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Postmaster General James has i-su-d orders that all official matter emanating from any of the departments of the goy vrnmeut must hereafter le treated in every repe';t as firat clasa raatter uiiless the wrapper or envelope distinctly HtateH packages enclosed ' are printed matter. The secretary of the treasury has ibsued a circular for the information and guidance of officers of the department requiring that official communications thall be hereafter properly briefed by writers. Commissioner Fifk and President Jewett, of the Eri road, pronounce the Btory of Eri and Central cut rates as uutriie and- President Jewett said that it is not true that Krie elevators are full and thoseof the Central comparatively empty. I have not received notification from Vanderbilt that henceforth roads under his control would compete for business regardless of the pooling arrangements, nor do I expect such notification. The Erie has fully adhered to arrangement. A terrific hail and wind storist Da.-sed ' oVer'Deadwood on the Oth, doing great damage. Hail stones the size of hen's eggs fell for over two hours. Oue stone measured twenty-two inches in circum ference. A whirlwind struck in Iead wood gulch near the continence of White wood and Deadwood gulches, completely destroying four houses, killing one woman, wife of John A. Wolcott of St. Louis, ahd seriously injuring Mrs. Thomas and her two children. Hundreds of trees on the hillside were uprooted and hurled in fcome instances a distance of over 500 feet. Notwithstanding a reduction of from 1400 to GOO in the clerical force of the census bureau, the appropriation will not admit of the payment of salaries to the present force beyond the 10th inst. Upon recommendation of 'Superintendent Walker, and ns the only available means of averting entire cessation of operations until next winter, the secretaiy of the interior has issued a circular to employes of th census bureau, in which, after recit ing the fact that the appropriation is nearly exhausted, he says that if they desire tocontinue upon the work of the census office as volunteers, expressly disavowing any claim against the gov ernment in consequence thereof signify ing willingness to leave the matter en tirely with congress, they will be permit ted to do so. A case of intermarriage of a Chinaman named Lee Chin and a white woman named Mrs. Eva II. Leo, is attracting much attention at "Cheyenne. The stat- utes of Wyoming forbid such intermar riages, and the couple had the ceremony performed In Denver, the Colorado laws not prohibiting. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Chin have been indicted for miscegenation. The Chinese consul at Denver, under di rection of the Chinese ambassador at Washington, Las become interested in behal'of his countryman and will contest ;he case in the courts Judge W. P Car roll and J. C. Baird have been retained to defend the case. Meanwhile a full state ment is being prepared for the Chinese ambassador to present to the state de partment, and diplomatic correspondence is likely to ensue. A railroad accident occurred near Davenport, Iowa, on theGth, two heavily laden ireight trains colliding, plunging into one indescribable mass over thirty freight cais laden with lumber, agricul tural implements, corn and fat hogs were wrecked, piling up much higher than the telegraph poles. Engineer Anderson and tirem m Matthews ol the east bound train were caught on the wreck a they at tempted to leave their engine, Anderson having a leg broken ami sustaining a frae . ture of the collar bone, and Matthews being badly scalded about the face. The engineer and fireman of the west bound train jumped and saved themselves. The bead hrakemen of each train, whose names could not be learned, were killed. One body was found crushed under one of the tenders. . Ladd and the greenl3Ckrs propose to carry Frye's district, and the democrats propose to carrv Morton's district. The New York loss'would make the republi cans in the. minority provided two Vir ginia readjusters don't vote with them. This is doubtful; the democrats claim them. On the action of IlyKtt Smith, of Brooklyn, will depend the organization of the house. The greenbackers say that ail ol their men will be firm for the party. A warm contest is probi.ble, and it is now said Conkling will participate if beaten for re-election, and will prevent the ad ministration from controlling the organi ZAtion through his friend.