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Dtliw frmrm F1rt Plage. Indies, wu homeward bound. She. left St. Georges Bermuda on the 5tH and sprang aleak during a hurricane won afterwards.

They threw overboard, eleven gnus and bailed with backet, bat the weather rose rapidly and put cut the fires. The vessel was kept afloat two days by bailing. Piazzaro was a vessels of 1109 tons register, carrying twelve gBTis and commanded by Cape. jji'Aguado. The crew consisted of 153 per sons, including tne omcers, bbwi "Ma rines, two doctors, and a priest, whom were rescued.

of POLITICAL HOTES. Dmcrtf CtachMBtl United States Cincinnati, Sept. IS. A. caucus of Democratic aldermen and counciimen was held to-night, at which it was decided to exhaust every means in their power at the ensuing election to obstruct and render-nugatory the action of the election supervisors appointed by the United States Circuit Conrfc at the request of citizens.

1 Havlnaflana for Venereum. Nashviix, Sept. 18. Edward N. bast, National Green brefc candidate tor aov- trnor.

withdrew irom the canvass to- Atlanta. Sent. 19. The Qreenbackers of the Fifth District nominated Keuben Arnold fox Congress. Paterson, N.

Sept. 19. The Fifth District Kepnblicans nominated Unas. H. Voorbees for Congress.

WiLKSSBAffRK. 8ep. 19 The Demo crats of the Twelfth District nominated Hendrick B. Wright. He is also the nominee of the Greenback Labor narty.

Atlanta, Sept. 19. The Fourth District Democratic Congressional Con vention ad loomed sine die. mo nomina tion was made. The majority will issue an address to the people.

The minority will meet to-morrow and nominate. BALTIMORE. A Receiver for the S. C. Railroad.

Baltimore, Sept. 19. Judge Band to day appointed John a. risher, of rsew York city, receiver of the South Caro lina Railroad. STURGEOn POIHT.

Scnlllna Match. 'Stukgkon Point, Sept. 19. At finish of the sculling match here yesterday Morris was hrst, Kiley second, rkennedy third. Hesmer fourth.

were en tered by Morris. Kennedy, Hoamer and' Plaisted. of being fouled by ictiey. The referee, Wallace Ross, after a long consultation, disaualiiied Riley and Plaisted. The prizes were awarded to Morris first, Kennedy second, Ilosmer third.

BASE BALL. A lban Sept. 19. Albanys 6, Hay-maken 3.. Cleveland, Sept.

19. Forest City 2, Bostons 3. BrrFALO, Sept. 19. Buffaloa.2, Provi dence 4.

WKATHXR rBOBABIUVUS. Washington, Sept. 19. For Tennes- and the Ohio Vallev sonthwest winds. stationary or higher temperature, slightly lower pressure, partly eiouoy weatner, and occasional rains, followed in the Western portions by cooler northwest winds and nossibly rising barometer.

For the Middle Atlantic States, warm er southeast to southwest winds, falling barometer, hazy, partly cloudy weatner, and in the interior possibly light rains. DOMESTIC MARKETS. NewYorx, Sept. 19. Cotton net re ceipts none, sross none.

Futures closed steady sales to-dav bales; September 11.20 11 .27, Octo-" ber 11.0513.08, November 10. 87 10 S8, December 10.iaio.85, January 10.87 10.68. February 10 94, March 11 11.01, April 1L0S11.09, UT 11.16, une 11.32 11.23. July 1L2711.29. New yokk.

Sept. 19. Cotton dull sales 700 bales: uplands li 7-16. Ur- leans 11 9-15; consolidated net receipts 11.125; exports to Great Britain 339. irlour dull, in buyers' favor, super fine Western and State S3 50 4.

patent Minnesota, extra good to prime, $0 257 25, soutnern flour unchanged: wheat better business, mainly speculative, 93 08 for -ungraded winter red; corn, dull, slightly buyers' favor. 4SV504 for ungraded; oats, M.wt Better. Sugar firm and quiet; molasses firm, moderate active. New Orleans 305O rice iirm and quiet, Carolina 664 Lou isiana b(Hi: rosin quiet, 1 S71 1421; turpentine lirm, 27V28; pork opened firmer and closed quiet and heavy, mess $9 GO 9 50 cut meats tirm, middies Heavy and dnxi, western long elear 6Vfe, city do. 6 "A lard heavy, prime steam wnisKyei os.

aew York, sept. is. Hides un changed wool steady and quiet, domestic fleece 29 42, pulled 18 37, unwashed 1030. Texas 1227. Chicago.

Sept. IS. Flour steady and unchanged wheat unsettled, generally higher, io. 2 Chicago spring so cash, 57-u October, ss November, So1 afl the year corn quiet and weak, 35 J4 eash. SSTi October.

35 S7 November: oats steady. 19 'i cash. 20 'A 20 October, 21V421 pork generally unchanged. 55 cash. S3 50s 52 uc- tober, SS 60 November; lard steady and nrm bulk meats unchanged; whisky steady ana uncnangea, xi U7.

Market closed: Wheat stronger. 876 asked for -October, 88s for November; corn easier, declined oats steady ana uncnangea; pork and lard nrmer, CHICAGO. Sent. 1J. Th Drovem' nal reports r'Hogs, medium to good $4 A 10 fair S3 nnftla mmnriil tone of the market unchanged, Texans jus.

lower, wcea sheep maraet dun. St. Louis, Sept. 19. Flour wheat.

No. 2 red fall S7l4S7, No. 3 sl: corn dull, 3H434; oats easier, 194 whisky steady; pork quiet, 124 bulk meats easier, 5. 5.90 6. s- and 6.1525 for shoulders, clear rib and clear sides; bacon easier, 5.62 Ms, 6.7580 and 7.10 for shoulders, clear riband clear ides: lard nominally, btt.

