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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2*2, 18H.

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CLOAKS

A large stock of CLOAKS arrived this morning. A great variety of styles to select from. -

Hose & Wasson, BEK-HIVE.

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CTS. PEE YABD Tapestry Brussels. We have a line ef •laale pieces eahrjr Braawefci Carpets that net he duplicated that we lelese eat at the above LOW

TAPESTRY BRUSSELS Jl’ST RECEIVED, bonsht at a Bargain, will be sold in the same way. Beat Goods and NEWEST PATTERN*. Body Brussels, 1*1.33, To close n line of Single Room

Patterns.

TW0-PLYS l 25 to 50c. Thii is th« best opportunity offered for * ye&rt to buy CARFET8 CHEAP. ADAMS, MANSUR & CO. <J-A. XX a I hsw recently returned from the East with a larye stock of goods of the Utast and choioeet designs and Stylee, 1 have been eery busy for the. teat month marking sad arranging them for inspection. I am now prepared to show yon the largest stock of new, desirable and stylish WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE and DIAMONDS erer brought to Indianapolis, which I will sell you at LOWER PRICES than yea can procure the same for elsewhere. Do not buy a piece of old, shopworn goods when you can buy choice new goods for lea money. Get your prices elsewhere, then come and see me. and you will realise the bargains I am oSerlng in goods and prices. F. ML HERRON, Jewder, 16 West*Washington street

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THE DAILY NEWS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1877. The iilver bill which the committee hag presented to the senate, differs in onfe provision only from the Bland bill passed by the house. It provides that the secretary of the treasury shall buy and coin not less than two millions and not more than four millions of bnllipn each month. This does away with free coinage. The capacity of the varioua mints is only about thirty 1 •BHt millions a year, but the coinage under secretary Sherman will be kept at the minimum if the bill becomes a law.

The senate’s removal of the bonds of secrecy from the San Domingo case, on account of the recent mud-dingingupon Sumner’s grave by Grant and his adherents, means, if it means anything, an official vindication of the bullet-headed generalpresident. With pne voice silenced by death, no personal explanation can come to ser in right light accusations which records, tinged by the personal coloring of those living, can make. So we have here an official movement in the direction of party politics; a taking-care that nothing shall smudge the political fitness of Grant as a reserve candidate, or as first choice of a faction for the race in 1880. The Insurance Qironicle, whose statements are always worthy of conaideration, says: “It May be safely predicted that at the close of this year, and when the annual statements are being prepared, it will be found that many fire insurance companies and especially those with small capital, will be obliged to retire from business.” The ruinous competition generally, indulged in for a year or more is certain to bear evil fruit. It will be bad enough if companies have to retire without actual loss tothe policy holders, but it is to be feared that some of them will not be able tojfo this. J . The utter foolishness which frequently causes strikes, never had a better or worse illustration than in the case of some cigar maken in Philadelphia. I, ^ J“i the most trivial pretext had been selected to make an opportunity to throw away work and to show the employers that they had no right to run their own businessTV firm of Gampert Brothers employed 120 hands, male and female. No complaint is made about the work or the wages paid, but among other rules of discipline, necessary in so large an establishment, is one requiring a general dinner hour between 12 and 1 o’dock. This did not suit seme of the hands, bat the firm insisted that by any other arrangement the employes would be running off at all times Of the day, and that the time should be ntriform. Refusing to yield the hands

struck.

New Omleawh is b pleased at the ap-

jwintmentof Lawrcnc? to the collectorship. Tip appoiutment, which was a break-away by the president from tk * re- bottom, fuming board crowd, was one of the pivots on which the senatorial caucus attempted to turn in opposition to the executive. Strictly speaking Lawrence is a carpet bagger. He was born in New Jersey or Long Island, and went south a quarter of a century ago to make his fortune, and made it. He was a union man during the war but got in the way of voting the democratic ticket. He was sent to the fortyfourth congress by the democrats, but was kept out of his seat until the last days of the session. At the close of the war he called his slaves together, explained the case to them, offered them good terms, built them churches and schools, in short did everything common sense and manliness could dictate and was successful. He is on good terms with republicans and is, in fact about half republican in politics. It is not to be wondered at that the senatorial caucus made so little headway

against an appointment like this. A letter from George William Curtis

to Mr. Evarts, written under date of May 28, has just been published. From this it appears that by the instruction of President Hsjyes, Mr. Evarts inquired if Mr. Curtis would enter the foreign service, and if so what position would be most agreeable to him. This gratifying and honorable tender was declined by Mr. Curtis for

the following reason:

