Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 36, Bloomington, Monroe County, 7 November 1883 — Page 4

NEWS CONDENSED. Tnlwgrapftiu Samreafy'

For violating the neutrality of the United States 07 furnJshin- um and ammuBlUontott. Haytian Insurgents the Captain andtasofleerof tbe steamer Tropin vers

eateoeodat PUhtdeinhia K ooe ;er's tnu

(rtmwKutto pay a SneorS&eO andooflt-

. In the trial of a case against the Jersey Central and Hearting railroads, at Tren

ton, H. X, ex-8enatoe Coaklimr became In

volved in a colloquy wtta President Gowen.

Ihe epithets "Macktnard,'' " blackmailer.

used on each aide with facility and effect. A large audience stood up and veiled with

delight.

Two carriage factories of Plainsville,

Ct, valued at M.OO, warn (wept away by

The conn try residence of Edwin N. Benson, at Germantbwn, Pa was burned.

tnvolrinr a loaf of floa,t00.

The jewelry store of L. & Stove &

Cdh SprinstJeid, Haasi, was" burglarfred ot dIasaeBdsana other valnablea to the extent

of IS,SOO at am early how Sunday morata.

Henry Irving achieved a brilliant sue-

.ceos la New York, where he opened hit ear (aceraent before a hisMy cultured and erttt-

eal audience, who called hint before the cur-

taia at the dose of each act.

6. H. Fox, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when CHdeon Welles was

Occietai y under lincoln's adatlntstraUon,

died at Mew York last week.

Five men were killed at a magazine on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio road In

Ftmnsrivaaia by the explosion of dynamite.

lh6etonatfcM was heard Cor fifty Miles, and

window! ware ahtrl several miles distant.

Nothing Dot fraawnts ,of the bodl

of the victims eoaht be found. Up the track for tM yards or more the (round

was strewn with akreeds of flesh and drops of

blood. The face of the rocky cat fat which taopowdet stood was adorned In a like gfcast-

Orwnoi. High, up on the top of the tunnel fraffsoenta of flesh aaddothinff flattered from

the limbs of trees, and splinters the size of a toothpick covered the scene for hundreds of

yards hi every direction. In Allegheny City, Pa., an employe in

Klefer Sttefel's tawaetj descended a well to ascertain the depth of the wafer. Findfair

the foul air was choking him, be cried out.

and two other men went to fata assistance, who were also overcome. When the three men were brought to the surface they were dead.

Mr. Den man Thompson, as the eccentric Sew England farmer, "Joshua Whitcomb,' has been ptayins; to large audiences at MeYioker'e theater, Chicago, dm-inr the week. His entwfenwnt continues for another week. Tor a period of seven years, Mr. Thompson has adhered doseiyto This one character, having- appealed hi no other darinf that time. No other American play has ever had such a continuously Ions; ran. Its success is ooe of the pheuoaieaonsof the

; Maj. Gen. John M. Sohofield has amumtd command of the Division of the Missouri. 80 far as can be learned he has no present intention of removing his headquarters from Chicago. The case of the unfortunate girl, tore Boras, who was so cruelly and mysteriously murdered near Lincoln, 11L, continues to excite a large share of the attention of that community. Prof. C. Gilbert Wheeler, of Chicago, last week finished his analysis of the stains da the bugyy lines and whip of Orrm A. Carpenter, and reported to the Lincoln authorities ' that he could discover no Indication whatever of the presence of blood, either by microscopic, chemical, or spwiUusLopic eiawlnatlon Mrs. Dukes, sister of Zora Burns, appeared on the scene, bavins' journeyed from Dakota in company of an oaeer. Sheriff Gorman, of Richmond, ImL, is reported to have discovered in Cauibridse City, a ring marked with the name of the deceased, it having been pur-

Friday of a welt-dressed

to be 33 yean

excitement was ereated by

the flndras. near Btoomingtoa, of- a eaahel containing a rope and a bit of ribbon. It was sent to Lincoln, in the hope that it might prove to be the missing sachet of the murdered girL Orrm A. Carpenter was visited at the Jail by his wife and daughters. The moutlBfl and subsequent interview were very aSectJug. Public opinion Is divided upon the question of the guilt or innocence of Carpenter. v Articles of inoorporatkm of the United States Central railway, to ran from fin yraneisco to Denver, have been filed in the tatter city. The capital isS73,S00,00,and prominent men are among tbe promoters of the scheme. A fire broke out at Garfield, Colo., and, getting beyooa control, spread to the store of Sperry Bros., containing over 800 pounds of giant powder, which exploded, hurling buildings, timber and flro m every direction, and totaHy destroying the business portion of tbe town. Loss overSMVWO; insurance, one-third. A number of people were knocked down and barfly stunned. Only one person was fatally injured. The people of Garfield, rays a dispatch from that ptaco, are in a sad pttgh. Not only are tbe majority homeless, but they are without food or ewlbes for tbe whiter. The Executive committee of the Northwestern Dairyman's association has decided to bold the annual convention and fair at Manfcato, Mian., from Feb. & to 8 next. Miller has been convicted of the murder of Dr. Glenn, f California, and the penalty of life Imprisonment fixed. Frank Jaraea, the Missouri outlaw, kss been released on bail.

Nine Cherokee Indians have sub

scribed fiB0,OW for tbe organization of national Irak.

Bobber t invaded the County treas

ury at Virginia, Nev, abstracted $8,000, and then looked the Treasurer in the vault. 4s

Sl,eoe of the funds purloined was in silver,

some suspicion, le aroused.

A fight for $1,000 aside took place at

CaktweU, Mabo, between XcFadden and Hart

mat, the latter being knocked iascMtbie in

the fourteenth, round.

Tbe cheap newspaper tidal wave,

which started In the New York Times office, a few weeks ago, has reached Detroit In its

westward march. The Pott and Tr&tote and

Ives Press have announced a reduction of

price from 19 per year to $7, and from 5

cents per single copy tot.

Catahoula parishes. La., sweeping away several plantation structures, and injuring many persons. Wind wrecked James E. Clay's tobacco warehouse in Bourbon county, Ky., and four negroes were killed. The first bale of cotton ever picked by machinery. Is on exhibition at Charleston, 8. C. It is declared equal to the baud-pickoil staple. In a fight between negro thieves and a posse of three iaw-and-order citizens, near Toonuboru, Ga., three of the former and ono of toe latter were slain.

Hob. Armiatead Burt, one of the oldest and ablest lawyers in South Carolina, died suddenly in his office at Abbeville. Ho

was a member of Con jrera from 1S43 to 1838.

Unknown assassins fired a volley of

bullets through a circus tent at New Edln bars', Arkv, killing a contortionist in the ring.

