St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 6

St. oms losi-gisnaicfr. llonban, Parrfc 29 1SS0. 6 MARINE NEWS THE BOUCICAUIiT SCANDAL. A DYING WOMAN.

execution thereof by him, the said defendant required deponent to yield up and surrender to him the custody and control of the said children." Finally, Mrs. Boucicault says that in this paper her husband repeatedly refers to her as his wife. She asks for a bill of divorce, with an order for an adequate sum annually for her surport, a sum in keeping with his means and her situation. She desires the custody of the children who are minors. She fears her husband will leave this State and render the action of the Court ineffectual.

She says she was married in this State, and that both she and her husband now live within its boundaries, where also the alleged infidelities were in part committed. She concludes by saying that five years have not elapsed 6ince her discovery of 'his infideiity; that she has not lived with him since, and that his alleged offenses were committed without her consent. rates that steam is nearly as cheap as water power. The coal is of good quality. Inotirown State of Missouri there are 2,200 square miles of coalfields.

"Our receipt of cotton for this season will not fall short of bales, and our receipts of wool were 20,786,000 pouuds in 1875). These facts show that we have AN ABUNDANCE OB THE RAW MATERIAL right at hand, and I have proved the extent of the market for the manufactured goods, right at our door. Our wholesale merchants are universally anxious to have cotton and woolen mills established in St. Louis, and will give their products the preference." 9 naveTOU seen many of our Eastern capitalists and manufacturers?" Yes; 1 had a very kindly reception and attentive hearing in New York, and have met with the same cordial greeting in your own linecitT. I shall, for a few davs, make my home at the and shall be happy to see Boston and Isew England manufacturers." land.

This could not be so were the potash the effective ingTedient. Thousands of bushels of leached ashes aro brought here from Maine every year and old for 25 cents per bushel at the vessel to practiiud men who have proved heir value beyond oues-' tion when thus applied. 1 The causticity of unleached ashe9 may ha beneticsl to peaty soils, or those having much undecayed vegetable matter. By breatjn down the structure of such matter, and 'facia? tating its decay, it may improve such soils. The dissolving of such matter, however, wilt not make plant-food either immediatly or directly but reaches this effect only by aidin the decay or rotting of such matter.

Many years ago I tried to convert peat whka abundant in this vicinity In manure. I found that a saturated solution of carbonate of potash would dissolve evry fibre of the peat, and would give a clear liquor of the color of strong coffee; but I could not, by dilution or in any other way, make that liquor nourish a plant. The potash in unleached ashes may also benetlt other soils by rendering some portion of their silica soluble, but tt does not follow that it i tbe active or moat beneficial element in woo 1 ashes. Potato Culture. As to the culture of potatoes for J.

a. Everett of Watsontowu, Pennsylvania, wriias to the Country Gentleman: "Good crops may be grown on a great variety of soils, but it must be borne in mind that a soil adapted to one variety of potatoes is not at all suitable for another, and tbat one variety requires to be planted much thicker than anotner on the fame kind of soil. Hence it is of prime importance to the grower that he should understand the nature of bis ground and of his seed. I always cut my potatoes to a single eye, and by making the hills a trifle closer, a'nd less seed in each, better results are obtainel than by throwing in seed by the handful. The potato when propagated from the tuber in the usual manner naturally tends to deteriorate and revert to its primitive condition.

The causes which produce deterioration are a continual planting upon the same 6oil without a change of seed and imperfect cultivation. The remedy is to procure recently originated var! eties possessing the greatest amount of natural vigor. If I was to make a list of any of the newly originated varieties, I would name the Mammoth Pearl as the best for a general cropper; theMsgnum Bonum (not the Knglish variety of the same name)for earliness and productiveness combined having yielded last year 24S bushels from one acre of ground without any manure whatever, and dug sixty days after panting." Beans for Domestic Animals. The large amount of nutriment contained in. beans is well-known; but animals generally do not like to eat them.

Some successful modes for inducing them to eat beans were given by the members of the Western New York Farmers' Club, as reported in the Rural Home. Mr. Quinby boils them soft, mixes Indian or other meal quite liberally with them and gradually increases the beans. Mr. Kced treated them in the same way for feedingpoul-try, which ate the mixture with avidity, and cows ate them freely when boiled with bran, producing a good flow of milk.

Mr. Allis, of Orleans county, said that many used them in abundant years for feeding swine bv grinding them and mixing with meal. Mr. Ilogers, of "Wheatland, said farmers pay seventy-five cents per bushel for beans of second quality for feeding sheep, for which they seem to be specially adapted. ARBIVKD.

Cherokee. Pittsburg. Elliott, Grand Tower. Bedford, O. Kerr, Mozier's.

Kob Koy, Louisiana. John Means, N. O. Caihoun, Naples. Helena, Vlcksbur-.

DEPARTED. Tolar Star, Padncah. Clintoa. Keokuk. Arkansas, La Crosse.

A. Kendall. Louisiana. Tom Means. Ohio Hirer.

Fannie Iewls, Kan. City. Ol and Tower, Vleksburg. Mattie Bel 1, Cambridge. John LMppold.

O. Hauiday, N. O. BOATS TO LKAVJE. Cherokee, Pittsbnnr March 30 John A.

Scuddr New Orleans April 1 City Alton. N. Marca 30 Mollle Moore, Otfacb.it March 30 J. B. M.

