Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 10, Bloomington, Monroe County, 6 January 1883 — Page 2

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the Starch [illegible] since a young son of A. H. [illegible], of Reno, Hendricks county, got a prune seed lodged in his throat. The doctors made an incision and succeeded in removing it. For several days the child's life was despaired of, but is now convalescent. Mrs. Willis Richard and her little daughter,12-years old, in Sullivan county, met with a horrible death. The child's clothes catching fire, and the mother in attempting to smother the flames,had her own clothing ignited, and both were horribly burned. Indianapolis wholesale dealers are finishing their annual invoice. Dealers in dry goods claim that in 1882 they have sold more goods and to a larger territory than in any previous year. Grocer's say last year's output will exceed that of 1881 by fully thirty-three per cent. A novel entertainment at Cambridge City on Christmas was a wheelbarrow race. There were 28 contestants blindfolded, and they trundled a wheelbarrow a distance of seventy-five feet, the point being to see who could come nearest to a stake. A large crowd witnessed the sport. The morning express train from Cincinnati broke, Friday, the hind wheel under the tender, just before reaching the Flat Rock bridge at St. Paul, and before the train stopped it passed entirely over the bridge, which is seventy-five feet above the river bed. One-third part of the wheel is broken entirely off and yet, in this condition, the train kept the track, not a wheel off,not even the broken wheel left the track. Had it gone off and carried the train with it, the loss of life must have been frightful. The State Teachers Association meeting last week, at Indianapolis, was largely attended, and the proceedings very interesting. The programme, as heretofore published, was carried out. Officers were elected as follows: President--Dr. John Irwin, Fort Wayne. Vice-presidents--Nathan Newby, Terre Haute; D. W. Thomas, Wabash; J. A. Kibble, Kendallville; Timothy Wilson,Henry county; J. K. Waltz Logansport. Secretary--Mrs. Anna E. H. Lemon, Spencer. Recording Secretary--George F. Bass, Indianapolis. Executive Committee--J. M. Study, chairman, Greencastle: J. M. Strasburg, Richmond; Edward Taylor, Vincennes; W. H. Fertich, Mishawaka; Mrs. Emma Mont McRae, Muncie; W. W. Fulley, Boonville; Mrs. R. A. Moffat, Rushville. The will of the late Godlove S Orth has been admitted to probate. It bears date of November 27, 1879, and leaves his entire property, real and personal, to his wife, Mary Ann Orth, and appoints her executrix, with power to associate one or more with her. There are three children, but he bequeathed them nothing, saying: 'I desire all my dear children to know and feel that this disposition of my estate is, in my judgment, the best under all the circumstances surrounding it. Knowing that they will find my said wife as much disposed to love and care for them, and to deal justly by them, as I have always felt and acted toward them myself." Mr. Orth was twice married--one son by his first wife, and a son and daughter by his widow, surviving him. Statistics compiled by the State Board of Health, from all but four counties of the State, for eight months of the year of 1882, show that there were during that period, 11,385 deaths. Of this number 1,341 were due to consumption, 1,094 to pneumonia,86 to small-pox,480 to typhoid fever, 229 to cerebro spinal meningitis,

[illegible]-Gazette. The [illegible] [illegible] be issued in a few days. Both [illegible] ith of the Gazette and Mr. Halstead, of the Commercial, will be in the management. The paper will be Republican in politics. The Enquirer says Mr

Smith will have a controlling interest of

the management, and Mr. Halstead will be an editorial writer. The present Commercial office will be abandoned. The Gazette claimed to be ninety years old. The report of crime, Tuesday, is appalling: A white man, at Owensburg, Ky., attempted to make room through a crowd of negroes for two ladies he was escorting, when one of the negroes drew a re volver and killed him instantly. A man named Montgomery, at Springfield,Mass., shot and instantly killed George, his son, aged six, and mortally wounded his four-year-old daughter. He then attempted to shoot his wife and her father, but was disarmed; he claims he does not remember the deed. At Pioneer, Cal., Thos. Kerr shot Wm. Hartly, in a saloon, without the least provocation; and a party of citizens promptly swung him to a tree. At Lawrenceburg, Ky., town officer Laughlin and Geo. Portwood had a difficulty, and when they got through shooting at each other one was dead and the other was fatally injured. Samuel Rines and his cousin Wm. Rines, at Petersburg, Va., were quarreling; the former shot a colored peacemaker and then blew his own head off. A French father, at Paris, writes a letter to the police, fatally stabs his dishonored daughter, and then commits suicide. At Rosedale, Parke county, Ind., John Keys, Joseph Dunkard and Eli Sable, while returning from a dance, were interrupted in the brutal beating of another person, by Robert Bailey; they turned upon Bailey, brutally beat him and threw him over and impaled him on the pickets of a fence; he can not recover. These are the most abhorrent cases reported, and do not include scores of plain shootings, sluggings and knifings. Surely something ought to be done.

