COLL. 'VIST OLIUVE.
ALU ANY.
OREGON.
CHRONOLOGICAL.
-A Record of
Principal
Events
in 1874.
JANUARY.
1. Deelmct.ve fire at Wilkesbarre, ra. :
Oen. Pavia, with a force of 14,000 men,
dissolves the Spanish Cortes and summons
eminent men of all parties to form a new
. government. Destructive fires at Cincinnati
and Nashville.
4. Large fire at Philadelphia. Siege of
"Cartagena. Sain, began.
8. 1 he United Slates Senate repeals the
Salarv-Grak- bill.
9. Caleb CnsUing nominated for Chief-Justice
of the United titatee Supreme Conrt. Tl e
-city of Helena, Montana, almost totally de
stroyed by fire.
11. News of -a terrible famine prevailing in
'India.
13. Allen G. Thurman re-elected United
-States- Senator from Obio. Heut.-Gov. With
ers elected United States Senator from Vir
ginia. Fire at the residence of Jacob Stiner,
a wealthy New York merchant, in which he,
bis wife and daughter lone their lives. Sur
render cf Cartagena, Spain.
11. Nomination of Caleb Cashing for the
-office of Cbief-Jnetice recalled.
15. Surrender of the Iatransgentes at Bar-
- celona. Spain. Large nre in Brooklyn, N. Y.
19. Morrison K. Waite, of Ohio, nominated
-by the President as Chief-Justice.
20. Ninj women killed by an explosion and
fire in a knitting mill at Bennington. Vt. Wil
liam Prnckaey Whyte elected United States
' Senator from Maryland.
22. Morrison ii. Waite confirmed by the
'United States Son ate as Chief -Justice.
23. British Parliament dissolved by royal
degree. Marriag, at St. Petersburg, Bnsaia,
of the Duke ef Edinburgh, with the Grand
- Dnche, Maria Alexandrovna.
26. Disastrous fire in Yeddo, Japan.
27. lerribla railroad collision between Ed
inburgh and G'asgow, Scotland ; sixteen per-
- sons killed. The City Treasurer of Jforsey
-City, N. J., abssonds with $100,000 of the
-city funds.
29. Burring of Olympic Theater at Phila
delphia; two firemen killed.
FEBRUARY.
"1. Large fire at South Nor walk. Conn.
2. Six persons killed by the fall of a floor of
- factory in Lancashire, England.
3. Large tire at Memphis, Tenn.
- capital of Ashantee. and agreed to pay a war
-indemnity of $200,000.
6. Collision on the Great Western railroad.
England ; several persons killed. Four per-
eons killed by a boiler explosion at Nor
folk, Va.
- 3. Boiler explosion at St. Louis, Mo.; three
-men killed.
11. Sixteen men severely burned at Pitts
burgh by the capsizing of a pot of boiling
lead.
13. Eight men killed and several wounds d
"3by the falling of a brewery in Philadelphia.
14. Larrfe fire at London; two firemen
killed.
17. Gladstone tendered Ida resignation as
- Prime Minister ; Disraeli summoned to form
a new Cabinet.
18. Lieut,-Col Buel attacked a camp of
'Cemanchee on Double Mountain Fork, and
killed tan Indians. Six citizens of Austin,
'Texas, robbed of all their horses by Kiowa
.'Indians.
19. Official confirmation of new British
' Cabinet, with Disraeli as Premier. Ssrious
. railroad accident near Preston, Eng.; two
persons killed and fifteen injured. Mutiny
and insurrection among the soldiers at Lima,
I South America, which ended by the surrender
of the rebels ; thirteen killed and thirty
wounded.
22. Conflagration at Avon, N. Y.; nearly all
v the business portion of the village destroyed.
23. Rsport that 280,000 persons are suffer
ins: for want of food in the district of Tii-
hoot, Preeideccy of Bengal, India.
24. Mexican advices: A quarrel between
'Citizens of Quimixtlan and Huascalesa. State
v of Vera Cruz, resulted in the killing of seven
teen persons.
' iS. Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant.
convicted of perjury, and sentenced to fourteen
. years' psnal servitude.
MARCH.
1. Burning of a car of a train in motion on
' the Great Western railroad, near London,
Ont.; eight persons bumad and suffocated.
2. Terrible explosion in Lancashire, Eng.;
twenty persoas killed.
5. Closing of churches in Eastern Poland,
by order of government ; serious riot in one
place, seventy persons killed and wounded.
6. Extensive conflagration at Salonica,
' Turkey ; -eleven persons burned to death.
Steamship Sedra, of Newcastle, Eng., lost at
sea ; thirty passengers drowned. Explosion
in the Hoosao tunnel, Mass.; several mem
buried in the ruins .
9. Be port that Capt. Bradburn, first and
second officers, and two seamen, of steam
ship Pennsylvania, were swept overboard in
a fitorm at pea.
10. Terrific boiler explosion at Binghamton
. water work, N. Y.
14. Wreck cf the British steamer Queen
Elizibeta off Xanla, Spain ; iourceen persons
droned.
15. Intelligence of a destructive fire at
Puiiii : losses. 800.000.
16. Advices from Mexico of toe killing cf
Bev. John Stephens, a Congregationalism min
ister, bv a mob at Abuilu'.co.
17. Shock cf earthquake at Bald Mountain,
N. C.
an. Overflow of the Thames fat London
Lambeth and Botberhitbe inaudated ; several
. i.hillrAn rli-nwned-
23. Disastrous fire at Elgin, 111.; several
Mocks burned. Pullman palace cars intro-
-!iiffd in Kncland.
u. v,nlnainn of a Mississippi towbeat :
eight men killed, four wounded. Indian battls
In Arizona between MaJ. Btndall and a band
. r tnrhM - eleven warriors killed.
25. A mother and three children burned to
-death at Momsania, x.
28. Jesuits expelled from Austrian tern-
...WW
SO. Loss of steamship Nil. from Hong Kong
fnr YnWiHim. with all o Dboaid eighty per-
tr. u.nri Ttachefort and Paschal Grousset
; escaped from the penal colony at New Cale-
ooma.
rfethnlie Archbishop of Cologne
arrtl for violation of the ecclesiastical
' laws. .
APRIL
1. Destruction of Central Hotel at Milleru-
iin Pa... seven persons Durnea to aeam
9 News of fearful ravages by cholera
. umwir Dntrh troops in Acheen.
6. The United States pass a bill fixing the
legal-tender and national bank-note circula-
. won at f4uu,uw,wv hku.
8. Four men killed by a boiler explosion,
near Plattsborg. 2i. X.
