Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. War has been declared between Great Britain and Afghanistan, and the Indian troops are advancing upon the Ameer’s dominions. The decline in wages in England seems to be general, and affects nearly all kinds of lal>or. A cable dispatch says that “ appalling distress and destitution exist among the mechanics and laborers of Sheffield, in consequence of the business depression.” Public meetings havo boon called to devise mean of relief. A bloodless duel was fought near Paris, the other day, between M. Gambetta, the distinguished French statesman, and M. do Fourtou, a member of the Assembly. There was one exchange of Hliots; weapons, pistols; distance, thirty-five paces. Neither was hit The first blood of the Afghan war was shed on the 21st of Novomber, in a contest for the possession of Fort Ali Musjid, at the entrance of tho Khyber pass. The Indian troops assaulted and captured tho fort after a sharp engagement, the garrison retreating to tho other end of tho pass. Tire British lost 300 in killed and wounded. Austria and England are to have extra sessions of Parliament. A cable dispatch reports the massacre by Turks of 320 Bulgarians in a Macedonian village. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Tho Manchester paper mills, in Dutchess county, N. Y., have been destroyed by tiro. Loss, 975,000. Thomas H. Power, of tho firm of Power A Weightman, tho groat quinine manufacturers, has just diod in Pliiladolpiiia. Ho loaves an enormous fortune. A New York dispatch states that Judge Hilton offers a reward of 950,(XX) for evidence that will secure the arrest and conviction of the five persons believed to have boon ongaged in the robbery of tho Btewart vault, or ho will pay 910,(XX) for the arrest and conviction of any one of them. At Wilmington, Del., on Saturday last, nine convicts—six black and threo white—wore publicly live being also pilloried. South. Mount Sterling, Ky., was tho scene of a bloody mob tho other day. Thirty shots wero lirod, two men instantly killed and three wounded. By a decision of tho Supreme Court of Florida tho Canvassing Board of Alachua county havo been commanded to count tho ro turns of throe precincts which they rojocted. Those precincts givo Bisboo, Republican, 450 majority for Congress, and elect him by a majority of 200 over Hull, tho Democratic candidate. The matter will be contested, of course, before tho House of Representatives.

W est. A very heavy shock of eartliquaki was felt throughout Houthorn Illinois and Southeastern Missouri, on the night of Nov. 1!). The wavo extended as far south as Little Rock, Ark. A serious coal-mine explosion occurred near Sullivan, Ind., a few days ago. There wore thirty miners in tho pit at tho time of tho accident, seven of whom wore taken out dead, and several others woro ho badly burned that they can hardly recover. Tho “couch from Dcadwood” was robbed by two bold highwaymen, near Fort Fottorman, tho other day. Another Indian outbreak is threatened in Oregon. ' WASHINGTON NOTES. It is announced that tho work of redeeming legal tenders in coin on and after Jan. 1, 1.379, will lio conlinod to the New York subtreasury alono, and will not bo undertaken at the various Western and Southern sub-treasu-ries. Gen. Sheridan and Gen. Gibbon, in their annual reports to tho General of the Army, made some serious charges against the efficiency and integrity ‘of tho Indian sorvico, as administered by the Interior Department Bocrotary Schurz has takon notice of those charges bo far as to indite a sharp letter to tho War Department defending tho Indian office against what he terms tho unjust attacks of Bhcridan and Gibbon. Ho calls upon these oflieors to make good their charges by spocific proof—failing to do which, ho suggests that they would do well to hold their peace. The $5,500,000 duo England on account of tho Halifax award was paid on tho 21st inst. Another call for $5,000,000 6 per cents, is made, making the total called for redemption this year 9' < .H),000,000. Tho following aro said to be the essential points in Secretary Bherman’s resumption programme : 1. United States notes will be redeemed at the New York sub-treasury in gold or silver coin, at the option of the holder of notes, without limitation us to amount. 2. Legal-tender notes of a special issue of large denominations will bo delivered in place of gold certificates, and there will be no further issue of gold certificates. 3. Holders of notes who prefer gold instead of silver will obtain gold, and the treasury will not force upon tho holder of notes the kind of legaltender coin that is not desired. 4. Legal tenders, even without tho enactment of any law affirmatively authorizing it, will be everywhere received for customs duties. 5. Silver dollars will bo exchanged for legal tenders or national-bank notes in multiples of 91,000 at any sub-treasury or national bank which is a United States depository, the expense of transportation to be paid by the mint.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Cameron element in Pennsylvania, it is stated, favors Blaino as a Presidential candidate. The Republican majority in Illinois, on tho State ticket, is about 30,000. The total Greenback vote is about 65,000. Official returns from sixty-two counties in Kansas give the Republican candidates 70,787; Democratic, 33,533; Greenback, 23,433. The Republican vote in sixty-nine counties in Michigan from which official returns have beon roceived is 124,949; Democratic, 77,908; National, 74,011. Returns from all the counties in New York give a Republican plurality of 37,616; Republican vote, 389,676; Democratic, 352,060; Greenback, 71,020; Prohibition, 3,533. The Detroit Free Press places the National vote in Michigan at 75,000, as against 8,000 two years ago, and estimates that 23,500 Republicans and 43,500 Democrats of 1876 voted the National ticket. The official count in Pennsylvania gives Hoyt, Republican, for Governor, 319,567 votes; Dill, Democrat, 297,060: Mason, Greenbacker, 81,758; Lane, P •ohibition, 3 653 Re publican plurality, 22,507; tgt*l vote in the 702,088.

