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“Yon Wait.”—Mrs. Phoebe Yates Pember> whose new book—a Southern Woman's Story ts a record o' her four years’ experience as the head of a Richmond hospital during the war shows a line sense of the ludicrous mixed with a womanly char ity and tenderness that make her incidents and outlined character sketches very graphic and agree- ab'e reading. As an instance, we give the following pleasant episode: ‘•Kin you writ me a letter?' 1 drawled a whining voice from a bed in one of the wards, a cold day in ’62. The speaker was an up-country Georgian, one of the Kind called “Goubers*’ by the soldiers gener ally; lean, yellow, attenuated, with wispy strands of hair hanging over his high, thin cheek-bones. Re put outa hand to detain me and the nails were “Why do you not let the nurse cut your nails?” “Because*! aren’t got any spoon, and I use them in tend,” “ Will you let me have your hair cut, then ? You can't get well with all that dirty hair hanging about your eyes and ears.” “No, I can’t git my hair cut, kase as how I prom ised my mammy that 1 would let it grow till the war be over. Oh, it’s onlucky to cut it!’’ “Then I can't write any letter for you. Do what I wish you to do, and then I will oblige you.” This was plain talking. The hair was cut. (I left the nails for another day,) my portfolio brought, and sitting by the side of his bed I waited for fur ther orders. They came with a formal introduction —“for Mrs. Marthy Brown.” “My dear Mammy: “i hope this finds you well, as it leaves me well, and I hope that I shall git a furlough Christmas, and come and see you, and I hope that you will keep well, and all the folks be well by that time, as I hopes to be well myself. This leaves me in good health, as 1 hope it finds you and But here I paused, as his mind seemed to be go ing round in a circle, and asked him a few ques tions about his home, his position during the last summer's campaign, how he got sick, and where bis brigade was at the time. Thus furnished with some material to work upon, the latter proceeded rapidly. Four sides were conscientiously filled, for no soldier would think a letter wor n sending home that showed any blank paper. Transcribing his name, the number of his ward and proper ad dress, so that an answer might reach him—the com position was read to him. Gradually his pale face brightened, a sitting posture was assumed with difficulty (for, in spite of his determihed effort in his letter "to be well,” he was far from convales cence.) As I folded and directed it, contributed the expected five-cent stamp, and handed it. to him, he gazed cautiously around to be sure there were no listeners. “Did you writ’all that?” he asked, whispering but with great emphasis. “Yes.” “Did I say all that?" “I think you did.” a long pause of undoubted admiration—astonish ment ensued. What was working in th»t poor mind? Could it be that Psyche had stirred one of the delicate plumes of her wing and touched that dormant soul? “Are you married?” The harsh ]voice dropped very low. “1 am not. At least I am a widow.” He rose still higher in bed. He pushed away des perately the tangled lmir on his brow, A faint color 11 uttered over the hollow cheek, and stretch ing out a long piece of bone with a talon attached, he gently touched my arm and with constrained voice whispered mysteriously: “You wait!” And readers; I am waiting still; and I here cau tion the male portion of creation who may adore through their mental powers, to respect my confi dence, and not seek to shake my constancy. Other compliments were paid me, perhaps not of so conclusive a nature, and they were noticeable from their originality and novelty, hut they were also rare. Expression was not a gift among the common soldiers. “You will wear them little feet away,” said a rough Kent.ickian, “running around. They ar n’t much to boast of anyway.” Was not this as complimentary as the lover who conquered his mistress' foot to a dream; and much mote com- prehensible? At intervals the lower wards, unused except in times of great nee ’, for they were unfurnished with any comforts, would be tilled with rough soldiers from camp, sent to recuperate after field service, who may not have seen a female face for months; and though generally t >o much occupied to notice them much, tlit’ir piirtlv coucculcd, but cl^tuTiriincc- regard would become embarrassing, one day, while