fc-lff5 ir y- J ; i f r t i -4- 't 1 K rHE BUGLE. . r am the French of Iaul Drroulede. The air is keen, the line Is long, The quick advance rings clear and strong, The Zouave column chants the prayer; The solemn -wood that crowns the hill Looks down and listens, silent, still And Prussians wait us there. Our bugle is a battle-bird, That din of many a. fight has heard Midst 6bot, and smoke, and fire, and flame. He flits and wheels with cheerful call, Xo rally round when comrades fall Brave bird no foe can tame 1 Another order! bark the tonel 'Oh, never bolder bird was known ! 'Ti6 "death or glory" once again; Your nreath of passion stire the soul, -ind courage rises to thecal, Where foes too long have lain. We charge at double, Ehout, and climb To where the bullets bide their time. ' Ah! now the Prussian sniders speak; Wc close in ranks and now the cry -Advance with bayonet, do or diel" Tfie wood Is gaincdby Zouave shriek. rush, a pause our bugle struck! moment only Zouave pluck Gives pluck to aught but death, Then, counding high 'mid strife and cheer, Oncottquered notes, aad always near, The bugle breathes its passion-breath. And tbough with breath the red blood flows, ifct blast on blast the bugle blows'1, Ills band clinched round with iron will; So rmts off death some paceb yet, nd pressing back each foeman met, The brave old bugle leads us still. Ah ! there upon the turf at last lie lies, but still the bugle-blast Rings shrill from blood-stained lips that press Disdaining, stretched on gory ground, Guarding bis bugle still the sound Wells forth, and urges none the less. And now, upon bis elbow leant, He sees the Zouave backward bent On ground where all his blood has ran, Then not till then the bugle stops; His task is done he bends he drops; Defeat in death death noblv won. JtOMAXCE OF A POCKET BOOK. I was just 25 when I met Alice Thome, the daughter and heiress of George Thome, the great banker. I fell desperately in love with the charming girl, knowing well that such love was utter madness. Her father was reported to be a very jroud, ambitious man, who would look nigh for a son-in-law. I felt that he vould not.so much as give a hearing to -.ivy suit; and as to winning her without his consent, what would that bring to her but misery? I had nothing with which to compensate her for the sacri fice of a marriage with ny poverty. So we bade good-by without a word of explanation, though I knew she read the anguish in my heart, and tears were in the soft eyes "averted from me. I kissed the trembling hand she placed in inine, and turned away and bade fare well to her and hope together. Scarcely had I got back to town and was striving earnestly to drown vain re gret in the bustle and interest of busi ness, when a terrible misfortune fell upon me. Mr. Overton had given me a check for $20,000, desiring me to go to the bank and get it cashed. Hariri" executed the commission and returned imagine my horror on discovering that the pocket-book containing the money was gone. Whether stolen by -villains or lost by ni- own carelessness, what mattered it? It w:is gone, and I was utterly ruined. "What I suffered during the next few liours God only knows; and when, after being ilismissed, I returned to my own room I was very nearly desperate; not only had I lost a lucrative position, but 1113' future appeared to be irretrievably blasted; for there are suspicions which are as fatal to a man morally as would be physically the wound of a rifle ball. Hut I was young and of a hopeful na ture, ai d I began to realize that I had oecn leniently dealt with. On recalling all that had happened after my leaving the bank, and the utter impossibility of the pocket-book beiug taken from the breast-pocket of my coat, I came to the conclusion that I must have dropped it, and thereupon I resolved to have re course to all means in my power to re cover the money. I had saved up during the last few years a considerable portion of my sal ary, and determined now to devote it to the purpose I had in veiw. I ad vertised daily in all the prominent jour nals, not offering the customary reward, 1 .in. viuviijuiii-; my uuiuriuiiaie posi tion, my honor lost, and my fortune blighted. For two weeks I kept my loss before the public, and had almost begun to despair of any favorable result, when, one morning, a stranger came to me a tall dark stern-looking man, who re garded me with a pair of kindly brown eyes, that had something familiar about them. The stranger declined the seat I of fered to him, and began at once speak ing brusquely and to the point. "I have heard of your loss," said he. "I have read your advertisement in the pa pers, and I feel deeply interested in and oryou. I have just left your late em jloyers, and, after the satisfactory man ler in which all my inquiries were an iwered, 1 became your surety for the 120,000." "What?" I sprung towards him in the wildest excitement. "Oh, sir!" I began, but he stopped me. "Let me finish," said he. "I've done this because I am convinced that you are an upright, honest man, and the great est proof of ny confidence lean give you is that I am about to offer you the posi tion of cashier in rny banking house. My name, sir, is George Thome." George Thome, the father of Alice, he girl that I loved! Ah, the mystery vas