Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 10, Bloomington, Monroe County, 21 June 1882 — Page 4
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Skverax. petitions hare been, filed at Washington f or the pardon of Iboan Battard, tbe famous counterfeiter, who U wiring a term in the Fenitentuurj- at Albany. A. R.. Cazatjban,. the famous playwright, who for lame time- baa been qutto fu, is in rirrvate insane asylum at New Tort, and hia death is an event of the now fntnre. Jambs Pkndbbgast's house at Maneon, Mf.ua., wa-1 destroyed by fire, Hia mother perished and hia father waa fatally humed.... The aUaoachnaetis Medical Society voted, 1-4 to 60, agaiust the adniia.iion ot women phymctana to membership, The round-home of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City BaOroad Company at Kaighn's Point, Fa., horned, and nine of the eleven looomotiTeu were destroyed. XxMa about vl00,00a
Ths Chicago wheat market, says the Timet, U believod to hare beaa oversold abont 20,000,000 tneliela, despite the role making winter wheat regular. It ! alleged that the largest dealfr man months ia now in progrega, and there are predictiotti) that July wul be posited np to S3, Agents ot the oombmation have been chartering veaaeto to distribute the grain among New England dealers. Th four mea who robld the bank at BrookneM, Ha, were eaptnxd fourteen ndtea west of KirksviUe. After one posse had traced them to then- lair a company of forty armed men left Brootficid by special train and reached he rendexTOUs before daylight. Their names are Winfield Allen, Frank Ward. Bert Ward, thd Ben Fox. They recently rented the farm on which they were captnrxL Their house was almost an armory, sixty rovolvers fcnnd, beside masks and explosives . . . . The lUmou Department cf Agriealtnre reports tbe prospect favorable for more than an average yield of wheat per acre, alt hough the army worm has stripped off the blade in some of the southern eoantie Keporbi from nearly all parts cf Hmneeote are to the affect that corn is making np for last time, while wheat on high land begins to show the need of rain, A iiaskkd mob of 100 appeared at tbe Jail in Lawrence, San., at midnight, demanded the keys, and, when refused, burst in the door and took from the cell Peter Vinegar, laaao King and George Robertson. They took them to the bridge and hung them. All three were colored, ana their crime was tbe murderlof Daniel Bausman, a farmer from Ohio, who had arrived in Lawrence toe day before with a largo sum of money, the proceeds of the sale of hi farm.. A haw storm, aeeompazued by water spouts, swept over Denver, GoL, doing thousands of dollar' worth of dnmage and drowning several people Three persons were) killed at Virginia City, Nev., by the premature explosion of a blast, . . . .President Hinsdale, of Shram College, has been apoointed Bupenatendentof the Cleveland Public Schools A half-witted fellow was hanged by a gang of railroad laborers for lolling a felkiwHvorkman near Laa Vegas, New Xsxiso. A Bwnsiox has been made by the Ohio Sopreme Oourt to the effect thai money paid to county officials under the Pond law can be recovered. Fom- Arizona cowbers, who recently bound and roUied a storekeeper near Messills, N. SL, were overtaken by a posse and strangled. By the premature explosion of a blast near Portland, Ore., three Chinamen and one white man were killed. Many Uvea were lost and crops and property destroyed by a tarriflc hatt-etona in the vkuntrof Broken Arrow, lad. Tec '
Thb postoffloe at Columbus, Ky., -was entered by means of skeJetoB keys, the safe was blown open, and 93,00) in Government chcou and over 120 watches were earned off. SrvK thousand persons, in Patrick county, Ta., are said to be almost on the verge "of starvation, on account of the drought of last Gkobgk Beckett, a negro, attempted to outrage a 7-year-old girl hi Monroe county, Visa. A party of citizens with shotguns and blpodhc unds started in pursuit of the brute, and he was ran down near the Tombixbee river. Herefused to surrender and deded his pursuers, who opened fire on him, wounding him "seriously, lie waa then taken to jail and a guard placed over him. At night a crowd of men overpowered the Jailer, broke into Beckett's cell, dragged him out and hanged him to the Kmb of a bee. A negro named John Johnson was strung up by a mob, for a similar crime, at BockHffl, &. OL FiVAiiKS which broke out in a store at Tevarkana, Art, swept sway several buildings, causing a loss estimated at 75,000. ..BaerA Gov's grain and provision store, at Galveston, waa burned. Lots, about 110,000. WASH llTCTiTO?!. In reply to the resolution recently introduced in tbe Senate by Senator Plonfn, asking for information with regard to the Government Pirating Ofiace, S P. Bounds, Public Printer, has addressed a communication to Vice President Da via covering the ground of inquiry. Among the questions asked was the following : Whether tho prosecution of the btarinese of said office is in any wise-dependent upon ?h action of any or-aaizauon existing inside or outside of said office.'' To this lb. Bounds replies: Tb prosecution of the besiasss of the Govern -townt Printing Office, wortang now, aa It has bean Tor many years pass, in accord with Uta Typographies! ixl Boobinorr Cniofia, ia dependent upon the actum ot those organ: atkiiM, ia so far mat if, oo (be refusal of the Public Printer to abide by any or aH oi lUtar roles and regolaUoiia, a general strifeemf workmen in the ofiee wa ordered it would make necessary the stoppage of the Government printing until the oflce coad be supplied with non-onion workmen, and In tbe opinion of the Government Mater to snoply tbe Government Office with so larg a number of skilled workmen necessary to do eogTeat an auwaut and aohigb a gradt of work from among the nnmlier of non-unioii work, wten Mitd involve a serktnsloes of tim-. and for aneh thne nmimnilly lower the standard of work Bone in the Government office. At any and aH times, should any fteriooa difficulty or difference arise between tbe public fervioi mn-l tbe unkms, the Public Printer, holding the intereK under hia charge and the laws of Congress paramount to aU fiber coastdentiona, would sostain tbam without regard to the lawaand regu atknu of any and alt trade organisations, and as Congress raigir. direct. . In the International Typographical Tfaioaai eciiouis. a telegram from the Washington Union was read, stating that Oenator Plumb had made war nporvit because of its refusal to allow one of his political followers to wo in the Government Printing Office aa a proof-
Ths pary of the Tariff Cknrniiwioner8 is to he 10 par day and expenses. Their rocte, aa outlined in advance of confirmation.
will be Long Branafa, Coney island and Newport, speucung tie montu of Angnst at Saratoga, then a trip to the vineyards of California, and an autumn, visit to the sugar piantations of
Hon. W. A. WmwEam decliDed to
serve on the Tariff Ornmntsaion on account of
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PBBstDsarr Ajkchub has received an invitation from the Umon League Club of Chicago to visit that city this summer, and thinks favorably of the propositiott. Bbookway, the counterfeiter, was released from the jail at Washington on a letter written by Attorney Qecerai Brewster. Doyle, it waa given out, would be set free on furnishing positive testuikiay that tbe $1,000 bond ' pnto waa procured front officials or employes of the Government; otherwise, he would be allowed to go to tho pemtentiary.
