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SOUTHERN ITEMS. interesting news compiiied . From many sources. " '" Virginia. - , - . -A wealthy Russian gentleman of rank has recently purchased a fine estate on the James river below Richmond. The buildings,of the Virginia Agricultural oilege at biacksburg are being put in thorough repair. 5 ,- . .. , Rev. James M. Darden, of Richmond, a venerable, minisier of the Methodist Epis copal Church South, was found dead in his chair. -. , ; ..... Hog cholera continues to rage in the northern part ot Accomac county, where , many person have lost all the hogs they had. . . ; '- . . . "John "R." Spotswood, grandson of the late Gov. Spotswood, died at his residence, in Orange county, in the ninetieth year of his age. ; r7 : ; - ... The barn of John W. Wenner, in Loudoun M county, was burned, together with thirteen horses and colts and a quantity of agriciuV tnral implements. - i "- a: C- At "WytbeTille- the '.trial ' of- Wayinan Sutton for the murder of Peters Harvel, closed with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. - ..- Building isgoinir on 'rapidly all over Newport Kewa-and there are about' fifty houses in course of constuction. Another story is to be added to the Hotel Warwick. ' - Governor Lee grant d a r.spite of thii ty ; days to T. A. Riaenour, who was eon video. ; .in the County Court of Jrtrederick of .murder in the first degree and sentenced to ba hanged - on the 30th day of March. . w; ; . A colored man named Patrick Ligon, coh- . finfvl in - -ijt.il fit; '"i?A..mvillA Vi . f hfLvincr lrillnrl Riortni-rl Tjinirclnw an 1Viorlih-J . man. in Prince Edward county, about five' years ago. - .. , . i "Vj - . .. : :r? - A youth named v Harry Rogers, in Ports-I moutn, roae ms bicycle against a screes car and had four ribs -and a shouldei -blade -broken, and was badly hurt internally. ; It I is thought he will die. . :. . ' i The ; wife and child; of Henry ..Williams, a colored farm hand on M. W. Armistead's farm at Pig Point, near Norfolk, fell in the fire. The child was burned to, death, and - the mother so badly injured that she cannot live. : .v, --j ;-; : i-; "-f.'-C v. M:- : Charles and William Winn, alias Charle J Wilson and . William Becker, were arrested . at the postoffce at Richmond,-information having been received by the authorities that the men are wanted :in western ; Jfew . York for robbing postofiices. r -:- S The Crump House, at Elk Run, in ' Fau quier county, was consumed, with all of its contents, by fire, and : the remains of Miss : Sallie Crump, who was over one hundred years of . age, were found burned in the . debris. . , - Adelina Lewis alias Hicks, a small negro T; girl of the age of eleven, was received at - the 7 penitentiary from Greensville "county V last week, to serve a term of one year lor ' voluntary criminal manslaughter. Adelina was employed in a family as nurse, and, it is alleged, poisoned ': a child that she was sup posed to take care of. -vy--?' A young man by the name of Hyde, from Bath county, had a hearing before United States Commissioner Gordon at Staunton on the charge of abstracting 75 cents from the '.money-drawer at 'Warm Springs postoffice. He was sent on to the grand jury forin-f- dictment and bailed in the sum of 000. "v It is believed .that, under the provisions of the Pedlers' License law, recently ass 3d by the legislature, a." manufacturer from any other state can a:ry on business i Virginia without a license, as the Supreme Court of the United Bta.es has decided in the casj of the Singer Sewing" Machine Compauy that no law can be constitutionally enacted d s criminating against citizens of sister states. According to the statement of tha railroad ' , officials charged with collecting statisticts in this state, there were 33 persons killed and 147 injured by accidents on the .Norfolk and -Western Railroad : 1 st year. The total number of deaths during the - year from - railroad accidents in the state was 90, and of persons injured 518, which: is a rather bad showing in the mangling business. ;- : Mr. John E; ; Doherty, a " . well-known r merchant tailor, of Richmond, died from aconite poisoning. He had been slightly - unwell, and picked up a bottle of liniment from the mantel, swallowing it instead of. some simple remedy which was in another bottle. The liniment had been used by his wife for rheumatism, and contained aconite, -chiorbf orm and laudanum. - The mistake - was not discovered until too late to relieve the sufferer..; ' f - Three colored men of Orange county, named John Coleman, Willis Duval ana Sawood - Lawson, crossed the Rapidan at Somerset ford into Culpeper county. On -their- return in the evening they found the stream' greatly - swollen- and the current swift, but getting a skiff proceeded to re cross. .When well out in the stream the skiff capsized, and the men being thrown into the icy water were' cramped and sank ' before succdfc arrived. 