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NEWS gUMiARY.
Importaiit Intelligeiice from All Parts,
Domestic."
Thomas H. Gradle has been sent to the
insane asylum at St.* Peter, Minn., for
threatening the life of Governor Pillsburpv
Eev. "W*. F. Whitchek, of Providence,
B,. I., summoned the Board of the Mathew-
son Street Methodist Church on the 27th,
confessed himself guilty of stealing hooks
from puhlic libraries^ and anuouncedhis retirement from the ministry.
A crazy inebriate named McLane went
into-the Old Capitol Building at Albany,
"N". T., on the 27th, Avith the object of shooting Governor Cornell. He had an unloaded
gun with him.
The Secretary of the Treasury has* called
upon the Customs Collectors at Boston arid
?*"ew York to make every effort to ascertain
the identity of the consignor of the inf ernal
machines which found their way to Liverpool.
AT Philadelphia on the 2SthMaud S.trotted
against time, making her three heats .in
2:12, 2:13^ and 2:12^—said to be the best
three consecutive heats ever trotted by any
horse in any country. Ten thousand persons, including her owner, witnessed the
achievement.
A2"Tew Tork telegram of the 2Sth says
steamship agents at New Tork were taking
every precaution against the shipment of
dynamite. As the result of a formal conference, O'Donovan Eossa had been deprived
of the sub-asenev of the Allan line.
Mr. Yan Marter, city editor of the Mt-
ional Democrat of Peoria, 111., stated to an
Associated Press reporter on the 2Sth that
the infernal machines recently. seized at
Liverpool were manufactured in Peoria.
Them&chines, he said, wereshipped to "Sew
Tork, where they were loaded with dynamite, after which they were shipped to Liverpool.
Attorney-Geserax MacVeagh has decided that where a homestead entry of public lands has been made hy a settler, the
land so entered cannot, whilst such entry
stands, be set apart by the President for a
military reservation, even "prior to the
completion of the full title in the settler,"
hut that where pre-emption has been made
of public lands the land covered thereby
may be set apait hy the President for such
reservation at any time previous to payment
and entry by the settler under the Pre-emption law?
Two Philadelphia lawyers have been
convicted and will be sent to the State's
Prison for forging a will,, by which operation they expected to secure the handling of
$800,000.
Eighteen buildings in the business portion of the town of Cattaraugus, "N". T.,
were destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 2Sth. The loss was estimated at $75,000.
A COMPANY, with $2,000,000 capital, has
been organized in "New Tork for the transportation of cattle, to be known as the "New
Tork Live Stock Express.
The Farmers" State Protective Association of Iowa met at Des Moines on the 2Sth,
and determined to defend the barbed-wire
patent owned hy them against a Sew Tork
firm which is trying to set it aside "bv an injunction. General Ben P. Butler will appear for the farmers when the injunction
case is tried.
Billy Byland, of Sacramento, Cal.,
thought he would have some fun scaring his
mother, who was a nervous, excitable person, so he fixed a Jack-in-the-box, with a
"figure of unexampled 'hideousness, and
sprung it at her just as she was awakened
from sleep. The shock threw her into, convulsions, from which she died.
The home and birthplace of President
Madison, in Orange County, Va., was sold
at auction on the 28th, for pO^OO, to James
L. Oarrington, of the Exchange Hotel, Eich-
mond.
A clerk in a hardware store in "Washington has been fined five dollars for selling a
toy pistol to a boy under sixteen years of
age.
A coal mine near Tamaqua, Pa., caught
fire on the 29th ult., causing the 500 or 000
men and boys employed therein to quickly
come to the surface. There were no lives
lost, but the mine will have to be flooded to
extinguish the flames.
The overturning of a lamp in a livery
stable at Lebanon, Tenn, on the evening of
the 29th ult. started a blaze which swept
away eighteen buildings on the public
square, valued at $150,000.
Sitti ng Bull and his immediate followers have been loaded upon a steamer and
sent off to Standing Bock agency. The
fallen chieftain keeps aloof from all per
sons. *
Postmaster- General Ja:mes
cided that clerk-hire in Pcst-oflices
SOth ult., 450 men being employed in the
work.
Near Surrounded Hill, Ark., a few days
ago an entire family, consisting of Mr. A*
"W. Lawrence, his wife, daughter (sixteen
years old) and baby, were drowned while
trying to cross a small bayou on a flat-boat.
The Comptroller of the Currency reports
that the National Banks held April 23, 1SS1,
at the commencement of refunding operations, $213,123,550 of five and six-per-cent.
bonds, $ 35,000,000 of four-and^one -half-per
cent, bonds, and $102,000,000 of four-per
cent, bonds, as security for circulation, and
$4,000,000 Pacific Eailroad sixes—making a
total of over $350,000,000. The total amount
held on the 30th ult. was $362,6S4,000, The
banks also held $19,000,000 more extended
three-and-one-half's than they held of fives
and sixes at the time the refunding operations commenced, and about $11,000,000 less
four-per-cents. All the five-per-cent. bonds
held by the hanks have been extended, except $4,(307,450, which are owned by one
hundred different National Banks.
A Boston telegram of the 30th ult. announces the failure of tne Norwich (Conn.)
Pistol Company, with liabilities of $50,000
and assets of $20,000.
