Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Bulgarian insurrection is continually increasing in proportions, and Turkey charges Russia with secretly fomenting these uprisings. The Sultan, ou the advice of the rench and Italian Governments, offers some cessions of territory to Greece, but the latr continues her preparations for war, but will robably continue to insist on the fulfillment of e treaty of Berlin. The London Times, in its financial umn, remarks that the total working apital of the cotton mills at Oldham, operated on the limited liability system, is £4,000,000. Of this sum but little more than £1,000,000 has returned any interest for a year, and considerably over half the capital is borrow ed. Afflictions oven more terrible than that from which a portion of tlio .South lias lately suffered arc devastating the empire of Morocco. Cholera, malignant fevers, and small-pox arc raging in the interior as well as on the seaboard, and famine adds its horrors to those of pestilence. The country is cut off from outside assistance by tlio quarantine enforced against shipping from its ports, and for tlio same reason definite information as to the extent of the calamity is not easily obtained. Garuier-Pages, French statesman and historian, is dead; aged 15. A portion of the celebrated Maynooth College building, near Dublin, lias been destroyed by lire. A dispatch from Berlin says. Itussia, replying to the Porte’s overtures, lihh declared her readiness to reopen negotiations for a definitive treaty. A lady of the Rothschild family has applied for baptism iuto the Catholic Church. Mho is betrothed to a French Duke, aud probably renounces the faith of her fathers to remove family obstacles in the way of the union. Turkey has ordered the immediate evacuation of Varna. The Government of India is about to adopt r. gold currency. Jo in Stewart, one of the Directors of tlio City of Glasgow Bank, has been released on 815,000 bail. The international pedestrian tournament at London was won by Corkcy. Ennis, of Chicago, was fifth, while Weston, tlio other American representative, was nowhere in the race. The Oldham (Eng) cotton operatives unanimously resolved to resist the proposed reduction of 10 per cent, wages. Twenty thousand hands and 8,000,000 spindles will bo affected by this action.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kfiwt. The mysterious robbery of the Manhattan Savings Institution has produced an immense sensation in Eastern banking circles. A nioro extraordinary burglary has seldom been committed. It was skillfully planned and executed, and at every stop tlio robbers were favored by circumstances. There is no cxlanatiou of liow seven men, carrying three large bags of tools, could enter the building unobserved at 6 o’clock in tlio morning, and the janitor says ho is certain nobody was secreted in tho building over night, as he made his usual investigation. It is probable, however, that the burglars -entered the janitor’s part of tho building before daybreak, and went* for him immediately upon tho night watchman’s departure. They disposed of the milkman by tolling him that tho janitor had gone into tho country. The greatest wonder of all iH how the burglars could havo departed at half-past ‘.I with tho bags of booty without being seen. The Merchants’ anil Mechanics’ State Bank, of Troy, N. Y., lias closed its doors. Two men were precipitated ilowii a coal mine near l’ottstown, Pa., a few days ago. They fell a distance of 850 feet. Three of thorn were killed, and the fourth fatally, injured. W est. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee has just held its twelfth annual reunion at Indianapolis. Owing to bad weather tho attendance was meager, only about 100 members being present. An international commercial convention will meet in Chicago on Tuesday, tho 12tli of November. Tlio object of tlio convention is to consider means to extend tho growing trade of the Northwest with foreign countries in North and South America. The President of the United States and Governors of all the States have beep invited to attend. Many distinguished people will doubtless bo present. Joseph A. Hemann & Co., bankers of Cincinnati, Ohio, have failod. Liabilities variously estimated at from 8175,000 to #250,000. The “Dcadwood coach” has been again robbed. This time tho driver was halted by masked men, whose purposo was, not tho plunder of tho passengers and mails, but tho informal execution of justice upon two “roadagents ” who wore being transported from Cheyenne to Deiulwood in tho custody of lawofficers. The only thing tho coach w-as robbed of was tl .is precious pair of villains, who were taken out and hanged to a cottonwood tree on tho river bank, and the stage went on its way in peace.

South. Residents of Memphis returning to the city are making discoveries the reverse of pleasant Many of them realize that their private residences have been broken into, and robbed of every portable article that could be carried off, in somo cases the marble mantels having been taken down and removed. A New Orleans telegram says that s'.*o,ooo, the surplus of the Howard Association, will Ik; distributed among the sixty physicians employed, each receiving $1,500. The pestilence in the South, which has raged since tlio beginning of July last, and which has caused more than 12,000* deaths, is now virtually over. In New Orleans, although a certain number of deaths is daily set down to its account, the epidemic has been officially declared at an end, and in Memphis and Mobile Jack Frost has given the fever its coup de prat e. From the inland points the reports are favorable. WASHINGTON NOTES. The House Committee on Appropriations will meet on the 15th of November, and commence tho preparation of the general appropriation bills. It is stated in a Washington dispatch that “ the report that our authorities intend to make strong objection to the settlement reached on the fishery award is confirmed. It is claimed that our fishermen have been forcibly deprived of rights which they possessed under the treaty, and the settlement made does not take any of these things into account.” A ttoriiey General Devens telegraphs as follows to the District Attorney of South Carolina: “I want no trafficking orguaran-

