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About ;i week ago we heard one of
our leading citizens bragging about his
watch-dog. He went on to say that
Xero wjis a splendid watch-dog; that
he wou'd never even growl at a child,
and at night he would tear anybody to
pieces he found about the premises.
"Ain't you afraid," we asked, "that
he will bite you home night when you
come home late?"
"Xot a bit of it ; he is too intelligent.
He knows my step as soon as I put my
foot on the gallery. Why, I wouldn't
take $.7)0 for that dog. lie is the mo3t
u-liable biting dog m San Antonio."
About three days after the foregoing
conversation took place, one morning
earlv we met a policeman leading this
indcntical dog out into the suburbs.
"What are you doing with Maj Jones'
dog?" we wanted to know.
"He gave him to me to take him out
and shoot him?"
"What for?" we asked, in amazemenL
"liecause he tackled the Major last
night on his coming home, and bit him
in thirteen places; he would not Tbe
down town fur a week."
"Hut I heard the Major say that dog
was intelligent; that he knew his step,
and wouldn't bite him, no way he could
nx it; 'hat he wouldn't take $."0t) for the
animal."
"The dog ain't to blame for it," said
the policeman, gazing sadly at poor
Xero, "it is the Major's own fault."
"How so?" wc inquired.
"Well, responded the policeman,
slowly, "the dog did know his step and
rever even growled at him before; but
last night, for the fust time since he
has had the dog, the Major came home
three hours eailierthuu usual, and per
fectly sober, and somehow his step was
very diffeient fioin what tiie dog was
used to; he didn't tangle up his legs as
much as common, and the dog was
fooled by it, took him for a perfect
stranger, and bounced him. The dog
ain't to blame; he missed the smell of
whisky; he didn't hear the Major
whoop and cuss and fall down in the
cellar as he always does when he comes
home, so Xero kept on bitin' the Major
in fresh places until the family inter
fered." "Come on Xero!" and the sad funeral
cortege resumed the line of march for
the brush. Sun Antonio Herald.
A Towelling KxprevHOti or Kinotion.
The other day when the bootblacks
:iskcd liijau if he was going t'j hang np
his stocking, a tear came to his eye and
he sadly replied:
"I am an old man. Xo one cares for
me. In a few more moons the snow
llakes will cover my grave, and the
world will forget that I had rather
comfort a lost child than to be 1 'resi
dent of the 1'nited States."
When his sad language was commu
nicated to the reporters they felt their
ees grow moist and one of them said:
"Let us do the fair Hung by Bijah.
What if ii does take a month's salarj
what do we cue?"
"Let us nuke him happy," added the
oLhers, and yesteiday morning, just as
court opened,, they presented the old
janitor with a stocking, and the. reporter
with a red goatee kindly said:
"Loving you as we do we could do no
less, and would gladly have done more."
"Xow this is nice!" gasped his Honor,
sobbing like a child.
"It's too much too much!" sighed
the clerk, turning away.
It was a blessed moment You could
have heard a fire alarm as well as not,
so intense was the stillness.
The stocking contained three pounds
of beautiful dried apples, one nice han
dle for a tack-hammer, a beautiful
seytlie-stone, a decoy duck, a dog collar,
three diaries for 1S70, one box of stove
bl.icking, printed instructions for run
ning away from a grizzly bear, and a
photograph of a man in California
whose feet are just one size larger than
Jiijah's.
jl was a season of tears, and as he
carried the big stocking iuto the cor
ridor and leaned it up against a cell
door, a murmur of admiration circled
around the room and went out through
a broken pane of glass. Detroit Free
Press.
Cow 31nsic
The cow has at least four tones or
lows, rirst there is her alarmed or
distressed low, when deprived of her
calf or separated from her mates her
low of affection. Then there is her
call of hunger, a petition for food, some
times full of impatience, or her answer
to the farmer's call, full of eagerness.
Then there is that peculiar frenzied
bawl she utters on smelling blood,
which anises every member of the
herd to lift its head and hasten to the
spot the native cry of the clan. When
she is gored or in great pain she bawls
also, but that is different. And lastly,
there is the long, sonorous volley she
lets off on the hills or in the yard, or
along the highway, and which seems to
. be expressive of a kind of unrest and
vague longing the longing of the im
prisoned Io for her lost identity. She
sends her voice forth so that every god
on Mount Olympus can hear her plaint
She makes this sound in the morning,
especially in the spring, as she goes
forth to graze. John Burroughs, in the
Galaxy for January.
You can telegraph direct to the Black
fr Hills now.
GEXKRAL NEWS SUM.MAilY.
