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90 i "COAST NEWS. F mw hM added t cheintcal engine to tU ftrt department, Th w atotrio milrond t Sacra ttato to working successfully, Several Illinois capitalist mm la Art mu examining th UiU rnl acheme. Frederick PfelftV, disappointed in tow, committed mii-itl at Spoaan Falls. Thar I snob. dlntltaotum in Art aoaa QTvr the atsutdirotuent of Fort LowtU. . AMU hat bren Introduced in th Ore gon legislature to prohibit the us of protas language, TO Waitdard theatre, at Portland lift ton attached by Boston company for failure to keep a cwutrsct. The people of Tulare, OsJ., claim that tb freight charge of the Southern IV ci&o amount to almost confiscation! Deaiel Webster, a Pnyalhip Indian, wu strangled to death by a follow Iu dian during a drunkt a row on th reeer vstion. Qny Hunter, a insstiKr toy '' bn arrested at Tacowa for making away with 1, 000, with which h was intrusted. Charles Newkoui, a well known rancher of Sutter cuuuty, Cal., was swindled oat of $1,500 by a pair of con fidence sharper. The San Jos First National bank con template the erection of a ali-atory granite and sandstone building, to cwt in the neighborhood of 1100,000. E. F. Bale has beeu held without ball atLosBanos, Cal., to answer to the charge of ninrdering Air. Perry Mo Do will, near Cottonwood ou Jan, 6. The schooner Nrptun arrived at Baa Diego with :W) toot of native, saltprtt from the plains of Piaaqo, Cliilo, It i to be used for fertilising fruit lands U B. Cohn has paid Mo the treasury of Los Angelea county $3,irii.S0, the amount of money secured by hint on fraudulent warrants issued in !-. The pay rolls of the Qua! mines at Roa lyn, Wash., for last month called for 94,000. This went fur wages atone aud was the Urgent pay roll since, the mines were opened. Gen. R. A. Alger has just lite victor ious in a land case content before, the in terior department, in which the amonnt involved was $100,000. The land to situ ated near Seattle. Pierre Dessaud, an eccentric French man, aged 75 years, died at Loe Angeles and left 80,000 francs to relatives in France, Be Ignored his wife, with whom he had quarreled. The Idaho legislature has paused a bill ceding to the United States full juris diction over the militaiy aud Indian inn ervations. The high license bill ha also passed both houses. Work on the new branch railroad now in conrse of construction from Tracy to Axmona, Cal., has been suspended on ac count of a strike among the laboiurs against a reduction of wages. At Lemoore, Cal, a prolific flow of water has been struck at a depth of ninety feet. Flowing wells in that mo tion have been secured at depths rang ing from 100 to 800 and 400 fewt. The Doyle district, Santa Clara county, Cal fruit growers, in view of the talk of a caaner. combine, have decided to feet a oo-oporative organisation for the aMipingand marketing of their fruit. ' The oss against John P. Kerr, an ex tensive grain producer, who is charged with stabbing David Anderson, another rancher, during a quarrel over the right to load grain in certain car but Septem ber, to on trial at Huron, Cal. Some malefactor at Butte attempted to ruin the machinery that runs the cable line of that city by placing steel auto between the cogs of the heavy wheels thaf operate the works. It was discovered before harm was done. The. Willamette Steam Mills Lumber ing and Manufacturing company of Portland, the largest of its kind in the United States, to putting in a new plant to oest $100,000. The pair of engines combined will give 8,000 horse power. A cage carrying two carloads of ore dropped 13,000 feet to the foot of the Curry shaft at Virginia, Nev., the other lay. The clamps which fastened the cable to the reel in the engine house were hurled through the roof, and pieces of iron were shot from the whirling reel like grape and cannister from a cannon. It is estimated that since but fall 450 tons of dressed and trimmed sturgeon have been caught in the Columbia and put la cold storage at Portland for ship ant East 8hoals of smelt have been fa) the river for a month, but at one fish ery twenty boats brought in only five sturgeon in one day. Fishermen think that the river has been exhausted of sturgeon. As the sturgeon requires a dosen or so years to attain full growth ft will take some time to replenish it. A bold attempt was made to hold up aa express train at Allla, near Tulare, Cal Two men climbed over the tender and compelled the engineer to stop the train, They then went to the express car. ; Messenger Haskell, thinking some thing was wrong, put out all his lights tad lay flat on the floor. He answered a demand to open the door with a shot. The robbers shot through the door and one of their bullets struck the messenger sear the eye but did not wound him ser iously. The fireman was struck in the rib with a bullet and fatally wounded. re robbers left empty-handed. In the office of the county recorder