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THE ART OF COOKING.

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never De ined-ne~ to make bread. and how tc
make good eonee. For directions for making
cakes and pod''nss the housekeePer resorts %
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neglected volumes to learn how to make pot OF
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Apegro woman residing in the suburbs
Of Niggertown, named Lou Norris, died
very suddenly on Friday morning, of cramp
collie. The neighbors say that she ate
hearty meal Of beans for breakfast, and be
fore noon ahe had winked out. She was
buried At the expense Of the county yester-
day evening. As she was Sop's mother, he is
nov an orphan.
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A Sister Of Senator Sargent Hang 0
Herself.

From the Boston Herald.
LOWELL, Mass, Nov. 24.-Mrs.
Louis Thompson. forty-seven years of
age. and wife of George H. Thompson,
committed suicide at about 3 o'clock
this afternoon, BY hanging herself to
a cross board nailed between the raft
ers of the unfinished attic of her resi-.
dence. She had complained of a bad
feeling in her head several months,
and had been quitedesrondent. express-
ing a feeling that she should come to
want. Her husband, son. nineteen
years of age. and herself were the only
occupants of the house. When her
son came home from his work at about
5 o'clock he found two letters on the
table in the sitting room from bis
mother, one in an envelope, directed
to her sister in Newburyport, and the
other directed to her husband and son.
On the latter were the words, "You
will find my body in the attic" The
son. with Mrs. Harper, a neighbor who
had been summoned. went to the attic
and found her hanging, as stated.
She had stood on a chair to adjust the
knot. and then kicked it from under
her. Her feet we're several inches
from the foor. The knot cut her neck.
and three fingers Of her right hand
were caught between it and her neck.
The substance of her letters vas q de-
sire to have her con well cared for, aud
the expression that she was tired Of
life. She took a bath and changed
her clothing entire before committing
the deed. and put the clothing On 8
table in which she desired to g. la,d
out In. She Was IN estimable woman,
and was Q sister Of United States Gen.
ator Sargent Of California.
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Written s.r III. Sunday Morning R.,.oo.
NindinG Ones Own Business.


seldom BY the myriad people oi the nine
tenth century that we may almost con.
slider il lost. How largely the bump Of
inquisitiseness il developed on some peo-
pies heads. Il towers up over amative-
nes,. cnmbativeness, acquisitivenes-. love
Tor home and children. self-esteem, hen.
evidence, veneration and all the other
bumps. Persons afflicted with ih,, de-
iormity have other accompanying features;
ears that protruds like the trunk Of an
elephant ready TO clutch upon everything
within their reach, whether j, IL wholesome
OF intended for them OF not. Eyes iull Of
suspicious CLEANS, hands eager 10 fa-ien on
the coat collar Of some schooIboy, jerk
him backward AMI see II his mouth is
filled with peanut. or chewing gum, and
just n eager to 6sh up all the little love
letters and paper wsds :ha. are thrown
prnmiscnousiy about the .choolroom and
right in this connection wish To remark
that either from force Of habit-looking
into the pockets and mouths Of scholars for
contrahand goods. for ins,ance-or some
other reason best known 70 themselves,
those Who teach the ~young idea" arc some
time prone to exercise this gift Of nature
yclepsd inquisiiiveness little too
freely for the comfort or happiness
Of those directly associated with them.
They are a. bad in . neighborhood
~ a misunderstanding and tassling servant
is in the domestic circle ii they know Of
any little crookeinees that . marned man
Il up to. instead Of being governed By the
maxim that, "shere ignorance l. bliss"
etc, they straiehtw.y manage to have his
vile informed OF tit mikes her feel 20
comfort able to know IL. II there y love
affair anywhere in their vicinity, their in
terest in the levers is unbounded. The
young lady il beautiful and virtuous, or
she i nst-because they've "heard 20" from
another party, that always has HE OF her
fingers in all the social pies baked in .
community. The young man is eligible
add ho0orable, OF he l. mt. So il goes
NEEDLE, NEEDLE, NEEDLE; talk, gabble. tat
tie; blacken reputasions, crush hearts.
break up families. The class Who tend
more strictly TO their neighbour business
than their own, are spread all over this
broad earth. Gods free suHlisht warns
them; the rain falls on the Just and the
unjust the flowers bloom, the birds sing.
the earth rejoices for them. and they CON.
saminate, vi,her and curse everything that
their Nishtins touch falls upon, like .
black frost. Why would il not Be good
plan to organize "Min I. Your Own Busi-
ne~ Society" "The Young Mems Christian
is founded ON = rock; the
Murphy Movement" 50 Lately ssitated.
has settled into great calm; the Demo-
Gratis have . majority in the Senate, and >
hing Of this sort might prosper. It's .
gigantic enterprise, admit. and living up
10 the Constitution and bylaws voald no
ioubs cdhe Hesculean effort, especially il
The anfi-element should be introduced.
Stall. think it might be done. With profit
10 the neighboshood.
Sedalis, DEC. /, u. Dor.
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We learn that the Williams case was
brought before the Supreme Court at Jef-
fer~oa CITY, which decided to grant q mes
trial under writ of error.
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A: . matrimonial bureau lately
opened in Vienna the ladies pay . fee,
and arc required to attend for two
hours daily. Men call ami are intro
duced. Women who possess accom-.
plishments are requested to play the
piano, and are examined With regard
to their sentiments and acquisitions
One visit sometimes settles . case, but
more arc often paid. Tho ladies have
tie privilege Of rejecting candidates
without being subject n additional
fsss during the period Soe which they
have paid.
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The latest improved church and parlor
organs Tor sale By Welsh 4 Chain, cor.
ner Third and Ohio, % per cent cheaper
than they can be bought 1t any other house
in the city. Cali and examine them.
ll.ledkulm.
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The Late General Forrest.

