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The Gas wells Of Pennsylvania.

The National Oil Journal says :
''There Is little doubt that the gas es-
Gaping constantly from oil wells is of
nearly or quite as much value as the oil
itself; and it is matter of wonder
that means have not long since been
adopted to utili e this immense product
of the earth. No estimate can be made
of the quantity of this gas, which has
for years been allowed to pass away into
the air uselessly but the yield of few
gas wells which have been tubed and
their product utilized indicates that it
is enormous. A gas well near Sarvers
vile, In the Butler oil region, flows
with pressure of 500 lbs. to the square
inch, and is roughly estimated TO yield a
million cubic feet of gas every "a hours;
and this is only one of quite a number
of large gas wells, and almost number
less small ones, fer it must be remem-
bered that every we'll which produces
oil almost yields gas. A survey has
Just been completed for line of pipe
from Sarversville to Pittsburgh, dis
lance of about II miles. It is proposed
to lay q six-inch pipe between the points
named, and to supply the gas TO manu-
featuring establishments as a substitute
for coal for fuel in Pittsburgh"
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THE HUsBAND
An Incident of the Floods.

Writing of the disasters of the in
undatiOns in France, a correspondent
says: At st. Cyprien, the suburb of
Toulouse, which suffered so severely, Nj.
Maurette, well-known sculptor who re-
sided there, but who had his atelier in
the town, was at work in the latter,
when he was informed of the risk to
which his family, whom he had left in
the Faubourg, were exposed. He i'm
medlately fastened home, and began to
pack up his valuables and prepare to
retreat with his wife, two girls, eight
and nine years old, and little boy in
his mothers arms. But the food had
been too quick for them. In less than
quarter of an hour it had risen more
than four feet, and their house was sur
rounded before they were aware of it.
AS the water rose higher and higher
they moved from stage to stage, until
they reached the roof along with other
families who had taken refuge there.
Thus they stood. the father holding his
two little girls by the hand, the mother
carrying her boy, till darkness set in.
the flood still rising, and the houses
around them giving away before it one
after the other with fearful crash, At
last their own house began to totter
and crack, and give other signs that it
was no longer a safe place of refuge.
Another house at some little distance
of seemed to offer a stouter resistance
and one of their party, who was a good
swimmer, threw himself into the water.
and by great effort succeeded in climb.
ing on to the other roof. Unfortunately
in taking his spring from that on which
he had before been standing, he threw
down Nine. Maurette, with her child in
her arms, and although the former was
laid hold of and rescued. the child was
carried away by the flood, and persisted
before the eyes OF its father, who could
only Just save his fainting wife. By
good luck, IN the house to which their
companion had escaped a roll of calico
twenty-five yards long was found. On
one end OF this an iron was tied, and,
after many attempts, swung across, and
communication thus opened with the
other house, The two little girls were
successfully made fast to the end of the
roll and dragged through the water.
Nine. Maurette was next tied to it and
had also nearly gained the other roof
when the strength of those who SUD-
ported her failed, and she fell back
into the water. For a moment she
seemed lost, but her husband, throw
ing himself in, in his turn, and swim
ming to her, supported her until a fresh
effort could be made above, when both
we're eventually hoisted up. The night
was passed IN cold and wet. expeotino
death almost hourly. But the house re-
sisted, and by morning the water had
fallen sufficiently to enable the party to
wade ashore.
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sauguinary New York.

The scenes of blood in the city
during the last twentv-four hours
transcend even our usual shameful ex-
hibit of the crimes of Saturday and
Sunday. In the Eighth ward gang
of drunken negroes carried a fight over
a gambling dispute from one bar-room
TO another and thence into the streets.
One of them, maddened by pain and
liquor, plunged into a crowd OF per-
sons returning from church, and draw
ing q clasp knife, cut his way along the
sidewalk with utter recklessness as to
the result Two innocent men received
his stabs one pierced through the
heart died instantly, and the other now
lies In a hospital, MORALLY wounded.
In another part of the city son Kills
his father on the plea of protecting his
mother from a violent assault. In
Hester street, an italian was fatally
stabbed. In Mulberry street, also.
there was a probable murder. and
numerous crimes of a more ordinary
character are reported. It should be
said that in most of these cases the
police could not have expected danger,
but they will be held to strict account
if the criminals are not brought to
justice--NeiU York Tribune
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Stewards Saratoga Investments.

