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DE PROFUNDI. Ah! Days so dark with Death's eclipse Woe arc wel woe are we! And the Nights are Ages long From breaking hearts, thro' pallid lips Oh, my God! woe are we! Trembleth the mourner's song A blight is falling on the fair And Hope is dying in despair, And Terror walketh everywhere. All the hours are fall of tears Oh, my God! woe are we! Grief keeps watch in brightest eyes Every heart is strung with fears Woe are we! woe are we! All the light hath left the sides. And the living awestruck crowds See above them only clouds And around them only shrouds. Ah! the terrible Farewells! Woe are they! woe are they! When last words sink into moans While life's trembling vesper bells Oh, my God woe are we Ring the awful undertones! Not a sun in any day I In the night-time not a ray And the dying pass away 1 Dark! so dark! above below Ob, my God! woe are we! Cowcreth every human life Wild the wailing to and fro Woe are all! woe are we Death is victor in the strife In the hut and in the hall lie is writing on the wall Dooms for many fears for all.

Thro' the cities burns a breath, Woe are they woe are we not with dread and deadly wrath; Life and Love lock arms in death. Woe are they! woe are all! Victims strew the Specter's path Shyeyed children softly creep Where their mothers wall and weep In the grave their fathers sleep. Mothers waft their prayers on high Ob, my God! woe are we! With their dead children on theirbreast. And the Altars ask the sky-Ob, my Christ! woe are we! Give tho dead, oh, Father, rest Spare Thy people! Mercy! spare!" Answer will not come to prayer-Horror moveth everywhere. And the Temples miss the Priest Ob, my God! woo are we! And the cradle mourns the child; Husband! at your bridal feast Woearoyon! woe are you! Think how those poor dead eyes smiled; They will never smile again Every tie is cut in twain.

All the strength of love is vain. Weep? but tears are eak as foam-Woo are we! woearone! They but break upon the shore Winding between Here and Home-Woe are wo! woe are we! Walling never aevermore! Ab, tne dead, they are so lone, Just a grave, and Just a stone. And tho memory of a moan. Pray? yes, pray for God is sweet Tears will trickle into prayers When we kneel down at Ills feet- un, my boa i woe are we Woe are we I woe are we With onr crosses and our cares. He will calm the tortured breast, He will give the troubled rest And the dead He watcheth best.

Father Ryan. Life and Death in Memphis. St. Louis Republican correspondence (Oct. 4) A wedding occurred to-day between Dr.

W. F. Besancy, a volunteer physician, from Jones's Station, and Miss Butter, an accomplished resident of Memphis. He was here daring tho epidemic of 1873 and offered his services on the call for physicians this year. 'While serving he was taken sick, nursed to convalescence by the young expressed his appreciation of her Sa-maritanism in the manner not ordinarily recorded outside the pages of romance.

Henrich, the telegraph operator from Pittsburg, stricken yesterday, is reported dying. Considerable excitement exists opposite 73 St. Martin Street, where iiilly 600 people are gathered to witness the dying agonies of a Youdoo negress named Becky Morris. She last night predicted her death this afternoon, out at this hour, 7 o'clock, she still lives. She is shrouded for the coffin, her hands crossed upon her breast, and in appearance fulfilling her prophecy.

But the opinion seems to bo that she will remain on the earth for some time yet. It makes cold chills run all over one's body to hear some of the horrifying incidents related by the Howard physi cians. One of these was told yesterday. by one on duty in tne northern part of the city. A man and his wife were living iu rather an isolated locality.

The husband was sick of the fever. The physician made his call about 3 o'clock in the afternoon when he found him very low, but the wife who had undertaken to nurse him showed up to that time no symptoms of the fever. He called the next day as usual and found the man had been dead 12 hours and his wife lay beside the corpse with a burning fever. She had been taken so suddenly and so severely that she was una ble to summon assistance. A Noble Boy.

Among the noble young lives that have been sacrificed at Memphis there was one mat deserves special mention that of Thomas E. Hotchkiss, one of the brave boys that went from Shreve-port to the aid of fever-stricken Memphis. Poor Tom was a noble son of a noblo sire warm-hearted and fearless, he poured out his life like water for those in distress, and from no other motive than one of the purest humanity and devotion to duty, and without hope or wish of reward. The Shreveport Times says of him: "Every effort was made by his friends to dissuade him from the step, because he had never had the fever and because the possession of robust health seems to be" no sort of safeguard against the fell disease." Tom, however, persisted, and his reasons are given in a touching letter, which we reproduce. Dr.

