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ebeen One hundred lie erected in Watertown, which-jwas 105 days without A railway train, now swarms with immigrants. The following postoflices have been between Osceola, seven ana one-naif miles southwest and Sisseton agency, ten miles northwest. association of that prosecuting tain changes against Judge Shannon of Da- Horse thieves are operating in the vicinity of 'Fargo'and Casselton. N. K.

Hubbard of the latter place, lost a fine horse, and Aldi a to prefer Shannon or the SecfcricK Frank inmate of jail, dropped dead. 'He had been iirjail quently daring title past year on 'charges of hprse stealing and forgery, and his death waft, eauged. by whisky. His re One the same day "Old Brown" died in the le kmong recent discoveries in the Black of asbsetos. lorn sells for seventy-five cents a bushel at jppnfigftfeld.

of Yermilion, lost $15,000 party Of thirty-eight Englishmen passtflirough Dttluth recently on their way to )akota. Theyjare mostly farmers and sons of farmers, will take up land someJi where an the Jaime's river They have sufficient to begin work at once. They Are but jthf harbingers of a large colony whih willtfoHow soon, as the friend ted, Mr. S. J.

Uthingdon, is the leader of the present party, and will also bring on the second party. Aprepos of recent Dead wood disaster the Herald says: Though a majority of the mines of the Black Hills are timbered as well as possible, and all other apparently necessary precautions are taken for the protection of life and limb, there are more accidents in the mines here in porportion to the number of men employed than among any class of workmen in the coantry. The shot gun brigade escorted $120,000 worth of gold from the Homestead mine to Deadwood the other day. It will require a gantling gun support to get it out of town. The Ortonville Herald states that a terrible affray occurred in Grant county, D.

about six miles from Milbank, in which a man named Hurlburt ceived injuries likely to be fatal. A Mr. Thompson came ho'me after being absent the most of the winter and found, as he believed, a criminal intimacy between his wife and Hurlburt who was boarding with Mr. the woman's father. For the past few weeks, Thompson endeavored to get Hurlburt to leave the place which the latter refused to do, being upheld, we are told, by Fordham.

On Sunday the rivals had some words when Thompson struck Hurlburt with an ax, fracturing the scull, and when the latter fell, the assailant struck a few additional blows, wounding him in the hip, and breaking several ribs or ing them froiL. the spinal column. burt attempted to rise when Thompson struck hixn in the forehead. The latter was arrested by Nick Shafer, deputy sheriff of Grant county, in company with R. H.

Major, who happened to be in Milbank at the word came of 'the tragedy. burt was living at last account, but it is supposed that he cannot live long. Scientific Notes. I Glass floorings are now being made in France, the upper surface moulded in diamonds. Oil of a green color, transparent and flowing freely, has been extracted by Dr.

C. O. Cechfrom coffee. He is continuing his researches on this substance, and will lish the results by and by. The coloring matter of the Rubus chamcemorus berries, he says, when boiled with cotton, wool, and silk, impart to them very readily an intense and permanent yellow, and, as the juice of the berries is altogether innocuous it might as well be used as a cheap and useful dye for buff, amber, and orange shades, afid for giving white wines a Tokey or sherry color.

A Cincinnati special says: Prof. Dudley delivered a lecture' to-night before the scientific section of the Ohio Mechanics' institute, in which'he'made known an portant discovery a process for fusing and moulding iridium, a metal which it has hitherto been practically impossible to Jorge John of this city, "who has long used iridium for. making points for gold pens, is the disfcbverer. The dis eovery consists in applying phosphorus, when the ore is brought to and eliminating the phosphorus by lime applied with great heat. The new metal has the appearance of is much hardness to ruby.

It will hot rust'ahd'ctfnnot be injured by acids, 7 Pfcof. Ijudly staled that a bar of ft had h'dfcni ujsedvnth gratifying success in placie'df the negative carbon in the electric light. It bijm loss inVfreignH form. cannot be fashioned by can it be filed it thenew'edition of his wort on the coal-fields of Great Britain, states that the South Wales that of the Valley of the? Clyde, is the largest in Great Britain and contains vertical strata of more than 10,000 feet. Of this total aire coal.1 -As "the' lowest coal-bed must have at one time been expossd to air and water for the growth of the plants which formed, the'coal in their decay, the South field testifies to a dence of earth sufficient to have brought some of the highest Alps to the sea level rhoprever, to a depth of 4j000.

feet that, having regard to the creased heat of the earth as we descend. even with this limifaHrm the supply left in of the district is supply consumption At its fbr 1,800 years. tm Vf. Th4 Utiiifers, paper, tells the following story: "Some years ago canoes of idols made in' London were sent to Calcutta, to 'be! thence fori wardfed to Boddhist India, and particularly to Delhi. "Who, deceived them on their rival Buadiast-priests? No Protestant inissipnaries.

