Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1881 — Page 2

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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT BAGBY Sc CO., OFFICE, 12 MILLER'S BLOCK Corner Illinois and Market Btm. J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. lnUnd as at cond-class matter at the Fostofflce at Indianapolis, Ind. ' TEBM3 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Infi Copy, 1 year. 6 months... m s montbfl 1 month J2.00 1.00 - .50 .20 1.75 1.50 Clnbs of tlx 1 year, each copy mn ten, 1 year, each copy..., mTTTCJ D A DPU niy b found on file at Lnlo r Arrju oeo. p. eowh a cos Newspaper AdTertising Bureau (10 Spruce St ) where advertising contract may da made for It In MEW YOB&. Habertbe for the leader. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Lead er: and let every white man who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to .!! I..V -I t 1-1 aid me iv egro in nis struggle ior mwr&i, swui and intellectual elevation do likewise. Professor Gregory, a colored gen tleman of Washington, and a member of the'iloward University faculty, is an applicant for the Consulship at Leeds, England. "We hope he may succeed. Manager De Beauplan, of the French Opera Troupe, was so fortunate as to loose his wife and his tenor singer both at the same time. They eloped together. We congratulate Monsieur De Beauplan. This season seems to be very pro lific of strikes. They have not as yet been productive of much trouble, and have generally resulted in the employers acceding to the demands made by the laborers. This fact shows that the country is in a healthy and prosperous condition. It seems pretty certain that when a vote is reached Mr. Robertson will be confirmed Collector of the port of New York. Mr. Conkling will op pose him with all his power, but Presidant Garfield is doubtless a "biger" man, officially speaking, than the New York Senator. Kecent discoveries made in excavating a pyramid in Egypt, threaten to overthrow many hitherto accepted theories in Egyptian history. Egyptology, we may remark, also threatens to become one of the sciences. Wo suppose it will be called a dead science, which will make it the more valuable (?) to our mod era schools and universities. Hereafter President Garfield can not be condemned on the score that He who dallies is a dastard," ' "And he who donbta is damned." He has sent his card with full directions as to his address to Mr. Conkling, and the latter is given to understand that hereafter business will bo business at the White House. There is said to be much disap pointment among colored politicians who went to Washington, expecting official recognition under the new administration. Some of them claim that to havo been a Hebel soldier sixteen years ago,isa better passport to office now, than to have been a colored Republican supporter of Garfield last year. Wo hope this feeling may prove entirely groundless. A violent newspaper war is raging in Louisville between Cyrus Adams, of the Bulletin, and a Mr. George Brown, of that city. It grew out of a dispute over the payment of percentage to Mr. Brown on his collec tions for tho Orphan's Homo of Louisville. Wo see no other legitimate means by which this unfortunate difference between these two distinguished gentlemen from Kentucky ("bo gawd, sah") can bo amicably arranged, except by an appeal to the "koad." In case the gentlemen at issue decide to settle their differences in this highly equitable manner, we desire to place tho whole State of Indiana at their disposal, and shall also hold ourselves in readiness to make any arrangements as to weapons, time, place, etc., that may be desired of us by the principal parties to the misunderstanding. We shall aw$it developments. Chicago and St. Louis, recent population rivals, are now rivals as to which shall have tho more troublo with their water supply. In St. Louis the supply is greater than the demand, and the water shows an aggravating disposition to run up into and spread itself out over the flat portions of tho city, to tho great detriment of property owners and residents generally. In tho Garden City the supply is entirely to rich with dead cats, decayed fish, etc., to suit the fastidious tastes of the aristo

cratic Lakesidcrs. The Chicago people, since their purification by fire, are manifesting considerable cultivation in their appetites. There was was nothing too rich for their blood before they were burnt out; now they complain bitterly if a thirsty appeal to their hydrants is rewarded with a bountiful supply of purest lake water, diluted with harmless though unfortunate fish, or portions of a useful house cat brought to an early and premature death. Such fastidiousness is entirely unbecoming in a city so amply supplied with people and riches as Chicago. But so much for a baptism of fire. SPIUNGFIELD, ILL., CIVIL KIGEirS. The hotel-keepers of Springfield, Illinois, unanimously refused to receive the Jubilee Singers a few days ago, assigning as a reason that they were "full." Tho general opinion, however, is that tho refusal was based on tho color of the singers. We are informed that Gen. John M. Palmer, foremost Democratic politician of Illinois, upon hearing of tho disreputable and lying'action of the hotel beef-jerkers and confidence hash-dealers, promptly tendered his