The late General n. B. Forrest Il
the subject of aclever letter in the Gin.
cipuati Commercial. The writer SAW
an old citizen of Memphis decribee
Forrest IS "a terror" He was arbi-
trary. Imperious. determined-a man
Of q most ungovernable and fr,ghtfal
temper. Not many years ago he OF.
,iered . suit Of clothes from q tailor in
Memphis. and when they were finished
allowed them to remain 60 long in the
shop that the moths nearly ruined
them. He Was thoroughly enraged. and
the tailor had to endure q storm of
horrible Uaths under pain Of death or
q whipping He ventured to remon-
strate at last. General" he said, II
am very sorry this thing happened; We
did not know the clothes we're moth.
eaten, and are willing to make al rep
aration possible" This apology seem.
ed to exasperate Forrest still more,
and be thrust his pistol At the tsilor's
head. "Why General, exclaimed the
trembling man. '.yOu would not shoot
me for such q trife as that = "Yes,"
reared Forrest, I'D shoot you like .
rat - But he dida't shoot. He went
home and thought about it, and was
very sorry; and the next day he apollo
giaed to the poor tailor. To ~ into q
rage and apologize was = thing be often
did. Sometimeshe would get % aaham.
ed of his conduct that he would fret
send . friend to the person he had abus-
ed as q herald Of apologies. GOOD
gracious! General" exclaimed one Of
these heralds one day. can you do
nothing with that temper of yours ?"
mo IL! be id il can" returned
Forrest on the point Of getting mad
again. Nevertheless, he had hs gen.
tie traits He was fond Of chrildren,
and they were fond Of him. The little
Of General Wheeler sent
flowers for his grave all the way from
Alabama, "because," che said, "she
loved him."
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Few are aware a ths Importance Of
checking . cough or commoo eold Il its
6rss stage. That rhieA IN tie besissipg
would yield mild sensdy, u seslsessd.
sooa 2re!s upon he LsRgs d. Bulls
Cough Syrup aAords instant relief. Hice,
Is cents.
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About noon, yesterday, Elliott Smith,
boy about nine years of age, con of n. n.
smith, cigar maker in the employ OF
Vile & Miller, had narrow escape from
death. He attempted tn cross the NJ, K.
& T. track at the Indiana street crossing,
in front Of train Of freight cars that were
backing up. He had miscalcuIated the
speed Of the tram, and stumbled and fell.
When he fell, he had pie in his hand.
His brother shouted to him to lie down.
which he did, just after the brake beam Of
the first car struck him in passing over
The train was stopped after one car and
the FIRST trucks Of the second had passed
over him. He vas then extracted from
his perilous position, still holding on to
his pie, however. He was uninjured ex-
cept By bruise on the head from the
brake beam. It was close call. but will
probably be an event that will make him
very careful hereafter.
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Oli6oed'0 Iebeifh9o-palatable.
Powerful. Antiperiodic and
Tonic.

