Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 8, 1878, Page 12

3% CIHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. JUNE 8, 1878—TWELVE PAGES. ane and three-fourths brond at its widest polut. | ‘The apgregate mcome of the Centenalal and 1t 13 avldently a mlghty sand-bar formed by the | fowa Life is £301,651.00; total expenditures, netlon and reaction. of the tides and storms, | $301,050.04, and i naturally as barren aa the Saharn, It is During the year 8 thorough fnvestigation of eeparated from the main land by a hay about | the condition of tiose compunies was made by two miles wide, and from four to ten fect doep, [ the Ilon. John Russcll, ex-State Audltor, ani ¥ phy possessea! Like the ostrich, hu hides his head In the mand— of the Sentine(; and, like that fleet-footed bird of dJdesert-wastes, he lm- agites that all bis delinquenctes are hidden from view. Dut 1t te not nernur‘y to strip him for public eazo. His deforinlty fa coslly seen by the Admiralty fn Berlin; ahe was canstruct- ed by the Vulean Englnecring Company, at RBireduo, neae Stetting was iaunched tn 1373, and cost £1,209,050, Folkestone, Eneland, seven miles off which the Grotser Kurlurs soa view, hy tho eame, $7,330, to Martin Colnaghls “A Pleta,” by Andrea Del Sarto, 84,025, to Rutter; " Effeits of Intemperauce,’ by Jun Eteen, 36,504, to Grn HGlaes of Lemonade.” by (+ Ty lmrg‘ 80,712, 1o ()mlpil} officers, Jt was thelr fanlt that tho'battle wag fought, If the Conlederate army had kent oy 1ta awn slde of the Potomac there wauld hayy Leen no bottle of Gettyaburg,—and the country would never have hieard of the incanness of Political Matters in the Bad- was lost, {8 o sea- | nnd 8t Tlelena’s Viston of the Invention of | some of the fariners {n the vicnity.—Norrr, ger State. through the thin gauze that surronnds him. | arross which the rallrond crosses {p entoring the | the Iton, Augustus F. Haroly, nn eminent f port ~ market town, i the | County [ the Crose,” by Paut Veroneae, $17,825, to the | toun Herald: R Hiz animus for !wlfizlmu onr Congressmenis | town. actnary of 8t. Louls, with {nstrictions to make | of Kent, and n abont five | Nattona hnller[, The sole nmounted to $222,- T p 4 afterward to) wel) known In this State, This great champion Galveston 1swoll bullt. fts steeets arebrond, | (t camplete. Their report s highly fattoriug | miles souibwest of Daver. It les in | 6] xcinsive of the withdrawal prico of the 0 stgn the plodgo, and after 0 lie pre- —unlike those of San Antonlo,—and all Inter- | to the oflicers of those fnstitutlons. - sect at right angles. Tlhoy are rewmarkably clean The Equitablc ahowa asects $330,331,73, and and well fmproved, and thore Is evidentlv much | labilities $241.091,22,—leavinz o net eurpins of wealth ltere. Business men here complain of | §133532.51. But tlve death-losses, aggregating dull times, and a dealer tn real estate stated to- | €4,250, which were vald, The percentage ol day that the nrticle that troubles shout fhis | losses to premiuma recefved I8 6.30, or leas than time so many men In your city has dooreclated | nny dther company doing tusiness in the State. here, witbinthe past two years, fully 50 per | The total amount of accuritles tenosited with cent. the State Auditor, March 1, was $2%0,607.4% I omitted, in my I-ule state that, on visiting The Tawa Life has collected sfnce {ts organl- of purity and embodiment ot editorfal wisdom haa bad for some time past some OLD, STALR CLAIMS for profestional services, of some sovt or nature. against the Government; and he has so far met with poor succesa In getting them allowed. Ile Lins a bill now pending In Congress to appropri- ate_money to him on account of his valusblo sorvices, Our Republiean members 1all to ace the merite of his de- Aented with a bottla of flne wine,ia 000 of thoss drendful things shich will vecasionatly happen, Teaple talk about suffering, bLub they dou'y kuow anything abont it, The cucnmber graceil the festnl board REnsurondel i eondlmenta rare, And the enteure gleofully tnbboth his paunch At the sizht of tha treasiee thore, The doctor smiloth a sail-like smitlo, And stveth a eracodile graan, And the machla-man gosth unt the while 8 hollow between twvo high cliffs, on tha English Channel, opposite Boulogno. It I8 also on tha line of the Southesstern Rallwar. (¢ s frreq- ularly bulit; has an ancient chureh, nn endowed schodl and charitics, a harbor sdmitting vessels of from ten to twelve feet draughe, and good accommodations for smminet visitars, Althoush its trade has been nuich injured by encroach- ments of the rca, there is atiila Hie of steamers {lmlnnnlnz to the Boutheastern l(allwu:}lm:(nn Madonna. . {The 130 Ranhaels are known aa ¢ The Virgin with the Legend " and * Tlhe Viriin witis the Can- defabrs,” und helonzed to the collection of ot mastera made by the Jate Mr. lugh Munro, The hest known I o eourse the * Canidolabra.” It was purchased by Mr, Munro of the Duko: of Lticea In 1341, who probably got It {rom the Queen of Etruris, betore wltom It was vwned by Lucian DBonapzrte. It was origlnally Reunion of Republicans Agninst the Democratio Plotters of Revolution, Tho Senatorfal Question- Carpenter and Ilowe ands, il themselvs the early morning market ere we left Ran Anto. | zation $112,003.53: pald out 120,839 In dcath- | letweon Its harbor and Boulogne. The German | fn tho UDorghese Palnce at Rome; where = # Aro Doing. 'l,;l \';t;(n mv‘.‘ha”;‘a‘:‘na’&? etnl‘h:”lvxl\l. ! In uthi: nlo, we found it supblled with every varlety of | losses. £ squadron had passed ¥outh Forelands snid Dover, | it was hefora the butllding of the nun'nme in -r,':._":,‘?fl','.’,:'{"',x,' :,',',.:,',.‘;;.'}f, asks i} words, lfie have aat down on {t. This [s tho | vemelables (n great pbrfcction,—beets, onlons, The nssets of tho Centennlal Mutital are re- | nnd was steaming alinost due south wheu tlie | 1590, Raphuel havlng dled in 1620 I3 not lnown, 83V Liat witl hie measnra ot P ta {n the Varl Oon; fonal head and f;nnl of thelr offeuding,—only this | and turnips, four to aix inches In dimncter, and | ported by Ar. Rusaell at #123,623.64, and llabill- | disaster occurred. but ‘probably tn the possesston of the Church, And the sexton marksth a spot ** Resorved tospects in 6 Varous Uongressio! 8 and nothing more. Therefore he lets loose the vials of his wrath, through the columns of his paper, the Sentinel, upon our delegation and the rest of mankind. ‘This man_Murphy, whose only claim to re- nown Is the fact that he wad once s law-partnor af Matt Carpenter, 1a now supposcd to be ad- ministoring upon Matt's Sentinei stock, and Is so conducting the paper that ft is A BTENCI IN THE NOSTRILS of all the decent peaple of tlus city and State. cabbages of splendid growth. A lttle Spanish | ties #100,070.60. Ind drove in & amull fack, with loaded wacon. Twentv-soven companies from other Btates He eaid his fnck war wortli $63 and n Mexican | are suthorized to do business {n Towa. The at the market bad the audacity to ask 815 for a | whole number of policies issued by them in the benutiful rding pony, with sathlle and bridlo. State during 1877 were 2,213, covering risks for We also visited that parg of the city kuown as | 84,724,418,—a large decrease from 1370, Chihuahus, occtpted by the thatched hovels of Tha amounts pald withip the State during tho tne Spanish lndians. At one hovel rupes wero | year for insurance was as lollows: belug made of horsediair. SIx strands, shout | Tawa companier, life-premiums and 100 fect long, were being twined together—a | - sasoasments ... voe$ B71,874.04 little Indian” girl, of about 10, tolding the | Companies uf othef Statea.... .. 