Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1878 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. "WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1878;

WEDNESDAY, Jrjix 17. DEMOCRATIC ml l T TICKET FOR Secretary of state , JOHN O. SHANKU' x Vanderb ; Auditor of Statf MAHL0N D. VINSON, of Conntv. Montgomery Treasurer of cxtk WIIXIA? Yt,EMIyo, or Aikn Oocnty. ATTORNEY fyi.KRAL THOMA'; WOOLtEN. of Vinson OoCy. Super 'esdet r Public ssTRCcrroif J A.MES H. SMART, of Allen County. reox is goi3 to Colorado. He will Vsnt patent of the mountains, Ir or Scenery soon. Bt marck h an odd relish for ocllscting ntl preserving the pistols assassins have tt&d in attempting to take his life. He feela irmteful for Ike poor sbeis sent by "them. The shipment of bcrses to En: land still ccmtinrws lively, and rhis desyite the cessation of wtr pre i a ration. Fine, thoroughbred eolte are greatly in dene a'. d for the English caarkets, ar.d the prices paid are fair. JL-cofVEDERATi general, wh served under JtiT Davis, who tdmired JefT Davis, who Toted'for Jeff Daris, is in Eayes' cabinet, arid Hayes wrld give Je T an office If "thc-er-presidentwould coose to terms and stand firm. KrLLOoo is new very justly regarded the lx)33 liar of thtx)uisiana inspirators. His "Hwnory is as treacherous as Sherman's, and "Tiis conscience as elastic as that of J. Madioc. Wells. Ke is in the United States senate by fraud, wnd lies lusfcly to mace Hayes' t? tie appear honest. The Hon. 3ohn Hanna has been unanimously renominated Tor congress. . The -Journal says it is an indorsement fairly won by Mr. Ilanna's course. Mr. Hanna voted 'fur two measures whkh the Journal said " "were distinctly democratic measure, eot- - 'ten up for the express purpose of defeating j the radical party." What else has the Hon. - John Hanna got to hi credit, besides voting for these two measures the remonetizution of silver and the repeal of the resumption law? It is stated that the most promising public library between the Missouri river and California is that of Salt Lake city. In 1872 the masonic fraternity established it, but it remained but a meagre collection of odds arid . ends until in 187.7j rhen the grand lodge of Utah gave it an impetus that has made it tske high rank among the public libraries of the west. While the Mormons have con- - tributed slightly, it owes its existence and growth to the intelligence and liberality of the more intelligent portion ot tne nonJtformon population. It is said that the whole field of Mormon literature is embraced in less than fifty volumes, and of this number forty-four are on the shelves of the library, and this department 4s especially interesting, as many of the books are now inaccessible elsewhere. The army as a je comitatnt is what General Sherman wants. The old lunatic is anxious to be issuing orders to railroad officials to report to .hit;i if an employe behaves himself contrary to orders. Hut the use of the army for - soch purposes has been stopped, and Sherman will have to submit Under radical rule, "the army," says Mr. Glover, '"had been made to usurp powers 'and perform functions belonging to the people, and the history of southern reconstruction from 1KG3 to 1875 is an almost continu'oss record of states disorganized and reor'gm'zed, of legislatures disturbed and elec'tious controlled by the federal army acting 'under orders fron Washington. The peo'ple had grown weary of thi3 partisan prostitution of the army, and this is the explanation of the house's amendment prohibiting 'it to be employed as a posse. The Chicago Times favors stealing all of Mexico. It is a .fine country, very rich, and therefore ought not to be under its presen . form of government It is weak as com. pared with the United States, and since this government is strong it may play pirate. -Says the Times: "The American govern, 'nient made a great mistake, an egregious 'blunder, in not taking the whole of Mexico 'instead of. the half of it Enlightened pubiic opinion, not only in America but in 'Europe, would have approved and applauded the step. It would have been regarded 'as a manifestation of the energetic push and 'aggressive advancement which are the most 'distinguishing characteristics of men of the 8xon blood and tongue. Wherever the 'English language is spoken, the act would hre been applauded as a proof that the 'Americans were not a degenerate or un'worthy branch of the predominant race of 'the world. ' But, alas, Mr. Polk was only in ,'toaie small degree more a Ueaconsfield than "Mr. Hayes is. 'What America now needs to retrieve the 'great mistake of Mr. Polk's administration 'is a Ueaconsfield for political leader. 'AH 'England,' the cable tells us, 'is studying 'maps of Asiatic Turkey, .which offers new fielcs for enterprise and speculation.' 'Why isxict all America now studying maps of Mexico? Under the- control of an Eng" lish speaking people, there is no country on -the globs that would offer grand 3r fields for 'industrial acid commercial enterprise. In ''its natural resources .and capacities, it is 'a country worth a hundred Asiatic Turkeys. 'It is a land on which the Almighty has lav'ished every bounty, and which only the 'barbarism of an inferior, mongrel popula. 'tion, incapable of civilized government, has cured." We conclude thai in the way of stealing upon a bi 2 scale Mexico offers the biggest thing now in sight, and if the Texas border troubles can be urged op we see ' no reason why, with a fight and foot race, Mexico may not tumble into the embrace of the United States. " The Grant movement is notably a thief movement All the thieves who were with Grant when stealing was the rule and honesty the exception are for Grant and all of thai miserable ciuis who "have taken a trip to Xuriip'vand returned in lovo with a strong monarchical goyerutaent vl

