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EPITOME OF THE WEEK. THE OLD WORLD. ~ - THE St. Petersburg Golos of the 29th ult. says 12,000 prisoners, with their families, would be sent from Novgorod to Siberia during the summer. ’ i : i PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Battenburg, ‘was, on the 29th ult., unanimously elected to the throne of Bulgaria, by the Bulgarian'Assembly of Notables, with the title of Alexander L. It is stated that the Danubian fortresses will all be demolished by the 3d of August next. | THE German agriculturists have petitioned their Government to prohibit the importation of American cattle. THE earthquake which occurred at Meareh, Persia, on the 22d of March, totally destroyed twenty-one villages, and Kkilled 922 persons, 2,660 sheep, 1,125 oxen, 124 horses ‘and 55 camels, A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 30th ult. announces %e destruction, by fire, on the 28th and 29th ult., of the greater part of the City of Orenburg, on the Ural River. The fire. was of incendiary origin, and is ascribed to the Nihilists. The loss was enormous, and more'than one-half of the inhabitants of the city are homeless. The Village of Gratchenko has also been totally destroyed by fire. A SourH AFRICA dispatch, published on the 30th ult., says Henry M. Stanlay, the African explorer, was at Zanzibar organizing a mysterious expedition into the interior of Africa.

THE publishers of the Paris Revolution Francaise have been condemned to imprisonment and heavily fined, for publishing a letter justifying the Commune. 'TaE wife of Prof. Botkin, the Czar’s family physician, was imprisoned, on the Ist, on the charge of Nihilism. The wife of the Chief Military Prosecutor was also similarly ‘accused. : . THE spring. two-year-old stakes at Newmarket, Eng., were won, on the Ist, by the American horse Papoose. _ GEN. GrANT reached Hong Kong, China, on the Ist. - ; ~ Care TowN dispatches, received on the 2d, say the indications were abundant that an early peace would be secured. It was stated that Cetewayo- himself had offered to make his submission, provided he could be assured that he would receive good terms. . SEVERAL foreigners have been expelled from Switzerland for ineiting the Italians to revolution. ; ¢ A BErRLIN dispatch of the 2d says Solovieff, who attempted to assassinaté the. Czar, had declared that, though he was compelled, under threat of death, to fire at him, he purposely missed him. ; - A MANDALAY dispatch, received on the 24, states that, despite the peaceful desizeg of the King 6f Burmah, the mass of the ‘people desired war with Great Britain. TeE London: and Westminster Bank has taken, in all, $35,000,000 of the late 4 per cent. issues of the United States. LleuT. DUBROVINA, arrested at Novgorod, Russia, ‘'on suspicion of being a member of -the Revolutionary Nihilist Committee, ‘was hanged on the Bd. A Carcurra (India) telegram of the 4th announces the appearance of the cholera at Delhi, Rawulpendee, Wrumitzar, and elsewhere. - : A SmmrA dispatch received in Lon don, on the 4th, says the Afghan troops in Badakshan had geen expelled and an independent ruler firmly esta.bliflhed. { TaE Radical Republicans of Bordeaux, France, have returned Louis Blanqui, at present a prisoner at New Caledonia, as their Deputy in the French Chamber. ; HaNvLAN, the Canadian oarsman, | beat Hawdon, the Englishman, in the race for the championship, which took place near Newecastle-on-Tyne, on the sth. Dr. Isaac Butrt, the well-known Home-Ruler, and Member of Parliament from the City of Limerick, died in Dublin, Ireland, on the sth. ! e . STOUR & SONS’ cotton mills, ‘near Paisley, Bcotland, éne of the largest establish? ments in Great Britain, were burned, on the sth. Loss, $300,000. ; It is stated that France is about to resume diplomatic relations with Mexico. ' hJA St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the sth says ‘Russia had agreed to surrender Kuldja to China, in return for a revision of the treaties relative to the frontier and other concesssions, - ! '

'THE NEW WORLD. : ON the 29th ult., a fire broke out in the residence of a Mr. Butler, at Grand Rapids, Mich., while Mrs. B. was absent at a neighbor’s, ‘next door, leaving two little girls, one three years and the other eight months old, in the house alone. The fire was discovered too late to rescue the children, and their bodies were burned beyond recoguition. The mother has become crazed by the fearful affliction, i

