Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 23, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 September 1880 — Page 2

‘ - e QU R s Tt The Zigonier Banner, ~ J. B. STOLL, Editor and Prop’r. LIGONIER, : :...: (ANEIANA, ‘ - NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts e — i : Domestic. . Rev. E. P. Apawms, pastor of the . Presbyterian Church, of Dunkirk, N. Y., has been deposed from the ministry fon having preached against the doctrine of eternal punishment. : L " BostoN celebrated its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary on‘the 17th. An im--mense erowd was in attendance and the ceremonies passed off satisfactorily. _ AN explosion in one of the buildings of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company at Bridgeport, Conn., on the 17th, demolished the structure and killed three men and two boys., The force of the explosion was terrific. A lake near by was literally strewn with fragments ‘' of the ruined ‘building. Two of the bodies of the victims were also found in the lake, one with head and arms gone. - A rECENT Washington telegram says the First Comptroller of the Treasury had just decided that no decree of court can require the United States to pay the amount of registered bonds to judgment. creditors. NINE men were. instantly killed in the shaft of the Consolidated .Imperial Mine at Virginia City, Nev., on the night of the. 16th. They were being raiséd to the surface in the cage, when the cable broke, precipitating them to the bottom, a distance off 300 feet. : ~ OrrIcIALS of the Interior Department at Washington are said to feel very confident that the treaty with the Ute Indians would finally be signed, since they had received information to the effect that over two hundred Southern Utes had already given their signatures to the propositions... ACTING POSTMASTER-GENERAL HAZEN issued an oi‘dqr on the 18th, the purpose

of which is to exclude from the mails all reg

istered letters containing postal money or.ders addressed toagents of alleged fraudulent £ lotteries at Louisville and Covington, Ky., and New York City. s Dr. P. P. TaLBorTT, editor and proprietor of the Gpreenback Standard at Mary- _ ville;, Mo., was shot and fatally wounded late ' “on the night of the 18th, at his residence near ~that place. He was seited at a window reading’,whegn some unknown person fired through the window at close range, the ball first cutting off two of his fingers and then passing “entirely through his side, inflicting a wound from which he died the next day. His son rushed to the door and fired, but without effect, at a retreating form in the darkness, -and the assassin escaped without leaving any clew to bis identity. .| = ! e ~ TaurstoN, who attempted to assassi‘nate Colonel D. R. Ahthony, of Leavenworth, Kan., has been sentenced to eighteen years’ imprisonment. STRIKING miners at Corning;, 0.,

made a raid on the mines at that place on the 19th, and were repulsed by a militia company, which fired one volley into the advancing. mob. Nine, of the- attacking party were wounded, several of them painfully. =~ - . " A CIRCULAR has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, instructing the Assistant United States Treasurer at New York to pay out at his counter, until further mnotice, standard silver dollars, or silver certificates, in sums of ten dollars, or any multiple thereof, for like amounts of gold coin, or gold bullion, deposited with him. S Moorg, Jenking & Co., wholesale groeers of New York, suspended on the 18th, with liabilities supposed to.exceed $300,000; amount of assets not stated: Boh : DurING the session-in Chicago on the 18th of the National Liberal Convention, while the platform r?portexl from committee was under discussion,' Colonel R. G. Ingersoll

objected to the resolution calling for the un_conditional repeal of the laws. against the (_ transmission of obscene: literature through -the mails, and offered a substitute providing that, in all cases where arrests were madé for such transmission, the matter should be re- ~ ferred to the Committee on Defense, who

should ascertain whether the arrested party was honest in what he had done, and believed that he had only trangmitted that which was for the public good, and, in case of a favorable finding by the committee, that accused should be protected and défended by the League. A lengthy debate ensued, the exciting controversy terminating in the rejection of the Ingersoll substitute and the adoption of the original resolution, slightly amended. 'l‘h‘e;-eupon Col. Ingersoll reSigned the positionof Vice-Presi-dent of the Leazue, stating that. he could no longer act with the organization, as lre differed with it in this, as he considered it, important particular. S ,

VANDERBILT'S six-_yeafiold mare Maud 8. trotted a mile in the unprecedented time of 2:103{ on the Jockey Club track, Chieago, on the 18th. . |

Two soLpiers, Michael Joyce and John C.-Berry, while handling a Gatling gun at the United States Arsenal, Washington, D. C., were shot and instantly, killed on the Bth,. : :

Personal and Political, #

ON the 15th there were published revised returns from the entire State of Vermont, which show that the vote for Governor was as follows: Farnham,. Republican, 47,852; Phelps; Democrat, 21,240; Heath, Greenback, and scattering, 1,591; Farnham’s majority over all, 25,021.

