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VOLUME I. NETAWAKA, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1872. NUMBER 7. Miscellaneous llcadinff. General Browne, Republican candidate for vice Wm.

B. Chapman, resigned; N. B. Judd General News Summary. Governor in Indiana, has tendered his resig to be Collector of Customs at Chicago.

the Government of Guatemala had ordered the confiscation of all the property of the Jesuits in Nicaragua, and had also ordered nation as District Attorney for the State. risible muscles, old ladies put up their fans, youths and maidens in the singers' seat laughed outright, and for the moment a general snicker among the children was pardoned. But 1 was one of that luckless President Grant left Washington on the THE OLD WORLD. accompanied by Minister A Havana dispatch of the 5th says eight night of the 3d for Long Branch. Nellie Grant, A tenement house in Norwich, was the British House of Lords Schenck, visited more men of the Fannie's expedition had been captured.

kind whose nerves once set in vibration. on the 1st. destroyed by fire on the night of the 2d, and two French boys were burned to death. could not be composed. When the rein Ulysses 8.

Grant, sailed from New In a recent address to his constituents, in of gravity and decorum had returned, York. for Europe on the Cth, with the family The net profits of the Jubilee ball are un Southampton, Russell Gurney spoke warmly of the Americans, who, he said, were desir of A. J. Drexel. derstood to have been $33,000.

the expulsion of the Jesuits from the territory. The resignation of Valmaseda as Captain General of Cuba has been followed by the appointment of General Cordova as his successor. It appears from statistics gathered at the Pension Office that there are living at the present time two widows of Revolutionary soldiers who are under forty years of age, and that the oldest surviving widow has arrived at the age of 115 years. llarry and 1 sat by each other, shaking with suppressed laughter. Everything in the subsequent exercises took a funny The International Musical Festival at Bos A table recently published shows that the ous of preserving friendly relations with England.

He thought an interchange of ton closed on the 5th. The correspondent of the Chicago JW says the Jnbilee, accord value of buildings erecting in New York is less by $2,500,000 than at the same time last turn, and in the long prayer, when everybody else was still and decorous, the selves. It did really seem as if the deacon was like them four beasts in the Revelations that was full o' eyes behind and before, for which ever way he was stand-in' if you gave only a wink he was down on you and hit you a tap with his stick. I know once Lem Sudoc jist wrote two words in the psalm-book and passed to Kesiah Larkin, and the deacon give him such a tap that Lem grew red as a beet and vowed he'd be up with him some day for that. Well, Lordy massy, folks that is so chipper and high steppin has to have their come downs, and the deacon he had to hev his.

"That are Sunday I remember it now jest as well as it 'twas yesterday. The parson he give us his great sermon, recon-cilin' decrees and free agency, everybody said that are sermon was a masterpiece. He preached it up to Cambridge at commencement, but it so happened it was one o' them bilin' hot days that come in August, when you can fairly hear the vear. the falling off being attributed to the whole scene came over me with such ing to the beet authority, had not only paid all expenses, but had cleared from ffjOjOOO to strikes. overpowering force that I exploded with The concert at the Boston Coliseum on visits between the two countries was advisable.

He cared not whether England was required by the Arbitrators at Geneva to pay two or three millions more or less, but it was necessary that both nations should feel that justice had been done, and their disputes honorably settled. The Epoca newspaper, published at Mad The President returned to Washington on SMTLE miEXEVEll YOU CAN. Whbn things don't ko to unit yon. Ana tho world biumus upside down, Don wusto your time In Bat drive away that frown; binco life lo oft perplexing. 'Tin much the wlst pku To boar all trlnU bravely, And niuile whene'er you can.

Why should you dread to-morrow Aud thus duHpoll to-davr For when you borrow troublt ou always have to pay. It a good old ma Ira, uwh should bo often preached; Dou't croa tho bridge before you Until the bridge ia reached." You might be spared much sighing, If you would keep In mind The thought that good and evil A.r always hero combined. There must be something wanting, And though you roll In wealth, on may miss from your casket That precious Jewel- health. And though you're strong and sturdy, ou may have an empty purse; (And earth ha mauy trluls Which I consider worse!) But whether Joy or sorrow Kill up your mortal span, 'Twill make your pathway brighter To smile whene'er you can. the 2d, and held a Cabinet meeting, at which the afternoon of the 3d was listened toy a large audience.

Horace Greeley was present by invitation. While in the Press room, prior to being escorted to the auditorium, Secretaries Boutwell and Delano and Attorney-General Williams were present. laughter and had to be taken out of meeting and marched home by Aunt Lois, as a convicted criminal. What especially moved her indignation was that the more she rebuked and upbraided, the more I laughed, till the tears rolled down my cheeks. Which Aunt Lois construed into willful disrespect to her authority, and resented accordingly.