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN, Editor.

VOLUME 11.

The Greenbackers polled over 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania at the recent election. Gen. John B. Gordon has been reelected to the United States Senate from Georgia. The full vote of Wisconsin for Congressmen at the late election foots up: Republican, 99,578 ; Democratic, 92,925 ; Greenback, 13,028. There will be an unusually large number of contested-election cases in the next national House of Representatives. Alexander H. Stephens is of the opinion that the currency question will not bo an issue in the Presidential election in 1880, because it will be dead. Following is the official vote of Illinois at the late election: Superintendent of Public Instruction—Blade, Republican, 20(5,559; Etter, Democrat, 171,355; Hall, National, (55,507; Kate L. Hopkins, Prohibition, 2,266. State Treasurer—Smith, Republican, 215,262; Cronkrite, Democrat, 170,111; Bates, National, (55,(523; Gorin, Proliibition, 2,192. The drainage amendment to the constitution received 295,780 votes, and is therefore adopted. Chairman Atkins, of the Appropriation Committee, thinks there will be no extra session. Speaker Randall is of the same opinion.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

South American news: The valley of Cauca, in New Grenada, has suffered terribly from grasshoppers.—Manzanillo, in New Grenada, lately suffered from a severe earthquake visitation; no lives lost; property damage over 9100,000. —A serious riot recently ocourred in Santiago, Chili,resulting in the killing and wounding of eighty people. There has been a sovero earthquake in San Salvador, resulting in great loss of life and property. The National Type-Founders’ Association mot at Cleveland, Ohio, last week, to arrango rates for the future. A slight reduction in the price of type was decided upon. The Patrons of Husbandry have just hold their twelfth annual session at Richmond, Va., representatives being present from twen-ty-tive States. Tho officers report the order in a flourishing condition. Charles W. Angell, of Chicago, tho defaulting Treasurer of the Pullman Palace Car Company, has been arrested in Portugal, with 980,(XX) of tlio stolon money upon his porson. The new Governor General of Canada, the Marquis of Lome, and his royal spouse arrived at Halifax on Nov. 24, and were enthusiastically received by tho Quoen’s loyal subjects

Singular Suicides.

In the year 1500, William Dorrington threw himself from the parapet of the Church of St. Sepulcher, in London, leaving behind him a note, stating as his reason “ that he wanted to go to the opera that night, but had not money enough to purchase a ticket of admission.” A farmer in Allendale, Eng., got a gun-barrel, loaded it, and placed the stock end in a hot lire, and leaned his stomach against the other. The barrel soon became hot and exploded, killing; the unfortunate wretch instantly. A blacksmith in New Orleans, in 1841, killed himself in the same manner, blowing his bellows until the lire was hot enough to explode the gunbarrel. A young lady at a boarding-school in England drowned herself in a rain cask because she was made to study from an old book. She was “ sweet 1(5! ” A Greenwich (Eng.) pensioner, who was put upon short allowance for misconduct, in 184(5, sharpened the ends of his spectacles, and with them stabbed himself to the heart. In a French newspaper of 18(52 we find an account of a man who, his wife having proved unfaithful to him, called his valet and informed him that he was about to kill himself, and requested that he would boil him down and make a candle of his fat and carry it to his mistress, handing her at the same time the following note: Dearest Therese : I have long burned for you, and I now prove to you that my flames are real. Yours, Pierre. A young lady 10 yaars of age, having gambled away a large fortune, hung herself at Bath, Eng., with a gold and silver girdle. The following note was found in her hand: “ Thus I tie myself up from play.” This was worthy of a French woman.

Rules for Spoiling a Child.

1. Begin young by giving him whatever he cries for. 2. Talk freely before the child about his smartness as incomparable. 3. Tell him that he is too much for you, that you can do nothing with him. 4. Have divided counsels, as between father and mother. • B. Let him learn to regard his father as a creature of unlimited power, capricious and tyrannical; or as a mere whip-ping-machine. 6. Let him learn (from his father’s example) to despise his mother. 7. Do not know or care who his companions may be. 8. Let him read whatever he likes. 9. Let the child, whether boy or girl, rove the streets in the evening—a good school for both sexes. 10. Devote yourself to making money, remembering always that wealth is a Better legacy for your child than principles in the heart and habits in the life; and let him have plenty of money to spend. 11. Be not with him in the hours of recreation. 12. Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; chastise severely for a foible and laugh at a vice. 13. Let him run about from church to church. Eclecticism in religion is the order of the day. 14. Whatever burdens of virtuous requirements you lay on his shoulders, touch not one with one of yuur fingers. The rules are not untried. Many parents have proved them, with substantial uniformity of results. If a faithful observance of them does not spoil your child, you will at least have the comfortable reflection that you have done what you could.

Postal-Card Troubles.

Postal cards often give rise to peculiar troubles. A Rochester lumber dealer mailed one to a discharged clerk, accusing him of swindling, and the clerk has obtained a verdict of $450 damages, based on the publicity of the charges while passing through the mails. A similar charge is on trial at Pittsburgh, the plaintiff being a sewing-machine agent, to whom his employer addressed an accusation of improperly retaining money. An Omaha clergyman publishes a card that he frequently receives advertisements of wines and other liquors printed on postal cards, which is likely .to create a false impression on tfee grinds of the people. ’ •

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1875.