Acknowledging, as I do, the duty of every citizen to take an activg part in public affairs, I should not feel justified ia declining to enter upon a foreign mission in which it was thought I might be of public service, if 1 were not persuaded that I can be of greater service, ana aid the administration more effectually in the good work it has begun, by remaining in my present independent editorial position at home, than by undertaking any duty abroad, of the kind proposed, how-

“Powwwion” ia a nine-points to which every function of the government clings with the tenacity of a barnacle to A ahi^a-

Power of any sort begets inso-

lence, and it holds what it haa and gets all it can. The toad imagines himself an ox and bursts before he will admit that he is a toad. Nothing is more pleasant than the process of extension, inflation, honors are easy and everybody ia happy; nothing ia more difficult than contraction. It ia contraction the president ia at now. The senate of the United States is co-ordinate with the house in matter* of legislation, and with the executive in matters of appointment to office and the ratification of treaties. In both of its executive functions its powers are simply advisory; it can not take the initiative in either case and keep within the bounds of the constiiut'on; and it is to bring them back to the sense of their creation in this matter of appointments that the president is carrying on a greater reform than he wrought in his southern policy. The senate’s function in this, and it is the whole of it,is to scrutinize appointments and to confirm or reject as they please. But when they form themselves into a log rolling ring to vote fpr one another’s personal preferences and to help one another in enforcing their preferences on the executive^ they make a combination little short of treasonable. They usurp a prerogative lodged by the constitution in another branch of the governmeng and pave the way to an oligarchy of which we had a taste from the “group” in

the days of Grantism.

An Anti-Hayes Man Changed. (Washington correspondence Utica Herald.]

Mr. Haves has seen fit to make so many visits both north and south, and has figured so often as the president of the union, that latter occurrences of the sort etch shallow grooves in the public attention.

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keenest anguish to the political hacks and machine organs who complain so bitterly that the president is influenced too much by “doctrinaires.” That a “theorist” and -“civil service reformer” like George William Curtis should have been offered the English or any other mission, will cause the most poignantgrief to the “practical men” who have “broad views,” although his refusal to take office will be wholly incomprehensible to them. The Fight of a Man Against a Machine. In his assault on the office-brokerage business which the senate of the United States has been engaged in these many years, which has roused the ire of those who love to call themselves “true republicans”—the southern policy having been taken by consent—time shows that the president has planted himself on a principle, to successfully attack which is to leave the victor* without a shred of covering to hide their moral nakedness, and to be beaten, is to be undone indeed. The politicians of both sides are nagging the president on his stand concerning official patronage, and “about this time,” as the almanacs put it, the people have an opportunity to show whether or not they will “stick.” If they do, and they show every symptom of It, the most wholesome reform ever undertaken in government is assured. For the president will stick, “and don’t you forget it,” to use a piece of appropriate slang. Against him are arrayed every form of personal selfishness and political chicane. Legally he needs no help. He has “the law on his side,” and can bite bis thumbs at the bouse of Montague as soon and often as he likes. What would be fitting at this time is moral support, not moral consent—a positive expression, not a negative acquiescence. There is no evidence that the president needs this yet, but such things are never out of place, and proffered are of more value-than when asked for. It will not do for the people to simply applaud this fight and hope that the best man may win. Well-wishing is poor stuff at best. Christ would have none of. it. He said, “He that is not for me is against me,” and the people should be “for” the president to the extent of visiting their disapproval upon his enemies. They are the same who at the outset attempted this thing with the cabinet nominations, but were quickly scared into silence by the uprising of public opinion. They were discomfitted and the president was allowed the untrammeled choice of his adviThe same attempt is being repeated now by the same men. from the same motive*, and now is a good time for the people to repeat their part. “It is nothing but roaring.” But it ought to-be a robust, resonant roar, like a combined earthquake and gas explosion, such as we' had here the other day. Something that will “shake things.” The constitution is nowhere clearer than on this point: “The president shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent' of the senate, shall appoint.” Nothing can be plainer than that. As a matter of fact what has taken place, is for senators to nominate candidates for appointment to the president and for him to nominate them back to the senate for confirmation. And should the president nominate on his owu motion, the senate has enforced its “dignity” by rejecting such nomination on objection from a senator in whose state this free-will designation has been made. In short, the senate, pressed by the necessities of a time of war, and encouraged by the loose methods of Grantism which in some of its manifestations was simply a system of “whacking” on a large scale, came to consider itself an establishment with the right of advowson attached. Thus we heard of a certain office, as a pension agency for instance, “belonging” to a certain senator; and the system had crept into the lower house, mad we heard of revenue oollectorohips “belonging” to a certain congressman, and these terms were used by the press and the people with no seeming sense of the dangerous and illegal thing they represented. Of course the senate is quick to resent any infringement on its rights, privileges, dignity- and courtesy, no matter how these may be acquired.