The gauge of the Mississippi Eoad from
Memphis to Grenada was changed to the
standard in ten hours on the 30th ult.
ATEN-JULEracefor $200 a side was recently run on the polo-grounds at New Tork
by George Hazard and Charles Price. The
former beat by 400 yards, making the distance in 53 minutes 22}£ seconds.
The explosion of a still at "Woolner's distillery in Peoria, "EL, on the evening of the
SOth ult., caused the death of Max Woolner
and the bruising or scalding of sixteen other
persons, ten of whom were believed to have
been fatally injured. The distillery was
burned in June last, and the proprietors
were engaged it trying to save a tun of beer
that escaped the fire, and through the defects of the machinery the still tub exploded,
with the ahove fearful results.
A Eire at "Whitehall, Mich., on the evening of the 29th ult. burned nearly every
business place in the town, the loss being
estimated at $120,000.
The experts at the Sub-Treasury in
Chicago are said to be puzzled over a remarkable counterfeit silver dollar, dated
1S7S, and outwardly perfect in every respect.
The Times says the counterfeit is wanting
neither in size, weight nor ring, but when
the silver plating is pried, off there appears
a composite substance actually Avortbless.
"Whence it came, or how many like it are
floating around in currency, it is impossible
to tell.
has de-
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There
order
the present rate is higher than th£
thorized by law must be reduced
are 150 ofiices to which ISir. James
will apply.
A Marquette (Mich.) dispatch of the
29th ult. says a nitroglycerine explosion occurred the day before at the Cleveland mine,
in Ishpeming. The machinery was badly
damaged and two men were instantly killed.
"During a severe storm on the 29th ult.,
which occurred'at Carbondale, Pa., Mrs.
Harry Yanborsfc was killed by lightning, and
her husband and four other persons were
severely injured. An unknown man was
ilso killed.
"W. D.'Washburn, confidential clerk of H.
E. Barroughs & Co., of Boston, has been
arrested for the embezzlement of $15,000.
General Pope has ordered Lieutenant
Shoemaker and a company of men to report
to Agent Tufts, at Fort Sill, for duty in the
Choctaw Nation. They are to be
used to expel white intruders.
James Mavorga, a lad of fifteen years,
was caught on the 29th. ult. in the act of
Jisplaeing a switch on the Hudson Eiver
Koad in New Tork.
The gauge of the Illinois Central extension to the gulf was on the 29th ult. changed
to the standard Width from Cairo to New
Orleans. The track is* 550 miles long, smd
J,000rnen completed the task in eleven
tours, at a cost of $300*000.
FOR selling liquor to their children, some
people of Cambridge City, Ind., blew tip
she saloon of Thomas Hibbs with dynamite.
The proprietor made bis escape.
One hunprei) men were recently thrown
out of employment, and a loss of $""50,000
inflicted, by the burning of the piano factory
of Pratt, Bead & Co., at Deep Eiver, Conn.
AN extensive bed of bituminous coal is reported to have been discovered at a; point
twelve miles southwest of Marshall, Tex.
The deposit lies but eight feet below the
jufface.
The track of the Erie Eailroad between
Rochester and Corn'nx, N. Y., was reduced
>o tjje standard gauge in three hours on the
Personal arid Political.
The Washington Star ofthe 27th publishes an account of an interview with General
Crocker, Warden of the jail, about Guiteau.
Crocker said no one had manifested any
friendly interest in ^ the prisoner since he
had been in the jail; the only people who
had been to see him were those who had
come out of mere curiosity. There was no
such thing as solitary confinement in the
jail. Guiteau could hear the other prisoners talk, and could talk with them, though
he was separated from them. The guards
talked with him on subjects connected with
his prison life, "but not about the Presidents
He had no newspapers, but read mostly the
Bible and serious works. General Crocker
took no stock in the prisoner's insanity;
there had been nothing in his actions to indicate it any more than in .the condition of
other criminals.
James "W. Simonton, for fourteen years
General Agent of the New Tork Associated
Press, has resigned, and is to he succeeded
by James C. Heuston, at present London
agent of the Association..
Bishop Philip Exingen Smith, a participant in the Mountain Meadow massacre,
whose exposure of that atrocity caused the
execution of John D. Lee, was recently
found dead in a prospect hole in Sonora,
Mexico.
Ex-Governor Bagley, of Michigan,
died on the 27th, in San Francisco, whither
he had gone for the benefit of his health.
He wa3 forty-nine years of age.
The Bepublican State Convention of Massachusetts has been called to meet at
"Worcester September 21.
The funeral of the late Justice Clifford
took place on the 28th at Portland, Me.
Among those present were Chief-Justice
"Waite, General Banks, Judges Blodgett,
Miller, Fox, Appleton, "Walton and others.
Eev. Dr. Hill, ex-President of Haiward
University, conducted the funeral services.
Colonel John C. Burch, Secretary of
the United States Senate, died at his residence in "Washington on the 28tb, of organic
disease of the heart.
James E. Keene has been elected President and C. H. Haskius Vice-President of
the Postal Telegraph Company recently organized in New Tork.
Mr. "White, the American Minister to
Berlin, has tendered his resignation, to take
effect August 15, at which date he will leave
Berlin for the United States, lt is,stated
that no appointment of a successor will be
made until the President has recovered.
