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—i.gte ^dvrrttffr, = OT r PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING Yd WM. BRADFORD, Editor. lOqSTOae year TERMS^-Casti In Advance. TFTTmiTP OLD SERIES—YOL. YI. NO. 37. n r»«s CEDARTOWN, GA., NOYEMRER 27, 1879. NEW SERIES—YOL. I. NO. 50. ADVERTISING RATES. 3 inches U column }4 column 1 column wJl m.|3 m. (2 SO $5 00 3 00 1 50 3 50 ! 10 00 5 Ooj 15 00 8 m. $ 800 12 00 1500 20 00 40 00 cents per line each insertion. OBITUARY NOTICES—Charged at half rates. l ades tho daylight, 'and the shadoWj Slowly gather ou the lawn ; Now the night falls on the meadows, And the light of dayUri gone. In the darkness which enfolds me Teftder memories come ohca more— O rM How each thought encknins and hold* rae Lk c suloDtciL F ,, Of tfie flHff otiee gorife‘tft$br6. pd not in sorrow j lovcd ones gone ; his otili atnoirow. but preceded the flawu. For the friends that come no more. There would be no hope of heaven In the bright f >revermo:e. So while shadows darken o’er me, of day | tftesr.’ 44s ;ifTvery m-1) for Ernest to say Iso. hut his saying so did not deceive l.cr. Having once thrown-Jtier influence over Ernest, Constance, she -knew, would not he satisfied, to resign liQr power 80 easily. She*didn’t" doubt but that Con stance would in some way or other contrive some way to see linn, ami this morning’s paper had given jier a clew to tjie means wptifil be at TVry~vvdJ, Victoria aLOB | The currmge filfl j|)k rdJWed from lak- png ErnestyB tin? sGtiony if should also S [convey hertfr the ndkti train • for London. % if She would* have anlticieki! to reach the trysting place by noon. Victoria Station, however, is rather a wide, open place, not adapted for conceal* 1 h ment. How should she so disguise Herself that she might witness the meeting unob- t AtHlt years, hnet ai Srisit to her nUfee t( iSstumc tjprijlMinhi Konnet&mx f< cresa s cap. So when twilight dreams have found me. Twilight voices till the air, Loved, lost beings gather round me. And their forms are passing fair. couple Jieart. What could it all mean V purity of [stance^” he cried, “and let qs talk, j Ah, ordinary what misery!” he iriuf&red to liimgclf: Led by Jealousy. surmises at her sudden assumption *4f mourning, and then started off. | -**? The clock showed five minutes to when she arrived at Victoria. She Intfgeff off to the ladies’ waiting room, dounedtjiqfc bonnet, l?p4 aliawd ufth^efr r *and camnion upon tlie platform a demure widow. , ^ * Sure enough, Ernest was there, walking up and down. She gave a kind of “guilty , , , _ ., start as he passed her, and he looked rather It was grand and gorgeous on the first | ^ard at the young widow with the ?$iae^ moruing of spring It is not the tapping ' trim fi(rure 5 -g i* **■*■&»* nil •‘twfcy°% yef nfb mmiatc# bftimmng m LnAEulkfaat, : 1oo j- young women when I am ndt by.’ that soft rap-a-tap-tap one bears. It w The next turn that slie took she Started only Mr. Ernest Black, knocking out his j ag s j ie saw approaching her from the op- PiP? a e ttinst tkp garden seat. j posite side of the platform the very flotlblb KSr» _ l ° h ,¥S^ UCh ,lierselL .Black .jy-^ {^kt-mpc shawl, widow’s cap, bociHcLand everything! She tlioiigtiLrft fte fiM Th’bmWiHhat there was a mirror opposite her, and that she sAw her own reflected image. But ; t was aot.ao^ The lady threw up her veil and revealed , , , _ _ _ the features of ConstaimeJirowiL It'was ajitiawu, and he Jovjrf ovee apun iv^eef ordyfor <ra%4VMiff then she drew her 44veA*Awjl<7/- -W^*™tlf*ar by- piirple -hul 3 * vMr closely over Her race,' and "'ll!aim***»; reaches of water showing in jmver streams j s iiglit gesture, as it seemed, of cautiOn/she lu-re and there. A warm, p es*>uitlittle , made he ,. way t() the 1)ooki]1 ,, office, went dingle encompasses the grounds, sheltering to a p orter an( i !L sked in a clear, loud l ie house from the north and east, and j voicft when ^ train ^ sloping down toward the south, and here tllt^Q^t breath t>f ne.y^Fi>r|^rii|^ ~ smol^ffii early comfortable mansion of bSirublriiiiui, u oubv modem tmilding, wann and roomy, with glass liouses clustered about it, and its con venient offices at the rear, lies on the slope above. In front of him stretches a pleas- i voice, when the train started for Brighton. ' j Theresa glided into the office by the op- widow was : waititr^ lierturn at the tfcKet-liatch. Witli seen the mistress,* sir?” ‘•^o. What do you mean ?’* “Well, eir, she drove to the station after you left, sir, and she seemed so wild like and unaccountable that 1 made bold to fol low her, for fear she might come tofiaraa; and I followed her here, sir, where she changed her ^ress for widow’s weeds, and got into the Brighton train, sir, with Cap tain Potter.” Ernest turned pale and fainted. He r ect>vered himself with great effort. “I know." lie cried. “I sent her to Brighton ? ana have just seen her.off. ikrw dare you follow your mistress, sir?” The man turned away iu blank dismay. “Ernest, ” said Constance, beeh deceived.” .Stuff l” said Emest; “it waa **trirk we p&yetj you, that’s alL We fouud-j^ut the plot, and counterplotted to save y/w.” i.-. But still there was terrible doubt at his this room, liut is never- nowadays oj>cned in the presence of visitors, for fear of mutila tion by these beasts of prey. Before this xulc was adopted a number of the keys had been abstracted by the cunning and audac ity of these ci-azY creaturft. ‘A JAi&h that c§me over in the Mayffowef, presented 4 to ‘“Come into the waiting room, Con- They turned into a waiting room, and Ernest thre^V himself upon a seat, leaned hie arm upon the table, and groaned. “Wlmt do you intend to do, Ernest?” said Constance, clutching him by the arm. “It is all very weU to (ell your servant such stories/ I admire you for it, Ernest; but I lthaw k^t^r. It i§ deliberately planned. *We i\re bothdeceivwk” r “Iris impossible,” said Ernest r *iHaw blind you are,” said Constance. ^*1 always idistrusted Theresa; she was my eu&y f.neud, you repiember, and I believe <lutt Potter used to come to our house on purpose tp see her, using me as a blind.. Oh, ErncsLivUaJL sjiall we do?” • .j “I shaH*«il! ar special train and follow them,” said Ernest. “Tlieh I will go with you,” cried Con stance. Ernest rose and staggered to the platform once more. “Ernest l” said a decisive feminize voi<£ at his elbow. lie turned and beheld his w ife autl Cap tain Potter. •‘Hullp 1” cried Potter, “Ernest, iny boy, ho-.v-Are you ? Gad, I’ve got into a pretty n*ie8^ with all this ambuscading; wrong par£y After all, jolly row, puU the string, stop tho tram—-Olapham