Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 36, Bloomington, Monroe County, 7 July 1883 — Page 3

Some of-tbe Western farmers have had a hard time this year. For three months tornadoeshave played havoo with their buildings, fences and orchards, and it looks ar thou gh we had not yet heard of the last of these fierce storms. Eatery disastrous rains hare added their destruc tive poweiS to those of the tornadoes, sweeping away whole fields of grain, and now the great floods along the Mississippi have inundated many thousands of acres of rich farnunglands, and destroyed all the crops growing upon them. Those unfortunate farmers deserve the sympathy and assistance of the whole country.

tlTmiiE Mr. P. J. Sheridan is rusticating in this country a numberof unfortunate people, whom a head constable named Wynne swore Sheridan had got together on his Irish tour in 1879, have been committed four for murder and six for conspiracy to murder. This Wynne . swore ne had a warrant for the arrest of Sheridan for organizing murder, but that he escaped before it could be put into execution. A Boman Catholic solicitor stated that "wherever he went murder and infamy went in his train," and, in the words of a great ecclesiastic, helV was not hot enough or eternity long enough to punish such men' who planned murder and left their dupes to bear the consequence

A manufacturer of cotton-seed oil, in speaking of its illegal use in adulterating lard, said, 'It don't hurt the lard any; it improves it; but the lard spoils the oil There is no necessity for mixing them. While oil for cooking purposes is ahead of lard, it can be measured exactly, and that is more than yon can say for lard. Besides there is no water in it, and there is in the best prime steam lard. The process of making cotton-seed oil is as clean as that of making pound cake, and the oil is going to take the place of the best lard. It is better to cook with for a variety of reasons. -Lard contains a heavy percentage of water; oil contains none. One pound of oil equals fully two and one-half pounds cf lardl" :

Mrasv Hassak, Sultan of Morocco, and "Absolute Bulerof True Believers," is probably one of the richest sovereigns in the world. Unlike other millionaires, however, he does not invest it in profitablejfieeorities, but, like a monarch of the

"Hofesand and One Nights," he hoards

it in underground vaults, with which the

greatest DanK and trust vaults or cmnzea fiitiAB flan nntlw comnared. The tress

nres of gold, silver and gems are buried 100 feet deep, surrounded by tenfold walls of alternate stone and metal fifty

feet thick They are reached only through a" subterranean labyrinth of the most intricate description, and are guarded by a band of armed Africans, who, having once entered this service, never again ascend to the light of day. They live and

die in an AUadm's garden.

Tht decision to educate the children of the captured Apaches at the Indian training school is a proper one, providing due regard is had to parental feelings in special cases. Many of the offspring of Sioux warriors and others who have fought the white men are to be found in the schools at Carlisle and Hampton, and they have made remarkable progress in the ways of civilization. The disposition to test the value of these schools by taking as pupils boys and girls who have such antecedents is worthy of commendation. Yet a greater boon for the Indian race would be the establishment of a general common school system in their own haunts and homes. Then, instead of the slender results to be expected from the two Indian schools at the East; a general advance in education could be looked for; and soon there will be graduates enough of Carlisle and Hampton to greatly aid such a work.

According to a cable dispatch from

extent in Damiett, here forty-two deaths, all supposed to have been caused by that disease, occurred on Monday . The history of the cholera epidemics plainly shows the necessity of prompt and strict quarantine measures in order to check their advance. The manner in which the disease, when once started from its hotbed in India, follows the lines of travel and traffic toward the West is vry curious and interesting. With the introduction of steams hips and railroads cholera

epidemics began to spread with surprising rapidity, and they have several times

crossed the Atlantic; The present outbreak in Damietta may be the effect of a local disease, and not of the true Asiatic cholera, and probability is lent to this view by the fact that it does' not appear to have spread from Hindostan, as all great cholera epidearice have dona Still, better in aH such cases to be fore-

jymeo, ana a waxcnzru eye saouia be Kept upon every avenue by which the disease could be conveyed to this country. So far we have had an ; exceptionally healthy summer here, '

l ed about 40 ner cent; flour 163; maiez

121, and potatoes nearly 100 per cent In the four years ended Pec 31. 1880, the population increased from 32,750,000 to 34,150,000, or a small fraction over 4j per cent, but during these four years the value of the meats, butter, cheese, lard,egS, poultry and fish imported rose from $150500,000 to gl99ffi0,000, or ?7 per cent. No matter how much the professional politicians may "resolute" onjthe desirability of cutting down expenses and runningthe Gtovernment on economic business principles, the moment an attempt is made by any head of a department to do bo they immediately begin filing protests and doing everything in their wrwer to continue the regime which they substantially denounced at their convention. Secretary Chandler is endeavoring to reduce the expenses of his bureau, and has announced that at a certain date' he will close some of the navy yards. Politicians of afl shades are rushing to Washington with protests, and the Secretary's life become a perfect burden. The 'President who is now at the Soldiers Home, has

threatened to have the telephone conn eotingit with the Capitol dkcpntmned. The nffireaeekers. natronaae-disnensers; and a

