Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 28, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 August 1872 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMJ1AUY. Thf Kaxt.

Eight stores wre burned iu Klniira, N. Y.

on tbe 2d ult. Lom, 50,1)00.

A gang of river pirates recently forced an

eotranoe to the Hamburg dock, at Hobikeu

N. Y.. aud stole 6Ü,U0ü worth of watcl.es.

The Cuban privateer Pioneer, lying in the

harbor cf Newport, has been seized bv the

Government. Her commander, after protect

tug against the seizure, with true Spanish

bravado, tired off one of tbe privateer 's guns,

nailed the Cuban flag to tbe mast, threw bis word overboard, and, with bin crew, left the

vessel iu high dudgeon.

Gen it Smith is using his personal influence

toward the release of some of tbe Ku-Klux

confined in the Albany (N. T.) Peuitentiar.v,

who are evidently victims of circumstance.

Horace itieeiey is mralizing in Inn native

hoath, in New Hampshire. 8. L. M. Barlow has been elected Grand Sa cbem of the Tammany Society.

Gen. Grant ami Phil Sheridan have been in

dulging in a little piscatorial sport on the St.

Lawrence. The pair are reported as having

whipped out a eauoe load of bass and pickerel

in one day. Two boxes of diamonds, rubies and sap

phires from the Arizoua diamond fields have

been on exhibition in MtW York. S. L. M. Barlow, one of the trustees of tbe recently formed Diamond Miniug C impany, states that they have pre-eaipted 3.000 acres, and have 50 men at work. He sutes, also, that tbe discovery was made eighteen months ago, and that as far back as a year ago 300.000 worth Of Arizona diamonds .were received in New York. Forty thousand dollars' worth of smuggled silks were seized in New York the other day. A new oil well took tire at Titusville, Pa., recently, and fatally burned four men. Simeon Lelaud, one of the well-known Iceland brothers, hotel proprietors, died at New Rochelle, N. Y.. last week. The Continental Sugar Refinery, in South

Boston, bas been destroyed by tire. The loss

it 500.000.

i tie Grand Jury has presented an indict

ment against L. J. Jenuiugs, of tbe New

York Times, for libel on Gen. Kilpatrick.

Gen. Diven has resigned the Erie Vice-

Presidency.

A wild bulrbroko from a herd iu Williams

burg. N. Y., the other day. Tbe infuriated

bovine overtook a small boy and crushed him to the pavement. A few vards farther be

picked up another boy on his horns and pitched him over a fence. A man who was crossing

Division avenue was tossed high in the air by the animal, and. falling on bis bead, was fatally injured. An indiscriminate fire with pistols was then opened upc.u the brute, but without effect. The driver of an ice wagon finally

seized an axe, and, with a well-directed blow,

brought his bullsbip to the earth. During the firing a stray pistol ball struck Mr. E. D. Chap-

pell. Superintendent of the Roosevelt Ferrv

Company, inflicting a probably fatal wouud.

The French band gave a farewell concert in

Boston on the 8th inst.

Two Pittsburgh burglars entered the resi

üence of Lieut. George H. Evans, last week.

ine gallant Lieutenant made war upon the

invaders, putting a bullet through the heart of

one of them and putting the other to flight.

according to tbe New York Bulletin, one ob

ject of tbe Commission now sitting at Browns

ville, Texas, is to pave the wav for the annex

ation of the Rio Grande territory to the United

States. The Bulletin says a proposition will

be made bv our Government for a joint mili

tary occupation of the States of Tamaulipas

ana ueva Leon, with a view to the mutual

protection of tbe lives and property of theciti

zens of both countries. Should this proposi

tion be accepted, tbe Administration will, in

tne course of time, open negotiations for the

transfer of the whole territory thus occupied in consideration of a small indemnitv.

tho are near tbe unit I. cm line of New

Mexico and Ariaoua. Parties in San Fran

cisco have beeu telegraphing to Denver. Col.,

asking for information, but the Deuventes

seem to be as much iu the dark as the 'Friscaus . A police officer named G'Mara wan wantonly

muruereu in t uicago, on me atn uist., by a notorious rough named llaffertv. The mur

derer is under arrest. Miss McLaughlin, of Clayton county, Iowa,

kindled her last tire on the 5tb mat. She used

keroseue.

