Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1878, Page 5

made by a lightning lonz-hand reporter at Mon- treal many years ago. Mr. Gouon denounced the practice of treating, on the ground that It Jed young men to drink to oxceas and to spend more money than they could afford to spend, or ped contemplated soending, Tha lightning Jong-hand reporter thus defined tho position of the Apostle of Temperance: *Mr. Gouast sald he objected to treatiug in saloons—it cost so much ! —— Mr. EVAnTS says that the American Mintster to England has to spend from $30,000 to $40,000 year more than bis salary to enable him to represent the United States with duo social eclat, While e arc cutting down salarles, It {s worth noting that Gormany hasraised the ealary of her Minlster to London from $30,000 to 437,600, Princo Biswanck defending thelncreaso on the ground that an Ambassador must enter- tsin, anddeclaring that, if the representatives of the people persfated in reduclog; tho ealurlcs, they must expect the diplomatic service to be monopolized by memters of the arlstocracy with smplo private fortunes, ———— What o touching picture of life in the calm and classic academic groves of Princeton, N. J., {s afforded in this extract from the evidence of Janes 1. DARLINGTON, a student In the Tlco- foglcal Beminary: o found the mata in the hall burning from the gre of the crackers. When he heard the nofse in {¢ ball and aald_*“Cet out of hero," a Junlor ro- plied, *>Come on down hqg«. you Seminole, and we will break your head.™, o threw fine coal at them; when he heard some’ ome call **ileip! help! They are ponuding FIRpLAY—they have Lroken his pote;" ho went out in the darkness with hia shot- gun to frighten the Jupiors, and when seminary students tried to take it away from him to use If, he “uuln not let them do 80, fearing they would treit. ——— A wine-grower In the Gironde, France, has discovered & means of getting rid of the phyllox- cra, which has Inflicted such severo I temporary injury on the viuc-growers of Europe. (We oy it temporary,” for lato advices show that the vincyards destroyed by the pest have begun to recover and are cxceptlonally promising.),| Aparasite of the strawberry plant has been found to woge o war of extermination against the phylloxera, and, where the strawberry s grown among the vines, the viues remain untouched. Amerlcan vitieulturists may profit by this intimation. ——— We heve been nnxlously scannfog the New York Sun for some days in the expectation of reading some harrowing revelations from In. disuapolis concerning the President’s title to office, but our apprchensfons are belng gradu- ally allayed as day after day passcs, and the conviction is forced upon us that HENDRICKS hasrefused to be interviewed by the Sun cor- respondent, whose pllgrimage to the shrino of the Western Democracy was rather loudly, not to ssy prematurely, heralded. A New York Judgo has sent an adventurer who marricd a weak-minded girl to jail for per- jury, yet in his summing-up tha same Judge #ld of the girl: “Undoubtedly she sworo to what she know to bo false. She contradicted herself, nnd was often disconmected.” To an impartfal observer up a remoto tree, it would appear as It what 1s sauce for the fox should also be sauce for the goose. —— An Alabama college-student has had a little diMculty with a clagsmate and blown a hole In him In o way which all cdmired at the Inquest. 1t this accomplished young Alabamfan should 1ot be hanged, and if s more accomplished young Alsbamian daes not get the drop on him, he may yet live to got drunk in Congress aud whale an unarmed Scnator, e ——— Gov. Lercuen, of Kentucky, is sald to have worked as a stone-mason on the Exceutive Man- slou which as Governor he occupled later inlife. Bl your soul, that's nothing, * Boss® Twenp mado about 10,500,000 out of the new Court-Ilouse fn Now York, andless than five years afterwards he was tried and scutenced in the same bullding. 3 —————— The Honorablo Mister B2anp, the Labor-Ro- former who represents the Labor-Reform stronghold of Chemung in the New York Leg- Isiature, bas Introduced a bill to cut down tho County Judge's salary from $3,000 to 81,600, (P. 8.~He Lus aleo voted,ogatnst reduclog his own salary.) e —— The Natlonals of New York may make an im- portant factor fu this fall's clections, Of 848 rural Bupervisors elected this month, tho Re- publicans have lost 19 snd the -Democrats 47, the Greenbackers ealulig B4, the Workingmen 9, the Independents 2, and the Probibitionists 1. — One of tho cream-cheesy weekly newspavers of London has perished—the Tatler, which pub- Yislied BWINDURNR'S serial lust year. Ita edltor and publisher havo {ssucd o pamphlct oxplana- tory of the circumstances which led toits do- mise, ————— The cable Informs us that Europe s beginning to learn that tho Priuce of BATTENBUNG is ta be tho Russtan candidate for the throneof tho vew Principality of Bulgarla, Tua TRIBUNE told ita readers all about that weeks ago. ——— The bright shinjug candidate looms up numerously In Texas. At the coming elections there are about two thousand ofices to be dls- poicd of, and there 18 an averago of twent: caudldnzc'n for each place, e 7 ———————— Chicago Is Porkopolls. —Cinclnnatl Enguirer, It 1s opolitan In varlous other respects, and will continuo 0 to be, notwithstandlog the jeal- ous assanlts of St. Louls, Tolcdo, snd one or two other small towus, l Mr. Brvenaos Douvarss, of Virginta, be. longs, we bolleve, to the Bourboa Democracy. 4 A horse-flesh restauraut fs to be opened lu London, Meals will bo served u In cart, PERSONALS, | 8ir William Jeuner hos resigned from the Britlsh Medical Association becausa ho disapproves ©f the share women are pormitted to tuko In its Dbroceedings, . Prof, Bamuel Lockwood will have in the Avrll Popular Science Monthly an Wlustrated artye tlo on tho cncalyptus tree, its botsnical charace tere, distribution, growth, medicinal and lnduse trial uses, cte. Mr, Pentocost, the Evangolist who is fol. lowing up Mr. Moody's work in New England, breachies thrico dally and four times on Suudsy, Mr. Moody says that his fellow-laborer could, ::lhuuc exbaustion, preach elghs or nine sarmons Ly, O'Leary’s namo {s not among thp entrios for the six days® walk at London for the $3,750 in Prizes given by the sporting Baronet, 8ir John . Astley. Tols ta a Hitlo odd, for when ho salled from New York the Chlcago representative sn. Bounced bls fnteution of competing. The two children of the Rev. H. J. Brucs, Of tho American Maratbl Mission fn Bombay, & boy of 1 and girl of 11, have done she composl- ton-work of their father's book on ** Anstomy, Hunian und Comparative.” The book Is au oc- %4v0 volume of 264 pages, and the brinting Is de- scribed ax moat creditable. The father worked off 1he book on a smsll amateur press in bis own bouse, 1t the late A, T. Stowart could bave looked 13 upon the Burrogate’s Court in Now York last Tuesday ho would have beon surprisud ac the army 9f persona thero gatbered. and sl cloiming to be ba relatives and entitled tosharcs in bis nroporty. Tu bla lifo he ofien sald that bie bad nu beirs or kin S3cept his wite, but no sconer was he dead than