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California as IL Is.

We often read glowing descriptions
of the climate, productions and beauti-
full scenery of California, but seldom
are any of the Disadvantages of that
far-famed country written up. Horace
Everett, a prominent and intelligent
citizen of Council Buff, who recently
returned from the Pacific coast writes
as follows "My observation in Califor-
MIA convinces me it is no place for a
poor man seeking a home. lie can,
to be sure, make a living, but land is
so high, the cost of cultivation so great,
and the future Of the fruit culture so
uncertain, that none but large laid
owners who can farm on great scale,
with all the modern machinery, can
hope for ultimate success. The young
orange orchards coming into bearing
will soon so overstock the market that
there will be no sale. In fact the mar
ket is almost confined to the Pacific
coast, with not much hope of extend
ing il east. The almond trees are being
cut down or grated into the nectarine.
The demand for the pear and peach is
mostly for canning, and this is busi-
ness that is almost unlimited. Health
is the only inducement that California
holds out to man OF moderate means.
/ think there are more disappointed
men in that state than any ether men
who have worked hard, struggled man.
fully, but are overcome by the difficult
ties that are peculiar to the country.
The soil is wonderfully productive, but
the want of water, the !ong, dry season,
the cost Of irrigation, the constant labor
drawbacks and difficult to overcome.
Happy Iowa"
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Setting His Mark High.
Boston Journal.

Soon after the late Horace Maynard
entered Amherst College he put on the
door of his room large letter V. Its
presence exposed him to many ques-
tons AMI ridicule, but paying no atten-
ton to either he kept the letter in its
place. At the end of four years grad
uatlon day came, and Mr. Maynard
was appointed to deliver the valeoic-
tory. After having received the
compliments ofthe faculty and students
of the college for the honor he had
received, Mr.. Maynard called the atten-
ton of his Undergraduates to the letter
V over the door of his room and ask
ed if they then understood what was
meant by the letter v. After short re
Election they answered, Eyes Valedic-
tory" He replied, You are right.
His fellows then asked if he had the
valedictory on his mind when he past
ed the letter over bis door. Mr.. May
nard replied, "Assuredly / had"
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{" TT coo IN Arcadia uala. :"

" III ego an Afcd0ad 01Va.
So sayeth many thwarted politi.
clan, many a sore-hearted Speculation,
many homeless tramp, and many IA
disguised society clothes. dummy as he
catches few and faint glimpses of the
man that tills the soil and gets close to
his God in his relationship to nature.
In Arcadia? Oh, yes it was surely
in Arcadia that the early morning
flushed rosy red that the sweet airs
lifted the insulating branches, and the
gurgle of running waters Tapped into
the sounds of the summer morning.
1t must have been in Arcadia that the
barefoot lad brushed the dew from the
sprinkled grasses and plunged laughing
into the singing waters. Only in Ar
cadia could that young joyousness
have sprung from a couch, whose
rushes were more enchanting TO coy
sleep than was the couch of the sy-
barite /; only there, grew such green
ness of moses, such verdure of flowers
and canopies of foliage f.; only in Ar
ca6ia could the iuvenescent man have
so exulted in freedom, and rioted in the
sweet scents, the multitudinous voices,
the hilarious waters, of a world corn
new every morning.
In Arcadia and where are they
now--all these glories that were theirs +?
Still there. Arcadia is yet Arcadia
for the dweller therein, who IL neither
blind or deaf, nor senseless; but these
who were the jewellers, and to whom
come it's memories and who yet be-
lieve that country to have been myth,
| Of xynftth
reality of existense-these have travel
ed far from the sweet wales and tender
growth of that country of their inno-
cence. Hot streets of dusty and pes.
tilential cities, gorged alleys of frequent.
ed and unholy places the smoke and
CRIME of factories, the sloth of morn
ings after days of scheming, and nights
of debauehery the heavy eyelid that
shuts out the light which yet stretches
toward him from Arcadia, and shuts in
visions of dire confusion. memories of
fiery draughts and forms naked in
their hideousness of depravity-stun-
ned senses that only remember the
phantasmagoria of futile dreams visit
ing touches scented with perfumes, and
haunted by spectres-spectres of treach-
erous friends and murdered hopes, and
dismantled ambitions. These have
tax, the place of all that was fair in
Arcadia, in that country that his child
hood knew and whose freedom his
early youth yet remembered with long
ing.
