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The Sylvania Telephone. C. H. MEDLOCK, Editor and Publisher. .VOL. I. I Shall Kt'i'p My Heart Warm for My Own Fireside. I. I shall rise willi the laik, ot the break of the morn,. With a love and bright hope that tlip day shall ndorii; And liom angels above gentle rays shall de scend, With the bloom oi my bosom their luster to blend. li. Freni the rise ot ! 1 ,.t sun, till the set ol the same, I shall seek tor true Bliss in the lisp ol my name By I In eliil.Blips I love; mid, whatever betide 1 ahull ko ip my heart warm lor my own fire side. in. Fair friendships may greet me, as forward I g°» And tame, lor tlio moment, its guerdon bestow; But the smiles ot my babes are more dear to my soul Than all this cold world or its Iriendsbips conti ol. tv. Should my lair rose ot morning at evening decay, And the star that I lollowed grow dim with lhe day, I’ll turn train a world that’s so mourntully wide, With a heart that keeps warm for my own fireside. V. As the rays ot the sun givo cheer to the earth, Bright eyes of my dear ones lend bliss to m, hearth; As the zephyrs at eve breath balm to the bowers, The songs tiirough my lulls shed the f ragrance of (lowers. VI. Thoic salvos ol joy, giving strength to mj will, Whatever my glint, lliey’re encouragement still, No sorrow, no torment, with me can abide, While I keep my heart warm for iny own Us esiilc. VII. 1 care not how dreary the night-wind nm\ prove, To home I shall fly on the white wings o love. My reward shall be sweet in the greeting: I’ll find, That 1 smiled at the tempest, and left it hi - ll i nd. VIII. Li! alloc tion, and peiee, and contentment he mine, Wuile the revel 1 shun, and the quicksand ol v ine; Lei me think ol the mother who once was my bride, Till I glow with the charm ol my own flresida — Huy1 1 F. McDermott CAPTURING A WIFE. Paul Cheney sat at his desk in the schoolroom of a rural district, where he had been teaching (to use a well-worn adage) the young idea how to shoot. His present task was that of writing a letter to a chum in his city home. “No doubt (he wrote) you imagine I am dwelling in a sort of rural Arcadia, and just as far as physical nature goes I am,for there can be notiling more green than the hills, nothing more clear, cool or limpid, or musical than the brooks that everywhere ribbon the valleys. “A sort of gypsy encampment is located near an insolated nook among the hills. Among the tribe is an old fortune-teller, and of course the pretty heads of my female scholars are com pletely turned, and I have not only laid down the law against visiting the camp, but fixed a penalty thereto. “Now I know you will raise your hands in horror when I tell you that alter exhausting every other form of punishment, from the dunce cap to writing lengthy compositions (the bit ter abhorrence of every feminine heart), and all to no purpose,' I have in this in stance resorted to the old-fashioned one, the ferrule. And so help me late, I will carry it out to the bitter end, and make every little hand smart whose owner disobeys, or my name is not Paul Cheney.” The school-house where our hero pre sided was situated some distance from the village where he boarded, and the walk, though pleasant, was lonely and passing a graveyard. And of late weird tales had been told of ghosts who walk there by moonlight, and in one or two instances, when the schoolmaster had been belated, he had observed an object clothed in white flit at a distance before him and in his very path. Though a trifle startled, he had no doubt that it was a riddle that time would unravel. Therefore, upon the night when he had remained writing to the city friend, as lie hurried homeward to be in time fo rsup per, lie gave the matter no thought, and had reached the boundary of the grave yard when he was confronted by the white-robed apparition, approaching him with extended arms. The suggestions natural to its appear ance were the reverse of pleasant, yet he SYLVANIA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1880. ■ j never dreamed the gliding visitant was j other than earthly, and quickened his pace to meet it, but to his astonishment it disappeared as quickly and entirely, as if swallowed by the earth. Not a little startled and puzzled, he hastened home, but kept his own counsel. The next morning he proceeded to school more early than usual and spent some time in roconnoitering the walk of the ghost, and evidently to his satisfac tion, for the broad smile that illumin ated his face as he entered the school