Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1877, Page 8

4 < fam Knowlton & Sons, $703.50. 8 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JULY 39, 1877 city takes books and never opens them, but "it looks well,”* she says, ‘to see new books lying around.” There are some voracious readers in tho city. © slady hae given np selecting books, and sho is iT taking the books Incourse; that fs, In requ- lar order, self after shelf, There is n young girl in the city whose life and health are reclons In the alehtof the proprictor of the lbrary where ashe takes out books, Sho has lately graduated from school, and the babita of application to books there acquired seen to cling to her, She takes ont upon average twelta books a week, and has had 110 books charged to her since the let of May. The great dificuity in the management of'a elrculating Worary is. to get just enough and none copies of popular works. 31 a book happens to be popular evervbady wants it at oie; but, after a great demand Jor aweek or two, it frequently happens that no- body calls for that bouk any more, and unless the Hbrary has been cautious in buytng, it soon finds Itself with xome very useless books on hand. Tho libraries have Various methods of getting rid of thelr books. One {8 exceediuely elinple. People take the books away and do not. bring them back. Another method, practiced successfully In this city several years au, was to rent hooks until the income thus obtained was 10 per centunt above the cost of the bovk. [lay- ing received that inuch, the book was immedi- ately sold, and the prices whatever it might be, ‘twas thus clear profit. CHARTER OAK LIFE. The Company Reorganized on s Firm Basis —Ex-Gor, Jowell Elected Presitent. Special Dispatch te The Tribune, Mantrorp, Conn., July 23.—A_ complote re- organization of the Charter Oak Life-Insurnnce Company was consummated to-day, according toan arrangement that had been agreed upon between Commissioner Stedman, the Company's offfcers, and the Investigating Committee, rep- resenting the local Insurance companics and pollcy-holders, The result is that the old man- agement {a completely wiped out. The initial step this afternoon was the resignation in a body of Wiggin, President; Furber, Vico-Preal- dent; White, second Vice-President; Nelson Hollister and Dantel Phillips, of Hartford, ‘Thereupon tho new Board was immedlately organized, consisting of ex-Gov. Jewell, Sen- ator Euton, Judge Etisha Johnson, Col. Gcorge P. Bissell, and Robert E. Day, tho latter tho Recelver of the Putnam Fire-Inaurance Com- pany of this city, which succumbed to the grcat losses st Chicago. All are gentlemen of high standing and competent to solve the dificult financial problem before them. Goy. Jewell was chosen President. The remaiuing offices will be filled next week, and on Monday Judge Pardee will dissolve the temporary injunction, leaving the new managers a clean fleld to go on with their work of getting the Company on its feet again, Jewell will be absolute manager of the institution, as ho has purchased flye-cighths: of the stuck from Furber at a price reported to be very low. Furber rallnqulsties all claims, present and future, to the earings of tho Com- any, and, while recovering largely on the asacts larnisned by Lim, loses on his stock and other- wise toa figure sald to approximate $100,000. Jowell enys to-night that he don't propuse to lose anything on Als investment, but expects to make mouey by the appreciation of the value of his stock as the Company's affairs improve. The Special Investigating Committce made a lengthy report to-day on the condition of the Communi: Of the 312,499,960 of sascta report- ed July 14, ther tnd $9,200,009 good, and £3,- 303,473 of doubtful value, while the Mnbilities are placed at $13,802,657, of which $12,750.01 is the net premium reserve at 4 per cent, The Broadway, New York, property Is reduced from 000 to $1,035,000; the Crosbsy-atrect property from $300,000 to $385,500; the Cam- pany’s bulking from $344,000 to $600,000, Vestern property taken under foreclosure 1s cut down 40 pcr cent, aud other pruperty Company in the West 10 per cent. Tho Allen, Stephens & Co, mortgage is rated as good for $500,000, with $500,000 doubtful. The Committee decline to express on opinion as to the results of the itl gation. ‘The Mabilities exceed the good assets by $4,096,417, or €78s,000 over the amount of Items classed as doubtful. ‘This gives 3 tech- nical deficiency upon a4 por cent reserve, and the Committies thinks recuperation poasible, thera belng a intuinum recuperative power of nearly £305,000 per annum exclusiva of possible receipts from doubtful assets, In conclusion, the Committee any: * Wo have considered many itcms of assets with reference THE CITY. GENERAL NEWS. fiatarday evening T.B. Barke, residing at Ro, 125 Coolidge strect, was run over at tho eerner of Bluc Island avenite and Twelfth street hy acrain wagon driven by Fritz Boc, for Bar- tholomae & Rocstag, the brewers. Dr. Buck- lay, who attended him, pronounces bis injuries ‘qpile rerious, Mrs. M. H. Kroamer, of this clty, will deliver eo address this evening at the Mariners’ Tem- ple, corner of Mickigan and Market streets, on Whe eubject of “The Physiological Effects and CHnecquences of Intoxication.” The address will be delivered ander the auspices of the Woman's Gospel Tetnperance Association, At an carly hour yesterday morning, in a domestle quarrel on Crosby strect, in the North Disision, Wiliam Ryan, residing a axsaulted and cut his brother-in-law, C, 0") ley, residing at No. 43. The wound fs about four {nches in Jength on the front of the right thigh. Ryan was arrested und locked up in the Cicago-A venue Station. MlInur arrests: Paul Polinsky, larceny os balleo of peddier's gouds from A. Goldman; Join Powers, James Henry, Thomas Davis, and William Wall, notorious scoundrels who, After participating In the tlota, took up their abode ina lumber shed in the South Diviston; John Curtis and John Curren, arrested by Of- Qcer Martin O'Connor for the burglarty of a (ay store at the northeast corner of State and alfth streets, Michael Hogan, 45 yeate of ace. was yester- day locked up in the West Twelfth Street Sta- tion charged with attempting to outrage Mary lanners, & ycara of ave, residing at No, i tisold atreet. It is claimed that tie coaxed the Uittle one, with promises and candy, te a vlacu ‘ender a sidewalk near tho corner of Desplatn and Twelfth streets, and was just about to. waylsti her when he wasdiscovered. Four years ‘ago, Mrs. Flannery saya, Hogan made a sitallar aftempt uvon an elder daugliter. A Bie meee of the citizens of the Fourth ‘Wart will be held at the corner of Indiana ave- nue and Thirty-firat strect at 8 o'clock this even- ing to perfect the organization of a permanent military company for that ward. Fifty namcs Shave already been enrolled for this company, oemprising some of the inost prominent busi- tes men and heaviest texpayers in the ward. It. Is proposed to complete the organization forth- Wilh, under the State-Militia law, and to pro- que arms and uniforms at an early date, THE COURTS. BANKRUPTCY MATTERS. An involuntary petition was filed Saturday against Willlam MH. Hagedon, Willlam Oliver, and Thomas Boyle, composing the firm of Hage- don, Oliver & Co., wholesale milliners.. Tho petitioning creditors are H.K. White & Co., on claim for $1,452.57; Soarle, Dailey & Co. $566.54; Hodge, Hersey & Co., $407.25; Saxton, ‘Wan Veleor & Co. $350; Libboy & Ryker, $433; Bichard Iselin & Co., $531.84; Dreyfus Kohn & Co., $685; L. Derham, dr. & Co. 440; Ober- tauffer, Obegg & Co., $815.90; John Erskine & Co., $637.77; F. Hernstey & Co., $203.43; Will- It fa charged ‘that the debtors made two small preferential Payments. Arulgtoshow cause Aug. 0 was faaued. ‘Thomas E. Whelan, a barber in the basement of the Methodist Church Block, filed a volunta- ry petition in bankruptcy. His secured debts are $3,000, and the unsecured #5,101.25. The ‘aszcta consist of some personal property valued at $1,000, but tucumbered for twice its valuc. Referred to Register