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An Idyl Of a stone jug.
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| Mrs. Smith, who lives on Olive street. is
troubled with cold feet, as is also Mr. Smith.
and not for the world could We reveal the
number of the Smiths house-not that any
such little personal peculiarly is disgraceful
but because. on general principles, the
domestic circle should not be ruthIessly in
vaded Having cold feet, Mrs. Smith devised
a remedy, and resolved, when the recent frigid
spell o weather came on, that she and her
lord should dream the happy hours of night
away regardless of the temperature. She got
a two galon jug aud filed It with warm water
and tucked il in az the foot Of the bed L
proved an admirable thing. and neither Mrs
Smith nor Mr.. Smith were troubled with cold
feet for several nights.
In fact, all would probably have gone we'll
to the end had it not been for the miserable
obtuseness OF the servant girl The servant
girl had never become fully acquainted with
the properties of steam. and one dav last week
she heated the water too much. The cork Of
the jug was driven in as far as it would 60,
and then the jug was set upon the stove and
when the water began to boil was carried ND
stairs and placed beneath the clothes at the
foot Of the bed where Mr. aud Mrs. Smith
were already ensconced The Smiths. hus-
band and wife, cuddled their feet against the
jug and We're happv-it was so warm and the
bed was SO cold. Syeet sleep was jus. about
casting its mantle Ger the couple. SO to speak,
when there came suddenly from the foot of
the bed report like that Of shot gun, and |
Mrs. Smith, hit with awful force by the cork |
OF the jug, leaped screaming ID the floor, |
for the police.
Almost at the same instant Smith himself |
was nearly killed. A volume OF hot water |
struck him fairly. then. raking up his back,
literally ploEing a scald;ng furrow through the |
skin, His yells as he bounded from bed were
fearful, and parting squirt from the Jug.
which left his left leg parboiled. brought
forth even more hideous sounds The Smiths
eapered around the room in CONSERVATION and !
agony until the girl came running in with a
amp, and surveyed the ruins she had wrought
BY getting up too much steam in Jug. Fl
aally the Smiths retired again, all bound up
Il eotton-battiDg and sweet OIL but the Jug
vas smashed BY Smith in his fierce wrath,
md, since the night of the catastrophe, cold
Get have been made specially in that
amily.
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FOREIGN MARKETS

LIVERPOOL, Feb 3 noon-Cotton -marke
easier. but not quotably lower: Middllne
Uplands I'd, Midding Orlea2s 7,@Sd; est
mated sales to-day $4,000 bales. including
1000 being for speculation and export Cot.
ton ito arrive, Lied cheaper
January and February shipments from Sa.
vannah or Charleston, not below Low Mid
ding I'D. March and April do. 13-l6d,
February and March shipments from New Or.
leans. not below Low Mlddling, sd.
LATER - $50 ?. Motion unchanged.
The sales today include 6l0o bales OF Ameri-
can.
LONDON, Feb .. l P, NJ Consols. for
money 92S(G924. on account 9240925.
LyvERPooL. Feb. Moon. = Breadstuffs
dull and unchanged Corn SIS 9dGa36s per
quarter.
LONDON, Feb. a.-Ere 25l@26, preferred
43.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 9-5 P. NJ Cotton
Sales on basis of Midillng Uplands.
nothing below Good Ordinary shipped Janu-
AIRY, sd; do. nothing below Low Middling.
shipped January. ll-l6i; do. shipped Feb
ruary and March. ia: do. noting below
Low Middllng, deliverable March ami April,
I'D
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The bill intro iuced
10y MIR. Spencer, to apportion representatives
IN Congress for the State of Alabama pro-
vides for districting the State by counties: two
of the eight members allowed by the last ap.
portionment act being now elected by the
State at large
The amendments recommended by the
Senate Committee on Post-Offices and Post
Roads to Dorsey's bill arc immaterial, with
the exception of one which proposes to strike
out the provision that the charges for special
press kilograms shall not exceed the rates
charged 10 the Associate Press during ,he
year 1875.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-There was q full
Cabinet meeting to-day. except Jewell
The Senate Committee voted on the South
ern Pacific Railroad bill. The result was tie.