At Utopia, Ohio, Dec. 23th, seven
young men were suddenly di owned in
the Ohio river by breaking through the
ice IJremarker, Moore &c Co.'s large
paper mill at Laurel, Ind., burned on
the night of Dec. 28th By the burn
ing of a car on the Xew York Central
& Hudson River railroad, it was re
jwrted that the American Express
Company lost 81,000,000, but it is now
ascertained that the aciual loss will not
exceed 820,000 The amount of the
defalcation of Otis D. Swan of Xew
York, is now set down at from 100,
0f0 to SP.OO.OOO. Sixty thousand dollars
belonged to the Union League Club,
the balance to his family connection.
....A terrible accident occurred at
Ashtabula, Ohio, on the Lake Shore
Railroad, on the evening of Dec. 29th.
Seven cars were wrecked and burned.
The cars plunged from a bridge into
Ashtabula creek 75 feet, and 175 pas
sengers went down with the ill-fated
train. Two-thirds of them are reported
;is killed. It seems that the falling train
and bridge smashed the ice in the creek
and those not killed by the fall or
buried up by the cars which took fire
were held down by the wreck and
drowned before they could be extrica
ted. Many of them were frozen. A
special train with physicians, nurses,
and everything necessary for the com
fort of the wounded were sent to the
scene of the disaster. Public and pri
vate houses were thrown open to the
wounded and destitute. The fast ex
press car was smased to splinters. The
train was known as the Pacific Ex
press. There were six coaches and one
drawing room car. The very latest re
port gives sixty as the number wounded
and one hundred killed.
A Photographic establishment on
Broadway, Xew York, burned Dec. '26.
Loss, SSO.OOO Two boot and shoe
manufactories in El mint, X. Y., burned
Dec 28th. Loss, 87.r,(p): insurance,
8 15.000 A heavy shipment of arms
and munitions of war for the Turkish
government, was made from Xew
Haven, Dec. 2Sth. The value of the
cargo is nearly 11,500,000 Ex-Senator
James W. Nye, of Nevada, died Dec.
2Sth, at White Plains, Westchester
county, X. Y Otis C. Swan, broker,
and late Secretary of the Bank of Sav
ings, Xew York, is reported as an ale
sconding defaulter to an amount stated
at 810,000, or upward. Coles Morris, a
prominent lawyer of Xew York, has
also disappeared and Wall Street re
ported him as a defaulter of trust funds
to a large amount, belonging to the Hol
land estate in Westchester Co., X Y.
Two brothers, Henry and William
Meinhartz, were killed Dec. 2Sth, by the
falling of a large mass of coal from thp
roof of the Greenfield coal mine, near
West Belleville, 111.... On the night ot
Dee. 20th, the St. Louis Di ug Company's
store burned. Loss estimated at 850.
000 to f 00,000 ; insurance, 828,000, mostly
in Eastern companies A fire in Xew
York on the night of Dec 28th, de
stroyed 8:55,000 worth of property....
A snow slide at Alta, Utah, Dec. 20th,
buried two men in their cabin
Among the victims of the Ashtabula
railroad horror, were Mr. Bliss, the
singer and evangelist, his wife and two
children David Dudley Field has
been nominated for Congress in Xew
York City, to fill the unexpired term of
Smith Ely, elected Mayor of that city.
The public debt statement shows an
increase during December of 83.5S5.742 ;
coin balance, $1G,517,41S; currency, $,
4S3.SG0; total coin bonds, $1.090,S21,250;
total debt without interest, 8470,74S,752 ;
total debt ?2,1S7,404,:C3; total interest,
$42,518,157; total in Treasury 837,000,
000; decrease of debt since June 30th,
$0,518,100; bonds issued to the Pacific
Railroad Companies, interest payable in
lawful money, principal outstanding,
804.023,5 12 ; interest accnied and unpaid,
81,938,705; interest paid by the United
States, $32.0S0,218 Chris. Kettameyer
of Cincinnati, had trouble with his wife,
and the latter brought suit for divorce.
On the 2nd he visited her at the house
where she was staying, and asked her
to abandon the suit and return to him.
She refused, and he left the room, but
soon returned and asked her to shake
hands with him. Upon her refusing he
seized and stabbed her, inflicting a
wound from which there is little hope
of recovery. He then stabbed himself
and died instantly.... At Indianapolis,
Jan. 1st Frank Alden shot and instantly
killed Caroline Pfeiffer, wife of a gro
cer. The murderer said when arrested :
"I have killed one woman and will kill
another if I get a chance." In Xew
York, on the night of Jan. 1st, James
Blake fatally shot Michael Walsli. Both
had been making New-Year's calls, and
botr? were drunk The loss by the
burning of the "ottery Works at Staten
Island, on the building alone was 8100
000; not insured. Most of the contents
were also burned. .. .Henry Creighton
of Lithopolis, Ohio, was murdered with
an ax, Jan. 1st, and his wife is charged
with committing the deed. .. .General
Crook's expedition has been abandoned.