A CORE spOndent writes from Sara
tOga to the Philadelphia Times A. T.
Stewart is just now our biggest lion,
and a great sensation he is creating
here just at present among the local
merchants. You see, after spending
$4OO, 900 on his big hotel, the Grand
Union, he found that ne had two ele-
CANT stores to let. With characteristic
enterprise he fitted them up in elegant
style, and IS moving in a stock of goods,
Now the stOrekeepers here, notwith-
standing that this very day should re-
mind them that ours is a free country,
declare that A. T. S. has no business
to come here to underselI them and
rule their trade, but the big merchant
does not see the thing N that light, and
laughs at the terribly exercised mer-
chants. Stewart is indeed a remark
able man. He is a little, thin. wiry
fellow, with a pale, thoughtful face.
light blue, reflective eyes, reddish. Crav
short whiskers, and very quiet in mon
ner. He dresses in black, and goes
peering into every nook and corner of
the store in way that makes his en-
plOyes very nervous. When talking he
invariably twirls his eyeglass on his
finger or pats the palm of his hand
with black glove. When you speak
to him he locks at you searchlngly for
moment before he replies, as if to
read you through, a habit that arises
from his wonderful faculty of reading
human nature. He is not so serious
as he has been painted; on the con-
trary, he is fond of a Joke, and vester-
day, while experimenting the arranging
of the goods in his store, he frequently
laughed at the ideas presented by his
managing man. He came up on Friday
night and passed the entire day in his
store. Indeed, I saw him there as late
as half past eleven o'clock at night.
That is how he got rich, by attending
to his business IN person. Stewart
bought the Union few years ago for
$3.50, 900. Since then he has spent as
much more upon the structure in enlarge
ments and improvements, until now it
is the most extensive and perfect car
evansary in the world. He and his
wife occupy a suite of three rooms in
the hotel directly over the main en-
trance. They have been finely but
not lavishly fitted up for him, each
window being provided with a little
balcony, nicely shaded by the fine old
trees that extend along the entire front
of the hotel. Mrs. Stewart is a mild.
unpretentious lady, with an exceedingly
amiable cOuntenance, and coaverses cor
daily with her friends. They are, in
fact, the most undemonstrative couple
here and one would hardly imagine, to
judge from their manner, that they
were, with one or two exceptions, the
wealthiest people in America. Mr..
Stewart says he intends expanding a
further large sum on the improvement
and enlargement of the Union next
winter. 1t is one of his pet projects,
and he proposes giving it corresponding
attention.
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pike, if the traveller chances at the flats
between the two railroads, he viii notice
a scattered collection of oyster shells.
They are the shells of the native oyster
discovered by tho dredging which has
been going on the past year, and this
oyster has been extinct for period OF
nearly one hundred and fifty years.
What killed them is not known, but
there are no such oysters nowadays.
Some of the shells measure ten or eleven
inches in length, and are of narrow
ness quite different from the oysters
familiar to us. Some of them were of
a size requiring them to be cut into
three pieces in order to eat Them
NelU6uTypOTt Herald.
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The Land of Horse