solved! It was of her his eyes re- ninded me; it was to her I was indebted or this help. Fifteen 3-ears had flown since the day l lot the pocket book. I had now be jonie a prosperous man, surrounded by all the luxuries which wealth affords. I had found in Mr. Thome more than a patron; I found a friend; under a brusque manner lie had a heart of gold. From the first day of our acquaintance he had evinced towards me the liveliest interest and affection. I was foon nuu'e partner, and when, on a ccrt.."n billed day, I became the husband f Alice, and his son-in-law,he presented me with a receipt for the $20,000 that he had paid to the Messrs. Overton for my loss. So time went on. The banking-house known af the firm of Thome & Wallace was in a thriving condition. I had a beautiful wife and two lovely children, and yet. with all these sources of happiness, I was not quite contented there was a crease in the rose leaf. For some time past I had been vainly trying to account for the extraordinary interest which my father-in-law had first taken in me, because I discovered, as I orew older, and saw more of this self ish, egotistical world, that very few such Onerous actions were performed without a motive, and the solution of this, to me, difficult problem frequently occupied my thoughts. At first I had attributed it all to Alice's influence, but I knew now that it had been as great a surprise to her as to inyself. About this time Dr. Ponard, one of Mr. Thome's most intimate friends, ar rived in New York, and one morning, while sitting at breakfast, expressed great surprise at the numerous adver tisements in the papers relating to money lost and found. "Well," said he, I have not the least sympathy for those who lose money. They are generally careless, stupid peo ple, not fit to be trusted; although I re member having heard of a youns man who lost a pocket book some years ago, containing $20,000, and I declare when I read his piteous appeals, which were in all the papers, my heart fairly ached for him. But," continued he addressing my father-in-law, who had become very pale, "you ought to remember the cir cumstances, for it occurred just at the time of the great failure in Philadel phia, by which you were so heavy a loser." "Yes, I recollect the affair." replied Mr. Thome, who appeared to be suffer ing. "I never heard," continued the doc tor, "what became of the poor devil; and yet I should like to know." "Should you," said I, laughing; "then let :ne gratify you curiosity, f, Arthur Wallace, am that poor devil, doctor; saved from ruin and despair by my ben efactor here." And then I related all the events of the last fifteen years. The doctor sprung to his feet and grasped his old friend's hand. "Well, and generously done!" said he; but Mr. Thorne interrupted him. "I am not well," he said, faintly. "I suffer greatly let me go to my room." The next day He sent for me to his private office. I found him looking pale and haggard. "bit down, my dear Arthur, said he, in a low voice, "and listen to me. For a long time I have had a confession to make to you one that weighs on me so heavily that I must ease my conscience of its load. I can better bear to do so now, that I have in a measure made some amends for the trouble I once caused you." "The trouble you caused me," I cried. "You have been the most generous of men to me. It is through your kindness I occupy my present position: it is to you I owe nry happiness, and more than all, my honor." Mr. Thorne opened his desk and took from it a pocket book. "Do you remember this?" said he, as he placed it in my hand. "Yes," I replied, "It is the one I lost; but how " I could not finish my 'sentence. The truth stared me in the face. I sprang to my feet in dismay. "Great heavens!" I cried; "3011 found the mone3T!" "Aye, and kept it," he groaned, with anguish in his voice. "But oh! do not condemn me without hearing me. Yes terday you heard Dr. Ponard allude to the great losses I had sustained b3 the failure in Philadelphia. I did not dare to make m' embarassments known, as that would have hastened m3' ruin m3T ruin! God knows it was not for m3'self that I cared, but for Alice, my darling child. It was on the 14th of December that you lost the money. Oh, I shall never forget the date. It was on that day that I meditated suicide. I was short of $20,000 to meet my liabilities, maturing on the 15th. 1 was over whelmed with despair; the air of the of fice seemed to stifle me, and I rushed in to the street. Ihadhardlygonetenyards when my foot struck something. It was your pocket-book. I opened it, and the sight turned me giddy and faint. Then commenced within my breast one of those moral struggles which,even to the conqueror is fearful, but in which, alas! I was miserably vanquished. The next da3T I satisfied all claims upon me. To the world I was George Thorne, an hon est, upright man; to myself I was noth ing better than a malefactor, You know the rest? Through my guilt you passed two weeks of indescribable anguish. I have since endeavored to make repara tion for the misery I caused; but I also suffered. Moral atonements are the most cruel, because they are eternal. I have known and yet feel the bitterness of expiation. Say, my son, can you for give my crime?" Could I forgive? I looked at the pal lid