Kehlor. Jew Orleans April 2 Libbie Conger. La Crosse March 30 A. Kendall, Louisiana March 30 KedWiuK, Keokuk Mxch29 Annie, La Crosse Jo. Kinney, Kansas City March 31 It is a vast cargo the Annie Is bringing from the North.

Tub big and fast City of Alton for New Orleans to-morrow eveniner. J. II. Dl nlap to Louisville last night to meet the Fearless, ironsides ana Iron Age. Capt.

Cabtwkight backs out the great Jo Kinney for Kansas City on Wednesday. Ox the first of April the St. Louis packet John A. bcudder will leave for New Orleans. For -the Upper Mississippi to-morrow evening, the Libbie Conner, Capt.

Billie Boland. In St. Louis elevators March 27: Wheat. 503,409 buehels; corn. oats, The Polar Star, out this morning, oes to Pa-ducah and beyond.

Capt. (ieo. Conrad commanding. The genial and famous Will S. Hays, of Louisville, is in town.

Treat him kindly and considerately. Fi Lke raised the Rob Roy with her own pumps. She arrived this morning at Cob Ma-dill's boat yard, St. Louis. To Enquirer: The Edward Bates explosion occuned on August 9, 1S18 at least so says the carefully preserved record.

The Futuie City lost forty hours by the storm. The Mv Choice staid with her. and is expected in here to-morrow moruiu. lii'LK arrain delivered by elevators to barges, week ending 26th, at noon: Wheat, 111,869 bushels; corn, 421.046; oats, 31,327. The Cherokee.

Capt. Geo. Wolf, is the pop ular and reliable packet for Cincinnati and Pitttburjj. Off at 5 to-morrow evening. Chester.

March 29. To Wm. J. Koiiniz: The Kehlor arrived, to-night. Have Lud good luck.

John S. Patterson. Ihe Dlppoldleft this afternoon for New Or leans, and will have 'four barges from Cairo, cargo including 160,000 balk grain. The srood steamer Red Wingr. Capt.

Hicht. for the Upper Mississippi to-day. aud tbe Annie, also K. N. Line packet, is the La CrOsse boat.

It can't be denied; the letters of '28. Pon- sonby, Fishhooks et.al. in the Marine Journal are worth to readers ten times the price ot the paper. Wm. Uaskix, formerly a mate and barge man wili command the Itotibin.

JakeCou-rid's towboat is now beins repaired aud paint ed at Metropolis. ON Friday last Capt. Wm. II. Pierce, of Rock Island, bought the steamer Vioia for to run between Muscatine and Rock Island, bcKnniny to-day.

1 he Mollie Moore goes to tbe Ouachita, hav ing a lull cargo engaged, tieo. R. Robinson, of -t. Lotus, is one ot tne shippers, givmsr the Moilie some 3uo tous. It is worth wuile to some effort to increase the trade ot Sc.

Louis with tne Ouachita River. tioiTX City, March 26. A letter received in this city says that the party of Government sutTeors oi the river will be here about the opennm ot navigation to take passage up the river. Tbe river is coining up slowly, und is reported rising a little at Yankton. Some river men iu the eity have built and launched a boat Ahicl will bo laden with junk and floated down to St.

Louis. It will be generally thought that the lollow- ing fiom the Marine Journal needs confirma tion: 1 here are indications that cotnp mies are being formed in the Last to build a line ot boats to navigate both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. With tbe consummation of the pro jects on loot, baeked by millions of capital, the competition will be too strong lor present ners ol steamboats on Western and South ern lvers to survive the opposition long. The lesult ot the steps being taken by Eastern cap itt; lists to monopolize our rivers 1st woolly due to me inuiiieience oi our sieainooatuien to or ganization und united action. As it is tliey are disuniteu and it will be impossible to liht such strong opposition single-handed.

r.U'T. II. Dusur, before leaving yester- dav lor Louisville, had his attention directed to the handsome hull of the L. y. Cole.

lie said "hoyou know what boat was tne lirst to have her engines?" "No." "Well, they were first in the lielmont, Ci.pt. Adam l'un. next in mv boat, the Kenton, tnen on the Nashville, and now there tney are before vou. I took the Kenton, at the close of the war, from St. Ixuis to Camden on tne Ouachita with a full caifco, oOu tons, at S3 a hundred, making a Height list ot i paid 51,000 for piloting the round trip, and was gone less twenty uavs." liie leporter suggested tnat he prcbab.y cleared over $20.

Ouu on the trio, uuitapi. ininiap reiuseu to own up, as nj never tells reporters what his profits are onlv Jiis losses, li any. Iaily Weather Bulletin. WAR OEPARTMENT, 1 Washington. 6:37 a.

March 29. i4 I- it- i. i Why Agnes Robertson Demands a Divorce from Her Husband. 0 rXcw York Special to Cfclcago Times, 37th. Mrs.

Dion Boucicault, better known to the world as Agnes Robertson, the actress, has brought suit in Suprem Court chambers asking for an absolute divorce fiom her husband and the custody of their minor children. Judge Daniels to-day granted an order of arrest against Mr. Boucicault, on an affidavit by his wife that he was about to depart for Europe, and that she was entitled to ask that be be placed under bonds to give her alimony and the custody of her children if she secured an order of court to that effect. This order was merely a formal procedure, and it is understood that Mr. Boucicault will be ready to give the required bond9 on Monday.