A fire at Savannah, Ga., which had

Its origin in the large cotton warehouse of

Qarnett, Stubbs 6 Co., destroyed the ware

house, containing 3,000 bales of cotton, and L 800 houses, covering- an area of a half mile

square, causing a Ices of at least five ii vo

and probably eight or ten. The lots is placed at nearly 91,000,000, and the insurance at not

half that amount.

WASHINGTON.

The President has issued the follow

tag Thanksgiving proclamation:

In furtherance of the custom of this people at

the dose of each year to engage upon a day set apart for that pmuosa, in special festival ot

praise to tbe Giver of all Good, I, Chester A,

Arthur, President ot the United States, do here

by designate Thursday, the 39th day of November next, at a day of national thanksgiving.

The year which is drawing te an end has been replete with evidences of divine goodness. The

prevalence of health, tbe fullness of harvests

the stability of peace and order, the growth of fraternal feeling, the spread of intelligence and

learning, the continued enjoyment of civil and

toBglous liberty all these, and countless other

, are cause for reverent rejoicm. I do

therefore recommend that on the day above named the people rest from their accustomed labors, and, mulling in their several rbces of worship, express their devout gratitude to God that Be has dealt so bounHfuuy with this nation.

and pray that His grace and favor abide with

it forever. Gheht&b a. Arthur.

Postmaster General Gresham, says a

Washington dispatch, is urged upon all sides to recommend in his annual report radical changes in the law renting to rates of post

age upon transient newspapers and mail mat

ter of tbe third does generally. The sender

of a transient newspaper of ordinary size, to

insure its transmission through tbe mails,

is cautioned to carry the samoto the postoffice

and have it weighed, or else prepay postage

enough to place his newspaper beyond

any risk of dropping into the postofflee wastebasket. The revenue derive! from the sales of these confiscated newspapers is considerable in the course ot a year. Transient newspapers, as a rule, an sent for some specific

purpose, and to those concerned it is almost

as Important that they should reach their destination as should a letter," but neither the

sender nor the person addressed is notified il

.here is any lack of postage. It is urged that the weight limit of newspapers to be cent for the ordinary rate of postage should be ex-

tendei, or some provision adopted for notify

ing the sender of- a newspaper or the person

to whom it is addressed.

The receipts of the Postoffico depart

ment for the fiscal year were Si5,508,tKK, and

tbe surplus revenue was $,OT1,93.

The report of the-Superintendent oi

toe Money-order Bureau of tiro Postoffioc department for the fiscal year ended June 30

shows that tbe total number of money-orders of all kinds issued was 0,373,882, aggregating in value $1:53,047,238. The total number paid was 8, 751,077, aggregating In valuo $120,407,468.T he amount of fees received was $1,272,060. Tbe Increased value of domestic orders issued over those of tbe preceding year was $3,955,960, or 3 49-108 per cent- The increased fees received were 54,111, or 4 07-100 per cent. The ratio of Improper payments to the total number of orders paid was as 1 to

273,471.

Jxi his Annual report to tbe Post-

Grueral, tbe Superintendent of the.,

Ballway Mall Service gives the number of routes now In operation as 903, covering 109,-

827 miles of railroad. An increase of S368,000 in tbe appropriation is asked for.

The Utah commission, in its second

annual report, argues that the influence of polygamists is destroyed by the law disfranchising them. Ten suits have been instituted

by Mormons against the members of the

commission for being- deprived of the right to register and vote.

The War Department has issued a

special order appointing a court or inquiry to investigate the cause of the failure of the

Qreely relief expedition.

POXJTICAX

Mifflin 15. Bell, of Des Moines, Iowa,

has been appointed Supervising Architect of tbe Treasury at Washington.

In a quarrel at Sending, Pa., about

local politics. Congressman Ermentrout was knocked down' in the street and beaten by George Smith, a Democratic leader.

Mrs. David Moses, nee Blanche Gray, the fat girl, who weighed 517 pounds, died Suddenly hi Baltimore. She was married a few weeks ago hi Sew York, and was IT years old. Maj. Burke, Director General of the World's exposition at New Orleans, offers a premium of $1,080 for the best plan for a building to embrace 1,008,000 square feet and

An mianeceesf ul attempt was made, at Baltimore, to resurrect the corpse of Mrs. Moses, tbe fat woman. lathe Banks county (Ga.) Ku-klux eases eight of tbe accozed were found guilty. Judge McCoy's charge to the jury severely enudsinnsd outrages upon negroes. Tbe eonvicted persons, who belonged to leading famines, broke down when the verdict was rendered, which ereated a sensation, as acquittal was expected The tog dio exploded her liosler in Mobile bay, killing the Captata, mate, cook,

, and painfully wounding the en.

AtyckM fmmi w Tessa sod

aracEUL&jrcoTjs. It is announced from Washington

that "Judge Freeman, Attorney General for the Posioffice department, has prepared on order of importance to newspaper publishers. It will require them to number the pages ol their supplements In regular order with the pages of the regular Issue."

Little Plume, son of a Blackfeef

chief. Tan a ten-mile race at Winnipeg for $409 a side, with George Irvine, the cham

pion runner of Canada. The rod man won by five yards, but fell fainting-.

The business failures for the week

ending Oct. 27 numbered 200, exceeding the previous week's record by twenty-nine, aud being seventy-two more than in the corres

ponding period in 1882. Dun's report ftu the

failures was less by twenty-nine than during

week is very encouraging. With all the lack ofeonfldence in business circles, it think? that there is much money being mado and very little talk about it. Clans Sprockets is said to have purchased the entire sugar crop of the Hawaiian islands. The Canadian Government guarantees 3 per cent, on Canadian Pacific railroad stock for tea years. Holmes and Bracken, the alleged dynamiters, wero committed for trial at Halifax, ball being refused. Thomas Walls & Sons, commission merchants at Toronto, Ontario, have railed for $80,009. Eighty fine horses from the late national show in New York have been sold nl auction at ae average price of $300 each. In a dispute at Hamilton, Ontario, about the proper manner of entering goods, J. F. Bazclton, tbe United Ptatcs consul, wat knocked down with a chair by a wool merchant named H. F. Long.

association bis Inability to meet liabilities 01

nearly $3,rM),000.

Dynamite was exploded in tko offiei

of the Ohiofof Police at Frankfort-on-ibc-

Main, damaging the building. None of tlu

officials wore injured.

The steamer Holyhead collided oS

the English coast with the ship Alhainbra and both sank, fifteen men of thoir crews be

ing drowned.

The Egyptian army, under Hiok

Pasha, defeated tlio False Prophet's forces Ii two sanguinary buttles, ar.d now ooctip.v E

ObeW. Communication between Khartoum

and tho Egyptian army Is severed.