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tees, but a judicial investigation of outrages alleged to have been committed upon an unoffending people in the exercise of their righto as citizens of the United States.” This telegram was sent in reply to propositions made on behalf of parties in that State who are charged with violating tho law regulating the exercise of the elective franchise. Much local excitement exists in Washington over the failure of the German-Ameri-can National Bank and the German-American Savings Bank and Safe-Deposit Company. The two institutions were carried on together, and the officers of each were practically the samo. The President of both was the Swiss Vice Consul at Washington. The President has issued the following proclamation, setting apart Thursday, Nov. 2H, as a day of thanksgiving: By the President of the United States—a proclamation: . The recurrence of that season at which it is the habit of our people to make a devout and public cot session of their constant dependence upon divine favor for all good gifts of life and happiness, aud of public peace and prosperity, exhibits, in the record of the year, abundant reason for our gratitude and thanksgiving. Exuberant harvests, productive mines, and amjile crops of the staples of trade and manufactures have enriched the country. The resources thus furbished to our reviving industry ail commerce are hastening the day when discords and distresses through the length and breadth of the land will, under the continued favor ol Providence, have given way to confidence and energy and assured prosperity. Peace with all nations has remained unbroken, domestic tranquility has prevailed, and the institutions of liberty and justice which the wisdom and virtue of our fathers established remain the glory and defense of their children. 2he general prevalence of the blessings of health Throughout our wide land has made more conspicuous tho sufferings and sorrows which the dark shadow of pestilence has cast upon a portion of bur people. This heavy affliction, even, the Divine Killer has tempered to the suffering communities by the universal sympathy and succor which have flowed to their relief, and the whole nation may rejoice in the unity of spirit in our X eojile by which they cheerfully share others' burdens. Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Bayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 28th day of November next, as a day of national thanksgiving and x>rayer; and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, the x>eoi>lo of the United States do meet together on that day in their respective places of worsliii). there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies, and to dc\outiy beseech their continuance. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington on this 80th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and third. It. B. llayes. By the President: Wm. M. Evarts, Secretary of State. Superintendent Vail, of tlie Railway Mail Service, has resigned.

NATIONAL FINANCE. THE PUBLIC DEBT. The public-debt statement for Nov. 1 is as follows: Six xjer cent, bonds $ 693,306,050 I-’ive per cent, bonds 708,20(1.050 Four and a half per cent, bonds 260.000,000 Four i>cr cent, bonds 100,500.000 Total coin bonds #1,807,103,000 Lawful money debt 11,000,000 Matured debt 15,020,870 Legal tenders $ 840.743,081 Certificates of deposit 35.8-10,000 Fractional currency 10,211.103 Coin and silver certificates 35,516,350 Total without interest $ 434,310,024 Total debt #2,270,500,505 Total interest. 28,910,001 Cash in treasury—coin $ 227,000,227 Cash in treasury—currency 1,711,240 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 10,000,000 Special deposits held for redumption of certificates of deposit 35,840,000 Total in treasury # 275,217,473 Debt less cash in the treasury... .#2.024.200,083 Decrease during October 1,708,402 Decrease since June 30. 1878 11.580,748 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad' Companies, interest payable ill lawful money: Principal outstanding.. 04,023,612 Interest accrued aud not yet paid 1.202,470 Interest paid by the United States.... 30,835,039 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 10,410,104 Balance of interest paid by the United States 20,418,035 COMPARATIVE DEBT STATEMENT. Following is the comparative condition of tlio treasury Nov. 1,1877, and Nov. 1, 1878: Balances. 1877. 1878. Currency $15,950,032 $1,711,240 Sxiecial fund for the redemption of fractional currency 0,444,560 10,000,000 Special deposit of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of deposit 37,020,000 35,840.000 Coin 131,022.843 227,666,227 Coin aud silver certificates 33,543,200 85,516,350 Coin less coin and silver certificates 97,479,043 192,140,877 Outstanding called bonds 26,200,000 14,285,600 Other outstanding coin liabilities 4,864,414 4,653,084 Outstanding legal tenders : 354,400,802 346,681,016 Outstanding fractional currency 18,352,574 16,211,793 Outstanding silver coin 30,661,850 30,675,361 Total debt less cash in treasury 2,047,350,700 2,024,200,083 Reduction of debt for October 4,236,554 1,708,402 Reduction of debt since July 1 12,807.522 11,586,748 Market value of gold.. 102.75 100.25 Imports twelve months ending Sept. 30 468,273,250 433,530,682 Exports twelve months ending Sept. 80 608,318,505 728,256,047 COINAGE. Following is a statement of the coinage at tlio mints during October: Double eagles $3,464,600 Eagles 737,800 Quarter eagles 346.300 Standard silver dollars 2.070,000 Cents (>,700 Total coinage $0,625,400 * REVENUE RECEIPTS. Internal-revenue receipts for the month of October, 1877, $10,107,360, and for October, 1878, $10,030,704. There has been a gain on the amount received during tho year compared with 1877, tho total amount received for 1877 to Oct. 31 being $38,772,833, aud to Oct 31, 1878, $39,275,456.

