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onteu urouEAt c0uBluornbi8 quantity OF rain
as fallen III Bololt. It comes too Into to inallso
T. full crop Of corn aud potatoes, but will do Il
Erant amount Of guod.
The till fair Of Doloit ia to DO held on Tues
day. Wednesday,. aud Thursday, Sept. 10, 10,
ana y, Instead o. the last Week In August, aa
ut iirat proposed. Now buildings are gong up,
and everything promises great SUCCESS.
Lieut. King, ot tia Third Cavalry, returned
to Fort McPheraou ufter tlftcou tIaya' scout and
march at 3d4 miles III northwestern Nabgaska.
llo saw no HignH of Intlinus.
Theodore Kranlor, a haokman Of Dayton, while
returning from tho camp-nacoting ,Erol''dH on
Tuesday night was attaoGeA by lllgi1wAynion
near AlM Mvar Bridge, ,wheu KraInor uolunlonca1
shooting at them, searing tAo,n aw@y.
-, @,ufatlg0ra representing tho ehsifo county
will meet Ia Dlckoy'a Dlock Dayton, Aug. 20.
lilo editors of tho Io'chlfgAF, Of ;Aon1a,
hayo entered ANit for libel aga'nst Messrs. rattoh
sum not known, but reported III 4a0, 0o0: Tlio
ffasesM mon layo now two aldsa for libol ou
hand.
- fro Wednesday night, ~ ml!os nortliSaat
Of nnoyrlla, destroyed tho barn af da1nes W1R-
gns. Loss, 4Dl,D; ITO lns'tranco.
-lsaaa Atetea!f, q young man, was hoffsD,y
MANg.eu a,.,l crrsioA 70 Aea.A undnr tho wheels
Of hls wagon, Ut Gallon, yosssftlsy. Aa waa
driving load Gf household gooavi wt!ol ta. tue
away, throwing him from tho tnp Of Tho loud:
I!la heaA ssy,19k on tho eua ot tic bridge, aud
wAs shoarot oil by tho wAoels. ll!a taco and
acalp woro strlpno4 FROM tl!o honoa. ,.,u o..,,,
--trho UrbAMh camp.lnoatinE IL VOL attondoti,
aud will continue ,Inttl Aug. Il.
"A man na1nol Thomas Dowuey WAS Instantly
killed. near ugbAna wAl!a ut work i. III. exeaya-
tim nea, liH placc, OH the Atl1nsio u taTuat
Westotn 4laitroA.l' Yesterday. 4 hal'e caSed III
-l;Ise I!ov. II. II, simmons, THO nwiua Motl.-
odist minister Of tho Clnolnnati Conforenuo,
National Republican., 1874-05-07
GOOD-N4TURED PEOPLE.

The specially social quality is good nature,
amiability, the desire to please, the kindness of
heart that avoids giving offence, and cannot
bear to hurt any ones feelings. A good -natured
person may frankly disagree with you, but he
never offends. He quarrels good-naturedly.
He boxes with gloves on-when he fences ever
so deftlyy there is great soft bottom on the
end of his foil. He may satirize, ridicule, open
up all your weaknesses and absurdities, but so
kindly that you cannot help loving him. He
cannot say harsh, hard, bitter, or contemptu-
Gus thing, because he has no hardness and no
contempt. This is simple, natural goodness,
like the goodness of fond and friendly animals.
It may not be high moral virtue; there is
no particular merit in it any more than in
beauty or any natural gift; but IL is a very de-
fghtiul quality, and those who do not possess
It should initiate those who do. Just as we
avoid in person, dress, or manners, anything
that may give disgust or pain, so must we do
in our conversation. We must no more use
vulgar expressions than We would wear vulgar
garments. Our talk should be as clean as our
fingers. We should no more bite one with our
words than our teeth. An angry word is as
bad as blow, aud a satirieal word is like sting
II we are never to say anything to q person
which will give him disgust or pain, we must
oe even more careful not 10 say anything OF
any one which will injurc him in the estimation
of others. Playful, good -natured criticism
upon the little foibles and peculiarties Of others
may be no harm, and even useful, but # ceases
to be good-natured when It gives pain. Sian
der Is sin much worse than theft. Charity
forbids that we should even tell the truth,
when that truth can wound and injure. The
best rule is to say all the good we can of
every one, and TO refrain from ever saying evil,
unless it becomes clear matter Of duty to
TO warn some one against him.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
A-cuRE FOR HYDROPHoBLA.

