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THE MURDER OF A FAMILY, ilnusr futility I'liniHrud witk lk Crottk The New York Sun publiabra the follow lag in regard to tbt> murder ul (be Crouob fan., ily in Miobigau m.iue tioie ago : Tim extraordinary fatality which x to f jil.-w nc-ir!) ivcrjb.dy ojLi.euie.1 the Cruuob murder ca-e bat. often beeu rewa.rd.rd. The prosecution attorney died the other da) , and now a tvilUBaa bun made MI 1 1! Tt to kill himself whiob may prove After the Cn uoh family, oou eiating of the old gentleman, bis daughter, Mra. Wbile, and her i uabaud, aud tl.-i stranger wbo stopped with them, were f out) murdered in their bedi>, u tpioion fell upon a son-in-law named Daniel Holoomb and a son named Jud Crouob, wno lived close by. MM. Holoomb, old man Crouob'a eldeut daughter, was immediately prostrated by tb* tragedy and tbe hint' that were throwu out of ber hu band's guilt, and one da. she was found dead in bed. Many wild rumora were put in circulation aa to tbe oauae of her death, but a oo r oner'e jury decided that it wan the result of heart disease. Soon after this Holoomb'a hired mau, r'amcf) Foj , bryan to talk a gx-d deal about tbe murder, and appeared to have a very minute knowledge of bow tbe crime must have been committed. Certain oir- onoutancea caused the detectives to believe that ibe murder waa committed by Hol- oomb, Jud Crouch and Foy for the purpose of getting rid of tbe old man, ao waa rich, and at tue aame time disposing of Mr. and Mrs. Whits, to whom it waa f*ared he iu tended to give all his money. When Foy began to talk be became an objsot ot great interest 1 1 the detectives, aud they laid many trap-* for him. lloloomb did notaeem to pay much attention to him. After awhile a newspaper published in an adjoining town mentioned Foy 'a loquacity, and hiute-t that he was auapeoted of com- plicity in the crime. Fjy thereupon took the oara for the place indicated, and with a revolver made a desperate asaault ou the editor, not injuring him fatally, however. It was eighteen miles overland from tbe scene ot the affray to Holoomb's farm, but Foy went tbe entire distauoe ou fool. As soon a* be reached tbe nouae be lay down on the lounge, and a few momeats after- wards was found daad, with a pistol lying on tbe tl oor by hia aide and a wound in his bead, which physicians say he could hardly have done himself. The coroner's jury refused to declare it a case of amoide, though Holoomb moisted that it was. Tbe death ot Foy destroyed almost the laat hope of the detectives, and they have been able to find no satisfactory clue since. It had been arranged to arreat Foy and put hiuj through a mock lynching fur tbe purpose of forcing a oonfeam ju from him Soon after Foy wa* buried oue of tbe detectives was riding on the highway just at dusk near tb* Crouob bomastsad, when some one Jred upon him, inflicting an al.iioa: fatal wound. The detective is positive that bis assailant was Jud Crouob, but cannot awear to his identity. The theory worked up by tbe State seems a very entiomg one to the detectives, but it baa had very little direct evidence to substantiate it. According to this theory, the murders were committed by the heira wbo were anxious to divide tb* old man's fortune, and who were fearful that it they wailed much longer his affec- tion for bia youngest daughter and tbe bah* which aba was daily expecting would cause him to overlook them entirely. In anpport of thia it baa been inown that the Holoomba and other relatives were con- tinually in trouble witb the old man, and moat of tb* time in debt to him, and that tbe only thing stolen from tbe bouae on th* night of tbe murder waa a box containing evidence* of tbeae debt* and other family notes aud mor;^^gck t wLi.h woulj u.., to be taken into account in a settlement of tbe estate. Besides tbia, it baa beon proved that tbe bullets uaad were of 38-oalibre, and that both Holoomb acd Foy had pur- chased weapons ot that kind a few months preceding tbe tragedy. On* man had seen Holoomb "booting at a mark, and another bad sold For cartridge* which th* latter waa particularly anxioui abould shoot strong. O.i the outside of a window on the parlor floor of tb* Oronob house waa th* print of a rubber hoot, and other marks ot a high beel led to an open field, into which they were traced for some dis- tance iu tbe direction of Iloloooib'a