St. Louis, Sept. 19. Cattle, dull and drooBiDfir. fair to choice through, Texas steers 82 703 10.

cows S3 202 60, win tered Texans 503 40 sheep, in fair demand lor muttons, prime to lancy 43 to good i-i uos 40. LOUisviLLX. Sept. 19. Flour dull and unchanged wheat steady: corn, white 46, mixefi 42 oats steady, white 25 pork steady lara mm bulk meats steady bacon firmer.

for shool- ders, clear rib and clear sides: hama iirmer sn star-cured. 12134 whisky stronger. i bo. CisciNNAri, Sept. 19.

Flour, dull and unchanged wheat inactive, red and amber bais corn quiet, 4l43 oats 22 36; 25; lard steady; bulk meats unsettled, shoulders 4 75, clear rib 6.00, clear sides 6.25 bacon steady whisky active sugar steady, unchanged; hogs dull packing $3 60 8 90. Baltimore, Sept. 19. Flour fairly active, but steady Southern wheat opened higher, closed dull, Western steady, JSonthern red 11 04, amber Si 05 1 08, No. Pennsylvania red $1 06Vs, No.

2 YVwtern winter red, spot and September fl 06, October 063b1 06fe, November il061i107; Southern corn qoiet anci steady, Western quiet, a shade firmer, Sou'thern white 54 55, yellow 54. ats firm ivid active. Southern 2S30. Western whii 80. mixed 272S, Pennsylvania 28 30; hay dull but steady, prime Pennsylvania and Maryland 1112 provisions firm, fairly active for iohbinc- eonee active and firm, no cr-Ss'17 whisky quiet.

109 109 Freights nnchangedi augar quiet, 8 Wii3inrGTON, N. Sept. of tnrpentnxe steady at 20; rosin steady, i T7 for strained; crude turpentine Steady, Si for hard, SI 85 for yellow din and virgin; tar, prime H75; corn unchanged. rt MOKBY, STOCKS AND BONDS. New Yobs, Sept.

19, Evening. Money m2; exchange 4.81 Vs; gold strong, 100V Governments quiet new fives 105 State bonds dull. New York, Sept. 19, Evening. Sub-Treasury balances gold H21.022.1S0; currency $461241 35.

Sub-Treasury paid interest $08,000. for bonds Customs receipts $346,000. New Toss, Sept. 19. Closing stook report; exua ConMldldateA Ooal QulcktUTer Adams Well Varre Bxwresa American Marebanta Btzpreaa United States Jjpre Faclflo MU Union PaoiflO.

ITew Si. (St. Paul preferred Toledo and WaUlU For Wayne Ohio and MiasiMiPDl Clilcro and Altoa Hannibal ana St. Iiwuhiim Delaware, Lack, and Klehliraa N. Y.

Oeatral and ex-dividend Lake Snore nd U. Illinois Oeatral Oiereiand and PltttDnr rnafd rmic.airn and Chicago and ZTortliwestem pret erred, Bock Iiland Wee tern Union Tlerrajl) rORXrON BLARKSTS. LivEBPOOL, Sept. lp, Noon, Cotton-Good demand, which is freely-met at nrevions nrices. Middline Uolaads 6Vd Middling Orleans sales 10,000 bales, for speculation and export 2000 receipts 15.600.

no American. futures 1-320. cheaper; upianasiiow Middling clause, September delivery, SeDtember and UotoDer faa. October ana iMovemoer in vera ber and December 6 January and Febmarab'sd. LiIVERPOOL.

eDt. 19. 1:30 if. UOt ton Middling Uplands -Middling Orleans Liow Middlinn uplands 6 Good Ordinary Uplands Od Ordinary Unlands 5cLr Uplands Low Middling clause, September, delivery, October and November Feb ruary and March short oleacmtd dies 31s. 4d.

L.1VKRPOOL. Sent. 19. 5 P. M.

Futures nat. L-ivEEPOOL, Sept. 19 Sales include 8050 American. Futures. Uplands.

Low Middling elause. September and October delivery, ii-tzia; upianas, iow mia-dling clause, new crop, shipped Novem ber and December, sail. 6 5-824. London. Sept.

19. Noon Consols for monev 95 1-16: on aoconnt t5 3-16. lokdon. sens. l.

Tne vaderiand for Antwerp has passed Xiizzard. losdox. sent. 19. no.

la V. sugar spot and afloat, 83s. LiONSok. eept. iy, tr.

uoiaon tnoreaee 410,000. Paris. Sept. 19. 1:30 P.

M. Rentes 113f 474C MARIN K. Key West. Sept. IS.

The American brig Alex, Nichols, from Cienfuegos for Boston, with a cargo of sugar, stranded on the Florida coast, is a total loss. The uret mate, cook and one seaman were drowned the captain and the remainder of the crew were saved. New York. Sept. 19.

Arrived Amelia. Arrived out: Euxinas. New York. Sent. 19.

Arrived out: Sicily. New xokk, sept. 19. Arrived Mam Southampton. Sept.

19. Arrived: Baltimore. Brannschweie. sept. 19.

Arrived: Lake Nepigon. OUBKN8TOWN. Sept. 19. Arrived Montana.

Homeward: G. C. Michels for Wilmington. London. Sent.

19. The Dutch steamer Maas, from New York for Rotterdam, the steamer Mississippi, from Montreal tor Liverpool. Pretoria, irom irmiadei nhia for Havre, and Roval Minstrel, from New Orleans for HnlL reached their des tinations. The British bark Chas. Chal- oner.

irom unebeo for has been strndea at the latter place. The crew were saved. TOR PASSES. PORT Eads. Kent.

19. Noon. Wind east-northeast. Arrived American shin Wm. Tanscott.

wevman, master, 03 days irom pool, to master. saued eteamsmp ltnunei. tor L-iver- pooJv kouthwbst fAsa. sent. 19.