... .At a meeting of passenger agents in
Xew York, Jan, 2nd, an advance in
passenger rates was determined on by
the trunk lines as follows: Xew York
to Cleveland, advanced from 88 to 811;
Toledo, f 10 to $13.50; Detroit, 10 to
812; Chicago, 613 to $18; St Louis, 817
to 823; Indianapolis, 812 to 817; Louis
ville, 815 to 820; Cinciimati, 811 to 816.
At Yankton, Dakota, January 8d,
John McCall, previously convicted of
the mmder of "Wild Bill" in ihe Black
Hills hist August was sentenced to be
hanged, March 1st He claimed that
he was so badly intoxicated on the day
of the murder as to le entirely uncon
scious of shooting anybody. He stated
further that his name is not McCall,
but said he ran away from home w hen
a boy and assumed that name. His at
torneys will tike the cise to the Su
preme Court, but it is thought he
stands no chance to get a new trial
The Presbytery at Xewark, X'. J., by a
vote of 10 to 12, found Rev. Mr. Lee
guilty of violating the scripture by al
lowing women to preacJMnJiisjmlpit
. ...iillCC lilt u ntit niiwic'i i.i ..to
York. Jan. 3d, charged wi:h cutting
mail bags and extracting ma'ter while
conveying the bags by Dodd's Express
Company to Jefferson City hiid Brook
lyn On the 2d of January Henry
Creighton, of Fairfield county, O'n'o,
was murdered by his crazy wife. She
shot him twice and cut his head off
with an axe. They had been married
four years A fire in the mines at
Lykens, Pa., a few days ago caused
great damage. It was necessary totlood
the mines, and a year's work will be
required to repair them. About tOO
men are thrown out of employment
FOREIGN NEWS.
A telegram from Berlin of Dec 29th,
says it is affirmed there that the Porte
has declared his willingness to make
concessions, and oilier ample security
to the Powers, but it unwaveringly re
fuses to sanction the occupation of its
provinces by any troops whatever. It
has even refused its consent to occupa
tion by English troops upon which
point the Turkish Ministers were confi
dently approached It has been agreed
that the armistice shall be prolonged
until the first tff March... A corres
pondent of the London Times at Paris
says news was received there from Con
stmtinople that it has been decided to
prolong the armistice only one month.
Reports are circulating in Pest hand
Vienna that Grand Duke Xicholas is
dying.
A dispatch predicts that the Marquis
of Salisbury will replace Elliott as Min
ister to Constantinople. Another tele
gram says the Marquis of Salisbury will
demand from the Sultan his acceptance
of the proposals agreed upon by the
Powers. Should the Sultan refuse, Lord
Salisbury is instructed to leave Con
stantinople and order the British fleet
to quit Turkish waters. It is also un
derstood that all the Plenipotentiaries
will leave should the Sultan reject the
proposals. IJeports wero current that
the Turkish Ministry had decided to
reject the proposals, and that in the
event of war tho Porto will arm its Ar
menian, Greek.Bulgarian and Christian
subjects The convent of the Sisters
of Providence, near Joliette, Province
of Quebec, burned to the ground
on the night of the 25th of Dec. Thir
teen persons perished in the flames
The schooner Costello, from St John,
X'. B., for Xew York, was wrecked,Dec.
24th, and her crew of 5 persons perished.
....Affairs are complicated in Mexico.
A portion of the States recognize Igle
sias, who is established at Queretaro.
Several States are occupied by the troops
of Diaz. Iglesias has about 12,000
troops, and Diaz 1S.00O, of every grade
but he ie well provided with artillery
in which Iglesias is deficient A Con
stantinople dispatch savs: Circumstan
ces permitting, the Porte will shortly
annul the decree reducing by one-half
the interest on the Ottoman debt
ABerlin correspondent of the Lon
don Times, reviewing the situation,
says: The moderation of Russia's de
mands is largely duo to Austria's mili
tary preparations. The force which
Austria has prepared for mobilization
in Croatia, Transylvania, and Dahna
tia numbers 90.000. Austria's attitude,
however, has proportionately encour
aged the Porte in his disposition to re
sist the reforms. .. .The Russian Gen
eral Nikitin has taken command of the
Servian army, vice Tchernayeff. Or
ders have been issued to the corps
commanders of the Servian army to
proceed immediately to their posts
A dispatch from Constantinople says
the decree of Oct 6, 1S75, reducing the
interest on the Turkish debt one half
during five years, has been officially
annulled. . . . A dispatch from Constant
inople of Dec 27th says: It appears
certain that the Porte will not reject all
the proposals of the Powers. An inter
view between the Marquis of Salis
bury and the Sultan appears to have
produced a favorable result. . . .It is re
ported from Belgrade that Russia is
sending mSney to enable Servia to re
commence hostilities.