firm. poae of fastening tbe crime on him. I tbe prosecution's theory, alto, the death o Mrs. lloloomb and of Foy, and th mysterious ansault upon Detective Brown are all explaiued in tue ui st terrible man uer and receive tbe deeper! significance. That the Slate ban been uuable to mak its chain of evidence complete, and b beeu compelled iu many oases to report K mere a8ertiou, surprises no one. Dime Uoloouib has borne bimaelf well duriug tb trial, a^d ban stoutly protested bis uiuo oeuoe. lla positively Joules tbe purchase of tbe revolver, aad swears that on th night of tbe murder be waa not oat of hi yard. Strong as tbe suspicion is agains him, he has uiuoh sympathy from those who believe b ia ouly tbe victim ot air oumetanOMi, ai J his acquittal U considers! certain. The eutire absence ot a motivi for anybody cine to do tha murdern makei it improvable that the detectives will con Mime work on tbe case if they camo fasten tbe guilt on Holoomb aui Jut Crouch. Taken nil iu all, tbe tragedy is the rii j-t aborbiagly iuterestiug uf any that every oJourred in tbe Weat, and Miobi Kan, iu particular, has b9n horrified by tbe hocking developments and the resulting orimea. Ml I III It < I I I II ,, ,,,.., .1. ,il.l n, h. III.. ..,,,. ,1 I, , I- null. h II, i. .11,,. | n IVan.jlT.nl.. A last (Wedneeda)) night's Greenaburg Westmoreland Co., Pa., dwpatob aaya : A rumor ia current here to-night that Engliab detectives have obtained evidence that a powerful secret society of dynamitera exiata within tbe boundaries of thia county, and that tbe society is directly responsible for the reoeut explosions and assassinations in Euglai.d. Detectives have been on tbe track of tbe bociety for several months, and fouud it well and thoroughly organized, somewhat on tb* plan of tbe Mollie Maguirea. Some of tb* recent exploeione have beeu traced directly to tbia county, a* well an a number of assassinations com- mitted in England. The headquarters of tbe brotherhood is auggeatxl to be at Irwin, a amall mining town west of this place. Kssident Irishmen have been abadowed to England and return by detectives. It is ascertained that a large number of tioketa have been purchased to and from Europe during tbe past year at Irwin. It is aa tbeae aeoret spies have mingled with th auapeota for a year, and become, so i apeak, of their number. Agents have d parted witb the evidence for Washington where they will lay the faota before I liab authority. It is claimed that evideno in poeaesHiou of the deteotivea will abo beyond a doubt that oitizeua of this oouut have beeu aud are now engaged iu eendic to Kugland trusted men with large quant! ties of dynamite, and men wbo have uerv to use it after it is there. Several Irish Americans were seen to-night, who boote at the idea. They aay snob a thing wonli ba impossible here. II was found that Jud Crouch had a pair of rubber boots corresponding with tbe tracks, and he in lame and wean one boot with a high heel. A servant girl in toe employ of the Holoombs testified to finding some clothing belonging to Foy with blood on it. On the other band, lloloomb baa an alibi for himself and his men. His brother, who lives nearer the Crouob homestead than he does, swears that on the Light of the murder he beard three pistol shots iu rapid snoot- -laion. The Light was violently storm) and pitchy dark. He got up and made > light, .<nd on retiring again noticed that it waa 1 o'clock. Before Mm. Hlomb died fb. ajj that her husband was op during the night and went ont tu the barn t. fix the door, as it was slammiug. Tbe servant girl also swears to the name thing relative to Foy and Jud 8b alept iu an adjoining room to tbe in occupied by them, and she say when In- atnrm awnHe her she aat up aud looked "u. Prt-ently she I -ard Foy and Jod going ouwn alaim, aud iu a feu moments they returned. She waa wonder- ing what time it waa, when the clock struck 1. Tbe next day she learned that they bad been ont to tbe barn to aee what was tbe matter Thus, if any Holoomb heard tbe iihota at 1 o'clock, it ia certain that bis brother and Foy and Jud were not the one* who fired them, as tbe Crouch place was more than a mile from tbeir house. Various otber circumstance* are urged against Holoomb. One of tbe-e is that tbe servant girl who worked for Crouch, and who was not murdered, but who beard all that waa going on, and, half crazed with