Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1876 — Page 2

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THEEVENINGNEWS KISH a. HOLLIDAY, PMrBIKTOB.

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TEi.no ha m new a. Tbe firm of Howe it Hubbell, Cincinnati, has been Acquitted of crookedness in whisky. The Iowa Legislature met yesterday and elected its officers, all Republican, by a vote of 41 to 9. The inland Insurance and DepositCompany, of Ijtncaster, Pa., clpsed its dobra yesterday morning. The jury in the caao of George D. Lord, on trial for bribery at Buffalo, disagreed yesterday, and was discharged. T. Kotlgers Johnson, for many years craini secretary of the I. O. O. F. of California, died yesterday at Santa Barbara. In the chess-match yesterday at Cleveland, a game was won by Judd. The score now stands* Judd 5, Alberonia 2, drawn 2. . Beck is ahead for the Kentucky Senatorship, having received 40 of the 130 votes cast, the next highest candidate receiving 33. The Kansas Legislature met yesterday. The House elected Mr. Benedict temporary chairman. Only one ballot was taken for Speaker ar.d that without result. A resolution declaring against any division of the school fund In the interest of any particular religious sect was unanimously adopted in the Ohio House yesterday. The officers of the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad deny the report*telegraphed a few days ago that proceedings are to be commenced to place that road in the hands of a receiver. The Hon. Wra. Butler, prominently connected with the State history and politics of Illinois for many years, died at Springfield yesterday forenoon, of pneumonia, being in his 79th year. The boiler of a steam wood sawing machine at Grand Rapids exploded yesterday evening, instantly killing Wm. Franz, severely bruising James Billagh and scalding another man. • O. C. Kershausen Brothers, sugar refiners of New York, have failed. Their liabilities will not exceed $375,000. The assets of the firm, which^-e chiefly real estate, amounted in 1873 to n« , e than $000,000. The Repirolicans ^f the Wisconsin House nominated S. 8. Fifield for Speaker, against Wm. Charlton. Domocrat. The Independents hold the balance of the House, but it is expected they will vote with tlje Repub licans. A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal., says that it is reported that a land grab has been Uoeathed by which the State is a loser to an enormous amount, and that the matter will be brought to the attention of the Assembly to-day and investigation apked. A fire which originated in the post Office building at Carbondale, Illinois, yesterday morning, destroyed nearly half a block. Seven families ara left homeless. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. eThe loss is estimated at $15,000. Insurance Sight. * The body of a laborer, named John White, Hvas found in a vat at the Chicago stock i ards yesterday morning, and u is supposed that he f^H into the boiling blooiU His "fiesh was almost entirely boiled frqm the bones at the time of the discovery of his body. The West Boston Savings Bank has been restrained from receiving or paying deposits or transacting other business, owing to the shrinkage on real estate and personal securities by which the capital of the bank has been impaired. The depositors are not liable to serious loss. A Jackson, Miss., special says that the Ames impeachment committee held a preliminary meeting Monday night and arranged a plan of proceedings. They Asked for and were given a clerk to-day and will proceed immediately to take testimony. Tbe sentiment for impeachment is ingShearman and Sterling, counsel for the Rev. H. W. Beecher, in the suit brought against him for malicious prosecution by Francis D. Moulton,yesterday served on General Pryor, the counsel for the plaintiff, a demurrer upon the ground that the complaint does not state the facts sufficiently to constitute a case of action. A fire at Murphysboro, Illinois, yesterday

