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B On the ul ' tarno on of a suuuner dny in W 150 1 , the young Prince iJ emetrius , a bo y B? of t(Mi years of age , livther of the rei gn- R iiif r Czar , was play ing in the court yard k in tlie palace of Ug lit ch , with four other E bi>vs , his attendants. He had a knife in 1 one hand , with which , according to one f account, he was cutting a piece of wood ; I\ according to another , he was endeavoring f to stick the knife in the ground. His governess , his nurse , and a female servant : were cloi se a t hand. The attention of the ' women were drawn from him f:>r a few moments , and then he was seen lying upon the ground , bathed in blood , which was flowi r.^ from a large wound in his throat. The shrieks of the terrified women on discovering this appalling tragedy . broug ht into the courtyard the Czm-itzo , who with- out waiting to hear a word of explanation dera ted the- governess of conniving at the l' i . \ nee ' s murder , struck her a violent blow on the head with a p i-nee of wood , and de nounced as the assassin Michael Bit.i ugotoki , th e controlier of the palace. Michael , the brother of tie Cztritza , reeled into the court yard in a state of in- t oxication , struck and abused the govern- ess and ordered the tocsin to \ no sounded. The co urt yard was immediiii uly crowded with peopli- . Bitiagoiski appearing, and d eclaring that the J ' rince imif t have, been att acked by a tit , and tidl iig upon his knife was , -ct u pon by the by-standers , and llt- .i for i ds life. The house in which I n; sought refuge was attacked b y the mob , and lie and his son were dragged our , and sl ain in the street. Everyone wiio ilU played the leust sympathy with the suspected person: ) met with th.i same fate. Demet rius had died without / living uttered a word . His corps*- - , • •!• ¦ c .med U- n clniridi , am ' an inqui ry into the c.ir ciiriistancfs of his death was ordered by Itoiis Gudemiy, a noble , whoso siste r Thcoilor e t he reigning Czar had married , and who had taken ad vantage of his im ¦ pvial hrofher-tn-law ' s drunken habi ts and tiunttd incapacity tor the duties of gov- enit neiii ' to exercise the chief authority in the State. The investigation was con- du ct i'il : n secret , and this circumst ance coupl ed by the facts that it was mad e by two nobles who were entirely under the int lncnce of Boris , that Bitia gotski was also on e i * ' his creatures , and that subse- t|.;»n t evctitc supporte d the snspicion that he wi, . ' nimbi: ; at the throne , lias caused him to !„ • regarded by most historians ns the aiiihor of a conspira cy of which De- metrius was the ll rst vic tim. Wi thout h aving iiuiilo any ' . .tainiiiation of the co rp-c. or <Mti purii g the woun d with the knif e which th» Prince had in liis hand when he fell, the commissioners of Boris , arrived at. the conclusion clmt the death of Deme trius was the result of an acci- dent. In 1007, The odore was tr.kon ill and die* 1 , n ot without great , stispHi t n of his h avin g hven poisoned b y I' oris G odenoy. of which the Cxiirin a was so well con- vinced tha t she would never speak to her lirnt her afterward . As Theodore loft, no chililren , tlie dynasty of ll ui'lk , wliich had rul ed Russia upward of seven centuries, cam e to an end at Ids death. Godenoy, wh o alivmly exercised all the power of the Cr own, and would probably have mit- ter ed nobod y else to reign , pret pniled to be unwillin g to accept the crown , until urged to do -o b y the entreaties ot the people ; and even then ho made his no- c eptanne of it conditional on the success of an expedi tion which he declared lie «'iiH ab out to under take against the Tar- tars. Mm , In trut h , there was no Tartar nrmy in the Held , and UnriR had no in tention of .muckin g oithcr Kiimui or Aot. 