fright, hid beraelf until morning, was followed for weeks with cffers of employment, and in one case by a proposal of marriage, all presumably instigated by Holoomb, wbo wanted to get her out of the way of tbe detectives. Another is tbe nyateriona transaction between Henry Holoomb and a well known crook in jail here, by which it ia alleged Holoomb endeavored to secret some of Crouch's papers in the prisoner's cell tor tbe par- A ! I I II ! \ Kill I I. Koll. * In ih. HMW b i > . i K h I,.,. . -nil Hi M<U and a?rel arc sTm. A last (Thuraday) night's Buffalo del patch saya : Prentiss Ross, of Edinburgh, Pa , ia sO years old, and has been tlte times married, three times to one woman, and and all bia wives are living. He tuarriec hia tirs-. wife fifty years ago, and lived with her until 1870, when aha obtained a divoron for cruelty. He then married a youo; woman, who was divorced from him twc years later for the ame reason. Ha induced her to marry him again two years later She again got a divorce from tbe same e*u*e. A year afterward* he paid ber II 000 to marry him again. In 1880 be became jealous of her and got a divorce himself. In 1881 be married another young woman. Lately she com- plainod to tbe oeighbora that Roas wis starving ber. Hhe demanded better treat- ment, aud Ross drove her from the house with a butcher knife. Yesterday, early In tbe morning, four disguised men called Rots to hia door in bia night-clothes, took him ont, and rolled him in the snow for an hour. His bsnds and feet are so frozjn that amputation IN necessary, and he may not recover. No arrests have been mads, though it ia said the four men are known. i r >i ! - i i i>i > i The VIcllsD of I'm. il. HI JoUr \t hi, h Nearly F.O.I, la III. li..ih A Boaton despatch aaya : Tbe Journal aaya tbe factn have joat been mada known of the terrible experience of a Japanese student in September while on his way to Mamaobuaetta to study textile machinery in the mills of the State. He came from Troy over the Boosao tunnel route. Several young men on the cara made him believe be had bee., put on the train for Cauada, and that ho was to be made a slave in tbe I>)ininion. The Jap bectme desperate and jumped from the flying train near Concord Jnnciion. He lost eonaoiousnesa on btnkiug tue yDund. and remember* nothing until he regained hit. nenfea in a hut in tue woods, mime trampH having fount) him and taken him to the deu Tbty robbed him of bis gold watcb, money and jewellery, and beat Mm uu'.il they Hupixmod Mm dead. They then tUrow tbe body into a thicket. How long be lay there lie does i.ot knuw. When ba regained his M<uiea he dragged himaelf out and auooeeilnd iu reaching the bouse of a farmer, where he wa- eared for. He bis not yat entirely recovered from his injuries. Am i,i.i . . . . mm One thing that aurpriaea the stranger greatly in Mexico ia that nearly every mau you meet makes you a present of a resi- deuoe. He grarpj your hand with ardent cordiality aa he leavea you and Mays: " My bouae ia yours ; it stands Nuiuero tres Calle," and so on, " and is at your service." Tbe next man tells you that your houne is Kuob a number, aud he aball be aogry if you do not occupy it. Aa neither of them has enjoyed tbe honor of your acquaint- ance for more than five minutes, and both are casually introduced, this excessive generonity 11 quite embarrassing. An Eng- lish lord now ataying here aays he met fourteen men at tbe Jockey Club one even- ing, and was presented with thirteen houses. Tbe otber man lived in Cuba. But it is only the Mexican way of saying, " I am pleased to meet yon." New York city bad four Mayon within twenty-four hours, allowing that everybody claiming to be a Mayor waa on*. vim m.i zctto. Ho.. M niirr Wralbrr U Knji< ri tuo H lit . Ncrlhweal ol \ lHUI|.< Hirtlo lan.