room appeared^* assure the pupils that their teacher was in the best humor, and they would accordingly receive many indulgences. At recess a number of pretty heads wore in close consultation, and Sue Sal mon, a black-eyed beauty, said, with a pout: Wasn’t of Mr. Cheney to “ it mean threaten to whip any one who went up to the gypsy encampment? Just as if he dared to do it !” “ I would like to see him ferrule my hand,”chimed May Ellis. “Or mine, either!” exclaimed Kitty Dalton. “ What’s the use of being such cowardly ninnies, girls? Let us go in spite of him.” “I will pay lor any girl who will go with me to-day to liave her fortune told,” laughed Sue Salmon, merrily. “ Will you? Then we will all go, even if we have to submit to the pun ishment,” answered May. It was decided to run the risk, and ac cordingly when school closed at noon they marched off bodily to learn the mystery of the future. “It must be half-past one o’clock at least,” exc,aimed one of.the number, as ilu>y were hastening back from tiieir visit to the gypsy camp, half repentant and anxious to know what would be the result of their breaking the law. “I wish lie hadn’t gone,” sighed Kitty ruefully. “ It was ail your fault, Sue.” “ I know it,” returned the young lady, with a merry laugh; “and I am ready not only to take my share of punish ment, but your’s as well.” “It is all very well to talk,” said May, “ but you are sure to get off witli tlie lightest penalty, and that you Van doHitfiyidiing ’ jotr yiiease willU ITiui Cheney.” “Can I ? Well, then I’ll shield you >r vour disobedience. So cheer up ■t id be brave. Here we are and school has commenced.” They marched in and took their seats, tnd lifted tiieir guilty eyes to encounter the indignantly flashing ones of their much-abused teacher. Of all the schol ars Sue was the prettiest, most lovable aid most trying. She laughed his most serious and just reproof to scorn, find when site found he was really wounded, lier great black eyes would flash up to him through tears and appeal to lie for given. And somehow his voice always turned itself lower when he addressed lier, and in spite of himself she managed to throw upon him the solving of alj her most difficult pioblems. She would come up to him witli such a pretty, pleading pout, with “My head aches so,” and protest she could not do her algebra unassisted; or “ Might I not lie excused from writing that dreadful composition for just this once, please ?” And promised to do anything else lie wished; and she looked so winsome, pretty and bright when lie yielded, that she usually carried the day. So, when the master, in a hard, cold voice commanded the young ladies who were late to school to leave their seats and take places before his desk, to his surprise Sue said something in a whis per to her corupapions, and came grace fully and quickly forward alone, and leaning her white arms upon his deck as for support to her trembling limbs, said: “ Mr. Cheney, we have been to see the gypsies, but 1 alone am to blame, anil am ready to take the punishment you think the rest liave merited, together with what is my just due.” “Oil! you wish to make yourself a sort of scapegoat for your companions?’ he questioned, with a flushed face. “Yes, sir, if you please,” murmured Sue. “Well, if I don’t please? I think you have sins enough of your own to an swer for without shouldering those of others?” “But really and truly,” pleaded she, with tears in her glorious eyes, “ I am alone to blame. They wouid not have gone but for me, and you will make me perfectly wretched if you punish them, when the fault was all mine,” and she sobbed audibly.” “ I should be sorry to do that,” he answered. “It is enough that you make every day of my life wretched without my retaliating, and if you will answer for the good behavior of your companions in future it shall be as you desire.” “ I will,” promised Sue, but she deadly pale to the lips as he extended his hand to receive hers. The next moment her little rosy palm lay in his great broad one, above whiclt the ruler was poised for .the blow; though tiieir hands were hidden the desk, the blows could be heard. “ ONWARD AND UPWARD.” “One, two, three, four—one for each truant,” said the teacher, looking down into the eyes of Sue witli an expression none hut she could interpret. The next instant the face of Sue was buried in her handkerchief, and her cheeks crimsoned as with shame. Then she spoke in a suppressed voice to the teacher, and he had to bend low to hear her. “ Who is the scapegoat nowshe questioned, and