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Grain from Texas.

Last week we noted that shipments
of new oats and wheat had been made
in Dallas, Texas, by rail, for Shreve-
port, and thence by Red River for this
port; the first shipments ever made for
this market from Texas. The consign-
ments arrived here on Saturday, the
10th instant, by the steamer Colonel A.
p. Kouns, comprising one hundred and
fifty-three sacks ofoats to Messrs. She
rer & Lewis, and one hundred and
twenty-eight sacks of wheat to the
New Orleans Elevator Company.
There were also received ON Saturday
by the steamer Josephine, from Gall
weston, one hundred and twenty-five
sacks of oats, consigned to Mr.. John
Calder. Samples of these were at
hand last week, and being of excellent
quality, orders have gone on for sup
plies from this new source, and a large
business will undoubtedly follow. The
oats class prime; samples are on
Change, and offers of Csc. were refused
for them The wheat sold at once, for
Liverpool, at 81 20 per bushel, although
the lot was too small to make it an OBJ
jet for purchasers. Texas wheat has
largely the preference over Western,
especially for export. Send supplies
here and orders are sure to come for il.
Samples Of new Texas corn are in
qHired tor, though it is yet too soon for
it-New Orleans Bulletin, 18th.
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lee $4,000 Years old.


The altitude of the Stevens mine
on Mount Mcclellan is II, 500 feet. AT
the depth of from 60 to 200 feet the
crevioe matter, consisting of silica,
calcite and ore, together with the sur
rounding wall rock, is a solid frozen
mass. Mcclellan is one of the highest
eastern spurs of the snowy range; it
has the form of II horseshoe, with n
bold escarpment of feldsphatic rock
nearly 1000 feet high, which in some
places is nearly perpendicular. Moth
ing unusual occurred until distance
of some 50 or 90 feet had been made;
then the frozen territory was reached,
and it has continued for over 200 feet.
There are no indications of thaw, sum-
mer or winter. The whole frozen ter
ritOry is surrounded by hard, massive
rock, and the lode itselfis as hard and
massive as the rock. The miners, be-
ing unable to eXcavate the frozen ma
terial, with pick or drill, found that
the only way was to kindle large
wood fire at night against the back
end of the tunnel, and in the morning
take out the disintegrated ore. This
has been the mode of mining for more
than two years. The tunnel is over 800
feet deep, and there is no diminution
of the frost. There is, so far as can be
seen, no opening or channel through
which the frost could possibly have
reached such depth from the surface.
There are other mines in the same
vicinity in a like frozen state. The
theory is that the rock was laid down
in glacial times, when there was cold
enough to freeze the earth's heart. In
that case the mine is an ice house
whose stores have remained unthawed
for at least $4,000 years. The phenom-
enon Is not uncommon nor inexplica-
BILE when openings can be found
through which a current of air can
pass, but cases which, like the Brandon
frozen well and the Stevens mine,
show no way for air currents, are still
referred to imbedded icebergs and the
glacial periO1.
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OII1fnlftyf ieo pmms ahead having
mid0aIfiynIFh 0uf NJ maslllg srven
", ~ Inc hri fnnre tildefsleevrt
fhlinn md tOefWnn, Americana, enoii
mhdp ililfiy.fOuf points. Only Hfeen.
hlll nnd lilpIy maintained close onfn
petition will the Americans, SQUIRTING
thifiytwo points encli
IUfd Whnfndiile entertained the
American ionm mo dinner Nv u body vi
Wlmlndnr, on Saturday. Lady Wh0rn-
dliIp, aforementioned Phillips, Mr..
Nudny, Captain Peel aud u number NJ
other prominent persons were pfcsont.
No speeches we're mqdc.
LONDON, July W.-slle annual dln'
nor NJ the C0bdcn clutb took place NJ
Greenwich last nigM, Mr., Mechnl
Cheyaller, the French politlcal econ
omlst, presided, The Marquis ~ Hart
ington proposed Mr.. Chekalier's health
aud presented him Nth \ gold medal.
The Right Honorbb Mn Forster, In
reply to toast To our foreign guests,
referred to the AmeticaiA present,
whom he said he could .hAlly call
foreigners. Mr.. k'orSl IN LOduced
General Mcdowell, whd4J)(h, peasant
speech, declared that ADcridQ ~
nothing to he ashamed of In I'D
of free intercourse with the w.
every one coming there met WIN I
hearty welcome and granted cquuI
privileges. Mr.. Appleton, Of Boston,
alluding TO the approaching Centennial
exhibition in Philadelphia, said thuI
England mistook ils meaning, which
principally was n reunion between the
Northern and Southern States. III,
trusted that Europe would take oppor
tunity OF visiting the exhibition, and
that the next meeting of the Golden
Club would be held in Philadelphia
The dinner closed with II vote of thanks
to the chair. The American guests
were cordially received.
BERLIN, Jply l9.-Returns of the
Bavarian elections indicate that the
Electoral College will consist of seven
teen Liberals and seventyskA1ss Ultra
montanes.
MADRID, July l9.-Tlet3UNSts have
abandoned the siege of puycerdo.
The failure of II. J. DAILY ~ Co, oI
New York, Is announced. Theil
creditors are mostly bankers.
The Rifle Association of New York,
have adopted n programme for the re
ceptiOn Of the American team on its
| return.
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Rite Of the ItattIesnnke.
ISt. AlIpustlne. Fla ! Press.