Junction guard in ah awfnl nige. Give us in intb custody, eli ? - Ha, ha! Here we are again, back first train. I say, old fellow, ill just change WMilows wftli you.” “Conic into the waiting-joom,” cried Black, “and tell me what it all means. Potter, I consider you an unpriucipled fel- low to inveigle this young lady into such a trap. You know you only want to waste Priuee Gortsehakoff during -the Congress With a bound £u!taTi ; ^ho had travelled second-class, was at jiis master’s side, epv- ering him withdioisteroos mnnifestation^yf canine'affection, and not Inking the sligij- est notice of Count Andrassy and Prince freuss.’ytoo’ketrt aT«;p€rtfnl ? distance unnf. — v t , SuftaA’had satisfied hiiuseff that the Prineo Washington by.a New England -udminer, we have liotlil was none the worse for his yaupey. Tlrefii ooe of the «mjoaities-of this ijpoBi. >It’is njeetlng between a C’gunt Andrassj" And Id 3 ^timatod, by the. ijeoretan of tlur. Asst>cia- illustxiousguest was a cordial one, and ara^ lion th^t upwards of one.hundred iliousand in-arm they walked to the Court carriage, American gable ends have pressed its 1 seat a private brot^h^u of the Emperor’s, that Jince that of Washidgton rendered it for- w r as waiting to take Prinea Bismarck to the T*ver sacred. l*assffi^ up thK rather narrow hotel where he is Staying. - stairway to tiie seonnd- ficxw, we Are eon- Hardh- were the tW statesmen seatedi fronted oti ihc first iandiqg, l^r au 'old- and ready |o start ere down went the win-; fasliionetl. upright Dutch qieek* wliicli dow»ou*ttic near side, and a stentorian { standsn silent f itness to the thieving aiula- voiee cried ont. “Mein huadl Who i?t: *ity of tlie relic-hunter. ' One of the tribe mein hand?” If anything had befallen ; a few years since wrenched the, gilt eagle that blessed dog while Prince Bismarck’s ! from its pedestaj on top^of tiifc chick, con- attention was momentarily burned to anotkci* eealed it under Ids coii*. and J disapponred direction, It is nry firm belief that it would have been all up wftb the Austro-German alliance, and thoiucensedChancellor would an-inspection of t^e old-fashioned Cum have taken thtf next train back' to Berliljf UiBt^dRBiSGt R rup tSfougir Mullah is, however, an experienced travel- Jecr, and has v v ^ r yo°pd notion of bow to take care pf himself. In a twinkling he was out of th; carriage door, and, assisted by two court flunkeys, he sedately took his seat on the nig at tlie feet of the two gentlemen in- ^Jmlge . of tj^c* s.tup.c^a^tion of the croud assembled outside tl|e Hotel Iniperial "Sn Seeing thef^iir-leggea ofcnpfiflt of Ao? of more or less'interest. andii October** Rventlal Hl.story. ________ . ,. - . on the slender white birch, whose brown j th ulckneaBof thoug i, t Theresn run up i her fmume ns you ve wasted your own. catkins are dying for love of the earliest: the barrier _ A genial-looking old man Gently, old fellow,” said Potter, “all blossoms of the season. ' irjm iiiq tirL-i-t. ^ti±^4 w ^iTS|ri • tJC , ’ ti... lor Brnrhton?” blossoms of the season. _ _ ? ^ ticket den seat. But everythinggjf*. ‘jSI'eertaiuly, madam, „ said die old and by the time he had and knocked out the ashes a cloud had ‘ ^ e ?., lellmn ' come over the sun, the air was chilled and [ the beauty of the morn tarpished. It time, lie 'found; to start fop his tritin. She grasped the ticket and hurried on to the departure platform, giving as she went He j the samp signal wish her hand that she had went into the house to say “good-by” to , 3t ™ do “ b ‘ e niake j^t before. .... his wife, for he hcaid the carnage wheels ! k e8 -, ll, j Uad rceo S?'* ed the sl 3 nel # ind grinding on the gravel as it came round I , . cr * from the stables to the door. !, v He seemed to lie a happy fellow, too, in i l ;^> 1 y j u ' n M intoia first-class carnage, his wife, who was a fair, pleasant-faced I A Sff‘ 1 S", mn iT^ 1!r ^'. woman, of chartuing figure and full spirits, j I' aitliless fellow; she thought. “I didn’t know vou were going away.” I “(-onstajice, mud a treniuious voice at she said, a slight shade of vexation coming j over her face. - j “You wretc^l 1 cmni U»»jrc«L siuldenly “Didn’t.Ltull you?” said Ernest, “1 in- l u HI?^5* tended to. I shall be home to diuncr. I’n mistake. My uncle died last week and left me a ytoir.’-’ ‘‘Then Cffij' do yju make off in this clan destine way i” V • -1^.1 I “It's all right, Black, I assure you. J’jei got a special license in my pocket, parson waiting at Brighton. We’re both (rf age you know.” “Then why all this disguise?’' * “Oil, that was my doing,” sobbed Con stance. “T was so dreadfulljr afraid of The train was just due to start, and she i L did you get the widow’s It was only going to town to see the old masters. They closb this week.”;. ^ “Ah! if you had told me in time I would have gone with you.” To say the truth, Ernest did jio^ much care for company \vlien he was going to look at pictures.. « if W “Pity, eh?” he said, carelessly putting ^*Ana things, Com wStftssests* **"■ VI think, 1 ’ said Theresa, who had recov ered her equanimity aud her usual luspcct of xiroud serenity, “I‘think, Constance, you had better come back to Slirublands with me, and be married in a respectable, orde«*t ly way ” And thev sett leal that so it should be. But the effect was not wbat slie antici pated. It was not her husband at all; it was Captain Potter, late of the Plungers. It is .now necessary to revert to the pro-1 - . . . . C1 ... A ceedings of Mr. Black, to account for bis ^ “ u Went . 1,ac ^ 7 1,rU . b . laod S’. ^ presence on tlie scene. Ernest had v intended 4o take the news-1 paper jip U)Jtq\vn witlij him, having been , r mtercsuMi m an article he had not time to bishHHd under Jur-ebiu and giving taMtliLg,‘‘' 8 ea *° aat * kiss. “-Well, am t Iter day, perhaps, Tot- i CJi r e * es3, V^ 3 -S ncni P^ he bouglit tie,”—bur nanieVas Tlieresa, tmt her pstf !l . n0t ^ i r . il ^ name was Tottie,—“and then, perhaps, ij t ise me nt caugnf Tffs^ eye^—-t * r;ffvgp.sh6pi<n» Bitli you.” Ernest. Acs, he knew Why didn’t you think of irjjeforei’i J Erpest Black and Ernest Potter had been “You should have told me you'■were schoolfellows and ctfftniei iu early days,; bqt their friendship had long since decayed. Potter was a reckless spehdthrift, \riio had been obliged.to leave the Plungers and sell gWBg- “iCs, it was stupid of me; however, there’s no help for it 1 have cnly just time to catch the train. Good-by.” And away he went. Theresa sat down once more to her book of household expenses, but the totals ran into each other and the same row of figures wouldn’t conte to tlie same amount twice running. It wasn’t like Ernest, thought She, not to ask her to go with him. lie liait never gone off anywhere before with out asking her to accompany linn if it were practicable.” His manner, too, was sq^pold. What could l»e the reason of it ? She'look up the newspaper to dij her nuud. £he rarely looked at the papers, hut this morning she felt uriegt.l . and gould not settle to any tiling. Sud denly she sprang to her feet’with a cry of distress. JJp fcffic had taken up the outside sheet of t he paper, and thereon she had read an ad vertisement. “Coustance to Ernest. To day at Vic strict to st daily that his commission, swamped with innumem- ble debts. He had been an old friend dfl If the Browns, too, and Constance had for merly bedfi infatuated with him; hut her father, who was a very violent, self-willed old fellow, swore that r ; «lA. should never marry f uch a scamp. * - 4 Constance had a ni‘ e tittlejortune of her own, and she hail just corns .