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THE HERALD. t A f f ? T PUBLISHED EVERT TITUKSDAT PLATTSMOUTH,"" NEBRASKA. On Main Street, between 4th and 8th, Second Story. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COtTfTV. Term, in Advance: One copy, on yer Otic copy, nix month. One copy, three months.. .12-00 . 1.00 . .50 SKA -BIR;-A.LEI). J. A. MACMUEPHY, Editor. PERSEVEHAXCE CONQUERS." TERMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME X. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1871. NUMBER 11. THE HERALD. ADVKIlTISrva KATES. trice. I rtiuaru.. 8 squares. V column i column. 1 w. S w. a w. 1 1 in. 1 3 m. 1 8 m. 1 yr. $1 00 f 1 Ml fa 00 ft VI f3 00 H0(l $13 09 ii wii a Oil! a 7r, a n no io oni in m a mi i T.i 4 mi 4 si n mi n inn ti ir 5 ID) H 0l 10 (Ml U on 'JO 01) m On I 83 00 - n on is (ni is im in on as on 40 no w on 1 column. 1!) (X) 1H (HI 00 26 HI 40 0(1 Ml 00 WO 0(1 tfT All Advertising hills duo qnarterly. iff Transient dvertlenicnui must be paid for hi advance. Extra copies of the II thai. n for tale -by II. J. Strcljrht. at the Potomre, and O. F. Juhnaon, cor ner of Allu and Fifth elrect. HENRY BCECK, DEALER IN !EYt x it i t uu? e5 SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, BTC., ETC., ETC.. Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. "Wooden Coflins Of all ei.t-F, ready-made, and uold cheap for each. With many thank for pant patronage, I invite all to call and examine my LARGE STOCK OF Xiifiiit iiro iiikI OollliiM. MEDICINES J. H. BUTTERY'S, On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth. Wholesale ai.J Retail Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, etc., etc. HrriiKSCllIITIoNS carefally compounded at all hour, day and nifrtit. 35-ly J. W. SHANNON'S Feed, Sale and Livery STAPTiE, Main Street, FMattsmouth, Neb. I am prepared to accommodate the public with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, AND A No. I Hearse, On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms. A HACK Will Run to the Steamboat Land ing, Depot, and all parts of the City, when Desired. janl-lf First National Bank Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SUCCESSOR TO Toollo, IIiiiuiii fc Clark. .T"HN KlTZiiKRAI.D , K. ii. I l IV ICY Iohi K. Clark T. W. JiVA.N President. Vice-I'n-oident. Caxhier. Assistant Cashier. Thii Bank n now open for bn"incs at their new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre pared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks. Bonds. Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN. Available in any part of the Uuited States and in all the Principal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED MAN LINE ani ALLAH LINE OF TILrY3XIiIK-. l'cron wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can FCKCHASK TICKETS PROM C9 rriroiift-li t X'luttfiiiioittli. Excelsior Barber Shop. T. O. BOONE, Main Street, opposite Brooks House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO CITTIG CIllLIHtEVS HAIR Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon In a Hj IE 3NT SZ n41-ly OO TO THE Tost Office Book Store, H. J. STEEIGHT, Proprietor, for Tom Boot's, stationery, Pictures, Music, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels. Song Books, etc., etc. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Condensed from Telegrams of iecompanjin Dates. r TOST OFFICE BUILDING, 8-1' PLATTSMOUTH, SEB. Monday, June 22. The strike in York shire, England, in which ten thousand miner were engaged, lists been ended by the acceptance of the ultimatum pro. posed by the masters, which was reduction of Vi4 V'T cent, in tliu rate of withes.... Iu the Sea of Marmora a Turkish vessel was recently run into by an Egyptian vessel, and of the 340 jM'rsons on lurd :M0 were drowned. The crisis in the French Assembly has Insert ended by the Ministry agreeing 'lo extend for two years the operation of the present Municipal law-, attended no us to pro vide that the 'nomination of Mayors should be made ny the Government A few weeks. t? a German family named tiiess, In Toledo, Ohio, ate of partially-cwoked sausage, and since then the mother and one child have died and another child was in c precarious condition. A microscopic cxanii nation of portions of flesh taken from the lungs, limbs and other parts of Mrs. Eiless' body revealed the fact that the whole system awurmcd w ith trichina. In lumps of flesh no larger than a pin -head were found from fifteen to twenty of the encysted parasites. It supposed that Mr. Eilcss' life was iwcd by the violent purging and vomiting which he underwent the next day after eating tn me sausage. ....cany on me morning of the 21st, as the last forms of the New Orleans Bulletin were being conveyed to the press-room, they were seized by the .Metropolitan ponce ana locked up in a po lice station. The paper subsequently ap- jeared with nix printed and two blank pages. Much excitement was created by this proceed ing on the part of the authorities. The editor of the Ji'illftin Bays the seizure was made without warrant or legal process, and for hav ing opposed the alleged robberies and In famies of the Kellogg-Durcll administration Tuksday, June 23. The committee of the Agricultural Union of Leamington, En gland, have voted an appropriation of ?5,000 to take a parly of the locked-out farm hands of that district to Canada and the United States The Porte of Turkey has prohibited the circulation of the Bible in his dominions The bill for the distribution of the Geneva award provides for the appoint. nient of a court of live commissioners, to be appointed by the President, with the advice of thv Senate, and the sessions of the court to be held in "Wash ington. The President may designate a counsclor-nt-law to represeut the in terests of the Government in all suits and claims for indemnity for losses. The court shall exist for one year from the time of convening, but if the business is not completed within that time the President may by proclamation extend the term not more than six months.... The Prcsidcut has signed the new Currency bill passed by Congress. AVkdneday, June 24. Congress lias adjourned airw dir. . . .By the provisions of the rostolncc Appropriation bill as passed by Congress the prepayment of postage on news pajxTS shall commence Jan. 1, 1875, and the rate of postage on newspapers shall be two cents per ound on weekly and daily news papers and three cenU per pound on all pub lications less fi-equent than weekly. The postage on public documents is fixed at ten cents jer volume President Grant on the 23d sent to the Sen ate the names of Alexander It. Shepherd, late Governor of the District of Columbia; Will iam A. Denison, of Ohio, cx-Postinaster-Gen-cral, and Henry T. Blow, of Missouri, formerly member of Congress from that State, and afterward Minister to Brazil, as a Commission to govern the District until the new form of government shall have been prepared and adopted. The Senate was in session about two hours and a half on these nominations, the debate being altogether con fined to that of Shepherd, Senators freely and strongly expressing themselves against it, while there were but few defenders. Finally the nomination was laid upon the table by a vote of 30 against 0. The other two nomina tions were confirmed without a divis ion. The President subsequently sent in the name of A. G. Cattell, ex United States Senator from New Jersey, who was eon