THE MIRACLE OF CENTURIES.

Tlie Jews and Tlieir Remarkable Place in the World’s History. The following striking passage occurs in a paper on “The Gathering of Israel,” read by Bishop Nicholson, of Philadelphia, before the Prophetic Conference : Can the world show anything like it? Twice 1,800 years old,they saw the proud Egyptian perish in the Red sea; they heard the fall of great Babylon’s power; they witnessed the ruins of the Syro-Macedanian conquests. And now they have outlived the Cmsars, and outlived the dark ages. They have been through all civilizations, shared in all convulsions, and have kept pace with the entire progress of discovery and art. And here they stand to-day, as distinct as ever, occupying no country of their own, scattered through all countries, identical in their immemorial physiognomy, earth’s men of destiny, before the venerableness of whose pedigree the proudest escutcheons of mankind are but as trifles of yesterday. But have they suffered severely ? One convulsive groan of agony breathing through eighteen centuries, and heard in every land but our own. At the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, besides the tens of thousands led into captivity, it was as if in a single action of a great war the slain on one side should amount to 1,300,000, and when, the remaining Jews having been ex-, pOiled from their country, they attempted, sixty years afterward, to return, a half million more were slaughtered. For centuries they were forbidden, on pain of death, even to set foot in Jerusalem. Under King John of England, 1,500 were massacred at York in one day. Under Ferdinand and Isabella 800,000, by a single decree, were forced out to sea in boats, and the most of them perished in the waves. They have been fined and fleeced by almost every Government known to history. They have been banished from place; banished and recalled, and banished again. By the code of Justinian, they were incapable of executing wills, of testifying in courts of justice, of having social and public worship. The Koran of Mohammed stigmatizes them as wild dogs; the Romish church excommunicated any one who held intercourse with them; tho Greek church littered anathemas still more severe. They have been forced to dissemble to save their lives, and in Spain and Portugal have even become Bishops, and have governed in convents. In the prophetic words of tho Old Testament, they have been “a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a cursethey have been “taken up in the lips of talkers,” and have been “an infamy of the people and the general estimate of them lias ripened into the intense contempt of that dramatic conception—“ Shylock, the Jew of Venice.” And now, in this nineteenth century they are a suffering people still, but still as indissoluble as ever.

But now all this is not according to the established course of nations. The northern tribes came into Southern Europe, and are now not at all distinguishable. No Englishman can say that he derives from the Britons and not from the Romans, or from the Saxons and not from the Normans. On the contrary, the Jew is a Jew still. Even our own all-appropriating country, which denationalizes Germans, Irish, French, Spaniards, Finns, Swedes, has left untouched this wondrous people. Here they are are, holding fast to the one tell-tale face, keeping up the sacred learning of tlieir traditions, self-con-scious in their isolation, irrepressible in their love of Jerusalem, sublime in their singular patriotism, evermore looking for tlieir Messiah, the same intense individuality as when, lords of the soil, they plucked His fruit from the trees of Judea. And, what is more, those worldwanderers of the centuries, these tribes of the weary foot, have not only survived, but have now risen again as an element of power among mankind. The Jew is the banker of the world; he is among the foremost, whether in science, or literature, or government. In witchery of song, unsurpassed, he efichants the world with some of the sweetest music it ever heard. Surely he is the standing miracle of the world’s current history; the bush of Moses, ever burning, yet never consumed; an ocular demonstration of how God may energize the secret springs of a people’s life, yet without disturbing individual freedom or social characteristic; an unanswerable refutation of that godless philosophy which -would turn the Almighty out of His own universe.

A Romantic Tragedy in Russia.

A singular Nihilist tragedy, in which a peasant girl plays a prominent part, has recently startled Odessa. Tavo broth ars belonging to a family of small landed proprietors, Enkouvatoff by name were so much attached to each other that they could not live apart. For this reason, perhaps, when the elder, Pimen, joined a Nihilist society, the younger, Dometi, did the same. The Enkouvatoffs belonged to the nobility; but that did not prevent Pimen from marrying a peasant girl. Unhappily, Dometi sympathized so entirely with Pimen that he conceived a passion for the latter’s wife, and showed pertinacity in his attentions to his sis-ter-in-law. The involuntary cause of all this trouble was devoted to her husband, who naturally should have turned his brother out of the house. Pimen, however, still allowed Dometi to live with him; and, to assuage his jealousy consented even to live apart from his wife, and to “treat her,” as the report of the trial puts it, “like a sister.” One night Pimen Avas awakened by his wife running into Iris room and crying out that Dometi, armed with a razor, was about to attack him. She was followed by the infuriated Dometi, brandishing a razor, and Pimen, in self-defense, took up the revolver, Avhieh every Nihilist seems to have at hand, and shot his brother through the heart.

A Judgment for $9,000,000.

On Oct. 5, 1854, George T. Walker gave a promissory note to William Hood for $1,850, payable in six months and bearing 3 per cent, per month interest, which was to be compounded and added to the principal if not paid each month. As security for the note a mortgage was given on some land in Santa Clara county, where Walker then lived. No interest was ever paid on the note, and, before its maturity, Walker had left the State for Mexico, where he took up Iris permanent residence. A few months ago, however, he returned on a visit to this city, and then suit was brought to recover on the note. On computing the interest, it was found that, added to the principal, the amoupt

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

due was $9,000,000, and to-day Judge Morrison rendered a default judgment for that amount. It is believed that Walker has already returned to Mexico. —San Francisco Post.