. THE_ Massachusetts State Republican Convention met at Worcester on the 15th and renominated the present State officers, with the exception of the Treasurer, for which position Daniel A. Gleason was named. Presidential Electors were also placed in nomination. - e

‘'Tue New Hampshire Democrats met in State Conveéntion at Concord on the 15th and nominated a full State ticket, headed by Frank Jones for Governor. Vi

THe Missouri State Republican Convention met-at Bt. Louis on the 15th. A full State ticket, headed by Colonel . P. Dyer, of Bt. Loujs, for Governor, was placed in nomination. © y v solae S

THE National Republican Club Convention mé in Indianapolis on the 15th and ‘organized by the: choice of General J. R. G, Pitkin, of Louisiana, as President, with the ‘usual number of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries. An address and platform were adopted and 4 National Committee formed, of which Franklin MacVeagh, of Chicago, was made President, and T. M. Nichol Secretary.

Tug New Hampshire Prohibitionists met at Copcord on the 16th and nominated a fu'l State ticket,. headed by George D. Dodge for Governor, , e

“'F. L. SuAWw, the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Second Maryland District, has declined the nomination.’

‘Tae following Congressional nominations were made on the 16th: Republican— First Massachusetts, Congressman 8. Z. Bowman; First Missouri District,ex-Gov. Fletcher. Greenback—SBecond Maryland, E. A. Treadway; . Third . Maryland, J. H. W. Onion; Fourth Marylaud, Samuel W. Pierce; Fifth Maryland, Oliver Bryan: Sixth Maryland, Nathaniel Sener. Democratic — First New’ Hampshire, John W. Sanborn; Third New Hampshire, G. H. Bingham; Second New Jersey, Congressman H. B. Smith. AFTER a ses3ion of two orthree days the committees of the regular and re-adjuster factions of the Virginia Democracy adjourned sine die on the 17th, without coming to a settlement. It was stated that all hopes of a compromise had been abandoned. :

THE Republicans of the Fourth New Jersey District have nomin'atedGencral Judson Kilpatrick for Congress. . : THE following Congressional nomi-

nations were made on,the 17th: lfirst Georgia District, Georze R. Black, Democrat; Fifth Maryland, W." R. Smith, Republican; First Alabama, F. H. Threat (colored), Republican. ConGreEssMAN R. V. PIERCE, of the Thirty-Second New York District, hasresigned his seat in Congress. - -

PRESIDENT AND MRgs. HAYES had a public ‘repeption in the ladies’ parlors at the Palace Hptel, San Francisco, on the evening of the 18th, which was largely attended. .

Foreign.

Hexry PERRY, who was some time ago convicted of robbing and seriously injuring a bank messenger on the Underground Railway in London, was recently broucht before the Central- Criminal Court and sentenced to thirty lashes with the cat-o’-nine-tails and a penal servitude of twenty years. On receiving his sentence the prisoner screamed aloud in agony and fear. In concluding that part of the seéntence imposing punishment with the lash, the Judge said: ‘‘l sentence you to receive this form_of punishment before your long term of imprisonment begins, in order that, coward as you are, you may feel the pain and know what it meaus.”’ o .

~ THE British Vice-Admiral Sir F. K. Seymour has béen appointed to the command of the International fleet in Turkish waters:. |- 3 ’

DurING the eight months ended August 31 ithe imports into France increased by 250,000,000 francs over the imports of the corresponding eight months in 1879, and the exports by 108,000,000 francs. o A PLEASING incident occurred at Boston, England, on the 17th. The bells of the parish .church were rung in honor of the 250th anniversary of Boston, Mass. This is the church which was presided over by the Rev. John Cotton for twenty years, before he became pastor of a church in the New England séttlement. - ;

A MINISTERIAL crisis existed in France on the 19th, caused by the lack of harmony in| the Cabinet with regard to the treatment of unauthorized religious bodies. De Freycinet, the Premier, resigned, and Jules Ferry was charged with the formation of a new Cabinet. 2 '

A LONDON telegram- of the 19th announces the 1o:8 at sea of the steamer Aurora from Oporto for Southampton. Fifty persons perished. | .

