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fSgcgrnrn § tamdcalu I. »AW MLYKE. Editor and Ntfisher. McHENA^ - W ."' i'l -- f ttKll lEf S lEVIEfh Am incendiary fire at Shamokin, Pi., Imed four large store* and three dwellings. laOM Mtfanftted at $160,600... .The Hungarian jfcitpcf in the poor-house at Allentown, Pa., NAM Im kM font two waking spells in seventy 4ayal arooe from hi* bed the other day. bolted •vlM W «b WWII, aa€ spram on* of the winder. In falling twenty-five feet he broke l!rf mjuwd** spine so badly ft»t)ta«anhanl* raoovex; . , A STOCAJCKK arrived at New York with •Mini eaam of amall-pox, and the health ao- i ordered all the passengers, 1,000 in r, to be vaccinated. All the eabin pass- , Htd moat of those in the stoerftse, con­ tent about 1M Russians and Poles ro­ asted. The doctors called on tho crew for •Mdataaefe, attd ft aotae of the utmost oon- ANWC • clawed., Tbe imnugmnts _ fought tf littr ttvea we 1% at stake, and it finally noceanary to eall In the serriccs of the ateamen Then ©very man, woman tthiM who refused to submit were takon on board tbe quarantine boat and oonveyed to Bit Island, where they were forcibly vaccinated.... Mm. Howe, eharged with emhesaMng the funda •f the eo-ealied Indies' Deposit, of Boston, 'Mil been found guilty Jameo T. Fields, the Boetoa poet «»d publishw, d'.ed of heart dis­ ease while sitting in hit? chair. He waa born in JMtsmoiith, N. H., in 1820. From 1863 to 1871 ifce was (•<W%*k: of live AtUintic Monthly. WHITELAW BKID and Miss Elizabeth *•* were married at the residence of the bride, fci Fifth avenue, New York. Among the meets were Hugh McCaHoch, Mr. and Mrs. wthiam H. Vtnderbilt. Henry Watterson, •g-- and Mr*. McClellan, and Abram ft. Hewitt. It is rumored that the Mde had a dowry of $l,W0,0fl®. About twenty perrons were severely bnraed or •Ifcfci wimi iiijiiriiil at the fire which destroyed 4he box fketory of E. C. Smith, in New York, •toe **•»* wW tamed to death, and other* will • wobabW die. The loss was §75.000 The rauyhuit Hotase defeated the bili equaliz­ ing rates of traaaftortafaon by railroads, and ^rotubiting rebate" drawback* and combin*- • BXTOK at 10? converts from Europe ft Sari through We« York, «n route to Salt lake, l&«t week 8mall-pox, typhna fever tmi typhoid fever are causing an alarming mortality in Mew York city. FIB® destroyed the mammoth Gfirard jaafait elevator, at Philadelphia, with 70,000 imahels of grain, the loss being • 600,000. * WILLIAM MACKINTOSH killed his sis­ ter, in New York city, becanse ehe refneed his tfemand for money Samuel 8. Morey, who was indicted at New York for perjury in OOD- section with the celebrated Morey letter," kaa been diBcharged from custody. THE SOOTH. ' *1<'"fte manufacture of silver dollar* and '"'HfeiiVes MB for notne time been in progteas in 1M penitentiary of Smith Carolina, a leading in the enterprise being one of the guards. ...A lively contest is in progress at, Waco, between the Missouri Pacific and the St. Laaisani Texas Narrow-Gauge railroads. The am*t of oontract~iv cm both side* became 'Wbcmurf... .Two robbers stopped the El Paso •lace about sixty milea west at San Antonio, and secured 75 cents. G«ULD'S plan in regard to the South- WSStwu roads k said to be the formation of AM Southwestern Company, to lease and oper­ ate the IDBSOUR, Kansas AND Texas and the International and Oreat Norttnem as one line, and the Tbxm mad Pacific and the Iron Mount­ ain as another... .The Supreme Court of Geor­ gia haa decided m the ease of the defunct Bank «f Oeorgta, which was a State depository, that Ike olaims of the Stats take precedence of ^ose of any other creditor LTIOH&KII RETOXB, a reapeoted farmer, «nd lames Willksu, an old knrtally murdered by a half-breed Indian id Walker, at Bridgeton, How > Cot,. FUSB GRANT has been chosen F^pident of the Texas Narrow Aange railroad. ....At a Prohibition Convention at Raleigh, N, €L, every county in the State was represented, IN delegates including both races. :/A. BBMASKABiiB accident, resulting in instant death of fonr boys, and alight in- ' Jntii to a«weral othen, occurred at Louisville, Ky. The boys were pnpiis of the St. Antonius Oatholic school, and were devoting the noon moess to a game of base-ball on a •asDmon adjacent to the sobooi. Just at the conclusion of the game a sharp fhwider-Ahewer came up. Tbe last strike had fceen made, and the lad who hit tbe ball made aft the bases, or what is be-it known as a home- kno. As he touched the home-plate, and while companions were veiling around him in ir excxUiinent over hk good hit, a vivid flash •f lightning dazzled all who saw it "When persons in the neighborhood and «tbere who were passing recovered soffi- stanUy to again look at the boys all of them *ere flat on the ground. The par­ ties who went to ihe prostrate boys discovered that they were sense ess and that four were 4ead. The lightning had struck the ground near the group, and plowed five feet deep, Hairing a round hole like the barrel of a rifle. The lightning tore the clothing, hats and boot* and amies from the lads, leaving them half nak- «d. -Their apparel was cut like mince meat, and its edges were much roorohed At the Jail in Paris, Ky., John Winn, who was charged with murder, was a hot dead in his cell by an armed mob, who forced the keys from "* jailer. 11 i" $ "* " • : A rAMRNcnxt coach on the Ban Juan of the Denver and Rio Grande rail­ way left the track near Osaer, Col., and flanged down an embankment a distance of •ore than 100 feet. Eight persons were in- stSntly killed, fenar seriously injured, and sev- ' sral othen slightly hurt... .Glowing accounts ttfae from the wheat-ields of Southern Kansas and Western Missouri. The have been very general, and the is two weeks earlier than nmal.... ioTemmcnt fa feeding 1,000 destitute K>ple in and wound Yankton The Chicago y CJotineai has adopted an ordinance provid- h| that «li Ule^raph and telephone linca ehall he laid nnder ground for the future Haver- IvV new theater, to be erected on Monroe street, 4hkago. will, it w claimed, be the finest Btroct- Wtt of its kind in the country. '"""THE Health Commissioner of Chicago atmouDM* that the water supply of that dtf has temfioMtrily become' fitted with organic jfefctter, and ndviseg all to use no water