Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1879, Page 6

FOREIGN. —_—n . Bursting of a Gun on Board a British Man-of-War. Seven Persons Killed and Fortly More or Less Ine, Jured. Over 15,000 Business Failures in Great Britein Doring 1878, Noncasi’s Death-Warrant Signed by the ¥ King of Spain. . Btrousborg Declared to Be Unfortunate, Not Dishonest. TURKEY. TIIE GRERR FROKTIER QUESTION, CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. &--Greco-Turkish frontier Commissioners wiil varry on their me- gotlationn at Athens. The Grana Visfer states that he accepts the principle of the rectification of the frontfer, upou condition of Turkey retainiug the stragot- feal line and tho Powers engaging to ohserve nentgality in the event of 'Grecce raisiog any farther claims or attempting fnvaslon. A TENRIBLE EXFLOSION, A Qisoatch from Ismid says a0S-tongun burst during practice on the Uritish man-of-war Thunderer. The vessel's turrct was destroyed, seven men killed, and forty wounded. 2 GERMANY. THE EXFRROR'S NEW-YEAR RECEPTION. Benuy, Jan. 2—The Emperor Willlam, in receiving the Ministers yesterday, sald he was not fatigued by attention to public affalrs, al- thotgh he has pot yet regalned his founer clas- ticity. The painfal impressions of the year have been softened Ly many proofs of-loyalty. The Emperor sald that the efforts of thu Mints- 1ry to combat dangess to the State Indubitably wers not without results, but their full activity muat still be diverted to this object. STROUABERG'S MISFORTUNE. Tho Town Court has declded that Dr. Strous- berz was bunkrupted in consequence of the outbreak of the Freneh war and unforseen Josser, and that ho ls, therefore, not blamable. ‘The Court approved the agreement of the cred- ftors to accept 3 per cent in settiement of thelr cluims. COMMEECIAL TREATIES, Loxpox, Jan. &.—-A Berlin dispatch says the Guvernment has determined to give potice of the termunation of all treaties of commetce at the end of the present year. HERLIN ITEUS, ‘ RBenuiy, Dee, 18.—An iuifuential committec of tue Berhin citizens have resolved, with the approval of the Emperor and Crown Prince, to purpetunte the meniory of his Majesty’s return to the Capital by converting {nto an eunduriug’ memorial the odeliscal device which mut their eyes on emerging from Potsdam Station on the Kunust, ‘Phe monument will bo exccuted in mwarble and bronzo at a cost of 300,000 marks, to which the loyal aud patriotic are inyited to subscribe, Political_and social life herc fa very dull at present. The proceedings of the Laudtax are merely of loeal fnterest. Prince Dismarck is ot Friedfiehrune enjoying reposc. White cloow is cast over the city by tue death of Princess Alice, the Cwturkampy’ continues; proseriptious, sus- pensions, and arrests betnz the order of tho day, All thls, huwever, is borne without open vutbreak, “Fhe resolute speechiof the Minister of Pubile Worship fu_the Prusslan Chamber of Deputles 13 comunented upon My the Uermon Libera) vapers with marks of the fullest approbation. ‘Fhey all express the desire of thelr purty for pence with the Ultramiontanes, who, howaver, declure that the Prusstan Goverument has no futentfon of coming to o understand- [ with then. rrinee Radelwill, wore- r, bLus written u pumphlet euntitiea unossa oder Damaskue,” fn srufch he claims s independent attitude™ for his party. The - Mtalian Paval paocrs, buweyer, still _count on the nf‘numunu of the Emperor aud Prince Bis- suarck. ‘Fhe golden weadIng of the Empuror and Em- ‘press fulls on the 11th of June vext year, AIFPGUANISTAN. ' TAKOOD PRESCRIDRS AN OATH. LoxpouN, Jan, 2.