A London Daily Telegraph special
from Pera, says that the Sultan, in an
swer to Lord Salisbury's friendly rep
resentations, declared that his personal
safety would be compromised if he con
ceded to all that the powers demanded.
....Russian troops have crossed the
Danube. . . .Gen.Xikitin on taking com
mand of the Servian army told his
troops that in a week's time they would
have a chance to prove their courage
before the enemy.... The London
Standard correspondent at Paris tele
graphs that intelligence has been re
ceived there tliat the Rusian army
is in a very bad condition; the troops
are failing by marsh fever and typhus
The counter proposals of Turkey dif
agreed
upon iy the oaf
tiftrko. Gen.
Ignatiff, Russian;
Uary, lias
declared that imf
Ucuss the
! supported
Turkish projK?ah
by the other plenl
...There
is a strike on the G
Trunk railroad
in Canada. Trains
ag disjatched
at irregular tim .3 awafccrarlous points
The strike of engJajBS on the Grand
Trunk railway in Ovid has ended,
and all the menb4jf the Brother
hood have resumed Miirld positions.
Concessions were w4iom both sides.
Stewart & McPSenria'a wholesale
grocerj' store in tfHmllton, Ontario,
burned jjan, ,3d. Wo.pOO. . .The
finst railway accident in Denmark in-
volving I053 of life, has occurred be
tween florsns and Aarhaus. A train
conveying one hundred laborers to clear
a snow blockade ran off the track. Xine
persons were killed and thirty-seven
injured A dispatch dated at Con
stantinople, Jan. :JJ. says the pleni
potentiaries do not seem to have aban
doned the hope that the rupture may
yet be avoided. Midhat Pasha, when
visiting the German and Italian ambas
sadors, adopted a somewhat more con
ciliatorv tone.
XLIVth COXGKKSS lid SESSION
rimt.
I'm day, Dec. 20. The chair presented
a telegram from Senator Logan in Chi
cago, asking that, on account of the
limited time, he be excused from the
special committeeon the electoral count
The request was granted and Senator
Coukling was appointed in his place.
Senator Gordon presented the petition
of Wade Hampton and the members of
the General Assembly of South Caro
lina, reciting the events which have re
cently transpired in that State, asking
Congress to provide for the cessation of
military interference, and enable the
legislature to exercise its official duties.
Sena or Goidon moved to refer the me
morial tothe Judiciary committee. Sen
ator Kielinirhuysen moved its ieference
to the election committee. 1 'ending
discussion. Senator Goidon by unani
mous consent, introduced a resolution
recognizing the Hampton government
:xa the legal government of South Caro
lina, but objection was made by Senator
Morton and others to its present con
sideration. The vote on the motion of
Mr. Frelinghuysen showed no quorum.
Adjourned.
TrnsriAY, Dec. 2. A number of bills
and petitions were presented and re
ferred to the appropriate committees,
and the Senate, tor want of a quorum,
adjourned.
"Vi:nxii)AY, JaiiSfcL'Ori motion of
Senator Wright, the Union Pacific Bail
road bill was considered. It refers to
the claims of the Central Branch of the
L'nion Pacific Railroad for lands and
bonds for the construction of its road
in excess of 100 miles from the Missouri
It ver. After the morning hour Senator
Morton, from the elections committee,
reported that Turner, Manager of the
Western l'nion Telegiajih office at Jack
sonville, Oregon, had refused to answer
certain questions claiming that he could
not divulge the Company's business-,
also a resolution declaring that Turner
is in duty bound to answer the questions,
and could not refuse to for the
reason given ordered printed. Senator
Wright's bill declaring the true intent
and meaning of the Union Pacific Hail
road acts, w.is debated at length. Pend
ing discussion, the Semite went into
executive session and soon after ad
journed. IltlOKO.
Mr. Barnes, the Western Union Tele
graph Manager, at Xew Orleans, was
before the bar of the House as a
recusant witness, but a hearing was
lostponed till Friday, at the request of
Mr. Crounse, and Mr. Barnes w;is recom
mitted. Mr. Bright asked leave to in
troduce a bill for the free coinage of
the silver dollar, for making it a legal
tender, and to refer it to the mining
committee. Mr. Hewitt objected. Mr.