-. The demo crats are dissatisfied because removal of several democratic employes of the senate had been ordered. The employes claimed that the democrats made a 6tand against this thing, and yet new democratic sena tors demaud removal of old employes for the benefit of their henchmen. The steamer Dispatch with President Garfield, Hecretary Hunt, Admiral Porter and others arrived at Fortress Monroe, on the 5th. They came ashore at a hotel where they dined. There they were met by General Getty and stall. A reception was then held. The comptroller of the currency re ports that of 4G7 hanks which held $44, 635,850 six per cent boud, all had been extended at 3 per cent, with the excep tion of two banks holding $305,500. One thousand three hundred and fort v-eig lit banks held iltJOaUoO of five per" cents, all of which it is estimated hnve made applications for 3Xteusion, with exception of banks holding from three. to five mil lion, A meeting of the Boston produce ex change was held to consider a project for a world fair ii that eily. Speeches were made by a large number of members favoring it, anil u resolution was unani mously adopted that merchants heartily f.tvor hoi liii a world's fair in Boston In 1S85, and we are ready to" extend sub stantial aid to the) enterprise. . commit tee ofsix was appointed to act with others already apjnjinted. Gov. Pitkin, of Colorado received a telegram from the sherili' of Conejos county saying that the county is powerless against desieradoes. C. Allison, a leader, has threatened an attack on Autonita and Conejos. We have good men but no arms. On receipt of the above the gov ernor offered a reward of one thousand dollars for the capture of Allison, and two hundred each for the remainder of the gang, and also ordered arms shipjied to Antonita. Three boys, Daniel Frazer, aged 8; Win. L. Pounds, same age, and Edward Kirroni, aged 10. were buried under an embank ment at No. 92 East Broadway, New York on the 5ih, and taken out dead. Work men were excavating for the foundation of a house. These boys, with a number of others, went into the excavation to play when the embankment fell on them. Thos. Molloy, another boy, was caught under the falling mass hut escaped. The coroner will make an investigation as to responsibility for the accident. The lot was not properly protected, and it is said that the embankment was undermined Representatives of the attorney general aud iiostmaster general, now and hereto fore in charge of the star contracts inves tigation, emphatic illy discredit the pull:c rumors that Secretary Blaine is being implicated in the matters refeired to, and that in the interests of himself or impli cated friends he erdeaored to fctop or impede the investigation. The commit tee of investigation and the superio" officers of the department unite in de nouncing all such repoiln as utterly groundless, and say that on the contrary Secretary Hlaine from the very tirst en couraged the investigation most heartily, and has constantly taken thegronnd that it should be prosecution to the utter most. A special from New York has a story that wi'ien Conkling and Piatt were con templating resignation they sent a special inesi-enger to Gov. Cornell with instruc rtiointofind whether they were sure o; re-election. 1 he intimation was given that Coukling had sent a messenger to Albany on important business, xnd he was taken into port by Conkling's friends inNew York,spentSunday in conviviality and card playing, and missed the train for Albany that rdght. Conkling not hearing anything from him next day concluded that all was right, aud went ahead with his resignations It was not until the day the messenger returned that he learned his terrible mistake. A special from Society Hill, South Car olina, says tiiat John II. Hartwell, aged 11 years, son of t lie Kev. Dr. J. I. Hart well, southern baptist missionary to the Chinese in San Francisco, arrived" here on the 2d inst., and went to his aunt, Mrs. Ellen C. Eilwan's' residence. He fays that he was living with his father on Washington st., San Francisco, and that on ay 221, while on his way to the Eddy S reet Bapti-t church, he was kid napped by a man, a stranger to him, taken to ( akland and thence on an emigrant train to New Yoik, arriving in that ity on the 30th nit., at t P. M. There he was put into an uuocrupied house where he was detained until the following day, when some money was given to him and he was tcild to go. He came south on a through-ticket to Greenville, S. C. He seems to be an exceedingly bright boy anil tells many thing about his abductor that appear incredible He says he prefers to live in Society Hill. A number of heavy impoiters and bus iness men of New York and lawyers who have business in relation to customs col lections and dut iesare making an attempt to procute removal of Second Assistant Treasurer French on the grounds tint he lacks knowledge of customs law, rules and regulations and the general duties of his office pertaining to customs matters. Nobody is proposed in French's place. Officers of the trea-ury department who distribute government stamps, notes, etc., have made complaint against the management of the bureau of engraving and printing. They have complained tli at t tie bureau is dilatorv in supplying stamp- and notes, and the work in some cases has been badly executed. Tobacco stamps are said to be specially bad and uearly worthless. Tobacco manuracturers of the west have protected against the poor stamps' supplied them. No charges have been made against'the bureau or its management, but these complaints are ojienly made by treasury officials. Attorney-General