One Trial of a Public Lecturer.

I remember on one occasion, after the lecture was over, that the audience, which was made up for the most part of farmers and their families, seemed disinclined to go, but held their seats, looking up as if expecting some kind of an afterpiece. This was so unlike a city audience—who rush for the door before the last words are out of the speaker’s mouth —that I couldn’t help remarking the fact to the minister who sat with me in the pulpit. “ Ah, yes,” said he, “ our people are not accustomed to lectures, and they are expecting the doxology! ” “ Then, by all means, let them have it,” I said; “it will do us all good.” “ If you, sir,” said he, “ will stand at the bottom of the steps, the people will be glad to shake hands with you, if you please, as they are going out.” “ Certainly,” I said; “ with much pleasure.” The minister stood up and told the audience that, after singing the doxology, any who pleased might have an opportunity of shaking hands with the lecturer. Accordingly, I took my position near the door; and, if I had been a prize bull-dog, the people couldn’t have been more reluctant to pass me. All stood up, crowding the aisles and passage-ways; but no one moved toward the door. To facilitate matters, I seized one old fellow by the hand and gave it a shake, and passed him along. Then came another, and him I also pumphandled. I held out my hand for the next, a rather furtive-looking youth, with red hair and very speckled face. He approached me in a jerk and deposited 15 cents in my extended palm. Before I could get an explanation, he was out the door aud off. In the meantime, the rest began to move a little faster; and by-and-by another fist full of coppers was thrust into my hand. “ Good Heavens! do they suppose I’m here to take up a collection? They’re actually putting money in my hand! ” I said to the minister, stepping back upon the platform. “Oh no! ” said he, laughing; “ these are only boys who contrived to get in without paying, so they think they must pay you.” That was all the hand-shaking I wanted, so I let the good people depart in peace; and they did seem very much relieved when I got up out of their way. It was money in a good many pockets, I expect.— Boston Commercial Bulletin.

Edison’s Baby.

There are those who intimate that Mr. Edison’s neuralgia did not proceed from a mere cold. Yesterday morning at 9 o’clock, Mrs. Edison presented the professor with a new edition, bound in baby clothes. The baby weighed twelve pounds, and is said to have manifested remarkable indications of precocity Arom the moment of birth. The boy kilked lustily when they essayed to dress lim, evidently preferring the costume' of Eden, aud performed other antics indie-' ative of the intellectual independence which distinguishes his inventive father. However, that affair was managed after a two hours’ struggle, and the little fellow greeted his paternal ancestor in the daintiest muslin, with ruffles and furbelows, such as only a mother’s fancy can imagine. The professor began to mend from that moment. Mrs. Edison suspects that his improvement is due to the excogitation of a plan for introducing a battery into the baby’s lungs, and making him cry by electricity, or for lighting him by some such agency. The professor disclaims any such intention, but inventive minds will always bear a little surveillance. —New York Herald.

An Undesirable Room-Mate.

Scott, the greatest of English novelists, made use of superstition in his works, but he had not a particle of it in his nature. Basil Hall says that Scott told him, on the last evening of the year 1824, when they were talking over this subject, that, having once arrived at a country inn, he was told there was no bed for him. “No place to lie down at all?” said he. “No,” said the people of the house; “none except a room in which there is a corpse lying.” “Well,” said he, “did the person die of any contagious disorder ? ” “Oh, no, not at all,” said they. “Well, then,” continued he, “let me have the other bed.” “So,” said Sir Walter, “I laid me down, and never had a better night’s sleep in my life.” -

Hint for Poor Folk.

Alpheus has been having a long spell of fever, and it Avas necessary to have a light burning all night in his room. We live out in the country, so no gas was accessible. Candles flickered disagreeably, and a kerosene lamp, when turned low, always had an annoying smell for an invalid, so I bethought of a light my mother used to improvise, when I was a child, before kerosene, with its attending danger, Avas known. It Avas made by taking a saucer of lard, and cutting a piece of newspaper in a circle about three inches in diameter, then twisting the center of this up to a point and burying all but the tip in the lard. It will burn all night—a shady, dim right—and in our case proved a real comfort. Some of these homely facts are Avell worth remembering. — Prairie Farmer.

Smoking in the Dark.

Many smokers have noticed that for some mysterious reason there is no pleasure in smoking in the dark. The singular fact Avas recently confirmed by the testimony of a large number of smokers at a political gathering in Buffalo, N. Y. One member of the company having remarked the fact in his own experience, the discussion that ensued developed the fact that all had noticed it. Who will give a plausible reason for it. —Boston Advertiser.

Those Ducks.

“ My darling,” says Mr. Sadrake, who had been ostensibly duck-shooting at San Mateo all the day and night previous, “ did the office-boy bring you those ducks I shot, as I told him ? ” “ No, sir, he did not,” replied Mrs. S., in an icy and appalling manner; “but the butcher’s boy has been here to say that, as he cannot fill your order for wild ducks to-day, he sends you a half-dozen tame ones instead.” Tableau.— San Frarwisco Newsletter.

Wyoming Women Voters.