- O~ the 18th 8,000 Albanians occupied the town and fortress of Dulcigno, éxpelling the Turkish garrison. : b 5

RINDERPEST of a very virulent kind has broken out among-the cattle of the Province of Volhynia, the principal cattle distriet of Russia. , L ;

- Lorp Firzroy KELLY, Chief Baron pf the English Court of Exchequer, died on the 17th, aged eighty-four years. |

THE bush fires in the Parish of St. George, Quebec, are said to have done great damage. . Seyen or eight square miles of the country have been swept by the flames, and the pettlers of the place have been rendered entirely destitute. A large quantity of timber, grain and household property has been destroyed.: -1 : :

LATER NEWS,

THE National Liberal League adjourned its session in Chicago on the evening of the 19th, to meet next year ata place to be determined upon by the Board of Directors. R. C. Spencer, Chairman of the Committee on Future Works, having failed in an attempt to have the resolution relative to the repeal of the objectionable Postal laws modified in a manner similar to that proposed by Colonel Ingersoll before his resignation, introduced a resolution to the effect that the management of the affairs of the League be turned over to the free-lovers and spiritualists. A resolution that Mr. Spencer be expelled was thereupon at once adopted amid considerable excitement. bl e

LAFAYETTE S. FOSTER, of Connecticut, a direct descendant of Miles Standish, is dead. He was a United States Senator at the time of the death of President Linco!ln; and on Mr. Johuson’s elevation to the Presidency became Vice-President of the United States, which position he held until his term expired.

By a fire in Green Bay, Wis., on the ‘evening of the 20th sixty of the best residences of that city, thirty barns andthe Presbyterian church were destroyed. The loss was variously estimated between $150,000 and $175,000. The insurance was said to be very light. - THE Republicans of the Tenth Ten--nessee District have nominated William R Moore- for Congress. There was some dis; satisfaction at the nomination and a bolt occurred, the seceders placing Colonel Thomas A. Hamilton in nomination.

THE Republicans -of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania District nominated ex-Senator Simon Cameron for Congress on the 20th, but Mr. Cameron declined, and the nomination was given to Samuel F. Barr, for many years his private secretary. :

A rAMILY living at Wilkesbarre, Pa., ate of some corn-meal in which arsenic had -been mixed for the purpose of poisoning rats. Three of the parties, Miss Sylvania Carl, her sister and Mrs. R. 8. Woodward, died from the effects, and it was thought on the 20th that Jemima Powell, a servant, and three others could not survive.

It was reported on the 20th that more than half the horses of Boston were suffering from a disease strongly resembling the epizootic, although of a mild type. Veterinary surgeons said every equine in the city would be attacked by the disease. It was feared it would spread to other parts of the conntry.: = . o . o

ON the 20th a dispatch was received at the headquarters™ of the National. Demoeratic Committee claiming the election of Plaisted for Governor of Maine by a plurality of about 100. The Republicans claimed the clection of Davis for Governor by a plurality of about 400. The Constitutional amendments are adopted by decided majorities, and the Legislature is strongly Republican in both branches, - - :

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jonx H. Bell, a Pan-Handle brakeman, was eaught between the cars, at Anderson, on the afternoon of the 13th. and instantly killed. He lived at Richmond, ;:and wa§ a married Wan:. - S o

AT two o'clock on the morning of the 13th fire was discovered in the rear of John Harper’s restaurant, at Marion, which was soon destroyed. The fire spread to F. M. Holmes! hardware store, and a three-story brick building adjoiping. desfiroying the hardware store, and greatly damaging the brick buildfqg. Total loss $6,000; insured for $4,000. Ox the 12th Thomas Lantry, two ‘years old, son of George Lantry, of Indianapolis, crawled under a freight carstanding opposite his parent’s residence, and was playing on the track when thé switch-engine backed up to take the cars off, and before notice could te given to the engineer the little one was run ower and killed.. i ; : Mxz. WISENGLE, SuiperAnten-'dent of the fertilizing farm, soumfi‘?of Indianapolis, was geriously if not fatally Hurt on the llth by the kick of a vicious™ horse. Several ribs were brcken, and one lung and the bowels severely bruised.- . ‘ ! . 'WHILE playing with, an old’ pistol at Indinapolis on the 11th, which they supposed to be unloaded, Harry Sype. seven years of age, shot and killed his brother Bertie, aged only four. ‘The ball entered the forehead; and traced its way to the base of the brain.

