Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1874 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1874.

" QcoD Pros IIiC Est." The following poetic lUustratron of thla proverb, by a famous school master, may possibly Interest some of our ternerance friend : , r,iat had John and Joan to hoard pfin folks in bumble plight ; niv tAnkard crowned their board, And ffiaf wUflUed each night ; Alon whose inner bottom sketched, ; A baby angel's face. ' John swallowed first a moderate sup ; But Joan was not like John, For wneThTr lip once touched the cup, ahe swilled till all was gone. John often urged her to drink fair.

But he ne er cqsukcu r , She loved to see the angel there. And therefore drained the pot. Wnen JoUa found all remonstrance va.n. Another card he played , And where the angel stood so plain He got a devil portrayed, joan saw the horns Joan saw the tall, Yet Joan a stoutly quaffed. And ever when she 9' lzed her ale, She cleared It at a draught. John stared ; with wonder petrified. Ills hair roseonhls pate, And, 44 Why dost guzzle now," he cried, " At this enormous rate?" " Oh. John," said she, " am I to blame? 1 can t in conscience stop -For sure it would be a burning shame bo lea ve the devil a drop ! NEWS AND GOSSIP. Bazaine's lawyer declines to receive his fee. The editor of a Texas paper acknowledges the receipt of two beautiful Indian scalps. Salvini's manager advertises a free matinee during theMardi Gras festival in New Orleans. The New York San notices that no senator of the United States has ever been elected president. Nearly one-half the building in Chicago are for rent, the other half for sale, and all mortgaged. Young lady "Did jou know Strauss was dead?" Second ditto "It is only the theologian though." Illinois has abolished solitary imprisonment. Convicts there are too numerous to be so exclusive. If people in Alaska can make $100 a day panning out gold, it will be a great protection to the seals. Eastern papers declare that coffee will soon be 60 cents per pound. The paper that said that don't know beans. The Louisville Courier-Journal says there are five months' calves in Kentucky which a young and ambitious man can buy as low as f2G,500 each. A Minneopolis man states that Tennyson is only a third-class poet. How sad to blight the peaceful old age of the poet laureate. The winter is so mild in Colorado that fires are unendurable, and the proprietors of the base-burners are trying to negotiate a sale at any sacrifice. It has been ascertained that there are six young ladies in Washington who have not been called the reigning belles of the season by the newspapers of their town or city. This shouldn't occur again. Subsidy Pom. wants to be a granger after his trial is over. He is a proper candidate and if not hornv handed, t least has the smell of mature on his garments. Brooklyn will publish, an encyclopedia containing a full list of all the defalcations aud breach of promise cases that have occurred there during the last six months. A discovery of interest to wood engravers is the fact that plates of polished slate may bo used as substitutes for box wood for en-eravin"-. These plates will furnish over one Hundred thousand impressions without loss of detail, do not warp, and are not affected by oil or water. ; A Delaware man has been taking cod-liver oil for four years to cure the consumption, and has just found out that he never had any consumption. He carries a doctor's scalp in his belt and no druggist is safe who mentions cod-liver oil in his presence. A band of Ohio women gathered in front of a lawyer's office by mistake and prayed and sane half an hour before they learned that they had been throwing away time. Itis calculated that their prayers wouldn t have had any effect under eighteen months. They have a new drink at the cafes in Pariq.1 called " bene." This must be in honor of that distinguished baked beans philosopher. Dr. Dio Lewis, who, says tna Cincinnati Enquirer, is creating trouble in Ohio for the small sum of fifty dollars per day. The leader of the Gad's Hill robbery is a rlftvPi un. He is the most innocent look in" man one would meet with in a day's ride, can shoot on horseback, going at break neok speed, with great accuracy, and ia as i aa Via a andacious in the robbervline. He was born and brought up in Missouri, ana altogether '"" state. A resident of Kalamazoo, Michigan, has refused to paw his school tax on the ground that the schools have no right to teach any languages but the English, aud that when v rstar lanmiacea are taucht there is no longer any right to compel the payment of taxes lor ineirsuppon. hkjj wi mm--rr t,.i:inn tana. His case is made a test one, and a srreat deal ol interest gathers tout it. Rena' or Sherman now wants to unload on the District of Columbia. Senator Carpenter unloaded on Louisiana several days TTTtohrvwk is trvinir to unload on the swamp land steal at the expense of Jndtre urounse. umut um umu wuuj no a hMTT loan Ol CUlt? I The whole Republican party is engaged in unloading itself. Unloading seems to