Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1877 — Page 1

z VOL. XXVI, XO 37. INDIANAPOLIS, "WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAT 2. WHOLE NO. 1902.

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A PAXCAHC-n.UiER-IX PARIS.

Under an archway he stands every day he la there. The little old pancake man, with his tins, and his cooking-ware; Tossing his batter aloft, a he brays out many a yarn Conce rning the mnklnsc of crepes, which he designates a 1 MacMahon. 4,First, there are eggs to be sifted the country's beut Kilver and gold; If ext. for some flummery-mixture, orlse the matter won't hold; Stir it about with sugar, then pop it Into the pan. And out comes a crepe for the marshal or any popular man." The people around hini laugh "There's wisdom In that!" they cry; For had not old Antolneseen the violets bloom and die? The lilies, too yet there, still there, with his "fwix d'dae," lie praises now, and tosses his crepes a la MacMahon ! . Written for the Sunday Sentinel. A RED RIBBON. . BY MRS. 8ALLIE A. RAM AGE. There were tears irr the little girl's eyes as she came into the church; her cheeks were flushed, hot with shame and weeping, and the quivering lips were scarcely quieted after the long, heavy sobs. She slipped into a corner and looked out from under her hood fearful lest some one would notice her and ask her why bhe was crying, and in her heart she had determined she would not tell, for she was sensitive and proud, though she was so young. She had left her mother at home weeping, clasping her baby close to her heart, while the tears fell fast on its head pillowed on her bosom. She had sent little Emma to Sunday-school, praying that she might, if only for an hour, forget the disgrace that had crushed even her poor little soul. But as the child threaded her way through the crowd that stood on the corner, one boy, more brutal than the rest, cried out: "There comes Em Lathrop; her dad is in the station house for getting drunk," while the loud laughter that followed this cut her like a sword thrust. "O, Bill, let the girl alone; she ain't to blame if her father is a miserable drunken wretch. She would be better off if he was dead." She ran swiftly past them to avoid hearing more of their loud talk, but the words were burned into her brain "A drunken wretch." That was what the police called him too, she remembered, when they took him away. He was trying to kill her mother; her head was all bruised low, and yet she had not screamed for aid, poor worran, she would rather have died than have had tbe world know her terrible sorrow a drunken husband. He had long since lost his position, and had stripped the honse of everything he could pawn or sell to buy whisky. His own heavy winter clothing had disappeared, his wife's cloak and Emma's shawl, and the last things he took were some little trinkets that had been given to the baby. He bad grown violent and morose, and the least thing would irritate him and send him into a rage when all would have to flee before him. Once in the night the baby, cold and hungry, had cried piteously when he struck it twice, but the other blows had fallen upon the mother as she covered her child with her arms to keep it from his cruel abuse. Emma no longer met him at the gate, or ran far down the street -to carry his dinner bucket home at Light; she was afraid of him and would shrink out of sight when he entered the door. Mrs. Lathrop tried by hard work to get food and clothing for her family, but so deeply in debt for whisky did husband keep her that of late only the simplest food could she procure) and their ew articles of wearing apparel were hin and old. She loved her hus-J band, the father of her children, and as long as it was possible she had kept from her neighbors his condition; but he had fallen so low thai she could no longer conceal the fact that she was the wife of a drunkard, the mother of children worse than fatherless. She had never asked for protection when he was raving, bat she would send Emma and the baby away, and then undertake the task of getting him into bed to sleep away his passion and rage. What she suffered then only God knew, for he was brutal and strong, and his fist had left marks upon her body where he had beaten her. Jfow the worst had come; her husband was in the station house; Monday he would De aent to the workhouse, for she knew it would be impossible for him to pay his fine. She remembered when John Lathrop was said to be' one of the finest mechanics in the country, and his wages kept them comfortably. He was loving and kind then, never leaving her without a good-by kiss, never coming home without a loving word. Saturday Bight when he would get his pay he would surprise her with some little present, a new ribbon, a calico dress, or remembering some hasty desire expressed. When she was at -work, he would buy tinware, or a bit of -china, or anything to please his wife or adorn her home. She kept the home dainty and clean, and he was glad to git to it and sorry to leave only the treat of a walk with his wife and child ever tempting him from it after working hours. An old acquaintance got him to -drinking, first a glass of beer, then two or three at a time, then light wine or ale, then -whisky and water, at last the strongest liquor that he could find. A hundred times he promised his wife to stop, and for a day or two the sunshine would steal from behind the dark cloud, only to be hid in 4eeper darkness than before. Scores of

