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wA*. "IbsCHALK,} Editor, and Proprietors.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WEST.
The Sioux Indians are playing havoc
near Fort FettermaD, Wyoming territory.
Harvesting has commenced in most
parte of California. The yield of grain will
be enormous.
Only five honrs work a day, and only
forty-six cents for that, is the labor problem
which is agitating the workmen in the Pitts
burg and Fort Wajne railroad shops at Fort
Wayne.
Lieut. Col. Davidson, comanding at
Fort Sill, reports an attack by Indians on the
night of the lOtli inst., and says : ‘‘Now that
I have received authority to pursue the In
dians, under certain restrictions, for acts of
aggression, I trust not to annoy the general
with the details, but to be enabled to show
some results.”
• Gov. Davis, of Minnesota, issues a
circular to the granges, appealing for aid for
the southwestern counties. He cites six whole
counties and parts of others which “have
been swept by grasshoppers of all crops as
if by fire. Women and children are suffering
for food. The implements and stock of the
settlers are under mortgages given to tide
over the privations of last year.”
EAST.
A collapse of the Croton aqueduct
in the upper part of New York city is feared.
The tax levy for the city of New York
for the ensuing year has been fixed at $31,-
822,391.
Prohibition is to be continued in Mas
sachusetts, the legislature having refused to
pass the license bill over the governor’s veto.
The Social Mills in Woonsocket,
It. 1., running 50 000 spindles and 10,000 looms
on cotton goods, was destroyed by fire last
week.
Miss Katie West, of Paris, Ky., died
recently from an overdose of arsenic, taken,
it is supposed, for the purpose of improving
her complexion.
At Memphis on the Ist, W. D. S.
Welch, the well-known attorney and candidate
for clerk of (he criminal court, was shot by
B. B. Barnes, also an attorney, and probably
fatally wounded.
Dr. Robinson, aged fifty-five, was
shot and killed by a young man named Robb,
at Skepwith's landing, a hundred miles above
Vicksburg, a few days since, for alleged inti
macy with Robb’s mother.
Meyer Fredland was shot and killed
on Friday at Cati landing, in Washington
ceunty, Miss., by Ed. Monash, his partner, in a
quarrel over the winding up of their business.
Monash was acquitted on the ground of Belf
defense.
Avery destructive fire ooourred in
Allegheny City, Pa., on the 4th inst. A square
and a half of buildings, principally dwellings,
on the west side of Federal street, between
Sampson street and Marquette alley, extend
ing to Arch street, and three or four buildings
on the east side of Federal street, were total
ly destroyed- Over one hundred houses in all
were destroyed, leaving many families house
less.
SOUTH.
A dispatch from Hot Springs, Ark.,says
Billy Davis, a well knowu rivei barkeeper, was
eliot and mortally wounded on Saturday by
Capt. Bill Forrest.
Bonaventnre, the horse which won
the “ Ladies' Stake,” $4,000, at the late meet
ing at Jerome Park, New York, is owned by
Capt. Wm. Cottrill of Mobile.
A negro woman was arrested in Win
chester, Ky., on Sunday, for poisoning three
children of Mr. Echol, who lives near that
place. Two of the children have died. The
girl said she had nothing against the family
and poisoned the children because she wanted
to. Two white girls who died suddenly a year
ago in the family, in Clark county, where this
negro was working, are supposed to have been
poisoned by her.
At Memphis, Chancellor Walker, in
the case of Venable against the Paducah and
Meroph's railroad for damages, has decided
that no such corporation as the Paducah
aud Memphis railroad is know to the law, the
authority under which the charter was granted
having beeu unconstitutional. This decision,
if sustained by the supreme court, will render
all contracts entered into by the said corpora
tion null and void.
At a recent meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Mississippi Central railroad the
action of the directors endorsing the legisla
tive act consolidating the Mississippi Central
and the New Orleans and Jackson railroads,
was ratified almost unanimously. The con
solidated roads will be knowu as the New Or
leans, St. Louis Sc Chicago railroad. The is
sue of the consolidated stock is to be one for
three of the Mississippi Central and two for
three of the New Orleans and Jackson.
A dispatch from Tnscnmbia, Ala., of
the 29th, contains the following : “A year ago
George F. Long, of good name and family,
wa-s forbidden by Hon. J. 81oss, member of
congress from this district, to have any com
munication with his daughter. Long, ind'g
mnt, denounced Sloss. aud assailed the girl’s
character, asserting his own too great intima
cy. Sloss came home from Washington Fri
day evening and heard the facts from his home
daughter. Sunday evening he stood in the
window of the voom in the second story of his
and shot Long, who was on the opposite side
of the street. Four buckshot entered Long,
one in the skull, another through the neck,
and two in the body. The doctors say Long
can’t live. Sloss confessed the deed and is
now in the hands of the sheriff.”
FOREICN.
The Spanish government are getting
out of men and will enforce anew levy of 30,-
000 men.
LTnion, which first published Count
Chambord's mauifesto, has been suspended
for two weeks.
The steamer Faraday, engaged in
laying the new Atlantic cable, left Halifax a
week ago. Intelligence from Paclou repre
sents that she struck an iceberg off Halifax
and is a total wreck.
The North German Gazette, in an arti
headed “ Fresh Complications in Asia," says :
Caravans arriving from Ceutral Asia bring re
ports that Yakeaf Bey is arming against Rus
sia. It is believed he is prompted to this by
agents of Great Britain. There is also a possi
bility of a collision between Russia and China.
A Havana letter says the misery and
want existing in that city are great, and, as a
consequence, crime has increased to a fearful
extent, the columns of the papers being daily
filled with assaults and robberies. The jail is
literal y packed with criminals, and it is re
ported that the governor-general has ordered
part of the island of Pines to be converted
into a correctional or penal colony for traitors,
vagrants and incorrigibles, and that a military
colony will be established there. Several se
vere skirmishes have of late taken place in
Cincovilla.
In the English houße of commons
Mr. Jenkins c tiled attention to an article in
the Standard which declared that the policy of
the Canadian government aimed at secession
to the United States. He asked Disraeli if
there were any grounds for charging the Cana
dian government with such designs. Disraeli
replied that he did not consider it the duty of
her majesty’s government to find grounds for
the allegations contained in the annonymons
paragraphs of & newspaper, but he would
state for the benefit of the house, that the
relations of the Canadian and imperial gov
ernments were cordial and satisfactory.
A letter from off the coast of Suma
tra, under date of April 10, states that the
Atchinese, on the night of March 20, made an
attack on a Dutch fort, captured it, and over
whelmed the garrison. The loss of the Dutch
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
is placed at 1,000 killed and 4,500 wounded,
the greater number being laborers employed
to work on the fort and colonists dwelling out
side, Eight ships were required for the
wounded, whom the Malay chiefs permitted to
be removed from shore as much to embarrass
the navy as to do an act of humanity. The
letter adds : “ The news of the complete an
nihilation of this second Dutch expedition 4s
known in official circles at Singapore, but is
purposely withheld from the press.”
The following account of the recent
fighting before Estella and the death of Gen.
Concha is derived from Carlist sources: The
republicans made their- first attack on the left
bank of the river Ega, Thursday, and followed
it up Friday, on the eve of which day they had
forced the Carlists from their first defenses.
