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F. SMITH, Publisher, VOLUME IX. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Fi-President Hayes and wife will shortly sail for England. Joaquin Miller is writing a now play on the Mormon question. Six-retary Blaine, we understand, is to retire to private life. He is wealthy. A gold memorial medal of the late President will shortly be issued from the mint. Mas. Marshal O. Roberts is a widow of thirty-five, with fair face and $40,000 a year. The war of the French in Tunis goes bravely on, but the Moslems seem to bo holding their own, Archibald Forbes, the world re nowned war correspondent and lecturer, is again in America. Artificial seltzer water is made m barfs from ground oyster shells. The oyster seltzer water. Herbert Spencer is reported to bo en gaged to an American heiress whose ac quaintance he made in Egypt. Mb. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid will return from Europe this month. Reid will resume journalistic duties. President Arthur has asserted that the whole year’s salary of the Presi dent’s ollice shall go to Mrs. Garfield. Tiiirty-five families of tho Oneida Community have bought a tract of land in California, and will soon remove to it. It is stated that the grocery trade of Charleston, S. C., amounts to $20,000,- <X)t) a year. That is no inconsiderable amount. There are getting to be too many weather prophets and we can’t think about mentioning all of them. What we want is, more weather. Because a Cincinnati brewer has given $250,000 to his children an exchange wants someone to write a poem about it. It opens up anew field —the beer does. Mr. Bradlaugh declares that “Vic toria is the last of the German intruders who will be tolerated by the English people. Albert Edward will not succeed his mother. ” Mr. Thomas J. Brady, late Second Assistant Postmaster General, who de sired to be tried in order to establish his innocence is to be accommodated. “In formation ” has been tiled. Agricultural fairs are wondrously fluence, producing competitions, has in creased the value of stock 50 per cent, in many localities the past ten years. IbiEsiDENT Arthur was fifty-one years old on the sth inst., and weighs 215 pounds. He thinks something of get ting married, and the name of Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts, of New York, is connected in a roundabout way with the event. Ex-Gov. HiiiARD Halo, of Benning ton, Vt., who is aged eighty-six years, has heard tho announcement of all the deceased Presidents at the time that they occurred, loginning with that of Wash ington and ending with that of Garfield. Wb may still congratulate ourselves that we live in America. Iu Russia, in spite of the most rigid measures, the eruption of a revolutionary volcano is momentarily expected. Everybody is suspected, and everybody lives in fear. Contrary to the report current it should be stated that the government has fixed no valuation upon mutilated silver coin other than the market value of the silver they contain. They are purchased at the mints by weight as bullion. The total transactions at the New York Clearing House for the year aggre gated $50,341,836,373.89, or an average of $165,055,201.22 per day. Of the balances for the year, $372,410,000 were paid in gold coin, the weight of which was tons. The volume of business done was $11,643,260,121 more than in any former year. Those who were so horribly mortified) witu a surplus of hot weathhr must have frit greatly relieved when ] mercury fell suddenly on the sth inst. from up in the nineties down to freezing point. In places in Pennsylvania ice an inch thick w as formed, and snow fell in the New England States, Much fruit was frozen °n the trees. \ ' FoRTUNE-TBiiMEEfc are to be banished from Paris. Free America extends * cccccccccccccccccccccccc IbvotHl to Industrial Infar.st, the Piffii-jim 1 Troth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government, !';ind to Everything that wants to come, which means that fortune-tellers can come and welcome. Here these people openly advertise their fraudulent busi ness and pans for legitimate business people* The best institutions have their faults and America has her’s. In consonance with other things the present year, the apple crop is a light one. Michigan, the great apple Stale; reports the lightest nrop in many years. In Illinois ‘‘apples are selling at five times their usual price.” In New York and Maine the crop is very light* and hi Massachusetts the trees aTe almost bar ren. Seven of the best fruit growing countries report almost no crop. Arkansas is a very wild State, but filill it is an unhealthy State for outlaws. Train robbers in Missouri manage to al ways evade the authorities, but not so in Arkansas. They overhaul them and bring them to justice in short order. When wo remember that Judge Lynch, in Arkansas, last year, passed sentenced of death on 108 criminals, we can but con clude that