Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 25, 1877, Page 8

8 THE CITY. GENERATL NEWS., The Womkn's Gospel Temperance Asociation will bold & memorial service, in momory of tho Rev. J. H, Leonard, at the Marinet's Temple, cors nerof Market and Michigan stroets, thisevening “at8o'clock. Al are invited. ; John Allen, the gentlemanly mansger of the Adelphi Theatze, 1ast night fell through a hole In the sidewalk near the theatre, while talking to Mr. Haverly, and was quita serfonsly injured. 1le was taken tohls home on Montos stroot, and at- tended by Dr. Clarke. N Alice Honaton, 28 o of age, an inmate of a honso of {1l-fame at No. 120 Fourth avenne, kept by Mionie Brooks, committed suiclic yeeterda: By taking 2 large doee of landanom, which she had rocurced the uighit bofore. Dr. Afken was called Fn to attend hor, Lut too latato be of any service. The Inqueat will be held lo-day, Coroncr Deilzech yesterday held inquests npon tha threo )ittie boya 'who were drowned Saturday moon ina slip onthe North Branch, and found & verdict of accidental drowning. An inguest was aleo beld upon FKritz Marteno, at No. o Thirty. eighth streot, and a verdict of suicldo by banging was retamed. The funeral rervices of George Bedgwick took placo at 3 o'clock yesterday at his late residence, No. 50 Twenty-foarth eireet. The cofiin was decorated with & number of choico floral offerings sent by friends, 'The pail-Uearers were \irt Dex- ter, A, H. Burley (of tiurley & Tyrell), e, Buck (of Buck & Hayner), M. Uryant,” 8. M, ailiara, snd Walter Mcintyre. Tho body was sent to Stock- ridge, Mass,, for burial, by the Michigsn Central Railroad, atb:15 p, m, RRLIEE YOR 8T. JOINX. A called meeting of tho membera of the Order of EKnights of I'ythias resldent in Chicago was held last _evening in the hail, morihwest corner of LaSslle and Adamns strects, {o tak ‘measures to organize relief for tho sufer- ing Knights of Jobn, N, B. It wns explamed by ome of the ofilcers ‘present that there were only two Lodges of the Urder (New Drusewick No.'1, snd Union No. 2) In St. John, and that it was hardly neceasary (0 organize s lo- lief Committce or any similar organization in this city. The ueclsion of the mecting, reached after Boine discussion, was that it was ucst (o relcgnte the whole matter to the Lodges, each to culiect what it chore and s¢nd Lhe samo to Deputy Su- preme Chancellor, 4. R. Arinstrong, st St. John, POR THE INDIAK COUNTHY. Gen. Bheridan, accompanled by Gen. George A, Forsyth, Gen, Delos B, Ssckeit.” Gen. James W, Foreyth and Capt. Carpenter of the Ninth Iufantry, leave to-day for n trip to the Custer battle- fleld snd ibe Indian country. The Uen- eral and arly g0 by way of the Union E'acific lailroad W Grecn River, Wyoming, and thenc on horecbuck through the Hocky Moun- talus, ‘Two cowpanica of cavalry will act as escort to he party. Atthe northern base of the Big lorn Mountalns a number of In- dian scouts und <scveral companies of cavalry will bo added to (uo gmrl]. The transporiation of provisions will be by mufes. 1t s expected that the party will bo pone abont sixmoaths, Gen. Sheridan has nover been through tho sectlon he proposes traversing. and he gocs 1o gain o knowledge of It4 topograpny. ete, Uen, Blermon wiil arrive in this city July 5, and he, tov, mny accompany the party, HOTEL AUKIVALS, Grand Pacio~Cal, J B, A, R Tainnd: f1. 1, Langdon? St L. Patrick, i rtune,’ Ulovelands k. “Tiabcock, New Gladwin, Pluladelpnias J. W, Hownirve, it House= n oits G 8, Grant, 1 h New orky z Wright, Inle + N. Macowb, U, 10ily bUFDRR} iy 11 Ban Francl Shermar. Hniv—W. 8, Dreekinnidge, Ninn.g W, K. sawyor, Disbuaues G, Fo Gase, W. 5. Hplers, Peoytas J, D, Brown and 11, t. Louis: A. 1L Jackeon, " Pillaueiphiar i ittic and i, E, Day, New Turki J, Luester, tan Fran. ciaco.. . uimer iouse—N, W Hatvey, - Ciovelands -Hamuei” Grocker agd A, T. Piinpeou, New Yorki ChariesJ. Field aua . D, Daogart,” Phtlsdelphiag the Tion. K.'il, Amea Mtancapolls; F. It. Lilcoand 1. G i 4 the Huit. 9, 16 Purecll, Ogdenauirg; erro liaute; ihe jlon. Jauics A, Siaduel), . bpencer, Detrolts Lol G, T, Slears, L.’ Sautord, ustoui C, I Pendleton, s iliey, Umaling Henry Ao ;. i, bt Lousvii ‘Nasnviiies . A, Viufiner, 't T, 1. Gentry, ver, New Yorki t, Eigingd. W, Hurtley, Boston, A Gommicrcini=F . K. St Luuia; W H, W Unlesburgs M. A L'y ALMOST A MURDER, SAVAUELY BEATEN OVER THE UEAD. Anothcr murder came very near belng ndled yes- terday to the alrcady long list. At about 7:30 Inst evenlng a ruManly, rowdylsh driver on the ‘bus Uno of A, & I Ragor, nawed John Metzger, mearly killed Edward Schoeppe, cashler for the frm, ‘by striking bim. over the lefe temple with a hickory etrotcher, or soreader, as it I8 sometimes called, Mctrgor fs n sun of the notarious ** Mother™ Metzger, keeperof 8 housa of 1li-reputo on West Washinglon street, 1118 brother'a wife s the same sort uf A woumun, and henee Jobn cannot be coneldered in any other light than a scion of o must rotten and corrnpt fanilly. And he does notbello hils reputation. le haagenerollf cked outan exletence by stealing when ho could not llve oit bis relutives, or tud ¢ w3ob with kowe side-show to a clreus, Some tve * wecks 620 ho applicd for a job at Hagor's bam, and upon putting up $156 sccurity, or.the **uank," aa It is called, wus given tempuriry employment. Bince then ho hus twics reslpned) ‘worked soveral daya iu the rtable, spenthis *+ bauk, " cud Lias then hnmbly begged to be allowedto work up & **bank" ogaln and secure tetuporary employm. Saturday night be was sscharged, riot, ns be maspected, bos causv he bad broken o whilctroo during tho day, but becausu the spotter for the lino had caught hin knocking down o mauch. Yesterdsy evenng ho presented himself at the ofiic bu o drunken cone dition, - oud inun insuitlug 'y manner de- manded what was due him. Mr. Schoeppe told him plalnly thas Bunday Wi no pay- doy, suod that he could ©not have - hils monoy anyway until ho sovered off. Uno word brought on another, uutl Mctzger became 8o vio- . Jent that be rushed upon Echoeppe with the etrctcher, while the Jutter waw eliting in the front door, Schuepps saw hlm coming, dodged the blow, aud ran into the odice, Metzger followings. Jero' Do plcked up an ron stuve Wreucuer to defend himsef, but befure he could [ 1 lils antagoulst had knocked him senscicas with fteeritic plow from the steetcher, Metzger threatened scveral of the oemployes who wero abous to interfere, and then followed Behueppe's staggering forra to tho sido- walk, Hchoeppe fell fn the gutier, and Melzger, pocing that hie bad budly injuted him, ran through the barn loto the allvy, and thence between sumo houses futo Bunker streel, and bid anuy under ono of thew, Ufticers Cook, Larey, McCann, and Cofraun were carly upon the scene, and etarted in putsuit, Coduun driug (wo slots as he ran, with the jutention of ialting thy refugvee, Aftor quite s little chase, ilicer Couk went boldly under the houee in which ho bad disappeared, and soon beought him out (o dayight, sud thency to thy statlon, Ur lodge, who aticnacd the In{ul‘ud Loy, sayw the wounu I8 very dangeraus, and will probavly prove fatal, "I'be ‘contusion i about four tuchice n lenpth and ouoand & half nches wide, but whielliér or not the akull or brain jurcd cannot Lo told uniil tho swelling suo- ond upun tuvse points depends the Jomu{ 1o, Bletzger isabout 4 ycars old, but lwes that nge In crime, Uls victim js uot ¢t 20, and 1s the son of o respecied Germa ccping w grocery on the coruer of Fourteen strect snd lhuu lsland avenuc, ANOTIER BHOOTING, At sbout 8 o'clock last vvenluy, Maurlco Morrls, & junk-dealer at No. 18 Dlue Inlund wvenus, had 4 arunken fulit wilh somu unkuown person i front uf No, 35 Micligan avenue, 'Uho unknown dealt Lim » stunmug olow botween the eyes, and then either ran or dudged out uf sight, Morrls fullowed lu pumsult, and, when u front of No, $16on the sama stecet, he fred one shotatu man walking peaccably alung the wircet with bis family, and whooy in tils