| Observer., For mere tbau a week tbe mercury baa been uunaually low, ranging from tbirty- nve to forty-five below zero, or about that. Things go on much the same a* before, trame are OL tbe road and on tbe street*, men are cutting firewood or are otberwiae employed. There IB aome difference in the appearance o.' ammala which are exposed to the air, bo r nun and oxau are alinpat white ; tue moiiture from their breathing gather* around tbeir bodies aa they advauoe, aud is *t ouoa converted into hoar front. Men have a strong desire to praotiae quick motions, aud seldom atand still wheu onuide. The air is perfectly calm, tbe sun tuning brightly, although very far to the south. Smoke from tbe chimneys die- appeara iu a moment. When walking man feels as if bi was moving in cold water ; tbia feeling i* produced by tbe slight disturbance of tbe air by the body >aabiug through tbe atmosphere. A stream if vapor proceeds from the mouth at every ireath , it is aotouuhiug bow muoh breath man Uaa on a oold m irtung, it might be bought that every trotting pedestriau bad turat bia boiler. In tbe morning, fifty below zero and time to rise; tbe blankets re covered, outside, with hoar fro*! from he breath of tbe sleeper. A plunge ia made into tbe oold air, which has tbe fFeot of causing a parson to get into ia olotbes without any unnecessary elay, and he mutt be a good-natured man wbo retains his aerenity at anon a time, when be ttnda that, after he had gone to led, bis wife removed bia trouxers to re- lace a button and forgot to return them, bo fire ia to kindle, but the iron cm no lore ba touched by the bare band tban if waa red hot ; an old exchange, a few dry Winters ot wood, p'.enty of dry poplar and strong fire is blazing fiercely, but tbe air ems colder than before ; preaently the eat of the stove ia felt, and by the time it red-hot tbe room ia warm. What snail e have for breakfast ? Tbe water-pails ave solid ice to tbe bottom, the bread igbt be fired ont of a cannon without Mog a crumb, tbe roast beef feels like a olid bone ; when struck with a sharp axe fat pork flies all over the house in chips. These inconven- iences are soon overcome, tbe bread is plac-d in the oven of tbe stove with tbe beef beside it, the chips ot pork are gather id up and put in tbe pan, a pail is taken to tbe spring and filled, there is no toe there, tbe limpid water feeli warm Tbe man ou tbe haystack, wbo is feeding hie oattle, places bia baud oo hia uose aud say*, ' fifty below zero," it U suddenly remembered that our none has beeu for- gotten, but it la all right. In a few minutea a very good breakfast ia aerved. By this time tba town ia astir, each ia ready to attend to the duties of tbe day. It nvuat be remembered that such oold times aro exceptional and in house* provided witb good cellars, but little inconvenience ia exper- ienced, nor is th* oold much felt by those outside wbo are well wrapped up. UHI -riniii- > i - IN KUYPf. K-in. ul II" III. mr. . ,il.l. I h T ll.i.r 10 KaMliirr. The special correspondent of the London Daily Xi-ifi with tbe Nile expedition saya that the lot of tb* rewapapor correspond- ents iu thia expedition baa been rather harder than that of the soldiers. A com- manding officer may select a spot for camp- ing on where bis men are not likely to De affaoted by troublesome neighbors or UOIHI in i odors. We, leas fortunate, have to make the best of auch accommodation aa the natives choose to provide for na. Tbe beat noue we can hire for money IB bad euougb ; and we can only make oue stipu- lation that ia, when we come in tiny go out and trouble ua no more until tbe term ot tenaucy expires. What they may chance to leave behind them we oanuot guard ourselvea againat. No doubt it ia pleanaut enough to feel tbe breath of heaveu playing freely about your ternplca through open windows, and to aee tbe stars shining through boleainaroof of palm branches overlaid witb mud ; but when every gust atira clojda of duat from Ibe floor, bats come in aa freely at tbe breeze, and aoorpions find refuge in c?anniea innumerable, one begiua to feel that Ibu pleasure has some alloy. Every morutng, long before day break, too, one's slumbers are disturbed by the weird diioord of buglea aud drums Bounding tbe reveille for native troops. Oa tbe whole, our hut would make very tolerable atabliug for an impoverished farm ot fifty acres. Ita only recommendation ia its peaceful seclusion and privacy. Exoept by the bats and aome bright little red nnobes called by some people Java sparrows that come to breakfast with us and twitter pleasantly all tbe while, we get no native visitor from without. Within our enclosure we live wi'.b our camel* and horaea, like a happy Iriah family with its piga. WOLSSXBT'B DAHII. Wolaeley ia 52, and some of his critic* take satinfaotioi. in the reflection that the Duke of Marlboroogh, wbo waa 52 at lUmi- haa, and Count von Moltke, who was 66 at Sadowa and 70 at Sedan, are tbe only generals wbo have