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4. Il. Stewart Deals With Mrs.
O'Flanagan.

Mrs. O'Flanagan is said to be the
name of the lady who owned piece of
the Congress street property at Saratoga
recently purchased by Mr.. A. T. Stew
art, the merchant prince. They are
telling how she outwitted the great mer-
chant. Mr.. Stewart called and offered
her S22, 1000 for her lot, in his usual
brusqne, yet business-like way, and gave
her till four o'clock to accept his offer.
"Shure, Mr.. Stewart, brewer from Al
bany, has offered me $33 900 for the
property, and give me as long as want
TO think about it. But tol him he
could have it for S34 900 if he was back
here by three O'Clock. It is now ten
minutes to three. Ye can have it for
$4,000 if We get back here before the
brewer does" The thought of "brew-
cry" in the neighborhood of the Grand
Union hotel did the business. Mr.. Stew
art closed with Mrs. O'Flanagan on the
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The Hoosac Tunnel was bloackaded
L., c,I


The Hoosac Tunnel was bloackaded
on Saturday by falling stone.
Cardinal McCloskey has gone to
Rome to get his hat and ring.
There is report that Monlton. Ben.
Butler & Co, are Stocking the cards"
for new deal on Rev. II. w. Beecher.
1t is perjury this time.
Two men, Kane and McIlro, discharg-
en- load of buckshot into a crowd of
men at Elkhorn, Nebraska, on Saturday,
seriously wounding two men, and then
escaped.
Henry Ward Beecher has inaugurated
"family worship" at his hotel on the
White Mountains. The boarders are
all invited.
The recent heavy rains throughout
Kansas have not injured the corn or
other grain to any extent. Many rumors
are afioat that the wheat has been ruin
ed in the shocks, but they are ground
less.
james Golden, alias Holland, alias
Wolf, one-year prisoner in the Ohio
Penitentiary, from Scioto County. es-
capped Saturday morning. He exchang-
ed his prison garb for suit of citizens
clothing.
An agricultural paper says that kind
words will cure COW of kicking, but
many prefer the old way of mauling the
critter with fence rail until her heart
is broken.
A man smuggling tobacco from Bel
gium into France clothed himself from
head to foot with the leaves, and then
put on his ordinary clothes. Having
some distance to walk. he got into a per-
spiration, and his skin absorbing the
strength of the tobacco, caused severe
| illness resulting in his detection. At
last accounts he was not expected to live.
| A terrific powder explosion at Brides
burg, Pennsylvania, last Saturday
morning, was caused by breaking mp
condemned metallic ammunition. There
were many reports of killed and injur-
ed, but only one person, a lad of about
eighteen, was killed. About twenty
two others were injured, several fwhom
can not survive.
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The Chicago Tribune, which was
mainly responsible for spreading the re-
ports about the Wholesale destruction Of
crops in the West, now says:
"While the floods and storms have
made great ravages in the bottom lands
of some streams, there has been some
compensation in the fact that the unn-
sual fall Of water has brought new life
into the high and rolling lands, and rem
dered them more productive than they
are ordinarily. The average effect as to
corn has been more beneficial than dam
aging. taking the whole West together;
the fall crop of hay, as we'll as the root
crop, will be the more abundant on ac-
count Of the rains; and the several days
of dry, clear weather have enabled the
farmers to go into the fields with their
scythes, NOW down the beaten grain
and save more of wheat and oats than
was anticipated. The result il, that this
years experience will follow the rule ol
former years when bad crops were ex-
pected, viz: That there will be a better
yield than was counted upon There is
little doubt that our crops will be sufh-
cientlv abundant to take every advan'
tage of an increased foreign demand
without stinting ourselves"
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II il estimated that FIVE million bush
els of grain are on the lakes and canals,
and three hundred thousand bushels on
the railways, bound East.
A newspaper biographer trying to say
his subject twas hardly able to bear the
demise of his wife," was made by the
memorable printer to say, "weaF the
chemise of his wife"
A saloon keeper has been found who
keeps up appearances as a victualer by
exposing as il for sale behind the lunch :
bar plate of plaster-of- Paris eggs and a
wooden ham.
The Baltimore Gazette learns that the
new patent ventilated cars put on this
season by the Baltimore and Ohio Com
pany turn peaches out at the end of
the journey nearly as fresh as when
plucked from the trees"
johnson is the third President whose
remains are in Tennessee, and there ia a
project to bury him with the others in
Nashville. and erect grand monument
but his family prefer a simple grave in
East Tennessee.
What cans you mot name without
4 breaking it?-Silence.
Butter Will remove tar spots, Soap
and water will afterward take out the
| grease stains.
Occident, the famous California horst
| has made 2:154-
AN IMMENSE lot of gold and silver
Watches, fine Jewelry, Silverware, &c.
at prices astonishingly low, at Curran's
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A Sad Blow.
rFrom thf yieksburg Herald ]


