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FROM ST. LOUIS.
RICH DEVELOPMENTS.
Hen Babcock in the Toils—Some Very
Ugly Circumstantial Evidence—His
Correspondence With the Bosses of
the Ring.
St. Louis, November 30.—The Avery
prosecution has closed with some tes
timony of a general character. The cor
respondence shows that Gen. Babcock
received many dispatches from parties
implicated. The following was read :
Washington, Dec. sth, 1874.
Col. John A. Joyce, St. Louis:
I eanDot hear that anyone has gone
or is going.
| Signed] Babcock.
After a long debate, the telegrams
>vcre admitted, as follows:
St. Louis, Oct. 25th, 1871.
Gen. 0. E. Babcock:
Poor Ford is dead. McDonald is with
his body. Let the President act cau
tiously on the successorship.
[Signed] John A. Joyce.
St. Louis, Oct. 27th, 1873.
Gen. 0. E. Babcock:
The bondsmen prefer the man they
have recommended.
An expression from the President to
his friends here will secure everything.
Let the President do for the best. De
pend upon McDonald and myself to
stand by his actions to the last.
(Signed) John A. Joyce.
St. Louis, October 28,1873.
His Excellency U. S. Grant:
We have the honor to recommend
Col. Constantine Maguire for Collector
of Internal Revenue of the iirst dis
trict of Missouri. Signed, John A.
Joyce, William Patrick, C. A. Newcomb,
John McDonald.
St. Louis, October 28,1873.
Genei'al Babcock:
See dispatch sent to the President.
Wo mean it mum.
[Signed] Joyce,
St. Louis, March 14, 1874.
General Babcock:
Start for San Francisco to-morrow
night. Make D call off his scandal
hounds that only blacken the memory
of poor Ford and friends. Business.
[Signed] J,
St. Louis, October 27, 1874.
General Babcock:
Have you talked with D. Are things
right and how? Answer.
[Signed [ T.
St. Louis, Dec. 3, 1874.
Genei'al Babcock:
Has the Secretary or Commissioner
ordered anybody here.
(Signed.) J.
St. Louis, Feb. 3, 1875.
General Babcock:
We have official information that the
enemy weakens. Push things.
(Signed.) Sylph.
St. Louis, April 23,1875.
General Babcock:
Tell Mack to see Parker of Colorado,
and telegraph to the Commissioner to
crush out the St. Louis enemies.
(Signed) Ghit.
A somewhat lengthy discussion then
took place—Judge Krurn, for the de
fense, contending that three counts of
the indictment against his client were
insufficient, and should be quashed.
Gen. Henderson, for the prosecution,
replied, and admitted that one of the
counts was insufficient, but maintained
the others were good and binding upon
the defendant. The court sustained
Judge Ivrum’s positiou as to two counts,
and said he should instruct the jury to
return a verdict of not guilty as to
them. The other counts were held
to be good, and the defense then
proceeded with their side by in
troducing three letters of a social
character, which had passed between
Joyce and Avery, and tending to show
that they were in the habit of using
such familiar terms as Billy and Aleck,
Joyce’s middle name and Avery’s
Christian name, in writing to each
other. Depositions of persons in Wash
ington relating to the good character
of Avery were also read. This done,
Judge Krum announced that to be the
case for the defense. The arguments
will be heard to-morrow.
A BLAST FROM BOREAS.
Severe (Tales and Unprecedented Cold
Weatber at the North.
Boston, November 30.—The gale ox
tended along the New England coast.
The velocity here, at one time, was
sixty-live miles an hour. A large school
house at Waterville was unroofed
while the school was session. The
children escaped without serious in
jury.
Detroit, November 30.—A furious
northwest gale and intense cold weath
er prevailed. Several ~ vessels were
ashore and broke from their moorings.
The barge Wauregan is on the reef.
Captain McKenzie, his wife and two
children, and the crew, are supposed to
be lost.
Boston, November 30. —There is un
precedented cold weather for the sea
son in all sections of New England.
Thu thermometer is from four to twen
ty-two degrees below zero.
Milford, Pa., November 30.—The
thermometer is two degrees above zero.
The Delaware is frozen over.
Port Jarvis, N. Y., November 30.
The canal is closed from Hinesdale to
Allenville. All boats will reach tide
water to-day, when the canal will be
closed.
Buffalo, November 30. —The boats
are all right on the Erie Canal. The
weather along the line is from three to
five degrees below zero.
New York, November 30.—The mer
cury fell thirty-eight degrees in the
past twenty-four hours.
Detroit, November 30.—News of the
wrecked barges Wauregan and Sweep
stakes has been received. The Sagi
naw is closed in by ice.
Hazelton, Pa., November 30.—The
weather has been intensely cold here
since yesterday afternoon, when the
moronry began to fall very rapidly. It
reaehed two degrees below zero during
night, and at noon to-day was but five
above.
Minor Telegrams.
Wheeling, November 30.—Articles of
impeachment against E. A. Bennett,
Auditor, have been adopted.
Albany', N. Y., November 30.—Ex-
United States Senator Ira Harris is
very low.
Columbus, 0., November 30,—Gov
ernor Allen has appointed Millikin
Treasurer elect, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Treasurer
Welch.
Providence, November 30.—Batteries
B, T and L, of the Fifth Artiilery, with
the regimental band, left Newport
this evening for New York en route for
Charleston.
Savannah, November 30.—The Sa
vannah and Charleston Railroad was
completed to-day to Savannah, giving
the road for the first time an inde
pendent track for the entire distance
between the two cities,
®l)e Augusta Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Sliober Stock Rising—Judge Advocate
Holt Retires to Private Life.
Washington, November 30.— Hon.
Fraucis E. Shober, of North Carolina,
Secretary of the Democratic Con
gressional Committee of the Forty
second Congress, has great strength
for Clerk of the House.
