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E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politios.
VOLUME I.
NUMBER 52:
TIMELY TOPICS.
A ?ATuEU heroic act is that of Spain,
dying of internecine struggles, to go
into tlio market for a loan of $7,000,000
to indemnify Porto Ricins for tho loss
ol their emancipated slaves.
Tins yt How lever is at Pensacola, lt
is uuusually early for this dreaded man
ifestntioh. lu Eomo of the most de
vastating yellow fever seasons tho dis
ease hus not shown itself ou tho gulf
co int until September. ~
TUE plague, -or P.I nek Death, has
?waked from its thirty years sleep in tho
east, sud is reported to bo spreading
with rapidity in Asia. About eighty
live years ago, it desolated Russia, aud
ono hundred and fifty years havo passed
since it ravaged and almost depopu
lated some parts of Europe,
Fou young children New York is nt
present ono of tlio deadliest cities ; nt
no time do they thrive there overmuch,
but hist week's mortality among them
was exceptionally great. Under five
years of age they died nt tho rate of
eighty-six per diem, the main trouble
being diarrhoeal disease.
THE peat pilleo department has sent
to tho department of justice tho naines
of thirty-nine mail contractor;; who ure
to bo prosecuted for failure to perform
service after thoir bids wero accepted.
The contracts were relct by tho gov
ernment, and Ibo di flo ron co between
lin? amount paid and tho bids, for tho
thirty-nine routes, waa S117,<>K7, which
is thc anionnt of damages claimed
against the delinquent bidders.
Tur. Germau minister of finance re
ports a deficiency in the Budget for this
year of ?5,000,000, and tho tax on beer
iu to bc raised-a proceeding whioh will
bo immensely unpopular in Germany,
where everybody consumes largely of
tho ruby liquid. Snob a largo deficiency
as ?5,000,000 would seem singular, with
thc millions which have been paid by
Franco, wore it not apparent that Ger
many has boon putting all lier rooney
?y r?ffi 1?r>f nvttVcj
THE Boston Joni nal of Chemistry re
grets that tho millers use. all their
finest, soundest wheat for lino (lour, and
tho poorest for Graham or brown broad,
a general name given to mixtures of
bran and spoiled dour. " What we
need is good, sweet, whole wheat flour
finely ground, and put up secure
ly for family use, und any western mil
ler who will give his earnest attention
io furnishing such flour will realize a
fortune speedily ; securing the roost
nutritivo principles the Creator has
stored up for man's food."
THE substance of .Tno. D. Lice's con
fession is that thirty Mormons, with the
assistance of a large number of indians,
decoyed emigrants from their entrench
ment by a dag of truno ; that all were
murdered except seventeen children ;
that tho deed was done under orders of
tho loaders of tho Mormon Church ;
that ho took news of tho massacre to
Brigham Young, wh i deplored the
transaction, and said it would bring
disaster upon tito Mormon people The
statement of Lee, so far as known, only
eoulirms proAiorts reports in regard to
the massacre.
SINCE tho first of June, wheat has
advanced thirty-three, couts iu the
Chicago market, li tho reports at, hand
aro reliable, the wheat crop of Europe
will bb almost an entire failure, and
consequently tho demand upon our
products will bo unprecedented. This
will ensnro tho producer good paying
prices for the products of los farm for
at h.-aat a year to come. While Croat
Britain and tho continent may sn O'er,
tho poople of America will bo greatly
benefited. Just when the advance iii
prices will ccaso it would be hazardous
to predict.
TnE clerical newspapers in Franco
speculate on tho causes of the great
tlood with some asperity, lt appears
that tho municipal council of Toulouse
recently refused tb erect ii statue to
"tho glorious and miraculous i?hep
hordess of Pibrao," ?nd ono of the coun
cilors said, "Wo pi of ur a fountain.'1
Whereupon the Gazette do Nimes now
remarks, "Cod has fulfilled the wirb of
Iheso honorable councilors and sent a
fountain to tho capital of Un gundee
which they little expected. Mad tho
town voled tho required sum Divino
Providence," sayo tho editor, "would
never haye treated Toulouse so BO
vorelv." T* is urdr**?*o-T1 ?FT* thc
bishop of uiiartreH is ol tho fame
opinion.
