Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 5, Number 40, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 3 January 1884 — Page 2

JJappnnce ®cchl]) glcius.. / . f NArPANEE. : i INDIANA. NEWS OF THE WEEK BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. DOMESTIC. Two freight trains were telescoped on the bridge across the river at Lackawaxen, Pa., on the 21st, A caboose and two cars mounted the engine and were burned. Two oil cars, aflame, were thrown into the river. The bridge was considerably damaged. Mrs. Gabriel Kiahl, of Baltimore, while trying to extinguish the clothes of her little girl which had caught fire from a stove recently, was herself fatally burned. Her clothes were entirely burned from her body. Carter Smith and George McDaniels, both colored, quarreled in a barber shop tit Grafton, W. Va., on the 21st, and the former stabbed the latter to death with a pair of scissors and escaped. , Captain Gordon, the child abductor, was sentenced at Jersey City on the 21st to five years’ imprisoiMKent and to pay a fine of 3>1,000. Jerry Cox, colored, was hanged at Georgetown, S. C., on the 21st for the marer of Herbert Rembert in June last. Tom Buford, who murdered Judge Elliott for rendering a decision adverse to him (Buford), recently escaped from the insane asylum at Louisville, Ky. His escape has created considerable excitement in Louisville. He has a mania to right what ne terms the wrong done him by the decision, and the other judges sitting on the bench at tjie time are in fear of their lives..,' e Attorney General Brewster left Washington for New Orleans on the 21st, where he will appear in the prosecution of the lottery cases. The Pottsville, Shamokin and Shenandoah districts, in Pennsylvania, mined in November 1,080,631 tons of coal, in the production of which fifteen miners were killed and thirty-four seriously injured. Dispatches of the 28d state snow to the depth of about twenty inches fell during the past few days all along the Ohio Valley. Railroad travel has been delayed by the heavy snow, and the recent rains have caused considerable fear of floods along the Ohio and Allegheny rivers. Dispatches from Chicago report a very heavy snow storm in Southern Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. Reports from the> East and New England States say the weather Is very cold. At Booneville, N. Y., the thermometer reached thirty-six degrees below zero. In New England the thermometer ranged from ten to thirty degrees below zero. ‘ Celebrations of the anhiversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers occurred at New York, Philadelphia and many New England cities and towns on the 22d. President Arthur participated in the celebration at Philadelphia. S. Gilbert & Co.> extensive grain dealers, with worehouses at Utica, Buffalo Rock, Ottawa, Wedron and Grand Ridge, in Illinois, suspended the 22J. It is said their liabilities will reach $300,000. * George Williams, a notorious crook, was caught in the act of robbing a store at Trotwood, seven miles west of Dayton, Ohio, early on the morning of the 22d and shot in the breast by the clerk, Ulysses Echenck. He was lodged in jail. His wound is serious. Henry Curtin, a clerk in a store at Petersburg, Ind., was murdered and robbed while oh his way home on the night of the 22d. Charles Harvey, a bard character, was arrested as the murderer. While John and Jacob Novely were out gunning with their father near Reading, Pa., on the 22d, Joint-Slipped on the ice and his gun was discharged, killing Jacob instantly. A dispatch from Billings, Montana, on the 22d stated that Jack Myer had discovered the bed of the Lost Cabin Mine in Montana, which is said to be immensely rich in gold. This is the mine which three old miners discovered in early Territorial times, two of whom were murdered by the Indians and the survivor became insane and could never trace the trail. Since then the discovery had passed into Territorial tradition. A large number of Gentiles, of both political parties, held a meeting at Salt Lake City, on the night of the 22d, for the purpose of endorsing President Arthur’s recommendation for a legislative council for Utah, and also for the purpose of endorsing Governor Murray’s stand for laws and good government. A dispatch? from Gadsden, Tenn., on the 22d states that great, distress exists in that place from a small-pox epidemic. Out of twenty-six cases fourteen died, and an appeal is made for nurses and virus. Notice has been given for closing indefinitely the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company’s rail mill at Reading, Pa., on January 1. Three hundred men will be disemployed. Cause, dullness of the iron trade. Mrs. Christian, who is said to have murdered seven men, was arrested at San Antonio, Texas, on the 23d. Bob Younger, one of the notorious Younger brothers and companion of Jesse James, was arrested at Warrior, Ala., on the 23d. The resident miners of the McConnellsville (Pa.) coal regions have made war against the Hungarians. On the 23d notices were posted throughout the district stating that the foreigners had no intention of becoming citizens and were crowding miners and laborers out qf employment and homes; that their morals were of the lowest class; that only five per cent, of them could read and write; that they.reresisted all attempts to elevate them in the moral and intellectual scale, and that they were a blot upon the Commonwealth that would not be endured. They state that American labor as well as American manufactures must be protected and the Hungarians must go.

