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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: WEDNESDAY; NOVEMBER 27, 1878.

BLACK CASHMERES, BLACK CASHMERES, AT THE SALE OF THE BEE-HIVE Dry Goods Store.

CARPETS, Wall Paper, Etc., LOWER THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN THE STATE.

New Goods, Full Stock, Latest Styles; Choice Patterns and Low prices.

A. L. WRIGHT & CO., (Successors to ADAMS, MANSUR & CO.)

Diamond Rings, PEARL RINGS, CAMEO RINGS, AMETHYST RINGS, BABY RINGS.

Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, 12 E. WASHINGTON ST. Sign of the Street Clock.

THE DAILY NEWS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1878.

The Indianapolis News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. The News will not be published tomorrow.

A law limiting the rate of taxation is needed in many counties, but in none more than Marion.

The report of the consolidation of the Union and Central Pacific roads is denied at San Francisco. A hoax, probably. The British thoroughly whipped the Affghans forty years ago under very unfavorable circumstances, and it is argued from this that they wilt have an easy victory now, although Russian aid may be given secretly. Socialism is the great object of fear in Europe now, especially in Italy where it has just broken out in violence. The pope has instructed his nuncios to urge the various governments to repress it and to restore the prerogatives of the papacy as a means of doing it. Such disasters as that of the Pommerania suggest the advantage electric lights would be to ships. But if the testimony of one of the Pommerania’s crew is true, even electric light would not have averted this horror. He says he saw the Welsh bark's lights ten minutes before the ships struck. It must have been owing to the same sort of carelessness that sunk the Ville du Havre.

The English advance is at the frontier of Afghanistan proper, with Jellalabad evacuated, and awaiting English occupancy. This town is about half way up the Khyber pass, on the road to Cabul, just at the throat of the pass called Cabul pass. The next news will doubtless tell that the English are in possession, and from thence the “home-stretch” takes them to Cabul. The resistance has not been what was anticipated, and it is not unlikely the British will winter in the ameer’s capital. Great Britain is in a terrible state industrially. Every day brings reports of the suspensions of mines, furnaces, manufactories of all kinds. Trade is diminishing and thousands upon thousands are losing work. Undoubtedly the condition of the people is far worse than it has been in this country, for the cost of living is so much greater. Here we have much to be thankful for. The story everywhere is of the resumption of enterprises, the reopencg of mines and factories, the rekindling of furnaces and of vast harvests giving plenty with cheapness to all. The periodical revival of the proposition to abolish the itineracy of the ministry in the Methodist church has come again, and there is more or less discussion of it in the east. A convention of laymen in the church considered it last week in Brooklyn, and the feeling was largely in favor of permanent pastorates, when a decided change came over the spirit of the meeting on the reading of the following letter: "LONDON, Aug. 8, 1788.-To Lady Maxwell -My Dear Lady: It is certain many persons, both in Scotland and England (and Brooklyn,' added Brother Lee,) would be well pleased to have the game preachers always, but we can not forsake the plan of action which we have followed from the beginning. For fifty years God has been pleased to bless the itinerant plan—the last year most of all. It must not be altered till I am removed, and I hope it will remain till our Lord comes to reign on earth. "John Wesley." The tax levy in New York City last year was, in round numbers, twenty-eight million dollars. This year it is thirty millions, although real estate has in that time shrunken fifty per cent, in most localities. The real estate of the city pays four-fifths of the taxes, personal property the remainder. Ten million dollars of this goes for salaries to 9,000 city officials, not counting laborers and mechanics employed. The state.tax takes about four millions, and the redemption of the city

debt about one million more. The cost of governing New York City, allowing 1,000,000 people, is $30 per capita. London, with 4,000,000 inhabitants, gets along with a tax levy of thirty-five million dollars, or about $9 per capita. Thus is costs more than three times as much to govern New York as London.