Hibbard. Gvorge W. Cainpbell was clected Assignee of James McAndrews, A composition of 20 per vent waa accepted by McAndrew's creditors. The composition meeting of W. A. Lowell ix set for 1U o'clock this morning. UNITED STATES COURTS John C. Biedsell and the Birdsell Maoufac- turing Company filed a bil Saturday against Franklin Richardson, Joseph White, and Frank White to restrato them from infringing a patent for finprovements in threshing machines, which fsuwned by complainants. Similar bills were Bled agalast Janes Taggart, Ellis Askey, and Thomas Hunt, and againat Thomas Terry, The Unton National Bank communceit a sult in ejectinent againat. William Gavin, laying: tlamages at 510,000. A.D. Hunt fled a bill against Henry Brooks, and otteps to foreclose a trust-deed for $3000 | to their outcome under a management Interest on bart o cart 3 ado Lyman's Bubdivi- | oq and geatous for the Compats’s continuance, sionof part of the 8, E.fructlonal quarter of | anit not with reference to thelr value in tho hands of a Recelver or a present sate, In view of the results from the Ogures hereln given, and of the fet that the Company's risks uppeur to bo located in a healthy portion of tho conntry, we bellevo that under a management of the htzhest eflictency, which shall make the most of {ta preacnt assets and reduce exponses to tho lowest possible potnt, and that shall possess the Tullest contdenco of its policy-holders, the Com- pany canbe made to pay ite legal Iubilities in full, and its impalrment be made good.” THE CUSTOM-HOUSE. Fanoy Ways of Inapoctors—How Doubtfal caKe Ih Paes. Neo York Heratd, The thing that more particularly sobers up the wandercr frotn abroad, on touching the soil of his soul’s affection, fs the depressing reflec. tion that his trunks and traps have to undergo Inspection at the hands of the myrmiduns of Uncle Samucl, It4s this dark and troublous vision that haunts bin “o'er the dark waters of the deep blue sca," and when at length the (ig ship fs brought to her moorings and bis eye lights upen theso watch-dogs of tho revenue moving uneasily about the long plier, ike pan- thers, eager und ready for their prey, his heart sinks within him—that {s, If he has, or if she has, suy contraband dry goods or jewelry stowed away in a Saratoga safoty trunk, He or she fvels, In fact, palntully thot Mttle can es- cape the dett and ecnaltive fingers of these in- termeddllng revenue inspoctors, When the (rent hawsers are falrly fastencd to the dock, the gang-planks run out, and the tackle put in operation far hoisting the passengers’ baggage out of the hold, the scene tuat follows is of a curtuus and suggestive character, Gathered on the pler are halfa dozen Custom. House officery in loose blue-flaunel roundabouts, with a silver sbicld alone to designate thelr of- fictal authority. ‘They are sharp-oyed, cager- faved fellows, and they run thelr keen glance along thaline of cabin paasengers who are pecring over the side of the steamer, aud in that glunce quick asa Vehtoing-Nash they have taken In the atundiug, worth, and nationality of every pas- acuger Who has made binself visible above the bulwarks. Q, theso Custom-House Inspectorat the fellows of ten or tftven yeurs’ experienc —are sharper than the sharpest steel trap, keener than the keenest briar, Beside the half- dozen olllcers of the revenue, there ia the New York agent of the line, and generally two or three accompanying clerks, all dressed ns fault- leasly as If avout te attend a ball, Jt it bs carly Ip the alternuon, there are many 14. The Equitable Trust Company of New Lon- don, Conn., tiled a bIH against Mariiton B, and Kouly A. Borne, M.D, Ogden, ML. Scudier, id. f. Thompson, Isune 8, Bush, The Mer- ‘ants? Savings, Loan, & Trust Company, Hosea Crane, FR. Butler, Patrick Dalton, and Leslie Carter to foreclose a murtyage for $7,000 on the WN. ig of the 8. 34 of Lot 3, Hock 14 in Asses- por's Sululivision of the S. W. fractional 3 of Boe, 23, 39, id anuther arainst Hawnilcon B., , aad George M, Borne, M. 0. Ogden, dder, Jr, and others to foreclose a mortvave for $10,000 on Lot 5 and the N. ty of Lot 13, ond alt of Lot 14, Block 31 in Hyde Park, SUPERIOR COURT IN MIIRF, Hugh A. White fled a bill Saturday against las and Henry Greenebaum, Mary Falch, weanhard Faleh, Kustena M, Lang, the inknown belrs of John L, Lang and Michuel Moritz, to foreclose u trustleed for $10,000 on Lot 2 of Kuhn's Subdivision of Outlot 81 in the Canal ‘Trusteca’ Subdiyixion of the N. 3¢ and the N. 4 of tte & EB. 3¢ and the E. ofthe 8. W. 3 of Bec. 33, 40, 14, excopt a plece 575-1000" chains wide un Sedgwick street by 4 855-1,000 chains deep lying on tho N, W. corner of said Lot 2 John W. Cracroft vommenced a sult rgainst James 8. Dickinson, HH. H. Towns, 8, 8, Bare ent, George E. Btonnard, and’ Sainuel W. wird, a8 Trustees ot the Oakland Congrega- tlonal Church, to recover a balance of 8325 for preaching, $20 fur mouey advanced for coal, aud $52 interest, makiug a total of $427, cinculT couNT. Owen Cunntagtans avd Willtam Rotlar sued tho West Chicago Alcohol Works for $1,000, Prederick Waltz commenced a sult fur $3,000 aguiuet Abner M.Wright and Philander Ilickox. THE CALL, Jupar Daumxoxv—In chambers, dunce bLonerrt—Mottone for new trial tm civil, then in baukruptey casca, Jum agis—General busincan, Joven WitLtame—No unuouncement, JUDGMENTS. CovntT—Conresainve—Eli 8, Prescott ge A. Kichhoru. $024. 4), —Rothacolld, Bebrocder & Eifel va. Carallne Dahlgecen, $150, Ciucuit CS ss1ONS—'T homes B, Wella ya. Dawaou Kerr, Jr., $1,841. 10, = Ee What One Missionary Was Good Por, Nag york Eeangeltst, Botne people think that a infeslonary ts good for notldng but to preach tothe heathen, and that lily “preaching " ts only that easy, * woud- ish" talk which o lay brother of ralber we. git would make tow Sunduy-echool, But have tound to: es in different: parts of the world tnuch mo: nen of wffalrs”? than most r most laymen at home. ‘Thelr els compel them to apply their knowl- positions, sid hence they acquire weal habit of mind that ta very usctul io et vs. Gcorg cumetanc’ t Mometimes they are placed lu wh- | ary thier Trove tee eat q male , euuhboriuod out of Heed ete maa eouls WeUoraRe | simple curlostiy, but tavariably, unless ths steainer reaches her dock ut an unusually early hour, there ure siwaya to be found ono ur more friends of passenzcrs in waiting. Those who have made acyualntances or frlendships on board o European steamer generally shake hands und bid farewell before Ieaving the ship, for every one has business to attend to when hie stepsashore. The passenuers come down tho gangplank dressed In theirbest. And here tt ts amusing to observe the duTerencu between tho forelgner arriving ou theao shores for the frat time and the native American returulog to tha land of hls birth, and boast, alter an absence of three or tour mouths amid the ctvillza- tion of Europe. The Ameri one who de native and to the mai atronizes the Custoin-House ricndly elap on the back and a requ: hrough, old man, as quirk as you lke and make me yours, truly.” The foreigneris usually Inutremorof apprebenston about bimself au: bla bagyae. Jost. The Itev. SH. Kellogy, of Pitsburg, who has just beeu called to be Professor of ‘Theology at the seminary at Allegheny, went to Tila asa inisslouary a doen years ago, He sailed from Boston fn a suillug ship. On the third day out the Captain was washed overboard in a sturio, leaving the ship {n the charge of an ignorant inate, who did not kuaw enough to stake bla reckoning. I'he slip was runuicg off her course hundreds of miles, and might huve gene to the bottom bag not this young mils sionary, then just outof the seminary, beets on board, who touk charge, aud made the dally ob- scrvations, and thereby navigated the stip io ety during the whole voyuge tu Ceylun,which luted Hse wouths, aud in which the disteuee traveroud was uearly half around the globe. —— Circulating Libraries, Provudence Juuruui. ‘The stock in trade of 4 circulating brary con- aisieltey of uovels, and of all uovel-writers This ts especially the case with Englishinen Ars. Southworth 1s must popular with this class | and Fi Meularly the latter. Tho of readers. Her bouks wre Worn out iu service, | Engllin ne and diguitied, but replaced and worh out avain, withuut the least J thery is uspicion fo bis mind evssatiun in the dewaud. Next in popularity | that the Yuu! * incan to cheat are the works of Mrs. Holmes, aud then rau bim, tneante eutrap him into dear hackucy coaches and dear everything elas. Custum- House Inspector dim striker was on duty when. @ steamer uf the Wilte Star Line came ia one morulug, Au Enullshman of portly wleu sud pronounced secevt descended the gangway, aud, approaching Jitu, sald: “Haw 2? © How t' ald Jim, Interrozatively. “Haw ? repeated the Eovlishman. SMy pane is Striker," retorted Jim. “Cus. toin-House Inspector, and if yer baggage ts the higtdy-cotored novels of Ouida and Miss Eval There ia a covolderable demaud for Dickeus’ works, aud occasionally suincbouy ven- tures to call for *Reullworth" or‘ lyauhue."’ Boys generally cake a course of Couper, and Fetire ov Jules Verne and Mayue Reid. bouk u week is the average ainopg regular custowera. There are sume who wlvuye want new books, It makes uu diferencu what tho book ts; if it is only Just out they want it, One of this class frankly explained Her motive nut ni long ayo. we 3 Ob, no, I don't read | what yer want jist p'l Y the bouks; that would be too tiresome. T just throwkinmtwotwan ou Soa Hi pueee look over the begtoning uot! I dad who the Hawi! ineaid the Englishman, puttlog characters are, aud theo Tread the ead. to sce one gluse lu bis haught: Bow they cow’ out. ‘Thea, if avybody aske we | auuulto a ae tate Ununltormed villa with = look of ineffable about the book, 1 say, ‘0, yes, Uvescen it,’ | disauin. “Potme through, eb! Hawt Got aud [tell how it ended, gud so get the credit | your Yunkee bowie-kuives; IF dessay, wad your of bung quite literary,” Augtics lady iy thus | Colt's revolvers, Haw wo through! Now, look heab, my good fellal, no nourense; | of no vunsense with a1 lishinan. I may like } cared to, your country when [ sec It, but no. bloody | slicing the living, threats like that. Here's hawf a sov'reign."" “Can't see it,” sate Jim. “Can't ace lt?” cried ‘the Englishman, tn astonishineot, “Why, bere It ts, right. under yout very nose! Cawn't see it! Well, deimme, it vou Inust be a most extrawdinar: Yankee.” “Too much elilu niusic,” replied Jin, in dis- gust, * You just add on fonr more like that, and I'll he a talkin’ to yer.” The Englighman took the hint, and his bucgage reached tht hotel that evenlug. The ladles coming from the other side havo n fearful time of anxiety unttl they are, tairly rid of the Custom-House officials, “Truth compels the statement that the ladles aro the chief and most inveterate smugglers. “ Have you anything in this trank, madam, lable to pay duty!’ aske the officer In the very politest tune of volce hy can command. “No, sir, answers madam, but in a heal- tating way, and then quickly adding, “ That fs, Thave a few lace collars, which [ suppose aro not what yor would call dutiabte.”” Oflcer (tapping the nall of his lett thumb with a picce of chalk, and looking fourteen dliTerent ways at once)—You will have to open the trunk, madam (they ina contplacent whis- Ren laves are jist sch “things a8 has to pay the eaviest kind o° doatics, Madam complies, with profound misgivings as to the fate of her lace collars. ‘Olllcer (driving Lis brawny digits, not alto- gether too clean, down among layers of snowy undereluthing)—You didn't mention, ma'am. iat Via had any pieces o” allk wong with the jaces Madam (all confusion and blushiag behind her cars}—Well, 1 dodeclare, if [ h’atut forgot. Yes, sir; but they arc dress patterns. You ver- tainty—you couldn't mean—you deuot presumo to charge for a few dress pattcrus! Olllcer (making anothor dive {nto the depths of the Saratoga and drawing hingself alomly up with three boxes of kid glovea at the end of his rizht arin}—Au' you forgut, ma’am, to nay any- thing about kid gloves (looking awfully, yet significantly, at madam), She has been there ‘before, and prescntly a Uttle pantomime Is seen tu take place. ‘There isamark of elutlk above the entrance to the oflicer'’s. pantatoons' pucket, the lady tells a small boy to call a cab, the trunks are’ relocked and Inacribed with the ofliviat cabalistle sign, and tn five ininutes “everything fs lovely.’? It isa very trying moment with the gentte- man who has tlic foreign material for tliree or four sults of clothes when the Custom-House oMicer (who has no mercy on any one he takes fora fashionable bachelor) drums on his trunk and slugs out, * Who is the owner uf thisi’« “Tam," half timldiy reaponds the owner, decree, their relatives. Which fs cruel. ufactures anil art. awards and drunkenness. wealthy, to pen of further than to state ling clie means trivering flesh by inches trom the bones, care belne taken to wound no vital part until the very Just, eo the victim may drain his etpof anguish to the dregs? The sane paper has an abstract of aflother Sentencing a pour wretch to alike fate for murdering Ws aunt aud a cousin In revenge for harsh language, and if we take the lista of punishments for Ike offenses approved by the throne, Wo are astonished to rec how frequently death by torture fa the fate of those who injure Honor th; mother seems to be the chief tenet of the Chinese faith, the one before which all others fink to nothingness, only they do not confine it to your direct progenitors, but cmbrace all your relatives, Including your mother-in-law, | Iv, But, asf death by tortura ts not confined to those ‘who murder alone, fur many anffer this fate whose erlme would revetye o penalty of a few brief Years tncarceration with us. sieht i ENGLAND AND AMERICA. The English Report on the Exhibition at Vhiinaclphia, The first-voluinc of the report of the British Commisstoner, Col. Sir Herbert Bruce Saud- ford, to the Centennial Exhibition, has been printed; and we are indebted tothe Philadcl- phla /*reas for the first full presentation of the verdict of an English jury tpon American man- Speaking of tho perfection of the American arrangements for the Exhibition, Col. Sandford states that the British fine-art collection, whose casn value was o million dollars, was brought ovor on on American Ilve of steaincre. mention {s made of the fraternal fceling every- where manifested between the two countries, and there {s satisfaction in the bestowal of 537 reports upon the $25 British exhibitors, and of 831to the representatives of India, Canada, and the colonies. Hazen notices favorably the police and sanitary arrangements, and praises the general lack of , Isnac Lowthian Bell contributes the report upon the tron manufacture. The frst Impres- | huped there may be found In the Ainerican de- sion was that in points in which England’ felt wok rd especially favored the United States was equally and could supply her own coal and fron, He draws a contrast between Enelish and Atmerican workmen, and says of his own country: ‘It ts a prisun-peo, adebtor’s prison, the department. Darld Meclfardy, who had the edge-tuol department. apeaks of axes. at leneth, eompariig our method and product of manufacture with England's to our advantage. Saws aro fully noticed, but England had no entries, and mention Is confined to the United States. Manyother kins of edgetonlsamd cutlery are described at length, and England certainly Hasan amount of valuable Information avant American manufactures slic nevor had “Lt swoutd be foolish," the report says, “ not to recognize the fact that at Philadelphia Great Britain was In face of her most powerful rival in Manufaciures, Of cortrac, America was at hone, and it was tobeexpected that her portion of the Exhibition would be more complete that that of auy other country. Ono thing. However, wis particularly etriking, mate: the bright polish of the American rexhibits in tho Main Buitding, especial- ly In the eutlery and edge-tool denartment, Americans were determined to show the world that they were In earnest, not only to produce astleles of first-class