F. C. Breckenridge, a nephew of Captain Nutt, and one of the three men who’witnessed the murder of Nutt by Dukes at Uniontown, Pa., hits lately been receiving anonymous letters threatening his life. The following is an abstract of one of jhe letters: *. “Curse you 1 I’ll have your heart’s blood. Your days are numbered. Dukes Is dead, but his avengers live. There are no paupers in Dukes’ family. They never lie or beg. Tell Lizzie Nutt to sell her piano and let the paupers move out of the brick house. Good-bye until we see you in court.” Breakenridge is the principal witness for the defense of voting Nutt, and it is believed the letters were written for the purpose of intimidating him from testifying. A special from McDade, Texas, on the 23th, says that Henry Pfeiffer, Wright McLemare and Thad McLemare were taken from a saloon there on the night of the 24th by fifty well armed men and carried a mile into the bush and hanged to a tree. Thad McLemare was under arrest at the time, having been taken early In the evening, on a charge of burglary preferred by S. J. Walker, of that place. The other two happened to be present when the lynchers arrived. Pfeiffer was under indictment for horse theft. In the evening six armed men,friends and relatives of those hung, came to town and picked a quarrel with Tom Bishop and George Miller, and a fight with Shot guns and six-shooters ensued. Two of the sextette, Jack Bailey and Asa Bailey, were killed, and a third, Hayward Bailey, was wounded. The remaining three escaped. Willie Griffin, an estimable voung citizen of McDade, while assisting Miller and Bishop to defend themselves, was shot through the head and mortally wounded by Hayward Bailey. Willie Shaefer, aged about nine years, was struck above the right eye by a stone thrown by another boy recently, making a gash from which lockjaw set in, resulting in death on the 23th. William McCoffery. a prominent politician and Assistant Superintendent of Marketsof New Orleans, was shot andmortallv wounded in a gambling saloon by Bud Renaud, one of the proprietors of the establishment, on the 25th. Charles Harvey, of Petersburg, Ind., who murdered Henry Custin, Jr., Was taken from the jail on the morning of the 24th and hung to- a tree. There was no doubt of his guilt. While a cage containing twebty convict laborers was descending the shaft of. the Pratt mines at Birmingham, Montana, a few days ago, the engine runningthe cage became unmanageable when the cage went rapidly to the bottom, 200 feet,, rebounding sixty feet. Most of the men fell out. Joseph Phelan, colored, was killed, ,and two whites and eleven negroes injured. Private advices from Paris, Ark., on the 25th, says: While a family named Gray, consisting of a man, wife, child and two middle aged ladtes from Illinois, were crossing Pettit Jean Creek, near Paris, they were swept away by the swollen stream and all drowned. Mrs. Olive Gunter, aged eighty, daughter and grand-daughter, were murdered in Chatham Church, near Moncure, N.C., on the 24th. The weapon used was an ax. All three were struck several blows. There is no clue to the murderers. A Chippewa Falls, Wis., dispatch of the 25th, says that a flouring mill at place was burned the day previous and a large warehouse badly damaged. The mill was owned by George N. Ayres, of Rutland, Vt., and was partially insured. A terrible tragedy occurred at Yazoo City, Missi on the night of the 24th. John T. Posey, of the firm of Williams & Posey, a most estimable young man and highly connected, 'was insulted by John James, a negro butcher. Going off and getting some friends, Posey returned to the corner of the street where James was last seen, and without warning some party fired upon them, and John Posey, Carnot Posey and Jasper Nicholls were riddled with buckshot and instantly killed. H. C. Gillett was dangerously and Fritz.Hullder slightly wounded. The negroes "were organized, and under cover of the intense darkness shot down these gentlemen, who refrained from shooting because the streets were full of hoys and men who were not connected with this difficulty. To have fired would perhaps have been to kill many innocent men and children. James was shot and killed while resisting arrest the next morning. The City Council at a meeting, the Mayor presiding, resolved, after investigation of the causes leading to the tragedy, that the difficulty was the result of a personal altercation between Posy and James, and that the friends of both parties were drawn into the conflict, but neither politics nor race prejudices actuated either party. Mr. Buckner, chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, is preparing a bill to introduce when Congress reconvenes, which provides for issuing Treasury notes without legal tender quality, to take the places of the bank notes going out of existence. The purport of the measure is the same as that of the bill introduced by him the first session of last Congress.

