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THE JA8. BBEQKENBIDGE & 00., Pobluherf. volumeTT “Onwni'd and Upward.” SUBSCRIPTION: 11.60 P*r Annum forming n distinct regiment oJhirmi°J^HUISEBS FOR THE NAY*. tv’s Indian forces. A TAI.K WITH RX-CUM.VIANPItR OOK- HIStMK ABOUT THU NEW VKSSELS. The largo boat car factory now liein, built at Dovall’s Bluff, Ark., will l>o com pleted in a sliort time. It will work !100 men. The oattlo that were shipped from Ooorgin recently are dying < n the Texas prnrarics. Tlio weather is too hot for them. Pike county, Alabama, has bought no corn this year, and the fanners are L. better condition than for several veins past. ’Tm said that there arc 15,000 lmsheis of corn in the western part of Greene county, Ala., which the faruieis have no use for and cannot dispose of. One orange grower in Ahiehnn county, Pin., has netted about $10,000 on cucum- liors this season. Ho is now marketing the crop of tomatoes off of 130 acres. The hydrophobia is raging among the cattle at Crystal (Springs, Miss,, to such an oxtent that the citizens have quit eat ing hoof, and tlie mnrkcts have closed in consequence. A wnoiiSOME Virginia law requires that liny person elected or appointed to any post or office under the laws of the com monwealth shall, l eforo lio acts in such office, take the anti-dueling oath. The mayor of Norfolk lias issued tho following excellent rule: “A police court ■ remove tho deformity successfully, hut-* 0lln ^ in practice in England that if a is a bud moral school for the young; tho physicians agreed that there wns no I slll .pyord il* 0 engino works these aro HEN asked if she was a parishioner, a New -York feminine witness promptly rispondod. 1 don t believe in priest, Reum ter Htvlna them n tlrrnter aimed minister, l’opo, Bishop^in anvthimr in 1 Fourteen Kuala nn llour-VVknl tlitt hlmvtn r j . , . I Forel*# Vcwel* »re llaln*. blmpo of mnn; I am not a parishioner, I iiud will not he a parishioner anywhere I where pants l-iilo; men have dragged ino ‘‘Have yon scon the Navy Department’s to-day from my business to testify in a ! advertisement for proposals for now ernis- ease which does not concern me, and 1 1 Gorrinao. 01 ' ° 03c_ tlommiijulor will hist litfy doffius by it. There is no j "I have a copy of it in my pocket I man hero who will make my Iobs good, noUco. that tho department calls for sev- hut thero are plenty of men to insult me j or *» vessels and tlio second paragraph of and sneer at mo under cover of legal an- soems to. require that .. .oil tl,.. ...,. J} >i # , rs shull he prepared to build both null ana engines of those ships, or en gines only. If it means this it excludes tiiority. I hope tUl the villinns who bring up such distnrbivuccH us this will go to the etomal blazes; that is the kind of a parishioner I am," all hut three of tho shipbuilders of this country, for only throe of onr iron ship yards ore fitted to build both hulls and engines. 1 But I am not discouraged T „„„ u , n „ f , , . about this. I menu to put In my bids, i *io non ° f H “ ,,okoll ‘ ho,r and I may say to you that I have already lo (flu, 000,000, suffered many yours from arranged with ono of the most coinpo- goitre, "A mombmugotm sac formed oil tollt engine builders iu this country to ‘ build the engino if my bid bo accepted by the department.” one side of his head and gradually in creased in size, notwithstanding all the efforts of tho most skilled physicians, until it hung down below Ip's shoulders. It was fast exhausting his strength, and “How aro war sliips built in Eng land ?” “About four-fifths of the English war vessels have their hulls btiil itu tho go* bndo fair to end his life. Ho sailed for onl mont dockyards. Hull building and Europe, and thero consulted the most I 01]gine b “ il , l , ,i "?: J hou ? h , closely allied, I are essentially different businesses. At eminent physicians. It is said that he I oiioretl ,000,000 to auy one who would i era do not build engines. It lms boon remove tho deformity successfully, hut- fo1 > n d in practice in England that if a *“ " senooi icr tno young; I *-ho physicians agreed that there wns no!"*te? b ™ nl “ engino works these aro ‘-'i-""-™ I .■■■".io v ,„... 