Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 10, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 May 1883 — Page 4
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NEWS CONDENSED. (Telegraphic Summary.) THS IRISH. Tub convention concluded its labors on Friday, April 37, after having- organised the Irish National Lemgue of America, with Alexander Saill van, of Chtcaco. as President, and John 4. Hyncs, ot Bnitalo, as Secretary. A National Committee of one from each State and Territory was chosen, wbo delected an Executive Commute of wren, consisting of the Rev. Mr. MeKenna, of Massartm.iei.ts: Dr. W. Wallace, of New fork; James Reynolds, ot Connecticut; H. T. Gannon, of low Judge J. 6. Donnelly, of Wisconsin; John F, Armatrons, of Oeonrla; and United States Bonitor Jamea fair, of Nevada. The first hours of the day's session were occupied with speeches and the readinc of letters of Sympathy from various persons. The platform of idle orunlz.ulou was then snbinittcd to the convention hy the Comiulrtoe on Resolutions. The resolutions start with a fierce arraignment of English government in Ireland, and declare that "there if no ( ot retaliation to which despair or madroe may resort, lor which English cruelty in Ireland not. exclusively reswraslble." SneclficaUy, it is charged that English rule has annihilated liber y in Ireland; that landlordism has imlverlshd the people, while a selfish policy has not so much as permitted manufactures to obtain a foothold tn the island; that England has not maintained peace ani order in Ireland, bat for TOO years has kept the country involved in Woodshed and anarchy ; that the pretense of Irish representation in Parliament is a mockery of the shallowest sort, and that, who measures inroposed in Parliament by members from England Scotland receive -polite consideration, the (act that a bill Is introlnced by an Irish member suffices for its arrogant rejection. The resolutions then assert that the course ot the English Government has deprived it ot any right, if one ever existed, to rnle Ireland: pledce material and moral support of the Irish in America in all efforts of iheircoantrrmen at home to recover the right
of self-government; incidentally score Forster
ana praise rarneti; eaixcss sympainy ror ine farm laborers of Ireland, who are commended to the kindly consideration of farmers: coun
sel Irishmen to buy nothing in England
that can be procured from the United states fmnwumatuninc fnr the liberal Ministrr n!
Croat Rririan: condemn the action of the En-
f lish Government in sending Impoverished rish to these shores; thank American prelates (or the aid they have secured for Irish emigrants, and Indorse Mr. Egan's administration ot the Land Lewie finances. An attempt to
duces the resolutions seriatim was overwhelmingly defeated, though Congressman Finerty, of Chicago, entered a vigorous protest. At the closing, Ura. Famen, who was elected President ot the Ladies' Land League, made a short address, and, amid great en
thusiasm, nlaecrt a wreath ot laurel on a picture
of Gen. Washington. The song, uod save Ireland, was song by delegates and audience, and thcconvcnlioa was declared adjourned sine
cuc.
crop of millet will bo large. The season is about twentj days bite, but recent rains
have glveii hopes of an abundant yield.
WASHINGTON.
Following is tho regular montldy
debt statement, Issued on the 1st ot May
Three and one-half ir cents $ 4.VH,in
Four and one-half per cents 350,000.000 Four per cents 787,671,860 Three per cent aoo,OS!i,noo Bef uniting certificates 3'W.'i60 Navy pension fund 14,000,000
Total interest-bearing debMatured debt. Legal-tender notes. Certificates ot deposit Gold and silver certincatea Fractional currency ,
....tl,SU,47,000 il.Olll.OHS ,710,(15l .... 1i,1uM0O .... H'.2.K,9.-,l
.... 7,008,973
Total without Interest. .
$l,BSS,li-S.flt
9,711,245
HW.lR'.-lOl
1,S74,070.8H5
a.sai,a
111,831,670
!V'01,"85 !M.),T2a 162,101,931 1MB,000 l:'fi,2.-n,oa
S4,623,&M
l,2:r.',47u
EASTEKH.
xnree hunureu praper immigrants from Houthwestern Ireland were landed at
Philadelphia on the 1st of May.
A shocking tragedy was enacted in Hew iork. William Macduff, a financial broktu, shot his wife dead while she was preparing breakfast, entered an adjoining room where his little son was sleeping- in a
crib, and killed him, and then shot nimselt
During the bardie nee in Foreiwujrh's oircna at Pottsvflle, Pa., the horse driven ley Mrs, Cook fell, injuring- hex fa
tally.
The steamer Catalonia arrived at Boston from Liverpool with 1,200 steerage
psescEgeis, moat of whom were brought at the expense of the British Government. In accordance with the instructions of Got. Butler, the Massachusetts Board of Health, Lunacy and Charities has assumed control of the Towfcsbury Almshouse, appointing a temporary Superintendent. The collapse of a pillar in the Keystone colliery, at Ashland, Fa., caused a great fall of cool and a rush of gas, which, coming In contact with the miners' lamps, caused an explosion, killing three men, and wounding two others, Albert H. Bails, a merchant of Boston, shot his partner, A. Pcrley Ficketa, through the head, on board a Fall Elver steamer, having mistaken him for a burg-'ar as he moved about the state-room they were occupying conjointly. Dr. Henry Bachas, the pioneer educator of Hltots, died suddenly at Syracuse. XX Cardinal McCloskey received President SolHvon, of the Irish League, and other gentlemen at New York, and indorsed the proceedings of the Philadelphia Conven-
The safe of the Providence (B. I.) Gas Company was robbed of tiro boxes of pay-envelopes containing $ 1,00(1
WESTEKW.
: live inches of snow fell on the 1st of Hay, in the vicinity of Grand Forks, Dakota Mrs. Mary E. Jones left Paw Paw, Mich, on the it inst, on her walk to San. Franou-co, where she expects to arrive Sept. 1- She will lecture on the way, and undertakes the tramp to show what a woman can do. CoL Bennet H. Young, President of the Louisville, New Albsny and Chicago railroad, has issued an order that so far as possible no work shall be done or trains ran on that road on the Sabbath. The only passenger train which will be run on that day will be the one carrying mails, but efforts will be made to arrange for its discontinuance. If the Christian people cannot find other places for worship," the President continues, "this company will not violate the divine and civil law, and deny its employes the essential rest of the Sabbath to carry them to a camp-meeting.' In ths United States Court at Chicago, J. R. Doolittle, Jr., was awarded a verdict for 440,000 for legal services rendered Jacob Forsyth in certain real-estate operations which have, it is claimed, contributed largely to bis client's profit A policeman from Bloornington, 111 fell among thieves in Cincinnati, and lost l,fi00 in a gambling house. The disturbance he created in endeavoring to recover his money caogedhis arrest for disorderly conduct. Henry Forharo, a murderer, was hanged in the Jail-yard at Helena, Mont Be left a will bequeatiling his body to the wgeoas,
Total debt (principal! Total interest
Total cash in treasury Debt, less cash in treasury Decrease durttii Anril
Decrease of debt since June 80, 18M. Current liabilities Interest due anil unpaid $ Debt on which latcrc.it has ceased.. Interest thereon Gold and silver 'rtificates V. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of lenosit. Ca& balance avtUlable May 1,1883... Cash in treasury Available assetsBonds issued to PaoiHcTafiway companies, interest payable la lawful moneyPrincipal outstanding Interest accrued, not vet uaid.A.
