Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 6, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 May 1880 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. . S Jlmportant Intelligence from All Parts. e oy Congressmnsfl. ’ IN the Senate on the 19th the House adjournment resolution, after some debate, wasreferred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Butler spoke on the Spofford-Kel-logg case; and argued against the unseating of 'Mr. Kellogg, claiming that the Senate has not the power to unseat one of its members who has been seated after a contest as to the merits of the case, and that the action of the Senate in seating Kellogg was binding until it was made. to appear that such action was obtained by fraud. Mr. Bayard’s bill to rgful‘ate the pay and appointment of Deputy Marshals was taken up, and Mr. Carpenter offered an amendment, which was rejected, providing penalties for preventing, by intimidation, violence, menace, or other unlawtul means, the assembling of citizens to petition for redress of grieévances, to nominate representatives, or tor . other lawful . purposes relating to the preservation, administration, etc., .of the Government, tor . the exercise .of the right of suffrage, etc. Other amendments were also offered and rejected.....lnthe House Mr. Loring introduced a bill imposing customs duties on Canadian fish and fish-011, and appropriating $125,000 for the compensation .ot the American fishermen who were driven away from Fortune Bay. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was amended and passed. IN the Senate on the 20th Mr. Morgan, from the select. Committee on Counting the Electoral Vote, reported, with amendments, a bill introduced by him to enforce the observance of the Constitution of the United States in reterence to the elections of President and Vice-President of the United States. Mr. Edmunds stated that he and Mr. Teller were unable to concur in the report of the majority of the- committee. Mr. Morgan also reported adversely on the Dbill, introduced °by him, providing that the President of -the Senate - shall submit to the Senate and House, when assembled to count the votes for President and VicePresident, all packages purporting to contain the Electoral votes. and the bill wasindefinitely postponed. The bill to establish a retired list for non‘commissioned .army officers was passed, as was also the bill for the relief of séttlers upon the Osage trust and diminished reserve lands in Kansas, and, for other purposes. Mr. Garland, afterspeaking on the Spof-tford-Kellogz resolutions, gave notice of a resolution declaring that Mr. Kellogg was not duly and legally elected to aseat in the Senate of the United States by'the Legislature of Louisiana, and that the seat now occupied by him be, and the same is hereby, declared vaoant. Mr. Kelloeg made a long speech in his own behalf. Mr. Bayard’'s Deputy-Marshals bill was taken up, but noe quorum voted on Senator Conkling’s amendment making the bill relate only to Deputy Marshals appointed for election duty, although a quorum was present. ....Thebill to edarry into effect the second and gixteenth articles of the treaty between the United States and the Great and Little Osage Indians was passed in the House—l2o to. 60. The bill relating to deprédations on public lands was discussed inn Committee of the Whole. 'The bill proposes a reduction in the ¥rice of lauds which have been on the market or twenty years from $2.50 -to $1.25 per acre. Mg. BAYARD’S bill regulating the appointment and pay of Deputy United States Marshals was taken up in the Senate on the 21st, and several proposed amendments were rejected, including the one offered by Mr. Conkling making the bill relate only to Deputy Marshals appointed for election duty. lelr. McMillan moved, and Mr. Bayard consented, to add to the bill a proviso that the Marshals of the United States for whom Deputies shqu be appointed by the Court under this act shall not be liable for any of the acts of such Depu-' ties, and the bill was then passed—2B to 17—a ,garty vote. The Legislative, Executive and udicial Appropriation pill was passed, with amendments. ‘A motion was adopted—--256 to 14—just before adjournment, to consider the Electoral Vote resolution.... Several bills relating to public lands were passed in the House. Resolutions were adopted calling on the President for information in regard to the expulsion of Israelite citizens of the Unitea States: from St.” Petersburg by the Russian Government, and relative-to the ¢ontested election case of Duffy vs. - Mason, Twenty-ninth District of New York, declaring Mason, the sitting member, entitled to the seat. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was reported, ordered printed and recommitted. ' INn the Senate on the 22d bills were passed—extending the northern boundary of Nebraska so as to include the present territory of Dakota south of the forty-third parallel, east of Keyapada River and west of the main channel of the Missouri.- River, when the Indian titles shall have been extinguished; to complete the survey' of Geitysburg battlefield and provide for. the compilation and preservation of data \showing the various ]ix)sitions and movements of troops at that battle, illustrated by diagrams, and appropriating $50,000 for compiling data, etc., under direction of John B. Batchelder. Messrs. Morgan and Conkling discussed the joint resolution introduced by the former determining the methoa of counting the Electoral v0te....1n the House a bill passed to so amend the sixth subdivision of Section 8,244 Revised Statutes as to provide that dealers in leat tobacco who do not sell or consign for sale leaf tobacco to an amount exceeding 25,000 P_ounds in any one special-tax year shall pay a license of but five ({:Jellars. .