Grant, and Grant himself banns seen how easy it is to, be a depot when there is a big army to enforce the ; frill of the sovereign, is expected to fail in with the third term proposition, and, if successful, do what he can to advance himself to supreme power. The Brooklyn Eagle is xr the opinion that among those who are tor Grant are "included all such of the criminal 'clas3es as have annexed ' themselves to the 'republican party, tin better to steal them'selves rich at the expense of the -govern-

'ment of which hr.t party has had charge for 'eighteen years. Che eight years -of Grant 'were the harvest'time of those persons, and 'they desire to tare him again fer the same 'reasons which made him their enricbcr be'fore. If tbs can get him, they be'lieve they -can keep bim by dispensing wilLi elections afterward or bv 'making thee a farce. Moreover, there are 'other citiceas who are thoxghtf ul yet mistaken men, who wish well to their country, 'but wb sincerely believe that self govern'mentas art experiment has failed, and who 'are in favor of 'Baving society' by a recourse 'to Grant,1 as the first deans and the right 'person to curtail freedom and centraliie 'government, or fit it tor and launch it on a 'monarchical career. The fact that Grant 'unites -all the plunderers and all the pes'si mists and all the. imperialists makes the 'mover.ent for him notable, dangerous and 'extraordinary. It -also makes it a sviove'ment against which to rally those wk 'believe that honesty should prevail and that government of the people, by ttbe peef le and for the people, has not perished 'frem the earth, and shall not perish from it." The international exposition at Paris as resulted in more triumphs for American exhibitors, in proportion to their nuiiiber, than for those of any other nation. It is f eid they have already been marked for the judges for six grand prizes and a host of gold medals. Thin, too, with the fkiil of all the nations cf Europe to fight fiercely for every trophy, and every one to be wrested from them only by such superiority that it could not be ignored. England and Germany contributed a wealth of production that rcemed to challenge even imitation, but the United States has so far excelled, that in many -instances the judges awarded the priv:3 with a unanimous nrst vote.- Among tne tignificant features of the exhibition is tbe orders given by representatives of one coun try for the productions of another, and of these, too, American exhibitors are receiv ing a lion's share. Germans, eeins tbe exquisite finish and beauty of French manufactured wares, are ordering liberally; while the French in turn are not slow to avail themselves of the desirable articles sent to their capitol by the subjects of the Emperor William. tSo lately engaged in the bitterest warfare, so terribly vanquished, so- heavily taxed to meet the demands of their conquerors, they no w cover their gaping wounds with the olive branch, and seek only to bring back by commercial transactions tbe money yielded Vy them to the Germans, and though the steel claw be hidden behind the velvet now,' it may be, who knows? gathering strength for the opportune moment when retaliation will be possible and the decision of the FrancotPrussian contest be reversed. With Bismarck, :the brain' of Germany, dead, with the Em peror William off the throne,, with internal dissensions gnawing at the heart of the great empire, miy not France yet hope to change the tide that swept iapoleon from the throne and left her bravest soldiers captives? Is not Germany watching tlifa possible chance even now? Is not Bismarck endeavoring so to fortify the empire that whatever time may bring for its rulers, it shall but strengthen and perpetuate the throne and the dynasty? On the checker-txr ird of fate nations move slowly, but the changes arc the promptings of a law that statesmen as -shrewd as lie understand, and while thev may not alter its operations, they will shape their course to win victory at last A writer In the New York Dailf Bulletin discusses at come length the industrial ques. tion in Europe, giving special prominence to the labor situation of France and Eng. land. "Tbe inquiry." says the writer, "which 'is now going on before a special commission into the manufacturing conditions of France 'has evoked a great deal of industrial facts, tend has shown the opinions prevailing 'among French manufacturers. M. "Claudetakes the view, which is now freely 'ocnfessed'.by various manufacturers, that the 'enormous increase of machinery is at the bvttom of the hard times. In ever' branch 'of trade we hear of men saying, we have 'raised np merciless competitors; the 'era -of over production is on us. It is 'somewhat singular, to find tbe manu 'faaturing capitalist and the ocialibtic tramp coincide on this point This factor 1 too Important to be ignored, however, for bars the way to any solid and per'manent improvement The co-operative 'associations in England have greatly en'couraged the building of new mills; and 'now, as this French manufacturer tersely 'puts it ''the whole world must acknowledge tbe Industrial supremacy of England, 'or that country can not live. It exports 78 'per cent of Its cotton manufacture, and the 'imports of English textiles into France -alone during l&rf amounted to the enor. 'mous sum of l,C73,74l,000 francs. Warps" '27-29 are now sent here and sold 'as low as 2 fr. 50 cent per 2Ji lbs., with 20 'per cent discount at 30 days.' " The point made by the writer is that the manufacturing capitalists of France agree with the tramp socialist that the enormous increasa of machinery In France is at the "bottom of the hard times." We do not know what may be at the bottom of the labor troubles in France, but in this country the hard times are not the result of an increase of machinery. The radical party concluded to run the financial department of the - government in - tbe interest of Shylocks. To do this the currency had to be contracted, and with contraction came, not the increase of machinery, but the hushing of its music. What we want in this country is a financial policy that will set idle machinery and idle men and women to work a policy tha!t shall Iverslfy labor, create home markets, and in this way eilence oyerprvJuctioa croakers,

