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Kllijav Courier*. rt Ri.i'di n nut ntlit T"* t 1.5 hr Ihm. j. C. ALLIN, find Propriptor. CURB EXT PARAG RAP US. ftonthern >. Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Carolina have all cut and housed fine tobacco crops. Eight hundred bales of tobacco were brought to Key West from Havana by one steamer recently. The State tax of Florida is to be re duced this year two mills on the dollar, an aggregate reduction of SBO,OOO. A Nashville colored preacher is suing a member of his church for the payment ol a subscription to the pastor’s salary. N. P. Overton (white) and Noah Tay lor (colored) are to be hung at Washing* ton. N. C, November 2, lor the murder of Grimes in 1874. In the years 1876-’77, the State of North Carolina produced 125,000 bushels of peanuts; Virginia, 180 bushels ; and Tennessee, 500,000 bushels. It would be interesting to know how many cetton-gins are burned in the south every year. Nearly every paper from the cotton section records one or more such fires. Petersburg, Va., has 180 Moflfet reg isters, which show that that city took between September 27th aud October 10th 35 354 alcoholic potations—tax, $858,85; malt, 10,753 —tax, $54 27. Raleigh (N. C.) News: Since the mil itary display at tho fair grounds this week, the adjutant general has received applications for the organization of five new companies at different points in the Rev. Wallace Duncan, professor in IV oitsrd College, 8. C., has declined the presidency of Itandolph-Macon college, Va., made vacant by the recent death of bis distinguished brother, Dr. James A. Duncan. The Richmond Enquirer notes this “ remarkable ” occurrence: A member of the legislature for the session of 1874- 75 yesterday drew #IOO, which was due him on account of his pay. This balance has Btood to his credit' ever Bince the adjournment, of the legislature at the session of ’75. San Antonio, Tex., has a society of Free thinkers, and a dispatch from there to the Galveston News says a hand of titty Christian kuklux took a leading Free Thinker of Bell county out the other night, hit him fifty lashes and gave notice if there were any more infidel lec tures in that county somebody would hang. A short time ngo a school girl died in Macon, Ga., and a number of her com panions made ill by eating icc cream that had stood over night. Now eight more Persons have been made ill from the same cause. Poison was suspected, but Dr. Mettaur states that similar results are likely to follow from eating anything in an incipient stnte of fermentation. New Orleans Democrat: A few more such cool days as the three last will groatly Improve the prospects of our sugar planters and enable them to com mence gringing their heavy crop of too green cane so ns to make the juice gran ulate into sugar. The few attempts made last week failed to produce. Not in the memory of the oldest planter was ♦he cane ever known to be so green so late in the season. Savannah News: There were in port yesterday thirty-seven vessels, of which four were steamships, nine ships, seven teen barks, three brigs and four schooners. Eleven of these were under the flag of the United States, thirteen that of Great Britain, seven of Germany, two of Spain, two of Norway and hue of Sweden. Fonrten of them were loading for Liver pool, two for Havre, four for the United Kingdom, two for Antwerp, five for ports in Europe, and the remainder for coast wise ports, ready for loading. A meeting of colored people was held in Key West last, week, the object of which was to “morally and materially sustain Rev. H. 11. Garnet in hisphilan thropical design ol making an appeal to the. United States of America to exert all its influence and intervention toward the government of Spain, to incline the mind of tho latter to decree at once and forever the freedom of three hundred thousand of our brothers who are now suffering under the most horrid servitude in the island of Cuba.” All Sorts. The Mecanitile library of New York uow contains nearly 175,000 volumes. The New York Herald has been mulct in SIO,OOO for a libel contained as a “personal” that charged blackmail on Mrs. Phoebe Robertson, a boardinghouse keeper. An appeal was taken. The amount of tax paid on men servants in England in 1876-7 shows that their number has been reduced by 42,000 —a proof of hard times. A deposit of tine white marble with amber-colored veins has been discovered at Tehachepa, Kem county, California. It is said to be identical with tne ancient yellow marble of Italy, which is highly prized by antiquarians,' but the original source of which has been for centuries unknown. Switzerland has several renowned watch schools, where the old-fashioned system of watchmaking was