horde of people who think they have a right to be supported in luxurious ease by the taxpayers not only to drive" orit to the home for personal interviews, but, railing in this and receiving no replies to their begging, letters, have the audacity to yeU through the telephone; "Helhy there?' into the Presidential ear. No doubt the; muchly-badgered man wishes he could hnd wa lodge in some vast wilderness," where he alone could be tine, autocrat. - - -;' -- WASHINGTON NOTES. Bequisitions for tax-paidvspirit stamps aggregating i upward- off $l,000,0G(k were made on ;: the connnissioner jot y internal revenue Saturday? indicating' a .Jarge prospective withdrawal of spirits for consumption at the regular withdrawal in j v -a T : ,-Wv VrK :f ... A Washington special says that friends of W. IL Calkins claim that he has the inside tracfrfor the Republican nomination for Governor, as Colonel W. W.Dndley has determined not to permit the use of his name in that connection. . ..; In the investigation of his office, Mon day. Architect Hill showed up to .yery. poor advantage. He admitted thai, he knew nothing of the validity of the bonds with contractors under him, or whether or not contracting companies were legally inempomtSi :tf' : ' The treasury reserve which has' been increasing for; several days, amounts ' to 314481,930. It is stated4hat payments to be made the present month on account of pensions will not exceed $1,125,000. The quarterly interest on 'the 4 per centloan, due July Jsfcnext, amounts, to $7 350,00a ; v Bids for contract for the construction of the new naval cruisers were opened at the Na y Department on Monday. John Eoach was the lowest bidder for all four of the vessels. He bids for the Chicago 8889,000; Boston, $619,000; Atlanta,S617,000; and Dolphin (the dispatch boat) $3!5,00& The contracts will be awarded to him. There were only four bidders for each vessel. . The Solicitor of the Treasury has still under consideration the offer of compromise in the case of Tom Ochiltree, formerly United States Marshal of Texas. The amount of the judgment in the case is $10,COO,and the amount offered in compromise is $500. The Solicitor has received a letter from a gentleman not a party to the case offering to buy the government's claim against Ochiltree for $5,000. The receipts from postage stamps at the Postoffice Department for the quart ending March 31, 1882, were 811,329,171, and for the quarter-ending Dec. 31, 1882, $10,975,068, an increase of $354,103. The gross receipts of the department for the first quarter of 1883 were $11,811,274 and for the fourth quarter of 1882, $11,434,720 an increase for the first quarter of 1883of $376,554. It is estimated at the Postoffice Department that the additional compenfation to 11,000 postoffices affected by the

act of March 3, 1883, providing for the ad-

FATHE1VS GROWING OLD, JOHN

"V Nor many weeks since we heard of. a wonderful discovery of human skeletons in North Carolina, their numbers being reckoned in scores and even hundreds:

and a peculiarity of these skeletons was their queer skulls. - Now; from Dakota, comes the story of the exhumation of two hundred human skulls at an old fort

near Bedfield, which from its elevation, its ditch, and its mtrenchments looks like

t he scene of an ancient battle. Some of these skulls have double rows of lower teeth, and are thought to date back to the mound builders. This Dakota Golgotha bears a snapicious resemblance to . the collection of sconces and skeletons in North Carolina. It looks as if the yarn which originated in the old North State had been reproduced and enlarged upon in the West. Hence, despite the extraor

dinary yield of bones in both places, too ffMol ImniW Wnn4 in( llA ATiMtoJ. An in 11

vjVD UlUOU HU" ISO DASJIWU OB IU 611(3 number that will pass the test of scientific exantinaticn, or even .be submitted to that test. V In 1871 Great Britain had a population of 31,200,000, and raised 3WfO0Oacres of wheat Jn that year her imports of wheat were 44J16fiQ0 centals; bf flour 4457,600 Centals; of corn 18855,200 centals, and of potatoes 952,000 centals. In 1880 her popnlation had increased to 84jl50,GU0; her wheat area had decrease! to 3,000,000 acres; her imports of wheat bad grown to 61,791,000 centals; of flour she imported ' 11327,200 centals; of corn 41.692,000 centals; and Of potatoes 10.841.600 centals ' T

will be seen that; while the population from 1871 to 1880 nine yearsincreased 9J per cent, the wheat area declined

over 21 per cent, also, that durixur the

same period the imports of wheat increas-

justment of

amount to $1,221,665 for the seven months ending Sept. 3, 1883. Of the old appropriation available this year for river and harbor improvements m this State, there are $20,000 for the Wabash of which one-half will be used below Yincennes, and the other half from Yincennes to Lafayette. To improve White river the balance is $5,000, and for the work in the only harbor of the State, Michigan City, the sum is $5,000, which will be spent on the inner harbor. It was ascertained Tuesday that the effect of Monday's executive order in regard to the internal revenue service is to reduce the total number of collection districts from 126 to eighty, a reduction of f srfcy-six instead of forty four, as was "announced when the information was furnished the press. All changes made in the present system were included, howev

er, in the detailed statement telegraphed 3

last niffht. The following statement shows the number of districts reduced, in each State and Territory: Alabama. 1' Nevada, 1 ; Connecticut, 1; Georgia, 1 ; Dakota, 1; Wyoming, 1; Ari!pna,l; Pennsylvania, 4; Virginia, 2; vNorth Carolina,!;

Tennessee, 1; Kentucky, 2; Ohio, 4; Indi-'

ana, 3; Illinois, 2; Michigan, 2; Wisconsin, 2; Iowa. 1; Mississippi, 2; Minnesota, 1; West Virginia; 1; Maryland, 1; Massachusetts, 1; New York, 5; Washington Territory, t; New Jersey, 1; Idaho, 1; Montana, 1. Total, 46. It is stated at the Internal Revenue Bnreau that it is probable the transfer of otBces cannot be effected before the first of August. An annual saving of $200,000 is one result of the reduction. The regular cabinet meeting was attended by all the members except Secretary Frelinghuysen and Seoretary Teller, both of whom were out of the city. The principal question considered was in relation to the alleged shipment of pauper immigrants to this country from Iraland

oy tne -British authorities. The result of j

the deliberation on thesubject was shown in the subsequent action of the Secretary of the Treasury, who telegraphed instructions to the collector cf customs at New York to co-operate with the commissioners of hnmigration at that port to prevent the landing of all immigrants found to be paupers within the meaning of the law. In the event such pauper immigrants may

have already landed, as is reported to be the case with a large number shipped on the steamship Furnessia, the collector is instructed to take all possible measures to have them ie-shippe4 tothe nprt from which they came -