*>f age, so that if she persisted’ in throwing herself And her fortune away, there was no help * for it. StilfEriiest thoiigufilw® his duty to stop it if lie could. He flattered liimseif she knew it; she had lieeu w deceived;’could it be possible that such treachery, such betrayal of all the ries-of- friendship aud affection could be permitted to exist? Theresa was, perhaps, of a somewhat jealous*disposition. Certainly Ernest had given her no cause for jealousy hitherto, 03 far as she knew, but she had always im agined it possible that at some time or other he would; and now it seemed to her as though her torebodings had been jusrifkd. 'Constance Brown had been her earnest friend, her school-fellow, her one dear companion, for whom her affection ^oould never be dimmed. And this friendship had continued unabated for a whole two years after her marriage to Ernest, during which it had been her chief delight to en tertain Constance at liyr new home. Now Ernest wasn’t at tl e‘beginning, atiany rate, at all fond of Constance, and used to think her visits rather a bore. Anything was better, however, thau having liis wife’ in the dolefuls, and 011 such occasions lie turned away thinking would suggest: “Aik Constance to come aud spend a few days.” , , As time went on, however, little disa greements* interposed between the two friends. Constance was of nature, and feminine socie terest in ^Ernest friend Black with affectionate commiseration, And says I it the^ppofsi five minutes he ever spent in ’ life were passed in the Brighton express in compfuiy with Mme. Theresa. he had somhir , r. 1 Constance; ! lolthfc affair to have ail her money .(ArefullyAjed jup« The julvei ilsenieiit mfrant. an - elopement, Ernest thought—a clandestine mairiagc, aud the sacrifice of a ©rl’s future to a worthless scamp! He would be there, too, and save her if he could. toria, 12 noon.” ’ .a»-V, At all^yeiO^heylpumj, : ^uself on the That was the reason, then,.that £rw*at platform of. Victoria*idipiniit^qin. -^h! had gdne off to town so suddenly.hl-.^ho^xpected. xpecting somebody. Ernest didn’Ltake any note of him; and Pottef seemed; ; f?n.\ions on his 4>art to avoid any recognition, v But there was no Constance. He kept, however, a sharp lookout on41 »e capuun, and, all of a sudden, he noticed that his eye's 11? up, and, turning quickly a lady in mourning pass- frfttv- due' bookin 4 office. . _ Potter now ^-pqpitfon^close by Ahe wicket that opened to Mie ■nep.arture platform, where the man stood who punched holes in tlie tickets. Presently a lady in lilack brusiied rapidly (past- Ernest fol lowed her a few paces to assure himself it was not Coustance Brown. No; the lady whs of quite different carriage and figure from Constance—more like his own wife, he said, with a jealous pang that lie laughed at himself the- nextlnomeut for feeling. Whoever it was, she jumped into the car- Constance was married that next week, not in the widow’s weeds, but in full bridal costume, With several bridesmaids. ‘Eruest,” said Theresa* affectionately;, when it was all over, “I’ll never be jealous again, tyit fOr'ifff'that, I’m gla*i that artful *** ’ She shall neve The riuncellor and his Dbe In Vienna. ■ joicing. Tins ufantelr is now surrounded —-—* | by a wire screen^* protect it against the I “My dog! Where is iu^ ,dc^ f" ' were sacrilegious hands of tlie relic hunters. who„ Prince Bismarck’« lust wolds tm al^htin^ j less eonsidemte than the pirates, did not on the jdaiform of the Westbaftn Railway! hesitate Vo disfigure it liy'chipping off pieces Station one jai^it, and, iflure endugt there j oftlie prccions marble. An ancient haip- he was, the rieek quadruped who so seri- j sichord, presented by the General to his ously imperilled the previous existence of niece. Nelly Custis. occupies a corner of before the loss was discovered.* After a glance at Nelly Custis’ room and niture Other jC»of rooms, all containing some sort of relic, including a higljy sacred ImuL quilt made out of pieces of Mrs. W.’s old gowns, brings u» to the ro0i*n hi which Washington died. Here is the btxl on which he drew his last breath* the l|tt In o)d-f>islpnniu) med icine stand that stood by his hHhj|ftfduring his last’sickness, and tminermis miter relics The Vine MoutJuas qqr Saxon foro£athers tactically called October, numbers among “ countless anniversaries seVeral of* so court brobglmm Iea(> OCt .with a bark, eontrary to all effqnette,-greet the nearest j bystanders ip, a most unpleasantly demon- j strative style. I.iAver saw sudi a ridieul-J 011s sight in my life. People fled in all di 7 | rectiofis, for Sultan has a bad reqffatllnl w avoo ^.,..,u«uiw Ul He nearly iipsut tlie Congress bj-4 uiijiMti- (,„„ ch importance—iiiciudimr kt leSrit three fiahle ntraek npon tUe Hnssiim Plcmi»ten- (0 f the wor id’ s decisive battles—as fairly to tiary, and since theh lie h^s maisped' ime u£ I eaitJe it to tlie foremost |ilace in iiistorioa! the Berlin Koreigu Office officials lor lift;, -association ann.ny I be months of the year, lieeause he sat down on the chair nsimjft x>u tba lit l«^m the final ACgiuiri war of occupied by Prince Bisiuarek. The worst p H38i wllifh en d,.d i u January. 