iThey impatiently awaited the arrival of rushed on "board TeSellitig them at a' handsome profit to the agents of all the Indian This trade still, perhaps, goes on." Miss Mary A. Phillips, a brave and talented Illinois for the jShij graduated tt theological ana jknew her grieved awa bfiyiltjuXjrll il The Pleiades of History as Compared to the Nen Constellation of Stars in the Literary Firmament. An Interview with Willipn Withers, Tetcr an YigginjUjS Who WitriesSd Lincoln's Orchestral Chair. New York, May is probably not known- outeideof New 'York, nor. even here, -thfct jftfefc-are ypungspblia New York known to their friends as "The Pleiades," and likely to go down to the.

future with that classifying I have tlie pleasure of knowing thejn well but before ing about them let us recall rite famdua i'Mades of histoid This -fanciful grouping began when Greece was in her glory. The "Pleiad of Alexandria" flourished in the reign of that Greeley, of Ptolemy Philadelphia, king of Egypt, and consiatdd of Callimftchua, Apolloiiius, Aratus, Homer Ufit Catholic ened, wasted blame the Lypochron, Nicauder and The Pleiad of.Gharlip*gne soDaiated of that ambitious six his $fff The. FirsJ French centutyJ included and Autoiue do Baif, and tho Socoud Pleiad, a hundred years later, included Eapin and jt1 nB.VOIiUTXOjNAEY^ PLEIAD. A The Pleiad of the American Revolution was a remarkable fcody, and was composed ot young to'en who' Mends' and Joeli tailow, John Trumbull, Francis Hopkinson, Timothy Dwight, Eara Stiles, David phreys and Lemuel Hopkins. All seven were deeply devout, and six of theni were that day considered the most important of the professions.

Dwight, bull, Barlow and Humphreys were undergraduates in Yale college at the same time, and their friendship was forged iu the fire of patriotic versification. The ary war was just out, and these four met, with Hopkins and Stiles, at Wetherafield, where what was left of Yale college had retreated, and there they formed their famous league of "The Pleiades." From that hour they poured forth epics and lyrics, both hymns and satiripal sougi, which were'eaugbt up and euhg by "the yoo'manry with inflammatory effect front town to town. sionally, they wrote in concert, turning off newspapers, magazines (The Echo), pamphlets, and long poems like The Auarchiad, of three or four hundred pages, by each contributing a part but oftener their "single contributions proved effective. Hopkinson's Battle of the Kegs, now very dull reading, set the whole country in a roar, and gave over the British troops to derision. He waa a flue artist and a skilful musician often he composed popular airs to his own songs, and sometimes accompanied their lication with graphic pictures.

But the chief service which he performed was in giving to his country the son who composed Hail bia. Timothy Dwight was a grandson erf Jonathan Edwardfl, and he wrote a good many popular songs of the fervent and heroic sort He lived to be president of Yale college, and to duce a religions epic entitled The Conquest of Canaan, consisting of no leea than eleven books. No public library of New York tains this work nobody of the present tion it, and few have. eycr heard of it but Dwight will long be remembered, not so much as the college dents or the versifier of the Psalms, as Columbia, the ait bull, the statesman of wliom Washington was accustomed speak familiarly as "Brother Jffohn distinguished himself for haying! Mastered the English poets when no waiB Six 'and being fitted to enter Yale College be seven. He was compelled "waste six most valuable years of my wrote complainingly to his elder brother, and he spent those years devouring the Greek classics and writing Latin poetry.

He graduated at seventeen and was made Washington's second aide-de-camp, Jonathan, his brother, being the first The two brothers wero often confounded, as when Sheridan wrote how "David and Jonathan, Joel and Timothy. Over the water have set up the hymn of But Trumbull was far the brilliant and accomplished. He studied with Benjamin West, and painted a large number of very creditable battle-pieces, of which four, purchased at a cost of $32,000, now lish, more or less, the panels of the rotunda at Washington, He wrote McFingal, a satirical epic, not very deep in plot or coherent in rative, but so admirable in versification that some of its couplets, like, for instance, "As gun, well-aimed at duck or Bears wide and kicks the owner oyer," are often credited to Hubidras. a ter of octosyllabio verse, and, most able and brilliant of the But he had opportunities that none of the others had, not only in his birth and training, but ill his war career, and1 his experience of eight months in London prison, constantly ened with the-gallows as a hostage for John JO Joel Barlow is far "the best known of the lodious seven. -He' was a statesman, and his best poems Were printed iirieilaborate and London, and his Hasty Pudding in He soldfiar poleon, who summoned him to ltusaja.

