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Newspaper Page TextNEWS OF THE WEEK. EAST. Reporta from the trades of New York and Brooklyn ►how threo times a* many men out of employment a* At tho mmo lime lant year, and the auapension.of building on ac count of cold weather will aoou add largely to tho number. Tho accidental breaking of the driv ing-wheel at Clark’s thread works, Newark, N. J., caused aloes of twenty thousand dollars, and throws thteo hnndrod of the one thousand operatives—mostly females- out of employ- WEST. Gleason A Fell, dry goods merchants of Han Francisco, have failod for #'200,000. A communication having been re ceived from the Cheyonno agency, in Dakota, to tho effect that about sixty white men. min ers', art) working in tho 81oux reservation in the Black hills, Secretary Delano requests the war department to remove all such persons who may Ik* found trespassing, that trouble with tho Indians'may ho avoided. Th.* census of the Indiana hclougiug > Bed Cloud agency shows 0,330 Ogallalla Him beside* some 900 OgalialiM, who aro hunlir on the lie publican rivtr, and about 1,000 Met nocorjas and other northern Blonx, who ra The following in an extract from an msial dispatch of Gel. Miles. It refers to he girls whoso rescue from tho Indians was unounced some time .go: During tho fight wo white girls were recap ured from tho In- liana. It appears thoy aro sisters, Adelaide nd Julia German, aged five atul eovon years eapeotively, and wore oapturod in Kansas on he route from Georgia. To tho colonel thoy tato that their father, mother, brother, and no Sister, were murdered, and that thoy and wo other sisters wore kept prisoners. They iav« no positive knowledge of their w hero- bout*. Tnelr story of woo and suffering is (EDAIiTOWN RECORD. W. S, D, WIKLE & CO., Proprietors, (■EDAIITOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1874. VOL. 1. NO. 25. national usages of war, tiona applicable to wide: American states will bo invit In tho deliberations. It is al, United Staton will bo roprose rritoi to partioipa inped that II d al tho 00 As tho American ship Nancy IVmllo id and red. The Advices from Spa ano will go north 1101 A Havouu letter smallest debts. \Yli state that Her- e every care and attention. When strong h to endure tho Journey they will be rded to Leavenworth. I most earnratly mend that an amplo annual provision Ik* SOUTH. John Morri sey is going to establish nt. tax has be A DOWER OF HOSES. Florida. Rep. ambling hell at Jacksonville, ( >ni Iho Rio Orando stale I 1 It wu E. B. Wentworth, n posteffleo ol«*rk i Uils HU.7en money found upon him. Austin Hill and Cornelius William MISCELLANEOUS. A general order has beon promulp ora the war department announcing tin Tilting is resumed under certain rontrld Loss, four thou nd dol The Louiainnn jockey club lmvn ton- | r red the grand commaudery of Louisiana a | lagniflcont testimonial, to be awarded to tlio mimandory showing tho boat drill and dis- of the T. T, Brooks, 0 nviotod nt Richmond, ' nt of the Morelia lioAtbanv pen! "I al five thousand dollars. I illaway and Brainard Hmlth, 1 the ^thoroughbred stallion 1 A t* rribb. storm ooonrrrd nt Tasonm- a. Ala., on the night of tho Mil. dwUroring io-thinl of the roaidence*. Twelve pora ms ern killn.1 and many other* Injured. Mrs h<-ton, the wifo and two children of Hon. J. TI10 Pottsvill * Work! 1 ,1! she lmd when she onmo to 'ofjmo-u bunch of .Tuno roses. Their iho j sweet scent now carries me buck to the dng ! time- the warm, sunny, summer morn- 0 is 1 ing— when she stood at my tloor in her | little cotton gown, the roses trembling ' in her timid grasp, and her great brown ; eyes wet with tears, looking up, pito- tod otiHly, into mine. Ten twenty—how ro- 1 many years ago in it? Ah mo!—ami I >dh1 1 till live! I was a younger woman then, rated My life was one long day of pleasure, ltd. ,1 My husband lnvod me—I worshipod . , . him; but yet - I was not happy. Like I llaohel, I' mourned and wept, and .. t i, B ! would not be comforted. “Give me ,, ! children, or T die," wna the bitter ory 1 , I moaned inoossantly. Then there 110 enmo lo me one day, m answer to my rebellious, wiekod thought, n groat !iM r 1 sorrow. Death instead of life lay on ' my bosom, and 1 found myself, while > P nn * still a young woman, widowed ns well >»«• j an ohildloBH 1 L 3(w When I awoke from tho torrlhlu lou pf npathy of grief, which hold mo for a «itn- lime m its pitiless embrace, I looked 1 unity j around me, and thought, "There in ' surely something for me to do in this s not great world. I will make reparation for my nin. May there not bo in this , ' Wide world some lit!lo child as lone us I?--some motherless one, who shall R bewailing for—tho ohildless?" Then 10 nr> . I determined to search for snob a 0110, ' and 1 made the tour, religiously, of all 1 hk 11 • k t j 10 ^aritable institutions, far and "Pj beautiful child of eight—no beautiful that tho pooplo on the street, turned to look at her, and called her " while- rose," and "red-rose,”ami “wild-rose,” when they learned her fanciful name. I had utterly forgotten thoro had ever boon a time when I did not own her, when, at last, thoro caiuo a terrible shock to my romomhranoo I I t was in the early fall, and hitter cold. T had (Ires burning in sitting room and library for several days; and nt night 1 ordered that tho windows should not bo closed no early, as I had a fancy that ohocrtul homo-lights shining out on weary wayfarers might brighton their paths amt thoughts; and my homo being jnst on the outskirts of the town, it was no uncommon thing for