directing arrangements with a waixbmaster, my attention was attracted by the pertinacious staring of a rough-looking Texan. He walked round and rouud me in rapidly narrowing circles examining every detail of my dress, face,, and figure; his eye never fixing upon any particular part lor a moment but traveling incessantly all over me. It seemed the wonder of the mind at the sight of a new creation. I moved my position; lie shifted his to suit the new arrangement—again a change was made, so obviously to get out of hi. range of vision, that with a delicacy of feeling that the roughest men always treated me with. he de sisted from his inspection, that though his person made no movement, his neck tw isted round to ac commodate his eyes, till I supposed some progeni tor of his family had been an owl. The men began to titter, and my patience became exhausted. “What is the matter, my man? Bid you never see a woman before?” “ierusalem? he ejaculated, not making me slightest motion toward withdrawing his. deter mined notice, “I never did see such a nice one. Why you's as pretty as a pair of red shoes with ^These^werc the two compliments laid upon the •lirine oi inv vanity during lour year s contact with thousands of patients, and I 7? prove to stand as a visionary portrait, to prove to my ■-(aiders that a woman with at raclions similar to a pedr of red shoes with green strings must have some claim to the apple of 1 ans. V M omnn to Suggest, Man to carry out Ideas. A writer in the Jialtimorean thinks that the coming order of things will show woman as the thinking and man as the executive power. He says all things point to the conclusion that in re gard to practical production women are far behind men- W hat, then, remains to them? The answer is evident—they must distinguish themselves in the tbdd of ideas. They must furnish the thoughts, which men will elaborate and reduce to practical application. Madame Uda’s fire escape ladder and Miss Hosmer’s new motor are esses iu point; both required man’s technic il knowledge for develop ment* but to both will belong the glory of the first thought. To this field of work “Sweet Sixteen” should turn its attention—namely, the development of ideas. An original thought is always worth something, and may be made available tor business purposes. The world likes new things, and. if the new things are really good things, generally re wards their originators. “Still in Love” with his Wife. The Quartermaster of our regiment was kindly and hospitably entertained by Miss B. during the campaign in West Virginia—they became true friends, indeed so intimate that she confided to him her betrothal, and he freely conversed of his home, wife and infant son. One day she playfully ac cused him of uncommon fidelity and said, “You're a curiosity, I thiuk, for you are still in love with your wife!” These lines were a reply from the wife to whom her husband wrote the remark—and his answer. “Still in love” with his wife? Is’t with smile and smirk? Or sighing like a furnace a’lday. Does he carry concealed a dear little dirk To keep interlopers away? Or is he in love, like a maiden, all tears Because his beloved is not nigh? Beset by anxieties, doubts, hopes and fears, With face like a true April sky? “Still in love with his wife” you really believe, ”i'isa fact, there's noduubtingat all? I wonder how oft in the course of life To mortals such destinies fall! These significant words were spoken by one Wit h whom pleasant hours lie's passed, "Whose heart is as true as the needle, oi sun. Among the “saltol the Earth” she is classed. Though you smiled as the words from your gen* tie lips fell No covert sarcasm was meant Of naught like design did those pleasant tones tell, They but echoed his own hearts content- “Yes,” he cried, ‘‘if to feel as time passed o’er The one I have chosen for life, In spite of all changes I love tier the more, Then, I still am iu love with my wife. Not in love as when five short summers ago, I sought, wooed aud won as a bride, The being who promised through weal and thro woe, To love me, whatever betide. But with deeper affection, strengthened and tried By the years and the trials that come With love under whose sheltering wings she may hide All her cares, all her thoughts, ’tis her home. With respect for the wife who honors the name. Of him she has chosen ’bove all, Who ne'er by one action will bring me to shame, But zealously