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MOLESKIN PANTSI We have just placed on sale one lot of Moleskin Pants at the remarkably low price of $1.50. MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. fit JNO. C. NEW A SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1884. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL be found at the following places: —American Exchange in Europe. 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard des Capacities. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUIS VTT.LF—C. T. Bearing, northwest comer Third and Jefferson streets ST. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. - ’ REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. National Ticket. President —JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine. Vice-president —JOHN A. LOGAN,, of Illinois. -State Ticket. • Governor —WlLLlAM H. CALKINS, of La Porte Bounty. Lieutenant-governor —EUGENE H. BUNDY, of Henry county. Secretary oe State— ROBERT MITCHELL, of Gibson county. Auditor oe State —BßUCE CARR, of Orange county. Treasurer or State—ROGEß R. SHIKL, of Marion county. Attornev-gkneral —WlLLlAM C. WILSON, of Tippecanoe county. Judge of tiie Supreme Court. Fifth District —EDWIN P. HAMMOND, of Jasper county. Reporter Supreme Court— WILLIAM M. HOGGATT, of Warrick county. Superintendent of Public Instruction— BARNABAS C. HOBBS, of Parke county. presidential electors. State at large—Milo S. Hascall. of Elkhart: John M. Butler, of Marion. First District—James C. Veatch, of Spencer. Second—William B. Roberts, of Sullivan. Third—John G. Berkshire, of Jennings. Fourth—William D. Ward, of Switzerland. Fifth—Marshall Hacker, of Bartholomew. Sixth—Josiah E. Mellette, of Delaware. Seventh—Thad. S. Rollins, of Marion. Eighth—Elias S. Holliday. of Clav. Ninth—James M. Reynolds, of Tippecanoe. Tenth—Truman F. Palmer, of White. Eleventh—James F. Elliott, of Howard. Twelfth—Joseph D. Ferrell, of Lagrange. Thirteenth—John Reynolds, of St Joseph. We are confronted with the Democratic party, very hungry, and, as you may well believe, very thirsty; a party without a single definite principle; a party without any distinct natlonalpollcy which it dares present to the country; a party which fell from power as a conspiracy against humap rights, and now attempts to sueak back to power as a conspiracy for plunder and spoils.— Geo. Wm. Curtis, June 5, 1884.

“Is there any good reason why Hendricks shoald be selected from forty-live millions of people to be the possible head of a Government which he did his best to destroy?”—Geo. W. Curtis in' 1876. “I killed Print Matthews. I told him not to vote, and he voted and I killed him. It was not me that killed him—it was the party If I bad not been a Democrat I wonld not have killed him. It was not me, bat the Democratic party; and now if the party is a mind to throw me off, d—n such a party.—E. B. Wheeler of Hazlehurst, Miss, afterwards elected Marshal by the Democratic party. I have carefully observed the attitude and movements of the Democratic party for twenty years. In ray judgmentit has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. So far as lean perceive, Jt Is not only swayed by the same principles, bat, to a large extent, guided by the same men.—President Capen, of Tuft’s College, Mass. Mr. Blaine has what may be called the American instinct.—Geo. Wit. CURTIS, in Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 5.1881. Mb. Cleveland might try benzine. Democrats regard Hev. Mr. Ball as being a base ball. Democratic papers bope yet to prove that it was Rev. Ball, and not Mr. Cleveland * aIL Cleveland has gone a-flshing, oblivious of the fact that alibis don’t bite this late in the season. It is called “English cholera” west of the channel. English, or Indian, it is all the came. The cholera that kills is the kind we don’t want. Another "independent" has come out for Cleveland and reform. His name is Billy McGlory, and he has just “come out” of the public institution on Blackwell’s island. Somebody —not an equal suffragist, either —has been mousing among the laws of Massachusetts, and has discovered that the Legislature, by a majority vote in any year, can enable women to vote for presidential electors. A change of the State Constitution would be necessary before they could take part in the •lection of Governor, other State officers or jtnembers of Congress. The advocates of the