Judge Advocate General Holt has re
tired on his own account. Gen. Dunn
has been appointed Judge Advocate.
Ex-Speaker Blaine and the Presiden
cy-Proposed Constitutional Amend
ment on the School Question—Cam
eron Moving on Grant.
iSpecial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.)
Washington, November 29. — Ex-
Speaker Blaine as a Presidential candi
date does not like the idea of the third
term people getting ahead of him on
any of the popular issues. Mr. Blaiue
is now out with a proposition which he
says will settle the public school
agitation for ail time. He proposes
the following as a constitutional amend
ment :
“No State shall make any law re
specting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
and no money raised by taxation in
any State for the support of public
schools, or derived from any public
fund therefor, shall be under the con
trol of any religious sect, nor shall any
money so raised ever be divided be
tween religious sects or denominations.”
The country has had some reason of
late to hope that the party with which
Mr. Blaine is identified were disposed
to cease tinkering with the Constitu
tion. But it is evident now that such
hope is delusive. No one dreamed that
there need be any “public school agita
tion” until the idea was broache 1 by
the Republican party leaders. It has
been seized hold of first by President
Grant in the interest of his third term,
and now by Mr. Blaine, which indicates
that whether or no the people are to be
forced to make it an element in the
next Presidential campaign.
Cameron Against Grant.
For some months past there has
been no secret made of the fact that
the President and the Camerons are
“out.” The President has for some
time been aware that it was entirely
due to the intrigues of Gen. Cameron
that the anti-third term resolution was
put through the Pennsylvania Repub
lican Convention last Spring. This
was in revenge for the refusal of the
President to allow Gen. Cameron to
control at will the Federal patronage
for Pennsylvania. Lately a movement
has been started by Gen. Cameron to
provide for the election of the Pennsyl
vania delegates to the National Repub
lican Convention as early as next
March. The object ol this is to secure
au anti-Grant delegation or a delega
tion which can be used for the Came
ron clique exactly as it may further
their interests. The friends of the
President in Pennsylvania are at work
to checkmate this move, and lively
times among the Pennsylvania Repub
licans may be anticipated. Already
the opponents of the Cameron faction
in the-State are talking about the
necessity of sustaining the President.
The result will be apt to show how
much real strength the third term has
in Pennsylvania.
More Mexican Troubles—Babcock
Swears He is Innocent—The Damag
ing Telegram.
Washington, November 30. —Inform-
ation from the Rio Grande represents
that trouble from cattle stealing is as
bad as ever. Mexican raiders have a
contract to deliver eighteen thousand
head at Monterey, and expect to steal
them from Texas. Soldiers sent by
the Mexican Government to the
fronter to prevent raids often desert to
the cattle thieves, thus increasing in
stead of diminishing depredations.
Cortina himself was detected shipping
cattle from Bagdad to Cuba, and cattle
bearing marks of Texas owners. It is
also known that cattle stealers are
engaged in smuggling goods into
Texas.
The office hours of the Executive
Departments hereafter will be from
uiue to four o’clock, by order of the
Cabinet to-day.
Washington, November 30, 1875.
Hon. D. P. Dyer, United States District
Attorney , St. Louis, Mo.:
Sir:—l am absolutely innocent, and
every telegram which I sent will appear
perfectly innocent the moment I can be
heard. I demand a hearing before the
court. When can I testify?
(Signed) O. E. Babcock.
The President has tendered the Com
missiouership of Indian Affairs to ex-
Congressman Win. H. Upson, of Ohio.
A Democratic caucus meets at two
o’clock Saturday in the hall of the
House. The uso of the hall goes to
the party which makes the Speaker.
The following is tho dispatch the
handwriting of which was identified as
that of O. E. Babcock:
Washington, D. C., Dec. 13,1874.
General John McDonald, St. Louis:
I succeeded. They will not go. I
will write you.
[Signed] Sylph.
J. telegraphs Babcock, December 3,
1874: Has the Secretary or Commis
sioner ordered any body here ?
Contested Seats.
Contested seats: From Florida—Fin
ley vs. Walls ; Alabama—Bromberg vs.
Haralson ; Louisiana —Spencer vs. Mo
rey, and Breux vs. Darrall; South Car
olina—Lee vs. Rainey ; Virginia—Platt
vs. Goode.
FROM NEW YORK.
Condition of Charles O’Conor—He is
Still Alive but in Great Peril —
Reported Battle in Cuba.
New York, November 30. — Charles
O’Conor is still alive and sleeping
soundly, but recovery is considered
very uncertain. He is afflicted with
paralysis of the stomach by inaction,
the stomach being starved. Before
going to sleep he spoke lucidly to his
friends.
The Cubans have information that
the Spanish General Sabos Marin has
been twice defeated by the revolution
ists. Marin himself was mortally
wounded.
FROM PORTSMOUTH.
Activity in the Navy Yard.
Portsmouth, N. R., November 30.
Activity in this navy yard is increasing.
Au extra force will be taken on to-mor
row in the construction and engineer
departments. The steamer Marion is
about ready for sea.
-
A Horrible Outrage and Swift Retri
bution-Burning of Engines.
Franklin, La., November 30.—A ne
gro, aged twenty, outraged a white girl
five years old, and was hanged to a
tree in front of the Court House.
Belleville, Canada, November 30. —
The engine house of the Grand Trunk
Railway station was burned, with ten
engines. Loss, $150,000.
AUGTJSTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Celebration of Alfonso’s Birthday at
Havana—lndictment of Yon Arnim—
A Cold Snap in England—Skupts
china Come Again.
Havana, November 30.—Alfonso’s
birthday was celebrated by a military
and firemen’s parade.
Berlin, November 30.—Von Arnim
has been indicted for treason.
