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oommgton Teieppijjfc BLOOMING TON, INDIANA. WALTER a BBADFUTE, .- PUBLISHER. THE NEWS. Intclligeac6 by Wire from All the Woria. rOREIQll. Minister Lowell has bees elected Retrfcir of St. Andrew's university, defeating f t, Gibson, member of PariifUMBt r Dublin university. Marquis Tsengr, the Chinese Ambassador to Paris, has informed the British Minister there that war between France sad China is Inevitable. By the collision of two steaancreon Lake Geneva twenty persons were drowned. r-William Wolfe, one of the teadiag Social ists of London, has been arrested. At his residence has been found two infernal ma chines of sufficient power to blow up any building, and a threatening letter to the Ger man Ambassador. The French, in Tonquin, have had another encounter with the Chinese Staek Flags, and routed them. Investigation shows that the alleged dynamiter, Wolff, arrested by the London po lice, was a professional informer, who had made arrangements with the police themselves to expose a pretended plot against Bismarck's representative at the Court of St. James. A Jealous suitor at Lanarkshire, Scotland, slew his sweetheart and another maiden who interposed for her protection, and then committed suicide. A grand military review was held at Madrid in honor of the German Crown Prince. The evacuation of Cairo by the British forces has been postponed. James ft Co., Manchester merchants, have failed for $550,000. During a collision on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, the steamer Rome went down with twenty persons. Fresh causes of misunderstanding between the French and English, growing out of Madagascar affairs, are reported. A French man-of-war, without giving- warning, bombarded Vohemar, an unfortified Madagascar town, killing among others five British subjects. It is expected that the False Prophet of Egypt will soon move upon Khartoum. His operations are ten times more dangerous than were those of Arab! Pasha. The commander of the British forces has been instructed to go no farther than Syrne. France is said to be intriguing to re establish the dual control in Egyptian affairs. The Khedive will not consent to abandon the Soudan, i and hints that ihf may be forced to ask the aid of other European Governments. PERSONAL. John McKeon, United Stages District Attorney for Southern New York, is dead. President Arthur has appointed Bobert Murray to be Surgeon General of the army. Sert. Mason, who was confined in the Albany penitentiary for trying to kill the assassin Guiteau, has received a pardon from President Arthur. Joseph H. Blackfan, Superintendent of Foreign Mails, dfed last week at Washington. Lawrence Weldoo, of Bloomington, 111., has been appointed Judge of the Court of Claims at Washington, to succeed J. C Bancroft Davis. The venerable colored woman, Sojourner Truth, best known of all her race, has been gathered to her fathers at the extraordinary age of 108, having been born a year before the Declaration or American Independence. She died at Battle Creek, Mich., where she has lived for a long time. Few women In this country 'have been better or longer known. f Juan Valera, the Spanish author, has been appointed Minister to Washington. ViziteQy, the London Graphic artist, sole survivor of Hick's Pasha's army, is a prisoner at El Obied. nUAUCIAL AND ISDUSTRTAL. Business embarrassments : Peter E. Newman & Co., boots and shoes. Grand Rapids, Mich., and South Bend, lad,; Moses Hcnlein ft Co., men's furnishing goods, New York, bilities $50,000; K- & C. Bldred. lumber. Chicago, liabilities $40,000; C. L. Epps ft Co., maltster, Chicago, liabilities 8120,000; George M. D. Little ft Co., canned goods, New York, liabilities 5100,000; Ephraim Berlorvitz, clothing, New York, liabilities $31,000; E. Dawson, stockman, Henrietta, Tex., liabilities 8287,000; Horatio .6. Billings, lumber,Chicago, liabilities, $100,000; Michel, Friedlander ft Co., furnishing goods, San Francisco, liabilities $400,000; the Mississippi Valley bank, Vicksburg, Mies., liabilities $600,000; Sharpies, Son ft Co., lumber, Quebec Canada, liabilities $700,000; E. W. Foster