POLITICAL POINTS. Official vote of lowa for Secretary of State, at the October election: Hull, Republican, 134,503; Farnsworth, Democrat and Greenbacker, 125,114 Hull's majority, 9,380. To an interviewer Postmaster General Key expressed the opinion that the Republicans of the Pacific coast are in favor of nominating Gen. Grant for President in 1880, and that “ if nominated he will certainly be elected. ” Senator Sharon, of Nevada, denies tho report that he contemplated resigning.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Intelligence received in Washington from military officers on the Rio Grande represents affairs on the border as more peaceable. The assertion is made that there is a larger number of incursions into Mexico by the Indians than by Mexicans into Texas. The letter of Secretary Evarts to Minister Welsh on the Newfoundland fishery squabble has been given to the public, and

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from its tone it looks as if the administration had about decided not to pay the money appropriated at the last session of Congress to pay the Halifax award when it falls due, namely, the 23d of November. The letter is dated Sept 28, aud is in reply to a dispatch from Lord Salisbury, inclosing a report of one Capt Sullivan on the Fortune bay outrage. It will be remembered that in January last the inhabitants of a Newfoundland village seized and destroyed the nets of some American fishermen, putting an end to their business for the season and doing them great pecuniary damage. Secretary Evarts remonstrated, and Capt. Sullivan, sent by the British Government to investigate the matter, reported that the Americans were fishing on Sunday in violation of a local statute, and that consequently they have no ground for complaint in the destruction of their property. Mr. Evarto now replies that the views of Lord Salisbury, who indorses Sullivan’s report, are wholly inadmissible. Setting aside the question whether a statute could give justification to an act of mob violence, the Secretary declares that local legislation of this sort might annul the provisions of the treaty, which could not be permitted. He claims that the fishery rights are wholly free from the restraints of local statutes. He asks a frank avowal or disavowal by the British Government of the paramount authority of provincial legislation, prefacing that no arrangement involving such authority has ever been consented t by the Government, nor even would have been. Mr. Evarts plainly hints that nothing will be done by our Government towards paying the Halifax fishery award until this question of the Newfoundland outrage is settled, and there is a chance for a first-class diplomatic row, with its attendant excitements, unless the British Government is willing to recede at once from its position. A Washington dispatch states that a test of the validity of tho Pacific Railroad Funding law passed at the last session of Congress is soon to be had. The refusal of tho Central Pacific to submit its books for inspection constitutes a violation of the law subjecting the company to a fine of from SI,OOO to $5,000, and proceedings will be at once instituted by ihe Government Auditor of Railroad Accounts. The following letter in regard to the condition of tho treasury for specie resumption has been addressed by the Secretary of the Treasury to Leroy H. Dodd, of Buchanan, Mich.: Sin—l am in receipt of your letter of the 20th inst., making certain inquiries as to the condition of the treasury for resumption, and the amount of papor circulation per capita in this country and the principal countries of Europe. Iu reply 1 have to inform you that on the Ist inst. the coin balance of the treasury was $252,650,640. The entire amount, however, was not available for resumption purposes, but subject to liabilities, as follows: Interest due and unpaid 0,345,289 Debt on which interest has ceased 12,524,090 Interest thereon 373,685 Coin certificates, gold 32,820,000 Coin certificates, silver . 1,848,070 Unclaimed interest 9,547 Unmatured bonds called for resumption 41,500.000

Total.. $ 98.421.781 Leaving for resumption xmrposes 134,231.805 The coin receipts into the treasury will xirobably exceed by a considerable amount the coin payments between now and Jan. 1, 1870. so that at least the above balance will then be available for resumption purposes. It should also he borne in mind that meanwhile there is no probability of the entire coin liabilities being presented for payment. As to the paper circulation of European countries this department has no information except what can be obtained from publications open to all. The London Economist of Sept. 14, IS7B, the latest at hand, states the amount of the paper circulation of the banks of England, less the amount retained in the banking department of the Bank of England, to be £43,000,971 sterling; the circulation of the Bank of France, which alone in France has authority to issue notes, to be on Sept. 5 £94,710,000, and that of the Imperial Bank of Germany, on Sept. 7, £30,415,000. It is understood that some country banks of Germany have authority, under certain restrictions, to issue notes, but, as the amount issued is not stated iu financial publications, it is believed to be inconsiderable. Reducing those amounts to the currency of this country, the per caxiita of circulation appears to be as follows:

Population, Countries. Circulation. Latest Es- Per timate. Capita. France $460,907,000 36,005,788 $12.48 United Kingdom.. 213,965.006 33,474,000 6.39 Germany 148.015,000 42,727.360 3.40 United States 688,507,275 47,000,000 1 4.05 It will be seen that the aggregate as well as the l>er-eai)ita amount of paper circulation is larger in this country than iu any of the other countries named, aud largely in excess of any except that of France. In that country, however, the circulation has been reduced to the amount above stated since November, 1873, from $602,000,000, a reduction ofj $141,003,000, while in the same period the metallic reserve of the banlc lias increased from $146,000.0001 to $435,000,000. Very respectfully, John Sherman, Secretary. It begins to look as though diphtheria was the enemy most to he dreaded during the coming winter. The disease has broken out in various portions of the country, and is extremely fatal. Along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, near Parkersburg, it is raging worse than ever known.

Bismarck’s Peril.

Prince Bismarck has been followed by shoals of threatening letters to Varzin, Kissingen, Gastein, and the Wilhelm Strasse. Whithersoever his steps have been bent, in quest of health, these productions have dogged him with regularity. Nor are the Chancellor’s nerves what they formerly were. Since Kullmann attempted his life at Kissingen his old scorn of risk and his indifference to menace have diminished. When in Berlip he confines himself almost absolutely to his house and garden, which are carefully watched, at all times, by policemen in plain clothes; if compelled by his official duties to visit the palace he drives thither and back in a close carriage, with the windows up, sitting well back, so as to be invisible to passers, by. Yarzin is as carefully guarded and as difficult to penetrate as Mecca itself; and at Lauenburg his park has just been surrounded with a high wall, shutting it completely in from the public ken.

