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0 Oswdmaw from First Fa. ten years' standing In Congress, as to whether United States Bonds should be printed by a private bank note oempany or the Bureau of Printing. this question, he said, was decided oy an act of Congress two or three years ago, and ne only carried out Its Instructions. It was a perfectly barren sabjeet almost. The other sixteen questions related to the report of the Glover Committee.

That committee, he said, bad been afforded every faculty for examination of the accounts of the Treasury Department, with the assistance of experts, and they had not found that anybody had stolen money from the Government. They found some irrejrularitlee, but no dishonesty, and they bounced one honest, pure minded man, Dr. lindeman.) and be a Democrat. Into bis grave on what I honestly believe was a false and unfounded charge. I am glad to say to you that for three Tears not one single dollar belonging to the United States has been lost or wasted la the Treasury Department.

The Glover report was made to a Democratic house, but the latter did not regard it worth printing, and the report was finally printed by some newspaper at its own expense or Glover's, I dont know which. The Secretary then proceeded to discuss the financial policy of resumption and the history of silver coinage, going over the ground for the most part oov ered oy the Portland speech. FTELTPHIS. ABleealeas Dael. MKjfpnis, July 34.

A duel took place yes terdarv. at a point 14 miles east of Columbus, in the State of Alabama, between Capt. Humphries and Major Moore. Five hundred people witnessed the afiair. The combatants tired upon each other at the distance of 12 paces with Smith and Wesson revolvers without effect.

Major Moore fired immediately on turning. Capt. Humphries took cool, calm, deliberate aim. ''After the first tire friends pressed the seconds to take advantage of the.regulaMons ei the code, which was done, and the affair ended. Both of their honors having been satisfied.

The ouel grew out of difficulties In politics. OSWEGO, If. Y. Flaarlos Mills Burned. Oswego, S.

July 24. The Umpire Re" eiprocity and Lake Ontario flouriag mills' with elevators attached, were burned to" night. Loss $150,000. The adjoining build" lngs, occupied by Doolittle, Ames A millers J. L.

McWhorter, Insurance agent etowell Ames, grain merchants; B. C. Frost, shipper, and the Dominion Telegraph Company could not be saved, and are also In ruins. SALISBURY, MD. CameaceaB.BC Dlsstras Fire.

Salisbury, July 24. The large mills of Jackson A together with their extensive lumber yards, nave been burning slnoe noon. The fire is now spreading into 'the lower end of town, and fears are entertained that the whole town will be destroyed. A call for assistance has been sent to other towns. The Fir Ustfer Central.

Balisbcky, July 24. Tsro steam engines have arrived by special train from Wilmington, and the fire is now under control. The Jackson planing mill and lumber yard and a granary were the only property destroyed. LOSS S50.000. NASHVILLE.

Attempt ta Rescue RlaensUaer. KASHvnxErJuly 24. Collector Woodcock jnst received Intellicenoe of an attempt by eight men to release from Overton jail the Illicit distiller named Thompson Moore the night after his arrest and incarceration. They attempted to procure the keys of the jail from the jailer, who told them the keeper of the hotel had them. The sheriff and posse soon after appeared and fired a volley into them, when they decamped.

FALL RIVER, MASS. The Strikers Uaei Intlmldaliaa. Fall River, July 24. A disturbance oc curred at the nail Kiver Manufacturing Company's last night in which two men were beaten. This morning another work tng spinner was assaulted on the street.

All spinners at the fail Jiver print worKs quit work to day, owing It is thought to lntimi aauon. OflAHA. A Desperate Fight With Thieves and Mnr dorer. Omaha, July 34. A desperate fight oo asmvA4l Mnttrlair nn Ttfis 1 a 'ranTr in saTi brara River, Cattle county, between atparty of detectives and a gang of thieves and murderers who infest that region.

One of the detectives is missing and one badly wounded, and one of the robbers shot In the groin and will probably die. OTTAWA. International Cricket Match. Ottawa, July 24. The International cricket match between American andjCana dian teams will take place here in the latter part of August, and last three days.

THE TURF." Saratesm Kaeea. Sabatoga, July 24. Fikbt Rack. Three quarter of a mile dash. won, Wal lenstein second, Bonnie wood third, all lap ping, line; Secosd Race.

jPot Sarat. cup. Was won by Bramble by six lengths. Wilful second. Loulanler third.

Time: 4:11. Tuibd KACK.Mile dash. Was won by Jericho, Skylark second, Blossom third. Time: 1:49. Fourth race.

Was a selling race mile and a quarter. Won by Kipper In 2:1834, Jfannette second. CUcaar Jockey Clab Races. Chicago. July 24.

Fifteen thousand people attended the Jockey Club races to day. The greatest Interest centered in tke special race between Hopeful and Rarus for a purse of $5000 divided. In the first heat Hopeful took the lead at the first turn and held it for half a mile, when he broke and Rarus passed him and won by three lengths. Time half mile 1:01 H. mile 2:11.