Oiir fnthor'fl growing old, John. Tlis ejxw are growing dim. And years nro on his shonldora laid, A Vavy lond for him; And yon an d I are young and hale. And each a stalwa man. And we tnnst make his load as light And as easy as we can. ... . -Hensed take the' the brunt, John, At the cradle and the plow, .And oamed our porridge by the sweat That trickled down his brow. Yet never heard we him complain, Whatfer his toil might be. Nor wanted e'er a welcome seat Upon his solid knee. And when our boy strength came, 3ftn. And sturdy grew each limb. He brought us to the yellow field, To sharo the toil with him: ... But ho went f oromost in the swath. Tossing aside the grain Just like the plow that heaves the soil,. Or ships that cleave the main. Now we most lead the van, John,

Through weather foul and fair. And let the old man read and doze And tilt his easy chair. And he'll not mind it, John, you know,. At evo to tell us o'er Those brave old days of British time -. Our grandsiros and the War. I heard yon speak of ma'am, Dohn; 'Tie Gospel what you say, I That cariu g for the like of us ? 4 Has turned her hair to gray. Yet, John, I do romember well When nmRhbore called her vain, And whor hor hair was long and like , ;A gleamiug sheaf of grain. Her lips were cherry-red, John, Her cheeks were round and fair. And lik-3 1 ripenod peach, they ayreqletl Against her wavy hair: Her steps, fell lightly as the lea r Prom off the summer tree And all day busy at her wheel, ., .

She suhk to you and ma.

She had a buxom arm, John,: That wielded well the rod . Whene'e? with willful stray our feet. The path forbidden trod. But to the heaven of her eye -'We never looked in vain; And evermore our yielding cry Brought down her 'tears like rain. But this wfcs long ago, John, And wo are what we, are; And little heed we, day by day, Her fading cheek and hain And when beneath her faithful breas The tides no longer stir, Tis then, John, we most shall feel We had no friends like her. Yes, fathers growing old John, His eyes are growing dim, l And mother's treading softly down The deep descent with him; But yoti and.I are young and hale, And each a stalward'man, And we must; make their paths as smooth ? And level as we can.

ON THE BLACK RIFT.

BY K. B. DAVID.

Suneet over the craggy monntmns which divide Albania from Montenejrro thevast gray cliflfe overhead all ablaze with crimson light; a last faint gleam just fading away from the smooth surface of Lake PicntH. f-'r below; and in the foreground, under the shelter of a huge rock which protected their camp-fire from the risinj? storm, of wind and rain, a band of armed men, with the little scarlet caps, embroidered, jackets, and short, white, kilt4ilre skirts of Albanian warriors. By thei heated faces, notched sabers, and powder-grimed hands, one might have guessed that these Albanians had just come out of a battle, while the bandaged limbs and blood-stained dresses of not a few among them showed that the fiffht had been a hard one. And well it might, be. . They had been fighting with a party of Monteneflrrine, and between the Montenegrin and the Albanian there is an enmity as bitter and long-continued as between the Turk and the Greek, or the German and the Bussian. It was easy to see, by the gloomy looks and mutterings of the Albanians, that they were anything but satisfied with the result of the day'B work. In truth, they had little eanRe to rejoice. They had attempted to surprise the Montenegrins on their way home from, a raid, but the latter had proved to be more wide-awake than their enemies expected, and had fought their way through with all the plunder, leaving several of the bravest

postmasters' salaries, Albanians dead on the spot, and many

more severely wounded. Tt was no won

der that the faces around the fire were so dark and angry, and that neither song nor laugh was to be heard. It is destioyvand who ean escaoe it?" said a brawny fellow, who sat beside the fire trying to bind up a terrific gash in his cheek, "Don't be cast down, brothers; it is their turn to-day, and it will be ours to-morrow." "Never, while the Wizard Chief is with them growled an old, gray-haired warrior, who was sitting with his back to tree. "What can one do against a fellow whose bare skin is proof against shot and steel? Thrice this day did I take sure aim at Hilarion Petrovitch with the good rifle that never failed me yet, and I saw the bullets drop from his clothes like dead leaves in autum." "True enough, cried one of the' younger men. "Did yon ever know my saber miss its stroke? and was it not bleesftd this very morning by our own Mooli&h (priest) before T went into the battle? Well, the very first blow I dealt at Hilarion Petrovitch it snapped off at the hilt,

and then " ...... ... The epeaker.finished his sentence by a significant jerk of his great, shapgy head toward the blood-stained scarf around bis right arm. , "Wizard or no wizard lM roared a towering figure, starting up in their midst;, 'before another sun goes down I will meet this man whom you fear, and try whose steel is the sharpest.. He has killed

my brotber.and I hve killed his nepbew, and it time that the feud should end ; and end it shall before . to-morrow s sunset.. . ' "Ah, Selim Beg! What words are these?" cried the veteran under the tree. "Will you, our chief and our champion, let yourself be destroyed by the w itchcraft of that dog, Hilarfon Petrovitch, and leave us as sheep that have no shepherd V,v "I shall go," was Selims only reply; but his men knew letter than to make any further objection. "Let me go too, then, and help you, father," piped a shrill, childish voice behind him, as a slim, little figure scrambled up on to his massive sh oulder and seized his huge black whiskers m ita tiny hands. . . The whole band laughed loudly, and even Selim Beg's iron face relaxed into a smile; for this boy was his only child, ncl more precioua to him than anything elsaipon earth, ,

