Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 52, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 April 1883 — Page 4

NEWS CONDENSED.

Salmi Morse produced his "Passion flay" at New York before a great audience. Son scenes in the drama mnejwith unequivocal approval, rmt certaiu portions of tbe dialogae wen tediously doll. The chair nianufaoory of Hanrood Brothers, of Leominster, Masa, was destroyed by fire. Loss 100,000; insurance 75,000. Seventy-five bands are thrown out of employment. A tow of thirty-seven coal bargee broke from their inooringa at Pittsburgh, fa. , and were swept rapidly down the river, colliding with several steamers, one of which was sank, and a number of other barges, which also sunk. The damage diane is estimated at 9500a The work of blasting out Hell Gate has been stopped for want of appropriations. P. T. Barnum, the veteran showman, and two others were arrested and held for trial in S300 each, at New York, for permitting the performances of the Elliott children on unicrclcs and bicycles.' The large leather-board mills of J. A. Harwood, Leominster, XasV, were burned. Loss, 1100,000; Insured far7i,0OCl A fire at Jersey Shore, Fa., swept away $100,1X0 worth of property. A prize-fight at Dubois, Jefferson county,. Pa., resulted fatally to one of the combatants, a lad of 18, named Martin Sinsiy. In the sixth round he fell accidentally, "his chin striking against a root, breaking: his neck. Peter Cooper, the philanthropist, died at his home in Sew York, on the 4th task, at the ripe old age of 02. He was born in New York city, and there spent almost his entire life. Born of- poor parents, he was compelled at an early age to begin the battle for existence. Energy and endurance enabled aim to succeed, and years ago he was reckoned among the then few millionaires of his rjaUve city. His gift to the people of the met ropolis the Cooper Institute will be a lasting monument to bis broad and generous philanthropy. Three little girls were drowned in the Hudson, near YalaUe, K, V., while play-

tag on the ice. Nathan S. Morse, business manager of ihe New York Daily ATem, committed suicide by shooting.

States Jtanhal, was arrested at Atlanta,

Oa., for making fraudulent return?, but es caped from the officer. A lighted mitch thrown into the man

hole of a sewer in Baltimore, by a boy,

caused an explodon that killed two children

and did damage to property to the extent of

tao.ooa

WASHnraTOT.

A portion of the rolling-stock of the Burlington,Odar Bapids and Northern Boilroad Company has been seized at Albert Lea, Minn., at the suitof the Northwestern Fuel Company, which claims 1851,580 damage fox violation of contracts An Albuquerque (N. H. ) dispatch of the 3d inst. Bays: Capt. Black and five companies of 'trcops are in ho pursuit of the hostile redskins. They are believed to have crossed the Mexican border, after killing fifty people. Three miners were killed by Indians near Animas mountain A dispatch, unconfirmed, says GaptL Black's troops engaged with the Indiana, and were badly cut up. The camp at Grand New Xine was , attacked by Apaches and two men were . :JT killed The same band killed five men at tf Springs, Arizona. The body of little Charlie, son of Judge McComaa and wife, of St Louis, who were murdered in Thompson's gulch, was found near Bilver City. He had been brained. Fifty Comanche attacked the ranch near Las Craces, kiDed the herder and took 100 cable. A man named Johnson and Ave companions . were killed by the reds nearSattOhx The managers of the Diamond coal mine at Braidwood, 111, gave notice, on the 2d inst, that the company could no longer afford to pay the wages of the men to search the pit for the bodies of those who perished there in February. The company stated that they would, if desired, furnish steam power for operating the pumps and cages; but if explorations were continued, it must be by volunteers. Charles F. Kring, of St. Louis, the murderer of Droemser, has, by the decision of the United States Supreme Court, been granted a new trial, winch will be his seventh. The crime was committed six years ago, and the murderer has been thrice sentenced to death. Kring's imprisonment has broken down his health, and a few months since the jail officials, in order to give him more hbexty and mental occupation, appointed him prison iibrarian. Ex-Postmaster "Wahle, of Cincinnati, who sued the QtaetU of that city for SSO.OOU damages for libel, has been awarded 95 by a jury. Nearly 3,000 bricklayers went on a strike in Chicago, their demand for an increase of wages from $3.50 to 4 per day having been refused by the employers. The officers of the Government steamer Lily, which arrived at Cairo, III, from a trip down the Ohio report that 91,000,000 will not coverthe loss sustained by the overflow between Louisville and Cairo. The report of the receiver of Brown, BonneO h Co, the iron manufacturers of Totragstewn, Ohio, who suspended a few months ago, shows an apparent surplus of assets over liabilities of over half a million dollars. Fire at Eland, Wis., destroyed $50,01X1 worth of pmpeitj, prfimipany hritmgfag to Badger A Gould, of Oshkosh. Xine firemen were severely burned by an explosion of gas in the cellar of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, where a fire had started. The Hon. Charles C. Trowbridge, of Detroit, who was prominent in 1 he politics of Michigan half a century age, died the other day, in the S4th year of bis age. The Iowa Grand Army Post was in session at Des Moines. There are 157 posts in the State, with a membership of 4,701. Eighty-seven posts were farmed in 1882. Chief Spioche and his band of Creek Indian, who left the reservation recently, have gone into camp with the Cheyennes not far from the Sac and Fox reservation, and great trouble is apprehended. A Hastings (Neb.) mob took Ingham, Green and Babcock, accused of murdering Merchant Millett, from the officer, and hanged the two former from a railway bridge, but returned Babcock, who pleaded guilty, to the authorities. Flames swept away several business . houses in the thriving town of Greeley, CoL, involving a loss of 190,000. . Ex-Senator Thru-man fell oa tbe steps of his residence at Columbus, Ohio, and broke his arm As a result of competition, the price of fas in St Louis has bees, reduced from SUOtofLSOper 1,000 cubic feet

SOVTXHSKbT.