face, anguished eyes. What were my sufferings of those two terrible weeks compared to the secret pain and shame this man had borne for years? this man, the victim of one solitar3' deviation from rectitude, so upright in all else, and whose life since had been one long atonement. I grasped his hand, tears filled my eyes. "Father," I cried, "Alice's father and mine, all is forgiven, forgotten. Do I not owe all the happiness of my life to that same lost pocket-book?" A Sad Tragedy. The first tragedy of the new 3'ear in this county was, in other respects, a notable one. It occurred in the town of Otis, lnd.,at the close of New Year's eve. Henry Augustine, a 3oung man. went fiom Chicago to visit his relatives. Having tried in vain to make them drink poisoned whisky, he shot his aunt and then his uncle with a rovolver, so that they will (lie, then rushed down stairs -and shot one cousin dead and wounded another. From his fmstrated attempt to poison, from his manner of returning to his uncle's room and seeking admis sion on the plea of offering assistance, and from his untimely flying for his life from a room in which his wounded cousin detained him, there are grounds for concluding that his crimes were not so insane as they looked, and for credit ing the theory that he sought possession of a sum of money that he knew to be kept in the house. This tragedy is as manifold, as wild and horrible as the Goulding butcher', where a dissolute and moody son tried to slaughter a whole family in New York city some 3-ears ago. It is not an auspicious open ing in the criminal record for the 3'ear eighteen-eighty-one. ISO MORE CJOSSIP. Indianapolis Daily Sentinel. If we are correctly informed, St. Ja cobs Oil is now the usual tea-party topic in place of the former staple free gossip. How wise and how much more beneficial! A Sudden Change of Opinion. Rockland Courier. "Ah, that's what I like! that's what 1 like!" chirpedold Mr. Whistleblossom, as he came carefully down the hill where the boys were exercising their sleds. "If there's anything I really love it's too see the boys, full of animal spir its, enjo3ing these wintry sports." Ind just at that instant one hundred and fif ty pounds of animal spirits came dash ing down the hill on a double runner, and caught the unsuspecting Mr. Whis tleblossom between the heels. There was a sound of revelry bj- night, and when they picked up the unfortunate gentleman and had pinn d together the ruptured back of his coat, he remarked in a tone so gentle that it made him black in the face, that the city govern ment who would refuse to pass a law making it a reform-school crime to slide on the streets were" a set of pusil lanimous yahoos. Milwaukee Sentinel. That wondeful remedy for rheumatism, St. Jacobs Oil, has been used by a large number of people in this city, and with effect truly marvelous. Frequent re ports are made where sufferers have been afforded relief, and the sale is growing largely. The fact that it is an external remedy, commends it to many who would not otherwise think of going out of the beaten track to find a remedy. A good man is a prince of the Al mighty's creation. Actibns of the last age are like alma nacs of the last year. RaihraT Construction in 1880. An important article on railway con struction in 1880, the result of careful and extensive inquiry, appears in the Railway Age. It is learned that much of the information has been obtained di rectly fiom railway companies and rail way commissioners and other state offi cials. The footings, incomplete as they may be, are sufficiently astonishing, showing as they do, that not less than 7,207 miles of new track were laid dur ing the past twelve months, on at least 234 different lines. These figures are far greater than those for any year since 1871, and the mileage is more than 54 per cent greater than that built in 1879. No doubt the final figures will in crease it to at least 7,500 miles, which is a greater mileage than has been con structed in any previous year in the United States, or, of course, in any other country. The table shows that the work of con struction has been "prosecuted in forty two of the states and territories, the only state not included in the list beiDg Mississippi, and the only territories not given being Idaho, Wyoming, Indian territory from which railways, eager to enter, ore still forcibly kept out and ice-bound Alaska, which is at present beyond the reach even of the enterpris ing railway-builder. Work is now ac tively in progress in Idaho and Wyo ming, and another year will see large additions in these territories also, while the Indian country will doubtless be opened to several new enterprises. Referring to the summary it will be seen that Dakota leads the country with over 680 miles of new track, Texas com injr next with 659; Ohio with 525; the new territory of New Mexico with 519 miles; Iowa with 445; young Colorado with 401; Nebraska with 385; Illinois and Kansas with over 340 each, and so on, the new west beyond the Mississippi river contributing the greatest share of the additions for the year. It should also be borne in mind that the figures show only the track reported laid, and do not include the vast mileage upon which grading has been in progress.and which will be ironed in the comingyear. It