Noon. Wind southeast, fresh. Arrived: British bLid Annie Goudev. jK.ent, master, 4o aays lromcorjc, tor orders, to master. no departures.

Port Eads. Sept. 19. 6 P. M.

Wind southeast, light. Arrived uerman snip Oleopatra, Foppe, master, to oajs trom Bremen, in ballast. to nail fc vangnn. tceports having spoken a British bark displaying the letters P. B.

F. 11 day trom Antwerp, bound for Shanghai all well on board. No departures. SOTJTHWKST Pass. 6 P.

Sent 19. Wind southeast, fresh. JNo arrivals or departures. RIVER, WEATHER, STEAMBOATS. Cincinnati.

Sent. 16. River 30 feet and falling'. Weather hazy and warmer. Pittsburg, Sept.

19. River 4 feet and Weather clear and cool. Cairo. Sent. 19.

Arrived River 6 feet 8 inches and falline. Weather fair. Mercury 78. Lvaksviixk. Sent.

19. River 21 feet 3-10 and rising. Weather clear and warm. EST. liOUiS.

BeDt. 19. Arrived Bel a of Shreveport at quarantine. River 9 feet 7 inehes and stationary. Weather clear and warm.

Louisville. Sent. 19. River falling- 12 feet in the canal. Weather clear and warm.

The Elephant JVIartcet. Mne feet ten inches at the ahnnirtAr was the highest eleghant Mr. Sanderson, an expert in suoh affairs, ever measured. thorouahbred eleohant ia worth Sin 000 or more. In 1S35 the price of elephants was $225 a head now none caa be had for less than 4750.

and tusker of anv rre tension are held at fmm $4noo $7500. At twenty-five years the elephant is full-grown, and it will live from 80 to 120. or even 150 years. The eovernment load is 1640 pounds, exclusive of chains and attendants, and the daily ration is 800 pounds of fodder. Two elephants which had Quarrelled were seoarated far 14 years, and then taken out on a hunting expedition.

They met without any seeming recognition of each other, bat on descending a slanting path down the steep bank of a river the one behind on a Budden made a nluntre forward and upset its old adversary. Mahout, howdah, guns and all into the river. The steamer Chimborazo made lately the fastest vovaea on record between England and Australia, leavingAdelaide, South Australia. Jul 2 and Plymouth Aug. 11.

Offered. lhA 105 17." 82 844 49 178 66 137 87 2a5 68Vi 15 vS 8 83a 1 73H 124 6Sa 71 113i 6738 81 80 B7 "a IIS 85 '-S FEVER AHD QUARANT1HE. AT MEMPHIS. On the 5th the physicians, cal and volunteer, on duty for the. Howards, were Ore.

R. W. Mitchell, director: P. Tuerk, T.N. Smith.

R. Buchanan, Pur-nell, McCormack, Nugent, W. C. Meade, Proud, Ess, Snyder, De Graffenreid, Hauler, Overall. Gelzer.

Sim, R. B- Williams, Tate, Pearce, Gordon, Force, Harlam. Heber. Jones, MoKim, Collins. Bankson, Bartholomew, Armstrong, Keaner.

Le- Sare, McGregor, Dawson, Green, Yates, ewman. Spencer, A. Kuehne, Lawrence, McMillan, Simons, Pittman. Bryan, J. II.

Nnttali, Bowen. Brown, Baakeryille, Rogers. The latter had charge of the Howard infirm aries. Physicians died from the 14th to the 17th Dr. L.

D. Harlan, of Hot Springs, Dr. Nugent, of 8t. Louis; Dr. McGregor, of Tipton county, Dr.

Geo.Erskine. Dr. P. A. PerMns, Dr.p.

D. Beeoher. Dr. T. L.

Proud, of Brownsville, Dr. T. W. Menees. of.

Nash-iHiin. rt R. liAnimr. of Inrtiananolift Dr. Bankson, of Stevenson, Ala.

AT MEMPHI8. Physicians recovering: Dr. Dawson, Dr. F. S.

Jones, Dr. S. R. Clarke, Dr. K.

A. Wise, Dr. Frayser, Dr. Collins, of Cincinnati, Dr. D.

D. Saunders, Dr. Brown, President of Board of Health, Dr. E. A.

White. Physicians siok: Dr. Goell, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Dr. Hiram Pearc, of Cincinnati, Dr. Hicks, Dr.

Green. Physicians, volunteers, newly arrived: Dr.A. P. HalL of UobUe, Ala Drs. C.

R. Thomaseon and J. R. Dale, of Arkadel-phia, Arkansas; Dr. Mcl arland, of Dr.

Huling, of New Orleans, take3 Dr. Gorell's place in charge of the Printers' Infirmary. Dr. Legate, of New Orleans, on active duty with the Howards. Dr.

Bryan, of Houston, very snocessful. Dr. Ramsay, of Washington, D. who went to Memphis and then went back borne and pubLshed various sensational statements, i9 denounced by the Avalanche as a deserter and a slanderer. Printers convalescent W.

G. Taylor, Tim Kavanaugh, ad. P. Wbeeless. Louis Rosello and arrived from New Orleans P.

T. McDermott R. P. Fleming, T. P.White.

Among the deaths reported in the pa pers from the 14th to i tn, we note Sister-Thecla. Sister Gertrude. Sister Mathildes. Sister Margaret, Sister Ber-aiandine, Mrs. Dr.

Dawson, Eugene, son of Rev. Dr. White, Rector or uaivary Church Mrs. Capt. Brans.

H. M. Goe- way, of Pittsburg, and 12. W. (iibson volunteer telegraph operators: B.

Hickman, cotton ein manufacturer Judge Robt. Hutchinson, B. R. Gates, of (Jampbeii, Edmonds kjo, uapt. Lt.

a. Know 1 ton. Ions Assistant Postmaster: Rev, J.T. Early Horace H. Briggs, prom inent member of tme Knights oty Unas and Kmehtaof Honor: Mrs.