This Territory, as is well known, is the oply locality in the United States where women vote the same as men. The idea that led to its adoption was, first, that Wyoming, being the youngest of all the States and Territories, should be progressive, up with all advancement, and never disposed to look backward ; and, second, to throw into politics an element to aid in counterbalanc ing the influence of the roughs, thieves, cut-throats and highwaymen, who then constituted a large share of the population. Since then a fair trial of the institution has not developed sufficient power or importance in the voting of the women to prompt any one to move for a repeal of the law. I believe only one woman in the Territory was ever elected to office by the people, and now no offices are ever demanded by the sex, except some sinecure places in the Legislature, where the pay can be drawn and but little service rendered. In tlie casting of votes the women do not figure extensively except on very rare occasions. There is a certain class, however, who always vote, and, being themselves disreputable characters, they always throw their suffrages to the worst men on the ticket. The purification of politics is not in their interest. In other eases the members of some certain church or other society desire one of their number elected to some office, and then the women of that organization turn out and cast their votes solid for the designated man. Probably had the women in Cheyenne have never cast a vote since the first or second election after the law was passed. At first it was customary for carriages to visit all the residences on election days and convey the ladies to the polls in the interest of certain candidates, but that fashion is now almost a dead-letter. There is a separate polling-place for the women to vote, and they are treated like ladies, being free from insult or jostlings; so that mixing with the mob cannot be the cause of their lack of interest in elections, but that politics is out of their legitimate sphere. As the adoption of the measure here has amounted to so little, your correspondent can see little in it to praise or condemn, except that it has given the unscrupulous politicians a chanoo to use the “ women of the town,” together with the variety women, to further projects and men of the worst character.— St. Lou is Republican letter.

An Editor Sketches Bismarck.

An American journalist, Col. Forney, who has conversed with the groat German statesman, says that Bismarck is a most fascinating person. Such is the charm of his conversation and manner that, when he chooses to unbend, few persons can resist the influence of his magnetism. The journalist thus sketches the Chancellor: In his own house he yields unresistingly to domestic influences. But he is eminently a public character. Never conspicuous in the streets, for obvious reasons, and less so now than ever, he dominates the whole empire. He hates praise? and resents censure. He is a law unto himself and others. While tho great European Congress, called by himself, sat in Berlin, he was its master and its President. He asked little for Germany, but he parceled out the spoils to others. He so became the arbiter of Europe, as he is to-day the dictator of Germany. All German parties admit that he has rendered incredible services to his country; but nobody knows it better than himself. He is a fatalist, and naturally asserts by his acts, if not by his words, his supreme infallibility. But he does not try to be cautious in his language. He is candor itself—often to the verge of insolence; and there is hardly a day that he does not speak scornfully of some of the characters in the recent European Congress, and of living and dead European statesmen. Such "a man might have figured in the feudaLera. He is the anachronism of this age of progress. Acted on the stage twenty years ago, he would have been regarded as another Charles the Bold or Duke of Alva. Asa real person, it is a simple question of time, unless he moderates his policy, whether he will fall by the bullet or the bowl. He is the man of destiny, and evidently accepts his mission and knows his danger.

Saving and Spending.

It is not true that the great Adctories of rife are to the sharp and immoral man, as a rule. Here and there, by sharpness and cunning, men rise into Avealtli, but that wealth is not of a kind to remain. It takes a certain amount of virtue, of self-denial, of morality, to lay up and to keep money. In the lives of nearly all rich men there have been periods of heroic self-denial, of patient industry, of Christian prudence. Circumstances did not make these men rich. The highest moral prudence made them rich. While their companions were dancing away their youth, or drinking away their middle age, these men were devoted to small economies —putting self-indulgence entirely aside. If otir correspondent or our readers will recall their companions, we think the first fact they Avill be impressed with is the measure of equality Avith which they started in the race for competence or wealth. The next fact they will be impressed with is the irregularity of the end. Then, if they make an inquisition into the causes of the widely varying results, they will be profoundly impressed with the insignificant part “circumstances ” have played in those results. Circumstances ? Why, the rich man’s son who had all the “circumstances of the town has become a beggar. The poor, quiet lad, the only son of his mother, and she a Avidow, who could only earn money enough to procure for her boy the commonest education, is a man of wealth and has become a patron of Iris native village. The man who possesses and practices virtue makes his OAvn circumstances. The selfdenying, prudent man creates around himself an atmosphere of safety where wealth naturally takes refuge—provided, of course, that the man has the power to earn it, either in production, or exchange, or any kind of manual or intellectual service.— Scribner.

The Right to a Secret Ballot.

The Legislature of Minnesota at its last session, for the purpose of preventing frauds in elections, enacted a law requiring that in cities Avhen a ballot should be cast at any election, the judges of the poll should indorse on its back a number which should correspond with the number of the vote on the poll-book, This act the District Court

of Ramsey county has pronounced i^nconstitutional, as violative of the right of the voter to cast a secret ballot, as the numbering of each ballot enables any one so disposed to identify it and discover by whom it was cast. That secrecy is an essential characteristic of the ballot has been held in a number of cases; and a provision of law which results in destroying this would be clearly invalid.

Population of Some Big Cities.