According todispatches received on the
29th ult. it appeared.that there were good
grounds forbelieving that the murder of the
son of Senator Pugh, of Ohio, was done in
Mexico by a band of Mexicans, and not by
Indians, as at first reported and believed.
Secretary Eirkwood ha^drdered an investigation, audit was confidently expected that
the murderers would be brqught to justice.
The Pennsylvania State*Convention of
theProhibition-Eeform party met at Al-
toona on the 28th ult., delegates to the number of forty-five, representing twenty-two
counties, being in attendance. Jumes M.
"Wilson was nominated for State Treasurer.
Theplatform adopted contains resolutions
denouncing the refusal of the State Senate
to allow the people to decide the question of
prohibition; affirming that the only effective
means of prohibiting the liquor traffic is by
a separate party organization; declaring
that all Christian features of government
should be sacredly maintained; that fn no
case will candidates affiliating with the license system be supported; favoring Civil-
service Eeform and a Protective Tariff; opposing the selling of convict labor, polygamy
and monopolies, and favoring compulsory
education.
JohnW. Lowell, a New Tork puhl ish -
er, has asked his creditors for an extension
for six months on liabilities of $125,000.
Foreigrn.
Midhat PaSIU and his accomplices in the
conspiracy to murder the Sultan Abdul Aziz
have been sent to Arabia, to remain in exile
for life. The aetua assassins have been ordered executed.
Miss Haukness, a talented young Amer
ican lady, has carried off the Berlin prize at
the Paris Conservatoire.
The epizootic has made its advent into
Berlin, where the street railways have been
greatly inconvenienced.,
There were twenty-five deaths fronTybl-
low fever and nine from small-pox in Havana during the week ended on the 27th.
The Sheffield (Eng.) Equitable Building
Association, with liabilities of about £110,-
000, failed on the 27th. A movement was
also made toward winding up the Blackburn
District Building Society, which owes
£200,000.
It was from Duhlin that Sir "William Har-
court received the first warning relative to
the infernal machines landed  at Liverpool.
On the evening pf the 2Sth, by a vote of
209 to 76, an amendment to the Land bill,
offered by. Mr. Parnell, was adopted. It
provides that while "the Land Court is considering a change of rental, no execution or
ejectment shall take pi ace against the tenant.
A violent shock of. eartnquake was f elt
at Agram, Austria, on the morning of the
28th.     •
The Bulgarian Government has consented
to release three pestilent agitators on condition that they reside neither at Sofia or Tir-
nova.
The army of the Ameer of Afghanistan
has-sbeen completely defeated by the insurgent forces under Ayooh Khan. ..'
ABerlin dispatch of the 29th ult. says
that, at Hammershein, in "West Prussia,
there were nightly demonstrations against the
Jews. On the night of the 26th ult. considerable Hebrew property was destroyed by a
mob atBoerwald, Pomerania.
Clare Sewell Bead, an Englishman
who is regarded as sound -authority on
agricultural matters, declares that there is
not a great crop of grain in England, although the fields look well."*
A duel at Berlin on the 29th ult. between
an officer of the army reserve and a student
resulted in the death of the latter.
The Land bill passed the British House
of Commons on the evening of the 29th ult.
by a vote of 220 to 14. Parnell abstained
from voting.
A Liverpool (Eng.) Grand Jury has indicted McGrath and McKevitt for attempting to blow up the town hall in June.
Large numbers of the French soldiers in
Tunis are reported to he dying of malarial
fever.
The new sheds on the railway dock at
Goole, Eng., were burned on the 31st ult.,
together with a large quantity of freight, the
whole loss aggregating $350,000.
Spain has sent an energetic dispatch to
the French Government remonstrating
against the plundering of the Spanish Vice-
Consulate at the capture of Sfax.
The recent census returns show the population of Canada to be 4,350,933—an increase of 6S0.498 during the past ten years.
In consequence of the number of necessitous Jews from Eussia, Austria and Germany going to Spain, the Spanish Ambassador at Vienna has published notice that,
while Spain is willing to afford every protection* to the refugees, she cannot undertake
to support them.
On the 31st ult. an old gentleman of Bal-
lydehob, Ireland, who had recently obtained
an ejectment decree against a laborer, was
fatally shot.
The Chief of Police of Eome has "been
dismissed for neglect of duty, on the occasion of the riots over the remains of the
Pope.
The Czar Alexander entered Moscow on
the 30th ult., where he was received with
great enthusiasm. His first public act was
to offer prayers at the Cathedral.
The Commission appointed by the French
Chamber of Deputies to report on the projected railway tunnel has approved the Mont
Blanc route, while Italy had previously
given her assent to the Simplon route.
Farmers on the estate of a Mr. McNa-
mara, in Bedfordshire, England, have received letters threatening death if rent payments are made.
LATER   "NEWS.
The physicians' bulletin issued at seven
p.m. on the 1st states that the President
remained with his head and shoulders elevated until the time for the dressing of his
wound in the afternoon. Free discharges
of healthy pus continued, and everything was
progressing in a satisfactory manner, the
patient in all respects still doing well.
The rise of temperature in the afternoon
was slight, aud at seven o'clock his pulse
was 104; temperature, 99.5; respiration,
20. The. President stated .in the course of
the day that he felt better than for many
days before. He was sleeping quietly at
midnight, and Dr. Bliss is reported as saying that he was getting well as fast as he
could.