A Postofiico agent travelling in
Texas tells us of tho successful use
Of the gall Of II rattlesnake rs an
antidote for the bite Of that reptile
In the case spoken of relief was al.
most instantaneous to the patient,
who was writing in paroxysms OF
great pain, rapidly swelling and be-
coming purple A friend Of the
writer, who spent several years in
California and New Mexico, saw the
same remedy successfully used
among the Indians in the latter
country. In one instance, an In
dian dog near the camp was bitten
in the nose by II large rattlesnake.
The Indian Immediately opened the
reptile and administered the gall.
The cure was rapid and eilectual.
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fHihaHaaiH ~ rfattief ~ fndia ~
iofis iaf ibt snhpffqfinn NJ me- fta
ism
DufIna tho inonmboHcy NJ si
Good llondon lfhu frond NJ india
~ the 22d NJ May auysJ nm nllompl
waa made 10 regulate The practice
Of taking sick people ~ tie river
sido to die, but nothing was done
thon, ~ the government 0f Indin
and the Secretary Of State did not
consider any Interference In this
matter necessary although tho most
advanced section Of tile native com.
munity threw their opinion into the
scale with the Lieutenant Governor.
That some regulations are ALSO
lutcly necessary will DO seen from
these facts: "On the Thursday be
fore last, at about o'clock in the
afternoon, procession was observed
passing through II station not far
from Calcutta, accompanied by the
usual din and noise. AT the head
of the procession was II man about
six feet high carried on Il litter about
four feet long, in much the same way
rs the bed of PrOcrustes in the Oldcn
time was made to accommodate its
victims of any statute. AZ first the
occupant Of the strctchor was taken
for Il corpse, but on closer exumina-
ton it was discovered to be hui
man being in the last stages ofpros-
tration, Tho head was dangling
over one end of the slretcher, and
tho face exposed to the tuIl glare Of
the sun, which the dying man nj,
tempted to keep off ,by shading it
with his right hand. This was OBJ.
served by his son in the crowd, who
opened IN umbrella and held it over
him. Tho procession stopped ut u
gate opposite the station-public Ii.
brary, and the strotchor, with It's
CHASTITY burden was laid ON the
ground. The sick man expressed Il
wish for something to drink, and
cup of milk was held to his lips; be
then had smoke, and c0nversud
freely in the meanwhile with his
friends who had followed him. A
miserable looking and stability at
tired native, who was addressed us
the koberaj mohashal, held the pulse
of the sick man with a gravity of
circumstance worthy of II disciple of
Galen, To cut the matter short, the
sick man was kept at the CHAT till
the Sunday following, and us he still
persisted in disappointing his
friends and relatives in their cxpec-
tation OF seeing him depart this life,
he was removed to another CHAT Il
little higher up the river, where he
was kept for time immersed in
water, with the head and II portion
of the chest above it, till he expired
in this position. The deceased was
Il man Of the weaver caste, and of
some prospects. He had removed
to this station some years back from
Doud, where portion of his family
are still residing. Another CHAT
murder took place about two or
three weeks ago. In this case TIE
victim was u woman, the wife of a
respectable shopkeeper."
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NOTES or THE WEEK.