Nellie Olarke ol Omaha, and Chas. Lee. of Arkansas, volunteer nurses W. D. McCollnm, real estate agent, and tM.

oster, notn How ards; lieo. d. and other prominent deaths have been mentioned by tel earanh. Amone the convalescents are Gen. W.

G. Smith, CoL Galloway, of the Peabody Hotel Rev. and Mrs. Landrum. Mr.

and Mrs. Coggswell, E. Whitmore, of the Ledger; Mrs. Dr. Sim.

Hon. John Loairne and wife. Henrv White, business manager of the Appeal; Price, of the Avalanche: Prof. Jacob Miller. W.

Brooks, of the Appeal A. D. Langs tali', resident or the to wards. From Sunday. 15th.

to Tuesday. 17th R. W. Blew, publisher of the Methodist Christian Advocate, his wife and three cbildren were buried. Of the 24 members of the Citizens' Re lief Committee, organized August 16 only C.

C. Fisher, C. F. Conn, J. C.

Mao-cabe and Dr. Goodyear remain fit for duty. Mrs. Barbara Hack, a widow, and her seven children, aged from 18 to 28, all died in eioht days, one each day. To close these wof ul gleanings which are but samples of several columns cf sad details in the Appeal and Avalanche.

we present the following remarkable de scription irom une avaianone, ei uea day. I7th ine sorrows or the epidemio were never so pictured in more distressing seen as than were witnessed last Sunday at Elmwood. Six friends of the late Ed. Worsham had followed his remains to the "city of the dead, for the pur pose of paying the last sad tribute to their dearlv beloved comsanion. On arriving at the cemetery they found the Rev.

ur. wnite, of ualvary Uburch, who. with his aged wife and a faithful colored servant, were the only mourners at the funeral of the minister's son, Eugene D. White, who had died the day previous. On learning that the remains of poor Ned were about to be consigned to the grave, ut.

wnite. wnois also a mason, asked the privilege of reading his burial service. The request was readily granted, and the reverend minister, in words most feelingly rendered, amid tears and sobs that almost choked their utterance, eulogized the character of the deceased. As the sed was falling noon the coffin of I TTTl 1 line oepartea, uz. wmw was approacnea by a gentleman well known in this com munity, who asked of him the favor to read the service over his dead wife.

He was the only mourner, and was heart broken over his sad loss. The kind old man willingly consented, but hrst asked that be might consign to the grave his son. rne mourners or Hid. worsaam acted as nail bearers to Eugene D. White.

and with uncovered heads listened with aching hearts to the father as he read the service over his dead sou. This painful scene had hardly ended when Mr. Ed. Beasley approached aud said he would take it as an especial favor if Dr. White would read the funeral service over the remains of the late Wm.

Willis, whom a few of his friends had just brought to consign to their last rest ing place. ihuB it was that the services of the good old man, whose venerable appearance is in keening with his aee. ner- lormed tne duties of nls calling withia the short period of half an hoar to four departed souls that' are now at rest. A. New Xilfe-Preserver.

The Hair ef the Deer Fsund te be Five Time LJsIiter Than Cerk. New York Son. A' few years ago a shrewd hunter in the Western country set about discover ing why the deer, an animal not espe cially adapted by nature for life in the water, could swim longer and keep afloat longer than any other anadrnned. The result of his investigations was the discovery that the hair, of the deer differs from the capillary covering of other animals, in being remarkably celluiar and extremely well adapted to retain Experiments with deer hair proved that it was wonderfully buoyant. A Yankee named Peek was the first to utilize the discovery, and.

after taking ont patent for the invention, he sold it to Col. M. A. Bryson, of St. Louis, who, associated with Mr.

Thomas Knight, is apnlvine the material to practical usee. The "Deer Hair Manufacturing Company" have their factory at. S07 West street, where they make various articles intended to keep mankind from drowning. There life-bnoy, in use in the United States Navy, weighs only two and a half pounds, but it will sostain the weight of two men. Their life-corsets, weighing only half a pound, will support the heaviest man, and their mattareas, weighing eight pounds-with two square pil-lews.

weighing a nonnd anil nirtr each, will sustain the weight of five persons. The mattresses are supplied with life -line at the sides, and, by uniting a number of these, a life-raft can be provided in a few moments. All these appliances are made of dock well pasked with deer hair. Another novnitv a life-preserving pillow, whish as a rest for the head and at a moment's notice, converted into a life-preserver. The little jacket fastens without straps.

and can worn under tne coat witnont inconvenience. The roost interesting of all inventions of the company is a raft formed of two cigar-soaped cylinders, two inches in packed with deer hair and connected by a flooring of wood. The cylinders are fifteen feet long, and the whole apparatus weighs only 300 pounds. It has a sustaining capacity of 3600 pound, and room for thirty persons. In 1876 a Government commission made experiments with the deer hair, and re ported that one pound of it would sus tain a weight of ten pounds for three days.

The latest test was by a board of naval officers, who reported that after the deer hair had been saturated for sev en days it sustained in water twelve times its weight, thns showing a bnoj aa- cy nve times greater tnan tnas ox a cock. Recently the company nave adopted a method of removing the oil and other extraneous matter from the hair, and by this means its buoyancy has been in creased more than 100 per cent. Borne Snake) Stories. Rattlesnake. Blackanakea, Cattanmaatb Snaltea and a Krlghrfkl Maccaaln- From Forest and Stream.

Of the mortal enmity existing between the black snake and the rattlesnake, two instances have come under my notice, in each ox which the rattlesnake proved an sirant coward, making a great noise. while the black snake did all the fight ing, if 1 mav call it lighting it was rash er a struggling and squeezing. My attention was aroused to it by the rattle snake passing close to me, paying no at tention to my presence, but apparently endeavoring to get away from something in pursuit, his rattles springing to their loudest note. I was in the act of throwing the gun up to stop him, when the black snake passed like a flash, going five yards to the rattlesnake's one. and the way he seized that rattlesnake by the back of the neck and went around him was something wonderful.