The grave of Thomas Powers, the Philadelphia ten-millionaire, who died recently, is to be watched day and night for months. A house will be built by the grave and one man during the day and two at night selected from trustworthy employes of the deceased man, will guard his remains. The same plan was adopted at the death of his little child about a year ago. It will occur to most people that if any one is willing to undertake the process of having watchers for a corpse until it decays, that a better way and one involving a less repulsive idea, regarded as a matter of sentiment, would be to hasten the process from months to a few hours; in other words cremate the dead and for a residuum have clean, white ashes sacred from the spoiler’s touch, instead of a mass of decaying matter that is safe only on account of its offensiveness. THE PARAGRAPH concerning the extinction of the buffalo in the near future is again going the rounds; it has a good deal of the accent of truth about it, too. It says the slaughter of them for their hides is increasing from year to year, and that new settlements and the Pacific railroad is hemming them in constantly to narrower limits. An English hunter on the plains of Texas for four years, says a hunting party starts out with wagons provisioned for weeks, and that, on reaching the buffalo, one man rides ahead on a pony to stalk and kill the game; others follow in the wagons to skin them, and the hides are then stretched to dry by the camp-followers. The slaughter is immense, one hunter alone having slain 3,000 buffaloes in one season. Tons of meat are left to rot on the ground, and even those who profess to kill for the meat take only the tongue and hams. While in Cincinnati Bob Ingersoll received an anonymous communication of which the following is a copy: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked.” “What a man soweth that shall he also reap.” "If ye take away our Lord, to whom shall He told a reporter that he receives scores of similar missives in every town he lectures, and added, “But they can’t convert me that way.” The answer is characteristic. Some one propounds questions to him as to what he proposes to substitute for the system he wants destroyed, and he answers, “they can’t convert me' that way.” If it occurred to Bob that christianity could get along without his conversion he might have a more correct estimate of himself. From a utilitarian point of view we should say Bob is just where christianity wants him to be. He is doing more to strengthen the faith of those who believe and to arouse those who have been indifferent, than any other agency that can be contrived.

It is only the rising generation that has known Thanksgiving day as a national custom. Since 1863, when President Lincoln proclaimed it as a day of national thanksgiving, it has been repeated each year by successive presidents. Before that it was confined to the states most observing it, although Governor Wise of Virginia, in 1857 refused to recommend a day on the ground that he was unauthorized to interfere in religious matters. In New England, from the time of the Plymouth colonists, a day has been observed for special causes, and for the most part at least as often as once each year for general reasons. The occasional observance of such a day has been a common thing in Europe. Leyden, Holland, had such a one as far back as 1575, on the anniversary of the deliverance of the city from a siege. As a stated day regularly observed it is said to have been •uggested by the Hebrew feast of the tabernacles or “feast of the ingathering at the close of the year," and as such this is the only country where it prevails. Modest Silence. In some of the old comic almanacs, along time ago, there was a story of a poacher who had been arrested on the charge of a prying neighbor and taken before a justice. The prosecuting witness was noisy and talked a good deal of the mischief done by game stealers and the necessity of enforcing the laws, when, in the hight of eloquence, a rabbit that he had put alive in his coat pocket, alarmed at the shaking and waving of its place of deposit, jumped out and ran across the floor in full sight to bide under a sofa. The vindicator of the laws had no more to say. He quit right where he was, and took his place at th bar as a culprit. There is a close resemblance between the case of that detected accuser and the present situation of the democracy. They had Hayes “in the dock” every moment from the day of the decision of the electoral commission for a year and a half. He was tried by every paper, orator, committee and public meeting of the party. He was a "fraud," a "thief of office," a “robber of rights,” the “gigantic criminal of the age.” There was no name bad enough for him. And there was no “let up” in using them. Asleep or awake, abroad or at home, sick or well, in mourning or mirth, fasting or feasting, he was never spared. The least allusion, even to his wife or his children, brought a violent upcast of all that was noisome in the dictionary. But in the very climax of the storm, the stolen rabbit jumps from the accusing pocket and the accuser is dumb in an instant. Who ever bears anything of “fraudulent returns,” of the Potter investigation,” of the “monstrous swindle,” of “the thief of Tilden's office," now? The "cipher dispatches,” the ineffaceable infamy of American politics, followed by the "tissue paper" tickets of South Carolina, and the murders of Louisiana have gagged Democratic wrath and reproaches as completely as if the party had been entered by the