John Yonng went home, near Tallahassee. Fla., the other evening, and found his little daughter on the ground with her iliroat cat from ear to ear, aid his wife on the floor of the bouse with a load of buckshot in her body. Both were dend. The Governor of South Carolina refuses to cab an extra sesskx of the Legislate ure tc appropriate funds tc meet the legal expenses of thjee persons arrested for participation in election frauds. John Jackson, a nerro who had committed several amanltii upon women, wes hanged by a mob at Mwcow, Texas. By tha explosion of a toiler in a mill atMoai Point, Miss, nine men were killed and ten serlonarjmjnred, B. C. O. Benjamin, of Charlottesville, T, lathe ftplfi mi f oifcir to apply for alternate j h Tngtam,

E. O. Graves has been promoted to the position of Assistant Treasurer of the United States, in place of Mr. wyman, ap

pointed Treasurer.

The first star-route trial lasted fifteen

weeks. Tbe eighteenth week of the second trial began April 8, and the end still appears

along way off. Secretary Folger's health is much im

proved in every respect, and all unfavorable symptoms have disappeared, except a alight

inflammation about the eyes. At Washington, Frederick de Frou

vttle went to the house occupied by his wife, they living apart, and, forcing an entrance,

shot her dead and then committed suicide.

Jealousy is assigned as the cause

Following is a recapitulation of the

last monthly national-debt statement: Bonds at 5, continued at S3 per cent 5,8,H Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per ceuta ?37,54,100 Three per cents aoo,52C,!iOO Refunding certificates 381,450 Navy pension fund. 14,000,000

Total interest-bearing debt...v$l,S53,113,W0 Matured debt in,57s,l95 Legal-tender notes. 36.740,101

Certificates of deposit. 9,7is,000 Gold and saver certificates 132,!K,ou Fractional currency 7,010,578

Total without interest $3is,oe,730

,879.78,97

Total debt (principal

Total interest 13,217,293 Total cash in treasurv 315,094,983 Debt, toss cash in tmstn-y 1.576.031.283 Decrease durinc March. 9.344.826

Decrease of debt since June 30, 1882. lll,98a,171

current naminwa Interest due and unpaid 4 ,6M,257 Debt on which interest has ceased, . 10,576,194 Interest thereon 386.453

Gold and silver certificates W3,59S,(1 V. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. fljis.ooj Cash balanoeayailable April 1.18S3.. MO,lS7.oij

Total 1315,034,983 Available assets-

Cash in treasury. 9 813,034,98 Bonds issued to Pacific railway com- ' ranies, interest payable in lawful

Prlnemal outstanding 4,M5,5tt Interest accrued, not yet raid. ' 9S9,SSt Interest paid by United States 67,383,888 Interest repaid by companies-: By transportation service, 16,438,332 By cash payments, s per cent, net earnings 885,193 Balance of interest paid by United States 40.19LS85 Secretary Folger appointed Capt. T. X BnrrUI, of New York, Chief of the Bureau of. Engraving and Printing, to succeed to the late CoL Irish, The President has appointed Judge Walter Q. Oresham, of Indiana, Postmaster General, vice Hon. T. O. Howe, deceased. Judge Gresham is a stalwart Republican and a friend of Gen. Grant He is a native of Indiana and 90 years of age. President Arthur left Washington on the 4th inst for a brief tour through the orange-groves of Florida, He was accompanied by Secretary Chandler and one or two other prominent personages.

POLITICAL.

The Bhode Island Supreme Court has given an opinion that the General Assembly has no power to call a convention to revise the constitution of the State. J. H. Brown, a member of the Legislature from Kanawha county, W. Vs., has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans, to fill a vacancy caused by death. The bill for a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors In Massachusetts has been defeated in the House of Bepresentatives of that State 1 15 to S3. An election was held in Michigan on Monday, April 3, fox two Judges of the Supreme Court and two Begents of the State University. Two tickets were In the field one nominated by the Republicans and the otter nominated by the Democrats and Greenbackers combined. Beturns at - this writing indicate that the Fusion candidates are elected. The biennial municipal election in Chicago resulted in the election of the entire Democratic ticket, headed by Carter H, Harrison, by majorities ranging from 4,000 to 12,000. This makes ths third term for Harrison. At Springfield, EL, the Citizens' municipal ticket; framed in the interest of high liquor license, was elected by a decisive ma-4 Jorliy. A large number of other Western cities held municipal elections, the results of which are recorded below: Cincinnati elected a Democratic Mayor and Council, the Republicans securing two or three minor city offices. In- Cleveland, Ohio, the Democrats elected John H. Farley Mayor, by nearly 4,000 majority, the whole city ticket, fourteen ont of eighteen CouncOmen, and seven out of nine members of the Board of Education. In Toledo, Ohio, the Republicans elected the Mayor and Police Clerk by 15 majority, the Democrats capturing all the other municipal offices by majorities ranging from 300 to 1,000. At Columbus, Ohio, Walcott, Republican, was chosen Mayor by about 500 majority. Mansfield, Dayton and Steubenville, Ohio, elected Republican Mayors. Grand Bapids, Mich., elected the Demo-Greenback city ticket; Lansing, Mich., the Republican ticket, and Bay City, Mich, the Democratic ticket for local officers The Republicans carried their city ticket through in Battle Creek, and the Democrats swept the field at Adrian, Mich. At Keokuk, Iowa, the Republican municipal ticket triumphed, and at Dubuque the Democrats carried the day. At Champaign, HI, the fight was between the Temperance and License parties, the former winning. The Citizens' ticket, composed equally of Democrats and Republicans, was chosen at Hartford, Ct At Bismarck, Dak., the Citizens' Independent ticket was successful. All of the Democratic candidates for local offices were chosen at Evanaville, Lad. The city elections in Milwaukee, Madison, Oshkosh, Wttertown and Eau Claire, Wis., resulted in the success of the Democratic candidates. Leavenworth, - Kansas, elected the Democratic ticket At Topeka and Wichita the fight was between the Prohibitionists and Anti-Prohibitionists, and in both cities the Anti candidates were elected. Tbe Prohibition ticket was elected in Clinton, Iowa. At Omaha and Lincoln, Neb. , the Republicans carried the day. In St Louis, Ma, the Democrats swept the day. Denver, CoL, elected ex-Gov. Routt Mayor and the entire Republican ticket Anti-Monopolists held a conference at Indianapolis and decided to call a mass convention to assemble in that city June 0. The Ohio Legislature decided to submit two constitutional amendments on the liquor question, one providing for prohibition, and the other for legislative control. The gubernatorial election in Bhode Island -resulted in tbe defeat of Sprague Bourn, the Republican nominee, being elected by about 2,200 majority. The Assembly is strongly Republican.