In the British House of Commons on the
evening of the 1st Parnell was "named" for
offensive language and for disregarding the
authority of the ch;iir, and Mr. Gladstone
moved his suspension for the remainder of
the sitting. Parnell rose and interrupted
Mr. Gladstone, and said he would not go
through the farce of awaiting a vote, as the
Speaker interfered with freedom of discussion. He then quitted the House. The
motion for Parnell's suspension was carried
132 to 14. • '
The *ChjjHigo Tribune ot the 2d says the
result of flaxseed thrashings in Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri and Kansas had been disappointing to the flax-growers. In very few
cases had there been an average yield. Four
and seven bushels to the acre had been realized where ten and fourteen bushels were
expected. Notwithstanding the largely increased acreage the yield of this year
throughout the country would not equal
that of last year.
The public-debt statement issued on the
1st makes the following exhibit: Total debt
(including interest of -fli,0l5,0l7), $2,007,-
398,978. Cash in Treasury, $236,878,190.
Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,830,520, -
788.   Deerca-e during July, $ 10,07S,023.
On the 1st Peter Crowe, of Peoria, III.,
who confessed that, he made the infernal
machines recently snipped to Liverpool, was
arrested on the order of Attorney-General
MacVeagh. Bail In $10,000 was tendered,
but was declined until he had been examined, ^
Under the supervision of tlm President's
physicians on the 1st Profs. Bell and Tain-
tor made an additional application to the
patient's body of the electrical apparatus
known as the "induction balance," with a
view to ascertaining definitely and certainly,
if possible, the location of tbe ball. The result of the test was entirely satisfactory,
both to Profs. .Bell and Taintor and to the
attending surgeons, and it was unanimously
agreed that the location of the ball had
been ascertained with reasonable exactness
and certainty, and that it lay in the front
wall of the abdomen, immediately over the
groin, about live inches below and to the
right of the navel. There was no intention
on the part of the surgeons to at present
perform any operation for tbe removal of
the ball.
V
The End of a So-Called "Romantic Marriage.
The Richmond (Va.) papers recently contained an account of a romantic marriage in
that city, of which the following is the sad
sequel, as given in a Eichmond dispatch of
the 29th ult:
.Society, here Is In a flutter of excitement
tchday over a social sensation, the occasion
for which is the betrayal into marriage of a
young; la«iy of Richmond, who moves in the
highest circles, hy a man calling: himself!
Thomas Maryin. The victimized lady is the
niece of one of the most distinguished members of the bar of this State and a gentleman
of the highest social pos tion. She is also connected with many other excellent families
here and in other portu hs of the State. She
possesses a noble character, and in person she
is an exceedingly pretly blonde of less than
twenty-five years of age. She is a great favorite in , Eichmond society, and has
hosts of friends* among both sexes
in the city. Being dependent upon her
widowed mother for support, she had
for some time before the unhappy union with
Marvin considered the propriety of securing
the position of governess. About three
weeks ago her attention was called to an advertisement in the Hartford Cliurcliman purporting to be from a widower In Ohio, who desired to secure the services of a governess to
take charge of his little girl, aboutsix or eight
years old. The lady quickly decided to apply
for the position. She accordingly Visited her
past jr. a well-known Episcopal clergyman in
this city, and, also a distinguished jurist, from
whom she obtained letters of recommendation, which she forwarded to the widower.
The result was that Marvin came on to Richmond, having discarded the great number of
application-s with which he was beset,
satisfied that he had found the iady he
desired. He called upon her at her
mother's residence and here informed
her that he was the Ohio widower
meutionea in the advertisement. He had several interviews with her, during one of whic h
he presented letters of introduction to many
prominent business men here from men of
the highest business and social positions in
the North and "West, purporting to represent
that the bearer of them was a man of ample
fortune, of culture and excellent social .position. So plausible were these letters and
Marvin's story, that they were accepted as
genuine by his victim, her family and friends.