at Albany, Or., a document of more than ordinary interest was filed for record. It was a patent from the United States gov ernment to the Oregon and California Railroad company under the acts of congress of 1866, 1868 and 1869. The in atnment covers thirteen pages of descrip tion and conveys title to the land grant to the company. It deeds 125,000 acres in Una eounty, and is the largest deed ever fllsd for record in that comity. It bears the signature of President Grant May M, 1872, and also the autograph of E. A. Ftok, acting general of the land office. Worse than Leprosy Is catarrh, and there is one but one pre paration that doei cure that disease, and that is the California Positive and Negs (ive Eleqtrio Liniment. Hold by nil druggists. It also cures neurnlgia, rheumatism, headache, sprains, burns aod all p.iin. Try it and tell yon aegihbor where to get it. Tbe Jsrasy Lily." Anolkhka Cottauk, U B., July 2. Onntlemen: Altho' It Is very u minimi for me to um! any lotions or wahi'. mill. In an swer to your requeHt,l have trli'd Wisdom's VMetCrftsm and ltobertlne. The former I - consider especially efficacious In eases nf roaghiiessof tbe skin, and 1 have betm using It every day for the Imtt fortnight. I huv found the Rnbertlne an excellent prepai atlon In cases of tan, sunburn, eU mused by exposure to March winds and July sun. Yours faithfully, Li i.i.i E Lanutrv, To Messrs. Wisdom a Co. Take it Before Breakfast The great appetiser, tonic and I Ivor reKulator, la use for more than 60 yours In Knglund. Positive speclna for liver complaint. Hurl tasts In the mouth on arising ly the morning, dujl pains . In the head and buk of the eyes, . II rid feeling, dlsxlness, langour symptoms or liver complaint. Remedy Dr. Henley's Kng lUn Dandelion Tonic. Relieves constipation, sharpens the sppetlUi and tones up tbe entire system. Get the genuine from your druggist tat II, and take according to dlrocUons, BRIEF MENTION." The rloakrnnker of New York are on strike. The brewers union of Portland lias won fls strike. Archbishop Tabastids of the City of Mexico is (lead. New Mexico is petitioning congress to be admitted to statehood. Sweeping reductions in salaries have been made ou the WalMtsh road. Ou Rremas, accussed of murdering his brother, to on trial at Hants Crus. The Democrat and Alliance have car ried Oklahoma in the county election. Urtuil has taken the dilative for re ciprocal relations with the United States. The gold fever has struck Link v Me, Or. A rich deposit was struck In drill ing a well. A scheme to on foot to move the capi tal of Mew Mexico from Santa Fe to Al btiquerqti. The county poorhuuiw at Watervlle, Me., has been burned. A 15-year-ild girl was burned to death, A bill has been placed on the calendar of the senate to increase Mrs. Un. Cus ter's pension to $100 a mouth. F. L. Floyd a !o Angeles grocer, was fatally shot by a footpad while on hto way home a few evenings ago. President Andrews of Brown univer sity oppw the propoeed reduction of college studies to a three years course. Bishop Fugle of Kansas, who made an ajwigumeut recently, ha been axelled from the church for "Indiscreet IIiimu tiering. M, tVrger, who was manger of the Paris exposition, says a fatal mistake was madeiu selecting two sites for the world's fair. John IX Young, a wealthy resident of Suuthold. N, J., shot and killed his coatihutaa for getting drunk and Icttiug his team run away. At the request of the Han Francisco board of health Mayor Sanderson has telegraphed to Derltn for a fresh supply of Koch's lymph. The house of bishops of the Episcopal church of America has selected Rev, Henry C. Wentxell rf Scrantou, Pa., as bUhop of the missionary jurisdiction of Japan. The fight between George Dixou and Cal McCarthy, which was to hare taken place at Lung bland City, was stopped by the police and has been indefinitely postponed. The elder John Peat is Just complet ing the largest telescope giant tu the United States at Oreenville, Mass. The disc was procured in Paris aud weighs 800 ponnds, Oen. Count Alfred Von Srhlleffen suc ceeds count Waldersee as chief of the general staff of the Oerman army. He has been a memticT of the staff and has a high military reputation. The house committee on agriculture bss decided to place at the dinpol of the secretary of agriculture $13,0U0 to lie expended in making au investigation into the diseases of fruit In California. A bill for the cancellation of the con tract with the United States engimwr for the delivery of stone for the improve ment of the mouth of the Columbia river has been passed by the house and senate. The jiension bill appropriates for the year $l3.'M?3,0tU; for the fees and ex penses of expenses of examlulng surgeons $1,500,000; for the salaries of eighteen pension agents, $72,000, and for clerk hire, $1100,000. One of tne grandest weddings ever celebrated in New York was that of Mie Marie Hhcpard, daughter of Elliott F. Khepard and