quality, but also that these articles shoutd be attractive. With reference to the classes referred te in thls report It mnst be allowel that fu table-cutlery, tools and eafes Atmerics wag before Great Drltain A atrenuous effort will be required from Sheeld to hold tts own in the taco of progress. The necessary knowlege exists; what 1s required is a thorough co-opera- tlon between masters and workinen; a result which will bo arrived at only from a complete understanding of the elements of politival economy. In all trade difticuitics and disputes, the general view of the question as it alfects the cominunity shoutd be coneidered a4 well as those uarrow and more special views that directly affect elther inasters or workinet, There seeing to be much attention patd in Armerica to the manufacture of tools, and the advertisements in the pertorlicals of the day bear constant testimony to the attempt which Is being successfully made to introduce American tuols Into Great Britaix. In our own country the principle involved lias tuo olten been nver- looked, and protubly those interested could not do betker than study the series of Uantor lect ures delivered by the Key. A. Rize in 1975, on this subject. In these lectures the aclentitl: reasons for the sliapes of tools are investigated father and thy tave often tal yon, Cordia Inspector Ina clear, popular manner. In sufe wave ufacture ‘America ty tiost active, which {s to be explained by there being doubtless h more demand for the class of eafe manufactitred there than we have tn England; stil, it f4 to pe opments lessous fur ourselves. The night of dullness in trade has not set cleared off, hut the streaks of dawn are beginning to appear. Letus sce that in Great Britain, at lesst, we are ready to enter {nto the competition in inanufacture with determination to maintain “What hava you Hable to duty?" a great charity workhouse.” fe touches, | high quality and correct form, never forgettln; “Ob, well," apoloucticallyanswerstheowner, | f courso, “upon the = —_queatlon of the national importance to tus of a recuguizes “just the makings of a sult of clothes,” tho tariff ‘+Let me see,’ demands the officer, when ho sees no doitceur furtheoming, and the next minute he fs haullve out cuough French clouh tokecp- Jones in decent apparel for several nothing by It. years, own island, “TT won't dc’? says the officer; must bo confiseated.”” Jones fumbles in his yest pocket, and no con- fiseation happens that time’ Tig humors of ocean travelare perfectly infinite, There sre Custum-Housc ofivers of such su- pernatural penetration that they can tell by the very looks of a passenger whether he has auy- thiog contraband about liltn. Aye, ‘even to telling the very character of the contraband.— whether it bo silke, Inces, clothe, or dlumouds, and value. industrial advantage. his attention, provess of Inspecting passengers’ baguage can- | Llc requirements. not fail to notice that the officer frequently does nothing more than glauce at the contents ofa trunk without disturbing It.and then chalks it off as being all O. K. When he does this he Knov’s his passenger. [ce has taken bis measuro with half an eve, and he feels he can afford to appear off-hand and inagnanimous without por- mitting avy Jose to the revenue. CHINESE CRUELTY, Inhomanities Perpetrated In the Flowery Kingdom, Correspondence San Francisco Chronicles Smanaitar, Junc 6,—In the District of Tien Men It has Ucen customary to use sinall cash na local currency, the Chinese cash varying in size from that of nn old-fashloned vopper cent to those now used. A large shop In one of tho villages took small casi in payment of cloth, bat demanded the large cash for salt and other articles; One duy a purchaser objected to pay the larger coins in satisfaction of purchascs, contendiig that small cash was Jocal currency, and thatthe shop had no right to make snex- | of the ception to the general rule, The wordy war waxed warm, and at last the shopman dragged off the purchaser to o petty official, who was his persona! friend, who decided at onco jn his favor and ordered the defendant to pay largo coal which he did, and then went to his f tatry at Oxford. Mr. Isnac Woatte, of the Unton, aff work the miost pat nelzhhors to complain how they were wronged by tho ofllcial and the shop, | out the The — excitement ross to oa regular | representation thus rot, during which tho offending establiaiment ) tile mannfacturca of was wrecked, andon the arrival of the Chict Magiatrate he was mobbed, the people requiring him to promise there should be but one Kind of currency inthe future, On pretunse of going tothlsollce to Issuc the proclamation he vs- caped to the provincial capital aud represented the village in a state of revolt. On this the Gur- ernor-Ucueral ordered a high mititary officer to take an escort and go and investigate the mat- ter, ‘The presumed Insurgents, hearing of the approach of tau troops, hung a banner far uy the road by which they would come, on whicl was {nserlbed: “Though urged thereto by tha | coutlued tu ther. offletals, still we will not revolt.” The soldiers kept on aud arrived at the villuro by dark to find It occupied by women sud enildren only, all the nien having ran away. Then bezana scene of pillage and horror {imposalble tu detalt, Little | though le children were torn frum their mothers’ arms tu | no less be outraged, the women aulfering like and worse indignitics, with the exception of one hundred and twenty who committed suicide to avoid the die qrace, They took uway crery article of any value, having even dug up the floors to seek treasure, dustry has to cases, to s\iperiority. ag regarda publisned in the Pekin Gazette, the Government organ, under date of Apel ‘2, as it gives avery abundantly vood {dea not only of thelr Justice but thelr | have imate law: © The Acting-Goyeruor of Shantuog ree | her toxtilo ported the triat and execution of Chen Szjc, a native of the Fang-Yih District, for the crime of purravide. From the evidence adduced at the trial, which bos been pending for some thne, it appears that on the Uth of April, 1876, the culprit, who up to that time had lived with his father on a fouting of proper tillal obedience, had sold a pear tree for 3,000 cash, and, bavin thia amount of ready money, was desired by ny father to pay, on his account, the sum of 50 cash, which the elder man owed at the yillaze baker's. Chan Sz{o proposed to walt a while Jonger, upon which his yer abused bln asa disabedlent son, seized ‘hopper, and rushed at him with it, threatening to kill bln. Chen Bzje defended himself as best ho could, but bis father continued tograpple with him until, at leugth, having possessed himself of ‘the weapon, Chen wie dealt a blow at his father unthiukingly, which laid him pros- trate ond Insenslble, with an fuclsed wound on | has nob the forehead, In great terror atthe consc- ences of his act, Chen Szje gave an alarm, evlaring that his father had been wounded by robbers, and some of his neighbors and relue tives hurried with the pag to make Inquirica, It so happen that Chen Szje was alone in the huuse ut the Line, as lily wifs was on # visit to ber mother, and be was able to conceal the real state of the case, After Ingering in a state of waconsciousness for three dhys, his father died, and he procecded of bis own motion tu have wou cutton go high compliment: ity, the lugenuity to exhibited, anim nang | existlog fn ¢ teu, and to pon iron, expected, inalntains that this country has gained A fall review of eur com) sup plics is made, and the country credited with its real advantages over all other, espocially his Ilv goes into detail with the fron production, gives quautitics of ore mined io the different districts and their constituents: The Missourl iron Monntaln ts given its place as a natural wonder ant great ‘The richness and punty of America’s anil Britain’s productions aro com+ pared tothe advautare of the former. aceintifle condition of the tron manufacture is reviewed, and the inachinery employed receives Ale finds, as Wwe have learned by experience, that between 1870 and 