MTSIXESS FAILURES. -We have received from Messrs. it G. Dun & Co. their statement showing the business failures for the second quarter and the first half of 1878 in the United States. Tbe matter is of such commanding interest that we reproduce the exhibit as given by Messrs. Dun ctCo.:

SecoirlQnar-Total for nrst trnlo78. tf months 1878. - r 0 " 0 STATES c . c . AP ,a t -5 TERRITORIES. g V si 1 si . Z -3 Alabama " 177,091 25 f 181,672 Antous 1 111,000 S 42.107 Arkansas.. 10 J,5(I0 20 272,0i California 60 523,000 139 Ml:,3U CityS.Franciaco 61 " Wto.OOO 11 1.W6.747 Colorado 13 1$5,7(W 2K 3 7,373 Connecticut-.. 73 1,355,201 150 "2,795,610 Dakota 2 ll,voo 7 k,(Xio Delaware 92,000 11 iw,5ti IMs. of Columbia. x 113,7ir2 17 . 1H1.202 Florida 41,13 12 7H.6-IS Georgia- 3!) o3,77i 8S 121,502 Idaho .................. Illinois in 1,4. 2S2 4.H!l,Ul City of Chicago- 101 S,0,Wt 215 8.7-i3,300 Indinna- 73 1,133.ui Jttl 3,ls,oi!i Iowa 85 1,021,0.0 215 2,110,-KDl Kansas 7 10,SK -124,-VjO Kentucky- W 1,44ho Hi 4,75tViVi lyouisiana. 43 W 4,0Sii.7ort Maine , 3 IHiki 117 803,!H Maryland 31 5sm,inh 6:; l,24;,so Massachusetts ISO 4,75VJ 7,817,431 City of lioston. 61 2.001,3(10 175 6.530.523 Michigan.. 91 1,552,.V4 21!t l,tiu,iii Minnesota.- 21 18,834 55 385,9i3 Mississippi-.-...... 3C 241.17B 70 807,160 Ml-Boorl ... lh ' 177,212 47 73X.21H City of St. Louis 29 239.7UU 62 Wjlioo Montana - Nebraska... 17 lou 65 472,2m Nevaria... .. ...... 7 107,137 New Hampshire.- 31 14,500 57 276.800 New Jersey 40 613,000 77 1,083,80(1 New Mexico 2 2.3 2 2.200 New York 207 3.121,72-5 615 8,?Ws,,NU City of Nw York 151 7,910,0 421 23)5,412 North Carolina 8 201,500 68 499,100 'Ohio-.-. , 112 1.9S5,('H4 290 631,231 City Cincinnati 60 1,804,14 106 Slo.osj Oregon - - Pennsylvania 20-5 5,488,923 429 11,714,554 City Philaclel.-. - 70 1,414.122 135 5,40V ,4Vi Rhode Island 31 3S9,322 7 55,22.5 South Carolina 16 100,138 38 613,561 Tennessee-..... 49 311,151 123 1310,474 Texas -- . 41 47S,1!K) 115 1,873,510 Utah 8 42,V(0 4 43,7(J Vermont..- 22 385,500 62 l.O.o.ono Virsilnia 41 316,111 62 612,011 Wash. TerritoryWest Vi'Klula-. 10 132,000 23 227.730 Wisconsin. . 49 47.220 Jt 1,31H,!)1 Wyoming. 2 14.0UJ 4 21.0J0 Total...-. 2,470 ISJi'l.ltlO 5.825 130.8CJ.7G6