The Salut Pubic Of Lyons says DR.. Buisson
claims 10 have discovered o remedy for this ter
rible disease, and to have applied it with COM
plete success in many cases. In attending a
female patient in the last stage of canine mad
ness, the doctor imprudently wiped his hands
with handkerchief impregnated with her
saliva. There happened to be slight abrasion
on the index finger of the left hand, and, con-
fdent in his own curative system, the doctor
merely washed the part with water. He was
fully aware, however, of the imprudence he
had committed, and gives the following ac-
count of the. matter afterward: Believing
that the malady would not declare itself until
the fortieth day, and having various patients
to visit, put off from day to day the applica-
tion OF my remedy-that is to say, vapor
baths. The ninth day, being in my cabi-
net, felt all at once pain in my eyes.
Ny body felt SO light that felt as IL ] could
jump to prodigious height, or if thrown out
of a window could sustain myself in the air.
My hair was so sensitive that appeared to be
able to count each separately without looking
ut it. Saliva kept continually forming in my
mouth. Any movement of air caused great
pain to me, and ] was obliged to avoid the sight
of brilHan. objects. had a continual desire to
run and bite-not human beings, but animals,
and all that was near me. drank with diff
Guilty, and remarked that the sight of water
distressed me more than the pain In my throat
l believe that by shutting The eyes any one SUI
fering from hydrophobia can always drink. The
fits came on every five minutes, and then felt
the pain start from the index finger and run up
the nerves to the shoulder. In this state, think
ing that my course was preseryatiye, not cura-
tive, took vapor bath, not with the intention
of cure, but of suiocating myself.
When the bath was at filty two centigrade
(9S.S 5 Fahrenheit), all the symptoms disap-
peared as If by magic, and since then 1 have
never felt anything more Of them. have at |
tended more than eighty persons bitten with
mad animals and have not lost single one"
When person is bitten by o mad dog, he must |
for seven successive days take vapor bath /
ga Ia R,sse," of ffty-seven to sixty-three de- |
grees. This is the preventive remedy. va
por bath may be quickly made by putting two |
or three red hot bricks in bucket or tub of |
water, and let the patient sit over II on cane |
or willow chair, enveloped in large |
blanket for fifteen or twenty minutes. When |
the disease is declared, 1t only requires one va
por bath, rapidly increasing TO thirty seven
centigrade, then slowly to-ifty-three, and the |
patient must strictly conflne himself to his |
chamber until the cure Is complete.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
and stationary to falling barometer.
THE WEATHER IN WASHINGTON.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

The sale Of the Sunbury & Lewisburg railroad
at Philadelphia on Tuesday. for s55l OOO was free
Of all incumbrances, and not subject to mortgage,
as stated.
The schooner Alabama, from the Potomac river,
with timber, went ashore on Hampton bar in .
squall, and has biiged.
The steamship Cireassian, at Farther Point,
from Liverpool reports that on the 18th Of April
she encountered the steamship Linda, from Liver
pool, on fire, and took of the crew, in longitude
40 west.
The compositors on the Harrisburg (Ps.) Patriot
are on q strike.
Whallsy went into . liquor saloon and charged
Hollis Fenner, the barkeeper, with stealing his
watch and money. The barkeeper knocked or
pushed Whalley over, who died immediately.
Fenner surrendered to the police, and was locked
up.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton casc Will be
taken to the Supreme Court under bond Of SlOO,-
900. The sale will not take place.
The Alabama Press Association convenes In
Birmingham on the 18th of May.
The case Of Snyder vs.. The Mutual Life In
surance Company, which involves $4,000, closed
yesterday at Philadelphia. Last night the jury,
after being out three hours, sent in sealed ver-
Dict, which viii be opened In court this morning.
James NJ. Lowell, convicted at Lewiston, Maine,
of wife murder, has been sentenced to be hanged
George Smith, of New York, tried at Quebec
for the murder Of Patrick OBrien at Drolet's tav.
srn, St. Foy's road, has been found guilty Of mur-
der, but recommended to the mercy Of the court.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
AGAss1z,s METHODS OF WORK.