'. Terrible steam-boiler explosion near
-Glasgow, Scotland ; part of the boiler thrown
into a acooot-room, ana a numuer ui cuutueu
killed. Boilers of fbe polar steamer Tigress
-exploded near Bt. Johns, Si. jr.; i man juiieo,
' And others ininred.
14. The Atlantic cable of 1866 broken by a
storm near Valenua.
- 15. Terrible explosion in a coal mine In
Lancashire. England ; S3 persons killed, and
znanv wounded. The remains or r. living-
- atone arrive in London. Thirteen pensoia
-drowned in the Mississippi, below New Or-
i leans, bv the caoeizmir of a towDoac.
16. Joseph Brooks, rival claimant to the
-Governorship of Arkansas, took forcible pos
session of the Governor's office, at Little
Bock, expelling Gov. Baxter by force.
17. News of the wrecking of the Pacific
Bteam Navigation Company's steamer Tacna
19 lives lost. Terrifio gale in the English
-uiannei ; many vessels lost, with ail on boara.
William B. Washburn elected United States
.-Senator from Massachusetts, to fill the unex
pired term of Mr. Sumner.
18. Remains of Dr. Livingstone deposited in
.Westminster Abbey. .
- 20. Intelligence of great floods In the Kis-
issippi Valley, caused by t
I by the breaking of the
levees.
21. Fighting In the streets of Little Bock.
Ark., between the Brooks tnd Baxter factions.
22. President Grant vetoes the Congres
ioiial bill for expanding the currency. Truce
between the gubernatorial cor. test ants ir.
Arkansas.
23. Intelligence of much suffering in Lou
isiana caused by the overflew ; many of the
finest plantations tinder water.
24. Three men killed and several wounded
bv the fallinsr of a building in Brooklyn,
25. Two railway accidents in England, caus
ing the death and injury or twenty persons,
26. Heavy snow in New EDgland.
28. Several persons killed by the falling,
of three buildings in London. Sovereignty
of the Fiji Islands tendered to Qaeen Vio
toris. 39. Collision in Jefferson county, Ark., be
tween partisans f Brooks and Baxter; nine
men killed. Murder and burning of the Ham
nett family, consisting of six persona, nrar
Pittsburgh.
MAY.
2 Several persons killed by a boiler cxplo
siooatSbawaugui.lt. N. Y.
7. The Arkansas Siprome Court decides in
favor of Brook an Governor,
8. Fight at Lit do Bock between Brooks
and Baxter partisans ; 6 men killed and 5
badly wounded .
9 Skirmish in the streets of Little Bock
between Baxter and Broeks men; 'A men
killed, and several wounded.
11. The town of Bidgway. Iowa, destroyed
by fire.
12. Large fire at Puis, France; several
persons burned to death. Another encounter
between the Baxter and Brooks partisans in
Aiknsas ; several killed and wounded.
13. The Czar of Bussia arrived in England.
15. President Grant issues a proclamation
declaring Elisha Baxter legal Governor of Ar
kansas. 16. Terrible destruction of life and proper
ty in Hampshire caunty, Mass., caused by the
breaking away of the dam of the reservoir on
Mdl river; towns of Williamsburg, Hayden
vdle and Leeds flooded ; over 80 houses and
12 mills destroyed ; 160 lives lost.
17. Brooks surrenders his forces, and Bax
ter installed G-ivernor of Arkansas.
19. Great fire in Constantinople. Warrant
for the arrest of Gov. Moses, of South Caro
lina, on a charge of larceny ; he refuses to be
arrested, and calls out the militia in his de
fense. 20. C artist s badly defeated near Bilboa,
Spain.
21 . Departure of the Czar from London for
Russia. - Marriage, at Washington, of Miss
Nelly Grant, the President's daughter, to Mr.
hart oris, of EDgland.
24. A man and wife burned alive at Jacobo,
Mexico, for alleged sorcery. Ministerial
crii8 at Borne.
25. Arkansas Legislature impeach Chief
Justice McClure and other officials connected
with the Brooks rebellion,
26. Diptomati relations between Spain and
Mexico formally returned. Six persons
drowned near Toronto by the capBizing of a
yacht.
27. The SpanNh General Concha badly de
feated by the Carlists. News of a fresh re
bellion in Paraguay. ;
29. The village of Elmwood, 111., almost
entirely destroyed by fire. Large fires at
New Orleans and Pit sburgh.
. 30. Decoration-day generally observed
throughout the country.
31. Serious riot in Limerick, Ireland.
JUNE.
1. Intelligence of the loss of the ship Brit
ish Admiral, from Liverpool to Melbourne,
with 73 persons on board. Attempt made in
London to shoot the Prince of Saxe-Weimar.
Three persons killed by a collision on the In
dianapolis, Bioomington and Western railroad.
Five raftsmen drowned while descending the
rapids of the St. Anne river, Canada. Resig
nation of Mr. Richardson, Secretary of the
Treasury; Benj. II. Bristow, of Kentucky,
nominated as his successor.
2. Extensive inundations in Hungary ;
many villages swept away. Cerner-stone of
the America: Museum cf Natural History
laid at Central Park, New York, by President
Grant.
3. Four persens killed by a train on the
Erie railroad while crossing the track in a
wagon.
4. Inauguration of Gov. Weston, of New
Hampshire.
6. The Italian Senate gives its approval to
a treaty of commerce with Mexic and a pos
tal convention with Brazil.
7. Manifesto of the Left Center of the
French Assembly calling for a declaration of
the republic or dissolution of the Assembly.
A revolution attempted in Costa Bica. Twenty-seven
persons drowned during a storm on
Oneida and Onondaga Lakes, New Yerk.
Fierce tornado in Illinois and Minnesota.
9. Stormy scene iu the French Assembly ;
Gambetta and the Bjnapartists in collision
10. French government defeated in the As
sembly on the clause of the Electoral bill fix
ing the sge of electors ; violence threatened
11. Gambetta insulted by a mob at Ver
sailles.
12 Continued excitement in Versailles and
Pari-. Vote of censure in the Assembly
gainst the government loet. Seven persons
drowned by the wrecking of the schooner
Rover, off the coast of North Carolina. 1
15. Eighteen Carlist offisers shot at Tolosa,
Spain, for mutiny. Resolutions in the French
Assembly declaring trance a monarcny re
jected by 100 majority.
16. S.x horse-thieves hung in the Indian
Territory by a vigilance committee, i
17. Four persons killed and several wounded
by sn acc.dent on the Carolina Central rail
road.
18. Carlists defeated by the Spanish troops
in an engagement at Alcona, Spain.
i. completion or tne teiegrapnio came Be
tween Brazil and Europe.
23. fourteen persons killed and leu injured
by the fad of a floor iu a room in Syracuse,
. I., wnere a strawberry Teauval was oeiug
be d. Adjournment of United States Con
gress. 24. serious rapture between Turkey and
Persia. Resignation of Postmaster-General
C res well ; office tendered to Eugene Hide, of
Maine.