granddaughter of W. H. Vamlerbilt, to William Jay, a gramtmin of John Jay. Ex-Congressman Joseph Fitch of Queens county, N. Y., has sued the Western Union TeiegTaph company for $25,000 damages for sending the wrong message to his wife, byeaon of which Mrs. Fitch was prostrated by shock. Professor Hensch, the great authority of the Berlin university on children's diseases, has expressed a very unfavor able opinion of Koch's treatment In spite of every precaution in the use of the fluid not one aire has been effected. Lord Salisbury Is the hardest worked member of the English government. Rarely has the foreign office had so much business on band and Lord Salisbury has been reading and writing diiatchr twelve to fourteen hours a day for weeks. The California senate lias unanimously adopted a constitutional amendment cre ating a board of pardons. It provides that the governor, secretary of state, controller, attorney general and warden of the state prison shall conxtitute such. President Eliot of Harvard intemls soou to take an extended Western trip, going as. far' aa Denver and visiting many of the larger cities in the MIhhIs sippi valley, He will be the guest of the Harvard clubs in St. Paul, Kansas City and Omnha. The largest aud richest vein of tin known to mining Industry of the world at the present time has been discovered in the old Diablo mine shaft, forty-five miles southwest of Durangc, Mexico. The owner of the mine and the discov erer of this rich vein to John Pershbaker of San Francisco. There is serious trouble In Holano county, Cal., lwtween the game preserve men and the huntsmen who believe that nature meant the wild game for the common good. It has already resultral In one death, and nnless certain conces sions be made and a greater respect be manifested fur the individual, it may re sult in more, . Acting Secretary of the Treasury Nut tlnton has issued a circular to customs officers and others on the importation of animals for breeding purposes. It gives a list of recognized breeds of farm ani mals, embracing horsos, cattle, sheep and swine, slating the name of the breed, the country where bred and the name of the record book where such breed ll established. Holmes Business College ill I'orilii nil, Orr-K'in will open HepU lt. ). A. Wi-sro, the Icndluv tienmiinof tbe coast, has bi conie a partner In tills srhool and will mal,e ll inn h-adlng Catalogue. Uuslnvss College Blind fur Exoltement Runs bigh at tbe drug stores in Ibis place over (System Builder as everybody is using it for catarrh, of stomach, dys pepsia, constipation and impure blood, and to build up the system tt certainly so well of wonderful merit when all npiuik possesses it, ' , Clinics Lots Fur Sale, Four selected lots lu Talmago, two corners, are ofTored for nalo,, for thirty days-Price $150. Terms to suit, pyr chaBr Apply at Wkst Hidb -olllco for location. ., For Kale. House and lot In Independence, good locution, seven rooms in bouse, plas tered. Can rent out purt of bouse to pay interest on purchase price. Price reasonable. Apply for further particu lars to First National Bank. James U. lUaine has Just entered in bU tVJd year. The Pennsylvania legislature is about to abolish the "blue laws, The Prince of Wales It flfuring a caudalons gambling scrape. Rioting is reported in a number of towns in Hain over the elections. Highway robberies and burglaries are of nightly occurrence at Han Francisco. New York tailors are going to have a public auction sale of their unpaid bills. The contest of the Fayerweather will ease at New York Is now before the court. F. II. Morse. United HI ate consul general to Londou from 1W11 to 1870, Is deed. The shoemakers' strike at Vienna lias eollaiised, Fttsslmmous, the slugger, has signed a contract to travel aud giva sparring exhibitions. Of Is.t00.000 bushels of South Anstra liati wheat raised In 1W, ,000,000 are exiiortahlrt, Senator Oallluger of New Hampshire will be the only physician in Hie unnu Btatea senate. The majority of the Raum investiga ting commute exonerate the pension commissioner. Ex doveruor Cornell of New York U In the hands of a receiver on a Judge ment of $!,!. I. There is talk of dividing the Pacific naval squadron into two stations, the northern and southern. The bill granting New York rtty the right to adopt measures for rapid transit has passed the legislature. It is announced that the King of Kiam s to send six youths to Pennsylvania to be educated as physicians, & U. KUs, a consumptive patient at the city hospital, Kansas City, who had been treated with Koch a lymph is dead. It is contended in Uladstoulan circles that the new home rule bill of Glad stone's practically forces Pamell to re tire. Over $41,000, the largest sum on rec ord, was paid as tax duty on oleomargar ine manufactured in Chicago during ou month. The Kansas house has passed a bill prohibiting any couanv or corporation from employing armed forces when strike Is Muding. A