The second beat was a repetition of the first np to the naif mile pole, where Earns closed up on Eopeful, and gradually oat trotting him won aeain In 2:21. Jn the third heat Rarus got the best of out, ana went to cue quarter in. 3St. to naif In 1:07 5. won In Hopeful barely saved his In break 1 lng badly all around.

The 2:26 race was won by Charley Ford, whose best time was 2:22. BASE BALl7 BrFFAZ July 2d Bnffaloa 7, Provi sddfiCO 4 Cleveland, July 34. Troys Cleveland 0. Washixgtox, Jnly 24. Nationals 6, Al Danys 4.

Poughkeepsie, July 84. Orange 2, Poughkeepsles 3. CRICKET. Balttmoke. Btaten Island 103, Baltimore S.

niSCELLAIIEOUS. July 2. The Foray the Marble Works here were Urned to day. Loss estimated at 50,000. Fbobt Rotax, Jnly 24.

Testimony Sot the Commonwealth in the case ef Aick man, on trial for the suzrder of Foster, is all in, and the argument will commenoe tomorrow. Fort MoiraoB, July 2U Richmond Com laaiidery No. 2, Knights of Templar, are to make a pilgrimage here next week and go into camp on the site of tke old Hygea Hotel for a few days. I Milwaukee. July 24.

The Democratic State Convention will meet at ICadison, Au U8t.8tfc. i A cJbeap country seat a stump. r' jou City Derrick. DOmttlC Hew Tom, July a. Octton Wet receipts none gross 21 futures closed barely steady sales 08,000 bales.1 July U.74 1178.

Anjrust Beptember October 10.99, November 10.7010.71, December 10 68. Jan nary l0.7l10.T2,Febrary lOSO 10.83, March ao.9io,96. Cotton firm; sales 2146, Middling Uplands 1134, Orleans UTi consolidated net receipts 834; exports to Oreat Britain 609. Hides quiet and' firm, business moderate and prices unaltered. Flour, 'grades under t5 75 scarce 'and wanted for export at full prices, traes above (6 75 dull and In buyers' favor Southern flour steady: wheat spring quiet without Important change, winter 91e.

lower, very moderate export demand, ungraded winter red II Of corn ilo better, moderately active, ungraded 4445: oats 37, NO. 8 39, do. White 37W38.NO. 2. 41 hay steady, fair Inquiry, shipping 446 hops moderate demand, firm, yearlings $4 i7.

Coffee steady and quiet: sugar very, stiong, light trade, common Cuba 6H, fair to good refinery 694 6H, prime 7, refined unchanged and firm molasses, offerings small, holders very firm rice firm, but active, Carolina J73, the latter for choice rosin quiet, 91 potatoes dull, in favor turpentine doll and pork a shade stronger, moderately active, new mese, spot. $9, August ts 778 80, middles steady and quiet, long clear quoted 4, short clear 5, long and short clear 5 lard, shade firmer, moderate trade, prim steam, spot, $6 0236 August 5.97)4 6, September 6.07 10; whisky firmer. 07 freights firm. Bt. Louis.

July 94. Flour quiet and unchanged wheat steady, for cash No. 2 red fall 986, lower forf utures, July, 96J4 bid August, 96J675a September, 96 97)6 October, No. 8 red fall 93393M corn diUl, S3 cash, 33H bid July, August, 3SM35H Bentember; oats steady, SOU cash and July, 246 August, 2196 bid September; whisky $105; pork nominally ts 753 9, job; bulk meats entirely nominal bacon quiet, shoulders 37s 4. clear ribs 5.05, clear sides 5.3535.40; lard, BH bid.

Sr. Louis, July 24. Hogs fairly active. Yorkers to Baltimore S3 053 70, good to hmvv nhinnine S3 653 60. roush Si 8093 25.

receipts 2731, sbipmenta 825; cattle fairly active ana steaay, gooa to cuoioe uoavjr shipping steers $4 9025 10, light $4 4094 65. Colorados $3 754 40, (rrass Texans f2 50 3 25, graes natives S3 50 a 412)6, receipts 1500, shipments 2000; sheep steady, 92 6033 60, receipts 600, shiDments 250. Chicago. July 24. Flour quiet hut firm wheat unsettled, active but weak and lower, No.

1 Chicago spring $1 eash, 90) Au m.t Kn An qa nanh. 04H Ann list. 2Xi gen tember, No. 3 do. 87, rejected 70 corn dull, weak asd lower, 35 cash.

August, 86 September; oats dull, shade lower, 2794 oneh, 2596 August, 26 September pork in good demand, tending upward, $8 30 bid cash, $8 25 27)6 August. $8 8598 37)6 September, $8 408 42)6 October lard fairly active, a shade hiffher. 5.7096.70)6 cash and August, 6.7695.77)6 September, 6.77)696.80 UctoDer; duuc meats gooa aemana, a shade higher, shoulders 3.60. clear rib 4.30, clear sides 4.70; whisky steady and un changed. Chicago, Jnly 24.