T. P. Hotchkiss, his one of the first citizens of Shreveport. as he was one of its oldest settlers, and one of nature's noblemen, died at that place of the fever in 1873. This young man learned his trade in the office of the Shreveport Times, and worked for some time on the Democrat a year or more ago.

lie was a sober, industrious young fellow, and of a most lova ble disposition. Peace to his ashes, poor, brave, kind-hearted boy! Orleans Democrat. A. Sad Incident. A few weeks ago, one night, in an unpretentious cottage on Custom House Street, there lay dying a child sick of this dreadful malady.

Ministerine to its last wants was all that the unhappy parents coma ao, ior tne- cnua was doomed, and in the small hours of morning the spirit of the loved one pauedaway. The father then set to work. to make arrangements the burial of his child. He went to the tjpmoir; where the last of his money, $10, and a few jewels were deposited. After searching high and low for some time he realized the fact that he had been robbed.

He immediately told the police his piteous tale, and they encouraged him by promising to look for the thief. They found sufficient evidence to warrant the arrest of a negress who was seen prowling about the house. The father was called from the coffin' of his child to come up to the court to make an affidavit. While there, giving a description of the jewels, he received a message that his wife had fallen a victim to the fever. Not waiting to sign the affidavit, he frantically rushed from the court-room to attend to the wants of his wife.

The death of his child, the sudden illness of his wife and this loss of all that remained of his money, so worked upon his nervous system that he also was claimed as a fit subject for the fever. The child was buried by friends. Within a day after the funeral the father expired, and the day after the mother's spirit followed that of her child and husband. New Orleans Picayune. A Strange Incident.

The Rev. James. R. Groves, of the Southern Baptist Church of this city, left Memphis for California on the 21st of August, with the design of delivering a scries of lectures in that State. He arrived at Salt Lake City, where he was stricken with yellow fever, and was taken in charge and nursed to convalescence by the Catholic Sisters of that city.

Rather a strange coincidence; the leader of the Baptists of the South, stricken down in a Mormon city, and receiving the Christian charities said attendance of Catholic Sisters. Louisville CourierTournal. Gave lib) Life for Another. About two weeks a ago, a young lady inquired at the Postromce for a letter, and was taken with the fever. She begged those who witnessed her agony not to take her to the hospital, where she knew she must die.

Mr. Z.P.Oliver, an employee of the office, heard her piteous cries, and, with the characteristic kindness of a noble and generous man, took her to his room, provided her with a physician, nurses, and attended her until she convalesed. While thus engaged he contracted the disease, and the announcement of his death is the sad sequel to his act of hu manity, though another me was saved. Memphis Cor. Chicago Tribune.

The Study of Common Things. Speaking of the grievous neglect of attention to common things and common employments as means of education, the Philadelphia Public Ledger sensibly remarks that "it is in tho study of common things, that are so plentiful all around us, but so little understood, that an' education may be gained of which at present we have only begun to conceive. Schools are numerous, books are abundant, every child is now made master of the elements of learning, yet there is a lack of practical education; the effects of the school are apt to fade away on the farm and in the factory, and a separation, if not an antagonism, often takes place between study and daily life. We need a bridge which will carry the scholar with his habits of study and inquiry safely into the life of profitable labor, without obliging him to drop what he has taken so much pains to gain. Such a bridge may be found in the study of common things.

Ordinary life pur suits furnish abundant material for such study. Every object we see or handle in evcry-day life has a history well worth perusing, a composition well worth analyzing, a future well worth conjecturing. However common it may be, it has that in it, and about it, which will forever prevent it from being commonplace. Every employment we engage in, however mechanical or insignificant it may seem, will escape from all such odium if it is pursued with an active brain as well as a busy hand if its resources are examined, its history studied, its methods compared, its best purposes followed. Such education will make labor far more valuable by introducing into it the element of thought; it will increase the power of observation, and stimulate the curiosity, which is the germ of knowledge; it will invest the world of common things with richer meaning and keener flavor; and, best of all, it will give continual occupation to those higher faculties of man which are apt to rust in the tame routine of every day life, when not thus lifted out of the re gion of commonplace." Treasure hunters in Havti ore very desirous of findiner about $30,000,000 buried by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the negro insurrection icauer, ku uj close of the last century, when he was on the point of surrendering to the French.