- .+ Domestic. . THE Hanlan-Courtney ‘ rowing match occurred on the Potomac River at Washington onthe I%th. Hanlan won.in thirty-six and a half m_l\,nutes. Courtney did not complete the course; he had been complaining of headache allday. ON the 16th seven Mexicans crossed into Texas, robbed a_store, murdered the %‘lore-ke@pér and committed other outrages.. he Mexican commander was notified, and up to the 19th he had ‘arrested five of the scoundrels and hopéd to capture the other two. R : THE Northern Presbyterian General Assmbly met at Madison, Wis., on the 20th. Dr. Paxton, of New York, was, elected Moderator. The General Assemblyiof the Southern Presbyterian <Church convened in Charleston, 8.. C., on the same day, and elected Dr. T. A. Hoyt, of Nashville, Moderator. ‘The General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church also met on the same .day at Evansyille, Ind., and the Reformed Presbyterian Synod assembled in Pittsburgh. Rev. Robert Hunter, of the -Ohio Presbytery, was chosen-Moderator of the latter body. - THE Methodist Conference at Cincinnati on the 20th, by a vote of 229 to 189, resolved to postpone indefinitely the election of a colored Bishop. L i CAarrAIN PAYNE, who is described by General Sheridan as ‘“a pestiferous fellow who has been engaged for months in organizing a band’”’ for the invasion of the Indian Territory, has been arrested, with several of his followers, by General Pope, and will probably be tried for violating the rights of the Indians and disregarding the President’s proclamation. ' 5 | THREE Bishops were ordained by the African Methodist Episcopal General Conference at-Bt. Louis onrthe 20tht At the Cabinet meeting on the 21st Secretary Evarts rigd a communication from the British Minidter, indicating that the British Government favored the recent act of Congress authorizing an 'lnte-rnz}l_on‘al Sanitary Convention to be held in the United States. ~ The communication’ suggested it would be well te invite delegates from thé leading colonies of Great Britain. - Tue Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Gompfiny,f both controlled by the same Company, failed on the 33:“ for an amount variously estimated at figures ranging between six and seven million dollars. The

fnterest on certain bonds became due, and the Company was not able to meet it. SEVENTY buildings were destroyed by fire in.Edenburg, Pa., on the evening of the 22d. Most of the citizens were at-a circus when the conflagratipn started, and riothing was done to.extinguish the flames until about twenty hotises had been ignited. Loss estimated at $150,000. ; o UNDER telegraphic instructions from his Government, the British Minister at Washington has thanked the Government of the United States for sending the ship Constellatioff with supplies for the relief of the Irish sufferers. e Ry e A LAD at Somerville, Mass., is under arrest for the murder of a playmate fifteen years of age. : , e " MicHAEL DaAvirr, the Irish agitator, addressed ten thousand people at ‘a picnic near New York City on the afternoon of the 23d. Mrs. Parnell had a seat on the platform. - AN exoursion train beeame stalled in the tunnel at St. Louis on the night of the 23d, and, the cars filling with smoke and coal gas, a panic among the passengers ensued, which resulted in the serious injury of many. After several vain attempts to start the train, a signal of distress was blown, and another locomotive came in and helped haul the cars out to pure air. - : A TRAIN on the South Pacific Coast Railway, carrying a large number of picnickers, jumped the track near Ranta Cruz,. Cal., on the evening of the 23d, killing thirteen and wounding nearly forty of the passengers. Many of the latter would probably die. : st Tom Boyp, the new Sam Patch, jumped from the Suspension Bridge at Cincinnati into the river ‘on the afternoon of the 23d, receiying no injuries. 7 AT a meeting of coal companies in New York on the 224 the proposal to stop mining three'days of every week in June was approved. Major JouN T. HARROLD was injured in a collision on the: New _,Yoirk Elevated Railroad in March, 1879.. He brought suit against the company, claiming $59,000 damages. The jury in the case on the 22d awarded him $30,000. - v A HEAVY rain, lasting from nine o’clock on the morning of the 21st to five a. m. of the 22d, fell throughout Georgia, the rivérs in many cases rising at the rate of five feet per hour. The fall wias estimated at 9.02 inches. All trains were stopped, as the bridges over the rivers and creeks were in many instances swept away by the flood. The engineer, fireman and two wood-cutters on ‘a freight train going from Macon to Montgomery were killed on the 22d, the railroad bridge over one of the creeks having been. swept away. The crops have been greatly damaged, and in some places the cotton crop will have to be replanted.. THE ship Liberia sailed from New York on the 22d with sixty emigrants for the African Republic. : » SEVERAL Philadelphia firms failed on the 22d, owing to the collapse of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. The Reading (Pa.) Iron Company has also suspended payments. : ’ THE receipts of the May Musical Festival at Cincinnati are stated to be about $52,000, the expenses $38,000. ¢ i