Thomas Guitle, grocer; Chambers A Garret;, wholesale liquors; the post office and Miners’ Havings Bank. Tbe total Joes »s estimated at $15,000. Insurance $2,500. A woman suffrage convention has been sitting in Denver since last wdek. Its sessions, which are interesting and largely atr tended, disclose an unexpectedly influential - element in favor of «a universal suffrage article in the constitution now being formei) for the State of Colorado. Mrs. Campbell, ojf Boston, ami Mrs. Wilkes, of Colorado,- are among the speakers. The proceedings of the secret investigation into the Pacific disaster by Captain Waterman and James Hillman, United States Inspectors at San Francisco, are made public. They report the accident was the fault of the officers of tne Orpheus, on account of steering wrong The Inspectors ere unkble to account for the failure of the Pacific to stop and back when a collision- be- ' came imminent. Hiram. Lawrence, a wealthy, highly respected farmer living six miles from Craig, Holt county. Missouri, disappeared a week ago, and foul play was suspected. Yesterday his body was found about a mile from his residence, with a bullet hole in the temple and tlie back part of his head mashed la. John Ltwrence, a son of the deceased, a worthless fellow who is known to have threatened his . father’s life on several occasions, is under arrest as the supposed murderer. A party has just come in to Laramie City from the Centennial mine, bringing in several thousand dollars in gold and a large quantity of very rich quartz, which Utterly glit tars with free gold. This mine is situated 2t! miles due west from Laramie City,and everything indicates that it is the richest gold mine which has ever been found on the continent Only the deep snows in the mountains In that neighborhood prevented all the people in this region from rushing thither in search of gold. The Western Railway Association yesterday afternoon, at Chicago, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Robert Harris, President; Harris B. Strong, J. D. ■Cox, Q. H. Nettleton, J. 0. McMullen, Chas. Paine, J. F. Tucker, T. F. WUhrow, H. H. Porter, directors; Robert Harris, W. B. Strong, T. F. Withrow, Execntive Committee; J. H. Ray mound. Secretary; George Payson, Attorney. Reports of interest chiefly to the membew were read and the meeting adjourned.