Agassiz was singularly unmethodical in his
habits. Men who live and work by rule would
be puzzled to understand how Agassiz managed
to do so much without these helps. He lived
and worked by inspiration If he was suddenly
seized with an interest In some scientific In
quiry, he would pursue It at once, putting by,
perhaps, other work in which Re had just fairly
got started. 81 always like to take advantage
Of my productive moods, }" he said to me. Thus
often he had several irons in the fire, only one
Of which might ultimately be finished. Prob
ably he saw that the last iron promised to
work up better than the first. He never could
be made toNwork like q machine, turning out
definite quantity &C regular intervals.
He never felt bound to regard the rule that
you must finish one thing before you begin an
other, SO emphaticslly presented in the old
school-books. His was method Of working
which would be Fainous to any man who had
not his wonderful facilities, his farsight and
insight. With his great, logical brain, and his
marvellous powers of observation, there was
united certain telegrsphic intuition which
made bis view Of probabilities something more
than guess. He never proposed his own
method Of working as model for others.
Once, however, IN my presence, near relative
ventured to ask him If he did not think he
would accomplish more IL he finished one thing
before he began another. "Every man must
work according to his own method" he re.
piled.
He was in himself great contradiction Of
the methods by which many have won success.
He achieved, but It was after his own way. It
was frequently hard thing to get him to sign
q paper, or write o letter, Except for somebody
else,) or to look over accounts or reports, or
do Little routipe work. Yet he could never
have attained his great eminence in science If
he had not paid IN this department great atten-
ton to the minutost and apparently the most
details. Looking at the drawing
of a. fish made by his artist, he said, after
taking Jingle glance, On is beautiful draw
ing, but don't you see you have LEFT out two or
three Of the scalesP' This story, which have
seen elsewhere, IS vcuched for by the draughts-
man who formerly drew his specimens for him.
boston letter 10 New York Tribune.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
-aHRaRNn coEREE

Il has recently been discovered, says the
San francisco Chronicle, that the foothills in
some parts Of the northern- portion of this
State, notably in Placer county, are covered
with q hardy, wild shrub, which, upon investi-
CATION, turns ost TO be Q coffee plant. Those
familiar with the genuine cultivated coffe shrub
grown in South America and the West Indies
propounee this unquestionably a plant of the
same species, of course inferior, since It has
been neglected and grown only in-awid state,
but presumably susceptible Of development. to
such q, degree Of perfection as to constitute its
product a valuable article Of commerce. It is,
at least, well worth the trouble of experiment
to demonstrate the possibility Of such result.
Even should this wild coffee bush resist the
kindly influences Of cultivation and refuse to
yield good berries, it may still prove of service
In suggesting the experiment. Of Introducing
the cultivation Of the real coffee. So far nc we
are Informed no attempt has been made to test
the suitability, Of our soii And climate for this
crop, and it is too important o matter for the
suggestion to be permitted to pass UNDECIDED.
Should 1t be found that we are able to produce
fsir article of coffee q branch Of agriculture
viii lhave been opened more profitable than any
now known in this State. -
National Republican., 1874-05-07
ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.