The next day, Saturday, they attempted to
carry by assault the heights immediately com
manding Estella. In this attack they failed
and were driven back in disorder. Their re
treat became a route when Gen. Concha was
mortally wounded. The total loss of the re
publicans, in killed, wounded and missing,
was 4,000. Gen. Echaques’ entire division
narrowly escaped capture, and was saved only
by the extraordinary exertions of the artillery.
The assault was made during the night, under
cover of which the republicans succeeded in
withdrawing all their cannon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The secretary of the treasury has in
structed the assistant treasurer of New York
to sell $1,000,000 gold, on each Thursday dur
ing July.
A Washington dispatch states Col. H.
C. Whitelev, chief of the secret service, has
not resigned, but has demanded a thorough
investigation, which has been granted.
The attorney-general has decided that
the state of Nebraska is not entitled to five
per cent, upon the value of the reservations
for Indian tribes in that state.
Secretary Bristow has ordered that
advertisements be made immediately in all
the principal cities for proposals for the pub
lic cartage of merchandise in the custody of
the government.
Admiral Polo Deßarnabe, the Span
ish minister at Washington, has sailed for
Spain. It is said the admiral has been elected
by the Serrano government to resume his posi
tion in the Spanish navy.
The president has appointed Jackson
E. Sickles and Paul A. Herbert to the board of
commissioners to investigate and report a per
manent plan for the reclamation for the allu
vial basin of the Mississippi river s .bject to
inundation.
Hon. Marshall Jewell, the minister at
St. Petersburg, has accepted, by cable, the
postmaster generalship. Marshall, the first
assistant postmaster-general, will be appointed
to serve until the arrival of Jewell.
The customs receipts for June are
larger than during June, 1873. There is also
an improvement in the internal revenue re
ceipts. The public debt statement on the Ist
of July will show a slight decrease. The gov
ernment will pay $22,000,000 gold for the
July interest.
Charles I. Conant, of New Hamp
shire, present chief of the warrant division
of the treasury department, has been appoint
ed by the president, assistant secretary of the
treasury vice Sawy.r, resigned. Conaut has
beeu a clerk in the warrant division of the
treasury for nine years, and chief of the divis
ion for the last four years.
The attorney general has decided that
under the act of June 16, 1874, no payment
can be made to any railroad company for
transportation of troops or property of the
United States when its railroad was construct
ed in whole or in part by the aid of grants of
public lands, upon any conditions as to the
use of said roads by the United States. The
remedy of such company, if it has any, is by
a suit ag&iust the government in the court of
claims.
The president having directed that all
correspondence on the part of the centennial
commission or any of its officers with the gov
ernment may be conducted through the de
partment of the interior, Secretary Delano has
called the attention of the secretary of state
to the joint resolution approved June 5, au
thorizing the extension of a cordial invitation
to foreign governments to participate in the
exhibition, and requested him to transmit
copies of the resolution abroad.
The secretary of the interior has ap
pointed as members of the board of Indian
commissioners to fill the vacancies which re
cently occurred therein, R. Butler, of New
York city; Gen. H. H. Sibley, of St. Paul,
Minn., and Clinton B. Fiske, of St, Louis.
These appointments increase the number of
members of the commission from four, at
which it was left by the recent resignation of
Brunot and others, to seven. Secretary Dela
no will soon fill the remaining three vacancies.
The Washing ton Dispatch says : Mr.
Cushing, .United States minister to Spain, has
made a peremptory demaud upon the Spanish
government for full indemnity for the Vir
ginias prisoners, slain by the order of Gov.
Burriel, and for consequential damages. The
same authority makes Secretary Fißh say that
the American government has made a prompt
demand, aud one quite as decided aud per
emptory as that made by the British govern
ment, for the indemnity of the lives of the
prisoners destroyed and the loss to their
families.
The decrease of immigration for the
first six months of 1874 shows a falling of of
from twenty to about fifty per cent, compared
with the corresponding mouths in 1873. The
difference is chiefly seen in the German ele
ment. In the sixth month of the present
year over 82,000 immigrants arrived, aud an
unusually large proportion go directly west.
Several ships recently arrived have been
almost exclusively filled with young Irish
women, who come for the purpose of hiring
out as housekeepers, and accordingly have
distributed themselves in part through New
Y’ork, but still more largely over the eastern
states.
The Pacific mail steamer Alaska,
has arrived at San Francisco, and brings Yo
kohama dates to June 5. Kido a member
of the Japanese ministry, head of the depart
ment of education, had been murdered by his
countrymen. The Japanese government is
sues a notice to the effect that after the Ist of
August next the exportation of rice and wheat
beyond the seas will be 'prohibited. The re
port of the tour of the late Japanese em
bassy around the world is finished and placed
in the hands of the censors. It will be pub
lished in Japanese. The Sagasake Express
says, it is the evident intention of the Japa
nese government to annex so much of the
Formasan territory as is not under the control
of China. The Alaska brought 10,000 Chinese,
hereafter to be separately arranged by each
country.
The designation of commissioners
made by the frsedman’s savings bank and
trust company has been approved by the sec
retary of the treasury. They are Poftmaster-
Geueral Cresswell, Dr. C. B. Parvis and L. H.
Liepold. It is reported that some of the de
positors in the freedman’s bank are selling
their cash books for less than their value,
either from necessity or in ignorance of the
fact that Bank Examiner Meigs, after a thor
ough examination of its affairs, placed the as
sets, deducting bad and doubtful debts, at
ninety-three cents on the dollar. The officers
of the company say that with proper care on
the part of the management, the books will be
worth more than that sum. and that a large
dividend will be made at as early a day as
practicable.
The National Crop Reporter pub
lishes crop information, of which the follow
ing is a brief abstract: Returns fiom over two
hundred and fifty counties in the nine princi
pal cotton states, indicate, as compared with
last year, a decreased area, amounting to fif
teen and six-tenths per cent. The average
stand in the nine states, June 15, was a trifle
more than twelve per cent, below a full aver
age, and the general condition of the plant is
very rapidly improving. Returns are also pub
lished from seventeen states which produces
annually over three-fourths of the com raised
in the United States. From these are deduced
an increase of 6 6-10 per cent, in the area
planted in corn this season, as compared with
last year. This increase aggregates in round
numbers over two million acres. The stand
and general condition of the growing corn,
June 15, was very good and the outlook prom
ising.
The act approved J une 18, 1874, en
titled “an act to increase pensions in certain
cases,” provides that all persons who are now
entitled to pensions under existing laws, aud
who have loßt an arm at or above the elbow,
or a leg at or below the knee, shall be rated in
the second class and shall receive twenty-four
dollars per month, provided that no artificial
limbs or commutation therefor shall be furn
ished to such persons as will be entitled to
pension under this act. By its terms the act
was to take effect from and after June 4, 1873.
Gen. Baker, commissioner of pensions, an
nounces that the persons embraced within
the provisions of this act can secure the bene
fits of the same without formal applications
and without the intervention of an attorney.
A power of attorney will not be recognized in
an application for the increase of pension
provided by this act. A letter from the pen
sioner addressed to the commissioner of pen
sions inclosing his pension certificate and
giving his postoffice address will be a sufficient
presentation of his claims.