I ou're but a young obampion yet, Ah,

my son," said he, stroking the child's curly head with his huge, brown hand. "By-and-by you shall take a hand in the sport, and welcome; but this job I muBt do my self." Four hours laterr the Albanian chief, disguised in the dress of a slain Monte negrin, stole away from his sleeping band rifle on shoulder and saber in belt, upon tho trail of the man he hated. Pew men would have cared to pick their way along the brink of suoh precipices even in br ad daylight, much less in the dark, with only a ffsint gleam of moonlight at long intervals; but this was a trifle to the practised mountaineer, who could have found his way in the darkest night from one side of the hills to the other. . Day was just breaking as the daring man reached the spot whither he was bound a small cave in the rook, overlooking a dark and frightful chasm known as the Black Kift, through the gloomy depths of which a half-seen torrent foamed and roared unceasingly. Just at the brink of this gulf, tho path, issuing from a kind of tunnel between two mighty cliffs, divided itself, the left hand track running along a ledgA barely wide enough for one man to stand upon, with an unscalable precipice above, and the whole depth of the Black Rift below.

The right hand track zigzaggeetggpb'

immoral conduct Up to the present time her guise has been successfui.and though she has sailed on various sail vessels and steamers as coolj steward, porter, watchman, cabm boy, etc., no one knew her real sex. She has had many a fight, and has made a show of nstioufls in onler to keep up the ruse. Not long ago she waB pitched into by one oi! the hands on the steamer where she was employed and her eyes blackened. . Frank will be tried this morning by Justice Kaufmann. What disposition will be made of the case remains to be seen. It was stated last evening that the girl will make a clean breast of it to the court; that she first put on male attire when sailing with a captain who had a very jealous w:ife, and that, while not gniltyof any improper oondust, she put on men's clothes so that the cap tain's better half would not be at all uneaay.

the other and higher side of the. Bift, till

it reached the cave in which Selim had posted himself. :, The cave was a favorite "stand" with the Montenegrin hunters, and the chief, Hilarion himself, whom Selim was now tracking constantly, frequented it , The Albanian had therefore good hope of trapping bis enemy; but even should any other Montenegrin come thither instead, Selim's Montenegrin disguise and his knowledge of the language were a sufficient security. So, with the rifle across his Intees,- tmd his sabre unsheathed beside bim,the grim warrior sat watching for his prey. But time passed, an the sun mounted higher and higher, without bringing any sign of Hilarion Petrovitch. Selim, who had barely two hours' sleep the night before, after a whole day of marching and' fighting, at length began to nod, and

found his eyes closing in spite of alibis efforts to keep them open, and a few minutes later he was fast asleep.

How long he slept he could never tell,

but when his eyes opened again the. first object upon which they rested was one that made his blood un cold.

Some distance along the terrible ledge-

path on the other side of theRift,was the figure of a little boy, clinging to a projecting crag,"ln an attitude of helpless terror, in whom the Albanian chief recognized at a glance his only son, AH. Selim saw the whole thing at a glance. The boy, -eager to witness his father's encounter with the Montenegrin, had followed him un perceived, and, takinfr fhe wrong turning where the path divided, had got out upon the ledge, without realizing its full perilB, thanks to the mist that arose from the waterfall below. But the fresh breeze had now driven aside the mist, and the'whole of the terrible depth burst upon him at once. Dizzy and half stunned, he clung helplessly to the rock, from which he must inevitable fall headlong into the abyss the moment his grasp relaxed. ..... For an instant the savacre warrior stood as if turned to stone, not daring even to call out, Seat he should startle the boy who was thus hanging on the brink ot death. ITie next moment he wan darting down the steep path like an antelope. But before he could reach the spot hp saw a tall figure in Montenegrin dress spring oat from amonr the rocks and stride along that fearful ledge as nimbly and firmly as if walking on level ground. Selim, holding his breath, saw the stranger approach the spot where the boy was still clinging heard hi cheery voice call to the terrified child to "hold fast just one minute more" watched him draw nearei nearer nearer still. And now he was within one stride of the clinging boy, and now hxs strong hand was outstretched to grasp him, when, all at once, Selim beheld with inconceivable horror, a shower of loose earth falling from the cliff above them The next moment there came a deafening crash and down rushed a perfect cataract of huge stones and rubbish, darkening the whole air with clust. When it cleared away the two figures were gone! Selim uttered a cry like the roar of a wounded tiger, and sprang toward the chasm as if to plunge into it after his lost ohild, but just then he saw the Montenegrin's towering form emerging from a olift info which he had thrust Ali snd himself barely in time. A few moments later and both were safe on firm ground once more. "I)on'tbe afraid! father shan't hurt you'J said Ali, turning to the gigantic Montenegrin with a protecting air, as his father released him from a hug worthy of a boa-strietor, "He's an Albanian, but he's put on Montenegrin clothes to hunt down a man called Hilarion Petrovitch, and I've come to. help him P' "Fall on, then, my little champion," a3 he wiped off the dust and blood that besmeared his face; lffor I am Hilarion."

