farmer of Cam- i bridge, Ohio, was fatally gored by a bull at tlie 1 Ktate fair grounds in Columbus.!. .Detroit pa- ' ptrs chronicle the death of Robert McClelland, formerly Governor of Michigan and a mem­ ber of President Pierce's Cabinet The completed census returns for Wyoming Territory show a total population of "21.900. The census of 1870 was 9,276 The Chicago Tribune- *ays that investigation shows that the statements recently circulated as to the bad ef­ fects of the wet weather on the corn crops of the Northwest have been greatly exaggerated. Officers of the Indianapolis, Bloom- ingt-ou and Western road state that, owing to the probable construction of the line of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincv from Peoria east, they will immediately extend their road from Pekin to Galesburg.... Sapovonari has been elected chief of the Ute Nation, as suc­ cessor to Ouray, whose friend and companion he had been for several years. He is about 50 years of age, has considerable ability and force of character, and is represented as being quite friendly to the whites The Southern Pacific rail. >ad has been com­ pleted between Yuma. Arizona, and Benson, in the same Territory, a distance of 300 miles.. Information from the cranberry region of Wis­ consin is to the effect that the crop this vear is one of the largest ever known. Two bots were killed by lightning near Martinsville, Ind., while sitting under a shade tree. Two young men were seriously in­ jured by the same stroke A young farmer named McDonald, living in Pickawav county. Ohio, has been hanged by his neighbors for general cussedness. He was not guilty of any violation of the law, but was of a quarrelsome, vindictive disposition, and the people of the nei^hborhood, who feared him, concluded to put him out of the way before he did some mischief. Dispatches from the Tnflian country announce that the treaty with the Utes has •been signed, and the act of Congress, which gives them lands in Northwestern Colorado in exchange for that they now occupy, has been ratified-- .A curious accident oc­ curred at Grand Rapids, Mich., the other day. By the bursting of a water-main leading from a water reservoir situated on the top of the hiil which overlooks the city about 5,000,000 gallons of water were poured into the city, flooding the houses and cellars bv the way and doing much damage to propertv. ' The loss is estimated at £40,000 to £5u.000..President Haye3 and party passed th rough Chicago last VM<tr An rnnfo tn T>u/>!£^ ,.y.« ^ »•»«»" "»«»« 10 AH V'Ui t the balance being in the treasury vaults. Dur­ ing the month of August, however. 1.285,483 silver dollars were put into circulation, which indicates an increased demand for that kind of money. 1 The regular monthly public-debt ; statement, issued on the 1st inst., is as follows: j $ 229,440.150 ! 480,410,450 j aso,000,000 I 758,241,3.50 ! • 1.10C>,450 | ' 14,000,000. , Six per cent, bonds... Five per cents $1,713^198,400 (8.128,035 346,741,896 11,300,000 7,181,995 30,835,940 Four rwr cents lief milling certificates.. Navy pension fund,* Total coin bonds.......... Matured debt $ Legal tenders Certificates of deposit... Fractional currency Gold and silver certifi­ cates Total without Interest. Total debt Total interest . Cash in treasury Debt less cash in treasury $1,934,569,074 Decrease "during August..* 12,027,167 Decrease since June 30 17,603,221 Current liabilities-- Interest due and unpaid. $ Debt 011 which interest Iim ceased. Interest thereon Gold and silver certificates United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. Cash balance available Total $ Available assets-- Cash in treasury $ 386,059,631 $2,105,386,266 15,951,139 196,668,333 2,964,803 6,128,035 771,413 30,835,940 11,300,000 154,668,141 and a regular panic ensued. The passengers jumped iuto the water long before there was auv need of doing so. Tho officers and crew behaved nobly, with tlie single exception of tlie seeond engineer, who acted like an insane man. Boats were lowered as soon as jwssible and filled at once.'" Mr. Jones went forward and remained on the boat until rescued by the Vulcan. He can eive no idea of the number of people on board or of the lost, Mrs. A. B. Clorigh, of Marine City, and her son, Bert, were 011 board. Mi's. Clough says she was in the stateroom in tlie after tabin reading. She heard some one say**" Fire ! and soon heard it repeated, but thought it was used in conversation. Bert then caine running into the stateroom exclaiming that the boat was; on fire. She at once went in­ to the cabin and found it full of !