Natures remedy for Fever and Ague.
Never known 70 fail in single case. This
popular remedy differs frUm all other
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effects On The cyssem; il enters into the cir.
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and thus essdicases The disease without
PsOdueiss as.y Of those dissressiag after
seasatioss, such - fallsss and pain il he
head. ringing in The ears and partial deaf.
sen. Try Il once and you will never -
without il.
J. C. RscHAADsos, rropeistos.
For sale b al druexises. g. Louis.
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She vas in town yesterday, and made
several calls upon our people for aid.
She started from Rome, Georgia, in
1875, for California. She made the trip
all right, and nov she is on the back track.
Some charis.bly dispOsed persons gave her
$50 to pay her way to Omaha from San
Diego. At Hamburg. q small town near
Omaha, she was given enough money to
take her to Kansas City. At Kansas City
the authorities bought her = charity ticket
to Warrensburg. She checked it 10 Seda.
lie, arriving here Friday night. She ex-
poets to 80 East to-day by the nearest aud
chexpest eli rail route.
She says she Is 6fty-four years old, snd
appears to be confident of her ability to
face her way to Rome, Georgia, even ii It
takes all winter.
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SCRAPS.

s.vsd nom the sss Of City Life.
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-FsssA esssd asd eahss ss al Tim
slso, Aes - aa1 es1se, u WissAsinh ~.
tsarsst 50 Ole stsssG 1l-S-dln
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-xothe~. do not let your darlines suffer
With Tie whsoping Coush, If you have .
remedy 20 near At hand. Zee d.. Belle
Cough Syrup. and the little su6erers will
soon 6nd relief. Price Is cents.
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THE STORE FIESD.

There are some very suspicious people in
this world. They won't believe a thing
when they zee it. Now there is man with
dressed chickens for sale, and here comes
one OF those cures "a socie;y who always
go to market with more unbelief than dol
lars.
Cure to Society Hello. how's chickens.
this morning?
Storekeepeer, who knows him OF old
Pretty we'll, l thank you; how do you do
The c. {. s. locked at him minute rather
queerly, then picking mp chicken in his
dirty hands, he hefts it while he shuts his
eyes in mental calculation, then suggestively
remarks
"'Bout pound maj, reckon"
Storekeeper-Weighs good four pounds.
"Sho! you can't fool me." replies the an
imated nuisance. Then slamming the fowl
IN its back he begins jabbins black-nailed
spear pointed foreinger into the flesh until
that chicken looks like a prize target, he
grunts, "monst.Oas tough :" then he tears
leg ha:f ID with. that chickens too old for
me-" and marches Cd, leaving the mutilat-
ed mass behind him.
This is the 6end who puts his thumb nail
into the butter. who saunters in and lifts
the cover Of the the sugar barrel. and, a. a
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES goes in to his capaciou-
mouth and onto his be ard, pstrcniE,ngi. re-
marks. "Hello! got sore fresh augar. hay p
And the selecting two or three apples,
takes his sest at the stove and litters up the
floor with the peelings. while he expresses
his views on the silver bill.
Shoot the 6end! Load him up With dried
apples and give him water till he bursts.
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or ODDS and 1nds, and Short
Strings.
MARKET REPORTs.

MARKET REPORTs.
Ice cream -Remains firm; buyers specu.
latine on next Fourth Of July.
Stove wood-Is active and higher, but
not too high to reach. Somebody reached
Tor Is sticks from our pile last night.
Esgs-are going up-all the hens nov
manufacturing in the hayloft, and running
on half time.
Perfect Rest-F,ont seats on cracker
boxes, at the corner grocery store. are all
taken up. Holders 6rm-very firm.
Cosl-Ra;her "slack." Little lumrs
lively. Big ones active after dark.
Chariiy-(;enuine article all out. Tracts
and Baxt rs' Saints Rest, good supply.
Advice offering freely.
Exchsnee-All newspapers gone at sight
in this Office.
Game-Considerabl in town, hut
Stakes" high. v stands for venison and
40 does p. f. Conrors.
Flour Raising. A fellow raised a sack
the other night and they put him in Jail
Tor it.
Oysters-Yearlings on the half shell 90
off easy.
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AT THE POST OFFICE.