The Drovers' Journal reports: nogs reeeinGS esoo, smnmencs 4400, all grades better, mixed packing $39 3 35. llicht t3 6694, choice heavy $3 4093 90 cattle reeelDt 675. shipments 3800, market a shade more life, a good many were bought lor New York at 4 7595 25. lor I air to gooa shldping $3 9094 60, steady for feeders and stockera at S2 6093 30: butchers' unchanged. Western cattle quiet and easy.

Texans 2 95 93 50, Colorado natives sa 00 a 4 30; snoop airlv active and weak. At the close wheat unsettled and easier, not qnetably lower corn easier, not queta bly lower: oats anil nd lower, 27959)6, July, 26? biaAugust, 36 '3 Heptemoer porx stronger, 96c higher; lard stronger, 2)60. Wilmington. July 24 Spirits of turpen tine dull 35; rosin quiet, strained $1. food Btralned Si 05, crude turpentine steady, ard II, yellow dip ii 75, virgin $2 25 tar firm tl corn steady, prime white 56.

CiHOmnATi. July 24. Flour steady and unchanged wheat heavy, owing to limited freight facilities eastward at 959l corn strong, 40941 oats firmer, 31935; pork firm, 98; lara in iair aemana, current maae 0.70; bulk meats strons and hiffher. shoulders 396. short rib 4.1094 12,1, closed 4.20 bid.

4.25 asked, short clear held 4.60: bacon in good demand, a shade hiffher, shoulders 4. clear ribs 4.8094.90, clear sides 6.12)6; whisky steady, tl 06 butter quiet and unchanged sugar steady and unchanged hogs active and firm for lieht and dull for heavy, com mon 2 80 93 36, light (3 6093 75, packing $3 40 93 60, butchers' $3 6093 80, a reoeipts 1300, shipments 400. Louisville, July 24. Floor steady and unchanged; wheat dull, red and amber 95 996 corn steady, white 46, mixed 41 oats auiet but steady, white 36. mixed 34: pork nominal: lard quiet, choice leaf In tleroes 794, do.

kegs 8)6 bulk meats quiet, shoul ders 396, clear no 4)6. clear sides 454 bacon firmer, shoulders clear rib 476, clear sides 6)495)6; sugar cured nams 9)5911; whisky steady, $1 05. Baltimore. July 24. Flour steady and unchanged; Southern wheat quiet, easy ana lower, western lower out steaay at tne decline.

Southern red $1 0891 10, amber $1 1191 13, No.l Maryland 1 is. No. 2 Western winter red spot 1 11)31 11)4. July tl 1191 11)6, August tl 109491 11, September tl 11)6 91 lift Southern corn nominal, in the absence of reoeipts, Western quiet and steady, Southern white 62, yellow 49. Baltimore, July 24.

Oats steady. Southern 40542. Western white 38939, do. mixed 36937)6, Pennsylvania 38939; hay strong, without change provisions quiet and unchanged: butter, toesS grades scarce and firm, Western packed 11193: egffs firmer, co flee quiet and unchanged; whisky steady and unchanged freights unchanged. WONKY, STOCKS, ETC New York, July 24, Evening.

Money easy at 2)693)6 exchange dull. 4.8394 4.84 Governments steady, new 6's 104)6, 4)'s 106M. 4's 102)6 State bonds dull. New York, July 24, Evening. Sub Treasury balances coin currency 136.960.514.

New XOBX, July 24. Closing stock report oaswaUMarsM neal ao Qntnuilvttt I4ia wuenuiw Kxnrese. 106 87 7 4634 148 77 a 155 62 7s 688 9434 8034 I0934 i65 87 8 19g 36 hi 15la 69s 8l8 118 27 77 87 "a 98 714 139 wells Farro Kxpress American Merchants jsxpiess unwea Dveteo scau. Union FaeUie Nsw BLrui. Bt.

Paul Toieaoaaa wsc Fort Warns Ohio and XI 11 put Chloaro and Alton. Hannibal and 8. Paaama. ex dividend Deutwara, Laox. aad cionigaa ventral.

N. T. Oeatral and Bria. Lake Bhore and M. Illinois Ceatnu Olevaiazul aad Flttsbanr CTMeags ana Honkwssten prslerredV.

Bock xiia Western Union Telarrapb' 90 8am Francisco. July 24. Closing prices of mining stocks eai Alpha. 20 Aita. 164 434 48 I1 8 4 3 4 21 '4 4 3la 8 14 Ket ABaloaer.

OalUornia Ooitsoudta Virginia. iTwa Kureka Carry. urana Julia OonsoUdatea. Mexican Norcoarn Overaiaa.MMMn, Yellow FOREIGN D1ARKTS. London, uly 24Noon.

ConsoUf or money 97 15 account 98 ll 16d uverpool, July li, Noon. Cotton firmer Middling Uplands 6 9 16d Middling Orleans sales 10.CO0 bales; for speculation and export 210 reoelota all American. Futures opened partially 83d. better: uplands. Low Middling clause, Auffust and Sejtember delivery, 6 1696 17 September and October 19 320., October and JSovember November and December 6 6 1696 October 696 21 futures, buyers now at last night's prices.