own private mansion for tho enter tainment of the singers. The offer was accepted, and the troupe was able to give its concert as per ar rangement. This is another illustration of the saying that blood will tell. Gen Palmer was no doubt born and edu cated a gentlemen in the true senso of the word. Hence his indignation at the beastly action of the bote sharks, and his kind hospitality to the singers. In all probability mos of theso hotel-keepers wcro a few years ago engaged in the humble but decent occupation of removing man erer excrescences from stable horses with a corn-cob; but having been cn abled, by some lucky turn iu the wheel of fortuno, to abandon tho chosen calling of their youth, and for which a bountiful nature had wel fitted them, they now assume the usual airs of shoddy parvenues From asserting an equality with or superiority to the horses which they formerly were accustomed to renovate, they now think the bed-bug palaces which they are permitted to sub-let, are too "tony" for tho recep tion of people who have been enter tained by the Duke of Argyle, Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Glad stone, the Emperor of Germany, and many others among the best and most distinguished people of Europe But then, after all, we may possibly be too severo upon the hotel-keepers of Springfield. Many benevolent people will consider it questionable whether ex-stable boys, who havo never traveled, and who probably can not read, should in any sense bo compared to such gentlemen and statesmen as William E. Gladstone and John M. Palmer. Lx-Secretary Thompson, of tho Navy, now President of Do Lesscps Panama Canal Company, proposes to take out a colony of 500 colored la borers from the Gulf States to assist in the work of severing the Isthmus Ho thinks they will be able to stand the tropical heat which prevails at Panama. In case they can not however, he will have rocourso to Cuban coolies, who we suppose can stand anything. POINTEK9 Walking-sticks for young ladies are in vogue In London. The Rothschilds will go Into mourning for Be&consfield. Paniers and tunics are short So are many of the husbands who pay for them. Ir a Minister can receive the title of "Dr." why can not a physician hare the Utle of "Rev?" He was fond of singing revival hymns, and his wife named their baby Fort, so that he would want to hold it. General Robert Toombs will lecture at Colum bus, Ga,, in behalf of a Public Library to be es tablished there. James Russell Lowell, the American Minister at London, is sixty-two years old, but of fresh and youthful appearance. Gem era l McClellan han been invited by the veterans of Antictam to help them celebrate their next anniversary, September 17. Carlylk once wrote to a popular author of the Mark Twain school, asking him: "And when, sir, do you bring out the comic Bible?" Thb President rides Iu saddle every evening after office hours, and usually goes alone. He rides leinurely and uncommonly well. The Paris Figaro hears that Minister Morton's wife speaks French like a Parisienne, and that he will give numerous fetes next winter. Fioht life's battle In the easiest way. Remem ber that It Is the sutler, not the soldier, who makes money out of the war. Boston Transcript. The following receipt for eloquence Is given by a "down-East" orator: "et yourself chock full of the subject, knock out the bung and let nature caper." "Hank." Monk, who drove Horace Greeley on the memorable stage-ride "across the continent," is now driving regularly on the stage line between Carson and Lake Tahoe, in Nevada. The acme of . politeness has been reached In Chicago, whee the young men when they step on a lady's foot bow and exclaim: "A thousand pardons; really your foot is so small that I didn't see it." "My dear." said an anxious matron to ter daughter, "It Is very wrong for young people to be throwing kisses at each other." "Why so. mamma? I'm sure they don't hurt if they do hit." The Countess de 8alnt Cricq. a descendant of the Chevalier Bayard, lately died at a great aee She was an Intellectual and womanly woman, and as an instance of her goodness of heart It is related that she kept at her country house an old I

donkey that had been accustomed for thirty years to go to market with baskets on each side, filled witn farm produce, He hiul grown so weak and so old that he could no longer bear laden baskets, and so to spare him the mortification of staying at home on market days, she would send him regularly to market witn empty baskets. Richard A. Proctor is preparing to turn his telescope on the star route. At least he is interested in it, and has been heard to remark that "this star route seems to be a big thing and that he had better see into it." Professor Swing, says, the coming man will be temperate, chaste, merciful, just, generous, charitable, large-hearted, sweet-tempered. Christian, a good neighbor and a faithful citizen. " And he might have added, he will be some time in coming. When President Lincoln's old home at Springfield, 111., was torn down, which happened but a bhort tinw ago, an enterprising lad bought up all the shingles, and with a little scroll saw has made them into brackets and other ornaments, which he sells at fifty cents a piece. Beyond a few adventurers floating in every society, who like mischief for mischiefs sake, and are ready to-morrow for whatever would summon them, the American people are profoundly devoted to peace. We would not raise a hand for all the domains that ever belonged to the Moutezumas. New York Herald. The celebrated cypress tree that had stood near the city of Sparta, Greece, for over 2.S00 years, and was described by Pausanias 100 years before the coming of Christ, has been destroyed, by a band of strolling Gypsies, who camped beneath it and left it burning. It was seventy-live feet high and ten feet in diameter. The eople of Sparta greatly mourn its loss. The Empress Josephine changed her linen three times a day, and never wi re any stockings that were not new. Huge baskets were brought to her containing dresses, shawl? and hats. From these she selected the costume of the day. She possessed between 200 and 400 shawls, and always wore one in the morning, which she draped about her shoulders with unqualified grice. Nicholas, the Grand I)uke who has been exiled from Russia for his supposed relations with the Nihilists, is a cousin of the Czar and an Inveterate scapegrace, ins escapade with the American adventuress, Miss Hattie Blackford, better known as Fanny Lear, brought him into unenviable notoriety. He was the black sheep of the Romanoffs, and what with stealing diamonds, playing Don Juan and engaging in Nih.'-.ist plots.thore was no other resource left but to put him where he can do no further harm to himself or the ruler of the Russias.