Interest paid by Unit-id States T,283,388 Interest repair, by companies By transportatic n service. 10,9 10,033 By cash paymeats, G per cent, not earnings, 663,108 Balance of inteiest paid by United States 40,112,153 During the past six month 132 national banks have been organized, with a
capital of 14,958,50tl
President Arthur has appointed "William & Woods District Judge for tho Seventh
district (Indiana), vice Walter Q. Gresham,
appointed Postmaster General. Vice Admr.'al Xtowen having been relieved at his own request frdm the post of Superintendent of-ihe Naval Observatory, Commodore Shnfeldt has been appointed to succeed him.
IOLITICAX
The New Ycrk Legislature has passed a bill to retire a id pension school teachers over 70 years of age, A call has b3en issued for a national convention of -lolorcd men, to be held in Washington on 1he 2 lth of September next The convention is called for the consideration of the present and future condition of the colored people of this country, and of the best method of securing to them full enjoyment of their social and political rights. Gen. Green B, Banvm, the United States Commissi aner of Internal Revenue, tendered his res- gwation to the President, which was accepted. It is 'reported that within three hours after the resignation was accepted six applications were received by the President from ex-members of Congxeai for the position. A prohibito: amendment was defeated in the Pennsylvania House by an overwhelming majority, but tho Senate passed to, third reading a bill to prohibit treating. Wilson, Bepttblican, was given a cer
tificate of election as representative in Con
gress for the Fifth district of Iowa upon an ostensible majority of twenty-four votes at the November election. Frederick, his Democratic opponent, claims to have dis
covered errors in the countof votes that will reverse the result and give him a margin of
100 votes or moru
UA bill proH'rting dramas based on Holy Writ, in when Divinity iB represented, passed the Pennsylvania Senate.
The Michigan House bos defeated a
meamre making five years' insanity in one
of a married couple valid grounds for di
vorce.
BPsnress FAILURES. The Chicago Ruining Company, Chi-
LiabUities, 3100.000; assets, 75,000.
F. M. Bockwsll, woolen goods manu
facturer, Leoroiister, Mass. liabilities, 9140,000.
Tho St. Louis Distilling ..Company,
St Lonis, Ifa
MISCELLANEOUS.
lng up on every hand, aud additional arrests arc being- inado by the score. A Dublin telegram states that ft re' quest, supported by ftftidaVlts, will be mado by tho British tidvennuont for tue cxtrtidi. lion of about a dozen persons names not given who have sought refivgo in the United States, and who arc charged with complicity in tho dynamite conspiracies. James Corey, tho Dublin informer, has been fomul to have been connected with throe other murders beside thePhaavix Park assassination, and will probably have to stand trial for them. The Grecian (lovenunont has issued an order prohibiting the importation of American pork.
$5&,9stui75 Eight Kussian army ollinors have
been arrested on suspicion of Nihilism. There are reports that a widespread military conspiracy has been discovered, The London Timet, commenting upon the platform of tho Irish National League Convention at Philadelphia, docloros tho time has come when Great Britain should abandon the hope of brlnirinpr Irishmen to a better frame of mind by tho continuance of uninoilted favors, and that they should be mode to feel tho strong hand of the law. Dr. Norvin Green, President of tho Western Union Tolograph Company, was banqueted at London by a number of En glish and French capitalists interested in" telegraph investments. Fitzharris, tho cab-driver, known us Skin the Goat," was acquitted at Dublin of
participation in the PhcoiuxFark murders. Another charge is pending- against him of aonspiracy to murder.
Importers of pork products at Ham
burg write to parties at Now York that biased
and sensational publications ill the butted
States are entirely responsible for the Ger
man Government's course in prohibiting the
importation of American pork.
LATER NEWS ITEMS. The Iowa Republican State Conven
tion is called for Juno 11.
The Republican State Convention of
Pennsylvania has been Culled to meet at
Harrisburg July 27.
Au explosion of gas in an oil-mill at
Vickslinrg, Miss., killed one person and fatally injured two others.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines lias secured
another judgment against the city of New Orleans for ?l,ft,(S67.
Considerable apprehension is felt on
the Lower Bio Grande in regard to yellow fever, against which it is proposed to quar
antine. New Orleans continues its policy of
rigid exclusion of vessels from presumably
Infected ports, even though the result of such action is the withdrawal of roguliur lutes of steamers.
A strike of tho iron-workera of Pitta-
burg on June 1 appears to be inevitable A
consultation took place between representatives of the manufacturers and the Amal
gamated Association, aud neither showed a
nisposirion to recede from the ground they had taken, the employers Insisting that
there should be a reduction of wages at the
beginning of the labor-contract year, and the workmen protesting that they will not
submit to the reduction. The conference adjourned without reaching an agreement
The steamer Africa is supposed to
I have foundered. She left Now York, March
37, for Leith and Hambiug. A contract for the improvement of the harbor of Vera Cruz has been let by the
Moxiean Government to a French company : tho cost of the work being estimated ai j 1 0,047,00ft, The breaking of n ropo caused tho , fall of a etige in which some men were being hoisted out of amine at New Glasgow, Nova
Scotia, six of the miners being killed and four mortally injured. The steamer Grapplor, running between Puget Sound and Alaska, burned on the Pacific coast, and sixty lives axe reported lost The victims were mostly Clrnaraen, who became uncontrollable wbon the flro broke out, and jumped iuto tho boats to their own destruction, A train on the Detroit and Lansing road, near Howard City, Mich., struck a wagon on a crossing, killing two women and a man named Jonnson, tlio team running away. The engineer could not seo IJicin on
account of a deep cub Secretary Folger refuses to remove D. a Alexander, Fifth Auditor ot the Treas
ury, from tho commission appointed to ex-
PLEADED GUILTY.
Pelaney and Caflrey Sentenced to Death at Dublin,
After Pleadiiiff Oullfy Another former Turns Up.