My experience with the king snake and the moccasin runB through the course of thirteen years, and in that time I have seen the king snake get outside of the moccasin many times. When the king first seizes his prey he colls around it until they are almost like a bail, turn ing occasionally and biting the coils of the moccasin. After being some time in the. coil he will open out. and if the moc casin snows signs or lire it receives an other embrace.

When life is extinct the king snake stretches out its victim, and begins at the head. It takes some time to gorge, especially if the one going in side is about as large as the one crawling outside. From the Hardin Gasette. One daric night recently, three men. wno dwell near Casey villa, on the Ken tucay Bide of the Ohio, started to go over the river in a skiff that had been lying against the bank for some days.

The oarsman pulled vigorously for the other shore, when about sixty yards from the bank the man in the bow heard the hiss of a rattlesnake in the boat. In a nash the oars were stopped and all sat listening, and not a sound was heard. The skid was pulled across to Uasey ville. and there the man at the stern sprang into the water afraid to go through the boat. Procuring a lantern at the hotel, tney went own to examine tne ooac and found a rattlesnake with eleven rattles coiled under the oarsman's seat.

Kingston Courier. On Tuesday, Mr. James L. Dubois, who has built nearly half of Marlborough Village, N. paid a visit to his brother Isaac on the Lattintown road.

Return. ing home toward nightfall he came by tne way ox Grave's dye works, and as he was passing the npper pond a large spotted snake sprang np from behind a clump of bushes and bit him under the right eye. Mr. Dubois grasped the rep tile by the neck and hurled it from him. but as he grasped it the snake fastened its fangs in Mr.

Dubois under the ear; On bis reaching home remedies were applied, and by. midnight the swelling on his face and neck had been reduced. Yesterday he was still Buttering severely, out no xatai results are anticipated. From the COlnmtU Spectator. squires lnicrms us that there is a snake of tremendous size in our neigh borhood, supposed to have escaped from some menagerie.

It has been seen by a numoer oi persons, and it is said to be about ten feet in length, and as large around as a man's thigh. Farmers will not work in undergrowth for fear of being attacked by this monster. From the St Iiouis Bepnbllcan. Miss Lydia Rusk, of Jefferson City was bitten by a snake of the cot' ton-mouth species on the 23d. While picking up some wood for the kitchen fire, she felt a scratch on the forefinger of her right hand.

During the morning she frequently bathed the wounded hnger and applied some simple house hold remedy for such pains. Two hoars later another of the family went for more wood, and discovered a serpent was lurain there, on a more particular examination it was round that two scratches or punches had been made an inch and a half apart, one on each side of the middle knuckle of the finger. The ti 8 nal antidotes were administered. Hartford Times. Mr.

Kelly, an assistant engineer on the steamDoat scare ox New xork, says that on Monday evening, at about 7 o'clock, as tne steamer was netween Hunting ton, on the Long Island side, and Strat ford, on the Connecticut shore, he saw, not far from the side of the vessel, the head of a monster raised several feet above the waves. The hour (about sunset) was light enough to show the creature plainly; it was seem ingly not niteen rods on. it was a horrible head, with a wide open mouth. The head disappeared and a part of the body was shown, forming an aro nu-der whioh it would have been easy, bo far as space is concerned, to drive a team of oxen. There were several smaller curves, indicating a long boa v.

The object disappeared in a fe seconds, be fore Ur. iveiiy. wno was standing alone in the midship gangway, could oall any one eee it. xie aesonoes tne ooay as being as large around as that of a big none." Mr. Kelly is a sober, trustworthy man.

Why Dr. Madge Stopped His Paper. Some years ago, when the writer was a reporter upon an JUastern paper, it devolved on him to write for thB same edition an account of the presentation of a gold-headed cane to the Rev. Dr. Mndge.

the clergyman of the nlaoe. and a description of the new heg" killing ma- enme tnab nau iuei ueen pua opera tion at the factory. Now. what made the Rev. Dr.

Mudge mad was this Tne inconsiderate buccaneer who made no the form got the two locals mixed in a frightful manner, and when we went to press something like tnis was theaoDail- ing result Some of the Rev. Mndge'a mends aiiea on mm yesterday, and after a brief consultation the unsuspecting hos was seized by the hind legs and slid along the beam until he reached the hot-water ills mends explain ed the obieot of their visit and nreaentM) him with a handsome gold-headed who grabbed him by the tail and swung him around, and in less than a minute the oarcass was in the water. 'Therannun he came forward aud said there were times when the feelings overpowered one, and for that reason he would not do more than attempt to thank those around him, for the manner in which so huge an animal was cut in fragments was astonishing. The doctor concluded this remarks, the machine seized him, and in less time than it takes to write it the hoar was into fragments and worked into delicious sansage. The occasion will be remembered by the doc tor's friends as one of the most delightful of their live.

The best pieces can be obtained for 15 cents per pound, and we are sure those who Bat under his ministry will rejoice to hear that he has been so handsomely treated." Mad! Well, about 9 o'clock that morning the office bad been abandoned by every man but the advertising clerk, and he ascended to the roof and robed himself in boiler iron, so that he conld see the clergyman tearing aronnd down iu the street with his congregation, all wearing the panoply of war, and carrying butcher's knives and things. 'The next day we apologized, but the doctor stopped his subscription. Indianapoli a Times. Bf jaU'a Pine Shingle. Detroit Free Press.