for %btktng uuU.1 it has been thoroughly boiled MuhqpBorgees, of tlie Catholie dioteae of De­ troit, has famed a pastoral letter forbidding (ha holding of any picnic excursion by water or mjL and |>Mtors we comniunded t© enforce h» MMruutions. TUB MiBsiaoippi river has been on the " sampsge all the way from St. Paul to St. Lonie. in Minnesota, bridges were carried away, rail- <mmf tracks wa*died eat, and houses parti&llv Hlmieiged The flood was caused by the higfi water in tb« Minnesota and other feeders of tM'HisaiSMppi. By the breaking of tb« 8ny itfM, «n tke Illinois «de of the river9 urns Aiincv, thoosands of acres of rich bottom hidt wera atfl»merg»d. At Handbal, Mo., all th*> jce-hoases were destroyed. How. WIZA^iAM E. CBAKBB, the ren- arable editor of the Milwaukee Evening Wi»- . mmuin, was arrested and locked up on a war- xaat for crimi»s.l libel, sworn out by a lawyer named Matthew Finch. He was released OH bail withm half an boor. A civil suit for #9f»,000 was instituted by two other law­ yers, named X.udwig and Somera, who elaim to have been damaged by an item of police Sows, Bcuoss got afloat at Donovan, ILL, tbe grave of Emanuel Siegel had been , some time ago. Tbe coffin was un- ; its only occupants were found to huge bull-snakes, in a torpid oon- ul little city of Elgin, 111., ne of a most distressing mourning in many fans., ;e across tke Fox a short time the City Council ordered a small ferry-boat, to be propelled by a cable stretched from bank to br<nk. It had hist been completed, and the scow, a frail J&Ue structure, on'y eleven by erghteen feA-Slroning on pulleys on a wire gable, and^Mipolled l»y the rapid current, made flheal tmil shMy, tnoogh showing it was not •Mfl» Onroe of the^e trips the boat, heavily laden with human freight, was snatcheil by the swiit tnrmnt, tametl half round and filled with water. Ihe paoic-otriekeu children (for half her passengers were children on their way to •ichooO rushed to one side, the rail broke, snd the craft careened over. In a moment a score and a half of struggling human beings wrestled with the swift current in the mad waste of waters. There they were in plain view of hrmdre^a watching from tho shore, on beth the east and west sides, right in the business portion of the city, and the cries of victims and friends oa the shore were heartrending. One after another the rtmggtes ended. Boat* pnt out as soon as possible, and roam' were rescued. 8ome good swimmers reached the shore from a quar­ ter to a half a mile below. Six persons are known to have found a watery grave. Their names are: Thomas Murphy, aged 85; John Corbin, aged 35: Leo Taylor, aged 16; Elmer Foster, aged 15; Guy Carlisle, aged 15; Francos Creighton, aged 12.... A formidable strike of tho conductors, drivers and stablemen of the St. Louis street-car com­ panies for an increase of wages or a reduction of the hours of labor was brought to an end only bv the calling out of tho militia and the appearance of the Governor of Missouri at the scene of tho trouble*. THE situation at Kansas City, on the 30th alt., was terrible.ŝ The Missouri river continued to risa at an alarming rate, and al* the elevators and great packing houses surrounded by water. Of the ten railroads runr.ing into the city but three were able to send out tr»ina over their own tracks, the Chi­ cago and Alton alono running their Eastern (rains direct from Ihe Union depot. Fully 7,000 people were homeless, and many of them had lost everything they possessed in the world. Box-cars, railway de­ pots, tents and everything that could be used for shelter were being pressed into service, yet thousands wore compelled to sleep in the open air and denend npon chaiitv for food. Many of the bouses had been movod to railway tracks, but several had gone down srroam, and more were expected to follow. The Hannibal rail­ way bridge, which cost d,&00,000, was in a perilous situation. A HORRIBLE tragedy is reported from St. Paul, Howard oonnty, Neb. Mrs. Koch, the wife of Christian Koch, a railroad night watchman, white laboring under a fit of tem­ porary insanity, killed her three children by cutting their throats with a razor, and then cut her own throat. One boy was 4 years old, the second boy was 2 years and the third child a girl aged C months. AT Normal, III., A 5-year-old child of Mr. Bliss fell seventy feet into a well. Ihe father got a rope and went down, where he found the little one almost uninjured in five feet of water. WASHIIEIWH. ' ' 7BK Beerefery of War is considering the advisability M abolishing all the military divisions now existing and making two di­ visions of the whol* country, one to be in charge of Gen. Sheridan and the other in charge of the ranking Ma jor General It is understood that Mimster Marsh has asked to be recalled from Rome, in which event his suc­ cessor would most iikeiv be Dr. J. M. Gregory,' of the Illinois Agricultural College. TBE unveiling of the statne of Admiral Farragnt at Washington was attended by im­ posing ceremonies. Aqjong the chief participants in the affair was Quartermaster Knovrles, who lashed Farragnt to the m&st at the battle in Mobile bay. President Garfield accepted the statne in a* few eloquent phrases, and ex-Post­ master General Maynard and Senator Yoor- hees delivered addresse*. The prooession was one of the finest ever witnessed at the capital. ,_The Commissioner of the General Land OfBec decides that never since its acquisition from Franoe has any of the lands in Indian Territory been open to settlement or entry un­ der the publie laws, and declares that tlie ef­ fort to induce the oolorod people to emigrate to Oklahoma deserves the severest reprobation. THE death of Representative O'Con­ nor, of South Carolina, leaves two seats on the Democratic aide vaeanb Tfit* Treasury Department reports that our exports for the year ending March 81 ex­ ceeded our imports by €348,465,899. In cho matter of gold and silver the United States gained $78,943,769 during the same period. POSTMASTER GENERAL JAKES, it is said, is determined on a full, thorough, sad searching investigation into the star-ronte ir­ regularities which prevailed nnder the Brady regime... .The total number of nominations to the Senate by the President was, on the 1st of May, 217. _ OEKERAT. A