Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1879 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1879.

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THE DAILY NEWS. MOB PAT, ACQP3T 4, 187A The Idllowing wu the actual circulation of The Indianapolia Neva for the six months ending July 31: Avenge per day far Joly— 10,333 Avenge per day lor June... 10,179 Average per day tor May 10,333 Average per day tor AprlL 10,791 Average per day far March - 10,687 Average per day far February 10,637 PereooaJJy appeared before me, this 2d day of Anguat, 1879, a netary public duly quail fled, V. J. Bichard a, edvertMag manager of The Newa, who, being aworn, depoaea and taya that the statement ia true and correct. Jakes Gkkkxb, * lu a.] Notary PubUc.

Motto for people who get out of debt— keep out. Thx wheat crep has taken the atilTening out of a great many mortgages in Indiana.

There was a bad break in the fever conditions Saturday and Sunday in Memphis. Up to that time it aeemed by its daily decrease to be under control. But from a aick list of aix or eight daily, it baa'jumped to twenty-seven since Saturday. The death rate thus far haa been about one out of three. The disease has not yet been declared epidemic, as the deaths from it list week did not exceed the deaths from all other causes combined; the figures being 34 from fever and 37 from othet causes.

The republicans in Maine, according to a special correspondent of the New York Times, are divided into factions, the leaders of which make no secret of their mutual dislike, and this, he thinks, was one cans* of the party defeat list fall. The Morrills, he says, disliked Blaine; Engene Hale had strong opponents in the party, while Hamlin, stronger than all save Blaine, disliked most, if not all, the other leaders. At the head of as many lesser factions were half a dozen ex-gov-ernors. The nomination of Mr. Davis was an attempt to unite the warring factions. The correspondent believes that the republicans will win. By this he means, not that they will elect Davis, but will carry (he legislatui£. The truth is, we should judge from all reports, Maine has been ridden to death, and it is doubtful if the republican party there will amount to much in the future ^until its present leaders and managers step down and out.

The New York Bun in one of those editorials, paragraphed in what has pertinently been called the hysterical style, has an attack of political colic on account of the democratic party. It thinks the party is suffering from certain embarrassments, among which is the presence of a large manlier of secessionists in its ranks, which fact causes the Unionism of the party to be distrusted; and for itself the Sun remarks it would be cententto aee the head of every man who attempts secession by force of arms put where John the Baptist’s was. It goes on to declare • its reverence for the dead who died for the union, and its inability to concede to the rebels more than an honestly mistaken sentiment of patriotism, and its belief that even in death, the difference between dying for a right cause and dying for a wrong one is very great. Dana had better hurry home. He will find all his milk turned to clabber. He will have a bloody stalwart paper on his hands.

The revival in the iron trade shown by reports gathered from the great centers of the trade by the Cincinnati Gazette and mentioned in The News Saturday, is unmistakable, unless the testimony of all the furnace and mill men east, west and south is wrong. The two striking features of the situation are the advance in puces and the increased demand. Furnaces which have been idle for years are being put in blast, and mills are generally running on double time, some of them six weeks behind their orders. There is no apprehension that this increased activity will result in stagnation. On the contrary heavy consumers are laying in stocks for eight tnd ten months ahead, in anticipation of a still further advance in prices. This advance has an appearance »f permanency. It is •not large, but it ia healthy; sufficient to furnish a margin of moderate profit, which has been wanting in the trade for the past three years. The iron men are confident that their trade is on a solid bottom, with • sure tendenev toward increased and steady activity. This is the kind of a boom the country needs.

Yazoo City, Miaaisaippi, could appropriately be named Yahoo City. As mentioned in The News already Henry M. Dixon, a well-known citizen, was running as an independent candidate for sheriff against the regular democratic nominee. The democrats sent a committee of aix men to Dixon, ordering him to withdraw from the canvass, leave the county or die. He refused, and a mob assaulted and would have made quick work of him had not the mayor of the town, to his credit be it said, backed them from Dixon’s house with a shot gun. But Dixon, knowing his life wasn’t worth a week’s purchase, signed a card withdrawing from the race. At (his the Yazoo Herald exclaims: “So the political canvass in this county may be considered at an end. The democratic flag now waves over this glorious old county un-