—A dispatch from Caleutta says: Newatrom Cabul' s to the effect that Yakoob Khao requirca his officors sud soldiers to ewear on tbe Koran to stund by hlm, but flually withbeld thelr pay, as thelr General de- chued Lo becomo security for their fiuclity. SURRE ALL 3 LoxpoN, Jun, 2—A Culcutta dispatch says thar belore leavivg Cabul, Bhero Ali wrate 18 tbe Viceroy ot Indig, stating that he woutd re- turn to Afghanistan after laying bis case betore n Congress at t, Petersbure, Maj, Cavagnmi Is instructed to receive sny peaceiul overtures in a very friendly maoner. So far, Yakoob Khan has made uo sign. TR ARMY, Gcn. Btowart will reach Candshar the B5th inat. A dispsteh from Peshawur states that the tnrbulencs of the ountatincers has closed the Khyber Pasa for the last three doys, except to strovely escorted convoys, This copdiuen of affairs hos compelled the abandunment of the project of coustructiog a telegraph Hno through the pass. There {8 chaotic confusion between the Commissariat and ‘Truusportation Depurt- ments. One BIkh regiment hus been withdrawn from the fleld Lecause of fever. Half of the 1nen oro sick, and sixty-four have dled. One En- «lish regiment bas been withdrawn from All Musjid because of ness among its wendbers. THE ORIENT. BY TUE LAST STEAMER, % Ban Fraxcisco, Jun, %—0Oriental and Occl- dentul steamer Belic arrived from China sud Jupan this evenlug. Hoxo Koxu, Dec. U.—There Is no further authentic intelligence respecting the movements of sbe pretender to the throue of Adpam. Rumor tells of bis rapld advasce tuwards thy Capital of that Kingdom, but the Chiness au- thorities discounteuauce any fuquiry, Tang, new Miulster to Eoglsnd sud France, hay salled for his post. Great hopes are onter- talued by the Liberal party from this young ro- forier's Western inlaslon. Yoxrouasa, Dec. 13,—The saffalrs of Japan in Corea are {n staty qua, sud no uecessity for an appesl to arms {8 vow apprehended, Becret ulplomatlc arrangements are o progress be- tween the British sud Chiness Legations fu Jdupan. Thelr purport is unknown. There is much curiosity, especially oa the part of Rus- #lun ageuts. ' ‘I'he political aspect Is unchanged, notwith- standing the strong endeavors of British repres sentatlyes to siow u coudition unsectled and alarmivg, The Government {s fn fuct atroug sud trusted as at auy thue of the past decade. GREAT BRITAIN. VAILUKES IN 1878, Loxpon, Jan. %.—The buastness failures In Great Britain duriug 187 were 15,030, of which 2,043 were fu Unaoclal and wholesalo aud mauu- aacturivg braoenes of trude. ‘'fhe fucreuwsv 1s 4,037 fatlures for the last over the preceding year. LABOR TLOUDLES, Loxpox, Jan. 3.—The 3luers' Lodges of Buuth Yorkshire and North Derbyshire ure unanimous for reslating the proposed reduction of wages, ‘fhe West Yorkehire milners will support the resistance, ‘Tle Amaliamated Bo- ciety of Evglueers, which opposes any lncrease ol the hours of lubor, bas, according to the last sunual regurt, £225,000 on hand, Tils Unlon, uuwerkally and’ fuanclally, leads sil otber tradus-unions of the Kingdom. - FINANCIAL. . Loxvox, Jeu. 2.—1'hs Ducctors of the Creait Company, which bas s cupital of £450,000, und Lahihitles over £1,250,000, bave fasucd a circulur to shweholders recomtasending u yoluutary liquidation vt the Cowusuy’s silaire. TUNIS, TN VRENCU ULTIMATOM. Paxts, Jun. 2.—La Frauce siates that sn Witlnatum was dispatehied to the ey of Tunis Saturds fused to countenance the Bey's hostile attitude to France. The Consul has “been instructed to further the wishes of the French Government. and Tunls will'soon be settled by diplowatlc means. - Tope will shortly notify Germsny of his Feadi- ness La consent to a compromise in regard to the appointment of the Germau clergy. statcs that Prussia has strongly expressed her dlspleasure at the Duke of Cumberland's pro- longed residence in Denmark, leayes Copenbagen on Saturday. cil to-day, the King reluctantly signed Moucasi's death-warrant. tur Baturdsy morniug. tiotbard Railway have Inforiaed the Federal Council that, in tlew of the recent reorganiza- tion of the enterprise, they deem