be pideinic with the whole Grant dynasty . Omana neraio. - -- The Havanese have a novel way of disci plining opera singers. Verati, the tenor of the Lucca-Murska company, was to oe me Xlvinoin "Sounambula"; but he did not make his appearance, much to the disaprr Varrln ct the officials, if not of the public and artists. El Presidente of the theatre, wno pwt "'"S'-i1 " rs. made out a commitment to prison for eight days for erati, auu uau mm yu m the carceL At Miss Cusbing's readings in New York, recently, a large proportion of the audience were ladies, many of whom came unattended. This custom prevails at Baltimore, The cace appears to be different in Paris. Two American ladies, unattended, recently vis ited the UaraTortoni, uouievaru u a mucus, TinrtnnMaHlu Inrnnch IcrnOranCO Of the CUStoms of Paris. Owing to the traditional respectability of tnia Historical siauiiaumon i thATKAnffVtt aauM nafplr pntpr tor an ice. This they did, and the waiters refused

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MOTHS AND SICH. SUNSET COX IN ENTOMOLOGY ATTIAKÜ BCIENCK IN CONOBXSS UNCLK SAM'S MOTHEATEN CLOTHES. In the house of representatives Feb. 6, durthe discussion of th army appropriation bill, the question of an appropriation of f 50,000 for the use of a preparation to pieserve woolen and cotton fabrics from mildew being before the house, Mr. Cox said: 1 move to strike out of the bill "$50,000," and insert "$25,000," in line 120. Before I come to that, mav I refer to the report of Quarter

master Bingham, ol .Dec. au, i nis re port shows that then we had ?23,433,S21.27 in woolen clothing and tents mostly the formet. This did not then in clude the forty-two thousand blankets, worth ?12S,0OU. 'or did this in clude coats, jackets, trousers, flannt-1 sacks. blankets, goods made up, ana not maae up. Those items run into the millions, and the moths run into them. Laughter. Here are $.3,0u0.000 worth of coats, jackets, and trousers. Nearly eight hundred thousind ot these articles of apparel lor an army oi thirty thousand. Our appropriation is a dollar and sixty-six auu iwo-iniros cenis ... . A 1. rf-x !tl! . 11 per soldier not per monin. wmuiuig iu woolen blankets and "mounted great coats" (for tho cavalry, I suppose), and the "skyblue kerseys," there Is a spienam orgeciive point for the army of moths, which no gre-t treneral ofthat corps should omit to attack, if feeling well. Did the moths failT If they did, what need of this appropriation? la this Iis, we have at least one million and a quarter yards of flannel not made up. We have millions or uoiiars oi mis peculiar woolen property not yet made up iuto uniforms. It is subject to the attack of the moth. A large part of this is still on band, either in uniform or otherwise. The gen tleman confesses to seven millions. Now. accordinir to the report of the kquart-ermaster-general I just referred to, there were fSoO.uou appropnaieu in a cuupio ui years past for a peculiar kind or process, which is said to prevent moms getting imu this cloth and clothing. The Quartermaster-general in this report asks this congress this year lor ?100,000; stating the amount of motbeaten clothes sold at the Government depots during the past three years as over a million and a half of dollars. Mr. Cox said: II motheaten clothes bring so much, what is the rest, the unmotheaten, worth ? Who buvs the motheaten clothes and cloth? Who judges of the extent and damage of the innocent and hungry motnr vvnere are m expert contractors and tailors? I pass this by, to insist on the practical question, why do we keep such a lot of clothing on hand to feed moths? This is not a political conundrum. Why, if there is so much clothing on hand, does the quartermaster say that the appropriation for clothing for the past fiscal year was J'JOO.OOO? Why were the expenditures on tne account of clothing and equipage during the same period fS5S,412.07? THE PARTT MOTH. Mr. Wheeler I desire to ask my colleague a question, lias ne stuoiea tne nistory oi the party moth? It has fed on his party, and no chemical process has yet -been invented, I believe, to stay its ravages. Laughter.J Mr. Cox I omitted, as the house will see, out of deference to the majority and their feelings, to draw any -partisan or political lesson out of these moths and their predatory habits. Laughter. I have material, however, for a speech ot an hour and a quarter on that point. If the gentleman will allow me, I will say it is mostly in connection with the administration. Laughter. And, sir, since lam challenged to it, by my friend not provoked, lor he never provokes any one, except to admire him, the more one knows him I will endeavor to read in tne character of thb moth some of those attri butes which are makinz the Deoole reeard the administration so carefully. The real moth that we have to deal with, in a political way, is a combination of the lackey moth, which generally haunts the white house and hovers about the purlieus of power, and the hawk moth, which is some times in the army, or educated there. All these moths you