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Foreign NsvB,

The Gillian squadron has sailed from VAL
raruiso with troops to attack Lima, the Peru
Wan capital.
The kurds have burned q villa 20 near
Uruniah, Persia, and massacred go Of tho
inhabitants.
A. Is ilish steamer which left San Francisco
n few days ago io1 Hong Kong carried away
$50 Cinnamon.
Tho schooner Abraham Lincoln las been
lost on the coast OF Liberia, Africa, with
thirty lives. Among the lost were James b.
McGill and George s. Wood, cx-rclrcsenta-
tivc5 for tho county OF Maryland, Liberia, and
other prominent Liberians.
Tho BocrSen Zcriun9, Il German newspaper,
says thut in many places quarrcls ard duels
have taken place between German and Jews.
The British ship Galatea, from London,
bound for Bombay, India, loundcrcd off Cape
Clear and twcnty-onc lives were lost.
Acrucl cuso OF wholesale eviction has oc-
Cured Mt tho South Moor colliery, Durham,
Enulund. because OF the refusal OF the
miners 10 accept a reduction OF q shilling a
week twenty-five families, with their house,
hold effects, were turned into the street, amid
drivin. sleet, while Six inches OF snow lay on
The ground. One hundred and fifty families
nre still to be evictcd.
The public debt of Mexico now amounts to
$l44, 0O0, 600.
A caretaker who, with others, had been
placed in charge OF a farm In County Linz
crick, Ireland, from which a tenunt was
recently evicted, was shot dead while sitting
ut his tlreside.
The British steamer Mildred, from New
York bound for Marseilles, has foundered in
the Atlantic. AL hands on board, twenty
three in number, were drowned. The British
coasting steamer Ailsa, with n crew OF twenty
men and seven passengers, has also been lost.
A special cable dispatch says that the mem.
bers OF the Ilish land league have invested oil
their funds in foreign securities and lodged
them in the Continental bank and removed
their books and papers to a place OF safety.
Mr.. Parnell and tho other indicted members
OF the lund league have entered pleas OF "not
guilty III the government prosecution
against them.
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Long Ago.

Long ago, when lite was younger, ard life's
burden cast no shadow,
When the gladness OF existence had q sum-
mer fountains flow,
Side by side wetrod dim woodland, river bank
or baunted meadow,
Long ago.
Long ago faint odors held US in the purple
fields OF clover
Subtler in its sweet suggestions than all
ether blooms ablow;
Hand in band we sat together where the clover
heads hung over,
Long ago.
Long ago in magic distance there were silver
voices singing;
And the cowbells sweetly tipkled where the
COWS came home Arrow;
Waist-deep in purple blossoms did we listen
to that ringing
Long ago.
Long ago old joys possessed US with an unde-
fined, strange yearninS;
Loving and beloved, we rocked not, in loves
golden a%ttorglow,
How youth passed us like a dream to the
dleamer unreturnipg,
Long ago.
Long ago the hand I clasped there had its low
irg hand-c!asp broken;
And the voices ceased from singing; and
the cowbells, faint and low,
Died away, as died the echoes of the words
Il ut we had spoken
Long ago.
- a. {. Gordon, in The South Atlantis.
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Tkey Stuck TO Their Principles.

A Galveston gentleman hired old
Uncle Nose to remove . lot of rubbish,
but the old man piled on such little
loads that he managed to make all extra
trip.
look here, uncle, if you had put
decont.sized loads on your cart you
could have carried all that rubbish of
in one trip"
81 knows it, boss; ersee Use amen"
Der OBJ dc Galveston Society fer the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and
it would hab been agin my principles to
have put too heaby 4 load on my old
boss"
The gentleman sighed, bnt paid over
the money. 49,.
"Ain't yer gwiue to frow in q dram?"
asks the old darkey. working his mouth.
II would like, Uncle Nose, to give
you a dram"
"Thank yer, boss" said the old man,
winking his eyes and smacking his lips.
Il say l would like to give you q
dram, but l am a member Of the Calves
ton Sons of Temperance, audit wtuld
be against my principles to encourage
Drunkenness Galveston NescS.
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A Story of Wall Street.