Ixnoost. July 24, 1 p. At. Consols 97 15 16. Paris, July 24, 1 P.

SC. Beates 82 r. 90. London, July 2, 2:30 P. neole de creased 46000.

Liverpool. July 24. 9 P. M. iCiddZlnar TJo Vplandj 7161., Good Ordinary 6 3 Ordinary Futures firmer, more ouyere at last quotations.

axdon. July 34. 4 F. M. Oonsoia lor money 98 1 16.

farm. July 24, 4 P. M. Rentes 82 r. 8c London.

July 24. 4:30 P. M. TJ. 8.

bonds, sew 6's, Illinois Central 90)6. The amount of bullion gone into bank on baianee tb day is Paris, Jnly 24. The Bank of France statement shows an Increase of specie for the week of 11,475.000 francs. Liverpool. July 24, 5 P.

M. Sales of American 7200 bales; Uplands. Low Middling clause, October delivery, Futures closed steady. Bio Janeiro, July 24. Coffee quiet and unchanged.

Rio good firsts 6:100 rets? 10 kilos. Average daily reeeinte 10,500 bags weekly shipment 39.000 bags weekly srles 65.000. Stock 94,000. Santos, July 24. Coffee quiet, prices nearly nominal, Santos 6yooo961200 rets per 10 kilos; average daily reoeipts 1400 baffs; shipments for the week 27,000 sales for the week 9000 bags stock 18,000 bags.

WXAffHZB FBOBAB1LITIB8. Washington. July 24. Indications. For the Middle States, partly cloudy weather, local rains in the southern portion, east to south winds, a slight rise In barometer, and stationary or a slight aU in temperature.

For the South Atlantic States, easterly to southerly winds, partly cloudy weather and areas 01 rain, a sugnt rise in barometer, no decided change in temperature. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, partly cloudy weather, local rains, variable winds, mostly from east to the south, rising temperature during Saturday, and a slight cnange in tne Darometer. RIVER. WEATHER, STEAMBOATS. Memphis.

July 24. Noon. River fell 1 inch. Departed: Port Fads and Ouachita Belle for Bt. Louis, Gold Dust for Vlcks burg.

Weather sultry and threatening. Memphis. July 2i. Evening. River sta tionary.

Passed E. O. 8 tan ard. City of vioEsourg, james uowara lor Bt. iais, Annie P.

Silver tor New Orleans. All passed without lanaing. weather threatening. Vicksbcrg, July 24. Weather cloudy and warm.

Thermometer 89. The river has fallen 1 inch. Arrived Colorado. No boats np or down. Cincinnati.

Jnly 24. River 6 feet and fallinff. Weather cloudy and warm. Pittsburg, July 24. Elver 26 inches and stationary, weather cloudy and warm.

Cairo. July 24. Arrived: Centennial. from New Orleans, at 7 P. M.

City of Vlcks burg, from St. Louis at 7. River 15 feet 4 Inches and falling, weather clear. Max! mum thermometer 82. Evansville.

July 24. Weather cloudy and warm. River rising, 4 feet 8 lnones by tne gauge. ffHa FASSBS. Port Fads.

July 24, 6 P. M. Wind west soutnweet, ires a. Arrived: British steamship Colombo, Knuasen, master, at eas a. rrom Mar Unique, to A.

B. French in ballast. British bark Eliza Campbell. Jones, mas ter, fourteen aays rrom niatanzas, to J. a.

earners, Daitast. Sailed Schooner R. B. Locke, for Roatan MARINE. New York, July 24.

Arrived Albemarle from Norfolk, Somerset from Australia, uenaeiana. Australian. Ai rived out Aurora from New Orleans, Telegraph from Charleston, Ottawa from Bull River, Lucie Rodman from East Pascagoula, Forest Belie from Pensaoola. Homeward Arracan for New York, July 24. Arrived: Algiers, France, Adriatic, Richmond from Rich mond.

Arrived out: Othello, Glamorgan, Laura, Kjorn ruajoao. Homeward Scioto for New Orleans. Tbe Tbiea French Graces, During the period of directorial government in France, three beautiful women the Three Graces, as they were styled by tbe madrigal writers of the time enjoyed, and. according to the unanimous testimony of their oontem poraries, fully merited the exclusive prestige of incomparable beauty these were Therese Cabarrus (M'me Taliien). Josephine Beanharnais and M'me Be camier.