With parched lips, hot eyelids, and
quickening heart he vet whispered to
youth. "And l, too, once lived in Ar
cadis National Farmer.
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The United States Capitol.

The dome is tine most impressive
feature of the new capitol at Washing
ton. 1t was designed by Walters, to
replace the smaller one removed in
1865, and ranks fifth in height and
size among the notable domes of the
world. 1t is, in fact, $50 feet high
above the west gate of the park at the
foot of the hill on which it stands. Its
diameter is 1881 feet, and it is praised
as one Of the most symmetrical, grace
full structures in the whole world.
Its octagonal or stylobate base rises
ninety-three feet above the basement
floor of the capitol AS it leaves the
top line of the building it consists of Il
peristyle 124 feet in diameter, of thirty
six iron-huted columns, twentyseven
feet high. Each of these columns
weighs six tons. Above them is a baul-
strade. Above the baulstrade begins
the dome, which converges upward to
an apex, surmounted by lantern fif-
teen feet in diameter and fifty feet high,
which is surrounded by a peristyle and
crowned by the bronze statue of Free
dom, designed by Crawford.
On December IL, 1862, the statue was
raised and placed in its present posi-
| ton at the apex of the dome. Thou
sands of citizens and soldiers we're as
sembled. A national salute of thirty-five
guns was fired from a field battery in
the East park, and this was follow ed
by reverberating salute by the shotted,
heavy guns of the whole chain of forts
surrounding the capitol. Few who
hot Nnyin
the mighty acclaim from the people
which obliterated for a moment the
noise of artillery.
The lantern on the dome of the cap
itol contains three rows of powerful gas
Jets, and is very much frequented by
strangers, particularly young married
couples. The view therelrom is mag
nifcent, and even at daytime, notwith-
standing the glare OF the gas jets, one
may obtain weird views by shading the
eyes with the hands and pressing the
face close to the glass.
The eastward view looks out on the
plain of Capitol hill toward q back
ground of hills beyond the Anacostia.
To the north there is view, beyond
broad intervening valley of encircling
hills; to the south lie the low ground
and sparsely settled parts of Washing
too; and to the west lies the city with
its botanical garden, the mall, the
wooded SUBMITS of University square,
the unfinished Washington monument,
the dome of the observatory, the gilt
tering stream of the Potomac, and Ar
lington Heights beyond. No finer view
can be had from any capitol. Yet the
picture thus viewed is scarcely more
enchanting than that of the capitol
itself seen from any point of vantage
Sunday Magazine
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CRIME.

THOMAS EDGAR, an accountant in the
Bank of Toronto, absconded with 5000.
CHARLES CoLvIG, chief of scouts at San
ambushcd by a small band of renegades,
Colvig and three men being killed.
SAvARo. one of the Indian police at the
Southern Ute agency, killed Western
hostile, and retaliation on the white set.
tiers is feared by chief 1gnacio.
NINE Mormon cowboys broks loose at
St. Johns, Arizona, and brought on a bat
tie in which Two men were killed. Two
of the raiders are in Jail.
A CONSTABLE and posse at Lipkville,
Oregon, in endeavoring to capture two
orte.thieves, killed one and mortally
wounded the other.
OVER $50 brickmakers in Denver struck
July Oh. going from yard to yard
and compelling everybody to stop. The
moulders ask So SO per day, and the labor
ers 81 so.
The jury in the criminal court at New
Haven were out but fifteen minutes. re-
turning a verdict of not guilty against the
Msliey boys and Blanche Douglass.
Two shots were fred at David w. Keil,
proprietor Of the Fort WAYNE Daily Ga
zete, while approaching his residence, July
s. He narrowly escaped being assassinated.
Mosr of the oonyicts in the Massachu-
sets penitentiarv have struck for the holi-
day recreation of one hour which was de-
MED them on the Fourth. and have been
demolishing their cell furniture.
w. III. SMITH bank teller of Roches-
ter. n. Y, mysteriously disappeared, last
week, while journeyiDg from Quincy to
Kansas City. His brother went out and
made thorough search for him, without
result.
WEBDEN, the pugilist, has been arrest
ed at Pittsburgh recently Tor keeping a
disorderly house, on which charge he will
he held until the Ohio authorities can ex-
tradit lin for fighting Maloney.