By Sunday evening, as we gathered around the fire, the reaction from undue Mr. Greeley responded to a general call by rid, scorns the idea of Spain parting with her colonial possessions, more especially with making a short speech. By an act passed at the late session of Congress all invalid pensioners who receive fifteen, twenty or twenty-five dollars per month under the act of June 6, 1866, are Four boys, aged from ten to twelve, named the island of Cuba. Letters have reached London from Mr $100,000. The same writer 6ays: "I am very glad that the Jubilee is going to pay liberally, for it richly deserves it.

It is a generous enterprise, deserving of admiration and emulation, and can hardly fail to be of advantage, musically, to the cause of art and to the country at large." The deaths in Philadelphia for the wee ending the 6th were 764 an increase over the previous week of 355, of whom one-half were children. In New York City, a few days ago, Margaret Elliott, being temporarily insane, seized her daughter Jane by the throat, and strangled her. Her husband had been on a strike for three weeks and become dissipated. This is said to have driven the mother crazy. respectively Kennedy, Martin, Leonard and Birmingham, while bathing in the Hudson now entitled to eighteen, twenty-four and Stanley, the head of the expedition sent out huckleberries a sizzling and cookm on River, near Hudson, N.

on the 3d, got beyond their depth and were drowned before thirty-one and a quarter dollars, respectively, from the 4th of June, 1872. They may the bushes, and the locust keeps a gratin like a red hot saw. Wal, such times, obtain this increase without formal applica decrees or no decrees, the best on us will assistance could reach them. In searching for the bodies, a man named James Collins tion or the intervention of an attorney. A get sleepy.

The old meetin' house stood gayety to sobriety had taken place, and wo were in a pensive and penitent state, Grandmother was gracious and forgiving, but Aunt Lois still preserved that frosty air of reprobation which she held to be a salutary means of quickening our consciences for the future. It was, there was also drowned. right down at the foot of a hill that kep' letter, inclosing the pension certificate and by the New York Herald to search after the missing explorer, which prove beyond doubt that Mr. Stanley had found and passed some weeks with Mr. Livingstone, who declares his purpose to remain for two years longer in the wild and inhospitable region which he is exploring.

The Interaational Prison Reform Congress commenced its session in London on the 3d. addressed to the Hon. Commissioner of Pen A Springfield (111.) dispatch of the 3d says that, "in consequence of ill-health and the sions, Washington, D. will be sufficient off all the wind, and the sun blazed away at them gret west winders, and there was pretty sleepy times there. Well, the deacon he flew round a spell, and woke presentation of the claim for increase.

Judge John H. McCunn died in New York two mil's. AFTER TUB WHimNO. The President made the following appoint' on the Cth, it is said from nervous prostration, the result of his mortification at being up the children and tapped the boys on ments of Postmasters on the 2d C. E.

Yost at Omaha, vice J. T. Griffin, resigned fore, with unusual delight that we saw our old friend Sam come in and seat himself quietly down on the block in the chimney corner. With Sam we felt assured of indulgence and patronage, for though always rigidly moral and instructive in his turn of mind, he had that fellow-feeling for transgressors which is ToiiTiVrt unci sobbing and bitter thought Forceful regret that cau come to naught; Smarting reproach and doubt of its mother interference of professional business, Hon. Lawrence Weldon declines the nomination for Attorney General.

The vacancy will be filled by the Central Committees." A horrible outrage and murder is reported as having been perpetrated several days ago in Mercer County, Ohio. Ayounggirl named Secore was waylaid and dragged into the J. Milton Best, Paducah, vice Thos. removed from his Judgeship by the Senate on the ground of corruption and malfeasance in offio. tUodl that those two should offend one Representatives were present from every civilized country in the world.

The Earl of Cornavon presided. The Americans in Paris, London and other foreign cities celebrated the Fourth by banquets, etc. At Geneva, Switzerland, the cele Pickett, suspended under Tenure-of-Office act; Chas. G. Clark, Ann Arbor, vice Dr.

Deese, a well-known physician of St. "uiu mat may Keep in cnecK Till tossod by aome sudden release to its wreck. Alack, who the bitter succession can know 1 hat follow tho wrong, followed fast by a blow? H. Dean, suspended; S. D.

McKahan, at Me Louis, while laboring under a fit of tempo nominee. Wis. the head, and kep' everything straight as he could till the sermon was most through, when he railly got most tuckered out, and he took a chair and he sot down in the door right opposite the minister and fairly got asleep himself, jest as the minister got up to make the last prayer, "Wal, Parson Morrel had a way o' prayin' with his eyes open. Folks said it wa'n't the best way, but it wa3 Parson Morrel's way anyhow, and so as he was prayin' he couldn't help seein' that Deacon Titkins was a noddin' and a bobbin' bration was a brilliant one, speeches being bush while on he-r way to Sunday School. Her dead body, which was badly mutilated, rary insanity, on the 5th, attempted to murder his wife with a pocket-knife.