ft Co., farm machinery, Bedfleld, Dakota, liabilities $16,000; Shover ft Bailey, general store, Antigo, Wis., liabilities $15,000; Jefferson Caylor, agricultural implements, Indianapolis, lad., liabilities $18,000; S. Botbschild, jeweler, Memphis, Tenn., liabilities $15,000; J. a Farr, lumber, Hoboken, N. J., liabilities $100,000. What is claimed to be 'reliable authority" estimates the deficiency in the corn crop this year at 350,000,000 bushels. The failures throughout the country last week numbered 288, of which eighty occurred In the Western States. The employes of the cotton factory at JanesvUte, Wis.,, having been notified that wages wou'd be reduced 10 per cent, marched out in a body, to the number of 269. In Ontario, during October, the demand for money toSftwve crops was $2,500,009 less than last year. Again the week's clearing-bouse state nient is unfavorable, the total sum being under a billion dollars some forty millions. The stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio road held their fifty-seventh annual meeting: last week. The surplus fund of the company is $45, 783,490, and its net earnings" for the year were $8,795,853, an Increase of $1,251,161. . There is ft BepubHean political movement In Pennsylvania pledged to the nom iiiation of either- Arthur or Blaine for Presi SEHfiJ Gov. Crosby, of Montana, urges that Miyamou Mormons be debarred from

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earing Government lands aaVwell as imM I T ft 1 froth r-A company ofthe Third '$nitc4gtafc-.2 'infantry and the Marquette Cliasseuw were last week sent to Iron Mountain, ftEjfish., to prevent the destruction of property loy strik ing miners. Walter S. Haines, a Chicago ehomist, reports hlmsell unable to discover traces of (narcotic drugs in the liver of the murdered Zora Burns. A dispatch from Lincoln, 111 says; "Since Carpenter was released on bail 'expectation has been directed to the report of the Chicago chemist making an analysis of the internal organs of the late Zora Burns. The hope of discoveries from ithat quarter proved delusive. Had the re port been to the effect that narcotics were used, much of the suspicion would have been directed in another channel. But, as the case mow stands, public opinion here holds that Carpenter la under a still darker cloud. Since his release from jail he has sta!d thai: he ie as innocent as a babe, unborn, but his refusal to prove this by testimony or even a statement, creates sentiment against hiro." The centennial anniversary of the evue nation of New York by the Britsh was celebrated in a spirited manner in that city. Business was almost entirely susponded, and the metroprll8 was crowded with visitors. Artillery and steam-whistles made a fearful din at sunrise. President Arthur mid twelve Governors headed the procession, which required over two hours to pas3 the City haH. Several hundred steamboat;, forming in divisions, made the circuit of Now York nd Brooklyn. A statue of George Washington, standing oa the spot where ho was sworn to as first President was unveiled in the afternoon, George William Curtis delivering: the oration.... The Chamber of Commerce gave a banquet in the evening at Delmonico's, President Arthur and olher notable gentlemen beimnfruests. The commission appointed by the State department to investigate the causes of trichinae has closed its labors at Chicago and other Western polntst It will report in favor of creating a special board to study the matter at great -length, for which a liberal appropriation will be required. The action of -the French and German Governments is not believed to have been warranted by the facts obtainable. FIRES AUD CASUALTIES, The New England railroads killed dnrlug the past year 221 persons and injured 535. Sixteen of the killed and fifty-two of the Injured were passengers. The floods in Southern Illinois and Cen tral and Southern Indiana were notable. Great tracts of country were inundated, fences and other farm property were destroyed or seriously damaged, numerous coal mines were flooded, many miles of railway track.and numberless bridges were swept away, and a good