JOEPOBT comes from Panama that the cashier of the De Leeseps Canal Company has absoonded With $6,000,000 in gold belong­ ing to the company. THOMAS F. O'B&IRN, of Montre^al, for­ merly a millionaire and bearing a high charac­ ter, has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for forgery. GEN. PALMER, President of the Mexi­ can National Railway Company, states that its track will probably be completed from Corpus Christi to Laredo in June, and to Monterey in December. By the close of next year it will reaoh San Luis Potosi and meet the Line now in progress northward from the City of Mexico It appears that the Treasurer of the De Lea- reps C&ntl Company absoonded with only $3,000, instead of $30,000,000, as was tele­ graphed from Panama....Fifty missionaries of the Mormon Church have sailed from New York for Europe. GEN. GRANT and Senor Romero have been banqneted in the City of Mexico by Jose Lamantenr, the claimant for the site of San Francisco, anfl t>? the Senators and Deputies from Oxaca. JOHN GOTHABD, who killed a farmer named Joseph Woods, was hanged at Towson- town, Mi, the widow of the murdered man witnessing the scene on the sotifold. Royal S. Carr, who took the life of a half-breed tramp, was executed at Windsor, Vt. For the murder of another colored man, Marshall Baxter was hanged in the jail-yard at Charlotte, N. CL roLITICAL. THE National Committee of the Na­ tional Greenback-Labor party is called to meet by Secretary Crandall at St. Louis June 7, to elect a Chairman in place of T. H. March. SENATOR PLATT says there are almost enough Senators pledged to vote against Rob­ ertson's confirmation to defeat him. Stanley Matthews' friends claim that he will be con­ firmed if be ever comes before the Senate.. So says a Washington telegram to tbe Inter Ooean. MAHONE'S supporters in Virginia are said to be organising for an active State cam­ paign. .. .The State Central Committee of the National GreenbackrLabor party of Ohio met at Coluaibus the other day, and decided to issue a call for a'State Convention, to be held in that city June 15, to nominate a full State ticket. PRESIDENT GARFIELD said to a Repub­ lican member of Congress that during the campaign Uen. Brady wrote him, offering to raise $25,000 from tho star-routo contractors. Not only was the offer disapproved of, but in­ quiries were set on foot which resulted in a de­ termination before leaving Mentor that Brady should be displaced The Democratic leaders of Ouio talk of putting forward Washington McLean, ef tho Cincinnati Enquirer, as a can­ didate for Governor. A WASHINGTON dispatch states that " the Virginia situation was discussed in all its bearings at a Cabinet meeting, and, although there was some difference of opinion on the subject, it was virtually decided to encourage the Mahone movement by a liberal distribution of patronage. At the same time, the Republi­ cans who have heretofore stood the brunt of the battle in the South will receive a proportion­ ate share' oi the offices." FOREIGN* ~ * ADVICES from St. Petersburg state that Loris Melikoff's powers have been greatly enlarged. He now possesses further Nihilist revelations implicating numerous palace offi­ cials. and also provincial dignitaries, as well as the Grand Dtxke Constantino, among the con­ spirators. Secret-polioe returns from London, Geneva and Berlin submit important Nihilist revelations which will change the Czar's con­ templated palace plans. They alno reveal ex­ tended plots which will alter the fear's summer movements. Sensational and alarming reports prevail throughout the entire country..... The executioner Frohloff has received 100 lathee for mismanagement in the hanging of tlio Nihilist Michailoif, whose rope broke twiea, B tmria has sent a note to tho powew in­ viting them to a council for the purpose of con­ sidering measures to be taken against an­ archists. THE Empress of , has been suf-f Russia f ering from severe hysteria attacks ever since the assassination of the Czar. Being threat­ ened with a most horrible death should the two female conspirators be executed, She pleaded for tMir pardon and it was promised, 'flie news of the execution of Pieofftky, one of the women, threw her into a violent paroxysm. ... .The total destruction by fire of the town of Baena Ventura, in the United States of Colombia, ia announced. The loas waa $1,090,000. Three persons peii->hed in tlie flame*, and 1,500 are homeless... .Foreign dis­ patches indicate that Greece is on tho brink of war with Turkey John McCullongh is said to have been hijrhly successful in hi* appear­ ance in London as Virginina. IN the British House of Oommo&B, on the 30th of Apii, when Bradlangh advanced to the Speaker's table to be sworn, Northoote en­ tered an objection, and moved that he be not allowed to take tbe oath. This was carried, after a spirited debate, by 808 to 175. John Bright defended Bradlangh's right, as the lat­ ter had declared that the oath would bo bind­ ing on has oonecience. Bngfct afterward advised Bradlangh to retire, which he refused to do, and ho was reuiovod to the bar Ijy the Serjeant-at-Arms.... The French ironclad Surveillante bombarded snd deatroved a Tunisian fort on the island of Tabarca. The telegraph wire between Tmnis and the Algerian frontier h#s been cut. France will ?end 50,000 men to Algeria Tiie Nihilists have i^imed an address to the Cz«r, represent­ ing that the recent executions have serfed to strengthen their ranks Dillon warns the Government that wholesale evictions cannot be effected in Ireland without armod resistance. Contracts have been made to oarry 60,000 emigrants from Norway and Sweden to America. LORD BEACONBFIELD'S will leaves Hughenden manor and all his other property to his nephew, Ooningsby Ralph Disraeli His ietters, papers and manuscripts lie leaves to Lord Rowton The cable reports the death of Gen. Ludwig von Benedek, who commanded the Austrian army at Sadowa, and of Emile de Girardin, tbe French critic and duelist.... By t he bursting of a shell on board the Gorman training ship Mars, at Wilhehnshavea, two ca­ dets and four sailors were killed and eighteen other persons injured Six stee'-turret ves­ sels have been built in an English yard for China, and Chinese officers and crews have ar­ rived there to man