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A Cincinnati Lady's Body Cremated BY
DIR. LeM0yne.

A dispatch from Washington, Pa,
18th, is as follows: The cremation of
the remains of Mrs. Benjamin Pitman,
Of Cincinnati, was successfully accom-
plished this afternoon, the entire oper-
alton lasting less than TIVE hours. The
train bearing the remains reached here
about ii O'Clock this morning and the
body was taken directly from the station
to the crematory. The casket was made
of cherry with an unvarnished mahog-
any cover beautifully carved, a present
from the Cincinnati School OF Design,
of which the deceased lady was menu
Der. It was lined with white satin.
The corpse was accompanied only by
Mr.. Pitman and Mr.. Plympton of Gin
cinnati, personal friend of the Pitman
family.
All strangers and newspaper repre-
sentatives were rigidly excluded from
the building during the cremation, the
parties present being Mr.. Pitman and
Mr.. Plympton and those persons in
charge of the furnace. DIR. LeMoyne
was not present owing to the infrmities
of age, but his son, julius LeMoyne, SON
in-law, H. N. Harding, and William
Blackhurst, Superintendent of the Gas
Works, had charge of the entire process
from beginning to end. The estimated
heat of the retort at noon was 1,200 de-
grees Fahrenheit, and DIR. LeMoyne
stated this afternoon that he estimated
the highest degree of heat which the
furnace has ever shown at not over
1920 degrees.
The arrangements at the crematory
were similar to those used during the
cremation of Baron de Palm. The re-
mains were taken from the casket and
placed in the iron cradle and a muslin
cloth previously soaked in alum water
was spread over them to hide them from
view. At 2 o'clock the cradle was push
ed into the retort and the door closed.
In Is minutes the body was entirely re-
duced, and at the end of an hour and
thr@-quarters the cremation was pro-
nounced complete, and the flues of the
furnace were closed and the door sealed
Theoretically to arrest combustion and
allow the retOrt to cool. This will re-
quire at least 80 hours, when the door
of the TetOrt will be opened and the cal
cined bones removed. The result OF
cremation is not ashes, but fragments OF
calcined bone, white as snow and entire
ly odorless. Mr.. Pitman expressed him
self as more than satisfied with the ere
nation. He is undecided as to what he
will do with the remains, but thiAks he
will erect a monument, in the inside OF
which he will place the jar and contents.
DR.. LeMoyne says that hereafter all
cremations will be conducted in strict
privacy, none but the friends being al
lowed in the building during the pro
cess, and says that the success of to-day
was not needed to convince him that
cremation IS the quickest, most ecOnOmi-
cal and sanitary way of dispOsing of the
dead
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WET AND SOUTHWEST.

Three children Of cOlored man named
Leftridge, living at Bucktown Furnace, Law
renee County, O., were burned TO death on
the 18th. The mother left the children alone
in the house to call upon !. neighbor, and
when she returned her house was wrapped
in flames.
The -Etna Iron-works, with a capital Of
Sl,000,Oo0, at Ironton, o., has suspended
payment. The nominal assets are largely in
excess Of liabilities.
Mr.. John f. Tracy, for many years Pres
ident OF the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad, died at Erie, Pa, on the 18th, in
his SD year.
John W. Beavers was hanged at Madison,
Ind, on the 18th, for the murder of John
W. Sewell, real estate agent Of Indianapo-
lis, in November last. The crime was COM
mitted in Scott County, where Sewell had
gone for the purpose Of selling farm to
Beavers. The transaction WAS effected, af-
ter which Beavers murdered SeweH and
took possession Of both the money and the
deed for the land.
John Abes was hanged at Carthage, No,
on the 18th, for the murder OF John L. Lane
in April 1874. Ables charged that Lane had
been intimate with his wife.
Judge Dillon has declined TO make de-
cision in the case known a. the pro rate ease
OF the Kansas Pacific against the Union Pa
ciic Company, in the Circuit Court Of the
United States for the District OF Nebraska,
and for that reason the Kansas Pacific has
dismissed the action.
BY the falling OF the floor in hall at
- D,sv, no Mi 81 II
18th, during a lecture by Eli Perkins, Col.
James NJ. Blood was killed and Eli Perkins
had his arm broken.
At Mount Sterling, KY, on the 18th, James
Anderson was fatally stabbed by Col. Wee
don ID. GAY, OF Powell County. The parties
had hot words regarding a business trans
action, the lie was given by Gay to Ander-
son, and when the latter sprang forward in
tent upon avenging the insult, he was met
by Gay with an open knife, which was
plunged into his yitals. Immediately after
the cutting Gay was attacked by the brother
OF the wounded man, who felled him to the
pavement with one lick from an ax-handle,
and would have Drained him but for the
prompt interference Of bystanders. Young
Anderson is 4 well known citizen, his wife
being the daughter Of Hon. Garrett Davis.
Some statistics have been published by the
st. Paul Chamber OF Commerce, showing
that the wheat crop of Minnesota for the
year 1877 was about 100000 bushels. II
this figuring be correct, it will place Mime
sofa at the head OF the wbeat-produeins
States, Illinois coming next with 100000
bushels.
DIR. Henry c.. Moss, an old and respected
citizen Of Venice, Madison County, III, was
shot and instantly killed, while standing in
the door Of his own house, on the night Ct
the 18th. No clew TO the assassin.
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The Value OF a Hair-Pin.


