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MATHIEW. . tfc - infernal king ordained ® s “;. 1,,,'iiof nispceis, A r “ ■ '.ve to earth the most 'pf miser anil tears. ncei their deeds portrayed *$£* i iei.ee and pride, I “ut - lid t was hard indeed ^Mirein them to decide. „ M ,.. came tottering forth, u -iV^o ii •’ <1 banefu breath— u j !. c nbite but fl-ehless hand mpauion, Death. ‘(if he r , :_■) .ssious, hate and crime, , r ,.,VVn li ,‘r loutish ejes, 1 . ' in tones that seemed jV., nc:' • Deliriums cries: ... t e „ jht* lovine hearts I br.ikc, ‘ % -nt souls I have crazed, ' - " . »i:thlul forms I’ve killed, 1 l : !n- ’scilto.ils I have raised. ns0 1 a j-ea of tear3 and blood “ ‘ V ‘ f! yV on ,- irth above— * ‘ thal bears the wxecks of homes, ‘ ‘ felessfo uis of Love!” Admi-rinn S.nan thus replied: .. a •*" l~' he laws divine v,, •; T ,‘i has worked so well as tbes— 4 The victor’s palm is thine. . t ] ie powers that spoil the earth *\ h iw. h-u-'trie mizhtiest spell! ‘'f gr :h with thee t’.l share my tlirone, p,. : i.oii the ljutenof Ilell.” fj * H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST U 1877. ESTABLISHED 1850. Affairs iu Georgia, phego-ahead firemen of Griffin will pur- i... fiorees for the purpose of reaching d. .-oiic of conflagrations with more alac- r :r if the City Council in their magnan- ■ llv W jii build stables at the engino j- ri .-e?, where they may be kept. ”*>■,1? vc fruit cultarists who will assemble ia jlacon to-Jay, and who have been listen- " j 0 a rd reading stories about sixteen I Teaches fall grown and four inches or !|. c: ,about? iu diameter, on a twig six inches long, listen to this : “Uncle Joe Wut-r, of Carroll county, has a peach that his gruwn on a tree some seven or eight | icht-s in diameter, without the sign of a iimber stem about it, but simply grew out of the rough bark.’* Oaeday last week live well known gentle- I men of Griffin went bit hunting in the rarre: Mr. 11. F. M. Mann’s residence, j md two hundred and eighty-nine j ka Ur-wiug bats, and it was not a good day for bailing either. This shows what indus- i try wd energy will accomplish in the sky p-r.j of an ordinary dwcdling. Where’s the gams law ? I lie way they collect pay for the cemetery loU in the Griffin cemetery is a3 simple as I’it is efficacious. It is this : The City Sex- I tonia to notify all pirties who have failed to pay for their lots that unless they come I down by the flrst of December, the bodies interred thereon and therein, will bo re- e ir:d therefr ;a and the said lots sold at k;■':(■ nnlcry at ttio risk of the former pur- fluser. Teas the ghosts of the dead are n:L collectors of the defaults of the living. We commend the scheme to our friend Tor- ley at Laurel Grove. Thtre are one hundred and twenty-five guests at Indi n Springs, and every day io- •rear jp their number. We are glad to see , that our people are beginning to patronize to home watering places, where they can erj y that quiet aul rep -se which is impoa- I sible in the North, where they are thrown bcontai : with all the lower elements of so ciety* Gere at home, with climate, water, tcccery and society the best, they can spend their money, knowing that they are but re turning it to the savings bank from which j they will receive it again. Thirty-three dollars have been absorbed hto a brass band ia ColumbuB, but as that Mount won’t exactly purchase Ludden A Dates’ silver get of instruments the Colum- -uj boys ask Lr a little mere, and wo hope they will succeed, for the man who has not toiic iu his soul, and is not moved by “dis- I c ^u” of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, s.ra!egems and spoils. Colonel Jjhu C. Maund, of Talbot county, hi3just concluded a purchase of eighty ‘■lonsand acres of land in one body in the j neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tenn. j question is evidently awaking | —e ire of the citizens of Columbus, and not *uhoQt Ciuse, if the facts daily detailed in toe Columbus papers are true. Policemen, ?gaid to the danger, shoot dogs on Greets whether they have badges on or “ J ’’ aru * a ca S2 has been mentioned where a .' iQQg .ady was struck by the ball from the , 1 1 a Gcensed dog killer in the person ^ apoacemau. The citizens are justly in- “•Saant, and it seems that other methods Mating rid of worthless curs could ‘‘“ 4 • fiu S*,'est themselves to the autbori- upou a little reflection. ; ^ e total receipts of cotton at Columbus, 8 ‘f C ; ^Ptenber 1st have been 72,073 bales. • ;! ^ aQJOllnt fGe mills of that city have biles, 824 halos less than last .to :or the same period. U not a tenable house for rent in fr(V?' : . : °^' ^bbert, though inquiries are c | H'-ii. v made for each, and with lumber l a bor low, it is somewhat sur- s lilat such a state of things should gree of Doctor of Divinity was re- "■* : mfe - r red by Emory College, Oxtord, d ' . GD ^‘ V ’ Cook, of Atlanta. C( „, , r was formoriy from Monroe having been born and raised in the TH t Callodcn ‘ ta,-,.. ate Sunday School Convention 2G;k 3 At bens August 24:h, 25th and p re ’ convection sermon will be , u ‘ ; y K.v. W. P. Harrison, D. D. tli6r- * n “ P ro sramma u prepared for ,* i ^7 7‘ a - Uelo-ates will be transported Stt’e I ‘ sr " rates over any railroad in the fit :!*•* ias fu ’* I"® Koieg> and returning 1En j ‘“nty associations are invited to »kr-' " a ' tS ‘ aL: ^ rcliools in connties *o the 1 " 83 ° Ci&t ' 0n ex ‘ stB - As delegates tioa ' .., U ’, rnataoua ' Sunday School Associa te to , Ch , KeeU iQ Atlanta iu April, 1878, Mt ‘ Bc:, id, it is dosirablo that the he f, I’rrst Congressional District tt e j.- a 'l' ri - uted. The newspapers of ’ V"f, tnCtare re< l ue9ted togivecir- j h 10n to tfio abovo. Geor "‘a Medical Society met 011 Wednesday last, Dr. B. disc tt g 8 ^ U “ S3 ’ of Uouroe . presiding, and 'iepr r* >arioU:i nratters connected with 6 «hv I'.r"* 00 ' membership is farnish- >.7 ■ ' 1 ' I(,:| roe, Bibb, Crawford, Hous- ‘fija 1 ‘ ^‘fi 9 connties, and numbers ifioae c 01 t * i0 best physicians of The • c ®* U u ' JtilJS Population of Monroe county polig x f( B . lated the Adcertiser: “White Vote h ,Jj “’ Colorc ' d polls 1,303. The negro four 1Dcroaae ^ °eo hundred and ninety- polla-f ! vote twenty-five over the Mo S<6 ‘ thoQ 8au °. ^ 0,lnt y rejoices in a seventy-five at , J *'*r Jaw suit on the eanity side . n ? er ‘° r Conrt ’ It is “a bill for ac- J. C. j te tting aside decree,” brought by tad 1 , U| trustee for Mrs. A. M. Zorn, ,er sos Hz' friendof Mrs - M - E - Cowberry, ■fehQ Ti Drj J ' Lama r, exeentor estate or Vrrv " Jlm °ud, deceased, and Tbos Dew- t .’