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Beyernl days ' retdia ff in the first live volumes of i our reprint of tbn Ninth edition has fully satisfied my ex- pectations Uith aa to tho thorough manner In which the artlcios have been brought down to the present time , and as to tho correctness , ac- curacy and typographical excellence of yuur enterprise. \ A volume Issued once every four months- three annually—until completion. The first ¦ Ix volumes are now ready and tho succeeding volumes will follow In regular order. Prto * M* wol« cloth bindin Bt t5» Bold only by Subscription. For itpoolmen pages apply to tho Publishers. \ J. M, STODDaRT & CO., 79S Chestnut Street. Philadelp hia. THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST Job PRINTING Doso at the oOlco of this paper ' ill orr * STYLE, A3 T DAT Lowest Possibl e Figure FOB WSX0B . «OOD WOBE O Alf BB BOMB. NEWS OF THE DAY —The public debt stetement of the TTnitea States shows . • deereue of two hundred and six thousand dollars ) dtuiDg the moath. of July. The total •mount of coin in the Trenmuy ia two hundred trsd seven millions. —General Butter , and Kearney, the California orator , have had an interview , at which they found they agreed in op inion. —Oonunis sioner Baum has written to Southern oolleotor s , saying that illicit distillers will be treated liberally if they stop violating the law. • ; i! —During the late storms • unmbWof persons were killed by lightning \ in varionB parts of the United States. —Ret ur ns of the elections in Oermany show that the Sooialista polled 80 , 000 votes in Hamburg, 13 , 000 . in Altona , 7 , 000 in Kiel , 12 , 000 in Breslau , 18, 000 i» Dresden , 14 , 000 in Leipsio , 11 , 000 in Elberfeld , 10 , 000 in Nurnburg , 6 , 000 in Hanover , 4 , 000 in Frankfort , and 4 , 000 in Stuttgart. —At a Jamestown , N. Y., axe factory a grindstone woighing 4 , 000 pounds burst , a piece weighing over 1 , 600 pounds striking an employee named Weber in the breast and face and fatally injuring him. . —In ~ Shelb y ooohty, Tenn., the Na- tional Greenback part y elected their en- tire tdoket of-thirteen candidates b y m a- jorities ranging from 4 , 000 to 6 , 000 , polling about 16 , 000 votes. Memphis is in Shelby county. — A severe gale swept the ,, coast of Cuba. Nine vessels are known to . have been lost and six more are ashore. —Policeman Bmith, of Jersey City, was found dead in his bed with his skull broken. His wife lay beside him when the murder was committed. . She claims that she was cUoroforaaed ' and knew nothing of the crime until she awoke to find her husband dead beside her. —The South Carolina Demoerats re- nonurtsted Governor Hampton upon a platfdffm which denounoes the BepubhV o ans and deprecates co-operation with them , asks , for amnesty to illicit distil- lers , and , d eoUrea ffor-vexaot justioe to hotn . Tilofis.,.. ' ' •*y ?iy ' ' $j :X ^Jtsr ~ - '? .. ¦ . ' . \ ¦ ¦ - . • ;. .. - —The V ermont Greenback party met at Burlin g t o n and a do p ted a p l a t f o rm ealli hg- for a legal-tender ourrenoy, in w hich all Government oflknals shall be paid among othen , dehbn h oin g S e cret a r y Sherman for the sales of 4 , per pent . bohd sj and favoring an income tax ; nomin ations will be made August 22. —In M onroe , La., a mob of masked men broke into the jail , took out font colored prisoners and handed them. The ne groesi were implicated in murders. —The Be pnblicans of Maine , in their St a t e C o nvention a t P o rtl a nd , re-nonuV n atod , Gov ernor Connor onanimously . The p latf orm which was adopted de- cl a res for t e m p eran c e le g isl a ti o n , the s o verei g nty of the Union , the ri g id maintenance o f the nation ' s pledges in re gard to ' the bond s and ourrenoy, s p eedy re samp fcion , a nd the navig a tion la ws \ and it takes ground against the payment of Confederate war claims. ' —The treasurer ' s of f ice of the Atlantic City Bailroad Company at Camd en , New Jersey, was broken int o by five masked robbers , the watohman gagged