. Th Iowa Oreeaback State Convention at Dea Memoes was largely attended. The following gentlemen were selected to represent tbe party in the Siatn canvass this fall: For Secretary of State, W. i. Ctaston, of Keoknk county; Treasurer of State, George Dorr, of TJnion county; Auditor of Stite, G. A. Wyant, of Binggold county; Attorney General, J. H. Race, of Hahaaka etun; Judge of the Surname Court, H. H. Jbr-ee. of Bbhsska; Clerk of the Bnprcme Conrt, X. M. Clark, of Allamakee: Beponer of thi Sopreme Court, J- H. Wimamsoo, of Buchanan The Alabama Democratic State Convention nomsawted . A. O'Neal for Governor by acclamation. H. C. Tcmpkhn was nominated for Attorney General,' Elias Fbelan for Secretary of State, J. & Vacant for State Treasurer, J. M. Carmkhael l it Aachtor and H. a Armstrong for Supermtoadent of Education The Illinois Democratic State Committee has selected Springfield is the place, and Sept. 7 as the date, for holding tbe State Convention. Ths Democrat ie Committee ol Ohio have issued a call for a State Convention, to be hekl at Cotambua as July 30. A dispatch from Portland, Ore., says uiha average Beputlican majority on the Btate ticket is 1,800. George will nave no lew than 3,000 in the State, the largest majority ever given a candidate. Moody, for Governor, will ave about 100 less. The Bepublicans have toe Legislature by a certain majority ol ten, which may be-increased to thirteen." T State Convention of Greenbackera irt Tonnssgee assembled at Nashi ille and nominated J. B. Beastey for Governor. The platform of IbTX), adopted at.Chicaxo, waa reaffirmed. QniTB a flatter was eansed in political circka m Waacisgtoa by the noeuuation of BolUn at Paggett, of Nevada, to aotceed James
K. Comly as Minister to the Hawaiian islands. Oomly wa appointed by Hayes, and was a dose personal and political friend of Garfleld and Sherman. Daggett was formerly member of Congress from Nevada, and, it is said, was nominated to succeed Comly at the imtsiv' of Senator John P. Jones,... The Republicans of Maine nominated CoL Frederick Bobie for Governor. Thomas B. Beed, Nelson Diugloy, Charles A. Boutello and Seth D, Hiuiksn are the nominees for Congress. The reaoiutiona ad. nted expi-en approval of the course pursu.d by President Arthur.... The Bhode Island Legislature reelected Henry B. Anthony United States Senator for the six years following the expiration of his present term.
Hb& Francos M. Scovimh, sister of Guiteau, has drawn up another petition and call upon the public for signatures to it She addresses it to the President or the Tinted States, and asks that a stay ot proceedings be granted in the Guiteau cage A company of representative negroes from Hississipin is on its way to Chihuahua, to prospect m the agricultural and mining region of Mexico, whero a location is sought tor a colony of 200 families. At Powhatan, Va., Armistead Gray, colored, waa hanged for the cruel murder of hia little boy; at Talequah, in tho India u Territory, Daniel Lucky, colored, was executed for a murder committed last December; at Brownsville, Texas, Quinno Gaitan was atnmt up for murder of a Mexican; tnd at Ferliaru, llino., John Tribbetts, the youthful desperado who murdered a surveyor and his assistant, waa taken from jail by a party of dotonuitiod men and hanged to a tetegraoh polo near by.... A dispatch from El Paso, Tex., says that a party ot American railroad hands attacked a number of Mexicans in camp at Jago ranch, A desperate fight followed, during which three Americans and a number of Mexinins werj killed.... The failures in the United States for the past week aggregate 130, the largest number sinoo March 14.... The iron strikers in the vicinity of Pittsburgh are organising fishing dubs, aud propose taking matters easy during the summer. At Cleveland both employers and emplcyes exhibit a stabboruness that bodes no uear solution of the problem. President Jarrott, of the Amalgamated Association, decided at a meeting at Covington that the Ciucinuali strike was uritisti liable. Thb June report of the Department of Agriculture announces a decrease of 13 per cent, in the area of spring wheat. The condition of winter wheat is 100, and indications favor a crop of both varietiOT exceeded only by that of 1888. Com planting in half the States was not completed by June 1, but a large increase in acreage is reported. Tiiere we brilliant prospects for oats, with an increase of 1 percent, in area. Thm army worm ia making great havoc among the wheat fields in portions of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, the visitations being in point of relative destructiveaess on a par with the grisahcppdr scourge of several years ago. Vast fields, of ripening wheat, which in a fewdays would be ready lor harvesting, are mined in a few hours by the worm, which cuts off the stalk and feeds upon the sap Much damage in reported to tobacco fields in Kentucky from the same cause A great fire broke out in Montreal, and an entire block of business structures, together with their contents, was destroyed, Theloa is estimated at l,45a000. retEieit. WAiyrwt M. Bodrkk, a Gal way landlord, residing at Babasane, was shot dead while returning from Gort His escort, a soldier, waa also killed. Bourke was riding in front of his dragoon escort when a volley from rifles waa fired from behind a wall, and both fell dead. Bourke was a magistrate, and son of tho late Crown Solicitor for Mayo. Ho was a barrister by profession, and had amassed his fortune in India. He possessed two estates in Ireland, one at Curaleigh, the other at Rah&aane. He had several disputes with his tenants, and recently left Loudon to carry out evictions. . . . Two hundred insurgents attacked an Austrian battalion near Morinie, and compelled it to retreat with a loss of ninetyfive Killed, the insurgents having twenty-six men kJled or wounded. The Austrian barracks at Bischina were destroyed, twenty-five soldier being killed..... Foxtail, the Amcricau racar, won the Ascot gold cup in England, taking 1,000 sovereigns. Two FAKMKBs'in County Cork, Ireland, were shot and seriously wounded, and Castle Savies was burned, newuds amounting to f 17, i00 have been offered for information leading so the detection ot the assassins of Mr. Bourke and the soldier accompanying him .... The holding of trials without juries is strongly opposed by tte Irish Judges. Baron Fitzgerald win resign if this obnoxious ciansa of the Bepression bill becomes a law. Aa important address to the Irish people has been issued by the Soman CathoIIo Bishops. It is signed by Cardinal McCabe, Archbishop McGettigan, Archbishop Croke, Bixtiop Nutty, and twenty-one others, and is an earnest appeal to the people of Ireland to refrain from acts uf-iVio enoe and disorder and to have no connection with the secret societies which are the instigators of the crimes so prejudicial to the interests of Ireland. While condemning lawhywnesa' in unmeasured terms, the prelates express sympathy for the oppressed people, and denounce evictions as the i Dating cause of crime and disorder Bloody rioting occurred at Alexandria between the natives and Europeans. Many hoaaes were wrecked, a nunibei' of persons mortally wounded, and twenty kuied. The English Consul received a gun-shot wound, and tbe engineer of a British man-of-war was killed. The rioting continued for five hours, and the police for a time declined to interfere.... The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in addressing a deputation of. school teachers, sain there was abundant proof of the existence of an organization which,'' kitted and maimed in defiance of law. Qxs. Iosatieff, at his own request, has been relieved of the portfolio of the Russian Ministry of the Interior, and is succeeded by Count Toisto... .Italy's policy on the Egyptian question, as enunciated by her Foreign Minister, is to refnse assent to armed intervention by any power bat Turkey, and that only as a lesser evil. . . .In the British House of Lords, a motion to give second reading to the bill legalizing marriafe with a deceased wife's suter was rejected by 128 to 132.