Their celebrity dated from Thsrmidor. when Paris, exulting in the aownian ot itooeepierre ana tne concia sion of the reign of terror, forgot its past troubles in tne aeiinoos excitement of the hour, and hailed with feverish eager ness every opportunity of gratifying its thirst tor pleasure and encrvesoence of luxury." Then, like "three flowers springing from an extinct volcano." this trio of sirens emerged from the relative obscurity of private life into the full blaze of notoriety, became the supreme arbiters of taste, and introduced that semi classical costume which none but themselves oould have ventured to adopt. Here is M'me Taliien, sketched with his usual picturesque accuracy oy cariyie: Her sweemng tresses encoded by glittering antique fillet, bright dyed tunic of the Greek woman her little feet naked as in au tiqne statues, with mere sandals, and winding string of ribbon, defying the frost!" Here is Josephine, described bv herself in a letter addressed to the future Princesse de Cbimay, and inviting her to be present at a ball about to be given at the Hotel Thelusson Come in your peacn oioseom ssirc, ior it is essential that our dress should be the Sims. I shall wear a red handkerohief tied in the Creole fashion, a bold attempt on my part, but admirably suited to you. whose complexion, ii not is Innaltelv fresher than mine.

Our rivals must be eclipsed and utterly routed This red handkerohief, tied in the peculiar manner alluded to. was subseauentlv dis carded by both ladies, but constantly worn by M'me Recamier. who considered it particularly becoming to her, even during tbe latter years of her life. In other respects similarity of costume was not uniformly adhered to; while M'me Taliien set the fashion of diaphanous tunics, and Josephine collected the rarest onyxes, agates, and cameos wherewith to adorn her luxuriant hair, M'me Recamier selected, a the most appropriate accompaniment to her surpassing loveliness, the graceful appendage of the veil. Nothing could have more delicious ly harmonized with the perfect oval of her face and the slender but exquisitely molded symmetry of her form in Cos way's life like portrait of her we see the efi'ect of this simple, but all important adjunct, and comprehend theeuthusiasm of tbe Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz.

who, when asked what had pleased him most during his stay in Paris, replied: "Since I have seen M'me Recamier, I can remember nothing else There must, indeed, have been something exceptionally attractive in a woman whose powers of fascination were so irresistible, and who to the very latest moment of her existence exercised so enduring an influence over all with whom she came in contact; and as she does not appear to have been endowed with any extraordinary abilities, or even to have particularly shone in conversation, the devotion of such men as Chateaubriand, Benjamin Constant, and Ballanche mav be regarded as perhaps the rarest and most significant homage ever tiered at the shrine of beauty. Belgratia The Rev. Dr. Wilkinson, of the Rochester Seminary, says in the Independent, that "culture, under its cacographio name has acquired a somewhat obnoxious odor in the nostrils of many people." But he will not say that its ill repute is undeserved: "for the falsa conception of culture that sought to mask itself under that entirely respectable name has its character very happily represented in the saroastls misspelling in which the ready popular wit has taken its revenge upon the pretentions aft'dcta tion." Amrmtr the curiosities at the Berlin Libra ry are the Bible which Charles I bore with kirn to the scaffold. Lnther's original manuscript translation of the Holy Scriptures and the manuscript Goethe's Faust.

Lnther's manuscript shews many erasures, additions and amendment, particularly in the bock of Job. A Shocking Fellow; AOIsub Who GaJvaale Bat tery 8an Francisco Chronicle. Geo. Bell, ot Portland, Oregon, now visiting friends in this city, possesses the remarkable peculiarity of being aqle to deliver a shock as peroeptioie ana distinct as that from agalvanio battery. On the evening of the Fourth he attended the ball given by the Master Mari ners' Association, at nm riii.

fend there created considerable amusement for those who knew the secret of his powers, by the way in wnica ne treated the ladies to whom he was introduced and with whom he mingled in the dance. A Chronicle reporter called upon him at tbe residence of his brother in law, VI. F. Peck, on Mission street, last evening, to request an explanation of tbe phenomenon. Yon can call ic a phenomenon or anything else." said Mr.

Bell, But I can give no explanation of it. I simply possess the power of giving these shocks, and that's about all there is about it. I don't care about any senseless publicity on the subject, though you can mention lb ix you waut iiu, niu voi i juti uuw in works. There is a good deal of electriai ty in my system, and when I catch a person by each hand, it seems to pass from me to hint. You've seen people take hold ox the Handles or a battery well, mv hands are iost like those han dles.

Give me your hands and I will show you. Mr. Bell took the hands of the reporter in his and pressed them tightly. A shock of electricity in no way differing from that given by a galvanic battery was received." "You see," Baid the living battery. "when draw in my breath, the eleottio current seems to acquire great power." Tbe reporter felt the truth of the re maik as the sharp, prickly sensation increased, as if a few hundred invisible needles were being shot through his aims There, you have the whole thing, description and experience, as much as I can give," said he, as he dropped the hands of the reporter.

"I understood you oould pick up needles. Mr. Bell, with your fingers as with a magnet," said the searcher for facts. Oh, no, I never could do that. These stories are always exaggerated, you know," replied he.

as he lit his cigarette and blew the white smoke out through tne open window. I presume it furnishes yourself and friends abundant amusement when you desire it," suggested the reporter. Well, yes I can have some fun now and then. I give the shock, you know. when no one expects it, and often I frighten the ladies when I place one hand upon a shoulder and grasp their hand with the other.