He caused the com to be placed in sacks and carried to a place near Port-au-Prince in three wagons, guarded by ten soldiers. He ordered ten men to dig ine note lor weir reception, and. after covering them to return immediately with the wagons and escort. After the work had Deen accomplished the party returned, but were nred on irom an amousn oy a oaiuuiun of soldiers under the command of Toussaint himself. All were killed, and the secret of the treasure's location was lost with Toussaint's death.

An officer connected with the battalion had receiv ed intimations of the intended "burial, but obtained no knowledge of the spot. The luxuriant vegetation of the tropica speedily covered it. As the fall of an apple is said to have started the train of thought in the mind of Newton, which led to the discovery of the law of gravitation, a similar circumstance lea to the use of the pen dulum. Galileo, when a youth, stand-im? one day in the Cathedral of Pisa, when a lamp suspended from the ceil- irnr bavin or been distnrbed bv accident. his attention was attracted by the uniformity of its motion swinging backwards and forwards, and, being struck with the regularity of the movement, he conceived the happy Wea of utilizing it for the measuring of time.

As in the case ox too tailing appie, uuiuons people no doubt had observed the sane thing, bat it required the fertile imagination of Newton to turn it to account. M.t- ,1" -f Wa Va AMnttifl .9 iaIiiaa mmimplail rdealU of his observation of the swing-ig lmp to the perfection qf the clock. CURRENT EVENTS. At New Orleans, on the 3d, there were 51 deaths from yellow fever and 111 new cases reported; at Memphis, 45 deaths and 138 new cases reported; at Vicksburg, 8 deaths, and epidemic gaining ground, especially in suburbs; at Baton Rouge, 10 deaths and 82 new cases; at Brownsville, 2 deaths and 15 new cases; at Greenville, 6 deaths and 25 new cases total deaths to date, 260 out of a population of 1,350 at the outbreak of fever; at Bay St. Louis, 3 deaths and 18 new cases at Chattanooga, 4 deaths and 10 new cases and one or more deaths each at Dry Grove, Jackson, Osyka, Tangipahoa, Lafourche Crossing, Hickman, and other localities in Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.

At New Orleans, on the 4th, there were 54 deaths from yellow fever and 203 new cases reported; at Memphis, 35 deaths, among them several refugees who had just returned to the city; at Vicksburg, deaths; at La Grange, 15 deaths for the week past, and 30 cases under treatment at Baton Rouge, 20 deaths in 48 hours. In the country around Vicksburg the epidemic was most fatal in ils character, whole families being swept away. There were 41 deaths at Now Orleans on the 7th and 115 new cases reported; at Memphis, 26 deaths in city and 22 others in adjacent country; at Vicksburg, 4 deaths in city and 6 in suburbs; at Baton Rouge, 11 deaths in 48 hours and 111 new cases; at Holly Springs, 5 deaths in 48 hours and 26 new cases; at Cairo, 2 deaths and 1 new case. reports 15 deaths to date and 32 cases now under treatment. All business suspended.

Gov. Nicholls of Louisiana appointed Wednesday, Oct. 9, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer for deliverance from the yellow fever scourge. The steamer John M. Chambers, 600 tons burthen, left St.

Louis on the 4th, laden with a full cargo of ice, provisions, and other supplies for the relief of destitute sufferers along the lower Mississippi, many of whom it is said are cut off by quarantine and the stoppage of river navigation from their ordinary sources of supplies. The steamer is commanded by Capt. Yore, and Lieuts. H. H.

Benner and H. Hall, U. S. volunteered to accompany the expedition and direct the distribution of supplies. Alexander R.

Shepherd, of Washington, took the lead in organizing the expedition, the funds for which were contributed mainly by the merchants of various cities. The Hungarian Ministry have resigned, on account of their unwillingness or inability to provide the money required as the contingent of Hungary to the expenses of the Bosnian invasion. There was great excitement in Vienna on account of the Ministerial crisis. Gen. Sherman has written a letter to D.

D. Colton, Vice-President of the Southern Pacific Railroad, dwelling upon the importance of the road to the interests of Arizona, and to the development of trade and friendly relations with Mexico, closing with the permission to publish the text with the understanding that it is written without consultation with the War Department, althongh the writer is almost certain that it will meet with the sanction of the Department. The appointed to select a new reservation for the Ute Indians, have chosen a location at the headwaters of the Navajo and Blanch Rivers, isolated from white settlements and accessible to supplies. The Indians are satisfied with the arrangements and the Government has approved them. The removal will take place at the most favorable time.