590 to cholera infantum, 69 to scarlet fever, 161 to diptheria, 390 to casualties,

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(not including suicides or homicides,) 142 to old age, 107 to whooping cough, 192 to bronchitis, and 709 stillborn. It appears that the cities and towns suffered less from these principal diseases than the country, the proportion being about 36 per cent, to 43. Of the persons dying of these diseases 573 were farmers, more than from any other class. It is noted that ague is fast disappearing from the State, and that more persons in proportion to

population, die of consumption in Michigan than in Indiana. During the period covered by the report there were 25,546 births and 9,203 marriages. The illegitimate births numbered 418. The statistics show that a very large per centage of the [illegible] in the deaf and dumb asylums [illegible] misfortunes to scarlet fever.

[illegible]derbilt, D. O. Mills and oth[illegible] will soon sail for Cuba. [illegible] Miss A. J. Langtry, [illegible] and sister-in-[illegible] to look

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THE EAST: Hog cholera is raging near Geneseo, New York. The 2,000 New York police during past year arrested 68,000 persons. The expenses of the city government of New York for '83 will be over $30,000,000. The savings banks of New York State hold $443,087,410, representing 1,036,106 depositors. Charles Hunt, in Sherman's saloon at Jersey City, refused to pay for his drink. Sherman drew a knife and cut Hunt's nose off. A block of land, in New York, which was bought at auction, 10 years ago, for $60,000 has been lately mortgaged for $891,000. N. L. Dukes, who shot and killed Captain Nutt, whose daughter he had seduced, at Uniontown, Pa , recently, has been released on $12,000 bail. A party of Buffalo capitalists have pur chased 150,000 acres of land in Southern Missouri, which they intend selling again to actual settlers. In the Maine ship building districts there was launched this year a total tonnage of 62,657, and there is now on the

stocks a tonnage of 23,016. About 400 tobacco-growers of New England held a meeting at Hartford, on Tuesday, and adopted a petition to Congress to impose a duty of $1 a pound on all foreign tobacco, except from Cuba. A dramatic representation of inciednts of the birth of Christ were given,Monday, in a Catholic church in New York. There was a stage, scenery, and all the accessories of a drama. About 1,000 persons were present. This year's work at the anthracite cola mines of Pennsylvania will be the largest on record. With the outputs of the pres-

ent week the shipments will aggregate

29,500,000 tons, or nearly 1,000,000 tons more than the product of 1881. In Boston, on Wednesday, the excited mother of a pretty and well connected girl publicly thrashed a young man who for some time past has been demonstrating his affection for her daughter by sentimental love epistles through the mails, and by messenger. He had written almost daily the most gushing of epistles, which were curious and decidedly cranky. There is considerable excitement at

Fishkill Landing, N. Y., caused by the death of David W. Pay, a well-to-do boatman, aged 45 years,who partook of a glass of water and a piece of pie on the 19th inst., and immediately commenced to vomit, at the same time experiencing terrible burning pains in his mouth and throat. The doctors could give him no relief, and he died in great agony. A coroner's inquest was held, as it was supposed that his 20-year-old wife had poisoned him. Until the fluids taken from his stomach are analyzed the true facts [illegible] not be got at. [illegible] answer to an audible criticism that [illegible] performance was "no good," the [illegible] at Boston,Saturday night, [illegible]s and jumped into the [illegible] panic. Policeman