and fif- teen hundred dollars sto len. —James Redm ond, aged 22 , was drowned while bathing in the Hudson river at Dudley ' s Grove, He was . mar * ried on Sunday, and accom panied bis bride and his two sisters on an excursion. —There has been a conflict in Herae - govina between the Moha mmedans and some re turning refugees , and many of the la tter were killed. —In Now Orleans , J, l; Ganthier , sevento sn years old , bein g mistaken for a burgl a r , was shot and killed by Chas. Hornandei , in whose hou se he was room* tag. —A famil y consisting of four perso ns was poisoned in New Orleans , b y using oxalic aoid b y mistake for sugar , in cook ing, One of the party died, —Reports from Professo r Dra per , Pro * feasor lan gley and others , show that ex- cellent observations of the ecli pse of the sun woro obtained along the line of to- tality in variouB places ,in Wyoming, Colorado , Now Mexico , Texas , Louisiana w»d MisBisai ppi. The corona was visible for s ome distance from the sun , and was full of detail , East of the Mississippi the tiky was overcast with clouds , and no obserr stdons were obtai ned of my soiontiflo -value , The eclipse woa only partially vi sible in the Bast , and in many places it wf» not seen at all , The notes taken by tho astronomers in Colorado wore of an intoro etiug oharaoter. —The direotors of the Elliott National Bank ' , of Bo s ton , recently discovered that t h eir oashier , B. B, Conont , is a defaulter to quite a large amouut , and at the request of these officials , the cashier re signed. Ho had used tho money in stock o pooulations , —A flash of lightning struck a Meth- odist (jospel tent , in Philadelp hia on Sunday, killing one child and injuri ng several others . —Two tramps stopped at a ; farmer ' s house , near Trenton , Henry '' county, Iowa , and after getting a good dinner from the farmer ' s wife , and learning that her -husband would not get . home until night , suddenl y assaulted her , and left her insensible . They had stopped the cries of the farmer ' s little daug hter by rolling her up ti g htl y in a blanket. When unrolled the child was nearl y suf- focated , and died in an hour. -—Barns has won hu place; as the king of the turf. He trotted a mile in 2:13J, whioh beats the best time of Goldsmith Mai d. , ., . , ' »' ' ' . • \ ' _ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ; - —Complete retur ns from elections in Germany show the following results aa regards the great parties :—Ninety-three conservatives , 110 of the various liberal partie a and 93 ultramontane s. Sixty-six second ballots will be necessary. —A riot ooourred at Bottonville , Flor- ida , between negroes, in which two were killed and a third fatally injured. —Tie Maine Republican State Con- vention declared in favor of an out-and- out hard money platform , of gold or its equivalent. —At the mouth of a coal shaft at Steubenville , Ohio , a man by the name of Darque was precipitated to the bot- tom ' of the pit , a distance of one hundred feet , and almost crushed to atoms. Three other men were thrown at the same time , but saved themselves. —The workahops of the new . State prison at Concord , Mass. . were burned , with a loss estimated at $160 , 000. —The sailboat ; Nautilus , forty-five days out from Boston , arrived at Pal - mouth , England. ' —-The bridge near Clarksonville , Ark. , on the Little Book ' and Fort Smith Bail- way, which waa ' underrAined by heavy rains , gave way, and the : rear passenger ooaoh of : the r tram going /west was ditched. Several persons were badly 'i njured. : - ''' : - ' , \ • ., ¦ : « i '^. *; . !