Further action will wait the return of Senator
Stewart who favors the bill.
Quartermaster Hodges was relieved from
duty in the Department Of the Gulf Quarter
master Dorley is ordered to South Carolina.
The Ways and Means Committee have
agreed upon tariff and tax bill which will
be reported tomorrow. The duty on sugar
and molasses is increased 25 per cent. upon
present rates, and classif cations are not dis
turbed. The tax on whisky is increased IL
cents per gallon on all in bond and in the
hands of rec;iiiers and wholesale dealers and
30 cents per gallon on future manufacture,
and an increase Of duty on imported spirits to
correspond with the increase upon domestic.
The tax On tobacco is increased cents
per pound on all manufactured after the law
takes effect. The ten per cent reduction in
the act Of 1872 is repealed. and matches are
wholly relieved from tax. The Committee
refused by decided vote to tax tea and
coffee.
The bill of the Committee on WAYS and |
Means will be Us reported in earlier dispatch |
The repeal Of two cent stamp on bank checks |
will be erased from the bill The agreement |
Is, that when the poor mans tobacco tax is |
increased, thai Of the rich man who can draw
bank checks should not be decreased
WASHINGTON, Feb. O.. In addition to details |
of the bill proposed by the Ways and Means
Committee is tie abolition of two-cent stamps
on bank checks after this year
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MISCELLANEOUS.

BosroN, Feb 9.-The Pilot states that the
Pope has raised the dioceses of Boston, Phila-
deiphia. Milwaukee and Santa Fe to the dig
nifty of archdiocese, and their respective
Bishops to the rank OF Archbishops.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 9.-Nrs. d. J. Foley, of
the National Grange, with party Of ladies
and citizens numbering about 1000, made the
tour of the harbor and lower bay in the Clyde
Line ocean steamer South Carolina. Weather
very fine. A handsome collation. was served.
The Grange adopted resolution that the
Patent laws are oppressive, and requesting
Congress to grant no more extensions
R,IEIGH. n. c., Feb. 9.-Quartermaster
Hughes is ordered to Charleston.
LEwEs, Del, Feb. An unknown steamer
is on the ice breaker with signals of distress.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 9.-An elderly lady re-
covered two thousand dollars from ruffian,
who spat in her face and slapped her on both
cheeks.
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.

New YORK, Feb. 9.-l2:l5 P. Cotton
spot firm; Ordinary -, Good Ordinary 14s,
Low Middling Isl. Middling 15s, Middhns
Alabama Isl, Nliddling Orleans IL.
Futures quiet and firm; Low Middling for
February Isl: for March 15lM15 1876 for
April lGsC9l6 3-16, for May 167-16@l6j, for
June l6 lI-l6Ml6s; for July Is 1915; for
August II 1-ls@I7I.
Flour quiet and heavy, Wheat dull and
unchanged. Corn dul and unchanged Pork
heavy, mess so. Lard heavy, steam IA Lie.
Turpentine quiet, 3Sl. Rosin unchanged.
Freghts firm.
New YORK, Feb. 9, Evening. - Cotton
closed steady: Uplands 15s, Orleans 16; net
receipts 625, gross 346S. sales 1855.
Futures closed firm. Sales Is. 900 bales.
as follows: Low Middling for February
Is % 32tB15i. for March Is 25-32dl5 1916,
for April l6t@16 5.32. for May Is 7-16C7
IL Is 32, for June Is 23-32@l6i, for July
10 3l-32G17, for August III, Tor September
l6s.
Flour common to fair extra 81 7Of05 40,
good to choice So 45GS Wheat quiet
prices generally without decided change,
closing dull, heavy and cent lower to sell
Rice and tallow unchanged. Rosin and
turpentine dull. Pork lower: new Job lots
sold at SO 81. Lard lower prime steam
l4@li lie. WHISKY decidedly tirmer, 81 O5.
