Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 October 1871 — Page 1

Vol. 2.—No. l8.

THE MAIL,

Office, 142 Main Street.

TERR R-HA UTK PRINTINQ HOUSE.

O. J. SMITH & Co.,

'Steam^Job Printers,

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Railroad ft Commercial Printing a Specialty.

Railroad Tine Table.

I VAHDALIA SHOUT LINK.

Indianapolis Division.

Leave. Arrive. '12:35 a. m. New York Express-...5:50a. m. 8:85 p. m. Lightning Express—1030 p. 7:05 a. Day Express 8:55 p. 1U0 p. ra....Ind'I aocorn«iodatlon„„10:10 a. m. It rj ,s St. Louis Division.

Leave. **. i-„ Arrive. 11 6:85 a. Pacific Express -12:30 a. 10S25 p. Fast Line —.3:30 p. m. fcOO p. Ht. L. A Cairo Ex 10:15 a. ra.

IK DI AN A HO Lit) ST. LOUIS B. B. Arrive from East. Depart for West 6:46 a. -..Fast Express 6:50 a. m. 10$6 a. Day Express MMS8 a. m. 10^55 p. ra Night Express KWW p. m. p. ID Mat toon Aoc'DN 4:07 p. m. 1 the Wert. For the Kart. 4301 p. -.Day Express 8:40 p. nv 1S28 a. Lightning Express...l2:30a.m&80 a. ax Night Express 6:56 a. m10il5 a. ra Mattoon Acc'dn 12:10 p. m-

BVAIYSVILLK A CBAWirOBDSVILLB K. B. Leave. f' Arrive. t$Q a. ra,A :.r:l..E3r|iir«*.^*^..10:16 p. 8:58 p. yk. Mall -3:80 p. m.

ROCKVII.I.B HXT1CN8I0N.

Leave. Arrive. 4-m4. ra Mall 1020 a. m. T. H. A CHICAGO RAILWAY.

Leave. Arrive '4:15 p. 10:10 A.

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Markets.

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TERRE-HAUTE MARKET.

*, TKRHK-HAOTB, Oct, 27 Ttie following figures are paid to farmers and other* by dealer* In tills Olty *.

BEESWAX—Yellow, 8M|80c. I BUTTER—Heat, UMgOe. /•, CORN MKAL—QOwMC. i* EOUH-Fresh, 15#18c.

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'TALLOW—7Wc. PROVlHION»-Hftins 10al2o. Hides

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FEATHERS—Live Ueese, 66fflfl0o. Old 10(i|40e. FIjODR—Fancy brands, 17 00«*7 60 FRUIT—Green Applet, iiftffWOo. lirlcd Applet*, 4S|5c.

Dried Peaches, 7(§8c.

GRAIN—Corn. ST*. .f Oat*, 3JW»c. a Rye,00 MttV.

Now VVhltw Wlu»at, »l!».

I* Alabama, 1125. Mediterranean, II 20. i® GINSENG-**-. 'J

Hhoiildem 6@7o.

LARD—Oountry, 70Hc. POTATO K»-7^ia0e. POULTRY—Tutkt^s^allve per ft 10(

Ducks per dosen, 12 «).

5* Oooik) S3 Chickcns, old, per doxenJ2 50. ii young, il

HF.KDH-Flnx.»l V.. HAOH -Cotton, a« lvto. "WOOL—Tul-washed, OOfiWWc.

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FUmhic r*H#v»c. .Unwashod,

40qH2C. grolU t5 7005 80.

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BUFFALO LIVESTOCK. HirrrALO, Oct. 28. t3 \TTLR— Mivrkot fairly tctl vo and prices U(trV! higher, M'lth «no«t nil ofTcrs flnding 2^.. vf 4M bond Kontucky W ranging rrom l.aw to i,«M l^unds, at *j 90® a 85 wa hmut Indiana,

ranging

from 1.120 to

IJMl pounds, at #4 30 58 iViB?Tra'J* Ug I.H4N iounds. al 15 40 107 Michigan, from to 1.80(1 pounds, at JB o0«

