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Poetry. Poetry. THE COWS ARE COMING. BY ALICE ROBBINS. T.ieoow are coming, iemxie dear, mks haste Mid There tn tweaiy nuly beautiss ti be housed and fed laWtt.' . i.V-ii . i That first one with the snow-hite horns is lust as old as Hay; She andmy pet first saw the Ugh the same gJ4 a. tender creature wan she, so weak and co)aV mad thin! John said she was not fit to raise. I said it was a sin " - - - TocastbA'lff.fbrMajbmi'sstie.'" Joa laughed, and utd me belter . : ' . : I thought k beet, opoa ib Whol, to rear ho calves together. But she was spared and so was Hay.' ItsotneUmes seems to me, ...... . . . In Starbright's soft and gentle ejes Hay's pleading ; giancel seei - ; ; :. - -I love the creatnreygn may jualls perhaps my fancies mock? ---". She's fairest of the herd, as Hsy's the sweetest of i -the flock. . -n , ,,r r. r - n i - , . . . . .. , , f - - . . - . . There's ' Msj. her arms round SHarbrighPs neck the girl is nine to-day, -' A frolicsome and genial thing, at study or at play: The darling ol our failing years, sprin g in oar sntnmnset, . . A f sir white-ie wel in onr f sded esron el . " j - . i ! .But see, John lets the bars down, is clover deep . they stand, With glossy flanks and backs as straight as yonder . table-land; " "' - The frapranee of their -bread) pours I like amber - gris and myrrh; . r i -.- - -. . -They're just the neatest fowl to milk Joh says . they never stir. . j;,,.;-. . .... - They know hw tone "Us seldom loud; they know his touch 'tis kind. . t "John has a way," the neighbors say, to make dumb creatures mind ; " . . Perhaps I only know that I, through all these blessed yean. Have never seen the moment when his voice has brouirht me tears. BY ALICE ROBBINS. Selected Miscellany. THE DRUNKARD'S DEATH. THE DRUNKARD'S DEATH. BY CHARLES DICKENS. If such a thing is possible, Mr. Dickens' death -will heighten the interest which at taches to everything ' from his pen. The following is one of his earlier and least known papers and it shows the familiar manner, although written by a then an practiced hand. . We will be bold to saj that there is scarce ly a man in the constant habit of walking, dav alter dav. throueh anv of the crowded throng blares of .London, who cannot recol lect among the people whom he i 'knows by sight" to use famiUarhis.e, some be ing of abject and wretched appearance, whom he remembers to have 6een in a very different condition, whom he has observed sinking lower and lower, by almost imper ceptible degrees, and the, shabbiness and utter destitution of whose appearance, at last, strikes forcibly and painfully npon him as he passes by. -Is there anyvnan ' who has mijed mnch witb-eociety, or whose avocations have caused Turn to minglevat one time or other, with a' gt eat number -Ol people who cannot call to- mind the tim wvucu miiua nuai;u v . uiinriauin wt mi uf 111 rags and filth, who shuffles past him nrw in all the sqaalor of disease and poverty, was a respectable tradesman, or a clerk or . a-maa following some" thriving pursuit, wiflTgood prospects and decent means? or . cannot any of our readers call to mind from .among In e list of their -wndam acquaint ance, some fallen and degraded man, who lingerfi aboHt the pavement in hungry mis ery from "whom every one turns coldly away, and who preserves himself 'trom sheer starvation nobody knows how? Alas! such cases we of too frequent occurrence to-be rare items in any-ninn's experience; and but too often arise Trom cue cause drunkenness that fierce "rage lor the slow, sure prison that oversteps, every other con sideration; that casts aside wile, children, friends, happiness, and-station, and hur ries its victims madly orrto degradation and death. Some of Ihese men h aye been impelled. by misfortune and misery, to the vice that has degraded them., The"' ruin of worldy expectations, the death of those they loved, " the sorrow that slowly" consumes;" but will not break the heart, has driven them wild; and they present the hideous spectacle of madmen, slowly dying by their own hands. But by far the greater part have willfully, and with open eyes, plunged into the gulf from which the man who once enters it never rises more, but into which he sinks deeper aud deeper down until recovery is hopeless. Such a man as this once stood by the bed Bide of his dying-wife, while his children knelt around and mingled low bursts of grief with their innocent prayers. The room was scantily .and, meanly furnished, and it needed but a glance at the pale form from which the light of life was fast passing away,. to know that grief, and want, and vnxions care nad Been Dusy at tne neartior tmnnv ft vmtt YpftT An plilprtT fpmfllA . with her, face bathed in tears, was support ing the head of the dying1 woman her daughter on her arm. But it was not to- 3 1 . l i . i r 1 . i- a warn uerwat we won. mk turnec, it. was not her hand that the cold and trembling fingers -clasped; they pressed the husband's arm ; the eyes so soon to be closed in death rested an his face, and the man shook be neath their gaze. His dress was slovenly and disordered, his face inflamed, his eyes bloodshot and heavy. He had been sum moned from some wild bebauch to the bed of sorrow and death.. A shaded lamp by the bedside cast a dim light on the figures around, and left the re mainder of the room in thick, deep shad ow. The silence of night prevailed without the house, and the stilness of death was in Aha. chamber. A watch hnng over the man-'fcl-ahelf ; its low ticking was. the only sound that broke the profound quiet, but it was a solemn one, for well they knew who heard it. that before it had recorded the passing of another hour, it would beat the knell ol a 'departed spirit. ' i ' -' ' It is a dread tul ' thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery impossible; and to nit and count the dreary hours through lose Ion? rjielits such mights as -only watchers py the bvd of sickness knows. It chills the blood to hear the dearest secrets of the heart the - pent-up, hidden secrets of many years poured forth by the uncon scious helpless being before you; and to think how little the reserve and cunning of a whole life will avail, when fever and delirium tears off the mask at last Strange tales have been told in the wanderings of dying men; tales so full of guilt and crime, - that those who stood by the sick person's couch have fled in horror and affright lest they should be scared to madness by what they heard and saw; and many a wretch has died alone, raving of deeds the very name of which has driven the boldest man wav But do such ravings were to be heard at the bedside by which the ehildren knelt Their half-stifled sobs and moanings alone broke the silence of the lonely chamber. And when at last the mother's grasp relax ed, and, turning one look: from the chil dren to their father, she vainly strove to speak, and fell backward on the pillow, all was so calm and tranquil that she seemed to sink to sleep. They leaned over her; they called upon her name, softly at first. and then in the lend and piercing tones of 'desperation. But there was no reply. They listened for her breath but no sound came. They felt for the palpitation of the heart, but no faint throb responded to the touch. .Thai heart-was broken, and she was dead! The husband sunk into a chair by the burning forehead. He gazed from cnild to child, but when a weeping eye met his he o nailed beneath its look. ' IS o word ot corn- tort was whispered in his ear, no look of inilnooa 1 i rrr j-irt ISia fana All chmnlr from and avoided him; and when at last ' he staggered from the room, no one sought to follow or console the widower. The time had been when many a friend would have crowded round him in his affliction, and many a heartfelt condolence would have met him in his grief. Where were they now? One by one, friends, rela- - tio&s, the Commonest acquaintance even, had fallen off And deserted the drunkard. His wife alone bad clung to him in good aud tviX in sickness