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nratmun wmmsm. . A London dispatch of tbe Ist says the recent sudden tttaw had cauaed numerous goods to England aadßcoUand. Maehdam- <• was reported at Berwiok.'Sng-. sad Aberdeen. r The strike among the cotton operatives atOJdhaas, Bag.,has ended, theopsratlree acceding te ths terms of tbe mfllowners. Ax International Industrial Exhibition to to bo held at Moscow, Russia, tn 1880, an tbe twenty-fifth anniversary of tbe Osar’s accession to the throne. In consequence ot the enormous depredation of Terkiak paper money, the bakershops in Constantinople have refused to accept it and have dosed their shops. A Lahore (India) dispatch of the 81st ult. says a strong force of mountaineers had stopped all traffic through the Khyber Paas, and cut all telegraph wires. Four had been captured and hanged for killing a camp follower, and others had been flogged for plundering. Numerous arrests were made in Constantinople, on the night of the Slot ult, and It was reported that a formidable coopiracy agai art the Sultan had been diacoraered. A Calcutta dispatch of the 2d says that Shore AU wrote to tbe Vlceroyjof India, before leaving Cabal, that he would return to Afghanistan after laying tbe case before a Congress at St Petersburg. Sickness prevailed among the British troops, and several regiments had been withdrawn from the field Inconsequence. The business failures in Great Britain during 1878 numbered 15,050 an Increase of 4,087 over those of the preceding year. The Directors' Credit Company of London, with a capital of *2,250,000, and liabQitiee aggregating went into liquidation on tbe 3d. On the 2d, at Ismid, near Constantinople, a thirty-eigbt-ton gunboat burst, during practice, on the British man-of-war Thunderer. The vresel’s turret was destroyed, and seven men were killed and forty wounded. A Berlin dispatch of the 2d says the German Government had given notice that all its treaties ot commerce would terminate by tbe end of 1879. A Vienna telegram of the 3d says the leading inhabitants ot Podgoritxa had telegraphed to the Sultak their determination not to submit to those tAms of the Treaty of Berlin which provide forvthe cession of the Province to Montenegro.* The Porte has advised the Bey of Tunis to come to an amicable arrangement with France.

A correspondent with the Quettah column reports that the Afghans have flooded the country around Candahar, and that all non-combatants have been ordered to leave the city. The plague has appeared among the Cossacks of Astrachan. Ex-President Grant reached Dublin, Ireland, on the 3d, accompanied by Sen. Noyes. United States Minister to France. During the day the freedom of the city was presented to him, enclosed .in an ancient carved bog-oak casket. In the evening a grand banquet was given to him, at which speeches were made by Gen. Grant, Minister Noyes, Dr. Butt and others. A strike among the freight-train guards of the Midland (Eng.) Railway occurred on the 3d, against the prolongation of the hours of labor. A London telegram of the sth says a report had been received from Gen. Roberts that he had reached a point eight miles from the residence of the Governor of Khost, in Afghanistan, and that the latter official had seat in his submission to the British authority. It was also reported from Jelalabad that Yakoob Kahn was preparing to leave Candahar and Cabul for Herat The Senatorial elections, which took place in France, on the sth, resulted in a Republican victory. The Cornish Bank, at Truro, Cornwall, in England, failed on the 4th. The liabilities are stated to be not far from 15,000,000. The bank was 110 yean old, and did a large business in mining and other securities. The Town Council of Cork has voted not to give Gen. Gnnt a reception, “ because of his anti-Catholic opinions.” ’ Juan Mohcasi, who attempted to assassinate the King of Spain, on the 25th of October last, was executed, at Madrid, on the morning of the 4th. A London telegram of the 6th says the distress increased daily throughout the entire country. At Manchester, on the 3d, there were 3,000 applications from heads of families, representing 13,500 persons, to the Relief Committee for aid, and, on the sth, 4,000 fresh applications. During the week 1,200 families had been relieved in Wolverhampton, and considerable distress was reported from Sheffield. On the 6th, the strikers on the Midland Railway, in England, numbered 1,500. Over 500 coach-builders had struck in Liverpool, and 500 shipwrights in Middieboro. Ex-President Grant was received, banqueted, and had dtixensbip conferred upon him at Londonderry, Ireland, on the 6th. A Vienna telegram of the 6th says Russia had promised to evacuate Bulgaria and Rnmelia on the Ist of April. The French Government has given one year’s notice of the termination of all commercial treaties. It was reported from Tashkent}, in a dispatch puM|ehed on the 6th, that the British Commanders were distributing large sums •f money among the people of the districts In Afghanistan already subjugated. Tbe sum was stated to be six dollars in gold to every The Pope is said to be consulting as to the advisability of callings new Ecumenical Council. . nv mrar wmaaua. The Potter Sub-Committee met in New Orleans, on the Ist. Mrs, " ’John Ray, counsel for Sec’y Sherman, flled catton setting forth that he had no intention of offering further evidence on the subject of intimidation In the elections of 1876. After the examination of a few wits eases relative to matters previously before the committee, an adjournment was had, the next meeting to be ia Washington, on the 7th. Chairman Patter announced that Mr. Join* Ray, repteMutiny M r - Wnurniin. nod snoQier to be aefoeted by the Chairman, would remain te New Orleans and take timoeymightbeoflarodinrebutteloftheevidenca already taken by the committee. The total currency outstanding amounted, on the Ist, to *368,208.584. On the evening of the 2d, a tornado nia, and tore a pathway directly through the village, an trees, Daw and dwellings that barred Ito passage were leveled to the ground, floyora* Wti win The large cotton pre** warehouse of tpo Uulop Cotton Press Company, U Charles-

