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Goorffia Affairs.
■,rr-S"HBs.ys it is reported very
v in Columbus that “Colonel Wm.
, v, Presidert of the Central Rail-
L ’ on account of health and age,
1 his resignation as President of the
Railroad ami Banking Company.and
f recommends General E. I\ Alex-
f Ihe Georgia Railroad, as bis suc-
I has been reported for several
; no official notice as yet has been
If there is any truth in the report
, •, r? of the Central in this section
• very quiet about it. No such re-
L circulation in this region.
Lues E. Frost has retired from the
control of the Burke County Herald,
1 at Waynesboro. He is succeeded
bv Messrs. U. O. Lovett and E. L. Brinson
• roi-oseto revivify the paper, keep It
,. 0 f the times,and conduct It earnestly
ic the interests of the Democratic party at
II times, but especially during the ap
proaching campaign.
UV leam from the Talbotton lleyinter that
n lust Wednesday during a rain storm on
n of S. P. Bickley, E«q., of
county, the lightning struck and
. t j, i two sheep, at the same time stunning
;wo lambs, which lay in a stupor two days
before rec overing. The balance of a large
Hock escaped unhurt.
The New York Tribune is constrained to
remark that “Georgia now turns up as a
luiJ field. There seems to be nothing good
tiat cannot be found in Georgia, according
to the reports which come from that happy
The Griffin Sew* Is anticipating hearing
from Mr. Hill during the consideration of
the SpofTord-Kellogg case “the greatest
effort of his life.”
Mr. William C. Sibley,who,with his father,
Mr .losiab Sibley, President of the new Sib
lev Mills of Augusta, has been up North
- licit trig contributions to the st ock of that
I enterprise, writes home that he has met with
most eneouragiug success, lo two days he
raised $180,000, and in ten days he expects
th<- total capital stock of $000,000 to be sub
scribed. ww
i >n Wednesday last Georgia Railroad stock
took another step onward, and closed with
an upward tendency, being held at from
b«5 to 106. The approaching convention of
stockholders on the Pith of May has much
to do with the rise.
The Standard complains that there Is no
post office in any Inland town of the State
th • tiie of Talbotton through which 60
much trashy literature passes.
Mr. Dan Owen, who arrived in Columbus
Mouthy, informed the Times of a 6ad inci
dent that occurred in Talbot county on la6t
Sunday. Mr. Ztch Wheells, a middle aged
gentleman, went to one of his neighbor’s
booses and spent some time with him.
After making out his visit he left for home,
which was iu the neighborhood of Pleasant
fltll. Not long afterward his body was
found dead on the side of the road. No
marks of violence were on his person, and
under his head was a pillow of bushes as
though he had arranged them for an easy
nap. It is presumed he died from a stroke
The Louisville Courier learns that during
the heavy rains ou Tuesday evening, the
20th inst., a negro by the name of Gabriel
Davis, living on the place of Mr. William
Fleming, about seven miles from that town,
was struck and killed by lightning. It seems
that he was in his bouse, which is a log
cabin, standing near the fireplace. The
lightning struck the roof of the house, tear
ing oil a few boards. It then descended
and struck the n*»gro on the head, killing
him instantly. His wife, who wa6 in the
room, was knocked down and badly shocked,
but was otherwise uninjured.
The Dublin Gazette tells of a most brutal
act committed by one Henry Rickerson, of
Laurens county, a few days since. He was
engaged in plowing, and, becoming enraged
with the animal, he tied his horse up to a
tree and began belaboring it unmercifully.
The horse, In running around the tree to
avuid the blows, pulled 60 hard upon the
bit, that its under jaw on both sides was
broken. The Gazette says: “When he was
led through town it wa6 an ugly sight to
behold. The jaw was hanging down, and
the tongue lolled out and bleeding profusely.
Dr. Harrison splintered it as well as could
be done, and the horse now only lives by
sucking meal and water through his teeth.”
Charles Covington, colored, of Atlanta,
wu on Tuesday last attempting to cross
the street near the railroad car shed in that
< ity just as the Atlanta and Charlotte Air
I.tne train was coming in. He was struck
by the cow catcher and hurled down an em
bankment. The l\ut says an examination
showed that besides a few bruises the negro
was unhurt. It la at all times rather dan
gerous to attempt to pass across “Railroad
Avenue” in Atlanta.
The Marietta Journal remarks that for-
tterly there were foolish virgins who had
oo oil; now we have foolish virgins who are
too free with their kerosene.
Macon musical amateurs are rehearslug
the opera of “ The Sorcerer.”
The Atlanta Constitution remarks that “ it
is & sad fact that the two-dollar lunches
spread out in < leorgia by the Sherman agents
went to strengthen the Grant boom.”
Buena \ ista Argus: “ Last Monday, dur
ing a rain, lightning struck a large hickory
tree in Mr. J. R. Kushln’s back yard. On
reaching the ground the fluid parted and
followed two large roots fifteen or twenty
feet from the body. The course of the
roots could be traced by a mole-like up
heaval of the dirt. While following the
root it came in contact with a hoe, and
splintered the handle. It then struck a post
and split that to pieces, and threw one part
of the post almost into his dwelling.”
Louisville Courier: “Mr. A. A. Fambro,
of Sanderevllle, has a large rattlesnake,
about five feet long, which he captured on
the 9th of last October, and which he has
kept in a box with a wire net front ever
eince that time. Though it has been
nearly seven months, the snake has uever
^aten anything at all since he was captured.
‘lives on air,’ and if he could be con-
Verted itto the genus homo, retaining his
Datura] habits, he would make a splendid
Dews P a Per man.”
1 Oder the caption “Decoration Day
speeches,” the Albany Advertiser very sensi-
D, y says: “Would it not be more seemly,
appropriate to the solemnity of the
fusion, to do away with speeches and
JJWon. on Decoration dav, and to observe
Qe as we should observe the line set
Sf? honor our fallen heroes ? These
•ghts of rhetoric can do no good. Why
uot iet a committee be appointed to secure
Efficient flowers to rightly carry out the
ouseryances for which the day was set
‘part. Yesterday the supply of flowers
proved inadequate, and we understand that
J^t-ral graves of Confederate soldiers had
do Jloral offerings placed upon them. The
services might be opened by a short and ap
propriate prater, a list of the soldiers’
< r &Vesshould be furnished by the sexton,
ana they could be reverently and silently
covered with flowers in a much more seemly
^Daoner than by all the pomp and circum
stance, and all the high flown orations which
.enerally accompany the observance of the
south’s day of mourning.”
. XcBufte Journal: “We had the biggest
fUrtorm Monday afternoon last ever known
Itt this section. It fell with unprecedented
rapidity for about fifteen minutes, and, from
what we can hear, did considerable damage
to crops, eardens, etc. Our oldest citizens
say they never saw hail stones of such size.
Many of them weighed from one and a half
to two ounces, and were of almost every im
aginable shape. Some resembled turtles,
some crabs. Dr. Hill found one in the shape
of a pocket knife, and Mr. Curtis picked up
one three inches long, somewhat like an
icicle. Hal Thomas rescued another a’most
exactly like a small China doll. Mr. Brink-
ley, however, informs us that all of this is
nothing to what be witnessed in the sum
mer of 1732. He was rafting timber on the
lower Savannah when a storm overtook him
and goose eggs as big as hail 6tones covered
his raft a foot deep.”
Says the Talbotton Standard: “Our Branch
Railroad is a certainty. It is not a mat
ter of time, but will be built at once.
Work has begun in earnest, a competent
force are engaged in clearing out the way,
locating bed, etc. Contractors are handing
in their bids for grading, and the subscrip
tion goes bravely on. The call for ten per
cent, of the capital stock is being responded
to in a manner that insures success. The
shriek of the ‘Talbottoniau’ will be heard
on our streets iu November.”
Covington Star : “The Savannah Morn
ing News organized a considerable boom
for itself last week by Issuing in eight-page
form, with eight columns to the page, or
sixty-four columns altogether. In neatness
and splendid ‘get up,’ the News is not sur
passed by any paper in the South, while for
solidity and the moral character of its read
ing matter, it has no equal in this country.”
Marietta Journal: “The recent heavy rains
hrve been very damaging to mill dams,
bridges, fences and farms in this county.