become famous after 60 But the foundation of Wolaeley 'a reputation waa laid in tbe very first year of bis service, when, a youth of 20, he fought with fury and was nearly killed in tbe conflict with the Sepoys in India. When Lord Beaoonsfield said to him in 1879. a* tbe clock was striking two, " I want you to take command at the Cape ; when can you start?" fad replied: "I will go by tb* 4.15 tram." And be did. No fear ueed be flt that half a do/, m years have exhauated tbe vigor of :h daubing commander, and the march aorona the d*srt 'xi Barber on tbe Nile will probably be aooompliahed if tbe achievement ia humanly poaaibie. N. Y. Mail and Kzpreti. v III-KI \ WAV. I Nri i.rl.ll. K.mu.l.. II,.,. A last (Wednesday) night's Livingston*, Ky., despatch says: There has beeu trouble in this county reeently between whiskey dealera and offioiala. To-uight Deputy-Sheriff White weut to arreal James ana Henry Burton, brothers, charged witb aiding Oaff. said to be engaged in illegal whiskey traffic, to escape from ofHonra wbo lad him under arrest last night. Tbe Jurtona barricaded their saloon, and witb >iend* on the inside defied tbe arresting iffioera. A posse of fifteen men summoned hem, and the Burtons surrendered. Wbile on the way to jail Jamea Burton ried to escape and was killed by tbe posse. 3urton'a friends, ten in number, then attacked tbe posse, and firing became general and continued for two hours. articular* of the affray are meagre. Several men are reported killed and wounded, among them Judge Bullock, wounded in the arm. I .11. .1 from tnlmmm. The death ia announced of Mr. Gould Adams, J. P., Limerick, wbo was agent of ord Donongbmore. John Lynn died last week at bis reel- enoe, Bellgrovt, Palmeratown, county )ublin, aged 101 yeara. On December 13th wer* consigned to tbe rave in Caatleragan churchyard tbe emaina of Mr. James Reilly, of Liameen. arisb of Lurgau, who bad passed bia 1 1.1th ear. i be body of tbe late wife of Co). Hellier, x Inapector-Qeneral of Polios, Lismore, aunty Waterford, was on December 22ud ragged from the family vault and thrown nto a river some distance off. Rev. Wm. Magill, D.I) . has presented to tie trvktees of tbe Preabyteriau Axaembly iollegs at Belfast a cheque for 400 for lie purpoee of founding a bursary for tbe nltur* and production of pulpit eloquence. On the 20th ult., at Londouderry, Rev. TofeiHor Given, ot Magee College, in that ity, was choked by a piece of meal at uuobeon. Aa soon a* the uocurntnoe waa baerved. bia wife rushed forward and urinated tbe meat, but notwithstanding HI be died immediately afterwards. It aelieved that during tbe accident the acaon ol tba heart bad beeu interfered with. A medical gentleman was at once in tiendanoe, but all wa* of no avail. Dr. iven was Professor of Oriental Literature nd Ilernirni utioM. He waa an acoom- liahed linguist and an acknowledged aoholar. Hi . li. i . U ., .1- I i H At tbe last Plymouth Church prayer meeting in Brooklyn, Mr. Beecbei expressed in a very pathetic manner borrow that the meetings recently had been well attended, and particularly that i KOI !<. In Bo'ness Parish Church on the 14th nit. a tipsy mau cried to ths minister to "Speak cot," afterwards, "If yon diona speak ooi, I'll gang awa name," and soon left saying, " I'm awa uoo, then." The death has occurred of Msj >r John stoue, ( Ualleatba aud Broadbolm, oouain of Mr. Robert Jardiue, M.P. He waa long master of the Dumfriea Hunt, and well- known on the turf as a auooeaafnl breeder of horaea. Mr. Armittead, M. I'., in addition to treating the iumatcH of Dundee Poorhouse on New Year's Day, was to give a supply of provision" to ibe H50 outdoor poor. Ann Rbind HeggH, Cupr, has got decree for 250 damages for breach of promise againat John G. Simpson, draper's assis- tant, Dundee. Simpson has absconded. In tbe Inverness Police Court on tbe 1 " b ult. the Superintendent of Polio* apolo- gized for having called the Assessor a liar at a previona dirt. Tbe word, h thought, 1 wa* n jt proper for uim or for the ouurt. ' A land farming company has been formed to farm a thousand acres on the Haulker- aton estates of the Earl of Kiotore. I H proposed to divide half tbe profits above 4 per cent, among tbe chief employees. Mr. Robert Simpson died saddeulr on the 16th ult. at Oobairdy. He was 84 yeara of age and was an estimable county gentle- man, wbo for many years took