and poverty, and how had he rewarded her? He had reeled from "..the terern to her bedside, in time to see her 'die; - He rushed from the bouse, and walked swiftly through the streets. Remorse, fear, slmeall ,ctowded pm his mind. Stupfied with drink, and bewildered with the scene - be had just witnessed, he re-entered the tavern he had quitted shortly before. Glss succeeded glass. His blood mounted; and his- brain whirled round. Death! Every one must die, and why not the? She was too good lorhim; her relations had often told him bo. Curses oh them! Had they 1 VOL. IV. NO. 48. r ' ,' if IT," - -T'-.f HE ...? ., a . . r . - - ' . ... m6NN ""TFTv V; FRIDAY, - AUGUST 1 A VE 1870. ..!) WHOLE NO. 204. not deserted her, and left her to whine away the time at home? Well she was dead, and happy perhaps. It was better as it was. Another glass one more! Hur rah! It was a merry life while it lasted; and hA-would make the jajost of it. Time wentcn; the three little children who were left tabim grew 'up, and were children no longer. The father remained the same poortr, shabbier, and more dissolute-looking, but the 6ame confirmed and irreclaimable drunkard. The boys had, long ago, run wild in the streets, and left him; the girl alone remained, but she work ed hard,. and words or blows could always procure him something lor the tavern. So he went on in the old course, and a merry life he led. One night, as early as ten o'clock for the girl had been sick for many days, and there was, consequently, little to spend at the public-bouse he bent his steps home wardp bethinking ..himself that if he -would have her abla to earn money, it would Be as well to apply to the parish surgeon, or, at all events, to take the trouble of inquir ing what ailed her, which he had not yet thought it worth while to do. It was a wet December night; the wind blew pierc ing coh and the rain poured heavily down. He begged a few half-pence from a passer by, and having bought a small loaf (for it was his interest to keep the girl alive if he could,) he shuffled onward as fast as the wind and rain would let him. At the back of Fleet street, and lying be tween .it and the . water-side, are several mean and narrow courts, which form a por tion of Whitefriars; it was to one of those that he directed his steps. The alley into which he turned might for filth and misery have competed with the darkest corner of this ancient sanctuary in its dirtiest and most lawless time. The houses, varying from 'two stories in height to four, were stained with every indescrib able hue that long exposure to the weather, damp, and rottenness can impart to tene ments composed originally of the roughest and coarsest materials. The windows were patched with, paper, ia&d-6tuffed with the loulest rags Hhe ;lopr; were falling from their hinges; poles, with lines on which to dry clothes, projected from every case ment, and sounds of quarreling or drunk enness issued from every room. The solitary oil lamp in the center of the court had been blown out, either by vio lence of the wind or the act of some inhab itant who had excellent reasons for object ing to his residence being rendered too conspicuous; and the only light which fell upon the broken and uneven pavement was derived from candles that here and there twinkled in the rooms of such of the more fortunate residents as could afford to in dulge in so expensive a luxury. A gutter ran down the center qfjthe alley all the sluggish odors ofwhich ' bad been called fortlrby the rain; and arthe wind whistled through the old houses, the doors and shut tirs creaked upon their hinges, and the windows shook in their frames, with a vio lence which every moment seemed to threaten the destruction of the whole place. The man whom we haye followed into this den walked, 6n inther darkness, some times stumbling into the gutter, and at others into some branch repositories of the garbage which had been formed by the rain, nntd he reached the last house in the court. The door, or rather what was left of it,6tood ajar, for the convenience of the numerous lodgers; and he proceeded to grope his way up the, old -and-biofcexi stairs, to the. attic story. . ? -.- y '. . :,' He was within a step or two of his room door, when it opened, and a girL whose miserable and emaciated appearance was only to be equaled by that of the candle which she shaded with her hand, peeped anxiously out. "Is that you, lather?" said the girL "Who else should itba?" replied the man gruffly. "What are you trembling at? It's little enough that I've had to drink to-day, for there's no drink without money, and no money without work. What the devil's the matter with the girl?" HI am not weU, faUrer-nOffct alii well, " said the girl, bursting into tears. J " ; "Ah!" replied the man, in a tone of a person who is compelled to admit a very unplessant fact, to which he would rather remain blind, if he could. "You must get better somehow, for we must have money. You must go to the parish doctor, and make him gi?e you ome medicine. They're paid for it, damn 'em. What are you standing before the door for? Let me come in, can't you?" "Father," whispered the girL shutting the door behind her, and placing herself before it, "William has come back." "Who?" said the man with a start -"Hush, ".replied the girl, ."William; J brother1 Wilflam." ' - "And what does he want?" said the man, with an effort at composure "money? meat? drink? He's come to the wrong shop for that, if he does. Give me the candle give me the candle, fool I ain't going to hurt him." He snatched the candle from her hand, and walked into the room. Sitting on an old box, with his head rest ing on his hand, and his eyes fixed on a wretched cinder fire that was smoldering on the hearth, was a young man of about two-and-twenty, miserably clad in an old coarse jacket and trowers. He started up when his father entered. "Fasten the door, Mary," said the young man hastily "fasten the" door. You look as if you didn'ftnow me, father. It's long enough since you drove me from home ; you may well forget me," "And what do you want here, now?" said the father, seating himself on a 6tood, on the other side of the fireplace. "What do you want here, now?" "Shelter," repli,ed the son, "I'm in trou ble; that's enough. If I'm caught I shall swing; that's certain. Caught I Ehall be unless I stop here; that's ascertain. And there's an end of it" "You mean to say you've been robbing tft murdering, then?" said the father "Yes, I do," replied the son. "Does it surprise you, father?" He looked steadily in the man's face, but he withdrew his eyes, and bent them on the ground. "Where's your brothers?" he said, after a long pause. "Where they'll never trouble you," re plied his son; "John's gone to America, and Henry's dead." "Dead!" said the father, with a shudder, which even he could not repress. . "Dead!", replied the .young man. "He rtiftdJ in my arras phot like a dog, by a gamekeeper. He staggered back, 1 caught him, and h blood trinkled down my hands. It poured out from his side like water. He was weak and it blinded him, but he threw himself down on his knees, on the grass, and prayed to God, that if his mother was in heaven, he would hear her i prayers for pardon for her youngest son. I was her favorite boy, Will." he said, and I am glad to think, now, that when she was dying, though I was a very young child then, and my little heart was almost burst ing, I Knelt down at the foot of the bed, and thanked God for Laving made me so fond of her as to have never once done any thine to bring the tears into her eyes. O Will, why was she taken away, and father '.left!' There's his dying words, father, "said jthe young man; "make the best you can f of 'em. You struck him across the face, in a drunken fit, the morning he ran away, and here's the end of it!'' j The girl wept' aloud; and the father.sink ing his head upon his knees, rocked him self to and fro. "If I am taken," 6aid the young man, "I shall be carried back into the country and hung for that man's murder. They