St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 June 1894 — Page 2

UnitEq at Last! V\\\ BY * z V \\a\ * M,ss M E BRADDON X

^■l 1 Miy ■ ZO f WM «O1 x^L. 1 _j”T 2™^“2Tl*^<2.vz CHAPTER XIV. SIR CYFRIIN HAS HIS SUSPICIONS Sir Cyprian Davenant had mt so •- gotten that dinner at Richmond given by Gilbert Sinclair a litt e while before his departure for Africa, at which he had met the handseme widow to whom Mr. Sinclair was then supposed to be engaged. The fact was brought more vividly back to his mind by a circumstance that cime under his notice the evening after he had accepted Lord Clanyarde's invitation to Marchbrook. Ho had been dining at his club with an old college friend, and had consented, somewhat unwillingly, to an adjournment to one cf the theaters near the Strand, at which a popular burlesque was being played forth * three hundred and sixty-fifth time. Sir Cyprian entertained a cordial detestation of this kind of entertainment, in which the low comedian of the c. m pany enacts a distressed damsel in short petticoats and a flaxen wig, while pretty actresses swagger in costumes of the cavalier period, and ape the manners of the mu ic-hall swell. But it was 10 o’clock. The friends had recalled all the old Oxford follies in the days when they were under-graduates together in Tom Quad. Tney had exhausted these reminiscences and a magnum of Lafitte, and -though Sir Cyprian would have gladlv gone back to his chambers atid his books, Jack Punster, his friend, was of a livelier temperament, and wanted to finish the evening. “Lets go and see ‘Hercules and Omphae' at the Kaleidoscope,” he said. “It’s no end of fun. Jeem on plays Omphale in a red wig, and Minnie : Vavasour looks awfully fascinating in : pink satin bootA and lien-skin. We shall be just in time for the breakdown.” Sir Cyprian assented wish a yawn. ' He had seen fifty such burlesques as “Hercules and Omphale” in the days when such things had their charm for him, too, when he could be pleased with a pretty girl in pank satin hes-

sian-, or be moved to laughter by Jeemson'g painted nose and falsetto 6 ream. They took a hang in and drove to the

Kaleidoscope, a bandbox of a theater screwed into an awkward corner of one of the narrowest streets in London a street at which well-bred carriage horses accusto ned to the broad thoroughfares of Belgravia shied furiously. It was December, and there was no one worth speaking of in town; but the little Kaleidosc pe was crowded, notwithstanding. Ti ere were just a Drace of empty stalls in a draughty corner for Sir Cyprian and Mr. Dunster. The breakdown was ju<t on, the pretty little Hercules flourishing' his club, and exhibiting a white rouna arm with a diamond bracelet above the elbow. Omphale was showing her an-

kles, to the delight of the groundling , ; the violin-, were racing one another, and the flute squeaking its shrillest in a vulgar negro melody, accentuated by * rhythmical bangs on the big drum. The audience were in raptures, and re- I warded the exertions of band and dancers with a double rec ilk Sir Cyprian stifled another yawn and looked I around the house. Among ths vacuous countenances, all Intent on the spectacle, there was one lace which was out of the commo.i, an I which expressed a supreme wearine s. A lady sitting alone in a stage box, i with one rounded arm resting indo- i lently on the velvet cushion —an arm that might have been carved in mar- | ble, bare to the elbow, it; warm, hu- j man ivory relieved by the yellow hue of an old Spanish point rutile. Where । had Cyprian Davenant teen that face before? The lady had passed the fir.-t bloom I of youth, but her beauty was of that character that does not fade with youth. Shewa; of the Pauline Bor- . ghe-e type, a woman worthy to be ' , modeled by a new Canova. I . “f remember,” sail Sir Cyprian to I ■himself It nt that Kiehmond ’ ' dinner that I met her. She is the lady i Glib -rt Sinclair was to have married. ” ; Ho felt a curious interest in thi. i woman, who e name even he had for- I gotten. Why had not Sinclair mar- i rivd her? she wa, strikingly hand- I some, with a bolder, grander beauty j than Constance Clanyarde's fragile and ' poetic loveliness —a woman whom such a man as Sinclair might have natural y • cho. on. Just a; such a man would i choose a high-stepping chestnut horse, ; without being too nice a> to fineness and delicacy of line. “And I think from the little T saw ' that the lady was attached t > him,": mused Sir Cyprian. He glanced at the stage-box several ! times before the end cf the perform- j ance. The lady was quite alone, and sat in the same attitude, fanning her- ' self languid'y, and hardly looking at ; the stage, .lust as the curtain fell, Sir Cyprian heard the click of the box door, and looking up,,saw that a gentleman had entered. The lady rose, and he came forward a little to assist in the arrangement of her erminelined mantle. The gentleman was Gilbert Sinclair. “What do you think of it?” asked Jnck Dunster, as they went out into the windy lobby, where pemlu were crowded together waiting id' their cam iages. “Abominable,” murmured Sir Cyprian. “Why, Minnie Vavasour is the prettiest actress in I onion, and ileemson’s almost equal to Toole.”