502,177.05 1t 1sane of thaworka of what s called Raphacl's Roman perlod, palnted {n the samo vear with the * Madonnn dells Sedfa* and the *St. Ce cf¥ia,* The *“Vierae nla Legemle” {s thonght ta have once helonged to Henry VIIT, and from him descended to the dtuart family. ~ When Cromwell stooped the salo of the Roval worka of art this pleturs was probatly saved thereby from testriction, eince Yarliament had onlered the buruing of all pleturea that contalned tho Virgin, In 1030 1t was aold with the rest of the All nuder the willow trew. "Tis hard the times and 'tis acarce the cashi—~ And #o with a zestful jov We wolcome waft to the it fenit ‘That glreth the folk employ. —8t Lows Journal. GAMES AnQ Thelr Origio, plaia s S CURRENT GOSSIP. FACT V8, FANCY, 1 lovs to hear thelr footsteps In the hal (**3a, Chinrlle hos sueh muddy feet! Tlove to bear thelr merry volces eall— {*'I'vo made somo mud-ples In tho streot!™) Distriots~-Bt. Patriok Murphy, of tho Milwaukeo Sentinel. To the Editor of The Tribune. MmwaTkEE, Wis, June &.—0ld-time Reoub ticanism Ja coming to the front in the Badger Btate. The tried and trusty veterans of cam- valgns fought snd won ore burnlshing their 8o pure are thoy—go free from taint of Rarth— L BG2177 Pl 3ot Gareite. lowa companles for fire-praminms.. 520,503, 07 Feehety o Royal collection, and not discoverel again unti} a oot tor the content soon to begln. 1t fsno | 113 Sesumption to bo the lenting Heybliean | SR 8 00E She TG st o L TatRer | Corubanicy of other Statos aud coui- (**1ie'e ninching mol Ms, mako him stopi) | JNS! HSVGEICT BEC Rk COIRIEEOL ST | ¢ Men, eatd Leftnitz, " hnve never showa e Jonger n quostion of Hayes or anti-Mayes with- :’l'::e:u;'ty ronee It tins onl ’n:flfi."n,’.?.m'i Tho rafiroads of Texas rank Mgh In polnt of |~ trice. 1.201,030.23 | So [nnocent in all "'f" childish micth-- o tlorace Valpole's lnnds, Thls, ut all | Much (ngenuity as In the luvention of games,” in the ranks: of approval or disapproval of the | of Heaven to serve the Dyt Tn: “The litile dog | quatity, Both bed aud cunches ore No. L. Totat s | Ve detior spite May Broke By loph) eventa, {8 the history attributed to this picture.] | This is uat quite truc, for they displaved at least Southern ouilcy: but the call is to arms agafnst | may bark at the moon, and still that glorious aleunlnmnrs and dining-cars of real elezance it caual (ngenuity for devising methods for de. stroying or torturing one anotticr. Norean ft be alleged that purely utilitarian luventions, like the manglo or the smole-jack, show less ‘sngacity in coneeption than the bat or the battledore, Rabelals mentions about a hundred games which Pantagruel cuuld play, and hy scems to have cudgeled his brains for every To me thoy are n constant source of joy— (**1lc's punched a holo through hia now Lat!") My tiny gitls, my handsome. noble boy— (**Tio'a tiad your watch-chaln ‘ronnd the catt™) ara tun; LUt Iet 1o sy, gt here, tiat, fu this | - This docs not fnclude the local mutual bene- latitude, and at 00" scinon of the year, tho | Ot assoclations, which have mado nfl:";‘;"‘;a sloeping-car {3 not & desired luxury. resh alr BYB. i 'the one thing needful.” and ninch wore of S thut useful artfcle is ovtainable in the plebetan | THE IRON-CLAD DISASTER. car, The dining-car, as _managed on the Inter- natfonal & Great Northern, real luxury, p Desrengers reaching Housto the mornini | Peteription of tho Grosser ‘Rurfurst, the breakfast on board, nnd. those leaving Houston | 15Ont& Witheln, nnd the Preassea~Thelr ort wiil keep on it couree. Murphy and his satellites mav grind awsy, sputtering thele venom upon our Republican Congressmen, or venting their spite and mallznant bate upon ine Qividuals generally; and still our party will go forward In this State, surviving even tiio great {nfilction of the Sentinel concern bolng nominale 1y In {ts company. OCCASIONAL. OTUELLO'S APOLOGY, 0Nl Ctty Derrick, Mot potent, grave and roverend seignors, That I have ta'on sway thia 0id man'a daughter 18 most tene; trne, 1 Lave watniod heey A8 1 can prove by the oilicintiug clergyman . Who I8 a Justico of tho Peaco down {n Lierkimer, By yons patienco 2 the common cuemy,—opposition to ol the strange fogredlents that are filling up the po- Titteal not, and whicl will soon be sct boiling the country over. Democrats, Nationnlists, QGreenbackers, Communtsts, Labor-Reformers, Copperheads, Rebels, and all thoso of tho hobby or single-idea persuasion, will bo met this fall Thelr prescnce scrvos my lonely hours to cheor— (**Ma, Charlle'’s Just npaet tho cream 1) Thelt volees aro sweet music to mine oar— (Tho baby wakes—just hear her scroam?) o a—— - At 5 p. i, toko supper on board; aud frst-class | Bize and Arnnmont, Cuicauo. S Connmeta, | 1Wilha plain, unvarnlshed tate deliver pastime which he find witnessed or Lenrd of, by the cloafl r-nks‘o( llwfiev‘l‘::"lsz":’:ifl'"’;; ARMY NEWS. ieals ate furalalicd at 50 cents each. Nerb York Titdune. ks fata Conmmek Of my wholo coursa of Jovo; what drugs, what | 'T'his was more than threo ceuturies ngo, but tlon, and swept, 08 Wl \itical tate Too much pralse cannot be bestowad upon The Grossor Kurfurat was an armored alogle PAPPENIIRIM. charma, tho lst hos not recelved mavy fmportang structfon, out of politleal existence. NEADQUARTERS OF TIIE ARNY. those who have devised and executed the rail- | turret-ship, constructed after the mudel of the g What confuration. and what mighty magle~ For such procecdings I am charged withal— { won his daughter with, iler father loved mo: not a continental DId T cace for the ol man's luve, But I protonded to recipracate hile afection, And tn this way did [ make myself A very Maldoon with himn in solidity. 1ia oft invited me to tell the story of my life, From year ta yeor, the batties, slegey, fortaues, Rtcetcen, and g0 forth, and so on Witk which I had been stafling bim. o 1 ran it shrongh e'en from my hoylsh days, And you ¢an bet your swact llvcs 7hat 1 spread It ou preity thick; 1 8poke of most disastron » chances, But ddid not stop 1o say they wera with A confounded Constable who wanted mo For the amal] offense of {nlnrhlu a bonrd- bl h . The prospects bf & vigorous campalgn were never better, and the prediction is, that every {neh of ground will ho worked over, which al- wways means, in thls State, the gathering of a political harvest that will zisdden the bearts of Republicans everywhere. 0 WHAT CAUSE shall be ascrived this general awakenlng [n our ranks,—ths coming.together ns onc man of that Inrgo class of patriotio voters some of whom have hitberto differcd with the maln body on samo financinl or cther questton? The answer 15 plain and apparcut to all: It it tho recent manifestation of diabollsm on the part of the ro-chlled Democratic House of Reprosentatives, In an articlo relotive to the sudden departure of Mme. Pappenheim for Europe, on account of pecunlary troubles, the New York Zyibunegives the following account of the prima donna’s carcer fu Amorica: Madame (she was then Miss) Pappenhelim made her tirst sppearance In America on the 18th of October, 1875, singing Valentine 1 the *“Ilugucnotsa® ot the New York Academy of Music to terr Wachtel'a Raoul. 8he was one of the full opera company engnged In Germany to support Wachtel on hits 188t Amorlcan tour, and she bad been previous. 1y singing in Hamburg. There scems to have been somethinyg occentric In hier departure from that city, for she summarily broke on engage- road enterorises of Texns. A State fossilized In spathy and {ndolence offercd, at the siart, bat stlizht Inducements Lo nien of means to In- vest among a peaple a large vortion of whon, nt the outset, considercd raflroads o positive {ujury to the countiry, and an jnnovation upon the “vested rlvlits of tnan ond mule, Now that men, far-seeing, have bullt and put ln most successful operation fu this Btate over 2,000 miles of as well-bufit, well-stocked, and well-manued raflroad as canbe found on the globe, the most stolfid Tesan has awakened to the klea ot progress, and all over the Btate # Welcome " is heard, with a fricndly hand ex- tended to those trom thc North, East, or South, who are disposed to cume here, The_Internationnl & (ircat Northorn Ralt additions since, Cricket and rackets are f- provements upon some games with bat and bail which Fantozruel knew; whist would have been a novelty to hlin, but bae could hold a hand ¢ plquet, eearte, eribbaze, and bacearats he nlayed chess,draughts,dominoes, backgamnton, skittice, and howls, and he inight have weltzed (thougn this 1s not specified among his accomplishments), for this danco was lnvented go far back us 1400, althour! it did not netually become fashilonable fn Parls untit 1610, when it was imported from Germany In honor of the Empreas Marfo Loulse, Dancing is one of the oldest of recrestlons, Homer speaks of a new dance invented by Dadalus for Arfadne; Thescus was linmoderatu. Wanmixaror, D, C., May28.