"You?" cried Selim, starting back. "You?" echoed Ali. "Oh, then you're not a wizard after all, and father wpn'tbe your enemy anymore. Let's all be friends' And he drew the two great brown hand together, with his tiny fingers. nt is the will of Allah (God)," said the Albanian, "I had vowed to slay you,but henceforth my sword has no edge against the savior of my ohild." "Nor has mine against his father's' answered the Montenegrin. ... And the compact so strangely concluded was faithfully kept ever after. Sailing Under False Colors. IuterOaean. "A young fellow"' well known on lake vessels and steamers out of Chicago as a CDok, cabin boy, etc., and known asFrank Chambers, was arrested by Officer Brennan onWells street bridge yesterday while talking with a captain and arranging for a berth on board his vessel. Frank was taken to the Chicago. Avenue Station.and when charged with being a female confessed to the fact She is about 17 years of age, is masouline in fae and voice,and her sex would never hsve been Huspected had not the last captain she sailed with

exposed her to the police. She explains her course in donning male attire by saying thft it was easier to obtain work as a boy or young man than as a girl or young woman, and she got better wages and escaped the insults and the advances made on her own sex. It is not charged that Miss Chambers has ever been guilty of

Hon Marbles Are jMade. (Philadelphia Tsmes.J Marbles arc named from the Latin word "murmur," by which similar playthings were known to the boys of Rome, 2,000 years ago. Some marbles are made of potter's clay and baked in an oven just as earthen wan? is bilked, but most of them are made of a hard kind of stone found in Saxony, Germany. Marbles

,a m f,;rn kfce, yesterrlay-

k auu gen, m au parts oi me worm, even morB;nc. Cflme 11D thai'. : Themmia.

to China, for the use of the Chinese chil dren. The stone is broken up with a hammer into pieces, which are then ground round in a mill. The mill has a fixed slab ot stone, with its surface full of little groveu r furrows. Above this a flat block of ak wood of the same size as the stone, is made to turn round rapidly, and, while turning, little streams of water run its the grooves and keep the mill from getting too hot. About 100 pieces of tlm square pieces of stone are put in the grooves at once, and in a few minutes are made round and polished by the wooden block. China and whi teinarbles are also used to make the round rollers which have delighted the hearts of the boys of all nations for hundreds of years. Marbles thus made are known to the boys as "chinas," or "alley." Real China ones are made of porcelain clay, and baked like chinaware or other pottery. Some of them have a pearly glaze, and some are painted iu various colors, which will not rub off, because they are baked in, just as the pictures are on the plates and ther table-ware. Glass marbles are known as "agates.They are made of both clear and colored ilass. The former are made by taking p a little melted lass on the end of au iron rod and making it round by dropping it into a round mold, which shapes it, or by whirling it around the head until the glass is made into a little bail. Sometimes the figure of a dog or squirrel or a kitteai or some other, object is put on the end of the rod, and when it is dipped into the melted glass the glass runs all around it, and when the marble is done the animal can be seen shut up in it. Colored glass marbles are made by holding a hunch of, glass rods in the fire until they melt; then the workmen twist them round into a ball or press tLem into a mold, so that when done the marble is marked wi th ban ds or ribbons of color, ileal agates, which are the nicest of all marbles, are made in Germany, out of the stone called agate. The workmen chip the pieces of ngate nearly round with ha miners and then rind them rouud and smooth on grindstone.

Breaking a Corner. Wall Street Novro. In the early days of Michicran,when one dealer was the source of supply for a large territory, a capitalist from fhe east suddenly bought up all the tobacco and whisky to be got hold of in the state. There was no railroad communication; it wjw winter and there was no navigation, and everything promised a big profit on the speculation. Prises began to creep up and settlers to inquire and protest, and the capitalist was rubbing his hands and holding on, when something happened. He was on his way to church one Sunday when he was seized by a band of toughlooking pioneers and carried to the river where a hole already had been out in the ice. "What is the meaning of this ?"he finally asked. ....... "It means old prises for whisky and terbaekerP replied the spokesman. How?" They proceeded to enlighten him. Two of the band gave hint a duck in the water and he was plunged in and hauled out three times before he got his breath and

said:

"Gentlemen, tobacco has taken a great drop!" "(live him some more!" said the leader, and into the freezing cold water he went again. When they hauled him out, blue with cold and teeth chattering, he observed: "And whisky is 10 cents a gallon less than the old price r

Knew He'd. Forotten Something, Burdette. "We are going fishing next week' sad Mr. Oldboy, "and I want to be sure we've got all our things together." "Got a tent:" asked his partner. "Yes I've got a tenfe. "And a boat?" "Yes; that-s engaged." "Whisky?" "Lots of it." "Some pilot biscuit V "Yes, a whole box' "Five or six dozen of beer?" "Yes." "Cigars?" "Hundreds of them." "Plenty of whisky?' "Yes." "A good lot of beer?" "Yes." "You'll want some ice." "I have that, and I have lots of canned goods, plenty of beer and cigars, no end of whisky and bread, and everything I possibly can think of, and yet it seems to me I have left something out." "Got your tackle, haven't you?" "Ily George you have hit it That is just it fish-hooks and lines; we will need some of them, wont we? I knew I had forgotten something." A Merciful Editor. An Ohio man, who last week started a paper in Kansas, wrote the folio whig sa lutatory: "I have this day assumed control of The Weekly Whoogog. Of couise 1 intend to thoroughly and entirely change public opinion iu the community but I wish to assure the people that! will do it slowly, very slowly." General Sherman's idea of Washington recalls one of Horace Greeley s letters. "There is so much villainy going on in this place." he wrote in X856, " that I am almost afraid to look in the glass lest I shall see the face of ?tro&ue,"