TuE Colored People’s National Board of Immigration of Bt. Louis received information, on'the 20th ult., that several thousand negroes were then at different places along the banks of the Mississippi River, below Meniphis, either ready to start North as soon as transportation could be procured, or were preparing to leave their homes for St. Louis and beyond. It was said the steamers refused to take them on board, and the whites refused to sell them provisions. ;

THE house of John L. Keogh, at Carbon Hill, Pa., was destroyed by fire, on the morning ot the 20th ult., and a son, aged eleven years, and a daughter, of thirteen, were burned to death, gnd a younger child, aged five, was so badly injured that its recovery wase doubtful.. Mr. Keogli had his face and hands terribly burned in his endeavors to rescue his children, - t

THE Select Committee of the National House of Representatives on the Cause of the Present Depression of < Labor held a meeting on the 29th ult., at which the members present expressed the opinion that, it sufficient funds could be obtained for the purpose, it would be advisable to visit San Francisco for the purpose of taking testi~ timony. st SR ~ Two mEN entered the Workingmen’s Savings Bank of Allegheny City, Pa.,at/noon, on the 80th ult., while the Cashier, G, L. Walter, was alone ia the bauk, andone of them

poioted a revolver at Walter and threatened to kill him if he moved. The Cashier grabbed the revolver and succeeded in getting posses: gion of it. The. other robber, who had been gtationed at the door, then came forward with a cocked revolver, and the two men jumped over the counter and attempted to seize a package containing $15,000 in bills, but Walter fired at them three times and drove them back over the counter. They then ran out, followed by the plucky Cashier. They succecded in getting away with about $1,500. Ex-CoNGRESSMAN C. L. CoBB, of North Carolina, died, at Elizabeth City, in that State, on the 30th ult. e

At Chicago, on the evening of the 29th ult., Mrs. Ellen Norris was severely and probably fatally burned, while attempting to kindle the kitchen fire by the use of kerosene. THE trial of Col. Thomas Buford for the murder of Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, has been postponed until the third l&fonday in May. ; o THE public-debt stutement for April makes the following exhibit: Total debt (including :interest), $2,475,587,375. Cash in Treasury, $448,467,156. Debt less amount in Treasury, $2,027,120,219. Increase during the month, #19,952. Decrease since June 30, 1878, $8,666,614. . MRg. THEODORE B. WEBER, a member of the wholesale boot and shoe firm of George W. Weber & Co., of Chicago, was shot and fatally wounded by a Mrs. Amelia Robert, in that city, on the afternoon of the Ist. The woman is one with whom Mr. Weber had been disgracefully connected for many years, and to whom, it is allezed, he had, first and last, paid large sums of money. The supply having been lately cut off, she shot him as 'above stated. Mr. Weber was the leading spirit in the prosecution of Henry Greenbanm the Chicago banker.

Mgrs. SARAH B. HALE, for fifty years editress of Godely’s Lady’s Book, died in Philadelphia, on the evening of the 30th ult. She was eighty-four years old. ) -

‘Tue - Kentucky Democratie State Convention, which met at Louisville, on the Ist, nominated Dr. L. P. Blackburn for Governor; J. E. Cantrell for Lieutenant Governor; P. W. Harding for Attorney-General; Fayette Hewitt for Auditor. : ; . ;THE motion to pass the Army Appropriation bill, with the political amendments, over the President’s-veto, failed in the House, on the Ist, by a vote of 120 ayes to 110 noes—less than the requisite two-thirds. - THE Chicago & Pacific Railroad was gold, on the Ist, under foreclosute, for §916,000. The road is constructed and running to Byron, lil., and the franchise contemplates its extension to Savanna, on .the Mississippi. Forty-NINE failures occurred in New York City during April, with liabilities aggregating $1,199,883, and assets, $633,121. ‘A Poss E-of citizens attempted to arrest a gang of horse-thieves near Forsythe, in Missouri, the other night. The thieves resisted, and, in the melee which follo;wed, two of the posse were killed and one seriously wounded. On the other side, one man was killed and one mortally wounded. The rest: escaped. i THE State Board of Canvassers of Michigan announce that Campbell (Rep.) for Justice of the Supreme (ourt received 182,313ivotes, 'and Shipman (Dem.) .126,270, at'the Api‘ll election. The Republi¢an candidates for Regents received a somewhat smaller majority. fe Sl A CoNVENTION of Representatives of the State Boards cf Health of Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas ‘and Tennessee met at Memphis, Tenn., on the 30th ult., to decide wpon concerted measures to prevent the reintroduction and spread of yellow fevér ixfl the United States.