help, should I fall. With sympathy deep, for the mother, who love The children vouchsafed her by heaven, With prayers for their welfare springing up in the heart Of a man to whom so much is given. With the conciousncss that her heart is all mine, And to no other's toucli would it thrill— Jlemember if 1 still bow at her shrine, She too is tn love with me, still. D. A. 8. NEW BOOKS. whose “overnmeut is professedly given A, , 1,e . ?' ,m s ofthe people, yet who wrap them- Viu’es m the mantlVof their political righteous- contented with grumbling at public all politic*}HVej-’ViaVe^mViuted'Umniselvci with ‘payhig *j ^(I'jy^aiiner'icniinst our feiu'fi'tl'in'hUcal tics” and the decla meragam» r ghoulders to the Urbaucliinent W1 . P . their interest in the wheel, and bear witness to the,r m hard work of reform bj doing, their^sna^ foimdneces _ and disagreeable wt . w ill earn a better right saryU. accomplish of a brutalized to moralize about u , lined t<) take refuge in suffrage, andfeel^. will the victory of political doing it. 11 we »oui . . \v e are absolutely purification we must fight lor n- » shut up to this necessity ln mean' it enmientofthepeorK.andn ..^ ti jd!ug the ovllg is the people fruU* * ,i )(K j v proposes to call in a patriarchs continue to bedew its pages. The | lie good. The Judge must be ‘learned in the widow amid her poverty still reads its precious 1 Jaw,’ and so must the lawyers to whom the men promises to her fatherless children. The troubled heart and sorrow bowed be id find its Divine covenants softer than the pillows of down on which wearied kings have rested their achiDg foreheads. The sick yet touch their spirit-lips to the crystal current of this ‘river of life.’ Its pledges of a coming res ir- reotion keep the gravts of loved ones green, and have made the cemetery magnetic to sur viving friends. The dying tarn their closing eyes to it as their only lamp through the valley of the shadow of death, clasping it as their 1 ist treasure, while their fingers stiff en in the final ordeal.’ We suggest its careful perusal by all those who require brain stimulus, or have fallen into ruts while preaching, as a valuable assistant in raising them out, thus enabling them to present the great truth of revealed religion, in a more atiractive and interesting form. THE TRIAL BY JURY. Has the Jnry System Outlived its Usefulness? ‘Common Sense Views or Foreign Lands’ by M. Dvvinell. Dwinell, Home, G.;., Publisher. This volume is by a Southern author and is issued from a Southern Publishing House. M. D win ell has long been identified with Georgia Journalism and although of northern lineage was a gallant defender ot the ‘Lost Cause' from First M.mnasBas to the surrender at Appomattox. Having both money and leisure he undertook the tour of Europe, followed by a hurried visit to Egypt and the Holy Lind. The journey was performed in an almost in credibly short space of time and the book itself might be j ustly entitled a ‘Bird's Eye View of Foreign Linds.' We need hardly say, therefore, that we nod iu the book no elaborate criticisms of works of art, no tedious discussion of arohte logical quts'.ions, no systematic word-painting, but rather a freshness and vivacity that enchain the reader's attention from first to last He gives ns the impressions of a cultivated mau, of trans-atlantio civiliz ition, and of those historic regions watered by the mystic Nile and Jordan W-*ere the infidel Moslem still holds sway. . His views of men and things in the mam are eminently practical and we are prepared to say iu all soberness that we much prefer the vol ume before us to many more pretentions books of travel. We were particularly charmed with his letters from Egypt; they furnish a better idea of the Khedive's government than we have obtained 6isowhere. What it Egypt, for centu ries the basest of kingdoms, should revive and exuibit a glory unknown to the Pharaohs and Ptolemies—thus illustrating in a new sense Berkeley’s immortal line ‘Time’s noblest on spring is the last. ^ ... His description of scriptural scenes is aoout in keeping with ordinary hooks of travel. Only once throughout the volume does he manifest aDy largfi of enti'osiisiu—fchiH is when he stands at the fo )t of ’sov.an Blame ’ la this connection his rhetoric evinces a scholar y cul- ta-e and a literary taste. We trust that Mr. D s first venture iu authorship may not he his la.t. He has unquestionable gif's for enrich- I?S B ,«k of Southern fuer, fure. If the, » It is not improbable ; rur!ltioll 0( this Congress r j g ht!y and energetically applied, certainty—that ,^ of .