is not unlikely that ten thousand miles of road will be added in 1881. Assuming the costof building and equip ping 7,207 miles here reported, it is found that the enormous sum of $72, 000,000 has been expended on these com pleted roads How much more has been spent in surveys and construction on other new lines it is impossible to say: The figures here given considerably ex ceed any estimate hitherto made, and are an astonishing exhibition of enter prise and faith on the part of the capi talists of the country. As a general thing, the roads have been built by mon ey furnished by non-residents of the states and territories whose facilities of transportation have been thus increas ed. The detailed statement of this con struction is SUMMARIZED AS FOLLOWS: Number of States and territories. lines. Mileage. Arkansas 4 70.00 Alabama 1 20.00 Arizona 1 20000 California 1 &00 Colorado 13 401.50 Connecticut 1 35.70 Dakota 13 6S0.S5 Delaware 1 1.00 Florida 2 26.00 Illinois. .... . l o4.uo Indiana 8 161.09 Iowa 19 445.30 Kansas 10 344.56 Kentucky 1 17.00 Louisiana 2 97.20 Maryland 2 41.11 Massachusetts 5 46.44 Michigan 10 2SS.75 Minnesota 6 119.66 Missouri 8 257.75 Montana territory 1 65 50 Nebraska 10 3S5.40 Nevada 2 6000 New Jersey 4 56.90 New Mexico 5 519.65 New York 3 41.34 North Carolina 3 42 00 Ohio 13 525.00 Oregon 4 206.50 Punnsylvania 16 205.75 Rhode Island 1 7.00 South Carolina 3 31.00 Tennessee 3 24.00 Texas 13 65S.80 Uvati .... o w.mv Vermont j 1 36.00 Virginia 4 247.00 Washinston territory 2 S1.00 West Virginia 2 2600 Wisconsin 15 235.84 Total 234 7,207.31 Origin of "Counter-Irritation." But few people now living are ac quainted with the theoretical idea of counter-irritation, which has been so much admired in the practice of medi cine. It had its origin in the following manner: A shoemaker living in Barns le3T, in Yorkshire, England, called in Dr. Fellows for advice. He gave a his tory of his case, summing it all up in these words: "In short, doctor, I can't stand sitting." "Then," replied the doctor, who was somewhat famous as a wit, "3'ou fool, WI13 don'tyou sit stand ing?" This so enraged the cobbler that he left the physician and sent in his bill for a pair of boots. The doctor paid the bill, gave a fresh order for another pair, anu soon gaine I the con fidence of his patient. Xearning that the cobbler lad vilified him, he deter mined to make him suffer. He pre pared a machine which by means of a fly-wheel threw forward and backward a board like a weaver's shuttle. Be neath this board were placed large peb bles. When the cobbler applied again for treatment for the nervous prostra tion with which he was suffering, he was strapped by the doctor to this board and the machine put in motion. The poor cobbler groaned in agony and suf fered as if upon the rack, but the doc tor put on all the power until the cob bler yelled for help. The next day the patient had so much improved that he applied for another trial of the machine. It effected a complete cure, and the doc tor became famous throughout York shire as a curer of nervous debility by his "counter-irritation machine," which was invented as a joke. London Fogs. Chambers1 Journal. Fifty years ago, when we first became acquainted with them, London fogs were bad enough; but they were on a comparatively limited scale. They have since attained marvelously grand di mensions and intensity, according to the increase of houses and population. What we ordinarily call London, but is more directly styled the metropolis, has spread and spread till it covers a space of about 120 square miles. In the win ter months every house has a coal fire, some of them two, three, or four, and there are numerous manufactories and public works with furnaces and tall chimneys, all of which less or more emit quantities of smoke. This smoke mingles with what fog there happens to be, and produces a curious mixture, that is now only beginning to be rightly understood. Like every other mist, the fog which rises and is wafted along the valle3' of the Thames is composed of small particles of water that ought properly to be dissipated by the sun's heat. Only with difficulty is the sun able to undertake the duty. The smoke poured out from hundreds of thousands of chimneys, does not merely mix with the fog; it coats each watery particle with a tarry, oily film, giving it an un natural character, and preserving it, so to speak, from immediate dispersion. A genuine London fog, therefore, is something more than a fog. It is a pro digiously large volume of mist, held in a kind of thralldom by oleaginous in gredients floated from the tops of chim neys. When we say oleaginous, we, for convenience, take trie readiest word to express a condition that would involve some chemical explanations which need not be gone into. Every one will un derstand that the smoke from the coal fires somewhat unites inextricably with the particles of mist, and keeps the whole thing hovering in a dense cloud over the metropolis. Not only so; the dinsjy cloud darkens and pollutes the air, fills the streets, and to a certain ex tent the houses and lungs of the inhab itants. On such occasions the dark ness, even at noon, is so great that dwellings and places of business have to be lit with gas as at night. As the London gas is more