BUSINESS FAXLTJBES. C. S. Short, banker, Marion, N, Y.; liabilities, 25,000 to 150,000. J. D. Campbell, butter, Hopkinton, Iowa; liabilities, 916,000. David Forcheimer & Co., hatters, New York; liabilities, S100,000. WSBOXLLANBOUa. Three hangings occurred on Friday, March 30, and one of the victims was a woraan. C W. Bearer, a colored boy of 17, was hung in Virginia Car rape, Another

Siunmned Briatow paid the penalty for

at Csgaden, & a Mm, Emejine

Meaker, the poisoner of her niece, was hung

at Windsor, Tt She is the first woman executed by legal process in the Green Mount

ain State,

Lieut. Danenhowcr, of tlio Jeannette expedition, has been granted one year's

leave of absence.

Advices from prominent trade centers

report a continued though not evenly distributed improvement throughout the coun

try. The Rev. Isaac L. Nicholson, D.D.,

of Philadelphia, who was selected to the

Bishopric of Indiana by the Protestant Epis

copal Diocesan Convention early last month, has declined the office

The Union machine shops and several business houses were destroyed by fire at

Montreal Tholoss was estimated at $100,-

000, and was fully covered by Insurance. Chicago is in telephonic communica

tion with New York city. It is said the wires work well the entire distance, and that a

whisper is audible from either end The Canadian Minister of Finance, in laying the annual budget beforo Parliament, recommended a reduction of taxation for the next fiscal year of 1,350,000. A largo number of articles will probnbly lie added to the free list A most satisfactory financial exhibit was made. Tho Great Western Insurance Company, of New York, hus begun proceedings in the Court of Claims against the United States for the recovery of over 500,000 claimed to be due the company out of ths Geneva award, and other insurance companies are following the example of the Great Western. These proceedings are instigated in view of the recent decision of tho Supreme Court of tho United States in the Weil case which overrules the Congressional decision that certain claims should not be paid out of tho Mexican award Business failures for the week ending March 30, as reported by R. G. Dun A Co., of

New York, numbered 182, as against 193 for

the preceding week, distributed as follows: Western States, 58; Now England, 14; South

ern, 82; Middle, 33; Pacific and Territories,

15; New York city, 0; Canada, 82. The message of the Mexican President

to Congress states the country is at peace with all nations, and commends the commercial treaty with the United States, which

he will present to the Senate for ratification

at a future time Treasury receipts have increased, the industries of the country are prospering, but import duties have fallen off. The rapid advance of railway work he considers eminently satisfactory.

The statistics of crime in the seven

leading American cities viz., New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago and San Francisco, show from comparison that Boston and Chicago are the least bloodthirsty. Baltimore, with a population equalized to New York city, would produce 50 homicides a year; Cincinnati would produce 80, San Francisco would pro155 and Philadelphia would have only !!L

The Iron Association held a very im

portant meeting in Pittsburgh last week A plan for the revision of the scales was presented This contemplates a redaction in wages of from 10 to 30 per cent The manufacturers throw the onus of the decrease on the reduced protection afforded by the

revised tariff, and also on the depressed

condition of the trade

The date of the annual meeting of the

Society of the Army of tke Cumberland has been changed from Sept 19 and 30 to Oct 34 and 25, at Cincinnati.

The Indians who have recently been

committing depredations in Arizona and

New Mexico have escaped across the Bio Grande There ore apprehensions of an out

break of the San Carlos reservation Indians-

WHAT IS NOBUS T

FOREIGN. The question of the triple alliance

has resulted in attacks on the French re

public by the Italian press

The trial of the prisoners charged

with the Phoenix Park assassinations has been postponed because of the lack of funds to pay counsel for the defense.

The National Theater, at Berlin,

burned, together with all the wardrobes, scenery and properties it contained There

was no loss of life

Michael Davitt writes from prison to

the Young Ireland Society, of Glasgow, condemning the dynamite policy as only exas

perating the democracy of England, and

playing into the hands of Ireland's enemies.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Nancy Kemscn, a colored cook of

New York City, died at the age of 111 years.

Barnum's elephant Pilot was killed

at New York, as he had become intractable Edward Sweetwood's. lodgings house in Jersey city was burned One lodger was burned to death and another jumped from a window and broke both his legs. John A. Wilson and his wife and two daughters were burned to death in a house three miles from Hartwick, OstegQ county, and at EUsburg, N. Y., three negro children were cremated P. H. Tompkins, a banker of El Paso, I1L, has made an assignment, with liabilities amounting to 150,00ft The yonng woman who was charged with shooting "Lucky" Baldwin, at Son Francisco, has been acquitted by a jury on the ground of insanity existing at the time of the assault Twenty business houses at Kentland, Ind., were destroyed by fire, involving a total loss of lCO,000, on which the insurance was only 50,00ft At a meeting of the San Francisco triennial conclave committee, the committee on hotels reported every assurance that all visiting Knights Templar would be properly accommodated. A fire at Iquique, Pern, on the 10th of last March, news of which has just reached this country, destroyed 1,000 buildings, valued, with their contents, at S10,000,000 Rioting is reported on the Panama canal works, between Jamaicans and Cnrthagenians, and some twenty of the former have been murdered The Government is powerless to maintain order. The Chicago syndicate, composed of Messrs. C B. Farwell, John V. Farwell, Abncr Taylor and CoL A C Babcock, who a year ago bought from the State of Texas for 1,500,000 what is known as the Pan-Handle of that State, have transferred their claim to a party of Londoners for 10,000,00ft The property amounts to 3,000,000 acres, or some 5, COO square miles, and is marvelously rich in arable and growing lands, watered and timbered to a high degree. At Charleston, V. Ya., the Oreenbaokers of the Third Congressional district nominated Samuel B. Hawver, of Greenbrier county, tor Congressman. . The President has mado the following appointments: A W. Sheldon, of Maryland, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arisona, vice W. W. Hoover, suspended; S. E. Snyder, Agent of the Indiana at Fort Peck Agency, M T. ; William W. Carter, Collector Internal Revenue, Seventh district of Indiana - Brig. Gen; Joseph K. Barnes, re. tired, late Surgeon General of the United States army, died at his residence in the national capital of Blight's disease A triple murder was committed at West Union, W. Ya, the victims being a grocer named Barney Doyle and his two daughters, 7 and & years old Bobbery was probably the motive A party of distinguished Southerners, Including the Governor and State Treasurer of Georgia, ex-Senator Colquitt, Mayor Cram, President of the Atlanta Board of Trado, will make a tour through Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota, next June.

