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THE NEWS. Home and Foreign; OR, The World in a Nutshell Alabama. Nine young wolves were recently captured by a party of young hunters in the northern part of Shelby county. James A. Pea has invented a device for prevent ing the escape of sparks from the smoke-stack of wood or coal engines. The Grecian war has opened in Scottsboro. he editor of the Herald takes subcriptions in lard. State money is selling at 90 cents. A recent fire in Decatur destroyed th rteen build ings inflicting a total loss of $50,Q0f. The product of Alabama coal mines last year was 65,000 tons, an increase of over 60,000 in three years. Mnj. H. C. Semple gathered two tons of clover hay per acre from a field on bis farm in Lowndes county. Selma has 904 dwelling houses. Capt. Catesby R. Jones was shot and mortally wounded in .Selma by J. A. Harral. F. P. Heifner of White Plains expects to ship •5.000 pounds of strained honey to Rome this sea son. Blount county has a registered debt of §6,- 666.15. The State Baptist Convention meets in Gadsden July Pith Judge John Appleby, of LaFayette, is dead. Arkansas. A German-Polish company has purchased 50,- 000 acres of land in the counties of Pulaski, Per ry and Conway. Bricks are shipped from St. Louis to Little Rock, at $15 per car load. The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Industri al University have elected Gen. D. H. Hill of N C. President of the University. The Board of Trustees of Arkansas Female Col lege elected Gen. Lewis President for four years. A woman was'jailed in Little Rock ten days for throwing snuff in the face of another woman. Ten thousand acres of corn aud cotton in the vicinity of .Little Rock was covered by a recent overflow. The damage is estimated at §150,000. Florida. Prof. Olmstead, of Jacksonville, has sold a half interest in his new gas saving appiratus to J C. Jatliieson, of California, for $100,000.- A. W. Lawson obtained a judgment against the eity of Jacksonville for §975 damage sustained by stepping through a broken sidewalk. He sued for §1,000 Dan Casick, an employee in Wallace’s planing mill at Jacksonville, was instantly killed by a strip catching in a circular saw and striking him on the head. A century plant at Jacksonville, 20 feet high, is covered with buds. It will bloom in a week. A fig at Monticello weighed seven ounces. Mon'icello has 60 marriageable ladies and only 21 young men. The Mayor of Lake City has issued a proclama tion prohibiting loafers from sitting on the stoops of stores. The steamship Lizzie was destroyed by fire at the Rigolets near Pensacola. Three men were burned to death. The loss is over §40,000. John Hughey sold his place, less than 100 acres in extent, near Fort Read, for §19,000. He had on it 250 bearing orange trees and 250 just coming in. Aaron Cloud sold a 40 acre tract with a young orange grove and nursery, for §30,000. Col. B. F. Whitner sold 20 acres of land and a young orange grove just coming into bearing, for §20,000. Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the Commission ers of Columbia county. A man his been living for 26 years within six miles of the Apalachicola river and has never seen a steamboat. W. B. Sims has leased the State farm. Thirty schools have been organized in Suwa- nee county. Escambia county has adopted the game law. Enoch Collins, Sr., resides at Hillsborough. He is the father of 29 children He is 70 years old; his been marred three times, had 14 children by his first wife, 6 by the second and 9 by the third. He had 8 sons in the Confederate army, who all came out safe. I’alatka has now a white police force. Capt. R. H. Marks, of Orange county, has 20 acres in melons. You can walk over the whole patch on melons without stepping on the ground. W. A. Adams, near Jacksonville, has rented 15 acres to a Charleston trucker at §25 per acre an nually. Gainesville has a tomato ^weighing two pounds and a half ounce. A party' of hunters on Indian river killed a tur tle whose crawl measured 7 feet wide, and it weighed 1,000 pounds. Georgia. Dalton has a fine crop of dogfennel. Dalton has a rat terrier 20 years old. There are 120 young ladies in Dalton full grown, and 237 spring chickens, while there are only 36 young men all told. The