The First Manhattan Co-operst'vs Boot and
Shoe Manufacturers Association has failed.
The Groeers' Board of Trade yesterday adopted
resolutions in favor Of the bill before Congress 20
regulate the entry and appraisal of foroIgn mer
chandise.
The grand jury has found presentment against
the present reform commissioners Of charities
and correction, charging that since May /, 1873
the commissioners bought dry goods In msnner
at once vastefui, extravagant, and leading ID
-rscsiy 70 corruption. :
National Republican., 1874-05-07
REAL ESTATE SALES.

Messrs- Green & Williams auctioneers hays
made the following sales Of real estate recently:
Parts lots Nos and 2, in square No. S77, fronting
on Ninth street, between Z and streets north.
west, with the improvements thereon, consisting
OF 0 brick dwelling, to GothfrIed SehenbIe for
$4,000; lot No. Is in square 3o5 frontin1 on Ninth
street, between r and streets northwest, to s.
T. Philips, for so cents per foot $3.50; lots Nos rs
and II, same square, to A. DIttrieh, for so cent?
per foot, 81 ss5; lot No. g. In square 46S with the
improvements thereon, consisting Of two three
story brick dwellings, fronting on H street, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets northwest, to H.
and z. Strsusburger, for 000 also lot No. o. IA
square 327 to r. H. Hudson, for % cents per foot;
lot A, in square 2ei to Messrs. Martin & Walker
for 70 cents per foot 81 1E1T0 lot B. in same square,
to Messrs. w. B. Downing & Bro, for IS cents per
foot, q, 2ls; lot o. same squa e, to J. H. Mead
for 30 cents per foot, s475 sold subject to lease
Of % years. lot No. q In square No. 17o, TO W. II.
Simmon for IS cents per foot sS73.45; lot No. ITO,
in Chspman's subdivision OF lots Nos. to IL, in
elusive, in square No. 354, with the improvements,
to Otis Bigelow, for o. SIS; lot No. 49, in Glberts
subdivision Of square No. 675, to Edmund Oam-
mack, for q, 100; lot No. 221, same square, same
purchaser for s. OO0 with the improvements there
on, fronting on Myrtle street, near st. AloYsIus
church; lot No, In square No. 2S5, fronting on
Thirteenth street, between and K streets north
west, opposite to Franklin Square, with the I'M
provements thereon, to F. s. Williams, r. 50 o0s.
Messrs. Duncanson & Bros, auctioneers, sold
yesterday afternoon, for ]. T. Prather and r. T.
Morsell, trustees part Of square 554, fronting on
Third and o streets northwest, containing 85, $50
square feet, to Joseph Prather for "a cents per
square foot, amounting to ss,Ta64o Also, in
Georgetown, for Reginald Fendsll and Charles
Walter, assignees, parts Of lots 12s and 10, in
Beatty & Hawkins addition to Georgetown, i'm
proved by tUo-story frame and back building,
for g $50 to Dr. S. W. Richie, and . small brick
house on same lots to r. z. Marcy for o., $50.
Immediately after the same firm sold q comforta-
bic tUostory frame dwelling and lot on the cor:
ner Of Second and Potomac streets, having front
of q feet BY depth OF $50 feet, to Mrs. A. E. May
for 5000.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
AnErERnLYED ELnoR

Many years ago, during a severe winter, a
Mr.. Loomis, of Pa1let, Vt, after long sick
ness, died, leaving widow and two children
in straightened circumstances. Under the
pressure of want, the worn-out mother made
application to the oEerseer of the poor for tenaL
porary. assistance The cold-hearted official,
however, not only refused, but made her appIi-
cation P pretext for seizing her property and
throwing the family upon the town. The be.
reavedl womeA felt the, indignity. keenly, and
vowed that the town should, from Eenceforth,
De Obliged to maiptsin her as pauper for fffy
years; and although she has since that time
had many offers Of comfortable home from
her chfdren and others, she still remembers
her VOW, and notwithstanding she is now ninety
eight years of age, she bids fair to complete
her. half century as town charge, forty eight
years having already passed.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
PARENTS OF THEODORE Parker.