“dumb devil” of medieval superstition. It would be hard to conceive a more humiliating position for an honest man,-and there are plenty of honest democrats,—than to be carrying on fierce war against the frauds of an antagonist, and suddenly find himself silenced by the discovery of infinitely greater and meaner frauds of his own friends. He can't deny, the rascality is too conspicuous. He can’t explain, the motive is too obvious. He can’t palliate, his own invectives have been too vehement. He can do nothing but stand dumb and be laughed at for the tool and fool of the lawless wretches that he depends on for party ascendancy. The maddest and noisiest of all the ranters at the “presidential fraud,” the New York Sun found its thunder spiked by the cipher dispatches, and the late election outrages have dismounted the batteries of all the other “fraud” howlers. Not a democrat dares to allude to scars with his own cuts still raw and bleeding. He hardly dares to speak of public expenses with the governor’s cattle speculation staring in his face with a stony glare of reproach.. His own frauds and wrongs have shut his mouth in sheershame to the frauds he was so clamorous about a few months ago. CURRENT COMMENT. Women preachers flourish in New York ard Brooklyn. Last Sunday in those cities the following are named among those who occupied pulpits, leaving the inference that there were others not named: The Rev. Mrs. Maggie Van Cott, the Rev. Mrs. J. T. Brigham, the Rev. Miss Elizabeth W. Greenwood, tbe Rev. Mrs. C. Fannie Allyn, the Rev. Mrs. Whitney, of Hartford, the two Rev. Misses Smith, and the Rev. Sarah B. Satterthwaite. Some special Washington correspondent says it is intimated officially that the president will not send in the New York custom house nominations until after the meeting of the New York legislature, so as not to embarrass Conkling, and that in return for this Coskling will not oppose the nominations when they do come in. It is to be hoped President Hayes will not be a party to any such dicker and barter for the purpose of soothing the almighty vanity of Roscoe Conkling. In the south the agricultural fair season is at its height. This would be a good time for the president’s visit. The youngest member of the next congress is Robert L. Taylor, Tennessee, democrat. He is just twenty-five years old. The district that elected him went republican by 1,000 two years ago, but reacted on account of the Illinois carpet-bagger who was the republican candidate. “ Gummery” Blair says Tilden is not dead and is tbe only available presidential candidate for the democracy in 1880. Then the democracy is to be pitied. Thurlow Weed, at a recent Murphy temperance meeting in New York, said that he attributed the failure of former temperance movements to the methods they had pursued. That a half a century's observation ,hnd brought him to the conclusion that nothing but religion had the power to win and keep the victim of intemperance. Talmadge announces that next Sunday in his sermon he will pay his respects to the clubs of New York. The World thinks it would not be a horrble thing if some day a club paid its respects to Talmadge,

Those who dislike the way the southern democrats are dealing with the negro vote— and which is largely a copy of republican tricks during the carpetbag period—ought to propose some means of preventing it, in the shape either of an act of congress or an amendment to the constitution. There is a law now which directs the president to prosecute persons for interference with voters in federal elections, and this we believe he is faithfully executing; but when he has done this he has done all that a constitutional officer can do.—[The Nation. While there is a dollar of gold in the treasury to redeem with, the paper which can be exchanged at will for it, will, of course, remain at par. Even after the gold is gone, there will be no sudden fall, for the silver, not yet having become by its quantity a drug in the market, will for sometime be maintained at par, as the hope will still remain in the popular mind that government will find gold somewhere and sooner or later return to gold payments. But as the hope gradually disappears before the increase of the volume of silver and the failure of government to get gold, the process of the depreciation will keep pace with its disappearance, and from week to week the silver dollar and the greenback and the bond will drop fraction by fraction.—[Detroit News. W'e advise the democrats in South Carolina and other southern states to take a lesson from Massachusetts. Let them adopt a reading-and-writing test of voters, and they will close the mouths of their northern critics. In Massachusetts, the republicans have enacted that a hard-working and honest man is not fit to vote unless he can write his name—as if that test were at once a proof of intelligence and morality. Why should not the same policy suit the south ?—[Boston Pilot. Murders. J. H. Snow, first mate of the bark D. C. Whetmore, has been indicted by the United States grand jury, at San Francisco, for the murder of Charles Ellwood, second mate of the vessel. Frank Turner, aged twenty, called at the house of Samuel Judd, about six miles from "Williamstown. Kentucky, on Monday, and invited Judd to drink from a bottle. The latter declined and was ordered on his knees with a revolver. While in that position Turner cut Judd’s throat with a knife, killing him instantly. A horrible double murder was perpetrated in North Edgefield, Tenn., yesterday afternoon, in which Sam Langbain was the slayer and Pat McAndrews and Julius Keister were the slain, Langham beating out their brains. The jury in McAndrews’s case returned a verdict of unjustifiable killing, and one in Keister’s case saying that he came to his death at the hands of Langham, without expressing an opinion as to whether it was justifiable or not. They will be Benefactors. [New Castle Mercury.] When this demand for equal rights for women shall be viewed in the light of reason, unbiased by the prejudices and superstions of the past it will be universally accepted as just and righteons and those who were pioneers in the movement will be regarded as benefactors of the race. No Consolidation. Nothing is known at the Central Pacific railroad company’s headquarters at San Francisco of the reported consolidation of the Union and Central Pacific railroad companies under the presidency of Sidney Dillon, and it is represented that the story has been probably gotten up in the interest of speculators in railroad stocks. Talks Best on What He Knows Least. [Cincinnati Commercial.] If there is anything about which Senator Voorhees knows nothing, it is money and the science of finance. Therefore, he can be more eloquent about financial reform than anything else.