The public have been more or less familiar with the family troubles of the Boucicaults for a number of years. The pending suit for divorce grows out of Mr. Boucicault' alleged relations with Katherine Rogers, a well-known actress, with whom, it is said, he has lived a number of years. Mrs. Boucicault has not lived with her husband for ten'or twelve years, and while he has been conspicuous in America as a playwright and actor, she has lived a retired life in England, except for one or two brief appearances on the English stage.

Mr. aud Mrs. B. have four children, two of them minors, who are now at school in England. The other two.

Dot Boucicault, who recently supported his father in the play of "Louis XI." a Booth's Theater, and Mrs. Clayton, live in this country, and are understood to be wholly alienated from their mother, and take their father's part in the family troubles. A little over a year ago Mrs. Boucicault returned to this country and played a fortnight's engagement at Booth's Theater with her husband, in a round of characters which they had famous years before. The impersonations were a great financial success.

It is said that Mrs. Boucicault came over with the intention of getting a divorce from her husband, but that mutual friends intervened and a temporary reconciliation was effected. Before her return to England she gave a fine dinner at the Gilsey House in honor of her husband, and it was the talk of the town for several days after that the actress, who was sid to be on tender terms with the old gentleman, was terribly enraged at what she regarded as a little theatrical claptrap, gotten up for the purpose of humiliating her. After the dinner was over and the dramatist had gone home, she made her way into his presence and compelled him to sally forth witk her to eat a second dinner at Delmofnco's. Robertson returned to Eng-apparently on excellent terms her husband.

It is said Agnes land wilh on good authority that Boucicault relations with Katherine Rogers were broken off some nineor ten months ago. Whether the parties had grcwn mutually tired of each other or exactly what the trouble was does not appear, out at any rate Boucicault's financial fortuueswere under a cloud, and it is said that he declined to pay certain LAKCiF. BILLS OF MISS KOOKRS' CONTRACT- and in the course of subsequent hostilities they concluded that their pathways diverged fr in that point. Boucicault has for several years supported a sumptuous establishment on Fifth avenue. Descriptions of its elegant appointments, its fine luxuriant furnishings, expensive marble baths ijave appeareu irom time to tuna in the papers.

While scattering money with a lavish hand in pursuit of his own pleasure, it is said that he had contributed generously to the support of his wife. When they separated years ago he nlade over to tier quite a large property. After a remarkably successful series of engagements all over the country during the fall and winter of INTO, he invested the most of his funds in California mining speculations, whichturned out disastrously. He managed to save a remnant of bis fortune from the wreck, and then leiscd Booth's Theater for a term of ye.rs, where he engulfed his last dollar, ami was so with tiouUe that bis physician told him be could save his life only by "a complete tessation of work and anxiety. After a period of recuperation he returned tLe stage two or three months ago, and is now striving to rtpair his financial resources.

To night Le closed an engagement at Wallack's Theater which has been a financi al lilure. His friends say that the change in his fortunes and his inability to contribute as liberally as heretofore to the suppoit of his family in England is the cause of Mrs. Boucicault's sudden AVOWAL OF HOSTIMTIKS. Aoctit two months ago she returned to New 1 ork, hired a modest up-town Hat aud has been seen only occasionally at the theater. Those ho pretend to know sav she is in rather straitened circumstances.

Chevalier Wikoff has long acted as a mediator between the couple, but his cilices have not availed to prevent Mrs. Houcicault from bringing suit for a final separation. It is said that her demands upon Boucicault for a separate maintenance have been larger than he was willing or able to meet, and their troubles are accordingly to be brought into court. Boucicault designs sailing for England in a fortnight, where he is made number of engagements to appear duricg the summer season. This evenirg Mr.

Boucicault was served with the order of arrest by two Sheriff's depu-li s. The officers found him at his rooms over Pinard's, at No.fi East street, where he was dining. They assured him they had no desire to inconvenience him unnecessarily, and that his liberty would be promptly secured by obtaining bondsmen, 'i ne bail re-quirt was Mr. Houcicault sent a messenger to Theodore Moss, treasurer of Wallack's Theater, with a note explaining the situation, and requesting him to bring with bim another person able and willing to go on his bond. In a short time Mr.

MosV arrived, accompanied by Lester Wallack. Thes3 two furnished bail in the sum of each. These bondsmen were accepted, and Mr. Boucicault and bis friends went to Wallack's Theater, where he and Mr. Wallack both impersonated characters in the play of 'How Mie i.eves mm." Mrs.