drunken- uers be touk 1o be Lis antagoulst, Tho may drop. pedat drel fre, und then Morrts discovered bia er. fue. 1o waa sfterwards turtied over by sonie citl. zeus 1o LBicer Lilood, of the Awerican District Tel- cyraph, ond by hiw Was locked up in the Anory, “Tna wounded man, ‘Chouias Fugan, of No. 611 Lnion wireet, was attended by Or, Androws, who 43 ud yet unubly to etale the extent of My itjurice, The IAulIJnnml through the shoulder Llude, and could not be found, and sppearaudes indicata that it 18 a wost severe wound. Bloree freely unce Auowledges Lho shouting, and when arrostcd the weapoo, with one barrel cmpty, wasfosud in In’t posscrafon, ST. JOHN'S DAY, TS CELEBEATION YESTEKDAY LY TUB Cul- CAUO CON3ISTONY, Yeaterduy was tho suniversary of Bt. Jobn tho Baptist, a day ballowed by the Freemasuns, whose patron saint be la suppuscd to Le, ‘The architcets 1 anclent days called Iim thelr espectal patron gaint, The Cuthollcs, lest thero might be o mis- take about the date of his Lirth, honor bim s peclally on Juue £4 and Auguat 20, for whick these days have been sct apars by the Charch, 5t John way tho forerunner of the Lord Jesus Chrlat, 'sna ras o cousin to the Virgin Mury, he belog the sun of the Pricat Zuchariue uud Elizabett, Ho wag born flve years Lofore Christ, ot elther Jutta or Hovrun, aud wits beheaded soue Ume sbout A, L. 28, Hie birth and otice were forctold by the Angel Gabriel to Lis [ather, aa Lo was burning fncenue in the Tetnpls of Jerusdlomn, Jubn waa bt Leaded utthe instance of Herodlas, because ho censured the narrtage of Derod AuUpus with bis wister-in-law, licrodlas. Thero fovery littl in bistory which gives suy rcason why Et. John the Baptiat eliould bave become the copecial baint of Masoury. ‘“Lhicro u nuthing to show that he ever was a Maon or ever bad snythingto do with thy order fu Lhoro dayw, Suil” hu was on fummacu- Lute, good mian, snd It ls mory thau probuble that for,| that reason bis name bay been revered and passed dowun as tit for hunor. In the Eet thy day baw beon mads thoe occazslon usually of grand Masonlc celubratio and Masous overywhero gencrully make 5. Jubn's Day a day of joy. Itis ulng years 8go alace the day fcll on Sunday, snd thercfore & asonio dlaplay yeaterday was out of the question. However, tho Conslatory sppropriately colebrated in their Hall, fn the American Express Bullding, Mouroe strect near Deasboru. It'ts & day of ou- Ugstion particalasly sppertaluiog to the Scottialh sud tho ce te, cemonies, — thoogh of o very impresslve chiracter, aze atrlctly private totho outalde world. Amvung those who participated 1o tho ceromunlen yesterdsy were 'S " Dnrne{ ( &. Walter A, Btovens (33), Dr. J, Adama Aflen ($1). Dz, 15 N, Huribart (13), G. W, Barnard ¢3), John_Shevillo (13), JJohn '0'Nefli {.’!fil) T, G. P, Mt NormanT. Gaseette (2), 1, 1. fond (31, F. Goodalo (712), ‘Amos Pettibono (321, {ieorgo R, McClelland (32). P, F. DeLuce (32), E B. Meyee (1), Thero was e0ma very finu";nmlc appropriate to the accaalon, led by C. C. Thillips, and an excel- lent qoariette, It French presiding stine or- in. John Sheville, of New Jersey, delivered a cctare on ** Freemasonry In tho Otfent.” After the ceremonies o Innch wes served. —_— 8T, STANISLAUS. ATRANGEMENTS FOR A CORNRR-ATONE LATING. A mesting ofjdelegatesof several Catholle Socte- tles waa held yosterday afternoon at 4 o'clock In 8t. Btanielans Catholle Charch, corner of Noble #nd Bradley streets, to make arrancements for the Iaylg of the corner-stano of the now church cdl- fice which 18 now fn conrec of erccticnat the corner of Noble and Ingraham streets, 'The Itev, Father DBarzynaki, priest of the parish, presided, Al o meeting held a weck ago Peter Klolbassa was chosen Chicf Marshal, nud the socleties which are Lo participato were claseed In three divisions, The firxt will be composed of Catholics nnder the Teadership of the President of 8b Vincent of Paul's Soclety; the second of Irish Catholica under J. P. Ivery, and the third of Bohemians and 'oles under (he leader of the Wenceslaus sm:m{l. The three Division-Commanders ara to select thelr own aids. Yesterday's meeting decided thut the place of rendezvous for the Lonemian and Pollah Socletles shonld be at the corner of Nobleand Bradicystreet, Thence they should take up their march on Noble street toCornell, where they will bo joined by Bt Boniface Soclety; thence to Milwaukee avcoue, oh Milwaukcee avenne to Desplalnes atreet, and on that street to 8t, D'atrick's Chnrch, whero they wili be folned by the Jesuitand Bohemian Bocleties of tho churches of that neighberliood; thence back on Deeplaines to_ Milwaukee asenae, thence to Chicago avenne, where thoy wiil mect the German’ Socletiea; continite on Mllwankeo aveona o Noblo strect and thence ta the scené of tho ceremony, the Cathollc Bocletics are {nvlted ol and to b those who have not yet eigmified thele L of marching In the procession will Lo aesigned 8 place in line ifthey remm nt tha rendozyous, The Rt.-1 shop Fulc‘ will ofclate o the exerclsce, ted by all the leading priosts 8¢ tho city, Thy Dr. McMullen, of the Chnrch of o Hev, the Holy Nawe will deliver the sermon. Tho ex- creclacs will be short, a8 the weather will un- dgilxhwdly be warin; therefore there will Le but one adiresa, Tho now clifice of St. Stanislaus Church s to Le of the Romancrque order of archilecture, \rith two towers in the front. It is to bo 402200 feet iu dimensions, and of white brick, ORIMINATL. Qrifin, tho rowdy who was shot by Officer Jones, of tho Twenty-sccond Street Statlon, cannot bo found, and, in consequence, the cxtent of his 1n- Jurles have not been sscertalned, Ilis friends re- fuse to talk about the affair. John Ifaley helped himself to s horse and bugiy bolonging to Anton Michel, of No. €09 Halsted street, but was discovercd Just a8 ho was making away with it, and was given a ride to the West Twelfth Btreet Station by the gentlomanly pro- pretor. lart urnntnf Sergt, Roymond, of Buck & s Merchant Police, cade I?un o gang of thieves who wero rummaglng abont 1n tne paint and o1l atoro of II, M, Hovker, on Randolph strect near Clinton. After n lively chaso, tue officer eucceded {n capturing nne of them giving the name of Michiael Muliyde, and turned him over to the police of tho West Madizon Street Station, At an carly hour yesterday morning Officer J. II. McAvoy, of the Weet Twollth Street Station, came n‘ruu @ couple of ‘zunnz thievea who haa just enterad the gun and hardwaro stors of M. .J, ¥'ribyl, No. GU7 Halsted street, and were at that moent engaged in ferroting about on the fnside for plunder, ile lald In wait for them and suc- ceeded in capturing ono of them, o youne chap giving tho name of Joln McCarthy, but better known umong crooks ua the **Kid from Troy." His pal cecaped, aud the police nre still In pursult. They sccured no buoly, of conaequence at this place, but upon the ** kids™ perzon were found & pumber of old cuins that wers tdentifed by J, & C. Nowak, of Nu. 680 Halsted streot, whote' placo was entered by tha same gang several dayango. At au early honr yesterday torning Officer Beck ot the West Madison Street Station came acro: fellow. gaving the name of Jobn Smith, and al could not satafactorily explain how he eame tnlo assceston of 400 pounds of Jead pipe evidently reshly cut from privato residences, e was locked up at the West Madlson Street Station, LaterOfiicer Liarrett and othy Isited the prisoner's residenco ou Jeflerson street, nnd there found o quantity of simllar materlal sufiicient (0 guaranteo them fin arreeting the fninates of the Loawe. Arrising at tho Btation, one man refuted 1o give his name, another gavo the name of Thompean, and the two othermcraons wero booked as Ifenry Walper and Mnry Smith, = Tho police think they' havo broken up o don of thioves, and want a)] persons who have lost lend-pine, rakees, ofC., to eall at the Station und, If puseible, identify their nroperty, ————i—— FLORIDA SNAKES, .. o ' Tho Deadly Rattler and ills Destroyer—A Good Word for the