A MORMON MARRIAGE. Mysterious Scenes in the Celebrated Endowment House at Salt Lake. Annie Thompson writes to the Salt Lake Tribune detailing the form of marriage ceremony performed at the mysterious endowment house. She says: "If the woman who now styles herself Mrs. Owen Miles was an honest and deserving woman when she left London to emigrate to Utah with the Latter Day Saints, and so soon after her arrival here (only some five weeks ago) passed threw the endowment house, I think there might be some palliation for her very peculiar and seemingly inconsistent conduct. When Caroline Owen went to the Endowment house she entered at the north door and gave her name to the recorder. She then passed inside to be washed, taking off her clothes until she was as naked as the hour she was born. She was then washed from head to foot; afterwards she was covered with oil and blessed by the holy priestess; her head, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, neck, arms, heart, breast, back, and all parts of her body annointed. She then put on her new garments and received her new name in a whisper by the officiating priestess, the woman who lied so beautifully in court. Passing along she came before the Great Jehovah and Elohim, they being in another room, and commenced reading the ritual of the order, "Let us go downs and make man," etc., which is all too tedious to mention. Miss Owen passed on from one change to another, having her robes and her apron on to appear before the master of ceremonies to receive the oaths. Standing

across her throat were uttered by the officiating priest, then drawing and extending her arm straight out and bringing it back to a right angle, striking it straight to the earth, interpreting the oaths as spoken, that her throat should be cut from ear to ear, that her heart should be cut out and that she be disembowelled and her body be buried in the depths of the sea, etc., if she should divulge anything pertaining to the ceremonies performed in that house. This is not all the oath by a great deal. Miss Owen then received all the grips, signs, tokens, etc. There are several of these which only the faithful can understand. Miss Owen then passed on to the other degrees, prayer circles, etc. Passing onward and upward She came to the veil or arch. This being previous to her marriage, John Miles was on the inside of the veil or arch, Caroline on the outside. Then the compass and square were cut over her heart. There was only a sheet to separate John from Caroline, and before she could get through to where John was she had to put her foot to his foot, her knee to his knee, her breast to his breast, her lips to his lips. Then John whispered in her ear and told her the new name she had whispered below. Nobody on earth knows what that name is but John and Caroline. He then brought Caroline through the veil or arch to be married. Joseph F. Smith sat immediately opposite at the table, John stood at the right and Caroline at the left. After the usual questions were put and answered the marriage was proceeded with and finished, John and Caroline walking to the sealing room, where Joseph F. Smith sat on the throne and later stood at the door. Miss Owen walked around to the north side of the altar ard Miles remained on the south side. Joseph F.Smith proceeded with the ceremony. John and Caroline were kneeling when Joseph F. told them to clasp hands across the altar and kiss each other, which they did. He then sealed them up to everlasting life, to come forth in the morning of the first resurrection, to receive power and to carry out the laws of procreation forever and ever. Amen.”

A Revolution Indeed. [Little Rock Gazette.] During slavery I owned one of the blackest as well as meanest negro men in South Arkansas. He was known in the neighborhood as Crow Sam. I used to thrash Sam about twice a week. Steal ! he’d steal from himself and then deny it. Well, when the war came on he was one of the first to turn against me. He went into the army and served till the surrender. After peace was made I moved over into an adjoining county and went to work trying to repair my broken fortune. One day a negro I had working for me knocked dow n one of my horses, whichr so enraged me that I struck him several times with my cane. He went away and returned with a eonstable, who summoned me to appear next day before a magistrate. Officers were not quite so numerous then as now,and the magistrate’s office was several miles away. Well, sir, when I got there who should I see on the bench but old Crow Sam. He was fat and greasy and had on an enormous pair of spectacles. When everything had been made ready court was opened, and old Sam, giving me a searching look, remarked: " 'Peers that I've seed you afore." “Look here, Sam,” I said, “I don’t like to be mixed up this way. Try to settle this affair without malice.” “De law is gwine to hab its direck course,” said Sam. “Things hab kinder changed since we was in business together, but de principle of de nigger havn’t revoluted. Dis nigger is as big a rascal as I used to be, so Mars John I’ll discharge you, flinging de black ape in for de cost." Quick Work by Edison, [New York Sun.[ "These fellows across the waters are working the light for certain,” he said. “I see that seven patents were granted in England alone between October 29 and November 4. About one-tenth of all the patents now taken out in Great Britain are for electric lights. I patent all the discoveries made in my experiments both here and in England. And sometimes we make quick work of it. Last week I made a discovery at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. I got a wire from here to Plainfield, where my solicitor lives, and brought him into the telegraph office at that place. I wired him my discovery. He drew up the specifications on the spot, and about 9 o’clock that night cabled an application for a patent to London. Before I was out of bed the next morning I received word from London that my application had been filed in the English patent office. The application was filed at noon, and I received my information about 7 in the morning, five hours before the filing. The difference between London and New York time explains the thing.” Mr. Edison says the cost of this maneuvre did not exceed eighty dollars. He thought that the total cost of his electric light patents might amount to $17,000. Commodore Vanderbilt's Only Partnership. During his cross-examination the witness detailed a partnership transaction of the commodore. He said that the commodore and another captain agreed to each get all the passengers he could for the other and at the close of the season to divide the profits. When the season ended the commodore said: “The other captain didn't show any anxiety for a settlement, and meeting him upon the wharf one day I said: 'Ain't it about time to settle up?" “ 'Well,' said he, 'how much did you take?’ “ ‘How much did you take?’ said I. “ ‘How much did you take?’ said he. “ ‘How much did you take?’ said I; ‘and as we neither of us would tell the other, we never came to a settlement and that ended my first and last partnership.’"

