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

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1876.

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How did Howland vote?

Vk- Landers steo* down and out It seems that Wolcott got a few votes. ■ Thk sooner the Belt railroad matter is settled now the better.

Tbe tidal wave lands Hanna on the beach, safe and sound. As we said, it was only a question of majority with John Hanna. How would it do to pass a law fixing

is covered with conditions which arc distasteful to Servia and her real all/ Russia, and it has, in its unsolicited extension of the term, the appearance of being a little “too much pork for a “ahilling.” It suggests suspicions of tricky management, and the conditions suggest a peremptory purjKiee to snub Servia Servia most not only quit fighting, but give Turkey guarantees of pacific action, while no reciprocal guaranty is assured to her. And that is not at all conciliatory. Turkey, moreover, expressly asserts’ that she concedes the armistice to the “powers,” and not ' at all to Servia, which is no doubt true, but one of these truths that can be sometimes wholesoinly replaced by a soothifcg silence or a | judicious lie. One of the parties to a war i don't like to be told th^t it is too conf temptible to be taken into the account , in settling terms of peace, whether permanent or tern porary. Moreover Russia j iB to quit sending troops to reinforce I Servia, which is an intimation that the | Great Bear has been playing the “wet<4og/’ and though very true is not calculate'! to soothe the Bear at a time when his feelings are vital elements of the case to be settled. ! Servia wants an armistice to strengthen herself for a winter contest, when ! the Turkish forces will be badly off for support and supplies, and six months is ! too much of a good thing. . Six weeks would suit her better and the inconvenl iencee of the extension with the character of the conditions, may well dispose the Danubian people to reject it and in-

Wboar? fM«ry Nape* I>odge. In Um Independent] “Poob p* cried the doubler; "Inner Ufel W by prat* on such a fable T A mam* a mini—fle&h, blood and hone— And more t» pmve, whoae aye? **1! I am here, why, here I am, No argument 1* plalrer; But «li this •noul’ and ‘Me to come’— Why nothing can be valuer. "AHvr. we live; dying, we die. That's logic, as I take It. iowgsve me co* moc tensd, ami 1 shall not for dreams forsake it “Why, man, I'U bet my eye*. Uy bead, and all that'* In it, AH talk of soul must end in bosh, Whoever may begin it," The man of faith in patience heard. “Boldl” ctled he, now. “PI! do it; I'll take thl* bet of yours, my friend. But prithee, first construe it.

Whoever may begin it. "Now tell me, please, whose eyes they b3f Whose head it is you Oder? Whose head and contents duly prized T" •‘Why, muik,’’ repUed the scoffer. "YouraT" crivd the other. "Where’* the you That own* the head and eye* sir?” ^ Tbe doubter thought awhile; and soan * He graver grew »ud wiser. "My head,” he mused, "my limbs, my truak! If these make m*, why-bother! They can't be mine and yet be me: One point breaks up the other." He pendered well, he pondered long, And then he rouilerod slowly; "The inuer-man, the soul, the me hiust own my body wholly.

the price of blue jeans at ten dollars a cline Russia to stand by them. Yet

yard?

Grant was confident the republicans would carry Indiana. The longer a man lives the more liable he is to change his mind.

Where’s the Sentinel’s “historian.” Would it not be a good time for him to bring out his developments about Hanna.

The republicans gain at least three congressmen, Browne, Hanna and Calkins, and there is probability f)f Sexton's election in the fourth district.