11 KS UM K OF TU: WEKK'S DKWS. Public executions will be discontinued in Russia. C. C. Peele was run over by a railroad train and killed near Richmond, Ind., Saturday. The steamer Faraday has sailed from London with 000 miles of cable for the new Gould Lines. Mischievous boys at Kingston, N. Y., have driven a Chinese laundrymau to insanity by continuous tricks. Nearlv 'JOO employes will Ik? dismissed from the Census Bureau at Washington between now and the 1st of June. Twenty thousand car loads of freight are awaiting shipment at Chicago, caused by a strike of the railroad switchmen. Nearly 5.000 immigrants landed at Castle Garden on last Friday. The demand for laborers continues to be large. The appointment of a negro on the Police Force of Auburn. X. Y., caused the immediate resignation of the chief and one patrolman. The amount of 6 per cent, bonds received at the Treasury Saturday for continuance at &yt per cent, was 1.,53,J,200. Aggregate amount received to date, S102.18.V70O. A proposition to hold the next World's Fair in Boston is being seriously discussed in that city. The Executive Committee of the New York project failedto secure a quorum recently. A lively emigration from Kansas' to Northern Wisconsin is retried to te in progress. The reason given by some of the movers is the adoption of the prohibitory amendment iu the former State. Mr. McConnelly, of Quincv, Mass., whose child was bitten by a dog belonging to Deborah Weston, and perished in the agonies of hydro.hobia, brought suit for Ji",000. and was awarded 1.200 last week. The Police Commissioners of Troy, N. Y., have made eleven attempts to choose a Superintendent without result. Tho roughs are growing very bold in their depredations, and a Vigilance Committee is threatened. A Land-league manifesto has appeared in London, signed by Justin McCarthy, urging Irishmen to evict their landlords as they themselves have been evicted, and to wreak vengeance at the polls on epostates from liberalism. Owing to. the general dissatisfaction between the inmates of the So'diers' Home at Dayton and me Governor, large numbers are leaving dailv, about 40 having left in tho last three weeks, going ou transfer to the other Homes. At Mendota, 111., Saturday, a teaia driven by Dr. J. H. Spear, became unmanageable, and ran in front of a passenger train on the Illinois Central Road. The Doctor was instantly killed, and both horses were literally torn to pieces. In an address before the American Agricultural Association, in New York last week, E. l'ekar, the Hungarian Commissioner recently sent over, aiir n ou need that the flinty winter wheat of Minnesota was the grain mostly sought in his country. A young son of Malachi Powell, of Tell C'itv, Ind., stole 11,000 from the family treasury, and left for Colorado. His father had him arrested In Kansas ou a requisition, has caused Iiis indictment, and will prosecute him to the Penitentiary. Saturday morning Mrs. Jane Warlow, wife of Hiram G. Warlow, a prominent citizen of Marshall County, Illinois, committed suicide by taking arsenic. The act was caused by the conduct of a daughter, who had recently entered a house of ill-fame. Near Winona, Miss., Friday, while some school children were playing under a small tree, it was struck by lightning and three of the children, Nannie and Willie Hatner, nine and seven years old. and Mary llightower, aged six, were instantly killed. Having closed the Cincinnati Theaters on Sunday, Mayor Means has served tho saloon-kceirs with a printed notice that he will enforce the Stubbs law should they dare to open their doors on the Sabbath. The Police (-'ourt is in accord with the Mayor. Robert Ballantync, a Federal soldier at Fort Clark, Texas, was once convicted of the murder of a comrade, and awarded seventeen years in the Penitentiary. Ills dissatisfaction led to a new trial, which has just concluded with a sentence of ninety-nine years. George Reiver, who has run a small huckster boat between Kctblehein, Clark County, Indiana, and Louisville, was found dead on hisboat Tuesday morning, hi ueinicnein, witn ins throat cut. 11c nau ieen murdered and robbed during the night No clue to the perpetrator. Intimate friends of tho President are open in their announcements that a din-ct war ujon Conkling has begun, and will le fought with the iuii lorces at tho command of the Administration I hey are satisfied that conservative Democrats will aid in confirming good nominations, and seem to have no fears of the result of the lutle. Tli. It V. f . r . . . . i . iiiu iiiiMiiiiKiun uruinv iieruiu enniimr-ri n double leaded editorial denying that the star Route money was used to advance the chances of uaiicocK at Cincinnati. J he oil tor savs that ihm. cock's friends had very little money: that none was used In his behair, and that the Hancock boom, from first to last, was not assisted by Star ivuuw Miuuey or any einer Kind. The prayer-cure establishment at Erie. Pa., nm by Father Malouey, has been closed bv the investigations of a reporter. In the case of Ellen McOuillian, who was raised from the death-bed. there Is evidence of a collusion between the Priest and the patient. Bishop Mullen would hold no intercourse with Malonev. and tho !. r forwarded charges against him to Archbishop Woods, of Philadelphia. A rupture has occurred iu Parnell's nartv. At a meeting in Ixindon, on Friday night, after a stormy discussion, a resolution to abstain from voting on the second reading of the land bill and to leave th House when a division is i-itl una adopted by a vote of 17 to 12. Partiell threatened to resign the leadership unless it was passed while Sullivan has written a letter declining longer to acknowledge Parnell's authority. The United States Senate ratified tho Chine. and Japanese treaties and took final, action on eighty-four nominations last werk. Among those confirmed were William Walter Phelps to be Minister to Austria and Lionel A. Sheldon to l iim-. ernor of New Mexico. The President sent m the name of George P. Pomerov. of New Jersev. to ho Secretary of Legation at Paris, and withdrew the nominatlous of Stewart L. Woodford, Ash W. Tenliey. I-CWis F. Paviie. Clinton I. Mrlkiuoiill nn,l John Tyler to Federal ofliee in tho stuto f v.. ork. The Lower House of the Uli was the scene of intense excitement lust Thum. day afternoon. While the vote boh iff talrTi on the passage of the bill to prevent the pooling Of parallel lines of railways, a member, in behalf of himself and fifteen others, demanded that absentees be sent for. The Speaker refused to recognize him, and. amid great confusion, declared the bill lost, and at once adjourned the House. A personal altercation followed between two leeisators, while a third seized tho travel and started a rump session, which was adjourned to 8 in the evening. At this time some thirty odd members assembled, signed a protest, and declared their determination to tass the bill desnito tho Knu. cr's opposition. forkion. A dispatch from Bolton. I-nnensM ret cot-a a tarn. Ily named Seddon have had a windfall of property