VIM S. EDWARDS, a well-known lawyer
of Detroit, presideut of the Michigan
Congress Water company. was lodged in
Jail on charge of forging the signature OF
ieorge Z. Hand to promissory note for
1900, but was soon released.
GOVERNOR LUDLOW, of New Jersey, has
issued proclamation against riotous acts
by strikers, and announcing that the milt-
lary power of the state will be promptly
used TO aid the local authorities. The po-
ice of Jersey City drove away two hun
ired men who sought entrance to the
Erie railroad yards.
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THE senate has voted to postpone till
next session the consideration of the ma
tional bankrupt law.
A RUMoR that James Russell Lowell
had resigned as United States minister at
London, is officially denied.
TwRNTY-sIx postofice employees were
dismissed July Sth, owing to the failure of
the appropriations.
THE ar route cases are to be dismissed.
No reason is given and none can be found
out. The Judge will throw them out of
court.
THERE is good authority for the state
men. that Minister Lowell will soon be
recalled. at his own request, TO be succeed
ed by Governor Long, of Massachusetts.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has nominated
Colonel G. III. Crane TO be surgeon gen.
eral, John Davis to be assistant secretary
of state, and Eugene Schuyler, to be min
ister resident to Roumania. Servia and
Greece.
THE conference committee on the bank
charter bill failed to agree on the clauses
providing that gold or silver certificates
shall be counted az lawful reserve, and
that no national bank shall belong TO a
Clearinghouse in which silver certificates
are not eceived.
THE recently appointed tariff commits
sion il now in session at Washington. The
object of the commission is 10 revise the
existing import tariff laws, and report
recommendations TO the next session of
congress.
WHILE nothing positive is known re-
garding Guiteau's body, it is probable that
it has been removed to the army medical
museum, located in the building where
Lincoln was assassinated, and the flesh
removed from the skeleton, which will
occupy position there near a section OF
Booths spinal column on exhibition.
IT is unothcially stated at the war de-
parlment that four additional light bat
teries will be equipped. 1t is also under
stood General Sherman is in favor OF a
detail of three years for captains and five
years for lieutenants on light artillery
duty.
The senate committee on public lands,
10 whom was referred the nominations OF
Spaulding and Cary as land officers at Du-
luth, are considering the propriety of in
vestigating the alleged laI frauds in that
district. The parties in Duluth consider
ing themselves aggIieved will no doubt be
given an opportunity for a full and fair
investigation if they so desire.
TIE appropriation in the sundry civil
bill to pay the expenses Ct the negotiation
with the Sioux Indians for cesson of a
part of their reservation in Dakota, will
pass the house but will probably meet with
some opposition in the senate. Senator
Dawes is opposed to it, and says the open
ing up of any part of this reservation is
premature. The commissioner of Indian
atails. who is opposed TO it, may exert
some influence against it. In view. how
ever, of the proposed legisat setting
North Dakota apart as a new territory
and admitting the remainder as stare,
there ia little doubt that the clause will
finally 90 through.
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The Pioneer Press says "The out
look in Egypt presages another out
break of The natives against the Euro
peans. Quite number of the natives
depended upon the foreign population
for livelihood, and now that business
is at deadlock they are desperate and
fanctically inclined ana ready for
bloody deeds. The foreign war vessels
are assuming such menacing attitude
in the meantime that Arab Bey is in
clined to ask for an explanation. II
would seem at this distance that the
powers should dem onstrate their capci-
ty of protecting their people in the
event of another riot. England espec-
tally, having RETAINED on the occss-
sion of the other reign of terror from
opening up the frowning batteries up
ON the murderers of her countrymen,
should now be prepared to assert her
time honored principle OF protecting
her people. She has devoted herself
long enough to protecting the Interests
of her Egyptian bondholders. In case
of another reign, of anarchy she would
he voted craven by all the world should
she not come to the rescue of her peo-
ple whose lives and personal property
are imperriled. Not until her com
nerre in India was menaced did she
make any signs of fight. If it has
come TO this pass that England has
higher regard for the interests of her
Egyptian bondholders and her Indis
commerce than for the lives of her
subjects in foreign lands, let us hear nc
more about her boosted zeal in behal'
of British citizens wherever the union
lack floats to the breeze.