A report is current in Paris that Dt

Braza, tho explorer, was killed in the ("ons

country in a light with n band of nogroca

thus adding another to tho ion? list of vie

tlms of tlio mysterious dangers of tbe "Dark

Continent."

Tho Prince of Wales, in closing iht

International Fisheries exhibition at 1-onilon. announced that the sub-inullul surplus

would bo devoted to improving- the comlitioi:

of tho fishermen. He expressed the hope

that hygienic and Inventara- exposition

would bo hold soon, and said he proposed U

have a colonial exhibition in 188(1.

Regarding tho London explosions,

details show that tho number injured is full

as large as first reported. It has also l-een determined that nitro-t-'lj-ceriiio entered

largely into the composition of the explosive: used. Tho Irish In London are greatly ex

cited, and are free to confess that tho crime was planned by encmios of the- National movement. O'Danovan Rcesa elaltns the explosions wort caused by Fenians, of whofo movements ho i aware. All tho banks, public buildiugs ami prisons at .Glasgow uro carefully guarded

against explosions. Tho explosive used at

frnnkfort-on-tho-Maiu was nitro-glycorino, which had boon placed in crrht small glass

shells, perforated with holes.

FOREIGN.

The London Liberal organs call on Sari Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to prosecute Lord Mossmocb for having published a letter threatening that if tbe Govern

ment did not suppress Land League meetings tn Ulster the Orangemen would begin shoot log tbe Nationalists. Tho Times and the

Tory organs, however, encourage Lord Moss-

s extreme utterances.

The Government prohibited all Na

tional league meetings In Ireland last Sunday. At Castle Lyon, County Cork, tho police and soldiers dispersed the procession with fixed bayonets, but, afler the departure

of the soldiery, s meeting was held.

The German Admiralty have ordered

another 1 00 fish torpedoes to be delivered before next spring.

Morris Banger, the cotton king of

Xuxope, announced, to the Liverpool Cotton

1AITRKEWS ITEMS. In the case of Zora Burn 8, at Lia

coin. III., tho jury rendered tbe following verdict: "In the matter of tho Inquisition on tho body of Missouri Burns, deceased, held

at Lincoln, 111., from Oct. II to Nov". 1, we, the undersigned Jurors, sworn to inquiro oi the death of Missouri llurns, on oath do find that she came to her death by means of a wound In the throat produced by some sharp instrument In the hands of some per

son or persons to the Jury unknown." The Illinois and Michigan canal com'

mission met in Chicago and reorganized by

electing John O. Do re President, Addresses

were delivered by Senator Cullom, Mayor

Harrison, Congressmen Springer and Hondor-

ton, John C. Doro, William Ilross, C C Hon-

ney, and several others. .It was resolved that the Government ought to conduct a waterway from tho lakes to the Mississippi in the interest of cheaper transportation for the

products of the Northwest.

After a determined fight, United

States Marshal H. S. Foster and a posse oi detectives captured nine counterfeiters at

SteinviUe, Pike county, Ind., and took them

to Indianapolis. In the conflict ono of the criminals was' shot in the lung, another through the hand, and a bullet passed through the hat of a third.

The Government of Canada has ac

cepted a loan of $15,000,000 at 4 per cent, from the Paciflo railway syndicate, and will

guarantee a 3 per cent, dividend for ten years on tbe stock of the road.

The schooner Sophia Minch, valued

st $34,000", went aground near the cast pier at Cleveland, and was scuttled. The schooner Arab was beached at St. Joseph, Mich. The steamer City of Toronto was burned at Port Colborne, and the steamer Oneida was

wrecked on a rook In the St Lawrence.

France does not intend to provoke

hostilities with China, but will not renew negotiations; its forces are firmly planted in Tonquln. It is thought. In tho meantime, that England will make endeavors to avert a

war.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin was an

nounced to speak in the City hall at Londondetry, but a crowd of Orangemen took possession of it and declared they would hold it An immense procession of Nationalists escorted the Lord Mayor past tho building, when tbe Orangeman tliow stones from the

roof and windows and wounded a man and a boy. A mob then stoned the City hall, and the militia wore called out Tho Mayor of Londondery issued a proclamation appealing

to the people to keep tho peace.

At Narraganset Park, Providence, B.

I., the trotter H. II. Winshlp made a mile with a running mate In tho remarkable time of S:10K.

The creditors of P. Shaw & Broth

ers, of Boston, unanimously rejected an offer of 833 per cent in compromise, and instruct a committee to proceed by olvil or

criminal suits to Bocuro 50 per cent

The receipts and expenditures of the

Government for tho past few months indicate a reduction of the surplus revenue bv

only $34,000,0000 per annum, despite the reductions made by tho last Congress; but the

income is lessoned at tho rate of Sfl0,(!00,000

per year, about equally divided between customs and internal revenue.

Nellie C. Bailoy, a pretty girl of 17

years, is in Jail at Wichita, Kai.. charged

with the heinous oriino or murder. S'.io mot ' at St Louis a rich Englishman named Bothel-

ny, and arranged to go to Texas with hiui and start a sheep rano'.u While passing through tho Indian Territory she murdered

Bothclmy, burned tho body, took pos session of

his effects about $100,000 in money, bonds. Jewels and other prore.-ty, and Ccd fouth whore she was arrested.

Pike's Peak lias lieen surveyed for a

narrow-guago railway from Mauitou to the

summit, thirty miles, and work is to bo com

menced at once. The maximum grada is tc be 300 feet to tho mile.

THE INDIANS.

The Annual Report of Commissioner

Price.

Progress of the Movement for Educating

the Bed Han,

TEE MAEKET.

NEW YORK.

HKEVEB 4.65 S 6.1S

5.00 8.80

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4.75 9 6.(10

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mi Ai .65 .01

Fiona supornnc Wheat No, 1 White No. 1 Rod

CORN No. 1 Oats-No. 3 I'oiik-Mcss Laud

C,C Kilt

Beeves Good to Fancy Hurrs.. CM & 7.00

1 omuion 10 f air 4.4U a.a ttnililllll Ln li'ttip K Mil li (HI

Hons 4.25 e s.a

STOun Fancy White Winter Kx. 6.2S W 0.50

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Corn No. s. Oats-No. ill u -No. IIAK1.EV- No. 1 lltriTEii- Choice Creamery KiK - Fresh

'OHK-M033

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Wheat No. 3 Cons - No. 2.

Oats--No.

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Wheat No. 2 Bed Cobs OatsNo. a UETJ101T. Floub... Wheat No. 1 Wlilto Con No. a Oath Mixed

I'OliK Mens 12.38 !5UW

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AVi& .27 Hi .64i4 .a !t

J.2ii 10.111

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11.26 (W1I.50

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Following is a synopsis of tho annual report

of Indian Commissioner Price:

A decided nd ranee has lien made in the

march or Improvements anion? tho Indian trlbos, particularly In the matterof industrial school education. Sonic tribes have been Reminded to send their children fo school that heretofore resisted all efforts to induce them

to do so. uno question may now bo eon-

t iiloml settled beyond controversy, and that

13 tne Indian must tie taught to work for bis

own support and to speak tho English

lanqrmige, or give piaco to a noonlc who do.