„ pocket smoke. She then went aft. Bert was deter­ mined to jump overboard, but she restrained hnn. She found a life-preserver, but, before she could get it on, a large, strong man, a stranger to her, jerked it away from her. She then found Dr. Stockton, of AleOna, and, with his assistance, she and Bert and the doctor reached the main deck, getting down on the outside. There she picked tip a boy about 6 years old who had been separated from his parents and who was nearly frightened to death. They all four got on tho A Museum (fathered from a Sewer. The large area dfjiincd into the Tiber week sewer causes a great quantity erf gravel and sand to accumulate in the level section L; of that conduit, between Indiana avenue and tho James Creek canal. This section requires to be cleaned' out every year, and many hun­ dreds of cart-loads of sand and gravel is removed there from, which is used for street paying. In the office building, within this yard, Mr. Lamer has a mu­ seum of things taken from this debris, to which he has been adding from day to day for two or tlu-ee years. This is a perfect old curiosity shop in its way. Of course there are no glass cases nor gild­ ed caskets for their arrangement, but for the most part they are tacked up on a rough board partition, where they can be looked at, no one caring to handle them. Among the rusty and corroded tilings the Sim reporter noticed a shoe­ maker's pincers, screw bolts, gas fixt­ ures, waist-belt buckles, spools, skate- irons, andirons, hoes, casters, doll-baby heads, metallic and mineral toys for children, smoking-pipes, door-knobs, a clasp and part of buckskin purse, Metal­ lic match-box, milk-strainer, jewsharp, g:aming-eheeki«j-a silver thimble, oil-cans, combs, hair-brushes, a parlor skate, paint-brushes, gutta-percha nipples for babies' nursing-bottles, eye-glasses, glass alleys, a screw-driver, child's gutta-per- i.cha rattle, part of a mouth harmonieon, :md table knives, tea and table 196,668,332 196,668,332 Bonds issued to Pacific railway compan­ ies, interest payable in lawful mouey. principal outstanding .*.$ Interest accrued and not yet paid Interest paid by United States. Interest repaid by companies-- Interest repaid oy transportation of mails * By ca^h payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings Balance of interest paid by the United States 64,623,512 . 646,235 *7,589,861 13,643,333 655,198 --" ---- pwi,v\* WlJlVUgU week en route to the Pacific coast. THE SOUTH. Commissioneb Bentley, of the Pen- won Office, furnishes the following interesting statistics : On June 30 last there were 245,000 pensioners. There were paid as pensions fall­ ing due during the year $36,000,000, and %2l,- 000,000 arrears of previous years. Commissioner Bentley thinks the sum to be paidm pensions will yet reach >50.0(H),000 annually. There were be­ fore the Commissioner, July 1, 280,000 unsettled claims for pensions, involving an average first payment of i* 1,100 in each case, or a total of GENERAL. The Southern Pacific railroad track i has reached to within 196 mHes of El Paso, | Mexico, and it is believed the rails will be laid , to that point by Jan. 26. j Among the passengers by the steamer J Herder, from Hamburg, which arrived at New i York on the 1st inst., were the eight victorious I American Turners on the way home from ! Frankfort, where they took part iu the inter- | national amateur gymnastic athletic tourna- j ment. Anioug 400 competitors from England, I France and all part* of Germanv. the repre­ sentatives of the United Srates" Turnerbund | earned off the greater part of the twenty-two ! prizes given for general excellency in gymnas- ! tic*. . ! A Detroit dispatch of the 1st inst. | states that at least ten liven were lost by the | burning of the steamer Marine City. ) Col. Gmerson telegraphs the War Department at Washington that Victoria's band are in the Candelaria mountains, in Mexico, {about 150 miles west of Fort Quitman. They ! have lost about forty men in skirmishing with j our troops, and their cattle are nearly worn out. 1 CoL Grierson thinks they must soon make • terms with the Mexicans or yield uncondition- : ally to the United States. J Over 40,000 people, it is estimated j attended the Soldiers' Reunion at Canton, j Ohio. President Hayes, Gen. Garfield. Secre- ! tary Itamsey. Gov. Foster, ex-Gov. Bishop and I Old Abe, the Wisconsin war eagle, were a few of the attractions. Tlie President made a i speech, in which he treated of two subjects-- education and the prosperity of the country, | *OKEIGPf. j Fine weather in England ha s benefited | the crops to a considerable extent A Rome I dispatch announces that the Pope, on the rec­ ommendation of tlie sacred congregation, has promoted Rt. Rev. P. A. Feelian, Bishop of Nashville, to be the first Archbishop of Chi­ cago, which has been created a metropolitan see with Alton and Peoria as its tmffragan sees. Dr. Duggan, formerly Bishop of Chicago, long incapacitated for service by disease, is re­ tired on a pension of 62,000 per annum Five Prussian officers, comprising representa­ tives of the infantrv, cavalrv, ailillerv, and po­ lice, have left Berlin lately for Turke'v. whither they go with the consent of the German Gov­ ernment to inaugurate improvements in the Turkish military and police service The Marl: IJVU Express says that owing to the dry weather <>1 the last three weeks the crop prospects in England have considerably bright­ ened, and the harvest is now nearlv r'eadv for gathering. Owixo to scarcity of gold, the German Imperial Bank is paying its notes in silver. Owing to the disturbed condition of affairs in Buenos Ayres. the International Ex­ position is postponed till next year Advices from Afghanistan report that" Gen. Roberts, commanding the column marching to the relief of Candahar, has arrived at that place. The British will halt« in the vicinity of Candahar to prepare for an attack on the Afghan forces stove-grates, gimlet, German silver watch, saw, cake^plate, scarf-pin, gon- eartridges, and