Score of clalmants spraug up and prepared tocon- feat tho will. 1t is not Iicely that they will getany Watlsfscuon, The second part of Hugo's ¢ Mistoire d'un Crime™ will be hore mext week. It contalus two Books, the first dovoted to a description of the cres In the stroets of Purls, witn which con- cluded the coup d*elat, the second to e downfslt of the Ewpire st Sedan. ‘They who recall the W‘fu"nl picturos of the battlc and the barcicsdes In **Log Migerubles, " will § tho publication of 18 volume with lively datessat. THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. An Isle of the Sea in the Shadow of the Tropics. Land of Pare Delight for Repose, Rec- reation, and Health. Some of the Wonders Under and Over the Sea. A Winter-Oarden Undor Water—The Ne- groes and Their Habits, Speelal Correspondence of The Tridune, Nassau, N. P,, Feb, 26,—I doubt I one reader in & hundred oot particularly posted in our sea- coast geography could tell off-hand where tho Istand of New Providence Is situated. Iused to Lave an {dea that tho Bermudas snd Bahamas ‘wera 80 close together that navigators tried to avold one without golng ashore on the other, and that both were dangeraus in stormy weather. But here I am only five daysirom Now York, only forty hours from Savannab, CUa., or thirty hours from St. Augustine, kla,, right in the inidst of the Bahamas, with the “tvexed Bermoothes ! far off "to the northeast, Although we are apparently on aunother con- tincnt, In another climate, and snrrounded by acores a8 unilke onything American as possible, yet wonre nearer to American soll than Chicsgo fa to elther DBuffalo or St. Paul. Tho Bahsma lelands comprise a large group, sud, as anather ovidenco that small things should not Lo despised, this Island of New Providence (on ‘which Nazsau i8 situated) is ono of tho smallest in tho gronp, but it has on excellent harbor, and possesscs g0 many pecullar ndvantages that It s’ the molldln;paruln;lnlh lherg B{"hr:l‘{:’;‘ ears, and the establuhment of 3 zommunlulmn with New York and Ea wan 8 {erra_Incognitad to all eave blockade-runtiers, and coasters, bul now riscsio tho height of af veritable santtarium for the American Jl!ap]e. It {0 to the United States what Madelra and ltaly and Egypt are at this senson to the people of Eutopg— nfiy-vzn of rest, health, pleasure, and recreatlon, the most delightful of ail places to dresm away a few weeks' or months' existence ond to enjoy the relaxation of muscles and mind, which are ‘often essentinl and alwaya agrecable to tired bralns and bodies, FINST IMPRRSSIONS OF TROPICAL LIPH. The trip hither, elther direct from New York by the steamer Carondelet, or by the San Jo- cluto from Bavannab, Is a pleasure fo itself for anybody who cau enjoy a sen-voyage of four and o holf days, ora day and a half, without thinking too much of tho wmalde mer, which is tho banc of must voyages. Aster the sccond day from New York tho aie changes from a cold, blustoring atmosphere, and the eea from s rough and chopplog wave, to soft and balmy breezes, and and s smooth, rolling ses, without discomfurt or seanickness, From Savanoab it s o pleasurg-voy. ogo of unsurpnssed eplendor, and 1 can think of nothing equaling It save a summor-voyage on Lake Michigan on ono of thoss bright mnnnllfin ave: nnys 80 comman in July and u!nll. There { novelty and refreshment in breathing thle sal laden atmosphere as the steamer bowls along, and to the landsmen it contradicts all tho preconcelved opinions of what o sen-voyage produces, Itisa cuntrast to any othier exporience In steawboating or rnllrfllfltnk’whlch charm tho imagloation. As wo approach tho lalaude, the sen changos from its magaifcent bive to s gt greon, and the distant polm and cocoanut trees and specks of rocks and Ereen spous rising fike Vonne from the sen ‘' Ehing of vaatity, " fairly captivates the 80ul In nd: vance of a closcr inspection, ‘Thess rocks and Iulets are indeed dangerous things to Jnspect too closely, and bence our wary Captain gave thema wide berth and brought us to an anchorage iIn this harbor to increase our -urflrhc- and pleasuros, Tho harbor is almost landlocked. The entrance {8 narrow and the sca cut off by s long and low strip of lond, called Hog Island. THR PIRST BIGHTS ON BIORE. Retnombering that this fsland is not actually with the Torrid Zone, but almost exactly on the dividing llne, we were at firat surprised to find 80 many ovidences of tropieal life. We wero met on shoro by what scemod to be the entire negro population of tho place (but we found out later thot thls was a mere drop In the buckot), and the antlcs of the chicks, and jabbering of the clders, and tho sight of thelr economy fn dress, taught us early that wo wore In the land of sum- mer, Tho chief boto), the Royal Victorin, a fino and showy building, butlt by the Colonial Goy- crment for visitore, 18 delighttully Jocated. its front aro spocimens of ~the banyan trce, pulms, oranges, ete. As wo rode through tho ots the white limestono pavements and hou sut out the grean follnge of the trecs and bright flowers of every color, hore nmwlnr 1o the dienlty of trees oud immensd vines, sa vivialy that 1t was snothior case of ** Wonder-land " to ali of us. ‘Thero Is nothing more strikiog in this reglon than the wenlth of vogetation which faltly runs riot. Our Bouthern States Lave somo of these characteristics In enrly spring, but hero it s ta euch cxcoss that thers sooma {0 be no limit to it capabllity. The appearances aro all tropleal, snd, unti! one becomes acquainted with the variety, are fairly dasing to the Nortbern eye. SOME OF THR FRUITS OF THE SEASON. Desldes tho oranges, lemons, pineapples, and bananas, which we have at lhome, and all of which grow here in wild profusion, aud arc ns cheap ns dirt (Indeed, cheaper, 28 soil is valu- able), we found & varicty of native Irults which were mostly new. Among them arethoguavas, good for jelly, but poor inn raw state: sappa- dillo, a amall fruit viry awect to the taste; grape frult; custard apples; tamarinds; star apples, and others, Maugoes ripen later, The sour-sap le n favorite; 1t lookn like a blosted cucumber. but the taste 8 lmlsnd. Anybady with o llking for frait . may, _indeed, uratified hore, for steawberricy ripon early, aud sil orts of frults can bo had at almoat any time of year. Then the array of early vegetadles—tomatoes, green peus, beans, new poiatoes, otc.