remarkable for- its volume than its purity, it aids in deteri orating the atmosphere during fogs, al ready sufficiently tainted with the ex halations of domestic sewage. At times it is as difficult to get a breath of fresh air as it is to procure a good drink of palatable water. TWO SENATORIAL HUSBANDS. Tlie Moral Warning In the Spragneand Chrlstlancy Cases. St. Louts Globe-Democrat. It was once the boast of the American that his superiority over the minions of the effete despotisms of Europe was shown in the more tender regard for woman, and his better treatment of her in all the relations of life, public and private. There can be no doubt that the claim was at one time well supported, and that respect for woman was an in stinct of American character and a feature in American life. Of late years, however, there has been reason to sus pect that the boast was rather a tradi tion of the past than a reality of the present, and two incidents of the past week are calculated to make us doubt that we are any better than our neigh bors. The telegraph has informed us that the detectives of Columbus, O., have recently been engaged in looking up the record of Mrs. Sprague during the period before her marriage when she reigned in social circles of Columbus as the daughter of Ohio's governor. It is no secret that the tongue of scandal had not spared Miss Chase's maiden reputation, but slanders which require the aid of detectives to exhume them after slumbering unremembered for twenty 3ears, might very well be allowed to slumber on. The other inci dent is the still more remarkable at tempt of ex-Senator and ex-Minister Christiancy to criminate his wife by the employment of an informer who has successfully reached the lowest depth of social and personal degradation. Mr. Sprague was once thought enough of a man to make a senator of, or a major general, or a governor. He is American by race as well as by his tory, and he is conscious of standing be fore the world conspicuously, not only by his greatness, but by his misfortunes. Yet his manhood is not shocked at all, nor does he feel that there is anything wrong in an attempt to degrade his wife, and the mother of his children, by raking the sewers of scandal for prof that she was an adul cress in the years before he married her. As it is a, part of the legal proceedings in which he is involved, we must infer that his law'ers approve of this line of defense, and the American detective goe3 into the work with an alacrity which protects him from any imputation of over tenderness for woman. There can hardly be two opinions about the manhood of people who would do this dirty work for hire, nor of those at whose bidding the dirty work is done. Yet it ma3T be doubted whether public opinion will give more than a passing thought to their busi ness. Base and incredible as this transac tion of Mr. Sprague's appears, it rises to a high moral level in comparison with the conduct of Mr. Christiancy in his attempt to defame his wife. He has found and used in his dirty proceedings a creature who, thank heaven, is not an American, compared to whom Pandarus of Troy was an honest gentleman a wretch whose like has hitherto been known to us 011I3 through the satires of Lucretius or the records of the lower empire. The use which was made of this convenient witness ia too degrading to describe to decent people, but it seems to have been accepted as a mat ter of course, and as quite an ordinary incident in the management of a divorce case. It is the most conspicuous in stance, but it is, unfortunately, not the only instance, in which accommodating law3ers have undertaken to manufac ture the evidence on which a divorce is to be obtained, but the prominence of the case brings us face to face with the question as to what is the standard of manhood in a country in which men easily commit such crimes. Instead of the proud boast that we honor and respect women, we hear the warning voices of those who tell us that we are a nation of hypocrites, and that the infection of immorality is as widely diffused in this free republic to day as it was in the Roman empire be fore its corruptions undermined its strength and invited its ruin. The truth perhaps will be found to lie between the two extremes, but such incidents as those which we have noticed, and such warnings as those we hear, prove that we are on the downward path, and that our material growth is accompanied b3' a moral deca3 If this is reall3' the sad truth, it is well that the truth should be known. If there is an ulcer eating out the social and moral life of the nation it can not be cured b3 painting over the sore and affecting not to notice it. If the lrypocrisy with which we are charged b3T our censors lies at the bottom of it, the hypocrisy which ignores it and re fuses to deal with it is niereby an aggra vation of the disease, and it would be well for all who have am care for this country to take warning by the signs of the times, and ask if that is not a false security which lulls us into the belief that we are better than our neighbors in our morals and our manhood. How They Cured Him. David Suing, in the Alliance, tells how a bride reformed her profane hus band. She invited her bridesmaids, four in number, to a quiet dinner. As they knew of the