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quiet so as not to attract attention, but he
was so rude that many of the speakers quit
eating to look on.
"That lady, Hazel continued, swho
has Just gone out is a country woman of
mine. She may have been an actress, Just
as you may have been a hangman's son
but, whatever she has been, she is wo-
man. We do not insult women in the
country where | once lived, nor do we per-
NIT it to be done elsewhere. Win you
apologize to her ?''zs
81 will not.'
"Wnl you accept this card and let me
send friend to your
81 will, with pleasure
s'Then | wish you good day, gentle
men," and Hazel bowed to all as he went
out like man who had just finished his
dinner. ID
Medomark was braye-besides, he was
an officer. There were, therefore. but two
courses left to him-but two things to do
to accept HaZel's cartel, or to refuse it.
In preference to disgrace he chose the
duello. Hazel had found his second speed
ily. He, too, was soldier-one of Shell
by's best, James Wood-who would 90 to
any extreme on earth for friend.
When two men mean business the final
arrangements are simply matters of form.
On the morning after Medomark's S insult
in the cafe, Wood called upon him early.
During the day the preliminaries were all
amicably agreed upon, and at sunrise the
next morning, about quarter of mile
southeast of the American burying ground,
Hazel and Medomark met at ten PAGES with
dueling pistols. The Belgian's second
was a young French lieutenant named
Massic, who won both the position and the
word. When the men took their places,
Hazel had the sun in his eyes, and this an
noyed him at first, for it was very hot and
penetrating. They fired twice at each
other. The first time both missed-the
second time Hazel struck Medomark upon
the outside point of the right shoulder, in
juring the bone greatly and seyering an
artery that bled as if he would bleed to
death. Prompt and efficient surgical skill,
however, saved his life. The duel ended
after the second fire the Princess Salm
Salm, so splendidly Yindicated at the hands
of her young countryman, was the toast
thereafter of the officers of the garrison.
The Prince ON his return could not rem
der thanks enough, nor seek to show his
appreciation of the chiyalrous act by too
many evidences of more substantial
gratitude. The city being under martial
law, court-martial was soon convened
for the trial of all who were engaged in the
duel. A sentence, however, was never
reached. Upon the request of Bazaine, the
court was dismissed and the prisoners set
at liberty. Medomark recovered fully only
to be desperately wounded again at Quere-
taro, where, after long and devoted atten-
ton on the part of Or. Hazel, surgeon in
the Republican army. he was restored to
both health and liberty.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Joe Waltz, the murderer, who was confined
in the CatskiH, N. Y, Jail, sentenced to be
hung on the 1st inst, on the day previous
murdered his keeper, Charles Ernst, in his
cell. by crushing in his skull with piece OF
iron. The excitement was intense in the
town, and the military were called out in or
der to preveat the mob from lynching the
prisoner.
The residence Of John Hammet, about six
miles from Pittsburg, Pa, was burned on the
morning of the 3Oth, with all its inmates,
consisting of six persons, viz. John Ham,
met, his wife, their two children, hired
man, and boy. One of the bodies recover
ed from the ruins had had its throat cut, and
it was believed the whole family had been
killed and the house burned for the purpose
of destroying the evidence of the murdered
victims.
Waltz, the Catskill, N. Y, murderer, was
duly hanged on the 1st.
BY the bursting of boiler in paper mill
at ShawangInk, Ulster county, N. Y, on the
I'd, seven persons were instantly killed and
three others fatally wounded. The boiler
weighing five tons, was thrown distance OF
six hundred feet.
The murderer of the Hammet family, near
Pittsburg, has been arrested. His real name
is Ernest Mintzing. He made a full confes.
sion, saying that he murdered them with an
ak, and that his object was to get money, Of
which he supposed there was considerable
sum in the house.
Ann Hunt was hanged at Elberton, Ga,
on the LIST, fot poisoning Eliza Browner.
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ONE of the most attractive therapeutical
novelties for some time past in London
recently introduced from the continent
consists in the erection of establishments
for administering hot sand baths as rem
edy for rheumatism, recent cases Of nerv-
Gus disorders, affections of the kidneys,
and all cases where heat is needed as the
chief remedial agent. The advantages
claimed In behalf of this method of treat
ment are, that it does not suppress respir-
alton like the hot water bath, but rather
increases it, and does not interfere with
the respiration after the manner of the
steam bath or Tm kish bath. It is found
that the body can endure the influence of
this kind of bath for much longer time,
and much higher temperature CAN be ap-
piled. M
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On the last trip of the steamer Siberia
to Boston. among the steerage passengers
was family of Italians aged as follows:
Father AZ, mother 43, with fifteen chill
dren, aged as follows: %, q, 10, IL, 10,
Is, IA, II, ii, 1913. s, 7,6. Twelve were
boys and three girls.
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Following is the comparative cotton state
ment for the week ending May L:

ment for the week ending May L:
1874. 1873.
Net receipts for past week
all U. s.. ports. 20, 4Sl A. ,032
Total receipts from Sept.
to date al U. s. ports. s,55s,ssl s,a4s, $50
Exports for past week
from all ports -. -. 6s,176 Is, $50
Total exports from Sept. l
TO date from all ports. 1856, ,2S7 2,031, ,3S
Stock now on hand at all
d. ports ,............. Al.ses 4sl, 1888
Stock now on hand at all
interior towns. ........... 1920 81, 29S
Stock at Liverpool. :,....... $4,000 TAI, 900
Stock of American afloat for
Great Britain. ......... 26l ZOO 22S, GOO
The Senate Finance Committee have agreed
to recommend the Incorporation into the
House Currency bill of the following provis-
ions: The maximum greenback circulation
to be $3S2 900, 600; new national bank notes
to be issued to the amount of 1854 900 900,
provided that for each million of said new
notes issued there shall be $500,000 green
backs retired, until the total greenback circu-
lation shall have been reduced to $500 600 900.
January 1, 1877, is fixed as the date at which
specie payment should be resumed, but the
Committee have not reached conclusion as
to what system should be employed for that
purpose.
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FOREIGN.

A wretch named John Sullivan, who COM
mitted an outrage upon q fye-year-old girl
at Guelph, Ont, has been found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged.
A Madrid dispatch of the LIST says that the
Carlists have been compelled to abandon sew
eral important positions, and that the siege
of Bilbao is practically at an end.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Personal ANp.PoLETICAL.

The investigation into the District of Co
lumbia paving contracts has finally deyel-
oped the fact that VIM. G. Moore, business
partner of Governor Shepherd, was interest
ed in the De 'Golyer and Mcclellan contracts.
Governor Shepherd testified that he had no
knowledge of his partners completely, and
that as soon as the fact became known to him
he at once dissolved his business relations
with Moore, .
The New York Legislature adjourned on
the 30th.
Governor Washburn, of Massachusetts,
Senator Summers successor, on the 30th sent
his resignation to the Legislature, and left for
Washington TO fill the vacant chair.
State Senator Alexander e. Barber and
Bradford B. Davis, both colOred, have
brought suits against the Louisiana Jockey
Club, each claiming $4,000 damages, because,
petitioners aver, said club refused to sell
them quarter-stretch badges during the re-
cent races, on account of their color, they be-
ing of African descent; and that such refusal
and exclusion were not only in violation of
the principles of natural justice, but also of
the rights guaranteed to them by the constitu-
ton and statutes of the State.
Senator Boutwell, appeared before the Ways
and Means Committee on the 1st, and made
statement concerning his knowledge of the
Sanborn contracts. He said, in effect, that
he was sure the Sanborn business was never
q matter of conversation between him and
Secretary Richardson, and that he had never
had any personal relations with Sanborn, and
Sanborn had no right to claim his personal
friendship and intimacy. He could not re-
call any interview he ever had with Sanborn
as to his obtaining contract. While he was
in the Treasury Department, the fact that
Sanborn had contract was not brought to
his knowledge, officially or personally,
nor had ne any knowledge of the
contracts made with anybody else under the
law. Mr.. BoutwelPs attention was called to
an order signed by him, and addressed to the
collectors and assessors, directing them to as
sist Sanborn in such a way as he might ask in
the examination of official records. Mr..
Boutwell, said he stood by this as legal and
proper. It merely allowed him to see the re-
cords in the Assessors and Collectors office
with reference to persons who have with
held taxes due to the Government, so as to
avoid going after those who have already paid
their taxes. As to the appointment of San
born, he supposed it was made on some re
eommendation. His first knowledge of a con-
tract with Sanborn was derived from Solicitor
Banfield.
The investigation into the District paving
contracts, has developed the fact that C. S.
Noyes and s. B. Kaufman, editor and pub
fisher of the Washington E1eaia5 Star, and
Murtagh, editor of the Republican, were let
into nice paving contract on Pennsylvania
avenue, under Credit Mobilier arrangement,
by which the nominal cost of their shares
was balanced by a 20 per cent. dividend on
the stock, and soon afterward further divi-
dend of 40 per cent. was made to the stock
holders. Both of these journals have opposed
the investigation.
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COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