1*17 Until of it is tliat he is not the genuine Instcrhad ofe most signal disaster that ever hefe'U the fuvorjte of the Chancellor, -fint only a spnnc British arms. It was also tlie birtlidav of ous imitulion. Sultan^-the original Sultan Lord Bolingbroke, tlie niost brilliant and —I learn was pmsondd a oonffie ^>f yeare heartless of. all Queen- Anne’s statesman agu, and nothing can shake -Prince Bis- aHt hors. On die id died tlie great Arago. innrck*8.convictk>n that it. waa two hocial ouo of the ablest soiuntlHe agd mosl single. Pcmoerats who did it. Ttus Ls ito l»nter lmai^ed. poUtixaaca of, niixiero times. Oit ofniiue, but a weil-autlienticafedfacUvnoWn the. oth Occurred Iionaparie s siui.ruinarV to every Berliner. It is, donMleas, to pni- repulse of the Parisian ".Sections," i u tTjj, serve .Sultiui the second from a siiiular fate (the last art of tin- RfeSilutlbn and the first tint six Berlin detectives amved.lam night, of! Ids own wonderful cafeer. The 7th, Bl and, together with the poKce‘-pf Vienna,- , sUiinue .eoincidence, witnessed‘(General have taken unwonted measures ad precau- Burgoyne’s surrender at Suratoga—tlK-tum- tionjn tlie neigliliorhood of tlie Hotel ^.goint of the War of-.Independence—and penal- Jhey were certainly not wanted (Wtb of u a sou. Sir Jolai Burgiym, for the safety of Prince Bismarck, wlio rims tUbfamou^tnintarv et^jneer of Uie Crimean > riskfWhatever. Mount VerlMn. 41 llieiaiiiou^military ciigmeor of tliy l rimean Jrifr. Tlie Chicago fire fins ingnortalized Jhe-8th anri 9tlh, : Arnold’s naval del ion on 'make Champlain thi*! 11th. ^ L T pon the 12th ffial fft ****** ^'<>l«iBbu8 ffrst* saw tkb shores of theff^ew fA rec^it yiittor to Jw^^mon, flic The 14lU . ^ ^ three-fold re- I home and last resting place orGeorgeTN^ish- r ' ^ wmiaul y Conqueror’s vittory ington, tlius’notesTiis impressions Above the trees j^heps me littH red cupola, and as the boat makes the widi sweep ren dered. necessary.the sliallow water in the immediate-front in-order to resell ilie pier below, t^e catch transient views of the col umns of the portii*> that runs »tlui entire- length of the mansion. Owing to the dehfec foliage these partial gjininses are oil tke pissiut; travfclcr seea of Jin;' •iaared falhiu The display of a little of G. W.’s talent for s^ssssessa^x view from the river. From the pier at which the boat hinds a well kept carriage way leads up a ravine direcHy to tlie tomb. To the right of the road, in a mucky spot in tlie bed of tlie ravine, stanclfralehimp of ,. w, ,7. o ^ ‘ A • surrender at LIm. in loOo, Balaklava mil weeping willows, winch a guiae-Hpard in- - TrCoi .; a i . . \ m" ■ _ fought on the 2ofii, and Metz surrendered ! »y 4m»i <m the 27 th. t» tu. at Hastings, Frederick the Great's defeat at fffrffin 1 ', by .Marshal Daun. and Napoleon's decisive- o\ ; eWirtm a# tfio' 4 Prussians at JenR. • ^lukhtar Pasha’s crowning defeat in Armenia (187?>«iark9 the 15th.- Ont& : 16th Harper’s ifcmry pnapeiaed by “Ossa- Ullpmic” TJrown,, jvba wounded and made prisoner on the following morning by Xty* Virginia MUjtia. ~ /t *~ 1 1 1 >»*r as also The 18th saw the plose of the three days’ battle* of Loipsic, and the repulse of Wellington before Burgos. The ffitul r 1 “ r Moscow began un tiie^fitl^ the anniversary of Yorktown. The 2titli witnessed Mack’i A Talk About Alligators. During a recent bunting excursion a noted St. Louis *part8mftn ahd his companions came to a.plantation on the famous Oyster Creek lands, tlie place being cultivated by Col, CastleUm, of Texas. On the farm is a beautiful lake, and iu this lake the noto rious alligator has made his home from the earliest recollections. While sitting under the shade of some trees on its banks the^® l £f,-*i , l hunter’s dogs leaped into the lake and, swam to the centre. Here tlieia presence fright ened from tlfCir summer snooze a school of: alligators—-young, old, male and females The faurlans, with tlieir long, saw-like snouts above tne surface, beat the water with their serrated tails, and 6truck a bee- line for shore. The hunters were immedi ately bn the alert, and. taking ‘‘stands,” awaited the approach. Finally the Nimrods “tore loose” at then) with their shot-guns, aiming for thermal!, pig-like eyes of tlie American Oyster Statistics. Oysters are planted and grown in the bays, deltas and river inlets of more than 2.000 miles of our Atlantic coast. Three thousand acres arc , so occupied in the Chesapeake Bay aigl its tributaries. These Chesapeake Beds yield to our commerce over 29j00(i,000 bushels annually. In the oiu*. city (Philadelphia, there are over •LOOKPpiaces wliere oysters are sold for con- smrqmou 4fie premises. One Philadel phia qjBtcrrcellar, three years ago. sold rhfOOaiys’cjs on the first day of September, 'friirty dbllnrs a nny wouTd be a moderate average’fdr ihe Ake of ad these 4.000 oyster restaur;tuu, saloons and cellars. This would l4i^g tlie total daily sales up to ‘$l20.dWV a ’ day. Multiplying the total daily asdoa-Bby. days would swell the yearly aggregate to $3t',0(Mi.000 ;t year for outers in rtiflmfetplifa. And vet this esti- amphibiaiu—tWtt-being the most vulnerable' mntt ' i 3 V* ‘Dwrily considerably below the part of the allteat or. They were successful. One after another W:is killed, until five alli gators were' coiujled among the trophies. Generally when one was hit he dived, but came up again, and lay a floating carcass bn the surface of the lake, his shining belly glitteriifg like burnished gold in the August sunlight. One old “bull,, was harder to* dispatch than his brethren. He was twelve feet long, his back was covered with the rust of several decades, and at the first shot Ills upper jaw turned upward on its hinges, displaying a regular row of formidable teeth. Tlie old alligator brought down his upper jaw on the lower with a sudden snap of rage, beat the water with his tail into a white foam, and bellowed with a sort of half roar. He then dived, but rose again, aud after much floundering, turned over on liis back, dead. “Well, that’s pretty good for Texas;” remarked the correspondent. “Oh, well, stranger, that’s nothin’ to what I liaye seed in Louisiana. In the fust place you think an alligator twelve feet long’s a mighty- big ’un, I reckon?” “It’s about as long as I ever saw.” “That’s only a moderate sized one. I’ve seed’fem in Louisiana all of twenty feet, and liodyiu proportion. That was in the ba yous near the sea-coast.” * . “That’s very large, I should judge. However. I know but little alxiut your alli gator. “I duz. Tou.cau’t tell uie nutliin’ ’bout au alligator. In Louisiana they hunts ’em like any other animal.” /*‘Whaf fjpr/ I don’t see wlait thfy could make out nr it except thfe ‘sport of the tninj Vi can tell, you, There’s the ile. The alligator makes the best ile in tlie world. I’ve-known bar’ls an bar’ls made out of ’em. Then thnr’8 the hide. It makes fust rate boots and- shoes, only n trifle leaky, pr’aps. If a man makes a bizness of it, alligaL r hunthi’ will pay. Tlie huntin' is done in this wav: Yon get into a lioat—a small skiff will do. You tdko a torch and a gun. Tlie bright light draws the ’gators, who flock around tfie boat, and you can jest set in a sliogtin’ of ’em. “Tlntr’s one pecooliaritv about ’em I guess you never dreamed of.” “What’s tiiat i*” “They carry in jheir mouth a riglur bag or fctHe bladder o’ musk, just the same as & rattlesnake carries a bag o£poison behind his longs.’ ’ “J’ve heard they eat Hghtwood knots when hard up for a meal.” 4 «T’ve never seen ’em do it, blit have :ini* Militia. Thi^Jirst bombard- : beam they do wflien traveliif on hind in t Sobastojiol tool^ pU$« e oivatfie 17th. ' jiine woods of Florida." Austria’s expulsion from Italy “What’s their diet, anyhow ?” “They like fish, but are death on sick animals as fall in their way, such as hogs and dogs; of which the ’gator is very fond, from. When assaultin’ their prey they ginerally doit with flieir long tails, which are used to bring the victim to their mouths. Thar mouths and tails meet, milkin' a. circle of their lxxhes.” Thev attack men sometimes?” ^ from the tree that shadowed Napoleon’s ^ ! c . * / , °, , 1S attack men sometimes.' uI "T-ive lit SL Helena. Tltis is a favorite ,on S Itsttnnst stilllx- ailried Turkey sdecla- “Seldom ever. The alligator is a real ” I '™ r “.1° coward and a! ways afeard of a man. I’ve r-K flier. preying grounds for the relic-hunting pirates, ami were it not for tlie close watch kept over the trees, they would soou lie cleaned out, root and branch. By the way, one of the main objects of tlie Association >is to protect the grounds.and mansion from these vulgar vandhls. who would, if not closely watched, soon make a desert of the place The tomb is a plain, weather-beaten red structure, built into thasi^e of UiO at the head of ’the ravine, with front toward tlie rhter. An iron grating extends almost the entire length of the front, 1 through the bars of which visitors cau view the marble sarcophagi contaiffining the remains George and Martha Washington. The man’s namb is Bombfemiel, and his ecittltv is pAbthers. SevYral panthers in fricafefl imder his sure aim, but with one of the .tribe, he was near coming to grief irretrievable. This is the story tliat makes litm so famous irf Paris, and on account of which people so run after him, that on the Boulevard you may be obstructed by M. Bombounel as by a crowd of vehicles. The panther requires to be shot at her first Spring, for, if not thoroughly disabled, she flies at you at your first move. She has no organ of smell but her ear is so quick that a pin-drop would startle her. Ou one occa sion M. Bombonnel fired at a magnificent j panther, and shot off her two front paws. J are monument! coHimcm<irattve of the The beast fell, and lay still. * T * Anglo-French capture of PekSn in I860, Bismark’s summary, dissolution of the Prussian Chandler of .Deputies, and the birth of .Edward VI. o£ England, Jonathan. Edwards, Marshal JSaxte, tlu*; French Ter rorist Danton; and tffr 0r>Jtn Campbell, af terward Lord Clyde. ' Eye GIhshm fu tlie French Army. The hostility with w hich the old stiiool of military men in France regard the Repub lic and all .its works will not be lessened by a* circular recently issued by tlie Minister of Both ! War. Orders are now given that soldiers rest prone on the stone floor, that of George ' ^ ie rkaks shall be allowed, • when a sur- the right, with Martha’s on the opposite j J?® 011 btis testified to the necessity, to wear side of the entrance. George has a spread spectacles. The officers who obtained their eagle above his breast, while Martha rests promotion when the Empire boasted of pos- beneath a plain slab, whose only decoration sessmg the neatest aud best equipped army are the carved letters of her honored name. ; * n Europe a boast which was afterwards In tlie dark vaults beyond rests tlie remains. found to be not incompatible with deficiency of a number of the Washington family, and j n mort ‘ seniceable fighting qualities—have i the From arid on the right* of me tomb ^j*e moaumentf coHimenj<»rat«ve of the He waited— earthly honors and heav enly virflies of these. Ahought her dead; he moved—slie flew at him in spite of her wounds, and, flinging iier whole weight upon him, threw him to the ground. He was under—the animal uppermost. Opening her huge maw, she bent over him and took in his head. Then came one bite, and another bite, and an other, and at each bite her fearful fangs went through his flesh. The work of bit ing, however, did not seem easy, for the full play of the jaw was not left her; and her victim, with great presence of mind* seized her throat and forced her to relax her hold. Having onee extrieated herself from this perilous position, and bought tlie fierce creature to a liberal want of breath, she was subsequently got rid of by the hunter s knife. Petroleum as a Remedy for Consnmption The scenes which are daily witnessed at the oil works at Point Breeze, to which numbers of consumptives resort in order to inhale the vapors from the stills and obtain crude oil for internal application; have their counterpart oyer in France A Gov ernment report, recently puplisked in the tr U \\iio, sue junipcu Him uu. ca - « c r/icrapcutiqnc, narrates that nage, and the -capjnlu er **5’ ^ ! a refiner of petroleum w as prohibited bv a pnrd whistle off tl«- trom, a»<l Ernest. fni dislrilmtimr petroleum in mod- turned sway thmkmg that lie lisil l*ee»| Someoftltesufferersappeal- ratber a fool for lus pains. J j^, „ ml thc Government ordered Dr. ing ra"erh^bo7tTr aiffiS^tero'^d I fflachc ' 3 P™ntinent medical practitioner, i^YaFa^Ue. to seen. WaslupgiVs own , ® ** -a Li* * r ° ^ • Ao institute an investigation as to the utility ♦ x'j W p »rn inlH nln^pil Hip kr\-mi the there evidenly looking lor some one she., leum in aft > tion8 of the cW couidn’t Hud. At last, apparently over | petoleum from Pennsylvania’ Dr. None but the sentimental linger long at the unimpressive mausoleum, and as the matter- of-fact are generally greatly in the. majority, the tomb is soon deserted for jMc lunch tables, a number of which' hate been pieced by tlie sensible officers of the Association in sliad}' spots, for the convenience of pic- nicers who carry a commisaionary depart ment, while for the improvident a refresh ment stand, where creature comforts can be had at reasonable rates, is provided. Lunch over, the inspection of the mansion begins. First in order is a peep at the swam toward ’em many a time in the ba yous, ami they always got out of the way.’" recent circular of the Minister of War. roomy kitchen, with its huge tec-place and giant crane, both of which excite the awe, and admiration of the females of our flock, other day to snatch