Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1878.

A MM SALE 'Will bn Mad« of tbf Balance of Stock on hand aa advertis'd last week. Ihta i« not » r*lucUan of • low tvnU per jrorJ n ^wl*; I '.H lii iuahv Ihcr wiU Im *« to uai-fcall their value. Black Silks. Wo continue the ««le of Flock Silk*, at retail only, at price* naiucd la*t week, which are lea* than merchant* can boy thorn at wholesale to-day.

Close & Wasson, BEE-HIVE.

Tapestry Brussels, 75c. Extra Supers, 75c. Two-Plys, 25c. I*ox* 3T«,;fc3L. We have placed on nale 2* to SO pieces each of the above good* that we otter at lew than cost to close out. On examination you will find the goods die*per and better than anything ever otiered before In the Slate. Great Bargains In All Lines of Goods. ADAMS, MANSUR & CO., 47 and 49 Sooth Meridian SL

A Few Remarks About the weather just now would be very appropoe, but not feeling able to do the subject justice, we merely say that a good ICE PTTCHEB or WATER BBT Is a great eeaalwt times like these, and for the best line of them, and the lowest prices, go to Bingham, Walk & May hew’s, 12 E. WASHINGTON ST. (Sign of the Street Clock.) K£.Flease observe our Window,

THE DAILY NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10. 1878.

The. Indianapolis News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. Hampton declares there shall be an untrammeled election and a fair ballot in South Carolina. Amen.

Tiiby seem to be laying the baeis for the biggest riot in Montreal, on the -twelfth, the Dominion ever saw. The mighty men of the Potter committee seem to be failures as investigators. They opght to turn their attention to revietualing Nicsics. The race between Sherman and the Potter committee is a kind of Ten Broeck-' Mollie McCarthy affair. It was a close shave for awhile, but Ten Broeck Shwman is forging ahead in a way that bids fair to distance his rival.

The nomination of Major Gordon for the legislature seems to have excited the .ire of the democrats. It is astonishing ■with what persistence and unanimity they brawl about his weakness, insignificance, and the certain defeat that awaits him.

The Journal thinks a vote for Voorhees will be a vote to endorse salary grabbing. (Bight for once.) A vote for J. Peter Cleaver Shanks will also be a vote to indorse salary-grabbing. The rascality is the same in both cases. You can’t make fish of one and flesh or fowl of the other. The people ought to repudiate both. Af«AUi/rs open women with intent to commit an atroddous outrage are multiplying in numbkr and in hideousness. Yesterday one panar contained an account of three terrible ewes happening in Ohio, and worse, it gavel the accounts with a particularity that, a man of decent instincts could not read without shame. Attorney-General Devkns gives an opinion on the eight hour law, as section 8,738 of the revised statutes is commonly called. It is to the effect that government contracts for “a day’s work” mean eight hour’s work. For this the laborer may draw the pay agreed upon for a day’s work. But if he chooses to work ten hours a day he will be paid proportionately more. rb— It is a sight for gods and men when Ben Butler stands up and declaims against the “money kings,” and the selfish greed which enriches itself by the oppressive toil of the poor. Ben Butler the millionaire, the man who has made more money out of politics probably than anybody who ever engaged in the dirty business, the man who never did a thing that had not a selfish end, a criminal lawyer by instinct, a l ally by profession, and a demagogue as a matter of choice.

As The News said yesterday, the London papers discuss the Anglo-Turkish treaty us a step involving great responsibility. The London Times says: “It is by no means an easy question whether it be worth onr while to take the vast responsibility for the purpose of excluding Russia from Asia Minor and the Euphrates valley.” The News ventures the opinion that the English nation will decide that question m the affirmative. Disraeli will be sustained, we think. It looks very much as if the Potter committee was worsted. It started to catch Sherman, and it looked for awhile as if it would. But there has been some skillful work done behind the scenes somewhere gince this investigation began. The orator, Puff Sherman, who talked in his am'll voice at first, has changed his tone. He demands a chance for rebuttal, and *nap« his fingers at Potter’s committee. He knows what he is doing, and the committee bids fair to fall into disgrace, as it has long since fallen into contempt

While some people ire talking of a third term for Grant, no one so much as mentions the iioMiibiUty of a ».-cond term for Hayes.— {Chicago Times. Have* declared before he took office that ho wouldn’t take a second term if offered him. Were it not for this wo (should not have had even the degree of independence in the executive which we have had, and which has been the first step toward a better government since Andrew Jackson was inaugurated, a policy that Grant developed to fullness, and which steadily tended in the direction of bad government. It is a pretty even thing which is the worse job. The democrats have fixed Ohio so that it will return 14 democratic congressmen to six republican on the basis of the vote of 1876, when Hayes had about 7,000 plurality. The republicans fixed Indiana so that it returned nine Republican congressmen to only four democratic in 1870, by the same vote that gave the democratic candidate for governor 5,000 plurality.—[Springfield Republican. The darkest side to this subject is .the moral certainty that should the democrats in Indiana and the republicans in Ohio, in spite of these wrongs carry thestatethey will perpetrate as glaring one, if not more so, in “fixing” things the other way, and thus making the will of the people a football for dishonest parties to kick about.