The Term Porte.

The term “ Porte,” which is used to denote the administrative government of the Ottoman empire, and includes the Sultan, the Grand Vizier and the great Council of State, had its origin in this way: In the famous institutes established by the famous warrior, Mohammed 11., the Turkish body politic was described by the metaphor of a stately tent, whose domes rested upon four pillars. The Viziers formed the first pillar, the Judges the second, the Treasurers the third, and the Secretaries the fourth. The chief seat of government was figuratively named the Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent, in allusion to the practice of earlier times, when the Ottoman rulers sat at the tent door to administer justice. The Italian translation of this name was La Porte Sublima. This phrase was modified in English to the Sublime Porte, and finally the adjective has been dropped, leaving it simply the Porte.

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AMERICAN EXPORTS.

Where They Go—Some Interesting Facts. [Washington Cor. Cleveland Leader.] The immense increase of American exports within the last three years, changing the balance of trade from $116,000,000 against us to $271,000,000 in our favor, has been widely published and commented upon, and people are asking of what do these exports consist. It w'ould require a reproduction of the entire report of the Bureau of Statistics to answer this question in detail, but a general glance at the articles of commerce will satisfy the curiosity of all bu the statisticians. In the first place, within the last two or three years, since the troubles in Europe commenced, the exports of firearms and ammunition have been enormous. Turkey alone purchased $27,000,000 worth of guns and cartridges. Large amounts were sold to Russia also, and other European nations purchased in smaller quantities. American petroleum is sent to every civilized nation. American car wheels, cars and locomotives are found on almost every railroad in tlie world. American hardware goes to Denmark, Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Africa and Australia, the West Indies, Brazil and the Pacific islands. Our nails are used in every civilized country and have the largest shipments of any single article of manufactured iron. Glassware is sent from the United States to all the countries named above in large quantities, and the shipments are rapidly increasing. American cutlery is being sold in competition with the famous English and French manufactures, and holds its own. Pumps are sent from the United States to South America, the Pacific islands and the West Indies. Coal goes to the British possessions, the West Indies and the Sandwich islands. American paint is used in South America, the islands of tlie Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Mexico, and a market is being opened for it in Europe. Our clock and watch-makers are stealing the markets that have heretofore sold only Swiss and English goods, and have become known everywhere in the world. But tlie largest shipments are of agricultural implements, sewing-machines, scales, plated ware, and saws. From tlie port of New York alone more than sl,500,000 worth of sewing-machines were shipped last year, and during the first six months of this year $806,741 worth of them xvere shipped. During the first six months of this year there were sliipjjed from New York $961,027 worth of reapers, $137,107 worth of plated ware, SIIO,OOO Avortli of scales. The increase in tlie shipments of plated ware in two years lias been 143 per cent.; of reapers, 50 per cent., and of scales 57 per cent. The increase in the exports of other articles has been in tlie same proportion. The shipments of beef, cheese, butter, preserved meats, hops and cotton goods have all increased over 50 per cent, within two years; and boots anil shoes, leather goods, iron impler ments, and other articles of American manufacture have increased in the same ratio.

The Santa Cruz Insurrection.

A letter from St. Thomas to a Neiv York paper gives some additional particulars of tlie recent uprising of the negroes on the Island of Santa Cruz : “On tlie outskirts of the town on every hand are seen blackened walls and ruins of Avliat were once spacious residences. On every side, too, Avere patches of green cane too wet to burn, although the negroes did everything in their power to destroy it, even throwing kerosene over it. The brutality of the negroes Avas horrible. On the second night the mob arrived at Grove Place estate, and found about nineteen of the estate laborers. The latter attempted to save some things, and refused to join the rioters. They were then shut up in an inclosure used for storing megass, upon which kerosene oil was poured and the Avliole set on fire. Three or four escaped, and now lie horribly maimed in the hospital. The charred bones of the remainder are silent Avitnesses of the truth of the story. This act of cruelty toward their own people shows what little chance there Avas for any who opposed them after their passions had been fully aroused. The whole business portion of the town of West End is a mass of rains. The people have lost all they possessed, and men and Avomen, heretofore in good circumstances, are now clad in motley and misfitting garments. There are still a great variety of reasons regarding the causes of the outbreak. Good reasons for dissatisfaction on the part of the negroes existed, and yet none which Avere of sufficient importance to excite them to the fearful outrages which Avere perpetrated, and, so the affair seems a mystery. I think truth lies in the fact that no such outbreak as occurred was premeditated. The laborers had come into West End seeking new contracts, or intending to leave the island. Becoming excited while discussing their wrongs among themselves, many of them drinking liquor, they first attacked the police, whence the negroes obtained an exaggerated idea of their power, and so went on from step to step, until a regular insurrection resulted. Fifty-one estates Avere destroyed, besides large numbers of pri\’ate buildings and residences.”

The Devens Decision.

In regard to the recent opinion of Attorney General Devens as to the method of computing the taxable capital of national banks, United States Treasurer Gilfillan says: “ National banks will hereafter be required, in making up their capital stock subject to taxation, to deduct, not the face value nor the market value, but the price paid for United States bonds owned by them, less interest accrued to date of purchase, and, for the purpose of verification, will be required to spe cify said bonds by loans and dates of purchase, in making returns thereof to this office. No application, made in consequence of the opinion in question, for the refunding of any tax upon bank capital heretofore assessed and collected will be entertained by this office.”