times he would abstain, and the glad song of joy would fill the home, and the mother and child would rejoice, only to have the thorns of disappointment pressed closer So their aching hearts. Old friends remonstrated, but all to no avail, and despising their advice and counsel the poor, weak man went into greater dissipation than ever. He lost his situation, his reputation, his good name, and taking his family from their pleasant home he moved them into a strange neighborhood. Here Mrs. Lathrop made few acquaintances; she felt too keenly her condition to wish for intimate friends, and save one or two kind hearted women, she knew no one around her. She kept Emma at Sunday-school knowing that here at least the child would have some bright moments. "When the other scholars were called to their classes poor Emma went timidly to her accustomed seat trembling for tear that her teacher should have heard about her father. She was hungry, but she had grown use to that; she was cold, but no thought of that entered her mind; her clothes were old and worn, but that mattered not; her father was in the station house, a "drunken wretch." Her red, swollen eyes attracted the teacher's attention, and with a loving, tender voice, she asked, "What's the matter, Emma?" The child could not reply, but another scholar said: "Her p4 has been arrested for being drunk," for his behavior towards his w.fe was noj the reason for the arrest. Before any exclamations of surprise or dismay could wound the already broken hearted girl, the teacher had the class sing another hymn, and then she prayed with them, asking God's kindest blessings for Emma. There the subject was dropped until after the other pupils had gone, when gently detaining her. the teacher inquired about the matter. "Tell me frankly, Emma. I am yonr friend, your elder sister, for we both love Jesus, and I want to help you if I can. Is it true what has been told me about your father? Well, well, darling child, do not cry so; maybe I can see some one who will aid your mother. If yoi can not tell me about it I will go home with you and find out there." It is unnecessary to repeat the conversa. tion with Mrs. Lathrop; it was the same old Story. She was poor and distressed, and to no one could she apply for aid. John's old friends shunned him, his former employers had tried to save him until they were angry, and nothing was to be expected from them. "If he goes to the workhouse, Mrs. Anderson, he will be lost. I know him well, and he has the pride of all the other Latbrops combined, but I believe if I could get him clear he would do better in the future, but I have not a cent of money nor a friend. He is my husband of no consequence, perhaps, in the eyes of the world, only a drunkard; but to me he is very dear, and to save him from ruin and degradation I would gladly give my eyes." A few words of advice, the discussion of a plan, and the poor woman was left alone with her children. Emma told her sad story, bringing fresh pain to the mother, who lived over with the child the shame and disgrace that fall upon a drunkard's family, The next morning tbe usual crowd was waiting to hear the disposal of the cases of the miserable men and women arrested for all grades of crimes and misdemeanors. Some had friends who paid their fines, and ' they went out free again; , others were committed for higher courts, but the third class, those who were too poor and too friendless to pur. chase liberty with a few dollars, were the most pitiable. Wives stood by their bus. bands weeping bitterly as they were led away; fathers and mothers, old and grayhaired, sobbed with anguish as their dissolute, wild sons were sentenced to the workhouse. When John Lathrop was called and then fined, he glanced once around the room, as if to find that mild, patient face that was ever ready to meet him with a smile, but his wife was not there, and with every hope of succor gone he heard as a dream tbe judge saying, "Ninety days in the workhouse," and he sank into his chair and hid his face in his hands. He was perfectly sober, and he remembered his family. What would become of them? He had a faint recollection of beating his wife, and he groaned as he guessed at the probable reason for her absence, he had injured her so she could not come. Three months in the workhouse, a place he had. even in his drunken sprees, boasted he had never seen, and his family taunted and haunted by the shame of him being there. He would have given his right hand to have been free to have gone home, if only long enough to kiss his wife and children, and on his knees beg the pardon of her whom he bad so deeply wounded by his cruelty and neglect. But this was useless; he had driven his friends from him, and he must bear the result At this moment a band touched his bowed head, a kiss was pressed upon his hot brow. "John!" it was his wife, and he held her to him while the tears streamed down his cheeks. "Mary, have you come to tell me good-by?" "Ono, my husband, to take you home. Your fine is paid. Our friends, Emma's friends, have done it. You must go home and see them." "Mary, what is the matter with your face? On your cheek and forehead there is something black. Oh, heavens, they are not the marks of my blows when I was drunk Saturday night!" "John, would you cover them if you could? Would you take ray. heartache away and naie