the spectacles from the to a greater extent than did the coffins con-* ^ ace an amazed reserviste of tlie line, and taining the remains of those wflio consumed»f° trample them publicly under foot, as u the food here prepared. j solemn protest against Uie scandalous prao Tl.en comes a range through the library, j tice - I< is difficult to believe that this vehe- witl, its large book-cases and seventeen 1 meI >' of ««epted imhtary usage closets, including a secret one above the , can submit |o rcrn^ tp tWh am,rafter the mantel-piece, in which the silver was secre ted before the days of burglm^nroof safes; the every-day dining-room, where the family 1 one Date He Remembered. took their meals when not inflicted with * _ — visitors of high degree, for wi^in a more/ - An incident which happened some years sumptuous apartment at the other end of, at an English School* is told by the the building was reserved,, through the.Boston Transcript centre hall, where the brackets for Wash-» Tim boys were being examined in the region's field glass are pointed out, and history of England, and fk£ answers were the lantern-like box in which is suspended j mainly dates uf .events more or less impbr- flie famous key of tlie Bastile, presented [tankip the history of, yie British Empire. - — * ~ fhe^upils was the*hon of an Amer T A Terrible. Experience. Mr. Jacob Fike, a wealthy farmer, lives on wbat is known us the Barker farm, ten miles north of Marietta, on the Ohio river. His house is a large brick structure, well calculated to attract the attention of tramps and idlers. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Fike and liis wife came to this place, leaving their daughter Mary at home alone, her two brothers being at work in a distant field. About three o’clock P. M.. ^liss Pike went to the well for a bucket of water. Thc well is under thc roof of a side porch to the house, anil just as the young lady stepped out of the door two tramps accosted her and usked her for something to eat. She was alarmed at the rough manner of the request, but with great coofness told them she had no time to wait on them. She then pro ceeded to lower the bucket into the well. One of the men grasped the lady by thc arm, and in a threatening manner said they would liavc something to eat or she would suffer for it. Now thoroughly alarmed the poor girl struggled to get free, but the rascal said something to his confederate, and each one grasping her by an arm and her dress below they crowded her through the box of the well and down through the opening into the darkness, and then fled with all haste. In her extremity the victim grasped the rope, and there being some twenty-five feet yet on the windlass, this run rapidly off, and with a sudden jerk left her suspended twenty-five feet from the tieen scandalized beyond measure by this order. They say that tlie Republicon ad ministration of the army abuses the maxim, ‘ Fas cst et ab hostc doQfiri,” suiil rushes into an unseemly iinflation of the German military system, even in its pettiest acci dents. The Germans, it is well known, have never objected to the enlistment of short-sighted soldiers who could see well enough for service in tlie field, with the aid of glasses. But the professional pedantry of •French officers cannot endure to look upon a soldier in the ranks arrayed in pan oply provided by the optician. They have the fear of the caricaturist too constantly before their eyes. According to a ^French w u — correspondent, who declares that lie was a 1 top and thirty-five feet above the water. 1 witness of the act, an officer was seen the The sudden jerk of the rope, while it almost tore the girl’s arms off, probably rather of a miscellaneous charucLT. Alto gether she grew m grace and favor with the husband, and declined in equal measure in U»e vWfs esUtim. She was too.keen witted herself not to pbreeive this, but the ineradicable love of coquetry and mischief tliat lurks m every female bosom forbade her to change lier Unties. The end of it was a desperate quarrel between Constance and Theresa, and Constance's hasty depar ture from Slirublands in a rage. On her never side of tlie hall we pass throng containing a large glass alfo.Wr with the relies of the great tr-»x, . —j . — ri? - jr - j strikingly resemble, without, arrangement, j a Single dateUiat marks an important event ngland ?” ’ answered tlie bov, adaptive j conic with emotion or prtlguv, P ! j e fi,ln S! Virginia was experimented with fouilcr «f masculine than of , herselt. upon a benclran.l hastily threw up , - Ms rc 9tatert that he found eie ty She professed greather veil revealhu; the profty, agitated face . ^ £ c i mmic Uheliitis with abundant ^nest’s pursuits, which were of ( ous anoe Brown I expect™ ation, it rapidly diminished the “Const^ce,^ he trhispered, “vou hiTC, I u ‘ liouut tJ,c seeietion and the pajro^snjp, lne p romlscu , )u3 enKuum uuancesiu. and in this disguisel whU d(L it mean?” j "* congteng; wl.de m simple brouehms . sto re. , “Wh; Constance hurst into lears, and sobbed i ™ pld “U^lioration was obtained Its *u-1 Thu, aUte dining-rooms 'iff' xdiicli tlie do out that she didn’t know. I pioj ment in plitlnss was continued for »; magnates who visited Washington in bis ; i. . “I know ” he said sewerely • “you have shor t 8 time to warrant any opinion reg^d- ret jremeat, ive»: right n*i% entertained “Tlie Fourth - - - ^.exhibits n, & - “ opeSS tmrt, Theresa vowed that she would never | preached aud touched his hat to Ernest. | eiteg . * t ])er80n8 disappears. ],ave that deceitful girl in her house again. I It was his own coachman, un old and faith- | “ — ■ ■ ' * ’ ''if you ! tul servant who had beep^eoachmam to' Fk- ** * “AU right,” Ernest had said, ^ ^ *1 , ^ don’t care about it I don’t.” nest’s father. -Bishop Hi igg sap there shall be Bui J heresa s jealousy, once iiroused,was “Beg vour pawlon, Mr. Ernest, for com- no more marriages alter o>» 1.41. ID not I<^fg quieted Uv any sueli pretenses as ing up Here without lijave, but lmve you ! Uie I'ittsburg Cathedral. , ea and uitu : _ ifece tlie wtt of an ardent Ilaiua admirer .JlSJTh „V s«nt«niir which it ex- * J # u the,Ttl ! ol fe eP teu, ‘ ) ¥’ Traditioix says the!, v«es3*co»ve}4ng tliisf j '*>rU* n **» r 1l< work of art was captared by-French pirates., who upon learning that it w&5 destined the‘dec0ration of the home of^^shi:— 1 spared the Birip and sent her onrjier On the fair grounds an hanest looking old chap walked up to a policeman, and after passing a few remarks on the weather, let out with: Bee here—I’ve had my pocket picked.” ‘Is that so ?” asked the officer. “How long ago