'nklnvn , Th e pretended expedition was merely an ex cuse for assembl ing an army of llfty tliwii-MHl men , as the most otleotnal meth- od of securing himself on the throne. Abou t the middle of lflon , Prince Adnni Wlsnlowh 'ckl, n Polish noble, liolnit an- noyed by H ume negligence on the part of one of his servan ts , abused and struck him. \ Yon would no t I rent mo thin if you knew whom F nm, \ unid the man. \ Who nro yon , then? ' ' demanded the prince , wi th n look ot surprise, \ I nm Deino trins I vanovltch I\ wm the reply, The prli.o o declared that this was hn« po'slble , n* tlio pori ion men tioned hud died , or boon lmmltred a down y*ar» be- fore , and probably thou ght at flr« that THE FALSE DEKSTBITTS. the young man must be either a lunatic or an impudent impostor. Iiut the hitter main lined so c. tmtbl ently tlmt lie wivn really the person lie represented hiin- .el f to be , and answered the prince ' s que? tions witli so much ieadiness ami plausibility, that Wisznioiv ii i-ki was at litjt staggered and then convinced. According to the story told by the young man who h i;d so suddenl y assumed princel y rank , like a butterfl y emerg ing from its chrysulin e casv , Simon, tlie physi- cian attached to the court of Theodore , had been tampered with Dy Horis , and had pretended to call in with the usurper ' s schemes , in order that he mi g h t be able to avert from tlie you' .g prince the dark fate with whici he was threatened. For this purpos e he ' . >n»' ared a boy , the sou ot a serf , who rtse n. t'led Demetrius in height mid features , and t -'ibstit uted him for the prince on the ni g ht appointed for the hit- ler ' s assassination. Demetrius was with- drawn from observation , and tlie decep- tion was not discovered. The boy sub- stituted for him was murdered , in the be- lief that lie was the prince , a nd the p hy- sicia n and Demetrius lied. The. Infer was committed to the care of a loyal /;en- tleiua n , who , for his greate r securit y' , placed him in»n monastery. Both the p hysician and the gentleman to whose care Deinetiiu a was alleged to have been committed were now dead , . mil the onl y corrol n>r:: ;ve evidence which the young man could produce consisted of a seal, bearing the nam o and anns of De- metrius , and a jeweled crc-s < ,f gold , said to have been a baptismal gift of his god- father , Prince Ivan Matislauski. The pr oduction of these articles satisfied Wifzniowiecki that his servan t was really aid truthfull y the ri g htful Czar , and he at once lod ged him in the best apartments of bio castle , iind provided him with cl') tlii\g carriages , horses , and a r etinue of attendants suitable to his supposed rank. The pretensions of the young man were immedi otciy nude known to many of tiie leading Polish noMl r ty, who warmly sup- porte d them. Oop ' .li 'miitory evidence on his belmlt wa° obtained from one Piet- rovski , a servant of the Chancellor of Lithuania , who slut nil that he had former- l y been one of the attendants of Demetrius and described the marks by wliich the prince, if really living, mig h t be identified. D> .metritis , he said , had one of his arms shorter than the other , a wart on the f orehead , and anoth er under the ri g ht eye. These sufficientl y rema rkable evi- d ences of his identity the ex-servant of Prince Adam 'W iizniowieehi was able to sho w. The apparent af;e of the pretender to the crown of Uussin agreed with that which Demetrius would have attained had he been still living. But , if there was a serf' s son who t, o much resembled De- metrius as to he mistake' for him , not onl y by the attendants about his person , but even b y his mother uud his uncle , ' .ho ev idence of identity cannot be ad- mitted to lie « ' . ' much valuo. Accord ing to the prete cder ' s st ory, this boy had been in nrdere.l ; hut the story is strongly suggeitivn of tlie hypothesis tl. -r t it was the prince who was murdere d , as