McVeagh hps been vigorous and untiring in hunting down the star route ring, and has more evidence than the public is aware. He has starched all the records of the departments con nected with the star route contract, and confidential special agents have been sent secretly to gather testimony on the line of expedited routes. Nothing has been lett undone that could unearth evidence of fraud. At first the star route ring talked boldly on the supposition that so long as no niemlier turned state's evi dence, they were L-ife. Boasts were made here in Washington that the investiga tion would f.til. It is apparent now thai men who shared in the ting are anxious and uneasy, um it is predicted that some of them wilt leave the country. Attorney (ieneral McVeagh and Postmaster Gen. James are determined to prosecute the ring, and they have evidence enough to procure indictments against numerous jwrties. The postmaster general has cop-, les of Dorsey's correspondence with hiis agents who procured petitions, for star routes. Some original letters and docu ments throwing light on methods em ployed in Arkansas and the southwest have been obtained, and depositions of som persons who helped prepare the way for expedited routes have been pro cured. 1 ' mamcBaaDOXXMCi. San FmAjmisco.' Jan. Il.-i8tcrlitui exchange on Voudun bankers. Oil day.. do. documentary, 4'.. ' Transfers, S preiuintu to par. Nkw You. Jan. 11 Stiver bullion, 1000 fine ft One 'jnnce, opened. 111 H- sterling exchanKe, prime banker', loug. $4 84 X: abort, ft Sti. Oood rommer -11, from lVc lower; lx-umtntj-y, A1 He twr. V. S. Boads-Stf of 'HI. MWS : 4S. 115'i ;4. 117. Clowa m, 10: 4 Ma. 115!: 4a, 118. Losnox. June 11. Couaola, 1U03-1C money; 100 J, acrount. Silver bullion. Ensliah atandard. 92r fin. per fin. onuftr 5! . . V. S. bouda 3'a of 'Si, 103 ; 4'a. 130 V i tome frodiac Market. IX'OCR Quotation, for round lota $4 25 for stand, ard; (3 "i'u.ifor i;ood country brand. OATS Quota $1 85&.1 40; feed, $1 251 30. x UAY Bated tuuothy. Slia V ton MILL I'KKD guotationa: Middlings tAX&'J& abort 16; chop feed Sx25: bran $lull. C't'KHU MKATS Ouotationa are aa follow : pHmn, Oregon auar rured 1415c; .aatrn 15(16; bacon, 1J"1 to : ahouldera 9r$10c. LAUD Quotation are 12,'lJc in kegs; 12H413 in tins, and i:i Vvl43c in pails. 1U1KI APPLLS Suu dried. 78c; Pluinuier dried, 9CllK-. UHIED PLUMS With pita. Be; pitleaa, 11 1334c for aun dried: ltiuvl.tc lor machine plums. HIDKS Quotation are 15c for nrat-class dry; 7(tSS; for Kreen; culla, , oft. Sheep pelta Pri-ea vary accordiuu t the ijuantity of mool left on akin; quote front 2.t(,$ 1. BUTTER Kan.-y 25c: good to choice, 3023)tc; fair. 'JOc. In bulk. 'JOmriAc: In brine. 27 irjOc. ONIONS Quotation 2(0,20 fk lb. EliGS Quotation lsc. CHEESE Cal., lJ(14c. APPLES - Per Ik.x, H3e a f 1. TIMOTHY SEE1 Per ft. C&lc. TURKEYS Per lb, live weight. 1416c; nominal. CHICKENS doz, $3 5l).i5. SALMON Columbia river. 9 bbl,$HS 50; bf bbl, (4 2&74 50; belliea, bf fS;J. HOPS t)rein. 1 ft, 12V413J4C POTATOES 43fc50c t rtl. CEMENT Konedale. bbL $2 75; Portland, ? bbl. 1 5(1. SHINGLES Per M. f 2 i2 SO. Meula. BEEF 2.-W2 54C H , rohx. l'OKK BiliV, tet. MUTTON 2-. ttroKa. Uold mjmI Sttoek airport a. bas raasciMco Miaxcii. 1 Sas Fbanl-umto. June 11. Receipts Wheat 11,500 i-tla, flour 8otJ V aka, potatoea Km) aka. mux 22,000 dozen. Sailfd-Str George W. Elder for Portland with freight. Wheat The demand ix good, but aellera are dia poaed to hold for hiahrr price; $1 40 wa freely of fered for number oue; 1 4JSil 43 aaked. Among Bale were the following: 1000 ton good ahipping, 1 3. J i. Port Ci t a delivery: 800 ton fair Hhippin. $1 32 b; lou toll choice Souora, f 1 37 , ; 3O0 ton a off gradea.il 23V-1 30. Oata Market ahoa no feature of atrikiutf intereni. Potatoea Market overstocked with new; aalea made in aacka, Mlcttil 12 in boxea, $1 littvl 25. Ouiona Market weak; Halea t -dy from wharf, 7.V8.Hr. Bugs Hand sewed, market ia ataIy, with prlcea in aellera' favor ; iuotatioua not materially changed. Salmon Columbia river, aellera are holding off; umrki t i quiet, but firm. Butter and eKU - Market haa a weak nudertone. The eaHtrru wire working hard; buinexa de layed. IIARTKK Br bk Aikshatr, 5!; tona. Cork. V K.. 77a fid. The previously repx.rted Br bk Lnrlie. S35 ton, gel 78 Od. Cork, Havre or Antwerp. Charter are tlrni. r. There are ouly two veaaela In port Muitalile for wheat disengaged; 77 6d waa r fuaed thi morning for an iron veaael to Cork, U.K.; 73a offered for a wooden veaael, Liverpool. CUlCAlh) KABIKTI. C'HiCaoo, June 11. Wheat fl 11 4 lulv. - P-rk JIG S74. Lard SID 77 H. Kiba is 22M'S- 25. Short Rib fs :ts. bCEvuouM'a r.:tauna aeroaTs. Lonbon, June II. Floating car-e Turn dearer. Cargoe on pasange Turn dearer. Good cargo red winter off eoaat. 