a thorough change in the personnel of tho management de- sirable. ketteally prosecuted, and, despite the hardoess of the rocks lately cucountered, the tunnel ls now plerved tod total length pt 11,050 metres, leavingz only 2,%0 to cumplete it. an mgenjous devico for at once diminishing the national expenditure and Increasing the na- tional income. every young man is as asoldier, only those who aro physieally untit- ted, either iy season of inflemity or shortiessof stature, for servive tn the tield befngableto claim immunity from annuai drill, ‘Thists the principle lawd dowil in the Coostitution,and it is the busi- ness of the Executive to see it duly acted upon. It i, nevertucieas, left to the Federal Councilto ruise or lower the staudard of bignt at thelr dis- vretion, and for tac coming year they have de- culed to ralsa it proceeding will naturaily reduce considerably the uumber of recruits to be called out in 1879, and the Federal finances will beuelit aceordiugly, only vousequence that will flow from _the aduption ot the expedient In question. year o law wae pasacd, and 18 now coming luto uperation, by virtue of which all citizens woo are exempted irom servive in the militis, from whatever cause, are required to pay a speclal Lax, the incddeuce of which varies Iu porportion tu the means ot the vontributor, the very pour being alune entirely excused. the standard thus cuts tvo ways,—io reducing In miiary expenditure, and fu” making a nota- Dle aduition to the great army of texpayeis. ¥ —————————————— Mrs, Mary Treat, in lurver's Mugarine for Janvory. night. is Killed, sud four re The German Consul st Tunis re- 1. Liberte snys tho conflict between Franco ‘TOME. 'WILL COMPROMISE. Loxpox, Jan. 3.—~A Home dispatch says the DENMARK, f INTERNATIONALVEALOUSY, LoNnox, Jan. 2.—A Copenhagen dispatch The Duke SPAIN, JONCAS!'S DRATH-WWARRANT. MapRip, Jon. L—After a long Cablnet coun- The cxecutlon has Leen flxed BWITZERLAND. TOW TO RAISE NRVENUE. GENEYA, Dec. 18.—~The Dircctors of the 8t. Meanwhile the works are belng encr- The Guvernment of the Juru_have hit upon In Bwitzecland, aa in Uermany, liuuls to b calied to serve by tve “ventimeires. Tlus ‘This, however, Is not the Last ‘The rulsing of ANTS. A Lively Battle, On o sultry afternoon, the 1st day of July, 1 was inzlly sountering jn the grove, when, ou looking duwn, 1 found, to my surprise, that was o the midst of a battle-fleld. A powerful army of red unts had invaded the dominions of the black colony which for torco years past 1 had bad a kiud of supervision over. brought plants covered with aphides—tbe hin- mortal Linnwous cajled these aphides the ants’ cows—nnd stuck the plants intothe carth acound thelr dwelling, and hud gives them sugar, and had driven and carred toads from their nest which were devouring them. becowne very much interested In and quito at- tached to thia colony, Lut T was powerless to ald them vow. I could only lovk on fu wonder and ustonishment. 1 had often In short, I had A vard or more around the foot of the tree the battle was mging, and o placo for the solo of my foot without crushing the combatants. Ifound, in cvery finstance, & red ant pitted aralnet o black: sotetimes two red ones agalust one black, In which case the black was soou ais- patehed. For three hours 1 watchied the conflict; all sround me the combarants locked In 8 closs cmbrace, rolling and tumbling about, never separaniog until one was Kkilled, nud often the deant vierlin bad fastened with so lirm a hold on hils ndversary that it was with tho utmost ditli- culty that by could free bimself from his death- un went down, and the gathering dark- moelied mo to feave my post of onser: ut, as long as I could sce, the conflict was lerce as when [ first vehield it. [ uow pleked up several of the warrlors, but so Intent were they lu Lheir terrible strugele that my handhox did