will find have a political and destructive significance. If you note how they are hatched; how they hide in co coons; how tney creep into dark places through crannies; how they go into closets wh9re goods are stored; how they lie all summer quietly . Laughter, the members gathering about the speaker. Mr. Field I rise to a question of order. Let the house be brought to order. Laughter. Here the hammer fell. Several members Go on. go on. Mr. Wheeler I hope my colleague will have unanimous consent to proceed. The chairman Does the gentleman from New York yield to his colleague? Mr. Wheeler Certainly. I yield all my time to terrible suppositions. Suppose that in the event of the success of the till of the honorable gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly), there was at once established an interconvertibility between the three sixty-fives which he proposes and the national bank and greenback cuirency, great laughter, and in the process of contraction, the five-twenties would fail to pay and the greenback retire for the national bank notes, in consequence of the extraordinary resumption of our irredeemable debt last September by the treasury, at five dollars apiece in silver quarters; and the imports should at once lall off several millions while thus reciprocally affecting the export of peanuts from North Carolina, the hog trade of Indiana, the hoop-pole trade of Ohio, and indirectly, the clam trade of Cape Cod, and to such an appreciable extent that the German bankers, being in our correspondence with the bulls of New York, should, by a sudden panic, create a demand for the Saginaw copper dollar notes of Ishpeming, Michigan, quoted the other day by the gentlemen from Pennsylvania, and thence would ensue a rush of bears who had possessed themselves of their own currency and invested!; in the three sixty-fives;and the currency would then swell, and then shrink, and thus produce an elasticity that would move the crops, and induce such speculation that in one of the swells we shocid burst and in one of its shrinks we should collapse, would it so affect the Ashanteo war and the expenses of Great Britain as to demoralize the Saginaw Mining company, destroy the destructive influences of the Lepidoptera moth, and th as stop an appropriation for the centennial of American independence? Great laughter ' Say what snd laugh as we will, it is the truth, that there is clothing enough on hand now to save one-third of all the reserve that has been illegally issued from the treasury; and W6 appropriate hundreds of thousands to save it lrom moths 1 God help the gov ernment from moths! CHANG AND ENG. THE AUTOPSY BEGUN PROBABLE RESULTS. A telegram from Philadelphia on Friday, the New York Tribune says: In the Siamese twins autopsy, the day has been taken up by the photographer. The corpses were taken in a number of positions, and from different points of view, so as to put on permanent record the external appearance. The first cut looking toward the autopsy which begins formally to-morrow, was made in the abdomen of Eng. A hand was passed in at the opening, and a finger carried nearly to the center of the fleshy band ot union. This shows that the lining membrane of the general abdomi.

nal cavity lines an opening into this fleshy band. If the structure be, similar on the other side, as it doubtless is, fingers passed into the abdomen of each twin and then into the connecting link will almost come in contact. Casts have been taken with highly successful results. A well known artist, conversant with the subject from practice in army hospitals, has been engaged to make drawings of the internal parts as they are developed. Nothing was done to-night, and the autopsy proper will not begin till to-morrow morning, probably afternoon, Messrs, Pancoast and Allen' having hold of the tissues and using the knife, and Drs. Seidy, Hunt and Packard being present and assisting. The examination will proceed slowly and extend over several day, and the report of the commission will be read in presence of a meeting of the college of physicians, called for the purpose, next Wednesday evening. The disposition of the college to keep the matter secret does not arise from the same motive that would make a showman put his dwarf under a blanket and take him out suddenly to make more mone3 ; but they are bound down to a clause in the agreement which requires the results to be published only in scientific journals. 4,These people," said one of the doctors, "undoubtedly intend to make a show, and have thus bound us so that the show may not be ? poiled. 't he reason they consented to any investigation at all was that they believed that excitement in the scientific world would be reflected on the general public and make the show more remunerative. The examination will also be of physiological importance as throwing light on the character of the fi'tal life ol these beings. The report will be read next Wednesday, and the general result will be published in the American Journal of Medical Science, appearing on the first of April."