4S. No. 2 red winter for shipment, it'.. No. 2 red winter for shipment preaent and follow ing month, 4'). EngliHb conntry market Firm. French country market Firm. Weather in England Show aigna of improving. Liverpool a-ot Firm. Liverpool red winter Per ctl, ft 7d 9a 5d. Liverpool No. 2 Per ctl, Hs 3d;47a d. Hie Tailes Turned. A Kansas City young man of respect ability has been ruined by a designing gill with whom he kopt company. She has a fascinating way, and was pretty in face and form, and her parents had fitted up a parlor where the blinds could lie pulled way down, and the light le reduced to the size of a gnat's eye. When lie called to see her he wanted to go home early, but she finally coaxed him to remain just an hour longer, and before ho went away made him promise to come back soon again. All the particulars are not known, bat it is certain that she finally accomplished his ruin, and a few evenings since she called at his apartments ' and left his child, no doubt giving utterance to a demonical laugh as she went out. The friends of the young man will hare the girl arrested, and her parents as accessory for they allowed her to walk and ride with him at all hours of the night, and found no objection to the frequency of his visits to the house, although they must have known about the capability of the parlor lamp in the matter of be ing turned down very low, and the ie culiarity of the blinds that they were al ways down when he was about. In short they made no attempt to save him and will sutler for it. Small Ghaut in Orchards. It not nnfreqnently happens tha wheat or oats are sown in the orchard. This, although censurable, is nevertheless often done. The stubble, after the grain is cnt, should the weather lie dry and warm, is capable of reilecting the heat to such an extent as to endanger the lives of the trees, especially if they lie young. To guard against this, the stubble should be plowed under just as soon as possible. By doing so the risk of injury from the reflection of heat is avoided, but the soil is in better condition to retain moisture, thereby causing the trees to make more rapid growth. Old orchards may be sown in oats for the purpose of being pastured down by hogs without any injurious ef fects, although we think that clover would answer the purpose better, as well as being a more prontable food for the animals. Pere Ilyaeintue has moved into his new chaiel in the itue d 'Arras, Paris. The event is described as follows: "At the eastern end of the church, in the rear of an elevated platform, the substi tute for a chancel, stands an altar, on which is placed a floriated crucifix, with the usual candelabra supiorting lighted tapers. Above the altar are crosses and ornamental designs, a bold Latin gilt cross surmounting the whole and nearly rising to the roof. Pere Hyacinthe cele brated mass vested in a chasuble of cloth aud gold, with embroidered cross. The service, including the responses and chants, was in the French language." Housekeepers will find that zincs may be secured with great economy of time and strength by either glycerine or creo sote mixed with a little diluted sulphuric aoid. Telephone Courtsb p. The Cleveland Press says: One of those telephonic blunders that frequent ly occur by the lines becoming "crossed" happened a few days ago. A young man in the employ of T fc Co.,whose place of business is not far from Water street, wished to speak to a yovjJJS lady who manipulates the keys at the tele phone exchange. He rang up the "Cen tral," when the following colloquy took place: "Wll what is it?" "Is there a young lady employed at the exchange by the name of Annie?" "Yes, sir." "I would like to spakvto her "You are speaking to Annie now; what is it? Who are yon." "I am Charlie W at T & Co.'s." Wll, what does Charlie W at T & Co.'s want?" "You are acquainted with Harvey W are you not?" "I am; but I am not acquainted with you though." "I know you're not. I'm a friend of Harvey, and he was speaking to me about you." "Oh, he was, was he? Didn't say any. thing bad about me I'm sure!" "Oh, no, quite the contrary. I met you last e veiling." "Did! where?" "On the square near Oaylord's store." "Yes; met a pretty good looking grl didn't you?" Indeed I did. Harvey wouldn't tell me your full name; only said, 'There goes Annie, that daily may be heard singing "What is it?" at the telephone exchange.' "Sensible Harvey." "What is your last name, Miss Annie?" "It isn't lasting for I intend to change it when I get a good chance." "Well then, tell me what your full name is, if it isn't too bold a question." "It's too bold." "Oh, is it?" "It is." "Oh come now." "I can't. I haven't my full name with me. I left it at home this morning when I came away." "Where is yonr home if I may in quire?" "Charles W." "Yes, ma'am." "I haven't given you to inquire." "Oh, that's so; please por mission ye tell me where you live just the same, won't you?" I have no home at present, but I'm waiting for one and a husband to be thrown in. Did you get my last?" A young man who is clerk in an office of the firm of II. & Co., on Superior street, and whose bell rang on account of the erowsi'iij of nrirs it th com mencement of the aforesaid dialogue, put the little ebony instrument to his car nnd took in the whole conversation, which had the effect of provoking him to smile, and thinking the teto-a-tete about ended, thought it about time for him to put in. He grutHy asked: "X & Co?" 