Bluckanalke, Correondence Nee York Sun, You may spiend the whols winter tishing and hunting fn Florido aud not see o snake, 'This is casily explained. For years the Peninsuln has Leen 4 vast cuttle-rangge. Durlng spring and uutumn cow-boys burn the dry prairies -and savaunas Lo keep thu grass frish and green, 'Lhese lires spread to the serub and hammocks, und thousauds of reptiles periab, On walking over the blackened ground f §s not uncommon Lo seo tho tafl of n dead suaku protruding from a mole-hole. Caugglit by the fire (o an cx’iun to cacape, ho 18 burned to death, Ol the different specles cf snakes unly two are thoughiv to be polsonous. They are the toccusin nnd tho rattlesnake, Thelr vonom readily ylelds to the whisky treatment {f taken in time, although this in"a measure depeuds upon the location of the bite, "1t Is eald that u man ju Alochua County died within five minutes after belng bitten, ‘Thu reptile’s fangs struck him fi the neck while he was slecping, and vjeeted polson fnto the Jugular veln, *Moceastis ure divined Intofour clisses,—tho cotton-moutl, the stump-tall, a water inocensin, simlilar to our wuter-pllut, und o uplund moccasin, resein- blng uwpfierheud inshupe, und fully os deadly. 1 guther thld intormation from the natives and winters of personal experlence. The ruttlesnake is divided 1nto two families. The most virulent is the ground rattler, It 18 between twelvs aod twenty inches long, and not mnuch larger than o comwmon lead pencil, It colls, springs Its tiny rattle, and funum the BG4 t8 lurge brother, 1ts skin s o bright black {1 color; but the diamond marks are not 80 uearly delined us In the big mttler, Durlug tho hot summer days it lles under sand-sweep- jug putmetto fans, or creeps into gardens and sleops i the shade of the cubboge und bununas, In clearivg up litter, 3 man tight caslly plek ‘ll.lp oue unawares, Lieut, Wiight, of "the bited States Coast Survey, tells e that b fuund them very numorous in the salt-water unratica between Duminitt's tirove sud Banang Creek. 1n vno day e ceushed two beneath his boot-heel, Last “summer Dr. Fox and Capt, Bams, of New Smyrna, were running s wild cat on- 8 small palwetto island between the East Clanuel und Devil’a Elbow, at tho ertrance of AMusquito Lsgoou, They hanrud the hanminock, und us they stood In thie marsh grass awniting the IrlEmcncd utne, thie Doctor safd ¢ 15 lieur o bl ratticsuake ) but he along dis- tance ult,” ‘Ihe Captaln listened. “That's o ground sattler,” ho suld, **1 Kknow tho sound too well, Dun'e stir, tor he may be mizhty close to us,* The wuarning wus heedel, After cureful gearch they found the deadly Jittle reptilo colbul at taete tect onu mut of dead vraes, [ty tail wad Hyine ke tho wings of a humnming-bind, ana iL° waa ready to strike on the least wotlon. The breech of 4 gun quickly crushed fts head, 1t was tiltecn inches long, about the elze ami color of a stick of licorice, and had nine rattle 80 _swall that they would go Into o needle-tase The genulve rattlesuakes trow to s monatrol szcioud thelr colors are more brilliant thau those of the Northern species, ‘They have been Kilied twelve feet Jung and as Jargess o stuve- pipe. Cupte Devall, of Palatka, svers that he bl oug, twenty udd yearsugo, with forty-seven rattles. Incredible “os this s, scent, Col, Pratt, of the Pulatka foald, declares that be Las seen one with fity-two, ‘Thess scrpeuts frequent hl‘g‘:xh. sutidy rldges, ond occusionally ek fn gurdens cud in plowed ficlds, They bave even been kuown tumako thels way 1uto burns aud housts, The beach werab, where schiom Lurned, is slive with then, Bome wonsters have been killed on Avastasia Island, oppusito Bt Augustine, Juihegpring I have counted 10 one duy ou tho beach Letwden Cane nxrml and lndiun KiverInlet ten fresbly-shed wking, Alter one rattiesnake s kitled, anotler {s found nearit, 1t tho body of the dead reptlic iy dragped through the bouse or ucruss a cattle- pen, 1ts wats §3 quy sure to takv up tho trail and follow 16, - "Lurourh the winter these suuke: uro dovmant, Tocy live in boles made by the fuuhcr uud the land-tustle, and are concealed U many of the old coquina ruins dotting the castern cuast, As thesummer spproachies they pair off aud bunt iv couples. The numberlcss raila in the surub uud savunuas made by deer, coons, wildcats, uud otters ary thelr favonte lurking places.” Here they lis fn umbush, aud mauy an untortunate rubblt and opossum falls under their faug, Norarethe low savannssandaalt-water marsbes freo from these great snakes, Last summer 84 Judgge Counor, of Live Oak Hill, was crossing the wide open prairie at the Lead of Iudisn River, e eaw & pluinp, xray squirrel cutting queer uotics on 8 spoiof bire sand. As tbo saud was fully a mile from any tree, and covered with salt-water mix mouthy”( themyear, the ™ CHICAGO TRIBUN dJudge’s curlority wns excited. T'ouse his own words, ¢ The squirrel was j,umnlnz around right smart, and appeared as if he didn’t know what to do with hissclf.” Its attention was ot dis- tracted by the Judge's approach, for it contin. ued prancing over the sand Inaconcentric courre, as though crazed. The Judgo walked up with the intention of capturing it Suddenly ho was confronted by an enormousrattiesnake, It was stretched out In the wire-grnes surrounding tbe gand, with Its heal toward the squirrel, On sceing the Judge, it threw iteell into a cofl and made a nofse like that of a buzz-saw. Its tull rattled with terrible carnestness. The squirrel ceased his antics, and sat_up on the'sand as motionless as a statue, Findlnfi nefther stick nor stono on the prairie, tho Judgo tred to care the enoke by threatening gesturce. These Incensed the reptile. It reared both crest and tall, darted out its forked tonguc, and jumped | One fully ecight feet toward the Judege. Hia lionor then go nngr{finmllhrcw clods of earth and Rrass. Atthistheserpent flewintoan ungovern- nble rage. 1tscyes falrly flashed ire. Apparent- ly aware that there was no dangerous weapou Wwithin' reach, it ran straight for the Judee, as though {t meant to close with him. It finally | London season. became g0 active that Connor was glad (o Jeave it. As he walked away it resumed m)mmum, and the squirrel began its dance of death, charmed by its buzzing musle. The Judge says that the snake was certainly nine feet long, The mystery is how came the squirrel and its :Immxer on a salt-water prairie, a mile from any ree. More siogular still, these large ratilers have heen seen swimming in the salt-water, Dr. Wallace, of Daytona, informs mo that ho has eeen them appirently crossing from the beach to the maln land at Costle Windy, ‘I'hree years ago Capt, Neil, of New Bedford, one of Bwill's live-oak Buperintendents, met a monstor near Musquito lnlnl.fi snnke espled Nell's boat, and made a desperate cffort to board her. The Captain beat it off with the oars, but the dght Iasted two or three minutes, The scrpent, at last disabled, drifted away with the current,jand was finally swallow- ed by a snake, The large rattlers arc sald to follow herds of cattle, Cuw-hu{l that they smell the milk dropping from theuddersof thic cows, and take np the trail, with a view to milking them. This 18 doue while the cows are Iying on the und chewing their cuda. \When the scrpent takes the teat in Ita mouth the cow stops chewing,, and becomes ns still as death. Thus sho re- mains until the scaly thief is eatisfied. She scems to know that the Ieast motion would be THE LONDON! SEASON. A Mammoth Social Phenomenon in the World's Capital. Why British Pashionables Have Their Gala Term in Midsummer, A Raln of Dinners, and Receptions, dnd Parades in the Park, Hundred and Twenty Nights in o Dress-Cont, Few Americans ever know anything-about that mammoth goctal phenomenon called the In" the spring and carly sums mer, when the exodns of travel takea place from the United States {nto Europe, Americans ar- riving in London are usually too much engross- edin the purchasing of *outfits,” or in arrang- Ing letters of credit with thelr bankers, and too eager to breathe the more forelgn atmospherc of tha Continent, to hiave much thought about the extraordinary movement of polite civillza- tion which 1s just then haviog place in the Brit ish Capital. Or, it they remaln, passports of no common kind are rlquired to Introduco them into tho defended circles of English socloty. ving out with the tide. The | Perhaps a half-dozen Western Republicans in a year come armed with the cxtraordinary cre- deutlals, and have Inclination aud leisure to re- main {n London whils they may be inducted Into the wilderness of entertalnmeyts which char- acterize ita scason. Topographlcally consldered, 4 London ecason I8 not an affalr of London at all, but of ’ WEST BND, or the part of English Babylon which has Bel- gravia square os its centre,fand its periphery within twos miles of that distingulshed nelgh- borlicod. 