He Felt Better.

A middle-aged man, whose coat had seen other if not better days, rushed breathlessly into Miley’s saloon, the other day, and said: “Woman over at postoffice—just got letter—husband dead—fainted away—gim me—glassful

best brandy—quick! ” The wholehearted bar-tender passed it out, and the man, taking a few steps from the bar, drank it off at a gulp. “Ah! ” he .says, “I feel better now —stronger — braver. I never could bear to see human misery.” “You’ll feel it if you don’t travel suddenly,” says the bartender. He went out piously rubbing his vest at the lower button, saying: “I feel stronger, braver now.”

Natural History.

This is a dog. Do you see the dog? He looks as natural as life. The dog is called, by some, man’s most faithful servant. One or two instances have been known where a dog frightened away a thief or bit an agent. They have also been known to bark at the moon and thus prevent it falling and dashing the earth to pieces. If it wasn’t for dogs we shouldn’t know what to do with our old oyster cans. You can now ask any questions yon desire. “ How large is a dog? ” “ Well, that depends. If he’s running away from you he looks about the size of a gallon jug, but if he’s coming at you he looks as large as a yearling calf.” “ Do dogs guard the house ? ” “Yes; particularly the kitchen door. Nothing hurts a dog’s feelings so much as to have his master think he’s waiting for bones, instead of being there on guard.” “ Can a dog take a hint ? ” “ Yes. As soon as one sees a farmer coming across the fields with a gun he knows that killing sheep is over for that morning, and away he goes.” “ Are dogs very strong? ” “ You’d think they could pull a sawlog to judge by the amount of howling they will do between dusk and daybreak, but tlie minute a boy wants a ride on his sled the family dog is troubled Avith heart disease and general weakness.” “ Can dogs find their Avay home from long distances ? ” “ It’s according to the dog. If it’s one you Avant to get rid of he can find his Avay home from California. If it’s a good one he’s apt to get lost if he goes round the corner.” “ Can dogs see in the dark ? ” “ Some appear to, but instances are not rare where dogs, commanded to rush out and devour tlie fellow hooking wood, have rushed under the bed by mistake—and stayed there. That’s all about dogs.”— Detroit Free Press.

Miss Abbott at the White House.

It is well known that Mrs. Hayes is especially friendly to artists, and always extends to them an invitation to call on her while staying in Washington. In response to her kind invitation Miss Emma Abbott informally A’isited her Sunday evening. On leaving her carriage at the White House Miss Abbott met Gen. Sherman and. his daughter, and the General said, “ Why, Miss Abbott, is that you? What a fortunate thing it is that I came this evening,” and he gallantly escorted the lady to the red parlor. President and Mrs. Hayes, Gen. and Mrs. Hastings and Chief Justice Waite were introduced, and later in the evening Attorney General Devens and Representative McKinley called, and a most delightful evening was enjoyed. As Mrs. Hayes had expressed a wish for Miss Abbott to sing some hymns, a pianist came in about 9 o’clock, and Miss Abbott sang the hymn, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” especially prepared for her, Avith such pathos and power that it dreAv tears from her listeners. The President, anxious that his little daughter should hear Miss Abbott, had her waked up, and the nurse came doAvn to the parlor Avitli her Avhile Miss Abbott was singing. It was a great surprise to Miss Abbott to meet Chief Justice Waite, aa-lio heard her sing nine years ago, in Toledo, alter the eventful journey on AA'hicli she sold her dress to get money to reach that city. Miss Abbott related the incidents of that journey, her hunger, cold, cheerlessness, her desperation, and the temptation to commit suicide, so touchingly that it will not soon be forgotten. —Washington Star.

Edison’s Illness.

Thomas A. Edison is seriously ill at his residence at Menlo Park. He will have thousands of wishes for his recovery ; and if he lHes it ought to suggest to him Avliat his friends have long seen, that his career Avill be as brief as it is brilliant unless he condescends to take better care of his health. During the last ten years Edison’s life has been like a military campaign, and he has been as exposed as a soldier. The laAvs of health are inexorable, and.the human body Avill not be trifled Avith. If a man neglects to take regular meals, and eats whatever is put before him wherever and whenever he can catch it; if he subjects himself to extreme alternation (u of heat and cold, and, above all, if Tie turns night into day, and refuses to go to bed till sunrise for tlie frivolous reason that he “has got an idea,” he will have to pay for his imprudence in neuralgia, brain diseases, fevers and early death. Edison’s engine runs at too high pressure, and apparently without any safety-valve. He must go slower if he wishes to enjoy any of the fruits of his marvelous ingenuity.—New York Graphic.

A Spirited Wedding Scene.

A wedding at Constantina, Algeria, recently, was enlivened by the following incident: “ A man named Petral was recently married to a young woman of Alsatian origin. Just when the marriage party were sitting down at table, the bride left the room for a moment, and, meeting one of the guests, shook hands with him. Petral, seeing this, and actuated by an inexplicable feeling of jealousy, rushed upon the guest, and struck him a heavy blow with a stick on the head. The young woman, terribly frightened, sought refuge in an adjoining room, whither she was followed by her husband in a state of fury, who there stabbed her with a knife in the breast no less than six times, and then, availing himself of the general terror of all the persons who had witnessed the horrible scene, ran down into the stables below and blew out his brains with a pistol.”

An Accident.