me a happy wife, and bring joy to me me again?. . - Would you do this?" "Yes, Mary, if it cost me my life." "Then come with me." In another worn were a few persons, Mrs. Ander, son, Emma's Sabbath-school teacher; the in ister of the church and several temperance workers. One of these who had known John Lathrop for years, said to him. "We have saved you from the workhouse, we have given you back to your family, and we ask that you shall put a barrier between you and destruction. We believe you can do this if you will; we have faith in you, and while you are weak we will stand by you and uphold you. Will you sign the pledge and wear the red ribbon?" Tale as death, trembling and nervous he took the pen and wrote his name, pledging himself to abstinence from intoxicating liquors. He could scarcely write the name, and leaned heavily against his wife as he waited for the ribbon. A motion irom Mrs. Anderson and Emma sprang to him. "Papa, stoop down and let me put it on your coat, my own darling father." The n.an bent to her so low that his face was hidden, but his sobs could be beard. "Now, papa, you are safe. You are my very own papa, like you used to be. Ob, we shall be so happy now! What makes you all cry? Papa will always stay with us now. I am too glad to be crying;" and the sweet face was wreathed in happy smiles, and the little hands played with the bright ribbon that fluttered from the old gray coat His friends found him a place; they believed in helping him to rise, and to show their faith in him they procured a situation for him and were kind and attentive to his family. The' remembered that a drunkard is morally' and physically diseased, and they strove to strengthen and encourage the reforming man as if he were convalescing from any other dread affliction. People see him pass by on the street and many of them say: "Another fanatic; wears a red ribbon," or "he'll be gone again before that string is worn out," but to his wife and Emma that little ribbon is worth all the decorations ever bestowed by the sovereigns of earth. It is the husband's. the father's badge of. freedom and manhood. Slowly but surely the home is beginning to brighten; the blessed sunshine of joy is driving out the darkness, and sorrow and want have flown. The wife, with ber babe in her arms, waits for the home coming of her husband, sure of a loving kiss and a happy smile, while Emma, at her side, watches for the first glimpse of the tiny ribbon that heralds the approach, not of a "drunken wretch," but of a tender, gentle father.

EOCCATIOXAL.

An attempt to abolish the state normal school has been defeated in the Illinois legislature. Maryland and Nebraska pay male and female teachers exactly the saiue wages for the same work. Professor Sumner, of Yale, will give the Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown university this year. An expedition of students will sail from Marseilles Jane 30, to make the tour of the world in 320 days. Missouri has four schoolsof theology, two of law and four of medicine. The school population of the state is 738,431. Stuart hall, the new seminary building erected and presented to Princeton college by It. L. and A. Stuart, of New York, at a cost of $111,000. was dedicated on Tuesday. Mayor Latrobe, of Baltimore, thinks that it would be a good thing for the city to expend a small amount in ornamenting school rooms with artistic objects. .The school system of Alabama is reported to be in a dreadful state. There are very few colored schools, and it is said that scarcely one out of every 50 of the poor white children of Alabama now enjoys the means of acquiring an education. The students of the university of Oxford, Mississippi, have tendered Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, of New York, an invitation to address them upon "the common needs and duties of the young men of the republic in the near future." General Woodford has onsen ted. In the New England Journal of Education are discussed three great errors in American education. One is the practice of sending children to school at too early an age; another is the imposition of too many studies, and a third is graduation at too early an age. Caroline Hastings, of Pelham, N. II., be queathed $3,000 to the town for the establishment of a high school, one of the conditions being that the school should be k ept at least six months of every 3 ear, but at the last town meeting the town voted 104 to 82 not to accept the legacy. The hobby of a Boston professor is to reconstruct the week, giving it only five days, ailed Oneday.-Twoday, Treeday, Fourday and Godday, or the Sabbath. The shortening is intended to make more days of rest, and the change of names is for the purpose of discarding those of heathen origin. The number of American students at the Munich school of painting has been reduced from about 60 to between 30 and 40 daring the past year. Messrs. Duveneck, Chase, Bsraum and Vinton contemplate a tour in I Uly and Egypt, and may not return again to Munich. Mr. Vinton will afterward go to Paris, and Mr. Rosenthal will shortly take his departure thither. The latter' s health was verr poor last winter. He now has on his easel a picture called "Much Ado about Nothing; or, A Man in the House." A public institution has been founded in Shanghai, China, of all the European art and sciences. It has been warroly supported by leading Chinese officials. Readi ng rooms are attached to it, and the objects of the foundation are to bring tbe sciences, arts, and manufactures of western nations in the most prominent manner possible before the notice of the Chinese. Very complete scientific apparatus has just been sent out from England.