His denounced selfish usurper who'had Barlow' and- Aaron Burrr were schoolfellows together iu Beading, Connecticut. David Lemuel Hopkins and Ezra Stiles were all active and versatile men, 2rightly uite worthy of companionship the more shining luminariea. Thb best poet Of the Revolutionary time-was not a-memher of the New. England Philip Freheau of New" York. He was the most and the': most melodious of American poets before Bryant' and yfUQjfl.

one of the most bitter and savage of, controversialists, and one'of the most malignant of partisans, as libelous attacks on Washington show, he wooed the gentler muses with a very tender lute, and some of his lines were appropriated by Scott and Campbell, without so much' is "by your leave." THE ANTE-RfeBELLION TIEIAB. Sey6n wonderfully brilliant fellows ui ed to meet at Pfaff's restaurant before th9 war for the Tjnion. This was a famous rendezvous for Bohemians andy drawn thither by the mon habit of eating: and drinking Fitz- James O'Brien, William Arnold, Fred Aldrich, E. H. Stoddard and Bayard Taylor used often to face to face.

Here they sat at little and read over' to offiftr and consulted as to chances, and' discnSsed new1 "enterprises. Here Cozzens. ifirat read to the coterie his beautiful poem on Babylon hore O'Brien trotted out here Bayard Taylor recited in' his the Song of the Camp. The number of -these croiiies was not strictly limited to seven indeed, there were ot'lwi a1 who came scintilIan ts were many but these seven formed the Pleiades proper, and they were always seen at pretty ular intervals. Four of them are dead: three still live, doing the best work of their lives.

THE PEBSEWlVmT PLEIADES. The Pleiadcls of the ning of this all New Yorkers, and all personal them have published books of their all them are dustrious and iThey: are Edgar Fawcett, Frank Edgar gomery, Bossiter -Jphnscmi 3J IL Munkittrick, H. C. Bunuer and.David 1 Saltus is a man Vemarkable plishments. Jbtfiiin conversa tion and'in lettSrsi wifracPlKffity the precisQ word to the thought of his poems cuages, ind bas a tfiivo.

Arid score. rJSoma. ofo artf tadhiflpublisl mdicatesmlts fcweetnesa a blonde aort pf. with large blue eyea.and awetalth of hair. He has any comparison to -Tare talent, bat friends hope that he will yet rouse himself andl produce something' wefcthy.

of. liia heritage of gifts. A storv is his infant which I repeat for'the excellence, being vat'four that thbrerwas nn in' thA- ilaTumisw. no in' the" Fren'ch 'language, he Replied: "That's because.they want to say Water-j loo." -Fawcett is quite -the best Kn'dwh'of the1Plei- out in a fewdaysj two ofpoemsyin-t ning up the whole'gamut, of UQUgbt and! three plays, two 'of 'which strikingly! Hia descriptive. poems ure picturesque he is propably the word-painter in the can eat-itiore candy than aschool-girl, hanging on a moonlight Saltus- (they are the most devoted and constant friends) once wrote abtfOt in his coffin surrounded with candy instead of flowers, "with one pale 011 his awful brow." --But FaWpstt got'baik at Uim, as follows: TOT.iis:- J-'- Seelng thy all lhy flnctuant dull-gold from brow, Watching thy fired oe noWLangliterful, or now dim as with despair, I wondeV, friend, that it sHoutd'be God's To have madeiat all, what when.or A beingr so sadly, desolately rare, So beautifully incomplete as thoul jT rank black pool, with one star's imaged form! sweet, rich-hearted rose, With rot at summer heaven, half-purpled by stern storm I lily, with one white leaf dip't in gore? acprel shape, whereover curves and clings The awful imminence of a devil's wines! Edgar-Montgomery is the dramatic editor of the New York twentyrthree years old, tolerably well educated, and' the youngest of the Pleiades.

He is called by his friends "the infant poet." His infant poetry is fine, the only drawback-being that nobody 'can understand it, or even guess what it is about, unless the I. P. is present to drop a hint. He says he is the poet of the ture, and this must be what is the He appears very well in society, and his mapners are sweet and gentle. His poetry has times been objected to as immoral, but Walt Whitman has been repeatedly heard to prove of it, so it may be assumed'1 that thecharge is virtually unfounded.

He is not a E. M. born to blush unseen, for he will issue his poems in the fall, under the title of By and By. H. C.