The failures for the first half of 1877 num bered 4,749, and the amount of liabilities reached the sum total of $99,000,171, while the failures for the first half of 1878 are 5,825, with liabilities amounting to $130,832, 7GG, showiog an increase of 1.07G failures with an increase of liabilities amounting to &n,22(i,v. Messrs'. Dan it Co. seek to account for this increase of failures by an "open winter," which reduced the sale of "heavy goods;" "want of frost" rendering "roads impasable, and the postponement of "col lections," by the "discussion, in 'and out of congress, of the silver 'bill, which seriously impaired confidence;" the "possibility of important 'changes m the tariff," "the repeal of the 'bankrupt law" and "the steady decline in 'the prices of merchandise," etc., all of the same tenor.. But Messrs. Dun fc Co. fail to make any allusion to tin curs? of contrac tion, which, more than all other causes com bined, hai -brought about the deplorable business prostration which Messrs. Dun A: Co. chronicle. For years past we have ben told by Shylocks and their crgans that "hard pa a" had been reached; that a healty reaction in business was 'certain to follow harvest and the marketing of the crops;'" that "resumption 'was the panacea for all business 'and financial ills," and if the people would only be patient, "grin and bear1' the curses that contraction was heaping upon them, that business would soon revive and all things would be lovely. John Sherman has had his way, gold has declined until it is quoted at iOO, and until resumption ha?, according to tke Shylocks, virtually taken place. Still failures increase. Crops have been abundant they have been harvested and sold; still business prostration continue? The balance ot our foreign trade is said to be about $.0,000.000 in oar favor, but there is no let up of failures, and "business embar rassments" are as formidable and as crush ing as ever indeed, they are increasing Let us see. Taking the three years. 1875, 1876 and 1877, with six months of 1878, and the account stands as follows:

Total for the . Year. Y'EARS. No. Amount Kail- of ures. Liabilities. 1875. 7,740 S2'(l .000,333 1876 . . 9,092 101,117,76 1S77 8,872 1W.H69 936 1$78 (six months) 5.S25 130,832,766

If the remaining ux months of 1878 should prove as disastrous as the first half of the year, we shall have sum totals as follows: Failures, 11,0-50, with liabilities amounting to $2G0,G6.),532. There is not an honest business man in Indiana who does not know that these fearful showings of failures and consequent business prostration is directly chargeable to the radical financial policy, and Indiana is called upon now to protest against that policy at the polls. Since 1S72 Indiana has suffered as follows by the curse of contraction, in failures that have been recorded:

'i c , Years. . 3 c'Z I i A . 1872. - 80 1991,000 1K73. 134 2.200.' 00 ik;4 -.,.,.. , , lt7 2,397,(110 1875 ... ...... . 332 4,NtM,0o2 1876 ............ 862 4,787,401 177 352 6,718,7(0 1878, (six months).. . 254 3,948,549 Total. ! LfiSl fM.9ofl.702

These failures have occurred when crops have been bountiful, and when, but for contraction, the state would have enjoved unexampled prosperity. It will be well worth while to give to the fignres we publish today careful consideration. They tell a fearful story of the curse of radicalism upon the country. The Berlin congress has remapped portions of Europe, satisfied the greed of Engi land and Austria, carved Turkey into fragments, robbed Russia of the glory of her military achievements, left Italy and France dissatisfied, and adjourned amidst general declaratioas pf approval, Tfc treaty, which