A brainless young noodle stopped a gruff old merchant on the street yesterday, and said, “I have a thought.” “Have you?” said the merchant; “11l go right off and hunt up a reporter, and tell him about the accident.” And, as the old man started off, the young fellow was so amazed that he couldn’t think of what he thought.— Keokuk Constitution.

EDISON.

Something: About His Boyhood. At 12 he began the world—as trainboy on the Grand Trunk railroad, of Canada and Central Michigan. To one who has noticed the precocious selfpossession, the flippant conversational powers and the sharp financial dealings of the young persons who for the most part abound in it, it does not seem a profession for the cultivation of a spirit of quiet research, or the most thorough acquirement of the sciences and arts. But it is fair to presume that Master Ed-, ison at this time had no very comprehensive scheme of development prepared. It offered the most available means of a livelihood. He went into it Avith such a Avill that in course of time he became an employer of labor, having four assistants under him for the disposal of his wares. He is not averse to recur to the humors of this part of liis life. “Were you one of the kind of trainboys,” he has been asked, “avlio sell figs in boxes Avith bottoms half ail inch thick ?” “If I recollect right,” he replied, with a merry tAvinkle, “the bottoms of my boxes were a good inch.” There exists a daguerreotype of the train-boy of this epoch. It shows the future celebrity as a chubby-faced fellow in a glazed cap apd muffler, Avitli papers under liis arm. The face has an expansive smile—not to put too fine a point upon it, a grin. Yet there is something honest and a little deprecating in it, instead of impudence. He Avas, as Avill be shown, an eccentricity among train-boys, and was, no doubt, sensible of it. He looks like a felloAv whose glazed cap a brakeman Avould touzle over his eyes in passing, Avhile thinking a good deal of him, all the same. His peculiarity consisted in having established in turn, in the disused smoking-section of a springless old bag-gage-car which served him as headquarters for his papers, fruits and vegetable iA'ory—tAvo industries little known to train-boys in general. He surrounded himself Avith a quantity of bottles and some retort stands —made in the railroad shops in exchange for papers—procured a copy of “Fresenius’ Qualitative Analysis,” and, while the car bumped rudely along, conducted the experiments of a chemist. By hanging about the office of the Detroit Free Press, in some spare hours, he had acquired an idea of printing. At a favorable opportunity he purchased from tlie office 300 pounds of old type, and to the laboratory a printing office was added. It seems to have been by a peculiar, good-natured, lianging-arounil process of his gavu, with his eyes extremely Avide op< i' and sure of Avliat they Avanted to sue, that his practical information on so many useful subjects was obtained. He learned something of mechanics and the practical mastery of a locomotive in the railroad shops, and acquired an idea of the powers of electricity from telegraph operators. With his printing office he published a paper—the Grand Trunk Herald. It Avas a Aveekly 12x16 inches, and Avas noticed by the London Times, to which a copy had been slioAvn by some traveler, as the only journal in the world printed on a railway train. The impressions Avere taken by the most primitive of all means, that of pressing the sheets upon the type with the hands, and were on but one side of the paper. Baggage-men and brakemen contributed the literary contents. In 1862, during the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, the enterprising manager conceived tlie idea of telegraphing on tlie head-lines of his exciting news and having them pasted on bulletin boards at the small country stations. The result was a profitable venture, and the first awakening of interest on liis part in the art of telegraphing, in which he was destined to play such a remarkable part. During t? is time lie continued bis reading Avith unabated industry. His train carried him into Detroit, where there Avere advantages he had never enjoyed before. An indication of his thirst for knowledge, of a naive ignoring of enormous difficulties, and of tlie completeness Avith which the shaping of his career was in his own hands, is found in a project formed by him to read through the whole public library. There was no one to tell him that all of human knowledge may be found in a certain moderate number of volumes, nor to point out to him approximately what they are. Each book Avas in his vieAV a distinct part of the great domain, and he meant to lose none of it. He began Avith the solid treatises on a dusty lower shelf and actually read, in the accomplishment of liis heroic purpose, fifteen feet in a line. He omitted no book and skipped nothing in the book. The list contained, among others, Newton’s “Principia,” Ure’s scientific dictionaries, and Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy.” —W. H. Bishop, in Scribner for November.

A Tennessee Tragedy.

A terrible tragedy was enacted in front of the residence of John T. Gleaves, at Mount Joliet, Wilson county, last night, resulting in the death of Constable Warpool and John Cloyd, the former white, the latter colored. During a difficulty in the morning about packing cotton, Cloyd shot and wounded Winfield McWhorter. In the evening McWhorter’s friends procured a warrant for the arrest of Cloyd, and Constable Frank Warpool was deputized by a magistrate to arrest him. Warpool summoned John Osborn, Dr. Raymer and James McWhorter to help arrest him. They started in pursuit of Cloyd, and, arriving at the house of John Williamson, colored, found -Williamson armed with two pistols and a gun. They arrested him and started toward Green Hill, thinking they would find Cloyd there. When in front of the residence of Gleaves they met Cloyd, whom Warpool endeavored to take into custody. Cloyd resisted and shot Warpool, piercing his forehead, killing him instantly. Warpool fell dead immediately. Dr. Raymer was seriously shot through the arm and thigh by two men who escaped.— Nashville ( Tenn .) paper.

Coin Transportation.