cannot trace me here, without your assistance, fa ther. For aught I know, you may give me up to justice; but unless you do, here I stop, until I can safely venture to escape abroad." , . , For two whole days, all three remained in the wretched room without stirring out" On the third evening, however, the girl was worse than 6he had. been .yet and the few scraps of food they had were gone. It was indispensably necessary that, somebody should go out; and as the girl was too wr:ik and ill, the father went, just at night full. He got some, medicine for the girl, and a trifle in the way of pecuniary assistance. On his way back, he earned sixpence by holding a horse; and he turned homeward with enough momey to supply their most pressing wants for two or three days to come. - He had to pass the public-house. He lingered for an instant, walked past it, turned back again, lingered onoe more, and finally slunk in. Two men whom he had not observed were on the watch. They were on the point of giving up their search in despair, when his loitering attracted their attention; and when he entered the public houe, they followed him. "You'll drink with me, master, ".said one of them, proffering hi u a glass of-liquor. ' i "Amd me, too," said the other, replenish ing the glass as soon aa it .was drained, ol its contents. . ;7 . j. ... r The man thought of his hungry children, and his son's danger. ' But they were noth ing' to the drunkard. He sid drink; and his reason left him. ."''" "A Wfit.nighVf Warden," whispered one of Ihe men m his ear, as he at length turn ed togoAway, ttfterspehding in liqdorone- half of the money on which, 'perhaps, his daughter s life depended.'' " :. ' "-; .: "The right sort of night, for oai friends in biding. Master Wafdem" whispered the other..- . ; : .-. ; . . . . ,"S.it down here," aid the one : who. had spoken first, drawing him into a corner. 'We have been looking arter the young un. We came to tell him it's all right now, but we couldn't find him, 'cause: we bads' get the precise i direction. - -But- .that ain't strange, for I don't -. think he . know'd it himself when he come to London, did he?" "No, he didn't," replied the father. r The two men exchanged glances. ' ' "There's a vessel down at the docks, ' to sail at midnight, when if g high water," re sumed the first speaker, "and well put him on board. His passage is taken in another name, apd what's better than that; it's paid for. It's lucky we met you." . -,Vt ,, , . .,. "Very," said the second. "Capital luck," said the first, with a wink to his companion, - " "Great, replied the second, with a slight nod ot intelligence. ' - .- . "Another glass here; quick" said the first speaker. And in- live minutes more the father had unconsciously ' yielded up his own son into the hangman's hands. Slowly and heavily ; the time, dragged along, as the brother and sister, in their miserable hiding-place, listened in anxious suspense to the slightest sound. t length a heavy footstep was heard npon the stair; it approached nearer; it reached the land-ing- and the father staggered into the room. ' ' The girl saw that he was inCoxlcated.and advanced with the candle in her hand to meet him; she stopped 'short, gave a loud scream; and fell senseless on the ground. She had caught sight of the shadow of a' man reflected on the floor. They both rush ed in, and in another instant the young man was c prisoner, and handcuffed. . '.. "Very quietly done," said one of the men to his companion, "thanks to the old man. Lift up the girL Tom come, come, it's no use crying, young woman. It's all over now, and can't be helped." The young men stooped for an instant vf the girL and then tarried fiercely round upon his fatneiT who hadrgeledfainst the wall, and was gazing on the group with drunken stupidity. , ,N. .v-,?, "Listen to me, father, 7 he said, in a tone that made the drunkard's flesh creep. ' "31 y brother's blood, and mine, is on your head: I never had kind look, or word, or care, from you, and, alive or dead, I never will forgive you. . Die when you will, or how, I will be with you. I - apeak as a dead man now, and I warn you, father, that as surely as vou must one dav stand before vonr Ma- Tier, so surely shall yffar, children be there; nana in nana, to cry ror judgment against lyon. lie raised .his manacled hands in a threatening attitude, fixed his eyes on his shrinking parent, and slowly left the room; and neither father nor sister ever beheld him more on this side of the grave. When the dim and misty light of a win ter's morning penetrated into the narrow court, struggled through the begrimed win dow of the wretched room, Warden awoke from his heavy sleep, and found himself alone. - He rose, and looked round him; tke old flock mattress on the floor was un disturbed; everything was just as he re membeted to have seen it last; and there were no signs of anyone, save himself, hav ing occupied the room during the night He inquired of the other lodgers, and the neighbors; but his daughter had not been seen or heard of. He rambled through' the streets, and scrutinized each wretched face among the crowds that throneed them with anxious eyes. But his search was fruitless. and he returned to his garret when night came on, desolate and weary. For many days he occupied himself in the same manner, but no trace of his dnni?h- Iter did be. meet with,, and pff wortLoXJier reached .his ears. At length he gave up me pursuit as nopeiees. tie had long thought of the probability of her leavir g him, and endeavoring to gaimher bread in quiet elsewhere. She had left him at last to starve alone. He ground his teeth, and cursed her? , He begged his bread from door to door. Every halfpenny he could wring from the pity or credulity of ttose to. whoba he ad dressed himseif was spent in the old way. A year passed over his head; the roof of. a jail. Was the only one that-' had sheltered him for many months. He slept unaer archways, and in brickfields .anywhere, where there- raa spraa warmth or shelter from the cola and rain. But in the last stage ' of poverty, disease, and houseless want, he was a drunkard still. At last one bitter night he sank down on a door-step, faint and ill." The premature decay of vice and profligacy had worn him to the bone, , His cheeks were hollow and livid; his eyes were sunken, and their sight was dim. His legs trembled beneath his weight, and a cold shiver ran through every limb. . , And now the long-forgotten scenes of a misspelt life cdowded thick and fast npon him. He thought of the time when he had a home a happy, cheerful home and of those who peopled it, and flocked about him then, until the forms of his elder chil dren seemed to rie from the grave, and stand about him so plain, so clear, and so distinct they were,- that he-couM touch and feel them. Looks that he had, Jong forgotten were fixed upon him onoe more: voices long sinee hushed in death sounded in bis ears liie the musjo of village bells. But it was only for an instant The rain beat heavily upon him; and cold and hun ger were gnawing at his heart again ( . , He rose and dragged his leebie limbs a few paces further. : The street was silent and empty; the faw passengers who passed by at that late hettr, hurried quickly on,' and his tjemuicrftvQice was lost in the violence pf jthe,8tcrm.v? Agin-:that heavy chill struck through his frame, and his blood seemed to stagnate benaath . ,He coiled himself up in a projecting doorway and tried to sleep. , ' v - ' But sleep bad ' fled from ' his duli and glazed eyes. His mind wandered strangely. bnt he was awake' and conscious. The well-known' shout of drunken mirth sound ed, in his ear, the glass was at his lips, the board was covered with' choice rich food they were before him ; he could see them all; he had but to reach out his hand and take them- and, though the illusion .wa reality itself, he knew that he was sitting alone in the deserted street, watching the rain-drops as they pattered on the stones, that death was coming upon him by inches, and that there" were none to care for or help him. - Suddenly he Btarted up in the extremity of terrors He had heard his own voice shoutinff in the nieht air, he knew not what or whv. Hark ! A groan ! another! r-His senses were Jeanne him- iialuxmed I .;. .. .. and incoherent words buxj44rora his. lips ; and his hands sought to tear and lacerate hia flesh.