—becom common o surfclting. In one word, the contrast botween 11fe hiero und 1ife in our American Northorn States, nt this season of the year, Is uo yreat that we mey almost wor.der that thouxands tnstead of hundreds do uot migrate Lither avery your. I would rather In . atuy at honie in the summor and steau than (o miss tliese opportunities in tho winter und carly speing. But people do not come here to cat—tliose who 40 that can -(n( at home; the charm of the place 1% ity delfcious dreamy atianaphere, laden withi the perfumes of flowers and fruits, tae soft alr of the sea, and the pluasure of existence with- out au eAlort, THX NEGRO FOPULATION, Why whits folks should regard it ns s sto for a negroto loungeand loll about theso limcstono streots, wolle thev, the aforesald white folke, do the same thing, 1s one of those Incomprehensl- ble mystegles wa used to explain fo the Bouthern Btates on the assumption that the darkeys were born to work. . You who bave Lecn in Dixle before andaluce the War, may imagiue you know some= thing of the density of the colored pooulsilons. thers used (o bo war-maps of Mivatsaippl whoreln lisaquona and = other counties . wore whaded darker tusn others, to indicate that there~ in the ~colored man vl did congregat but it secws to me that f Ni wernmunlflln, 128ippt, that fusaquy 4 appear In white by the side of i1, i‘m darkeys bere ura omnipresent; they meot you everywhare, on land and wator, Around the' water they veritable ball wun and half flsh, aud one of most tudicrous sizhts In the world s ¢ roungsters, with scerco s rag on_th ;udlu. dlving for pennies or nickels, 3l‘h » dow fa!l to calch the coin before it touches bot. tow. lu the strets they tessw you jucessantiy for **a few coppurs, boss,™ and u{ to every concelvable productof this faland tlowers, shells, tosects, huge centivedes, pri served taruntulas, and other pets. Thoy lovuge, and walk, and airt, and jubber like a lot of won- keys, and ara o onconsclous of belng & nuteance 88 11 thuy had & pateut right from Licaven lo make sl the nolse they please. WUERE THEY LIVE, Tnspite of thess drawbacks, one of the most plcturesyue sighits on tho tsland (s the howes of the darkeys. By a curfous colucldence lu names, their chlet suburb s called Granitown, after Geu. Grant, whom the Nussau darkeys eyident- 1y hold In decp roverenco as the deliverer of their Awmerlcan kinemen from slavery, Granttowo is fudeed a singular place, at once the picture of des- olatlon nnd the homs uf every species of viue, bush, ahrub, and climbiog-plant known to any gm ©Of the world, growiug in spite of the lazy in- abltauts. We sawmany of their thatched cottages almost ready (o tumble down, bat nestled umid Lauanas, cucosnuts, vranger, Tei 4, aud tatae sind treew la the fondest matner,—a combloativn which 1e suggestive of what preity efects could bu bad it the enterprive of the people weie equal to thg gifte o e, The darkuys live la the wost primitive style, Some of th direct descend- ants of o geny of liberated slaves, buard an African slaver about furty brought Liere by & Biritlsh oian-of. b0 survivors of that day are still alive, them (s descrived by °the local uuthoritiea as s **Queen.' Sho le troated as such by ber neighe boré, sud cnjoys oos privileke of a Quecu, vis. : hwmuaity from work, which allaches to o mnany of ber slaters. The scom 1o thrive o fdluness, but there are some awuny them who sro bard workers, aud have acquired's moderats competence by toctr labor. . TUR FEOPLE WLIO ARE HERE. With a monthly stesmer direct from New York, and & scini-mouthly’ packet from Savans s 1s to stop here fur ono THE CHICAGO 'l‘RlilUNE: MONDAY. MARCIH 18, 1878, e — e e pah and Bt. Augustine, the tide of travel is at lcast regular. The steamera are staunch, sea- worthy vessels, and the passage (s rapid and comfortable. There arc now probably aix or seven bundred Americaos, about evenly divided asto sexed, staying hera, The Itoyal VicldMa has sboot ona hundred and ifly guests, and the bLalance ara reattered thirough thetown. They compries chief- Iy people from New York and New England, with 2 sprinkiingof Westerners. and a haif.dozen from Chleago usd Mliwaukee. A fevorite teip steamer _and liayans the nest trip, to New Orleans In teason or the Mardl-Gras festivities. Probadly over a thousand Americans have peen here since Chriat- toa¢, some remaining, and the rest golng to Caba forback to Florida, The visitors are nearly ail cople of means. Many of them coma for pure en- {nyment ond others for tho improvement of calth; hat 1t 18 by 1o meant a resorl for invalids slone, lixe tome of tho Soutbern eptingsat this season. The soclaty te very agreeable, and tho < of visitors makes it casy to become acquaint. ed, - The white pcople of the town strive tu tmake everybody as Liappy As powsible, The Governor holdu levees and receptions, the hotel peonlo give Tiops, the military commandant facrniehes mosic lflg res -glfld!. and daring the months of Feb- ruary and March there Is an ehdlese varlety of en- tectainments and amusements to employ the timo and sttention of sll comers. TUR RIDES TO TIE CAVES, Among the earller places we visited wero the famous caves. Tho driva Is along the scashore, skirting the svater, and dodging {n and around grape trees (for here the grapes grow on trees, and not on vines, as with us), catching aglimpse of the blue acean behiond the follage, Thus we rode on for an hour and a balf untll we reached tho caverns, Twoof these are near the shore, but they are nat so interesting as the one farther In- Iand, It is dislded Into two portions, at right angles with cach other; and ono of them lanot un- likoa emall cathedral, with altars, mmu, n re- censed chancel, and long, cord-like Lell-pulls, or supports for chandeliers, hanging from the cell- ing. Thers turned out ba slen der rootlets, which come from ban- yan trecs above, &hd they have such wonderful tenacity of life that at the Itoyal Vic- toria thera are several apecimena (taken from thia cave) hanging on to the walls by a nail, and l,:mn&lnu grecn [enveaand liltla rootlets toward the floor, slx or seven feot long, They. do this ‘without water, esrth, or cultivatlun, We didnot g0 far into this main cavern, out, if we can believe our darkey guides, it {sthe most extiraordinary caveon tlie earth, Tho number of people who have gona in and never returned exceeds any hob- fablln "'"d 1 have ever heard, The cavesare in- ennlnF‘ econse'thls fs an faland of coral rock, with a Hght soil over it, and what would ba only commonplace in the Rocky Mountalns is very won- derful here, TUE CHARM OF TRE WATER. But, asthie Irishmansafd, * Divil a bitof Jand- scapo worth having if you don't have water with it."” He may havo been thinking of potheen, but certainly the great charn about Nassau is its water-seape. There 18 great amuscment in listenlng to the observations of the color-blind people who begin discanting on the water. One says, '*What a deliclous pua-green color itis"; nnd the next, **Oh! you nro mistaken;itias perfect aky-bloe.” Well, in truth, 1t is both. Looking out from the town in daylight, the reflectlon uf the bluest sky to be scen this stde of the Bay of Naples ves it the appearance of s ‘Fflrfl bine; but when close (o it, and loaking down into Jta clear depths, wo cali It a light pale green— new peas Is its true color, The wator in the liar- bor 1 80 clear that one can sce everything on the bottom st a depth of twenty feet, and one of the curlous uxperionces fs Kaflu fishing and, instead of waiting fur bites, to watcl the balt with a water glaea (en oblong box with a small plece of gla: one epd and a holo In the other), and when yon see a fish take Luld to pull up the lino, It thils sur. prislng clearnces which enables the divers after money to secare their prizes so easily, Thers are #ails [n and out of the harbor, and splendid sait- watar bathing, equal to Nowport in the summer, ‘The sallboats aro chicap, and well sallod by expert who knuw every inlet, rock, and reef in of the world. THR WONDERPUL BEA-GARDEN, A great treat to a landsmau Is the trip to the coral reefs and sca-gardens near this place. This is called an outside trip, and, depending on the wind, varles In time from two to ten hours. Our party gut caught 1o a calm on Feb. 21, and were ten hours golng and returning. Tho sail is, Low. evi delighful experience, remembering that it is roary, ond that **way up norf in old Cana- dey " there 18 snow and Ico ad libitum (perhapsl), Tlie route is through scveral narrow chaunels, which would scem a trifiing dangerous if it were stormy, but now arc s fres from danger os If o thousand miles apart. On reaching tho reefs, the aall-boat captaln gravely inforoied us wo should now aee **a farm under water." 