IMPORTED PAUPERS. The New Business the British Govern- . ment is Engaged in Three Hundred Steerage Passengers Who will Speedily Return to Ireland. New York Herald, A deputation of representative Irishmen laid before President Arthur a protest against the system of "assisted emigration." That was on Saturday. And as il to illustrate this system there came into port yesterday a vessel with 570 passengers aboard, of whom more than onehalf had been shinped over by the British tfoverunient. The investigation institute! by the commissioners of emigration was necessarily incomplete, but their inquiries showed that the poor law gnardians had been abroad in Ireland,had gathered up all the indigent and worthless material they could lay hold of, and given two pounds here, three pounds there, clapped the heterogeneous mass into a steerage and sent it across the water. Half stanreu fishermen and strolling farm hancls were not the only people recruited for the voyage. The poorhouses themselves had been relieved of their burden,

and confirmed "paupers who had lived there for years were sent with the others. With Commissioner Stephenson rests the

credit of the discovery. The steamship

sioner had an intimation that she was engaged in the "assisted emigration" traffic and set about looking after the matter himself. He went off and boarded the vessel. According to his own account he called up the purser and the dootor. "How many passengers have you on board?" "Five hundred and seventy." "They are nearly all emigrants?" "Yes." "Are any of them paupers?" "No." . .... "Have you assured yourself of this?" "We have no reason to believe there is pauper among them." "I am a commissioner of emigration," said ftlr.. Stephenson, "and I wish to look at thetje people." The commissioner was sent below. There were the usual sights and sounds of steerage. There were the emigrants, men and women, the latter in excess, poorly but not ill clad. There were new shawls among the women, new dresses, raiment which seemingly had been provided Just before shipment. The men were generally iu corduroy or working clothe11, with little pretensions to good appearance. With few exceptions the whole party looked poor. The commissioner went among them.. He spoke to one heie, another there. Who had paid their pjissage? With almost uniform regularity came the reply, "The government, in cooise." . " CURIOUS DISCOVERIES. . Primed with this information the commissioner came off at Oastle Garden and telegraphed to his colleagues. Messrs. Taintdr and Starr responded. Then, as the emigrants formed into line and were registered in passing the clerks, each was questioned about his or her reason for coming to America, about the destination, tide intention, and whether they had any relatives or friends here to receive them. Through this course of questioning some startling discoveries were made. It was elicited that a large majority of the immigrants bad been shipped here by the Britisla government. In most cases a Poor Law Guardian or secretary of "the Union" had been at the bottom of the immigration. In addition to a free passage bonus of 1 was given to a single person, 2 to a family of three, S to a family of five, M to a family of seven, and 7 to a family of nine. . Those who had relatives in o' her cities than in New York had been promised to be sent to them. But there were dreadful and constantly recu rri irregularities in the determin -ing or these destinations. Some who wanted to go to Norwich, Conn., were cheoK d, so to speak, to Philadelphia. Some wanting to reach the West were set down as bound for the South. Then where money had been given them to reach certain localities it was found that in most instances it was quite insufficient to pay their fares there. Some who wanted to go to Chicago or Cleveland had not near the sum required to pay car fare. They were some, and they were among the poorest and most encumbered lot, who had no relatives here, no purpose in coming, but who had been told they would be provided for on reaching Casile G'rarden. Several of these were women, with from one to three children,and in several instances they had been taken direct from the w" rkhpuses. . PROM THE WORKHOUSE, After Bichard passed a queer old couple appearad. The man was straight as an arrow and had a face bronzed in blotches by constant exposure. His wife was beside him, a little, brown, old-fashioned woman. "What brought you herehe was asked. "Shun?, thin, 'twas all thru1 the guardian Michael O'Driscoll. 'Twaswan day for all the wurld the day av the big wind hesed, 'John,' sed he (me name is John McCarthy, you know), 'John, 6ed he, 'wudn't yez loik to go t' Ameriky and see your two sons?' I wud,' sed I, and wid that he put me name in a book and sint fur me wife Mary, a d here we are." "Where are your 8ons?, rf1 think they're in Hoiyoke." "'Are they able to support you?" "In faith I duano,,f The procession moved on. A woman, young in years, but lowly in appearance with an infant clutched to her bosom and a pair of bare-legged children at her heels came into sight. "Your name?" "Mary Ch'fford, please sur." "Where from?" "Oahirciveen." "What did yon do there?" "I was in the workhouse.Then followed "I was there off and on these six years. The children here's mine. They were wi-h me there. I'm not married. I had no reason to come hero at all Misther Gallivan he's the masther of the workhouse he tould me that I'd be better off here nor there and he got me a ticket and gev me it, ho did." "What do you intend to do here?" "Wisha, I dunno." Next comes a woman with a not uaoomeHy girl of fifteen at her shoulder and a ahild of iive toddling before them. "What is your name?" "Mary Brendan," and then the same old story. County Kerry. Just from Oahirciveen. Was in workhouse there. Daughter had been working out Child had been with her, Michael O'Driscoll and work-

all off to America, Intentions- none; means 2. Nano Sullivan followed with an infant m her arms. Unmarried. Gahircaveen workhouse. No intentiontions. No means., Then Mary Sullivan with a similar story.. . . WHAT THIS OOMMISSIORKRS INTEND TO DO.