In-
Patrick Dolanoy and Thomas Caitrey, two more of tho men charged wit h participation in the mnrdor of Cavendish and Burke, woro arraigned for trial at Dublin on tho -d inst They created a somalion in tho court room by pleading gui I ty to the oliarge against them, lim b wore sentenced i i lie hanged on the 2d ofJiiae. llet'ore Cailrey had pleaded guilty ho was informed by his solicitors Hint- Ihn crown gave no hopes of mitigation of the suulomicof death which would lio passed upon him. When Pelaney was called irpou to plead he said: "lam guiltv of liciiur in the park at tho time l.wd Frederick Cftvendisll and Mn Hurke were killed, lint 1 did not commit tile murder. 1 plead guilty. " Tho Judgo explained to him "that this really amounted to the plea of innocence, riolaiicy then formally pleaded guilty, lie said, "1 was brought into tlii at first foolishly, not knowing what it was. I was forced from my work to gii the park. We bad to obey the elders of tlio society or take tho consoiinoneeK. Whon 1 got iu the park I could not got away, I saw the murders commuted, but 1 took no part iu them. I went to the park on Kavanagh's car. He speaks tho truth; so does Carey. Tho murders were committed by Joo llrudy and Timothy Kelly, and hy nobody else, 1 saved Judge Lavnttoil's 110 at the risk of my own. I was pitt on to shoot him by Wullett and Hrady. The duly way to escape the task was by calling tho guard's attention." Judge O'lJrien, in passing sentence on Dolanoy, said ho had a duty to perform. He had at tlio previous trial of a prl-oner for attempting to shoot Judge Lanison pitied him because he showod some feeling for his wife and family. The prisoner would sen t what misery they had boon brought by the wicked svstem of conspini' V. Whon Catl'rey was placed In tho dock his face woro n ' smile. Tho consiwiuenee of
pleading guilty was aga.n fully explained to
OI K 101 NU FOLKS
Tho LilUo Mali. A little man, in a brand-new Suit Of clothes Irom out tho atom; Nor speck of dirt nor stain of fruit Ills nutty garments bore His jacket and his trousers wore His Hist, and spick and span; And pildo soon exorcised Its spur Upon this Utile num. And felt ho prouder t ban a King In his co'i pleto array ; To seo him round the parlor swingWas better tltau a play. Deep In his trousers pockets thrust, Make sure, wore both his hands, And richer he with cents in trust. Than owner large ot lands. "PaiV' ho cried, im stopped ho short Ueloro his lather's kn.ee "PttiMi, me lorcS oo tos oo bought 'K e nice ucw tose for mo Arid mammy, me be 'cat dood boy. An' teep ese tose so teatti Me do an' buy me nnoty toy. To p'ay iu house, I mean. "Mo only 'tay a ittlc w'lle, An' to in "iijiit in ildeu, An" den till dinner me will p'ay '1th llouulo Hay an' Hen. Mo teep my toes so tcan, papa Medit on dem no dirt ; Bio doinvny I em house not far. An' on't lull down uithurt," An hour passed on: the liltlo niaa Keturnvit wi h face all blood; Without a cap ill-doors ho ran; llis clothes befouled with miid. Between his sobs, for breath hard pressed, A tale of strife he told; " 'At Hdniiic Hay 'teppod on my foot. An' den we bof taut hold. "An' felled all down an' 'oiled all 'ound ; Ho bit my linger sore; Me soatoh his lac, my nose ho pound. An' b'an'-new towsts toroj Me hit 'im bat, an' pulled ho hair So hard I ever tan. Mo lick him, pa, an' mado him kyo. An' I's a 'ittle man!"
liruclc
Tho Youth' Companion relates tho
mm in open court, nni no pciww uia ,, . r e - . , A . . plea. Oil being asked whether he had any- following story of a pet seal, captured
thing to say why sentence should not now ! and tamctl by a little Xaniau boy on bo iia-etl upon him, Cau'icy replied, in a the coast of Greenland: l04lTave got to x. standing on the 1 yor a time Peter watched tho boats; brink of the grave, is that I did not know but, finding tins dull amusement, ho v!i:.twasgoiiigU)happeuun!i!tenty min- : by-and-by sot off for a small hunt on utcs before tlio murders wore committed. I j,is own account aud followed along the was bound to ko to the pork under pom of . n. tt. t ii i
rlnntl, Tl,n tl.ra Ii ,,naiiir OlliMM. BUUIO Wl UO BUUO TO WOlWl
said that there wore no meausTof iudtring Klinak.
tlio truth of the prisoner's sietement He; Hero a subdued, hoarse barking cauio did not deoido that it wasnecessaiily wholly t0 cal-s; and cautiously stealing "Thirteen of the prisoners who have been ! fTound oitt of r1ocks' Jbefoe contined in Kilmamham jdU charged with : his eyes lay two largo spotted seals having been connected with the Cavendish- with their pups, sunning on the ice-
Uurke tragedy in PhojiOx Park, woo nave . j,
STrtiTbJ di.ch" haUvell At sight of Peter, the old ones raised
boon r indicted and will be tried for their heads, started at kun for a second,
another crime. Ouo of their number, then betook themselves to tho water in
Joseph Hani, n, has turned informer, ana gr0at hasto. Peter had no weapon ex-
liJno tam cent a -to. With this, however, he
Earl (.'owner. Mr. Forster, Chief Secretary ' valiantly tried to get ahead of the shut-
for Ireland, and other prominent officials, j fling palr. They floundered on despite
Fff trmJZ re! W interference, aud plunged headlong
pronto the evidence safltclcnt to cuuvict on ! fl sea-
not bo closely couueotod with the Phcsniat j have them, aud 'turned to grab them,
Park association. BM Ti1AV ,mn nn(l tnmhlinc
; after tlio old ones. It was very slip- : nerv on tlio ice. aiKl.clunisv as tho little
juoiu-TosDOBouuii, . a,iiui : seals seemed , they, all but one, con-
w y trivetl to elado Peter. Upou that one
EusnADwuws, of Walton county, Georgia, Peter pounaetl bodUy, and held it in is Raid tn ho lo2 venrs old. He nicked a halo i BDlte Of its struggles.
of cotton in his centennial year. It was a. very baby of a seal, not
Joseph Cambria, a veteran or the war or weighing more than ten pounds, with 181 J , died at Westminster, Bucks county, ! the roundest of little noses, and livery Pa , lately, ill tho "1st year ot his age. M 8oft heftd m suffUsed yet A kegro woman recent! v died in Washinc- . A ...'. i-.,. ..'!..,
SOME OF THE VETERANS.