Freights-eotton per steam 5-l6.
CINCINNATI, Feb. S.-Cotton quiet and firm;
Middling Is. Flour steady. demand IN tolerate
Wheat quiet. 81 10@1 Is. Corn steady, de-
mand moderate, 67(g6S Oats steady, sea- 63.
Pork quiet. SO. Lard quiet steam sl3 60
bid: Sl3 62l asked: kettle 14ital4I. Bulk
meats shoulders I, clear rib 9i69s. clear
10000. Bacon-shoulders SIGSl, sides
none out Of smoke. Whisky 81 o.
ST.. LOUIS. Feb. 9.--Cotton steady and I'M
changed Flour steady; Low and medium
grades wanted. Wheat qniet. No. red
winter 81 05sOlSl 06, No. spring Chic go
9o@9l. Corn closed weak. 81 Ia 642. Oats
firm, but inactive. 56f@57s. Whisky ad-
vanced Sc, in anticipation OF increased tax,
sales a. 81 o.. Pork dull, Isl. Dry salt
feeling on round lots; only
small jobbing trade. Bacon unchanged |
Lard is held at 49,, no buyers.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 9.-Cotton steady. Mid |
cling -. Flour and wheat quiet and IN
changed. Corn 6S@70. Oats 62@64 Pork
irm.. $50. Bacon quiet and unchanged.
6ulk meats, shoulders I, clear rib 10 clear
lOl Lard, good II, tierce 1456l4s, keg Isl.
Whisky excited, 81 %. Bagglng quet and
irm, l2ml2I.
CHICAGO Feb 9.-Flour- demand fair.
market firm. Wheat steady; No / Spring
Shicago 50, No .. 81. Corn dull; 10. :
mixed 62sG62}. Oats quiet and unchanged.
Pork duh, SIS 156lS 20 Lard steady,
sl3 50@l3 62!. Bllk meats quiet and weak,
y Risky excited and prices higher, sold at 81.
generally held ct 81 DIAL o.
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HlNER AND STEAMBOATS,.

CINCINNATI. Feb. 9.-River II feet inches
and falling; tull Of heavy floating ice. Clear
and cold weather.
PrrT>BURG. Feb. a.-River feet inches
and filling. Thermometer at s o'clock stood
II below zero.
EVANSVILLE, Feb. 9.-Westher clear and
cold. River l. feet and falling.
CAIRO, Feb. 9. - Arrived: Chas Morgan
from Cincinnati, At A. NJ. Departed: Nor
gan for New Orleans, at Q A. NJ. River twenty
seven feet and falling. Weather clear. Mer-
curry twenty. Considerable ice in the Ohio
LOUISVILLE Feb. 9.-R yer eight feet seven
INCHES IN the caral and falling. Weather very
cold. Ice very heavy.
NIcKsBURG, Fer. 9.-Up: Paragon 4. II.
Down c. i. Church 10 P. NJ, Belle Lee II
hst night, Frand Pargoud A. NJ, Natchez
z. NJ. Arrived to day: City of Alton. 6 P.
N. Wss.hsr cloudy and cool. River has
risen feet 10 inches.
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been unlawfully kept out of his office as Gov
ernor. and that the memorial was referred tc
the Committee on Privileges and Elections.
He (Ciayton) introduced the resolution
calling upon the President for informotion
received yesterday after presenting that me-
mortal and it seemed TO him proper that the
message should 60 to the same committee as
the memorial Of Brooks.
Mr.. Thurrnun said that ordinarily there was
no trouble about referring a message, but
this was an exceptional case. 1t seemed 10
him that If anything could be demonstrated,
il was the fact that this message should go to
the Committee On the Judiciary.
He did not want to consume time in ar
puirg the matter but lie was sure that the
message could not be referred without debate
a. it was the most extraordinary and astound-
ing of all messages He asked that the I'M
finished business, the steamboat bill, be taken
up.