Bye-bye, Baby! [For The Indianapolis News] [A little child lay dying in her mother's arms, after a long illiness in which her form had wasted away until it could not long contain the imprisoned spirit. As she drew her last breath her little twin sister, eighteen months old., in a clear, sweet voice, said to her, “Bye-bye, baby!"]

When our drooping blossom lay

Fading with the dying day,

As we watched her paling cheek, One alone found voice to speak, Deeper meaning than she knew,

unconscious, last adieu,

“Bye-hje, baby!”

eejier reel,

Almost might we dare to think That *he felt a secret link

Siaaining at her heart that day;

Hoard the dying baby say, “Sister, grant me free release; Let my spirit para in peace!

•Bye-bye, baby!’

“Sister, when we saw the light. You the red rose, I the white, O’er my fiail and trembling life

Heaven and earth held doubtful strife;

But I heard your baby wail, And its accents turned the scale.

Gave me strength for mortal breath,

Held me fast to you from death. “Still that mystic tie of birth Bind* me to my native earth;

e bends a face,

aw me, lip® of grace,

is rest I know.

And Uoigtorestmeso!

All beside Hi* light grows dim;

Suffer me to go to Him!

‘Bye-bye, baby.’

“First of all love’s voices dear, ’T was your voice that met my ear;

Let it be the last I know Ere with glad release I go.

Loose vour hold upon my heart;

Speak to me ere I depart.

‘Bj«-bye, baby!’

“Yet the chord that binds us so Lengthening, Urengtbens as 1 go. You shall feel its hidden might Draw you to my home of lignt. We must part a little space; We shall meet before his iace. “Bye-bye, baby!”

above r

Eyes ihat drm In His arms

And I lor g to rest me S3

SCRAPS. “Hana Breitmann” is employed on the London press. Col. Alex. McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Times, is soon to be married. New Orleans proposes to build brick and iron sheds along the river front capable of storing two million bales of cotton. Russia contains a Jewish population of 3,000,000 souls, which is a larger number than is to be found in the rest of Europe. A village in Kansas, named Susan’s Town, in honor of Susan B. Anthony, has been made the county seat of Harper county. John Hopkins university, Baltimore, has now one hundred and sixteen students, forty-three of these beingmew admissions this sesssion. He—“You know one loses a hair with each kiss.” She—“Well, you won’t be long getting bald?” He-^-“When you like, madame!” A shrewd looking old turkey gobbler walked into a drug store in this city the other day and called for a bottle of antifat.—[SioUX City Journal. It is not generally known that Horace Greeley was a West Pointer. When busy he alwayspointed and told the young man to go west.—[New Orleans Picayune. A farmer in Staunton, Va., possesses a valuable breed of ducks which can be taken to a distance of forty miles and sold and will next morning be found at home. It was during the present month, 109 years ago, that Arkwright took out his first patent for spinning. When he built his little mill in 1771 calico was worth seventy-five cents per yard. Does machinery injure the poor ? A parliamentary paper just issued shows that in the year 1877 2,662 lives were lost in England by drowning in inland waters. Of the persons whose lives were lost 2,140 were males and 522 females; 1,423 lives were lost in rivers and running waters, 637 in canals, and 602 in lakes or ponds. The report of the assessors upon the educational advantages of the inhabitants of forty-three of the fifty-eight parishes in Louisiana is rather discouraging. It shows that there are 89,000 voters in all, of whom 53,000 know nothing of reading and writing. Of these uneducated ones 16,000 are whites and 37,000 colored. near Pittsic feet every It is largely visited by caj»italists, and the owners have been offered $10,000 cash and $10,000 at the expiration of six months for it. This they refuse and claim that they will not sell for less than $50,000, A Georgia papier says: “The Cherokee nation, composed ot about three thousand souls, will, we learn, remove to Georgia to live George Busyhead is the chief of the nation. It is expected th»y will reach our state soon, and will settle in north Georgia.” The Cherokees referred to are probably the remnant of the tribe now living in the mountains of North Carolina. Lord Windsor, who has just come of age and into possession of a vast property, has 4old his Xenantry that he does not intend to employ keepers to preserve his game, but he hopes they will keep an eye on his property to prevent poaching, so that he and his friends may get some shooting. If a tenant desires an occasional day’s sport he is to apply to the steward. Since our proof-reader heard that Mr. Bancroft gave $50 for the discovery of an error in a Latin quotation, he has been estimating the number of like errors he has corrected in correspondents’ manuscript, and now sends in a bill for $2,764,893.02. But we think we are equal to the emergency. You should have seeu his countenance fall when we asked for a bill of particulars.—[Boston Transcript. “What,” the young man asked the young woman who was watting for him to ask for his hat, “what do I put you in mind of?” A French clock,” she said, softlv. And pretty soon he arose and went on his way. The next morning he called up an eminent horologist and asked him what was the distinguishing trait of a French clock. The horologist said, “Why, it never goes.” And the young man was sorely cast down, and he grieved, and told no man of his hurt.—[Burlington Hawkeye, One of the greatest bore* is the man who, ’Ct a theater, sits next you and explains to his lady, who sits on the other side of him, the demerits of the actors, laughing knowingly at the attempts of an actress to manage her train, and saying in a loud tone,“.Shecan’t come it;”“Now he’s g«ing to kill him;” “Now she i* going to faint,” etc. Of course his wife, who listens to him and not to the actors, thinks he is the only smart man in the hall; but his other hearers are likely to put him down for the ass that he really is.—[New York Herald. “Great ceremonies are necessary,” savs the Railway News, “to get a train off In (iermany. When all is ready a bell rings. Then another bell rings. Then the engine whistles, or rather toot-toot-toots gently. Then the conductor tells the station master that all is ready. Then the station master looks placidly around and savs ’So?’ Then the conduc or shouts ‘Fertig?’ interrogatively. Then the station master replies ‘FertigI’positively. Then the conductor blows a horn; the engine whistles; the bell rings; the other bell rings; the station master says ‘So?’—the passengers swear in various tongues—ami the train start*. That is unless there is a belated fat man— in which case they do it all oyer again.”