THE TWINS. SEVERAL CURriOCS DEVELOPMENTS MADE IN THE AUTOPSY OF CHANOANDENO. A telegram from Philadelphia on Tuesday to the Chicago Tribune says: Yesterday the long looked for and anxiously awaited autopsy commenced. The scalpel was first used on the connecting bond between the two brothers. The abdominal cavities were entered for the purpose of examining the vicera. This investigation was attended with most gratifying success, and the physicians were rewarded in their efforts by finding that the lungs, heart, pancreas, liver, spleen, and alimentary canal were excellently developed in each, and that all the parts above named resembled those of ordinary motals. Approaching the band, the lower portion of the ensiform cartilage, or breast-bone, in each, by doubling or bending out, made a long union, with a distinct joint at the centtal point of union, on which the bodies hinge freely. Tkis joint is somewhat similar to, but not so complicated as, that at the elbow. The band at the smaller part has a circumference of nine inches, anJ when the link was stretched, and the twins wereplaeed as far apart as possible, there was a space ot eight inches intervening. Yesterday the skin of each body was cut through posteriorly, and thrown back from the band and adjacent structure, exposing fatty tissues in the rectus muscle of each. THE GREAT QUESTION of whether they could have been separated in life was settled in the negative by various abdominal sections which were made. The peritoneum, or membraneous lining of the belly in each was found to enter the band and four pouches overlapped each other at the centre of the band. The most marked feature here was the presence of two such pouches from the body of the large brother, Chang, and the vpper one shorter than the other, but each lapping, one from above and the other from below the single pouch of Eng. An almost exact idea of the arrangement of these culs de sac may be obtained by holding the first joint of the forefinger between the thumb and finger of the other hand. The astounding and curious fact was developed that a line passing down the centre of the band would sever all three of their prolongations, and open the peritonital cavity of each liver. It the knife has been used in life, death would have therefore, probably, it not necessari y, have resulted. The examination yesterday and last night also showed that there was a portal, or linear circulation through the heart, as was seen from the passage of the injecting matter used in embalming he abdominal organs lie in close contact with these pounches, but are not continuous into them. To-day the most important investigation took place by making deep sections into the b"and with the view of ascertaining the umbilical connections bearing on physiological manifestations in the loetal life of being. WHAT IS KNOW2T. A Philadelphia telegram to the Chicago Times yesterday says: The points settled by the examination thu3 far, are vastly important, the supposition ; which has obtained extensive credence among medical men, namely, that the band was simply of a fleshy nature being decided in the negative. A peritioneal connection has been proved to exist between the twins; that is to say, a reflection or extension of the peculiar mem brane lining the abdomen, extended into the band, though it was not continous. Sacs or pouches were formed by this reflection, possessing no communication between the two. At the same time the injecting fluid, which passed into the mesenteric vein of the one, appearing in the mesenteric vein of the other, showed the intimate visceral connection between the two. Another iuteres'ing point was demonstrated in the visceral transposition ueiween me two The liver of Chang occupied Us normal position on the right side of his body, below the diaphragm. Th livtr of Jng was on his left eide, and tberelore catt to that of Chang his splean being abnormally situated on thb right side of bis body. The two livers had evidently at one period of the existence possibly the fo?tal period of the twins been virtually one gland, but had eventually become separate. This is shown in the fact of the passage of the injecting substance from the mesenteric vein of the one t that of the , other. The fact of a common umiblical cord between the twins is also settled, the naval being situa'ed in the middle of the band during foetal life. Therefore the circulation was conducted to the twins from the maternal system precisely as to a single individual. By what has been stated above, it is evident that a separation of the twins in life would have resulted fatally to one or both of them; and the fact of the fainting of one of them and the intense nervous disturbance of the other, when in London some few years since, a ligature was drawn around the band by some eminent physicians and surgeons who strongly wished to determine the practicability of such a division, is fnllv accounted for by the nature of the connection. The nervous intimacy through the band was extremely slight, and the iniivilialitv of the two men was so strong ly marked, that it is not deemed advisahle to examine the brains, nothing further being expet ted from such an operation than the rnuinnrison of the weight of the two. As to the further examination of the band, it may be stated that the extension of the ensiform PArtilaee. or breast-bone, which formed constituent of the attachment was a mere flexible, fibrous, cartilaginous substance, in which there was nothing like an appearance of an elbow-like joint, as has been absurdly Btated in the imaginative reports of certain newspaper corresponaeuta.