The time for closing the entry list of the natipnal exhibition of poultry, pigeons and dogs, which is to commence in Chicago, January 20. has been extended to January 13, as a large number of fanciers in the Eastern States were unable to make their eqtrie? by the 10th. There will be stock frjotn every Northern State, together with large entries from Canada, and the exposition promises to be both the largest and fitieat display of the kind ever seen in this country. It is expected that at least one hundred celebrated imported dogs will be on exhibition. The Democratic members of the Louisiana oUse yesterday went into the election of a nited.States Senator. Of the Republican lembers. only ex Governor Hahn took part, le nominated Judge Talliaferm, of the Sureme Court. State Senator J. B. Eustis, of .•riesns. was elected by 58 majority. He received 01 votes. The Senate passed a resolution that there was no vacancy and no necessity for an election by 13 to 12. The Democratic Senators, however, will attend Ihe joint discussion to-day, and it is said that three Republican Senators will join them, when Eustis will be ejected by a legal majority on a joint ballot : The Republican Senators held a caucus last; night to consider Mr. Morton’s bill to provide for the regular counting of tbe votes for President and Vice President. The caucus,! after the subject had been discussed, agreed to abolish the twenty-second joint •rnlejand supj>ort Morton’s bill in lieu of it. There is substantially but little difference between the joint rule and the bill. The newj feature in the latter is that when the itwoiHouses separate to decide upon the objection that may have been made to the counting of any electoral vote or votes from any State, or for tbe decision of other questions pertaining thereto, each Senator and Representative may speak to such an objectiombr question ten minutes, and not oftener' than once, has lasted t of tbe majority of each House of Congress to direct that the main question shall be put without further debate. , congressional. In the Senate yesterday bills were introduced for a State Government for New Mexico,; to establishr a branch mint at St. Louis, to authorize the construction of a bridge at Memphis. The death of Andrew Johnson was announced and eulogies were pronounced by Messrs- Cooper, Morton, Bogy and others. ’ In the House Mr. Morrison introduced a bill preparatory to the redemption of United States notes and the resumption of specie payments. It proposes to retain gold in the treasury to the amount of thirty per cent, of the outstanding legal tenders; requires National banks to retain the gold paid for their interest on bonds deposited to secure currency till they have thirty per cent, of their outstanding notes, and repeals that portion of the Resumption act compelling'specie resumption in 1879. The Appropriation Committee reported the Military Academy Appropriation bill. Made the special order for Thursday next. It appropriates $231,241. The Committee on Accounts reported a resolution fixing the number and pay of committee clerks. In the course of the discussion on ;the resolution, Mr. Williams stated hiscommititee proposed to provide for twenty committee clerks, in addition to the five provided for by law, making twentyfiva in all, whereas at the last Congress there were thirty-five. The resolution was adopted. The appropriation committee reported the appropriation bill and it was made the special order for Friday next. It appropriates $25,533,500. Tbe House then proceeded to the consideration cf the Am nesty bill, and was addressed by Mr. Hill of Georgia, a debate ensued which was inter rupted by. a message from the Senate announcing the death of Andrew Johnson Business was suspended and eulogies made by Messrs. McFarland, Thornburgh, Young Waddell, Conger, Cox and Throckmorton. FOREIGN. The Prince of Wales and suite have arrived at Delhi. George Augustus Sala is tfery ill, and his recovery is doubtful. The failure is announced of Charles Borndy& Co., metal merchants of Birmingham, England, with liabilities of £167,000. A dispatch from Paris says that news received there from England seems to show that the British Government is about to give in its adherence to Count Andressy’s note on Turkey. Seven of the crew arrested for mutiny on the bark Lennie have been acquitted at Brest. Seamen Vandernot and Jolly have been detained in custody and sent before the maritime prefect for trial. Aij telegra^n from Vienna says that the Porte intends to. confine the reforms proposed by the European powers to Herzegovina, thus avoiding trouble with the in censed Mohammedan majority in Bosnia. A Berlin special says that the government has determined to liberate Cardinal Ledochowski frqm imprisonment, but he will be closely watched and again arraigned if he attempts to exercise his episcopal functions or otherwise infringes upon the ecclesiastical laws. i The Epoca, of Madrid, in reply to the ar tide in the London Times holding the Spanish government responsible for any injury done to British vessels by the t arlist batteries, says that Spairi can do nothing beyond punishing the authors of damage to foreigr. shipping. Mr. Paul de Cassagnac, in an article in Le Pays, violently opposes M. Ollivier as a candidate for the Department of Var. He says M. (Hlivier shows a lack of moral sense in putting forward his discredited personality, and his presence in the Assembly would be & calamity to the Imperial cause. M. Dufaure, the French Minister of Justice, has issued a circular to the Procurator General, saying that the new press law is solely intended to repress violent language against and secure respect for tbe constitution. and is not to touch the liberty of public discussion. Magistrates are recommended not to undertake political prosecutions, as the act only deals with offenses punishable at common law. The circular is very liberal and moderate throughout, It is reported that when the Egyptians recently occupied the town of Brava, belonging to the Sultan of Zanzibar, Mr. Kirk, the British Consul in Zanzibar, who went to seek explanation, was obstructed, on entering the town, by the Egyptian troops. Their 'commandant refused to apologize for the insult. Mr. Kirk accordingly threatened to order up the British man-cf-war, Thetis, and bombard the town. The Egyptian commandant sent an apology to the Consul an hour before the notice of bombardment expirtd. The Thetis had already* taken up her position and was cleared for action. Consul Kirk, after receiving the aj>ology, obliged the commandant to repeat it before .the principal chiefs of the town, and informed him that he would be held responsible fo>* any ill treatment of the inhabitants pillaged b y Egyptian troops, Thf. attempt to impeach Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, does not look promising. The second, choice of principal States for the Presidency, may count this year. If this city were not run in the interests of party, the expenses would be much less. The national conventions can do no better than to meet in Chicago or Cincinnati. Both are accessible and both have abundance of hotel accommodations. The conventions should not be h#ld in the East this year. ' J

'Tf it be true that Oscar B. Hord, Esq., ! the more readily fcR having harrowed up will accept a Democratic nomination as the bitterness |bat time has nearly healed-

Councilman in the Fourth Ward, he should Mr. Hill constitute* himself a messenger ' gy«*2£ I be elected unanimously. When such men j from the South, and as such he is unwise show the keen as Mr. Hord can lie induced to take hold ■ to speak the words he does. If the South BhiftHTo hath ihchi

Attended to as wants a messehger who will be of value Aerial webtim

his words must

of cit” business, it will he private business is. | .