Mr. Peter Cooper says the government “has no constitutional right to invalidate contracts by lessening the volume of the national currency, after the same has been issued and advanced to circulate as legal money in the payment of debts.” If old David was here he would again have occasion to eAclaim, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me!” Did it ever occur to the deluded followers of the New York millionaire to ask, “Has the government then a constitutional right to increase the volume of the currency?” Would not that equally invalidate contracts? Or to ask, “Has the government a constitutional right to pay its debts and take up its notes?” Or did it eveir occur to them that a reduction of the greenbacks at the rate of eighty per cent of the national bank issues would be increase instead of reduction? Or that resumption will release over $200,000,000 of gold now waiting to pass into the circulation? Surely the greenback constitutional wisdom is immense I

Secretary Sherman “score? one” on the Potter committee. It will be remembered that at the formation of this committee the scope of its inquiry was as “to the conduct of the persons in office as aforesaid (by name Secretary Sherman and Minister Noyes,) and “jnto the alleged false and fraudulent canvass and return of votes in Louisiana and Florida.” Under this they began on Secretary Sherman as to “that letter.” He offered to prove violence and intimidation in those Louisiana parishes. The committee declined |p allow him, saying that was not what they were investigating. They went on with their inquiry personal as to the secretary, and have proven nothing except what enormous liars flourish in the tropical climate of Louisiana. They then begin with Emile Weber to prove for the democrats just what Secretary Sherman wanted to prove for the republicans. Sherman sees his opportunity and drives a letter right into it. He claims now that they have entered the inquiry as to violence in the Feliciana election his right to be be heard. He clinches this demand by an announcement of his readiness to testify as to the charges against him personally. He hits the sense of fair play. The Potter committee will not rise higher than a political acquisition, a petty, tyrannical star chamber, if it does not squarely accept this request of Secretary Sherman’s. That it will do this no one need expect. It attempted to smirch General Noyes, and after he came from France and cleaned himself beyond the shade of a shadow of a doubt, it hasn’t the fairness to say so. It was developed nothing but one thing, and we question if will develop any other. It has shown what a set of scoundrels the carpet baggers were, ami to this extent deserves tbe thanks of thecountry. Beyond this it is simply an electioneering machine for Tilden, run at government expense. CUKKKNT COAIMKNT. Hayes travels too much. Grant’s influence seems to have had a demoralizing effect in more ways than one. Iowa will set about enforcing the “tramp” law, which provides for the arrest and punishment bj^ labor, of vagabonds. This is rendered necessary by the increasing number of strolling idlers, who are getting to be as great a burden as the grasshopper. A somewhat lively contest is going on in San Francisco between the firms composing the brickmakers’ protective union and a company not in the union, for the possession of the market. The seventeen firms who compose the union employ about 1,500 white men ami no Chinamen. The opposing company employ several hundred Chinese, and possibly a few white men. The union pays its white men $30 a month and board. The opposing company pays its Chinamen not far from $20, andthey board themselves. A new Catholic church requiring 15,000,000 bricks is the object of the struggle,as the possession of that contract will naturally determine the control of the market for some* time. Here is the practical issue of a question which our “statesmen” (?) have such difficulty in theorizing over. Senator Sargent was a printer in early life.—[Item. Better had he remained so. They had a “literary congress” in Paris, and the account of the chief feature of the affitir begins, Consomme de Volatile a la Royale and ends Champagne frappe. Surely it wasn’t “them kind” of “literary fellers” that Simon Cameron says he never said were “dam.” “St. Louis as a summer resort” raises its well-mopped head in rivalry of Chicago. Undoubtedly you can get about as much summer to the square inch in St Louis as any place this side of that consulate Anderson was recommended for. “Gath” says Uncle Tilden is down at Long Branch, and that many to whom he has talked “all agree that he is desirous, if not hopeful, of a renomination next time, and has ceased to repose any hopes in the Potter