Tbe assessed valuation of the real and per

sonal property of the State of Iowa for 1871

is 348,1 .4.531 an increase iu one year of

13.180,531. A grain elevator, containing 155,000 bushels of corn and 50,000 bushels ot wheat, was burned in Chicago on the 5th iust. Total loss about iao.000. Chicago's mortality roll for the month of

July foots up a total of 1,872, of whom over half were children under one year of age. The deaths in June numbered 813.

The wife of Mr. John Mathewsou, a respect

able farmer of Fulton county, 111., was foully murdered by some unknown person, last week, while tbe family were engaged in harvest work

some distance from the house.

One of tbe most terrible hail storms ever

known recently passed over Lyon count v,

Iowa, causing immeuse damage. Hail-stones ten to fourteen inches in circumference

poured down for thirty minutes, riddling win

dow-glass, and, iu many instances, passing completely through tbe shingled roofs of bouses.

Tbe first new wheat of the Beason. compris

ing a consignment of ten car loads, was re

ceived iu Milwaukee on the 8th iust.

A dialK'lical attempt was made, last week, to

burn the town of Steubenville, Ohio a number of houses in different partB of the town

being fired simultaneouslv. The fires were

extinguished before they gained much uead-wav.

The South.

Territories adapted to its growth. This distiibiniou will be completed during the current mouth, whon a large distribution of rye will follow. Tbe paymeuta made from the Treasury, by warrants, during July, were as follows : Civil and miscellaneous, 7,311.582; war, $3,5011,959 ; navy, 'J,718,4()a ; Interior, pensious and Indians, a,5U!,O0. Total. 10,040.783. Treasurer Spinner, during an attack of vertigo, the other day, fell honi his chair aud cut bis head severely. Commodores John L. Worden aud George F. Emmons are to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral. Cliuton R. Winslow, son of Admiral Winslow, of the navy, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head, at San Fraucisco, on the 7th ot August. The saw mill of John MeGraw. ol Poi ts-

mouth, Mich., the largest and most complete

isriusn i.ninassy ut Constantinople is investi

gating the affair.

Late news from Mataiiioraa, Mexico, says that Trovino accepts the amnesty if theOovornment will remove Gouza Ayala and become

responsible for his revolutionary acts. The Italian municipal elections have resulted favorably to the Liberal candidates in nearly every instance. The Spanish Cabinet has submitted the

draft of a bill to King Amadeus for the aboli

tion of slavery throughout the dominions of Spain. Considerable excitement has beeu created throughout Ireland by tbe reported discovery of gold near the town of kinsale. The French Government still keeps a stroug military force at the coal mines, the scene of the recent disturbances. The object of tho Chicago geilt, said to be at work among the

miners, is to luduco the disaffected

iu the country, was totally destroyed by tire grate to America. The Internationals of Bel-

on the 7th of August, together with 4,000,00(1

feet of lumber. Lose, 800,000 1 insured for

175,000.

Wm. Hewitt, one of Cleveland's wealthiost

and best citizens, died last week, of Bright's disease of the kidnevs.

Tne Wert. m m ....

ine motion ror a new tnal in the case of

Mrs. Clem, the Indianapolis murderess, has been overruled, and she is again sentenced to

the Penitentiary for life. The Southern Railroad Companv ban noso

tiated 150,000 worth of seven per cent, bonds

of the city of Cincinnati, at per cent

being tho first installment of 10,000,000

which the city has voted to that project. The boiler in a stone quarry at Aurora, BL exploded last week, blowing tbe propnetor,' Blasev Berthold. 150 feet, literally tearing bim to pieces. Dr. Andrews, of Indianapolis, has been elected President of the Indiana University, at Oreencastle. in place of Bishop Bowman. The contract for concrete stone to be used in the foundation of the new Custom House in Chicago has been awarded to the Lemont (Bl.)Stone Company, at 2.65 per cubic yard. There is quite an excitement in San Francisco over the diamond discoveries in Arizona and many are preparing for a nish to the diggings. A little child of Dr. Heuchler, of Springfield, 111., wandered into the doctor's office and

drank some poisonous drug, from the effects of which the little fellow died. Lieut. Wheeler's great scientific expedition has left Salt Lake, Utah, for Northern Arizona and Eastern Nevada. The partv comprises 150 men and extensive outfit, mules, wagons supplies, etc. Advices from the Cheyenne Indian Agency, in Dakota, represent that there is a general disposition among the redskins of that tribe to make trouble, and that a general outbreak is imminent. The German Catholics of Cincinnati, in meeting assembled, have expressed their indignation at the expulsion of the Jesuits from Germany. Tho exact locality of the diamond fields recently discovered somewhere out Wast is puzzling tue uninitiated. It is said by some