The scheme for the transportation of coin as third-class mail matter, telegraphs a Washington correspondent, is a success theoretically, but practically seems not to amount to much. Two efforts have been made to test the practicability of the plan.. In one instance a million dollars in gold coin, put in four-pound packages, was brought as third-class matter from San Francisco to the East, and on another occasion a s{nailer amount was transported a

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shorter distance. No disposition has yet been manifested by private parties to take advantage of the plan, and probably it will never be popularized, as the Postoffice Department cannot afford to put on the necessary cars except when the Treasury Department has large quantities of gold to transport.

Fashion Notes.

Petticoats are flounced to tin 1 waist in the back. Short jackets are worn as outside garments. The beef-eater and the jockey are ifew London hats. Pearls bid fair to be more fashionable than diamonds. Brocatelle and satin stripes are among silk novelties. The new color in undyed cloth is a natural stone color, or yellow gray. Fancy runs riot in caps, which are made of handkerchiefs, pieces of India shawls and all sorts of materials, trimmed with ribbons of every color and description. Heavy camel’s hair cloth, with much hair or "fleece cropping out on the surface, is much used for composite costumes with American suits. Such costumes are short. The Queen says that “ boots will not be worn this winter except for long walks or in wet weather; for carriage wear and calls shoes and silk stockings are de rigueur.” The latest fancy in stockings is for white polka dots in silk embroidery on black silk feet and legs, while the toes, heels and the upper half of the leg of the stocking are white. Ermine will be used this winter in trimming bodices and the revers that adorn the turned-back sides of polonaises and robe over-dresses, showing the elaborately trimmed underskirt. The Parisians wear their short costumes much shorter than New York women do, and have, in addition, a fashion for looping them up directly in the back, showing about two inches of the white or colored petticoat. The English country-coat for ladies’ wear is an ulster, with a large cape attached, which may be drawn up into a a hood with a ribbon, tying under the chin, thus affording a complete protection to the head and neck. One of the newest London fashions is a revival of the old long Chesterfield man’s coat for women’s wear. It may be worn with a skirt of the same material or another, according to fancy. It has pockets at the waist and simulated ones at the back. —New York Sun.

Western River Improvements.

The Government engineers in charge of the various river improvements in the West have reported to the Government their recommendations for appropriations to continue the work during the next fiscal year—lß79-’BO. The amounts are as follows: MISSISSIPPI RIVER. New Orleans harbor .$200,000 Vicksburg harbor 5)0,00(1 Removing snags from the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers 885,000 Memphis harbor .... 124,000 For completing improvements between the months of the Illinois and Ohio rivers.... 500,000 Below St. Paul 80,000 Widening and deepening the channel from Des Moines rapids to the mouth of the 11l iuois river 100,000 Widening and deepening channel from St. Paul to Des Moines river 250,000 Improvement above the Falls of St. Anthony 50,000 To construct a lock dam at Meeker's island, Minn 922.121 Des Moines rapids 122.000 Rock Island rapids 20,005 MISSOURI RIVER. Improvement at Fort Leavenworth 85,000 Improvement at Atchison 15,000 Improvement at St. Joseph 18,000 Nebraska City and Eastport, lowa 85,000 Omaha and Council Bluffs 130.000 Sioux City 33.880 Above the mouth of the Yellowstone 55,000 CUMBERLAND RIVER. Above Chattanooga 85.000 Below Chattanooga 75.1)00 Below Nashville 70.000 From Nashville to the Kentucky line 60,000 From Kentucky to Smith's shoals 50,000 At Smith's shoals 15,000 MISCELLANEOUS. Red Itiver of the North 112,000 Red River, Louisiana. $75,000; . improvement of its mouth., 150.000 Illinois river 85.000 Galena river and harbor 30.000

Music Taken Out of a Song.

The latest sentimental ballad is entitled, “Give Me the Home of My Childhood.” Bless your soul, we’d do it in a minute, but—why, haven’t you heard? Old Tadgers closed out three mortgages on it in 1867 and ’6B. and the next year it was sold for taxi s, it was seized for debt in the year following; then your oldest brother claimed that it belonged to his wife and brought suit in her name to recover, and before that was through they found an old flaw in the title, and in trying to straighten that out it transpired that your grandfather had no Government patent on it at all, but had stolen it bodily from the Indians; and now two half-breeds have brought suit to recover the property as the heirs. The house was burned down about two years ago, and the -.neighbors have used the fences for kindling wood; your wife’s cousin is tryingj to get hold of the lot, and your half-brother jumped the property one night, put up a little shanty on the alley corner, lind is now in possession. There doesn’t seem to be much show for you, but you might file your papers, buy a lawyer and sail in.—Burlington Hawk-Eye.

His Prayer for Help.

“ I’m a worthless fellow, Judge,” said George Thompson, in the Fifty-seventh Street Court, yesterday. “ I’ve a family and Ido not support them. A toiling wife, sir, who loves me too much to make a complaint against me. Two little ones, who put their arms about my neck and call me * Dear father.’ I drink and drink, and cannot help it. I beg of you to send me where I cannot taste liquor.” “ Do you want a month? ” “More than that.” He bowed his head in shame. “ More than that, sir. Three—yes, six—months; a year. Do make it for that long. She will try to get me out; but keep me there. It is my last hope.” His prayer was granted.— New York Heralh.

Famine in Morocco.