The New York correspondent of the
Boston Herald, writing Of recent
manipulations Of the stock market, mar.
rates the following TO show the ups and
downs-in this case o terrible p1ecipi-
tation-of Wall street:
Leaning against q counter Of a Broad
street saloon, and nibbling the crackers
and cheese on the free. lunch platter,
yesterday afternoon, stood a sad-faaed
man of sixty.tive or seventy years. He
wore a queer kind Of q fur-trimmed cup,
ill-suited to the moist weather; his
clothing was not especially neat, and
his hair was very gray. There" said
my companion, sis a notable example
OF the ups and downs in Wall street.
That's John M. Tobin. He used 10 be
the president of the New York Central
railroad, and was once worth 50, 000.-
N0." l refused to believe this and said
80. My friend dragged me over to the
old mar and said: "Unc'e John, here's
8 gentleman who refuses 10 believe you
were worth SO, 000, OOO." but l was,
and possibly more than that" answered
the cid gentleman. land here l am,
getting a free lunch with . live.cent
glass of beer" "Uncie john" said my
friend, "why was it, when you were
worth SO much, that you did not put
49, 900, GOO of it aside, where the street
could not get at it., and operate with the
other 81, OOO, OOO?" young man," was
Mr.. Tobin's response, "you have fooled
around here for some time; how much
were you ever WORTH" My friend ac-
knowledged TO having b3en $50, 900
ahead at one time. "Why didn't you
take away half of it?" Because" was
my friends response, 81 thought I could
use it to better advantage here :"
,, That's the reason l didn't Save any OF
my nine Millions" %mournfully confessed
the ex.president OF the New York Cen
trail railroad. They squeezed four
millions out OF me at one dicker, and
then / had to use heroic means to pro-
tect myself. Then they squeezed NE
again, and / soon found myself down toa
paltry million. gave up lighting back
then, and went to operating, but, when
they get after a man, they never let up
on him till they have crushed him, and
that's what they did to me; they found
out what | was doing, drove the market
against me and took away every dollar.
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An Idiot With a Wonderful Memory.

An idiot who, perhaps, surpasses all
rivals in memory, and in the capacity to
make mathematical calculations in his
head, was recently examined before the
students of the medlco-surgical academy
of St. Petersburg. He is twenty.seven
years old. In his youth he was noted
for his brilliant ability, but was addicted
to the ~immoderate use Of liquors, and
led q d~issipated life. He was attacked
by an acute disease. When he recov-
cred he was found to have lost all his
mental faculties except memory and the
power of mathematical calculation.
These increased proportionately as his
understanding and power Of logical
thinking vanished. Now he is a
living monograph and calculating ap-
paratus. In the lecture room Professor
Merjevsky requested him to square
numbers containing five or six figures,
to extract the square roots Of like num-
bers, and 80 on. All the questions were
correctly answered by the patient in O
few seconds. No mathematician present
could do anything like it.. Then the
professor requested some one to read
poetry aloud for several minutes, and
the patient repeated it as correctly as a
photograph. The professor declared to
the audience that he was unable to ex-
plain this physical phenomenon. The
memory and the calculating capacity ol
the patient are still growing, while in
other respects he IS becoming a more
hopeless idiot.
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Over q Century Old.