The troubles in Pope county. Ark., still con

tinued at last accounts, and many people are

leaving the eountrv. Armed bands of militia

are still at large, despite the Governor's proclamation calling on them to disband . Gov. Hadley threatens to put the count v under

martial law. The evidence taken before the Frontier Commission authorized by Congress, and now sitting at Brownsville, Texas, implicates Gen. Cortinas in assisting the thieves in running off cattle from Texas into Mexico. It also establishes the fact that eighty miles of the most fertile river frontier in Texas is unsettled on account of the insecurity of life and prop

erty from these Mexican raids. Advices from Charleston, 8. C, state that the drought is so excessive throughout the State that the crops are almost parching up, and that if rain does not fall soon there will be nothing left for the caterpillars to eat. The cotton crop in some sections of the State will be an entire failure. Annie Gibson, of Nashville, committed suicide, the other day, by banging herself. Tucker Ballard, Marshal of Crab Orchard, Ky , shot Martin Delaney dead, last week, while attempting to arrest him. The investigations being prosecuted by the

United States Commission at Brownsville.

Texas, reveal a fearful record of murder and plunder. Custom-House officers, drovers and othears have been murdered in and around

Brownsville by bands of Mexican marauders,

and droves of cattle have been seized and driven over the river within sight of the city. Stolen cattle are, on arrival on Mexican soil, rebranded by the thieves, and their recovery

is tnus rendered impossible. The feeling among the people is that they must protect themselves, and a war of races is looked upm

as inevitable.

Another outrage has been committed on the

Texas border. An officer of the Mexican armv.

at the head of an armed force, recently crossed the Rio Grande, seized the owner of a ranch.

and forcibly took him into Mexican territory,

together with a portion of bis stock.

A young man named Thomas met with a

shocking death at Louisville, the other day. He was caught in the machinery of a paper

mill and his head literally torn from bis body.

Col. King, tbe largest stock-raiser in Texas.

was NüautlT attacked bv a band of Mexican

near his ranch. King escaped by flight, but

one of his employes, a German, was killed. It is said these men were sent to murder King,

in order to prevent his appearing to testify before the Commission at Brownsville.

Nicholas C. Sinnott, a prosperous Chicago

merchant before the great fire, but ruined by

that calamity, committed suicide in St. Louis

recentlv.

Evidence before the American Commission

in Brownsville, Texas, show that tho cattle stolen by the Mexicans, near Brownsville, numbered 60,000 head valued at $1,000,000. The

Commission express astonishment at the

crimes and outrages the Mexicans have perpetrated on the people of Texas, as shown by tbe testimony taken.

A Brownsville. Tex., special says that the

details of the Mexican outrages, as given before tbe Commission, are shocking. Men

are marie poor in a single dav, the raiders

crossing their herds over the river, which is a weekly occurrence. Men are killed for a

dollar tribute. There is a reiirn of hlonl in

the country, and people are armed night and day. By a railroad collision on the Mobile and

Ohio railroad, near Humboldt, Tenn.. last week, throe negroes were killed and flvs wounded. The committee appointed at a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for the purpose of seeking a suitable location for that institution have decided upon Louisville as the most desirable place. Competition toi the location was very active between Atlanta, Ga., Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn. Washington. The Department of Agriculture has commenced the distribution of several superior

varieties or rail wheat to all tbe States and

Foreign. Seveuteeu thousand emigrants sailed from

Liverpool for America during July.

Ibe Paris Temps doubts tho genuineness of

the Livingstone letters sent by Stanley to the Herald. It quotes tho oninion of the-

geographer Kiepert, who discovers various goograplncal blunders in the letters. He thinks part of the narrative was invented by Stanley, and hence the whole is valueless, and hints that it is possible Stanley never saw Dr. Livingstone. One of the leading members of the Interna

tional Society iu Europe predicts its dissolution at the next general congress, to be held at tho Hague in September. Thanksgiving services for the great success 0 A. 1 .

oi nie new rreucii loan wer held iu the churches tliroughout France on Sunduy, the 4th of August. Dr. Houard has put iu a claim against Spain for damages occasioned by his imprisonment. The claim will come before the Spanish-American Commission, now sitting at Washington City. Late advices from South America report

ttiat tne India in, in large numbers, are invading and ravaging the Argentine provinces west of the Platte. Settlements have been plundered, houses burned, and in Borne cases women and children perished in the flames. At one place a party of English residents defended themselves six hours against a horde of savages, until the house they held was burned under them. This invasion, it is said, will postpone, if not prevent altogether, the threatened war between the Argentine confederation and Brazil.