firmed According to the official records of the National Grange there were in the United States on the 1st of June 19.4W2 subordinate Granges At Syracuse, N. Y., on the evening of the 'iUl, a strawberry festival was being held at the parlors of the Central Baptist Church, w hen, w ithout any premoni tion, the floor gave way, precipitating the room-full into the story below. The parlor was on the second floor, and the i-oom underneath was also full of people. Thirteen or fourteen were killed and about two hundred injured, many of them danger ously The Maine Democratic State Con vention has nominated Joseph A. Titcomb for Governor by acclamation. Resolutions were adopted favoring the early resumption of specie payments; declaring for free trade; condemning the recent course of the Re publican majority or the United States Senate in attempting to establish a censor ship of the press of the country at the Na tional capital; denouncing the Republican party for interference with the government of the several States, and the course of the Re publican Congress on the subject of civil-service reform The Secretary of the State Grange of Wisconsin reported on the 21st that the numlH-r of Granges in the State was 4S1, w ith an aggregate membership of TS5,.TO0 A few evenings ago a Mr. Largen, who re sided near Monroeville, Ind., attempted to till a kerosene lamp while it was burning, when the oil in the can ignited, and a terrific ex plosion followed, severely burning him around the arms and breast, and three of his children aged eight, si.v and four years, who were standing near, were so severely burned that they all have since died A decision has been recently rendered by the Su preme Court of Wisconsin which recog nizes the fact that the Legislature had the right to repeal a clause of the charter of the West Wisconsin Railway exempting certain lands from taxation. The friends of recent Wisconsin railway legislation claim that an application of the principles enunciated in that decision will end all doubts that may have been entertained as to the constitution ality of the Potter law. Thursday, June 23. Marshal Concha has decided to build a series of fortifications extending across Spain, so located as to con fine the Carlists within a small area destitute of the means of sustenance The French Government has issued an order prohibiting the distribution of photographs of the Prince Imperial. Three of the Parisian newt-papers have been fined for reprinting Kochcfort's speech.... The Carlists have captured Bell mount.... The resignation of Postmaster-Gen. Creswell is announced. The position has been tendered to Hon. Eugene Ilalc, of Maine. The Prohibitionists of New York State have nominated Myron S. Clark for Governor, Horace V. Howland for Judge of the Court of Appeals, Daniel Wulford for Canal Com missioner, and Ira Bell for State Prison Inspector Another Wisconsin railroad agent, M. Kane, of the Chicago fc Northwestern Railroad, at the Insane Hospital station, has been tried, convicted and fined fifty doUars and costs for illegal -charges The corner-stone of the new Government Custom House and Post- office building in Chicago was laid on the 24th (St John's Day), amid Impressive cere monies, under the suspires of the Mason rc fraternity. A large number of strangers wtre in the city, and many different organizations were present and joiued In the proceedings. Friday, June 26. The postal conven tion between France and the United States has been ratified by the French Assembly. . The distress in India, in consequence of the famine is reiorted on the decrease. -.i Lyman K. Bass, member of Congress from the Thirty-first New York Pi&trict, who was appointed and tonfirmed as Assistant Secretary )f the Treasury, has declined to ?ccpt that position The Rhode Island Legislature has adjourned till January without choosing a Uuited States Senator. The last ballot resulted as follows: Burnsidc, 42; Dixon, 20; Bars tow, 19; scat tering, 1ft.... Hon. Henry L. Dttwes, of Massa chusetts, has written a letter declln ing a renominatiou for Congress, ...The Vermont Democratic Sttc Convention, held at Montpelier on the 25th, Dominated for Governor, Hon. W. II. II. Bingham; Lieuten ant-Governor, Henry Chase; Treasurer, Otis Chamberlin. Resolutions were adopted rc newing devotion to the Democratic party; fa voring the reiHjul of the prohibitory law and adoption of a stringent license law, and hail ing with Joy the prospect of the early com pletion of the Caugbnawajra -Canal, as bene fieial alike to the fanner, manufacturer, producer and consumer.... A convention called by tho Oshkosh (Wis.) Board of Trade to consider the necessity of prompt action on the part of Congress in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Riv ers met in that place on the 24th, and was well attended. Col. C. D. Robinson, of Green Bay, was chosen President, with A. J. Turner, of Portage, and Curtis Reed, of Menasha, as Secretaries. A series of resolutions was adopted urging the importance and necessity of the proposed improvement of said rivers, A letter was read from Gov.- Taylor, stating that the objects of the convention had his hearty approval.... The following is the offi cial vote of Oregon for the candidates named: Congressman Ladow, Democrat, J,042; Will iams, Republican, 0,340; Davenport, Inde pendent, C,350. . . .It is said the West Wiscon sin Railroad Company has issued orders for trains not to stop at Hammond, Wis., be n use the agent or the company there had beeu fined for selling tickets at a greater rate than allowed by the State law. . .At Lincoln, Neb., a few evenings ago, Elvina Blazier, a young woman nineteen years of age, attempt ed to light the fire with the aid of oil. The can burst, throwing the contents over her, the flames enveloping her IhkIv. Her mother ran to the rescue and was sevcrelly burned on the hands and arms. The young.woman was fearfully burned, and died the next morning. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. June 26, 1874. Cotton. Middling upland, 16H'17c. Live Stock. Beef Cattle lll.OU-13.00. Hogs Dressed, $7.62! i'ftT.Tj. Sheep Live $4.3 6.ri0. Breadstuff. Flonr Good to choice, $6.30 (5.80; - white wheat extra, $G.8OS7.10. Wheat No. 2 Chicago, $1.431.43; Iowa spring, $1.43 (51.41; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.4.-11.47. Rye Western and State, $1.070.1.12. Barley $1.50 55. Corn Mixed Western afloat, 81&Sic. Oats New Western, BKsjiiS'-ic. Provisions. Pork New Mess, $18.00 18.12S- Lard ll',(&llc. Wool. Common to extra, 4568c. CHICAGO. Live Stock. Beeves Choice. $6.00(56.30; good. $5.7153-85; medium. $4.75!j5.50; butchers' tock, $3.75yg.5.00; stock cattle, $.VAy;4.5. Hogs Live, $5.60(56.00. Sheep Good to choice. $4.2.7&5.00. Provisions. Butter Choice, l!tt.21c. Eggs- Fresh, l-2t(&3c. Pork New Mess, $17.25 17.30. Lard $10.85(11.00. BaKADsTcrrs. Flour White Winter Extra, $.2T,.0O; spring extra, $5.12" J'Sti.OO. Wheat Spring, No. 2, $1.194l-30. Corn No. 2. 605 (Tl-eic. Oats No. 2, 45f.46c. Kye No. 2, M'iPiKic. Barley No. 2. $1,203,1-23. Wool. Tnb-washed, 4.Y553C.; fleece, washed. 40((c41c. ; fleece, unwashed, 3fj33c.; pulled f!,3!c. Limber. First clear, $50.0055.00; second clear, $17.0049.00; Common Boards, $11.00 .00; Fencing, $11.00Cr 12.00; "A" Shingles, $3.255,3.50; Lath, $2.25St,2..37V. CINCINNATI. Breadstiffs. Flour $6.10tTr.6.25. $1.26. Corn 6365c. Kye 90c. 50c. Barley $1.40(g.l.45. Provisions. Pork $17.87Vi18.00, (&.11UC. ST. LOUIS. Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $5.00 .as. nogs Live, s-i.MX&d.bo. Bkeadstuffs. Flour, XX Fall, $5.005.50. Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.301.32. Corn No. 2, 60!i(j-61c. Oats No. 2, 4849c. Rye No. 2 980c. Barley $1.40(?tl.45. Provisions. fork Mess, $18.12!i 18.23. Lard 10HH!ic. -MILWAUKEE. BnEADsTfFFS. Flour Spring XX. $5.7O5.90. Wheat Spring, No. 1, $1.271.28; No. 2, $1.21 25. Corn No. 2, 61614c. Oats No. 2,45 i'je. Rye, No. 1, 8485c. Barley No. 2, $1.30 &1.35. DETROIT. Breadstuff. Wheat Extra, Corn 6061c. Oats 520 54c. TOLEDO. Brkadstuffs. Wheat Amber 31V4; No. 2 Red, $1.281.30. 6566c. Oats 0Sf.55c. CLEVELAND. Breadstuff. Wheat No. 1 .33; No. 2 Bed, $1.28l-29. Oats 5355c. BUFFALO. Live Stock. Beeves $5.236.75. Hogs- Live, $5.756.20. Sheep Live, $1.505.00. - EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock. Beeve Best, $6.12'46.62'4, medium, $5.756.00. Hogs Yorkers. $5.S 90; Philadelphia, $fl.206.30. Sheep Best, $5.255.50; good, $4.755X0. Wheat Oats 18 Lard 10! J $1.521.55!4. Mich., $1.31 Corn Mixed, Red. $1.32 Corn 7072c. FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Saturday, June 20. Senate. Resolu tions were passed to print 6.000 extra copies of the report of the Select Committee on Transpor tation Routes to the Seaboard, and 5.000 copies of the report of the Commissioner of Education: House joint resolution to purchase the watch n re sented to Lafayette by George Washington, and authorizing the restoration thereof to tho heirs of Lafavette.... Several bills on the calendar unob jected to were passed The Sundry Civil Appro priation hiu was taken np, and several amend ments were agreed to. among which was the striking out of the section abolishing the Civil Service Commission and substituting therefor a provision restoring the Commission and innrn- priating $50,000 for the expenses thereof... Sev eral bills were reported favorably from committees and placed on the calendar A message was re ceived from the President recommending an In crease of the rate of interest on the bonds in which it is proposed to fund the debt of the Dis trict of Columbia, which message was referred to the Investigating Committee The Judiciary Committee made a report adverse to the granting of the petition of Susan 15. Anthony for the re mission of the fine imposed upon her in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York A messaire was received from the House refusing to agree to the report of the Conference Committee on the Indian Appro priation bill, and asking a new conference, which was granted. Hovtc. A resolution continuing the Committee on Arkansas Affairs during the vaca tion was agreed to The conference report on the currency bill was taken np, and after con siderahie personal debate was agreed to 221 to 40 The conference report on the Indian Ap propriation bill was rejected veas 67, navs 147 and a new conference was asked Tor The Presi dent's message relating to the District of Colum bia bonds was received and subsequently reported on by the Joint Investigating Committee, the opinion of the committee remaining unchanged as to the propriety of fixing the interest on the bonds at the low retr of a.fig A bill was passed to amend the Gold-Bank law so as to allow the circulation of gold notes to be 90 per cent- instead of 80 per cent, of the par value of the bonds deposited The Judiciary Committee reported a resolution for the Impeachment of Judge Busteed, of Alabama At the evening session a rote was taken on the Supplementary Civil Rights bill and resulted yeas 140, nays 91. ' There not being two thirds in its favor, as required by the order tinder Which the business on the Speaker's table was taked np. the bill wSs hCl passed, but still re mained on the Speaker's table The report of thd second Conference Committee on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to Adjourned. Monday, June 22. Seiiatf. The Tariff bill was amended and passed, and a Conference Committee was subsequently appointed on tht amendments, and their report at the evebing ses sion was agreed to. ... The conference report on th Postoftlce Appropriation bill was rejected ahd A rnW committee w appointed The conference report on the (ieueva Award hill was agreed to. ...The Honse bill granting the rigni oi way io me Arkansas alley Railway Company was passed A Conference Commit tee was ordered and appointed on the Senate amendments to the Snndry Civil Appropriation bill A resolution of the House extending the session of Congress until four o'clock p. ill. OH tho Ski was agreed to. -Home. Several of the Senate amend- hie tits to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill were non-concurred In, and a Conference Commit tee was appointed The conference report on the Geneva Award bill was sgreodto...ilhe Sen ate amendment to the Tariff bill were non-concurred in and referred to a Conference Committee A concurrent resolntion was adopted extend ing the session until four p. m. on the 2:id Sen ate bills on the Speaker's table were disposed of as follows: To prevent hazing at the Naval Academy; passed. To set apart a portion of Mackmac Island, Mich-, as a national uurk: laid on the table. To exempt military bounty land- warrants and lands obtained thereby from sale or execution; referred. For the better organization of the United States District Courts in Louisiana; lull on tne laoie. Tuesday, June 23. Senate. A message was received from the House announcing the non-concurrence of that body in the report of the Conference Committee on the Tariff bill, and ask ing a new conference. A motion to postpone the bill till next December was agreed to. ...Among the bills passed were: House bill authorizing and reqmring issuance of patent for certain lands in Scott County, Mo.; House hill to extend the time for completing entries of Osage Indian lands in Kansas; in relation to courts and judicial officers in the Territory of Utah, with amend ments: providing for the sale of Kansas Indian lands in Kansas to actual settlers and for the dis position of the proceeds of the sale; House bill to confirm the agreement made witu the Shoshone Indians, Eastern band, for the purchase of a portion of the reservation in voming Ter ritory The bills pending for the admission of Colorado and New Mexico into the Union were laid aside, objection being made to their consideration The report of the Conference Committee on the Sundry Civil Ap propriation bill was agreed to A committee appointed for that purpose reported that they had notitied the President that Congress was about to adjourn, and that he had no further communica tion to send in. ...A resolution was adopted ten dering thanks to Senator Carpenter for the court esy arid ability with which he had presided over the deliberations or the Senate, and after a few appropriate remarks the prenidiug officer (Car penter) declared the Senate adjourned ti die. Home. Conference reports on th nrers, designated depositories and National Bunk depositories of the United States, who rhall be kpt informed by the Comptroller of the Cur rency of such associations as -hall fail to return circulation as required, to assort and return to the Treasurer for redemption the notes of such asso ciations as shall come into their hands until the amount required shall be redeemed, and in like manner to assort and return to the Trcnrv for redemption the