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THE NEWS.

A Madrid telegram of the 7th, dated midnight, says a summary of the message ot President Grant, sent by cable, had caused great excitement in that city, and was the occasion of a hasty meeting of the Cabinet. The streets were crowded and the newspapers had issued extras containing that portion relating to Cuban affairs and the discussion of the question of belligerent righto. A London dispatch of the 7th says the steamer Deutschland had gone ashore on Long Bands, off the coast of Essex, England, during a heavy northeast storm. About fifty of the passengers and crew were supposed to have been drowned. The remainder bad been landed at Harwich. John Q. Bmith, formerly Member of Congress from Ohio, was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs on the 7th and accepted the position. The German Up-Town Savings Hank •of New York city suspended ofl the 7th, with liabilities estimated at $830,000. It is said the officers expect to pay at least •eighty cents on the dollar. The London Timet of the 9th, in an editorial on President Grant’s message, says: “ If Spain cannot suppress the Cuban rebels it would be hard to expect the United States to let the work of devastation proceed unchecked out of regard to the nominal sovereignty of Spain. Spain is on trial. The limits of her power to restore •order will be the limits of her righto.” 'The production of coal in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania is to be suspended from Deo. 18 to Jan. 22, and possibly until the opening of navigation in the spring, on account of an excess of supply. At the Council of the Union League •of America, held in Philadelphia on the ;Bth, a declaration of principles was .-adopted, as follows: That the credit of the Government must be maintained at home and abroad; that such improvements as shall benefit commerce and labor be granted by the Government; that public schools should be fostered and protected from sectarian interference; that church and State shall remain free and independent, and that all citizens of the United States shall he accorded all righto, civil and religious, provided they obey the letter and spirit of the law and support the Government. A Davenport (Iowa) servant-girl named Mary Ann Kinnerly attempted to kindle a fire with kerosene oil on the morning of the 7th, and was terribly burned. A State Convention in Ohio was held at Columbus on the Bth, to consider the vagrant-tramp question. Seventy-eight delegates were present. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the existence in Ohio of tramps has become a growing evil that can only be eradicated by giving them remunerative employment; to this end the plan of establishing work-houses in all cities and towns sufficiently large to maintain them is recommended, and additional legislation by which any district composed of one or more townships may be authorized.to erect such houses, or to form chain-gangs, is to be asked for; that magistrateß.be given authority to arrest all vagrants and, upon conviction, to commit them to the work-houses; that this systetot es work-houses to be effective must extend over the whole State; that the furnishing of free transportation to tramps from one point to another is dis- . approved of; that after work-houses are established private charity to vagrants should 1 entirely cease, and that the proper authorities should be authorized to employ persons committed to the workhouses on the public highways or at other labor outside the work-house. Rev. Dr. McLaren, the new Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Illinois, wag formally consecrated mi the Bth. The ceremonies occurred in Chicago, and were of a solemn and imposing character. The consecration sermon was preached by Bishop “Welles, of Wisconsin. According to a Madrid dispatch of the 9th the Spanish newspapers had variously commented upon President Grant’s mess ige, but all declare that his utterances are no more alarming than heretofore, and do not believe that intervention is intended. Gen. Saballs, according to a Hendaye dispatch of that date, had been sentenced by court-martial to four years’ imprisonment for treason. An explosion of fire-damp in the coalmine at Methley, near Leeds, England, on the 9th, caused the death of six miners. In the French Assembly on the 9th balloting began for the election of the seventy - five Senators who are to hold office for life. Due d’Audiffret Pasqnier, the President of the Assembly, and M. Martel, First Vice-President, were the only ones elected. The Left developed unexpected strength, their vote averaging 325 against 317 east for the candidates of the Right. The Prince of Lippe Detmold died on the 9tlh The principal officers of the Kentucky State Grange, elected at Louisville on the 9th, Were: Master, M. D. Davie; Overseer, ,W. D. Btone; Lecturer, Dr. R. D. Smith; Treasurer, J. W. Clark; Secretary, Eugene Barnes; Executive Committee, F. Gano, J. H. Harris, Richard Waters. At* St-. Louis, on the 9th, the Grand Jury in the United States District Court voted—eighteen to two—to indict Gen. Babcock for conspiracy to defraud the revenue. The jury addressed a letter to ex-Dist.-Atty Patrick and ex-United States Marshal^Newcomb informing them that no evidence had been brought out implicating them in the frauds. They also indited a letter to the President thanking Aim sot the support he had given tothe investigation, and tendering him their esteem and confidence. A dispatch v»i received from Atty.-Gen. Pierre-