The Utes now number 2.500. and are now at least 200 miles away from railroad facilities. The public debt statement for September shows a decrease in the debt for the month of $3,196,534, and following balances in the Treasury: Currency, special fund for the redemption of fractional currency, special deposit of legal tenders at redemption certificate department, coin, including coin outstanding legal tenders, Additional Congressional nominations: Illinois Second District, George R. Davis, Republican! Miles Kehoe, Democrat. Missouri Second District, J.

B. Follett, Greenback; Third, W. C. Van Diilen, Greenback. Arkansas Third District, Jordan E.

Cravens.Dem- ocrat, renominated. The Texas Republican State Convention, held at Dallas on the 2d, nominated the following ticket: For Governor, A. B. Norton, of Dallas; for Lieutenant-Governor, Richard Allen (colored), of Harris; for Attorney-General, Fred. W.

Minor, of Lamar; for Comptroller, A. Siemering, of Bexar; for Treasurer, Judge S. A. Wood, of Tyler; for Commissioner of the Land Office, Jacob Kenchler, of Comal; for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, James H. Bell, of Travis for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, L- W.

Cooper, of Houston. The City of Glasgow Bank, Scotland, closed its doors on the 2d. It was es tablished in 1837, had from 50 to 60 branches, and its liabilities are thought to be as much as $50,000,000. The liability of the shareholders is said to be unlimited. The cause of the bank's failure is attributed to various causes, one of which is the depreciation in various securities, upon which it had made large advances.

The failure of the City of Glasgow Bank has been followed by that of a number of large firms, principally in the East India trade, the most prominent being that of Smith, Fleming London, whose liabilities are estimated at $10,000,000. In the suit of the Union Trust Company, of New York, and Baring of England, against the Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company, to foreclose certain consolidated mortgage bonds on the ground of default in the payment of interest, Judge Dillon, in the United States Circuit Court, at St. Louis, on the 1st, rendered a lengthy decision, denying the foreclosure, but not dismissing the b'ril. Judge Treat dissented, giving the opinion the bill should be dismissed. A division of opinion will be certified to the Supreme Court.

In the meanwhile the case will stand for further hearing or be referred to the Master in Chancery. The Republican Congressional Convention of Gen. Butler's District (the 7th Massachusetts) passed a resolution unanimously demanding that the General immediately resign his position. Wm. A.

Russell was nominated as his successor for the next term. On the afternoon of the 1st a portion of the runaway Indians crossed the Kansas Pacific track near Buffalo Station, and when some miles north of the station, in Sheridan County, they came upon a lot of cattle-men, when a hand to hand fight ensued, resulting in a loss of 18 white men killed and five wounded. Indian loss not known. The troops were all west of Buffalo, in pursuit of a band that crossed near Sheridan on Sunday morning. A telegram from Ogallala, 4th, says the main body of the hostile Cheyennes had crossed the Union Pacific Railroad, five miles cast of that station.

Their number was estimated at from 150 to 200. They were pursued by Maj. Thornburgh's command as soon as the latter could come from Sidney, but the Indians had some six hoars the start. Maj. Miuck and Lieut.

Davis, who had been following the trail of the Indians for several days, arrived at Ogallala with their commands soon after Thornburgh left, and went to join him on the North Platte, where it was thought a battle would be fought. On the 2d Maj. Mauck had a sharp fight with the Indians on Beaver Creek, in Which he lost 10 men. The Indians, having fresh horses, were able to outride the troops and so get away. Reports were received on the 6th at military headquarters, St.

Paul, that both the Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Sioux had left-their reservations in Dakota and were moving west, directly towards the Black Hills. The supposition is that they are about to join the fugitive Cheyennes in a descent upon the Hills. Much solicitude is felt for the safety of cities there, which are protected by only four companies of soldiers. The most horrible atrocities were committed by the fugitive Cheyennes in their passage through Decatur County, Kansas, a large number of settlers being killed with their entire families, the women suffering the most terrible indignities. F.

W. Pitman, Republican, is elected Governor of Colorado by from 2,000 to 2,500 majority, and Judge Belford's majority for Congress will be about the same. The Legislature is strongly Republican, insuring a Republican Senator to succeed Chaffee. The negotiations between Germany and the Vatican seem to have fallen through, on account of Prince Bismarck's ultimatum of obedience to the May laws. The Democratic and Greenback tick ets in Iowa have been consolidated.