Maryin made a proposition of marriage to the
lady, which, after consideration by herself
and friends, was accepted, and-the marriage
solemnized at the home of her mother by the
pastor of her church. The marriage was
a very quiet one. The groom? with great
liberality, had a marriage contract drawn
up by a prominent lawyer, in which be
agreed to bestow $o0,000 on his wife after the
marriage. The bridal party left for Niagara
on the afternoon train, Marvin leaving the impression upon, the friends of the Dride that
they would remain at that watering place for
several weeks, going from thence to the West,
where they would remain till the fall, and
then sail for Europe. The groom represented
that he had large interests in France, where
he had lived for many years. Not a suspicion
of the truthfulness of these representations
were entertained by the bride's friends. 'I he
man's appearance and letters all tended to
quiet aii3r doubts of bis integrity. During his
stay here Marvin called on several of the leading business men and presented his letters
and was kindly received. By some of these he
was introduced to the First National Bank,
where he exhibited letters of credit that gained
for him ready recognition as a responsible
man. Upon the strength of these Marvin
presented a draft for S800 upon a well-known
ChiCas-o banking house, which was readily
cashed. Several days elapsed after the departure of the newly married couplebefore any intelligence was received from them by the
lady's friends here. In the meantime the
Fiist National Bank received notification
from their Chicago correspondent that Marvin's draft was a palpable forgery. This fact
was communicated to the girl's friends, who
Were forced to the conclusion that their loved
one had been made the victim of a vile imposition. The parties purporting to have given
Marvin letters of introduction were at once
telegraphed to. While the names of many
were found to be fictitious, the response of
the others came that the letters were wretched
forgeries. The first intelligence from the unhappy lady was a telegram from Albion, New
York, in which she inquired if tho fatal accident to her mother inSaiem, Va., reported in
a Northern newspaper, was true. It would
seem that Marvin had carried the lady to Albion, where he hoped to practice his forgery
schemu upon wealthy friends of hers there,
and in order to get rid of her had manufactured and' had published the false story of the
fatal accident to her mother, doubtless hoping
that this would cause her to at once return to
Kichmond and thus leave the way clear tobim
to desert her. As soon as the friends of the
victim realized Marvin's imposition two of
them promptly left here to join her. The
bank ollicers here who had been duped by the
bridegroom placed the case in the hands of
a detective, who telegraphed to Albion to have
Marvin arrested. The reply came back that
therp were two men of that name in that city,
and inquiring which one was wanted. The
impostor, hearing that the officers were on
his track, tied, and is supposed to have gone
in tbe direction of Canada. Thelady's friends
found her at xMbion, and, in order to
avoid all publicity, she would consent only
to travel at night. She is expected to arrive on the Northern train which will reach
here to-night at 10:45. The man who has
acted such an unprincipled part in this affair Is about fifty-five years old, and it is very
d'ul 4 ful whether the name he is known under here belongs to him any more than the
ample fortune of which he pretended to.
be the possessor. He is represented by
those who met him as a man of prepossessing
appearance, exceptionally good address and
bears himself likeone who is exactly what he
would have you believe he is. He talks well,
hut not so much about his own affairs as to
make his hearers believe he is endeavoiing to
claim what does not actually belong to him.
Great indignation is manifested heie against
the perpetrator of one of the cruelist impositions that could have been inflicted upon a
high and honorable family, every member of
which is held in the highest esteem in the
State. The tenderest sympathy is felt for the
unhappy victim of Marvin's cool and daring rascality, and it might not be well for
him to put in an appearance here, just at this
time an event, however, not anticipated nor
likely to occur. For audacity and cool daring
Marvin's exploit surpasses anything of the
kind ever known to the people of this quiet-
moving city. Of course the alliance in which
that man was such a prominent actor and so
hastily contracted is the theme of discussion
in social circles here this evening. In accepting Marvin's proposal of marriagp, this
unliappy lady waspi oinpt e-1 no doubt to agreat
extent by au urselfish desire to add to her
aged -mother's comforts, and surround her
with all the luxuries that the wealth she supposed was offered her would afford.
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State and District Fairs.
ALMOND  BLOSSOM.
Ag'l & L. Stock.Chicago.- Sept. 12—17
Americ'h Inst'eN. York City.Scpt. 17 to Nov23
Arkansas.  ..LittleEock.........Oct. 17—22
Central Ohio Mechanicsburg Sept. 18—16
Cott'n Exposi'nAtlanta, Ga... Oct. 5 to Dec. 31
Exposition Kansas City, Mo... Sept. 12—17
Exposition Chicago Sept. 7to Oct. 22
Exposition Cincinnati, O.Sept. 7 to Oct.  8
Illinois ...Peoria ...Sept. 26to Oct. 1
Iowa DesMoines, Sept. 5—9
Indiana Indianapolis.Sept. 26 to Oct. 1
Intct-State F'r.Hamburg*, Iowa....Sept. 1!)—24
Kentucky .-Lexington..Aug. 30 to Sept.  3
Kansas Sta'eF'r
Association... Topeka  Sept. 12—17
Michigan Jackson  Sept. 19—24
Minnesota  Rochester Sept. 5—10.
Maine.. Lewiston  Sept. 6—9
'Maryland ..Baltimore. Oct. 26—30
Mississippi.. Aberdeen... ...Oct. 11—15
Montana ..Helena.- Sept. 26—30
•National... Washington, D. C...Oct. 18—28
Nebraska Omaha. Sept. 12—17
Now England... Worcester, Mass.. Sept.  6— 9
New Jersey -Newark .Sept. 19—24
"North Carolina..lialeigh..... Oct. 10—15
"N. Kentucky.. .Florence—Aug. 30 to Sept. 3
N.-W*. Agricult. *
and Mechanical Ass'cla' n... Oshkosh. Wis..—Sept. 12—14
N.-W. Expo'tionMinneapolis, MinnSept.  5—10
Now York.. Elmira Sept. 12—17.
Ohio... Columbus... Aug. 29 to Sept. 3,
Pennsylvania...Pittsburgh.........Sept. o—17
Provincial......London, Ont ..... .Sept. 21—30
South Carolina.Columbia, ......Nov.  8—11
St.. Louis Fair. .St. Louis, Mo......Oct.    3—S
Texas — Capital
State P'rAss'n Austin.... Oct. 18-23
Tri-State P'rA'nToledo, O Sept. 13—17
Vermont........ .Montpelior......... Sept. 13—18
Virginia .Richmond Oct. 17-27
Wcst'n National
FairAss'n Lawrence, Kan...Sept.  5—10
West Virginia.. AVheellng Oct.    3-7
W. Michigan Agricultural and
Ind. Fair...... GrandRapidt Sapt. 2ft—30
Wisconsin.....,.Fond du Lac. Sept. 2'i—ai
Love, will you yet regret the flowers that lie
Scattered, and wet with tears from April's skyl
They are not dead—the flowers can never die.