notes of such National Hunks as have failed or gone into voluntary liquidation, for the purpose of winding up the affairs of such as shall hereafter so fail or go into liquidation. Sec. 9. That from and after the passnso of this act it shall be lawful for the Comptroller of the Currency, and he is hereby ordered, to issue or culatinir notes without delay, as application therefor are made, not to exceed the sum of $53.0ii0.oi K), to associations organized, or to be or ganised. In those Htates and Territories haviug less than their proportion of circulation under au apportionment made on tho basis of population and of wealth as shown hv the returns of the censux of 1870, and every association hereafter organized shall be suhiec.t to and be lroverued hv the rules. restrictions and limitations, and possess the rights, privileges and franchises, now or hereafte to he Dresrrlhen hv law to national banking as social Ions. with the same power to amend, alter and repeal provided ly the National Bank act: 1'roridfd. That the whole amonut of circulation withdrawn and redeemed from the banks transacting business shall not exceed $.V.0tMl, and that such circulation shall be withdrawn and redeemed as shall he necessary to supply the cir culation-nrevionslv issued to the hanks in those States having less'than their apportionment: Ami prorvlrd, further. That not more than $:M mo.tiOO snail ne witnarawn ana reneemeu, as uerem con templated, during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1875. The title of the bill is amended to read as follows: "An act to fix the amount of United States notes, provide for the redistribution of the a tional Bank currency, and for other purposes." TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. River and Harbor, the Postoffice and the Sundry Civil Appropriation bills were agreed to Senate amendments to the House bill in relation to courts and judicial officers in Utah were con curred in Bills were passed Senate bill toex- tend the time for the redemption of certain lauds for direct taxes ; House bill, with Senate amend ments, extending the time for completing the entry of the Osage Indian lands in Kansas; Seuate bill authorizing the Commit tees on Appropriations of both houses to meet during the recess of Congress to make inquiry into the machinery by which reforms cau be made in the expenditures of the civil branches of the service After announcement by a commit tee that the President had no further communi cation to make to Congress, the Speaker pro nounced the first session of the rorty-third Con gress adjourned nine die. The Currency Bill. The following is the full text of the new finance bill whicu finally passea both houses of Congress and w as signed by the President on the 22d: Section 1. The act entitled "An act to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge o United States bonds, and to provide for the cir culation and redemption thereof,"' approved June 3. m. shall be hereafter kuown as the National Rank act. Sec. 2. That Section 31 of the National Bank act he so amended that the several associations therein provided for shall not hereafter be re quired to keep on hand any amount of money whatever by reason of the amount of their respec tive circulations; but the moneys required bv said section to be kept at all times on band shall be determined hv the amount of deposits in all respects as provided for in the suid section. Sec. 3. That every association organized or to be organized nnder"the provisions of the said act, and of the several acts amendatory thereof, shall at all times keen and have on deposit in the Treasury of the L nited States, in lawful money of the I'nited Stat-s. a sum equal to 5 per centum of its circulation, to be held and nsed for the re demption of such circulation, which sum shall be counted as a part of its lawful reserve, as pro vided in Sec. 2 of this act : and when the circulat ing notes of any such association, assorted or un assorted, shall be presented for redemption in sums of $1.0)10 or any multiple thereof to the Treasurer of the United States, the same shall be redeemed in United States notes. All notes so redeemed shall be charged bvthe Treasurerof the United States to the respective associations issu ing the same, and he shall notify them severally on the first dav of each mouth or ottener, at his discretion, of the amount of such redemptions; and whenever such redemptions of any associa tion shall amount to the sum of $500 such asso ciation so notified shall forthwith deposit with the Treasurer of the United States notes equal to the amount of its circulating notes so redeemed; and all notes of National Banks worn, defaced, mutilated, or otherwise unfit for circulation shall. when received by any Assistant Treasurer,' or at any designated depository of the United States, be'forwardcd to the Treasurerof the United States for redemption, as provided herein ; and when such redemptions have been so reimbursed the circulating notes so redeemed shall be forwarded to the respective associations by which they were issued; hut if any such notes are worn, mutilated, defaced, or rendered otherwise unfit for use, they shall be forwarded to the Comp troller of the Currency and destroyed and re placed as now provided bylaw: Provided. That each of said associations shall reimburse to the Treasury the charges for transportation and the costs for assorting such notes, and the associa tions hereafter organized shall also generally re imburse to the Treasury the cost of engraving such plates as shall be ordered by each associa tion respectively, and the amount assessed upon each association shall be in proportion to the cir culation redeemed, aud be charged to the fund on deposit with the Treasurer: Adlrovidel.further, That so much of Sec. 32 of said National Bank act recognizing or permitting the redemption of its circulating notes elsewhere thairat its own coun ter, except as provided lor In this section, is hereby repealed. Sec. 4. That anv association organized nnder this act or any of the acts to which this is an amendment, desiring to withdraw its circulating notes, in whole or in part. may. npon the deposit of lawful money with the Treasurer of the United Mates in sums or not less than Ss.OUU. take np the bonds which said association has on deposit with the Treasurer for the security of such circu lating notes, which bonds shall be assigned to the banks in the manner specified in the nine teenth section of the National Bank act. aud tha outstanding notes of said association to an amount equal to the legal-tender notes deposited shall be redeemed at the Treasury of the I nited States aud destroyed as now provided bv law: Prodded. That the amount of the bonds on deposit for circulation shall not be reduced below $50,000. sec. 5. That the Comptroller or the currency shall, under such rules aud regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, cause the charter number of the association to be printed upon all National Bank notes which may be nereatter issued by mm. bec. 6. That the amount or the United States notes outstanding and to be issued as a part of the circulating medium shall not exceed the sum of $:)2.000,000, which said sum shall appear in each monthly statement of the public debt, and no part thereof shall be held or used as a reserve. Sec. 7. That so much of the act entitled "An act to provide for the redemption of the 3 