ONLY A BOT.

Only a boy, with his noise and fun. The veriest mvstery under the sun: As brimful of mischief, and wit and glee, As ever a ho man frame can be. And as hard to mmiage as ah! ah, me! Tis hard to tell. Yet we love him welL Only a bey, with his fearful tread, Who cannot be driven, but must be led; Who troubles the neighbors' doR and cats. And ters more clothes and spoils more hats, Loses more tops and kites and bats, Than would stock a store For a year or more. Onlv a boy, with hi wild, strange ways; With his idle hours on busy days; With his quer remarks and his odd replies, Sometimes foolish and sometimes wise, Often brilliant for one of his size, As a meteor hurl'd From the pleasant world. Only a boy, who will be a man If Nature goes on with her first great plan If water, or Are, or some fatal snare Conspire not to rob us of this our heir, Our blenslng, our trouble, our rest, our care. Our torment, our Joy, "Only a boy." ron SC.X DAY. Forsaken. BY THE AUTHOR OF "JOH5 HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." "Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.' If even Thee, the righ teous and the holy, These did forsake. What wonder human hearts, loving as lowly, Do sometimes Break? All stand far off lu the dark hour of trial. Just before sleep; 'Neath the lip's smile we feel the soul's denial. And turn and weep. Thou wept'st not, Lord ; John had Thy breast for pillow. Thou the hard cross; Yet our weak bosoms heave like sobbing bUlow At each light loss. t Sweet summer friends, farewell ! Your flight . you've taken. Small blame, God wot! In the lone house of death,'! hou once forsaken ! Forsake us not! For the 915 Baptist churches of Illinois there are only 447 pastors. The proportion of Roman Catholics to Protestants in Ireland is nearly three and a half to one. The Boston Women's Christian Temperance union is about to establish a "friendly inn," the first in the city. Bishop Seghers, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Victoria, on the Pacific coast, has preached a sermon denouncing the free school system of tbe colony. The city of Paris owns seventy-six edifices consecrated to religious services. Notre Dame and the I'antheoa are the property of the state. The American Missionary Association of New Yok, during the past twelve years, has expended upwards of $3,500,000 in educating the colored people. That society has had from two hundred and fifty to five hundred teachers at work every year. As to sudden death, I never could pray to be delivered from it, but only to be ready for it God alone, who knows our frame and temperament, knows by what death we can best glorify Him. Suddec death may, be to many a great blessing. Norman Macleod. The Christian Leader scouts the idea that Universalisra is slowly dying out It pre sents statistics showing that it is slowly gaining. The 600 societies and congregations of 1832 have increased to 880 parishes; the 100 church edifices to 756, and the 300 preachers to 700", including licentiates and superannuates. The congregations of Mr. Moody in Boston continue to grow, or rather the numbers who find it impossible to gain admittance increase. The trades noon meetings are well sustained, the fish dealers, furnituie men, market men, grocers and others assembling at places convenient to their trade centers. House to house visitation has been very thorough, the visitors meeting a kind reception wherever they go. The creation of small dioceses in the Protestant Episcopal . .church has greatly promoted its interests. In 18C7 the con tn bu tions of the diocese of New York were $404, 983; in 1873 the contributions of the three dioceses made from it New York, Long Island and Albany were $1,744,743. In 1S65 the contributions of the diocese of Pennsylvania were $235,729: in 1872, in the three dioceses into which it was divided, $1,165,349. iThe general assembly of the Presbyterian church in tbe United States of America as the Northern Presbyterian church styles itselfwill meet in annual session in Chicago, May 17. Dr. Henry J. Van Dyke, of Brooklyn, New York, is the moderator, and will preach the annual sermon. ' The southern assembly will meet at the same time in New Orleans, Louisiana, when Dr. B. M. Smith, the moderator, of the last assembly, will fireach the annual sermon. The overtures or fraternity rcscte last year by both of these bodies have not made much progress daring the year. Indeed, they have been either ignored altogether or denounced quite earnestly. Practical fraternity must grow slowly rather than be resolved into being on paper. . It is not the best things that is, the things which we call best that make men; it is not the pleasant things; it is not tbe calm experiences of life; it is life's rugged experience, its tempests, its trial. The discipline of life is here good and there evil, here trouble and there joy, here rudeness and there smoothness one working with the other and the alterations of the one and the other which necessitates adaptations to coastitute that part of the education which makes a man a . man. in distinction from an animal, which has no education. The successful man invariably bears marks of the struggles which he heu bad to undergo on his brow. The Christian Union is oi the opinion that the Sabbath of the past will not be the Sabbath of the future; indeed, it will not be the Sabbath at all; it will U the Lord's day." and says the Christian conception of the meaning and uses of tbe day is being revolutionized: "Sabbath committees, assemblies, convocations, can not dan it up- They might better attempt-to stop the flow of the Mississippi with bulrushes. If the church is wise it will study the Lord's day of the future rather than the Sabbath of the past, the Christian festival of the next decade rather than the Puritan fast day of the last century, and seek to guide the current which it ij, happily, powerless Q check; The osjy

effect of endeavoring" to 'shut the doors of Al Ll'l.l 1 . ...

lue puunc liDrary ana me gates 01 tne public park is to augment the moral power of inose wno wouiu open we -theater end the 1 oeergaraen. wine imt u iue cuaiive icrajerance work which is being done at the present time is Dy earnest innstian men and women,' but very largely ou'sidr and independent of the respective churches of which they are member Without detracting anything from their present useful labors, why should they not do yet more for the righteous cause of temperance in their oSicial and denominational relations as members and officers of Christin churches? If churches may properly organize to promote home and foreign missions, why not for special temperance work? No one will deny that strong drink is a thief, if not the chief, obstacle in the way of tbe progress of the Christian church. If churches may properly organize for the distribution of the Bible and other religious publications, for the quickening of religious interest, the conversion of sinners and the salvation of men, why not also a Christian temperance literature, which shall both prevent the young from entering upon evil courses and rescue erring men from the perilous pathway of drinking and inebriety? FASIUOX KOTES. A pretty style is to bind the edge of knife plaits with a contrasting color. Black velvet skirts will continue in favor this summer with thin overdresses. Bonnets made of the material of the dress with which they are worn are very stylish. It is rumored that pockets are no longer to adorn dresses; that is, not the most elegant ones. Carpels in black groundwork relieved by lanre white daisies are amonir the handsom est spring der'gns. The tulle veil for brides is cut circular below, is three yards long, and is finished with a wide hem held by two rows of floss stitching; price $10.50. Sleeveless sacques are sent out with French polonaises as part of the suit; these are slightly loose, and are straight in effect, like the French walking jacket Fichu-mantles that tie carelessly in front and others that lap across tbe breast, are ImEorted for young ladies; they are made of lack silk, cashmere lace or Sicilienne, trimmed with lace, galloon and fringe. Ladies of good taste should confine themselves to flowers that are in keeping with the season and their age. A matron of sixty summers looks rather silly with a hat covered with "poppies" and currants in the fickle month of April. Violets and May flowers are the prettiest this season. Perfumed sleeve buttons are again worn, and when the odor is delicate and in limited quantity, it is excellent for summer. The button has an opening, such as many readers have no douht seen, round or square, with top of gold enamel, or even , cameo, large enough to place a tiny miniaturein; in this the odor is placed and the button tightly clasped; nothing is visible, the perfume alone is found, that may be in liquid or powder. The sterner sex are patrons of this novelty, and the jewelers are receiving large orders now in Gotham for it For those who prefer basques and overskirts are excellent models in tbe new habit basques with blouse fronts and deep apron overskirts, trimmed with lace and shirred to represent two aprons, while the basque is square, long and irregularly draped. The basques are similar to square habit basques, but have a pretty addition made by a Btraight piece of grenadine on each front from waist to throat gatherfd quite full, but careless looking, and tied across in four places, by inch-wide ribbon satin on one side and gros grain on tbe other; these rib bons are set on tbe back edge of the blouse part with a loop and a pointed end, and long strings are left to be tied by the wearer. The front of the basque is buttoned up under tbe blouse; the edges are rounded in front, short in tbe hips and square behind, and are simply piped; the back has long side forms beginning on tire shoulders. The collar is in English shape. The long overskirt is trimmed with thin lace-like galloon edged with thread lace, and has many ribbon bows on each side. Such dresses look well made of the small-figured brocaded grenadines. The skirt is of silk, but the overskirt is sewed directly on this silk, and the single flounce is of grenadine, eight inches deep, straight, and held in box pleats that are placed very far apart and gathered at the top. A band of galloon with lace edging is at the top and bottom of such flounces, and some have lengthwise stripes of the galloon between the box pleats. IH FA NTS CLOTHING. High necked and long sleeved dresses are at present most used for infants, but it is predicted at the furnishing houses that there will be a revival of the low necked waists with short sleeves. The latter, however, require exti a sacques of soft wool for warmth, and the babe is apt to take cold from the changes of these wraps, hence most mothers will adhere to tbe safer dresses now used. Day dresses are made with yokes either pointed or rounded, and the latest fancy is for square yokes made up of lengthwise clusters of fine tucks separated by hands of insertion, or else the whole yoke is made of Valenciennes insertion, marked off in me-, dallions with applique embroidery; a trimming similar to the yoke forms a deep border aroand the skirt. Few dresses, even the handsomest christening robes, are trimmed up the front. Fine French nansook is used for the nicest robes, and the heavier English nansook for plainer dresses. The dress measures a yard and a quarter in length, and consists of two widths of the muslin sloped toward the top. For night slips soft finished- cambtkis of domestic brands are used, alsodialr striped and checked muslins, while some mothers use heavier qualities 01 domestic cotton. These slips have no yoke, are button d: be hind, have a belt in front caly, with long benimed strings to tie behind They may have a cluster of small tuck down tAe middle of the front with tucks- above a deep hem, and are then nice enough t serve aa plain dresses for day wear; Among other useful garments in- intaats outfits are flannel wrappers for extra warmth and for bathing wraps. These are long, simply shaped sacque-wrappers, buttoned down the entire front lined with soft muslin, and furnished with a belt. They are shown in pure white embroidered or braided with a color.' or else they are striped or checked flannel, or perhaps plain bine or pink. Ex-Governor Seymour recommends young men in written correspondence to confine theniselvea to words of one and two syllables,

AN APRIL- SIIOWEB.

r. w. a. The primrose head U bowe.C with tears. The wood is rippllne throuKh with rats. Though now the heaven once more appears. And beams the bounteous um again. From every blade and blossom cup The earth sends thankful Uisence up. Q happy hearts of flower and Teld, That, soon as grief be overpast,. Yonr fragrant thankfulness cat 'vMd For troubled sk les and rainful o!nt! I wonhl that I as noon could seeTtoe Wennings of adversity ! Th spectator. -r ALL SORTS. Queen Elizabeth age who used a fork. Mr. Bennett has been pntoHnirW Tym-j and Lady Mandeville at his new resilience in 1 ans. One Massachusetts Woman ha Vir J ovati husbands. Four have died, and t have been divorced. When Bismarck applied for leave the Em peror William wrote on the margin one wordr "'Never." The Scotch do not like Rubenstein's wild piano passage, although they praise his sentiment and "ptanisümo." Dr. Red field's expenence among nnspaper men is that the maioritv are temper ate, hard working and honorable. Edward Kimball, the renn ted instnWnr of Moody, has undertaken the work of freeing all the San Franciso papers from debt The author of the temperance song Snarklin? atxi RHhtin it I.inniH T.ijK . is in the state asylum for lunatics in Pennsylvania. A Massachusetts man who sued a newsra-. per for libel, claiming $10.000. has been awarded $1. His language on the subject "I shall never do that again." It is now asserted that the widow Oliver - took $200 cash and an old gig and called it square with be tame ron. Well, nothing: like prompt settlement of claims. Mrt Tnrali-. 1 in Tiltimnu ttanliniT V. rehearsals of the new play "Ah Sin," jointly . written by himself and Bret Harte, which is to be produced for the first time in Washington next Monday night The rage for natural flowers for the toilet still prevails in Paris. The latest fashion is a thick wreath of real rosebuds, violets, lilac nyacmtns or came n as. to be worn across the front of the dress, like a floral line. Charles iL Eckert, of PhiladelDhia. whodied recently at the aee of 19 years, left $50.000 to charitable institutions, and his mother is now making tbe distribution. He was the only sou of tbe late Dr. George N. Eckert The British, empire embraces 7.750.0OO square miles of territory, and a population of SSJJöO.OOO; of which one-sixth are Christiana, over one-tenth Mohammeians, more tnan two-nuns Hindoos, and one-fourth heathens ot various kinds. , It is stated that Senator Bavard "ardentlv desires to visit Texas and bask awhile in its - sunshine, its floral beauties and the genial , hospitality of its people." He has accordingly been invited to- be state fair orator this - year; but congressional duties prevent When you see a young man and a vounz lady walking along the street, Bhe reverentially nlvine him with Questions, and he carelessly looking into the windows, be sure - that they are ixuuoand and wife. If she were not his wife be would do all the talking. The French