25. Contract closed for placing Fnllman
palace cars on the railways of Upper Italy.
Ratification by France of postal treaty between
that country and the United btates.
27. The Russian Czar banishes nis nephew.
the Grand Duke Nicholas, for theft of his
mother's diamonds.
29. Marshal Concha killed in an attack on
the Carlists near Eatetla, Spain ; he is suc
ceeded by Marshal Serrano.
30. Sixteen persons drowned near Havana,
Cuba, oy the capsizing of a lighter. Five
persons killed and several maimed by a boiler
explosion at Carrollton, Mich .
JULY. 1
1. Social Mills, Woonsocket. R. L. de
stroyed bv fire: ljss. 700.000. Eugene Hale
declines the Postmaster-Generalship tendered
him by President Grant.
4. One nundred nouses burned in Allegheny
City, Pa. The great bridge across the Mis
sissippi at bt. Louis opened with a grand
fete. Terrible hurricane in the vicinity of
Lewistown, Pa.; seven persons killed.
7. Tne Frencn Aseemoiy pass tne Electoral
biU.
10. Great oil conflagration at Weehawken,
N. J.: 125.C00 barrels bnrned. Five persons
drowned near Atlantio City by the capsizing
of the yacht A. B. Thomps n. Great grass
hopper plagne in the Northwest ; crops of
entire counties destroyed.
13. Carlists defeated near Bilboa, Spam.
Attempt to assassinate Prince Bismarck st
Kissingen. Half of the business part of
Streator. III., destroyed by fire.
14. Advices of nineteen persons killed by
roviDg bands of Indians in couax county,
Kan. Extensive conflagration at Chicago:
846 buildings destroyed, and loss estimated at
over 94,000,000 ; seven lives lost.
15. Forty-five buildings destroyed by fire at
Iowa Falls, Iowa.
17. Terrible storm passed over Aioweii,
Mass., doing great damage. Large fire at
Constantinople.
18. Great University regatta at Saratoga;
the Vlnmbia Collece crew victorious. Fifteen
miners killed by a colliery explosion at Wigan,
En?1?!- .. ,
19. MinlstenaJ crisis in js ranee, loonpima
government declares the whole of Spain in a
state of siege. .. '-- 1 ,
21. The Beecner-Tiiton acanaai mane puo-
lic by the publication of Theodore TUton's
statement to the Investigating Committee of
Plymouth Church. j
iu. Rida for the remainder of the 5 per
cenr. loan opened by the Treasury, Depart
ment at wasnington. ... ,
25. Great victory or ien- juonuntro, w
Yarre ne captures wwun. pmuwi.
Bursting of a water-spout near Carson City,
Ner.; great destruction of life and property ;
twelve persona killed- " . ,J. -
23. Tne town os twi , . j .
troved fcv a land-jnae ; lew or tne innao-
plosion of a msgazine at Quiza, Spain. Pitts
bunch and Allegheny City visited by a deluge,
eanied bv the bursting of a water-spout over
the city: vast amount oi property destroyed,
and over 100 lives lost. f'
27. Meeting ef the International Congress
at Brussels. ..,'.' -r. '
28. Dr. Janizewski, Bishop of Poaen, sen
tenced to fifteen months' imprisonment for
iniui.. 4a Aiirmui ecclesiastical laws.
Theodore Tilton, In New York, arrested on a
charge of libeling H. W. Beeoher. t
81. Great strike of operatives In the flax
milln t Ttoifat Ireland. Suicide of the no
torious adventurer, Lord Gordon-Gordon, in
uanitoba. . ..'
AUGUST. ;
1. Large fire at Muskegon, Mich,; 200 places
of bieineaa and 100 dwellings destroyed.
5. Burning of the steamer Pat Sogers on
the Ohio river ; several lives lost.
7. Capture of two mail stages between
Wichita and Fort Sill, Texas ; passengers and
driven killed and scalped.
10. Disastrous floods in Bombay. Escape
of Marshal Bazaine from the island of Ste.
Marguerite.
13. Recognition of the Spanish republic by
Great Britain, Franca and Germany.
15. Collision on the Trenton railroad, in
New Jersey; four men killed tnd nineteen
woi.n led. The Chnney- bitehonse ecclesias
tical jurisdiction casein Ciiicago decided in
favor of the Low Church partv.
16 Italy, Holland and Belgium recogoiaa
the Spanish republic.
18. Election in Ohio on the adopti n of the
new Constitution ; the instrument defeated.
11. Terrifio typhoon at Nigasaki, Japa) ;
great destruction of life and property. Se
rious fighting between the whites and blacks
at Lancaster, Ky.
24. Formal recognition of Spain by Sweden.
A colliery explosion at Staffordshire, England,
kills eight miners.
25. Destructive conflagration at South Bend,
Ind.
26. Postmaster-General Jewell assumes the
duties of his office.
27. Earthquake in Porto Rico.
23. Report of Plymouth Church Investigat
ing Committee acquitting Mr. Beecher of the
charge of adultery is presented and accepted
at a meeting oi the Congregation.
39. Murdar of six Republican officials at
Coushatta, Li., by a mob, while being con
veyed to Shreveport is prisoners.
31. Return to Fort Lincoln of the Black
Hills expedition, after an absence of two
months. Violent eruption of Mount iEtna.
SEPTEMBER.
2. Six surveyors from Lawrence, Katsas,
murdered by Indians near Fart Dodge.
3. The steamer River Belle burned at her
wharf in New York.
5. News of the safety of the Austrian polar
expedition which had reached the northern
most point ever attained by man, the 83d
parallel.
6. Terrible conflagration in Meiningen,
Germany. News of the settlement of the
threatened war betweenChina and Japan.
8. Destructive fires in the pine forests of
Newjersoy.
11. Collision on the Great Eastern railway,
Eng. ; twenty persons killed and fifty
wounded.
12. The Washington grand jury brings in
indictments against prominent citizans in the
saf e-bnrglary case.
13. Grpat strike o cotton operatives at
Bolton. Eng.
14. Mass-meeting of citizans in New Or
leans ; Gov. Kellogg requested to resign ; he
refuses te receive any communication from
the meeting; afterward a proclamation, by
D. B. Penn, claiming to be Lieutenant-Governor,
called the people to arms ; barricades
erected in the streets, and sharp fighting be
tween police aad citizen-, in which aerns fifty
of the former were kilUd. Excitement pro
duced by the reported discoveries of gold in
the Black Hills.
15. The offices of the State government in
Louisiana are surrendered to D. H. Penn ; Gov.