per centum temporary loan certificates, and ror an increase or National Bank notes'' as provided that o r.irrn- lation shall be withdrawn under the provisions of cec. o oi rnia aci unui alter me xi.ui .uu pranr- ed in Sec 1 of said act shall have been taken up is hereby repealed, and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the Currency, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to proceed forthwith, and he is hereby authorized and re quired, from time to time, as application shall be duly made therefor, and until the full amount of the $54,000.0)0 shall be with drawn, to make a requisition on each of the National Banks described in said section, and in the manner therein provided, organized in States having an excess of circulation, to withdraw and return so much of this circulation as by said act may be apportioned to be withdrawn from them, or, in lieu thereof, to deposit in the Treasury of the United States lawful money sufficient to' re deem such circulation, and, upon the return of the circulation required, or the deposit of lawful money, as herein provided, a proportionate amount of the bonds held to secure the circula tion of such association as shall make such re turn or deposit shall be surrendered to it. Sec. o. That upon the failure of the National Banks npon which requisitions for circulation shall be made, or of any of them, to return the amount required, or to deposit in the Treasury lawful money to redeem the circulation required, within thirty days, the Comptroller of the Cur rency shall at once sell, as provided in Sec. 49 of the National Currency act, approved June 3, 1864, bonds held to secure the redemption of the circulation of the association or associations which shall so fail, to an amount sufficient to re deem the circulation required of such as sociation or associations, and with the pro ceeds, which shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, so much of the circulation of said association or associations shall be redeemed as will equal the amount required and not re turned, and if there be any excess or proceeds yer he amount required for such redemption It shall be seturned to the association or associa tions whose bonds shall have been sold: audit span be the duty of the Treasurer, Assistant Treas- A Church Building in Syracuse, !. 1 Glvea Way While Being Uaert for Festival Parpotri Thirteen Persons Killed and Several Others Seriously Injured. The " Little Old Folks" of the Syracuse tN. Y.I Central Bantist Church gave a straw berry festival and concert the other evening to gather funds to fill a depleted treasury At the rear of the church were the Sunday school rooms, occupying' the first floor, and directly over these the church parlors. It was this part that was in tisc on the evening of the festival. At the time of the accident narrated below supper was beinr served in the central parlor, w hich was entirely tilled with hungry people, the number present being variously estimated at from 250 to 500, mostly grown jicople. The little ones were in one of the ante-rooms preparing for the concert, which was to follow, leaving the lower room very nearly deserted. All at once, with scarcely a note of warning, the floor suddenly sank be neath them and in an instant ull were precip itated into the apartment below, where they were hopelessly intermixed with their fellows, fallen timbers, furniture and the debris of the supper table. The fall of the floor had broken the gas pipes and thick darkness was added to their misfortunes. For a brief moment after the descent all was silent as the grave, and then heart-rending appeals for help were heard from hundreds of those who were in agony. Immediately after persons were seen issuing from the doors and windows, and an alarm was sounded. The uninjured within the church who were able to free themselves from the mass began at once to assist m res cuing others. The scene within the building was terrible and that without the editiee heart-rending. Fathers and mothers searching for their chil dren, husbands looking for wives, wives in quiring for husbands, brothers for sisters, and children for their parents, of whose fate all were uncertain and in dread. Quickly and rapidly the work of extricating the people was carried on by aid of lanterns. As fast as the living and dead were rescued they were passed out through the w indows and doors, w here ready hands assisted to convey the dangerous ly injured and dead to the physicians' oflices and neighboring houses. The excitement without the church was ter rible, and as each body was being carried to adjoining houses the mass surged back and forth, all terribly anxious to ascertain w ho it was and whether dead or alive. At the height of the excitement not less than 10,1)00 people were crowded into the adjoining neighborhood. The number of those killed outright was thirteen, and of the 100 persons injured, a score or more were expected to die. The floor whh'h fell was suspended by iron rods from a wooden truss under the roof. These rods went through the lower, but not through the upper chord of the truss. The lower chord had been spliced the wrong side up, and that side was the first to give way. The floor having no props beneath it, sunk in the form of a letter V. The most of the deaths were caused by falling timbers of the truss; some, however, were smothered by plastering. The floors of the church were supported originally by the pillars. A short time ago the Church Building Committee, with the consent, as they say, of the architect, removed the iron pillars. The truss was very imperfectly constructed. The Iowa Anti-Monopolists. The convention of the Anti-Monopolists of Iowa assembled at Des Moines on the 24tl and organized by the election of Dr. Cuilbert, of Dubuque, as permanent Chairman. The following persons were nominated for State officers: Secretary of State, David Mor gan, of Mahaska; State Auditor, J. M. King, of Dubuque; State Treasurer, J. W. Barnes, of Des Moines; Attorney-General, J. T. Keat ley, of Pottawatomie; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Geo. W. Ball, of Tolk; Supreme Court Reporter, J. M. Weart, of Buchanan ; Register of the State Land-Office, M. Rodarnial, of Story. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the doctrine of the inviolability of State and individual rights, "and denouncing the Administration in that it had in terfered in certain States with matters with which it had no proper concent; con demning the extravagance and waste of the Government as now administered, and its total incapacity to meet the vital questions of the day; declaring that the faith and credit of the nation must be maintained inviolate; that the public debt, of whatever kind, should Ijc paid in strict accordance with the law under which it was contracted; in sisting that tariffs should be imposed for revenue only; that railroads 6hould be sub servient to the public good, and demanding such legislation as will secure the industrial and producing interests of the country against all forms of corporate monoioly and extortion; deprecating any action cal culated to retard railroad enterprises or work injustice to these invaluable auxiliaries to commerce and civilization; favoring the limitation of the Presidency to a single term and the election of President, Vice Pres nent and Senators by direct popular vote; de manding a modification of the Patent