Missouri crop prophet say there is going to b an imuieuse peach crop this year. He says apple will be scarce and small in slse. Ten desperate outlaws who have been committing murders and robberies in the Chickasaw uatlon for some time, have been captured. J. P. Davis, ex-deputy clerk of the district court of Kt Paul, has been sen tenced to six years' Imprisonment for cashing false pay vouchers. The agricultural appropriation bill make no appropriation for carrying on experiments In silk culture by the Asso ciation of California Ladies. A Paris paper lias Just announced that John L. Sullivan, who lately made his debut In the American theatre, is a son of Sir Arthur Hulllvsu of English fume. The Imperial tribunal of Udpah; lias decided that hvueeforth a refusal to rise and participate in a toast to the health of the kier shall constitute high trea son. Several (lerman brewers have con ceived the Idea of starting a brewery in the I' tiiUxl Ktatae to manufacture some of the oxers that are popular in Oor many. Admiral Hlr Thomas Bymoud of the English navy In a letter to Lord Salis bury, ssys the British navy aprMent is very weak and could tot cope with the French navy in case of war. Andrew Carnegie, W, Vanderbilt, D. 0. M1), C. P. Huntington and other wealthy men have guaranteed $W,Ooo a year for a permanent orchestra at New York nnder the direction of Walter DauiMsrh. An attempt was made to assassinate Bute Senator Catron, at Santa Fe, by two men who fired through a window at him. He was wounded slightly. A iiO.000 rewsrd Is offered for the woulii be asssssins. Dr. John C. Brainier, state geologist of Arkansas, announces the discovery in Salinas and Pulaski counties of large quantities of lieanxite, a mineral used in the manufacture of aluminum, and quite rare In this county, The Senate Republican caucus has se lected the following measures to be con sidered this session: Copyright, Nica ragua canal, Paddock pure food and Conger lard, land court, bankruptcy, In terstate Commerce and Pacific railroad refunding bills. Oeorge Franols Train Is going around the world again to beat his own record. He thinks that an animal trip around the world the trip Increasing in speed each time would be of great Value to com merce, as showing the possibilities of swift communication. Senator Cameron has Introduced a resolution in the senate giving the com mute on naval affairs permission to sit during the recess of congmw and giving It time m which to Investigate the per sonnel nf the navy, as well aa an oppor tunity to visit the different navy yards for the purpose of making improvements In the works and methods. A Kansas newspaper correspondent who has just returned from a strip through the Cherokee strip reports hav ing found dozens of fuinilies living In caves dug into high banks along the streams with a tree or bnshii hiding the entrance, and many are living in caves in the ojien prsine. There are at least 2,000 boomers now occupying the best qnnrter-sections in the strip, A dispatch from Buenos Ayres in re gard to the Chilean revolt says: The revolt appears so lm reduced to the prin cipal harbors. Beaten on all sides the Insurgents intend to rel rent to the moun tains, assume the defensive and march toward BiiMiiugo, which is now denuded of troops. Friends ailviso the, president to convoke congress, which would w . ' 1 the (jttui'i'el. Fur Hate. Two lots In Hill's Addition to Inde pond 'imp. A corner n ml Hie one nil Joining, for three hundred dollars f the two, or one hundred nnd seveiv five dollars for the corner and one him dred nnd fifty for the Inside. Terms to suit purchaser. Apply at Wkht . Hihk office for further pnrllciilnrs. Settle lip, . All person Indebted to me nre r-qU'-ster to settle immediately lis in creditors ore needing inonev mid sonn ng inonev J. H. Joi NHON, DelltM. A llargHln, For thirty days only, weHre author ized to ofler twenty-two feet front on Mulu street Iiideiieiidoncc for the 'sum of 8500 Location valuable. Terms easy. Apply to Indi'iH-nilence National Bank. ,21 Yon enn buy tickets F.nst to sny point direct from Independence to deal innt Ion at lowest rntts of E. C. Pb TtANn, i Oat ef wa. At a rough wtlmaU 11,000 yosmg wo. men wet thrown out of snipioj isal lb last of tbe year frosa the retail dry good stores of New York city, One arm ai an dismasted 1,100 wonea and gtrte aad an other TOO, These anfurtanait UtUa mar tyrs of commerce and drrumatanos were for the most part "extras," hired In November and Dtoember tut the holt- day trad at aalarie that barely paid for car fare, luaohea and the, wear and tear of clothing, Ous manager, when ap proached tin the sulilecl, audi "1 was ashamed to tell a girl who wanted an en gagement the wages, and so dismissed her. It was 1 than her living would oust And yea, what can I dof If wo men offer to coin here to clerk for fifty ceut a day why should I offer her $ir The trouble is women do not proper ly value themselves. Tby