When those wise men of Congress
decreed under the act OF 1879, that re-
sumption should take place at a stated
time; they did quite as absurd thing
rs if they had decreed that at another
stated time the sun and moon should
stand still. There are some things
which legislation cannot settle, and
the question of resumption is one OF
them.-[ Philadelphia Inquirer.
The anxiety of certain politicians
| in St-Louis to have the National De-
mocracy hold its next Convention
there is explained as follows by the
| Cincinnati Commercial: ST. Louis
is the first choice Of the green back and
gray back party. If the hard-money
Democrats of the East ventured to st.
Louis, and talked their doctrines, they
would be thought the strangest sort of
cattle that ever got into the wrong
woods pasture"
Secretary BristOw yesterday issued
his call for $40 OO0,0 900 more oflS62 80
bonds TO be redeemed for the Syndi-
cate, who have subscribed for an equal
amount of the new five per cents. The
bonds fall due October 18th, two days
after the Ohio election. This makes
$50, 600 600 of bonds subscribed for by
the Syndicate in the last six months,
without counting the bonds issued I'M
der the act of January II, lS75.- New
York Tribune, 18th.
An Indianapolis druggist came
very near killing himself the other
night by jumping from second-story
,r;nlp,r rInr. tn la han,,
nobody in the room with him at the
time but lady, and why he didn't go
down the steps instead of flying out at
the window will probably never be sat
isfactOrily explained. He couldn't
have made the jump through fear of
personal violence from the lady, for he
knew that her husband and IL police
officer were coming up stairs ut that
moment, and he must have known
that they would protect him. We
can't see through it [Courier-Journal,
"A French exchange says that Il
substitute for natural leather is now
coming into use, in which the grains
of all the well-know varieties, such as
basil, seal, morocco, etc, are reproduce
ed, with remarkable fidelity. In the
process of granting, real skin of any
kind which it is desired to initiate, is
taken as q mould, and from this an
impression is obtained on sheets of
'tibrous pulp by enormous pressure.
The artificial stuff is obtainable in col
or, and while it is said to cost only
about one-eighth as much as leather, it
possesses some advantages over the
latter which il is presumed will make
it u commercial success. The MAUI
featured article is not 30 liable to soil
and is waterproof.
A Mr.. ISheboldt, who lives now in
Lucas county, Ohio, but who is native
of Bohemia, has what might be called
u baked Bible. IL was formerly the
property of his grandmother, very
devout Protestant, who was the victim
of good deal of religious persecution.
An order was passed by the Govern
ment ordering the seizure of every BIZ
BILE for burning. When the old lady
saw the officers of the law approach
ing her house to search it, she wrap
ped the book in a batch of dough and
deposited it in hot oven. 1t was
thoroughly baked before she dared to
take it out again, but she saved it from
ipSt lptiOn.
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Nev York Correspondence ofde 81. Louis GlObs
Beecher is rapidly decaying, and l
fear his death Is near. The fire that
used to shine from those expressive
blue eyes has gone out forever, and
there Is a dull, restless look In them
the face is bloated; the head. once car
ried erect, is bowed down when its
owner appears upon the streets, and his
step is unsteady and lettering. Mr..
Beecher, it is claimed, never drinks
stimulants, but / saw him yesterday,
and, as he staggered along the streets,
/ stopped aud looked, wondering
whether he had been stricked by the
sun, or had taken drug. am not
one whe delights in the misfortunes Of
any one, but tell you candidly that j
believe Mr.. Beecher will never survive
the summer, no matter what the ver-
dict is. Gath has written Of a proba-
BILE fit of apoplexy terminating the Ca
reer of this gifted man, but, after see
ing him yesterday, fear that reason
is taking his departure, and that, like
Horace Greeley, he will go down to the
grave incapable of recognizing the dear
ones about him. His utterance last
Friday night, In which he defled all
the devils in hell to make him stop
preaching, by some is taken for brave
~, but / attribute it to another cause,
viz: that his mind is becoming de-
thrOned
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TILE HERALD'S COMPRESS.