them The Grand Duke Nicholas, brother of the late Czar, has been sentenced to imprisonment for lifo for com­ plicity in the Nihilist plots.. ..Nine persons nave been arrested for complicity in the mur­ der of the Sultan Abdul Aziz. THE extraordinary precautions resort­ ed to in order to protect the Czar and prevent his meeting the fate of his father are de­ scribed by a St Petersburg correspondent. The Palace of Gatschina is to guarded and patrolled, and the bed-chamber of the Emper­ or is so protected, that it is next to impossible, if not absolntely so, for the moot ingenious and zealous Nihilist to oome within .bomb-throw of it. Should the guards be overpowered, the means perfected for the Czar's es­ cape are such as are thought best calculated to achieve the end aimed at.... Easter eggs were distributed in tho streets «f Moscow, containing proclamations by the Land and Liberty party urging tho peasantry to seize farm* and refuse to pay taxos or serve in the army Sir Stafford Nortlicote will succeed Lord Beaconsfteld, and the Duke of Richmond will load the Conservatives in the House of Lords. AN attempt to evict some tenants at New Pallas, Ireland, failed utterly. There were 500 -soldiers and polioe present, but a mob of 5,000 asBembled and stoned the 8heriff and his assistants. The police charged upon the mob several times, but tbe bailiff's life be­ ing threatened he refused to point ont the houses of tbe delinquent tenants. About 200 of tbe mob were armed with revolvers.... The superstition of the Russian peasantry at Elizabethgrad caused them to destroy a synagogue, and in the riot which enstiod "the troops shot down many persons... .The anti- Jewish agitation in Prassia prompted a mob at Argenau, led by a school-teacher, to wreck the houses of some Hebrews and maltreat the in­ mate*. .. .A diplomat at St. Petersburg ex­ presses the belief that the Czar and his coun­ selors will institute repressive measures almost startling in their rigor. DUFF AND THE DEE. CONGRESSIONAL SUXXAKY. The nsual dilatory motions and the motion to ge into executive session were voted on in the Sen­ ate, on Thursday, April 30, and after leta than the uanal amount of talk the grave body adjourned- Senator Edmunds teked that the Judiciary Commit, tee be granted permission to ait during the recces (ihoold that ever oecar, he parenthetically said) in order to investigate the subject ot bankruptcy. Leave waa granted. President Gurfiekl appointed John. K. Boies, at Hua- , Mich., and William McMAchiiel, at Philadelphia, n^enibeisef tlie Board of Indian Coiniui«»ioneix. CoL 8. t>. Sturgifl end Licnt. Coi J. 8. Ma«on have been detailed respectively as Governor and Lieuten­ ant Governor of tlie Soldiers' Homo. Tho Pi e>klcnt also nominated BosweH O. Wheeler, of Indians, to be Agent tor the Indians a* Pima and Mar'eapa Agency, Aiiiflu On the meeting of the Senate on Wednesday* April 27, Mr. Morgan asked leave to offer a concur" rent resolution declaring that the interests of th« people of the United States of America and the wel­ fare and security of the Government are so In­ volved In the construction of ship canals or other ways for tbe transportation of sea going vee- sels aorosa the isthmus eonnecting North and South America that the Government ef the* United States, with a frankness which is due all other people and Government*, hereby averts that it will inssiat that Its consent is a neceabary condition precedent to the execution of such project, and also ae to rtries and regulations under which other na­ tions shall participate in the use of such canals or other ways, either !u peace or in war. Referred to the Committee on Forei|pi Relations. Only a short session wat» held, two caucuses being had by the Re­ publicans, when the question of the deadlook, tbe President's nominations, executive sessions and other matters were discussed. The gen­ eral feeling was that the effort to elect Senate officers should be persevered In. It was held by some, however, that a determination to pur­ sue the course outlined was not incompatible with executive sesHions, and there seemed to l>« a general feeling that the Presidential nominations and the Chinese treaties should be acted upon very soon. Ne formal action was taken, and the whole matter was referred to a committee, which will report at a future meeting. Tbe President nominated Justus Bpafford to be Postmatter at Huntington, W. Va. The Senate Committee en Foreign Relations devoted some time on Thursday, April 28, to the discussion of the Morgan resolution, which propos­ es that tbe seseot of the United States should be a condition precedent to the construction of a ship csaal across the Isthmus of Panams. The committee came to no definite conclusion as to what should be done with the resolution, and en4ed by referring it to a subcommittee, consisting of Gin. Burnxide, who will report :t back to the full eomniittee at an early day. Senators Bnt'cr and Hale were the and the old rtraw was thrashed once more. Ko'-litugwaadohe, and (he Senate adjourned to Monday. The Sponge Trade. A correspondent of the Providence Press, writing from Nassau, Bahamas, says: A very interesting feature of busi­ ness lifo here is the trade in sponges. Every day, except Saturday, the dock at the foot of Parliament street, which is the recognized mart for this branch of traffic, is thronged with gentleman buy­ ers of this product of the nea. The dock, which is some three hundred feet long by thirty feet wide, is covered with sponges, put up in strings and arranged iu lots, which are numbered and marked. Mr. Higgs, the clerk of the market, hav­ ing seen that each lot is duly labeled with its proper tag, makes out as many schedules of ther whole as there are buy­ ers, and furnishes each one with a list. Upon this the gentleman, after a careful examination of the lots, makes his bids, and turns in the paper at the close of the market. The offer# are then compared, and the highest bid takes the lot. The sale is absolute, upon 5 per cent com­ mission, and the amount of business done in this way is qtifte large daring the entire season. A MMkath Tale of Nataie MM Knowledge* (Train the San Francisco Chronicle.] The i)nif family, pater, mater and lit­ tle ones, picnicked on the beach beyond