contaminated and unchallenged, and long may it wave." It is such outrages as this upon the simplest conditions ef a free government, that furnish unanswerable arguments why the solid south should be shattered into fragments so smalt they can never be gathered together again, it is bad enough to swindle a man out of an election, but when he ia denied the right •f asking the suffrages of his fellow citiaene, at the end of a rope, it is time it were settled whether there is such nothing as public opinion here or not. Conobessman Db La Matyr is to address his constituents to-night. Doubtless he will have a great deal to say about the terribly hard times;4he three millions of men who are starving because they can’t get work; the farms eaten up by mortgages held by eastern Shylocks, and the thousands of farmers turned adrift without a dime by “the infamous policy of John Sherman.” This is Bro. De La Matyr’s stock in trade. But while he Is explaining all this to his constituents, will he not leave theory and turning to facta give some attention to the agricultural interests, and tell why they have been more prosperous during the years since the panic than they were before? Take the figures of production as follows: WHEAT. Years. Acres. Bushels. Value. 18*S 18.460,133 224,086,600 *618,195,290 1S69 19,180,004 ; 260,146,900 241,924,120 1870 18,992,591 285,884,700 215,80.5.015 1871 19,448,893 , 230,722,400 290,411,820 1872 20,868,869 249,997,160 810,180,375 1873 22,171,676 281,254,700 323,594,805 1874 24,967,027 803,102,700 291.107,895 1875 26,381,512 292,136 000 294,580,990 1876™ 27,627,021 289,S'*,500 800,259,300 1877,„ 26,277,548 864,194,146 8»l,695,778 1878 80,160,010 420,340,100 425,310,000 It will be observed that since the panic of 1873 the acreage in wheat has increased 33 per cent., and that, notwithstanding the reduced price, it has brought more money than it did during the period of inflation and “intense activity.” coair.' Year. Acres Bushels. Value. 1868 ....34,887,246 906,527,000 *569,512,460 1869... 37.107,245 817,320,600 658,632,700 1870 88,646,977 1,094.255,000 601,839,039 187* 34,091,137 991,898,000 478,275,900 1872J 35,526 836 1,692,719,000 635,149,290 1878 39,197,148 932,274,000 447,183.020 1874 ....41,036,918 850,148,000 550,043,080 1875 44,841,871 1,321,06»,000 555,445,930 1876 49,983,364 1,283,827.000 476,491,210 1877 _..50,369,118 1,342,558,000 439,613,400 1878 61,610,000 1,872,585,000 485,827,000 It will be seen that the acreage in corn has increased since the panic at about the same rate as that of wheat. Without going through all the tables it can be said that the increased acreage in all the cereals of the country since 1873, are as follows: Total cereals 1873, 74,112,137 acres. Total cereals 1778, 100,476,000 acres. These figures are taken from tables compiled by D. M. Bradbury, of this city, and if Mr. De La Matyr doubts them, the details are at his service.

The Widening Circle. A cable dispatch says that Odessa, on the Black Sea, away off on the farthest border of Europe, is troubled at the deepening of the Mississippi channels and the enlarged facilities for the exportation of grain thus created. And a change of weather in southern Russia, on the Dnieper and Dniester, is felt in the pockets and barns of farmers on the Wabash and in White river bottom, and on the Missouri and the Platte and the Arkansas, and even beyond the Rocky Mountains. The cold fogs and long drizzles of England are warming elements on this side of the Atlantic, and a drouth here ia cold news to the bread-eaters of Europe. Thus all the civilized world, and a considerable portion that is not civilized, are held in a chain of mutual dependence and service, and as its links are forged by no force or artifice, but grow where their grasp is grateful, we must suppose that a beneficent Providence intended it to be so. It is the natural relation of nations, and is never broken by exclusiveness without mischief. It is to be tho international security against war, if we ever have one. “Nations shall study war no more,” only where their dependence on each other is so great and constant that a conflict is mutual suicide. It is not an irrational degree of optimism that expects such a condition before the millenium. Not universal, not even embracing all civilization or its approaches, but controlling all the leading powers who can make their will law for the others. The arbitration remedy for national differences is a long step towards that condition. Two of the strongest and richest nations in the world, and two that have had two wars with each other in thirty years, and several threats of others, have resorted to arbitration honestly, and honestly accepted the result, though each complained bitterly of the unfairness of the award against itself, as losing litigants are apt to do. It can hardly be that any two leading powers will ever fight after accepting an arbitration, and no power of any degree can well afford to refuse arbitration with the example of England and this country in view. Mutual dependence for the necessities and comforts and elegancies of life, the quiet but irresistible force of business interests all woven in together, have paved the way for this first formal confession that war was not the only arbitrament of nations that knew their own interests. It is true that we have had some fearful fights in the civilized world lately. Austria and Italy, Austria and Prussia, Germany and France, Russia and Turkey, and England almost, and we may have more, but in all the silent intervals of peace the chain of interdependence is lengthening and strengthening, adding new links, doubling old ones, and more and more strongly cumbering the arm that would seek to strike the first blow. The Cauee of It. While state administrations, at least in the northern states, have in the main been honest and economical for a generation, the local administrations have in the main been corrupt and extravagant. Even in New York, when the Tammany ring was making tho city government the rotteneat rascality that ever existed in the shape of government, not excepting the purchased paahaliks of the Turkish empire, or the