is supposed- to settle vexed ques

tions for an Indefinite period, contains sixty articles, and is in all regards ' remarkable document. At the cost of the. lives of 80,000 soldiers Russia secures the -virtual independence of toe Chris tian population of Bulgaria and Koumania. Her greet mistake was in not capturing Constan tinople and there dictating the terms of peace. As it is, England, led by Beaconsfield, has gained by cunning what honor denied. "Cyprus," says the Boston Tost, 're'stores Turkey to life at her last gasp, and that 'was the moment adroitly chosen by Bea'consfield for proposing the new ar'arraDgement By the simple planting of a moderate force of Christian soldiery 'on that peculiarly placed island, England 'becomes mistress of a situation which till 'now does not seem to have been measured 'by any of the other powers. She becomes stronger in Egypt with Cyprus in her control than if Bhe were in Egypt itselt Holding Malta and Cyprus at the eastern and Gibraltar at the western outlet of the Mediterranean, 8he literally converts that vast and important cea into a British lake. The Levant is wholly at her command; Turkey 'is unapproachable for the traditionary purpose3 of destruction ; Western Asia feels a 'grip upon it that it will be next to an im'possibilitv to throw off; and the road to In"dia is unobstructed forever. There will fee 'protests heard, but the deed is done and can 'no more be disturbed than England's pre'liminary arrangement with Russia.'' But while there is so much approval there are those who surmise that behind all the glitter and the joy there lurks an unquiet spectre. But this does not disturb Beaconsfield. His triumph over Ru&sia and over the congress was complete. The New York Herald says: It will not surprise ns now to hear of the famous "Oriental imagination" when the hoisting of the British nag on the new possession Munnunces that under Iieaconstleld ministry England hasauvanced from Malta to Cyprus from one post of the crusaders to another on the road to Jerusalem. It is rich, besides, with fuch memories as he prizes. Phoenicians, Cireeks, Egyptians old Pharaohs and later Ptolemies Persians, Romans, Crusaders, Venetians, Ottomans pass before the eyes in many garbs and many civilizations From the Egyptian to the Venetian, what a range of conquerors and possessors! They trod upon each other' graves, and tore down each other's gods. We may Ret a glimpse of what it was in the dim ages by a wala. amid Cesnola's disentombed t-cu!lures; we sets it vividly later on in tbe cmi-ades, and shall we dismiss as unhistoric the story toid by the bard of Avon ot how the Moor, oihello, ijved and doubted there? The Venus o( Cyprus vanishes Into Desdemonrt.and now tue Turk recedes before tie Englisuman. They will run radroads through the island, and joint stock: compauies will build hotels, and lh cockneys will make excursions thither, and the wine of Cyprus the rare vintage of the commandery will be fabricated in Whitecbapvt. It will be a btopping place for those go'uv to take the Euphrates Valley railroad. What could be a more fitting erlod to a wonderful career than this? it is the apotheosis of Disraeli. Captured by a shrewd trlck.it will be held with a tight hand, and while the prime minister makes his glowing miiid pictures out ot the past aud the future, there Is a sound of the steam whistle in the present which is not romance, but progress. GENERALITIES. A Mr. Henry, of Mancaster, Pa., has had his leg broken 17 times. The Russian jurgoes bave a song, "Farewell, till we meet at the mouth of the Thames." Mrs. Craig, of Columbu?, Kan., recently gave birth .to four children, two boys and two girls. Hippophagy is becoming decidedly popular in Vienna, 'where 2,040 horses were slaughtered for food during the first five months of this year. Jimmy Rlanchard, the smart boy wh made, such a sensation last year by pretending to be Charlie Ross, has been arrested in New Hampshire for burglary. Mrs. Iiagot, the wealthy and beautiful Irish widow about whom all the terrible scandal of the will ca9e was raised, is to be married again as soon as the legal proceedings have been settled. At the university convocation in Albany yesterday the honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred on Mr. Fetor Cooper, In consideration of his eminent benefactions to the cause of education. The duke of Cumberland, as a duke and grandson of an English king, will walk after all the dukes whose titles are more ancient than his unless the jue en exercises her prerogative to alter the rule of precedence. The late James Fisk's father is still living at Brattleboro, Vermont, and in a tmpernnce ad Jress at Concord recently spoke of the murder of his son by ' a drunken assassin, who escaped the gallows through a drunken jary.'" Pope Leo XIII. sent his blessing and a ver0aind letter to Mr. Rudolp.be Latiamnie, the dominion minister of justice, to the dis gusto! theCanadiin ul tramontanes, in as much as Mr. Lanmnaie 13 a liberal of the liberals, an "eater of priests," a participant in the Guibord affair, and so on. Extract from the rules of a Kentucky female seminary: "No pupil ahall eat slate pencils, chalk, soapstone, coal, unripe fruits or anything of the kind. Pupils must under all circumstances, decline the attention of gallants, either directly or "indirectly, through the medium of agents, letters or notes." ' A Portuguese nobleman, Count Penamacar, has been arrested for counterfeiting notes on the bank of Portugal. Machinery chemicils, and bundles of forced notes were found in his Lisbon palace, and in that at Cintra, where repose the bones of his great ancestor, Don John de Castro, first viceroy of the Indies. The Paris correspondent of the Macon (Ga.) Messenger has heard Patti, and says: "I enjoyed her splendid singiqg and fine acting, but I do not believe she excels very weatly, if at all, the occomplished vocal teacher of the Wealeyan female college or several of her fair friends of the Macon harnioiiic society." Quakers are known to be an unusually long lived folk. The average age of the 308 memben of society of Friends who died in Great Britain and Ireland last year was over 58 years ani the average ot deaths to population was about 1-VJ rer 1,000. The number of deaths of children nnder one year was only 19, and the highest number in "any dacade of life was in that whkh included tboie whose ages were between 70 and 80. The next highest number, 55, died between SO and 90. . England does not want to fight but, by jingo! if she does the special correspondents will stand a poor chance of getting -news. A special commission has been considering the question, and it Invited the London correspondents to give their opinions, when "our own" said promptly lhat "if he were a reneral commanding an army be would ndt allow a special correspondent to be within fifty miles of his troops'

TWO LOKG-LOST COLOX1XS.

The Strange Disappearance of the Norse . Settlers or 9H7 im GrteaUnd. Quebec Correspondence New York World. The fitting out of several Arctic expeditions has recalled the mysterious disappearance of the Norwegian and Danish colonies which first planted on the east and west coasts of Greenland about the year A. D. 1000, thrived apart for centuries and vanished forever in the middle of the fifteenth century. The popular story is that the Norsemen settled in Greenland In 9S7. A Danish colony took possession of the west shore and a Norwegian colony of the east shote of the peninsula. They were separated by a desert tract ei.jhi'y miles in wiath, but kept up communications with each other in summer canoes and in winter by deer and dog traiDs. They sustained themselves by hunting and fishing, and, later on, by raising cattle, the pasturagoof Greenland being at that time luxuriant. In 1350 the Danish colony was beset by Esquimaux and broken up, and the last tbat wa heard of either settlement was in 1425. In 1443 Tope Nicholas V, in a letter to the Engieh court staUdihat the colonists had been attacked by a fleet of savages and murdered to & man, but he did not vouch for the accuracy of his information. In 1822 Captain Scoretby discovered huts containing huntinggear and household utensils of Norse pattern on the west coast, and claimed that these had beep the dwellings ot the lost colonists. Tbe popular idea at tbat time was that a settlement of tbe descendants of these Norsemen existed in some terra incognita far beyond the ice field anl near the pole; and Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, who sailed for the Arctic seas last month, was credited in a Washington dispatch the other day with saying that "the grandest undertaking of the pre en t age would be to strive to reach that isolated colony." In some of the old recodrs of the Recollet fathers in this city wbich were sent to Paris in 1759 frequent mention wss made of legends and traditions touching this Norse colony. The first of the Recollets landed in Canada in one of Champlain's ships in 1615, nearly two centuries-lifter the Greenland colony disappeared. Others rapidly followed them, and in 1632 one of the missionary fathers, Father de Maurine, saiiei to the west shore of Newfoundlacd, where he found several camps of Esqumaux, who were wintering there.' He learned from them it wasan Esquimaux tradition that at one time in the remote ages, as he expressed it, men of the stature and mien of French tailors lived in peace and amity with their forefathers. There were hundreds of them, and sometimes they took ship and sailed away to the southeast, returning after many days with companions woo settled with them. After countless years these strangers divided themsejves into two bodies, one going to the west and the other to the? east shore. From that time forth their nature seemed changed, and they attacked anl murdered one anotuer. One winter it was dark for four months, and tbe cold was so intense ihat even the Esquimaux perished in theirabodes. Fearing that the strife of the strange people bad enraged the god of the wind and sea, the Esquimaux fled while it was yet dark to the southward; and when the darkness passed away they sailed in fright to a lonely island, where they dwelt for many years. On their return they found the face of the earth changed. Va&t ice rields covered the pasture lands where the Btrangers had dwelt, and the whole re gion was desolate. The strangers' houses were buried beneath mountains of ice. and no living thing was to be seen but the bear and the walrus. Father Paul Raguehed, the celebrated Jes uit, whose reports to his superiors in France contain much trustworthy information con cerning New France, and who figured con spicuously under the regime of M. De Aille bbust towards the close of the seventeenth century, relates at second hand an Italian tradition closely resembling .that current morg the Litiuuuiui. But perhaps the most important story is that told by the Jesuit M alii gey e. In 1618, accompanied by several Hurons, he advanced along the north shore of the gulf and penetrated into Libra dor. Eighty days' journey inland he came upon a solitary band of savages who spoke tbe Huron tongue with difficulty. From tbe chief and medicine men be learned that they were the descendants of a party of Hurons who had tied from an intertribal War, not through cowardice, but becanse they had taken wives from the band which the Hu rons had attacked. Their fathers had met with Esquimaux, and the two peoples had been blended into one. I hey had preserved their language to some extent, but tbe Esquimaux tongue was more familiar to them than the Huron. They were rich in Esqui maux traditions, and these they had illus trated bv rude pointings on wood and stone. They interpreted many ot these hieroglyph- ; x-.i 1r.1i! a. , 1121 mr x-aiuer Jieiiijjeye, iue principal one, which covered nearly a hundred wooden tabletj, baving reference, beyond doubt to the Jorse colony. It ran thus: 1-arbackm the past, when the Esquimaux thought they were the only people on the earth, and that the world was bounded by their familiar shores, a fleet of strangers landed and took possession of a beautiful country where the grass was always green. They built houses of wood and stones, and had flocks and herds which their women watched while the men were . fishing. Other fleets came after them, and the Esquimaux thought this new race'was sent to drive them into the sea; but the strangers were kind in manner, though wild in aspect, with red, flowing hair. They prospered and grew in numbers, and took wives from among the Esquimaux. One day, after moons without number had passed, the north wind became hot and sultry. It was like the breath of fire for many days, and then a booming and thundering noise was heard to the north, and the crash shook the heavens and made the rocks tremble. This continued for a long time, and the north wind began to grow cooler and coaler, nntil at length men died by the lire from cold. The Esquimaux knew then that the ice fields of the north had broken loose. Their traditions t jld them that, and they hastened . to the sbore with their wives and children and sailed to an island to the northwest. The strangers mocked them as they left. Many, many years after this the E-quimaux returned only to find that the ice had overwhelmed the strangers and swept the meadows and even the streams into the sea, leaving nothing behind but naked rocks and huge mountains. From that time forth the land was cold and dreary These traditions, quantum valeant, account very satisfactorily for the sudden disappearance of the Norsemen; hut it is just possible that Lieutenant Schwatka may set them at naught by the discovery of a rtorse monarchy or republic beneath the pole. 1 Unman C'ltwtti a Food and Medicine. Ijondon Telegraph. "Miriam cures wound, and Pharaoh is sold for balsata," wrote Sir Thomas Browne "200 years ago; and it is an nndoub'ed fact that even dow n to the time of Sydenham, "mummy" was held to be a drag of great curative powtr, and was extensively administered in cast s of fever and ague. But wbat should be said of the "exhibition" to a patient of a piece of human flesh freshly taken from the living subject? This exceptionally appalling medicament seems to have been made uss of under very singular circumfctanc23 in China. A recent , number of the Pekin Gazetta published an application to the emperor from the governor general of the province of Kwang-Tung, for permission to erect a memorial structure in honor of the filial devotion of a young lady, twentyone year j of age, the daughter of a magistrate of Canton. She is described as having been "hrought up by her father from childhood, well educated, and deservedly reputed for her vir.ue and intelligence." In the spring of last, year her papa fell ill, and was most tenderly nursed by his devoted daughter. . At the end of six months the old gentleman became much worse, whereupon the young lady cut a piece of flesh ironi her arm and tfixed .it with his medicine, This