their accomodation by local Knights. William Walton, a coal-miner at West Belleville, Ill., shot Jane Milbourn because she wouldn't marry him; he then shot himself. Both died almost at once. It is said that Milk River country is overrun by white hunters, slaughtering buffalo by the thousands. Indians are becoming restless and the agents fear trouble. "I am the jolliest girl that ever started from here to Joliet," remarked Madeline Sturla, on Saturday, as she entered the prison van at Chicago on her way to the penitentiary. San Francisco had a snow storm Saturday such as has not been known in the city for thirty years. A number of sleighs, the first ever seen in the city, were out on the streets. Fred. Gradewhol, a Milwaukee saloon keeper, has been arrested for inviting Fred. Malzahn to the "field of honor." The former claims that the latter had outraged his daughter. Mrs. Catherine Cable, of Decatur, Ill., has obtained a verdict for $3,000 against the Wabash railway. The woman was injured a year ago by being thrown from a wagon on account of the team being frightened by a passing locomotive. Harry J. Carpenter, the bigamist at Council Bluff, Iowa, has been found guilty. His first wife lived in Virginia and her expenses were paid by citizens to induce her to testify. His second wife, a mere child, will soon become a mother. There is trouble among the Creeks, in Indian Territory. Tuesday, two hostile factions came together, and three persons were killed. The whole country is rushing to arms in the locality of the outbreak. Soldiers are being sent to the scene, and are disarming combatants. N. B. Jones, a full-blooded Creek, has been interviewed at St. Louis in regard to the cause of the warfare in progress near Okmulgee. He states that Chief Chicopee commands 700 voters who sympathized with the South in the late rebellion, while Chief Splochee has 400 warriors who sustained the Union, and that ever since the war there has been a struggle between them for political supremacy. George B. Davis,a merchant at Wiewaka, says every Creek is armed, is a dead shot, and as brave as a lion. A letter from Christian county,Ill.,says; "The fact is that so much has been said about the Emma Bond case over the country that the better class of citizens have become disgusted with the whole proceeding, and would like for some one

to rise and explain matters a little. At first the State insisted on a trial, and now that the defense is ready the State wants a little more time. If there is anything in the case, and if there is evidence sufficient to convict, let it be forthcoming and give the sensational a rest for a time."

THE SOUTH: Six books of record, containing nearly all the original deeds to property in Atlanta, Ga., have been stolen. Adeline Grimes and Mary Mulotte, on Thursday, at Monticello, Fla., quarrelled about a man, when Mary stabbed Adeline to death. Alarm was prevailing over a reported uprising of blacks at Hope, Ark., who threatened to burn the town Thursday night. The streets were patrolled by a sheriff s posse. A young man named Statten, in Monroe county, Mo., did not approve of his brother's marriage,and last Sunday morning he shot and killed the offending relative as he lay asleep beside his wife. Revenue Collector, Lewis Buckner, states that the receipts from the sale of tobacco stamps in the Louisville district have fallen off about two-thirds since the discussion of the reduction of taxation began in Congress. A race riot occurred at Oconee,Georgia, Saturday. Asa Laweon was killed; Marshal Webster and Lon Williams were mortally wounded--all white men. Three colored men, brothers, Handy, Jefferson and 'Squire Washington, were dangerously wounded. Several others, of both races, were injured.

FOREIGN: It is said the Rothschilds are operating a corner in quicksilver. Peace negotiations between Bolivia and

Chili have been broken off. The Demarara sugar yield is expected to amount to 140,000 hogsheads. Salina Cruz, Central America, is almost deserted, owing to a cholera epidemic.

Her[illegible] Br[illegible]anic Majesty's ship Undine

has captured eight slave dhows on the east coast of Africa. A bridge on the river Rhine fell,Thursday, precipitating into the river and drowning twenty persons. A falling chimney at Bradford, England, demolished a building, and killed twenty-six persons, Thursday. Insanity in Bohemia, attributed to spir itualism, is the cause, of a popular agitation for an inquiry by the government. The report of the commission on De-