The Vice President announced that the
morning hour had expired and laid before
the Senate the steamboat bill, it being the
unfinished business from yesterday.
The Senate then, at Is p. NJ. as mark
OF respect to the late Senator Buckingham, Of
Connecticut, adjourned.
Mr.. West. of Louisiana, introduced bill
FOR the relief Of James Madison Wells, Of
Louisiana. Referred to Committee on Gains.
Mr.. DAVIS, OF west virginia, presented JOINT
resolutions OF the Legislature OF that State
protesting against Federal interference in
civil affairs Of Louisiana, and asked permits
sion to submit some remarks thereon. He
said he would not occupy more than Ave min
NteS.
Mr. Clayton, Of Arkansas. objected and
said he desired to call up, for reference, the |
Presidents message of yesterday. in regard to
Arkansas aft airs.
Mr.. Blyard. of Delaware. said that motion |
would certainly lead to debate. The Vice |
President decided that the Senator from West |
Virginia Davis was entitled to the floor.
The resolutions Of the West Virginia Legis-
lature were then read at the Clerk desk.
Mr.. Davis said he believed the sentiments
expressed in them were endorsed by three
fourths Of the people of West Virginia, as
well as the country ut large.
He argued that the Louisiana Legislature
mad been legally organized on the 4th of Jan
nary, when military interference took place,
aud that such interference was by authority
If the President, as two Cabinet officers Sec
rotary Belknao and Attorney General VIII
i'll the name of the President in
dorsed the acts of Gov. Kellogg and others.
He also said he could not imagine a more
act than for those who had
sought and accepted office at the hands of
of the South traducing and re-
Wiling the people they assumed to represent
In conclusion, he declared that he endorsed
.he resolutions, and asked that they be placed
on record, which was so ordered.
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Marine.


SOUTHWEST Pass, Feb. 9-Nocn.-Barome
ter 1910 Wind north northeast, light.
No arrivals
Sailed Brig Flora Goodale.
PAss-A-LOUTRE, Feb. o noon. Wind
north northwest, light.
Sailed: Bark Clotilde.
The bark Auguste, previously reported fol
orders, has left for the city.
New York, Feb. 9.-Arrived out Ken
tuckian, G. G. Trufant, Emile. Amazon Ne.
teor. Peruvian, Astrea. Departed homeward
Sonnabend.
SOUTHWEST Pass, Feb. 9, P. M.-Barome-
ter 30:40. Wind northeast, fresh.
Arrived: Steamship Hanover, $50 P. NJ.
Himbeck master, from Bremen, via Havre
and Havana, to E. F. Stockmeyer & Co.
Bark Theresa, Taylor. master, 50 days from
Antwerp.
Sailed: Bark Bremen.
PASCAL OUTRE, Feb. 8, 6 p. M.-Wind E.
n. E.; light. Weather rainy.
Arrived Steamship Yazoo at Lao this
evening. Barrett. master, from Philadelphia,
via Havana to Z. A. Yorke.
No departures
The steamship State of Louisiana is aground
on the bar, bound out
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A Texas belle recently appeared at ball in
iearfaiiy and wonderfully made costume, of
sheh the following Is description Her
dress represented the first flag of the Gov.
federacy ; On her arm she bore the a,g
adopted by tie COME ierate National Con.
gress on her lower skirt were stars for the
States with the name aud seal of each Stata
IN the centre !; photographs of Confederate
generals were on the upper skirt, together
with pictures OF the Alabama and Sumter
on her shoulders were straams.s of the suc-
cessfui battles !; manacles and chains vera
on ner arms +: coroaet of the seeded States
was on her head and rising above them was
BLACK veil, representing the gloom thrown
over them TINS was fastened with the dagger
OF oppression.
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MORE SPECIMENS OF DEROIr JUS.
TICE.
rFrom the Detroit Free Press

| From the Detroit Free Press
| "She's sorry, SIR" remarked Bijah, as b
handed out Katie Worden, black-eyed CIR
with scar on her nose.
Eyes, am" she added, as she pushed 8
tear from under her eyelid.