They are the gladness of a world unworn;
They sleep and waken with it, night and morn,
And laugh our dreams of ancient days to scorn.
O'er the wide gulfs that part us from the past,
O'er ruins of great works designed to last.
The hghtly-woven chain of flowers is cast;.
And odors of old gardens, faintly blown
From legendery days and shores unknown,
Blend with the breath of those our hands have
sown.
Of Milton's world how much was doomed to
pass!
And yet we linger on the daisied grass.
And pluck the flowers he plucked for Lycidas.
And still the springtime crowns a,waiting
land .
"With tender bloom.  Nay, Love, 'tis you, who
t     stand
With almond clusters in your clasping hand.
And all the sunset heaven -behind your head;
*Tis you must pass, an unknown way to tread,
And leave the flowers.   If I had long been
dead,
Tet came f rom sleep of twilight centuries,
The almond blossom 'neath these vernal skies
Should welcome me again, but not your eyes.
The rosy petals, drifted on the breeze,
Might strew, as now, the turf beneath the
trees
As now? No, not as now.  Because to these   •
Pinksprays of almond, for a little space,
Your musing smile, your hlossom-perfect face.
Give a supreme and solitary grace.
—Margaret Veley, in Harper's Magazine.
WIFE OR DRUDGE.
"Ten o'clock and the lunch basket
not ready to take to the field! As
usual!" grunted Farmer Brewster, as
he threw himself into the roeking-chair
in the kitchen and fanned his flushed
face with his straw hat. "A quarter
of an hour wasted, very likely, waiting
here. Right in the midst of as fine a
hay-day as one would wish to see!
Now, my mother used to have her
lunch ready to the minute whenever we
came for it, and I don't see why "
His jeremiade was checked hy the
appearance of his wife, who came out
of the pantry tugging along the great
lunch-basket, almost too heavy for her
strength.
Farmer Brewster was a young man
in spite of his grumbling. Only twenty-
three, tall, straight, healthy, with blue
eyes, rosy cheeks, fair, curly hair, and
handsome face when it was not darkened, as now, by a scowl of discontent.
An only son, he had inherited a large
and handsome farm, clear of mortgage
debt, which supplied all the wants of
his household most liberally and gave
him a nice little sum of money to deposit in the bank each year.
There was no reason why he should
be mean, and yet miserly habits, were
gradually growing upon him far faster
than'he knew.
Nov was there need of grumbling
over the household arrangements, since
the wife of his choice was a farmer's
daughter who knew well how to work,
and who had taken delight in setting
her home in faultless order when first
she came as a bride to the pleasant
Brewster place.
The same order reigned still, from
garret to cellar of the old square house;
but Mrs. Brewster'went through her
tasks mechanically now, or with a nervous haste and hurry that made them
almost unendurable sometimes.
The constant drop of water will wear
away a stone; and the constant faultfinding in which her husband saw lit to
indulge had nearly worn the patience,
the hope and endurance out of the
young wife's heart.
The comfort and happiness of that
home hung "upon a thread, which frayed
more and more, hour by hour, under
the pain of unmerited blame.
Yet George Brewster saw nothing of
this until the morning of which I write.
"There is the lunch and it is exactly
five minutes past ten," said Mrs. Brewster, setting the basket down with some
emphasis at his feet. "I was delayed
that much with the butter. It had* to
be seen to Defore the sun got too high."
"My mother always churned before
breakfast," observed George, rising
slowly to his feet.
His" wife said nothing, but the color
rose hotly in her cheeks, till the lost
bloom of her' girlhood seemed t» have
come back again,, and she raised her
eyes to his with a look that startled
him.
Very handsome eyes they were—soft,
dark and velvety, with a world of love
and tenderness in their depths.
Yet when they met his own coldly
and sternly, with such an expression
that he exclaimed:
"Good gracious, Letty!    You look
as if you hated me !"
, "I'm afraid 1 do," was the astounding reply.
And with a swift glance at the clock,
Letty hurried down into the cellar with
a knife and a pan to make her preparations for dinner for six hungry haymakers.
"Afraid she hates me! My wife !
She that was Letty Grover !" muttered
he to himself, in his bewilderment.
"Why, what on earth—! She must be
going crazy or something or other."
"Letty!" he called at the cellar
door.
"It is ten-minutes past ten," she answered, from the depths of the cellar.
"If I don't see about the dinner now, it
won't be on the table at twelve to the
minute, as your mother used to havejt.
I can't come."
"Well, if this don't beat all!" said
he to the maltese-and-white cat who
ascended from the cellar and rubbed
against his legs.
A shout from the hay field roused him
to the recollection of the day's "vbusi-
ness.
He went out and dispensed the treasures of his basket among the hungry
men, who praised Letty's excellent
cooking with every mouthful they swallowed.
"Itis enough to make an old bachelor like me sit down and cry to eat
such raspberry short-cakes as that,"
said Solomon Wyse, wiping the crumbs
of the feast from his lips, before he
drank sweet cider from the jug. * 'Tell
you what it is, George, you drew a
prize when you went courting."