profane habits of the groom, and also knew of his good qualities that he was a man worth saving the3T entered gladly into the proposed comedy. The plan was that all these beautiful women should use profane words at the table, as the hot coffee or hot weather or slow servants might afford opportunit3. It was a bold plan, but it is said to have cured the wicked husband; for when his ele- fant wife applied a profane term to the iscuit, and a fair guest made a like remark of the coffee, and still another applied a profane expletive to the move ments of a servant, the husband abso lutely cried with remorse that he had ever himself used such an outrageous form of speech. Professor Swing thinks that "while such a cure cannot be justi fied, bacause it might kill th2 ladies without curing the masculine offender, yet the story itself may serve to show that man as an animal that swear is a mournful curiositv."' The first stage-coach in America com menced running between Boston and Providence in the year 1772, taking two days for the journey. Now we go over the same distance in an hour! Mrs. Partington Says Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they are regimental to the hu nan cistern ; put your trust in Hop Bitters, which will cure general dilapidation, costive habits and all comic dis eases. Thev saved rsaac from a severe attack of typhoid fever. They are the tie plus vmtm of medicines. Boston Globe. NATIONAL FINANCES. Comparative Statement of Receipts in 1879 and 18S0. ' COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS. The following comparative statement of receipts from customs, internal rev enue, and miscellaneous sources, during the years 1879 and 1880, has been pre pared at the treasury department: CUSTOMS. Six months ending June 30, 1S79. .$ 6S,5iS,439 She months ending June 30, 1SS0.. 101,621,659 Six months endinc Dec. 31, 1879.. 84,400,404 Six months ending Dec 31, 1SS0.. 9S,517,473 IXTERSAI. REVEXXJE. Six months ending June 30, 1879..$ 55,990,940 Six months ending June 30, 1SS0. . 63,312,718 Six months ending Die. 31, 1S79.. 60, 96,655 Six months ending Dec 31. 1SS0.. 67,927,747 MISCKT.T.AXEOPS." Six months ending June 30, 1879..$ 12,893,940 Six months ending June 30, 1SS0. . 12,406,631 Six months ending Dec 31, 1S79.. 10,5S8,541 Six months ending Dec 31, 1SS0.. 15,710,509 TOTAL. Six months ending June 30, 1S79. .$137,36S,399 Six months ending June 30, 1SS0.. 177,311,009 Six months ending Dec 31, 1879.. 156,185,601 Six months ending Dec 31, 1SS0.. 1S2,155,730 DADDT DOLLARS The distribution of standard silver dollars from United States mints during the month of December, amounted to Si, 807,491, while for the corresponding mouth in 1879 it reached $1,935,921. THE PUBLIC DEBT. Following is a statement of the public debt, Jan. 1, 1881. Six per cent bonds $202,266,550 Five oer cent bonds... 469,651,050 Four and one-half per cent bonds 250,000,000 Four per cent bonds... 738l0,400 Refunding certificates 927,400 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,672,265,400 Matured debt $ 11,4S4,395 Legal tenders 346,741,761 Certificates of deposit 7,005,000 Fractional currency ($1,552,346 lessam't estimated as lost or destroyed $3,375,934) 7,147,530 Gold and silver certifi cates 52,241,010 Total without inte rest $ 431,135,301 Total debt $2,099,8S5,096 Total interest 21,590,379 Cash in treasury 222,299,739 Debt less catfi in treasury 1,899,181,735 Decrease during De cember 5,699,430 Decrease since June 30, 1SS0 42,990,559 Current liabilities Interest due and un paid $ 2,20S,833 Debt on which interest has ceased 11,4S4,395 Interest thereon 856,8S5 Gold and silver certifi cates 52,241,010 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of de posit 7,005,000 Cash balance available Jan. 1, 1SS1 148,503,615 Total 222,299,739 Available Assets Cash in treasury $222,299,739 Bonds issued to Pacific Railwa3' com panies, interest pa3able in 'lawful money: Principal outstanding $64,623,312 Interest accrued an'fnot yet paid. . 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States 47,5S9,S61 Interest repaid b3 the companies: By transportation service $14,052,447 By cash payments, 5 per cent earn ings 655,193 Balance of interest paid by United States 32,8S2,214 Adventures With a Water Spout. Toward the close of the war, says Major Everson, it became necessar3 on account of the lack of capacity in the general hospital for confederates which was located on the extremit3 of the point to place man3r of the sick prisoners in seven large frame buildings erected for that purpose within the pen. A startling event connected with those buildings is in order of record here. It was just after the dawn of da3' when I strolled out of m3r quarters on the mar gin of the ba3r to find relief in the sea air from the oppressiveness of an unus ually sultiy night. It was at oncejjevi dent from the peculiar atmosphere and death-like, indescribable stillness that something out of the usual routine was near at hand. Soon there was heard a rumbling, roaring and hissing sound. Looking across the Potomac about eight miles distant, the cause, in' an alarming shape, was discovered in a huge water spout attached to a large, angr3' cyclone, in form like the placing of the nozzles of two funnels together. It was making its wa3 from the