investigation, except as an agitator.*’ Ckth adda the mournful intelligence to Indiana democrats that Tilden is in better health than ever and looks as if he had come to stay. 1 ' Horace White thinka that as Thurman becomes more prominent Hendricks will glide in the rear of Tilden and bo content with second place. Indiana will go for the old ticket, Tilden and Hendricks, Tilden’a clanger Ilea in New York repudiating him. If Thurman is nominated, Mr. White anpposea Bayard will bo put up for vice president. Ha believes Grant will be beaten for the republican nomination, and that Edmunds, of Vermont, is as likely as not to be the candidate Chicago is getting into a “reform” mood. The city authorities are now hunting for a method of suppressing the cowardly practice of carrying concealed weapons. An effort is making in Cincinnati to suppress base ball pools, the selling of which is bringing such disgrace on the national industry as to prognosticate its ruin. There is a law in Ohio which will end the iniquity, If it is enforced. But it is as certain as death that if the lead of the politicians is followed, if there is a revival of the bloody shirt and an abandonment of civil service reform, if there is a ooncession to the financial lunatics and fear of a restoration of the senate ring to power, if there is a suspicion that the Belknaps, the Babcocks, the Robesons, the whisky thieves, tbe carpet-baggers and the other bad elements that have disgraced the republican party will again become prominent, then the republican party will invite everlasting defeat.—[Milwaukee Sentinel (Rep.) There can be no doubt about it that if the republican party were this day represented in a national convention, the old Grant rings—railroad plunders and whisky swindlers, land grabbers an^ army and navy contractors,timber thieves and carpet-baggers,the machinists in politics, and managers of elections for the sake of the spoil of office—would be in possession, and that they would nominate Grant.—[Cincinnati Commercial. It is said that Secretary Sherman proposes to kill off some of the political idiots that infest this country by resuming specie payment about the first of September. One thing is evident: Nothing but actual and permanent resumption will have the effect of dispelling the shinplaster lunacy. And it is doubtful if even actual resumption will have that effect so long as the statute book is stained by the devices of fraud called legal tender acts—acts which have divided the American people into two classes, fools and rascals.—[Chicago Times. The managers of old shinplaster banks used to talk the same way. The argument then was that money would be plenty—that is, easily obtainable—if coin redemption were not demanded. It turned out that the banks that were so anxious to make money plenty were so rotten that they did not pay fifty cents on the dollar That experience cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars. The national bank has wiped out the whole shinplaster system, and made the issue of that kind of paper impossible. The result is we have now the best paper money in the world. Tbe bank may break, but the paper is good.— [Cincinnati Gazette. Sherman to Potter. Secretary Sherman has sent the following reply to Chairman Potter’s letter of July 1st: “Sir—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st in8tant ; upon my return to the city after a brief'absence. In respect to the evidence tendered by me to prove frauds and intimidation at the election, I have to say that since the date of your letter the question seems to have been settled by the committee in favor of taking such testimony, as E. L. "Weber, a witness called by the committee, has been examined as to whether there was violence and fraud at the election in East Feliciana. In his prepared statement he was not only allowed to testity to the extent of the violence and fraud in East and West Feliciana, but to the causes of that violence and its effect upon the election, and the next day he was examined by the members of the committee distinctly upon the causes and grounds for throwing out the vote of these parishes. Surely wlien the committee seeks to prove *" at violence and intimidation did not j ; 1 in these parishes, I can not be denieu ..»e right to prove that murder, whipping, burning, raiding, and all forms of intimidation did prevail in both those parishes; that in East Feliciana these were sufficient to deter every republican voter from voting, though there had previously been a recognized majority there of nearly one thousand republicans. Whether the testimony shall he taken anew by your committee, or that taken bv former committees shall be received, I will, with entire deference, await your decision. With a view to identify the testimony offered by me, I have placed it in the hands of one of your committee, in the order in which it is referred to in my written ofler. In view of the fact that your committee is now engaged in taking further testimony intended to show that the declarations set forth in the various pretests are not true, it seems to me that 1 should be allowed to prove by additional testimony that these protests are true. I also call your attention to the nature and character of the examination of E. L. Weber on the 3d of July, when no member of the minority of the committee was jiresent to object or to crossexamine, and when, by some misunderstanding, my counsel was denied the privilege of cross-examination, unless he did so against what was claimed to be the order and wish of the majority of the committee. The questions were not only leading in form, but he was allowed to testify to common rumor and to his inferences based upon common rumoes, and this not only as against me, but against several members of the house of representatives and other high officers of the government. I also beg leave to correct a misapprehension in to which vou have fallen in saying that 1 had given the pubtlic communications to designed for you. The only communication I have given to the public is my formal ofler of testimony of violence, and that I only gave several weeks after it was sent vou, and after Mr. Morrison’s paper had been published, but I now respectfully ask that my tender of testimony and my memoranda to Governor Cox, and this letter, may he published in the record. I have also to state that I am now prepared, at the convenience of the committee, to submit testimony, here in Washington, to repel the charges against me, and have given to Mr. Shellabarger a list of the witnesses whom I ask may be subpoenaed. “Very respectfully, “John Sherman.”

Death in a Trunk. [HiUadelphia Record,] On the afternoon of the 4th of July the parents of CharlesSmith, a sixleen-months-old child, residing at No. 2034 Bodine street, were thrown into the greatest excitement and grief by the mysterious disappearance of their child, which they had Inst seen sleeping in his couch. The house was thoroughly searched and no signs of Jus whereabouts were discovered. It had been his custom to play in the bath room, and his parents subsequently returned to that apartment and, in looking into a closed trunk, found their baby dead from suffocation. An inquest was held in the case on Saturday when the facts of the case were given. The presumption is that the child left its bed and went to the room

was found.