- He,' was going mad, and he shrieked for help till his voice tailed him. He raised hiaqhead arid looked up the lone, dismal street He recollected .that outcasts likr himself, condemned to wander day and night in those. dreadful. streets, had sometimes, gone distracted with their own loneliness. . He remembered' .to) have heard many years, "before that a homeless wretch had once been found in a solitary corner, sharpening a rusty knife to plunge into his own heart,' preferring death to that endless; weary wandering 'to-and fro. - In an instant his resolve was taken, his limbsi received new life? he ran quickly from the spot, and. paused not for breath until he reached the river side. He crept softly .down the. steep stone stairs that lead from the commencement of Waterloo Bridge down to the water's level. He crouched into a corner and held his bieath, as the patrol passed. ' Never did prisoner's heart throb with the hope of erty and me nau so eagerly as did that or the wretched man at the prospect of death.; The watch passed close to him' ;but he re-i inained unobserved; and after. waiting; till. t i- r . . . , , Lj. 'it r me Bounaoi iootnieps una aiea away in me distance, he cautionary descended, and stood beneath- the gloomy krhh-tliat forms the landing-pla.ee from -the river. The tide was -in, andHhe water flowed at his feet The rain had' eeased, the'wind was lulled, and all was, for the moment, still and quiet so TJTflet, Tfiat the slightest sodnrl bntas opposite bank; evea thd rip? pling of the water against .the barges that were moored there, was distinctly audible to his ear. The stream stole languidly and sluggishly on. ' Strange and fantastio forms rose to the surface, and beckoned him to approach; dark gleaming eyes peered from the water, and seemed to' mock hia hesita tion, while hollow murmurs from behind urged him onward. He retreated a few paces, took a short run, desperate leap, and plunged into the water. ' " Not five seconds; Tiad - passed "when he rose to the water's .surface but what a change had taken place in that short time, in all his thoughts and feelings !'. Life- life in any form; poverty, misery, starva-H Hon anything but death. aa fought and straggled with the water that closed over head, and 6creamed in agonies of la, ror. The curse of his own son rang in his ears. The shore but one foot of dry ' ground he could almost touch the step. One hand's breadth-, nearer but the tide bore him onward under the . dark arches of the bridge,' and "he sank to the bottom. - ' ' Again he rose and struggled ' for life. For one instant for one brief instant the buildings on the river's banks, the lights on the bridge through which the current had borne him, the black water, and the fast flying clouds, were distinctly visible once more ha sunk, and once again he rose. Bright flames of fire shot from earth to heaven, and reeled before his eyes, while the water thundered in his earsand stun ned him .with its furious roar. , A week afterward the body was washed ashore; some miles down the river, a swollen and -disfigured, mass. , Unrecognized and unpitied, it was borne to the grave; and there It has long since meldered away ! Natural Gas Wells in Erie, Pennsylvania. From the Erie Republican, We yesterday afternoon "interviewed' the recently completed gas wells of Messrs Bnsseck, Clark &. Co., put down to supply their oil works, on East Tenth street, with fueL This well, if it were possible, is "even more of a success than that of Messrs. Oli ver, & Bacon, noticed two days since. It was commenced about 'six" weeks or two months since, and is 503 feet deep. The total cost of drilling, casing, and the ne cessary pipe and fixtures to convey gas to the stills and boiler of the engine foots up to "about - Bixteen ' hundred ' dollars. When we arrived at . the works, but one fire was lighted, that under the boiler, and the pressure of gas on the safety-valve ' of the well was so great that although the weight was at the extreme end of the lever, so much was escaping as was being con sumed under the boiler. The stills being charged and ready to fire up, the manager proceeded to apply the match to the gas in each furnace, and immediately eleven fires were in operation, sufficient for the purpose of distilling oil. Those of our readers who are acquainted with the distillation of oil, or who have been around a refinery, know the amount of fuel it would be necessary to operate on a two hundred barrel still; and yet here by the simple turning of a stop cock, and the application of a match, eight fixes were started under this still, together with two other under smaller Btills, besides the fire under the boiler, and yet the sup ply was not near. exhausted. The pres sure .on the safety-valve of the well was, we should judge, at least one-third of what it was before the eleven fires were started. The fire produced was steady and uniform, and having had some years' expe rience in the business of refining oiL we express the opinion that it. will be found on practical trial that the oil distilled by this luel will be much more uniform in color, and the-percentage obtained greater, for the simple reason that the heat will be perfectly uniform, and at all times under the control ot the distiller. ' But it was not to write on the distillation of petroleum that we sat down,: but simply to record another success in a development that we firmly believe is to revolutionize the manu facturing business of the city. The amount of horse power the gas from this well would produce, if applied to the production of steam, we have no means of correctly stating, but it can not be far from two hundred, A Curious Story about M. Benedetti's Dispatch from Ems. The Paris, correspondent of the London Daily News, writing on Monday evening, July ll, says; ' "rhe prolonged suspense Is relieved by a really comic incident The expectation of the French government, confidently ex pressed on Saturday, that it would this day be able to state positively whether we are to have peace or war, was not realized, and you will have seen that the Duke de Grammont told the Corps Legislatif this afternoon that he had, as -yet, 'nothing to say.'"' Inreems that a long dispatch" in cy pher, sent' by 11 BenedetU from Ems, was received last night, and that the Em peror and his Ministers, after puzzling over it for two hours, could make out very little of the. contents. There was in the dis patch (I have this fact from the editor of a government journal) an extraordinary and inextricable jumble of politics' and bar rels of wine. The war ' : papers openly accuse ' the Prussian govern ment of having purposely ' spoiled the dispatch ' in. order to gain time. Some attribute the mishap to derangement of the telegraphic wires caused by lightning. But another version, really not more un acceptable tnan many current canards, is that the King of Prussia, who it is now an historical fact asked M- Benedetti to din ner on Saturday, as a preliminary to busi ness, so plied him with the choicest speci mens of that treacherous Bhine , wine' which, in this hot weather, Blips down the throat like water, but is terribly heady, that the Ambassador,' after leaving the presence, was not able to draw up his dis patch : intelligibly. A dead set is now made against M. Benedetti, and he has. according to tne latest news, sent in a formal complaint to his Government against recent articles of the Constitution neL running him down. The mess made of this important dispatch is extremely un lucky for him. , The accident may, how ever, turn . out . well for the peace of the TV V1M . LA J . ... Established ct 1858. William Little & Co.. general commission merchants, 169 South Water street, Chlesge, sell grain, flour, but ter, hides, Ae.j Ac - -Altto sell the only three ply ileto- York Heady Roofing. Beady for immediate use, and can be applied by a ly liefer to First National Bank. . - : ' A St-baotsxa3 wants to know what has become of all those storekeepers who some time ago were anxious to give their cus tomers Buyer onange. THE OCEAN YACHT RACE. The Cambria the Winner—Time 28 Days 5 Hours. flXWr Jul V 27 .Ttl VftMit ralrio. parsed S ndjfijook at 345 p. m., and ia the- wiujici m ocean race., ane subsequently anchoTefl off' Clab'Statipn, Staten" Island". Her progress up the harbor was erected with, demonstrations of welcome from all passitg and accompanying, vessels. . The outward-bound tJunarder Scotia and tbe inward-bound Cuba sainted her. ber of trigs! and yachts, igaily ."decorated,' wenv oown to m (yumbca,, and cordial congratulations were exchanged. The an nouncement of hef arrival created great excitement in the city; and the victory was anuounoea by a' display of colors on City H1L and fjie firjng of caanoii in . City Hail Park. , The Dauntless als.o .arrivej , tbi8 af ternba?