deal of live stock drowned. The rainfall was unprecedented, amounting to from four to six inches, in thirty-six hours. The loss will amount to hundreds of thousand: of dollars. A cyclone nearly destroyed the village of La Crosse, Ark. Only six houses are left. Three persom were killed and several were seriously injured. Burned: A woolen and cotton mill at New Albany, Ind., loss 140,000; the coS'etf and spice works of 1L B. Stickney, Boston, loss $40,000; a hotel and general stores at Pineville, Ore., loss $50,000; the flouring mills of Wm. Killifer, Bloomingdale, Mich., loss $20,000; Lindinan ft Co.'s flour and feed store, Milwaukee, loss $30,000; Klinn's collar shop, Troy, N. Y,r loss $55,000. William Frey, accompanied by his wife and son, attempted to drive across a railway track in front of an express train, at Philadelphia. All three were killed. At Northfield, Vt., William Mcintosh, his wife and Miss Mary House met death in a manner precisely similar. The damage to buildings, bridges and property m Kondolph county, Mo., by the recent rainstorm will reach $100,000. At New York one man was killed, two fatally injured, and others seriously wounded by the fall of a lumber pile. A. J. Leon, a member of the Texas Legislature, died at Hidalgo, in that State, from the effe.'ts of a fly-bite In the face. At Macon, Mich., Henry Packlington and Isaac Ballou were killed in a well the former being overcome by gas, and the latter falling to the bottom as he was bringing up the corpse. Fred Jenkler, the oldest Jeweler in Dubnque, with bis two sons, Emil and Frederick, and Diek Havtig, a priat3r, were drowned In the Mississippi river, a few miles below Dubuque. They were out duck-shooting and a storm came up, which upset their boat. The Canadian steamer Eclipse, plying between Algona and Port Sarina, was caught in a gale off Pine Tree Harbor, and went to the bottom, only one of the crew of eighteen escaping. The State Normal university at Carbondale, HL, has been destroyed by fire. The building was one of the finest structures of its kind in the State. OBIMES ASP 0BDHHAL8: Phoebe Jane Pauline was assaulted and then murdered about 100 yards from her mother's cottage, near Orange, N. J. Hillman King snd his wife, an agjd couple, were murdered In their beds at night, and the house robbed of $2,000 in money. Lorenzo Woods, son of Judge Woods, of Dixon, 111., cut his throat at Albuquerque, N. M. Investigations in the neighborhood of Wichita, Kan., have led to the discovery of over 200 fraudulent entries on public lands. At New Castle, Del., last week, five criminals were whipped and one was also pilloried for an hour. Louis Houston (colored), was hanged by a mob at Birmingham, Ala., for assaulting a highly-respectable white lady. At Eaton, Ind., Ral Se itt stabbed to death his wlfo and child and then killed himself with morphine. Scott deserted his wife some time ago, and her refusal to live with him on his return caused the tragedy. -4n a street corner in South Chicago, iil., John L Smith fatally wounded his wife with revolver and then took his own life. The woman had of late refused to live with him. At Pittsburgh Andrew Milbert, aged 11, killed Frank Reed, aged 10, by stabbing him to the heart. There was a bloody fight between rival claimants for the possession of a gas well near Pittsburgh,- la the course of which twenty rifle shots were fired, one man killed and several others seriously wounded. Burglars at Atlanta, Ga., etole $4,000 from James A skew's saloon. Ex-Senator Spencer was arraigned in the Criminal court at Washington, to answer for

contempt in failingo appear as a witness in the st-routo eases. He wflis released on j&onds Of $2,6J0. t ..: . Mrs. Long, oh trial at Ripon, Wis., for the murder of Harry Whitemore, called the Judge and attorneys to her coll and confessed that she killed the lad in her cellar, concealed the corpse in her well, and in the night carried it to the river bank, An unknown youth entered a Parsons (Kan.) hardware store, asked to see a revol ver, placed a cartridge in one of the chambers, and shot himself dead. He was about 18 years old, and said he came from Illinois.