Did you ever realize how many differ
ent uses little insignificant hair-pin
has? Without it the female portion of
society would be deprived of an instru-
ment that contributes much to their
comfort and beauty. From the long,
strong hair-pins so valuable in holding
firmly in place switches, curls and pulls
to the tiny invisible ones that hold so
delieately, yet securely, ornaments, flow
ers, frizzes, etc, and the crimPed, spiral
and faucy ones. We should sigh to part
with our "crimpers, /" such an accession,
nowadays, to every lady's toilet; and
as shawl-pins, shoe and -buttOners
they are Indispensable, in default of the
original, and even in pin-backs ladies
have often found them a dernier resort
We will not dwell upon their use as nut
picks, tooth picks, cleaning hnger-nails,
ETC., for fear some may not consider the
associations delicate; but we shall in
sist that the much-abused and modest
hair-pin is worthy niche in cur MEM
ory better than the slangy phrase, g l
am not that kind of a hair-pin." One
lady said to another the other day, "a
can move the world with a hair-pin."
Even as Archimedes would have done
could he have found fulerum for his
lever. Then let us not despise the day
OF small things, but bless the invention
of the hair-pin that so often comes to
the rescue when a fine point is needed,
from the picking pin ont of the piano
10 ADJOINING the columns Of a newspa-
per- Trsclngati Times.
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Shirt of the Press.

! The great claim Of the demOGetiZers il,
/ that the silver dollar was obsolete a. the time
| it was demOnetiZed, and that the law OF 1919
/ was simply a regulation conforming the law
/ TO the fact. In 1873, the very year that the
/ silver dollar was demOnetized, the American
/ COnsuls in China reported the necessity Of a
/ silver currency for trade with China; and
I these reports were forwarded to Congress
| by Secretary Boutwell,, with a recOmmenda-
I ton to Congress TO create a silver dollar
/ nearer in value to the Mexican dollar. The
result was a trade dollar (420 grains Of sill
! ver), although our old dollar was fully equal
I in value to the Mexican dollar. This was
one Of the means Of demonetizing the old
silver dollar.-Nelg Orleans Democrat
An undeniably wel-posted, and very
observing gentleman, who has recently Wis
tied number of the prominent cities and
manufacturing districts Of several Of the
Western States, has returned to this city
seriously impressed with the almost unlver-
sal demand OF the people for the remOneti-
cation Of silver. He states that, while they
do not know precisely what effect an unllm-
tied silver coinage will have upon their
business interests, or exactly how such
measure will affect the public credit, they
have an idea that silver dollars in plenty are
a good thing to have, and that with their ad-
vent will come easier times FOR every
body. He states that the people Of the en-
tire West, so far as he could observe, favor
the IEulOutAALdilbu HCItiLitf tidL Allff hIA'aA
determined 10 clamOr for it until II comes,
and that the Western member who does not
vote for silver coinage will stand no chance
of reelection Washington Union.
The South and West should stand shOul-
der to shoulder in this fight with the bond
holders and gOld-buliOnists. They must
hang together if they would not hang sep
arateIy, rs was said by a member Of the
Colonial Congress in urging the colonies to
cooperate cordially in the struggle with
England.-R ~. CO. NelrS.
1t seems almost like a dream that Bruce,
cOlOred, should, in his vote on the silver
question, represent the true interest Of the
people Of Mississippi, while Lamar, white,
should represent the interest of Wall Street.
And yet, so il is. Life is full Of such sur
prises.-AtIdRtd (Gd.) Constitution.
Notwithstanding the exertions Of the OPP
pOnents OF silver, whose conservatism takes
the form of eultivating a panic, gold does
not seem to be rushing upward rs compared
with paper. This is a curious as well as a
large country.-CiaciHHG Commercial.
THE "HUM " OF THE GOLD-BUG.
DOIlary diliary dimaby dember
Fifty BostOniaus failed in December.
Courier journal.
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Odds and Ends.