laws; insisting that the personal liberty and social rights of the citizens should not be abridged or controlled by legislative enactment, except so far as niay be necessary to promote the peace and welfare of society; favoring the equalization of bounties to soldiers and sail ors, and advocating such legislation as shall grant to each one of them or to his widow and children a homestead of 100 acres of land. The census just taken shows tho pop ulation of Providence, R. 1 to be 99,593. The prolonged suspension of work at the delaine mills diminished the population about 2,000. The old city has gained 15,500, or 22 per cent, in four year, and 15,120 have recently been annexed from North Providence. There are 1,000,000 people within thirty-five miles of Boston. A MYSTERY SOLVED. A Woman liuliicd for Over a Year In a Filthy Cellar A lleartle Husband and Daughter. Anon a year ago a man named A. W. Ful lie moved to Atchinson, Kan., and lived alone in the house with his daughter at least cverylKidy thought so. They lived in pretty good style and appeared eminently re spectable. Some of the neighbors felt a dis position to be lieigliltorlv, and one of thctii called to scrape up an acquaintance with the young lady. Fiillie told the visitor that she was afflicted with epilepsy and seeing a new face utwavs threw her into tits. And she left without seeing the girl. The father was always seen about the house, and the neigh boring women got an idea into their heads that there was some sort of mystery connected with that family. One day they heard screams over the way, and then these sharp-eared women were certain that Fullie was lieatinghis Ioor epileptic daughter. Things continued in this way for several days, screams being heard almost daily, until the good f-flk could bear the suspense no longer. So they opened their hearts to the juilice of the town, and told them what they had seen and .beard, and a detective was in structed to shadow the house and its occu pants. One day Fullie went out of town, and then it was thought it Mould be healthy to investigate. They found the girl within, and told her their mission. She was timid and flustered and starty evidently uneasy about something, lint she did not fly into fits. She stated that her father had gone to Kansas City to get work, and would not lie back for some days. Thej started to go dovn into the cellar. She forbade them going, but they broke the door open and went. The cellar was dark and stitlingly close. In one corner of the cellar was a nearly naked woman shackled and chained. By her side was a dish containing some bad-looking meat and hard bread. The explorers had arrived at the heart of the mystery, and plucked itoutof the dark cellar. The woman said she was the wife of Fullie and the step-mother of the girl. Her husband said she was crazy, and had kept her chained there a year. She denied the charge of in sanity, and was glad somebody had come to release her from her dungeon. She was brought up into the light and looked pale and haggard, but showed no crazy signs. The girl was gone when the ascent of the cellar steps was made. She had been suddenly seized with a fit of leaving. The woman was taken to a neighbor's house and washed and dressed, and came out a very respectable looking lady, as gentle as a Iamb and as sen sible as any other woman.. The mystery was solved. Tiie epileptic young lady has left the town, and neither she nor her tender father have returned to welcome the restoration to reason of wife and step-mother, nor to accept the congratulations which the indignant ih-o-ple of Atchinson are waiting to shower ujoii them when they show their handsome faces within tho borders of that municipality. Bills fJoin? Over. Among the bills' before Congress which go over till the next session are the following: For the relief of owners and purchasers of land sold for direct taxes in insurrectionary States. Amending the section of the act approved July 13 concerning deposits iu savings banks. t'lanting to railway!" in tue i emtorics inc ght of way through public lands iu the United States. To enable the Central Branch of the I nion Pacific Itailuav Company to submit its claims aiurthc tinted Slates under the existing iaws to decision of the Supreme Court. To establish and niaintaiu a national sayings depository as a branch of the Postoflice. To incorporate the ctoittneru i rails-, onuneniai Railway Company. To provide for the more efficient administration of laws relating to public land. Amendatorv or the Civil Kiglils law. To authorize the organization of national banks without circulation. To establish the Territory of Pembina, and pro vide a government therefor. Providing for a postal telegraph. Providing for the resumption of specie payment and for free hanking. Amendatory of the Tariffand Internal Kcventie laws. For admission of New Mexico and Colorado as States. Repealing the Pre-emption and amendatory of the Homestead laws. To Protect the navigable waters of the I nited States from injury and obstruction. House t 1 1 1 lor the reorganization oi tne army. House bill to equalize bounties. The bill irrantiii'' pensions to all soldiers of the war of 1K1-J and llu-.ir widows and children. For the construction and repair of the Jlissls ippi b'iver levees. The McCrary hill regulating charges for railway transportation. House inn amendatory oi me mcaniooai law Senate bills for the abolition of compulsory pilotage and to authorize the organization of na tional banks wilhout circulation. All land-irraiit bills and many hundred bills for the relief of individuals. More Abont the Ileether-Tilton Scan dal. Tiieopohe Tilton has recently published in the Gol-ten Aye a long article relating to the Beecher scandal. He says that, haying suffered in silence for four years from the representations adroitly put before the public bj- Plymouth Church, neither patience nor duty will permit him longer to conceal the actual facts from the public. He then goes on to ty that he has never slandered Henry Ward Beecher, but on the contrary has sacrificed his own reputation to suppress the truth about him, and that he never has refused to appear liefore the church and answer all questions regarding the scandal that might be put to him. Til ton gives his reason for severing his connections with the church as follows: " After I had l en for fifteen years a member of Plymouth Church, and had be come meanwhile an intimate inetiu oi tne pastor, the knowledge came to me in 170 that lie had committed against me an otfense which I forlK-ar to name or characterize Prompted by my self-respect, I immediately and forever ceased my attendance on his min- stry." . . A Shot at a Ground Hog. A Mi i.ford (Pa.) correspondent of the New York Sun tells bow (ieo. Taylor, of the New York C'itv Press Association, and Ed. Cahill, of Park Kow, came to that place recently to fish for trout. They were joined there by Ed. Quick and Bub Wells, two professional rod-swingers. On Monday tltey started for Din gm an Township to cast the fly. On the way Taylor tried his $ 25 revolver on every chipmunk be saw. 1'retty soon Calnll houted: " Blazes! see that ground hog! Let him have it, Taylor!" 