ton, 8. C., was burned, on the morning of the Ist With the building were destroyed 10,121 bales ot cotton. Lot*, *575,000. The Are was the work ot an incendiary. Wells, Fargo A Co.’s annual statement of the yield of precious metal* on the Pacific Coast during 1878 to: Gold, *88.956,*M; sliver, *38,746,301; lead, 33,452,000-the total being *17,267,182 less than during 1877. The total coinage at the United States Mint during 1878 was: Gold, 813,228,042; silver, 311.785,526; copper, *57,998.50. Total, *25,074,566.50. During the past year, 917 failures were reported in New York City, with lisHlities of *88,954,408, and assets st *18,605,581. This exceeds the record of any former year, but the large number is mainly due to the repeal of the Bankrupt acL _ Resumption of specie payment at Eastern cities, on the 2d, teemed to cause but little stir or excitement. In New York, a large proportion of the gold checks presented at the Sub-Treasury were paid in United States notes, at the request of holders. The public-debt statement for December shows a total of debt and internet of *2,302,544,188. Cash In Treasury, *273,896,037. Debt less cash in Treasury, *2,028,648,111. Increase during the month, *1,233,785. The amount of interest paid at tbe Treasury in Washington, on the 2d, was 820,000, all of which was paid in legal-tender notes, except *2,861, for which the holders of coupons asked and received coin checks on New York. The holders of coupons bad previously received coin for them, but, on the 2d, for tbe first time, they had to take legal tender or coin checks on New York. Many accepted legal tedner, though not without some growling, and others demanded the coin checks. Sec’y Sherman is represented as being in excellent spirit, because of the smooth working of affairs under the Resumption act A number of telegrams received by him from different'parts of the country were sent over to the President, among them one from Assist-ant-Treasurer Hillhouse, at New Yerk, received early in the day, to tbe effect that tbe amount of gold demanded for United States notes was insignificant. J ust before the close of the office another dispatch from Millhouse, giving the amount disbursed as 8130,000 and tbe receipts *400,000, was received and read with much gratification. Order* for 32,000 standard stiver dollars were received at the Treasury Department, on the 2d.

Some twenty persons, sent by Commissioner Lane before tbe United States Circuit Court, In New Orleans, charged with frauds in the recent election, were, on the 3d, held to bail in the sum.of *I,OOO each. Fifteen persons, arrested In Natchitoches Parish by a Deputy United States Marsha], were brought to New Orleans. They are parties against whom one Hornsby gave evidence, for, as he alleged, running him out of the parish during the late campaign. The cold weather extended generally throughout the East, on the 3d. The thermometer ranged, in different localities, at from 7 deg. above, to 18 and 20 below, zero. Tbe thermometer at Cairo, 111., marked 8 deg. below zero; at St. Louis, IS below; at Richmond, Va., 7 above, and the lames River wu frozen over; at Bismarck, D. T., the mercury indicated 33 deg. below zero, and a correspondingly low temperature prevailed throughout the West and South. Many cases of death by freezing were reported. The Maine Legislature, on the 3d, elected Alonzo Garcelon Governor. Mr. Garcelon was the Democrat ic candidate at the late election In the State, but received Republican rapport in the Legislature in preference to J. L. Smith, the Greenback candidate. The Second Baptist Church, the finest church edifice in St. Louis, was entirely destroyed by fire on the morning of the 3d. The loss was *125,003. On the preceding night the new Presbyterian Church In Quincy, 111., was also burned. Loss, $50,000. About 100 delegates of the Greenback party, from the several New England States, met at Boston, Mass., a few days ago. Wendell Phillips made an address, fa-which he said he had endeavored to form a Labor party, and it could not be done, and he was glad of it A plan of organization was agreed upon, under the name of the Greenback Labor Party of New England. A resolution was adopted, declaring that tbe paramount issue of the Greenback-Labor movement is the immediate substltution of greenbacks for National Bank currency.

Snow was reported at Vicksburg, Miss., and Shreveport, La., on the sth. The weather was unusually severe throughout almost the entire South/ One man was frozen to death near New Orleans. The sidewalks in that city were covered with Ice and the streets were frozen hard. Ice being cut in the Potomac River, at Washington, D. C., was from eight to twelve Inches thick. In Florida it was feared that ice and frost had done considerable damage tp the orange and other fruit trees. 7 . The Honore block, in Chicago, was very badly damaged by fire, on the afternoon of the 4t.h. The Postoflice occupied a portion of the building, and was, with other occupants, hastily driven out, though all mail matter and other valuables were saved. Several narrow escapes from the lipper stories of the building are reported. The damage sustained is something more than SIOO,OOO. The Postoffice has been temporarily located in the basement of the Singer building, corner Washington and State streets. The seventy-seventh call for the redemption of 5-20 bonds of 1865, consols of 1867, was issued on the 4th. The call is for ♦10,000,000 (16,000,000 coupon and $4,000,000 registered), principal and Interest to be paid on and after the 4th of April next On the Ist inst, the Postoffice Department at Washington, reduced the prices of stamped envelopes on an average 20 per cent throughout the entire schedule, and a telegram of the sth says the result was seen in largely-increased requisitions then being received. •, “ THETenncssee Legislature organized, on the 6th, by electing John R. Neal, Speaker of the Senate, and H. P. Fowlkes, Speaker of the House. The subscriptions for the 4-per-cent. Government bonds, on the 6th. amounted to over 111,000,000, the largest amount ever subscribed for in one day. Another call was Issued for $10,000,000 5-20 s ($6,000,000 coupon and $4,000,000 registered), interest to cease on the 6th of April. The Louisiana Legislature convened on the 6th. J. C. r Moncure was elected Speaker of the House. The Senate re-elected the old officers. The Legislature of Nevada effected a permanent organization, on the 6th, by electing the Republican caucus nominees in both houses. TUI Maaazra. New York, Jan. 6.—Flour—White Wheat Extra, Wheat-No 2 Chicago Spring, 95%c@96c; No 2 Milwaukee 87M<«98c. Gate— Western Mixed, 80@31c. Corn—Western Mixed, 45<a47c. ForkMess, $7.25. Lard-S».B7X- Cattle—s7.oo© 9.75 for Good to Extra. Sheep—sß.6s® 5.87 - H0g5—58.3023.50. u ,. East Libebtt, Pa.—Cattle—Best, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]. HogsYorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphlas, $2,90 3 Baltimore, ltd.—Cattle—Best quality, $A50©5.25; medium, $8.25©8.75 Hogs—Good, $8.75©4.25. Sheep—Good, $8.50484.75. WChicago Wheat No. 2 Spring closed at 88c cash; 84c for February;

84J(c for March- Com—Closed at 295fc for No. 2 cash; 80Jfc for February; MJfc for M-iy- Otto—No. 2, WJfc, cash; sailer February, 195<c. Rye—No. % 43c. Barley —Na 2,96 c for cash; 97c for February. Mee* Pork—*7.Bo®7.Bs cash. Lard--85.50. Batter—Good to Fancy, 15@27c. Eggs —18420 c. Cattle—Extra Beeves, 84.t0f55.00; Choice, 84.0044.25; Good, 83.60(84.00; Medium Grades, 83.0048.50; Butchers’ Stock, 82.2042.60; Stock Cattle, *2.254 2.65. Hoge-Good to Choice, 82.2543.0 U Sheej'—Poor to Choice, *2.754 4.25.