They take it in good part nearly always, though I now and then get into a little trouble with those cross grained specimens of humanity whe sever can take a joke." now do the ladies treat your elec trical powers Are they more frightened man tne men i "Of course. Did you ever know a lady who wouldn't scream louder than a man could when ahe saw a child fall down stairs Those who don't know me at all sometimes get frightened, but the ones who do, usually say: Oh, how you shock me, Mr. and laugh. I shook the ladies often, bat I can't help it, you know." At this point Mr. Bell anuounc ed that he had an engagement to nil.

and the reporter withdrew. A Wonderful Fountain An Artcslaa Well That Famished convenient Exhibition. an I li tis amis (Ontario) Observer. One of the moat wonderful natural phenomena ever witnessed was seen by a large crowd of people a few days ago at the home of Mr. Peter Taylor, who lives just outside of the corporation.

For some time Mr. Taylor has had a number of men boring for water in the southwest corner of his grounds. When a depth of about one hundred and fifty feet had been reached Mr. Taylor heard a peculiar rumbling sound, apparently issuing from the hole, and, judging that eoinettuag unusual was about to happen, warned his men to move a safe distance from the well. Scarcely had they done so when a fountain of muddy water shot straight no into the air with terrific force, carrying np the boring pipe it ith it as far as the fastenings would allow, and scattering the mud.

water and stones in all directions. The subterranean noises appeared gradually to increase in violence, and as they did so the expelling force, whatever it was, seemed to be proportionally augmented, until the stone shaped column obtained a height of fully one hundred and fifty feet. Come idea of the mysterious subterranean power which supplied the motor for this exhibition of natural water works may be conveyed by the fact that stones weighing fully live, six and even eight pounds were shot up into the air to a considerable height, while showers of rounded pebbles of smaller size fell like hailstones upon a circle of several yards around the hole. One Jarge sized stone struck a timber of the derrick in its upward course, and glancing off, was thrown several hundred yards into Mr. Wm.

Taylor's grounds on the opposite side of the road. The wind was blowing pretty strong from the south at the time, and the result was that the roof of Mr. Taylor's large brick house one of the largest in town and its south side were bespattered with the muddy mixture, there being actually a puddle of clay, pebbles and water several inches deep on the roof. Showers of the same mixture were cariied over the house and for soma distance along the street north of his lot. After the extraordinary spectacle had lasted for nearly an hour and a half, tbe fountain appeared to make one last grand effort to do better than its best, and then gradually to lose its ascending force.

The series of jerking leaps for the expelling power seemed all along, to be irregular and intermissive rather than continuous became weaker and weaker; the steady whirling sound whioh accompanied the exhibition, and which can best be described as resembling very closely the noise of a st am fire engine, gradually lessened, and at abont 5:80 Mr. Taylor was rather relieved to Hod that his magnificent but inconveniently powerful lawn sprinkler had disappeared, for the present at least, within subterranean recesses. The rumbling sound continued for a few minutes and then ceased, though the water which filled up the pipe to within twenty three feet of the surface of the earth was disturbed for some time afterward by a bubbling noise. The Emperor of Austria's apartments at Ischl, his summer home, are very simple two large, plain rooms, covered with India matting, and simply furnished in dark, sober looking walout. By his bedside stands, before a prie dieux a silver crucifix with ivory Chris tus, the gift of his father, the late Archduke Franz Karl, on his first comm anion, as the inscription at its base tells you, and which always accompanies bim on his travels.

On his writing table lie some coarse Virginia cigars for be is an inveterate smoker and on a shelf above is a well worn military can and a few books in several languages. Among them are several English and American, for his Majesty is an accomplished linquist. A ukase of the Czar provides that for thn army, navy and frontier guard there shall be a levy of 218,000 men in the year 1879. The convicts In the Connecticut State prison hiss and jeer at those who try to preach revival sermons to them. A Hals Boy 'a Memory.

Xatoaeralnary Fswers ff4s Iaf sf Tei Years. Bangor (Me.) Conunerelal. Them ia in this citV one Of thd most remarkable boys in the world, probably. lie is a son of Col. roller, ex poatmaouet of Bangor, and is now 10 years of age.

His intellect is perfectly wonaeriui, uu almost sees beyond belief. The first that his friends noticed of his precocity was about a year ngo, when they accidentally discovered that he was almost infallible on any date he had ever seen or heard. He was out West with his parents at the time, and as he was walking in company with some relatives, in a cemetery, they observed that he would look on a tombstone, read the date of the death recorded, and the exact of the parson buried there, and then glance up and tell what day of the week the dead person was born on. This happened on several oeoasions, and but little attention was paid to it. Finally, however, one of his relatives took pains to look into an old almanac covering some of the dates he had mentioned, and found that the day of the week had been given correctly in every instance.