week. In the newspapers the visit was a repetition of oilier visits, but I have had the good fortune to see it through the eyes of an unreconstructed republican—there are such. He is a republican, an Iowa republican, an Iowa republican whom Zach Chandler picked for one of the two most important posts in his gift. I have said enough to snow the political alignment of the man. The striking thing is that he has come back from his Richmond trip a Hayes republican. He was just turning over a three days’ mail yhen I found him at his desk and remembering sundry deliverences at the time of the Iowa invention and the Atlanta reception, I asked him if he had found any loyalty at the south. “My dear sir,” he sai’d,dropping his letters, “I tell you everybody is loyal. I have seen 80,000 men receive their general on parade, I have seen great political conventions, I have seen an Iowa republican mass meeting at the close of the war, and 1 never saw such enthusiasm or saw a man receive such enthusiasm as Hayes.” “White and black?” “White and black; there didn’t seem to be any difference. I just sat on the platform ami looked,and just said to myself,“a man that can do that,” and he waved both hands over an imaginary audience of 20,000, “is the man for me, I don’t care what the ‘policy’ is.” “Well, did the people talk ‘loyal;’ did you go among them?” “Talk ‘loyal?’ They talked like—well, like they had been waiting 10 years for a pretext to talk loyal. It seemed like all the bitterness had gone out of politics, don’t you know. That’s what the republicans said. I hunted them up and asked them, and they said somehow people didn’t hate them like they used to-, let them alone, let them be republicans if they wanted to. And thev don’t det as if they Y»ad captured him either. They call themselves democrats all the. same (it was evidentlv a great relief to my friend to strike one familiar peg in this upeaval of his political heaven and earth), out they just say, ‘any president is their president when he does right.”’ Fisticufft in London. [Chicago Times letter.] Pugilistic.encounters are so common in London as to attract little attention. No longer ago than last night, I attended Covent garden to listen to one of Arditi’s promenade concerts. The lower floor is cleared of seats, and is used for promenaders. Exactly in the middle of the performance of one of Mendelssohn’s most plaintive symphonies, two individuals got into a discussion, and very shortly came to blows. They fought for full five minutes in full view of all the audience in the upper tiers and of a'dense crowd who surrounded them. There was no loud talking or oaths, or excitement. The crowd closed about the combatants, and watched the battle without emotion. Finally there was a ciineh, a brief struggle, a fall, and the fight waspver. During its progress, not a fiddler missed a note. There was no perceptible excitement. There was a policeman not more than twenty feet from the fight, who gave it no attention. Both men as well as I could judge, were respectable —that is to say, they were well dressed and had well appearing faces. Cartier’s Terpslctaorean Feat. [New York Sun.] Prof. P. Vallean Cartier, who once danced for six consecutive hours, wagered, a few months ago, that he could waltzseven hours consecutively. His dancing academy at 8 Union square was named as the place, and last evening as the time. To the music of a violin and a piano, the professor, with his arm encircling the waist of his sister-in-law, Miss Sarah Leabohld, whirled into a waltz at exactly half past 6. Miss .Leabohld danced about 20 minutes, and was succeeded by Mr. Edward Harley, he being sqcceeded by others. Mrs. Cartier danced 38 minutes with her husband. He drank lager and beef tea, occasionally, without ceasing his motion. He showed some fatigue at about 11, but a cup of beef tea renewed his vigor. He danced all the various waltz steps, and was never motionless till half past 1. The judge announced hat he was successful.

The Deadwood Mine Trouble. Yesterday Sheriff Bullock made another demand upon miners in possession of the Keets mine at Deadwood, for possession of the property, to which the miners responded they would stay as long as they could. An effort will be made to dislodge them by the aid of Co. C. Seventh cavalry, which has arrived at the scene of the

trouble.

The Chicago Whisky Cases.

The trial of Roelle, J unkey & Co., and FordjOliver & Co^distillers, has been progressing this week, the questions being whether partial or complete immunity was granted them on condition of their giving their testimony to the government. The evidence being all in the pteadii

begun yesterday.

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The Third National bank of Chicago has decided to wind up. There will be no loss to depositors.

>ugh fihipka and neighboring

‘enemet Ali commences

THE EASTERN WAR. Vigorous Operations Proposed—Farther

Fighting,

, The success at Kara has greatly encouraged the party at the Russian headquarters who lavor the dashing stvle of operations similar to that adopted at the com-

mencement of the war. This pa

that as the Turks have stri) of troops, the Russians

dash tnroi

passes as soon as Mel

a movement to raise the siege of Plevna. The Russians have from 55,000 to 60,000 men concentrated in the region of Tirno-

va available for such operations. The Ronmanians captured Rahova after

a three days’ engagement. The Turks fled toward Lompolonka and Widdin,with the Roumanians in pursuit. Simultaneous with the capture of Rahova a Roumanian division crossed the Danube opposite

the town.