THE committee appointed by Hi"
Delaware TVuit Growr??* rwnvcnfiotl to
confer with the steamship comp mit ri in
regard to the shipment of pouches lo
liverpool have reported thal l imy called
upon tho authorities of tho American
steamship company, sud they favored
tlie project. Tho company would allow
the growers to lit up tho steeraj? for?
ward cabin . with their r?frig?rai OIN,
which can bo done with five hundred
dollars for each vessel. This portion of
the ship" would hold 25,000 or .'50,000
baskets; and a compartment immed?
diately underneath could he tilted up
which " would carry 0,000 additional.
They would charge the growers for the
shipment of this amount ol ""fruit ir?
Liverpool about two thousand dollars,'
and give them tho privilege of Bending
out nil agent freo td charge with each
consignment.
THK duly returns to tho department
of agriculture shows that the acreage in
corn is about tinco per cent, greater
than last year. New England has in
creased her acreage about eleven per
cent, and tho,Pacific states about ono
per cent. All tho great corn growing
regions have increased acreage-Mul
ch: stab;s two per cent., South Atlantic
stales Unco per cent. Gulf states, in
land southern states, twelve per cent.,
states north of Ohio seven, west of the
Mississippi fourteen per cent. Thc
condition bf thc crop is below an aver
age in the Now England and South At
lantic states. Tho minimum condition,
eighty-two orr cent., being in liked 0
Island, Florida and Alabama aro also
below tho average, but other Gulf
states and inland tituithcru Mates arc
about the maxim;.in, 11.2 in Mississippi.
All other stabs except .Missouri, I (Bl
are below tho average, the minimum
eighty-two being in Wisconsin.
THAT most insuficiahlo of all idiots,
tho practical joker, does not always
escape on earth tho wrath that is laid
up for him. 'Ibero lived and taught
school in St. James pnrish, Louisiana,
recently, a man by tho nanto ot' Bow
den, a well-meaning person, but itf
? lie ted with that peculiar sense of
humor which is sure to get somebody
or other into trouble sooner or later.
One of his most successful jokes was
thai ol ttiopiayjng auvcrcismg oms
printed in imitation of greenbacks, and
offering io bet hundreds anti thousands
of dollars with people who didn't know
that ho was fooling. Thc tiber day an
offensive smell coming from an out
house led to a search for thc cause, and
tho corpse of Bowden was fonud
beneath tho lloor and under a covering
of com husks, where it was rapidly
decaying. A Swedish plantation hand,
who had seen him displaying his imita
tion bills, bad mistaken him for a per
son of largo aud available means, and
had murdered him for his money. The
Swede is now a fugitive/and he feels
doubly tho weight of Ibo joke, for lie
got no money, and the Governor har.
offered 81,000 for his arrest.
Proi-\ "DONALDSON, the aeronaut, who
has been traveling in company with
Itanium's Hippodrome, and making bal
loon ascensions after tho conclusion of
tho afternoon performances, made his
second trip frum Chicago on thc I5ib,
accompanied by Mr, Newton S. Grim
wood, a reporter of the Chicago Journal.
After ascending into the air tho balloon
took a northeasterly course, sailing
over tho hike in Ibo direction of Mus
kegon, Mich. About seven o'clock in
tho evening it was sighted by a schooner
about t hirt y miles oort beast of Chicago,
at which time the balloon was skim
ming the surface ol the biko. The
Bchooner followed after it until it was
Observed to rise suddenly into tho air,
when tho chase* was given up. A vory
severe gale occurred on tho lake
about midnight, and, as no further tid
ings had been received in Chicago from
tho balloon or its occupants up to the
morning of tho 17th, grave apprehen
sions were felt for their safety, lt was
tho (minion of experts that tho balloon
could not possibly have reached the
Michigan shore before tho sb.rm burst
upon it, and that tho aeronauts per
ished in tho lake. J? is said by soma
j that tho balloon was a rotten, patchell
I up affair,
-An Englishman-tra vol ed, of course
-relates that an American gentleman
who had at au early age COHO the over
land route to California, told him tin's :
We crossed tho sandhills near tho Beche
of thc ludian mail robbery and massacre
of 185?, wherein the driver und con
ductor perished, and also all thv> pas
sengers but ono. Bul this must, have
been a mistake, for at different tunes
afterward on tho Pacific coast,
I was perwvattU 7 aotpinbjtod with
one hundred and thirty-threo or
four people who were/ wouuded
during that massacre and bardy escaped
willi their lives; There- was rio'doubt of
tho truth of it, ; I hail it from their own
lips. And ouo of tho parties told mri
, that ln> kept coming across arrow hou
in his system for nearly '.>;.. n years
I niter tho massacre,
TO HUPE.
o ?opp :
No nu ?ri-, I imploro,
Di reive lor Illili I Hilly believe lliee ;
l-'or 1 I:now tl>:it Mic llaNo will follow
. .ti lim airy wav "f Mic HAVBIIOW,
Ylinl UK? llrifl Miall lie where the lily blown
Amt :!;. i? hann froto the fleto ol the f e,
O Hope !-nw inure !