Burt pounds, at 1,123 to 1,185

n... Market steady for Canada': Westean dull and heavy at He de rlitie. tUlcs of 7JR hca.l Michigan slicep. ranging fK»m 7» to JW iHinndi« at W@4 Sji, 1W Missouri, nvert hlo, avt-ragini |.$ :jL 'ranging from 1W to 133 pounds, st Iv th%: «T9 t»na1_« lambs, ranging trom 88 to

at f( 50 38®

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W wiutid* AtM W Tndl-

Mlwmirt. »v^nMrtng« »ywn«U--, Ohio, nvorngtng At W

KTU|{ wt SI 86 W3

\\THm-~^ar^Vt^ulT»nd drooping, with ut light demand, and oloatng with a food many uns«»lA. Ralw of lA^i head at

S6®4 80 fbr common t« cholcc.

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W. CINCINNATI. Oct. 28. FI.OUU-Quiet and unchanged at 16 40^ *1

tor family. .. NV II EAT—bull and dr\oplng red.fl 5»0 'cOUN-In fair demand and advanced new and old ear, 4iH{tf®c.

RYK—Uulet and unchanged. OATH—Quiet and unchanged. HIT rTKR Western Rwvf, 22#94o. •:CHKKSK'-Factory, I4^I4SC. ..

PROVIS1 ONH-Pork sltnioy at 112 50 Hu'k meats demand light and holders nrm, the following price* twltw asked shoulders, |Ua atuVSut few olll'iw sld«s, Wi«, 7c and 7HC. Itacon demand light an«l holders firm shoulders, 7^«7?«c sldea clow at 7%c

KXtiVSSfo

unchanged

HtKiS-Dull and unchanged best gmaes.

'ATtLK—Dull I X*

drooping at G09

NEW YORK. 4 NKW YORK. Oct. 2*.

COTTON—Quiet and weak middling up-

^Fl'illf^tatc, 9fe|6 35: NEtra*. Hi good to 30 white wheat extra,

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extra,» «&7 35 St. Lout* 13«* \V 1U«K\-Easier at WASfeVjc. \Vli \T—Spring. No.1 *1 let red Wc*wrn, 81 S&al M.: amber «tc«, ft fifegl GO white,31 flfcstl W.

YK- Wc«4*m, 8S#SSc, CORN— Active and advanced: Wwrtt mixed In store, «®c afloat, 77$r white W^tern, &}$!&> Ohio,

thlH »*&«». twashed, CVi pulled,

WGOLr-Dull: unwi -pair* Ohio, HciTiFFKK—Ftrmer Rio, 1«S Sl'i) Alt -Steady. MOLAHSKS—Pttll. IUrF.~SN vllKKSf:

Tut: Baltimore Kpiscopal Convention hut decided that the wont "nweo^ral#," in the office* of the Chureb tor the ministration of baptism to children, oaanot bo held to Imply A moral change in Ute pcn»ou baptiaed.

/The News.

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DOMESTIC.

General Thomas W. Bennett, of Indiana, has been appointed Governor of Idaho in the place of Bowen, resigned.

The North American Insurance Company intend to form a new company under the old title, and continue business as heretofore.

Martial law has been declared, and whole families are fleeing from Spartansburg, Union, and York counties, South Carolina.

The Occidental Insurance Company of San Francisco resolved Wednesday to rmume buslnesi. They are endeavoring to make some arrangement to that effect.

The suspended Lamar Insurance Company of New York Is said to have enough assets to meet Chicago losses—$350,000—and have 8200,000 over. It will doubtless resume business with si paid up capital.

The North American Insurance Company suspended Saturday, and. a Receiver has been appointed. Losses estimated at between six and seven hundred thousand dollars. Assets, about eight hundred thousand.

Cameron, Mo., was visited by a very destructive lire Oct. 20, which destroyed a large portion of the business part of the town. The fire broke out in the livery stable of Walt Matthi*. abont one o'clock, and Is thought to have been the work of an Incendiary.

A petition was received at the Executive Mansion Tuesday, fifty feet long, signed by the women of Utah, protesting against polygamy and urging effective measures to suppress its practice in that Territory.