Personal and Political. TaeE Minnesota: Republican State Convention met in Bt. Paul on the 19th and selected delegates to the Chicago Convention favoring the nomination of Senator Windom, of Minnesota. Presidential Electors were also nominated. ' THE Virginia State Conservative Convention met in Richmond on the 19th and chose delegates to the Cincinnati Convention favorable to the nomination of Judge Field as President. Electors-at-Large were -also nominated. ‘ : . PrRESIDENT HAYES on the 19th nominated Postmaster-General- Key' to be United States District Judge for Eastern and Middle Tenunessee, Horace Maynard for PostmasterGeneral, vice Key, and General Longstreet to be Minister ‘to Constantinople, to succeed Mr. Maynard. ‘ : : SENATOR JoHN B. GorpON, of Georgia, having tendered his resignation as United States Senator, the Governor of that State on the 19th appointed ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown to succeed him in the Senate. . : _ . Ex-GOVERNOR FOOTE, ‘Superintendent of the linited States Mint at New Orleans, died at his home, five miles from Nashville, Tenn., on the afternoon of the 19th. . THE ' California Workingmen's State Conven;i’on adopted a resolution on the 19th to send delegates to the Greenback National Convention. i : * At the Convention of the Dakota Republicans on the 19th Windom delegates to the Chicazo Convention were chosen, with Blaine as second choice. CLARK MILLS’ equestrian statue of Jackson was unveiled at Nmshvilile, Tenn.; on the 20th, in the presence of 20,000 people. THE Minnésota Democrats met at St. Paul on the 20th and chose delegates to the Cincinnati Convention and neminated Presidential Electors. The former were uninstructed. o . e THe New Jersey Democratic State Convention met at Trenton on the 20th and selected delegates to the National Conven tion. They were uninstructed, but are supposed to favor a New Jersey man for President. ! i THE California Workingmen's State Convention adjourned sine die on the 2uth, after choosing - delegates to the 'Greenback National Convention. Denis Kearney was appointed one of the Delegates-at-Large. : THE Nebraska Republican State Convention met on the 20th and selected Blaine delegates to the Chicago Convention. 'THE Virginia Conservatives instructed their delegates to support the two-thirds rule. il ; 5 THE Mississippi Greenbackers met in State Convention on the 20th and appointed uninstructed delegatés to the National Convention. : : THE Pennsylvania Prohibitionists met in State Convention on the 20th and appointed delegates to the Cleveland National Convention. e THE Towa Greenback State Convention met in Des Moines on: the 20th, selected delegates to the National Convention, and nominated Presidential Electors and State officers. _ : : - : ; Tue California Democratic State Convention adjourned on the %W’ after having elected a full delegation to the Cincinnati Convention. It is said to be favorable to the nomination of Tilden or Thurman. 'THE Alabama Republican State Convention met on the 20th and, after ‘a two days’ session, elected ‘delegatés to the Chicago Comvention who were instructed for GEMA TS o R i e Tue Tllinois State Republican Convention met oh the 19th, and remained in