a child's skull. On a shelf is arranged a quantity of - --. -- e-- | chunks of iron-scraps, gravel, and sand, sideof the gunwale andheld on by the window i all cemented together in compact , of the porters room. A line was thrown to : *. „ ,1 •. ? , V { them, but the doctor did not catch it, and lost I i ' ., ™ > 18 snPPOsed, in low his balance and went overboard, but was picked 1 P . within the sewers, where these up. The three who were left held on to their • things settle owing to their weight, and during heavy freshets are forced out in I large chunks and wasiied down to this level. These masses appear to be com­ posed mostly of iron nails and iron scraps, among which, now and then, is a horseshoe, a gun-lock, keys, screws, an old large copper Cent, hair-pins, lioop- skirts, scissors, etc.-- Washington Star. A Definition of Wit. When Lord Chatham was Prime Min­ ister, he once asked a literary geutleman a definition of wit. The gentleman had long been of the opinion that his talents should i-eeeive substantial recognition spoons, horseshoes, brass wheels of clocks, a toy steam-engine, irou rings, stove-castings, sets of rams'horns, skull 1 -- --- -- bones of dogs and sheep, a looking-glass I ^08,000,000 arrears, or first payments frame, a nut-cracker, a copper kettle, """" +1-~ A 1 Some Idea of (be Enonnoiu Sluwfttehw It mat to XSandle. . Beutly, the Commissioner of Pen- ? compiled some information on the Pension Bureau which illustrates the magnitude of the pension svstem. He says : " On the 30th of June last there were 245,000 pensioners. Including tlie first payment to pensioners whose cases were settled during the fiscal-vear, there was paid out for pensions 000,000, exclusive of arrears, which amounted to <*21,000,000 in addition. So there was paid out for pensions during the fiscal 1 year §57,000,000. The regular pensions | aI?., ^.rs^ payments to the new pensioners ! will, in the aggregate, continue to in- | crease until they fliall have reached ; §50,000,000 in amount, and perhaps a j greater sum. Great as the interest of I the pensioners whose cases have already been settled has grown to be, the inter­ ests of those persons who have unsettled claims represent a still greater sum, and it is being daily increased by the new claims which are continually coming forward. On the 30th of June last there were before the oflice, awaiting settle­ ment, 280,000 claims for original army and navy pensions, involving an average first payment amounting to $1,100 in each ease, or a total of $308,000,000 for the first payment alone. In addition, there were 7,000 unsettled Claims for the War of 1812 and the Mexican and Indian tfcars. The annual average of the j pensions of all classes is $105 to each pension. The whole nrimber of persons I decidedly interested in the pensions, . either as the actual recipients or claim- ' ants, is 532,000. j These figures represent the condition ! of allairs on the 30tli of June last. Since j then new claims have been filed at an i average rate of 150 per day. The regu- ! l:l1' annually accruing pensions of the I whole 532,000, counting the claimants | as already pensioners, are $5G, 000,000. ; The annual pensions are sufficient to | pay the interest upon $1,400,000,000 oi -1- per-cent bonds. Add to this sum the proof. Ringing the bell, his fOotuan appeared, and was thus addressed by his master : " What do you conceive to be implied by an ostentatious man ?" " An ostentatious man, sir ?" said Thomas. " Why, sir, I should say a perfect gen­ tleman." "Very good," said the Vicar. "S«nd Ellis [his coachman] here." "El­ lis," asked the Vicar, "what do yon im­ agine an ostentatious man to be ?" " An ostentatious • man, sir?" replied Ellis. " Why, I should say an ostentations man meant what we calls--saving vour pres­ ence--a jolly good fellow*" It need scarcely be told that the Vicar substi­ tuted a less "ostentatious" word. C7;ambcrs, Journal. up. The three who were left held on to their position until rescued, Bert fainting at one time j from the heat. The lire spread rapidly, and j the boat soon burned to the water's edge, j Contradictory reports are made as to the 1 number of lives lost. The trip-sheet is de­ stroyed, and it is therefore impossible to get the names of all the passengers. It was at first supposed that all were saved, but there is no doubt now that at least eight lives were lost. The steward of tho ill-fated vessel says that fif­ teen lives were lost. All accounts agree that the Captain and crew of the Marine City acted ; with great coolness and bravery, as did Capt. .33,291,329 I Hackett, of the tug Vulcan, and the crewi «f the life-boats. upon the pending claims, and we find the enormous amount of $1,708,000,000 standing as the capital or representative of the pension interest as it was 011 the 30th of June last, a sum nearly equal to the whole public debt of the nation. The 532,000 directly interested persons are distributed throughout the country as nearly as can be calculated about as follows : In the States north of Mary­ land and the Ohio and east of tlie Mis­ sissippi and Iowa, Minnesota, and Kan­ sas on the West, from 2,000 to 3,000 in each Congressional district. In the States of Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and the States