The two political parties of Chia in view of tl»e present calamity, and condition of affiiira growing out of the great lire, are trying to unite upon a union ticket for city and county officers, to be voted for at the election which takes place two weeks hence. Both parties wore in convention Tuesday. ,' r-

The Board of Directors' of the Andes Insurance Company received a report from their adjuster at Chicago Monday, and the lossei being above the amount first reported, it was resolved to pay all proper losses in Chicago and to receive from the stockholders subscriptions to the amount of *500,00U to make good the technical impairment of cnpltal and continue In business. Thirteen stockholders present subscribed the pro rata amount before the meeting adjourned.

General Lippincott, State Auditor, of Illinois, has filed a bill in the Circuit Court, praying for the dissolution of the Republic Insurance Company of Chicago, on the grounds of insolvency and mismanagement of it* affair* by its Directors. It is ascertained that Its cash assets are 1,133,000, Its risks outstanding 814,000,000. The stock notes amount to fc.992,800. It Is alleged that many of the stock-holders arc Insolvent and their notes can not be collected.

Thero are indications that the Chicago Insurance companies will do much better than has been generally expected. The Republic, which at first resolved to pay twen-

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Halted, Jkc. Flint. Me. Sheepskins iwrtias,'1 .1, Slg. «1»®150.

cmiL and disband. Is understood^

It will pay twenty-five cent without waiting for the adjustment and after the adjust-Sfnt(WVftttt-i.H hot**1,»Y«r?} other companion will do equally as well. It 1m also asserted that the Lumbermen will pay In full.*

Wednesday, Gfttamm, President, pro tern, of the Philadelphia A Trenton Railroati. signed the lease which transfers the united companies of New Jersey to the Pennsylvania Railroad Companv. After signing the lease of the Philadelphia

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Trenton Railroad Company, he held a meeting tocomlder the provisions of the lease, a committee was then appointed to make out a proper Inventory of the property to be transferred, and this will take until about the first of December.

The real estato operations of Tweed. Connolly, Sweeney, and Hall, as published from the official records, show that Connolly when sued in 1*00 for debt, swore that lie owned nothing, but that since that time lie has bought real estate and bonds amounting to82,800,A81. Tweed was bankrupt in lHol. he has bought and sold real estate Mnce 1868^ the amount of $4,471,054 and other Irreglnar transactions to the amount of t.600,000 more. Sweeney's purchases amounted in three years to sl,4(i,"i38 and Mayor Hall's to 1180,000.

A special to the Times from Scranton, Pennsylvania, states that the Key. lX^lin, in attempting to deliver an antl-Cathollc lecture In the public streets Saturday night., was compelled to retire trom the attacks made upon him by the crowd. Sunday afternoon he attempted to speak again, when he referred to the Catholics us being thieves, munioreni Atid cut-throat*. The hox which he stood was kicked from under him and he fell to the pavement. He was seriounly hurt, and had to withdraw under the protection of the police. There is much excitement in the town.

A terrible riot occurred in Los Angrelos, Cal., Oct. 34, In the Chinese quarter. An officer attempted te arrest a Chinaman Tor shooting another cltUen. The Chinese opened fire. One officer was shot througn ihe breast and another through the shoot der, but succeeded in getting away. A tn®b composed mostly of native Oallfotnlnns and the dregs of socl *ty attacked the whole Chln«»e quarter. Sixteen Chinamen were hanged and three were shot dead. Only one of those liangeo was identified as en gaged in the shooting of ihe officers.

Charles O'Connor said that tho work of prosecuting the defaulter* of New .-rk city was getting on well that the facta gained show that many who now think they are safe from the storm are likely to be overthrown in spite of their apparent bravery. and that many who believei they are perfectly secure will be surprised by finding themselves In the gmsp of the laW, and In such a degraded position that neither money nor influence will have the slightest effrct In procuring their release, so certain Is the work that even If the enemy knew all the movements of the attacking party they could not help bemy overthrown and annihilated.

L* FORKIGX. It is mid that the Bonapartists intend to agitate the Imptischmenl ot the Government of the 4th of September, the dissolution of the National Assembly, and leave the llcbtscltum to decide the future form of government.

It is now certain that the Gajitien Coofereuce has agreed upon an energetic measure for the suppression of the International Society. It refu** to eo-oner-ate in the movement, alleging that the Italian agitators are themseive* of^osed to the Society.