Port Point yesterday. " I do love na- thnro," remarked Patrick Duff, wl» is a proud and frequent votar of the Seventh ward, as he unhitched the dray-horse from the family carryall, which bore the family arms, " Duff's Xpress." " The cares av political loif and gineral expressing require that man shud relax his moind midnt the grand reposh av tireless natfcmre's reshtful bosom. I'll ring that sentiment into me next warrud chib apache, Mary Helen ; be me sowl, I will Lave houid av that cowld boiled ham, James Henry, or I'll throw ye into the trackless tide. The lunch basket was safely deposited in the shade of a rock, the youthful Daffrt disported bare-legged in the mild surf, and Mr. and Mrs. Duff wandered, free from care, o'er tlie green hillside. Presently Mrs. Duff discovered a bum­ ble-bee in the deep recess of a wild flower she had plucked. Alas, she had never se^n a bumble- bee before 1 " Luk here, Patrick," ehe exclaimed, " Yez never saw the loike av that in Kerry, Pat." Mr. Duff was too much of a politician to commit himself as to his knowledge, or laok of it, without first considering the subject. Taking the flower from his wife's hand, he eyed the bee critically and then assented: "It is a purty bur- rid, Mary Helen." Then he carefully picked the bee out of the flower between his thumb and forefinger and repeated slowly : • ( . "Yes, it is » very purty burrfd; 1 think it ia a--" ° . Before Mr. Duff had explained what he was pleased to think the bee was, he had dashed the flower in his amazed wife's face, jumped excitedly in the air, landed hatless and with hair erect, and again repeated, still slowly, but with {lopping, glaring eyes, and in a voice husky with pain and anger : "It is a purty burrid, but, holy mur- ther, how hot its little fut is I" "Patrick Duff, have you been hitting that whisky-bottle in the lunch-basket ?" exclaimed tlie indignant Mrs. Dui£ Patrick, in dumb bewilderment, gazed on his swelling and inflamed thumb and then at the wife of his bosom before he replied: " Hod yez run yer needle through that burrid, Mary Helen,' befoor yez gav' it to me ?" " Don't yez be too funny, Pat," said Mrs. Duff, testily. ",Shure, I'm not funny at all, Mary Helen, and yes needn't look that way at me, nather, or I'll break yer vartebrra," said Mr. Duff, getting madder as his thumb got bigger. " Yez had better not be thrying your thricks wid me, or I'll land ye wan side av that ugly jaw of yours that 'ull tach ye who is boss of the Duff family." Mr. Duff's voice rose as he realized the full extent of his hurt. " Yea have been dhrinking yerself into transitory jim-jams, Pat, and yez had batter slape it off before lunch, replied tlie lady in a conciliatory tone, which only served to aggravate the gentle­ man's temper into exact sympathy with his thumb, for with an irresistible im­ pulse he made good his threat, and in a moment the sweet solitude of the spot and day was rudely broken by blows whieh fell with unconjugal force and ra­ pidity on both the heads of the Duff family, while the bumble bee hummed drowsily off, moralizing over greatness of evils when unknown. Hftrvelop* Instinct. Let us examine marvelous instinct of the solitary wasp in providing for the worm that will issue from her egg after her own death. She brings grubs-^- food that, as a wasp, she never tasted-- and deposits them over the egg, ready lor the larva she will never see. The life history of every insect exhibits in­ stincts of this perplexing description. Look at tbe instinctive character of bees in their far-aiglitefl provisions for the future. Witness the caterpillar, how, at the proper time, it selects a suitable situation and spins for itself a silken co­ coon. Marvelous instincts are met with outsidei pf tlie insect world; every little bird is its own skillful aeooucher. We once observed the self-delivery of the chioken. The prison-wall is not burst in pieces by struggles. By a regular series of strokes the shell is cut in two-- chipped round in a perfect circle some distance from the large end. The bird has a special instrument for this work-- a hard, sharp horn on the top of the up­ per mandible, which, being required for no other purpose, disappears in a few days. Obviously, each individual bird no more acquires the art of breaking ite way out than it furnishes itself with the little pick-hammer used in the opera­ tion ; and it is quite clear that a bird could have never escaped from tlio egg without this instinct. How were eggs hatched before birds had acquired tho instinct to sit upon them ? A fowl that never before willinuljr shared a crumb with a companion will now starve h r- self to feed her cliiokens, which she calls by a language she never before used-- may have never heard--but which they are born to understand. The Anti-Smokist. She was not to be convinced--not she ! She knew that tobacco was poison and nothing but poison--she diefn t care in what shape it was used ; bnt she con­ sidered smoking the worst. "Why," said she, with terrible en- ergy, " the noxious habit is doing more to depopulate the earth than all other causes combined. Look ! Look for your­ selves and see how smoking--O 1 the vile--the abominable habit! See how it is shriveling up and carrying off our people !" Upon this a young lady present vent­ ured to remark that her grandfather had smoked tobacco ever since she could remember--that he had smoked in his youth--and that he smoked it now. "And," she added, "he is 80 years of •ge, and as healthy and happy as you oould wish to see. "Aye--but what of his children? What health have they? " "Good--exceedingly good--and they are living--every one of them; and sev­ eral of them smoke." "Bah! You say vour grandfather is •nly 80 ? " " Yes. He was 80 last March." " Well, now mark me. If he had nev­ er smoked, he might have been 90 by this time." A Fresh-Water Spring In the Atlantic. Says the Savannah (Ga.) News; One of tho most remarkable displays of na­ ture may be seen on the Atlantic coast, eighteen miles south of St. Augustine. Off Matanzas inlet, and three miles from shore, a mammoth frcf»h-water spring gurgles up from the depths of tho ooeaa with Mich force and volume as to attract the attention of all who come in its immediate vicinity. This fountain is large, bold and