general- ly believed , and th at, it was the serfs son wh o was afterward received as the De- m etrius who hud been supposed to have been murdered. A gainst this supposition there wis set the fact tlmt the pretender had evidently received what was for the times , an edu cation be tltting a prince , lie spoke Po- lish a s well as Russian—rat her better , ind eed ; he knew a littl e Latin , wrote we ll , was con versant with Russian history and politics , and with the genealogios of the Russian nobility ; and , which went as far as anythin g else to satisfy the Polish nobles that he was the rightful Czar , he nidii and fenced as well ns themselves. Bu t if he was an Imposto r , as his torians have a greed to consider him , these qualifi- cations w ould have been given him , as n mat ter of necessity, by the intriguers by whom the fraud was concocted. Els story was n ot long in reaching the ear? of Boris , wh. nt unco committed the unpardonabl e folly ot endeavoring to buy th e pretender oil , mid thus streng thening tht ) conviction of the Poles that they had the rightful Czar uniting them, and fur- nishin g his enemies w ith a formidable weap on a gainst himself, The pretender stron g in the support of the Po ' es , so o n became very trou blesome ; but , as lon g as lloris liv ed , all the efforts of his partisans t\ place him on the thr one ivns unavail- ing. On the dea th of Boris , the pretended Deme trius and his adh erents renewed their efforts , and with po much suueei-s that the reign of Theodore l?orinoviteh was a shor t, one. Tlio pretender entered RmshIii once more « t tli.i 1. wl of a force which gain ed strength m it inarched , overcame all o pposition , and entering M oscow, deposed Theodore and assumed the government. The mother of Demet- rius , who hud , till then been pre vented from noting him , now declar ed her con- vic tion that he was her son , and Ids claim was generally aokiwv»Wd) iM\. Ho married a Polish princoM ; but , though his position seemed secure , his tenure ot the Umpire proved to he pre- cari ous. . ' » powerful noble nam ed Zuski denounced Mm ad an Impostor , and raised against him on Insurre ction which becam e more f ormidabl e every day. Attacked in Ills palace by the insur gents , ho defended it with gr eat intrepidity, un til, overpow- ered by numbers , he was kill ed fighting, and died wi th hln sword In his hand. The Cmii' lim was R ent n prisoner to .Tar- islny ; nnd Ztnskl whs proclaimed Emper- or , bu t depoi-ed lifter a br ief reign, linr < rowed hy con tinual tumults and rebel , lions, A CbionK o reporter announc es that «' the receipt of another s ship load of blockbo rvioB from St, Joe, created « per ceptible rippl e in tlio toothpick trade. \ The 0att l 3 Feit. Mr. G. N. Hammond writes to the Allmuy Exf /res t , from Syracuse : \While passing along tlio Moh a wk Valley, I learned with regret that a contageous diseuf .e of a very serious nature exists among th e cattle there , aud that farmers and o thers interested in ' .he raising of catiJe had endeavored to keep the matter secret , lest it should depreciate the cattle market in that and other sections of the country. \ Of the re-appearaii ' .e of the Te xa s cattle p lague in Ohio , th o Cincinnati Commercial of Wednesday says : '•W» nave another Texas cattle sensa- ti oo on hand at the same time of year , a uit ti the same locality, whe re, three years ago , tho c onsumers of milic wore al armod at .ho- loss of secies ot cows on diiii-ies out oil the C olevaiu Pike beyond Cumtui nsville. The pi inci pal loser then was M r. MeCrn ckcn , who lost every cow in his possession fr im the disease , ac- companied by ticlvs or cow-lice , that Pr ut. Ganges desi gnates as tho sp lenic or sporadic fever. The present instances of the re-appearance of this fatal malady are in the dairies of G. W. Tulhuit and J. W. We st , both conti guous to o:ici. < other