WaiLe refuminfi{ to- Leo from the Fort Wayne Fair on the 11th, Samuel Hossler was thrown from his wagon and broke, his neck. He was intoxicated. il -

. ON the evening of the 11th, at Logansport, James Heénan, a blacksmith employed at the Pan-Hanale shops, was shot dead by John Duflield, of Idaville, White County. |

Tie saw-mill -of Bell & Son at Lincoln, Cass County, was burned on the morning of the 10th. Loss, $4,000. . | A SHOOTING-MATCH for a beef was being held at the farm-house of a Mr. Meridias, at Maxville, Greene C?)unt,y, when a young man by the name of Newton shot a little girl who passed in front of his aim, the rifle ball penetrating her bowels, ‘killing her almost instantly. e : : FATHER BLAKE, a traveling evangelist, was adjudged insane at Greensburg recently, and the court ordered that a guardian should be selected. 'The eccentric old gentleman is wealthy, highly educated, and spends his time driving over the country, painting scriptural injunctions and advice upon fences, unused walls, and in other ways calling the attention of the ungodly to the great cause he espouses. ; L L

- SoME months ago the Union News Company at Indianapolis were losers of $5OO through the dishonesty of their Superintendent, D. E. Royce. The man has finally come to the surface at Nashville, Tenn., where he is held on the charge of horse-stealing. The officials are loth to give him up until he stands trial on.the larceny charze. If that is not, sustained he will be delivered to the Tlndiana officers. o =

- FARMERS ‘in Nineveh Towxishhfi, Johnson County, report that their houss are dying off in large numbers from cholera. "Some have lost as high as fifty. e

At the late session of the Indiana M. E. Conference at New Albany it was voted to hold the next session at Vincennes. Bishop Foss announced the following appointments for the ensuing year: !

Tlndianapolis District—John Poucher, P. E. Belleville, William Maginniss: Brookville, Joseph Wharton: Eminence, supplied by W. A. Fox; Greencastle, Locust Street, J. L. Pitner; Indianapolis, Ames, George F. Culmer; California Street; 'W. R. Hulstead; Meridian Street, H. J. Talbott; Martinsville, J. E. Brant;. Mooresville, T. G. Beharrell; Monrovia, James V. Moore; Morgantown, James D. Crane; Putnamville, Miles Woods; Quincy, Joseph Rawlins; Waverly, C. W. Woods; West Newton, A. B Bridges. - e

Bloomington District—T. P Welker, P. E. Bloomtield, R. B. Martin; Bioomington, J. W. Webb; . Bloomington Cireuit, J. M. Watson; Bowling Green, supplied by J. W. Welker; Center Poiat, T. W. Jones; Cory, John Laverty; Ellettsville,r John M. Baxter; Gosport, Francis A. Eller; Harrodsburg, John Bruner; Linton, David Swartz; Newark, supplied by John T. Breeden; Patricksburg, John Spear; Pleasantville, H. J. Karr; Speneer, John W. Culmer; Worthington, W. W. Ramsay. H. B. Hibben, Chaplain United States Navy and member of Bloomington Quarterly Conference. - .

Vincennes District—B. F. Rawlins, P. E.; Alferdsville, M. Rosc; Ascension, S. O. Dorsey; Bruceville, T. H. Willig; Carlisle,J. F. St. Clair; Freclandsville, A. M. Kelsey; Graysville, G. W. Stafford; Hymera, J. F. McGregor, New Lebanon, F. A. Hutcherson; Prairietown, J. W. Asbury; Sullivan, H. Ketecham:; Vincennes, A. Turner; Washington, J. A. Ward; Washington Circuit. R. A, Kemp; Wheatland, J. M. ‘Harbin. L = Evansville District—W.- M, . Zaring, P. E. Blue Grass, T. C. Ezmks; Evansville, Ingle Street, J. V. R. Miller; Kingsley, I. N. Thompson; Pennsylvania Street and Ridge, W. Telfor; Trinity, F. C. Iglehart; Fort Branch, H. N. King; Mount Vernon, J. A. Scamahorn; Mount Vernon Circuit, B. Carter; Newburgh, G. Heavenridge; New Harmony, L. S. Knotts; Oakland City, J. M. Hilliard; Owensville, W, . Davis; Patoka, E. Hawes; Princeton, M. M. C. Hobbs; Springtield, J. W. Kincaid; West Franklin, R. G. Easley. : : New Albany District—J. Kiger, P. E. Corydon, J. R. Holloway; Elizabeth, G. W. Fansler; Fredericsburg, F. M. Hedden; Greenville, J. H. Reed; I{ardinsburg. sugplied by Clay Lee; Lanesville, supplied by J. W. Melton; Leavenworth, S. W. T'royer: Mauckport,W. M. Davisson; Marengo, supplied by Geo. Hudson; New Albany, Centenary, H. T. Curnick; John Streer, W. Underwood; Main Street, S. W, M¢Naughten; Wesley Chuapel, J. S. Woods; New Albany Circuit, J. F. Palmer; New Philadelphia, N. V. Moore; Salem, A. R. Julian; E. Rowley, President Kentucky Female (ol%ege; F. A. Friedley, President De Pauw (olege. . ; ' Rockport Distriect—W. H. Grim, P. E. Augustu, supplied by;G. Whiteman; Boonville, ohn Tansey: Cannelton, W. B. Collins; Center, W. W, Puett; Gentryville, W, F. F. Smith; Grandview, J. L. Cooper; Huntingburg, G. W. Wolfe; Lynnville, F. A. Lester; Newtonville, B. F. Julian; Oil 'Creek, supplied by W. C. McCown; Otweli, A. A. Godby; Petersburg, J. W. Julian; Roc]u}gort ‘Curcuit, D. T. Davis; Rockport, W. McK. Hester; Rome, supplied by J. T. Bean; Taylorsville, E. Gaskins; Troy, :sugplied by Joseph Turner; Union, %{upplied y W. D. Woods; Yankeetown, D. arvey. : -Mitchell District—John® Walls, P. E. Bartletteville, to be supplied; Bedford, W. W. Webn; Campbellsburg, L. Johnson;. Clark’s Prairie, J. W.. Payne; Dover Hill, D. Morden: Frie, J. B. Hamilton; French Lick, H. W. ‘Wright; Lbogootee, J. T. Woods; Mitchell, M. 8. Heavenridge; Orangeville, J. T. Allen; Orleans, S. C. Kennedy; Paoli, E. P. F. Wells: ‘Shoals, J. F. Woodruff; Springville, supplied by 8. F. Culmer; Tunnelton, H. O. Chapmans Wickliffe, supplied by J. W. Butler. 2

