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General News.

Albany, March 3l.-The freshet continues.
Aaius on the Huds on River q n. y. c. R.B-
are all delayed. Only one track of the for
ner Is In use and that under water IA many
places Accounts from various points report
great damage TO property.
Washington, March 3l.-The Senate re-
celyed the House concurrent resolution to
sdJoarn on the 9th of April The motion to
table was lost and discussion ensued-
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The Railroad Frauds. a grand
sWindle projected.

New York, ApriI The Tribune's special
saws the Ku klux at Greenyille, all yesterday
attempted TO murder 5. ;. Gardner, Probate
Judge of BUtIer Co., who shot while sit
ting near a window. The wound it i thought
Will be fatal.
The Times ssys the examination before the
Court OF Justice, will develop the most mon
strous frauds an Pacific railroad matters. The
Vice President of the Union Pacific, when
forced to testify, admitted the construction
contracts had been made at rates ranging
from $4,000 TO 500, ,000 pee mile, prices nOto-
TiousIy three times the actual cost of con-
structlon TO the company. Comparing these
prices with the receipts, II appears they are
calculated with great exactness TO strip the
company as such, of every penny by lts
frauds So its property will soon be sold
under foreclosure of Its first mortgage
bonds leaving tie United States in the lurch
for ats paltry loans of so to 80 millions.
Rtcms.
Washington, April 1.-The bids for the
great spring mail letting will be opened to-
dav. About $500 routes are to let. About
10000 bids have been received
The German residents OF washington en-
tert..ined Carl Schurz with dinner yesterday.
London. April The country near Cape
town, Africa, 400 miles by 90, has been
burned; but few natives perished-
New York, March 81 After tomorrow a
rigid quarantine will be established on all
vessels from southern ports.
General Sickies declines the mission TO
Mexico.
A Washington special says Boutwell, has
concluded 20 dismigs all special agents of
the Treasury, because he don't know which
is honest aud which not. It l. believed III
vestigation after dismissal will prove the
ones really worthy.
Washington, April len Stoneman IS
ordered By the President 20 accompany his
regiment 10 TIE Pacific coast
London, April 1.-The royal commission
20 investigate the naturalization laws report
recommending the enactment of law recog-
mixing naturalization abroad as alternating
British subjects from allegiance to England,
and propose a total abolition of the dlsabili-
ties of aliens 20 hold landed property.
Washington, April The public debt
statement shows a decrease of two and nalt
millions. Total debt less cash In Treasury,
1875. .f96,45 Total bonds issued the Pa
cifc railroad, S56.s52. 800
What the Hill does.
New York, April 1.-The best opinions rel
atiye TO the Tenure Of Office bill hold that re-
lnovals during IA session Of Congress are COM
pleted when the Senate confirms a successor,
1,,f aurrnpr n recess the President may suspend
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WhaI the BiII does.

New York, April 1.-The best opinions rel
ative TO the Tenure Of Office bill hold that re-
lnOvals during IA session of Congress are COM
pleted when the Senate confirms a successor,
cut during a recess the President may suspend
by appointing a temporary successor when
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Helena, NJ. T., March 81.
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on by the committee. The bill as originally
passed Al the Senate agreed to make direct
vote refusing 10 conhrm an appoIntee an or
made by the committee provides that the sus-
pended oticeT shall be reinstated at the end
OF the next session Of the Senate unless his
successor Is confirmed. After brief remarks
by Thurman, the report of the committee
was agreed tn 10 to s.
The following voted Nsy: Bayard. Casser
ly, Davis, McCreery, Sprague. Stockton.
thurman and Eickers
The Senate went into executive session aud
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Cusbins's Canal Treaty report
cd against.

New York, April 1.-The Committee o,
Foreign Relations of the Columbian Senat,
reported against cushing's treaty for th,
Isthmus canal.
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to do &C. Young Mogg has a taste for literature,
having contributed verses, under the pseu-
donym of "Ggom," to the "Poets Corner of
the little paper published in the small town
where he used to live with his mother (whom he
helps TO support) before he came to the giddy
metropolis. He has been twice taken to the
theatre by the director, and has thence imbibed
a longing to be a burlesque-writer. He once got
up an extravaganza at Fuzby Mansion, called
Goody Ttoo Shoes, in which Shook and spratt
were hero and heroine (and Shook was rather
disappointed that she couldnot appear in tights,
as the Prince; but the other boorders invited
some outside friends to swell the audience, who
laughed SO necessarily that Mogg became dimly
conscious that the laughter was more than the
piece fairly deserved.
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,NsvRANOE.

DELAwARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSU
IL RANCE COMPANY. incorporated by the Legs
hture Of Pennsylyania, 1876
Once g. E corner Of THIRD and WALNUT Streets,
N' - Philadephia.
MARINE INSURANCES
On Vessels Cargo and Freight o Al parts Of the world
INLAND INSURANCES
On goods by river canal lake. and land carriage 70 all
parts Of the Union.
FIRE INSURANCES
On Merchandise generally on Stores, Dwellings, Houses,
Etc
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This poor lady is the widow of professional
man. He paid SO much in income tax in the
wear and tear of his brain as would have pur-
chased q comfortable annuity for her and her
child when he was killed in a railway accident.
He ought to have insured in "The Accidental"
of course--but when man has to keep up q
position suitable to his profession, and must pay
from ten to sixteen pounds year income tax on
his hard earnings, it is not so easy to spare that
small four pounds for insurance. His health
had been so delicate no life insurance would
have accepted it, So the poor little woman is
living on a pittance made up of contributions
from her father Ga small house-agent and her
husbands family. e., two brothers, lawyer
in decent practice and stockbroker.
One of the pleasant amusements of Spratt and
Shook is to throw out doubts as to whether the
pretty widow was ever married. Mrs. Major
B. considers that she is far too familiar with
that young man Mogg-"she doesn't believe in
those quiet ones"-because Mogg finds the
widow the only one who does not at some time
or other snub and despise him, and because the
widow treats the respectful little fool like a
weak younger brother The old buck posters
her with his silly attentions, though he dare not
be rude to her, having been taken to task for
attempting a liberty by the Major, who never
deals in inuendo in her presence, and, in fact,
is quite tame performing elephant for her
sake, carrying her rather plain child about on
his back when commanded by that interest
ing juvenile.
Perhaps, in spite of the scandal of Spratt and
Shook, the queries OF Mrs. b., and the persecu-
tions ofthe buck, our little widow is the one
who is the most happy in FUZZY Mansion
Mogg is attentive, the Major polite, and her
child the whole world to her. Hers is nature
which, while il is insensble TO the scandal and
sneers, is peculiarly grateful for small kind
nesses.
And thus ends the chronicle of Fuzby Man
sion.
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These are the two dear young things that set
down our old buck as monster of iniquty,
but don't love him the less for it. The fair
curled beauty is Miss Spratt, whose silky mou-
stache and beard are the envy of young Mogg
Ito be hereafter mentioned). The other beauty
is Miss Shook, an intellectual being. The sole
employment of these dear souls is scandal.
They hatch-up the most dreadful stories about
all the other boarders, and confde them to one
another. Do they seandalize each other? Yes
in. confidence to the Majors wife, of whom
more anon. spratt and Shook both live by divi-
dends and the abuse of an unappreciative male
sex. Each dreams of hooking the old buck, and
enc has even gone SO far as to angle for young
Nogg Shall say which ?-Nol
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NUMBER CCXxIx.
LIFE IN LODGINGS.
MON London Fun.