1lnside of this limit le .\Westminster and theHouscsof Parliament, the famous streots fatal. One snake hiss been known to milk two | Regunt and Plecadlily, the Academies of Belenico cows successively. In the fall, when the rattler crawls to tree and hides beneath its dark-green fans, Tho berries attract the cardinal prosheake, bull- finches, mockivg-birds, sud parroqucts, aud they 1a1l under the {nfernal moguetism of tue snake, ‘The rattlesnake when trodden on does not in- variably bite aperson, Dethuue, an old Indian river mall-carrler, while deer-hunting last summer, stepped square on a rattler, Helelt it yield and move under his fect, and then heard ita’ ominous hummlng. 1lo jumped nearly ten fect, and $urned aa white ns o shicet, but he says hat the snake made no efort to bits him. A moro remarkable story Is that told concern- Ing the wife of Judge Connor. Ehe Is deaf, and this intcusifics u natural dread of rattlcsnakes, as she cannot heor their notes of warning. Some timo ago her husband and n nelghbor were rnlmelm berrles are rij doctoring 1 sick colt. Bho was standing in the ath, holding somo camphor and o bottle of nnlmcm. 8ho fclt something cold and scaly | with the cillog around her leg. Drawlng nside her dress and lookiug down sho saw o rattlcanake gazing steadily in her face, ll(p[)lnli out ta red torgue, and “waving its head to and fro as’ high as her hand, The blood rolled and Art, the great “parks, and, grouped about o top of the Tl boote] | tho Iatter, tho palaces of the nobllity~—every- thiog, In short, which divides polite London fromn the vulgar, shopkeeplng city. Considered with refercuce to fts Lime In the year, the English scason is the world's out-of- scason. Tho natloh gifted with a politieal con- titution which does not contalu its laws, with o soverelgn not permitted to rule, and which pro- duces Ita arboreal fruits on vines clinging to garden walls, consistently differs from the or- der of Nature in having {ts urban polite perfod amid the fervors of midsummer. The London scason {n thia respect is Indeed an anomaly, Fashionable soclety ia othier countries beglus its gata term {n November and closes It fn April —retroating from Nature duringits unattractivo period. The English crowd to thelr Capitat breaking of May buds, and tho last of thelr motropolitan festivities dio away nmid the cxcessive dusts and leats of July. The ec- centric term of the London scason is fixed by IADITS OF THB ARISTOCRACY. away {rom her heart. 8he screamed and jump- | Polite Iife clsewhero bos ftd bc‘ghmlng and In- cd aside £o spasmodically that the sonke lost ita hold and was left on the groond, It is possible that the serpent was trying to fascinate Lcr, but her deafness barred out its low musical sound, As the Judge and bis neighbor ran up the path shio stood trembling with terror on the polint of a faint. * 8he's bit," said tho neighbor, in a low tone. “}le didu't Lite me," she retorted, without, howaeyer, hv:urlnfi what hie bad sald. *8he's bit," the neighbor repeated, *but she was 8o ekeert abo didn’t feel ft.” “‘Arc you suro lo didn't blte you, Mary1® askod the Judge. > ¥ "No.h haddlgn};t bite mc," sho replied; I now lic n’t.’ And sho was right. 8he oleaded fortho life of the suake beeauso it had spared hers Lut the Judge, to uso his own expression, hell out of it.” * Tho eucmlies of the rattlesnoke fncluda tho hog, the deer, and the cagle. 'Tho hog thrusts his fat chops into tho snake's face, meekly re- ceives Its blte, selzes the reptlle by the neck, placea {ta _hoofs on {ts body, and tears>it asunder. Noblood is dmwn, Llic polson is harm- Icss In tho fat, and the porker gets a fale meal. A drovs of hogs will cloar the wildest country | tin of rattlesnnked. - When a buck aees .o rattler, ha springs upon ik dightoing, bringing - his' | *Assassrive or spiration in citics—the centres of commerce and of Intellectual activitics. Good society in En- gland has ts strong roots fu the country, in the famlly seats of the nobles, and of tho landed gentry. It Is distinguished, in & word, as the only modern cultivated saclety which 1s rural rather than urban, Leoping alivays its favor of thesoll. Unco n year this, cultivated provincial soclety makes iis” Irruptions fnto the great city where It clocts to hold its hollday. The London scpson becomes a kind of social reservoir fitied l‘v(v trickling tributarics from cvery part of the ingdom. Its tetnpornl limits, ns I haye inti- mated, are determined by Emflluh arlstocratle tastes and usages, ‘The anclent passlon for fox- huutiog during tho winter montbs has not di- minlehed among tha geatry, nud one of tho tra- ditlons in thls same grade” of English 1ife is to ““mopped { assemblo the mombers of & houschold at.the country home during Christmas-tide. The great {amillcs liko to remain at thelr rural seats untit after the Easter fustival; the smaller familics takothelr pattern after tho great, and so tho beginning of the London carnlval fs delayed until the middle of suring. *“Golng up to Lon- don'™ for the season, as tus English cxpresa it, 13 ltke going to a ball, those nppearing most dis- %uhh:dw).w appear late. - - "Tho far-off, hint.of tho scasonda tho i o , PALLIAMENT IN PEDRUARY feet together upon ita head and body, thus cut- | Tho lrst stop toward the grcat fashionablé holl- ting it "to picces, for the hoofs of a Floridian deer aro as hard ond sharp as a razor, - An caglo iiils the snake while it 1s sunnipg itself, The bird descends with the velocity of an arrow, striking the reptilo with such force as to eover the vertebra, + But tho dendlicst foo of the rattler s the common blacksnake. Il Is 1 poblic benefactor, and ought to be protected by tho State Legisla- ture, even I he does pick up a chicken or two occasfonally. Ho grows very long, and, unlike Lis Northern compeer, never assailsn huuian being, Tho rattler feura and shuns him; and well he may, for the biacksnoke fs as agilo and quick ns the mafuspring of a watch, and as full of fight oa n bulldog. ~ Meetiog his antagonls! hie attacks without delay, After colllng an sounding an alarm, the rattler keonly watches its nasuilant, At the first thoblacksuako slowly ides around {ts spliral encmy, as though study- ng Its weak points, Ile frequently hisses, Increases his apecd with ench cyelc, ever keck»- g an eye on tho rattler. Tholatter twista fis head with every revolution of its assailant. Swiftor swecps the blacksnakearound tho circle, At tho full bent of his speed the ruttler grows dizzy. Inatwinkling it s caught by the thpat, | don mc'npuonn throughout the season ! i and"the colla of the two anakes are nterflin- led. Thocontest {s decided by maln strength, i‘n they writhe in the grnss tho superlor prowess of the blackanake fs mauifest, ' rattler Is slowly strangicd, Somcthne: body Is swallowed, Gut this docs not always follow, Tha coach-wfxlp ® lony, clean-cut sugke, fro- quently assists tho Llackshake, an Instanceauro given In which a dozen coachi-whips and blacke snakes Joined forces and killed » small regi- ment of ratticrs, Vulturcs and buzzards, with all thelr appetite for enrrion, will never touch any thing bitten