The population of the great cities of the world is a matter of perennial interest. Unofficial statements vary somewhat, but those of the last annual report of the New York Bureau of Vital Statistics are derived from official sources, and are, no doubt, authentic. According to the latest official estimates in each city, or -the latest census, where these are not attainable, they range as follows: London, of course, heads the list with its 3,533,484; Paris comes next with 1,851,792, by the census of 1872; then Peking, with 1,500,000, and Canton, with 1,300,000; next comes New’ York, with 1,069,362, and closes the list of those having more than 1,000,000 inhabitants. Of those having less than 1,000,000 and more than 500,000, Berlin comes first with 994,343: then Philadelphia, with 850,856; next Tokio, Japan, the Yeddo of the old geographies, with 800,000; Vienna,690,548; St. Petersburg, 669,741; Bombay, 644,405; Kioto, Japan, 560,000; G1a5g0w’,555,933; Ozaka, Japan, 530,000; Brooklyn, 527,830; Liverpool, 527,083; St. Louis claims 500,000, and, if allowed her own estimate, heads the list of those ranging downward from 500,000 to 250,000. Then follow’ Naples, with 457,407; Chicago, with 440,000; Calcutta, 429,535; Nanking, 400,000; Madras, 397,552; Hamburg, 393,588; Birmingham, 377,346; Manchester, 359,213; Baltimore, 355,000; Boston, 354,765; Shanghai, 320,000; Dublin, 314,666; Buda-Pesth, 314,401; Amsterdam, 302,266; San Francisco, 300,000, Leeds, 298,189; Rome, 282,214; Sheffield, 282,130; Cincinnati, 280,000; Breslau, 259,345; Melbourne, 250,678; Havana, 250,000. Thus it will be seen that there are 29 cities, each having 250,000 inhabitants, or more, supposing none to have been omitted, and an aggregate of about 24,000,000.

The Halifax Award.

In pursuance of instructions from Secretary Evarts, the American Minister in London, Mr. Welsh, on the 21st of November, tendered the British Government, in the person of Lord Salisbury, the sum of $5,500,000 in gold, accompanying the payment with the following communication. The receipt of the payment was acknowledged by Lord Salisbury in due form : Legation of the United States, ) London, Nov. 21, 1878. | My Lord: I have been instructed by tlie President of the United States to tender to Her Majesty’s Government the sum of 95,500,000 in gold coin, this being the sum named by two concurring members of the Fisheries Commission, lately sitting at Halifax, under tho author ity imparted thereto by the Treaty of Washington, to be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty. lam also instructed by the President to say that such payment is made upon the ground that the Government of the United States desires to place the maintenance of good faith in treaties and the security and value of arbitration hotwocn nations above all question in its relations with Her Britannic Majesty’s Government, as with all other Governments. Under this motive the Government of the United States decides to separate the question of withholding the payment from the considerations touching tho obligation of this payment which havo been presented to Her Majesty’s Government in correspondence, and which it reserves and insists upon. I am, besides, instructed by the President to say that the Government of the United States deems it of the greatest importance to the common and friendly interests of the two Governments in all future treatment of any questions relating to the North American fisheries that Her Britannic Majesty’s Government should be distinctly advised that the Government of the United States cannot accept the result of the Halifax Commission as furnishing any just measure of the value of the participation by our citizens m the inshore fisheries of the British provinces, and its protest against the actual payment now made being considered by Her Majesty's Government as in any sense an acquiescence in such measure, or as warranting any inference to that effect. I have, etc., John Welsh.

A Woman’s Device.

A few years ago, says an English paper, when highway robberies were more frequent than at present, the passengers of a stage coach, on its way to town, began to talk about robbers. One gentleman, expressing much anxiety lest he should lose ten guineas, was advised by a lady who sat next to him, to take it from his pocket and slip it into his boot, which he did immediately. It was not long before the coach was stopped by a highwayman, who, riding up to the window on the lady’s side, demanded her money; she declared that she had none, bat if he would examine the gentleman’s boot he would find ten guineas. The gentleman submitted . patiently, but when the robber departed he loaded his female traveling companion with abuse, declaring her to be in confederacy with the highwayman. She confessed that appearances were against her, but said if the company in the stage would sup with her the following evening in town she would explain a conduct which appeared so mysterious. After some debate, they all accepted her invitation; and the next evening, in calling on her, were ushered into a magnificent room, where a very elegant supper was prepared. When this was over, she produced a pocket-book, and. addressing the gentleman who had been robbed, said, “ In this book, sir, are bank notes to the amount of £I,OOO. I thought it better for you to lose ten guineas than me this valuable property, which I had with me last night. As you have been the means of saving it, I entreat of your acceptance of this bank bill of £IOO.

Revenging a Slight.

Aaron Burr always resented any assumption of superiority on the part of legal or political associates. When he and Alexander Hamilton were contending for the first rank at the New York bar, it happened that they were engaged on the same side of an important suit. The etiquette of the bar assigned the honor of the opening plea to the leading counsel, and Hamilton, with a little arrogance, perhaps, hinted that Col. Burr would make the opening argument. Burr made no objection, but determined to punish his rival for what he (Burr) thought an arrogant assumption. He opened the case, and, knowing from consultations what points Hamilton intended to make, he made them all himself. His exhaustive plea left his colleague little to say. Hamilton never appeared to so little advantage, and Burr enjoyed his mortification. It was a mean thing to do, which an honorable man would despise, but Burr had no principles which would hinder hi& indulgence f>f the spirit of u^venge.

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NUMBER 42.

A Division in the House of Commons.