What Is noble? to inherit Wealth, estate and proud degree? , There must be some other merit Higher yet than thesis for rael Something greater far must enter Into life's majestic span. Fitted to create and center Truftnobilitv in man. What is noble? 'tis the finer Portion of our mind and heart, Linked to something more diviner Than mere language can impart; Ever prompting ever seeing Some improvement yet to plan To uplift our fellow being, And, like man, to feel for manl What is noble? is the sabre Nobler than the humble spade? There's a dignity in labor Truor'thon e'er pomp arrayed! He who seeks tho mind's improvement Aids the world, in aiding mind I Every great commanding movement Serves not one, but all mankind. O'er tho forge's heat and ashes, O'er the engine's iron head. Where the rapid shuttle flashes. And the spindle whirls its thread; There is labor, lowly tending Each requirement of the hourThere is genius, still extending Science, and its world of power! 'Mid the dust, and spend, and clamor Of the loom-shed and the mill; 'Mid the clink of wheels and hammer, Great results are growing still ! Thengh too oft, by fashion's creatures, Work and workers may be blamed, Commerce may not hide its features, Industry is not ashamed 1 What is noble? that which places Truth in its enfranchised will, Leaving steps, like angel-traces. That mankind may follow still! E'en though scorn's malignant glances He's the noble! who advances' Freedom, and the Cause of mart! Charkt Swain.

A TALE OF A TROPICAL JUNGLE. The Colonel said : We rodo for several hours straight from the shore toward the heart of the island. The sun was low in the western sky when we left the ship. Neither on the water nor on the land had we felt a breath of air stirring. The glare was upon everything. Over the low range of hills miles away in the interior hung a few copper-colored clonds. "Wind," said Briery. Kilooa shook his head. Vegetation of all kinds showed the effects of the long-continued drouth. The eyes wandered without relief from the sickly russet of (lie undergrowth, so dry in places that leaves and stems crackled underneath tho horses' feet, to the yellowish brown of tho thirty trees that skirted the bridle path. No growing thing was green except tho bell top cactus, fit to flourish in the crater of a living volcano. Kilooa leaned over in his saddle and toro from one of these plants its top, as big as a California pear and bloated with juice. Be crushed the bell in his first, and turning, llung into our hot faces a few grateful diipps of water. Then the guide began to talk rapidly in his language of vowels and liquids. Briery translated for my benefit. The god Lalula lored a woman of the island. He came in the form of fire, She, accustomed to the ordinary temperature of the climate, only shivered before bis approaches. Then he wooed her as a shower of rain, and won her heart. Kakal was a divinity much more powerful than Lalala, but malicious to the last degree. Ho also coveted tho woman, who was very beautiful. Kakal's importunities were in vain. In spite, he changed her to a cactus, and

rooted her to tho ground under the burning son. The god Lalala was pow

erless to avert this vengeance, but he took up his abode with the cactus wom

an, still in tbe form of a rain-shower,

and never left ber, even in the driest seasons. Thus it happons that the belltop is iin unfailing reservoir of pure,

cold water.

Long after dark we reached the chan

nel of a vanished stream and Kilooa led ns for several miles along its dry bed. Wo were exceedingly til ed when the

guide bade us dismount. He tethered

the panting horses, nnd then dashed into the dense thicket on the bank. A hundred yards of scrambling and we

came to a poor thatched hut. The sav

age raised both hands above his head

and uttered a musical falsetto, not unlike the yodel peculiar to the Valais. This call brought out the occupant of the hut, upon whom Briery flashed tho light of his lantern. It was an old

woman, hideous beyond the imagination

of a dyspeptic s dream. "Omanana gelaal." exclaimed Kilooa.

"Hail, holy woman," translated Briery. Between Kilooa and the holy hag there ensued a long colloquy, respectful on his part, sententious and impatient on hers, .briery listened with eager attention. Several times he clutched my arm, as if unable to repress his anxiety. The woman seemed to be persuaded by Kilooa 'a arguments, or won by his entreaties. At last she pointed toward the southeast, slowly pronouncing a few words that apparently satisfied my companions. The direction indicated by the holy woman was still toward the hills, but twenty to thirty degrees to the left of the general course whioh we had parsued since leaving the shore. "Push on, push on!" cried Briery.' "We can afford to lose no time." We rode all night. At sunrise there was a pause of hardly ten minutes for tho scanty breakfast supplied by our haversacks. Then we were again in the saddle making our way through a thicket that grew more and more difficult, and under a sun that grew hotter. "Perhaps," I remarked finally to rny taciturn friend, "yon have no objection to telling mo now why two civilized beings and one amiable savage should be plunging through this infernal jungle, as if they were on an errand of life or death?" "Yes," said he, "it is best you should know." Briery produced from an inner breastpocket a letter which had been read and re-read until it was worn in the creases. "This," he went on, "is from Professor (juakerversuch, of the University of TTpsala. It reached me at Valparaiso." Glancing cautious around, as if he feared that every tree fern in that tropical wilderness was an eavesdropper, or that the hood-like spathes of the giant caladiums overhead were ears waiting to drink in some mighty secret of science, Briery read in a low voice from the letter of the Swedish botanist: "You will have in those islands (wrote the professor) a rare opportunity to investigate extraordinary acoounts given me years ago by tho Jesuit missionary, Buteaux, concerning the migratory tree, the corona vagrans of Jansenius and other speculative physiologists. "Tho explorer, Spohr, claims to have beheld it; but there is a reason, as you know, for accepting all of Spohr's statements with caution. "That is not the case with tho assertions of my late valued correspondent, the Jesuit missionary. Father Buteaux was a learned botanist, an accurate observer, and a most pious and conscientious man. Ho nevor saw the migratory tree; but during tho long period of his labors in that part of the world he accumulated, from widely different sources, a mass of testimony as to its existence and habils. "Is is quite inconceivable, my dear Briery, that somewhere in the range of nature there i a vegetable organization far above the cabbage, let ns say, in complexity and potentiality, as tho ape i above tho polyp V Nature is continuous. In all her schemes we find no charms, no gaps. There may bo miss