From London Fun.
In order to give thoroughly exhaustive ac-
account of life in lodgings, we have to make ex-
cursions beyond the strict limits of lodging-life
into the realm of boarding-houses. The board
ing-house, to the logical mind, is but lodging
house 'with difference"-or di6erentid, as the
lamented Aldrich ingenously puts it. It is
lOdging-house, in short, with sort of club, or
common room. 1t bears the same relation to
the lodging-house that Wombwell's menagerie
bears to the Geological Gardens. In the latter,
the elephant can hear the roar of the lion, and
the monkeys know the voices of the cockatoos
In the former, the animals all live under each
others observation. The lion sees the elephant
go through the degrading performance of ring
ing bell for gingerbread nuts; but then the
elephant sees the lion knocked about by q negro
'Lion King" And the monkeys look on-they
cannot be subjected to any performance that
can lower them in the eyes of their fellow
brutes; and the cockatoes chatter-they are be-
meath the contempt of the big beasts But the
worst of it is, that the monkeys on the strength
of initiating humanity, and the cockatoos, be-
cause they can chatter in human tongue, set
themselves up the cream of society,"
That is the worst of boarding house. All
the inhabitants, being poor, live in a scrambllng
and petty sort of way; but those who ape the
possession of means are always sneering at the
honestly hard-up. Give me-says the philoso-
pher who pens this-the dire straits of a solitary
lodging to the affected independence of full
clearinghouse! But it is time we should sur
Vey the creatures in our menagere.
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This is Major Bigglesby's wife, and below is
Major Blgglesby, II. p. I put the couple in this
order out of an inherent respect for the rules of
precedence. Apart from the fact that Mrs. B. is
practically the head of the family, she once had
an aunt who married the younger brother of a
Scotch nobleman. Mrs. B. is the common re-
ceptacle of the scandals Shook and Spratt invent
about each other and lives in sort of perpe-
tual mental goose-skin in consequence. AS the
Major will, in his gallant old soldier style, occa-
sionally firt with those giddy young things, her
soul is sorely vexed. When she catches him at
it she calls him to her side, thus
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This is young Mogg. He looks like fool
and let me add that he is incapable of deceiying
you, so that he doesn't look like the thing he is
not. The old buck once induced him to smoke
a cigar-but it is the only dissipation he has
ever been known to indulge in-and he suffered
for It'll He is a very subordinate clerk in an in
Gurance Office, and would be dismissed to-mor-
row If he were not the poor relation of
director who would have to support him out of
his oYp pocket II he could not get the company
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The clerk of a coclSney church recently made
the following announcement to the congrega-
tion:-"You are desired to attend meeting in
the vestry at o'clock, to consider on the best
means of eating the church and to digest other
matters"
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COIORED PREAonnRs-Blu Presbyterlans.
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LEOAL NOTICES.

TINTED STATES PATENT OFFICE,
~ WASHINGTON, ID. O., May 26, 1869.
On the petition of M. RIEHL of Philadelphia Pa,
praying for the extension of patent granted TO him
the 26ah of August 1856 reissued 4th
May 1869, for improvement in Machine for Trimming
Books.
II ordered that said petition be heard this office
the 9Th day of August Any may oppose this
extension Objections, depositions, and other
should be filed in this Office twenty days before the day
hearing. SAMUEL s. FISHER,
8 90 SGT Commissioner of Patents.
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"B,, dear !"--apause-'B B., my love e!'-ancther
pause-"B. !" and then the Major comes at once.
He's good old boy, and bears his disappoint-
ments and hardships with a silence that sheds
on him more nobility than Mrs. BIS distant con-
nection with the Scotch peerage does on her.
His only failing is addiction to whisky-and-
water, which warns him up to the relation of
anecdotes that make the old buck chuckle, and
cause Mogg to blush up to his parting.
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Who is the fastest woman mentioned in the
Bible e?-Herodias-when she got ahead of John
the Baptist on a charger.
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Il am burning to be at the enemy again." as
the man whose physician had advised him to
| give up smoking remarked when he lit a fresh
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NA4yNAr coQKmq-BOlllng Of tne blood.
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Here you observe the lion of the establish
ment. He is an old buck in reality; but he and
all his fellow-boarders think him lion. The
single lades-who are old enough to know
something of the world without any risk of
being held precocious-think him sad dog.
He has pink notes waiting him on the break
fast-table-has been known to dine (with bon
metz at Richmond-and was discovered flirting
with the young lady in q pastrycook's shop by
two of the dragons of prudery specially retained
at Fuzby Mansion. (The boarding-house under
notice is two private houses rolled into one, and
rejoices in the distinguished title of Fuzby Man
sion, taking its name from the retired butler
who-if l may use the term-inaugurated it)
The old buck is really harmless old being, who
delights to be considered a naughty one The
pink notes come from his sisters. The Irritation
at the pastrycook's cost no more than penny
bun and bottle of lemonade. The dinner at
Richmond is, l fear, pure fiction. His naughti-
ness-like his cgars--is a cheap enjoyment.
His most expensive habit is coat with fur
facings-but it has seen many winters, and has
almost 'worlled its passage" by this time.
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What two sciences are employed by teamsters
in driving oxen -Halo-ticulture and qee-oloovl
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nSEn PORTANT TO BUYERS OF
~ HOSIERY.-Messrs. COOK q BROTHER, I'm
porters of Hosiery, No 90 North EIGHTH Street, claim to
be the only firm in Philadelphia keeping all grades of
Hosiery at RETAIL who import their goods. They feel
assured
First That by avoiding the profits and commissions inn
posed IN the ordinary course OF trade they their
toners at least 25 per cent.
Second That they have the quality of their goods under
complete control using the best and employing the
best worhmen in their manufacture.
Third That having direct access to European markets,
they keep a complete stock than If dependent
upon purchases made here of foreign goods
call from the reader is solicited their store No SO
North EIGHTH Street. B wsip3m
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DRAwMG-RooMs-on of the regular apart
ments of dentist
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How . shoal of Betters We're Hooked.
From the Cincinnati Gazette

