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Half Finished wedding.

Chicago Inter Ocean: The young people of
Cincinnati are excited over promised we'd
ding that didn't take place. The young man
and young woman had known each other
from childhood, and were prominent in social
circles. The wedding guests were assembled
and the loving couple were on the floor. The
minister propounded the usual question to
the bride as to whether she would take the
man for her husband etc., when, much to the
surprise of ali present, she answered mo"
Thinking he misunderstood her, the minister
asked the question again, and again she an
swered mo" This stopped the ceremony,
and the story came out. The young man,
addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors,
had promised to reform if the lady would
consent to marry him, and had signed the
pledge. He had been on trial for months,
but as the bride had turned to him as they
stood side by side before the minister, she
caught the odor of whisky on his breath, and
detected signs of lncipient intoxication. She
closed the extraordinary scene by stating that
she could not trust her future to a man who
had broken promise SO solemnly made.
Expostulations and entreaties were all in
vain. The wedding did not take place.
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strength of Greek Soldiers.

Popular Science Monthly: The physical SUI
periority of the ante-Alexandrian Greeks to
the hardest and most robust nations of mod
ern times is perhaps best illustrated by the
military statistics of Xenophon. According
to the author of the AnGbGSiS, the complete
accoutermsnts of Spartan soldier, In what
we would call heavy marching order, weighed
seventy-ive pounds, exclusive of the camp,
mining and bridge building tools, and the
rations of bread and dried fruit, which were
issued in weekly installments, and increased
the burden of the infantry soldier to ninety,
ninety-fve or even to full hundred pounds.
This load. was often carried at the rate of
four English miles an hour for twelve hours
per diem, day after day; and only in the
burning deserts of southern Syria the COM
mander of the Grecian auxiliaries thought it
prudent to shorten the usual length of a
days march by one-fourth. The gymnastic
tests applied by the syStaHchNs, or recruiting
officer of picked corps, would appear more
preposterous to the uniformed exquisites of
modern ''crack regiment" Even tall we'll
shaped men of the soundest constitution,
could not pass the preliminary examination
unless they were able TO Jump their own hight
vertically and thrice their own length hori-
zontally, and two-thirds of those distances N
full arInor; pitch weight equal to one-third
of their own to a distance of twenty yards,
and throw jayelin with such dexterity that
they would not miss mark of the size of
mans head more than four out of ten times
at "a distance of fifty yards, besides other tests
referring to their expertness In the use IT the
bow and the broadsword.
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Bombay readily, is dispatched by steamers
through the Suez canal and reaches Europe
within two or three months after it is picked;
1t is promptly returned in the form of cloth.
What is the result of this great change?
Formerly there was always an immense
amount of goods in transit for a compare
lively long period. Shortening the period
has precipItated on the market weeks of sup
plies Of goods that formerly would have been
on the way to market. This makes an i'm
mense addition to the amount of merchan-
disc on the market at a given time. Per-
haps the effect Of this will be better under
stood by reducing the scale of operation. A
merchant in Calcutta sells a thousand dol
lars worth Of imported goods every week,
consequently on the average he receives a
thousand dollars worth a week. If it takes
twenty weeks for the goods to reach
him FROM the foreign producer, he must
always have an average of twenty weeks
supply, twenty thousand dollars worth, on
the way Now, the time is reduced to ten
weeks-the consequence Is there Is suddenly
pgecipitated upon him ten weeks supply-ten
thousand uOiidls w Z uccu uOI dc-
scribe the effect--a stock out of ali proportion
with demand, ard the ten thousand dollars
payment to meet-every business man can
understand that. This instance illustrates
What has taken place. IN some localities to a
greater, in others TO less extent, and taken
place not ia London alone, or Calcutta alone,
or New York alone, but everywhere. IN
every town, every nation, every cline this
precipitation of goods has occurred. The eff
feet was universal and it brought universal
embarrsss ment-a panic that had no limits
but the boundaries OF civilization. There is
one consolation in knowing this great fact
the cause that has been in operation can
never exist again until man can supersede
steam transport and the telegraph by some
thing as far beyond them as they are beyond
the stage-coach and the old mail system. We
can find in this statement the means Of solv-
ing the important problem contained in the
heading of this article, so as to decide on
rational grounds whether or not the panic is
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SINCE the jetties have become an undenia-
BILE success, intelligent commercial men ev-
erywhere are looking for the Mississippi val
ley to become the theater of vast trade,
with its outlet at New Orleans. The eastern
cities, especially New York, view the coming
change with alarm, and their trade newspa-
pers speak depreciatingly of the prospects of
trade in the gulf. There are instances, how
ever, in which subsidies are asked for steam
ers to go into the South American trade so
as to occupy the ground in advance of the
coming southern movement. Singular it is,
but true, that there are southern newspapers
aiding the opposition of the east. by depreci-
ating the value of the jetties, and represent
ing Captain Eads's labors as resulting in
practical failure. The cause for such folly,
such inability to comprehend that they are
playing into the hands of commercial rivals,
is not easy to divine-"sheer cussedness, -" we
should think. There are eastern papers that
are an exact contrast to this misrepresenta-
ton on the part of those who are to profit by
the success of the jetties; among them is the
Philadelphia Record, which frankly states:
1--WE regard the city of New Orleans as the
most formidable rival for the heavy trade OF
the west of any OF the cities op the coast do
ing an export trade with European countries.