^cw epoch in the hmtory | Wfa have bef .re ns a Migaz ne entitled ‘The ' published iD BY HARRY EVELYN. In a recent address before the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Judge Miller, of the United States Supreme Coart, said : “It requires all the veneration whioh age in spires for this mode [’rial by jury] of dispens ing justice, and all that eminent men have said of its value in practice, to prevent our natural reason from revolting against the system, aa 1 especially some of its incidents. If a cultivated Oriental were told for the fiist time that a na tion, which claims to be in advance of all others in its love of justice and its methods of enforc ing it, required as one of its fundamental prin ciples of jurisprudence that every controversy between individuals, and every charge of crime against an offender, should be submitted to twelve men without learning iu the law, often without any other learning, and that neither party to the contest could prevail until all the twelve men ware of one opinion in his favor, he would certainly bo am»z ;d at toe proposition. Nor have the European nations diff red much with him in their estimate of trial by jury. It bas been well understood and received the oare- fnl consideration of continental j lrists for a great many years, without being adopted by any of them, in the form that we have it from England. Many attempts have been made to introduce it in some modified shape, but I think it safe to s .y that it had not in its essential Anglo-Saxon feature mat the approval of any people except those of that race. In the days when King? exercised arbitrary power, the jury vas, among the sturdy, liberty-loving English men a valuable barrier against oppression by the crown. But in this country, where the people are sove tign, the jury is but too often the mere reflection of popular impulse, and the s ifety of an innocent mau is more frequ mtly tound to depend on the firmness of the judge than the impartiality of the j try. Sill, it is probably wise that no man shall be convicted of an infamous crime until twelve fair-minded men are convinced ot his guilt. I am also forced to admit, however, that even in civil cases my oxperien :e as a j idge has been much more fa vorable co jury trials than i was a ;a practitioner. And I am bound to say that an intelligent and unprtj idiced j try, when such can be obtained, who are instructed in the law with such clear ness, precision and brevity as will present their duty iD bold relief, are rarely mistaken in re gard to facts which they are called upon to find.” This is a severe arraignment of the jury ays- Um and. yet it ctmuut u »ia tuut uuj rat. Those wbo have had anything to do with j iries know that they ar6 controlled in making up their verdicts to a large extent by tbe most whim sical ideas of right and j ustice; that their likes and dislikes are more important factors in the matterof arriving at a verdict than the most pos itive evidence coupled with the plainest law, that a little prejudice for or against a man will more frequently sw.,y the mind of a juror than the testimony of ‘a cloud of witnesses' that can seeking a redress of wrongs or an assertion of rights entrust their oases, but the jar maybe composed of mumskulls, who are about as well qualified to decide cases upon princ ples of equity a id justice as they are to make laws to govern a State, and it is quite certain they never would be chosen for that position. The law con templated the selection of twelve men thor oughly competent to sift the testimony and ap ply the la 7 as expo inded by the J adge to the case in hand, aud not men who are controlled more by a freak of fancy than an intelligent de sire to do equal and exact j istioe between man and mau as well as to those acoused of crime. In the institution of the trial by jury in Eng land, j urors ware made responsible with their whole estates, real and personal, for fals 3 ver dicts, so strictly were the rights of parties liti gant guarded by those who gave us the system. Ware such a law in fores to-day, there would be far less foundation, if any at all, for the com plaints we now hear in regard to the verdicts of j iries, provided responsible men were selected as jurors. Now for an instance or two in support of Judge Miller’s assertion that 'the j ury is too of ten the mere rt-flaction of popular impulse.’ Nearly twenty years ago a murder was oommit ed in Nis iville, which was the result of heated po litical discos >ion. I; was felt by the friends of the murdered man that owing to the high state of political excitement pervading the communi ty, a j try c mid not be got to convict the mur derer, as the panel from which the jury must be seleoted would ne composed mainly, if not wholly, of his political friends; and yet they were confident that if the parties to the tragedy had been reversed there would have been no difficulty in sjeuring a conviction of the mur der. The trial resulted in an acquittal. It was simply a travesty of j istice. Another instance in support of Judge Miller's theory is stated by the Senators and Represen tatives in Congress from Maine. They state ‘from a personal experience of the operations' of what is known as the ‘Maine liquor law,’ that ‘very frequently jurors, overcome by their prej udices. tailed to.agree upon verdicts’ in suits brought for violations of that law, but finally ‘public opinion reformed all perverse j trors,' and now the law is successfully enforced throughout the State. The law was nnpopular at first, and juries were controlled by the prej udices common to the people; it is popular now, and the verdicts flow with that current. An other instance in support of Judge Miller is to be found in the repeated change of venue in ' criminal cases from one county to another for ■rial for the good and sufficient reason that de- iendants and their lawyers have come to the con clusion that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the c 'unties where the proceedings were instituted, beemsa of the prejudice existing among the people of those counties. O. late years there bas been a wonderful crop ping o it of mob-law in various parts of the country, and this spirit, so destructive to the peace and good order of society, is traceable in a great measure to the leniency of j uries toward criminals. A case in point has recently occurr ed in Nebraska. It appears that at a trial in Nebraska City, a jury found Henry Jackson, Henry Martin, and William S. G.veas guilty of murder iu the sec ,nd degre3 for killing Charles Slocum and outraging hit wife. The evidence seemed to warrant a conviction for murder in the first degree, and the Judge s ; stated in pas sing sentence of imprisonment for life in t ie penitentiary noon the Drisoners. At about two vciock in the morning of the next, ri ai7 „ assembled at the j til, broke in the door, over powered the j dler, and took Martin and Jack- son out and hung them. The law was allowed to take its course with these criminals until the •tovdixf Af a jury nntragnd the sense of j ustioe of tho OOUlDiuuit^, whou u uaub o.oppuil iu null vti I what the j idgtne it of that community s .w t at the law should have done This spirit is man ifesting itself all over the country, and in many places the avengers of inj ired innocence do not wait for the farce of a trial to be enaoted. Tuere is no cortuinty now that a criminal will be promptly punished as the law presooibes, owing mainly to the strange freaks which control ju- and to this uncertainty mast be asoribed The highest bridge in the world is the Verrugas Viaduct ou tlie Lima Railroad in the Andes of Peru. It crosses a mountain torrent 12,000 feet above the level of the sea It is stated that a train on the New York Central Railroad made the distance from Rochester to Syra cuse, eighty-one miles, iu sivty-one minutes, said to be the fastest time ever nude in America. Rifled cannon were first employed in actual ser- viee in Louis Napoleon’s Italian campaign of 1859. Gen. James’, 1861, were the first introduced into.the United States service. A man at South Bend, Ind., buried his wife in nice style, but after the crowd had dispersed from the grave he sold the silver handles of the coffin back to the undertaker at reduced rates. A Mr. Kennedy was bitten by a rattlesnake near Wakulla, Fla., the other day. He applied the white of an egg to the wound, and drank abundantly of whiskey at once. The next day he was as well as ever. The chills and fever exist to such an ixtent at a ceatain village in Michigan, that is is said the vil lage church bell is rung every day at twelve o'clock to notify the inhabitants that