Macon Cadets bore off the banner at Bruns wick, as the best drilled company. Darien wants a bog iaw. Thomas county had her first cotton bloom on the 16th. Rev. J. N Broadshaw has been re-elected Presi dent of the Southern Masonic female college at Covington. E. G. Ellison, of Cherokee county, has killed 40 moles this season. The temperance movement is making rapid pro- gre s in Georgia. Gainesville has bought 50 bushels of huck’e’oer- ries this season. The fare between Atlanta and Gaiuemlle for the ( summer is three cents per mile. James Crim, of Terrell county, made 24J bush- j els of wheat per acre. Mrs. J. R- Janes, of Dawson, raised a beet weigh ing 4^ pounds, this season. Judge James M. Clark, of the Southwestern Cir- j cult, died on the 18th. Charles F. Crisp, of Amer- j icus, has been appointed his successor. Rev. J. A. Munday is preaching to large congre- j gations in Warren county. An Upson county farmer manured his water melon patch with 50 pounds of rats last week The first lot of new wheat in Augusta sold at §2.25 per bushel. * Capt. John Colby, near Havkinsville, made 150 bushels of wheat on ten acres of old land. Col. W. H. Huntley and family, have returned after a long absence in Europe. Douglassville has ten old bachelors and one bar i room. Asa R. Watson, City Editor of the Macon Tele- j graph, died recently, aged 40. He was at one time connected with the Ladies Home Gazette, the New Era and the Sun. During the war he was connected with the Southern Confederacy. J S. Reid of Putnam county, made 450 bushels : of wheat on 17 acres. W. P. Orme, made on his farm near West Point, 154 bushels of wheat on 4 acres. John Chasteen, of Hart county, killed a bull frog that had swallowed a half grown chicken. James Tisan, of Emanu»l county, is a raving maniac and has to be handcuffed to prevent his injuring himself. The trial of a negro in Etnanuel county, charged with stealing a peck of peas, cost §375 and he was acquitted at thai Kentucky One firm in Mayfield sold $2 ' worth of tobacco on the 9th. The city of Lexington has obtained r judgment j against the Kentucky University aud Legcut Bow man for §12,000. Th're is an Indian burying-ground on the farm of Elias Rasdall, near Smith’s Grove. Several parties have been arrested for violating [ the fish law of the State. Mrs. Sheets, near Frankfort, has a colt with five legs. j J. E. Neal, of the Dahlonega Signal, is cutting | up high Jinks around Frankfort. Frankfort belles have scores of admirers because their motto is, “I take ’em from the cradle to the grave.” Hon. John Caldwell has appointed Fred Morris to a cadetship at West Point. Fred is the son of a republican. Hon. Andrew M. January, of Maysville, is dead. Dr. N. L. Rice, of the Danville Seminary, is dead. Louisiana. The New Orleans Board of Health has a Nott in it, a Dr. Choppin at it, and a Taylor sitting on it. Collector King will appoint several ladies to clerkships in the Custom House. A society called the Catholic Knights of Total Abstinence has been organized in New Orleans. Mrs. Buerkle has sued the city of New Orleans for §25,000 damages sustained by the drowning of her son falling through a break in the wharf be tween Bienville and Conti streets. Wild cats are unusually prevalent in North Louis iana. The deer are so plentiful in Jackson parish that they are committing depredations on crops. There is strong opposition to the dog tax in East Feliciana parish. The coroner's jury found that Beiheim was assas- inated by Prater who kept an opposition grocery. Julius Nicholas has been indicted in West Feli ciana for killing two deer. There are quantities of grosbecs in the rice fields of Plaque mines. A gentleman recently caught forty sheephead in lake I’ouchartrain. There is a great demand for laborers in Lafourche parish. Lafourche parish has been divided into 27 school districts. The Shreveport Times wants Red river stocked with salmon and shad Shreveport is eujoying a revival under the man agement of a number of Texas preachers. During the past month four or five persons have been found murdered in St. Landry parisn without any traces of the murderers. Within the past month numerous temperance societies have been organized in Franklin, More house, L'ncoln, Union, Iberia and St. Mary. The bar rooms