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The Cranston Print Works, at Provi-
dence, R. l., belonging to the Sprague
estate, was July 9th sold at auction by
Trustee Chaffee. The sale took place
in the Office at Cranston, in the pres
ence of about $50 people, the majority
of whom were present because of their
curiosity. The property vas sold for
1915 600 above the mortgage of $780,
600. This sale includes all the vast
calico printing establishment of the
spragues, together with the village OF
Cranston, containing 100 tenement
houses, and 100000 square feet OF
land. The property sold for this small
sum cost the Spragues almost S5,OO0,-
600 first and last, and a year ago was
estimated to be worth 81 100000.
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instructed to facilitate return of the
Jews driven there by persecution.
A DUBLIN journal is authority for the
statement thai the British government in
tends TO employ bioodhounds to track az
sassins.
THE Irish bishops and archbishops have
determined to discountenance the Ladies
Land League. A note to the priests has
been prepared on the subjects.
s THE French Mediterranean squadron of
nine iron-clads is kept in readiness to sail
for Egypt, and transports to carry 1850
men lie off Toulon.
THE London Times believes that the
warlike preparations at English dock
yards are fraught with meaning touching
the crisis in Egypt.
EXCITEMENT DEGREES TO the number of
250 have been obtained against small
tenants in the Connemara district, Ire
land. II enforced, 1000 persons will be
rendered homeless.
AT the papal consistory, Pope Leo, in
his allocution, said the Italian government
was guilty of bad faith with the vatican,
| and the position of the church was grow
ing daily worse.
THE London Daily Meas, commenting
on the Egyptian situation, says it would
be penny wise for England to estimate the
cost Of armed intervention, which IT
places between four and FIVE million
pounds.
THE London Times editorially says if
Arab Pasha refuses to abandon the OBJ
noxious works, Admiral Seymour will
Immediately open fire, and lombard AL
exandria. Twenty thousand arms have
been distributed TO various military GEN.
tiers in readiness for armipg the reserves.
The distribution of 10000 more is or
dered.
IT is believed British armed interven-
| tion in Egypt is now unavoidable. A no.
| tice preliminary to calling out the re-
serves has been prepared and dispatched
| to the military authorities in Great Brit
ain, and 20 900 arms have been distributed
| in the military centers. Bombay papers
announce orders have been received there
| for the dispatch of troops To- Egypt. Ii
the building of earthworks at Alexandria
| is continued, fighting may be looked for
at any moment.
| REPORTS come from Alexandria that the
Egyptians ceased work on the fortifca-
lions at the demand Of Admiral Seymour.
| The sultan had telegraphed that The Brit
ish fleet was likely to BON bard the city,
and that he should hold the Khedive and
the ministry responsible for the conse-
quenses. Arab Pssha supplied arms to
The natives while British residents were
hurrying on board the transports pro-
vided for them. The French cabinet de-
cided to instruct Admiral Conrad TO re-
main passive spectator of the lombard
ment unless forced by some hostile act to
take part. Sir Hubert Macpherson will
have command of the troops sent from In
dia to Egypt.
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GENERAL NOTES

THE common council of Newport. r. l.,
has appropriated 81 800 to enforce the
prohibitory liquor law.
| TIE gold in the assay office at New
| York, as shown nv the recent annual ex-
animation. is 81 602, S55 in coin and $l9,-
$50. S39 In bullion.
| IT has been discovered that great frauds
| upon the government by Texas United
States Marshals have been perpetrated,
and a large number of them will be ar
rested.
THE trustees of Williams college have
given to Professor Hewitt, of Chicago, the
chair of ancient languages, and voted to
endow it with the Garfield memorial fund.
The Mississippi river has broken the
| Madison levee, eighteen miles above st.
Louis, overlooking twenty thousand acres
of farming land in Madison county, and
floating away the stacked wheat.
| KANSAS is harvesting the largest wheat
crop in its history, the average yield
being 90 90 bushels per acre, and the total
product 80, 263,7l1 bushels. Corn is
thriving, but backward.
TIE style of snake they are killing in
Arkansas this summer is five feet in
length, of grayish shade, fve-inch horn
in the tip of the tail, and long sting in
the horn.