session until the 218 t. - During the 19th and 20th there was great discussion over the admission of the contested delegates from Cook County, which was finally settled by giving thirty-six seats to the Grant delegates and fifty-six to the Blaine-Washburne delegates. This gave the Convention to the friends of Grant by a good working majority, and a Committee was appointed to select delegates to the National Conventioa. ‘The selection was approved by the Convention, by a vote of 37414 to 521, the Blaine-Washburne - deiegates generally declining to vote, and protesting against the action of the Convention. Presidential Electors were nominated, and a State ticket composed as follows: Governor, 8. M. Cullom (renominated); Lieutenant-Governor, John M. Hamilton; Secretary of State, Captain H. D. Dement; Auditor, Charles 3. Swigart: Treasurer, Edward Ru'z; AttorneyGeneral, . Captain James McCartney. The Convention then adjourned. ; N. G. OrRpwWAY’S nomination to the Governorship of Dakota Territory was confirmed by the United States Senate on the CoNGRrEss has been appealed to by the Michigan Congregational Association not to admit Utah as a State till polygamy is abolished. o L - THE Tennessee State National Greenback Convention was held at Nashville on the 22d. Speakers and resolutions favored the repudiation of all the State debt except about §2,000,000. - : 4

: . ¥oreign, .| "~ A Casuwn dispateh, received on the 19th, says the Afghan leader had disbanded his army. ; A PestH dispatch of the 19th says the famine .in North Hungary was increasing. Fourteen hundred persons at Szinna, Comitat and Zemrplin had no other food than grass, nettles and mushrooms. Troops of emigrants were leaving the country. The Government had ordered the authorities to stop emigration, and the police had arrested some of the emigrarts. Frrry brigands have been - recently killed mear Salonica, others captured -and their 'phsoners secured. : . THE British'Parlia@ent assembled on the 20th, and was openéd by a speech from the throne, read by the kiord Chancellor. . A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the 21st says a revolt against the authority of the Porte was in progress at Bassorah, in Asiatic Turkey. : . THE Irish Home-Rulers have decided to hold aloof from the Liberal party, and will act independent of all parties. : A PORTION of a vessel's stem, supposed to be part of the missing ship Atalanta, has been picked up off the Irish coast. Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, is reported to ke about to make her home in London.: T , ‘ . . AMaprip telegram of the 23d says that more than one hundred and fifty Senators and Deputies had formed a coalition against the Government. The new party had taken the name of Liberal. ’ THE Panama Star and Herald denounces Mr. Ernst Dickmann, United States Minister to Colombia, as ‘‘a contemptible Yar,” for having written that that sheet could be influenced by money. - ON the 23d a large number of workingmen at Christiana, Norway, indulged in a riot, and were charged by a detachment of soldiers. Several were severely hurt on bofh sides. - A BARCELONA (Spain) telegram of the 22d says a thousand cotton spinners there had wrecked and set fire to a large mill. The Government had ordered the dissolution of every trade union in Catalonia. _ - A CONTRACT is said to have been made between an Ameérican Company and the Gpirernment of Niearagua for the construction of a ‘canal across the territory of that Republic. One of the local newspapers declares that the ‘moving spirits of the enterprise are President Hayes, General Grant, Admiral Ammen| and A. G. Menocal, whc represents the said cympan y. * "

4 LATER NEWS, A FEW days ago a large force of militiamen at Cork, Ireland, attacked a train bearing emigrants on their way to America and, after ousting them from the carriages, beat them severely. i THE British House of Commons. on the 24th, by a vote of YB9 to 214, rejected a motion that the usual oath of office be not administered to Mr. Bradlaugh. - R ‘THE Louisiana Republican State Convention met in New Orleans on the 24th and elected ¢elegates to the Chicago Comvention reported to stand seven for Sherman, seven for Grant and one unknown. Forty-one Grant members of the Convention bolted and chose a solid Grant delegation. Ho~. WiLLiaM S. KiNG appeared before the Donnelly-Springer Investigating Committee on the 24th, and denied having written the anonymous letter to Mr. Springer. PRESIDENT HAYES on the 24th nominated James (;. Putnam. of New York, for Minister to Belgium, vice William C. Goodloe, resigned. , . A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 24th says General Melikoff h%:l advised the Czar to consent to the éstablishment of a two-house Assembly, and that the Czar had reproached him for making the suggestion. THE recent railroad disaster near Santa Cruz, Cal., is, attributed to the too great rate of speed at which the train was moving round a. curve in the road. The number of fatalities up to the 25th was fifteen. . - ; THE Galena Gazelle, in its issue of the 24th, says that the name of General Grant ‘“‘has never gone before the public as & candidate for the Presidency by any word or act of his own, and he most certainly will not order his name withdrawn.”’ I Tue United States revenue cutter Corwin has sailed from Sam Francisco in search of the missing whaling fleet. = - A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the 24th says famine wasraging in Van, Alashked and Bashkalith. There were innumerable dcaths from starvation. . o - THE Methodist Conference at Cincinnati on the 24th fixed on Philadelphia as the place for holding the next Conference, and adopted resolutions calling on Congress -and the President to : enforce the law against polygamy in Utah. : _ MR. MORGAN’s joint rule for the counting of the Electoral vote was adopted —25 to 14, a party vote—in the United States -Senate on the 24th, after a protracted debate, participated in by Messrs. Ingalls, Teller, Thurman, Edmunds, Conkling, Eaton and others. - A number of bills ranting pensions were passed : : the Howses bill amendit(x)fip:he Srine tees Beveral bills were introduced in the House, and the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was reported from the"Cnm'mfitee' on Appropria?%(&nclund referred to the Committce olp the ole. g gl