in West Baton Rouge and Iber ville are closed on Sunday. A party were fined $2,150 in Baton Rouge for capturing six mocking birds. Col. John J.Marshall, of DeSoto parish, is dead. Twenty thousand dozen of eggs were shipped from Washington, St. Landry parish, to New Orleans last week. The workhouse and poorhouse have been abol ished in New Orleans. The negroes of St. Charles parish prefer alli gator meat to beef or chicken. Delta point, opposite Vicksburg, has receded 695 feet since March 22d. A bar is forming in the river at Port Hudson. Mississippi. Adelbert Ames has sold his Natchez property. Two little boys, aged six and seven years, sons of W. Jones and Dryden Lascock, of Grenada, while playing under a sand bank on the river side, were killed by the caving in of the bank, recently. Franches Marschalk will start a paper in Natchez ou the first of July, to be called the Natchez Daily Telephone. His father was the pioneer editor of Mississippi. Sixty-seven papers were represented at the Press Association. A volunteer company was organized at Yazoo. Franklin Payne (Union soldier) was elected captain by one majority, over Stanhope Posey, Confederate. Posey was elected first lieutenant by acclamation. A ewe goat in Pike county gave birth recently to six kids. Twenty papers support Ben G. Humphry for Gov- enor. The saloon keepers at Oxford are making out a list of drunkards, to whom they are not allowed to sell liquor. Quite a number of hogs, cows and calves bit by a mad dog in Water Valley, have had hydrophobia. North Carolina. Col. Charles R. Jones, Editor of the Charlotte Observer, recently lectured at Statenville on “ pro gress of events in the 19th century.” A young man in Salisbury in writng a note to a young lady signed the firm name to it. Hogs unearthed from a mound near the site of the old Richmond Court House, a human skull, metal buttons and shreds of woolen stuff. It is supposed to be the skull of a tory named Tate, hung during the revolutionary war. In Graham is an almond tree hanging with fruit. A revenue officer while hunting distillers in the mountains of western North Carolina, was bit by a rattle snake in several nlaces and died in great agony. Salem, containing 2,abitants, has shipped i in the past three yeirs, 3,(To,000 pounds of black berries, for which nearly $5,000,000 was received. This is equal to good bales of cotton at ten cents per pound, J. R. Snowden, of the Treasury Department, has inspected the Mint at Charlotte and favors the re establishing of coining there. The King's Mountain mine caved in. No one ' hurt. A new vein of unusual richness was devel- j oped. South Carolina. Trial Justice D A. Bowyer, while on official bus iness at 41 Station, was assaulted on the 15th and stabbed by Manning M. Way in several places. A mad dog in Abbeville bit ten or twelve per sons. Harry Calhoun, a noted darkey, died at Abbe ville recently, poisoned or bewitched. He vomited spring lizirds and sea serpents. E. J. Waddell, of Marion, gathered tea tons of hay from one and a half acres. Three mad dogs were killed at Lebanon, last ■ week. In Colleton district, good labor can be had at 40 cents per day. The inmates of the poorhouse at Dariing'on were three days without something to eat. Some miscreant entered the stable of Qually Da vis, at Ridgeway, and disabled his mule by strik ing it over the hip and shattering the bone. In Fairfield, Wylie Thomas with several aliases is “conjuring” with rattlesnake buttons and teeth, a white inodorous powder, wild, weid gestures and a U. S. official is not taxable under the laws of midnight communings with unseen spirits. Sixty-two full schools have been organized in Pickens county. The Palmetto Orphan Home is in better condi tion than ever before. The “ Jenkins Rifles,” named after Gen. Mica- jah Jenkins, is the name of a new company at Yorksville. I The legislature repealed the lien law to take ef- ' on and after January first 1878 The banking house of E. J. Scott & Son, of j Columbia, have suspended. C. B. Glover, democrat, has been elected Judge of Probate for Orangeburg county by 12,000 major ity. The Catholics, of Charleston, sent §700 to the j Pope. 0. Adair, the only Chinaman in Richard county, I died in Columbia last Wednesday. He leaves a white wife. [ There