the dimples betrayed tlwt her emotion was laughter, and if her eyes were filled witli tears they were not sorrowful ones. “ Never mi#d.” was answered by the teacher, as he bit his mustache to hide a smile, “ you may take your seat now.” “What a generous soul,” murmured Sue, as she laid her head upon the desk. “I knew he wouldn’t strike me. His broad hand entirely covered mine and received every blow. IIow the girls would laugh if they knew it. l!ut I won’t tell. That shall be our little secret.” The remainder of the afternoon slie studied very diligently and recited cleverly, though there was a very saucy light burning in her brown eyes that argued ill for some one. When school closed for the day, the girls flocked around her with many ex press ions of sympathy. “ It was so good and noble in you, Sue, to take all the blame and the pun ishment,” exclaimed May. “And how ridiculous he lookid pounding the little hand of a lady,” ad ded Kitty. “ I am sure he must think very little of himself, and, as for me, 1 hate him.” “So do I,” said Annie Miller, “and would sit up all night to .find time to despise him,” “Don’t be fools!” interrupted Sue, with a flash of anger. “ I think he was very kind and generous to let us off as easy as iie did, for we were wrong and he right.” “I thought it belonged to a gentle man’s code of honor never to strike a woman?” answered May, witli a sneer. “The tintli is,” replied Sue, “he fixed the penalty so severe and unre ii-nting that he supposed no forced one would ful disobey, and when he was to fill the law he punished one girl in place ol four, and as it was neither of you, I think you ought to be satisfied. Sup pos" we let the subject drop.” “So be it. But if he remains at the sclioolliouse late again to-night, shan’t we haunt tiim?” “ Yes,” said Sue, “ and it is my turn to be tlie ghost. There is jolly fun in that.” Meanwhile Paul Cheney was again writing to his city chum, and in con clusion he said: “ I have had a hard day. The girls were unusually provoking, and the knuckles of my left haDd are very much swollen, from an injury received while punishing one of them. You need not be surprised to hear that I have given up teaching. The Plainville Academy is proving too much for me, and any day I may drop in upon you.” The letter finished, he started for his boarding place, but as lie approached the graveyard there flittered before him a white-robed ghost, which disappeared as lie neared it, with a mysterious fa cility. But, nothing daunted, he pressed rapidly onward to an immense hollow tree and forced his way into its depths. There was a smothered cry of alarm, the removing of a sheet, and Sue Salmon stood panting in the anus of Paul Cheney. “ So I have at last captured the ghost,” lie said, laughingly. “ Oh, please let me go. See, you have frightened the girls, and they have all run away. So please let me go.” “ I do not please just now, Miss Susie. I have a long account to settle witli this particular ghost.” “Then settle it quickly and let me go,” She said, impatiently stamping her little foot. “Well, let me see. How many nights liave I been haunted on my way home ?” “ This is my first night,” as sorted Sue. “All the girls took it by turns.” “Ah! did they? And you are gen irous enough to again be their scape goat, and take punishment along with your own ?” “Yes, yes; only please let me go.” “And there were four of you,” and stooping down to her flushed face he left lour kisses burning there. “I will never forgive you,” she ex claimed, struggling from him, and, standing a little apart, began twisting her long loosened hair, and coiling it at the back of her pretty head. “ I shall be sorry for that, very sorry, Susie dear. As I told you to-day, you make my life miserable, yet I love you with all my soul.” “And I hate you,” she replied, pas sionately. “ Are you going, Susie,” questioned lie, “ and without a single word P” “Yes!” she snapped out, “and give me that sheet. I am sure I don’t know what mother will say, because it is so toi n.” "One little word,” he continued, “ before you go. We may not have an other opportunity to see each other alone, as f shall leave this place next week.” .. “Going _ . away?" she asked, with , little quiver in her voice, and staying lier stens „ the term Will , lie out, , and . . I soon shall not teach longer--least of all those who Who leite Hate and and refuse ltluse to to he suided glllrt bv >J me. She drew nearer to his side, with ilowucfut eyes, and giving him her hand. said, SOttlJ : “Forgive me, Mr. Cheney, 1 have