valued at 4,000,000, which had been in chancery since 1S57. The property was bequeathed to John Seddon, who died in the vVork House. His heirs inherit this vast fortune. The British Board of Trade returns for April show a decrease of 5.379.703 in value of imIorts, as compared with the same months last year, and a decrease of 1,493,02! iu value of exports. A Constantinople dispatch says: "Intelligence has been received that a party of Circassians attacked Mr. Pears, an American missionary, and maltreated his escort. Consul General Heap has complained to the Porte." A St. Petersburg dispatch says: "A ukase will be published Saturday or Sunday lessening the rents to which peasants are liable for lands from 30 to 65 per cent. This will apply to thirteea Northern Governments. There will be other measures of amelioration for the South. The executions of a Constitution are probably chimerical." A letter from the most Rev. Thomas W. Croke, Archbishop of Cashel, is published, in which he says: "I can not approve the action which the Irish party are said to contemplate to exhibit their sense of loyalty to Dillon, and reprehension for his arrest. An overwhelming majority of the Irish people are in favor of giving the Government a fair chance of passing the laud bill." Dispatches received at 'Constantinople from Damascus state that Fezi Pasha surrounds the Druses in the Hawrau District, and demands from them an Indemnity of 10.000 for the pillage of Turkish villages and the massacre of inhabitants. The Porte fears they will effect a union with the Druses of Lebanou. Some. Arab Druses entered and pillaged Mecca, which is cut off from postal communication. A caravan of Musselman pilgrims from India was also pillaged. A remarkably interesting experiment has just Wen made at Calais and Dover, between which places conversation has been kept up viva voce bv means of anew kind of telephone which has lx-eii patented under the name of electrophone. Not only were words whispered into the apparatus at Calais distinctly heard at Dover, and of course vice versa, but the listener at one end was perfectly well able to distinguish by mere tones of voice, the person who was speaking at the other end. A sstory Illustrative of n Peculiar Trait of Human Character. The following humorous article from the Detroit Free Press has more of a moral in it than tho hasty reader might discover. We do not understand it to be in any sense a slur uton the ttible and things sacred, but rather a capital take-off of that class of persons, of whom there are not a few in the world, who will drop their work any moment to enter into a theological dispute or an argument of some abstract ioint ot no practical value. "Wc let our Detroit contemporary tell the story, and the reader can hunt up the living examples and point the moral. A "hired man'' who had been employed on a farm in this County for several mouths entered suit against his employer the other day for balance of his wages, amounting, as lie claimed, to $32. The suit was on Justice alloy yesterday, and it looked at first as if the plaintiff had a clear case. He gave dates and figures in a straightforward way, and seemed a very honest young man. 'When the farmer took the stand he said: "I claim an offset for that $.12. No man m ed sue me for what I honestly owe." "What is your offset?" asked the lawyer. "lie is an unheliever." "In what?" "Why, in the Hible." "What has that to do with your owing him $32?" "It.hasa Leap to do with it. I had six hands in my employ, and we were rushing things when I hired this man. lie haiin'i been with us two days when they stopped the reaper in the middle of the furenon to dispute about Daniel in the lion's den. and in three days we had a regular kK.ck-down over the whale swallowing Jonah. The man who run the mower got to arguing about Samson, and drove over a stump and damaged the machine to the tune of $1, and the very next day my boy broke his leg while climbing a fence to hear and see the row which started -over the children of Israel going through the Ited Sea. It wasn't a week before my wife said she did not believe Klijah was fed by the ravens, and hang me if I didn't find myself growing weak on Noah and the Hood. That's mv off-set. and

if he was worth anything I'd sue him for a thousand dollars beside." The Court reserved its decision twentylour hours. Heredity of ISeauty. Cornhill Magazine. 3Ir. Darwin believes that the ireneral beauty of tho English upper class, and es pecially that ot tho titled aristocracy, is probably due to their constant selection of the most beautiful women of all classes (peereses, actresses, or wealthy bourgeoise) as wives, through an immense number of generations. The regular features and com plexions of the mothers are naturally hand ed down by heridity to their dcscenclents. rsimuarly, it would seem that wo must ac count lor tho high average of personal beauty among the ancient (iroeks and mod ern Italians by the high average of general taste, the strong love of the beautitul dif fused among all classes in both thoso races. The prettier women and the handsomer men would stand a better chanco of marry ing, other things equal, and of handing down their refined typo and figure to their v:i.i tr n:. i.