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NEWS OP THE WEEK.
EAST.
During the first seven months of the
present year 78,853 immigrants were entered
at New York, a falling oft of 105,559 compared
with the corresponding period of 1873.
The chief of police of Philadelphia
has issued a proclamation stating that the
police forego any claim to the whole or part
of the twenty thousand dollars reward,
offered by the Mayor for information
that will lead to the arrest and conviction
of the abductors of Charley Ross. The chief
invites communications, otherwise from per
sons who may have the needed information.
A Washington dispatch gives as the
reason why the secretary of the treasury lim
ited the call for five-twenty bonds to twenty
five millions, that not only the call of the first
inst., but subsequent calls are likely to bring
in well executed counterfeit 5-20 bonds known
tohave been extensively sold in Europe, and
it is proposed to subject 'all received to the
closest scrutiny.
WEST.
Omaha roports 72 cars of Japan tea
enroute east.
St. Louis wants another big bridge
down at Carondelet.
Michael Reese, of San Francisco, sues
the California Pacific road for seventeen
million dollars.
Gen. Howard has left Washington
for Oregon to take command of the depart
ment recently under Oen. Davis.
The auditor of Illinois pronounces
the Atlantic and Pacific insurance company
bankrupt. Assets $200,000, liabilities $447,999.
Ohio convicts must resume the zebra
stripes discarded a few years ago. It was
found difficult to capture those who escaped
in plain clothes.
The executive committee of the state
grange has issued an address to the grangers
of Wisconsin. It warns them that an attempt
will be made in the next legislature to secure
the repeal of the railroad law, and urges them
to resist the effort.
Adjutant-General Baker, of lowa,
writes to commissioner Burdett of the general
land office, representing there is great suffer
ing among homestead settlers in the north
western counties of the state, owing to the
visitation of grasshoppers.
The grasshoppers have literally de
voured everything in northern and south
western Kansas and Nebraska. The damage
inflicted on vegetation is far greater than in
1869. Tne com crop through all this region
is totally destroyed.
A special from Seneca, Kansas says :
During a heavy thunder storm fifteen miles
west of this city, two men named John O.
Huddleson and Edward Roscoe were killed by
lightning. Mrs. Huddleson was severely
burned. Five others in the wagon escaped
unhurt. They had abandoned their homes on
account of the grasshoppers.
Informrtion from Fort Laromier says
the Sioux Indians report that the Arapahoes
and Cheyennes are getting ready for war.
Many Sioux will go with them, should this be
true. The military are very active, but the
movements are as quiet as possible that the
Indians may not be informed thereof through
renegade whites and half-breeds.
Reports from various portions of
Minnesota, represent the wheat harvest
nearly completed. The wheat lias been saved
in good condition, and although the yield is
not quite equal to that of last year, it is bet
ter than expected. The quality is generally
No. 1, in many portions of the grasshopper
districts the yield of wheat is fair. Oats and
barley are good. Com and potatoes promise
excellently.
Col. Stanton, just arrived at Laromie
from the' agencies, reports that numbers of
Indians are coming from the north, who say
that Stabber, a prominent Indian in the dis
turbances of last spring at the agencies, and
several others, are killed by Custar’a men who
are returning. There seems to be much feel
ing in consequence among the Indians comiug
in, and at the agencies. The Indians report
the death of twenty-one Indians, wounded in
the late fight.
SOUTH.
Atlanta ladies propose to organize a
female industrial school.
Elbert county, Ga., has produced
about 35,000 bushels of wheat this year.
The village of Montgomery, Ky., was
almost entirely destroyed by fire last week.
Loss, $27,000 ; very little insurance.
A diamond rattlesnake was killed
near Pilatka, Fla., recently. It was ten feet
long and had eighteen rattles.
The caterpillar has made its appear
ance in several cotton fields Jof Levy and
Alachua counties, Fla. Rust hasaleoappeared,
and the prospects are not so good as they
were two weeks ago.
A fight occurred at a small village in
dark county, Ky., on election day, in which
two white man were killed and two negroes
mortally wounded, and fifteen negroes were
more or less severely wounded.
Mob of whites and negroes hung a
negro named Munro Divers at Warrenb irg,
Mo., last week, charged with ravishing a
white child six years old, belonging to a re
spectable citizen of Warren burg.
J. Newton Temple, United Stales dis
trict attorney for the western district of Ar
kansas, and John A. Minnie, attorney for the
northern district of Alabama, have tendered
their resignat ons, which have been accepted.
The public library of Kentucky has
j net purchased for $25,000 the splendid col
lection of minerals and fossils of the late
Prof. Troost, of Tennessee, probably the
most extensive and valuable of the kind in
t re country.
The caterpillar is reported to have ap
j eared in Barbour and Henry counties, Ala
bama. and it is thought they will destroy the
cotton by the 30th of August. There are simi
lar reports from Dale county.
The transfer and sale of the east Tsn
nessee iron and coal company to A. L. Max
well, John J. McKennon, Ed. M. Grant, and
Messrs. Duncan, Sherman, & Cos., of New
York city, for $480,000, was perfected a few
days since. This transfer covers all the cap
ital stock of the company, and also their min
eral lands, etc.
The superintendent of the New Or
leans mint is making arrangements to recom
mence operations, but owing to the smallness
of the congressional appropriation they will
for the present be confined to assaving only.
No business has been performed at that mint
since June 26, 1861, when the confederates
took the property.
Near Carlisle, Nicholas county, Ky.,
last week, one Hamilton, while attending the
Methodist church, being offended at some
king said, stood up on a bench, and flour
shed a pistol. Thomas Shaw, one of the
rustees succeeded in pacifying him, and coax
ng him out of doors. When outside Shaw
old him the penalty of the law for his offense,
thereupon Hamilton shot Shaw through the
leart The congregation came out, seized the
nurderer and sent him to Carlisle, whence,
rom fear of lynching, he was sent to Lex-
Dgton.
Madame Fortinmyre, a midwife, re
ading at No. 1,817 Morgan street, St. Louis,
?as arrested last week. If, is stated she has
radioed abortien several years ; that a num
ier of infants have been cremated by her;
nd that several highly respectable persons
re involved in the matter. Mme. Fortin
leyer made confession to the general effect
iiat. she had been in the business two years,
nd has produced several hundred abortions,
nd implicates quite a number of highly re
pectable people of the city. It bad been
er custom to burn all pi emature births on
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
he ground, as she expressed it, that ashes tell
no tales.
Col. Richard Ten Broeck, the well
known horse owner, was shot at Gillman’s
station, Ky., last week by Gen. Walter Whit
taker, a lawyer. Whitakert had already killed
two men and is regarded as a desperate char
acter. It will be remembered that Ten Broeck
took a number of American horses to Eng
land some years since and matched them
against English runners. Ten Broeck is not
dangerously wounded. Whittaker fired four
shots, the last shot hitting him in the center
of the forehead, and forlunately glancing up
wards, cutting through the skin and hair, but
not fracturing the skull. Ten Broeck's es
cape is regarded as very extraordinary. Whit
taker had an examining trial, and was admit
ted to $2,500 bail. His attack seems to have
been unprovoked.
FOREIGN.
The order for the Biitish Mediterra
ean squadron to proceed to the coast of Spain
has been countermanded.
The investigation into the assassina
tion of Marshal Prim of Spain implicates
fifty persons.