A Vicksburger who prides himself on
his choice language was over in Louis
ina the other day on business, and stop
ping at farm house to get drink of
water, the woman remarked that the
crops stood in great need of rain.
"Yes, rain is the great desideratum.
he replied, as he handed the tin dipper
back.
"Maryl Nary" yelled the woman in
loud tones.
A white-headed girl of sixteen came
out of the back room in response to the
call, and the mother continued:
"Take a squar view OF him, Mary
He don't look as If he knew enough &c
plow cotton, and yet he just got off q
word as long as from here to the mule
pen and back, and he may be holdin' or
to morew
The Vicksburger walked right away
from there.
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The following is the letter from jeff
Davis promising to visit Winnehago
County, Illinois, next month, and deliv-
er an address:
"MEMPHIs, Tenn, August 5, 1875.
"To III. P. KIMBALL, Secretary:
"DEAR SIR-Yours of the 1st instant
has been received, and / have the honor
to accept the invitation to address the
Patrons of the Industrial Association of
Winnebago County at their meeting in
September next, and, unless prevented
by some unforeseen cause, will be with
you on the 14th prox., the commence
ment of your Exposition. Your previ-
Gus letter on the subject would have
been promptly replied to but for the ne
cessity which existed then and until
several days past as to the proba ability
of arranging some business matter SO as
| to permit of my absence at the time
specified. / have long desired to revisit
your country and see the wonderful de-
| velopment which has been made since ]
| left it, as then it was wilderness oc-
cupIed By savages. The courteous in
vitation is thereupon doubly welcome.
"With cordial thanks to yourself and
associates, am, respectfully and truly
| yours,
JEFFERSON DAVIS"
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A Panic Among Sheep.

Last week we mentioned the loss of a
large number of sheep in the hills back
of Mission San Jose, belonging to Mr..
Ashurst. The sheep, it seems. to the
number of about two thousand FIVE hum
dred, were quietly feeding on a hill
about three miles east of Mission San
Jose on Sunday afternoon, July 4, when
a man who had been a short time work
ing for the owners suddenly uttered a
loud yell. which had the effect of fright
ening them. They Immediately began
running down hill as fast as they could
At or near the bottom ofthe hill large
patch of poison oak was growing, and
they rushed pell-mell into it. Here
their legs got 50 entangled that they
could not move. Meanwhile the Others
behind still came rushing down upon
them, until they were piled in layers
six deep, one upon the other. Of course
the most of them were soon suffocated
and dead
One of the owners came to the spot
within ten minutes afterward, and with
the aid of Spaniard succeeded in pull
ing out and rescuing about fifty head
But the number that lost their lives ir
this strange way was seven hundred il
all. 1t is supposed that the yell by the
hired man was given for the purpose o
starting the sheep off to camp Alan
eda (Cal.) Independent.
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The Chicago Inter-Ocean is not pleas
ed with the action of the officers of the
Winnebago County Agricultural Socie-
ty in extending an invitation to JEFF.
Davis to address the people of that
county on the subject of agriculture on
the occasion Of their Fair in September
next. 1t pronounces it "a gross insult
to every decent man, woman and child
in the State" and advises, in case he
persists in coming, that the people main
tain suIlen silence as q means of telling
him that his presence is not generally
desired. Such advice is foolish, and in
consistent with the oft-exPressed wish OF
the people of the North to fraternize
with the people of the South.
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The Massachusetts State Assayer and
Inspector has been busy of late in in
specting samples of brandy obtained al
some of the better of hotels. restaurants
and saloons in Boston, The samples
were purchased by persons unknown to
the dealers, with no hint to the purpose
for which they were taken. In the larg-
er number of cases brandy was found
to be good in quality and free from
adulterations. In some cases practice
of watering" prevailed, and in a few
instances ginger, capsicum, grains ol
paradise and other harmless aromatics
were detected.
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Four men have had a terrible expert
encs in Panamint Valley. California
Water is scarce in that region, and it is
customary for those who make the jour
ney to carry supply. This party,
however, took too little, and were soon
suffering with thirst. The first to snc-
cnmb was told by his comrades to lie
still and they would return to him with
water. Another very soon gave out, and
was advised to return to where The 9th
er had been left. At length another be-
come exhausted, leaving only one-an
old mountaineer named Phillips-to
struggle on until he reached spring.
He filled his canteen and started back to
succor his comrades, but when he found
them, one was dead.
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Boston w Dol Market.
August. 6.