Wilson offered a resolution requesting
the railroad committee to report
whether it was expedient to provide for
the appointment of a railroad board of
engineers to supervise the construction
of inter-State railroads, so far as safetv
to travelers is concerned referred.
Mr. Knott presented the judiciary
committee's report on the ad
mission of Bel ford, the Colorado Rep
resentative, with a resolution declaring
that Colorado is a State, and that Bel
ford should be admitted. Mr. Hurd pre
sented a minority report recommending
the passage of an act of Congress admit
ting Colorado. Both reports recommit
ted. Mr. Hunter introduced a bill for
the election of federal officers and to
prevent electiou frauds referred. Mr.
Durham, from the committee on ex
penditures in the Department of Justice,
reported a bill fixing the fees of United
States District and Circuit Court Clerks
and Marshals. It fixes the Marshal's pay
at not over $ 5.000 yearlv, and deputies
not over 85.00 daily, when actuallv em
ployed, or 61,200 per annum. The
Speaker appointed Mr. McDill on the
committee on the rights, duties and
privileges of the House in the electoral
count vice Mr. Monroe, excused. Ad
journed. Thursday, Jan. 4. Senator Conkling
presented a petition of Xew York bank
ers and merchants in favor of an ami
cable settlement of the Presidential
question referred to the special com
promise committee. Senator "Wright
called up his bill to establish a court
for the trial of contested Presidential
elections, for the purpose of having it
referred, and spoke at length on the
proposition. The bill after some debate
was referred to a special committee on
the electoral count and tbe Senate re
sumed the consideration of the Union
Pacific Railroad bill. M. Ingalls had
the floor, but no quorum being present,
the Senate adjourned.
BoBM.
Mr. Willis introduced- a bill for the
repeal of the tax on the capital and de
posits of the State and National banks
referred. Mr. McCrarv offered a reso
lution directing the Secretary of the In
terior to transmit to the House a copy
of the latest report of the govern
mental directors of the Un
ion Pacific Railroad adopted. Mr.
Clymer reported the military academy
appropriation bill and it was mad tbe
fer completely ft
mZ-
special order for Monday. It nppro
priate S25.V The Ho.is then om
sidtrral th bill fixing the cororosa-
j lion of the UmtI ta:w Marshals and
denutir. Conger's amendment ink
ing out th clause limiting deputies'
salaries to S1.SO0 pr vu- was defi-ntcd.
and the bill pasv.nL Mr. Durham from
the committer on exjndtturr in the
Department of Justice. rejort"l a
liill trnvtiHt!T thnJ lnt?-.l stit.-.
Attorneys 5hall receive a vmrlv 5aJury
; instead of fees, the J.ircet belm; Xen-
York District. Sl0.i. referred to the
eonimiiiee oi me whom nexi Ninr
day. The bill nxssed making fifth eaton
and Brownsville prts of entry. Mr.
fioodiu. from the public land commit
tee, rejorted bark the bill concerning
the proof requirrd in the homestead
entries, wth the Senate- amendments
"-concurred in. The pension bill was
taken up. Mr. Reagan moved to
strikeout the portion of that bill ex
cluding those now under political disa
bilities from its iM'iietlts. Mr. Ku.sk
opjKHed the motion. Mr. Reagan's m
tion was lost and the bill passed. It
allows a Mnion of SS a month to all
vho served GO davs in the Mexican or
CO days in the Florida or Blaekhauk
wars," and to their surviving widows.
The House then went into com
mittee of the whole on the con
sular and diplomatic appropriation
bill, appropriating SI. 137 .'.
After some discussion the cenmiittee
rose without action on the bill. Mr.
Foster, from the committee on appro
priations, rejmrted a bill to supply the
delieiencies in the contingent fund of
the I louse, which was made the hjx'cial
order for to-morrow. It appropri
ates the amount of S42S.IT. Mr.
Throekniortoo asked leave to offer a
resolution instructing the committee on
militaryaffairs to inquire into the pn
ent strength, location and occupation
of the army; the force on the frontier,
in the southern States, and in Washing
ton, the nrture of order?, bv whom
made, the punose, etc. with leave to
send for persons and pajT.s. Several
objections were made, and the House
adjourned.
Dr. Carpenter on MeMiierNm.
Aiicla'tit Hint Mixlftrn Iiilnnr.
The theatre of the London Institution,
Finsbury circus, was crowded, last
night, by members assembled to hear
the first of tho two lectures by Dr. W.
B. Carpenter, on "Mesmerism. Odylism,
Table Turning, and Spiritualism, con
sidered historically and scientifically."