MULTUM IN PARVO.

Cream color is a favorite shade for evening gloves. A hog roused no in his sty And dropped a regretful tear— ; Who first wrote the aphorism, “Great aches from little toe-corns grow?" A Texas Sheriff pursued a nine-year old murderer a hundred miles before capturing him. n New England railroads have decided to discontinue the issuance of half-fare passes to clergymans' There is a negro lunatic In the Danville, Va., Jail who claims to be George Washington, to be 2,000 years old, and to be worth 12,000,000. An old hat that once belonged to Napoleon L was recently sold for (35, which is a good price when we consider that both the Nap and crown are gone. The Ashland (Ky.) Review speaks of the gallows-tree as a “ plant which has borne less fruit and hod greater advantages than any vegetable known to the flora of America.”

Gen. Robert Patterson, of Philadelphia, now more than eighty years of age, is said to have entertained at his table every President of the United States since Madison’s time. January wedded May, without doubt, in a town of Calloway County, Ky., the other day. January was Mr. Ronus Kemp, ninety-six years old, and May was Miss Mary Bridges, sixteen years old. A very curious plant is the Desmodium gyrans, or moving plant. It is a native of India, and is curious from the rotary movement of the leaves, which, during the heat of the day, are ih constant motion. In the new Territory of Oklahoma, it is proposed to give every Indian man, woman and child a homestead of 160 acres of land in addition to the tribal lands which now belong to the various Indian families. A German, telling the story of his campaigns, gives the following interesting item. “In this battle we lost the brave Capt. Schultz. A cannon-ball took off his head. His last words were: ‘ Bury me on the spot where I fell.’ ’’ Somebody started the hoax that William V. Taylor, of Wnitehall, N. Y., was to fall heir to (100,000 if he married within a year, and now 300 letters, evidently penned by solicitous and susceptible females, await his call at the Whitehall Postoffice. • Elihu Burkitt, famous as a linguist, has presented to the library of the Burritt School, at New Britain, Conn., all the hooks, in the various languages, which he has collected, at home and abroad, for the last twenty years. f A Jacksonville (Ore.) paper says: “ A flock of geese flying rather low over Gin Lin’s claim, the other day, the man in charge of the hydraulic pipe turned it on them and succeeded in bringing down two of tha birds, one of which was secured.” . - A curious natural telephone is reported by a California paper to exist at a certain point on a ridge high up on Kearsaj'ge Mountain, where can be heard the nimble of trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad as they cross the range to the west of Mohave, 140 miles distant. Mr. Luis Cadena, an artist, of Quito, Ecuador, has painted, and sent as a gift to the United States Government, a full-length likeness 1 of Gen. Washington. The picture, which is very lifelike and skilfully executed, will be framed and hung in the White House. . “Don’t you love her still?" asked the Judge to a man who wanted a divorce. “Certainly I do,” said he; “1 love her better still than any other way; but the trouble is she will never be still.” The Judge, who is a married man himself, takes the case under advisement.—

An old gentleman of eighty-four and his bride, aged ejghty-two, entered a railway car, the other day, and took a seat by the stove. A youth, occupying a seat behind, says he overheard the following: Old gentleman to his bride—“ Who’sa’ittle lamb?” Bride—- “ Bose of us.” Ex-Att’y-Gen. Edwards Pierrepont has been appointed special counsel for the United States in the Lewis will case. This is the case of Mr. Lewis, the Hoboken millionaire, who left bequests to the Government, and whose will has been contested by sev* eral women claiming to be relicts of the deceased. A nice-appeakino young man called at a house in Providence, recently, and told the lady that her husband had authorized him to get his overcoat to wear at a funeral. The unsuspecting woman gave the stranger the coat, ana now the husband ia extremely anxious there shall be a funeral, if only he can furnish the corpse. A good story is told of a prominent Troy clergyman. At the close of the' morning service the other day the pastor reaa the record of marriages and deaths which, had taken place in the parish during the past year, and, having finished the reading, expressed the hope that the record would be largely increased during the next twelve months. The Rev. Joseph Cook on a boy who climbs a tree to steal apples: “The apples are the objective natural motive, the boy’s appetite is the subjective natural motive, his intention is his moral motive." It is hardly necessary to add that the boot or board the owner of the orchard applies when he catches him at it'is the boy’s natural locomotive.— Boston Transcript. —Rev. Frank Block, a Presbyterian minister in Georgia, recently had fl dancing party in hu house, at which he dancea with the guests. The Atlanta Presbytery suspended him, and he appealed to the Synod. The Synod has just reversed the sentence, and restored him to full fellowship in the church. This course was not taken, however, without long and spirited discussion.” —A fish fancier at Boscobel, W»., claims to have domesticated brook trouti and -eo far-eivilized them that they no longer eat one another. He has them of different ages and sizes, living in harmony in same pond, and he gives it as his experience that the trout is the most profitable fist] (Ijat can be raised.

NECROLOGY FOR THE PAST YEAR.