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and then he shouted, and tried to
catch an answer None came. He
gave up all hope, but padded
instinctively. Then he remembered the sharks
that followed the schooner In the morning.
This thought filled him terror. Stll he pad
died, half unconsciously. Then he thought
of his wife and children, now in Europe, and
that nerved him, and putting his hands to-
gether reverentially just using motion enough
to keep himself ahoat, he prayed to Heaven
to spare him to his vi and children. As he
opened his eyes after this prayer he saw that
dawn was just breaking, and far away speck
approaching him. 1t was the boat. The men
did not see him, but fortunately they pulled
in his direction, and when they heard him
shout they pulled with all their might toward
him.
Downey said afterward that they were just
about giving him up as they heard him call.
O'Donnell sank to the bottom of the yawl I'M
conscious, and the two sailors pulled to the
schooner v hich lay to six miles away. He
had been four hours IN the water
An hour later the sailors saw the two
sharks following the schooner again.
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THE DEVILS VISIT TO WASHING.
TON.

The Devil sat on his sulphur throne,
And heard with bitter grin,
Reports from the planet he deemed his own,
As bis black subs brought them in.
The Fenian scare in Great Britain pleased
His cynical temper WE'LL
And the news from Brazil and Paraguay,
From Hayti, Peru and Slsil Bay,
Not forgetting the late Chinese ARRAY,
Rather uckled the king OF hell.
But when his scouts of this "happy land
Delivered their dark report,
The demon waved in the smoke his hand,
And gave triumphant snort.
This news" he yelled, rs the best I've heard
Since sin on earth began;
The work favor goes bravely on,
The model republic is dead and gone,
And the powers that govern at Washington
Have adopted my patent PAN"
Then turning to Molock. his darkness said,
Pm off for The Ten Miles Square,
Rule thou, old boy, in thy masters stead,
While see to business there"
The blackamOOr carriers, one and ALL
Applauded their chief like mad
So he changed his shape, as the devil can,
And up to the earth on fire-streak ran,
In outward seeming congressman,
OF the lovely genus Rdd.
or course his blackness was well received
BY his troop of special friends,
Who laid before him the plans conceived
To compass their private ends.
Thad Stevens, Sumner and old Ben Wade,
Ned Stanton, and Butler, too,
They told him of lodges, plots and schemes,
AtrociouS beyond his fOuleSt dreams,
Until he exclaimed, For me il seems
There Is nothing on earth to do"
So he turned on his heel and went his way,
A Sadder, a wiser Sprite,
Observing. "A lesson I've learned to-day
That has changed my purpose quite.
1 meant to have mad these fellows souls,
When from earthly bonds set free;
But now prefer they should 60 1t alone,
In a separate private hell Of their own,
For | swear by my horns, and tail and throne,
They're little too much for me-"
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TWICE BETRAYED.
The MIsfortuues OF a Richmond Relic
"A scandal with a Prominent
Young Merchant and a West
ern Congressman Oeeu-
pyinG a Prominent
Part.