'lies a beauty!" said ells, ana Quick cried: " Sweet Christmas, but ain't he latJ" The animal was jogging along leisurely across a field. Taylor acted upon XJahill s suggestion and got out of the wagon to shoot it. In bis hurry lie forgot to put down his fish-pole and carried it in his hand. In his other hand was his re volver, ready cocked. He gave chase to the ground hog. J I is companions sat watching hi in from his wagon, waitingto see him kill the animal. It was a pretty one, all over white and black sjKts. Taylor was bound to" have its hide. When he got w ithin shooting distance he stepped into a bog-hole and down he went. His uh-pole ran about a foot in the ground and broke off. His pistol went off and blew the whole" roof out of a brand-new straw hat that he had pur chased for the occasion. " He was soon on his feet again, but the ground hog had got to the other side of the field and sat by the side of a hole, evidently waiting for the anxious sports man. Taylor caught up to within a few feet of his game and raised up to' fire. The ground hog suddenly turned his w hite tail toward Taylor and disappeared in the hole. Taylor that instant knew he hadn't brought enough Florida water with him from the city. He knew he hadn't struck a mint patch nor yet a bed of roses, lie felt that it wasn't good to lc there, and he wanted to go home. In short, it came across him bv degrees that the boys played a skunk oil on him for a ground hog. lie returned to the wagon and. re marking that the ground hog w:is too quick for him, got in. Ed. t 'ah ill put his handkerchief to his nose. Ed. Quick said he guessed he'd get out anil w alk a way. Bub Wells thought he would, too. Cahill said he promised to bring his wife some elecampane root, and as that was a good place to tiud i, he'd get out ami look for Fome. Taylor wouldn't ride alone and made up his mind to walk with the rest Cahill couldn't find any ch-j campane root and got bac k in the wagon? Quick and Wells got tired and jumped in again. Taylor then thought ho would ride awhile. The lioys began to think the joke was as much on them as it was on 1 ay lor. When they got to the creek Tavlor ob jected to going in the w (toils for fear lie might get lost. Cahill told him to keep Halt a mile to the windward ot them and they would be sure to know where to find him. laylor fished in Spring Brook 1 lie trout wouldn t Inte. 1 hey came to the surface and looked at his tl v, but as soon as tliey got their noses out of the water they dove down and rubbed them in the gravel. Taylor got disgusted and went to find his comrades. He came to them near Mother J agger's, where they stopped for dinner. Cahill took Taylor asuie and said : " Say, Taylor, we want to get tiling to cat here. You mustn't with us, or you'll kill the whole We'll eat first, then vou come in. Taylor was hungry and had to submit. Mother .Tagger got the bovs up a nice dinner. They ate it at their leisure. Taylor sat on a log about a hundred yards from the house and whistled ' Bury me under the violets." The bovs finished Iheir meal and went out. They told Tavlor to get his dinner. He en tered Mother .lugger's kitchen and sat down to the table. The old lady began to suit!', aud, kicking the old hound that lay bv the stove, ejaculated : "G'it out, Uing! I'll kill that infernal critter yit. He's idlers huutiu' skunks." King " got out." Mrs. .lugger poured Taylor's coffee. Then she Knitted again, and looked under the table and on Hie floor. Taylor fell to eating. -Mother J agger took down her horn spectacles and put them on. She sniffed and looked earnestly at Taylor. Then she squeezed her nose together with her fingers and said : "Dodrot be, bister, cf it ain't you! Jist help yerself to eddythingyou wudtP And Mrs. Jagger sought the outside of he house. The party fished all day. They got back to Milford about tea time. The piazza at Dimmick's was full of ladies. They all rushed out to see the trout. One by one they went back, remarking how peculiarly balm-laden the zephyrs were that morning. Taylor's wife said: "Oh, aren't they beautiful! but what makes them smell so, George" George said, 44 The creek in which they were caught is strongly impregnated with ahem! with hemlock, which gives them a peculiarly pungent flavor; but it is destroyed by cooking. Cooking knocks it." Strangers who visit Milford hcreaftei may see a mound in the Dimmick Hotel garden. Beneath it is a suit of clot hes. It belonged to George Taylor. He hunted a ground hog in it and destroyed its use fulness. And so they laid it away. some go in thin See?" Uncle Pete Advises a Young Man. We yesterday afternoon observed 44 Uncle Pete" propped at ease against his favorite lamp-post, and overheard him holding forth as follows to a young man of the genus hoodlum: 44 Young man, don't j'ou go to strivin' for a big name or frettin' yourself to make a mark in the world. It's all wanity and wexation of spirit. Y'ou just turn philosopher. That's the lane I'm. on. Say to yourself the world owes me a livin' and f in bound to have it. That's a motto to live up to. To live without care is my philosophy. All else is wanity. What does a man get for doin' things, niakiif inweutions and t lie like Nutliin'. Look at Christopher Columbus, young man, and let his fate be a warnin' to you. What does he get for the trouble he bad in discoverin' Amer ica He gets called a swindler and a imposture. He had all his trouble for nuthin', for they have found out that he wasn't the feller that discovered America, after all. It was some Laplander or one of them fellers uu north. What does William II. Shakespeare git for the trouble he had writin' them plays o' his? He gets busted out entirely. They now say there never w as no such man as Will iam II. Shakespeare, and I believe 'cm. No one could a done it. What was the use of William Tell shootin' old Geyser? He run a big risk of passin' in his own checks, and now they say tliar never was no sich man. lied better a-bin a philos opher and staid up in the mountains. See the life old Kobinson Crusoe led in that air solitary island! And now they say there never was a Crusoe. Young man, don't you never try to discover America, nor the steam engine, nor the telegraft like old Moses did cause you'll find out when it's too late, and you've had all the trouble, that it wasn t you, but some other jackass that is dead and don't know whether he ever done anj'thing or not. Now here's the latest instance : Suppoin' you to be Vasquez, when you've gone and got up a reputation as Vasquez, they find out you ain't Vasquez, but are somebody else. Take mv advice, young man, and lead the life of a philosopher; get a!l you can out of the world and never do nothin' for the world; then you beat the world and are a true philosopher." Viryinut (Jity (A'cc.) Enterprise. How to Financier. A good story is told of John S. Corn ing, a gentleman well known in railway circles, who has lately returned from Louisville, Ky. It seems that the first week in Louisville John stopped at the 44 Willard House," and w as charged $10 per week. He told Mr. Willard, how ever, that as he should be awav a good deal and have to pay for mcafs taken outside he would like to arrange for a deduction in such cases. It was finally agreed that Corning should be allowed seventy-five cents for each meal taken awav from the hotel. At the end of a week Corning appeared with his carpet bag, and wanted to Mettle. His bill was made out at $10. 44 But," quoth the child like Corning, 44 1 have had some meals out." "All right," said Mr. Willard, 44 how nianv?" 