Houcicault says in her complaint tint she is the wifeof Mr. Houcicault, and 'has been since September, ISTMi; that thev lived together as man and wife until 1870, and that they never have been divorced, though since l.s.O they have lived separately and apart." She has always conducted herself as a true and faithful ife, "and has never consented to or condoned the IXHIKLITV OF IIF.lt IIFSBAXn; that the defendant, iu violation of his duty to deponent, has at various times during nine eai pasi uetn uniaithlul to his vows, in the city of New Yoik, in London, EnDnd, and elsewhere, with one Katharine Rogers, otherwise known as Mrs. Davis; that he has lived with said Katharine Rogers during said period, and bus so lived in this city at various times within a year past, and that he is the father of her child, a boy who is now living, and that they yet live together; that the said defendant has admitted to deponent that he has lived and was living with said Katharine Rogers, and that it is a matter of notoriety well-known to his friends and associates. Deponed further savs that the deponent Is without means or means of support, though she owns a house in this city, which is mortgaged to about two-thirds of its value, which is less than and which his produced no income for a vear past; that she has by the defer.daut five children living, two of whom are dependant on her for support; that in the endes, to support them sne has incurred debt and exhausted what means she had; tkat the defendant has from time to time paid her support and that of his children, but he has done so irregularly and In amounts INADKO.CATE Te II Kit BEASOXABLK SL'rPORT and the support and education of her children that the last such payment was made in October last, when be deposited to her credit 'M; that he has recently proposed to tnter into an agreement with her anu a trustee, by the terms of which he was to piy her (M) sterling annually In equal quarterly in-sialiments, which sum was to be solely for her support, aud rot for that of the children: that by the same agreement ho was to pay the debts of deponent already referred to, no: ex-ceeoing 2, too in amount, payment to be made wittin forty daya after the execution of the but that a a coaditioa of the Hanna Basks Shot to Death by Her Husband. In an Unconscious State at the City Hospital Her Ante-Mortem Statement.

Seventeen murderers are now confined in the City Jail and it is to be hoped that an addition will be shortly made in the person of Jim Banks, a negro 55 years of age, who last evening shot his wife, Hanna Banks, aged about thirty-five, while she was washing the dishes at the house of Mr. W. G. Bartle, Sarpy avenue, Kock Springs, where she wan employed as cook. After committing the dastardly deed the brutibh husband fled.

and bo far has made good his escape. Easter Day, the glorious festival of the church, was thus stained by blood in St. Louis, and another murder added to the long list of those which have gone unpunished. Banks and his wife were Southern darkeys una were among the "exodusters." He earned a living by doing odd jobs, collecting ras, while his wife procured a situation a cook at Mr. Bartle's.

The domestic life of the couple has been a very unhappy one. Bnks abused his wife and maltreated her continually. The poor woman was glad to set away from him and was pleased to get work at Mr. Bartle's. It was not in Banks' nature, however, to let his wife alone.

He visited her and told her she nut quit work and come back and live with him. She refused to do so, when Banks made a fuss and created a disturbance. This annoyed Mr. Bartle ana he discharged the rook. In a couple of days she returned wilh her husband and begged to be taken back, while he at the same time promised to abstain from his troublesome visits.

He did not, however, keep his word, but in a few days visited the hiuse again and told her she must go home with him. SIIK KF.Fl'SF.D, and this time Mr. Bartle interfered and told Banks that unless he could behave he had better make himself scarce around the house. Banks went away threatening his wife, and he was not seen near the house until yesterday afternoon, when he was noticed in the vicinity About 8 o'clock Hanna Banks w.is in the rear room of the house washing the dishes, unconscious of her impending fate. Her husband glided past the house up to a window and gazed upon his wife.

Tneu he pulled out a revolver and tired througa the pane. The ball struck his wife iu the side, passed thiouiih her liver and intestines and inflicted a fatal wound. Mr. Birtle was standing in the doorwav leading to the kitchen as the shot was fired. He seized a pistol and rushed after the murderer, and in the pursuit tired two shots at him.

Banks, however, made good his escape and the police have jiot yet capinreci nun. i ne assassin is described as a very black negro live feet seven inches in neigiit, stylishly dressed and wears a beard and mustache. The wounded woman was conveyed in an ambulance to the Dispensary Dr. Kaufman attended him. She was then taken to the City Hospital and her wounds pronounced dangerous.

SIIK Wil l. DIK. A reporter visited the i.iiv Hospital this morning and found Mrs. Banks in an almost enmarose condition. She hid vomited a considerable amount of blood during the night and is sinking rapidlv.

Indeed the doctors said she was djing. ibis was at 11 a. and it is scarcely possible she can live out the day. To the doctors the womin made the statement that her husband shot her because she would not go and live with him, which she refused to do, as he beat her and ill-used her. The police have instituted a thorough search for the assassin, and already claim to be on his track.

A Sir.STA'TiAL suit for workingmen at Famous, in attractive styles, well cut and strongly made, CO, $7 50 and $8 50. Also lull line of jumpers and overalls. Baby Carriages. The best assortment and lowest prices can Le found at Simmons Hardware Company. COTTON AND WOOL.

An Kffort to Interest Boston Capitalists In St. Louis Manufactures. A few days ago it was announced that Mr. R. Shryock, ex-President of the St.

Louis Board of Trade, was about to take his departure Eastward for the purpose of interesting leading capitalists in the establishment of cotton and woolen manufactures in St. Louis. Mr. Shryock has already arrived in Boston and has had conferences with a number capitalists of that city, and feels greatly encouraged by the reception which he has met. The following is an extract from a Boston Herald interview with him: I have come Kast," said he, to show your Boston capitalists that, while they are investing in Colorado silver mines, they are overlooking opportunities for investments worth twenty percent a year.

These opportunities are to be found in the erection of cotton and woolen mills in St. Louis and vicinity. These manufacturers need not interfere with vour mills, because they will confine themselves to the production of the coarser grades Of fabrics." "What are your special points of advantage, Mr. Shrvock, for the establishment of these manufactures?" rOINTS OK ADVANTAGE. Well, we claim several very important points; first of all, cheap and abundant material; cheap and good water-power and cheap coal; cheap food and low rents for operatives; a home market for goods, and cheap and rapid transit to points of consumption.