To keep yourself warm-Keep the
fire coaIed.
Song of the pull-back: "Blest be the
tie that blinds"
Being for the first time on guard,
an Irish soldier was thus accosted by a
friend: "What are We standing there
for, Mike?" "Shure," replied Mike,
" they tould me to stand here for a cen
thury!"
"A woman will face frowning
world and cling to the man she loves
through the most bitter adversely, but
she wouldn't wear hat three weeks
behind the style to save the Government.
Sc How can | leave theeP" he was
singing in a very tender tone. He
wasn't very popular with her parents,
and it was verging on II O'Clock, and
the old man came in and showed him
how he could leave her ROc5ldnd COur-
Ter.
"A " society" journal says: GA too
lavish display of jewelry is but sign of
vulgarity of taste.'' 1t is indeed; we
never wear our $1,000 diamond pin,
and $500 diamond ring, and $3.50
sleeve-buttOHs, and $500 watch chain,
and 81, POO worth of charms all at the
same time. We have better TASTE
HaWbeye.
"A backwoods farmer tried to en-
gage Lyman Tremain to collect a claim
of $500. :" L charge rather heavy fees"
said Mr.. Tremain, smiling. 50 1 intend
to have you, just the same" said the
farmer. 6" intend to spend considera-
bic on this, and will employ nobody
else but you, if it costs me SO"
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Science and Industry,

Fort Worth received l2O, 900 buffalo
hides last year,
Two hundred different varieties of
fruits are grown successfully in Georgia.
"A farmer near Cedar Falls, Iowa,
has made, this season, 1000 gallons of
sorghum, which he sold for 50 cents
gallon.
"A tree-felling machine has been in
vented in England by MIR. RansOme,
which, worked by three men, will do as
much work as "a woOdmen telling by the
AK.
The amount of pine lumber timber
left standing in the forests of the timber
States is said to be 225, 900, 900, 900 feet,
but it is only a question of time when
this will be exhausted, if the work of
consumption and destruction goes on,
without greater efforts to provide for the
renewal of the supply.
A firm of cotton brokers which sup
plies two-thirds of the raw material used
in the knitting mills of Cohoes, n Y,
report an excess of sales of $500, 900 for
the past nine months over the entire
last years trade, showing the pros
poets of the manufacturers to be most
tlattering.
"A Californian has invented an ingeni-
Gus water-faucet, through which, if wa
ter is drawn, it comes out as cold as ice
water Boiling water placed in any re-
cepticle, and allowed to run through,
will be found cool and tit to drink. The
faucet contains Numerous small tubes
mcloSed in larger ones, and between the
outside of one and the inside of the
other certain chemicals are packed,
which produce the desired effect.
"A new industry has recently sprung
up in parts of Minnesota that has al
ready arrived at the dignity of statistics.
Frog culture is the new thing. 1t is a
simple matter, consisting chiefly in the
protection of eggs and tadpoles from
birds and other enemies, by means of
wire screens. The product, thus far re- |
ported, amounts to 5000 dozen of frog
legs, of which about two-thirds have
been shipped to st. Louis. The aver
age quotation of prices is 20 cents per
dozen.
The expectation of forest tree seeds |
is assuming dimensions in this country. /.
California sends $4,000 worth per year. /
The principal purchases are made for |
Germany, Austria, England, and the |
colonies in Australia and New Zealand: /
and at present the demand exceeds the /
supply. The seeds of the Oregon pine,
known also as the yellow fir, are most
in demand The timber of that tree is as
good as British oak for hip-building, and
has been found sound after Is years use
for this purpose. The South Sea col
onies are planting the California red
wood tree extensively.
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School and Church.