THE LaBOK TROUBLES. PiTTSBrman, Pa., June U. It b two weeks since the ironworkers struck, and they are as "determined aed enthusiastic aa at the beginning. The manufacturers, on the contrary, show signs of uneasiness, which is interpreted to mean that they are weakening. The starting up of the nulls at Cincinnati and other points is against them, as it draws trade from the citr which may never return. This is part of the plan of the strikers, who think it will force tbe Pittsburgh manufacturers to resume sooner than they would under other circumstances. The coal strike contiaues. Strikers at Bobbins'works are to be evicted to make room for colored miners. Tiiere may be trouble before this is accomplished. Ci.ivkland, Ohio, June 14. Nearly 1,300 men went to work in the various mills of the Cleveland tolling -Mill Company at Newbury yesterday. This is a greater number sf men than has been at work at anv time since the attempt to start the mills a week ao, and the strike may be considered as virtually at an end. There was a perkau disturbance at Cleveland between the union and non-union work
men. Over 1,200 of the latter quit work in tho
evening at the Cleveland rolling mill, and were escorted by policemen through Wire street, which was lined on both sides with atrikaco and their wives and children. At the levators there commeoeed a shower or stinos aud cinders, which was kept up for throe blacks, Police Captain Hocher being seriously hurt. When the workers had been placed in the street-oars, tho police arrested several ringleaders in the assault. Business has been ntmtned in the Wabash
Rolling Hiii at Terra Itaule, Iud., prices to bo
governeu ny we raw ur.ru scale. shocking Calamity. niiiadletf Accident su Indlnnapolla. A terrible calamity occurred at Indianapolis the other day. Through the center of the dty
is a small creek call id Fugue's ran, which in dry seasons is litllo more than a mud puddle ; but, in the event of a suddon and heavy rain, the extent of Jountry which it drains
makes it very dangerous. A tremendous rain-storm, during which two inches of water fell, swelled this stream to an unprecedented height, and flooded the northern part ot
Hie city, inflicting a pecuniary damage amounting to several hnndrad thousands of
uoiiara. The most i-miblo thing in connection with the flood, however, was tbe dreadful
loss of life. There was a frail, half-rotten bridge spanning Pogue's run, near tho Uniou depot. The water reached almost to the floor ot it, and was running very fast On this were at different times from ten to twnnty-nvo soeo-
uuu wakening toe uwo. xney wore several times warned that thin was not sat), bat paid little attention to this. Finally, when the flood was at its highost. the bridrai Grave wav.
preHpitatin-j twenty or more persona into the
water, nauy oi meet were young girls who worked at an adjoining factory, and nino of these were saved by bystanders. Too remainder went through the tunnel, which Is a sqnaro in length, and strangely enough tbi- o of these were rescued alive. The dead bod cs of eight peiMons wore taken oat wilbtu a few hours, and it is believed that ho list p drowned will reach doaeo.
APPmOSAL HE ITS. Mn, Elaine -teas again before the ITouse Foreign Affairs Committee last week, but contributed nothing nyrf or interesting in regard to the Chili-Peru affair, under investigation. W. H. Troeoott, the Commissioner sent down to South America along with Mr. Blaine's son, was also examined by the committer. Ho said, in general terms, that the object of his mi-aion was to attempt to bring the iwlligorent states of Chili, Peru and Bolivia together, and, if possible, roiko peace. The witness knew nothing whatever o? the correspondence of Shipherd; nover saw him but once, and none of his papers ever came into his (witness1) hands. Ho had no knowledge that any Minister of the Uinled States was corruptly influenced in connection with tho Credit Iuduatriel, or any other company; nover saw or heard anything to iudicato that the late Minister Hurlbut was in auy way corruptly influenced. The Chilian Seoreiary of Foreign Affairs told the witness that tho Chilian Government had no charges whatever to make against Minister Hurlbut. Tbe Bepublican State Convection of North Carolina Indorsed the nominees o;' tho Liberal movomont, and passed a resolution requesting members of tho Legislature to veto against prohibitory liquor laws, Havana, Cuba, ia already being scourged by yellow fever, and fears are entertained that the plague will be widespread, Tho South ia in better sanitary condition than it has been for many years previously, and it is hoped the extremity ot disease may be avoided The steamship Pera, which sailed from Montreal with 200 head of cattle, struck an iceberg and foundered off Cape Race. Thirty of the crew were picked up by the steamship Lake Manitoba, but it is feared that ten lives have been lost. Thb reports of the crops in the Southern States indicate that the loss resulting from the overflow of the plantations along the Southern rivers will be comparatively insignificant. The 16ss in acreage, or rattier tho decease in the number of acres planted with cotton, in Arkansas was Hi per cent., in Tennessee 7,8 per cent, in Histissippi 7.2 per cent,, and ia Louisiana 7.6 per cent, while in Guorgia and North Carolina, States not affected by the floods, the reduction is 8 and 6 per cent respectively. In all these States, however, the acreago lost to cotton is, with additions given this yeir, to make room for wheat, corn and oats. The Agricultural Department at Washington estimates that the falling off in acreage in cotton is only 2.7 per cent, whila the average depreciation of the cotton rrop, as compared with that of last year, is about 11 per cent. Thb trunk-line roads are about to have four new competitors for the commerce of Chicago with the seaboard. The New York, Chicago and St Louis road will bo in operation by September; the Buffalo extension of tho Lackawanna raid will be finished early in the fall, and can easily secure entrance to Chicago ; the Chicago and Atlantic will soon be avuilablo to admit to the Western metropolis tbe trains of the Lehigh Valley and the Erie roads, and the Ontario and Western might furnish a New ITork outlet for the Wabash. At present the new roads are outside of the pool.... The steamship Pert., from Montreal for Great Britain, foundered off Cape Race, and part of her officers and erew were picked up by a passing steamer. Boats containing ten persons are yet missing. ( The French and English Ambassa
dors at Constantinople, supported by other
diplomats, urgn the immediate assembling of the conference upon Egyptian affairs. Glad stone announced in the British House oi Commons that all tae powers are heartily co-ope-rating with England, and that the Snltad is in complete harriony. Four steamers leaving Alexandria carried full loads of Europeans, and it is stated that many heavy capitalists are calmly arranging to leave. Tho English Consul General detures all British subjects to depart, but hesitiitcs to prodace-a panio by ofiicial request The bodies of an English officer aud two seamen, killed in the riot, wero buried at sea to prevent an outbreak on shore. . . . The Italian Clumber of Deputies has tacitly agreed to vote funds to purchase a proper ap-
...-The Germ am lleichstag, after a liiely de I hi ind nolvrifhtttandint. ""iruiipVii iiKnfjuHs. I
rejected the Tubacco Monopoly but
tax of 60 cents would yield more revenie than the present rate. No action was taken op tho bill Mr. Millnr reported the bill for the oonstruotion of the IUnois and Mississippi canal. Tho joint resol ition appropriating 9375,000 to pay mail contractors in the Southern States for services at the outbreak of the war was taken np, and Mr. Conger dcridod any liability of tho Government Tho President has nominated Daniel H. Pinnoy, of Illinois, to bo Assoisiato Justice of ths Supremo Conrt ot Arizona. Mr. Pinney was n Dem nratio niemt oi of tho Illinois Legislature, from .lolict, in 1877, when David Davis wis olcolod United States Senator, and was one of his oblcif supporters, Tho Hooso wont into committee of tbe whole on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. Mr. White moved to strike out the item of $1,975,000 for salaries in the Internal Revenue Bureau, and stated that Mr, Kclloy had organized a pool between the whisky and tariff pooplo. Mr. Kelley retorted that the statement was tho raving of a lunatic or of a dolihcrato liar. Mr. White replied that Blr, Kelley might bo scoundrel ouwigli to mi ke such a charge. Tho words wero taken down, and a resolution of conauro was proparod, but both members speedily made apologies. Several amendments to prohibit political assessments woro ruled out Mr, Springer put through an amendment to fix the salary of tbe Reporter of the Supremo Court at $5,000, and that the reports be hereafter minted at the Government Office and sold at. 10 per cent, advance on the cost The committee then rose and the blfi was passed by 125 to 45. A rcjolution was adopted to pay Gcorji o Q. Cannon, of Utah, salary and mileage to April li). Mr. O'Neil reported the Invalid Pension Appropriation bill, covering $100,000,000. MTE STOCK,
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Flunrem from lite Untied Stnf eCent By a recent bulletin of the census office at Washington, the statistics of live stock in each of tho States and Territories show that tboro were on farms in tho United States, June 1, 1880, 10,857,981 horses, 1,812,932 mules, 993,1170 oxen, 12,443,593 milch cows, 22,488,590 other cattle, 35,191,156 sheep and 47,633,951 swiae. Tho figures of Illinois and adjacent States are as follows :
Horses Oxen Other cattle. . Swine Horses Oxen , Other cattle.., Swine Horses Mints Oxen ......... Mllcll cows.., Horses Mules Oven , Milch own... Horses ., Mules Oxen Milch cows...