“I beg your pardon. I was not thinking of the burlesque," answered Sir Cyprian, hastily. Gilbert and his companion were just in front of them. i ‘Shall I go and look for your carriage?” asked Mr. Sinclair. “If yen like. But as you left me to sit out this dreary rubbish by myself all the evening, you might just as well have let me find my’ wav to my’ carriage.” "Don't be angry with mo for breaking my engagement. I was obliged to go out shooting with some fellows, and I didn't leave Maidstone ti 1 nine o'clock. I think I paid you a considerable compliment in traveling thirty miles t > hand you to your carriage. No other w man coqld expect so much from me." | “You are not going back to Davenant to-night.” । “No; there is a supper on at the Albion. Lord Cols’erdale’s trainer is to be there, and I expect to get a wrinkle or two from him. A simple matter of business, I assure you.” "Mrs. Walsingham’s carriage?’ roar- ! ed the waterman. •‘Mrs. Walsingham,” thought Sir, Cyprian, who was squeezed into a cor- ' r.er wi:h his friend, walled up by’ opera-cicaked shoulders, and within oar-shot of Mr. Sinclair. “Yes, that's her name. ” “Tha‘ save, you all trouble," said Mrs. Wa’singham. “Can I set you down anywhere?” “No, thanks; the Albion’s close by." Sir Cyprian struggled out of his c >rner just in tim > to see Gilbert shut the brougham door and walk off through the Decern 1 er drizzle. "So that acquaintance is not a dropped one.” he thought. “It augurs ill for Constance.” Three days later he was riding out Barnet way, in a quiet country lane, as rural and remote in aspect as an ac- , commodation road in the shires, when j he passed a brougham with a lady in it—M s. Walsingham s carriage again, and again alone. “This looks like fatality,” he thought. He had boon riding London ward, : but turned his horse and followed the carriage. This solitary drive, on a ■ dull, gray winter day. so far from Lon- i don, struck him as curious. There * might be nothing really suspicious in the fact. Mrs. Walsingham might have friends in this northern district. But after what he had seen at the Kaleidoscope. Siri yyrlan was inclined to suspect Mrs. Walsingham. That sho still cared for Sinclair he was assured. Ho had seen her face light up when Gilbert entered the box; he had seen that suppressed anger which is the surest sign of a jealous, exacting love. Whether Gilbert still cared for ' her was another question. His meet- I ing her at the theater might have 1 boon a conces ion to a dangerous woman rather than a spontaneous act of devotion. Sir Cyprian followed the brougham into tho sequestered villa™ of Tottormge, where it drew up imforo the vur-

den gale of a neat cottage with green blinds ami a half-glass door a cottage ' which looked like the abode of a spin- I ster annuitant Hero Mrs. Walsingham alighted and went in, opening the half-gla s < door with th > air of a person accus- ’ tomed to enter. j i He rode a little wav further, and < then walkel his horse gently back. I Iho brougham was still standing le- ’ fore the garden gate, and Mrs. Wal— t ingham was walking up and down a I gravel path b.th< side of the hou-e > 1 with a woman an 1 a child a child in 1 a scarlet hood, just able to toddle t along the path, sustained on each side , ’ by a snpp mting hand. “Some poor relat ion s child, perhaps. ” ' thought Cyprian. “A friendly visit on ® the lady's part.” * f He had ri iden further than ho in- 1 tended, and stopped at a little inn to ' < give his horse a feed of corn and an 1 hour's rest, while he strolled through I the village and looked at the old-fa-h- I ioned church-yard. The retired soot 8 was not without its interest. Yonder t wa; Coppet Hall, the place Lord Mel- t bourne once oc mpied, and which had, } ’ ■ later, pas e l into the possession of the i t author of that splendid .-cries of bril- 1 I liant and various novels which reflect ■ i as in a magic mirror all the varieties « । of life from the age of Pliny to the eve of the Franco-Prussian war. “Who lives in that small house with ■ * the green blinds?'’ asko 1 Sir Cyprian, c | as he mounted his horse to ride home, j i “It's been took furnished, sir, by a lady from London for her nurse and I baby.” S “Do you know the lady's name?” I 1 “I can't say that I do, sir. They has d their beer from the brewer, and pays v ready money for every think. But I r seethe lady s brougham go by not t above ‘alf an hour ago.” ■y though t Sir Cvprian. • S Mr-. Walsingham is not rising in mv t | opinion." 65 CHACTKK XV. | 1 i “THEY LIVE TOO I.ONG WHO HA.PI INF.SS OCT- I . ■ 1.1 .a ” In accepting Lord Clanyai de's invi- t ' tation, ('yprian Davenant had b it one । , thought, one motive —to be near Con- ( ' stance. Not to see her. He knew that I such a meeting could bring with it t j only bitterness for both. But he wanted ' [ to be near her, to ascertain at once ; t l and forever the whole unvarnished : t ‘ truth as to her domestic life, the ex- j ‘ i lent of her unhanpiness, if she was un- r I happy. Rumor might exaggerate. . ( ! Even the practical solicitor James I 5 Wyatt might represent the state of l ( affairs as worse than it was. The : , human mind leads to vivid coloring ' j | and bold dramatic effect. An ill-used t | wife and a tyrannical husband present r | one of those powerful pictures which £ society contemplates with interest, i ( Society represented generally by Lord ; , Dundreary likes to pity just as it likes to wonder. At Marchbrook Sir Cyprian was i likely to learn the truth, and to March- 1 brook he went, affecting an interest in 1 i pheasants, and in Lord Clanyarde’s 1 conversation, which was like a ram- 1 1 bling and unrevised edition of the I s ‘ Greville Memoirs, ” varied with turf I reminiscences. J There was wonderfully fine weather , 1 in that second week of December— j ‘ clear autumnal days, blue skies, and i । sunny mornings. The pheasants were . t

shy, and after the first day Sir Cyp- ’ rian left them to their retirement, preferring long, lonely rides among the scenes of his lioyhood, and half-hours of friendly chat with ancient gaffers and goodies who remembered his father and mother, and the days when Daven- j ant had still held up its head in the oc-J cupation of the old race. ■ "This noo gentleman, he do spend al power o’ money; but he’ll never bet Looked up to like old Sir Cyprian,”• said the gray-haired village sage, lean-| ing over his gate to talk to young Sir j Cyprian. s ■ In one of his rounds Cyprian Daven-I ant looked in upon the abode of Marthrf Briggs, who was still at home. Hew 1 parents were in decent circumstances# and not eager t > see their daughter “suited” with a now service. K Martha remembered Sir Cyprian aJr a friend of Mrs. Sinc air's before heT marriage. Sho ha 1 seen them oA walking together in tho days whew Constance Clanyardo was still in tilt nursery; for Lord Clanyarde's yonny ost daughter had known no middle stage between tho nursery and h®Ma.esty s drawing-room. Indeed, M& tha had had her own ideas about Cyprian, and had quite made up hr - - mind that Miss Constance would mair r him. I She was therefore disposed tolj y confidential, and with very slighlWbo couragoment told Sir Cyprian all that sad time at Schoenesthal, ho^K r mistress had nursed her throral a 1 fever, and how tho sweetest child^at , ever lived had been drowned throl>h that horrid French girl's careles^Mss. “it's all very well to boa 4 of jwtoping into tho river to save the darllrfo-. ” exclaimed Martha; "but why’ did^he go and take tho precious pet into a dangerous place? When I had her, I could see danger bdoiohand. I did’nt want to be told that a hill was steep, or that grass was slippery. I neverjdid like foreigners, and now I hate thorn like pois< n." cried Miss Briggs, ns if under tho impression that the whole continent of Europe was implicated in Baby Christabel s death. I “It mud have been a groat grief to Mrs. Sinclair,” said Sir Cyprian. j “Ah, poor dear, she’ll nover hold up her head again,” sighed Martha. “I saw her in church last Sunday, in the