~ suppose So" unused his honor. "The
officer says you were so intoxicated that you
did not know wood-pile from harness
shop. and that you created good deal OF
trouble"
Try me give me one more chance, she
pleaded.
Couldn't do it, he replied. "Youve
been here twenty times within year, and
it is time you understood that law can't be
clothed in the fleece of lamb or the skin of
a tiger. You've come here once too often,
and 1 shall make it sixty days
"Oh Heav-ho shall faint-ho :"
"Be placid Miss Worden," he remarked.
eff you should fall down in faint Bijah
would have to cut your corset-strings, throw
water on you and fan you with the dust-pan,
and your present neat and tidy appearance
would be destroyed.
but my heart beats so, she walled
Eyes; well, you may sit down on the half
bushel measure in the corridor and smell of
the carbolic acid Jug It's favor We don't
grant to every one, but I want you to under
personal malice which induces me.
While the broken-hearted female was being
tsnderly moved away frank, clear voice was
heard singing:
Down among the cotton blossoms
Down among the sugar cane.
There was whore / met Lucinda,
There's where
"Put that boy OUT interrupted his Honor,
rising up and surveying the crowd of small
boys behind the stove.
Silence followed.
The boys moved uneasily.
Put that boy out, l say shouted the
court
please sir, explained chunk of boot
black, stepping forward 81 guess its wind ia
the stoye-piper
Bijah came out with sailor at this juncture
and the source of the harmonious disturbance
was soon settled.
"Whos this Lucinda you were singing
abont!' inquired his honor as he settled back.
cit was only song, sir, explained the |
sailor, shifting about uneasily
"Well, what about this charge of drunken
less:"
"Blast my foxes if know
"lou were drunk-see it in your face |
y ha. do you mean by such conduct
II spose fell in with Jack, and Tom, and
Bill, and got tight before knew it.
Well, III make you get up and climb for
lot attending to your own business. The
sentence is thirty days"
"Whoop"' exclaimed the sailor
That calls for thirty more replied his
lOror.
sit does eh ?-whoop'
''IH make it three months :.
There was pause.
"Any more whoopsf" inquired the court.
"Not even a whoop-skirt ~ sadly replied
be sailor as he walked away
It was the end.
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1t Will strike an impartial observer as singu
lar. that while the supporters of Grantisn
can hardly find words severe enough to ex
press their detestation of the White Leagues
which are confined to Louisiana the organiza
ton being peculiar to that State, they have
nothing to say of the Black Leagues which
abound throughout the South under various
names, and are banded together in determined
hostility to the native whites. These leagues
exercise most pernicious influence. and are
entirely under the co troll of carpet-baggers
and the class of politicians known in the
| South as scalawags.
| They are very strong in Mississippi, where
the white property holders, who pay the
enormous taxes levied there for the emolu-
ment of black and white rascals, have vainlv
endeayored to conclliate the colored people
by kind treatment and persuasion. In that
State they were formerly organized in LOYAL
Leagues each member solemnly swearing ito
stick to his color and vote the Republican
ticket. Now the organization is changed.
and under the guise Of benevolent societies
the negroes form political clubs for purposes
inimical to justice and public morality
In these so-calied benevolent societies oaths
are administered. and the members, male and
female, are sworn to stand by each other, as
against the whites, even to the extent of COM
hitting perjury and other crimes. In re-
cent prosecution Of a negro tor grand larceny
OF cotton belonging to white man, it was in
evidence that the obligations of one of these
benevolent associations made it incumbent
upon each member to swear to a lie, if neces-
sary. IN order to clear one of THAR number
accused of crime
Members of these leagues serve on iuries.