London, November 30.—The weather
is inclement, aod snow general in the
south of England.
Belgrade, November 30,-The Skupts
china reopened to-day.
A Gloomy Outlook In Khokand—
Trouble Brew ing in China.
London, November 30.—A Vienna
special says there is no reassuring
news from Khokand. It is feared a
majority of the smaller Russian gar
risons have been massacred. Khokand
is surrounded by natives.
A Shanghai dispatch says the com
mission met a traveler who warned
them that a large force had assembled
at Yunnon, and resistance to the in
vestigation of the murder of
Mr. Margary might be expected.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Death from Hydrophobia.
Philadelphia, November 30.—A
child eight years old, died hero of
hydrophobia. It was bitten by a dog
that had bitten two other of the own
er’s children.
Commutation of Sentence—Conflagra
tions—Discovery of a Culprit’s Re
mains.
Ottawa, November 30.—The death
sentence of Dr. Davis and wife, abor
tionists, has boen commuted to im
prisonment for life. This is rendered
necessary by tho aid they give by their
confession in the conviction of Miss
Gilmour’s seducer.
Wheeling, November 30.—Washing
ton Hall was burned. Tho Masons oc
cupied the third floor. Two Bremen
had their limbs broken. Loss, $50,000.
The hall was occupied by tho Legisla
ture.
Oberlin, 0., November 30.—Two gro
ceries and one book store were burned.
Loss, $5,000.
Milford, Pa., November 30.—The
remains found among tho ruins of a
barn in Lebanon township, destroyed
by fire, are believed tq be those of
Frances Stuart, a female notion dealer,
who was recently lodged in Strouds
burg, (Pa.) jail for shooting at and
attempting to rob a farmer, and who
set fire to the Court House. She made
her escape by jumping from the win
dow.
Fire in a Pickery—Fatal Mining
Accident.
Lowell, Mass., November 30.—There
was a fire in the picker building of the
Tremont and Suffolk Corporation. Loss
on the building and cotton stored, $50,-
000. Fully insured. The fire caught
from the friction of machinery.
Pottsville, Pa., November 30.—Last
night, at Buckvilie Colliery, Tuscarora,
an accident occurred by tho breaking
of a chain attached to tho hoisting
wagon. Tho wagon came down with
great force instantly, killing Hugh
Sharp and Patrick Mclntire. Four
other miners were badly wounded.
CROOKED WHISKEY.
Forfeiture of Bonds—A List of Guilty
Parties.
Indianapolis, November 30. —In the
whiskey case, J. W. and Gordon Bing
ham were called, and the joint appear
ance bond of $25,000 forfeited. Gordon
Bingham, of Evansville, is sick, and J.
W. Bingham is at St. Louis, where he
was surrendered by his sureties on an
other indictment. The following per
sons plead guilty : Col. Geo. S. Simon
son, John E. Phillip, Harrison Miller,
David M. Lewis, Geo. Hagan. Geo. F.
Crisp, Christopher Cochonor, Mr. Mum
fort and Dennis Reilly.
VICE-PRESIDENT WILSON.
His Remains Lying in State at Natick.
Natick, November 30.—The remains
of the lato Vice-President lie in state
in the Town Hall to-day. Notwith
standing tho intense cold, large num
bers visited the place to take a last
look at their honored townsman. The
funeral services will occur to-morrow.
Vice Presidential Anatomy.
It is interesting to note the reports in
the different papers of the post mor
tem examination of Mr. Wilson. In
one, for instance, we read of the “sinu
osities of the brain; the chorion flexus;
the hypostasis of the heart being nor
mal, and the liver congealed.” Another
tells us of the “sinews” of the brain, of
“small calcereaus deposits in the doritic
valve of the heart,” and the “perican
deal fluid of the normal stomach”
which (the stomach) “is congested
throughout with slight evasions or
abrasions at several points of the py
loric portions of the normal.” Another
tells us that the “heart” was “normal,”
and “gall-bladder, kidneys, spleen, and
other viscera nominal.” And for this
are we editors!— Exchange.
We have been engaged in the study
and practice of medicine in all its
branches for more than twenty years,
and yet we never heard of such pecu
liar diseases as the Vice-President died
of, nor did we ever meet up with so
btrange an anatomical structure as his.
We never enjoyed the privilege, how
ever, of dissecting a Vice-President. In
this respect our education has boen
neglected.— Washington (Ga.) Gazette.
Since the reduction of salaries in In
dianapolis newspaper offices, a very
desperate condition of affairs has set in.
No Indianapolis journalist can now rent
a house without paying in advance, such
has been the loss of confidence experi
enced by the landlords of the place,
and, worse yet, the veracious Sentinel
avers that rents are very high. Says
that paper : “Even a room large enough
to accommodate the dimiuutivo small
talker of the Courier-Journal would
cost him more per month than he could
realize on his talent in this market.”
In an emergency like this, something
ought to be done. A cold Winter is
approaching, and the brain-workers of
the press up there, after paying the
insatiate landlord, will have nothing
left wherewith to buy food. It would
be well if a portion of the union depot
could be partitioned off for an Inter-
State Journalistic Souphouse, the brain
workers of cities in other States fur
nishing the means of carrying it on,
and the indigent historians or Indiana
polis “punishing” the soup.— Courier-
Journal. ,
The publishers of Bessie Turner’s
novel are compelled to announce that
all outstanding orders will be promptly
attended to as soon as the pressure of
Sunday school librarians lets up a lit
tle.
NO MORE SLEEPY FLAGMEN.
A Watcher on the Rail that will Not
be Drunk in Time of Peril.
[New York Sun.]
Messrs. David Rousseau and Wm. C.
Smith have invented safety signals that
neither sleep nor got drunk, nor be sub
ject to tho ungearing to which compli
cated mechanisms are liable, and the
invention has been put in usq in the
Grand Central depot. It was inspected
by a number of railroad men, yester
day.