boautifulest black bonnet, and if ever I saw anyone going to heaven, it’s her. And Mr. Sincl ar will have a lot of company, ami there are all the windows at Davenant blazing with light till past 12 o'clock every night—my cousin James is a pointsman on the Snuthj eastern, and sees the house from tho line while that poor, swoet lady is breaking her heart.” "But surely Mr. Sinclair would defer to his wife in these things,” suggested Sir Uyprian. "Not ho, sir. For tho last twelve months that I was with mv dear ladv I seldom heatd him say a kind word to her. Always snarling and sneering. I do believe he was jealous of that precious in loeont because Mrs. Sinclair was so fnd of her. I'm sure if it hadn t been for that dear baby mv mistress would have boon a miserable woman.’ This was a bad hearing, and Sir Gvprian went back to Marchbroo*. that evening sorely depresseLL—J TO H« ( “NTIM ITALIAN BANKS IN The Way th* Italian Hanker* pcMsttor* «►# Their The Italian banks, of New of which there are about 132, are patronized by the most ignorant Italian laborers. The bankers, who are of a little higher grade than the laborers, do a great variety of work, sending money to Italy, writing letters, acting as adviser ami sometime, changing the office into an employment agency. Money is given to a tanker by the laborers to be sent to Italy. If he chooses to send it right away, he does; if not - he waits til! he gets leady, sometimes never sending it. All the customers’ letters come to the banker and. as very few of the deposit rs can read, he reads t > the n whatever he wishes to. The bankers are expected to work without compensat’on, and so they swindle the customers to obtain, it. If a depositor wishes to go some place he has a banker bur his ticket and is overcharged by t’liat person, whokeeps the surplus for himself to pay him for his trouble. During the past eight months fourteen Italian bankers abseonde I in New York. The reason I that so many got out is on account of i the hard times. Tho depositors, being out of work go to the bank to get ' theit savings, but the banker, having probably been juggling with the money, is un ible to meet the demands and is fore dto run away. Os course j all of the bankers are not d shonest. The fact that '■'.oudj O) annually passes i through their hands shows that the criminal element is not in control. A Touching Demonstration. Shortly after the surrender; of the Southern army Gen. R. E. Lee was riding along on ■ day threughk rather dreary stre ch of country in Virginia when he espied a plain old countryman, mounted on a sorry nag c ming toward him. As they parsed each ot ler both bowed, as is tho fashion whai strangers meet in out-of-the-way plAj.es, but tho old farmer in the hmu£/ w.> suit tar.-d hard at the somieidy aS though not quite certain of Recognition. He went his way a little further, then turninghis horse‘around, t antere d back and s. on <-ame up with h oral again. ,ne Utn ' ”1 Iwg pardon, sir, but is I , . Gen. Rob -rt Lee?” not thl * "Yes, lam Gen. Lee. dJi meet you before, my friend?! 1 ever ! Then the old Confederal , j the chieftain's hand, and® 3 grasped [ tears streaming down his d A’lth the । "Gen. Lee, do you mind if I cl ace, said. ' The General assured hijAjeeryou?” didn't mind, and there, onj । that he ' some, pine-bordered high^ hat lone- • one else in sight, the old re« f, with no with swinging hat, lifted is '1 veteran, in three ringing rounds of ■ his voice the man that the sout'alaß irrahs for Then both wont their wij idolized, another word being spokenfT’ without display of affection which « It was a never forgot. J 3 General The name “Indian” was g: L. inhabitants of America bt ven to the from his belief that the com Columbus he had discovered was as e dry which India, the country knowii ^tension of । the extreme of the F.asft to occupy spnere. gn hemi- , Count Tolstoi maintai — man cannot be both a Chrigns that a patriot. , ftian and a Honor to those whose wo J—thus help us in our daily ne ‘dsor deeds >ds.