1le meant n gor- den, and his words were truc, Looking over the uido of tho buat, we could plainly sce alovely spread of sea-fans, yollow, purple, green, —seas fenthers whose q'mnu scemed to be walted hither and thithee by a subinarioe current, Coral in every form and shape, and masscs of marine planta and formations that looked llke many-coi- ored lichens, ferns, mosscs, and vi mong thesa awam fishes of as muny colora s the raln. bow, When you sec & bluc ‘flsh In theso wators Fou wean gno whode scalos nro & bright blue, and he same yellow and black striped fish, and tome of & bright golden orange, aimost of tho samo color s our goldou carp in tho Inkes of Lincoln Iark, ‘The most singular part of this expericnce was thal whenover one of our party saw a particularly prets 1y feather, ur sea-fan, or bit of cural, it was point. ed out tu one of ourdivers, whospeedily plunyed in and brought it up for us. This sort of amuses ment lastad an hour, unt!l our boat was loaded down with specimens gatherod on tne spot, aud then we started nome. TUS CLIMATE OF NASSAU. 1 cannot close this letter without remarking that for o steady climute no placo can oxcel Nassau, The wmercury is as lazy as the people, and scldom moves up or down oftener than once amonth, Sinco ourarrival it has varled ono do- gree, from 74 to 15 deg. The nights are always <ool, orseom 80 In spite of the thermometer. ‘There are no fires In the town except for cooking, ond none are ever required. Tho air is dry and entirely frce from nalarla. Thero aro numerois )l of lotercet tu visit not mentioned fun th it all, and means aro ot hand for swmus d rocruntion saficient fur 8 thresmont| The ridos superb and conveyances chonp. ‘Theru are plenty of astores, and many enriosities to be had ot reavonablo prices, Grevns bucky atv the best curreucy, and siiver isata dis- count of b per cent. Wl W, THE CATACOMBS. Somothyng Abaut the Subterrancan Streets of Tome, London §peciator, Anything like o consccutive history of the Catacombs we cannot poseibly construct from the meagro and incidental notlces of them which have come down to us, It fs certuln, bowever, that they wers begun in the first century, snd My, Parker has found brickwork which he conidently pronounces to belong to Nero'ango. Itimay bo tco much to describe ooy of thu Catacotubs as Apostolie, but still the time-honored tradition which fixes the place of Bt. Paul's burinl a3 the Via Osticusis is not to be lightly dlarcgarded. In the sccond aud third centuries they became places of asscinbly, os well a2 of burfal, and this was the age of the *Clurch iu the Catacombs In the threo years of Diocletlan’s great persccu- tlon, st the begionlng of the fourth century, they wera conflscated, nnd lost to the Cliristlau community, The Ediet tn Milan {n A, D. 813 re- versed all thils, and from this titne it appears continue on lo and then retom o down toot Ioterments o the Catacombs be- cam® rarer, and that towards the cloac ot the century the subtevranean crypts were almost wholly abandoned. It was &t thls period that the splendid Lasilicas were raised over tho tombs of Christlau martyre. pe Domascus won for himself w good ang salntly reputation by the ailigence with which be suught out the "burial-places of wen and women who had been thus Lanored, aud pro- served thclr meworics tu briel inscriptions. Wriling of the Catscombs in the fourth cen- tury, 8t. Jeromy says that when be was & boy at school at Rome, he used o visls them on Bundays, and tbat they reminded him by ymr profound darkuess of (o prophiet’s words, + Lt them go down alive luto Hades." After Rowe's captury aud plunder by Alarie tn A, D. 410, when, to quots the same Father, the most Leautitul light fo the world was put out,” burial {u them sppears to bave been less und less com- mon, and 1§ fa even & yuestion wiether s singly well-auttienticated fostance ls to be found, Not wuch vaius 14 Lo be attacbea to the listof ja- 1uous dead #ald to bave beeu futerred fu thew (which Mr. Parker gives us an pago 14), and to 1ts meation of the nanics of Gregory thutireat, the Ewperor Otao 11, and Kiog 8!{;. From the fith aumrf' thu Catucomnbs teuded to becomo places ol pilzrlmego and resortsof pilgrimy, lo the Gothic and Lowbard {nvasfous of ‘the sixth and eighth centuries they were fearfully deses crated sud rided, aud, fu fact, tor a long period they ceased L0 attract any but s few oceasions) visitors, They bad almoat Jost thelr virtue sng ssuctity fu the oplulon of the Christian world, sud svewed doomed to neglect aud oblivion; but from this it s sald that o effort was mady to rescue thewn o the niuth century by Pope Nichiolus £, by celebrutiug wass fu them and undertaking certaln restorativuy. From hls e to the s!xteenth ceutury little atteotion or houor was pald to thew. la that century they may bo sald to hbavo been alinust re- discovered. Autonio Buslo, who theon spared no labor to explore thew, LUas beeu, Dr. Northeoto says, deservedly called “the Columbus of Bew world of subterranean Rome": and bis werk on the subject, published after his death, In 1635, may be almoust sald to have lald the foundation ot Christian archirolo- gy. In De Rosst, who has been now for thirty years engaged on the same work, Bosio has had & worthy succeasor, De Rossl hes been able to use the advantages which modern scholarship and criticlstn have yleloed to our age, and he has had the means of consulting newly-dlscov- ered documents nlong with the uld unes critical- )y edited, which describe the Catacombs 23 they were before they were abandoned and their treasures remosed. WiLh these helps he has produced what must be regardcd as the standard book on these memorials of the early Cnristlan Church, ‘Thanks to his patlent and judlicious labors, there I8, in Dr, Northeote's opinlun, hardiy a group of ancient monuments which can now be classified with more certainty than those in the Catacombs. The result, ac- cordIng to this - writer, Is nothing less than a revolution In tho hmnrg of Christlan art, and it s now, he thinks, establlshed beyond sl con- troversy that pictures and symbols stood high in favor witl the eariy Church, On the whole, it ‘I8 the [rescoes and the fnscriptions which are the chief objects of interest in the Catacombs. It is the latter which Mr, Parker thinka are the most genulne. As to tho first, ne I8 very skeptical, for the most part, aboli. their sntlquity. And those which are uudoubtedly anclent would seem to he Pagan, and not Christlan. In fact, it is pretiy certaln that many of them are ot Curtstian,” except on the hvrulhmll that the Catacombs were places of exclusively Christian burial, 'This Is the Roman theory, and of course Dr. Northcote stands by it, and’ De Rossl, too, on the whole, countensnces it. Mr. Parker thinks that L cannot at all bo maintained, Itls bLased on the ides that theearly Christians sould have shrunk by [nstinct from coutact with the leathen In death, But asa matter of fact, il we are to judge from some ol the symbolism of tho paintings, it does not appear that they ut- terly abliorred ail Pagan art, It would rather seem that now and then they adopted ft, and turned it to their own purposes, We know that there was an ailegorising and minlnl spirit in the carly Church which grad- ually drew it into a eort of partial reconcillation with certaln plinses of heathenism. and ade some of the fathers see in the old religions ot Greece and Rome forcahadowings of the truth, Under these influences it is conceivable that the early Christians may have acquicsced In burlal in tombs originally b(-lnmzlnfi to Lieathen fami- lics, and so Sr. Farker would say that the o comb known ns 8. Praetestatus, one of the c ltest, and dating {rom Ncro's time, was proba- bly from the tirst not & Chrittian place of sepul- ture. Bu vague is the symbolism of the early frescoes, that it Is hardly possible to say what is Pagan and what Christlan, One of the fre- ouently_recurring symbols fs the *wvine," which "Dr. Northcote and writers of his Church assume to be taken from our Lord's parable of the vine and the branches. This symbol was found in a vauited chamber of the 8t. Practextatus’ Catacorub, which De Rossi re- discovered as recently as 1848, T'aintings which undoubtedly belong to the sccond and third centuries cannot ver{ well be looked on as clther Coristian or Scriptural, and seem to be either "purcly ornnmcntal or clee distinctly Pagan, We have representations of the four scasons, with thelr wiaged genti,—Oceanus, Orphous, Mercury, Pegasus, There fs, of course, the theory according to which these are simply allegorical; Orpheus, for in- stance, was classed among the types of our Lord. " The Good Shepherd meets “us very fre- quently, and of this the idea may have been partially borrowed from the heathen art, The palin-brauch, tov, was a common symbol, of which the meaning ts rl-ln and unmistakable. The |hlr under full sall, ns denollng a hapolly- accomplsticd voyage, was a favorite emblem of the soul, and also of the Church. In this last case It rests on the back of the nfvmbollc fish, the well-known iystical devico indfeating by its lctters the name and titles of our Lord. The henix. it acems, denoting to the Christians ho resurrection, s less common than might have been expected. The anchor 1a both anclent and frequent, and {ts meaning 1s made clear by its juxtaposition -with inscrip- tions In which the names aro derlved from spes or elpis. The mors claborate frescoes, those for example, representing Seripture scenes, and ot earller than the third or fourth centurlcs; at least, so thinks Mr. Parker very decidedly. Many of them cxhibit the Labarim, Constan- tine’s famous standard, so that these, of course, must be referred to the fourth aud subscquent centurics. On the whole, Mr. Parker has a very mean opinfon of the historieat value of these frescoos, and he says In one place (pnf’u 163) that * fully three-fourths of them belong to the “clghth and niath centurles, tnough in his prefaoce ho cowmits him- self ‘aimply to the statement that many of thiom werc restored at that time. e seems to have become more Incredulous as he went on with his work. Of course, he will inaks some people vcrg: angry, It s nota pleasant thing to disiilusioned, and we may, nt any rate, falrly nsk for a reason, if we arc to be submit. ted to this process. As far as we sce, Mr. Par- ker stinply ru(‘;enu over and over again his con- viction that the frescaes in the Cutacombs are, {for tho most part, not genulne products of early Cbristian art, ) : As to the inscrintions, to which, as wo have eafd, Mr. Parker {s more fudulgent, De Rossi hos remarked that the most ancient in Chris- tian tombs “differ from the Pagan more by what they do mot say than by what they do say.” Generally they record ouly tbhe name " of tho deccased, enumerattng his titles of rank and diguity, which are so fully and conspicuously paraded on Pagan mont- ments. In these, the division of the worldiato freemen and sluyes is distluctly marked, but po such distinction appears In Christian lnscri; tious. This could hardly have been accidental, It Is fnrced o most remarkable fact. In theso brief Inscriptions we gut the first germ of the Christian epltaph. From thls point of view they are interesting, though otherwilse they are meagre and disappointing, But the quite €arly ones ure rare, Still, out of 6,000, It scems that two-thirds ure enriler than the Edfct of Milan, The regular scrfes of dated jnscriptions does not begin till the year A. D. 852, aud It coutlnues to 430, Do Ilossi bLas published a part of them, which ho has collect- ed and arrauged in s great and vxhaustive work, of which at present ouly the first volume has appeared. Any one who carcs to get o superdl- clal n«\un!nuum with tho subject cannot da better than refer to the author of the * Burled Citius of Campania,” whose little book ou the Catacombs appears to be the fruit ot an intellt- went study of thelr history, Mr. Parker has sumething o say on the glass vases wlich we suppose would shock Dr. Northeote, These, Lie thinks, from the character of the figures and the drawing, are, gencrally speaking, quite as late ns the elghth and ninth centurics, the tmo of Pope Nicholas' restorations: and the carlter oncs are unluckily Paguu, Wo should have thouzht ttat be might bave given us rather o more connected account of subject. As it s, his work may serve as a bovk of reference, though even for that purpose it Is very fuconvenlently put togcether, nod s mcumbered with -ueediess repetitions. We must add, ton, that Mr. Parker uceaslonally gives somewhat varylng accounts or expresscs rather different a™¥nious on the same ingtter, lu fuct, bls work s like a uote-book. and the ordinary reader seems quite igpgored, Tl lllus- trative plates are the Gest featurc of the book, amd theae are t\u:\llmlz good. Both the % Catacombs of Home,” by the suthor of the ** Burfed Cities ol Campavky,” and Dr, North- cote’s littlo buok are yery readable, and aro not tuo learned for auy ohe who really cares to know something of asubject which {s protound- 1y lutercatiug lo several of its aspects. The Triplets Lincaln Nameod. Burlington (¥5.) Free Press. There are at present reshding in South Starks- boro, Addidun County, triplets, sons of Leun- ard Haskins, born gy 4, 1501, aud named by President Lincoln, They have in thelr posses- sfou u Ietter from the haud of the martyr Presi- dent, und the paines gliven were Abraiiam Lin coln, Gudeon Welles, aud Slmon Cameron. They arc the children of American parents (who are