If you will allow mo, I will give you a more detailed account of our advantages. Tne loca- tion of St. Louis is such that it is the place of exchange for the products of the grain States of the North and the cotton States of the South. Seated at the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi, our city commands over sixteen thousand miles of water way! Our trade ramres from the region of ire and cold to the tropic. Tne great rivers tributary to the Mississippi enable our water craft to reach half the States of the Union.

In addition to tnis vast svstem of riparian communication, we have tvventv-two railroads, penetrating northward to the "great lakes, wesiward to the l'neiiic and southward to the (iulf of Mexio. You will get a clearer idea of the important central position of St. Luis when you consider the fact that the annual commerce of the Missisippi River is irreater in value than all our foreign commerce. Two new lines of railroad will soon open up trade with Southern Texas, Cabfor-Jiia, Mexico and Eastern Asia. We shall en- ter Mexico by the railioal "back-door" route, and compete for a fair shire of its for- ign trade.

Texas alone will, when more juujr tiociooeu, ie capaoie or sustaining a great city. Those facts snow where our mar-Het is." water and cheap coal. You mentioned in your cnu tneration of St. Louis' advantages for manufacturing the matter of motive power." We have fine water power and cbep coal in abucdance. South of St.

Louis are two rivers, the Meranu-c ard the Des IV res. Oa ttexfirst raned are several excellent water powers. but the river is specially valuable for the clearness of its water, suitable for ihs bleaching of cotton goods and the manufacture of paper. Iloth river are readily accessible by rail, and the owners of the sites for mills and workshops have instructed me 'to cfier tLem for one-half the real value at which they are held for ordloary purple. An tor coal, there lan immense coal field on Ihe Illinois side the river, opposite our til The t-oul fields are penetrated by seven laiiroads, which furnish u-j with fuel at such TRAINING A FIGHTER.

How Joe Goss is Preparing for His Coming flattie. I From the New Yerk Suu.l Joe Goss. the pugilist, who is matched to fight Paddy Ryan for the heavy-weight cham pionship of America and $2,000, on Tuesday, May 18, in Canada, and fcleorge Jtooke, matched with Mike Donovan lor the middle weight championship of America, to take place on Tuesday, May 11, have tasen up training quarters together at a hotel kept by Goss at Fort Hamilton. They have been hard at work in their training eiuarters for the list two weeks. Goss is groomed by Jack Turner.

Goss was recently found muffled up in heavy ilannels. Well, said he, in reply to a question, "I rise at half past o'clock every morning. After rinsing my mouth out I swallow the yolk of a raw egg. Then 1 wash my hands and face in white vinegar, take a sponge bath. get a rub down, and wind up with a walk of two miles before breakfast.

"What do you have for breakfast?" "I am very fond of mutton," he replied. ana so I have mutton chops, dry to-ist and tea. After resting an Lour I put on thick nannei, ana take a twelve-mile or hfteen-mde walk. But when I need a sweat I put on two suits of flannel and take a ten-mile walk, aud finish on a run at a brisk pace. Jack Turner strips and rubs me down and gives me a tepid bath.

I then put on clean flannels, and, alter lying down ior an hour, 1 take dinner. For that meal I take sometimes a leg of boiled mutton, or chicken, or roast beef, or tenderloin, or porterhouse steak, broiled: cabbage, boiled potatoes and tapioca pudding. My wue generally cooks it. i take alsosotcu ale or Bass' ale, toast and calf's foot iellv. After diuner I rest, and then I kick a foothill, exercise with the dumb-bells, swing clubs and light a bladder." "How do you fight a bladder?" "Come up stairs and we'll show you, said Jack Turner.

The room is like a gymnasium. Hanging on the wans are boxing gloves ana Indian clubs. Dumb bells of all sizes were lying, in a corner, wniie nanging oy a string irom a beam was a large bladder, full blown. Goss squares at this with a three-pound dumb bell in eich hand. He hits it first with the ft and then with the right, powerful blows, skipping around it as friskily as a tbree-y car-old colt.

Geneially sand bags have been used in this country, but the English trainers recommend bladders. A bladder is t-o light, and flies about in the air with such uuevrtain move ments, that it keeps the pugilist at his wit's end to strike i at ail.anu.with the.dumb bells his bands, it draws out all his strength. Goss continued to strike at the bladder for ien minutes, and then again descended to the sitting-room off from the bar. As Goss stands stripped, the huge muscles sw ell out on his arms and legs like bunches of whipcord. His skin is white, which is a good sign, there is not a pimple on him.

"What do vou think of his condition?" askea lurncr again and again, with pride. "1 weigh 1S. pounds now," Gos3 said. "but 1 will enter the ring at 172 or 173 pounds. I have seven weeks to train yet, and vcu can plav." 4 Does believe me, tranuii is no child's fighticg the bladJer finish your Oh, r.o, bless you I start oil" for another slow walk with a stick in my ind, hitting at stones or anything e'e to a muse iovaelf.

On my leturn 1 am rubbed tlovvn and I receive my supper, which cousists of boiled eggs, dry toast, and tea. I go to bed about or 10 o'clock, after taking a bowl of hot gruel and currants." "Do you think that your age will affact you?" "Why, no," he replied, "I am very glad you asked me, as the newspaper aud any number of my friends say that they are afraid I am too old. On the day I meet Rvan I will show them that there is one good fight left in me yet. You see, what I lose by age' I gam by head ork. When I was voting and in mv palmy days I used to be proud of being able to take a good hammering, but now I know how to give my opponent a good punching and get away, without receiving any smashing hits in return.