Horres Mules oxen Milch cows..., Horses Mules Oxen, Milch cows..., Horses Mu'es Oxen , Hilch cows,.., Horns Oxen Other cattle Swine.
M1KK0VM. . 6M,5 ifiiMnlcs ,ai Milch cowa.... .l,4Ui,5!i Sheep. .4,.S63,12a IOWA. . 792,332; Mules VK'iMilch o-s..., .l,7.v,3t ISuccp .,3i,31 11-1 INOIS. .1,C23,02 Other cuttle.. . . ,. 123, J7s Sheep , 3,3i. Swine. . 805,013 XA SAS. . 3o.907'Otbcrcalt;!e..;. .. M,mv Sheep......... . iri,7H'.ilsiiie . 418,333!
ABKAKSAK.
. 192,027 . fil,US .1,411,298
44,424 H5i,lH7 4M,3M
.1,515,063 ,.:,057,ta .6,170,260
,l,0i.MJ .. 1W.C71 ,.1,787,0611
140,33
67,0K!
25,144 2411,411?
DAKOTA.
Other cattle. Sheep , Swine
,. 433.392
... 24C.761
...1,565.0118
lOther cattle.. Sheep Swine
41,670
2,703
11,411 lii,572!
INDIANA. 6l,444Other cattle... Sl,7MIShcen 3,!)-,0;Swlne. 494,!44 MIC1IIOAH. 87H,77i !her cattle. . . 5,083 Hhccp 40,393 Swine 3K4,57 Misyr.fOTJi. 257,282 Mules 38,314 Milch Oows... 347,161 iSbcep. ....... S81,415
R8.825 6a 399
MOSTANA.
HOTFCS Oxen Other cattle., Swine
Mules.
Milch oows. Sheep
DOUIQg OF CPU SEEM, Tho District of Ooinmbia Appropriation Dili was passed by the Senate, on the 8th insi, after refusing to remit $10,000 unpaid taxes on the pronottv of the late Superintendent Patterson, of the Coast Survey, if r. Hawley reported a Joint resolutim, which was adopted, appropriating 10,000 to furnish food to destitute peopln in the ov erflowed portion of Mississippi. The Hruso pnssed a bill increasing to $40 per month the pension of any soldier who lost a leg, hand or foot in the late. war. Tho General Deficiency Apprt priatiou till waa taken Up and paawd", motions being dc foated to strike out the clfttixea of $125,000 for laud-grunt railroads, of 1 332.000 for the Naval Iluroau of Construction, and of $112.60.) for Special Deputy Marshals. A Joint resolution w is pi ised to lend 1,000 army tents to. shelter Kusuan refugees at Tine-lan-i, N. J. Bills wtro reported to create thi Oregon Sliort-Llno Railroad Company and the National ltv,'.o.id (Company. Mi. Calkins reported in favor of limiting to $2,000 the expense of contesting seats. The Democrats of the Benate hunl a canons to conaidor the nominations on tho Tariff Commission. Considerable hi position to the make-up was developed. Senatir Test received a dispatch from ex-Oov. Pielps, ot Missouri, declining the appointmiut A joint resolution to refund lnternal-rover.no taxes illegally collected from the Detroit fiouse of Correction was passed by the Senate oe the 9th inst air. Van Wrek offered a resolution, which was laid over, that the nominations to the Tariff Commit lion be eons idei ed in opou session. A bill was parsed authorizing the Postmaster Ceneral o oxtend mail routes, at pro-rata additional paf. for any distance not exceeding twentyfive miles. Tbe Japanese indemnity bill was di; cussed and flung aside. The House spent ths day in committee of the whole on the LcgHlative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation bilL A proposition by Mr. Barrows to e nualizo the salaries ot Senate and Honaa employes was agreed to, Mr. White objected to the item of $2,300,000 tor salaries in tbe Intern J fievenue Bureau, and it was passed until ths 1 iill is completed by the committee. Nearly balf the items were considered, when a recess wis taken. At the evening session twonty-fira pension billa wera pasted. The entire session Ot the House, on Saturday, the 30th inst, was devoted to the consideration of the Legislative Appropriation bill There was no session of the Senate. The Japanese Indemnity bill was np for consideration in the Senate on the 12th inst, the principal feature in the debate being a war ot T50TI U between the two Kansas Senators, Ingalls and Plumb, on the one side? und Morgan, ot Alabama, on the other. The bill wont over aa unfinished business. Bills were paused to divide Iowa into two judicial districts, and to authorize the Sioux City and Pacifio road to bridge the Missouri river, Mr. Pendleton presented a petitiou from 10,000 citizens of Cincinnati and Covington, asking the passage ot tbe C vit- Service Koform bill, Mr. Brown offered a resolution authorizing each Senator to employ a clerk at 91,200 per annum, to be paid from the contingent fund. Oa motion of Mr. Logan, tho Sonata insisted upon its amendments to the Army .Appropriation bill, and a conference oonuniUee was appointed. In the Eouse Mr. Batterworth reported back the Army Appropriation bill with the Senate amendments, and recommended non concurrence in the clame making retirement from ths army compulsory at the age of 64 years, but the clause was agreed to by 101 to 75. Mr. Townsend reported a bill lo create a Board of Commissioners of Inter-State Commerce. Mr. Humphrey reported a bill for a uniform systom of bankruptcy. A long debate took place on tho Senate measure to increase the water supply of the District ot Columbia. At the session of the Senate on the 13th inst., Mr. Graver made a fa vorable report on a right of way into San Francisco for the Ocean Shore railroad. The pending resolution, that each Senator bo givenaciork at a salary of 1,2 0, was rejected. Mr. Allison reported, with amuidinenia. tbe House bill for the exUnrion of the national-bank charters. Tho Japanese Indemnity bill was taken up and paused. Tho President seut to ttie Seimle the follawmg nominations : Samuel II. AxUll, or Ohio, Chief Ju.-tioo ol ihe Supremo Court of NowMexioO) Holtin M. Daggelt, of N.ivads. United Htates Minister to the Hnvoiian hlands : Ilonry Gsplisen, of Wisconsin, Iloccivsr of Public Monoys at Abeideen, Dnlots. 'J'he H uso of Itepresentatives passed a tcsoli'.tion authorizing the t'ocrotary of War to pla so at Washington's hoadquartera at Newbnrgb, N. Y., a memorial column co-dine: frlD.OGO, ai.d Iro appropriating 5"lfi,000 toward tho cxpeni e of a oi nlounial oolol 'ration, next year, of tbe declaration of peace- The hill to increase til e water supply of the Dixtrict of Columbia wan passed, with tho prov.no that half the cost be advancod by th Government The Ltgislativo Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole, discussed, amended and laid over. The Honso Bondcd-Spirita bin earn up lo tho Senate, on tho 14th, as the regular order, and a substitute reported by the Finance Committee was read. Mr. Bayard urged the neoessity of prolonging ihe bonded period from three to five years, and said the recent proposition in the H ouso to reduce the tan to 60 cents per gallon Lad produced paralysis in the trade. Mr. Sherman expressed the opinion that a Arm
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BLOOD-CURDLING TRAGEDY.