Down on Nickajack creek, Ruff’s, Hunt’s
and Eaton’s mill darns were washed away,
and Dodgen’s mill floor was ripped up.
When the dam at Ruff’s mill gave way, the
county bridge at that place was swept, away,
and the mud, sand and rock filled the pond
of the Concord Factory completely up,
leaving a small creek channel where the
water flows over the dam. How to get
about one hundred car loads of dirt out of
that pond Is a question of momentous im
portance to the Concord Factory. Many of
the farms in the bottom lands have had the
top dressing of guano washed away, while
the crops planted on the same are no more.”
Macon TdegrofJi and Messenger: “To-day,
representatives from the various manufac
tories of spirits turpentine and rosin will
call upon the Macou and Brunswick Rail
road authorities for the purpose of estab-
Ing for themselves rates of freights upon
their produce. The firms represented are
Peacock Co., of Chauncey; Powell &
Peacock and W. W. Ashburn. kastmaD; T.
J. Dempsey, Dempsey; T. H. Norfleet, Mac-
Ville; A. Seseoms Ac Co., Graham; MacRae
A* Bush, Towns: C. D. Baldwin & Co., Mac-
Kae; Bush A Brother, Chauncey; Parker A
Bush, Longview: Beach A Powell, No. 7;
A. U. Van Brookline, No. 7}*, nud Hunt A
Wiggs, Dubois. As we understand it, the
products of their business are classed as
•special’in tables established by the Com
missioners, and the railroads have power to
make any rate they think proper. The
mission of these gentlemen is an Important
ODe. There are manufactured and shipped
yearly from along the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, between Macou and Jesup, about
one hundred and thirty-five thousand barrels
of rosin and turpentine.”
Atlanta Constitution: “For some days past
delegations representing the great lumber
interests of Southern Georgia have been in
the city consulting with the Railroad Com
missioners as to an increase in the freight
on lumber, which would have crippled their
business badly if it had not been remedied.
They were confident, of course, that the
Commission would do just what was right
and proper when the matter was put fairly
before them. Yesterday the Railroad Com
mission settled one o’f those ca«es that
affected the Brunswick and Albany Railroad.
The managers of the Brunswick and Al
bany Railroad, and the committees repre*
touting the Boards of Trade of Albany and
Brunswick, and a committee representing
the lumber and other businesses along the
line of that road, appeared before the Rail
road Commissioners yesterday and the day
before, with petitions for changes in the
rates of freight on the line of said road,
under the tariff recently adopted by the
Commissioners. These different delegations
represented their several necessities, but
agreed in the statement that changes in the
Standard rate were necessary to save the
road and the large timber and turpentine
trade from actual loss, and to get some
share of business from the western
terminus of the road. Their cases
were carefully and patiently beard
and considered by the Commissioners,
and though they did not grant the re
quest of either party, they made for the
Brunswick and Albany Road a modified
tariff of rates which tdi the parties were
willing to accept, and wbicn they believed
would promote the Interests of ali. Th*.
>lC w tariff of rates will be published, and
w 4 '1 by consent of those interests, take
effect on the iat of May. The tariff agreed
upon in no wise connicts with the Jaws of
the State or the rules adopted b* the Com
missioners, and this is indeed an instance
where the people and a railroad company
were agreed. There being no conflict of in
terests, the Commisfeioners did not hesitate
to grant them all that the law would allow.
To-day the Commission will consider t Other
important cases and to-morrow we will give
the result. We will also give some interest
ing facts and figures as to the extent and
importance of the lumber busiuess of Geor
gia. Few people in the northern part of tba
State have any conception of its extent and
its incalculable value to the State.”
Kalloch and His Son.
Washington Post.
Mayor Kalloch is the reverse of de
spondent over the murder of Charles Ue
Yonng by his son, the ilev. Jsaao M.
Kalloch. In fact, the Mayor of Sa».
Francisco is as jolly as the .Mayor of St.
Brieux. He appears to point with pride
to and view with profound satisfaction
the deliberate, cool, premeditated slaying
of a fellow man by a person set apart
and commissioned to care for the souls
of men. An interviewer, who called on
the Kev. Isaac S. Kalloch. found him
unusually light-hearted and free from
care - , ...
Twenty-three years ago, when this
reverend hypocrite was pastor of the
largest congregation in New England,
and when he had been exposed in a crime
branded as felony by the law s of some of
the New England States, when the whole
country was ringing with the greatest
clerical scandal ever known in this coun
try, with one exception, he was quite as
cool and unconcerned as he is now while
his son is lying in prison awaiting trial
for murder. On the Sunday following
Kalloch’s exposure in Boston, in 1837, he
went into his pulpit looking as calm and
serene as if sustained and cheered by an
unfaltering trust in his religious faitb.
Facing the moat exciting and expect
ant crowd ever gathered in a house
of worship, be read the hymn com
mencing: "Far from my thoughts
vain world begone; let my religious hours
alone,” and proceeding with the usual
Gospel sermon as placidly as if he had
never been even suspected of a peccadil
lo. His life has been that of a hypocrite.
Wearing "the livery of heaven,” he has
draggled his sacred robes through sen
sual debauchery. Now ho feel- strong
because lie relies on his influence with
the workingmen.
The people of Pan Francisco owe it to
their self-respect to get rid of such a
Mayor. The prison is cheated of its dues
so long as this reverend blatherskite is at
large.
There has been a most disastrous flood
at St. Kitts, one of the Leeward Islands,
whereby two hundred and _ thirty-two
persons lost their lives within three
hours. Basseterre seems to have suffered
most severely. Whole portions of that
town were literally swept away, and
sand and mud covered the streets in
some places to the depth of twelve feet.
The estates contiguous to the town have
suffered an immediate loss of at least
fifty thousand dollars, and a long time
must elapse before some of them can be
restored to their former state of cultiva
tion. Merchants have lost large quanti
ties of provisions. Until the houses can
be rebuilt the destitute i>eople are ac
commodated in the school rooms of sev
eral religious denominations. The chief
water supply is for the time destroyed.
A movement is already on foot at Har
risburg to procure the release of Kemble
and liis associates through the board of
pardons. The conviction of these par
ties upon so slight a charge as the at-
tempted bribery of a few backwoods
legislators was utterly so inconsistent with
all Pennsylvania precedents that their
durance will doubtless be brief. To keep
them in the pen for the whole term of
their sentence would be an outrage upon
public sentiment sufficient to breed a
good-sued revolution.— Washington, Put.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRAT
IC CONVENTION.
ADDITIONAL KItITISIl CABINET
APPOINTMENTS.
Alleged Manhattan Hank Robbers
Arrested.
Foreign New* Item*.
TIIE PEXNSTLVAXIA DEMOCRATIC CONVEN
TION.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 29.—The Demo
cratic Convention was called to order at
half-past nine. The Special Committee on
Credentials shortly appeared and made a
report through Mr. Dill. The committee
report that decisions have been arrived at
unanimously in each case, and the case of
the contest in Philadelphia. While the Vaux
delegation admitted that the McGowen dele
gates were regularly elect el under established
rules of the party, yet for the sake of having
a united party in Philadelphia, both sides
are anxious to secure harmony aud concert
ed action. The committee will therefore
meet In Philadelphia at some future day, and
make such rules for the organization of the
Democracy in Philadelphia as in their
judgmeut may be deemed necessary. They
will determine who the regular organization
shall be, and how it is to be made up. Each
delegation is to be adimtted to a seat iu this
convention,and each delegate to cast one-half
of one vote through its Chairman. The re
port was then adopted, and the roll of dele
gates called.
At the conclusion of the roll call C. Mone-
ghan nominated A. IL Dill for temporary
Chairman. He was unanimously elected.
Mr. Dill made no speech. It was resolved
that the regular business shall be as fol
lows : The appointment of committees on
organization and resolutions, all resolutions
to be referred to the latter without
debate: election of delegates a r . large;
of electors at large: nominations for
Judge of the Supreme Court and Auditor
General, and the appointment of repre
sentative delegates, electors and members
of the State Ceutral Committee. After the
appointment of committees on resolutions
ana organization, and before proceeding
with the regular work, R. E. Moneghan was
nominated and unanimously elected per
manent President.