are eight persons in Charleston county, I waiting trial for murder—six colored and two white. Tennessee. The City Council of Clarksville appropriated §200 for the entertainment of the Press Conven tion. Rev. Mr. Sears, of Clarksville, fainted last Sun day on entering the pulpit. James Torrey, of Memphis, died recently at Hot Springs. . Henry Eckhard, of Shelbyville, can play on five instruments 'at once—one with each hand, one with each foot, and one with his mouth. T. W. Coffey, of Bedford, was struck by light ning on the 19th and dangerously injured, and Joe Smith (colored), instantly killed. A hen laid in a baggage car on the Nashville and Chattanooga R. R , and hatched out thirteen chickens. She passed free without a free pass. Col. Sam Williams, of Carter county, died on the 15th. Bettie St.John, four years old, fell into the bolt ing chest of her father’s mill and was suffocated to death by the flour. The Baptist Church at Chattanooga was packed to hear Mrs. Craig sing “ Jesus lover of my soul,” Nearer my God to Thee,” etc. Rev. M. H. Lane has been pastor of the Central Baptist'Churcli, in Nashville, 18 months, during which time 104 have been received by baptism and 46 by letter. Rev. R. N. Price takes charge of the college at Pikeville on the first of August. Catherine Ivey, a step daughter of William Per- key, near Morristown, recently struck the latter on the head with an iron poker killing him. Per kin was 25 years old and Miss Ivey 17. An affray occurred in McMinn county between Mr. Davis and his two sons, and Mr. Maxwell and two sons. The sons were seriously hurt and the j fathers fatally injured. Rev. W. T. Helms has withdrawn from the Epis copal Church because he cannot make the sign of the cross in baptism. Miss Grace Lewellyn, of Memphis, proposes to devote herself to the stage. A young lady in Jackson eats a pint of green gooseberries every day for dinner. G. W. Ililman, of Ciarksville has 3,000 bearing peach trees. The Ailianthus tree is being cut down in middle and west Tennessee. The Memphis aud Charleston R. R. owes the State §1,700,000. The farmers in the vicinity of Athens are pay ing §1 25 per day for harvest hands. Te^aa. No sewing machines were exhibited at the State fair. Josh Billings will visit the State this fall. Figs are ripening in Washington county. A cheese dairy is to be established near Bre- ham. The Montague jail contains eight murderers. Sulphur mines have been opened in Montague county. A plantation of 12,000 acres in Grimes county, is in splendid cultivation. The premium cow at the State fair weighs 1,700 pounds and gives seven gallons of milk dai ly- From the heart of a white rose, in Bonham, a red rose grew, supported on a stem one inch long. Whooping cough, mumps and measles, are pre valent at Honey Grove. Fannin county has §4,000,000 of taxable prop erty. A divorce suit was filed in the county court of Bastrop county and in one hour the divorce was granted. The divorced man married another wo man that night. The survey of a railroad from Denison to Gains- ville has been completed. The barbers, of Marshal, have resolved not to keep open on Sunday. At the fire in Galveston, Mr. Kippert lost 4,000 sacks of coffee. Houston owes over §2,000,000 and propose to abolish the city charter. Ripe watermelons were plentiful at Brownsville on the 7th. The oat crop of Tarrant county will average 50 j bushels. H. W. Wyman killed R. C. Turner at Marshal. Ten live stock breeders in Texas, own 1,025,000 head of cattle, and six have 682,000 acres enclos ed A lightning rod man had his horses stolen near Whitesboro. A sewing machine man lost a fine j all the military authorities of Turkey is on the mule near Gainsville, and a patent medicine man increase. Virginia Inman E. Page, colored, of Virginia, was the class oraior at Brown University. W. T. Sutherlin. of Pittsylvania county, made 7,000 bushels of wheat this s asou. The colored insane asylum in Virginia has 300 in mates. John Graeme, Jr., for 27 years connected with the Richmond press, will be assistant clerk in the money order department of the Richmond post office. Rev. T. W. Dosh, D. D has been installed presi dent of Roanoke coll.ge. The Jeffersonian says that in Charlottesville, “ wild roses look like pale pink stars, while the