• The announcement is'made that Reuben R. Springer, famous for bis gifts to the public, has bequeathed to the Cincinnati Art Museum his valuable art collection; also the pictures willed to him by his niece, Mrs. Mills. It is also stated he has given SIO,OOO more to the College of Music for its new buildings. The officials of Coast Survey state that in consequence of the growing demand from the several States from persons interested, in scientific pursuits, trades and manufactures for accurate and reliable standards of length, weight and capacity, they will need an increased appropriation to carry on that branch of their work during the coming fiscal year. The agitation of the question of introducing the metric system, which is gradually gaining ground wherever the old and new systems are compared together, has had some influence in creating the demand for standards of weight and measure. RtTRTHEK particulars of the terrible disaster at the Virginius mine, near Ouray > Col., on the 22d, have just been received by a special messenger to Montrose. Immediately on the receipt of the news a party consisting of thirty-one men left Ouray to bring in the dead. The journey to the mine was made in the face of great perils, as a terrible storm was raging. Having cared for the wounded and improvised sleds for the bodies, the party started to return. When the Cumberland basin was reached a second snow slide descended, but being onthe ' lookout, all succeeded in reaching the edge of the ava-

lanche before it struck them, and thus escaped instant death. The sleds containing four dead bodies, however, were carried two thousandfeet down the mountain side and then” hurled over a precipice five hundred feet high, where they must remain till spring. The party finally reached Ouray, nearly dead from exhaustion. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Among the resolutions adopted at the Louisiana State Democratic Convention on the 21st was one favoring a Constitutional amendment prohibiting lotteries in the State forever. Judge Hart, of Washington, Pa., on the 21st refused to re-open the case of Samuel Ruth, convicted of embezzling over SIOO,OOO while cashier of the Washington Savings Bank. This is considered a virtual acquittal of Ruth. Charles Terry Collins, pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church, of Cleveland, Ohio, and a very popular minister, died suddenly in New York on the 21st, while on his wav to the home of his father in Yonkers, N. Y. The Supreme Court of Michigan on the 21st affirmed the judgment of the lower court, allowing Dr. Mac Lean, of the State University,s2s,ooo for libel against the Evening News, of Detroit, which published statements alleged to reflect upon the character of the doctor and a female patient. Friends of Second Assistant Postmaster General Elmer state that he will soon resign and start a Trust Company in Now York, having for its object the guaranteeing of the bonds of Government officials and persons in positions of trust who are required to give bonds. Ex-Senator Bruce and Fred Douglass have declined to serve on the National Colored Men’s Executive Committee, to which they were appointed at the recent meeting of the committee in Washington. Ex-Senator Spencer was acquitted of the charge of contempt of court in the Star route trial by the Criminal Court at Washington on the 22d, because the subpcena was irregular, being in the form used in civil instead of criminal cases. Ex-Governor Lowe, of lowa, died at Washington on the evening of the 22d. Gen. McKenzie commanding the Department of tho Gulf, is very ill with brain fever and it is feared will not recover sufficiently to resume command. FOREIGN. ]• The bark Baroma, from Savannah to London, rescued the chief officer of the ship Regena, from Philadelphia, which went to pieces in a gale recently. Two of the crew died from exposure. The rest took to a boat and raft and are