COMMERCE AND 1NDUSTRFs
Gold closed in New York on the 4th, at
112 3-S.
An Associated Press dispatch of the Both
gives the following as the Presidents views
on the financial question, as elected in a re-
cent interview:
AIusion having been made to President Grant
about a compromise of the finance measure that
would be acceptable to both sides, the President
replied that he did not know what force was in
tended to apply to the term Compromise un-
less it was an agreement to carry out the pledges
promise by those who originally defeated every
proposition offered during the discussion in Con-
gress, and by so agreeing have reason to believe
that such legislation would meet with his afl-s
proval. 1t has been said he promised in his last
annual message TO hearty support any measure
Congress might decide upon. He did not intend
any such construction to be put upon his Ian
guage. IL he had not made himself understood,
his more recent message would clear up anything
ike ambiguity. One thing he had endeavored
to make plain during his administration had been
that he wasfor carrying out the solemn pledges
of the Government at the earliest day possible,
and specie basis, the establishment of our cur
rency on gold and silver, had been uppermost in
his mind whenever he sent to Congress his annual
message. He had not said what kind of bill he
would approve. It was his earnest hope that
Congress would dispose Of the question. The re-
distribution of twenty-five million dollars of
bank currency, with five million dollars of
notes belonging to broken banks and banks
IN liquidation in the North and West, ought to
furnish for the present all that asked for and
he had been assured since the veto of the Finance
bill, that New England banks were anxious
to reduce their circulation, ,inasmuch as the bonds
now held for circulation would be released, and
furnish them with larger currency capital for
loans than they now had. While our securities
were worth in legal tenders sixteen or seventeen
cents above par, and the national banking notes
were bound to be secured under the existing law
as SO much sacrifice to banking capitalists he did
not wonder that New England banks were anx-
fnnIs fRnrP
fact this suggestion cameto him early last fall,
during the stringency of the money market, and
he thought it worth calling the attention of Con-
gress to in his last message. Since then he has
heard nothing to change his opinion.
The following is a recapitulation of the
y1ol,%
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-23

/" You lie like gas meter is the favor
ite euphemism in Albany at present.
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THE Boston Courier is Of opinion that
the sudden and direful fate of Ananias and
Sapphira did not cure the world of lying,
and doubts whether the people of Jerusa-
lem remembered the sin and the punish
ment of the mendacious husband and wife
more than week. The prevalence Of
lying may be attributed in great degree
to the fact that those who indulge In
it have little fear of detection if they lie
boldly; and it therefore follows that any
device for lessening this impunity would
do much to eradicate the troublesome vice. =
These remarks are pertinent to a means
adopted by one DIR. Williams for detecting
a liar; he placed his finger on boy wrist
who was asserting his innocence of an ac-
cusation, and said, Sc Young man, you are
lying! You have not uttered one word OF
truth about this matterl Your pulse is
running as high as one hundred and forty,
and no person enjoying good health and
telling the truth would have as rapid pull
sation as that The boy confessed his
guilt
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An Automatic Wonder.