en the Colerain Pike , about two miles beyond Cummin sville , or in tl^ i mmediate vicinage of Mt. Airy. A lot of Tex as or Cherokee cattle were pastured on IMr. West' s p la ce. Last week thirteon of Mr. Tallant ' s cattl o died , as lie thought , froia tho fe eding o n green corn ; this week the remainder of his stock of twent y-nine took ill and h ave ali-o die 1 . The m atter comin g to the knowled ge of Mr. Owe ns , the City Milk Inspector , uud T.Ir. S nyder , Inspec- tor of Meat and Cattle , they repaired to the place and found all of Mr. West' s cattle ill , twenty-four i n number , and all exhibiting the sym ptoms of the sp lenic fever—the dryin g up of the milk , the dul l , stup id look of the animal , the glassy eye and drooping head , r .od the h ide covered with Texas cattle-t 'clu or lice—and so pionouncod it. Further in quiry discovered that a lot of poor , meagre , bruised and lou sy Texas eaftlp h ud been pastured on Mr. West' s p lace , aud als o that largo numbers of the Chero- ke e and Texas cattle wero being sent h ere from St. Louis and Chicago. Mr. Sny der , in the exercise of his duty as Cattle Inspector , seized n lot of 144 head , and condemned them as unfit for human fo od. Thoy were lean , scabb y, lousy, bruised and generall y bad. The Cattle Ins pector ordered the imuK-diufe burial of the dead c ows , in order , if r ssibb: , to prevent any far ther spread of the conta gion , aud the most prom pt and efficient measures will be ado pted b y the authorities to check the e vil , nt le ast so far as this community is con- cerned. \ Hot* He Rules His Wxpb, —A mim named T uddles , in Vir ginia, has got his wife in proper subjection , nnd means to kee p her p.>. \O , ' 1 he says , in tollin g about it , \there nin 't many who know ho* to rule <i wi' e properl y. Now my old woman is one of the best-notured women in tho world , hut she ' s got n devil of a temper, Whenever I neo she ' s got her mad up, if i t ' s a dozen time s n dny, I just quietly say nothing, but kinder humor her , aud she come s around all ri ght niter a while, Even wh™ she- throws things at mo , or gives n wild slush for me wltu the br oom or rollivi ' pin , I just doi ' .^o n little , nnd she never hits mo n third time before T got my oyn on Lev nud let her know I disapprove of tmeu notions on fcor part. Perha ps I have to lenvo the house to show litr this , but she sees the point , Then by being enr crul not to irritate her , and lot- ting her have her own way, I ninnii p- ' . . to ra. Tko her do as I plivse. And you hot I make her understand nnd pppr a ehi tc my disei plinc. O , I Uco\t her under perfect co ntrol ! A man \ins , you know, got to boas hi? own hr nse , or the first thing you kuow yc r wr/o will ride you down like you wasn 't uob.jdy, My info ' s a perfectnn gol in l\>i -i *' ¦ •' \!' iposition , but nny other man but j .j would spoil her. Hnoivr,—A Indy who had received a severe bite on her nrm from a dog went to Dr. Abcrnethy, but honring o( his aversion to honv the statement of pa :tlc- ulnrs , she merel y uncovnod th o inj.u 'od part and held it before him in sil.ttico , After examining it ho aaid, in an inquir- ing tone , \ Scratch ?\ \ Bite , says tho lad y. \ Cat ?\ inquired the t ' octoi' . \ Dog, \ replied the lady. So dehgi/nd was tl doctor with the bre vity nnd pr omptnes a of the lady ' s answers that he exclaimed , ' \ Zounds , madam , you are the most neuaible woman I linvn rant with in all ray life !