LABOR ABROAD. The fTay John Sherman la Ruining Danlali mid ItnllMi Laborer*. John Wilson, United States consul at Bruseels, in a dispatch to the department of state, dated June 14,1878, give* some hints as to the methods of introducing American manufactures into Europe. He starts out with the assertion that prejudice Is a greater obstacle than tariffs or unregulated trade. It is not enough to send abroad circulars and price lists. Sample depots, with competent agents to make known, the character, uses and qualities of our inventions, are what is needed. Patience and peweverenee on the part of these agents are also required in dealings with the people of Europe. With these, success is sure. Innovations, and especially American innovations, are generally repugnant to Europeans,biit this prejudice has already yielded in a marked degree. There is no difficulty with articles like flour, bacon, lard, petroleum and breadstuffs. Petroleum met with universal opposition at first, but is now introduced into the homes of the better class as well as among the poor. Indian corn has yet to overcome a prejudice like that which a few years ago assailed petroleum. The peasant of Belgium not only feeds himself, but his horse on coarse, black, rye bread. Indian corn, substantially unkmpwn to him, would be cheaper and more nutritious. He needs to be taught this. The importation of this grain has largely increased in Belgium. All this applies with nearly equal force to our canned fruits, vegetables and meats. These are constantly overcoming hostility and prejudice, and their use is increasing in many places. Competent agents hay? secured these ends. Similar education is needed to introduce largely our perfected stoves, ranges, carriages, etc. The consul, therefore, urgently recommends that American manufacturers and producers combine and establish agencies for the purpose of educating Europeans up to the use of our machines. Combination would be more economical than separate agencies of different articles, and quite as effectual, as some exiieriments have demonstrated. He is decidedly of the opinion that consuls should not be agents, and should give only disinterested aid in the business. The United States consul at Copenhagen, Mr. Henry B. Ryder, sends to the department of state a report of affairs in Denmark. As in other countries a general stagnation prevails. The causes he enumerates: First, a serions unfavorable harvest in 1875, 1876 and 1877; second, over speculation; third, extreme uncertainty in all European polities. Of the currency of Denmark he says: “The circulation amounts to 64,000,000 crowns in paper money. The gold in the bank amounts to about 35,000,000. The national bank of Copenhagen is the only bank in the kingdom allowed to issue paThe notes of thfi bank are

currency and a legal tender only to the amount of 30 crowns. The circulation of gold may be stated at 30,000,000, of silver at 16,000,000, and of copper at 500,000. The coins of Denmark, Sweden and Norway are legal tender in each country. Wages are from 10 to 15 per cent, less than in 1872, while the cost of living is a trifle higher. Laborers earn from 8 to 10 crowns per month; mechanics from 2 to 3 crowns a day. The cost of living to a laborer is from 1 to 2 crowns a day. There is a large surplus of labor and no employment for it.” Mr. Henry Noble, United States consular agent at Turin, Italy, in a dispatch to the department of state, of recent date, gives some statistics of labor in the country, viz.: Daily wages of farm hands, nine months, 24 cents per day; three months (harvest time), 60 to 70 cents per day, without maintenance. Women are paid about one-half of these rates. Youths, from 14 to 16 years old, are paid from $20 to $24 per annum with board. Railways run by the national government pay their engineers from $30 to $42 per month; common laborers from 50 to 60 cents per day; chief conductors, $360 to $400 per annum; station masters, $800 to $1,000. Densions are provided to employes after a certain number of years of faithful service, and to their widows in case of accident or death while on duty. Females who guard the crossings receive 16 cents a day; ticket sellers, 20 cents; their hours of labor averaging four or five per day. The cost of living for laborers is about 18 cents per day. During the last five years both wages and the cost of living have ad vanced about 15 per cent. Trade is deplorably dull. Exportation of manufactured goods has almost ceased, and matters seem to be going from bad to worse. Italy then

coin. The circulation of these banks amounts to 624,000,000 of francs, including government notes and coin. The government notes are good for all dues, are legal tender except for duties on imports, and are guaranteed by the banks. For the guarantee the banks receive a commission of *8 cents for each 100 francs issued. The premium on coin (mostly gold) ranges trom 9 to 111 per cent. The customs receipts have increased this year so far over 2,000,000 francs. The exportations remain stationary. The wages of all classes are paid in paper money. The employes of the banks are paid from $30 to $45 a month.