been very unkind and rebellious. dav day von you bruised biuised youi vnnr own own hand t and to to save save mine. I saw how red ana swollen was, and that was the most severe pun ishment lsnnicnt VOU you could could have liave inllieled Oil on me.” “ A bruised hand is nothing to a bruised heart,” he replied. “ I did not know that I was injuring so important an organ.’” “ When you say you hate me, dar ling—” “I—I did not mean 1 hated you. I 1 am very grateful, and—and so sorry you j are going away.” “Then if you love me,” he whispered, j twining an arm about her, “ bid me j stay.” “Then—stay—stay, only—” * “Only what, Susie?” “ I am done being scapegoat for an v j mortal or ghost either.” “ That is right, and henceforth receive only rewards.” What she might liave said in response he never knew, as her lips were lor the moment effectually sealed. A few month’s later Paul Cheney’s city friend was net surprised at his re turn, though lie was at his bringing back a bride, the chief of his tormentors. lion the President’s Message was Stolen. The me true tlUt storv Stoiy of Ol hnw now tne flip President’s 1 lesit ents message and Secretary Sherman’s re port l were surreptitiously obtained 101 publication , *■ , lias come to . the ears of our correspondent. The matfAv awttet woo was pmrinppml engmeeiea Lv tiy TliPion melon D. Crawford, the correspondent oi tile Chicago Times, and formerly of the Pittsburgh press. He approached a printer, and finally secured ■ “*1«*> ! iroofs <* «*•»«"■ ment for $1,500. lie made an atrange meilt with several papers to receive the message ant. divide the expense. . ll of them were disposed to weaken on Saturday, / but Mr. Crawford was in Strueted by the limes ahead, . , .. ll to go that paper had to assume all the ex penses Ifself Itself, Till. lit message was was tele- tell graphed SO as to close about four O clock in the morninv, when the Chicago Tri lii'.iie , got , wind , . of f it and ....., immediately telegraphed tiie to New York, where a copy nf ot the New New York tout Times J unes with Win the hu rues- m. Sage in it, was obtained, llie WOlK ol tele"raphing it from New York to the T,;?, Tnhuae commenced commenced ut at loUl four o’clock O Clock ill ll. the morning. Ten wires were used, and the Tribune was enabled to appear witli the message in a late edition about half past seven o’clock. This is, perhaps, the most remarkable feat of telegraphing and setting up matter on record, as the entire work of making arrangements telegraphing and setting up over 20,000 words was accomplished in less than four hours .—Pittsburgh Commercial. Wliat a Paris Dog Can Do. A Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune tells the following story: There is a terrier in a cafe, Rue St. Ilonore, that no sooner sees an habitual customer enter than lie runs up to the new-comer, opens his mouth and looks imploringly at the customer. The latter so well understands the panto mine that lie puts a sou in the opon mouth. The terrier bounds to the door, and in an instant is at the nearest pastry cook’s. The latter gives the dog a cake, which the latter brings to his benefac tor, who breaks the cake into three pieces. One is forthwith given the ter rier ; the dog, having eaten it, stands on his hind legs, lets the customer put the second piece of cake on hi3 (the dog’s) nose, lets it stay there untouched until the gentleman raps ten times on the table; at the tenth rap the terrier tosses the cake in the air and catches it before it falls to the floor. The gentleman then takes the third piece of cake in his hand and says: “Billy you liave eaten two of the three pieces of cake. There ai’e thousands of dogs in Paris who have never tasted a piece of cake. Now, Billy, if you be a gentleman—and I be lieve you arc a gentleman, Billy—you will take this third piece of cake and lay it in the street for dogs that are not as well off as you are.” The terrier takes the third piece of cake in his mouth, carries it to the street, leaves it there, returns to the customer, looks inquiringly at him, as much as to ask, “Have I done the genteel thing?” and lies down to doze until another cus tomer enters. The gentlemen who essayed to serenade Miss L. a lew evenings since should have had clear” throats, and their efforts would have been better appreciated. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is the best remedy extant for a “ thick ” or congested condition of the throat and bron chial tubes, spying instant relief* A YEAR’S EVENTS. __ dl/ the Fr/neipnl Occurrence* «/' tS19. JANUARY.