AT Pocassett, Mass., on the morning of the Ist, Charles F. Freeman woke his wife and told her he must make a sacrifice to the Lord of his youngest daughter. He got up, and took the child from her bed and stabbed her with a butcher-knife. She gave one scream and expired. He says the Lord directed him to make the sacrifice, and that she would rise again in three days. Freeman and his wife are Second Adventists, and believed to be insane. It is stated that the wife was a consenting party to the killing. - i | A RESOLUTION was adopted, by a strict party vote, in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, on the 2d, authorizing the appointment of a joint committee to welcome Geén. Grant, upon his arrival in this country, in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing there shall be no expense to the State. : ‘ !

IN their platform adopted at their recent State Convention, the Kentucky Democracy heartily indorse the position of their members in Congress ‘‘in coupling with 'the Appropriation bills a demand for the redress of grievances by the repeal of existing laws which tolerate the presence of soldiers at the polls, the continuance of the test-oath as a condition for jury-service, and the employment of SBupervisors and Deputy Marshals to control elections.”” & OvER 300 colored refugees from the South arrived at Atchison Kan., on the 2d. Their arrival was unexpected, and they were in a generally destitute condition. Their temporary wants were provided for by citizens of the place. :

THE funeral of Edith Freeman, the victim of her father’s fanaticism, took place in the Methodist' Church, at Pocasset, Mass., 'on the 4th. The body was brought to the church in a small casket by Allen P. Davis, a ;sympathizer with Freeman in his deed. After depositing the remains near the, altar, Davis announced his intention of addressiny the audience,' but was prevented from so doing by threats of arrest. -After the funeral service the body was taken to the village cemetery and deposited in a grave, Dayvis again being prevented from making an address.in vindication of Freeman. The Adventists were deeply mortified that their prophecies that the child would be restored to Jife in three days had failed of fulfillment. Freeman and his wife were committed to Jail; on the 3d, to await the action of the Grand Jury. They exhibited no signs of remorse or regret for the deed they had committed. |

' Tuag Democratic Members of the National House of Representatives held another caucus, on the 3d, and determined a line of action in regard to fhe Army Appropriation bill, and agreed upon the exact terms of the measure to be separately passed in lieu of the sixth section; it being also agreed that all consideration of the remainder of the bill should be deferred until this independent political measure should have "been acted upon by the President. The bill was introduced -in the House, and a similar one in the Senate, on the sth, and is as tollows: '

. Warreas, The presence of troops at the polls Eoon trary to the spirit of our institutions and e tmdiz;gns of our people and tends to destroy freedom of elections; therefore, Be it enacted. etc., That it shall not be lawfnl to bring or emglo% at gnwlwevwhex_'e a hlge:ueral or special e mn is ng’ held in a State any part of the Army or Navy of the United States, unless such force be necessary to repel

armed enemies of the United States. or to enforce Bec. 4, Art. 4, of the Constitution of the United States, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, upon the application of the Legislature or Executive of the State where such a force is to be used, and so mngh of ail laws as is mcug'_smtcnt herewith is herg y repealed. INn the Miles polygamy case at Salt Lake, on the 3d, Daniel H. Wells, Counselor to ‘the Twelve Apostles of the Mormoa Church, was fined $4OO and sentenced to two days’ imprisonment, because he refused to answer) scme questions, relative to polygamous practices in the Endewment House. AT New Preston Hill, Conn., on the sth, Egbert Cogswell, while drunk, killed his wife and then himself. LewisCooxs, of Taghkanie, N. Y., in a fit of jealously, on the night of the 4th, cut his wife’s throat and then his own. The woman died, but Coons will live, AT Overton, Tex., on the 4th, Col. J. E. Kirby shot John Steele dead, as he was. leaving the church door. Fourteen years before, the latter had killed Kirby’s father. AT Galveston, Tex., on the sth, J. T. Young and John Riley attempted to escape from Jail by setting it on fire. The flames spread rapidly and both were burned to death. WiLLiaM E. CHANDLER has beén elected Secretary of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee:| BY an explosion of nitro-glycerine in a freight depot at Stratford, Ont., on the morning of the sth, several lives were lost, and 150 railroad cars and other property were destroyed. : . SEC’Y SHERMAN visited Mansfield, Ohio, on the sth, and in the evening delivered an address, in which he discussed mainly the Election laws. . ¢ i