.1 Clilcnjro mother, Craned by Dottles lie Xmiihlex, Kills Herxelf mid Her t'enr Children. A most unprecedented qiiadruplj nni-dcr and suicide occui red the other df.yat N-, 51 Finnell street, Chicago, the perpetrator being i he wife of Kaspar Soylold end tho other victims her children. In the absence of her hn iband eho decked tbe little ones out in lluwera, dressed them in white, aud administered strychnine to them one by one, From lot ;tra written by them to theit playniatvs and to their father, it is evident that they woro till tho time cognizant of what their mother waa doing, and were contented to die. Whin tho father returned honve from his night's woik in a bukery, tho uuitlier appe irod :t the door, arrayed in white, and wearing arlificiul flowers lor ornaments. She shewed bim ibe lifeless bodies of her babos and infoimed him that she was about to loin them. Medical help Was procured, bnt in vain. She was soon dead, having taken the remaindor of tbe fattil drttg. Tbcrojire few instances on reccrd of such singular devotion on tho part of children to a mother. They listened to ler stury of what she cenreived to oo her wrong those that were intelligent enough to understand and, rt her request, prepared for death v ithuut from all thai can be learned a single protest or a quiver of the tip. The eldest, the girl of 12 years, sat down with a coolness which can not be understood, and wrote to her father and her playmates ot the preparation which was being made for their death. One by one they took their places, and submittt d to their murder as com Muccnliy as If they hid been going to Bleep under the lullaby of a mother after she has taught them how to pray. Hope Ahead. A committee of stockholders, who waited npoa tho superiniencleot of a California rniun in days gone by to ask why in blitzes the said tuinti hadn't panned out anv thing but asstiseuionts, were graciously received, invhed to be seated, and the olIMnl explained 1 " Gentlemen, you ore all aware of the fact that we had scarcely begun vrork when the month of our mine waji blocked by a landslide. That pat us back a month. They nodded their remembrnnoe. "Then we 'had jiut got in shape to take out 4,000 tons of ore, worth $'.i.000 per ton, when the mine eaved in, Xou recall it?" They did. " Ouoe more we beat ourselves to the burden of reaping $500 for every ten invested when the mine was flooded by a subterranean river," That was true also. " Then we had just got the water out when we discovered that our mine was located on another man's claim. We had him - shot to prevent trouble, and once more we were about to declare a dividend of 200 per cent, when the dead man's heirs put in au appearance. There were three of them. We chased one over the range, had another hnng by the vigilance committee, and I am happy to in form you that I have four men out after the other, and am every hour exiccting to hear that he hoa tumbled oil' a elift Gentlemen, there is hope ahead golden hope. Please come up and drink with me ; niter which there will be another asse anient of 10 per cent!" Wall Street Daily News.
An Anecdote of Burns. The bard was never in Greenock but once, and that was when he was about to take hia passage' to the West Indies On that oeoasion, however, his aetiricnl spirit gave birth to one caustic remark which is too good to bo lost, and has not yet, so far at we recollect, appeared elsewhero. Having gone down to the iarlxr t view tho ship which he had designated to carry him from his native shore, he arrived just as a gentleman, going on board on the same erxund, had the misfortune to stumble and fall into the water lwtween tho ship's sido and tho quay.. By the intrepidity and exertion of a 'seaman, who plunged in after him, lie was saved from drowning and brought on board with no other injury than a sound ducking. The rescue, however, dcmai-ded a signal display of his liberality to-vard bin preserver, and, turning round, he with no small ostentation tendered liiin the mighty sum of six pence as the reward of bin courage and humanity. The bystanders were astonished, and inveighed loudly against mi eh unparalleled meanness, Burns alone remained silent, and when pressed to give his opinion ot the aot, "Why," he said, "the gentleman is surely the best judge of the value of hu own Ufa,"
IInlrMt Free rreu. " It'i we two, and e two, it's two fur aye, AU theiui-ii.iiil wo twe, and licavcu lie (it r stay." It wa a gay, rollicking party that boarded tho fust-e-xpress train going east, and, as it was Lite, and tho cars crowded, the noiwe made by tho intruders s tirred overyouo to anger, and thoir ill-timed wittse-Lsins wero received with wrath and indignation. The. leader of tho company was a noisy youth overflowing with an abundance of animal spirits and he gave the passengers a fjutoy rejoinder when they reprovetl him for disturbing their repose. Wliou he had traversed tho entire line of cars without (hiding a vacant seat, ho noticed an old man sitting atone, but apparently guarding a reserved space next to him. Kapping him smartly on tho shoulder, the presumptuous youth asked if he might ait down. " Eh 1 eh !" (aid the old man in a fe-eblo voice, " we two have these seats ; there isu't any room for you !" The young fellow sauntered back to find his friends all provided for, and after strolling through tho baggage and smoking cars he returned and saw the seat of the old man still vacant The oged passenger seemed to be dozing, but ho responded feebly to the energetic touch of tho other. "Look here!" said the young man, "let me have a seat; you haven't any one with you !" "Hush!" answered the other, "you'll frighten her away! Can't you see her sittin' there smilin', with her long yaller curls, and with the white dres& that she was married in 1 Mebbe it was a fancy, but I could ha' touched her before you come no, no, she's there and I'm here we two have lived together for fifty years ; it's hard to be separated now !" The young man had seated himself and lie paid no attention to the old man's maundering talk till he heard him saying softly over aud over to himself, " Kt.ty I my Katy ! Katy durlin !" Then he listened, for Eatv was the
name of the sweet-faced, blue-eyed girl he loved, and even now he was on his way to make her his own. " Wasshoyoni wife?" he asked with mora respect in his voice, nor could he told why hn used the post tense in the way he did, "My wift! my love my bride !" was the almost incoherent answer. "Oh! it was a hard world, bnt wo two traveled it together ; I never had a pleasure but Katy shared it with me ; nor a sorrow that she didn't help bear. I wish you could ha' seen her, young man. She was as straight as a young sappling and that fair complected like a little child ; her hair was yaller like buttercups in the meadow. I'd take you out yonder to see her if they'd let me, bu they would not. They say she's changed she never changed iu my eyes till her hair just turueel white like the blossoms of the suow-drop. Then I knew she was a ripeniu' for glory there never was any but we two, God didn't send any children to bind our hearts or break 'em it's cold here," and he sunk back aud shivered. " I wish I could think so," answered the young man, yawning, and feeling life and strength in every throb of his riotous blood. "Are you going Kant?" he continued, for want of something else to say, " Yes, ojhI it's a long journey, I'm goiu' clear back to the sunrise back to Maine There won't be a soul I know livin', but Knty she hankered after tbe oldburyin' ground where her folks are. Say!" as the conductor pnssed along, " is she all right out there alone f " " She is nil right,'' answered the man, swinging the lantern. "There ain't not bin' that'll disturb her, I reckon!" " She's with her Lord," said the olel man, solemnly; "uith Him she loved aud Bervel all the days of her life. I s'pose she hasn't missed me or thought of me onca't, but it would be a hard trial for me if heaven's glory made her