A special dispatch frotn Mexico reports tbst the »uU-Ju»rtst revolt continues In many dlstrtcts.

the Interior the tel mat l» rotohed,

In dtssrietft. iTonuncMuneww* w* IbnTu different points along the line ot "be music and poetry the ftto Qrsixte, *nd it vwie«os plaees in

Pronunciameotue are in

rey b*s been feiwl loans

The revolution in Venezuela continues in full vigor and the revolutionists retain possession of the seaports of Cuidad and Bolivia, and have imposed a contribution of $100,000 on the inhabitants. They are now marching on Barcelona^ Proddent Guzman Blanc is actively raising forces to quell the revolt. He has gone to Valencia to organise troops. His war steamers are assembling at Puerto Cabello. It is anticipated that the campaign thus opened will be the final and a close struggle. The prisons are crowded with political prisoners. The Government Is disposed to rule with an iron hand.

WHAT BEFEL A FARMER.

Singular Historical Truth*. correspondent of the Athol (Mass.) Chronicle gives the following, which is quite in the style of John Phoenix:

The origin of this river is not mentioned in the history of Winchendon. Tradition states it as follows: "Years ago, before Jupiter and his brother Neptune let loose their rivers and poured them over the land, there lived a man named Miller, immensely rich, and possessed of very valuable land, comprising 80.0Q0 acres. (The land is called Winchendon at the present day by geologists, historians, highway surveyors and scientific men of the present age.) The old man was a great agriculturist, and took pride in carrying to market the largest and best vegetables that ever were raised. He raised hogs so large that he took the bristles for building rail lences his beans, peas and corn would run to seed before they could be picked cabbage put forth not only heads, but legs, and walked off cucumbers encumbered the fields and chased the cows around ti.e farm turnips grew enormous—one grew so solid that it sunk in the earth never to re-turn-up again another grew so large that it moved the dirt for more than twenty miles—it moved the buildings on tho farm ten miles in all directions. Those on the north side are called Rindge, on the south side are called Templeton Center, on the west Rovalstou his cattle were buried in the dirt, which mound is OAlled Tallow Hill the turnips continued to grow until they formed two immense mountains the one on the north is called Monadnoch, and on the south side, Waohusett. At last they 'burst up,' and exploded with terrific sound, tearing the farm to pieces, and filling the air with earth lor days. The old man was engaged in conversation with Gulliver, who was canvass* ing for the Arabian Nights, and, hearing the report, walked out, and seeing the condition of his farm, sat down ana wept the second day he wept words could not be found to describe his feelings. The third day he wopt, and stood in ubout four feetof water. The fourth day he as drowned in bis tears, and formed a largo pond which is called

Monomonach.' And the river is called 'J^iller's.' wUkhJAowa through Uie,xLU

TIL TON ON THE PURITY OF MRS. WOODHVLL. From a notice by Tilton of an article in Hearth and Home wo tale the following: You chido me for vindicating a lady who has suffered more private sorrow and more public obloquy than fall to the lot of ordinary mortals. This criticism I accept with pride. When I know a woman well, and believe her to be honorable and pure, and aho is attacked by "the mob of gentlemen who write with ease," and is reviled by slanderers who strike at her from tho safe shelter of an anonymous press, I hopo I shall never be coward enough to withhold my own poor pen from her defense. I have an extensive acquaintance among the public men ana women of our time, including many whom I believo to bo uncommonly pure and white in their moral anil social character for instance, Lu-

cretia Mott, Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Charles Sumner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, Laura Curtis Billiard and others: and among these—tho peer of any in all that constitutes personal purity ot life —I place Victoria C. Woodhull. I speak from knowledge I weigh my words I mean what I say and stand by it. But I am ashamed of my many brethren of tho press who, without evidence, without provocation, and without inquiry, have made hasto to strike a woman whoso njrivate life is a white lily of blameleSSfiew, and who, if altogether a fanatic, is also altogether a 0 ll iS a n. m—m—mm

LKADIWFO THK Jisws BACK TO PALKS3TOK.—An ambitious project has been formed bv a small knot of rabbis at Frankfort to lead the scattered children ot Israel back to Palestine, and to establish a Jewish kingdom there once more. Invitations to join the project have been printed in great numbers, and are bv this lime circulating among tho numerous members of the mncient race throughout Germany and if ,W* may credit the report of newspa friendly to Judaism, influential mo ed men of the old imperial capitalheadquarters of German Jews—haf® given It their substantial support. Tile originators endeavor to prove that tl£ undertaking is by no means as inipi*T ticable as it at first sight seems, and remind their fellow-creedsmen that it is what they pray for—if they pray at all —three or four times every day—viz., in the "Shetnoneh Rsrocb," in their noom and

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The ITMM states that Napoleon baa KQ) aerved." dec-tared that the reports rf a IfcMKxesfte

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Ftvaeh people a poo the M4tlerarat by rt-!