A JoINT conference of the Republican members of both houses of Congress was held, on the evening of the sth, to consider what action should be taken on the bhill introduced in both houses ‘‘to. prohibit military interference at elections.”” After considerable discussion and a genera! interchange of views, it was unanimously resolved that it was the gense of the caucus that- the proposed bill should be defeated, and Messrs. Edmunds, Frye and Robeson wereappointed a committ:e to prepare a substitute to be offered which would ‘“give to every person an opportunity to exercise the right of suffrage without any molestation or interference whatever, but at the same time sgcuring the peace at the polls.”? i CONGRESSIONAL., SENATE: —On the 29th ult., a resolution making an appropriation to defray the ex;penses of the extra session of Congress was under ‘discussion, when the House resolution announcing the death of Representative Clark was received. The proceedings were at once stopped, and a resolution was passed for the agpomtment. of a committee to accompany the House Committee, with the remains, to lowa, and the Senate, as a further mark of respect, then adjourned: ® : House.—The President’s Veto Mes\sage on the Army bill was received, and was laid upon the Speaker’s table and not opened....The announcement of the death of Representative Clark, of Towa, was thea made, a committee was appointed to accompany the remains to lowa, and then, as a further token of respect, an adjournment was:had for the day. SENATE.—On the 30th ult., the House bill providing for certain expensesof the present session of ConZress was amended and passed.... The bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States was debated. \ : House.—The President's Message vetoing the Army Appropriation bill was read, and ordered to be entered on the journal and printed. ... Bills were passed —extending for two years from October, 1878, the tine for the payment of pre-emptors on certain public lands in Minnesota; amending the section of the Revised Statutes prescribing a penalty for conspiraci against the United States.... Bills were reporte —to grevent the importation of diseased cattle, and the spread of infectious diseases among domestic animals; amending certain sections of the Revised Statutes relating. to coinage and coin and bullion certificates. :

SENATE.—Consideration was resumed, on the Ist, of the bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the Unifed States,and Mr. Harris, Chairman of the select committee on the subject, explained that the object, and ‘the only object, of the hill was to regulate commerce with foreign Nations, so as to ?:event the importation into-the United States of contagious or infectious diseases, and to regulate commerce among the several States, gg as to prevent the importation of such diseases Toni one State into another....A bill was reg:;ted to provide for the payment of bounty and k-pagflto those who were d?nved of the same by frauds with which they had no connection.

" HouseE.—The House refused—l2o yeas to 110 nays, not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative—to pass the Army Appropriation bill over the President’s veto, Three Greenbackers voted for and nine against the bill --the vote in other respects being a strictly party one. -+-.Adjourned to the Bd. - ; SENATE.—A bill was introduced and referred, on the 2d, amendatory of, and supplementary to, an act to aid in the construction of the Texas Pacific Railroad. It authorizes the company to extend its line from its present western terminus to El Paso, there to unite with the Bouthern Pacific Railroad; lends granted to the former are transferred to and vested in the latter, extending along its portion of the road, and each company is required to complete its road within six years; provision is also made for other railroads to unite with these roads at El Paso, the object beiném form complete lines to the Pacific fromthe Gulf and South Atlantic States. ... The bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases was further debated.... A:djoumed to the sth. House.—Not in session. : SENATE.—Not in session on, the 3d. Housg.—The bill relating to contest-ed-election cases was reported back from the Comuittee on Elections, with a. few unimportant amendments. ...Consideration was resumed of the bill reported from the Coinage Committee amending the statutes relating to ooma&e and coin and bullion certificates, and Mr. Warner submitted an amendment, and made an argument in its sugport. providing that gold and silver bullion which shall become the property of the Government by the return of. certificates to the Treasury, in pg&’ment of dues thereto, shall be coined and paid out the same as other money. 3 ;