THE HOMING " FACULTY. I must say that I much doubt whether the faculty which enables dogs and other animals to find their way home is rightly called intelligence, although intelligence, no doubt, frequently has some share in the result. Human beings are much more intelligent than dogs, and yet how few of them, if placed unexpectedly in the same circumstances as poor "Jacob" that is, carried off in the-dark along streets and roads altogether unknown to them to a place miles away, where they had never been before, and to the position and bearings of which they had not the very slightest clew, how few of them, I say, would within a reasonable time find their way back again, at least if they trusted to their intelligence alone, and did not ask questions or consult maps. Cats, on the other hand, are rightly regarded as less intelligent than dogs, and yet they enjoy the reputation of being more skillful in finding their home again. A calf, too, is commonly supposed to be a ty pe rather of stupidity " than intelligence, and yet I know of one instance which seems to show that this "homing" faculty is, or may be, at least as strong in a calf as in the most intelligent of dogs. Some fifteen years ago I was staying at a friend's house in Linton, a small market town about ten miles from Cambridge. On the morning- after my arrival I perceived that something unusual was going on outside the house, and on making inquiry I was told that a calf 6 weeks old which had belonged to my friend, but had been sold the previous afternoon and carried away in a cart to a farm-house some five miles distant, had come back home to its mother. Now, had the calf come back along the road by which the cart had conveyed it to its new home, much surprise would, no doubt, have been felt at such a signal instance of sagacity in so young an animal; still, there would not have been anything particularly ex traordinary in the matter. But the calf had not followed the road, which was circuitous in consequence of. the hilly character of the country. A boy had seen it start off from the farm, and had followed it the whole of the way, vainly attempting to catch it, and so the route it had taken was known. It had gone at a quick pace in the most direct line possible from its new home to its old one, and in so doing it had climbed a hill and passed through a wood wh ch crowned the summit of that hill. Here, surely, the faculty which guided the calf was not intelligence alone. Cor. London Times. A MAINE MANUFACTURING TOWX. It is now thirty-Beven years since first a cotton spindle was set going in Lewiston, Me. The number of spindles has been growing from-It), 000 in 1843 to 300,000 in 1883, and from 150 employes to an army of 10,000, to whom $3,000,000 in wages is annually paid. The production of goods in Lewiston the past year has been more than 61,000,000 yards, consuming nearly 30,000,000 pounds of cotton. The production of Lewiston is carried forward about 10 per cent, per year on an average. THE MARKET. NEW YORK. Beeves f 4.65 Hoos 4.25 FiouBnperflne. 2.90 Wheat No. l White 1.09 No. 2 Bed 1.11 COBN No. 2 60 Oats No. 2 83 Pork Mess 12.28 Lard 08 CHICAGO. Beeves -Good to Fancy Steers. . 6.10 Common to Fair 4.40 Medium to Fair 6.45 Hogs 4.15 FiiOUE Fancy White Winter Ex 6.25 Good to Choice Sm 'K Ex 4.75 6.50 4.65 3.50 & 1.095$ 1.1154 .60 .34 13.00 7.00 5.40 & 6.00 (& 5.2S 5.50 & 5.00 .90?$ Wheat No. 2 Sprins 96 No. 2 Bed Winter 98 98H .50 K .89 .53 .62 .40 .2C Corn No. 2 50 Oats No. 2 29 Bye No. 2 57 Barley No. 2 61 Butter Choice Creamery 87 Eggs Fresh 25 Pork Mess 11.90 12.00 Lahd , ,07)6 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 95 Corn No. 2 4956 Oats No. 2 29 yi 0754 .mil .4976 .29$ .56 Kye No. 2 55 Barley No. 2. 59 59J4 PORK Mess 11.50 511.73 Lard .075$ .0756 ST. LOUia Wheat No. 2 Bed Corn Mixed Oats No. 2 Rye Pork Mess ., Larp , ., CINCINNATI. 1.01 & 1.02 .4i& .45 .28 .2854 .53 .53M 12.00 (812.50 .07J$3 ,07f$ Wheat No. 2 Bed 1.04 & 1.04J6 Corn...,. 60 & .51 Oats 30)6 .31 RYE jk .58 & .59 JrOBK MeSB 11.50 Labd...-. 07 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 1.03 Corn 62 Oats No. 2 81 DETROIT. FLOUR 4,00 Wheat No. l White. t03 Corn No. 9 53 Oats Mixed. .32 FOBK Mess 12.25 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red 1.01 Oobh No. 2. 50 Oats Mixed 28 11.75 & .07) 1.05 & .63 & .31S4 & 6.T5 & 1.03 &i .G3& & ,3214 12.60 & 1.0m .61 (0 .29 ifi AMI LIBERTY. PA Cattle Best 6.60 & 6.60 Fair. 4.50 6.50 Common 4.00 & 4.70 Hogs 4.20 6.00 Sheep 3.50 & 40