On the present occtision Dr. Carpenter
addressed himself mainly to the mes
meric branch of the subject- Quoting
the familiar adage "that history repeats
itself," ho remarked that there was no
subject of which this was more true
than of those forming the topics of his
lecture. Early Christian writers, and
classical authors of tho same period,
had referred to extraordinary phenom
ena attributed in their day to sorcerers,
who were in reality .lews, and were
regarded by the Romans in the same
light that gipsies and fortune tellers
were looked upon In our own daw By
way of illustrating the story of Simon
Magus, who remained suspended in the
air until Peter and Paul prayed him
down, was compared with the aerial
flotation of Mr. Home from one room to
another, and the mysterious transporta
tion of Mrs. (luppy from one part of
the city to another. Desirous of avoid
ing ioleniical discussion with those who
held views different from his own, he
pointed out that from the very condi
tions of what were called spiritual man
ifestations scientific investigation w:is
precluded rather than courted, as In the
discovery of electricity and galvanism.
The state of reverie into which sensi
tive hj'sterical people could undoubt
edly bo placed was attributed to the
susceptibility of particular individuals
rather than to any jxiwer exercised by
mesmeric operators. In support of this
view Dr. Carpenter cited many in
stances to prove that precisely similar
effects were produced by expectation of
mesmeric passes as by the passes them
selves. Thus a servant who could lxs
mesmerized at will by her master, even
when in a different room, was tested by
being sent with a letter to another house,
where, being unaware of her master's
presence, no mesmeric effects were pro
duced though he was in re:Uity within a
few feet of her. Several other cases
tending to the same end was given,
plainly showing that the person subject
to mesmerism would experience the
same effects from expectation as from
reality, and that the pisses made when
unseen, unknown, and unexpected, (the
patient being blindfolded) produced no
effect whatever, while effects followed
expectation, though the influences sup
posed by the patient to be acting were
really not exercised. Thus a mesmer
ized person who declared he saw flame
issuing from a magnet was equally pos
itive when the magnet unknown to him,
was locked in a box or placed behind a
screen. Dr. Carpenter believed that
much of the phenomena arose from a
desire for the marvelous, and he could
assure his hearera that the facts dis
closed by science were quite as marvel
ous as the manifestations under notice.
London Daily News.
The Sutro TuMel.
The Sutro Tunnel, though it is de
signed for private rather than public
uses, will rank among the great engi
neering works, not only of this, but of
any age. The tunnel was designed to
afford a horizontal outlet for the im
mense deposits of silver ore in what is
known as the Comstock lode under
Virginia City, in Nevada. These de
posits are 2,000 feet below the surface
of the hills under which they Tie. At
a rough estimate 3,000 tons of waste
rock are lifted 2,000 feet daily, and the
water has to b pumped into a system
of cisterns M) frrl afwrt, it onorioMn
labor xad exi-mt. The Umarl
promoted by Adolf Ssti. a (cnuui
rnsiacer. ami Wim In Uh- Owm
Valley, four ratlrs mj of Uw U4
j which It b imVrxlrd to $eeo at a
depth of 2 ftvL It t ao Wi
driven ovr is fr,-t Into Ue nmo.
Ltin. ami is pnrrmg at the rule of
nbout cbly f4 ir . I r r -
pemltcnlnr heill were trl!. at
equal dbtotict Hloag Ute rou'.n. from
the aurfaer. to meet the main I
The workings from the flrt shtiil tt
the entrance met al-ottt ihrve wnr au.
Thehrcoiid.sliiiflrnciHmirZfxlabi'JTuf
water, which brl out u MHkflj
that the workmen wore o4n;ed to fW
f for their 11 ve. and the nhaft became a
well. The main tunnel runclml this
abaft In 1.S75, ami drained the wnlrr.
The third tdiuft wa also dnw:irl util.
and the fourth has not reached tho
Iwvel of the tunnel. The headway which
Is made is unexamined tn the hUfory
of engineering, owing partly to the firm
nature of the rock, and the question of
its completion i.s only a matter of n
short time. A ganglion of tnatiob w ill
follow the vettw in nil directions, and
the water will drain itielf inlo U
Carson river, while the ore ami wute
rock will . easily run out on lU-
horizontal railroad.
PmsriH in (o-UMrtiuii.