SENATE.—On the'sth, the bill to pre-' vent the introduction of infectious or contagious diseases into the United States was recommitted for amendment....A bill was introduced and referred (similar to one introduced in the House) to prohibit military interference at elections, A bill extending the time for special postal service was passed. House.—A large number of bills were introduced, among them the following: To prohibit military interference at elections; to establish a Burean of Labor Statistics: regulating the mode of counting the votes for President and Vice-President; for funding municipal indebtedness in United States mmumoney (authorizing the .Secrgtu{)of toe ury to ex‘inguish all city indebtedness by the issue of greenbacks, which greenbacks are to be immediately used in payment of such debts); providing for &greenback currency to the extent of sl,000,000,000, and for tne relief of the financial distress by gmnh:&ud to certain companies incorporated by B: authorities for works of internal improvement. : : .

—Perbaps the funniest object is the man who spends the first day in a 'newsga%er office. He tries to appear a 8 if he had.been in a newspaper office all his life, but somehow he doesn’t seem to feel easy. There seem to be too many bones in his shad.—N. ¥. Herald. :

INDIANA STATE NEWS. It is stated that five of the Hartford life insurance companies propose to withdraw their loans from Indiana in consequence of the recént law forbidding foreign companies to transfer suits to the Federal Courts. THoMAS CLARK was arrested at Indianapolis, on the 2Sth, for an assault upon Mollie Davis, whom he compelled to drink an infesion of s®ychnine at the point of a knife. Ox the afternoon of the 28th, the Judge of the Indianapolis Circuit' Court delivered his opinion in the Northern Prison case. He entered a finding for the plaintiffs, holding that the Direétors of 1877 were supérseded by those of 1879, even under the construction of the law contended for by defendants. ‘Judge Howland says John Lee’s election in 1877 is valid, and cannot be affected, eo that Warden Mayne’s tenure is not certain in any circumstances. The cese will go to the Supreme Court.

AT Jeffersonville on the 26th, a woman named Bell was shot while attempting to rob George Thompson’s grocery store. : Mgs. WAGNER, wife of a farmer, living near Fairbury, was found dead .in her house the other morning. She died of heart disease. ' NINETEEN badly-married couples are seeking divorces in the Circuit Court at New Albany. Yo i ~ Tue warehouse of Krissell & Klatz’ plowhandle factory at Lebanon was burned, on the morning of the 28th. Loss, $3,500. Davip Faust, John McDowell and others were riding from their shops to their homes, in Lafayette, on the pilot of an engine, on the evening of the 28th, when the engine encountered a runaway team at a street crossing. The upshot of the collision was that Faust was killed and McDowell fatally injurea. i JouN KISTLER, who has been in the Penitentiary on the charge of blackmailing, and whose case went to the Supreme Court and back, until it was dismissed, has sued the Indianapolis’ News for $15,000 for referring to him as a ** notorious blackmailer.”