1.. ine announcement tnat tne lucnmona Danville Railroad Company have deter- miiiaa to carry tne general otsices or tnat company back from Richmond to Washing ton meets"with a great deal of opposition amon; Richmond business men, The com mercial bodies are talking of organizing a movement to thr6w much of the southern business now given to the - Richmond and Danville Road to the Atlantic Coast Line. It is estimated that at least one hundrtM thousand dollai-s' worth of traffic can an nually be ; diverted from " the company's lines. .- offending . " - -West Virginia. -. j Hoy wane a woolen iactory in ljewis ' county. , Randolph county claims a population of 30,000. - , '. . - They have organized a Boarcf of Trade at Harpei '& Ferry. j s The test well at Wellsburg, Brooke county, is now 2,(500 feet deep. ' - - ' TThere is a project on foot to build an ex tensive ironstone c ina pottery at New Cum berland. , - - 1 A bank with " $40,00 J capital will be in stituted at Ronceverte by leading citizens of that place, ' I" A colored man named Alexander Burke, of .Green rier White Sulphur Spriifgs, was - killed -a iew days ago by a land-sliie. n -Xy A two year old ' son of-Silas Hull, of An thony's .. cett, Irreenbrier. county, was - dangerously Jinjuredjby a fall, a few days ago. i'Z.-yy yryy: "v-j ?k ?-- A colored man was found on the railroad v track just below the tunnel at Fort Spring hoi ribly - mutilated by an eastern bound - freight .train. Upon investigation the re mains were identified r as those of Robert Stribbling, of Ronceverte. ; JHe had been en- ' ca!?l t o.te of the coal mints on Newriver, . . and i t is supposed was stealing a ride back home and fell off and was run over by the , rain. . ; . . -: :. . -. ":2rX, ' , J udge Stealey decided a novel point dur ing the last term of the Ritchie Circuit L'ourc. A felony case was being tried, end a - hild of one of the jury died. Judge Stealey permitted the juryman to go home, and another person was sworn on the jury in his . place. The counsel for the defense objected - to it, but the court overruled the objection, - and the case was proceeded with as usual. except that the: testimony was reheard for the benefit of the new member of the jury. At an early hour in the morning the peo ple of Clarksburg- were aroused by an alarm or nre," it was the property of Mrs. John Burns, a widow lady, quite aged, living all alone. A smell of burning flesh was noticed by persons app:oaching the house, and the : door waa hurriedly burst in. . The dead and - charred body of the old lady was lying near the grate, where she is supposed to have lali en from her chair, while sleeping; One arm was burnt off, and her body, showed that a terrible struggle had taken place to save her' life. Her .burning clothes vet the house on ,- fire. -' . csr . aV-"V-,';; Maryland.' '7''-' Montgomery B. McMillan was acquitted at Frederick of the murder of Philip Lemmert. -The Methodist ministers of Baltimore are opposed . to race ; discrimination - in State ': laW8 " . r:'ir'7 "'; v Aaron Davis and his son, George Davis, were fined at Frederick - for assaulting Willium Stouffer. - 71 tC'',:;' ' ' "? : - John Goddard was. cut about the throat and head at St. Mary 'a county, by a colored man with ft razor. 1 - - r t - ' - ... j j.. .- . . ,Trt?' 5J -" . -s..-.. Charles . Boseman was accidentally shot and killed by T. K. Conner in Revell's Neck, Somerset county. .. , ; - .,. ' , - Mr. A.Stirlinsr Pehnineton. assistant United States district attorney, died of pneumonia at his residence in Baltimore. . Merchants and business men of Baltimore, i the members of the City Council and . other , city officials, the hotel keepers and the public i generally, endorse the project for popular sub-1 scriptions to a permanent exposition bui Iding ' in tnat city;': j -.;-?.r I ! While the family of Mr. R.' Barnes, residing in Carroll county, a few miles from VV estmin ster, were absent a few days ago, their house, with all its contents, was destroyed - by fue. There is no clue to tne origin of tne-fire, and no insurance. ; ' C-Z ' Mary Gelser,a daughter of Anthony Geiser proprietor of a" saloa in. JbYedariCi city, took laudanum, if is said -with suicidal intent, goon after taking the drag she informed somt of. her friends ot what sne had done, and a prompt administration of remedies saved her Ufe. No special cause is assigned. John McNeill, a middle-aged man, who was taking a free rid between two-cars of a through freight train near Elktoh, was thrown on tne rails dv me motion ot me wain in starting, and his right ar, . j, V , m was badly crushed railroad company's near tne shoulder, 'iho ohvsician amputated the arm at the shoulder. The unfortunate man was taken to jail, and his recovery is considered