HE DIES AT GALENA, ILLINOIS. A letter to the Chicago Tribune giving an account of the death of John O. Potta,last week, at Galena, I1L, says: Mr. Potta was the oldest odd fellow in good standing in the world. He was initiated In Lodge No. 1, at Philadelphia, September 25, 1S25, and was most worthy grand master of the grand Lodge ot the state of Pennsylvania in In 1S36 he and George M, Dallas were arrested by order of the legislature ot Pennsylvania, tor being connected with secret societies. He moved to Galena in 1S33, and -was in 1839, and for four years after. District Deputy Grand Sire of the Grand Lodge of the United States for the territory of Iowa, which included Wisconsin, and all the country known as the territory of Iowa. Attsr 1841, he was District Deputy Grand Sire for the Grand Lodge of the United States for the northwestern states north of 40 degrees of north latitude. He instituted the Grand Lodge, six .ncampmenta and eight lodges in Iowa; six lodges in Wisconsin; the Grand Lodge, one encampment and three lodges in Minnesota; and two encampments and six lodges in Illinois. He was Presented, on the 24th ol May, 1S73, bv Pennsylvania Lodge No. 1, of Philadelphia, with a gold medal for the faithful performance ot the duties of treasurer of that lodge for twentythree years, and for twentv-eieht of T,pd Mine Encampment, of this place. The body was followed to the grave by over GoO Odd Fellows on foot, aud 500 persons in carriages auu sieigns. MORE PIIAYEK BUSINESS. THE GOVERNOR OP ILLINOIS IN DANOEIt CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR HIS LEVEES. Tho Chicago Tribune advices from Springfield, Illinois, of yesterday says : The Methodists here threaten that if the wicked young folks insist on their rights, as a portion of "the people," to turn the executive mansion into a dance-house, then they intend to insist on their rights to make of the mansion a house of prayer. In other words, the followers of John Wesley have irade up their minds that big fiddlers have no business in the mansion, and that instead of having some sleek-looking sinner sing out "Balance to yourpards;" or ''All hands around;' or "Grand right and left, and swing the girl that you love best;" they will furnish a sleek-looking saint who will without charge sing the hymns of Zion, and who will offer up the prayers of the godlv. But it is doubtful if they will be permitted to do anything of the kind. It is only a few of the more rabbid Methodists who threaten thus to make fools of themselves, and if the fanatics undertake to Interfere with the governor in his own way ot holding a reception, they will not be sustained even by a majority of their own faith. Meanwhile itis authoritatively announced that the music has been engaged for to-morrow evening, and that old and young will be permitted to dance, as has been th case heretofore. The idea has suggested itself that a compromise might be effected with thee fanatics. No one ever knew of a Methodist who was not ready to sit down and eat a bite. Now then, if his excellency would only set apart one room, to be known as the " First M. E. room," and have placed therein a plentiful supply of food, he would hear no more complaints. GUSTAVE DORE. A PERSONAL SKETCH.' Edmund 'About in the London Athe ne-am, gives this picture of the great pencil artist. L'Espagne of Baron Ch. Davillier is the worthy pendant of the "Rome" of M. Francis Weyer. The book of M. Davillier is enriched bv three hundred engravings, after designs by Gustave Dore. You know Dore. He is at least as popular in London as in Paris. To me, who have never lost sight of him since he was scrawling his first sketches on exercise books at the College Charlemagne, tthese illustrations of Spain seem among his best productions, among those in which he is absolutely himself. It has been at once tho good and evil fortune of this strange genius to have succeeded too soon. He was still en rhetorique when Philipon, the publisher, brought out his first work, an album of caricatures of the labors of Hercules. The publisher found in it such cleverness, such good humor, and such astonishing facilitv with the pencil, that they adopted the child and one saw, Incredible prodigy, an artist of seventeen earning his bread. From the moment of his debut, Dore had nothing but success, and success of more than one sort, for nature has been bountiful to him. He played the violin like a laureate of the Conservatoire; he sang with a beautiful tenonno voice in such a way as to deserve the" applause of Ilossini; he was as great an athlete as the most muscular undergraduate of Oxford or Cambridge. His genial and loyal character disarmed envy, while his private lifo under his mother's roof wins universal esteem. In one word, ever since his twentyfifth year, his life, unique in its character, has been one long triumph, cheered by incessant toil, happy, easy, and corlant de source. We Frenchmen are styled capricious, yet we have never tired ol his works; we have never even shown ourselves satiated; and have never found that the author produces enough. Publishers of prints, journals, of books, have not for one moment ceased plaguing him. I have seen him over and over agaiu finish a design on wood while the publisher's messenger was waiting at the door. The misfortune is that this rapid production under pressure ever since he began his