braz[illegible]as mission state that he considers

was a

[illegible] attempting to improperly influence the action of the body of which he was a member. The annual report of the Commissioner of Patents show the receipts of the Patent Office during the past year to have been $1,009,186.65, an increase of $155,520.76 over last year and an increase of $508 for each working day. The net revenue of the office was about $325,000. Postmaster General Howe calls attention to the need of effective legislation to prevent the sending of explosive and dangerous matter that will injure the con tents of mail pouches or employes. Cases of dynamite, loaded pistols, and knives were among the articles taken from the mails during the past year. The Commissioner of Agriculture has prepared a revised table showing the grain production for the year ending Dec. 1. It is as follows: Corn, 1,635,000,000 bushels; wheat, 510,000,000 bushels; oats, 470,000,000 bushels; barley, 45,000,000 bushels; rye, 20,000,000 bushels; buckwheat, 12,000,000 bushels; total, 2,692,000,000 bushels. The reports of the pleuro pneumonia among the cattle at Baltimore have been found by the Treasury Department, after investigation, to have been greatly exaggerated. Quarantine sheds will, however, shortly be erected there, under the orders of the department. Baltimore is now one of the largest receiving points for western cattle. Secretary Chandler's estimate for naval expenditures is very liberal. These are only in part due to the proposition to build two new cruisers and the completion of four monitors. These items only cover $6,500,000 of the increased estimate, while the total is $27,750,000. These figures are $11,000,000 beyond the liberal appropriations of last session. Representative Guenther, of Wisconsin has been investigating the charges of improper handling of immigrants at Castle Garden, and reports that their treatment is simply horrible; that men, women and children are huddled together in filth, and that the dead are allowed to remain for days in a pile. Secretary Folger promises an investigation and Guenther will try to secure the necessary legislation to protect the immigrants. At the president's reception New Year's Day, the Hawaiian minister, after being presented to the President, while on his way to the [illegible], was attacked with vertigo and spasms. He was promptly attended by the physicians, but shortly afterwards died in one of the ante-rooms at the executive mansion. When the minister was taken sick the music stopped, and after the announcement of his death the reception ended. His body was subsequently removed to his residence. DeLong's report, found beside his dead body, has been made public. It makes 30,000 words, and details the incidents of the cruise from the departure at SanFrancisco in 1879 to January, 1881. Its principal feature is an elaborate account of DeLong's views in regard to the expedition. He considered it good judgment to head for Wrangle Land. His idea was to adopt that land as a support for the first winter's campaign. He embodies the sto ry of how the land was sighted and how he expected to reach it. He graphically describes how, on the next day, the Jeannette became beset in the ice, never again to be relieved, and says "the party were compelled to make a virtue of necessity and stay where we were." In 1862 Congress passed an act authorizing the taxation of leases and sales of lands in the insurrectionary States. Subsequently an amendment to this law was passed providing that as the States became loyal, that is, as they conformed to the requirements of the reconstruction acts, and reorganized their State governments within the Union, this tax should be refunded in the following manner: One-half of the aggregate fund collected under this law was to go into the State treasury for general purposes, one-fourth was to be placed in the treasury for educational purposes, and the remaining one-

fourth was to be used to aid such freed-

men as desired to do so to emigrate to

asibility of taking Guatamala [illegible]ion as a sovereign State. The [illegible]as that the United States [illegible]e the debt of Guatamala [illegible]os a handsome gratuity, [illegible] administration could do than treat his proposal with a member of the Cabinet in [illegible]apacity, so the story goes, [illegible]os that the proper way to [illegible] purpose would be to go [illegible] his government tender a [illegible]tion for admission to the [illegible]ould bring the matter di[illegible]ngress, the only power au[illegible]Barricos, acting upon [illegible] the proposition be[illegible] it is said that they [illegible] agreed to call for ad[illegible]on during the present [illegible]s. That is the gossip [illegible]ested in foreign affairs, [illegible] in it. [illegible]mas, Secretary of Utah [illegible]hilipT. Vanzile, United [illegible] Attorney and ex-officio [illegible] of Utah, are here to [illegible] congressmen relative to sup[illegible]ation necessary to the [illegible] polygamy. They take no [illegible], in the efficacy of the [illegible]t works very well so far [illegible] is not radical enough to [illegible]opulation. When asked [illegible]s of the Edmunds bill [illegible] it would probably work [illegible] in the course of time,but [illegible]n 100 years, or in other [illegible]ong time. The plan fa[illegible] providing for a council [illegible]at which was applied [illegible] Louisiana when the latter [illegible]. This feature was em-

braced in the Willits bill introduced last session, and now before the Judiciary Committee. As the Willits bill is probably buried where it now is, a new bill is being drafted which will be introduced in both Houses. It will provide for a council to correct in detail the existing errors and evils of the Edmunds law now in operation. REPRESENTATIVE RICE, from the Pension Committee of the House, has reported a bill as a substitute for the one introduced last session relative to pensioning certain soldiers and sailors of the Mexican and Indian wars in which this country has been engaged. In the old bill the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to place on the pension rolls the names of all who had served sixty days in those wars, but the substitute grants a pension to all who served thirty days; also to such of the officers, soldiers and sailors as may have been personally named in any resolution of Congress for any specific service in said wars, although their term of service may have been less than thirty days. The surviving widows of such officers and enlisted men as were married to them prior to their discharge from the army are also made beneficiaries under the act,provided they have not remarried. These are the principal changes in the bill, and in this shape the committee unanimously recommended its passage. The number of names this scheme will add to the pension rolls is problematical. It is regarded as a very sweeping bill, and takes in everybody who rendered any service or pretended service. The Committee's substitute, it will be seen, is broader in this respect than any of the originals. The Treasury Department has prepared for the Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee an elaborate table, showing the articles, rates and amounts of duty under the present and proposed tariffs, the amount under the proposed tariff being computed upon the basis of the importation and entries for consumption during the year ended June 30, 1882. Unfortuuately, the statisticians have failed to give the aggregate of the reduction in the total revenue,but a mem-