Bunner is editor of Puck, and a quent contributor to Scribner's, seldom ing anything but humorous or society He is witty, but his feelings are easily moved in behalf of the suffering lazy, but he does the work of four mon tender-hearted, he has invented a 'patent trap-door for spripg poets near-dighted, but lie can see a glass of beer a paile- He is about twenty-five, ried, handsome (his brown mustache has grown wonderfully lately), gets $75 a week, and parts his hair in the middle like Julius Ciesar and Joseph Cook. The Castaliau woJls whence he draws his inspiration are hOt deep, but the' draft is effervescent, pure and wholesome. He doesn't foster is everybody's friend, and a good follow on eral principles. In society verse he is fully skilful and effective. Osgood Co.

will bring out a volume of his poems in the fall. is about Bunner'sago, and are points of resemblance in the spirit of their work. Ho is exclusively a humorist When I asked him one day why he neyor wrote serious poems, he said, "First, because' nobody will buy them second, because I couldn't writeone to save my life." But. he is a clever, con-, structor of the liest quality of humorous Verse. He was born in England, but he bame away "so.

tarly that everything (he J'nstify A im by and by. doos is savory of our, His through and rhythm is always pevftc't his nieter of ten odd his puns, when liebendsto it, very and grotesque his rhyme elaborately He writer constantly for much'for the Sun, Bonner's Ledger and the American Queen. The 500 poemp he lias, written have, furnished him a nice living, and he is the only man I know of in this country who gets his daily bread and drapery entirely from nassus. Munkittrick, Bunner, Fawcett and Saltus are fond of meeting and dining together. Prondfit has done some admirablo things in a different vein.

His habitual mood is sober, and he is apt to see and throw into verse the pathetic features of a rude, uncultured life. The ragged boy, the meagerly-clad shop girl, the oyster opener, the car driver, the bill poster, he likes to probe their very human lives and weave into song the tangled threads of love. His named book, Love Among the Gamins, tains som" poems that have already became, classic on the platform. Composition is.no, holiday triile with him. Slowly, painfully' and' laboriously he fashions his verse, and if he were obliged to got his living from the musb you could count liia ribs through his coat He: possesses a paying, occupation down Broadway, and he writes only to gratify his fancy.

Roasiter Johnson is one of the bost'known ol tho as an editor of Appleton'a Cyclopaedia, and the sagacious compiler of several important ventures, notably Little He has writton remarkably bright yer3e, and when he gets a little free we. may expect from him somo work of the imagination that will be worthy of his talent, and will in-, elude developements of both humor and senti'-' ment Mr. Johnson is perhaps forty, and haa a end a charming family. It will will be worth while to watch tlib' further evolution of the Pleiades. By: tho way, during the last year a western poet has.sprnug into morq than common now attracting a great, deal of tention throughput the eastern states, I allude to J.

Jf. Indianapoiis. His ioeius inore'qtioted liere'away those or any other weetorii: poet ever excepting1 Bojaniin'Fi Taylor and like-''Taylor, way 'of swinging from musical 'teuderness to fun that shows, that the two are indeed near allied. His impression, 'strength and his delicacy of tonch THE MAN THAT SAW WILKES BOOTS. Jariles S.

Burdett the humorous reader, is in a bad He lies here very ill and not likely soon to as poor Yorick. Last night he had a rousing benefit at Chickering hall, with a superb programme and big returns. Among the performors was William Withers, Jr. an accomplished violinist whom I knew in Washington during the war. I asked him to tell me the story of Booth and for I had not seen him Since' that dreadful night.

he said, "you know I was leader of the Orchestra at Ford's theater. That night when Lincoln1came in and took bis seat in the proscenium box up at.my right he acknowledged with great cordiality the cheers of the audience. stood for a minute or two bowing. Every seemed to say, 'Lee has and every cheer to answer 'You bet he Laura Eeene wasoii in Our American Cousin, and I had written a song for her to Bing. When she left it.

out I was. mad, because we had no cue, and the music vasr thrown ont of gear. So I went arcitfnll ori ttte stfege to my left to see What it was done for. I was just giving the stage manager a piece of my mind when Spangler, the scene-shifter, came forward to the gas box and took hold of the handle with which they turn the gas out Knowing he had no business there, I pushed him away, and ing, 'Get out of here! Get back you I'closed the-box and sat on the I sat there a minute talking, then Btarted -down the stairs to my place. That minute I heard the pistol shot and ran back.

Wilkes Booth was madly across the Btage towards me, brandishing a knife and shoming 'Out the He ran tothe gas-box, but was unable to tern out the gas for some reason, and jumped aside against He, must have thought I struck him, for he made two passes at me with his knife, costing me both times, once on the shoulder and once under the arm. I fell, and he stood over me, glaring down as if he would kill me. He then sprang to the 'door- and was gone. I was tho first man I told them it was Wilkes B.ootb. I knew him mately, night for I and he.

used' tordrui to he "could not Ai iiwnujr of -ttrllnt Mmni by thf 1 hit, FMMBt and lie Boston Herald, of the 24th 33 bi newa to most people, that tor-day- the anru7 iary of the first practical aid wicesflinl liditttiMUtt tfi graatest in ention Bi Itimore. Prof. M(Hve, diBheartenedi hut ihef the expectation of large things from conld not "And Withers tuned his Jebome. mot of the supi ame court the capital city, and Mr. JUfrod il.his associate worker in brihgihg ii.td the fiptft, waa in the Mi Clare ltimore, and the.firat message, dictated 'by A inie Ellsworth, wkr the now hisfoWcTOquiryi fhat bafh.