- INDIANA STATE NEWS. AT the meeting of the State Medical Society in Indianapolis on the 18th trouble arose between Dr. J. B. Beck, of Fort Wayne, and Dr. H. D. Wood, of Angola. The latter applied an opprobrious épithet to the former, who retaliated by kicking Wood in the face. A warrant was issued for Beck’s arrest. CHARLES SCHELLING, eleven years old, was drowned in Wide Water, three miles north of Lafayette, while swimming on the afternoon of the 17th. = ) - AT Clymer’s Station on the 18th Jasper Choen, of Cass County, who was on trial for cattle stealing, took revenge upon a witness who had not testified exactly as he (Choen) desired, and mauled him nigh unto death. ApAM HUMBERGER, a lunatic confined in jail at Plymouth preparatory to his removal to the State Insane Asylum, committed suicide on the night of the 17th by hanging himself with his bed-clothing. THE following were recently .elected officers of the Grand Lodge of ‘Honor for the ensuing year: President, I. N. Pattison, Indianapolis; Viecg-President, O. H. Thomas, Pen dleton; Secretary, Ernst Duden, Indianapolis; Treasurer, Samuel R. Corbaley, Indianapolis; Trustee, three years, T. M. Pickerell, Indianapolis; Trustee, two years, Edgar Brundage, Indianapolis. At the late session of the Grand Encampment I. 0. O. F. at Indianapolis, the following officers were chosen: Grand Patriarch, S. B. Halley, Jeffersonville; High Priest, R. Berger, Muncie;- Senior Warden, H. O. Heicher, Frankfort; Junior Warden, W. H. Jocks, Logansport; Scribe, B. F. Foster, Indianapolis; Treasurer, T. P. Hougher, Indianapolis; Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, J. F. Wallick, Indiana polis. THE Indiana State Medical Society lately in session in Indianapolis elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, T. B. Harvey, Indianapolis; Vice-President, John D. Mitchell, Terre Haute; Secretary, S. Elder, Indianapolis; Corresponding Secretary, G, W. Burton, Indianapolis; Treasurer, W. H. H. Kemper, Muncie. _ ON the night of the 18th a large barn belonging to Dr. J. Inlon, at Manilla, was burned. Five horses, two buggies, - agricultural implements and a large amount of grain were consumed. The loss is $3,000, The barn was fired by tramps. . AN assault occurred on the night of the 18th in the Edwin Ray Methodist Church, in the outskirts of Indianapolis. For several months there has been bad blood there, and the pastor, George B. Young, and one of the official brethren have been tried on charges affecting their moral character. But nothing came of the trials. At a church meeting Patterson reiterated charges against the pastor, and some excitement ensued. _After the meeting adjourned Patterson was approached by Charles Evans, Secretary 6f the Church, and a son of the man who preferred the charges against him. Patterson thought an assault was intended and acted as if about to strike, when George Evans hit him in the face. Patterson grabbed a chair and made for Young, who defended himself with another chair until the parties.were separated. A FEW days ago two .boys named Child, living near Royal Center, Cass County, went to shoot a squirrel for their sick mother. While engaged in priming the gun it was accidentally discharged, the ball entering the head of the younger brother, aged fourteen years, and instantly killing him. Lee AwmspEN, County Treasurer, George Spragg, and Charles Robertson, three of the participants in the election riot at Shelbyville of April 5, were on the night of the 20th placed under arrest by the Deputy United States | Marshal. Indictments were found against them for driving legal colored voters from the polls. They gave bonds in the sum of $l,OOO each. A At Indianapolis in the Circuit Court on the 20th Jonathan W. Gordon, a prominent, Jawyer of the State and Republican candidate for Attorney-General in 1876, attempted to assault James H. Laifd, a younger attorney, whom he himself introduced to the bar several years ago.- The trouble grew out o# a criticism on Laird’s method of cross-examin-ing witnesses by Gordon’s associate counsel. Gordon joined in, and was denounced by Laird as unprofessional and ungentlemanly. Thereupon he seized a heavy glass ink-stand and attempted to hurl it at Laird, but was p’ireven‘te\d by the latter’s associate, A. Jones, Jr., who received the blow on his shoulder. Had the missile sped on in its mission Laird’s skull would have been crushed. Both were placed under arrest by Judge Adams, who will deal with them at the conclusion of their case. The episode created intense excitement for a short time. =~ -