forget li we two aidn t go hand in hand thefe, as we have here -dear 1 dear! it wouldn't te rn like heaven to me unless Katy was along," The yonng traveler passed into the land of sl eep and walked with his beloved in the fair bower of love's young dream. The old man gathered his ft e" ble limbs together and he, too, slept ; but his lips moved, and broken, iuco herent sentences fell on the ears of thw who were awake and listening all tbe night- long. He, too, was walking in bis dreams with hia beloved ; he bo' bled of still waters-and green pastures ; he sung of golden streets and gates of pearl ; of the beauties and mysteries of the ninny mansions of the peace that flWeth a a river he held her small, soft hand in his, and called up the love light in her beautiful eyes, and played with her yellow hair; and all the. time the train went on flying through the night, and out in the baggage car an old, old woman, wan and wrinkled, lay peacefully in her c-.iffin, her veined aiid withered iif.nds, crossed over a heart that was at ro'.v, and that was all that was martal of Knty. " Like a laverock in tbe &U, slug O bonny bride; It's no two, and ire two, happy side by side'.' When the young traveler awoke in tho blight light of early day, he Btrotched his cramped limbs and felt like a giant r freshed, with wine, and out of his strength and happiness gave the old man at his side a guy " good morning 1 1 But when, getting no response, he turned to look at him, he saw that he had reached the new sunrise, the morning that has nuver a noon, ' It's r (wo. it' we two, while' the aoiU's away, hitting b the gi.llen slu-.av.-s on aurwcddingiiay." The dare of Our Eyei. When so much is being said and writteu every day concerning the improved methods of illuminating, tho following observations oa " The Care of Our Eye 3," by Prof. Thompson, in Our Continent, will be interesting: " To care for our eyes is to be aware that any symptoms of fatigue or pain may be due to mechanical causes which may lead to change oi form or structure, iintl which should be corrected by the u-e of glosses selected with the greatest care, to obviate any individual peculiarities of form either congenital or acquired, and to be used even in childhood.' No pralonged near work should lie done in a light, either natural or artitleial, which is felt to be too feeble, nor in badly ventilated or closed rooms, " Since fatigue is usually due to the strain upou the muscular apparatus, aud as this is greater in proportion to the nearness of the work to tho eye, care should 1)0 used to avoid bending over or placing the head nearer to the work than u requisite for clear vision. " The early use of glasses for persons passing beyond middle life, and their increase in power as may be needed is fctrougly advised. "Tho avojdance of all irritation, gases, smoke or dust, which are felt to produce pain, and the suspension of near work when it gives its danger signal of fatigue are self-evident. "Assuming the fact now admitted, that the most educated nations present the highest average of diseased eyes, irad that the cause and effect are now clearly perceived in the overtasking of ;he visual apparatus during the educational Mjriod of life, it becomes requiuite to consider how instruction may be its eflioieatly transmitted to the brain through tho organs of heating as by those of vision." TU Wrong Woman. Mr. Jones waa passing a dry-goods store, when he saw his wifs standing near a counter, and the idea occurred to nim to give her a little start, so he boldly walked in, and as she stood with her hack to him gave her a rousing slap on tho shoulder. The effect was not exactly what lie anticipated ; there was a hollow, reverberating aountj Uh the vi
brations of a smoke stack, the elegant bonnet which looked so familiar to him
fel. off, and a headless woman stood before Jones, who realized the fact that he hud taken the store dummy for his wile. There was considerable audible mirth aa lie sadly and silently retreated, wondering how two women could look
so much alike. But he did not say auy-
thing about it at home ; it would have involved to many inquiries. Detroit lJvn(. Tbe Early Xing. believe, upon a good deal of evidence, that ancientKings wero itinerant, traveling, cr ambulatory personages. When they became stationary they generally perished. The primitive Kings of communities confined within tho walls, like the old Athenian and the old Eoman Kings, soon dropped out of sight. Perbtips, as Mr. Grote has suggested, they li ved too much in full view of their subj'ta for their humblo state to command UUch respect when the beJief in their sacredness had been lost. But tho more lnu-uai-oiis King of communities spread over a wide territory was constantly moving about it ; or, if he diil not, he, too, perished, as did the Kings called the r t faiiirants of the Franks. If I were called npon to furnish the oldest evidence of these habits of the ancient King, I should refer to those Irish records, of which the value is only beginning to be discerned, fir, whatever nay be said by the theorists who explain nil national characteristics by someth ug in the race or the blood, the most ancient Irish laws and institutions are nothing more than the most ancient Germanic laws and institutions at an earlier stage ot barbarism. Now, when Englishmen like Eeunund Spencer first began to put thir observations of Ireland into writing at the end ol tho sixteenth century there was one Iris.h practice of which they spoke with the keenest indignation. This was what they called the " cuttings" and "cosherit gs" of the Irish Chiefs that is, their periodical circuits among their tenantry for the purpose of feasting with their onio puny at the tenants' expense. It was, in fact, only a late survival of comri on incidents in the daily life of the barbarous Chief or King, who had no tax-gatherers to collect his dues, but went himself to exact them, lividfe
m a matter of right, while lie moved, at the cost of his subjects. The theory of
the Irish law was, though it is impossi
ble to 'say how far it corresponded with the facts, that the Chief had earned his rght by stocking the clansman's land with cattlo or sheep. We fiud a highly glorified account of the B'inie practice in ancient records of
tbe life and state of those Irish Chiefs, nho called themselves Kings. "The King of Munster," says tho "Book of .Bights," "attended by the chief Princes of his Kingdom, began his visits to the King of Connaught, and presented to him one hundred steeds, cue hundred suits of mi itary array, one hundred a words, and one hundred caps, in return 'JiTf which the King was to entertain him for two months at his palace at Anachan, and then escort him to the territaries of Tyrconnell. He presented to the King of Tyrconnell twenty steeds, twenty complete armor, and twenty cloaks, for which the King supported bim and the nobility of Munster for one uonth, and afterward escorted Mm to the Principality of Tyrone. " The King of Munster is then described is proceeding through Tyrone, Ulster, Heath, Leinster, and Ossory, everywliers bestowing gifts on tho rulers, and receiving entertainment in return. I suspect the entertainment ia of moro historical reality than the royal gifts, lithe practice, however, described with tin's splendor by the chronicler or bard is plainly the same as the cutting and cosheriug which Spencer and cthers denounce as one of the curses of Ireland. Mr ' Henry S. Maine in the fbrtnighUy Review.