God wpmght a sentepw a as beautiful and impressive ras it was ophetic of the filuess of the invention then- ala yot carermly tmted dn that lano! other avenue: or stienqe nave there been such marked andrapid have-'fallowed from this single vention o.tlthe/elecftic telegraph. 2orseoriginal iely ring lof Aif the, jmu- niary period mentionea tliere were only" thp. 'OfiCesat Baltimore the intervening, stretch. of wire of about forty njiles. To-day the consolidated Western Union company: boasts qf lines, and thp opposition telegraphs an aggregate of h6tfless tnan miles more, and the estimated nUttibir of offices where messages are.

sent and re-, enved mhst be upward of the- hiindreds of thousands of miles of telegraphs iiTother countries are considered, and a mental niemorandum made of the various ocfta'n "cables aad.increasing multitude of telephone lines, 'sime'thing Bf an idea may be fornied 01 the ntagnitude "and. importance of the -business which has been bequeathed to the world tljrough the medium of the inventiori'6f which tijis is thp -iinheralded anniversary. will probably live in everlasting history, the inventor of telegraph, yet there are many who dispute his claim to. the sole and the evidence which they bring forward would be eutitled to respect if the' was. under: if scarcely a doubt long before the electric telegraph become an institution, its feasibility has.been anticipated by scientific minds with greater or l(ss clearness.

Probably, if the truth was told, the victory is due to no 'single man, fon as. has been said by a gentleman who devotea a 16ng time to the subject, "it grew up little by little, each inventor adding what he could to advanoe it toward It is said 'thait aS-long ago as 16D0 a. friction electric machine was in operation in Germany, and Ben Franklin conducted' hia experiments in 17921. But Of tkese inventions foreign to the or even discoverv of, a'meana of conveying'inf6rihation by felectricity. In 1774' George Louis of telegraph composed of twenty-four line wfTe', cor-, responding to the twenty-four letters 6t the) phabet, and by the use'of frictional electricity and little balls succeeded in transmitting ligible messages over the wires.

This-was doubtedly THE FIRST FBACTICAXi VELEOB. and Morse and all subsequent claimants' must admit the faot Indeed, so far as. Morse is concerned, any claim that may in his behalf as the pioneer discoverer of the graph would be seriously damaged by ence to the records Of' electrical discoverers. Twenty years: later than Lesage's suppoBed periment with the twenty-four wires, another Swiss used thirty-six insulated wires for letter? and numerals in connection with a of of tinfoil J.ISlted-onglMfl, which were made visibly ftTld invisible by the paaeage of the spark. There -are upard 6f a dozen Well authenticated instances wliere messaged were sent over wires by ielectricity, both in this country and in Europe, long before Morse and his telegraph ever heatd of.

back as 1823 Harrison Gray Dyar built -telegraph line on 1 Long Island supporting his, wires on glass insulators, fixed on treeW poles. The ed papdf A' v.tne spacing of the marks indicating the and other signs. Just as Dyar and a were seeking capital to, set up a New York and Philadelphia a biackmailing agent, failing to extort the commission of a large share in the enterprise, obtained a writ against the two partners, on a charge of spiracy to carry on secret communication tween' the two cities. The caso was never brought to trial, but the enterprise was blocked 1 OBSTACLES TO TTTH! PEOGE8S OF THE MOPEBN TELEGBAPH were numerous and discouraging. For1seven years and more Morse and his friends had workea Biifficien't stantial encouragement to eiiabld tbeta to send memorable message of Miss Ellswdftll from Washington to Baltimore.

This agement was in' the shape of a $30,000 propriation by congress, which was secured mainly through the efforts of Fernando Wood then a 'member of congress from New York and who died in that city only a few months since andF. O. J. Smith, then a congressman from Maine, and' who subsequently was a partner: with Morse in prises. wires'was conventions.