Among the things needed to secure success and elliolency in solving the Indinn pioblem

arc: 1. An apprpprfat'on to survoy the boundaries of 1ml an roforvations. si both the In

dians and thowhito men may know whero thoy havo right J and where they have non-. 2. A law for the punishment of persons who

turn's;! arms or ammunition to tne Indians. No such law now exists. 3. More liberal appropriations for Indinn police. 4. An appropriation sulHcIcnt to defray the expenses of detecting and prosecuting tlio persons who furnish intoxicating liquor to Indians. No ardent spirits should be introduced into tho Indian country undor any pretense whatever, nor their sale permitted within twenty miles of an Indian reservation; but, under existing laws on tho subject, it U a notorious fact that ale, beer, and preparations of alcoholic stimulants disguised as medicinos, are sold at tho military posts to soldiers and civilians, and, although the posttraders are not permitted to sell it directly to Indians, yot it is an easy matter for tho Indians to obtain it from tho soldiers and civilians to whom it is furnished. The punishments imposed by law for this offense should be made more severe. Tho practice of approving contraoU to. collect from tho Government money duo the Indians is one that ought not to exist It has for years boon iho practice to approve contracts by which outside parties havo taken from the Indians hundreds of thousands of

dollars for services which ought not. to cost

the Indians ono cent. During tho last four

years agreements have been entered into between Indians and different attorneys by wblch these attorneys wero to receive from tho Indians Si53,.'l for collecting from the Government money said to bo due tho Indlnns. '

It is the duty of tho Government to see that

the wards of tho nation receive what is iustly

due them frco of coat, and equally tho duty

01 tno government) to 03 that no unjust, claim is paid.

txmirress sroum comer notn civil and

criminal jurisdkt'on on tho several States

and Territories over all tho Indian reservations within their respective limits, and make the r-orsnn and property of tho Indian amenable to the laws of the Stato or Territory in which he may reside, excent in cases whore

such property is expressly exempted by treaty or act of Congress, and give him all the rights in tho courts enjoyed by other persons.

Tho recommendations for legislation for

tho protection of timber on Indian lands aro renewed. During tho year there was paid in cash, as annuity and otherwise, $745,000. Isa than 8200,000 of this amount was for the payment of annuities proper, many of which will expire in tho near future by limitation in tho various treaties.

The increase In accommodations for Indian

pupils wbich the school appropriations for the last fiscal year mado possible" has been fol

lowed by a corresponding Increase of attend

ance or pupns. txciusiro or tne nve civilized tribes the number enrolled at the boardingschools during the year just closed is 3,143, an increase of 854 over last year. The attendance on tho day-schools has been 5,014, an increase of 748 over the preceding year. Of

the 5, 143 boarding pupils, 4,886 attended schools

on tno reservations or in their immediate vicinity. Boarding and day schools on tho reservations have made a creditable record. Eight now boarding-schools have been opened, making the wholo number now in operation.

exclusive of training-schools, scventy-even.

xno cany attention or congress is mvttea

to the deplorable condition of the Indians in Montana, that steps toward assisting thorn may bo taken as soon as possible.

u no report concludes with tne recital of the

agreement signed in Washington July last between Chief Moses and the Secretary of the Interior which will, the Commissioner says, if ratified by Congress, restore to the publio

domain 2,243,040 acres of land in Washington

Territory upon terms favorable to tho Government and for the best interests of the

Indians.

GOSSIP FOB THE LADIES.

Foannotte and tbe Clgurot, Dig brother's OiKaret, Valdcn whiffs, "Nice, you hot!" Bndden change, Pslo grows pot Ncth apron Flirts doth get. Dinner don't Haply set On stomach Of Jeaunotts. Fair sinner Mounoth yet. Such stckno'S Ne'er had met, Poctor comes, Fixes pet - With morphineSly old vet. Next mornlnr?. Says Jeaimotto: "Ilad enough Cigaret."

A NEW CHIEF.

Close of Gen. Sherman's Event

ful Career as Commander of the. Army.

The

Power Transferred to Gen. P. H Sheridan.

Gen, William T. Sherman retired from act

ive command of tbe army on tho 1st day of November, and tho power was transferred to Gen. P. H. Sheridan. Gon. Sherman goes to his home at St. Louis, whore he will lire in re

tirement. Gen. William. Tecumseh Sherman

was born at. Lancaster, Ohio, Fob. 8, 1820. He

graduated at the Military academy at West

Point in 1840, served in the Florida War, in the war with Moxlco, andol e whore untilltSt, when he resigned his commission. During the next four years he was a banker in San

Francisco: and lor tne succocdiUK two years

a lawyer at Leavenworth, Kan. In 1B59 he was appointed Superintendent of tho Louisiana Military academy, but resigned in Jan-

nary, 1MH, wnon tno state seeeenea rrom tue Union. When the Civil war commenced he was commissioned as Colonel of a roglmentof infantry, and commanded a brigade of volunteers at the battle of Bull Kun, and was mado

Brigadier General of Volunteers. In Octo

ber, 1803, he succeeded Gen. Grant as commander of the army Department of the Tennessee. His enreer f inoe that time is too fa

miliar to the publio to re itiiro repetition hero. The eorrosponiionoc incident to the retirement

of tho old warrior, is as follows:

HHEltMAN TO LINCOLN.

The Hon. Itob rtT. Lincoln, 'Secretary of Wr. Wu: By the a to! Congress, approved July 15, 1882, all army officers arc retired on reaching the age of Si years. If livinir I will attain that age the Sth of February, IHSI.but, as that pcriol of the year is not suited to the chances necessary on mv retirement, I havo lona conteniplat-