- l. i ; iLiiuruu. n uns ue bo toe evoiuiionissi at least, can hardly doubt it then wo should expect everywhere to find the general level of personal beauty highest where there was tho widest diffusion of jesthetic taste. Now, our own squalid poor aro noticeable, as a rule, for their absolute and repulsivo ugh ncss, even when compared with those of European countries. Gaunt, hard-faced women, low-browod, bull-dog-looking men. shapeless children, people tho back slums of our manutaetunng towns. Their painful ugliness can not all be duo to their physical circumstances alone for the lazzaroni who hang about tho ttroets of Naples must load lives oi about equal hardship and discern fort yet many of them, both men and women, are beautiful enough to sit as mod els lor a hwnardo. On tho other hand, ev ery traveler speaks of tho beauty and graceruiness displayed by tho young and old aong the aesthetic Polynesians: while in in many like cases I note that Kuropoans who havo once become accustomed to the local type, find decidedly pretty face3 ox irumeiy common in several savago races whose primitive works of art show them in other ways to possess considerable aesthetic taste. In India, whoso artistic tasto is universal, almost ovcry man or woman is hand some. On tho whole, it soeras fairly proved mar, me average personal beauty everywhere corresponds to tho averago ireneral ovo oi beauty in tho abstract. lCellglon ad Prem TU ii.i:m-i. i i i Aiiu vaiuoue iciegrapa inuuiges in a Lenten homilv on that vorv delicato and dif ficult subject, "the dressof American ladies." opeaaing oi ino display oi dry goods and finery at a recent ball, it savs: "Money enough to feed and clotho a starving and a nakod nation was expended to dock th.v dainty figures, tho nocks, arms and lingers ftf I Vi n lartina VkwnaAnf 1..!. ..!...! 1 uv muiw I'livuw. ijutn vieu witn iier neighbor in the expensiveness of her gorgeous get-up, which was changed in many "si!, cuij uuu ui tuusu tu. u ignis, ana in every detail. Tho amount of Inoney ex pended in this manner must have been simply enormous. An irato millionaire might exclaim under criticism, '.May I not do what 1 will with mine own?' Tho au swer would De '3losi certainly, hut if von are a Catholic, or a Christian, ask yourself whether your chanty, your alms to tho poor, your contributions to Church purposes, are in proportion to me largo sums you lavish in empty display. Moreover, is all this grandeur in gmd taste?" Tho quotation from Iiiiskin which follows embodies wiso sufTpslions. "Now mind.'' ha nv r '"j-t 'you always dress charmingly; it is the first 1 A 1 1 1 1 uuiy oi a gin to no cuarimng, ana sue can 1 1 ! 1 ' . not ou cnarminir unless too is cnarnnnn-iv dressed. Not an examnle of a beautiful rlrrsn without extravagance, that 13 tc say, without wastrt or anv tinnecessarv snlendor Thn follows a quotation from one greater than Kuskin: "In like manner women in decent. annareL adorninrr themselves with mrwlAstv and sobriety, and not with plaited hair, or nit 1 1 1 .. 1 uiu, or pcaria, or uosny array, out as ll oecomcth women professing piety with good works." These words aro good, especially in Ient when the Church rrina with t Vir. wailinsr nronhet: "Gird thee with anrl-plnfh 0 daughter of my people, and sprinklo theo wuu asnes.

GKIjDIER'S PROPHECY.

Pestilence, Plague, Devastating Fires and Other Terrible Things Foretold. The follow ing prophecy of Professor Grimmer will be read with some interest All the evils are from the eftecta oi the perihelia of the four great planets Jupiter, Tiranas, Neptune and Saturn. If true, the common folks should take to the woods without farther delay. The prophecy runs as follows: From 1SS0 to 1837 will be one universal carnival of death. No place on earth will be entirely free from the plague. The Pacific Coast will not suffer anything in comparison to any other portion of the globe. The coincidence of these planets in perihelian will always produce epidemic and destructive diseases. Three of these planets are malifics, and Jupiter, although a benefic, produces evil through association; or, technical 1', by conjunction with the others. Diseases will appear, the nature of which will bailie the skill of the most eminent physician. Every drop of water in the earth, on the earth, and above the earth will be more or less poisonous. The atmosphere will be foul with noisome odors, and there will be few constitutions able to resist the coming scourge; therefore prepare ye that are- constitutionally weak, and intemperate, and gluttonous, for "man's last home the grave." From the far East the pestilential storm will sweep, and its last struggle will end in the far West. In 312 and 1005 three of the planets, two of which were nullifies (Mars and Saturn), were in perihelion, and Jupiter, though a benefic, brought evil, through association. Now 542 and KJi5 were the worst, plague eras of which the world has any record. From 542 to 556 it has been estimated that from 78,000,000 to 120,000,000 victims suffered death by the plague. ("Gibbon's History," vol. iii., chap, xiv.; also, "Cousin's History of Rome," vol. ii., p. 178.) In 1720 Mars and Saturn were in perihelion and in the sign Virgo, and 52.000 out of 75,000 inhabitants died in the city of Marseilles in less than five weeks. In 544. 