Passengers from the Grand Central
depot may have noticed a little room,
glass-walled and like an oriental
window, high up on the inside of tho
wall of the Forty-fifth street side of
the depot. This is the eyrie from which
the official styled the dispatcher starts
the outgoing and signals the incoming
trains, and keeps thp track clear lor
them almost beyond: the possibility of
accident. His tools are indicators that
mark the progress of trains by electric
circuit. He has hanging on the wall,
under his eye, an indicator, cpnsistiug
of a magnet and two gongs. When
one gong rings, he knows that a train
is below Fifty-ninth street, coming in,
and that it will be unsafe to start an
other train until the iirst has cleared
the danger point. His other mechani
cal device is a telegraphic key-board,
containing twenty keys, establishing an
electric circuit, communicating safety
or danger with both the officers of the
depot, and the engineers of the trains.
A Hudson river sraiu is to start
within twenty minutes. The dispatcher
touches a key that l ids a doovman to
thiow open tho depot entrance doors
for passengers. At five minutes before
the starting time, another key is
touched, and that signals baggage
masters to cease checking, and is re
peated in tho waiting room in order
that passengers may >be hastened. If
his indicator shows that the tracks are
clear, the starting drder is given on
time, and a minute later the train
moves out.
Suppose that just after the train has
gone, the dispatcher’s gong indicates
that au incoming train has reached
Sixty-fourth street. Ho touches a key'
connecting with the signal boxes be
yond the “cross-over,” a red signal is
flashed in the face of the engineer of
the incoming train, and he slacks up
and gives the other train the right of
way.
The train itself is the flagman.
Within a few rods of each signal box
under the rail is a circuit breaker, con
sisting of the poles cf an electric wire
in a vulcanized rubber casiug, which
keeps them apart when no train is
passing, but is squeezed in by the
weight of the cars, bringing the poles
in contact. This communicates with
the signal box beyond the cross over,
loosening a spring that causes a round
disc, painted red, to make half a revo
lution. The engineer speeds his lo *o
motive forward when he sees the wiiite
signal, which is merely the disk facing
him edgewise, but comes to a stand
still when it turns a ted face towards
him. The same contact performs twy.
other functions, establishing communi
cation with the signal boxes on the
other side of the cross over, displaying
the danger line, and strikes the dis
patcher’s gong. Thus, both the dis
patcher and the engineer of endangered
trains are duly informed. Besides
these, there is a switchman at the
cross-over, with every appliance for
signaling trains and regulating switches.
The next point on the road where the
signals perform an important part, is
at the junction of the Hudson river
and Harlem roads in Mott Haven. An
in-bound train on the former strikes a
track signal a mile from the junction,
telegraphing its approach to the opera
tor in a signal cabin. He touches a
key that sets the danger signals for a
mile up the Harlem road. The train
passes the point of danger, and then
runs over another traok [signal that
rests the “all right” signal along the 1
main line.
One great merit claimed for tho new
invention is that it always gives a dan
ger signal before it gives one of safety',
and that it is impossible to make a
safety signal unless the track is clear.
Every train protects itself for a mile in
front and in rear.
■
Miss Telfair’s Will Probated.
Our readers have been informed of
the fact that the admission to probate
in solemn form of the last will and
testament of Miss Mary Telfair would
be resisted by certain heirs of the es
tate, and the caveats as tiled have been
published in the Morning Neivs. Yes
terday the matter was settled so far as
the Court of Ordinary is concerned, as
will be seen by the following brief re
cord of the ease, which we present
herewith:
The petition to prove the will of
Mary Telfair, in solemn form, was filed
June 17, 1875, was caveated by G.
Noble Jones, Alfred Cuthbert and
Mary G. Harrison, and also by A.T.
Wetter, guardian ad litem for his chil
dren. On November 1, 1875, the case
came on for hearing before the Ordi
nary, and was continued until Novem
ber twenty-seventh, and thence to
the 29th, wheu, after hearing testimony
and argument, pro and con, the said
will was admitted to record as proved
iu solemn form, as will be seen by the
following order:
Chatham County, Court of Ordinary.
—ln re, will of Miss Mary Telfair, caveats
of G. Noble Jones, etal. and Augustus P.
Wetter, guardian, etc.
In above cause the respective caveats are
overruled, and the will is admitted to pro
bate as the last will and testament of Mary
Telfair, deceased.
(Signed) Jno. O. Febrile,
Ordinary C. C.
November 29th, 1875.
George Noble Jones and Alfred Cuth
bert, by their attorney, Judge W. W.
Montgomery, filed the necessary bonds
and took the ease on au appeal to the
Superior Court.— Savannah News.
A gentleman was seated before the
Cafe Riche, in Paris, when a young
artist passed with a companion. “I
will bet you,” said the artist to his
friend, “I will drink that gentleman’s
coffee, and he will thank me for doing
it.” “You are crazy.” “You will see.”
“You know him, then.” “Como and
see the proceeding for yourself.” Very
solemnly they approached the gentle
man. “Sir,” said the artist, “I am an
inspector of the bond of health. If I
ask for coffee they will give me without
doubt a very good cup, for they know
me. You, sir, whom they do not know,
are served like the rest of the world.
Will you permit me to taste your cof
fee?” “Certainly,” said the gentleman.
“This is really good. The government
has great care over the people. The
police cannot be too watchful over the
public health.” The artist drank the
coffee, and having finished it said
politely, “They do things properly at
this cafe; this is exist llent coffee.” He
bowed, and left the gentleman to pay
for the coffee he had not had, but pro
foundly grateful for the care of the
government.
“HARTE ZEITEN”
Financial Stringency in Vaterland—A
Conquering and Thrifty Nation on
the Verge of Bankruptcy— One of the
Results of the French War—France
the Most Prosperous Country in the
World.