ITO END THE STKIKE. / OPERATORS AND MINERS COME : TO TERMS. j Columbus Conference Productive of a SatI ‘B^ctory Settlement - Miners Get InI creased Wages—New Scale to Continue in Operation Until May, 1805. Settlement Is Final. । The miners and operators' conference at Columbus, Ohio, has resulted in a compromise agreement, and the end of the gre it coal strike is near. Under the agio ment work will bo resumed within a week, the miners desiring to have the remainder of the week to submit tho agreement to the various districts. The joint committee on scale, composed of operators and miners, went into executive -ession at 9 o’clock In the morning. Each side expressed a feeling that eircu nstances had placed an ajreem mt in jeopardy, but each won d try t> effect an agreement if possible. Before uoinir into executive .ession as a joint commltt e tho miners held a private confo ence ot about an hour's duration. Some of the operators had said that they preferre I to deal with organized rather than unorganized labor, a^ more uniform results can be secured. A failure to agree meant, in their opinion, a resumption m the strike at some t rue in the near future. Col. W. P. Rend, whowai anxious to effect a sett’ement. submitted a proposition on his own ac > unt to agree to a scale of 69 cents for Pennsylvania and 60 cents for Ohio, other territ >ry in a fair proportion, the pric > to hold good until Sept. 1, when the rate is to be increa e l to 79 cents in Western Pennsylvania and in other districts in p oportion. The pi op sition was mado to President Mcßride, and several of the operators said they would agree to Col. Bend's plan. Al out 5:30 in the evening the -eale committee announced that an agreement had been reache 1 and was being drawn up. The compromise was < n a ba-is of 60 cents for Ohio and 69 cent, for Western Pennsylvania. At a joint confer neo the agreement wa- ratified. A. A. Adams, President of t io Ohio miners, who was a member of the scale committee, refused to sign the agreement. The settlement, however, is fina'. The scale agreed u on is as follows: Pittsburg, thin vein. 69 cents; thick

vein, Jti cents. Hocking Valley, t'O cents. Indiana hitumin us. tiOconts; Indiana block. 70 cents. Streator, II!., f>2t cents for summer and 70 cents for winter. Bloomington 111., 77j cents for summer and s 5 c mts for winter. La Salle and Spring Valley, 111., 721 cents for summer and So ’ cents for winter. Other sections in Northern Illinois fields at prices relative to the ab, vo. Coal in Pittsburg district, going east fy tide water, shall pav the same m n<ng prices as that paid by ti e I‘ennsyltmwelsnd i will continue until .May 1, provided the abovt’-narned scale ol prices for the Pittsburg district shall be generally roc >gn!z- 4 an i obeorvod. The operators and miners shall co-operate in their efforts to secure an oo ervanceof said 1 rice, and if during the period covered by the agreement recognition of the price herein named cannot l>e secured either party to this i greement may call a meeting of the oint bo trd of arbitration and d- termine whether the agreement has been sufficiently complied with to warrant its continuance. M hile it has bo»m announced that the agreement reached bv the o; erators and miners in their .oint conference is final, its effc upon the miners rema ns to !>e s« en. The operators are confident that the agreement will bring about a speedy settlement of the strike E. T. Bent of 1 a Salle, 111., wa-of the opinion that the -ettlement in Northern Illinois would influence the south rn part of that >tate to come into line. HORACE GREELEY S STATUE. New fork's H;tn Domi' Tribute to the Great Editor. New \ ork honored < n:• of her most illustrious sons list week when a statue of Horace Greeley wa- unveiled at fhirty third stre-t a.d Broadway. The exercises were of an impressive character an 1 eb> uent tributes were paid to the mem >ry of th■■ great e litor. Amos J. Cummings was the orator of the day