turbulent. It is notice able to fishermen and other passing in small boats along near the shore. For many years this wonderful and mysteri- eos freak of nature has been known- to the people of St Augustine and those living along tlie shore, and some of the superstitious ones have been taught to regard it with a kind of reverential awe, or holy horror, as the* abode of super­ natural influences. When the waters of the ocean in the vicinity are otherwise calm and tranquil, the upheaving and troubled appearance of the water shows unmistakable evidences of internal cam- motions. An area of about half an acre shows this troubled appearance--some­ thing similar to the boiling of a washer­ woman's kettle. JSix or eight years ago Commodore Hitclioock, of the United States Coast Survey, was passing this place, and his attention was directed to the spring by the restless upheavals of •the water, which threw his ship from her course as she entered the spring. His curiosity becoming excited by this circumstance, he set to work to examine its surroundings, and found six fathoms of water everywhere in the vicinity, while the spring itself was almost fath­ omless. Down With the Children! ̂ - In the eyes of certain old gentlemen, who evidently were born into the world in a grown-up condition, a playing child is a nuisance fit only for abolition. To them a park is consecrated to the monotony of perpetual silence. The walks are cither to be trodden by the feet of adults or else to be let alone. Shrub and tree and bush and fern are to be contemplated from a distance and by people who comprehend the full import of the terrifying legend, "Hands off!" Children, if they view the works of nature or art grouped iu a green en­ closure, are to be tied fast to high chairs and seated at windows whence they may survey the prohibited territory without stepping upon it. The world \ras made for old folks who never picked a flower, pulled a leaf or twisted a twig or made a misstep or put anything out of place or did that which they ought not to have done. Staid and correct in their de­ meanor and exact iu their purposes tfyese adults may pursue their undeviating way through me, regretting that all the roads are not laid out at right angles and that all tlje footways are not paved with brick or concrete or flag-stones. The oliild should not play marbles, for one of the spheriaal instruments of amusement may chance to lie in the way of the juiceless adult who disbelieves in children. No kites must lie sent up in air, lest dried-out old gentlemen trip on the kite-strings. No velocipedes may speed along the parte walks, for some old person who never bestrode one may be alarmed at the possibilities of the flying monster. When children need exercise they must be taken out two by two in charge of a nurse. They mnst be made to walk along in a comely manner, turn­ ing neither to the right nor the left. When they Bee anything particularly calcalated to attract attention they must not cry "Hi, hi!" but must pucker up their little mouths and geutly whisper "Oh, my!" It is maintained by the ignorant per­ sons who are idiotic enough to believe that little boys and girls have rights,- that childhood needs sport. This is held by some of the grave old gentlemen to lie a fundamental error. They themselves have got along through a lengthened and dreary experience without a day of holi­ day or afternoon of play. They are one with that old person of whom it is recorded that when he saw a young knitten merrily playing with its tail he procured a hatchet and chopped the tail off, thus stopping the animal's fun. There is one method of sport frequent­ ly resorted to by young persons when all others are cut off. That is the making of grimaces. Most of our young people are adepts at'it. They cau stand-at win­ dows on opposite sides of the street and makes faces at each other all the1 after­ noon. This does not hurt the parks. There are many children iu this city to-day who would like to make ugly faces at the grim old gentlemen who would forbid their sport. Let these children be unrestrained in any distortions of countenance it may be their pleasure to make.--Philadelphia Timea.--- Education for Light- Houses. Why should not light-houses learn to spell out their own names? Suoh is the latest idea of our scientific men, and the last word of the advanced educationalists. Some distinctions there are at present, but too many of those A towers along the steep," which, in spite of the poet Camp­ bell, Bn'ltania does need, are furnished with fixed lights, and these have been more than once confounded with the ordinary gleam from a sea-port town, or even a village on the cliff It might be thought that the glare of our beacons, with all their costly apparatus and mul­ tiplied reflectors, could never be mistaken for an ordiuary lamp, yet Professor Tyn- dall stated at the Society of Arts, on Wednesday night, that "iu certain con­ ditions of the atmosphere a candle in a lantern and the electric light were undis- tinguislniblo by mere appearance," so that Shakespeare's " How far that littlo candle throws its beams!" had a scientific basis. It is now proposed that by a system of "group flashes" every light­ house in tlie United Kingdom should indicate its own identity. Telegraphists are aware how numerous are the combi­ nations which may be made by grouping and regrouping the long and short "dashes" of the Morse system, and the heliograph has appliod the same princi­ ple to the flashes of the sun. On this principle it is liopod that finally every light-house in the Kingdom will \>e able to speil out its name to benighted and bewildered seamen, instead of, as now, simply making "its^mark." Scores of wreoks may thus be avoided. The " fog horns" or "sirens"--"such names min­ gled !"--are also to be sent to the new night-school, and, instead of the hoarse bellowings which are now their only utterance, are to be endowed with more or less articulate speech. These are Sir William Thompson's excellent proposals, aud the(y have reoeived the approval of the Trinity House.