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME 11.

pont announcing the removal of ex-Senator Henderson, of counsel for the prosecution, in consequence of an alleged attack upon the President in his address to the jury at the time of Avery’s conviction. Subsequently the revocation of his commission was suspended to allow a copy of his speech to be forwarded to Washington. Great excitement prevailed, and it was reported that all the counsel had determined to stand by Henderson and go out with him if he was -removed. The Military Court of Inquiry demanded by Gen. Babcock met in Chicago on the 9th, organized, and adjourned to await the arrival of the necessary testimony from St. Louis. The committee of the Arkansas Legislature appointed to inquire into United States Senator Dorsey’s election have made a unanimous report that they find no proof to substantiate the charges of bribery and corruption in his election. The report was adopted by the Legislature without a dissentinr vote. A Berlin spscial of the 10th says the negotiations with Turkey by Germany, Austria and Russia contemplate the establishment of perfect equality between Christian and Turk. A Constantinople dispatch of the 10th says an imperial decree had been officially announced reforming and reorganizing the legal tribunals of Turkey. The city of Paris has voted a subscription of $2,000 to the fund for the Centennial statue of Liberty in New York harbor. The British Parliament has been summoned to meet on the Bth of February. The Senate, on the 9th, confirmed the nominations of Messrs. Chandler as Secretary of the Interior, Pierrepont as At-torney-General, New as United States Treasurer, and John Q. Smith as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The bill lately introduced in the Senate by Mr. Morton respecting the counting of the votes for President and Vice-President is the bill on the same subject which was prepared by the Privileges and Elections Committee and reported to the Senate last February. A riot occurred at Rolling Fork, Miss., on the 10th, between whites and blacks, in which seven negroes, including the leaders, were killed. No whites were hurt. In a letter signed by him as Governor of Louisiana McEnery regrets the action of McMillan in withdrawing his credentials as Senator from that State, and gives it as his opinion that McMillan has seriously erred in the conclusions to which he has arrived. George Reynolds was found guilty of polygamy at Salt Lake on the 10th, and remanded for sentence. The Arkansas Legislature adjourned sine die on the 10th. The schooner Cornelius B. Windiate foundered on Lake Michigan in one of the late storms, and her entire crew of ten men perished. The Kentucky State Grange has adopted resolutions favoring Government aid to the Texas Pacific Railroad.

The indictment against Gen. Babcock and the capias for his arrest reached Chicago on the 10th. A Cabinet meeting was held in Washington on the same day, and the action of the President in the discharge ot Gen. Henderson was sustained. The Military Court of Inquiry in Gen. Babcock’s case met in Chicago, and voted to adjourn from day to day until the result of the St. Louis trial was known. The Opinion If ationale of Lima, Peru, of a late date, says that while repairs were being made on the San Andres Hospital, on the 2d, a wall, on being thrown down, was found to have been hollow, and filled with human remains. - Between 4,000 and 5,000 skeletons were taken out. They appeared to be from 150 to 200 years old, and all had fragments of clothing upon them. They were believed to have been the victims of the Inquisition. A dynamite explosion occurred on the docks at Bremer Haven on the 11th, which caused the death of sixty of the by-stand-ers and four of the passengers of the steamer Mosel, then about to leave for New York. The explosive was in a passenger’s baggage. A Hendaye telegram of the 11th says several Carlist soldiers had lately bee.n frozen to death. The Carlist forces in that region numbered 52,000 men, with 105 pieces of artillery. A Paris dispatch of the 12th says all France was intensely excited over the pending Senatorial election. The Left had so far secured a majority, and their success was thought to mean a disturbance of the present conservative condition of affairs. The Bourse was greatly excited, and the funds had fallen largely. Sir Houston Stewart, Vice-Admiral ot the British navy, is dead. Speaker Kerr was the recipient of a serenade at Willard’s Hotel, in Washington, on the night of the 11th, and responded in a brief speech. The bill recently introduced into the House for the regulation of postage on printed matter provides that on and after June 1, 1876, postage shall be charged on pamphlets, transient newspapers, etc., at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, and that the postage on all other mailable matter of the third class shall be unchanged. The agricultural report for November shows that the corn crop of 1875 is onefourth larger than that of 1874, and one of the heaviest ever grown In America. The same is true of potatoes, both as regards quality and quantity; while all the tobac-co-growing States show a large increase df product. The newly-appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Q. Smith, has taken

OUR AIM : TO FEAR GOD, TELL THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1875.

charge of the Indian Bateau in Washington. The Republican National Committee will meet in Washington on the 13th of January for the purpose of determining upon the time and place for holding the next Republican National Nominating Convention. William Delaney was recently hanged in New York for the murder, in August last, of Capt. Lawrence, on board the schooner Cow Boy. A. number of Methodist ministers, at a meeting in Boston a few days ago, under the lead of Bishop Haven, adopted a resolution favoring the renomination of President Grant “ as a measure of public safety.” Several Methodist ministers at Salt Lake City, Utah, at a recent meeting, protested against this action on the part of their Boston brethren, and passed a resolution denouncing the President for his action toward that Territory. The ice was ten inches thick in some portions ot the Erie Canal on the 10th. The Moody and Sankey revival meetings in Philadelphia on the 12th were crowded. At the women’s meeting in the afternoon 11,000 persons were present, and fully 300 visited the inquiry-rooms. The jury in the case of Burbach and Reynolds, Milwaukee whisky-rectifiers, brought in a verdiot of guilty on the evening of the llth. Gen. Babcock gave bail at Chicago in the sum of SIO,OOO, on the llth, for his appearance for trial before the United States District Court at St. Louis. Judge Bangs, of Lacon, 111., has been appointed to succeed J. D. Ward, of Chicago, as United States District-Attor-ney for the Northern District of Illinois. In his late message to the California Legislature Gov. Irwin urged that the State endeavor to induce such a modification of the treaty between the United States and China as will restrict Chinese immigration. James O. Broadhead, a prominent Democratic lawyer of St. Louis, has been appointed to succeed Gen. Henderson as an assistant in the whisky trials at St. Louis. He accepted the position on the llth.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

The Senate of the Forty-fourth Congress was called to order at twelve o’clock on the 6th, by the President pro tern., Senator Ferry, of Michigan. After prayer by the Ch aplain the credentials of David M. Key, appointed to sncceed the late Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, were presented, and he was sworn In. Mr. Boutwell formally announced the death of Vice-President Wilson... .The Honse was called to order by Mr. McPherson, Clerk of the Forty-third Congress. Two hundred and eighty-six members answered to their names. The vote for Speaker resulted as follows: M. C. Kerr (the nominee of the Democratic Caucus), 178; J. G s Blaine, 103; scattering, 8. Mr. Kerr was conducted to the chair, and returned thank* rem rks, promising complete fairness and impartiality toward all. The oath of office was administered to the Speaker by Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, as the oldest continuous member of the House, and the Speaker then administered the oath to the members. The nominee* of the Democratic caucns for the minor offices of the House were then elected by resolution, and sworn in. A resolution was adopted that the ru es of the House in the Forty-third Congress be the rules of the present House, except Rules 166 ajid 167, and also providing for the appointment of a Committee on Rules, to consist of the Speaker and four members. Rules 166 and 167 are those adopted in the last Congress requiring motions to suspend the rales to be seconded by a majority, and forbidding the entertainment of dilatory motions. The usual committees to notify the Senate and President were appointed. On the 7th the President’s message was read in the Senate and ordered printed. James E. English was sworn in as Senator from Connecticut, in plaCh of O. S. Ferry, deceased.... The drawing of seats took place in the House, after which the President’s meesage was read and ordered printed. A petition of W. H. Trescott and others,, of Sooth Carolina, with reference to the right of the Third Congressional District of that State, was presented and referred. The Hou e adjourned to the 10th. On the Bth a large number of memorials were presented In th* Senate, among them one from the Centennial Board of Finance asking for an appropriation of $t,50 , »,(X0. Among the bills introduced was one by Mr. Morton to provide for and regulate the countin - of votes for President and Vioe-President, and the disposition of questions arising therefrom. Mr. Morton also submitted a*jotnt resolution to amend the Constitution of thqftnited States so as to elect the President and Vice-President by a direct vote of the people and to abolish the Electoral College. On the 9th the Standing and Select Committees were announced in the Senate. A letter was presented from W. L. McMillan asking permission to withdraw his credentials as Senator-elect from Louisiana by the McEnery Legislature, and an order was submitted that the request be granted, but objection being made It was laid over. Among the bills Introduced and referred was one by Mr. Bogy authorising the payment of duties on imports in legal-tender and National Bank notes, alter July 4,1876. Adjourned to the 18th. On the 10th the Senate was not in session.... A resolution was adopted by the Honse adding a committee of eleven, to he known as the Committee on Mississippi Levees. After some debate on a request to introduce a bill providing for a reduction of postage on pamphlets, transient newspapers, etc., the Hous<^ adjourned to the 14th.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. . Lit* Stock.—Beef Cattle—slo.2sol3.6o. Hogs —Live, *7.80®7.75. Sheep—s4.so®«.so. Bu*adstoftß. —Flour —Good to choice, $5.55® 6.0); white wheat extra, $6.05®8.00. Wheat—No. it Chicago, [email protected]; Mo. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.26® 1.27. Bye—Western and State, 87@85c. Barley—sl.os®l.lS. Corn—Mixed Western, 73H® 7:c. Oats—Mixed Western, 43@45c, Provisions.—Pork—Mess, $21.90®22.00. Lard —Prime Steam, 12X®13c. Cheese—6@l2?4 c. Woot.—Domestic fleece. 43265 c. CHICAGO. Liys Stock.—Beeves—Choice, [email protected]; good, $4.50@5*5; medium, $4.00®4.50; butchers’ stock, $2.75(254.0); stock cattle, [email protected]. Hogs—Live, $6.85®7.40. Sheep—Good to choice, $4.00® 4.50. Provisions,—Butter—Choice, 25®32c. Eggs— Fresh, 24®25c. Pork—Mess, $19.30©19.40. Lard-slS.3s® 12.37#. Bbradotoyts:—Flour—White Winter Extra, $5.25®7.75; spring extra, s4.2s@'S.trO. Wheat— Spring, No. 8, 99*c®$1.00. Corn-No. 2, 48* ®46c. Oats—No. 2, 30*®30V4c. Rye—No. 2. 68@68*c. Barley—No. 2, 87®87*c. Loan—First and Second Clear, $40.00® 49.00; Common Boards, $li.00®l2.00; Fencing,

[email protected]); “A” Mdngtes, $2.75©8.00; Lath, $1.75©2,<», RABT LEMSTY. Liv* Stock. —Beesee—Best, sgtosMO; me-, diom, $4.3505 CO. Hog*-Yorker* $6.«07.20; Philadelphia, $7.3007- 5. Sheep-Beet, ss.*3© 5.50: medium, $4.7505.00.

Committees of the United States Senate.

The Standing and Select Committees were announced in the Senate at Wash* ington on the 9th, as follows: Privilege* and Election*—Morton, Chairman; Logan, Mitchell, Wadleigh, Cameron of Wiscun*in; McMillan, Sanlabury, Merrimon, Cooper. Foreign Relations--Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Chairman: Morton, Hamlin, Howe, Frelinghuyeen, Conklin, McCreery, Bogy, Eaton. Finance—Sherman, Chair ..an; Morrill, of Vermont, Ferry, Frelinghny*en, Logan, Boutwell, Jones of Nevada, Bayard. Keraan. , " Appropriation*—Morrill, of Maine, Cnairman; Wlndum, West, Sargent, Allison, Dorsey, Davie, Withers. Wallace. Commerce—Conkling, Chairman; Spencer, Bontwell, « ameron of Wisconsin, Burnside, McMillan, Ransom, Dennis, McDonald. Manufactures —Robertson, Chairman; Booth, Bruce, English, Wallace. . Agriculture—Frelinghuysen, Chairman; Robertson, Harvey, Davis, Jordan. Military Affairs—Logan, Chairman; Cameron of Pennsylvania Spencer, Clayton, Wadleigh, Burnside, Gor on, Randolph, Cockrell. • Naval Affaire—Cragin, Chairman; Anthony, Morrill of Maine, Sargent, Conover, Norwood, Whyte. Judiciary—Edmunds, Chairman; Conkling, Frelinghuysen, Wright, Howe, Thurman, Stevenson. Postofflces and Post-Roads—Hamlin, Chairman; Ferry, Dorsey, Jones of Nevada, Dawes, Paddock, Sanlsbury, Maxey, Key. Pnbllc Lands—Oglesby* Chairman; Wlndom, Harvey, Hamilton. Paddock, Booth, Kelly, McDonald, Jones of Florida. Private Land Chairman; Bayard, Bogy, Edmunds, Chrlstiancy. Indian Affairs—Allison, Chairman; Oglesby, Morrill of Maine, Ingalls, Clayton, Bogy, MeCreery. Pensions—lngalls. Chairman; Allison, Hamilton, Booth, Bruce, McDonald, Withers. Revolutionary Claims—Stevenson, Chairman; Johnston,. Goldthwiite, Morrill of Vermont, Wright. Claims—Wright, Chairman; Mitchell, Wadleigh, Chrlstiancy, McMWan, Cameron of Wisconsin, Caperton, Cockrell, Jones of Florida. District -of Colnmbla—Spencer, Chairman; Hitchcock, Dorsey, Ingalls, Robertson, Merrimon, English. Patents—Wadleigh, Chairman; Wlndom, Dawes, Johnston, Keman. Public Buildings and Grounds-Morrill, of Vermont, Chairman; Cameron of Pennsylvania, Paddock, Cooper, Whyte. Territories—Hitchcock, Chairman; Cragin, Patterson, Chrlstiancy, Sharon, Cooper, Maxey. Railroads —West, Chairman; Hitchcock, Cragin, Howe, Hamilton, Mitchell, Dawes, Ransom, Kelly, Caperton, Eaton. Mines and Mining—Sargent, Chairman; Hamlin, Alcorn, Harvey, Sharon, Goldthwaite, Randolph. Revision of the Laws of the United States— Boutwell, Chairman; Alcorn, Chrlstiancy, Caperton, Wallace. Education and Labor—Patterson, Chairman; Morton, Morrill of Vermont, Burnside, Bruce, Sharon, Gordon, Maxey, Key. Civil Service and Retrenchment—Clayton, Chairman; Wright, Oglesby, Alcorn, Patterson, McCreery, Randolph. To Andit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—Jones, of Nevada, Chairman; Dawes, Dennis. Printing—Anthony, Chairman; Sherman, Sauls*lJhrary— Howe, Chairman; Edmunds, Ransom. On Rules —Perry, Chairman; Hamlin, Merrimon. Engrossed Bills—Bayard, Chairman; Wither*, Anthony. Enrolled Bills—Conover, Chairman; Robertson, Kelly. On Levees of the Mississippi River—Alcorn, Chairman; Clayton, Harvey, Cooper, Cockrell. To Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service—Boutwell,Chairman; Conkling, Allison, Merrimon, EatonOn Transportation Rentes to the Seaboard— Windom, Chairman; Sherman, West, Conover, Mitchell, Burnside, Norwood, Davis, Johnston.

What Gen. Henderson Said.

The following extracts are taken from ex-Benator Henderson’s speech before the jury in the Avery case at St. Louis, and contain the language which gave offense to the President and for which the latter, supported by his entire Cabinet, ordered his discharge as assistant in prosecuting the whisky cases at St. Louis: What right had Babcock to go to Douglas to Induce him to withdraw hiß agents? Douglas was placed in his position to see that the revenue laws of the Government were properly enforced. What business, then, had Douglas with him? When an official goes into office he should be free and independent of all influences except that of law, aDd if he recognizes any other master then this Government is tumbling down. Wbat right has the President to interfere with Commissioner Donglass in the proper discharge of his duties, or with the Treasurer? None; and Douglass showed a lamentable weakness of character when he listened to Babcock’s dictates. He should either have insisted that his orders, as they existed, be carried out, or should have resigned his office. Now why did Douglass bend the supple hinges of the knee and permit any interference by the President? This was Douglass’ own business, and he stood responsible for it under his official oath. He was bound to listen to no dictation from the President, Babcock, or any other officer, and it was his duty to see that the order was carried but or to resign. Would that we had officials who possessed more of that sterner stuff of which the office-holders of olden times were made. Why do they not leave their office when they cannot remain there honorably ? Is it to continue that because a man holds an office at the hands of another he is to be a bonded slave? The intellectual and fashionable young men of New Yoik are generally wearing “the shirt-pin squirt.” This beautiful work! of art costs about twenty-five cents. It cohsists of a hollow breast-pin, connected by a rubber tube with a small globe filled with water and concealed in the pocket of the wearer. The pin is generally in some grotesque shape. When the attention of anyone is attracted to it, and he leans over to examine it more closely—whizz! fizz! a small stream of water proceeds from the staring eyes or gaping mouth of the pin-head straight into the face of the inquisitive person. It is a noble amusement. * Dr. Derby, an oculist from Boston, is making experiments on the Amherst freshmen’s eyes, requiring them to read across a room lines of different-sized letters, both with the naked eye and with glasses of various decrees of magnifying power. His object is to refute a theory of the Germans that the continued application to books necessary to a student’s life produces near or shortsightedness. The experiment will be repeated when the freshmen have become seniors, and, perhaps, annually, and cannot fail to be of practical importance.— Republican. _ . A grocery firm at Del Norte, Col., is doing »trade of $250,000 per annum.

PROPOSALS.

An Irish girl who was very anxious that her scatter-brained brother should not be refused by the' demure young Englishwoman with whom he bad fallen desperately in love implored him to toy to propose with the seriousness becoming the occasion. He vowed solemnly that he would behave as if he were acting as chief mourner at his father’s funeral- The demure young lady, in imitation of many of her countrywomen, graciously accepted her wild Irish lover. She, however, confided to her bosom friend that Edmund had proposed in rather an odd way. He had taken her after church to see thefamily vault, and had there, in a sepulchral voice, asked her if she would like to* lay her bones beside his bones. This he evidently thought was a proper way to fulfill the promise made to his sister of treating the matter with becoming seriousness. It was happily his first and last effort in that direction. There must be many hundred thousand proposals made annually in the United Kingdom, but, as the verb “ to love” seems to admit of endless conjugations, perhaps we Bhall have ceased proposing, except by filling up a printed form, before all its variations are exhausted. At the commencement of each

year the Registrar-General can foretell with tolerable"ftgciiracy how many of Her Majesty’s subjects will enter Into the bonds of holy matrimony before its conclusion. A more than usually-abundant harvest might increase the number beyond his calculations; or a war might depress them; but his average would not be very far astray. But what Registrar-General can tell the average number of proposals which are made each year, or how many rejections go to make one marriage ? Indeed it is by no means easy to define exactly what is and what is not to be called a proposal. When a man says to a girl with whom he has waltzed several times that if he becomes a Benedict he hopes his wife will exactly resemble her and dress precisely as she does, if the girl answers: “ You must ask papa,” there may reasonably be a difference of opinion as to whether the pretty speech can be twisted into a proposal or not. When, however, a shy man, having got his mother to plead his cause, says to the beloved one, with a tremulous gasp: “ Won’t you do the thing my mother asked you?” there is no doubt that, to all intents and purposes, he has asked her to be his wife.

Proposals do not necessarily precede marriage, any more than does marriage necessarily succeed a proposal, and many a servant-maid becomes a wife without the young man with whom she has kept company for so many alternate Sundays ever asking her in plain words. Much of the romance of love-making has, in fact, disappeared since the number of marrying men has become so small in comparison with the number of women who wish to become wives. A disagreeable fellow with twenty thousand a year may not be able to win the particular Duke’s daughter oh whom he has set Lis heart, but he will not be condemned to a bachelor existence because he cannot find plenty of pretty young ladies ready to accept his name and help him to spend his fortune. It is not uncommon to hear a mother detail to her friends how Mr. Longacres would, have proposed to dear May, but that really, owing to the most extraordinary complication of circumstances, he never got an opportunity; and that now he is married to a designing little fortunehunter, and is miserable. She tells how one day he got so far as to propound a riddle to May, which, if she had only been able to guess it, would have certainly led the way to a declaration of his affection. Indeed it really did amount to a proposal, for what could be more plain than saying: “My first is myself, my second is a plaything, my whole you are.” Of course if a woman is a man’s idol he wants to marry her. But poor May became so agitated by the way in which Mr. Longacres looked at her that, although she had heard the riddle before, and recollected its answer the moment he was gone, the opportunity was unfortunately gone also. Then the mother goes on to say that she is quite sure one of Violet’s lovers intended to come to the point in returning from the Derby, but he lost so many dozen pairs of gloves from having backed the favorite that he also lost his temper. He scarcely spoke to anyone the whole way home, although she had taken care to give him an excellent luncheon and the driest of champagne. The next week he was ordered abroad, so of course had only time to say a hurried good-by. Generally speaking, this idea of men not being able to find opportunities to tell their love is arrant nonsense. A man may sometimes not propose where he fears to be refused, but when he wishes for a Yes, and is pretty certain he will get it, the question does not remain unasked, no matter what the difficulties which have to be overcome. There is no place where the ardent lover, if such a being still : exists, cannot tell his tale. There are ne circumstances, serious or gay, which cannot be turned to good account by a skillful wooer. True, many men are neither ardent nor skillful, and contrive almost to insult a woman while paying her the highest compliment in their power. But others know exactly when and where to press their suit with success. A young parson traveling in Palestine, and asked to join a pleasant party, amongst whose numbers he found a notable heiress of passionate piety, did well to restrain the expression of the ardor of Ms affection until he found himself lying at her feet on the slopes of the Mount of Olives, looking toward Jerusalem. Scarcely any girl with a spark of religion or poetry in her composition could have said No to a white tie and a pair of handsome brown eyes under such well-chose© circumstances.

NUMBER 14.

The officer whose leave had nearly expired without his having been able to bring a pretty little coquette to the point of acknowledging that she cared for him even a little wee bit was not unwise to take her, ostensibly for the purpose of sketching, to the top of the church tower, to lock the staircase door, put the key in his pocket, and vow that if she did not promise solemnly to marry Mm within a month he would throw himself off the parapet before her eyes, key and all. Of course he gained Ms. point, for he frightened her into tears, and then had things all his own way. 4 . ' u f, ' ’ More than one proposal has been made by underscoring the lines in the marriage service, “Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband,” and passing the book and pencil during the sermon to the adored one. It sometimes comes back with a faint but still visible stroke under “ I will.” It is curious how at least the semblance of religious feedings is apt to get mixed up with love-making; not of course to the absurd point of asking a blessing before each kiss, and returning thanks afterward, but a case of breach of promise scarcely ever comes to be tri&l that, when the letters of the defendant are read, they are not found crammed With prayers and texts. The piety was probably as real as the love, and both were genuine for the time being, and took wing together. A sort of revivalist religion seems somehow mysteriously allied to the tender passion, although truth-telling, which is supposed to be a Christian virtue, is a rare accompaniment. A great many recording angels could be kept fully employed in booking the fabrications, conscious or unconscious, with which a large proportion of proposals are embellished. But we will not try to bring a blush to the cheeks of those who remem, her their" misdeeds in this direction. It is often well even to act a little romance, if it gives pleasure and can be kept up. Although circumstances will not prevent a man who is earnest, and who has every reason to expect "a favorable reply, from trying his luck, still circumstances are the cause of many a proposal. Upon some trivial event, scarcely noticed at the time, has often turned the happiness or misery of many more people than the pair immediately concerned. An elderly man who is ridiculously fond of children has, for some reason, been prevented from marrying. He travels, by chance, with a charming little boy and girl, and thinks what he would hot give to he able to cariy them home with him. He looks at the mother of the children, whom he has scarcely before noticed; she has a mysterious little white cap inside her bonnet, which proclaims that she is a widow, but not a very recent one. He brightens up; it is like a fairy tale ; they find they have “ mutual friends;” he proposes as soup as he decently can, but is wise enough to say nothing about the children, except that he hopes to make a good parent. JJe vows, like everyone else, that this is the first time he was ever really in love, and that he fell a victim the moment he looked at her. A gentleman once confided to an old friend, who asked him to tell “ all about his marriage,” that the wife of his bosom had attained that enviable position simply by choosing at a supper-table blancmange instead of whipped cream. He had paid the girl such marked attention on several occasions that he felt she was warranted in expecting him to ask her to many him. He had no desire to have her for a wife, hut he resolved, while dancing with her at a ball, that she should become the unconscious arbiter of her own fatein fact that he would toss with her in dishes instead of half-crowns. If she had said whipped cream, he would have withdrawn from her acquaintance with a peaceful conscience, and never have thought of her again, except to congratulate himself on his escape.

If an old bachelor has been staying at a country house where there is a very pretty governess to whom he has been courteous and kind—if, having said good-by to her in her lonely school-room, he should discover when he got down-stairs that he had left his gloves on her table, and, hurrying back for them, find her in a confused mass amongst the sofa-cushions, sobbing convulsively—he must in common decency ask her what is the matter, even insist on knowing. If she replies that her tears flow because she has no home, what alternative has he but to try to comfort her, lose his train and ask her to share his home, even if that be only lodgings? Everyone knows numberless instances where a broken hope or even a sick head' ache has lead to a proposal, and shipwrecks and railway accidents are sometimes excellent match-makers. It is said that during the London season this year there were singularly few proposals. Perhaps it was the prevalence of east wind. Perhaps it was that the gentlemen were so hurried about from pigeon-matches to Lord’s, and from Prince’s to Richmond, that they had no time to think of such things. However, the average seems to have been made up according to natural laws afterward, if one may judge by the number of fashionable marriages which have taken place during the autumn, and there are several still to come off. A newspaper with exceeding had taste takes upon itself to assert what namber of proposals one of these brides elect has received. We need not ask if the old etiquette that a lady does not publish her rejections has, with other good things, gone out of fashion; for of coarse it was only the penny-a-liner’s inventive impertinence.—London. Saturday Review. A Sr. Lotus “pauper” died the other day and was buried. Then they found out that he had taken his dost to dust with him, to &e extent of about S7OO.