'Well?" came back in feeble accents. "Don't you think that this thing has gone about far enough, sir? "Who are you?" "I am the superintendent of the tele phone, and it i hear any more of this nonsense, out goes the machine from T A- C's. office." Silence on the part of Charles. "Do you understand?" "Yes; but say, if you let it go this time, I firmly promise that hereafter I'll only talk business through the telephone. Please don't say anything to the firm about this, or I would get into trouble." "All right, I'll let it go this time, but avoid this telephonic courtiug in the future." Annie understood the whole thing; and now, when she calls no T. & Co. all she can get from Charley is, "well," "eh," "yes," or "no," and his messages are now as short as a farmer's blessing at dinner. A clerk connected with one of the courts in the cityf heard the story from the employe of H & Co. He conclu ded he would have a little fun with Charley; ho called up the exchange and enquired for T & Co., and got an an swer, when the following conversation took place: "Is that Charles W ?" "Yes, sir; go ahead." "I am clerk of the court; we have a warrant here for you." "What ! ! !" "A warrant here for you." "What for?" "Attempting to obtain goods by false pretenses." "Oh, no, there is some mistake what are the particulars?" "You are charged in the affidavit with an attempt to gain possession of the full name, by wire, of a young lady employed in the telephone exchange." Suap went the key, and the connec nection was cut off mucker than the head of a turkey at Thanksgiving. Umbrellas. The early umbrellas were small, with a very long handle. They were not used for walking, and consequently, instead of the ferule, had a ring at the top by which they were hung up. The stretch ers were pi cane, and the ribs of cane or whalebone. Instead of the present top notch and runner, both ribs and stretch ers were simply strung on a ring of wire, and the inequality of the friction, and the weakness of such an arrangement caused the umbrella to be always getting out of order. The ribs and stretchers sere jointed together very roughly by a pin passing through the rib, on which the forked end of the atretcher hinged. The first improvement in this respect was by Caney, an Englishman, in 1829, who invented a top-notch and runner in which each rib or stretcher has a sep arate hinge. The top-notch was made of a notched wheel or disc, into each slot of which an axis fixed on the top of the stretchers worked. The runner was made on a similar principle. At the point of the rib where the stretcher joined it, Caney fixed a middle bit, consisting of a small fork, in which the end of the stretcher was hinged This construction was much stronger, and the forked end of the stretchers were thus prevented from wearing out the cover as before. With modifications. more or les s important, this constiction is the same as that now in general use. The oiled silk of the first umbrella soon gave way to giughams, first of vari ous colors, then generally brown. The expense of lute string and silk prevented their lieing generally used. In 1851, Messrs. Sangster introduced iu the Knglish market a new fabric called alpaca, made from the wool of the Peruvian and Chilian sheep. This wore better than silk, being of coarser thread, and looked better than old cot ton or gingham, which is almost wholly superseded. The cheapness of silk somewhat lessened the demand for alpaca. In 1851," Fox's "paragon" frames were introduced. The great weight of the umbrella furniture had long been a stumbling-block to manufacturers. A Swiss watch-spring maker, named San guinede, had discovered a secret of tem pering steel, which gave it great strength and he had made some very light um brellas, but they were immensely dear. On his death the secret died with him, and Fox went to work to find a method which should combifle strength and lightness. After many trials in which he made his ribs and stretchers T shaped, tublar, and other forms, he was led by the construction of Meuai Bridge, to adopt the trough like shape in which the "paragon" ribs are made. This was decidedly the most important improve ment that had lieeu made in umbrella furniture since the employment of metal for ribs had lieen introduced by Holland in 1850, to superside the whalebone or cane of the older umbrellas. The light ness of the frame naturally permitted lighter material to be used for the cover. As far as regards the improvements in other parts of the umbrella they consist merely in siplifying either their shape, or the manner of their construction. The tips are now made in one piece with the rib, instead of lieing made of bone, japanned metal, or other material, and then fastened on. The long runners have given way to short ones, and the ferules are also much shorter than for merly. The older sticks were liko those used now for wagon umbrellas, straight, with a knob at the end. Brass tubes were once