10,000 died each day in Constantinople. Alexandria, Egypt, lost, in 552, 50,000, and in 513, K0.000 of her inhabitants by the plague. Dut bad as were those times they will only ajproximate the horrors of seven years which manyot us are doomed never to witness. All the weak and intemperate are sure to die. There is no escape from the inexorable plague fiend. Fortunate, indeed, are those whose blood is pure and free from any taint or weakness, for they alone will survive the wreck of the human family. The intemperate and weak wUl join hands and go down to their graves in tens of thousands. Ancient races will' be blotted from the face of the earth. Asia will he nearly dcMpulated, and the islands that border Asia will suffer frightfuly from the scourge. The countries that join the northeastern portion of Asia will suffer the ravages of the plauge. Russia will be the first European Nation that will suffer. Un less correct sanitary measures are taken before 1S81, the plauge will be found devastating large cities on the Atlantic coast of America. America will lose more than 15. (oo.ooOof inhabitants if the sewers of her cities are as impei feet in 1SS1 as thev are to-day. lhe perihelia will brint other in dictions upon the inhabitants of the earth. on which mankind can exert no restraining :.. il ...... rni . ;ii 1 . . . V liiiiuentc. Aiifie win te some storms and tidal waves that will swamp whole cities; earthquakes that will swallow mountains and towns; and tornadoes that will sweep hundreds of villages from the face of the earth; mountains will tremble, totter and lall into sulphurous chasms; the geograpny of the eartli will be changed by volcanic ac tion; mountains will twss their rocky heads up through the choicest valleys: vallevs will appear where mountains stood; skillful mariners will be lost in the ocean, owing to me exiraoruinary variations oi tne compass; navigators will grow pale with alarm at the capricious deiiexture of the needle; vol can ocs that nave been dormant for centuries w ill awaken to belch forth their lava with more vio'ence than when in their pristine vigor; rainfalls will deluge valleys, ana mountain streams will en large their beds and become mighty torrents; ores win start spontaneously and devastate whole forests; great fires will occur in many cities, and some will be totally destroyed; there will be remarkable dis plays of electricity, frightful to witness; wild beasts will leave their natural haunts and crowd into jiopulous cities, timid and harmless; sullocating fumes of sulphur will escape irom tne earth, to the great dread of many; an unprecedented number of ships win ue snauereu xo iraemencs nv nmnincr on miguiy rocKS ana small islands that are not on the navigator's chart; islands will anpear ana uisappear witnout any apparent cause tne navigator s chart will prove al most a detriment instead of an aid, owing to the sudden changes ot ocean currents, tern jH-rature and surroundings; the birds of the air, tho beasts of the held, and even the fish in the sea will be diseased; billions of fish win die and be cast upon the seashore, to fester in the sun and impregnate the at mosphere with their foul emanations, No fish or animal food should be eaten from 1SS2 to 1SS5, for the flesh of nearly all the animal kingdom and the tinny tribes that inhabit the rivers, streams, lakes and oceans will he diseased, and therefore those who partake of the flesh shall toison their blood and be taken away shortly after. The not son that enters the system by eating dis eased meats is just as deadly as to be inocu jaieu uy wie piague. r armers win be so stricken with fear that they will cease to till their larnis, and gaunt famine will step in to make human misery more wretched: lanaricism win spring up in many places. and bloodshed will result therefrom; murl . i . 1 1 ....mi . , . . . uerers aim ruouers wm piy ineir neiUSIl work with impunity, for there will be little or no la; everybody will be absorbed with the trying task of keeping alive; people will e buried in deep trenches, uncolhnec : the Judge will bestricken from the bench, the pleader at the bar, and the merchant and customer will be seized with the fatal malady while trading: death will come slw and lingering in some cases, but in most it will beswiftand ternbie. in seaboard towns thou sands will be buried in bays and harbors, tho law to the contrary notwithstanding. hi many countries vast districts will be deserted, and even in Europe some portions win appear so near that condition as to appall the traveler. One may walk whole days over hundreds of farms without Oeing a living thing, tm ail the large tracts of land that once were so animated with ani mal life, not a vestige will be seen. The houses on the deserted farms will show signs of disarrangement and negligence that plainly tell ot the hurried departure of the owners to the populous cities. Let the traveler pursue his way till he conies to the small villages, many of which will not con tain a single hying tiling. Let him look into the houses, let him pass through the doors mat stand ajar and witness the sickening spectacle ot whole lamilies dead. Let him still wander, if ho vet. h.ive rnnrom. ti.rmmi. the country stricken with black death, and in the dark canons of tile mountains ntid h will see every phase of this terrible malady, I till the culmination ioint of death is reached the end of all attacked with the incurable disease. The country people will flee to the crowd ed cities for aid, but unless thev are rich the physicians will give them little if any attention. The poor will die bv tens of thousands, without a ministering hand to sooth theirdying agonies. The doctors will be in universal demand and extortionate in charge for their services. Rear in mind, no medicine or doctor can give you more aid than you can yourself. The disease can not be cured, but unless your system is too week or impure, copious draughts of warm water and a vegetarian diet will prevent the disease poisoning the blood in the process of digestion. Animal rood will poison those who continue the use of it. Fine cotton or sponge dipped into spirts of camphor, and kept in the nostrils, and frequently changed, will prevent the blood from being poisoned through the organs of respiration. After the black death there will be two years of fire which will rage with fury in all part Jthe world from 18S." to 1S.S7. These lires will be the means of annihilating every germ of the disease. In fact, everv citv or nortion of the city in which the plague appears should be burned to the eround. 11ns will destrov the scourge. Nothing but fire can do it. inose wno pass tnrougn those terrible years of woe will have greater capacity for ( tue enjoyment or tne pleasures oi tne earth, '