it is time to take their quinine. Personals. What People are Doing and Saying ail over the World. ries, , , - , , , . Al . . i in a great measure the aggravated growth of not be impeached; and that there is always a W * w thronghont fhe country. disposition manifesting itself in the average y,- . ^ be 8uin . ientl ' intelligent and ror to ’bleed somebody who u able to stand he J personal preference and prej- process of depletion. This is demons.raied ^ ^ that otrne before him. ’ more olearly perhaps in cases where suits are in- stitnted against railroad companies for damages for killing persons, more particularly employes, the Judge upon the bench musl do, aud decide ac- c jrdiug to the law and the testimony. The coun try does not lack for such men; they are to be ^nization depended s P ucb vast and vital interests le suggests marks thebeginnin of the republic ' effort, and maj strife for the conser the vindication c r(assertion of the Trie ays, of joso water • „ , .."renc of the fact ot the rcvoiuuouaioj wb()ll 8j ntauy s .u.s are being epoch through which JJSStcto'mn^e Snitory | lured to destine ion by the Sjreu so leginning oi r „ nlc , e with ! We nave dci »lic—an epoch full ot^ ^ of ; i cUl; u | Preacher and Homelette Monthly, pi ^conservation of local seii-government, j New Y >ik city. It t eats, as the till tim. of the elective fraucr.ise and the , up0Q the m08t e ff civ* method of preaching, of the supremacy of^civil ?( ; v ^ r)1 j Ils ex ,, 09 itions of truth a-; taken h im „he bu»L and simple. Tne exetut j , a mockery ! are orthodox to un extrt, • ■ ‘ :nte reltes 1 U : ment. holding tK. color o representative ot tl of tenure, which is at o , the r0 voluiiqna than in any other class of cas A The only , * community, and it is the fault of point upon which j trors seem to disagree in mebod th / t jnriea are not composed of this such cases is the amount of damages that s tall J * men . J p ablic opinion could do much be assessed against railroad companies aspir- , Q reforuling the evi i 8 0 fthe jury system, and the i iug in those degenerate lacls ' Christianity, wheu so m of mod- of methodical malignit> V", jj^rigiiis of the peopie is the instrumentbj, « huh Uiir. ( eleclious must beI reasserted, the 1 eem return8 secured, auteed. the f ?M a °ched viper of imperialism and thereby V /. 1 ; ', . 'en bis time and the 4ih of killed in its shell between ui faltering, any March 1881. ‘' v^sun-endcr 0 on the pirt of this weakening, or any sur enu plutocracy and ('ongress to thc powers ofolh, ^hij , u the wllUe impenalisiri, entrenched Den^ fn(ud jn the jud,ciary blocks stand to day as they were laid by Moses, the prophet, the evangelists and the apostUs From its base laid in Gvuesis at G >d's command by the greatest architect of Hebrew history, high up to tbe cornice of R ■vele.tion placed on the impregnable s ructnre under Divine direc tion by John, as from its lofty watch-tower he looked over tbe river and saw tbe Now Jerusa- lllipr*ricilJMII» Alin v fiMi ml S°“?e e a Fwlcra> ln GovtTnmwiiTfie nu end |™&7oid'Hedgin'^auds tc-day fresh as the of popular institutions in tii s ®® aJ . e 8llilll j everlasting hills.’ . . only question " ‘ il ii.ock Of a coup d ctat or ! ‘Crucial tests have not impaired • chapter o through a ^crueter “process* 1 of'slow tortSre. called , invalid ated a verse. Tae tears oi silver-baire forms of law? ties to suits of thib character Their verdic.s seem to be based very often upon the idea that railroad companies have no rights which should be respected. They do not consider the fact that railroading is a very hazirdous business; that the employe is fully oognizint of this be fore he enters the employment of such compa nies, and that in perhaps a majority of the esses of the killing or maiming of an employe the fault is more his own than that of the agents of tbe company. The hazards of travelling by rail are unquestionably great, and human foresight ( can ne'e prevent many of the accidents which oe- j cur, a fact that is well known to the travelling j community, yet juries are not stint in awarding j damages even in such oases. It is freoly admit ted that railroad companies should be held to the strictest account for the proper and careful rnnning of their trains and to guard against ac cidents by every possible precaution; and that where accidents occur from neglect of any right ful and proper precaution, tne companies