ing links in onr books and classifications and cabinets, but there are none in the organic world. Is not All bf lowei? nature struggling upward to arrive at tho point of self-consciousness and vcK lition? In the unceasing process of evolution differentiation, improvement in special function) why may not a plant arrive at this point, and feel, will, act; in short, possess and exercise the characteristics of the true animal?" Briery's voice trembled with enthusiasm as he read this passage. "I have no doubt (continued Professor Quakversuch) that if it shall be your great good fortune to encounter a specimen of the migratory treo described by Buteaux you will find that it possesses a well-defined system of real nerves and ganglia, constituting, in fact, the seat of vegetable intelligence. I conjure you to be very thorough in your dissections. According to the indications fur nislied me by the Jesuit, this extraordinary tree should belong to the order of Caetncea. It should be developed only in conditions, of extreme heat and dry

ness. It roots should be hardly mors than rudimentary, affording a precarious attachment to tho earth. The attachment it should be able to sever at will, soaring np into the air and away to another place selected by itself, as a bird shifts its habitation. I infer that theso migrations are accomplished by means of the property of secreting hydrogen gas, with which it inflates at pleasure a bladder-like organ of highly clastic tissue, thus lifting itself out of the ground and off to a new abode. Buteaux added that the migratory tree as invariably worshipped by the natives as a supernatural being, and that the mystery thrown by them around its cult was the greatest obstacle in the path of tho investigator." "There!" exclaimed Briery, folding up Professor Qnakvcrsuch's letter. "Is not that question worthy the risk or sacrifice of life itself? To add to tho recorded facts of vegetable morphology tho proved existence of a tree that wanders, a tree that wills; a tree, perhaps, that thinks this is glory to be won at any cost. The lamented Hecandolle, of Geneva" "Confound the lamented Decudolla, of Gdneva," shouted I, for it was excessively hot, and I felt that we had come 00 a fool's errand. It was near sunset on the second day of our journey when Kilooa, who was riding several rods in advance of us, uttered a quick cry, leaped from his saddle and stooped to the ground. Briery was at his side in an instant. I followed with less agility; my joints were very stiff and I had no scientific enthusiasm to lubricate them. Briery was on his hands and knees, eagerly examining what seemed to ue a recent disturbance of the soil. The savage was prostrate, rubbing his forehead in the dust, as if in religious eostaey, and warbling the same falsetto notes that we had heard at the holy woman's hut "What beast's trail have you struck ?" I demanded. "The trail of no beast," answered Briery, almost angrily. "Do yon see this broad, round abrasion of the surface, where a heavy weight has rested? Do von see theso little troughs in the fresh earth, radiating from the center like the points of a star? Tlwy are the scars left by slender roots torn np from their shallow beds. Do you see Kilooa's hysterical performance? I tell you we are on the track of the sacred tree. It has been here not long ago." Acting under Briery's excited instructions, we continued to hunt on foot. Kilooa started toward the easti I toward the west, and Briery took the southward course. To cover the ground thoroughly, we agreed to advance in gradually widening zigzags, communicating with each other at intervals by pistol-shots. There could have been no more foolish arrangement. In a quarter of an hour I had lost my head and my bearings in a thicket. For another quarter of an hour I discharged my revolver repeatedly without getting a single response from east or south. 1 spent the remainder of daylight in a blundering effort to make my way back to the place where the horses were; and then the sun went down, leaving me in sudden darkness, alone in a wilderness of the extent and character of which I had not the faintest idea. I will speare you the history of my sufferings during the whole of that night, and the next day, and the next day, and another day. When it was dark I wandered about in blind despair, longing for daylight, not daring . to sleep or even to stop, and in continual terror of the unknown dangers that HHrrounded me. In the daytime I longed for night, for the sun scorched its way through the thickest roof that tho luxuriant foliage afforded, and drove me nearly mad. The provisions m my haversack were exhausted. Aly canteen was on my saddle; I should have died of thirst had it not been for tho bell-top cactus w-hich 1 found twice. But in that horrible experience neither the torture of hunger and thirst nor the torture of heat equaled the misery of the thought that my life was to be sacrificed to the delusion of a crazy botanist, who had dreamed of the impossible. The impossible? On the second afternoon, still staggering aimlessly on through the jungle, I lost my last strength and fell to the ground. Despair and indifference had long since given way to an eager desire for the end. I closed my eyes with an indescribable relief; the hot sun seemed pleasant on my face as consciousness departed. Did a beautiful and gentle woman come to me while 1 lay unconscious, and take my head in her lap, and put her arms around me? Did she press her face to mine, and in a whisper bid me have courage? That was the belief that filled my mind when I struggled back for a moment into consciousness; I clutched at the warm, soft arms, and swooned again. Do not look at each other and smile, gentlemen ; in that cruel wilderness, in my helpless condition, I found pity and benignant tenderness. Tho next time ray senses returned I saw that something was bending over me something majestic, if not beautiful ; humane, if not human; gracious, if not woman. Tho arms that throbbed with the puliation of life. There was a faint, sweet odor, like the smell of a woman's perfumed hair. The touch was a caress, tho clasp an embrace. Can I describe its form? No, not with the definiteness that would satisfy the Quakversuohs and the Brierys. I saw that tho trunk was massive. The branches that lifted me from the ground and held me carefully and gently were flexible and symmetrically disposed. Above my head there was a wreath of strange foliage, and in the midst of it a dazzling sphere of scarlet. The scarlet globe grew while I watched it, but the isffort of watching was too much for me. Remember, if you please, that at this tinio physical exhaustion and mental torture had brought me to the point where I passed to and fro between consciousness and unconsciousness as easily and as frequently as one fluctuates between slumber and wakefulness during a night of fever. It seemed the most natural thing in the world that in my extreme weakness I should be beloved and cared for by a cactus. X did not seek an explanation of tUis good fortune, nor try to analyze it; I simply accepted it as a matter of course, as a