doubtful. . ;c 4 I I.: North Carolina. . , Measles still continues as a prevailing epidemic in and around Wilmington. - Over -100,000 pounds of tobacco have been shipped from Germantown, ia Stokes county, this season. ,', ,'r"L' ;:' ' - - The silk factory at Wadesboro Is nearly completed and the machinery is daily ex pected. ; It will take but a s jort time to plaC 10 in position, wnen work, wm com- - - . -- - - - ;fmence" - --Hew discoveries ' have . just been made in the tin mines ot icings mountain. it is thought that much of the ore will essay ten per cent. - ' A commission has been issued to W. T. Pfohl, "of Salem, as general organizar and instructor of the Knights of Labor in North Carolina. : - ;. :V::, :.; : Mrs. Louis iWickly, a '.highly ' respectable old ; lady, resWing near Jonesboro, was burned, to death The house, with all its contents. a) consumed. Origin of the fire unknown.- j - ;"f -'u-'' The residencs ot J. Cr4l Harris, editor of the Raleigh Signal, situated near the western . suburbs, was totally destroyed by fire. The furniture was with much difficulty saved.: There was no insurance.; Loss ab ut $1,500 or $2,000. f . : - 'i";;;Ji:iv:-j-. t" Governor Scales has f orderel ', a special term of Harnett county superior . court for the trial of civil cas s only, to commence May 4th, and to continue one week. Judge : W. W. Shipp will presiae. 1 - " Dr. John M. Worth, former state treas urer; and brother-of Jonathan Worth, de ceased, ex-governor of North Carolina, is hopelessly ill: at his residence in Randolph county. - -J- -: J vf ::lfVi v y-rA::'.0-y';-zi: : The Fish, Game and Oyster fair at New oerne was formally opened, last week by Governor Scales. The attendance was large and the exhibition in all respects creditable. There were ten counties represented and much enthusiasm prevailed, y - : The report of the superintendent of public instruction shows that the last fiscal year closing November 30tb, 1SS7, $635,0(;0 was expended for education purposes in North Carolina, of which the colored people re ceived about 36 per cent. if. ; - r . Seven -road bveisaers w re reaently ar rested, in the county of Cumbarland for failure to report to the supervisors meeting in February as required by law. They were fined $7 each tho limit of the law and fail ing to pay were sent to jail for one day, from sunrise to sunset. , " ... A peculiar deposit which resembles : clay, but which when usoi becomes as hard as granite, has betn d scovered at the b S3 of liear uiountain near Tylersviile, in Alex ander county. Blocks have been taken out and used with success, being as bard as stone. It has , been proposed to use it for building purposes. j; ; . .2 - The commissioner of agriculture - has received a letter asking the co-operation of the department ia getting up a North Car olina exhibit for the exposition of the Ohio valley, and central sta es, which takes place in Cincinnati,1 July 4 October 27, next. The application will be probably favorably j considered if the pecuniary resources of the aepartmenb wiu jusuiy it- . 5 L : ; : The state superintendents of public in struction from the various southern states will m.efcat Morehead City, J una 20th and 21st, during the session of the teachers as sembly. . Letters have b.en already received from the superintendents of Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Texas, - Kentucky and South Carolina, all of whom express the heartiest approval of the meeting, and state that they will attend. RUINED i WITH VITRIOL. Frenzied; Father . Destroys " the Features of His Son's Mistress. Dr. G. M. Cox, Unitd States pension ex- aminor, at SpringQeld,: M04 induced Effij Ellis, the mistress of Fmton Cox, his son, to enter .a cfirriage with him, and when she was seated he struck her over the head with a bottle of vitriol, breaking the bottle and smearing her face and bead with the acid. ( Her screams attracted the attention of the t police, who released her from the frenzied -phvsiciah. but not untill he had burned out her handsome features with the dreadful acid, which had burned deep into the gashes maae dj me . oruiLeu giass. iuo bujijt ui woman is intense ana sne now lies at tne point cf death. ' f " ' -" " ' . . Fenton Cox met Effie at a' Wisconsin wa tering place last Summer and brought her to Springfield, since whieh - time he has pursued a course of debauchery and ruin. -The Doctor, by legal means, had broken up a variety shw which the b y had started with Effie us the leading lady-and drove her out of town,.but the boy followed her to.St. Louis and continued his reckless course. In six weeks he spent $2,500 on her and dis graced himself , in other r-waya Before meeting her he had been a promising lad and his sudden ruin distracted, his parents and drove his father to the commission of the terrible crime. ..i, : MARKETS. Ba.t,timorb Flour City Mills, extra, $3. 