Francis. 1. said after the battle of Pavia, “All is lost save honor.” That’s not tbe case here, for we’vo got John IFauna, this county and a decent legislative delegation to fall back on. The credit of the United States was never so high as it is now. The new four and a half per cent, loan is being placed with ease’and English people are selling out their three per cent, consols to invest in it. It is very probable that four per cent bonds could be sold just as well.

they have been getting the worst of the contest so palpably and are suffering so much from the disloyalty or indifference of a large portion of their troops, that peace would seem to be welcome on any terms. So it is not surprising that the European dispatches this morning leave the reader the choice of decidedly contrary reports of the fate of the armistice. One-from Belgrade says the Servian council has decided to accept a regular armistice as soon as the consuls of tbe powers present it, and Prince Milan has ordered Gen. Tchernayoff to stop fighting. Another dispatch from Vienna says that “it “is stated poeitively the armistice “will be rejected by Servia,” and that “Russia will consider an armistice “equivalent to a rejection of the peace ‘-proposals of the powers.” A third from Belgrade and a fourth from Berlin express strong fear that the armistice will fail. There is wide room for a choice ol .conclusions here, too wide to suggest a tolerably definite line to any, and it may well be that after all the trouble the “powers” have been at to bring both parties to an accommodating state of mind and make terms to suit i them, the war will go on or be posti>oned

The bard times have been disastrous 1 only for a better chance,

to savings banks, a class of fiscal institutions always considered very secure. Within a year a dozen of these have failed in New York, owing depositors eight millions of dollars, of whi^h

about one-fourth will be paid.

Frank Landers’ boast that he never was defeated in anything he undertook can never be made any more. He will have to qualify itrttow and say “until “John Hanna beat me for congress is a good thing for a man to be taken down this way once in awhile. Otherwise he becomes too confident, his pride rises too high and asserts itself too

A M Vast AM WAR.

RoMafAB Yolnwleera PonrlnR Into Her-

via by Hundred* Every Dny. {From the London Time*, September 27.]

Writing before the fall qfZalcar, I pointed out that, almost avowedly, the war was prolonged for no other ptirpose than that of the Russian Slavonic societies, whose object was then, has been ever since, and is now, to force Russia into the field of battle for the destruction of tbe Ott> man empire. In reply to my It | anticipations, which I knew to he shared by the most thinking and patriotic Servians, it was urged' that the caar and the government had resolved not to depart from that attitude of neutrality which in common with the other guaranteeing powers they had pledged themselves to observe. Well, I have

much. There is nothing so becoming — .. —, and 8weet tu a due 8,‘nseof modesty and j ‘f

a doubt of one’s own powers. Owing to the outrageous gerrymandering of the republican legislature of 1872, we have lost three congressmen, Landers, Holman and Raymond —fflentinel. This is a poor excuse. How could a gerrymander that took effect before thev were elected the first time, defeat them now ? They were elected in 1J874 in the same districts exactly.

contrary; bnt I could not shat my eyes to the fact that as the fortune of war was declaring itself more and more against the Servians, Ruasian assistance, which at first was only manifesting itself in driblets, was becoming every day more substantial and ostentations. Early in July the Russian volunteers were only coming in twos and threes; by the middle of August they were arriving in twenties and thirties, now it is a dies non which does not bring them in hnndreds, and we hear on excellent authority that within another week we shall have them In column^ of thou-

Thia year Landers had help, for a third , ^ .....

candidate was running. You lost your j J'lhis armed mijration ft the government congressman in this district at apy rate, t at 8t Petersburg might have stopped it

altogether; certainly one would think that if any official disapproval had been even intimated in respect of it,so many Russian officers.9ome of them belonging to the im : rial gnard, would net have resigned their commissi or. s in the imperial army to come to Servia with tbe fullexpectatiomon their return they wonld be restored to their former rank, if not receive promotion. Perbapa the Russian government thought the influx into Servia of officers and men of the Czar's service would never assume the proportion It now has assumed; but, be this as it may, the danger has arisen that the Russian Slavonic societies have in this matter of what is called the

because the people had had enough of him and his turning and twisting in

tearch of prosperity.