The Washington Chronicle, in an edi
torial upon the removal of Gen. Sheridan’s
headquarters to St. Louis, says : We have the
highest authority for saying that personal
relations between the secretary of war and the
general of the army are cordial and friendly,
and that there has been no open rupture.
Gen. Sherman’s removal is made at this time
on account of private and personal matters
which in his judgment under all circumstances
justify his course. But it is equally true that,
had he any duties to perform as general of the
army, he would remain at the capital. His
letter to the secretary of war has yet never
been answered or its receipt acknowledged.
He has no authority, nor is his position rec
ognized in the government of the army. Or
ders go from the secretary of war direct to
the commander of troops, giving the orders
to the companies and moving regiments of
which he knows nothing, nnless he incident
ally learns it in the newspaper. Coui t martials
are ordered, the sentence reviewed and the
punishment executed without even his knowl
edge. The Chronicle further remarks that it
is due to the present secretary of war, to say
that the orders and present usage of the war
department concerning the relative authority
of the secretary of war and the general of the
army, were determined and acted upon by his
predecessor in that office, and that he has not,
as has been asserted, inaugurated any new
doctrine or construction of the law.
A Washington dispatch of the 30th
says: The treasury department employes
were considerably agitated in view of the an
ticipated reduction of the force. The ladies
were particularly distubed aud collected in
groups in various parts of the building dis
cussing this subject. This morning the heads
of all the bnreaus handed Secretary Bristow
lists of those to be dismissed. The heaviest
discharge was in the bureau of engraving and
printing, the services of three hundred and
seventy-five female employes being dispensed
with, leaving twelve hundred persons still em
ployed in the bureau. The scene of dismissal
was marked by sadness. Fourteen of those
discharged fainted when the announcement
was made to them and physicians were called
to their assistance. Forty clerks were dis
charged from the second auditor’s office, and
other discharges will be made to-morrow. It
was recommended by the officers of the bureau
that only one of a family be retained, and this
recommendation is generally followed. This
wholesale discharge will cause much suffering,
which, however, will be somewhat alleviated
by the payment of two months’ extra salary
to every victim of congressional economy!
About twenty-five permanent and the same
number of temporary clerks were discharged
from the interior department. Tins includes
the contraction of the force in the patent of
fice. The appropriation for that bureau having
been reduced twenty thousand dollars, the com
missioner has accommodated his business to
the circumstances, although he shows that the
government will lose largely by the curtail
ment of expenditure.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Rtcular Monthly Statement-Decrease in
.Tune, *3,180,196.
The public debt statement has just
been issued, ®f which the following is
a recapitulation :
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN COIN.
Bonds at 6 per cent ft,213.624,700
Bonds at 5 per cent 510,628,160
Total 41,724,282,750
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUI. MONET.
Lawful money debt $ 14,618,000
Matured debt 3,216,590
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
Legal tender notes $ (82,076,732
Certificates on deposit 68,760,000
Fractional currency 49,881,295
Coin certificates 22,8/5.100
Total without interest $ 509 543,123
Total debt . .. $2,251,690,468
Total interest 38,939,087
CASH IN THE TREASURY.
Coin_ $ 74.215,304
Currency 14,676,010
Special deposit held for redemption of
certificates of deposit, as provided
bylaw 58,760,000
Total in treasury $ 147,541,314
DEBT LESS CASH IN THE TREASURY.
Debt less cash in treasury $2,143,088,241
Decrease of the debt during the past
month . 2,180,196
BONDS ISSUED TO RAII.ROAD COMPANIES.
Principal outstanding $ 64,623,512
Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,968,705
Interest paid by United Stateg 32,336,691
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc 5,252,036
Balance of interest paid by the United
States 17,134,655
The Baby’s Death.
There came a morning at last when
the baby’s eyes did not open. Dr.
Erskine felt the heart throb faintly un
der his fingers, but knew it was beating
its last. He trembled for Elizabeth
and dared not tell her. She anticipted
him.
“Doctor,” she said—her voice was so
passionless that it might almost have be
longed to a disembodied spirit—“ I
know that my darling is dying.”
He bowed his head mutely. Her
very calmness awed him.
“ Is there anything you can do to
ease her ? ”
“ Nothing. Ido not think she suf
fers.”
“ Then you will please go’away. She
is mine—nobody’s but mine, in her life
and in her death, and I want her qniet
to myself at the last.” '
Sorrowfully enough he left her.
Elizabeth held her child closely, but
gently. She thought in that hour that
she had never loved anything else—
never in this world should love any
thing again. She wanted to cry, but
her tears were dry and burning, and
not a tear fell on the little upturned
face, changing so fast to marble. She
bent over and whispered something in
in the baby’s ear—a wild, passionate
prayer that it would remember her anu
know her again in the infinite spaces.
A look seemed to answer her— a radi
ant, loving look, which she thought
must be born of the near heaven. She
pressed her lipa in a last despairing ag
ony of love to the little face, from
wh’ch already, as she kissed it, the
soul had fled. Her white wonder had
gone home. This which lay upon her
hungry heart was stone.—“ Some Wo
men's Hearts."
One who makes human nature his
study ssys that when a girl takes a
handkerchief and moistening it with her
her lips wipes a black spot off a young
man’s nose, a wedding between the par
ties is inevitable.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15. 1874.
PATIESCK..
BY PHEBE CABY.
Why are we bo impatient of delay,
Longing forever for the time to be?
For this we liTe to-morrow in to-day.
Yea, ead to-morrow we may never see.
We are too hasty; are not reconciled
To let kind nature do her work alone;
We plant our seed, and like a foolish child
We dig it np to see if it has grown.
The good that is to be we covet now,
We can not wait for the appointed hour;
Before the fruit is ripe we shake the bough,
And seize the bud that folds away the flower.
When midnight darkness reigns we do not see
That the sad night is mother of the morn ;
We can not think onr own sharp agony
May be the birth-pang of a joy unborn.
Into the dust we see our idols cast,
And cry that death has triumphed, life is void 1
We do not trust the promise, that the last
Of all our enemies Bhall be destroyed!
With rest almost in sight the spirit faints,
And heart, anil flesh grow weary at the last;
Our feet wonld walk the city of the saints,
Even before the silent gate is passed.
Teach ns to wait until Thou shall appear—%
To know that all Thy ways and times are just;
Thou seest that we do believe, and fear,
Lord, make ub a so to believe and trust!
LITTLE MILLIE,
It frightened ns a good deal when we
fonnd the little dead body. This is the
way it was. We were three country
lads going home across lots at noon
for onr dinner. In passing a lonely
pasture ground we saw a little basket
lying ahead of ns upon the grass. We
made a race for it and Ed captured the
prize; a little farther on we picked up
a small hat which we at once recognized
as Willie Dedrick’s. Then we turned
the angle of a zig-zag rail fence, and
there in the corner, jammed clof e under
the bottom rail, was beautiful little
Willie, only five years old.
His clothing was torn and bloody,
and he did not move ; we felt a little
afraid because he was so still, but we
went up to him. He was dead, and his
plump little features were all blackened
with bruises.