•There was heavy fighting on the Lom, Monday. A Turkish official dispatch claims that a strong Turkish force, making a reconnoissance, carried the Russian positions on Metchka heights, at Piergos .andDear Javanchiftlich, destroying at the first-named place seventy casemates filled with ammunition and provisions. The Russians lost 1,400 men. The Russian attack on Kadikoi was repulsed. A Russian official dispatch claims that the Turks, after a stubborn engagement, lasting from 9 in the morning until 6 in the evening, were everywhere repulsed, but admits that the Russian outposts were temporarily driven in. Both accounts agree that the Turks, after severe fighting, temporarily occupied and barned Piergos. The Russians state that so far 850 of their wounded have been brought in. Ronmanian batteries yesterday sunk a Turkish steamer above Kalafat. i a Report of the Commission of Internal

Revenue.

The commissioner of internal revenue has handed in his report to Secretary Sherman. It shows that during the fiscal year 4,952 distilleries were registered and 4,510 operated. The net aggregate increase of receipts from the several sources relating to distilled spirits for the past fiscal year, was fl,043,344. An abstract is given of the reports of district Attorneys for fiscal year, showing the whole number of suits commences, 5,828; suits decided in favor of the United States, 3,327; suits decided against the United States, 605; suits settled or dismissed, 3^)46; suits pending July 1, 1877, 6,085. A statement is made showing the falling pff in the total amounts assessed in the year 1877, of $1,704,324 from the amount assessed in the previous year, an amount almost equal to the decrease of the assessments on the single article of distilled spirits seized or fraudulently removed, on which there was assessed in 1877, $1,707,299 less than in 1876, in which year very large assessments were made on account of the stupendous frauds committed by distillers iu various parts of the country, and discovered in the latter part of the year 1875. The tax on deposits, capital and circulation of banks, etc., in the fiscal year ending June 30,1877, was $93,437 less than in the previous year, a decrease which must be accounted for by the general depression of business prevailing in the past year, and to which many banks, and particularly savings institutions, were compelled to succumb. It should, however, be remembered, (hat the amount reported in 1676 showed an unusual increase—$211,852— of tax on current banking business of that year over previous years. The amounts assessed on tobacco, snuffs and cigars removed from- . factory unstamped shows the large increase of' $314,505 over the amount assessed in the previous year, the amount so assessed in 1877 being about four times the amount assessed in 1876, to-wit, $419,308. It is true that assessments, equaling in amount this excess, were made against certain manufacturers in Virginia and North Carolina on tobacco alleged to have been fraudulently removed nearly fifteen months prior to the date of the assessments, and that additional evidence was subsequently filed upon which an abatement of a large part of the assessment was made. Nevertheless, even after making these deductions, the value of the safeguards provided by law other than that of defacing stamps^ is demonstrated by the figures above given. The total quantity of distilled spirits in taxable gallons at 70 and 90 cents tax placed in distillery warehouses, withdrawn therefrom and remaining therein at the beginning and close of the fiscal year ending June30,1877, is given at $74,143,388. Statements showing the gross amount of the average capital and deposits of savings banks, and bankers and banks other than national banks, for the years ending May 31, 1876 and 1877, are given. The capital of savings banks in 1876 was $5,016,659; 1877, $4,965,500. The capital of banks and bankers. 1876, $211,634,586; 1877, $218,235,388. The deposits of savings banks having capital in 1876, $38,207,891; 1877, $38,055,540. The deposits of savings bank having no capital in 1876, $845,109,.217: 1877, $855,057,027. The deposits of banks and bankers in 1876, $483,458,242; 1877, $475^90,064. Totals in 1876,$1,583,426,595. Totals in 1877, $1,591,073,519. The commissioner recommends that an act be passed authorizing the withdrawal of alcohol without the payment mt tax, to be used by manufacturing perfumers in the production of goods for export, under such restrictions as will prevent fraud and nrotect the rights of the government. With some further recommendations concerning legislation, the report closes. Opinions of the Nejir French Cabinet. Gen. Germadct de Rochebouet is a legitimist and a devoted catholic; M. De Welehe may be called partly monarchist and partly Bonapartist; M. De Peyre is a catholic and a legitimist; Marquis de Bonneville is a moderate Bonapartist; M. Dupuv de Lome is a moderate Bon&partist; M. Balbie is a fusionist and very catholic; M. De Montgolfier’s opinions are chiefly marked by an ardent Catholicism ; M. Pouver Quertier may be called a legitimist and Bonapartist.