Kellogg takes refuge in the Custom-House ;
Pres dent Grant issues a proclamation order
ing the belligerents to disperse within five
dys.
17. President Grant decides to uphold the
Kellogg government, and orders troops to
New Orleans.
19. Burning of a cotton mill at Fall Biver,
Mass.; twenty-three operatives burned to
death or killed by jumping' from the upper
stories; thirty-f oar wounded. Gov. Kellogg,
of Louisiana, resumes hss gubernatorial
functions.
22. The Russian government, alarmed at
the extensive emigration of Mennonites, ex
empts that sect from actual military service.
26. Irish and American rifle contest at New
York ; the latter victorious.
27. A frightful tophoon passes over Hong
Kong. China ; many vessels wrecked ; a great
number of houses destroyed, and over 1,000
persnos killed. The River Legre, in Spain,
oveiilowes its banks, causing great loss ol life
and property.
39. Termination of a four days' engage
ment between Carlists and Republicans in the
province of Navarre, Spain; repulse of the
Carlists with beavy loss.
OCTOJER.
1. The Grand Hotel, at Saratoga, N. Y., de
stroyed by fire.
2. Great gunpowder explosion at Regents'
canal, London ; houses and bridges shattered.
ana several persons Killed. Mews teat a
revolution has broken oat in Buenos Ayree.
4. Count von Arnim arrested in Germany
on a charge of embezzling important state
papers. Lively times in New York, caused by
a herd of Texas steers careering through the
streets ; many people knocked down and
gored, and several wounded by pistol-shots
of the policemen, who erect barricades to op
pose the progress of the cattle.
6. Cirhst mutiny at Dorango, Spain ; Don
Carlos wounded by one of the mutineers.
9. The International Postal Convention
signed at Berne, Switzerland. The Arch
bishop of Cologne liberated after an imprison
ment of six mouths.
10. Nineteen persons killed at Aspeitia,
Spain, by an explosion in a cartridge factory.
13. Elections in Ohio, Indiana. Arkansas.
West Virginia, Nebraska and Dakota. Con
vention of Southern Republicans at Chatta
nooga, 'lean.
19. Destructive fire at Montreal, Canada,
20. Terrible gale on the north of England
and ccottisn coasts; many lives lost. Marriage,
at Chicago, of Col. Fred Grant, son of the
President, to M ss Honore.
21. Destructive forest fires in Indiana.
22. Advices of the massacre of Christians
by Turks in Montenegro. Mews of tne cap
ture, in India, of Nana Sahib, the Sepoy
chieftain.
25. Intellieence of a terrible cyclone at
Bombay, India ; 2.000 person b killed. Steamer
Mary foundered between Glasgow and Trini
dad : 18 lives lost.
27. Thousands of people in the grasshop
per district of Nebraska leportel in a starv
ing condition.
28. Eogland has established a provisional
government -in the Fiji Islands. Count
Von Armin released from prison. Great fire
at Greencattle, lnd. Ten persons lose their
lives by the burning of a cotton-mill in Ches
ter, .England.
30. Kallmann, who attempted to assassin
ate Bismarck, sentenced to fourteen years'
imprisonment.
NOVEMBER.
3. Elections in many of the States, result
ing very generally In favor of tne uemocratic
party
8. Tbe difficulty between China and Japan
settled.
9. Capture of Lone Wolf, the great Kiowa
cniel. near Fort UoDD.
10. English steamer King Leopold foun
dered at sea ; 20 uvea lost. Russia resolves
to introduce tne system of compulsory edu-
uoo
14. A renewal of the Arkansas political
troubles threatened ; V. V. Smith proclaims
himself Governor; Gov. Garland offers a re
ward for his arrest.
15. Intelligence of a terrible typhoon in
China : estimated that the loss of life, in and
about Hong Kong and Macao will reach 80,
000 persons, and 950,000,000 worth of prop
erty aestroyea.
16. Troubles in the Pennsylvania coal re
gions ; six men murasrea.
17. Six lives lost by the bursting of the
boiler of the steam-tug Lily, near New Ycrk.
20. Tbirty-sevea 8paoUh prisoners shot
by Carlists at Carello, Spain. Twenty-four
miners killed by a colliery expjoeion in York-
anire, lUDgrano.
22. Intelligence that the Spanish srunboat
Prosperiad, with 200 men, has been lost at
aes. ,
23. Tupcumbia. Ala., devastated bv a tor
nado ; half the town destroyed, and twelve
persons KUiea.
27. (jrew or tne scaooner ijaowincr massa
cred en tne wiana oi oanta urnz Dy natives.
29. Many casualties, with severe loss of life.
caused by a storm on the east coast of Scot,
land. Steamer Laflut a foundered off Usbant.
France, and sixty persons drowned
DECEMBER.
2. Disastrous fires at Kama City, Fa., and
niiton, a. n.
3. News of the surrender of , Gen. Mitre and
ending of the revolution in the Argentine Re
public of South America. Sinking of the
Spanish steamer Thomas Breoks oft the coast
of Cuba ; thirty lives lost.
6. Advices of the sinking of the English
hip Pontiac, bound for India ; twenty-six
persons drowned. Four men killed near Fall
River, Mass., by the bars ting of a pneumatic
CJUllUWi
7. Fighting between whites and blacks at
Vicksbunr. Miss.: the neeroea attack the
town, and are met and repulsed cy white citi
zens ; a large number of blacks killed. . Aa.
semoimg ox tne .national uongresa at Wash
ington. ;
8. Excitement at Vickaburg continues; some
oeeuitory ngnung between whites and blacks.
in which three or four are killed : Got. Ames
issneshis proclamation ordering the rioters to
disperse, and cans au oowua or tne
Legislature.- ' M
a Thn viithnrr troubles ended.
15 Great fire in Boston ; a large number of
wooden builnings ' burned ; loss about
$700,000. ,
16. Five men drowned by tbe capsizing of a
schooner near Froviaence, . x. Foarf ul
storm on the coast of Spain; many vessels
19. Intelligence of the. burning of the Pa
cifio Mail steamship Japan, en route from
Yokohama to San Francisco ; a large number
if Coelies lost.
24. Twenty miners killed by a colliery ex
plosion in Norta Staffordshire, Eogland. Six
teen passengers killed by a railroad accident
in Oxfordshire, England.
NECltOLOGICAL.
A Eecord of Prominent People Who
Have Died During the
Past Year.
JANUARY.
1. rieath, at AVaahington, of Gen. B. J.
Sweet, commissioner of Internal Bevenue,
aged 41.
9. Hon. John B Thompson, at Harrodsburg,
Ky. Judge B. . Biylor, at Independence,
Texas.
10. Judge Benjamin O. Franklin, one of the
founders of the Republic of Texas, at Gal
veston. 16. Charles Astor Bristed, better known as
Carl Eenson," aged 54.