It shocked ns very much. Only three
hours before we had been playing with
Willie at the pond. We felt that it was
a terrible thing to find him dead in this
unlooked-for manner. We asked each
other what Walter and Mary wonld do
when they should hear of this ; Willie
was the only boy they had. And then
the question came up what we ought te
do under such circumstances. There
was no one in sight to tell ns. It
was suggested that we might take up
the body and carry it home to Walter
and Mary ; it was not, far through the
lot and down the bank, to the pond
where their home was. It seemed nat
ural and right at first that we should
take the chubby little boy and carry
him home. But wo shrank from the
presence of death even in the form of
little Willie ; and, beside that, we had
certain dim and oonfused ideas, as coun
try lads do who re id the city newspa
pers, that somehow a coroner was nec
essary, and that it would not be lawful
or safe for us to meddle with Willie,
thus strangely found dead from an un
known canse.
So we sat down upon the large stones
near by Willie, and held a council.
There “was no chairman appointed, and
no secretary, and none of the surround
ings that ordinarily belong to delibera
tive bodies ; nevertheless, in all the es
sentials of a great council this occasion
vas very eminent. Here were three
lads, seated upon three fragments of
the ancient granite ahich strews the
northern slope of the Adirondack moun
tains, and below them stretched the
wild woods, away to the valley of the
mighty St. Lawrence; and in their
midst, upon that bright summer day,
sat the skeleton king, with his awful
sceptre and his iron crown, pressing
upon their young hearts those matchless
terrors which have ruled the world
since time began.
It was an august presence, and the beys
felt their responsibility more than mem
bers of councils ordinarily do. Their
final conclusion was, that one of their
number must go and tell Walter and
Mary, while the other two watched the
body. It required quite as much cour
age as wisdom to reach this conclusion,
for to tell the parents was a task the
boys dreaded.
The lot was cast, country-boy fashion,
with three blades of grass, to determine
who should be the messenger of evil
tidings. The lot fell upon Phil, and he
immediately rose up to start. Ed sug
gested at this point that in sending word
the death ought to be some
cause. The boys had been very much
puzzled from the first to know what
could have done it. They gazei about
the pasture ground to dise*v< r what
suggestion could be made. There were
a couple of horses, some cows, and some
sheep grazing in a distant part of the
inclosure. As soon as it was sugges
ted that one of the horses might perhapp
have done it by kicking Willie, the boys
accepted that as the natural and un
doubted solution of the mystery. And
so Phil took that word with him.
Phil went upon a little trot through
the lot and down the bank, moving rap
idly, so that his heart might not have
time to quail or shrink ; and in less
than five minutes he stood by the little
house near the pond.
He looked at the door, which was
wide open upon this summer day, and
there he saw Walter and Mary. Wal
ter sat cleaning the lock of his rifle,
while the gun itself was lying across
his lap. Doubtless Phil’s faoe was
somewhat pale a he went in at the
door, for Miry looked at him as if she
saw something there, and dreaded it.
The lad had good sense; he did not
blurt out the sad news suddenly. He
said to Walter, in a quiet way, “ Will
you please step out of the door with
me ; I wish to see you.”
It was the earnestness of the voice,
perhaps, that caused the man to put
aside his gun and obey so quickly.
When they were out of the house
Phil said, “I have bad news for you ;
we have found yonr little son in the lot,
kicked by a horse, and we are afraid
that he is so bad that he is dead.”
Phil had thought of this way of say
ing it before he got to the house. When
he said dead, Walter gave a little start,
and said, “ Is he dead 7”
Phil had to say, “Yes, we are afraid
he is, and we think he is.”
“Walter stepped into the cottage, and
Phil stood at the door to see how he
would tell Marv. Walter said, without
any preface, “ Mary, onr little Willie is
dead?”
“ That was not a prudent thing,” the
boy thought, as the tragic words fell
upon his ear, and fixed themselves in
his memory.
The effect of the words upon Mary
reminded the boy of the way he had
seen a rifle-shot tell upon a rabbit or
partridge. The woman passed through
a kind of fl utter or shudder for a mo
ment, and then Bank straight down in a
little heap upon the floor. Then fol
lowed a series of quick gasps and catch
ing for breath, and short exclamations
of “ Oh, dear ! oh, dear !” and then the
stifled shrieking began.
Walter took his wife up in his strong
arms, and tried to undo in part the sad
work which had been accomplished upon
her by the few words he had so sudden
ly aDd imprudently uttered. He said
that Willie might not be dead after all,
but only hurt. And so he placed her
upon a bed, and he and Phil left her
there, and started to go and see Willie.
Not many words were said as the man
and boy climbed the bank, and strode
hastily along te the fatal spot. As they
neared it, there sat the two watchers,
faithful to their post, and as still as
statues.
Phil and Walter turned the angle of
the fence, and. the father came upon the
body of his little son. He had not
seemed stricken with grief until now,
! but only excited. As he looked stead
ily upon the chubby little form, all bat
tered and bloody and braised, the lad
who had brought him there felt that
some word must be said.
“It’s a kick, ain’t it ?” said he.
This was hardly the right thing to say
at such a moment, perhaps. The poor
father choked and trembled, and re
plied, “ A kick, or a bite, or something
—O, dear!” and then he turned his
head and looked away, and there was
the sound of his sobbing, and a strange,
moaning cry.
Walter wonld not stay by the body,
bat directed the boys to remain and
watch, while he himself went and
brought his friend, the doctor. Aud
then he turned away and went off over
the fields toward the settlement, utter
ing loud sobs and that same strange
cry.
It was hardly more than ten minutes’
walk down to the road toward which
Walter directed his steps, and in a very
short time the boys saw groups of men
coming from the houses, up the accliv
ity toward the fatal spot. They came
hastily, two and three together, and
soon a dozen or more were gathered
aronnd the three boys who had watched,
and were gazing at the body.
After the first look the men made
characteristic remarks.
“This is a rough piece of business !”
said Dan.
“ Fearful !” said Pete.
“ That’s durn queer work for a horse,
now, ain’t it?’’ said Levy, a tall, keen
fellow, intended by nature for a lawyer,
“ It don’t look like a hoss to me,”
said another.
And so they went on to oomment and
examine.
It appeared that the rail nnd r which
Willie was jammed was dented and
marked, as if hammered by maDy
blows. The three innocent boys who
had originated the “hoss thfory,”as
the men called it, accounted for the
marks on the rail by saying that the
horse pawed at Willie after he was un
der the fence.
The men said they knew better ; they
began to question the boys as if they
entertained suspicions in regard to
them, and the boys became very un
comfortable. The men asked repeat
edly just how the body was lyiug when
the boys had found it, and inquired
again whether they had moved it at all.
Tne lads felt these insinuations very
keenly.
Men continued to come, and at length
women came in groups, until quite an
assembly was gathered there in the open
field. Finally Walter returned slowly
up the hill with a few friends, as if he
were reluctant to come again to the
place. Just as he reached the spot,
good old Father Mosely, and his wife,
a sharp, managing woman, came from
the opposite direction and met Walter.
Father and Mother Mosely lived down
by the school-house, at the other side
of the settlement.
Mother Mosely at once seized hold of
Walter, and while she wrung his hand,
exclaimed, in a high voice, that seemed
to the boys not a becoming or natural
voice in which to express grief :
“ Oh, Walter, we can’t give him np ;
no, no, no, oh, dear ! ”
The gesticulation which accompanied
this was tragio and stagey, and it was by
far the most theatrical thing done upon
that occasion.