1875 the fran Anybody who has taken pains to observe the | production of the country was beyond all posst- Mr. R. H. Godin Smith, keeper of the British National Art Gallery, writes the report. on ceramics and glassware, giviug the first place to the Japanese collection, reviewing the de- velopment of the art in this couutry, and set- ting forth the merit of Amerlean pottory. OF | quleily our glass he says we may be cougratulated on having established the flint glass manufacture, ‘The ehemival departinent of the Exhibition Is treated by Willlam Odling, Professor uf Chem- flo docs not make compari- } a sons between national exhibits as a whole, but mentions spectaltics in which various nations exvel,—the pharmaceutical collections of this country being specially meritoriots. resident of the group of judges of tho class, ia author of the report upon textile fabrics. His opinion may bo condensed iu the following quotation: “The diferent fabrics prodaced In the nu- merous mills of the New England States, New York, Now sieragys and the othor great centrea ford a striking proof of thelr capability for entering into competition with the muntfacturers of other countries, If It wero not for the isulation which their protective pol- icy imposes, and by imcana of which they shut. ticinselves ont from tho general markets Tho eouds though not oll of equal pure, firm and woll manufactures, and notiveable forthe evenness of the yarn; and the excoltence of the weaving, the bfoa-h- Ing, dyelng and Anishingiof the yarions crates and styles of cotton cloth manifested a supe- rlority which fs altributubie, wm sone degree, to the abundance of excellent water found throuzh- Union. Tho extensive and complete shows the rapid progreas which tho cotton lu lu, und the vast proportions | that the which {t has attained, whilo,the character and. quulities of the goods prodtced! demonstrate that whenever the swauidlng-bands of proten. tion shail be burst asunder the rest uf the Wworkt will encounter s ore formidable compatitor than has hitherto appeared." In another part of tits report Sir. Watts rays: Creat a6 it has been inthe cotton imdustry of the United Stutes, as snown by thelr textile manufactures ab thia exhibition, ith Julged alone, und in rela- ton to former pertods, the Americ was coaspicuous, und proved that a high degree of perfection has been attained, collections, however, ruin other castutries, extensive, remarkable, claim at least to equality, if not, ‘iu some Hits wan iotaty thecase rout Britaln und the colontes, Cane ada, capecially, in sume of her manufactures, was cntitled ¢o pro-eniinence, and, os far as in- Leopy tho abstract of a decree of the throne pind has been represented in thia branch of industry, her well-earned reputation hus been malntaiued, That sho @ more exteuslye display of p manifactures Is ‘able, but nevertheless it was ouv of such rare excellence vs to excite general admira- tlon, aud atnply suflclent to convinea American competitors that free access to their markets endanger the mono: vis which they nuw possess, Un ull sides development an hasu been strikingly manifested, and more conspicuously su in sume cases than in otvers atl willbe ineplred with new Ife and funpulaes, which cannot fall to induce fresh elfurts tu excel fu the peaceful but glorious achievements of industry aad commerce, Mr Ilutse’s report upon textile ma- chinery states that no vation has a complete set of working machines for the manufacture of He then gives the Americans @ “As regards extent of invention and Ingenu- nited Btates was far ahead of other nations, Ido not remember an éxbibitor who some Seaturya of elation and as ness ot bivention and arrangement of mech- juc tu an older experience) the palm was judvment earned tur Great Britain, Lavirrearnt | extent of ingenuity and invention oe United States, and manifested throughout the Exhibition, l attributed to the Batural aptitude of the peuple, fostered and stimulated by an adinirable patent law and sya- he sppreciation of inventions by | tury a sort of offic! and, a8 was to be | superiority in our manufactures.” The report on American arina ts made by Maj. Noble, who was connected with the ordnance experiments at Woolwich. He mentions the best of the war appliances, Including ordnance, torpedoca, and simall arms, butsbeyond the ex- pression that our ordnaheo experiments were satisfa:tory, there {s nothing to rouse American pride when compared with Europeau makers. Kallway appliances, switches, wheels and brakes aro reported in by Capt. Doulas Gal- ton, He gives careful fiqures of the constrite- tion of ralls, track, and wheel castings, aml speaks favoranly of the automatic brakes, On- ly one of the locomotives on exutbitlon waa tot merlvan, bute full report of the pecullaritles of | construction and running In this country. is made, He 6 that American engineers are generally better educated than tho engineers on British rallways, Water transportation, hydsaulic apparatus and power, and the transmissign of power by belting, pumping, and metal working-touls aro all reviewed, sv that the geod points can be The seen. Sir dohn Hawkshaw, C. E., writes about our architecture and engineering, men- tons the principal structures of tho country, and rays our cnginecrs possess enough science and skill to iit them for the accomplishment of york they aro likely to undertake: ‘ome, ha aays, who visited the United States on a former ovcasiun, but so long ago that Chicago waa then but a village, and Phil- adelplia had not more than ono-half {te present popuintion, when its railways were oly be- giuntug to be made with wooden bridges and altnost temporary works, when its vast iincral wealth was nearly untouched, and wood waa burned where coal fs now consumed, tho astoulshing changes and vast procress aincemnade appear greater than perhaps they willdo to others whose visits have beon more frequent. However thismay be. what I wit- uessed at the Exhibition at Philadelphia, and in the districts I visited, Impressed me very strongly with the onergy of the peuple and the Yast resources of thls great country.” Atnerican {nyention In tho Hine of sowing- machines and agricultural Jabor-saving finple- ments fs noticed in-dotutl, aud well apoken ot. Tn art we could not oxpect more tin a notice of commendable toleration, and this Mr. Charles 1, Cope xlvos: “By far the most extonalve collection of plet- ‘ures Was contributed by tha United States, a judeed was to be expected, If the question bo asked, ‘What fs the charavter and quality of Anicelcan arti? it fs ditivult to tad an answer, because the visitor is puzzled by tho great va- rlety of alm and treatment. Tt Is svident artists lave mostly studied fn tho schools of Europes and “have return- ed home, bringing with them French, Bel- gion, or English taste ond incthods, and tre- quently ono finds that oven the subjects chosen are rather European than national. Besides this, many forclga artiste Mave pouw to the States, have becume citizens, and their works ure ranked as Anterlean productions, although they ure rather the works of forelgners, It 1s only fair, however, to say that thero are many exceptions to this general remark, as there uro some painters who have not been ‘Inspired? solely by torejen induence. Perhaps this want of originality is unavoldadle Ina very young school, aud thers are not wanting evidences of homo faspiratious, ‘These, however, are rather exceptional.’” Sir Charics Reed compares our educational aystem with his native country’s, and, of course, does not approach the subject with our Inbdorn prejudice tn favor of our system, En- gland has nothing to fear, he thinks, in fair competition with America. Ho gives inany star tistics of our ayeteny and suine criticlin; “Aa ao mattul of fact, every Northpro and Western State, except Maryland, has adopted a compulsory law of school provision. Buch has {te own Board of Education, to which It ts left to provide the funds ana organize the schools; but the bureau at Washington lias no power bo- youd that of collecting and tabuiating exhibited, quality, wero, for