Russian commiftaary department, the state ■dministration was generally honest, or decorous and respectable in seeming, if nothing more. Our state government here in Indiana has been,under all parties, honest ttml frugal, except during the era of howling democratic ascendancy following Willard's election, when the swamp lands were “gobbled” by democratic speculators with a readiness and a relish that Tweed’s gang could have taken a hint from. This side of that time, and as far on the other side as the organization of the state government, there has never been a reasonable imputation of dishonesty to any state official. The last supreme bench went rather luxuriously into little domestic elegancies that would have been more honorably paid for out of the private pockets of the purchasers, but there was no surreptitious use of public money even in that. The general administration was cheap, faithful and creditable. But our city government was another sort of thing. It has been extravagant in expenses that were reasonable, and worse in other expenses for which there was no reason at all. It has been spotted with corruption. It has been smirched with “oil and grease.” Its managers Lave been bought and sold, and turned to any selfish scheme that divided with them. Not all, or most of them, but enough to hold the balance of power. A change ol parties only made matters worse, and the worst, the most feeble and dishonest we ever had was the “democrati& reform government” of ’74. Since then we have had as good a city government as any in the country. But in the main it has been bad while the state government was good. The county management has been grievously abused at times since the increase of population and revenue opened a way to mismanagement. So have been the administrations of many othef counties. Local governments generally, both county and city, have been far worse than the state government, whatever party controlled it. Why? Because the state’s business has been held under the supervision of two large bodies of men, each a check to the other, and both to the executive office. The county administration is in the hands of a little committee of three, self-paying, untrammeled and irresponsible. There ought to be a counter-check in a co-ordinate body, say of the county judges and officers, and with taxes limited, as they now are, such a safe guard would go far to correct the evils now so conspicuous in county affairs. It has had a wholesome effect on city business, and it haa hardly ever had anything else in state business, and with two such precedents it would be prudent to try it in county business, at least in the larger counties. Old Songs. Having glanced at the general character of the change that has taken place in the songs and music ol the primitive settlements in the backwoods, as they advanced in culture and growth, and noted especially some of the sacred songs that have become obsolete, or obsolescent, and the transition, we may look for a moment at a different class of expressions of the musical taste and sentiment of the community, the popular and patriotic, the amatory and the comic songs. Foremost is the patriotic division. Of these the writer remeuibers a verse or two of an old ballad, with its quaiflt, plaintive air, that commemorated the capture of the island of Belle Isle, during the French and English war, that was signalized by Braddock’s defeat, the victory at Quebec, and the final possession of Canada by the English. It must have been nearly a a hundred years old when he heard it, and it seems to have beea w hollv traditional as he never saw the slightest allusion to it in any publication, or any approach to its tune. One verse, with its fantastic chorus, ran thus: "Now we’ll «end the news to France, How we made those Frenchmen dance. When we conquered the place called Belle Isle. Larlee, Larite, de loo.” It is quite possible that the unmeaning chorus is an adaptation of some French words that the backwoods singers, not at all understanding, turned into a sort of “ri-Iol-de-rol” affair. Revolutionary ballads were less common than those of the war of 1812. Why, it would be hard to say, as that war was not more than twenty years old when the writer first heard the ballads that celebrated its victories, and would seem to be too recent to be as popular as traditional and historical events back in the preceding century. But so it was. Perry’s victory was celebrated in a rythmical history of the battle, beginning: "The tenth of September let us all remember. As long as the earth on Its axis rolls round.” Saint Clair’s defeat in 1791 was the seed of several “woeful ballads,” and deserved them. A couplet of one of them celebrates a hero who has never found any other fame that we know of: “Stand by yonr guns,” says valiant Ford, "We’U fight until we die.” The battle of Tippecanoe was considerably besung in backwoods ballads, in the days when the city was new and uncultured. So was that of New Orleans, the Utter being the subject of one of the best known of all the patriotic songs of the generation that coaid still remember the IndiaTtl in our woods, and talk with the men who had fought them, it was called the “Hunters of Kentucky.” A sarcastic ballad of the same war, relating the story of the battle on Lake Champlain and its companion land fight at Plattsburg, was called the “Noble Lads of Canada.” The first verse ran thus: "Come all ye British heroes, I pray you lead your eare. Bring oflt your British regulars, likewise your volunteera, For we’re going to fight the Yankees by water and by land, And we never will return till we’ve conquered sword in hand. ■We’re the noble lads of Canada, Coma to arms, boys, come.” Of course our patriotic poet makes the Canucks give a terrible description of the licking they got from MacDonough and Macomb, and the last stanza concludes with a good deal of humor: "Oh! we've sot too far from Canada, Bun for life, boya, run." A “nigger” ballad speaks of the same battles with an opening line like this: "Backside of Albany stand Lake Champlaia, A little pond half fuU of water.” But chief of all subjects of ballad glori-

fication was the fight between the Constitution and Guerriere, and one of the ballads ia so good that it is by no means for-

gotten yet:

"The'tlucrriere, a frigate bold,

O’er the foaming ocean rolled,

CMrmianded by proud fbirrea, the grandee,Oh,

With at otiolce a Hrttiah crew, At a rsumi r ever drew.

They could flog the Ficnchmen, three to one, so

handy, Oh?’