suffrage cause have been working earnestly in Massachusetts for many years to secure an amendment to the Constitution, and have grown somewhat discouraged by repeated failures. With the matter so simplified in at least one direction, they will take new heart and vote for Blaine's Successor four years hence, or know the reason why. The lot of the Massachusetts legislator who opposes female suffrage is likely to be an unhappy one in the Bay State. SUNDAY'S EARTHQUAKE. Following the comfortable teachings of Prof. Arnold Guyot, the late eminent physical geographer of Princeton College, the American people have felt very easy as to any harm from earthquakes. That Java and Italy should suffer was to be expected; they lie in earthquake areas. But the late English earthquake and the earthquake of Sunday are further evidence that no part of the globe is free from the effects of the increasing tension produced in the earth’s crust by the steady contraction of our cooling planet. This immense strain is relieved by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions; also by those secular movements which result in the elevation of immense mountain folds, the sinking of vast areas and the elevation of corresponding areas. The strain is constant; the accommodations of the crust to it result in earthquakes, and these are catalogued by thousands; they occur nearly every week, and by the physical geographer are regarded rs among the regular and continuous terrestrial phenomena. Their general causes, as also those of volcanoes, were fully discussed in these columns in the articles en - titled “Earth Changes,” following the Java and pasamicciola disasters, and “The English Earthquake,” following the shake-up which has just been paralleled in the region of New York and Philadelphia. The law of distribution of earthquakes is of paramount importance for the explanation of these mysterious phenomena. While they are liable to occur anywhere, it is a significant fact that the classical centers of concussion, the places in which' earthquakes have been most-numerous and violent, fall within two great zones of broken lands. The first is the Pacific ocean zone. In it are the earthquake areas of the Andes, with such eruptions as that of August 1868. This shook the Andes from Chili to Ecuador, a thousand miles, obliterating Arica, the main harbor of Bolivia, in a moment It swallowed up the cities of Ibarra and Ottawalla, and not one of their 10,000 residents was ever seen again. Three hundred thousand people were made homeless in a moment. The sea was as furious as the earth; the ships in the harbor of Arica were stranded, and the United States steamer Wateree left two miles inland.

To the Pacific ocean zone of fracture belong also the earthquake centers of west North America, Kamtchatka and New Zealand. In the second zone of broken lands occurs the great Mediterranean area, extending from Spain to Syria, and including Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and North Africa. These two zones of fracture encircle the earth at nearly right angles, indicating the lines of crust weakness; they cross each other in the Arabian and Indian areas. Here, as Prof. Guyot says, is the really classic soil of earthquakes—the East IndiaD archipelago, with such examples as the late destruction of an entire coast range of mountains in Java and the formation of a range of volcanic mountains across the Strait of Sunda. The general distribution of earthquakes is analagous to that of volcanoes—both are intense in their action along the great fracture lines of our planet, but the domain of earthquakes extends far beyond that of volcanoes. This cursory view of earthquake distribution is reassuring, as it shows that the great areas of the continents, as north and central Europe, the great plains of south Asia, with their vast populations, and the most valuable and generally habitable portions of North America are outside of the probable range Os destructive earthquake action. It shows, also, that these apparently spasmodic and irregular exhibitions of nature’s forces are really acting under a traceable and discoverable law and method. It is the result of the earth's gravity, taken in connection with the shrinkage due to the loss of the primary heat with which the forming earth was endowed. The occurrence of Sunday’s earthquake may be referred to a secondary zone of fracture, incident to the formation of the Allegheny coast range. The eastern Cordilleras, as the term is used by Dana and Whitney, includes not only the Alleghenies proper, but also the Adirondacks and the Nova Scotia ranges. The various ridges of these chains were thrown up as gigantic earth-folds from the effect of the pressure that came at right angles to the line of folding—that is, from the east and southeast—and it is likely that the pressure was due to the formation through the action of animal life and from drifted material of immense deposits in the Atlantic ocean bed. The thickened ocean bed abutting on the ridges and solid lands of the old world stood firm and unyielding, and as the shrinkage of the crust went on, the strain was thrown on the coast Jines and areas of the slowly growing American continent. Some of these mountain ranges are of pre-silurian age; others are middle-silurian, as in the Green mountains; others, again, as some of the Allegheny coal-bearing ranges, are post-car-boniferous. Often the pressure has doubled the folds over on each other, so that the same coal-bed is pierced twioo vertically, while most of the ridges have their abrupt slopes on the west, and their long, gentle slopes toward the line of pressure, that is to-