--London Telegraph. aHafchi A New Cure for Smallpox. A Sister of Charity connected with St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Philadelphia, has discovered a specific for the preven­ tion and cure of smallpox. There is nothing miraculous about the remedy, like the waters of Knock and Lourdes, but it is a compound of medicinal aftb- stances, the chief of which are digitalis and sulphate of zinc. The dose is a tea- npoonful taken every hour for twelve hours. Some astonishing cures have been effected, and nurses who have never had the disease have watched with the worst cases without experiencing any unpleasant effects. The asylum -is crowded daily with visitors armed with jugs, bottles, pails, cups, pitchers aud every kind of vessel for holding liquids, and the whole forco of Sisters is kept constantly busy preparing the medicine. --New York Cotmncrmal Advertiser. DR. HKITLER, of Vienna, having op- |x>rtunity to make post-mortem exam­ inations of 16,562 bodies, found evidence that 780 of the persons deceased had ha^ consumptive disease of the lungs which had healed or been cured. The Uses of Mesmerism. Mesmerism is being revived at the east, and is being brought to wonderful perfection as a science. Dr. ^Hammond, in a recent lecture and exhibition, put some old men and women under the in­ fluence and caused them to play a game of marbles, and they quarreled ana jawed and told each other to "knuckle down" and "take to taw," just as the urchins do. He stated that the power of mesmerizing a person did not reside in the person mesmerized, but in the mes- merizer, and consisted simply in the exercise of a strong and magnetic will. Persons under the influence do not have the least responsibility for their actions, and the doctor states that if he were to tell the most timid girl to go and stick a knife into the heart of any person, she would do so at once. If that is the case it would seem as though a field was opened for the industrious Nihilists of all countries that is simply boundless in its possibilities. All that is necessary is for a Nihilist, of strong and magnetic will power to mesmerize some poor devil, put a knife or pistol in his harti when the Czar or other person is to pass by or ap­ pear in public, and when the opportune moment arrives tell him to "sick 'em," and the thing is a bird! The Nihilist, of course, stands back in the crowd and watches the effect of his shot, so to speak, and if successful he can help turn in and arrest the base assassin and show his loyalty to the person who has been butchered to make a Roman holiday. It is a great scheme, and one that will doubt­ less come into general use where reform is necessary. But it would seem that the future usefulness of mesmerism will be largely in the direction of collecting bad debts; and we have no doubt that in a few years merchants and dtliers, instead of placing their accounts in the hands of a lawyer, and submitting to a long delay and considerable exmnse, will take them to a mesmerist. The mesmerist will call on tho debtor, present the bill and ask him if it isn't about time he straightened that matter up. The deb­ tor will say that the cashier is away, that the auditor has been sick, and that he has been unable to get the committee together, and he will tell the mesmerist to come in about the 15th. But before he knows what is coming the mesmerist will get the clamps on him, he will go down into his pocket, or go out and borrow the money, and when the in­ fluence is thrown off, and he awakes to. a realizing sense of what he has done, he wiH find a receipted bill in his hand and the collector will be far away o'er the billow. It will be impossible, almost, for the man to prove that he was mes­ merized, and probably he would not care to do so if he coul<£ He would have to show that he did not intend to pay the debt, that it was something he never had done, and was a rule in his business from which he never deviated, unless he was mesmerized or temporarily insane. There are men, of course, who would have no trouble in proving this, but there is nothing so uncertain as the ver­ dict Of a jury, and aftSr it had been fully established they might not give the man a verdict. Mesmerism could also be utilized in the arts. A boy could be mesmerized and set*to work setting type, or hoeing in the garden, and a dozen of his companions might come along with fish poles and cans of bait, and urge him to come along. He would not budge; he would not go without his father's word. It would be an improvement on the only other way ever discovered of keeping a boy at work during the fishing season, and is far more humane than sharpening a fence post and spiking him down to the ground. In cases where the course of true love did not run smooth, and the old folks were down on the young man so that his life was a burden, and the girl's too, mesmerism would be invaluable. If he was a young man of a strong magnetic mind, as he should be, he could get the focus on the old people and put them under bonds to keep the peace, and he needn't ever let up on them until the girl was his. Then he could give them oc­ casional glimpses of reason--not too much, as it might result fatally to them, or him, when they realized what they had consented to--but bring tkem around by easy stages. We are convinced that when mesmerism is properly understood and appreciated, it will be regarded as a boon by the human race, and fuMy of as much importance as steam and elec­ tricity.--Peck's Sun. A Lnnatie Pigeon. A white fantail pigeon lived witli his family in a pigeon house in our stable- yard. He and his wife had been bronght originally from Sussex, and had lived re­ spected and admired, to see their child- dren of tho third generation, when he suddenly became the victim of the in­ fatuation I am not about to describe. No eccentricity whatever was remarked in liis conduct until one day I chanced to pick np somewhere in the garden a gin- ger-beer bottle of the ordinary brown stone description. I flung it into the yard, where it fell immediately below the pigeon house. That instant down flew jjaterfamilias, and to my no small astonishment commenced a series of genuflections, evidently doing homage to the bottle. He strutted round and round it, bowing and scraping aud coo­ ing and performing the most ludicrous antics I ever beheld on the part of an enanmored pigeon. Nor did he cease these performances until we removed the bottle. What proved that this singular aberration of instinct had become a fixed delusion was this: whenever the bottle was thrown or placed in the yard--no matter whether it lay horizontally or was placed upright--the same ridiculpus scene was enacted; at that moment the pigeon came flying down with quite as great alacrity as when his peas were thrown out from his dinner, to continue his antics as long as the bottle remained there. Sometimes this would go on for hours, the other members of his family treating liia movements with the most contemptuous indifference, and taking no notice whatever of the bottle. At last it became the regular amusement with which we entertained our visitors, to see this erratic pigeon making love to the in­ teresting object of his affections, and it was an entertainment which never failed, throughout tlie sammer at least. Before the next sammer same around he was no more.