^ Congressional. The senate occupied the entire day after its executive session in the discussion of the motion to discharge the committee on elections and privileges from further consideration of the credentials of M. CX Butler, of South Carolina. _Before a vote*was reached tne senate again went into execotive session and adjourned. The house occupied its entire time in committee of the whole on the deficiency appropriation bill, without reaching any result. Success of the Arctic Expedition. Captain Howgate received a Letter via Scotland bom Captain Tyson, in command of the Florence, the advance vessel of the American arctic expedition, under date of September 29, in which he reports his safe arrival at Miuntiliek harbor, Cumberland milf. He proposes to move to the head of the gulf in a few days to jjo into winter quarters and carry out his instructions in reference to the collection of material. Lynched for Burglary. The man, name not given, who was susoected of robbing Church & Co.’s store at Middlefield, Geauga county, Ohio, was taken from the officers Tuesday night by a mob and hanged. Great excitement prevailed in the vicinity.

l H«ran he dwells; feKaS&i idhdfro. YVvnnglnrd Heron W left his state, ftmaed a doublet of hodden icrev,—• SUdM^ut Of the postemtfueA silly ihepherojto wonder sway! • , Rosalind keeps the heart of « child ;* Gentle amt tender and pure U she. Never a swain has whispered Wore What She heart at the close of day; “Hose of roses, I love thee more,— , More than the sweetest words can say. “Though I seem bat a shepherd ted, Down from a stalely grace I came; In silks snd jeweb I’ll bare thee clad, And Lady of Heron shatt be thy name.’’ Rosalind blushed a rosy red, ■ Turned as white as the hawthorn’s blow;

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a Spits Dog Aa a

And aped away 1

t a startled doe.

“Roseof roses, come bock to me,— Leave me never!” Lord Heron cried; “Never!” echoed from hill and tea: “Never!” the lonely clitE» replied. Loud he mourned a year and a day; Rut Lady Alice was fair to see. The bright sun blesses their bridal day, And the castle bells ring merrily. Over the moors, like s rolling knell Rosalind hears them slowly peal; Low she mourns: I love him well,— Better I loved his mortal weal. “Beet, Lord Heron, in Alice's arms: She is a lady of high degree; Rosalind hath but her peasant charms; Ye had rued the day ye wedded me.” , "* Lord Heron he dwells in his castle high; Rosahn&sleeps on the moor below; He loved to live, she loved to die; Which loved truest the angeb know. —[Rom Terry Cooke. SCRAPS.

Jtt, Fremont, Greeley

placed in the ante-room a big billy goat, a mammoth gridiron, a hangman’s noose, and some desperate looking swords and knives; and some of the ladies who attended were fully convinced that these were a part of the regular paraphernalia. •Mr. August Belmont, the banker was bom in 1816, and speaks and writes four languages with correctness and elegance. He is of middle stature, well built, with small hands and feet, with side whiskers turning gray, and & finely moulded, partially bald cranium, flis features are handsome and regular, and his complexion fresh for a man of his age. He is an arbitrary but not a quarrelsome man, and he carries a ballet in his hip which he received in the defence of the reputation

of a lady.

Another Defaulting Officer. . The city treasurer of Covington, Ky., Wm. G. Suite, is reported a defaulter to the amount of $10,000,

poetry into two kinds,

Hood divided verse and worse. There are 2,265 letter carriers in the cities of the United States. The late E. L. Davenport’s son Henry is pronounced a “born actor.” Births are now announced in New York society by issuing cards. Two widowers in Perry county, Texas, married each o'ther’s daughter. General Benjamin F. Butler has just passed his fifty-ninth birthday. Gypsies drive a profitable business in telling fortunes for southern negroes. Over $40,000, fn 112 scholarships, is annually given or loaned to poor Harvard students. The Jewish Times wants to know whether Jewesses will be admitted to the Stewart hotel for women. An Indian girl, said to be a Mohawk, has made her debut on the stage in Toledo, and promises to become a fine actress. There is a family of seven young men in Kalamazoo, Mich., all of whom have lost more or less fingers by the buzz-saw. Dr. Ayer, the insane medical milfionnaire, in now among his friends, and his case is undergoing scientific investigation. Col.- J. W. Fomey has voluntarilv withdrawn from competition for the head of the United States commission to the Paris exposition. A short, sudden sneeze is the way to pronounce the name of the Nebraska secretary of state. The gentleman spells his name Tschuck. The French now consume 22 litres of beer per head annually, against two litres in 1819. The averages that have fallen off are cider and water. A Washington letter-writer says Hamilton, of Indiana, i* trying to imitate Cox, but Sunset does not allow such aspirants to bite ’im, ad infinitum. Miss Cobbett, the eldest daughter of William CobbetL and who prepared most of his writings tor the press, has just died in England, aged 82. She was born in Philadelphia. Awful Gardner, the “converted prizefighter^’ is about to go to rum selling again m Newark. He claims that paralysis prevents him from making a living m any other way... Captain Bogardus has made a match for $1,000 a side to break 5,000 glass balls in 500 consecutive minutes. The trial of skill will take place shortly in the hippodrome in New York. ^ Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, who has been confined to his chamber for a few weeks by a complication • of disorders, arising from a congestion of the lungs, is getting better. Julia Kavanaugh, the author, has just died at Nice, at tne age of 53. In early life her parents took her to Paris, where she acquired that insight into French home life that is observable in her novels. A Michigan 15-year-old girl started for Chicago from near Adrian, the other day, driving a horse and buggy, and in a note left behind expressed her intention to go into the world and be educated. She was overtaken 75 miles from home and taken