I am only forty-two years of age. In my father's day they used to sav that a man was not in his prime until he was forty years old. There was Jim Ward, who was born in 1SO0, and stood champion of England for fifteen years. When he was forty years old he challenged the giant champion of England, Ben Caunt, to fight him for 1,000 a side, and when he was sixty, after the battle between Tom Savers and John C. Heenan was over, he offered to bet 1.0(H) guineas that no man could be produced who could whip him in one hour.

The well-known champion of England, Ben-eligo, in his old days, beat Tom Paddock in a canter. The old boxer. Dan Mendoza. the Jewish champion of England of 17112, was beaten by lorn Owens, in 1S20, when each was in his sixtieth year, after a terrific strujr- cle. When Yankee Sullivan and Morrissey fought in Sullivan was fortv-one years old, and he made the best fight then he ever lought in his life.

I shall have Arthur Chambers and Barney Aaron in the last two weeks to assist Jack Turner." It is found with the Indians, tne Canadians, the South Americans, among the Spaniards, French, everywhere; and every one praises it as the best remedy for rheumatism. We mean St. Jacobs Oil. Married in Haste, Kte. I From a London Letter.

1 Great scandal was caused in aristocratic ciides in the Faubourg St. Germain a few months back by the elopement of arich heiress to London and her clandestine mirriage with a j-tiiiiimau oearing a name wen Known in the diplomatic world at the Court of St. James, as this ad venture has now given rise to a suit, brought bv the young lady's mother, to have the marrrijge declared void on the ground that it was contracted in a foreign country wiilkutthe publishing of banns and without her consent, there are uo longer reasons for withholding the najnes.Thev arethose of Mile, d' Imecourtaud Musurus Bey, son of the Turkish Embassador in Lond n. The par-tits were married in I he county of Middlesex, but, i fter they had cohat. ited for a fortnight, frierdsof the two families intervened to put an ti.d to the scandal.

A separation was brot ght about and the lady is now reflecting on her folly in the ealm retirement of a convent. The New Senl of the WoiM Iispenurv Medical Awia. tion r.f Itullalo. ol which Ir. It.

V. l'jeice i-t picsidcKt.coiiMistii'C fd a figure of Father of Medicine, surmounting tne nlobe, fitly svnibolize the world wide rcputa-tion Kioucd by the Family Medicine of lr. now iimnutrtctur ed by this ineorjora-teri company aim Mld in all parts of thr world. itn a iiiniiiinotli ewtHbllsl) the World's Dispensary mil Invalid' Hotel In rtuffalo. una it correspondingly large branch establishment in I.

iKlun, tl'is Association make medicine-, tort I. wbole world not only that but tliey pfi n.nhjly examine and treat with iecil i tisunori ot case. Auiontf tne limn ceii-nihici in thn proprletaiv or lamily I ii.iniriiir.ftiriir. i icrec-a inline Medical die nieat blood pnriner, and lr. 1 trice' PieuiHi.t Put votive I VI lets (little pills) mmI Ir.

li-ica Com pound Kxtract of suimrt- tor bowel eoi'l and painful xtlxck. an colic, ro-uraltft and rhftum Unui, Favoilte 1 'rescript Ion turnintiea relief from f-tiinlf eMkiea-M aud klndrcQ affections. All tUd Ly CrugUts. Weather Wisdom. Under the title of Old Probabilities, one of the most useful and valuable officers of the United States Government is most widely known.

But quite as well known i Prof. J. H. Tice, the meteorologist of the Mississippi Valley, whose contributions to his favorite study have given him an almost national reputation. On a recent lecture tour through the Northwest, the Professor had a narrow escape from the serious consequences of a sudden and very dangerous illness, the particulars of which be thus refers to: The day after concluding my course of lectures at Burlington, Iowa, on 2lst December last, I was seized with a suddea attack of neuralgia in the chest, giving me excruciating pain and almost preventing breathing.

My pulse, usually eighty, fell to thirty-five; intense nausea of the stomach succeeded, and a cold, clammy sweat covered my entire body. The attending physician could do nothing to relieve me; after suffering for three hours. I thought as I had been using St. Jacobs Oil with good effect for rheumatic pains I would try it. I saturated a piece of flannel large enough to cover my chest with the Oil and applied it.

The relief was almost instantaneous. In one hour I was almost free from pain, and would have taken the train to fill an appointment that night in a neighboring town had my friends not dissuaded me. As it was, I took the night train for my home, St. Louis, and have net been troubled since. Don't forget that we still carry a lull line ot the ever-popular men's.

New York-made $2 shoe at 'Famous' 'solid leather.strong made, and conies In eiht different styles. Special offering of hand-sewed work this week. Harriet Webb, the dramatic reader, returned yesterday from an extended trip in Missouri, Illinois and Iowa. The papers all speak in the highest terms of her professional abilities. The Palmyra Spectator says She is sublime, and was fully up to the high standard of public expectation, and a little beyond.

She is simply 'a star of the first magnitude." Should she ever return she may rely upon being irreeted with an overflow ing house. The Quiucy News says: The audience was large and appreciative and the applause following every recitation testified a coidial reception. Tho.se who bad not heard her before were surprised at the marvelous tones of her voice and her wonderful command of the same. Her readings were a complete success. The Clarksville Sentinel savs: Nothing of so high an order was ever in our city bi fore.