Virgin ia shore diagonally toward the prison enclosure. About a mile out was anchored the three turreted monitor Roanoke, one of the largest in the service the frigate of that name razeed and canying an armament of one fifteen-inch and two eleven-inch guns. On came the mon ster of wind and water, presenting an appearance never to be forge tten, the hideous seething increasing as it ad vanced. The destruction of the Roan oke appeared to be inevitable; lier fate hung, as it were, in the balance, when a curl of smoke was seen to puff out from the centre and largest turret. The fiiteen-inch shell shattered the water spout, and the huge water spout, like a liberated baloon, shot upward, with lightning rapidity high into the heav ens. Then, with equal velocit3', it plunged downward, striking and wreck ing tne large commissary building near the river, and canying everything be fore it at the dock as if it were as much chaff in a September gale, including sentry boxes, in which one soldier was killed and two others mangled by being buried man3' rods distant. Mounting in the air again in less time than it takes to record it, the c3'clone descend ed, to all appearances, squareby down among the hospital buildings in the prison camp. B3 a singular freak, and fortunateby, it struck the only building of the seven which was not occupied by the sick, and which was used for the storing of clothing and other materials. This the C3clone carried out in the ba3' in the twinkling of an eye, so to speak, taking it as clean to the ground, sills and flooring, as if the boards and tim bers had been sawed off. Neither were there seen of it afterward board or other article. This escape from a frightful disaster was almost miraculous, and the degree of readiness with which the closely and long-confined prisoners viewed their es cape as an interposition of divine provi dence, may readily be excused. Nearest Approach to the Angelic. New York Ledger. "Girl" is a word that suggests ideas of elegance and grace, joiqedto simplic ity, innocence ar.d truth, all embodied in that class of human beings which make the nearest approach to the an gelic. The pure young girl knows no evil, and therefore she does none. Untouched by earty experiences she is perfectly happy and the truly happy are always good. Affection remains in 'her as a treas ure 3et to brought into full use. As yet, she onby spends a small share of her heart's wealth upon all the objects around her. She loves as a daughter and sister may do. Every morning and evening she comes to her parents and sisters with a pure iss; nor, when some cheerful brother returns from college or fronx counting house to enliven home for a'Jirief space, is the same salutation wanting to assure him of the continu ance cwher most sweet regards. It isyaot for her external accomplishments-chough these are considerable that 3-1 value this fair specimen of humanity. You appreciate her for her beauty, which nature could never have conferred if it had not been intended as a reverence compelling gift for her gentle and artless nature so well en shrined in that form of native and win ning grace and because, by dwelling on the contemplation of such a being your estimation of your kind is elevated; a gratification of itself, and one of the highest order. Only a Dog. Detroit Free Press. We were all crying, every one of us. Father declared that it was smoke thai fot into his eyes and made them smart; ut mother threw her apron over her head and sat rocking and sobbing for ten minutes. Phoebe and I just threw ourselves down on the floor by poor Leo, and I took his dear old shagg3' head in my lap and the hot tears dropped one by one; and Phoebe petted his poor old stiff ears and smoothed his thin gray hairs; and then we took off the old brass collar that was marked all over with hieroglyphics that we scratched with pins in the proud da3s when first he wore it; then we cried again, and just then in walked 'Squire Toots, and he didn't seem to know what to do when he saw us all so distressed; he looked at us then at Leo; then he took out his handkerchief and gave his nose a real Sunday-school blowing, and said kind of huskily "Why, it's wicked to feel s' bad. Any body'd spose it wasapusson; 'taint only a dog I" That just made us feel worse! There wasn't any heaven for him to go to, and we knew we never would see him again, and we couldn't remember any life without Leo, we were such little tots when he came to us, and he had been one of the faniuy all the time. Father used to lecture him just as he did us children. "Where did I see you to-day, sir?" he would sa3; "over at Mr. Mason's associating with that dog that steals? Shame?" And then Leo would whine, and pretty soon father would say, "Go to bed, sir!" and he'd sneak off to his box in the back shed and lie awake all night to protect us while we slept, and he never once in over fourteen years was forgetful of his trust and he was "only a dog." Only a dog! Why, was there ever a time that we went racing home from school that Leo hadn't met us half-way to race with us and do all sorts of fun n3' tricks at our bidding? And how proud we had always been of him with his handsome, stateby presence and su perior manners, and how safe we felt to hear his deep chested bark as we went to