The new ticket will comprise four Democrats and five Greenbackers. The Nebraska Republican State Gon-c vention, held on the 3d, nominated Albinos Nance for Governor, RJf-Valentine for Congress, long term, and CoL Tom Majors for short term. The platform declares that "the greenback shall not be dishonored or depreciated, but shall be made as good as honost coin; the laborer's dollar shall mean a real dollar; the uncertainty of its value, which robs toil and paralyzes trade, shall cease, and our currency shall be the best currency, because, whether paper or coin, it shall be equivalent, convertible, secure and steady." The Joint Congressional Committee engaged in tatting testimony as to the propriety of transferring the control of the Indians from the Interior to the War Department, having heard the opinions of many witnesses, pro ana con, at St. Louis, on the 1st started on an excursion down through the Indian Territory, to he gone about a week. At Muscogee the committee were re ceived at the depot by delegation of Indians representing the leading tribes, and escorted to the Fair Grounds, where the annual fair of these tribes was being held.

After inspecting the display of agriculi rural and mechanical products the committee were invited to the main stand, where addresses were made by several Indians and by members of the committee. Stoppages were alo made at Xufala, McAllister, Atoko, Caddo, Vi-nita, and other points, in order to give the committee full opportunity to inter, view the leading men of the various tribes. The Tennessee Greenbackers have nominated Louis T. Tillman for Governor to fill the vacancy on their ticket. Tillman is a farmer, aged 62, and has been in Congress.

Turkey has definitely rejected the Austro-Turkish convention. News from various parts of Bosnia shows that the Turks and insurgents have abandoned farther open resistance, having become convinced that neither moral nor material assistance can be longer hoped for from the Porte, unless other political complications arise. MINOR NOTES. Wesley W. Bishop, of Norwich, charged with poisoning his wife, Harriet Bishop, and Chag.

M. Cobb, has made a confession implicating Kate M. Cobb, his paramour, in his guilt. Bishop confesses criminal intimacy with Mrs. Cobb, the procuring of poison for Mrs.

Cobb, with which to destroy the life of her husband, and the knowledge that she administered it. He denle8that he poisoned Mrs. imputes the murder to the woman. The whole makes one of the most terrible chapters in the annals of crime. Cashier Calder, of the Grocers' Produce Bank of Providence, R.

is under arrest charged with embezzling from $30,000 to $100,000 of the funds of that institution. He says he lent the money to various friends, who failed to repay it when called upon. Dennis Kearney was hooted at and pelted with vegetables at an open air meeting in Boston on the 1st. Prof. Lloyd Howard, of Baltimore, has been appointed the third member of the commission to investigate the yellow fever epidemic.

O. H. Irish, of Nebraska, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, has been promoted to be Chief of the Bureau, vice Mc-Fherson, resigned, and Daniel W. Wilson, of Ohio, has been appointed Assistant Chief of the Bureau. Wilson has held the position in the Bureau for some time past.

Gen. Halbert E. Payne, of Wisconsin, has been appointed Commissioner of Patents. The Hartford, Dime Savings Bank is being wound up by theState Commissioners. Depositors are assured thatthelrlosses will not be large if the assets are judiciously managed.

Mr. George Bancroft, the historian, was seriously injured on the 1st, by being thrown from a carriage at Newport, R. I. Senator Blaine addressed apolitical meeting at Burlington, Iowa, on the ls't, where he had a most enthusiastic reception. Lewis Meacaisa, sporting editor of the Chicago Tribune, died suddenly on the 2d.

He had been connected with the Tribune for nearly 12 years in various capacities and was highly esteemed. Cyrillc Dion, the well known billiard expert, died suddenly at Montreal on the 2d, from congestion of the lungs. President Hayes visited New York City on the 2d, in order to attend a meeting of the 'Trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund. Palestine, Texas, on the morning of the 2d, had a destructive fire. Six blocks of business houses were burned, the aggregate value of which, including contents destroyed, was about insurance small.

Three brothers, named Charles, Edward and Wm. Earie, and another man named Daniel Pratt, have been arrested by Government officers at Eskridge, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, upon a charge of passing counterfeit silver coin. They were taken to the Topeka Jail. The police force of Akron, in attempting recently to arrest a tramp in the outskirts of the city, were met by about 30 of the tramp's companions, who drew their revolvers and drove the officers back to the city. A company of militia was then called out to re-enforce the municipal officers, and the capture was effected of 18 of the tramps.