\ There is a shade -j£ romau ce connected with n lead cave which I visited at Dubuque. Iowa , a correspondent says : Th ere poor old Tom Kelly lived and died ; poor , th ough rioh . - Tom was an uueduenred Iris hman , and .. -hen he had di scovered his cave kept the fact to him- self. He s melted his own ori»a»\l carried his lead do- vn to the river bank , secret! /, until he hint hidden in the bank about 812 , 00*) worth <.i lead. This he shi pped and went with it down the river , r<> .hi p- ping it at New Orleans aid going with it to New York , where he sold it , taking his pay in gold. Perhaps the gold was heavier ti.au the lead. At all events poor Tom si-t down with his money-bags U> rest , and as he w as a dirt y-lookiug old lilhn v , som e boys collected around hi m and bef. -n poking fun at him A great fear f.eized Tom—a fear for his money-bags. He sue!. \bed them up and st arted to ru n fo: tho ' \\ ock where his boat was l y i ng. The boj j followed , ho oting. Tom stumbl ed ami fell. Out- ot the boys' , .ih nad of the rest , came upon him. Tom drew a knife and stabbed the boy throu g h tL'e heiirt. At the trial which ensued it was shown 'ha t Tom Kell y way more tht.n half craved , and he was acquitted , but kept in confinement as a lunatic. Hei e his ins:iucts as a miner stood him in good stend; he bur- r owed out and escaped. Before long, Tom w as at work m his min«, again , but he was now uioia secretive than ever. He built himself a stone house , where each window was an embrasure pointing cut of whi ch wtis fixed a loaded \ausk p* , and the onl y man who ever got enoug h into . Tom ' s co nfidence to exd'aiue the house , says that th ere was r ..so a fixed musket enfil adin g the dooiway. He told this person that he was having an i ron house made for himself thai he thought would be much more secure. Iu general it was but little , and onl y to mere children , that Tom ever s poke. Aud there came a day, some two years ago , when Tom found it necessary to prepare i.o go to a house where he is likel y to be permanently safe. Two broth ers , almost as unco uth as Tom him- self , came, hoverin g a bent the d y ing man. He asked th« p ri est to bring a lawyer ; and when this was nfle^ed said: \If yon will sen d th em «>nf , '' pointing to bis brothers , \1 will tell* all . \ But the bro thers wouH not go out of the hou se , acd Tom died as muto as he bad liv ed. Application to the proper au- thorities in New York recovered Tom ' s gold which hr- hud been too much fright- ened t<> a pply for after his e scape. The bro thers left not one ate no of the house upon anoth er , nud thoy found about 820 ,0(.0 iu gold hidden in and around it. Out of Tom ' s cavo they took , in addi- tion , it is b elieved , ore to a value of not los s than $100,000. They divided their treasures ns th ey found gold or sold ore , b y dnnling out coin or bills ns if they were curds at poker , one to each alter- natel y. What there is loft of Tom Kell y ' s real estate looks like the debris of nn earthquake. At \Vt!Bi Poi.s 'T. —Amon g tlio peculiar institutions nt We . 't F.Mnt n re two moiden Indies named Thompson , who enj oy cer- tain privile ges not possessed by any other ladies in the hind—namely, tho ri ght to board twelvo Btnduuts of the s enior class of cadet. - ,. Their father , C ul. Thom pson , performed tome sp ecial service duri ng the Hvvolutioiiai 'y War , for which n uovel p ur.sion was settl odon his widow—viz. , the- u se of u house nt West P oint during her lile ut an annual rout of six oontp , to which was added cho above boarding privilege , Or, the ilt 'itth of tho widow tho pension was con- tinued to hor three dau ghters , an! for sixty years tho famil y have held tho privilege , nnd rouiutiii n ed themsel ves han dsomely from it. Oun of the daugh- ters is deml , nnd the remaining two nro very aged , w.u rovunty - two , tho other ei gh ty. Thoy aro very aristocratic and di g uifbd , nnd if tho cadets • •curry on \ too ranch , they find n polite note under their pin ten iutirantitig thnt thoy can depart. Tin? \ havo their pick of cadets , nnd it is considered it groat favor to get 'hero. Lynch Law, — C. J. Diofi'oubncher shot nnd killed a man named Moisted at Vir- ginia, C ass County, III , A mob attacked tho jail in Bonrd stown , where Dioflkn\ bncher was conll n el, with tho avowed purpose of hangin g him. Tho jnil was wel l guarded , nud the mob wore repnlhod , In I'evojgc , the outlaws sot fire to tho town , nud boforo tho flamos oould bo extinguished , an entlrn block of the host buildings in tho plnoo wn*, destroyed. Tho excitement in the vlllogo wan in- tonic , A Western Hermit . An interesting aud curious exhibit of iuf ni:t mortality statis 'ies has recentl y be en uinde b y a distinguished Washi ng- ton p h ysician. T he author , Dr. J. 3T. Tover , deduces f rom the earlier census the fac ' . thi' .t nearly forty per cent, of the total deaths of all ages is found amoug ir .fants under rive years of age. The mortality in the great cities of the country has risen to a much hi g her rate , the hi g hest being in Chicago , where it incre ased from a per centage of .28 in 1813 to . G2 in 1S0S> . In St. Louis , in 1871 , the percentage of de.itbsunder five years was over .51. the number of deaths un- der live being 3 , 400 to ti , C70 above. Iu Philadel phia the percentage varies from 1853 to 1870 between the figures . \ >! and Ai. In the year 1811 the infant mor- t ality in New York was over .77 per cent, nud in 1800 only 51. From 1835 to 1S53 it ranged from .51 to 57 ; in I860 it was onl y 47 ; and tho inference is that the death r ate is diinmiolii ng instead of ad vancing. Cincinrati has ay.er< - entngc near that of Philadel phia; New Orleans l ess than either of the two. ' anl Provi - dence , It. I. , enjo ys the minim im rate of only .30. Thes e figures are , however , startling, and justif y th e excellent plan of the gen- tleman who collects them to establish in the rural or mountain distriuts , free parks, where hundreds of lives mi g ht be saved fr om the annual ravages of cholera in- f antum and the mi \ decimatin g power of the heated term . Scattered all along the Atlantic seaboard , within easy resell by steamboat or rail , a re the beau- tiful and ve' .dant s purs and valley*- of the Blue Rid ge and Alleghany Moun- tains , which offer just such retreats as are needed. No e xpense is spared to preserve the shattered constitu tion s of adult invalids and to secure them every comfort of art; and , certainly, in a mere- l y economic point of view , the i nterests of humanity and civilization demand e qual provis ion for the infant classes of society. Ever / effort should be made to reduce the w aste of life to which they are subjeat , as , in the lowest view of the case , it i s a loss wh'ch no society can af- ford to sustain. — N'w York Papa: How the Srs Cacoh x- a Thiet. — Fi ve or six -J ays ago , says a Paris paper , M. X , a p hotogrop her , allured b y the brightness of tho sun and the soft- ness of the air , provided himself -villi necessary ba ggage and hastened to Foun- tninbleau to take views of tho forest. He in stalled himself in a very picturesque quarter , erected his apparatus , prepared bis plates , opened his object gl ass , and invel oping at once his enso and his head in a Ic.rge , dark and fluctuant veil , set himsel f to the cask of seizin g tho objectf , in view. Ho had just taken out his pro A from the d ark cha mber , and was subjec t - ing it to ch* .r.ionl renctici , when a str ong hand wns laid upon his shoulder. He turned round hastily and f >und himself in tho presence of a s pecies of giant , meanl y attired , who , by gesture and voice , demanded his pur so. M. X is not n Hercules , nnd from his first glance t owards his adversary, hoc onoluded -that all resistance was useless, Ha therefor e p clitol y off ered his pur ge , which wns nc- cep tod with thaniiC'i lnoss. Tho robber bowed , aud leavin g him to his resignation wont into tho depth s of tho forest , Poor X , meditating on his sad loss, re- mained for some time motionless ; his ' oolts wore mechanicall y sot on hi< pho- tographic proof ; ho mused upon it with n diverted nnd un oj neornod eye, Snd- doul y, ' 'What i-j this ?