taught to inquiring minds. These schools are, however, rapidly fading in repute, as ma chinery of American invention has gen erally superceded the old process. A patent has been obtained for the preparation of maize leaf, as a substitute for tobacco. It is said to be of anti-ner vous effect, and to be a very pleasant tonic to the system. It is "sweet and pungent. A refrigerator car, so arranged that thirty carcasses can be hung up, as in shambles, and kept at a few degrees above freezing point, has heen sent by same Nevada cattle dealers to Chicago ss an experiment. If it is successful, the Healers will ship meat further east, this fall and winter. The new archbishop of Baltimore, James Gibbons, is but 43 years of age, and the youngest archbishop in the Uni te! States. Bishop Gibbons was trans ferred from North Carolina, where he was vicar apostolic, to succeed the late Bishop McGill as the fourth bishop of Richmond on the 20th of October, 1872. He was then 38 years of age, and the voungest eoelesias't iu the United States wearing the mitre. THE ELLIJAY COURIER. VOLUME 11. Kerosene, benzine, naphtha, etc, are all products of distillation of petroleum. When petroleum is heated in the retort, the lighter oils, such as gasoline and naphtha, distil over first, and are con densed in pipes surrounded by cold water. At a higher temperature oils of greater specific gravity (heavier) such as liaphtha, benzine, etc., come over; as the temperature increases, kerosene distils. The residue in the retort contains tar, paraffin, and lubricating oils. The re as in why Saxe-Holm disowns herself has been discovered by the Spring field Republican. She wrote in one of her stories : “ Women have a perpetual craving to be recognized, to be admired; and a large part of their ceaseless chat ter is no more or loss than a surface de vice to call your attention to them, as little ch'ldrea continually pull their gown t<# make you look at them.” The author ot this statement may well seek to preserve her incognito. It has often been a cause of surprise that so manv Jewish synagogues in New York and other cities should be without ministers. But an advertisement in an exchange throws somo light on this mat ter. A congregation in Dea Moines, lowa, want “ a gentleman capable to officiate in the capacities of lecturer, chazan, teacher, schochet, and Mohel, and to conduct services according to the Minliig America.” And for this service, of at. least three men they offer the lib eral salary of SSOO a year—leas than $lO a week. Public opinion in London is strongly in favor of the Turks. At the music hall and other places where war sougs form part of the nightly programme, the Russian anthem is invariably hissed, nnd the czar’s flag howled at, while the cres cent and the star como in for an enor mouß amount et cheering, and the Turk ish national hymn is npplauded to the echo. Most ot the music nail proprietors have started subscription lists in aid of the Turkish compassionate fund. Al ready, although the lists have only heon put up a few days, a considerable sum of money has been collected. ItclKlons. Holy water from the fountain at Lour des is advertised for sale in Berlin. Amadeus, ex-king of Spnin, has written to the pope that ho has resolved, in con sequence of the death of his wife, a gentle and lovely lady, whose loss he greatly feels, to take holy orders and enter a cloister. The rapidity with which the Germans adopt every improvement in means and methods of warfaro is shown by the fact that all tho guns carried by the ships ol the German navy, or mounted in the fortifications on the shores of Germany, are breech-londing rifled ordinance. Mr. Robert Cross, in a report to the British government upon the India rubber trees of South nnd Control America, asserts that the most favorable conditions exist for raising them In various parts of southern India, and especially in the low grouuds of tlie region around Mndras. India-rubber trees thrive best in the hottest climates. News from Japan announces the birth of an imperial prince. The Mikado, according to traditional law, has twelve wives besides the legitimate empress. To one of these “subordinate mothers” the new prince belongs. The object of this polygamic system is to provide lor the contingencies of non-succession. Dom Pedro, emperor of Brazil, is again at home, after an absence of a year and a half. He is the only potentate in the world’s history who lias absented himself from his country for so long a period purely for persona! relaxation aud enjoy ment. During his absence no political troubles have occurred, and he resumes the hoadship of his government with the universal respect ol his people. Mr. W. T. Harris said in his address at the Massachusetts