still missing. Cable dispatches of the 23dsta(e;hat England and China have entered into a secret treaty in regard to affairs in Tonquin. England is to engage to offer mediation with France, and in return will be ceded the Island of Hainan. By the burning of a Jewish school and synagogue in a suburb of Constantinople on the 22d thirty students were cremated. The Spanish Government, according to dispatches of the 23d, is about to pay over to the United States $460,000 as indemnity to American citizens for losses sustained during the Cuban insurrections . LATER. A. D. Smith & Cos., of Providence, R. 1., operating five cotton mills, failed on the 26th for $1,700,000. The crash was a highly disastrous one, carrying with it the suspension of three great companies, besidez the five mills run by the ruined firm. Ton thousand persons were thrown out of employment. In a free fight on the 26th at Allendale, 8. C., three persons were killed and several others were wounded. A large number of colored people met in Btate Convention at Columbus, 0., on the 26th, for the purpose of organizing for the protection of all rights belonging, to them as citizens. During a recent freshet in Hardis Creek, Ky., a house on the shore was swept away, end its inmates, Mr. Ross and his wife and seven children, were drowned. An association, to be known as the “Emigrant Organization,” has been formed among the colored residents of Washington for the purpose of helping colored people in the Southern States to emigrate and locate. A. J. Courset, a farmer of Allenville, Mo., was deliberately shot and killed by his son, Red Coursey, a few days ago. M. Bert wrote to the Paris papers on the 26th that there' were grounds to fear an outbreak of disease fr om the use of American pork, quoting statements from the Inspector at Chicago, who maintained that dying and diseased bogs were packed and sent to France. A shoe-factory belonging to C. M. Lee, at Athol, Mass., was burned the other morning, rendering 250 hands, idle, and causing a loss of $70,009. The bark Mohawk, having a Japanese crew, anchored off New Haven the other day with all hands frost-bitten. Two men would lose their feet. The Standard Fire Office, of London, has withdrawn its agency iir this country. General Grant was one of the trustees. Thirty cars were demolished and several tars of stock were killed by a recent collision of freight trains on the Nickel Plate, near Loraine, O. JopN H. Diehl, ex-Collector of Customs at Philadelphia, was suffocated tjy coal gas at Delanco, N. J., the other night. The flood in the Ohio at Cincinnati had on the 26th invaded many cellars, and business men were removing their goods to places of safety. • The saloon-keepers of Atchison, Kan., oh the 26th yielded to the Prohibitory law and closed their doors. An avalanche, dashing down the Marshall Sjtsin, in Southwestern Colorado, a few days ago buried the Mendota Mine shaft-house, in which were fourteen men, eight of whom were killed instantly and two wounded. Four others burrowed their way out from the mountain of snow.

List of the House Committees. Washington, Dec. 26.—The following Is the complete list of House Committees ':' Elections—Messrs. Turner, of Georgia; Davis, of Missouri; Converse, Cooke, Bonnett, Lowry, Elliott, Robertson, of Kentucky; Adams, of New York; Hanney, Pettibono, Miller, of Pennsylvania; Valentine, Hepburn, of lowa, and Hart. l Ways and Means—Morrison, Mills, Blount, Blackburn, Hewitt, of New York; Herbert, Hurd, Jones, of Arkansas; Kelley, Kasson, of Iowa; McKinley, of Ohio; Hiscock, of New York, and Russell. Appropriations Randall, Forney, Ellis, Holman. Hancock, Townshend, Hutchins, -Pollen, Burnes, Keifer, Cannon, Ryan, Calkins, Horr and Washburn. Judiciarj —Tucker, Hammond, Culbertson," of Texas; Moulton, Broadhead, Dorslieimer, Collins, Seney, Reed, of Maine; E. B. Taylor,, of Ohio; McCoid, Brown, of Indiana, and Poland. Banking and