Advices from Morocco give fearful accounts of the famine there. Living skeletons of men, women and children may be seen groping in foul refuse heaps for hideous bits of offal. Poor, starving wretches are constantly scratching and sifting sand, dust and mud in the hope of finding stray grains of rice and barley. Beggars swarm in the streets, corpses are everywhere seen, and among the poor, who huddle together, smallpox is raging. Sick, well and dead are seen lying together in foul, fetid dens. They make up furs without sewing now, by applying a solution of indiarubber and benzine with a stiff brush and passing the material between rollers.

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FINDING FAULT. In speaking of a person’s faults. Pray don't forget your own; H Remember those with homes of glass Should seldom throw a stone. If we have nothing else to do Thau talk of those who sin, 'Tis better we commence at home, And from that point begin. We have no right to judge a man Until he’s fairly tried; Should we not like his company, We know the world is wide. Some may have faults, and who has not? The old as well as young: Perhaps we may, for all we know, Have fifty to their one. I’ll tell you of a better plan. And find it works full well. To find your own defects to cure, Ere others’ faults you tell; And though I sometime hope to be. No worse than some I know. My own short-comings bid me let The faults of others go. Now let us all. when we begin To slander friend or foe. Think of tbe harm one word may do To those we little know; Rememlier. curses, chicken like. Sometimes to roost come home; Don’t speak of others’ faults until You have none of your own.

WIT AND HUMOR.

Patter on the roof? No, no, pat her under the chin. Why is a door like a colored woman? Because it is an egress. The fruit of electing dishonest men to Congress—Bri-berries. Most of the wrinkles on merchants’ foreheads are trade marks. A mosquito is like a ship’s hawser; its best hold is in its bight. We read in an exchange of a drunken laborer who cruelly beat his aged father. Such a laborer is not worthy of his sire. Short sleeves are in order, but you cannot make the girl with a mole on her arm admit that she thinks the style is a good one. The coast of Florida has a Mosquito inlet, but the interior of Florida has a mosquito bar for every bedstead. And the villains still pursue them. Would you refer to the religion of a printer’s “devil ”as imp piety? (This is not a conundrum, and a book will not be given for the first answer.) She was a stubborn woman, and when she died her husband planted a willow over her grave, so that even in death she might have a willow 'f her own. In these days the fly is less agile, 1 >ut more persistent. AVe do not consider the change an improvement—from the bald headed point of view.— New Haven Register. AVebb Hayes’ Fremont girl lives two miles out of town, and many a Sunday night lias AVebb-footed it out there tol see liis little duck.— Cincinnati Saturday Night. The grand and awful difference between a tree and a bore is—hurrah, now! —the tree leaves in spring, and the bore, why, he never leaves. — Syracuse Sunday Times. The man who can hum a hymn while joining stove-pipe is good enough to walk right into full membership of any church, without probation.—-Cincin-nati Breakfast Table. This is the season of tlie year when the night air is very dangerous, but the girls face death at front gates with the same heroism which has always been one of the eliiefest adornments of the sex. Mont Blanc has a cold in its head, but Etna fires up if you ever hint that there is an eruption at its mouth. This is a mountainous statement, but it comes from the steep and rugged path of truth. The English language cannot be considered perfect until “ boil ” is spelled in such a manner that the man who has one won’t lie astonished and staggered when he sees it in print . Burlington Hawk-Eye. There are' some scenes almost too pure and sacred to be viewed by the thoughtless world. One of them is a 200-pound woman with a mole on her chin “ talking baby ” to a 11-ounce canary bird in a brass cage.— Rockland Courier. A Dutchman was seated in a shoe store trying his best to get his unfairylike feet into a number nine slipper. Said he to tlie clerk : “ Say, Mr. Clerk, dis varm vedder ish shrinking up der slippers like der tnyfel. Dond it.?” Elmira Gazette. A magazine contains a sonnet “On Returning Consciousness.” There is no foot-note, and the reader is left in the dark as to whether the poet was stepped on by a pile driver, or kicked over the fence by the family mule.— Oil City Derrick. An eccentric individual hangs out a gorgeous signboard, informing pedestrians that he treats the feet—as if feet cared to be treated. Now if lie were to offer to treat liard-up men who like to get “corned,” he would be something like a philanthropist.

Papa Made It.

“ Out of the mouth of babes ” sometimes come words that bring to naught the best-laid plans of wisdom which otherwise might remain undetected for an indefinite period. In Washington, some time ago, a little girl stopped at a confectioner’s to buy 5 cents’ worth of candy. The clerk looked at the nickel and said, “ Sissy, I’m afraid this money is not good.” “Oh, but it is good,” quickly replied the innocent; “because papa made it himself. Papa makes lots like that.” With this hint to work on, the detectives had an eiisy task in unearthing that unlicensed nickel manufactory. >

After the Ratification Meeting.

“Do you feel seme ibis morning, dear?” said a thoughtful Avife to her husband last Sunday. “ Sore ? No! ” he said, loftily. “What would make me sore ? ” “ Why, you rolled down two pairs of stairs last night, when you came home from the ratification meeting, and I had to get James to help me carry you up. I thought you felt sore, maybe.” “ Rush of blood to the head,” he said. “ I’ll go and get some medicine right away, before I eat a bit of breakfast. I’m glad you told me, Catharine.”

A Prediction That Is Coming True.

Some years ago a boy named W. J. Sanford, of Alabama, had a singular escape from death. A keg of powder exploded in his arms without serious damage to his person, and it was predicted then that he would either be hung or sent to Congress. Mr. Sanford is now a Democratic candidate for Congress in Alabama, and is certain of election. The other portion of the prophecy may be fulfilled later.