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ESTABLISHED IN 1865.
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t ton c Win the

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Messrs.
MUM e. co. are Solicitors of Ameri
can and Foreign Patents, and have the
largest establishment in the world
Mere ,han fifty thousand applications
have been made for Patents through
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which has been published weekly for
the last thirty one years, does this, to
an extent beyond that of any other
publication; in fact it is the only week
iv paper published in the United States
devoted to Manufactures, Mechanics,
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Criminals EXecnted.

Harry Adams was executed IN the Jail yard
at Dayton, o., on June Is, for the murder Of
Henry Mulharen, a soldier from the Home"
in that city, on February IA, 1876. The
prisoner TO the last declared his innocence
in the following card:
L Harry Adams, sitting here within four feet Of
the scafOld upon which will die a most ignomi-
niOUs 3ath, within full sight Of it while looking
upon It, do solemnly declare, with this my dying
word, that I never did the deed for which am to
die out that Jennie Smith did it. so help me God.
TSignedI HARRY ADAMS.
The execution took place at the appointed
hour. When the prisoner mounted the
scsffOld, says q Commercial reporter, with his
hands pinioned, it was observed that he
laughed; and also that his gait seemed a lit
tie unsteady. The laugh was accordingly
taken for bravadO, and the Unsteadiness for
fear. When he commenced to speak, how.
ever, 1t became evident from his inc0herent
manner and thick voice that he was drunk
very drunk, in fact. In that condition he
spoke for eleven minutes and a half, saying
nothing Of special consequence, excepting
e. denOunce Bickham, of the Journal, as the
author of his death, to accuse the girl Jennie
Smith Of the murder, and to deny that he
had anything to do with the crime. At last
Deputy Sheriff Freeman tried to stop this
torrent of incOherent nonsense, and fitted
the black cap over the prisoners face. Even
then he continued to speak for awhile, and
was actually moving his lips under the black
mask when the drop fell. The neck was in
stantly broken, and the body remained
-,.kfrw1nr1 In GeTea-, v,s--A,- L 4
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The Lerdo Faction Capture Ell PasO-
A Battle on Texan Soil.

WASHINGTON, June 16.-The Collector OF
Customs at El PasO, Texas, informs the Sec
retary Of the Treasury of the capitulatlOn Of
El Paso, Mexico, to the partisan Of LerdO
Teiada, under the immediate command Of P.
Z. MachorO, Colonel of the Sec.
Ond Regiment Mexican Infantry, who is act
ing under the authority and instructions of
Gen. Escobedo. The taking Of the city was
accomplished between one and six o'clock
a. NJ. The principal city officials were taken
prisoners. Among them were Gete Poll
licio, Mayor; Rafael Vsrios, Collector of
Customs, and nearly all his subOrdinates,
fifteen in all. The uprising IS
spreading throughout chihuahua. 1t is
authoritatively stated that quite large body
Of men viii assemble at this point for the
Ostensible purpose of inducing Mexico to
develop her mining interests; but many
think that their object is entirely different.
G. Merando, who was made Mayor OF the
city by Col. MschOrO, publicly declared that
he could drive every American out oil tue
place. If an attempt is made to carry this
threat into execution, trouble will ensue'
The absence of troops is greatly deplOred.
NEW ORLEANS, June 16.---The Galveston
Nel0g Fort Clark special says on Monday
last a detachment of Mexican Government
troops crossed the Rio Grande to this side at
a point twenty miles from here, in
order to avoid a conflict with a
larger body of revolutionary troops fast
closing in on them. On the same night
revolutionary body crossed the river, and
attacked the government soldiers, killing
several, aud WOUndiug many, returned to
the Mexican side. The United States mill
tary authorities at this post made captves OF
the Mexican troops, for the violation Of the
neutrality law, in crossing to the American
side with arms and having a battle thereon.
They we're brought to this post under guard
of United States troops, forty in number,
including one Colonel, three Lieutenant
ColOnels and five Captains. They were re-
leased yesterday on parole. Recruiting IS
going on this side for the revolutionary
nqrfV
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ceased to beat, and in nineteen the body was