a prominent part in tbe administration of local affairs. Mr. FraMr Mackintosh has announced bis intautiou not again to content the repre- sentation of tbe Inverness District of Borougbs, but at tbe general election t > oome forward aa a candidate for the county. There ere therefore now four candidates iu tbe field tor luverness-shira. A t t I llt.K I 01 I IK- xaxrlraicci laiai .... liui-n. m. ,i tm flaeir U ou.rhold , Having aetllsd taemielvea at a table iu Tom's back room, the young man pro- ceeded : " I just had a rich time until that boy ot mine was three weeks old. Then the nurse lalt and my wife said I could juat as well help her aa not, and I waa only too tickled M be able to do something to make myself naeful. We had no crib tor tbe youngster then, and be slept with UH, between hia mother and me. I waa cautioned not to roll ou him in tbe n'gM, aud I tried hard to keep ati'l, but I hadn't beeu asleep more'u a minut > wbvn my wife dux '" ' in tbe ribs aud yelled, '(lit up! you're lying ou Adolpbus.' I got up, moved over into my place aud triad to leap, but I got ou I'tby agtin, and finally wrapped myself in a blanket and "pout tbe rent ot the night on Ibe II x.r. Tbe next day I got a crib. Then my real tronile began. The boy would be fed aud put into tbe crib, and I'd turn in. My pleasant dreams would fl* as tb plaintive yell of that youth out tbe air and struck me witb the energy of a steaui haminir. Aided by a gentle push from my better half, I'd climb out, pick up the boy, and, clad in tbe clinging folds of a night shirt aud pair of slippers, I'd sit me down to woo tbe gentle god of slumber on my sou's account. Thia attempt at wooing tbe gentle god is the direct o iuse of the ruin you see before you. Just the minute I picked tbe baby up from bit bunk he'd atop yelling and look at me in wide-eyed surprise and seemed to aay, Where in thunder did you drop from ?' Then as I sat down and tried to get him comfortably balanced on one of my kneea, he'd begin olawicg the air and granting contentedly. About this time I sat my fojt in motion, trot ! trot 1 and accompanied it witb a seductive ' ah h k b, tb- ere a' that I hoped would soon lull him to sleep. But nary lull. He'd look at me, smile- hip grandmother asy* it's colic that makes him smile and then take in tbe furniture pieee by pieos -and atare stupidly at the dimly -burning gasjit. He wa* perfectly cool about all this. Nothing waa done iu baate. Bach picture, chair, ornament, would receive a minute inapection from tboaa wide open blue eyes, aud your humble servant kept digging away at tbe trot .' trot ! and ah b b ' aoheme all the while. Sud- denly there would be a alow closing of the little white lids aud tb blue eye> were Hidden. Abal Now be was going to aleep. At lait ! And I'd work the trot ! trot I witn reuewed vior. Then he'd nigh a tired little High, and when I waa sure be waa fast asleep I'd start to lay him back in hia crib. But juat as I would lean over to lay him down he'd optu bia eyea, ooo bappily R A woman named Christina Bm tl., yeara, wife of a laborer M btueiourgb, out tbe throat of ber infant daughter, aod afterwarda cut ber own throat, ou Thursday night week. They were found iloa i on tbe kitchen fl.or by the husband. It is atated that ibe poor woman bad been in ill-health for aome timi. Sir Thomas Gladstone, of Faaque, tb eldest brother of tbe Prime Minister, has no fewer tban thirteen farma on bis bands ex tending to over 3,000 acre- of arable land and two tuoae will be vacant at the nex "term." Sir Thomas Gladstone owua I"* 000 acrea in Kii osrdtneahire. Tbe general Htation at Perth, so we) known to all travellers in Scotland, i , K be enlarged and improved at a coat oi 120.000. Perth ii already one nf ttir largest atationn iu the country. A suite of apartments for Royal travellera is to be provided, iuoluding dining, dressing, and bath rooms. and neem to aay : ' Oh, I'm not atleep ; I wan just having some ton with you.' and there was nothing to do but to take him back to tbe obair and begin :ne whole bnai nea* over again. Another three-quarters of an hour would drag wearily by and a second time toe baby 'a eyea would close and aleep appear to have oume at laat. How care- fully I aueak over the orib and gently lay him on hia little quilt. How tenderly I'd tuck him in ud wiah that he'd sleep for a week or mjre to give me a chance to