>: :-^ : ' ^ L t/ - , ¦ . ,.. —The territory W hieh has been opened to homestead aettiement under the re- cent dedsion d( SecreUry BjburB is not onl y of vast extent , bu t it embraces th e vej ^ b^ la^te in'tbiW ealt. ' ~\ - ' ; ' ' ¦ the <iato :: ^a^: : jStey e ns , ' ' of . ' New ' York , was married in London to Captain Ar- thur/ P aget, son of lieutenant-General L otd Alfred Paget The Prince of Wales a nd Duk e o f O onn a u ght were present at the wfddlng. —The M assachusetts Republicans will ho ld their convention tr> nominate a State t icket Sept. 18/ at Worcester. J o hn S heh a n , the third person sus- pected of being oohoerned in^ ithe . mur- der o f Eugene Suilivan , in Portsmouth , N. H., o ver ei g h t een year s a g o , has j ust been arre oted. —Y ellow fever is extending in the South , and quarantines have been es- t a bli s hed at New Orleans ' , Vieksbur g, Mobile and o ther points. —A dis patch; to the London Timet , from Calcutta , r eports that • the govern- ment of Madras has tele g raphed for extra famine officers immediatel y, be- cause of the rava ges of locusts. A B uss l an Story. A story is current in Moscow , apropos of Bussian official routine , wbich . wliether true or not , certainly illustrat es to per- fection the character of the prevai ling system. An operatic star of some note, connected with one of the principal Moscow . theaters , wishing . to make a short excursion into the country, went to get her passport countersigned by the local authorities. The presiding official received heijpolitel v , and , having learned her business , inquued for her \ written peti tion. \ \My written petition !\ cried the lady ; \I have none. I never knew that anything of the kind was re- quired. \ '' Not required , madam ? on the contrary . -nothing can be done with- out it\ \ What am I to do then ? \ •'Nothing easier ; be good enough to take this sheet of paper , and write ac- cording to my dictation. \ The appli- cant obeyed , and transcribed word for word a formal petition requesting leave of absence from the city for a stated time , which was then dul y signed , folded and sealed \And now , quoth the man in office , \ you have onl y to deliver it \ \To whom , pray ?\ \To whom? \ echoed the official , with a slight smile at the absurdity of the question ; \ to me , of course. \ The document was accord- ingl y handed across the table. The great man adjusted his spectacles , broke the seal , gravel y read over h's own com- position from beginning to end , refolded and docketed it with methodical slow- ness , and then , turning to the impatient artiste , said: with an air of official so- lemnit y: \ Madam , I have read your pe- tition , and regret to tell you that I am unable to grant it. \ —Can you call a clerk in an oil store a aerve-ile fellow ? ! '\ > ' ' ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . ' \' —During It 77 , 90 , 609 , 449 pounds of sugar were used by brewers in ' Great Britain. - ' —The store of a man who doesn 't ad- vertise looks as lonel y as a sprin kling carf on a wet day. \ ^ —Any man pays too much ' for his whistle when he has to wet it fifteen or twenty times a day. —About 10 , 000 Indian troops , with three battalions of British , will form the garrison of Cyprus. , r _. - , %, ,. . —A man stood on the feirr yidook in Detroit and said to a departing * boat : \ Five cents fare is contemp tible , but it' s more ' n I can raise to-day. ' —The oldest house in Boston has been demolished. It stood at the corner of Moon and Sun-Court streets , North square , and was built 201 years ago. —A woman of Mittineague , Mass. , re- cently gave birth to a child with <t «at' s face and head She had been const antly worried by a black cat that she finally killod. - ,: ' - . v ' —The Donegal Gr and Jury has given the mother of Lord Leitrim ' a clerk $3 , 600 , and the father of his ca t driver $1 , 000 , the men having been murde red with him. Both sums will be levied off the ijettrim estate. —A breadfruit tree has . been accli- mated in the State Capitol grounds at Sacramento , and is now . in healthy bear- ing. The fruit is pear-shaped , four inches long and three in diameter , with a cantaloupe flavor. —Two negroes were killed by light- ning ait Preston Bond , Texas , and the belief among their peop le wkj that they were objects of divine wrath. A revival of religion was the immediate consequence , and nearl y ever y negro in the county is a convert. —Active opposition to a billi ard sa- loon is confined in Oberlin , Ohio. A committee of women , took seats , in it every evening, until the [ proprietor ex- cluded them , aj»d now two are constant- l y on dnty on the aidewalk y dissuading young men from entering. ; .: — A French artist , lately returned from thA 'Bhodope Mountains , tells some horrible tales of atrocities : inflicted by Bulgarians on insurgent pri soners. -He reports that in one oase athundred were masaaored in cold blood , several of whom :Were crucified. -; •? : . 