7 .., ... j ry* yours will not l.o admitted as spectators.” | mg Ins life. Dispirited and discouraged ever,builds both land and marine engines, Dn. Teeteu has rutcred suit against,' 11 ' H,l 'l <> d for home and visited Dr. Wil- mid thus may keep liiH place at work for against, the city of Chattanooga for $10,000,-| bui ' Darker. Tho skilled surgeon said claimed to have Iren sustained by hiH,^ 10 operation could bo porfonnod, and imprisonment last fall an a charge of mntl ° good bis word by nceomplisliing it oonooaling smallpox. He proposes to su eoessfnlly. It is said tlint $100,000 sue tho mayor, city physician and chief was * ke ftmm| nt of tho cheek handed tho of polico individually, surgeon for this new louse of life, and the Texas papers claim that tho profits in i f °. Ur y ? ftrs or nl01 ' <, sillco u, ° ,lll . v 011 cattle raising in that state have averaged wllluh lk was procured have boon a now- 100 per cent in the past five yenis, while in some enses they have reached 500 per cent, and the claim is substantiated by an array of statistics that - nbmxlmitly prove tlio case. A cave on the Colorado river, over one milo in length, and in some places thirty foot in width, is attracting considerable attention in Lampasas, Tex. This c-aVe is about sixteen miles from the town, and lias two small streams running through it, which are about two feet deep. Two of the locks at Ten-Island shoals, on the Coosa, near Rome, Ga., are now- finished, and work on the third one is progressing rapidly and will probably be experience to the young millionaire Russian Grain. Ii Wm. not many r ^u-« uludo flint Russia was l-agarded ns tlio grnnarv of Europe, but of late years’ tho United States and India have to n great extent become tho sources of supplies. This has resulted from tho change in the cultivation of tho soil by which free labor was substituted for that of serfs, hut owing to a number of cirenmstauccs in which tho usurer and the land laws play an important part tho new method is less efficient than tho old ; and seooud, from n change in the manner of market ing the grain. Formerly Russian wheal was held in very high estimation, and at tho different markets quantities of wheat ftniulwul t.,11 fia . - . . - | whoso excellence was guaranteed by a finished by fall llio engineer in charge | knowledge of its source could always bo estimates that $150,000 will be required had. Now, as a rule, tho cultivators aro to complete tho work ns it should he. j ■'* financial straits, and mortgage their A,,,,,.,, i,,, u , , . , crops to speculators, who do not hesitatn Alabama has fourteen iron and steel ; , 0 mix ft high gl ,«ln with a low grade manufactories, 18 cotton factories, 18 and export it ns all high grade wheat, foundry and machine shops, 807 flouring!These dishonest methods liavo become and grist mills, and 384 lumber mills. ?° B 0110 ™ 1 "« seriously to affect the 'I’l.n t.,i • ,1 • , , . roreign demand for Russian cereals, and t l , these lndustnes system of government inspection is is 842,223. Employment is given 6,- [l-oposed ns an extreme remedy for the 53(i hands, to wlium is paid, ill wages $153,179. The proposed colored colony on Cum berland plateau, which is being organ ized in Chattanooga, is attracting wide spread attention. J. C. Tate, a wealthy colored man, living on Cumberland mountain, where he owns from 3,000 to Sport Among /mil Children. One day, save Frank Cushing, in th Ctntury for May, I saw some of th children playing at “breaking horses. 5,000 acres, is itt the head of tho move- ^ :lt ' juvenile demon was leading a baud situation. Were as effective a system of grain inspection ns exists in this country adopted we may well fear the results of Russian competition. ment and proposes to sell his land to sut lers at $2 to $3 por aero. J. W. Johnson, a colored lawyer, who was admitted to tho Austin bar at the present term of the District Court, has filed a petition in the County Court, claiming $1,000 damages from )he Texas Central railroad for the violation of the Civil Rights Bill. He claims that the defendant company damaged him to that amount by not permitting him to ride in a first-class ear. Tiie State Central Express says the experiment plantation, owned by Mr. R. S. Day, of Now