44 Let me see," mused Corning; 44 Monday, two, Tuesday, two, Wednesday, two, Thursday, two, Friday, two. Saturday, two, Sunday, two. This is Monday; I have lcen here seven days, and had fourteen meals out, w hich, at seventy-five cents each, makes $10.50. But never mind the fifty cents, Willard. Call it square." The astonished hotel man proceeded to give Corning the 44 grand lounee" into the saloon, where the joke was fully dis cussed, and the bill amicably adjusted. Chicago Pont and if ail. No fewer than five different lives of the late Charles Sumner are in course of publication. M 1 SC E EL A S ; K0 U S IT I'M S. "A rouxi) of flesh" A prize-fight. Tin: Californians arc iu favorof crema tion for Chinamen. As a champion failure, says the Cleve land lla-idil, Weston is nu established success. "Hi: fell dead and expired in two min utes," says a Georgia paper on the death of a negro. Why is a grain of sand iu the eye lik? a .schoolmaster's cane? Because it hurts the pupil. Tin: autumn bonnets are to have strings this on the authority of a milliner fresli 44 from the other side' BicriKit try to kindle a fire wi'h powder-can, w elf filled, than will the contents of your kerosene can. Com. is Git.WK Is, in the estimation of tlie Washington (Wimu'rle, the first milkman who ever ran away from water. Till", fashionable mosquito is larger than ever this .sea.-on, o ing doubtless to the wet aud disagreeable spring. An Iudianapolisdog goes mad w hen he hears a piano played, hut there's hun dreds of men w ho do the same thing. Tiik superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant Io symbolize the largo way in which God loves to do pleasant things. Katk Fi k.i.i) says that "Spain is tho mother of all dust. It is the whitest, lightest, heaviest, stickiest dust on the earth." W ii f.n ii member of the Boston Com mon Council talks too long the bored hand him a card inscribed: "Hire hall !' The Nashville man who broke his leg in pulling on his boot has broken tho same limb again. He did it in luraing over in bed. An ostrich does draw the line some where. He stops at gale hinges. Tho grasshopper w ill cat the idiots off an ex hausted mule. The Chrintin Jrrt'frr- announces that "a woman who cannot in any emergoncy make or repair a garment, has one art less than a Pottawatomie's squaw." Tiif. New Albany (Ind ) Ltffyrr prays to be delivered from the "maudlin fools" who criticise a man because he puts hit food into his mouth w ilh a knife. Onf. of the great and increasing etils of imperfect mastication is decaying teeth. It is a law of all vital organi-iiia that every structure or post must do it ow n work or die. Tknnyson says that Miller is the great est American poet, and Miller says Ten nyson is the greatest Lnglish poet. A man couldn't improve on that if he sat up all night. Jhtmit Eire J'irn. A Mkmphis man mourns a recent land slide which proved his stable to be very unstable, carrying it and a mule mro thci M ississippi Kivcr, to say nothing ot a large part of his real estate. TiiF.itF. are three classes into which till the women past seventy that I ever knew were to be divided : l-'irst, that dear old soul; second, that old woman; third. that old witch. Uleridye. Lkt us all strive to live so that tho local paper may say of us as of Philip Burns, of Delaware: "Mis hat wasn I always cocked over the b it ear, but ho didn't owe a butcher in town." N KVK.it burn kindly-written l tters.'the mute utterances of those alar, yet dear, whose faces joti may never look upon again. Kemcmoer bow many a little notion in tinware they will procure. J )i in bury Xttrx. A Hahtfoiid man keeps a spade close y his kitchen door, und w henever a tramp comes along and begs for dinner he is requested to earn it by digging lour feet square in the garden, but the tramp invariably refuses to pay this price. London is famous for its fogs, Paris for its frogs, Madrid for its togs. New York for its dogs, Cincinnati for its hogs, San Francisco for its grogs, Northampton for its clogs, Portland for its logs and all Ireland for its bogs. Am i.kk'An cast-iron is the strongest in the world. It has an advantage of 2-j per cent, over German cast-iron in .strength and is nearly 1G per cent. stronger than Lngli.-h cast-iron. So the export of agricultural machinery has become a prominent feature of American trade and is susceptible of still further development. Tin: visit of the Emperor Alexander to England has led to the issue of a new and vexatious press regulation in Kussia, the newspapers having been forbidden to publish any news about the journey. It is true that according to law' no news paper is to take any notice of the doing or intentions of the Czar before the Gov ernment Mfwnyir speaks of them; but hitherto it has been the universal custom to publish all accounts of an imperial tour or festival after the Minmnyer once announced that it was about to take place. This was the case when the Czar went to Austria, when he met the other Emperors at Berlin, and even during the marriage festivities at St. Petersburg. A hf.tt kn recently presented to the British Parliament shows that 1.000 more seamen were drow ned in 1873 than in the year previous. The deaths in the merchant-marine were in the ratio of two by drowning to one from disease or natural causes. Fourteen men were drowned in the merchant service to one in the naval service. For everv man of the home population who suffered a violent death, eighteen seamen were killed or drowned. W hile 2,2-i 1 sailors were drow ned by shij wreck, no less than 1,0;J2 were wushed overboard or otherwise drowned without the loss of the ship. It is curious that sailors can be found to man the shipping of the seas when their lives are subject to such an excess of peril and hardship. A I'liOMiNKNT oculist says that the' con tagious Egyptian or granular inflamma tion of the eyes is spreading rapidly throughout the country, and that he has been able in many, und. indeed, in a ma jority of cases, to trace the disease to what are commonly called rolling towels. Towels of this kind are generally found in country hotels and in the dwellings of the working elates, and, being thus used by nearly every one, are made the car riers of one of the most dangerous and, as regards its symptoms, most trouble some diseaes of the eye. This being the case, it is urgently recommended that the use of these rolling towels be discarded, and thus one of the special vehicles for the spread of a most dangerous disorder of the eyes one by w hich thousands of workingmen are annually deprived of their means of support will no longer exist. An arrangement has been devised for solidifying cast metals in their liquid state by compressed air, w hich is forced direct ly on top of the gate in the fiask after the metal is iured. According to thU plan, there is a portable reservoir for com pressed air, with a pump attached, which latter is connected by rubber hose with a cylindrical cap. fitted and clamped to a cylinder fastened to the top of the flask. Iioth cylinders are coupled together by projecting flanges pnd ( lamps. The flask cylinder is provided with a clay wash, and previous to the pouring of the liquid metal, with a ring or cap pitee, set on top to prevent the hot metal from Coming in contact with the clay wash. - The ring is removed as soon as the metal is oured, the cap is then clamped on the cylinder and a stop-coek opened, so that the com pressed air is let directly on top of the metal through the gate of the flask, com pressing the metals in the molds.