—Spertal Orders No. 115. =Dy directlon of tho President, so much of Spectal Orders No. 0D, May B, 1877, from thls office, as accepls the resignation of First-Lient, Thomas J, Sponcer, Tenth Cavalry, 1 revoked. Capt. Georgs A, Armes, Tenth Cavalry, will re- port by letter to the Buperintendent-General Ite- cralting Barvice for daty in condacting & detach- ment of recraits to the Tenth Infantry, Sveclal Orders No, 110.—The Board of Ord- nance Officers appolnted by Special Orders No, 103, May 1, from this oflice, and now In scaslon in New York City, will exumine in addition to the oficers leretatore deelynated, the fallowlng- named officers of the Orunance Department for promotion: Capt. W. A, Marye, First-Licat. John Pitman. Capt. Marye will report by letter British sbip Monarch, and was launched at the Wiihelmahalen dock-yard in 1875, Tbedrawings and speclfications from which she was bullt were prepared by the Admlralty in Berlin. She was 2033 feet In length, 59 feet beam, 23 feet depth of hold, of 6,538 tons, and drew 234 feet of wa- ter when londed. Bhe carried a battery of four 10-loch, two 0%¢-inch, and four 8dnch Krupp steel breech-loading guns, and had a speed of fourtcen knots under a developed power of 5,837 horses. The helght of her battery above the water lno wos eight and one-half feet, thickness of armor at water-line nine and two- tonthiinches. 8ho was armor-belted, her turres v road Company, with an appreclation of the fu- | protected by a casomate, the turret. Iron being | ment 1o accept the Amrlcan offer—may bo | Sp Soring sccidents by llood and felis 15 fond of o reel or fandango, In which thy in inougurating, and ottempting to carry out, | to the Duard, Lieal, Pitman will report In perso ture wants of the State, ran its first line from & . For | Of hairbrendth acapes in the Imminont deadly ety T . e ranared progtainme and revolutionary | A oard of Ondnancs oficors, to consiat of B e Tochlan. Tn order to/onshun s | i Al thlfty-two huudeedths ucties thick, and | suilyin facks 1o bave vub awdy, leaving the for ‘ateuch, arin3 move with the legs, The Normana revived P. V. Hagner, Lleut.-Cul. James G. Benton, Lioat.-Col. & rlspin, will convene at the Unl- annce Awency in New York City Juno 4 for the examination of Maj. T. J. Treadwell, Orduance Department, for promotion. The Hoard will be govwrned fn the examinntion by the provisions of uxisting reguirumenta for the examinatton of can- ltdaten for promotion in the Ordnance Depart- ment. Maj, Treadwell will report in parson to the Board, First-Lieat. I I1. Pratt, Tenth Cavaley, In this city ot leavo of nbsence, will proceed to Fort Loavonworth to confer with Iitlg, -Gen. John Fupe on buaiuess connected with the public rarvice, A Lionrd to couslet of Surgeon Henry . Volium, Snrgeon B, J. D, Irwin and Assistant Surgeon the bulwarks arranged for lettivg down. Her bollers were of tha old box tyoe, and the en- gines wore Intended to be worked efther com- pound or non-compound, ss desired; an ar- rapgement, says Chiel-Engincer Kiug, of the Unifed States Navy, In his report on forelun navies, ** lu view of the low pressuro of steau, not to be comonded.” Bhe wns of tho same model ns the double. turreted vesacl Preussen, a descriptlon of which {s given In Chicf-Engineer King's report, which is pronounced to bo vne of the most complete works of that character. Her keel conslsted of two horvizontal plates riveted together, npon fowing letter to tho editor of the Iamburg Fremdenbial, which was published after hier de- parture: The magnificant olfor I hinve racelved to accom- nny Waciitel to America—an offor which, both ar- iatfcallyand pocaninrily, 15 80 highly adeantnge- ous—induced me repeniedly torequest my inan- uger, Herr Pollin, 10 freo me from my obligattons, at belng able to brovall on bim to do o [ had no asternative but to sdont the sad coorso of hreak. 1ng my engagement. May 1 heg -you to consider this atep aa only the result of artistic ambition, foe 1t fu with o boavy heart thot I leavo Mambnrg whero I have boen no well treatod. llave the fondnuu. 1 bcfnl you. to insert t| fow words fon, and proserva a friendly rec schemes of the plotters agatnat the pence and prospority of the country. The real dane wer of such an exiraordlnary = oroceeding 15, to sy the leaat, consolidating the Republic- ansy and the rapidity of the movement fa unlting with us the ludependent voters to help stay the tide of this new departuro of the Deinocracy, not of rebeilion, but of revolution. The great intercst invoived in tho election this foll s centered In the Congresstunal Dis- tricts and tho Leglslature. T8 TENM OF SENATON NOWE expires March 4, 1878 and the Leglstatnro to be elected will choose his successor. It is tin- rather thun Inveated round danves n the twelfth century: the Bohemlaus fnvented the redowa: the Poles the polka, first danced In England in 18105 tho Hunparians tho wmazurka and_galon. The cotilion owes Its origin to the vourtly Duc de Lauzun, who, for his audacity in_contracting a clandestive marrore with the *(irande Mademolselle,” was {nprisoned for ton vears by Louis XIV. To this now popular and Jong-winded dance many ligures wero added by Mario Antoinclte, und ‘some more by the Empress Eugenie. Under the Becond Emnira the post of conduetor of cotiilonast tho Tullerles balls wus one of conslderalio socia) importance, Or some other pinca that I had read of 3 Of helng taken by the Insolent foe And sold to slaveryi of my redemptlon thence, ‘And wath 1t all my teavel's blstory, Omitting that part whon [ was introducing Tho North American Corn and Dunjon Eradlcator, Warranted 10 Temove corns um bunions Without pain or loss of blood, All theaa did the old gont swallaw, And to lear which would Desdemona sorlously In- cline} Tint erill the houro affairs would draw her theaco, Althongh In this [ now suspect my Desdeéwmona Did dissemble, for aluco e married are 1 find Alie can no more & fap-jack bake country abunnding in timbor,—making it possi- le fur the vost prairies of the west Lo b sup- plicd at low prices, when that reglon should next be picreed with fron rall. Thus inills nlong that Hue were bullt and set in motlon, and lumber In _ lurgo usntities 18 daily transrorted to he pralrie districts, and retalled at prices s 10w aa in any part of the world. Mossrs. Hoxlo, Hayes, Yage, oud Evans, are at the head of tuat Company: and thelr furccast ovd prudent managoment will_form an Important putm In Texan history. Tholr Austin branch, polntin, to tho Mexlean horder, aud goon to Invade thal 4 which, fnstened at the middio by two angle- | in my justifeal ‘Than I can cona with Hurcules and was long held Ly ono of the Ewmperor's derstood that Scnator [fowe desires a fourth | Henry Lippincott, will ayscmble at West Palnt, | country, reachied the State Cavltal only & vear |rons,'wu & vertical plate 3 feot 10 fnches Ligh, | tection of te 1111 rotaen. ~ Begelng you to make Anon she'd come sgain, .nm.