Paris North Texan: ga gentleman
of this town intends going into the
business of supplying the markets witt
For this purpose he intends purchasing
three thousand stands of bees"
Austin News: "The average ex-
ports of line from this city is about Il
car load per day. A large quantity at
present goes to Marshall, where it Sue
cessfully completes with the st. Louis
lime, which was, till recently, used ex-
tensively in that part of the State.
Mt. Pleasant Patron, 10th: "Par-
tial showers have fallen in this and
adjoining counties during the present
week. Crops are still needing rain in
some localities, while in other places
the corn crop will be almost total
failure"
Houston Telegraph We learn
that on yesterday the trustees turned
over to the Texas Western Narrow
Gauge Railway Company fifty thou
sand dollars Of the city's bonds, and
received 10 return fifty thousand dol
lars of the company's stock.
Rev. Mr.. Pledger, a Baptist minis
ter, was shot and killed while blowing
in his field, in AcLennan county,
Wednesday, by young man named
John Shears. The trouble originated
about law matters. Shears was arrest
ed and lodged in Jail in Waco.
-Comanche Chief: "a young cou-
pie aged respectively eighty-seven and
seventy-eight moved into our county
this week from Missouri. They left
here TO find better range for their
cattle, and we suppose they have come
West 10 grow up with the country
Austin State man: 1.-THE Gle
burne Chronicle auds extravagantly,
but deservedly, the energy and pluck
and enterprise of Dallas merchants
Well may Dallas rest on her laurels,
when even the Statesman deigns to
acknowledge her energy and pros
perity.
Austin Statesman. "W. ]. jeff
reys, for whom a reward was offered
by the Governor, was killed at Llano,
in Burnet county, by Wild Bill, few
days ago. He killed a man named
McFall on Comanche eighteen months
ago. The bloody fellow had savage
fight with Wild Bill, who killed him.
J efffeys' brother was taken out of Jail
in Meridian and hanged by mob last
August for cattle-stealing. 1t is a
lively story of deadly incidents. jeff
reys was a terrible cattle thief. Six |
weeks ago Jeffreys, calling himself
spent the night with Mr.. |
Davis six miles from Austin. Davis
did not know Jeffreys at the time.
The Governor has offered a reward, we
are told, OF two hundred and fifty dol
lars for the apprehension of the daring
ievil. Jeffreys is now, happily, no
more. fhfs head be worth two hum
ired and fifty dollars 1t viii surely
,s brought TO AUSTIN
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American Girls m Foreign Capitals


A London correspondence has some
precious gossip about Americans there
Americans, tits said, are quite the rsge
this season in London. At Ascot,
where fashion reaches its full bloom
with the blossom of its spring, scarce
broken and untouched by autumn's So
berer tint, the royal Enclosure, sacred but
to select few, was crowded by our fair
countrywomen. There were gathered
the Livingstones, the Van HOffman's
Mrs. and Miss Paran Stevens and the
Butter-Duncans. There is said to have
been some rivalry in the field of beau
ty between Miss Stevens and the fair
Scotch-American flower of the house
of Duncan. The beauty of the Boston
Rebecca seems to be preferred to that
of the New York Rowena. Some
time since Miss Stevens was assigned
to Major Walter Hartford, and his
then friend and companion, the Prince
of Wales. was known to aid his suit.
But the fact that the Major was discov-
cred cheating at cards threw a difficult
ty in the way of this delicate enter
prise, and the Duke of Montrose is now
the favored guest. And as the ducal
veins sadly need a monetary vivifica-
ton, it is not unlikely Miss Stevens
will return TO America as the Duchess
of Montrose. This will be the second
American girl who, within two years,
has connected our republican. with
England's ducat courts. Some half
century since, 1t will be remembered,
the three Misses Cation, of Baltimore,
were married respectively to the Duke
of Leeds, the Marquis of Wellesley
and Lord Stafford. Since then there
has been an interregnum. But to-day
American beauty bears away the blue
ribbon in all the capitals Of Europe.
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a Singular Case-An Ou,cropping OF
New Orleans Bulletin. /