'r i -^ ¦ *&Ai4$%&$&& ' . ' ¦ ;-^Theiwater: -6f;the- -DM i Mdines ^we^ became so hb^ during ' th e reoVmV'heated term that fish died-by the 'thbu * sand. Lar ge siied jp iokerel were taken from the surface ' of tne water , ; and upon being plunged into the sprin gs speedil y re- co vered , and were as lively as ever. —Dean Stanley knows how to illus- trate as well as expound a subject. When he was recently comp limen ted w ith a vote of thanks after , lecturing on \ Presen ce of Mind , \ he. repliedw \ I am very much obliged to you ; ' . I, shall show my presence of mind, b y silen ce. \ ' —The town of Block Diamond , <5aJ., en joys the distinction of' being the only walled town on the Pacific Coast. It has a high fenee surrounding it and the only entrance is a gate , oyer which is an in- sertion warning the public of a five- d ollar fine upon any person ' who leaves the gate open. ' ¦¦ ' • 1 • \ , ' ' ' ' '^ — ¦ Pari s green used by a farm er in his potato field came near destroying a pic- , nio par ty near Ottawa ; They had ' their luncheon s pread on a grassy plot in an ad j oinin g fi eld , and t he wind 'blew a quanti ty of the poison over the eata bles. At one ti me i t wa s thou g ht that n ot o ne of the party would recover. ' . —Muc h litigation is likely to grow out of the mil l explosion in Minnea polis, The insurance c ompanies refuse to pay for (the whole dam age, on the g round t h at t hey ar e liable onl y for the a c tual loos by fire ; but the mill owners hold that fire cau s ed the ex p losi o n , and that , ther e fore , the en tire loss was in conse- quence of fire. ' • • ' —India Offloo statistics show tit at at Eresunt a hundred million wom en in adia are sunk in absolute ignorance , bein g unable to read a syllable of , their mother ton gue , and untaught as to the simplest rules of health and life , the laws of G od or soiontiflo truths ; in foot , a feeling exists in most Hindoo families that the g irl who h as learned to read and write has c o mmitted a sin , sure to bring down judgment upon her and he* husband. Dr. Berry of Bo die , Nov., is an allo- path. Dr. Brandi go of the Piute vil- logo , in the same ne ig hborho o d , prac- tises accordin g to Indian w ro. A Pi- ute broke his leg in Bovero \ p lace s , and Dr, Berry put«into shar , Dr, Bran- di g o subse q uentl y rein ' d the flplints an d bands gofl , and w xl' tho leg with herbs and planters , Dr. Berry did bis work over a g a i n , and again ' Dr; ' Bran - di go und id it The Ind ians tried to brin g about a consultation between tho two p h y sicians , but neither would reco g- nis e tho othoi as » competent prac- titioner. Meanwhile the patient died. —A very strange crime , presumab ly prompted by jealousy, baa boon com- mitted at T ours , Franco , where , in a room in Cailloro street , ' the body of a woman , 8 6 years of a g o , -name d Adolo Millet , separated < from her husband , was recently found , The room was in the great est disorder , tho bed upsot , the vases wor e shattered to pieooB , and in centre o f tho room la y tho body without any visible sign of vi olence, A dopter who was call ed in, however , noticed that the ton gue protrude d , and ho then ascertained that the poor woman had actually boon embraced to doatb by some one of herculean foro a , there be- in g no less than twenty-four fracture s on the upper port of her body. 1TEE8 OF INTEREST , T. laUHHftMII , - . - ¦ • •r ^, Harnesi si Maker and Oaur - x*i» l»o . t . .TrfxsixaeT ? ,, - ; j.;; AU9 DKaJ ^B in nNE OABB1AOE and WORK . TRCHXS, SATCHELS , *c ,. ¦ .; . u & v;- .: >?. > . < • ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ ' > ¦ ¦ ¦ /. SOT JTBO IiD , L. I. All kinds of rapalrlur done in a workmanlike m anner at reaaonabl a prices.. i . SOUTHOLD SAVINGS BANK , IN THE VtLLAQK OF SOUTHOLD, Iso pso DaUr from H o ' clock A. M. to I o ' clock P. V. VRVSVKB S i BEMSSBXAER T- (lOLDBMITH , Prasldant. A?Bga¥&,»B«T805 ?