At one of the hotels of the city few
days ago, guest was holding converse
| ton with the clerk, ana anxiously await
ing until the great doors which separated
him from dinner should be thrown open.
In the midst of the conversation a woman
came into the hall, and after casting a
quick and glarcing search over all, walk.
ed boldly to the desk, and laid her hand
The fair one was evidently excited and
regret to say, profanely to the gentleman:
You are the man [ want she said,
and then she proceeded to declare that
she was miliiner, doing business at
SO Fourth street.
You passed this $40 counterfeit bill
on me-" saying which she drew from her
pocket the bill she charged him with
having given to her.
The gentleman appeared somewhat as
tonished, but he drew forth-fortunate
man that he was able to do it-a roll of
bills, and handed her $40 in good money.
Just then the lofty door swung open,
ION iron hinges turning" and the hungry
man went to his dinner. Dinner over,
the man found himself in conversation.
al mood, and related the Gil cumstances
to some of those around him.
At last the bill was produced, and opin-
ions In regard to it were found to be quite
diverse, the larger part, however, of the
company inclining to the belief that it
was poor After more discussion, betting
began. the man who had received it from
the woman taking all bets that were Of
fered that it was bad $40 to S., $25 to
$40, and in one case 500 to S. were
offered and accepted that the bill was
bad
Then began a race and chase among
the banks and bankers. To the conster-
nation of the betters-or rather all but
one of them--the bill was everywhere
pronounced good one. and the man who
had had such faith in it found himself a
winner to the amount of $500.
The singular part of the story is that,
on inquiry, it was found that the build
ing No. SO Fourth street was not eccu-
pied by milliner, and no such woman
as was described was known to persons
in the neighborhood.
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"Please Don't Step There Sir"