August s.
The total receipts of Wool at this
port during the past week, have been
ln.7I0 bales of domestic and 33 bales
foreign, against IL ,841 bales domestic
and SOB bales foreign for the correspond
ing week Of last year. Total receipts
since January /, 149, 9,l29 bales domestic
and &c, ,920 bales foreign, against 1872 .99S
bales domestic and II .204 bales foreign
in 1874, and 134, $40 bales domestic and
81, ,063 bales foreign for same period in
1873. The sales of the week comprise
1,0lS,0 900 lbs of domestic and California
Fleece and pulled, and 185, 900 lbs for
eign, making a total of l.203, 900 lbs:
There is the same eager demand for
combing and Delaine Woods that has
been a marked feature of the market
since the opening of the new clip, and
the sales for the week amount to about
800, 600 lbs, at prices varying from SIC
to 54c for Delaine, and SIC to SOC for
choice cOmbing. These grades are qnite
as firm as last week, and there is less
disposition to press sales. There has
been more demand for Michigan, and a
prominent Flannel manufacturer has
purchased 130, 900 lbs at about 44c: some
small lots of Michigan extra Wool, in
cluding also the medium, has been sold
at 45c, and there is evidently disposi-
tion on the part of manufacturers to lay
in fine stock at the above prices. There
has been no more demand for Ohio
| Wool, but the offers made are not ac-
ceptable to holders, and there has been
no important transactions. The mills
generally have a light supply, and a
number ofdealers would like TO purchase
fine Fleece at a price little below the
current rates. There have been limited
sales of California, but the market If
weak and the sales have been made al
some concession from previous quota
tions. Pulled Wools are dull and the
sales nave been verv small. Fn foreign
we notice no change. Carpet stock has
been in great request, but the sales oil
| Australian have been at low figures
Business as a whole has been quiet. and
for everything except combing and me.
dunn prices are very low.
Domestic Fleece-5O, 900 lbs Fleece al
44046c, 10000 lbs Ohio at 47c, 5000
mixed Kentucky at 44c, 5000 lbs Mich
igan nj 45c, Al 900 lbs Michigan at 45c
$1,000 lbs do at 45c, 10000 lbs do at 44c
5000 lbs medium Wisconsin at 454c
$4,000 lbs Michigan at 45, 10000 Id,
Kentucky at 30fN33c, 10000 lbs extra
Ohio at 48c, 10000 lbs medium do a
49c, 10000 lbs Michigan at 44c, 500
lbs medium unwashed at 36c. 200 lb
unwashed at 59Cd}35c. $4,000 lbs medium
unwashed at SIC, $500 lbs Michigan a
451c, 10000 lbs coarse at 41c, 10000 lb
nnwashed at 333c, 10000 lbs Westerr
Fleece at 46c.-[ Advertiser.
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In 1S49 party left New Orleans for
California on the schooner Florida, and
nothing having been heard of them af-
terward, they were given up by friends
as lost. A few weeks since a British
steamer reported the discovery of a col
ony ofmen on Pacific island, and from
description furnished, they were sup
posed to be the parties who embarked
in the Florida. The excitement caused
by the story was intense in New Or
leans, and preparations were talked OF
for sending out an expedition of dis
covery. Now comes a correspondent OF
the Louisville Courier-Journal, who
was living in Valparaiso, Chill, in 1s49
He says the Florida landed at Port
Famine, Chilian penal colony, and
that the convicts took possession of the
schooner and massacred all on board
except boy named Marcum, of Yer.
sailles, Kentucky, who was finally re-
leased and went to California, where he
died. The whole story needs confrma-
| tiOD
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JEFFERSON DAVIS