17. Rev. William Sparrow, D. D., at Alexan
dria, Va.. aged T3. Chang and Eng. the
Siamese Twius, at their home in North Caro
lina, aged 62.
18. Rev. Samuel Fisher, an eminent divine,
at Cincinnati.
22. Mme. Enphrosyne Parepa Rosa, the dis
tinguished songstress, at London, aged 35.
25. Adam Black, tbe distinguished pub
lisher, at Edinburgh, Scotland, sged 90.
26. Intelligence of the death, in Eastern
Africa, of David Livingstone, the celebrated
explorer.
28. Ex-Cbief Justice Thompson, of Penn
sylvania, at Philidelphia, aged 68.
29. Gen. Honry G. French, of the British
army.
FEBRUARY.
6. Baron Mayer Anselm Rothschild, at Lon
don, sged 56.
IU. jutes jnicneiat, an eminent x roava His
torian, at Paris, aged 76.
14. Cardinal Tarqaini, at Rome, aged 64.
17. Kiucr Lunaliio. of the Sandwicfi Islands,
at Honolulu, aged 33.
26. Ira Perlev. ex-uniei justice oi Mew
Hampshire, at Concord, aged 75.
23. (Jharies smriey isroonB, novelist, ana
dramatic author, at London, aged 59.
MARCH.
8. At Buffalo, N. Y., Millard Fillmore, thir
teenth President of the United States, aged
74.
11. At Washington. Cbarles Sumner, dis
tinguished statesman and Senator from Mas
sachusetts, aged C3. At Paris, Jean Crn-
euhier, celebrated anatomist ana pnysician.
aged 83.
13. At uartroro, uonn., unrisuan onarpe,
inventor of the famous Sharpe rifle, aged 63.
14. Countess Brunnow, wife of the Russian
Amoassador to the Court of St. James, at
London.
18. Johann Heinrich Maedler, German as
tronomer, at Berlin, aged 80.
22. Judge .Lewis JJent, Drotner-in-iaw or
President Grant, at Washington, aged 50.
At Genoa, Countess Danner. morganatic
widow of the late King Frederick VIL, of
Denmark.
31. Henry B. Hirst, well-known poet, at
Philadelphia, aged 60. At Clifton, Staten
Island, Gen. Harvey Brown, U. S. A.,
aged 78.
APRIL. ,
1. At Berlin, Peter Andreas Hansen, as
tronomer, aged 79.
3. Marquis of levonsnire, in London,
acred 30.
4. susan Virginia uenton txmieau, aaugn-
ter of the late Thomas H. Benton, and wife
of Baron Roiueau, at l'aris, aged au.
6. Judge John W. Edmunds, at New York,
aged 75.
8. KaulDacn, tbe distinguished German
painter, at Munich, aged 69.
11. Gen. Henry Storms, at Tarry town,
N. Y.
13. James Bogardus, the eminent soientist
and inventor, at bew xork. aged 74.
15. Rev. Thomas Carlton, of the Methodist
iiook uoncern. at iuzabetn. Si. J.
lb. Josiah Warren, a distmeuisnea scient
ist, at Charleston, Mass . aged 64.
20. ISi-Uot. Clark, of North Carolina, at
Tarbobo, in that State.
so. John Pbiuips, an eminent British geolo
gist, agea 74.
20. I'ror. b. L. wa ker. one of the first in
this country to make nictnrea from sunlieht.
at i-ongnseepsie, jn. x. Jt'nnce Jt'ignatelii, a
wen-cnown Italian diplomatist, at JNaplt
aged 92.
27. Bev. John McLeod. of the Reformed
Presbyterian Charch, at New York, aged 68.
MAY.
1. Nicolo Tomiriaaso. the distiagnished
Italian aucnor, aged vu.
a. uen. William Ball, a veteran of tbe war
of 1812, at New York, aged 78. Robert Morris,
an oia journalist, at miladelpma. aged td.
4. Bev. Banah Green, a well-known tem
perance preacher, at Utioa. N. Y.. atred 80.
7. Jehn Hecker, a distinguished New Ycrk
merchant and politician, acred 62.
il uourtiandt Palmer, an old and promi
nent citizen of New York, aged 62.
10. Edwin iloyt. a well known New xork
merchant, in that cuv. Baron da Triaueti. a
distinguished sculptor at Borne, aged 72.
it jnaj.-uen. ueorge L. Hartauff, U. a. A.,
at New York, ace t 44.
17. Hon. George Robertson, for 20 years on
tne etapreme uencD. of Kentucky, at .Lexing
ton, agea 04.
20. Mai. -uen. A. 15. Dyer. U. S. A., at
Washington.
23. Hon. David 15. Mellisb. member of con
gress from New York, seed 43. Bev. Joseph
It. Haven, l. u , of Chicago University.
27. Bear-Admiral Shnbrick. at Washington,
aged 81. J. Edgar Thompson, President of
the Pennsylvania railroad, at Philadelphia,
aired 68.
so. Gen. Robert Fleming, a prominent citizen
and lawver. at Williamsoort. Pa.
31. hit Henry Thompson, a well-known na-
giith railroader, aged 65.
JUNE
4. Very Rev. Father Dupontance. Vicar-Gen
eral or tne Diocese oi vincennes, at Madison,
lnd.. seed 61.
9. Most Rev Jean Francois Lambnot. Arch-
bisnop or Kiieim. at pans.
10. jonn carter Brown, a distinguished ana
wealthy citizen of Providence. U. L
13. Hon. Virgil if. -Tarns, ex-memoer oi con
gress i rem Maine. James jr. ue jfeyster.
well-known citizen of New York, and survivor
or the war or itsvi.
14. Sir James Maopherson, of the Bengal
army, aged 63. Cochise, the famous Apache
chief.
16. Sir Charles Fox. the celebrated English
civil engineer, aged 64. Hon. ltooen w,
Walker, of the Alabama Supreme Court.
17. Lord James c. p. Murray, ox Bootiana,
is. juies jamn. tne oistinguisnea f renon
autnor ana critic, at Parts, aged vu. Jonn m.
ttellew. well- known English elocutionist, at
T mT. 1 Ef VT A ..n.n wif.
the celebrated naturalist, at Kelleyvule, Ky.,
aced 88.
20. Dr. George Derby, a prominent Boston
Dhvsictan. aged 55.
22. xtey. cnanes lowe. a aisunguisnea
Unitarian clercvman. at Boston, aged 45.
Samuel Myers, a well-known Chicago theatri
cal manager.
26. .Howard Staunton. wen-Known cnese-
player and Shakespearean editor, at London,
agea e. . .a
28. Princess d'Oubril, wife of the Prussian
Ambassador to Prussia, by drowning, at Pots
dam. Dr. James MoNaughton, President of
the Albanv Medical College.