and District Attorney Fellows, acting ftr Mayor Gilroy, accepted the statue in behalf of the city. Ihe statue is of br >nze, seven feet THE GREELEY StATUE. high, anl represents Mr. Greeley sitting in a contemp’ative attitude.' with a newspap m in one hand and sperta les in the other. The pedestal is of Quincy granite. On one side is the inscription: “Erected under the auspices of_Horave Greeley Post, G. A. R., No. 577, New York Typographical Union, No. 6, and Brooklyn Typographical Union, No. 98.” Rrleflet^. The Rev. B. Fay Mills will preach to Dr. Talmage's * congregation while Dr. Talmage i- abroad. Rachel Fossner, 19 years old, was killed at New York by leaping from a burning tenement fire. Leonard AV. Marsh, of Kansas City, shot his wife and daughter, but their lives were saved by their corsets. H. F. Heffner, formerly of the Chicago Board of Trade, committed suicide at New Orleans by taking laudannm.

NEWS OF THE STRIKE. Got. McKinley Orders Soldiers to Take Possession of Bridgeport, Ohio. New Philadelphia, Ohio. —Company M, of the Seventeenth Infantry, was ordered back to the armory. Sheriff Adams was appealed to, and at 9 o’clock read the riot act from tho pilot of an engine. The respectable citizens disported, but about 2to miners and millmen congregated in groups to prevent the train from leaving. Section-men went down the track five miles and found ties, bridge timbers and rocks on the track, and the trestle burning. Ihe track was cl ared, and tho fire extinguished without interference The car containing the soldiers was fired into. Martin's Ferry.—An unsuccessful effort was made to run two coal trains on the Cleveland. Loraine and Wheeling Railroad, after a week's tie-up. Ties were plac d on the track, dvnamite was used, a revolver fired, and k n i'es exhibited. Four deputy marshals and two reporters were on the ^heir lives, together with those or the trainmen, w. re threatened if the train wa; not run back, and thia 'vas done. I'he mob, inc.uding women, ui«« ea TK 5 ' to 400 in ,on min. utos. Ih o hr dge ut Whisky Kun wa? to the tiolff troOp ” orde. od Columbus, Ohio.- Sheriff Scott, ot Belmont Countteleg aphedGove mor McKinley that t he miners at Wheeling Creek burned a bridge < n the Cleveland, Loraine and Wheeling Railroad and that al out five hundred men were in the mob and were still threatening lives an 1 property. The Governor wired Adjutant General Howe, now in Guernsey Count wlih troop-, to send some of the military in his command to Belmont County. The Governor also w.red Howe that if mote troops were needed he would call <ut tho Fifth Regiment at Clevela id. John L. Gehr Arrested. Peoria, III —John L. Gehr, leader of tho striking miners in the attack on the Little mine Wt dnesd ly, was arrested at hi> home at Edwards station. Gehr is District President of tho Mineworkers’ Union lie wa< taken to Pekin on the lir-t tr in. He insists that he did all he could to prevent the men from attacking the mine, but admits that he went with them anyhow. The Sherifl’s pose i- still under arms and expect to b ' ordered to CoTier s mine to serve a number of warrants there. Ihe local militia is also still under orders. Threw Slones nt the Pickets. Sullivan, Ind—Last night at the military camp was one of tumult. Numerous as-auits with stone; were made upon the picke.t-lines. ard as a result the cry, "Corporal of the guard ” rang through the camp < ften, and was usually followed b,- firing in the direction from which the stoie i came. So far a known, however, no damage was done, though there was fear that the miners might, as they threatened, hurl dynamite at tho soldiers. Toward morning an effort was mado to turn the trestle-work of the Evansville and Torre Hau'e Road near here, but the incendiaries were driven away by the guards. m i .jumiWi. V" Wreck » Train. TT..I. t-h. N«-av Evans afnHon on th s liaUliuoro A » bio railway a desperate effort was made at train wrecking. A young man wa’king along the track dis ’overed part of a fr< g tight'y clamped to a rail and other material piled on the track in ‘■uch shape that trains approaching from either direction would certainly lie thrown from tho rails. The obBtructicn was removed. Tie Up the Freight Yarils. Wheeling, W. Va.—Striking minors at Benwood, below this city, created a blockade in Wo At Virginia coal and have tied up all the c< al in the Baltimore and Ohio yards. About 200 men are encamped at Benwood Junction with tho firm determination of preventing coal from moving.