.trustee, etc. The Tax Receiver of Monroe county haB completed liis returns and closed his books, from which are gathered the following valuable statistics of the value of properly in that county : The whites own$2,209 596 The negroes own $64,743. Property owned by defaulters is valued at $27,071. Wild lands are valued at $10,033, making a total property valuation of $2,311,416, which com pared with last year’s returns shows an in crease of $14,394. If during the watermelon season your child should get a watermelon Beed in his windpipe, give it the whites of four eggs. This remedy brought up a seed from the throat of a little son of Mr. Joseph Church, who lives near Jefferson, which had re mained in the windpipe from September last until May 7, 1877, defying the doctors skill, and oftentimes threatening the death ot tho child-by strangulation. Jackson county has lost one of her oldest and most valued citizens in the recent death of Peter E. McMillan, Esq., at tho ripe age of eighty-six. He lived an active life, held many offices of trust and honor, and repre sented the county in the Legislature of 39, ’40 aDd ’53, with credit to himself and honor to his constituency. DuriDg the burial of an infant at Provi dence Chnrch, Milton county, a violent storm overtook tho funeral cortege and threw down a largo red oak tree, tho tep- moBt branches of which struck a wagon containing a number of women and children, bruising them in a shocking manner. The mules became frightened and ran away, capsizing the wagon and still further bruis ing and maiming the alarmed victims. None were lulled, tut all were more or less hurt—some very seriously. The annual commencement exercises of the University at Athens began on buuday last by the commencement sermon,wLich was delivered by Bishop Pierco. The text se lected was the second verse of the second chapter of Corinthians, aud the correspond ent of the Augusta Chronicle and Constitu tionalist says : “For the space of one hour and a quarter the Bishop held his large au dience completely spell-bound by the magic words of eloquence which came from his lips in solid, logical and beautiful figures of rhetoric.” Tho Macon Telegraph says : “Rev. James Murphey, assistant pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, of this city, died on Sunday at Pio Nono College. He was much beloved and. will be missed. His remains were carried to the State of Maine for interment.” Angusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist: “Mr. Wm. Kustou, the Master Mechanic of the Goorgia Railroad shop3 at Atlanta, has invented a smokestack for locomotives which retains cinders and soot. Thi3 does away with flying cinders which are such an annoyance to passengers. The coal burner Clinton, Engineer Del. Taut, made a trip from Atlauta for the first time Monday, w’ith one of these smokestack?. Mr/Tant says it is & perfect success.” Macon has seen its first boli of cotton of this se&soij. The Telegraph thus records tho fact: “Mr. J. B. Carson, of Taylor county, near Reynolds, sends us tho first open cotton boll we have se*n this season. It opened on the 25th instant, aud is from his place near Reynolds. The size is small, but the texture of the cotton is very good.” The Augusta Gliromcle and Constitutional ist says : “Last Sunday nighr, just after the excursion train which left Augusta Satur day night for Savannah rolled away from Yemassee on its return trip, a difficulty oc curred between Willie Bel/, aged about eleven years, and Harhn WTngard, a youth between sixteen and seveatosu yoars old, in the course of which Bell stabbed Wingard in the back with a pocket knife, inflicting a very painful but not serious wound. Wingard got off the train at Brunson’s and had his wound dressed by a physician. Ee reached the city yesterday afternoon by the regular passenger train, and wis able to walk to his home. Bell came to Augusta yesterday morning.” Tho Hamilton Journal is entirely respon sible for the following “tail about snakes :” “Mr. Alfred Johnson, five miles below Ham ilton, has discovered a den ot horned snakes on his plantation. He has killed two of them and seen several others. They are of a white and black speckled color. Tho horn is on the tip of the tail, and is stuck into everything that comes within reach.” Tho Monroe Adcertiser curiously remarks: “ Mr. Key, delegate to the convention from Jasper cuunty, is a man of stout heart. Almost every amendment he proposes (and they are numerous) is tabled, yet he ham mers away.” Notwithstanding the fact that the Sovereigns have concluded to forever do away with the whipping post in Georgia, it is.still sometimes resorted to as a punish ment, as the following, from tho Mouroe Adcertiser, will show: “Dr. RudLill was in attendance upon a patient early Sunday morning, a week ago, and left his umbrella in the buggy before the door. When he came out the umbrella was gone. The negro who stole it, as was afterwards found out, went from town to Mr. Charlie Mc Carthy’s, about two miles distant, aud going into a negro cabin, stole the breakfast of the negro occupying the cabin, who was asleep on the bed. This negro, named Anthony Hollis, upon waking found his breakfast gone, and immediately started iu pursuit of the thief. In a short while he came up with, took his breakfast from him, tho stolen umbrella and a coat, no then tied him to u tree and «avo him a sound thrashing. Jim Cotton was his name, and Jim left for parts unknown when Anthony had finished whipping him. The umbrella was restored to Dr.-Rudisill. It is right and proper to say hurrah for Anthony!” Here is a picture of a model young far mer of DeKalb county, from a pea portrait of the DeKalb County News: “Milton A. Chandler, Jr., the youDgest farmer of De- Kalb county, carried to Atlanta last week a fleece taken off his Merino ram weighing eleven pounds. Milton is the third son of Hon. M. A. Candler. Ho is about fourteen years old, and has a large snm in bank mado by his own labor, besides doing his regular work on the farm, which is as much as any body of his ago does. He is never idle, never uses bad language, and is always kind to his parents and polite to every one.” The Eilijay Courier has tho following cheerful news for the friends of tho Marietta and Murfreesboro Railroad, so much needed in that section of Georgia: ’find enterprise, in which our peoplo aio so much interested, is now' ^on better footing than ever heretofore. The convicw force that was on the upper p wfc of the line is now taken back, and the woik from now on will be carried on in a connected line. We learn that General Phillips, the never- tiring President of the road, has at last suc ceeded in hiring quite a number of the hands to an iron company, and iu return gets iron for their labor. We learn that he has closed a contract that will iron fifty miles of the road, thus leaviug the com pany the use of all the loan from tho State to carry on the grading, which will be car ried on from Canton.” A Sevebe Fight Between General Miles and Sitting Bull.— Washington, July 27.—Tho following dispatch was received at the War Department to-day in regard to the Indian trouoies in the Black Hills : “Chicago, III., July 27, 1877. “ General J£. D. Townsend, Washing ton, D. C.: “Referring to affairs in the Black Hills, Colonel Bradley telegraphs to tho department headquarters as follows : 44 4 A company from Laramie started this morning. Lieutenant Lemty is re ported to have been surrounded by tho Indians at Spear Fish. lie telegraphs to-day that there is no occasion for alarm" in his case. Ship his detachment, and Reynolds can finish the curvey. Have no report of Indians in the Hills. This morning friendly Indians report a severe fight between General Miles and Sitting Ball’s band on Powder river. Have no doubt reported depredations in Black Ilills have been exaggerated. (Signed) “ ‘R. C. Dbcm. “ ‘Assistant Adjutant General. Anne Brewster, writing from Rome, July 7th, says: “One day last week His Holiness had a long fit of fainting. When he revived his attendants and doctors, seeing that he was deeply affected by his situation, said encouraging words. Tfie Pope shook his head and replied: ‘Aon me Imingate. To sento bene di esser vicino alia mia fine.' (Do not flatter. I know well that I am near my end.)” COSSTITUTIOSAL CONVENTION. Pierrepont, glancing over the news from America: “WeaDy. now! Awiot! a wumpns! a webelUon! And in the Nawtb, torv you know! How vewwy unfortunate that Genewal Gwant is out of the eountwy!” JSerenteemb liny’. Proceeding.—Call, far the Reconsideration of Anientlment. Adopted on Saturday—Colonel Tilt’* ! Amendment Stricken Out—Report on Counties and County Officers Adopted Without Material Changes. [Special Conespondence of the Morning News.] Atlanta, July 30.—President Jenkins called the convention to order at ten o’clock, pursuant to adjournment, and prayer was offered by Rev. E. J. Coats, of the Twenty-first district. The reading of the minutes was fol lowed by several calls for the recon sideration of matters acted upon Satur day. Mr. Donaldson, of the Eighth district, wished to reconsider action on the third section, so that the people could change county lines by a two-thirds vote. Mr. Mobley opposed, and reconsideration was denied. Gsn. Eli WarreD, of the Twenty-third district, desired to reconsider the action which tabled his amendment, which pro posed to let out the collection of- taxes to the loweet responsible bidder. Recon sideration, however, was voted down. Mr. Mynatt, of the Thirty-fifth dis trict, desired to reconsider the action which adopted Col. Tift’s amendment fixing a uniform rate of costs, fees and commissions for all county officers and fixing their salaries at not more than two thousand dollars. Coi. Tift, of the Tenth district, replied to Mr. Mynatt’s speech, and asked the convention not to reconsider, but Gen. Lawton, of the First district, in a strong speech, and Rev. Mr. Hamilton, of the Forty-second district, opposed Col. Tift’s views. Hon. Francis Fontaine, of the Twenty-fourth district, did not want any reconsideration, but the convention did, and so voted, and finally tabled the amendment (adopted on Saturday) by a vote of one hundred and eight yeas to nine nays. Col. Tift then desired a reconsideration of the action which tabled, on Saturday, his second amendment, in regard to county officers, but the convention re - fused to reconsider. Leaves of absence were granted to Dr. Hollifield, of the Twentieth district, Mr. Lawson, cf the Twenty-eighth district, Mr. Russell, of the First district, Mr. Conley, of the Second district, Mr. Scott, of tho Thirteenth district, and Judge Hansel!, of the Seventh district. On motion of Mr. Simmons, of the Twenty second district, Colonel Tift’s amendment to the sixth section, adopted on Saturday, was indefinitely postponed. Mr. Davis, of the Twenty-third dis trict, offered an amendment to the sixth section, excepting Tax Receivers and de volving their duties on Clerks of courts. The motion was tabled. Colonel Tift again desired to amend, so that the General Assembly shall fix uni form rate of fees, costs and commissions for county officers, but was voted down. Rising, Phoenix-like from his ashes, however, Colonel Tift offered another amendment, that sheriffs and other pub lic officers shall pay only regular adver tising rates for legal advertisements, which was also tabled. Mr. Hawkins, of the Forty-second district, moved to add after “thereof,” in seventh line of section six, the words, “la such manner as may be prescribed by the General Assembly,” which was adopted. Mr. Wallace, of the Twenty-third dis- trict, wished; o add after “two years,” in fourth line, the words, “and a qualified voter,” and his motion was carried. Mr. Creech, of the Seventh district, desired to have the Ordinaries serve four years, but this amendment was declared out of order, as it was voted down on Saturday. Mr. Spence, of the Thirty-fifth district, then moved to strike out all of the sixth section after “two years” in the fourth line, which motion prevailed, thus de stroying the amendments of Messrs. Hawkins and Wallace. Judge Collier, of the Thirty-fifth dis trict, introduced a long substitute for section six, authorizing five Commission ers of Finance for each county, and regu lating their election and duties, butCapt, Little, of the Twenty-fourth district, op posed, aud Colonel Ingram, of the 'f wenty.fourth district, wished to modify the substitute, so it was tabled by a vote of one hundred and one yea3 to twenty-nine nays. Mr. Ellington, of the Thirteen.h dis trict, desired to make some chaDges in the wording of the seventh section, but his motion had no second. Mr. Davis, of the Twenty-third district, wished to have the Legislature provide for County Commissioners. On motion, his proposition was tabled. Mr. Crane, of the Thirly-fifth district, desired the Legislature to have power to provide County Commissioners for cer tain counties, to which motion there was no second. On motion of Mr. Wallace, tho report a3 a whole was then adopted. Gen. Lawton moved to take up the report of the Final Revision Committee on the judiciary, but Mr. Pace, of tho Twenty-seventh district, explained that copies had noc been distributed until this morning, and the mattar was postponed until to-morrow. Senator Reese offered a motion that tho convention, hereafter, meet daily ut 8:30 a. m. and adjourn at 2 o’clock p. m., which was carried. Mr. Hammond, of the Thirty-fifth dis trict, then moved, it being 12:30 o’clock, that the convention adjourn to 8:30 o’clock to morrow morning. The motion was adopted. The following is lha text of the report of the C. mmittee on Final Revision of the Constitution on the report of Com mittee on Counties and County Officers, as amended and adopted by the conven tion, after being up for discussion a por tion of two days: ARTICLE I. Section 1. Each organized county shall be a body corporate, with snch powers and limitations as may be prescribed by law, not incompatible with this Consti tution. All suits by or against a county shall bo in tho name thereof; and the metes and bounds of the several counties shall remain as now prescribed bylaw, unless changed as hereinafter provided. Seo. 2. No new county shall be created. Sec. 3. County lines shall not be changed, unless under tha operation of a general law for that purpose. Sec. 4. Nocouutysite shall be changed ox removed except by a two-thirds vote of’ the qualified voters of the county, vo" ing at an election held for that pur pose and a two thirds vote of the General Assembly. . Sec. o. Old county organizations may be dissolved and merged with contiguous counties by a two-thirds vote of the qualified electors of such county, voting at an election held for that purpose. Sec. 0. The county officers shall bo elected by the qualified voters cf their respective counties or districts, and shall hold their offices for two years. They shall be removed on conviction for mal - practice in office, and no person shall be eligible to any cf the offices above re ferred to, unless he shall have been a resident of the county for two years. Sec. 7. Whatever tribunal or officers may hereafter be created by the Legisla ture, for the transaction of county mat ters’shall be uniform throughout the S‘ate and of the same name, jurisdiction and remedies, except that the Legislature may provide for the appointments Com- missioners of Roads and Revenue in any Tiufamendment (adopted Saturday) of Col. Tift, to section six, which was stricken out this morning by a large vote, was, in -its corrected form, as follows : “The General Assembly shall provide competent and uniform commissions, costs and fees for all county officers, and they shall receive no otjier compensation for their services. Each county officer shall keep a record of fees, commissions and costs received, to be submitted to the | examination of the grand jury at each regular term, and shall pay into the State j and county treasury at the end of each j year, all sums collected for fees, commis- | sions and costs over and above the snm of two thousand dollars. Chatham. HOW TRADE IS AFFECTED. State Sunday School Convention. We have been requested to publish the subjoined letter relating to the objects and ends of the State Sunday School Con vention. It will be read with interest by all engaged in Sunday school work : Atlanta. December 20th, 187G. Hon. A. -IP. Rodgers, Vice President State Sunday School Convention, First Con gressional District, Waynesboro : Deab Bkotheb—In answer to your in quiry as to the object of the State Sun day School Convention, I beg leave to reply brit fly. Its objects are— 1. To unite all the evangelical Chris tians throughout the State in earnest efforts to promote the cause of Christ through the Sunday school. 2. To bring together Sunday school workers for the purpose of considering the best methods- for thoroughly orga nizing the State in combined, associated effort, through county organizations, and through these county links, uniting all the Sunday schools in one fraternal band. 3. For the dissemination of Sunday school ideas, the comparison of plans, the discussion of principles and illustra tion of methods in Sunday school teach ing. 4. To encourage the systematic and thorough preparation of JSunday school teachers for the high and responsible stations which they occupy. 5. Denominational integrity will not be impaired by the most active co-operation in this blessed labor. It is not sectarian in spirit or purpose. 6. It is missionary in its spirit and design. It seeks to unite the Evangelical denominations in the effort to educate tho young religiously; to stimulate each of them to renewed and unceasing dili gence in Sunday school work: to increase the spirituality and efficiency of the work; to obtain reliable statistics of what we are doing; the number attending Sunday school; the proportion of conversions; the number of children who do not at tend Sunday school, and where the bulk of them reside, so that the field for mis sionary labor can be definitely defined. 7. Its motto is: “Every child for Jesus.” Its aim is to mass the evangeli cal denominations in one common effort to accomplish this result. Viewing the Sunday school as a department of church work, it would stimulate each denomina tion to increased diligence in their own way to lead the little ones to Christ. 8. The annual reunion of Sunday school workers in convention will be pro ductive of good, for “the more they know of each other the better they will love each other,” and, instead of a divided movement, r.11 will march with steady step and in enthusiastic accord against infidel ity, intemperance aud vice. It will band together Christians and patriots in a com mon effort to elovate the rising genera tion by the inculcation of Christian prin ciples in early years. In th8 furtherance of this object each Vioe-President is authorized to appoint in each county in his Congressional Dis trict a county Vice-President, whose duty it shall be to organize a county associa tion. Copies of the DeKalb Sunday School Association will be forwarded to all desirous of forming associations as a guide. Yours in the cause, W. G. V HIDliY, President S. S. Convention. The Liability for Destroyed Property [Pittsbiirg Leader.] A suit for six thousand dollars dama ges, resulting from the riotous proceed ings which have disgraced our city for the past few days, has already been entered by Mr. Smith, pawnbroker, of this city, who claims that his place of business was entered by the mob on Saturday evenin] and pillaged of property to the amount stated. Mr. Smith, through nis counsel, Major A. M. Brown, is the first, so far as is known, to taka advantage of the law in regard to acts of trespass and robbery committed by mobs and rioters, and the question of who is liable for the immense amount of damages sustained by the railroad companies and others is thus opened up, and may prove a very in teresting ono to the taxpayers of this already overburdened community. Our reporter called on Major Blown this afternoon, and elicited from him the following fasts in regard to the law upon the subject in cases of this kind. Ha stated that the county is liable for all damages resulting from acts of mob violenoe, and, therefore, all claims for damages awarded by the courts must come out of the County Treasury. The railroad company is generally supposed to be liable for the loss sustained by ship pers from the fact that being common carriers they are insurers; but it seems that a provision exists in the law which says that “acts of God and enemies of the State make their liability as insurers void,” and the shippers can come on the county for every dollar’s worth of freight destroyed by the rioters. The railroad companies also can collect from tho county every dollar of their los3 if they feel so disposed. Nobody Eveb Killed by Lightning in Labge Cities.—A New York paper says: In no record that has yet been pub lished for many years past, while thunder clouds have hung over this city and discharged their artillery at us, has a single death occurred here from at mospheric electricity, while its fatal effects have been visible in all directions beyond our city limits. In a conversa tion with a noted electrician, a few years since, we drew his attention to that fact, and suggested that what with the iron, gas and water pipes in every building, which conducted lightning into the very ground deeper than even a regular light- niug rod would do it, and the masses of iron employed in all shapes in modern structures, and the bundles of telegraph wires running strung over our heads, aDd higher than the average height of our ordinary buildings, aud while every street almost has iron tracks for street railroads, the electric fluid was so gen erally distributed that there was no chance for it to concentrate anywhere. The electrician in question saw the force of the suggestion, and concurred in it, and evidently perceive! that New York city is no place for the profitable prose cution of the lightning-rod business. A Man’s Head Pulled Off.—Yester day a gentleman named Wilbur, just ar rived from Frio county, reported in the office of Messrs. Moss <fc Bennett that a day or two ago, near the Frio, the body of a man, whose name we failed to learn, was found on the prairie with his head completely severed from the body. Near the body was found a horse, with o raw hide lariat fastened to the saddle, the other end of the lariat being attached to the boms of a steer. This lariat for a distance of three or four feet, was freshly stained with blood, and the supposition was that in lassoing a steer the lariat had accidentally become twisted or wound around the avan’s neck, and that after he had caught tho steer in the rope he had been dragged about by the horse and steer until his head had been completely torn from the body. The man’s head had not been, found when Mr. W. left that section.—San Antonio {Texas) Express. The noble American invention of par liamentary “filibustering” has got into the British House of Commons. It has gone such lengths already that Sir Staf ford Northcote has introduced reso lutions against it. To the American member of Congress this device looks very much like “stopping one hole in a sieve.” If the British obstructionists is the man we take him for he will find small trouble in getting “over, under or through” the fence Sir Stafford Northcote has put up to keep him from rambling at will over the pastures of debate. Market JHen Anliripatinit a Meat Famine ia New York—An Army of Car men and Truckmen Idle—Plenty of Vegetables, Flour, Meal, Groceries, Fish, and Fruit, exerpt Peaches. [From the New York Sun. 27th.] The down-town streets were quiet yes terday, although there was more business done in the city than on Wednesday, when the fear of •ulsiders, and the anxiety of New Yorkers for the city’s safety, left business at its lowest ebb. Yesterday, below Fulton street, there was a little of the wonted bustle and excite ment in Wall street and around the Ex changes, but the greater part of the busi ness district was unnaturally quiet. Even Broadway showed the general stagnation. In the side streets cartmen slept on their drays, express wagons returned empty from their rounds, and the porters and laborers whose work is to move heavy articles to and from stores and wagons, had no need to take their hooks from their leather belts. A Warren street cartman said: “I usually get four or five dollars a day from one or two houses, and not much less from two op throe other firms I work for, but yesterday I had earned only twenty- five cents up to two o’clock in the after noon.” There has been a general advance made by the retail grocers and butchers on all the necessaries of life, during the past three days, and by the end of the week the advance will be appreciable by house wives and shoppers. Beef was advanced two cents per porjid yesterday, making au advance of five cents per pound since Monday. There are some kinds of food that are not influenced by the suspension of freight carriage. Salt meats, flour, etc., and the various kinds of staple groceries are held by large dealers in quantities amply sufficient to supply the retail trade for a long time. Vegetables are plenty also, and cheap, and their regular arrival not at all interfered with. The garden truck used in New York is grown on small farms near the city, principally in New Jersey, though there are many on Long Island, and brought to the city daily in wagons. There is a full supply, too, of fish, oysters aud clams, whicli are brought to the city by boat. Iu Washington Market, yesterday, few of the smaller butchers had enough meat to supply their customers, and some had none at all, but by borrowing from each other and purchasing such pieces as they could from tho larger dealers they man aged to get through the morning. Mr. John H. Moon, of the firm of P. W. Liwrie & Co., the largest dealers in fresh meats in the market, said : “I an ticipate almost a panic in the meat mar ket. There is but very little on hand, not half what we need, and I see no immedi ate Drospect for a future supply. The great bulk of our beef cattle comes from the West, and now there are no means of bringing them here. Even if the trains were to commence running in tho morn ing, none could bo brought to this city before the early part or middle of next week, and then, after their hot, exhaustive ride, the poor beasts would be tired and feverish and require several days’ rest be fore the meet would be fit to eat.” Poultry dealers are almost as badly off as the butchers, but they can get a limited supply from the country near New York. Messrs. Knapp & Van Nostraud, a lead ing firm of Washington Market, said: “Wo are cut off entirely from the South and West, from where we should get a large supply of live fowls. When seut through without delay they usually arrivo in good condition and are killed here. Now we depend entirely for what wo get on Long Island and New Jersey, Prices have advanced considerably, and bid fair to continue going up. Turkeys are worth from 25 to 28 cents, fowls from 20 to 25 cents, and spring chickens from 22 to 25 cents. I cannot tell you what they will be worth on Saturday.” Peaches are more seriously affected than any other fruit. Mr. P. F. Cooney, an experienced and large shipper, said: “The peach growers are suffering terribly because of this strike. Peaches are rotting on the trees by hundreds of bushels. If they could bo brought to New York by rail, tho market would be fairly glutted, and wo could sell the de licious fruit for almost nothing. The Pennsylvania and the Delaware, Lacka wanna and Western roads are the ones wo depend on maiuly, aud they have both stopped running. One load of four or five hundred crates came through yester day on the Pennsylvaniaroad. The train hands flagged it as a passenger train, and so deceived the strikers. The peaches, though, had then too long on the road, and when they reached here were worth less. The same trick was tried again, but the strikers had dropped to it, as ihey say, and it failed. We get some by steamer, but they do not usually arrive in good condition. They are one day longer on the water, and the salt water injures them. The prices have increased since the strike; before it we sold peaches at two and three dollars per crate, now we want four dollars and four dollars and a half. For the same reason blackberries have advanced about two cents.” Butter has been seriously affected by the strike. Messrs. Kay <fc Buckman, of Washington Market, said: “Since this trouble the price for prime butter has advanced from one to three cents per pound. The Erie, New York Central, and Delaware, L ickawanna and Western roads bring the great bulk of butter to this city. Illinois and Iowa furnish the best fine dairy packed butter, and tho Illinois creamery butter is now recog nized as equal to the best made in Orange county. The prices have advanced about three cents on the pound. We have a large refrigorator house in which we have over 1,200 packages stored, but I know several small dealers were short this morning." The great Fulton wholesale fish market was a very bu3y scene yesterday. Retail dealers from all parts of the city were providing for to day’s demand. The Black Hills Savages.— Washing ton, July 26.—The following telegram was received in this city to-night: Yankton, D. T., July 26. ' The Hon. Geo. W. McCrary, Secretary of War: The following telegram is just received: Dead wood, D. T., July 26. Agency Indians are murdering citizens and destroying property in all parts of the country. Twenty ranchmen are al ready deed. Seth Bollock. The Sheriff of the Territory has no arms or ammunition. Cin a disposition of troops be made that will give the Black Hills’ settlers some protection ? [Signed] John C. Pennington, Governor. Tha dispatch was referred to Lieut.'. Gen. Sheridan. AT THE RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS ~* t - camp fires are again brightly b i In sight of Gen. Howard’s com mand, and that hatchet which he prom ised to bury is still brandishing in a most unevangeiical manner. Not to put too fine a point on it, Joseph has lied; and, until he is reduced to a Christian basis, he will probably continue to deceive tho trustful soldier, who is mildly trying to subdue him by moral snasion. The American Tract Society ought to forward supplies to Gen. Howard at once, aud, if necessary, reinforce him with a baDd of Gospellers, so as to insure the conversion of this untruthful chieftain beyond the peril of any more backsliding.—Hew York Tribune. A sumptuary law has been issued in Constantinople against thin veils, tight- fitting cloaks and high-heeled slippers. The police are instrncted to follow all women who disobey to their residences, and inform their lords of their insubordi nate conduct. A distinguished Japanese traveler in this country writes home: “The chief branch of education of young men here is rowing. The people have large boat houses called ‘colleges,’ and the principal of these are Yale and Harvard.”—N. Y. Weekly. Where the Emperor Nleholns ia Quartered and Hew He and His Staff are Occu pied. [Correspondence of the London News.] Simnitza, July 6.