Orleans, adjoining tlio town of Alexandria, is the largest hay form ill the South. The farm embraces about 900 acres that is planted in red and white clover, bermudn and other grasses. It is the intention of the owner to increase the ucrengo next year id iout 500 acres, which will give 1,400 acres iu hay crops. EDITORIAL NOTES. The Indian army, to which tlie milli- tary world is greatly indebted for its val uable experience with the lieliostat, or sun telegraph, is now trying experiments with pigeons as a means of communica tion, and a service of these birds lias been established in connection with the of four or five others, in tho pursuit of a big bristling boar. Lasso in hand, the little follow watched liis chunoo, aud twirling the flexible cord once or ’twico rapidly in tlie air, sent it like lightning toward the head of the boar. Tlie latter made a desperate dash only to run his snout and forefoot into the coil, which held by tho combined efforts of all) quickly pereipitntod him, in a succession of entangling summersaults, into tlio shallow river. In an instant another lasso was dexterously thrown over his hind feet, and his captors, heedless of mnd and water, wild with vociferous glee, bestraddJed him, and held Inn down. Tho leader tore off one of the legs of his cotton trowsers, and with this he bandaged the eyes of the squeal ing animal, wrapping another pjoco tightly around his snout so as to smother his cries. Thus equipped, tlie hog was set at liberty. Two of the little wretches jumped astride him, while the others prodded him behind and at the sides. Thus gqaded, the poor boost ran uncer tainly in all directions, into corrals, over logs, headlong into deep holes, precip itating his adventuresome riders ; not, however, to their discomfiture, for they would immediately scamper up, drive, push, lead, or haul him out, and mount him again. Tlie last I saw of them was toward evening ; they were ruefully re garding the dead carcass of their novel horse. A Bor of eight years, in one of ihe Massachusetts schools, was asked by his teacher where the zenith was. He re plied : “ The spot in the heavens di rectly over one’s head.” To test his intelligence branch of the quartermaster! knowledge further the teacher asked: general’s department. Moreover, the i “ Can ,wo pe™ 0118 have the same zenith birds have been placed under the charge a ‘ “ ^ e 7 «“£ Crf a lieutenant colonel ot the third riikhs, other’s head.” several purposes. Hence, English ship builders more and more get then- engines built for them outside of their own yards and by engine builders.” “Have you any opinion about tho pro posed cmiseiH?" " I do not think the department cnlls for adequate speed to malm them efficient cruisers. Tho highest seaspeed required is, I see, fourteen knots an hour, which nowadays cannot lio considered fast enough to keep out of tho way of a mod ern ship of superior force. A cruiser moans a ship to cruiso after an enemy’s merchonhnen. Now, to set a fourtcen- Ichot orutsor to cutcli n mirtmfccn-kllot transatlantic steamer would ho like sot- ling a pug to catch a greyhound. It lias boon demonstrated conclusively tlint high rates of speed for ocean steamers are not only possible but will bo had. Several of the transatlantic steamers have averaged fifteen knots an hour for a whole pnssage, and some of thorn attain ns high as seventeen knots an hour. No passenger Htenmor is highly thought of in these days which will not average a mean sea speed of fifteen knots. A man-of-war, to ho effective for us, must he able to oatoli such steamers. The English have row a muu-of-war—a frigate—which steams eighteen and a quarter knots; She has done it, and they aro building more such ships. What would be tho use of om- cruisers going in tlio highest mean sea speed of fourteen knots against such ships ns th: so or against tlio fast transatlantic steamers now in use which, in enso of war, would be turned into ernisors by the English gov. r..ment? In other re spects, so far ns I can judge frem tho advertisement, the vessels appear to be well designed. But, I must say that iu the important matter of spebd they aro totally inadequate, ” “ Is high si eed attainable from Amer ican ship-yards ? ’’ "It certainly is. No