He aimed It is stated that the famous horse Jo Elli made by Messrs. Adams and Cushing. Constantinople has been visited by a fear was found a lew days afterward. Two men, named Kimble and McLeod, were arrested ott recently trotted a mile in 2:1 5, on a Boston race-course. a blow at her throat, but missed and struck her shoulder, inflicting a painful wound.

ful conflagration. A dispatch announcing The Jubilee commenced its third week, on AFTKR THK KISS. Vanishing anger and softened dismay A half naughty little one, yearning to pray; i ncousclously yearniug, and sobbing tho rest, Tressed in its grief to a grieved mother's breast-Neither angel nor sinner all good to withstand. Only Uod little child with the world close at hand. mothers 1 weak petting may oft be amiss, Hut never came harm from a sorrowful kiss.

the fact was received in London on the 5th, at Fort Wayne, on the 29th charged with being participants in the terrible crime. the 1st, with a large falling off in chorus, or wherein it was stated that 1,000 houses in He then drew the knife across his own throat, but, failing to cut deep enough, he plunged the blade to the hilt in his abdomen, producing a mortal wound. chestra and attendance. The feature of the the poorer quarter of the city had been de out toward the place where old Dick was characteristic 01 the loose-jointed, easygoing style of his individuality. "Lordy massy, boys yis," said Sam, virtuously, in view of some of Aunt Lois' thrusts; "ye ought never to laugh or cut up in meetin', that are's so, but then there is times when the best on us gets took down.

We gets took unawares, ye see even ministers does. Yis, natur will git the upper hand afore they know it." "Why, Sam, ministers don't ever laugh in meetin', do they?" We put the question with wide eyes. Such a supposition bordered on profanity, we thought it was approaching the sin of Uzzah, who unwarily touched the ark of the Lord. Three ladies, Mrs. -Mark Ripley, Lucy stroyed, and that the fire was still raging.

day wa3 the Irish band, which was enthusiastically received. Smith and Lulu Hanson, were drowned near Thomas Guthrie, colored, was hung at The Berlin Gazette of the 6th says that Emperor William had appointed three of the The New York Sun of a recent date con Janes ville, a few evenings ago. The Danville, on the 5th, for murder, in the presence of nearly 4,000 people. two latter went into the river to bathe and law officers of the Crown to prepare a report tained an article to the effect that there had lately arrived at that city from Cuba, or Perez Rivac has been appointed political on the San Juan boundary. got beyond their depth, when Mrs.

Ripley went to their assistance and all three were Governor of Havana. drowned. Mexico has a new composed, as some island contiguous thereto, a vessel having on board eight large casks of liquor in each of which was a dead body, and the liquor which preserved them on the voyage The French Assembly, on the 6th, with but four dissenting votes, ratified the treaty recently concluded by Count de Rerausat Calls have been issued for the Iowa Liberal follows; Minister of Foreign Relations, James Marl LaFrageli; of the Home Gov State Convention and for the Democratic State Convention to meet at DesMoines on L.UOULNU IN MLETIN'. BT MRS. n.

B. 8TOWE. "We were in dlserace, we boys, and the reajon of it was this; we had laughed out in meeting time! To be sure the occasion was a trying one, even to more disci pUned nerves. Parson Lothrop had exehanged pulpits with Parson Summeral, of Noclh Wearein. Now, Parson Sum-meraj was a man In the very outset likelv ttfpJovoke the riaibles of unspirituali-f Juveniles.

He was a thin. wirv. frisrki? and Count Von Arnim, providing for the evacuation of France by the Germans. was sold to a wholesale dealer, and by him, it is said, distributed all over the city. Of the 1st of August.

ernment, F. Gomez DesPalacio; of the Treasury, Favre Meji; of "War, Ignatus Meji; of the Interior, Belicas. A Madrid dispatch of the 6th states that In Cincinnati, a few days ago, a woman fell course much excitement was caused by this feedin' with the sheep, front o' the meetin'-house door. "Lem and me we was sittin' where we could look out, and we jest see old Dick stop feedin' and look at the deacon. The deacon had a little round head, as smooth as an apple, with a nice powdered wig on it, and he sot there eg akin' bobs andjbows, and Dick begun to think it was suthin' sort o' pussonal.

Lem and me was sittin, just where we could look out and see the hull picter, and Lem was fit to split. 'Good, says he, 'that critter'll pay the deacon off lively, pretty "The deacon bobbed his head a spell, and old Dick he shook his horns and stamped at him sort o' threatenin'. Finally the deacon he give a great bow and brought his head right down at him, and old Dick he sot out full tilt and come down on him ker chunk, and knocked him head over heels into the broad aisle, and his wig flew one way and he t'other, and Dick made a lunge at it as it flew, the Republicans had reconsidered their de statement among the liquor-imbibers of New It was announced in Matamoras on the Hh termination to abstain from all elections out of a fifth-story window, the fall break Ing her neck. York. that the Government forces under Oeueral while a monarchy exists in Spain, and will participate in voting for members of the Near Belle Plain, Iowa, on the 2d, a freight In a suit of the Erie Railroad against Jay Ceballos had entered Monterey, the revolu train on the Chicago Northwestern Rail Gould damages are claimed in the sum of tionists, under Trevino and Quirago, having Cortes on the 24th of August.