TERRE-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1871.*

evening and. in fret, in every

praver sanctioned by their law. Moreover they Interpret the Bible passage, "Return to me and I will return to you," as meaning literally that, on the Jews' returning to Jerusalem, the Lord, and with Him power and prosperity, will return to them.

AN Old Maid" says in a letter to the AcrolirttoM that she feels aggravated whtn she reflects that if everv woman and female child upon this globe should be suddenly stricken from existence the business of the world would so on, to all appearance, pretty much the same before. "There would," she adds, lectu as now,

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a jumJ owls would be just as weU made. I washed and ironed tables as elegantly

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,t«ak sod coffee as nicely cooked

wftb^totTmn*la"v~n° The! I* response to an inquiry of a scien-

SSSyteSms tot* Uh legitimate me publteatSon, "Whence comes flea*?" twttm. sdvocftte* no violent measmres tor w«**tera journal says it does not care hi iwW'Uon. hot Wlm« a pickle, bat it would like to kt*ow hotel* toave been recenuy msas should oi*» the t*kii»® of tt»e will of |n tbaorfer they co wheo von so ibeir number is still on tb increase.

[For the Saturday Evening Mall.] EBBING. Vi Do you stand beloved, *«s we did of old

When life lay on the southern slopes r* Of sunny hills, and watch the gold Of suhilght die? and feel the fresh, young hopes, That come to every heart when life looks fair?

Ah no! for us life ebbs our years Lie shadowy on the western slopes the air Is moist with months of dewy tears, And faded blossoms of the past lie dead.

No more, to us, will come the flowing tide Of morning life the hopes on which we fed, Are, like the faded blossoms, scattered wide. Your feet have pressed the silvery sands

By many seas, since last we met: Your eyes beheld strange scenes in Orient lands.

But memories throng the heart youll ne'er forget: The summer eves, in which we watched the ebb of day,

Waiting till the full orbed moon, with softened light, Against the eastern hills in silence lay.

And we forgot our being, wrapped In splendors of the nignt. The ebbing seas of warmer climes their lustrous shells

Have left in pearly beauty at your wandering feet, And in your ears their solemn ringings, like the bells

Of home, have sounded—far off, low and sweet. In that wtornlng land we watched the ebb of summers,

And thnrapld flight of days, and montbB, Mid years Listened with faint understanding to the murmurs

Of the world beyond, and heard them, as One bears In dreams, the rushing of tho mighty river,

That besrs him onward to tho boundless

Full well We know the flowing tide of fresh voung life returns, And that the Spring-time's resurrection hpur Rekindles xhen. the latent fire that burns

In each brown leaf and every scattered flower Though, after summer's ebb—the winters snow

Hides seed, and root, and bulb, from morThe wakening hour to them will come, we know,

And their fresh life flow on, all beautiful ahd new. So while days ebb, we trust that Morn

Will lean her easel 'gainst the eastern And, the faint colors of oar palettes put to scorn,

Will tint the waiting clouds with matchless dyes. ,.

jfp'or the Saturday Evening Mail?) OCTOBER.

BY B. 8. H.

Tread softly on the crisp red leaves *. Blood sprinkled, racing, flying. With head uncovered, slow and sad,

1111 ilCUU UUWTCICU. osvw For Autumn lies a dying. The rough trees in the empty wfnd

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B^nd jto and Hh_g*qj^'|g.