The Pacific mail steamer, Gautemala,
recently abandoned off the Bahamas, proves a
total loss. Value of steamer $80,000; value
of cargo unknown.
There has been a terrible gale off the
coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. Hundreds of
fishing boats are over due, and it is feared
many of them are lost.
There is a rumor afloat that Germany
is negotiating with Spain for the cession of
the town of Santana, in the province Santan
der, proposing to make it a second Gibraltar
The trial of ten young men and
women for issuing and circulating revolution
ary proclamations, is proceeding before a spe
cial session of the Russian s^iate.
Bayonne advices state that the carlists
have captured 6,000 breach-loading rifles,
which were landed on the coast. It is also
said that 5,000 other rifles, destined for the
carlists, have fallen into the hands of the
French police on the frontier.
A London letter says there are ugly
rumors buzzing about the military service
clubs, to the effect that official news from
Gold Coast is of such a character, that another
expedition to Ashantee is more than probable.
Prince Bismarck recently fought a
duel with pistols at Dusseldorf, with M. Leark
awau, an officer of the infantry. The encoun
ter took place at 6 in the morning, ten paces
separating the conbatants. Three shots were
to have been fired by each, but the first shot
of the German took effect in his adversary’s
abdomen and soon afterwards proved fatal.
During the discussion of the public
worship regulation bill in the house of com
mons, Disraeli referring to the strife between
church and state on the continent expressed
the conviction that however tranquil might be
the general state of Europe, there were agen
cies at work preparing a period of great dis
turbance.
A letter from Ireland says John
Mitchell had a brilliant reception in the city of
Cork. The whole town was aflame with ex
citement. He was waited on by crowds of his
old associates of 1818 and young disciples of
his. At night the streets were alive with
bands of music and bondfires, and there was
a torchlight procession to his residence in
which 5,000 people took part.
A letter from Havana says that last
week the town of Libonica, a village in Guay
mora and another small place, with nearly
45,000 rations, were burned by the Spaniards,
doubtless for.want of transportation and for
fear of their falling into the hands of the
Cubans. The villages of Caldran and Unas
have been captured by the Cubans, and the
plantation of Dannas, near Santa Clara, was
sacked by them.
The latest mail advices from Europe,
in regard to the crop prospects there, are not
so good as the last preceding report. Though
the French wheat crop is a good average one,
still the hopes that it might be classed among
the rich crops will not be realized. Rye and
barley will yield a good quality, hut rather lim
ited quantity. Complaints about oats have in
consequence of the heat became more intense
from certain parts. From Vienna the official
bulletins say the continued July heat has done
harm only in a comparatively small part of the
empire, but was pretty damaging to barley,
oats, and feed. Rye and wheat looks well.
Com also looks well.
Tke excursionists accompanying Mr.
C. W. Field to Icelaud, who go out to attend
the millennial celebration, report the progress
of the journey in the following words under
date of July 26. We arrived at Thorsham.
Faroe islands, yesterday afternoon, all in good
health and spirits. The king of Denmark
reached Tuorsham a few days before, and will
sail for Iceland to-morrow afternoon. We
shall leave to-morrow morning, as all wish to
be in Iceland when the king airives. We are
all delighted with what we have seen. This
morning the church at Thorsham was full of
people anxious to hear the sermon, and per
haps to see the king of Denmark. Thorsham
presents a gay and beautiful sight, every ves
sel in the harbor and every house flying a
Danish flag. Our steamers havo the American
flag at the fore, Danish at the mizzen and
English at the stem.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The redemption division of the treas
ury department has now seventy clerks em
ployed in the business of counting and assort
ing the notes sent by the banks for redemp
tion. In a few days, banks will regularly re
ceive returns from their remittances to the
treasury for redemption.
Capt. Beall, just from Fort Worth,
brings information that the Indians have cap
tured two mail stages, one going and one
coming between Fort Hill and Wichita. There
were only three passengers, all of whim with
the drivers, were killed and scalped.
The secretary of the treasnry, the
postmaster-general and the secretary of the
interior have approved of the plans for the new
postoffice and custom-house at Cincinnati,
and have directed supervising architect Mul
let to proceed with the work. The cost of the
building is limited to $3,500,000.
Capt. Jas. B. Eads, chief engineer of
the Illinois and St. Louis bridge, has gone to
Europe to thoroughly examine the jetties at
the mouth of the Danube, Rhine aud other
rivers having deltas ; also the different cana's
on the continent, so that he may have addi
tional and accurate information respecting
their practical workings, to lay before congress
next winter in favor of his plan for jetting the
mouth of the Mississippi.
The secretary of the treasury is pre
paring a formal demand on the several Pacific
railroads embraced in the act of last June,
requiring the payment of five per cent, of the
net earnings of the companies to the govern
ment, imposed by act of July Ist, 1862. If
the demand is not complied with within sixty
days, the secretary will notify the attorney
general, who will institute legal proceed
ings against the roads for the delinquent
taxes.
The secretary of the treasury has no
tified Inspector-General Smith, of the bureau
of steamboat inspection service, that his res
ignation would be accepted. The cause of
this step was on account of expenditures for
experiments of boilers, etc., at Sandy Hook,
N. Y., and Pittsburg, Pa., the secretary hold
ing that no good has been accomplished by
such experiments, and besides, four other
members of the board to examine into the
causes of boiler explosions disagreed with
Gen. Smith as to the manner of making these
experiments. The appropriation for experi
ments was over one hundred thousand dol
lars, of which sixty thousand have been ex
pended.
It is observed that at the fashionable
sea side resorts no ladies under one
hundred and forty pounds avoirdupois
are In bathing this season.
AUGUST LILIKi.
B olding a Illy in his hand
For Death’s annunciation,”
What time the white day lilies lift their faces
Serenely splendid to the August sun,
And crimson-streaked petunias overrun
With lavish color all the garden-spaces ;
When purpling grapes upon the trellis cluster,
And bloomy plums drop ripely from their hold,
And peaches t urn to globes of honeyed gold.
And pears grow sleek with mellow gloss aud luster;
When a translucent haze the sunshinefollows
And veils the fervent sky in dreamy light,
Involves in mist the luminous mountain-height,
And fills with violet shade the mountain hollowB;
When the still nights their dewy sweets surrender,
When stars regede, and on her throne serene
The full moon Bits a solitary queen,
And floods the land and sea with silver splendor—
Then comes again, in shadowy completeness,
A face that faded once when lilies came ;j
A face the whitest lilies could not shame
For lack of any lovely grace or sweetness.
Nine years ago, in silent desolation,
I watched the fading of that perfect face
Until I knew His presence in the place—
The awful Angel of Annunciation.
The August sun had set in all its glory,
And when the pomp of clouds had trailed away,
And gold and flames had melted into gray,
I read the ending of love’s sweetest story
The balmy night came dewy-soft and stilly,
With light w nds trembling over beds of bloom ;
Above the silence and the scented gloom
I felt the waving of the mystic lily.
And oh ! I saw, as one sees in a vision,
Where, spell-bound, one may neither cry nor
stir ;
Its dreary shadow stealing over her,
And darkening lips and eyes with slow precision.
Nine years ago. But still the memory thrills me;
And the wild Borrow and ths yearning pain
Come back to wring my quickened soul again,
And the same sense of desolation fills me,
Whenever, through the summer darkness sighing,
Some wandering wind has brought me suddenly
The scent of lilies, as it came to mo
That night in August when my love lay dying.