ber of the committee estimates it at $25,000,000 to $30,000,000. On chemical productions the duties are generally main-

tained, but there is a heavy reduction on caustic soda, anniline dyes, essential oils, alkalis, chemical compounds and salts, and medicinal preparations. On earthenware and stoneware, china, porcelain, etc., the increased revenue would exceed $l,000,000 considerably. On iron ore there is a loss of $50,000. On iron in pigs and steel ingots, there is an increased revenue of over $500,000. On steel rails the loss of revenue is nearly $2,000,000. On tin plates etc., there is an increased duty, giving an increased revenue of nearly $5,000,000. On cotton ties of iron and steel there is an increase of duty of 81 per cent., giving an increase of revenue of some $330,000. On copper, lead and trap the revenue falls off. The revenue by the proposed sugar duties is not com-

puted, probably because to give the sach-

charine strength of the sugars would be impossible; but it appears that nearly

$47,000,000 of revenue was derived from

sugars last year not above No. 13, and of this amount not $6,000,000 was from sugars above No. 10 and not above No. 13. The revenue on provisions is generally maintained, but with a loss on rice of $150,000 and over $200,000 on raisins. On liquors and wines the revenue is maintained. On cotton goods there is a moderate reduction, and a consequent loss in revenue. On linen flax goods the duty and revenue are practically maintained. On bagging for cotton there is a loss of about $300,000. On wools there is a general reduction, and also on woolen goods, of some millions. On womens' and childrens dress goods, clothing, etc., the reduction of revenue is about $1,500,000. A glance at this table is sufficient to show that it will be exceedingly difficult, owing to the new classifications, to estimate the revenue under the new bill

Africa or Liberia. The sum collected in all the Southern States amounted to sev-

eral hundred thousand dollars, and as the States are now all within the Union, the comptroller of the treasury has for some time been considering whether he should distribute it under the law providing for its distribution in the contingency that has happened, or whether he shall advise with Congress and ask for additional legislation. The visit of Barricos, President of Guatamala, some months ago, will not be forgotten. His brutal manners and his beautiful wife were the two things that distinguished him. There were stories of his cruelties, too, with which everybody is familiar. The object of his visit, ostensibly, was to take a look at the American flag and wonder at the greatness it shel-

tered. It is the talk now, coming from a source that is undoubtedly acquainted with the inside history of that visit, that Barricos' real mission here was for the purpose of sounding the administration

the table as far as it goes, it may be doubt-

ful whether under the proposed legislation,there would be any considerable loss of revenue.

Bound to Sqnawl. Arkansas Traveler. While a colored man and his family wore engaged in prayer a little kettle of water fell over and scalded the old man's wife. The woman arose with "scuffling" alacrity and howled. The old man slowly arose, and casting on his wife a contemptuous glance said: "Ain't you got no moah humiliation den ter hollar when I'se handin' up petitions?" "I doan mean ter insult de Lawd," yelled the woman, "but when a pot ob bilin' water falls on me, it doan make no difference ef I'se throgh de gate ob de New Druselum, I'se gwine ter squawl; does yer heah me?"

Track laying on the Mexican Central is now pushed at the rate of two miles a day. There remains about [illegible] miles of road to build.

ROLL ON.

GOETHE, Roll, lovely earth! and still roll on, With ocean's azure beauty bound, While one sweet star, the pearly moon, Pursues thee the blue profound;

And angels with delighted eyes Behold thy tints of mount and stream, From the high walls of Paradise, Swift-wheeling like a glorious dream.

THE SULTAN'S WIVES.

A Country Where the Monarch is Compelled to Marry Once a Year--How the Caliph Makes His Selection. Philadelphia Press. It does not appear to be generally known that the Sultan is obliged to marry many women against his will; yet such is the ease, and at least once in each year, whether his majesty be young old, sick or well, does the law of the country oblige him to marry. This law has not always been in force, but was introduced by Sheich-ul-Islam, or head of the church, about 160 years ago, to force Sultan Selim--who, wishing to abolish