Rev. o. B. rockingham gives the following
portraits of the parents Of Theodore Parker:
This man was born In Lexington, and his an
cestors had "the fighting blood in them, }" hav-
ing been in the French and Indian war, as also
at Concord and Bunker Hill. From the ac-
count of his parents we can see q little how he
grew to be the man he was. His father twas
q quiet, thoughtful, reading man, of strong
sense, Of moral worth, reliable, honorable;
worked every day and all days; taught his
children to speak the truth; always had book
In his hand in the evening; books Of history,
biography, and travel engaged him, as also
speculative philosophy, not physical and moral;
he was also fond OF Nature, an observer of
plants and flowers" Theodore was all this
q nd more, for he had Q mother, 9 handsome
woman, of slight form, fsxen hair, blue eyes,
and singularly delicate complexion, more
than muscular. She lived more on her
feeling and Imagination; her temperament was
poetical; her fayorite reading was the Bible
and hymn book, and ballad poetry gave her
great delight, and her mind MAS stored with
passages of beauty from English literature. r =
In the moral culture of her children she took
great interest, which she expressed in wise
counsel and sympathy, as occasion came up.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
THE GREAT COLORADO OF THE
VEST.

LECTURE OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL ADAMS.
Captain Samuel Adams, who so scceptably
lectured here recently on the wonders of the
great Colorado of the West, has been success
fully lecturing on the same subject to the
thriving community of Friends at Sandy Spring,
Nd. The Captain has engagements to lecture
at an early day in Philadelphia and New York.
As the pioneer Of notable explorations in that
vast, grand, and rich section of the country,
Captain Adams speaks from personal observa-
tons and invests his subject with deep inter-
ests
National Republican., 1874-05-07
THE TREE THAT KEEPS 4 ASTANDLNG
Army

Among the varied means of defence deYel-
oped by plants In their ceaseless struggle for
existence, says the Scientific american, there is
perhaps, none more wonderful or effective than
that of species of acacia which abounds on
the dry savannss of Central America. 1t Is
called the bulls horn thorn, from the strong
curved thorns, set In pairs all over the
trunk and branches. These, no doubt,
help to protect the tree from the, attacks of
browsing cattle; but it has more dangerous
enemies in the leafcutting ants and other in
sects. Against these the tree maintains nu-
merous standing army, for which 1t provides
snug houses stored with food, nectar to drink,
and abundance Of luscious fruit or dessert.
When first developed, the thorns are soft and
filed with swedish pulp, much relIshed by a
species Of small springing ants, never found
except on these trees. Making hole near the
point OF one Of each pair of thorns, these ants
eat out of the interior, then burrow through
the thin partition of the base into the other
thorn, and treatit in the same manner.
The hollow shells thus formed make admir-
able dwellings, none of which are left unten-
anted, as any one may discover by disturbing
the plant, when the little warriors swarm out
In force and attack the aggressor with jaws and
stings. The leaves of the plant are two-winged,
and at the base Of each pair of leaflets, on the
mid rib, is gland which, when the leaf is
young, secretes honey-like liquid, of which
the ants are very fond. This ipsures their con-
stant presence on the yenng leaves, and their
most Jealous service In driving off other insects
A still more wonderful provision of solid food
Is made for similar purpose. At the end of
each of the small divisions of the compound
leahet there grows q small fruit-like body,
which under the microscope looks like q golden
pear. When the leaf first unfolds, the little
pears are not quite ripe, and the ants are con-
tinually employed going from one to the other
to see how they come On.
As these fruit-like bodies-which appear to
have no other use than ant food-do not all
ripen at once, the ants are kept about the
young leaves for q considerable time. When
an ant finds one sufficiently advanced It bites
the point of attachment, then bending down the
prize breaks 1t of and bears Il away In triumph
TO the nest. These ants, a species of pseudo
myrma, are found, as already noticed, only on
these trees; and that the trees really keep
them as q body-guard seems evident from the
fact that, when plantedin localities where their
little protectors do not exist, thoy are speedily
defoliated by leafcutters, which let them Sc
verely alone on the savannas, while their
honey glands and golden pears offer. no attrac
tions to the ants of the forest. Apparently
both rcacias and pSs,sdomyrnlGs have been mu-
tually modified in the course of time, until they
are now quite dependent on each other for sup
port and protecti0n
National Republican., 1874-05-07
KITNES0EG