ceased to beat, and in nineteen the body was
eCtidOwn.
THREE EXECUTIONS AT NEW ORLEANS.
At11 o'clock, June 10, the following we're
executed by hanging, in the parish prison
yard, New Orleans, in the presence of about
two hundred spectators.
Adrian ETeque cOlOred, aged twenty, who
shot and killed a cOlOred man, Richard
TWintd at q ball in a hall corner of Clai.
borne and UrsuliDe Streets, February 6,
1876. E7eque acknowledged the killing, but
pleaded intOXicatiOn.
George Norris, c3lored, aged twenty-five
years, for killing q quad OOn woman named
Sarah Jones, his former mistress, on NOVem-
Der, 80, 1875. Morris had then Just returned
from Baton Rouge, where he had been serv-
ing out his sentence in the penitentiary for
theft The woman refused to have anything
more to do with him. He waited near the
WOman's house until she came out, when be
stabbed her to dea with a long knife.
JOAQUIN FloreDz1, native of the Philip
pine Islands, aged thirty.tiv for the murder
Of his mistress, Marie Louise, cOlOred whom
he stabbed to death with a shoemaker's
knife, January 16, 1870, at their room, on
Bourbon Slreet-cause, Jealousy. After kill
ing the woman in bed, at night, Florence
scattered several hundred dollars in money
ON6E anu doOAh uSAg bCubCu utnl6ElL IL bL6
gallery Until morning, when he went in
search Of her supposed pdramoUr, found and !
shot at him, and was arrested. He then told |
the policeman what he hod done, and took |
him to the scene of the tragedy.
The day before execution, by order of |
Governor Nichols, a medical commission |
examined FiOrenzo's mental condition, and |
he was perfectly sane.
WIFE-MURDERER HANGED IN GEORGIA.
Stephen Brinkley was hanged at Newman,
Ga, June Is, for the murder of his wife, |
nearly four years ago. He has brother in |
Memphis who is q very wealthy broker, and /
who has spent over thirty thousand dollars \
in the attempt to save him from the gallows. |
For two weeks before his execution the |
most extraordinary efforts had been made to
secure executive interference. Three Gov
ernOrs, Governor Stone, of Mississippi, and f.
Governors Porter and Brown, Of Tennessee,
have each sent papers to Governor COlquitt,
asking for clemency. General n. B. Forrest |
and General w. II. Jackson, with whom .
Brinkley served during the war, wrote to |
the Governor saying that they believed the |
condemned man was of unsOUnd mind, and /
that he bore the reputation of being crazy |
during the war, and was discharged from the |
army on that account. The Governor, how /
ever, refused to commute his sentence.
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Railroad Casualty.

BA1TtMeRE, June ia collision occur
red about Z 80 this morning, near Point Of
Rocks, between the regular morning accom-
mediation train from Winchester, Virginia,
and a special excursion train from Frederick
to Washington, with an excursion party for
Mount Vernon. The engines crushed into
each other. Four persons were instantly
killed and eighteen wounded, all on the e1-
cursion train.
The killed were Charles h. Keifer, editor
of the Frederick Examiner; Richard
Dutrow, merchant; Dorsey Walker, mer-
chant, and Howard E. Dickson, all Of Fred
erick City,
The wounded are Louis Schley, son Of
DR.. Fairfax Schley, dangerously, lost both
legs Colonel Chas. E. Trail, dangerously.
Colonel Trail is a son of one Of the most
influential and wealthy citizens Of Fred
eriek, and was State Senator from that county
several times.
The remaining sixteen wounded are as
fOllOWs-Whether dangerously or slightly Is
not stated: N. /. KnOdie, A. KOttengale, w.
81. Young, L. c. MOilinesuL, William Bart
ges, Peter Luganbel, Isaac Ely, 6. F.
Snouffer, William Snoufer, EnOch Green,
/. G. Moberly, William Harrison, n. h.
Hutchinson, John Davidson, Johnny Den
mis- and Henry Brashears.
All bu6 kl46u anu HOuAuGu WCLS rum
Frederick City, or residents Of Frederick
County, and have been taken to Frederick
City. OHly one person, a lady, on the Win
chester train, was injured, and sae not seri-
ously. The cause Of the accident was
misunderstanding between the train men.
Later dispatches state that Louis Schley
died from injuries received before being re-
moved.
Colonel Charles Trail is reported fatally
injured. One or two more may die, but the
others will recover.
A dispatch from Frederick says the col
lision is attributable to the gross careless
neHs and negligence of the train men.
Messrs. Keifer, Trail, Falconer and Colonel
Dennis were a committee from Frederick on
their way to Washington to extend an in7i-
tation to President Hayes and Cabinet to
attend the next Fair Of the Frederick County
Agricultural Society.
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Sigbts i'm the Museum All Pompeff.