“Senator Bob Hart ; ” known on th© variety stage in every city of the Union,died in the city hospital of Jersey City yesterday. He had been received there suffering from delirium tremens. Hi* name was James Sutherland, and he was born near Port Jervis in this state. He first found employment in the Erie railway shop there, and finally became an engineer on the line. He had some original humor, ability as a mimic and a remarkable power of facial contortion, and became known about the Erie yards as an amtteur actor. He was known after he had adopted the stsge as Robert Simpnon, though by his stage name of “Bob Hart” he was most generally recognixed. He was in no wasrelated to the other Harts, Josh Tonv and Johf!.—{N. Y. World. The Norwegian nation is the smallest of all European nation*, but its commercial fleet is the third largest in the world. The Norwegian flag is, of all foreign flags, that which is most frequently seen in the harbor of New York, and through the sound which connect* the Baltic with the North sea and forms the highway from London to St. Petersburg, often from three to four hundred Norwegian craft of every description pas* during one single day." In Norway, although not every man is a sailor, every person is nevertheless more or less directly connected with the shipping interest. ‘ To build ship* or to sail them, to own ships or to have part in them, is a point in everybody’s life all along those thousand fjords which fringe the coast* of Norway, and to the inland farmer the most common manner of placing hi* saving* is to go down to the sea and buy a part in a ship. Many a Norwegian vessel, carrying timber to England and coal back to Denmi rk, or dried fish to Naples and oranges back to St. Petersburg, represent* the fortune of a whole village or parish, in which even the servant giri may have a share, and to many a well-to-do Norwegian farmer the only source from which he draws and can draw ready money is from hi* ship part. It may easily be understood, then, with what feelings the Norwegian people have seen their vessels come home this year in the middle of September and lay up for the winter before the fall had fairly set in. They used to come about Christmas, and here they are, three months in advance, lying idle though the sun still stands high in the heavens Neither the timber, nor the coal, nor the dried tish, nor the oranges want to be moved. Morphine Drinking.

[Agriculturist.]