It was sting to an old Irish air called “Evelyn's Bower,” but the patriotic song has so completely appropriated it that it is better known by that name than its own. The “Star Spangled Banner,” though a song of the same war, and the best patriotic song we have, except possibly Cutter’s “E Pluribus Unum,” was unknown to the household and neighborhoed “skalds” of the Hoosiers forty years ago. Their taste ran to descriptive songs and tales in verse or ballads, and the music was almost uniformly of the subdued and plaintive cast of most of Irish music. Pathos was especially dear to the primitive, unsophisticated nature of the backwoodaman, and the patriotic ballads as well as their airs were mostly pathetic. Fresh Wheat Fields. The July number of the “Nineteenth Century” ehows the extent and resources of Manitoba, those almost limitless plains watered by the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Thus says

the writer:

On both banks of the Red River of the North, from its source to its entrance into Lake Winnipeg, and on both sides of the international boundary between Canada and the United Btates exists this ter-

ritory. Through it sweeps, in a northwestern direction, some 300 miles along the course of the two Saskatchewan rivers, and forward to the Rocky

rection, some 300 miles a

Saskatchewan rivers, am. .u.^uu w .uo .. ji,-», Mountains of the west, an area of at least 200,000,000 acres, nearly the whole of which is to-day an untouched prairie of the richest description. Since the resumption of the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway, the country has been made acceadble by the trunk line and lateral roads to emigrants: the city of Winnepeg, at the juncture of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, has sprung up from and Indian post of the Hudson Bay company, to be a well built town of 8,000 inhabitants; steamers have been Introduced into the two rivers that unite at her wharves; and a continuous railway 460 miles connects this Canadian city with St. Paul. Since 1873 Canada has established a firm government in Manitoba, and the tide of immigration has flowed in, reaching a flood in 1878. For the seven months ending with March of that year the United States government and the railways in Minnesota and Dakota sold for actual settlement 2,550,000 acres of land, and in Manitoba 3,000,000 acres were last year allotted to actual settlers. Most of the new comers to our lands are well-to-do farmers from Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, and the Manitoba immigrantsare supplied chiefly from the province of Ontario. They have sold the farms they already own and gone to this new county because of its great advantages for wheat growing. The average yield is thirty bushels to the acre, but often forty and fifty bushels are obtained. It is claimed that in twelve months the business repays all the advances of purchase and establish meat and leaves a profit of money return and a plant four times as large as the original outlay. The Dalrymple farm in Minnesota yielded in 1877 twenty-five bushels of wheat to the acre in 8,000 acres. The total outlay was under $10 per acre, which left a margin of about $15 per acre or $120,000 on the 8,000 acres. Further north the yield ia better than this. Along the Assiniboine river in 1877, 400,000 acres yielded thirty bushels to the acre. It is claimed that the coolness of these high latitudes prevents the development of the juices as rapidly as in the more southerly regions, where the plants run to stalk and

leaf to the detriment of the seed.

The enormous extent of this country is •2,984.090 square miles, while the whole of the United States south of the international boundary line, is 2,933,600 square miles. The future possibilities are thus pictured: In the center of this immenae body of land if lake .Winnipeg, 800 mi lee long by fifty or »lxty milea wide—literally the future Black sea of Canada. At three of its four corners it receives the waters of as many large rivers, the main trunks of a hundred smaller ones. At the remaining northeeet angle a fourth and larger river, the Dardanelles of the system, conveys the accumulated waters of nearly a million square miles Into Hud-

by

rigal 1,000 miles each. Both these rivers drsl* the socalled "fertile belt” which contains 90,000,000 acres of the finest wheat land in the world. Within five years it is expected thst 4,000,000 acres of this soil will be under wheat cultivation, thus

shipped Kingdom during the eight suiting months from September, 1877, to May, 1878.

CLKKKNI UOMUHKNT. Our foreign trade during tho fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, as reported by the bureau of statistics, shows an excess of exports over imports of $264,636,002, which is an increase of about $7,000,000 over the previous year. The total value of the exports and imports was $1,156,220,894, an increase over the previous year of $24,313,654, the exports having increased about $15,000,000 and the imports about $8,000,000. The excess of exports has continued for four years, reach* ing a total of $753,000,000, which has been paid us largely in our own bonds. During the four years preceding the panic the excess was the other way, our imports exceeding our exports $423,000,000, which we paid for largely in specie. During the year we also exported $238,000,000 of coin and bullion more than we imported for the three years 1870-73. The great bulk of our exports was made up of the five articles: breadstuff's, cotton, provisions, mineral oil, and tobacco. The staple articles of the South, cotton and tobacco, together exceed the breadstuff in value, but the breadstuffs and provisions together, the staples of the West, exceeded the staples of the Sonth nearly fifty per cent.; while there was an increase in the value of breadstuffs exported of $24,601,113, there was a decrease in cotton and tobacco combined of an almost identical amount, $24,530,962. The increase in the exportation of breadstuffs was mainly owing to the increase in wheat, of which there was shipped during the eleven months 113,511,922 bushels, valued at $121,182,646, against 67,245,746 bushels, valued at $90,700,598, during the corresponding eleven months of 1878. In distilled spirits and living animals the increase was over 100 per cent. The Washington Star has set about to find the fate of the franked speeches sent out from Washington as political documents. It decides that seventy-five per cent, reach the hands of storekeepers for wrapping purposes; that fifteen per cent, are tumbled into waste baskets or pitched into stoves, and that ten per cent, are actually read. Princeton college authorities have notified the parents and guardians of every member of the sophomore class beginning this fall, that any student found guilty of hazing will be at once and irrevocably expelled. The United States authorities have recently taken steps to render hazing odious at the military school. If all colleges followed the example of West Point and Princeton the barbarous practice wonld soon be a thing of the past. The New York Herald is straining itself over the question, why not make Gen. Grant minister to England ? There are a number of reasons. If Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe before