child accepts a benefit from an unexpected quarter. The one idea that possessed me was that I had found an unknown friend, inntinot with womanly

sympathy, and immeasurably kind. And as night came on it seemed to mo that the scarlet bulb overhead became enormously distended, so that it almost filled tho sky? Was I gently rocked by the supple Arms that still held me? Were wo floating off together into the air? I did not know or care. Now I fancied that i was in my berth on board ship, cradled by the swell of the sea? now, that I was sharing the flight of some great bird; now, that I was borne on with prodigious speed through the darkness by my own volition. Thesense of incessant motion affected all my dreams. Whenever I awoke I felt a cool breeze steadily beating against my face the first breath of air since we had landed. 1 was vaguely happy. I had surrendered all responsibility for ray own fate. I had gained the protection of a being of superior powers. "The brandy flask, Kilooa!" It was daylight. I lay upon' the ground, and Briery was supporting my shoulders. In his face was a look of bewilderment that 1 shall never forget "My God!" ho cried, "and how did you get here ? We gave up the search two daya ago." The brandy pulled me together. I staggered to my feet and looked around. The causo of Briery's extreme amazement was apparent at a glance. We were not in the wilderness. We were at the shore. There was the bay, and the ship at anchor half a mile off. They were already lowering a boat to send for us. And there to the south was a bright red spot on the horizon, hardly larger than the morning star the balloon tree returning to the wilderness. I saw it, Briery saw it, the savage, Kilooa, sawit. We watched it till it vanished. We watched it with very different emotions Kilooa with superstitious reverence, Briery with scientific interest and intense disappointment, I with a heart full of gratitude and wonder. I clasped my forhead with both bonds. It was no dream, then. The tree, the caress, the embrace, the scarlet bulb, tho night's journey through tho air, were not creations and incidents of delirium. Call it tree, or call it plant-animal there it was. Let men of science quarrel over the question of its existence in nature, this I know, it had found me dying, and had brought mo more than a hundred miles straight to the ship I belonged. Under Providence, gentlemen, that sentient and intelligent vegetable organization had saved my life. . At this point the Colonel got upand left the club. He was very much moved. Pretty soon Briery came in, brisky as usual. He picked up an uncut copy of Lord Bragmuch's "Travels in Kerguelon's Land," and settled himself in an easy chair at the corner of the fireplace. Young Traddles timidly approached the veteran globe-trotter. "Excuse me, Mr. Briery," said he, "but I should like to ask vou a question about the balloon tteo. Were there scientific reasons for believing that the sex was " "Ah," interrupted Briery, looking bored; has the Colonel beeniavoring you with that extraordinary narrative? Mas he honored me again with a share in the adventure? Yes! Well, did we bag the game this time?" "Why, no," said young Traddless; "yon last saw the tree as a scarlet spot against the horizon." "By Jove, another miss," said Briery, calmly beginning to out the leaves of his book.

MUSHROOMS. Directions for Cooking- a Daintv That Cooks Often Spall. From the Caterer.! Choose the large flap fully developed mushrooms for broiling; remove with a small knife the thin feathery skin from the top of each mushroom; make a double wire broiler very clean and rub it over with mutton suet, or other fat, to prevent the mushrooms from sticking; lay them upon this, close the broiler and place them over a clear fire for a few minutes to broil ; when done sprinkle them with a little pepper and salt; have ready a hot dish and place the mushrooms on it, putting a bit of the best butter under and over each, or they may be placed on buttered toast, and pour over them a sauce of plain melted butter, seasoned with a little cayenne pepper and a few drops' of lemon juice. Serve as hot as possible. To stew mushrooms put them in a small saucepan with pepper and salt, a piece of butter and a table-spoonful or two of the gravy from roast meat (if not at hand use the same quantity of cream) ; shake them about over the fire, and when they boil they are done ; serve piping hot, with buttered toast. For baked mushrooms remove tha kin from the tops of two dozen large flap mushrooms, cut off a portion of the stalks, and wipe the mushroom carefully with a piece of flannel dipped in salt; lay the mushroom in a tin dish or pan, put a small piece of butter on the top of each, and season them with pepper and salt. Set the dish in the oven and bake them twenty to thirty minutes. When done arrange them high in tha center of a very hot dish and pour the sauce in the pan round them and serve hot. Talk at Home. Endeavor always to talk your best before your children. They hunger perpetually for new ideas. They will learn with pleasure firom the lips of fiarents what they deem it drudgery to earn from books, and, even if they havo to be deprived of many educational advantages, they will grow up intelligent if they enjoy in childhood the privilege of listening daily to the conversation of intelligent people. We sometimes see parents, who are tho life of every company whioh they enter, dull, silent and uninteresting at home among their children. If they have not mental stores sufficient for both, let them first use what, they have for their own households. A silent home is a dull place for young people, a place from which they will escapo if they can. How much useful information, on the other hand, is often given in pleasant family conversation; and what unconscious, but excellent, mental training in lively social argument!

Cultivate to the utmost the graces of conversation.

Snkey and Lnciada's Abilities. After tho war, when tho number of servants in attendance at Okenwold was divided by four or five, two negro girls, 18 and 20, went to tho nearest village "to hire out." The lady to whom they applied could hardly tell the story for laughing: "I asked thorn if thoy oould cook. 'No'm, we ain't never bin cook none; Phil alius cook.' Can you wash ? 'No'm, we ain't bin wash none neither; Aunt Sally, she wash.' Can you clean house, then? 'No'm, least we ain't never bin clean none, and so," said Mrs. Nash, "I went through the whole list of qualifications, receiving always tho 6ame negative answer. Well, what in heaven's name,

said I at lost, have you been accustomed

to do.' Lucinda's dusky face brightened 'Sukey, here, she hunt for master's specs and I keep flies off ole miss!' " Philadelphia Times.