Moneghan said that four years ago he had
been similarly honored by a convention
which assembled at Lancaster. Tilden and
Hendricks were prevented by a stupendous
fraud from occupying the position they
were elected to, but the great Democratic-
party, true to its history and principles,
counselled peace rather than confusion, and
are waiting until November next., when the
people of the United States will approve
their course by electing Democratic candi
dates, when they shall and they must be in
augurated. The future i9 a bright one for
the Democracy, and gives brilliant promise
o! happy results.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
as follows:
Hcsoloed % first. That we. the Democratic
party of Pennsylvania, in convention as
sembled, renew our vows of fidelity to the
fundamental principles proclaimed and
practised by illustrious men who settled our
free iustitutious and founded the Demo
cratic party to protect and preserve them.
Second. That the just powers of the
Federal L T nion, the rights of the States and
the liberties of the people are vital parts of
one harmonious system, and to save each
part, in its whole constitutional vigor, is to
Bave the life of the nation.
Third. That the Democratic party main
tains, as it ever has maintained, that the
military are, aud ought to be in all things,
subordinate to the civil authorities. It denies,
as it ever has denied, the right of the Fede
ral administration to keep on foot at general
expense a standing army to invade States
for political purposes without regard to con
stitutional restrictions, to control the people
at the polls, to protect and encourage fraudu
lent counts of votes, or to inaugurate candi
dates rejected by the majority.
Fourth. That the right to a free ballot is
the right preservative of all rights; the only
means of peacefully redressing grievances
and reforming abuses. The presence at the
polls of a regular military force and of a
host of hireling officials, claiming power to
arrest and imprison citizens without war
rant or hearing, destroys all freedom of
elections, and upturns the very founda
tion of self government. VVe call
upon all good citizens to aid
us in preserving our institutions
from destruction by these imperial methods
of supervising the right of suffrage and co
ercing the popular will; in keeping the way
to the ballot box open and free, a9 it was to
our fathers; in removing the army to a safe
distance when the people assemble to ex
press their soverign pleasure at the polls,
and in securing obedience to their will
when legally expressed by their votes.
Fifth. Tbot Rutherford b. Hayes, having
been placed in poweragai06t the well known
and legally expre-sed will of the people, is
the representative of a conspiracy only, and
hi* cljjirn of the right to surround the ballot
boxes with t*ojps and deputy marshals to
intimidate and obstruct electors, and his
unprecedented use of the veto power to
maintain this insult is a menace Lo the coun
try.
Sixth. That the Democratic party, as of
old, favors a constitutional curreucy of gold
and silver and of paper convei tible into coin.
Seventh. That we are opposed to the sys
tem of subsidies by the General Govern
ment, and to the appropriation of public
moneys or credit to any object but the pub
lic service.
Eighth. That the Democratic party re
news its expression of sympathy r!^ tabor
and its promise ui protection to its righto.
Ninth. That we look with alarm upon the
pretensions of great transportation compa
nies. and until they accept the Constitution
of 1873 Jn good faith they should remain
the objects of utmost vigilance and jealousy
by both the Legislature and the people.
Tenth. Relates to local affairs.
Eleventh. That the great fraud of 1876-77*
by which, upon a false count of the elec
toral votes of three States a candidate de
feated at the polls was seated in the Presi
dential chair, was the most deadly blow
ever aimed at our system of representative
government The necessity of rebuking
that great wrong imposes a more sacred
duty upon the people of the Union than
ever addressed the consciences of a nation
of freemeD.
A supplementary resolution Instructing
delegates to Cincinnati to vote as a unit and
to oppose the abrogation of the two thirds
rule, led to a scene of much excitement.
Snowden, of Lehigh, offered an amend
ment striking out the unit clause and favor
ing the abrogation of the two-thirds rule.
Wallace spoke emphatically In favor of
the resolution as reported from the com
mittee. Randall hoped that instructions to
vote as a unit would not be given. The
a uestion was then put to a vote, and Snow-
en’s amendment was carried by 125 to 122,
amid great cheering from the Randall party.
The resolutions as amended were then
adopted.
ADDITIONAL BRITISH CABINET APPOINT
MENTS.
London, April 29.—The following addi
tional Cabinet appointments have been
made: Mr. Chamberlain, President of the
Board of Trade, and John George Dodson,
President of the Local Government Board.
The following appointments outside the
Cabinet are also announced: Ilenry Faw
cett, Postmaster General; Anthony J. Mun-
della, Vice President of Council; Grant
Duff, Under Secretary for the Colonial De
partment; Lord F. Cavendish, Secretary to
the Treasury; Dr. Lyon Playfair. Chairman
of the Committee of Ways and Means: Sir
Henry James, Attorney General: J. McLareD,
Lord Advocate of Scotland : Mr. Balfour,
Solicitor General for Scotland ; Earl of Cork
and Orrerv, Master of Buck Hounds; Duke
of Westminster, Master of the Horse ; Mar
quis of Lansdown, Under Secretary for
India ; Earl of Morlev, Under Secretary for
War: Mr. Thomas Brassey, Civil Lord of
the Admiralty; Campbell Bannerman, Fi
nancial Secretary of the War Office; Lord
Cartingford, Ambassador at Constantinople.
The Cabinet, with fourteen members, is uow
complete.
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.
London, April 29.—A bottle has been
picked op at the junction of rivers Weaver
and Mersey containing a paper inscribed:
“H. M. S. Atalanta, 16th March. Fearful
hurricane. Dismasted and going down fast
off Lizard.”
A Cabul dispatch reports an engagement
at Hydobadon on the 25th between General
Ross and mixed tribes. The enemy was de
feated with a loss of twelve hundred men.
The British loss is unknown.
ALLEGED MANHATTAN BANK ROBBERS AR
RESTED.
Philadelphia, April Peter
alias Luther, alias Long Peter, alias Bango
Pete, and Abraham Cookley, charged with
complicity in the Manhattan Bank robbery,
were arrested last night, after a desperate
struggle with the officers.
As a reliable and cheap remedy for the
various affections of the throat and lungs,
we heartily recommend Dr. Bull's Cough
Syrup. Price 25 cento. »p30-lt
THE CATHEDRAL OF MILAN.
Work* ol Art by the Great .Haater*.
Milak, March 16.—Editor Morning Sexes: I
send to your readers the following jotting* of
our travels drawn from our experience* a la
Milanese:
In our wanderings about the great cities of
the Old World the reflection has often
and very forcibly presented itself how their
wonders seem all to lead and point the way
upon a scale of increasing interest more or less
gradual to some grand climax. Thus, as in all
the famous galleries of art, room after room,
filled with gems of comparatively minor merit,
is traversed before the Tribuna par excellence
is reached; so the towering majesty
of St. Peters summons with impe
rious gesture that we hasten from
the glories of Pantheon and Palace
past the ruined eloquence of Forum and Colos
seum to the precinct* of the Temple of Tem
ples —the world's Cathedral. So, in and about
churches innumerable, the devious water paths
of Venice tend, one and all. to the glorious
sweep of the Grand Canal, and thus to St.
Mark's and the Grand Piazza So even in the
streets of quiet Pisa, many a jewelled shrine
adorns the approach to the Quaurilateral of
her fame. And if in London the mind and heart
are drawn diversely toward St. Paul s and
Westminster Abbey, still it is through the
mighty thoroughfares throbbing with life and
teeming with attractions that each is reached,
and one lies beyond the chime* of Bow-church,
past the Inns of Court an l Temple Bar, and
many scenes and spots of like engrossing inter
est Notably is this true of Milan, the city of
statelv mavnifleenoe, lustrou* among the gems
of Italia's tiara.
Napoleon's famous arch, commemorative of
tbe comJJIetion, after labors increuible and
difficulties seemingly insurmountable, of the
wonderful Simplon pass, stands there a mar
ble entrance to the city, and is called the “Arch
of Peace.” Yet it but ushers us in and onward
to the presence of the Temple of Peace and
Purity. And it i» from the giit»er and grandeur
of the Galleria Victor Emanuel thatonepassea
into that same sublime and serene presence of
the marvellous Cathedral. Andersen's pen-
picture of this structure is characteristically
glowing and graphic:
“ I saw the church for the first time in the
clear moonlight; dazzling white stood the up
per part of it in the infinitely blue ether. Round
about, wherever I looked, from every corner,
upon every lit Je town, with which the building
was. as it were, overlaid, projected marble
figures. Its interior dazzled me more than St.