The Chicago Tribune furnishes th* following necrology for 1878, classified according to various fields of labor, and including only those-whohave been ftrominent and achieved great siiopeas n the departments of usefulness in which they have worked. The list of centenarians is limited to the United States: rOLITICM. WORLD. Alpbsus 8. WilUams, Member of Congress from Michigan; Bev. rij B. Douxlaw, Member of Congress from Virginis; Nicholas Maria Rivero, Chief of thebpanlsh Progressioni»U; ex-Gov. Vaughan, of L'tth; Alazandar Bmlih, Congressman-elect. New York; ex-Gov. Padelford, Rhode Island; Giorgio Pallavidoo, Italian patriot: Frank Welch, Memlxr of Congress for.. Nebraska; Gideon J, Pillow; George Thompson, Leeds, Eog.; Msrquis Wllopolsti, Poland; Alfonso Ferraro la Marmora. Italy; Gen. John O’Neill, Fenian leater; Demetrius Bulgaria, Athens, Greece; Charles E. Mix, ex-Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Gideon Welles,* ex-Secretary of the Navy; Willbun Welnh, Indian Commissioner; William Goodell, prominent Abolltiobist, Janesville, Wls.; R. w. Taylor, First Comi>trailer United States Treasury; J. Edwards Leonard, Member of Conirrtss Louisiana: the Hon. John Young, Canada; Coles Bashford, ex-Becretary of Arizona and ex-Governor of Wisconsin; Charles C. Burleigh, Abolitionist; Gen. Fitz-Henry Warren, Massachusetts; President Alcantara, of Venezuela; Louis Antoine Gsrnler-Pages, French etatecnian and historian; Jean Jacques Fazy, Swisj statesman; Francois Vincent Raspail, French Radical; Sir William Hayter, English Liberal “whip;” Alcardo Alcardl, Italian politician and poet; William M. Tweed. ’ BX-M EMBERS OT CONGRESS. Effingham Lawrence, Louisiana; John 8. Carlisle, West Virginia; Lyman Tremain, New York; John Van Dyke, New Jersey; Baillie Peyton, Garnett B. Adrian, New Jersey; W. W. Vaughan. Tennessee; JacobP. Chamberlain, New York; Brutus J. Clay, Kentucky; WilliamT. Ward. Kentucky; John R. Franklin, Maryland; Jonn B. Kerr, Maryland; Charles M. Conrad, Louisiana: Mercer Strouse, Pennsylvania; Botijamln F. Wade,Ohio; Asa Briggs, North Carolina; William Halstead, New Jersey; Augustus C. Hand, New York; Robert Hamilton, New Jersey; John Allison, 3. Ross Snowden, Pennsylvania; J. Glancy Jones, Pennsylvania; Charles Sitgreaves, New Jersey; Daniel Wardwell, New York; William Moore, New Jersey; John Morrissey, New York; Terrence J. Quinn, New York; Dan tel Sturgeon, Pennsylvania; Owen T. Jones, Pennsylvania; Giles W. Hotchkiss, New Yprk. ROYALTY ANii NOBILITY. Princess Alice Maude Mary, of Hesse: Jahandur Shah, Prince of Badakshau; Duke Charles of Schleswig-Holstein; Men-oon-Meng, the King of Burmah; Queen Christina, Spain; Abdulla Jan, son of the Ameer of Cabool; Marquis of Aylesbury, London; Victor Emmanuel, K'ng of Italy; Prince Henry LXIX-, Reuss-Schlelz-Koestritz; Earl Bathurst, London; Archduke Francis Charles Joseph, Vienna; Prince Lucien Napoleon Murat; Ange Emanuel, Dnke of Normandy; Elizabeth Georgiana, Duchess of. Argyle; Lord John Russell; ex-King George V.. of Hanover; Mercedes, Queen of Spain; Prince Leopold, Duke of Sctileswig-Houteln; Princes* Marie, daughter of Princess Alice, of Hesse. THE ARMY. Maj;-Gen. Edward Trevor, English Army; Brevet Maj.-Gen. Buchanan, U. 8. A.; Mehemet All, Turkish Army; Alex Pullock, English Army; Lieut.-Gen. Von Kunst, German Army; Gen. Cousin Montauban, French Army; Gen. Charles Thomas, U. S. A.; Gen. DuplessTn, French Army; Suleiman Pasha, Turkish Army; Gen. ThomasC. Devin, U. S. A.; Maj.-Gen. dames J. Peck, U. 8. A.; Gen. Louis H. Pelouze, U. S. A.; Gen. B. L. Bonneville, U. 3. A.; Gen. La Manpora, Italian Army; Gen. Ludwik Mieroslowski, Polish patriot; Gen. Henry Raymond, veteran of 1812; Brevet Brlg.-Gen. Julius Hayden,-U. 8. A.; Gen. Daniel Craig McCallum, U. S. A. THE NAVT. Com. William F. Spicer, U. S. N.; Admiral Hoff, U. 8. N.; Rear-Admiral Paulding, U. S. N.; Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton, Lord High Admiral English Navy: Com, Charles 11. Jackson, U. 8. N.; Com. William C. Whittle, U. 8 N.; Admiral Edward Stanley, EngliihNavy; Rear-Admiral James Kawrtone, English Navy; Com. R. F. Pinkney, U. S. N,; Com. John H. Graham, U. 8. N. THE LAW. D. J. Baldwin, United States District Attorney Eastern District, Texas; Prof. Gustave Haenet, jurist. . Leipsic; Judge John A. Inglis, Chief Judge Orphans’ Court. Baltimore, Md.; Judge James Rawson, Newark, N. J.; Kicbmona M. Pearson, Chief Justice Supreme Court of North Carolina; Wilson Primm, Judge of the Criminal Court, St. Louis; Charles 8. Lewis, Circuit Judge, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Alexander S. Johnston, Circuit Judge, United States Court, Utica, N. Y.; George W. Paschal, Texas; Thomas Johnson, ex-Chlef Justice Supreme Court, Arkansas; ex-Judge John G. Berry, Idaho; George T. Bigelow,' ex-Chlef Justice Massachusetts Supreme Cburt; E. Delafield Smith, New York; Murray Hoffman, law publisher, New York; the Hon. Daniel Gaunt, Chief Justice Supreme Court, of Nebraska; the Hon.'Wilfred Dorian, Judge Supreme Court of Canada; William F. Allen, Associate Justice Court of Appeals, New York; Charles B. Goodrich, LL.D., Bri&ton; Sidney Breese, Supreme. Court of Illinois; Chief Justice Monaghan, Attorney-General in Ireland in 1848. THEOLOGY. Dr. Theodore Keim, Professor at Giessen ; the Rev. Ansell Leo, Jewish Rabbi, New York; Cardinal Paul Cullen; the Rt. Rev. J. P. B. Wllmock, Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana; the Rev. Dr. Win. P. Abbott, Methodist, New York; the Rt. Rev. 8. H. Rosecrans, Columbus, Ohio; the Rev. Samuel Hunt, Congregational, Boston; the Most Rev. Dr. Conroy, Papal Ablegate to Canada: -ArchbUhop Dupanloup, of Orleans; the Rt Rev. Thotnas Galberry, Bishop of Hartford, Conn.; the Rev. Dr. Binuey, Baptist Missionary in India; the Rev. Lerov B. Gaston, Presbyterian, Memphis; the Rev. Lyman B. Beet, American Board of Foreign Missions, New Haven, Conn.; the Rev. James B. Mosby, Professor of Divinity of Oxford, Eng,; ex-Bishop M. Domenf, Roman Catholic, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Pope Pius IX-; the Rev. J. C. Wills, D. D., Methodist Church South; the Rev. Dabney Ball, Methodist, Baltimore; the Rav. Lorenzo D. Barrows, D. D., President New England Conference; Bishop James Whelan, Roman Catholic, Ohio; Cardinal Godefroy Brossais, St. Mark; the Rev. John R. HuteMnson, D. D., Presbyterian, Houston, Tex.; Cardinal Louis Amat <ll Sanfilippo e Lorse: the Rev. Dr. F. Ogilby, Trinity Chfirch, New York; Cardinal Guiseppe Berardi; tbe Rt. Rev. Augustus Selwjn, Bishop of Litchfield, Ene.; the Rev. George Putnam, D. D., Boston, Mass.; Paul Dubruel, Vicar-General Archdiocese Baltimore; P. F. Lyndon, Vicar-General Archdiocese Boston; the Rev. Charles K. True, D. D., Methodist, Brooklyn; the Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D.; the Rev. John Dowling. Baptist, Middletown, N. Y.;.and the Rev. Nehemiah Adams, D. Dauthor of tie “South Side of Slavery.” MEDICIMB. Prof. F. W. Hunt, ex-editor North American Journal of liutneopalhy; Prof. Kail Rokitawsky, physician and anatomist, Vienna; Dr. Edward R. Peaslee, surgeon, New York; Dr. M. G. Potter, Professor ot Anatomy, Buffalo Medical Callage; Dr. Alexander Clinton, New York; Prof. Albert Smith, Peterboro, N. H.; Prof. John Brainerd, homeopathist, Cleveland, Ohio; Dr. Cornelius Boyd. Washington, D. C.; Dr. Francis'G. Smith, Medical University of Pennslvania; Dr. C. V. Dyer, Chicago; Dr. James E. Steel, surgeon, ;New York: Dr. James C. Ayer, Massachusetts; Dr. Claude Bernard, physiologiat, Faris; Dr. Mlllljen, Lord Byron’s last physician. seisxcx AND EDUCATION. George D. Rowley, English' ornithologist; Edward Collins Stone, Principal of American Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Hartford, Conn.; the Rev. Dr. 3. U- Blafr, FrlntipaTof West Virginia State Normal School; Johann Georg Kohl, Gewpan traveler and historian; Prof. John H. Raymond, Vassar College; Prof. Baxter, Harvard College; Prof. jL .W. Bacbe, United States Coast, Survey; Prof. Joseph O. Pyatt, Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; Prof. W. S. Waddell, -University of Georgia: Dr. Augustus Heinrich Petermana, German geographer; Prof. Wcstergaard, Danish Orientalist; J»cob_F. Huber, Wesleyan University; J. Amadee Bergy, University of Pennsylvania; the Bev. Lemuel Chase, Vice-President Jubilee College, Illinois; John P. Gordon, inventor of the Gordon printing-preet; Prof. Moerch, Conchologist, Nice; Father Pietro Angelo Secchi, Rome, astronomer; Dr. John E. Tyler, Superintendent Somerville (Mass.) Ih»ane Anylum; Dr. Julies Robert Mayer, Germany, discoverer of the mechanical equivalent; M. "de la Saussaye, archaeologist, France; Albert E. Church, Professor of Mathematics, ’• West Point; Prof. Joseph Henry, Smithsonian Institution; Gen. John Fraser, Superintendent Public Instruction, Kansas; Profc George W. ' Keely, United States Coast Survey. Book; Henry T. Darlington, edlto? of Buckstown (Pa.) Intelligencer; George Philip Dorn', editor of Louisville Aiueiger;' Heniy W. Larkin, Sacramento ' Union; Louis Prieth, Newark (N- J.) b’reie James Johnstone. proprietor London Standard; Louis C. Reformer and Jegub Time, New