Terrible Shrinkage. [Borton Letter.] It is probable that the shrinkage in values, real estate particularly, for the past twelve months, will aggregate about $175,000,000, which would make the total valuation of the personal and real estate of the city for 1878 about $620,000,000. This includes all the annexes of towns which now help to make the total population about 360,000. The total tax for the city will be about $900,000 less than last year, and it is probable that the rate per $1,000 will be in the neighborhood of $12.80. Capitalists and real estate dealers are of the opinion that the value of real estate has finally touched bottom, and that it may be a decade of years before anything like the figures of 1875 will be realized again. Large property owners have suffered terribly during the past five years,” or since the panic year of 1873. Properties in the business heart of the city which five years ago would sell or rent at the rate of 8 or 9 per cent, on the investment, now command only half that rate; and those whose leases or rents are about expiring are inclined to pay not over 4 per cent. Taking all into consideration, however, Boston is still a very ri£h city, its intrinsic valuation being almost equal to the combined valuation of the New England states, and larger than some western states whose population far exceeds that of the city of Boston. The debt of the city is now not far from $48,000,000 gross, and its municipal bonds are worth more than those of the government.

Provisional Deadheads. A new way of filling a theatre is resorted to in Pans, where m summer the theatres are empty in fine weather, and only full when the rain drives folks in from the boulevards. There is a kind of chemical paper which changes color with damp. When the atmosphere is dry it is blue, when wet it turns to pink. The manager prints free admissions oh this chemical paper, and puts at the foot a condition: “Tliis ticket is only available if the ticket be blue. If it be piuk it will be refused.”

Labor. P*u*e not to (Irctro ol the future before u«; Pause not to ween the wtM reire that eome e’er tt«; Hark I bow ereetlon’* drip, mueical chorus, Unlntorniitllngl/ gom up into heaven I Never tbe ocean-wave falter* in flowing; More and more richly the roeo-heart kv'r* glowtag, Till from its nourishing item it is riven. “Labor 1* worship!”—the robin is tinging: “tatwr t* worship!"—tbe witd hoe Is ringing! Liston! thst eloquent whisper unspHnging Hpeakt to thy soul from out nature's great heart From the dark eloud flows the Hfe-giving shower; From the rough sod blows the soft-breathing flower; From the small Insect, the rich coral twwer; . , Only man, la the plan, shrinks from his pari* La!or is life! ’Tls the still water faileth;

sy the sweet keys wouklst thou keep them tn tunc. Labor is rest—-from the sorrows thst greet us! Reel from all petty vexations thst meet us. Rest from sin promptings that ever entreat us. Rest from world sirens that lure us to ill. Work—and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work—thou shall ride over care’s coming billow; Lie not down wearied ’neath wo’s weeping willow; Work with a stoat heart and resolute will! Labor is health! Lol the husbandman reaping, How through his veins goes the life-curtent leaping! How bis strong am, in his stalwart pride sweeping, True as a sunbeam the swift sickle guides! labor is wealth—in the sea the pearl groweth; Rich the queen's robe from the fine cocoon floweth; Fiom the fiae acorn tbe strong forest bloweth; Temple and statue the marble block hides.

SCRAPS. There are 3,000 flour mills in Pennsylvania. Mrs. E. L. Davenport will educate pupils for tbe stage. A new volume of poems may be expected from Jolin G. Wbittier in the fall. The president will probably visit tbe White mountains in August or September. The only medical college for negroes is in Nashville. It has an ample endowment. Migrating birds go in a direct lipenorth to south, and never take their course from east to west or west to east. Justice Nathan Clifford, of the United States supreme court, celebrated his golden wedding at Portland, Me., on the

4th.

Mrs. Matilda McCrary, mother of the secretary of war, has just died at her residence, in Vernon, Van Buren county,

Iowa.

Colonel Forney says a dissipated public D:an is a rarity in France, and that drunkard in the French assembly is unknown. Gen. R. C. Schenck has written to friend that under no circumstances would he accept the republican nomination for congress. “Fred Burnaby, the Guardsman,” the hero of the ride to Khiva, will run for parliament in Birmingham as a conservative candidate. There is a man living at Varnell Station, Ga., who churns his butter, rocks the baby and keeps the flies from his diningtable by water power. The new Indian celebrity is named Buffalo Horn. He is the leader of the Bannock tribe, and is a little wiry chap with a fondness for good horseflesh. An Illinois preacher, who believed that fire insurance was defying the Lord,' is now living in a barn until his congregation can find him another house. “You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will.” but the frightful keramics pasted ou by tbe woman folks will stick to it still.—[Norristown Herald. * Liberia has a debt of a million, on which they can not pay interest. Though the soil is fertile, they are unable to produce sufficient food for home consumption. A little Irish boy fell down and bit his tongue. He arose from the ground crying and sobbing, and said to his brother: “Oh, Staphen! think will I ever spake again?” A big deposit of ice has been found in the Olympic mountains, in Washington ferritory, and the Seattle Dispatch says it can be brought to Seattle at a cost of five dollars a ton. Ice now costs eighty dollars a ton there. Virginia has established the whipping post, and in future stripes are to be inflicted upon persons convicted for the first time of petty larceny, except when, in the discretion of the court, the condition of a female prisoner may make whipping inadvisable. Commander Cameron, the African explorer ; is contemplating another eastern expedition. He will set out from the northeast corner of the Mediterranean and cross northexc Syria to Kurdistan, whence lie will make his way through Mesopotamia, Persia and Beioochistan to Kurra-

chee.