Special to the Cincinna.I Frou,,a,

Special to the Cincinnati EnquIrer.l
RICHMOND, May Is Society here has been
thrown In hutter by sad affair. cnlmin-
ahng in beautiful girl of this place aban-
donIng home and family and openly LEADING
a life of shame. Mss Inex Dahipreen =
beautiful gul. highly educated, was six
months ago affiaBced to Il well TODD Young
merchant. He betrayed and then left her.
She then left her family an began to lead a
lie OF shame Her father, wealthy mer-
chant, had her arrested and sert to a REFORM
atory at Washington, thereby hoping to save
her. She remained IN that institution until
last thursday, when 1t was supposed that
she was IN fair way OF redemption. Itnow
transpired that she managed, while there, to
meet a western Congressman, and the two
planned for her escape from the Institution
last thursday night. She was 10 scale the
walls, and he was to be outside to meet her.
The night was dark and favored the success
OF the scheme. The girl left her room about
half past nine clock, and succeeded In seal
ing the wall The congressman was waiting
for her OIL The outside. Suddenly an officer
of the law appeared, and the CONGRESSMAN.
being man of family, deserted his mariner
and made good his escape. She was arrested.
She was discharged from the institution. and
then He'd to Richmond, where She entered
upon her life of shame. She first applied To
the house of Belle Sommers, a wefl-known
courtesan here in Locust avenue, but was re-
fused admission. She then rented the place
of Oracle Deane, on Eighth street, and there
she held forth. Many of the young men.
who IN former years had danced at her faith
ers mansion, visited her. To night she was
arrested on complaint of the stricken father,
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The reduction that has taken place in
prices is most remarkable. The indicator,
good dry goods authority, thinks ''hard- pan
must be reached when ginghams fall from
forty cents yard to six cents; prints the
same. Canton fannels from fifty cents to six
cents. and brown muslins from forty cents to
five cents. In hog produce we have another
instance. In the Chicago market, on the
eighteenth instant, mess pork was worth
seven dollars and ninety-fve cents to eight
dollars for cash, and on the same day last
year the market price was fourteen dollars
and twenty cents. Lard shows a less decline,
being SIX and fftyfve one-hundredths cents
this year against nine and thir-
ty one-hundredths cents last year.
The change in dry-salted should
ers is relatively about the same as in lard,
the prices this year, on the day named, being
three and ive-eighths cents for boxed meats
against five cents last year. Since the eight
zenith mess pork has declined in Chicago to
seven dollars and fifty cents for cash, and
correspondingly in other markets. More than
all, the DAILY APPEAL can be had for fifteen
cents week. There is hint that even the
young folks candy money is to be reduced,
and that is why cent coins are coming into
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!fscsAns ZOE HhenaOV1nS spots from Cloths
Spots of sugar, glue, blood, albumen-On
white goods, on dyed tissues of cotton and
wool, and on silk, simple washing with
water.
Spots of grease-On white goods, soap
water or alkalies; on dyed tissues of cotton,
hot soap water. Ditto of wool, soap water
or ammonia, magDesia, chalk, yolk of egg.
Colors of varnish, resins-On white goods
and on dyed tissue of cotton and wool, tur-
pentine, benzine, then soap. On silk, ben
zine, ether, soap; rub with care.
Stearine, tallow-On white goods and on
dyed tissues of cotton and wool, and On silk
alcohol at ninety-6ve per cent.
Vegetable colors, wine and fruit STAINS, red
lnk-On white goods, vapors of suphuric
acid; hot bleaching powder solution, weak.
On dyed tissues of cotton and wool, wash
with warm soap-water or ammonia. On silk,
same, rub softly and carefully. Alizarine
nixon white goods, tartaric acid; more con-
centrated, rs the spot is older. On dyed It's
sues OF cotton and wool, weak solution of tar
taric ACID, if the color allows. On silk, same,
with care. Rust, black nixon white goods,
warm solution OF oXalic acid; weak muriatic
acid. On dyed tissues of cotton, repeated
washings with citric acid if the color is well
dyed. Ditto of wool, same; weak muriatic
acid, If the wool is the natural color. On
silk, no remedy. Lime, Ives, alkalies-On
white goods, simple washing with water On
dyed tissues OF cotton and wool and on silk,
weak nitric acid poured drop by drop, and
rub with the finger the spot previously moist
ened.