Scribner's.
JUST WHAT SHE DESERVED.
BY EFSA MANSFIELD.
“Do yon intend, Alice, to take that
sachel and lunch-basket and 1 ird-cage
and plant and water-proof cloak —Bo
many things—along with you into your
car seat ?”
“ Yes, sir, I must.”
“ Why must you, Alice ? It is not
cold to-day, and there is no danger of
its raining. You will not need your
cloak, and you probably will not unstrap
it. Can't yon put it into your trunk, or
manage somehow to take fewer bundles
into your seat with you ?”
“No, Uncle John, I cannot. My
trunk is crammed so full now that I fear
the lock will burst.”
“ Well, Alice, if yon must take so
many packages with you, I waut to sug
gest to you to be careful how you dis
pose of them. Don’t attempt to occupy
two seats when you have paid for only
one, if someone else wants the other.”
“ That will depend greatly, Uncle
John, upon who it is that wants a scat with
me,” replied Miss Alice, with a haughty
toss of her head. “ I certainly shall
not put my things under my feet nor'
load my lap uncomfortably to accom
modate some ordinary looking man or
fussy old woman. One-half of the men
nowadays would just as lief oblige a
young lady to do it as not. They are
not gallant at all; they ought to be
ashamed of themselves. I have heard
woman—good women they were, too—
say that the seat beside them was en
gaged, when they had got their things
placed and didn’t wish to remove them,
or because they didn’t like the looks of
the person who wanted the seat, when
I knew that they had no friend that was
coming iu to take the place. I didn’t
blame them at all, Uncle John. I
shouldn’t hesitate to say the same my
self under the same circumstances. It
wouldn’t be telling an untruth. If all
of these packages were on it, it would
be taken, wouldn’t it ?”
“ Pshaw ! pshaw ! Alice. Is that you
advocating such stuff as that ?” exclaim
ed her uncle, in surprise and indigna
tion. “I, too, have seen women and
girls, and occasionally a man, who acted
upon that principle; bui. I had serious
doubts of their goodness. I never
dreamed before, Alice, that you were so
selfish and unprincipled as to think of
doing such a thing. If a man ought to
feel ashamed to take a seat for which he
has honestly paid, how ought a young
lady to feel who would not scruple to
practice gross deception for the sake of
retaining, for her own convenience, a
seat to which she has no claim what
ever? If I were willing to do such a
thing, my respect for myself would be
about as little as it would be if I wished
to steal from a passenger as much money
as he had paid for his car-fare. It will
be fully half au hour, Alice, before Mike
gets here with the carriage. While we
are waiting, I will tell you a little inci
dent that transpired in the car when
your Aunt Ruth and I went to Rich
mond last fall. We had a seat at the
rear end of the car. The first seat in
front of us was occupied by a young
lady—j ust about your age, Alice, j udg
ing from her looks. She was richly
dressed aud I think would be called a
handsome girl; but there was some
thing both in her look and manner that
was not pleasing to me, even before I
had heard her speak, or hardly seen her
move. If any one had asked me what
I disliked in her, it would have been
difficult for me to tell; yet there was an
intangible something about her which
gave me the impression that she had no
idea that the golden rule— * Whatsoever
ye would that others should do to you
do you even so to them’ —was intended
for such as she. She probably thought,
Alice, that that divine injunction wa3
given for common people— ‘ ordinary
looking men and fussy old vomen.’
“ Your Aunt Ruth said that she be
lieved that about all Summerville were
going somewhere that morning, the cars
were so rapidly filled. It is always
amusing to me to observe the difference
in the dispositions and manners of the
people who are seated while others are
passing through looking for unoccupied
seats. I know of no better place in
which to study human nature than in
the cars. I think that I have seen
more curious phases of it while ridin
in them than I ever sav in any other
place. I observed the young lady in
front of me that morning with more in
terest than I did any other perscD, be
cause I wanted to ascertain whether I
was correct tr not in the opinion which
I had so hastily formed of her.
“One of the last passengers who
came in was a white-haired, tottering old
man. He looked to the right and left
of him for a vacant seat, as Le passed
down the aisle, leaning on his staff. I
glanced ahead ; but I could see no place
where he could get a seat except with
the young lady of whom I have been
telling you. I hoped that some young
man would give up his seat to the poor
old gentleman and find one for hi a. sell
in another car; for I was sure the young
lady would not make room for him, if
she could avoid it. She had about as
many packages as you intend to take
with you, Alice, and she had arranged
them all along on the seat beside her
with such nicety that it gave them a
peculiarly touch-me-not appearance. I
thought of asking her if she had
noticed that decrepit old man Who was
looking for a seat, thinking she might
possibly remove her packages if I
should. But I had the curiosity to see
what she would do of her own accord,
so I refrained from speakiDg, and in
tend el to give him my place if he did
not secure oue before he came to me.
No doubt some of tlhe people whom he
passed would have given him theirs if
they had not observed that there was a
vacant seat beside the young lady. As
the old gentleman drew nearer to us she
turned her head an and looked out of the
window, I must confess, Alice, that I
was rather glad, on the whole, that no
one had moved for him. I wanted to
see how far she would let her selfish
ness carry her.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. 1874.
“Two men—one middle-aged, the
other younger—sat in the seat directly
opposite the young lady. From a few
words that I caught of their conversa
tion I learned that the younger man
was a capenter, and I thought it quite
probable that they both were. The
middle aged man sat next the aisle, and I
noticed that he was observing the young
lady quite as closely as I was. His face
was not a very demonstrative one ; but
once or twice I detected an amused
twinkle in his eyes and a slight curl on
his lips when he glaneed at her. When
the old man came opposite the young
lady he stopped and looked first at her
bundles and then at her. But she didn’t
see him. Oh! no. She was looking
out of the window and humming a tune.
He didn’t speak, but he drew a long
breath that was half a sigh, and he
looked dejected and weary, and was
about to pass along when the middle
age man opposite arose and said re
spectfully : • Take my seat, sir.’ And
he kindly helped him into it, at the
same time glancing at the young lady
and saying : ‘ I can find another for
myself, or I can stand.’ She did not
turn her heard nor show any
signs ot hearing him. So he walk
ed the whole length of the car,
looking for a vacant seat; but, of course,
with no success, and it is not at all prob
able that he expected to find one when
he started. As he came back toward us
the twinkle in his eyes and the curl on
his lips were a little more marked than
they were before, but there was less
amusement in the expression and more
indignation. Probably none of the pas
sengers except those who had observed
him watching the young lady noticed it.
I was satisfied, however, from his looks,
that he intended to give that selfish,
disobliging yoimg lady a lesson, and I
soon found that I was not mistaken. He
came directly to her, and, gently touch
ing her shoulder (she was still looking
out of the window), he said :
“ Shall I place some of these bundles
up in the rack for you, yontig lady ? I
can fiud no other seat in this car that is
not occupied by some person.’
“ ‘You will please to leave my things
where they are,’ she snappishly replied.
‘I presume that there are plenty of va
cant seats in the rear car. A gentleman
would go and look for one, and not dis
turb a lady in this way.’
“ By this time all the passengers near
were looking on and listening intently
to see what would come next. At her
crusty reply he put on an exceedingly
abashed look and stammered :
“ Oh ! I beg vour pardon, young lady.