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THE ODIUM OF FBIDAT. A Day XtaUevod by atony to B Tated with IU-r,nek. A newspaper reporter who has attended thirteen executions declares that he will never attend another. It is suggested that he is now eligible as a member of the Thirteen Club, and, if he joins that organization, he may be ex pected to give most zealous support to the efforts of the olub to remove "the odium attaching to Friday." Having been greatly shocked and depressed by the spectacle he witnessed at the mallows in the Tombs prison-yard last Friday, he may be supposed to be keenly sensitive to the custom which chooses Friday as the one day on which murderers must expiate their crimes. In the peramble to their resolutions calling upon tho President, the Governors and Judges of courts having power to sentence to death to consider the propriety of selecting other days as well as Friday for the hanging of murderers, the members of the Thirteen Olub express tho opinion that "the superstition connected with the day of tha week called Friday has been materially aided and abetted by its selection as hanging day." In this they are undoubtedly right, and there are serious reasons why the ohange they advocate is to be desired. It is a f act not to be disputed that a vast multitude of people, even in this land of boasted intelligence, are under the influence of the Friday superstition. The statistics of railway travel infallibly indicate the dread which tha df.y inspires. It is well known to all railway men that the amount of travel on Friday is less than on any other day of tha week. Many travelers carefully calculate so as to reach their destinations before Friday, and still more refuse to begin a journey on that day. It is useless to attempt to convince the victims of the Friday superstition that no day of the week differs from another in the amount of misfortune it brings ; they are seemingly deaf and blind to all that happens on Friday which is not melancholy, or at least they have no memory for other events of that day. If told that George Washington, Daniel Webster, President Van Buren, President Taylor, President Pierce, President Hayes, Edward Everett, George Bancroft, Longfellow, Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle and other notable men were born on Friday, they are likely to reply that Jefferson Davis was also born on Friday, that the Southern Confederacy was formed on that day, that Col. Ellsworth was shot, and that President Polk, President Lincoln, President Pierce and Horace Greeley all died on Friday. There is no reason to believe that Friday superstitions are declining; on the contrary, it is by many thought to be increasing. If the unanimous expression of the Thirteen Club that other days of the week should bear at least their share of the odium attaching to Friday effects the desired change in the "reprehensible custom" which makes Friday hanging day, it is possible that it will mark the beginning of the decline in this country of the superstition which for centuries has regarded the day as unlucky. It is true that Friday was chosen for hanging becanse it was regarded as unlucky, rather than regarded as unlucky because it is chosen for hanging; but to change the custom aa to executions would lift from it a great weight of gloom. Certainly it is a public misfortune to have one day in every seven associated with misfortune and filled with dark foerbodings, and Governors and Judges may wisely heed the suggestion of the thirteen times thirteen members of tho Thirteen Club as to making all other days but Sunday bear their share of the odium now attaching to Friday as hanging day.iVeio York Mail and Ex-press.

Seme Annoyances of Russian Lift. No one is allowed to enter Kussia without a passport duly vised, or to leave the country without a stamped permission to do so. But these passports are easily obtained, and ctit be duly vised in London and elsewhere without personal application. They contain simply the name, without any description of the travelers; they are collected and submitted to the authorities by the Captain of the ship on entering the country, and by the hotel-keeper when permission to, leave is. required, and, while causing great annoyance and some expense to the ordinary traveler, they seem of little nse for detective purposes. They hotel-keepers at St. Petersburg are obliged, under heavy penalties, to report to the police twice a day the names of all travelers who enter or leave their hotels. Each householder in the city is compelled by the government to have a "Dvorniek" to watch his premises. These Dvornicks are men of the peasant class, who sit day and night wrapped in their sheepskins at the entrance of the houses, their office being apparently that of half watehiuan, half spy. An order was issued a short time ago that no one should walk the streets of St. Petersburg without a passport, but the absurdity and annoyance of the proceedings were such as to compel the withdrawal of the order. Newspaper editors are only allowed to give, on certain subjects, suek views as are permitted by the Government, and on some questions are forbidden to write at alL Foreign newspapers are stopped at the postoffice, often held back altogether, and when delivered at all have any objectionable parts or paragraphs stamped out and made illegible. The Time$ frequently appears with paragraphs or portions of the columns blocked out in this manner. A gentleman received his newspaper a short time ago with the whole of it cut away with the exception of the advertisements. It would take too long to enumerate the many petty and other annoyances which official zeal imposes on the ordinary life of tho Bussian people, and which have to be accepted Jwithout publio remonstrance or criticism. Fortn,ightly Review. Early Slavery in Seat teres. Accordingly, in South Carolina, the negroes were worked to death and tha relations between ike slave and his master were very different from what they were in Virginia and Maryland. The negroes in South Carolina vera simply heathen savages ; wedlock was almost unknown among them; they were kept in brute-hie ignorance, aad were often treated with barbarous cru

elty. Consequently, instead of becoming softened in disposition and partially civilized, like their brethren in Maryland and Virginia, these negroes were as ngly and ferocious as any tribe of savages in Africa. Like the dog that is used to being kicked, they were always ready to snarl and bite. They were a dangerous class of society, prone to commit crimes of .violence, and to run away or rise in rebellion when occasion offered. In the course of tha eighteenth century there were several alarming insurrections, which were sup

pressed with atrocious Dar canty, lne planters lived in perpetual terror. A

sort of standing, army, in the shape of a well-drilled militia 8,000 strong, was kept continually o:a duty, and part of the business of this militia was to visit all the plantations and search the negro quarters for concealed weapons. Tbey were also authorized to flog any stray negro they might chance to meet, without stopping to ask questions. For the murder of a master or overseer negroes were sometimes burned at the stake, or exposed in an iron cage and left to starve. John Ftike, in .Hr per' Afayarvne.