George f. Pentecost, a celebrated
Baptist clergyman CT Boston, has re-
signed his pastorate there to assume the
work of an evangelist.
Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, Catholic
Bishop of Little Rock, has commenced
the erection of a magnificent cathedral
in that city.
The Pan-Anglican Synod is to meet
July 2 and be in session over four weeks.
1t is not yet known how many Of the
American Bishops will be in attendance.
The Rev. Mr.. Murray, of Boston, is
paid 1000 a year. His sermons are
dictated in advance to lady typewriter,
and he breaches from the printed slips.
Great difficulty is experienced in
obtaining the required number of school
masters and schOOl-mistresses for the
public schools in Prussia In the be-
ginning of June, 1877, there were 4, 1881
such appointments vacant.
in Sweden education is compulsory
from the age of 9, and in case of per-
sistent neglect the children are taken
from their parents and sent to boarding
schools, while the parents are made to
pay their board
The Society for the Increase of the
Ministry, an Episcopalian association,
has taken under its care for the present
year no less than Ill scholars. Nearly
as many more have been refused aid on
account of a lack of funds.
The London Sunday-school Union
is aiding in the extension of Sunday
schools among 13 nationalities. Its
missionaries are favorably received, and
their work in Europe is more hopeful,
successful and popular than at any other
period. W
As an instance of the economy pos
sible to be practiced by a student, a
Cornell graduate sends to the New York
Tribune memorandum of his expenses,
By which it appears that his washing for
one year cost him but $1.59, and his
board-bill for the same time was S34.06.
Pins the Ninth came of a long
lived stock. His great-grandfather lived
70 years; his grandfather 80 years his
father SO years; his mother SO years
Ofhis three brothers, Joseph died at the
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Haps and AIishap..

AT Germantown, o., little daugh-
ter of John c. Eshelman fell and cut
her gums so seriously that she bled TO
death
-Elenere Thompson, a 9-year old
boy living at Springboro, o., accident
ally swallowed a cartridge-shell which
he was holding in his mouth The shell
lodged in his throat, and he was slowly
chOked to death.
"A young daughter of Mr.. Snyder, a
farmer residing about 10 miles from
Union, Iowa, was hunting for eggs in the
barn, when she slipped through an
opening in the floor and hung suspended
by the head until dead.
"A little son of Robert Boardman,
of Muscatine, Iowa, died from the effects
of eating matches. Unnoticed by his
parents he had secreted a box, and had
eaten the birthstone from the ends of
several before discovered.
"A temperance lecture: Benjamin
Workman went to Wheeling, West Va,
on a spree, and while returning home
along the railroad track he was struck
by locomotive and instantly killed.
He was seated on the track and in the
act of taking drink from a jug, when
the train came upon him.
Gun accidents Ed. Davis, a young
man of Waterville, Wis, had been rid
ing with a shotgun, and in taking it out
of the wagon the weapon was discharg-
ed, the contents entering his breast,
causing a wound from which he soon
died-Wm Becker, farmer of Sperry
Township, near McGregor, Iowa, was
instantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of his gun.
Some notable suicides: Dr. j. r.
Goodman, well known Philadelphia
physician, shot himself in cemetery
at Trenton, NJ. Alteration of mind,
resulting from business misfortunes, is
thought to have led 10 the suicide.-F.
w. Bigony, a prominent resident OF
Lancaster, o., and formerly State
Legislator, hanged himself. No cause
is assigned-H NJ Hosmer, aged 10,
son of Col. A. IL. Hosmer, patent-attOr-
ney, Washington, d. c., committed SUI
icide by taking morphine. Failure in
business and refusal of marriage are the
causes assigned.
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FOREIGN.