lilies of the valley in cur gardens resemble dried eel skins.” A Catholic priest and two Presbyterian divines, took tea together, at the house of a Catholic recent ly in Harrisonburg. A. J. Frieze, of Jefferson county, has a horse 23 years old, who served in the Confederate army throughout the entire struggle. Charles Knott, of Jefferson county, has a horse that was wounded 13 times during the late war. Old uncle John died in the county poor house, near Boydton, aged 121. The Guyandotte Metho lists have a grand cele bration on the 4th of July. A negro boy confined in Buchanan jail, is suffer ing from a snake bite received five years ago. West Virginia contributed §125 to the Bible cause, in April. Quite an amount has been subscribed to the building of the Ripley and Ohio railroad. The workmen at Davis steam saw mill have killed in the last two weeks 42 rattlesnakes on an acre of ground. Elias Lively, of Fayette county, has two yearling sheep, a cross between Cotswold and Southdown, that at shearing weighed 274 pounds, an average of 137 pounds each, the fleece weighed 242 pounds. William Haines, of Battelle District, owns a sow that has a litter of twenty-seven live pigs. John McConnell, of Ohio county, has a silver lode on his farm, the ore containing 33 per cent of sil ver. The mines at Raymond city are closed on account of the low price of coal and a glutted market. FOREIGN. June 21.—Faik Pasha defeated the Russians near Van. The capitulation of Bayazid is looked for. The Russians defeated the Turks near Saidachan. Tue chamber of deputies at Constantinople has, by a large vote, decided to postpone the question of the admission of Christains into the army. Alexander Barclay & Co.of Gottenburg, Sweden, have failed. Liabilities §1,340,000; assets §950,- 000. The town of St. John’s, New Brunswick, was visited by fire. 200 acres were burned, over 15,000 people rendered homeless, and §15,000,000 proper ty destroyed. A number of lives wete lost. June 22.—Muktar Pasha is before Delibaba. Bayazid has been reoccupied by Turks. The barges for transporting corn on the Da nube, nave been converted into floating block houses for transferring infantry. An Imperial Ukase is published at St. Peters burg authorizing a 5 percent, loan of 200,000,000 roubles called the “Oriential loan of 1877” to be paid off in 49 years. The British government has ordered the En glish officers in the Khedive’s office to resign. The French Senate has voted for the dissolu tion of the Chamber by 150 to 130. The suffering from famine in the Northern provinces of China has abated. The sudden cold weather in China has injured the silk prospects. Many of the worms died. Over 30 persons were killed during the fire at St. Johns, N. B. June 23.—The bridge over the Danube from Ibrail to the Turkish shore is completed. It is composed of huge planks held together by an chors from the Ibrail side. The whole Russian corps is in Bulgaria. Six thousand Russians crossed the river at Galatz. The Turks abandoned Matchin. They destroy ed the line of railway between Tchernavoda and Matchin. Suliman Pasha has 30,000 troops and is advanc ing slowly. The Turks have 60,000 troops oper ating against Montenegro. Suliman Pasha and Ali Saib forces after 6 days continuous fighting and a loss of 7,000 men effect ed a junction. June 24—The anti-slavery society of London gives a public breakfast to William Loyd Garri son. Jcse25.—The ninth army corps of Russia is marching along the left bank of the Aluta to- wards the Danube. The Russian troops who crossed at Galatz re sisted the Turkish cavalry with the bayonet. The clergy and Christians of Matchien received the Russians with great ceremony. The Grecian Chamber of Deputies has voted for a continuance of the war, even if all Europe com bines against the Turks. The Turkish newspaper Bassiret announces the capitulation of the Russians at Bayazid, and that Suliman Pasha has entered Cettinge, the capital of Montenegro. The Czar and Grand Duke Alexis are now rec onciled. The Grand Duke has been raised from major to general. June 26.—The agitation against Radif Pasha and TO COItRESPOVDESTS. All communications relating to this department of the i paper should be addressed to the editor, and have the word •• Chess " written on the envelope. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 15. I 3 R Kt 8 (ch) K Q 2 Kt Kt 8 (Ch) £^3 R Kt 5 K Q 4 K K 5 Kq3 Kt Kt 7 ich) K Q'4 K B 2 PB6 PQ3 PB5 pqt p b 4 Q It 5 P B 3 KB PB7 ill Kt Q 7 12 Q R 2 <cb) 13 Kt B 5 iHQR7 15 KQ R5 IS R K R6 17 Kt Kt 6 (Ch) K Q 3 18 Kt Q 7 P B 4 19 Q Kt 8 ich) KB3 |20 P mates. P B6 PBS K Q 3 KQi KQ3 KQ4 had his entire outfit taken from him, near Gates- ville. Verdict, justifiable larceny. Texarkana is to have a §50,000 cotton com press. A Franklin county woman gave birth, recent y, to three boys. A fearful contest is expected at Rustchuk. Eight hundred cases of typhoid fever in the Russian hospital at Constantinople. The Turks have abandoned the north end of the Dobrudscha. Mukhtar Pasha’s successes in Montenegro are Miss Tabitha Ann Cumming, aged 20, of Little i confirmed. The Turks' loss is 10,000. River county, has 13 acres in corn and 12 acres The Turks evacuated Hixsora, and the Russians in cotton, planted and cultivated by herself. She | occupied it. hired a tramp to help her but thrashed and dis charged him before dinner time. She’s just the girl for John Lowry. Wealthy capitalists, from Iowa, have established a saw mill near Kildare Twenty-eight thousand Russians crossed at Ibrail. The reports of a conspiracy to blow up the Suez Canal proves to be true. The Khebive is taking ef fective measures to prevent it. The liquor shops at A man named Garner was sentenced to be hung St. John’s, N. B., have been closed by the c.ty near Rockwall on the 15th for the murder of A. C. j authorities. Starks. On the evening of the 14th his wife went ; June 27.—The population of Rustcbuck fled to in to see him. At daylight n^-xt morniug, Garner ■ the neighboring village. Twelve shells fell on and his wife were found dead. She carried' mor- military hospital, five on the civil hospital and two phine in her mouth and beta took it, preferring on the orphan asylum. The consulates of France, to die together. They left four children, the young- Italy, Greece, Germany, and Belgium have been est but 15 months old. ; injured by the Russian fire. Ben Baker has been elected Mayor of Columbus. ! The Mont“sezina army is concentrated opposite Col. J. DeGress, Mayor of Austin, is wrestling Spus ani Pi djoritza. with a bribery suit- The Czar has ordered another army corps from Texas has between 2.000 and 3,000 miles of the interior to the lower Danube. 1 KtxP (ch) 2 R K 4 SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 15)4. KxKt 3 B Kt 8, mate. PxR 1 KR5 3 RxB. mate. 2 Kt Kt 2 (ch, PxKt 1 B B 4 3 RxP, mate. 2 Kt Kt 2 (ch) PQ5 (Inscribed to J. B. McKim.) PROBLEM NO. 17. By F, W. Martiadale. Peterboro, N. Y. WHITE. White to play aud give mate ia three moves. PROBLEM NO. 17,-4. Lebanon Herald Tourney, No. 36. Third prize, “ Blue Bonnets.” By C. M. Baxter, Dundee, Scotland. K R; Kt K B 8. K Kt 5; K B 6; Q Kt 2. Q 3; QR5. Q B 6. ^ & Q R.6; Q Kt 3. i JL *2? % K R6;7;KB4;2;QB4; K; K 4; Q 2. White to play and mate in two moves. CHESS I1V ATLANTA. At the Young Men's Library rooms, between Mr. Shup- trine, of Thomaston, and Mr. Robinson, of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Shuptriue won the odd game of the match. The other games are not recorded. (Scotch Gambit.) MR. W. G. R., JR. MX R D. 8. MB W.G. B. JB. MB. B. D White. Black. White. Black. 1 P K 4 P K 1 13 P K 5 Q B 4 2 K Kt B 3 Q Kt B 3 14 Q Kt 3 B Kt 3* 3 P Q 4 PxP 15 P K 6 ! B B3 4 B B 4 B B 4 16 BxB PxB 5 Kt Kt 5 (a) Kt R3 17 PxKt Qx P 6 KtxP KtxKt 18 P B 5! Q K 2 ? 7 BxKt ch K B (b] 19 P B 6!! PxP 8 Cas Q B 3 20 B (ch) K K 9BQ5? Kt K 4 21 Kt Q 2 KQ 2 10PKB4LC] Kt B 2 22QRK QQ 11 K R 12 P Q B 3 P Q 3 BQ 2 23 Q mates. (a) Right here, we would call attention to a game be tween Schumoff and Jmnisch, in “Brevity and Bril liancy,” page 80, a Scotch Gambit which is •• Coufuci-us (n) Classics ” to us. Will some of the brethren -' rise and explain ” or set us aright ? Don't all speak at once. (b) This is extremely weak. Take the Kt, aud with judicions play, Black has the superior game in this vari ation. (c) We have found that this Pawn has more effect in the Scotch than any other opening; it is the lever of this game. CHESS INTELLIGENCE. Belden, of the Hartford Times, is conducting a success ful literary “ chess tourney ” We are highly