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OIn PROBABILITIES.

l suppose it will come to this-attached
to cards of invitation sent out week or
two in advance:
"Guests living on the East Side will Or
der their carriages at lip NJ. on account
of rain at 11:30 P. NJ. AS there will be on
ly slight shower ON the West Side, car
riages from that side at conVenince of
guests"
And this to advertisements of concerts
and the like:
Performances will conclude at 10 P. NJ,
allowing ample time for audience to reach
home before the Storm"
Emo more anxious Watchings at windows
those days-no more surprises, scamperings,
hundling together as at picnics, in the sweet
old shrieking fashion. Nobody who reads
the newspapers will ever get caught in the
rain. " I
Then, Of course, when Mr.. Leakin sue
ceeds in securing general recognition for his
Law of Periodiclty, nothing will ever "hap-
pen" at all. The word s'accident" will lie
marked obsolete in the dictionary, as so
many other good words have been already
marked. Things will take place, suppose,
in their regular sequence. as foreordained
and foretold. Life will be Morphy- -Paulsen
game of chess; except that we shall keep on
pushing the men around, in night-mareish
sort of way, after "cheCkmate il. seventeen
moves" has been announced.
It's all of a piece--weather probabilities;
Leakin's Law; composition back-logs; cast
iron tree stumps; spring -fastenings to keep
children from kicking off bed clothes; can
ned vegetables; steam yachts on the Sea OF
Galilee; parlor skates; and protoplasm.
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A CURIOUS INCIDENT.

Mr.. Flauddin, in his narrative of resi-
dence in Persia, relates curious Incident
which occurred while he was at Ispahan:
"The Persian servant of European had
been stIDg BY scorpion, and his master
wished to apply ammonia, the usual remedy
in such cases, but the man refused, and
ran off to the bazaar. When he returned
he said he was cured, and appeared to be
30. The European, rather surprised at this
almost instantaneous cure, questioned him,
and found that he had been to dervish,
who, he said, after examining the wound
and uttering few words, had several times
touched it with little iron blade. Still
more astonshed at the remedy than the
cure, the European desired to see the in
strument by which the latter wss said to
have been effected. At the cost Of a small
pickech he was allowed to have it
for a few minutes in bis possession. After
a careful examination, finding nothing ex-
traordinary in the instrument, he made up
his mind that the cure was a mere trick;
that the dervish was an imposter; that the
scorpion sting had not penetrated, and that
his servant had been more frightened than
burt. He threw the blade contemptuously
upon the table, when, to his great surprise,
he beheld it attach itself strongly to knife.
The quack's instrument was simply mag
net. But what power had the loadstone's
attraction over venom? This discovery was
very odd. Incredulity was at nonplus,
and yet the man stung by the scorpion was
cured, and the man who had cured him was
in great renown at Ispahan for the treat
ment of that sort of wound.
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TAPPING TOPHET.
A Pennsylvania Gas weiI-Eemnrka-
bic Phenomenon.

The TitusviIle Courier of the 9th ulC.
gives the following interesting particulars
of the Newton well, six miles north of that
CITY: 1t has been down about twenty days,
and has continuously poured forth such a
volume of gas that It was found Impossible
to pump it, as the valves would not work.
The tubing was pulled Wednesday and the
well ceased in order to let the gas blow OF,
so that it might be pumped. After the
casing was put in, the sand pnmp was low
cred for the purpose of sgitating the well,
and the gas raised column OF water,
throwing a solid stream into the air hum
dred feet. The noise was terrific, and could
be heard for distance of more than two
miles. The noise was something like the
loud roar of thunder, and when the column
burst at the top it threw the water each
way for fifteen rods from the well. The
water was exhausted in about twenty-five
minutes, and then a column of gas followed,
rising with tremendous force fifty feet
above the derrick. The outpouring Of the
gas makes a roaring noise that can be
distinctly heard for two miles from the
well. The noise around sounds like the
rushing of WhirlTind. The column can
be seen mile from the well. No tools
can be put into the well. As soon as the
attempt is made, with such force does the
gas come out that the tools are carried into
the air. From descriptions of eye wit
nesses this is probably the greatest gas
well ever struck in the oil region. Up TO
last evening the gas showed no signs of
being exhausted. The p9ople in that vi
cinity are very much alarmed, and the cat
tie run about the fields perfectly wild with
fright.
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TERRIBLE FIRE.
A Minnesota Widow and Eight Chill.
dfeu Burned I'm the Flames.