President Lerdo, of Mexico, procured
the passage of a colonization law TO at
tract American and English emierants
to Mexico. Under this law emigrants
are to have land at easy and reasonable
rates. They are also to be exempt from
military and all kinds of taxation, ex-
cept those of needful municipal char
acter. All vessels bringing ten or more
families are to be exempt from port
duties. Poor families are to be furnish
ed with provisions for one year, and
liberal advances made for the purchase
offarming materials and to build homes.
These stipulations are to remain in force
ten years, and an appropriation of $780,
600 has been made to put the scheme in
practical operation.
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The Good Work Going On.

The good work ofccnciliation between
the sections is being fostered and speed
ed on its way by men who gallantly
served in the Confederate armies during
the war of the rebellion. At recent
reunion of the survivors of the Georgia
Third Regiment, at Portsmouth, Vir-
ginia, Col. Nesbitt paid a warm compli-
ment to Northern soldiers, and Col.
David G.. Goodwin emphatically said:
"To the future, and not to the past, looks
true nobility; we cannot afford to carry
dead corpses. We are soldiers, the pres
ent is with us, and the future just ahead
of us is too full of hopes to stop to re-
pine over the things that have been lost.
We have no time and should have no
taste to NOPE over the past. We want
reconciliation and union-we want a
happy and united people. This country
ia ours; let us strive not to undo, but to
make il what it should be-a great, a
good, a just, generous Government
Let us cultivate the idea that we
are a part and parcel of it. Let
us honor and respect it-let as seek
to break down all estrangement between
the sections. 1t is our duty, it is oul
interest, and it should be our pleasure
I want to see the time. when this grea
Government shall shower alike its bles
sings and protection upon a whole anc
common people-when under the Amer
lean flag, all sectious of this UnioT
shall stand in sympathy and in peace
when the actions, the passions. the senti
ments and emotions of our people shall
be centered in the mighty industries off
united and happy country. Let us benz
our efforts to accomplish this great Oh
iect, and when it shall have been achlev
ed who shall doubt the splendid future
of our country?"
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Does the court understand you to say
that you saw the editor intoxicated
"Not at all, sir. only I've seen him in
such a--a-a-fiurry as to attempt TO
cut ont COPY with the snuffers; that's
ALL"
fla young man sits mp too late with
his sweet heart out at Haddonfield, the
old folks come into the parlor, and with
refinement of sarcasm, invite him to
wait few minutes longer and breakfast
will be ready.
When people listen to peal of thun-
der, and mark, with awe, its course as il
goes crashing through the heavens, they
little think that il will sour half pint
of milk saved up for tea, quicker than
you can say Jack Robinson Il Danhury
News.
What is the strongest light in Brook
lyn?-Beecher('s) candal.
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The New Orleans Pieayune, speaking
Of the revival of the old Washington
Artillery of that city for appearance al
the Philadelphia Centennial, says
Wearing the historic gray, which
Southern prowess has made immortal
and marching under the stars and stripes
which even in the bitterest hour of strife
we could never look npon unmoved, the
Washington Artillery will proclaim for
us the valor that startled the world into
admiring wonder, and the loyal submis-
sion with which we have recog lized the
fruitlessness Of the struggle and return
ed 10 the allegiance our fathers bequeath-
ed on the fields of 1776."
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A Mine of Sweetness.
From the San BernardinO Argus,

From the San Bernardino Argus,
Generally when we hear of rich
strikes it is in the gold or silver line.
but this time it turns out TO be honey
pure and sweet A few days since as
the workmen on the tunnel at Caion
Pass were hauling over some rocks, they
came across deposit of honey, and TAX
ing pole and running it into the noun
tain, were surprised TO find no bottom.
They got long pole some twenty feet
in length and were unable to touch
bottom with that. Upon Withdrawing
| the pole the honey began TO run out
and soon tubs, buckets and two barrels
we're filled, and still it flowed. Some
parties came in town and loaded up with
! barrels and proposed to make a hnsiness
of it. They put in charge of powder
and blew off a portion of the rock,
which disclosed tons upon tons Of honey.
Our informant states that after explor-
1 ing it from below to where the bees were
found to enter, it was found to be about
one fourth of mile and it honey. He
estimates over one hundred tons in sight
and believes that one thousand tons
would not be an unfair estimate. This
immense deposit can not be equaled by
any ever found According 10 the above
estimate, it would take every barrel and
! hogshead in San Bernardino to hold it.
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One MORE BRAVE MAN.-Those who