A dispatch from Suez reports that 2,000 Egyptians have invaded Abyssinia with a view to conquest, and that the Abyssinians were marching to meet the invaders. The southern provinces of Franc have been visited bv heavy freshets, causing great destruction of property. A London correspondent telegraphs as fol

lows on the 6th inst. : According to an interview between Stanley and tbe correspondent of the London Telegraph, Dr Livingstone forwarded quite a number of letters to England. Considerable controversy is likely to arise as to tbe manner in which Dr. Kirk. British Consul at Zanzibar, has acted. This apparent lack of enterprise and sympathy on the part of Dr. Kirk was the subject of conversation between Livingstone and Stanley. Tbe latter ascribed it to apathy, but Dr. Livingstone said: "No, it is jealousy." "How can that be?" asked Stanley. Livingstone answered : "You do not know the circumstances of this expedition of which I have charge. At my request it was offered by Dr. Murchison to Dr. Kirk. He refused it." Here an extraordinary fact alleged ny Mr. Stanley may be mentioned. In tbe course of nine months, eleven packages of letters sent bv Dr Hosmer through

Mr. Webb, tbe American Consul at Zanzibar, reached Stanley at Uiiii. Ktanlev ma TJr.

Livingstone the solemn promise that he would deliver with his own hand, or place in the London Postoftice, bis diary of five years of his last expedition, which he has sent to his daughter, and the letters to Lord Granville, to the Geographical Society, and his private friends. Next to the expulsion of tbe Jesuits, tbe subject most discussed in Germany just uow is the necessity of reducing the flow of emigration to the United StateB. Tbe vast increase of emigration this year seems to have awakened the Government to the realization of its loss, and the cue is given to the semiofficial and conservative press to raise the ciy of alarm, which they are doing with a vim.

The Berlin newspapers are filled with doleful

accounts from various districts where villages

have been almost depopulated by the "Ameri

can fever," and, as a remedy, they demand the

tevjing of an emigration tax of 50 thalers on

every adult emigrant leaving the country.

During a storm on the English coast, on the

5th inst.. six fishing vessels wore capsized.

and all on board perished.

During the Parliamentary elections in Que

bec, Canada, on the 5th inst., a serious riot occurred betw.cn the English aud French speaking people, in which one person was

killed and three wounded by pistol shots.

The frequency of railroad casualties iu Eng

land is causing much comment, and Parliu

ment naa been asked to inquire into the

management of the railroads, with relation to

the safety of passengers. Minister Scbenck, (4en Shoiman and Explorer Stanley occupied seatB in the visitors' gallery of the British Parliament during the session of tbe 6th inst. A Madrid newspaper, speaking of tho Cuban insurrection, says 13,600 rebels have born killed, and 70,000 submitted to the Spanish authorities. Ton thousand horses, 58,000 arms, and 2,000 swords have been captured. Constantinople advices of the 24th ult. state that tho Turkish authorities hare ordered two agents of the British Bible Society to leave Bornissia. Their book were seized, and tho sale of all Protestant works prohibited. The

giuni are also at work fomenting discontent, end the French Government is determined to employ the most rigorous measures to weed them out. Twelve English cricketers sailed from Liver pool for Canada ou the 8th of Augqst. They will play exhibition games in Canada and the United States. The Pope has addressed a note to Thiers, congratulating France upon tho great success of the French loan. The Freuch Assembly has adopted measures looking to the strengthening of various forti

fications. The following embraces the latest bulletin from the lud of chronic rebellion, Mexico: A revolution occurred at Tampico on the receipt of the news of tbe denth of Juarez. Guerrero lnsiirgonts shout, "Hurrah for Diaz and death to Lerdo!" There were no other disturbances, either in the capital or elsewhere, upon tho announcement of the death of J uarez. Congress meets in extra session on 8ept. 15. It is believed that the revolu

tionists will disband when informed of tho policy of the Administration. The funeral of Juarez was an imposing spectacle. The corpse was iutorred in the Pantheon. All the streets

and houses were draped with mourning, aud the procession bore numberless emblems of gnof . Fully 70,000 spectators lined the streets through which it passed. The death of Juarez is generally regretted. Angel Yturbide, a sou

of the ex-Emperor, died at tho capital the same day as Juarez. It is reported that Diaz has decided to go to San Francisco, in cousequeuce of receiving no aid from the people of Tepee. Gen. W. B. Franklin and F. W. Kuukle, of Colt's Manufacturing Company, who have recently returned from Europe, brought an order from the Prussian Government for the manufacture of eighty thousand improved Chassepot guns, to be used with metallic cartridges.