But I set out to speak of a habit which prevails to an alarming extent among women—-the use of morphine to quiet paiyi of one kind or another. I can easily imagine that the habit may grow from ignorance of danger. A fearful pain is lulled by seemingly simple means—an opiate in the shape of morphine. The suffering one rest* easy and pitying friends may believe that morphine was just the thing needed. But has the opiate cured the disease which caused tbe pain? Not a bit of it. It has only beaten down and silenced the faithful monitor, the nerves, which, in the shape of pain, told of injury and begged that help be given to the injured part. Mother*, it is believed that those who are most likely to become the victims of morphine are

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women who, as children, were fulled with scothing-syrup (and let it always be remembered that this syrup derives it* “soothing” power from the morphine it contains,) or dosed with jmragonc or the more potent laudanum. They never learn to bear pain heroically. They grow up inclined to self-indulgence, and if hard work and sickness overtakes them, they fall an easy prey to morphine. Do you know that & person who becomes addicted to morphine can not be decent without it? It is said that a morphine drunkard can never be trusted to tell the truth. She becomes at last *o unbearable in disposition, when not under the influence of her medicine, that her friends make every eflort to gratify her appetite. All this this that I have said applies equally to the use of opium, morphine being but another form of opium. Neither should lie used, except in some emergency, when given by a skillful physician. A Moral Tale. Little Johnny, the youthful contributor of the Argonaut, records this moral tale:— A preecher wich had been a gamier fore he was a preecher he seen a feller wich wrs a gamier too, and ke said, the preecher did, ‘‘He jest play cards with thi* pore mizable sinner, and win ol hi* munny, and wen he is busted may be he will lisen to the divine trooth and be saved.” So they played and the preecher he winned 61 the other feller’s munny evry cent, and then he sed, “Now see how wiked you have ben for to loos jure munny, and jure wife and babys haven’t got no bred for to eat.” And the gamier he sed, “That’s so,” and he bust out a cryin. Then the preecher he sed: “Fore sinner, if you prommice me unto jure on* ner to not play cards agin lie give it ol back, cos Ime a preecher.” So the gamier he was a stonish, and he sed: “I never see Btch a good man, I prommice, yes indeed, and haven bless you!” and he busted out cryin agin, the gamier did. Then the preecher he give back ol his munny, and the feller put it in his pocket, and w biped his eye*, and hi ode his nose gratelle, and then thot a wile, and pretty sune he cofled, and said to the preecher: “I feel mity mean takin back this hundred dollars from a man wich has resee wed me from card play in, tell you what He do, you put up a other hundred agin it and weel toss up for the pile, beds or tails, best two out of thre.” Female Swindler Arrested* A woman named Francis Bournashi was arrested in Sank Center, Minn., ami taken to St. Paul by a detective from Cleveland, for obtaining sums of money under false pretenses from various Cleveland parties. A large sufferer is Cashier Evebar, of Cleveland, whom she swindled out of $20,000, by representing herself as heir to a large property in Germany, and inducing him to advance her money. Letters found on her person indicate that she victimized various others. Steamers Lost. The propeller Lake Breeze, of the Leamington, Amhurstburg and Windsor line, burnt to the water’s edge at Leamington, Ont., yesterday. W. H. Bush, colored, was burned to "death. The steamer A. J. White, while making a landing at Glendale, opposite Helena, Ark., at 1 o’clock yesterday, struck a *nag and sunk in six or eight feet of water. She is inpposed to be badly damaged. No lives were lost. ♦ ■auce for the Goose Not Sauce for th© Gander. The new separation act in England allows a magistrate to grant a wife a sepation from her husband, but doe* not allow him to grant a husband a separation from his wile.

Base Ball Intelligence. The directors of the Cleveland base ball club decided at a meeting last night to enter the national league for next season. Bnt He Won't Write It In Cipher. [Golumbua Democrat.] Mr. Haven is now busily engaged on “Tilden’a” message to congress. Mine* Closed. The great Trenton colliery company of England will cloae its mines until trade revives.

A RAILWAY TO THE DE© 1> SEA. Lifting the Curve from Mona nod GoWiorrah. It turn* out that Franc* gain* something by the Berlin treaty after all, and that her protectorate of Byria supposed to be a nominal com-eeston. will prove to be of sulwtantial value. French capitalist* have secured a grant lor a railway iiae frt ni Jaffa to the interior of Palatine which will open up the Jordan valley atvi the whole region north of the Suez canal. In certain contingencies this road might become of great military use fa Incas, but it appears further that the productive resources ol the country are considerable, and, what i* more Surprising, that the Dead Sea itself can be turned to commercial account. The whole valley of the Jordan, from Jerusalem to Damascus, is extremely ferule, an I well adapted U> the culture of the olive and the vine. The climate ia dry and bracing, and well-suited to northern races, a* m attested bv the fact that tho' European emigrant* now reniding in Palestine, and engaged in agriculture, already number ecme fifty thousand. Were Jerusalem and Damascus linlred by •■n iron road to the Egyptian raiiwa/' mtem, or merely to the coast of the Levant, they would become for Egypt what the slope* of the Himalayas, and other upland resorts, are for the BritLIi denizens of India. The well-to-do inhabit ant« of Cairo and Alexandria would go thither in considerable numbers to restore their health, and escape the prostrating effects of hummer in the Nil© land. Moreover, the faet-increa*ing European colony in Egypt would look to the same quarter for their food staple*. If we except grain whose production is fast being curtailed,’ owing to the greater profit derived from cotton and the sugar cane, the banks of the Nile produce almost nothing fit lor the nourishment of emigrant* from the north. On the other band, the uplands of Palestine and Syria offer in abundance the cattle, the fowls, the game, the wines, and the fruita of the temperate zone. Indeed, it may be eaid that Egypt will only become habitable on a large reale for Enropeahswhen the opening of awift and economical communication shall relievo them from bringing, at high cost from Trieste or Marseilles not only meats, fruit, nnd wino, but brick, stone and plaster for buildings, and combustibles for their manufactures. All these products are plentiful and cheap on the northern side of the Suez canal, and only await some miles of rails to supply the Nile land abundantly as well as all the desolate stations of the Red aea, where at present all article© of European B consumption must be imported from Great Britain. It is as a purveyor, however, of fuel, rather than of food, that the region to be opened by the new railway deaerves particular attention. Hitherto" the main obstacle to the development of steam traffic in the Levant ha* been the total absence of