state normal school: “ It is in education as in other depart ments of the business of civil society. In the long run, skill, preparation nnd brains will tell. The professional teacher will, after nwhile, furnish the only standard, and the make shift teacher will be valued and remunerated like the make-shift shoemakeror mechanic,lawyer or doctor.” Few persons know that there is such a church as the Congregational Methodist church in this country. There is such an organization, however, nnd it is said to have 10,000 members. A newspaper is published in its interest at Cave Spring. Ga. The doctrines and usages of this church are Methodist; its polity is Con gregational, under a general conference, which prescribes uniform rules for the whole body. llnniiifftN Interests. The finest crop of raisins ever produced in California is promised this fall. Within ten years tobacco culture has become a most important industry in Pennsylvania. There are over eight hundred Chinese laundries in New York city, giving em ployment to about 4,000 persons. The total number of coal mines in England and Wales is 2,088, with an annual rental of £3,393,690. It is estimated that the wheat crop o Ohio this season will be worth $120,000, 000, and hay $20,000,000. Over 1,000,000 gallons of petroleum oil are daily exported from New York. The aggregate exports this year are 121,000,- 000, against 84,000,000 gallons last year. The world’s annual production of sugar ; aggregates 2,150,000 tons of cane sugar. : 1,320 000 tons of beet-root sugar, 150,000 tons of date sugar, 20,000 tons of manle sugar and 20,000 tons of sorghum sugar. The cotton manufactures of the world ruD a total of 65,000,000 cotton spindles, and spin 2,676,000 pounds of cotton annually. Of the spindles, 35,000,000, or more than one-half, are operated in England. California’s wool growth is becoming one of her greatest industries, the ex ports last year having been over 50.000,- 1 000 pounds, worth $8,000,000. There are several wool growers who own from i 30,000 to 40,000 sheep each. During the year of 1876 the sugar ex portation from this country amounted to •wer 73,000,000 pounds, on which the drawback trader the law of 1875 was $2,009,876. The sugars thus sent abroad ; were mostly of the higher grndes. “ Error Ceases to be Dangerous When Reason is Left Free to Combat It."—Jefferson. ELLIJAY, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER sl, 1577. It is estimated that 20.000 oil well* have thus far hern dug in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, at an aggregate coat of $192,000,000. They have yielded about 88,000,000 barrels of oil, valued at the wells at $300,000,000, or $400,000,- 000 at the seaboard. In addition to the home production, opium is imported into China to the annual value of over $40,000,000, prin c.pally from British India. More than $1,000,000 worth ia annually imported into California for the use of the Chinese in that state. The bullion product cf the Pacific coast mines (or the past eight months, according to the tally kept uy the San Francisco Bulletin, has been as follows: January, 15 mines 13,106,000 February, 16 mines 2,635,500 March, 10 mines 3,683,000 April. 10 mines .'1,060,000 May, 21 mines 4,105,000 June, 2t mines 4,121,800 July, 24 mines 3,054,000 August, 29 mines 4,377,100 Total $30,251,300 There are some seven hundred carpet making establishments in the United States which, in prosperous times, furnish employment to between 160,000 and 200,000 operatives—men, women and children. Thirteen million dollars is in vested in the business, which includes buildings and machinery, while $4,700,- 000 is expended yearly for wages. The annual production is valued at between $22,000,000 and $24,000,000. Philadel phia represents three fourths ol the busi ness, ami the other fourth is divided up in different manufacturing cities of New England, the two most prominently con nected with carpet manufacturing being Hartford, Connecticut, and Lowell, Massachusetts. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. THE SENATE. 