polygamy, kept one wife only to maintain and uphold the ancient and authorized customs. The ceremony of the Caliph's marriage is an important event For many days previous the palace officials are busily engaged in selecting the girls who will be allowed to be present on the evening of the Kadir Gegessi, and from whom his Majesty will select one as his wife. Singular as it may appear to Americans, there is hardly a Mohammedan family which does not do its best to get its daughter into the harem, although they know full well that it is already adorned with some hundreds of wives or slaves of great beauty, and from all countries. The present Sultan has in his harem Albanians, Circassian, Armenians, Afghans, Turks, Georgians, Tartars, and every other nationality of women many being wives, while the majority are either bought slaves, women who have been sent as presents to the Sultan, or volunteer slaves, the latter entering the harem of their own free will. It is and ever has been the ambition of every Turkish father and mother to get their daughters into the Imperial Harem, and for this purpose, the moment a girl attains the age of fourteen or fifteen and is good looking, her parents spare no efforts to get her introduced to his Majesty or to some of his favorites, who, for a consideration, mention the girl to their master. Some of the most beautiful women of the Empire can be seen always hanging about the entrances of the Palace, of the Imperial Mosque,and other resorts of the Sultan, in order to find an opportunity of showing him their pretty faces. Neither the age, disposition or health of the sovereign are considered by the parents. He may be as ugly, cruel, infirm and old as possible--all that they wish for is that they may become related to the throne; besides which, during the short time their daughter may be a harem favorite, they will be the most noted people in the Empire, receiving honors, titles, decorations, and high appointments, not only for themselves, but for their parties also, for which, of course, they get well paid. The original custom was that girls of all ranks and conditions of society should take their chances on the birthnight of the prophet, but now so much influence, both political and financial, is brought tos bear on the officials selecting the maiden that few, if any, of the poorer classes are ever permitted to enter the lists. These officials accept bribes and presents from parents and guardiane, and make decent fortunes every year at the time of selection. Toward the close of the reign of Sultan Abdul Medgid, that monarch one night refused to select a wife from those who were presented to him and breaking through the ring, selected a poor girl who

was standing in the crowd selling flowers, to the astonishment of all the Pashas and [illegible]eys present. For several years after this the officials conscientiously did their duty, selecting the prettiest girls, irrespective of the position or influence of their parents, now, however, bribery and corruption will open the door to a rich girl to the detriment of a poor one, who may be ever so much more beautiful than the favored one. The number of maidens allowed to compete is 10 and when the election is complete, invitations or rather imperial commands are issued for them to attend, with instructions as to dress. The dress consists of a large, white linen sheet thrown over the shoulders in Roman fashion, and sandals to the feet. All the maidens dress alike, leaving their hair hanging, and no gems or ornaments of any description are per-

mitted.

On the night of the ceremony the Sul

tan proceeds on horseback to the Suleimanich Mosque, accompanied by all the

palce officials, Ministers cf State and Pashas, all dressed in gala uniform and

surrounded by his aids-de-c amp in their picturesque costumes, representing the various nationalities over which His Majesty reigns supreme. The streets through which he passes are lined with soldiers, who, to make the ceene more effective, and to illuminate their master's passage have Chinese lanterns stuck on their bayonets, and military bands play the sultan'sjmarch at short distances along the rouus. Arriving at Suleimanich Mosqns, His Majesty takes the eentrnl position, with the Imans, Mollahs and Hawagas occupying the places of honor. In the center is a pavilion of scarlet velembroidercd in gold, with the "Tourah" or Sultan's monogram, whioh is always the official emblem of Turkey, hanging in each corner. It is covered at tho top, and supported by four silver columns thus leaving the sides open. In the pavilion are the Shieeh-ul-Ialam and the hall to the throne, while around it stand the 101 maidens, drawn in the form of a complete circle, each maiden being attired in the regulation white sheet, and holding

a towel in her hand, which, being subject to no restrictions, vary in color, design

and quality.

After a short prayer, the heir to the

throne approaches the Sovereign, and, kneeling, offers him two pigeons, which he begs of him to sacrifice to the Almighty and invoke his assistance in selecting from the bystanding maidens one who will become a faithful wife,loving mother, an ornament to the crown and an example to other women. The Sultan then takes a knife from Ids belt and, kneeling himself, sacrificing the pigeons invoking the health of the Prophet, v?Jfche seleotiou he is about to make, afteij jjhc, rises