remedy proved fatal - to ihe patient and his . daughter, who had vowed to sacrifice her life for his, poisoned herself on the same day that her father died. This meloncholy story of heroic filial piety, mingled with the most

barbarous ignorance and superstition, may be instructively read in juxtaposition with 3 letter received in Shanghai from the Raman. Catholic bishop of Shansht Says Mgr. Monagatta, who is a resident of Tai YueD, the capital of a province in which famine 1b just now raging with the most tearful severity: tntu lately the starving people were con tent to feed on the dead; but now they are slaughtering the living for food. The husband eats his wife; parents are eating their children, and in their turn sons and daughters eat their dead parents. This goes on almost every day." Cannibalism has in a more or less marked degree been an attendant horror on the majority of great famines; but the systematic eating of human flesh in a time of scarcity is hardly to be wondered at in a country where young ladies of rank, education and intelligence grow up to be 21 in the belief that a piece of human flesh can " be beneficial as an inward medicament It may be mentioned tbat the imperial government have sancioned the erection of the memorial to the daughter of the Canton magistrate, but that oniy languid stfcps have been taken to alleviate the ravages of the famine. Too Hot to Eat. 'New York World. The general chorus of citizens yesterday ssng, and may siog again to-morrow, "Oh, it is too hot to eat!" but hot or cold, the people who neglect the human stomach for their own convenience will hear from it. It must be always cared for, but people must be careful to gauge its capabilities for digestion by the thermometer. For instance, lobsters and soft shell crabs may be eaten with impunity when tbe thermometer marks 05, but let the mercury shoulder 85 and shell fish generally act like a poison on the gastric juices. The same thing is true, more or less, about boiled ham or bacon, but corned beef, flannel cakes, rye bread, meat pies, clam fritters, and a dozen other things which may lie upon the gastrics during a heated term as heavily as Richard's murdered cousins sat upon his conscience in the tent scene. During such days as we have known since Sunday last he best ate who ate least and oftenest. Nature, which is man's best doctor, and prefers an ounce of prevention to a pound of cure, tills our rivers and bays in July and August with fish, which, whether cheap or dear in price, art can deal with in a dozen palatable ways. Not the least pleasant of these in hot weather is to "souse" the fish, or to pickle it, or to dress it when cold with salad dressings and then to wed it to beets or tomatoes, or to serve it in fishtails (giving bread ad libitum) for breakfast. Eel pie in July, or the clam chowder of the old Acadian, or cold string beans in the form of a salad, or a hash of lamb surmounted with poached eggs each and all are dainty summer dishes. Let the heavy soups and roasts be left witn sorrow and the scarlet leaf to the September perspectives. Shall we, however, during these hot days disdain bisques and purees? These are high sounding names, but the best of them, with almost any kind of meat broth for a basis, is cheap, and they may be thickened by means ot rice rlour, or ol the finest farina, or of freh tomato sauce. Not the worst of all purees is to be made by boiling lobster claws and thickening the liquid with tomato and bruised biscuit But the prudent gastronome, during the heat, will postpone squashes and cucumbers (though he may remain steadfast to the anti-scorbutic onion), as well as the early musket ball, of white wax which your green grocer calls a new potato. If the wise pursue the gooseberry it will be in the shape of wbat the dwellers around the Hackensack (where soon the reed and rice birds shall be shot) call by the good old French name -of gooseberry fool, which refers not to the brains of the eater, but to the process by which the berries are prepared. In hot weather the delicate acid of ripe currants is both savory and wholesome at breakfast, when, too, should be eaten the cherry, "delighting the sense of every man," as tbe koran hath it and the raspberry, and that really new American fruit, the cultivated blackberry. Every physician knows how a really ripe peach will fit and "tone up" the disordered indegestion of even a child. Last of all comes a vexatious question, when the thermometer tops 90 degrees what to do with the watermelon. The watermelon is a beast maligned at street corners under a broiling sun by the board of health, but when his seeds are black and his heart is red and his cuticle hath grown cold in the cellar corner or under a Croton tap (where refrigerators are wanting) he is neither an unpleasant nor a mischievous assuager of thirst, provided only those who deal with him look well upon the rind where it grows green, and cry, "Hold! enough." A Recrnlt for "rbe Plaa. Washington Post.J Mr. Jenks visited her old haunts about the post office building yesterday and took a look at the desk on which she used to "write when she could find nothing else to do." Her appearance there caused quite a flutter of curiosity amongst the lady clerks bat there teemed no desire on their part for an introduction. Whilst calling on a gentleman whom she had known during her sojourn in the sixth auditor's ofiice, she was accidently introduced to a southern man and proceeded at once in a very pert manner to inform him that ' she was not an American citizen and thanked God for it" To which he very quietly replied "that she t-hould be on her knees constantly thanking her Maker for another nationality since her tad experience with the terrible people of Louisiana." Immediately dropping lm, and entirely ignoring his presence, she at once flew to politics; beginning with Weber, she said he had been bought by , the democrats before he went in the presence of the committee; that she had objected to his being summoned by the republicans; tbat the republicans would never stoop to trjT and buy him or others, etc.; that everybody knew who killed Dan Weber; and that if the government would give her four regiments the would carry the next election for the republicans in Louisiana; that if they were not sent the nationals would carry the state, as the Catholic priests had more influence than their senators, and would put Irish Into office when they liked; that her action in reference to the famous letter wss a necessity, and that she was tired and disgusted with the investigation committee, as it was a farce, etc; and finally, that she had not derided to enter politics again, but if she did she would join the nationals. Flnetnated. fJoplin (Mo.) Herald. There is no metal mined in the United States which has fluctuated so much its price as has leadora. Fifteen years ago it was worth $110 per 1,000 pounds, while to-day it is dull at less than $20 per 1,000 pounds. In 1858 it -sold at tbe mines at 18, while 40 years ago, when the northern mines were first opened, $0 and $S was considered a fair price. But at that time transportation was difficult and expensive. It is lower to-day than it has been for 20 years, acd in fact below its intrinsic value. Ann Morgan, the famous "fasting girl" of Wales, has been discharged cured from tho infirmary at Aborystwi Ji. A Luxury. The Unique Terfumes made by Dr. Trice are indeed a luxury; their fragrance as sweet and exhilarating as a walk in a garden of flowers at evening close. Dr. Price's odors are truly as sweet and natural as flowers freshly gathered. Try his Floral Riches; it Is a cologne water of delightful fragrance.

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