ono will deny that that we can do ns well ns they on tlio other side, and on the oilier side torpedo boats have recently been constructed which have steamed for three consecutive hours at tho averago rate of twenty-two knots an hour. Sixyenrs ago I was on a French torpedo boat, which averaged eighteen and two-tenths knots for three consecu tive hours. It is a well-known fact that the larger a vessel the easier it is to drive her at a high rate of speed, and it is safo to say that if yon con drive a 300 ton tor pedo boat twenty-two knots an hour you can drive a 4,500 ton ship at twenty-five knots if j’ou wish to. In my opinion these cruisers should have been given a maximum speed of not less than twenty knots an hour, even if the greater part of the battery had to be omitted to seeuro this speed. Nowadays great speed and few guns ore the most effective. ” “Is it easy to drive a man-of-war ahead as fast as one of tho transatlantic steam ers 1" “Much more easy, bccauso the mer chant steamer must hove her model and her capacity such as to provide for freight and passengers, while the man-of-war has only to provide for motive power and guns. By reducing tho number of gnus you reduce the space necessary for a crew, which enables you to put in pro portionately larger engines. By tho time these cruisers are finished, unless the Secretary requires higher speed, they will be relatively to the ertusers of other nations and to transatlantic steamers in course of construction us slow as our old tubs are to-day. In other words they will be out of date before they are com pleted. ” A pabmeb’s journal recommends “blanketing tho bees in Winter.” A man should be careful which end of the bee ho grabs when he goes to put a blanket on it, or he may "blank it" considerably more than he bargained tox.—The Judye, Business llabits. An up-town Professor lost the Oriental liitof soript givou him by a Chinese , laueidryman, ami was without it whon ho went for liis shirts, Tho Oliiuaman Baid, | “ Oluimo tiekoo, ” i “Lost it," said tho Professor. | Tho Chinaman wont to tho roar of his . uon, and cuino back shrugging his shonlders, K i said, smiling, “Solly.” ! “ Why aio you sorry?'’ said tlie Pro- fossor, j “ Mo lost shirte,” said tho Chinaman. I Tho Professor got a lawyer, and re- , turned to bulldoze the Chinaman. I " Give this man his shirts,” yelled the l#w, cor, fiercely. , '’Solly," said the Chinaman, ns he roll'll mi a damp garment, “ Ho lost tioh ;o; I lost shirts. ” | Parleying did no good. The Professor ; rot iced without- his shirts. On tho next ; return of his wash from tho same laun dry tho Chinese messenger gavo him, in change, a trado dnllur. It proved to he as light as a feather. Going to tho laun dry tlio next day, after discovering that the-coin was worthless, ho told the Chinaman tlioro that Iuh man had given him that counterfeit. Tho Chinaman Iosa'il it on the counter, weighed it, and smiled. "Biuloo,” ho said. “ Your Chinaman gave it to mo," said tho Professor. “ Bailee Chinaman, I sent him ’way yesterday.” And the proprietor smiled again. Tho Professor concluded to try another Mongolian.-—A’cw York Hun, A Story of Poison. In a spcooli in favor of viviseolion. some, weeks ago, Sir. Lyon Playfair made a great hit by a story of two Ger mans experimenting with n poison lie would not liiuuc, which produced no im mediate effect, hut killed sometime after word, if those who lnid taken it were not made idiots by its use. Of tho two who took this poison, ono died (said Mr. Playfair), and tho other is in ail idiot asylum. Ho argued that had they ex perimented upon rabbits they would iuvvi- saved tlioir lives. It lias, how ever, been sinco assorted that this iamuntable occurrence was due to quite another cause, having arisen out of ijuju experiments made with morourio metlvdo iu Dr. Odling’s laboratory. T-ittPwo Wien had just completed their work, when they split a flank containing the poison on tho tulilo. Unwilling to do tlio work over again, they preferred to sop tho stuff up with sponges, and unwittingly inhaled tlio poison, which arose in a vapor, Olio died under its iu- iiiflucnco almost immediately, Tho other, having spent days in warning his fellow chemists of tho dangers they were