Although co-oix-ratlon tnsouie of iU
stages ex KsNhI among the moil primi-
tive race, and since the esirliet hlatorv
it is only in the puenl ovenltttl eni
that it has been onabhsl to arrive nt tin
tnost vigorous or aptHMal growth, aiM U
give evidence that it is ln'lng mieuluit
understood in its due relations to latxir
and to human progress. As to what-
ever right comH'titlon iiuj claim to
have hail in the past of being a toad
for society to unveon,cviHiaUon now
also lays claim b ln'ing another rond :
and one of the few great lehHOiw that
the world has received is the one tluit
ltochdale gave by cM)Mratim in proof
of this, and the importune' if which
keeps extending into the futuie. Ce
operation, espcially in it.n modern
feature of development, repn'nts one
of the most practical qualities or inhe-
rent natural lorces tliat wo nnvean
idea of, and has )rotl itself not only
a great, but also a growing jnnvcr, and
the main great diffusing ont by which
God's gifts from the land and lalxir can
lHconveyel to tho masses of His crea
tures; and has substantially and sci
entifically taught that God h.'is abun
dantly provided for them, and that
deficient and unscientific rnuaus of pro
duction and distribution have been the
chief causes in preventing man from
realizing so much of his goodness before.
Although co-operative sociftiita did
not becomclegal :isstciatiou.s in Muglaml
until but a little over twenty years ago. j
this u now greatly changed, and large
nuinlKTSof its societies, al.so hundreds J
of thousands of members, with their
investments of millions of iKiunds st'r
ling, ace regularly entered in the Regis
trar General'rf returns. CVoperatfon
has been enabled in a comparatively
short time to successfully fight iU way
through the sneers and jooh-Hoh3 of a
bitter outside world, and h;ts already
secured to its numerous clashes of na
tional and Intcrnation: 1 ineinlH'rs a sub
stantial moneyed and mond g:Un. Co
oj)enilor3 are enabled to obtain tlu'tr
daily necessaries at a reduced cost by
their having been purchased at whole
sale; and by this, and the expenses of
selling and distributing being small, and
by no profit being charged against thorn,
are enabled from time to time to accu
mulate new funds in the hands of the
societies, which are available for fur
ther co-ojerative progress. In the com
petitive system, every man struggles for
himself; but by co-ojeration, every man
who is struggling for himself is strug
gling to help others up with him ; while
with the present ordinary industrial
conditions of society a want of due or
ganization or co-operative control and
development exists, which causes the
action of supply and demand to be so
materially changed Unit they do not
work in harmony, and are divorced
from the real -position they are fitted
for. The general tendency of co-oper-ation
is to elevate the ieople,and its
membera are, by the inducements of
copartnership, directly interested to ex
ercise forethought, economy, and thrift
until these have become habits by which
character i3 established. It teaches com
bination in inducing good government,
and is acknowledged to have among ita
members many of the best artisans and
other workers in the country. Co-op-eratite
Ntws, Manchester, England.
A Veritable FIr-Katr.
The business of toFire-Ki3g" is as old
as the conjuror's art, but for many years
no specialist, save one, has appeared
in this line whose performance wa3
above contempt. This one is Prof. Eel
Mueab, who has just completed an en
gagement at Trimble's. The man who
drinks boiling oil, and dances in his
bare teet upon a plate of iron, red hot,
and plainly visible to the eye of his au
dience, excited the curiosity of the
writer, and in conversation, yesterday,
an interesting sketch of his career was
obtained from him. He is a Russian
by birth, his real name being Louis
Alexis, and to his ability to handle hot
j iron with impunity he adds the ac
l mplixnets of a remarkable lia-
! g. A , u zcqmUr lie m,
bNVMiM Ihm to bm
uwoum, md im h mr ? a
; tufaMfctft ouhmnt 4rt; U rrh
, k o -- u t Uht
i j, vflntltt In Itf lt wijm
t, to ,. rvfevtfNwx tn IMS, hi JUtf.
J t0itm rmlt tgktvr klt j,
1 4yim aftgC w Ht rifctil t
p mkim aal I U
ugfm u rttv. Hto fca 'l t
rfc.4. ,',, fc. wiataK! i
ijimist Wtb 5WM a, A
, Vtmi tm iv mrr. i Uamsbl
u fUc bar t Ha fokutrv
jto tll hte Mffetll vmc. wj .
UfJ A mU . j,
, w. j. ,v Vtm L-.-jki. -.
, . ,.., lm,,i wi.-if s !itW.
I " 4 ww."-" vmr t -
( Cmjne GuUtr. ia StorXhoIm. r nlflM.
Tbe ty ws piv4mMU4y wtj rwuw
lK. d &A)" b tSlsnuvnrt'fcl a trtilj-o
for tnakm? tic limh imetwtUe u rr4
W In. Um nam lKitt Altifa ?tr f
8, atwl be t otKm mado an njrtm:
with Lb nvlp, fti ! w o uwtfat
Ibni lib brief t&lrnU, b bx Ijmw
hnWw xm whkUthm Wtwt. Ktmgi
rMl1rk mi iiui ot DmmarV.