Several shots were exchanged, but no blood spilled. The appointment of Count Ladislas Hay os, present Austro-Hungarian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington, to be Austrian Minister to Roumania, Is officially announced. It is understood that Emperor William will return to Berlin the 13th of-October, and issue his proclamation resuming the Government. A large and influential gang of counter' fellers has been broken up In the vicinity of Lexington, Ky. Fourteen members were arrested and lodged in Lexington Jail, and a large quantity of counterfeiting material captured.

The international rowing match between Hanlan, of Toronto, and Courtney, of Union Springs, N. which came off at Lachine, Quebec, on the 3d, was won by the Canadian by a length and a quarter. Distance, 2 1-2 miles and return; time, 38 minutes 22 seconds. The mail-contractor on the line between Fort Worth, Texas, and Fort Yuma, Arizona, the longest stage-line in the United States, has secured an order from the War Department for troops to accompany his mall-coaches, which have been attacked and robbed by Mexican bandits 27 times In the past two weeks. Once, when the coach contained 700 pounds of silver, the robbers overcame the passengers and driver and made off with horses, vehicle aadafl.

A raid on illicit distillers in step, Baxter and Izard Counties, recently, re sulted in the capture of tea moonshiners and the destruction of several stills. The prisoners were taken to Little Bock. Butts, who murdered William Boberts at Forest Springs, about a year ago, was hanged on the 1st. The construction of the Leadvflle branch of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Bail-road will be begun at once. The yellow fever has broken out is Mad rid, Spain, the Infection baring beea introduced by soldiers retained from Cuba.

An Insurrection of negroes has occurred in Santa Cruz, and assay murders and other atrocities are reported. Gen. Grant was given a dinner by Minis ter Noyes in Paris on the 3d, at which many distinguished guests were present. At Ansonia, on the evening of the 3d, a eolored man named Ed. Freeman grossly assaulted and seriously injured an interesting little white girl, aged only seven years.

The scoundrel was arrested the next day and taken to the village lockup, from which he wag soon after removed by an infuriated crowd of workmen, who placed a rope around bis neck and dragged him a quarter nf a mile to Colbum Hill, where they were about to string him up, when the Sheriff put in his appearance and rescued the prisoner at the muzzle of his revolver. The negro was badly injured by his rough treatment at the hands of the mob. Rodney Green, colored, was hanged at Magnolia, on the 4th, for the murder of his brother-in-law, Isaac Harris. He made a confession of his crime before his death. Gen.

T. M. Griffith, U. S. and his daughter, are among the victims of yellow fever at Cayuga, Hinds County, Miss.

Gen. Banks was defeated for renomina-tion in the Fifth Massachusetts Republican Congressional Convention, his successful competitor being Sciwyn Z. Bowman. An imperial decree has been published at Pestb, accepting the resignations of the whole Hungarian Ministry, but ordering them to continue the administration of affairs until the appointment of their successors. Daniel Read, LL.

for many years President of the University of Missouri, and prior to that Professor in the State Universities of Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin, died of paralysis, at the residence of his son-in-law, in Keokuk, Iowa, on the 3d, in the 74th year of his age. Dr. Read has been prominent In educational matters, his career as a university officer extending over a period of more than 50 years. John Thomas, colored, was lynched at Franklin, on the 5th, for committing a most terrible outrage upon a young white girl. Among the lynchers were a number of colored men.

The Sheriff made an ineffectual attempt to stay the.fury of thejnob. Wesley W. Bishop has made another confession at Norwich, In which be admits himself having administered morphine, In the fatal dose, to his wife. Clerks living in the Western States employed in the Executive Departments of the Government are allowed ten days' leave of absence to go home and vote. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Ant man pays too much for his whistle who has to wet it fifteen or twenty times a day. Tue phonograph has been so improved by Mr. Edison, we learn from the Chicago Nevs, that it has sore throat, ear-ache, moasles, and has in one instance raised a mustache. A young clergyman, whose maiden sisters were opposed to wedlock, kicked over the traces ana got married, tie sent a friend to break the news gently to the girls, with instructions to open the negotiations by savin? that he was dead, and then gradually to work up to the real fact. A round lady hesitating for a word in describing the character of a rejected suitor, said, "He is not a tyrant, not exactly domineering, bnt "Dog matic," suggested her menu.

sao, ne has not dignity enough for that; I think pnpmatic would convey my meaning admirably." A young lady called at one of our music stores the other day and asked for something new in piano music. The clerk asked her if it made any difference how many sharps or flats there was in the piece. "Oh, no," she replied, "not in the least, for if there is more than two of either, I always scratch them out with my penknife." The editor of the Marshall (Iowa) Statesman says that, after considering the question all winter, he comes to the conclusion every spring that the circus Is immoral; but then the bill-poster comes along with tne big pictures, ana his mind changes as follows: As we gaze at the lions, tigers, and monkeys, and think that nature made all of them, we are not so sure. And when we look at the beautiful young lady, with nothing on but a blue ribbon round her waist, with one leer pointing to six o'clock and the other to high noon, and think that nature made her. too, just as she was, except the ribbon, we begin to lean up to the circus.