A traveller who has been visiting the
museum at POmpeii writes to the Detroit
Free Press: Here are fsh-hOoks, curved
and pointed and barbed as perfectly as
those which anglers are using to-day
one of them with a snap hook attach
ment quite similar to that which is sell
ing at a high price at home as patented
invention and dentists tools of the
same hOrrifying and appalling construc-
ton as those which scare away tooth
ache on their production in our dentistry
parlOrs; and huge iron knOb-studded
mOney-chests, like the Salamander safes
Of our cOUnting-rOOms; and vases and
reliefs in alabaster, through which the
light comes softly, beaut1fying each
stroke of the engraVer's tool /; and cam
eos and intagliO cut gems, which, when
view by the naked eye present On the
surface but a mass of scraches, but when
examined under a powerful magnifer
show groups of figures Of graceful design
and exquisite drapery, score or more
iron bedsteads OF pattern and Orna-
ment fit for the most luxurious cham
bers to-day nests and rows of brass ket-
ties large and small, of various designs
and for divers purpose; candelabra whose
graceful forms are the models for the
most costly workmanship of the present
time; and tiny hand lamps to go to bed
with, each one an artistic study; apOth-
ecaries' and traders scales and steel
yards, and sets of weights, and (alas y
some of them ingeniously but fraudu-
Iently followed; children's toys, droves
of animals like "Noah's Arks," dolls
with movable arms and legs, and
dumping Jacks" ready even now to be
twitched by the pendant cord into coll
vulsive movement; casters, with bot
ties for oil and vinegar and little vases
for spice; glasses of all graceful shapes
and for all kinds of uses Zone great
" "Pokal" for festive occasions, with the
inscription, "Drink, my friend, and pass
to the nextp'); pretty porcelain cups,
exactly like teacuPs, resting on little
legs on the saucers below; beautiful vases
of blue and silver, of most tasteful shape
and delicate traCeTY,
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8, CnnEer InfIIe Rnd. ,,

You watch its development with expeetant
sOlicitUde-the choice, eXquisitely-mOulded
bud which promises 70 unfold with the per.
feet flower. You perhaps think how it will
adOrn the draWing-TOOm vase, and anticipate
the pleasure of showing il TO your flower
loving friends. But some morning you find
its head dropping, its fragrance fed, and an
ugly purple spot on one of the delicately-
tinted petals. 1t is the poets canker in
the bud" How often the loathsOme canker
blights the cherished "infant blossoms" " in
our household gardens-thOse human buds
which give earnest of a brilliant future. The
nOisome csnker, so long cOncesled-EerOf-
ula--st length reveals its dreaded presence
and to our bright hopes succeeds the most
agOniziDg fear, for we know the fatal sequel
itportends-pulmonary consumption. 1t is
estimated by eminent medical authority that
at least One-6fth of mankind are afflicted
with this insidiOus malady. But its ravages
are 50 secret, that even its victims are un-
aware of its presence until it suddenly dis
closes itself in some Of its myriad and oft
times fatal forms. A slight cutaneOUs
eruption is often the only indicator of its
presence. The only means of exterminating
this disease from the system is by d dthOrough
course of constitutional treatment. This
treatment must fulfill three indications,
namely, promote nutrition, alter or purify
the blood, and arrest disOrganizatiOn of the
tissues and the formation of tubercles. No
more efficient Alternative can be employed for
these purposes than DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. While imparting
strength and tone to the digestive organs it
cleanses the blood and heals the diseased It's
sues. Test its virtues ere the deadly canker
has bGghted the life you prize.
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&c Angie two times, niger on a pond,
"Angie two times, Niger on a pond. !"
GEORGE FRANCTs Tram has he

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has become
quite hardened. He says in the Boston
Globe: "Iwas sitting on my bench in
Madison Park the other day, feeding the
sparrOws, when q beggar came along and
asked for aims. refused him, when in
a most piteOus tone Of voice, he declared
that he was starving. Still I refused him
Eff I do not have food, said he, shall
die Very WE'LL said I, 4 recognize
your right to die. Go fertilize the feldsI
Why should rob the earth of its COM
post? How dare cheat the globe out of
a corpse? ? In disappointing you I please
a million pismiTes, who thank me antici-
pativeIy fer my generous denial. Leave
me p y
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GEN. PLEAsONTON keeps pitching into
Isaac Newton. The movements of
animals in the performance of their
varied functions have no reference to
gravitation," he says. So also in the
vegetable world. The sap of plants rises
from the roots, is distributed through
the branches and enlarges their size ire
spective of gravitation. The trunk of
the tree ascends into the atmosphere, and
extends its huge limbs lsterally, as if
gravitation had no existence. The smoke
from combustion, the exhalatiOns from
the earth and the evaporation of water,
all of them material substances, are in
opposition to graviSation."
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Angie Two Times.