His honor at the central station court didn't want to send little Jimmy wnnson to tne house ox collection, and realized that the boy's old mother couldn't pay a fine and so he sent him np to Bijah, accompanied by the following note Esteemed Friend This boy has been making up faces at the public, throwing stones at windows, and in various other ways rendering himself disagreeable to the public Can yon convince him of the error of his way Bijsh read the note, looked the boy over, and mused "He's tuff; lean see Dick Turpin in the cut of his nose, Beu Butler in the slant of his eyes, and old: Satan all around his mouth but I'll -wrestle with him aye! he'll go out of here as humble-minded as a yellow dog caught in a bear trap in the back end of the wood shed. Bub. how long since yon had a good wash How long since ye sandpapered yer head!" was the insolent reply. "Boy, that's sass. that is! It is true I'm bald-headed, but I don't like to be told of it.

You've been sent up here to be reformed, and you'd better, be a little nice at the outset." Ob I guess I can take care of myself I've been on three 'scursions, owned a dog, had a toe broken, and I'd have broken out of the station if I'd had half an hour more time." Child of sass and sin, come np into my department of industry!" said Bijah as his ears began to work. Don't git yerself hurt growled the lad as he pulled away and drew a bean shooter from his hind pocket. The old man picked him np and car ried him np stairs into the spanking room, but the boy gazed around on the implements of reform without the least emotion. As he was dropped to his feet he remarked "Hev ve got any stuffed turkev an here for a feller Tuff tuff tuff r' sighed Biiah. as he drew the spanking bench into position.

'it's a wonder to me. bov. that von bavn't been hung for murder ere this. Here, look at yourself in the glass." Little Jim looked into the ten cent mirror, stroked his chin, rubbed a little of the dirt oft' his nose, and observed "I can't help being ourtv. can 1 1 Miter to blame cause I haint lost all my front teeth, and got ears flopping dear down to my shoulders More sass more sass! James, alias Jim, I am now about to invigorate your physical system with a pine shingle.

Yon need it- Every look and word proves to me that you relish a good sound thrashing." "I've got monev that savs there'll be a lawsuit if you try it on was the defiant reply. "Child, threats cannot move me," sighed the old man. I owe a duty to you, to your widowed mother and to the world at large, and ten thousand billion lawsuits could not weaken my elbow. The usual will now be inaugu rated." Selecting a fine spanker marked. Ve locity, ten miles per hour," Bijah gave the lad a sudden twist into position, and the collision commenced.

At the third blow the spanker was split into half a dozen pieces, and the boy laughed, and cauen out D've want a feller to go to sleeo in this posishun 1 There's more to roller more to toi ler," replied Bijah as he reached out for more timber, lhis time he selected a bpanker marked, "perpendicular pressure fully guaranteed," and when the shingle came down a cloud of dust arose and the boy gave a Budden start. A second blow more dust. At the third blow three old carpet tacks flew across the room, and young James was visibly agitated. Tie boy stood on the burning deck, Where tne liame and smoke did mingle'; and Bijah thought ol thin aa he yi a ted wlih the eblugle. As soon as the dust and mud and grass and tacks and sand had- been oleared away, the spanker began to open fire on the enemy all along the Hue.

Young James passed from indifference to anxious care from thence to great mentil anxiety, and losing the old cigar stub out of his mouth in a last effort to regain his composure, he broke down aud let the fountain in his youthful heart be turned on. The spanker didn't stop work at his first appeal, nor his second, and it was going as regularly as a gas-meter, when he cried out "This 'ere thing hez made a perfeck angel of me No hoy e'er felt the eldnple play With tond remembrance ol tlie day. There were only two dry eves in the room as Bijah let his arm down for a rest and said Thar that's part the first, and I'm greatly encouraged. I didn't expect to reiorm you au at once. Due snail tase you in sections and be a whole week on the job I will now introduce you to soap and water and a crash towel, and while I'm down to the farm after some huckle berries, I'll give you a lesson to read in the city directory' it's kinder mean to pound a bov with a shingle softly observed the lad, as ne wiped nis eyes on a newspaper.

Mv son." replied ttuab. as he patted him on the head, "humannatur' is naturally sinful. A boy is just as prone to do evil as a cucumber is to make under the fence into the next man's yard. He must be wrestled with and coerced. If one shingle won't make him cat acquaint ance with hard words and bad associates we must try two.

It almost breaks my heart to bend a boy over my knee and administer a dose of the Great American Shingle Corrector, but the an-csls np in heaven will never excuse a man for not doing his duty by his fellow men. Borne one Had to spans: goodness into me, I spank it into you, and you will administer the tonio to some one else." Mi the worst boy in town Queried the youngster. Perhacs not. but vou are tuff and rufft and you are in a fair way to bring np in state orison. Boy.

did vou ever hear of Daniel in the lion's den "Daniel who queried Jim. "I never heard his other name, my son, but some wicked chaps threw him into a den containing a dozen of the ugliest lions in the country. And tney went rer mm No not a bite. He was in there with 'em all night, and they never even looked cross-eyed at mm." Wasn't hungry. I s'Doee." observed the lad.

Bov. it was goodness that saved him nothing but his goodness. If he had been around hookin' melvons. steal ing apples, running oft dogs, and sassin' toe general public, them lions would have gobbled him like a buzz-saw going through a cake of taller. I've begun operations on you, and I'm going to see if I can't plant a few seeds in your benighted sonl.

I exnest I'll have to plant one day and spank the next, but I'll keep you here for a week if it wears out alt the shingles inlDetroit. I'm now going down to the farm. While I'm gone I want yon to nut in time on this direc tory." i5jjah locked Jim and a copy ox tne city directory in a cell and went away. When he returned after an hour's absence he entered the oorridor on tip- toe and heard the lad reading: J-o-n, John, S-m-b, Smith. Joan Smith and dohn't yon forget it "A leetle slangy." whispered Bijah.

as a glad smile broke over 'his faee. but he's coming to I can remember back when I couldn't spell 'John' with a big to save my lifer Shingles and perseverance will save that boy, and I know it." A Romantic Night 8t. Sjlvestre's night in Hungary Is one of the most romantic momenteef the year. All sorts of superstitions beliefs are attached to this night. Maidens of all ranks and all ages throng to the shrine of the excellent saint, who is supposed to know all about the future husbands of every unmarried lady of Christendom a be def whjch costs him dear.