But when the brass band begins to play and the ele- phants'go round, we rush for a front seat to get in ahead of the ministers, who always wear stove-pipe hats and won't sit down in front. Out in Belleville they started a hotel the other day and as a matter of course it was necessary to number the rooms. There was not a painter in the town and not so much as a piece of chalk could be found around the house. At last a happy idea possessed the landlord. Taking a pack of cards and a paper of tacks he began with the ace and continued up to the king, numbering the doors in a novel and entirely original manner.

If it ever becomes necessary to make, additional numbers for extra rooms the suit may be changed, and so continued up to fifty-two, by which time a painter may be imported for the purpose of extending the figures. Until then tne cieras wui do compeuea sneak of "the man. in No. trey of hearts," or tne iaay in ao. aeuce oi clubs." Necessity is the mother of invention.

Qold EM Newt. Thomas," cried a Townsend Street woman to her husband, as she let him in at the front door, at two a. the other morning," where have yon been nasil this unearthly hour, and why do yon come home with your breath smelling of beer?" "That's all right," re marked Thomas, as ne leaaeaup against the wall and tried to look sober. "That's all right, 'Melia. Funniest thing ever saw in my life, by (hie) Jove." "What is?" snappea tne xownsena screw woman.

"Tel (hk) telephone," said Thomas, with an imbecile smile. "How do you make oat," nemannen tne woman, in icy tones, "that working with the telephone would make your breath smell of beer?" "Essiost thing in the (hie) world," returned Thomas, as be steadied himself in thexorner, "that's very simple; man at the other end of aL. 1Sa wj. JU11 HPIkat 1AVKA1. IHt) will mma juu.

masher," and Thomas worked hir way up stairs, chuckling at the idea of fooling his wife, New Orleans Picayune, THE INDIAN KETOLT. The aiaasacre la Decator County, Hunan. Hays City, Oct. 4. Twenty-five dead bodies were brought in last nlgbt to Buffalo Station, 60 miles west of here, the result of Tuesday's fight 10 miles north of Buffalo.

Twenty of the deceased were cattle men, and entire strangers to all who viewed them, while five were recognized as settlers. After killing their victims the Indians continued their course north, taking with thetn every hone and pony within a range of 20 miles. The band struck a stream called Prairie Dog, 40 miles north of the Kansas Pacific Road, killing the herders that were herding horses and cattle, and settlers as they came on to them. Thirty-three de id bodies were found yesterday by their pursuers In Decatur County, in the Prairie Dog region. This was evidently the work of the last band that crossed the road on Tuesday last.

No one has been able to learn the names of any of yesterday's dead. A later dispatch regarding the savage work in Decatur County, says the depredations were found to be even worse and more sickening than at first reported. The following are the names of the killed, ravished and wounded: Mr. Humphrey, of Illinois and two sons killed, while another son will die fromhti wounds; Mr. Lanlgand three rocs killed, while the most shameful crimes wei committed upon the persons of Mrs.

Lanig and her three daughters, after which tte ladies were placed in one corner of the room and straw piled upon the dead bodies of the father and brothers and set fire to. From this smoke and darkness the ladles made their escape, running eight miles without a stitch of clothing upon them. Mr. Smith was killed; Mr. Westfall and two sons killed and Mrs.

West-fall dangerously wounded, but will recover; Mr. Felt, Mr. Abernathy, Mr. Tull, 3Ir. Evans and Mr.

Kelly were all killed; Mr. Young died of his wounds. F. Walters of New York, and Mr. Wright of Illinois, are missing and supp3sed to be killed.

Two young ladies were stripped of their clothing and ravished In the most brutal manner by 13 of the red devil. The ladles were named Evans, late of Illinois; they will recover. Mr. Kelfer, who was wounded, will recover. The bodies of eight children were found on the prairie Friday by a scout.

The Bed Cloud Revolt. Yankton, Dakota, Oct. 4. Dr. James Irwin, agent of the Red Cloud Indians, arrived to-day from the agency on his way to Washington to interview the Secretary of the Interior and the President upon the existing situation of affairs In connection with the Indians under his control.