dreu Burned in the Flames.
From the St Paul Dispatch, July 8.
A most terrible calamity occurred between
10 and IL o'clock Saturday night, In Re-
serFe township, about 81 miles from the city.
Joseph WesSlnSer formerly lived and work.
ed a twenty acre tfact of land in Reserve
township. His house was not situated on
any Travelled road, but was about midway
between the Reserve road which branched
off from Foft street and the extension of
Summit avenue. Three years ago last fall
he died, leaving his wife, Madeline Wessing-
er, forty-eight years old, and eight
children. The widow and children coDtiR-
ued living upon and working the twenty
acres until Saturday night, when the terri
BILE calamity we are about to record came
upon them.
The children were Charles. nineteen years
of age; Catl,arine, seventeen; William, nj
teen; Tracy, Ga girl) thirteen; Joseph, ten;
Christiana, eight; Madeline, five; Mary,
three and half. The house in which they
lived was one story and half frame, hay-
ing down stairs q kitchen with sitting
room and bed room. Up stairs there was
but one room. In the bed room
down stairs the mother, William,
Madeline and Mary slept. Up stairs,
Charlie, Catharine, Tracy, Joseph and
Christina had their beds. They returned
about ten O'Clock Saturday night, and half
an hour later Catherine was STaEened by
a sitting sensation, which she found TO be
occasioned by smoke coming up from the
kitchen below. The stairway from the
chamber led into the kitchen, and she
found upon opening the door that the
means Of escape vas cut of. She aroused
her brot Ter Charles, and sprang through
window which opened upon shed
and from the shed leaped to the ground.
Charles jumped to the ground from another
Windows thinking he might arrest the pro-
gress of the fire, and Catharine broke in
the window in her mothers room and
aroused her to her danger, but she and all
the children with her were considerably
burned. Charles finding the flames could
not be stayed, climbed back into the cham
Der 10 save the children. He found Tracy
and dropped her out of the window. He could
hear Christina moving about the room
and grouped about to find her, but did not
succeed, and finally, after being terribly,
and 1t is feared fatally burned, was COM
PEELED to abandon her and Joseph to the
flames.
During yesterday the charTed remains OF
the two children were found, and such Dor.
tiors as were not wholly destroyed were
placed in coffin and buried in the Catholic
cemetery. From the location of the body
it is thought that Joseph never awoke, but
was burned in his bed.
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urVv USE FOR LIQUOR.

The seizure of liquor by the State con-
stable in Massachusetts, furnishes many re-
fresbing little incidents which help to make
life tolerable in that dry and thirsty land.
at North Adams the other day a resolute
officer seized a jar of something and took it
before magistrate, when the following in
teresting examination took place:
The attorney for the prisoner asked the
constable if he knew il was liquor. He
replied:
aYes, it was rum; drank some OF 1t. }"
The prisoner, a woman, was called.
"Did you have any liquor in your house
when the State constable called there?"
ayes, | had some in jar"
"How long have you had it?"
"About six months"
ssDid you have it for sale?"
"Oh, no; don't sell liquor"
"What did you keep this rum for?''
sI kept it to wash the baby"
~Had you ever washed the baby in this
rum?"
aOh, yes, often; used TO turn the rum
out in dish, wash the baby in it, and then
turn it back into the jar"
There was laughter in court, and the
State constable declared that he would seize
no more liquor kept in jar.
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FOREIGN.
FRANCE.
Draining the Cup Of Taxation to the
Dregs.

Draining the Cup Of Taxation to the
Dregs.
VERSAILLES, July y There was an
intensely exciting debate in the Assembly
this evening on the proposal made by Gas
conde to increase the taxes by licenses on
doors, windows and household furniture.
Theirs accepted the measure AID main
tained that if it was not adopted he would
be under the necessity Of reyerting to the
tax on materials from which ninety-three
millions could be realized of the two
hundred millions francs required. Tnecup
he said is bitter, but it must be drained
without finching to the dregs.
Members of the Right insisted on more
conservative policy.
Theirs replied; The government are the
repairers, not the authors of the revolution
that entrusted us with the republic.
The Right with one voice vociferated
"No, no." and the Left gave three round
cheers for the President.
After prolonged disorder and interruption
of the proceedings, Thiers again made him
self heard, and promised to explain his poli-
cy at later day. Quiet was then restored
and the sitting closed in good order.
A government crisis is apprehended in
consequence of these manifestations.
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TENNESSEE NEWS.