York, Lewi* Meacbsaa, Chicago Tribunt; James f. Grant, Jacksonville (Ala.) Hepubllcoh; Frederick W. Burr, Hartford (Conn.) n»Mv;ftotx>rt Lea Macdonnell, (M»m4* Jfedlcal Journal", Bamuel Bowie*. Bpiterteld dtaaa.) lOpublican; Theodore (VGrannto,New York Evening Poet; Henry C. Letahton, O*kalooaa (low*) Iferjfrf/John F. Phelpt, Mayville (S. Y.) titnHnd; Edward Wollliig. New York AWi Ellert, New York MutUc Zeltung; William J. Buckmlniter, Miueachutellt Ploughman; Joseph 8. Lane, Pitt* burgh (Fa.) ?„(, Cbarle* L. Wll»ou, Evening Journal, Chicago; Oliver A. Willard, Chicago Pott; John James Fitzpatrick, New York Herold; Friedrich Rauchfu**, New “York Abend Mtunff) Daniel Wilcox, Quincy (Ill.) Whig; Bamuel 8. Isawa, New York JrujaA Neteengerj Josiah Whitney, Florida Preu; Anson Herrick, Paterson (N. J.) Dally Guardian; AugustlisM. Jackson, New Albany Oliver P. Baldwin, commercial business. Christopher R. Robert, ex-Preeldent Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad; Thomas H. -List. President' West Virginia Commercial Bank;- Horace H. Day, rabbet manufacturer, Manchester. N. H.; Lyman Nichols, President Bostori National Bank; Isaac B. Granger, President Bank of New Hanover. Wilmington, N. C ; Almon D. Hodges, President Washington National Bank, Boston; David D. Colton, Vice-President Southern Pacific Railroad; John Q. Jones, President Chemical National Mank, New York; John O. Deshler. President Franklin National Bank, Columbus Ohio; Beniamin E. Bates, President National Bank of Commerce, Boston:' Thomas Hunt, dry goods, New York; E. K. Collins, founder Collins Line of Steamshios, New York; Raphael Erlanger, banker, Paris; John McDonnell. President First National Bank, New York; Henry C. Hill, President Garden Savings Bank, Massachusetts; J. F. Tracy, exPresident Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; C. R. Lebo*, President Middlesex County (Conn.) Bank: Henry Dlsston, saw manufacturer, Philadelphia; Leonard Kirby, dry goods. New York: Peleg W. Gardner, merchant, Providence, K. I.; Larz Anderson, merchant, Cincinnati- James Goodwin, President Connecticut Mutual Lite Insurance Company; Bamuel Wood, New York; Nathaniel H. Emmons, merchant, Boston T William Orton, President Western Union Telegraph Company; W. 8. O’Brien, theßonanaa King, California; Charles Morgan, New York, owner Morgan Steamship Line; Thomas Winans, Baltimore.