on the Pacific coast with the Territories in proportion to population, from 1,000 to 1,500, and from 300 to 500 in the Congressional districts of the Southern States. whole number of ^0^ | el,UleraB recipients | Europe to the United States is causing a de or as claimants, is %532,000. The averago num­ ber of claims filed each day since Julv 1 lias been 160. POLITICAL. Thk Democracy of Massachusetts, at their convention in Worcester, nominated Chas. P. Thompson, of Gloucester, for Governor on Uie first ballot, he receiving 536 votes to 448 I i * Y «f ^ ^ \ K* fin f i yi • . , M Gen. Butler was placed i cided sensation 111 London, and on the conti- 1 nent. Germany more than any other country feels the drain and has been compelled to stop ! gold payments at Bremen and Hamburg. j A dbeadful accident is reported by j cable from Spain. A wooden bridge over the i River Ebro, near Logrono, fell while a bat­ talion of troops were crossing, and ninety- seven soldiers, including five officers, were drowned The steamer Hardwick, 'which v uwuui^ lie fer ex-Gov .Gaston, uuuer wa» piacec l^erem!dnd«^^ ! Pu.ef between Odessa on uIJ BlidTLea" and lieutenant Governor, Alpha E ^lomDson' ' PrW,V1: E"°lanf' foundered at sea, and all on of Woburn ; Secretary of State Michael FDonI I d Ut °"e hl<,nian were lost" °fr xT0m?rvlUp : T™asirer, Francis J. | • ^1ewt5)"; Auditor, Charles R. Field, I To Husbands. of Greenfield; Attorney General, p A. Collins I * £fiiB0Ht°n"".'The ^publicans "of Kansas! Always complain of being tired, and new their State Convention at Topeka ! remember that nobody else gets tired. eSio~^he t'i JIT ior rt- ! Your wife should have everything in of fifty-five over all other c^ndidate*0^ ! reswliness for you> you should not do The New Jersey Democratic^ ^lonY- ' anything her. mated George C. Ludlow for Governor The I When your wife asks for money, give liiu'olnnominat^p011 'x- Nebra"ka. held at ' her a nickel ; ask her what she wants to the Gubernatorial chlir Th/rLSf of 1 ^ aut* wl.len H,«' ,ask the State officers, with the exception of Land i cun t do without it. Then go Commissioner and Superintendent of Public ! down town and spend ten times Instruction, were »!so renominated. ! amount for cigars, for they are a ? IrI,h,bltlo"iHtH beld a State cessity. Convention at Trenton, and nocmiatf^l s n n 1 « « . ,, Ban-on, for Governor and adopted rejoinfirm- I 1dowu tow-n of an evening, stand pledging supj)ort to Neal Dow for President i aro]m" ou the street corner aild talk and demand,ng the absolute prohibition of the ! politics J it's more interesting than to lj,'k{'ta Republican Con- i stay at home with your family. Falls, for tongress. ' ' 'eUlsrc,v' of Hio<" j Charge your wife not to gossip, but j you can spin all the yarns you wish. the ne- The State Convention of the Prohibi­ tion party of Michigan, held at Jackson, nom­ inated the following candidates for State offices- Governor, Samuel Dickey, Albion Lieutenant Governor, D. H. Stone, Holly ; Secretary "of State, John Evans, Belleiue ; Attorney Genera! M. M. iJariiorn, Holly ; State Treasurer, Arthur I>. Power, Livoma ; Auditor Genera!, WatsOTi Snyder, Ypsibnfci: State Commissioner of tho I*md Office, Porter lieal, Lenawee countv : Su­ perintendent Public Instruction. W. H. Moore of Lenaweo eounty; State Board of Education' IF. B. Etou, Adrian, Have your wife get up and make fires, but don't get up yourself till the rest of the family are eating breakfast, as yon might take cold. Wear old clothes, and make yourself as untidy as possible until your wife's health fails, then it would be best for you to fix up some, for in all probability you will want another when she is gone. Have a smile for everybody you meet, but get a frown on before you go home. --PhysioloyUt. I Heroism of Lighthouse Keepers. j It was a grand and heroic conception to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone, but what shall be said of the men who I first of all tried the experiment of dwell- ing in the horrible isolation of that storm-beaten edifice, cut off from the rest of the world, uncertain whether the building would stand the test of the storm, deafened by the roar of the waters which sometimes would shoot right over the lantern, or dash headlong against the lighthouse with fearful vio­ lence, causing every part to vibrate as though the whole fabric were instan­ taneously going to pieces? It is re­ corded that only two men attended the 1 lighthouse built by Rudyard, and that J one of them was seized with sudden ill- | ness and died. It was in the roughest | time of year, and although the survivor j hoisted a signal of distress, no boat ; could reach tlie rock. What to do with j the dead body he did not know. At first | he thought he woidd tlirow it into the i sea, but he was hindered by the fear lest j the friends of the deceased might charge j him with the crime of murder. For a ; whole month the weather continued ! boisterous, and for that whole month j the solitary survivor kept the light all | night now that his comrade could no longer share the duty, watch by watch, with him, and for that whole month he | kept the body of the dead man, although it had fallen into horrible corruption. Can any more terrible strait be conceived than that in which the brave fellow was placed ? Yet we do not even know his name. All we know is that in almost every great work of public utility in­ volving hazardous labor, if one or two men have come to • the front and left their names for the admiration of pos­ terity, there have always been a hundred obscure heroes who have lived and died and left 110 sign, but without whose strong nerves and great hearts those j works would never have been accom- | plislied. j The Wooden Hat. | Somewhere about the year 1770 a trav­ eling millwright, foot sore,and with tho broadest Northern Doric accent, stopped at Soho, at the engine factory of Boulton Watt, and asked for work. His aspect I was little better than one of beggary and poor looks, and Koulton had bidden him godspeed to some other shop, when, as he was turning away sorrowfully, Boul­ ton suddenly called him back. " What kind of a hat's yon ye have on your head, me mon?" "It's just timmer, sir." "Thinner, me 111011V let's look at it. Where did you get it?f' "I just made it, sir, my ainsel." " How did you make it?" " I just, turned it in the lathie." "But it's oval, mon, and the lathe turns things round." . A weel ! I just gar'd the lathie gang anither gait, to please nie. I'd a lang journey afore me, and I thocht to have a hat to keep out water, and I hadua' muckle siller to spare, and I made me ane." By his inborn mechanism the man had invented an oval lathe and made his hat, • aud the hat made his fortune. Boulton was not the man to lose so valuable a j help, thus the after-famous Willian Mur- doek- the originator of locomotives and lighting l»v gas--1<x>k suit and service under Boulton Ar Watt, ami in 1784 made the first YeSiielo impelled by steam in England, and with the very hands and braui-euniiing that had produced the thinner^ hat. --American .Mar/i,in int. j lie^idarily in Exercise. j Regularity and constancy iu the pur- j 8U1t exercise are important, says the ; Lancet if perfect health is expected to I result from its employment. It is far I better lor men to lead altogether a ; sedentary life than to he irregularly ac- j tive. I his caution is the more needed ! transition from sedentary i habits to arduous and exhausting pliysi- j cal labor is of fretjuent oecurren .*.e. ; Again, the transition from active habits j to i-edentary pursuits is generally ac- 1 comoanied by a marke d disturbance of 1 health, since organs roused to full ac­ tivity by the stimulus exercise gives them are liable to be functionary de. ranged when that stimulus is 'with­ drawn. This, perhaps, would not be so frequently observed, if, instead of re- What a Blind Man Did. Prescott, the historian, and Prof. Faw- j cett, of England, illustrate tlie* will- Short Snake Stories. ^ Alma, Kan., a man named Schuta fell dead of heart disease, caused by fright at a snake. The little son of Henry Leals, of Fat- tersburgj Kan., died from the bite of a rattlesnake. A son of Joseph Thompson of Butler county, Kan., died a horrible death from the bite of a copperhead snake. Thomas Sherlock, of Bedford, Ind., killed a spotted snake in his garden that measured 6 feet 7 inches in length and. 4 inches in diameter. Five Italian woodcutters near Chero­ kee, New Mexico, set a lot of wire nooses to catch squirrels and found in one trap an immense rattlesnake with sixteen rattles. In Reading, Pa., a copperhead snake • thirty-seven inches long was found to contain eighty-eight young snakes, all alive, and four to six inches in length, when it was killed. Mrs. Wistman, of Walkerton, Ind., was attacked by an enormous black | snake. ' She seized the reptile, tightly • about the neck aud screamed for help, j The snake was 7 feet in length. • H. L. Patty, while riding on liorse- 1 ',iu-'k in the Santiago canon, came upon I a 1 attlesnake in the road, and had just | taken his foot from the stirrup when the I snake struck, imbedding its fangs in the | stirrup leather. Mr. Patty killed the snake, which was one ol the largest of j its species, its body being as thick as a I man's leg. j William Drake, of Wartsborough, N. ; Y., while in the mountain near the vil- ; lage, came upon a rattlesnake, who im- ! mediately showed fight. There was no | chance ol' escape for Mr. Drake. Keep- I ing up an incessant rattling:, tne snake j struck at Drake repeatedly, but in every | instance he managed to avoid its stroke, and in half an hour killed the reptile. It measured six feet five and one-half inches in length. While picking blackberries on the Mine Hill mountains, Mary O'Brien, of Black valley, Pa., felt something rub­ bing against one of her stockings. She continued picking berries, and next felt a sharp and sudden pain in that limb. Springing out from the bushes, she found a copper-head snake over a yard | in length curled about her leg; and, : without an instant's loss of self-control' 1 she took the snake by the fail, and, after ; V Y0U5G MEW. EM Chain Wlrn arc niuqqtdai His answer was so clever that it defined j power of those who, stricken blind by a j ZT theS bfat it ted!jaUi witha'dul^' wit and suggested his wish ; ^amity have yet achieved sncce.ss in , John Geer, of Basket station, Pa., has W it, my Lord,_ he replied, "is what llfo-. Instead of mourning over the j kilIt!