The republicans carry Ohio by ajsubetantial majority of seven or eight thousand and gain five congressmen. In this state the vote is close at best, both sides making gains. This does not make the October vote decisive and carries the contest into other states. The great battle will now be fought in New York

which with Connecticut and New Jer- 8^“ ^ _ atr 9 n f . , . , , i for even the imperial power. I say what

sey must be earned if Governor Tdden 1 -

is called the Servian war because the tit e

The original program was j i» a "misnomer.” If the war is to be

continued, and everything poinu in that direction, it will be as a Ruasian war in Servia until it becomes something atiil more. There ia a Russian general performing the duties of a commandant de la place. By him the Russian officers are received on their arrival; from him they receive directiona as to where they era to get ibeir uniforms and to what place they are to depart. Tbe organization ia admirble, and works without noise aud ooufu-

sion.

is elected

to let tliis state and Ohio go republican and depend npon the November states, but the nomination of Governor Hendricks prevented that, as it was necesatry he should try to carry his own state.

THE M iSTMHM AMrAIR

Now that our conflict is over we have time and eyes for the Turkish war, bnt hardly more to assure them of speedy jieaee than they saw two months ago when the Serbs were beaten at Alexinatz, and the Montenegrins doing little more than holding Monkhtor quiet. The “powers” have agreed upon the terms of an armistice and upon the policy of forcing Turkey to concede it, and that is something positive as far as it goes. The Turkish grand council has agreed to accept an armistice for six months, which fia more than was asked, and that is not positive in any direction, peaceful or hostile. It

/, ctzi, wivtjwowao rs That I should meekly take them.” "Yes,” mid his friend; “and God be praised; ThU fact, now you concede it, WiU lead you on to truth at last, And very much you need it.”

"HCMAra,”

Ivy absorbs damp from stone walls. General Braxton Bragg's life was insured for $40,000. The New York Sun gives place to the report that Edwin Adams, the actor, is dying is dying in Australia. Caution to the Indiana editors: The World’s French cook spells codfish y&uulc de careme,—[Cin. Commercial. Four of the Chinamen employed by Mr. Sampson, at North Adams, Maas., were baptized and received into the Baptist church on Sunday week. The Springfield hackmen raised a Tilden flag. That’s a very Jehu-dicioUs* movement —[Boston Post] Yes and very appropriate for an old party hack. Mr. Spurgeon writes: "If I conld speak thunderbolts and glance lightnings, I wonld exercise my fullest powers of oratory against tbe fnonsters who have made Bulgaria a pandemonium.” We pay Canada alone a million annually for the privilege of eating salmon, which once abounded in our waters, because the fisheries along our own shores have been cut off by dams, etc.—[Gen.

Roosevelt

Two Chinamen in Carson City, Nevada, who run gambling houses, pay au annual license ol $1,600 each. The tax was intended to restrict gambling, but the Celeetiala are always prompt to hand over the required funds. In tbe seventh ward a fish-hook was attached to the coat-tail of every colored voter who put in his ballot at each precinct, and this simple device was an effectual shibboleth in preventing many from repeating in the other.—[Cincinnati Enquirer. , A Montgomery (Ala.) paper shouts the glad tidings that the white froets have nipped the yellow fever buds, and thoughtfully adds that timid people may as well return to their homes and advance their business interests by advertising freely in

its columns.

The new governor of Georgia, elected by tbe democrats, was a confederate brigadier genera], and in that capacity won tbe battle of Olustee, Florida, in February, 1364. He was graduated at Princeton college— the alma mater of many southern Presby-terians-in 1844. Brooklyn Argus: In this century there have flburished three "men of destiny”— Napoleon Bonaparte, Fillibuster Walker and Sylph-like Babcock; and for squeezing out of tight places and crawling tbrougn impracticable knot-holes the greatest of these is Babcock. A New York letter-writer announces tbe presence of Malaria in Fjiiladelphia. Possible? And what is she going to sing? —[Hawkeye ] Y'ou remind ns of the woman who, when she was told that some tables in the Russian department were made of malachite, exclaimed: !‘My goodness! I thought Malachite waa one of the prophets 1”—[Philadelphia Bulletin. A circus that travels in Texas has au uncovered canvas enclosure. At Brackett a tree overhanging tbe ring was oecupied by men and boys, who thus saw the show free of coet. A performer's feat included firing a revolver on horseback, and at the first discharge a spectator fell dead from the tree. Thereupon the circus men were mobbed, and escaped only by a practical use of their skill in horsemanship. The heirs of William Penn now receive from tbe British government and are to receive "forever,” $>20,000 a year, in compensation for the proprietary rights to Pennsylvania. The London Echo sug-