II IL quite an ordeal, some times, for .
lady to 70 in the post Office, and especially
at mail time, which is indeed 'malc time >
She has first TO fight her way through = he
terogcneous crowd Of masculine bibeds,
whose broad shoulders seem efiectual bars
to her progress, and whose boots ihreateR
to pulverize anything that appears within
their reach. At last the resolu,e female
gains 4 sight at the geHeral delivery,
heartily praying deliverance from the eur
roundings. 8ut between her and her Mecca
OF her hopes, there is closely serried rank,
in single file, Of other males who are cr,l>h-
ing toward the common gaol. OF course
she cannot enter this press, and she is per-
force obliged to stand outside the charmed
circle until some true gentleman comes to
her relief and CALAMITY surrenders his own
chances.
There is always a man to he found at the
post Office, just in front If you, when you
are in hurry. lie is from the country,
and after deliberately putting on his sPecta-
cles, he calls for himself. After that he calls
for his whole neighborhood individually,
from list written SO badly that it takes
him five minutes to decipher each name.
This generally consumes from fifteen TO
thirty minutes, which yon can put in BY
kicking the shins Of those who crowd be-
hind you, or roos,ing alternately on each
foot. At last your slow tormentor in front
of you is through. When he suddenly
faces about. steps on your corns End tries to
walk right over you.
You approach the window and shapc
your lips to pronounce your name, wheL-
presto. hoodlum darts between your legs
and rises in front Of you. squeaking in .
shrill treble In behalf Of sixteen sisters,
cousins and aunts.
Jobs boils might have narrowed his feel
ings little, but he never went to acrowdei
post office for letter when he WAS in a
hurry.
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New York Produce Market.
NEW YORK, May Is,

NEW tOhks may Is.
FLouH.,-Receipts Of e,sa9 barrels; In buyers
sapsIfas Western asS and state az i COS! s 5
sOoaa sSOa to Choice do at 81 o
at IS io@so 90; fancy white wheat west
extra eEa et5s o5o at to 70 .SSSs
extra st. Louis at 81 5o@ll 90; Patent Minnesota
extra good to prime at IS oosS IS choice to
steadier and unchanged except No. q.
WHEAT-Receipts OF rs, 200 bushels. opened
quiet and closed steady with a better export
demand. Sales OF 5000 bushels, nearly ali for
Milwaukee IN store at Il % No. Minnesota ESQ;
at 81 90; No. Chicago nominal at 81 IS J.; win
ter wheat quiet and unchanged;
bushels OF state at 81 10 western at 99c@$i 90,
BARLKY-Quiet and firm.
CoRN.-Receipts or 900 bushels. Market
900 bushels. New York No. white at &c /; low
mixed at 6I@67Hc; understandable mixed at
CSC steamer mixed at 6sHc; New york No.
at 6SHc white western at 61kc.
OATs.-Keceipts OF 1880 bushels. Quoted
l@2c better with fairly trade. Sales Of 81 900
bushels. Mixed western and state at 4s@65c
White snd state at New York
tO@oic: New York No. 2 at baa52xc; New
York No. white at o5c white state at CSC
72c.
HAY.-steady and unchanged.
HoPs-Quiet and unchanged.
C0FFEK.-Rio quoted dull and nominal. Sales
at l6Y sqoAc gold for cargoes; le,t@22c gold
Il OssSSSSiS.I9uiet, very firm and unchanged. Nus.
cayado at 9%@l04c.. Refined quiet at 1lZ@
li1lc for standard A; i24@l25.c for gran
ulated 1870 for crushed l2xc for powdered.
MoLAssEs-Foreign graees hrm and quiet,
owing to scarcity. New Orleans, fair demand
am firm, at $4,000.
Realistically and in moderate inquiry.
PETRoLKUA-Steady. Sales Of crude at SO
SIC; refined, at 14914Ac.
TALLow-steady. Sales Of 10000 pounds at
s1.@sHc for fair to prime,
kGas. s.-Quoted as heavy. Sales OF state and
Pennsylvania at is9lsHc; llh@i2c for west
ern.
PoRK.-0pened nrmer, afterwards became
heavy and closed firm. Sales at $l4 9oCsi6 90
for new mess
BEBF-Quiet.
LARD-Opened q seade firmer. then ruled
heavy and closed strong. Sales OF prime steam
at 80 80.
BUTTER-Easer and unsettled. Sales at loa
lac for western lo9lsc for state is926c for
new,
CHRRsE-Quiet and unchanged.
WHIsKY-F1rmer at 81 llH.
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The Turco-Russian War.
THE RUSSIANS BoMBARD KARs.