The taaseled cornfields, rustling, dry, In withered heaps are lying

How sad to think the happy fields, Like us repeat the crying, r? "The hope we cherished in the Spring, *v

In Autumn lies a dying."*

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FAST LIFE AT NEW YORK HOTELS. There are ten hotels herd, kept on the European plan, in each of whi some one hundred persons board. These tamilies pay for a suite of rooms, consisting of parlor and bed rooms, from $15 to $30 a day. Let the reader well fix his eyes at this figure—$15 to f30 a day for two or three rooms! This price is paid, no matter whether the guests stay a week or two years. In the Grand Hotel there are a few suites which are higher than $300 a week. But tho average is not so high. You can get two good-sized rooms in most of tho European hotels for $200 a week or $10, 000 a year. With regard to your meals, you pay for what you eat. You pay for peas, 50 cents for a cup of coffee, GO cents. An examination of tho restaurant bills in ono of these hotels gives tho following result average for Breakfast (one person), $3 for dinner, $10 or $11 for supper $5 or $6. A whole family can live cneaper, for of some of the dishes, as for instance of beef, an order for one will bring enough for two. But on the whole the result is pretty much tho same. A family of three persons will, living economically, spend easily between $30 and $40 a day on their meals, which in a year would amoutit to over $10,000. $10,000 for meals and 10,000 for two rooms makes $30,000. Most of tho people boarding at these hotels keep carriages they give little dinner-parties—evening entertainments they are excused from by society in consideration of these good dinners they spend the summer in Europe or at tho watering places the gttls have the most tashfonablo dress-makers, and the best masters. It cost* them about $40,000 or $50,000 to eke ont their exfstence. They might lunre'a grand brown stone front house

•jl- $10,000 a year, but then they would bo afflicted with a dosen servants. You Isk one of the boarders at the hotel, "Why don't you keep house?" and you will find that in most cases a woman is at the bottom of this extravagance. Either she is in "delicate health," or she cannot get along without the "help," And so they leave their home And its privacy and Independency to BO into two apartments, snd to pay for them a price with which you could rent« palace. But the society of the hotel recompenses them. There are handsome y£ung lords and dashing voung bucks, of the Union, and the Union League dub coming there all the time, who are sure to admire them when they come down to dinner in a grand state, and who will keep them company should they get lonely in the absence of their husbands. It Is a delightful life to one that likes to do nothing. A woman in "delicate health will And her rest and deliveraneo from all household troubles. There are plenty of good rocking-chaira in which they can recuperate the delightful motion. The only burden of theirs is dress. the sake they gladly dress three times a day tor the company of admiring gentlemen and curious young ladies waiting for their aopearaaee In the restaurant.

They submit to the trouble for of evading the other*, and

Two of the moat extravagant ot these hotels have been recently built, and

^Tihem. li k* now tea. Thoy depend mow on

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permanent boarders thsn transient custom, which is absorbed by a great many hotels on the American plan. Only those people who would not like the best of American hotels for being too cheap and democratic, or Europeans who prefer to live in their accustomed style,'go to the European hotels. There they can easily spend $50 a day. We have been apt in learning the art of luxurious living from tne Europeans, and in these European hotels no one situ down to dinner without his wine. Great many have a friend to dinner, and then it is the easiest thing in the world to spend $25 at a dinner. Grand dukes ana princess stopping at the Buckingham palace hotel in London may pay as much but it is only for a week or two. Here people pay the extravagant prices for two years they make it an every day matter. Indeed, New York is the only place where such things are known. Neither London nor Paris has such boarding hotels, although the first named democratic city vies with the splendor of our hotel aristocracy in its very "swelly" clubs. In the summer ihe borders all go away. They go to Europe, to Newport or Saratoga, or their country seats. Oflateithas become more ana more the fashion to go to Europe in preference to a watering-place. The Herald recently calculated that a hundred million dollars are spent every year*by Americans staying in Europe. This" calculation is extravagant, but certain it is that the people who spent such fabulous Sams at home will not be niggards when they go to rove abroad. In New York it has become regulsr item of the housohold, $5,000 for a three months trip toEurope. There are many families who have not missed a single gammer for eight or tenyears, if we except last year.—N. F. Qarreqpondent of the St. Louis Republican.

A CHINESE NEWSPAPER.