\ with a greedy ear equerrles, the Marquis do Caux. timo to oc hls own successor; and thot Wil | 4ons H‘n&’ exsmine into.the uhysial auslidca: | ago,and wiil soon roach tho Alamo, cldhty | extenaloz to tho tio posts, to which il the | Uis stme request for my fothe, entlviman whols [ Beveurun by (lAequss dug, reo and friends will rolly to that end. Numecrous other candidates aro mentioned; In fact, there wiil be no Iack of tnaterfal. ‘Tha better opin- fon prevails, that a Republlean mn{oruy should first be eecured on jolot hallot in the Legislature, befurs much canvassing §s indulged in by or in behalf of candidates. It is moro important to be able to elect a Repub- lican after clection than to attempt to deter- mine beforo election which Republican ehalt wear the honors Senatorfal. The old triumvirato of 1lowe, Carpenter, and Washiburn coutfoucs to_atsrack not a little of public sttention, and speculstion 1s rife gs to what extent, If any, each will Ogura in tho Bene atorial canvass, [t seoma to be generally con- ceded that Washburn has fully determined to gover hls connectlon os & rosident of the Stote, 1i{s declarations on this pofut ought to be con- clusive. llc i, then, out of the contest. 1t ls clearly apoarent that CARPERTRR and afew of hispet_fricods are throwing out thelr fiycrs over the Btate, and Matt, from his Tofty pereh in the National Capital, 18 watching to eea how the thing will take. Tho closest ob- gervers say that, so far, thelr Ashing in the Sen- atorinl waters has acarccly been cacourazed by a single bite, This many-barbed hook posseases too great torrors for those who once siwallowed it for them to over take it in owain; and the younger fishes only view It in the distance, sod then turn tail uvonit. It wouldnotacem asifany intercst could be worked up for Carpenter. As for Howe, st best he will only havea fecblo support, It is tolerubly certaln that the next Benator from Wisconsin will not be one of theso: but I will not attempt to speculate as to who the cominz man will be. Time only can determivo, (CONOREISIONAL DISTRICTS. Notwithatanding tho diatribes of tho Sentfnel, it I8 moro than probablo thats our prescot Re- publican delegation in Concress will all be re- nominated and clected, Willlams, In the First District, is thouznt to have s clear fold. Caswell, ln the 8econd, whila not snnouncing himself as o candidate, or hardly saying that he would accept, will doubtless be put on the coursc ezaln. _One or two now candidates are stirring around a little in somo couutles of tho district, but thelr candldacy will bardly bo a serious one. Ilazelton, in the Third District, will go In with & whoop aid o ** hooray.”” This {8 his first term, and lio enters the fleld an the second with crersed popularity, In the Fourtb, this district. Lynde {s the altting Dewocratle membor, What the Repub- lfcgus here veey much desire i4 to get a falr chance ot bim this fall. But they "have fears Divy and kuuckle-bones wero known to thy Jydlana 1,500 years B, C. Poracus is credited with the Invention of quolts, and tho Hindoo Tesaw with that of chess. Ardschilo, Kine of Peraln, fuyented backgammon: Talamedes draughts, Pyrrhus tennis, and the Greeks the noble gane of woose. Toto is a comparatively recent discovery, due to ‘an Tiallan, Colestino (alienl, fn 1764 Dominoces owe thelr pame to tha plety ol amonk who orlrinated thea, and whowaa happy 0 pronounce a boly word While tnking his anueoment;. and it 1sa nun who I3 oelieved to dava fnvented both the game of battledore and shutticeock and the catgut racket used 1 playing tennis. Excavations at Iis- saclk, the presumod sito of Troy, have Lrought earthenwaro “murbles™ to lizlt, and these st Pompeti hnrue ctded o numiher of jointed dolls in ivory, which prove that the custom ot glving costly toya to children §8 ot one of modern development, Xenophon was aciuainted with hoops, and we are Lol that GEbalus, father -of Penelope, was a ,lrulldeul in the gymnastics of the trapeze, which ho had possibly [earned from geelng moukeys swinie from branch to branch Ly their talls, * (Ebulua’ grandson, Telemachus, wns vepsed In boxing, wrcstling, and charlot- racing, swhich, along with tho riding of races, Is sipposed to date from the Thurians; bt he 150 contrived g new eport of his own, which es been finproved upon In a tuititude of ways up to theeo times, Wa read in tho Odyasey that ho sct up twelvo plilars, to cach of which was suspeoded o x(nfi. und (hat from bis Low ho sent an arrow whistling through all the twelve rings—uo tnean feat, llcre we surcly have tho rudiments of tilting at the rlng, at the quintaln, tent.pegging, cte.; bealdes getting a proceden for the diilicultics by which it is always sought to teat the merit of good marksmen, “The Swiss fa their ¢ standa (rlnu'ullcy.v}uull have some- thing akin to the young Greelc's rings, for they alm at thelr targets through loopholes plerced n ascrics of walls; but it Telemachus really did eend Lis arrow through twelvo rings Lo achieved more than most of tho hest shots from the Berness Oberland could do with rille bullets, 8ix loopholes, tev vards apart, aro generally consldered enough Lo try any mun's steadluess of inand and oye. ‘Tl invention of cards hos often been errone- ously attributed to a French physiclan, who deslgned them for the amuscinent of the mad King Charles VI, They uro of much moro un- clent origin, hoving coiio from Chinato Perata n the twelfth eentury, and thence into Europe through tho Arabs. “Thoy ara mentioned In_ a pruclamation of Louls IX, (St. Louls), fn 19, among tho ungodly pastimes which tho plous should avold; but Charles VL's doctor, who waa abbot, restored them to tho favor of the miles further. The [uture possibilities of Texas no finite mind can comprehend. For varlety of soll, and perfect adaptation to cvery vegetable, every cercal, every product, every fruit,—in short, every staple an( cvery luxury grown upon the |ube,—it stands without a_peer. Its climate, fike that of Southern Italy, with the fewest local causes Pouihle for malarial discases, inay well be considered, as T find it Is by Northern men who have Jong dwelt hiere, as utrlvalea in henlthiness. The Btate nowzhea Its drawbacks,~but few, however, that arc permauent. 8ayve In the lower country, tho water ls pure, and the atreama permanentyand rapld, The lumber- belt, which extonds from tho Gulf and the 8a- bioa River an averago of 100 miles In wldthml:i 400 In length uorth and south, has less g water-power than any other portions but this fsno drawback for lJumucring, But, in the weat, the Blanco, the Ban Marcus, the Comal, the San Grabricl, the Ban Pedro, and the Ban Aantonlo are all rapid and unfailing, Thelr source fsartealan; nodmufh! affects them § snd, as most of thewn burst forth from tho carth, thelr temperature 1s from 70 to 84 dog., whily that of cisterns on their bnnks is oot above B deg. Unlike the miil-strcams of the North, shiey never freeze, and are lttlo affectcd by the acdsons, The Pecos River, In Weatern Texas, Is another Inatance of the bountiful supply of motive power for the propulsion of mills and machiuery in thls vast Emplre of Texas, In making a’lino from fta sourco to ts junctlon with the Rio (irande, of ouly 450 mllcs, it travels over 1,800 miles,—moving at the rato of over ten miles an hour In its cntfre courso, Its fall from source to mauth |s 4,000 feet. All the streatus are about cqually ranfd; and still, as you traverso tho country crosred by them, you are uuconsclous of the declination, as uo sugged bluila or precipitous ridges mork thelr course. Tsut little of this mighty motive power 1 yet utilized. Few manufactories of any kind (nnd g}nt o slngle paper-mill) yet mark tle history of 'cXa8. Our party hero breaks ap,—Mr. Rouso golng oy steamcr to New Orloansi Mecassrs, Young and Shekdon by the Texas Central to S8herman, In Northern Texas; and the remaluder back to Palestino. Wo are all greatly Indebted to the Interna- tional & Great Northern laitrond Company for courteous attentions and valuable information in rezard to this Btate; and to Day K. Bmith, Esq.y oldyour clty, Agent of that Company, for his genial company avd _skillful engincer{ng in Am I to swear that hera was the Niceat ear in town, and ofttimes did L wish T might in turn deyour it, One day tha gentlo mald with earnest heart ro- anested That I'wonld olt my pilgrimage dilato Whereof parcels alie had somothing hieard Bat not aistinctiy, ‘Thin s great Ieather, and all at onco 1d1d consent, My story wad Immense, And {t taak mo four nichts a weok For three