society for suppressing the abuse of tobacco, holding that smoking, among boys is pernicious to their health, has prepared a petition to be presented tothe assembly, asking for a law to prohibityouths under sixteen from using the weed, in public places. A 14 year old boy has just died in Wauke-: sha. Wisconsin, after a week's struggle against a combined attack of varioloid, scarlet fever, nemorrhage, typhus fever and bilious fever: The physicians looked on as tonished, protesting that there was not such a case on record. The prince of Wales, a fortnight aeo. made the most rapid journey on record between London ami Paris. The time occupied wta seven hours and three quarters, includi:; stoppages at Folkestone and Amiens, but exclusive of an hour and a half at Boulogne for supperand rest The' stern Konian parent has taken up-iis residence in Baltimore for the present.' A few da vs. aero he caused his onlv son to-be arrested anV) imprisoned for larceny of-the paternal' overcoat, and testified again6tthe boy on his trial. Upon cross-examination,, he admitted that the boy was incurably, ill. and would in all probability live bat a..fw . weeks;, but it was evident he aid not-look upon the illness as extenuation. A Mew York rentleman visiting the.oihr day at a country seat on the Hudson, was- in the conservatory, where, showing oil before some-friends his knowledge of floweraailof the vowel pronunciation in Oermanv he-eaid to the- German gardener: "1 suyppsa you have in your country the same nanues a we for most plants. For instance, yaa- probably call- that äower vair bay-na, do. vou. not? "Kb," said tbe gardener, "ve calls -dat not fair-day-na; ve calls dat 'hay-Lortrope. " San Francisco society is discassingt tbe marriage-of a Hebrew youth. to. A.OhrLstian girl. Tbe wedding was to hrve taken place at th young woman's residence,., but the mother ot the young man, wito .was, opposed to tbe match, appeased upoa the sctv. with a Jewish Rabbi. The young; people, attended by an elderly lady,, drove in a hack, to a j usske'a oQce, wbere they were made nun and taekman, and bj and the lady ugned as witnesses to the marriage, cotaaactb A picture: Seven yean aao. Saloon irk Pennsylvania, Franeia Murphy, proprieton Drunken flgtA. Batoon keeper kicks an ii ehriate dowa stairs Horrible. The fall hsa killed the xaan) Change: In a court rooaa. Murphy o trial f or manslaughter. Senteace pronounced. aflve years' iraprisonmeat" New Mut December, lHTfi. Remarkable temperance movement in Pittsburg. Infective lecturer iaduces 20,000. people to s3gn the pledge. Subsequently sama man in northern lennsylvana and wester New York;. Obtains 35.0 signatures. In Baüx a few days. Oets 2.300 converts to temperance, April, lsT7 (this month V. In Philadelphia. Unequivocal success. Temperance disciples by the. thousands eaoh week. Final a revelation: Tbe successful temperance worker is Francis Murphy, the salooa PJTOPrteVlf f,nd m&aaUjer of leiea yean