GOVERNOR CULLoM has appointed Gen
raj James S. Martin, of Salem, and Will
lam McAdam. of Chester, commissioners
to erect a monument over the grave of
Shadrach Bond, the first governor of Hi
| nois.
LARGE bodies of Indians are leaving
| the Fort Stockton reservation, and NOV
1 ipr, ri FNovao oton ho pda of
hostiles driven out of Mexico by the
troops. The adiutant general Of Texas
will concentrate the state rangers near Ell
| Paso, and take command in person.
Mr.. H. G. Atkins has resigned mis- con-
nection with the Milwaukee & St. Paul to
become general superintendent of the St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba line, to
take effect Immediately. He was tempted
by $12 600 salary.
| TWENTY THOUSAND people participated
| in the reception to Michael Davitt, at
New York. July 8th. He discussed the
labor question, the wrongs of Ireland
through the present landlord system, and
his pro iect for the amelioration of that
country.
THE Illinois republican state conven-
ton nominated General John C. Smith tor
| treasurer by ga to 128 Charles 7. STRAIT
tan, of Mount Vernon, was placed in the
field for superintendent of public instruc-
ton. A. nj. Jones and Daniel Shepard
have been continued in charge of the state
central committee until July 10.
The stock and franchise of the Phoenix
Banking company eff Galva, ILL.,. were
purchased by party of Chicago capital
lists, who have organized the Metropolitan
Trust company, with capital of 81 ,000.-
COO. ]. G. Black has been chosen tenn
porary president, and James B. Good
man secretary. Among the directors are
A. A. Carpenter, George M. Pullman, P.
d. Armour. Marshall Field, Lyman j.
Gage. and II. Fl. Porter.
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Railroad Disaster.
A TERRIBLE FALL.

NEW YORK, July IA terrible acct.
dent occurred this morning between
Branchport and Little Silver, on the
Rye, New York and Long Branch di-
vision of the New Jersey Central rail
road. by which six persons were killed
or fatally injured, and about twenty
persons were hurt. The accident oc-
Cured at about $40 a.. M, to the ex-
press train that left Long Branch at
8:15. The train, which was running at
high rate of speed, left the rails of
the trestle-work crossing Parker's creek
at the point where 1t meets the switch
connecting the main line with the track
driving into the Monmouth park race
course. The first car left the rail, but
kept on the bridge for several hundred
feet, when it plunged over the bridge,
pulling with it the four coaches follow
Ing. The rear trucks of the Pullman
car left the track, and the car swung
over the side of the bridge, but did not
go over.
There were about $50 passengers on
the train, mostly cottagers from Long
Branch and Asbury Park, who were
coming to the city for days shopping.
As the cars began to jolt over the ties
THE PASSENGERS WERE PANIC STRICKEN
When the crash came, one of the train
men said, no one had any hope of es-
Gaping alive. All thought they would
be drowned. Four cars fell sideways
into the water, which was only four
feet deep. This left the windows on
one side free, and through these the
passengers crawled out. Those who
were most severely hurt were assisted
out by those who were not injured.
The disabled passengers were placed in
boats and taken ashore. The passen-
gers in the smoking car were more
badly injured than any of the others.
That car, as it fell, struck mass of
stone near the northern end of the
bridge. The jar was consequently
greater than to those cars which fell in
TO the water.
GEN. GRANT
was in the smoking car, and was one of
the first to escape from the train.
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No Time to Tell a Lie.
Marietta journal.


Jesse G. had the reputation of being
the biggest liar" in Georgia, and was
never known to come out behind. One
hot day Bill H. sat on the shady side
of his barn. After dinner he saw Jesse
riding in great haste toward the town.
Bill hailed him and went TO the gate.
Jess asked what he wanted. Moline
for lyingnow" said Jess. "Your Uncle
Soil died suddenly an hour ago, and |
am going for the coroner and coffin"
And on he went. Bill ran to the
house and told his wife. She gathered
up the children. He hitched the wag-
on, loaded in his family, and posted off
four miles through heat and dust to
Uncle Soils. On arriving he found the
family and two neighbors in the large
kitchen, uncle Soll buried-to the eyes
in half a big watermelon. The surprise
was mutual, and explanations followed.
"Well," said Bill, 81 asked Jess for
big lie, and not only got it, but was fool
enough to believe it. / wouldn't be-
lieve him again if L knew he was
dying"