firat cold snap." The young lady then wond> rad philosophically how she would, look in black, and telegraphed to Jjffrey; “Darling, I will be with you on Tuesday, never to quit you daring life. Lurline.” "It will be a sad loss to you, my love,”

said her mother. “Yes, ma," sobbed the dollars.

TRI-MUR AMR Mmwa.

Tb*» entae buahwes part of Sandy HU!‘ New York, was burned Tuesday ’night.

Loss over $200,000.

It is thought that the Pine Bluff, Ark., fire was the work of incendiaxie*. The loss now foots up to a quarter of a million

girl, "bat the loss is folly covered by insurance.”—[Tribune. MJtlTAIM’B BW GUM, A Caution u*»t Cwrr.ee a 1,700 PonWd Project^*. [London Daily New*.] SnoEEUBvmias, September 27.—Guns, great and small, are fired every day over tbe sands from this solitary and remote corner of Essex, and the inhabitants of this little town and garrison are so accustomed to lond and sudden noises as scarcely to notice sounds which would torture tbe untrained ear; but to day has been a day of dread, and its population, to the last man, woman, and child, has been all day in a state of nervous excitement and apprehension as to the ponibil- > ties attending the discharge of such an unwonted monster as the 81-lon gun, with its 370 pounds ot powder aud its threequarters of a ton shot. Tbers was really some ground for this alarm, because the gun does not stand with the rest of the gnns at this school of gunnery, but is placed on tbe beach close to the barracks and its contiguous thoroughfares, and barely fifty yards in front of a rather extensive block of soldiers’s cottages,and no one could say what effect the concussion might, have upon adjacent buildings, while some of the more timid began to speculate even on the contingency of the gun bursting,. and scattering its fragments like haih upon tbe devoted colony. The breaking of windows and crockery had been a foregone conclusion, and yesterday a sergeant’s party went around proclaiming with the sound of the trumpet at street corners that from 10 o’clock till 5 to day, to-morrow, and on Friday people who were wise would leave their windows and doors open, as some sort of precaution against the expected disturbance of the atmosphere by violent explosions. The inhabitants were given to understand, likewise, that if, notwiPbstanding their caution and care, damage should be dons, it would be made good out of the public funds, but these warnings and promises did not tend to allay the popular dijqulet. and apprehension. It certainly appeared asif all the inhabitants were out of door*, some of the shopkeepers, as an extra precaution, shut up their shops entirely, and everybody seemed to be drawn to the spot where the terrible giant lay. Tbe trials were to have been begun at 10 o’clock, but it was two hours later before the order was given to make ready,* The loading aparatus worked admirably under the control of about a dozen artillerymen, and the time required to rurv i tbe shot and cartridge down from thtf j magazine, and to ram both home down the muzzle of the gnn, was barely five minutes. The loading carriage and derrick were then drawn under the chase, or barrel of the gun, the fire buffers of the gun carriage having been removed in order ti gain more space, the electric tube was ini