—The headquarters of the Russian Emperor and of the Russian army are both for the present at Simnitza, and are close together, yet dis tinctly apart. It is the fashion of the latter to be practical, to be masters of de tails, and to hold that the princes, noble men and gentlemen composing the former know nothing about army matters, and ore merely playing at soldiering. The Piinces, noblemen and gentlemen of the Emperor’s suite may own to themselves that they don’t know a great Leal, but find compensation for their ignorance in the odor of majesty in which they abide. On the bluff to the right of the wretched hotel of Simnitza there is a little angular space. First comes a garden, or rather what was once a garden. Here, amidst tethered horses, wagons innumerable and perspiring servants, are the head quarters of the Grand Duke commauding- in-chief. He and his staff abide in tents, suffer from mosquito bites, have to swallow not a little dust, and mess together in a big marquee—at least the staff does; the Grand Duke himself dines with the Emperor. Their location is the orchard of a chateau, whose back front looks across the Danube to Sistova, and whose front opens into a smooth grassy lawn, flanked on either side by a row of fine old elms. This chateau and lawn are close to the orchard, and beyond it as one walks from the hotel. The chateau is but a small house for an Emperor, although snug quarters enough for a well-to-do boyard. The main entrance is in the centre of the front, with the stair case directly oppo site the door. It is the coolest habita tion in Simnilzi and the least dusty, Lining as it does the wide sweep of the Danube valley, along which a cool breeze blows when everywhere else the heat is intense. Below the house the abruptness of the cliff has been lessened by art, and on the slope is a pretty garden with vines grown on trellis work. In an arbor of this garden the Emperor spends a good deal of his time, and a great telescope has been set np there for him, through which he scans tho opposite bank with much interest and attention. He is very active notwithstanding the asth ma which troubles him, and he is assidu ous in his visits to the wounded, and in inspections of the soldiery. A telegraph wire, conveyed into an adjacent cowshed, which does duty as a telegraph office, keeps him acquainted with tho intelli gence of the world at large, although news comes somewhat scantily from the outlying portions of his own army, the construction of field telegraphs with a Russian army on the march not being carried out with great enterprise, al though all appliances for the purpose are attached to each division. Thus it is known in the Imperial staff that the Brit ish fleet has sailed lor Besika Bay before the news of reported fighting outside Tirnova has been confirmed. The chief members of the Imperial suite occupy little square pavilion tents ranged in a double row under the old elm trees, and flanking the lawn in the centre. On this lawn there are always some loungers, and gossiping groups drink tea sitting on stools outside the tents. The venerable Prince Suwarc-ff is very constant to the lawn, and ready for a talk with all comers. Among the most frequent of his companions is the keen- faced Prince Menschikoff, and General Xgnatieff occasionally louges out from his coo! tents, with his books and papers, to talk epigrams and play at strategic spec ulation. Beyond the outbuildings flank ing the chateau is a field where there arc also princes; he of Mingrelia, a late comer, is next the dust of the road, and Colonel Wellesley, the British attache when in his bath, has to dofend himaelf from the strenuous attempts of his horses, tethered to the vehicle cf which his little tent is a dependency, to drink the water in which his manly form is immersed. Ou the lawn is a marquee which consti tutes the sails-a manger. Occasionally the suite eat at tables set out on the lawn in the open air, in full view of the way farers on the adjacent road, and in the enjoyment of eddies of its fetlock-deep dust. Sometimes the Emperor sits at one, but for the most part he dines with his suite. A very interesting episode oc curred the other day. Iu the middle of dinner were heard the strains of the “Dead March in Saul,” for both the hos pital and the churchyard where the wounded who die are buried are nigh at hand. The Emperor inquired if that was not the funeral passing of the young ar tillery officer who was drowned by the foundering of his pontoon during the crossing, and whose bedy was recovered four days later some distance down the river. Being told that it was so, he at once rose, and, with the Grand Duke and all his suite, walked to the quaint and pretty little church whero the funeral service was being performed. He remained daring the whole of its per formance, lasting for an hour, and then went into the porch, where the grave had been made, and stood by the head of the coffin while it was being lowered into the earth. On the following day all the Turkish prisoners were brought from the guard room on to the lawn just as dinner was finished. A guard of Russian in fantry were formed in the circle around them, with fixed bayonets and cartridge pouches opened. The poor devils no doubt thought that they had been brought out to be shot, and that then last hour had come. The Emperor, with his dragoman, went among them, talking familiarly to them and asking questions. Tho Nizams answered him with a straightforward frankness, which might indeed be called bluffness. They told him that they had not received a penny of pay for the last six-and-twenty mouths. In answer to his question whether they were satisfied with the food they were now getting, they replied that they had never lived so well in their lives; and one fellow—he mast have been a sneak and a sycophant—added that he was heartily glad that he had been taken prisoner, for he was tired of hard living and no pay. The officers of the suite went among the prisoners distributing cigarettes, which the prisoners, with the most perfect ease of manner, lighted at those between the lips of the officers, and it was quite a happy family. The Em peror another evening visited a couple of Bulgarians in the adjacent hospital, who were broughtjin mutilated by the Turks. One lies comatose with his head stove iu and fearfully shattered; the other is not so much hurt. Both their wives are with them. His Majesty has promised two gold pieces to each man wounded in the war, and the money has, I believe, been distributed to those already wounded. They were sitting together, and he was arduously thinking what to say, when finally he grew confident in his manner, and broke out thus: “In this land of noble achievement and undying glory, why is it that women do not come to the front and climb the ladder of fame?" “I suppose,” said she, tying knots in her handkerchief “its on ac count of their pull-backs.” Tho carpet- baggers of Mississippi are gradually leaving the State, owing to the ruinous falling off in the facilities for stealing. One of them left not long ago by baDging himself on the road below Meridian, and the people are now leaving their ropes out at night with the hope that others will steal them and follow his example.—Courier-Journal. Master Max E. Walter, a San Francisco broker’s boy, got $2,240 from a teller at the mint instead of $1,140 for which his check called. He returned the surplus of $1 000, and was rewarded with an elabor ate “Thanks.” THE LABOR LEAGUE. Petitioning the Federal Caoverninent to Interfere Between Labor and Capital. Washington, July 27.