pleased so far, aud shall peruse the coming numbers with increased scrutiny. We have received a neat circular from the Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald chess editor. It contains three prize problems of tbe “Herald tourney,” No. 38, which gained the first prize, > real gem. The key move is by no means easily perceptible. No. 33, to which prize No. 2 was awarded, is but little inferior to No. 1, aud is very pretty. In our opinion, the unsuccessful problems that were inferior to No. 36, gainer of the third prize (see problem No. 17)gI, must be greatly below the general average ot the unsuccessful composers whose names are given; for we regard No. 36 as quite an inferior problem, too simple by far to have deserved a premium, unless the competing ones (as we sav) were very inferior. Still, it has soma elements of beauty. Ensor, is never •• out of play,” always has “ time,” and is never “ 1 am not feeling well.” What has become of the English Bird ? The Cleveland Voice proposes a meeting of chess editors daring the summer at -Put-in Bay.” We cordially en dorse. but cannot be present in parson, though inspirit. We nominate McKim temporary chairman. 2 a : si railroad and 30,000 miles of telegraph lines. Virginia. R. G. Mosby, a Richmond letter carrier, has been arrested for robbing a letter. U. S. Grant (colored)has been sent to th- peniten tiary for three years, for house burning, in London county. Petersburg was visited by a shower of frogs, on the 19th. Rev. M. H. Houser has been installed pastor of of the Presbyterian Church at Abingdon. Rev.G. Wilson is going to Huntingdon. A wild deer entered a field near Staunton and was pursued and pawed to death by a mule. Judgi The consuls at Rustchuck are drawing up a pro- 1 test against the Russians bombarding their resi- | dences as against all principles of international i law. The Grand Vizier has ordered the release of 400 civil prisoners confined at Rustchuck. ' The Russians are bombarding Rustchuck to re- j duce it and compel it to capitulate and save a long siege. The banks of the Danube from Hisasloa to Tutt- i cha are occupied by the Russians. Alvarez, at Acopulco, Mexico, captulated to Diaz. Alvarez is reported to have gone over to the enemy. All mail for this department must be addressed to Puzzle Department,” Sunny South, Atlanta, Georgia. To Our Puzzlers. Cbab—“ Puzzler ” ia all right, we believe. We expect something from him soon. Jno. D. White, Marietta, Ga., answers Nos. 1. 2, 3 and 6. L. A. Kaufman, Portsmouth, Va.. answers No. 3. Janett Davenport, Batesburg. S. C., answers No. 3. Answers to Enigmas, Puzzles, etc., in No. 10S4. No. 1 -Word square : Omen, noble, Ella. near. No. 2—Decapitation : Rice, ice; that, hat. No. 3—Charade: Goliath. No. 4—Transposition: Balm. Iamb; Babar, rahab; vesta, stave; lager, regal; cheap, peach. No. 6—Puzzle: Rover. No. 7—Enigma: A fl., . New Puzzles, etc. No. 1—Riddle. Of letters five I am composed; I'm neither high nor low; Spell me forward or backward. You'll pronounce the same, I trow. Ellen Thomas, Quitman, Ga. No. 2 -Decapitations. Behead a vegetable and leave a dish. Behead farther away aud leave near by. Jno. D. White, Marietta, Ga. No. 3—Diamond Puzzle. A consonant, a verb, a weapon, a literary lady’s name, a verb and a pronoun, a verb, a consonant. No. 4—Puzzle. As I was walking out one day, Into a Sib o.. I chanced to stray; A man quite second there I saw, Who gulped down a first and called for more; On the table then jumped an ugly whole cat. The old gent at once hollered out - scat.” Say, “Puzzler,” wnat do you think of that? A “ Centennial ” song book fur the first correct solu tion. Ray, Box 32. Hampton, Virginia. NO. 5 —WOBD SqUABE. To drudge; an affection of the mini; to inform; a val ley. A piece of music to the young lady under eighteen years of age sending the first cjrrect answer to W. J. Ray, Batesburg, S. C. Never tlin'i that whi h you do for religion is Guigon has decided that the income of time or m n y miss} eat. Eminent statisticians have calculated that the amount of ingenuity and labor expended by impe cunious topers in getting free drinks would, if de voted to any honorable and useful pursuit, pay off the national debt in a little less than six and eight months. INSTINCT PRINT