THE Indianapolis ‘grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 9214@928{c; Corn, 403 @4lc; Oats, 30@30%4¢c.” The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 97@98c; Corn, 4415@44%¢; Oats, 324 @33c; Rye, 94@ 95c; Barley, New Fall, 95@9%14c. :

—A Virginia farmer helped himself to a drink while the druggist was out after change, and it cost him three ‘months in bed and a doctor’s bill of forty dollars for getting hold of the Mronghottle. ' e

—Prince Bismarck, at Kissengen, following the advice of his physicians, indulges in afternoon naps. The Prince is a great eater and worker, though a_poor sleeper. ;

—A little girl was arrested at Holyoke, Mass., for cutting the cushions of a fine carriage. She explained that she wanted to get hair to stuff her doll anew.

MISCELLANEOUS.

—Newspapers are printed in ten different foreign languages, including the Ohs b 2 ; ‘Chinese, in San Francisco. —The United States have contributed about $5,000,000 durin% the past year to relieve the distress in Ireland. |

—A Maine school teacher captured thirty-three cuds of gum from her pupils il}l{ one day, and it was a rainy day at that. : :

—The cost of living in Paris has increased so much that the American colony is smaller than at any previous time for twenty years. —A man in' New York State who had been deat for sixteen years, recovered h‘ls hearing by being in a boiler explosion. - S

—The. fortune-tellers of Paris have fixed rulés. They tell every fourth customer that he will die a vielent death, while the other three are.to live long anddierich. : ' b

—The- rule against carrying fruit from the tables was enforced at a Long Branch hotel the other day when an old lady straggled out of the room with an entire watermelon. { ;

—The Russian military tribunal at Kieff has given judgment in the case of the twenty-one prisoners. Popoff, a priest’s son, called General in the association, and Ivanoff, an ex-student, arrested after armed resistance, an explosive machine being found in his possession, were senténced to be hanged. Four were sent to the mines for twenty years, and seven to simple banishment to Siberia. = :

—An astrologist of Kingston, Jamaica, will find in the hurricane-at that place a confirmation of his theories. About a yearago he made a direful prophecy of earthquakes, hurricanes, famines, plagues, and wars, that were to begin in 1880 and last seven years. Even this prophet, however, has some good in store for us. Those who survive 1887 are to live ‘‘ twice as long as they ever did.? -

—An advertisement in the London Morning Post in 1813 is quoted 'as - indieative of the values set upon scholarship at that period: ¢ Wanted, as tutor and butler, a well educated reduced scholar, to teach a boy of nine, Latin and English gramatically, writing, accounts; and if French, dancing, drawing, he will be preferred: - He is to dine with the youth and maid, and io act in the capacity of butler to the father, He will be strictlj)]( examined, and the most satisfactory characters required in both capacities.” . . . ! ‘