Father Mosely spoke a very few words
which interested the people very much.
Hearing some allusion made to the
“ hoss theory,” he said :
“ The little boy down at the school
says it was a sheep that did it.”
And then it came out that Willie’s
playmate, Charlie Sanders, was “the
little boy down at the school,” and
that Charlie had cried all the forenoon,
and dared not tell the teacher what the
matter was ; but finally, at the noon
spell, he told a little girl that Willie did
not come to school because a sheep in
the lot had chased them and knocked
Willie down, and he could not get up.
Here was light, indeed, especially for
the three lads, who had begun to feel,
since the horse theory was criticised, as
if they themselves were culprits, unless
they accounted for “ the murder.”
Across the lot the sheep were still
feeding. A young farmer stepped out
of the crowd and called, “ Nan, nan,
nan,” and the flock, raising their heads,
responded with a multitude of ba a-as,
and came galloping over the grassy
field. At their head was the “old ram,”
a fine “buck,” with great horns curling
in spirals around his ears.
The young farmer held Wilie’s
basket in one hand, and, making a
brawny fist of the other, struck out to
ward the ram, offering him battle. The
buck at once brought his head down in
line of attack, squared himself for a
big butt, and came on with a litte run,
and a charge that, in an artistic point
of view, was quite beautiful. The far
mer stepped aside, caught him by his
horns as ne came, and that magnificent
charge was his last.
There was a blood-thirsty feeling per
vading tbs crowd, undoubtedly, but
Buck had a f. ir trial. There, on his
white, bold face and horns, were the
bright carmine drops of fresh blood*
No other witnesses were needed. In a
moment a glittering, keen kuife flashed
from somebody’s keeping into the bright
snnshine, and in a moment more a pur
ple stream dyed the white wool around
Buck’s throat, and there was a red pool
upon the grass; and a little later, as Dan
remarked, “some tongh mutton.”
The excitement abated; for the mys
tery was cleared up, and justice had its
due. Kind-hearted Joe, who superin
tended the Sabbath-school and led the
religions element of the neighborhood,
stepped forward and said to the crowd:
“ Well, boys, it is all right here, and
no suspicion, and no need of any cere
mony; let us take him home.”
And then Joe took Willie in liis arms,
and held him closely, with the little
face against his own, as if lie were still
living, and started for the cottage.
Some of the peeple followed, in a pict
uresque procession, through the pasture
lot and down tin bank, and aloDg the
shore of the pond. When Walter’s
house was reached, a few of the women
went in to soothe Mary; aud Joe and
the dootor went in also, and the people
clustered about the door.
In the course of an hour it seemed
that all hqd been done that could be
done for Walter aud Mary, and th
people, exeept a few, who remained as
watchers and helpers, dispersed to their
homes.
The three days that followed were
bright, sunny daya. A strange stillness
and nnusual hush reigned in the neigh
borhood of the oottage. The harsh,
grating sound of the saw mill was stop
ped in token of respect for the real sor
row. Only the softly flowing stream
was heard, mingling susurrus with the
hum of the bee s in the garden.
Now aDd then groups of children,
dressed in their Sunday attire, would
come down the bank, and with hushed
voices and fearful looks steal up toward
the cottage door. Then kind Joe would
see them, and would come out and take
them in to see Willie ; and after a few
moments they would iaaue forth again
and walk sadly homeward, and as they
went the sunlight dried ther tears.
And farmers and hunters came from
many miles sway “ to see the little boy
that was killed by s sheep.” Some of
the rough men manifested their sympa
thy by exhibiting vindictive feelings
toward the ram. After going in and
viewing the bruised corpse, they would
oome out with dark, determined looks,
and grasping again the long rifles which
they had brought.with them and ‘stood
ui >’ by the door, they would inquire of any
by standcr, with fierce emphasis, wheth
er the ram that “did that” was dead.
On being informed oI bis execution,
they wonld say, " That will do,” with
an air that implied how much they
would have enjoyed it to have shot at
him. Indeed, it appeared that if the poor
brute had been possessed of fifty or a
hundred lives so that eaoh irate hunter
might have taken one, it would have
been a great relief and satisfaction.
On the fourth day Willie was buried.
Mary continued inconsolable. All of
the social influences which the neigh
borhood could command were put in
operation from the time of the funeral
onward, in order to cheer her and bind
her wounded spirit. Social meetings
were held and pleasant little gatherings
made for her. Wherever there was en
joyment Mary must be. She gracefully
submitted herself to all their kindness,
and tried to please her friends. But it
seemed to do her little good. She re
mained pale, weak, and dispirited.
After a few months Walter and Mary
discovered that somehow they were not
suited with their farm. They sold the
place at the first opportunity, and re
turned to their former home in New
England, the remains of little Willie
having been forwarded in advance to a
cemetery there, with which they in their
early days had been familiar. —Atlantic
for July.
Rotundity of the Earth.
One of those people with whom “see
ing is believing,” and the deductions of
logic and mathematics go for nothing—
an Englishman bearing the immortal
name of Hampden—recently risked
five hundred pounds on the assertion
that the earth could not be proved to
him by ocular demonstration to be
round —or, more precisely, that the sur
face of a sheet of quiet water was flat,
not curved. The bet was accepted by a
Mr. A. R. Wallace (presumably the
eminent naturalist of that name), and
the experiment was tried on the “ Bed
ford Level,” wkere a line of six miles
could be obtained. Three disks were
placed, one at each end of this line and
one at the center, each disk being ex
actly 42 feet above the surface of the
water immediately under it. The
three were then observed through a
selected and improved telescope, aud
the central one was found to be about
five feet above the line joining the two
others. That rise of five feet forced
Mr. Hampden to come down with five
hnndred pounds. It is to be be hoped
that he paid his water money. Any
surveyor oould have told him that in
running levels over any considerable
distance it is necessary to make correc
tions for the curvature of the earth,
as well as for refraction. These correc
tions become very important when it is
desired to survey a line for the con
struction of a ditch or canal. A man
sighting through a telescope at an ob
ject ten miles distant, and apparently
on a level, would be really looking at a
point nearly fifty-seven feet higher in
altitude than his eye ; and if he made
no allowance for this fact, it might hap
pen to him, as it happened to rnde sur
veyors and contractors before now, that
when his ditch was done, the water
could not run in it. At'this distance the
positive error in curvature is nearly
sixt-seven feet; but there is a oartial
offset in the opposite or negative error
of refraction.
Holidays in Germany.
The chatty correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Gazette writes from Berlin;
Unfortunate America, with its one poor,
done to death, half extinct, fire-cracker
shooting, spread-eagle oration, relief
when it is over, forlorn Fourth of July
holiday ! You don’t know how to have
holidays any better than you know
what to do with them when you get
them. Only look at us over here.
Since Christmas—and the year isn’t
half gone—we have had no less than
eight different festival days,on which the
stores were closed and all business sus
pended, besides half holidays and any
amount of royal birthdays thrown in.
Americans across the water who cfo
nothing but chase the everlasting dollar
can’t appreciate this delightful way of
letting it alone. As “Mr. F.’s” aunt
says of mysteriously profound den
ham, “Drat that dollar,” let is go and
learn to do without it. Ten chances to
one you don’t catch it in the long run,
and if you do, what have you besides
it ? You commence the race bright
and fresh, and healthful and vigorous.