THE annual report of the Directors of the State Prison North has been submitted to the Governor. The revenues for the year ending October 31, 1879, amounted to $69,259.49, and the expenditares to $68,779.57, showing a balance of receipts over expenditures of $479.92. The number of prisoners has decreased from 605 to 542. The Directors recommend the enlargement of the district of the Northern Prison, as the capacity of the building is “suflicient to accommodate and work 800 comvicts, and on' account of its favorable and healthful location, as well as the great commercial advantages now and hereafter to be secured |at that point, that number of conviets could be . better and more profitably employed there than elsewhere. They also call attention to the absolute necessity for better provision being made for the insane prisoners, suggest ing that either they should be removed-from the prison to the Insane Asylum, or that a suitable building be erected within the pris. on, with a sufficient number of solitary cells and other conveniences, so as to enable the prison physician to more effectually treat this class of prisoners, and give them such aid and assistance as their unfortunate condition would seem to require. EARrLY on the morning of the 20th the fine large barn of Fred Dorner, of Lafayette, was set. on fire and entirely consumed. Loss, $2,000. 7 :

A MAN named Flowers, aged thirty-one, committed suicide at Millersburg on the 19th, by taking morphine. : Tae Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2, Red, [email protected]; Corn, 37 @37%c; Oats, 33@36c. The Cincinnati quotations are:” Whieat, No. 2, Red, s'.l3@ 1.1314; Corn, 39@41c; Oats, 36@36){c; Rye, 94@9424c; Barley, Extra Fall, 93@03%5c¢.- ——— . — - HEe was watching his neighbor’s boy climb a tree, and he had a look of painful anxiety on his countenance. ‘¢ Are you afraid the lad will fall and break his neck?’’ was asked him. ¢No,” he replied, “I am deucedly afraid he won7t.7i y ; THE three sons of Z. D. Bowen, of Wadley, Ga., all use crutches. Their bones are so soft and bittle as to often break from even a slight jar, The oldest, Sylvester, has already sustained twenty-six fractures. | : ———— X THE dark horse is expected to have a good running mate.

- The Unfortunate Khedive, The ex-Khedive of Egypt is in an un. happy state of mind. By care and industry, accompanied by a large outlay, he succeeded while in Egypt in collecting a very fine harem. It was especially rich in what our art critics would call ¢ choic examples’” of Circassia and Georgia, and it included the best specimens of Egyptian, Turkish and Syrian §irls, besides a small amount of select rench moral bric-a-brac. When; in compliance with the enthusiastic desire of his fellow-countrymen and the foreign Consuls the Khedive abdicated, he took his harem and such valuables as he eould lay his hands on and went to Naples, intending to live a quiet lite of study and meditation; surrounded by his harem and his portable property. At Naples his troubles began. The Government rented him a fine palace —popularly known as the Favorita—on the shore of the bay and at the foet of Vesuvius, where he took up his residence and arranged his collection of wives in a series of pleasant rooms. It formed decidedly the best collection of the kind that any Italian city had seen since the days of the Roman Empire, and -the ex-Khedive was naturally proud of it. Before very long, however, he found that a harem cannot be kept together so easily in Naples as in Cairo. The windows of the palace were not latticed, and the ladies of the harem could not be prevented from looking out-at.the people in the street. Neither was it practicable to prevent stray ltalians from seeing an .occasional wife at a window. The eunuchs did their best to keep the harem in subjection, but their efforts were unavailing, and before the ex-Khedive had occupied - his palace many weeks he was compelled to notice that his harem was gradually growing smaller.