are alone la the world, dependent on their own en ergies; they want a chance, a footing, aa opening anything that will enable a beginning. In their desperation they will work for almost nothing, and one In a position, have not th bravery to assert themselves by properly valuing their servioea, Tim go on, th star vation wages, r accepted, and not only does the individual suffer, but the whole community of labor Is affected by ths lower standard of resulting price. What tli working gtrls of Nw York need la leas poetry, lee kitchen garden lug, lea sratheUciam, lees patronage, and a regular lecture on buslnees tactic. She ha no library, she doe not take a newspaper, aud if she is to know hei worth th value of honest, sarnest lalan and the relation her skill and Industry bear to capital , sh must be Instructed by sermon, speech or addrea. As it is, she is groping in th dark and growing the plant of experience fur herself, but It is sad gardening, for titer ar thorn Instead of fruit, aud In th leave li poison. Nw York World. rajlaf a Cnrfltar. Like many another famous man, both before hi time and tine, Talleyrand hlbiUxl-at least In early life grl retuclatso to settling with his crediUirm. When he was appointed bishop uf Antnn by Louis XVI, he considered a tine new coach to be necessary to the proper main tenanee of the dignity uf that office. Aoourdingly, a roach was ordered aud delivered, but not paid for. Home time after, a th newly appointed bishop was about tu enter his coach h noticed trangt) man standing near who bowed continually unlit the roach was driven away. This occurred for several days, until at length Talleyrand, addressing the stranger, said: "Wrll, my good man, who are yonr "I am yof poachmaksr, lay lord," re plied the stranger. "Aht" said Talleyrand, "you ar my coachmakeri and whst do you want, my coachmsk erf "I want to be paid, my lord.' "Ah! you are my roachmaker, and you want to lie paidT You shall be paid, my onachmaker." "But when, my lordr "Humf said Talleyrand, eeltl ghuu self couiforUUy amung the cushions ot hi new coach and eyeing his ouach piskrr severely, "you ar very InqulsJ ti." Boston Transcript. A Onisasilsl with lata. Queen Kliaabeth of Roumanla ha written a play which she la pleased to describe as a tragedy, but which Is really a piece of the must wildly and extrava gaully sensational kind. It Is entitled "Meiater Manolly," and it is tu b intro duced at the Vienna Court theatre. The piece Is of the old transpontine order, with ghosts, murders, a wife walled np alive, and other sensational episodes, and It is full of preposterous situations, al surdly stilted dialogue and Bombastes Farttaso declamation. Queen Kliaabeth, when ah was recently at Vienna, in- flted the company of th Court theatre, to partake of a sumptuous uejenaer at the IloUd Imperial, and the champagne flowed in rivers at the meal. Her maj esty read the play to her guests, who spplsudwl it as a matter of course, and then ah went to see the emperor, and In duced htm to command that th pisne should be produced at the Hofburg, where, as a rule, new play ar not readily accepted, London Truth. Disposing ef ss Offies Seeker, "The art of putting the right men In the right places," Talleyrand one said, "Is first in the science of government: but that of finding places for the discon tented Is the most difficult. It would seem from this that the dis tinguished French statesman was a much a prey to office seeker as ar the public men of our own time. HI man ner of disponng of them I amusingly Illustrated in the following anecdote: On day on of these troublesome per sons presented himself to M. de Talley rand and reminded him that lie had been promised a place. "Very well," said Talleyrand, "but tell something that stilts nnd which can be given. You don't know of anything? Well, find something. You must admit that I haven't the time toi.oarch for you." The applicant was thus disposed of for the time being, but a day or two later he again presented himself, his face radiant with hope, and said: "Sir, such and such a place Is vacant" , - "Vacant." replied Talleyrand. "Well, what do you wish ine to do? Yon onght to know that when a place la vacant it has already been promised. "Boston Transcript. Whan Opera Ooers Ought to Rat. A musical director now In the city has another idea besides music. "Complaint is made," says he, "that people who come to th opera are nerv ous and fidgety aud do not respond to the effort to please. Is it any wonderf The t and 7 o'clock dinners are the cause, Our best people who go to make up the coloring of the audience dine late, and as a rule they fill in regardless of the laws governing health, and come to the opera shall 1 speak plainly? with enough rich food In them to make them stupid and unappreclative. My adviu would be to eat sparingly just before the opera. The good effect from Die music wonld assist In th digestion of a good dinner taken a late as midnight. My notion will probably not agree with that of your physician. Be it so, I am talking from a point which interests me. Gormandizing and music don't go to gether." Chicago Tribune. The Earth's Age, The age of the earth is estimated from the increment in the temperature as wo ponetrate ita crust, The rate at which the earth cools can only be determined by making use of data confessedly im perfect; but from these Sir William Thompson finds that 100,000,000 or 800,. 