A KKGno woman recently uieu in wasmui;-. . . , , .... i.mi
toncountv. Ai-k. at the aire of 11-' years. : r,u,'i:u """" iwawi up nuiiiuy
Strange to say, she was not one of G. W.'s servants, but distinct ly remembered having seen the hero of the hatchet aifair. Mas. Martha 3. ltoouEits, a iK'-year-old
widow, of Shelby lotmty, hy., has pieced a diamond quilt which contains l,ti pieces, a
double sunflower tiuilt containing ilw
pieces and a hcxigon quilt containing 1,-100 blocks. Haoekstowx, Md., claims the oldest work-
mgman in that State, if not in tlio union, liobcrt Lewis, who is in the i-Stli year of his ago, has just completed the mason work of a cistern at n residence in that city, doing the work in a thorough manner, lie is in
into Peter's face, and its tiny imploring
cry so touched his heart that, lor i moment, ho was moved to lot it go.
But then ho thought what a nice pet it
would miiko, and hurried on.
Getting homo with bis prize, ho pro
cured a bit of cord, and tied it, by one
of its flippers, in ft corner of the store
room, whero for a few days he looked
after it almost constantly and taught it
to eat porridge. Afterward, ho dug a hole for it iu a snow bank and gave it a bed of straw to
iXrTior -hen the weather hot!
MM s.n.i, tTm.ii. of MoTan. I1L. on frown 11 iimo wariuor, no useu w ii'ou
the occasion ot her TSth birthday, was sur- : it down to the shore very day for a
prised ac tho washtub by a party or mends, bath in the sea.
who tendered her a party m hone of the j -pot a timo ho took good care to never
""S,I,.rt' ..?."."f. "r"V"X:Z. let e.o tho rui. llut soon the liltlo
tho dainty misses of the pre-out dav, who seal grew so attached to his young
fear that tho performance oi any mcrui act, i master that tins precaution became
ukc assisting in tne lamuy wa-mng. m un nnito uuneci'ssnrv. It followed the bov
!X" 1 "TOtyrerywboro, like a dog, shuttling ami
ir i i f.n, i,wf ,n iii. sorambhug along, aud it was laughable
in Missouri, if not the oldest in the couiitiy. mi see its clumsy antics and gambols
Mr. S. W. Tallmadge, Secretary of
the Milwaukee Cliamber of Commorco, has received official reports concerning the condition and prospiicts of both winter and
spring wheat In tvery wheat-growing State ! "ninntt'C charges against Supci vitdng Aria the Union. From these reports he has j cMtec6 HUL mado a table of the probable crop in each Indictments for murder wore fonnd State. This table is not a matter of mere , t Dublin aeainst John Walsh, who rocontlv
speculation, but in based on the reportsof arrived in tills country from Franco: P. j.
the Agricultural Departments, Secretaries Sheridan, of tho fthi Xuthn. Now York, and
SOUTHERH.
Great activity prevailed in the tobacco market at Petersburg, Ya., on the 1st Inst, and many million pounds were shipped. The sale ot stamps brought in 33,812. A judicial decision has been rendered at Louisville, Ky., sustaining the Western Union Telegraph Company in refusing market reports to bucket-shops. The three Cain brothers and two supporters met the three Smith boys and two followers at McKlnney, Ky., and a battle followed, alt the Cains being shot, one mortally, while one of the Smiths was shot inthemoataL Paymaster Mason, of the United States army, was robbed of Ins valise, con-, tain ng 920,000, destined for paying the troops on the Bio Grande, as he was riding from Fort Worth to Big Springs, en the Texas Pactac railroad. The Grand Jury at Harrodsburg, Ky., returned an indie tmenD of murder against Phil B. Thompson, Jr., for killing Waiter H. Davis, April 27. In Franklin county, Miss., a colored man name Amos Bailey, who killed a farmer, was taken from theSheriffs custody ' by an armed mob and hanged to a tree. A St. Louis dispatch says that reportsof the growing crops in Texas are unusually favorable. Wheat, though late, looks well, as does hay and corn. Cotton has not all been planted, bat some Is already np, and the stands are in good shape. The plaut this year will t light because of tic low prices and th scarcity of labor, TUv
of State, Secretaries of Agricultural So
cieties, Commissioners of Agriculture,
and other people whoso busl-
it is to obtaix-. first the in formation de
sired, espciatly ir. regard to winter wheat Concerning spring wheat, the estimates are based on the rejiorted acreage and on the
supposition that there will be a good season. Of eoarae, should the season not prove good, the yield w 11 fall below the estimates reached. The following are the figures:
Bns iels.1
Maine soyiou Kentucky . New Bampa'e 10D,ooo Oh!o Vermont 4r,(;00 Michigan. . Massacuus'tts 4 tm Indiana Connecticut.. cyme Illinois ..... Now York.... ia,0o:),ooo Wisconsin. New Jersey. . . 5,00i,0fn Minnesota.
rennsyivuiia. 3,u'),i(iowa,
Delaware I,fl0 yx)0 Missouri. . . Virainia. 8,o,oo Kansas S. Carolina... 5,S(v Nebraska... N. Carolina... a,oo,ono California.. Georgia, 8,50 ooo Oregon Alabama..... 2,00 ,: Colorado... Texas. s,0,000. Territories..
Arxansaa x,w,wi Tennessee..., 8,i)i,n"0 Total .100,00,100 West Virginia 4,00 ,cu0ilst vr's total 500.000,009
Nnmerons
Bushels.
... 0,i,000 ... S0,00,i0O ... 24,li0l),mi0 ... 30,000,000 ... 3.1,000,000 ... Iii,oon,noo ... 32,0110,000 ... 22,000,0(10 ... 23,000,000 . .. 4:i,nno,ooo ... 18,11011.000 ... 20,000,000 ... lU,IKI0,0flQ ... 2,"IK),000 ,.. 2 ',000,000
Fe'.er Tynan, commonly known as No. 1, who is supposed to bo in tho United States. It is expected a demand will speedily be made upon this Government for the extradition of these men. who are alleged t have been the head of tho conspiracy that resulted in Hie Phoenix Park murders a year aro. A number of other indictments were returned against persons charged with muider or conspiracy in Ireland. Dr. Gallagher, Bernard OalUghor, Wilson Curtin, Ansburg, Whit-mead n id Dalton, the seven men charged with t cosonfolony and connection with the dynamite conspiracy, were again arraigned in tic Bow Street Court, London, on the Hd ins-i. The time of tho session was occupied by the reading of tho evidence taken at the previous hearings, at the conclusion of which the prisoner were remanded for another week.
His name Is liobcrt Gibson, and his age is over 1 Pi years. He is live feet two inelio- in height ; weighs 149 pounds. He recollects dimly the Revolutionary war and the PrcsidencY of Gen. Washington. Mr. Gibson's
ivlxiut Peter's legs. Tho lad named it
Uruck a pet niimo in Danish.