catch np on what I'd lost. He doesn't move, and I tip-toe to tbe bod that bad known so little ot me for some urns. I auaak in under tbe covers, atretob myself, Ifaiuk there Lever was anything quite so comfortable a that bed, and close my eyes to a refreshing nap, when there oouie. from in orib a aupiciou grunt, fol- lowed by a string of spasmodic oougba, and _ an unmistakable yell. Painfully 1 climb ont of the reetfnl bed, anatob tht infant from ua downy couch, and quiet him with ibe aarne old trot ! trot I trot ! while the chill aigbt breeztt tl >at through the open window, and play peek-a-boo with my modsal knees uniar the flipping flap of my night shirt. Tbia baa been my nigbtlv pro- gramme for about two weekx. and you aee tbe result before you. I haven't slept twenty consecutive minutea iu twenty consecutive daya. Yon aaid aotnHihing about having comfort witb that boy. I fondly uopid I'd get it. I'm still hoping." And the gloomy look again stole over the face of tbe happy father. Hn eyea gaztd vaoanlly into space as he mechanically made his way to the door, and with a snuffling, uncertain step, be tottered away. Chicago 1'nl/une. A bog waa recently killrrl at Blooming Grove, Sullivan county, New York, and when dressed a thick wire fourteen inches long waa found in the lights and pressed against the heart. Though twiated and coiled in different shapes and forced into tbe vitals, tbe bog was apparently aa healthy as ever. More suioidea occur in San Francisco in proportion to its population, saya tbe Alta ' lifornia, tban in any otber city on tbe bet Im M not P r l hail Cati . the deacons were conspicuously abaent. oontinent. The number of suicides in that 11* aaid that, although nearly 72 years of age, hia health waa never better than now, that be bad never been better qualified physically and mentally to perform the duties of pastor, but bis words had become trite. Th* Japanese girl, when she goes into company, paint* her face white, her lipa and tb* corners of her eye* red, with two slate -colored spot* on her forehead. city for tbe year ending with June last was iver two and a half times a* many aa incurred in New York in 1S80. A lemon tree at Maryaville, Cal., baa on iftnda just forming, buda partly formed, buja ready to burst with bloom and full blorn bloeaoma. Then comes a aerie* of lemms, in regular gradations, from the tiuiajt up to a mammoth in <*, A wine man will neither speak nor do whafever anger would provoke him to. liinlloh,, .11.1 ih. >, ih... .1 The new English church at Birtle baa bteu completed. Tbe coat was about 92.3UO, all of which is paid except about 300. It l confidently expected that tbe Mam toba Southwestern Railway will be extended next autnmer. Tb* wuraotors are now buaily engaged in flgunug. Tbe extensive flinr and grist milla at Diminion City, belougiug to MoKeroher A Waduell, wire burned this morning. The mill and stock are valued at $1 '< 000 ; insurance Sli.OOO. The origin of tbe fire ia unknown. ItiaeUted that all ofn ials connected with tbe administration nf public affira in the Nortbwrtit Territories, except Lies',. Governor D-wdnny , have anked tba Govern- ment to make Qu'Appelle or Calgary the capital of tbe Territorial, luvtead of Kegiua. A laal (Friday) ni K ht'a Winnipeg des- patch aaya : Dau, Wlman * Co. 'a ageuoy report* ninety-one failures in Manitoba aud the Nortbweai in 1BH4. agamal 212 iu tbe previous year, aui a number of tbe lfW4 Iii lure should be attributed tu the previoua year. The estimated liabilities in u were 2,147.000. against 7H 000 in 1881, while th* nrimated asnetn were ll.On.OM in 1883. againat SSO'J 000 laat year. The amount of capital mvimted by mercantile men here ia $12.000,000, besides three millions of ntook unpaid for. Two thousand nine hundred firms are doing busineas in Manitoba and tbe Northwest territorlCH. The agency peaks hopefully of the future. Virgil's birthplsxft. the little villajmof Pietole, 10 theLombardy plain, abou' five miles from Muitua, has juat inaugurated a monument to tbe poet. Close to me rivr rises a amall bill, the Month*"' di Vr"'". and her*, aooording to ">oal t***"' ", atond the home ia win'" Virgil born. Two loteofhri one nuo> wr ' l >f{ 2,700 and tbe other a.rVX). were **fitly driven by trail from Wanning** Territory mto Montana. f o* sheer** 11 * eastward from beforrr" territor'"" year greatly cg|. 'torm*r yean.