00 a$3.75; Wheat Southern Fultz, -88a93cte; Corn Southern White, 5oa57cts. Yellow, 55; -56 cts. ; Oats Southern and Penisylvania 38a40cts. ; Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania i 65a68cts. ; HayMaryland and Pennsylvania 14 50a$1600: Straw-Wheat,8.50a$9.00; Butter, Eastern Cresmery ,30 filets., near-by receipts 19a20cts : Cheese-Eastern Fancy Cream,T2K al3 cts. , Western,1 12al2 cts. ; Eggs 15al6 ; Cattle $3.00t5 00; Swine 6ia6)cts. ; Sheep : and Lamb 3a5Kcts; Tobacco ; Ijeaf Inferior, la$2.50, Good Common,3 50a 1 $4 50, Middling, 5a$7.00 Good to fine red, 7a$9 Fancy, 10a$12. : -:i x. s; . . Nb w York Flours-Southern Common to fair extra, 3.40a$4.00; Wheat No.l W hit ,1 WV ata klK itovnSLm I viiZJ isv2rTfrusVr Htoil two'il YeUqw, o4a55ctS. ; OatS White State, j S3aM cts. ; Butter State, 17a28 cts. ; Cheese--State, llalXets. ;.lgg8 loaio cts. - I x HiLADELiFniA JPiour fennsyivama. fancy, 3.50a$4;" w neat Pennsylvania " ani Southern Red, 90a91 cts; Rye-Pennsylvania: 57a58cts. ; Corn Southern Yellow, 53a54 cts. Oats 41a42 cts. ; Butter State, 28a30 cts. ; Cheese N. Y. Factory, llali cts.; Eggs State.. loalS cts. - DirinsjFor JMillfons." - Tho petiple of Welland, Ont., are much exr cited at present over the efforts of Dexter. Allwood, of that villlage, to secure a fortune by raking the muddy bottom of the Chippawa River. - ; ':-:-vv-:;:v . .During the war of 1812 some 500,000 in in gold was dropped overboard by a British paymaster who was hotl pursued by Yankee troops, and, it is alleged, has lain-there ever since, r Allwood heard the legend - from a grandson of the Britisherr and he , surprised the villagers by bringing on a diver who has been at work ever since. -;. No money has yet been broa.ht to the surface, but the magnet shows, it is said, the presence of metal, and the search to be continued. - j- " - - TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. ' The business failures throughout the coun try during the past week were 203. Ti: . ?- Sweet Rot, king of the Yuma- tribe,, was killed in a drunken row at Yuma, A T. j . :' Commissioner Atkins has ordered that all cuttmgof timber on the Wisconsin Indian reservations be stopped. ; -. ''-: :. . Smallpox and the blizzard drifts which prevent the runninsc of the pe3t house ambur lances are bothering New York City health officials..; j-iTSj--.- If.sA fh-s yn:-- -" CoL Charles Scranton, a leading business man of Belvidere, N. J., died from the effects ; of -injuries received by jumping from a mov- ing coal train a week ago. .. . . - . ' I At Charleston, S. C, Henry Henne shot a i man named Falkner through the mouth for abducting his mother and sister, and break ing up Henne's home. Falkner was not fatally hurt. $ri f -"S Jjxr:-1 The Morgan Lin railroad depot, the West , era Union Telegraph office, Jacques -Leh-i mann's oyster dspot and th barbsr shop ad joining, at Morgan City, Li., were burned. Loss, 150,000. - ' . ; , ' 1 - Fire in the warehouse back- of George F. ' JJrew ; uompany s mrawa ; awr&, . m wie heart'of the business quarter of Jacksonville, I Fla. a damage of about $5,000, fully covered by insurance. W. B., Tascott, the murderer of, Mr. Snell, the Chicago millionaire, has been at Boulder," Minn., within a day or two," but as soon, es he thought he was recognized he left and no trace of him can be found " : . ' . . - , At Vanceville, - Ga., two negroes engaged in a dispute. One of i them drew a revolver and fired at the other. He mist -his antago nist, but shot Boxey Davis, a young white: man through the head, killing him instantly. A party is scouring the woods in search of tne murderer. ' - - - 7 Fire destroyed Coogan Tfactory, at' the corner of Grand street. New York. , Bros.' furniture the Bowery and The firemen had great difficulty in . reaching the building on account of the snow drifts, but they suocee -ed before ; the flames -had spread to other structures and drowned tho fire out Loss, '$100,000. ; - ir.-j-S lU-if' r ' A disastrous wreck: occurred on ' the. New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railway. A west-bound fast express and an-east-bound passenger from Oil City collided on a curve in the lower yard at Meadeville, Pa. Engineer Festenton, of the express, was caught' in the wreck and ; had a leg -broken and was badly scalded by escaping steam. His fireman and the engineer and-fireman of the passenger train jumped. - Engineer Armstrong was badly hurt about the head. The tender telescoped the baggage car of, the passenger train, and the engines took fire. : . . Near Trunansburg, N. Y., Robert Barber, a farm hand, went to the home of Richard Mason, an old-man over 70, and, after 4eating him with a club, he attacked Mason's wife and beat her head into a shapeless mass. Barber then poured the contents of a lamp j over the couple, set the house on fire and fled. Mason managed to crawl from the building into a snow-drift, but his wife's body was burned to a cinder. The fire drew the neigh bors, and Mason told them of the crime. Five hundred farmers scoured the country, and be fore morning Barber was captured and is now in jail in Ithaca. Robbery is supposed to have been the motive. 