Mr. Thomas Wash, of Plumas county, Cal., aged 102 years—having been born in Virginia in 1776—has recently located and proved up 160 acres of land in the United States land office at Sacramento. He intends to go to work and fix up a good Lome for the time when old age and infirmity shall creep on him.

They had plenty

Tallehassee at the close

owned a small mule and a cart, worth §2,000. She was going to run the blockade and return to England and wanted to get all the gold she could. Dr. R. bought the mule and cart, gave her a $20 gold piece and got back $400 in change. A target which, by means of electricity, shows instantaneously upon another target set up at the-firing station the exact spot w here a bullet strikes, and thus does away with the necessity of employing a marker to signal the result of each shot, has been recently perfected, after vears ol labor, by a Swiss locksmith.—[Pall Mall Gazette. Prof. Knowlton, of San Francisco, spells potato “Ghoughphtheightteau,” according to the following rnle: “Gh stands for p, as you’ll find from the last letters in hiccough. Ough stands for o, as in dough. Phth stands for t, as in phthisis. Eigh stands for a, as in neighbor. Tie stands f6r t. as in gazette, and eau stands for o, as in beau. ’ Among the incidents of the celebration of the Fourth in New York city was the dinner given to the few remaining veterans of the war of 1812 by Messrs. Lewis and George D. Leland. proprietors of the Sturtevant house. Only 18 of the old warriors responded to roll-call, 24 members having passed away since the last

national anniversary.

Letter boxes are very freely distributed all over India, but it is with the greatest difficulty that the natives can be got to patronize them. They can not understand how a missive dropped into a lonely box will, turn up safe and sound at its destination some hundreds oi miles away, though they have full confidence in the fate of one posted in an office, however small. Old lady—“How warm this room is! Do open the door.” Daughter—No, ma, the room is not too warm: the thermometer stands at 70. It would be better to take off your shawl.” Old lady—“No, I shall not take off my shawl; I know when the room is too warm.” Daughter—“But ma, the thermometer stands at 70.” Old lady—“Well, then, I’d put the thing out

of paper money at jse of 1864. Mrs. K.

ORAMGR AND GUKEM. • I-lraly Tim* at MontreaL The total strength of the garrison in Montreal bn the 12th inat. will be between 2,500 and 3,000, commanded by Lieuten-ant-General Sir Selby Smith. Fifty thousand rounds of ball cartridges were brought from St, Helen’s island arsenal last night and lodged in the Quebec Gale barracks. A number of Orangemen have already arrived in the city from various parts of Ontario and Quebec, as well as the l nited States, for their anniversary celebration. The Grand Trunk railroad has forbidden its employe* absenting themselves from duty on Friday next. It is proposed to form the retired British soldier* resident in this district, numbering 600, into a battalion for service in case ol an emergency like the present. There was a mass meeting of French Canadians -on the Champ de Mars last night, with about 2,000 present. The tenor of the addresses was in support of the mayor’s policy, which the meeting indorsed. A meeting of the officers of the Irish societies was also held last night. The course of the mayor met the concurrence of the meeting. After the meeting on the Champ de Mars a crowd of several hundred belonging to Gjiffingtown passed through the streets singing. They halted at Orange hall, on St. Jamee atreetjttnd broke the windows with stone*. No opposition was offered. Subsequently everything became quiet.

and go by tuy f^Upgs,”

The National Bird. [Fourth of July oration by Hon. G.W. Peck at Lacrosse.) The bird that should be selected as the emblem of our country, the bird of patience, forbearance, perseverance, and the bird of terror when aroused, is the mule. There is no bird that combines more virtues to the square foot than the mule. With the mure emblazoned on our banners, we would*be a terror to the foe. We are & nation of uncomplaining hard workers. We mean to do the fair thing by everybody. We plod along, doing as we would be done by. So does the mule. We as a nation are slow to anger. So is the mule. As a nation we occasionally stick our ears forward and fan the flies off our forehead. So does the mule. We allow parties to get on and ride as long as thev behave themselves. So does the mule. But when any nation sticks spurs into our flanks and tickles our heels with a straw, we come down stiff-legged in front, our ears look to the beautiful beyond, our voice is cut loose, and is still for war, and our subsequent end plays the snare drum on anything that gets in reach of ns, and strikes terror to the hearts of all tyrants. So does the mule. When the country gets older, and congress has time to get in its work, the eagle will bo superseded as the national trade-mark, and in its place will rise tbe mule in all its glory, and E pluribus unum,'our motto, will be changed to Yen pluribus mulum, sic distemper, alapnea.