years to tell It, When at length tne talo was dono, £he gavo me for my paina a world of sighs, Sho awore in fajih ‘twas strange, ‘twas' passing siranzo; “Twan rllllnl. ‘twun wondras pitifu], And lald over un{(mn: slie Liad aver heard beforo s nr go inajor i3 She wished ahe had not heard; yet ahe wished ‘That Reayon had mado kor such a maun. She thankeq mo, And bade nie, if 1 had & friend that loved her 1 hionld hut teach him how 10 tell my story, And that wouald woo her. . ‘This was s complots give-away; ‘That s to #ay, tumblod did T (o the racket, And wo wero wed forthwith, §o thero's the long and short of it, your iusical eritie, [ remain, otec., Evuexe Parrexuzin, During her resfdence fo the United States Mme. Pappenlielin rose steadily In the estima. tion of musical connoisssurs, developlog n dramatle intelllgzence and oarnvstnesa of which sho had given only Imperfect Imitations at first; but she was constantly in trouble. ‘Ihe Wach- tel senson was nob prosperous; thore were dls- agrecinents between the tenorand primaaonna the Iricnds of the Jady charged that shis was un- fairly kept in the background by the jenlonsy of Wachtel, ond recriminations broke out in the nowspapers, Many other operatic enterprises 1 which she took part came togriel. Even her martiage to Mr, Arens was not altogother frea fromn annoyauces, for the festivitles of tho lioneymoon were interrapted by the necessity of am:huumil Mr, Arens for awhile in a lunatic asylum, his happincss proving too much for an excltabla temperament, The trouble of the Fryer-Pappeahelm-Adnms troupe, and the va- rious arrests, attachmonts, lawsults, ete., which grow outof that bankrupt aflalr, sre - fresh {n tbo pubilc mind, Mme. Pappenholm’s last important work In this conntry was done at the recent feattvnl in Cnclunutt. There, too, although she won a great public success, sho managed Lehind tho acencs to keep hersel! constantly In hot water, 8ho scems to havo bean an unnleasant sort of o prima douna to mauago, She preferred ler own Interpretation of Gluck’s * Alcestls' to that of ‘Theodors Thomos, and there came a contiict at the rehearsal, out of which, psrhops, it ia unnecessary to statc, that Mr. Thomas emerged gulet ond victorious. o is_a con- ductor whose habit it s to conduct. The day ufter tho opening performance a critic in one of the Clnclnnati newspapers remarked that, un- less there was somothing prodigious the mattor with his cars, Mme. Pappenheim sang false. As s New York visitor apely roplied, thers was something prodizious the matter wni- hila cars, for ahe dld not sing falsc, but she resented the criticism with as much violenceas (f elie had de- served it. Fortwonty-four hours she was flamlog with wrath. 8bo refused to slog pgain In Cla- cinnat; sne declarcd that sho would go back to New York by tho next tram; and poor Mr, Arens, with a faco like sn tindertaker's, weut about the hotal pulling everybody into a corner and asking, with a volce full of griof and mys- tery, ' [lavo you gcen that articlo in the Com- mereial 7 11 shie had carried out her threat tho featlyal would have besn marred v some of its best features, for her place could not havo becn supplicd at a day’s notice. Plans were forined toarrost her and exact bonds on a sult for dam- u%el in caso she attempted toleave town, Muao- Wi a the candidates far odmisslon fo the scademy. Speetal reports will be made In the ease af any gradnates decined to be physically undt for will- taryservico and in the case of thoso aduited on prohation, Cirenlar—Tho following order is pnblished for the (nformation and gofdance of all concerncd: The nnmber of clorks and messcugera nllowesd to e lendquarters of Military Divisions and De- rtments will in no case exceed the number al- jowed in General Orders No. 30 of April o, 1800, nnd No. G¢ (8ec I1.) of July 3, 1877, from thesc beadqoarters. No others of the ciars designsted than thoso sbove preacribed will be sanctivnod nfter July 1, 1878, = DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS, HEADQuAnTERS, SAx AXTONI0, Tex.—Circular No, 7.—Officers serving i the Quartormaster's Dopartment within (his command will, immediately after the end of the prosent flacal year, pay and dischargo from fands in thelr possession applicabla theroto, all indebtedness of the Depariment prop. erly Incurred and paysble nt their respective ata- tions on account of the appropriations for the Quartermaster's Dopartment for said year. Shonld any of them nat hava safliciont funda in their pos. nesslon to pay euch Indebtednoss, they will snd- ;nndmllmn e, 10 the usnal form, for the necossary unde. spacial _Orders No. 118,-~The Cemmanding Onicer of Fort Clark will forward the following. named prisoners to the Post of San Antonlo, Tex. : Andmw:\m-(wnr Joseph C. Brobston, Mickle Colling, William Goggin, Robert J. Moore. Thomns Mollen, T. J. Killafoyle, and John M. 8inger, lata privates of the Fourth Cavalry; \William Caser, 1osauth Clubb, Louis Goodman, and C. Il Sher. ratt, Iate privates of the Eizshth Cavalry: Androw Robinsan and Iiichard Washingtoo, late privates of the Tenth Cavalry. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI. Ucapquantens, Font Lsaveswontu, Koo.— Speclal Qrders No, 10.—On the recommendation of the Governor of the Leavonworth Military Privon, the foliowing-named prisoners. entitloa to an abatement of flvo dsys per month for continuous food conduct, and may bo dircharged from tho priton on the datey sat oppoaita thaeir respectiva names: Jobn McGrath, Jooo U ‘Thomas Dunn, 00105 Kdward Murchy, June 11; Abram D June 164 John Lewls, June 10; John «Juno 1H: and John Konnoedy, June 10. Furgoon (. Perin will procecd to Fort Riley, and make tnapection of the hospital, medical supplics, and fcnl‘rll adwminlstration of the medical dopart- ment od that votnt, ¥l Lient. W, 11, Hugo, Ninth Cavalry. Is re- Hoved s Judge-Advocate of tho general coret-miars tlal canvenud at Fort Dayard, New Mexico, and Flest:Lient.” W. W, Trlor, Ninth Cavalry, {1 do- talled fo s elead. lates were connected by bolts aud rivets. Four onglitudinal frames stood alinost verticall! upon the outerskin, their depth decrensing grad- unllr from tho keel. Thesc framoe were mado of plates and angle-irons, and lightened nt inter- yals by large oval loles. ‘Thecross frames from - the keol to the tourth longitudinal framo, placed ot distances of four feet spart, were made of short angle-lrons, extending only from one longitudimal to the other, to which they wore connected by (ull plates, brackets, or anale- irons. Tho outer skin was rivated to tho longi- tudinal end cross framing, and to the inner aldo of the latter was securcd the secondskin, over @ length of 150 feet, The cn cross-frames and nino Intermedinte oncs had full plates, 8o as to form_longitudinul water-tight compartments, divided by the vorti- cal keel, and {nclosed fore and aft water-tight bulkheads. Similar water-tight compartiments wore furmed by the frames forc and aft of the douole bottam, sa aata protect, as far as posal- ble, tha extremo ends sgainst casualty. Cross- frames extended from above the fourth lonai- tudinal frame to tho armor-framing. Tho cross-framinge above the armor-framing wero thrown buck as much as the thickness of the armor, and extended in the central part of the vosscl, within the limits of tho srmorcd case- mats, to the upper deck; but foraandalt of tha casomats to the battery ueck anly, or the helght of thoarmored balt for thetwoends of thie vossel, A wator-tight partition of plates, atrengthened by anglo-irons, was crected alinost parollel with tha outer skia_or tho vesscl at each side, over melunfith of tho double bottom, and extending from the Intter to the battery deck; thass par- titions, connected with the double bottom and th battery dack, formed the bulkheads of the engway, and were lntonded to prevent the co- i‘rnnce ol water duxlnfi action Into tho other parts of tho vessel, The apace formed by thess partitions and the outer skin was further di- vided lougitudinally by nwr-l.lxinumu-(mmu #o that only emall apaces could be filled with water and readily romoved by pumps. 