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ward the Atlantic. The occurrence of great faults along the Alleghenies, some of them showing plainly that one side has been carried down vertically over four miles, and until portions of the upper Devonian strati: lie walled against the lowest strata of the lower Silurian, are suggestive of the mighty forces involved when these mountains were forming, and which are still gently exercising their titanic strength. One of these faults amounts to a continental land-slip, beginning at Quebec, trending southward, and crossing the Hudson river at Rhincbeck, fifteen miles above Poughkeepsie. Slight shocks of earthquake have not been unusual in the United States. Whether they are from local centers or reflected from a distance is not always easy to determine. The only convulsion assuming any aspect of terror was that of 1811-12, the period of the great Caraocas earthquake, which occurred on the 26th of March, 1812, and lasted, with numerous daily shocks, until the sth of April. The New Madrid earthquake was initiated December 16, 1811, near midnight, and extended over a period of twenty months. It left a sunken area nearly 100 miles long and five to seven miles wide west of the Mississippi, on the line of Missouri and Arkansas, in which the catalpa trees still stand with their tops just above the water. Farms were twisted out of shape, hills were changed into lakes, bayous made into high ground. So great was she destruction of property and so irretrievably ruined were many of the farms that Congress passed a law granting each proprietor who had sustained serious loss a section of land to make good the ravages of the earthquake. Although but few lives were lost, the traditions are preserved, and have done much to retard the development of that region. AN INSINCERE ORATOR, In his last gieat speech (S2OO and expenses), delivered in Brooklyn, last week, Carl Schurz, speaking of the outcome of a possible Democratic success iu this campaign, said: “There was a time when such a transfer of power appeared to involve great danger. That was the time of the civil war, of supreme national peril. That time lies twenty years behind us. * * * What a long, uninterrupted period of party ascendency may accomplish we have already learned bv painful experience. I go further, and affirm the very notion that there is only one political party capable of carrying on the government, or that there is only one party that can be trusted with it, will, in the iong run, become seriously dangerous to free institutions, A republic in which this assumption is practically maintained will be a republic only in name. * * There must he, therefore, in the very nature of Republican government, occasionally a change from one party to another.” But Carl Sehurz of to-day is not the Carl Schurz of the last campaign. Just four years ago, in this very city of Indianapolis, Carl Schurz spoke on this identical topic. At that time he said:

“It is an almost universally acknowledged fact that at present the public business is, on the whole, well and honestly conduoted in the government, offices. Now, substitute for this the Democratic reform, making a clean sweep according to the old spoils system, and what will you have? Hundreds of thousands of politicians, greaj and small, but all hungry, rushing for seventy or eighty thousand places, backed and pressed by every Democratic congressman and every Democratic committee in the land. This impetuous rush must be sat-, isfied as rapidly as pbssible, for they want to make the best of tlieir time, and, in this case as well as others, time is money. It is useless to disguise it; the masses of office-seekers; starved for twenty years, will not be turned back as long as there is a mouthful on the table. Seventy or eighty thousand officers, selected at random from that multitude of ravenous applicants, will be put into places held now mostly by men of tried capacity and experience. They must be taken at random, for it is impossible to fill so large a number of places in so short a time as the furious demand will permit in any other way. Need I tell any sensible man what the effect upon the conduct of the public business will be? It will be the disorganization of the whole administrative machinery of the government at one fell blow.” Warming up to his theme, he continued: “Need I tell the tax-payers what such an experiment will cost? Suppose, after a success of the Democratic party in a presidential election, all the offices, high and low, in ail the banks and savings