The Davenport (Jazette savs: Many, many elocutionists of the highest order of mind have been here, but. none ever presetted "The Creeds of the Bells" with such beautiful intonation and great effect as Mrs. Webb. The Davenport Democrat savs: Her Tarhassus and the Captive" was the finest eer given here. The Burlington Hawkeye savs: She fully merited all the compliments the press have given her and established her as a favorite here.

J. II. Dki Co. oi initiators of $5 pants to ol der, removed to 61s Oiive stre et. No niecliunic who works in the dust should be v.

itltout the ureat Famous" remedy lor Laid lietd--. It is a cap at 5 cents; l.oou on sale this week. A Drunken Woman's Whim. Lizzie Hannigan was arrested yesterday for being drunk on the streets. On her trial this morning in the First District Police evidence submitted was sufficient to convict of the charge, and she was accordingly fined $10 and costs.

It would seem that Lizzie was walking down Almond street in a verv intoxicated coudition. She labored under the impression that she was Charley Boss, the boy who was stolen fiom his home iu Pennsylvania some ears ago. Every person that she met was stoppedfi while the startling information was conveyed to them that she was the leny lost Charley Boss. Lizzie will gj to the rock pile. Critic for C'ohxs.

Call at Swope's a bottle of SIcCii edj 's Corn Solvent no pay. 311 X. Fourth street. and jet uo cure The $2 cO ilk Broadway black and elegant "Derby." at $2 25 and $2 becoming famous for bein choice pieces of head-wear and "hamou" is the only place to rind these e.iuisite styles at the pm-es quoted above. HISSOUKI STATE Mr.

A Lemmon, of Polk county, has announced himself a candidate for State Auditor. Kx-tJovernor Charles H. Hardin and wife have gone to Colordo and will spend the entire summer there. The Clarksville Sentinel predicts that the Cincinnati Convention will nominate Sey-4 mour by acclamation. The Warrensburg is stiongly urging (ien.

Hancock for the Democratic Presidential candidate. Barnum has had an agent traveling through Southwest Missouri purchasing horses for the "Only Greatest Show on Earth. Samuel o. Minor, one of the pioneer citizens of Pike county, died at his residence Louisiana tv cune-uay morning. He came to Pike county forty-live years a-'o.

Judge David B. Keavis, for many vears a prciuinent citizen of John-on count to Ort gon two years ao and is now "a candidate lor Sht riff in Uuion county of that State. The Columbia Statesman gives this interesting account of a portrait executed by a colored woman: Heretofore we have heard of the skill displayed by Mrs. Uuth Lang, wife of John Lang, of this place, in the wonderful ait of portrait painting, ami now, inlus-tice to real merit, we call attention to an exhibition of her genius which recently fell within our special notice. Some weeks ao she ergaged to paint in oil, on a CAiivaslixpi iricLcs, a poi trait of the deceased wife of the editor of the statesman, and for the purple was furnished a picture of her enlarged from a caid photograph by Frank Thomas, and executed in India ink in Albany, N.

Y. A few dnysatroohe returned, tastefully framed, her portrait in oil, and it the admiration of all who have seen it. The paintimr Is not onlv creditably done, but the portrait li an excel -Itnt likeness, recognizable at sight bv all. and conceded to be a woik of art of genuine merit. A i I.

and complete stock of all the latest novelties in the boot and shoe line, at Joel vwope I5io, 311 N. Fourth street. Ik you ant youthtu! hnir that liT uso "Hair Itevtvuin." di ujrsistn, hi So cents ttle. uui-s jiair ana vv hlsker Hye, black blown, 50 cents. or Wokki.xgmf.x can llud at the Famous achoice vaiitty of strong, well-made pants, in dtk colors, at $1 SO.

2 and $2 50 per pilr. Cjn gic a good fit and gucjantcc atljfuctloa. C5 5S es- 2 i 3 3 SB: i a. s. Houseliold Notes.

"Waffles. On2pint milk, one pound flour, four eggs, one cupful yeast, quarter pound buttei let them rise three or four hours before baking. Nice Indian Griddle Cakes. One and a half cuijfuls flour, one and a half enofula Indian meal, one egg, one small pint sour milk, half a teaspoonful soda. Boston Brown Bread.

Two cupfuls Indian meal (even); oae cupful rye meal; one cupful flour; one (small) quart of sweet milk; pinch of salt; one half cupful molasses; two teaspconfuls cream tartar; one teaspoonful (even) of soda dissolved in water; steam four hours, and water must boil constantly all the time, put in oven and heat for breakfast. Virginia Bisccit. One quart flour, cna half teaspoonful salt, one-quarter pouud butter; mix the flour and bmter, with the hand, together, and moisten with water; roll it out very thin three times, and beat with the rolling-pin each time; roll as thin as a sheet of paper; cut with a saucer and bake in sheets, 'these are particularly nice for lunch. st ea nr. a oats.

LOWtK AllniitsMPI'l. KOUNTZ LINE. For Ouachita River, Helena. Creenville, Vicksliurr, Natcllez and wjv l.tiliiirs. Steamer 31ULL1K MOOKK hi leave irom lout of Mti US 'str'et.