He at once spoke about it to the chief eunuch, and demanded to know if several of his wives were not missing. The eunuch maintained that beyond the usual loss of wives by the wear and tear intidental to dressing, no losses had occurred. The ex-Khedive could not be thus deceived. He was confident that seven or eignt of his best wives had vanished, and although, owing to the want of a trustworthy catalogue, he could not prove that he was right. he resolved that no more losses should occur without his knowlege. A careful watch soon showed the leak in the harem. Every night a throng of handsome young Italians would appear under the windows of the palace, and a few wives would jump into their arms. In this way a constant drain of wives was in progress, and the alarmed exKhedive saw that unless it could be stopped he would soon be left wifeless. The Italian Government showed itself cold and heartless. When appealed to by the ex-Khedive it explained that there was no law under which an Ital. ian could be beheaded for haying in his possession one of the ex-Khedive's wives or the latter prevented from jumping out of the window. In these circumsstances he decided to take severe measures, and-ordered his entire harem to be tied together by the ankles and chained to a post. To his great dismay he found that his servants had been corrupted by civilization, and were unwilling to obey orders that would bring them into difficulties with the Italian police.. They flatly refused to lay illeoal hands upon a single ankle, and the ex-Khedive sadly realized that he was living in a free and Christian country. There was nothing for him to do but to sit up at night and watch his family. He walked up and down the corridors of the palace, bursting into a room whenever he heard a noise, and occasionally catching & wife in the act of climbing out of the window. But this eould not last. T'he want of sleep soon told upon him. Moreover, his wives resented his conduct in watching them, and whenever he put his head out of the window, the Italians that stood below in the street watching for wives, and making bets as to who would catch the next one, addressed disrespectful language to him. Thus he was forced to see his harem melting away. Day after day he would {walk through the rooms in which he had arranged his collection and note how many valuable specimens were missing. One day it would be his most costly Circassian who had left him, taking all her back hair with her, and another day it would be a favorite qu(ftian who had gonf, after solemnly pTe ging herself never to leave her lord and master. At last it became more than the ex-Khedive could bear. When no less than fifty-seven valuable wives had been lost, the ex-Khedfve abandoned the palace and fled to Rome, leaving the remnants of his once unique harem behind him. ' It is said that the five wives which he left at Naples. will probably prove faithful to him, as they are the most unattractive of the lot, and have hitherto failed to find any Italian who would consent to take them. The ex-Khedive, however, ras expressed the opinion that he does not care what becomes of them. He has definitely given up the profession of a wife-collector, and he is now living at a Roman hotel as a single man. ~Perhaps he will try to console himself by collecting postal stamps or other objects less elusive than wives. Meanwhile the I){toung Neapolitan dandy no longer blocks® up the street in front of thegFavorita Palace, and his recent athletic sport of catching the ex-Khedive's wives as they threw themselves from the windows is at an end.—N. Y. TWmes.

. —lt had taken him some litile time to brin§ his tongue in full accord with his mind, but he finally stammered out, <« Will you—will you wander down life's path, your hand in mine, while the goddess of love sings siren songs to us? O, will you be my own, my angel?”’ ““Well, well, wouldn’t I look well as an angel? See here. If you want me to marry you, to make life happy and home -}illeasant for you, to keep the house slicked up nice, to cook you relishable meals, to preside at your table and at the piano with equal ability, to care for the children and bring them up bright and smart, and to help- yon make the most of yourself in this world, I'll jine hands with you.” “'Thatfs just the practical sort of an angel 1 thought you was. Jine.” A good start.—Now Haven Reqister. Tl

—There is a mngt' and wrong way qt E:Bbing a man’s mind, as well as a cat's k. ! 5 |