<1 over 100 rattlesnakes witliin the precious treasure oi eyesight lost, tuey past thrce montils. He ;jwuys carrieBa have gone to work. Adapting them- 1 • • • • - -- .uwais eamesa a pension would be if given by your Lordship to your humble servant--a good thing well applied." An excellent illustration of this defi­ nition of wit is the happy turn given by Sydney Smith to the casual remark of a beautiful young lady. While walk­ ing with the clerical wit in her garden, she said : " Mr. Smith, I fear I shall never bring this pea to perfection." "Then permit me," said the gallant Sydney, taking her by the hand, "to lead perfection to the pea." Tho sarcastic Douglas Jerrold was noted for uttering "a good thing well applied," albeit, the ^application sug­ gested to the victupi the turning, o£lunar caustic. Walking in the country one day, with several literary gentlemen, the party stopped to observe the gambols of a little donkey. A poet, more noted for the sentimentalism of his verses than for their excellence, said he should like to send the little thing as a . present to his mother. "Do," replied the caustic wit, "and tie a piece of paper round its neck, with the motto : 4 When this you see remem­ ber me.'" Jerrold's idea of wit was a brutal one. He felt that, like the diamond, it had two powers which were--" to cut as well as shine." One of his sparkling and a'<> wounding witticisms is his well-known for retort to a comic writer, who said to him, " We row in the same boat, you know." " True, my good fellow," replied Jer­ rold, "lmtwitli very different skulls." u * . 1 • ' i | c r o t e h o d s t i c k . W h e n h e c o m e s u p o n a f f situation, they have | Bnake he carefully places the crotch shown what training and persistent ef- > " • ' * • • . . - - - tort could do. But James Goodsell, j Playing the Drummer. Young Bummellians has just been dis- , charged by his employer, old-Twoper- ' cent. The facts are as follows : Bum- i melhans had just returned from a trip • over the State. His trip had been a | very satisfactory one to himself, per- ! haps, but not so to his employer. He ! had spent a great deal of money in bug- j gy rides and one thing and another, and i had taken very few orders. When Buni- ] melhans called in to nee the old man the | latter was mad. He said : I "I don't pelieve you makes any ef­ fort to sell goots. Veil I vash a drum­ mer I alvays sold goots to de merchants, no 'matter von (ley don't vant any. I j made de acquaintance von everybody." j " How did yon use to manage' to sell I goods when you were a drummer?" ] " I vill show you all about dat. j Schoost you sits down in chairs. You vas a country merchant; I plays now de drummer I " All right," said Bummellians. "I'll ! be a country merchant, and I'll show you [ how they do." | Bummellians pretended to be writing at his desk, and old Twopercent came up from one side, bo»ving and scraping. I "Goot morning. Can't I sell you | some goots ?" j "Who are you ?" says Bummellians, j looking up. ! "I travels for de Galveston firm of | Twoj>ercent." j " You do, do you? So you travel for | that infernal old thief, do you ? Take I that ! ' and to impress upon his em- I plover the difficulties of drumming up ; trade, Bummellians kicked the old man j four or five times, pushed him up hi a corner and choked him for a while, and I then told the old gentleman, who was speechless with bona-fide rage, "If you I ever come in here again I'll not leave a | whole bone in your carcass."--(Jatvcn- j ton News. Kinming to a Fire. Running'to a fire is one of tlie inalien­ able privileges of an American citizen. Run lu* will. Aud it doesn't make any ditlcrenee whether he is lame in both legs, alllicted with tho rheumatism and spinal curvifture, and wears a porous plaster, a cliest-protector and a liver- pad---lie's bound to get to the fire. We mention this simply to show that men have some advantages over women. Expedience has shown the average life of submarine telegraph cables to be, ten to twelve years. who died in Burlington, Vt., was blind from his birth to his death--a period of ninety years. Yet what he did shows that even this terrible misfortune is not an insuperable obstacle in the way of a man determined to make the most of himself. In spite of his misfortune, he would swing an ax with dexterity, and felled trees; he was an accomplished grain thresher, and would frequently go alone a distance of two miles to thresh for the farmers, climbing the mows to throw down the grain; he could hoe corn or garden stuffs as well as anybody, having no trouble to distinguish the weeds; he would set a hundred bean poles with more accuracy than most people who can see, would load liav, and was so good a mechanic that he manu­ factured yokes and other farm articles witl 1 success. He had an excellent memory, and.was an authority on facts and dates. He could generally tell the tijie of day or night within a few minutes. One instance is given when he slept over one day and awoke at evening, thinking it was morning. For once lie ate supper for breakfast, but when in­ formed of his mistake slept another twelve hours in order to get straight again. He was familiar with forest trees and knew just where to go for any timber desired. He could direct men where to find a chestnut, a maple or an oak, and the children where to go for berries. He was a good mathematician, and could compute