her citizens meau to bo honor ably and honestly dealt with. Gutteau has told his story at great length, and in it he details minutely how he watched and waited for the President nearly three weeks before a desirable op portunity to commit the act presented itself. He maintains that he was di rected by divine inspiration—as were men in the olden times—to take the life of this man to unite factions. He tells his story deliberately and lucidly and with out a single trace of insanity. Figures are startling. In 1553 two Portugese brothers named Goes took into the Argentine Republic eight cows and one bull, and from these have des cended a herd of 20,000,000 cattle, which, with the sheep, constitutes almost the entire wealth of that country. Of recent years the stock, which has run down considerably, has begun to be improved in the vicinity of Buenos Ayres by crossing with short horn breeds. T. B. Connery lias been retired on a pension from the editorial management of the New York Herald. His successor is Frank Langley, of the editorial staff of the London Telegraph. Mr. Nord hoff, the chief Washington correspondent, has been appointed principal editorial writer, in the place of I. Chamberlain, deceased. John Russell Young and Joseph Howard,' jr., are the assistant editorial writers. How to Make Labor Cheerful. A dozen or so years ago the wife of President Garfield wrote her husband a letter, in which the following passage' occurs: 44 1 am glad to tell that, out of all the toil and disappointments of the summer just ended, I have risen up to a victory ; that the silence of thought since you have been away has won for my spirit a triumph. I read something like this the other day : ‘ There is no healthy thought without labor, and thought makes the laborer happy.’ Perhaps this is the way I have been able to climb up higher. It came to me one morning when I was making bread. I said to myself : ‘ Here I am, compelled by an inevitable necessity to make our bread this summer. Why not consider it a pleasant occupation, and make it so by trying to see what perfect bread I can make ?’ It seemed like an inspiration, and the whole of life grew brighter. The very sunshine seemed flowing down through my spirit into the white loaves, and now I believe my table is furnished with better bread than ever before, and this truth, old as creation, seems just now to have become fully mine, that I need not be the shirking slave to toil, but its regal master, making whatever I do yield me its best fruits. You have been king of your work so long maybe you will laugh at me for having lived so long without my crown, but I am too glad to have found it at all to be entire ly disconcerted, even by your merri ment. Now I wonder if right here does not lie the ‘ terrible wrong,’ or, at least, some of it, of which the woman suffrag ists complain. The wrongly-educated woman thinks her duties a disgrace and frets under them, or shirks them if she can. She sees man triumphantly pur suing his vocations, and tlnnks it is the kind of work he does which makes him grand and regnant; whereas, it is not the kind of work at all, but the way in which, and the spirit with which, he does it.” Stinking Pride. Some of the upstarts of to-day can not carry a package. The late Chief-Justice Marshall, the first biographer of Wash ington, was once in market in Washing ton when an insurance agent, with a waxed mustache, was pricing a turkey. ‘M’d buy it,” he said, “but I’ve no wav of carrying it home. ” “Bow much will you give f said the Chief-Justice. “Twenty-five cents,” was the reply. “ Give me an order to your wife, then, for the money,” replied the Chief-Jus tice whom the agent did not know. The man holding the highest position in the United States carried home the turkey and got the twenty-five cents from the aunt’s wife, Who knew the Chief-Justice, avd war horrified at the lesson her airy hhsbaud had received. INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. WIIY SHE SQUIRMED. “Oh, Vnv so reviews, darlittg; fa If you fain would ~ otirself from out my presence—tell me, fairest of the fair— Is my conversation stupid, that you flinch and twist about, Like an urchin with the cholic, or an old man with the gout’ Do I tire you with my stories, or annoy you with my jokes, % ;r wear upon your parietace critifciaing other folks? toll me Why you are so reil>ss, and keep turning otiyo, r:-h And Shrugging up your shoulders—tell me, sweetest of the sweet.” Jhe maiden hides her blushing face within her shapely hands. While her fair breast ftrlth feniotion collapses and ex pands, And in a timid voice replies: •* No, no, indeed, my dear— "i our tones, like sweetest music, fall upon my listen eningear; Y ° Ur ri lßeuce tills lue wlth delight; I could forever Beneath the scinc tiliations of your sparkling native ant, But for the past teh tninittfes I hake b on on tor ture’s rack, I'or a June httg has been promenading up and down my back.” —Detroit