Currency—Buckner, Ermentrout, Potter, Huot, Miller, of Texas; Candler; Wilkins, Yaple, Dingley, Brumm, Adams, of Illinois; Henderson, of lowa, and Hooper. Coinage, Weights and Measures Bland, Dowd, Hardy, Nicholls, Pusey, Lanham, Tulley, Belford, Lacey, Chace, Everhart and Luna. Commerce—Reagan, Clardy,Turner, of Kentucky; Dunn, Seymour* Glasscock, Woodward, Boyle, Barksdale, O'Neill, of Pennsylvania; Davis, of Illinois: Wadsworth, Long, Stewart, of Vermont, andlPeters. Rivers and Harbors—Willis, Blanchard, Jones, of Alabama; Gibson, Rankin, Breckenbridge, Murphy, Sumner, Houseman, Henderson, of Illinois; Bayne, Robinson, of Ohio; Chace, Stone, Burleigh. Agriculture—Hatch, of Missouri; Aiken, Dibrell, Williams, Beach, Green, Winans,Weller, Patton, Cullen, Wilson, of Iowa; White,.of Minnesota; Ochilltree, Hovey, Stevenson, and Raymond, of Dakota. Foreign Affairs—Curtin, Belmont, <r Deuster, Clements, Cox, of North Carolina; G: D. Wise, of Virginia: Stewart, of Texas; Lamb, or Indiana; Rice, Waite, Ketcham, Phelps, and Hitt. Military Affairs—Rosecrans, Slocum, Dibroll, Morgan. Wolford, Nicholls, Murray. Duncan, Steele, Bayne, Lyman, Laird, Cutcheon, and Maginnis, of Montana. Naval Affairs—Cox, of New York; Morse, Talhot, Buchanan, Eaton, Ballantyne, Macadoo, Harmer, Thomas, Goff Jr., and Boutelle. Post-Offices and Post-Roads—Money, Reese, Ward, Cosgrove, Riggs, Rogers, of Arkansas; •Taylor, of Tennessee: Jones, of Texas; Paige, Bingham, Peelle, Skinner, of New York; White, of Kentucky; Wakefield and McCormick. I Railways and Canals—Davidson, Hobiitzell, Murphy, Paige, Caldwell, Turner, of Kentucky; Wemple, Culbertson, of Kentucky; James,, Atkinson and Hatch, of Michigan. Public Lands—Cobb, Scales, Oates. Shaw, Lewis, Henley, Van Eaton, Belford, Straight, Anderson, Paysou and Brents, of Washington Territory. Indian Affairs—Wellborn, Graves, Stevens, Peel, Pearce, Fincrty, Skinner, of North Carolina; Smith, of Pennsylvania; George, Perkins, Nelson and Oury, of Arizoiugat Territories—Evans, of South Cawlina; Pryor, Arnot, Hardeman, Lanliat, Alexander, Carleton, Poran, J. D. Taylor, or Ohio; Kellogg, Johnson, Struble, and Post, of Wyoming Territory. Manufacturers—Bagley, J. D. Wise, of Virginia; Mitchell, Caldwell, Crisp, Lewis Brewer, of New Jersey; Mackey, Eliwood and Campbell. Mines and Mining—Warner, of Tennessee, . Cassidy, Alexander, Skinner, of North Carolina: Miller, of Texas; Wood, Stevens, Breitling, Culbertson, of Kentucky; O’Hara and Siuglser, of Idaho. Levees and Improvements Mississippi River —King, Dunn, O'Neill, of Illinois; Post, Camp bell, Jones, of Wisconsin; Henley, Thomas, J. S. Wise, of Virginia; Harvey and Whiting. Militia—Muller, of New York; Covington, McAdoo, Peel, Boyle, Ballentyne, Strait, Motley and Cutcheon. Claims—McMellan, Dowd, Fillman, Warner, of Ohio, Van Alstyne, Dockery, Wood, Lore, Snyper. of New Mexico; Ray, of New Hampshire; Price, Ochiltree, Eliwood, Brown, of Pennsylvania, and Hay, of Maryland. War Claims—Geddes, Jones, of Wisconsin; Stone, Tulley, Rogers, of New York; Weller, Ferrell, Kellogg, Everhart, Rowell and Bowen. Revision of the Laws—Oates, Buchanan, McMillin, Hill, Clay, Ward, Hemphill, lirown, of Pennsylvania; Bayne, Spooner’and McComas. Public Buildings and Grounds—Stockslager, Young, Dibble, Reese, Hopkins, Pusey, WornJle, Worthington. Brainard, Holton, Kean, r., Breitung amLMiiliken. Pacific Railroads— Cassidy, Throckmorton, Cabell, Thompson, Jr., Jordan, Crisp, Post, Wilson, of Iowa; Millard, Dunham and Haabacx. Expenditures of the War Department— Thompson, Jr., Ferrell, Taylor, of Tennessee; Elliott, Mayo, Johnson and Hanback. Expenditures of the Navy Department— Morse, Hewitt* of New York; Shaw.Davidgon, Houck, Davis, of Massachusetts; and Lawrence. Expendftures of the Department of Justioe —Springer, Hemphill, Van Alstyne, Ryan, Stewart, of Vermont; Bowen and Stephenson. Expenditures of Public Buildings—Belmont, Wilkins. Spriggs, Sumner, of