Holders of city orders drawing interest which the people has to pay, should remember these things, and also recollect that the Democratic County Treasurer, Jackson Landers, pays on demand all county orders presented to him, while Henry W. Tutewiler, the Republican City Treasurer, with over $34,000 of money in his binds, indorses city orders “not paid for want of funds.”— [Sentinel. j - |j o It might be suggested that the reason of this is that the county ii in the hands of Republican Commissiorters who regulate the expenditures, wliile [the city is in the hands of a reckless and tmprijncipled Democratic Council. But si|ch ah argument; is contemptible in the Sentinel.; Every man above the grade of idiocjy knows that Mr. Landers has no control ot ithe expendi tures, and it is nocredifi or blame to him whether the money holids out or is exhausted. The Commissioners spend the money, the Treasurer n^llhcts it and disburses it on the proper! orddr. So in the city Mr. Tutewiler has {io % thiiig to do with the expenditures, and if theije was not dollar of money in the Treasury in a year it would not lie his fault, but the fault of the Council, which scatters the money and exceeds the intome, so th$t it .is com polled to refuse paymeijt to its debtors, TH K AMNESTY HE KATE X ESTEUDAY. The debate in the House jupon the amnesty question, continued yesterday until the time came to consider i;he customary resolutions of respect upon the death of Andrew Johnson. It was to be resumed to-day, although the leaders of the majority are reported as quite sick of it and anxious to choke - it off as far as possible. Mr. Hill of Georgia made Ibis promised speech in reply to Mr,* Blaiine. We copy the peroration, in which he acquits himself as a self-constituted messenger from the South. It is wdi-th ijeading. It is what would be called ra fide effort” and really .is eloquent, hojwever little based upon facts. For Sout|iern gentlemen to come in at this late dajy and say that the fanaticism of the North was responsible/ for the war, is absurd. The men who called the Constitution ‘‘adeague with death and a covenant with hell;” were comparatively powerless in the North, and could not have affected slavery for many years. If there was any fanaticism at play, it was exhibited by the Southern leaders who were determined to ri^lei or ruin, as they saw their political suprpmacy. menaced by the refusal of the people to permit the extension of slavery. Charges of fanaticism come with poor grace lind wOrse logic from the gentlemen who precipitated the contlict by bolting the Democratic Convention and nominating Breiikenridge, a sthp which made Republican victory absolutely

certain.

But it is not worth while to discuss history now while a currebt topic is at hand. Mr. Hill’s speech was an attempt to prove Jeff - Davis entirely innocent of the' prison atrocities and to prove f that the Federal government was responsible for them, both by refusing to exchange and by making medicine and clothing! contraband of war. He also asserted that Confederate prisoners in the North were toeated just as badly as Union men at Andi irsonyille, Salisbury and other points. This will! lie news here at any rate, where several thousand prisoners were stationed d mug a groat part of the war, some of whom are still residents here. Nor do we believe the assertion can be proven anywhere. So far as tbe exchange of prisoners is concerned, granting that the Federal auth orities did refuse to exchange, that does not excuse the inhumanity with whici our prisoners were treated. Thif inhumanity, this atrocious cruelty can not be denied, however much men may wrangle about its authors. The Confederates knay not have had medicine, they may not have had clothing, but they idid have plenty of food, and air, and ‘water. These were denied to men wlio we*e packed together almost as closely as ^ardines, and without shelter from tlje buirning sun at noon or the chills of the air $t night, and whose existences, whei mai Rained at all, were kept up by a sinaljl allowance of rotten meal and sour sorgbjmn. These are facts which can not bejeon trad idled safely. There are thousands of'; witn *sses, and the proving depends on no bea 'say evidence or misty tradition. So whe i Mr. Hill attempts to make a general defense of this sort, and to put the blame upon the Federal Government,,! lie undertakes a task iu which he does aof sujcceed,and can

not succeed.

Nor do his assertions! vindicate Jefferson Davis. He quotes frdm tae Richmond Examiner to prove thaf Dav s was so mild and forgiving that he injured the Confederate cause. He may have :»eea mild and forgiving in thq estimation cf people who would stop at nothing short«of unilvereai and instant massacre of all 1 heir enemies. Mr. Hilt was not quite sc bad as this however. Blaine read a resolution yesterday which Hill offered when a member of the Cohfed rate senate in ist;;!. It was to the effect that any N« rthern soldier found on Southern sofffshoqhl bb considered guilty of inciting ins irrectiou and strife,and should be speedily executed if he could not prove to the icontr iry. Mr. HiH could not deny the authorsh p of it, though his memory failed him in reirard to it It appeared in the record!, however as his production. Even the starving or neglecting of prisoners may be made to look “mild and forgiving” by the side ol this. As a whole this amnesty debate will dp the country no particular good. We shall not the sooner*effect reform by rooting in tne ashes of the past, normal .all we attain

specie payments and

give the soft wrath. It may may smack ot profitable, and from the North fewer until they

of value .

