A Dead City

St. Josopli, Fia., was at or.o time a busy seaport, had a railroad to lola, on the Appalachicoln, shippcd cotton to the oxtontof huiilredsot tliousnuils of bales annunlly, nml was tlio ciiircpot of supplies f oi' western Florida, Bouthem Georgia, mul uorth-easteru Alabama. iïait ronda t'roiu the MissisBippi to tbc Atlantic ut lcnutli dcpvivod it ot' its coinniercc and made lts own railroad wortbless. Tlio track waa taken np and used elscwhere. - Tlio Itihabitants irradually abandonod thoh' homes. Yollow tover visitod tlioso who reniainod, and the living Mere uuable to buvy tlio dead. Wliat few escapad íleil, liud nut a soul was loi't to elaini proporty or hoino. A tornado comploted the ruin. Kvery bousc was levelled to the groun i, and to-duy there is not a chiinney to mark tho spot where not ayo stood a bnsj" little city. Mr. TI. D. Parker, the proprietor of n wcll-known Boston hotel, dcsircd to enlarge bis Iioupp, but tbo property, mi join i lis, wliich he wished to pur cluise, belonged to a naaiden lady wcll advauced in years, and she re f n sed to solí. Evcry offer to b'.iy was met by a refusa!. Finally, tbo proposition was made that dlsinierestcd partios ehould fix the valué t' her estáte, to which a bonus of $50,000 would b addod. Tliis oflep, liko tlic othcrs, was rol'uscil. Tlie oíd Indy said it, had bec;n a pleasure :ill licr lile to say "no," and sho wouldn't bedeprived of thatpleasure tor ïuoney. During the last nine uionths of 1879, there were ezported from Franco booka in the nativo tonguo, to the valuó of 10,1(57,803 francs- a gain over the coiTespondiug poriod of 1S78 of 789,448 francs.