"So he did. And here's her good
health," chimed in another mower, as
he took up the jug.
Geoi-ge "assented vaguely.
They were talking of his wife—-his
wife, who was afraid she hated him*!
Never had the two hours between
lunch and dinner dragged so slowly.
As he rode round and round the field
with the sharp rattle of the mowing
machine he guided in his care, his mind
was continually busy with Letty's looks,
and her words, and his eyes turned often
to the cream-colored-farmhouse, behind
whose spruce green blinds his wife was
busy preparing dinner.
* "I used to think how happy I should
be if I ever persuaded her to come
here," he thought. "It is two years-
why, I declare, it is two years this v.ery
day that we were married! I*wonder
if she remembers it! .But it isn't very
likely when she says she hates me."
Did she remember? Ah^in that very
remembrance laysjfhe sting!
All that morning,, while she got
breakfast at five o'clock, and washed,
dishes, • swept the rooms, made beds,
churned butter and prepared a hearty
lunch for six men, her heart turned
back to that other morning, twenty-
four months ago, when the bright-eyed
country maiden rose at four o'clock to
complete her preparations for her wedding-day.
How* good, how kind, how handsome,
he was then! How his eyes followed
her! how his love blessed her!
Was it all her fault that the bloom
and beauty of life had departed in
those two years?
Looking back she could see no day in
which she had not at least tried to do
her duty.
And looking in her glass, she saw
how the light and glow of youth had
passed from her face while accomplishing the task uncheered by the approval
of the man she loved.
"George has kept his color and his
good looks because his work lies out of
the doors," she mused, "but I hare
worked in this old kitchen until I look
old enough to be his mother!"—she
paused with a bitter laugh—"I almost
wish I was his mother, then he would
be suited with what I did !"
Noon came. The twelve o'clock
whistle sounded sharp and clear from
the factory in the village a mile
away; and before th*"whistle ceased a
little figure stepped out on the side
porch of the Brewster house and blew
a horn.    * -
"There's a woman for you," said
Solomon Wyse, admiringly. "Dinner
to the minute—and won't it be a good
one!"
The dinner was indeed a success.
Every dainty ofthe season and the farm
was there, skillfully cooked and neatly
served on a table in the-cool dining-
room—a table covered with a snowy
cloth fresh from its folds, and glass and
china.
In the center of the table stood a
great china bowl full of red roses that
perfumed the room. Her cheeks were
red, her eyes shone dark and bright,
and her -words and smiles were ready—
for every one save George.
As she sat, grave and silent, at the
foot of the table, he looked at her won-
deringly.
She wore a dress "of silver gray alpaca that had been her traveling dress
when they were married.
A large white apron with a bib
shielded the glories of the costume.
But why did she put it on? Surely, she
could not think of "going visiting" that
afternoon, with six haymakers to get
tea for and the milk of eight cows to
attend to afterward.
The question burned upon his tongue
as he lingered a moment behind the
other men-
But he finally went out without asking it. The wife, who was afraid she
hated him, seemed almost like a stranger, -although she looked so much on this
occasion like the girl he had married
just two years ago.
As George neared the door of the
woodshed where the men were lounging away the rest of their nooning, he
heard his own name uttered by Solomon Wyse, in tones of anger.
Involuntarily he stayed his steps..
"Yes, I knew George from a baby
up, and I always^said he'd make a likely man. But I vow, it's a shame how
he treats that pretty little creature!
Such a lunch this morning and such a
dinner this noon, in such a nice, cool
room, with the red roses and all the
rest of it! and she's just as pretty as a
picture, with her red cheeks and bright
eyes and her wavy hair, and dressed as
neat as a pink, too! And he sitting
there as glum as a cross old man of
ninety.   I was ashamed of him."
" I've heard he does nothing but find
fault with her all day long," said a second voice. "My wife says if I threw
my mother into her teeth, as George
does his in Letty's, she'd run away
from me before she was a day older.""
"And serve you right," chimes in a
third. "I'll tell you what my wife says.
She says it is confounded mean and
small of George not to keep a woman
here to help his wife. And when I saw
.the dinner to-day that the pretty little
thing had got for us, all alone, I thought
so, too. Hang me if I hadn't half a
mind to stop here this afternoon and
help her wash up that great pile of
dishes, and let the haying go to thunder! It's enough to kill the woman to
have all that work to do. And George
is rich. What on earth is he thinking
about? But he'll be sorry for this a
year or two hence, when we have to
come here on a different errand."
" To carry her out in a coffin," said
Solomon Wyse. "Yes, I supjose it
will come to that if some of us don't
talk seriously to George. She don't look
at all strong now, and her hand trembled when she changed my plate. It's
a burning shame, and if none of you
will talk to George about it, I will."
They moved off to the hay-field talking as they went.
But when George Brewster joined
them Solomon Wyse deemed it prudent
to defer the proposed "talking to," for
his brow was black as night, and he
had no more to say to his neighbors
now than to his wife at the dinner-
table.
This, then, was the way in which
they spoke about him behind his backs
these men who labored beside him, and
took their wages from his hand and
prefended to be his friends.
And his wife was afraid she hated
him!
To whom could he turn for comfort—
from whom could he expect true friends
ship—if she who should have been
nearest was  an  enemy iu   disguise?