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Tb.e Augsburg Gazette publishes the translation of a number of the Pekin Gazette, yhe sole representative up to this time of the Chinese press. This reproduction is accompanied by notes and explanations occupying nearly as much space as the text, a necessary precaution for European Readers. The Chinese journal is interesting so far as tt initiates us into the customs and usaes of the Celestial empire. Thus we »ind repeated mention in this number ot employes who have been officially declared in mourning. In the province of Chang-Ksi, district of Chung-Jou, one named Yang-Ksi Yuan is declared in mourning so of Sun-Keng, province ot An-Hui, district of Huo-Shan, etc., etc. The translator and oominontator gives us the information that in China offlciuls who wear mourning for a lather or a mother must keep aloof for a certain number of years from any

tion than the others, the mourning for them lasting three years, while that for mal* parents lasts aoly one. A document inserted in the Chlnetf® journsl shows how ono Hslchpang Chin, being declared in mourning, fraudulently concealed the fact that he was an adopted son, and tried to conceal his liability to a three years' mourning, hoping to reduce it to one. He was deprived of his office and transported to Heilung Chiang, a place in the north of China, near tne river Amoor, an ordinary convict settlement. The decree by whici^ he w"%s sentenced declares that the culprit is to obtain no diminution ot,lifs penalty in case ot an amnesty.

TUBaction ol a rail.oad conductor a few days since draws attention to a common popular error. Tho train struck a man on the track and threw him into the cowcatchor ot the engine. Supposing him to bo dead, the conductor, without removing the body, started the train back to a way station. The body was shaken to the ground by the motion of the engine and it was found that life still remained. Had ho been takercoff when the accident first occured there might have been a chanco of his recovery. The conductor when asked why the man was not at once taken up, replied that he supposed ho had no right to remove a body until a coroner bad seen it. Singular as this reason may appear, it nevertheless expresses a superstition that exists almost universally throughout the country among all classes. At what period or in what manner this absurd belief originated we cannot say. It may have grown out of statuto of Edward L, which rendered it imperative that the jury should hold their deliberations "nupcr visum corporis"—within -a custom which has obsof°r

tions super visum corporis11—* sight of the body—a custom whicl at the present day also become lete, as it is considered sufficient

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jury mereiy to view the body—although they may "not sit for several weeks afterward. In what ever manner the idea expressed or acted on by the conductor originated, it Is time that it should cease to exist. The neglect to give immediate aid to a person found apparently dead, from lightning or other causes, may frequently lead to death.

A JIOVEI, "BAUK CLKRK."—When Jack Canter, the bank robber, was taken to Sing Sing prison he was asked what his profession was. "A bank clerk, "said he. "And now that you've got me, I'll tell you about It for its a good joke. Iwi watching a country bank for some .tletime, and I noticed that the paying teller wore a striped coat and straw hat. The clerks left about one o'clock for dinner. I g°t a straw bat and striped coat, and for several days took my seat on tlse stepa of the bank. One day I saw my opportunity. The paying teller and most ol the clerks went out. I went in, pulled eff my hat and coat, hung them up where I had seen the teller hang his, and went round to the desk. The books were open, snd here and there were piles of Dills. I went to work at the books and made the most remarkable entries ever recorded in the books of any bank in this world or any other. I pocketed the bills, one pile after tbe other, and putting on my coat and hat I went on my way, $14,000 better off than 1 ever was before."

TBM Allegan postmaster Is in a quandary what to do with a small white envelope labeled "From Hattle, to tbe one she

loves

faithfully, Allegan, Mich­

igan." Somebody in Allegan has evidently got a sure.thing on flattie.

Price Five Cents.

HOW THEY FELL IN LOVfi. They |had "grown up" together, In the full sense of the term, and that was the matter. They had eaten each other's mud pies, taken the croup in each other's snowr foris, cried out the sums on each other's slstes, tipped each others ink bottles, stopped up the ink with their mntual handkerchiefs, "told" of each other Jin about equal proportions, and "msae up" in a common exuberance of sobs and sassafras. They had played at lovers behind tho woodpile, been married by the prise speaker, been divorced by the first base," been reunited by the minister's daughter, and gone to house-keeping in the peat swamp, at regular intervals as far back as their memory extended. She had blue eyes and never understood vulgar fractions. He used to miss, so that she might get to the head of-the class.