, TaE Skeriff of White County and’ an attor- l ney named Aunson Walcott were arrested, on the 28th, for interfering with a receiver appoitted by the United States Court, in causing the arrest of two men employed by him. The Sheriff was ordered to release the men, but declined to comply with the order of .Judge Gresham. : . AT Brookville, on the 30th ult., a wagon, containing Frederick SBtrohmier, Mrs. Frederick Geis, Mrs. Frances Kehn and Joseph Kehn, was struck by the passenger train just below town. The wagon was completely demolished, and the inmates all more or less injured. Mrs. Geis’ recovery ie doubtful. Tue Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Indiana, recently in session atlndianapolis, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Grand Commander, Sslathiel T. Williams, of Kendallville; Deputy ' Grand Commander, Henry G. Thayer, of Plymouthj; Grand Generalissimo, John H. Hess, of Columbus; Grand Captain-General, Samuel B. Sweet, of Fort Wayne ; Grand Chaplain, Isaac W. Joyce, of Greencastle; Grand Treasurer, Charles Fisher, of Indianapolis; ; Grand Recorder, John M. Bramwell, of Indianapolis; Grand Senior Warden, Richard L, Woolsey, of Jeffersonville; Grand Junior Warden, ‘Walter Vail, of Michigan City. The third Thursday in next April was chosen for a grand encampment of all the subordinate commanderies in the State, twenty-seven in number, to be held in Indianapolis. Tak residence of C. I. Werntz, at Wakarusa, was burned, on the morning, of the 29th ult., with most of its contents. Loss, $1,500. THE construction-train on the Vandalia Railroad ran over a cow six miles east of Greencastle, on the afternoon of the 29th ult. The engine, tender and twelve cars were thoroughly wrecked, involying a loss of $25,000. The engineer and fireman were seriously hurt. ~ Evias StaHL, of Jeffersonville, recently cowhided Fred Maurer for insulting his wife. TuE buffalo gnats have killed over fifty head of horses and mules in Columbia Township, Gibson County. 'Two soxs of Richard LaGrange, of Princeton, were going to plow, the other day, when the horses tobk fright and the boys were thrown. One of the boys was caught in the chain traces and drageed some distance, killing him almost instantly, and the other slight~ . ly injured. ; i _ ACCORDING to a recent school census the population of Vincennes is 12,827. TuE Trustees of the Hospital for the Insane have appointed Dr. John C. Walker, formerly of LaPorte, but now of Shelbyville, as assistant physician of the institution. Capt. Stansbury, of Muncie, bas - been appointed bookkeeper and storekeeper, with James M. Myers' as dssistant. _ ; " DURING the seasion of 1878-9 there were 748,319 hogs slaughtered in Indianapolis, an ine crease of 310,265 over the previous year. In-! dianapolis now ranks next to Chicago as a packing center. L aalasena

MicHAEL KiNg and John Mitchell, of New Albany, got into a boat to row across the Ohio River the other day. Both were intoxicated. On the way across King got angry at Mitchell, and kicked him in the breast, knocking him off his seat, and then grabbed hold of him to throw him in the river, and tore his clothes. Mitchell escaped andreached the shore. In the melee, King’s. hat fell in the river, and leaning over, in his drunken condition, he féll into the river and was irowned. : 3 :

It has been recently discovered, afteria thorough 'examination of the books of the Second National Bankof Lafayette, that the defalcation of Charles T. Mayo, the former Cashier, reaches the sum of $120,000, instead of $60,000, as was previously reported. : BurGLARS entered the residence of Mrs. Ramsey, at Sulphur Springs, the other night, while she was absent .at a neighbor’s, and made off with §5OO which she had gaved to make a payment on property she had recently purchased. ! : ON the afternoon of the Ist, Dr. Benedict’s jwelling-house at Springport was destroyed by fire. Loss, £2,500. ‘ THE latest reports from Indianapolis give the following as current prices for leading staples: Flour, Famjly and Fancy, $4.00@ 3.00; Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 3814@34c; Oats, 26@28c; Rye, 50@50%{c; Pork, [email protected]; Lard — Steam, 6@ s}‘(:; HOES. ‘2-%@B-50- :

Relations of Mind and Body. WHATEVER that thing, €act, function, or idea which we call mind may be, or whether the brain, as is generally believed, is or is not its sole organ of manifestation, it is universally admitted that varging bodily conditions are a.ccon:fmnie by related variations of mental states. Aphasia, insanity, imbecility, are so often found accompanied by certain deifinite pathological alterations in t:fia bfia}gs&bs;:nfle that they are generally held to be sympanhe{ie ofgs%ch local cha.:Fu. Sb,mo,‘ though in a more general way, melan-

cholia and depression, as well as exaltations and excitements of the mind, are known to depend largely on correspondinf general l;)odilg7 conditions of retarded or accelerated physiological processes. e Itis also held, though in a less definite manner, that the health of the body may be affected, beneficially or injuriously, by certain states of the mind, as of hope or despondency. Or, more in detail, medical men have observed that certain mental states affect certain functions in 'certain definite ways. As, for instance, sudden anxicty, as of the non-arrival of a friend when expected, may cause an increase of the peristaltic action, while prolonged anxiety is apt to cause the contrary effect. Joy over good news or at the return of long-absent friends diminishes gastric secretion and causes loss of appetite. The feeble hold on life of the suicidal, and the surprising recoveries from serious diseases and after apparently fatal injuries, in persons whose mental characteristics are hopefulness and determination, are oftenrecurring facts, familiar to all.—Dr. Chas. F. Taylor, in Popular Science Monthly for May.