exposed t" in. using it, grow grad ually worse, ami died a mouth after tlio occurrence. Loving Their Ilcasto. Ex-Speaker Grow was telling somo anecdotes of Thaddeus Stevens, who once, defending tho publio schools that had with diflloulty been legalized, said that tho Pennsylvania Dutch eared nothing for educating their sons and daughters providiug they could import and breed tine pigs and cnttlo and horses. This was made tho most of by Stevens’s ene mies and lie had to defend himself pub licly when ho went hack to Gottyslmrgb, and did it with tlio aryumentum atl homlncm. “Isn’t it true?” he said, "You, Jako Snyder, have got a ram that cost you a thousand dollars and none of your daughters can read. You, Ilans Deilman, paid four thousand dollars for ft bull, but mnko your sons work winter aud summer. You, Jimmy Lootnian, own Westphalia boars and brood sows, and can’t read yourself. Don’t you love your beasts better than your ’children mid your minds?" Tho honest Dutch men began to confer : “That is right,” they said; “ he only told tho truth.” Stevens, instead of Muhlenberg, should have u monument in the capital. Nice Puppies. “ Did you ever hear about John Os born anil lfis setter pups?” “John Osborn ran for Sheriff in St, Paul, Minn,, and while ho was working all the hoys with his good nature ho had frequent calls, and whenever a man with i fancy for field sports came, tho talk always fell upon a beautiful setter and her fine puppies. “ ‘ Nice puppies, John.’ “ 1 Yes, lmlly puppies, ain’t they?’ “ ‘They are the most beautiful setter pups T ever saw anywhere.’ “Then the candidate for Sheriff would •.die the man aside and, in a confidential lone tell him : “ ‘ You just wait till after eleotion and I’ll give you ono of those pups.’ ‘'This tiling had been going on for a ample of weeks, and one evening a man shut the door and left the house with tlio promise of a pup lingering ill liis ear, when Mrs. Ostium asked : 1 ‘John, how many puppies are ■ii re?’ “‘Five. Why?’ “ ‘Well, J was thinking tlint to-night, you had promised the twenty-third man tlint he should have one of them.’ “‘Oh, well, Mary,’ suid Osborn, ‘ don’t you think it, would ho a mean man to run for Sheriff who wouldn’t promise a pup to his friend ?’ ” Sat,tv.—An island in Vermillion Bay! on tlie coast of Louisiana, lias a solid mass of suit at a depth of twenty feet, sc hard that it requires to be mined with dynamite and ground in ste-um mills, About 200 tons a day are taken out, ■ This Season's Peaches. "Tlio real Delaware peach distriot” says n newspaper correspondent, "is sit uated on a peninsula that is surroitudeil by salt wntor, and this hns tho teiuloney to kwip tho temperature of tlio wind nt a uniform rate, so that danger from sud don and intense cold blasts ore mtiol less likely, to occur. Every sonsou, early, specimen branches from sovorai tioes are plucked and placed hi warm water, then put in a hot-house and tho buds forced iuto blossom. These aro examined under tho mioroseopo, and nn expert onn easily deoldo What tho crop will lie for the coming season, Suoh nil experiment wns made a few days ngo in my presenoo. The crop mny not be an extraordinarily large one, but this test shows that the fruit will bo of much hot ter quality than the average, and larger than for several seasons past. An aver age crop from tho Delaware distriot is 1,01)0,000 bushels. This year it is esti mated to ho a little above that, but tho fruit will lio of tho host quality aud of muoh morn desirable condition than when small and oxoessivo in qunutity." Again VIciorhiusTn tlie Courts. Mrs. Oov. Gaines, who has won an other suit against tho city of Now Or- k'ftUH, is now sevonty-oight years old, lias been engaged for about fifty years in le gal battles for tlio reoovory of property lawfully hem, and she still' retains much of that energy which has mode it possi ble for her to continue during this pis- riod to bravo opposition, insult and dis- oourngoinonts of every description. Un der decisions mudo some timo ago Mrs. Gaines could have turned oat about 400 families holding titles from tho city of New Orlenns to proporty decided to be tiers, but sho has always troatod these people as innocent sufferers, and hoe made no effort to molost thorn, although she has often been sorely in nood of money. Who has often said that if she recovered her property hIio would uso it in doing good, and she hue refused Homo tempting offers to ilisposo of her olaims to persons who would liavo shown no mcroy to those who hold titles from tlie city of Now Orleans. Her object 1ms boon to secure hor rights without injury lo innocent holders of her proporty, and somo timo ago sho offerod to np|>eid to theolty to give to tho present holders full and free claims and to settle tho pe cuniary damages with hor. Tho following letter from Blue Horse, a Sioux Indian, was received at the In- iliiui Office, Washington, by tlio Com missioner of Indian Affairs: I am a friend of the Great Father’s aiul am going in the white man's ways. I have noticed white men cutting wood, mid I thought I would ho like a white man ami chop somo wood for my wife, A piece of wood flew iqi and put out my right eye, and now t would liko tho Great Father to send mo another eye. I can have it put in here. I have always boon a friend of the white man and am bringing my children up iu the wiiito man’s way, J am getting old and wish my Father would send mo a oauo. When you send the oyo please send a brown one, as that is the color of my other eye. I hope the Great Father will do as I ask. I Hhakc hands with a good lioart. A Tramp’s Revenge. A tramp giving liis mono ns James Boyd made a deadly assault on Margaret Lee, aged seventy years, in the suburbs of Trenton, N. J,, by striking her on tlie head with a stone because sho refused him something to eat. He then ran away, and wns pursued by a number of men and women. After a lively chase he was captured and taken to jail. Ho was sub sequently brought before a justice of the pence and committed on a charge of assault with intent to kill. The wound inflicted on the woman’s head is three inches long, and her condition is consid ered critical. Threats of lynching were heard whon the prisoner was being ex amined, and but for tho presence of officers thoy would probably have been carried out. I'lAiitatlon Philosophy. I heard a white man tho udder day say dut in all ob his plantation ’spori- enco ho nebla-r seed u {loucst nigger. Dut may ho true, an’ wid equal direck- liess do gon’lemen oonlder saiddat hon est white men is sorter scarce. Dor is a certain amount ob deceit wliat it stands a man iu ban’ ter practice. When I has a pair ob breeches dat is too short for mo, t roils ’em up a little. Ef folks sees dat yer breeches is too short, dey commences ter question yer success iu luiHiuess, be lievin’ dat yer had tor take any kind ob clothes dut come de handiest, hut when yer rolls up yer breeches dey thinks dut it is a matter ob choice. Georgia Justice.—Tho story is tola that in a small Georgia town a case was recently before a justice, and an Augusta lawyer of high standing was ono of the attorneys employed. This lawyer having al 1»the facts and the law that he desired in the ease, made little or no argument before tho justice, but to his utter astonishment the case was decided against him. After court was over tho lawyer went to the justice privately and asked him how in the name of common sense he could decide that cose as he did. He simply replied: “ Well, now, sir, we justices know a great deal more about these cases than is ever brought up before the court.” "It is too early yet to say what style parasol will be fashionable, but. as usual, they will be worn just high enough to rake out a mau’s eye,’’ ONLY YOU. If f oontd h»v« my dourest wish fnllll*^ And take my choice of all earth’s treasures, too, Or choose from heaven whatso'or I willed, I'd aek for yon. No man I'd onvy, neither low nor high, Nor king in enutle old or palace new, I'd hold Qotoonda'a rninoe lose rich than f If I had you. Toll and privation, poverty and oare. Undaunted s’d defy, uor fortune woo. Raving my wife, no Jewel elec I’d wear, If ehe were you. Little I’d care how lovely ehe might be, Row graced with every ohann, how food, how true i E'on though perfection, slic'd be naught to mej Ware she not yon. There Is more charm for my true loving heart, In everything you tliiuk or say or do, Tliau all the Joye that heaven oould o'er Impart, Ileoanse