In your eagerness for success you
sprang over this resting place, you
thrust away the pleasure, you put all
aside until the goal is reached. Per
haps even at middle age, which should
be the very prime of life, you have at
tained your end, but with it you have
gray hairs, anxious, ugly looking care
lines on the face, and, worst of all, no
taste nor enjoyment for these elixirs of
life that you have left far behind. Far
better to have too many holidays than
to have none at all. But,, first of all,
learn the secret how to make use of
them; how to extract every drop oi
pleasure they contain.
Not Swift’s Comet.
A letter to the New York Tribune
says: In the account of the comet
which is now attracting popular atten
tion, published in some of the daily pa
pers, Prof. Swift states that it was pre
viously discovered at Marseilles on the
17th of April. Other accounts that
have appeared during the last week also
assert its identity with the comet.
Unless I am very much mistaken,
howeve •, the comet now visible is an
entirely new object from that discov
ered April 17th, by Ooggia, at Mar
seilles. The latter is now a few days
past its perhelion, and is too near the
sun to be visible. Its place in the heav
ens at the date of its discovery, by a
curious coincidence, corresponds very
closely with that of the present comet
when first found by Prof. Swift.
Neither can this oomet be confounded
with the one discovered on the 11th of
April by Weinecke ; as the elements of
the orbit of the latter computed by the
writer from observations obtained on
the 13th, 15th, and 21st of April, show
that its perhelion passage occurred on
March 14, and it is now rapidly reced
ing from the sun and the earth.
It is oardly credible that so conspicu
ous object as this comet is, should not
have been detected in Europe previ
ously to the Bth inst, yet I have seen no
notice of such disoovery.
The French Agsembly.
As many of oar readers get so mixed
up in the divisions of the French As
sembly that they hardly know their own
light, left or centre, we give the follow
in ■ as an illumination :
The Left is composed of the Republi
cans, of whom Leon Gambetta and Jules
Favre are leaders.
The Extreme Left is Radical Repub
-1 iean or Communist.
The Left Centre is made up of Con
servative Republicans—the men who are
willing to accept a republic as the best
practical ferm of government. Thiers
and Casimer Periere are leaders in this
branch of the Assembly.
The Right is composed of the Legiti
mists or Bourbons —the ultra, divine
right, white-flag, Chambord monarch
ists*
The Right C nter represents the Con
servative Monarchists, or Orleanists,
who favor a Constitutional monarchy of
a Conservative type.
The Bonapartists are generally classi
fied with the Right, but there are only
about forty-five or fifty of tnem.
The deputies comprising the Assem
bly number seven hundred and thirty
eight, seven hundred and twenty-three
of whom are elected in France and fit
teen in the French ooloaiea.
LIGHTNING AND THUNDERBOLTS.
Are Lightuinq Rods at Protection I—The
Resnlt e t Scientific Observations.
Professor John Wise read a paper
before the Franklin institute, Philadel
phia, reoently, npon the above subject,
in which he said :
The thundergnst that passed over this
city on Monday afternoon, the 25th of
May, was attended with more than the
usual amount of electrical discharges.
Immediately over the city the heavens
were literally filled with flashes of light
and brilliant corruscations of lightning.
The cloud matter was so thoroughly
combined, and of snch great thickness,
that the nsnal echoes were not propaga
ted, but, instead, we had the hoarse,
rumbling intonations of thunder, re
sembling the sound of that prodnoed by
heavy carriages running over frozen
ground. The thunderbolt discharges
sounded much like the discharges of
heavy artillery, while in smaller storms
the sound resembles that produced by
small arms. While in all these storms
there is a central vortex, those of great
dimensions have within their areas a
number of vortioes. In that of Monday
last the evidence of this feature of storms
was discernable in the nprooted trees
in different sections of the city. These
vortices are so mnch broken and shat
tered in passing over a city, by the
solid obstructions they meet in their
whirling actioD, that they become com
paratively harmless ; whereas, in pass
ing over an orchard or wood, the um
brage of the trees presents a favorable
condition to their impact, and many of
them are twisted and lifted out by the
roots.
In addition to the great number of
thunderbolts that were discharged npon
the earth from the clouds, the vapor
stratum overhead was for half an hour
embellished with brilliant scintillations
of electrical fire, resembling the burst
ing of rockets filled with white stars.
This display of electrical pyrotechnics
was truly sublime. Many persons
were reported to have suffered from
these electrical discharges, but these
sufferings were in most cases of the
imaginary kind, distressing enough to
be such, but not. very dangerous in their
results. The pleasure afforded those
who view the phenomena in their beau
teous and exhilarating aspect forms
an equivalent to those who suffer from
them.
The most marked and instruc
tive thunderbolt brought to my notice
was that which struck the building of
Mr. Rech, on the southeast corner of
Girard avenue and Eighth street. This
building was provided with an exten
sive arrangement of lightning rods It
is gravel roofed, and around the whole
circumference of the roof there runs
an iron conductor. From this horizon
tal iron bar there are perpendicular
lightning rods at sixteen different equi
distant places. It has, in fact, sixteen
lightning rods pointing to the clouds.
Upon the roof and centerirg the avenue
front, and about twenty feet from the
front edge of the building, there stood
a flag-staff. A branch of the circumfer
ential conductor run across to this staff
and up it about twelve feet, where it
ended and was fastened to an iron band
around the pole. The thunderbolt, in
disregard of the sixteen lightning roids,
struck the flag-staff, and completely
shivered it down to within four feet of
the iron band, and where the branch
conductor ended. Why did this bolt
prefer the wooden pole to the lightning
rod? Simply because it was in the
path of the descending bolt. Now if,
as is claimed by eminent electricians,
the rod does its silent work of discharg
ing the cloud when it is yet afar off,
why did it not quietly and decently dis
arm this nimbus artillery in this case ?
Certainly the garrison was well fortified
with these barbed protectors, expressly
stationed there to prevent an explosion
of electricity, by drawing the surcharge
from the clouds, if not when afar off,
at all events when the bending cloud
passed over the protected building.
The lightning rod man claimed that the
branch conductor carried off harmlessly
the remainder of the bolt. No doubt
it did, since that residue was of little
momentum and energy of what was left
of the bolt after having made splinters
and kindling wood of a thirty feet flag
staff.
While this is the third flag-staflf shat
tered by lightning in this city that I
have examined within a few years, and
where the mechanical effects of the bolt
were little beyond that of rending a
pole, it is the only one on a building
where it was surrounded by a cordon of
lightning rods, or in proximity to a rod;
it is one of the most conclusive evi
dences of the inutility of lightning rods
that oould possibly be presented. If
the rod would do what it is intended
for, to wit: draw the surcharge of elec
tricity from the storm cloud silently ;
disarm it of its force by drswing in a
silent stream to its point, as the charge
from the prime conductor of an electri
cal machine is drawn by any kind of a
pointed material, glass as well as metal,
there should not be a bolt ever descend
upon a building in Philadelphia, with
its thousands of lightning rods peering
toward the cloud region.