—A curious telephonic experiment is reported as made in Switzerland on the occasion of 'the Federal fete of singers. A telephone had been placed in the Zurich Festhalle, and two conductors connected with the Basle telegraphic office, where a large audience had congregated. The distance from Basle to Zurich is about fifty miles. The Basle audience enjoyed the-singing about as well as if they had been placed in the upper circle of an ordinary operi-house. At the end of the performance they proved their satisfaction by clapping hands, which the telegraphic wires transmitted with perfect fidelity to the Zurich performers. : 1

—The cuirass seems likely to| very shortly disappear altogether from the armies of Europe. At present it/is retained only in France, Germany, Russia and England, and in the two latter the regiments of cuirassed horsemen, although they might doubtless be employed in case of emergency, are not generally considered available ag field troops. The Howse Guards and Life Guards, for instdnce, have never been ~on a-field of battle since the day of Waterloo. When, at a critical moment in the late Russo-Turkish campaign, the Russian Guard was hurried to the theater of war, the four regiments of duirass siers forming. part of it were left behind at St. Petersburg. * '_ - 1 —Two swindlers ‘ made more than $lO,OOO in a week in Ban Francisco, by a plan, of which the following case is an illustration: One of them made the acquaintance of a restaurant keeper, and talked about buying his establishment. They met again in the street and the second swindler ntroduced himself as a stranger who was about to. return to his home in Europe. He said ‘he had his fortune in the bag which he was carrying, and wanted their advice as to what to do with it. He broke open one of the rolls which the bag contained, showing $2O gold pieces. The- first swindler proposed to the restaurantman that they should steal this money. To do this, He said, it would be necessary to induce the foreigner to intrust the bag to him. This could be brought about, he thought, if the restaurant man would set an example by putting £3,000 into his hands ostensibly for safe keeping. This was done, and of course he disappeared with it. —An accident of an unfortunate, yet not altogether serious, kind recently occurred ~at Bridgnorth, in England. For the last two years the Bridgnorth Rowing Club have had a floating bath on the river, and certain days are reserved for ladies. On the day in guestion the Severn was greatly swollen by rain, but nevertheless no danger was apprehended, and thirty ladies were there bathing, when. the bath gavea lurch and commenced tosink. The oc‘cupants were alarmed, and forsaking their clothing, made for the adjoining -bank, and just as they had suceeeded in getting on shore the bath'sunk. A cattle shed afforded the bathers temporary refuge. Their clothing was lost beyond recovery, and the inhabitants of -neighboring houses were at once applied to for garments. Every describable costume was adopted without a murmur, but at last the stock of clothes available gave out, and some had to wrap themselves in blankets. _

A Fashionable Pastime.

The idle, fashionable woman (writes a New York correspondent) has taken to a new diversion. She polishes her nails. She extends her hand to you with great frequency now-a-days, and always with the back upwards and the fingers straightened out. That is because she wishes you to observe. the nails, which shine like glass and are of a delicate pink hue. W%lo knows what started this mania? Nobody can ever discover the oriiin of such tflings. The distemper breaks out somehow, and then extends from person to person.

The New York woman of leisure, whether she be left in the city, or is to. be found at some near seashore resort, now passes about four hours a day at work on her nails. Her tool is an article somewhat like the wooden handles or holders for blotting paper—a narrow strip of ebony, ivory or Eudia. rubber, with a knob on one side and a surface of chamois skin on the other. Some of these polishers are fancifully made, and: $lO is not an unusual price; but cheap ones do the wdrk: as well, and a homemade article answers the purpose. The best of them have a device for handily fastening in fresh strips of chamois skin, but tacks wili.do. The essentials are a polishing substance and plenty of industry. A mixture is sold in the stores at a pretty high price, and it has a beautiful name and lable; but it is a simple composition ' of rotten-stone, oil and rouge. Anybody can mix it for herself. The stuff is daubed on' the rubber, ahd assiduous friction does the rest. The rotten-stone and oil smooth and polish the nails, just as metal, bone andivory, are made to shine by the workmen, and the rouge imparts a pinkish color. The enthusiastic industry displayed by the women in this summer amusement is wonderful.. They rub, rub, rub, by the hour, usually in parties, making this employment take the place of- needlework. There was once an old woman who scrubbed her kitchen floor until she wore her way through and fell into the cellar, breaking her neck. Something like that will happen to these nail polishers, for nails cannot thicken by ‘growth as fast as theyv are now scoured away.. Thé polishing is not all done on the finger-nails. The toe-nails are beautiful, too. What is the use of giving time and labor to making toe-nails pink and glossy? Well, this is the season when most metropolitan women bathe more or less at the seashore, and some of them show their feet in doing so. -

Devotion of a Forger's Wife.