--Letter to Nature. How a Rebel Major Got His Pardon. A few days after the war had been de­ clared at an end, Maj. Drewiy went to Washington, and without the usual cere­ mony of sending in his name, lest he should bo refused an interview, made his way into the presence of Secretary Stanton. " Mr. Secretary," said he, "I want my pardon as soon as possible. I've fought against you as long as I could, and I've been whipped; and now I want to g» home aud go to work. I've got hundreds of acres of land that have been lying fallow for tho last four years, and I want to get seed iuto every inch of it this spring, so I'll thank you to give me my portion and let me go." He talked so fast that Mr. Stanton couldn't get in a word ; but, boing amused and rather pleased by Maj. Drewry's bluff manner, he asked at lost, " On what ground do you expect to get a pardon, sir?" "On tho ground, sir, that I showed you how to build a navy. Yu&i sent your fleet of wooden ships np Drewry's bluff, and we knocked 'em al|- to pieces and showed you, sir, that wood­ en ships weren't worth a d . An4b-; then you went to work and got togethe^; a navy that was worth something, and| it's on the gronnd that my men proved your needs to you that I want a pardon." The Secretary laughed, and told th|*fc honest rebel to call next day, as h*? would like to talk further with liim^ ~k Next day Maj. Drewry got his pardonjnr and, in return, gave Mr. Stanton a greajf? u Valuable information concerning^, the South and its prospects. He wenlu, ; back to his pleasant home on the Jameet and has ever since been a wise, enter­ prising, prosperous citizen.--Spring fielck Republican. Klrl Life in India, On tbe day of her marriage she i* pofc into a palanquin, shut np tight, and car­ ried to her husband's house. Hitherto she has been the rpoiled pet of her mother; now she is to be the little ai«ve of her mother-in-law, upon whom she ie- towait, whose commands she is implicitly to obey, and wh'o teaches her what she is to do to please her husband; what dishes he likes best and how to cook, them. If the mother-in-law is kind she- will let the girl go home occasionally fc«- visit her mother. Of her husband she sees little or notic­ ing. She is of no more account to him than a little oat or dog would be. There is seldom or never any love between them, and, no matter how cruelly she. may be treated, she can never complain to her husband of anything his mother may do, for he would never take his- wife's part. Her husband sends to her daily the portion of food that is to be cooked for her, himself and the chil­ dren. When it is prepared she places it all on one large brass platter, and it is sent to her husband's room. He eat» what he wishes, and then the plat­ ter is sent back, with what is left, for her and the children. They sit together en the ground and eat the remainder, having neither knives, forks nor spoons*. While she is young she is never allowed to go anywhere. Tne little girls are married even as yeung as 3 years of age, and, should the boy to whom such a child is mar­ ried die the next day, she is called a widow, and is from henceforth doomed to perpetual widowhood; she can never marry again. As a widow Bhe mnst never wear any jewelry, never dress her hair, never sleep on a bed, nothing bnt a piece of matting spread on the hard brick floor, and sometimes, in fact, not even that between her and the cold bricks, and, no matter how oold the night may be, she mnst have no other oovering than the thin garment she has worn in tlie day. She must eat but one meal of food a day, and that of the coarsest kind, and once in two weeks she must last for twenty-four hours. Then not a bit of food, not a drop of water or medicine must pass her hps, not even if she were dying. She must never sit down or speak in the presence of her mother-in- law, unless they command her to do BO. Her food must be cooked and eaten apart from the other women's; She is a dis­ graced, a degraded woman. She may never even look on at any of the mar­ riage ceremonies or festivals. It would be an evil omen for her to do so. She may have been a high-caste Brahminic woman; but, on her becoming a widow, any, even tlie lowest servant, may order her to do what they do not like to do. No woman in the house must ever speak one word of love or pity to her, for it is supposed that if a woman shows the slightest commiseration to a widow she will immediately become one herself. I saw an account a short time ago in an English paper that they had been trying to take the census of the popula­ tion lately in India, and, as far as they had gone, they found that there were " 80,000 widows under 6 years of age !" Can you imagine the amount of suffer­ ing that little sentence tells of and fore­ tells ?--Congregatumalist. A Preacher's Artfflce. FRA Rooes, the celebrated but eccen­ tric preacher of Naples, once scared his congregation in the most beneficial way. He preached a tremendous sermon on the inevitable consequences of a sinful life. His heareru were in a convulsion of excitement with the blazing picture of a sulphurous retribution before their imaginations. All at once he stopped in the very midst ^f an eloquent appeal and cried out, " Now, all of you who sincerely repent of your BUB hold np your hands." Every hand in the assem­ bly was up in an instant. 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