- She passed Sandy Hook at 4 55. The English yacht Egeria which arrived thiii morning from England, via Bermuda, was at first mistaken for the Dauntless. The una of the Cambria was twenty-eight days and live hours. . - The Bailing master of the Cambria savs that tbeyacbt never sighted the Dauntless aftef the liighl pf the start ; She reached Cape Race in eighteen days; had many many fogs, and 6aw many icebergs. The greatest run in atay one day was two hun dred and eight milesv She passed Sandy Hook; light-ship one hour and thirty-five minutes ahead of the Dauntless., The sailing master also says the Cambria passed a pilot boat last night and that the Daunt less passed the same vessel, which had re mained about stationary, .twelve hours afterward. . Mr. Lomllard, who was' a'passeneref on the Dauntless, reports that she lost two men overboard, and spent over - two hours and a half in a vain effort to pick, them up. The log of the Cambria shows that on July' Sth Bhe run 58 "miles; with a heavy sea; 6th', weather moderate, 179 miles; 7th, clear, 112 miles; 6th, lost' fore-topmast, fore-topsail and jib-topsail -.all hands em ployed in clearing the wreck; 9th, 220 miles; moderate weather: 10th. 47 miles. light air 11th 33 miles, heavy sea,' shipped great quantities Of water at times; 12th, 140 miles; 13th, 141; 14th, 174; 15th, 214; 16fh, 92: 17th, 61; 18th, 180 miles -passed Cape Race at . 8 ti m - 19th. 1fU milna agaia lost fore-topmast; 20th, .144 miles; 21st, J69,22d,158;, 23d, 75;. Jl4th, 158; 25thv 45; 26th,, 82; 27th, passed Sandy Hook at 3:30 p. m. The hiehest north laW itude during the voyage was 54 59 min., on July vtn, which was only decreased 1 on the 11th; to 52 on the 14th; to 49 a 30 min. on the 16th; to 44 on the 20th. and to 39 54 min. on the 26th. The Dauntless, though thecourse varied with the - tacks, "ran down the latitude teadily from the start Her log shows that July 5th she ran 103 miles with a fresh westerly wind, haryf th,"9f-tBiles, varia ble winds, heavy head swells, cloudy; 7th, 140" miles, heavy gale S.'S. W.; lost Chas. Scott and Albert Demor overboard while furling the flying-jib, hove to two hours, got out a boat hut were reluctantly com pelled to give them up; eth, 210 miles, fresh gales and rough sea, which modera ted to a moderate breeze and smooth 6ea; 9th, 120 miles, variable weather; 10th, 122 miles, night squally, with a heavy head sea, split fore-staysail and broke iibboom. and hove. to over an hour; 11th, 155 miles; l'tn, 8i; 13th, 130; 14th, 155; 15th,- 148; 16th, 150; 17th, 70 miles; 18th, 68 miles, light winds; 19th, 145 miles, squally; 20th, 2251 miles,' pleasant weather; 21st, 110 miles; 22d, 195 miles; 23d, 52 miles, calm and foggy; 24th, 120 miles, variable weath er; 25th, 93 miles,- foggy, at 3:00 p. m. sounded in forty fathoms: 26th. 95 miles: 27th, ISO miles, passed Sandy Hook light- snip ac i .-ii p. Til. i A Thrilling Scene. A. French paper relates a thrilling scene which lately occurred in a Parisian mairie. A couple presented themselves to be mar ried, the pride about eighteen years of age, and possessed of considerable attractions; the bridegroom an extremely small man, aged forty-five.1 When the ceremony was concluded the door of the hall was burst open, and a woman of gigantio statue, ac companied by a thin damsel of fifte n, burst into the room and elbowed her way through the semicircle of guests. ' "Wretch, scoun drel, thief !". she cried, addressing the hus band, who turned as white as a sheet; "this is how you leave me in tiio lurch, who have sighed fifteen years for the day when I might call myself your wife!" Saying this Bhe seized the unhappy man by the collar and jerked him up under her left arm as though ne were a slouch bat taking no notice of his struggles.' She addressed the mayor in a voice of thunder, "Do- I arrive too late ? 'The marriage has taken place,' replied the mayor, and I request you to release M. Au gustus and to retire. "Not," said the giantess, frantically raising him in the air, and whirled him round her head. "Re peat what you have said," she shrieked; "tins child who is U-ke yon as one pea is to another is il yours or not ?" N. Au-, gustin did not open his mouth His exe cutioner then seized his nose with her left i hand and wrung it violently; - About this time two of the guests, moved by the en treaties of the bride, attempted to inter fere; but the enraged, woman, using the bridegroom as a weapon, and brand ishing-bim' at arm's length, charged hef -opponents with such fury that she put them speedily tonight "Call the po liee,' cried- the mayor. ""You need no give yourself the trouble," coarselr ejacu ; . lated the giantess; "I will let go the rasca of my own accord. Here, my beauty," adressing the bride, "is . your little bit of man. 1 have not broken him. We have bo fur her business here. Follow me, Baptistine," and so saying she flung down ber victim at the feet ot two agents of po lice, who at that moment appeared at the door,-,. "I go," she added, Vbnt let him ever appear before me on his wife's arm. and I will take him between my thumb and forefinger and make .but one mouthful of him." This little incident cast quite a gloom over the assembled guests; and no one dared even to pick the fainting bride groom from the floor until the last echo of the heavy footsteps of the injured fair one had died awayin the distance, when they assisted him to his feet, and in solemn silence took Weir dTparture. " Mb. Jame8Fisk's Turnout at New-Yom. This establishment eclipses everything, and makes a decided sensation wheuever it appears. Even aristocratic Bellevue turns Its head for a second look as the showy turnout dashes down the avenue. ' The horses are fine animals, powerfully built but fleet, and weighing 1,300 each. The team consists ot two blacks and two dapple grays; when arranged for the road, the grays are placed as off lead and nigh wheel, and the blacks as nigh lead and off wheel. The harnesses are of morocco, silver mounted, and very plentifully be sprinkled with silver monograms. The martingales are of silver, costing nearly $100 each, and the trappings are all of the most showy description. The carriage is a high English drag with a rumble, in which is a footman in dark livery.. On the box are two coachmen, said to be "artists," and besides these, three outriders. The vehicle holds two persons. " Thk' Bxst and UBidiXAir Tokic of Iron Phosi'horus and Cahgava, known as Caswell, Mack 4 Co.'e Ferro Phoevhorated Elixir of Calisaya. Bark. The Iron restores color to the blood, he Phosphorus renews waste of nerve tisane and the Cahaaya gives a natural, healthful tone to the digestive crjjaas, thero- oy cnniig sypepeis in lis various iwuk, Wakefulness. General Dehilitv and Depres sion of Spirits.