writing her romance concerning Lord Byron in the Atlantic Monthly ten yean ago, bad consulted certain papen in the British tnusetmi, It is possible she would have left the said romance unwritten. The United States government has no more consiiiutional power to issne paper currency, which is only evidence of debt, and call it monev and compel people to take it as money, and thus to make a bank of the treasury, than it has to enforce state election laws or, unasked, to use the army to keen the peace of a state I Gen. Ewing's crotchet is, we repent, is as unconstitutional, as dishonest and us impracticable as Mr. Shsrman’s.—[New York World. Appomattox made no law higher than the federal constitution and the amendments which are integral parts of that great national charter. The supreme sovereignty of this republic has been forever vindicated, and the whole henceforth greater than a part. But the just rights of Hie parts which collectively make up our great empire of the people remain unrepealed and unimpaired.— [Philadelphia Record. If Mr. Toombs thinks that patriotism is dead, be is wrong. Should any attempt be made upon the integrity of any state or upon the national government, by any foreign power, a million swords would leap from ibeir scabbards in a day, and the tramp of armies would be beard in the south as in the north, from distant Oregon to Florida, from Texas to Maine.—[New Orleans Times. The real fight in Maine, in spite of all the talk about the chances for the governorship is for the control of the legislature. Scheming, planning, caucusing aod trading are all going on now. A few weeks later it will be possible to form a clearer judgment: but at present we see no hope for the republicans unless they carry the state on the popular vote.—[Boston Herald. Multiply that dead youth aod his mourning mother by a million or so, am} you have what the Napoleons have done for other youths and their mothers. Multiply it by another million or so, and vou will have what this youth, had he lived, must have tried to do fortheeonsand mothers of France. The royal princes affected an unreal grief, for they went from the faneral to the Comedie Francaise in the evening. The ruling titled classes of England instinctively hate a republic where once obscure men like Grevy, Gambetta, Haves or Grant can raise to eminence. They hated the North during the civil war, not that they loved the South, but rather because they hoped to see the end of the great western republic.—[M. D. Conway’s London Letter. YELLOW FEVER. Corrections ef Seme Misstatements of The Indianapolis News—The Future of the Dlseese. [Madison Courier.1 My attention has been called to an article in The Indianapolis News of July 28th, in which reference has been made to an article on yellow fever written by me for The Courier of the 21st inst. The writer attributes to me views which I do not entertain, and which I certainly would not wish to teach. It is stated that I contend “that the germs of the yellow fever are not limited to any conditions 6f temperature, or destructible by any process of freezing or burning.” And again, that these germs will not die, and when suitable conditions occur they will make a calamity even if the thermometer has fallen far enough for the mercury to freeze every winter in the interval.” Such remarks are not to be found in my article. I stated that the disease had prevailed as far north as Boston long before it • appeared at New Orleans; that it had prevailed in Spain at an altitude of 2,000 feet, and in South America, on both sides of the Andes, at an altitude of 11,250 feet, and with a temperature of 62 degrees within doors; and that no altitude much below the freezing point could be relied on as a barrier to the spread of this disease. To make this article as brief as possible, I will state that the disease, in my opinion, is not indigenous to our country, but that it is imported from abroad; that it is not caused by malaria, or filth of any sort, but that it is a febrile disease of one paroxysm, having a specific cause in all instances, which is living germinal matter thrown off from the bodies of the sick, and by means of these living germs the same specific disease is propagated from person to person, aud from place to place. These living germs can be conveyed by persons, and they can be conveyed hundreds and thousands of miles ia trunks of clothing, blankets, beds, and other porous material, aud in the holds of ships and steamboats. Such are my views, derived from a careful study of the subject, If they be correct the disease is preventible. When our country is once rid of it, quarantine vigorously enforced will keep us rid of it. When it eludes quarantine prompt irloation will prevent it from becoming epidemic. • * * • * • The profession has been, and is yet to some extent divided upon this subject, which I regard as a m -fortune to the country. Those who denj its contagiousness, and contend for Its local origin from filth, uniformly oppose quarantine laws as a useless restriction upon commerce. When these erroneous views can be abolished, and the people united in the earnest enforcement of quarantine, we shall hear no more of yellow fever epidemics in our country. The south will be as safe as Boston and New York. W. T. S'. Cornktt. Madison, Ind., July 30, 1879. Grant at Toklq. The Grant reception in Tokiowas unprecedented in Japanese history. In addition to the government demonstration, the citizens have given lavish entertainments on a sumptuous scale, providing every day and night fresh novelties for bis diversion. He wta