b rattlesnake; but when his snokeship humselt l-“kallcd. they devour hitn with the greatest relish. — A Itorrible Crime, Ledanon Kentuckian, We hnvul]un Lieard o startling pleco of news from Washington County., It sccms that a youn, , Whoss namo we could not Jearu, inarried, some thne back, u Miss Bowls, whose famlly hiad at one thne lived on the lands of Mr. A 8. Mayes. Tho pir} had “been seduced, and, beforo inarriaue, had given bisth toa deformed and idlot ¢hild, Her husband appears to bave been dissatlsfied about the child, and had in- tluenced Lits wifa to agres toa mode of uoulnr’ rid of it With this view a box was abtatnulf aud tue child, whilo yet allve, nailed up in it. But, whille this was golug on, & neighbur womun happened ‘lu, and, lmnr‘ng a strange nofse fu the box, fuquired and found out what was done. 8ho persunded them to open the box and take tho little thing out. The news, how- cver, of this matter got out, and a fuw plzhts thercefter a wob visited thy Louse, and the next morning :he husband snd wife wero seen hanglng to a treo In tho nelzhboriood, This event occurred about ten days ugo, e —— A Biue:Glass Experiment, We wero yesterday fovited by yohn Loveland to visit lils grapery on the corter of Elm an Schoul strects. Unc yearwogo the 10th of the preseut month ho eet grupevines, cutting lheu\ back to the ground, Having read some- thing of Gen, Pleasouton’s theory us to vegeta. tion, he arrunged Wis grapery so that the pro- ponluu ol blue gluss was onetofive, Lastsume mur the buwilding was filed completely with viunes, At present tho vines sre |ierally laden Wwith grapee, Mr, Loveland eays he does not Luow™ as therc fs suy virtuv lu thu bige glass, but cortalu It 18 there nover was such o growih of grapes kuown befors in Westerly,— Wealerly (Jihwde Jaland) letter (o the Lrovidencs Journal, Loulstille Courier-Journal, A meat-ghower fell at Fraukl, ¥ day plight 3st, A scientitic wwan says. plaged” the substanco under g fulr wicroscope, aud dud it an orgunlam, o lurlcated iufusorfu. The inclosing jelly is verlectly trunsparent, ex- cept u little voal dust and pain} from the tin roof. Euch aubnaleuls s inclozéd n g case oy shicll of alifca, and oll arc ulihe, of the same -fawlly. Une drop cottaing about fifty »umx. sud they bave plenty of roow to float around. ‘Fley are about vue four-bundredibis of an fuch long, Where they camy from luamw(ug; Bonlhl?' from the decaylng Loaps ol kelp fo the Ul of Mexicw, or, as tho winds have been trom the north for sowo tiwe, they may have come {rom the lakes.” e —e— Tho fashion filustratiocs of Audrews' Hazar aro of 3 bigh style of art, and extend through all de- partinents of dress; whlle the lterature of ita and | State from soclal staguatio da{uulm cousidered taken. In-the interval bofween this event and ths week after Eoator- tide, tho femiuine portion of English families which are to take part in tho London carntval, I8 believed to retsdn itselt in rural seclusion with considerable impatlence. British matrons who sre lable to catiniate theimportance of the Beason with reference to the opporturity for so- curing desirable matches for elder daughters, urow anxious for an carly sctilement In thelr town residences. Younger daughters who are about to cuter upon thelr first year of soclety exlst for two montha In o stato of nervous an- ticivation, In London itsclf there ore also signa of looking forwardto {ts annual transformation, Membersof Parllament, tncluding the heads of many strong houscholds, arrive and tnke resi- dence in lodgings untit the coming of thelr fam- {lies. Just enough ontcrtainments must be at- tempted to preserve theserepresentatives of the Thers begrins to be a little actlvity in tho palaces of the great clubs along Pail Mall and In the houses of va- rious reaident Journallsticand literary celebritics thatserics of entortainments knownas ‘At 1llomes," and which maintain as the model Lone ), In faintly foitiated, At the end of March a fow of the carller arriving aristocratic families, whose heada are iy one or the otlier Houscs of Parliament, are already in town; thore is a pereeptivlo bus. tle of 1ife In the fushlonablo neighbortioods, and n score of window-blindy are scen to be lowered in the grim quarter of Belgravia, Durlug April tho scason brenks out manifestly {u the parka, For the parka are tho pules of the Londun zala year, the show of cquipago and riders on the grand parades glying slwayas evidence of tho ex- uct state of soclal activity, Receptions and cn- tertaiuments ol all sorts thicken with thoud. vance of l}]pl’u, and with the openlng of the Royal Academy of Art {n Mny the s falr) AN OF TUT LONDON SEASON alri introduced, An attemipt to describo i detail tho Englisk fashionable year when it Is fully comwenced, If 4t il not bezin, would end in madness. A Lon- don seasou ia the very aggregation and jumble of human events. Itls an annual celcbration four months loug, n the largest clty of the world, of ull the pleasurable concerns of inuu- nd, ‘The Russiou sighs for Bt, Petersburg; the Mus- sulmaon Jongs for Btamboul; a Germnn centres about Vienns or Herlin, and the Latin races draw to Paris. But London, that could swallow within its Mmits oll these citics, fs the inguet of the world, and offvrs o soclal scason g0 va- rlod and cxtenelve us to sbsorb the distinetive characteristics of the several European Cupitals futo ita assivo cosmopolitauisin, Partlmnent whose seaston fa the central fuct around which the scosun revolves, Is avortex of politival con- slderation trom Hindostan to Quebee, Art has its dally scances at the Amdcmf-. Levturing has its reuntons, aud draws after iy arlstocracy and fashion. Twicea week the votarics of the pare lora 8it In opera dress to hear the lectures of the toyal Tnstitution sclentists—such as Huxley, Tyndall, and Farrar becumbvg the mentors o c0od suclety, Loudon, from April to August, a Tain of Wnuers und receptlons and parades In the park, while the substantial and varied Interests of the world of politics nud art, run through all the festivitics aud keep the scuson from degeuerating into were soclal frlvolity. 1t is A MEDLEY OF LIPE, in which pleasure and profit are combined on u scule such as soclely nowhere clee bas tho dare i ur the means to attempt. Cosmopolitavlsin, uot in tnauners, but in tho vuricty of the futer- cots aud persons cousorted for its cmplovinent, distinguishies above ull the Eugllsbsoclul season, ‘The world scems turped dowu from the poles to the equator to furnish the phystonoinies of races that ore destined to confrontyou fn a Lon. don drawlng-room in the middle of day., The cason at tho Continential Capltalsare over with the winter, sud that you should encounter here, where they baye Lecu sttracted from Europe Freuchmen, Kussiuns, Italians, Norwegiaus, of distinguiehicd names aud histurdes, 1s 1o bo an- tivipated. But there are delepates from tho suces farther off, A Tartar Chief 1s your viea- viat a dinner party; u ruulu New Zeslander on your left pushes you the ssll. At a reception o hours later au Icclandie peet gives you on account of the earlicat nanuscripts of the Edda, and you turn to he fustructed by a Brabwln upon the existiog evidences of Alexander the Great’s campalgn o the Puojaub. A swarthy Abyssinian relates 10 you tho mysteries of King ‘Theodore's dowestic ceonomy, - He is in charges of Kiog Theodorc's son, a mild looking lad wio atanda at Lis elbow, and whom the English bave invited over for a clvilized education, In geuer- Ppayee i adwirable in style oud varicty, showlug | ous revesge for the insults of his ferocious thurough edifurial mauakcment. Send 10 cents | progenitor, Loz wpeciinen Copy W0 W. B, Asuuzws, Clacluoatl, | of the propbet sgaiust the miracl An Arab defends the revelations s, A North . : MONDAY. JUNE 25, 1877 v American Indian, o his skins and feathers, turns up on an afternoon a8 a featurs at an artist's conrereatione. All of these geographical Pnrsonntu‘s. nnlcss perhaps tho Amerlcan Chief, nppuur qnitens much