Lost in a moody reverie, he paid littl*
attention to his work.
-And at last, ai three o'clock in the
afternoon, there was a sudden uproar in
the hayfield—a tramping of hoofs, a
rush of terrified men, a confusion of
voices, and among them all George
Brewster lying on* the ground beneath
the mowing machine, his right arm and
right leg broken by the wheels, his
head cut. and bleeding with a heavy fall.
Meanwhile, Letty, in the cream-colored house, had not been idle.
Tying on a great calico apron in.
place of her white one, she had quietly
washed and put away the dinner dishes
and reduced the dining-room to order.
Tea was easily arranged, since it was
to consist of cold dishes withjjlasses of
milk for the men. *   *    .      '
She threw a table-cloth over the
whole as it was finished, and Went upstairs into the spare chamber to pack
her trunk. "
Yes, Letty had made up her mind at
last.    She was going away.
Life had degenerated into slavrty,
unbrightened, as she fancied, by a ray
of love.
• "And slavery will support one anywhere," thought Letty, as with ti-eirr.
bling hands she lacked and strapped
her trunk and fastened her few lines ts
George upon the lid.
At the porch door she paused for one
last look around the house that might
have been so happy.
She did not intend to glance toward
the hayfield.
Yet in spite of her resolution, her
eyes turned that way to single out the
tall figure that guided the rattling*
clicking mowing machine.
"I wonder if he'll miss me a little—
just at first?" she mused. "He can
get a divorce, if 1 desert him, and then
he can marry again. I hope he will be
kinder to his next wife than he has been
tome!" ,
With tears that rose at the thought
of her successor blinding her eyes, Letty failed to see the figure that she
sought. |
'* I am foolish to look at him again."
I have never been more than a house*'
keeper to him from the first," sha
thought, stumbling blindly on toward
the gate and opening it, to find herself
in the center of an excited group.
*' There, don't ye take on like that!";
said Solomon Wyse, who came first and
saw the tears upon her cheeks before"
she could wipe them away. ♦   ,
" Were you coming out to meet lis?
We were i"n hopes you didn't see anything of it. It's a bad accident, but
George is so strong and hearty that he
will be up and around again almost before you know it. "We've sent Ben Hill
off on one of the colts for the doctor,
and if vou'11 only tell us where to carry
him " *
'' Carry him?" repeated Letty.
Solomon stepped aside. She saw behind him a litter roughly made of hay-
rakes and covered over with coats, and
on that litter George was lying, pale
and Weeding, with his eyes closed.
"O, Mr. Wyse, is he dead?" she
asked, turning even paler than George.
' 'Not a bit of it! Worth twelve dozen
dead men vet! Only a bit of a break in
one arm. and one leg, and a little knock
on the head when he fell. The horses
didn't kick, and he'll be all right as
soon as the doctor sees him. Shall We
take him up stairs or where?"
"Bring him in here," said Letty, recovering herself.
She led the way into the bed-room
on the ground floor, and helped to shift
the maimed figure from the litter to the
bed.
Her soul was dying within her for
fear, yet not a word passed her lips.
When the doctor came he found a
capable nurse, dressed in a dai'k print,
who listened intelligently to Hs directions and promised to carry them ont
faithfully.
And so it happened that as George
Brewster returned to life the first words
that fell upon his ears were uttered by
the doctor outside the window, as he
mounted into his gig:
"Yes, he will do, Mr. Wyse; he.will
pull through nicely if his wife nurses
him. And she can do so nicely if some
of 3Tou will send some one to take
charge of the house. She is a woman
in a thousand. I hope he knows how
to value her/2
The doctoifdrove away. -
Letty, bending over the bed absorbed
in the invalid, had not heard him.
But she plainly heard the faint voice
of George calling her by name.
"What is it, dear?"        . '
"The doctor is right. You are a
woman in a thousand! I always knew
it, Letty, if I never said it. So I tell
you of it now, before I die," he added,
going off into another faint.
It was all that Letty's sore heart
needed. Beside the bed of suffering
she spent two of the happiest months
of her life. The first act of George
Brewster on his recovery was to secure
help for his wife, so that she flow has
plenty of time to get back her lost color
and plumpness. They are one in heart,
as one in name and home now. And
Solomon Wyse has never seen occasion
to administer the " talking to."
"Somehow or other," drawls Solomon, "getting run over by that mowing-machine was the making of George
Brewster.
And Letty and George think so, too.
—Lynn Transcript.
A Lady in Luck* ,
There is no mining country so new or
so far away as not to have its romance.
The Wood River region in Idaho Territory has its.   The sjory thus: Among
the* many prospectors of a year ago
were four young men who were rewarded by the discovery of a valuable
mine near Halley-   One of the young
men had a lady friend, and it was decided to name the mine after her, and
to so fix the title that in case of their
death it should be hers.   Last winter,
while working upon the claim, the whole
party was buried beneath a snow-slicle,-
and now the young lady is planning
what good she will do witht* he sixty-five
thousand dollars that has been offered
her for her neat little legacy, . The
young lady is a very handsome bri%ette
of fine education aud charnahg niau-
ners.   Sn> is said to be engaged to Mr.
(i. P^MaoArthur, the sallant trad handsome city editor of the Evening TinKS
of this city.— Denver Times,
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