The following witnesses were yesterday sum-
moned before the grand jury on the case Of VIM.
Benton, the safe burglar: Richard Harrington,
Assistant District Attorney; Major A. q. Rich
ards, Columbus Alexander, Detective Coomes,
O. @. Ivey, A. B. Williams and Joshua Parker,
watchman Of the District attorneys Office. W.
W. Demaine was also before the grand inquest.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

LOUISVILLE, May e-1n the general conference
ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church South to-day
an appeal from S. d. Huston, Of Baltimore, was
presented. It will be remembered that Dr. Hus-
ton was expelled from the Baltimore conference
for the alleged seduction Of young girl. After
a very animated discussion, the appeal was al
lowed.
Several petitions from DR.. Sedgwick Pierce In
regard to changes in discipline were presented
and referred. From the Little Rock Conference
an appeal from Benjamin Watson was presented,
but the bishop decided that Watson having vol
UNFAIRLY withdrawn from the church he had no
more rights than . non-member, and that the
appeal could not be entertained
After further business of no general Importance,
the conferences adjourned -
National Republican., 1874-05-07
ST. MARYs IND UsTRL4L SCHOOL.
CIRCULAR OF THEARCHBiSHoPo oFBAL
.. TIMORE

CIRCULAR OF THEARCHBiSHOP OF BAL
TIIORE.
Archbishop Bayly has addressed a circular
letter to the clergy of the archdiocese OF Balti-
more, informing them that it has become abso-
luteiy necessary that some measures should be
taken Immediately to insure some fixed and
regular means of support to st. Mary's indus
trial school, and directing them to open annual
subscnption-lists in their several parishes for
that purpose. The archbishop says that, Gin
these days when the greed of money has taken
possession of the hearts of men, we should be
very careful to miss no opportunity of hiding
some portion of what God has given US in the
bosom of the poor and needy by ready and
generous aims giving"
National Republican., 1874-05-07
SourH CAROLINA FINA NcEx

NEW YORK, May at. S. Gardczo, state
Treasurer of South Carolina, and 5. L. HOge. con
tractor general, are in this city for the purpose
Of making arrangements for holders Of bonds Of
South Carolina issued between 1874 and 1919, for
the exchanging Of such bonds for coupon bonds or
certificates Of stock equal to fty per cent. Of tho
face value.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
TIE COLLEGE BOYS AND THE
PILGRIMAGE.
PROPOSED GIFT To PITS TX

The students Of Georgetown college, In mass
meeting assembled, have resolved to avail them
selves Of the contemplated Catholic pilgrimage
from New York to Lourdes and Rome (which
Will set out on the 18th Of Msy,) to send to Plus
TX an address Of veneration and sympathy, and
also flag, appropriately Inscribed, to be blessed
by him before Deing deposited In the chapel at
I.Ourdes
National Republican., 1874-05-07
THE liant GUIPDS RAIL

The second hop given by the " sshlngton Light
Guards took place at their armory last evening,
and was largely attended. Among the guests
present was Major ]. T. K. Plant and daughter.
The Guards have had their srmory rehtted and
the walls handsomely papersd since the last hop
was given. They are making preparations for
their trip to Richmond on the 18th instant,