' A Negro Funeral^n Georgia. [Correspondence Boston Transcript.) I dropped into a church for a few moments to listen to the funeral discourse of a colored -preacher. Ilev was telling the story of the five foolish virgins. “Now my hretren,” said he in tones one wonld think would wake the dead, “dis good brudder lyin’ yore wa’ n’t no foolish virgin. He had his oil all ready, and good oil too. He ain’t crying out for oil 'bout dis time. Yer see dem foolish virgins, dey went to sleep, and when dey woke up, dar war de lamps, de wick war dar; dey had matches all ready, ebberyting war complete, but dey didn't hab no oil. Dar war a heap of trouble den,' I tell you. Dey just went cryin’ and screamin’—(how the preacher screamed!)—for oil. It wnrn’t no use do. I spec, like Richard, dey cried out, ‘My kingdom for a horse,’ do in dis yere case it warn’t no hose, only a drop of oil, just nuff to make a flicker. Dis good brudder’s lamp war running ober he war a wise virgin.” And the congregation swayed and moaned and cried aloud.

The Columbus Saengorfest. ‘ The Ohio saegerfest now in session at Columbus, attended by musical societies from nil parts of the state, was inaugurated yesterday with flattering prospects. The business houses are generally decorated wiih flags and mottoes, and the attendance resembles state fair time. The guests were welcomed in an address by Mayor Hcitman at the opera-house, where the first concert was given last night. The fest will continue three days. butro Tunnel Connection. The connection between the Sutro tunnel and the Comstock lode was made Monday night. The air sweeps through in a powerful current. It i* a most important event to the mining interests, and gives a n< w lease of life to the Comstock lode and mines. The product of hundreds of millions of dollars in bullion from low grade ores alone, now valueless on aixxmnt of the exjtensive inode of mining, by this means can be utilized.

“The Merest Nonsense.” [Richmond Palladium.) If tbe greenback, for any reason, is worth twelve cents mose than the silver dollar, which the -government is now coining tmd calling a dollar, then the “fiat” of the government is a failure at making money, and the talk of fiat currency the merest nonsense.

Physicians Causing Drunkenness. There are many women in the better waljif of life who have imbibed the love of strong drink, and it is charged that the drunkenness among them, to a considerable extent, is due to tbe practice of phy-

sicians in recommending the use ’of

liquors as stimulants.

No Right to Glv« Subsidies.

[Fort Wayne Sentinel.).

The government has no business to take money from the people for the fostering of any industry or enterprsse whatever. It has no business to go into partnership with private parties % and tax the people generally to maintain the firm.

Hardly Worth While. [Columbus Republican.]

Govehnor Williams has pardoned two more notorious convict*. It seems poorly worth while spending .money and time bringing criminals to justice when the work is rendered futile by a weak or cor-

rupt executive.

The California K1 eel ion.

Official returns to the secretary of state

give the following a* the composition of die constitutional convention: . Nonpartisans 81, workingmen 52, republicans 11, democrats 6, independent* 2. v Thenon-

partisan* elect all the delegates-at-Iarge. Worse than the Colorado Beetle. A new enemy to the potato has appeared

in West Virginia. It resembles a‘small grasshopper, and destroy* whole patches in a single night by stinging the plant

near the ground.

The Tramps’ Candidate.

[Washington Gazette.)

Ben Butler is looming np as the candidate of all dissatisfied tramp* who look more than one way for a president.

Lores the Dear People.

The biggest communist in. New Y'ork city is a hard-working saloon-keeper, who j give* his beer away for five cento a glass.

CHINA AND J A VAST, Latest New* trom bur Western Neighbors. Saw Francisco, July 9.—The steamer

the other having broken down shortly

after leaving.

Hong Kono, June 15.—The United States consul at Foo Chow has received $500 from the highest officers of the pro* vince Fukien for distribution through two American medical mimonaries to the suffering sick. This devotion is unprecedented. Miss Trask and Dr. < >*good are desig-

nated to spply the funds. A movement is in progress to

a government postal system under sanction and encouragement of Id Hung Chang, viceroy of the Chichli provinces. \ The report of a impending diplomatio. breach between China and Germany is

authoritively contradicted.