A layer of snow was spread over the
icy streets, and pedestrians shod with
india-rubbcr, walked carefully towards
the village church on a cold Sabbath
morning Al February.
Walking somewhat hastily churchward,
for was late, | noticed bright looking
little lad standing upon the pavement
with his cap in his hand and his eyes
fixed upon one spot in the sidewalk. As
[ approached him he looked up to me,
and pointing to the place, said
please don't step there, sir, slipped
there and fell down
l thanked the philanthropio little fell
spot.
Dom step there" was the theme of
my medltatlons during the remainder of
the walk.
A thousand times since, has the clear
voice of that kind hearted child rung in
my ar, reminding me of my duty to those
around me and urging me to repeat wher-
ever it promises to be useful, Please.
sir don't step there II
When see youth entering the path
of the Sabbath breaker [ would cry,
Don't step there!''
When see boy tempted to go with
youths who drink. smoke, or gamble, l
would say, Don't step there!"
When [ see boys or girls commencing
a course of disobedience to parents,
would say, ''Don't step there!"
As on the path of life we tread,
We come to many place
Where, if not careful, may fall,
And sink in sad disgrace
Some idle habit. word, or thought,
Some sin, however small,
May make stumble in the path,
Ard, stumbling may fall.
Our fellow travellers on the road,
Well watch with anxious care,
And when they reach some dangerous spot,
Wen warn them-"Dont step there"
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One Saturday night recently party
of Germans gathered in the barroom of
the New York Brewery at Haywood,
Cal, for spree lager flowed free and
fast, songs were sung, and many bumper
was drunk to the honor of the dear
Fatherland. Finally, on time" being
called for another round one of the par
ty, named Hess, failed to respond, and
his friends who supposed he was playing
off, suggested a little amusement at his
expense. 1t was proposed to have a
mock funeral. A ladder was procured,
and the inebriated Teuton stretched upon
it. The pall-bearers selected, process
sion was formed, and the party marched
about the room, carrying their insensble
companion. They hummed the dead
march, sang dirges and hymns, and final
ly repaired to barn in the rear of the
brewery to perform the burial rites. The
mock ceremonies being over, they re.
paired to the bar-room, ordered up more
lager, and patiently waited, expecting
every moment to see the corpse" enter.
But he came not, and upon repairing to
TIE place of his 'interment," they found
that the man was indeed dead.
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WHAT DRINKS COST. Once in a viii

w HAT DRINKS COST. -Once In while
pensive man may be heard to say ::
Il wish | had all the money back that
[ have spent in drinks for the past ten
years. Not one man in twenty who,
retrospectively gazing, gives Inference to
that wish, has in his mind approximating
estimate of the amount which person
of even moderate bilulous propensities
may spend upon drink in the space of
ten years. Leaving wines and expensive
liquors quite out of the question, let US
see what plain cocktailist or modest i'm
biber of old rye is likely to disburse on
his favorite refreshments in the course Of
year. Take a very moderate man as a
sample. Assume that he drinks every
day one glass of ale at ten cents, and four
glasses of whisky at fifteen. That
amounts to seventy cents day, which
makes four dollars and ninety cents a
week. Multiply by four, you have nine
teen dollars and sixty cents month,
which comes, you know, to two hundred
and thirty-fv dollars and twenty cents a
year. Thus, if the man who had carried
on at this rate for ten years had all his
liquor money back, his Docket would be
inflated TO the tune of twcnty-three hun
bred and ifty-two dollars. This is only a
small beer calculation; bat think of the
men who spend FIVE times this amount on
liquors, and remember that their name
is legion N y World
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Population In the World.

There are on the globe about 1884,
100000 of souls, of which 100000, 600
are OF the Caucasian race; $4,000, 900
are OF the MongOl race 100, 900, 900 are
of the Ethiopian race; It's, 900, 900 are
of the Indo-American race.
There are 3642 languages spoken and
1OO2 different religions.
The yearly mortality of the globe is
333, 333, 333 persons. That is at the rate
OF 81, 554 per day, $3.50 per hour, 60 per
minute. 10 each pulsation of our heart
marks the decease of some human crea-
ture.
The average of human life is 80 years.
One-fourth of the population dies at or
before the age of years.
One half at or before II years.
Among 600 persons, one arrives at
the age of 100 years. one in 500 the age
OF 80, and one in 100 lives to the age of
60.
Married men live longer than single
ones. In 10000 persons, IS marry, and
more marriages occur in June and De-
cember than in any other months of the
year.
One-eighth of the whole population is
military.
Professions exercise great influence
on longevity. In 1000 individuals who
arrive at the age of 70 years, 40 are priests
orators or public speakers, 40 are agricul
turlsts, 33 are workmen. so soldiers or
military employees, 20 advocates or en-
gineers, 81 professors, and "a doctors.
Those who devote their lives to the pro-
longatlon of others. die the soonest.
There are 335, 900, 900 Christians.
There are 5000, 900 Isarelites.
There are 90, 900, 900 Asiatic religious
There are 200, 900 Pagans.
IN the Christian churches, ITO, 100000
profess the Roman Catholic.
75,O00.000 profess the Greek faith.
so, 100000 profess the Protestant
Leisure Hours.