A Connecticut Doctor Under® the Ban. ‘ THE expulsion of Dr. Pardee from the Fairfield County Medical Association, (allopathic) at its session last week, because he consulted with his wife, who is a homeopathic physician, creates considerable comment in South Norwalk, where the parties live and ‘practice. Dr, Pardee is a gray-haired allopathic practitioner, who for five and twenty years has lived in Norwalk. Some time ago he married an intelligent afld attractive young woman who had theretofore beén a school teacher. She had already paid aftention to the subject of medicine, and it was not long after the union that she determined to prepare herself for the profession. She went to New York whete she attended lectures at the Homeopathic College, and in due time received a diploma. Mr. and Mrs. Pardee amicably dp‘ra,(:'ciced their different schools of medicine. They kept their horses in the same barn, and occasionally these horses were swapped, the homeopathic horse (foingg upon an allopathic mission, and vice versa. The fact that Dr. Pardee had taken' medicines to his wife's patients while she was ill, and that the two assisted ir ‘dressing the broken leg of a Mrs. Gibbs at Wilton, with other practices like them which were schismatic ‘- and contrary to the allopathic code, could not escape the notice of other and more conscientious regular practitioners of the town. The wrong was- aggravated by the fact that Dr. Emily Pardee had very speedily secured a great number of patients, and by the suspicion that Dr. Pardee shared in what may be called the homeopathic profits arising from these. There was no doubt that the allopathist had paid the tuition of the homeopathist when she was attending lectures in New York ; and there was no doubt, moreover, that he, a regular, considered her, an irregular, his hetter half in more senses than one. Under the circumstances, naturally, the young and zealous members of the regular profession were scandalized, and measures were taken which were calculated either to bring Dr. Pardee to his senses or to exclude him from ‘the profession which he had betrayed. ~ Charges were brought against Dr. Pardee in the County Society, he was tried by the State Society, the latter returning the matter to the County Asso_ciation, who have expelled him.—New Haven Register.

Rolling Stones. A ROLLING stone, upon the autharity of an old proverb, gathers no moss. Few sayings embody an equal amount ‘of practical wisdom. The bog or man who has a fixed purpose and a fixed employment is most likely to succeed. A clerk who throws up his place for a li%h't caprice is likely to remain a clerk all his days, and die a poor man. Some young men of twenty-five have tried one kind of business after another, in the vain effort to find one that will suit them in all respects. After all, it is not so much the kind of employment as the constancy and energy with which it is followed, that insures success. Men sometimes succeed in employments not congenial, and for which they are only moderately adapted, because they have ‘made up their minds to succeed. A popular theatrical manager assured the writer tnat he had no especial taste for the stage, after fifteen years’ successful management, and accepted the position when first tendered him with much hesitation. Our ‘advice to boys and young men is not to throw up a place or ‘change a business without careful consideration. Sometimes, no doubt, it is profitable and expedient to change. A poor lawyer may make a good merchant, or vice versa. Some ministers who labor for years without success, would make ogmirable mechanics, if pride would permit them to make the change. But it is not well to change ‘unless there is a good reason for it. Abraham Lincoln understood the secret of success. In his own homely phrase he kept ‘.‘pegfing away'’ at the rebellion until it collapsed. : We have one more suggestion to offer. Be satisfied with moderate progress. The best and most solid success is of slow growth. Most Americans expect to be wealthy by the time they are thirty, but not one in a hundred realizes his expectation, and then only tbec’:;,uge- circumstances conspire to fa‘vor him. The oak tree gains but little in a year, but its growth is steady, and in time it becomes the monarch of the forest. Whatever, then, be your emgloyment, unless you are obviously untted for it, stick to it, and do your best, and the chances are fair that you will vin a competence in time.—N. Y. Weeklyo % =250 HE ' % f

« —Mr. E. L. Smith, -the telegraph manager at Topeka, Kan., who was imprisoned because he refused the State Legislature’s demand fox ooiies of measex:lges- sent from his office, has received from President. Green, of the ‘Western Union TeleEra,ph_ Company, a letter formally thanking him fer his course and inclosing a reward of $250.