Free Press. SIBERIAN HORRORS. Ix|> rleir of a Chicugo Prdarocne -Ex il*Ml In Siltei-ea and Compelled in IVork in (he fllnei. Occupying humble furnished lodgings in one of the large buildings in the heart of the city, and earning a moderate income as a teacher of music and lan guages, is an old man, counting by years, though his eye is so bright, his frame so robust, and his step so firm that a stran ger meeting him for the first time would never suspect that he had passed mid dle life. But he comes of a hardy race —-the Swiss—and was nurtured in the life-giving atmosphere of the Alim. In his youth lie had a constitution of iron, else he could not have survived the suf ferings and privations which have been his lot. The assassination of the Czar was an event which had the effect of loosening his tongue, and during a discussion of the causes of the tragedy lie narrated an interesting incident of his life. “What good can ever come of an as sassination ?” “Assassination! Well, it is an un pleasant word, I admit, but it means nothing more than bloodshed, and what great reform was ever accomplished without bloodshed ? It cost rivers of blood to emancipate the slaves of Amer ica. ” “True, in that case, but the serfs of Russia were liberated without the sacri fice of a single life.” “Do you think the people of Russia are free to-day ? No. They can not be bought and sold like merchandise, but they are slaves all the same. They be long body and soul to the Czar, whom they call the Father, and he can dispose of them as he sees fit. You have heard of Siberia. Is a man free when, without just- cause and without trial, he may be banished to that place ? Why, even a foreigner loses his freedom the moment he sets his foot on Russian soil. Do you think all exiles are Russian subjects ? No. I, a Swiss, was in Siberia !” “ You in Siberia? An exile ?” “Yes.” “ How could that happen ?” “I will tell you, because it will show you how great is the power of the Czar and how defenseless are the people. My case is one in thousands, and my suffer ings nothing as compared to those which many exiles endured. “I was a soldier in my youth, and served in many parts of the world. In my last engagement I was severely wounded. It is nothing now, but for a time I was incapacitated for active mili tary service. I had always had a taste for music, and had received a good mu seal education. When I retired from the army, therefore, I sought to support myself by teaching. St. Petersburg seemed to present a good field, so I went there. I was well supplied with letters of introduction, which procured for me the influence of some of the most im portant personages in Russia, and I had no difficulty in obtaining pupils of high rank. At first I taught music only, but I soon found that I could materially add to my income by teaching the English, French and Italian languages, of which I had a thorough knowledge. Within a year I was well established and had laid by a little money. I had every rea son to congratulate myself upon my po sition. “ But an evil day came. It was sit ting alone in my little library one even ing when two agents of the police en tered and placed me under arrest.” “ For what cause?” “For what cause? That was the question I myself asked, but it was many a long clay before it was answered. The police would tell me nothing. They simply hurried me off to prison. No formal charge was preferred against me, there was no trial, but in two weeks 1 was on the way to Siberia. It was win ter, and the journey was a terrible one. Think of it! Thousands of miles in an open sledge ! I was taken to the Ouk boul mine, and there in the dark, breath ing poisonous exhalations, I worked with convicts of the lowest class, while a guard, armed with a whip, stood ready to lash us if we relaxed our efforts. This lasted for six months. I could not have stood it much longer. Already my my strength was beginning to fail, al though when I entered the mine I was as strong as three men. I determined to escape, but before I had decided how or when, I was transferred to Irkoutsk. The government was building roads and needed laborers. It was hard work in the burning sun. but child’s play as com pared to the mine. After a while they found I was an engineer, and that they could make better use of my head tlian of my hands. From that time my situ ation Was much pleasanter. “ One day I found an opportunity to escape. It was in winter—my second winter in Biberid. A cHurier wjts to be sent to the Czar. He was going in a sledge, and was to be accompanied part of the way by a guide. I had made good use of my time in the engineering department, and knew the route from Irkoutsk to the frontier as well as it could be learned from maim. I resolved, if possible, to take the place of the guide. Fortune favored me. The charier was to start early in the morning. The night before, I found the guide, plied him with and left him in a dftinkeii stupof. Before