1 J: -A vein of coal thirtv inches thick was struck at Hutchinson, Kan., at a depth - of 480 feet. i . - - 'The levees, fifteen miles below Shreveportv La.; broke Monday, and the country there about was flooded. I . i ' - I Cornelius A Runkle, a prominent lawyer of New York, was found dead in his bed at his horns, on Fifty-third street.- He was 60 years old. ; : :."?' !; ' - : r::C ; : Mrs. Wilham Dalton, wife of a ragpicker, was burned to death, with her four year-old daughter in a tenement-housa fire on South Clark street, Chicago. , c f 1 - : In the Law and Equity Court at Louisville, Judge Toney rendered an opinion which de clares the State acs authorizing the hiring of convict labor unconstitutional. . ; Frank Hopkins, aged 60, and Mrs. Emeline Whitney, his housekeeper, aged 70 years, were found dead near their house, in Putnam, Conn. They, had ; perished in last week's storm. .; -j 4 f 'fT-.X 1, W. S. Harris and Arthur Blake, escaped - from the jail at Savannah, Andrew County, -Mo..' Both were under sentence of death for t the murder of a boy named McDowell, aged fourteen years. :..;v ' A collisioh occurred on the Central Pacific, npar fliscn. f- Cal. . between freight trains. Engineer John Pickens was killed instantly. several others in jured . and four persons, are missing, and, it is feaied, are buried in the debris. , V i- ..:r;: Jeremiah Sullivan, a cabinet-maker, forty years old, was shot and killed at St: Louis, by a colored Jxy fifteen: years old, because he refused to give the murderer a chew, of to bacco. ; The boy escaped.' Sullivan leaves a wife and two children. Burglars visited the principal store at Varck, a village in Cherokee County, Kan., removed the bulk of the goods, boldly loaded them on half a dozen wagons and departed for the Indian Territory. They also broke open a railroad car and carted off its entire contents. f.v i . ' ; ; ' -- " - A fire at Amherst, Mass., destroyed a num ber of business houses. , The works of the Chemical paper Com pany at Holyoke, M iss., were burned. The New York and New Haven depot at Stanford, Conn., was destroved bv fire. j Thomas Moan, aged 53 years,' died in Phila delphia from the effect 6t a blow on the head inflicted' by his step-daughter, Mary Ann neaay, witn a stove plate. 1 he woman has been arrested, - 1 - . ' The employes of McClure & Co., coke oper ators, Scottsdale, Pa., struck on account of the refusal, of the hrm to grant a demand for a division of the work. ' The strike - affects nearly 2,000 men.' : The last rail f has beenT laid? and the last - spike on the Denver, Texas and Fort ' Road, at a point 20 miles south of Den ort worth Denver and 520 north of Fort Worth. Denver now has an air-line to Fort Worth,and thence through ex&3 to the Gulf of Mexico. : In New York Michael Sheehy, while drunk, brained bis wife with a poker. Frederick Schilling stabbed his wife in the abdomen with a butcher knife: and Frederick Caralin a worthless drunken fellow, haosed his mis tress's head to pieces with a hatchet, , : Mr. and Mrs. Charles Doyle, of Burling ton, I1L.J their two children and Mr. and Mrs. Adams, their boarders, ate head cheese for supper. ; They were all Doisoned. and Mr. (and Mrs. Adams and -the children are at the I Point of death. The cheese came from Chicago. ." :! ' : . j . U Brace JBros., laundry 1 proprietors, Pitts burgh Pa., have entered suit for $10,000 dam ages against P. W. Joyce, president of the. Trades' Assembly, lieorge Dover, ex-district master workman of the Knights of Labor, and 16 others for conspiracy to ruin their bus ness. by strike and boycott - . t: The relitives of Alden Merriam, of the firm of Ormsby & Merriam, of Chicago, who is missing, fear he has been murdered. - He h d in his possession several hundred dollars in money, a fine gold watch and chain and soma diamond jewelry. The police as well as the family think he was waylaid, murder--ed and his body disposed of. - : ; TRAGEDY i ON A: JUNK -BOAT. A" trairadv ia reported from ' Rioler. W.. I Va., on the Ohio River, about twenty 'miles pemw f arersourg. wpurm 1 ou a ju. r ooit Henson Willis and i his father-in-law, . - - whincrton Carter, nnarrfillod about. the sale of some rope, t which ended iiT Willis' flrins: seven balls into Carter's body. A number of women about the ; boat, one of I them the wife of the murderer and daughtat of bis victim, Am! wien the. shooting bosan. Seeing that he had killed his man, Willis took all tha money from the dead man's per son and fled into the country- back of ; the