\ exclaimed bo • , •' what is ti;n h . 'imnii form iu this coppice under tho shade of this oak ? j 'loavcns ! Should f !\• lievo my eyes ? I t is ho , it is my robber , perfectly delineated and very ea sy to he recognized , O divine ami , my eo-lnboror , how well you do things I\ On his roturn ho repaired to tho police commissioners at Foiintaiublont t , related bis adventure , exhibited his proot -plate , and the rnnlcfnotor s lilconcr.n. Next dny, with the aid of thin singular doncripUon the robber wns arrested. Looks, — Men nnd women make thoir own beauty o f thoir own uglinoHB, Lord Lytton speaks in one of his novels of n man \ who wns uglior thnn ho hnd nny • Misines:. to bo; \ and if ho could but rend it , every human being carries hin li fe iu his fnco , and is good looking or tho reverse , ns thnt life has been good or evil. On our foaturo a tho (Inn ohisel oi tlu uglit and emotion nro eternally nt work - Jlenuty is not tho monopoly ' of blooming young men and of while and pink maidens , There is a slow-growiu ? beauty, which only oomos to perfection in old age, Graoo belongs to no period of life , and goodn e«s improve s th ' anger it exists, Wmte of Infant Life. B- .ei M. In the United Stat N. -vy there is o ne oflieer to every four n 'n. It is r eported in Paris that the trial of M arshal Bazaiue has brough t to li ght f:!cts of great gravity. I owa thinks the milium am is comirg. A farmer refuse d SI 125 for wheat because be h ad promised it for SI. Ants belonging to the species Apheno- gaster , iu sti riiig seeds for food , Into off the radical to prevent the germination of the seed. A new bciler in a Cincinnati foundry burst with terrible force , killing throe me n and wounding nine others , some of them fatall y. A one-ar med man- in Salem , Mass., lately applied for a divorce on the ground that the hand he had g iven to his wife in marriage was lost , aud that the con- tract was therefore void. T he rattle of the rattl esnake is for the purpose of imitating the sound of tho Cieola and other insects that fo: m tho fo od of birds , and so attract the bitter within tho reach of the serpent . A coal-pit near Heristal , on the Mouse , was accidentall y flooded while the men wore at work. The inun dation was so . • ¦ udd en that twenty-five miners were dr owned in the botto ia of the pit. A terrible mortalit y, whose ca.ise is as yet unexp lained , i s reported on the Nor- wegian bark , Byfoget Christiansen , from l' prn ambuco for the Baltic. Ne irl y all the c rew have died on the voyage. A Swedish girl iu Minneapolis was badly burued a few days since b y kero- sene. The ni ggard foe whom she wor. ' ced ch a rged her for the oil , flour , etc. , u-ed to fnse h er sufl' eriugs , aud sent her away. Mrs. Winters has proceeded to sue the cit y of L' riveuworth because a felloiv- prisoner. who was insane , killed ner husbautl in the calaboose , whithir ha h ad been t. en in a state of intoxica- tion. B y way of Honolulu , particulars are re ceived of the mnssacro of the crew of the schooner Lavinia by the natives of the Solomon Islands , in roven ge for the kidnapping of natives b y whites. It was a te rrible affair. A despatch received by tho agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company full y c onfirms the report of the loss of the ste amship America. It adds th at three of the European crew and thirty Chinese passenger s were lost. Salt water , being he avier than fresh water , -has m ore-snsteinicg power. Fill a sloop to the wat er ' s edge with flag- stones up th \ Hud son , and when she gets d own to New York harbor she will fl oat a foot or two out of water. The band of an American circus travel- ling in France went into the streets in the Prus sian military uniform they had borrowed. Althoug h thoy ph.yed the Marseillaise , th oy were compelled to fold th eir