—The Central Council of the Labor League of the Uni ted States, an organization having its headquarters in this city, to-day trans mitted a petition to the President of the United States urging that steps be taken immediately to end the existing labor troubles, restore traffic, law and order. They oppose any compromise with the actual rioters or those countenancing riot, and declare that impending famine ia the large cities, the imminent suffering of the great and law abiding labor ele ment, loss and rain to the agricultural papulation, with the undeveloped evils which may result from the present trou bles, justify the Executive, on behalf of the whole people, in calling the prominent railroad men, who, in blind and passion ate stubbornness, refuse to listen to either reason or the loud appealing of the people, to Washington, together with the leaders of the la* or organizations who have opposed violen e, that the dif ficulties may be compromised. The pe tition also sets forth that any further blind resistance of he railroads, to the detriment of the business of the nation, would justify the government in taking possession of the roads and running them in the interest of the people as well as that of the companies. The petitioners declare their belief that such a movement would give immediate confidence to the country, and put an end to bloodshed. They declare in favor of suppressing riot and upholding the supremacy of the law, and further that the league is convinced that the great law- abiding element of the United States, capitalists and laborers, would hail with delight- any settlement of the present deplorable condition cf affairs by a just and patriotic compro- A Romance in Real Life. [From the Birmingham PosL] An extraordinary story has jnst come to light at Bath. Some weeks ago there was received at tho Bath Post Office a letter, addressed to “the Protestant Min ister of the Circuit of Bith.” The letter consequently reached the hands of Canon Brooke, rector of Bath. It came from a lady at Bangalore, India, and stjL'ed that in looking through the papersajif a de ceased son she found that he hr’t left two children in the neighborhood of Bath, and she asked that they might be sought for. The inquiries set on foot revealed a highly romantic little history. The two children wer%fc md—one in the Bath Union, and the a domestic servant, filling a situatisE ■ which she had been sent by the anlit.NA.ies of the Dntton Union. They uacr-^ach been left with farmers in the immediate neighborhood of Bath by a person named Mortm, who twelve years a ,o presented himself first at one house and then at the other. In each instance he claimed relation ship, and, after a pretty lengthy visit, obtained permission to leave a child, when he and a woman by whom bo was accompanied, and who passed as his wife, represented as their only one. In introducing themselves they stated that they had come from India, and produced references to Anglo-India families of high position in Bath. They represented when they left the children that they were going to Scotland to visit relatives, aud would be back in a few weeks, and in one instance they promised to pay five shillings per week for the maintenanca of the child. They were never after ward heard of, and the two persons with whom the children had been left, mutu ally learning some months afterward of the manner in which they had been duped, sent tha children to the work- house belonging to the respective dis trict in which they resided, and there they remained for twelve years. On learning of their discovery the lady who bad at first written sent -£70 to Canon Brooke, with a request that the children should be sent to India. The application was made known to the guardians, who, after investigation, consented. Till the inquiries were set on foot eaoh of the children was in ignorance of the exist ence of the other, and they will not only now meet their grandmother for the first time, but a brother youDger than them selves. General Grant Abroad—The Question of Returning Ua Is Made Upon Him. [From the London World ] Two somewhat grave questions have been exercising the pandits of social eti quette during the last few days. Tho first—ought General and Mrs. Grant to return the numerous visits which have been paid to them during their stay iu London? The second—supposing tho preceding query decided in the affirma tive, would the General and his wife ac as etiquette appeared to enjoin ? Tho first question is not so easily solved as may at first appear. Royalty never re turns other thau royal visits, except as a matter of gracious condescension. The President of the United States certainly is pro tanto a sovereign. Now does the rule “once a King always a King,” apply mutatis mutandis to ex Presidents iu the matter of calling? Tho learned differed. The second question has been positively settled. General and Mrs. Grant, albeit a little late in the day, and by proxy have since their departure left their cards on all those who called on them, and who might fairly (to use the Orleans Ciub term) be considered “in general society.” The ist, even thus limited, contains over thirty-five hundred names. The United Service Club, sometimes called the “Senior” and sometimes tha “Sarcopha gus,” did its duty nobly in entertaining General Grant last week. But some of the veterans were a little scandalized at the license which prevailed that same night in the club. Smoking was freely indulged in, not only in the drawing room, but all over the house, General Grant aud the Duke of Cambridge Bat ting the example. Now on all ordinary occasions the use cf tobacco is strictly limited to a room ju3t under the roof, and this wide spread contamination was a shook to many prejudices. Among the French there is a saying that prayers should be short and sweet. General Grant has a similar idea of eloquenoe. When ho arrived at Ostend a few days ago, ho answered the compliments of the Burgomaster with these words: “I am obliged for your sentiments.” One of the latest Yankee ideas is a Turkish bath on wheels. It is a car that can run behind the sleeping coaches of an express train. It has a drawingroom, a Russian and plunge bath, shampooing rooms, and all the other accommodations of a Turkish bath house. The tempera ture of the rooms varies from eighty to one hundred and sixty degrees, and the compartments are lighted from the roof with bine glass. Travelers oan bathe as well as eat, drink and sleep on the rail. Such a car cau be switched off on a side track in any town or village and remain a day or two for the accommodation of the residents. Nine hundred and twenty physicians, surgeons and general practitioners of London have signed a petition for the abolition of the grocers’ license, under which retailers of ordinary groceries are permitted to sell intoxicating liquors in bottles. They regard the practice under this license law as even more pernicious than open dram selling, since it tends to encourage secret drinking and drunken ness at home. The Southern Pacific is about to plant a quarter of a million eucalyptus trees along the line of their track." Preparing for ties in the sweet bye-and-bye. A Paris letter tells of a lunatic arrested a few days ago in Fontainebleau forest, where he had killed a woodman by chop ping off his head. He was found sitting by the corpse's side, and was asked “What are you doing there?" “I am waiting to see the wry face this fellow will make when he wakes np and finds no head on his shonnders,” he replied. A statue of Shakespeare, ten feet high, and modeled by Herr von Muller, has just been cast at Munich for erection in a park at St. Louis, Mo. ( The Distribution of Labor. The inequalities in the distribution of labor, as evinced in the excess of the labor supply over the demand oast of the Alleghanies, and of the converse of that condition iu the|agricultural districts at the West, has never been more signally demonstrated than at the present time. In all the Atlantic cities and along the lines of the great trunk roads there are thousands of men out of employment. At the same tune in the agricultural fields of tho West the farmers are offer ing high prices for hands to assist in gathering their crops. A citizen of Bal timore, who has passed through Missou ri, states that large areas of wheat were standing in the fields waiting for hands to assist in harvesting it, and farmers were offering two dollars anda half a day to all who wonld come forward and help. There is not only great need of labor there, but the labor is well paid, and, although it may not find constant employment at such high prices as now prevail, it can at least get work for a considerable period that would enable those who are willing to work to tide over their present difficul ties. Moreover, these great western crops also give promise of an ac tive carrying trade, from which the em ployes on railroads might reasonably take hope and courage. The complaint of the strikers is two fold—a redaction of wages .and short time. With the pros pective activity on the railroads conse quent upon the removal of the crops, it is fair to anticipate, in the presence of a steady and probably an unusually heavy foreign demand for breadstuffs, that tha railroads, when shipments of grain begin, will bs worked if not to their full capacity, certainly well up to it. If such should turn out to be the case it must necessarily follow that the train hands— for it is they who organized tha strike— will be able to make fall time, which, even at low wages, would be nearly double what they now are. But with in creased business and earnings by the rail ways increased pay to the employes must follow in due course.