Wisconsin; Harmer, Weavetand O’Hara. ~ Expenditures of the Post-office Department —Morgan, Talbott, Robinson, of New York; Neece, Peele, Stone and Nutting. Expenditures of the Interior Department— Young, Clardy, Cook, Storm, Brumm, Dunham and Payne. Patents—vabce, Singleton, Mitchell. Greenleaf, Halsefi, Dorgan, Winans, of Wisconsin, and Hepborn. Education—Aiken, Converse, Willis, Budd, Arnot, Duncan, Winans, of Wisconsin; Taylor, of Ohio; Milliken, .Hatch, of Michigan, and Morrill. Invalid Pensions —Matson, Lefevre, Tyar, Winans, of Michigan; Budd, Sumner, of Wisconsin; Patton, Lovering, Bagley, Ray, of New Hampshire; Cullen, Hanks, J. S. Wise, of Virginia; Holmes, Morrill. Pensions —Hewitt, of Alabama; Tillman, Robinson, of New York; Steele, Laird, Struble and Y ork. Expenditure* -of the State Department— Hardeman, Dorgan, Worthington, Campbell, Barr, Henderson, of lowa, and Price. .Expenditures of the Treasury Department— Davis, of Missouri; Hewitt, of Alubama; Potter, Connolly, Lacv, Libbey, Haynes. Labor —Hopkins, O’Neill, of Missouri Foran, Lovering, Mackey, James, Haynes, of the District of Columbia; Barbour, Muldrow, Shelley, Eldredge, Wilson, of West Virginia; Feedlor, Spriggs, Barr, Guenther, McComas and Jeffords., Private Lands—Muldrow, Mitchell, of Alabama; Hiibel, Cosgrove, Eldredge, Lowery, Payson, Parker, Mayo and Weaver. Public Health—Beach, Graves. Riggs, Cjtpdler, Fielder, Davis, of Massachusetts; Evans, of Pennsylvania: Libbey and Pettibone. Ventilation and Acoustics—Hardy, Cabell, Green, Shelley, Jeffords, Evans, of Pennsylvania; and Brewster, of New York. Enrolled Bills—Neece, Warner, of Tennessee; Snyder, of West Virginia; Yaple, Peters, Holmes. PPELECT COMMITTEES. Reform of the Civil-Service—Mutchler, Cox, Clements, Hobiitzell, Finerty, Barksdale, Seymour, Roberts, of Kentucky;. Bingham, Phelps, Millard, Lyman, Hitt. Alcholic Liuuor Traffic—Hill, Blank, Kleiner, Carleton, Evans, Davis, of Illinois; Guentiter,Goff, Jr.; Campbell. American Ship-building and Ship-owing— Slocum. Deuster, Dibble, Throckmorton, Hunt, Findley, Lore, Dingley, Jr., O’Neil, of Pennsylvania; George, Long. On Law Respecting the Election of President and Vice-President—Eaton, Springer, Clay, Jordan, Pryor, Bennet,- Kleiner, Findley, Parker, White, ot Kentucky; Peters, Hart, Wait. On Payment of Pensions, Bounties and Backpay—Warner, of Ohio; Connolly, Pearee, of Tennessee; Rogers, of Arkansas; Greenleaf, Brown, of New York; York, Whiting, Anderson. JOINT SELECT COMMITTEES. Printing—Scales, Rogers, of New York; Smith, of Pen nsylvania. ■ Library—Singleton, Woodward, Nutting

A Wise Man, Indeed. He must.be a wise man indeed, who,, being an imbitual whist-player, is aware that he is a bad one. In games of pureskill, siich as chess, and in a less degree billiards, a man must be a fool who deceives himself on such a point;, but in whist there is a sufficient amount of chance to enable him to preserve his self-complacency for some time—let us say his life-time. If he loses he ascribes it to his “infernal luck,” which always fills his hands with twos and threes; and if lie wins, though it is by a succession four by honors as long as the string of four-in-hands when the Coaching Club meets in Hyde Park, he ascribes it to his skill. “If I hadn’tplayed trumps just when I did,” he modestly observed to his partner, “all would have been over with us;” though, the result been exactly the* same had he played blindfold. To an observer of human nature, who is not. himself a loser “on the day,” there are few things more charming than the genial, gentle self-approval of twoplayers of this class who have just defeated two experts, and proved to their own satisfaction that if fortune gives, them “a fair chance” or “somethinglike equal cards,” as they term the conditions of their late performance, they can play as well as other people. Os course, the term “good play” is a relative