—1. ...... Resumption ol specie pay menta in the United States. ...2. Nine men killed and thirty-three wounded by the bnrsUng cl a gun on the British man Ot-wnr Thunderer in the Mediterranean, ....3. Intensely cold weather throughout J'™ Destruction fg* by the State Senate....!. ot the Chioago poatolHce by Are. ol • l " an Moncasi in Madrid for attempted assassination ot King Alfonso. Failure ol the Cornish bank, olTn.ro, England, lor #..,000,600 .... 5. Great republican viotory at the elections tor French sena tors .... 7. llie New lork legislature meeU in the new cap,tol at Albany....9. Forty Cheyenne Indian prisoners at Fort Robinson, Neb., kdled while trying to escape.... 10. Twenty persons ki led by a railroad collision in Russia ••••11. Two him dred Russian officers and soldiers killed by tram breaking through a bridge m Turkey. Intense excitement created in Germany by Bismarck s lull limiting freedom oi debate in German parliament.....12. socialism, 1 ho Pope’s long circular against corn m unis in, etc. is published.... 14. Fifty eight miners killed by an explosion in a Welsh colliery.... .20. threatened crisis ,n France averted by passage ot a vote oi confidence m the government Several United States Senators elected .... 22. Severely cold weather and much destitution reported tromEngland.. into cipher . .27. dispatches Beginning ol investigation the by Potter committee.....JO. Resignation ol President McMahon and election of Jules Grevy as president ol France... .31. M. Gambetta elected president ol the Trench nSSS5r?nv FEBRUARY. 1 epj 3. ltl ©s. Exciting debate m ex ecutive session ot the United States Senate on the New York nominations .... 4. News received oi extraordinary precan tions taken by European countries to guard against the spread ot the plagua ravaging Russia....5. Beginning of cipher dispatches investigation in New York by Pot ter committee.... 8. Mr. Tilden testifies be lore Potter committee in New York. Heavy strikes begun in England. Russians begin evacuation oi Turkish territory and defini tive treaty ot peace between the two coun tries signed • • •• 1J - Eatal Jand slides in Kan9as City, Mo., and Allentown, Pa.... 12. Opening ot German parliament.... 13. opening oi British parliament. Nine China men killed by an explosion ol fire-damp in Calitornia.... 14. St. Valentine’s day.... 15. Bill lor restricting Chinese emmigration passed Thre by the United killed States and about Senate.... 18. « severely persons injured twenty five by a train tailing through a rotten lague bridge near Selma, Ala.... P ho ^ r ?, i \ K l*^ explosion in Stockton, CM. British steam SCSI'S .tSSS, being out tram New York forty-two days. ....25. Reports received ot disastrous storms in France, Spain and Itaiv. MARCH.—1. President Hayes vetoes the Chinese immigration bill.... 2. Greatflrein Reno, Nev.... 3. Reports ot Potter com mittee published.... 4. The Forty-fifth Con g res9 adjourns and the President issues a proclamation Congress.... for extra 5. Close session of the oi Forty sixth ° Vander , )ilt wiU case ia New York....9. persons killed at a fire in East St. Louis, 111 Beginning oi international six days’walking match in New York... .12. The town otSzege din, Hungary, destroyed by a flood. Twelve persons injured by the fall ot a gallery dm- aSrriageof ing a walking match in New York.... 13. Prince Arthur, Queen VietoiiaV third son, to Princess Louise Margaret, ot Prussia. Arrival ot Bayard Taylor’s re mains in New York.... 15. Rowell wins internutional walking match in New York. .... 18. Opening ot special session ot Forty sixth Congress.... 19. Forty-seven lives lost by the foundering ot a F’rench iron-clad off coast ot France.... 20. Several New Orleans banks suspend payments... .24 Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage’s trial lor deceit and falsehood begun before the Brooklyn Presbytery. APRIL.—2. Election in Rhode Island.....5. Close ot debate on army bill and its passage in the House. Cambridge detents Oxford in annual boat luce on the Thame'. J Spring elections ill Michigan, «tc .... 14. Attempt to assassinate tlio Czar ot Kassil in St. Petersburg. Disastrous tornado at Collinsville, Nev.... 17. Syndicate oi Nevv York and Boston bankers’ bid for *200,000,000 four per cent, bonds uc cepted by Secretary Sherman.... 18. Fatal tornado in South Carolina. Marl ial law be dared in six populous Russian districts... 