atlll living) of lhuited clrcumstances, have led w very retired Uife, are robust, lutellizent, snd moral, and bave always been total abstain. ers from liquor and ‘:m(uully. ‘There {s an al- most perfect resemblance between two, whoare light cumfilelmned, while the other is o striking coutrast, haviog dark hair aud eye: e —e— Frepuration for Friucoton. Buttunore Bulteun. A youug man was wrrested in o New Jersey town a few days ago ou a charge ol carrylng concealed wegoons., On searching his persona bowle-koife was found in cach boot-leg, @ seven- sbooter in his biv-pocket, o sluog-stiot o bis fuside ccnl-pucku} 3 cavalry-sword slid down Lis buck, & ** billy ¥ {n each cuat-tail pocket, aud a daseer U ¢ach coat-eleeve. That was all. Ho was dlscharged when he explained that he was ou his way to Priuceton College to cuter 1he Freshman class, aud bad werely taken sonie precautions to protect hiwmsell frol tho attacks of tue Sopliomores. e ——— A Palr of Diglcalt Ruymes, New Yurk Star, 1o your Issue of to-day I ace an attempt made tosupply 3 wurd to rhywe with *moatb.” The word **orange" s also cqually diffjcalt. I remewmber reading some years ago in so Euglish periodical several attempts at solution, awoug which was the following: From tbe [udus to the Blorenge plaust Jub (a & monta. ng now sad Lhen An oraugy, \vnfl- be conueth o'er bis Grunth, To explanation it was stated that Blorenge is the oswe of a small nver lo Wales, aud Wruuth' ts the Brabwas uawe for Bible. 0 whole | ST. PATRICK’S DAY. The Memory of the Great Hibernian Apostle 8till Warm in Irish Hearts, A Very Quict and Successful Cele- bration in Chleago. : Similar Observance of the Day in Various Citles of the Country. CHICAGO, ‘The day sacred to the Evangellst of freland has come and gone, not unnoticed by the sons of Erln. Altbough yesterday was cold and bLleak, and although the mud lay thick upon the strects, u gathering larger than that of any vrevious year witncssed the St. Patrick’s pro- cesslon, [n the procession itself there were probably 3,000 persons, while the lookers-on in the different streets through which the boys paraded were nearly ten times as many. Owing to the fact that Bt. Patrick's Day fell this year upon Sunday, the celebration was shorn of some ot 1ta features. There were very few decorations aiong the line of march, and scarcely any flags wers displayed. But the crowd was as good-bumored and cheerful as ever, tho socletfes turned out in the'r fuil strength, and nothing occurred to mar the en- Joyment of the day. The rendezvous was at St. Patrick's Church, on Desplaines street, where pontlfical Hizh Mass was celebrated in the forcnoon by Blanop Foley, Eather Verden aselrting, The Deacons of Hono! were Fathers Myer and Cooney; Father Noonan acted as Deacon and Father Cartan as Eub-DMacon of the — mag The nnnczgic was ronounced by Father Boyle, of the Distriet of Coltnbla, and was an elojuent and scholarly oroduction, The Masters of Ceremonies were ‘athiers Gallaghan and Hennett. The procession was appointed to move at 1 p. m., and 0 good were the arrangements that s very pear approach was made to punctuality, Dlshn{; Foley and about thirty of the city clergy occuoied scats nt Father Conway’s residence, next door to the church, and revicwed the pro- cession therefrom. Alter passing by the house, the proceesion countermarched on Deaplaines, and thence, via IHarrison, Halsted, an Twelfth streets, marchied to Wabash avenne. ‘This thoroughfare afTorded a Srst-class vantage- ground for,apectators, and thousands who had witnessed the atart from the church wade thelr way to the Bouth 8ide lu order to sce the vro- cesslon to advantage. First came a platoon of police, romewhat smaller in numbers than usual, thanks to the lig of the City Government, Next followed he Grand Marshal and his aldes, and behind them several compaules of the Sccond Regi- ment preceded by thelr band, and bearfng _the stars and stripes'and the flag of Ireland. Then came the Journeymen ~Horseshoers' Pro- tective and Benevolent Assoclatlon, St Patrick's Benevolont Hoclety, Bt. Joha's Mutual Benevolent Associatfon, and other charitable anizations, all lull( rep- resented, A { of cadets wearing the zouave uniform followed, and after the boys came the representat!ives of the Father Matthew Total Abstinence Society, 8t, Bridget's Benevo- lent Boclety, the Iiols Family ‘Temperance & Benevolent” Boclety, the Sodality o the Holy Name, and other teraperance sssociations~ The Emerald Benevolent Association of Illinols and the Ancient Order of Hibernians, both largely represented, brought up the rear of the pro- cesslon. 8t Patrick’s Day, with fts vrocession and its bands, its regalia’ and banners, fts shawmrocks and green ribbons, bas been so often described, and 13, from gctual ob- servation, so familiar to all, that any extended d::cr!‘:ltlm‘l of the march would be useless, Both the North and Bouth Divisions hiad a good look at the show, for State and In- dlana streets were Included fu the Jine of march, and the oranizations flnally broke rankson Desplaines, at the point whero it-started from four hours before, ~ A noticeable and very grati- {ying featurc of the day's proceedings was the absence of drunkenncss, not oune lutoxicated craon, so far s the writer's observation went, '"f scen upon tho. lue of march. Tho boys bad thelr parede and displayed thelr constancy to and respect for the old-timo memorles, they dldn’t futerfere with anybody, and, as it was Suuday, they aid not havetolose n day’s pay In oraer ‘to cnjoy their hollday. peidienc iy KEOKUK. Bpecial Dispateh to The Tridune. K2oKUE, Ia., March 17.—St. Patrick's Day was celebrated here in o very impressive man- ner. There was a strect-parade, with music, flags, and banners, Tho processlon was over a half-mile in length, ond included two brass bands, nine temnperance sozleties in regalia, and » loug line of citizens. Onc of the features was o car containiug thirty-six young ladics dressed o white, representing the countles and prov- inces of Ircland, They wero arranged in the form of a pyramld, which was surmounted by a represcntation of the Maid of Erin, bearing n harp and a green fag. The young ladies were all decurated with green sasheaand Skamrock leaves and carrled pgreen flags, The demoustration was the most Imposiug onoe of the kind ever wit- nessed here, The weather was pleasant, and the route was lined on both sides with specta- tors. After the parada the socleties repaired to 8t, Peter's Catholic Chiurch, where a lceture on the life of 8t. Patrick was dellvered by Fathir O'Rellly. — WINTEWATER, WIS, 8peclal Dispateh to, The Tribune, WuitewaTen, Wis,, March 17,~A very pleas- ant and orderly celebration of the natal day of Ircland’s patron salut wasenjoyed in White- water by the Total-Abstinence Socletles of this place and Janesville. The visitors, over 100 strong, came by special train this morning, and returned at 5 o'clock. After the usual re- lglous ceremondes, 8 procession was formed and marched totho jhall, escorted by the two splendid bands connected with the Bocietics, The audieuce was addressed by Father: Fair- banks, the Hun. ‘T, D. Weceks, Editor Wilson, of the Janesville Thes, and Secrotary Quinn, of the Btate Total-Abstinence Union. Everythin wus conducted with the utmost decorum, an Do outbreak of auy kiud oceurred. §T. LOUIS, ) 81, Louts, Mo, March 17.