I had no idea that; I was about to en
croach upon your rights. I did not sup
pose that you had paid for both of these
seats. But you have, of course ; for
nothing can be clearer than that a lady
would never speak to a man as you
spoke to me if she were not entitled to
both. If you ill please show me your
tickets for the two or will give me your
word that you have paid for them both
I will go anywhere—will stand crowded
into any corner—sooner than disturb
yon again.”
“She neither showed tickets nor
deigned to reply. So he carefully re
moved her things and took the seat,
telling her that whenever she or the
conductor informed him that he had not
the same right to it that she had to the
one which she was occupying he would
vacate it the next instant. All of the
passengers who had observed what was
going on f miled approvingly, and one or
two laughed aloud; and the old man
nodded his head emphatically and whis
pered to the young carpenter; ‘ That
was just what she deserved .’
“The young lady tucked back her
dress disdainfully and looked scornfully
at the man beside her, and I thought
that she was about to say something
very vindictive ; but, if she was, she
was prevented by a gentleman’s rushing
up to the window where she sat and ex
claiming :
“ ‘I came near not getting back to
say ‘ good-bye,’ Clara. Here are the
books that you wanted. The bookstore
was closed and I had to wait nearly ten
minutes before it opened. I’m sorry it
has so happened that I cannot accom
pany yon. I hope that you will havo a
pleasant ride and get to the seminary
without any trouble.’
“ * A pleasant ride /’ she repeated,
sarcastically; then putting her head
partly out of the window she whispeied,
sufficiently loud for those in the adjoin
ing seats to hesr her, and no doubt with
the special intent of humiliating the
man who had had the audacity to re
move her things and take a seat beside
her: ‘I shall have a lovely time; you
may be sure of that, father. An inso
lent old carpenter has crowded himself
into the seat with me, and —’
“She was cut short in her remarks
by the moving off of the train. Soon
after the cars started the ‘ insolent old
carpenter’ turned toward her and said,
as complacently as he would have done
if he had not heard her epithets :
“ ‘ Your father’s voice sounded famil
iar to me, young lady, and I was about
to rise and see if I knew him when the
cars moved out of the depot. Will you
please give me his name ?’
“ ‘No, sir, I will not,’ she haughtily
replied. ‘I am not in the habit of hold
ing conversation with strangers.’
“ ‘Ob, ah! please excuse me,’ he said,
unable to repress a smile. Perhaps we
shall make each other’s acquaintance
sometime. Then we will converse.’
“ He did not speak to her again until
we reached Richland. When the con
ductor called out the name of the sta
tion she hastily arose, and, gathering up
her packages, which were rather more
than she could conveniently manage,
said, imperatively: •
“ ‘Let me pass out.’
“ ‘Certainly, young lady,’ he pleas
antly replied. ‘I stop here myself. You
seem to be burdened with packages.
Allow me to take some of them out of
the car for you.’
“She did not reply in wo:ds ; but she
threw back her head and locked intense
ly disgusted that he should offer to
touch her things. He evidently tried
to suppress a smile as he turned around
and crossed over to the young carpen
ter. On account of your Aunt Ruth’s
lameness we sat quietly in our seats,
waiting for the other passengers to go
out, before I helped her out. So I had
nothing to do but observe what was go
ing on around me. The young lady’s
packages troubled her, and she was ob
liged to pause a moment to rearrange
them. Before she passed out of her
seat a young lady about her own age
rushed in to meet her. After the accus
tomed salutations between young ladies,
the newcomer dropped down upon the
seat and exclaimed :
“‘Oh! Clara! my breath is nearly
gone. I did not get your letter until
fifteen minutes ago, and I hurried every
step of the way here, for fear that I
should be too late to meet you. lam
delighted that you decided to enter the
seminary here. Where in the world
did you fall in with our Principal, and
where is he now ? Has he gone to get a
carriage for yon ?’
‘“I am sure I don’t know what you
mean, Grace,’ she replied. ‘ I haven’t
seen the Principal.’
“ * Haven’t seen him !’ said Miss
Grace, with an amazed look. ‘ Of course
yon have seen him. When I first caught
a glimpse ot you from the door you
and he were standing together in this
seat and he was speaking to you. ’
“*'Oh ! no, Grace. Your eyes could
not have Served you right,’ said the
selfish young lady who had carried her
self so disagreeably and haughtily, with
a good deal of agitation and a very red
face. ‘lt cannot be possible that the
man whom yon saw talking to me was
Mr. Gaylord. You surely must be try
ing to play a joke on me. I beg of you
to tell me that it was not he,’
*“I cannot, my dear; for it certainly
was he,’ replied Miss Graee. Why,
what is the matter, Clara ? Didn’t yon
like him ? If you did not, I am sure you
will when you become acquainted with
him. He is one of the most refined and
agreeable men in the world, and his
wife is just as agreeable as he is. I
thought that you were one of the most
fortunate of girls when your father told
me that they had consented to take you
to board. I wish that I were in your
place.’
“ ‘ You’d wish you were anywhere but
in my place if you knew what—’
“Miss Grace interrupted her in her
sentence by exclaiming :
“ ‘ Why, here is Mr. Gaylord now.’
“ ‘Mr. Gaylord,” she said as he was
passing, without looking toward them,
‘this young lady, whom you were
speakiDg to a few minutes ago, is my
friend, Miss Clara Evans, whom we were
expeeting to-day.’
.“He turned, and, stepping into the
seat in front of them, gave bis hand to
the young lady with whom he had rode
thirty miles that morning, and smilingly
said :
“ * How do you do, Miss Evans ? It
gives me pleasure to make your ac
quaintance. When I first saw you, with
your books and packages, I felt pretty
sure that you were the young lady whom
we expected down at Summerville this
morning, and as soon as I heard your
father’s voice I was confirmed in my
opinion. Now that yon know me, Miss
Evans, and know that I am not a car
penter, you will permit me to take yonr
things for you and see you into a carri
age, will you not ? ’
“As he stooped and took her pack
ages from her, he asked in a low tone :
“‘Have you ever thought, Miss
Evans, that it would be well for the
revisers of the New Testament to omit
to state that Christ was a carpenter ?
You know some people might feel so
much greater reverence for him if they
did not know that humiliating fact.’
“ She stood like one transfixed and
neither answered his questions nor ob
jected to his taking all of her bundles.
Then she fheekly followed him out of
the cars. Her face was so crimson and
she looked so utterly crestfallen that
your tender-hearted aunt said that she
could not help pitying her, richly as
she merited the lesson. But I could
not pity her, Alice, she had shown snch
a thoroughly selfish and disagreeable
spirit. And I wished that the white
headed old man had remained in the
car long enough to witness her discom
fiture. I think that he would have said
again : ‘ That is just what she deserved.’
And I told your aunt so, and she said
that she hoped that the poor girl would
so profit by that day’s experience that
she would never deserve to be so hu
miliated again.”
“ And I hope, Uncle John,” said
Alice in a softened aud subdued tone as
Mike came np to the door with the
carriage “ that 1 never again shall merit
the rebuke conveyed in your story.”—
N. Y. Independent.
A RIVER HORROR.
Alt Olilo Mail-Boat Burned to tlie
Water’* Edge—Over Twenty Live*
Lost. /
The operator at Aurora, Ind., reports
that the steamer Pat Rogers burned on
the sth inst., one mile below Aurora.