IHH RU5SlANS BOhBARD KARB,
LONDON, May 1s.
An Erzeroum special says the Russians
attempted to lombard Kars with four
heavy siege guns. The shots flew over the
town without damage. The assailants
were compelled to retire, ,sbut subsequently
again attempted the erection of siege works.
Mukhtsr Pasha lost some munitions by
having been suddenly attacked on the
fanks.
THE WAR IN AsIATIC TURKEY.
An Erzeroum dispatch says the Russian
attack on Ardshan has been bravely re-
pulsed.
THE POWERS TO BE CONSULTED AGAIN.
A Vienna correspondent says the Rus
slams intend going once more to Adrinople,
and will then inform the powers that hav-
ing accomplished their task, they now call
upon Europe to consult on what should be
done next.
HORRIBLE MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.
BUCHAREST, May 1S.
In the Turkish village of Tourkotal there
is quite christian element, though subor-
dinate in numbers to the Turks. On the
night of the 18th inst, the latter made a
concerted and general attack upon the
christians. Scenes of frightful atrocity
took place. The males were put indis-
crimately to the sword. Many of the older
women shared the same fate, and the
younger were brutally outraged. The ac-
count, given by the Bulgarians who es-
capped, is horrible beyond measure.
SEVERE FIGHTING EXPECTED.
LONDON, May 1S.
A Pera dispatch says Russians are fall
ing back from Kars. The Kurds and Cir
cassians are advancing on the extreme
Muscovite left from Van to Erivan. A
great battle is expected to take place at
Toprak Kala. Severe fighting 10 imminent
at Batoum. A large force of Circassian
emigrants with great stores of arms and
ammunition have been shipped from Bos-
phorus for point upon the Black sea
coast. The expedition will be protected
and assisted by two iron-clad frigates.
SMART sKIRMIsH.
AN official telegram from Tifis states
that while General Komaroff was recon-
noitering before Kars on the 10th instant,
the Turks attacked the Russian irregular
cavalry. After stubborn fight the Turks
left GA dead on the field. Two prisoners
were captured. The Russian loss was one
officer and 20 men killed, and five officers
and 81 me wounded.
IA TOWN ATTACKED.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 1S.
An official telegram from Akalk kalaki,
seventeenth, reports that the Russians car
ried two outworks at Ardahan with nine
guns. Fourteen killed, and four officers
and fourteen men wounded. The Turkish
loss is considerable.
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Electric Flashes.

The steamer Glaucus, en- route from
New York to Boston, while passing Long
Island Sound on Tuesday, the sky being
thick with smoke from burning forests,
was visited by floch of birds of different
kinds. Hundreds aropped upon the boat
and in the water. They were driven from
the woods by the firt
The supposed liaess depredating In
Hanover and HenriO counties, Va, has
been shot, and provesto be a monster dog
which strayed from ii owners premises.
The Third Nationa Baptist Sunday
school convention and institute, under the
auspices of the American publication So
ciety, met at Boston lashight.
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THIS MORNINGS NEWS.
The Very Latest Dispatches By
Associated Press.
YESTERDAYS STORMS.
In Vermont and Elsewhere-Wind and Hail
Immense Hail stones-Three Mon Killed
And Others Injured.

Boston, May 1s.
Severe thunder and hail storms are re-
ported in Vermont, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts,. At Greenfield, Mass., John
Hayes was instantly killed by lightning.
Several men were knocked down and more
or less injured. In Vermont terrific hail
storm considerably injured vegetation and
damaged other property. One OF the hail
stones measured five inches in diameter,
another ten inches in circumference, and a
third weighed ten and half ounces. In
Rhode Island the hail stones fell to depth
of three inches, and houses and mills were
injured, and much glass was broken.
A tornado passed over Stuyvesant N. Y,
yesterday afternoon, from the west to east,
eighty rods wide. A large ice house was
destroyed, fences torn away, trees uproot-
ed and telegraphs destroyed.
MONTREAL, May 1s.
A hurricane passed through the village
of St. Hyppolice, the new Catholic church
and several houses were blown down, two
brothers named Boihear working in the in
terror of the church were killed, their father
and another man were badly wounded.
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Dartmouth's New President.

HANOVER, N. II May IS.
President Bartlett, on making his first
appearance at the chapel, this morning,
was greeted with hearty applause by the
students. He made a short address, eI-
pressing the hope that their relations
would be mutually agreeable and proflta-
BILE. He did not believe in many written
rules and regulations, but considered those
already made wise.
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The Suffering in the Adirondacks

WATRRTowN, May IL
Narrowing accounts of suffering and
destitution continue from the burnt dis
trict in Clinton county. Sixty families
near Canons Corners are destitute of every
thing but the clothing they wear. Food is
being sent from all directions. A large
tract of rich farming country was swept
clear of buildings, fences, trees and stock.
Crops that had been put in the ground are
destroyed; the people are utterly destitute,
helpless and without resources.