James E. Polk for the Though the'practicability'of the invention had been it once did notearly become popular. remembered that at beginning in Neir York theJ receipts were enough to pay the wages')of two! striking contrast to the ,4,000 or, 5.000 paid Attaches' iff cOnrpariies-in' single city to-day. The York of makiirfg succeed. Thej as is well are the principal patrons' telegraph companies President Greeni( the Western Ast.w at the trial now progress in New York, the receipts from tygypqaper telegraphing at A MILLION boiiLAlte ANNUALLt, or about one-twelfth-of receipts -of the great The annual receipts Of the daily newspaper's of the country are put by the census bureau.

basing its figures on circxtlation, at Making all possible reductions for exchange lists, discounts, wastb aiid and laying off a round sum'for fit and the actual outlay.of the daily preswon catmswt be 1ms "than about As the average outlay for telegraphing by the daily newspapers ait the present rate will probably be fopnd be about five or six per cent, of their' tbtat expenditures, dent Green's figures tally Ipretty, closely, in a general way, with. the census Returns. Two, three or four years ago'the average newspaper expenditure under this wfts three or fohr times as largebut low rates, special contracts and leased wires have worked a change: For poses of is-interesting to ttOte the Jine. iatronage bestowed ppop tlie pioneer telegraph During the sessions of 184-i- coni -grisss made the theh magiiiiicebt appropriatioii of to kepp. the Washington and more line iq operation during the year, ing it at th'e siimC time under the supervision of the poHtmaster This new order-of tbmgs commenced April and the, ject was to test the profitableness' of the prise.

A Virginian, to in Washington to witness the Polk, waB man to come into the'offie'e the morning it tffcs opened for business. The' tariff on charges was ope cent-for every four characters made bv the teietrraph. "Virginian wanted tb see the (thing work, and he was told that he 'could see ita operations, by paying the charges for having his name Bent to Baltimore whereupon: he left in- great anger and with a threat to have the operator sftmmarily fired out.of his place the next morn. ing. This was the suin total of the patronage received on' the 2d and 3d: of April.

On the the sajipe, man, appeared, again, but Somewhat milfler iii tomper, and had four plia'ri actebs sent ofer 'toi 'Baltimore, for wbich, hi paid, the magnificent sum qf jGn. April Iz cents were received, review, aqd tnswqr He explained that wisithe Sabbath: "Dn''ttie-7thlthe'receipts'ri4 9th they dropped to si. 04. At about this tuns Prof- ip said forward to the time when the receipts of the Baltimore and Washington offices would aggre- day. Tfcta aoimdjp itengribr in iWherailheiranBaotioiis were a fesr fewer dollars thirty-seven years wop, are now-, millions 6f dollars.

Jay Goulal inMt timony in xxsmtisct Mid, in an ab- MraCted forKetful maonciv bat he hadjforgotten wheUier one of his telegraph a dajp'was the truuu net oe the-westnm Unioh thr duarteB De- acdi, ttenext quarter, aitice thft oonibihatihn, tka profits VETT tecre' than' this sura. cation of the great earning capacity the stocks- of other telegraph com panies, estate nd supplies and materiaL. Thpugh Prof. Morse long 'enough tel. 6ee' the telegraph become witness the success 'of the Atlantiecables, yet it ia doubtful if he ever anticipated the immense revenues 'which his discovery would yield to those who- were wise Few delighted-with many improvements on his owa telegraphing, though the old Mo: de8tiited to be the most' popular for muiy years'ito come.

The. improvements in miudAre- tho automatic system of the Rapid Telfegrapli company, capable of transmitting nearly ,1,000: words a minute, and the quadruplex contrivance, by which no lees than four messages are' transmitted simultaneously in opposite directions, over a sirigle wire. .) 1 JCf ELEQTB1C GEBCLE OF.THE. GLOBE. If there was a cable laid from San Francisco TO Yokohama, it would complete the electric circle of the globe.

As cable.enterprises are going nowadays this short gap-cannot long ist Tho cables, it maybe Baid, are capable of doing about'as much business as the land and it is- intimated that their, capacity may be still-further increased by the tion of a telephone which has been invented by a Pennsylvanian. It would do old Prof. Morse good, if he was living to-day, to read what Cyrus W. Field, the hero of the first lantic cable, told a reporter in Now York day before yesterdav. Referring to his late trip around the world, he said: "The first person from the shore who spoke to me when we arrived at Yokohama gave me iin unmistakable sign that modern civilization penetrated the far East He was a friend with a telegraphic message, and he put in my hand intelligence sent from home a few hours before." or AS in ot linea to its full sum was expended, for the cdnatrastionof new lines, erection ot additional: letters, patent for tbe'fiurwise of other telegraph lines ana Couldn't it be laying a cable under the Pacific ocean San Francisco and iravirf surmised that you went around the to explore some new project, Mr.

"I have two eyes and two ears, and I kept them open-. But I traveled for recreation and general observation, as I have already "Bht perhaps your work of laying cables is not yet finished "A cable from San Francisco to Yokohama should be laid. It would complete the electric circle of the globe." HOW WB GET OUB NEWS. The public is indebted to the telegraph quite as mucn as it is'to the enterprise of the papers, for its daily budgets of news from all over the world. The leading papers country, such' wi the Herald, havg fijecial patches from their own correspondents from aii tlie leading commercial centers, and, in additioii t2 tbegs, they are supplied with current r.eWi by an organization known as the aseociated press.