His Indians, tired of waiting for the promised permission from the Commissioner to move to tte White Clay, have abandoned their agency en the Missouri Biver and have gone back into the country 100 miles, where they are in camp on Pass Creek. They sent back woi from there that If their agent would proceed to Washington and represent their, case to the Great Father they wonld await the result without making any further move until the result of his commission was known to them. It Is this errand which takes Dr. Irwin to Washington. The disaffected Red Clond Indians number over 6,000 at this nmn.

On Pass Creek tbev have been Joined by many of Spotted Tali's renegades. Dr. Irwin has Information which leads him to believe that the renegade cayennes- irora the south are Intending to Join forces with his Indians on Pass Creek. Should this occur there is serious trouble ahead for the Black Hills and other frontier Thnn Indians will soon be out of rations. There are 800,000 pounds on the river bank at the agency, a waning transportation to too Indians, but no teams to convey them.

The entire agency transportation outfit consists of eight mules. Winter is coming on, and this large nana oi savages is loose upoa itc plains to depredate wherever they may choose. Their agent has done his best to avert this dangerous situation of affairs, but has been unable to accomplifh more than his facilities permitted. He now goes to Washington to intercede in behalf of the Indians. The Death of Colonel Lewi.

Dodgb City, October 6. The following details of the battte In which Colonel Lewis was killed are from a participant: The Indians, after crossing the railroad, traveled rapidly to a point, where the fight occurred, at Famished Woman's Fork, 45 miles from Fort Wallace, and there upon sides of the canyon threw up rifle-pits- This plan was laid to draw the soldiers to a point where there could be no retreat and open fire on them from all sides. They led a blind trail, and the troops, suspectlngnothing, entered the canyon, and but for a glimpse of danger by scouts would have fallen into the trap. Seeing the failure of their the Indians at once opened fire upon the head of the column. The troops very soon took possession of the adjoining hills and succeeded in driving the Indians from several pits, and while running from pit to pit were shot by soldiers, but their bodies were dragged in by their friends.

Colonel Lewis displayed rare courage and remained on his horse, the finest mark on the field. After dismounting, he moved about direct ing the fire oi tne troops, unui a dui in tae right leg severed the main artery and brought him down The Military Situation. Omaha, October 7 It Is learned by dispatches here, to-day, from Big Springs, on the Union Pacific, that Thornburg's command was 30 miles north of that point on Sunday, camping without wood or water. Ponies were found, left by the Indians, still wet with perspiration. Bine-pits were found at camping points, showing a civilized method oi warfare.

Trans, are diverging In every direction over a wide extent of country. The Indians undoubtedly crossed Red Cloud and Spotted Tail's trail. Carlton's command Is still between Bed Cloud Agency and the Cheyennes. Bradley's infantry, under Capt. Munion, stopped at the Chugwater.

Mer-ritt, with the 5th Cavalry, is at Laramie. It is considered improbable here that the Cheyennes wm De orenaaen. jl prominent citizen, arrived to-day from Camp Brown, Northern Wyoming, says 150 Arapahoes and fifty Cheyennes have left the reservation there in the past two weeks, on the pretense of hunting, sad not returning, it is believed have gone on the war-path. They are all good warriors, and informed of recent movements. A general understanding Is evident among the Indians.

Ackuxl kind of hazing is said to have been practiced in the Springfield (Vt.) graded schools, and as a result several yonng lads are now suffering from incipient spinal disease. In the lower departments a new pupil is slapped or struck hy each one of the old boys, and generally escapes with a few braises, but, when he gets higher, four boys seise him by the arms and legs and toss him up and down on his back till he "begs," or they tire of the sport, and from the latter custom came serious results. No matter how badly a boy is hurt, he is frightened into silence Dy threats of worse treatment and beirg called a tell-tale. hi Thx sea-eernent kas tarnsdnp off tan coast of Norway.wbere Joachim Anderson, Dankh Consul and a member of the jury for the fishing groan at U.e Centennial exhibition, not 'only saw it tatpuisneditforanhoBT. Hedescribta the monster as 65 feet long, 25 inches throHjrivwRhoB scales or fins and hav-iae ahead like a dog'a bat very nat.

The next day after Anderson's eaecao tor, the serpent was sees again ateV huntedforaoouttwo coura oy e. of boats, nntil it finally disappeared beneath the surface and was act seen, 1 'l i 3k y-(.