A reporter to-day accidentally came across the wife of Brockway, the noted forger, who is’ mow in Providence County jail. Mrs. Brockway is a very pretty lady,and was handsomely but not gaudily dressed. She was on her way to see her husband at the prison. She said that she met her husband at her home in Chicago about three years ago, at which time he was introduced to her as Charles Seymour. She was fifteen yearsof age at that time and attended school. Seymour was reported to be a wealthy gentleman, and cultured, and, so far as was known, an honorable and respectable man. The beauty and grace of Miss Raymon beguiled Seymour into an attachment which a more intimate acquaintance ripened into.love. They were married, and lived happily together fornearly two years, Seymour furnishing a house in fine style and bestowing costly presents upon his wife. Mrs.: Seymour gave birth to a child, who died about a. year ago. ‘Her husband was invariably kind and indulgent to her, although he was absent from home the greater part of the time.” She had not the slightestidea that he was a forger until abouta year ago, and then learned for the first time that his name was Brockway. When she asked him in what way he earned such large sums of, money he invariably informed her that he was a speculator in grain. She was positive that he never carried ‘on the business at home, as he loved ‘her too well to throw her into association with such men. Her parents learned of her husband's character beforeshe did and tried in every way to persuade her to return home and abandon him, but she refused to forsake him and clungto him devotedly until his imprisonment at the Tombs in New York, during which time herchild died. Sheremained with some. friends .in New York, being doubttul whether her parents, in their bitter anger, would receive her. Her husband left home about four months ago, and she knew nothing of "his whereabouts until she saw the account of his arrest in a morning paper recently. She had: never seen Ulrich or Billy Ogle. - She condemned Ulrich’s conduct in criminating her husband. o She thought it was best to visit her husband in jail in order to know what was best to do in the future. The meeting between the couple at the prison was very affecting. They.sat on the bench with their hands clasped together, and talked pleasantly and quietly. Once in a while some pleasantry of his won a smile, but they were inclined to talk seriously and cautiously, so that nothing bearing upon the case was obtainable. Mrs. Brockway remarked upon the pleasant surroundings of the prison, in such marked contrast with those at the old prison which she had visited, but shuddered at the thought of her husband’s confinement in the stronghold. She did not know whether he would be able to obtain bail or not, butthought that it was improbable. She thoueht that she should remain in New York until her husband’s. trial, in September, unless he should be so fortunate as to find a bondsman. She had understood that her husband had employved an alias in every city in which he operated, but not until after her marriage.—Newport Cor. New York Herald.

The Goat Movement in Great Britain.

At a meeting of the British Goat Society, held recently at its rooms, 446 Strand, a letter was read from |Lord Roselyn, accepting the office of President of the institution. The honorary Secretary. Mr. H. S. Holmes, announced that Lady Burdett-Coutts had become patroness of the society, and that the Duke of Wellington and Lord Shaftesbury had agreed to act as Vice Presidents. He said that it was a well-estab-lished fact that in rural districts the families of the poor rarely tasted other: than ¢ skim' milk, in consequence of the difficulty of obtaining the pure article, which™ was either sent wholesale to London or utilized at once in butter or cheese miking. He added that on the Continent and in Ireland the goat was regarded as the poor man’s cow. The society claimed that the goat was especially adapted for such a purpose. It supplied just milk enough for the requirements of an ordinary household during the greater part of the year, and as it ate almost every kind of herb and vegetable, and possessed a hardy constitution, it was kept with very little trouble and at an almost nominal cost. “- Nt James’ Gazeltes.. 0

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

—An English Biblé in A. D. 1274 cost gi666s - = T Bl g

~—Philadelphia has * 434 churches ; New York, 354, and Brooklyn, 240. No. other Ameriean city has over 200. ‘ —Two converts of the Moody and Sankey revivalin Boston are known by the Rev. Dr. Gordon, of that city, to have ‘given #50,000 each for the promulgation of the Gospel. . | —The Evening Post says that the Christitiv at Work is responsible for ‘“sermonette ' and ‘¢ petitionette,” the former meaning a.short sermon-and the latter an abbreviated prayer. -~ .

~—Dr. - Hitcheock, a laborer in the Protestant cause in Paris, is alarmed by the growth of a society of atheists lately formed in the French -capital This society; he says, boasts of a mem‘bership of. fifteen thousand in /Paris alone. Their influence is not simply negative.* They "make aggressive war upon the churches. Lon iR -—The Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of the Second:African Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., has been appointed Sunday-school Missionary of the American Baptist Publication Society among the freed people of Louisiana. He has been a very successful pastor, having built up a chrreh of 2,500 mémbers. . —The Methodist Episc¢opal Church South has ‘a church of Mexicans at Laredo, on the Rio Grande, with about seventy-eight members, and a Sundayschool of sixty-two Mexican pupils, forty-two of whom are men and ‘women, “*some aged and . gray-haired.”’. The 'lirei~fbyit-eri:ms also have a Mexican Sunday school and ‘congregation at this places. o Sae wl B aE .