ViiO name bi association lb but of its character and purposes the general public largely ignorant and it is questionable whether there is any other ject, the itself excepted, so intimately connected with the everyday affairs of the ple about which the'people know so ly-little. James W. Simonton, the agent of the New York an the organization and its methods in a late illus'tratedlecture in'Philadelphia. 1 Having' 'traced the growtl) 9f the combination from year 1837, when the procurement of marine ne.Ws hi New Yferk harbot- a number Of Journals in that city to down to ihe present day, Mr. Simonton explained that tho organizatimr'is 'a central' Hews' exchange, for various cities, all governed by the samp, a Morse telegraph instrument, which was the: general pffips of Jtaring.

his piade a pause, and( then aaid: will now1 give "you'an il lustration of how we get the.news. I shall send spot several genuine messages tb Varieufe cities, and give yon the answers I have notified'the operators at these points that I should be apt call tbpm about this time, and there will probkbly'be bht little delay." Turning to.Mr. Gove, Mr. Simonton said: up.New Ojcleana. Send McDaniel: 'How are the news iii New'Orleans to-night?" Iutwb or three minutes and read.in by th At 8:55 p.

m. Mr. Simonton requested the operator to call London and send the lowing message: "To Houston, London. What the-news in'ydur city? What is 'parliamept doing torniglit?" In three minutes the inaw'er was handed bim, and, after he had the news'tnat hud' bfeen flashed like'thought undCr nip. audience very oorfliallv.

Mr. Simonton added that it hadepme -bjr of the Krect United States SabK. While awaiting the reply to the dispatch from.Londpn. jthe speaker, related, several aneeddtiro iirnstrative of the blunders made in Bending dispatches, the relation'bf' one of them drew out the.evidence of the fact audiehce was 'composed of people' who keep the run of newa. ne was beginning to'tell of an incident where-the mistake of- a single ter caused fiendsxf.a| youthful bride add groom to meet sofiemnly on their arrival with a hearse aiM'caitik'ger instead of a horse and' carriage- 'Mh Sifaipn'fon had got as' far 'its marripd.cpnple, qn thfir, bridal tour when the houBe came down with a roupd of hearty'' a-delicate ilie a a a At 9:06 Francisco was called up, and across the' Cohtittent was flashed the query: San is oingon in your place.

Give us a. dispatch, quick" In Bit mihiites the replies 'were read, referring to the, Ealloch case and the success of the Moody and $ankey meetings. Washington Called' how thp weather ts" Simonton. Almost instantly the jjcool Tho charge that the aesocitfted monopoly wafljakeuuhy the sneake'r for review.and. answer He explained.

that grap tetir0 kh)bintilion! to large orders, be obtained by any telegraph so muoh "One man can noraason the the ldea ttat Gould or any other individ- JTtlTIIM QI MeramffT. future of els6tridtr, teapjpHcrttot, it is safe to assnme that its practioalussfuiness tomaakiBd dates memsrable mesnm which, wm sent from Washington to Baltimore thirty- ocewicablM, the Msphone, ihe slectric light, the burglar and fire alarms, the lighting sf aU the gas lamps in a hy the electric currenVand hundreds ot kindred inventions inight neyer have been known but for genina and perseverance of Prof. 'i BemarkbyBuxnside: "How bad it come to you?" rThere is something romantic in the tion of. intelligence that has traveled so far, passing over vast continents and under sands of 'miles of ocean, isn't That message of good tidings from those I had left at will tell you just what route it had taken- to reach me. It had been sent from New York to Cape Breton, thence, under the gulf, of St Lawrence to Newfoundland, and across Newfoundland.

It tiaci been, flashed thence under the Atlantic ocean to Ireland, across 'Ireland and under the Irish channei to England, across England to outh, under the bay of Biscaj' to Lisbon, gal thence tb Gibraltar, thenco to Malta in the under Mediterranean to Alexandria, Egypt thenee across tho isthmus of Suez, by tbg great and under the Red to Aden, Arabia thence under the Incjian ocean -to Bombaj', across Hindostah to Calcutta, under the bay of Bengal toPenang tiieUce through the straits of Malacca to Singapore, near, the equator thence under the, China sea to Hong Kong, along the coast 1,500 miles to Shanghai, by cable tinder "the Yellow sea to Japan, and thence acrosB the beautiful hills of Japan hat. shortened' by ot Personalities. 1 Mr. Jesse Grant, with his wife fnee man), and her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs.

W. S. Chapman, are in London, and will remain there a year or more. WI repeat I am not mad. But, -blast my soul, please remember that I am not a monsoon when I begin to expand.