About twenty lives were lost. Several
bales c f cotton which formed a part of
the cargo, caught fire, it is supposed
from sparks from the chimneys, and the
boat burned to the water’s edge, boat
and cargo, the latter consisting of cattle,
sheep and hogs, a total loss. The pas
senger register and all books were lost.
The boat was valued at $60,000, and
insured in Cincinnati, for $32,000 and
Louisville for $5,000. The value of the
cargo is not ascertained.
THE ENGINEER'S STORY.
Mr. Holmes, the engineer gives the
following aocount of the burning : “It
was just about 6 o’clock when just op
posite Loughery Creek, that flows iuto
the Ohio river, two miles below Aurora,
that I noticed a bright light in some
bales of cotton in the after part of the
boat. I hastened to the spot and found
the cotton burning rapidly and beyond
any possibility of immediately extin
guishing it. I hastened to the hurri
cane deck and gave the alarm to the
pilot that the boat was burning and told
him to run ashore. The pilot at once
turned the boat’s head to the shore and
immediately she became unmanageable.
The pilot states that he could turn the
wheel but the steamer would not an
swer to her helm. He thinks
THE TILLER ROPE HAD BEEN CUT.
From this fact it is thought the fire
was the work of an incendiary. Anoth
er theory is, that one of the deck pas
sengers, while smoking, dropped sparks
from his pipe into cotton. When the
boat became unmanageable she drifted
on to a sand bar, and there grounded.
The flames, instead of spreading along
the lower deck at once, shot up to the
cabin and pilot house, an then swept
across the hurricane deck. The pas
sengers were all aroused and the boats
lowered, and many were carried to the
shore, but others, in their fright, jump
ed into the water, and those who were
not drowned reached a safe landing puce
after drifting a loDg time with the cur
rent. There were nearly a hundred
people on board, but what proportion
of this number were actually lost is not
known, as many reported missing have
been seen by some on the shore after
the disaster.
The latest intelligence says the per
sons perished are near thirty in number.
The Relations Between France ami
tlie Carlists.
A letter from Madrid, published in
the Journal des Debate, contains some
passages of strong interest at the pres
ent moment. Speaking of the proba
bly early resumption of hostilities in
northern Spain, the writer says:
The struggle will be severe, for if the
liberal army is receiving re-enforce
ments, the carlists, thanks to the assist
ance they openly draw from the south
ern provinces of France, become daily
more formidable. It is wearisome to
return incessantly to the same topic,
but it is our duty to affirm the fact
that the French government, in spite
of its probable good intentions, neither
prevents nor restricts the succors sup
plied to the carlists on our frontier, and
to which we have so often called atten
tion. A carlist newspaper published at
Bayonne in both Spanish and French
not only propagates the most untrust
worthy news so long as it is favorable
information on all that concerns the in
surrectional movement —the guns that
are expected, the ammunition which
has successfully passed the frontier,
the horses and mules procured or ex
pected —everything, in short, that befics
its profession of Carlist Momteur. At
Bayonne, also, there are public ware
houses containing clo lies and stores of
all kinds for the carlists. In the south,
Lizairaga and a formidable staff which
escorted him, with a great quantity of
baggage, were able to promenade as
easily in our towns and on our high
roads as if they had been the offensive
cavalcade of an Olympic circus. With
respect to Dorregary’s last proclama
tion, the general must feel it necessary
to exuse his cruelty, for he had a good
number of soldiers and officers shot ;
among others two German officers.
This last rigorous act is by some con
sidered an act of gratitude to France
for all the sacrifices she has imposed on
herself in favor of the carlist insurrec
tion.
A Western paper introduces sergeant
i Bates as “the flag-toting fiend.”
Hallucination of a Maryland Woman.
The latest instance of superstition
comes from Centerville, Maryland,
where Miss Fannie Lairimere claims to
have seen the Celestial City. Among
her many wonderful prophesies she
stated that her last “ visit to the heav
enly world would occur June 10, and
that she would remain in a trance until
10 a. m. on the 20th. A reporter vis
ited her home on the day named, and
found the young lady on a bed in a
parlor in a rigid condition, with Lead
slightly thrown back, and eyes closed,
but breathing quite naturally. Be
tween 10 and 11 o’clock she indicated
by a motion of her finger that she
wished to write, when a pencil was
placed between her fingers, and paper
against the pencil, when she commenced
writing. She wrote but a few words,
and even these no one, it seemed, could
read. After waiting for several min
utes tlie young lady spoke as follows :
“ Let all leave her presence for ten min
utes.’' Of course, the command was
immediately obeyed, and slie was left
alone; but at the end of ten minutes
the crowd again filled the room.
She remained in this condition until
about 2 30, when she again spoke, say
ing, “ Take her body and place it
erec- in the dining-room until 1 o’clock.”
This order was immediately obeyed,*
and she remained standing until" tlie
time name 1; those around her in the
meantime engaged in singing and
prayer. When 1 o’clock arrived all
was quiet. In a few minutes she spoke
about as follows : “I am now in Para
dise, and it has bien revealed t 6 me
that this is the last time that I shall go
into a trance, as you call it. There are
many here who do not believe that this
is the work of God in me, but if they
will remain until 8 o’clock to-morrow
morning they will all be convinced. I
will now answer any question that may
be asked me.” Here she ceased, and
after a few moments' silence different
parties commenced questioning her, but
she failed to give a direct answer to
any, though, in fact, she answered all.
After numerous questions had been
asked her, none of which were import
ant, she requested that “her body be
taken and laid upon the bed and left
alone for twenty minutes.” This was
done, and after the expiration of twenty
minutes she was again surrounded anil
plied with questions with about the
same suocess as at first.
Last winter the belief sprang up
among some of her visitors that her
flesh would not burn while she was in
her rigid condition, and in order to dis
prove this a gentleman placed a live
ooal of fire in her hand, which burned
her severely. In one of her trances,
however, she assured them that on the
next day she would pass into a spasm,
and that her h?ind would be suddenly
healed, aud stated further that she was
to have only twenty-seven pains arising
from it. As each pain struck her she
would name a certain chapter in the
Bible, and if any of those chapters are
read in her hearing she will pass offinto
a deep sleep before two lines have been
read, and remain so until the book is
laid aside, when she suddenly awakes.
In the evening at exactly the hour she
named, she was taken with a spasm,
which remained upon her for exactly
five minutes, and upon her recovery she
asked to have the bandage removed
from her hand, and when it was done
her hand was found to be entirely
healed, and anew skin formed over the
wounded place, and she has not felt a
single pain in that hand since.
On the Ist of June, while in a trance,
she informed her friends that on the
18th of that month she would have a
hard contest with the devil, and pre
dicted the exact hour. Promptly at
that hour on the day named she passed
into an unconscious state, and in a min
ute or two was in a terrible rage, appar
ently crazy, and attempted to commit
suicide. She was seized, however, and
tied into a chair, the work requiring the
strength of four men. After a while
she informed those near her that she
had triumphed over the devil, and had
conquered him, and in a minute or two
returned to consciousness. In five years
time she is to take the pulpit. There
are quite a number who believe it is the
Spirit of God w. rking through her. In
personal appearance she does not appear
diseased. She is a brunette, neither
haudsome nor homely, and would weigh
between 130 and 140 pounds, and ap
peared quite robust and strong.
Wliat an Italian Brigand’s Head is
Worth.