passers- by, at nightfall, to stop sometimes and look in. Wo werosittiug together in the libra- ry—my darling and I. Him cuddled up beside mo, looking over some pictures of buds and flowors, when I heat * footstep on tho gravel-walk bosido the window ; turning, T saw a woman's face. 1 walked over toward it, and it vanished in tho dnrknoss, “Ah! some poor traveler, perchance," I thought, " who has dared to steal a look in on my homo- lmppinoBS. T hopo she has a little ono waiting for her somewhere!" and I kissed my Rosomario in tho fullness of my happy heart. Tho following morn ing, very early, I was told a stiauge lady wished to speak with me. “ Hho would not givo any name, and had no card," the servant said. I went down immediately, oxpooting, as usual, in those oases, a solicitation for alms—for alms, I said ! As I enter ed the parlor, a woman, very beautiful, young, and elegantly attired, rose to meet me. Iter nmnnor was graceful ami Improssivo, and yet I saw directly she wan not a lady—nay, oven past my claiming her an a pure woman and sister! "Yon have u child?" shO began, in terroga ively. "llmve,” I answered, a little stir- prised at her strange, abrupt manner. Walking over to where T still stood, she glanced at mo with wild eyes, cry ing my child, 1 lie! HI10 have eoiue for her 1 stepped backward, and should have fallen, possibly, but my quick ear caught tlm patter of my darling's littlo foot upon tho stairs, and as sho oanio trip ping into tho room-oh! no pure, and swoet, and lovoly 1—I summoned all tho strength and courage at my command, and said, in a low, firm touo to tho woman, who still glared at me : " Flush !—not u word boforo her I" Hho looked down at tho child, and up at me, and then darling's fnco in But with suoii —such frightful ror nil its beauty which is vrnt with 1 •I shall kn ami owtiod 1*7 of Chicago, a Ilambistonian ont on the contrary ones who needed all the help tlm ,M tho Welsh ami freoly offered, but none that I felt *tr..iig union men. my heart was the little child for whori Innistor-pomwni 1 who should be waiting foi Mai homf*. A briilgs on the Mempl.l* and Cha ton railroad wa* dnatroyed, and tho oast* boom! train was precipitated into Spring ci Fortnnatelv, no ono wa* killed, Tlio ongi *ra« badly burned. It *111 bo amoral .lay, foro train* will run through. The /n appeal* to IluntavlUa, Louiavillc, Nadir Memj'h:*, » d adjoining town* in tho f., ing 101.1;- Nearly hair our town ia in ri Twelve persona have boon killed and 1 FOREIGN. Tho Chinese government has ordered A frightful mountain disaster is rc- ' -rted on the great Ht Bernard. Eleven per- m* wore buried in tlio anew, and it 1* anp- * ' " have perished. expedition, to bo the Britiah govornmmt, Lady rs the offer of a reward of £10,- overy of the official record* of I [ | The Paciflo Mail sto hideous lines of p marks of disnipali and purity! " Wlmt is your name?" sho asked tlm child, and her voice lost its harsh sound and grew full and low ns sho speko. Coming to my aide and putting her littlo hand in mine, n<t though sho felt. Homo. Uidilrtu danger, m,v darling nnswnrod : "I am mamma’s Rosemarie.” The woman made a step toward lier ; then T clasped her closer to my arras, and whispered quickly : "do to your room, look tho door, and open to nono but me," and I kissed her, and she ran away." " Now," said I, closing tho door and seating myself beside it, "now I will hear all you have to say to me." The woman looked down at mo- looked all over tho room and back to me again—thon, seeing something in my fnee, sho seemed to loso her bravado, and began in a husky voice, whioh grow shrill and sharp ns sho wont on: "Who ate you, that oalls my child yours? Wlial right have you to her? You stoln her ; 1 never gave her up. I lmvo searched for her for yonrs. 1 liavo found her at last., sho is mine, and I’ll have her I" I shuddered at hor words, hut an* sworod o.d inly, and my heart scorned to have grown still, so faint it throbbed and bra : “ You ask what right 1 have to tho child? What right have you to tho littlo one yon left lo the mercies of a oold, wide world ? You throw lmr away-f savolherl Hho may be born of your body, hut hor soul is mine I" Him paood tho room now, and up and down like some enged thing, then, speaking with vohomenoo, she cried, passionately : " 1 swear I’ll have my child ! and I’ll passion a t cl y j break every door and window in your j fine house to get her," and sho struck oat, penitent heart., , wlmn 1 see her," I mny friends who all the child I wanted, rrarohing through found many little iled all tho help that I A year pawned thus, and by Iho grave ’ faces, and half-hoard whispers of my friends, I saw thoy thought my grief had turned my brain, and that I sought • but a phantom of my imagination. The time onmo, however, when I found my child 1 They were going through • the sink-ward o! a " Homo for Friend less Littlo Ones” in an eastern city, one day In Juno, when, from a littlo -' cot in the extreme oornor of tlm room, . 1 I saw two gn at brown eyes looking up at me piteously. 1 left my companions 1 j hurriedly to run toward tin and sto ping down 1 1 kissed tho beautiful face. "Aro you my mamma?" the soft j the door with h 5 ! voice asked, tremulously, tho littlo face pleasure beneath ray r olonohed hand as slm filling ok, 1 The Largest Ir -ria.i An.) i-clad Pot of tl The R Great, which was bnilt after the designs j of Adjutant-Genera! Popoffin 1872, wan j sent on its first trial trip from Oron- Btftdt on the 15th of October, aepom panied by the steam frigate Kuril:. P started at ten o’clock iu tho morning, and after steaming out of the harbor went out to sf-H at the rate of twelve knots an hour. After proceeding at this speed for a short time it was found that one of tho ship’s screws was daw aged, ami it had to put bark for ropaiis. Ac oording to tho flolos, I hr. Peter the Great is at present the moat powerful iron-clad afloat. 