not divert them In tuo lew eral potrinte the house, placed themn under n large oval-gluxs (the cover of n feruery)on n marble-tupped table, and watched the conffiet, I carried sev- 1 tound I had ten biack and ten red warriors, not enteaeed fa u geaeral welee, but each ntent upon killing his own adversary, un hour bejory the first warrior was killed,—a red has at Jast dispatcued bis black sutagouist; and ot satisfled with killing biw, Lo tears his legs from bis bod! Alter convineluir tilmself tuat be {s really dead, ho looks aronnd ut are still. clusely lucked In thelr dresdful em- brace, and now he hurries from ouo couplo to another, 08 € to sce where lis services aro most needed, elew are nearly over,—a bluck s fastensd with a death grip to bl The red hero svon su black the leg of his goes te another couple who ar coutending; he aclzes the biack, three roll and tumble about t black is soon killed, and, us Ip the atber cang, nis maudibles aro locked on his adversury’s leg. Tt was fully und severs his antennm. the otter warrlors which e finds vouple whoso sirug- adversary's fore-leg, s the head frum the and leaves it bunging to dvlog comrade, o now Uil fiereely d vow ull roldier, ugethiers but the Jut this time our hiero dors not scver tho lieud from the black soldicr, but leaves bls comrada 1o free bimself as best he can, whils he goes to the assistance of & third Tess fortunate brother, where the black secius to havs tho botter of his autagonist, now anuther red soldler has dispatched bls op- Mero a lonu strugele cusues, aud punent, and he coles to the strugglivg three, toves shout them in aa excited manoer, with his taudibles stretched wide spart, wultine bis opportunity to Iasten tuemn on tie blacki he tinds his chianee, eclzes him between tha thorax aud abdomen, und suvers the body (n twoi but the dying block does not reiax his hold of tha tirst antagonist, and they die together, L now lewve the ferco combutants for the In tie morntog 1 find that every black A& soldlvrs are dend, wod two otbers cannot longd survi ‘Tho lege and antenue uud mwutllated bodies of the dead warriors wre strewn about, every fragmeat shuwiug consplenously un the white warble, Out of the twenty, fourteen are dead and two wearly lifeless—only four have survived, some sirops of waterund molstened sugar under the glass for the surviving licroes; two flnd the I put water and tleld, e, drink, [now repair to the battle- ‘f'he struggle ls over—ual a black to be but & coluwn af tho red invadens 1s emerne- {ng from ularee cavity that leads to the nutcer- ous galleries wud unilerground chambers of tucso industrious blacks, aod eucn fuvader is carrying alarve or pupa, 1 fullow the column, which Is frum v to flve inches fu whith, 1o the of ted anta beforo wicn- tloned, There 18 & wide openiug i1 the side of this neat, down whicn they ull dls- appear oud leave their burdens, sod agaim strt for niore plunder, All day loog theae powerlul marauders are enguged o this work., ‘f'uey carry alurvior puca caretully, and drop It o beluge disturbed, But what does this meant Every little wille a red warrlor coes vut with # black buudle, which o carries 23 carefully oa by does the pupaorlarva, 1 stop him ty fn- quire luto the matter; he drovs his bundle, which Taediately unrolls, and lul it 1s a lvely blavk aut, apparently unhurt, aud, to wy cye, nu wuy diffcrent froin the warrior with whoni bhe was »0 ticreely thrlitiug, s “Ibe books which I bave read on the subject fofurm we thar ¥ the red unts carry the pupa sud larva of the blucks to thelr beat, where they 1eop them for sluvus, but they never cupture the sdult asut, Jor At would uot stay fn the mcw nhome it they did" But these suts certainly carrled 8 grest number of wduit blacke to thelr nest, and 1am utite sure they did uot run away, but' atuld und briped to purse aud foed the larvie, 1 capture