used, and a little later on. tnlies of japanned iron. To keep the umbrella closed, the old-fashioned way was a ring fastened to a string. A tape and button superseded this, and in its turn gave way to elastic. The Kentucky Mountain .Moses. A wonderful evangelist has Jjieen de veloped in the mountain regions of Southwestern Kentucky. Under his elo quence the stiff-necked moonshiner melt into a saint and the mountain marauder becomes as harmless as a hermit. lie prMch?s without uirncy cud wil'wat price. He trusts far alt he wants to the Power that sent supplies to his proph ets by the mouths of the ravens. When ho is to preach at any place couriers iy before him proclaiming the glad tidings, and beacon lire s light up the hill-tops at night announcing his coming. Crowds follow him from place to place as the lieople beyond the Jordan followed the herald of a new dispensation nineteen hundred years ago, and the townsmen of all the villages pour out by hundreds to hear this evangelist. Farmers leave their plows, merchants closo their stores, mechanics their shops, physicians desert their patients, and lawyers their briefs, while Courts and schools take a recess, that all mav attend these ministrations. Such, at least, is the account we have of the work and ways of the Kev. George "O. Barnes, through a correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Nor is Mr. Barnes a mau of the woods, unlet tered aud uneducated. The son of a Presbyterian minister, ho received the education which would qualify him for the pulpit. He is a sou of Danville College scientifically and of Princeton theologically, versid in Greek, Hebrew Sanscrit and other tongues. Duly or dained as a Presbyterian minister, he turned missionary, and spent six 3-ears in India. Broken in health, ho returned and took chargeof a Pi4K-byterian church at Stanford, where he preached model sermons, no doubt, for eight years. Then he withdrew, because he had out grown his creed and become so liberal as to bring upon him the censure of the Presbytery. So they parted company, he going out as he told his congregation, without a dollar in the world, but he didn't suffer. - The next heard of him is in Chicago, preaching with such acceptance that an old Stanford friend built a church there at a cost of $000, proposing to give it to Barnes, with a furnished residence, and the congregation backed it up with the offer of a salary of 84f00 a year. Few preachers without a dollar in the world would have declined, that offer, but Barnes did. Ho had been called, he said, to go to the mountains and preach to those who aro too poor to pay for the Gospel. He had had a new revelation, so to speak, and saw tho Bible and his duty in a true light. .This was about the licginuing of 187C. Purchasing a reed organ for his daugh ter, thev set out for tho mountains, she doing the singing, he the preaching and praying. Barnes joins iu tho singing, too, but his voice, so vibratory and mu sical in speaking, does not add to the harmony of the music. But that does not matter; and the people go to hear him preach, which he does indoors in winter, bnt out of doors in summer, to crowds of sometimes as many as 10,000 people. And they are no thirtr-minuto sermons either, but plump two hours and a half long, with a half hour for singing. Nor is it one sermon a week w ith him, but fourteen, or at the rate of sixty a month. But with all this nse of his voice, and he uses it in a way to wear it out, it never gets out of order. It is like his daugh ter's reed organ, which, with all its journeys over the mountains, never gets out of tune. God, he says, takes care of both voice and organ, and keeps up re pairs at no cost to preacher or singer. Mr. Barnes is described as 54 years of age, six feet two in height, slender and well-proportioned, a thin face, aquiline nose and dark hazel eyes which light np with astonishing brilliancy. Cincinnati Commercial. A Georgia girl who works in a factory saved enough money to buy her father a arm, and to erect buildings on it. KAUft kUD WHEAT. "Raa-ags!" Mue ragman stopped to rest Loiore a handsome dwelling. vait aiuuH w lit J our vita cam screamed the Irish maid, who was wash m: l .... .: - l i .i i" ing the windows. "Ye just scatter small-iox and yellow fever over the town wid yonr rags!" He took up the barrow and trundled on. Presently he come to a house before which a row of carriages was drawn up. "It's a wedding, no doubt," he said to little Maggy, his daughter, who ran along behide him. "Ila-agsl Now you'll see the flue ladies 'come out, Maggy." - "Move on! move on!" shouted the white-cloved netrro footman. "Clah de way dah!" Yokes moved on down tho broad sunny street. He was a little, dirty, wretched man; his cart and he were a leprous spot on the brightness. The stately houses. the waving trees, the balconied windows filled with roses, made his tilth and wretchedness more glaring than ever before. But he did not leave the street, for he bought the sight of them pleased Maggy. Family carriages were coming in from the park filled with