Acids, vinegar, fruit acids, mould-On
white goods, washing with water or hot solu-
ton OF bleaching powder, weak. On dyed
tissues of cotton and wool, and on silk, am
monia, more or less weak, according to the
tissue and the color.
Tannins, walnut-shell stains-On white
goods, javelle water, bleaching powder water,
concentrated tartaric acid. On dyed tissues
of cotton and wool, and on silk, chlorinated
water, more or less diluted, according to It's
sue and the color, and alternately washing
with water.
Tar, wagon -grease-On white goods, soap,
turpentine and jet of water, alternately. On
dyed tissues of cotton and wool, rub with
pumice stone, then soap, then let stand; wash
alternately with turpentine and water. On
silk, same; but use benzine, and let Jet of
water fall from hight upon the back of the
spot.
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BREAD UPON THE WATERS

Mid the losses and the gains,
Mid the pleasures and the pains,
And the hopings and the fears,
And the reStleSSnesS of years,
We repeat this promise Ger
We believe Ii more and more
Bread upon the waters cast
Shall be gathered at the last.
Gold and silver, like the sands,
Will keep slipping through our hands
Jewels cleaning like spark
VIII be hidden in the dark
Sun and moon and stars will pale,
But these words will never fail
Bread upon the waters cast
VIII be gathered at the last.
Soon like dust, to you and me,
VIII our earthly treasures be
But the loving word and deed
To anOtherin his need
They will not forgotten be
They will live eternallyi
Bread upon the waters cast
VIII be gathered at the last.
Fast the moments slip away,
Soon our mortal powers decay;
Low and lower sinks the sum-
What we do must soon be done.
Then what raptureS II we hear
Thousand voices ringing clear
Bread upon the waters cast
Shall be gathered at the last.
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THE CAusE AxnTHE MAN.

The temperance cause has prospered In
this city since the series of meetings now 60
ing on were commenced, with a degree of
success that has gone beyond the most sam
guine hopes of the originators Of this move
ment. Two ladies at the start called at the
APPEAL office and earnestly begged the laid
and countenance" of the press in the meet
ings about to be initiated. We called atten-
ton to this effort of the friends of temper
ance, and remarked that success would at
tend them if reasoning and persuasion alone
were used, excluding all appeals for legal
aid to drive and force men where they must
be led by their moral convictions if they are
to be induced to accede to the invitations OF
the temperance advocates at all. The result
has been striking. Over FIVE thousand OF
our best citizens, of all positions in society,
have been induced to sign their names,
pledging themselves to abstain from Intoxl-
eating liquors in any form. Five thousand
people placed safe from attacks OF the demon
alcohol; out of danger of one Of the great
est curses which affiicts the human race.
Wives rejoicing at the restoration of hus-
bands mothers sending up rapturous
thanks to heaven for sons saved
from the grasp of the foe that
destroys soul and body; men clothed and
in their right mind" who had been sunk into
degradation and deluded into unmanly deeds
and words, by drink. This constitutes tri-
umph with whose glad results angels may
sympathize and heavens cherubs give new
songs of joy. Seeking no notoriety, mod
estly satisfied to work for noble ends, without
display, without asking leaf from the gar
den of fame, ]. c. johnson, Esq, one of our
active cotton buyers, has been the soul and
life of the movement. M'Dougal, Beattie,
Moore, and others, have we'll seconded his
efforts, but the great promoter and sustainer
of the movement has been Mr.. Johnson.
On Friday night the temperance people of
the city, DESTROYS of testifying their esteem
for his character, their admiration for his
efforts in great cause, and their gratitude
for his labors and his contributions, presented
him with a splendid and valuable medal of
solid gold, upon the surface of which, In re-
lief, appears a cross bearing suitable motto.