THE ARTS. Robert Wallis, English painter; Albert Brendel, German painter; Felix de Baertle maecker, French landscape painter Antoine de Fem-Korn, Austrian sculptor; William Waud, American artist and architect; M. Jules A. Duval le Camus, French painter; Richard Upjohn, architect, New York: Sir -Francis Grant, English portrait painter; Gustave Courbet, Paris; Emile Lambinet, Paris; George Cruikshank, caricaturist, London; Philipp Veit, painter, Germany; Lawrence Macdonald, sculptor, England; Charles F. Daubigny, painter. France; Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigua, painter, Paris;‘Charles Nahl, painter, San Francisco; James Hamilton, marine painter, Ban Francisco; Alexandre V toilet LeDttc, painter, Paris; Sir George Gilbert Scott, architect, London; Henry Dawson, English painter. MUSIC. Frederic Gye, manager of Covent Garden; William Callcott, English musician and com,poser; Mme. Harrier*-Wlppern, vocalist, Germany ; M. Henry Potier, pianist and composer, Paris; Francois Bazin, composer, Fraace; Ellen Dickson (“Dolores”.); L. Maurer, Prussian composer; Don Hflarion Eslana, Spanish composer; Louis Dachauer, organist. New York; G. Llnblad, Swedish composer; Theodore Haumann, violinist, Brussels; Rudolph Willmers, pianist and composer, Vienna;' Henry Wilson, organist, Hartford, Conn.; William Geisselbrecht, conductor, Cincinnati; Marie Mer.gozzi, vocalist, Paris; Charles Van der Does, pianist to the King of Holland; Franz Hunten, pianist and composer, Germany; M. Eugene Gautier, composer, France; Jetty Treffz, vocalist, Vienna; Franz von Hoistein, composer, Leipsic. THE DRAMA. Alfred Wigan, English actor; Samuel Phelps, English tragedian; George V. Bowers, comedian, New York; William Nlblo, New York; H. J. Montague, New York; Arthur Cheney, Boston; Mr*. Sidney Wilkins, NewYoik; Mrs. Frost Thorne, New York; Henry Willard, Manager, New York; Kate Laura Earl; William 8. Fredericks, PhiladelShia; Mme. Benjamin, New York; James W. ‘orris, Philadelphia; John 8. Norton, New York; Henry Cunningham, New York; Frank McVicker, Boston, Charles Mathews, London; Mary Wells, New York; J. F. Noyes, New York. LITERATURE. Bayard Taylor, George Henry Lewes, Richard Reaif, Evert A. Duycinck, the Rev. George Gilflllan, Thomas B. Thorpe, Sir William Stirling -Maxwell, Dr. John Doran, Sir Edward Sheppard Creasy, Hugh Alnslie, James Hain Friswell, Heinrich Leo, Mrs. Leon Lewis, John Wingate Thornton, William Cullen Bryant, Whyte Melville, Karl Ferdinand Gutskow and George 8. Appleton. PROMINENT WOMEN. Miss Lydia Mary Fay, missionary in China; Sarah Helen Whitman, authoress, Providence, K. I.; Francis F. Broderip, daughter of Thomas Hood; Minnie Warren, the dwarf; Abigail A. Sm.tii, tax-fighter, Glastonbury, Conn.; Catherine Winkworth, editor “LyraGermanfca;” Rachael Hicks, minister of the Society of Friends; Mme. Schneider, sister of Schubert; Fanny Bury Ballister, sister of Marryatt; Mr*. Mary Phelps, woman-suffrage leader, Missouri; Fiau Von Kobell, President Bavarian Woman’s Association; Mrs. Watts Sherman, litterateur,' New York; Mme. Colbran, widow of Rossini; Catherine E. Beecher: Mme. Hahnemann, widow of the founder of homeopathy. .CENTENARIANS. ‘ Mount Vernon, Ohio, 100 years 8 tdontb*; Lanier Griffin, Lodi, Ohio, 106; Phcebe Coleman, Chicago, 119; Polly. Sherman, Marshfield, Mass.. 102; Angela Podesta-One-ta, Cincinnati, 109; Margaret Birmingham, New York. 100; Dell Noblett, Wilmington, Del., 100: Mrs. Mary Merneane, Washington, D. C., 106; John McCov, Boston, 109; Larkin Turner, Georgia, 110; Ellen Kennedy, Chicago, 106: Patience Banks, Jackson, Mich., 10S; Peter Hammond, Geneseo, 111., 102; Michael Connors, Cincinnati, 112; William Nevan, New York, 102; Lancaster Hodges, Maine, 106. SUICIDES. The Rev. John Philip Adolph Niemeyer, StLouis; Col. Ruestow, military author, Zurich, Switzerland; Count Theodore Radetzky, Austrian General; John K. Mortimer, actor, San Franeisco; Gustave Maeh, President French Savings Bank, Ban Francisco; E. L. Hill, Boston Agent of Chicago, St. Paul <fc Milwaukee Railroad; W. P. Fox, geologist, Iowa; F. B. James, iron-worker. Cincinnati; Dr. G. R. Goodman. Philadelphia; Eva Bangs, actress, Detroit; Edwin L. Goodwin, City Clerk New Britain, Conn.; Arthur Noyes, insurance agent, St Louis; the Rev. John Marplee, Toronto; Prof. Christine, ex-Assistant Superintendent of Schools, St. Louis; Moses A. Wheelock, President New York Stock Exchange; Theodore Von Jasmund, editor Detroit Vollcsblatt; Ellen McCall, actress, New York.