one; the player who wins applause in the drawing-room is often thought but little of in places where the rigorof the game is observed; and the “good,, steady player” of the University Club is not a star of the first magnitudejat the Portland. The best players used to be men of mature years; they are now the middle aged, who, with sufficient practical experience, have derived their skill in early life irom the best books. “It is difficult to teach an old dog new tricks,” and for the most part, the old dogs despise the,m. When I hear my partner boast that he is “noneof your book players,” I smile courteously and tremble. I know what will become of him and me if fortune doesnot give him his “fair chance,” and I seek comfort from the doctrine of chances which tell me it is two to oneagainst my cutting with him again. How marvelous it is, when one comes toconsider the matter, that a man should, decline to receive instruction on a technical subject from those who have eminently distinguished themselves in and have systematized for the benefit of others the results of the experience of a. life-time! With books or no books, itisquite true, however, that some men, otherwise of great intelligence, can never be taught whist; they, have had' every opportunity of learning it—have been born, as it were, with the aee of spades in their mouth instead of a silver spoon—but the gift of understanding is denied them: and though it is ungallant to say so, I have never Known a lady to* play whist well. —London Times. —A Mexican boy fell into a well’ about fifteen! feet deep and containing nine feet of water. The mother jumped; in to save the boy, the grandmother; followed suit to rescue her daughter,, and the great-grandmother was in theact of going over the brink when shefainted. They were all saved by oneman. All this is said to have transpired in Encinal County, Tex. Chicago* Times. —There is a young Indian in Winnipeg, Can., who" a fat living bjr laughing as a profession. He will laugh five minutes for five cents, and it; is well worth it. —Chicago Tim s. —“Mr. Smith,” said a lady at a fair,, '(won't you please buy this bouquet to present to the lady you love?” “It would not be right,” replied Mr. Smith; “lama married man.” —Boston Post. —The menu cards at a recent New York swell dinner were of silver, and! cost twenty-one dollars each to make.— N. Y. Herald. i THE MARKETS. New York, December 27. LIVE STOCK—Cattle $5 00 9 7 6254> SHEEP.... 4 25 ffi 6 25 HOGS 5 50 ffi 600 FLOUR—Good to Choice 4 00 ffi 676 Patent 5 75 @7 10 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 1 1454® I 1514No. 2 Spring 1 0554® I Iff OORN-No. 2 6454® 66)4, OATS—Western Mixed 40 @ 4114. RYE 71 @ 75 FORK—Mess 15 00 @ls 60 LARD—Steam 9 20 @ 925 CHEESE 10 @ 12 WOOL—Domestic 32 @ 45 , CHICAGO. BEEVES—Extra $685 @7OO Choice... 6 25 @ 6 70 Good ’ 5 65 @ 6 00 Medium 4 75 @ 5 25 Butchers’ Stook 3(0 @450 Inferior Cattle 2 00 @2 75 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice. 480 @5 90 X. SHEEP 2 25 @ 5 12',4BUTTER—Creamery 25 @ 33 Good to Choice Dairy 21 @ 28 EGGS—Fresh 26 © 27 FLOUR-Winter 5.C0 @ 8 15 Spring 4 00 fa, 5 75 Patent 6 50 @ 7 00 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Spring. 90?i@ 9654 Corn. Nb. 2 6Di@ 62 Gats, No. 2 3334® 337 Rye, No. 2 5934® 60 Bailey, No. 2 6614® 68 BROOM CORN— Red-Tipped Hurl N 4 ffi 5 Fine Green 5 @ 6 Inferior 2 ® 4 POTATOES—Good to Choice.. 30 ® 38 PORK-Mess 13 60 @l4 1254 LARD—Steam 8 70 @ 8 75 LUMBER— Common Dressed Siding .. 18 00 @22 00 Flooring 16 00 @36 Off Common Boards 12 00 @lB 00 Fencing... 12 00 @l4 50 Lath..... 2 50 @2 60 Shingles ’ s h 290 @3 20 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE-rßoet $6 25 @ 6 75 Fair t Good 4 75 ffi 5 75 HOGS—Yorkers 5 20 @ 5 25 Philadelphias 6 00 @ 6 10 SHEEP-Best 4 75 ® 50C Common 200 ffi 300 BALTIMORE. CATTLE-Best $5 50 @ 6 40 Medium 3 25 @ 4 00 HOGS. 7 00 ffi 8 00 SHEEP-Poor to Choice 300 ffi 5 25