Peter's Church; the strange gloom, the light
which streamed through the painted windows,
the wonderful mystical world which revealed
itself hen—yes, it.was a church of God.”
I think it was more truly a church of
God than St. Peter s, incomj»arably vast as
are the dimensions and proportions of the latter;
for the simple reason.superadded to Audersen's,
that Milan s grand temple is so much less than
Nt Peter's a church or priests. In Rome one
has to mount to the very summit of the soar
ing dome before he can realise that the innu
merable army of pkull-capi»ed priests must
be reckoned even "ah other men are" in the
jmigruent of Him who is no "respecter of per-
bOUS.”
But in Milan there Is no such gathering of the
priestly clans. Simply enough to minister at
the altars do these minister, and neither silence
nor sound are hindered in tne assimilation and
p >rtraval of the attributes of Divinity. In
short, we feel not only that this is a church of
G od, but that He is in His temple, audit is holy.
1 like to associate in memory this glorious
Cathedral and that marvellous delineation of
the Saviour—the central figure in Leonardo da
Vinci’s celebrates] Last Supper. Of that paint
ing as a whole, the present dilapidated con
dition maj’ doubtless warrant some of the
strictures of writers, who, following the lead
of Mark Twain, protest against the gush of
admiration from strangers, gushing because it
is in order to gush, and not because thev
really find anything over which they sincerely
can gush. Fortunately, however, the blows
which time has dealt so hardly on this work of
art have fallen mainly on the figures of
the twelve Apostles: and I cannot under
stand how the magnetic Dower of that central
figure—despite the ills it too has suffered -can
honestly be denied by any impartial observer
It was not only vouchsafed to the painter to l>e
inspired for this his work, but to transfer that
inspiration into that figure upon his canvass,
and not the fading of his color* in the fickle
sunlight uor the stains and blotches of the
careless a?es have sufficed as yet to obliterate
tiie majesty, the love, the sorrow of that
divinely-human form.
In a former letter to the News, descriptive
of our rambles in Holland, in dwelling upon
Ary Schaeffer's “Christus Cousolator,” I said
that I had seen but one portrayal of the fare
of Chrjst more divinely beautiful—that in Da
Lost 8upper an 1 none more full of
compassionate tenderness than that of the
Consoler; that in Raphael's Tranutigura ion
the ineffabla glory of the Divine 0n9 was not
of the earth: there he was not the Consoler,
but t*e transfigured God.
Following out the thought. I mnv add that
in Da Vinci’s work the emotions to be depicted
on the countenance of the master exacted
more from the artist than was ever required of
another artist. It has been Raid that to fitly
portray uim»ii the faces of the several Apostles
lii- varying expressions consequent upon the
announcement, “one of you shall betray me."
demanded of the painter the marvellous insight
into human nature, which he there displayed.
But tldok what the demand upon him was in
spproaciiiux the task of that central figure:
For an adequate result, there wa« required of
a mortal an insight into the Divine nature,
contending with the deepest human emotions.
That any result short of failure should have
been achieved would have been wonderful,
and this result Is hardly less than a miracle.
It is the miracle of inspired genius—this counte
nance of the Master, who, having broken
bread for the last time with Hi* own chosen
followers, has just uttered tbe words so
full of fatal import to one of them.
A countenance from width censure can
no-, be absent, Lorn which love and
compassion can not be bauished. aud
whereon the very sorrowful is already en
throned. I count it n priceless privilege to have
gazed upon that face, and the memory of it
will stand out in bold relief amid all the deepest
impressions of our travels
1 have said it was pleasant to associate to
gether th» se two must striking objects in Milan
—the central flaqre iu lie Lani S»i»p«,raud tb
great Cathedral The sn'Owy igarble of Carram
r«ar* its* !f iu ft spotless integrity toward the
constant heavens to form ft purest temple
wherein his worshippers now commemorate
tie* occasion of tliat last communion.
Any detailed description of the Milan Cathe
dral would a-*em to be entirely needless from
any new pen ; certainly your correspondent
shall not indulge in such attempt. It will be
pleasant to remember our walk about the wil
derness of marble with which—to use Ander
sen's apt expression—it is overlaid; and to re-
* tbe countless incidents of that
walk.The striking ZPf- °« '^le «o.er
garden where each of the mynaus of skillful
carvings prveen’ed a different flower specimen.
Among the large and prominent figures one by
C’anova was readily identified as the
great Napoleon, which, if roorp in
teresting. was certainly less appropriate
than another smaller work of the same groat
sculptor representing St. Dasiuo, martyr, and
situated within the niche of one of tbe pin
nacles. The presence of Adam and Eve sug
gested to us the aptness of comparison as to
the garden surroundings: nor were we loath to
complete the simile, and call It all a marble
Paradise.
The gen» of the Brera Art Gallery is said to
be Raphael'* Marriage of tue Virgin. It is a
disappointment not to be able always toappn*-
ci ite the full glories of these established gems;
but 1 must record the mournful fact in this in
stance.as another of our many like experiences.
Indeed, to be entirely candid, let me say tliat
the most vivid impression I have of that paint
ing is with reference to the Joseph of the occa
sion. whose bashful demeanor and timid ap
pearance generally seemed to comjiort rather
with a bride than with a groom. A man who
would defer to the opinion of any one. a con
venient character shadow. <typified in tbe ex
periences of evert day life) - this was Raphael s
Joseph to my observation, and my cr t cisin.
however extravagant and crude, is yet sincere-
Iv sjKiken as all l can say of the famous spozu
l’tzio. Of interest far greater was the inspec
tion of the original sketch of the head
of Christ made by Leonardo da Vinci
for his great work; and for character study it
would be hard to find a more engrossing work
tiiau Guercino's painting of Abraham banish
iug Hag&r. Hiding his sobbing head in the
fouls of nis mother's dress, the sou of the bond-
woman appears sufficiently repentant of liis
“mocking," which had roused the relentless
ire of Sarah, the wife. The attitude and de
meanor of Hagar express submission, but at
the same time exhibit the innate consciousness
of blameless suffering, and her tears—ah: well,
I think they show that, buried out of sight,
are Sarah’s scorn and taunting words, in the
C resent anguish of the parting from Abraham.
er lord and master, the father of her son. I
could wish that Abraham's countenance were
a little less benignant and self-approving-
though there is withal a touch of anx'ety and
some perplexity at tbe situation—but there is
Sarah just behind him, and therefore, I sup
pose, Abraham, to be a man at all, must be
more or les'. a hypocrit9. The cruel exultation
in Sarah's eyes, the jealous scorn about her
thin old lip*,demonstrate how hopeless Hagar’s
case is any way. and make us quite satisfied
that even if this offense were condoned, sotue
other would assuredly form the ground for
that speedy expulsion to which those cold blue
eyes have sworn. To Sarah in her new found
happiness it is an insult that Hagar. the unof-
fenoing. shall now ever cross her sight; and to
the wife and mother the fact of the continued
presence of her hand maiden, and that hand
maiden s cbild. is an affront as unpardonable
as intolerable. It was Sarah, I warrant, who
fixed the limit of supplies, furnished Hagar for
her wanderings, to that bottle of water upon
her shoulder, and the bread crusts; sore the
benevolence of th 9 patriarch had not stopped
at that niggardly allowance, and we know that
he was bidden ‘ in all that Sarah hath said unto
thA*. hearken unto her voice.”
I have seen few paintings in which the treat
ment is more powerful than in this production
of Guerdno: he has thoroughly caught the
spirit of the scene, and his brush has be«n mas
terful in its portrayal.
In this gallery we also saw a painting of the
Last Supper by Peter Paul Reubens. It was re
markable to find any painting by this master
in which some rosy, buxom female (more or
less after Mrs P. P. R. as a model) did not at
least hover around. Perhaps he comforted
himself for this necessary exclusion of the fair
sex by painting a fat and ferocious bull dog
immediately under the chair in which Judas
is seated. Judas is quite a prominent
figure, aud is doubtless sufficiently villainous
of aspect: but I defy any one to return to Ju
das or any of the company after one sight ot
that bull dog. The money-bags are the ac
cepted “trade mark” of Judas; but here is an
additional emblem sprung from the rich fancy
of this master, but which has escaped the keen
observation of even the inimitable Mark Twain.