—The Chautaugua National Sunday-| school Assembly, which in 1874 was designed (for the gathering <f Sundayschool workers throughout the land, has rapidly enlarged its ficld of laber, till now it embraces seculat schools in all departments. Its aim is to offer an attractive place for teachers aid others to spend their vacation weeks, where the advantages of boating, fishing, and, bathing are combined with teligious in= struction, lectures en art, music, philosophy, languages,. ete. The season this vear, which opened August 4, was emij nently successful, thousands collecting there from every State in the U&nion,i and from every quarter of the globe. For three weeks the. days® were filled with a varied programme, several occupying the same hours.” ... . |

He Forgot the Bullet,

It is but seldom that the comic element enters into attempts at suicide.- A diverting exception $o this general rule is atforded by the suicidal enterprise of a Hungarian engineer, - resident at Temesvar, who, being a steadfast votary of Bacchus, had drunk himselt into so unsatisfactory: a state* of mind that a a few ‘days ago. he- determined to put at end to_ his existence. Having provided “himself with a pistol, and locked himself up in a private room of a hotel in the town,. which apartment he had specially hired for the purpose, he pressed . the- muzzle of the weapon against his left breast and pulled the trigger. ‘The usual éxplosion followed, and the would-be suicide. fell to the ground, where helay. patiently for several minutés, waiting for ‘death. .Dissolution, however, failing to' set in as promptly as he had expected. he presently aroge, left.the hotel and walked home, with a view to dying comfortably in his'own apartment. A li{ttle later on, perplexed by his. unaccountable vi= tality, he sent for a surgeon to examine the wound., -Beyond a-slight seorching of the skin no injury cou‘li be detected; and, “while ‘the surgeon was vainly searching for a mortal hurt his patient anxiously inquired, ‘¢ where the bullet had lodged?’’ © ¢ Ifancy,”” was the reply, ‘¢ that you must have forgotten to put it intothe pistol.”” = Give me my waisteoat,” . ejaculated “thé intended selt-slayer, and, sure enough, safely ensconced in the watéh-pocket. of that garment was ‘found the missile Wwith which - he ‘had designed to extinguish his vital ‘spark. = Since this discovery he has quitted . Temesvar, in. which town he found- that his rash -attempt to kill himself with a charge of powder and a wad had made him the object of more public notice, attended by uncontrollable hilrity, than was altogether agreeable to him.—ZLondon Telegraph. =~

The- Ex-Khedive in Exile.

A ' correspondent of the Jowrnal de Geneve, who was lately invited to visit the ex-Khedive of Egypt in his retirement at Resina, gives some curious details of the present life of the deposed prince. -He is described as spiritual, intelligent and: affable, extremely polished in mauner, and capable of talking with ease oni a variety-of subjects. He looks very -like a Fren¢hman, and his guests are invariably delighted with the reception which he accords them. If you chance to arrive at breakfast time, His Highness will almost certainly invite you to partake of ‘¢ his frugal repast.’ This *“frugal repast’’ eonsists of eight or nine dishes a la Francaise, choice wines, and an. exquisite dessert, all served in a style of lordly luxury. The servants wear rich Tliveries, the plates are silver and gold, and the vessels of crystal and porcelain are chef d’'uwvres of art: But there is no absurd nonsense of etiquette ; the conversation is free and unconstrained, and everybody says and- does as he likes. For the rest there are few signs of luxury.. The furniture of the villa is extremely simple, and though the personnel of the household is numerous there is' no unnecessary display. As to the Khedive's present income little is. known. If not excessive, it is at least plentiful, for his expenditure must be somewhat consideragl_e.« The Neapoli--tans rather exploit him-—make him pa.;zf, for instance, twenty-one francs a bottle for champdigne worth not more than seven franes. “His two sons, Hassan and Hussein, live witn him ; they are both said to be able men, and each is the husband of one wife. One of the miost remarkable members of the Kfiedive’s household is Devreth Pasha, the treasurer. Born. a slave, he rose from one grade to another, until he became: Director of the Opera House at Cairo, and in that position ox en . route: to it, contrived to amass a- fortune. 31‘5,000,& 000 francs, which he still retains, =