river, t All day a posse were after 1 him, and he is reported ' captured. He is a desperate character, and his wife says that two year ago.he killed a man ani woman and drowned them in the Ohio river, at Point Pleasant, in order to get their boat. ; - ; , . ' A Singular Explosion. , Mr. Garvpy, ; of the firm of Garvey- & Pollman, Toledo, Ohio, tinners, got an old nan with a bole in- it to solder 60 that he might use it to hold paint. : He was called away and gave the can to Jerry Hayesa boy eighteen years old, to : solder. - The boy went to work and an explosion followed, I lpwng the top of his head off. ; The can was empty , but is supposed . to have -contained nitro gl3'cerine.h No one can explain how ic came to the shop. -, - ' j - r., . A Legend of the Weeping Willow. Just where the path disappeared into the copse that skirted the great dark forest, where all day long the shadows hid, and out of which the night seemed to come as the sun went lown , a man came, bearing an armful of firewood. As he: jogged along he: caught a . pro truding twig and tossed it awav. Quickly a little slip of a girl, with sun kissed hair and eye3 Of divinest blue, ran and picked it up. 1 ' "May I have ; it ?5 she :asked of the man. - - ,- 1 "Ye may have 1 it without asking, if yell take the trouble to stoop for't," re , turned he. :; ' "I am going to. plant it," declared the imy maiden, lightly holding the twig .hetween her soft finger tips. - - "Whatll ye da that for?" said the man.:; "It will never grow." 1 " Oh; it will if I tend it, " confidently returned the lassie.- - With another look at the wind blown curls and the eyes like heaven, the man" went on - his way and the - wea - one . planted the twig. - - - - Every day she watered and tended and watched the little ; wisp, with-its slender; pointed leaves,;, of 'r delicate green hue and silvery lining. Day by day it grew larger 1 and sturdier, and swayed more gracefully in the summer ; wind ; and the little maid clapped her hands in her glee, air she cried, "1 knew it would grow. - ? : . -: ; - "Again and again the seasons came and went. Ihe castaway twig had grown into a beautiful tree. : : Ihe slip of a girl on the : verge of womanhood stood. Then it was v the hand of the death angel touched the lovely maiden, and chilled the warm life in her tender frame, and' put out tho light in her beautiful eyes. . - . . They made her grave beneath the tree she had planted and fostered, because she " had wished it, and mourned her long and deeply. .. ; . r But now the tree, they that had loved ; her noted, seemed ; to droop and" Ian-; guish, and on the breeze there came a sound as : if of sobbing and sighin g, which shook the tree through all it3 branches to its very core, and quivered .and trembled . in each pointed leaf. They said it seemed , almost as if thd insensate' thing grieved " like them seemed--for they held it could not be bo. " Still the tree languished, . until every upward turning branch with every twig hung down, and every leaf from its twig depended; and each' night and morning the dew dripped like a tear from each slender point and fell on the grave. - Then they said :- "The tree truly grieves for her." The Willow," : she had named it, and now -they called it "Weeping Willow." Happy Sours at Home. Of Firin Feeling. " A- conversation between a married man and a confirmed old bachelor: "Do you know that it is a most la mentablo -thing that you are not mar-' ried?" - -Why?" , " I :. "Because you are leading4 such a lonely, selfish life. Suppose some one . should ? be obliged ' to break into your ; room some morning and find you dead." "Well, it - might, hurt his feelings, ' but I'm sure it would not injure mine ; in the least. Bos ton Budget. - : - What is , often ; termed shyness is nothing more than refined sense, and an indifference to common . observa tions. -" . ", " h-X- -c" '-v:!?-. .:: -:':' : It is said that when Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, was asked why he read a San day newspaper, he answered : "I de sire to know how God ruled the world since yesterday-" ; . Thb idea of using axle grease on bread seems utterly repulsive to some people until they have tasted the fresh country butter sold at some of the West ern groceries. Nebraska Slate Jour naL The Experience f Airs. Peter." : " Mrs. Peters had Ills, . Mrs. Peters had chills, ' Mrs. Peters was sure she was going to die; - ,. Thev dosed her with pills, - . , . W ith powders and squills, With remedies wet, and with remedies dry. : Many medicines lured h r, But none of them cured her, : Their names and their number nobody could tell; . And she soon might have died, -- v But some "Pellets' were tried, - " That acted like magic, and th?