at fome under London rool ns yourself, and address vou in the most conventlonal an Idfomatic Engllsh, Loudon soclety, uniiko that of other Europenn capitale, * ADMITS OF X0 JARGON OF TONAUES, Theroisno weakly polite giving way to the feallty of a forclgnepecch, Allthese characters of diver zones and races conform (n thelr man- ners and dress, and pay deference to the Anglo- Saxon vernacular, Kiglish dignity and fgnor- ance alike demand It. The British social inetinet is not belieyed to be very vivid, but,in this vast parade fleld of London, ‘it exhausts the excuses of the bixly and fntellect for hrh\&lnu men and women together, Eating {s the first snd last condision of English soclabitity, Tiis compan- fonelip may not be very exhilarating, but a bot- tleof sherry, with aloaf and chieese placed be- tween you and an Englishman on a table, pro- claims bis having accepted you on even terms of respeetabliity and acquaintance, The table plays an essentlal role In the dramn of the Lon- don scason, Bociety offers you its breakfast nt 130'clock, At3 you arm demanded for lunch, You are arranzed to aceept tea ata West End terrace at 5, to dive at 8, toattend s reception at 10, and finish n stipper of substantial viands an hour before midnight. You drink coffes at o club, and visit a sclontifig cabinet or an athletlc match in the mornlng, You drive to the Koyal Academy or p bazaar In an afternoon Interluide. To-morrow the programmo s not less exacting, but unchanged.” An artist’s studio or a garden vavillon {8 o pretest for w morning meal al fres- co. Theruis a ride ju the park for midday, and an Oricntal Princo or a London savant is substi- tuted at night for your Parlinmentary host of yesterday. 8o on for o succession of days until ihe end of the scason, Topass falrly through a London scason Is to be ’ 20 NIONTS IN A DREBSS-COAT, and to recelve o Jiberal cducation, Amid the storm of engagements, eventhe humblest actor who enters for a part 18 Looked with appoint- ments a fortnight in advance, and Is never o rash as to accept an additfonal obligation with- out Orst inapecting the card which ho carrics of his polite promiees. Good soclety becomes frequently Informal In the senson’s hicat and rush.” All {ta members are llabla to oral and fmpromptu Invitationsto breakfast. A would-be hostess for n dinner- 1arty, concerned during the hurrying senson to sccuro the appropriate number of ‘sitters for her covers, ut tho first opportunity accosts her men- tally appolnted gucets o8 to thelr engageincnts, A young Parliamentarian or a rising artiat bending " defcrentially over his tablets, in re- sponsc to such a_ politc summouns, Isa stock .tableau of the dnwln&z-ruum, as well gsof Punch, during the height of the scason, A London scason may be accepted practically or romantically, os you will. An Englishman tukes it pmctlm‘ly, or he would not take it at all. The far-fetched in thia cosmopolitan atmos- phere i8 pereeived ns commonplace. But to an American fn the Engllab soclal world - thera oc- curs o good deal ‘that Is like fietlon, and fre- quent Au%xcauons of the romantie. o s sur- rounded by historic names, and {s CONBTANTLY MEETING REMARKADLE PERSON- AGES, of swhom he hasbeen accustomed ouzrv to read, e thrends bis way between castes and acqulred distinctions. After counveraation, perhaps, with o Marquis, or a “)ullucnl Minister, Le is intro- duced without {nflection to his lavorite English novelist. A moment laterhols face Lo face with o Cambridge philologist, or an Aberdeen Pro- fessor, who hiave Leen his earliest mentors in the path of sclence. London, by Its position, is the only capital city in the world which as- sembles and avails of “for its soclety the whole multitude of a couctry’s celebritics, A balfa ttozen miles by rall bring at the call of the Lon- don hostess, 08 surely 04 to s Queen's commis- sfon, the savants of tho great Universitics from thelr Inboratorles or llbraries to be your friciuty collouista for an evening. They were unhy nanics nnd authorities before, They have sud- denly become actual personalities, M’HIIF ques- tions and speculating over conversational fesues 08 inodestly s others. Extraordinary charace tersand hisfories nrocoustantly turning up. En- glisn life favors a good many clements of thy dramatic impossible to republfican soclety, Drit~ ish Institutions shelter the broken carcers of Europe., Hciols the sccond son of o peerago title who has married arespectable slnger, {s cut oft from the help ofhis family by llmmmlllanrc‘ has chgnged his politics and enfered Parlfamen among tne Liberals, He greets sou cordially it you be French or American, beeauso he hashed to'shift for success upon democratic mauners, A silvor-hatred Italian woman, one of the fervid Teminine revolutionfets to whotn Cavour was a protege, will tell you longer than you can listen of sccret cabals around tha red flag of 48, You accost 0 nephew of Mondclssoln and n son of Moscheles. HERE ARB TAGLIONT, the dansense of a half-century ago, and Signor Garcia, the brother,.of Mallbrane—moniarira with which you belieyod the world had as effeet- ually dono aa with eny other Listorical romane ces,” Tho one has resumed hicrart 08 the teacher of manncrs, and the otbicr s o Professor of singing. They aro bath forelgn and do noffou- scquently coma under the code of Engllahexclu slon, being admitted, deepite thelr eallings, into London porlors, whers they aro supposed to ro- pay Infractea conventionsl ctiquette by the decoration thoy lend to_good soclety. [nthe same room ure a half a dozen othersuggestive ond startling noanes, walfa, and straya from the arts or stranded from continental conyulsfons of thirty ycors Lack, The prescnce of nn‘f of them inau American drawing-roomn would et the company agog. But, so that thef Lave kept or ggot clean and reputable, the all-embracing roof of London saclety takes them guite placid- 1y under its shelter. At o 4 o'clock charltable reading for whlch tho season finds time, i"uu nre asked to contribute for Mrs. Black, byron's “Moid of Atiicus,” an Englishman's widow, wrho fs grown old and poor, nml,ln spito of the poct's yerse, vern “respectahle,” The heart of the London scason Is reached AT TUE BND OF MAY. The last of tho great familles bave arrived from tho country, and the Contluent has poured in its celebritles, London beeomes fog the time tho gathering placo of the world, 0 strects of West End arc denee with curriages until they are no longer thoroughfarcs, Fashion blocks out trade. "Long banks of emptying chariots crowd, through the month of June, the spaces in front of thic Royal "Academy of Art. The afterncons are a gfitter of wheels, the park isn roge, Regent street o wilderness, Pleeadilly a muze, Belgravia-square, with itsstately liouses, Is olwnys too classic for agitation; ‘but pass through its nelghborhood at noon, and troops ot c(‘uumnnl are mounting for Rotten How, At G in tho afternoon o landau with atisme of arms on its panel stands in {ront of cvery aristocratic palace, tHling for the park or a diutier, All tha greater and Tesser houses give balls or receptions In May, They repeat them tn Juno and renew them n- July,” For Duchess, Lady, or Mistrces to appoint & night, for hier particulur cotertaloment, when n hundred of her rank shall not hiave alsojopened thelr doors, {s salil to bo as deticato and m[mnllhla 8 atroke of tuctics 08 the pitching of a fleld for battle. But when the occaslon has been chosen, thers appears to thoe gucests no imistalke, Art couceals art. A Loudon entertafument scems to be tho growth of avoclul organtzation rather thau thejuvention of u hostess. It Is never faulty fu tuste, though it may not bo finished in tho requirements of art, Boclety's frults bave so often ripened up- on this vigorous tree of the Londonseason, they uro always mellow ana satlsfactory, Tho helght of the scasonisas PERPETUAL LOLIDAY, Ono hundred thousand people ure eagerly and syutematicatly enguged over the spaces of ‘West End scarching for pleasure. Thera I8 an