1»b hull is 333 feet long by 63 feet 3 inches wide; it has a double bottom, and ia covered with ar- plates to n depth of darling,” I whispered our mamma,” and slm ns round my nook in a cIoho embrace, that knit my heart to hern forever after 1 All, I knew then that my husband in heaven had sent rue to tins littlo ono; for f saw hirn looking through her eyes straight into mine 1 f a«ked few ques tions concerning her, and they told mo littlo ; knowing nothing more than that hIiu was a waif rescued from the tempest of tho wicked, outside world ; but Ibis much I gladly learned—she should bn mine! I wanted her at once to take h* r with me in my carriage at the door —bnt it was nesessary, they told me, in order that she might bo legally mine, that a form shoal l bo preliminarily gone through with, before I could take Ii-r from “The Home;’’ and ho f wn« obliged to wait another day for my " Hilonco | ” T commanded, looking int/> her angry eyes with mine. “ Lis ten to me, and if when I li ve finished what I have to nay you can still tako her from me, I will yield her without a word. Yes,” J continued, os she looked up from the Iringoa of the shawl she was tearing, and seemed surprised, " yes, I will give her up to you, though it will break my heart 1 ’’ and I felt I looked tlio words I uttered. Hho grow calmer, and I went on earnestly: "For five happy yoars I lmvo been a mother to your littlo ono. I took her, poor and friondloss and sick, from a homo of charity. Hho had been rescued, thoy told mo, from tho arms of a drunken, depraved mother, who threatened lo kill the child if left to her mercy. I have ministered to her comfort anil welfare, physically and mentally, all these years. Hho bears my name, and as she gr< 1 the water-lii It hai riding will compe lany The King Kalakona, of Hiawaii, is on hi* way to this country by tho uteainer Beni- cio. IIo appoints 1 Prince Dolewhowkee re gent during bin »b*ence in the United State*. Ho has also been proclaimed unccettnor to Iho throne. The Italian parliament was opened by Victor Emanuel in person. Hi* speech re- la’fd mainly.to tlio reorganization of the fl- nncial eye'on of tho country and measures for the public safety. The king we* warmly cheered. Tin* Spanish government has express ed a willingnees to pay the indemnity in the V rginitw ca*e to the United Htafei’ govern- ermrent, on the eamo basin as that with which Groat Britian wa>> eatixflod for the outrage per, etrated on her subjects. The captain, officors and crew, four white men and several native niilor* of the critter Lapwing, on a voyage to Nonpie* from N .. Caledonia, ntoppod*Bt Santa Cruz island for pr.ri-ions. Tho Ravage* mattered all except line native ►ailor, and destroyed the A special dispatch from 8t. Peters burg states that Russia is desirous of enlatg- ing the eoop* of a new conference on inter- ith four 12 inch rifle gnus, whoso muzzles will be 11 feet above the water. Tho plates over the wuter lino are 14 inches thick, with a 10 inch backing 13-low the water- line the thickness of the platen is 12 ; inohes, and of the backing the samo. child! 1 dreamed of hor all night, and my husband came to me, Haying, “You have done well! ” With the dawn of day f My pr the peace. 1 a ■ ^Pt The moro dirt the ra« New York is finding to worst form of throat disease is us an epidemic, and its preval plainly traced to unfavorable flanit conditions, chief of which is imperf drainage. New York is specially b ject to malarial diseases, fed by per nial springH, which permeate in ev direction the original topograph I should l ave ray darling, last n timid knock at the door made rny heart leap for j »y, and opening, there she stood—a littlo child with a bunch .ria, as i of roses 1 They wore her dower from Thin i the only home’ she know—a home of ruging charity—and yet the tears still tre bled in her eyes, and the sobs were torn •v from her baby-breast at leaving it! I c 'l ! folded her close to my bosom, and told b- j her she was my own little daug her n . now—that God had sent mo to bo her rv | mamma—and she laughed up at me , of! through her tears, and put the rcses in the island. Over these streets have i m .y h a ^d» saying : j been graded, the intervening blocks ! * bring them to filled up, and *’ bring of buildings erected, i I •»'? KpHemario. for she was while beneath lies the nndrained eatur-! “7 rose * * dated all her birth- ated soil, giving off its Jlauip, chilling, I Jays from that sunny day in June when malarious slmosphere. sho had come to me wth them. I orew 1 to love her as no other mother ever loved Av English lady was on the deck of a | a child. She was to rne ray all—my ship when there wsb a slight mutiny, 1 husband—my religion. But for he and the ringleader head by the captain. On recovering from a long fit of Bea-Hicknees, and com ing on deck after several days, she sa* very p.ailor at thowheel, and going | up to him asked ! now ?” “ West by uorth, ! the answer. yonr htai fault that £ could mother Bay moro ? She had been hood, will bo socially respected ns daughter. At my death, all I pos becomes hers; and I love her. Yi I you are her mother 1 Don yon auk ,s nwako, U) givo her hack t/j you ? ’’ high with the rising of Hho did not speak, but kept on toar- 1 T began to feel a blessed | ing