Diu'ing the short summer, Peter was accustomed to go out shrimping in his
oldest boy is a lnd tit M, and his baby, with i father 8 boat every mornuig. When
whom he is now living, is . He has lieen r ly t r ft start ho wonJ(i whistl6 for Sf, "ilr,T hTw""r eV.l Bruck. and the young seal would climb
twenty children. His direct descendants, ' into the iKMit of its own accord. But as now reachiug to the fifth generittlon,numbor i goon as they had got out where the nearly lea . 1 puniliKh hue" of the water indicated tho ..j. ............ i i . . , - . .
a".. T. ". .presence of siioals oi tintou-backed of S 0 years ot age, died at a p ace called hg-' 1 , . , . , , T, , ii..;"J li...i.,.i Tit, ' shrimiis. overboard would co Bruok.
usual arrnngcnioiits for a funeral were made, ! and, diving right and left, soon SOOOp
Including a wake, tho eoiuu was e.io.-ed nun no lv breakfast for lumselt. wt ttTcSS I , h very lowered md the giavo filled in. ( m return- ; "is own living, and grow so strong and ing home, however, tho relatives were large that when less than a year old he amazed to find the cori-w of the old woman j weighed 150 pounds. &"'t The affection which tliis creature
herintliecrtHii. Tbov took her to the gravo evinceu lor ills master sooms quuo
lt.bor strikes were in
augurated in various parts of the United States on the 1st. of May the most noteworthy being that of the railroad coalnunersof the "Bin-Handle" district of the Pemnnrlvania raiii ond. Six thousand miners
quit work rather than submit to the proposed reduction oi wages. In numerous In- '
stances- cigar-maWs who had been refused . Con
an advance of 91 per thousand struck work. At Lynn,Mass., there was a general striko of shoemakers. - The champiotship games of the Base Ball League begat on the 1st of Kay, The Chicago Club, present champions, met tho Detroit team and won, 7 to 4, and 7 to 4 was the score by which Cleveland beat Buffalo, The New York C ub defeated the Boston combination 7 to 5, and Providence won, 4 to 3, over Philadelphia. The season of the American Association and of the Nortl western League also began en the 1st I ist. Tho clubs in all three of the organixatid is showed up in good form more skillful play being exhibited than at any opening In for ner seasons. Thfe contests were witnessed in most instances by large audiences, the crowd in New York being es. tlmatedatl5,0Oa Capt. Eads has received a dispatch from Tehuantepec that his ship railroad had been commenced with due ceremonies at NuncatUla, on the Atlantic side of the lsth-
It is ehoioo flattery to a wonan of Southern Europe when told that sho is not in any one feature like an English woman.
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wonderful. It became unoosy if the lad was out of its sifrht, oven for five
minutes, and would go searching and whining for him in all their usual hauuts. When shut out of the house by chance, it beat and scratched at the door far more persistently than a dog.
! Its favorite phico to sleep was at the
foot of Peter's bed. If not forcibly put
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ez which has not eaten anything to speak of for thirteen months A rHuoAN was killed near Batebville, His-., which measured eight feet eight inches from tip to tip of wine; A Noirrn Caboijma trout dragged a boy under water. Tho man who saw the catastrophe shows the rescued boy and water in evidence, In a light betwoen a rat and a rattlesnake at Portland, Ore., tho rat was vl-toi'i us. 'i hn snake was in a weak condition from want of food As a careless Now Haven horse was goiiuT up lo tho watering-trough hi- stopped on a Ki'Mcr-dojr's tall a- that animal was enjoying a Hinozc, Thoilojr jmnpod uji with a howl and spraiipr into the basin, just as the thirsty l:o:-c i-tu'i lilt iioatod nostrils into the waur, and Houndi-rcd ulKut 10 that tho eqtiino could n t drink. Tho d.-g st ijipcd three times. ju.-t long cnouirh to let him try to drink, but each time s'rnt him off by floundering- about The horse (rave it up in disgust, and tlin dog hopped out, Fouming-ly tat'isucd witli llis revenge. Pai'i. iii ('11AI1.1.U i-oiild hardly rake up a better pnnl-hor stoi v than tlio following from lh- P,ilaika (Kin.) Jhi'aid : "On Sunday last iJire coli.rt'd men were out dt-or limiting near White's log camp, back of HoHston. Ono 1 f thi'iii was nt his staiuL The dogs were hoard coining in that direction. Soon there was a toiriblc uounnolion in tho bushes the Kiiiud coming toward him. The darky, thinking it was a deer, stopped so as to got a fair Flint, when snddenl v a tri-moiidous panther confronted him. Hearing a noiso behind he looked round and, to Ills surprise and horror, saw another in a tree, which he fired at and killed just a it was in tho ae.tof sin iuging itpou him. Th other iminodiateiy csinpetl. muoli, as the darky says, to his delight The one ho killed measured eveu feet, and the negro o liniates the male to be twicoaslorge." Home Nnilhifl: Henry Fish, of Iac Ccife-r, who has lately come from l-ono Jiock, Wis., says: "Andrew llnrtur, of l one Hock, went mil 011 u rocky part of his fiu-in one day last spring, and, wmln looking around, .-aw the head of n rattloMiake protruding li-i-m a crevice in the rook. Taking in the general unrounding, Ir- concluded thill it must bo a regular den of rattlnsmikos, so ho limit a on aliont U n foet Hiuaio mid three feet ligh about tho place and awaited remits. The pen was watched, mid with a wire mure soiunlhing like a fish snare seveniy nine sunken, varying in length from is inches to i, feet, were, during the summer, lauded in'a barrel placed inside the inelosuro. Four of the lurgost were jdaeeil in the barrel on Decoration Dav, and in November they were still olivo. As they hail been placed in thehairol as soon as they left their winter quarters. Ihnv hadlivnd a whole year ivithou'. anything to eat As the snakes had not thawed out this spring when Mr. Fish left, it was not- known whether, they wwo uWll olive-ornul."