If he hasn't been driven crazy long ago bv the thousands of questions addressed to him on this one special night, at the moment when the clock strikes 12, he will sorely become so now, when the number of eligible husbands diminishes in the same degree as the number of unmarried ladies, eagor to change their position, increases from year to As a civilized saint, whose prestige has outlived that of a great number ox his brethren. St. Sylvestre gives his attention first of all to the saloons that is, to those who should fill them, but who- on this night prefer to follow the young people to the kitchen, where the young ladies are occupied with the manufacture -of dumplings. Suoh a culinary exertion in elaborate evening dresses must have an important cause. The dn mo-lings prepared by those, delineate hands are no ordinary dumpliugs, whose destiny is to be eaten.

Fate chosen this simple farinaseous food to be the interpreter of its decrees. Every young lady of the company writes the names of all the eligible, gentlemen of her acquaintance upon scraps of paper, which she hides in the dumplings, and' the moment the clock strikes 12 she throws them into boiling water. Now. it is the habit of dumplings, when sufficiently cooked, to reappear on the surface of the water, and the first dumpling which reappears on St. Sylvester's Eve contains the young lady's doom that is, the name of her future husband.

The second dumpling showing itself on the surface bears invariably the name of the happy lover's rival, while the third contains the name of the miserable creature who has been refused by the more or less fascinating lady. The screaming and laughing of the young people, the blushing and frowning on all those youthful faces at the moment when the boiling water sends np the first herald of matrimony, is such a pretty sight that it is not to be wondered at when the dumplings sometimes gness rightly. Grave-Digging Beetle. One of the wonderful provisions of nature is the existence of certain beetles, with the function of digging graves for dead rats, moles, birds, and other small creatures left upon the surface of the earth, and the effluvia from whioh might be offensive and baleful. Beetles of this kind are known as remarkable animals, Mr.

Gleditch, an entomologist, has given us eeveral interesting and carious particulars. Being desirous to test the strength of the grave-diggers, he provided a glass vessel half filled with moist eatth, into which be put four beetles with a dead linnet. No alarm was shown by the captives. Apparently intent on the one sole object of their existence, they began immediately to inspect she bird, and then commenced the digging of a hollow underneath it, removing the earth; 8nd shoveling it away on each aide. This was accomplished by leaning strongly upon their collars, bending down their heads, and working with a tingleness of purpose.

After laboring for nearly two hours, one of the beetles was driven away and not allowed to work again. This Mr. Giecitch concluded was a female, as it was smaller than the others, who continued their labor, until one by one they ceased, leaving only one beetle at bis work. Five hours more hard work were given by the remaining beetle, who at last sank exhausted on the earth and rested from his task, and finally, suddenly arousing himself, stiffened nis collar, and by an extraordinary effort of strength, lifted up the bird and arranged it within the spacions grave. In three days the grave was finished and the bird safely deposited within its narrow limits.

Daring a space of fifty days these busy woikers interred the bodies of four frogs, three small birds, two grasshoppers and one mole. This singular occupation, which continues from the middle, of April until the end of October, proceeds from an instinctive desire for the preservation of their- offspring. Eggs deposited by the parent in the substance which they inter, when hatched produce the larvas which, feeding on the carrion which surrounds them, grow to an inch in length. These in their turn change into yellow chrysalids, and lastly into beetles; and the latter, when emerged from the eartn. begin to dig graves and inter dead animals for.

the benefit of an other generation. Chambers's Journal." David Lazaretti. the dead fanatic of Monte Labro, in Western fonght in Garibaldi's famous Legion, but reaching no distinction, he retired to a literary iife. From this he emerged so changed that he was scarcely recognizable. He had let his baard grow.

His person was nn oared for. He walked about with his eyes aloft, spoke in short sentences, as if inspired by some superior Deing, and pretended not to know either his family or friends. He had, he said, a high mission to ulnll, destined to render him great among the gieatest even immortal. He lived on bread, water and garlic There were thousands among his followers, and they determined to build for him a lofty tower more than 3000 feet above the level ef the sea. Every Snnday hundreds upon hundreds of men, women and children were seen toiling in procession np the hill, carrying large xnaeees of stone, chanting the rotary as they went, and believing that the heavier the load they carried the more meritorious was their labor.

There were twelve rooms attached to the tower, one for each of his apostles, and a chapel containing images of the Virgin. St. eterand himself. The Sun day before he was shot more than 3000 people ascended Monte Labro to hear this prophet preach. It was necessary.

he once said, to exterminate the m-iests and two-thirds of mankind. To the King of Italy he aid Your Ministers are enemies of you and of your bouse. I am sorry I am not at your el bow to save vou irom the disastrous fate in store for you." To the King of Prussia Lav aside the domineering spirit. and await a young prince who will give yon empire over a third of the peoples." To Fiance: "Renounce Voltaire, and vou will be united in one great nation- a -s jT ality Wltn itaiy, opam ana reece." to Russia, to England, to Austria aud to Spain he preached first ruin and then resurrection. To Greece he said From you will come the new grand monarque, like Alexander the Great.

This is the will of tbe Almighty." He prophesied that within twelve years he would annihilate all the empires, kingdom and republics of the Universe, forming them into one sole empire, and that the Supreme Pontiff would give laws to all the human races, reduced to a rigorous unity of religion, rites and politics. The Cologne Gazette says that fox years there has not been such a lively season on the Rhine. and Americans are nnusnally numerous. A Female Hstaait." u-gui'a City Stv i -i Independent, vi.it to Sutro on last WednetiO-a few eggs and lay tn aaW 10 groceries and other pro.MW versation she seemed quJSo, and intelligent, bhe fixty years old next OctoVr hs lived alone in the onntah i lor twelve years, and thkt ectlv happy in living Todedtii oujsjde world. Her onl, wb.eb she derives fronV 260 APnS? and eight hens.