$10,000,000 for fraudulent over-issue of bonds, The Swiss Government has ratified the additional article of the Postal Convention and the appropriation of railroad property llttje man-, in a powdered white wig black tights, and silk siockings, with, blight knee-buckles arid shoe-buckles, with' round, dark, snapping eyes, anf a curious, high, cracked, squeaking joj 3, abandoned the place precipitately on the ap -proach of two columns of Government troops under General Roeha, from Saltillo, road ran into a construction train, and telescoped the caboose of the latter train, killing one man almost instantly, and mortally wounding 6ix others. Four of the wounded to personal use. with the United Scates, regarding the money- The New York Senate, sitting as a Oourt and Ceballos, from the frontier. order system. "Laws, yes.

Why, haven't you never heard how there was a counsel held to try Parson Morrel for laughing out in prayer-time!" "Laughing in praT' we both repeated, with fands and eyes. My grandfather's mild face became luminous with a suppressed smile which brightened it as the moon does a cloud, but he said nothg. "Yes, yes," my grandmother, "that affair did make adreadful scandal in the time on't. But Parson Morrel was a good man, and I'm glad the counsel wasn't hard on hire." "Wal," said Sam Lawson, "after all, it was more Ike Babbitt's fault than 'twas anybody's. Ye see, Ike he was allers for gettin' what he could out o' the town, and he would feed his sheep on the meetin' house green.

Somehow or other, Ike's fences allers contrived to give out, come Sunday, and up would come his sheep, and Ike was too pious to drive 'em back, Sunday, and so there they was. He was talked to enough about it, cause ye see, to have since died. The other two could not the very first tones of which mad vail lie of Impeachment, has decided to remove children stare and giggle. Lieutenant Fred. D.

Grant was presented to President Thiers, at Paris on the 5th, and ews that live. Jndge McCunn, the vote being unanimous The Florida Democratic State Convention Parson Summeral was going to in A New York dispatch of the 2d says the was cordially received. He would leave for is to be held in Tallahassee on the 14th of strikers appeared to have given up all idea home on the 11th. August. of gaining the eight-hour rule.

In the British House of Lords, on the 8th, Extreme, hot won ha -oteill -8TCT the A.vim MeIeo, muster of the American schooner James Bliss, in a card, says that the Ballot bill being under consideration, it was voted to abandon most of the amend entire Northern tier of States from Massa he believes the hauling down of the Ameri and carried it on on hiB horns. "Wal, you may believe that broke up the meetin' for one while, for Parson Morrel laughed out, and all the gals and boys they stomped and roared, and the old deacon he got up and begun rubbing his shins 'cause he didn't see the joke on't. 'You don't orter says he, 'it's no laughing matter it's a solemn chusetts to the Mississippi, on the 1st and ments (among them one making the secret can flag from his schooner by Commander our viuago spreau aoroaa anion us as a prelude to something funny. It had a flavor like tho charm of circus acting; and on tho Sunday morning of our story we went to tho house of God in a very hilarious state, all ready to set oti in a laugh on the slightest provocation. The occasion was not long wanting.

Parson Lothrop had a favorite dog yclept Trip, whose behavior in meeting was notoriously far from that edifying pattern which bents a minister's dog on Sundays. ballot optional) disagreed to by the Com Lachance, of the Dominion cutter, Stella 2d. Twenty cases of sun-stroke in Boston on the 1st, where death ensued, had been reported up to noon on the 2d, and a number mons, so that the final passage ol the bill was considered certain. Marie, was done through a mistake, or the simple ignorance of the second officer, who was left in charge of the prize, Lachance not of other persons affected by the heat were It was reported in Paris on the 8th that It was said in Washington on the 7th that colored Congressman Elliott, of South Carolina, had selected a boy of his own race to be Cadet Midshipman, and that the other colored Congressmen would make similar selections. In New York City, on Sunday (7th a captain of a militia company was arrested by the police, for allowing a band of music to play while returning from a funeral.

The company threatened to rescue their commander, but he dismissed them to their armory. This, probably, will be made a test case under the new law. Two important witnesses were on the stand in the Stokes trial on the Sth, these being no less personages than the prisoner himself and Miss Josie Mansfield. Stokes testified that he was obliged to fire upon Fisk, the latter drawing a pistol upor him as he was coming up the hotel stairs. He (Stokes) was confident that Fisk would shoot him unless he anticipated him by discharging his weapon then lying in a critical condition.

Up to 11 Victor Hugo had secured a commutation of nave sheep and lambs a ba-a-m' and a blatin' all prayer and sermon time, wa'n't being on board at the time. the sentence of Henri Rochefort to simple p. m. on the 2d, the New York police reported fifty-four fatal, and fifty-six non-fatal Mrs. Drake Mills, Fernando Wood's moth the thing.