| lANS" oii'hhH D"Nbih'I
An old and experienced. detective,
who several weeks ago was in the
prime of health, was suddenly, some
ten days ago, stricken with Il stroke
resembling somewhat paralysis, and
yet showing symptoms of st. Vitus'
Dance. Neither himself nor friends
could assign any cause for the appear
ance of this curious malady. His fam
lily physician prescribed the usual
remedies without appreciable success,
and acting under the advice of friends,
the old officer sought the breezy shores
of Bay ST. Louis.
One day while sitting out in the sum-
mer house he was somewhat startled
by the appearance of an old and poorly
clad negro woman, who introduced
herself by the startling announcement,
"You'se been done voudoued, mass'r.n
The fact that the detective had never
before met the woman, coupled with
that but few knew he was sick, natu-
rally made him feel somewhat sur
prised by the old wOman's statement.
After long conversation, in which
she reiterated her statement, she told
him that Il colored girl whom he had
shortly before arrested had paid to
have him given "bad incidence" and
that was the cause of the severe pain
he had suffered.
She gave him some herbs which he
made into tea, and two days ago he
returned to the city a well man.
Although he laughs at the idea that
there is any truth in the old woman's
story, yet he says he distinctly remem-
the arrest of a venomOus colored girl
who made threats that she would
snake him quiet very SOON"
1t is somewhat remarkable to believe
that there are hundreds of well edu-
Gated white persons In this city who,
although refusing to acknowledge it,
still have faith in the fetish charm
business. Their fears ard imagination
have been so worked upon that they
arrive at a condition of implicit faith,
which adds to the efficacy of the negro
mummeries.
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New Orleans Bulletin. lOth.I

New Orleans Bulletin, lOth.l
On Thursday we noticed the first
shipment from Dallas, Texas, by rail
and Red river, of new oats for this
market. We learn that a car load OF
new wheat was also forwarded at the
same time, and that three more car
loads of oats are on the way, as above,
for this point. with further liberal
shipments to follow. These are the
first shipment Of the kind made by
Dallas for New Orleans, and they will
undoubtedly inaugurate anew and val
liable trade for the Gulf States. Texas
has already stocked Shreveport with
grain, running prices down below ours.
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The Rev. J. Cotton Smith, d. D.,
has retired from the editorial charge
of the Church and State. DIR. Smith Is
a vigorous writer, and an original
thinker, rs well as an able and most
courteous editor, and we are sorry 10
hear of his retirement.
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es A. Qgn per day. Agents wanted. An
20 " Wv classes Of working people Of both
sexes, young and old. make more money at
work for us. IN their own localities. during
their spare moments. OF all their time, than
al any thing else. We offer employment
that Win pay handsomely for every hour
work. Full particulars, terms, ETC., sent
free. Send rs your address Al once. Don't
delay. Now f. the time. Don't look for
work OF businsss elsewhere, until you have
learned what we offer. q. STIEeoS a o..
Portland Maine ASIA WY
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SOS 10 $50 Per Day S @aa a' %ilR the he
GREAT WESTERN WELL AUG1R! We
mean it, and are prepared to demonstrate
the fact. Our Augers are worked entirely
by horse power, and will bore at the rate Of
twenty feet per hour. II bores full size wells,
and of any depth required. It will bore in
all kinds OF earth-soft sand and limestone,
bituminous, stone, coal, slate and hard pan
and we make the best Of wells ia qulcksand.
no Good active agents wanted I'm every
State sand county in the United states. send
for our illustrated catalogue, terms, figures,
etc, proving our advertisement bona Jide.
Address,
GREAT WESTERN WELL AUGER CO.,
Bloomfield, Davis county, Iowa.
r5- State in what paper you saw this adj
vertisement @w6w
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The Rev. w. n. johnson, of South
Carolina, who recently resigned the
Protestant Episcopal ministry to join
the Reformed Episcopal Church, and
then changed his mind, has been re-
stored 10 his old standing BY Bishop
Howe.
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SEXTON MASONIC d CITY CENGTERIEs
AND
General Undertaken.

Respectfully informs the citizens of Dallas,
and Tie surrounding counties that he has
fitted mp his establishment ON Cochran
street expressly for the business, and is pre-
pared to make collins nj lhu shortest notice,
TO order, and trim them in nil styles. lie
also keeps on hand, ut all times, cuiiinsof all
sizes, ready made, WIN me e"'rpllon OF
trimming, which he can de!NelUt an hours
notice, day or night lie has also made ar
rangements to Keep on hand a lH! nSsort-
ment Of Metallic Burial Cases, which He can
deliver ON call He has the NC'uslyc agency
for these burial cases for DALLAS and sur
rounding counties, and can supply them ut
the lowest prices Having provide himself
with fine oval Glass h"arse Hud necessary
HppcndagrS, lac will undertake all the ncccs-
s,Il'y arrangements for buTair with dispatch.
He has determined to make this his eNclU-
slve business, and respectfully asks the pat
rOnage the public.
swift \. W. MORTON.
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and sold by leading druggists. Send for cat
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