institutions of the country, were to be filled suddenly with Democratic politicians upon the recommendation of Democratic congresemen and campaign committees, what would the stockholders ahd the depositors think of the safety of their money? And yet the interests involved in the banks are certainly by no means greater than the interests involved in the conduct of the great government of the United States. Ido not think this is putting the case too strongly, and I invite the business men of the country and the tax-payers generally to consider it well before they cast their votes.” We appeal from Call Schurz drunk on Democratic liquor, to Carl Schurz sober. If what he said was true four years ago was true then, it is true now. Thinking people will be of opinion that the rush of 50,000 “hungry Democrats” [Schurz, 1880,] could but be disastrous. That there would be such a raid in event of a Democratic victory is conceded. Mr. Hendricks has admitted that not less than that number of federal officials would have to be ousted to make room for Demooratic bummers. Read again what Mr. Schurz had to say of such a thing in 1880. See which of his utterances is the more reasonable—that of last week or that of 1880. Read them both, to see what kind of estimate must be placed upon Mr. Schurz’s sincerity as a reformer. From conservative government he plunges in the plan to sack the government for the spoils of office. The Hessian services of this man have lost their value. He may still demand S2OO a speech, but he would be dear at a dollar a month. The Georgia editors have been on an excursion “up North,” and have seen several things which they never saw before. They also failed to see some things, among them a picture of Jeff Davis hanging among the portraits of the other ex-Secretaiies of War in Secretary Lincoln’s office. The reason they

failed to see it was because it was not there. The editors having returned to their homes, one of them proceeds to remark aB follows in his paper, the Newman Advertiser: “The first thing that is done when the change of administration comes ought to be the putting of the noble face of the grand old hero of the Mexican war, and one of the most brilliant Secretaries of the department in all the history of the Union, in its proper place.” The second thing to be done would prob ably, in the opinion of this patriot, be the" reappointment of the unrepentant rebel President to his old office under the government. The “change of administration” which brings this about may come some other year, but Mr. Blaine, who takes charge next March, will hardly please the Southern editors by ordering a portrait of Davis as his first act. The facts in the McSweeney case, now used to prove that Mr. Blaine, as Secretary of State, neglected the interests of an Irish-American citizen, are as fo-iows: As soon as the coercion act, under which McSweeney was arrested, was passed, Mr. Blaine, without waiting to obtain an official copy, instructed Minister Lowell, at London, to guard zealously the interests of American citizens, and to see that any arrested under that act should be speedily released or accorded an early trial. The date of this instruction was May 24, 1881. On the 2d of June following, after he had received a copy of the act, Mr. Blaine wrote to Mr. Lowell renewing his instructions in emphatic terms. The letter had hardly reached Mr. Lowell when President Garfield was shot by Guiteau. This calamity falling upon the President naturally interfered with the release of the suspects, and, with Minister Lowell’s lack of energy, perhaps, the cases dragged through several months. McSweeney's case was never officially presented to Mr. Blaine; but, having received letters from McSweeney himself, Mr. Blaine forwarded them to Mr. Lowell, instructing him to act in the matter in the spirit of the letters of May 24 and June 2. The British government claimed that McSweeney should be treated as a British subject, holding that, while he had once lived in the United States, he was a citizen of Ireland at the time of his arrest. The release of the prisoner, however, was secured through Mr. Blaine’s efforts in behalf of other American citizens imprisoned at the time. It now appears that McSweeney was undoubtedly a regular citizen of Ireland at the time of his arrest, and has formally proved himself such since by' accepting the office of poor-law guardian at Donegal, and is an active candidate for parliamentary honors, in discharging the duties of either of which office he roust take an oath of allegiance to the Queen. So much for the charge that Mr. Blaine has not always had the rights of e'very American citizen at heart. The charge lias never deceived intelligent Irishmen, and has done no harm to Mr. Blaine, whose Americanism is too pronounced and too well known to be toppled over by an idle allegation that had no foundation in fact.