white-capped bonnes and delicately ure.sea children. lliero were many baby-wagons going home ward ou the shady sidewalk, tho nurses chattering and the babies' faces peeping out from lace and silk. Maggy, who was wretchedly dressed, looked back at them. "I wish I was one of them children," she said, eagerly. "Come out of this street!" growled Yokes. In the dingy alley into which they plunged, a gang of wretched boys were torturing a dog. "You Joe!" shouted Yokes. Joe, a thin, hungry-looking boy of thirteen, came up to his fathor and walked beside him homeward. His clothes were patched, and his face dirty, but under the dirt Joe was not an ill looking fellow. He had a steady, honest eye, and a laughing mouth. "What are ye runnin' with them jail birds for?" said his father. "Got nothing else to do," said Joe whistling. Vokes trundled his barrow on in si lence, except for the dreary cry of "Bags!" Joe had told the truth what else was there for him to do ? There were dozens of boys in their alley without work boys who would have worked if work was to be fottnd. There was not a trade or any sort of labor in the great over crowded city in which a boy could find a place. ' Joe soon turned off and left his father and Maggy to make their way home alone. Vokes went oh without calling "Bags!" again. When he married he was a small shop keeper in a pretty country town. Then he thought he would move into the city and make his fortune, as other shrewd fellows had done. Instead of this, he had gone steadily downwards. In this year, with twenty thousand other men in Philadelphia, he found himself utterly without work or money, nnd was glad to go about and pick rags up from the gutters. He turned into a narrow, dark alley, then passed through a yard in which two starved cats were fighting over a bone, and went into a wretched tenement. The few rags were carried into a room and thrown into one corner, "I wish the rags did not have to come in here, John," said tho wife, feebly. But she said thattenty times every day.. She was a Scotchwoman I'.nd cleanly. But all her scrubbing would not keep the green mildew from the walls of tho damp house, nor tho dirt from the chil dren's faces and clothes, when they were forced to live as they did. She was holding a baby to her breast. It cried shrilly now and then. Its face was gray and pinched. Sho took it down presently. "There's nothitig for you, my lammie!" she said. "The child's sick with hunger, John." "I know it, Mary," said Vokes. He was sitting ou his barrow, his head in his hands. "What can I do? There's nothjn' left to pawn." looking at the straw-bed in one corner, the broken chairs, the pot and pan, in which noth ing had been cooked that day. "I'm hungry as baby," soblxHl Mag gie. Her mother put her arm alniut her. "It seems hard, John," sho said, "that we must starve when you and me and Joe is all willin' and able to work." "There's no work!" cried Vokes, vehemently. "There's no standinroom any more for a ioor man on God's earth!" Now Joe, hungry and angry, hail just reached the door as his father said these words. A sudden resolution made him turn and run out of the court. "There's one place where there's al ways rrom! And what's tho use for a boy to try to be honest when he's starv ing?" he muttered. An hour later he was standing in front of the house in which the wedding had taken place that afternoon. The wide hall door had accidentally been left open. He darted in. In the hall stood a rack, against which leaned some umbrellas and a gold-headed cane. Joe seized the latter. "Hoh, you young villain!" He was in the clutch of a giant of a footman, who carried him at arm's length, as if he had been an unpleasant bug, into the library. A white-hairod gentleman and a young girl sat by the lamp. They were pretending to read, but their wandering, dim eyes showed that they were thinking of the dear girl who had just left her home forever. "Hyar's this yonng thief been a stealin' your cane, sir!" exclaimed the footman (depositing Joe on the floor. Jndge Jeffreys was nervous and ex cited, and was glad of any diversion for his thoughts. "That boy! Stealing?" cried his daughter. "Impossible! Why, he isn't older than our Harry!" "So you were stealing my cane?" said the Judge. "Did you know you'd be caught and sent to Moyamen! ing?" 1 "Yes, sir, I expected them to catcl mo," said Joe, promptly. "And whrt on earth possessed you to do ft, then, poor child? cried Alias Jef freys. The pitying tone was more than Joe ould bear. , , "Because here's no stsjiding-room for the poor in this town but in jail!" ho cried fiercely. "That's why. There's lots goes in there this winter n-purpose to get their victuals and a lied," Judge Jeffreys started and looked at him. "There's a good deal of truth in that," ho thought. "Come here, boy, and tell ma something about yourself, and see that you sjieak tho ' truth. You need not call a policeman just yet, Simon." Joe told his father's story. The old gentleman rose and buttonod his coat. "I will go and look into the truth of this, Kmily," lio