Not inferior in interest to the Brer as
is the collection of art works at tin*
Ambrosian Gallery, Cartoons by Bapbael
of his School of Athens afford very much the
MRi* kind of interesting study presented in
Da Vinci's preliminary sketch for his head of
Christ; and speaking of head* reminds me of a
group of some twenty odd displaying the most
diverse expressions of countenance, all the
more etricing from their contrast to each
other. Their author I do not remember, but
they are wrrthv of Hogarth. Very curious are
the wax-reliefs on wood, for the most part on a
small seals and of very cunn ng workmanship
One. I remember, represent* d the Death of
the Virgin, around whose couch are gathered
the sorrowing apostles. Again some very
striking effect* were produced by carvings in
Ivorv combined with wood, the latter, forex
ampK representing the clothe* of a group of
beggars, while through the rents and patches
of the clothes gleamed their white ivory limbs.
Each of these beggars was either the victim of
disease or deformity, and the disflgurirg
“goitre.” so prevalent in many parts of Italy
and especially in Switzerland, appeared in this
presentation, depicted quite to the life.
Upon the wall. Just opposite these works in
carving and wax. hangs a painting by Brescia,
with which I was much impressed. It repre
sented the martyrdom of two Saints by the
sword. One of these has received a stroke
which has only wounded him, and while the
gleaming blade is flashing above bis kneeling
form, ere it shall descend in its final and fatal
f >rce. the faithful hand of the aged sufferer is
forming in characters of his own life-blood, the
article of that life's Christian faith, and traces
upon the ground the simple word—Credo.
There was a mightv sermon in that scene, to
which words can add no strength. In other
rooms of this most interesting building we saw
Tborwalsden'* bust of Byron and four very
beautiful mythological bas reliefs: a copy of
Virgil which bel mged to Petrarch, the auto
graph of Napolein I., and also a pair of the
glove* and the shoe measure of the Little Cor
poral Here, too, are displayed the letter and
lock of hair of the Borgia which are made the
subject of such humorous mention in the “In
nocents Abroad.”
Fpeaking of tliat glorious book, reminds mo
that to it we were Indebted ft>r one of our pleas
antest expediteabout Milan. The guide
books we consulted contained no mention of
the famous Echo, and yet it is of for greater
interest than many of their stereotyped places
tliat must be “done.”
Thus, though we mode flying visit* to some
of the other churches, we found their attrac
tions necessarily dwarfed by the overshadow
ing glories of the great Cathedral, and were
no’ hing loth to take a carriage for the delight
ful drive that was to land us at Dame Ecno’s
habitation. It is a spacious, dilapidated old
nal&ce. tenanted now by a number of poor
families, and of course overrun by swarms of
their dirty children. It was a relief to find that
Echo d;d not take up her abode in tbe bosom of
these families, for that conventional nymph
being bodiless can hardly be a slattern, and in
such case she must have been. No, she hovers
about the court yaid around which the palace
is built, and can fly off to the pleasant moun
t&in sides in the distance there whenever the
uncongenial surroundings become two op
pressive. We are conducted up vast flights of
stairs until the very top of the building is
reached and are then ushered into a room look
ing out and down upon the courtyard, and fur
nished with various appliances for invoking the
arch goddess of mocking sound. She, though
her type and followers be legion, is unques
tionably here the queen of sound of
nature’s crowning, ana able to vanquish
by her exaggerative effects any queen of song.
Uttered from tliat eminence, a whit per. a whis
tle. a shout, a trumpet blast, the report of fire
arms. become respectively the agita*ed confer-
on<*e of many conspirators in a whispering-
gallery. a forest of shrill piping bird*, the roars
of an infuriated mob. the alarums of many
contending armies and the simultaneous pen 1
of several thunder claps. 1 am satisfied the
disciiarge of a cannon there would be literally
deafening. Those echoes are always sweetest
in their lingering death; and so the memory of
them is m ogled with all the regrets
of parting. The Echo and this our
farewell to it may fyml>oHze with truth our
feelings towurds this wonderful city, whereof
my pen has st f uggled to express some of our
experience*. If the result be inadequate, re
member, dear readers, that where it is given
to all of us to enjoy, it is given to many of us
to wish to record that enjoyment, and to none
of us. doubtless, is it given to make perfect
recital. Else would I not bave detained you at
all, amid the incomparable pleasures of Sav
annah in ite gentlest spring time, to hearken
to the rambling* about the city of Europe's
geci&l south land of your faithful
Scythian.
A MODERN BLUEBEARD.
Tbe Escape by Nlchl of an Afghan
Pile From Her Cruel Husband.
London Times.
In the village of Gandamak there lives
a Mohammedan mollah, or clergyman,
named Said Mir, to wjiose hoqse there
came from the neighboring village of
I’etta one Kadir, a potter. The reverend
gentleman supplied his guest with dried
mulberries, the only food at that hour
available in the house, after which the
pair sat down on the terrace below the
pomegranate grove which overhangs tjie
stream, to smoke and talk, tsaid the pot
ter to the mollah, ‘ ‘I have in my house
a daughter, who is beautiful aud of a
marriageable age; if I could suit
ably dispose of her I should
have room in my establishment
for another wife ” "Brother potter,”
replied the mollah, “1 can well feel for
you. I have myself a daughter, whose
face is like the moon, whose lips are like
the seed of the pomegranate, whose hair
is like tangled snakes; hut what availeth
all this beauty? Wives arc certainly more
useful than daughters.” And so the two
o’d reprobates talked the matter over, till
at last it was agreed that they should
change daughters, and in due time the
mollah married the potter's daughter and
the potter married the mollah's daughter.
Now, the potter’s daughter had not been
brought up with a proper sense of pro
priety, and soon after her wedding began
to make eyes at the yogng men of Gan
damak in a maimer most unbecoming to
the wife of a clergyman,
The mollah, perceiving this, cut off
her nose and ears and sent her back to
her father with an intimation that he had
discovered her in an act of infidelity, for
which he hail punished her, und that he
now returned her, as he had no further
use for her. The potter, in getting his
daughter hack, mutilated in this horrid
way, was sorely distressed, lie argued
to himself thus: “If the girl goes about
the village in this state the neighbors
will never Cease to twit me about her,
and I shall be known as the father of
the noseless girl. Such shame is not to
be thought of," 80 he killed her. Hav
ing killed his daughter, the potter was
stung with the nar.es of ~~- rse ” e
thought to himself, "The mollah is a
great brute, and I will be avenged on
him.” So he called hia wife anTl said:
“Your father cut off my daughter’s
nose and cars and forced me to kill her
Now. I must have revenge, so 1 shall
cut off your uosc and cars and send you
hack to him.” On healing this the lady
began to cry, and begged for a few days’
grace. “Very- well,” said the potter, “1
will give you till to morrow.”
It was 11 o'clock at night, and the
potter had fallen into his first deep sleep,
when his wife rose noiselessly and crept
out of the cottage into the dark, cold
night. She had seen the tents of the
Feringis, the Caffres, and she would go
to them for protection. Well she knew
that if she went to her father he would
kill her to avoid a blood feud with her
husband; if she went to the native offi
cials they would take no interest in her
fate, and would return her to her bus
band with as little compunction as they
would return a stray heifer to the butch
er. There was nothing for it but to go
to the Feringi. It was a long and diffi
cult strip of country to traverse, but
fear lent her strength and speed. She
sped miles across the Itbpan plain,
she plunged without hesitation into the
icy ford across the Turkah, she climbed
with painful effort and with hard drawn
breath the rugged steep above Sarandu,
she fled with stumbling steps the wind
ing path that led to the British camp at
Pe/.wan. she crawled past the sentry, she
glided into the nearest tent, the morn
was beginning to dawn, and she was
safe. Do you know Fitzgerald? It was
his tent, lie took her to Ball Acton,
who commands at Pezwan, and Colonel
Acton wired to General Arbuthnot at
Gandamak, and General Arbuthnot
made arrangements for the young wo
man’s safety. I do not know what will
be done with her, but she has saved her
nose and ears for the present
A contrast to the Otierammergau Pas
sion play, which is to be performed again
this season, is thus described by a well
known Shakespearean authority in a let
ter to a friend; “Years ago I saw a Pas
sion play in Spain which was sublimely
national. After the ‘Magi’ had presented
their gifts to ‘Mary,’ who was seated be
side a pasteboard manger surrounded by
pasteboard oxen with a great deal of
genuine straw about, at the tinkle of a
little bell ballet girls in short skirts and
pink tights darted from the side scenes,
and, pirouetting around the group, finally
struck an attitude with their bands over
the cradle, and their elevated toes point
ing to the audience. When the curtain
went down, there were vociferous calls
for the actors, and ‘Christ’ appeared,
leading ‘Joseph’ and ‘Mary,’ and bowed
his thanks. ”
THE ENGLISH RADICALS.