29. Henry A. Perkins, an old Hartford
banker.- .;.-.-
30. Henry Grinnell. a distinguished New
York merchant, and widely known for his
connection witb the Kane Arctic expeditions,
aged 75. John Blackie, distinguished i.ain-
ourgn publisher, aged 92.
'. - JULY. 1
1. Charles Henrv Warren, a distinguished
lawver and Jndca. m Plvmenth. Mass. John
S. Wright, leading Boston merchant, aged
86. George B. Upton, a distinguished Boston
merchant, aired 70.
. m. ae uouiard. the Prencn statesman, at
Paris, aged 62.
7. Bev. Richard V. Whelan, Catholio Bishop
Of the Diocese of Wheeling, at Baltimore.
10. John Landon, a well-known citizen of
new xotk, and veteran of tbe war oi isi
11. Hob. Todd R. ' CaldwelE ' Governor of
North Carolina, at Hillsboro, in that State.
12. Gen. William 8. Hillyer, the last re
maining officer of the original staff of Gen.
Grant, at Washington, aged 46.
13. Acnes Strickland, the . historian, at
Loudon, aged 63.
io. waiter Lsnox, ex-Mayor or Washington
City, aged 67.
AIUST.
10. Rev. HenrvJ. WhitAhnima. RiaTinn nf
Illinois, at Chicago.
SLPTKIIBBR.
13. Francois PiarrA Rnillmnma Gniznt tha
distinguished French historian ana states
man. 15. Hon. Beniamin Bobbins Curtis, of Bos
ton, a distinguished jurist.
OCTOBER.
12. Rieht Rev. Francis Patrick MoFarland.
Catholic Bishop of Connecticut.
17. Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, formerly
Mayor of Boston, in that city.
23. Commodore William Inman, United
States Navy, at Philadelphia; Hon. Harris
Flanagan, ex -Governor of Arkansas, at Arka-
delphia, in that State.
it. Commodore Austin Pendergrast, of the
navy, at Philadelphia. '
28. John Laird, the well-known ship-build
er, at London,
81. Ex-Gov. Enoa T. Throop, of New York,
aged 94.
JNUVJS31.BJ&K.
5. Bisht Rav. D. W. Bacon. Roman Catholic
Biehop of Portland, Me.
11. Thomas Miller, a well-known Enelish
poet, at London, sged 68.
in. xamei JN. iasKeii, editor or tne Boston
Transcript; Col. Billy Wilson, of Zouave
fame, at New York.
20. Thomas Hood, the well-known jour
nalist, and son of the celebrated poet, at Lon
don, aged 39.
23. William L. Barry, the oldest journey
man printer in the United States, at St. Louis,
aged 93.
zo. uen. t. J. liesue, one of tbe oldest of
ficers in the regular service, at New York.
aged 79.
30 Jonathan Sturgae, an eminent New York
merchant. Georga Labor, at Stroudsborg.
Pa., aged 113 years. Mayor Havemeyer, of
New York city, aged 71. Ex-Chief-Justice
Read, of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, aged
78".
DECEMBER.
2. Hon. E. P. Cowles, formerly Judge of
ef the New York Supreme Court, at Chicago.
uen. KODertu. Tyler, u. s.Army, at Boston.
5. Hon. Dudley S. Greeorv. ex-member of
Congress, and one of the wealthiest citizens
of New Jersey.
6. Hon. T. B. Dunkin, ex-Chief-Justice of
South Carolina.
7. Bev. Dr. Benedict. Baptist minister and
author, at Pawtucket, R. I., aged 98. Jack
son Morton, ex-United States Senator from
a lorida, and author of the design for the
Confederate flag.
9. Col. Samuel is. Thomas, one of the rich
est men in Kentucky, at Louisville. Ezra Cor
nell, founder of Cornell C jllege, and one o f
the most liberal and public-spirited men in
America, aged 68.
10. Dr. James V. Z. Blauey, an eminent
physician and chemist of Chicago, and Pro
fessor of Chemistry in Rush Hddical College,
of Chicago. Joseph Knowles, Sr., publisher
of tne Providence (.it. I.) journal since loss.
23. Thomas Cottrell Clark, one ef the
oldest Philadelphia lournalists.
Current Paragraphs.
Tee new Congress contains four cler
gymen.
America, has one doctor to every 800
inhabitaats.
It is claimed that the Chesapeake
Bay has oysters enough to feed three
worlds.
Five thousand men are now em
ployed on the Centennial buildings and-
grounds.
Key. Dr. Chapin says of the Lincoln
statue, none needed it less, none de
served it more.
Thebe is no money in the Alabama
Treasury of any kind to pay the mem
bers of the General Assembly.
The hundredth anniversary of Daniel
O 'Conn ell's birth is to be made a na
tional festival iu Ireland next August.
The Canadian veterans who fought
airainst the United States in 1812 are
to be pensioned by the Dominion gov
ernment.
Chicago's Sunday Lecture Society is
now nrmiv estaoiisnea. irsc-ciass
lectures are given, the admission fee be
ing ten cents.
Sctentifio observations of tha transit
required less than five hours : but scien
tific observations on tne transit will bore
us for a year or two.
Sccbvy Mike" and " Dreadful
Tom" are the candidates for Mayor of
Grass Plains, Neb. Both are running
on the anti-grasshopper ticket.
Pbop. Judd. who attempted to walk
500 miles iu New York in six days and
naif, failed, miserably on the nf tn
day. after havinpr accomplished 369
miles.
A Nevada woman recently knocked
down seven men, one after the other,
with the help of her hst alone. The
men were trying to enter her house for
the purpose of robbery.
Ik the last five years no less than
forty-three life insurance companies in
the United States gave up tne ghost.
mere was very little lire or insurance
to be iouna in tne concerns.
A Frenchman has opened a restaurant
in Thompson street, New York, where
he gives a piece of bread, a plate of
vegetable soup, and a plate of vegeta
bles to order for five cents.
Thebe is a happy couple in the First
Ward of Syracuse, N. Y. They have
thirteen children, the eldest of whom
is ten years olu. Six pairs of twins
are among the number, and the thirteen
are girls. ,
A widow about 85 years of acre, with
her daughter, aged -about 18 years,
make a comfortable living by lamp
lighting and extinguishing in St. Louis.
They have the public gas lamps on half
a dozen streets to attend to. and tnev
handle the ladders as though they, were
experts.
" The most expensive dressed man I
ever eaw, writes a Captain in the
British navy, " was an African chief on
the Gold Coast. Hia wives had
anointed him with palm oil. and then
powdered him from head to foot with
gold dust. You never saw in your life
a man got up so utterly regardless of
expense." -
Brno, ring, O yule-bells, ring !