000,000 years ago it first began to be crusted over by solid film of rocks; that 10,000,000 years afterward it wo (till so hot that the temporatnro in creased 9 degs. Fahrenheit for every fixit vertically descended below the cone of constant temperature. Tbe present rate of increase averages about 1.51 of a de gree for every foot.-St Louis Republic Careless Handling. Little Dot (feeling of baby's skull) Mamma, was baby's head this way when you bought him? Mamma Yes, my dear. Little Dot One of the clerks must ' dropped Mm, New York Weekly. 'ORQEME8 COMMIT TfcO IN JAIL. A fellfr!a Cesvlet WiiAs Career i , Crisis DM Del Knit In Prlsea. , By some Strang accident there has been dixVfred lu Ban Qiientfn prison a crime a odd and uncommon a any tliat Oabnrlau' fertile brain ever evolved. In th ordinary prison It I usually preeumed that onoe a criminal has been securely lodged within th walls his career of crime 1 ended for at least the term of hladncareeratloii, While this la not entirely true uf the California peul tentlary, It ha heretofore managed to keep mt of lla ocenpant from the commission of felonies of which other prisoner wer the victims. It remained for Convict C, R. Baoh man, however, to distinguish himself in a way that no JiUlblrd before him ever did, and by such Ingenious Imnrovetnont of the opportunities offered liltn as to) mark San Qnentln a one of th mt uncommon prisons In the world. Tlmre I a great deal of managerial uipUuxI In th adiulmstrstiou of affair at Han Quontin of th kind that carping critics call red tape. Among the many forms whlub am rigorously curried out is that of having euvttloisw, which ar intended to carry communications to the deputy wanlmi, printed with his nam and title In full uism Dm fane. When anything of Importance had to oe commuuiiiated to the deputy it was iiivartauiy iiuruatmi to a convict to m sur It safe delivery, , ' Bachman, who Is srrving a long term forarwiu; Failing, a life convict, aud "Fat Jack KUey. who has about forty yean' penalty to pay for a felonious as sault, all had access to the deputy war den' mail. These) three, prisoners on Joyed th privilege of reading all theae important oouimunleatlou addrossxd to the deputy warden whenever it suited them to do so, and all because of the liuptatlng and official looking printed eavelopns. A snpply of the envelopes was easily purchasable. Whenever there waa a letter intrusted to a convict mnstenger it fell into th baud of on of th trio. It was quietly taken aside, th envelope lorn open, th content read anil notd, aud provided these critical readers found nothing objectionable In th letter It was placed In one of the extra envelope and delivered in due form, " In his mill, that Is to say th deputy wardnu s portion uf it, Bachman one day discovered that an old man, William Phelps by name, who is serving a tlfs term for murder, had several hundred dollars on deposit In the wsrden' handa Bachman had been spending his money In a royal, spendthrift way, and fonnd hi exchequer In a low ebb. Here waa oliance to recoup, and to play a stroke worthy of hie gvntu and opportuniUea, He gained the colifideuoe of the old man, told him he had !uflneutial friends and promised togethlm pardoned. Then the rlever firebug sent for a lawyer and told him of the case and Interested him In Phelps. Later on Bachman gave th lawyer an order on the warden for pnnalderalilu sum of money, with Phelps' signature attached, aud also a nut of approval hearing an olthwr's signature. The order was taken to the warden, who wrote a check for the amount, and was slsiut to give It to the lawyer wheu an officer sUtnding by suggested that It would be wis to send for Phelps and tee if tt was all light. The officer was not suspicious, but simply familiar with his surrounding. Phelps waa sent for aud denied ever having written the order, It waa ex amined and found to be a forgery. Then the officer who had approved the order was summoned, aud denied -as emphat ically that be had signed tbe uote of ap proval. This waa also found to be a forgery. A little further Investigation was sug gested, aud, although rather unprece dented, was carried out, and it was found that Bachman was the author of both of the forgeries. 