career has not left him time to complete the studies which make great masters. The public expected other things of him than marvelous sketches. They laid him under an injunction, so to say, to undertake vaster and" more finished works, but have not left hi m the time necessary. This is why I prefer his living and sparkling studies of Spain to the large desiirus in the Dante and Bible, where we don't find Michael Angelo or Dore either. AN AUDACIOUS SWINDLE. THE STOCK EXCHANGE BEACTIFULL.Y VIC TIMIZED AN INCREASE OF STOCK BT THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND THE TOLEDO, WABASH et WESIERN RAILROAD COMPANY THE CHEAT DISCOVERED. New York, Feb. 17. A great fraud was perpetrated on the stock exchange to-day the greatest in The history ot that institution. After the second call, an individual handed to one of the pages of the board a letter addressed to Moses H. Wheelock, vice president, which the page delivered to the gentleman named, and he read the same to the board, which was as follows: Western Union Telegraph Company, New York, Feb. 17. Moses H. Wheelock, Esq., Vice Presi dent of the New i orK ötocK exchange : As required by the ules of the New lOrK öiock ixenange, you are hereby informed that the directors oi this company, after mature deliberation, and actincr aa thev believe in accordance with the ultimate best interest oi me company, u e decided to increase the capital stock of this company from 1 41.072,410 to $0,000,000. The nrd of the sale of $7.293.235 of stock latftiv in the possession of the company, will be expended in repairs and the improvein nrtt c t the nresent lines, and the extension of the lines of the company to nearly all the postofflces in the United States, and for the' ofohiiahment of a line to California and Mexico. The directors beg to state that while fhA establishment of the lines may delay for a litte the expected dividends to

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hope that by thus taking possession of the wnoie diu, and effectually thwarting the eslaDiunment or a rival company.- the ulti mate value or the stock will be in noway diminished, and that reasonable dividends can be paid at no distant day. Yours trulv. voiSuou;,, imam unon, president. uardly bad the recording of this letter been finished, when one of the pages of the juru as nanaeu anoLner letter addressed to me vice prasldent, which was read bv that gentleman as follows: Toledo, Wabah and Western railway; New York, February 17, 1874. To the vicepresident of the New; York excnange. in accordance with rules of the ew lork stock exchange you are hereby notified that at the expiration ol M days, this company will issue 100,000 shares additional capital stock, increasing the common stock of the company from f 10,000,000 to f25,000,000.--The proceeds of sucn additional shares will be used for the purchase of new rolling stock and engines, and for reparrs of the present rolling ttock, for constructing an additional double track, tor the purchase of eteel rails, for obtaining improved terminal facilities, and for other similar purposes o! the company. Very respectfully, J. D. Cox. The reading of these letters caused great excitement on exchange, and immediately there was a general stampede to all stocks, especially Western Union and Wabash. Amid the general confusion sc rue members of the board had the good sense to examine the letters, and being familiar with the signatures of Messrs. Orton and Cox, pronounced the same forgeries. The officers of the exchange immediately sent the letters to the office of the Western Union Telegraph and Wabash railway. The Wabash letter was returned with the following note at the foot: "The. above is not genuine. Mr. Cox is in Toledo. There has been no.meeting, neither is this Mr. Cox's signature. (Signed,) B. W. Briggs, Transfer Clerk." Mr. Orton sent the following reply on behalf of his company: New York, February 17th. To II. G. Chaplan, Esq., President cf the New York Stock Exchange : I have just learned that an announcrment has been make in Stock Exchange, that the directors of the Western Union Telegraph have recently voted to Increase the capital stock to w fjO.000,000. This announcement has do foundation in fact. No meeting of the directors has been held for several months, nor has the matter of the increase of capital stock of the company been a sub ject of consideration at any meeting of the executive committee. Kespectmlly, Wm. Orton, President. Detectives are already on the track of the perpetrator of these forgeries. It is expected that a handsome reward will be offered for the arrest of the forgers. The vice president was blamed by some of the members for readiag the letters without first consulting the president of the exchange, and it is stated that this matter is under discussion in the governing committee. Every eftort will be made to ferret out this audacious swindle on the stock exchange. The Commercial says : The most suspicious feature of the nefarious transaction is Mr. Wheelock's assuming to act as vice president and reading the forged communications from the Western Union and Wabash offices when be is nothing more than chairman of the floor committee. Wheelock is an old member of the stock exchange, and has sustained a reputable character up to this time. It behooves the board to inquire into his dealings in those stocks recently, as well as to find out who have been of late buying and selling for themselves and for other parties. The oja esf W estern Union stock alter the forged letters were read, amounted to 65.000 shares, and of Wabash to 20,000 shares. A Washington correspondent of the Independent describes a supper scene at the capital: At twelve o'clock the doors of the supper room are opened, and then the jam beggars description. You may take your choice to be pushed or push, and in either case to see plates of oysters, salads, and creams, with threatening spoons and forks, bristling through midair, glancing by your nose, or swimming down your back. I was never sure that we were not a civilized people till I contemplated my compatriots in the Washington supper-room of a "festive occasion." There I have seen dignitaries whom the public believe have enough to eat at home, pushing toward a supper-table as a cannibal might to his least; and ladies renowned as "delicate," with piled up plates of pickles, salads, fruits, and creams, cramming at a rate that would make a perfectly healthy woman sick abed for a week. The late Carl Benson left half a million dollars. In case his son, John Jacob Astor Bristed, should at the time of his testator's death have recovered his health and be in the full possession of all his faculties, he be queaths to mm nis dooks, pictures, ana engravings, his chest of plate, and all silver Elate or plated ware, marked L. B.; also all is glass and china etagere ornaments, and all chairs, screens, stools, piano and table cover, curtains for doors or windows, and all his furniture covered with or worked in tapastry, wherever the same might be at his decease; but in the event of his son John Jacob Astor Bristed not being recovered, then the articles above specified go to his son Charles Henry Maine Bristed. He bequaathed the income of fll.000 to his adopted daughter Cecile, free from the interference or control of any husband she may marry; at her death, the $41,000 to her issue unconditionally. If she has no issue, the H 1,000 to become a part of his residuary estate. He bequeathed $2,000 to his god-son, Charles Maine, of No. 1 Stone Building, London. Everything else he gave to his widow. The Grangers on the war Path. A special to the Chicago Tribune from Danville. Illinois, says: On Saturday evening, when the Paris and Danville eastwardbound passenger train stopped at Chrisman, a few miles west of this city, the train was seized by a party of armed grangers, accompanied bv a constable, and the engine chained to the track. By order of Superintendent Matthias, the fireman attempted to DreaK the locz. While in tee act or to doing ho was leaped upon by one of the grangers who attempted to cut him with a dirk knife. A lively fight followed in which the railroad boys came out victorious. The mail train, which left nere at returnea from Chrisman to this city and left again at 8:40, with a United States deputy marshal to clear the track for the mail train. The grangers, hearing of the marshal coming, re leased the train, wnicn arnveu some uours late. One of the grangers hving a clai m of 1120 against the company is understood to . ; be the cause oi tne seizure. A Paris physician relates the particulars of a curious case he has under his charge. It is that of a young girl, eighteen years of age, nrVin fa aiitiotori with wnst is terinea nvccstopia, that is to say, she loses the faculty of sight in daylight, ana recovers it in uar.nss Although ner eves ao not present, nv snioial morbid character, she is forced to keen her evelids closed during the day. and to cover her head with a thick veil. Or. the other hand, when the shutters of a rooui are hermetically fastened, she reads and writes perfectly in the deepest darkness, fshe feels no pain beyond a slight lassitade when the solar light striKes ner visual organs A Salt Lake paper accuses Brigham Young or having "pocketed a canyon- m r.ome tue gal manner.

THE MEMPHI.

GRAND DISPLAY OP THE MISTICK EGYPTIAN TABLXin. KREWl Memphis, Feb. 18,-Despite the light rala which fell during the forenoon, and the wuuiuon or me streets, about 4 ociock, arter the rain had ti-. . Kimj upon the streets, which wer ni J.I .l.1 tt I Cll.j ... ":v.v. niiunri kowia auu liueu nun master. tu. it.. wasseatedupona royal chariot filled with his retainers, followed by. long proceion of cavaliers and wagons fitted up tSSE sent the varied bacchanal and carnival scenes, conspicuous among whicH was the representation of the temperance crusade women in ameetingaround a teutonic beer vender, who was dealing out beer; but the grand, displav was In the evening comprising the cortege of the Memphi. The first float or car renreWtM theearly origin of the MempM?ffiT B. C. twenty hundred. It wal preSdedby three horsemen in rich Egyptian costume of gold and high colors, syut-olicalÄS aud pros,crwy,a..a heavily armed, followed by a royal chariot drawn by focr white horses, led by richly dreed slates near which was seated a colossal fi! urea with wings extended oyer the sublime Ouro seated in his regal chair, dressed in rich oriental costume. Float five was -represented by three Egyptian gods mounted on a car a priest in eaeradotal robes with a head of god-Achilles, a (ireek p. et, who seems inspired by word.; the priest, a Greek philosopher arid a Persian general, haughty but half con vincad, another