most comfortable "foot-brick" for Pet
er's toes. But after Bruck liad grown so large Mother Mux felt objected to his presence in tho house. So Peter built a little shod for his pet, justoutsido. But for three or four nights Bruck whined and scratched at the door by tho hour; and it was long before ho would go to his shed of his own accord. Thus passed two or three years, and Bruck had grown to be fully five feet in length. Peter was now 1(5 years of age, nml had begun to work 111 tho miuo with his father. Yet the same afteetion continued between tho two. Bruck often ciuuo wiuldliug to tho quarries, and was as much a pot with all the workmen as ever a dog could have been. lio had a peculiar trait of climbing up aud looking people iu tho faoo with his calm, soft eyes. It was a saying among the miners that Bruck "know as much as a man" only he couldn't talk. They judged, oy" his actions and moods, that if only ho could speak he was ablo to foretell storms. Perhaps ho was, for these creatures do certainly possess strange, true instincts, and feel premonitions unknown to men. One season tlio Captain of one of the supply ships, while iu port, saw Bruck, and, hearing of his wonderful traits, tried to buy him of Poter. But Peter stoutly refused to sell his play-follow. Tho Captain, however, applied to Peter's father, and by a liberal offer (15 rix dollars) tomptod the poor miner to bargain Brack away. And they did, between thorn, a cruel thing they contrived t got Bruck ou board the ship tho day she sailed, while Peter was at the mine, and without his knowledge. The Hviilttskon got undor weig'i, and was well at sea before they told Peter. Stout boy thougli he now was, ho cried like a baby. It was tho first groat grief of his Ufa. Lost Brack should escape, tho Captaiu hud a Kne bout to ouo of his forearms, and the poor creature was hitched to a ring in the bulwarks. At first Brnek struggled pluekily, and seemed to realize that lie had been foully kidnapped, ho roared and displayed an un. nit urnl fierceness. Finding tins of no avail, ho began to "cry," and for hours lay 1 anting and whining piteously. Tho next morning, and tho two fol
lowing mornings, the sailors, by the Captain's order, tossed Bruck ovorboard for a swim lit the sea, with tho line still on him, to haul him on board with, thinking thus to cheer him up and make him loss sulky. But still the
homesick ereaturo would not touch fish
nor food of any kind.
The fourth morning out, after they had tossed the seal overboard as usual,
the lino was seen suddenly to tighten,
and they hauled in only the broken end of it. Bubbles rose, and there scorned to be a commotion of the water deep down. Homo big fish, shark or other marine monster, had laid hold of Bruek
and broken the line.
They san'iiothlng further of the Seal oil
board tho tlvnlUskeu. Tlio vessel was
then probably 400 miles oiit of Iviktut
aud now comes the really-wonderful part
ot tne story.
The brig, sailed Wednesday. The following Tuesday night, Peter, who
una ceased to mourn tlio loss of his pet, heard a feeble scratching at the door,
followed soon by a plaintive but familiar whine. Jumping from his bed ho ran and opened the door, and lo 1 there was Bruck, who whined and rubbed his wet head caressingly against the bare feet of his master. Full of pity and of fear at Crack's Unusual lack of strength; Peter lighted
a candle and began anxiously to exam
ine him. In tho poor animal's body
mere were lull half a dozen great.
gaping, white wounds, bleached and
fringed by his long journey in tho sea.
Home ferocious "tyrant of the flood"
had lauorated mill most mercilessly
prouamy at tne tune tne line was broken. Yet despite his wounds the affectionate creature had made his way back, all those hundreds of miles.
guided through the pathless waters only by that marvelous gift of lustirlctiTe
knowledge with which nature has en
dowed these, hor Untaught tribes.
I'oor laitmul .Brack! deters care
and all his rude oaorts to cure his re
covered pet proved useless. The animal's vitality seemed quite spent, and
it died a few days after its return,
A "PERSONAL" PARADE.
Were the Ancient Hebrews Left Handed ? There is a new problem for tho AngloIsraelites. Were the Hebrews a lefthanded people? Dr. Erlonmeyer gave an interesting and learned lecture to
prove that they were. Most of the Aryan peoples, as we know, write from
tlio left to the right of a sheet of paper,
and their books are so printed as to be read in this direction. Most of the Semitic people; on the contrary, write from tho right to the left of the paper. Hitherto this very emphatic difference has been simply represented to be a
mere characteristic of habit, kept up
oy tne reverence for tradition which is
so deeply rooted in the Semitic mind.
It has never occurred to any one, so far as wo know, that the direction taken by the hand of a Semitic scribe in writing
was due to a physiological cause, name
ly, to the fact that his left hand was his better hand, and was much more ready and "dexterous" than the hand which we Aryans call the dexter. Dr. Erlen-
mever insists that the writers of the Old
Testament, and probably the early Tal-
niudhts after them, naturally wrote with their left hands, and would have
found it duhcult, if not impossible,
to write with the other hand. Hence,
it was only natural that manuscript
should travel along a lino which started from tho right and ended on the
left. lir. JSrlennieyer says that this hypothesis is not a mere happy thought
of his own, but that he found striking contirmatioa of the theory in the Tal
mud, i'or instance, he cites a passage which insists that certain special prayers
and inscriptions are always to be writ
ten with the right hand, and not with
the left. The execution of this excep
tional prescription was a work of time,
patience aud difliculty, aud it is implied that the process of writing with the right hand was a departure from the
ordinary, easy and natural way of writ
ing. Tho learned doctor also cites passages from the Hebrew of the Old Testament in which a partieular street
seems to him to be laid upon the lef thandedness" of the old Hebrews. Ja
cob and Job he says preferred to give
the pre-eminent blessing with tne leit
hand instead of the right. Jacob,
"knowingly and deliberately," laid his left hand upon the head of his eldest grand-child. We commend the ques
tion to the Anglo-Israelites. If they
can prove that the majority of h.nglish-
men are naturally left-handed they will
be in possession of one more "identity." In that case wo may expect them to
write their letters and print their maga
zines in future after the proper Semitic
manner. London Jsoho.
Gum-Chewing Defended. Chun chewing in itself is not so bad.
Some of the most pleasant reminis
cences of my own life are connected with chowing gum. Have you ever hunted or fished in the Adirondack? Well, what can compare with the fra
grant lump of spruce gum which you pick with your own fingers from the
broken bark through which it has ex
uded and where it has dried, until it is as hard as resin and almost as clear as
amber. Do you remember the men,
yes, and women, too, whom you have met in those groat woods, armed with a . , .1 1 M 1 ? . V
long poie, upon wie ena 01 wuiou was fastened a broken knife, with which they loosened from the old trunks the gum which they could not reach with their fingers and packed it away into sacks
for t'10 markot? Have you ever been a
boy in the lumber regions and manufactured gum from the raw turpentine, which you gathered with a case knife from the ends of tho pine logs iu the logways, scraping it off on the edge of an old tin pail without a bail, where it gradually settled, a firm mass, full of glittering bubbles of air? And whon the turpentine has been sufficiently
cooked upon tho stove, have you ever known the intense excitemeut of lifting with a rug the bailloss pail, with its terribly hot mixture, from the stove, to pour it into cold wntor, where it became a clear substance, not so hard as resin, assuming all sorts of fantastic forms? Aud have you known the solder to molt and tho bottom to fall from the pail, as it somotiines does, while your boiling turpentine oreated a frightful conflagration on the red-hot stove and ruined forever the whiteness of tho kitchen floor, tho whole family flying in consternation from tho door, and your mother wearing a frown on hor face for a day ? Well,
I havo known all this, and 1 dou t forgot it. New York &un. The Ohio Way. A farmer residing in Central Ohio visited his son, who owns a farm in one of tho best grass counties in tho Empire State, and the son ono day remarked that he had lost money baling and shipping hay. The old man looked tho press over and said it was a good ono, and examined the hay and pronounced it good timothy, and thon opened a bale of hay to seo how it was pocked. "Whore's the weeds?" he asked, as he separated the layers. "Weeds? Why, we don't put in any." "No old straw down here ?" "Not a bit" "No stones or dirt?" j "Nono, father." "Aud, instead of using water-soaked timber to bind your bales, you go and wrap '0111 with light wire! John Henry, it's a wonder to me that you havo kopt I yourself out of tho poor-house." Wall j Street Newx.