They Want Triennial Parliaments,
Mo Hereditary Peerage, Electoral
Districts and a Mew Tenure of Land.
A BEATTIFCL CAVERN.
London Truth. Aprit 15.
With regard to the composition of
the new Cabinet the fact that the
Radicals constitute the majority of
the majority must not be for
gotten, whereas in the Parliament of
1S68 the Liberals were in the majority.
It will not be enough for one or two
Radicals to be tolerated in the Cabinet,
they ought to be fully represented in it.
A Cabinet which seeks to maintain itself
against tbe greater number of its own
followers by Conservative aid will not be
satisfactoiy. I am not saying whether
or not the Radical creed he the better
one, but it has been proved to he that of
the majority of the nation, and "mode
rate Liberals” must either recognize this
or go over to the Conservatives.
When I was a boy the term "horrid
Radical’ was one of reproach; at
present it is one in which most of the
representatives of the country glory.
The idea that Radicals merely wish to
destroy everything, and that they disre
gard the sanctity of property, has disap
peared. They simply desire change
where change would be beneficial. They
have no prejudice for what is, provided
anything better can be suggested. They
pereeive that England once at the head
of progress, has lagged liehind, and they
are convinced that the interests of the
country would be benefited were insti
tutions, which were good enough for
their day, but which are no longer in
harmony with the =pirit and requirements
of the age, amended. When the county
and the borouch franchise are assimilat
ed, the absurdity of giving one man a
larger share in the choice of representa
tives than another will be so transparent
that electoral districts will be the logical
consequence, therefore electoral districts
will be the outcome. It having been
proved by the career of the last Par
liament that an assembly which has
been elected many years previ
ously does not necessarily represent
public opinion after it has been in ex
istence more than two or three years, the
latter period is the longest term which
any Parliament should be allowed to sit.
In order to create a barrier to hasty im
pulsive legislation the Upper House will
have to be made a reality instead of a
sham. As it is, the House of Lords does
not dare to fulfill the functions of an
Upper House. If it disagrees with the
Lower House upon any fundamental po
litical question it sulks hut submits.
This is because the age does not recog
nize hereditary rights of legislation All
political power must emanate from the
people. Unless the Conservatives pre
fer the shadow to the substance,
they ought to support a measure
to convert the Upper House in
to a Senate such as exists in the
United States. With respect to the
"land question,” no bill will be satisfac
tory which does not put an end lo the ac
cumulation of vast estates in the hands
of a few individuals, and which does not
secure to the actual occupier of land Ihe
absolute right to deal with it as he pleases,
and to enjoy it so long as he pays to its
owner the annual rent which has been
agreed upon. These are not revolution
ary measures. They exist already in
almost every country except in England,
and there is not the slightest question
that they will be, sooner or later, adopted
by us. When they are, it will be found
that we shall go on much as wc do now,
except that better laws will be pas^ec},
many abuses wjll bp swept away, Uade
aud industry will revive, and the sum of
human happiness will be more equally
distributed. Were I a Conservative I
should not waste any time bewailing the
inevitable, but I should accept it. .
Brutal Murder of a Girl With
Poison.
A girl named Meeker, living in Dux-
bury, Vermont, had been missing since
last Friday. Tueiday suspicion rested
on Almun Meeker, a man twenty years
old, who was an uncle of the girl, and
who, when arrested, confessed that the
girl, being cross, they wanted to get rid
of her, and they bought strychnine and
started for the Waterbury river valley.
The man and his mother gave the strych
nine to the girl in sweetened water, and
after they had gone about one hundred
rods further the victim died. They thpn
lied a handkerchief oyer he. mouth and
busied her in a swamp. Meeker accom
panied an officer and found the body,
and physicians are making an examina
tion.
The body has been examined by phy
sicians. who find no marks o( violence
upon it Thp contents of her stomach
have been sent away to be analyzed.
Tne girl's father died two years ago, and
she and a brother, seven years of age,
were paupers in the town of Charlotte.
The town gave to Samuel Meeker, their
uncle, in Duxbury, four hundred dollars
to take care of the children. The uncle,
Samuel Meeker, Is about forty-five, and
his wife forty years of age. It is the
general opinion that Samuel, who is quite
deaf, knew nothing of the crime. Al
mun is a very harmless appearing man,
not over bright. He now says hisniother
was not with him on Eriday night.
=•
In the course of a hundred and forty
years only some half a dozen men of
social position have been convicted of
murder and hanged in England, Chief
among inese were Lord Ferrers, whose
case is notorious; Mr. Parson? eldest son
of a baronet, whose baronetcy is extinct;
Capt. Donellan.and Capt. Motr. The case
of the last, though much the latest, is
little known. He was a Scotchman,
brother in law to Sir James Baird, Bart,
a near relative of Sir David Baird, who
preceded Wellington in the command of
the peninsular army, anti first cousiu to
Sir William Rae, at the date of the
fatal occurrence Lord Advocate of Scot
land. He had served seventeen years
in the army, and while at Gibraltar
nearly died from yellow fever. This
affected his brain, and while in Canada
he inflicted wounds on himself with a
hatchet: in fact, from the date of this
illness he was a changed man, and from
having been cheerful and amiable, be
came morose and violent. In 1828 he
left the army and took a farm in Essex,
and in March, 1830, on discovering a
fisherman, whom he had found re
peatedly poaching, at it again, notwith
standing repeated warnings, he fired at
him. The shot broke the man’s arm,
and he ultimately died from lockjaw.
A netition with’1,000 signatures was
forwarded in his behalf to George IV.,
but in vain. It is lucky for the gentle
man who got into trouble at Montclair,
a few months ago, that he lives in
different times and another country.
A Japanese Student Beheaded.—A
few days since it was announced that a
Japanese student, recently returned to
his countiy from America, had been bo-
headed, The people of Easton, Pa., be
lieve that Yaro Yegawa, who graduated
at Lafayette College, was tbe victim.
He was a genial, whole-souled, good
hearted fellow, made many acquaintances
and friends while at Easton. When he
left he promised to write, but his best
friends have never received a line. More
than two years before graduating he had
been ordered home, but declined to go.
Subsequently he said the difficulty had
been settled, that he was no longer a
“government’’ student, but supported by
his family. Though belonging to the
nobility, the family was evidently “un
der a cloud,” as Yegawa had lost an ear,
a sign of disgrace.
At the time that railroads were coming
into operation in Eoglaod many persons
imagined that horses wouid become, in
great measure, useless, and a Mr. Gray,
one of the most active promoters of rail
roads, wrote to a leading London peri
odical in 183U: “Eveiy horse requires as
much land for the production of its food
as would yield comfortable subsistence
to at least three human beings.” Mr.
Gray proceeds to calculate that railfoads
Would ffifow J,000,000 horses out of
work, and that consequently there would
lie food for 3,000,000 more people.
Description or One of Ihe Malnral
Wonders or California.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The following statements may sound
more like romance than reality, yet any
visitor who comes to Volcano can see for
himself on visiting the mice belonging
to John Leverone and A. G. Rocca. Here
is one of the most remarkable of nature's
curiosities. It consists of a natural cave
discovered during hydraulic operations.
The mine has been worked for a number
of years, and has always paid the own
ers a handsome dividend upon their in
vestment Very recently, while they
were piping, they discovered that a heavy
stream which they bad turned upon the
embankment failed to make any impres
sion, and the water very mysteriously
disappeared. Subsequent investigation
established the fact that they bad reached
the mouth of a very beautiful cave, the
interior of which they immediately pro
ceeded to examine.