it ? ^ Yesterday forenoon. ‘And didn't^you report it ?” ‘No; this is the first I’ve told about it.” How much did you lose?” *■ Wall,” slowed replied the visitor, “I didn’t lose much. I bcliive it was only about thirty cents, or along there. I first thought I wonldn’t say anything, as folks might say T was green, but after a hard struggle of most two days, T have concluded that justice must take her course, no matter how bad it makes me feci. If you can re cover thc money I’ll divide even up with yoig and arebbe we can scare the feller into paying|m£,fifty cents fte my worry.” ifid not recognize any of them. Miss Pike*The pickpocket still mom in his freedom, is sixteen years of age, a handsome, finely • '. »• —7_ Knin/fftA unr) tn-rlnv tliP. saved her life, for by some strangs twist it threw one or two coils of the rope around the girl’s ankle, and this enabled her to re lieve the terrible strain oil her arms until she could find a foothold in tlie wall. In this terrible position the brave girl stood for one hour and fifteen minutes, not daring to cry out at first for fear her would-l>e mur derers would know that she was still alive and finish their hellish work. At last she heard the joyful sounds of the barking of her favorite dog as he accompanied her brothers lit)me from the field, and called loudly for help. After some little delay a rope was lowered with a loose knot, into which Miss Fike willingly sank, and she was drawi\ to the surface. The alarm was immediately given, and parties were sent in all directions in pursuit, but with no suc cess up to this evening, although several suspicious looking parties were arrested to day and brought before the lady, but she 'developed little brunette, and is to-day the wonder of thousands of visitors, who have r^erowded in to see her and congratulate her on her wonderful pluck add ’endurance, id thc teacher. . She looks badly shaken up, however, and rotating the story dSday when her eyes wandered to tbe well a shudder ran through her whole frame. She saVs that while in the well slie could see .the stars above her. as well as their reflection in the, water below ; but she nWer lost heart a moment. Slie can only give a poor de scription of the men who at tacked .her, and thinks one was a tall person, with a sandy moustache and a straw hat. Tlie whole should: it, country is aroused, aud it may. ypt result in a case of lvncli law. actual .faqt. .New York city probably sells twice as many jis Philadelphia; and Boston and BhTffbiore together more than New York again. Aside from the home con- sumpiowiiipmeuu* u> our inland, Western and even .I^acitic Slates are enormous. Tlie appetite of all inland and mountain men for aU sorts of shell fish is something huge. Baltimore employs more than $15.; 000.000 in tlie canning of oysters. More than 20.000.000 ’ bushels of oysters are canned a year in that city. On account of their superior excellence, {American oysters are now exported in vast quantities to Englat^l, Germany and otlief European countries. These exportations are mostly in cans f bnt Immense quantities are now shipped abroad in tlie shell. Not an ocean steamtrigAA out of Philadelphia, Baltimore or New York which does not contain a hundred barrels or more of American oys ters still ii^ the BlielL The total of our oyster tyide* approaches much nearer our annual crop of cotton and wheat than any one who does not make these tilings a special jftndy would be willing at first b> credit. Our total oyster trade, domestic and foreign-, exceeds $*<»<».000,000 a year; while the total annual consumption in this country, and our shipments abroad would QX f ceed the amazing total of 5,000,000.000 Oysters!’ . * MiudiiiC His Own Buninesg There jias a herdsman driving a hundred head of sheep or more down Mineral Springs avenue. They xvenf along as sheep always do—first a steady little plod, then a clumsy canter fike a wooden rocking- horse, and qipw altogether in a mammoth wad of animated wooL There was a good- natured man with-au umbrella iu Ills hand standing near the fence mid waiting for the disorganized herd to approach- He thought lie had betler lend a hand aud so he rushed in front of the’flock and waved liis umbrella as a scepter of authority. Tlie result of this generalship was that the sheep rushed pell- mell into ifcFohool yard just as the scholars flock of luiuiatp sheep wero pouring out for a recess. In one minute urchins and lamb kins were hopelessly mixed and inter mingled. There was first a sheep and then a boy, -next h iprl and then a lamb, while the man. the ovet-oflicious and superser- vieeflWetChap; who had turned the flock away fn^u,|h(* .turnpike .was left alone be tween the AiN^yiug ami. ^pfging flock and the school house, ilini aq aged mid petu- Icnt male number of the flock marked For immediate and condfgn 'punishment, and npon him tHs liorVicd and woolly Nestor of, the lldbk charged*furiously. The man shut hi*»cy«*‘aud vpeued l*is umbrella, but of no avail, for through tlie umbrella covering the now e^pi^Td creature crashed like a circus/nd* 4 ^ llu-ougn the papered hoop. In wThf’dismay thc man took t6 his heels, and then old Iwf.slOr seat him sprawling in advance irf‘flock, and before die could re gain his feet 4he fell back into single file and cadi sheep went suuupering over him. it waSjJeQ. nrinui es hefure the last sheep Jiad. goniLjOver ’liim, and tlien he arose, shotfk the oTts of broken watch-crystal out of his pbhlSt, picked up the rim of his hat and hobbled away, remarking: “After all, J kinder reckon tlie best business a man stuck t<*j* hk own business and nobody else’s. BRIEFS. Murtalit}' in India from Snake llitcs. Pcrseuanfili be startled to learn that, according to a return published in Jan uary, IWb, bo fewer than 22,000 hu man beings-lost tbeir Lircs m India du ring the previous year by snake bites This lamentable sacrifice of life is oc casioned not only by the cobra and krait, but by other species, and notably by a snake barely a foot long, the Echix carinata, known also by the name of Kupper or Foorsa. The effects produc ed by snake-bite vary according to the species. Thus, the bite of tbe cobra produce conra andspeedy death, where as tbe poison of others, such as Rus sell’s viper, produces excessive pain, convulsions, and usually death. The bite of Erhit carinota causes blond * too ooze from the pores of the victim, who after lingering for a week or more, succumbs to trie fatal poison. The num ber of harmless 9nakes Is enormously in excess of the venomous species, else the mortality would unquestionably be greater even than it is; and it is to be deplored