4 reporter for the Indianapolis
JJurnal has bagged rar newspaper
game in the person Of a colored girl re-
puted 20 be lis years old. The reporter
found her Mt No. 176 Yanars street, and
was soon convinced that she Was more
than 4 century cid. The old lazy was
sitting by the fire sewing, and the re-
porter was introduced and proceeded 10
interview her. She isquite deaf. but by
drawing largely on his reserve lung
power tie reporter succeeded in making
himself understood. She said that she
was born in North Carolina, n wa
brought to Kentucky when she IVES q
child, by her first master, Joseph Bryant.
She did not remember what year it was.
She was on the site of Louisville when
there were but two OF three log cabins
there, and she described the place as q
big swamp, and that when she was
there it was filled with wild geese and
ducks. she afterward became The slave
of Judge Doak, now dead, who lived
in Shelby county, and from whom she
takes her name. She is known rs Amy
Doak. She is the mother Of ten chill.
dren, the youngest Of whom is fifty
three years of age. Their youngest
child is the mother Of Mrs. Cooper, and
has grandchildren twelve years Of age.
Amy's other children were sold from her
long ago, and if living are scattered over
the Southern States. She Knows Of the
whereabouts Of but two or three. She
has seen her children's children down. to
the fourth generation. The reporter
asked the daughter, Mrs. Whitton, how
she knew her mothers age. She said
that Just before leaving Kentucky she
asked Mr.. Doak, y on of Judge Doak,
about it. and that lie looked in his
fathers books and fonnd the record Of
the purchase OF ANY, and That tits
shows that she is lis gears cid. The
old lady is quite feeble. an't wears all
the marks OF extreme old age. He eyes
are unusually bright, however, and
light up wonderfully when she talks
about the occurrence Of 100 years ago.
Her memory is very goHd Of the events
of her early life, bat Is alalcst 4 blank in
regard to the happenings for The past ten
cporp
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New York in the same steamer that
brought me-"
"Then hell be here soon. Oh! Pris-
ella! Haven't we entertained angels
unawaresP"
And the old man, 80 grim and
emotionless at other times, broke into a
passion of tears.
Gringo continued, and his voice
cleared from its hus kness as he said:
He learned about your troubles ut
Philadelphia. So he came to the county
town here, and last nigh. i paid up that
judgment, father"
Priscilla arose aud fell On her sons
neck and kissed him; while Phineas,
trembling, touched Abncr, to be sure
that he was really flesh and blood, and
then, sinking on his knees, offered up
thanks to God for the son THAT had
been lost and now was found"
But" said lie, q few moments after,
when his daughter in-law and grand
daughter had returned to the room, and
they all sat together, Gained down and
happy, "you misled me by calling your
self Gringo, or l should have suspected
you, | think, changed rs you are"
L aFOlleu LILY uiLie ny odSlle 1 was
a Gringo, which is the cant Mexican
term for American, and your mans
blunGer did the rest. l let it go so, OF
course, for l feared to come too suddenly
upon mother"
1t was a joyous Thanksgiving dinner
and Fineo-his name vas Phineas
Lewis, after both his grandfathers-be
came the possessor of the antique fish
Ine-rod. There seems to be no danger
now of the Carver homeatead going out
of the family; and the returned miner
has added a good many acres to it by
the purchase Of two adjoining farms, on
one of which he has erected Il fine man.
sion and its out-bnildings. Little Phin-
cas- and Josepha are more at the old
farmhouse than at their fathers; and
Phineas Carverth thus far has kept up the
custom of inviting any stranger in the
n~eighborhood, to keep him and his wife
and his children and grandchildren
company at the Thanksgiving dinner
table. Even Mahala is pleased with the
newcomers, more especially since Abner
Carver has reduced his abundance OF
beard toa simple mustache and changed
from Esau to Jacob.
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yVestsrn and Southern Statss.

Considerable excitement has been created
in Baltimore by the accidental discovery that
the bodies OF o mother and daughter had been
taken from their graves in Baltimore ceme-
terry and carried off by resurrectionists.
The Alabama legislature elected James L..
Pugh for United States Senator to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death OF Senator
Houston, which has been filed by Senator
Pryor by appointment.
Tho Louisiana sugar crop this year is esti'
mated at 237, 900 hogsheads, an increase Of
nearly GO, 900 hogsheads over last year. Ihe
yield of molasses will probably reach l3,0O0,-
OC0 gallons, against 2 ,l89, 100 gallons last
year.
Two white and two colored men were iu-
stantly killed and two other men fatally
injured by the explosion of a boiler in a saw
and grist mill near Stevenson, Ala.
j. & W. Hossack, grain dealers OF Odell,
Ill.,, have suspended, owing about $500. 600.
United States Revenue Collector Blaine, Of
Maysville, KY, announces the arrest, in
Rowan county, OF nine illicit distillers, and
the seizure OF six distilleries, twenty-five gal.
Ions OF whisky, 200 gallons of singlings, and
2,400 gallons Of beer.
The St. Louis refining and smelling works
have been destroyed by fire, causiig a loss Of
ABOUT SlLo,uuu.
James D. Williams, the governor OF lndi
ana, we'll known under the familiar title o.
"Blue Jeans Williams" died ut indianapolis
n few days ago, aged seventy-tvo years
Governor Williams was a successful felmer,
served nineteen years in both branches OF the
Indiana legislature, and in 1874 was elected to
Congress-. In 1876 he was elected governor,
and had still two months to serve at the time
oil his death.
About thirty inmates of thu Minnesota. in.
sane asylum were burned or frozen to Ceath
during tho recent fire at ST. Peters.
The official vote OF Wisconsin for presiden-
tial electors was: Garfield, 44,305; Hancock,
ia G53; Weaver, 1882; Dow, 81; Phelps
(anti- Masonic), 81.
The onic al canvass OF the complete vote OF
Minnesota gives Garfield 1905, end Hancock
3.3l6.
The Chicago Public Produce Exchange. tho
largest institution of the kind in Chicago hay
ing been crippled by q recent heavy advance
in grain, provisions, cotton end stocks, sus.
pended with liabilities of about 100000.
The citizens OF Fort Pierre, Dakota, q town
on the east bank of the Missouri river, have
been kept in terror for months back by a band
of outlaws, and at last organized a vigilance
committee for the purpose OF getting rid OF
tho %rufians. Recently the two opposing
forces came together, both strongly armed.
The pitched battlu which ensued resulted in
the killing OF Arkansas Joe," the leader OF
the outlaws, and the wounding Of tour others.
Tho ~vigilantes escaped unhurt.
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Vegetine.
KidneyC Complaint
nIcEhcE ne TIE KIlNEXc
DISEASE OF The KIDNEYS.