'Member that are old meetin banishment from France, instead of trans louse up to the north end, down under cases of sun-stroke. The thermometer portation to New Caledonia. er-in-law, went to a window of her room, at the Metropolitan Hotel, in Washington, on Blueberry Hill? The land sort o' sloped reached 102 during the day. A telegram received in Washington on the The new Temperance law went into effect 8th from Minister Sickles, at Madrid, Spain, the morning of the 5th, to cool herself, when she rolled out, receiving injuries from which down, so as a body hed to come into the meetin'-house steppin' down instead o' up. throughout Illinois on the 1st.

announces that the Spanish Minister had informed him (Sickles) that orders had been she would die. It has been definitely ascertained that says he. 1 might have been sent into 'tarnity by that darned says he. Then they all roared and haw-hawed the more to see the deacon dancin' round with his little shiny head, so smooth a fly would trip up on't. 'I believe, my soul, you'd laugh to see me in my says he! Wal, the truth on't was, 'twas jist one of them bustin' up times that natur has, when there an't nothin' for it but to, give in, 'twas jest like the ice breakin' up in the Charles River it all come at once and no whoa to 't.

Sunday or no Sunday, sin or no sin, the most on 'em laughed till they cried, and couldn't help it. But the deacon he went home feelin' Fact was, they said 'twas put there John R. Bigelow, ex-Mayor of Boston there were thirty-six men on fthe D. A. Mc given to discharge Dr.

Houard and restore cause the land wa'n't good for nothin' died on the 4th, aged 74. his property. Donald, when she blew up at McGregor, Iowa, of whom only twelve were sa-ed. else and the folks thought puttin' a meet- The intense heat interfered materially Lieutenant Frederick D. Grant and Robert in house on't would be a clear savin with the ardor of Fourth of Jnlv celebra The boss plasterers in Chicago struck on Lincoln were in the gallery of the British niwaiiiiiuua UHU Ug U1UI never could be taught to conceal his emotions or to respect conventionalities.

If anything about the performance in the singers' soat did not please him, he was apt to express himself in a lugubrious howl. If the sermon was longer than suited him, he would gape with such a loud creak of his Jaws as would arouse everybody's attention. If the Hies disturbed his afternoon's nap, he would give sudden snarls or snaps; or, if anything troubled his dreams, ho would bark out in his sleep in a manner not only to dispel his own slumbers, but those of certain worthy deacons and old ladies, whose sanctuary reposo was thereby sorely broken and troubled. For all these reasons, Madam Lothrop had been forced, as a general thing, to deny Trip the usual sanctuary privileges of good family dogs but Parson Morrel he didn't like it and first. The main point in Miss Mansfield's tions at the East and South.

the 1st against paying journeymen $5 per House of Lords during the debate on the On the evening of the 5th, two trains on was free to tell 'em his mind on't, that 'twas like bringin' the lame and the blind evening of the 8th. testimony is to the effect that Fisk said at the Decatur House that he intended to kill Stokes. day. They offered $4. The plasterers refused to work at the reduced rates.

to the sarvice, but there 'twas. the South Side Railroad, L. collided between Fresh Pond and Bushwick Stations. One train had stopped to avoid running into THE NEW WOULD. The Michigan Democratic State Conven There warn a better minister nor ne The deaths in New York City for the week pretty sore about it.

Lem Sudoc he tion met at Lansing on the 2d and appointed Gold closed in New York on the 8th at ending at noon on the 6th were the one more set by in all the State than Parson Morrel. Ilk doctrines was right up picked up his wig and handed it to him the other, but a telescoping of the engine delegates to the National Convention, and 113M113. took place. Three persons were killed and largest death roll of any week in the history of the city. and down good and sharp, and he gave The monthly public debt statement on the Says he, 'OldJ Dick was playing tithing-man, wa'n't he, deacon? Teach you to make allowance for other folks that get many injured.

passed resolutions indorsing the Cincinnati platform and instructing the delegates to vote as a unit. The Chicago Journal of the 6th says the 1st of July is as follows: The extreme hot weather continued in New saints and sinners their meat in due season, and forconsolin' and comfortin' wid-ders and orphans Parson JMorrel hadn't his match. The women sot lots by him, York and Brooklyn on the 5th. In the for Six per cent, bonds $1,374,883,800 Five per cent, bonds 414,567,300 A Detroit dispatch of the 2d says quite a clergy of that city were 6till engaged in raising funds for famine-stricken Persia. Contributions should be 6ent to J.