One day she braided her hair in two little braids behind, and tied it With a pink lute string ribbon at three cents a yard. When they walked home to-

long after that before she grew shy at singing school, and wss apt to be going home with hes brother. In another year, when he went to St. David's College, she cried herself to sleep, forgot to crimp her hsir, snd said nothing was the matter. So. of course, when he came home on his first vacation', It all happened as it could not very well help happening, and as I suppose it must go on hsppening to the end of all thinaps' dreaming or old ones' warning. Soft sat in the choir in a blue dress with white spots, with a pink bonnet and ink cheeks, and sang in a very sweet *ittle country voice, that quivered and curled about the pillars of the sunny white meeting-house like an incense in an open field on a May day, you might nave thought, and you might not. He, grown rather tall, rather quiet, with long hair, and the unmistakable "St. David's shawll, sat below on his father's box-pew—and listened.

One Sunday it chanced that the Rov. Mr. Love, the recently settled and very popular shepherd of the 'meetin' house' felt moved in tho spirit to preach to his flock a sermon upon Christian amity, and to suggest as its most fitting musical accompaniment hymn 857 of the "Sweet Singer of Israel" (just introduced.) Ah, you excellent mothers with washing days on your minds, and ve fathers struggling to koep your faith under the discovery of Tom's first cigar, do you ever suspect in your stupid good nearts, the tears of solid comfort rolling into your spectacles as you sing, and your souls aglow with all the hidden meajiings of fellowship in tho one master whom they who lovo not never know—do you never suspect the flirtations conducted over that adtnirabad, but It l8"VWIY MILI«U-v«NPVAMERU *C 18 quite asbad in me to suggest the ssc* rilege to your young peoplo. moss your indignant souls, they stand In need of no suggestion. Aak, thorn. I do not deny that it is atrocious in me to spoil the hymn for you but that is another matter. She then, in her bluo and white dross, with sunbeam struggling through a little.ground glass gallory window upon her pink bonnet, sang: "Blest be tho tie that binds

Our hearts in Christian love The fellowship of kindred minds sIs like to that above." It struck hiin that her voice was less incenso now and more like melted silver which was a very good fancy, by tho way, and ho would make a note of it against some indefinite exigencies as class orator. "Our fears, our hopes, our alms are onot

Our comforts and our cares," faltered the little sllyor voice and so tinkled into this "When we asunder part,

It gives us inward pain Bui we shall still be Joined In heart," and he, turning round with tho audience, back to the Kov. Mr. Lovo, as was the fashion in tho Bloonisbury First Church,'lifted his face to hers, and their foolish young eyes inet—met and dropped, and the work was done. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

SENSITIVE TO CRITICISM.

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The Newburyport Herald tolls of a grocer who formerly kept shop there, and was noted for his grasping disposition. One day he nailed upasalt cod on one of the shutters of tho shop,and underneath it ho wrote in chalk, "Codfish for sale cheap lor cash here." Presently in came an acquaintance, who said, "What do vou have 'here'on that sign about codffah for? You don't sell codfish or any other goods any place but here. Any fool would know where you sold them without that word." "That's so," said tho gi wipe out the word 'hero' from tho fish sign." The boy obeyed, and tlu next day another critic apperaed. Said he, "For cash 1 Who ever knew you to trust for any goods? Why do you say that you sell codfish for cash, when everybody knows that you sell all your goods for cash?" "You are right," said the grocer "boy, wipe out the words 'for cash' from tho codfish sign." This was done, and shortly after third critic came to tho shojp, objecting to the word "cheap." "Who ever knew you to undersell other dealers?" said be "you don't sell any cheaper than they. Your price is tbe same as theirs, snd more ir you can get it. Cheap? cheap? what do you have that word for?" "Well, it Is not of much use," said the grocer "boy, wipe oot the word 'cheap' from the codfish sign." Again the boy did as his master bade, and the same day critic number four found fault with tho phrase "forssle." Said he, "For sale! No one ever knew you to give away codfish. Of coursc you keep them for salo, there is no occasion for telling people what everybody knows." "There is something in that," said the grocer "boy, wipe out tbe words 'for sale' from the codfish sign." This left the salt fish snd the single word "codfish" benesth. It was but few minutes after that a customer, who came in to buy some goods, remarked to tbe grocer: "What funny sign you've got out here what darned fool wouldn't know that this Is a codfish nailed on your shutter?" "So they would," wss tbe reply "boy, wipe out tbe word codfishr from that sign." The boy obeyed, and the fish remained with n*»: Inscription.

rocer "boy, cod-'