The symptoms Of an acute attack Of Inflammation
of the kidneys are IS follows: Fever, pain in the
small Of the back, and thence shooting downward !;
deep red color Of the urine, which becomes pale and
~colorless as the disease increases. and Is discharged
very often with pain and difficulty; costiveness
and some degree Of collie. IN chronic diseases Of
the kidneys the symptoms are pain in the back and
Limbs, dryness Of the skin, frequent u~rinstton les
pecially at night, general dropsy, headache, dizzi"
ness OF sight, indigestion, and palpitation Of the
heart, gradual loss Of strength, paleness and pun
ness Of the face, cough, and shortness Of breath.
In diseases of the kidneys the vEaET1sz gives
Immediate relief. It has never failed to cure when
1t is taken regularly and directions followed. In
many cases 1t may take several bottles, especially
cases Of long standing. It acts directly upon the
secretions, cleansing and strengthening, removing
oil distractions and impurities. A great many can
testify to cases Of long standing having been per-
fectly cured by the VEaETINE, even after trying
many of the known remedies which are said to be
expressly for this disease.
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NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Eastorn and Middle States

Salvini, the celebrated italian tragedian,
arrived in New York from Italy q few dayl
ago.
Boston has just celebrated the 25Oth ami
yersary of the First church, denominated as
the pioneer church OF America.
A statue OF Alexander Hamilton, presented
TO the city OF Now York by Colonel John u
Hamilton, con of the leading American IMAM
cier, was unveiled i'll Central park Wild
appropriate ceremonies.
Samuel II. Stevenson, q New iorR tea
merchant, has failed ewing about SlOO, OOO'
One OF the inconvenience OF elevated rall-
roaI travelling in New York was shown the
other day, when a large fire on the bowery
caused n suspension of travel Tor over
twenty-four hours.
Shipping on Lake Erie and Lake on'arlo
has suffered severely from another heavy
storm. On the former lake three and on tho
Inter six vessels went ashore.
The official canvass OF the vote in New York
at tho late election shows the following re-
suit: Garfield, sos 544; Hancock, 53i,5ll;
Weaver, IL 1878; Dow, Prohibitionist, l.5lI;
Post, Anti-Masonic, Is. ,
A man was frozen TO death the other day at
%Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Several other deaths by
freezing are also reported from different local
tiles,
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Most people think OF starch as being
used only by washerwomen in doing up
fine linen, but it really forms a large
part of the food OF man. Rice Is nearly
nine.tenths starch, and Indian corn and
barley more than two-thirds.
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Alexander Mouton, Ex-Governor of
Louisiana, is the oldest United States
senator now living, having served in
that body under the administration Of
General Jackson. Although an octoge.
marian he retains his faculties, mental
and physical, in a remarkable degree,
except his vision which is somewhat
IMPAIRED.
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The close confinement OF all factory work,
gives the operatives pallid faces, poor appe,-
lite, languid, miserable feelings, poor blood,
Inactive liver, kidneys and urinary troubles,
and all the physicians and medicine in the
world cannot help them unless they get out o.
doors or use Hop Bitters, the purest and best
remedy, especially for such cases, having
abundance OF health, sunshine and rosy
cheeks in them. They cost but a tribe. see
another Standardization Recorder.
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Kidney Complaints.
CINCINNATI, O., March 10, 1877