Shesavs visiud by the afc never to see one about hL tor. nearly every e.P her Jbhi1 tt. living, and after their writs over their conduct S5S! lises the Pintes, and companiooshipTTheT Bet yet teen her in need but tha ttli shoot some rabbits or 'SaSf1 for her relief, and in cofd tathL even shared the warath of kets with her. In height thi. woman is about live felt TmeWl.

in actions sprightly. Her dirk 5 hair lies in wavelets aboat and hangs about her head Her dress is neaHnd ii ni wf forms with ttat.betarew'f in the mountains. She is Massachusetts, has two brothSS in Weetport, in that StateS? married life years ago, in Cariotw CtMof Petrifaction: wiau twenty years aea Almy sunk a well at Bohnai wll? ing to have three or four lam etf -at the time, he knocked in the hi burned out the oiL and ass them lt well, one above another, and, stranrh I say, they are turned to solid stonaai are as perfect to-day as whea JL put in the welL The top owkii iw 'vev iuio 111 I imjfj, 'Anfl eftw of common boards is set over the ir' bu meeitna tuv, c. eralof these and been replaced, but the oak caskti PWrtedsiri; here a hint for well-builders, or are causes of petrifaction local Father Tiber has yielded up aootlwt I nis multitude of art treasures. SotSir could be more picturesque, writes sen respondent, than the disclosed bad oft.

nver within the dam thst has bet erected below the Ponte Bisto. Grt fragments of columns, capisals, ped tals and entablatures are ljmg about I all directions, and the other day brae statue was found. Bronze statues of ai tiquity are very precious from their rr rarity. Few perfect ones srs kaowi The equestrian statue of Materia an Jius on the hill of the Capitol it Kome the only complete equestrian status antiquity that has been preserved I modem times. Unfortunately in present case only portions ot a compk statue have been and these in dozen or twenty pieces, but they are fiotnt to show they are parts of an iu peria! statue, some nine feet ia height the best period of Graeoo-Komin arte in the finest Corinthian brants, and ore laid with a thick layer of gold.

It I thought the statue is one of thoee throw into the Tiber through the popular dignation. Upon the arm, which is bs from just below tbe shoulder, then marks whercit had been twice strac forcibly with a sword, and theoftx part of the wrist is ont through by wbi has evidently been the blow of a fietvu weapon, possibly an ax. There ia, nn Times's (London) writer, a long hit Emperors-whose statues and busts vr served in this manner: but. jidgtr from the style of art, the beauty tr truthfulness of the execution, and i. perfection of the bronze and rildiir which pronounce the work ta be of first century, the statue may be one Domitian.

The interest aroastd la disco very is shown in the report that side of the Ponte Sisto overlookiagt spot where it had been made is crowd, from morning till night by people wskk ing the operations. I Ipfluence of Gas Light on the Egt.ti German Minister of IostrnoniotiiiMrt centiy isaned a report cu tbe ionoenoei gas light on the eye. The oonclnsic arrived at is that no evil resnHa follow, moderate use of gas, if the direct as5i of the yellow flame on tbe vented. For this' purpose screeni i i i Is 1 'JC ji nt Uo: TH however, exist te tbe use of zinc or lea ories syebt i i or if shades, most evils affecting the ere ing traceable to them. Their an, said, invariably tends to blindness fi animation and other harmful effect fa The milky white glass shade if the tec as it distributes the light ni hat i grateful effect on the eye.

The barm should not be too close to tbe head, congestions of the forehead and far nr.hea rfxrnlt from the radiated beftt. Ti 21 -ai to glass plate below the gas, employed It some places, is especially usef ol tort purpose, as it causes an equal dutao. turn or the light necessary wnere number are working at one tmrser-pr vents tbe radiation of beat, and tec; to a steady illumination by ahieldinrv. flames from currents of air. In cm i highly inflamed eyes, dark blue gjoo can be very beneficially employed.

Wit precautions of this kind no evil efiee. from the burning of gas need be ieare' (New vox Tnbi In one district of India, oa the soar are Jews who are believed tcbt descendants of Jews sent into Isois Kig Solomon to capture iephanfcri bis use, and to work in tbe gold niinM The Hebrew language has a'tsoarw ont among tbem, but they posae i vnon RiKl. a. hnTi a. ia CbeT KM a a A.

nnlv tha Sahhath fha Pa(Wfr 31 fc2 Day of Atonement beicg unknown tj them. They oaU themwlvea boci Israel "and not "Jews," and that they possess autograph prarer-o by the Patriarchs. They bout ol WW of freedom given them uj an dian king, and of another given of au Tecbandrackupta, who was eontempM; fnTni iVt o. fABA in vkAint fnr the Larwiu ists, in that SO00 years in todu Jl6-! difficult to distinguish them frwn otner natives. The other day a visitor surprised Kg ard Grant White saying tJ 'hji VTU-UJ, UXUOaj Am blanky wanky oz catch Mwf.

have ze snnffiies." Just then te cantf sight of the visitor, and said tatM ant No. no, you must nSS your pedal extremities, by "fjr them beyond the protecting cdveroiwi. blanket, or you will JJjS'i open to attacks of catarrhal aflMM And tbe astonished shnekea though some one had wmgeu defective safety-pin. uawxte- The Weather. 6IGXAL SERVICE LOCA MFOBT nooiember i9.

1B7S. JXS. Time. Ear. 7 A.

M. SO. 12 2 P. M.ja0.f 48 8 P. 30.11 Ther.

74 84 78 Hnf'T. 76 6i 82 1)1 ta yle-j -ia 6. ilan j. (30.147 7P.5 73 Maximum temperature 86. Mln' jerature 71.

Xo rainfall too amall Mintn ii i mm urn ftft- VfiitKl states oiano ser.M 0.