Mr.. johnson, with characteristic modesty,
refused to allow any account of the proceed
ings to be reported, but we take the liberty
OF adding our testimony to the virtues of a
good man, the more so that those virtues
seek concealment, and desire literally to obey
the divine injunction to keep one hand from
knowing of the good deeds done by the other
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her fancy and in effectrng a sale. This record
might be extended so as to cover the entire
editorial page, and we are not sure that even
then all the nuisances with which housekeer-
ers permit themselves to be afflicted would
be enumerated. Some hUusekeepers are in
nocent enough to suppose that it would be
impossible to put an end TO these pests of TIER
daily life, and, in short, that they have to sub
NIT to them whether they wish to do so or
not. 1t is useless to support ones warnings
with reports in the newspapers of the sneak
robberies and murders that have been COM
mitted through the aid of this foolish DISPOSE
ton to see what everybody wants, and to
turn no human being from the door without
first given him hearing.
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Paraaffea in Eish-

Toledo Blade: At recent meeting of the
academy of natural sciences, Prof. LeIdy
stated that he had received letters and speci-
mems from New York and elsewhere, inform
ing him that the shad this season were much
infested with worms. Two of the writers had
expressed apprehension that these parasites
would lead to much sickness, and thought
that they had traced several cases to that
cause. The worm has long been known in
Europe as a parasite of the herring, mack
erel, cod, salmon, and other food fishes. Ii
usually lnfests the internal organs, and is
often observed surrounded by covering in a
close coil upon the roes, the intestines and
the liver. 1t is from half an inch to an inch
or more long. Most fishes have few of the
parasites, and sometimes they are exceeding
~ numerous. They appear not to affect the
health OF the fishes unless they are very nu-
merous, when they impoverish their hosts
Prof. Leidy believed that they did not affect
the wholesomeness of the fishes as food; and
perhaps, when cooked with them, were good
and nutritious. Like others, he felt an antip-
athy to the worms, and he was in the habit of
scraping them off from the roes of smoked
behring's before eating these. Rev. DR.. 81. c.
M'Cook described the life, action and habits
of the ants, and his remarks were interesting
In the extreme. Among the additions to the
museum were several slabs of hassic shale
containing fine impressions of footprints of
extinct animals. These were presented by
Mr.. Isaac Lea, and are the specimens figured
In his superb work on fossil footprints. In
terestinG specimens of minerals were also
presented by Mr.. Joseph Wilcox and Dr..
Joseph Leidy.
when tempted to kick man," says
Scotch philosopher, "stop and remember that
You may some day want a favor of him.
There are other most potent reasons why you
should hesitate and refrain from so doing.
The advice gwen by the London Punch to
men about to marry would apply in the above
case: When you are about to marry
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
SUNDAY, NAY 20, 1879.
SUNDAY,
THE CONFEDERATE, MONUMENT.

THE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
Wednesday, the fifth of Jgpe, has been
selected as the day for unwilling the Con-
federate monument. A powerful effort is
now being made TO induce the committee to
change the day 10 Sunday, the second of
June. II is to be hoped that discussion Of
this question will have a speedy termination,
and that all will unite with a determination
10 make this the grandest celebration or
commemoration ever witnessed by the people
OF Memphis. II is understood that this will
be the last formal decoration of the graves of
the Confederate dead; the last formal honors
that will ever be paid to those brave men
who gave their lives TO cause which,
although lost. they believed to be right.
This being so, the proposed ceremonies
should be worthy of the occasion and the
noble men whose memories it is proposed to
perpetuate by the monument that is to be
unveiled. The various committees are zeal
ously performing their duties. General w.
Y. c. Humes has been selected orator of the
day. A Confederate soldier, and essentially
a southerner, socially and politically the ex-
ponent of his section and people, and a gen.
tleman of acknowledged abilities, his speech
will no doubt be eminently interesting and
eloquent in a just tribute to the gallant
dead. This last commemoration day
should eclipse all its predecessors. Thou
sands have heretofore turned out on Decora-
ton day, but as the monument is to be I'M
yelled, our entire population should turn out.
The Confederate soldiers who sleep in Elm
wood are worthy of any demonstration that
can possibly be made over their graves. The
men to whom this monument is dedicated as
testimonial of gratitude, respect and affec-
ton, are worthy to be enshrined in the hearts
of the southern people. This monument will
preserve the memory of our dead heroes. 1t
will be as eternal as the principles for which
they died. 1t will not be as lofty as their
fame, but the marble shaft will represent the
purity of our love and gratitude which is
imperishable. Let all turn out, and join in
this demonstration Of honor to those who are
sleeping beneath the soil they gave their lives
to defend