CINCINNATI, O., March 10, 1877.
q. R. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-I have used yor.r VEaHTINE for some
time, and can truthfully say it hss been . great
benefit to me; and to those suffering from disease
Of the kidneys I cheerfully recommend 1t.
Respectfully, O. q. SMITH.
Attested to by 4. B. Ashfeld, druggist, corner
Eighth and Central avenues.
CINCINNATI, O., April 10, 1877.
Mr.. II. Il. STEVENS:
I have suffered several years with the kidd sy
complaint, and was induced to try YEoErIsE. I
have taken several bottles of your preparation, and
am convinced 1t Is q valuable remedy. It has done
mo more good than any other medicine. I can
heartily recommend it to all suffering from kidney
complaints. Yours respectfully,
J.S. McMILLEN,
First bookkeeper for Newhall, Gale & Co., Flour
Merchants, No. SO West Front st., Cincinnati, O.
YEeET1NE has restored thousands to health who
had been long and painful sufferers.
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Malarial fevers can be prevented, also othe,
miasmatic diseases, by occasionally using
Dr.. Santord's Liver lnvigorator, the Oldest
general Family Medicine, which is recon-.
mended as a cure for all diseases caused by q
disordered liver. Eighty-pago book sent tree.
Address DR.. SANFORD. l62 Broadway, N. u.
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The Friend OF Delicate LadiesI

The Friend OF Delicate LadiesI
Warmers Sale Kidney and Liver Cure is the
lemedy that will cure the many diseases pecu.
liar to ONE Headaches, neuralgia, disor.
kindred ailments are effectually removed by
its use.-IHe Mothers MAGAZINE.
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| Here lies John Adams who received a thump
Right on the forehead, from the parish pump
Here lays John, with Mary his bride
Tney lived and they laughed while they were,
able,
And at last was obliged to knock under the
table.
Here lies, wrapped in clay,
The body OF William Wray;
have no more to soy.
Sarcastic epitaphs, not necessarily in
volving a pun on the name are, we sus-
pect, seldom to be found really engraved
on tombstones; and only in some
cases written by relations of the de-
ceased. If Dryden really wrote the
epitaph on his wife, attributed to him,
and which he intended for her tomb
stone, had he outlived her, he must in
deed have felt and owed her but little
affection:
Here lies my wife; here let her lie;
She's o ut rest, and so am l.
James Wyatt, of course, took no part
in the %concoction Of this effusion:
At rest beneath this churchyard stone
Lies stingy Jenny Wyatt;
He died one morning just at ten,
And saved a dinner by it.
The occupation Of dyer has suggested
many epitaphs of an obvious character,
such as:
He dyed to live, and lived to dye.
Also:
He died himself, and dyed no more.
So many Jokes were fired off at the
late Sir William Curtis-au alderman
distinguished for detective education
and bad grammer-that we need not
feel surprised at an epitaph couched
thus:
Here lies William Curtis,
Our late Lord Mayor,
Who hos left this here world,
And gone to that there.
A useful hint is wrapped up in the
following:
Died OF thin shoes, January, 1889.
Sometimes q wi or play on the name
is introC uced such as in the epitaph on
John White:
Here lies John, a shining light
Whose name, lie, actions, all were White
The following was rather epigram.
matte than cpitaphlc in regard to the
Rev. John Chest:
Beneath this spot lies buried
Ono Chest within another;
The outer chest v rs all that's good;
Who says so OF the other?
William Wilton, buried in Lambeth
certainly did not write the epitaph Which
bears relation to him:
Here lycth ". W.,
Nor, we may safely assert, did Owen
Moore himself pen the following:
Owen Moore is gone away,
OWN moro than he could pay.
More likely to be genuine are thoy
epitaphs which involve 4 bit OF bad logic,
syntax, or grammar in their compost
ton. In q graveyard at Montrose is said
to be the following:
One Mrs. Shute gave occasion, we are
told, for the following:
Here lies, cut down like unripe fruit,
The wife OF Deacon Amos Shute;
She died OF drinking too much coffee,
Amy Dominy eighteen forty.
Hero lyes the bodies of George
Young and all their posterity
For nifty years backwards.
And in Wrexham cburchyard as fol-
lows:
Here lies five babies and children dear,
Three at Oswestry, and two here.
Akin to this logical laundering is:
Here lies the remains OF
Thomas Nilsson, who died in
Philadelphia, March, 1853;
Had he lived he would have
Been buried here.
And another at Nettlebed, in Oxford
shire:
Here lies father and mother and sister and
We all died within the space OF one short year;
We all be buried at Wimble, except l,
And l be buric here.
Chambers Journal.
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All the nickel from which the Eve
cent coins are made comes from q mine
in Lancaster county. Pa. 1t has been
worked now seventeen years, and pro-
duces from 400 to 600 tons Of ore
monthly.
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rr.rre H.nte satardav Evening MALL

rTerre Haute Saturday Evening MALI
MI. George Knoehr, after having tried
all remedies recommended to him for
rheumatism, received no relief until he
tried the St. Jacobs Oil, the first ap:
plication of which gave him relief, and
the continued use cured him.