The only protection from thunderbolt
that has yet been proved to be effica
cious is the metal roof. The greatest
damage ever done to a building thus
protected is the perforation of the metal
at the point where the bolt strikes, and
this is, in the heaviest discharges, not
over half an inch in diameter. Such has
been the result of my observations
through more than a quarter of a cen
tury. In all these observations I
fonnd the mechanical effects of the
thunderbolt about the same in buildings
that were struck, with rods upon them,
and those without rods, with this dif
ference, that nearly all the cases of ig
nition were upon those with rods. Snch
are the facts of the case, with all the
theories to the contrary notwithstand
ing.
Metal has no more attraction for light
ning than sponge has for water. In
either it may be viewed as an absorb
ent. Neither has a metal point and at
tractive power to draw electricity on it.
Points act as recipients of conduction,
or as entering wedges to the bolt; as a
point would act in perforating a soap
babble of hydro-oxygen gas; or any
other film or attenuated matter. The
attraction of positive for negative, as
laid down in electrical science, proves
nothing more than there is present an
unbalanced condition of electrical mat
ter, and then necessarily a disposition
to electrical equilibrium, which always
follows, just as two drops of water will
coalesce when their atmospheres come
in contact.
Abont Comets.
Comets are not exactly calculated to
inspire in the human heart feelings of
confidence a* to our general safety. In
all times, they have been regarJed with
dread ; particularly was this the case a
century and a half ago, when a renowned
astrologer predicted that a comet wonld
appear on Wednesday, 14th of October,
1712, and that the world would be de
stroyed by fire on the Friday following.
His reputation was high, and the comet
appeared. A number of persons got
into the boats and barges on the
Thames, thinking the water the safest
place. South Sea and India stock fell.
A captain of a Dutch ship threw all his
powder into the river, that the ship
might not be endangered. At noon,
after the comet had appeared, it is said
that more than one hundred clergymen
were ferried over to Lambeth, to re
quest that proper prayers might be pre
pared, there being none in the church
service. People believed that the day
of judgment was at hand, and some
acted oo this belief, sore as if some
temporary evil was to be expected.
There was a prodigious run on the
bank, and Sir Gilbert Heatbcote at
that time the head director, issued or
ders to all the fire offices in London,
requiring them to keep a good look-ont,
and. have a particular eye npon the
Bank of England.
THE GROWING COTTON.
The Roll of State*- Decreased Acreage
hut flood Prospect*.
The following is a summary of the
New Orleans exchange crop report to
June 30 :
Missiasippi reports from forty-four
counties a decrease in acreage of 7 per
cent.; a fair average sttnd ; the crop two
weeks behind last year, but remark ibly
clean, though small and backward;
labor satisfactory.
Louisiana. —Twenty-six parishes are
reported. The acreage is a decreato of
20 per cent.; the weather less favorable
than last year; the average stand and
condition of the plant generally good
and promising, though three weeks
later ; no oomplaint of labor.
Texas.— Forty -five counties report in
acreage an increase averaging 15 per
cent., stand good, two weeks ater
planted than last year, but in fine
growing condition, free from grass;
labor good.
Abkansas.—Twenty-five oountiei re
port the average decrease at 8 per cent.;
weather less favorable; stand better
than last year, though three weeks back
ward ; labor efficient.
Tennessee, Twenty-four counties
report the average decrease 3j per or nt.;
weather less favorable ; stand fair; crop
clean bat small, being two weeks 1 ater
than last season ; labor abont the same.
Alabama. —Twenty-seven oountieo re
port the acreage decrease 16 per cent.;
the late replanted looks better than the
old cotton crop; somewhat later aud
generally cleaner than ever before;
growing rapidly ; labor never better
North Carolina. —Forty-one coun
ties are reported ; weather less favor
able ; acreage decrease 19 per cent.;
planting two to three eeks later ; fair
average stand ; crop clean, healthy and
growing finely though small and busk
ward : decrease in use of fertilizers 40
per oent.
South Carolina. —Twenty-one coun
ties report an acreage decrease of 17 per
cent.; weather unfavorable to the mid
dle of May; more favorable since;
replanting has given a fair average; the
stand is small but condition good ; crop
clean and growing well, labor sufficient;
decrease in the nse of fertilizers 33
per cent.
Georgia. —Sixty-nine oonnties rejiort
a decrease in acreage of 10 per nt.;
weather less favorable; the stand and
condition good, growing finely, clean
though small, being ten days later lhan
last year ; labor good; nse of fertilisers
decreased 3 per cent, as compared ivith
last year.
Florida. —Reports meager ; acreage
said to have decreased 4 per oent.;
steads good ; condition very fine, clean
and growing well, being one week
earlier than last year; no complaint of
labor.
Pulpit Pranks.
We are sometimes amused—that will
be better than to say anything se
vere—at the posture of some preaohers.
They seem not to know what to do with
their legs. They were, doubtless, made
to stand on, to give the body a firm and
commanding bearing, and impreisive
dignity. They stand on one leg and
crook the other aronnd it like a cork
screw, and keep up a perpetual twist
ing as if they were winding themselves
up. Then they lift and wind up the
other side, and it seems all the time as
if what they were saying was worked
below. Of course such an unnatural
and ungraceful posture as this detracts
very much from the effect of their
preaching, because it excites your sym
pathy or something else unpleaiiant,
for they seem to be in pain all the time.
In this position every gesture is
awkward, for the hands are needed to
support the body. Then what a part
the pocket-handkerchief plays with
some preachers. One spreads it length
wise in the Bible as if it were accessory
or a help to his sermon. He maken it a
kind of Elisha’s mantle with which to
divide the waters, to make a passage for
his ardent Bpirit, and he seems to rely
on it for that purpose. Another rolls it
np as a compact argument, and gripes
it and talks to it, as much as to say,
Now I’ve got you. ’ Another makes
it into a ball, and seemingly hurls it at
some stronghold he is bent on demol
ishing ; and still another makes a ram’s
horn ot it, not the “ little horn ” which
Professor Stearns so learnedly de
scribes, but snch as Joshua used against
Jericho, only he puts it to his nose when
he blows the demolishing blast. We
cannot explain it, but there are some
things done by small men that would
excite mirthfnlness, which in a large
man would produce no such effect.
And we do not wonder, when a very
small man rose to preach as a < iandi
date in a certain place, whose head
oould scarcely be seen above the pulpit,
and gave out his text, “It is I, do not
afraid,” that the whole oongrej Ration
were moved to laughter.
National Bank Reserves.
The comptroller of currency ha* writ •
ten the following letter, giving hia con
struction of the new currency net in
reference to the reserve required to be
held by the national banks :
Sir—l have received your letter of
the 24th inst. Mv construction of ths
act of June 20, 1874, in reference to the
reserves of the national banks, ii that
the reserve upon circulation is abol
ished, but that the national banks are
required to keep a reserve npon depos
its, as provided in sections 31 and 32 of
the national bank act, a oertain piopor
tion of which must 1 e kept on hand
and a certain other proportion with
their reserve agents in the cities enu
merated in the section referred to. The
banks are also required to ke-;p an
amount equal to five per oent. of thoir
circulation on deposit with the treasurer
of the United States, which amount
may be deducted from the aggregate
amount of the reserve required to be
kept upon the deposits.
John Jay Knox, Comptroller.
To Geo. L. Otls, Cashier Commercial
National bank, Chicago, HI.