The division proper is a curiouslymannged ceremony—very' roundabout in the estimate of many persons. After the Speaker has cried “ Order, order!” the Sergeant-at-Arms, with his doorkeepers and messengers, close and lock all the doors leading into the lobbies, corridors, passages, etc. No member outside can enter, nor can any within make their exit; the number within the chamber is thus strictly definite, and all must vote. Until 1836 it was the custom for one party or section to go into a lobby, while the other remained in the House; but since that year the ayes have been directed to pass into the lobby at the Speaker’s right hand, while the noes walk into the lobby at his left. The Speaker names members to act as tellers, selected impartially from among the supporters and opponents of the motion, two each; and the members named are not allowed to shirk this duty. They place themselves at the lobby doors, two and two, each to check the counting of the other. Tw o clerks, as well as two tellers, are placed at each door, holding alphabetical lists of all the members of the House printed on large sheets of stiff pasteboard or cardboard. As the members return into the House from the lobbies, the clerks mark off the names, while, at the same time, the tellers count the total number without noting names. (If any one is disabled by nfirmity from entering and quitting the bbies he is counted at his seat in the use.) When all have re-entered from tlie lobbies, the four tellers approach the table; one of them, belonging to the majority on this particular question, announces the numbers, and, when the Speaker has indorsed or sanctioned this announcement, the important but slow-ly-managed ceremony ends—often amid loud cheers from those members who constitute tlie majority on that particular question. A member sometimes goes into the wrong lobby through inadvertence ; then there is no escape for him; nolens volens his vote is recorded according to the lobby in which he finds himself. During the past session, instances of such misadventures were not infrequent. Instances have been known in which even a Cabinet Minister’s vote is recorded on the side which he really intended to oppose—much to his own mortification. A member thus awkwardly placed usually takes some mode of making the facts known to his constituents and the public; but the official record remains unalterable. It has occasionally happened that only one member approves of a particular question or .motion; he is the only aye; and, as he is not allowed to count himself, the House at once decides that “ the noes have it.” many sessions ago a stranger was descried in one of the lobbies after the door had been closed, and was counted by two of the tellers; but the clerks found him. out and reported the case to the Speaker, who duly admonished the intruder.— Chambers' Journal.

Passanante, the Italian Assassin.

The dagger of the assassin Passanante was hidden in the folds of a small red flag bearing the words: “ Viva la liepublica Universale.” When he made the attack on King Humbert, the King swung round his sheathed sword and struck him with it on the head. Passanante returned to the attack, when the Queen cried out: “Signor Cairoli, save the King!” Signor Cairoli at once threw himself between the King and the assassin, and caught the latter by the hair. He received a thrust from Passanante’s dagger, but still held on to him till a municipal guard, named Giannettini, secured him. The struggle between Signor Cairoli and the assassin was very desperate, but the whole affair was over in a few minutes. The cortege proceeded on its way, and the King’s aspect was so calm, and that of Signor Cairoli so smiling, that nobody suspected what had happened. On reaching the palace the Minister’s wound was bound and leeches and ice applied. The King visited Giannettini, the brave municipal guard, and promoted him to the rank of sergeant. Passanante informed his examiners that his intention was to finish King Humbert, and, if he had had money enough to buy a revolver, he would have succeeded. He had no personal feeling against the King or the Government. He intended assassination as a means toward a universal republic. —Rome Cor. London Times.

Scene in a Railroad Car.

The following laughable incident is told by a well-known Government officeholder who has numerous tales to tell of his observations and experience: “There were two seats in the car turned so as to face each other. One was occupied by a lady and the other by a Chinaman. Evidently the lady did not relish the presence of the Chinaman. She explained to him that she wanted to take the cushions and their frames and place them lengthwise across from seat to seat. John said ‘ all rightee,’ and got out in the aisle while she proceeded to lie down on the bed thus improvised, with her head resting on her valise. She supposed that the Chinaman would take the hint that the lady wanted to rest in the Space usually occupied by four persons. But John at once proceeded to crawl in and stretch himself by her side, with his head on a little bundle of his own. The Chinese are an imitative race, and like to do as others do, you know. The lady, as soon as she discovered that she had a bedfellow, got up a little wildly and started for the next car, to the infinite amusement of the passengers, who had been watching the little scene with some interest. John took no notice of the fun he had created, but went to sleep with the whole bed to himself.”

German Court Etiquette.

The following anecdote is told to show the informal and domestic manners of the Crown Princess of Germany and the rigid etiquette of the German court: One day, at a ball in Potsdam, the Princess could not find the Prince, and, meeting the Empress, asked where her husband could possibly be. “I do not know where your husband is,” said the Empress, “but I can tell you where the Crown Prince is.” The Princess made no reply, but soon afterward, seeing her husband, she complained of the rebuke she had received. The Prince bit his lip, and, walking up to the Empress, said, “Mamma, will you be good enough to tell me where my wife is? ” Thebe was no audit of the City of Glasgow Bank, and yet Scotchmen have for the past fifty years been insisting on their “ admirable system of banking ” —admirable, no doubt, for those who run the machine in thejr qiyn intend, and are not found out.