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Thebe is one OeqUle to five Monpons in Utah . Queen Victoria’s pet horses are handsome grays. . The enrolled militia of California numbers 118,823. A lad with drop-sickle tefidenci^S—4 lazy farm boy. ' “ Thou art so near aad yet so Air,” said the maiden as she hugged her seal-skin, about her. Kansas has 106,000 sheep and 75,000 dogs. Scarcely a .sheep awl a nklf for each dog. jErt A man who must draw the line some-, where—-The surveyor . —New York Com,' mercial Adteriitef. . * Good rules, won’t always work both ways. For instance, to carp at Turkey doesn’t make a Turkey carpet. »ttnf The German Empire has 800 Consuls in foreign lands. Twenty-two of these are in the United States. To the surprise of everyone but her husband a California woman has just licked a lion in a single combat The thrifty farmers who take poultry, into Hartford, Conn., have taken ito pitting in chunks of lead before they are weighed. There is something in pronunciation, after all. A Detroiter found U out wjpfn,, he went into a grocery and inquired .for “ oblong” tea. They “ cure consumption” in Reading* Pa., by giving the patients doses of pH made from dog fat, and feeding them ohs dog-steak fried. " ,1 H .It For a fit of idleness- Count the ticking, of a clock; do this for an hour, and you will be .glad to pull off your cost the next one and go to work. ; • In Boston women have so thoroughly proved their entire fitness as school -officers that their re-election is almost unanimously called for. o; .ui * ‘‘What makes water hard ?” is a quesr. tion recently propounded in the Popular • Science Monthly , and every school-boy yells: “ Freezing weather!’?. Mb. Bixdd asked her: “Rose, wilt tliou be mine?” Rose answered: “lain 1 sorry it cannot be—but a rose cannot be come a bud.” Then he arose and departed thence. Over the porch ot the old South Church, at Boston, is chiseled; “Behqld! I have set before you an open doorj” aid : under, on the door, is painted in emphatic letters: “Positively no admittance.” A maiden once s&id: “ I’ll not mate * With a man who ha* not fortune great.” So she pouted and wilted, And scorned to be mated, She’s a maiden yet—age forty-eight. Guilford, Vt., had a shocking suicide, the other day, the victim being a boy of twelve, by the name of Cross.' On coming home from school he bade his mates good-by and then deliberately shot himself.

Speaking of school examinations, the editor of the San Antonio Herald says: “ We examined one of our boys, the other day, with a fine comb, and it is asking too much for us to say we were pleased with the result.” An association of officers of National Banks in Vermont was farmed at Monti, pelier, in that State, recently, to provide for better protection against burglars and for the speedier punishment of those who commit crimes against banks, -.j■' Once in a while a man gets the starch so thoroughly taken outof him that it’s no use trying. A few days ago a prairie schooner passed eastward through Peoria.'. On its canvas cover was painted in large . letters the legend: “Going back to my wife’s folks.” The Utes at the Uncapahgre Agency will be poorly sheltered this winter. The contractors announce that li Will be impossible to complete the new quarters short of another summer. The Indians are not pleased with the outlook and threaten to abandon the reservation and winter in the towns. A Williamsburg (L.L) man, the father of seventeen children, found a basket at his basement-door the other morning containing a little golden-haired cherub about two weeks old. A tag appended to the handle of the basket bore this legend: “You appear tobs fond of children. I ain’t. Please accept this one.” A Manchester (England) firm, which takes all its employes for a day’s trip to the seaside during the summer, decided last year to visit Blackpool. It is the general custom of the workers to have a dip in the sea beforejbeginnning the usual amusements. “Eh, mon, how dirty ye are!” said one hale Lancashire lad to his fellow-bather. “Missed the trip last year,” was the laconic rejoinder. “ Madam,” he said, “you see before you a blighted fellow-creature! 1 ain’t a tramp, marm, I ain’t! I have had my little store of wealth laid away for these rainy days; but ah! marm, a relative and speculation brought me to this sad state In which you see me! I was Jong on E. railroad stock, marm, and—eh? Wood? Me!. Me saw that wood? Madam, I&el you cannot -ealize my situation. Good morning!” ! ’ Daniel Perkins, of Pleasant Valley, Vt., recently had a desperate fight with an enormous black-snake. When within six feet of each other the snake raised his head about tour feet from the ground and jumped for the young man’s throat. He caught the snake by the neck in snch a way as to guard himself from its fangs, and by main force twisted its neck completely off. The snake measured nine feet in length, and in the larger part of its body bad a circumference of twelve inches. Perkins was so exhausted after the battle that he could not drag his victim homo.