The remains Of the late Pope were public
" exhibited at st. Peters on the 10th. The
crowd was tremendous, and many women
tainted. A company Of soldiers had to enter
the church TO regulate the passage Of the
crowds. The body, arrayed in pontihcal
robes, lay on a crimson bed, at each corner
Of which stood a member Of the Noble
Guard, with a drawn sword. The bed was
surrcunden by u large candelabra, and was
90 arranged that the feet Of the deceased
were outside the altar rails, in order that the
faithful might kiss them. The face was calm
and unchanged by death.
Rome dispatch of the 18Th says: In re-
ply TO a question from several foreign
courts, the Papal Nuncios have been in
structed to announce that the funeral Of the
late Pope win be privately celebrated in the
Sistine Chapel on the 10th, 18th and 18Th in
slant; consequently persons attending the
service will do so In private manner. This
course is adopted, it is believed, 10 avoid the
necessity CT either assigning or refusing to
assign special accommodations at the funeral
for the Italian royal family and ministers
The Chamberlain has declared to the Cath
Ollie Governments that the assembling of the
Conclave in Rome must not be considered
as prejudicing any questions affecting the
rights Of the Holy See. The Cardinals witt
assemble in Conclave on the evening Of the
18th inst. The proclamation Of the new
Pope will be made to the Catholic world
from the grand balcony Of the Vatican
Basilica.
Ten Of the heaviest grain firms at Belfast,
Ireland, have failed. Aggregate liabilities
estimated at 100000.
At Witcham, New Brunswick, on the night
Of the 10th, house belonging to Daniel
Reardon burned, and Reardon, his wife and
four children persisted in the flames The
ucighbors knew nothing of the catastrophe
till morning, when the eharred remains were
found in the debris.
A double wedding was celebrated with
great splendor in the chapel of the Old Pal
ace at Berlin, on the night Of the 18th, the
high contracting parties being the Princess
Charlotte, daughter Of the Crown Prince and
granddaughter Of Queen Victoria, and Ber-
nard, hereditary Prince of the Duchy Of
SAKE Meinengen; the Princess Elizabeth,
daughter of Prince Frederick Charles
anu AAH-uNA hNlNhlAAia L lllNE VI TIC
Grand Duchy OF Oldenburg. Among those
present were the King and Queen Of the
Belgians, the Prince Of Wales, the Duke Of
COnnaught, the Prince Of Orange, Prince
Bismarck, and many other personages Of
rank. Among the festivities was the tradi-
tional "dance by torchlight" OF u Ministers
Of the Emperor's Court, Prince Bismarck
leading the procession.
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count Of personal grudge. Cherry was
arrested and wa likely TO be lynclacd.
The old mansion Of Daniel Webster, at
Msrshfeld. Mass, burned on the l4th. Ii
was occupied by Mrs. Fletcher Webster.
An explosion demolished Leet & smiths
percassion-cap factory in Springfield, Mass,
on the 18th, and killed Otis B. smith, the
junior partner
The Maine House Of Representatives has
under consideration bin granting suffrage
TO women.
fire, originating in the Excelsior Build
ing, West Twenty-third Street, New York
City, on the night Of the Eth, destroyed
trat building, together with the Church Of
the Coyenanters and the Twenty-third Street
Presbyterian Church.
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Excess Of specie imports. ......... Sl39I ,O>5
In addition TO these figures, we received
from these States, for expectation, mer-
chandise valued at about 50, 900, 200, in
Guiding S3,30O,0O0 of specie. The
heaviest items of import were coffee,
about S44, 900, 900; hides, skins and I'M
dressed furs, Sl1, 900, 600; India rubber,
S6,0OO,000 nitrate of soda, $4,000
sugar and molasses, from Cuba $780,
600, 900, from Porto Rico 81 ,000,0 600,
from Brazil over $4,000, 900; total sugar
and molasses, 500, 200, 0O0 and about
s., $500, 900 of raw wool.
In return we sold them of our manu-
features: Cottons, S3,500,00 glass
ware, S157 goo; iron manufactures, 49,
10000; steel goods, 100000; silks,
none; woolens, S22, 200; lard, $500
600. And this is the beggarly exhibit
of our sales of manufactured goods.
The whole continent aud the West In
dies, to whom we might sell $3.50, 0OO,
600 of productions, and especially of
manufactures, are lost to American
trade We buy of them Sl55, 00G, 600 of
their products and pay for them in bills
on London, and these bills are there
used to purchase cotton goods and other
British manufactures TO be sent to these
American neighbors Of ours to whom we
refuse to SELL Chicago Tribune.
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Our American NeighbOrs.

The United States have upon their
borders, within easy reach, number of
national neighbors who ought to be our
customers. They are in one sense Gus
tomers-that is, we buy largely of them,
and they take our money and buy goods
with it of other countries. We refer to
Mexico, the States of Central America
and of South America, and to the West
India Islands The character of this
trade with States almost at our doors is
shown in the values of what we buy Of
them and of what we sell to them. We
rive tho totals for. 49,.
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In Chill there are 900 public hools,
mostly elementary, also high schools
for both sexes. The schools for girls
were recently instituted at the sugges-
ton of the Government in order to les
sen the influence of the nuns in female
education. One of the best institutions
OF the kind in South America, IS the
University Of Santiago. No other South
American State has so efficient an edu-
cational system.