IN. Y. Times.]
The cry of “ Harte Zeiten,” or hard
times, has become almost as common
in Germany as in the United States.
This is the more remarkable, as busi
ness affairs with her defeated enemy,
France, are by no means in a very de
pressed condition. The conqueror,
laden with the spoils of successful war,
groans under financial difficulties,
while the conquered enjoys more than
usual prosperity. Each mail from
Germany brings reports of business
failures, of depression in trade, of
workmen out of employ, of much pro
duction and little consumption, and, in
short, of most of the troubles which
are afflicting us. The depression par
ticularly affects the iron interest of
North Germany and the maritime com
panies of the commercial cities, such
as Hamburg and Bremen. It has
reached, however, many other interests,
uud great numbers of working people
are thrown out of employ, while small
traders find their business exceedingly
reduced.
For this depression in North Ger
many there is no explanation to be
found in a vitiated currency or a public
debt. The financial position of Prussia
has always borne the marks of the
wise influence of the founder of the
monarchy, Frederick the Great. The
simple rules of economy have always
guided the Prussian Administration.
They nearly always spent less than
they got. The Hohenzollern know how
to obtain valuable services for small
pay. They have rigidly kept down
expenses, until now a Government
Beatnpte is one of the most poorly paid
persons in Germany. Asa consequence,
tho Prussian debt has never been a
burden, and the whole “budget,” or
expenses of Army and Administration
are scarcely more than half our own.
The last war almost paid for itself, and
the average taxes of all North Ger
many are about one-half of those paid
iu France. Still, everywhere is busi
ness depression.
The truth is that Germany has been
going through the same experience
which we have had here. The building
of railroads has developed rapidly
every portion of the Fatherland, and
created a great increase in production.
It is true that there never can be too
much production, but there may be
an excessive production in a particular
branch. Germany joined the general
march of the world in metallurgic in
dustry, and aided to create more of
iron manufacture than the world
needed.
Then, with increased manufacture
and the sudden fortunes made first by
it, tliere rose a sudden and natural
growth of speculation. To all these
causes of industrial and commercial
excitement was added to the French in
demnity, which acted upon the busi
ness and exchanges of Germany, aided
the sudden creation here of paper
money. AIL kinds of prices suddenly
rose, and, with them, extravagance
and speculation increased. Labor be
came more expensive, and salaries
were gradually raised. Berlin became
as costly a place to live in as New York.
A great stimulus, too, was given to
maiitime matters by the success of
German steamers in competing with
those of Liverpool for the emigrants to
America. All things for a while wore
as they were here during the war. But
now the reaction has come. Specula
tion has wasted the savings of themid
lo classes. Industry is weighted with
its own products. With some of the
strongest iron companies, the stock has
fallen nine-tenths. Workmen aro
clamoring for labor. Emigration has
diminished, and thus crowded the Ger
man markets with unemployed laborers,
while tho steam-sliip companies have
fallen into embarrassments, through
the lessening of their receipts from
emigrants. Great stacks of woolen and
other goods are on hand for which there
is no demand. And yet wages remain
high, and provisions are dear.
bn the other hand, in France, calami
ty has brought prudence. Speculation
has been arrested, and all classes have
learned to save, and production has
gone on of such commodities as are in
most demand. Though taxes are
heavy, times are not so bad iu France
as beyond the Rhine. The old French
economy and the industry of the peo
ple, with the natural productiveness of
tho soil, have come in to save France,
and, despite her defeat, she is at this
moment the most prosperous country
iu tho world.
Tlie Daughter of a Hundred Earls.
A New York correspondent tells a
romantic story of a young lady now
residing in the metropolis who may be
seen daily passing through the streets,
or riding on the street cars from her
home to the suburbs, with a roll of
manuscript in her hand, on her way to
the offices of the magazines or the
weekly papers, trying to dispose of the
productions upon which she is depend
ent for her daily bread. She is the
daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough,
whose London residence is on Caven
dish Square, as the owner of the
superb estates aud palaces of Exton
Park, Oakrnan and Cottesmore, in
Rutlandshire, but his brilliant daugh
ter, Lady Blanche (whose baptismal
name, as will be seen by reference to
any recent edition of “Burke’s Peer
age,” was Blanche Elizabeth Mary
Anuneiata), is lost to his sight,
if not to his memory. Her mother
was the deceased wife of the Earl
of Erroll. Her two brothers
aro Viscount Carapden- and Lord
Edward, and her two younger sisters
are Lady Georgina and Lady Frances.
While iu her twenty-first year she fell
iu love with a youug organist named
Murphy, and, contrary to the wish of
her family, she married him. The
mesalliance of the daughter of so great
a house was a surprise and horror to
the Earl, who, iu his wrath, disowned
her, forbade her returning to the ances
tral halls, and cut her off from all the
heritage of the family. Mr. and Mrs.
Murphy soon experienced the trials of
penury and in London, and
four years, or within the first year
after their marriage, they arrived in
New York, where they again felt the
pressure of straightened circumstan
ces. But Lady Blanche was persevering,
and some of her sparkling manuscripts
soon found acceptance, and brought
her a little income. Among other
thiugs she contributed to the Galaxy a
series of brilliant essays on English
high life and the English aristocracy,
which attracted much notice.
Illinois lost 28,348 soldiers and sail
ors during the war.
BERGH ON FOX-HUNTING.
Thomas T. Kinney, Esq., President New
Jersey Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals:
Dear Sir : You will, I am sure, par
don me, as the representative of the
senior society in America for the pre
vention of cruelty to animals, for call
ing your attention to a dangerous and
cruel “sport,” as it is called, namely,
“fox-hunting,” which has just been
presented to the admiring suffrages oi
the farmers and other laud-owners of
your State.