The Geneva Arbitration. Geneva, Aug. 5 it Is now expected that the Board of Arbitration will complete its work witlnu a month. Tbe adjournment of last week was due to the necessity of exchanging communications with tbe Cabinet at Washiugtou . Geneva, Aug. 5. The Board of Arbitration met at noon to-day and adjourned at 3. A considerable amount of business was disposed of, no obstacle occurring to impede progress. No confidence whatever is to be placed iu the rumors which are published from dav to dav of the decisions of the Board. The 'strictest secrecy is enjoined on. and maintained by. every person connected with the Court, to prevent the premature publication and 'improper use of newB in tbe stock markets of Europe and Amenca. Geneva, Aug. 6. The Board of Arbitrators met at noon to-day, and at 3 adjourned until to-morrow. Nothing with regard to to-dav's proceedings has transpired. New Yokk. Aug. G.-A special dispatch from Geneva says that, as arbitration progresses the probabilities increase that the verdict will be against England, and that it will be in the form of a declaration of her general respousibil.ty for tbe acts of the Confederate pmir.

and an award of a gross amount of damages of

sumo magnitude, imis obviating a resort to

noaru oi Assessors, ine American counsel will apparently endeavor to secure tin n,-f,...,t

m a uetaucu awaru. The judgment of the court on each particular ship is, therefore, of less consequence than it otherwise would have been j but tlere is reason to believe that the

case oi tne ueorgia is tlio weakest, and has

been practically abandoned. The case of the

nnsmmooaa, however, is grossed cJoselv In

,....., , ,u, iubbcb iu me winning fleet is

specially urged. I lie discussion proceeds faster than was generally expected. The English counsel give particular emphasis to tbe argument that the Tribunal, under the Treatv of Washington, has no right to examine the conduct of England iu her execution of municipal law. They maintain that no nation is responsible to another for its internal administration. Geneva, Aug. 7. -The Board, at its session yesterday, was engaged in hearing the arguments of the British and American counsel in relation to the case of the cruiser Shenandoah which case, it is understood, is now closed The reassembling of the

Thursday, but it is possible that it mav not

iueei again neiore next week. Geneva, Aug. 8. The Board met to-dav at halCr.au lo -...1 r. I - . .

I' , "' lim a session OI two and a half hours adjourned to Wednesday next Several of the arbitrators and counsel are suf-

iciiug irum uiuisposiuon caused by oxcessive toil and disagreeable weather. The object of

iu aujuuruiug ior bo long a period is to give the members time for especial study of a number of the points involved in the cases which have come before them It is

i;i.nueimy uopeo ino labors of the Tribunal will tie brought to a satisfactory conclusion bv

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Curreut Items.

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St. Lot-

teSä! or .he, prJtn;;

Stanley's real name is Join,

ins monier says mi. H Stanley for style.

riionia

picked up

I he first pr ntcdcopyof the St. LoUl, (,Ue was sold by auction and hroul . thirty-two dollars. Ug,u

Lauer beer is the fashionable drink Long Branch, this season, for both

celeb

rated

at

sexes.

The Salt Lake " aainta" Ilm -Mil, !' 1..1-. ... .1 .....

of their entrance into that valley oftl, promised land.

f'iuHT lines of

railroad

l .1 , v. . "OH

.uiiMiunion in im ort hern Texas Many of these are extensions ot Eastern lines, and three are links in the baa. continental system. Druocists say the demand for flv paper this summer is unpecedented und housekeepers say there never were such

warms ol Hies.

A Connectii i t matron is found in th

possession ot a cuke baked thirty two years ago, at the time of Harrison's el.T tion If that cake could sneak- it

OObtUkM have its stale to tell.