A youngster Of one of our Boston pri-
mary schools was playing about at home
in the presence Of his father, one day
not long since, when the parent heard
him oft CarOling thus:
Angie two times, niger on pond,
Angie two times, Niger on pond"
Surprised and somewhat displeased at
the inelegant nature of the musical
snatch, the father inquired how the child
came by it. "Oh, that's what the
teacher makes US say ut school" he re-
piled. The next day the father paid a
visit to that school, and respectfully
asked the lady instructor if the cur
riculum of her department included the
above dOggerel. She was puzzled for a
moment to understand him, or to reply.
At last the whole thing came out with a
fash of intelligence: Angle-twO
lines meeting at a point" This geOmet-
rical definition. taught to the children,
was the simple original of the chiIds
translation:
angie two times, Niger on pond"
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THE YOUNG FOLKS.



YVES sitting in the study,
Writing letters, when 1 heard,
"P. ease, dear mamma Bridget told me
Mamma mustn't be 'isturbei.
"But Use tired of the kitty
Want some Ozzer fog to do;
Writing letters, is 'Ou mamma?
Tan't L write letter, too"
"Not now, daring, mammals busy,
Run and play with kitty now"
No, DO, mamma, me WIte letter,
Tan if 'Ou will show me how"
I would paint my darling portrait
As ais sweet eyes searched my face
Hair Of gold snd eyes of azure,
Form ot childish, Witching grace.
But the eager face was clOUded,
As I slowly shook my head.
Till 1 said, III make a letter
or you, darling boy, instead.
So ] parted back the tresses
From his forehead hign and white,
And a stamp in sport / pasted
Mid its waves OF golden light,
Then 1 said; Now, little letter,
Go away and bear good news ;"
Aud smiled as down the staircase
Clattered loud the little shoes.
Leaving me, the darling hurried
Down to Bridget in his glee.
" "Mamma's wiuDg lots Of letters;
Iss a letter, BrIdget-seeI ."
No one heard the little prattler,
As once more he climbed the stair,
Reached his little cap and tippet,
Standing on the entry chair.
No one heard the front door open.
No one saw the golden hair
As it tiOated Ger his shoulders
On the crisp October air.
Down the street the baby hastened
Till he reached the office door.
" Use letter, Mr.. POstman;
Is there room for any more 2
cause dis letters dOin' to papa;
Papa lives with God, 'Ou know.
Mamma sent me for a letter,
Does 'OU fink at 1 tan gO?"
But the clerk in wonder answered,
'' Not to-day, my little man."
I" Den / II hnd anOzzer office,
Cause 1 must go If 1 tan"
Fain the clerk would have detained him,
But the pleading face was gone,
And the little feet we're fastening
By the busy crowd swept on.
Suddenly the crowd was parted,
People fed to left and right,
AS pair Of maddened horses
At that moment dashed in sight.
No one saw the baby figure
No one saw the golden hair,
Till a voice of frightened sweetness
Rang out on the Autumn air,
Twas too late-a moment only
Stood the beauteOus vision there,
Then the little face lay iieless,
Covered o'er with golden hair.
Reverent they raised my darling,
Brushed away the curls Of gold,
Saw the stamp upon the forehead,
Growing now so icy cold.
Not a mark the face disfgured,
Showing where a hOOf had trOd;
But the little life was ended
" Papa's letter " was with God,
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THERE are six thousand two hundred
journalists in the country, and not one
that can read proof, prepare copy, enter
tain seven visitors, give an opinion on the
coming election, read an original poem
lust sent in, and eat his lunch all at one
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"HIT it." Didn't" Did, too."
Didn't, neither" Did" Didn't"
" l won't play any more" "Don't want
you to-" Hateful thing" "Don't
you want to borrow our morning paper ?
Mother says you don't come and get it
but six days in a week before we've seen
it." Thus the familiar trihes of the
croquet ground begin to be heard again
as they float along the street.
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AN old bachelor, aged one hundred
and seven, died in Troy, New York,
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SELlLING THE
4 LIiaIilLR FLRE KTNDLER"
Pays better than Digging for GOld9 Ny Agents
have sometimes made as high as
$50 IN A DAY

PitBIuTg Manufactures at Wholesale Prices.
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ipirht inch Oval Dishes, Water Pit her. seven
inch High Fru Dishes, y Individual Sauce
Dishes, Cake Nstiger, all OF good quality Class
Tor the box ~
Box containing 2 dJZcn halt pint Table and dozen
Tin Covered jelly TLm bers.... .--..-...---se 50 %
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