20. One-halt ot Eureka, Nev., destroyed by Are. .. .24. General Dix’s luneral iu New York. Emperor ot Austria’s silver wedding celebrated in Vienna....26. Brown makes 542 miles in six days’ championship pedes trian match in London....29. President Hayes vetoes army comprising appropriation bill. Oren- One thousand houses, town ot burg, Russia, destroyed by fire. MAY.-—7. Calitornia Votes in tavor ol adopt ing new constitution.... 8. Rev. Dr. Talmage’s trial before a Brooklyn Presbytery ends in his acquittal.... 12. The Pope’s creates “military eight new cardinals. Veto ot the in terferenee” bill bv the President.... 16. Six executions in different parts oi the Uni ted States.... 20. The legislative appropria tion bill passes United States Senate... .24. Participation of Brooklyn’s 13th regiment in Queen Victoria’s sixtieth birthday festivities at Montreal....25. Catholic cathedral in New York dedicated.... 26. End ot war be tween England and Afghanistan officially announced.... 29. News received of a ter rifle naval battle between Chilian and Peruvian vessels. The President vetoes the legislative appropriation bill. Several per sons killed or injured at a hotel fire in Hagerstown, Md International congress in Paris adopts a plan to build a ship oanal across the Isthmus of Darien.... 30. Decor ation day. About fifty persons lose their lives Nebraia. by a tornado in Kansas, Missouri and JUNE.—1. Great eruption ot Mt. El ua report ed.... 2. Great strike ot iron workers in and about Pittsburgh, Pa....3. Secretary ol War McCrary nominated by President Hayes to succeed Judge Dillon as judge of the eighth circuit.... 9. Reports received oi great destruction of property in Italy by bursting ot dikes and inundation of river Po. Cessation of eruption ot Mt. Etna re ported....II. Mysterious murder of Mrs. Hull in New York city. Emperor W illiam’s golden wedding celebrated in Berlin.... 12. Eleven persons drowned by a waterspout in the Black Hills.... 16. Hanlan deteats Fllliott in championship rowing match at Newcastle, England. Beginning of six days’ international walking match in London.... 21. Weston wins the walking match in London, scoring 550 miles.... 23- The Presi dent signs the army appropriation appropriation bill and vetoes the judicial Hull’s expenses murderer, arrested bill. Cox, Mrs. TERMS— fl 50 feb Year. NO. 26. i in Boston.... 26. The Khedive ol Egypt ab dicates in favor ol his son... .27. Harvard .leieats Tale in annual boat race at New London, Conn....30. Federal marshal ap propriation bill vetoed by the Presidenl. JULY.—1. Extra session ol the Forty-sixth Congress closed.... 2. Fatal storm in Wie cousin and Minnesota....!. Seven lives lost by an accident to a steamer on Lake Quinsigamond, Mass. Large Are in Am heist, Mass... .8. James Gordon Bennetts j yttc h t Jeannette sails from San Francisco ou exploring expedition in search ol the ; H t Boilie, Cal. Yellow lever panic in Mem phis.... 12. Funeral ol French Prince Im j perial at Chisellmrst, England. Eight lives lost by wreck ot steamer State ol Virginis OIi - th ooa8t ol Nova Scotia.... 16. Slany „ ii ve8 i 08t in New p;,,gland during a ter jitic storm... .18. Eight persons drowned by ) capsizing of a yacht in St. Lawrence river, de’ Uana(la . News received oi a great Zulu j lettt ,d virtual in .South end Alrica by Lord Zulu Chelmsford, j al ot the war 26 . Uestructive storm in western Pennsyl , V ania....28. A congressional committee ] begins Ht Chicago an examination into the call se8 oil he labor depression.... 31. Five persons drowned by the capsizing ot an excursion yacht at Clayton, N. Y. ; AUGUST.—2. Disastrous storm in England i ....!. Kentucky State election. Fitly per sons killed during storm in Denmark. 'Town o) Volcano, W. Va., destroyed by Are.... 7 , li lection on question ol debt compromise j in Tennessee. Financial panic in Montreal, j Sarajevo, capital ot Bosnia, almost totally | burned down... .9. Yellow lever declared all epidemic in Memphis.... 12. Austrian ministry resign.... 15. British parliament prorogued. James McHenry, English finan cial agent, lails in Ixmdon lor $5,000,000. Fatal riot of ship laborers in Quebec. Sev eral persons killed at the destruction by fire of a summer hotel at Locust Grove, near Coney Island .... 18. Tremendous storm along the Atlantic cost., 23. Great excite ment created in San Francisco by shooting ol 1. S. Kalloeh, workingmen’s candidate lor [ mayor, Chronicle by Charles De X oung.sr., .30. A monument proprietor ! General newspaper... unveiled West Point, to Custer at SEPTEMBER—3. California State election Massacre of British embassy at Cabul.... 5. Several persons killed or injured by boi er explosion on steamer Alaska, Lake 11. Tarn- Erie .... 