should be made to suff :r heavily in damages, the only way to reach the soul of a corporati m. The law and the testimony do not weigh much with the average j uror. He makes up his verdict after a manner which renders the decision of a cise somewhat like a game ot ehaoc , sinco he is as likely to go tbe one way as the other. Tne trial bv jury under suuh ciro'Uinstances is simply a farce. Your old lawyers will tell you that such was not the case half a century ago; that then the intelligence and worth of the country tilled the j ury-box, and that the verdict of such a j ury meant all that the phrase ‘the great right of trial bv j try’ conveys. ’From the day Magna Charta was wrung from King John at Rrnuymede by the B irons of England, tbe trial by jury has been regarded as the great bulwark ot the people’s liberty, aud there can be no quts ion that properly con ducted, it is every thing that is claimed for it. But the i irv system has fallen into disrepute of iute wears and Judge Miller but gives viice to , h i sentimont of a large portion of the intelli- < -:n ; men oi tbe country in regard to tbis mat- t r T i what do we owj this change in the es timate of the trial by jury ? Is it not due to the fact that juries are generally made up of the poorest, most ill-assorled materid that well could be found—men who, for the most, possess scarcely a single quality to recommend them for the important and responsible position of sitting in j udgment upon their fellow-men or to try others in cases involving liberty or death? Onr most solid, intelligent citizms, those who would make the best j urors, have no fancy for serving on j uries, and certainly there is nothing inviting in the position in the way of honor or emolument. Tae men who are com petent to make good j urors are not the kind of hat reform must be brought about speedily, or the j iry system is doomed. The country has had a surfeit of the ‘forcible feebleness,’ not to say inauity, whioh charaoteriz s the average j i- ror. Lot the jury system be made what it was in its inception, or abandoned a3 having out lived its usefulness. Items of Interest. This country used 700,000,000 postage stumps lust year. Tbe floods have already commenced inland in Cal- ilornia. A lively Spring trade hascommencediuNew York as the papers testify. Our golden and silver weddings are an idea bor rowed from the Germans. Macaroni is extensively manufactured in Sun Fruncisco. A good circus is supposed to carry away from a ' been given it by Miss Carrie Ribson Darwin lias just passed his seventieth year. William Howitt, the author, died recently in Rome, Italy. Enrico Pandiani, the sculptor, has just died at Milan. Sothern, the popular com \lian, is rusticating in southern Italy. Dumas is a great student of the Bible, and reads it witti great care daily. Ex President MacMahon is suffering from ophthal mia and other bodily ills. It is just about fifty years since Fanny Kemble made her debut on the stage. The trial over the estate of the late Commodore Vanderbilt has not yet collapsed, The belle of Washington during the past season; was the daughter of Gen. Thomas Ewing. Tlie Western people want a law prohibiting the importation of more than one Brick Pomeroy iu a century. Mr. Beeclier has been sued for $40,000 damages by a publisher with whom he failed to keep his agree ment. Mrs. Hayes, does not countenance low-necked dresses, and ladies at her receptions are expected to govern themselves accordingly. The widow and daughter of Bayard Taylor have returned from Berlin. Pope Pius IX. never allowed a woman to kiss his foot, but presented iiis hand. Leo XIIi.,011 the con trary, presents his pupal toe.' John Ericsou, the well known inventor, is now an old mau. still residing in New York, and devot" ing himself to sci entific experiments. Wall street watches the movements of Jay Gould with anxious eyes. He is “flush" now and no one knows where lie will come to the surface nest. Lady G >oel>, who some time ago endeavored to palm off a spurious child upon her husband, is now suing him for a divorce, alleging his u'afu'* 1 '-- 1 -'—- ^In spite o l,, Qneen Victoria’s hint that she had better stay at home, the Empress of Austria, with a ,ar-'e suite and stud, has gone to Ireland to enjoy oriox-lianting for a season. Reformer—"Sir, what are you willing to do for Jesus?” Hungry man on corner—“Most anything; all I want is $1.25 a day.” A negro woman in New Haven cures people o; heir diseases by the imposition of hands and pray, er; and charges nothing for her services. The phy- iciansare growing alarmed. A certain Washington citizen called on a friend last week and asked him for a loan of a dollar. 