Ylr-UT of j. b, bm &
j a,,, oo uf ue , Ca.
jttlnmllJt, i f Wale. Ki;kvwL
j h,. b prfwrwej l all tbe ctmtrV
i KwropvWMl in bli niwhUs. Ha-- afl-
i Urwl a kuowWdjjo of U KwRlfah.
French, fiiMwut. lUdU,Sinlh. H-
! sut. I'ollsit, ,svilb. Dantohaw! Aratk-
iwiuHni w wHiMii'w wt w"wiii
Tb ripn. 'T ibu mtt wbJtsk hob-
i tains ouuliHe an Immuuity f'im
the effect of ftre. Uo of omtnni will not
J diviiljce. Hu Miy. lwrvrr, Umt the
i eliemtrat is of a rbmkr ntir. Aftir
j lie hu pTepuml ti Mtrfnce of Ub kt
i lor lite Are t-t lU hottl mUd trh
cool to hiw. anl h" la not ttlUgel t r
Mrt to any jcttt! to reaioro hi V.ln
ti lUi itnlttrRl ootwiilbm nfte.r the appli
cation to it of n limited lnlta. Te
IkHHujc oil he drinkN w ttlwMjt arrAiting
special protection for libtUtronlorntitn
iu'Ii. H lu lmlHtnattx! hitn.ii'lf to the
practice, and tlMtuh It lmrnn hto throat
a little m )mMiif(. nftr 11 Iwa Ur.n
j nwalkiwel he h mi further trmtbln.
His HMnlmr of Ore and hml neTi
not to have efft't-l Uli ;4iynicul organ
ialioii. 1 1 ks a man f iiiOMtvo f none,
and the plctir of IhkiIUi. and hh tlilr-ty-three
yiiuh it aw lightly uon hlrn
an if Ittri intMlenf lift! hl Imm-u of th
least lringcharat!tr. i'fttttirj Di
patch. Water a it i.tiury.
aJr hrui other qualUlen Utan th
allaying of Ute thirst. It ha-a perma
nent determination to evaporate which
nature obeys, and an it cannot tv.iinitn
without bent, it iottlvidy dniInHhei
in the proe of heiiting our riHuit.
Pan5 ut water. Ui cooler the letter.
statnuied nlnxit a le'lrxrn. will j-nl-
thely rcduc: lhi heat, not the Benaallon
of hunt, but tho hwt llMrif. J.et any
lxdy that doubta that have hi tub, with
l'fl shallow d.'pth ami width, ftlled with
hpring-water, or water w itti a gynl block
of ice in it, ami piiwd in bin bedroom
and mark In half an hour how many
dgre5 the thermometer ban fallen. It
ought to Ik six degm nt least, ntul
will m tight If ho to notjttingy with
his ice, and the improvement, equiva
lent in comfort to a fire on a winter's
night, will last for hours. If that U
utill insuuVient. let him throw up hi
bedroom windows, fasten an old blanket
or traveling rug across the apace and
drench Unit well with water, and In five
minutes the air In the room will b re
duced to that water's lerniraturr.
Xever rnind about breeze. The air will
seek the cooler placo of itself, without
being driven in from the outside, an
the tempenture will decline alrnoat in
stantaneously to a reasonable point.
Xot one of these exjJlentn nefesalt.it
any architectural improvements, or any
change of Labits, or any exixrrw; what
ever, though a shilling or two laid out
on ice will r;.ake the improvement more
rapid, ami in case o' a ilck room, or
any one who really suffers from heat
sufferers as If In Mckness, we mean
will be money well laid out. And so in
the cas of little children, especially,
will a few shillings on the sheet of
woven cane we have unfortunately
forgotten the trade name which is
tLV-d m the hottest corners of Eat
India anl China for pillow-cases and
sofa-covers. The silica with which
thb material is coated will not get
warm, and cvtj other covering that
we are acquainted with will. It keeps
perfectly dry, cannot get dirty, and can
be procured as soft as any covering that
was ever placed on a mattress. There
is hardly any luxury like it in intense,
and stifling ba, ami we have known
sick people, half maddened with beat
acting on exhausted frames, sleep on it
when sleep seemed otherwise unprocu
rable. With plenty of wholesome water,
wetted blankets for window curtains.
and a sheet of cane, nor one ought to
be rendered sleepless by heat, or indeed,
unless he pti3kts in gorging himself
with the food which he neds only la
cold weather, to suffer any appreciable
discomfort.
There is much less of obtaining
money under false pretense than for
merly, probably owing to tbe difficulty
of obtaining money under any je-tacse.