The earth, will yield twice as much a3 formerly. All the animal kingdom will be more prolific and life more prolonged. The average duration of life is said to be thirty-three years now; after the year 1887 it will be just twice as long, or sixty-six years. The reason of this most remarkable prolongation of life is owing t the healthy electricity or magnetism that will surround the globe. From 1SS0 to 1887 the electricity of this earth will be dead, owinj? to the malign influences of Saturn arid Uranus upon our atmosphere. During the black death the most wonderful celestial phenomena will be seen. For weeks the sun will appear as red as blood, and terrible convulsions will appear in that body. The sun will discharge oceans of flaming hydrogen gasses, that will roll in tumultuous billows hundreds of thousands of miles from its center. The moon's action on the tides will be spasmodic and irregular. Tremendous showers of meteors will fall to the earth and remain in an incandescent state for hours. Dense black clous will veil the sun for days, and the moon will not shed as bright or steady a light as before those dreadful days. The whole Heaven and earth will tremble at the awful, continuous reports of thunder, lasting frequently for hours; blinding flashes of lightning will illuminate the black sky; people will scream with horror at the fantastic shapes the lightning will assume, thousands will die with fear of the celest'al phenomena; all modes of esrrcss from the citv

will be topiHHl; trains will b stopiwl on the and prairies, in the mountains and valleys, their occupants will die in them of dis ease and starvation: steamships ami sailing craft will sit on the ccan with their dead human freight, drifting where the winds and waves may drive them. Stout will be the heart that will not despair in these dreadful limes. Fanatics will arise and cry cut that the hand of (iod is against mankind, ml religious frenzy will be rampant in all the large cities; so-called prophets will incite their followers to deeds of bloml and rapine, but they will not hold sway long; insanity from religious causes will predominate in those times; the mortality in cities where the sewerage is defective will ho appalling. Everything that is ate or drank should be boiled before being used; no cooked food or water should be partaken of if allowed to be excised to the air for even a quarter of an hour; food must be aten as soon after being cooked as possible; every kind of animal food must be eaten as soon after being cooked as possible; every kind of animal food should be eliminated from the table; even hsh and game should not be used; milk, butter, eggs, fats and oil (excepting vegetable oils) should be prohibited; vegetables, grains and fruits that are produced in each country should be used. The electric condition of evervthimr on earth will he chanced. therefore the nroduef of the soil in our immediate vicinity are the best to keep the human system in a lnisitive state. 1 1. i. . . much ine uuuiaii organism is in a positive condition, it is imitosslble to contract disease. All persons in a negative state to their surroundings will he the first to fall Victims to the scourge. The llesh-eater and the alcohol imbiber will go hand in hand to gether to the grave, for their blood will h Come Impure and inflamed, and therefore in a negative state, and necessarily unable to combat with disease, liear in inind, no part of the world will be exempt from the plague. The frigid homes of the Esquimaux will be invaded by the demon of death, and the desolation will be as apparent there in that frozen land as in the sun-scorched sands of Africa. The Mongolian race will suffer most, for it is without doubt the most ancient. Races are like empires thev have uieir rise, uecnne ana iaii. China will be depopulated, or nearly so, and when the plague breaks out in 1S81 in their country, horJesof Asiatics will crowd their ships and flee their country, to spread the loathsome horror over every land thev turn to. Every island in the Pacific will be swarming with Mongolians, and they will at last reach the Pacific States, and then America must stiller destruction of life without a parallel in her history. I say that the inhabitants of the plague stricken dis tricts will reach there unless more violence is used with preventive measures to keep them back. I am not actuated by any feel ing or prejudice against any particular race. but the voice of the Host of the heavens should be barkened .unto, and, if by a mathematical scheine, we can de duct certain facts portentous to the CaucasAt 1 - - ian race, tney should be given and followed. In mortality the East India country will be next in order ot magnitude to China: Africa. next; Europe, next, and America next. The Atlantic States will suffer more than the Pacific, and South America more than North America, and California will be the least sunerer by this most malignant plague era the world has ever known. The plague is not only what the perihelia brings us, but win De accompanied by war, discord, civil strne, iiomis, inundations, and in seventenths of the world, drouth: and unless ex traordinary provision is made to quell great 1 ! 1 1. ..it , ... uji jsui-s uiiurvuy, wiiu an lis norrors, Will reign from 1880 to 1887. In 1887 the "Star of Bethlehem" will be once more seen in "Cassioieia's Chair." and it will be accompanied bv a total eclipse of wie sun ana moon, tins star only makes its appearance every 315 years. It will anIear and illuminate the heavens, and excel u-:ti: t . -i . i in uuuiancy even jupncr, wnen in opikh smou io me sun, and tnereiore nearer to the earth and brightest. The marvelous bril liancy of the Star of Pethleham in 1887 will surpass any of the previous visitations. It will be seen even at noonday, shining with a quick flashing light, the entire year, after winch it will decrease in brightness and finally disappear not to return to our heavens till the year 2202. or ,115 vears from 1SS7. This star first attracted the attention of mod ern astronomers in the vear 1382. It was then called a new star. It was no new star. however, for this was the star that shown so brightly four years P. C, and was the star that illuminated the heavens at the nativitv of Christ. It has appeared every 315 vears since, and every educated astrologer is cer tain that it will appear in August, 1881. The appearance of the star, accompanied as it will be, by solar and lunar eclipses, together with the baleful influences that follow the positions that Mars and Saturn will .. .1.