Iu the northern provinces and in Sici
ly brigandage is as flourishing as in
the olden times ; the police are either
partisans of malefactorrs or are impo
tent against their organized forces, and
the poor find it their interest to protect
the brigands who never molest them
and frighten away the proprietors and
farmers from inspecting too closely
their crops and stables. Rarely is a
murderer or brigand captured. Forty
five escaped from Casenga last month,
and the ringleaders are still at large.
Botta, the chief of police at Parma f
Fiana, mayor of Orviete ; the inspector
of the macinato in Sardinia, have been
assassinated, and th.e assassins are un
discovered. The government sends the
military, who find themselves isolated
in the midst of a hostile or timid popu
lation without aid or information from
the civil functionaries. A large reward
has just been offered for the most noted
Sicilian brigands by the new Prefect of
Palermo—Jos Yicenzo Capraro, Pin
cenzo Roeca, Angelo Rinaldi, Gloachi
no di Pasquale, Antonio Leone, $5,000
per head for Antonio Lombardi, $2,000
for Lorenzo Lampiasi, surnamed the
King; for Salvatore Vellorina and
Guiseppe Lomonte, S4OO per head. But
such measures are useless. No one
dares to betray the law-defying chief
tains, still less to venture into their
domains, well knowing that a spy’s life
would not be worth an hour’s purchase.
The Pintos.
The Territorial Enterprise thus de
scribes the Piutes of Nevada : “ What
ever may be the case with other tribes,
the Piute has no notion of passing away.
They are a remarkably healthy people.
They are seldom sick,"and there appears
to be about 100 births, to one death.
Hardly a squaw that is over sixteen and
and under sixty years of age can be
seen who has not a pappoose slung on
her back. What shall be done with
these people ? will one of these days be
a question that must be answered in
some way,as ther • seems to be no like
lihood of their dying off. Among the
Piutes to work is considered no dis
grace, and their biggest brave is not
ashamed to be seen handling an axe or
saw. The women are quite industrious
and the men are always ready to work
when coin is shown them. Their great
est vice and their ruling passion is
gambling. They play among them
selves, and when they have money cards
are never out of their hands.”
Indian Tree-climbing.
In South America even the weakest
may be, not uncommonly, seen pluck
ing" the fruit at the tree tops. If the
bark is so smooth and slippery that
they cannot go climbing, they use other
means. They make a hoop of wild
vines, and patting their feet inside
they use it as a support in climbing.
The negro of the west coast of Africa
makes a larger hoop round the trees,
and gets inside of it and jerks it up the
trunk Vith his hands, a little at a time,
drawing his legs up after it. The Tahi
tian boys tie their feet together, four or
five inches apart, with a piece of palm
I bark, and with the aid of this fetter go
np the cocoa palm to gather nuts. The
native women in Australia climb the
gum trees after opossums. Where the
bark is rough they chop holes with a
hatchet; then one throws about the
tree a rope twisted as long as will go
around it,* puts her hatchet on her
cropped head, and placing her feet
against the tree and grasping the rope
with her hands, she hitches it up by
jerks, and pulls herself up the enor
mous trunk almost as fast as a man will
climb a ladder.
The Career of a Notable Swindler.
The death by his own hand of Lord
Gordon-Gordon ends not unfitly the
career of one of the most remarkable
scoundrels of the age. What name
and station were truly his there is now
no chance of discovering. He appeared
first in New York, not quite three years
ago, under the title ef Lord George
Gordon, and lived at the Metropolitan
hotel in a sumptuous style in accord
with his rank: attended by valet and
private secretary, and served with meals
in his room on plate adorned with armo
rial bearings. It was at the time when
general interest was felt in the romantic
lifg and fate of the lost earl of Aber
deen, whose family name he bore, and
the story was circulated that the earl
had notjbeen drowned, but had appear
ed in the person of Lord Gordon. This
idle tale, however, is one that he was
not responsible for. He appeared as the
representative of English and continen-
"shareholders in the Erie railway,
an 4 laid his plans for no petty con
quests. • He invited Horace Greeley
and Col. Tfiomas A. Scott to meet each
other at dinner* with him, his private
secretary representing to each that Lord
Gordon was the particular friend of the
other. After dinner, over the wine, he
broached a daring scheme of railway
enterprise which almost captured the
faith and assent of his guests. Col.
Scott, however, took the matter home
to think of. With the shrewd Jay
Gould he was immediately successful,
and he gained also the con'idence of
other leading capitalists, including the
late Horace F. Clark, from whom he
obtained large advances on the pretext of
desiriugtlie settle his Scotch tenantry on
lands in Minnessota ; Gould, also, was
induced to put into his hands stocks
and money amounting to half a million
of dollars. He was arrested as a
swindler, before getting off with his
booty, slipped his bail and went to
Manitoba. The attempt of two detec
tives from St. Paul to kidnap him there,
aud their consequent imprisonment by
the Manitoban authorities, gave rise to
a long diplomatic coi responderce be
tween the governments of the Domin
ion and the United States, and a recent
sequel in the villainous attack on the
Manitoban district attorney in St. Paul.
Since his arrival in Manitoba, Lord
Gordon’s schemes of colonization have
been the wonder of the inhabitants.
Lately he had instructed a firm of Win
nipeg lawyers to sue those Minneso
tans who shared in his illegal arrest,
which was, of course, a mere black
mailing dodge, Gordon had an aristo
cratic bearing, and affected familiarity
with the British nobility ; he possessed
an intelligence, vigor and ingenuity that
would have given him success in an
honorable life.
Senator Jones Points A Moral.
Bonn Piatt has been interviewing
Senator Jones leisurely as they “ ex
pressed ” from New York to Washing
ton, and writes in the Washington Capi
tal as follows : .
“ I cannot understand Morten,” said
the Senator; “.lie is unquestionably an
able man, yet he floundered in that
quagmire of finance like a cart-horse
with his eyes blinded by the very mud
he flung up.”
“ I think,” I said, “ Morton struck on
that word ‘ doctrinaire it had snch a
dreadful sound to h m.” “He remind
ed me,” responded the senator, “of a
queer character we once had in Nevada
by the name of Pokebury. He was law
yer of some promise, but came to noth
ing through drink. Losing all his
clients he went to mining, and joined a
rough miner by the name of Spokes.
At the end of a week Pokebury appear
ed in town with a black eye, a swollen
nose, and lacerated garments. Of course
we were anxious to know all about it.
‘ Well you see,” said lie, ‘ Billy and I
were partners, and I like Billy, for he’s
a well-meaning man for an uneducated
cuss. But Billy and I dissolved part
nership, we settled and struck—least
wise we struck each other and Billy
settled. Our first little difference was
of an astronomical character. We di
vided the day different. Billy divided
on six a. m. and I divided on ten a. m.,
and Billy, instead of allowing for astro
nomical difference, said I was a lazy
dog. But I didn’t mind that, for Billy
was my partner, yon see, and had a right
to hfs views. Then we differed on abla
tion. Billy abluted before breakfast,
and said I was a dirty dog, for you see
I always ablute after breakfast. But I
didn’t mind that, for people will differ,
and so long as the difference don’t affect
business what’s the odds? But the
third difference was just a little too
much for me. We were sitting down to
beans and slap-jacks, and Billy blowing
about my being a greedy dog, when
suddenly the fellow said to mb, “I’d
thank you for those molasses.’" This
was too much—no man can say “ those
molasses,” to me and live —and I just
took him in the countenance with a
right-hander that settled him and his
damned insulting bad grammar togeth
er. That’s the way we dissolved. I’m
in town, and I guess Bill will be here
in a ccmple of weeks.’