several of the red muuruders with thelr yictins, wnd pluce thiem under the giass. The reds now puy Lo attention 1o the blucks, “wt simply try o make their escape. J take larvw and lay thewm on @ leal, aud put thews uuder the gluss nlev, aud place mofstened suyar In their reach. Very 200l the blucks are feeding the belpless larva, I retuve the glass cover; the reds inmedtately Tub away, but the blucks stay and continue to alp the molstenud sugar and feed tho youny, 1 hwold & wakuitving-glass over them, sud Hud the littde Jurvas raise up their Leaus sdd open thelr 1ouths 1o be fed. very wuch like youug birvs, I now take tbu lurvay, together with the burae. wud place thew vear the nest of red sots, soon lose alzhL of the uurscs, but the larvw aro Quickly takeu futo the best by the red soldicrs. Marriage of Miss Sallie E, Wild to The Bride a Young Belle of Racine, and The Most Gorgeous Apparels Dis- event that has shaken the upper circles of this beautifu! city was consummated to-day In the marriage of Mies Sallie E. Wiid 1o R. B, Reflay, of Wikesbarre, Pa., at Saint Luke's Episco- pal Church, the Ruev. Dr. Wright officiating. On all oceastons of the kind It Is customary to socak of tho high contracting parties in the most eulogistic terms, however undescrving, but in this instance it is but simple justice to the beautiful but modest bride 1o give expres- spoken in ber praise by the hundreds of friends from far aud near who witnessed the ceremony and tendered thelr Miss Wild has been tho {uol of the young people of Racine sinceshehecame the sochal star. No party or gathering of any kind bas been com- plete without hier presence, and the debt that is still Ler due s well indorsed by the regrota that far well, For qulet and cultivated graces of pereon and unassmning charity to all,” *we ne'er shall see hei )ike again,” The bappy Uenedict s & young snd ambitious lawyer from Wilkesbarre, T'a., who for severg] years Lns mads his home in Raclne while prosecuting his studies at the col- lege here. wagnificently played by Prof. C. Hyer, Indicated to the oxpectant hundreds that the solemn act ‘was ahout to begin, ushers, Messra. Gerald MceDowell and Frank K. Bull, preceded the bridal party, ench holding thoend uf a binealik rihban,which was unwound as they marched toward the altar. stiken cordon and in the order given, followed the firat bridesmald and groomsman,—~Miss lda Bull and Arthur Nugunin,~who scparated as they reached tho altar und assumed positions— the former to the left and the latter to the right, Next In order came Miss Ida -Bull and: ated as the others hod done, leaving room for tho bride aud prroom tn tho ceutre, lowed Frankie and Allie Wild.. of the bride, who took thelr pl THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MATRIMONIAL. FRIDAY, JANUARY ¢ Mr. G. O, Thomas—Globe editiou of Dickens, Mr. and Mre, David Lawtou—Panel pieture. Mr. Q. R. MeDowell—Goll halr-pin, rs, Ircna Deming, Chicago—Toltet-set. Ar. and Mrs. ‘Teagarden—Case of ongravings. Mra, Teflt, Titusville, Pa.—Salt-cellars. Mr. 11. H. Weora~—8alt, pepper, ana napkin- ring stand, Mr. and Mrs. J, R. Slauson—3ct silver tea- spoons. AMr. and Mrs. Lehman—Bouquet-holder, Mr. C. H. Lee—Picture, ' First Esster Dawn.” The occasion described nbovs was enhanced In a marked degres by the added splendor of tho celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary ol the marriuge of Mr, and Mrs, Frederick Wild, For yeara Mr. Wikl has octupled o prominent sltion i raflrond aml coimncrcial circles, and s known literally from AMaine to Oregon, and. favorably so. T1ls eatimablo wife has possibly one as much for the entertainment nm{ amuse- meut of society as any lsay in the city, and is loved by an extremely larize cirele of Iriends, which was atteated by the great nambers who tendered them thelr personal coneratulntions, Tho presenta were nuincrous and costly, Mr. R. B. Reilay. the Groom ot.Wilkesbarre, Pa. played on the Occaslon. An Almost Interminable Lint of Rate and Appropriata Prosents. WILD---REILAY. Fpectal Dispatch to Ths Tridune. RAciNg, Wis, Jan. 3.