He. Slaughter has been reelected Su-
perintendent of the Public Schools of Mem
phis.
: Business men in Chattanooga say they
have not experienced such close times for
years.
Ar infant of ]. c. Jarnigan, Of Jackson,
While asleep in its mothers arms, was re-
Gently attacked by rat.
Rich mines of lead and silver are reported
as found on John Hoods farm, on Cliach
river, Il miles from Kingston.
Frank Henley, an spprehended convict,
and VIM. Hudson, a murderer, tried to
break Jail al Sommeryille Tuesday night,
July 8.
A man named Baker, charged with the
larceny of watch and $50 from Mr.. Low
cry, was arrested on the 9th inst. at Chat
tanOoga.
The Chattanooga Herald of the 18th
inst. says: The health Of the city is better
than it was ten days ago. At that time,
there was considerable complaint of the
flux, but now there are but few cases Of
that or any other complaint.
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NEW YORK.


The Memory of William Of Orange.
NEW YORK, July l2.-About 200 Or
angemen peaceably paraded to-day eccom-
pane ed by 1900 poliee'
ANOTHER DfsPArcH.-Tbe procession
OF Orangemen to-day was most orderly and
imposing. About $500 men paraded.
The Eight-hOur Collapse.
The Employers Central Executive Com
nittee continue to hold daily sessions here,
making preparations previous TO forming q
combination of all employers in the United
States to guard against strikes Of workmen
in future.
Tbs Eight-hour League Executive Com
mittee assent to allowing men to remain at
work ten hours where they now do so, and
let those under the eightahour system try
and maintain it. The committee won't
be maintained throughout the summer in
making preparations for strike next year,
as all hope of the eight hour system be-
coming general was now abandoned.
The stokes Trial.
Tremaine concluded argument for de-
tense in the Stokes case a. 3:15 P. NJ,
when the District Attorney Garvpn began
the address for the people which consumed
the rest of the day and viii be concluded
TO morrow.
murderous CareIessn ess. .--
The Coroner's jury in the case OF the
deaths from the recent accident on the
South Side Railroad, returned verdict to
the effect that the deaths were due TO cul-
pable carelesSness and violation OF the time
table on the part of John Rathbone, con-
ductor and James Scott, engineer. Both
we're imprisoned and the papers in the case
handed to the District Attorney. .....-.
Smallpox. .--..-... s.-....
The public schools in Paterson N. j.,
are closed in consequence of the alarming
prevalence of smallpox in the city.
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TIE LONG LOST.
Has Livingstone Married q Princess
of the sun?

World London Letter.
There is some curious club talk in regard
to the great explorer whom your man
Stanley found, but could not bring away no
more than be could pluck up drowned
honor by the roots. 1t is coniectured that
Stanley did not tell all he knows; or else
that Livingstone did not permit
him to discover all there was to be
found out. A story is revived that was cur
rent some years since, but which, when it
came TO light in Cleveland paper on your
side the Atlantic, was so vigorously pooh
poohed that men fancied there was no
foundation for it. This story was to the
effect that the reason why Livingstone did
not come home was that he was happily
married in Central Africa, and could neither
bring his GEAR princess with him not tear
himself away from her fascinating
embraces. This, story, it will be remem-
bered, was said to have been brought
down to Zanzibar by Arabs trading with
Urzi. It will be remembered, moreover,
that long before Kirk or any one claimed to
have tiding Of Livingstone, either direct or
indirect, the late Sir ROderick Murchison
was In the habit of expressing himself as
being assured of the travellers visibility and
hoo,ing at the notion that there was any
truth in the report Of his having been mur-
dered.
GOSSIP points to the well-known impa-
tience of civilization manifested by Living
stone on his former Visit-his horror of
lionizipg, his disgust of book-craft-and
quotes bis declaration that it was easier to
explore Africa than TO tell about it. There
is talk of his naturally Romadic disposition,
and the well ascertained fact that habits of
life such as he has followed for so many
years, Joined to a rowing spirit, be-
come inyeterate and uncomfortable. The
ouid nuncs shake their heads and tell of
Raiah Brook, Hester Stanhope, Lady Ellen
borough, and many another English women
and men who, crazed With ''form- sickness" )"
have broken bounds and fed to savagery
for life. Livingstone, they say, expects to
come back "some of these days." when the
Ulysses spirit is quite worn out of him, but
he has no definite intentions to return at
any particular time, and his fixing two
years as the period of time necessary
to complete his discoveries by the
exploration of $50 miles of river was
mere subterfuge to get rid Of Stanley. 1t is
further insinuated that this eypatriation of
himself is an old plan; that he himself made
up the story of his murder brought back by
his Makalolo attendants, and that he has
always prevented DR.. Kirk from getting
news of him, and declined to communicate
with him until the pursuit grew so strong
he could no longer keep his existence secrer.
give you this gossip for what 1t is worth.
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sLEEPING FLOWERs.