Oljopcl .
!!. nu in- yet awhile :
Deceive ni" ami 1 will believe lute.
Though I know that th? Hahn must follow
Oil Hie airy way of the nwallow.
Th.il tie-illili must lie where the lily Illowa-.
Ami the icicle bani: from Hie Btoni o? lite rone,
() Hope!-once more!
-Juli'I V'llur Ohcucif.
"MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE,
Tt'MtinioHii ElirilM th* Finit ll,,,/ ,V //,, Triol
ll' "- ihr lim. I,,,- ir,is l'l",in,,I nu,I Ejrer.&trd.
Al i ho opening of tho trial of tho
Mormons implicated-in the Mountain
Mondow massacre, nt Beaver, Utah,
Robert Kaya testified IIB follows : Oamo
to Utah October 2, 1857, through I
Mountain Moa lows saw piles of bodies
of woman and children, piled promis
cuously ; there were sixty or seventy
bodies ; the children wero from two
months old to twelve years ; the smaller
wero torn by wolves and crows; some of
tho bodies wero shot. Home had tueir
throats cut, some stabbed, and all were
torn bv wolves excopt 'Ono woman, who
laid a little way otV, and appeared as if
asleep, a ba]I bolo in her loft sido; it
appeared tho bodies were dead fifteen
days; sovoii of na saw it. I'iles of men's
bodies were further on; didn't go to seo
them; no clothing on tho bodies, except
ono sock on the leg of one nian; nono
were scalped.
Assa'tel Bennett called: Was flt tho
Meadows December, 1857; saw tho
bones there; horriblo sight; skeletons of
women aud children; curls, long (rosses
hair, dried blood; child ron 1.0 to 12
years; some skulls had flesh dried
on; Ibo bodies had been covered
up ; wolves ovidoutly dug them up
Phillip Liuger Smith, a d?fendent, of
San Bornnuiii, California, called : Pros
ecution entered nolle prosequi ns to
himself. Lived in Cedar city from
1852 to 1857; Was at the mnssncro in
September, 1857 ; beard of tho cm- !
?grants oomiug. Tho people wero for
bidden to trndo with them ; felt bad
about it ; saw a few of I hem at Cedar ;
heard rumors of trouble S inlay. It
was tho custom to have meetings of tho
proBirlent and council; bishop and
council and high council. The matter
tame up for discussion as to their de
struction. Haight, Iligboe, Morrill,
.viten, 1111 UH, inysoii ault 01 nut.. . ??
thorn. Some bret horn opposer! their
destruction. I did. Haight jumped
np aud broke up the meeting. I asked
what would be tho consequences of
such nu net. Then Height got mad.
The Indians were to destroy them. On
Monday, Higbee, White and T met ;
same subject again. 1 opposed thc de
struction. Haight relented, ami told
White and T to go ahead and tell the
peoplo tho emigrants should go through
safe. Wo did so, and on the rond we
met John 1). TJCO. WO told wiicre we
were going, and lid replied I have
something to say about that matter ;
we passed the emigrantwat Iron Springs;
next morning we passed them again ;
ns wo carno back they had twenty or
thirty wagons ; over a hundred people,
old men, middle aged mon, old wo
men, middlo aged women, youths and
children ; near home 1 met Ira
Allen ; he said the emigrants'
doom WPS sealed, tho die cast for de
struction ; three dava after ITiiight sent
for nib, anti said orders had como from
camp ; didn't get. ulong, wanted rein
forcements; that ho had bren to Prowin,
and got further orders from Colono1. W.
H. Dame to ti nish the massacre-, to do- I
coy and span; only smnll children who
could not toll the tale. I went off, met J
Allen, our first runner, and others.