serted, tbe bugle sounded to prepare fot action. The extremely cantious betoo'6 themselves to safe distances, every one gave the gnn a wide berth, and most of the spectators gazed oat seaward, in th*. hope of catching sight of the wonderful projectile in its flight. The gun, through an alteration in the program, was laid at an angle of seven degrees, by which thjl ! . muzzle was to some extent elevated, auti , about 6,000 yards away a range party, consisting of hall a dozen gunners in ' wagon and two mounted sergeants i charge, were posted to keep observation and signal by flag to the firing point. There was no target to aim at, but straight range had been pegged out about' tout miles, and the tramping of horsemeru bad made the path of the shot very legible for some distance. The bugle sounded the order to "lire,” an officer in the instrument room touched a stud, the crash came, and then the 1,700 pound shot was clearly seen cleaving its way through the air to an altitude of apparently several hundred yards; then descending and diminishing until lost to view, until, after what seemed a long interval, it struck the earth, throwifig up a volcano of mud and water, aud, bounding on again, to fall and bury itself with another splash far beyond. It was afterward reported that this shot made its first contact at a distance of 4,687 yards, and that the ricochet carried it about as far again. The next consideration was the. gun. and how had the carriage withstood 7 , the unaccustomed strain consequent on the higher elevation. ^ Both gun and carriage were in perfect condition; and then came a question as to what had been the consequences of- the atmospheric disturbance.. An officer went round to take an inventory of thedamages, and tbe soldiers’ wives cam* abput him with dismal records of broken windows and shattered ceilings. Most of the cottages aihng the sea front had one or two broken panes of glass, several,, bad their rooms littered witn plaster from the walls and ceilings, and one or two had their window shades blown* completely out, but tbe most remarkable effects were manifested at a great distance. The plate-glass window of Mr. Cause, grocer, opposite Mr. Kirkwood's canteen, fully five hundred yards from the gnn, was utterly destroyed, and the glass, a quarter of an lech thick, scattered about the road. A barreak gate was burst open and its lock broken, several sashes bad vanished, and there were broken windowsin every >treet. Each subsequent round added something to the damage, but the greatest mischief was necessarily done at the* first dis charge. Four other rounds were fired at the same elevation, namely, seven degrees, and each shot fell within a few feet of tbe same distance, two. appearing to bury tbema Ives at once, and tbe other two bounding after number one into the German ocean. The gnn waa then depressed to an angle of only one degree, and two shots were sent skimming over the water, masine "ducks and drakef’ several times before they disappeared. The secoisd was observed splashing up foam at a diitance of 11 i^0 yards, or nearly seven miles from the shore, and as tbe "twist in the projecti’e gave it a constant tendency to the right, it seemed to get unpleasantly near to some sbadowy-looking steamers in the hazy distance.