, ! . , , JT * Sere nmet Ism belof peace, and he must and green flr n« ertbat turheth away ! ivJi?fl£k^reen' be easy to do this, it Like burden: *ui ustice, but it will be-1 Adorn* tne efforts to excite rancor AUd bron ‘ :y lwliS °fP

ill become fewer and

entirely.

RLAjlNJi OF MAINE. The BralnK of Ihe Repnblleans - A (Speech (hat May Not be Hade. [Wathington Correfpoudence Chicago Times.l All that Mr. : Bla|ne knows in the way of financial policy has been put upon paper, and the paperSeatlupto Mainetobe printed, and thereny hanto an amusing tale. A s[leech from ^lainfe would at any time be an iRteresting event in politics. As the ei:speaker of his party, and one of the leading intelligences in politics, what he lias to say will very properly be regarded as the quinte isence of all the thqnght and counsel of tb* t political sanh*dru|n which has far J5 years held the position of hydra-headed dictatqr of the governqient and policy of this country. When to the^e condition^ is added the prime fact that Bl^ne is making the strongest break in the political bull-ring for succession to President Grant, it is easy to understand why both parties are caucusing the tonei, the argupient, and the general drift of the utterences of this central figure in the state craft There is a certain amusing something in what might be called (if Mr. Blaine were not so pejraonhlly irreproachable) shifty conduct of the opening contest. Although everybody understands, or think* he unde stands, exactly what the Maine man i driving at, 1 have inet no one so far who his

from Mil. blaink’s lips . * That the Presidency is the boon which he seeks. Peoplb laugh in his presence, and jocularly make polutsupon the longing nearest his heart, hut ah to any open declaration, I think no map bah heard it. This fixes attention more strongly upon him. He is always in his seat injthe House. He watches with amusing vlgi|ance the bedraggled cofumns of his adversary. He waves hi* own people up and do^n at will. He raises Uijs hand when they aq too far. He, nods when they are doihg right. He whispers. * Hie moves about, a late incarnate, able to con) mand, capable of restraint, conscious of pow( er, submissive, dictatorial, confident, always equipped with a reason, never at a loss liir the right thine to say, seldom hiking up the attention of the House when doubtful results are to be! achieved thereby. He is creature of cham6(leon-like surprises. Thq first days of the tession he fell upon the Democracy and tope them asunder. Sinci then he has simply watched. His seat i the core of the Republican group. Toward

him

ApL GtlANCES CENTER.

From him * proceed the political ganglia which carry the life-blood of strategy, of action and suggestion to the utmost limits of the party frame. I Watching him from the gallery as he lehns over the desk, whim seems' absurdly stpall for his by-no-means large but symmetrical development of body, it is not difficult tq understand the hold he has upon the ductile masses of bis followers. However, I began fto tell about the speech. He sent it in Uiamiscript to hishqme journal at Kennebeck, Maine. With the proof slips he received a not^ from the editor stating that some dektrous and double-dealing ene my had procured surreptiously a printed copy of the docuitent and had; sent it to Washington fUr the use of his enemy. Sure enough, on mkking inquiry it was found that the speqeh is here and in posseesiijn of a member who proposes to arise in the house so soon as Mr. Blaine has delivered it and answer it point by point, of epursi greatly t6 the discomfiture of tbe speakar. It is perhaps a legitimate political operation, but I think on the whole Mr. Blaine will have the sympathy of both sides, should;his work be prematurely presented, as is Dow threatened. Asked about'the probabilities in the case, he de dlared yesterday that if such a thing were done, he would rngke an explanation to the house; and thpdw the speech aside, refusing tojjive the enemies the advantage of their sharp practice! The floating paragraph con'cerning his ancestors making hinj

A TURNK’OAT ROMANIST

is of course seized 1 with a relish here and tiirown in his faces. Asked about the thing yesterday he declared that he had never been a Catholic; wiat his people were not Catholic*, and that the relationapip was altogether suppositibus so far as he was informed, “Buq’! h4 continued wjitlj characteristic cautipn aad a good-natured laugh, ‘/remember I jam *ot being interviewed.”