A correspondent writes The mo-
ment you enter the famous Blue Grass
region you hear nothing but horse talk.
The whole section lives upon pedigrees.
The stable-bOys banter pedigrees in a
nomenclature of their own. The men
utter pedigrees with a voIubilitv like
the flowing of a er-ending stream.
Even the ladies of polite society will
chatter pedigrees, and talk as fuently
of sire and dam as if they had received
their accomplishments in the precincts
of the breeding portions of the stock
farms. Everywhere it is horse, mare.
FLY, foal, gelding. The stables are
swarming with them. the streets are
alive with them, the fields are dotted
with them like the cattle on a thousand
hills and the visitors, even though he
came merely to see, has q secretivt ness
and obst1nacy more profound than the
mysteries of the Sphinx, if he does not
buy, before he comes away, some little
equine specimen for which he has no
earthly use. There is a certain free.
masonry or bTOtherly love among the
Orse-dealers of Kentucky. If one
breeder has nothing IN the horse line to
answer your demands, he Will furnish
you with saddle horse and accompany
you for miles around the neighborhood
to inspect stock which he is sure will
Just suit your fancy. Their houses are
thrown open to your entertainment.
The rarest wine of corn and the freshest
of mint, and the richest of Alderney
cream and the tenderest of SPRING
chickens are offered, with a princely
generosity, to feed the flame of your
horse fever, which must not be alIayed
till you have left your money behind
you on some of the stock farms. That
is the logic of all the attentions and
pedigrees and horse enthusiasm, and it
is wonderful how the interest is kept up
year after year, and how the surplus
funds of our wealthy horse fanciers are
poured, with an increasing volume,
into the Golfers of the stock-raisers of
the Blue Grass regions.
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INDIA RUBBER SPIRITS.
The Sudden Departure of Miss Kate King fir.
Brooklyn Society.


The Sudden Departure Of MISS Kate King from
Brooklyn Society.
Mrs. Jennie Holmes, the materiaIiz-
ing medium of Philadelphia, has re-
Gently resumed operations in BROOKLYN.
and the last issue of the Spiritualist
Banner of Light contains an account of
her devious and wicked ways, as OBJ
served by the Brooklyn society of spir-
ituaIists. A committee of the society
spends six evenings at her seances.
furnishing her with the necessary
cabinet, at the society's hall, on Fulton
avenue. The conditions" were simply
muslin bag, loosely stitched together,
which the medium drew around her,
and its mouth was tied over her
head. Then she was seated in the
cabinet, and put out the arm of John
King through a hole in the door,
Then she put out his other arm, and
then his india-rubber face, with its
black whiskers, well known to Philadel-
phia fame. Then she put out Katie's
face, being her own, namely; but no
one found it out at the first seance. At
the second seance two of Mrs. Holmes
black curls hung down over Katie's
face, and this "gave rise to the sus-
piciOns." Therefore the bag was ex-
amined, and was found to have trick
seams which opened and closed by
pulling a thread. It was suggested to
Mrs. Holmes at the third seance that it
would be we'll if the lady present could
hold her hands while the ma2ifesta-
tiOns went on. Another lady off red to
pin her to the floor carpet to see if
Katie would walk forth materialized
under those conditions. Mrs. Holme s
declined to afford these aids to awak-
ened thought. An extremely skeptical
gentleman observed that John King
did not walk forth, and that his india
rubber face had no breath in its nos
trils, while lovely Katie on the other
hand, always came forth in a white
muslin bag, and had a warm human
breath. At the sixth seance, therefore,
Mrs. Holmes was sought to be searched
by a committee of ladies DESTROYS of
discovering spirit-faces concealed about
her person. But to that she demurred.
and being disencumbered of her muslin
bag for the last time, became suddenly
faint and must have air. Therefore
she tottered from the room very sick :;
but the fresh air Immediately beyond
the door so revived her that she ran
away like the wind, and never vas
heard of in that place again. Where
fore, concludes the committee in its
report, "we think she was a fraud''-or
words to that effect
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Rather Tough Snake Fight, but a
Good Story.