sleep! Well, death had found him, sure enough, and'we buried him out in the grove in a little hollow, where he loved to lie on hot summer days, and there will be no resurrection for him, though there will be for the vilest thief he kept from our door; but none the less, in looking oVer his honest, blameless life, in which he was never faithless to anj-, even the smallest trust, I dare appby to him the Master's meed of praise, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant;" though, as 'Squire Toots said, "he was onby a dog." An Odd Test of Ownership. Hawklnsvllle (Ga.) Dispatch. Two young men at Hawkinsville set tled the ownership of a double barrel gun in a novel wa3, the other night. The gun was Avon at a raffle the two 3oung men being joint owners in the chance that won it. One of the men proposed that the3" should go down to the river at a shallow point and wade into it, and the one that waded the farthest or held out the longest should take the gun. The water was freezing cold, and the margin of the stream was lined with ice and the icicles were pen dant from every limb, from every bush. Partly divesting themselves of their clothing the3" entered the water and waded out. One of them went until the water reached his armpits, but his companion went a little further, and was allowed to come out and take the sun. When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressace and Carriage Hire, and stop at Grand Union Hotel, near ly opposite Grand Central Depot. 350 elegant rooms, reduced to $1 and upwards per day. Elev Uor. Restaurant t uppliett with the best. Horse Cars, Stages and Elevated Railroad to all Depots. Lyon's neel Stiffeners keep boots and shoes straight. Sold bv shoe and hardware dealers. BMlHHIIBHHBaHHBl I D STOMACH 8ITTEBS Xo Time Should be Xioat If the Btomacb. liver and bowels are affected, to adopt thesure rem dy, no9tetter's Stomach Bitters. Diseases of the organs named beget others far more serious, and a delay is therefore hazardous. Dyspep sia, liver complaint, chills an., fever, early rheum atic twlnsres. t Idney weakness, brine serious bodily trouble if trifled with. Lose no time in usln- this effective, safe and lonp known m dlclne. For sile by all Druggists and Dealers generally. PERMANENTLY CURES KIDNEY DISEASES. LIVER COMPLAINTS, Constipation and Piles. Dr. H. H. Clark, South Hero. Vt, sayr, "To eases of Kidney Troubles it has acted like a br . It has cured many Tery bad casea of Piits- uhas nerer'faUed to act efficiently." Kelson Falrchlld, of St. Albans, Tt, says, "It Is mfte-riTMr fmm Pfl find CrtiTenS9 it com Hr.-o-v. . age, has done wondenLf or main completely cur ing a severe liver and Kidney Complaint.0 IT HAS WBfVQ WONDERFUL Will I POWER. mh Because it acts on the LIVES, BOWELS and KJD5ETS at the same time. Xecause it cleanses the system of the polsoa. oca n-umois that develope in. Kidney and TJrl nary Diseases, Bfllcrasaeaa, Jaundice, Consti pation.Klea, or In Rheumatism, Neuralgia Nervous Disorders and Female Complaints. rarltlswitupln Drr VecetaWe Form. In tin cans, one package of which makes six quarts of medicine. Also In Liquid Form very Con centrated for those that cannot readily pre pare it. t3-It acta with equal efficiency In either form. GET IT AT THE DRUGGISTS. PRICE, $1.00 TTELLS, KICHAKDSOX & CO., Prop's, krwm send the dry post-paid.) BCTtUXGTO, TT. H " CELEBRATED f More People Die from diseased Kidneys than of consumption, but not one fatal case in a thousand would oc cur if "Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure was taken in time. By all means ay it. An Esormoc3 Traffic. Pittsburgh boasts that 849,746 bottles of Carboiixe have been sold within the last six months. Thi3 shows that there-it army of bald heads ill soon be reduced to a corporal's guard. Terrible JLoss oi'JLlle. Millions of nits, mice, cats, bed-buss, roach es lose their lives by collision with "Rough on Rats." Sold by drnggist3. 15c boxes. Read the "Weekly Death List of Consump tion, and leam how manv die of neglected coughs and colds that Hale's Honey of Hore hocnd and Tar would have cured. Pike's Toothache drops core in one minute. Ltdia E. Pixkham'3 Vegetable Compound has done thousands of women more good than the medicine of many doctors. It Is a positive cure for all female complaints. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham. Keep on hand Reddiug's Russia Salve. 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U certain and speedy cure for colds, A coughs, croup, asthma, whoop U lng cough, bronchitis, hoarse- ne. Influenza. Incipient consumption, and an dis eases of the throat and lungs 50c per bottle. Jf Arnica Liniment Is the best U external remedy that can bt l used f or Cuts, Bruises, Sprain. U Rheumatism, Etc urn FOR THE HAIR A reliable restora- tlve and perfect halr-o.essmg'. Free the head from dandruff, and cures all diseases of the scalp. Munufuctured by C. T. &0ODMJLJT, Whole- aale Drajrglst Omaha, 3Teb., aad Bold b all Retail Hrnarzlat. W. N. UM Omaha. 36 When writing to advertisers please say you saw the advertisement in this paper. . CONSTSPATICfll AND PILES. regained. Get It of your Druggist, Price, II. Drugg Frws, r a XV I aaSy tje.Zm-Mk. T VTBS".ka tWssrBBaVBBaBalV BBBSa YaB. GOD W EW BOOB MM WELLS, RICHARDSON Je CO., stBH?liaztaa, VU