made of the tox tho United States not heen ‘an progress Tho ludicate a progress fully justifyligg ow might unquestion- Statistice. Ono disadvantage of this is regress | that there is uo uniform standard of this ts teaching, or inspection, or examination throughout the Untun; while a yet erover de- fect ls that autticient check Ia not exercised over tho inore Ignorant dist 7 dtr. Wiekershaia any reaauaee first lesson of the Exbivition that the poltey of plucing aa much power in the hands of the local school boards, as ls dono by our laws, haa its weak as wollas its atrone points, Amung Intelligent citizeus, alive to the interests of education, tls worthy of atl prateo; but where wn ignorant people, or a people wanting in public eptrit, elect achaol boards ilke themaciyes, no policy could possibly bo worse, ‘Atnerica has reaped theadvantazes of education in the quickencd Intellect, widely-iltfused ine formation, general sobriety, and tratned me- ebanival skill of ber citizens. That it ts that hae supported ber in every department of com- Tt merce aud art, and given backbune and fbre to NO 1 her nattaual life.” ee Anclent Japanese Journalism, Periodical publications fur the distribution of ewe oxisted in Japan at least seven contunes azo, according to the ‘Tokio /uace, [n the twelfth een- novelty and. nthe machines he regards} consummate: magus fT . tho remalna interred, employing couple of | the a peapla generally.’ arial acer cousiating ior tn en in. mendicants, whose naince are uuknown, to con Woolen and silk Hooda are reported upon by fisry reports, was common, '* Among the earliest vey the cottlatu a grave dug on his own land, | Honry Mitchell, of Bradford. Mucn of our wool- | of “thes, two known as Uji sala 4 an Two months later, two of his uncles, brothers | workin; of the deceusod, returved from a journey, and they then questioned Chen Scie with regurd to the alleged murder of his father by robbers, and to his paving falled to make « report to the au- thorities and solicit an inquest. Throwu lato confusion by this lnterrozation, he was una- bio to conceal the truth any longer, and having confessed the act be had committed he was denuutved tu the District Magistrate, and committed tu custady, A question aroie and was referred to the higher authorities regurding the necessity fur au inqdent ou the remalus, but, asit was cousiaered that decomposition must Dave act 1u, aud as the relatives who had come to the rescue deposed to the nature of the wound and the treatment they had resorted to in plastering tt with dour, while the other rels- tives of the deceased begved that she remains of their kfusiman who had soct so sad a fateemight, not te further disturbed, the late Governor, Ting Pao-cheng, sanctioned the conclusion of she trial without an toquest. The prisoner, bay- ing confessed his crime, was accordingly sen- tenced under the statute relating to parricide to suffer death by live efis (sticlng), and, as the scene of thu criine, although within the distance of 300 Ui, referred Lo in thestatute fs at the sane time separated froin the provincial capital by tho Yellow River, the law perilta, uoler theas circumstauces, thut executtuu take place at the provincial capital itself, ‘The sunteuce bes ac cordingly been carried intu ctfect, and the bead of the parricide has been forwarded to the scene of his crime to serve as e warning.” Could suything be more upjust or terrible than the fate of this man, who, be- causy he defended Limseif from the dilnd fury of another, ulbelt his own father, and iu car- rying out his natural fostinct of self-preserva- tlon, unwittingly and unwillingly deprived bis | artistic Gniah, Quher of Life, was made to muller anextreuity | they surpaseod than woolen system: facturers us such, color. The man demand, w! loss on the sale.’? upon priatii the porle that o0 such meri Of the small wachivery Is brought from England, snd be tudsthat American operatives work 6ixty- etx hours # week. whereas in England factory- hands work only Aity-stx anda ball. Ownlug to the bicher coat of living here, he does not think the operat ites aro in any better clrcumstances in Englaud. Our worsted trade has bean much increased, he concludes, by the high tariff, Ho gives a general view of thu whule “ Every process of the manufacture, from its earlicat stage to the fuished gov on under one nisuagement. wool-staplera, eal Get splunets, oF manu: ut al oue; consequently goods can only be pro- duced in large quautit! acturere do not de: roctly with the merchants or distributors of gouds, but they bave agcuts in must of the jarge cities, to whoin they seod their productions fur sale,’ The agente charge 3 cumuulssion of 5 per cout, with (oterest st the rate of 7 per cent. ‘Puls entails an additional charge on tho cust of tue yoods, aud tho system is couskiered to be Kee the traaeuitesion of such intellives mischlavous, as in wavy (nstances they continue Fora censorsalp of tie time would to produce goods forwhich there ts not an uctive | cal le they obtain advances from thelr aguote, snd ultimately suffer great pecuniary Bir Syducy H. Waterloo makes the report ng and buok-making, He praises highly the production of American paper-mills, | thelr subsistence b; lon of 1 machinery, and thioks | corded lu printing-presses was cover before collocted Lo one place. is but fairto the wanufactures o! Btates to say toat in beauty of desiza, and varieties of patterus, European exhibits in Konjaku monogatars etuod very promlocat, The former, Uji shat, war cailed from the aseumed name and Hue of thy author, datjin, He dwelt at io doin, now known os Nau sen do, in a house built by bimecif ou the wayside of a much: aquented public road. Welng mentally very active, though slugglab in body, he waa nut con- tentto lives wholly lite Iife, aod. beyan, 10 this comparative retirement, to write bie magazine. His opportunities promising. nor hie advautazgca 60 6 Sppear, Ile knew wiany pereous ani was known Wotill wore, aud it wae hls custom tu stop all travelers that passed by and gather from them ma- terial fue its wor! From this primitive clirvatcle of passing eveuts, manv details which src now found in Viton shi, a history of recognized authen- tieity, were dest ubtsined. ** Porioillcal literature of thle character fourish- ed fora considerable time, but it seems tu bave disappeared during the dftecuth and sixteenth centuries, —punsibly owlng tu the constantly ayl- ated state of the country, which wat adverse to the yrowth of letters in avory forin,—aud was not revived until siaost ZOU years azo, when the Tokugawa rule was @rmly eetebiished snd aco * charmed the sir‘ again. “The new vehicles e a4 the low were ied Yomsurl, o word which 18 brought inte use evalu iu tbo Fomiuri SAlndun, the must widely- clrculated of Tokio newspapers at thiaday. Thoy wore so celled from (he circuustence thst thuy were carried about the streets and thelr contents wore chanted. to an accompaniment of the saml- sen, by a vory bumble clase of persoug who gained ce by thie means. The svoute in tho Fol iri were sot dows in varse. and were chiely of a domestic end tragicsl or exciting deseriptlon They verbaps supplied tho populace the matter for 1» te carried There aro nu combined to of ono quality und 5 Lardware exbibit the reviewer, | With thas bigbly-epicud sort of intellectual nourish a ¢ t suppotud to Gonled nuw-s- the Hon. James Bain. of Glasgow, says that uy ee Teh tareers te the, Ager the Unite De awe. Bal or Nawe. tirely defclent in | other Shey gave notice of uilicial chance in the districts whutw they circulated, sod of promoious and informatio: degradations in rank... . ‘There n were uenaly printed fram wooden block rame manner an that followed until within the last three of four years; out, when fmportant intelll- Fonce wat nuddenly recetred, and needed to be bublished expeditiously, waten plates, and some- Unica slabs of mochi—a thick, pasty cako—were uted." a ALEXANDER. The Emperor of Kusnin in the Fietd. Correspondence Laniton Nes, Siuntrza, duly 6.