How Skippers Get Into Cheese.

Skippers ade hatched front the eggs of the cheese fly. The cheese fly is a very small insect, one of the smallest of the fly family. The fly is most troublesome in hot weather and in September. It lays its eggs usually where the bandage laps over on top of the cheese, and under any little scale, often directly on the top of the cheese and on the sides; often, tdo, on the boards which hold the cheese.If there is a small erack or crevice, the skippers commence to work into the cheese, and when ohee«> are what is termed loose or porous, they work into the cheese rapidly, and if not arrested will work into the center and through the cheese, spoiling it. Thev require air, and this fact is taken advantage of .by the dairyman, in covering the surface of the Cheese with a greased paper, plastering it down securely on the cheese, or on the hole where they art working. This brings them to the surface, when they may be removed. One of the objects of rubbing cheese smartly every day, is to rub off or destroy the eggs of the fly. The tables, in warm weather, should also be washed off with hot whey, or with soap and water and lye, in order to remove grease, so that the fly will not lay eggs nn th" boards, ‘ . -.. Never heard of the fly depositing eggs ou cheese curd, and by that means getting Into the center Of cheese: “Bo not think they could live and hatch ip the center of cheese for want of air.— Massachusetts Piougtothan. -< —A precise flower —the prim-rote- I

INDUSTRIAL.

American street-cars are now running in nearly every large city in the world. Porcelain heads or knobs mav be Joined, to metal spikes with a thick paste made of a mixture of Portland cement and glue. A lamp-chimney manufacturing farm in Pittsburgh heats Its furnaces with benzine. Thirty-three per cent, of the former cost of chimneys is said to be saved by It The secret of the luminous clock-dial is said to consist in mixing a phosphorescent salt with paints and varnishes, and, making the figures with" it. A mixtuxe-of fime ana sulphur is used. In Russian railway shops the use of boiling water in setting tires upon car wheels is practiced. In six years such tires have furnished but one fracture, and less than 1 per cent became loosened upon the wheel. Four gentlemen of New York City have offered 9600 as a premium for the best four designs for a house for workingmen, in which may be secured a proper distribution of light and pure air, with an arrangement of rooms that w ill yield a rental sufficient to pay a fair interest on the Investment . The opening of the new year will inaugurate a general movement among drv goods merchants In the reduction of”wages and salaries. This will apply more particularly to the wholesale than the retail houses, as the latter have for the past year been at work in a gradual reduction of the force employed, as well as in the amount of their pay.—2Z. Y. Economitt.

Some of the Holyoke manufacturers have adopted the system of weekly payments, instead of monthly, paying on Thursday for the week ending on the preceding Saturday. One great advantage of this system over the older one is that it tends to break up the custom among the laboring classes of buying on credit, a custom alike injurious to buyers and sellers. The proprietors and employes of a large cigar factory in New York have just agreed upon asubstitute for strikes and lockouts, and the plan is so simple that it is strange no one on this side of the ocean nas thought of it before. It is merely to refer future differences between employers and employed to a Board of Arbitration, the members of which are to be selected by the two parties.— Exchange.. The canal business during the past season has been up to the average of the past few years. Freights have not been so high, but there has J>een plenty to carry and but little trouble in getting loads. The lumber boats have made full as much as the grain carriers. Most of the boatmen nave made between five and six hundred dollars; some have made more. They express themselves generally satisfied ana are hopeful of the future.— Oswego (N. Y.) Times. While Eastern oysters planted in California waters have grown faster and larger, they have not been known to increase in numbers, but the San Francisco Alta says that recently on the Alameda shore, up in a creek, where the spat had been carried for miles on the tide, has been found abed of Eastern oysters as large as those temptingly displayed in the markets and at the saloons. The discovery was made while digging for clams, and the find caused great rejoicing.

Heller’s Second-Sight Feat.

Among the many other things which Heller devised for the mystification of the public was what he was pleased to term •* second sight,” or the supposititious transmission of intelligence of the nature of objects from nis own mind to that of another far removed from him. Everyope knows with what success the trick was performed in this and Eastern cities. It baffled the investigations of savants and newspaper reporters, and was finally acknowledged to have been so cunningly devised as to be inexplicable. Accompanying Heller was a brown-haired lady, who appeared on the stage as a blonde, whom he introduced as his half-sister, and who was supposed to possess this mysterious power of second sight, at least to, appearances having some supernatural attributes of mind which could not be explained. On Howard street, in tlds city, at present resides W. H. A. Chapman, a gentleman who traveled with Heller for upward of six years, over a large part of the world, and who claims to nave assisted him in constructing the system on which Haidee Heller, the lady above referred to, was enabled to perform such wonderful feats. In conversation with a representative of the Call yesterday, MrChapman stated that Miss Heller was not Miss Heller at all, but a very smart young lady named Miss Rosa* Kitts, who had become acquainted with Heller in London in 1863, while the latter was doing his tricks at the Haymarket Theater. It was at this time that Heller and Chapman had about perfected the “second-sight” mystery, the latter having previously taken the place subsequently taken by the lady on the stage, and Miss Kitts was instructed in the mystery, and, as the result showed, proved a grand success—the mysterious power in a handsome woman having greater fascinations for the public than in a man. In reply to a direct interrogatory as to the “second-sight” mystery, Mr. Chapman refused to ex* plain it. He stated, however, that, while it was founded on a system of intonations in Heller's voice when he asked Miss Kitts the question as to what he held in his hand, the fact that no one had ever discovered the secret showed the system to be complicated. The ability to learn and master the trick he considered a gift, which this lady possessed in an eminent degree, and, having which, practice was only necessary to reqdersuccess certain. At one time, after Heller and Chapman had fallen out, and while both were in Australia, the latter organised a “sec-ond-sight” entertainment on his own hook, and totally regardless of Heller’s hook, .which resulted in considerable excitement in that country. However, as “second-sight” competition proved unprofitable to both magicians, the enterprises were soon mutually abandoned.—San Francisco Call.