—The ureatest soclal SHEPIIERD-DRATIIAN, Svecial Disnateh to The Tribune, Drcaton, i, Jao, 2.~Louisn L. 8hepherd and John Draian were married hiere Jast even- inz by the Rev. J. 1% Locke at the residence of the bride’'s mother. The bride looked very handsome, being very tastefully attired in white tatin, The supper sugnptious, SPORTING. TOE TURF, dpecial Dipatch to The Tridune. LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jan, 2.—0. W, Bathpate, of Jerome Park, purchased on the 8lst of Decem- Ler last the crack 3-year old of 1878, SBpend- thriit, paying for him $15,000 cash and 25 per cent of his winuings fn 1870, Spendthrift was the property of D. Swigert, of Stockwood farm, Wooufoni County, and Is rezarded ns the best colt {n America. Heiaa full brother to Felloweraft, and is in $60,000worth of stakes during the present year. slon to the glowing compliments that were sincere congratulations. aro that - her mingled with kindly vwishes home fn tho future wlil be from Racine, whero she Is loved so A WEARY WALK. Nzw Yorg, Jan. 2.—Mme. Anderson, at 5 o'clock this afternoon, completed the 1,615th quarter-nile of her long walk, Nrw Yonr, dan. 8—Midnight.—Mme. Ander- sen completed her 1,040th quarter-mile at 10 v'clock to-night. NEW YORK CRESUSES. Astor, Lenox, Stewart, Vanderbilt, Ete. New Tork Tymes, ‘The founders of the great New York fortunes of the present century—John Jacob Astor, Rol ert Lenox, Alexander T. Btewart, and Cornclius Vunderbilt—have paseed away. John Jacob Astor arrived In this city at a pe- riod of great depression, in 1784, Durlug the latter part of 1783 some 15,000 refugeces, men, women, - and children, left New York, Long Tsland, and 8tatou Istand for Nova Scotla and 8t. John, among them many persons of fortune dnd estate. Theac estates Astor hegan to buy whenever ho could spare the money, us soon s e got. o littic shiead in the world. ™ John Jacob Astor’s first purchose of clty real estatc— The grand musie of tho *Wedding March,"! Up the centre alslc of the church the first two Within the Fred Wiid, Jr., brother of the bride, who sepur- ‘Then fale cr and brotber :a on the first sides, The altar-step, on their respective 3 bride, leanityg on the arm of the | two lots on the Bowery “lane or road, -E?.fi:fifc‘im'uhfiux? lu' ordcr.‘fullom:d by the | near Etlzabeth strcet—wus made ln Aut bride supported by her father. Lastly the two | Eust, 178, snd from that dato to tho second ushers winding the ribbon compieted tho bridal procession, The beautiful and fm- pressive cercmony of the Episcopal Chureh, which {s @ poem fo itaclf, made the solemnlra- tiou of tho happy event grand in tho extreme, and after pronvuncing the benediction upon the newly wedded pair,” the ushiers holding the Silken ribbon again led the_bridal purty from the altar to thedoor, from wheuve carriages vou- veyed them, and on imtuenso concourss of Iniends, to the residence of tho parents of the bride, where congratulations fncident to tho event, and the siiver weddg of Mr, and Mrs. Wild, were tendered until mornlng came. Tue reireshments were under the direction of Conroy, of Mitwaukee, who had orders to spare no expenso to outdo all former efflorts of the time of bis death, Mareh, 1848, he was & ateady and constant buyer of real estate. ‘Tho last conveyance to John Jacob Astor was made shortly before his death, 1n 1848. The convey- ances made to him dtmnf the fiftv-nine yeors which clapsed between his fArst and last pur- chases of real cstate in this city form seven pages of ciosely-printed matter 1o the Index of conveyances on flle in the Register's oflice, ‘These wise investinents have with