- Manufactured only by CAS WELL, & cu. successors to caa well, .ack 4 Co. New1 York. Bold by all Druggists. , Lu ham WEAvpa, flour grain, . wool, fruit" and produce commission merchants, 105 South Water street, Chicago, inferences Mechanics' National Bank, Chicago; Kich arda, Crumuaugh A bhaw, Chicago; Heath A Miiligan, .Chicago; Harmon, Aiken A Co., Chicago, or any first class Wholesale dry goods house in Chicago. Thx Dresden art gallery has 2,300 paint ings. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. How to Cubs Hat. A correspond' nt of the N. E. Farmer says: A process ol curing hny has been adopted and followed oy several farmers of my acquaint ance, which, aa far as I can learn, has pioved very satisfactory for several years. The hay Is all cut in the atterneon, when en .tirely fre6 from external moisture. Next day, after the dew is all off, it is turned. After dinner ll is raked and got in - with out delay. : There is no cocking at night and opening next day. All such labot is saved. One man who has practiced this several years i justly considered one of tne uest larmers in town. His stock look well, and produce as much as any. His farm improves yearly, and he makes an annual, investment every year outside. He considers : his hay to be better than when cared the old-fashioned way,: and it certainly looks and smells as well as any I eversaw. . - :. i CaAXVKBBTES TOR' POTS AND HaVSINO Baskets. A correspondent of the Califor nia Farmer makes the following excellent suggestions; I do not see how, any one who has ewr noticed the delicate foliage and flowers of the cranberry, even when wild and uncultivated, could fail to be struck with its beauty. But my object now is to call the attention of your readers to its val ue when cultivated in pots, in, the house, or still, better, in hanging baskets. When thus grown, the long, slendef stems.droop ing from the basket, together with the rich fruiJ, -form a most beautiful object 'Let those who mourn that they cannot afford to purchase foreign noveltiea, make a rustic basket and put a few cranberry plants into it and haag it in the window, and they will say they never saw anything more beauti ful - . Sheep West op m' Mibsoubi IStves. We have recently conversed with a highly intelligent gentleman just returned from a business trip through some of the central and southwestern, counties of Missouri, and are sorry to learn from him that a large majority of the flocks of fine wooled sheep driven into that state are doing badly. . He reports a mortality of from 20 to 80 per cent as the extremes, with' a probable av erage of. 30 or 35 per cent But a small per cent of lambs have been raised; and he predicts that the wool clip of that state will be materially less this season than in 1869. Our informant attributes this unde sirable 6tte of affairs, primarily, to the depressed and enremuneratiye ' price of wools, which lias begotten 'among the farmers' .neglect of their flocks, allowing diseases, dogs, and all the other enemies to successful sheep husbandry to hold sway among them. Wtstem RuraL . Wateb foe Houses. In - the . English Farmers Journal, Mr. Benjamin Cartledge, of Sheffield a member of the Royal Veter inary College, calls attention to the very common mistake made by keepers of horses in limiting the supply of water to their ani mals. Many owner of horses, most grooms, and others who have the charge of them, profess, he says, "to know how much water a horse ought to be allowed, and, when a poor, thirsty, over-driven animal arrives at his journey's end, he is treated to a very limited supply, and the pail is taken away before its necessity is half met It is a mistaken notion that cold water frequent ly produces 'colic.' I have often known it eure the disease. When cold water does cause abdominal pain, it is from long ab stinence, and when the horse drinks to ex cess. ' Bnt even this is rare. I allow my horse to drink from every trough . I meet on the road, if the water be clean, and, in my own' stable, I never had a ease of colic At home my horses always have water be fore them.' A" friend of mine, to whom, the other day, I gave this advice, directed bis servant to adopt it The servant shook hisjhead, and said 'he thought he knew as well as Mr. Cartledge when his horses re quired water, and how much.' The owner, in reply, told the servant that might be so,, but he must allow his horses to drink as ofien and as freely as he did himself." How to Manage Spbtno Pioa. In an swer to. this question,- put by one of its contributors, the American Agriculturist has . tiia- following: It depends on the breed, the food at command, the conve niences for feeding, the probable price for pork next fall, and the price a year hence. We should premise, however, that in any case the pigs should have all they will eat of some kind of food. The only difference to be made between growing pigs and fat tening pigs is in the character of the fooL A fattening pig requires rich, concentrated food; a growing pig a more bulky an I less nutritious food; but in either ease, the pig to do well, must have all it will eat .If yon have a small boned well bred pig,' such as a grade Essex or Berkshire or Suffolk, we think it would be far more prof itable as a rule to fatten spring pigs than to winter them over. Let them have the run of a clover pasture, all the milk and slop from the house, and all the corn and other grain in water 24 hours before feeding. - If well bred, such treatment shoald give you pigs that will dress 300 pounds by the first of December. Ou the other hand, if you have a coarse; large-boned breed of pigs, the better plan will be to winter them over. in this case, give, them the run of a good clover pasture, plenty of water, what waste from the house you have to spare, and a ittle grain to keep them growing as rapid ly as possible. ' v. -. .. Conn Stales as Fodder. Levi Bartlett, writing on this subject in the Republican (N. IL) Statesman, says: "Com grown in hills, three feet by two, for fodder, is much mere nutritious than when grown thickly in drills or broadcast a is usually the case. Some of the early varieties of sweet corn bra : mora valuable for cattle than the large, late southern, or even our common kind or corn, ine sweet corn contains a much larger percentage of sac charine matter than the two kinds above mentioned, and consequently has more of the butter-forming constituents. Last year I grew five or six varieties of sweet corn early, middling or late. Of the several sorts I think Olcott's preferable, both for table use and for cattle feeding, the late twelve rowed sweet corn grew very large, and the plants when fed required cutting into six-inch pieces, while the smaller sorts were readily eaten the whole length of the plant This fodder was freely fed at night for many weeks, to my cows in milk, from early September. - The remainder was cut and stooked before injury from frost and lasted until some time in No vember. I am satisfied that the result of tnis extra food to cows more than paid for all the trouble. The quantity of green foliage that can be grown in drills ou good land witn proper culture is enormous. Mr. Nathaniel White, a few years since, on his highly cultivated farm, about one mile from the State House, Concord, grew at the rate of sixty tons an acre of green corn of tne large southern kind. I do not know how much the shrinkage on such fodder would be, when well dried in the shock or barn; but doubtless the dry fodder would afford many tons more to the acre than the heaviest crop of grass grown on our best farm.-). Some farmers say that a ton of well saved corn fodder is worth as much as a ton of fair stock hay. ' - A becent accident in anEnglis1 printing office holds out a hope for Chicago. A scamp gained access to the Clarendon printing ol flee when the forms for a new edition of the prayer book of the Church of England were nearly ready for press, and substituted k for v in the word "live in the marriage service where it reads that both promise to love. honor, etc.; "bo long as ye both shall live. thus making the last word "like." The whole edition was published before the er ror was discovered; and as the book with such a regulation of marriage would be of no service in England, it is now proposed to Bend the edition to Chicago, and dis tribute it there at a nominal .price. It ia thought that all the prayers in the book are needed there, while the change in the text of the marriage service will differ but little from the custom of that place. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Miscellaneous Items. The Emperor of Morocco is going to arm his troops with the needle-gun. The Prince and Princess ef Wales have decided not to visit Ireland-this year. "Fobtt-poub thousand women are fcin plo ed as out-door laborers in England. Oteb twenty casualties occurred by sun stroke in New York on Wednesday last On" the ' 21st inst, Jefferson Davis left Memphis for Europe tq bring his family homu. i . , , The St Crispins of San Francisco have ssumed a . military organization. That will be but a poor "solution of the Mon golian question. Capt. Shtpeld will command' the expe dition to survey the Nicaragua-and Tehu- aiUti.ec canal routes, and leaves in Sep tember - - ' A NiaHT-BixOMXNa cerius, in the. gren- house of Hubbard &. Davis, Detroit, blos- somea.one mgnt bist wetk, witn only one flower a toot in breadth arfd'pnre' white. ' .-. . ' ' .-.-. - j . . Bonnes has been offered $50, 000 for Dex ter by Fawcett.'of whom Mr. Bonner pur chased him. The latter also refused a re cent offer of $50, "00 for his mare Poca hontas. . PBEfflxEsr Gbant has pardoned James Barry, who, in July. 1866, was convicted of stealing letters out of the Detioit post office.and was sentenced to the State prison for 10 years. An Indiana man escaped death by drown ing three times, served alt through the war, was seriously wounded six times, and then was unromantically killed by a patent reaper the other day. A UJtoBTNCf man at Brunswick, Me., has paid tor morphine, for the use of his wife, within the past 14 years, nearly $1,300. She uses it constantly, and declares that she could not do without it The international workingmen's associa tion is one ofthe most formidable orsaniza tions in Europe, numbering fully 1,000,000 members, dietribated as' follows; In France, 433.875; Germany, 150,000; Aus tria and Hungary, 100.000; England, 80, QuO; Switzerland, 45,220; Spain, 2,718. Mrs. Sarah A. Grant, residing in And- j over, Mass., died suddenly on Friday after noon, from the. sting of a bee. : Immedi ately after she was stung she lay down on a lounge, saying, "1 am dead, and eoing into convulsions, died in about two hours afterward. ' 1 It is rumo ed in Wall street that Mr. Belmont is shortly to sever hia connection with the Bothschilds, whose agent he is in New York, and that his place is to be filled by the Rothschilds'' present New Orleans agent' The reason assigned for the change is that the Bothschilds complain that Mr. Belmont devotes more time to his own bu siness than to theirs.-;"' . The age at which we are' apt to regard ourselves with the greatest complacency when the bump of self-esteem would seem to be at its maximum growth, whilst those bumps . indicative of other and better qualities are only just beginning to devel op themselves when we appear the niost ridiculous in the eyes of other people may be placed between the years of sixteen and twenty. Joe Mn.T.rB has been arrested at Buffalo. He had a lot ot money and 1 a gold watch, whioh he said he got in a house. The po lice captain asked him whose watch it was. Mine, said he. "DidnTyou just say you stole It?" "Yes, took ir. and now it's mine." "No it isn't" "Whose is it then?" 'I do not know, "said the captain. "Well, hen, what are you talking about?" said the fe'low; and with this conundrum un solved, the interview terminated. A man who, in the struggles of life, ha? no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best defenses. Away from home, shut off from the income of those influences which feed his life from those relations ulong which the life of God is ac customed to flew to him - a man stands exactly where evil will the most readily get me mastery ot Dim. A man is always nearest to his good when at home and furthest from it when away. Wire baskets, made to' be suspended from the curtain poles of windows, are now sold in most of the wire-workers' and iron mongers' shops. It is time to begin to put them into r e. Nothing is better for the interior than a good ordinary garden pot and saucer, wherein the plants are to grow. The basket should be lined with dry moss. wnicnxan be ' purchased in sixpenny bun dles, already dyed of a permanent green. The saucer can be well bedded into this. and then the pot will stand in it firm. While a man in Elko, Nevada, was re cently at work on a te'egraph wire, with the end of it in hia hand, a flash struck the line some distance away, instantly split three of the man's fingers, passed up his arm,' across his breast and down his side, darting oct at his knee, leavening a black ened orifice like a bullet hole, and plung into the ground. The man was knocked senseless, but soon recovered. , The sensa tion,' he he s.uil. was not very painful, but seemed like the pricking of sharp pins. An ittneeent Boston swell who is "do ing" London and dresses four times a day, has been thrown almost in to, spasms by meeting Thomas Carlyle on the street wear ing a dreadfully rough sort of shooting coat a shock eg bad straw hat, and a pair af - trowsers that were positively frightful in their bagginess and coarseness. Fortunate ly a friend was with him and caught the dandy in his arms as he fell back, pale with horrorand palpitating with su ppressed dis gust A happy reunion was consummated in Albany, a few nights since, between a young married couple from the West who had been traveling about in search of each oth er for three months. The husband had been te the East for a new stock of goods, sickened on the way, and continued in a condition between life and death during the time mentioned. The wife finally heard of his death, and came on te recov er his remains. The y were brought to gether accidentally in turning the corner of a street Cotton seed has been found available by a Lancashire (Lng. ) manufacturer for the production of paper of a very excellent quality. Of all substitutes for rags hither to tried, it is regarded by practical judges as the most desirable. One important fea ture in its use is that it renders necessary little alteration in the ordinary machinery of paper mills. This discovery is of great value to the southern states. Some of the best paper mills in the country before the war were in lrginia and North Carolina, and the quantities of cotton seed that could be furnished at their very doors will enable them to manufacture the new paper to the best advantage. Last Friday the last rail on the St Louis and St Joseph railroad was laid at Platta bnrg, Missouri, when the silver spike was driven by some one duly selected for that purpose. Construction trains will im mediately commence . running between St Joe and Richmond; and in a short time there will be an excursion through to St Louis on the new road and the North Mis souri, which latter company has leaped the St Louis and St Joseph road. The Pbcssiax Cbown Pbince. He is a middle-aged man, gentlemanly in his man ners, with features expressive ot a cultured mind but not of any eminent gift, without elasticity in his step, as if destined by na ture to lead a comfortable family life; al most lazy in his demeanor, and quite re served, who would have been shy if he had. cot Deen Drougnt constantly m contact with society by his position, of which he is penesuy conscious and proud, looking as il by too much adversity and opposition he might be driven into obstinacy and even perverse stubbornness. How Rattlesnake Wounded a Man and Killed His Dog. .We are informed that daring the late hat-, a farmer in the northeastern pertien of. Ottawa county, while cutting wheat in bis field, heard the nng of a rattlesnake. Before he could determine the precise lo- cality of the "rattling" the snake made