-. . . . occupy, will cause universal war and por tentous Hoods and fearful shipwrecks. North Anietica will be involved in civil war and a reign of terror will prevail in the Atlantic States unless a NaiKleon arises to quell it. There will be a war of classes the rich will array themselves against the poor, and vice versa, eve'where. It was evidently some married man who remarked: "A woman is a strange being, and the more you study her the moro interestine she appears." " hen a woman's feet get cold she can draw them' up and fit on them until thev become warm, and no ono is the wiser. How she manages tho move ment is a mystery, but nevertheless she ac complishes it with a quiet grace, which discounts the greatest sleight-of-hand performance that was ever invented. This bit of information will doubtless astonish thousands of men who havo foolishfy imagined that thev could read a woman like a book. but what else can bo expected when conceit and ignorance stalk through the land? The idea that man is superior to woman in everything is too absurd to be entertained even a moment. A man may practice for vears and yet be unable to catch a flea with the skill which distinguishes a woman. Ho will get fleas in his socks, and when he un dertakes to capture them he clutches "and slips frantically, but when he opens his hand there is no game in sight, and a sad, vacant staro settles on his clammy countenance. Does a woman proceed in this rude wav to destroy the carniverous insect? No; she locates his exact position, and Suddenly her hand dives down like tho swoon of an eacle. and tho next moment she is calmly rubbing tho life out of a flea between her thumb and forefinger. A woman may not be able to wing a bird with a shotgun, but when she fires at a flea there is a funeral, and yet she never goes around challenging other women to a ßhootinc: match. Her modestv will not allow her to boast of her deeds. Man is not and never will be equal to woman in pome respects, and this, we trust, has been clearly aennea Rradlautrh will asrain present himself before the House to take the oath this after noon,

THE STORY OF A VETERAN.

Told for a Drink In a llarroom, and Corroborated by a Cough and a Medal. San Francisco Chronicled Last night, in a fashionable saloon on Kearney street, two distinguished-looking militiamen were recounting their numerous campaigns at Sacramento and San liruno. when a man with one sleeve of his coat empty lounged up to the bar. As he did so he touched the elbow of one of the bullionbound warriors, and at once apologized to to the fierce military glare fastened on him. "Beg pardon," said he, "but I'm always kind of careless when any of the boys in blue are 'round. I used to be one myself." The warriors in blue and gold did not design to respond, but the stranger was not on the alert for any obvious slights. "I lost this arm," he continued, at Vicksburg. And this cough," he added, as he shook on aspasm, "I got in the same place." 'Rather a poor rcconipence, wasn't it?" asked one of .the militiamen. "Couldn't you get anything better?" "Yes," said the wreck of humanity, with a touch of genuine pride. "I got this, too;" and he threw back the lapel ot his rusty coat to exhibit a small medal. As he unclasped it ami handed it over for inspection, he said: "I got it for being the best dressed soldier in the Thirteenth Army Corps at Milliken's Bend, before the capture of Vicksburg. We had been slashing around Vicksburg a whole month, and for a change had gone up the White River and taken Arkansas Post, with 5.000 Rehs. When we got back to Yickburg again we were a pretty tough looking crowd. We were stationed in ivampy timber ground that every shower used to make a slough of, and the fellows were mud all over. The day before Grant took command at Milliken's Bend we had orders to fix up for the occasion, and it was given out that the best dressed man in each regiment would get a medal. We all went to work scrubbing and polishing, but it wai no use. A fellow couldn't rub the mud out of his clothes, and if he washed it out, the minute they got halt dry they looked as bad as ever. Most of the fellows gave it up for a bad job, but I'd made up my mind I was going to get the medal. I had a pretty good uniform, and after I'd sewed it up on the elbows and tacked the skirt of the coat up it looked good enough, only for the mud. It was about as good as any other uniform in the corps, but, of course, that wouldn't amount to nothing; I wanted it to be better. What do you think I did?" "Bought a new one, I suppose," said the barkeeper. The veteran smiled. "I went down and stood up to my chin in the Vaz.oo for an hour before joradef I'd burnished up all the huttons and blackened my shoes with a piece of burned leather and pork fat, and when 1 walked up with my wet suit I just paralyzed the crowd. I looked as if I'd just come out of a bandbox when I stuck ou tne shoes and cap and threw my musket over my shoulder." "And you got the medal?" said one of the militiamen, handing back the trophy. "Yes, I got it, and more Uo. I got the rheumatism and pneumonia. It was in January, you know, ami it set in to blow from the West, and before the parade was over, I was most froze to death. To finish me, the Colonel was so tickled with my apiearance that I was detailed for orderly duty at headquarters and had to march around for four hours, until the icicles were hanging out of my elbows and coat tails, and do you know what Grant said after the parade?"' "What?" "lie remarked, with considerable feeling, 'It's a long time between drinks.' " The barkeeier shoved three glasses over the mahogany, and the militiamen both put their hands in their pockets to pay. "Yes, gentlemen," said the veteran, as be wipod his grizzly moustache on his coat sleeve and edged toward the door. "I got the medal, and don't you forget it." 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