tents like tho Arab uud steal away iu front of a whole infuriated town. Alaska ap pears to bo iu a very wretched condition indeed. Ito rnjrts from that deli ghtful land of soak and snow indicate that the province , accession , or whatever it bo called , is lamentably de stitute of anything like government , exce pt in tho immedi ate, vicinity of Sitka. Elsewhere 1'f e and property are at tho mercy of tho Indians, ^^^^^^^^^^^ \ Give Thy House His Head. \ — A few weeks a g o , two horaoa wore dr a win g each n l oud of coal up a rising ground in the suburbs of the city. The hinder horsn had tho bearing rein swun g loosely on bis ueck , and the aninuil was hanging his head forwards , and b y throwing his weight into tho collar , wan dragging his load steadil y and without undue strain on his muscles and joints. The foremost horse , with his ton of coals , was brnced up wi th a tight bo iring rein , his head crnnipod nnd raised , his mouth fretted , nud every join t and musule starting and strainin g at ouch stop ho took, Tho two men wave talking to each other , and the onmr of tho hinder horse waa heard by tho writ e r to say, •' Bill , go and give thy horse ) ¦ :« head ; he 'll pull that load easier. \ Bill wont and gave hilt , nil he wanted. Tho horse immediat ely did his work in a way which conveyed tho relief he f elt ns cJ euriy as if ho hail Raid , \ Tlioro , thank jom j I' m nil righ t now. \ Wo would comti.ond to every one who has cliargo of ad-aught hor so when ho is nt w o rk , tho advice Bill recoived and followed , \Bill , give thy hora o his head j he 'll pull that load easier. \ Lioiit Wi thout Muvcheh. - -Tnko an oblong vial of tho whit i^ c nnd olcros gloss, put in it- n piece of phosphor .w. about th o size, oi P foiv , u pon \ „incb pour Noma olive oil , h uatod U the boil- ing point , tilling the , 'ii-i \beat one-third full and then ncul the vial hermetically. To use it , remove tho cork nnd allow the air to enter tho vial , and then rooork it. Tho whole empty space in the bottle will then boaoni n luminous , and the light obtained will bo on , mil to that of a lamp. Ah Hoon as tho light grown weak , ita powor one ho increased b y opening tho vial , nnd allowing a froah supply of air to enter. In wintr i t is sometimes no- oos niuy to boat tho vml between the hands to inorens . * the fluidity of ho oil, Thus prepared , tho vial nay bo used nix Lioutlis, This contrivnueo is now uaed by tlio watchmen ofj jPnr is. — liur al /lorn * I CI ;c ^Drtbtlcr. K Published evtjry Thursday , at K SOUTH OLD , L. I. I TERMS : $1.00 a Year. ft .. F. TERRY , Publis her \he ' fivnvtUv. JOB PRIXTI NG- Dor.o at Short > co and at price* that defy .npctition. Correspondents ann nra farr s want ad in ev- ery illage. « Little and pa!lid , aii'J poo r anil shy, & With a r.oHia -ast lcink in her solt gra y eye ; E£ No scora fii: t./SH of her queenl y h' .ad , ^ ¦ ' But a d roop ing lie nu of tlio neck instead ; ^ ¦ riiifriiif; luu^'li , a n d no da n ci n g feet , K s ulitle wiles , a mi u ' w n dn n sweet , Mb jewels costly, n) dimnoiidH line— Big is Nobody V Darlin g—but miac! f No 'Do il y Vardi - n \ coq uettish airs ; 6 No lii!4 b-he«l> .il boots to throw her down f s t niii- : No yacht i riK jacket and nautical style , t Willi a siirio r ' tf hat that she calls hc- r \tile. \ pi nt '-Lady \ is stamped o n her quiet brow ; Ei fcnd s!u- crept in my heart I can ' t tell ho w ; Not load ,- to da zzl, . - — nor born toshino— ¦ Nobody ' s— nobf.d y ' s Dii rlin i; but mine ! ¦ • No sa ucy, ravi shi ng, finish crace . If lint u ho: Cod cal m on tho sweet , palo face ; k No spa rkliii K <'haiti -r and repartee ; f Very silent and still is she . S ttiitu and still is my pearl of pearls i;t to Hie she oi-e mctli the queen of g i rls I f Wliy I luve lu- r I can ' t- define , For she ' s Nobody ' s—nobody ' s Dariio g—but mine ' g Ho 'botly ' u Darling.