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THERE’S DANGER IN THE TOWN. There, John, bitch Dobbin to the post; come near me and sit down: Your mother wants to talk to you before you go to town. My hairs are gray. I soon shall be at rest within the grave; Not long will mother pilot you o'er life's tempestuous wave. I've watched o'er you from infancy, till now you are a man. And I have always loved you. as a mother only can. At morning and "at evening I have prayed the God of love To bless and guide my darling boy to the bright home above. A mother’s eye is searching. John —old ago can't dim its sight— When watching o’er an only child, to sec if lie docs right: And very lately I have seen what has aroused my fears, And made my pillow hard at night, and moistened it with tears. I’ve seen a light within your eye, upon your check a glow. That told me you are in tlie road that loads to shame and woe: . Oh, John, don’t turn away your head and on my counsel frown. Stay more upon the dear old farm—there's danger in the town. Your father, John, is growing old: liis days are nearly through; Oh. he has labored very hard to save the farm for you: But it will go to ruin soon, and poverty will frown. If you keep bitching Dobbin up to drive into the town. Your prospects for the future are very bright, my son; Not many have your start in life wlieu they aro twenty-one: Your star, that shines so brightly now, in darkness will decline If you forget your mother's words and tarry at tlie wine. Tin'll back again, my boy, in youth; stay by the dear old farm; The Lord of Hosts will save you with his powerful right arm; Not long will mother pilot you o'er life's tempestuous wave; Then light her pathway with your love down to the silent grave.

WIT AND HUMOR.

A timid Bostonian Las married a young lady whose weight verges closely upon 200 pounds. “My dear,” said he to her, “ shall I help you over the fence.” “No,” says she to him, “help the fence.” An aristocratic papa, on being requested by a rich and vulgar young fellow for permission to marry “ one of the girls,” gave this rather crushing reply; “ Certainly; which would you prefer, the waitress or tlio cook ?” A little boy, weeping most piteously, was intermitted by some unusual occurrence. He hushed his cries for a moment ; the thought was broken. “ Mu,” said he, resuming his snuffie, “ wlmt whs I crying about just now?” It is the guilty accomplice on tlieltochester Express who says; Immortal Stewart, dead and turned to clay, A tramp may carry in a hag away! <)! that tlie earth that kept New York In awe Should mar a wall and stain a robber’s paw! A physician, finding a lady reading “Twelfth Night,” said: “When Shakspeare wrote about patience on a monument did he mean doctors’ patients?” “No,” she answered, “you don’t find them on monuments, but under them.” Hk jumped on board the railroad train, And cried: ‘'Farewell, Lucinda Jane, My precious, sweet Lucinda!” Alas! how soon he changed his cry, And, while the tear stood in his eye, Ho said: “Confound loose cinder I”

Pedestrian (to rustic)—“How is it, I wonder ? You work hard, live plainly, and get stout; while I—” Rustic—-“No use o’ talkin’, sir; it lays i’ the breed. A toadstool’s a toadstool, and you can’t make a mushroom out’n it. Naver!”— Funny Folks. A full-bearded grandfather recently had his beard shaved off, showing a clean face for the first time for a number of years. At the dinner table his 3-year-old granddaughter noticed it, gazed long with wondering eye, and finally ejaculated, “Grandfather, whose head you got on ?” An exchange prints fourteen rules for spoiling a child—and the quickest and most certain rule is omitted. If you want to spoil a child, give the youngster a didn’t-know-it-was-loaded pistol to play with. It goes right to the spot, and no postponement on account of the weather. “Good night, sweet art, good night,” sang a level-headed youth, as he slammed the front gate and paced off down the street. Then he took out his handkerchief to rub the rouge off the tip end of his nose, and wondered how much pearl powder cost a pound when purchased in large quantities. Visitor (from the country, at the door of an up-town residence, to a German next door) —“Jane not at home, did you say ?” German—“Nein, Chane’s nod at home.” Visitor—“ Where is she?” German—“ She’s gone der cemetery down.” Visitor—“ When will she comeback?” German —“Oh, she von’t come back already any more; she’s gone to stay;she’s det.” — Harper's Weekly. The ways of the merchant tailor are mysterious and past finding out. He buildeth an overcoat for a narrowchested youth, and behold, a rear view of the young man convinces you he is Hercules in disguise, but upon closer inspection you conclude it’s nothing but cotton stuck in the shoulders of his coat, and you could lick him if he was twice as big.— Elmira Gazette. ARAB AND ROMAN. 2 loverH nat beneath the nhade. And 1 un2 the other Hayed, “How 14 8 that you belt Hath Hiniled upon this suit of millet If 5 a heart, it palps 4 you— Thy voice is intifi melody. Tis? to be thy loved 1. 2 Sa. Oy nymph, wilt marry me!” Then lisped she, “ Why, 131yV” — tit. Imuld journal. “Dear M. no love that tongue can tell,” Said he, “my own love can XL, No CD lover here you C, For IV medical decree: No fell DCC my skill defies. The elbow joint I can XII; Sweet A rab maid, your II in me Your own D voted M. D. C'.: Then fly with me to distant Texas, Your own devoted, loved LXX! ” —Burlinylon Hawk-Eye.

Celery Leaves for Cows.

A writer in an Australian paper states that, in many districts of the colony, the leaves of the celery are highly esteemed as food for milch cows, and are often preferred to red clover. The cows are said to eat them most greedily, and to yie’d on this food a far sweeter and richer milk than on any other. Bometimes the leaves are cut up small, scalded with hot water, and given as a mash mixed with bran, and sometimes they are given whole in their natural state with the other ordinary food.

Another Florida Rattlesnake.

While hunting last Thursday, Mr. J. W. Dyke killed a rattlesnake which had charmed a full-grown squirrel from a tree and swallowed it, with the exception of its hind feet, though the squirrel was still alive. The snake measured five feet ten inches in length, and had ten (Fty,) Advocate.