1 n the sennte, on tho 23d, hills intro duced and referred—To equalize the bounties of soldiers who served in the late war for tho union. Amending the revised statutes of the United States In regard to the militia. To provide a law ful note and coin currency for the United States. To authorize a long bond for tho investment of savings. To enable the Indians to become citizans of the United States. Adjourned till Thurs day, In tbo senate, on the 25th, Senator Conkliug presented a petition from the citizens of New York against tho repeal of tho bankrupt law, and praying that it bo amended. Referred. Senator Mitchell submitted a resolution authorizing tho committee on privileges ami elections in the cases of Messrs. Kellogg nnd Hpof ford, claiming seats from Ismisiana, to send for persons and papers, and admin ister oaths, that the committee may decide upon the merits of tho title of ench contestant. Senator Kerimn, by request, Introduced a bill re-establishing the court of commissioners on the Ala bama clsiins, and for a re-distribution of the unappropriated moneys. A number of unimportant bills were introduced, nnd the Benate adjourned until Monday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. In the house, on the 24th, after read ing the journal, consideration of the Colorado case was resumed, and Mr. ] farrison made an address advocating Mr. Patterson’s right to the seat. Mr. Gar field supported Mr. llelford ns having a prlma facie right, and after further dis cussion, without action, adjourned. In the house, on the 25th, Mr. Mills, of Texas, spoke on the Colorado case. He held that neither Be!ford nor Patter son presented a primn facie case, and that their seats should be declared vncant. Life Among' the Lowly. The Selma Times gives the following interesting information in regard to the domestic economy of the negroes: It has often been n matter of wonder to many people how so many idle negroes subsist about this city. We have an old negro man who visits our premises once a”week and performs a small job for which we pay a quarter. We had the curiosty to interview him the other day as to his finances and sub sistence. “How are you getting on, Uncle Aleck?” said we. “ Ah, thank God, 1 make out to get ’nuff to eat," said Aleck, "Sum days I make a quarter, some days more or less and some days nuflin. But indurin’ the week I gets ’miff to buy ’visions for me und de ole ’omun.” “Well, Uncle Aleck, how much pro visions do you buy, tell me exacily. I want to make calculation ?” Aleck then gave the following items as his weekly purchase for himself and Wife: rent®. Onehulf pork m) 10 One und one-hnlf pounds must lo Onor ,nt °f noliwv 12J4 Ono (found MUfitir One-naif |>ound 10 Uoftbe lO}** Total 81^ I asked him if he had plenty. “ O la, yes, roassa; my wife is a good cook. I tell you, sail, she is a good cook. She used to cook for ole miss in slavery time, and we has a good table. I tell you, sah, we lives as well as most colored people I j knows of; as good—well, as der hack drivers. We have ‘ greens’ from our garden, and sometimes I eats dc gravy and leaves all de meat for the ole ’ouiau.’ And this is the way the darkies iive— by doing little jobs. A small amount of cheap meat and bread will subsist them— many times some of them have bread alone. Many idle men, who do little jobs, or follow politics, are supported mainly by their wives at the wash-tub. It would astonish anyone to count up ■ the money paid out every week for wash i ing. Washing, cooking, and nursing ; babies support a large portion of the ‘ negro population of Selma. III.BMKD ABB THKT THAT MOCIR, O, derm out thee art bleat al<X>* warn* llTct • (—ratal tenor hp; Tbo Power who pUM wo baa ahow n A hlrmlna far the trra I bat wrap. Tb* lUbt of rallar .hull ail aaMa Tba IIS. that oration with Man; And m ty boara ol *aa and pain An prvmlm of happier jroan. Ttarr* la a day of lunny rapt For every dark and troubtrd night; And *rlef mar bids an arnn nan, But Joy thaU c-oma *l:h enrly light. And thou, who, o’er thy trtond’a low Mar, Shaddrat tba biltrr drops llksrain, Hope that a hrlgtrr, happier aph*n will glrc him to thy araie again. Nor lot tht good man's trust draart, Though lire It. common tlludmy— Though with a plaroad and bloating haart, And apurnol ol man ba fort to die. For Mod hath marksd eaoh sonisrlng day And numbrrad awry arrrot War, And hanrrn's long ago ot hilaa Mill pay For all hit children atifl'ar hard SCIENCE ANI> INDtjkj’ltY. Spectra of the nebula.— lt is well known that, before the announcement of the discovery of bright linos in the spectra of nebula), it waa generally, if not uni versally, accepted as a fact that nebulie were merely stellar clusters, Irresolvable on account of their great distances. According to Prof. Stone, one cf the most eminent English astronomers, the discovery in question instead of being in consistent with the view formerly held by astronomers, is rather oonfirmatury of the correctness of that view, on tho fol lowing grounds: The Bun is known to be surrounded by a gaseous envelope of very considerable extent. Similar envelopes muHt surround the stars generally. Con ceive n close stellar cluster. Each star, if isolated, would be surroundod by its own gaseous envelope, nnd these gaseous envelopes might, in the case of a cluster, form over the whole, or a part of the cluster, a continuous mass of gas. So long, therefore, as such a