FIFTY THOUSAND IN LINE. A Great Turnout of the G. A. R. at Fittsburs: Next September. The National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held in Pittsburg next September will be more succo- ful. acc ruing to present indications, than the most sanguine friends of the city f r the annual mu-ter place had anticipated. Estimating from the number of posts already heard fr> m a- a basis, it is consi lei ed certain that over s'’,ih)o comrades will j arade on Tuesday, Sept. 11. It is believed that Pennsylvania will have fully a; many in line, 15,000. as there were in the great parade in Washingt n two years before. Ohio had 10,000 in line at that time, but it is not likely, unless the ret irns are defective, that < : hio will turn out n.ore than 7,000. although 1 ittsburg is so close to its border line. New York, it is thought, will lurn < ut :’,SCO strong. The Allegheny County posts will have 5,000 alone in one column. Free quarters Eave already been assigned to 11,000 comrades, most of them coming from far distant jioints, althi ugh it is more than thee months before the time for the encan^ ment to meet. There will Le -0,000 mounted men in the proce-sion, which will, It is judged, take eight hours to pass a given point. The decorations, and illuminations by night, will be upon a scale of magnificence never before seen in Western Pennsylvania. Letters received by the Committee on Reunions indicate that there will be a remarkable gathering of former Pennsylvanians, who after they came back from the war went West to seek their fortunes, and who became farmers on government lands as homesteaders in Dakota, Washington, Nebraska. Missouri, and other Western States and Territories, as some of them were at that time. A large number of veterans originally from Maryland and West Virginia, who left their States in the sane way, will attend the encampment. Telegraphic Clicks. Seventeen-year locusts have appeared in Maryland. Morgan White was executed at Columbia, S. C.. for murder. John Wilson, 13 years old. was drowned while bathing at Anderson, Ind. The Negro Nat’ jvl Democratic League will meet at aanapolis on August 2. Frank Parmalie has been sued at Omaha, Neb., for $50,000 damages for breach of promise,

MODEL RAILROAD OF ENGLAND. The London and Northwestern, Wht£h Has a Capital of Over 8535,000,000. An official of the Pennsylvania lines, who recently spent sweral weeks in Europe, gives some interesting information regarding the London and Northwestern Railway. This is the oldest and wealthiest of English roads, but he says English roads are not up to American roads in traveling facilities. He adds that an idea of the magnitude ot this road may be gathered from the fact that the company has a working capital of over 5535.00V.000, an annual revenue of $58,500,000, and an expenditure of about $32,000,090; it operates 2,1 00 miles of road; it conveys yearly 63,500,000 passengers and 37,750,000 tons of freight and minerals: it employs 62,000 people. 