when they are already sworn to violate their
official oaths II it should be necessary for
them to do 50 in order to protect one of their
fellows who may be on trial. An intelligent
and trustworthy correspondent sends Us an
account OF case in which a negro was tried
for the murder of white man The evil
dence produced on the trial showed that the
acc used was guilty of a cold-blooded murder
The jury was composed of twelve colored
men, and several Of these, when they fled
into the jury room while the court took a
recess, before one word of testimony had
been introduced, stopped TO shake hands with
the prisoner, while one holder than the rest,
was heard to whisper TO the murderer ..Brud-
der Nathan, we'se gwine to clear you" And
they did clear him, without the slightest re-
gard to the character of the evidence intro
iueed
When negro steals from a negro. or muir
iers one OF his own color, a negro jury is very
prompt to find him guilty: but where the case
s one OF white man against a negro, the
ormer has no chance whatever if any men,
oeFs OF Black League are on the Jury Yet
.hese pernlclous organizations are encouraged
~ the Grant party, aud form the main sup
port or the Administration in the Southern
'tates.-A. I. Sun.
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A train running a. a moderate rate, which
Is about twenty-one miles per hour. would
run over distance of five hundred miles
per day OF twenty-four hours, and at tina,
speed would reach British India from London
in about ight and half days. or Pekin, in
China, in eleven days, or from Gibraltar to
the Cape of Good Hope in ten days, or from
Quebec to Cape Horn in seventeen DAYS. or
once round the globe in ffty-one DAYS, or
seven times round the globe in one year. or
distance equal from the earth to the moon in
about sixteen months. or from the earth 10
the sun in FIVE hundred years, which is IS 0oo
600 miles.
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VARIETIES IBEATEB--The many balls and
other attractions last night, coupled with the
weather, had the effect Of somewhat reducing
the number in the audience usually present
a. the Varieties. Mr.. Emmett, as Fritz. is
Always an attraction sufficient to draw full
houses. and his charscteriEations fully deserve
the worldwide eneomiums passed upon them.
To-day noon there viii be matinee when
the ladies' fayori.e viii doubtless receive an
ovation.
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THE FIRE YIENp.

HUNrER's PoIxT, Feb. "a schoolhouse
burned with one child Three officers were
seriously burned while rescuirg the children.
IL was tie WORK Of an incendiary.
NV loEK, Feb. "A fire occurred this
morning IN s shree-story brick tenement
Two girls aged seven and ten were burned to
death. and the father fatally.
The weather here ard north is intensely
sold
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Iheater-goers accustomed to the tragedy of
Macbeth, and to looking upon Miss Cushman
as the living embodiment of the hard and
stony-hearted Queen, are not generally apt to
trouble themselves with the fact that at the
period OF Duncans murder, according to
history, no Lady Macbeth existed. An English
writer has taken The trouble to work up this
little bit of history, for. although the records
OF the Scottish kings were destroyed by Ed
ward | at the time of the Bruce and Balliol
quarrel, there is yet sufficient information
extant through foreign writers and the chron-
lcles of Holllnshed to clear up the true story
OF the tragedy.
The father of Duncan called Crynin. or
Crlnan, Lord of the Isles, married the eldest
daughter of Malcolm, the second King of
scotland. slrlel, the father of Macbeth, mar
RED the second daughter. On the death of
Malcolm, Duncan assembled the throne. Mac
beth being his principal warrior. After
several successes in arms, Macbeth set up q
rival claim to the crown, killed Duncan in his
own castle OF Inverness, usurped the throne.
and was afterward slain by Macduff. Ladv
Macbeth is thing of Shakespeare's own
creating The woman who assisted. the
nsurper IN this murder most foulS was
duncan own wife. the Queen, who afterward
crowned her iniamy by marrying Macbeth.
1t Is supposed that she wa, not of Scottish
origin, and thore is no record of Macbeth's
PAVING slam Banquo, or the children of
Slacdun. 1Ie dramatist chose to depart
from history for two reasons first. because
he mad IN Hamlet already drawn a charac
similar to this; and, second, because he
wished to Undue the ruling spirit in this reei-
eide with the feelings of woman, as well ~
the u ambition Of fend. In the portraits of
Duncan and Macbeth. now to be seen in the
gallery OF Hollywood Palace, the countenance
d Duncan bears by far the worst expression