While Christian tongues glad anthems aiog,
Let myrtle on the chancel twine.
And holly gleam 'mid box and pine;
Let every heart with fervor pray,
Upon this glorious natal-day I
In Bethlehem is born a Son,
Emmanuel, tne holy One
Of Mary!
A Mas Subsists Eleven Days os
Apples. The Chicago Tribune says :
A Galveston (Tex.) paper records the
arrival m tnat -city, a lew days ago, oi
a German hailing from this city, who
had " passed" himself along with a oar
load of apples. He is said to have se
creted himself in the car in this city,
and to have subsisted nnon aotiles dur
ing the journey which took eleven days
ana mgnts, lor no other purpose man
to steal a ride. It may be that he had
a grudge aeainst the railroad. He cer
tainly oo til d have derived very little
pleasure from the trip.
Bt order of the German Crown
Princess the female clerks and tele
graphers employed by the German gov
i ernment were directed to set aside all
i extravagances in dress and toilets.
'THE YOUNG TOMUfc-
- : Foar Years Old.
" rm four years old to-day, papa I ;
I guess yon didn't know
How very old and big and strong
In one night I should grow.
- For last night when I went to sleep.
Your boy was only three I
Just see how tall I am to-day
Papa, do you know me T
, I'm four years old t .
" And now I sm almost a man
v And want a candy store-
To sell Ice-cream and nuts and figs,
And lota of good things more I
And oh I want a big black dog
! To keep bad boys away
A pony, just as white as snow,
To ride on every day
. I'm four years old I
" I'm sorry for poor little Ned,
txut think, ns's only toe I
, . But if he Uvea, hell grow a man,
And all these nice things do.
Ill give him all my tops and balls,
My dresses and my toys
For things like these are vary nice
To please such little boys 1
I'm four years old I"
" What ! four years old ! My little son,
You fill me with irarprlie,
Uy boy become a man to soon I
Can I believe my eyes 7
Ah ! golden time, so full of hope,
So fresh and sweet and fair 1
I well remember now the day
When I, all free from care.
If m our years old 1"
Haggle's Toothache.
Maggie Morton was a very fine little
girl if she was a tomboy. She oould
ride " any horse" (so she said, but her
experience had been limited thus far to
a couple of aged specimens who plowed
corn for a living), rake hay, hoe corn,
fish, "pull off shoots" which, trans
lated, meant firing off her brother Har
ry's gun and sundry other accomplish
ments we have not space here to men
tion. But you never heard this little
lass boast of work indoors. Indeed no.
She lived -in the open air a great por
tion of the time, and it oould not be ex
pected of her that she should take care
of Dame Nature and her mother, too.
So she ran wild, and was healthy and
happy.
.Now, witn all ner neaitn and good
nature, Maggie had one fault. She
told very large stories, and was apt to
deceive when it served her purpose ;
and this sketch is to explain how this
little girl was tripped up completely by
a rope oi ner own scretcmng.
One nne spring morning ner uncle
Amos stopped as he was passing the
house, and called to Maggie, who was
very busily engaged in budding a mini
ature leaning tower out of brick so
much of a leaning one, in fact, that it
managed to fall over when it got half
the required height. She heard the
call, and in a flash was standing by the
side of the carriage in which her rela
tive was seated.
" A -present for vou. Mafir&rie." he said.
as he dropped a wee black puppy into
her apron, which she had instinctively
held out after hearing the first two
words.
" Oh, thank you, uncle. What a good
one he is, isn't he ? I expect he will
grow up to watch me and bite folks ;
don't you think he will?"
l nope not, replied ner uncle, as
he drove away. "I expect to make a
few calls during the year myself ; and
if he ia ungrateful enough to bite one
who saved nun from drowning, X shall
be sorry for my efforts in his behalf."
Maggie wended her way toward the
house in silent contemplation of the an
imal that "scrambled around in her
apron, now and then giving vent to a
spiteful yell in finding himself in Buch
close quarters.
" Oh, mamma," she cried, on entering
the house, " just look here! Suoh a
real, blessed little puppy ! He's mine.
Uncle Amos gave him to me. Hear him
scream for milk. Please will you skim
a mess, so he may quit and wag his
tail?1'
" Not now, dear," replied the com
posed mother, as she opened the oven
door and withdrew a loaf of snowy
bread. "I will see to him by and by.
It is time for you to get ready for
school. John and Harry have already
gone."
The tears sprang into Maggie's eyes.
Not even one minute left wherein to
enjoy the companionship of her beau
tiful pet! She abruptly left the room.
After some ten minutes had passed, her
mother stepped to the door and called
her. No answer. She called again.
Then a faint voice:
" I don't bl'eve I can go to school
to-day, ma."
" Why. my dear ?" .
"I've got the toothache, oh, ever so
bad."
How lone have you had it?"
" O, a good long while ; but it cane
on harder since
" Since the dog came, I suppose
added ber mother.
"No. it wasn't the puppy did it. It
inst came on."
Now it so chanced that Mr. Clinton.
the teacher, had called at the house
the evening before, and confided to
Mrs. Morton and her husband a genu
ine and delightful surprise for the
whole school. Mr. Gibson, the owner
of a beautiful place near by. had in
vited him to bring his whole school on
the following day lor a good twelve
hours' recreation strawberries and
cream in abundance, and a good time
generally. - Mr. Clinton also stated that
this gentleman had kindly furnished
boats he lived across a beautiful river
that ran bv the school-house and oars
men beside, "ao x snau mereiy can
. . . n s a . w M
the school to order," he added, "and
after teiluur them wnere we are going,
pack them off ; for my friend says he
wants to greet tnem in weir every -cay
school garb not dressed up for tne oc
casion. .
. Of course Mr. and Mrs. Morton
nromised to keen all this to themselves
but they both had enjoyed in anticipa
tion the store of genuine pleasure for
their three children. But here was
Maggie with a made-up toothache, a&K
kg to remain at home, utterly ignorant
of the sacrifloe she was making. With
a half sich her mother assented to her
staying, with the added inquiry as to
which particular tooth it was that
troubled her. - . .. ,, J ,
" Don t know," replied tne ntue cul
prit, trying to cry, " I b l'eve it s an oi
em. t
"Come here. then. I shall rub pain
killer around each tooth." ' ;
"Oh no. ma. exclaimed tne youtmui
invalid, suddenly alive to the dangers
of having the toothache all around.
" I guess it's only a little irons one.
Don't put it on any but the front one,
please, and I will get over it real soon."
XUTS. morion mwaya u s bud
however. She rubbed the preparation
generously throughout the sufferer's
mouth, and, doing her face up in red
flannel, bade her stay in-doors, on pain
of severe punishment, and left her to
inflections.