V. Farwell fc mer city there had been upwards of a thou Then Mrs. Titkins she went over to Aunt Jerushy Scran's and Aunt Polly strike had set in among the Saginaw lumber in that age, aud shut him up on Sundays to private meditation. Trip, of course, was only tho more set on attendance, and and he was alius' ready to take tea round, Total coin bonds. $1,789,451,100 mills, the men demanding the ten-hour rule.

iiokun and they nad a pot tea over or to any of the ministers of the city, and will be immediately forwarded to the Many of the mills had shut up rather than it, and 'greed it was awful of Parson Mor sand deaths from all causes so far during the week. On the 5th twenty-four persons died from the effects of the heat. Ninety-seven cases of sunstroke were reported. There would hide behind doors, jump out of windows, sneak through by ways and al 25,343,000 7,926,797 and make things pleasant and comfortable, and he had a good story for everyone and a word for the children, and may be an apple or a cookey in his pocket for 'em. rel to set sich an example, and suthin' had missionaries.

Lawful money debt. Matured debt Legal-tender notes. Fractional currency. Coin got to be done about it. Miss Hokun said In Cincinnati, on the 7th, Frank Schick, leys, and lie hid till the second bell had done tolling, when suddenly he would ap 40,855,835 32,086,300 she allers knew that Par son Morrel hadn't Wal, you know there am no pleasin' ev had been one hundred and seventy deaths in Brooklyn from cholera infantum, during the twelve years old, the son of a widow, was no spiritooality, and now it had broke pear in the broad aisle, innocent and hap erybody, and ef Gabriel himself, right Total debt, without interest $2,263,251,328 Interest 41,705,813 out into open sin, and led all the rest of previous five days.

py, ana take ins seat as composedly as shot and killed by the Rev. Samuel J. Browne, an aged local minister of the Methodist Church. It appears that Mr. 'em into it, and Mrs.

Titkins she said Twenty-seven persons were wounded in aay member of the congregation. Total debt $2,294,957,141 such a man wan't fit to preach, and Miss imagine us youngsters on the qui nve New York City on the 4th from the careless accede. A terrible tragedy is reported as having recently occurred in Iowa. The telegraphic account says "A mother of seven children was murdered by her two sons, aged twelve and sixteen years, at their own home at West Point. The lady, Mrs.

Warker, had parted from her husband, Dr. Warker, some time before, and on learning of her husband's absence from home took this opportunity of visiting her children. On Saturday (June 29) afternoon she expressed a desire to return to her home, where she was working at the uaen in Treasury- with excitement at seeing Parson Sum use of fire-arms and fire-works. Iiokun said she couldn't never hear him ag'in, and the next Sunday the deacon Coin $88,149,109 Currency 15,31,689 Browne had been for some time greatly annoyed by boys who, in spite of repeated remonstrances, had entered his premises to At Seymour, on the evening of the and his wife they hitched up and driv eight miles over to. Parson Lothrop's and 4th, a man named Norris was lighting a hall literal frisk up into the pulpit with aJZthe vivacity of a black grasshopper.

We looked at each other and giggled very cautiously, with due respect to Aunt Lois' Total in Treasury $103,470,798 took Aunt Holly on the back preparatory to a theatrical performance, when he let fall a coal-oil lamp in the midst take his fruit and commit other depredations. It is said that at the time of the tragedy several boys had thus trespassed. Debt, less cash Treasury. Decrease during the month Wall, the thing growed and growed, sharp observation. 2,031,035 of a group of children.

The lamp upset, till it seemed as 11 there warn nothin At first, there was only a mild, quiet simmering of giggle, compressed decor Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Company, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding and Mr. Browne fired at Shick with slusrs, one of the pieces striking him in the breast Reform School, but the two sons prevailed spreading the oil in every direction, setting the clothing of the children on fire. The lit down out o' heaven, was to come and be a minister I expect there'd be a pickin' at his wings, and sort o' fault findin'. Now Aunt Jerushy Scran and Aunt Polly Ho-kun they sed Parson Morrel wa'n't solemn enough. Ye see ther's them that thinks that a minister ought to be just like the town hearse, so that ye think of death, judgment and eternity, and nothin' else, when ye see him round and ef they see a man rosy and chipper and havin' a pretty nice sociable sort of a time, why they 'ay he an't spiritooal minded.

But in my times I've seen ministers that the most awakenin' kind in the pulpit was the liveliest when they was out on't. There is a time to laugh, Scriptur' says, tho' some folks never seem to remember that are." But Sam, how came yon to say it was Ike Babbit's fault What was it about the sheep else talked about 'cause Aunt Polly and Miss Titkins and Jerushy Scran they 64,623,512 1,938,705 ously within the bounds of propriety, and upon her to remain until Sunday morning. Interest accrued and not yet paid. Interest paid by the United States. and inflicting a wound from the enect or which the boy died.

Browne was arrested, and subsequently released on $50,000 bail. we pursed our muscles up with stringent resolution whenever we caught the appre interest repaid Dy tne transportation or 14,631,870 3,708,934 promising then to take her home. She stayed, and at five on Sunday morning the mans, etc tle sufferers ran wildly through the hall, and before the flames could be extinguished three children, little girls, were so badly burned that they died in seven hours. Norris was hensive eye of our elders. Balance of interest paid by the United two boys murdered her, stabbing her in the states 10,922,936 Hut when directly after the closing back, breast and throat.