cluster was within a certain distance from us, the light from the Btellar masses would pre dominate over that of the gaseous envel opes; the spectrum would therefore be an ordinary stellar spectrum. Supposing such a cluster to be removed farther and further from us, the light from each star would be diminished in the proportion of the inverse square of the distanoe; but such would not be the case with the light from the enveloping surface formed by the gaseous envelopes. The light from this envelope, receTvTii on a slit in the focus of an object glass, would bo sensibly constant, because the contributing area would be ?iMrswd in the same proportion that the light re ceived from each part is diminished ; the result would be that, at some definite distance, nnd nil great distances, the pre ponderating light received from such a cluster would be derived from the gase ous envelopes and not from the isolated stellar masses. The spectrum of the cluster would therefore become a linear one, like that from the gaseous surround ings of our own sum. Improvements in aeronautics.— ln respect to the gus balloon, uno of the most important Improvements ia due to the Ingenuity of M. Jobert, his plan being to construct one side of the gas holder ot white, and the other of black stuff, since it is easy to turn the balloon about its vertical axis by moans of a small propeller, so as to keep either the black side or the white side always facing the sun, and thus, by the heating or cooling, make the balloon cither to ascend or descend to an extent depending upon the difference in the reflecting or absorb ing power of the two salves ol the balloon. By this means, it is thought, the vertical movements of the balloon may be con trolled to a sufficient extent to render its applications in meteorology of much im portance. Numerous prominent aero nauts have warmly advocated, of late, the use of the hot-air balloon. The Chinamen who have for five years been in the employ of Sampson, the North Adams shoe manufacturer, are now out of work through his suspension of business. They are preparing to re turn to China, although muny of them have become pretty thoroughly Ameri canized, and have joined Christian churches. Mr. Robert Cross, in a report to the British government upon the india-rub ber trees of South and Central America, asserts that the most favorable conditions exist for raising them in various parts of Southern India, and especially in the low grounds of the region around Madras. India-rubber trees thrive best in the hot test climates. Russia’s Financial Condition. All recognize that for the moment peace is impossible. Russia cannot re tire from the contest until she has ac complished something—until aha baa re alized at least part of the progamme with which she began the struggle. Meanwhile her difficulties are increas ing. The balance Blieet of the state bank for .September 24th shows that the bank has been again making advances to the treasury. At that date the debt of the treasury to the bank amousted to 117,- 259,105 roubles. This seems to show that the money received from the second in stallment of the eastern lean is already spent. Whatever may be the cause, the consequence is that the biuk has been compelled to issue more ?a|>er money, I and this stop haa naturally had an un favorable influence on the foreign ex change. It is interesting for the political economist to observe how the issue of paper money and the consequent fnll in the rate of exchange influence prices. The influence became, of course, at first apparent in foreign articles, such as wines, silks and the like. As the im porters had to pay their foreign creditors and the customhouse duoe in gold, they had to raise the prices of articles im ported. This did not immediately affect articles of home production, but now the influence is extending to them. The low rote of exchange hue raised the nomina’ price of grain, because exporters are paid in gold, and the price ot grain in Russia is determined by the foreign markets. As soon as grain, the first necessary of life, rises in price, everything else must do so likewise.