Upon lighting candles and entering
the fissure, they found themselves sur
rounded by what appeared to be thou
sands of blazing diamonds, but which
were in reality nothing more than pend
ants or stalactites projecting from the
ceiling and confronted by innumerable
stalagmites. No man can visit this cave
and attempt a description of its beauties
without being forced to the conclusion
that his descriptive powers are inade
quate to tbe task. The main entrance
leads to a room about twenty five feet in
length by eight feet in width. The genii
of Aladdin’s famous lamp never pre
sented to his view a picture of more daz
zling brilliancy than that which greets
the beholder upon his entrance into this
natural reception room. Beyond it i9 a
second apartment, the interior of which
is about fifty feet in length by eight feet
in width.
These two caverns are connected by a
natural bridge composed of carbonate of
lime, which stands several inches above
the bottom of the cave, and in proceed
ing from the first apartment to the second
one passes over this bridge and steps
from it down to the bottom of the second
cave, where he is again confronted by
huge pendants eight and ten feet in
length. Above the mouth of the cave
there is a natural tunnel of 200 feet in
length. This hears every resemblance to
the bed of an ancient river. In fact, the
traces of the water are plainly to be seen
upon the hanging wall. AH visitors who
cume to Volcano should, without fail,
visit this, the most curious of her curiosi
ties. It would be a pity to rob this cave
of any of its natural adornments were it
more conveniently situated iu reference
to thoroughfares of travel. As the mat-
ter stands, I believe some of our business
men should collect a few of its huge pen
dants and place them on exhibition in the
museums of San Francisco.
A CELESTIAL PRINCE.
How the Klus of Slam Wears the
Honors of Royalty.
Galignani's Messengp
The King of Siam, who will spend
three weeks in America this summer, is
named Ohutahlongkorn. This, at
least, is the name which he at
taches to the royal signet. His
name, as written in the books of his
palace, is Phrabat Somdetch Phra Para
mendo Mahah Chutabiong-koru Slow.
He is a spare young man, active and
nervous in his movements, with a full,
clear, almost coal-black eye. Every
thing about him betokens a high and
quick intelligence, and gives a foreigner
die idea of a resolute and able man, full
of resources and quite equal to the cares
of his station. From him comes all
power in the State.
He commands the army, the navy, the
Treasury, and can dispose as he pleases
of tbe lives and property of his subjects.
He administers the government by
advice of a council of ministers, at tne
head of whom is the regent. He has a
sort of r:va( in the person of a second
Ling, who is entitled to royal honors
and lives in a palace, with troops, a
court, s harem and a foreign minister.
At the same time, as the supreme King
happens to be a Celestial Prince aqd the
second King is only one of ordinary tis
sue, no we(l conducted Siamese would
hesitqte in choosing the object of his
allegiance.
There is also a third King in Siam,
who is ordinarily called by the title of
British Consul General, and who, thoqgh
neither a Celestial Prince, qor even of
ordinary ttoqe, os generally more highly
cuasiderea than either of the other
Kings. As for the Regent who held
power during King Chutahlongkorn’s
minority, he is a short, thick-set old gen
tleman, more than seventy years old,
who goes about with a bevy qf girl at
tendants, aud smokes a snort Chinese
pipe while he devises schemes for ex
tending the limits and improving the
civilization of his country. It is at the
Regent’s instance that the Supreme King
is making his present tour, and proposes
to introduce the c”S' T cms of Europe and
America into the land''if the lotos flower
and the bird of paradjsp,
An early betrothal Is chronicled by the
Elmira AVze Press. Two young couples
were married within a few months of
each other, and from families that had
been very intimate. In the month of
January last a bpy was born to one of
them, and he was welcomed as heartily
as though be bad been the prince of a
reigning house. Last month a girl ap
peared to the other young couple One
evening last week the mother of the hoy
visited the mother of the girl, taking her
child with her. Most of the members of
bath families were also present. The
mother of the boy took a rather diffiinu
tive but costly ring from a easy, and
placing it on tbe finger of the girl scarce
ly a month old, solemnly engaged her
son to the child, the matter to be ratified
in the future.
The special school for idiots, which
has been in existence at The Hague, in
Holland, for now just, a quarter of a
century, points in its annual reports to
very cheering results. From May, ISfiq,
till March, 1880, the register of Tbe
Hague School for Idiots has borne the
names of 417 pupils, of whom 148 were
boarding out. Of the entire number,
43 have gone directly into service or
adopted a regular trade, while 25, great
ly restored to health, have been discharg
ed from the institution. The school has
at present 64 pupils, of whom 43 are
boarders; hut the total number of minor
idiots in Holland is estimated at 8,000,
one-third of whom are heiu to be capa
ble of education.
The new locomotive recently built by
the Baldwin Works for the Heading
Railroad Company made a formal trial
trip from Rhiladelphia to Jersey City and
back, with a train of cars, last week, and
successfully made the running time nine
ty minutes each way. But the engine
was sent back to the factory to have some
repairs made to the driving wheels to
prevent their slipping on the rails. The
maximum speed thus far has been sev
enty three miles an hour, whereas the
contract calls for seventy five miles,
which, it i9 expected, will be attained
when the difficulties mentioned are over
come. This pioneer engine is expected
to become the type of the future Ameri
can locomotive.
A young student on the eve of his de
parture to study law at Paris received
from his uncle a code which wa? to be
one of his text books at college. "If you
are faithful,” said the old gentleman, “I
will make you a fine present.” Visiting
Paris some months later, he called upon
his nephew and asked him how he was
pleasefl with his gift. “But I have re
ceived nothing,” said the nephew. “Let
me look at your code,” was the response.
The book was produced, and between
the leaves of the first chapter a bank
pote for SOU francs was discovered,which
had not been found by the faithful dis
ciple of Justinian. This was speedily
restored to the pocket of the old gentle-
CNCLB REMUS’ FOLK LORE.
Brer Rabbit Vleeta
Axaln.
Hla yialrh
J. C. Bams in the Atlanta Constitution.
‘ Dere wuz nudder man dal sorter play
it sharp on Brer Rabbit," said Uncle Re
mus, as. by some mysterious process, he
twisted a hog s bristle into the end of a
f iiece of thread—an operation which the
ittle boy watched with great interest.
“In dem days,” continued" the old man.
“de beas’s "kyar’d on marters same ez
fokes. Dey went inter fabmin’, en I
speck ef de troof wuz ter come out, dey
kep’ sto’, en had der camp meetin’ times
en der bobbycues we en de wedder wuz
’greeble.”
Uncle Remug evidently thought that
the little boy woulda’ like to hear of any
further discomfiture of Brer Rabbit, who
had come to be a sort of hero, and t
was not mistak o.
“I thought the Terrapin was tbe only-
one that fooled the Rabbit." said tbe little
boy dismally.
“Hit’s de - like I tell you, ho ey. Dey
ain’t no smart man, ’cp’ w’at dey’s a
smarter. Ef ole Brer Rabbit hadn’ter
got kotch i p wid, de nabors ’ud er tuck
qm for a h’ant.en in dem times dey bu’nt
witches ’fo’ you could squinch yo’ eye-
bails. Dey did dat.”
“Who fooled the Rabbit this time?”
the little boy asked.
By this time Uncle Remus had the
bristle “.-ot" in the thread, and he pro
ceeded with the story.
“One time Brer Rabbit en old Brer
Buzzud ’eluded dey’d soiter go snack i en
crap tergedder. Hit wuz a mighty good
year, en dc truck tu’n out mons us well,
but bimeby, we’en de time come fer di-
viju , hit come ter light dat ole Brer
Buzzud ain’t got nuthin’. Dc crap wuz
all gone, en dey want nuthin’ dar ftr ter
show ftr it. Brer Rabbit, he make like
he in a wus< fix’n Brer Buzzud e i he
mope rouu’, he did, like be fear’d dey
gw inter se 1 ’im out
“Brtr Buzzud, he ain’t sayin’ nuthin’,
hut he keep up a monst’us ihinkin’, cn
one day he come ’long en holier en tell
Brer Rabbit dat he done fine rich gole
mine des ’cross de river.