Almost III flowers sleep during the night,
The ma! gold goes 20 bed with the sun, and
with him rises weeping. Many plants are
so sensitive that they close their leaves du
ring the passage of cloud. The dande-
lion opens at five or six in the morning, and
shuts at Eiue in the evening. The goats
beard wakes at three in the morning, aud
shuts at five or six in the evening. The
English daisy shuts up its blossom in the
evening, and opens lis ''day 's-eye' to meet
the early beams Of the morning sun. The
crocus, tulip and many Others, close their
bios sons at different hours toward the eve
ming. The iyy-leaved lettuce opens at
eight in the morning, and closes forever at
four in the afternoon. The night-hower-
ing careus turns night into day. 1t begins
TO expand its magnificent sweet-scented
blossoms in he twilight, it is full blown at
midnight, and closes, never to open again,
with the dawn Of day. In clover field not
a leaf opens till after sunrise. Those plants
which seem to be awake all night have
been called "the bats and owls Of the veg
etable kingdom" ..-
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THE PANHANDLE.
Railroad COIIisiOn-EIeven Passen-
gers MauEIed,

Railroad COlIisiOn-EIeven Passen-
gers MaDgIed.
COLUMBUS, o., July 12.--Passenger train
No. 6 going East from this city on the Pan
Handle route while near Bowerstown this
morning collided with freight train COM
ing West, and BID wreck was the result.
The baggage car telescoped the smoking
car and this caused the smoking car to re-
treat under the passenger coach, tumbling
the train off the track. Eleven persons
were so badly injured as to require some
surgical attention, while others were slight
ly scratched. Only one had bones
broken, Geo. Crosby Cincinnati grocer.
His left leg was broken and face badly cut.
The wounded were all cared for. The
cause of the accident was that the freight
train was some minutes behind time at the
BoWeTstown switch.
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THE times are producing some queer
things. When a blatant "Copperhead"
and " Rebel sympsthizer," like ex-senator
George w. Jones, of Iowa, who was sent to
Fort Lafayette, comes cut for Grant, all the
the Grant papers unite in honOring his
patriotism " but wben ex- Senator Dodge
of the same State comes out for Greeley,
he is denounced as a fossil, for whom no
body entertains respect. The following
from the Washington Republican, Grants
hand organ, is another specimen:
%'Poor Fitzpatrick, who constitutes the
majority Of the Liberal Republican party in
New Jersey, finds himself booked for i'm
mortality, as General Kil-cagalry, the man
who used up more bcrses and put fewer re-
bels horS du cOEb6Gt than any other Union
Leader of the war.'"
There was time when this about Kill
patrick would have been very disloyal, and
would have been so denounced by the Re
publican. a Republican who opposes
Grant may expect TO be abused without
stint by Grants henchmen.
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THE ELECTORAL TICKETS.
A Note from Judge james whitworth