Mrs. Donahue, who was so terribly beat, en by her bustard at Lawrence, Mass, Monday night, died Tuesday night, and tbe btute has been arrested. On Tuesday Bight, two masked burglars overpowered tbe treasurer of ‘ the county of Knoxville, Iowa, forced him to open tbe safe, secured $14,000, and escaped. The revival meetings at Chicago have been maintained nnder tbe lead of Whittle and Sankey, with increasing depth of power. The fust day service* to-day excite much interest Moody will be there and speak at the tabernacle Sunday mornThe grand lodge of Masons of the state of Arkansas elected the following offiqars; M. M. McGnire, grand master: S. W. Williams, grand lecturer; W. H. Howes, grand orator; J. F. Hi'l, grand senior warden;'!. E. Bennett, grand junior warden; L. E, Barber, grand secretary. A fire at Omaha yesterday morning In the U&ion Pacific depot damaged the roof j of the ladies waiting room and restaurant J to the extent of about $1,500. The restau- j rant was damaged by breaks#* and water to the extent of $2 500 to $3 000, fully covered by insurancs in the Alma, J Hartford, 8t. Paul and Manhattan. The earnings of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, main stem and branches, inclddirg the Pittsbnrg division, for the month of September, were $1 860.870, an increase over August of $207,572. The grain trade and passenger traffic is very heavy. The usual semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent, on capital stock of main stem was declairecL But very few returns from West Virginia as yet Those received however, indicate in some few cases, gains for Golf, republicaa, though they are offset by the still heavier gains for Matthews, democrat Matthews majority will probably reach 10,000. The legislature will be about two thiids democratic, thus securing for them the two United States senators. The meeting arranged to be held at the Windsor hotel, New York, yesterday, by the various representatives of railroad trunk lines from New York to the west, has been postponed until Friday, the meeting to take place at Detroit. It is anticipated that the heads of the varions roads, namely—Erie, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania and Grand Trunk will all be present, or that there who will attend in these places will have full" power to vote on any question bn ogbt up for the purpose of settling the present difference on the question of freight rates. Many lives were lost by the burning of the steamboat Southern Belle. Among these known to be lost are Wm.Von Pnul, Mr. Dorse, Miss Fannie O’Connor, and another lady, all of Baton Rouge; Mr. Franks, of Port Hudson; Mr Lingom, also Frank, an employe, and the steward and his crew. 11 is supposed that nearly ail of these who were sleeping in the after part of tbe boat were bnrned to death, as after the fire had once got fairly under way it was almost impossible to get to the bow of the boat—the only way of escape to the shore. The cargo consisted of five to eight hundred bales of cotton. Tne boat was new. valued at $45,000, and insured for $30,000, mostly la New Orleans companies. | FOREIGN. The French senate and chamber of deputies are snmmond to meet at Paris, October 30. A dispatch from Madrid says several newly built cruisers will shortly join the Spanish squadron in Cuban waters. Mcukhtar Pasha holds the positions gained on Saturday.. He has strongly guarded his communication with Ragusa. An understanding has been established between Russia*and Italy, and the relations between Italy and Austria are less friendly. Three parties have Just concluded a contract with the Servian government for supplying 150,000 complete naif or ms for the army. A Belgrade dispatch to the London Times states that Servia ha? not asked for a six weeks' armistice in the interest of peace, bnt only to gain time. The correspondent of the London Times says a war is waging between the Italian and Anstrian press on the claims of Italy on the mixed Italian and Austrian boundary. Tbe London Standard’s Trebinje dispatch reports that the highest authorities say that an armistice for twenty days has been concluded between Montenegro and Turkey, with permission to the Turks. Tbe conditions on which the 6 months’ armistice will be granted are communicated to the powers at once. A commission has been appointed to draw up a regulation for the projected assembly and senate. A Vienna telegram says: It is stated positively that Servia will reject the six months’ armistice, and that Russia will consider *n armistice equivalent to a rejection by the porte of the peace proposals ■ of the European powers. A correspondent- of the London Times at Berlin, and the Daily News at Belgraue, telegraph that they have strong reasons to fear the armistice will not be concluded. * The Daily Telegraph’s Belgrade corresponffent says Turkey proposes to continue to occupy kiervian territory she has already taken, leaving some troops at Belgrade and Alexinatz, and sending the rest into winter quarters. The London Times's Berlin dispatch says it is stated that the following are the conditions accompanying the ports’a pro posal for an armistice: Russia must stop the despatch of troops to Servia and Bulgaria. Servia must immediately suspend hostilities and give other military guarantees. Tbe Turks accord the armistice to the European powers, not to Servia. Tbe porte is willing to have a conference, provided that only Servian affairs and propositions for reform be discussed. No Servian representative shall be admitted.