A few days since, while a Young man
of the vicinity of Middle Grove. whom
we shall designate as Jeemes. was
stumbling in the field, he ran upon a
black snake In a cluster of bushes, and.
calling his dog Zip, SET him after the
snake. While he was i1tently watching
the progress of the fight between his
snakesbip and his favorite canine. some
thing behind took him ''Whack'' uDon
the seat of his trousers, and turning
quickly, he discovered to his horror a
tremendous horse-racer, full six feet in
length, with head erect, kissing tonoue
and glaring eyes, curling himself in the
fullest attitude for battle, and before
Jeemes could comprehend the terrible
character of the situation. ''whack" the
snake took him again. He then looked
for tree, but there was none to climb
for stick, but there was none at hand.
He then drew his jack knife, with the
determination of selling his life as
dearly as possible, and the most terrible
battle between man and snake then oc-
CURED that has ever TRANSFERRED in the his
tory OF Monroe county. The snake was
very strong and active, and. curlinp
himself around one of his victims Ieos
he stuck his terrible fangs into BIN
with marvellous rapidity, Tightening his
hold and crawling up all the time. while
Jeemes piled his jack-knife with a
rapidity never equaled by the savage
ModOc. The snake was getting the
best of it, and had twisted himself no
nearly to Jeemes' face, and was about
to coil his Shiny length about his sue
oumbing antagonists swan-like throat.
when Zip, the faithful servant, having
finished snake No. 1, came yelpinR to
the rescue, and, taking in at a glance
the hazardous position of the master,
he spraDg and grappled the monster by
the neck, and held on with a vice-Iike
grip until Jeemes, by the use of his
knife, extricated himself from his ter
rible predicament, and from an untimelv
and premature grave. The snake was
killed, and the trusty dog was the life
Preserver of his master.-FToD1 the
Paris NO., appeal.
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Large as these figures seem it must be
remembered that they represent but a
small percentage of the destruction of
human life from other than natural
causes. They are only the large disas
tiers which have been deemed of sufi-
cient interest to telegraph as items of
public importance. They do not in
clude the thousands of minor disasters
constantly occurring all over the world,
which would swell the agg egate far up
into the hundreds of thousands, if
not into the millions. If there were
added to these the immense number
taken off by suicide, murder, war and
massacre, and other violent forms of
death which it is impossible to estimate,
the result would be frightfHI to con
template. Increasing this still further
by the number who die from sickness,
it does not seem that there is any danger
the world will be overcrOwded with pop
ulation.- Chicago Tribune.
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Won MoItke on West Point.

I am asked why neither side in the
civil war in America produced a very
distinguished general. Even their re-
spective partisans hardly claim any
leader of transcendent genius. In so
long a war, and where so many men
fought, does it not imply a lack of
military talent in the Americans? I
answer, no. The true reason was be-
cause their field of selection was so
limited No officer could hope to
attain the supreme command of their
armies unless he had been a student at
their military academy, called West
Point, on the Hudson river, in the
State of New York. The number of
these students, deserving as they might
be, was and is extremely limited.
Thesoutherners adopted the same per
nicious system of exclusiveness, as
many of these West Point officers had
joined their side, and their president
had also been at the academy. It was,
perhaps, fortunate for the north that
the south did not seek for talent among
the mass of its people. Il is said,
know not how truly, that the genius of
a civilian, Ericsson, by the invention of
a monitor, alone saved the northern
navy from destruction.
It is evident that the chance of OBJ
tanning a distinguished general in
creases as the field of selection widens,
an | diminishes as it contracts.
In our army every soldier may aspire
to the supreme command, but In the
American armies the line of denmark
alton was drawn as deeply as between
the former slaves and their masters.
The volunteer who represented the
great bulk and strength of the people
might, indeed, attain distinction in a
subordinate position, but the highest
place of all was forbidden. In reading
the records of the American civil war,
it really appears as If the whole contest
was between a few officers of West
Point, and the mighty heart of the
nation had never throbbed. This aris-
tocratic system, which the Americans
still follow, was formerly the practice
In all European armies. In the revOl-
ution of 1898, Carnot, the French min
lister of war, first abandoned it, and we
have followed.
For the sake of example, and not
binding ourselves to any exactness of
figures, except that the one is very
small, and its opposite, with which it is
compared, very large, let us suppose
the number OF West Point officers to be
five hundred, and the number of Prus-
sian soldiers five hundred thousand.
Evidently, as we have a fund a thou
sand larger to draw upon, to render the
chances of obtaining a great general
equal, each American must possess a
thousand fold the talent of Prussian,
which is absurd.
OYSTERS EFARLY FooT LoNG.-In
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A Desperate Duel With a Bowie.
knife.