at him, leaping over the scythe and cradle, but missed the cmus, who-mow-upturn attaakad. the snake with his cradle, , The snake was . ready lor the charge, and again leaping over the cradle, inflicted a severe wound on the front part of the right leg of his antagonist who, now retreating, endeavor-'' ed to defend himself aeainst the repeated attacks of the reptile. Ihe snake aoade no lees than ten different lunges at the gentle man, while retreating, who, . at the same' time called loudly for his dog. The faiths, ful animal finally arrived, finding his own- er nearly exhausted with heat and pain, and at once attacked the snake. "The . farmer, fully realizing the great and imminent dan ger cf his wound now made' his way home' a quarter of a mile as beet he could. On reaching there, he at once applied a - thick ligature, heavily soaked - in tobacco juiee - and salt and whilst a.waiUnjpedica(jaJdA and drank two. quarts of pure peach.brandy scarcely feeling any effect therelrOnt in- hi? excited and exhausted condition. He-akoiioe despatched assistance to the scene of the conflict to rescue his dog,' which, : ml "ar riving - there, found tht - Bnake . coiled his faithful animal the do? dead. . and his venomous antagonist in" a' dying condition. The wheat fora consid--'' erable Bpace around, was torn down; beau- f ing evidence of the fieree, deadly-contest ' which had then bnt recently occurred.., The dog received an honorable burial while the snake was subjected to aii anst-' omical inspection, which revealed a nearly full-grown rabbit t K The tail id the reotila bore several rattiua and one ."button" Our informant,, inadvertently, ' we "presume, omitted any mention, m his notes of the"1 length aad general ize&f- -the r deadly foe witn which the. JarmexL and finailv hi thful dog. bad the. dxeadful encounter. That it was of rather unusual size would sem most probable. '-" 1 imj gentleman was confided tot his rdom . ; about two weeka, but is now able to attend to his business as usuaL His name, aa we. learn, is Mr. Fred. Zenter, residing near" Fredericksburg, in this county. i . --!-' A Belligerent Mustang. . . The people of Loutre. Lick. Indiana ..., would like to have some professor of Pre vention of Cruelty to Animal3 coma oufc there and practice moral suasion onji mat- t tang mare. One- Air. - Moore undertook.; there to wash her. - and rode out into the, liek to where it was nearlyj deep enough to enable her to swim,' when', Bhe suddealy plunged, reared, threw Mr. : Moore and gave -him a gash on. his ankle. As he rose she attacked him, tearing her forefeet but cf water.. Moore was too quick for-her, - dove under her body and -coming out be-. ' ,hind her, started- for "shore. - The pony 1 wheeled and followed, blood ruuniag from : ; her nostrils and fury kt, her eyes; ha avoidr . ed a plunge she made at him only by div ing and swimming asLore under water. " The pony caught sightof him on the bank, 5 chased him there a distance of about fifty v yards, and again Moore took refuga jn, swimming under water, iiut this time be-, fore entering the water, he bad" -happily picked up a sizeable club, what an Irish-'" i man would call, "a bit of a stick," and when he had gained a resting-place out in the stream upon a log, Mr. Moore sat and ;, awaited the onset of Mile. Mustang, who1 swam out to attack him. A neat blow from, j-. the club between her eyes effected a change . . in her. sentiments; she. turned and. went, ashore, whither Mr. Moore followed her, and finished her education, for this time at ' least, with the club. ' A man lately made" application for insur-, ance on a building situated in a village where there was no fire engine. In answer to the question, "what are the facilities for extinguinhing fires?" he wrote: "It rains sometimes." . - . No. 28. Nt-rvota debility, with -tta gloomy uem. rj ants, low spirits, depression, . involuntary emissions, lows of semen, spermattorlCea'", 'l loss of power, dizzy. head, loss of memory,':-, aud threatened impotence and imbecility, -j &nk a sovereign cure In Humphrey's Homeo patnic Specific, No. twenty-eight. ' Composed of the most valuable mild and potent cur a- -tives, they strike at once at the root of th " matter, tone up the system, arrest the- d!-" --: charges, and impart vigor and energyv Hit vitality, to the entire man. They have cured thousands of cases. Price $5 per pack " age ' of five, boxes and 'a- large vial of A powder, worth $2.00, which is very important ui obstinate and old cases, or il per e:ngle bos. bold by all druggista,'and strut ' by mail on receipt of prica. Address Hum.- pnrey' Specific Homeopafhio Medicine , Companv, 5j2 Broadway,- ' N.w York, Wholesale Agent Burnhams Van Schaack, Hurl. -s bart Kdsall, Chicago, Ills.; Jenka k Gordon. 9U Panl. Minn.; Brown, Webber A Qrabam, St Loais, . Mo. ; Fr-md, eibeley k Co., Detroit Mich. The Auoubient of Facts. With the con sent of the partus concerned, the following facta are made public: On the 23d of Octo ber fast, Levi M. Phillips, civil engineer, re- siding in Harlem, was suffering from an ob- - - and severe bihous affection, accompa nied by great bodily weakness and utter loss' of appetite. In compliance with the wish of . friend (Mr.J.8.LaUohe,f is). Amity Place, New York, Mr. Phillips commenced taking . Plantation Bitters. He had no farth.'he saici,J but would "make the experiment." We give the result, as related by Mr. P. himself, at 53 j Park Place, on the 30th of November: "I met -Latrobe the other day in a restaurant,' said . ho, "and told him that the preparation saved . my life. I say so now. I weigh fourteen pounds more than I did five weeks ago, am ; "- well, and as to eating welt aek me to dinner and you'll see." Facte like these are worth a thousand assertions, and Mr.Philhns and his friends are at all times ready to in dorse them. !..' "There is but one opinion in regard to Sea " ". Moss Fabtns. All speak in its praise, aad all like it It is found to be a great favorite with all classes of our people, and will prove a great blessing to the. poor. It is very cheapv and will go a long way." Home Journal. De. Sage's Cataxeh Kexeot is warranted to cure Catarrh in its worst forms and stages. - The most painful cases are speed ily relieved by it, and stoppages, .ff-.udive discharges, and tainted breath all yield to ltd wonderml curative powers." "Cold in the." Head, dizziness, and thin watery' discharge are removed, the head cleared, the. air pas-. sagea opened, and relief and c-inuort afford- ed by its use. It eoutafus no etronjr - irrita J ting, poisonous or. sastie dxug9. Sent by mail on receipt of . sixty rents. Address B, -V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by moet druggists everywhere. -. Revolution in School, FrasrrcaE. The largest manufactory in the country of school dtsks, office and church furniture, is that of t A. H. Andrews A Co., Ill Stat-t., Chicago. This firm manufacture two hundred different styles of school and office desks, which for leauty of finish and elcgauce are not sur passed on the continent Every article fully warranted. For further particular send to this firm for their full illuatrated and descrip tive circular. Wab Maps. Colton's map of the seat of . war. Price 50 cents, eent by mail.- Maps of all kinds at wholesale and retail. W. G-.-Homes, wholesale and retail Bookseller and Stationer, 148 Lake street, Chicago. Hall's Vegetable Sicilian HubRknewes will stimulate the absorbents ZC3 the secre tions of the hair tubes until they regain their original viger. Try it- The Ccnabp Mail Line of Steamships leave ' weekly from New York, Liverpool and Queenstown. Agents in all the principal cities of the Northwest. ",tj, Bowe, Genera) Western Agent. No. 3 Lake street Chicago. Economt. By using Mrs. .TVhitcomb'e Syrup for children, many a doctor's bill can be saved, and much suffering averted.. Read the advertisement in another column. ' NoBTHWESTEES HoEss Nau. Co., manufac- , turers of Patent Hammered Horse Nans. 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