many was caused by tne demeanor of the English officials, who persistently keep aloof from Grant, and decline to give salute or recognition. It is not clearly understood whether this is in consequence of orders from home or otherwise. There is much comment thereupon, and it ia distinctly known that Grant is keenly sensitive to thesliGrbti. Gen. Grant’s party visits the shrines of Mikko and afterwards sails to Yezo, and starts for America the last week of August. Unveiling a Statue of Thiers. An enormous crowd was present at Nancy yesterday, at the unveiling of the statue of ex-President Thiers. Demarcere, minister of the interior, declared in his speech that the government was resolved to remain true to the noble ideas of Thiers, namely, a conservative republic gusrding the national traditions and just influence of France in Europe and in the whole world. Jules Simon and Martel also spoke. An Ualneky Yacht. The steam yacht Farrington, which sank the Josephine at Clayton, Thursday, collided with the steam yacht Flora, Saturday night, near Thousand Island Park. Both yachts were loaded with passengers. The Flora was beat bed to prevent her sinking. The license* of Captain Wolridge, of the Farrington, and Captain Brush and Engineer Itadway, of the Josephine, have been revoked by the government inspectors. DeLesseps at a Discount. The London Observer announces in its finance department that the shares in the DeLesseps Panama canal scheme are at two francs discount, and remarks that there is not likely to be any demand for them in England. Fatal Explosion. One of the rotary boilers in the Montague Paper company’s mill at Tamer’s Falla, Mass., exploded Saturday evening, killing one man, Daniel Leary, and slightly wounding two others. Bitting Boll In tho Fray. A Fort Buford special says Sitting Bull was present and directed a fight with Miles on the 17th, and one of his brothers was killed. Lord Chelmsford B—Igns A Capetown dispatch of July 15 says Lord Chelmsford has resigned, and is returning to Durbar.

this Mmm Jonos. This man Jmm was what roo’d sail A f el far as totd ao sand si su; Klndo'eoutuBiptad, sad undersize, And sailor enapfaeUd. wli* W* aad oyaa. And a kirid-®f-*-»crt~of-a half-way smile Thai Idndo’ give him away to os Aa a preacher, may be, or amnepla’ wots. Didn’t lake with the gang—well, noBat still we managed to aee him though— Coddle' the gilley along the route, And dfirin' the atakts that he pulkd out;— For 1 wae one ol the bceeei then, And of coarse stood in with the canreemen— hud the way we put ap Jobe, you know, On this man Jones las’ beat the show 1 Used to rattle him scandalous. And keep the feller a-dodgin* us. And a-enyin’ round Jear’ sheered to death, And afeertd to whimper above his breath^ Give him a eaaain’, and then a kick, And then a kiod-of-a baea-hand lick— Jee’ for the fun of seeln’ him climb Around with a head on hall the time. But what was the curl oust thing to me, W»s along o’ the party—lei me see,— Who was oar "Ltoa Queen” last year?— Man.telle Zanly or De La Pierre— Well, no matter 1—a stunnln’ mash, - With a red-ripe lip, and a long eye-lash And a figure tich as the angels owns— And oae too many tor this man Jones. He'd always wake In the afternoon As the bond wah ted in on the lion tnne. And thar, from the time that she’d go in. Till she’d back out of the cage again, to "feed her naked hand”— And all that business, you understand. And it was reaky In that den— For I think she juggled three cube then, And a big “green" lion as used to smash Collar bones tor old Frank Nash; And I reckon now she haint forgot The afternoon old "Hero” sot Hla paws on herl—but'asfor me, Its a sort-of-a mixed-up mystery:— Klndo’ remember an awful roar, And see her back for the bolted door— Bee the cage rock—heerd her call "God have mercy!”—and that was all— For thar haint no livin’ man can tell What its like when a thousand yell In female tones, and a thousand more Howl in baas till their throats la sore I But the keeper said as dragged her out, Th»y heerd some feller laugh and shout:— "have herl Quick! I’ve got the cqmI”^^_ A And feeln’ Better to jes’ not let her know Nothin’ o’ that lor a week or so. [John C. V,’alker In Kokomo Tribune.

Ungatbered Shells.

We all are children, playing on the beach, And ever through our fingers fall the sand; Sometimes sweet thoughts for which we find no speech, Like pretty shells, fall from our open hand. We see them drop, yet have no power to stay, The waves engulf them, soon they’re lost to view,— They would have gladdened us ’long life’s dull way, With their etherlal beauty, ever new. The glowing thoughts that on life’* sandy shore Are thrown up by the restieee waves of time. Before we grasp, the waves take bask once more,— And hence the poet’s oft unfinished rhyme. Life has ao much, vague, incomplete and dim,— Falling to stive, we leave at last to Him. —[Modern Argo.