1 'li.'fr" j if

I>onu Plait and (He Mynamile Fiend.

(Washington Capltal.l !

We saileef ftom Liverpool on the 14th of October last, ip the steamjhip Cffltic. Among the passengers, and our room mate, was tbe late aind infamous Thomas. He was a stout man,, weighing probably two hundred anu forty, had tawny rpd hair and

[,d mounted glasses. We

handsome,soiiial sort of a ack now, as about the select as one capable of facts come to us so horhideously grt tesque that Ives into a so*t of night ot realize thait the man Iked to wa» the fiend

beard and wore remember him ja man and, looking last' on shipboard such a crime, i Th ribly unnatural a they resolve them mare, and we can we sat with knd events have since

We had an uulu^uaiHy smooth apd pleasant Voyage, and about! the decks yotupg girls and mothers, and ibeaptiful children Fere prorninading and playilng all the while in the sunlight; ami how that man oould have looked on and listened, and still kept unah tered or unshikehjin his terrible | purpose is

more than we! can!comprehend.

To those who haVe crossed the Atlantic in these steamships tpe crime is ddubly horrible. To have such » freight of Jiving humanity suddenly hurled into eternity, leaving behind noi wrebk, no trace bjf which the tragedy could be tpld, enveloping the loes in an impenetrable mystery, makes one think and shoddeg more than any other crime known! And yet that man ate heartily, slept soundly, land to all appearance enjoyed li^» as happily as the most innocent child on board. What made the matter the more striking was that the fiend had failed in his design on tljie very people with Whom he associated. Haul he succeeded in getting his infernal machine insured !he would probably have left jus at Queenstown, after winding and 'setting his boxed-up death,

el and her tjnoffending would never have been

Brakes white with Beneath yc# Streftin-niirrored, Hangs, like dark u Winter upon small AS on our panes, A delicate star-11 All fragile water

rklea wii

date lowlands And now at nigh A dragon train wat Flame-breathing, w: And livid long low i

Inter. 1. a water robei Frost. bewra; on the m that link umes of yellpw grass. , are palpable **" chains furte point* tih.. pan; s of broom sustains edged with Crystal foft, ' ; many a taper tuft _ bramble.,and the blade, bereft of Jhadc. it d orange reedi are fair, to! cold firs, a silver birch’s hair thwart the laden air. pool* confers, is and wreaths of hers, ■“^Sfelirg, i the bittern booms, from when Sorest looms, thwart the solitude . i | > a long aelMpiainonsbrood, i among gray glooms.

HIS I URGE STOCK OF WATCHES,

m.

Snow falls—hath fsilen—all the land is white. Pure snow cling* frozen to labyrinth* of trees:

They in a narrow lane aloft unite;!

Winter hath clothed with a pure fdiage these,

" of Spring’s delight.

Pitying them, bereft of Sprit

How fairy-Uke their veiled pale mfences' Feathery shadows a gray mist informing; With beauty, as frsil Corallines dim sea

mvto b

1 slfunbertlh;

Some alien planet our earth see mV to be! Earth lies fair in her shrSnd and alt

Ho fair the pure white silence of dim death!

n'a tleetifg nhanf

Lo! the suh'atteeticg n! Mis’s into heaven’s blue

Horn faittly wanning Idle they flush and flet

hlag jewelry

t clean;

Luiaot tears.

Gayly mow flounce* earthward on the *nn, Or frozen glfrters with aa icy edge To windward of the elmbole; birds in dun

carpet

Splashed upon ail green brambles, : and red-fruited Hollies, or thorns, or briars, where they roam; Oar ever sweet-songed robin richly suited.

and the doomed freight of pas:jen]

heard of afterv

We are more an lief that this mon mates more in!| shame of a crimi: the spiritual guid set up in us. |A

pable of doin, that his evil sailed smili

enjoyed life fetth when he came to bad luck, that is

How often in

.dal prosperity to financial

touch elbows' of our near i

more inclined to the heir called eonsrence origdisordered lifer, or the ,1 at being caught, than in poets and preachers have an, like an animal, its earn forts bly to himself, all dictates; and so the fiend th his proposed victims, e.. purest of them, and ie said only: ‘ T have had fe we miss happiness or

ith {death, without knowledge

J ~ i “ ill fortune! H

Ought to be a Big One. [Detroit Evening Newi.2

Tbe Softmoneyites of Illinois: are bound

to have a big convention in thgk the 16th of February if all attc ' invited. Thef infite all who

n.