THE FAMILY DQCT09L

The best remedy for a sprained aniila or wrist, until medical aid arrives, fa to bathe the afflicted member in arnica, and if it is not near at hand, ordd water is the next best thing. - . 1 Fob Fbosted Fbkt. Smear doth liberally with pine-tar and bind them with the frozen parts. Let tbe swsthing remain on some thirty-six or fot freight hours, and tho work is done all but washing your feet. Pine tar is die best known agent to remove tho fire from burns. Fob Itchino Fbkt. The followmgia a cure for the intolerable itchinsr of the

feet caused by frosting: &oak the af-

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dissolved that it wfll readily tavte. ' Fifteen minutes is long enough to continue the bath. j Never sleep in a room, if there is no fire, with all of the windows and doors closed. The average room does wot contain more than one-third the air needed by the sleepers. Never sleep in the same clothes worn by day, -lint hang them where they can "air." Nevef drink water that has stood in the slewing room all night in open vessels.' Never go to bed with cold feet, but first soak them in hot water, then dash oa cold water, followed by thorough trio-" tion. Weakening Treatment, It is a lV -of our nature that weakness will res-alt not only from violent and undue labor, but as well from indolence and inactivity, but no more certainly than that insufficient clothing, bathing in water so cold as to produce a shock and a permanent chill, etc., must prove as adverse; to the health as the opposite extreme. It is no more foolish, foolhardy, to breve all weathers insufficiently clad, than to attempt to endure as much heat MP" sible, to which foul air is added. While a proper amount of exposure in the cool and cold season, if properly chuLi will invigorate, promote the health sod fortify one so as to be able to endtre cold weather with impunity, and thus enable them to escape' the ordinary "colds," it is equally true that the "fussy" may and do so debilitate themselves; by the opposite extreme as to suffer Tin nsually from colds and sickness. Just to the extent that one is deprived of the ' invigorating influence of pure air and out-of-door exercise, weakness must result, ia addition to the debilitating result of indolence and of unnatural heat,' " The individual, therefore, who, with a false and absurd idea of carelessness -remains in a hot and uncomfortable room, at a temperature whioh would be oppressive in the summer, enduring nil . possible heat, does violence to n stare, and is thus predisposed to colds aad consequent disease. The individual who wears as much clothing as can be borne, and the same on a mild day anon the coldest, will certainly reduce tho ' power of the body to generate het, and just to that extent induce sickness.' That one who, for fear of having ccid feet, puts them in the oven on every occasion, and who carries the hot brick to lied, in the mildest and coldest weather alike, will secure orld -feet and a hothead. In other words, nature evolves only just the heat needed under ihe circumstances loss and lose the more artificial heat is supplied- '- necessarily reducing tho "strength. Avoid alike. Unnecessary exposure to

both heat and cold, both debilitating in

their extremes, while tbe medium a vigorating. It is safe to be Oomf

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An Artistic Jspeaone Thief.

One morning, having risen eerb'er--. than usual, I took my seat by thegratsd i window of my chamber and watehxl . the passers. Presently, a gentle-faosd old lady, followed by a dog, came in sight, encountered a friend, bowed low and began an animated conversation. While they were thus employed, s kami-kndzu-hiori stealthily approached, and, after striking the dog upon head, picked np the insensible creaturo with his sticks, threw it into his jpaikek and covered it with the content, th coolly proceeded to examine some rubbish deposited by the wayside. In a -km moments the old lady missed her pefc and began to call for him; meanwixlo the paper collector continued his oojtr pation in an unconcerned manner, as though guiltless of the theft ' "Have yon seen my beautiful little " dog?" inquired the woman, regarding ' him suspiciously. "Dog, dog?" he answered, bowing servilely. "Honorable lady, do y-Jin -take me for a thief?"

Yes; I believe yon have stolen ace she indignantly replied. "I suppose jo

want to make a few ease, by larntngJuW beautiful skin into a drumhead." "Honorable lady, yon are indeed mistaken," murmured the rascal, ahiftistl his basket to his back, crouching to'ti ground and bowing his head, "ih

'though I am only a miserable kai

kwlzn-lMon, x am stnouy nones, a have not set eyes on your enualJo; animal. If von will describe him aid tell me where yon live I may meet. hb in my walks when I will restore him to you." "My little Chin has a black and white coat and wears a red end yellow cotton frill around his; nook. Although josi pretend to be be so innocent, I beluive you know something about him." "Tho gcdi wi'l brar witness to : W innocence," murmured the tasosl, witts his face close to the ground. Xt isr hard enough to be poor, without being;'

cnargeft wuu cusiuHMsngr. ; While he was speaking, the azdzMl,

recovered its senses, wriggled from M

neaththe paper scraps, ieapeaupon

thief s back and barked at his ovarjac mistress, who, taking him in her w

uttered shrill cries of i'olice!

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and was darting off when be ran into arms of a lorur-haired. snectaoled boS

man clad in a tight blue foroum ii

form, who bad been attraoted by

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Tbe English Language. ,: Fiftv venrj itrn m knnwledm nf tha

French language was indpensable 'Intra veler.-i on the continent. It was $), language of European society, and all who laid claim to culture thought it j necessary to speak French as their la

ttve tongue. iMigusu was then recarded as an insular language, and ia

noi-ance of its literature involved hid discredit. The tables are rapidly ixxm ing, and English bids fan to supplant French as the popular tongue 'of Europo, and even the world. A sian priest, Father Dillgenteky,' vrha has been making a journey round the world, says: "English has a glorious f .tore. J lit bou: d to become the universal language of science, trades and indusiry. , There have been three great epochs ,19 which -all the educated men talked Greek, Latin and French, respectiv jly. "Now we are entering the epooli of' English. The Greek was too limied, both in area and age. . Tbe Latin world was larger than the Greek, but its jBW pontics was too narrow. TheFreiie era was diplomatic. Now the Eogb'jn,,. or Anglo-American epoch, will emUsoe': the world. Tho EngluA-sreaking n.tions lend tho world in the Irfgher poJft. tics, and in industry and trade; audi'

thoy aro unsurpassed by any r-aWwt

scientific, religious or iniuoaapti

thought. ',. ,,tmim