This impudent and aggressive relief
to indolence is of aristocratic liueage,
and to the feeble mind of the average
London clubman in particular presents
great attractions; firstly, because it is
of very high “ton,” and, secondly, that
it exposes his perfumed body once a
year to the semblance of physical
exposure. It is true that royalty
itself, as well as “meaner thiugs,”
does sometimes engage in tins
“noblesport,” just as it does in pigeon
shooting, cock-fighting and bull-bait
ing, but then, iu my opinion, the greater
the offender the greater the offense. I
don’t know whether the frugal and in
dustrious people of New Jersey quite
understand this elegant innovation,
but, in a few words, it is this : On a
given day a number of habitual idlers
issue from their do-nothing abodos,
and meet at a stated locality in close
proximity to what is termed a “ tap,”
or, iu American phraseology, a “sam
ple room.” The convention, all mounted
on horses, and having imbibed suffi
cient air and liquid, starts for an open
field, followed by a numerous pack of
hounds, which locality, on being reach
ed, a terrified fox is liberated from a
box, and the dogs, horses and men
scamper, pell-mell, after the miserable
animal. Now the fox, exercising that
cunning for which he is distinguished,
generally takes that route where his
pursuers can do the most damage to
hedges, gardens, and crops, the conse
quence being that those noble “sports
men” usually leave behind them an
irregular track, characterized by its
widespread devastation. In these
predatory incursions, it is true, the
“dashing huntsman” is sometimes
brought in contact with something
harder than his head ; and the “in
ferior animal,” as the horse is erron
eously called, often gets disabled ; but
intelligent sympathy, as in bull-fight
iug, is always with the horse.
Sufficient injury having been done
to the farmer aud tho landlord, the
precious pack of men and hounds re
turn to their usual covers, dragging
along a wretched fox as a trophy, and
the following day the sporting papers
paint the “daring and exhilarating
scene” in glowing colors ; just as the
“Hackensack Hunt” was done. It is
almost superfluous to add that a “high
old time” usually terminates these
meets, whereat meat is of secondary
consideration.
This pernicious pastime should be
“ nipped in the bud” by the farmers of
New Jersey, and that illustrious Celt
named Donohue, who “entertains
hopes that these fox-hunts, now in
augurated, may soon become an estab
lished institution iu New Jersey,”
should be emphatically told that if
either he, or his followers, the gallant
Classon, Purdy, Skinner, Levy, Blas
son, or Brennan and Murphy, of
Dickel’s Riding Academy iu New York,
as well as all other similar tresspass
ers. are discovered again engaged iu
such depredations they will be prompt
ly arrested by the police ; or, failing
which, then by tho aid of some swifter
traveling agent, known to and feared
by certain other malefactors, who prac
tice their sporting proclivities in the
night time within the country houses
of retired citizens.
I am yours, very faithfully,
Henry Bergh,
President.
FOX, THE PAN TOM IM IST.
He Retires Fi’om tlie Stage.
The New York Sun of Saturday morn
ing says:
George L. Fox, the great clown, ap
pears on the stage this evening for the
last time this season, and there aro
grave reasons for fearing that it is his
last appearance before the public. For
tlie past, two weeks his health has been
failing daily. His whole life is bound
up in the stage. On it he has spent the
most of his time since he was five years
old, and now he seems happy only when
on the stage, and before au audience.
About a week ago, Mr. Fox became
impressed with the belief that it was
his duty to address the adionce every
evening. In vain did the managers
try to reasou him out of the notion,
and as a last resort, whenever he
opened his mouth to speak, Master
Topack, who takes the part of monkey,
bounded upon the stage, and by judi
cious thumpings and antics diverted
his attention. This enraged him at,
first, but, he soon became accustomed
to it, and looked upon it as a part of
the routine stage business.
On Thanksgiving afternoon Mr. Fox
played before a very large audience,
and after the act iu which he took part
was over, he went to his hotel, the St.
Omer, near the theatre, and stepped
out on the balcony. While he was
there a company of boys, “playing
soldier,” passed, and Fox called to
them to halt, and then reviewed them.
The boys cheered, a crowd collected,
and the old actor, becoming much ex
cited, hurried to his room and returned
with boots, hats, brushes, and what
ever he could pick up, and began to
thiow them at the crowd.
A big policeman arrived, and Fox hit
him between the eyes with a pair of
boots. Fox was then taken into his
room. Last evening he was cheerful
and rational. He performed his part
in the pantomime with much of his
old-time spirit, and was enthusiastical
ly called before the curtain. He bowed,
gave his mo#t characteristic grin, and,
doubling his arms, said, “I wish some
doctor would feel oP my muscles.”
Then slapping his leg, ho added, “Not
much paralysis here.”
On Monday he will go. with his wife
and daughter, to tho residence of his
brother, the Hon. James Fox, of Cam
bridge, Mass.
An Albany county man, while milk
ing one of his cows, hitched its tail
around his leg to keep it from switch
ing in his eyes. He had cause to re
pent doing so, however, after being
dragged half way across a ten acre lot,
and was only released by the timely
arrival of his son with a sharp knife.
The cow is now minus half its tail.
Michael Lock is the name of a
Howard county fool who paid a vagrant
clairvoyant five thousand dollars to
show him where a one-hundred-thous
and-dollar treasure was buried on his
farm. While Mr. Lock was gone to
Kentucky with a bucket of Howard
county earth to replace with sacred soil
the sibyl and her husband got up and
dusted. —Indianapolis Herald.
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 101
THE BOOK AGENT’S BRIDE.
AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW OF THE
MATRIMONIAL PROBLEM.
An Unprecedented Case—The Philoso
phy of Special Assassination- How a
Book Agent Wooed and Won a Wife
—A Warning to Parents.
[N. Y. Times.]