Tuesday, iSOtli. 5 l. m. Frt-iclit lor by Master, or John NEW ORLEANS ANCHOR LINE. 10B KEW OKLKANS AMI HAY Steamer CITY OF ALTON.

BIX BY Master, i. aes i i r.5ii i Alarm HO, at fi p. in bteamer JOHN a. snnnnnit. AK IMf Leaves THURSDAY, Stf.

CHAS. P. MASTLit 1 at 5 in. CHOUTEAU. Mas: April 3, at 5 p.

in. THORUKl.AN Leaves SATI KDA fCBO fc orlreiRlu ui LP" of Market 6tr-ei. li- luroujrli nilN of la.linjr "iven to via N. ll.lt. T.

Co. Aiken's llnel, anil al! IHiiins on ilnrlm. v- and O. lt. T.

Co. (Blank's Line. JOHJJ W. Oen. Ft.

AirU KOUNTZ LINE. For New Orleans and Way Landings. Str. J. B.

M. KEHLOR, Leaves FRIDAY. April 2. at 5 p. in.

ieaves from Kountz Line harftioat, Toot of Myrtle street. For freifrns apply to JOHN Y. KING, Ak'U pryu: Mississippi. jo. xxisrE.

or ijuuiinur "rosse ami I.nn.linw Mr. LIB 151 leaves TTKSOAV, Marrli. 30. P. In.

from Iiluu.i.iwi in. lloian 4 ol UasnmKtonaveTue. T. j. lu rniiii KUKtK NOKTIIKRN LINK PACKET CO.

All I ItF.D WIMi r.nter- aysj leavea M'lMlAV. Man M. at 4 n- i W. F. DAVIDSON'.

iTes. Ticket Office IU Noith Fourth Street. KtOKtKXoKTiituj, LINK PACKKT Cl). iur nU all Way Lnl tors Sir. ANMK i eavea 1III4 DAY.

Mirrii 2. 4 t. v. W. F.

DAVIDSON. llcket oeu-e 114 North Fourth Mrrtt. KEOKUK -NOK1III KN LINK PAf KKTI O- or Louisiana i IWfir. au.a. KKM.AbL.

Hljrht mT r-r. r.suA 1 M.irrll HO. -I li W. F. DAVIDSON.

Pre t. OHIO lilVKK. For LouiBTllle. Cincinnati. Wheeling mil Jc- iomi, r.

H.Kevt. Clerk. Leavm Tf vi a tt. itJ ov. p.

u. oin i si. HHI NK JfN KIN'S. 500 N. st L.

F. Ajreol. MISSOt'KI ItlVKlt. Kannaa City Packet Comnanr-sur for Herman. Portian.i.

ftr. MATTlV it I 'ualnK. felr. v- Master. March M.

ut A p. uu rrooa wharf boat, F. ABCAMIIAL. AKrnt. JUECAL DIRECTORY.

BVEKLT1 V. IATTI80N, ATTORNEY AT i. tw aoom. 2 aad 37. Third rioor.

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STATION. Weather. boise City 30.C-1 Cairo 30.24 30 41 "So 37, 3H 46 ai. 40 44i 33 36 33! 46l I1-1 5ei 35: 36! 30 41! 33 43- Cloudy. Clear.

tear. .01 Clear Clear 'lear Clear 'Clear .01 Clear Fair. .02 Clear -Clear Ol.Clear Clear lear .05 Clear Clear Clear -On Cloudy. XW NK Chicago 3U.24 lliiciimati 3U. li Iavenport 30.31 lie nver I2H.78 Ies Moines 20.20 DodjreCitv 2M.7 7I Fort Gibson 30.12 Indianapolis 30.

14. i Ne NV F. nk" NE Keokuk 3U-23 La Crosse 30.31 Leavenworth 30.1hi Louisville 30.14' Memphis Kiasuvme New Orleans Omana Ploehe, Plttsbunr 30.151 3U.OM; 30.02 29.HO 29. 99 30.15; Sacramento, salt Lake City. Han Francisco.

Bnreveport. Spiintrneld. Ill, St. St. Paul Vickslturir Virginia 30.1s 30.13 30.39 3U.25i 30.29, 30.17; 'Threatening 53 37 37 49 a -t icar Clear Kair.

.45 Clear I -09 Lt. suo'w innemucca Nev 2H.86i 29 Yankton i Indications. Washington, D. March 29. For lennestee and Ohio Valley, clear or partly tiuuuy earner, nonneny winds veering In "v.viu JVHIUU3 i casieny, fianonary or higher temperature and barometer.

For iwer Lake Region, clear or partly cloudy "earner, nonneny winds, stationary or high er temperature, rising barometer. For Up- i-w ntgiuu, warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather, northerly winds veering to Buniueafeieriy, stationary or lower barometer. For Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri aney, warmer, clear or partly cloudy weath- in north and wtfct portions by riting barometer and colder nonnwest winds. AGRICULTURAL. The Value of Wood Ashes.

In estimating the effect or value of an article aa a manure, experience or observation is a better teacher than the laboratory. Manr jears I tried the carbonate, the fml carbonate, the bicarbonate and the nitrate of for grassland, aid! had much the bet eifecr, both Immolate and durable, of either and "M-nea wood ashed, and theltr; that.llica, combined with not, a i. wood abe. act 1" the nukortit. ttttir than unieached applied Sr UUve 8U-.

UU Lotiuw a to u'bltW fc JS. mm.