The price of quinine is steadily falling, a fact that will probably be used by free-traders to prove that the removal of the tariff has brought it about. Superficially, this explanation will do; but a fact of greater influence on the price of quinine remains. With the partial exhaustion of the cinchona forests of Peru, the experiment of cultivating the bark was undertaken in Ceylon and Java, and it proved so successful that the supply of bark is now largely in excess of the demand. The price, therefore, would undoubtedly have declined had not the tariff been removed. The removal of the duty had the effect claimed by protectionists. Little or no quinine is now made in the United States, the great chemical firm of Powers & Weightman having their supply manufactured at Mannheim, Germany, where wages are lower than here. The same effect would result from the removal of import duties from any article of manufacture that could be produced more cheaply abroad than here. So that whenever the laboring classes of this country want other countries to do our work they may vote for men and measures looking toward free trade. The New York World will realize no valuable returns from its contemptuous designation of “soap,” as applied to the contribution made by John Greenleaf Whittier to the Republican campaign fund. If the manipulators of Democratic campaign methods were but half as honest as the Quaker poet, Seven-more-mules Bamutn would not now be at the head of its national committee, nor would the infamous attempt to buy the presidency be a part of the disgraceful history of that party. Will the custodian of the boss bun please pass that article to the Albany Argus? With an ingenuousness born of hereditary ignorance it rises and blandly declares that: “Not a single message, or veto or appointment of Grover Cleveland as mayor or as Governor has ever been criticised by his political opponents. His official action has formed one unbroken line of excellence.” The young man who penned that paragraph will think a pile-driver has hit the Democratic party square on the head in November next. On Sunday the Boston Herald printed an alleged libelous attack on Rev. Mr. Ball, the Buffalo clergyman who figures so largely in the Cleveland scandal, and yesterday Mr. Ball brought suit against the paper. Up to date Mr. Cleveland has not instituted a libel suit against anybody. BoSTON Democrats started out to ratify the nomination of Cleveland and Hendrieks on Friday night, and, basing their calcula-

tions on the crowds which flock to Butler’s meetings when he opens a campaign, they hired three halls. They rallied to the best of their ability, but at Faneuil Hall, which was only partially filled, the crowd hurrahed for Butler at every opportunity. Several hundred empty benches cast a gloom over the proceedings at Tremont Temple, while the cheera indulged in there were chiefly for Blaine. No one went to the Meionaon at all. Asa whole, the rally was not a success. DemOAatic leaders in Boston, viewing the gradual dropping out from their ranks of independent and other converts, sadly liken their party to a horse-car, which conveys passengers as far as to go and allows them to get off. Out this way the Democratic party is regarded as more nearly resembling the long-eared animal which pulls the “horse”-car —a tough little beast that never grows, and goes round and round over the same beaten track forever Those who would like to free Mr. Cleveland from the stigma of the seandal raised against him by the ministers of the city in which he lives, are attempting to do it by assailing the character of his accusers. They represent that Rev. Ball, upon whom the storm center of Democratic wrath has settled, is a breeder of disturbances, and is never happy unless stirring up trouble. Let it be conceded that Rev. Ball is a very disagreeable man. What then? Because Maria Halpin is a widow, and Rev. Ball and other Buffalo clergymen are no better than they should be, in the eyes of Beecher and other moralists, therefore Mr. Cleveland is worthy the support of all men who want “reform.” Great is the independent party. Democratic papers have not yet established an alibi for their candidate, but they seem to think that they have come very .near it in proving that he signed the anti-tenement cigar bill, passed by a Republican Legislature. Ex-Senator McDonald thinks Indiana will go Democratic. Ex-Senator McDonald also thought the Chicago convention would nominate him for the presidency. He is an amiable gentleman, but to err is human. Replying to the recent criticism of the genuineness of the Bryennios MS. of “The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," made by a correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, Francis Brown, of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, and one of the translators, says: “I do not know who the Advertiser's correspondent may be; he is certainly intelligent and tolerably well informed (not perfectly so, or he would have known without asking, that the Jerusalem MS. had never been sent to Germany); but in his intimations that Bryennios is the most likely author of the forgery, if forgery there be, ne is guilty of a covert and, for all that appears, utterly groundless attack upon a scholar of wide and high reputation. Such an attack is unworthy of the journalistic profession. It does not promote good morals, any more than i t promotes good scholarship, to scatter gratuitous insinuation against a man of recognized ability and standing.’’ William Hayes Ward, editor of the New York Independent, has this to say: “I have had letters f rom both President Washburn and Professor Long, the principals in the attempt to photograph the ‘Teaching,’ to whom the correspondent "of the Advertiser went Neither of them has the slightest suspicion of the genuineness of the MS. The pig-headed-ness of the custodian was the cause of all the trouble, and the only cause of it I have in my office a copy of the photograph which was taken. ”