back.

Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, the talented editor of St. Nicholas, is quite ill. She suffered from typhoid fever, in tkfe summer, and has not recovered from its effects. Her physician has ordered her to stop work for a year, and she will proba-

bly go to Europe.

Mercedes, future queen of Spain, has a peculiarity—she is rarely seen without coral ornaments of some sort. It is for this reason, probably, that coral has become very fashionable in’ Ptfkis; a single row of fine coral beads now costs there*

from $200 to $250.

Amadeus, once king of Spain, is not going to be a monk, as was reported; he is managing the vast estates left him bv his excellent wife, and intends, it is said, to take the presidency of the Italian commission for the French exhibition, hitherto

held by Prince Humbert.

“Go and live in the country if you want to be president,” says a New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Times. “There seems to be a political fatality attending all of tj^e New York city candidates for the presidency, among them

Burr, Clinton, Scott, Fr'en

and Tilden.” ,

When St. John’s lodge of Masons at Hartford dedicated their new lodge room last week, some of the jocose brethren

i PhiteMtelpM* Child Btttea by and Dies In Grant Agony,

[Phiindelphte dispstch te Cincinnati Enquirer ] . An unusually well authenticated case of death from hydrophobia has occurred here, the victim being a child, and the cause a bite from a Spitz dog. Mr. das. Leibrick is a salesman in the hardware s to remand it is bis youngest child, Charles Edward Leibrick, only two years and eight months of age, wbpis the victim ui the terrible calamity. Mr. Leibrick says six weeks ago Charlie was playing with either children on the pavement in front, of the beer saloon of Joseph Richmann, on the southwest corner of Twenty-third and Bolton streets, about two squares away from here. Richmann’s child was playing with a Spitz dog belonging to him, and the dog aiterward jumped in an apparently playful manner from one child to the other, when suddenly the child cried out that he was

bitten.

He was brought home; I saw the marks when I came home that night; one was on the left eyebrow and the other on the left cheek, just below the eye; both together they were not as big as the head of a ten penny nail. I did not think them the result of a dog bite, because a woman who saw the child fall as the dog jumped at it said they were caused by his face striking against the wheel of a baby carriage. The marks disappeared in.twelvehours. I had been for a long while in the habit of carrying ray boy after he had awakened every morning down stairs “piggy backy,” but on last Saturdav morning, for the first time, he showed a fear of falling so unnatural as to excite notice. He played all that day as usual, but his mother noticed that he was drooping. Sunday morning he was still evidently out of sorts, but nothing happened of note until the afternoon. Then his mother stripped him for the purpose of washing him all over and dressing him. The instant the Water came into contact with his body, he gave a yell unlike any sound she ever heard before. I took him upstairs, and sat with him on my knee for an honr and a half. I then asked him to lie down with me. He consented, but when I laid him down he gave a yell such as I never heard any thing like in my life. From that time he would never lie down, and it was then his convulsions began. These were from seven to ten minutes apart, lasting a minute at a time. The sight and touch of water caused them the worst. A tear that dropped from his eves upon his cheek threw him into a convulsion. The convulsions lasted all Sunday night and Monday until ten minutes past six o’clock in the evening, when he aied verv easily. The attending physetans, who stand well in the faculty, gave a circumstantial statement of the features of the case, and confirm the father’s report in every essential particular. They say a stronger marked case has never been reported, and the victim being a child so young there is no reason to believe that imagination played any part in the matter. Dr. Barnes says, “1 fought in my own mind against the theory of hydrophobia from the beginning, and-watched closely for symptoms of men-ingitis'-cerebitis, or tetanus, and there was nothing to indicate either of them. There was no rigidity of the muscles, as in tetanus; the jaws were as mobile as my own.”