— lx>ndon Time a. Autumnal Tints. It is very curious to observe the reg ularity with which we are told in the autumn that “ the first frost will change the color of the leaves,” whereas the frost has nothing to do with the change. It has, indeed, sometimes happened in New England that tho ioilage has chanced, as if by magic, in a single night, so that, upon lookiug out of the window in the morning, the eye was surprised with the spectacle of the world wellnigh on fire; and since this transformation too* place in connection with the mercury at a low point, tho whole affair is referred to the agency of Jack Frost. But why not refer to this prestidigitator the grow ing tints of the applo, the rich crimson ol the velvet peach, and the purple of the plum ? Many years ngo this error was pointed out by an eminent botanist, who showed that tho gorgerous color of the autumn leaf camo in tho regular process of ripening; and, though botany is generally studied in schools, tho old notion comes back with the beavers every yenr, allow ing that error, in common with truth, especially when supported by the vox populi, will “rise again,” however de servedly crushed to earth. Leaves find their parallel in man, ns already observed, and, like the human species, they may ripen suddenly. If, however, any one chooses to make a mystery of tho intensity of the autumnal colors, there should he no great difficulty in explaining the variety. Indeed, the apparent superiority ovor.the strength of color in the foliage on the continent of Europe ,may be attributed chiefly to this variety. In Great Britain the climate is evidently unfavorable to the production of bright forest-tones, but in parts of Germany the brillancy of certain kinds of leaves is quite equal to that of the corresponding varieties in North America. At the same time Lhe greens of Europe are q rite different from those of our own land, where, beginning with a burnt green in the south, wo pass north ward along the Atlantic seaboard, reach ing tho truo green of ‘.lie greatest of the hay-producing states, the state of Maine. Every one has noticed the unparalleled green of the “ Emora’d Isle,” which be comes a pale sea-green in Scotland, a whitish green In the south of England nnd Franco—only to change to an ashen green in Germany, and a sober olive in the Italian states. But wo were remarking upon the var iety of the autumnal tints in our own country. This is explained by the fact that, while in Europe there are enly forty trees that attain to a height of thirty feet, in north America there are no less than one hundred and forty-- lienee our forests flash like the plane-tree that “ the Persian adorned with his man tles and jewels.”— Appleton*’ Journal. A Highly Homan! ic Story from Jennie June. It is not often that fate blesses a man with such entire completeness as hap pened in the case of a New York jour nalist a few months ago. He was a fine looking fellow, handsome and distin guished, with just that soupcon of Ho hemianism in his appearance, that takes with women. On a certain fortunate morning he was sent to report the open ing or something or other of a railroad, whose president was a man of very large fortune, and whose wife, much younger than himself and very beautiful, was among the most conspicuous of the guests Our journalist, not troubled with bashfulness, was presented; nat urally, as journalists always do, he made himself agreeable. The lady was pleased, the attraction, to a certain ex tent, was mutual, and by a singular stroke wbich must have come from the hand of destiny itself, the railroad mag nate shortly after died, leaving his young and fair widow to mourn and be comforted. Our journalist though he could do no less under the circumstances than write a letter of condolence, which was answered by a little note in timating that after the lapse of a proper time the lady would be pleased to have him call. He did call, more than once, and, fifteen months after the death of the husband, proposed to the widow, was ac cepted, and the two were married. What is a little singular about the affair is, that he never inquired the amount of the lady’s fortune, Ad was considerably as- NUMBER 19. tonished on the dsy of the wedding to ' l*e presented with securities representing 91,700,1*00 in value. This amount the lady desired to endow him with and 1 make his own by right, but the gallant ; young journalist absolutely refused to j accept it. lie wouldn’t even go shares. He instisted that the whole should be I settled upon herself, and would consent 1 only to be the diaburser of the moneys expended for their joint use and benefit. The happy pair sailed lor Europe, and a letter received from him the other day from Vevay, in Switzerland, contained the declaration that lie was the “ hap piest dog alivethat his wife was the best and most charming woman in the world, and Vevay tho most enchanting spot in the universe. AN ANTEDILUVIAN JOBBER. AVOfK, Discovery l n Monster C'ontnlnlug the Remit Ins or • Human Being. Mr. Henry Woodard owns a stock I ranch in the Indian territory, in that Peoria nation, on which is situated the big sulphur spring. The spring ia aur rounded by a quagmire, which is vory deep and “slushy," and so soft that it will not bear any considerable weigiit. Mr. W. lately undertook to curb up the spring in order to get water more