Laughed Herself to Death.

One of the most extraordinary deaths that ever was chronicled in this city occurred yesterday, and is to-day the talk of the town. The circumstances are as follows: Mr. Joshua Walker is a respectable colored man, residing on EUmoro street, and married a snort time since a young woman of excellent character ana who was not quite twenty years of age. Joshua proved a worthy husband, always looking after ' the household —comforts. Day before yesterday be purchased pme fyesh

pork, which he intended to salt down for the coming oold weather. Yesterday he went to the clipboard for th* purpose of obtaining salt with which to make brine for the pickling, and took from a jar what he presumed was the required article, thereafter pnmaeding to the cellar to use It on the most His wife, Rosa, being about her houasjiold duties, did not notfoewhat the hu*bai?d was about, but when she came down from the chambers made th£ diaoovery almost immediately that Joshua had taken a quantity of granulated sugar to salt the pork. She did not rMt**and Kit mad, but possibly had Bhe**takeir at turn she wotfld not 'Woa'tm lying cold in death. Instead she set out to a hearty laugh, going to ■ the spot where her husband was. Her laughter continued for some time, there being, not the least cessation. She laughqd, and laughed, and laughed, her presumed merrimentgetting more boisterous eaph moment. Finally, the husband became alarmed and sent out for assistance, and soon his landlord. Deacon Henry* Hazard, arrived, witnessing in a. few minutes the poor woman’s departure, it is hoped, for the better land. ■ She had positively laughed herself to death. The husband’s horror at this extraordinary result of his innocent mistake can be better imagined than described. He was warmly attached to his young wife, and it is fitting, in drawing the veil oyer this terrible scene, to say that they were both exceedingly worthy persons and that the husband has tihe sympathy of scores of people in this niS hbur of trouble.— Providence (R. I:) Jotumal.

Six Fersons Bunted to Death.

Fire was discovered* about, eleven O’clock last night, by a neighbor, in a one-story frame house in Bdwery street, Cohoes. The building was occupied by a family named Rourke, consisting of the father, Patrick, aged fifty-three; Mary Ann, the oldest child, twenty-two; Timothy, sixteen; Bridget, fourteen, and Martin, Owen and Willie, * respectively, eleven, nine and five years old. All were in bed and asleep when the lire was discovered, and the neighbors, who gathered aro&nd the burning building and broke open thadoorvwith axes, were unabfe, oh account of the fire and smoke, to enter the bouse. A ladder was procured, and Stephen Monk entered through a window! He found Patrick , Rourke lying on the floor, between two’barrels, alive but unconscious. Rourke had evidently fallen while trying to reach the window. He was carried out, gasped a few times, and expired. In the same room was found Mary Ann, Who was still alive and conscious, but badly burned. It was evident that she had inhaled the flames. She was carried to a neighbor’s house, and modicil aid was summoned. She lingered until this morning, when death ended, her sufferings. When the firemen armed, one side of the building was torn down, and close to the wall, lying on the floor, was found Bridget, who somehow had escaped the flames, but had fallen to the floor from suffocation. She was carried to a place of safety, and was restored to consciousness.” Thp girl will recover. In a room a short distance from where Bridget ,wa» fpund, the dead body of the youngest lad, Willie, was found lying on the floor, the features scarcely marred, but the. fewer limbs badly burned. After the fire was extinguished search was made for the remains of the three other children, and in the center of the kitchen, close together, the bodies were found, charred beyond the possibility of recognition. They were placed in one coffin. The family originally was composed of nine members. The mother died three years ago; one son is iri the Penitentiary; one girl was saved from the burning building, and the remaining six perished in the flames. It is believed that the fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp.— Troy (N. K.) Telegram to N. Y. Times.

The Contented Man.

Among the inhabitants of efie of the houses near the river is a man who for the hast seven or eight years has been in the habit of walking regularly every afternoon on the quay, from one o’clock until six, in all weathers, and without ever having missed a day. Some one informed Heraujt, now Lieutenant of Poflce, of this singularity;* \vhereupon he sent for the individual in question, saying that he Wished to speak with him; to which the man replied that he begged to be excused, having nothing whatever to do with the police. M. Herault, determined to penetrate the mystery, went to the house described to him, and found the object of his search in a room on the fourth floor, surrounded by his books and engaged in rending. On being asked why he had not complied with the summons, he answered that he had neither the bailor of being known to the Lieutenant ner. Heaven be thanked, committed any crime. “My motive in coming,”’ said M. Herault, “ was not to accuse you of illdoing, but to knew why you walk on the quay every day at the same hour.” “ Because my health requires it J’ replied the other. ? Thu will’understand me better, monsieur,” he added, “ when I tell you that I am of gentle birth, and formerly enjoyed -an annual income of twenty-five thousand livres; circumstances have reduced this sum to five hundred livres,. and I am obliged tolive according toiny means. My books afford me an agreeable occupation; the neighborhood of the river suits me, And on that | have hired this room. I rise early, pass my mornings in reading, and dine at twelve on bceuf a la mode, which is -excellent in this part of the town; 1 then take my exercise on the quay, converse with two or three friends I am accustomed to meet there, and am perfectly contented with my lot” M. Herault, admiring the good sense of this discourse, related what he had heard to the Cardinal (FlfUry), who was equally impressed by ifc "But,” said the latter, “if this nmn,Mjreo fall ill, his income would hot be sufficient for his wants; tell him from me that he may count in the future on a pension of three hundred livres from the King.” The Lieutenant, enchanted at being the bearer of such a message, at once communicated tbe offer to the impoverished gentleman, but could not induce him to accept it. F|ve hundred livres, he maintained, were all he needed! and, having them already, he wished for nothing mon.-—Memoirs of Mlle. Aitae. j ’ i —A | entleman at Madison, Wis.» voted a < ue bill instead of a ticket. The Election Judges declined to let him vote again, but found the document when making the count and returned —Russia contains a Jewish population of 3,000,000 souls, which da < larger number than is to be found in rest of Europe*