Thirty Ladies In Search Of a Husband Drawn Up for Inspection A Warning to All Who Answer Personals, A porsonal advertisement appeared in a Chicago paper worded somewhat
as loiiows : pERSONAL-W ANTED, THE ACQUAINT--snco of a rotincd, prsnosessinir young ladv, by a gentleman of tlrst-class standine, with means. Object, matrimony. Address X. Forty-one answers were received by Mr. X. of all kinds and styles some daintily written and expressed, others misspelled aud folded with grimy fingers, but all containing the assertion that it was the first time the Writer had ever replied to a personal, and a few words of description, Buch as : "I am slender and blonde," "plump, With black hair and dark eyes," etc., -ono concluding with tho remark, "I am strkskly Verohuous if you are trifling don't anser." Many gave their full nnmes and address while others concealed their identity behind a P, O. or fictitious address. Mr. X replied to one, aud requested tho writer to meet him on tho steps of McVioker's Theater tlio next afternoon, carrying a magazine in her left hand as a means of identification. Punctually to the minute she appeared and stationed herself upon the steps gazing anxiously around for the appearance of th gallant unknown. Ho, in the meanwhile, was observing her from a distance, but was far from being impressed by her charms. Calling a friend, they passed and repassed hor, coolly criticising and quizzing her appearance, but not allowing her to suspect that one of them was the gentleman che expected. After an hour's solitary watching and waiting she abandoned her post, and, mingling with the crowd, disappeared. Mr. X. viewed Several of his corr-is-pondents in this way at a distance, but as all fell far short of the standard of beauty and refinement he desired, he concealed his identity from all, and concluded to wind up tho affair with a grand dross-parade of his forty fair friends, and invited half a dozen gentlemen to witness it. Ho then wrote a polite note to each of the addresses he had received, apologizing handsomely for his nonappearance, with, tho plea of unexpected business, to those with whom he had already made an appointment. He begged each one to hleet him at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon on the north side of Randolph street, between Dearborn and State, and taxed his ingenuity to suggest a separate and distinguishing mark by which each one could proclaim her identity. One he requested to carry a blue veil in her hand, another to wear a green ribbon at her throat, another to carry a parcel wrapped in a newspaper, j et& j The stretch of sidewalk appointed for the meeting was in plain view of Mr.
X.'s office across the street, and at the time appointed the friends invited were on hand promptly to see the parade. As
the clock struck 3 tho ladies began to appear, and excitement reigned in the
office. First came a stylishly-dressed little widow, sauntering carelessly along, carrying under her arm a huge newspaper parcel at which she glanced from time to time with evident disgust. Then appeared from the other direction a tall, dignified young lady, who wore at her throat a green bow, large enough to decorate an entire St. Patrick's day procession. The blue veil also duly made its appearance, carried by an elderly, dowdily-drcssed woman, who was so determined to make the acquaintance of hor correspondent that she lingered on the block till dark, waving her blue banner at times as if to
summon the recreant knight to her side. But all in vain ; the shades of night fell at last bike a pall upon the city, and upon her hopes, and as Mr. X. passed her on his way home to dinner she was just turning to abandon the spot.
Xhirty ladies 01 au r-ges ana styles
appeared in response to tho- appointment, and the fun in tho oflico waxed fast and furious. The notes were spread upon the window-sill, with the appointed signals penciled on each, and the gentlemen enjoyed tho piquant situation to the utmost, shoutiiig with
laughter at the appealing, inquiring
glances by each lady at the gentlemen hurrying past, with such complete and comical unconsciousness of her twentynine companions in misfortune One young lady had been requested to twirl her glove in her right hand, and she was evidently resolved that there should
be no mistake as to hor identity, so she
marched back aud forth for threequarters of an hour, twirling that glove with energy sufficient to have
raised 200 pounds fifty feet, if properly applied, or to have fed half a dozen electric lamps.
The parade and the maneuvering were
pronounced a grand success by the
spectators, and continued with no break in the ranks for about thirty minutes.
Then the widow pitched her newspaper
bundle into the street and walked
briskly off, the rest following her ex
ample in the course of the next half hour. When all but the damsel with the blue veil had departed, the gentle
men threw all tho notes into tho fire,
and they separated, after passing a vote
of thanks to Air. A. for his delightful
entertainment.
No pitisi-ii'bK is more noble, as there is none iinn-o holy, tlian that of a truo obodienoo. -Mmiry Giles,
Metaphor Among the Indians. The Indians, more than nnv other
nation, make use of metaphor in their
speech.
An Indian squaw was one tiay scorn
ing a little papoose. The bravo, tho father of the lad, turned upon her roprovingly and said: "Tahita, use no such big words. His
ears are very small,"
The clergyman wno nas cnarge ot tne
Indian reservation on Walpole Island, in the St. Clair river, told the following anecdote :
He had, from long residence with
the people, become so accustomed to tho allegorical style of speech that ho generally used it when addressing them.
Whon a squaw went to live in the hut
of her bravo it had been tho habit of
her friends to bring her to hint to receive advice) as to her future conduct.
He resided at a villago on the Ameri
can side of the river, and one day a young squaw was brought to his house for that purpose.
This is tho adwco lie gave her. Ho said, pointing to tho clock in tho
towor of the village church :
"Be like that church; aud not liko it ! "Be like it, in being always ou time
always regular, never too fast or too slow.
"Be not like it, in wantintr to be
heard all over the village."
fie saui : "Be like tho echo, and not like the
echo.