and rnrtwei!'- r' wasn ir r,, , n a

golden basin held by th

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ablutions, however. On thecontrary he proceeds exceedingly slow,ea ref ally scanning the pretty girls surrounding the pavillion meanwhile. It must be no easy matter to determine, seeing that all the competing damsels are very graoef ul and beautiful, and many a little heart must be throbbing terribly while 1ihis examination goes on. Some of the Caliphs have been known to continue washing their hands an hour, while others have made their selection in a few minutes; but it has been generally remarked that the younger the Sultan is the sooner he washes his hands. Ashe advances in years, however, he becomes more difficult to please, and being experienced, takes his time, proceeding with great deliberation. Having made up his mind, he leaves the pavillionand goes straight up to the maiden ho has selected, and takes from her hands the towel she is holding, upon which he wipes his wet hands. No sooner has he made the selection, than the poor, flurried creature, who by this act has become the wife of the highest in the land, is immediately seized by half a dozen attending eunuchs, who throw a thick veil over her and rush her off to a carriage which is intended for the purpose, the windows of which are of dark glass, so that nobody can see through them,and she is galloped off to the palace. The bands strike up, the artillery roars, the people shout, the officials congratulate His Majesty on his wise selection and the Sultan himself looks highly pleased. The palace treasurer then throws bags of small coins to the crowd, and while they are scrambling for their possession the Caliph leaves the pavillion, and, mounting his horse, returns to the seraglio, the chances being that months will elapse before he again tliinks of his new wife, wh is leading a life of idleness and luxury in the harem, never seeing anybody but ""fief 'CQii$&&8' and the attending

eunuchs.

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INTEftESTINGgI TEMS.

Philadelphia has ninety-thie Presby i

terian churches. ..v? The Persian cloaks are old for half the price they brought last spring. ... V A

Wm. E. Dodge intends to sjart a home for inebriate women in New York. In California there were over 40,000,000 pounds of wool produced last season; $

A New Yorker has Kcovered $4,000 from the New York Central for a broken leg. . ...;, . A man in Boston ha3 irrvented a stonoi cutting machine which can do the work of sixty-four men. The Hebrew ixmgregation have dedicated the G A. B. hallat Terre Haute as a place of worship. The gTeat Dismal swanxp in Virginia is passing away. Much of fo e area has been reclainwd and converted into good tillage land .. " Two years ago Wesson, Miss..- was only a pine forest It is.nbw a cotton mill employing 1,000 luTOdjamkaearly; 3,000 inhabitants. The youngest inventor on the records in Washington is Walter Nevegold, a lad 15 years of age, of Bristol, Pa., who has patented important improvements in rolling machinery. When I waii a student," said a distinguished professor of medicine. I thpugt I had a remedy for nearly every disease; at present I only wish I josseesed a sure one for a single malady." The Washington jioijument has novf -168 courses of stone and is 336 feet 5' , inches high, or 24 inches higher than ' the top of the ligure of America on the v Capitol. ,". What promises to become the largest . iron furnace in the TJ'iited States hafcM

grown up quietly in the Virginia moun- ri ' ' M

tains, and is ne w. nearly ready- to be pufc into blast It is in Roekbribge county, will produce 2110 tons of iron daily, ami belongs exclusively to English capitab s ' Mrs. Ncnnie Wilkerson, of Terre E."-te .. r

The Confederate cruises Oreto though

I don't think the people of Nassau called her anything but the Confederate Gunboat lay at anchor for a long time, waiting for we knew not exactly what when a Federal boat or man-of-war, put in, under the pretense of distress, and anchored midway lietween the Oreto and the British gunboat, Bulldog, stationed at Nassau The position of the boats was so the Oreto lay farthest from the bar, the Yankee next and the Bulldog next. On the shore opposite the Oreto, were the barracks of the 2d. West Indian regiment, near the arsenal grounds, and half a mile further on toward the bar of the harbor was Fort Charlotte. The barrack yard had one gun that was available, the arsenal yard several and the fort several, so that the harbor was well guarded, even without the tremendous gunboat Bulldog. For several weeks iere was no change till the night ol Cistmas eve, 1862. The whole Island was lit up for a grand old carnival. All the men that could be spared from the shipboard were ashore There was no thought of treachery, or of anything but pleasure. From the Governor's residence down to the poorest 'dignity-ball" givers, no one dreamed of anything but pleasure. The- Federals and Confederates had kept a sharp watch on each other, but as everyone came ashore that night the Confederates thought of no danger. But on toward midnight the cry arose: "The Yankee's trying to cut the Confederate boat out Help! help help!" In 15 minutes help was there. Sure enough the captain of the Federals had called all his men aboanl, according to a previous arrangement, quietly got up steam snd stole up to the Oreto, got hold of her anchor chain and quietly started out of the harbor with her, when one of the sailors left aboard of her dropped over the side and struck out for the shore The harbor is full of sharks, and he had to "holler" as he came. A man rowed out and got him and so the alarm was given. They sprang to their feet as one man, and made for the barracks, the arsenal, the Bulldog and Fort Charlotte. At the first command to "heave to" the cruiser 1ove" and by morning wes conspicious by his absence. Tne per pie of Nassau were such warm sympathizers of the South that it would not have been safe for one of the Yankees to come ashore after this attempt I was a child when this happened, but several of the blockade runners whose names appeared in the Free Press a couple of weeks ago were in Nassau at the time of which I speak, j remember especially Capt. Bobert Lockwood, I am not sure about his brother, Capt Tom Lockwood. There was one of theFraziers and a pilot named Tom Jones, and another, Capt. Camighan The first boat that ran the blockade from

Charleston was in the harbor. Her name was the Ella Warley, and nearly all of the above named gentlemen belonged to her, and all were Charlestonions like myself. Though a child, I ran the blockade three times.