8. State election in Maine.... many bolts from Democratic State Conven tion at Syracuse.... 18. News received ot the capture ol Cetewayo, Zulu king, by the British .... 20. General Grant arrives in San Francisco after two years’ absence abroad. International talking match for A.stley belt begun in New York... .22. Par ticluars received of great fire at Kiev, Rus sia....23. Alliance formed between Ger many and Austria... .26. Partial destruction ot Deadwood, Dakota, by Are.... 27. Rowell wins the walking match in New York.... 28. Prof. Wise and companion ascend in –8??* 52**“^! halt* be j oi*o«SiSi tweyn United States troops and Ute Indians h_. on the spot where he was hanged, at lap pan, N. Y. About filteen persons killed and many more wounded by tall oi a grand stand at a lair in Adrian, Mich....4. Bo ginning oi pedestrian match lor O’Leary belt in New York. General Merritt’s force relieves Captain Payne’s troops, beleaguered by Utes, in Colorado... .8. Capture of fa mous Peruvian iron clad Huascar by Chii j ian vessels after a desperate naval fight.... 10. Filteen persons killed and many ’ wounded by railroad collision at Jackson, Mich... 11. Murphy wins the walking match for the O’Leary belt.... 12. British troops enter Cabnl.... 14. State elections in Ohio and Iowa.... 15. Disastrous floods in Spain.... 16. Dr. J.e Moyne cremated at Washington, Pa. Hanlan and Courtney make u fizzle of their boat race on Chautau <l na Lake.... 18. Loss ot Spanish steamer Nuevo Pajaro del Oceano in Bahama Straits, West Indies, by lire, and lortyol her passer - gers and crew perish.... 19. F'ormation oi new Turkish ministry.... 20. Twenty-seven British troops and many Afghans Cabul....21. killed by blowing up ol a magazine in Terrible distress in Hungary on account ol bad crops reported.... 25. Yellow lever epi demie in Memphis declared at an end. NOVEMBER,—2. Five men killed by explo sion of Are damp in a colliery near Scranton, Pa....4. Elections in a number ot States, ••••5. Obsequies of General Hooker ia New York, and ot Senator Chandler in Detroit. ... .7. Steamer Champion sunk by the ship Lady Octavia, near Cape Henlopen, and thirty lives lost... .8. Three lives lost and damage exceeding #100,000 done by break o1 “ train tluough the iron bridge over the Missouri at St. Charles, Mo. Several persons killed by the tall of a cracker lac tory m Kansas City, Mo.... 10. A party cl ARy white men troin Now Mexico, attacked ! by Indians in Mexico and thu-ty-two killed. i ....11. Fatal cyclone in Crawford county, ; Arkansas.... 12. Reception to General Grant m Chicago. Five persons killed at a New i Vork tenement-house fire .... 17. Abo:it j thirty Chinamen killed by an explosion in a 1 Calitornia railroad tunnel.... 18. Nine lives I lost by the sinking ot General a portion Thomas oi a town on LnkeOntario.... 19. statue unveiled in Washington. Great excitement in Ireland on account ol the arrest ot sev eral persons for seditious utterances... .26. Great sale ot 250,000 shares New York Cer. tral railroad stock by V. 11. Vanderbilt to a syndicate of bankers ler $31,000,000.... 27. Thanksgiving day.... 28. Marriage at Madrid ot King Alfonso to Mane Chnstine, Austrian archduchess. DECEMBER.—1. Opening ol the regular ses s > on °f Forty-sixth Congress... .2. Attempt to kill the Czar ot Russia while on his way to Moscow... .3. Banquet to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Boston in honor ot his seventieth birthday.... 8. Opening ot the international j dairy tail in New York... .9. United States ! Senate confirms Secretar y ot War McCrary to be United States circuit judge.... 10. : ; Ex-Senator Ramsey’s appointment as suc j firmed cessor by to the Secretary Senato. of National War McCrary agricultural con ! society formed in New York.... 12. News i received of great floods in lransylvanm and Hungary. Destruction by fire oi Red liock > Pa ..... l5 ‘ t welve miners killed and eight injured by an explosion in a salt mine in Wurtemburg, Germany.... 16. Great welcome to General Grant in Philadelphia .... 19. Details received oi heavy battle between Chilians and allied lorces ot Pern and Bolivia, John Levi aroused the people of Hawesville, Ky., by running from the hotel into the street and shouting, “ Help, help, they’ve got my wife.” He had eloped with and married the daughter of a larmer, who had come into the village witli a party of farm hands and captured the bride. A Pennsylvania man has a hog fifty years old. This must be ancient grease. —Derrick.