daybreak 1 re turned and aroused him. He was still intoxicated and very thirsty. A few more drinks of brandy sufficed to again stupefy him. Then I took his clothes, his horse and his sledge, went for the courier, and in an hour we had left Irkoutsk far behind us. The courier suspected nothing. He had never seen the real guide, and had therefore no rea son to suppose I was an impostor. I Accompanied him as far as Omsk, where he procured another guide and aiiother vehicle. You may be sure I was not sorry to part with him, for at every post ing house since we left Irkoutsk I had expected arrest. I felt that I would be Bafer without him. There was one dif culty, however. I had very little money —scarcely enough to keep me in food Until I should reach the frontier. But for tune again favored mo. A merchant bound for Perm, required a conveyance and a guide, and as I professed to know the coun try he employed me. It would take too long to tell you all the incidents of the journey. We arived at Perm, not with out some difficulty, t’o be sure (for I was very uncertain of the route,) and I was well paid for my Services. From Perm I proceeded alone, and although 1 was without passports or papers of any kind, I managed to complete my journey. “I shall never forget the day I ar rived m "’t. Petersburg. It was still winter, and I was penniless, hungry and in rags but I was happy. I had formed the mention of presenting myself at the Swiss consulate, and claiming the protection of the Swiss Government, I was on my way thither when I was ac costed by two policemen. Not satisfied with my replies to their questions, they arrested me. An attempt had been made the day before to assasinate a high offic ial, and all suspicious characters were being taken into custody. What there was in my appearance to excite suspicion I know not, for there were thousands in St. Petersburg as ragged and dirty as I. The thought of returning to prison, per haps to Siberia, maddened me. I re sisted but was overpowered, and in a few minutes was once more in a dungeon. For a time I gave way to despair. I fancied myself again in the mines, dying a lingering death. The thought w f as so terrible that had I not been chained to the floor I should have contrived to kill myself. “I had been in* prison five days, and had had time for reflection. I was con vinced that nobody had recognized me, and that my arrest had no connection whatever with my escape from Siberia. This gave me hope, and with hope came the determination to make another effort for liberty. I should have appealed to the Swiss consul, but I knew that no message I might dictate or "write would be conveyed to him. At last an idea . struck rae, and I acted upon it. “Among my pupils in former days had been a neice of Prince Gortschakoff. She was a beautiful creature, young, accom plished, and with a heart of gold. We had become very good friends, consider ing the difference in station between a princess and a music teacher. I knew that if I could communicate with her she would assist me, but bow could I com municate with her ? I had no money to bribe the jail attendant, and without bri bery I had nothing to expect. However, I concluded to appeal to him, and at the next opportunity I asked him if he knew the princess. ‘Yes,’ he replied, ‘she is visiting the prison to-day.’ “ ‘Visiting the prison,’ I exclaimed. ‘Do they, then, admit visitors.’ “ ‘lt is against the rules,’ said he ; but when a women and a princess resolves to see the prison, who can prevent her? She will have her own way, rules or no rules. “‘ Do you think she will come here ? ? “ ‘Who knows? If she wishes to come she will come. ’ ‘ At this moment I heard the voioe of a prison official explaining that this was the department of the ‘ suspected.’ “‘She is here,’ said the attendant, and at that moment she appeared at the door, which had not been closed. “‘Princess,’ I cried, ‘will you not save me ? ’ ‘‘ ‘ Who are you ?’ she asked, evi dently not recognizing me through my involuntary disguise of rags, dirt and chains. “ ‘Have you forgotten your old music teacher. Do you not know me?’ “‘ My God! Is it possible ! No, Professor, I have not forgotten you, and I will help you. What must I do to procure your release ?’ “ ‘ Tell the Swiss Consul that I, the son of a former President of the Swiss Republic, am imprisoned on suspicion. He will do the rest’ “ ‘ I will go to him instantly,’ she said, and hurriedly left the prison. “In a few days I was set at liberty, and having, with the aid of friends, pro cured suitable garments, I called to thank the Princess for her kindness. It was then, for the first time, thatl learned the cause of my banishment “ ‘Yon owe me no thanks,’ said she. ‘lt is I who am the cause of all your misfortunes. “ ‘ You, Princess !’ I replied, in aston ishment ; ‘how is that possible?’ “ explained. Her uncle had had in view her marriage with a nobleman v,ho was highly obnoxious to her. It was thought that her opposition to the alliance was due to a preference for else* and it was finally dieid ed that I, her fntisie' teacher, must be the obstacle. Prince (jrortschakoff, in order to get rid of me, procured my arrest and deportation. She had been surprised at my sudden disappearance and had instituted inquiries, but had learned nothing until quite recently, and then only by accident. A masked ball had been given at the residence of a lady of high rank, and while seated in an alcove the Princess had overheard a conversation regarding herself. She was about to interrupt it when one of the speakers coupled my name with hers, and her curiosity overcoming her scrup les, she listened. Armed with the knowl edge thus acquired, she had accused her uncle of the outrage. He admitted it, and defended it as a matter of necessity. She urged him to secure ray pardon, but he refused. Wliat was the use of so much trouble over a music teacher ? Of course, she could do nothing, but it was the thought of my unhappy fate that led her to visit the prison.” “ Had she really formed an attach ment for you ?” asked the writer. “ What a foolish question,” said the professor. “ This is not a love story. You forget that she was a Princess.” “No, I remember that she was a wo man.” “ Well, I have finished. And, now, is not a land in which such things can happen a land of slaves. I tell you, my young friend, that my case is not an ex ceptional one. Thousands and thou sands have suffered more whose offenses were less grave than my supposititious one. It is the same to-day. No man is safe in Russia. Without cause, without warning, without trial, anybody may be torn from his family and sent to Siberia to die by inches. It is -terrible !” “ And you think all this may be changed by killing an Emperor or two ?” “Who knows? It is not impossible. If by terrorism the Russian peop’e can obtain a constitution, it will lure cost less than the Great Charter of England. If terrorism mil, there will be ?. revolu tion. ” “ But to return to the Princess. What has become of her ?” “She is- a Nihilist, heart and soul.” “And you?” “I am a teacher of music and lan guages. ” —Chicago Herald. Artesian or Self-Spouting Wells. In 1833 the French Government began the sinking of an artesian well at Gre nelle, then a suburb, but now a portion, of Paris. This well was not completed until February 26, 1841, when, at a depth of 1,792 feet, the auger, having penetrated a ledge of rock, suddenly sank in several yards of water. When the drill was withdrawn, the water of the well spurted 112 feet above its top, and continues yet to run in a constant stream. Paris is situate iu the lowest portion of a basin shaped mass of for mations, so that the strata slope toward the city. As in Cincinnati, which is built on the lowest formation geologi cadv within several hundred miles, a “deep flowing well” may be sunken almost anywhere in its “basin” with almost a surety of obtaining a steady flow of water. The Grenelle well is utilized for many purposes, discharges 500,000 gallons per diem, and, as the water is pure, it is used for drinking when cooled down from its temperature of 82 degrees Fah. at the mouth of the well. The immense abattoirs—slaughter houses—in the neighborhood are kept clean by its waters. Since 1841, the city of Paris has gone rather extensively into the artesian well business. The largest is that at Passy, which was com pleted in 1860. This is two feet in diam eter and nearly 2,000 in depth, and dis charges five and two-thirds million gal lons daily, but its great flow has dimin ished the yield of the Grenelle well about one-fourth. St. Louis has vainly attempted, by boring a hole some 3,000 feet deep, to obtain an adequate supply of water. She has one artesian well at the Belcher sugar works which dis charges a tepid, medicated %ater. It is pretty certain that any well sunk fDep enough in the Cincinnati basin to dis charge a constant stream by natural force would produce warm mineral water, but it is possible the streams from such wells might be found highly useful for many economic purposes. At all events, “the Paris of America” might become even more like her European exemplar by sinking a few huge artesian wells. —Cincinnati Gazette. The English Joke. The mission of the English humorist is, to darken the horizon and shut out the false and treacherous joy of exist ence—to shut out the beauty of the landscape and scatter a $2 gloom over the broad-green earth. English humor is like a sore toe. It makes you glad when you get over it. It is like having the smallpox, because if you live through it you are not likely to have it again. When we pass from earth and our place is filled by another sad-eyed genius whose pants are too short, and who man ifests other signs of greenness, let no storied urn or animated bust be placed above our lovely resting place, but stuff an English conundrum so that it will look as it did in life, and let it stand