great philosopher, seems to doubt, while a poor woman with hsad half uncovered, receives the iaith undoubted from the priest. Float Kesurectiou of the Memphi in the chesencityon the Mississippi a. D. 174 This float was preceded by three cavaliers in fantastic and uneirthly costumes, representing spirits of the pasi, sounding' trumpets. Tableau-Ragged rocks, from hich fires, smoke and land reports issue. Surmounting the whole is a white horse with wings extended and nostrils distended upon which is seated the spirit o' Memphi' arrayed in gorgeous robes, symbolical of the splendor, victory, and rebirth of thn order, the whole representinc tha mysterious history of the order. After traversing the principal streets, the Nemphi proceeded' to the New Memphis theatre, where the entertainment closed with a scene of tableaux and a ball a masque bad i also given, in the Exposition hall, the opera house and other pablic halls. Despite the weather, the carnival wm a. grand success. THE NEW ORLEANS CARNIVAL. THE PROCESSION OF THE KINO MOM CS A GRAND PAGEANT. New Orleans, Feb. 17. It is a holiday, the banks are closed and there are no markets. .The carnival procession to-day was unique. The King and several hundred mounted attendants, orientally arrayed with helmets and cuirasses of gold and steel, the Persian contingent of infantry and artillery. King Boabdils and escort . and the King's own maäe a grand display. The mystick krewe procession at night is an extensive affair. The envoys to the court of Komus are) from the old and new world. Twenty-three ca rs containing ninetyfive figures ;on each car a group of figures typical of each one of the world, were on the streets to-day, And ranging along the Itne of the procession were crowds of spectators. After the Mistick Ktewe procession. King Boabdils and the shah left the St. Charles Hotel, with a body guard of one hundred and fifty mailclad warriors. The potentates, in palanquins borne by Moorish slaves, visited the King's Own and the Mistick Krewe balls, and thence to the exposition hall, where a grand reception was held. The carnival was voted a great success. The weather Is cloudy, but no rain ; the mercury stands at 75 degrees. THE PAGEANT IN INDIANA. Madison, Ind., Feb. 17. Mardi Gras was celebrated here to-day inmagnificent style. The procession was three-quarters of a mile in length. Momus, king of the carnival was soated on a chariot twenty-one feet in height? and drawn by ten horses, each handsomely equipped with plumes and sheets, and ridden by uniformed pages. Ten marshals directed the ceremonies. The town has not seen such a crowd as was present since wartimes. The utmost hilarity and eportiveness prevailed,both amongst the masked and the spectators. To-night a grand masquerade ball is in progress. Italian Workinomen. A correspondent writes to the New York Times from Home: The statement is made that in the enterprise and architectural reconstruction, streetdrainage, and repavement, and various other work ot general city improvement, the municipality of Rome has given employment the past month to 22,000 laborers, and more than 7,003 teams of all sorts."' The price of common labor is from thirty to forty cent9 per day, and stone-masons and other mechanics are paid from fifteen to twenty-five cents per day in addition to the compensation above named. Ten hours is the usual term of day labor, and on account of the larger demand than lormerly the price paid is ten or twenty cents a day above old prices. Laborers at this season come in from all parts, and the numbers seeking work, are continually increasing. The operatives in America, in the line of mechanical and other industries, are restless, prodigal, and constantly finding fault with their poor pay of from two to lour dollars a day; but there is reason enough to ponder upon the sad and hopeless lot of the nonproprietor classes beie. From generation to generation there is little or no improvement of their condition or fortune, and the patient drudgery of a lifelong application is the common lot ot these classes. In con trast with the actual state here, the United States, with temporary drawlweks, is the paradise of the laborerif he only knew it. NEW HORSE DISEASE. 1 NOVEL MALADY APPEARS IN THE NEW TOUB ETABLES. New York, Feb. 16. A new disease affect, - ing horses of the stage and street car linf s. has made its appearance. A large number cf animals have been prostrated, but . t he mortality, except in cases of one of the st age lines, is smaller and in most instances the seasejiekH readily to medical treatment. The symptoms are loss of appetiw, swollen eyes, wnich discbarge yellowish matter copiously, and swollen 1' gs. Stupor 'follows with great weariness, napia recovery fol lows the return of appetite. The Rev. Robert Laird Collier, of Chi cago, bas been lecturing me people mere on "The True Gentleman." The unusual, not to say mythological character of the subject, made the lecture restful. , A Kentucky man is preparing an aviary for twenty-five hundred hens, for the pro duction of eggs alone. A homesick boy committed suicide rather than stay in Chicago three days, and the coroner's verdict was: "Don't blame him.' Itis thought that Brigham Young will discard all his wives but thirteen. This Is a step in the right direction, but the old fox probably contemplates marrying a female seminary somewhere.