A most frightful and fatal ARRAY oc-
Cured at Eberhardt City on Saturday
last, at about 5 o'clock P. NJ, between
two men by the name of jackson and
Beck. The former was recently from
Arizona. and the latter has been a resi-
dent in Eberhardt City for the past few
months, engaged in keeping a saloon.
The two had a quarrel some time before
the fatal meeting, in which Jackson
made an assault upon Beck with knife,
but was driven off by Beck with a fire.
shovel. Some three or four hours after
this Jackson returned to Beck's saloon,
and, while the latter was standing in
the doorway, Jackson plunged an eight
inch bOwie-knife to the hilt in Beck's
side, and the two clincbed, and very
fierce encounter ensued, Jackson using
his knife and fatally stabblng Beck,
who, however, succeeded in freeing him
self from Jackson, and ran as far as
Dana's saloon, q distance of sixty yards,
when he was overtaken by Jackson, who
was pursuing his victim with bloody
and fendish intent. Beck at this place
called for protection, but before the as
tonished bystanders could render him
assistance, the human fend had done
his work; he had given poor Beck five
fatal stabs. At this juncture, party
by the name of Brown, seeing what was
going on, knocked Jackson off from the
porch into the street with chair, and
while he was down, Beck, while actually
dying, crawled to Jackson, and taking
the knife which had been used upon
him, he plunged it into Jackson's breast,
giving him a fatal wound. Beck died
almost Immediately after being seps-
rated from Jackson, and the latter was
brought to the county jail, where he
fingered until Wednesday last, when
death ended his career. No one here
abouts knows ANYTHING of the former
career of Jackson; all that is known is
his statement that he was from Arizona.
Beck was considered a peaceable man,
and leaves an invalid widow to mourn
his untimely end.
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to get a shot at the big alligator, and
while eating a cold bite in the shade a
man jumped over the fence, presented
an old army musket at his head and
cried out
&" Stranger, unkiver yer head -
The Yicksburger was dumbfounded,
but made haste to remove his hat and
exhibit pate which shOne like a newly
polished pilpaw.
Stranger, that saves ye !" continued
the man, as he shouldered his musket :
' thought ye was the red-headed ped
der who charged my wife seventy-five
cents for testament which hasn't got
a darned picture in it ~
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SUMMER CONTRASTS.

THE WIFE.
As you say, Colonel, here it is charm1ngi
"a Sweet angel, I beg for waltz ~
Your fattery's really alarming;
am sure that you know it is false.
But I'll whirl with you round for minute,
Just to prove how you erred in your haste,
waltz is quite nice when you're in it
Don't hold quite so tight on my waist.
(Writes.)
I" Dear Husband, I'm penRing this letter
In loneliness here at the Springs;
Every day makes me deeper your debtor
For the kind words the previous mail bring
But oh! Vhat void fills my bosom
You there, and here all alone;
No friends, If I cen wished to choose EN-
You chained to your desk ike drone.n
THE HUSBAND.
Here, Charley help fill up this basket;
Put in the champagne aud the fee;
Never mind if you should Overtask it
Fill it mp with this bFic-a-brac nice
Those Dutch girls will soon make it lighter
After the dance and the swings.
Throw in these cigars. Strap it tighter,
While write line to the Springs.
(Writesl
Slowly the shadows are falling,
Alike on my desk and my life;
The plant of famished love, calling
For you, my sweet treasure my wife;
sit here so YEARLY thinking,
And wishing my penance were DER,
And dreaming our love is s-linking
My heart with your heart evermore Z"
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The New Era in the South.

The Chicago Tribure takes cogni-
zauce of the improved condition of
affairs in the south, arising from a di
versitv of crops and improved mt thOds
of agriculture. Among other things it
says: Z" A new and promising era has
dawned upon the states where once
king cotton held undisputed Cway.
Southern planters have experimental
in the way of diversity of products, and
the experiment has proved a wonderful
success If it had been predicted ten
years ago that anv of the cotton raising
states would in the year 1875 have a
surplus OF cereals, the existing facts
and prospects of the time would hardly
have borne out the prophecy. Yet
such is the fact. The states of Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and
Alabama will this year have enough
and to spare, and the southern farmers
are proud and happy. In addition to
this unprecedented grain yield, the old
staple, though reduced in acreage. has
by a more thorough system of cultiva-
ton rewarded the planters as never
before, and they boast of an indepen
dence that has heretofore been IN
known TO that portion of the country.