. Then came a train of eleemosynary passengers, in families numbering from two to eight. Darby Shea and his wife and six children. A seventh had been born on the voyage, as had been another child, whose mother's nme was Mary Brady. The story of the poor law guardian O'Driscoll, or a similar functionary, where he imoiigraats were from aaother part of the conntry, was sure to be repeated iu nearly every instance. The commissioners were indignant CommissionersTaiutor and Starr had arrived, and with Commissioner Stephenson they conducted the examination. s ' In response to inquiries as to what they would do about it, Commissioner Stephenson said: "We have consulted, and it is proposed to call a meeting of the board to-morrow morning, to insist upon the steamship companies to take back these poor people where they belong. A good deal hau been said about this matter ot "assisted emigration." We have done

arrest -feaRo collet evidence t 6ii i t; but never before did we have such adequate proof afforded us. Why, they seem to have ransacked the very workhouses to send us their riffraff." . "Do aot the steamship companies carry pauperis here right along?" ' "I am sure they do. The trouble has been that the boarding officer, on making his inquiries into the condition of the emigrants, is satisfied with the reports of the pursers, who xriU tell him, as one of them did me this morning, that there is not a pauper in the steerage." "What is the intention of the commissioners in regard to this matter?" "OP course, to-morrow's meeting will determine that, but it is our intention at this juncture to take some definite action. I think that we shall demand that the steamship company take back these immigrations. If they refuse, and are sustained in their, refusal, I do not see that there is any actual commission of emigration." Why the Play Was Intfrrupted,

Boston Globe. " .

Some of the nice children on Commonwealth avenue.recently proposed to surprise their parents with a dramatic performance, with tne distinct understanding that to adult was to witness avrehee rsal or ask about the nature- of the play written by a young miss of ten years who tas to assume the role of heroine, assisted hy a lad of the same age. On the night of the performance the parents

of tho children assembled in the drawing

room of one of the large residences, and waited for the drawing aside of the portieres with commendable patience. 4 The first ecene re presented the wedding of the hero and heroine and the departure of the former for the wilds of the West, where he was to reap his fortune in raising cattle and minine. This went off finely,and the portieres were closed with a loud burst of applause. A lapse of ten years was supposed to have passed between the first and second acts, and when the " act commenced the yoiing husband had returned, and his wife, not looking a day older, greeted her spouse iu a formal manner, and even asked him to remain and dine with her, which he consented to do. While seated at the table eating ipe-oream the husbaud told now he had toiled for wealth and acquired millions, and all for the sake of the dear wife he had left behind. This had such an effect upon the matron that she finished the ice-cream, sighed to think there was no more on the table, and then addressed her husband, speaking earnestly and firmly: , "You have done wellj" said she, "but while you have been at work I have not been: idle. You shall see what I have accomplished." She touched a bell, and a white-capped

I bonne entered the room, leading a tod

dling infant a year old, and followed by nine others of various ages, one for each year of married Ufa The actors to this day do not understand why the play was interrnpted by shouts of laughter and applause from the fathers and mothers who were present. At any rate, they say the play was a success, but the parents think it a little Frenctly in composition and plot. : Hatching Shad Eggs. New York Times. The 50,000 shad eggs brought from the National Fish-hatching Station in Washington by Colonel McDonald, were placed in a glass jar in Pish Commissioner B lackford's office, in Pulton Market, Wednesday noon. A jet of proton water was allowed to percolate through the mas, and the process of incubation was watched with much interest by the fish-cultur-ists, who know how difficult it has always been to transport shad eggs any distance for the purpose of hatching. During the night signs of animated life began to be visible through the glass, and on the following noon a thick scum of empty eggshells was floating on the top of the water and thousands of young shad no longer than a pin point, each with its globular fc d bag many times its own size attached to it, were darting up and; down and jostling one another in the struggle for existence. They were, in fact, as lively as the fleas which their appearance and activity suggested. In four or five days it is expeoted they will be sufficiently developed to place in the water. They will probably be taken direct to the upper waters of the Hudson and there set at liberty. Packer, the Cannibal, to Escape. Alfred Packer, the Colorado cannibal, who in the winter of 1874 killed and ate the flesh of at least one man belonging to the pr cspecting party of whioh he himself was a member, who was convicted of murdering the wholo party and sentenced to be hanged on May 19, and for whom a stay of proceedings was obtained,i3 likely to escape the gallows altogether by means of a legal technicality. In repealing the statutes which were im force at the time Packer's crimes were committed, and in enacting a new code, the Legislature fail ed to provide for cases in which capital sentenco was likely to be imposed, and this, as it were, wiped out all legal knowledge of them. It is said that the best law yere in the State think that the severest punishment which can be inflicted on Packer ia a ten years' sentence under the: manslaughter clause of the old statute, which the Legislature failed to amend.

LIFE.

A baby in her mother's arms. .... .

A little girl with various cbarmsr A tender maiden, young and fair, A lover with his nut-brown hair, A women married with so much care: A mother with darling child, ' ' " " A widow with tender looks and mild; An old lady with a wrinkled brow, . , A dying bed and a dying tow: m A newly- dug grnve in frosted ground, " Sighing words with a murmering round "Such is life. ... . ' ,, ,.. V ,; Springfield EepuWican.

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CONDIMENTS. , The timeo' day: A Syraouseyoung lady has a speciar mode of reckoning time

on Sunday. Last Sunday evening, about 6 o'clock, when asked what time it was,' she replied: "Five minutes of Smith" A little girl nnconsoiously and touch-

ingly testified to the excessive drudgery

of her mother's life when, on being asked,

"Is mam'ma's hair gray: sasd, "I don't; know. She's too tall for me to see the top of

her head, and she never sits down." Magistrate (who has lately token to him self a wig, severely) v 'ITm, I think Ihave seen you here before, and on 8 similar ; charge." Dmng and disorderly female "No, your 'Onor; a'elp me, never! Thv last time I was up afore a bald 'eaded ol I cove, not a bit like ye." Sentence two . weeks Jnby, ..." ' Tlie first nHSlL JPMUp ogy, J v : (who has refused, afterpb5fe discus :

ion, to get ga udy raiment and ta&4il

wife to the Ierblune,a fanoy ball) mo- - -rosely : "I wish I had married a sensible women." BHa recently-acquired spouse (to whom the said ball is for the monent much more attractive than Heaven) vindictively: "She wouldn't have had you!" Two ladies were exchanging notes on the method in which they spent the day. r?on see, I always get up at 10, and rinr. for my maid and get dressed." "Howlong does it take? "Oh, ever so Ion?.

You see tne girl tanes a run nour to ao mv hair," "A fuU hour?" Mercy I Whit

do you do while she is fixing it??1 go out in the garden and take my morning walk.'' . ...r A Brooklyn lady caught a burglar in her room compelled him to marry her si ice this terrible punishment there has been a great falling off in the number ot robber-1' ies in Brookly n, it is proposed io cut down the police force one-halt There-are more ways than one to make burglary, odious. .. '.:"7'; .; . '.Vl" ;;;; V"Just given my boy Daniel a farm up near Middietown," he remarked to triend . whom he met on the Eras train the other day: Is that sotl "Well; you do the ' ' fair thing by your lxys." Is he ambitions No, and that's his only failing. And .as in-v

centive for him to buck in and make the

chips fly, I took a mortgage back on the; farm for two thirds its value. Daniel has " . got to get up and hump or I'll foreclose' MM rural i fa'iAf. mtm $t'f ft-: ?

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, A Wealthy Wedding,

5 Beatrice de Rothschild whose marriage ;': took place last week, is - nineteen years f-v"-; old, and one of the most beaut iful bra.; nettes in Paris, bearing a striking resem- . blance to her mother, who was tamed for her beauty. She is very fond of outdoor'' v sports, and has been said to spend one- -t half of her time riding or driving, and the other half 'talking torse." She is the seeond daughter of Baron Alphoso, head of . : ; the Paris house. Her husband, Maurice : Ephrussi, aged thirty.one of four wealthy . brothers, is a small, delicate and Tather 4 a plain-looking mavwith 81avonio. feat- v uree. He is noted for tris elegance dress, and in France is esteemed a fine - y horseman. His ooloramarine blue and, yellow are weH known on the race- . course. He recently won in person, with 7 his bay mare Xiogique,T the Gentlemen's Handicap at Cmantillyi Y The Ephrnssis i like the Rothschilds, 'are Hebrews, and- J

i;he father qt the four brothers amassed a

great fortune at Odessa in grain specula

turns. Then he founded a banking-house

in Paris; but when he died, a few years ;! ago, his sons closed up the business an4.fi f

set up as gentlemen of fashion. Michael

the eldest, wedded a niece of Mayerbeer, ,

the composer, and is one of the kings of the turf. Maurice is the second: Brnest -the third, is an art collector; ; and- Ignaoe, t the youngest, w a noted teneeft Tlieir two sisters are, married , to w:;;Eari-?. an Hebrews. " ' 1 v

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JHe Knew How to Travel, v , , , A lot of Boston tourists were recently traveling in a sleeping car; also a Nevada v traveler. In the morning, when jWft porter went around; to collect his assessvH, : ments on bcot-blaoking, there w agrea commotion among the Boston " tonristsi .? Some paid him a five" cent-nickel and : those who had no nickel were compelled1: t to yield up short bits; Ail the while the Nevada man, dressed in ortoary olothes sat reading his paper:' When the porter' ;

reached him he looked1 tip rnqmringly :

fflDid you black my .boots, sir?"'

"You did a splendid -Jcb; never had my y' boots blacked so well betejrepnfhisUne Here's three dollars' :.; , 4i

When the porter -pqewwrB umoney

the Boston people loosea up awanwaw, t .

John Maokey was aboard. In afew nxuxutes the Nevada man and the porter met

(hy chance) in lsmokuig room. ; . s zl r "When does my sleeping ticket runout? "Tour time wbs up, sab, atpenl b!il r - if you wants to ride to Reno, boss, it's 5.U 1 right sah. ;, . Vsf. 'J; 1 :" : The traveler gave the darkey a drink out of a black bottle,and the porter winfe? .

ed continuously for nine seoonds as he

drank the tveler's health; ; . ' ;I Six dollars saved. Economy i theToad ? to wealth. J' ' 2.4 - She Was TTiere. . . .

Mr. Topnoody-walked mto the kitchen the other night, when he came home, and ; at once angrily said to his wife: " - , v l My dear, dldyou U Mr. Brown that

the greater part of onr family awewv-

m a-t-it-i- A.haayL'

one oi uxnse ueoes wtuiw uunftuwiwwm v

MI certainly di, she rephed. -; "What did von do that lor? Ton ? s"r3

vnn vukA f V nnlv nna them from thisW i

regard for the truth, if ; you . havnt for me." ,,. .... :.... , - y fDon't tell me I he, Topnoojv,?. . "But, my dear, I A r "Shut up! I said the greater part of -this family was there, and i meant jost what I said. I was there, an if 1 ain't the greater part of this family then this

house is for sale and I am ready tofc down beneath tho wavinir daisies,"?; : ..vC

be went back into the sitting-room

began reading "Baxter's Saints? Rest

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: SmaU-pox has broken out at Bceedahv

Parke oounty. Two fjaUy ei

i are reported.