‘s“And so,” continued tlie senator,
“Morton struck on doctrinaire."
Breeding Camels in Nevada.
On a ranch on the Carson river, eight
miles below the mouth of Six-mile can
on, is to be seen a herd of twenty-six
camels, all but two of which was born
and raised in Nevada. But two of the
old herd of nine or ten brought here
some years ago are now living. It
would seem that the original lot fell in
to the hands of Mexicans, who treated
them very badly, overloading and abus
ing them. The men who now have
them ate Frenchmen, who had formerly
some experience with camels in Enrope.
They find no difficulty in rearing them,
and can now show twenty-five fine
healthy animals, all of Washoe growth.
The camel may now be said to be thor
oughly aoclimated in the state. The
owners of the herd find it no more dif
ficult to breed and rear them than would
be experienced with the same number
of goats or donkeys. The ranch upon
which they are kept is sandy and sterile
in the extreme; yet the animals feast
and grow fat on such prickly shrubs and
bitter weeds as no other animal would
touch. When left to themselves their
great delight, after filling themselves
with the coarse herbage of the desert,
is to lie and roll in the hot sand. They
ire used in packing salt to the mills on
.he river, from the marshes lying in the
desert some sixty miles to the eastward,
they have animals that easily pack
seven hundred pounds.
Caft. Caulfield, who kills tigerd
for the Madras government, extrocte I
from two living cobras eight grains of
their poison, which he placed on a beef
bait, which was eaten by a tiger; but
the tiger did not suffer from the meat
Capt. Caulfield knows now what he
might have known before, that some
poisons which are deadly if injected in
to a wound becomes harmless in the
stomach, where they are apparently de
composed and digested.
The Prince of Wales In Debt Over
$3,000,000— Bankrnptcj on
$700,000 a fear.
A London letter says a repoit has
suddenly gained currency that the long
expected crisis had occurred in the
financial affairs of the Prince of Wales,
and that the ministry have made-np
their minds to propose to the house of
commons next session to pay his debts.
The sum named is 640,000 poundf ster
ling, tour times the sum voted in 1787
to appease creditors of that pattern of
royalty who afterwards became G>*>rge
the Fourth. About paying the bills
there are certain to be two powerful and
contradictory sentiments, one that the
honor of the nation is concerned in pro
viding for the debts of its future k ng;
the other that these debts are of a char
acter which ought to be paid out of the
accumulated fortune of the Quoen.
The latter view rests on the well kn own
fact that the Queen has been receiving
ever since the death of Prince A1 jert
the whole of her income calculated at
her accession to support the expenses
of court in the nsnal degree of splendor;
that her majesty has, however, lived
daring this period for the most pari in
retirement, and that the cost of diaw
ing-room levees and other royal pa
geantries have in fact fallen upon the
Prince and Princess of Wales, whose
income has been unequal to such a bur
den. The existing debts, or a eonsiier
able part of them, have, according to
this theory, been incurred in the dis
charge of these dnties. Hence it is
urged that the Queen, who has had md
kept the money given her by the state
for such purposes, ought to pay the m.
The Prince of Wales has £40,000 a y ?ar
plus the revenue of the Duchy of Cos m
wall, which now amount to over £IOO,-
000 per annum.
Patrons of Husbandry.
We give below the number of subor
dinate granges in the different states of
the union on the Ist of June, as shown
by the official records of the national
grange :
Alabama 604 New Jersey 78
Arkansas 421 New York 1:16
California 200 North Carolina.. 199
Connecticut 3 Ohio !<47
Delaware 10 Oregon 164
Florida.. 54 Pennsylvania 184
Georgia 640 South Carolina. . 193
Illinois 1,481 Tennessee !33
Indiana 1,998 Texas 400
lowa 1,994 Vermont 120
Kansas 1,333 vVest Virginia 55
Kentucky 1,101 Virginia 260
Louisiana 127 Ontario 15
Maine 24 Wisconsin 437
Maryland 101 Colorado SI
Massachusetts... 58 Dakota 55
Michigan 400 Dist. of C ilnmbia. 1
Minnesota 532 Idaho 7
Mississippi 292 Montana 19
Missouri 1,929 Washington 18
Nebraska 587 Canada 9
New Hampshire.. 311
Making in the aggregate 19,492 sub
ordinate granges on the first day of
June. Granges are being organized at
the average rate of twenty-five per day,
which, up to the present, would swell
the number to 20,000. These grange i,
on an average, number fifty voters, atd
it requires no figuring to show that to
day there are in the United States
1,000,000 voters who are patrons of hni
bandry. _
A New Guinea Bird.
There is a bird in New Guinea called
the Megapodius, which, in the size of
its eggs and its manner of hatching
them, most be considered extraordi
nary. It is not larger than one of onr
ordinary fowls, but its eggs are three
inches long by two and a hall in diam
eter, It does not attempt to sit on
them. A colony of birds lay their egg3
together in a large mound in the hottest
part of the year, from September to
March, and leave them to be hatched by
the sun. The mound is Imade of sand,
loose earth, and sticks an*l leaves,
which latter by their decay increase the
heat. The mounds are wonderfully
large, being ten feet high and about
sixty feet in circumference at Jihe base.
The young birds come out at a hole in
the top. The mother birds wait on the
trees around till their chicks are
hatched, and then each leads off hei
own brood. How each knows its own
is a mystery, The eggs are much rel
ished by the natives, but not at all by
Europeans. A native of Cape York ven
tured one day into a nest for eggs, and
while he was exploring the hidden
riches of the large monnd the upper
part fell in and he was smothered.
Turkish Beds.
A correspondent, writing of a Turk
ish harem, says : “ Each lady had three
rooms to herself, and the furnishing of
them was generally left to her taste or
caprice. They were arranged very well,
and the furniture was very handsome,
but curious in form. A regular Turk
ish bed is something quite different
from ours. There is no bedstead or
mattress, but about thirty very thickly
padded quilts, covered with silk or sat
in, laid one on top of the other on the
floor, until they are about two feet
deep. The sheets are invariably of silk,
embroidered, and the coverlid is a mar
vel of gold and silver embroidery on
satin or velvet. The pillows are of pink,
blue or yellow satin, covered with beau
tiful lace. From the ceiling hangs a
large jeweled and gilded hoop, and
from this rich lace curtains, which en
circle the bed. To hold their robes they |
have innumerable brass-nailed camphor
wood trunks, and as one of these alter
another was turned out for me to see
the contents, I began almost to lose my ]
head in the confusion of colors ana
beauty of materials.”
Caution to Ladles Going Abroad.
A recent decision maJe by the French
court, the Tribunel de la Seine, holds
that marriages solemnized at the resi
dence of a foreign minister, resident in
France, are not marriages at all. By a
fiction of international law, the resi
dence of an ambassador or minister is
considered for oertaiu purposes part of
the territory of the country he repre
sents, but this applit s only to diplomatic
acts. It does not extend to civil acts
affecting the citizens of the country to
whom the ambassador is accredited. A
marriage contract at a minister’s resi
dence between a French subject and a
foreigner has no existence, on account
of the iaoompetency of the foreign offi
cial who solemnized it. This deoision
will naturally cause some uneasiness to
our American friends that have married
French wives or husbands at onr minis
ter’s residence in Paris, and who wish
for many reasons to have the oontract
legal in both countries.