—Baltimore Sun. —» ■ m ■ • Wages and LiTing. It is never possible to say precisely what the absolutely necessary cost of liv ing is, and it is not desirable that the wages of labor shall be reduced to the lowest point at which the laborer can maintain life. On the contrary, it is for the interest of all classes of men that the laborer shall receive as much more than a bare living in return for his labor as the condition of business will permit. It is certain, however, that wages are to some extent measured by the cost of living; if the cost of living increases wages must increase, and if the cost of living de creases there must be some corresponding redaction in the rate of wages. During the years of inflation the cost of living was greatly increased, and wages were about doubled. Since the panic of 1873, however, the cost of liv ing has steadily declined, until now it is not very far from the standard of I860. Has the rate of wages deolined in the same ratio ? Iu 1860 railway engineers were paid sixty dollars a month; they now receive from sixty-seven dollars and a bait to ninety dollars a month; firemen and brakemen, who in 1860 received thirty dollars, now get from forty to forty-five dollars a month; so that while the cost of living ha3 returned very nearly to what it was in 1860, the races ot wages are considerably higher than they were in that year. Men naturally dislike to have their in comes reduced, whether their incomes are from the work of their hands or their heads, or from money invested; but nothing is clearer than that the reduc tion in the cost of living is brought about by a redaction in the selling price of the products of labor, and with that selling price reduced, tha price of labor must fall or production must cease.—Evening Post. A Fable Tor Strikers. When the Roman citizens were once at loggerheads with their Senate, and had moved out ot Rome on a strike, Me- nenins Agrippa, “an eloquent man and a favorite with the people, because he de rived his origin from them,” went out to their camp and related to them a fable, which we recommend to the strikers and the working men generally just now: “At a time,” said he, “when all the parts of the human body did not as now agree together, but the several members had each its own scheme and its own language, the other parts became indig nant that everything was procured for the belly by their care, labor and service, and that the belly, remaining quiet in the centre, did nothing but enjoy the pleasures afforded it. They conspired accordingly that the hands should not convey food to the mouth, nor the month receive it when presented, nor the teeth chew it. But while they expected thus to subdue the belly by famine, the mem bers themselves aud the entire body were reduced to the last degree of emaciation. Thence it became apparent to them by a disagreeable experience that the belly did no more receive nourishment than supply it, sending to all parts of the body and to all the members the blood by which we live and possess vigor.” It is an ancient fable, but it applies j ust as well in these days. The strikers now, as in the old times, complain that the belly enjoys undue privileges, bat when they attempt to isolate it they see that famine overtakes the members, and that a wholesome co-operation of all the parts is the only possible course by which any or either can prosper.—Hew York Herald. M.uhiied Undeb the Shadow or Death.—Dr. Wm. E. H. Post made the acquaintance some years ago of Miss M iry H. Milford, daughter of the late Edward Milford, of New York. He wooed and won her, and they pledged themselves to become man and wife. The years roiled by, but each year only seemed to increase their love. Last Fri day Dr. Post was suddenly taken ill with' inflammation of the bowels. The dis ease rapidly assumed dangerous symp toms, and on Monday it was plainly seen he could not recover. Wh6n informed of his fatal malady he expressed a wish to see bis intended wife, and if she were willing, to become united with her in the bonds of matrimony. She was informed of his wish and consented. Accordingly at five o’clock on Monday afternoon everything wa3 made ready for the wed ding in the room of the bridegroom at No. 233 West Fifty-first street. It was a pathetic ceremony. No months of anx ious preparations had been spent for the occasion. There were no br.l.iant lights or sweet music or costly costumes. It was simple and solemn. The Rev. Dr. Houghton, of the Church of the Trans figuration, was called in to conduct the services, which were only of a few min utes’ duration. When the ceremony was concluded, the sick man was nursed as before. In less than two hours the bride groom was a corpse and the bride a widow.—H. Y. Tribune. The following advertisement appeared in a late number of the Gazzeita diItalia, which is published at Florence and Rome: “Any man, widower or bachelor, who is at liberty to dispose of his person and his hand, aud who desires to change his soli tary life, may present himself at the ad dress below if he suits the requirements, and may rely upon hearing from ns. The candidate to the position of my son-in- law must have at least a passably good looking exterior; mast have gone through the four classes of a gymnase, or have re ceived an equally good education at home; must give proofs of affection for his wife, whom he will choose from among my three daughters; and must, further more, be in all things obedient to and never gainsay the will of her parents. We do not requ'ue rlohes, but the per sons who take up my offer must be more than twenty-two years old, and not be under any form of judicial censure. Any religion except Jewish will be accepted. The dowry consists of money guaranteed by the bank of Nezrik & Co., and can be drawn out in the course of the first month of the honeymoon. The total of the ages of my three daughters is one hun dred and seven. Come, look, and take. Russia, Province of Kiew, District of Lipovetz, Village of Salohicbooka. “Ad amo Itansky.” How is this for an essay on moles: “Themule isagood worker,but he cannot be depended on. He is liable to strike, and when a male strikes, human calcula tion fails to find out any rale by which to reckon when he will go to work again. It is useless to pound him, for he will stand more beating than a sitting-room carpet. He has been known to stand eleven days in one spot, apparently thinking of something, and then start off again as though nothing had happened.” Next year’s tuition in the University of Mississippi will be free. The State ap propriation is thirty thousand dollars.