The town of Horseheads, in this
State, has suddenly become famous as
the scene of the elopement of a young
lady with a traveling book agent. Such
an event is believed to be entirely
without a precedent, and it necessarily
confers as wide a nototoriety upon the
town in which it occurred as the most
elaborate earthquake could have con
ferred had it swallowed the greater
part of the people of Horseheads, hav
ing, of course, previously well shaken
them.
It would bo fruitless to inquire in
the columns of a daily newspaper why
the human mind is so constituted as
to uniformly desire to kill a book
agent. Such an inquiry belongs to the
province of psychology—though in no
existing text-book has it been fully
and properly discussed. The fact that
men, without exception, thirst for the
blood of book agents is perfectly well
established, and we may therefore
reason from it, without troubling our
solvss to discover whether this im
pulse is congenital, or is developed by
tho conditions of civilized life. The
meekest man, when summoned to his
parlor to meet a determined-looking
stranger, who instantly urges him to
subscribe for “Smith’s Pictorial His
tory of Art Among the Esquimaux,”
involuntarily asks himself whether
tbe satisfaction of braining tho man
with his own specimen volume
would not be cheaply purchased
at the cost of the gallows ;
and tho most gentle of housewives, as
she violently slams the door in the face
of the agent of Brown’s “Humorous
Travels in the Holy-Land,” mentally
resolves to ask her brother, the lawyer,
whether boiling water is a deadly
weapon in the eye of the law. How
was it possible that, in spite of this
unanimous sentiment in regard to book
agents, one of that fraternity should
have succeeded in inducing a young
lady to elope with him ? Of course, the
pair fled secretly in order to escape the
indignant and horrified gaze of the
public of Horseheads. But by what
magic arts did the book agent so com
pletely conquer the natural instinct—in
regard to boiling water—of the partner
of his flight ? It is idle to suppose that
he concealed his true character. No
book agent can do that. Even if he had
shunned all allusion to subscription
books until the very moment when
the fair one told him she was his,
he would inevitably have replied:
“Then let me put you down for
five copies of Brown’s “Travels,”
with gilt edges and illuminated covers.”
No ! he must have carried on his woo
ing avowedly under the banner of the
“Great Oshkosh Publishing Company,”
and with his carpet-bag of specimen
volumes always at his side. When he
urged the sincerity of his passion, he
must have read to her the convincing
statement that “ smart agents can make
fifty dollars a day with our new sub
scription books,” and told her that if
she would get her parents, brothers
and sisters, and acquaintances to sub
scribe for a volume each, the money
would be strictly appropriated to
house-furnishing, with the exception of
a liberal commission to be paid to her
as pin-money. Undoubtedly he pre
sented her with elegant copies of
all the works published by his firm, and
when he clasped her to his bosom
did not fail to assure her that his heart
beat for her alone, although the fact
was not perceptible to her in conse
quence of his carrying his subscription
lists in his breast pocket. The girl may
have been young, and unaccustomed to
admiration. When her lover asserted
that he would prefer ten per cent, com
mission with her as his bride, to twenty
per cent, and the exclusive right to the
best territory in the country without
her, she may have welcomed it as tho
languago ol' passion and romance. At
any rate, she listened to his pleading,
and is now that hitherto unknown phe
nomenon, a book agent’s bride.
Wo need not doubt the reality of the
affection existing between this unique,
pair. The book agent hath eyes and
ears like other men, not to speak of
a superfluity of cheek and tongue.
May he not also have affections and
sentiments of a tender and romantic
character? Doubtless, he will bind
his wife, so to speak, in red silk aud
plenty of gilt jewelry. It is quite pos
sible that, under the influence of do
mestic happiness, his fiercer nature
may be tamed. He may cease to way
lay funeral coaches in order to urge the
occupants to subscribe for Robinson’s
“Comfort of the Afflicted” in gilt
cloth, and may spare the solitary
widow whom he would once have
compelled to subscribe for ten copies
of “Mormon Iniquities.” Perhaps the
marriage of this book agent may be
the beginning of the end of the sys
tem which he has hitherto represented,
and the time may be near at hand
when book agents, tamed and soft
ened by marriage, will abandon their
cruel vocation, and the memory of it
will remain, as does the memory of
the buccaneers, only in blood-curdling
stories, bearing such titles as “Red
beard, the Book Agent of the West.”
Since tho reduction of salaries in
Indianapolis newspaper offices, a very
desperate condition of affairs has set
in. No Indianapolis journalist can now
rent a house without paying in ad
vance, such has been the loss of confi
dence experienced by the landlords of
the place, and, worse yet, the veracious
Sentinel avers that rents are verv high.
Says that paper: “Even a room large
enough to accomocate the diminutive
small-talker of the Courier Journal
would cost him more per month than
he could realize on his talent in this
market.” In an emergency like this,
something ought to be done. A cold
winter is approaching, and the brain
workers of the press up there, after
paying the instatiato landlord, will
have nothing loft wherewith to buy
food. It would be well if a portion of
the union depot could be partitioned off
for an Inter-State Journalistic Soup
house, the brain-workers of .cities in
other States furnishing the means of
carrying it on, and the indigent histo
rians of Indinapolis “punishing” the
soup. —Courier Journal.
The other day, when a Detroit grocer
spelled sugar “s-h-u-g-e-r” a friend
pointed out the word and remarked,
“That word isn’t spelled quite right.”
“Ha! I see,” laughed the grocer, “one
would think I had no education.” And
he crossed it out and wrote s-h-u-g-o-r.
■—Free Press.
“Isn’tyour husband a little bald?”
asked one lady of another, in n store,
yesterday. “There isn’t a bald hair in
his head,” was the hasty reply of the
wife.
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and valuable special news paid for if used.
Rejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
A Fast Young Memphian in a Dual
Role.