SCRAPS. A Spanish proverb says: “The road of By-and-by leads to the town of Never.” John Sherman pays less for his advertising than any other man in the business.—[Ex. A rattlesnake eight feet long and with twenty-five rattles has just been killed near Bristol, Tenn. We never heard of a man so mean that a fly wouldn’t become attached to him.—[Fond du Lac Reporter. It aint so mutch what a man kan lift, says Josh Billings, as what he kan hang onto, that shows his aktual strength. Prof. Swift, of Rochester, stays out until 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning, and then tells his wife that he has discovered a new planet. —[New Orleans Picayune. Nitro glycerine pills for the relief of angina pectoris, a disease of the chest, are now manufactured by a London chemist, and recommended by members of the medical profession. The city of Houston, Texas, offers in compromise of $350,500 of its debt 50 cents on the dollar, and for the remaining $1,352,000 25 cents on the dollar, all payable in new bonds bearing 5 per cent, interest. “I was bo’n Tongside de mewl. I knows him from his nose to his hind ho<5f. Ize driv’ him, an’ he has driv’ me, De mewl in de Norf am not a success. De climate am right ’nuff and de feed am good ’miff, but de roads an’ de streets am so narrow up heah dat you can’t git a good swing to a fence rail when you want to hit a mewl.” A gentleman living at Fnut Vale, near San Francisco, has in his possession a rare floral curiosity which botanists have repeatedly affirmed was a mrth. It is a genuine pink pond lily, somewhat larger and possessing a more delicate perfume than the white pond lily. It is the only specimen of the kind ever kn^wn on the Pacific coast. The deaf man continues to walk on the railway track; the tired traveler still takes it for his bed, and the man confident in his agility leaps at the moving train, quite certain that he can get safely aboard, but they all continue to swell the mortuary reports, aud furnifch the local historian with sensations.—[Evansville Tribune. A contemporary asks: “How shall women carry their purses to frustrate the thieves?” Why, carry them empty, Nothing frustrates a thief more than to snatch a woman’s purse, after following her a half mile, and then find that it contains nothing but a recipe for spiced peaches and a faded photograph of her grandmother.—[Norristown Herald. The Church of St. Peter-upon-Cornhill, in London, ia to celebrate its seventeenth centenary on the 27th instant. Tradition says it was founded in 179. A sermon will be preached by the archbishop of Canterbury, as occupant of the metropolitan see, which is believed to have been transferred to Canterbury from St. Peter-upon-Cornhill. The lord mayor and the corporation have been patrons of the church since 1411. Charles Lamb describing to a friend a fine dinner that he had just eaten, said, “It was one of the finest dinner parties I ever attended; the company was good natured and happy, the wine was excellent, the turkey was brown, crisp and juicy, and when we arose from the table tnere was nothing left but the bones."■“How many constituted your party ?” asked tne listener. “Only two of us,” quietly answered Lamb; “the turkey and myself.” General Ewing’s home at Lancaster ia a plain brick mansion, pleasantly situated on high ground. The general’s eldest son, William, who is 23 years old, is principal of aa academy in an adjoining township. The tldest daughter, Miss May Ewing, is a young lady of many graces and excellence*. The general has three other children, two boya and a girl. He is very much liked by hia neighbors, who always find him genial, generous and well-bred. Prince Jerome Napoleon’* nickname of “Plon-Plon” waa, it ia said, obtained in his childhood at Stuttgart, where he was a great favorite with the late King William of Wnrtemberg. The king used to amuse himself bv asking the little prince his name, and the child, who could not then speak plainly, alway* answered “Plon-Plon,” instead of “Napoleon.” It was in this way that he became known by this name at the Wurtemberg court, and he has never lost it since. Captain John Brown, jr^ who ia now in Kansas looking after the interests of the fleeing colored people of the south, ha* written a letter east saying that both nt present and in the coming winter, a great deal of money will be needed to properly house and care for the refugee*. He atks the people of the east to continue sending money to the proper authorities, and urges particularly on the colored people of the north and east the necessity of forming emigrant aid association*. The Recorder of the District of Columbia, General George A. Sheridan, recently met with a painful bereavement. He had two bright, pretty boys, fond of fun and the last children one might conceive to get into

trouble. They were making a visit in M**> rachuFftts, and gut into a carriage and while enjoying themselves, the horses took fright, not understanding exactly what was behind them, and ran off and killed on# of the lads outright and so injured the other that hi* leg had to be amputated. Within fortyeight hours after in is accident Sheridan lost twenty pounds in weight. At UfWfc Mnsa., the other day, a large Newfoundland dog was acting In an unaccountable manner on the margin of a small pond, He seemed to wish to approach the water, but at the same time held back by a dread of it. He apparently suffered, also, from spasms, during which be would leap high in the air akd then writhe ia agoojWhile n policerntf went in search of a weapon to kill thea^P 1 *! *bJ tai his misery the dog jumped intotlM P° D< h ** spite of his evident aversion to thew^ 1 *** walked twenty or thirty feet from the middle and there dellberatelyaB^ n ®^ himself. Peep-show man—On the ob * r 7 e the express train u-oomin’ aH^* 0 signal lights, the green and the green light means “caution,” and light ainifiea "danger” Small boy— (with his eya to Uie aperture)—But what’s the yallar Lght, sir? Peep-showman (slow and impressive)—There ain’t no yaller light —but the green and the red. The green hpbt means "caution." and the red licht si’nif Small boy (pereiamnUy—But wha’s the other light, sir? Peep-showman (losing patience)—Tell yer there ain’t no (take# a look—in consternation)—Bfawed if the darned old show ain’t afire f Of Gen. Albert Sidnev Johnston, it is related that one day in Utah when his command was two days distant from a mailing station, he found that a captain had retnraed to the camp forgetting to post a letter which the general had intrusted to him. But all the commander said was: “I can imagine no excuse for such carelessness, captain.” Not long after,the general himself discovered in a winter coat, which had been necked away, a letter which a long time before ha had received from the surgeon with the request that he post it. He had taken it to the station, forgetting to post it, and it had remained in the pocket for six months. The conscientious general first apologized to the surgeon, and then he sent for the captain anti said: "I beg your pardon for reproving you for an offense in which I myself set the example.” A child at Dover South Mills, Me., noweight years old, was born without eves. He has eyebrows sind eyelids, but there is nothing which indicates the presence of ejbaila, and doctors ray that he has nothing whatever in the nature of an eye organism. The litUe fellow is an unusually bright boy. He has never been heard to utter a word of complaint at his condition, and he invariably rebukes his friends if they give expression to any pitying words. That he appreciates, however, the misfortune that afflicts him is shown by this fact: His little niece had a cataract upon her eye, and he had heard fears expressed lest it should destroy her sight It was not long after this that his mother heard his voice in an adjoining room, and going quietly to the door she was sarprised to hear him praying to God that the little baby might not become blind.