timo awollen {nto enormonts wealth, and the Astor fortuno. to-day, 88 represented by Mr. JJohn Jacob Astor und Mr. William Astor (zranidzons of the firat Aster), 18 one of the great fortunes of thy worlil, At the timo of Jobn Jacob Astor's death, in 1848, hia furtune was estimated at from ' 850,000,000 to £40,000,000, and ho was counted the iith on the Hat of rich men, Baron de Rotbschild, Louts Phllilpn'a the Ditke of Devonshire, and Bir Robert Peul ouly exceeding him. ‘The Iate Mr. Robert Lenox, like Mr. Astor, wasa sctl-made man, 110 was when ho first be- gun an entiro strapeer in this city, where the name of Leuox is riow so greatly venerated, be- cnuse of the noblo deeds of charity and the lavish donations for rellfglous and lterary pur noses of lis only son, James Lenox, Mr, Kobert Lenox vommenved busincss in 1783, — the year before Juhn Jacob Astor wrrived,—and romalued hers permanently until his death, which oceurred in December, 1820, 1o the Blst year of hlsage. For muuny years his operattons greatly excecded thosoe ol nu{ other werchaut in the'country at that day, fle becamo event- vally onu of the most successful merchants In tho United Ststes. Mr. Lenox fav-sted his decamulations cnlnn‘oln ¢ty real estate. In 1817 aud 1818 bu bought for less than §7,000 fnd. ‘Tne bride wos nlcgsnily arrayed in a magnifi- cent white stik and Parla muslin, and a vell thae felt fn graeeful folids over the aweeplug train that was caught at fute vals with orauge-blos- soms. The faultless attire, combined with the etite yet exquisita figure of the. beautiful grl(lr. created 8 pteture of exceeding lovellness. ‘The first bridesmald, Miss Ida Bull, wore a yery claborate dress of lzht-blue silk and white e combined, ‘The second bridesmald, Miss Kato Relluy, sister of the groom, wus attivea ex- auisitely in a ssimon-colored sllk and white Jace. "'ye presenta weie costly und elegant i the extreme aud came from all ports of tho Unjon. The urray waa of such mugniticence and varlery that your correspotident found it impossble to secure but a v;:xunl rl;:lcrlrlioll' of which the owing may he mentloned: ml'!romwmu ygroum—l.umu solitalro diamond fl"yv;om mother of groom—Solid silver salad st :}m:n. I“:x‘:l'iy nc‘ru gl lntm!.r rrt‘l;lmlnz lrme 3 i XLy-c! 0 eventy-fou street Yiow father of groom—Gold salt-ccllar, with b-_-wyv.-oEF Fourth_ and . Fiith avonuce Peom * Aunt Ballic™—8iiver butter knifa and | known®sa the “Leuox Farm,! wuch of which {8 now vovered with first-class brown- atone houses. Tho enormuus fucreaso in the valuo of this land, sold for tho most part at top prices between 1804 nud 1873, givea Mr. Jumes Legox 3 high rank among New York mionaires. ‘The Lonox Farm to-day, without a brick o it, would be worth 68,000,000, Whiis tho Lenox furtunc 18 modest indeed, when com- pared with tho colossal accumnulations of tha Astors, Vanderblits, and Stewarts, we venturo to hinzard the opluion that Mr. James Lenox hus quietly glven away as much as the lato Mr. Pea- body.” His donstions In land and money to charitable, literary, and religious Institutions situated on the Lenox Farm slonc amount to over $2,000,000. ‘This Is u noble example to those who wield the great furtunes of Now Yoik, Itdatobe regretted that the name of Lenox, 8o Isr as the founder of the family {n this city 1s concernud, dics with the present Mr, James Lenox, a bachelor uow advanced in years. As long as Now York exists bls memory witl be remeambered and cherished, The fortuna of A, L. Stewart—of qulcker growth than that ot Astor—was accumulated in_one hte-time. At Mr. Btewart's death, in 1870, {t was estinated st £30,000,000, or twice tho mmonnt of the iighest estlinato of Joun Jucob_ Astor's fortune, when he dicd, In 1848, In 1875, Mr. Stewart's city real estate—situated for the most part below Untou Hyuarc—wus as- sessed ut 86,212,700, At that tinie the nssessed 4valuation represented ouly 60 per cout of ‘the real value, o that the then actuul value of the veal estato was $10,854,500, which forms but an elghth of bis estimuted wealth, Mr, Stewart, lhuwever, owned real estate 1o nearly every city in which be hed deallugs, He owned 4 LI .