One MORE BRAVE MAN.-Those who
save life at the risk of life richly deserve
to be named all the world over, and so it
is a pleasure to chronicle their deeds.
Patrick Clancy, of St. John, New Bruins
wick, is one of such. On the evening
of the oath ult., as the ferryboat from
St. John was entering the dock on the
Carleton side of the river, Young wo-
man was pressed overheard by the
crowd, and in the darkness was entirely
lost sight of. Ganey jumped over dived
and CROPPED around the bottom unsuc-
cessfully, and only came to the surface
in order to repeat his operations. The
second time he dived under the floats in
the slip, where he found the girl, she
having been driven there by the under
tow caused by the boat backing water.
From this terrible position he rescued
her after much labor, and the pair were
taken from the water soon enough to
save the girls life.
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Tuesday, Commodore Ammen, Acting
Secretary of the Navy, received from
the Acting Secretary of State, dis
patch from Tripoli, dated the 7th, stat
ing that Mr.. Vidal, American Consul,
and his wife, had been insulted by Tri-
politan sailors, and asking whether any
of our vessels of-war could convenient
lY reach that port. Orders were issued
that the United States steamer Hartford,
Captain Harmony, now at Port Said,
en- route home from the Asiatic station,
proceed to inquire into the facts, and de-
mand that the perpetrators of the in
suit be arrested and punished. Rear
Admiral Worden, commanding the Eu-
ropean station, was instructed to keep
himself advised of the circumstances
and if necessary send other vessels to
Tripoli to act with the Hartford.
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"Sir," said fierce lawyer, edo you,
on your solemn oath, swear that this is
not your handwriting" 81 reckon not"
was the cool reply. "Does it resemble
your writing?" eyes, sir, think it
don't" "Do you swear that it don't re-
semble your writing?" "Well, do, old
beat" "You take your solemn oath
that this writing does not resemble yours
in a single letter?'' "Y e-es, sir" "Now
how do you known cause ! can't
NJ rita -
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FAST TYPE SETTING.-On Thursday
last, w. P. Magruder, one of the en-
ployes of this Office, set nine thousand
eight hundred ems of loaded BREWER in
five hours. The first two hours he av-
eraged 2,145 ems per hour. The last
three hours he averaged 1886 ems per
hour Marysville Tribune
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POSTAL CARDs.-There were 14,29S,-
900 postal cards issued during the month
of July on the requisition of postmas
ters. This is the largest number ever
issued in any month before. In the
first month of fiscal year about one
eighth of years supply is generally
ordered, and at the above rate of issue
nearly one hundred and fifteen million
postal cards will be used this year,
showing the great popularity of this
branch of the service.
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Immense beds of sulphur have been
found in Humboldt county, Nevada. at
distance of about thirty miles of the
tracks of the Central Pacific Railway.
The material is found at all points on a
small mountain, which explorers say is
mass of sulphur. A company is en-
gagged in operating the works, and town
has been laid out which bears the ap-
propriate name of "Inferno"
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EFFECT OF ARNICA ON THE SKIN
Contrary to the opinion usually enter
tanned as to the effect of tincture of ar
MICA on the skin, DIR. White communi-
Gates to the Medical and Surgical jour
nal. the details of some cases which show
that, when applied to the skin, it proves,
in certain individuals, an irritant poison.
Such instances, DIR. White believes, oc-
cur not infrequently, but are not recog-
nized, the appearances which follow its
use being often mistaken for the imme-
diate effect, or sequel, of the injury or
other trouble for which it was used, even
the physician often failing to recognize
the artificial nature of the eczema he is
called to treat, and to connect it with the
prior application of arnIca to the skin
The almost universal belief in its harm
lessness, too, is mentioned BY DR.. White
as preventing the patient, in most cases
from communicating to the physician
the fact of its use before the appearance
of the disease. Very few of the works
on toxicology, and none of those on ma
terra medica, place arnica among the
poisons~