event every morning, for which a amaller capital than Bubylonle London would requiro a week of di- gestlon—a parnde of troops, anaristocratic mar- rlage, o Royal uddress over some yenerable or newly created occaslon, which assembles ha't the Wit and dijgnity of tho Emplre, The events are bubules thut breakand go downfortheir sue. cessors, ‘Twice dally soclety appears on parade in Hyde Park, From 139 to 3 It {s wountad for its morning rido down Rotten Row, Fromb un- i 7 Landon {teclf appears to turn out to wite uess the altermoon drive of charlots ulong the most brilliant and crowded corso in Europe, The English get throughthewilderncss of du- tles involved fu thelr extraordiuary soclal season with an case which, If the natlonaltempermment were not estiuiated, would Lave to Ly considers ed but a little short of tne miraculous, Young ladles, frealraud rusy from their seven months! rural sojourn, enter upun the metropolitan uayeties in April and come out of them tn Au- 5t FHESUER AND ROSIEH TUAN EVEIL Stout Engllsh watrous, who, for three or four months, sre the nightly utiendants of thelr daughters to receptions sud dutces, scou knvigy orated by the ordeal. Members of Parliument und of the professions sclentificor artistic whoss uames are befor the publle every duy inconnee- tlon with thelr varions labors, manage to lpRtnr nearly us attentive to sfternoon conversasivncs und evening entertaloments, and o smiling at lrlxxn lfltu the Kalends of August their grouse shouting, "o ccttementa logleally incidert tos Bondon season would emaciate aud finally exteroiinate any vther race of sodety lovers in the world, But tho English are ueversoclally excited. They #re not even vocial in tho semae iu which other people are 50, ) Continental soclety 18 framed on tho basls of the Imagination. A’ Frencbwan or Russian en- ters a drawlng-room for the end of stimulating his intellect or warming Lls cmotiona, An En- glisbiuan bas ne such purpose. e sdopts so- clety’s dutics as a Iy n and performs them a8 phlegmatically os ho cats a pudding, without any cost to the nerve cenires. He bas no thonght and feals no nced of arousing hia facul- ties in company, and possesscs only the flush of aareeabla #cnaation nutursl to the position of being surrounded by his equals Ina well sppofnt- ed_tirawlog-room. ~ Ordinary conversation on ordinary !clpk‘s sulls as well as any other for the purposcs of thia comfortably polito fellowship, THE INBULAR 8RLY-BATIAFACTION and scll-posseasion never loso themseives In ihe norvousneas of soclal contacts, The English- man docs not concelye golng ont of himacif fur the purpose of acquiring his nelghbor's_{nfor- mation or of problug his sentiments, He bas nothlug to offer In re\tirn as an American or a Frenchman would have. An Englishman is never resonnnt, Ile roes Into cty nelther stirring his imagination nor s passions, nud congequently cotnes out without damage by at- tritlon. Eniotion s unconveational and briil- fancy intolerable in an English_parlor. Add to these facta that method Is nn English tradition, and it 1a possible to concelvo that thereds no limit to the national capacity for enduring so- clety, and that by adopting Ita Elnnaurenun part of the businicss of Iife rather thannsn speclal recreation the En:ilhb accomplish the only gala scason in the world whicl is not dissi- patlon. Notwithstanding tho vast and variegated numher of personages assembled for its pur- poses, the individuala to be encountered {n T,on- don parlors during the season have always tho ENQLISH TONE AND MANNER. The powerlul English personality subdues the clements of soclety as [t subduca everyihin, with which it comes Into contact. Tho habit of English soclety Is less demonstrativo than of other natlons, 1ts easential and prevalling mark 18 quictness, The examplo of tho aristocracy glveacolor{c everything, and the manncr of this clngs I8 simpticity almost to nfectation, Thero s nlso no neccasary Larrier Uotwoen the class goasuued of titles and persons without them. o enter the world of the London season from whatever gate 18 to find no pnunrnry inexorably closed agalist you. Noble and plebelan, dis- tlnction and respectability, discover common fimund and mix familiarly together in a hun- red drawing-rooms. Mritish aristocracy {s fond of decorating its saloon with the bestthat can he found of wit and learning. Distinguished artists aud lterary men, as well ns the chiofs in politics and the professions,'aro able, onthe oth- er hand, to make ilicir parlors too attractive to be resisted by nny mero casto Frclenflon. Ono of the chle! characteristics of the soclety that enncts the unrivaled drama of the London scason Is, as has already been intimated, 178 LACK OF IDRALITY— 4ho principle which everywhere eleo creates and gives Incentive to the lifo of the saloon, ‘The English are incapableof realizing through tha meane of fancy, They aporeciate onl; what they possess or percelve. The nations taste demands the substantlal. ' But nowhere, save Iu London, docs the .opulence of soclety 80 nearly convert the ideal {nto realily. Boclety bullds ifsell pnlaces for its mcetlng place: surrounds {tsclt with the slmlemlorn art, no 1118 1ts eatoons with tho most dlverse nod ex- alted personages, and affords to enjoy those perfected privileges of existenco sensuously rather than through the imagination. Ro- mance submits to bo tamed in an atmosphere where it I8 percelved na the actual, The aristo- cratic English ‘purcliasse, In short, with tho means of thelrl];naiuon and wealth immunity from a too vivid excreise of fancy. Tho French protest that tho socicty exhibited in the London scason Is not_piguante, whilo tho Germana say that it la not learned, It {s por- baps broader than the Frenchman's E"'l"““"(fi and more understanding than the German's learning. It1s, In fact, thelonly society {nthe tworld wholllsmamomllmn. ut it must bo admitted that | Mfi‘hme aim §s a kind of sensucua com- fort, and that It is a soclety without romanco or admiration, Tho London_ secason begins to wane townrd tho middle of July. The novelty of tho Acade- my and the fleld nights in Parlinment aro over, ‘The membcers of tho patrician familles, surfelt- cd with the repetition of entertainments, de off, oug by one, to the country or to the Cont| nent. Boclety quickly follows the van of its lead- ers untll the 18t of August, when the strects of West End have grown scnsibly dull. Parita- ment lingera yot for a few days, perhiaps, in life- Tesa seaslon till sdjournment.” But oven’ bofora this latter event tho lust charlot has rolled out of Hvdo Parlc and left the palns avd delizhts of tho English soclal year {n the rearwurd vista.— William J, Armatrong. ——— PAUPERS IN MICHIGAN, Specfal Dispaich lo The Tribune. LAxsiNg, Mich., June 24,~Tha annual reports of the County Buperintendents of the Poor, com- piled by the Sccretary of State, show the number of paapers in Poor-Honscs {n the State in 1870 to have been 6,180, O this number thoro wore 2,075 American ——————ee e e —— DEATILS, e s~ e u IKSNICIKDLHON—Thomn Nickolson, at 8 p, . nnday, - Funoral by cara to Calyary, Tuesday, June 26, fram his late resldence, 216 \West Erlostrect, | HANNAH—Matllda T,, wifs of F, II. Hannah, on Sunday, June 24, at 1m. Faneral from tho residence, 634 Batterfield strect, Tueeday, June 20, at 10 o'clock 8, m, (ROSS-~The funcral of the late Willtam 1, Gross will taka place from the residence, B2: Weat Lako l{r:ak 8t100. m., Juns 26, to Rosehlll by car- riages. f2r~Clinton Junctlon, Wis., papers pleaso capy, McGLOUGLIN — Michael McGlauglin (polico. man), aged 61, diedat his lato residence, 1360 Sonth Deatborn-at., June 23, 10:30, June 23, Bervicesat 81, James' Church, thence h‘v cars to Calvary Cemetory, §2"Ullca, N. Y., papers ploase copy. MEDICAL. B o e e b PSS Dr. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup, BEA WEED TONIC, AND MANDRAKE PILLS, Theso medicincs have nodoabtedly performed more cures of Consumption than exy other remedy xnown to the American public. They are compounded of vege- tablo ingredients, and contaln nothing which can be injurlons tothe human constitution. Other remedles advertised a1 cures for Consumpiion probably contaln oplum, which s » somewhst dangerous drug fao all cases, andif taken froely by consumptive patients It must do great Injury; for ita tendency s to confino the morbld matter {n the system, which, of course, must make &cure fmpossible, Schenck's Pulmonic 8yrup s warranted not to contsin s particle of oplum; it is composed of pawerful but harmless herbs, which sct on the lungs, itver, stomacl, and blood, and thus core rect all morbid secretions and expel all the disesscd matter from the body. These arotho only means by which Consumption can ba cured, sod sa Schenck's Pulmenlc Byrup, Sea Weed Toalc, and Mandrake P nre tho only medicines which operate in this way, it Is obvlous thoy are the only genulne cure for Pulmapary Comsumption. Esch bottle of this {avalusble mediciuo L panicd by full directions, Dr. chenck ia pro- fesstonally st his principal ofiice, coruer Sixth and Archeste,, Philladelphis, every Monday, where all lot Rerw for advico must bo adarencd. IALF I10SE, Keep’s English Half-Hose, Full superfashioned, $1,60 half doxen, or 236 per palr. 173 Hast Madtson.at. CONFECQ . o T R (1w g CELELRATED firongbont thoe Unton—expressed foal} arts, 1B and upward at LE ANDY%“ ‘}aflr;‘m- onlers GUNTHER, Clileago, 40, Address \ Contes "KEEP'S LINEN COTFS, Tour-ply, The very beat: 81,50 per half dos., or By TIRAN ’1'mfi§i'i',““"~ CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE Or 825,000 Worth of Furaiture. ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THE SKINNER HOUSE, Corner of Madison oud Canal-sts., TUKSDAY, Juce S0, 8210, iy FATIOR, ChAmbEr: mfimgmm. ‘omice, and Kitchen Furnitu Har Fixtures, 8afe, one huns dred Marble-top snd B, W, Chamber Sets, o hundro: ond twenty-f tircaacs, over w0 thousan %;nl: .I'llmmu fxfi"‘\" vod biorse. harness, pbacion, etk oo O, _OEORGE PARRY, Mortgagee, By RADDIN & CLAPP, T & BOOTS & SHOES AT PUBLIO AUCTION, Large, attractive, and peremptory auction sale of Boots and Ehoes to be held at our salearcowms, 63 and 85 Wabash-av., Chicazo, TUESDAY, JUNK 24, AT 10 O'CLOCK A, M. RADDIN & CLAFP, Auctioneers. —_— T Bz ROSENFELD & MUNZER, Aucllcagers, 42 sud 46 Madlsoa-st., Dear Wabash-av, REGULAR TRADE SALE, TUESDAY, June 24, 10 o'clock, ehiarp. ° Calajogue LCG:LHXHW[MK ul t Sale. NFELD & MUNZEL, Auctlonsers BABBITES MILET SOIP Unrivaled for the Tollet Ifli‘m the ; = Fabbitrs Rest Soap has perfected, andnow offers Lo tha 1hi| "1“, 'OILET, NOAP In th Woria ity mn’;u"’nf berinte Ol s i i mansyadure, For Uso in'the Nursery it Has No Equab TYarth ten times (LA cast to every mother and fem| fn Christendom. Bampla box, containtog 3 cakea of o, ounces ench, rent free to aay addrem on recelpt of 73 centa. Addreas B.T.BABBITT, New YorkCity: FOR BALE BY ALL DRUGGISTH. |A PERTECT TOILET SOAP. First smong the reguisites of the toflet ts a good article of £0ap, but to procure it la not always na émy matter. Many of the most expensive Soapa In the mare ket are made from cosrue and deletorious materials, snd their dellcato coloring and fragrant perfume (oo oftca conceal the most repuistya {mpuritles. The dusclonres recently made public regarding this subject are post- trely startiing, and deserve sorious conslderation, Bcented Soaps ate now known 1o bn extremely objes: tonable, eapectally If applicd to the head; fojuriog thes halr, trritating the scaln, and Inducing eovers head- sclics, Tho character of the Ingredients may be inferred from the statement of a gentleman who makes tho scenting of Boaps hils businoms; he recently declared that, persons enesged In this employment wers ahort-livods fromaeven o ten years being tho longest perfad dario, which the occupation conid be foliowed, 7 ® Thediilleulty of procuriug & ?!l’f!fil" nre article of ‘Tollet Boap Is at Iast abyiated, howaver, thanks to. tho ;‘flul’{_flln and chemfcsl skillof Mr, D.'T, B, . BAnDITT, Off ew York, the world-renowned Boap Maiufacturer, Tiose immense establlshmont i1 by et the largest of N3 n ) nited States. The nnnwuu{ Mr. i variaus productions has for many years e i but this intent success s the appropriate 1. T. BAGRITT'S TOILRT BOAT™ 13 o trade-ma: by which this ciogaut toliet juznry for apptication to the delicato okin of and ladica, it I8 altogether nnequated in ufl’lflll({l- ‘The Eoap 1s not parfumed, the lngrodients lug of such absalute purity asto require no mid from 190 Inferfor materjals. Tha most ro- fined taste consfders tho absence o artificlal pertams’ lh? perfection I:Llwce(nc‘l. and the pecullar cpsracter= iaticof 1, T, Babbitt's Tollot Boap renders (Liha mosty ;I::‘l‘sl;ggl and ngrecable articlo of the kind ever mamo- Thougl spactally dealrablo for the nes of lsdies children, this sonp is equally appropriate for fi men's toliot, wnd a1t makes & hanvy latber itia o) Fhaced on ths maicet Loy e brasiTar I e nct o markot, but the dermand’for Comm Reneral, - b Fork THibune: B, T. BABBITT, New York City, AUCTION SALES. WM. A. BUTTERS & CO. Commimion Auetfoneers, 118and 120 Waboah-av, ABE LIPMAN, Pawnbroker, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION SALE " Unredeemed Pledges Monday and Tucsday, June 25 and 26, Cammenclu’ At 10 o'clock . m., At Tintiers' Auction tooms, 118 mmd 120 Wabashiear, Among the stock aro fino Unser and et Dismond In all styles of eetilngs; Gold and Sliver Watcliea of al fi:{&lv:m]él;uh Uuld Chinins, Opers Glases, Guns, Wit. A. DUTTERS & CO., Auctioncers, ASSIGNEE'S SALE. , ENTIRK BTOCK OF Burns’ Crockery Store, No. 106 East Randolph-st., Corner Fiftli-av., 1 TUFSDAY, JUNE 20, AT 10 GCLOCK A. 31, [m| Vhit nlo) W el s hiny e snl T ark, Cot 1y orderof It ABDEY, Anfanee, Y Wi, A, BUTTEIS & GO., Auctioneers. BUTTERS' WEDNESDAY TRADE SALE, WIITE AND YELLOW WARE, Assorted mumre,gule}nm, and Carpeting, WEDNTODAY MONNIN: v TUTY 0107 Uitocky Atthelr Salesrooms, 118 and 120 Wabashi-av, Wit A. BUTTERS & CO.” Auctioncers 16 Barrels Whisky, 30 Cases Wine, 20 Cases RRifies & Fluskets, AT ATCTION, IYEDNESDAY, .Iunnb'.“l at 10 o'clock, st our Auctlon Ticoms, 118 & 120 Wabash.ov. - Wi A, BUTTENS & CO., Auctloneers. BANKRUPT SALE. ATUCK OF PIANOS, ORGAN, SBheot Music of all kinds, Accordeons, Violins, otc., AT ATUCTION, WEDSEEDAY MORNING. June 27, st 11 o'olock, p® our Auction }oom, 1jand 120 \wabasti-av. WM. A, BUTTERS & CU., Auctioncers. BUTTERS THURSDAY TRADE SALE. . DRY GOODS. YWOOLENS, CLOTIING, 8traw Goods, Wool Hats, and Boots and Shoea, ¥ oursacs, A0 A BOTTEIS £ o A, BUTTERS & CO.°8 Reqular Satwday Foraite Sele, BATUNDAY, Juno 50, At thelr 8alcsrooma. ., o By GLEO. ’. GORE & CO,, €8 and 70 Wabashi avenue. REGULAR 'TRADE SALE * DRY GOODS,, Tuesday, June 26, 9:30 a, m, i Impostant Beasonabls 8peclalties to bo closed. STRAW GOODS. A Manufacturer's entire product, Invoiclng moro EF Ten Thousand Dollars, % And covering the most desirablo Styles in Men's mg 5’(’)‘;!1.)‘ wear cspeclally, “4leso goods WILL QEONGE P\ GORE & CO. _Auctioneers, ‘We are inatruoted to closo out at our Auoc« tion Sale of Wednesday, June 27, All Bpring and Bummer BOOTS AND SHOES Now unsold, and whall at same time clogo out 220 lota of tho stock of BIRKENSTEIN, EVANS & CO., Boot and Shoe Dealers, Thoso are -a0lid Goods, in regular aizos, and wall prove bargains, GEO. P, GORE & CO,, 68 aud 70 2 On Thureday, Juue 28, at b} o'clock, +Wo ahall offer extra Inducements at this sale to dealers and consuwers. $14,000 WORTH OF HOUSEHOLDFURNITURE Of every deurlr_téfi:. ;m&% ém& leasi reseive. LEO. P, By ELISON, YOMEROY & CO., Auctioneers, 78and 80 sandoipl-sg. Chattel Mortgage Sale - ENTIRE FURNITURE . Resldence, 532 West Monroe.sts Monday Morning, June 25, at 10 o'clock, Parlor and chamber Sote, Carpets, General House: bold Edects, ELISON! POMEROY & COr Tu Morning, June 24, at 0:30 o'clock, af our stores 78 and 8O Randolph-st. , FURNITURE, CARF’ETSd Genersl Houschiold Goods, Hefrigurators, General Merchandise, &c 5 0Y & O