'The outer skin of the vessel ‘had an almoat uniform thicknoss of 0-10 of ao mch, but donbled at the two extremo onds. Tho skin belind the armor conslated of two 02100 fnch plates, while that above it, ot tho two ends of the armorcd cosoment, had @ thickness of 4-10 of an fnch. The upper deck twas covered to a great extont, the battery-deck entirely, and the between-decks at seyeral places, withiron plates from 3§ to % Inch thick, upon which wero fast- encd the deck planks. Tha vessel was dlvided below the battery- deck by eloven water-tight cross partitions tuto twelvo compartments, connected with THE BAGOT WILL CASE, ‘The widow has won her point In tho great Irish will case. Christoplicr Neville Bagut ex- ecuted abont efght months before bis death o will by which the bulk of hls immcuse estate was left to his brothers, whilo his wifo was cut cft with 21,000 o year, aud her chlld was practieally disinherited. Tho vallidity of his marrioge with Miss Verner was not contested, and had e died {ntestate she would hava ob- talned o largo whare, as widow, of tho fortune he had left. "It he did leave a wilt, and the auestion arose whether it was, g3 tho brothers contended, o dlspusal of his estates naturally flowing froin his diszust at his wile's peralsient frivolity and hcarticasness, or was wrung from ‘s helpless ecripple and invalid by dealgning rclatives who stamlercd her aund decelved bim, Upon this polnt the ovidence was confiicting. Doctors and eolfcitora aworo to hls mental vigor at the timeaf tho oxccutlon; on the other hand, It was proved that the wife wos expelled, wwillo the testimony of & nurse who hastened to his murmurs oud night indicated that nie repented of disiuheriting whis boy." With regard to the probable pa- ternity of the child the evidence was nlao con- tlicttng, The widow contended that bis broth- ors had Induced him to belleve that sho wesa wicked woman ond that hor child wus not his, The jury tn decldtog tha case, on May 20, wero ny, nmi, P— economiziog expenses of the trip, without di- b ter-tight doors. clal lle, however, tho members of the Featival - | Chiureh, ond thus lNeeused a gamo which bas flat bis party il throw bim oferboard, uid | DEPARTMENT OF DAKOTA, | iuioishiog s plasuros L Bl | ouch other, Ly Water bt oot ool | Cominitteo besteged her with aoft speechos and | O0bBgerly threo hours and sveral imea Iutl- | LUNCLN iy ‘excetted a othérs In universal ;gmlg:lu:zéum i‘y;'.ié"’fi'".:“mfl i :g:;ul:‘l&» u:wqm;mn. st. Pave, Ming —S§pectal Or. e —— catlon between tho pumps aud ull o the watar- | Temonatrances, '}'é?;fif, n';'.:f "fi‘g aviasug e«'fi 1og; but thoy wore lnvarlably sent back, At | ponularity. ' Cards are now u cosmoplitun aristocrat, and, {n one sense, o reapectable mem- ::;:,,,0"'51 pnf:cp:a ln“jn:l; ‘l‘x’llc:::;’;;.uvl:? gl,;:‘ INSURANCE. tight compartmenta. For this purdose on frou | 0l Y OF ENelros laat ther wer able to agree unanitiously that | Meaua of sodal ntercourse, Four mien of dit totake effect. The uext doy sho appearcd at tho coucert, and savg with a passion and splou- dor which surprised even her admirers, but nothing could hava been funnler than the ex- pression of mingled indignatlon, ln‘“u‘; plty, apd contemptuous furgivenocas which sho sur- veyed the sudlegee when she flrat camo upon the stage. Poor people! \What had they doncd MEDICAL POSSBIBILITIES OF TIE PHONOGRAPIL, Fvom the Jyne Number of in¢ Chicago Medical Jour- natand Ezaminer (advance sheet), ‘The phonograph opens up & vista of medical possibllities delightful to contemplate, Whocan fail Lo make the nice distinctions between every torm of bronchial ond pulmonary rale, percus- stou, succuesion, and frictlon sounds, surgical crepitus, fatal aud placental murmurs, and arterfal aud aneurlsmal Lruit, when each can be produced at will, amplified to any doasired ox- tent, in the study, the amphitheatre, the office, and the hospitall Tho lecturer of the future will teacs tnore elfectively with this instrument than by the mouth, 'The phobugraph will record the frequency and charactoristics of reaniratory aud muscular movements, decide as to the nge und sex of the fwtus In utero, and differentiate pneumonta from phthisis, It will reproduce the sgb of hysterls, the sigh of melanclolis, tha sloguitus of callapse, the cey of the puerperal wowen in the different atuges of labor. 1t will Intorpret for, the specche fess fufunt, the moans and cries of tuber- cular meningitis, ear-ache, and jontestinal colie, pipe, 124§ Inches In diameter, was placed close to sna parallel with the vertical keel-plate over the length of tho double bLottom; from tuls pipe branches cxtended to the various comrmf menta; the sl pipe carrfed the accumulated water into & reservoir placed under the cogine- room, whence It was pumped nway by various pumnps connected with the machinery. Four additional pumps were placed upon the battery deck, each of which was calculated to draw the v:nex from a ccrtaln nuwber of compart. ments. An armored casemato surroundod the turret, which projectod 6 feet 2 Inchea above the upper deck. Thls casemate was -urnnwd from tho fore and aft parts of the vossel by srmored transverse bulkheads, while thoso parts wore urotected quly batween wind and water by an armored belt, reaching fram about 0 feot below water to thiue battery deck. ‘The armor plates at the water-line were 03¢ inches thick, below the water 7% lnches, and above water 83 inches. ‘These thlcknessea decreased tuward the end to 4 tnches, while beblnd thers was s backing of teak about 10}4 inches thick, varylug with the thickness of the plato. The armored crass-walits had plates 8 floches thick, with a teak-backing 83 Inchea thick, The dlamoter of tho turrct wore 203 fect, covered with urmor oply at the parts exposed above the urper deck. The plates of this turrot was By inchea thick, with the exception of thuse through which the port-holea for the guns were cut, and which had & Mhickuess of " 105 juches. Tha teak- backing betweon tho shiclls and armor-plate was 83 luches in thickness, Thu turret revolved around a strong cast-iron centre-pin, the outer berof bis party; but, ot the party bebest, he will rolf his inmaculato Iinen in_the distiest wmud-vaols to be found on its line of march. 1le 13 o magniticent specimon of the genus dough- face. Hia district ¢ 14 TIRAD OF MY, and wili gront bim rotirsey at the caucus or the oits. Ls Thu Fifth District {s now (o possession of that Ittt skipplog-spider, Gen. £d Bragg. This ls bt first torn. Two years ago bo succeeded fu tirfog Col. Sun 3l]\m:!mnl aflter bis firat torm and now it ls sald that Bragg may be mmpellu\ to swallow a dose similar to the one he prepared for Burchard. That old Democratic war-horse from the lakesido county of Manitowoe, Gen, Juseph Ranklo, Chalrman of the Democratic Btute Central Committee, Is looming up as & caudidate, aud is Hicely to sit down ou this littlo Broeg-adocie. The dfstrict 1s strougly Demo- cratic. ‘I'lic next district (o _order s the Bixth,—~the oue that uld Philetus Bawyer wore threadbare, and then turped ib over to'tho Democracy, The cagt-off muntlc of Phuletus now rests upou the fmn und grizzly Bouck, It It 1s sald that - Youck dislikes tho busiucss of plasing Cougress- man; and frankly whaits that, o the posltion, L does not swount to YA CONTINENTAL DAMN.Y Bo his district Is beginoiug to think; end it will ba well fur Gabriel tf he securcs a line of cwly retrest from Coneeessfonal lalls, The Republlcan caudidato will be une of two men: the Hon, E. L. Brown, of Waupaca, or Col,' D, M, Kelley, ol Brown. If Brown would consent tu tun, the district would sorely be redecined. forent notiune can play a rubbor of whist with. out kuowlng a word of ono unothet's laugnoge; sud posslbly the lower orders all over the world will come to adopt some one gamo as o generul fuvorita. At present each Stato boasts o _game v particular favor with ite working classes. 