—St. Putrick’s Day waa celebrated by the Irish eoclcties with o street parsde, participated fu by about 8,000 wen. The procession was hicaded by the Mout- gomery Guards and Tavlor Guerds; then came the benevolent socletiva, ‘I'he Temperance Socleties and Ancient Order of Hiverainus wore their bright-colored regulia and carcying numerous flags and banners. ‘The demonstration was (mposing, and during the thine of the parade tho strects were crowded with people. While passing up Fourth street the coluinn was reviewed from the east front of the Court-flouse Ly the Stato and city ofliclals, SPRINGFIELD, 1LL. 8pecial Dispateh o The Tridune, SeriNariELD, 11, March 17.—8t Patrick's Day was celebrated hers by a parude of the Irlsh Catholle Soclety, and the Rev. Fatter O'Brien, of Quincy, lectured at the Church of the Immacu- late Conception un the life and labors of the Apustle of Ircland. Gov. Cutlom lelt at mid- bight for Chicago, to attend the 8t. Patrick’s atmh'ctmry celebration in that metropolls Mon- 4y, INDIANAPOLIS, Special Diapateh (o The Tridune, IXDIANAPOLI3, Martl 17.—St, Patrick's Day wias celebrated to-day vy irlib socleties, The parade was o fine one, and the city was flled with excurslontsts from sll parts of the State. An address was delivered br Futher Fitzpatnes “n.ml the exerciscs were preslded over by Masyor -aveD. NEW ORLEANS, New OnrLEaNs, La., March 17.—St. Patrick's Day was cvlebrated here by o tiue procession of the Auncient Order of Hibernlans, the tilbernlsn Beuevolent Association, the Mitchel Rides, and the Irish Riges. The weather was pleasaut, and the etreets through which the procession passed were flled with spectators. . SAN FRANCISCO. Ban Fraxcisco, March 17.—The Kearneyites beld a street parado to-day, which was a cow- parative failura {u polut of numbers, only about 730 belug o line. The demonstration closed with lHterary exercises ot Union Hall. Every- thisg passed off without disturbauces. CINCINNATI. Cixciunaty 0., March 17.—8t. Patrick’s Day was celebrated Ly o large procession and thu usual religious services. The processiun was of unusunl length, and was remarkable for the food order malntained throughout the entire {nc of march, FIRES. AT MEMPHIS, TENN. Mzyurms, Tenn., March 17,~—At 8:20 p.m. the Peabody Hotel was discovered on fire inthe upper story, In the rear of the buitding. It was thought the entire buflding would be consumed In consequence of the flames having galned such beadway before being discovered. The alarm was given by steamboats Iving at the levee, The bullding where the fire orizinated was formerly 8 three-story store-room, but had three stories and a mansard roof and a tower added to It, and connected with the Peabady when the Peabody Brat opened. The fames soon reached the tower, ond, owing to Its immense helzht ana slate covering, the firemen were unsble to ‘control it until the tower fell In, When the fire, reached the tower it filuminated tle city, and nearty thewhole pooulation of thecity thronged tho streets. Tho loss Is estimated at $15,000 ar $20,000; Insured by Green & Bearaley in the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Com- vany of England, Continental of New York, Pheniz_of Brooklyn, and National of Hart- ford. Johnston & Vance, clothing store, under the hotel, sustalncd a small foss hy moving out. The masterly efforts of our small fire-Urigade, under the skilltul management of Chief Me- radden, were worthy of the highest pralse. The fire was ull out at 9:20 p.m,, and the guests were moving back into the hotel, AT DETROIT, Dzrroit, Mich., March 17.—Fire broke out In a store at 160 Woodward avenue this morning at balf-past 2. Tbe ground floor, where fire was first discovered, was occupled Ly J. Martin as a sboe store, whose entire stock, valued at 48,000, was burned; fully fnsured. The upper story was occtiofed by Dr. Kellogg, whouse loss in furnlwre, dental tools, and stuck was estl- mated at $500; no fnsurance. The bullding was owned by Willlam B. Wesson. and was damaged §1,200, and fully {nsured. The urigin of the tire Is unknown. IN CHICAGO. A etil) alarm to : Hook and Ladder Company No. 2 carly yesterday morning was caused by an overheated stove at No. 223 Jefferson street. No damage, ‘The alarm from Box 822 at 0:0 last cvening was caused by a fire at No. 74 Walton place, owned and oecupled by Peter Buschbaui. Cnu:]c. 8 defective flue. “Damage, $50; unin- sured. ‘The alarm from Box 704 at 4:83 yesterdey af- teruoon was falsc, AT LOUISVILLE. Lovisvitre, Ky., March 17.—Chess, Carley & Co."s oli-refluery, the largest of the kind In the South, was partially destroyed by flre this morning ecarly. Loss, $75,000 to 8100,000; fn- surance full. —— OUTSIDE BLOODTHIRSTINESS, Nzw Yoni, March 17.—A meeting of Cubans fo this city, who opposed ending the war in Cuba and the actlon of the late Cuban Juota in this clty in resigning, was held to-day, with President Juan Arnas in the chalr, and soeeches were made by Gen. Cespedes, Senor Aquitera, Beraga, and others, urginz that the struggle be renewed, aud suggesting the fittlng out of an expedition to Cuba for the purpose of reviving the war.' A letter was read trom a number of Cuban youne men, offering 10 per cent of thelr Weekly wazes in support ol the mouvement. A committee of fifteen was ap- pointed to select a Kevolutionary Committee of flve to look after Cuban {nterests. While some revolutionary speecles were being made, & loud nolse like the explosion of a lamp or tho falling ot a heavy hody occurred, and the whole building shook. * There was a rencral stampede of patriots, and the wildest confuston presatled, which was allayed tna few minutes, and the meetiog adjourned. ——— OUT OF HIS MIND. Apecial Dispatch &o The Tridune, Prrrsnuno, Pa., March 17.—Col. John J. Ahl, Purchasing-Agent for the Allegheny Valley Rallroad, who has been missing stuce Thursday evening last, returned to bis residence in Alle- gheny City to-night as mysteriously as he left it. Iis friends claim Le Is sufferime from men- tal depression. e Is o brother-ln-law of Jobn Scott, President of the Allezheny Valley Rall road, and is Treasurcr of the Plttsburg, Vire muia & Charleston Roay, where It s rumored Lls uccounts are severnl thousand dollars short. s abscuce was the subject of much comment fu rallroad circles, some thinking he had been murdered, and others holding the opinfon that be had com- mitted sulcide. His tamily are greatly distressed at hig singular behavior. ~ His conditlon to-night eives hia friends 2 great deal of uneasincas. Mr. Abl {s well koown in raflroad circles throughout the country. ——— PRATHER. 8pecial Dirpateh fo The Tribune. InpiaNaroLts, Ind,, March 17.—The caso of John C. Prather vs. The Michizan Mutual Life. Insurance Company, fu the United States Court, ‘was declded yesterday, with a verdict for the Company. Prather demanded $3.000 for in- sur4nce on the life of bis wlk‘ and tue defense was that he polsoned her, Prather has been once tried for this crime and acquitted by o Jdackeon County jury. e ———— A RAILROAD ACCIDENT, Bvecial Dispateh to Tha Tribunes Qurxcy, Il1, March 17.