it's yon. H. A. if, ‘ Lost Ills $10,000. The roferoe iu tho lircuoh of promise suit of Bernard Barwick of New York city against Rohocen McLean lot Htapho Ion, H. I., filed liis decision with Judge' Barnard nt tlio Oireiiit Court of Rich? annul county. Mr. Croak finds against Mr. Barwiek's claim for $10,000 for dam ages to liis character and affections, in remarking on tho oaso' the fair defendant says: “ The finding must ho discouraging to Mr. Barwick, who evidently believed his case a good one, else ho wnnld hardly liavo risked so much in U/toging thy matter into court. But his disappoint ment may prove valuable to other young men who linvo a nice elinnoo of fimthan iug their uchIh for lifo, but who, will >.ist on making thu most stringent rog In I Ions for every act of a young lady, and laying down tho law us to how slit) shall treat all bar friends, nnd who, rnddse these whims are aocodad to, will hastily i,hatter au engagement of marriage.” A Young Indian. This story is told by Dr. Edward Eggleston: “A hand of -Indiana emigrated in a body from the Miniaiuk l egion to avoid a malign goniiis'of tlio* plane. A party of Honocus ohised a .young Catawba warrior for five miles, tie succeeded In killing seven of them before they oaptnrod him. Tho next day, when lie was led out to be tortured, tin eseanud byrasnrMeu dash,*/aamd Into the river amid a shower of linnets’ohd swam under water liko an otter, only rising to take breath. On the opposite hank ho made insulting gestnres at Ills anomies and lied away. Of thuao who pursued him he slew a party of fivti while they slept, mangled and sealpod them', and thou returning in thu night dug up and scalped the sevou whom ho had slain at first, A solemn council of bis foes decided that he must lie u wizard olid that pursuit would thcroloro bu useless.” On the Non ml. The New York Tribune Hays that the old mistress of Wiliam M. Tweed is liv. iug iu a villa near Cos Cob, on thu shore of tho Sound. Her sister hns a family by another eolohrated city politician. Their father was tho chief gambler in N. Y. oil* thirty yenrs ago, and they wore oonsiiT orod tho finest women in the Broadway promenade. Both married and took to' pleasure, and it is charged that Mr. Tweed’s friend not only obtained a mil. lion from him but caused his imprison ment nnd death by refusing to accom pany him abroad aud ho was too fuici ia- ted with her to fly alone. Liko Jack Sheppard, ho clung to the city for tlie sake of Edgeworth Bess. The Circus Canvas. How the Cincinnati F.nrmhrr found Ibis out is a mystery. “Anil wliat, in Ilia name of goodness, is this?" asked Mrs. David Davis ns the Senator lugged something into tho room und dropped it at hor feet. “ This is my uliirt, (furling, and I will be greatly obliged if you will how on a button for mo.” “David Davis,” said the lady, sternly, “whoa you bring me your shirt I will sew on a button for you with pleasure, oshoepmej a fond and dutiful wife; but just now; sir, I must insist upon your removing this circus canvas from my apartment." The New Shieed.—Tlio Gruson armor or shield for torts, is mode of oldHed cost iron, of the enormous thickness pf live feet. Tho inventor is a citizen of Magdeburg, Germany. As not half that thickness could be perforated by any guns afloat, and furthermore as this system would allow still heavier eon- stnietian, if necessary, these shields one absolutely impregnable to tho extent of tlie space covered by them. The cast ings are also so made as to be used without beirg bolted or backed, and can be set up in\ke form of turrets. Po- orevity in the statement of a tragedy commend ns to this paragraph: “A party of tho name of Russell Lester went to Virginia, Indian Territory,- for the avowed purpose of killing a man named Rutledge. The remains of Lester were returned in the baggage-oar of the next train. The best of plans are some times thwarted." The Royat. feet washing is business i lone at Madrid as well as at Vienna. Tlio “beggars" are, of course, thor oughly tubbed beforehand, nnd dressed in good clothes, which they sell as soon as they get outside. After being royally washed each of the thirteen male beggars i s led out by a grandee of Spain, eaoh of the women by a yrande dame.