-n she got well. . The magic "Pellets" were Dr. Pierce's Pleas ant Purgative Pelletts (the original Little Liver Pills). They cured Mrs. Peters, and now she wouldn't be without them. - A young woman wrapped up in herself is a delicate parcel, and it not infrequently happens that she is a pa ael?. ; Ladies are you interested in Fancy Work, Knitting, &a? if so, W. H. 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I saw how others in like condition had been eured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medi cal Discovery, and resolved to test its merits in ray own case., The results are so plane as hardly to require n bitstock or any owcrer-ment m favor of this grate remedy. It does awl it claims! it builds up the system, supports and strengthens where others fail." He adz: "Mr recovery, whi h is now on a sure foundation, hinges entirely on the compass of this wonder ful Restorative, having tried other remedies without a Wt of relief." - - .The right bo weir Home. Consumption Surely Cared.' v : - : To the Editor:. Please inform your- Teaders that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease." By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases hnve been permanently cured. I . shall be glad to send two Dottles of my remedy freb . to any of your readers : who have con sum ft ion if they will send me their Express and P. O. address. Respectfully, T. A SLOCUM.M.C.. 181 Pearl St. N. 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Nasal, Throat and Lung Diseases, which give much valuable in formation, viz : (1) A Treatise on Consumption, Laryngitis and Bronchitis ; price, post-paid, ten cents.- (2) A Treatise on Asthma, or Phthisic giving new and successful treatment; price, post paid, ten cents. (3) A Treatise on Chronic .Catarrh in the Head ; price, post-paid, two cents. - ; ? - : ' - - . Diseases of DlSESTIOH. "Dyspepsia, "Liver Complaint," Ob stinate Constipation, Chronic Diar rhea, Tape-worms, and kindred affections, are- among those chronic diseases in the suc cessful treatment of which our specialists have attained great success. Our Commeto -Treatise iron Diseases of the Digestive Organs will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps, - s " : ? . mm ,, - I - una. 'a uiscasKt, uianriiXiS; ana llnVFY ' I kindred maladies, have been very largely treated. had been pronounced beyond hope- - These dis eases are readily diagnosticated, or determined, by chemical : analysis of the . urine, without a personal examination of patients, who caii, therefore, fenerally be successfully treated, at their homes, he study and practice of chemical analysis and microscopical examination of the urine in our consideration of cases,- with reference to correct diagnosis, in which our institution long ago became famous, has naturally Jed to a very extensive practice in diseases of the urinary organs. : .- . - n 1 These diseases should be treated only by a special- GlUTinM 1 1st thoroughly familiar -with them, and who is com wauiimi. petent to ascertain the exact condition and stage or advancement wmcn (which can only be ascertained by a careful chemical and micro scopical examination of , the urine), for medicines which are curative in one stage or condition do positive injury in others. & Being in constant receipt of numerous inquiries for a complete vWork on the nature and curability of these maladies, written in a style- to be easily understood, we have published a large, illus trated Treatise on these diseases, which will be sent to any ad dress on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps. :. .v - I n I INFLAMMATION I bliCOER I 1 Diseases. Retention off Urine, and kindred affec tions, may be included among those in the cure I of which our specialists have achieved extrapr .-dinary success. These are fully treated orm our Pamphlet on Urinary Diseases. Sent by mail for 10 cts. in stamps. mmJ TRTCTXriSES AND CBINAKT FIS iiTC!nTI!?r ' I TBLAS.-Hundreds of cases of the worst form iHKSliTUrit., I of&resi many of them greatly aggravated I bv the carelera use of instruments in the hands lof inexperienced physicians and surgeons, causing false passages, ! urinMflSulffiand other complications, annually consult us for rSefwKrl: That no cise of this class is too difficult for the Dvnir.riirftlists is proved by cures reported m our illusr : trted trtisn thSe Troalaes. to which we refer with pride. ' To totru- tms class of cases to physicians of small experience, is a danolerous proceeding. 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The result is that all have been cured -of. scrofula, my little, boy being entirely free from sores, and a'l fonr of my children, look bright and healthy as possibly can be. I have found Hood's Sarsaparilla good, to.- catarrh." Wft B. Athebtok, Passaic City, N, J. 1 Sold by all druggists. $1 ; six for $3. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, 1-owelL Mast fOO Doses One Dollar B .V D 12 W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE. GENTLEMEN. The only due calf $3 SeamleM Shoe in the world made without tacks or nail. A.S stylish and durable as those cos:iiig $5 or $6, aud havinz no iacks or nails to wear the stocking or hart tie feet, mn.boj thp.m as comfortable ana well-fittiuir as a hand sewed shoo. Bay the best. None genuine un less stamped on bJtcom "W. L. Douglas $3 Shoe, warranted..' . . . - v W. Tj. DOCGI.A S 9 SHOE, the original and onlv ban i sewed welt $4 shoe, whioh equaj custom made shoei costing from $5 to $9. W. L. 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Many CHRONIC DISEASES 8nt - cessfully Treated xvttliout a ' Personal Consultation ;r : TyE obtain our knowledge of the patient's dis- :, ' ' ease by the application, to the practice of . medicine,' of well-established principles of modern science. "The most ample resources for treating lingering or chronic diseases, and thc greatest skill, are thus placed within the easy reach of invalids, however distant they may reside. ; Write . and describe your symptoms, inclosing- ten, "cents In stamps, and a complete treatise, on your par- ticular disease, will besent, you, with .pur 'pin- tolr; and curaWy. Epileptic; Convnlsions, or . Fits, Pa-. t ralysis, or Palsy toomotor Ataxia,---St. Vitns's Dauee, Insomnia, or inabihty . to sleep,- and threatened insanity. Nervous Debility and every variety of nervous affec tion, are treated Tsy our specialists for- these dis eases with unusual success. See numerous cases reported in our. different illustrated pamphlets on nervous diseases, any one or which will be sent for ten -cents in postage stamps, when request for them is accompanied with a statement of a case for consulta--tion, so that we may know which one pf our .Treatises to send..,. . We have a Special -department, ..aeyotea exclusively to the treatment of Diseases 'otir.i Women. Every case consulting our specialists,, whether' by letter or in person, is giver tho most careful and considerate attention. Im- .Mnt.cusHi'idiid wo -et few which ha-t'net-'t already baffled the skill of all the borne physicians) have the benefit offullOouncil of skilled specialists. , Kooms f or ladies in thff--Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute are very private. Send, tehntadn stomps for our' Complete Treatise on Diseases of -Wonnurtratedwithood-cu colored plates (ICOj-ages). . HEBNIA (Breach), or BVFTVITE, no matter of how long standing; or of what size, is promptly and permanently enred by: our speeialiets, witliont thff Ktaife and without dependence upon trusses. . Abundant references.' Send en. oenfc for ' Pirrs, FISTCIiJE, and other diseases affecting the Tower bowels, are treated with wonderful success. The worst xses of ilO tumors, are pennnueuu; v;ij.vv iukcu. n birtutj vi end ten cents for Illustrated Treatise. . - " wMVnfflL' npr?ou8 dpniltrv. nrpmntnrft debUity, the manly, powers, involuntary losses, memory, mental anxiety, absence of will-power, melancholy, weak back, and all affec tions arising from youthful indiscretions and per nicious, solitary practices, are speedily,, thoroughly and permanently cured. , . We, many years ago, established a Special Department for the treatment of these diseases, under the management of some of the most skillful physicians and surgeons on our Staff, in order that all who apply to us might receive all the advantages of a full Council of the most experienced specialists. - IITT?"' We offer no apology for devoting so much llE UFFEH attention, to this neglected class of diseases, ' . . beheving that no condition of humariity is . I ?l 1 Pfil T1 V t wretched to merit the sympathy and HU HfULbJi. ijest services of the noble profession to """ which we - belong. Why any medical man. intent on doing good and alleviating suffering, should shun such cases.' we cannot imagine. Why any one -should consider; it otherwise -than most honorable to cure the worst rases o these diseases, we cannot understand ; and yet of all the other maladies which afflict mankind there is probably none about which physicians in general practice know so httle. We shad,; : therefore, continue as heretofore,, to treat with our best con sideration, sympathy, and skill, all applicants who are Buffering , from any of these delicate diseases. " - . ' - -. . n.mm a-- Uf.r Most of these cases can be treated by us when UUhEu AT fiui.L. at a distance as well as if here in person.: -. ;.: -' A Complete Treatise 038 pages) on these delicate diseases sent sealed, in plain envelope, secure from observation, on receipt of only ten cents, in stamps, for postage- All statements; made and secrets confided to us will be held to lxjsacreR confidential. , All letters of inquiry, or of consultation, hould be. addressed to CISFEKSARY KECISiL Ass No. 663 Slain St BUFFALO, T. IT. ; J-
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