8an Francisco taamluer. Iaghter la Fablls. What la the reason one hear in pnblic plaoes the loud voice uf women so much oftener than. men? Women thee loud voiced ones win to have the fancy that they cannot be pen unless they are heart And so they can't in their true character,- If it were pot that their words and laughter floated put Into apace and alaive the hum of all other voice ther really might at torn time get mistaken for ladles. From their looks no one would Imagine for an Instant that they were common, ill bred and vulgar. A quiet flash of Intelligence from their yes, accompanied by an appreciative smile, would really convince an onlooker that piasably it was the forerunner ol the keenest wit. But no wit can ac company the loud guffaw that bursts out at the slightest provocation; no wit from th boisterous laughter, and no an- I reflation of wit in others. Chicago lerald. fatsrs ef Wheal la Asserlea. We have had a ran of prosperity for some years, and had been regaled with the thought that we bad more food ma terial than the nation could consume, and as much to spare as tbe rest of the world might want to buy. T'le Indica tions are that the day of heavy surplus production is fast waning. Our whnat omp In 1H74 was the maguiflot-ut total of SU.700,000 bushels. It has not kept at the upper notch, and tu the year 1HW0 It flgmxHl a maximum yield of 490,500,000 bushels. We have a greater population by nearly 15,000,000 than a decade ago, and the increase of home consumption would necessitate a larger yield and not a smaller, Economist. A Mettle's Long Voyage, Clement Wragge, the Ben Novls me teorologist, threw overboard 150 well corked bottle messengers during the pa sage from Australia to England In 1H78. Only six of them were heard of after ward. One was picked up at the entrant pf Mobile buy, after having made a cir cuit of 8,800 miles In two years. It hud drifted from 87 des, north latitude, !te degs. west longitude, through the Carib bean sea Into theOulf of-Moxico. Chum hers' Journal. - No llralns to Npeslc Of, Dudely Caueanoker went into a res taurant on Broadway and gave an order for some fried calf brains, After ha had watted almost half an hour, Dudoly said to the waitert "Well, what about the calf brains?" The, waiter shook his head and inti mated that the outlook was gloomy. "What's the matter with my brains?" "There ain't any, that's all," replied the waiter, looking at Dudely sadly. Texas Sifting. . . , . Writing on nirrh liars. A postofflce clerk of sixty years ago toll us that in those days it wo n coin mon circumstance for men in the log ging swamps in winter to wnte letter to their friends, on birch bark. They took a small quantity of copperas with them, and by steeping maple bark with It made a very good quality of Ink, and used the quill of the partridge or crow for pen, Brunswick (Me,) Telegraph. Stop and Think, A New Yorker worth $38,000,000 aay he took the most comfort when hit wealth counted up about half a million, A man with a million can take all the comfort that one with $78,000,000 can bny, and he ho only one-seveuty-fif th of the care and anxieties, Stopryonngman top at a million, Detroit Free Pre THE OAHDENtlfS f.WPOSAt- 1 1 a. FMaCOTT. . vssxsxv A wealth csf IMrera Wnrs as, Asd Aowra on altlisr bsai The Rry f Itm bead o ar SS, As bar sloes ws stand. With seent lbs air k) Wt Hi nh, that I mlf lit sail : Ons ir inr owe. dsr The fairest flows of sit Tbsi Mushsst-hnas ths fslrast Ars on tliy ehiwk dwplsr, Use mldMt row and ranst 1 Oa snowy lilies bud Like vIosMS aaft aad Imdsf Th'SH dark sad lustrous eyssg On glsiust, and I eurmiiilsr, Nui'b ttMtfto la them IM All rsnk'd la order slittilly My dainty tulips grow Tby two lla sliiua iur lirlslilif Than ell lbs buds thai blow. Bo my petlii'Hi graiitodl t Then In my ganlm grass, bear uiakt, Wiuu ll Uuoia WsaepUaWd, Of all mr S iwars lbs qiwaa I -Ohard . Tltui-rl.igh la Munasys Weekly. t arrying Oil. A cargo mav consist of several quali ties of oil, and theae are separated from each Other by narrow water spaces. Home two year ago a sailing vessel waa built by the Borrow Shipbuilding com pany to the tirdor of an Antwerp firm. She was designed to carry etroleuin In bulk in competition with th steamers. The success Attendant upon this new de parture may lead to the more extensive Construction of venae! n similar nat ure, I'etroleum vessel cannot t) uaeu for any other purpose) on arcotint of their peculisr arrangement and smell, A pro posal to carry palm oil In a similar man nnr has been found impracticable on ac count of the corrosive Ingredient which attack th steel instead (if preserving it, as petroleum does. Aproa to thi departure In British shipbuilding it I stated that th Per sian as fsr back aa 1700 wi-is known to carry petroleum in bulk In their own teasels on the Caspian. Petroleum car riers are generally fitted with electrto light, so a to Insure a minimum of risk from fire. With every precaution that modern science can suggest the carriage of this oil is beset with much difficulty and danger. Chamber Journal. ttnowlaUga anil lusllaet. James Hugg, a Scotch poet known a the httrick Shepherd, was a close ob server uf life