A Case of Floral “ Of^ering^,’ ,
The Garten lan be publishes an amus
ing article an the theatrical claque in
Berlin, in which the following is -elated
abont Mile. Yestvali, the female Ham
let: “She wanted to have bosquets
and wreaths thrown to htr. I demanded
twenty dollars for it, which she said was
too much for one night. Bat I explained
the whole thing to her. ‘Madame,’ I
said, ‘the twenty dollars are sufficient
for two nights. To-day I and my men
will throw the bouquets to you from
the first tier. Alter the performance is
over I shall take the flowers home with
me in a basket, put them in water, and
leave them there all night and I;he fol
lowing day. To-morrow night no one
in the andience will find ont that the
bouquets have been used lie fore. ’
Thereupon she paid me the sun. I had
demanded. ”
It is to the credit of Milwaukee that
only four men looked at a giraffe the
other day wlWiont remarking hat it
wonld be nice to have that throat—on*
could taste his drink so long.
It doesn’t look well for Judge Fuller
ton to be running around the country
with Goldsmith Maid. Their friends
ought to “break the silence” at c noe.
VOL. 15-NO. 29.
MllMiS ASD DOlHttS.
Music for organ-grinders—Works of
Handel.
Dr. Brown-Sequard-has-aailed-for-Eu
rope- and-hyphens-willnow-have-a-rest.
Straw is in demand, but in lengths of
abont twelve inobes with a glass at the
end.
Great places are great burdens ; dis
tinguished conditions in life exact great
servitude.
Scott Rogers carried his shot-gun
out on a slippery log, in Missouri, a few
days ago.
Nothing, it is said, contributes bo
mnch to the “music of the future" as
matrimony.”
Man is the merriest species of crea
tion ; all above and below him are se
rious.—Addison,
The worm of ooncienoe is the com
panion of the owl; the light is shunned
by evil spirits only.— Schiller.
Tenntson is writing another “Idyl of
the King.” Writing idyls should never
be encouraged during the corn-hoeing
season.
Tastes differ with localities. In Fort
Wayne a man with a red nose is looked
up to as a profound thinker and a deep
philosopher.
The Leghorn flat of the season has a
wide brim without any wire, so that it
may be shaped at will. After the wearer
has been out in a shower the flat shapes
itself.
Augustus Leonard dressed up like an
IndiaD, and descended on the cabin of a
Missouri family for fun. They kept the
body on ice three days for his father to
arrive.
A Brooklyn husband comforts his
wife for the loss of their dear little
eight-months-old, by reminding her that
there will be more room on the clothes
line now.
Old Probabilities” predicts light
winds and hurricanes for July, but he
can’t sc .re a man who lives in a rented
house and has his furniture insured for
its full value.
These old fellows are perfectly resist
less. Four months after the death of
his wife, Asahel Mix, of Bristol, Cons.,
aged eighty years, committed matrimony
with a girl fourteen years and six
monthß old.
An Evansville damsel witnessing a
foot race between a number of young
men a few days ago, became disgusted
with the performace, pulled off her
shoes,* challenged and beat the whole
crowd.
This is the month in whioh little
boys find that their hats have grown
too large for them, and walk into sohool
with long face.*, amid sympathetic
whispers of ' Why didn’t you have
your head filed, instead of sand-paper
ed?”
An Idaho school teacher has intro
duced anew feature in his school.
When one of the girls misses _a word,
the boy who spells it has permission to
kiss her. Asa result, the girls are fast
becoming poor spellers, while the boys
are improving.
Cyrus W. Field is confident that the
San Francisco moneyed men will take
Btock and advance money for laying the
Pacific cable to Japan as soon as the
survey is made. The stock will be
owned in London, New York and Sin
Francisco, and will amount to about
$20,000,000.
Married men who have extravagant
families, which they are in duty bound
to support, get no credit for refraining
from suicide. Just hear Louise Stock
ton : “It is woitli noticing that, while
the men who commit suicide are almost
always unmarried, the women are mar
ried or widowed. This leads to the in
ference that, while men can not live
without women, women find life unbear
able with men.”
A firm dealing largely in coal in one
of our western cities had in their ser
vice an Irishman named Barney. One
day the head of the firm, irritated be
yond endurance at one of Barney’s
blunders, told him to go to the office
and get his pay, and added : “ Yon
are so thick-headed I can’t teach you
anything.” “ Begorra,” says Barney,
“ I lam wan thing since I’ve been wid
ye 1” “ What’s that ?” asked his em
plover. “ That sivinteen hundred
make a ton.”
The San Francisco Alta make* the in
teresting announcement that “t.ie
amount of money, in round numbers
nineteen millions, realised from tae
sales of the surplus wheat crop of the
state for the past year has exceeded the
value of the gold produoed from the
Calfornia mines. The remark does not
embrace the bullion product of Nevada,
which is the result of California capital
and labor. It merely points out that
the soil of California for the past year
has rewarded industry with more value
in wheat than in gold. If we were to
take the whole production the difference
would be much greater.”
, George Francis Train writes to his
favorite papier: “Having eaten no
meat, eggs, fish, oysters, poultry or ani
mal food of any kind for many months,
all the ancient argument, antagonism,
ferocity of my nature has died out, and
yet I am in savage health and terrible
mental vigor. I never imagined a Ben
gal tiger could be transformed into a
Mongolian sheep by Turkish baths and
a vegetarian diet. I suppose the new
religion of evolution has helped to make
the change. lam either incubating
some gigantic power to develop love
and truth in mankind, or I have culmi
nated in the most magnificent flxxle pro
duced for centuries.”
Among the laity who affect white
cravats are numbered “Boss” Tweed
and Commodore Vanderbilt. The Set
ter, from his spjare build and gray hair
and whiskers, is frequently mistaken
for a Clergyman. The other day he was
aoming down towi in a street-car, when
two young men entered, both being in
toxicated. Perceiving the venerable
gentleman with a white tie, one of the
young men addressed him with, “I
spose yer think I’m going straight down
to h(hic)ell, don’t yer?’ T “why—no,”
said the commodore; “I hope not.”
The young man nudged his oompamon,
and nodding toward Vanderbilt said
“He’s a (hie) Univers’list.”
A “ Lightning Newspaper Train.”
The “ newspaper train” between New
York and Philadelphia will, sooner or
later, furnish materials for a first-class
horror. Every morning it leaves New
York and runs* at n higher rate of speed
than has hitherto been attained on this
continent. One morning reoently it left
Jersey City half an hour late and caught
up before reaching Trenton, malung
fifty-seven miles in fifty-nine minutes.
This, however, was not its fattest time.
Near New Brunswick five miles of the
road were run in three and* half min
utes, or at the rate of eighty-mx miles
an hour. This train was plaoed on the
road for the purpose of carrying the
New York morning papers to Philadel
phia, so that they could be distributed
as early as the Philadelphia journals.
The engineer and others employed on
the tiain have signed a paper declaring
that they will not hold the road respon
sible for damages in case of an accident.
Not content with simply carrying the
mails, a passenger ooaoh has been at
tached, making it a regular passenger
train. In England the rate of a mile
per minute is not considered excessive,
but there the roads are constructed with
a special reference to fast running, and
the road beds have a solidity and irm
ness unequaled on this side of the At
lantic.