Eastern journals are agitated about the “Mother Hubbard’ dress, which is forbidden to be worn on the streets of certain Western towns. Because the loose, flowing garment known as the “Mother Hubbard" has been worn and not only accepted, but admired, for some years in the East, they do not understand why the same gown should be dogged off the thoroughfares elsewhere, and conclude that it must be some very different and more indecent sort of covering which passes by that name. For their benefit it may be explained that it is the same dress, and the difference in its treatment is explained by the fact that in this, as iu many other cases, Western taste, being less vitiated, recognizes a monstrosity when it sees one. That was a very pathetic letter written to his wife by a “traveling agent” at Pontiac, previous to shooting himself dead. After begging his darling not to grieve too much but to con • tinue to be the good, true woman that she is, he exclaims: “Think how happy we could have been if we could only have had enough to get along with.” Whether he found it too hard to make a living for two, or whether he removed himself out of consideration for his wife, believing that she could provide better for one, is not disclosed. At all events, the bereaved lady, if she has’ proper feeling, will always reproach herself thatjshe married without an income sufficient to insure her husband's happiness. When you Handle the new postal-notes, see that the cuticle is unbroken on your hands and face. A New York publisher, who had a habit of rubbing his chin with thumb and forefinger, after wettingthese members to facilitate the counting of notes, suddenly began to swell, and continued swelling until his body assumed enormous proportions. The doctors said he was afflicted with arsenical poisoning, which must have been conveyed to his system from the postal currency, through a hole in his chin. In spite of this new danger, probably few persons will be restrained from counting the greenest kind of currency every chance they get. Justice Welde, of New York city, is an official friend of the fair sex Recently a man was brought before him who had shot a woman who was peeping through his blinds one night, he mistaking her for a burglar. He wanted to be released on bail, but the justice held him in durance vile. This is right. Let it once be established that defenseless women have no right to peer through windows, night or day, and—well, the sex won’t stand it To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will you oblige us by informing us whether Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks has ever voted for a colored man? We understand that he voted for a negro for marshal of Indianapolis in 1878. Hartford, Ky. C. M. Pendleton. It is possible that Mr. Hendricks personally voted for William Christy, colored, for marshal, in 1879. He was nominated on the Democratic ticket to capture the colored vote. But the

Democratic party would not stand the “disgrace." and he ran from 1,200 to 1,400 behind his ticket, receiving but 4,661 votes, while Buskirk, for mayor, polled 6,001 votes, and Beck, lor treasurer, 5,861, or exactly 1,200 more than the colored man could command at the hands of the Democrats. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Vegetarians can have a dinner of three courses for sixpence at the health exhibition in London. There are fifteen young ladies from Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, taking a tramp in the Adirondacks. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is not at Manehes-ter-by-tke-Sea, butis having a good time at his country place in Beverly- Farm s-near-the-Depot. Miss Kate Field will lecture this coming yew under the auspices of the Williams Lecture Bureau. The topic will be “The Mormon Monster." Marion Crawford is in Constantinople, The sue cessful novelist is, it is said, about to be married to Miss Berder, daughter of General Berder, “of the guns." In their next visit to this country Henry Irving and Ellon Tewy will be accompanied by Chief Justice Coleridge’s son Stephen, who also will bring his wife with him. An American woman named Scroogin was married to a Chinaman named Wun Lung, the other day, iu Denver. As neither desired to take the other's name they compromised on "Smith. A West Somerset, England, jury is said to have returned the verdict, ‘ ‘Died by the hereditary visitation of God.” in the case of a man who had broken his neck when drunk and whose grandfather had met with a like mishap. Mr. Joseph M. Blair, of Richmond, offers a prise of $25, or medal of equal value, for the best essay on “Self-supporting Employment for Ladies in ths Southern States," and Mr. George W. Mayo, of Richmond. will receive competitive essays till Oct. 15. President Arthur has sent a valuable gold watch and chain to Oaptam Brien. commander of the British barkentine Susan, in recognition of his conspicuous bravery in rescuing the officers and crew of the American ship Tenuessee while that vessel was burning at The American publishers of Sir Lepel Griffin’s prep sterously poor book describe him in their advertisements as “as English noble,” this elevating him to the peerage, when in point of fact he is not even a baronet, but simply a knight plumed with i “Sir" by oourtesy. According to a veracious correspondent, Lord Rupertawood, of Melbourne, Australia, is worth $200,000,000, and has the most magnificent residence in the world, which was bnilt at a cost of $5,000,000. His wealth is increasing so rapidly that hie lies awake at night, thinking what to do with it. ! A CXfHOLIC society in Ohio, called “The Purgatorial Association," is said to be growing rapidly. According to a recent report the members are say in; about 14,000 decades of the rosary every week foi the poor souls. The obligation of each member is on“our Father’’ and ten “hail Marys.” or one decade oj the rosary every day for souls in purgatory. FrOm Dublin is reported au extraordinary story of a lioness eating her own tail. One day she removed twelve inches of it, and, though efforts were made to heal the bleeding stump, the lioness continued to eat the tail until it had almost entirely disappeared. One of the fore paws was then attacked, and it was be lieved that the operation would end in self-destruo-tion.