The Chinese authorities are making :

newed effort* toward the conquest of south ern Formosa. A fortified city has been

laid out on the rite of the encam

lavished by the Japanese ex

impment espedition in

Tawanfu, the capitol of Chinese Formosa, was devastated by a tornado the latter part of May. There was great destruction of property and several lives were lost. Tbe discovery has just been made’that Ekhop Rauells apd other French missionaries are held confined in the capital of Corea, and are in danger of death. A call is made for their rescue. The universal and unexpected acknowledgments have been received from the highest Chinese authorities of the efforts by foreigners to alleviate the suffering from famine. Rain at last has fallen on the northern provinces, and faint hopes are entertained that the prolonged drouth with its miaeries may end, but up to this time there has been no abatement of the distress. ■ * Yukohoma, June 19.—All of the three iron-clads built in England for Japan have how arrived and are ready for service. Three governors of Kanagawa province, in which Yokohoma is included, are now Under arrest on charges of promoting political disorder*. The Japanese press laws are about to be modified, and all imprisonment of jonrnalists abolished and fines substituted. The regulations are very moderate as a whole, though one or two arbitary features remain. Serious affrays have taken place in Yokohoma between sailors of Russian and British ships of war. Blood is frequently shed. The new military college opened at Tokio June 10th, on a plan similar to West Point. Tbe Berlin Congress. Berlin, July 9.—The congress in today’s sitting disposed of several additional frontier questions of minor character, and arrived at a satisfactory settlement relative to Batoum. The report is confirmed ’ that the razing of the fortifications, of Batoum has not been formally broached , in the congress. It is stated that a special understanding will be entered into ou this subject. The question as to the fortifications on the land side will not be discussed; so that in that respect Russia will be unrestricted. It is declared iu high jf Russian circles that this settlement of the Batoum question was arranged ataprivate Interview between Lord Beaconsfield and Prince Gortschakoff this morning. The’settlement leaves the Lari territory under Turkish control. It is also declared that at the same interview Lord Beaconstield fully and frankly defended theAugloTurkish convention. Prince Gortschakoff replied that Russia saw nothing objectionable in the conventien, as she entertained no project* for aggrandizement on the coast ol AsiatiffiTurkey. lie perceived no difference between England’s occupation of Cyprus and her occupation of Malta. He would always be pleased with everything tending to strengthen England’s road to India, because calculated to promote the prosperity of the whole world. Gortrchakofl' and lleaconsfield then shook hands as a pledge of the new relations between tiie two powers. Special dispatches from Berlin state that the Batoum question is still unsettled, Russia and England having failed to agree respecting the exact boundaries. The Russians have also revived the question touching the fortifications, and it is believed that they desire to gain time. A late telegram states that Lord Salisbury, contrary to the arrangement between Lord Beacooafield and Prince Gortschakoff, claimed that Turkey should retain Olti as a portion of the Lazt territory. The subject was immediately referred to a committee, who arranged a compromise which, however, cedes Olti to Russia. The affair thus seems to be virtually settled. The Correspondent says that the czar does not view the acquisition of Cyprus as favorably as Gortschakoff' does. Pork Tacking in Boston. [Correspondence Chicago Journal.) Although the seaboard ports do not figure very extensively in the published rejtorts of the jiork packing business, nine western points seemingly doing nearly all the business involved m that industry, yet this section of the country, an establishment at East Cambridge, across the Charles river from Boston, and owned by a Boston firm, consisting of father and flbb, boasts of the largest pork packing establishment east of the Alleghany mountains, and i* equal to the largest and most complete concern of the kind in the United States. Last year it did a business amounting to $5,000,000, its products going to 15 different /oreign countries. This establishment is capable of handling 7,000 hogs at a time, and has something like a quarter of a million of dollars’ worth of goods on hand nearly all the time. During the recent low prices for hogs the firm bought $170,000 worth of hog*. In some years it has furnished the entire cargoes for the Canard Liverpool steamships sailing from this port. The establishment jvith all its huildirigs for the prosecution of the business and tor the living of it* employes, covers 21 acre*. Within these lines there, is a colony of work-shops, gas works, etc., and a monster engine that keeps 600 men employed on every day of the year. The business here was commenced in 1844 by the present senior member, who had only $500 cash capital. He is now worth over $1,000,000. -J — Butted to Death. Iu a game of base ball at Atlanta, Ga., sn altercation occurred between William Lawshe, 21 years old, and Kamuel Venable, aged 15. While Lawshe hail Ven-able-on the ground, Carl Mitchell, a boy 16 years old, a friend of Venable, came up with a bat and struck Lawshe two terrible blows oh the head, which resulted in his death. Blindly Groping ' For some mwllctaal alcoholic rmusciUnt of physical energy which should take the place of the beady sad frequently adulterated stimulants of commerce, tbe medical practitioners of a quarter

uirutiuc.Mi, mu wmen usii since .pecoj ■SnMH popular medicine upon this eooUnei viz: Moatetter’s Stomach Bitters. Their oitonis meet and sdmtraffqn were increased when expa etoe farther disclosed that this botanJe rem« effected results which the mineral drugs at t phurniaroiM. is often utterly failed to produce among others, the permanent restoration of rtg< tbs removal of digest! re. secretive and evacusti irregularities, and the eradication sod prevent!' of periodic fevers. Speedy recognition of the m« It* of the Wtiers by unprejudiced sod enlighten physicians naturally followed this revoiatton medical facts, which hare since received each fi quant sod poaUive coafinasUoa, sal