Attd bird* resernng for a leaflet hqme

And lovelier lands the voice whertin love luted,

I re while in yon dead Hammer; shadows blue Nestle where beast or m*n hath’tredden deep In crisp starred snow; f|ir mantles fair endue

Thatched roof, wain, bam, and byre, and slowly

creep \

To a fr. nge of diamond icicle; the Waters are asleep. No skafer* whirr and whirl, as ersi, upon the in

prisoned gray

■Smooth water ^uo chubby children slide and shout Pile the Illumining logs withia, and let them

cra'kle gay t - • »

Bright holly and green miaUehfe cheering Warm glintthe polished chairs and glasses, while

yule fires glow deco.

But when dear habits lie dreaming, with a halo

nesrthe moon,

And at their nursery doors are set small fairy-ap-

pealing sheon,

1 here will float a voice Of mystic bells over earth's

pile swound. . i

And sweet sad fays of memory to haunt us In their

sound I > •.

—1*11 thp Year Bound

->-*—♦ f j

•‘aVEAFU.”

The year that has gone has been a had o: for Eastern publishers. Miss Braddon will probably make a reading tosr in the country. Dore has completed a seriesbf illustrations of Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner.” ^ A man to be hanged in New York State next month wants a brass band at the scaf-

fold.

Mrs. Polly Jerome, New London’s “oldest inhabitant, “is oi years old, and has 98 de scendantSi The Mayor of Buffalo has a good watch word. He says: “The city’s dollar should go as far as the citizen’s.” , The present duke of Wellington is engaged in breeding mules. Waterjoo may yet be avenged.—[Courier Journal. At a recent meeting of the various city missionaries employed in Loijdon, grace was said in fourteen different languages. The Hon. David A. Wells will preside at the approaching annual meeting of the American Social Science Association in Boston. - ! r The officers of the Central Pacific (Comps ny in San Francisco are vying with each other to see which shall have, the handsomest house. j. James Hamill, ex champion sculler of the United States, has just died, at the age of thirty-eight, after being oui of health for some time. I Italy smoked $25,000,000 worth of! cigars last year; and in the last four years, all to-bacco-smokers told, no less than $100,000,000 ended in smoke. 4 Poughkeepsie, according td the Press of that city, is the home of a woman so cross eyed that when she weeps fears from her left eye drop on her right cheek. Tite London-Time? pays $100,000 yearly for the exclusive use of the 'telegraph wire from India, and yet the rival torrespondenta bgve beaten Bully ruin Russell out of his boots. « A patent electric ciothes-lirie has been in vtented. Upon an attempt to remove the Clothes, an alarm is sounded, four dogs are fet loose, a shot-gun is fired, and the thief

drops.

Men of genius always get ibto debt, but every man who fails to pay his board bill is not necessarily a genius. lie is another kind of genus—a deceased vegetable.—[In-

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In a prayer meeting held one evening of Iftst week in New York, one exhorter raid; ‘J found,! in fignring up in the store where I work, that in the course of the year I had had fifty-seven gallons of whisky in me.” The Mayor of New York has received ao envelope cohtaiijing $300 and a note saying, “this moiey belongs to the city." Can it be that it is a remittance from Tweed to be applied on bis account? If it ii then be only

owes $5,9*9,700. ! r

Josh. Clark, a veteran engineer on the Western Division of the Erie road, recently ran his engine 1,750 mites, patting in sixteen and a halif days' time, In a single week, and drew therefor $66 pay. This is said to be the biggest locomotive feat on record. Miss A tma Dickinson has recovered, and is back on the platform. Her new lecture, “Sowing and Reaping,” deals With prison reform and the prevention of crime in the way of a good, honest, practical education, which she mainjtains should be compulsory