After killing her didn't do nothin' but talk about it, and that set everybody else a talkin'. Finally, it was 'greed they must hev' a counsel to settle the hash. So all the wimmen they went to chopping mince, and making up punkin pies and cram-berry tarts, and b'ilin' doughnuts, gettin' ready for the ministers and delegates cause counsels always eats powerful and notes of the tolling second bell Master The Assistant Treasurer in New York has badly, but not fatally, burned. It is said he they dragged her body to the barn and cov Trip walked gravely up the front aisle ered it with hay. The youngest son then been ordered to sell a million in gold and buy a million in bonds every week during and.

seating himself squarely in front of was drunk, and only his injuries prevented his being roughly used by the horrified and started on horseback for Fort Madison to the pulpit, raised his nose with a critical the present month. indignant citizens. telegraph to his father, who was at Keokuk, Governor Parker, of New Jersey, has writ At a meeting of the Army of the Tennes to come home, that one of the children was air toward the scene of the forthcoming performance, it was too much for us the repression waa almost convulsive. Trip wore an alert, attentive air, befitting a ten a letter to the President of the Colum see, held in Madison, Wis. on the W.

Oh wal, yis I'm a comin' to that are. It was all about them sheep I expect very sick. He then returned home. The bus Labor Reform Convention, formally de F. Sherman was re-elected President CoL two boys reported in the afternoon of kill clining the candidaey for Vice-President of they was the instrument the devil sot to work, to tempt Parson Morrel to laugh in Dayton, Recording Secretary Gen.

Hicklen ing their mother, and stated that it was self-defense, and gave themselves up. They the United States. looper, Corresponding Secretary, and Gen. prayer-time. A call has been issued for a meeting in Farce, Treasurer.

Gen. John A. Logan was are in safe keeping. Their father returned they had quite a stir, like a gineral train-in'. The hosses, they was hitched all up and down the stalls, a-stompin' and swit-chin' their tails, and all the wimmen was a-talkin, and they hed up everybody round for witnesses, and finally Parson Morrel he says: says he, 'jest let me tell you the story jest as it happened, and if you don't every one of you laugh as hard as I did, why, then, I'll give "The parson he was a master-hand at lYe see.

there was old Dick. Ike bell Chicago on the 18th of the Illinois State selected Orator. Toledo, Ohio, was selected wether, was the fightin'est old crittur that Democratic Central Committee. as the next meeeting place, on the 17th and Two reputable planters near Brownville, 18th of October, 1873. The Chicago Tribune of the 2d says: "A ever yer see.

Why, Dick would butt at his own shadder, and everybody said it was a shame the old crittur should be left Instinct or Turtles. Audubon, the naturalist, states that at certain places on the coast of Florida sea turtles, those huge, stolid-lookirg reptiles on which Aldermen are fed at the expense of tax-payers, possess an extraordinary faculty oi finding places. Working their way up out of the reach of tide-water with their flippers, quite a deep hole is excavated, in which a batch of eggs are deposited, and then carefully covered up. On reaching the water thev not unfre-quently swim three hundred miles out at sea, foraging for appropriate food. When another batch of eggs are developed, after a lapse ot about fourteen days, they will return unerringly in a direct line, even in the darkest night, and visit the buri.

i eggs. Removing the sand, more are deposited and secured. Away they go again as before. They know instinctively the day and hour when the young brood, incubated by solar rays, will break the shell, and are promptly at the spot to liberate them from their prison. As soon as fairly out of the hole, the mother-turtle leads them down the bank to the waves, and there ends her parental solicitude and maternal duties.

reliable grain merchant, who has been all named Benjamin H. Wray and John A Wilson, recently got into a quarrel at the breakfast table over a trade made two years over Northern Iowa, says crops of small to run loose, 'cause he run at the children A few minor accidents occurred in Chicago on the 4th, from the use of fire arms in the hands of boys. On the North Side a man and scared the women half out their wits. grain are the best in ten years. Corn looks ago.

resulting in Wray shooting Wilson sound, orthodox dog, who smells a possible heresy, and deems it his duty to watch the performances narrowly. Evidently he felt called upon to see who and what were to occupy that pulpit in his master's absence. Up rose Parson Summeral, and up went Trip's nose, vibrating with intense attention. The Parson began in his high-cracked roice to intone the hymn: Sing to the Lord aloud," when Trip broke in with a dismal howl. The Parson went on to give directions to the deacon, in the same voice in which he had been reading, so that the whole effect of the performance was somewhat as follows: Wal, I used to live out in that parish in average." named John McNamara was creating a dis through the heart, killing him instantly.

settin' off a story, and afore he'd done, he got 'em all in sich a roar they didn't know where to leave off. Finally, they give sentence that there hadn't no temptation The printers in Milwaukee struck for ad turbance and resisted the attempts of Wray then shot himself in the breast, and vanced pay on the 29th ult. police officer to arrest him, when the latter them days, and Lem sudoc and 1 used to go out sparkin' Sunday nights to see the Larkin gals-and we had to go right 'cross the lot where Dick was eo we used to go would die. Three boys, two white and one colored. A Mrs.