en anticipating tue event oy some monms to enable the President to make these ihanpes at a more convenient xeason of the year, and alio to enable my suc-.-osior tn lie in orlUc Ixtforj tho asscmlillng of tho next Concrcss. I ..therefore rcq'-est auiliority to turn over the command cf lh array to Lieut. Gen. She rldan tho lt ot November, Mat, and that I be ordered to my homo at St. Louis, there to await tho dato of my legal retirement. And innsmnch as I will have for a long time much correspondence about tho war and official matkra, I also aslt the favor to have with me for a time my two personal Aidoi-do-Camp, Cols. John K. Tourtclotto. and John SI. Macon. The others of ray personal staff vii: Col. M. Poo nnrij. C. Tidball hove already been assigned to appropr ate duties in their own branches ot the military service. All fhould retain their rank and pay as Aidos-dc-Camp until Feb. a, lsst. Hy or buforo the 1st of Nov inner I can complete all the otfrlal reports, aud I believe I ran surrender the army to my successor In good shape nnd condition, woll provided in all respects, and di-tributed for tho bert interests of thee untry. I am gratffnl Unit my physical and mental strength remain unimpaired by years, and am thankful for the liberal provision mado by Congress lor my declining years, which will enable me to respond promptly to any call tbe President may make for my m(littry services or judgment so long as I live I have the honor to be your obedient servant. WnxiAM T. Shebmas, General. LINCOLN TO HI1KHMAN. Gen. W. T. Sherman, Washington, 1. C. GENEnAL: I have submitted to the President yonr letter of the 8th Inst,, rcitwting that yon be relieved of the command of the army tli" 1st of November next, as lieingamors convenient time for making the ebonites In the military commands wlii -h must follow s our retirement fiom iiefivo service titan would be the date oi yonr retirement under tho law. In Kicnlfylug bit approval of yonr rsquoat, tho President directs me to express to you his earnest liojie that there may bo given you yet many years of health and happiness in which to 0 ijoy the eratitndo ef yonr follow-oltbsens, well-earned by vonr most diHtinuulshed puilio forvteeo. It will give me pleasure to comply with your wishes rospoiliiig yonr Aldts-do-Cninp, and tho necessary orders will bo duly issued. I have the hnncr to bo, Goncral, yonr most obedient servant, JtoiiuiT T. Lincoln. Secretary of War, LITTLE OSES.

Cassius M. Clav Is in favor ot Hoadly for President, Tiiiutv oil wells in Pennsylvania have recently run dry. A ma'n in a Favanna (Go.,) church, put a handful of peaches in tlio contribution box. An English girl, who Joined the Salvation army, s'ole tlio money which she paid for her uniform. Tai.maoe says there will bo no need of rubles in Heaven, but says ono may bo chained to the throne Tire Philadelphia llcttetor of Wills statos that more people uro mulling Ihoir wills this year than over before. Iimi C.ii.Ettnir.E's mtnio liai been attached to a new ttyio of c-ollnr, to a lnshionablo hat, and to a brand of cigarettes. flRrtATVItBoTljB", Ot ..utbX'Brnlina, i SSt

What Geraldlne Sold. "Doos Goraldine over say anything about mo?" asked an ontliiMiastic Brooklyn lorer of Ms sweetheart's brother. "Yes, indeed," answered tho little man; "she says you aro so vory kind to bring her so many caramels.'' "Anything else V "She says that album you gave her on her birthday must have cost $5." "She is good at guessing. It cost $25, Johnny. But does Geraldino ever say anything about, you know, about

what she sho thinks of mo ?"

"Oh, yes, sometimes. Sho said at

the breiius-table this morning that she thought your ears would make good

jraciit-saiis, and tnat wueu sno got you ihe would rent your feet to a contractor

as pile-drivers. "

Unfortunately for Ueralrtines little

commercial projoct, he used his feet to sarry him away, and tho lost heard of him was in New York, whero he was

looking for rooms for a single gentle

man. a em rorie nona.

Women in the. Water. Fragile woman, so often considered

as a mere plaything for man, has more than once both astonished man and

humiliated him by her exploits of endurance in the water. It is the fact, however, that -woman oau float more

aasuy m the water than a man can, be

cause she has the advantage over him in having smaller bones in proportion to her total weight than a man has, and has also a larger proportionate

amount in her body of adipose matter,

wiuoh is Jiguter in water, tlian man

has; but, nevertheless, for a fragile vessel, she has performed feats on the frisky wave more marvelous even than those accomnlished bv her male rival.

and has done them far more gracefully, for ii is an undeniable foot- that, though women cannot walk as gracefully as men, she excels him in her grace of movement iu tho water, and becomes in its embrace, as fair a nvmoh. indeed.

as ever floated in the mythic waters of

Ureek mytnoiogy.

Wicker Work-Bask ts. Wicker work-baskets are prettily

trimmed by weaving in the openings inch-wide satin ribbon of a cardinal color. A row of this should be threaded around the bent-over rim by putting the end of the ribbon through one opening, over one, and pull it through

the third to the under side again, spreading out the ribbon on the upper

side tho fall width in tho center; weave the ribbon in this way all around the

edge, and join the ends on top with a little bow. On tho opposite side of the basket fasten a little s mare cushion,

for pins and looso .needles, with a

piece of ribbon placsd diagonally around it and tied in a bow to the basket edge. Unless the bottom of the basket is very firm and close, fit a pasteboard exactly to it, and cover neatly with tilosia of the same shade as the ribbon used. Inexpensive little baskets for holding thimble, thread and scissors can be mode veiy ornamental in this way Ladies' Floral Cabinet. Bvasons tor Marrying. An intelligent lady of Newark, N. J., writes to tho Sunday Call of that city, giving what she deems good reasons for her sex to marry. We make the following extract: "It. does seem that many of the younger women of tho present genera tion are not enough determined in matters pertaining to matrimony, or I should say, in such things as may terminate in matrimony. The girl of the present generation does not seem to be far-sighted enough to look for qualifications of afliiiaction nnd affection, but sho rather looks more to the bread and butter side of the question. This a good point, but it is not always the best and most trustworthy. Now, for instance, here is a young lady of average ability, age and looks, etc., who is not exactly suited "with her present company, to whom she is perhaps engaged, for tbe reason that he is not making money fast enough to suit her ideas. She has also become almost frantic over another man who, she thinks, is making his $40 per week, and she is trying her best to catch him. She will let the first mentioned (if she can catoh the second) go. Now, if the prospects of the first do not suit her, but the young man is in every respect beside one to be proud of, I do not think that such a girl is doing a wise act for various reasons. One important reason ii, times may change the financial circumstances of both meu, as it often does, and is almost the twinkling of an eye, and then the tables are reversed upon her for a punishment. I know several young men who keep steady company with young ladies of a marriageable age, and all along have pretended to be poor in order to try their will and affection. It is not taking the young lady to this place of amusement or to that seaside resort and lavishing upon her your cheap smiles and presents that makes the impression upon a woman's genuine feeling. It is something greater. It is manliness. This tho young lady should seek after. Manliness means truthfulness, honesty, integrity, soberness, diligence and selfrespect. A man -with these and no money is worth more than "forty without them, though posessing half a million. But how many young ladies ever think what light they put themselves in before the men when they accept good-natured invitations to the theater or to Ocean Grove or Coney Island? And the whole time really thoy don't care 1 cent for the man.