[Memphis Avalancho.J N
About eight years ago, a young man
known to his companions as Will Bor
den flourished in Memphis, as cashier
of the Gas Light Company. He was
handsome, dressed stylishly—iu fact a
little “ loud ” —and those who knew him
best could testify that he was that ir
resistible personage iu the eyes of fool
ish young ladies who judge from out
ward appearances, a “fast young man.”
He went, though only occasionally, in
the “best society,” and a few times dur
ing the season appearing at tho
theatre with some fair one who was
charmed with his handsome face and
figure, aud the grand display of fine
clothing and diamonds ho was certain
to mak<£ It was with the soiled doves,
whose wings are brightest under tho
gas-light, that young Borden was most
“at home.” His was one of the noted
names heard within that circle. No
one so handsome as he; no one so
lavish of money for late suppers and
carriage rides; no one so generous with
presents. How these heavy expendi
tures could be maintained was ono
day explained by a little deficit that,
for many months smothered by
deft manipulation, at last appeared
on the company’s books. The charm
ing Will was a defaulter for nearly two
thousand dollars. He was permitted
to go free, for his mother, who lives in
Louisville, and had a few thousand dol
lars, compromised with tho irate com
pany, and young Bordeu shook the
Memphis dust off his elegant patent
leathers, and returned to the home of
his childhood. Memphis lost sight of
the gay ex-cashier until yesterday’s
Avalanche announced in its news
columns that “William Bowden,” of
Cincinnati, had married Miss Maggie
Williams,” of this city, and in
its telegraphic dispatches that
Joseph Mitchell & Cos., boiler makers
of Louisville, had discovered a deficit
of five thousand dollars in Jtheir ac
counts of Wra. A. Bowden, the confl
tial clerk, who has been stealing from
them for four years. It appears that
“ Wm. Bowden ” and “ Wm. A. Borden”
are identical. Miss Maggie Williams
is a noted member of the demi-monde.
So our ex-Memphis “ fast man ” turns
up once more, this time in the dual
role of the new-made husband of his
“ flame ” of years ago, and a five thous
and; dollar defaulter. Yesterday Bor
den disappeared. Detectives, acting
on information from Louisville, were
looking for him —a fact which no doubt
hastened his departure.
Uncompromising Honesty.
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
The other day a man with a gaunt
look halted before an eatiug stand at
the Central Market, and after a long
survey of the viands he said to the
woman:
“E am a poor man, but I’ll be honest
if I have to be buried iu a Pauper’s
Field.”
“What’s the matter now?” asked the
woman, regarding him with suspicion.
“No one saw mo pick up a twenty
dollar bill here by this stand early this
morning, but, as I said before, i’ll be
honest.”
“A twenty-dollar bill—pick up!” she
whispered, bringing a bland smile to
her face.
“I suppose,” he continued, “that
someone passing along hero could
have dropped such a bill, but it seems
more reasonable to think that tho
money was lost by you.”
“ Don’t talk quite so loud,” she said
as she leaned over the stand. “You
are an honest man, and I’ll have your
name put iu the papers so that all
may know it. I’m a hard working
widow, and if you hadn’t brought
that money it would have gone hard
with my poor little children.”
“If I pick # up money by a stand I
always give it up,” he said as ho sat
down on ono of tho stools.
“That’s right—that’s honest,” she
whispered. “Draw right up here aud
have some breakfast.”
He needed no second invitation. The
way ho went for cold ham, fried sau
sage, biscuit aud coffee, was terrific to
the woman.
“Yes—l—um—try to—be—yonest,”
he remarked between bites.
“That’s right. If I found any money
belonging to you I’d give it up, you
bet. Have another cup of coffee ?”
“Don’t—care—fidoo,” he said, as ho
jammed more ham into his mouth.
Even courtships have au ending. The
old chap finally began to breathe like a
foundered horse, and pretty soon after
that ho rose from the table.
“You are a good man to bring my
lost money back,” said tho woman as
she brushed away tho crumbs.
“Oh, I’m honest,” ho replied; “when
I find any lost money I always give
it up.”
“Well, I’ll take it now, please,” sho
said, as be began to button his coat.
“Take what?” ho asked.
“That lost money you found.”
“I didn’t find any. I’ll bo honest
with you, however, if I ever do find
any around here!”
“ You old liar I Didn’t you say you
found a &20 bill here ?”
“ No, ma’am. I said that no one saw
me pick up such a bill here !”
“ Pay mo for them pervisions !” sho
yelled, clutching at his throat.
“ I’ll be honest with you—l haven’t
a cent.!” he replied, as ho held her off.
Sho tried to tip him over into a bar
rel of charcoal, but he broke loose, and
before she recovqred from her amaze
ment he was a block away and gallop
ing along like a stage horse.
The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks
that many a man would be willing to
wait six years for such a burial as Gui
bord had. No doubt there are mauy
men in Louisville who would be glad
to have a good, secure resting place of
cement and scrap iron against the
troublesome experiences of the day of
judgment. But they would need*tho
cement mostly on the under side, to
protect them from approach below.
“Shy as a fawn, blushing as Aurora,
shrinking as the mimosa, fainting,
almost, at the coarseness of her sur
roundings,” is what the lightning re
porter of a San Francisco paper says
ol! a young girl who is in jail in that
city. The offense with which this gen
tle creature is charged, is stabbing a
man four times and then pounding him
on the head with a brick.
A little fellow, who was at a neigh
bor’s house about noon the other day,
watched the preparations for dinner
with a great deal of interest, but when
asked to stay and eat something, ho
promptly refused, “Why,yes, Johnny,
you’d better stay,” said the lady; “why
can’t you?” “Well, ’cause,” said tho
little fellow, “Ma said I mustn’t, unless
you ask me three times.” They in
vited him twice more right off,