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the probate of a will in New Orleans. She says she has been engaged' in litigation concerning her interests for forty-four years, and has spentThree fortunes. In a reef nt conversation between an English astronomer and a Frehch scientist, the first remarked to the second, “The difference between us and your people is this, w? change nothing except what we can’t keep, while you keep only I'fcvhat you can’t change.” “Quite so,” rejotined the foreigner. J Miss Hardy, the eldest (btughter of Admiral Hardy, in whose arms Nelson expired, Is dead. She was the occupant of a suite of rooms in Hampton Court ralace, allotted to her by the Queen. Thej musket ball by which Nelson was killed vjas for many years kept as a memento by Captain Hardy, who had it mounted in crysial and silver as a Idcket. It is believe^ not| to be in the possession of the Queen, i ; ^Mr. Charles Dudley' garner says of tbe Germans: “They arejgrosb feeders; of course 1 you do not expect, in trajveling, to see the best specimens of a |nation’s breeding, but' the German reputation jfor hooriahness is universal, notwithstanding the acknowledged improvement in 4 manners which more travel and intercourse wfith more polished nations have produced since the war. At the public tables, at least, you always see the Germans handlirfe their knives in the most dangerous fashidn.” j' • Talfourd and Miss Milfqrd dined with us, and Talfourd made ustaugh exceedingly with a good story of iHa^jlitt. At a card party at Charles Lamb’s, ^azlitt^and Lamb’s brother got into a disbussjon as to whether Holbein’s coloring was as! ; good as that of Vandyke. Hazlitt denie^ jjt and Lam* asserted the contrary ; until! at length they both became so irritated feey upset the card

were parted. Hazlett ‘tuijned to Talfourd, who was offering his aid,] mud raid: “You need not trouble yomrsM sir. I do not mind a blow, sir; nothing (affects me but an abstract idea.”—[Haydou’s Memoirs. * V agar lew of I^rd II rong !■ am. I From Haydon’i Ifeinolr* ] Thje Lord Associate (JeffW) told me many amusing things about Loijd Brougham. He - knew Brongham from very early years', and at one time, for about eight mAnths, Brongham gave’way to all kinds bf luxury and extravagance. He hail a grand notion of giving grand dinners, and, lilje the ancients, of perfuming his rooms He prould get all sorts of perfumes, so that when! they came in the suffocation was dreadfnlj and they were obliged to open the windows. Then be used to smoke hookahs, and ibe.the hot bath at the feme time; and orfe bight, being very tipsy, he smoked until he [fell asleep in his bath, and was nearly d[owned. He was found asleep with his lip* Just touching the water and the water cold. ’. This cured him of that indulgence. Then (he used to make bets bow he would come oh the race ground and give a sealed paper td a friend before betting. Sometimes he wfuld come on in a wheelbarrow, sometimes i|> a coffin, sometimes iq a basket on a mart’s shoulder; but he al ways won bis bets. Jjeffrey said he belongtd with Brougham tq « little society where they bad apparatus; for chemical experiments, and that Brongiam, in time, by his daring experiments, bfew the whole apparatus to pieces. , f

Internecine MtrtigKlIuK.

I Baltimore Utqjette.]

There are a couple of sepre of lunatics in Congress wearing the Democratic-uniform, and about an equal numbfir of editors in various sections of tbe country, into whose heads it seems impoeaibie to beat the idea that a paper dollar ia not as good as a gold

. one, and that the only way to make the

country prosperous ia to give jt an honest

New York Commercial Advertiser’s Spil- currency and a fixed standard of value. If kins has been telling us of a Hindoo native men have their way in the next Na- „• . . , - _ . .. tional Convention we might as well make no missionary who called on him for a subsenp-, nomination at all. Even Grant, unpopular tion the other day. : “Did |be give you a : Mg, and objectionable as he is, would certainly salaam a* he went oat?” was ibjnired. “No” , 8vree|> the country against any soft-money J - ’candidate. These men nu *t be made to un-

’ are pot willing to ace cardinal doctrines of

replied the incorrigible Leader, “but he

gave the door one.” cept aud stand by th< State on j M G „i nes arrived in Washington af- 016 Democratic party thet had better leave nd who are - ^ m waaningr/jn, af- j jt . u , 8 now they are doing more to inare opposed ter an absence o^ two years, to attend to a j are tmd weaken it than fee worst enemies

suit pendjiug in fee Supreme Court affecting of tbe party.

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