At this time, as yon will perceive by the splihters'around my desk, I am perfectly cool and collected, you infernal illians!" His enemies say of Gambetta, that he is not only an ambitions but an avaricious man that he has received from M. Christophle, the collector of the Credit Foncier de Frahce, who is also largely interested in the Credit Foncier Algeriae, 3,000,000" the capitol stock of the latter company, given in order to securethe political-influence qf the great states-, man to farther certian schems. General Sherman has received ing letters from his youngest daughter, Rachel, who is enjoying herself much in Paris in the society of ex-secretary Evart'a family and ex-senator and Mrs. with whom she went abroad. James A.

Gregory, proffesor of Latin at Howard University, in Washington, is the colored candidate for the consulship at Leed's, England. He is endorsed by eral Howard, ex-senator Bruce, professor MoRroe of Oberlin, bishop Browne and others. Sophia Perowska, the executed Nihilist, has been elevated into a sort of St. Agnes. Her life has been written in the form of a religious'romance, in which t'he most traordinary virtues are attributed to her.

She is worshiped as a martyr, and the hilists faithfully regard the clothes she wore and the ringlets which wore cut from her head as 80 many: precious relics. These objeots have been distributed as talismans among the leaders of the Nihilist party. Mr. Thomas B. Hazard, a stalwart itualist of providence, E.

writes to the Journal of that citv: If my senses are to be relied upon, I not only believe, but I know, that for the last'quarter of a century I have, through the mediumship of.exceptionally gifted human instruments, been put in pretty close rapport with the futnre unseen world, and that I have enjoyed tangible and undoubted communion with many sands of returning spirits who were once tenants of mortal bodies on earth." A little newspaper published on the ted States flag ship Trenton, entitled the Trenton Herald, says that Miss Clara Louise Eellogg visited the ship while at ViUfranohe, France, and for the amusement of the officers and crew, sang a number of familiar home songs, accompanying herself on the banjo. The account says that "Down oh the' Suwannee river" was' better than a dozen Italian cavatinas, and the way she handled the banjo and sang'-'The Yaller Gal liressed in Blue would'have made Sam Devere pause. Lord Beaconsfield was always very much interested in young men beginning political life, even if only in the earliest stages of office work. He once said in answer to some one who observed that the work of a particular office was dry: "All details dry: you must not be discouraged? same offlee The get the first 0 jjjg seemed vo lose in those who had served him well, aiid fWttld say: "Tell so and so to come to see me, I like him very much." Things in General. An authority on dentistry stated in a recent lecture that the first knowledge of dentist surgesy was brought to this country by a Eeryduringthe local put-poses ift erawa who accompanied the French troops The first den.tist -ms established in New York in 1788.

Washington's false teeth were tained in his mouth by spiral springs. In 1830 there were .300 dentists in the country in 184:2. 4,000 to-day, 15,000. Cburtnejjr, il. estimates that the last general elections cost the candidates in the.

City of London, $75,000 in over in Sbutli Essex, $100,000 in Middlesex, $90,000 in' over $250,000 in Durham, $230,000 (One candidate paid $60,000) and $100,000. ToJaldohalf-a-dozenj-constituencies, 9 7 0 0 0 0 7 Coriifell University is not prospering. absfeiice bf President White in Europe, the curtailment of the professors' and the internal dissensions of thejaculty have had the effect of reducing wry much the efficiency of the institution. Ten years ago there-were 609 pnpils now there' are but 399. It is suspected that co-education may have, had something to do with the change.

Formerly only males were admitted now both sexes are entitled to precisely the same privileges: The "Book of Mormon" is a collection of sixteen distinct, books, professing tp be writtenat different periods by successive prophets, one of whom was named mon He was the father of the angel Moroni, who is alleged to have appeared in a vision'to Joseph'iSmiih, the founder of the sect. Mormon gave his name to the sihgle book that he wrote, and the entire volume was the "Book of Mormon." Hence the beiieyers.in the revelations of that book were as Mormons. Senator of Vermont, has a plan, conceived by bim severalyears ago for edying convenience an3 unhealthiness of tbe presidential quarters-at the' Capital. It is construction of a dnplicate White House t) be placed some tance south of the present one, and to be with it by a broad and spacious corridory the new building to be devoted entirely to the private use of the President and hift family, the oid one, in up wholly to executive and pubKc 'i--- r. J.

I 1' vd Ca 1 r.irrs! The Chicago Times will publish, ihe vised edition oJLthe a nose for news that Storey has, to see in our mind's eye snchv'headlines as these: uuCreation Unmaskedl Tragedy 1 of.the murderer! Apple Evicts Fearful roesfffetl' of Brimstone! Pkrtaculars Developments! some apd so all go crazy and Cdnk1 'liJMf'afid'S'latt -itt' tion that the Times opens to their view..