Among the Immigrants at Castle Gar, The arrivals at Castle Garden have averaged more than 670 per day ‘thus far this year, and ‘that is enough to make lively times for everybody about the Garden. The bealam of the Stock Exchange is hardly more noisy and confusing to the casual visitor thah is the scene presented by the immigrants daily in this"place, which is to them the portal of the New World. As they arrive they are all brought here direct, by barge or steamboat, from the vessels in which they reach this port, and from here they start anew for inland destinations. They may eat, drink, change money, telegraph to distant friends, receive any letters or messages thac may have been senttomeet them, gain reliable information about different sections of the country, meet friends, get through the inevitable wrestle with the Custom House officials as conveniently as possible, be treated if thev are sick, receive financial aid if their worth and necessity are demonstrated, rest and recuperate from the fatigues of the ocean passage—all these and much more without stepping outside thé confines of the Garden. : - . Looking dewn from Secretary Jackson’s windows upon the great central rotunda, the throng is thickest about the central - railed-in stalls, where the money-changers, ticket sellers and registrars are. Here and there, kept in single file by railings that only allow them to reach the desks one by one, they move patiently and s'owly. At another pointnear by, they crowd excitedly about a man who, stending on a bench, yells at the top ot his voice & series of names. He is announcing those who for whom letters are held or friends are in waiting outside, and his communications seem to awaken the liveliest interest in all, even those who are furthest from any reasonable expectation of seéing anybody they know or receiving anything from anywhere. At another point they appear to have extemporized a mass meeting about an employee of the Garden, who is making a stump speech to them ir their own language. They are Scandina-. vians going to Minnesota, and he is telling them all about how they will travel, how long they will be on the road, where they wiil stop en route, how to get land, at what points best in--ducements for employment are offered, warning them against the tricks and wiles of sharpers, advising them in regard to a multiplicity of details in the new conditions of life upon which they are entering, and patiently answering from his comprehensive store of practical knowledge the questions they have to ask him. Not far from him another man is rendering similar service in German to another body of immigrants. Almost every language is spoken by some one of the many employees in this department, so that ‘the stranger, no matter whence he inay come, need never lack for full information, on his arrival here, concerning all matter pertaining to his temporal interests. His spiritual interests also are measuraoly well cared for, not by Garden employees, however, but by colporteurs and tract distributers sent here by Home Mission and other - religious societies. When the Commissioners of Emigration are satisfied that the avowed colporteur has no secret intention to attract custom for unlicensed and undesirable boarding houses, or to vend bogus tickets, or peddle worthless articles, or do .any other objectionable thing, they have no objection to allowing him priyileges on the floor. So, at almost any hour of the day, but most frequently in the forenoon these men may be seen worming their way to an fro through the throng of immigrants, bearing armfuls of tracts and Testaments that they distribute-to all desirous of receiving them. About the desk at which tickets purchased on the other side are inspected—to see that they are all right, and that no fraud has been practiced upon the emigrant in. his own country respecting them—there is\a constant throng, but so expert and prompt are the officers having charge of this service that the inspection is very rapid. It is rare now to find fraudulent tickets or to learn of excessive charges for genuine ones; not that the agents in the Qld World have grown more honest, but that the energy with which they have been pursued and punished for petty rascalities has made fraud inadvisable. . ' ' - It is estimated that each emigrant sent for by friends or relatives here is the cause of five arriving. The starting of the one hastens the movements of those who had made up their minds to come. yet have found excuses for delay previously, and the example determines the wavering: Hence it is that, in the §reat majority of cases outside the arge movements of colonies, immigrants come in groups of from four to .six adult members each. Sugh groups implicitly follow the directions supplied for . the guidance of the one who has been sent for, cling together, take counsel with one another on every possible occasion, and for the time being, seem to have the closest family bonds, and this: although there may be between them no relationship whatever, but merely acquaintance. This fact a.;;ilies not espécially to any one nationality, but to all.—N. Y. Sun.

Diet of the Chinese. : Boiled rice is the. basis of Chinese food and the symbol of it, so to speak; for a waiter when asking you whether you are going td take a meal, will ask you if you will have some- rice, and ‘ Have you eaten your rice?” is equivalent to ‘“ How do you do?”’ In the north of China wheat and canary seed are also consumed in great quantities, boiled and made into small rolls. Cakes made of boiled wheat are held in high esteem, and these, with a little fish or some vegetables, will enable a Chinaman to make an excellent dinner. A Chinaman in comfortable circumstances takes, in addition to his breakfast, dinner and supper, various light refreshments between jmeb,ls—'-fixé~~ kuo-tsa leading up to the,’mOrning, the kuotsong to the midday, and the tienchem to the evening meal. = e i —There are two kinds of oranges grown in this country, one is the Efifd ‘ that is good to eat, and the other is the kind that'is sold on the railway traiue. < Howh-Byé 0000 S s gl Sidn