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I "H&lo, JbelH heflbr . jellQi the grocery man to the bad boy, ns lie peeked through the window from the outside to see if any customers were in, "Come in and let me look at thrso bruises you are carrying. Great heavens! how did you get that italic stylo on your nose, and did the same blow blacken both eyes?" and the grocery man laughed at the broke-up condition of the boy. "Oh, you laugh if you want to, but when you get walked all over by an in fidel, and have some teeth knocked down your throat, you won't laugh so much," and the boy pouted as much as he could with his mouth swelled, and looked at the grocer as though he would like to tip the stove over. "What about an infidel? You haven't been fighting with a heathen, have you? Tell me all about it, because you are on vour last legs, and confession is good for the soul. Beveal to me the cause of that leaning tower of Pisa nose and that hie jacet colored eye, and the grocery man winked at a car penter who came in to fill his tobacco box. "Well, you see one of the boys be longing to our gang of widow-helpers, his pa is an infidel, and he don't believe anything, but he can saw more wood for widows than any of the boys. He is a good fellow, only he does not go to Sunday-school, and don't believe there is any God or devil or anything. He has made us boys tired more than six times, when we have been sawing wood, talking about things that we believed in that he didn't. He said the idea that a whale swallowed Jonah was all bosh, and Elijah going up in a chariot of fire was poppycolic, and everything was wrong. I went to a Deacon of our church, a regular old hard-shell, and told him about the boy, and asked him what ought to be done about it, and he was mad at the infidel boy, and said he ought to be scourged, and we should smite him and beat him with many stripes. J at ked the Deacon if it would be right for us good boys to pile on to the infidel boy, and make him believe things if we had to choke them down him, and he said it would be doing a service to humanity, and would win for us everlasting fame and glory. Well, here's yonr fame. Gaze on my lefthanded nose and you can see the fame. I tell you I don't take no more jobs converting infidels. I want to do everything that is right, but hereafter, if an infidel meets me on the sidewalk, I shall go across the street and let him have the whole street. You see, we got the infidel boy up in the hay mow of the barn, and, while the boys were talking to him I slipped a clothes line around his legs and tied them, and then tied his arms, and we had him so tight he couldn't wiggle. He tried to get away, but he couldn't, and then I commenced on him about Adam and Eve eating the apples. At first he wouldn't believe anything, but I choked him until he admitted that the devil got them into a scrape. Then I asked him if he believed that the Lord cut a spare rib out of Adam and took a lot of dust and puttied it up and made Eve, and set her up in the sun to dry. The darned infidel kicked on that and said he never would believe it, but I sat down on his stomach and tickled hia nose with a straw, and finally he caved, and said he believed it, but he was mad, and tried to chew the clothes line around his arms to get away, but we held him tight. Then I tackled him jpn the children of Israel walking through the sea without getting their feet wit or catching cold, and he said that was a blasted lie. I gave him two mi uites to believe that, and when the time had expired he said he couldn't swallow it, so I took hold of his ears and tried to pin them together at the back of his headwind finally he weakened and said the story did begin to look reasonable, and he believed it. We were getting along splendidly, and I thought Avhat a triumph it would be to bring that boy into Sunday-school a firm believer, a brand plucked from . the burning. We took a recess, and played mumbiety peg. all except the infidel, for ten minutes, and then I tackled him on Joshua commanding the sun to stand still, and ho said that was all nonsense, that it couldn't be done, and I began to run timothy hay and tickle grass up his trousers' legs, and finally he weakened and admitted that Josh was all right on the sun seheme. He kicked on Solomon having a thousand wives and said he never would believe a man could be such a blasted fool, but I took a hay rake and parted his hair in the middle, and filled the inside of his undersbirt with oats, and when they began to hurt him he said the Solomon stqry was true, and he even went so far as to believe Solomon had 1,200 wives, so I got him to believe 200 more than there was, which is pretty well for an infidel. He wouldn't take any stock in Jonah and the whale, until we buried him up in the hay and made him believe we were going to set the hay on fire, when he said he believed that whales were used in those days to carry passengers, and were fitted up with utate room