Tin caused them to ask him questions, when it was discovered that he oould almost instantly tell the day of the week on which any date within the last seventy five years felL Only seeterday the writer gave tbe lad dates from IS 12 to 1S40. and in every case Charlie (that is his given name) gave the day of the week corresponding to that date, and gave it fiorreotlv. Tne ion ires time occupied in any one case was eight seconds, and the shortest was three seconds, the average being about five seconds. It should be remembered that while he answered there was no book or any other article near him from which he could get any aid. If he has once heard the date of birth.

marriage or death of any of his friends he. remembers it, and of course, from what has been said above, knows on what day of the week the date felL If one calls bis attention to any person and informs him that the individual was born on a certain day of the week or month, he will on seeing that person months afterward speak np and say that that man's birthday falls on a certain day. whioh is the date he was casually told eo long before. Not a great while ago he walked np to one of his relatives and informed him that it was so and so's birthday, the date of the person's birth having been told him long ago. or ou riositv.the relative took Charlie by the hand and walked to the place of business cf the friend mentioned.

Charlie." re marked the relative to the friend, says this ia vonr birthday is it I Weil. 1 didn'V think of it before," replied the frierd. "but he is right this is my birthday." He never forgets a date that he has once fixed in his memory, and is al most invaluable as a statistician. He remembers when every President of the United States was born, when inaugu rated as President, and how long he served and when he died. Any of these dates he nves with scarcely a second's thought, as well as hundreds of others oi a use nature, unoe in a wmie ne makes a momentary mistake, but cor TAta himself almmt innfant.lv.

never proceeding till be is absolutely certain ot what ne nas aireauy saia. A still more remarkable fact is, that he recollects everything that bedoes, remembers on what day he did it, where he was at the time and what were tbe circumstances that led him to do it. For instance, he will tell where he was on any day within the past two years, and what he was doing, i ortner, ne remembers and can tell everything that his friends have done, providing he has seen them do it. and tell on what date and what day of the week they did it. In mathematics it would be diffioult to find a boy of twice his age that can equal him.

He computes the most difficult fractions in his head, and will add. subtract multiply or divide them without difficulty. This is all the more wonder ful, considering that he has never been taught anything except now to read, One evening about tea time he was in formed that the double of two is four. He was informed that the process of get ting that result was caiiea multiplication, and that it was all given in the arithmetic. He immediately got au arithmetic into his hands, found the mul tiplication table, and had it all by heart at the breakfast table the next morning.

The most remarkable test to which his I memory has yet been put is on the Bible. tie repeats tne name oi every dook in tbe Old and New Testaments, in regular order, beginning with Genesis; tells how many chapters each book contains and how many verses in each chapter in several of the books; and on any portion of the Bible be has read and lie has read nearly if not quite all will tell tbe substance ot any particular verse in any particular book. He tells at once where any particular event is described in the Bible also where the name ot any character mentioned in the Scriptures can be found. He not only knrws tne Bible thoroughly, but can teli without hesita tation on what page any particular hymn in Watts's or Moody or Sankey's hymn books can be found. Not long ago he greatly amused some of his friends by correcting an almanac.

A lady wished to try him on tbe days of the week on which certain dates, many years ago, felL (She gave a date and asked him on what day it fell. He promptly informed her. She looked at the almanac for that year, month and day. Alas for Charlie! thought she, as his answer did not agree with the almanac. Charlie wouldn't give up, however, but declared that he knew the almans.o was wrong.

Haven't you another almanac of that yeart" inquired one of Charlie's confident friends. "I have." replied the lady and produced it. On comparing the two almanacs it was discovered that the first one was wrong, and that Charlie was right, a mistake having been made by the party who compiled the almanac. His habits are peculiar. He never plays with other boys, but is continually busy in read in g.

Oftentimes he takes an unabridged dictionary and studies it hour after hour, never seeming to consider it anything but a pleasure to do it. Iu fact, he takes no comfort unless busying his brain about something. If there is anything he does not uuderstand. he keeps at It until he does understand it. and then it is next to impossible for him to forget it.

One would naturally suppose that a child with such unusual paw era would gradually fail and fade away, but. singularly enough, he is constantly growing stronger and more healthy. Very many will think, perhaps, that his ability in giving the day of the week, on whioh a date falls, is an act of memory merely, and that he has learned what day of the week each date for several years past has fallen on. This is not so, however. He does it by some mathematical process, as he as readily answers about dates the days of the week of which he has never seen.

What this process is he himself cannot explain. Scarcely any of the above will seem creditable, but we assure the readers of the Commercial that it is true in every particular, as scores of those acquainted with the circumstances can testify. The lad is, we repeat, one of the most wonderful in the world, and his career will be watched with interest. The Reno (Nevada) Journal says that railroad trains, in crossing Steamboat Valley, in that State, make a peculiar rumbling sound, as though going over a bridge. It says that this noise is accounted for either by supposing that the ground is of a very porous nature or that there are subterranean caverns formed by boiling waters.