'fhe Englishman Hices crlhanr, the ¥renchmau piquet, tho Yaukee and his Chinese friend euchro, the Dutchiman and German “marriage,” the Spanianl hombre, and the Itallan a kind of ecurte, 1ice havo alimost fallen into dlet but roulettes have frenlly maultiplied, and overs Freneh wine-shop has fts *tourniquet,” which custemers spin round to gamble for drinks, Indced, games of hazard scem to be on the fucreaso everywhere, and Eonglishmen may uotice with a inixture of regret and pride that theirs {s the only country whore thero has not been a correspondivg diminution In atbletis pustimes. The French used to be great players of tenuls und bowls, they now ylay chiedy at bitliurds, This game, originolly called tuble bowls, and fuvevted Ly a courtier of Quecu Ellzabeth toamuse her Maj when it ruined, is athlctic in a way, for it wives gontle excrelso to all the limbs and keeps tha brain and eycs ou the ulert; but lts usual assoclation with ‘stully rooms full of tobscco-smaXke wakes It unworthy tu be pumed with the heatth vutdour sports 1o which Euglisimen delght, and {n which they seein fated to remalu wnnvaled. For ol al.tcmgu 1o reaccltmatize cricket, fuotball, golf, or rackets §n the Continental States whero they once flourished have falled. The Frenchman or Italian will not. risk his shins to be scored by a hockey stick; the youug German, who helumi- 0 a turnvereln aud dues gymuassics on scientliia Mr. Bagot was laboring under an Insunc delu- slon os to the paternity cf the child, though oth- erwise of sound mind. In 8 word, ho did not approve of tha contents of the will, and, there- (oro, {t was to be set aslde. BINKING FUND. Detvols Frea Preas, At the last meeting of the Lime-Kiln Club the Rey, Ponstagi roso to a question of priv- liegs. Me safd: *\Vay off on do las’ end of de Brush fabm an old man am dyln'. Tlis old woman am run'd away, his chil'en sm scattered, an' be lics dar all alove, wid no kind band to pasa him a fried cake or wet his parchin’ brow wid camfur, Hes am oot one of us, and wo cau’t ‘glyeto him froin our reliof fund, but I axes de consont of Brud. d\“ l.llnnlncr dat we way take up e collecks shun. +You kin—yonkin!" was the prompt reply of the President. “1 puts dls dime tn de bintwan' I truly hope: dst de gem'len will depreclate de eituashun,” wold Peustock, as be started on his way, —Puass. fog from to man, the good preacher ut lcngth returned to lis seat. As ho Jooked towards the Prestdent there was a queer cloud on hiv brow, * \Well, what sucecss 1" queries the President. “Fo' do Lawd, but $z0 ebeu los* do 10 couts { storted wid ' gnspsd Penstock. The silouve was 40 deep that It could have been cut up into coal-shafts. Not a hair moved. * Dar *pears to bo a great moral jesson aroun’ heah sutwbar,” sald Brother Gardner. Keogh, Montana. ¥iret Lieut. Davia L. Craft, 8ixth Iofantry, will report In person lo the commanding officer of Fort Bnelllog for tomporary duty with tecruits for tho Beventeenth lnlnnlrrv. tHospital Steward [erbert Smith bavipg reported at lbers headguarters fs aselened to duty at Fort Benton, and will proceed to tbat place snd report ta the commandiog officer, MISCELLANFEOUS, Leaves of sbsence bave been granted Caple, Q. M. Bascom, Thirteenth Infantry; Alfred T.Smith, Eightth Infaotry: Thomas J, Quino, Foarih In. fantry; Pirst Lleats, 8. I Colladay, Tenth Cave alry {extended); O, F. Roe, Elevonth Infantry; aod S8econa Lieut. Phillp Heade, Third [nfautry (vstended), TEXAS. From Ban Antonlo to QalvostoneSugnr.¥i tarios — Tesan fallroads = Water-Fower— Tutare Fossibilities of the Stato. Bpecial Corvaspondencs of The Tribune, QGanvestoN, Tex., May 23.—This morning oar party bade adicu to Man Antoufo, sud took the cars for this ancient city of the Gulf. Around San Antonlo, and for twenty-five to thirty iwiles cast, the couutry {srolling just enough to be delightful, snd is more or less coverca with mesquite-brush, which gives the appearance of an codlesa peacb-orchard of about two years® growth, unless (0o closely Inspected, Apnual fleport of the lowa [nsurance De- partinent, Bpectal Correspondence of The Tyidune, Des Moixes, In., Junc 8.—From advaocs #heets of tho ninth annoal roport of the Insur- suce Departmeot of Jowa, which s now In press, I condense tho follawing relativo to the bustness of lfo and fire lnsurance i this Btate for thie year 1877: PIRB COMPARIES, The following State companles are incorpo~ rated under State laws: Burltogton, of Burling- ton; Farmers', of Cedar Rapids; Germman Mu- tua), of Davenport; Hawieys, of Dea Moines; Jown State Mutusl, of Reokuk; sud State, of Des Molnes. Thelr bLusiness 1s principally conflued to dQwelllngs ond farm-risks, doing very lttlo or nothiug with ercantile busloe ‘They have, by cauttous and safe management, worked thelr way to suc- ceas, until thelr aggregated assets reach uvearly £4,000,000, with o surplus of over two-thirds of # mitllon, The business of sll Uue companles Lins been considerably aflected by local mutual beuellt assoclations, which wére not controlled by legistation, These ure vow compelled IJK statute o conforss to the eame yules whicl Rovern other insurance companics, ‘The total number of companies from other Statca admitted into this State Is ninety-one,— adecrcase durlng the year of nine, yet with an i, 1 2 trcumference of the turret ruvolving on conical - ———— rinciules, cannot see the beauty of “ielding He ot consenting the womtnatton will lzlollxlw Belts of tiinber are aceaslonally crossed, sonce ‘“‘ffi:‘fi,,‘,’f,,,,‘,’;;"“m‘,. the business of forelgn Follors, ruuning upon rulls lsid on B o decics }{.“w fi‘.‘gfi'fil‘:fl: gu.urn‘\l:l‘z:t!w:.h u‘l’?‘:filui::g:n :n‘d, QUIPS, B4 al day in a brolling sun tho Russian avd Joos Lo unaniniously tendered to Col, Kelle. | yimes eeveral miles wide, 04 you pass castward; | companics for the years named: The Lurret_was operated by & lih-preasurs | port' fn Insauity, dlitineuishing between the | The Ipdlan question—Canos hear tho birch | Austrian will never take kindly to polo, thougi Tiaes ot s cheetion P e e toan o] | and you rocogolze the same feature in theas engiue. Tho total cost of the vesscl Was | faugh of tho muaisc and the drivel of the Jdiot. both lave nimblo ponles und wide plaus which bark? Nothing but time can keep ap with the ndl- cator on a gas-meter, Parsdoxfcal—* lizh words ooly mcans, fo most cases, “*low lsnguage.' ‘There Is somocthing sad about @ harp, bus whether (t's the tone or the collection taken up by tho player fs whot puzzies the phbilosophical wlud.—Detrolt #res Press. The Kiogof Duhomag has got hold of the % Natlonal ** fdea, aud thipks it {s a great dis- covery. lleowes 'lznxlnnu.*mo puacheons of of) aud be proposca to P, her with 800 pieccs of paper, each warked, ™ This isa puncheon of $003,4580 in gold. The Konlz Wilhelm, desizned by E. J. Reed, 0. B.. M. P, for the ‘Turkish Government, wi originslly called the Fatikh. 8She was sold during her construction to the Frussisn Gove ernment, 8he was bulltat the Thames lrou Works, Loudon, and at the time she was Jaunched aud equipved was reckoned to bo ong of the most powerful vessels, Sha ls a broad- sido frizate, carrles & battery of ighteen 03¢- fuch and five BX-Inch Krupp's steel rifled rum, and s armor bolted, tle thickness of the armor oo the waterdine belug 8 fuches, Hler battery s 10 fect sbove the water- line, She 833§ feot Iu Jcogth, 60 fvet beam, 233 feut depth of hold, 9,451 ton: 1876, 1877, [Hake written. . ... 878,670, 457,07 $03,705,170. 10 Lres wreceivod 2,261, 762.08 1,201,006, 23 paidoo,. 408,117,491 634,674,08 450,075.55 B45, B4 un excellent speaker, 1lis couvass of the dis- telet thorouihly would Insuse his clection. ‘ihe Beventh District {s Judge Humolrey's, aud 13 the LANNER REPUDLICAN DISTRIC? futhe Btate, electing Judge H. iwo years szo Ly over 7,000 majority. ‘Ihcte has Leen some ittle wixing up of Cotigressional watter fu this district, und It was thought at oue time that a new deal would bo mude, but it now sceins vrosble tbat Judge Humpbrey will be reuowml- Lated with reasonable unanimfty. “Ie Eighth District, stretchlng from Lako Michigan to Lake Superiur and the Mississippt River, ucrogs the Etate in e widest part, is now represented by ex-Lieut.