^ } Vies.Preald.at.. HENRT HCMTTINO , Treasa nr and BseraUr r. WM. WIOKHAH, Altornsy and Oounsalor. . •Tpatrh IjUhan i. - Xsrai l OoldjmlUi , H enry H, Terr y, Hqtchlam laTOiuM , J A mruiil nii Jerome, John B, Hfiwiu, . M«V • • Wa lfe. ¦ rsel Peqlt , , , T boaaas t Jwnkljn , . Moses G, Cleveland , . _ Barn abas H. Booth, Thomas A. HaUoof. ¦ . . \ Figur es Pon *t1 r le!,f CWORN BETUBNS of Sewing Machi ne 0 Sales for 1878: SINGER . 91 ,5, 768 . HOWE ,.. B4B.00O DOMESTIC 49 , 564 .. The \ Singer \ sold over 48 , 000 more Family Machine s than any other Company. Wh at Is the reason ? ., . .. Bee ens of them work. See how they are made. _ Bse how they sell. . .. _ .. M Terms easy^-as a month. Liberal dlscom* for eath ^ XXtUmi ll -Oaatl' Sit SS Main Street , Greenport , I* I. NEW STORE ! Antone Strauao&er ; Now has his now store on FRONT STREET , ORBBNPOKT , In flrat-olasa running order , and invites the public generally to moke him tn ea rl y call. In. addition to a full Una of F resh Gffooerte* ho make s a specialty of, , . irRTJI TS, . . Oreen and Dried. Foreign and Domestic. Fancy Cakes and Cra ckers , Confectionery, Nuts , Tobacco and Cigars , etc, also constantly on hand, Country Prod uce Want ed. A*TER ALL , N. Kaplan Keeps the Largest , Finest and Cheapest . . , stook of- DRY AND FANCY GOODS. . A very large stock of Ready-M ade Clothes ., FOR MYSN AND BOYS. Clothing Made to Order and War * ranted to Pit. >• ' • KAPLAN , > Gre enport , L. I. . The Carson (Nevada) Appeal says : Now , if the audience p lease , wo will once more confess that the Morning Appeal- ia sent by mail to the yearl y subscriber at the merely nominal orioeof eig ht dol- lars a year (to be paid invariabl y in ad- vance). We blush as we make confes- sion of this preposterous . townees of figure. As to six months—pshaw I it is too absurd ! It is ' reall y—well , we are too oonfused ! It is only, only, only four dollars I (Also in advance.) Did any- body in all this world ever see , or hear , of , anything half so absurd ? And then , when we turn state ' s evidence against our own self , as it were , and make the fact known that we wiUmail the Morning Appeal U> on- subscribers at the mere no4niB% of two dollars per quarter (in- vawbty in adiaaee) ,. -we seem to. ietr a choking ' sensation :; as v after : having , ex- posed ' to the ; rud «« aae of the multitude the very inner cells of our inmost ' na- ture. It' is heedless ¦ to reiterate ' with what cheerfulhes s we will reproduoe any tender lines of descriptive Genoese poe- try ; how eager we are to print the news that comes wafted down . throug h the valleys and canyons of Douglas county, and 'how our hear t warms toward ; the re s idents of M ott sviUe , o f Sheridan , of Wa lker B iver , of Jack' s Valle y and o f all the reg ion round about. Our mis- sionary will proclaim all our desires and purposes. Remember our terms , inv a— but we trust—no , we d o n o t trust ; but the kindly Genoese mind will underst and wi thout further exp la ining. A Western New spaper Prospectus. Gen. Thomas Green and Mr. David MoOlure , two w ell-known eitisen s of Madis o n , Lud , fought a duel on Bi g Cree k , a few miles distant from Madison . They were membe rs of a part y who had g one out on an e xcursion , and the quar- rel arose between MoOlure and G reen whil e tho other members were absent from the camp. Durin g the progress of the war of word s their companions re- turned , when it was p ro p o s ed to settle their differences according to the code. I t was determi n ed that they should fight with shot- guns at 10 paces, and