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oil the Hebrew children,..: being easj into the fiery fujrnaof, and nofebeuff scorched at all, but he said hs woul believe anything but that, so I put on my roller skates and began to walk on him, and skate, and fall down on him, and he begged, and said, come to think of it, that fiery furnace story looked the most reasonable of the whole lot. Then I thought he was getting to be con verted enough for one day, and I untied the rope and let him loose. You, wouldn't believe a boy could be so base, but as soon as he was loose all the good work 1 had done on him seemed to be lost, and he became an infidel again in less than a minute, and scared the other boys down stairs wish a pitchfork, and comered me, and knocked me down, and walked on me, and pounded me, and before he got through with me he made me swear that I didn't believe anything in the Bible. He was just as mean as he could be, and I don't dare be good unless I go off somewhere alone. I showed my nose to the Dea con, and told him the infidel mauled me, and the Deacon said I was no good Say, what would you do if you was in my place?" - "I would go and soak my head," said the grocery man. "You have got to learn one thing, and that is, mind your own business about your religious views. The infidel boy is an much entitled to his belief as you are, and the days of choking youiviews down people who do not believe as yon do are passed, After you get mauled a few times more you will be pi-etty smart. You attend to doing good, wherever you see chance, Jbut don't try to stem the tide of infidelity by brute force, and you will be happier. w "All right, that lets me out," said the boy, as he looked in a mirror to see how black his eyes were, and tried to push his nose back square in front. "Here after people can believe as they please, but I wfjB. get even with that Deacon or my name is not Hennery. I bet you he knew that infidel boy was too much for me. Don't it seem strange to you that an infidel boy should be endowed with muscle enough to knock a Christian boy silly. I can't account for it. I should think the good boy ought to have the most muscle," and the boy went off thinking how to get even with the Deacon. Pecfc's Sun. TUX! MODEST YOUNG MAN, A modest young man of our acquaint ance called upon a young married friend. The friend was not in, and his wife undertook to entertain the visitor until his return. She spoke to him about the weather, the Catskills, the pleasant surroundings of the neighborhood, and everything else she could think of, while the young man sat upon the tete-a-tete, and an swered in monosyllables. He grew redder and redder as each new topic was introduced, and hitched and twirled his hat in his hand as if he wished he had sat out on the curbstone until his friend had returned. After the young wife had exhausted herself in her efforts to entertain-the visitor, and, as he did not appear to en deavor to suggest a fresh one, necessar ily conversation lagged. He again began to wriggle about the tete-a-tete as if he had worms, and then she produced the album and pointed out notables. He looked as if he would take fire, then she hunted through her brain to find another interesting subject. Finally it became evident that he was about to say something. She lookexl pleased. He gasped, and he blurted out : "How's your mother ? " Her mother had leen dead for five 141 years, ana as cue tears weiiea up into her eyes she faltered : "Mamma has been in Greenwood a good many years." "Oh, gone to take some flowers there!" "No; she's dead." He grabbed his hat, and, when he got down from the stoop and ran against, the fence, begged its pardon, and wout away without sayiag "Good-night!" New York Dinpatch. A VONVICT'S AXSWKR TO A JUDGE. When the notorious James Kobinson, or "Jack Sheppard," as he is known to the detectives, was sentenced to three years in the Eastern penitentiary, he was advised to try to lead a better life, which la' entirely with himself, "yes," answered he, "I worked three years in your State prison, and I know as much about shoemaking as I do about watches. They taught me in your prison to be dishonest. My principal work was to paste leather and paste board together to make a thick sole to impose upon the public. The man having the contract was a Christian, a member of the church, and at the time I called his attention to the pasteboard business ho vraa foreman of the Grand Jury. They send mo to tho State prison to make me honest, and that is the way they do it." Philadel phia Times. Georgia is introducing a now system of free bridges.