The latest treatment of brain irritation consists of seclusion in a darkened room for from ten to fifteen hours a day, while progressively increasing the hours of sleep; and the excessive use of bromides and other stupor-inducing sedatives is discouraged. It is claimed that the soothing effect of a deep twilight is alone a therapeutic agent of great value in oases of extreme cerebral irritability. Nicholas Anchobena, who died two months since at Buenos Ayres, was probably the richest farmer in the world. His executors report his rural estates as follows: Land, 1,710 square miles; cows, 152,000; sheep, 410,000. He also owned- much houso property in Buenos Ayres, and his assets have been valued at £2,400,000, He inherited £200,000 from hie father thirty years ago. Edward Kino writes to the Boston Journal that it 18 absurd to be afraid to visit Paris this summer, on account of the cholera; that the great city has been unusually comfortable 4 “in spite of heats which have exceeded anything known here since 1875.” The shopkeeper, he adds, “laments and says This is all along of your sacre republique,' " for somehow they lay the cholera scare all on the government. A dairyman in Milan keeps an intelligent rooster in his bed-room to wake him up in the morning. The bird, in order not to disturb his master’s slumber, refrains from crowing until 6 o'clock, when he emits one loud crow, jumps upon the bed, and begins eagerly to peck at the slumberer. He has been taught that his breakfast of corn depends upon it, and he knows when it is 6 as*correctly as the clook does. In the Catskill mountains summer boarders find much amusement in riding on butsk-board wagons. In this way they are taken to “meeting" evenings. A single board is placed over the wheels. On this sit half a dozen persons who are drawn by an ox team to the school-house. The minister snuffs the candles with his fingers, “the women folks" carry sprigs of fennel and dill for perfume and to nibble on during service. Sir John McDonald, the present Premier of Canada, is said to have started in life as a bootblack in Glasgow. He emigrated to Canada at an early age. When only eighteen the daughter of a wealthy Canadian fell in love with him, and he ran away with her to a clergyman, who consented to marry them. The bride's father, after a time, forgave this escapade and started him in business. Thence he drifted into politics, and displayed so much shrewdness and tact that in a short time he was a leading member of the Ministerial party in the Dominion Parliament. The court dress worn by Mrs. John W. Foster, the wife of our minister to Madrid, had a petticoat of heavy lemon gros grain, hand embroidered with large gold and silver lilies; around the bottom of the skirt was a double ruche of lemon tulle, and over this a fringe of small pearls. The oourt train, four yards in length, was of heavy lemon satin,brocaded with crimson velvet and gold lilies, and lined with satin and plush of the same dark crimson. The low corsage was of the same material as the train, trimmed richly with lace, In the hair three crimson tips were fastened by diamond buckles. DR. Edwin Shippkn, acting as the representative of his fellow-surgeous in the navy, has had a handsome brass tablet ent by a firm in Philadelphia for erection in the village church at Culpepper, Va. The tablet bears the following inscription: “James Markham Ambler, passed assistant surgeon United States navy, died on the banks of the Lena river during the' memorable retreat of the ship’s company of the United States arctic steamer Jeannette, In the year 1881. His sense of duty was stronger than his love of life. In memory of his noble example and heroic death this tablet is erected by the medical officers of the United States navy." ) Father Bkckx, who has been general of the Society of Jesns since 1853, has withdrawn from his post on account of old ago, and Father Anthony Auderledy, who was elected his vicar and prospective successor by the general congregation of the order, In September last, has now definitely taken his placo. Father Beckx is a native of Belgium, and in the ninetieth year of his life. HU successor, Father Anderledy, is a native of the Swiss Canton of Valais, and sixty-five years old. He studied philosophy and theology in Rome and Freiburg, from which place he was driven into exile by the victory of the Protestant cantons over the Sonderbund in 1847. Hewent to Peidmont, but the revolution of 1848 compelled him to leave that country also. He, with many other Jesuits, sought refuge in the United States, and officiated as priest in Green Bay, WU., but in 1851 he returned to Europe, and was active as college diroctor or professor -successively at Cologne, Paderborn and Maria-Laaeh. In 1870 he became General Beckx’s assistant in Rome.