18,500 of whom are in the locomotive department; it owns 7,250 passenger cars, 58,000 freight cars, 2,650 engines, nineteen steamships and 3,600 horses. The numl er of stations on the line is 800’ there are 32,000 signal levers in onn«Mod and /‘’BOO signal bv r \b Kht ’ UIC total YA C o C ^"‘ P ? ny ’ s engines ■ miles, ami during Xtie ytkr’itat. ■ 250,000 mi es. The safety of passengers is the first and foremost consideration of the directors and the company's o.licials; the trains are ejuipped with the vacuum brake and the line is worked throughout on the absolute block system: ea h of the signal boxes is in electrical communication with th >se on either side, and no train is allowed to pass a signal box until the preceding train has passed out of the section in advance and that section is perfectly’ clear. The permanent way is of the most perfect build, and all tunnels, bridges, and viaducts are constructed with solidity and thoroughness, while throughout the main portion (owing to the large traffic) four distinct tracks of steel rails are continually in use; the express trains run at a rate ot forty-tive miles per hour and are noted for their steadiness and lor running on time. The First Carronailes. The earliest mention of the use ot carronades in actual warfare which I have nut with is contained in the Edingburgh Advertiser for April 13, 1779, page 243, where a counts are given of an action fought March 17, 177 D, in St. George’s Channel, near the Tuskar Rock, between the British privateer Sharp and the American privateer Skyrocket. The former was armed with carronades, -short, guns of a new construction, made at Carron.” Gue of these accounts is from Capt. MacArthur, an Englishman. who was at the time a prisoner on board the Skyrocket, and was in a position to speak of the damage sustained by that ship. April 19. ’>» tuc same year, a spirited action was fought in the Channel between the Spittire, a Brit*— ish privateer, armed with sixteen eighteen pounder carronades. commanded by Capt. Thomas Bell, and owned by John Zuiller and others, and the Surveillante, a French friggate of thirty two guns and a large crew. The Spittire was taken, after an obst nate fight, the Surveillante sustaining considerable damage. The 10-s is announced in the Edinburgh Advertiser of May 14, pages 313 and 317, and in ttie issue for May 25, pace 340, there is a letter from the Captain, then a prisoner at L’Orient, to the owners giving an account ot the affair, which is, however, described more fully in the Advertiser for Oct 26, page 277. —Notes and Queries. What Saved Him. •■Nothing succeeds like success,” runs the s lying, but there are times when a lack of succe s has been of great value. In the time of William 111. Mr. Tredenham, a poet, was taken before the Earl of Nottingham on suspicion of having treasonable pape s. ‘ lam only a poet,” protested the poor man, ‘•and these pages are only my roughly sketched play.” The Earl, however, carefully looked over the papers in question before Tberating the poet Finally be returned the sheets to the delighted author. “I have heard your statement,” said the Earl, gravely, “and I have read your play. As I cannot find the least trace of a plot in either the one or the other, you may go free.” With th s unflattering tribute to his innocence, the poet departed with his plotless play. In the Arena. ' It has been said that the bear is not so cruel as other wild animals, and in proof thereof it is asserted that in the days of the old Rome, when wild beasts were turned loose into the arena to tight with prisoners —who were allowed their liberty if they could overcome their savage foes—the bear used to be hissed by the s; ectators because it declined to combat with Christians and other captives. Without cast ng too much, doubt upon this statement —wIhcIH is, however, certainly open to ques-tion—-it must be borne in mind that Romans knew nothing of the two fiercest bears, the polar of the Arctic regions, and the grizzly of the llo.'ky Mountains. The Earliest. The Acla Diurna of ancient Rome is the earliest approach to the newspapers of which we have anyauthen. tic record. The Acta appeared daily until the downfall of the Empire, A. D. 47’>. It was published under the auspices of the Government and posted in some public place, the contents consisting of a digest of public dockets, a summary of daily occurrences, and all news of a general character.