- a citizen Of Tansfngbufgh. n. i :, has
completed toy, of which the following
description has appeared: 1t is intended to
represent, in measure, the business por-
ton of small village. There are series
of houses or compartments, each devoted
to some special branch of industry, and the
whole surmounted by tower, on which
there is town clock and chime of bells.
Commencing at the left hand side of the
machine is a lager-beer garden, with fig
ures sitting around table drinking. AT
intervals they raise the mugs to their lips,
and man stands beside beer keg draw
ing the lager. To the right is a shepherd
tending his flock Beside him is maiden,
at whom he occasionally "makes eyes, :"
and he is also performing on a fageolet
held in his hand The saw-mill is fac
simile of such an Institution. The log is
in its place, and slides along to meet the
teeth of the saw, which is working up and
down, cutting it in two. The attendants
are all busy in their several duties. The
grist tmill is also going. One man is tend
lag and feeding the hopper. Every now
and then he goes back and forth witha tray
upon his shoulders, the contents of which
he pours into the mouth of the hopper.
The great water-wheel is moving steadily
under the pressure of the water from
above, and the elevator keeps up its show
of relieving canal boat of its load of grain.
The cid mill is at work, and the figures are
all busy about it performing their several
missions. A carpenter walks up and down
a ladder while at his work. The scissors
grinder is engaged at his vocation. An
artist looks out of the window of his house
and offers pinch of snuff to the miller's
boy, while the old miller sits on balcony
reading books and papers which an attend
ant from time to time brings out to him.
A woman in one house hands man a
fiddle, on which he is expected to play.
Another woman watches for her lover, but
is watched in turn by jealous villager.
The blacksmith shop is in full operation,
the man at the forge blows the bellows,
and the sparks fly from the fire as natural
as life. One man is engaged in shoeing a
horse and another YIELDS on the anvil. One
man is cutting wood; a girl is watering
plants, which gradually grow, bud and
bloom. Other figures are actively engaged,
but they are too numerous to mention,
there being over fifty in all. There are
two fountains, music box, bells, ETC., all
of which operate naturally. The whole
forms a most wonderful combination of
machinery, and is operated by means OF
weights. When wound up it will run
three hours.
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The Arkansas Democratic State Central
Committee published an address, on the I'd,
calling upon the people to sustain Governor
Baxter; number Of other Democrats signed
an address advising the people to stand by
Brooks An attempt to assassinate the Asso-
ciated Press agent was reported.
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quiet so as not to attract attention, but he
was so rude that many of the speakers quit
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Agents for the New National Era.

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ALExANDER STRvENS, 1873 l. street, NHshihkton.
Mrs AMANDA WALL, sevsAth street, near Boundary
District Of Columbia.
D. q: GRIFFING. Ro1 1853, Oberliu, Ohio.
Dr. A. Array, 70 Cedar street. Nsshtfil9, Tennessee.
X. H. SlN2LkTON, Winchester, Tnpp.
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FRANCIS FLETCHER, No 2Prstt St, Salem, Mas.
Augusta, Go.
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); H. TAYc0R Custom House. Richmond, Virginia.
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IT WOOD. IS New Haven street. New Haven, Conn.
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HENRY A. BROWN, 20 s. Russell street baton Nssa
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County, Tennessee.
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PROPOSALS FOR LETTER BALANCES
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

WARRINGTON, D. G. Dec. 8, 1873.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
this Department until the 9Th day Of January,
1874, at IL O'Clock noon, for furnishing Letter
Balances for the use of the post offices in the
United States for one year from and after the
LIST day of February, 1874, of the following de
scriptiop, namely:
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uated by the metric or gramme system. OF this
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