off the fringes of her shawl ; thon, patiently the hour j at last, with a bitter, hard laugh, she ' said, in a sneoring tone : “ It is plain to bo seen you never had a child 1 To ank a mother snob a question 1 ’ I felt tho sting sho meant I should, bnt I answered her again : “True, I have never had a child. I have never been a mother—but”—and I looked her in tho oves as l spoke, as woman to woman—“can you ask mo for tho child again? Where will you take her? What will you'mako of her?" And T utterly gave way, weeping as I never wept before. Hue rose from her seat now, looked at mo intently, for somo minnton, then ooming oloso to where I sat, still weeping, she silently took my hind with both hers, and kneeling, kissed it, saying, in a low, half-smoth ered voice ; “ I wish I had known you years ago. Keep her. I give yon my littlo daughter, and £ will never trouble you nor her again. Ho help mo God 1 ” With these words, she wentoutof my house, arid ont of town, and I never saw nor heard of her again. When my darling was sixteen year old, I told nrr the story of her mo'ht d her life as far as 1 knew, and should some day, perhaps, have be come a cold, heartless woman of tho world. Hho saved me—from myself 1 And she was so lovely and fragrant and swoot. Oh, that I lay dord with them 1 Hho listened nil through my tale without a word, and whou I had lluished, aim threw her arms around my nook, and sobbed kissed mo, but she never asked a single question, or spake of her early life again to mo. I fancied, though, that over nftor alio scorned to lovo roses, for she wore them continually in hor hair, at hor throat, and in hor bolt. Ah, those days 1 Why could not lifo have gone on forever iu thnt sweeot compan ionship? There came a change. It was in tho yonr of tho great religious rovivnl. A strange, new minister thon onmo to oui town, amV-With his eloq«on* pretoohtug, 4wk*n<ni ni the uonrts or tho pooplo far and-near a sonso of their sin and un- worthiness. IIo was a man of rare nbility, as woll as of rare attractions, Under his iutlnonoo many of our pooplo gathered into tho ohmoh. Among tho number wns my darling. Hho luid over been of a serious turn of mind, and now, with this zealous, ardent young shepherd to lend hor, sho became at lost ono of tho host beloved lambs of his lloolc. Ah, yes I “ lovo took up the f jlass of time and turned it in his glow- ng hands,” and I onmo in time to dis cover that, dourly as sho loved me. thoro i\s a “ nearer and dearor ono still.” I answered “yes,” whon at last ho aamo to ask me for the baud of hor Whose heart ho held, but 1 told him fii^t her story, which he said he knew, id “ loved her all tho more for.” Oh, World looked sp bright, to mo then I y darling was to marry at once, and liiip with mo just tho samo, and 1 was singing n song of thanksgiving down m.v hourt day and night. As the time urow near for tho mar ine, tho minister oaiue to mo ono day A said it had boon tho dosit-o of his D to go nbroad, and now, with tho kind permission and assistance of his congregation, ho had t ooidod to do so with hm bride. It staitled mo to think I must pnrt with my darling after all. and I said I would go too; bnt I fancied 1m looked displeased, and think ing ho would doubtless prefor his rose witliont a thorn, I gavo up my ohjoo- tious. It was hard. Hho had boon mine—mine so long—and I must yield They would rotnrn iu tho fall, lie said, and so I oould count tho days sho would bo away from mo. When her trouHtr.au was being nmdo she would have nothing but of the very plainest, the most necessary, and would a (Wont no “ portion" from mo as n woduimr gift. I shall take him my ‘dower of n,’" sho would answor my remon- etrauoes at. her porsistont refusal. You found it enough 1 Will not he ?" When she stood in hor bridal robes ready for the ohnroh, and ho onmo for hor that boautifnl Jnuo morning, sho put in his hand her grout bunch of white roses, saying (as she said to mo tlmt morning long ago). “I bring them to Von. Thoy aro my (lower ;” and he bout down and kissed hor. Oh, that v&bul fnLlttJi dead M Uor. loot J - Th*y went abroad. Lottors onmo nt flrkt froqnoht nud gay with littlo stories of travol nud snatches of imppiuoss run ning through them ; then thoy oamo ijuioter in touo—a littlo Had, £ fancied “ homesick for me,” my glad heart throbbed—and then thoy oensod to oomo nt all ; and tho fall onmo. and winter, nud still my darling did not 00me. T did not hear. I wrote and wrote; the pooplo shook their bonds and talked, and finally I full ill, Oloso to “ the valley of tho shadow of death" I punned, and when I wandered hack into the green pastures again, a sad, gray-haired old woman looking ont at me from the glass. Ohristmns evo. I sat ovor tho mu. ui#y.ing and dreaming always of my darling. I saw hor, as I had soon her last, so bright nml beautiful in her bridal robes, and then I soomod to soo she oamo to me that sweet Juno morning long ago, iu hor littlo cotton gown, and with tho bunoh of roses trembling in hor timid grasp. Thon she changed again, and lay there at my feet a woman, wan and pale, J put out both rny hands, and sho did not go. I whis pered, “Is it you, my dorliog?” and tho plmntmn whispored Imok, oh 1 so sadly: “ Yes it iu. I oomo to you once again, lmt I have not oven a rose to bring this time; rny rosos aro ull dead I” I rubbed my eyes, and still it did not vanish. And it was she I—my own— my darling—my Rosemarie—a faded se, alas I all pale and drooping. Oh 1 the wicked, cruel story I loarnod, littlo by littlo. How tho “dower of roses” had not been the fortune whioh her husband