—Lust evenine, while three employes of the Chicago, Burliogton & Quincy Rallwsy were gofug northward on a hand-car on the Curthago Dranch, they encoun- tered a tgain, and one of the men, named James Jackson, was Instantly killed, The other two escaped unburt. — HYMENEAL. Bpecial Dirpasch to Tra Tridune, New Youk, March 17.—Herr Blum and the Russian prima donna Humau, companfons in the uupaid salary misfortunes of the Adams- Pappeubelin troupe, were wmarrfed to-day. Tho event was wholly unannounced, and & surprise to their own circle. ‘Tho prima dunua may now change her mind abuut returning speedily to Europe. ———— OEITUARY, Rocnesten, N, Y., March 17.—The Rev. John Parker, a veteran Methodlst minlater, died to- day, aged 73, 87, Louts, Marck 17.—Theron Barnum, the otd hnlcl~kearu in the West, dled to-day from annttack of pneumonia. 1o wus 73 years of age, and, at the tine ho was taken sick, was supcrintending the Beaumont flats, u select aud aristocratic hotel 1 the western part of thuclty. ———— FINANCIAL, 87. Lows, Mo, March 17.~The schedule of thuassetsand Mabilities of J. T. Utterbock & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, has been Oled. The liabilitles ars $204,000, tho most of the claims being held by Eastern tirms, chiely of Boston 'hlu assets are: Btock, §60,000; cash, #31,000; notes, $20,000; open accounts, $40,850; total, $157,888, ————— 0dd Way of Gettlug Evea with » Pastor, ‘The New York World, in speaking of the dif. flculty In (1A Baptlst Churchat HumiltonSquare, N, J., saya: © A case somewhat shuilar to thls tuok place seven yeurs ago in the Hardscrabble Metbodist Churehi fn Huuterdon County, where Geurge Rouusaville, becoming azgrieved at the astor, adopted a unlque way of *getting even.' Ylu caused to be made forfhimself a suit of calico trouscrs and roundabout, with a bat of the di- wenatous of an umbrells, wod 4 cmson baud in proportion. ‘The trousers were gorgeous in thelr way, being covered with brilliant images of suu- towers sud roses, the largest two of wiich were displayed upon the must cousbicuous parts of the garments. ‘The wearer entered the church edifive, uud was as solema as un owl throuehi the services, but thu congregation were not {u the same twood, Rounsavilic was fudicted aud taken before the Flemington Court, where it was de- cided that he had wot disturbed the worship, sad bad the right to dress as be pleased.” — e ———— Indlaus as Wood-Chioppers, KHed Wing (Minn.) Kepudlicun, Yesterday we crossed the saver Lo ses the ea- tiro fudlan camp us work chopping wood. Near the other sido of the island we found a party of twenty-tive, wostly ludiuus sud squaws, all busily ut work. Mr, Fields is vow filliug a con- tract tocut 5,000 cords, sud the Indiaus are workiuy for bl 'lhe{ haveall tho euthusissm ot uew convertd to lsbor, and their axes aro ringivg through many ucres of thuber, The squaws work a8 vigoroucly aa the mew, and somwe of thew bear down on 81 v in & way that {s astouishiug. Uneof thew s wwd $0° chop wore wood than auy mau ia tho thuber. Near by, bouiciug fu a brusi-heap between two Mttle trees, was what scemed an unusually hrge cocoon, but on closer inspection it proved to & pappoose’s nest,—a little hammock of the Indian sort,—anid init, fast, asleep, A lstle ** rad skin.? The wood Is chiefly ¢élm, but thers 1s = 1ittle maple and ash. The Indi between eighty and nitiety cords s weex, and receive 70 cents per cord. Every 8aturday they draw their. pay in sllver from ‘the bank, and find that steady wurk pays better than hunting and lounging sbout. e ——— Animated Barometers. Sacramento, Cal., according to a Joeal Ty has two animated blramebersgwhlchhuapm trustworthy, even when the artifical Instru- ments have falied. Oneof these fs a catfish, which Is kept in o water-trough. No matter hot clear the weather may b, and before the barometers have indicated a change, this fish . always, before a storre, makes it & point toswim about with his head below the water and his tait above, which latter lie keeps nagnlng until rain begins to fall, when he goes out of sight until the weather changes, The otherlsa couple of frogs under the floor of the police office, which have never yet been scen by any of the sMcers, but who rrcsm_- astorm several hours {d ad- vance of the barometrical indlcations by n scries of peculiarly discordant crosks, and no matter bow clear and bright the mht, the police of- Geers make it a point to prepare for astorm, and the warning has never proved vain, Belf-Winding Clock. A German has fnvented n sclf-winding clock fo which the winding machinery is operated by the ,alternate expanslion and “contraction of giveerine, or other suitable liquid. A piaton,on the surface of the glscerine, is so eonnected with ratchet-wheels and toothed racks that motlon in either direction will wind up the welght. The inventor thinks that the contrivance will be eapecially valuable for self-registering meteoro- logical instruments. —— Toware of Tooth-Polaons— Vendea nnder the name of dentrifices, Adopt and sidhero 0 the only preparation that reslly preserves the teeth and hardens the goms, —[ragrant Rozo- dont. Its effects on decaying teeth are marvelous, ———— The friend of temperance snd sobri: . fords Jamaea Ginger. '“ ey, -San ——— e v BUSINESS NOTICES, Amidon's New Yark Sllk Tiats, atandard guslity, reduced to§7. 220 Fifth i 1, ‘Parker & Tilton, agents, Palmer I MEDICAL, SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE & For :E;S + CATARRH. / Terrible Casc of Catarrhal In~ flammation of the Throat and Tonsils, MESSIS, WREKS & POTTER=DEAR Sins: Tt s with gTeat pleasure taat | add my trstimony to the many Kreat Cures effceied iy your SANPURD'S ‘1A DICAL CURM you CaTanni, for which you are now sol e rietors. At the early’ 0 be & great sufferer froin Catarrhal Sore Throst, ‘Tonr{ls and upper parts of the Throat hiave been most terribiy inflamed, nod feit fnsfde nei scribe it, l1ke & burning furnace, so great was Aamination. | aiso ralecd lfil’!ll deal of '!a tret Wit ke hick, dark-voiored mucus, so atit would sdhers to 6t s to reach the mota of the chet alo hiad become much affected. At bedside to cool oy thruat o the night, 1 had really got into s des« onding state, Andlug [ Kot no permancat relles, About oné year ago I commenced takIng Saxrosu's lismicat Crak, ok teanottlos s wimmer and wis vers huch helped, but did not continue taking it long enougl for & perinatient cure. The diseate made Ita appears snce aiatn this fall, and tor two months or o 1 gut no selief from these painful Sure Throats. dlscase, M Slines 1 would be obifged to keen jellies by m 1 then was ug- der & physician's care, but finding lils mediciue tn that direction availed me nothing, I commenced your 11ook haif ‘» dozen botties, 1 capnot feel 1l ghough to your Ceaw wiin our Neavenly Fathors biewinge. for the gaod whict | nav recelved.. Taoln- v Avbr, Gt Have ber of my friends and shoul U hotile tmmediaters. | spoak romm exBert Focure ! . 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