—The headquarters of the Russian Emperor and of the Rusalan army aro both tor the present fn Alinnitza, and are close together, yet distinctly apart, Ibis the fashion of the latter to be practical, to be masters of de- talls, and to hold that the princes, noblemen, and gentlemen composing the former know nothing about ariny matters, and ara merely playing at.soldiering, Tho Princes, rfoblemen, and gentlemen of the Empcror's suite may own to thetsclyes that they don’t know a great deal, but tind compensation for thelr ignorance in the odor of majesty In which they abide, On the Ula to the right of the wretched hotel of Biin- uliza there is a Httle angular space, First comes a garden, or rather what was once a gar- den, Here, amid tethered horses, wagons In- numerable, and perspiring servants, are tho headquarters of the Grand Duke Commanding- fu-Chief. tfc and his staff abide in tonte, suffer from moaquito-bitcs, have to swallow not a lit- tle dust, and mess together in a big marquee— at least the staff docs; the Grant Duke hitnrel’ dines with the Emperor. Thelr location is the orchord of a chateau, whose hack front looks across the Danube to Slstova, and whose front opens into a sinovth, grassy Jawn, flanked on either side hy a row of fine old elms, This cha- teau and Jawn are close to the orchard, and be- yond st as one walks from ths hotel, The cha- teau is but a small fiouse for an Emperor, although enug quarters enough for a well-to-do boyard. The inain eptrance is the centre of the front, with the staircase directiy opposite the door. It is the coulest habitation in Simnitza, and the least dusty, facing as it does the wile sweep of the Danube valleys along which acool breeze blows when everywhere clec the heat is intense. Below the house the —abrupt- ness the bluff! has been lessened by art, amt on the slope is o pretty gar- len with vines grown on tretlis-work. In.an arbor of this Face the Emperor spends acood deal of his time. and @ great telescope has been set up there for him, through which he scans the opposite bank with much Interest and attentlun, He is very active notwithstanding the asthma which troubles lim, and he ts aseidu- ous t1 his vialts to the wounded, and In Inspec- tlons af the soldiery. A telegraph wire, veyed {nto an adjacent cowshed which dues dut: aga telegraph olllee, keews him acquainted with the intelligence of the world at large, although news coines somewhat scantily from the. out- lying portions of his own arny, the construc tlon of fleld telecraphs with a Kussian army on the march not being carried out with great’ en- terprise, although all appliances for the purpose are attached to cuch division. ‘Thus it fs known in the Imperial stall that the British Nect has sailed for Boalka Bay, before tue news of re- ported ichting outside of Tiruova has been confirmed. ‘The chief members of the Imperial sulte oc- cupy little square pavilion tents ranged ina double row under the old clm_ trees, and flank- ing the Jawa in Lie centre. On ins ana there are altrays some loungers, and gossiping groups drink tei sitting on stools talc tho teute, ‘The venerablo [’rince Suwaroff fs very constant ty the fawn, and ready for a talk with all comers. Amon the inost frequent of his com- pantuns {a the keen-faced Prince Menschikof, aud Gen. Lgnatlef ovcasionally lounges out from lls coul tents, with bls books and papers, grams aud play at strategic apesula- tion. wd the outbuildings flanking the chatcaw [so fleld whero thera arc also Princes; he of Mingrella, @ Jate comer, fanext the dust of the road, and Col. Wellestey, the British attache, when In hia bath, has to defend himaclf from the strennous attempts of bis horses, tethered to the yehicle of which his Httle tent isa Gepeulency, to drink the water (n which his manly torin is linmersed, On'the lawn {s the marauce which Constitutes the aultea-manyer, Oceastonally the suite eat at tables set out on the lawn in the open alr, in tho full view of the wayfarers on the adjacent road, and in the enjoyment of eddies of its fet- lock-alecp dust. Sometimes the Emperor eats nt one, Hut for tho imust part he dines with his suite. A very interesting episode occurred the other day. In the middle of dloner wero heard tho strains of the Dead March tis “Saul,” for both the hospital and the churchyard, where the wounded who die are burled, aro nigh at hand. ‘The Emperor inquired if that waa not the funeral passing of the young artillery ofcer who. was drowned by the foundering of ‘his pontoon during the crossing, and whose body waz recav> cred four days later some distance down the river, Belng fold that (t was so, bo at once ruse, and, with the Grand Duke and all his suite, walked to the quaint aud pretty little church where the funeral service was being per formed, He remained during the whole of its erformance, lasting for au hour, and then went luto the porch, where the graye had been made, and stood by the head of the coftin while it wos being lowered into the earth. On the following day all the Turkiah prisoners were brought from the guard-room on to the lawn just as dinner was finished. A guard of Russtan infantry were formed {n a circle around thei, with fixed bayo- note und cartridge pouches opened. The poor devils no doubt puought they had been brought outto be shot, and that toclr last hour bad come. Tha Emperor, with his dragoman, went among them, talking fatnilinrly to them and aak- ing questions, The Nizamns answercd him witha atraichtforward frankness, which might Indeed be called bluffness, Tuey tuld hl that they had not Fecolvadin pariny of pay for the last six and tienty tnonths. In answer to his question whether they were aatistiod with the food they were now xetting, they replied that they hat never lived su well in thelr lives; and one fcl- Jow—he must have been @ sneak ain a syco- phant—adied that he was heartily glad that he had been taken prisoner, for he was tired of hard Hying ond no pay. Tho officers of the suite weut among the’ prisoners distributtn cigarettes, which the prisoners, with the mos! perfect ease af manner, lighted at those between between the lips of the ofiicers, and it was quite a happy family. The Emperor, avother evening, visited o couple of Bulgarians in ao adjacent hospital, who were brought {n miutl- Jated by the Turks. Qne IMes comatose, with flsticad stove in and feartully shattered; the other {a not so much burt. Both thelr wives aro with them. {ls Majesty has proinised two gold pieces to cach mun wounded fu the war, Sud the money has, I bellove, been distributed to those alre: ly wounded, Turmorio va. Chromate of Lead. Prof, Iouchardet, one of tho mombers of the Council of Hygiene, Parie, haw directed public at- tentlon to suine of the forelgn preserved meats 1m ported inte france as being unfit fur human food andin many casea positively dangerous, He dea- {gnates especially w kind of ham imported from merica, which te usually enveloped in a cloth anturated with a yellow substance, which, on ox- am{nutiua, proved to be 8 chromate of lead. a dvadly puison, ‘The Professor suggests in regard to this, thatif the American purveyors prefer to 'ycllaw envelupe around the allmentary aub- ces they export to foreign countries, the chro- mate of lead inay be replaced by any uther yellow substance—turmerte, for instance, which ts known to Useutirely barmle: —————— One of the met wise and brilliant descriptions of King Sulomon ts that of the contrast between met two upposiny types of women of cardinat differonce betwoon the curr Classen of to-day 1s, that one patron: makers altocether, and the other takes Andree’ Bazar, and doea much of het work at home. She can this dress elegantly, and wave ber husband's purse, Sond 10 cents to Cincinnat! for specimen copy. Os BIRTHS, WOONS—July 20, to John snd Esther Woods, a son. Mother and child doing well. ee ate nnnvenne 0 Rn Rone WALSIi—In this city, July 20, Anu Waleb, wife of Thomnss Walsh, from ‘congestion of the brain, aged 07 yeare. Fuueral from her late residence, No. 100 North Halsted street, at 10 o'clock a, m., Tuesday, Jul Bt, to bt. Steplien's Church, where snlema hig mass will be held, thence by cars to Calvary Con- elerr, (47° Cleveland papers picese copy, BATES—Laurs A. Dates, wife of James B. Bates, Sunday moral B o'clock, aged 28 yeate, Torn in Nova Sco! Funeral Monday, June 40, from her late resl- dence, No. 404 Fifth avenue, at 10 o'clock s. ma. £27" lslifax papers please copy. STUCKERTOn the woralng of July 20, Joseph tac daly Funeral from bia late resldeuce, No. 1155 Mil- Waukee gvcaot ‘Tuesday, the iat iust., at 10 O'clock a. m., by carrlaxes to Graceland. “Wrivnds end relatives of the fambiy Javited. HOLMES—July 28, ab 12 w., Beary Prencis yon of Alfred and ‘Christine Holmes’ aged 10 months and 5 days. Funeral from No. 1052 Wilcox avenue, Monaay, July MO, at bp. oo. SCROGGS—At Champaign. 