had coveted and hoped to in through mo ! How her persistent fasnls to receive a marriage portion had been met with sneers and npbv rid ings from him, and finally, when tho lamb’s mantle had fallen from his na ture, revealing the wolf, how, neglected, sick, and uncarod for, iu a strange land, sho had summoned strength and oour- ugo at the lust lo leave her husband and homo alone, over tho sen, to my to die—aye, to die 1 For, whon tho roses bloomed again, they (looked hors and hor babe’s death robes. And whon thoy oomo again, oh, may they blossom on my grave 1 The Stove Swindle. Persons familiar with tho cost of iron oustings in general business have ofton, doubtless, wondered what-thoro was in stoves over similar fabrics of iron to make thorn so expensive to nsers of Compared to bods, tables, chairs, carpets and other articles of prime nioossity in household use thoy are exorbitantly high. Thoy last no longer than domestic wares generally, and it would seem ought to approxi mate in price to other utensils. Tho life of a good stove years, according longi " ~ from five to ten used, which is than bedsteads, elmirs, tables and other furniture of similar quality endure. Tho Iron Molder’s Journal gives somo faots as to 'the cost of mak ing stoves whioh are of general interest. Mr. John 8. Perry, of Albany, calcu lates that a gross ton of iron will make 2,120 pounds of dean oustings; whioh would furnish seven stoves of 300 pounds each. Ho fnrthor calculates that tho oost of molding per 100 pounds is 81.871, which wohld make tho work on a stove cost 84.14# for molding. No. I foundry iron was quoted in New York. September 10, nt $30 per ton, whioh nt Mr. Perry’s figures, would make the iron in a 800-ponnd stove cost $1 28; tho not coat for the stove in question being $8 40. Bnch stoves aro sold by dealers without any furniture at $28 to $38, aooordiug to finish. The Hpectator says that “ young love and young lovers are at a discount in , tho novels of the period ; and married whom tno reader was form LONDON THE HUE AT. ' (lie Me oil*. Ill few cities are thoro moro than half a dozen railway stations. Iu T. there are at least 150. H.mie of the railways never pass beyond the limits, nud of one, tho Tottenham and Hamp stead, Punch says : “No ono ovor trav els by, as no one knows where it begins or whore it ends." Tho Motropoli! and other intramural railways run trains evory three or five minutes, and oonvoy from twenty to fifty millions of passen gers annually. Glnphnm in tho great southwestern* in notion, and through it 700 - iratns pimn every day. Its plat- forms tiro so numerous, and its under ground passages and overground bridges so perplexing, thnt to find tho light train is one of tlioso things “ thnt no follow oan understand.” As a proof of tho expansive nature of London fra file, it wub supposed thnt, whon tho Metro politan railway was opened, all tho city to Paddington omnibuses would bo run off the ground ; but, although it oarriod forty-throo millions of passengers last year, it has boon found neoossary to in crease tho number of omnibusos ou tho sonthorn route, nud thoy yield ono por oont. moro revenue than boforo tho opening of tho railway. Besides tho railways, thoro are somo fourteen or flftoon thousand tram-o omnibuses and cabs traversing tho stroots; thoro aro linos of known only to tho inhabitants of their own localities—such as tlioso across tho Isle of Dogs, from Poplar to Milwall; from London bridge, aloug Tooloy stroot to Dookboad, eto. Tho London omnibus company have 508 omnibuses, whioh oarry fifty millions of passongors annually. It is moro dangorous to walk tho stroutH of London than to travel by rail way or cross tho Atlautio. Last year 125 persons wore killed, and 2,518 in- juroa by vehicles in tho stroots, Hnp- posing evory individual man, woman and oliilil mado ono journey on foot in London par diem, whioh is considerably above tho average, tho deaths would ho ono in eleven millions, whilo the rail ways only kill about ono in fifty mil lions of passengers, nud the Canard company of Atlantic stonmerB l must of hnvitig never lost a passenger, Other instance* pf tho immensity of the population of London, uro that three quartern of a million of business men outer tho city in the morning and leave it in tho ovoning for their suburban residences. Thoro are 10,000 polioo- .as many cub drivors, and the samo number of persons oonneotod with tho nostofllee, eaoli of whom, with their families, would make a largo, town. Whon London makes a holiday, there novornl pi noon of resort, snob as tho Crystal palace, tho Zoological gardens, Kow gardens, oto., whioh absorb from thirty to fifty thousand visitors ohoIi. The oost of gas for lighting is $2,500,- 000 annual]y ; the water supply is ono hundred millions of gallons per diem. Iu the year 1873, there were 673 * •find for the |riir|kWl^«ffppTymff mation on the passing events of the day, 814 daily and weekly nowspupors aro ‘oquired. Wlmt London will evontmilly become t is idlo to prodiot. It already stands n four oountios. and iH striding on to a fifth (Herts). Tho probability is that by the end of the oontury, the popula tion will exceed five millions, nml will have quintupled itself in tho century. Hhould it progrosfl at an eqnnl rate in tho next, it will in tho year 2,000 amount to the enormous aggregate of twonty- five millions; and tho question that naturally nrisus is how could such a multitude ho suppliod with food. But tho fact is the more its population in- ins tho hotter thoy are foil. In the Plantngonet days, when tho population not a third of n