accurately and rapidly. In olden days he was quite musically inclined, and, like most "blind people, lie had a genius in that direction. He was at one time a leader of the Presbyterian choir. To crown all, he i possessed one of the happiest of disposi­ tions, and was ever genial and cheerful. To this end liis generally excellent health largely contributed. Character. Character is the estimation or worth in which one is held ; or simply the sum of our actions, words and deedti. There­ fore, forming our character should be the first and most essential art that we study. Although perfection has never been attained, it may, like other arts, bo so thoroughly studied that the eye of man can rightly detect but few imper­ fections. In the choice of our friends we, in some measure, form our character, for we are likely to be influenced by the character of those whom we choose for our friends. The person who possesses a true and noble character has won many victories ; has many pleasures aud ad-v vantages that one of a bad and un­ friendly character never realizes or en- joys. By strangers our character can be read in our countenances, especially by those who study that art, because there is not a thought, word or deed that does not leave it« autograph ou the human coun- tennnce. It has been truh said that " what we do not do is mere often a better index of character than what we do." Who of us will acknowledge tliat we could not possibly have formed a better character. : -- Simple Language in Sermons. In addressing the multitude, simplie itv of language is always highly desir able, there being the danger of the un­ learned attaching very different (and sometimes very awkward) meanings to the grand and uncommon words which even careful clergymen may be betrayed into using in the pulpit. One of those, when in his study and in the act of com­ posing a sermon, made use of the term "ostentatious man."* Throwing down his pen, he wished to satisfy himself, ere he proceeded, ius to whether a great portion of his congregation might com­ prehend the meaning of the said term, and adopted the following method of over the reptile's neck, just back of the | head. Tin-11, if he desires to keep the | snake alive, he removes the poison by j instruments made for the purpose. He I lias a regular process frr extracting the j oil from the Iwxlies. This oil is said to j be very valuable, and sells readily for SI per bottle. It is said to have great curative powers. j ! Surpi ise<l to Death. j Old John Morris, a Little Rock negro; | hit upon the idea of Tanner anti bilious ' pills, compounded, as he declared, accord- j ing to a recipe obtained of the long | fftwter. He sold some to a woman who | died soon after taking them. John was I arrested and taken to the court, where j the following dialogue took place : j " Where did you get the medicine you ! gave the woman? " "I made hit from j d'rections sent ter me by Dr. Tanner." ! "What are its component parts?" j "Hit's made outen roots from the groun' j and leaves frum de trees. Does yer I wanter buy a bottle, Jedge?" "No, sir, I don't. The charge against you is a ; serious one. What made your medicine I kill the woman?" "Why, Jedge, de ! medicine didn't kill the 'oman." ""What j killed her?" "Why, Jedge, do'oman ! died ob de surprise. Yer see she had j been takin' everything in the medical I market an' hit didn't do her 110 good. ' 110 0 She didn'hab much confidence in my , ullu uie jOUlig man leir tins medicine, and y\lieu she tuck hit an loun girl to be the chosen companion of his rhnf. nit wrmr no-lif fnv •wnvlr .»+ mi * ™ . i . . « . ri.tiiflvii]# ( hroiiicle.] Almost daily there arrive by all the va­ rious roads which lead into Leadville •Tc?:ii:S meu v.llf> lmve lett homS and irieura, and with no experience or monej to back them, came here to "make a liv- iag/' as they call it. Poor, vain, deluded youths! Not that there is ample work here for th? willing, not that those who- conitt here fail to obtain employment-- hut, alas! it is not always that whictr causes the young men who a week be­ fore came here with hopes brightly burn­ ing, to return home dejected and dis­ couraged. It is a fact, which has been proven again and again, that the majority of the vast army of young mon come to Leadville hi the delusion that a lax state of society preva^s here, which "vill enable them to five in a romantic sort of way without working. Mining! What a sense of novelty the word conveys to an adventurous East­ erner. To lead the free and easy life of a miner, to sleep in a log-cabin, to work with a revolver strapped arotuid your waist, to spend a couple cf hotirs eaphi day hunting among the mouutains forelk and bear and deer; perchance go through an Indian fight--and all that sort of thing which is supposed to make up the life of a miner; what joyous scenes of ex­ citement the word miner calls up! Alas> when the stern reality presents itself to- the deluded mortal, what tumbling down of air-castles is there, my countrymen, when the young man finds what in all tie- brief y ears of his existence he has never found out that it is work--and the hard­ est kind of work at that--which makes- the-money that makes the mare go. The quick, active workers are those who make a success of it here. The first case of a