Women Who tio Armed. "A man who is posted in this rapid age of ours," said a prominent member of the New York detective ii apartment, "knows that women have undergone a radical change iu their system of life." "What do you mean?" "Simply that women are rooro selfreliant thau they were in tho days of our grandmothers. The woman's rights movement has mado thorn so. When a woman is insulted now, in nine cases out of ten, sho defends herself, and, if tho follow doesn't look out, he is apt to get a hole blown through him." Is it common for women to carry pistols?" "You may think I am exaggerating, but there are more women who go armed than men. Hundreds of cases come to the notice of the police department where women got away with roughs and chase burglars out of their houses that tho peoplo never hear of. Now, if a man hears anything in the house at night, he throws up the win

dow and yells for the police, but a woman, if sho's a game one, slips her hand under the pillow and fetches out a ' pop.' If the intruder is smart, he makes tracks, for a woman with a pistol is the gamest thing on earth." "What kind of pistols do thoy carry ?" "AH kinds; but the nickle-plated Smith & Wesson is the most popular among them. A woman never fires her weapon at short range. She rushes close to tho person she wants to shoot aud thrusts tho barrel right into his clothes. She never takes a chance of missing her aim. In every case brought to the notice Of the department where a man has been shot by a woman the clothing of the victim has been burned. You'd hardly think it, but every ether woman who walks Broadway and Fifth avenue, even in the most fashionable thoroughfares, has a pistol concealed about her." "Where does she carry it?" "In the bosom of her dress, invariably. This gives her a decided advantage over a man, for sho can whip out her weapon before he can divine her motive." "Do actresses carry revolvers ?" "Many of them do.' Clara Morris is proficient in the use of the pistol, and is said to have one always within reach. Ada Dyas is also a first-rate shot, and even had occasion to employ her skill in Madison park. She had been pursued for a considerable distancoby several roughs. The hour was late and no policeman was in sight. Having warned the fellows in vain to' cease their persecution, she drew her revolver and sent a bullet close enough to the head of the foremost to make his hair rise. The cowards took to thoir heels, and Miss Dyas has never been troubled since. Suppose you have heard of Mary Anderson's adventure, eh?" "No." "The last time she was in Leavenworth, Kan., she was pestered by the attentions of a lot of military omcers stationed at the fort. These fellows have been in the habit for years of visiting the theater, going behind the scenes in squads and making violent overtures to the women in the cast oi the piece. They lead idle lives, draw big pay from the Government, and, as they spend ail their money in Leavenworth, they practically rim the town. When Miss Anderson was out that way last year she was besieged between the acts. At first she treated the bold soldiers with dignified contempt, but, when one of them attempted to poke his nose into her dressing-room, she picked xvp her revolver, loaded with blank cartridges, and b'.azed away. Tho result was the ignominious ilight of the United States army, and the peaceful performance of the remainder of the play." "How do you keep advised of these motters?" "It is the business of tho department to know all about peoplo in publio as well as private life, and the easiest people on earth to keep track of aro actresses. There is Modjeska, for example. She nover appeared in public, even on the stage, without being heavily armed, and at night she slept with a brace of pistols under her pillow. It would never occur to a woman like that to look under the bed before retiring. She jumps in, pulls tho cover over her head and takes her chances. Patti is also a terror with the revolver, and it is said that she is always around when Micolini gets in trouble. I've heard it said that Clara Louise Kellogg practices every night by shooting at cats. I'm told that it would take a live bond of Indians to capture her. The Light nintr-Kou Days. "Hello, " says a business man as he came down the avenue, to a melancholy looking chap that had seen better days, "you look a little off color. What you up to now?" "Oh, a little of everything," said the hard-looking citizen. "Just been the rounds of the fairs selling soap to erase grease. Money enough in it, when you con get - a bar' of common soap for 5 cents and cut it up into fifty pieces, and sell them for 10 cents, with a little tin foil on, but the Grangers are all on to the scheme, thanks to the dum newspapers, and a man can't make a decent living." "Why, three years ago you were selling lightning-rods, and flying high," said tho merchant. "You had a diamond pin, and champagne was not good enough for vou. Well, time changes all things." "There's where you are right," said the hard-looking "citizen. "And the newspapers are to blame for it all. I have seen the time I could make $50 a day putting up lightning-rods. Ilrive up to a house and talk with a man about rodding his barn, at so mr.eh a foot, and ho would figure that it would cost, sny, $16, and he would sign an order. Before the ink was cold, I would have seven or eight men with ladders, all over that barn. .They would go over it like cats on a back fence, and put points on every corner, and conductors down every side. The farmer and his family would look on iu amazement, aud be so pleased at tho improved look of the old barn that they would not kick at the number of points. Then we would go off without collecting the bill, and in about a week our collector would come along with a bill' for $387.45, and the farmer's -note, all signed, and demand the pay. The farmer might faint away, but ho had to ; pay it. Oh, of course, if he ssemed hurt, we would throw off the odd cents, just to show a Christian spirit But the condemned newspapers have kept talking about highway robbery undor the disguise of lightning-rod peddlers, till it is as much as a man's life is worth to go through the country on a light-ning-rod wagon. Peefc'a Hun. English In Norway. In the board schools of Norway, in addition to tho three li's, tho elements of physiology and of physical science are taught, as is also one or more oi tho modern languages. Of these oi late years English has become tho favorite. It is tho language most oom monly taught in the p simary schools. It has the foremost place on tho modern side of the socondnry, or grammar, schools, which are planted in all the considerable towns, and which are often tho recipients of large private endowments. Sir Charks Dilke, in hif "Greater Britain," predicts that a few oonturies hence English will lie th universal language. Perhaps this vat iciuation is over-bold; but a modest prophet may at least suggest, as a high probability, that in the year 2001 Norway will have become bi lingual, and that English will bo as commonly spoken there as in Wales or in the Highlands. Education, it appears, from what has boon said above, is well attended to in the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. Even into its most mounto:iious and sparsely peopled regions the sMioolma-iter pouotrates. In those regions ho itinerates, teaching in rotation for a week or two at a time during the winter and spring at each of several farms or hamlots. I do not suppose that English is taught by those, itinerant instructors of youth; but a little English is picked up by their ex-pupils (turned post-boys) from tourists, a little more by ghillies, or their Norwogian analogues, from sportsmen who have fcpout long summers in their company ; move still by farmers returned from lengthened sojourns in the American backwoods or prairies. Thus English speech is slowly but surely milking its way oven into the remoter corners of Norway. Vor. Glasgow Standard,

WHERE NATURE SMILES.

Beauty and Grandeur of the Yellowstone

Scenery.