Table Manners. A writer in Harper' t Bazar calls attention to the want ot good table manners which marks- so many American families, and which foreigners notice as me of our defects. The writer says: We do not, as a nation, comport ourf.olves well at the table. In the first place, we eut too fast, and ore apt to make a noise over our soup. Well-bred people put their soup into their mouths without a found, lifting up their spoon iilowly, thinking about it, and managing to swallow it noiselessly. In the second place, we are accused of chewing our food with the mouth open, and of putting too much in tbe mouth at once. Again, we are accused, particularly at railway stations and nt hotels, of put-ting our heads in our plates, jnd of eating with the knife instead of with the fork. Some people eat instinctively with great elegance; some never achieve elegance in thesn minor matters, but all should -.strive for it. There is no more repulsive object than a person who eata noisily, grossly, inelegantly. Dr. Johnson is remembered for his brutal way of eating almost as much as for his great learning and genius. With him it was selfish preoccupation. Pish and fruit are eaten with silver knives and forks ; or, if silver fish-knives are not provided, a piece of bread can be held in the left hand. Fish corrodes a steel knife. Never tilt a soup plate ' for the last drop, or scrape your plate clean. Leave something for " manners" a good old rule. A part of table manners should be tho conversation. By mutual consent, every one ihould bring only the best that ia in him to the table. There should be the greatest care taken in the family cii-olo to talk of only agreeiible topics at meals. The mutual forbearance which prompt the neat dress, the respectful bearing, the delicate habit of eating, the attention to table etiquette, should also makg tho mind put on its best dress, aud the effort of any one at- a meal should be to mak himself or herself as agreeable as possible. No one should show any b aste in being helped, any displeasure at being left until the last. It is always proper at on informal meal to ask for a second cut, to any that rare or untler..lone beef is more- to your taste than the more cooked port ions. But one never asks twice for soup or fish; one is rarely hclpad twice at dessert, Theie dishes, also salad, are supposed te admit of but one helping.
A Smuggling Locomotive. A singular adaptation of the locomotive has just been made iu Kussia. Information having been given to the authorities at Alexandrovo, on the Polish frontier, that the locomotive of the express leaving that station for Warsaw had been ingeniously converted into a receptacle for smuggling goods, it was carefully examined during its sojourn at the station. Though nothing was found wrcng, it was deemed advisable that a ens :om-Jiou8o oilioial should accompany the train to its destination, where tho ongiue furnace aud boiler were emptied and deliberately taken to pieces. In the interior was discovered a secret compartment containing oue hundred and twenty-three pounds of foreign cigars and several parcels of valuullo silk. Several arrests were macle, including that of the driver, but bis astonishment at finding the engine to which he had 80 tons; been accustomed cor. verted into a htelmed ottVutler against the laws was so outline that ho was released and allotted to return to his duties. w OoscBitwsa tho strongsst !Sew Englund factories an estimate ia made that thtiy pay au avoraga of 7 per cont, on the investment.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. Thb human lungs exh le, in twenty four ho irs, about two pounds of carbonio acid. This is the product of the burning of nine ounces of carbon. As giving some idea of the forces within the body, it is interesting to know that the combustion of nine ounces of carbon liberates over 6,(100,000 foot-pounds of en.. rgy. Thin is equivalent to more thaii one-eighth of a horse-power acting continuously for the twenty-four hours ; or it equals 182 horse-powers working for ono minute. Among the cannon at the Rook Island arsenal is one which was captured t Saratof-a, Oct. 17, 1777; one captured at Yeirkto.vn, Oct. 19, 1781; one captured at Niagara, July 25, 1814 ; a pair of mortars, captured at Vera Cross, March 29, 1847 ; one captured in the late civil war bearing tho inscription, "Presented to South Carolina, by one of its citizens traveling abroad, in commemoration of what was done on the 20th of December, 1800." There are also several cannon whioh were cast in France and Spain, dating back nearly to the beginning of the last century. What Makes Corn Pop! Did yon ever have it explained to you whj it is that corn pops when you place rt over burning conl or on a hot stove ? In dan corn, so the chemists tell us, contains all the way from six to eloveir parts in 100, by weight, of fat. By proper meant, this fat can be separated from the grain, and it is then a thick, pale oil. When oils are. heated sufficiently in closed vessels, so thai; the air cannot ?et to them, they are turned into gas, which occupied many times tbe bulk the oil did. When pop-corr. a gradually heated, and made so hot that the oil inside of the kernels turns to gas, this gas cannot escnpo through the hull of the kernels, but when the interior pressure gets strong enough it bursts the grain, and the explosion is so violent that it shatters it in the most curious manner. Ti e starch in the groin becomes cooked, and takes up a great deal more space than it did before. Jupiter, Jupiter's diameter is abont eleven times that of 'our earth, and his
mean densitv is about a quarter that of.
uie ear rn, or aoom a intra more man water. Now, a bulky body may be composed of heavy materials, and still, as a whole, be light, like an iron ship or a lump d pumicc-stono, that will float in water. Tho pumice lump is light on account of its vesicular formation, so that the niai-a consists of heavy felspathic material and the air it contains. Extract the air, and the pnmioe loses its floating power, though still far from heavy in projior-
tion to its bulk. Most of the earth s crust is formed of solids much heavier than water. Granites are more than two aud a half times heavier than water, slaty rocks about Ihe same, and so are ordinary limestones, the variations of all being from about 2.5 to 2 9. The ironstone group contains denser mineraki ; red hematite has a specific gravity of 4 5:
magnetic ir mstone, 4. 5 to 5.2, etc., and many other ores are heavy. At some remote period, when only part of the now solid earth had bees condensed from gaseous and vapory matter, our planet might have had a mean density like that of Jupiter, aa its rocky mateiials contain between 40 and 50 per cent, of oxygen ; and while condensations and chemical combinations were going on rapidly our globe must have ben the scene of Tbnnders, Uglitataga and prodigious itonu. And it is provable that certain stars which have" suddenly blazed forth with passing splendor have exhibited to as the spectacle oi conflagrations extending over millions and billions of square miles. Color changes in Jupiter snob, as those noticed by Mr. Browning and the writer in 1869-70 may have been caused by soda names, though net fierce enough or extensive enough to add materially to his ordinary luminosity, which is estimated aa always exceeding, though not in a very high degren, what it would be by mere reflection oi light received fror the sun. Belgravlcu
Boston's Public Speakers. Emerson was very popular in his day, and, indeed, Boston supplied the public with an unusual number of such speakers. One of these was Theodore Parker, and another was Thomas Starr King, both of whom have gone to the gravo the former occupying one in a foreign land. He died while making the tour of Europe, aud is buried at Florence, lite stone that marks bis pUce of rest bears the simple inscription, " Theodore Parker," with the date of his birth find death. Oliver Wendell Holmes is another onee noted Boston lecturer. It is remarkable that this gifted, class of men should have made so small an impression on their bearers. Their influence certainly was light considering their notoriety. Lecture fees in those days were moderate, and Emerson was glad to come to this eity and make $50, while Theodore Parker originated the mot concerning fame. "What do you get for such services?" asked a Boston friend. "Fame," waa the reply. "And is that all?" exclaimed the friend. "Fame, sir," said the orator, in his consequential manner, ' means $50 and my expenses." Emerson and Holmes have been for some time withdrawn from the field, and hence it may be said that the Boston lecturers are now extinct. They were once very fashionable, and each had his specialty, but they conveyed no real information, and society was none the better for their whimsical ideas. Emerson was noted for his clear and musical voice, which, though by no means loud, was very penetrating. His lectures were always read, his eye being fixed on the manuscript, but there was sueh a fascination in his reading that it seemed that any other mode of delivery would be uuelosirable. He limited himself to one hour, and it always seemed short Emerson made his transcendentalism very profitable. I remember hearing bim lecture here many years ago, and the next day I met him ia Wall street He was at one time tho heaviest taxpayer in Concord, aud it is' probable that he continued the same thrift until his death. In this respect he bus distanced the other Boston lecturers, as Holmes is supposed to be in rather narrow circumstances, and Theodore Parker was poor until he married a fortune. I -well remember Emerson's lecture iu the old Mercantile Library Hall, where bis audience was nenesscrily small by reason of the limited size of the building. His voice charmed me moro than hi3 matter. Well, our old lectirers, who gavetlie platform its distinction, have almost entirely passed away. The list includes Chapiu aud Dr. Hollind, both of whom were very pouidar. Chopin xada more money than any other of his profession, as hi fee was $100, and he never lacked for engagemeuts. Holland also made this specialty very profitable, his fee being It is said that the multiplicity of his engagements of late years created a pressure which hastened his death. Attn Dickinson, too, is out of the lecture field, after having won sufficient famn to lead her into sad mistake. As a lecturer she was a imcoess, aud hemjo it is doubly paiuful for her to find that her new effort is a failure. It may be hoied that Anna mav vet retrieve her error. Sho h one
pot tbe noblest of her sex, and her high-
toned amoi aon oommauas our admiration, though it may uot command success, A'cw York Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette
Nickel Coins; Tbe small coins of the German empire are the finest ir- the world. Everything from a 5-pfenuige piece whioh is tho equivalent of nn American cenij r sx English ha'-penriy to a hall mark, which is 50 pfenniges, is of nickel, pure and bright almost as silver, far purer tlmii tbe American coinage. A. nrcject js ntidpr oousideration tit the Frenok
Ministry of Finances lor abolishing ailtogether the bronze coins now in nsa. The substitute will be. nickel, which ia already iu uso in Germany and iu Beagium for coins of snudl aenomi nation. The peculian.ty of tlie French . count, however, will bo that they will be of octagonal shap, in ordor that tbey may not be confounded with the silver pieotui now current, Models of 5, 10 and SO centime piecen in the new style llfcve already been stnick. . YeHtiiregofCiiUbcaUeB. In 1808, a rrty of French explore: visited the wonderful rains of Angeor, in the province of Laos, Father India. These ruins were known to the Porto. guese at the ond of the sixteenth cen
tury, but have fallen into utter neglect. Proud statues of lions stand at the entrance of a broad way, paved with flat stones, passing ever deep ditches, now changed into marshes; ntis leads to a long gallery, cat which three liall-rninod towers interrupt the architectund line, Passinc thronirli Hie central vmvilion. a
second avenue of two hundred yard in
length opens oat on an. immense eoinoe of a wholly diffemnt style of architecture to any that is seeu in the west Towar above tower s Betas to rise in fantastic
profile: bnt when examined, tlie Man
consists of two rectangular and concen
tric galleries, with pavilions at tae corners, and fomr towers in the centre, giv
ing tlie appearance of tin immense tiara. The hiirhest. which rises to the hoiirht of
sixty yarda, dominates over the who la.
and is the aoly of noues, wnere toe bonzes meet for prayei- before a statue of Buddha. . os a statue of this colossal monument is without ornament :3'he sculptures are marvels, due to incomparable artists, whose inspiratiouS are for ever engraved on stonp, bnt whose name are effaced from the memory of man. According to an olden time legendary tradition it was built by a leprous king of tlie neighboring oity, in consequoaoo of a. vow be had made; but it is impossible to determine the epoch. It cannot, however, be docbtod that the develop-, ment of architectural art, of which this temple seems to be the highest expression, coincides irith tlie introduotaon of the Buddhist religion among this peojl, driven perhaps from India at the time of the great reb jic us peiseentjon. As to tlie sitr itself, the walls only are intact; th sy are nine feet in thickness formed of cut stones, and laid together without cement, and have rleiied tho assault of time, and of a most vigorous vegetation. Broad roads over deep moats lead t gates, guarded by fifty stone giants, enormous sentinels bound together by ths folds of a mtmstnjqs serpent, which teems to exhaust itself in vain efforts to escape. A sort of triumphal arch lends to the interior; the heeds of elephants de-jorate the Httmmit; and Uie tronlts, unfolded vertically like colimns, rest on a clusterof largt) leaves, Reijrot is as (rest as astonishment, when, having passed through Uiew Urauificont barrier, the thick forest is foncd to have'
filled up the vast mcloeure snrranndea by the walK The vestiges oi'. tow ruins are met. with in solitudes peopled with wild animals, whose fearful men are repeated by the echoes alone. Tho king's palaca is crumbling nnder the crumbling plants which dividi) every atone with their roots. B seems to haws been conceived by a wonderfully rich imagination, an d. waa lormexly surmounted by forty or fifty toweiis, some representing the hsaels of Buddha, which remind the spectator of tho Sphynx of Egypt But er.cumliered by l-uius, it does not please so much as the terapM, which is a model of grandeur, fcarmony and simplicity. The gorttigaestt historians seem to clunk that it waa rx longer a royal residence inft.70, and perhaps it was abandoned by to inhabitants; at the same tinw. A similar sanctuary was mat with in a most distant province of
Laos, built in the same style, and oo-
pnvt witn (melius, use oi uts utiuuuaics.
to which the liouzcs would scarcely give access, contained a library of' sacred lxwks. There they were arranged on decorated shelves, enveloped in rich bindings, covered with silk, slumbering uninterruptedly; for pot one of the monka cotdd decipher the language iu which they were written. Aneient Chinese BnrUl. The CelcK. ial Empire givus in a recent number an acoouut of a Chinese burial m, former times. A man of mesas purchased his cc ffiu when he reached the ago of forty. He then hud it paiutod thrw times every year wit) s. species of varnish, mixed with 'jtilverizexl porcelain a composition which resembled a silica tte'paiut; or enamel. Tbe process by which th? varnish was mado has been lout to tho Chinese. .'Such coating of this pain? was made' f some thickness, atd.wheci dried had a metallic firmness recemblinf; enamel. Frequent coats of thin," itttan owner lived long, can Red tlie eofin to si. sume the apicranoe ot a sarcciphltgiis, with a foot more in thickness of ttas hard, stone-I ke shell. After death tho veins and the cavities of the stomach were filled with quicksilver for the parpose of presorting tho body. A meo of jade was then placed in eaolt nostril and ear and ia one iutnd, while a piece of bar-silver wa placed in the oshitr. Tin) body thus prepared ea put on layer of mercury within the eofhn ; the latter' was sealed '.and the whole committed to its last renting-phMML When some cf these sarcophagi weiie opened after th lapse of re tit ones wis bodies were fooM in a wonderfid state -f preserrailioB, but thoy crumbled to dust on oqosure, tlie air. Mr. F. 3'. Fcnsivj w, says that Georp Eliot felt tin symbolism ot genu, wlnli Shskspeare felt that of flowers, "Her wors," says he, "were an mdiiihaentf men iu favor of woman. ,Wen, vntb her,
were arm logs, au i.miiiiiiic w had a feeling of God." i
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