Be liko the echo, in ever giving
back a soft response never too loud and boisterous, never sullen and glum. "Be not like the echo, in always wanting to havo the last word." If the Indian maiden followed his advice she was a crowu to her husband. Chicago Eye. A Yankee Word Alter AIL Tho word dude, meaning an emptyheaded, langnid-mannered young swell who bangs his hair, proves to be no foreign importation, but, like many another expressive term, to be of good New England parentage. The word (pronounced iu two syllables) has been used iu tho littlo town of Salem, N. H., for twenty years past, and, it is claimed, was coined thoro. It is common there to speak of a dapper young man as a "dude of ft fellow, of small anitaal im
"a little dude," of a sweetheart at "my dude," and of an tcsthelio youth of the Wilde type as dude. But how the word attained so sudden and widespread a notoriety puzzles Salem. Jta revival at New York is credited to disgusted Englishman, who rami irked, after visiting a rich club, that the young men were all "dudes." Spr ivy field Republican. Strange Meat Indeed. In South America, the tapi?, the sloth and the cafybara a greai, amphibious Guinea pig are eaten i iy tha natives. Boast armadillo, with lemon and spice sauce, is a favorite dish, and its flavor is delicious, though the plat may bo objected to aa too greasy. The opossum is also held in high estimation, and the South American practice is to bury it in the earth until the fleiih has lost its offensive odor. The m .-nkey and the parrot aro distinctly edible, though both may be criticise 1 dry and insipid. The octopus, or devil fish,' of the Mediterranean is in great di on and throughout certain districts of Italy and Austria an a Lenten meat, and the Greek and Italian fishermen ai Sen Francisco are much addicted to the same unsightly delicacy. A deviled "devil," prepared as one would pieparo a deviled crab, is regarded as something celestial, and even when cooked in the ordinary fashion the octopus is looked upon as superior to the clam, which in consistency and flavor it somewhat resembles. The favorite iwb j ten to twelve inches from the ei tremo point of one tentacle to the other. At this size they are very nice and delicate. In preparation for the table thiy arefirst opened, and all tho black liquid.
ei.lled ink, is squeezed out. lh)yr
tnen wanned, put into a pec win Riicea onion, carrots, garlic, cloves or other seasoning, and boiled and eaten with olive oil and a squeeze of leu on or lime. The shark, when youni; and tender, furnishes very oicellent ioiitlets, which in taste and appearance ree emble sturgeon, but when the fish cones to maturity it is detestable, being both tough and rank. The natives of the South 8tas, however, Regard it as a dainty. Fried porpoise liver hat! been lauded by competent authorities ; but, though the animal figured as a ilainty dish In the great banquets of tho ruddle ages, its flesh is most coarse aitd ja different. Whale is worse, being tough and harsh and permeated wit tine taste and odor of train oil, but v -bale's milk is by no means to be detpteed. Of white ants fried to a erisp emi sently
satisf actory accounts are given by disin
terested eaters, ana a marine bcuuiiu, which abounds in the coral reefs ')f tha South Seas, is lauded as a tbiw su
premely excellent when washed ii coer ooanut milk and baked in banana loaves
in an earth oven. The rat is much affected' by certain classes of Fiji Mm aa
well as by the Uhmese. A (iood-Xatnred . Sir Bevil Granville, of Cornwall, who ncirly ruined his estate and sacrificed his life for Charles I., had for a strongman a giant. His name was Ai ilhbny Payne, and he measured, when shoeless, seven feet and four inches. Though gifted with a giant's strength, lie did not use it like a giant, but like a goodnatured fellow, for nature had put. great heart into his huge body. The follow ing anecdotes illustrate the man's kindly nature: One Christinas eve, the fire U ng tiished in tho' hall at Stowe. A boy -with an ass had been sent to the woods for logs, but had loitered on Iris way. Lady Grace GranviUe, the mistress, lost her patience, and the gigantic Anthony went in quo it of the lasy lad. Shortly after ho re-entered thu hall, bearing upon his back the nss,- .oadtol with wood. Throwing down bi$ burdon at the hearth-side, he shouted: "Ass an fardel! ass and fardel lor my lady's yule!" As Sir Bevil rode into Stratum one" day, he heard an uproar in the innyard, and told his giant to find nt its cause. In a few minutes Anthony came up to his master, with a man under each arm, whom he had caught in the act of fighting. "Here are the kittens!" said the giant, as he held them for his maiterto chastise with his riding-whip. ' : jp" After the battle of Stamford Hi flfthe
giant was busy during the night, wita other soldiers, in burying the dead. Trenches had been dug to hold the bodies side by side.
The soldiers had hud nine con ses tn
one trench, and Anthony was bringing another, tucked under his arm. AU at onco the nupiKwed dead man bejtan to plead for his life.
"ttureiy you won t oury me. w. Pavuo, before I r.ui ii.-.id?"
I tell thee, man," was the grm re
ply, "our trench was dug for iteu, and there's nine i.i it already; thou must tako thy place."
"But I bean t dead, I sfiy! exclunieo
the man, kicking, to prove his assertion. "I haven't done living yet; be
mar8yful, Mr. Payne; dtm't ye hurry a. poor fellow iuto the earth befoi-e his time." "I won't hurry thee; fchou cam t die at thy leisure." But the giont's purpose was kinder than his speech. Ho carried tho suppliant to his own cottage, where the nursing of his wife brought hin iuto health. The man's descendantt. are among the principal luhabitan ot Stratton at this day. Japanese Holidays. . ' The Japonase havo more than twentyfanciful names by which they desijnate their beautiful country, but the nobriqiiet which to a foreigner seems most fitting is certainly the land of holidays. No excuse is too trivial for a Japanese to make holidays, and wheu be 'does ; not make them himself, the Government politely steps in and makes them for him. Tlnts,ono day in ..verysix, ailed ichi roku, is p statute holiday; so. Is " the third day in every moon, whibit the list of national festivals (xmmemotire of great men or of great deeds is sinply inexhaustible. If a great man dies in Enirland. tliev commnmrtratn him bv
a monument in Westminster Abbty ; -if
a great man ues ui Japan, he is renemberedby a holiday; so that what with tho mythical great men who are thus
remembered and the historical neat
men who have died dining the past five thousand years, it is a little dilBcult to find a day of the Japanese year which has not tho name of a ookbrity attached to it; just as, in glancing down a Reman Catholic calendar.w s find that every day has its particular naint. But the greatest day of the yea r, the festival par excellence of the people, tho festival into which is compressed the essence of tho fun and enjoyment
and happiness of all tho other days put together, is the festival of the new
year, wo may be lavultar Wit I. the celebration of the day in Paris or New York, but the proceedings there are buna and lifeless when compared witl thu
spontaneous outburst of rekicing which characterizes New Year's Day in Japan. Whun Thelwall was ou his trial for high treason he wrote the following note during the evidence for tho prosecution, and sent it over to Erskinc, his cor nsol ; "I am determined to plead my trans myself." Erskino wrote back: "If yon do vou will lie hangwd." To M-l'uuh Thelwall replied: "Thon I'll be lunged if I do." Col. Hiqqinson avers that Goorge -Eliot, if she had ever held a dead bah : ' in her arms, would have wanted something more to console her than tb philosophy of Herbert Spencer. .