Near the banks of the Yellowstone is a remarkable group of sulphur and

mud springs. On the brow 01 a hillock, amid the arreon pines, vapor rises from

cho scorching jets of several craters and fissures. Passing over this hill we come to a remarkable cavern whence flows a transparent stream. The roof

of the cavern tapers back to the Water, which is. boiling furiously twenty feet from the mouth Of a cavern, ejected through it in uniform jets of great foree. The sides and entrance are covered with soft green sediment. Two hundred yards from this cave is. whit is called the Muddy geyser, On the Mud volcano. It is a funnel-shaped orifice, in the midst of a basin 150 feet in diameter, with sloping sides of clay and sand. The crater or orifice at the surface is thirty by fifty feet in diameter. It tapers quite uniformly to the depth of thirty feet, where tho water may be seen when the geyser is in repose, presenting a surface of six or seven feet in breadth. The flow of this geyser occurs every six hours; the water rises gradually and commences to boil when about half-way to the surface, and occasionally breaks forth in great violence. When the crater is filled it is expelled from it in a splashing, scattered mass, ten or fifteen feet in thickness, to the height of forty feet. The water is of a

dark red color, depositing the substance it holds in solution in the form of mini

ature stalagmites upon the sides and

top of the crater. Half a mile distant dull thundering sounds are heard from the mud volcano as often as every five minutes. Each report shakes the ground for 200 yards or more, and the massive jets of vapor accompany them

burst forth like the smoke of burning

gunpowder. Another wonder meets tbe eye on the other side of the river, where in the middle of the Upper Geyser basin is the grandest geyser of the

world. Around it are other craters of

boiling springs, throwing water to the height of three and four feet, but this grand geyser on the summit of a bank of rook is a well in the strata twenty by twenty-five feet in diameter measurement, when quiet it has a depth of 100 feet. The edge of this basin is bound

ed by a heavy fringe of rock, and

stalagmites in solid layers are deposited by the overflowing waters.

wlien an eruption is about to occur

the basins gradually fill with boiling water to within a few feet of the sur

face; then suddenly, with heavy conconcussions, shaking the ground in every direction, immense clouds of steam rise to the height of 500 feet, and

tne wnoie great body of water, twenty by twenty-five feet, ascends iu one gigantic column to the height of ninety

feet, while the steam ascends 1,000 feet or more. From the apex of this column five great jets shoot up, radiating slightly from each other, to the unparallei attitude of 250 feet from the ground, and seem to be held at that great height for the space of twenty minutes. The earth trembles under the descending deluge; a thousand hissing sounds are heard in the air, and rainbows encircle the summits of the jets with a halo of celestial glory. The falling water flows up and bears away the shelly ty strata, and a seething flood pours down the slope and into the river. Three times in one afternoon has this grand geyser played for twenty minutes, then lowering its waters into the crater out of sight, the stream gradually ceasing to escape, till all is quiet. The sunlight glowing on this tall, waving fountain, with its sparkling jets of deep blue waters rising high in the air, is a spectable no pen can describe.' It is the "grandest, most majestic, 'most terrible fountain in the world." Another geyser, not quite so remarkable, but more curious, perhaps, is called "Tho Fan." From a double orifice discharge five radiating jets to the height of sixty feet. The spray and the falling drops look like a feather fan. Its eruptions sometimes last thirty minutes. "First the steam rushes from the upper crater, roaring violently; then suddenly ceasing, a fan-like jet of water rises from the lower crater to the height of over forty ieet, playing for two minutes; then, suddenly stopping, the steam rushes forth agam;Veoassionally the sinai 1 crater sonds forth a transverse stream, thus playing into the others for hours, then subsiding in a gentle bubbling." While this geyser is in action you hear loud, sharp reports. Along the river banks craters in every shape are seen, and. all around are small geysers playing at intervals. Two hundred yards from the fan are two small geysers called the Sentinel, one always playing, its waters revolving horizontally without violence. Nature and Man. Unconscious nature takes no heed of human suffering. Her forces are without feeling and sympaihy. They inflict pain aud death on sentient creatures, such as man and tho lower animals, without compunction or remorse, but of course without malicious intent. The philosopher John Stuart Mill has weakly arraigned nature for her unfeelingness. But, on the whole, the utter indifference and apathy of nature to man and human events constitute her greatest charm to one who has done with what are called final causes. If nature waa in constant sympathy with man, where would lie her delightful repose and the tranquility of her forest solitudes, which ore so soothing and medicinal to jaded nerves ? As it is, a great nation may lie torn and rent by civil war, and its citizens engaged in mutual slaughter, and yet, outside of the immo diate arenas of conflict, the peace, repose and regular movements of the natural world are entirely undisturbed. The brook biokers down its lonely glen as usual; the river winds quietly through luxurious meadows atfd past solitary hamlots, villages and cities in gleaming rings and meanders; the mornmg lights up tho earth with its wonted purifying rays, and the rel pomp of sunset bates not one iota of its' customary splendor; vegetation thrives and the total aspoct of earth and sky exhibits not n tokon of the leant recognition of, or sympathy with, human calamity and suffering, no matter how general and heartrending it may bo. There oro what are called seasons of drought, during which tho sky will not relent at the prayers of the husbandman. There aro two sides to nature, a good side and a bad side. When t'te optimist says that this is tho host of all possible- worlds, wo find things that make his roso-hued t'n.ory somewhat questionable; but, on ihe other hand, we take no stock in the pessimist's counter doctrine, namely, ihxt this is tho worst of all possible worlds. It is nil the world "that wo know about-, and, when wo aro well and prosperous, we find it very much to our tast.. That is tho sum oi tho wholo matter. Boston Ueralti.

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An Exploded Theory. "Hi say, Mr. Pomgranate," observed a colored Austin expressman, who was the unfortunate owner of a balky muio which some ono had unloaded upon liitn in the melancholy past, "didn't I heah yo' say a good many times dat dere was reason in all thing.?" "Yes, Sam," replied Mr. Pomgranate, "I believe that precept, and have newr been afraid to say no." "Yer wussen't?" "No." "Well, den, I jess wisht yo'd come out in de alley an' look at my mulo. He's dun been stuck dar tor nib' an hour." Texas Mf'tinge.