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Blockade Running by a Young Laoypas received a patent for a parlor sicvk Myf To the Editor of the Detroit Free Press . car Mrk-.?ie deved and made brSflfc .g

The car is so arranged t55fttcanbMw9

ported for any distance yithout ui ing feeding and watering being . from the outside, " '..?' '

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An Experience of Death. Philadelphia Press. "On my return from Japan," said Bishop Simpson, "I preached in California, and probably overworked myself, and on the last Sunday in February, after holding divine services in my St Loui church I returned to my home, where I was immediately taken sick with a lingering fever, which the physician predicted would end fatally. At this . point I seemed to fall into an ecstacy, when I actually did not know whether I was alive or dead. I imagined I was on board a- n jat magnificent ship and heard the Captain say: "Stop her!" and which I thought to be the voice of my Divine Master, when my young eighteen-months-oldjchildjwho had died twenty years ago, came to me and said that she heard that I was coming and had come to meet me. After some little conversation which I do not recol

lect she said to: 'Do you think I have

grown, papar .

She then rose in a form of glory which

I hive never before witnessed and never

more expect to see until x aie, ana men returned to her usual state, saying that

she had come in shape to see if I would know her. She then said that many friends had asked after me and were awaiting my coming,and that an old lady and gentleman had taken her up and kissed her, saying that her papa was their boy. I then asked her where her mamma was. O, she's off, doing something for the Lord, but will be at the wharf to

meet us on our arrival.' All this left an impression upon me by the magnificence of the surroundings, and it was a season of great preoiousness to m.e It seems to me that I have come back from the other world, and although it is peculiar for me JjO say that I was dead, it seems as I was t in the body "

Physiology of Alcohol. Dr. W. B. Carpemer of Etoston. The presence of alcohol in the stomach diminishes the power of the gastric juice. It produces a temporary increase of lowerf followed by a- more than corresponding t decrease. A. reat mass of the blood is 1 water, and the introduction into it of any- ; thing but water makes mischiet After

I the regular healthy constitution of the i

blood, and we altar the healtfcy appearpearance af the corpuscles, who are so in- L. t innately conneetedwith the the . respira- 1 tory organs and processes, the next in im- j portance to the action of the heart. With- 1 in a few years it has ben discovered that J, there is in the body a nervous system that directly controls the circulation and the .-; amount of blood to le. distributed to any organ or part of the body, reilating the "' the latter according to the state of activity of the organ or muscle. In a healthy body this wonderful adjustment takesplace of itself, and anything that tends to derange it works injury to the. body. This is just the effect of alcohol. It selaxes the capillary vessels, which become overfilled blood, the first result being a feeling of exhilaration and waimth and a--genial glow, wliich is appealed to as an evidence that the drink is doing us good. I But this exhilaration and warmth are always followed by depression and cold,and the sustaining power of alcohol is shown to be a myth and a delusion. The -continued presence of its results in the ' conglomeration of its red corpulscles and the clogging of blood vessels, stopping . the tiow of blood; experience has shown that even under extreme privation and exposure, alcohol does more harm than good. Activity of body or mind -under : its influence may be likened to the last spurt of a rower to recover lost ground, and it results, like that, in a greater state of weakness and depression than before. And, in addition to creating these disturbances, it interfel '.e with -the process of removing from the body the results of the chemical drainages which take, p)ace within. Thoughts Worth Thicking. It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his helper is omnipotent ......... '.V. 3 ..... TThe power ol; -man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing. J Music and flowers are evmigels of: piirity and faith, redolent- of God, if we but nnlock our hearts to their ministry. Every man who lives in the habitual practice of any voluntary sin cuts him self off from Christianifyi Measure not thyself by thy moving

SnauOW, Uiii JJ vc oaw-im. and reckon thyself alwye the earth by the line thou must be contented with under ii The treasury department decides that a Chinese wet nurse is a laborer and can not come to this country; 1 - ;

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