111., at 48, m., Sat- urday, July 28, Fannle, wife of George Scroggs, editor of the ‘CAampaiga County Gasete, aged sbout 28 your J,, youngest daughter of Will- lam IL and Loulse Mortis, Vuneral Monday, July JO, at 2 o'clock p, m., by careto Hoseni!l. Fricads of the family are in- vited without further noticu. _. MEDICAL: are k's Sen Weed Tonite. In tho atmosphera experienced bere during the summer months, the lethargy prodnced by the head takes away the desire for wholesome food, and fre quent peranirations rednce bodily energy. partien- larly thone anffering from the effects of debilitating aiscases. In orter to keep a natural henithful activity in the system we must retort to artificial means, For thls purpose Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonle I vere effectual, A few dosca will create an appotite and give fresh vigor to the enervated body, For dyapepals, It 1s invaluable, Many eminent phyniclans linve donttert whether dyapepsia can be permanently enred by the drugs which are generally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed Tonia in Ite natnto in totally different from anch deujze, At contains no corrosive minerals or acida; in fact, At nealats the reyilar operations of nature, and aup- plies her deftciencies, - The tonic In ta nature 80 inch rerembles the castric julce that it ia almost identical with (hat finld, ‘The gastric Jalce is the natural solvent which, in a henithy condition of the body, causes the food tobe digertert; anil whem this juice {# not oxercted In enficient quantitier, Indigestion, with sl] Ite dletressing symptoms, fol- low. The Sea Weed Tonle performs the duty of the gastric jutco when the latter {e deficient, Schenck's Sea Weed Tante old by gli drngaiats, ————— Lees Jul rUnrivaled for tha VTollet cand the ath. Ne artide cial and deceptiva ouora tourer eowmon and dele sneredi- ente After year tardof rctentifc: ex. ee periment the man. ufacte er eS a: i ig Dest Soap has perfected, pable he RINE. TOILET GAL. in ravtd, Only the purest Vegetadle Otis used maniyacture, For Use in the Norsery it Hes No Eanal, Worth ten times lia cost to every mother and family tn Christendom. Sainple box, contalning 3 cakes of 4 ounces each, sent {ree to any address.an recetpt of 73 cente. Atldresd B,T.BABBITT, New York City, FOR SALF BY ALE DRUGGISTS A PERFECT TOILET SOAP, First among tho renutisites of the toilet Ik a goad article of Soap, but to prucure {tin not always ao caay matter, Many of the most expensive Suays fa thin mars Ket are made from coarse and deletortous materials, and thefr delicate coloring and fragrant pertame tuo often conceal the most repulsive Smpuritins, The disclosures Tecently made pnbite remading this mbject are pow. tively startling, and slexerve serious consideration. Scented Soapa nre now known tu be extreincly objec: Hfonable, eaneciatly {f applied ta the heeds tnjuring the hatr, trritating the svaln, aud Inductog severe heads aches, The character of tho toxredients may ba Inferred from the statement of agenticman who makes the wcenting of Suape bis business; he recently dectared that Persons enraged in thle employineat wera short-ltved: froinseven to ten years being the longest period during which the occupation could be followed. Thadiniculty of procuring & perfectly pure, article of ‘Tollet Koap teat Inst obviated, however, thanks tu ths enterprise and chemical skit of str. i. T. Hanntrr, of New York, tho world-renowned Soap Mauufactuter, Pihope immens esrabitshment te by far the largest of Ute Kind fn tho United States. Ths renown of Mr. Nanutrt's various productions has for tnany years been whiely dis. seninnted, but this latest success [a the approprinta crown to the nurneromy rictorica already aciieved. ‘After veara of paticut Iabur an-tactentine experiment Mr. Bannitr has succcorted in perfucting te compoa- Mon of the finzettullct snap ever introdi-ed. The priu- elpal inzredienca are the purest yexetable ofia: the man. ufacturing procemwa aro entirely new and original. wid the result la slinply unparalied in this departinent of in- URTY,, "4, T, Bannirrs TOLRT by wolch tits clogaat totict fOr application to the delicate 9 enildeen, and ladies, ta altogsthur nine: 1 muilfent ropertiea. The Susp a not perfuened, the tngredienta Ing of slich absolute purity 88 to requlre Ho at fri cheuiletey touiazaise infertor materials, The inost. re fined taste considera the absence of artificial perfume Une perfection of aweetnear and the peculiar enorsctere ic of BT. Rabbitt Tallet Bonp renaens Ye tha most healthful and agreeable article of tho kind ever manu- factured, "Though avecta‘ly destrablo for tho use of ladies and children, this soap §* equally appropriate for wente~ men‘atollet, wn ualt makes aleayy isther tls sa one Gfithe ioeet soaps far bariers' use. Wt is. ust beta laced upon theinarket, but tlie demand for Ie wills soa coins general.—Aew York Tribune. B. T. BABBYET. New York City. OAR" [4 the trade-mnrig ia dealer and AUCTION SALES By GLO. P. GORE & CO., 3 and 70 Wabash avonie, ‘Wednesday, Aug. 1, at 9:30a.m, We shall sell at Auction a i’rime Lot of Boots, Shoese Slippers To which we invite the attention of Retallere. GEO, VM, GORE £CO., 8 and 70 Wabash-av, Opening Fall Auotion Sale Men's, Women's, and Children’s Rubber Boots & Shoes Wednesday, Aag. 22. Wo shall make this solo A COM- PLETE ONE of ALL STYLES end of GUARANTEED GOODS, FUL- LY WARRANTED. This salo will bo followed regularly by others, and dealors can rely upon filling their orders for any style of Rubbers at prices not obtainable olsowhore. GEO. P. GORE & CO., 68 and 70 Wabash By ELISON, POMEROY & CO., Auctioneers, 78 and 80 :tsndoiph-at, For Tuesday, July 31, at 9:30 a, m, AT OUR STORES, under Chattel Mortgage, ONE ELEGANT SATIN PARLOR SUI, Cost $850, Inlaid Table, Banded Lxtenston Tablo, Book Cr je, Hide Hoard, ke, A Yarge lot god and Wool Carpets, General Mouschold neral Sorchandise, éc., &c. ___BLISON, POMETOY & CO. WM. A, BUTLERS & CO, Commision Auctioncers, 1aaou 150 Wabash-ay. MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS AT AUCTION, TUESDAY AFTELNOON, Jut at oar sajesrooms, 114 WH. A.B! i BUTTERS’ WEDNESDAY SALE. auauer 1, AT 0:30 O'CLOCK A. st, WHITE AND YELLOW WARE, Glassware, Oil Clothe, Carpets, Wines, L hes Atthelrestesrooms, 118 & 120 Waliashi- BUTTERS’ THURSDAY TRADE SALE. DRY GOODS, WOOLENS, CLOTIIING, THURSDAY MORNING. Ay 330 o'clock, At Butters & Cu.'e Auction fooms, second fuor, Far Merchanta will always dad ealabie goods at these I Propsrt aS Dwelling and Lot, 93 South Jefferson-st, Dwelling and Lot, 95 South Jeflerson-st. RS CO., Auctivacers_ RADDIN & CLAPP, 83 & 85 Wabash-av., Will bold a large opening Full Trade fale of BOOTS. SHOES & RUMBERS, TUESDAY NEXT, July ‘it. ‘This sale will be peremptory, and comurise 450 CASES HUBBERS, embracing all kins. © Also 500 CASES BOOTS AND SHOES of Se quality for retail trade, of all the latest styles, mcludios heavy BOOTS, Fancy Slippers, dc. Ke.. ac. Bale to commence prompt at 10 o'clock HADDIN & CLAPP, Auction By ROSENFELD & MUNZEI, ‘Auctioneers, 42 and 44 Madison-at,, near Wabash-ay. Special Auction Sale Tuesday, toraing. uty gi, ot 10 orelock ahiarp. Catslontce ready mara gett OSE: D & MUNZER, Auctioneers. CONFECTIONERY. CELEDIATED throaghau the Union—ezpressed Lo all parts, 1 sod upward ab 25, 40, 60c per B. Address orders GUS'THKLL, Contee- (ones, Chlaso.