-Gov, Thad C. Pound, belts that you crosscd oo the other line, 200 miles to the north. After passing the first huadred miles from Ban Antoufo, the country assumnes the stubbora character of prairie, vroken only by narrow Lelts of timber as you cross the rivers; oud this continues untll you reach Houston, 119 miles fartber. Occaslonal wheat and oat flelds ap- pear,—~much of {t 1o shock, and looking well; and large 0élds of corn, cotton, aud sugar-cany often meet the eyo. Large plantations of the sugar have been opeaed up quite recently, and seversl extensive woulll do capitaliy fur the aport. As for row- Ing, which {s praciiced after 8 fashlon in Francs under the namu of canotage, it is ratherap ex- cuse for summer-day outloge with young ladiss thau o serfous exercise for wind aud muscle, The French bave uo uatfoual style of rowing, and the days arc not nigh when a picked crew from the Unlreuuj of Puris will offer to mees Oxford or Cambridgs on the Thames. This lamentablo decling 1o Continental sthieticiim ollcrs wo reason why Englishmen ¢hould be put out of coucelt with thelr mauly pursuits; it shoald, on the coutrary, urgs them to contloug a8 they are dolug. After all, an athletic race 13 @ muster roce; und there heed bo no talk of British decadence #) loug s a hundred English 1t will classity dysphasic deraugoments, such as nv.gxl awneslc, parsphasic, and akataphasic aphasia. It wiil recount, In the volice and words of the poticat, tho sgonies of uneuralgta aud renal cal- culus, end the horrors of deltrium tremens. It will givo the burden of the story of the old lady who recounts all the flls of her auccators before praceeding to the eta of her own, Blore than this, 1t will accomplish this feat in the ante: room, while thu pbysiclan 1s supposcd to be busying himselt with Dis last dmuem. Last, but not least, it will simultaneously furalsh to the medical Bh“m‘:h" the gratoful pralses and promises of hies who is convalescent Incurred 10 yroe mjums received, 36.14 45.48 The decreass of recelpts, for the yesr as com- pared with the focrewse of wriiten 8 Quubtless the result of competition aud tho tiug of rates,—a practice which receives the so- vere condemnation of this Departincnt, as con- trary to sound business, and especially that of {usurauce. b"‘l;ln total oremiums paid during the yearhave from dangerous iliness, together with the ¢ te - | Home compuntes ... .8 520,503.07 | drawa 26)¢ fcet of water, and has un eatimate i S x oile " All that Is pecded on the part of England | schoolboys, taken ut hazard, might safely be ground. His re-election ds consldered sure, 1 have now gune overour eizhit Congreasional districts, und nxl,ruml. what Is the geoeral opivion, that the Kepublicans will all be renom- fuated. It may scew strange to sowne, unace quuluted with the situation, that imen can thrive und prosper, contisue to cojoy the confideace of thelr coustituents, while they are uuder the great displeasure of ST. PATRICK MUKPHT, of the Seatinel, Wers it not, in ono scose, so furcical, peopls would be hornifled at the flea that tbls man Murply should sel hlwaell up oy liko number from any forelgn schools, The llll": ‘:Lm.-nt In bandlng bats aud cars s Bob wasl Brazos,—Mcasrs. Willlams & Guion, extensiva sbippiug merchauts of New York, have lately In-; vested $30,000 in a plantation and factory, sud are cultivatiog the csoe ou a very vxtenslve scale. Near thew, 8 Mr. Freeman has a planta- tion and masufactory, from which ha sold, Jast sear, bis crop of sugar for $20,000, and bis mo- lasses for enough to pay all current expenses. From lHouston to Galveston,—a{ty miles,— the country bas been planed down to a dead level, or sloping eo slightly toward the sea ns tu developed »flual to 7,800 .horses. She cost §3,- 424,678 in gold. The Preussen fs an armored, doublo-tursot, sea-golng ship, similar to the Grosser Kurlurat, Her length (o 918 feet; breudth, B¢ feet; dopth from the upper deck to the keel, 84 feet 10 Inches; - displacencnt, loaded, 0,145 tons; load dralt of water,mcan, 23 fect 10 fnchus, Blo Las three masts, made to be uscd as veotll- ating tubes, and she la a full-ricged Irigate. ler engines, chinery, aud bollers are the sume as those of the Urosscr Kurfust. She s arinor-belted, and Lias u cazemate for the protec tion of the turrets. The thickucas of turrets is the butcher aud tha baker have beca pald. —— TWO RAPIAELS AT AUCTION. New York World, Loxpox, June 1.—Tho Novar collection ot palatiogs was sold by auction to-day. * The Vierge de Novar" (Yhe Virgin with the Le- gend), by Havboel, was suld for $15750 to Agucw. * The Madoona del Candelabri®’® was bought {n at 807,500 Aguew sléo bought Watteau's ** Deux Marquises” at $13,125, and ‘*Beaport,” by Claude, at $18.750. A river will be just us well satisled. $1,730, 530.00 ‘This docs not fnclude several mutual beneflt local associations, uor several forcigan companies surceptitlously dofug busfuess (u this Suale. Every compapy dofog & lawful busivess (g this State Is required 10 procure a costiticate from the Insurance Departinent, and every agent of such company slso must have such certiticate, Nou person cen safely do bustuess with any com- pavy or ugent uop 80 provhled, fur they are unfllr unworthy of trust. These cortilcates are ¢vidence that tho companies have deposited the wmount paper to be ol 4l —g “rovidence Press, A lame mon carrying a basket of groceries went quietly dowa Maln street, Cambrldye, yes- terday, when, with the suddongess of lzhtnlng, bis haud went up to bls ¢ve aud his basket went rottliug to the grouud. The sidewalk was flcoa- ed with broken eggs and maple-sugar, and the air wus burued with profsulty. A noy withu beau-slingz in s hat und the lmoress of the devil on his face, peered around the corner, and & ho Jisteued to the uld man's blasphcy he —————— SONNET. All thtogs are born to die and go to dusty Bat, though my mortal body must docay, 1 know thas 1 shall surely live for aye— 10 cver grow wore §ood and wise, 1 trust. })ly ben that bous vhall como, a4 cotac It Utk 1hat [ aball culialy pass sway, 1k sole Svrene 384 perfect Summer-day, vith the Departent necessary o o teacher of politics, os wanazing editor ot ?wmi: ““That was the boss shot.'—Loston 7L umukluo\v\rdél ‘2‘\‘;‘““‘“ was just A 9 i be lwperceptible, und stlll suliciently to brl sceure policy-kolders in this Etate. 10 82-10UO fuched. _Bhe carries four 105-fu sccue, by Hobbema, brought $11.0:3, and was J Then let my hite oo Earth bo (ree from siu, Wastpurodi :‘:c';"lfl,:i'f'fi"?“d“"" Bt e e Ll the ket LIVE-INaUHANCE. w0 07-1040ch, and four 3luch Krupy's steel | sold to Kutter; Mufitlo’s * §t. Authony Caress- | Tue Unlted States Treasury bas refused to | 53 1Bat 1y apirlt sLall be white as suow, The are but three lfe-insurunce companies lzed uuder the lawe of thiy State: the Ceuteunal Mutual, of Burlivgzton; the Equit- uble, of Des Molues; uud the fum, of hyokuk, rlited guos. The Lefght of the battery above the wateline fs 133§ fuct, and thickness of armor et wat e 9 2-10 iuches. The draw- fuze sud specitications for tuls sbip were mwads Aud ready for s purer world than this, A'hat, When fu death iy eves are prowlog dim, My IE\HK atall with boly rapture glow, Aud burst b glory froas ite cLrysatist +B1oux " DavsAKER ere we reach the vy, This ity s bullt at the north end of oo fsluud tweaty-seven wilcs fo lengtb, but only And not 0¥ crcome us Mk Without our speclal wond O the eublimity of cheek which this man Mur- Savor,” 313, edu ummer's cloud, {ug the lufant Bavor, lllhu to Frederiek Davis; Rubeoe’s “ Portrait of s Lady," §5,510, to Cuarles Butler; sea _picce, by Jucob Ruysdacl, 37,80, (o Qruves; pay the farmers for tho vutlonal use of the wround on which the battle of Gettysburg was fought, aud rigltly, too. The owoers of the luod sbould scud thelr LI to ex-Coufederato