A Monkey's Death Scene. “I never saw such a thing in my life,” said James Donohue, the night watchman of the Central park museum, New York. “On Tuesday Zip, one of Mr. Barnum’s monkevs, fell suddenly and dangerously ill. He was a great favorite with his companions—their leader in mischief. Superintendent Conklin examined him and said he would die. We got a bed of straw and cotton for him, and left warm milk by his side.” - At 11 o’clock I went to the cage. Usually the monkeys at night sit huddled together, sound asleep; but this time they were all wide awake, sitting silent and moveless, watching Zip’s dying agonies. Zip lay in a comer sobbing and moaning. Jack and Pete, the two trick monkeys, were at his side. Jack had Zip’s head resting on his bosom, while Pete every now and then dipped nis paw in tlt£ milk and wet Zip's lips. “But there’s a stranger thii4| about it yet.” Mr. Donohue continued; “at midnight Zip died. Then came what my partner Reilly, and BarnuWs man, say they never saw the like of. As Zip’s head fell* limp in the arms of Jack, he gave a little low squeal, and Pete sprang to his side. Pete looked at Zip, lifted up one of his paws, tapped him gently on the breast, put his ear to his heart, raised his head, and then gave a shrill aqueal. Jack in answer dropped Zip just as naturally as a human being would at the first intimation that the form he held was dead. Pete was the first to recover himself. Slowly he approached Zip, examined him closely, raised him in nis arms, dropped him hard •n the floor of the cage, and, as Zip did not move, sprang to the uppermost parch. Wasn’t that strange?” . ^ The reporter absented. “Then, sir,” continued Mr. Donohue, “came the most extraordinary thing ever witnessed in the park. The monkeys set up the most piercing screams. Tffe baby monkeys pressed closed to their mothers, and the females close to the males. All chattered and chattered, and pointed to poor Zip. Finally, Pete and Jack, followed bv all the others, sprang to the bottom of the cage. They were all silent now, moving slow, and in the form of a circle they gradually came nearer and nearer. Then, hugging close, they stopped. All night long they remained watching the body, and I never saw a wake that»could beat that one for earnestness and sympathy.” , Gale as a Walkist. „ The extraordinary feat completed at London on Saturday night by Gale, the Cardifl’pedestrian—walking 4,000 quarter miles in 4,000 consecutive periods-of ten minutes each—is without parallel in athletic annals. Compared with it, Capt. Barclay’s 1,000 in 1,000 hours—a feat frequentlv duplicated since, and lately, we believe, even by an English woman-sinks into the grade of minor performances. Robert Skipper’s 1,000 half miles in 1,000 half hoifrs was not nearlv as remarkable a performance as this oi Gale’s, because the length of continuous sleep possible at each resting interval was much greater. Gale’s previous feat of 1,500 miles in 1,000 consecutive hours was also unprecedented. In fact, Gale is the real Cardiff

giant.

Swindling In Government Building. Michael Lvdden, master mason, and James Gellatly, boss stone cutter, are on trial in the United States court, in St. Louis, charged with using concrete instead of solid masonry in the foundation ef the government building there. Ocean Steamer* Lost. The steamship Strathroy, from Montreal the 12th, with grain for Aberdeen, Scotland, was lost on the island of Miquetom gulf of St. Lawrence. The captain and crew were saved. The cargo was lost but fully insured. A Memorial te Bangs. - A memorial association, composed of attaches of the mail service, has been formed in Chicago, for the purpo#e_ of erecting a suitable memorial -to the late { George S, Bangs.

CREMATION

the 3d tWifoTf 1 Julius

cher, living at No. 807 East gave birth to a male child,

was very weak and

on the

sfe’SEys department. A dim *' *

tion to the place of is a Lutheran, whil Jewish persuasion.