“ You come en to ’longer me, Brer
Rabbit,’ sez Brer Tukky Buzzud, «ezee,
‘I’ll scratch tny u kin grabble, en 'tween
de two un us we’ll make short w uk er
dat gole mine,’ sez.ee,
“Brer Rabbit, he wuz high up fer de
i ’ob, but be study en s udv, he did, how
le gwineter git cross de wa'er, kaze ev y
time he git his foot wet all de fainbly
kotch cole. Den he up'n ax Brer Buz-
zud how he gwinedo, en Brer Buzzud he
up'n say dat he' kyar Brer Rabbit cross,
. n wid dat ole Brer Buzzud, he squat
down, he did, en spread his wings, cn
Brer Rabbit, he mounted, en up dey
riz."
Tfiefc wai a pause.
“What did the Buzzard do then?”
asked the little boy.
"Dey riz,” con inued Uncle Remus,
“en w’en dey lit, dey lit in de top er de
highest sorter pine, eo de pine w’at d y
lit in wuz gracin' on > r ilun, cn de tluu
VVU'j in de middle er de river, wid de deep
water runnin’ all ’roun’. lYy hadn't
mo'n lit ’fo’ Brer Rabbit, he know w’leh
way de win’ uz biowin', en by de time
o e Brer Buzzud got hisse'f ba’lunce
on a lim’. Brer Rabbit, he up'n say,
sezee:
“ ‘W’flst we a res’n here, Brer Buzzud,
ea Lein's you bi’n so good, I got sump'n
fer ter tell you,’ sezee. 'I got a gole
mine er my own, one w’at I make my-
se'f, en I speck we better go back ter
mine ’fo’ we bodder longer yone,’ sezee.
“Den ole Brer Buzzud,"he laff, he
did, twell he shake, en Brer Rabbit, he
sing oqt;
’’Hole od, Brer Buzzud! Don't flop
yo’ wings w’en you laff, caze den ef you
duz, sump'n ’ll drap fum up yer, en my
gole mine won’t i.o you no good, en
needer will yone do me i o good.’
“But 'fo’ dey got down turn dar, Brer
(iabuit done tole all ‘bout de crap, en he
halter promu. fer to ’vide fa’r en squar.
tlrer Buzzud. he kyar ’im I lack, en Brer
Rabbit he walk weak in de knees a mont’
atterwuds.”
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DAVID WEISBEIN’S
Nihilist Newspapers.
The revolutionary newspaper in Russia
is literally fearfully and wonderfully
m de. Odd stories have been told of
how Rochefort’s /,« Lanlernc were some
times i-sued duri g the palmy days of
Napoleon 111. and Pietri, Lis pre ect of
Po ice, aud the clever caiic.ture in
Punch wifl Lc remembered o the two
workmen in bloti es watching up the
street and down, while one, s anding on
the other’s back, posted up a proclama
tion about “Liberte, Egalito. Frater-
nite!” But the Nihilist Journal, called
The Will of the Psophs, has still more ex
traordinagy difficulties to encoun er in ts
struggles towards publication. It is is
sued as coming from a “flying press;”
and so it is, indeed, for the only cases
for the types are in the pockets of the
editors and pubUslters themselves, an t
the only nripliug apparatus is some small
lutier press or hand press that is utterly
above anything like suspicion. The pa
per is a little sheet about six inches long
and three wide, and the mode of publi
cation is as follows: When th: Execu
tive Commi tee has anything which it
wants printed or circulated, the address,
proclamation or notice is written, and
then the members of the committee i r.
suffimo. ed to m et at some secluded
place. One brings a part of the type
with Um in fits pocket, another more
type, s third ink, a foipth paper, and
others other mfiterals, until the extem
pore jab office is quite made up. The type
is Eet, the cot ies hurried y printed and
sent to their destinations, the type is dis
tributed again to the members of tbe
committee, aat the “flying press’’ dis
perses in a dozeu different directions.
The articles, however, are as vigorous
and ener etie as if they were set up in a
well appointed Composing room and
printed upon an e ght cylinder press.
Probably they are a great de 1 mote so,
for The Witt of the People is not indanger
of being sued for libel, nor does It need
to keep a fighting editor.
Lieutenant Mahan, a West Pointer
assures the Pittsburg Commercial Gaulle
that the worst crime known to the corps
of cadets is s lie. “If a cadet,” he says,
"is known to lie, he might as well go
elsewhere for society; he is ostracised by
the rest of the corps. During ail my
intercourse with cadets as a boy, as a
cadet, and as an officer, 1 cannot now
recall half a dozen coses of lying, even
when it was a question of a cadet crimi
nating himself. He would rather do
this than lie and save himself. What,
ever else he will do, he wdl not lie.
While I was an instructor at the Acad
emy, if a cadet toid an officer that he
knew nothing about a subject that was
the end of it. If a cadet will not lie to
save himself, it is not likely that he will
do so to save another. He will not be
apt to report another unless it be his
duty, but he will not stoop to a lie, or
even a prevarication, to save either him
self or another. I grant you, however,
that if any cadet were sufficiently low to
commit such an outrage as this one on
Cadet Whittaker, he would lie to save
himself, but no one else would do it for
him.”
The Countess of Dufferiu had s not-
row and most thrilling escape recently.
The English Ambassador, with the rest
of the embassy, was invited to a bear
hunt in the vicinity of the Russian capi
tal. and the bear, after being turned out
of his sleeping place, suddenly made a
dash towards Lady Duffer in anu in a few
seconds was alongside of her. The affair
might have had a fatal ending but for tbe
coolness and declston of Lord Frederick
Hamilton, s son of the Duke of Aber-
corn, aged twenty-four, who steadily
leveled his rifle at the bear and shot him
dead on the spot, at the very feet of Lady
Dufferin.
Anderson Wold, a Swede, was shot
and killed at Johnstown, Pa., Monday
night, by Ckm Burke, a fellow boarder.
The Swede had been out drinking, and
was trying to get into a woman’s room,
when Burke, who slept in an adjoining
room, went out and shot him.
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HOURS OF THE DAY WHEN OTHER
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WHY IS IT?
All who have purchased of u* know the reasons
—they are few and easily understood.
1. Mr. Weislwln is almost constantly In New
York, ami watches his chances to purchaMM at
the lowest prices. No forced or jieremptory
sale escapes his vigilant eves.
4. Our goods are sold with the smallest pos
sible profit, and we only sell good and reliable
goods ami make it a point
Never to Deceive a Customer
3. If perchance a competitor offers a special
liargain, whether he does it because he bought
the article below its value or whether he offers
it below cost as a bait to draw customers, or
whatever reason it may be.
i\o Matter to Us the Object,
As soon as we are aware of it we meet all these
baits
Without Regard to Loss
to us. for we will not allow anybody to under
sell us.
WE HAVE CONSTANTLY
Bargains in Every Department,
and we gnaranh** a great saving in purchasing
of us. Wc call attention to a few specialties:
A yard wide BLEACHED COTTON, equal In
quality to Wamsutta. at Uk’.
200 p'eces of best CALICOES at 6t^c.
*25 piece* yard wide PEBC'ALES and CAM
BRICS at 10c.
180 nieces VICTORIA LAWNS, very cheap*
accora>ng to qualitv.
Extra cheap lots of HAMBURG EMBROID
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Big drive** in DARA80L8 and FAN8.
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Don’t purchase elsewhere before you have
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Printed LAWNS, newest styles, finest quality,
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Ladies' EMBROIDERED LAWN TIES, from
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Ladies' Black and Colored SILK LACE MITTS.
Ladies’ “LA MARGUERITE" SILK LACE
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Misses THREAD and 8ILK MITTS, black and
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Ladies' I>ong and Laoe-Top GLOVES, from
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100 dozen Ladles’ LINEN COLLARS, in a great
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Ladies' Butck and Colored SILK GLOVES.
The ‘VL’AKER CITY REINFORCED” SHIRT,
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Gentlemen's Summer BALBRIGGAN HALF
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Gentlemen's LISLE THREAD HALF HOSE.
Ladies “full regular" White and Unbleached
BALBRIGGAN HOSE at 25c.
Bargains in Children's French and English
Regularly Made FANCY HOSIERY.
Handsome FANCY DRESS BUTTONS, over H>
varieties, from 5c. to 75c. per dozen.
Special attention is directed to my large stock
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