A German banker has bouirln nf n,

St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad Com

W HsW,"W worm ot land, mostlv

in Mioahan county, Minn.. 1 nno'

haa .i i . . . ' -

w worm oi wincii is intended for a (icrman colony. Wisconsin arises fiom a misprint. All the early French documents have Uuisconsing, or Misconsing, and this seems to come from Miscosi, "it U red." Wishcans may mean "a small beaver lodge." QetM a number of Northern people have gone South to get rid of oppressive heat, for it is a fact that the thermometer does not rise as high in the Southern as in the Northern States. Ir you want to talk heavy science, say "protoxide of hydrogen" instead of "ice." It sounds bigger, und not on

man out ot a thousand will know what you mean. A rhinoceros escaped from a circus near Enosburg. Vt., the other day, and before he could be captured lie had trampled down 20 acres of wheat and scared HiO Green Mountain girls out of their wits. What is a boy worth? There seems to be a wide difference in the estimate placed on their value. A boy was run over and killed in Connecticut on the 4th of -luly, and the case has been settled for 25U, while the man who shot the daring youth that stole his cherriea in Cincinnati has been sued for 10,0hi,

uesiues oeing neia lor trial as a criminal. Illinois has more miles of railroad than any other State in the Union. Ac cording to the latest figuies she has 5,904 miles. Pennsylvania comes next with 5,113, while the third State, New York, has 4,470. The whole country has 00,852 miles, costing, at the least calculation, $;H,lKX),000,000. In 1871. 225,000,000 were expended in the construction of railroads; this estimating the cost to be $30,000 per mile.

Letter from President lirant. President Grant has addressed the following letter to Samuel Pard. William O'rutchfield, W. P. ltathburu and J. J. hrvan a. t'ommliiaA Ii

behalf of the city of Chattanooga. Tenn., and U. S. Chamberlain and others of the Board of

aTMS or t linttanooga : ÜTICA. S. Y.. Jlllv HI (lcNTi.rMn T li.vn

the honor to acknowledge the recupt of the resolutions of tho Board of Aldermen, tbe -Mayor, and tho Board of Trade of ihn nitv rif

Chattanooga, extending to myself and cabinet an invitation to spend a portion of our

summer vacation in thoir city and on Lookout

mountain .

I am not proparod at present to accept tho

invitation either on BV own uart or on tlmnart

of the Cabinet, but I will, in a very few days, lay the invitation before the item lernen w'lm

are embraced in it, and will then give his

Honor the Mavor a definite answer. It wnnM

afford me great pleasure to visit the people of the city of Chattanooga. I return sincere thanks to the Mavor. Aldermen and Itn

Trade for the invitation which they have given mo to do so. U. B. Obant.

Dissatisfaction in Germany. While France is being drained of its millions and is nevertheless settling down ouietly to the a ts of peace, mat tors in Germany do not look promising. The country, overgorged with the money extorted at the point of the bayonet, seems likely to profit none but the royal treasury, the creatures of the

court and the harpies of the army and the vultures of speculation. The ex

trenifi prosperity which the influx of so much money would seem to confer on all classes is in reality limited to a favored few. At Rerlin the same difficulties which afflicted Paris after the close of the war and brought about in a measure the conflict between the artisan and the bourgoiae, present themselves. The wages of the workmen do not suffice to pay the increased cost of the necessaries of life, and the small shopkeepers are unable to pay the increased rent demanded of them. All the German newspapers which are not suborned to stifle the truth concur in saying that a large proportion of the inhabitants of Berlin are in danger of becoming houseless, and the evil is daiiy growing worse and worse. The proprietors have in many cases doubled or even tripled their rent, and their unfortunate tensnb have no option but to iro into the

streetB, for pay they cannot, it would

be curious il the Commune in another

form were to show its head in Herlin so

soon after being stifled in Paris. Be this

as it may, the constantly recurring and increasing number of strikes among the working classes proves the existence of an unrest and dissatisfaction at tbe present state of things, of which statesmen will do well to take notice. Berlin Letter.

What is a Girl's Hearth Worth ! The daughter of a poor widow in Berlin, Germany, died ot heart disease, and the young physician who attended her during her illness persuaded the mother, in the interest of science, to give him the poor girl's heart. After the lapse of some time the'doctor aked the widow for an honorarium of thalers, 15 silver groschen, for all bi visits and trouble. She delayed payment : he

complained, and then she cave out that

she considered the gift of her daughters heart as an equivalent to the sum demanded. If this was not acknowledged,

she required the heart to be returned.

or the fee in dispute to be handed over

to ner. 1 he doctor cannot now produce

the heart, but persists in his claim ; so

tne. question must lie tried whether a nmdicn's heart is or is not worth 8 thalers, 15 silver groschen. Stakeholders Butchers.