Noon came. Maggie had played with
her puppy to her heart's oontent, and
was tired of him. So, with her nose
nrAssed flat against the window-pane.
she watched for her brothers. But they
came not. Two, three, four o'clock.
and still no Harry, no John. Poor
Maggie was almost beside herself with
anxiety by this time, and could net
help wondering at the calm demeanor
of her mother. But just as the sun
sank out of sight : the 'front---door
slammed, as it only can slam when boys
are about, and in rushed the absent
ones, fall of boisterous, mirth, and very
much stained about the mouth.
"Where have you -been?" inquired .
Maggie, wonderingly. ',.
"Been!" replied Harry, dancing vig
orously on one leg. " Why, over to
Mr. Gibson's, to be sure. The whole
school was invited. We went across in
boats he sent for us. I tell you it was
jolly. Wasn't it, John?"
" It was that," replied John, throw-
ing his hat in the,, corner and stretching
himself on the lounge. "But what was
the matter with you, Mag ? All the
girls were crazy to know why you
weren't there."
Maggie unfortunately received the
gift of a fine pup, and was immediately
seized with a severe toothache," replied
Mrs. Morton, gravely? "Mr. Clinton
had told me before of this holiday, and
I knew what my little girl lost by her
affliction ; but as she said she waff un
able to go I let her stay at home."
Poor Maggie ! This was the unkindV
est cut of all. To know of such
Eleasure and keep her out of it! Her
ps quivered and . her little form
trembled, and her brothers looked on
in silent pity.
"Your tooth is somewhat better, is
it not ?" inquired Mrs. Morton, calmly.
"It's just like it always was," replied
the child, rising defiantly to her feet.
" It never ached ! I lied, so I did I"
Mrs. Morton was a wise mother. She
did net turn the child from her at this
critical moment, when rebellious na
ture, smarting under . disappointment
confessed its misdeeds for spite's sake.
ssq, indeed, tone tenderly passed her
arm about Maggie's waist, and drawing;
her close to her, softly said :
"ljearn from tins, my dear child.
that falsehood brings its own reward.
I love you. So do we all. But your
besetting sua nas punished you instly
to-day."
Maggie nad tne reaL genuine tooth
ache about six months after this event,
but kept it all to herself for a whole
day, like a little heroine, and was only
betrayed when she burst into tears
from very pain.
' X knew it was real toothache, ma.
she said; "but it made me feel bo
'shamed to think of when I had it make
believe, that I kept still till it broke
through." Christian Union. '
The World on a JHoelc-Onuag-e.
Now, my young friends, in case any'
of you should come across a nice round,
yellow mock orange, IU tell you what
to do with it provided your grand-
mubuer. nirtKKiy hub good one in iter
stocking-basket. If not, you should
give it to her, and get yourself another
one. A canary bird told me that the
way old ladies darned stockings was to
put a big yellow ball in them, and then
pick at tnem witn a queer sort of a
shiny steel bill ; . and though his de
scription wasn't clear, I knew what he
meant. Well, you take your round
mock-orange, and force a knitting
needle clear through it from the stem
end, so that it will turn evenly on the
needle. Then, with a blunt needle,
you mark the grand divisions of the
earth upon it JtSurope, Asia, Africa,
and America (you see I know them')
in just the right shape, and then yon
put in your oceans and islands, and
what not, all complete. Next . yon go
over all the markings with a camel s
hair brush dipped in red ink, or violet
ink, or any water-color you choose.
taking care to wipe the orange off m-..
stantly with a soft, damp cloth. The
color will sink into the markings and
leave the surface of the mock-orange
clean. Then you have your globe com
plete. And you can make a little
prop, if you are ingenious, tnat will let
your globe revolve on its knitting
needle or axis, at precisely the right
angle. After a while it gets dry and
hard, and if you please you can go over
tne markings once more witn a fine pen
dipped in the proper color. ..
Mow did X know all tnis 7 r
I heard a dear little girl telling an
other little girl and " you can't think,"
said she, "what real splendid fun it
is." From "Jack-in-the-Iulpit," SU.
Nicholas.
Little Old Bachelor.
little old bachelor that's what he's called
in his high chair yon may see him installed.
Thoughtful he looks ; he is quaintly precise (
Why, he could give you a world of ad view I
Those little bands never made a mud-pie,
Those pretty eyes of the girls are quite ahy :
All of his actions go on the old way
Little old bachelor, four years to-day.
What he puts on must be neat as s pin,
If not. a terrible state he is in !
What does he look like 7 Now guess if yon
A queer little bo?, or a Utile old man 7
Bard to be suited, and dainty of taste,
Calm and collected, he never makes haste.
Ever seen any one act in this way T
X.1ttle old bachelor, four years to-day !
Prentice and Bike Walsh.
Prentice, notwithstanding his tn- v
multuous career, his violent controver
sies, and bitter quarrels, was generous
and forgiving, if not amiable. Shame
fully and persistently slandered he
admitted that he had faults enough to
render malignant invention superfluous
he was ever ready to meet his ene
mies half-way in reconciliation, and he
rarely remembered injuries where there
was any disposition toward atonement.
The noted Mike Walsh and limself
had had fierce newspaper bouts, but had
never seen each other until they met
one day in Washington.
Walsh, eyeing him, approached and
said : " You are George D. Prentice, I
tool icvOa :'
The Louisville editor, responding in
the affirmative, the Subterranean scribe
continued : " You've skinned me like an
eeL Prentice, but you did it so well
that I don't particularly object to it.
You're a man of genius and a good fel
low, and I want to say that I admire
andlikeyou."
The Manhattan agrarian offered his
hand, and the biographer of Ciayoor
dially shook it, with the remark, " I
think well have to toss up, Walsh, to
determine which of na is the eeL'
: Mistaken Advertising-.
The Denver (CoL) Herald, in a late
number, expresses the opinion that the
public can be better - reached through
tne columns or a newspaper of a fair
circulation " than through all the other
mediums, oosuy circulars, cards, poat-
us, srawa;s ana jimcracks. put to- 1
gether. The old established weekly
newspaper is, after all, the only general.
jTOowus meaiam lor advantageous ad
vertising. A thousand doors are opened .
vj wowome is : a taousand messengers
are weekly seeking the postoffloe to re
ceive it; a thousand families look for
its coming, and ten thousand re id it
wnen it does come, advertisements and
au. - xnere is much trutn m tms. xna
thousands of dollars wasted annually
upon expensive almanacs, circulars and
other questionable methods of adver
tising, which, in company with patent
office reports, find their way to the junk
shop, would render very material aid
toward the support of numbers of de
serving local papers, and also return
something in the way of profit to the
advertiser.