abdve our silent dust to shed its damp and bilious influence through the ceme tery as a monument of desolation and a fountain of unshed tearqpand the grave robber will shun our final resting place as he would the melon patch where lurks the spring gun and the alert and irritable bull dog. —Laramie Boome rang. SUBSCRIPTION"SI.6D. NUMBER 9 HISTORICAL. The probe was invented by Es<m lapins. The ancients used pitch to give odor to wine. Amethysts were found in Kerry, Ire land, in 1755. Cherries were first planted in Britian 100 years B. C. France adopted the system of postal stamps in 1849. Mole traps were precisely the same in 1357 as now. Pope John XII added the third crown to the Papal tiara. An air gun was made for Henry IV., in Normandy, in 1488. In 1474, William Saxton introduced printiug in England. The Scandinavians believed the earth to rest upon nine pillars. The order of the Garter was insti tuted in 1348 by Edward 111. In the fourteenth century the sale of nosegays occur as a trade in Toulouse. The Sicilians borrowed the term ad miral from the Saracens about 1149. The first tragedy was acted in Athens in 535. The first comedy in 562 B. C. The canary bird was introduced into Europe early in the sixteenth century. The first mills in England for turn ing grindstones were set up at Sheffield. Among the oldest representations of diving apparatus is a print of the year 1511. Tun study of the classics was dis couraged by the bishops in the fourth century. In the seventeenth century, on the continent, boots were never worn with out spurs. During the reign of Edward VI Tyndale’s Bible was printed more than thirty times. The Eddystone Light-house was begun in 1766, by John Sweaton. It was built in four years. Queen Elizabeth wore her prayer book hanging from her girdle by a golden chain. The first clock iu Europe was prob ably that sent to Charlemagne by Ab dalla, King of Persia. In 1764 the members of the church in Coleiaine, Mass., voted “to color the meeting-house blue. ” Among the Greeks the death punish ment of certain criminals was aggravated by the denial of funeral rites. ;! In 1822 the coast of Chili, one hun dred miles in extent, was raised from two to six feet by an earthquake. In the early days of printing books the paper was only printed on one side and the blank sides pasted together. Bells were first introduced into churches about 400 A. D., by Paulinus of Nola, and were then called Noise. The next use of the Mayflower, after her memorable voyage to America, was to carry a cargo of slaves to the West Indies. £? By a statute of Henry VIII. a person whose wife wore a silk gown was bound to furnish a horse for the use of the Government. Tarring and feathering is a European invention. It was one of Richard Coeur de Lion’s ordinances for seamen in punishment for theft. Pynson was the first English printer who introduced borders and vignettes in his books. Vignettes with human fig ures are probably of the date 1527. Fireworks are little spoken of in English history till the time of Eliza beth, and then very slightly, but in the time of Charles they were commonly used at rejoicings. The earliest magnifying lense *of which we have any knowledge was one rudely made of rock crystal, which was found among a number of glass bowls in the palace of Nimrod. Beer was the common drink of the Germans in the time of Tacitus, who wrote his “Treatise on the Manner of the Germans” about the end of the first century. A Visit to Henry Clay’s Tomb. Here we visited Ashland Farm, the home of the “ Great Harry of the West.” All of that once magnificent farm (except a portion owned by James Clay and on which he now resides) was bought by the State of Kentucky. A portion has been set apart for an Agricultural and Mechanical School. The old residence, on account of its dilapidated condition, has been rebuilt by one of his sons on the same model. A good many of the trees planted by the hands of Mr. and Mrs. Clay as ornaments to the grounds have been cut down and carried away. He is buried in one of the most elevated spots in the Lexington Cemetery. The State of Kentucky has erected over his remains a very imposing monument of granite and marble, cut from its own quarries. In the basement of the mon ument, through a glass door, is .seen his tomb, on which is inscribed one of those eloquent sentences, taken from one of his speeches in Congress, in which he calls on God to bear him witness to the purity of his motives and the absence of any desire for self-aggrandizement that prompted his advocacy of the pending measure before Congress. —Lexington (Ky.) Cor. Macon Telegraph. The “rose” diamond is so celled not from any peculiarity of color, as many suppose, but from the form into which it is cut, which is twenty-four facets, with the base a plane. In the “bril liant” pattern, invented during the reign i of George 1., the stone is cut in form of Ia double cone, the lower end pointed, upper end truncated.