million, fnminos 1 of frequent ooourronoo, but now, with tho command of the pastures, the harvests, and tho fisheries of tho world, starvation becomes an almost impossi ble ovontuallty even with tho twenty- ni'llions of mouths to food,—Lon don OU]/ Pir.Hn, PisyIng Strategy on the Kedsklns. Corporal John Hmith, of tho 40th infantry, with four men, was recently employed on some detail, about twenty- fivo miles from Fort Hill, Idaho. Whilo thus engaged ho was surprised by a body of some hundred or more mounted Indians, ho thinks either Kiowus or Ooraanohes. As their pur- whb unmistakably hostile, ho and men lost no time iu taking to the oniy available shelter, an old buffalo wallow, where in a very uncomfortable, constrained position, thoy managed to protect their bodies and keep their ono- inios at n distance for tho day and night. Tho next morning, however, their suf ferings for want of food and water bo- came rather serious, and something had to 1)0 done. Corporal Hmith was equal to the occasion. Taking a piece of his white shirt flap, tho only substi tute for papor to bo bad, ho wroto a noto describing their situation, secured it witli oaro to tho neck of a small, shaggy, mongrel dog which had fol lowed them from thg fort; thon, batter ing up a oautoon, ho fastened it to tho animal’s tail, one of tho mon oarefully holding tho dog in the meanwhilo, tho others attending to tho defense. Next toking a pad of tlio ooramon blue floworoil oftctus, whioh grow abundantly nil around thoir impromptu fortross, and which, besides the usual seines and prickles, has all around its edge large burrs, ranch like those of tho ooramon northern bnrdook, ho calmly planted it nndor tho roof of tlio dog's tail. Then, lifting his hand, he administered one whnoK upon the animal's posterior, and, to quote tho corporal’s own expression, “Ho just humped himself.” Tho In dians, taking it to bo a more not of bravado, £ presume, made no attempt to stop him, and within two hours from tho time I10 started tho dog reached the post, fluooor was immediately sent, and tho bravo corporal and his com rades brought in, tho Indians making off at the first sight of tha resone party, at tho distance of several miles. SAYINGS JlND DOINGS. The shirt whioh buttons behind hai and a renervo of 1,740,000. Austria lias made so muoh progress in tho dovolop raont of tier military rosouroos that she oould take tho field with from 500,000 to 000,000 raou. Italy oould follow with 400.000 mon, and Turkey with 200,000, while wo liavo 5(H),000 to de fend our o*vn soil, and oould contribute 70,000 to 80,000 men toward tho prose cution of nil European war. Tho Last Supper. A correspondent of tho Dotroit Tri bune, writing from Milan, says : “ Yon g ) to an old cavalry barrack, formerly tho oonvout Hanot 11 Maria dollu Grnzio, and find, as host you cun, tho hall thnt wus'used aa tho rofootory of that insti tution ; and thoro is ‘ The Lnst|Huppor,’ by Leonmdo da Vinoi. a fresco of im perishable renown, although about per ished itself. Everybody in Christen dom has seen pictures of this pioturo, from oopics mado when it was possible to seo the original, whether possible to oopy it or not. Hixtceu years the artist toiled at this fresco. Had it been done on canvas instead of on u wall, ofton damp, it would to-day rival tho ‘ Trous figuration’ by Raphael. Tho first quar ter of an hour ope stnuds boforo it hiH feeling is as when iu a room where some renowned end god-like olmrnoter has lived ; tho onoupunt has forovor do- pnrtod. Ah you see the forms of Ohrht and tlio twelvo it is as if you had boon led into an antn-ahiiuibor in tlio laud of shades; and you becomo ou- grousod, uot so muoh iu wlmt is thoro, as in au offort to soo what is not thoro. Many attempts to rostoro certain shades, colors, and outlines liavo mostly beon strokos of additional ruin; and somo such tonoJAs are dimmer now tlmn cer tain othojksupposed to be tlioso of the f froat master himself. Yet ns you gazo ong and intently at those apparitions, you aro conscious of a wondorrul power < miuiatiug from them ; nml their nlti • tudo, onruttat expressions anil gosturos, shadowy ana somewhat, wild,soom to 111tor ghostly whispers along tho rudo tablo. After a tiipo, without knowing nuoh a thing to bb possible, you do begin to discern a look—n soo out, ns tho Ger man tongue better gives it—in tho faoo of the Lord, whioh you think could havo been produced only by an inspired painter. Tho sir of divine calmness, sorrowing seriousness, and Christ liko tenderness still lingering iu thnt face, seeming to breathe tho words, 1 Ono of you shall betray me,' in something miraculous nml indoserihable. ” ‘Ho who obsorvo* it, oro ho pmiHtm on Pniiao* again ; returns and gazou long, That ho may call it up whon far away." “ Photographic art is unable to ro- produoo this marvelous deliucation of diviue character in the Saviour's faoo, owing to tho doony of tho frosoo. Tho finest copies by tho cleverest artists also fail to transfer it. No moans aro known of saving its almost vanished spirit, and tho lust people who will ovor porooivo it of the pro out generation.” Wo offer tho following timoly direc tions for tho dressing and handling of poultry : Live poultry during tho fall is generally n drug on tlio raarkot, and dressed lots, when in good ordor, are taken in proforonoo. Doalors propose to soil dressed chickens hereafter by tho pound only, believing that this manner of sidling will insnro tho ship ping of better stock to our market. Poultry should never bo killed by the wringing of the neck, but should bo killed by bicoding, by moans