easily, and while working in the mire came up on what appeared to )>e an enormous bone. Ho at once began an examination, which dieclosed the startling fact that it was the head of some mammoth beast. His curiosity was aroused, and, with tho assistance of three other men, he began the work of excavation. Tor four days they worked, but did not succeed in bringing the monster to the surface. They threw off the marl, but could not lift tho head of this golilic giant. They found tho skeleton well preserved and the immense teeth still in the jaws. The jaws were both in place, and the spinal column attached to the cranium. The earth was thrown ofT from tho body to the length of twenty leet, but still the gigantic skeleton remained beneath. Three of the front ribs were lorced out, and proved by measurement to he each eight feet in length. The dirt was re moved from the inside of the osseous structure, and there lay the skeleton of a human being, with one hundred and two flint arrow points and fifteen flint knives. The cranium indicated that it was the skeleton of an Imlinn. It would have been impossible for the man to have been inside the animal without having been swallowed by him, and his theory is substantiated by tho fact that the bonatt of his right side of the skeleton were broken and mashed apparently by forca. The monster, therefore, must have been carnirerous, wiiich is also proven by the teeth, which exhibit the marked char acteristics, of a flesh-eating beast. A largo molar and two incisors, taken from the upper jaw, were exhibited to us at our office yesterduy, the largest one weighing eight pounds and measuring eight by four inches in size. There are two large molars and two blunt tusks on each side of the jaw; the teeth between tho molars and the tunics aie incisors, linving from two to six points and Cor responding prongs to each tooth. In front of the tusks the teeth are similar to those of most carniverous animals In shape. All the bones indicate that they have lain buried for an incredibly long jwriod, as they crumble rapidly when brought in contact with the atmosphere. Every circumstance goes to show that these are the largest animal remains evtr resurrected, and the teeth, tusks and structure of the head and jaws prove un mistakably that itwaßof the carniverous class.— Carthage. ( Ma. ) Patriot. .. Avery pathetic description o( the perils of life in the Black hills is given in the following extract from the letter of a miner there to his brother living in in Nevada: “I’ve been spending the last week in trying to think of some plan which will enable me to got home. If I only had (60) I could get to Cheyenne, and then it would he easy sailing into civilization. If you send the money by express the Indians are sure to get it, ns they split open a Wells-Fargo coach every few days. ll' you send it by mail I wouldn’t got it for months, as the postmaster is off on a big drunk most of the time, and can’t read, auyhow. Don’t send a draft on the bank, as it is liable to bust. If you have some friend coming to the hills, don't trust him with the cash, as he is sure to gamble it all off at Cheyenne or get robbed at Custer. If you can think of some way of sending the money that it will be sure to get here, s;nd it right away: but unless you are sure don’t risk it. Perhaps you had better come your self and bring it.” The brother wrote in reply: “ Just borrowed sl2 to settle a board bill.” Cannibalism in Persia. The plain was treeless and desolate in the extreme. We saw several dry skeletons of travelers who had died on the roadside aud been left to sot like animals. We passed a small walled village, where people had cateu all their children in September, 1870. All the men who bad the means bad left the place, leaving only the women and children, and the mothcis stole and ate one another’s babes to save themselves from perishing.— Captain Marsh. (IRAVK AND tiAIT. . New Often* I* built upon • tarsal •t cypress tree*. For six hundred feet 'town this la the foundation 1 Row* upon row* of the (tumps of the cypresa are found growing over each other, superim posed, each of which layers it la calcu lated ha* required a thouaand year* to form. .. American hnmor keep* bubbling up all over the country. It i* not by any mcar.3 confined to the paragraphUts. For iuatance, at Auburn, Ind., the other day, “ a* Mr. Aalt and wife were walking on the street, William Sjuire was on the opposite aide carrying a shot gun, and playfully pointed it at them, saying, * Your money or your life!’ Tho gun went off. instantly killing Mn. Ault, and filling Mr. Ault’a head full of buckahot, the effects of which will also prove fatal. Squire thought the gun was not loaded." .. Uncle Jessie Lyon married a second wile the third day after the funeral of the first, whereat the neighbors serenaded him with tin-pana, horse-fiddles and yells, to signify their indignation. Uncle Jessie stood it ns long as ha could, and then went forth and spoke thus: " Boys, If you care nothing for the joys of a bridegroom, I think you ought to reaect the feelings of a widower, the late partner of whoee bosom ia yet hardly cold in her grave I" The boy* were stunned, and silently departed. .. This tremendous piece of informa tion comes from the New York Home | Journal: “ There may be circumstances I when a gentleman' may lift bis hat to a passing lady, even though he oan not bow to her. Hhe may be offended with him, and yet he may respect and feel kindly to her. He may deserve her dis regard, and it is permitted him to express his continued reverence by unoovering his head in her presence; but he has no right to look at her as she paasss him. He must drop his eyes." . .Prayer is too pure and holy an ordi nance ta bo made the tool of supernatur alists. It is the simplest and most nat ural law within the graap of weak humanity, and the benefits it confers are inestimable ; but it never spreads a table, pays a debt, builds a church, or sustains an orphan asylum. It can nourish the spiritual system with its invisible food until the recipient ifl enabled to make a long journey in the desert of life upon the strength received therefrom, but it will never make the sun less intense, ner remove the burning sand. It is the only way by which the finite may approach the infinite and commune with the un seen, and it is nothing less than desecra tion to endow it with tho powers of mate rial jugglery. The true arid spiritually minded Christian should leave tho won der stories and all accounts of miracu lous interpositions to the sect that makes spiritual transformations a specialty and themselves the medium of its operation, and should feel that it is a privilege to oommune with Uod lu the simplest and sweetest way that man will over know— Alliance. v.Mt; Tennyson is qut4-l4s writing, a few yoars ago, to Mr. Benjamin Blood, of Amsterdam, N. Y., that he haa fre quently had, Bom boyhood lip, a kind of "waking trance" when be haa been alone. “ This," he says, in the letter printed in the Times, of Hartford, "haa often came upon me through repeating my own nume to myself silently, till ell at once, ns It wfei’B, out of the intobtlly of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality iteelf seemed to diwotve and fade away into boundless balljp; and this not a confused state, but the clear est of the clearest, the surest of the surest, utterly beyond words—whose death was an almost laughable imporai bllity—the loss of personality (If It so were) teeming no extinction, but only true life. I am ashamed of my fisebte description. Have I not mid the state is lteyond word? Bui in a moment, when I come back into my normal condition <( sanity, 1 am ready to I fight for 1 Maine Liebe Ich,’ and hold that It will last for leans of icons." SUoboh-fV. The Skobeleffs have a singular origin. In 188!) the Emperor Nicholas, while at a review of his whole army, ordered a Gen. Hkobcleff to select the finest men in the army to form into a body of im perial guards. In the first regiment examined, the general came across a stalwart young soldier, who far surpassed bis comrades in appearance. The soldier said that his name was Kobeleff, and that he came from a village in the pro vince of Novgorod. The general, upon hearing this reply to an inquiry he hi and made, reemed greatly interested, and Is ing told that it was only the youth of Kobeleff that had hindered his advance ment from the ranks, at once gave orders that he should be made a non commis sioned officer. That eveniug Gen. Hkobeleff, at a dinner given to the officers of the regiment to wbich Kobtleff be longed, told an anecdote. He said that many years before, when he was a private soldier, he was on guard one day at the winter palace. While keeping guard the empress passed ky, and, after looking at him a few moments, asked him his name. He replied that it Kobeleff. “ Kobeleff,” said the empress; “ I don't like the sound of that name; for the future you arc to be called Bkdbc leff.” From that time the empress look an interest in his welfare, and eventually, through hcrfavoi, be beoMne aide-de-camp to the czar. “I have only one remark to make,” said the gen eral, “and that is the young fallow whom I raised to be an officer to-day is ! the sun of the brother I left at home to ' look after our village homestead.” The nephew teek his uncle’s name, and subsequently himself became a general. It is his son, “ Skobeleff the youngdr,' who has just distinguished himself be lore Plevna. .