1 ‘My wife has left me.' he said “and I wish to advertise that I am not responsible for her debts,” Mr. A. M. Waddell, is reputed to be tlie author of the paragraphic utterance that “there is at present a mania in literature, art and philosophy to say something which cannot be ..uderstood.” The great Bism irk’s policy of "Blood and Iron" cannot win, and his temper grows hotter as hi/ blood cools with age. Iu a recent deb ite on the ce/ tie plague he charged the Liberals with aiming/ such a mild penal code as to offer protect ion to civ Herr Lasker replied that it was apparent the aim of the gagging law as applied to langu debate should be. to control the language of tbt ernmeut. To this, the Prince, of course, opp hot rejoinder, and thus au angry debate was <j A prominent physician of .San Francisco, of his wife, and infatuated with a younger \» is accused of goiug into Arizona for a short g vin au ostensible residence; and of having divorce from his wife put through the lei Legislature, in an omnibus bill with fourte« acts, so that the Governor could not veto it vetoing all tlie rest. This done he hied liir San Francisco and married the young wot ‘Silver Sails' has been briefly n among the new music sent to the Suns but not until last evening did we hi portunity of bearing tbe song -T beautiful lullaby ‘Soft and low*—sunf quisite air and lovely aoeunpanicneu.' ftrstelass show town nearly $50,900, They have strawberries already at Jacksonville, Fla. We’ll bet a hat they are sour! The net bonded debt of New Y ork city amounts to $107,128,903—a heavy debt to stagger under. wood, the young composer wbo hi many encomiums from musical o judge only by the eff ct produced a/ c riainly it seemed that never were music so approp iately and e idm-' 1 as in ‘Si,v ■ SbUs when sung last An artesia i well 300 feet deep rejoices the people of j the pure, sw jet, sympathetic voice < Fort Worth, Texas, by a liberal flow of pure and wholesome water. A young girl was sentenced in New Y ork city, last week, to five.years’ imprisonment for burglary. Chicago is the headquarters of a speculating ring in breadstuff's, the members of which are a curse to the country. The citizens of Omaha, Col., have just sent a car load of flour to the distressed losers by the Bank of ( Glasgow, Scotland. The State hank of Raleigh, X. C., has for its presi- 1 dent a lady, the widow of tlie former president. Germany sent us 31.958 einV ts duriug the > car | 187b. China, 8000, but nearly ; many Chinese re turn home annually as arrive u out' shores. A ring of profesional perjurers has been dis^ov ered j in New Y'ork, who realize a living by blackmailing^ j numbering twenty-five individuals. A Natioual Museum is to he at once erected in Washington city, to cost over $350,000, which proba bly means that it will cost $500,000. A correspondent writes that the streets of New York city are more filthy than he remembers to have seen them at any season beiore. The New York city clergymen are preachi? ner—tbe accomplished wife of tl •Wild Flowers.* The pretty, c« room seemed to stretch into an expt mer sea* with the lingering rose t painting the ‘silver sails,* upon bent the eyes of the watoher, whil ‘soft and low, * s irred her loose lips parted to croon to her ‘little ont ty one* tbe tender lullaby. V men wbo care to negleot their own business to The New ior* euj o.e.gju.,» settle other people's disputes or to try men lor 1 against the tenement-house sjs em o 1N °> their libertv or their bves, but they will not re- j clarii fuse to give this service if necessary to the pub- I body 1- : daring it to be unwholesome, both to soul and Temptations habitually resisted force, because tbe will is fjrtified bj tance. Mr. Sankey has receotly bien labo\ nection with the Presbyterian Cxurcb castle, Eng. es4 Christ Cnurch, Boston, has the of bells ia Amerioa. Aii * Bishop Doggett, who has bee; Eoi s A of the conferences of the Me)' months^. Church South during the lastyji , Q 00 ^ \ returned to his home iu X^o‘ ta ^ ' \ health, and with enoouragj£, J (/W ditioa ot the Churches %/ gor Those who do ' , of Scripture 6 "tronomy in the pci' nr *r**UHi onr at’ (I bo*' A