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Chinea The following account of the state of things in the prisons at Canton has been written by one who seems to havo known by experience something of the hardships and - cruelties to which" pris -oners are exposed. It is printed and circulated gratuitously in the streets of Canton, and it is entifclod "Am Account: of the Extortions and Cruelties Practiced in the Namhol Great Prison, tho Common Prison, die Front .and. Back. Lock-TJps, by the Keepers, and iij, the Police Cells by the Policemen." It is. perfectly right, it says, to have th keepers to restrain the vicious and violent among tho prisoners, but whowould suppose that they would league? themselves with these characters to extort and oppress? All the evils of the prison arise from this source. Deprivation of Money, etc. By this, means the keepers fatten on the spoilsj of the prisoners. As soon as a man enters the prison he is searched and stripped of his money and clo tiling; thus he has no means to provide himself with comforts to keep off the cold. This is practiced in both prisons and police cells. Bribes for Admission When he is in the prison he is compelled to write to his friends begging diem to fee the keepers and to visit him, and there aro certain days appointed for their coming; they are also requested to bring money for his maintenance. If either of these things is neglected, the prison-keepers give money to the old prisoners, who make fast one end of a rope to his manacles, and the other to an iron hook in the beam above; he is suddenly hoisted, into mid-air, and violently jerked upand down, or swung backward and forward ; the pain is most excruciating. If he cries out with pain they fill his mouth and throat with ashes from the furnace so that his cries are nearly drowned and he is almost suffocatedThis is known as burning paper. In the large prison it is done seventy-two times in succession; in the common prison thirty-six times. When once in the hand of these torturers there is no beggiug off, whether you survive or not; even if you sell yourwife and pawn your children to give tothem, all is of bo avail. The annual ratio of deaths in prison is four out. of every ten from starvation and cold, . and two out of every ten from being: suspended and beaten. Therefore, the prison-keepers always say that life and. death are entirely in their hands.. Hence the saying: Yon must press bran to get oil from it. Ton most torture prisoners to get money from - them. Food Those who aye hung up and beaten are subject to another pain for grinding money from them. Sand and annulled paddy are mixed with theirinorning .nd evening rice, or it is made' so watery or so hot that they cannot swallow it. Segregation The prisoners are madeto sit in a dirty place and are not permitted to speak a word to their fellowprisoners, nor are they allowed to take a single step in the open courts. Those who have received help from their friends are not permitted to give any of their food they leave over to their feb low-prisoners. If any one breaks these regulations he is cuffed about and cursed. This is practiced in the prisons and lock-ups. Gambling Gambling tables are open day and night. Two-thirds -of the profits go to the prison-keepers and onethird to the old prisoners and the bribepayers. The wardens lend money to those who wish it, and charge them 20 and 30 per cent, a month. If any of tho interest is owing it is kept back from the food and allowances. Unless set tlement is made at the end of the ga-ne, the men are hung up and beaten twice a day and put hi irons. Starving from hunger, and thin as roasted storks, they pick up fish-bones and melon seeds from the garbage heaps to eat. China Herald. MCII MEN OF GOTHAM. The only millionaires in New York city thirty-seven years ago were the following: John Jacob Astor, $25,000,000; Wiliiam B. Astor, $5,000,000; Henry Brevoort, Jr., $1,000,000; Jonathan Hunt, $1,500,000; James Lenox, $3,000,000; Peter Loriilard, $1,60Q,000; Isaac Packer, $1,000,000; estate of H. Pierpont, $1,000,000; estate of Peter Sohermerhorn, $1,250,000; Peter G. Stuveysant, $1,500,000; estate of L. Salles", $1,200,000; Stephen Whitney, $3,500,000; estate of Stepken Vau Rensselaer, $10,000,000; James Boorman, $1,000,000; Isaac Bronson's estate. $1,500,000, and Peter Harmony, $lt5d0,000. At that time Cornelius Vaadcrbilt was put down as worth $750,000; Harper & Brothers, $500,000, and A. T. ' Stewart $500,000. The detractor may, ftnd often does, pull down others, but he never, as he seems to suppose, elevates himself to their position. The most he can do is maliciously to tear from them tho blessings which he cannot oujoy him self .Johnm n. Washington Teiuutouv is out of debt and developing rapidly.