Mazique, near Pine Bluff, Ark, fired a pistol twice, killing McNamara and seriously wounding a friend of his who was iook mm dui sucn as is common to man; but they advised him afterward allers to on the 29th attempted to start a fire by and stand at the fence and call, and Dick aged about twelve, were found dead on Bayou St. John, near New Orleans, on the aiding to resist the officer. pouring coal oil on the wood; the can ex evening of the 80th ult. It is supposed they pray witn nis eyes snet, and the parson he confessed he orter 'a done it, and meant to do better in future, and so they ploded, and she was burned to death. would see us, and put down his head and run at us full chisel, and come bunt agin the fence, and then I'd ketch him by the horns and hold him, while Lem run asd were killed in the afternoon by lightning.

settiea it. The packet Hope collapsed a fine near W. on the 1st, scalding one man fatally, and three or four others Two butchers of Royalton, a 6mall village near Cleveland, Ohio, having a grudge against a farmer named Conrad Schweitzer, living about seven miles from Cleveland, went to Schweitzer's house the other day, "So, boys," said Sam, who always drew got over the fence other side tho lot, and then I'd let go and Lem would holler and 'Sing to the Lord "(Please to turn out that dog) 'And make a Joyful a moral, "ye see it 1 arns you you must seriously. take care what ye look, at, ef ye want to News has been received that the steamer where they found no one at home except The dwelling of Mr. Querburn, at Pine Bluffs, was burned on the 29th and Mr.

Querburn and his daughter were burned to death while attempting to escape. A few days ago, at Fort Smith, Fred. Grosse attacked Miss Annie McQueen, a dressmaker, with an iron bar, striking her on the head and felling her to the earth. keep from laughin' in Christian Union. child about nine years old, named Betty The dog was turned out, and the choir did their best to make a iovful noise, but shake a stick at him, and away he'd go lull butt at Lem, and Lem would ketch his horns and hold him till I came oyer that was the way we managed Dick but ef ho come sudden up behind a feller, he'd Fannie, which recently sailed from New York for Cuba, with a company of filibusters on board, had run ashore on the coast of that waiter, a grand-daughter or Schweitzer.

CI xi a -a we boys were upset for the day, delivered over to the temptations of Satan, and Two New York sparrows were sacri oeizuig me cnua, tney pourea coal oil on her clothes and set them on fire. The cries ficed by a New Jersey landlord who had lunged in waves and billows of hyster- Thinking he had killed her he retired to a Island, and was burned to prevent her falling into the hands of the Spaniards; it is further stated that sixteen men of the expedition heard that they would kill mosquitoes. cal glKKle, from which neither winks nor of the child brought her grandmother to the house, but the child was so badly burned Uo turned tne poor birds loose in his frowns from Aunt Lois, nor the awful room and shot himself through the heart. Cause, jealousy. house, and the next morning only a few Thk river and lake frontage of Chicago is nearly sixty miles, and it is computed that on an average one hundred and seventy-five persons are annually drowned in those The Emperor of Brazil has issned a decree abolishing a custom which, has prevailed at the court of Rio Janeiro for generations, of kissing the imperial hand.

At the recent exhibition of oil-paintings in Paria, all pictures which might have excited hatred against the Germans were refused admittance. had been captured and shot. that she died in a few hours. 1 fear of the tithlne-man. nor the comfort feathers and bones remained of them.

Professor Agassi? and party JefL Callao, on 2 Twenty lady clerks were dropped from the iiure uiunBuunna new coai mine near give him a butt in the small of his back that would make him run on all fours one while he was a great rogue, Dick was. Wal, that summer 1 remember they had old Deacon Titkins for tithing-man and I tell you he give it to the boys lively. There warn't no sleepin' nor no playin', for the deacon had eyes like a gimblet, and he was as quick as a cat, and the youngsters hed to look out for them ing bits of fennel and orange-poel, passed us bv irrandmother, could recover us. while the mosquitoes sung a cheery song me 1st or June for the North, i 4 rolls of the Internal Revenue Office in Wash Limaville, on the 4th, resulting in the oi triumpn. T2vervbodv felt, to be sure, that here death by suffocation of eleven persons, ington, on the 3d, there being no money ap ine iiovernment of Pern has lately suppressed two newspapers and imprisoned wm a trial that called for some Indulgence.

propriated to pay their salaiies. Eight of the bodies of the unfortunate victims had been recovered up to the morning "iTnl frp. oven among the stoniest meir eauors. "Workingmen's New Orleans has a Accommodation Bank," The President has appointed Martin Hayes to be Postmaster at Cincinnati, O. Recent Central American advices state that paints, betrayed a transient quiver ol the oi ine am..