failure by one of those so- gifted yet remains to be recorded. Hunt these mountains high and low and you can't find a worker who has failed in Leadville. > This is the class of people who, though they may not have more than what they have earned by hard labor when the week is past, see millions withiu their grasp, and who give you their solemn pledge that they will strike it three weeks hence. They are never discouraged, and take thing's just as they come, whether ill or good. Leadville is composed exclusively of a working class of people, in the practical seuse of the word, 'these mines about- us are filled with clerks, professors, law- ' yers and doctors. Don't for a moment j imagine that they aiv there as ornaments, | receiving large salaries and doing noth- | ing. No, indeed. In their rough miner's garb you would take them never for what j tliey are. They are workers, even though . their early years were spent iu colleges, | banks and offices. They dig and delve i side by side with your common laborer, j who understands neither Latin nor French, and know only one thing, and j that is that they must work just as hard ; as their illiterate companio'us "to the i manor born" if they expect to make the ! same wages. j These are the men who compose the i active element which has given Leadville ! its reputation for push and enterprise, i and those who have not the means to • build up a business here nor wish to do some hard work had better not come. A Romantic Story. Loring, the Boston bookseller, told a very romantic story, as follows : "At one time I had prepared boxes of fancy paper with a fancy initial or pet name embossed in it, aud I put this up at $1 a box and advertised it widely. One day I had an order ft»m California from a Miss Susie . The box was done up, addressed to her and lay ab^ut here, when a young Englishman came in and wanted to write a letter. I gave him the material and a place, when his eyes caught the address on this box. "'Have you the order that came fjpr ' that box of paper ?' he asked. "'Yes,' I replied, "tis about some­ where.' "'Would you mind sending it up to my hotel ? If it is what I think, I shall leave for California to-niglit.' "I found it and sent it around and heard no more about it for perhaps. three months, when one day the young man, with a lady on his arm, walked in. ' Mr. Loring, I want to present you to my wife,' he said. ' We could not leave this country till we had thanked you for your part iu bringing us together." The denouement was quite a romance. The young man was the son of an aris­ tocratic family and the girl the daughter of the gardener. But love levels all dis­ tinctions, aud the young man felt this life. To break off tlie attachment his father had sent him to the Continent and dispatched the gardener and his pretty daughter to America, where the young man had followed them, ignorant of their address, and at last finding it through the chance of the box of paper." The hop crop in the State of New York and throughout the country this year will exceed that of last year 25 per cent., or about 150,000 bales. THE MARKETS. that-hit went right ter wurk tearin' at tlie corners ob de biliousness, hit sur­ prised de 'oman to death. Yer can't hole a man for surprisin' anybody to death. Ef I como an' tells you a good , piece ob news, an' you falls dead, de law can't hold me 'sponsible. An' 'cordin ter de same 'stonomy, if I gins a woman a dose ob medicine and hit surprise' her ter death, de law can't put de clamps on me." The Justice is considering the ]joints of Joliu's argument, but John is still in iaJK HomeOfade Court Plaster, Tlie Scie ntific Ai/irricati gives the fol­ lowing directions for making this useful article: Soak isinglass iu a little warm water for twentv-four hours; then evapor­ ate nearly all the water by general heat; dissolve the residue iu a little dilute al­ cohol, and strain the whole through a piece of open linen. The strained mass should be stiff jelly when cold. Now stretch a piece of silk or sarsenet on a wooden frame and fix it tight with tacks or pack thread. Melt the jelly, and ap­ ply it to the silk thinly and evenly with a badger hail brush. A second coating must be applied when the first has dried. When both are dry, apply over the whole surface two or three coatings of balsam of Peru. Plaster thus made is very pliable, and never breaks. Somebody is attempting to poison all the dogs at Zanesville, Ohio. Among the number that got a dose was a fine bird-dog, belonging to Dr. Fred Hal- ston. He is a very sensible and saga­ cious brute, and had once before been poisoned, and was successfully treated by the doctor. Upon the last occasion, as soon as he felt the effects of the poi­ son, the dog trotted into the doctor's office, struck an attitude, stitieued up his legs and back, and by other signals gave the doctor to undcrstandr"^hat lie cither wanted a prescription orn dose of antidote for poison. Tlie doctor took iu the situation at a glance, aud treated j tho dog as he had before, and he again ! W]tKAT_No t whi:oTOLKD° recovered. _ No. 2 itej..'.'. Go- Grant's little "Jap" exercises c'OIiN-No-~ a speciid supervision over the General's coats and bats that excited the admira­ tion of the Coloradians. 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