‘The Wharf-Rats of New York. ‘Mr. CHARLES H. FARNHAM contributes to Scribmer for May an illustrated account of “* A Day on the Docks,” in which he deseribes a.rcru'isef along the piers of New York with one of the steamboat police. 'Of this den of thieves he says: = This under side of the city is a shadowy world even at high noon, and its structure, as well ‘as its seclusion; makes it as good as a forest for hiding. The piles stand in rows running across the pier, a stringer or heavytimber lies on top of each row, joists lie across the stringers, and planks cover the whole. Thus between the top of each stringer and the planks there is quite a space, where boxes and bundles can be hidden. The under side of a pier can hold a good sloop-load of packages, and a box on & stringer is invisible to amyone passing under the ’lqlier, unless he passes very close to it. ere are many miles of piers about the city, and each pier has a great quantity of stringers. 'So here is a vast region of seerecy right under the busiest part ‘of New York. Many of the piers. are supported on such a dense forest of spiles that only the smallest skiff can pass through the narrow, tortuous openings. Formerly the thieves"had a channel of this kind from one end of the city to the other, by which they could travel nearly the whole distance without showing themselves.

*“You see, sir, here are plenty. of chances to hide. These cribs of beams. and spiles, mouths of sewers, vdd holes here and there along the rocky shores, and all of it covered over from daylight, and some of it almost inacecessible—all that you would think is enough for any set of thieves. But it is not; for we follow them up and clean out their holes. They find new places now and then. Once we discovered a lot of - hardware and tools hidden under the- - and in the paddle-box of a steamboat that was|laid up for the, winter. Many things they hide under’ water, such as spelter and other met--als. It is almost impossible te discover these ¢ plants;’ but sometimes we - hit on them by chance. Once, a man who had been loafing about the deck of one of the Troy steamboats threw overboard a valuable hawser; and then plunged overboard. himself before anybody could ' cateh him, although the boat and the wharf were full of people.Both the hawser and the man fell into a skiff alongside the steamboat and disappeared under the pier. .He had the start, and of course escaped before any of us could get a boat and follow him. But we heard of him afterward undera certain pier, and we went there to look for the rope. We dredged be--tween tie piles for three days, and by good luck hooked up . the hawser. These men sometimes get their deserts: without any of our help. One of them who had stolen a boat-load of pig-iron ran under Pier 49 to hide. < That pier had a shaft and Eearing under it forhoisting ice. He hitched his boat, and then climbed up near the shaft; thegearing caught his clothes, and we found him in pieces scattered over his boat. Wharf-thieves used to be more successful than they are now; they were organized in regular gangs. But we have broken them up, scattered them, and driven the most -of - them away from the docks.”” -=~ - Still darker scenes might be recorded of this under side of the docks. The actors appear first in the city’s brighter haunts of pleasure, or in its miserable dens of want and . crime. Then they wander in the streets alone; and gradually but surely ‘stray to the water. Night is around them, in them. The city behind t};em' sparkles with life. But it cannot‘penetrate their night, nor light their dark passage under these waves to the morgue. - . .. -

—The managers .of a Washington: botel have recently made some experiments which fully establish the fact that there are very few human souls entirely destitute of music. Duringthe sessions of Congress they employ a band of music to regale their guests at dinner. - They have discuvered that a saving of 15 per cent. csn be made in the matter of provisions by simply having the band play nothing but waltzes - and lively music.. The tendency 1o - keep - ’ug with the band hurries the %uests through the bill of fareso rapidy that'ma;nfii of them leave :the table hungry. The leader of the band was . ischarged last week for inadvertently laying the Miserere Chorus from ¢Il i atore’’ and tlhe Dead March from ¢ Saul.”’—Baltimore Gazette.: -

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