said., "I want koiuo thing to employ ray thoughts this even ing. . Ho returned lato in the evening. "It was all true," he said. "1 gave them food for to-night, and as for that matter of the cane, let it pass. Better to re move the lad from temptation than to throw him for months into tho cyinpau ship of thieves." "I have a plan, Kmily," lie said, after a pause. "ou know I thought of en ot ing a memorial window in the church in the memory of my brother. What if I should take the money and with it send this family to the West, there to begin lifo anew? Surely their happiness would give poor Edward more pleasure than any stained glass window, if he can look back and see how I am trying tJ do honor to his memory." This all happened four years ago, Last summer, Judge Jeffreys and his daughter made a journey to Kansas, and visited a little settlement where, as they said, they "had some good friends." These friends were named Yokes. They lived on a farm which they had pro-'emptcd and tilled. There were fields of waving corn, oats, wheat, pota toes, a young apple orchard. The gar den was fnll of red, luscious berries, vegetables, and a few dear, old-fashioned flowers, which Mrs. Vokes had loved when she was a girl. It was evening when the Judge drove up to the snug cottage, which was cov ered with grape-vines. A fat, pink cheeked girl ran out to m'i them,' while a sturdy young fellow just from the field, ami carrying a bundle of pitchforks on his shoulder, held open tho gate for them to enter. "Father, it is Joe! And there is Maggy!" cried Kmily. "What a roup fertable, pleasant homo! And there is Mrs. Vokes out milking. 1 will go straight to the barn-jar J." Hho hurried ' cnt tatbe. e where the tidv Scotchnm,., ,."., cheeks as rosy as little Maggy's, was be ginning to milk a motherly old cow. iit ir -sr w a o . at it .uiss jeiiroys, sno said, alter I no first surpriso and welcome were over, "your father has rescued a wholo family from ruin! There was no chance for us in tho city. There was nothing before the children but hunger and crime and death. Here we have hard work and health. We sleep soundly, wo eat heart ily, ami, thank God! we heve enough to eat, and some to give away. "Look at my husband standing there with your father. Do yon, sen how straight he holds himself? Ho was only a poor rag-picker in the city. Here ho is a farmer, as good as the best. .Jlc lias a chance to show what is in him. He is roBpcctcd as a citizen. Ho helped build the school. Tho children tiro all well taught. There is no reason why they should not be leading people iu their day. "They soe no crime such as used to crowd -us in when we livod in Pratt's alley. There's everything hero to inako them honest and God-fearinar. And in deed, Miss Jeffreys, a woman wants tier boy and girl to have the same chance as other children!" The happy womon talked on breath Icssly. "This is better than a memorial win dow in a flno church, papa," whispered Kmily to her father. "God only knows how much better," h said, reverently. Youth's Com panion. MmsaaaaM -! inisi .1 da i - y Yakes. Very pretty vases can be made from long-necked bottles as follows: Saturate candle wicking or string with kerosene, wrap it around tho bottle twice, and tie it, placing it where you want the neck of tha bottle brokan off. Liuht the wick all round, and in a few minutes a cracking noise will be heard, which tells you the bottle is severed in two, and will leave you an article shaped liko a tumbler. It is preferable to have them as long as possible, unless you .do siro more than one. If so, two tall ones and ono about two-thirds their size make a pretty set. Cut out bands of gold riaper and paste around near the top and lottoni, also a circle for the center. Or, if you desire, they can be painted any color and ornamented with gilt stars and embossed pictures, after the manner of decorating pottery. On the 24th of May, 1844, the first practical telegraphic message was for warded in this country from Washington to the Mount Clare Hailroad depot in Baltimore, a distance of 40 miles. The New York Commercial says that to-day "not less than 400,000 mites of lines and 15,000 offices are established in this i ST 1 i i I aft sa 1 I tlia f U " t t lA 1 1 aa 1 1 1 universe are being connected with each other by the electric current. A cable under the Pacific from the lxmlers of Asia to the western coast of the United States only remains to be placed iu posi tion to enable tho electrician to put a girdle of intelligence round the earth in less than forty minutes" soveral sec oods less than Puck, under the inspira tion of Shakespeare's extravagant imagination, ever dreamt of. . The truth cannot I burned, beheaded, or crucified. A lie ou the throne is a lie still, and truth in a' dungeon is truth still; and the lie on the throme is in the way to defeat, and the truth , in the dun ! geon Is on the way to victory. No aeci ! dents of petition can change the essential : nature of things, or the eternal laws I which determine their destinies, I I Win. McKinlej. "' . i d. j jfr -. i