There are numerous hot springs in the neighborhood that have a very sulphurous odor. Ic is said that during an earthquake the laud of this valley rolled like a ribbon in the wind." NATURAL MINERAL VATER. "Purify, freshness, persistent effaixescenee and agreeable flavor, alone or mixed with wines or spirits." raciittmier. waaary Datmrtssaal In conformity with you Extract fram Letter of Susea thorough inquiry to be into the mat wqmsttbe Secretary of foljowi 'I therefore staM that It is ter by onr Consul who concludes hJJ Jd pinatekmK lnvestiottea. that tha my opiniM, formed sfter what I 8 rUMr a exporvedto tba a itd Sitoa is baroed, ApolIlBsrU r.homcaithoJna tha Consul's wli This evid.no.

was given after thorough examination bl such Smlnent scientist, of the OU World nnimilKS W. of ths UntotnUu cf Berlin. Mmbr of Ins, PHOFKSfOR A W. HnFWAKl. iZ vice President of tkt Chemical, SocUtu of Scientific JXpttatm of tke M.tngdm of JTuxna, w.

ODIJICG. Profevorof CTemi at teUnirHty of Oxford. ChemiM Jf i'Pl Water, beta Parana JF and bottle bears ths Y.ltow jf WFru2Hi The Danger In Alaska. Writes the commander of the United States steamer Jamestown, in his report to the Secretary of the Navy, on the condition of affairs in Alaska There is, however, a terrible danger to which the whites are exposed, and ic is far from an imaginary one. When intoxicated with the vile hootohenoo," like all drunken men, the Indians are liable to commit outrages which the whites are powerless to prevent, and to resent whioh would draw upon them the vengeance of the entire family to which the culprit belonged.

It is my belief that in February last this settlemen narrowly escaped a massacre. That it did escape is due to the influence ot certain friendly Indians of superior intelligence. I do not think that there is any danger while a vessel of war is here, and I hope to be able to so influence the Indians that after we shall have left they will preserve peace. I have instructed them at a "bowwow" that they, too, belonged to the United States, and that should strange Indians attack them we and the whites would assist them, and that another outbreak would probably occasion the government to send gunboat steamers, of which they are in great fear, to exterminate them. One result of this course has been that a leader, one of Catalan's tribe, has, before taking a journey, applied the Collector for a certificate that he is a Sitka American Indian.

I have had occasion three times to exercise the discretionary power given me by the department. The first was up an a request of the collector to furnish assistance to prevent smuggling of liquor, which letter, together with my answer and report of proceedings, will form a separate document. Second, I have enlisted as first class boys to perform duty as policemen the three Indians who did so much to save the whites in February last. These are Amahoote, Dick and Shurloff. The two former are connected with Tchilicats and sloshes tribes, and Shurhoff is a good interpreter, and all are very influential.

Their duty is to preserve order and impress upon the Indians the advantages ot good behavior and to make sncb arrests and citations as I may deem necessary. I do not wish to bring any of our men into unfriendly contact unless an emergency arises. A small guard might be overcome, and the effect would be demoralizing. Curious Caav A curious case came before a provincial law court some days ago. A lady, the owner of a property in the neighborhood of Moulins, in the Department af AUier, whose son had hitherto beenin the habit of receiving her rents, was obliged, owing to his absence, to receive them herself.

She happened, however, to be blind and a deaf mute. A tenant, who was not aware of this beforehand, refused her acknowledgment of receipt and declined to psy except in the presence of a legal witness, lest the lady should turn out to be incapable iu the eyes of the law. A police officer was eeonred, but he was afraid to act as witness, lest he should be called to account. Application was, therefore made to the law, and alter some disputing, on appeal to a higher coutt, it has been decided that the lady is perfectly capable tt transacting her business herself. She was in her youth a distinguished pupil of the Paris Deaf and Dumb School, and is described as remarkably clever and well educated, and as being, notwithstanding her age and physical infirmities, in full possession of all her mental faculties.

Letter. The legal position of Mr. Traoy Tnrne reili, whose laurel wreath was rejected by Lord Beaconsfield, is, says the London Solicitors' Journal, a little embarrassing. He undertook, on behalf of the 52, SCO contributors, to transmute their pennies into a golden wreath, and to offer this wreath to Beaconsfield. Whether he must be deemed to have undertaken to offer the wreath iu sach a manner as to be likely to insure accept ance is a point of some difficulty.

The pressing question is, what should be done with the rejected gift and the first ooa sideration is in whom is the legal property in the wreath in the contributors of the pennies, or in Mr. Turuerelli with a resulting trust for the contributors. In any case, it is for the contributors to direct the manner in which the wreath shall be dealt with and, apart from their direotion, there does noli appear to be any mode, short of special legislation, whereby Mr. TurnerelJi can legally relieve himself of the wreath. A raffle for it among the contributors wonld, unfortunately, be undoubtedly illegal.

A new Ionic porch has been discovered at Olyuipia. The head of one of the tympanum statues has also been found, and a metope representing the struggle of Heracles with tbe Amazons. North Carolina has now a female editor. Mrs. C.

F. Spencer has taken editorial charge of the Chapel Hill Ledger. Dr. F. H.

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