of open ing tho v. ins, or by outting off tho head, so ns^to lot them bleed freely. If tho latter bo done, oaro should bo taken and draw tho skin ovor tho nook and tie secure before shipping. Dofnoo the neck os littlo as poHsible, ns tho looks will materially aid in bringing outnido prince. Poultry should bo picked dry, whioh can easily bo done by pluoking boforo tlio bodies aro cold, nml always givo poultry 11 nioo appear ance. Howevor, whou scnldou, tho water should ho as near boiling ns pos sible, and yet uot really boil. The poultry should bo dipped, so thnt tho water will liavo propor offeot on tho skin, and penetrate the feathers. The feathora should ho pioked immediately, but euro should bo taken ond^not break tho skin. Do not remove tho outruns. Poultry, before being killed, should bo kept twenty-four hours without food: full crops injure tho upnonrunco, and liable to sour, by which tho sale would bo greatly injured. Hoforo pnok- ing, it should get thoroughly dry and oold, bnt not frozen. Moderate sized boxes should ho used, but avoid very large packages ns muoli as possible, as there in considerable trouble in hand ling, besides being moro difficult to sell. To packing, uso clean boxes, and lino the ends and sides with pnper. Always puck as closely ns possible, nml fill the ‘•-xes well, so there will bo no elmnco r the poultry to move about. jspondent of a papor reoontly called attention to a phenomenon whioh has groatly excited his curiosity, and which I10 refers to oa something entirely unheard of. Till., whioh h»o£lan com- in ^ lTC V(irigree t lined with pink flilk, binntion snake, or “army worm, ho - - • - 0 ' - - -«-**- describes ns nt first sight resembling a her. Could j , , , showed her the dower of roses with erly supposed to take no intereit uftor for five happy, j which she had oome to me; and I have | the wedding-day, uro candidates for 1 happy years, and had grown to be’ a j them still, all pressed and withered^ | publio favor.” sko ton foot in length,' tapering regu larly from the middle towurd tho head and tail, and moving along slowly. Supposing it to bo a serpent, ho was as tonished to soo tho creature, ou reach ing a stone, divide something into two or three hood*, whioh subsequently were reunited into the original snako. On examining this peculiar body moro close ly, to his astonishu ont he found that it was composed of small worms, about three-eighths of an inch in length and about the thickness of a pin. Ono of these constituted the entire extremity of tho figure ; then two or tlireo lapped on to it for two-thirds of its length, and on them wore lappod othors, increasing tho thickness of tho “ snako” until it beoamo about tho size of a man’s thumb in tho middle, and tapering off toward tho other end in a fimilar manner. This object, although rare," is by rneanH unknown to naturalists. Its onrrenoe is moro frequently recorded in Europe than in tho United States. It consists in reality of tho larva) of an in- seot of the ordor of flies, probably be longing to tho g< mis Soiara of tho My- oelophiUdm. This phenomenon belongs to tho sories of mimetic resomblances so common in the animal kingdom, and has doubtless an important funotion in R reventing attacks upon tho defenseless irvro in their movements from place to placo, birds or other enemies being de terred bv the apporont presence of a largo and dangerous serpent. Tub magnificent mansion of LeGrand Lockwood, at Norwalk, Connecticut, whioh oont over $1,000,000, is for sale supplemi nto 1 by a landsturm organize- at $110,000, and tho ojtizons of tho tion not less extensive than that of Ger- town are urged to bay it for a town many. Russia will in the sam * period hall, using the spacious grounds for a muster a standing army of 750,000 men, I public park, European Armies. 1 the If completo readiness for best moans for insuring tho oontinnanoo of peace, tho tranquility of Europe, ro marks the Pall Mall Gazotto, must have beon effectually secured this year, in whioh largo odditions have been made to tho forces of every European power. Tho proposed legislation in reference to tho German landstnrm will increase tho military strength of Germany to an extent hardly realized, though Bponnor Gazette estimates tho increased force arising from a first call of tho landstnrm at 300,000 men. Tho French army will, beginning from this year, be increased within twelvo years to 1,800,000, a force readied Japan. Don’t Btand still and point tho way to heaven. Spiritual guidoboards save bnt fow sinnors. There is no law against butting one's lioad agaiust a stone wall, bnt, as a rule, H tho rennmoration is small. Joan Ru.linos says : There are two things in this lifo for whioh w« are novor prepared, and that is twins. The last survivor of tho battle of Trafalgar has insisted on dying again, whioh reduces tho number to loss than twonty. Marx Twain is a failure as a drama tist, but what is n dramatic failure to a man who is able to own a silver-plated boot-jaok, Tnx fauoy for woaring a littlo bnnoh of natural or artilloial flowers with tho bow nt tho throat is on tho increase with tho ladies. The United Btatos oonsumes 79,450 tons of tobacco for chewing, and 78,500 tons for snuffing. Last year wo usod 1,832,840,000 cigars. OuHeTNiTTfl should always bo cooked hoforo eating, ns tboy aro moro healthy; besidos, cooking imparts au improved flavor to tho worm, and stopH its wrig gling. Therm nro said to bo half a dozen American artists in Romo who aro starv ing for food, and yet thoy oxn't bo in duced to oomo homo and go to sawing wood. Tv is a mattor of Inquiry