Ftigbeo Haid : you aro ordered out,
armed and equi oped; so I went; Hop
kins, Higbee, doini Willis and Sam
Purdy went along; had two baggage
waggons ; pot to Hampton's rancho in
tho night, three miles from emigrants;
there met Tjeo and others from tho gen
eral camp, whore tho largest number of
mon wero ; theil found the emigrants
not all killed. Bateman or lino went
out with a white Hag. A mau from tho
emigrants met them. Leo and a man
set down oil the gra^s and had a talk ;
don't know what t hey talked. Lice went
with tho mau into tho intrenchmc-ntn.
After some honro they came out and the
emigrants came out, with their wounded
in wagons ahead. The wounded were
(hose hurt in the three days proviens
fight, Next caine the wmen, next the
men. As the emigrants came up tho men
halted, nilli tho women on foot and chil
dren and wounded went on abend with
.lohn I). Leo. The soldiers had to be
all ready to shoot nt the word. When
thu word halt came the soldiers (ired.
I fired oneo; don't know if I killed a
man ; not all killed at tho first liro.
Saw tho women afterward dead, with
their throats cut. I Baw, as I carno nj?
to them, a mun kill a young girl. The
men worn mnrched in double file first,
then thrown in single tile, with tho sol
diers along side. The emigrants wero
congratulating themselves on their
safety from the Indians. At last .lohn
M Fligbeo came and ordered my squad
to five. Lee. like th? rest, had tiren rms,
No emigrants were allowed to escape ;
saw r-oidiors on hornes to lake on wine
tlioso who ran ; saw a man run ; uaw Bill
.start on a horso and kill him, and a
wouiided niau beg for life. Higbee cut
hin throat. 1 was told to gather up the
lift lo children. I went, and saw 11
woman running toward tho men, crying,
" .">iv husband, my husband ! " A
soldier shot her in the back, and she
i fell dead. _
--- A bolbi ni Saratoga wears diamonds
i on her siiocs,
Post Oflice Points.
Tin* following Into rulings by tho
pi stodico department in regard h> mail
matter will bo found of interest tri
every ono engaged in morc:uitilo piir
Hllitfl
Wben packages of merchandise or
sam pi es of merchandise aro wrapped so
tts h> prevent t-xnnunution, or have uuy
writing upon thom except thc nd dross,
it is 1,ie duty of lim postmaster lo ralo
thom vp with letter postage, to ho col
lected on delivery. Samples may bo
mark. 1 in, pencil,or ink with letters or
tiguri-n by which they aro to bo dis
tinge hod in a descriptive letter or in
voice (each separately) without subject
ing t' i package lo letter postage.
Au ult! ress may la; written on a cir
cular. Snr. ney other writing thereon
except- tho mern correction of a typo
grap- leal error, would render it sub
ject I let 1er postage.
It i;> tho duty of n postmaster when
mail matter is sent to his oflice through
mist a lie, to forward il lo its destination.
Hoi lc manuscript, when so wrap]?od
us to dmit. ol' examin?t ion, is charge
able -nth prepayment of postago ut
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au om cu or fraction thereof, limited to
four i .uuuls in weight.
Paper with writing on it, should uot
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To ."id?tin regular subscribers b> re.?
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A postmaster is required to examine
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pussiti ? through his oflice, lo rico that it,
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and to doteut fraud. Mall?n- contained
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stump affixed. L. and ll., page (il,
sec. 90.
Burning of a Russian Town- 200
Lives Lost.
A Petersburg letter to tho London
Standard says :
The bro which dost roved the town of
Morsehniisk began about I o'clock in
tho afternoon in ono of the fauburgs, at
a distance of nearly half n mile from
the town proper, and within a few
hoi.rs the whole towu, over an extout of
Ovo Vorsts, was a prey of the llamos in
all directions, causing (hem to overlap
all the open Rquares and even tho river.
As Ibo lire grew the wind becamo n
tempest, and enormous planks and
sheets of iron, torn from the falling
houses, were hurled as big!? as the sec
ond story of houses still standing,
('uses of goods allowed to float, along
tho river wore burned on the water.
Some of the pupers ot" tho publi . olticos
have been found nt a distance of sixty
verst.. from tho town, and Ibo glow of
tho lire lighted up ibo horizon to n dis"
tuneo of ninety versts. Tho Oro spared
about a hundred wooden bouses nt one
end of the. town, l-nit of the brick build
ings hardly lon have escaped.
All tho public edifices, with Ihoexcep
Mon of the school and several of thu
churches, havo been destroyed. The
destruction of property hus been entire.
Many of the inhabitants trusted to cel
lars and vaults, but they nea riv nil fell
in. As tho fire spread, furniture and
other effects were removed to gardens
and other open spaces, bul in vain ; Us?
llames soon reached tnom and reduced
all to ashes. Only ono of thc. corn de
pots was saved.
It is calculated that I,OD.) buildings
have boen burned, and thal, the loss
cannot, bo less than 5,000,000 roubles.
About 200 lives wero lost, and several
thousand persons were wounded.
Succor, in the shape of provisions,
clothes, ?md money, was instantly for
warded from Ta n ibo IT, Kie/.an, mid other
places, to the unfortunate citizen:! o?
Morschan.sk, literally wandering about
tho woods or sheltering under caris,
having lost, everything, ucl ibu number
of tho homeless and destitute exceeded
10,000. Thron days after tho tiro t In
corporation of the town petitioned tho
Rovernmeut for a loau of 3,000,000
roubles, to bo redeemed in thirty days.
ENGLAND'S NEW RIVAL.
f?apiti /), i./../'in-ni fl ('ull in Mum ,',ullin' in
/if! in.
The manufacture (d' ec!lou is rapidly
increasing in British India, and ns con
siderable nrolits aro realized, tho ton
doney is toward continued invcslniouts
and the extension of this great indus
try. It is now manifest. Mint, Mnuobos
tor lias lost its formel control of tin
eastern mark-ls. In the singlo prcsi
doncy of Bombay {hero nm twenty-live
cotton mills in tull operation, working
000,000 spindles and 7,Omi looms. The
spindles produce, about U'.d.OOO ponndfl
of colton ihr omi a day, of which about
50,0(1!) i ii muds aro used to product)
cloth. These mills aro oh icily in tho
Bombay Island, whore a new spuming
mill, just opened by a wealthy Hiudoo,
timi working 25,000 spindles, makes it
total ?f seventeen working mills. Op
country there arc several others ono at
Surat, two ut Broach, two at Ahmeda
bad. ono at eTttlgaum, one in tho native
state of Bhownuggcr, and one at Ma
dras. Extensions arc also rapidly going
forward. Eight t xtensions arc in course
of construction at Bombay, chiefly on
share capital, and these will provide ut
least for thc working bf 10,000 more
spindles and I,<M5 looms'. The machine
ry is always of thu very newest and most
approved construction, and no efforts
arc spared on thc part of the indian
producers to entibie their ?roods to eom
poto uceessfidlv with the choicest pro
duct-nf foreign manufacture-United
Stales F.cjmoinixt,
An Incident of the Floods.
Writing of thc disasters of the iti
itudntions iii Fraucc, a correspondent
says; At St. (,'yprioti, the suburb of
Toulouse, which suffrrod MI severely, ?Mi
M uti rc tte, a well-known sculptor who re
sided then-, bu; who hail his atelier in
?h?- town, was at work in the latter,
when he >vas informed of tho risk to
wliieh bia family, whom ho had left in
the Faubourg, were exposed. He im
mediately hastened home, and begnn lo
pack up iiis valuables and prepare to
retreat, willi his wife, two Rills, bight
anti niue year ; nid, and a little boy in
his mother's anns. Brit tho Hood had
bren too quick for them. Tn less than
a quarter of au hour it had risen more
th in four feet, and their house was sur
rounded before they were aware of it.
As tho water rose higher and higher
they moved from stage to statue, until
? In y reached tho roof aloug with other
families who lind taken refuge then-.
Tims they stood,, tho father holding his
two little ?iris by the hand, tho mother
carrying her boy, till darkness set in,
tlie flood still rising, ami tin; houses
around them ?iving away before it one
af ter tho other with fearful crash. At
last their own house beean lo tottei
and crack, and give other signs that ii
wan no longer ti safe place of refuge.
Another house no some little distauci
off seemed tootler a stouter resistance,
un i one nf their party, who was a goo?
swimtni r, threw himself info tho water,
and by great effort succeeded in climb
iug on lo the. other roof. Unfortunately,
in taking his spring from Unit on willoi
down Aime. Rimtrotte, with h.-,;*ftjiYu 1?
her arms, and although the former was
laid hold of and rescued, the child was
carried away by thc Hood, and perished
before the eyes of its lather, who could
nely just save his fainting wife. By
Rood luck, in the bonso to which their
companion lind escaped a roll of calice
twenty-live yards hui;1; was found. On
one end o! this an iron was tied, and,
after many attempts, swung across, am;
a communication thus opened with thc
other house, The two littie girls wort
successfully made fast to the end of tin
roll and dragged through the water
Mme. Mauretto was next tied to it am
had also nearly gained tho other roof
when tho strength of I luise who sup
ported her failed, and she fell bael
into tho water. For a moment sin
seemed lost, but her husband, throw
ing himself in, in his tnrn, and swim
nong to lier, supported her until a fresl
effort could bo made above, wheo boil
were eventually hoisted up. Tho nigh
was passed in cold and wc*, expectiu)
death almost h. airly, lint the house re
sistcd, and by morning the. water liai
Tallen suflieiently to enable tho parly t
wade ashore.
Rather a. Tough Suukc Kig'?t, hut
Good Story.
A few days since, whiie a young ma
nf the vicinity of Middlo Grove, whoi
we shall designate as .leemos, wu
shrubbing in f he field, he ran upon
black snake in a cluster of bushes, ?un
calling his dog Zip, set him after til
snake. While he was intently watehin
tho progress of thc light between h
Kiinkeship and his favorite canine, sonn
thing behind tonk him ''whack" up?
the neat of his trousers, and titrniii
quickly, he discovered to his horror
tremendous horse-racer, full six fee! j
length, with i>c id erect, hissing tongi;
and glariug oyes, curling himself in tl
fullest attitude ?ur butilo, and bc-foi
ilconies could comprehend tho terrill
character of thc situation, "whack" tl
snake took him again. He then look?
for a tree, but there was none to climb
for it stick, but there was none at ham
Ile Hu n (trew his jack-knife, with ti
determination of selling his lifo i
dearly ns possible, and tho mont i ?-rr i i >
buttle between tuan and snake then o
curred that ha- ever transpired iii the bi
tory of Monroe county. Tho snake-v
very slroug and active, and, cnrlii
himself around one of his victim's lee,
lie stuck his terribie fangn into hi
with marvelous rapidity, tightening h
hold and erawliug lip all tho time, will
.benns plied bis jack-knife with
rapidity never equaled by tho savai
Modoc! The baako was getting tl
licsl ?>f il, iuid had twisted himself t
nearly to .Teenies' fore, ami was abo
to coil his slimy length about hit* en
climbing antagonist's nwan-liko throi
when Zip, tho faithful servant, havi
finished snake INC. I, came yelping
the rescue, and, taking in ai a glan
tho hazardous position of Hu* mash
ho sprang and grappled ?!.<- monster
the neck, and held on with a vioe-li
grip until Jeomes, by tho uso of 1
knife, extricated himself from his ti
rible pr?dit lamont. and from au nntirtn
nnd premature grave. The snake \i
killed, ?od iii . ?ru dy dog was tho li
preserver o? his uuisTor.--?VO?M i
i'a rh Af'/., ? \pjical.
FACTS AND FAJOLES.
-Tho ooi?ee-pluuters of Ceylon .110
threatened with pecuniary ruin, (ho
rata hnviug seized their plantations,
grasshopper style. Nor. brinn rthlo tb
import American mush', they aro trying
10 frighten oil' tho invaders with the*
tom-tom, a homo instrument.
-There in an Kugliah caper which
tiiiuks that in ease of war the chief
food producing nations, by combining
against, Rnglund, could conquer her
without ruin? :i shot or landing ..
soldier by .simply declining to deal with
ber.
.-Tho old superstitious iden that tho
hand nf a dead mun ian talisman ngninst
(?vii, once preval ont among south om no
groes, Hennis nol tn hiivo died oitfi. A
vault iu Greenville, Miss., wnp reoeutly
broken opon and a hand eui from a
corpse.
- On ono of the bridges of Pari? a
baby sprang ont of ifs mother's arms
and foil in tito river, and tho mother
jumped after il, but could not swim.
Another woman jumped iri who could
.swim and brought out both. Tho!
mother was half drowned mid tho baby
was dead.
-Some of tho clergymen in Kentucky
proposo to liane; slates ni tho church
vestibules, so that young ludios on en
tonug, cnn register lu.-ir mimes, rims
Having a prronf; expense for providing
scuts in tho vestibule for young men,
and making a great deal of waiting un
necessary.
-"James Brown," ol ?St. Giles, Lon
don,: claims to bo reckoned among tho
nc bio band of vivisectionists, Iiis trade
being the catching of cats and "skin
ning 'em hlivo;" "The simple- fact is,"
ho saye, "I f,v.i an honest, living by
skinning oats, nnd because .shins taken
from tho live cats aro north sixpence
apiece muru than those taken from tho
animal whoo dead T skin tlio calai alive
wiitin vor I can."
-If thoro is a manufacturing city on
this continent which might bo nailed
tho Manchester of America, it is
Lowell, Mi^s. There are daily em
ployed nearly eicjhrceu f,hou!?and opera
tives in I ho various mills, The capital
stock of the several corporations is
over 810,000,000, while tho total valua
tion would foot un six times sixtceu
millions. In many instances tho origi
nal stockholders have, perhaps, moro
than doubled their investments by mag
nificent dividends ; and it is a notable
fae*- thai even in ibesc depressed times
pbraX?Gmi 0? not ??r??::,^.r'.^T^
-This is what, a bank cashier win o
to Washington when ho wanted "reg
istered bonds" : "J may not have ex
pressed myself properly, not knowing
much about this business of swopping
bonds, bul my intentions are puro and
innocent. I wish to have these bonds
in such a condition thai when burglars
om< to my room nf midnight, put a
pistol to my head, twist my nose, take,
me by the ear, h ad mc to my bunk,
compel mo bi Hillock my safe, lean
cont?mplale ?he, removal of my bouda
with a smile that is child-like atnl
bland."
-Tile work ot excavating tue arena
of the coliseum at T?ome, has been sus
pended f-iuce May, as it cannot bo pro
ceeded with uni 11 Hie discovery of tho
duct or cantil used by Ibo old Kornaus
to chain oil' tlio water collecting from
thoadjacou! slopes. Tlio cann! lias been
t raced in us starting point near I ho
ruins, and in ils passapre through tho
forum, lending into tim Cloaca Maxima;
but its intermediate course hus yet tobo
unearthed, which operation, together
with its proper cleaning and repairs,
will be a job of some diOieulty, timo and
expense. Tn tho meantime the excava
tion in tho coliseum already m ft do, will
have io be kept dry, or as free fron:
water as possible, in order that the
foundation of the building may not bo
seriously damaged.
-A popular theatrical manager says
he lias been IMO montis of keeping be
tween two ami threo hundred young
ladies off the stage within tho space of
five years. "One reason was," said he,
" because they Inul no talent, and an
other was because I knew that before
they had been in tho profession many
weeks they would bo henrtdy sick and
tired of ii. Tho lifo Of au ador is a
hard one. People come." said ho, Onnd
seo tlu<> ador walking around thu stage,
sneaking ? few linos, dressed in mag
nificent* clothes, and winning the ap
plause of < iie mult.ilmic. ' Tfow de
lightful!' they exclaim. 'Nothing iii
thc world to do but lo dress well and
look pretty.' They do not know what a
don's life il ia. And traveling through
tho country i's the huidos! work of all.
Oui till twelve a ntl ono o'clock at night,
ami but of bed by four or live in tho
morning io lake "an carly Irs in to tho
nest town. Sometimes they do ubt get
to bcd at all."
THAT SAVED HIM.-It has been gen
erally supposed thal ? bald head wu? of
no account, oven to tho owner, bul
Vicksburg .uanda up and remarks lo ti:e
contrary. The other d?iy :i residen! of
thu; city went up -'o Thompson's J adu
lo got ? shot at lin- big alligator, and
while eating lt cold bito in the shade, ii
man jumped over the lenee, presented
Ah o?d anny musket ni bin head and
cried out :
"Stranger, uhkiver yev hoad ! '
The Vicksburger was dumbfounded,
b;;t u?.ftdo haste to nun..vc hia ?nit lind
exhibit a pate which nh?no like i ne wo
polished pilpaw. ." .. ,
" Stranger, that sayos ye continued
tho urtu, IIB he Hh?uhh rrd I, i musket ;
" I though: .ye. ivy.? tho it I m .eb a ped
dler who chrirged my 'v1,r.?11".v' " ''V
..cnts f ?r ?i te.'-tain. ; t which hast? : gol
11 darned picture bi ?; !"