under many different form and conditions. A couversatlun with a fellow shepherd Uxin the habit of th salmon is reported, in which shrewd native reasoning is shown. It brings out the Scotch love of metaphysics. Shepherd 1 uialntaiu that ilka aau- mon comes aye back again fro the till spawn In Its aln water. Friend-Toots, toot. Jamie! Uoocan It manage till do that? Hoc, In the name o' wonder, can a fish, traveling up a turbid water fra the sea, know when it reaches the entrance to its birthplace, or that it has arrived at the tributary that was It cradle? Shepherd Man, the great wuudar to ma is no tuxi the fUh get back, but boo they find their way till thosea first ava, twin' that they've never la-en there afore! Youth' Companion. Sending letters Uf Wire. What Is termed telpherage, or the con veyance of part-els by electricity along lines of win placed .overhead, is little known in this country beyond the stage of experiment We have little real need of this device tu awist commercial busi ness. In South America, however, tel pherage scheme appear to be propitious to the siHH-ulator, and a Hue has been constructed INfl mil. long, which places ltiieiius Ayres and Montevideo In com munication. Acnws tlie La Plata there Is a swing for the wires of nineteen miles, and the initial start for this jour ney is afforded by two towers 870 feet iu height. It is intended to dispatch jetter boxes between the twocities at intervals of two hour, New York Journal Multipolar Law Sped Motors. The prim-!ui) elevator builders in New York are adopting the multipolar low speed motor for the operation of the pumps of hydraulic elevators. Home of theae low sta-ed machines are being con nected direct to the serew shaft of pas senger elevators, whilHSomeare belted to power elevators in the ordinary manner. The motors are equipiod with self oiling bearing aud with self feeding carbon brushes, by which all the trouble, some times experienced by attendants unfa miliar with motors Is obviated. New York Commercial Advertiser. A Paring Argument, A quick witted and daring westeri lawyer once saved a guilty client frrni sure conviction on a chargu of poisoning It wo proved that the ioisouing hao been done by means of certain cakes, portion of which was produced In court When the counsel for the prisoner hai finished his speech, he said; "And these gentlemen of the Jury, are some of tin alleged poisoned cake. We declare U you, gentlemen of the jury, that they ar not poisoned cakes. They are at harmlesa cakes a ever wore made, aim In order, gentlemen of the jury, to allow yon that theeo cakes are not poisoned, I will eat one of thera right here in yom presence." And he did eat one. He took good care, however, to leave the room at tin earliest opportunity, and to make a bet line for an adjoining room, where hi had an emetiu in readiness and an anti dote. But the jury never heard about the eraetlo or tho antidote until the law yer's client had been acquitted. Sau Francisco Argonaut. Our Sun a Star. Most young folks now know that the difference between night und day on thif planet of ours arises simply from the fact, that among tho innumerable multi tude of stars there is one infinitely nearer to us than all the ivst; being so much nearer to us that when we see it we have day, When by the earth's movement on its axis the sun has set In the west we havo night; at which time we depend for light upon tlis more distant stars uuless, Indeed, tho moon Is shining, In the main, it is true that the enor pious difference In the intensity of the light that wo receive from the sun in the one cose, and from all the stars seen at night in tho other, depends upon the fact that the sun is t ho star nearest to us, and the other stars are suns infinitely re moved. J, Norman Lockyer in Yonth't Companion. To Meususe the Sea Level. A new apparatus for measuring the mean level of tho sea has lately been in tailed at Marseilles. It is bused on the principle that when a liquid wave trav erse a capillary tube or a porous parti tion, its amplitude dliniuittliRa and it Is retarded iu its phases without the mean level of the wave changing. It contUsta pf a glass tube, the lower end of which communicatos by a flexible pipe with n ilunger which is lowered beneath the owest water lovel, There ore two cells. In the plunger, the lower being filled with eand and open to the sea, the result being that the column of water in the tube rises and falls very little with the tides, and the monn sea level can be read from a graduated scale. New York Times, ... A Drop Iu the Market. He Darling, thi engagement ring is worth $360, She-The last one I bad cost $400. He You are older now I New York Herald, Prescott portr Independen SUPft'MCTt'Sr. FIR AND HAFD V.O!. I I If A. Wlll'rl ei. " t , tii is ni-:v Livery, Feed and Sale Stables. r- . . . . -llM-' -- fOUNCJ HORSES. t'Svi'v Ji NEW IU,GGIE3 rtnnnt.tr. 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