A Note from Judge James WhitWOrth,
To the Democratic andLiberal Republican Com
mites for the State of Tennessee:
Gentlemen We are approaching a
point in our political history which
promises relief to distracted and partially
ruined country. While there is in our
State still a seeming conflict, in fact
and truth there is none. | do not intend to
20 back and review the steps Of progress
which have brought US where we are, but
will simply state that it has been the result
of the efforts Of wise and discreet men in
all parties who have been earnestly desir-
ing the country's good, rather than personal
preferences.
Taking this vieW of the case, appeal to
YOU in the interest of our commOa country
that you shall meet at once and amicahly
and harmoniously adjust our electoral tick
ct for this State, so as TO unite all the
friends of reform in the election of Greeley
and Brown.
[ am sure that with an honest effort now
on the part Of the committee above refer
red to, harmony and good feeling amongst
sll the friends of Greeley and Brown can be
effected and an electoral ticket placed in
the field that will be satisfactory to all the
supporters Of Greeley and Brown. know
there never was any desire on the part of
the Liberal Republicans in this State to in
sist upon more than that the electoral ticket
should stand squarely and Internationally
on the Greeley and Brown platform, and
that having been accomplished, there exists
no reason now why all shall not act in har-
mOny. JAMES NHIIWohIA'
July II. 1872.
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Killed the Wroug Nan.
THE INDIANS.
YanderbLIt,s Survey.

CHICAGO, July IA dispatch received
at Sioux City to-day from Fort Sully, Da-
kota, says it is reported there that about
1000 Indians have collected at a point Cd
the route to be taken by the Yellowstone
expedition which is to leave Fort Rice on
the 18th inst, and that the Indians are de-
termined to prevent if possible the survey
of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Murdered by Her Savage Husband.
A Tribune special from st. Paul says that
the sister of Allen Jordon who was chiefly
instrumental in the capture of the Indian
murders OF the Cook family, was killed a
day or two since by her husband, a full
blood Indian, its believed out of revenge
for the part taken by her brother in bring
ing the Cook family murderers to punish
ment.
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Of the Central Greeley Club, who introduc-
ed Hon. j. w. Purviance, Chairman of the
Liberal Republican Executive Committee
of West Tennessee, who addressed the
crowd In brief and pointed speech.
He was followed by Col. Looney and a
number Of candidates for Congress, the
band playing the "Battle Cry of Freedom"
"Dixie" and other Northern and Southern
airs. Among the notices were "The
bloody chRsm spanned by the bridge of
liberation" "Greeley's hatchet will top off
all the suckers at the White House,"
The meeting was the largest ever held
here.
Arkansas.
LITTLE Rock, July IA grand Greeley
and Brown ratification meeting was held
here last night and addressed by Hon. Jas.
Brooks aud others.
The Louisiana Campaign.
NEW ORLEANS, July 1.-THE Demo
cratic and Reform mass and ratification
meeting for Greeley and Brown end the
united State ticket, at the Varieties Theatre,
was large and enthusiastic. The Theatre
was jammed and thousands on the streets
unable to gain admission. After the meet
ing there was a torchlight profession; with
several bands of music.
The North Carolina Campaign.
WELDON, N. c., July IA Greeley.
and Brown ratification meeting was held
here to-day under the auspices Of Senator
hansom. Several thousand people were
present, Senator Upton and Stockton,
Gov. Walker, of Virginia, ex-Gov. Vance,
ex-senator ClingItian, and Col. Hinton, of.
Norfolk, spoke. The State campaign is
fairly inaugurated, and will be pushed on
both sides with the greatest enthusiasm.
Senator Upton and Carl Schurz will speak
in Raleigh Tuesday;
Vermont Liberals.
BURLINGTON, July 12.-The Liberal Re-
publicans Of Vermont have called mass
convention to meet here on July "a;
to nominate State ticket and Presidential
electors. a.
conference with Senator Schurz.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 11.-A conference
between the leading delegates to the Balti-
more Convention and Senator Schurz, oc-
Cured here to-day, at which the latter gave
his enthusiastic adhesion to Greeley and
Brown, and announced his intention of
entering at once on the campaign. He left
for st. Louis via New York, and will make
his first speech in the former city. After
that he will make tour in the South, and
will speak in the pending campaign in North
Carolina. Later in the summer he will
speak in Pennsylvania and New York.
Senator Stockton for Greeley.
Senator Stockton, of New Jersey, who
nvoFNnooI -, I,ol l.. Il,
ley at Baltimore, to-day yielded his opposi-
ton, and left tonight for North Carolina to
speak at the great Conservative mass meet :
ing to be held tomorrow night at Waldon,
in that State. ..r
Senator Simmer for Greeley.
Senator Sumner, in conversation to-day,
fully endorsed Greeley and Brown, and in
dicated that possibly he might, contrary to
his established custom, enter the campaign
and make a speech.