Hydrophobia.
“John Paul,” who has had diversi
fied experiences with dogs, writes from
his home to the Tribune. He mentions
that he was once bitten on the ear by a
canine, since which time he appears to
have suffered much, not from the bite,
but from Mrs. Paul. He says, “She
begged that I would send for the doctor
at once, and have my ear cut off, de
claring that if I did not she should not
have a moment’s peace. Arbitrarily,
Eerhaps brutally, I declined to gratify
er. * In consequence I have not yet
had the bliss of knowing what it is to
bound gayly through life with a leather
ear. It may be that the experience is
still destined to be mine, however, for
sinoo this mad dog excitement reached
its present height Mrs. Paul frequently
asks me if I feel no symptoms. I can
not scratch the back of my head without
her placing a bucket of water before
me to see if I show any signs of “ boil
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smses asd noises.
“It costa lees to take a weekly pa
per,” argues the Cape Abu Advertiser,
“than a diligent hen* can earn in a
year, at the market price of eggs.”
Bald mountain has got through shak
ing, and singularly enough the new
converts around there have commenced
playing cards and setting up again.
It may be the right of an American
citizen to ride around in a wagon and
howl like a wild beast, but quiet people
wish that elections were further apart.
A Massachusetts man has been in a
successful business forty nine years,
and never advertised. The business
consisted chiefly in lying about his
neighbors.
With stupidity and sound digestion
man may front much. Bat what in
these dull, imaginative days are the
terrors of conscience to the disease of
the liver ?— Carlyle.
A young lady asked a clerk in the
Wisconsin News company’s store if he
had “Festus.” “No,” replied the
clerk, “but I’m afraid a boil is com
ing on the back of my neck.”
Chubch services in Green Bay only
last three-quarters of an hour, but if a
Sunday dog-fight don’t continue at least
an hour and a-half everybody feels dis
appointed.
A young woman at Trenton, who was
sleeping with her feet hanging out of
the chamber window, was struck by
lightning and almost tom to pieces.
The other Trenton women have taken
their feet in.
The Grand Rapids (Mich) Post thinks
that to deny women the elective fran
chise because they can not bear arms
would not be one whit more unreason
able than to deny men the ballot be
cause they can not bear children.
A Michigan girl was killed by light
ning while picking feathers for her
nuptial pillow. This seems to be a fair
warning to those young ladies who are
too proud to sleep on com husks.
Deaths take place, the world over,
at the rate of one every two seconds.
There is a sense of profound relief in
the thought that every time a man
goes out of the world, a baby and a
half are coming into it.
“ Boy,” said a traveler to a disobedi
ent youth whom he encountered, “do
veu hear your father speaking to you ?"
*‘Oh, y-a-a-s,” replied the youth, “ but
I don’t mind what he pays. Mother
don’t, neither; and twixt she and I
we’ve about got the dog so he don’t.”
Oh, the skeeter, the beautiful skee
ter, filling the air with melodious me
tre. Under our hat, and tickling our
nose, taking a bite through a hole in
our clothes; in through the window,
opening the door, filling our chamber
and singing the sweeter, ever is found
the untiring muskeeter.
Moke than fifty women applied for
admission at the Agassiz School at Pen
ikese. Only seven women offered them
selves this year for examination at Har
vard. Apparently there is a difference
between studying at a scientific school
open to men and women and passing an
“ examination for women” under the
auspices of a celebrated university. But
the former seems most popular.
®Do you chew gum ? The prices of
three piece* at one cent a piece, am
ounts to $1 56 a year, or in sixty-seven
years to 8104 52. That sum will pur
chase a complete set of Appleton’s Cy
clopedia, a mi.rriago license, a black
bombazine dress for your aunt, a Ger
man silver coffin-plate, and a cheroot!
Cut this out, young man, and paste it
on the back of jour girl’s photograph.
An English writer in a recent article
gives a cooling description of Iceland.
After stating that there are no trees, no
vegetables to speak of, no town except
the capital, no inns, no hens, no pigs,
no roads, no shops, no manufactures,
no army, no navy, no criminals, only
one policeman, and two lawyers, he in
quires of himself, “ What, then, is
there?” and himself replies, “Snow
mountains, glaciers, hot springs, earth
quakes, volcai oes, mfrthera lights, cav
erns, morasses, and, above all, deserts. ”
This is hard on Iceland.
Eugene Lawrence writes in Harper's
Weekly: “The war party in Franoe em
ploys in private language that seems
the extravagance of bombast. Newspa
pers may be cautiously silent, and min
isters yielding and submissive, but the
politicians of the cafes and the clubs
nave no hesitation in confessing the
future policy of aggression. Franoe,
they assert, is gathering an army that
nothing in Europe can resist. All its
youth and manhood are to be converted
into soldiers. In some unguarded mo
ment they will strike Germany. The
war will be one of unsparing severity,
and if they fail, Paris will be razed to
the ground and the name of France be
blotted out from among nations.”
As though it hadn’t enough on its
hands already, the German government
has undertaken to regulate dueling in
the army. Boards of honor are to be
formed, and without the sanction of
such a board and the presenoe of its
president no duel is hereafter to be
fought. Officers complying with these
conditions are to be exempt from crim
inal prosecution for casualties occurring
on the field of honor, except in peculiar
ly flagrant cases of unprovoked insult.
The old emperor is quoted in the Lon
don Times as saying: “ I will no more
tolerate in the army an officer who wan
tonly attacks the honor of a comrade
than an officer who does not know how
to guard his own honor. ”
Someone has said that a man who
can play a good game of chess has all
the mental requisites neoessary for a
great general. A professor of the manly
art of fencing and boxing says the man
who can spar well has attained the
highest point of physical development.
In this exercise every nerve and muscle
is brought into simultaneous action at
he command of the brain. Dancing
and fencing are graceful ; sparring is
more graceful than either, because it
demands both bo iy and mind, More
over no man can spar well unless he has
;iis temper in perfect control. A com
mon objection is made to sparring on
the ground that it makes men pugna
cious, more ready to seek than to evade
n quarrel, in order that they may dis
play their superiority. On the contra
ly, it is almost invariably found that
the consciousness of power makes man
more forbearing to an opponent, calmer
in disposition, with a larger mixture of
that perfect self-possession, which is
♦ne of the best tests of true manhood.
The New York assay office furnishes
t ome very interesting statistics. Thirty
million dollars gold (bullion) were op
t rated upon in the last eighteen months
snd 87,600,000 silver. The shipments
cf silver from New York to Philadel
phia amount to several tons a month.
1 iftst year there passed through the
liboratory forty tons of geld, worth
about $500,000 each. Most silver
Carries gold, and the presenoe of
gold is especially notioed in the
tiie silver ores of Utah and Nevada.
The assay office does not receive crude
ores of any kind, only bullion, which
s gnifies either coin or bars. Many of
tie jewelers send samples of their
goods to the assay office in order to test
their value. A few days ago a magnifi
o ;nt golden ohalioe from a Mexican oon
vmt was thrown into the crncible, and
a l old family plate frequently meets
the same fa*e. Daring the last twenty
V Bars gold bars to the amount of over
$119,000,000 and silver bars to the
anount of $15,000,000 were manufac
tured in the New York aesav office,—
\y. Y. Herald..