as to whether tlio indomuity of half a million taels which China is to pay Japan ia to be paid in pig-tails. Tho question is a curious one. Kav. Talhaoq says I10 shall not stop until overy theatre in America is lovolea to tho ground. Whoro’s that fellow who said perpetual motion oould never ho invontod ? Profle who saw him jump up and down and hoard him swear thought him oraay. but ho wasn’t. Ho had merely delivered fiftcon oords of wood nt tho wrong plaoe. Wuhn n younjj wife mado her first boy’s pants proofsoly tho same behind ns boforo, tho father exclaimed : “Gooil- iss I lie won’t know whether he’s going to school or ooming homo.” Evert yonr tho population of Franco reported loss and loss. There is on absolute, oonstnntand regular deorease, and nt the present rato of dcoroaBO tho country will bo depopulated in 188 years. The hair-brush whioh cost you a dol lar Inst weok, nud whioh iB now only fit for kindling-wood, had bristles whioh oamo from a Mexican plant oullod ystle, n wretched substitute for tho gonuino . irritant. Twelve hundred moil aro nt work on now California hotol. Tho man who gets tho oont root for furnishing that building with bed-bug poison will havo uo diffloulty in marrying off his oldest daughter. Baid n Missouri proaolior : “Thoro's a powerful sight of giggling back thor iu tho corner, and it's got to bo stopped or tho Lord will delegate mo to open tho door and throw some one out I” It stopped. Verts,” is tho word now applied in Engl nud to porsons who olinngo thoir firitli. Convert being in some onsos too rospootful nml porvort iu othor oases not rospootful enough, tho barbarism is hold to bo justifiable. Tub oitizous of Ht. Louis arc proud of tho residenoo in thoir midst of a beau tiful poetess, of a nature so sensitive thnt slio recently fainted dead away at tho sight of her littlo brother with a fine tooth oorab in his hand. 1 “YviTBTrnTJineflgcrwcjinKn xuswe/oti iho ~ door-bell and was informed that her husbnud had boon drowned, sho sank down and whispered: “And the bill for thirty dollars’ worth of false hair iB • to oomo up at four o’clock—ooh-hoooon!” After a tongue 1ms onoo got the knack of lying, it is not to ho imagined how impossible, almost, it is to reolaim Whence it oomes to pass, that wo some mon, who are otherwise very honest, so siihjeot to this vice,— Mon- taif/ue, Maria is a very popular name in Illi nois. Whon a oat olinibs a back fenoe in a well populated neighborhood nnd plaintively calls out “ Mnriar 1” twenty or thirty windows aro hastily thrown np, from which protrude twonty or thirty femalo heads w Idly answering "what?" While workmen were sinking a well in Ray county, Missouri, reoontly, they oamo to what appeared to bo tbe bod of a lako, about twonty foot beneath tho Btirfaoo, whioh showed petrified stalks of water-lilies imbedded in sandstone, nnd a fish about four foot long, with % vory largo head and prominonfc eyes. This only eviilouoo of perturbation whioh the president gavo whon a mes- songor rushed in with tho nows that Massachusetts had anno democratic, was to remove his oigar from his month and rest the lighted end of it on tbe hack of Gon. Bnboook’s hand, liaboock’s per turbation was muoh more pronounced. There aro fourteen thousand pooplo in Damasous sick with tho fover, whilo brigands nro plundering tho surround ing ooun ry so that agriculture is im possible, nnd in Damascus a Moham- modnn family, having gono ovor to Christianity, have boon oorried to tho jail and loft there. “ Tlio Holy Land” . s the general title for this vicinity. Herodotus, my son, what time is it?” inquired Mr. Spilkins of his son, who had just returned from college. “Well, father,” replied the youth, pulling out his watch, "let x represent 11 o’clock, and y equal ton minutes; and x-2-y is tbo answer.” Spilkins pondered for a moment, and then said he thought it must bo about bed-time. Edinburgh's baby is laid in a orodlo pink ourtains, and covered with white laoe, whilo his diminutive form is wrap ped in a quilt of white satin worked by Auntie Boatrico. Tho whole establish ment is so pretty that for its preserva tion the youth is under royal oommand to bohavo, in oorfcain particulars, differ ent from other and even royal babes. We give our washerwoman notioe that hereafter we wont our own olothos. Lai I Sunday wo pnt on another fellow’g shirt, but couldn’t wear it ot all. It was all ruffled around tho top and looked real handsome, but there was no placo for a collar, and it hadn't any bosom, though wo are bound to say there was plenty of room for one. Yea, it was a handsomo shirt, bnt we don’t havo ours made that way.—Max Adeler. The Georgia stato geologist reporta that he is generally taken for a revenue detootivo, and finds that obaraoter some what unoomfortable, bnt the moment he disoloses his real objeot, “ every fellow oomes back with his pooket full of rooks, and wants to know ‘if that’s what 1 want.' I met onp man who thought be had lead, petroleum and silver, all on abont one hundred acres. The state ia exceedingly rioh, but every farmdoesnt hold a fortut.e.” Alexandre Dumas pere, when 1% g ave a dinnor-party to oommeroial men, ad a somewhat singular methodof de ciding the time for the inferior wine to be produced. Ho enjoined lua servanta to put tbe best wine on the table at the beginning of the meal, while the guesta heads were clear; ''then.".gaid he. “watoh the conversation, and directly you hear any single one of tho oom- pauy say, ‘I, who am an honesk rfliuv you may be quite sure that all turn* heads have gone astray, and you oan serve up any rubbish you choose.