Jacob Greiner and Robert H, Humphreys were aboMn toa ot as seconds. . Tne duelists took their places, each pale and deter- mined, and at the proper si gnal both fired , but without effe ct, Humphre ys remarked that they had fired too hi gh , and would have to try a gain. The weap- ons were reloaded , an d the p rincipa l s took their places . At ihe word MoUlure ' s gun was duoharge d, and the General , Ending himself unhurt , fired into the air , tell ing his antagonist he would ¦ pare his life, It was decided that the honor of both had been vindicated , and the seconds refused to allow a third round to b e fought, After a reconcilia- tion had been effected , and the party had returned to Mad ison , it leaked out that the seconds had loaded tho guns with nothin g more deadly than paper wads , • Piiat tmo: Ixdiaw . — One of the best ways of reducin g the need of troops in Texas , soys an exchange , - is to thin out the white thiev es• who mas querade , in red men ' s rig, No t long ago a stage was fired into near the Pecos , and the cry was raised of another • Indian • raid, A cool observer notioed that all five of the highwaymen were in fresh paint , fresh feathers) and now outfits all throu gh , like tho newest sort of a wooden Indian put out in'front of a new fii gar store. These fellows were wh ite savages, not red ones. If a few more mock Mex icans ¦ nd mock Ind ians.liko the gangs of Bass and Dibbell , are cleared out from Texas , the army there will find th* frontier a g ood deal more * tran quil. A Duel WlUt P aper Wads. An EnUiBBlsstIc Witness. Among the witnesses at the trial of Hodel , the assassin , wa s a young man , a very vi gorous speaker and active de- monstrator , who p ersi st ed , when h a nded the revolver , in pointing it at the presi- dent o f the c o urt , j ust to show h ow the prisoner had aimed at the emper or. \D on 't p o int it at me , \ exclaimed the judge , \ it' s loaded in two chambers. \ \All right , sir , \ remarked the witness , \I 'll takecare! Hodel held the revolver j uat like this \ \ Put it down I\ sh outed the usher. \ Take the weapon away from him 1\ shouted one of t he court, as the judge ducked his hasd in anticipation of an accident. And the w itness was relieved of the pistol ana bundl ed off to his place without more ado. Dr. Bup paner , the well-known Gor- man-American , and president of the Goethe club , New York , was the her o of au adventure in Paris recently, that attracted much attent ion fr om thosn who witnessed it. He had hailed a cab , and as he was about to step iu he was sur- S rise d to see anothor man enterin g it le other sid e. Dr. Buppaner demanded of the dri ver which of the two had bailed him first , and tho ooaoher de- cided in favor of the New Yorker. He then p olitely reque sted the stranger to descend , bu t the latter answered i \I am Prince , \ givin g a known name. Dr. Bupp aner replied : • • You are a prince , bur I am a sover- ei gn—a oitisen of the United States ; \ and without much more ado he took tbe prince by the collar of his coat and the seat of his pantal oons , and set him down quietly upon the sidewslk. The prince went in search of another carriag e, and the \ s overei g n \ rode off in triumph. Tbxab Cowboy s. — Parties just in from tbe West , says a Texas paper , brin g im news of a d esperate affray among the cowboys . In Jack county. A par ty o f nine were gatherin g stock for certain stook men , and they dr ove in a steer be- lon ging to other partie s, An old gen- tleman, in company with a younger man , came u p and claimed the steer , and re quested tho cow-boys to out it out of t heir herd , w hich they refused to do, The old gentleman then attempted to out out t he steer himself , wherb a pon the her ders shot him to death. The youn g man ran away and gathered a part y who overtook the crowd that had just Killed the old man , and killed seven out of the nine , Tbe two others got away, supposed to be wounded , as thoy wore trai led ten miles by tho blood, Prince and Sovereign.