in diameter wifi be reeerved; in tbe center of this specs the cable, a powerful rope of ten *noLes in «;'-eumf#rence, will be joined to the upper rtre'** by means of an'apparatus whica wiil coaste.i-’y indicate the sac nuing power of the balloon. This aerial machine will be held to the earth by tight cables, attached to iron rikg* fixed securely in masonry, and will be suspended above a vast conical basin. The car will be reached by two movab'e gangway*, and from forty to fifty tenons will be taken on board at each ascent Tbe cable will descend to the bottom of the conical i.asin,and by means cf a secure system Rill be carried along a tunnel to be worked by in engine of 200 beree power. This cable will be 1,730 feet in length. The captive balloon will be pk^cd in the center of a circular inciosure, 333 feet in diametor. It will tower above the beautiful gardens, and will form the most elevated dome in the Champ de Paris. With this .balloon it will be pcmible to raise more than 200.0UO visitors 1,600 feet above the earth daring the continuance of tbe exhibition. They may contempUte from that height,' surpassing that of eleven Arcs de Triomphe the fine tableau of the city of Paris and its surroundings M. Gifford proposes to corstrnct this enormous machine entirely *t his own expense. It Niii cost esveral hundred thousand francs.

ItfJFI. AXIOM.

geats that, "considering the very dubious Ur*, B'ntlrr Srorae tbe WewfcpaperM,

claim the old Quaker ever had to. the state which bears his name, and that it is now the great republic’s, it might not be im-

fioiurttilRK Tanglh e. (Burlington Hawkey*.] A near-sighted man out on South Hill went wandering around among bis currant bashes yesterday afternoon and stooped down and pulled a Hve centennial wasp's nest up by the roots to see what it was He didn’t get it anywhere near the focus of his eyes before he had an idea that it was a flat-iron some of the women had set outside to cool; then he thought it might be a concentrated case of prickly heat[ and then it dawned npon him that he had picked up a raw thunderbolt, and finally bis heart went clear down into his boots as he realized that be had got hold of tbe dangerous end of the'Hefl Gate ex'plosion snd pulltd it off.

pertinent to suggest that tbe United States congrees should take over the liability for the pension, with the other privileges attaching to it.” The daughter of a famous attorney-general of Florida when a Span-

ish colony received until this year a pan- roost,' and saying that I thanked God l

[From hi? speteh at Lancaster, Mass.] They say the newspapers do not liks me. 1 don’t mean they shall. I abh>r, detest, scorn, and defy all the lyine sheets this side ol the.place where they will yet go to. I now take occasion right here to say a word on this subject I offended them seven or eight years ago while in oorgrass by looking up to tbe reporters’ gallery, which we used to call "buzztrd's

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sion of $750.

When a Chicago girl received a dispatch from Wisconsin announcing that her lover was going off with consumption, she telegraphed to his friend: “Has poor Jeffry kept up his life insurance?” The friend telegraphed back: "Policy for $10,000 in your favor is paid up till May 9th, 1877. Poor Jeffry can not last after the

a as a man that God made, and not onethat the newspapers made. They have never forgotten me because I was not a man of their creation, if l am anything like the man they paint me, if I resemble him as much as they (the editor*) resemble angels of light, and no more, then not

one of you cast yonr vote for me.

Tbe Toledo lumber yard fire Tuesday nigl.t cost $100,000 Tbe Insurance com-

panies will pay $80,000 of it.

A Monster Balloon to Carry Cp Filly Peio-jne [Far!* Correspondence N. Y. World.] Mr Gifford baa devised tbe construction of a balloon for 1878^which will for surpass any effort hitherto made in this direction. This new balloon will be formed of a resisting material, solid, absolutely impermeable to hydrogen gas, manufactured of alternate sheets ot linen and caoutchouc, protected externally by several layers of varnish, and coated with white paint to diminish the effect of the sun’s ray*. Tb<s balloon will have a capa-ity of noarir 710,000 cubic feet, and will form an immense sphere, the greatest ever eonitraefced. tbe diameter of which will not he lew than 112 feet When moored to thaerrand the balloon will form a monumental deme 166 feet high, exceeding by fifteen feet the bigbt of tbe Arc de Triompbe. The balloon itself will weigh 8,800 pounds, and to join the pieces together of which it is composed will take nearly four miles of sewing, with 22 miles of threed. The car of the balloon will form a gallery 50 feet in cfrcutnfereooe. A circaiar space in tbe center ol ten feet