the Remains oi the infant interred in the Lutheran cemetery. On the other band, his wife and her relatives wished the child buried in a Jewish cemetery. Kircher did not wish to offend his Wife’s relatives, and it is supposed that the disagreement induced him to cut the knot of dissention by crematingtheremains. The funeral had been set for the 13th insC, but early on ’ tha morning of that day Mr. Kolb was astonished by return to him of the coffin in which the body of the child had been inclosed preparatory to burial. Mrs. Kirch-

er, from whom the facts were I

weredeamedj said a paint faftory, r he took the body

and on Tuesday morning he took

out of the coffin, and, wrapping it in old cloths, carried it down town with him. When he returned in the evening he informed her that he had placed the corpso in an iron box, and tlirnst it into a furnace in the factory, and that the bodv had been thoroughly cremated. Ha also told her that the furnaces in his factory were peculiarly fitted for cremation, aa they were capable of being: heated to an interne degree, and tbe tall chimney carried off the gases and odors without offense to the neighborhood. Mrs. Kircher said that neither her husband nor herself had any idea that he was doing any wrong, but ’her husband believed that he had a perfect right to cremate the body of a relative if he saw fit, and that it was as lawful for him to cremate the remains as to have them buried. An examination of the sanitary code of the board of health shows that it does not prohibit the cremation of dead bodies, nor does it prescribe any special mode for the disposition of the reniams of human beings which can be construed into such a prohibition. Mr. Kircher has nof violated any Section of the sanitary code, and there is a great deal of speculation as to what action the board of he&itn will take in the matter. Dr. Hamilton will

report to the board to-morrow. How Morrissey Patted Colfax.

[Son Francisco Bulletin.)

It is related that when when John Morrissey was elected to congress and Colfax was speaker, Morrissey, knowing .Colfax’s liking for a good cigar, diffidently approached the door of the speaker’s room m the capitol building one aav, but drew hack when he saw that a number of other * mem Iters were inside. At length, the last nisi tor having departed, John timidly ventured in. Colfax received' him with a kindly open hand. “You like good cigars, Mr. Colfax?” blurted out bluntly

Mr. Morrissey.

Mr. Colfax smiled', with an affirmative '

motion of the head.

“Will you please accept from me a box of the very best Havanas ever landed lit

this country?”

“It would delight me, exceedingly, Mr. Morrissey to receive it.” “I’ll send two of them to ymir house this afternoon.” ' , “Oh, Mr. Morrissey, you are too geuerMr. Morrissey played with his fingers awhile, and then blunted out again: “Mr. Colfax, I have a favor to ask of

yon.”

Colfax started, alarmed, but asked, “And pray, what is it, Mr. Morrissey?'* “Why, you are just now making up your ccimmittectt, and l would like to have you, if yon will, put me on one where I’ll

have nothing to do.” relieved, smilingly

lie desire should be gra

And Mr. Morrissey was made chmrman of the committee on revolutionary pensions.

Colfax re; ance that the

gave assurbe gratified.

The Silver HiU. The senate finance committee report the house silver bill with an amendment providing far the purchase and coinage of bullion to the amount of not leas than two million and not more than four million dollars per month. The bill is as follows: That there shall be coined at the several mints of the United Htales silver dollars of the weight of four hundred and twelva and a hall grains troy of standard silver, as provided in the act of January, 1837, on which shall be the devices and superscriptions provided by said act, which coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United States of like weight and fineness, shall be legal tender at their nominal value fox’all debts and dues, public and private, except where otherwise provided by contract, and the secretary of the treasury is authorized and directed, out of any" money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to purchase from time to time silver bullion at the market price thereof, not less than twff millions of. dollars per month nor more than four millions of dollars per month, and cause the same to be coined into such dollars; and any gain Or shrinkage arising from this coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury as provided under existing laws relitivc to subsidiary coinage; provided, (hat the amount of money at oifc time invested in such silver bullion, exclusive of such resulting coin, shall not exceed five million dollars.

, A Moat Learned Man. [New York Hcrsld ] Yesterday morning when the Worid reporter entered the court of general sessions he bade the polyglot interpreter, Prof. Dollin, “good morning.” “Ah, good morn-' ing, Mr. of the World,” answered the professor. “How do you do? Comment vous ]K>rtez vous? Wie geht’s Ihncn? Come state? Come eats Usted? Nassil sinisa? Tihabaria? Kakpojivayete? Yakse pap mksb? Yakse mate? Iloyt von? Cema fateh? Kakosty?” “What does that mean?” asked the re-

porter.

“Oh, it is nothing,” answered the

ly wish to be ve

“I did only

ve saluted you in K in, ItalianLpanish.l Russian, Polish, Bo!

profe ilite, i

*or:

I have

German,

Greek, Russian, Polish, Bohemian, Hungarian. Ronmanian anti Servian. That ia

all.”

enrjK

in English, French, Turkish, modern

Fire im New York.

A fire at 18 Leonard street, New York,

good stock

of Brnith & Taylor $100,000. Other oo» mg' lose about *200,-

last night, damaged the linen good stock

of Ktmth cupants o

000, all covered by insurance.

of the building

Oil Producers.

The oil. ‘18*

delegates, is in i

three-fourths of the entire

represented.

Oil Producers. * hs of the entire production

Killed His Father.

May ha $80,000.

I

life: