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TO CORRESPONDENTS. All communications for this paper should be accompanied by the name of the author, not necessarily for publication, but as evidence of good faith on the part of the writer. Write only on one side of the paper, lie particularly careful in pivinjr names and dates, to bave all letters or ligures plain and distinct. stantly killed by the accidental discharge of an old musket while out hunting. The load entered his right eye, tearing through the brain.

At Mooresville, a 5-year-old son of L. A. Apples, while playing in the engine room of his father's mill, fell between the fly-wheel of the engine and the stone work built for the wheel to run in, and was instantly killed, his skull being mashed in, and arms and legs broken. Foreign Notes. Another royal marriage is gossiped of in Europe that of the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway and the Princess Victoria of Baden, the Emperor William's granddaughter.

The Empress Augusta's recent visit to England is said to have been with a view to composing a quarrel between Queen Victoria and her daughter, the Crown Princess of Germany, but the gossips declare that the mission didn't mend matters, for the Queen started for Balmoral and left the Empress at Windsor Castle. A London correspondent says of the recent golden wedding at Berlin that Queen Victoria had arranged 12 months ago to be present on the occasion, but in consequence of the extraordinary inhospitality with which the Empress Augusta was treated during her recent visit to was plainly intimated that the visit was not desired by the Kaiser or his family." St. Petersburg is to be made a seaport by means of a maritime canal, which will permit the large vessels, obliged now to stop at Cronstadt, to take in and discharge their cargoes in the capital. The works necessary to make St. Petersburg the largest seaport in the Baltic will be executed within six years at a cost of 8,000,000 roubles.

The port of Ribau, which, according to its situation, is destined to take a leading part in the competition against the Prussian ports, is also to be enlarged and deepened. Odds and Ends. The fancy penman's business is flourishing. Uneasy lies the head on a picnic ant-hill. A stern necessity A patch on a fellow's pants.

A little foot that grows a corn requires a big shoe one- that will cover an acher at least. About the poorest "Pinafore" joke of all was tried on Miss Anthony. "I shall never marry!" said thas lady, sternly. "What, never?" exclaimed the gentleman to whom she was talking. Now, you go right away from here," replied the lady, with great violence, or I'll hit you with my umbrella." Buffalo Express.

An item of interest to theater-goers is to the effect that Mr. James E. Murdoch will shortly return to the stage. Mr. Murdoch is now 67 years old, and lives in Cincinnati.

He is described as being comparatively youthful in looks, with but a slightly wrinkled face, clear and brilliant eyes, erect form, and a graceful carriage. He is still, in a large measure, the same Murdoch whose Alfred Evelyn is vividly remembered by an older generation. The Whitehall Review prints this story of Canada, the scarlet fever and the Princess Louise The wife of an official was invited by Her Royal Highness to pay visit, to Government House, and a suite of apartments was placed at her disposal. and, as it turned out, disastrously for the guest, she and her child were attacked by scarlatina of the most virulent description, and the infant died. During the whole of the illness of mother and child not a day passed without the Royal Princess paying two visits to the sick chamber.

A clergyman, talking to some youngters on the coming vacation and diverging into the necessity of kindness to animals, incidentally remarked "Boys are often cruel to frogs and toads. I remember when a boy of wickedly filling up a toad with fire-crackers and then lighting a slow-match." He was horrified to see this remark received with the liveliest emotions of interest and delight, and utterly prostrated as he passed out at hearing one urchin say to another, By jingo, that's a new note. Won't we have fun blowing up the bull paddies down in the mcdder!" Boston Commercial. One Wife Too Many. Hendeesonville, N.

June 30. This quiet town ha3 been thrown into a wild state of excitement by a romantic affair which has just come to light. On March 5, a man giving his name as G. H. Carter of New York came to Hen-dersonville to live, and was soon married to Miss Josephine Bond, a beautiful and cultivated young lady of this place.

He had been living in Hender-sonville about three months when he met her. He was a man of culture and refinement, highly educated, spoke several languages, and had traveled all over the world. He led a rather retired life at first, but his polished manners soon made him very popular. He represented himself as a master mechanic, of New York, and gave as a reason for his charige of abode that his health would not stand the severe northern climate. He died a few days ago.

Here comes the strangest part of the man's eventful history. Soon after his death a brilliantly dressed lady made her appearance in Hendersonviilc, and claiming that she was his only lawful wife, had the body exhumed and taken to New York. It now turns out that he had a wife in New York, and that the name of Carter was fictitious. Hi3 name was William H. Whiteley, a former millionaire of Brooklyn, N.

Y. He was a fugitive from the State of New York, and a policy-holder in the New York Life Insurance Company for and the builder of St. Peter's P. E. Church, Brooklyn.

He belonged to the elite of the town, and his wife was one of the leaders there in fashionable circles. Swallowing-Pulverized Glass. Mr. Cichia Lens burg, Le Sueur County, got on a spree last week (Monday), at Montgomery, and offered to wager that he could swallow the glass contained in a whisky flask. The wager was taken up by one of the party present, whereupon the drunken man proceeded to swallow the pulverized glass, and also a tallow candle.

Strange to relate, that night he felt no ill effects caused by the rash deed, but next day the glass began to cut and grind his bowels, compelling the man to writhe and scream in agony. This continued until Thursday morning, when the poor wretch was brought to New Prague, in the delusive hope that a physician could save him from his inevitable and fast-approaching death. Of course no physician's skill could now save or even prolong the life that had been' so deliberately, though unknowingly taken. It was pitiful and heartrending to hear the poor mortal moan and scream in agony as the death-dealing glass slowly but constantly cut its way into the vitals. This could not long continue, however, and death kindly relieved the suffering man Thursday afternoon.

A post-mortem examination was held, and the man's stomach and intestines were found to be literally ground to pieces. A wife and nine children are left dependent by the foolhardiness of a man crazed by drink. This may prove a timely warning to those addicted to the excessive use of a substance so deadly in its final effects as that swallowed by the man who came to so untimely an end. Shakopee (Minn.) Argus. A Paris dispatch of the 26th ult.

gives the following account of the mass for the late Prince Imperial The bells began tolling as the services commenced. There was no catafalque. Black carpets were spread in front of the high altar, and the chairs of the Imperial family and of the, dignitaries, Senators and "Deputies, were covered with black cloth. Prince Jerome Napoleon, Princess Clothilde, and their two sons and Princess Mathilde were seated in front of the altar. As they entered the church all present arose.

The mass was a low one and was celebrated by the Abbe Laine, formerly almoner of the Imperial Chapel. The Papal Nuncio was present. The only persons who appeared much affected were Prince Victor and his brother. When Prince Jerome Napoleon was leaving the church there was but little attention shown him by the Bonapart-ists, and when he reached the street there were signs of decided indifference. few hats were raised, and this was all the salutation he received.

The postage-stamp knows its place after it has been licked once. change for three months after having been salted with borax. The newest thing in machinery is a device for track-laying. It has been successfully used on the Central Pacific and other railroads. It consists of the application of a system of adjustable ways, on each side of a train of flat cars, by means of which the rails are brought forward on one side and the ties on the other.in a continuous stream, and delivered to the trackmen on the exact part of the roadbed where they are to be laid.

School and Church. The sum of $31,000 was presented to Mr. Spurgeon on his completion of a pastorate of 25 years. The General Synod of the Moravian Church met at Heernhut, Germany, May 26, after an interval of about il years. Fifty-three members were present, of whom 11 were from America, including two Bishops.

Bishop Edmund de 'Schweinitz of America was chosen President of the Synod. The London Daily Chronicle says that the report on the Jewish Mission submitted to the Assembly of the Free Church at Edinburgh showed that the cost of converting five Jews had been $5,521 a head; while from the corresponding report in the Established Assembly it appeared that some $25,000 had been spent in producing one "anxious inquirer." The Northern and Southern Presbyterian churches have beenHrying for several years to come into "fraternal relations with each other, but have had some difficulty in agreeing upon the language of the terms. The. Christian Observer, Southern Presbyterian, asserts that they have come into, such relations in fact, if not in form, without thinking of it, or knowing it, and cites several acts and words of the last assemblies of both bodies in proof. The question of holding Sunday services has divided the wealthiest Jewish congregation in Chicago.

Rabbi Kohler sought to effect a compromise by keeping up the regular observances on Saturday, and also having a sermon on Sunday. The result was that the attendance was large on Sunday, but dwindled to almost nothing on Saturday, and his demand that all members should be present on the latter day was so generally disregarded that he has resigned. Haps and Mishaps. At Palestine, Sylvanus Beight, aged 17, wa3 killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. At Lafayette, Jacob Nei-bauer's S-year-old son was scalded to death by falling into a tubjtof boiling water.

At Van Wert, Benjamin Hat-tery was accidentally shot and fatally wounded while belling" a newly married couple. At Cuyahoga, a blacksmith's 18-months'-old child crawled underneath a team of horses and was stamped and kicked nearly to death. At Wheeling, W. a lad named Samuel Woodruff was fatally wounded by a pistol in the hands of a careless companion, named Louis Stevens. Mina Krause, the 11-year-old daughter of a prominent German citizen of Bexar County, Texas, fatally shot herself while handling a revolver.

A 2-year-old son of Wm. Hilliar, at Rogue's Hollow, near Doylestown, drank a solution of concentrated lye, causing its death in a few hours. Gus. Draper, an old and respected citizen of Standford, McLean County, 111., had his brains knocked out while gumming a saw, by the bursting of an emery wheel. Two children, aged 11 and 9 years, sons of Alfred Stoutenberg of shelter under a tree from a passing storm.

A limb fell and killed both instantly. James Clarkson, aged 14, while sleeping outside of a tent, on the River San Gabriel; Texas, was bitten by a snake, and, after lingering some hours, died in great agony. A little daughter of William and Bridget Blowers, of Waseca, died last week from the effects of drinking a small quantity of concentrated lye, which had been left lying within reach. r-Eddy a 12-year-old son of Jack Yocum, of Carbon, was in ITEMS OF INTEREST. Personal aad Literary.

Tennyson's early poem, The Lover's Tale," now just published with his sanction, was written when he was eighteen. The health of John G. Saxe, the humorous poet, is better now than for three months. His trouble, sleeplessness and nervous despondency, is leaving him. His age is sixty-three years, and his home is in Brooklyn, N.

Y. The memorial to Bayard Taylor a medallion of the poet in gray marble which the graduating class of Cornell has just presented to the University, has been received with fitting ceremony. Under the medallion is the inscription Lecturer on German Literature," with the dates of his birth and death. Mr. Gladstone, although he has passed his 69th birthday, wields the ax with great force, and is more than a match, as a walker, for active and alert men 20 years younger than he.

Gout and rheumatism have no terrors for this busy man, and one of his mo3t intimate friends used to say that wonderful as is his mind, it is nothing to his body." Charles Dickens's home the dream of his youth, the delight of his prime Gads Hill Place, is for sale. He bought it for $8,950, but improved it so much that it will now bring five time3 that sum. When he died a reserve fund of $50,000 was put on the property, at which price it was secured by his eldest son, Charles, who now offers it to the highest bidder. Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson's lawn at Concord is said to be the favorite gathering place of the young people and children of that pleasant town.

Every year he invites them to a picnic at his home, and himself enters into their games with great enjoyment. He talks to them, not didactically, but with simple interest, of their plays and aims and duties. What are the relations of literary men to the formulated creeds of Chris-tianty?" asks Prof. Swing in a recent sermon, and in answer says "One can not but say that these relations have never been and are not cordial. If you will glance over a list of 100 great leaders in letters it will be remarkable how many you will find who, like Carlyle, and Ruskin, and Macaulay, and Dickens, arid Thackeray, conceal wonderfully any details of religious belief, and content themselves with the assumption ot a God who demands righteousness.

To such a group of literary minds you may add another group who have made philosophy and science pass before us in the garments of a literature Isaac Newton, and Locke, and Hamilton, and Cousin, and in all this group you will find combined a silence toward a definite worship, but not an espousal of dust and oblivion, but a calnT assumption of a Jehovah." Science and Industry The manufacture of coke iron in Alabama has proven a success. Oatmeal contains nearly 16 per cent, of flesh-forming The crop of Key West pineapples is double that of any former year. The average consumption of wheat for each individual of the population of Great Britain is eight bushels per antrum. 1 A New Jersey man has invented a paper stocking, intended to be worn over the cotton or woolen stocking, there oy excluding cold and dampness from the feet. A new German invention for rendering boot-soles flexible and almost indestructible is to mix a water-proof glue with ground quartz and spread it on the soles.

The roughness of the sole prevents slipping. In a report made by the Department of Agriculture of rthe Italian Govr rnment, it is stated that borax used instead of salt in preserving butter imparts to the butter no flavor whatever, while it is entirely inocuousl Samples of fresh butter, in which much of the buttermilk was purposely left, have retained their natural fine flavor without.