Would it IwtlatoV—AB Increase • fearrctivy else Worst Evil that toaid Xlapiiea. [Cincinnati Gazatte. ] They who are for more greenbacks think they would inflate prices again, and cause a general launcbing into new enterprises, a brisk demand Tor labor and all Its products, an active circulation ’ of money, and thus general prosperity. We affirm that ail experience teaches that inflation could not now have this effect We pass by the rational demonstration which we have made, that this interchangeable greenback Mid bond would woVk contraction of the sharpest kind. We talk now of a supposed inflation of 'currency, and of what that wonld do. Inflation of prices, and that confidence which leads to expanding enterprise, did never yet come save with circumstances which persuaded the general mind that it wss a start forward in real prosperity. In the Jackson pet back inflation before 1837, the people all thought that the rise in prices was because this new country was just entering on its adequate rate of progress. All thought the increase of wealth from the inflation of prices real. When the collapee came, they thought they were robbed of thdfr wealth by the absence of paper money. Years were required to make them realize the fictioa, and accept the reality. Likewise in the inflation caused by the iteue of greenbacks and national bank notes, tbe mags of tbe people thought it a burst of genuine prosperity. They fancied that somehow we had made a destructive war a source of wealth. Owners of manufactories of wood, iron, cotton, .woolen and other things, finding a brisk demand at good price* for ail their products, invested all their earnings and stretched their credit to add to their mills, laborers fonnd their work in demand, and the raising of wages easy, and they increased their expenditures for living, •xpecticg the future to bs still more abundant. Even the wisest thought that if the rise in nrices ass caused by an increase in the volume of the currency, it would at least continue while the volume of curreucy continued. Yet with the volume of the currency at its highest poinh with over 760 millions- of paper moaey, which is more than all the specie-paying countries In the world bad in the aggregate, a great reaotion took place in prices Brit how would it be if an agitation to increase the volume of naper money for the exprese purpose of raising prices should succeed in bringing such su increase. Would anybody h*ve confidenc* in such a rise in prices? Would those who are agitating for more paper money have confidence in any rise in prices by it? Would they launch into new eutorprisM, or into an extension of the old? On the contrary all wonld look to it for an opportunity to "onload ” And when every one wanta to unload there are none to load up. A general distrust of tbe permsnency of high prices would prevent their rising. No one touches anything whose price he thinks precarious. Every one who thinks tbe time coming when prices will drop, drops right sway. If a new issue of greenbacks were ordered, every one would think that any inflation of prices would b# only temporary. And w.here all think that tha rise of prices will be only temporary there can be no rise at all. If a party should coma into congress on the more greenback platform, there would be general distrust, and a waiting to see what wonld turn up. Should it start into the issue of more greenbacks it would cause a general loss of confidence and a state of suspense. Even i* a great increase of paper money should cause a rise in prices, all wonld perceive that they were flotitiona. All would think them only temporary. In the effect of the recent belief that ppices must decline, we can see the paralyzing consequences to business, of a general conviction that prices must be uncertain. If it were poesible for a party to come into power which is for making more paper ^noney it would cause a suspension of business by the destruction of confidence. Even if it should make an inflation of price*, the general conviction that they were but temporary, wonld tie up trade. But it is not likely thatVich a conviction of its temporary character would permit any inflation whatever. About the worst thing that could happen for the welfare of manufacturing industry and trade, would be an increase of greenbacks, and the establishment of the theory and practice of issuing them according to the wanteof trade. The Wart wifi not be deputy sheriff, and ♦he “brain half of Me and Frank” will retire to the privacy of pork-packing and the sweet odor of the bog, which la "a oaiia." A son of Prof. Brown, of the high school, while visiting New York quite recently, was stricken with small-pox and taken to the Blackwell Island hospital for treatment

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It Is related »f David Garrick that he once dropped a shilling at d raised a great fnmover it- Foote, tbe actor, being present, exclaimed: “I wonder where i< ha* gottaf" "Gone to tie devil!” grow)*d Garrick.” "Trust you, Davy, format Bgaahitlliiggo further than anybody else:" retorted F.ote. Garriek’a abi ling rernlnrl* p ni H T Babbitt’* R-st Hnao. Wb.i U