Diplomatic Trouble at Yokohama. There is considerable excitement at Yokohama, in consequence of the British minister interfering with the Japanese quarantine regulations. Cholera prevails in southern ports, aud a strict quarantine is ordered for Yokohama. The United States minister issued immediate instructions for the compliance of America. The British minister denied the right of the Japanese on account of extra territorial jurisaiction, and declared that any English ship should break the quarantine and be protected in doing so by a British man-of-war. Owing to indignant remonstrances from influential quarters, especially from Governor Hennessey, of Ilong-Kong, now vipiting Japan, the British minister modified his attitude, and now consents to co-operate with the Japanese government, but still asserts his right to break the quarantine. The German minister supports him, and all other diplomatic representatives are indifferent except the Russian, who sides with the American.

Gona Wrong. Chevalier Jumonville, of New Orleans, more than thirty years cashier of the O&nal bank, is a defaulter in twenty thousand dollars. Eighteen months ago a discrepancy was discovered between the account of the Canal bank and a New York correspondent. The bank make the amount good, but the matter was only brought to light by a recent investigation. Travers S. Maybin, a Philadelphia insurance agent, has disappeared. It is rumored that he failed to meet accommodation paper to the amount of $50,000.

The Work of Desperadoes. Four unknown men, supposed to belong to a gang of desperadoes in the Indian Territory. rode into Coneyville, Kansas, Saturday, robbed the postoffice and committed other depredations. The citizens resisted, one of whom named Fitzpatrick was killed and another named Roberts was wounded. The robbers then left, and shortly after a detachment of United States troops started in pursuit of them, but at last accounts bad made no arrests.

Base Ball Saturday;

Cincinnati—Buffalo 9, Cincinnati 5. Syracuse—Providence 8, Stars 4. Chicago— Cleveland 0, Chicago 7. Worcester—Worcester 17, Holyokes 0. New Bedford—Albany 5, New Bedford 1. ^

bertous Accidents.

Saturday night, Lorenzo Park, a farm : lid, working south of the city, was found on the commons by some colored people with a bullet in his leg aud unable to move. He was taken to the city hospital, where he explained that the wound was the result of an accidental discharge of hiapistof. A young son of Luke Hoffner, living on Grant street, was thrown from a horse on East street, yesterday afternoon, alighting on his head, and receiving a dangerous fracture

of the skull.

A. G. Jackson, of the Maryland street stables, was injured in the back, Saturday afternoon, by a collision on Sonth Pennsylvania

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Whisky at Camp Meeting. Friend after friend departs. And now the innocent pop-corn ball has been discovered to be full of iniquity. Lurking under it* guileless exterior is the subtle serpent. At tbeCastleton camp meeting, yesterday, a pop-corn vender disposed of a large number of balls and bad about exhausted bis stock whea it waa discovered that under a thin coating of pop-corn several dozen small flasks of whisky nad been sold, resulting in a large number of drunken men and boya, a severe shock to the managers of the cainn meeting and much profit to the unscrupulous popcorn man. Death by Circular Saw. Jack Monks, an employe at the Udell woodenware works, North Indianapolis, while engaged in ripping a board with a circular saw, Saturday afternoon, was struck ia the pit of the stomach by a piece of bark thrown from the saw. The force of the blow burst the bladder of the unfortunate man, and be died during the night. He leaves a wife and two children in needy circumstances.

Malaria Disarmed of It« Terrors. Malaria, that frit atmospheric poison, U disarmed of ita terrors and health insured to tfiousaads residing where the noxious exhalation periodically infects the air and engenders Intermittent and re* mittens fevers, by Hostetler's Stomach Bitters, tbs moat popular, aa It fa the best, of preventives, alteratives aad tonics. In nnmberiem localities where tbs demand for sulphate of quinine was formerly immense the hurtful alkaloid has been almost entirely supplanted by this safe, agreeable and effective substitute, which is genial in notlsn and unobjectionable in flavor. It miiUfiss the tnfloeoessf miasms by givlag a more active impulse to every vital function, quickening sad earlehiag the blood, evcrwmlng a tendency to WUeuftMS and promoting digestion. os 0-wJ,Ba