Cork. Cork is vinMiul K l.A wwfr jiaIfl

Quercus liber, which chiefly ftouriahs H

on tne snores of the MeditarTSnesii. ' There aro in Spain and Algarilarge forests of this tree, which h altfted in the departments of Xotet4airof)iM and Var, in the South of France and

in tjorsica. The cork oak arrives, at

growth in rtbout 100

UU, liUllWliV A. 3 MM. I HI m MTHMWjjl or seventy feet, with a disanetav

to eurht feet. . The bark

distinct portions, tbninnet

ouruoa tissue, wie ,ou

01 a porous ana elastic oorisssceney..,. constitutes the cork proper. The first

cork naturally produced by the tree iff called the male, and has scarcely any valuo; but if this be removed, a seopnd layer is formed, finer, mmveSSeviSSIlm less irregular, which is known as the female cork; and this it is whichagBrT

erauy need, xae stripping 01 sue

takes place in summer, wrier ine, . .. . . - -. -. . j

lation ot tne sap lacmiaiee me tion of the outer from the inne

of bark. The removal of the

growth, is effected when theji

10 20 to 25 years old. Bevi

nnlar incisions, and- one J incision, ara marie with a 'liaiertd!

being taken to cut the cork on,Twth'1JiW

out touching the inner berk; the-isyWMi-of cork is then easily deteehed. t,-i'fc-4'. young oak yields about ten ponads jofv. -cork at the first stopping, while it , " capable, ultimately, of yielding J; 300 pounds. The first cork has f&Mkf'K and hard interior, which difaniishea 1 ;p.

witn eacii successive growtn, .jHtrtqfts:

ly, after the first stripptns tne

was left to itself, without any

tion. lsomg very tenaer, K-was iiapi to be kQled by exposure tovBrisnsf of temper ature "while numerous insects, attacking the tender surface of ti the tree, reduced the value of t . ;.t future cork. Beside, a thick tad.ttr. ' regular crust formed, whiejh ft was nie-'' essary to remove, thus canstifg 'ii'loea''of 30 per cent, of cork. - - , -4 The detached pieces I of cotiv ih tened by being piled with the' utsidfj';

ternal surface bv boiline and

The boiling of the cork, which

about half an hour, is effected in

cubical boilers fired with refuse

and closed by a cover which

upon the pieces. The paring is ' 1 1 i 1 ,.

vy uuuu, ur uy menus yi uuiuwwi:; . rnllAM nrwif!vl with irfin blienVliinV ' '

this last-named onerniion mav be 'irfikf

"pensed with when the practice of wratrv, -

u., tug urc wiw unj ueirvww jmwwwv of bark is adopted. '

The principal use ef the ..iter -MrSi

is to make bottle corks. xney .ar, -siv more frequently cut by hand, thgngljj , sometimes bv a machine, ahortzonar i .

knife giving a rotary motion ' to thai

piece of cork, and thus cutting intoca.-" -'

cylindrical form. Cork is abet Used . for making life .buoys, swimming belts, , Jft floats, non-conducting lining?,, etc. 1V" V. is moreover usediulvantageo'.ralym tiisV. form of powder, for packing fragile, objects, as a substitute for lycopodinm jf. powder, and for the manufacture, ofj ( linoleum and cork-leather. . ,Cork is, however, on account of its elastieity, . reduced to powder with great difficulty, ' f To effect this, mills with grinders 4a! ,

the shape of rasps, mill-stones revolv--'

ing in a pan, and artificial stones-revolving at great speed are .employed. . .

The Parson and the Bell. Many years ago there was in the east- ' ' era part of Massachusetts a worthy old D.D., and, although he was an emineaV- Kr.. ly beloved jnan and a good Christian, ijc.., yet it must bo confessed thai he loved t a joke much better than oven the most inveterate jokers. It was be'ore church organs were much in use, it so hapyv,-t. pened that tbe choir of this church put 1 11 chased a double bass vioL Not fatf,' -. from the church -was a large town: ' pasture, and in it a large town bull. ' ? One hot Sabbath, in the summer, he - 3 , got out of the pasture and came bellow- t ing up the street About the . ohnrcb.- ;; there was plenty of untrodden grass.' j green and good, and Mr. Bull stopped ' " to try its quality, perhaps to 'ascertain''- ' if its location had improved its flavor; S' at any rate, the reverend doctor wasis) ;,,, the midst of his sermon, when : j "Boo-woo-woo, " went the bull. ' . J The doctor paused, looked up at -the V.T singing seats, and, with a grave pmtV t said: - ' 1: 1 tF - "I would thank tho musicans npt.to,,

tuno tneir instruments uur.ng seryir t time ; it annoys me very much- - ' " The people stared, and the minister- "fwent on. ; " "JBoo-woo-woo," went tho bull again, f as he passed to another green spot. . The parson paused again, .and v : dressed the choir: ' . y ' ' '

"I really wish the singer would not ; -tone their instruments while I- ant JH'l . preaching ; as I remarked before, it an-f ij noys me very much." , . -.sku( The people tittered, for they knetrv, ta what the real state of the case way ? " The minister went on again with lsfe'i , discourse, but he had not proeeeded-iar before another "Bco-woo-woq -eailt A 4 , from Mr. BulL Mstf. t The parson paasvd onae mete anew exclaimed: "I havo twice already requested Hfs r musicians in the gallery not to tune ;

tneir instruments aunag w " .. v . , 1 L "i ?

time, i now parncumriy louim t., Lafevor that he will not tune his doutdft hu. vinl whili I am T! reach irlz"

This was too much. IWrtvsr.gottujxy too much agitated at the &sght.of '

speaking out m church, and- atammere . , out: "" , 0, "It isn't me, parson ; it's fihat darned i3-. bull!" 2oah'n Archive. . An Indian Folk Story. ; A man wanted a wife, so be looked-; -about for one to please him. but could

not find one among all the girls 'lav knew. One dav be met one eaUet tne

Beaver. She had lovely teeth; this he noticed when she laughed; so he made j up his mind to marry her. Hewenl to'',JS' her father and asked him for Est daughter, and was told to marry her if ho liked, but that if he did be would have a lot of trouble; and the father re- X fused to part with her unlet theaulto! . promised to make a bridge across evenjr ; stream he cams to for her to pawjlijp-' .. footed. This the suit irromMed'idi ' do. He married the girl and lived Try comfortably with her ft tw yeMT.V X wu n he wvnt, at usual, owl-hnnting,. ." ,

leaving bis wife to make a new camp, . As usnaL he made bridges evef all tee

creeks he came to. At last he came to p a dry one. Over this fee made no . bridge, but walked on for about a mtte, where he hung up h's bag to show ... where he wished the o imp to be made.' a ;; He then went on and made his snareii. 4,-1, It ra ned while he was doing so, and'fcfj;" i returned early expectan t to find ! camp. Going back to look for his wife u he come to the creek which had been dry in the mornin-r, but it waa fu lot wir' ' ter ; and what astonished him more was ' t. that a largo beaver house was built thai , he had not noticed before.- He then determined to break it, but while Jba was trying to break in he heard, his j wife's voice inside telling liim to . go away, for his neglect to put a W ' CT had changed her into a bevycr. NHe ' ' tried manv times to take the house, but alwars failed. His forge fulness leos t him h's wife and two children. f . .w 4

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the whites in Manitoba S,-kJ u.a in am Tvwiav it reaches ISrt?' .-

000, and is increasing daily. Men are never so rediouloua list .the qualities they have as for those ttury.

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