coal imported from the west commands a price ranging from $12 to $24 a ton. Now ti;e masaes of asphalt continually thrown up by the Dead Sea attest the presence of vast subterranean layers of fossil vegetable matter, and these signs were not long overlocked by the enterprising men attracted to Suez by the opening of the canal and the movement of commorc© in that direction. Recently numerous soundings havo* been made between Jaffa and the Dead aea, which, to far, have not disclosed any deposit* of coal proper, but on the other hand have laid bare inexhaustible beds of lig-, nite—a mineral, we need not *ay, whichTa coming into general use in Europe for tho making of smelt iron, and is in great request as a combustible for many other purposes. Of itself thi* store of lignite is likely to prove an inaltimnble gain to the industries and commerce of the Levant; but we should add that the juxtaposition of asphalt in great quantities furnish the elements of a mixture of lignite and asphaltum in the form of bricks which is equal in heating capacity to the richest bituminous coal, while its cost on the ground is only $2.50 a ton. It is known that similar brick*, made rip of coal dust and bituminous debri* from ga* works, are much nought after by French railway*, since, beside their heating power, they greatly facilitate stowage, owing to their regular shape. Of course the bitumen of lower Palestine ha* been known from immemorial times, and was used to impart solidity to the structure* of unbaked day in Assyria and Egypt- but it may be said that .the discovery of tne subterranean combustible has lifted once for all the curse that has for so long rested upon Soalom and Gomorrah, and will tranafornf the wasted shores of the Dead sea into a focus of industry and a magazine of wealth. We are evidently about to witness the introduction of modern civilization and activity into those ancient and*

long-decayed lands.

Senator Spencer's Successor. [Lou is villa Courier-Journal.] } George 8. Houston was born in Williamson county, Tenn., January 17,1811, bot removed when quite young to Alabama, where he was educated and has since resided. Soon after his admission to the bar he was elected to the legislature and served two terms; he wan al*o for a time attorney for the state and solicitor. He was elected in 1841 to represent the fifth district in congress, ana continued to serve, by successive elections, until 1849. when he voluntarily retired and reaumea the practice of law. In 1851 he was again elected in congress, aud subsequently reelected, and retired in 1861. He served us chairman of the committee on ways and means, and in the thirty-fifth congress was chairman of the judiciary committee. - In 1866 he was a delegate to the National Union convention in Philadelphia. In 1876 he was elected governor of Alabama^ since which time his public career has been familiar to all who are interested in

Alabama affaire.

The Stewart Resurrection. ‘ Mrs. Rylance, wife of Mrs. Stewart’s pa?tor, says: “Mrs. Stewart sees only a few intimate friends. She has been very feeble, and was confined to her bed for several day* after the sad event. There was a time when I feared for her life, and now ^he is anxious and worried, and is suffering from hope lore deferred. I asked her if she bad received any information which led her to hope that the body might be recovered, and she said she had not. She

still has hope, but is almost in despair. She would gladly give the whole $50,000 for the recovery of the body, atid let the robbers-go free, but is guided in thi* matter, as in all thinp connected with it, by

the advice of J udge Hilton.”

Gone Glimmer In*.

[Columbus Republican.] • Tliose 3,000,000 starving laborers, over which the democratic press and orator* tried to work np such an agony of sympathy before the election^ to hare dwindled out of sight—are all dead perhaps. The fact, i* there never was a better time for laborers than tbe present. All can find work that wish it, and the price of the necessaries of life are so low that any able bodied man can earn a comfort able living for himrelf and family if he

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The? VmuU FoUUeel Cant.

{Cincinnati Commercial.]

Grant would not be at liberty to decline, i That ia what a fellow Bays when beisa candidate lor congress or justice of the peace.