that more strenuous measures are not taken to eradicate, as tar as pos sible, a cites ol animals so deadly to Tlie Man Who Had Hie Pocket Picked. Stlmularflfeby ttfe Race. It is estimate and legve human fi both beans ite^OOO of the —Thirty acres of cranberries yield one South Jersey man $10,000 a year. —A Tyrone (Pa.) firm has just re ceived orders for 30,000 tons of iron ore. —The first gold mine in the United States was discovered In South Caro lina in 1700. —In 1877 2800 machine*made, doors were shipped to England, last year 45,000. —Texas sold one million bales of cot ton last year. Twelve yeare she used to sell 75,000 bales. —The European beet-sugar crop is estimated at 1,610,000 tons'against 1,- 500,006 tons last year. —The state of Ohio stand fourth in manufactures, the value of tlie annual products being $270,000,000; —An ice-manufacturing company of Boston is turning out 12,000 pounds a day. It is sold at $10 a ton. —England’* national dobt on April 1, 1879, was £778,078,840, or about $3,- 890,394,200. —There are 150,000 miles of iron road in the world, of which more than half are in the United States. —From statistics prepared in Chica go, the log crop of the Northwest this year will be about 5,000,000,000 feet. —Over 1,000 persons in Clark and Wayne counties, Miss., earn their liv ing by the turpentine industry. —The experimental cotton factory at Atlanta, Ga.. is getting along, with orders ahead for 600,000 yards of cloth. —Many Lancaster county farmers have not provided sufficient storing ac comodations for their tobacco and much of it is spoiling. —The British war steamer Mercury, lately completed and tested, is said to be the swittest vessel in the world. She makes 22 miles an hour. —In 1880 the new organization of tlie French army will attain its full devel opment. Tbe active army will consist of 497,793 men. —It is estimated that bad weather this season in Great Britain has inflic ted a loss of $200,000,000 upon the agri cultural districts. —A sum of over 57,000 francs has been collected to build a memorial chapel in honor of the Prince Imperial in Paris. —-The largest sum ever paid for a horse in England was $72,000. given for Doncaster by the Duke of West minster- —From 1873 to 1879 inclusive, tbe United States minis coined 376,641,340 pieces of money, aggregating in value $419,071,313.30. —Chicago packers have slaughtered 1,481,000 hogs since March 1 to date, against 1,543.000 for tlie corresponding period a year ago. —It is said that the entire population of the world could be provided lor m the United States by allowing each person one and a half acres of land. —Three Exeter gentlemen, recently walked up Mt. Washington, stepping over the 13,578 sleepers which are four teen inches, apart, ou the cog fail way. —A careful political economist close ly calculates that women in this coun try might annually save $14,500,000 in ribbons which the men mightspqpd in cigars. —During the past th^ee yiifc* 132 American railroads, covering, nearly 17,000 miles, and representing, au in vested capital of $728,463,000, have been sold under foreclosure. —Although the exodus to Europe during the past summer was very large, it fell behind that of 1878 by nearly 4,000—the respective nnmbers being about 16,000 and 20,000. —The total valuation of real and per sonal property m Vermont for this year shows a decrease of $11,185 as compared with the valuation of last y^ar —On the 31st of July 13,626 metres, or in round numbers, about 7‘.< miles, of the St. Gothard Tunnel through tbe Alps had been bored. The tunnel will not be finished this year, —It is announced that wells have been bored upon the lands in South Australia subject to drought, and 10,000 gallons of good water a day been ob tained. —The annual rate of mortality in England and Wales was 22.26 from 1840 to 1850; 22.24 from 1850 to i860; 22.51 from 1860 to 1S70; 21.64 from 1870 to 1877. —M. Thiers Is said to have left no writings, except the 2,000 pages ol notes which were to form his great philosophical work. These weTe de posited with the Bank of England in November, 1870, and are still there, —Mr. Asa Favne, of Scott county. Ky., the son of General Payne, <Jf the War ol 1812, Is said to lie the oldest liv ing graduate of West Point. He is 91 years old, and was a member of the first class. —Two Indians from Hamptou are to serve as teachers for the 250 young Indian pupils whom Captain H. C. Pratt is collecting in the Indian coun try for the new industrial school at Carlisle, Pa. —Canadian high protective tariff does not seem to put money into the Domin ion purse The revenue for the month of August, 1878, w*as $2,059,439.53. This year the receipts were ouly $1,- 970,088.36. Chicago is the great cattle market of the Western world. A fair quota is 21,000 per week, but during August the supplies w r ere about 4,000 daily, or between 23,000 and 26,000 per week, and they broke down the market. —The cotton year ended with tho month of August.* And the summation of receipts ol bales is unprecedentedly large, the yield for the year being ,073,531 bales, against 4.811,265 bales for 1878, In 1859 the yield was 4,S33,- 770 bales. —The remark that Bismarck receives $13,500 for his Chancellorship elicits the fact that the German Embassador at London has a salary of $45,000 aud one of the finest houses in London. Lord Beaconsfield has the $25,000 a year Pitt used to receive. —The Texas cattle drive has pearly attained the proportions of that of last year. The number counted passing Fort Griffin the present season i& 257,- 927 against.265,646 in 1878. Last year 83,458 passed Fort Worth; this?year, 137,552. anct*8 tlipi areeither stimulants or nai s. ! * Tfee work (ft the physiologist, L tiieffiture, Wff Bffto determine the true place in riMnr* of these-substances, and in dicate where iheirwue ends and abuse be gins. . "B M t .. . , rirm (■„,, —The Official Journal of St. Jeters- 5, ■. burgh is published the report of the fires in Russia in the month of duly alcdb<Mn ife ♦arktestbram, by 500,000;- OOO.aftbh ktnatio race. Tobacco is proba bly used, by aCAeast ^>,000,01X4 or 800,- 000,000, startling facts indicate a large proportion of the rafce^ using some substances tlial are either stimulants or nar- coticJ*- - ' There were 2,83d, and the total loss is estimated at over six millions of roub les'. The cause, of fire were incendi arism in l'.i4 cases, neglect in (174 casts, lightning in 374 cases, and the remain der undiscovered. —The only woollen mill in Texas is at New Braunfels. Last year the pro fits were $81,000. —Seven more furnaces are about to be started at llollidaysburg, Fa.