“l%:zn‘!"l\llu Anna Relldy, of Wilkesbarro, sister of groom—0nu dozen solid silyer knives, From Miss Lizzio Rellay—Solid sliver cake knlien Mins Kate lelly—One dozen _solid ver rume—n‘wmne and large cream-spoon, and ilver olivesuooi. '“;!;-ln:n mother of bride—Palr massive Roman racelete, oo r;rga iy, I, brothar of bride—Bius eorl baunule-ring, . Illli}réblt‘:l Miss l"mnkl\"x Wild, sister of bride— Russia Ieulthcrbm‘tn'nmd bandkerchief box sod vo cut-gluss bottles, wl?r:r:\ xf\llm Wild, brother of bride—~Russia Ieuther checker-boanl, ¥rom Ned Wild—Tollet puff box, Mr. nnd‘ .\Ih.lur.-u;go")\;lxh:, Bycamore, Ill,— 4 cut-glass truft-dish, s‘&‘l‘}r::l‘l‘l Mrs. Robert Wild, Valatia, N, Yi— Carving knife aud fork, Mr. und Mra. Charles Wild, Valutia, N, Y.— One dozen sulid silyer preserve-spoous and one luree *ul\}'-luwn. unlite Proute—8ilver vegetable-spoon, Mrs, T. U, Mariudale—Pileture and velvet ‘Mrs. E. G, Patterson, Titusville, Pa.~Sliver vel-case. : Lo Heitay, Mioslale, Mich—Two panel- pletures. Dan, Willte, and Desslo Wild, Sycamore, 11l —Jelly-diah and_ cut-glass, Mra. W, W, Davis, Jamestown, Pa.—Bronze and gold izkatand, Mr,oud_ Mrs. Jd Wells, Burliogton, Wis.— Elegant sllver jewel- caye. " o number of woolen aud turcad wilts 1 m'\\ll; \mll{ Mre. d. 1. Lowry, Milwaukee—8llver | .y ountev, among thewn l::: .M(;‘~ \ir. and Mr, Wackerhagen, Albsuy, N. Y.~ hawk wnt ~ Eilbeuaf, at Littla Falls; the New York ilis, st Tlolyoke; the Woud- ward Mills, at Woodstocks theé Yuntien Mills, in New Jersey; the Washington Mills, at New Haortforl; the Catskill und Watervillo Wouolen Mitls, Thoro aru also lurge luryo mille at Not- tiguam, Eugland, snd Gissgow, Scotlaud. The property of the house of A. I stewart & Cu. 1s wreatly weattered. 1t owns property in most of tho lurge vitles here and abroad, snd _lLus con- tinually iu its emiploy outside of Kew Yurk over old cundlesticks, Will Wackerhiogen—Bronze jukstand, Miss Nettie Buli—Picture and frame, and an clegant fan, Miss Iun Bull—Tace spread and pillow-ghains of beautiful und costly pattern. Mlss Rittlu A, Huvcombe—SEliver and cut- glaya frult-dish of chasto desien, 1. J. Millyzan, Chicago—8ulld. pllver dessert- spoon. 0,000 porsane, 'Luicru are branch bousesat Drud- 3irana 3s. C. E. Dyer—golidstver berry- R ancneater, Delfast, Earls, Lyons, Domn, Clarenco Wilcox, Appleton, Wis.—Aquatary- | SubUBis 2 W00, Tho traieter b Cor: made aquariun, o art, to Heary Hilloa, of al) her interest o 4 kea. Ureeuougy, Syracabe N Ti—Sohd ilver | lia i As 'R revwart & Co. Erve St Tllvon s consplcuous place among New York million- arrcs. . Probabiy Mr. William H, Vanderbilt {a to-day the richest tnan in New York. He fnnerited the btk of Corpuiodore Vanderblit's tortune, who, 4t the time of Lls deatn, wes accounted a rlcher man than either of tho present Astord. With tho sinels exeeption of Mr. Wiillam H. Vander- bitt, our chiel New York mithonsires draw tbeir revonuce frum the rents, Incomes, and prutits of real estble, which has sbrunk fully une-third siuce 1878, I tba Astor 1oruune way ::‘{:-)Wm,um. t 18 1o-day woith wot over ) aud g0 on throuithout the llst, Ejuce w York las erown with o rapidity bituer- t0 uukuown in ooy of the great cevtres of pop- ulation of thy wurld, uud thls growth pave wealth tg thy fortunate few who buugbt or jb- herlted vity real esiate, Thelr descendants arv auong our richest citizens. Chlel amony city real cstate owoers who rank xs milionaires sru tho Astors, th Rhlnnl-nuent thy (ioelets, Mrs. A, T, Stewsri, the Lorillards, tho Bcbhermerborus, the Leuoxes, Robert J. Liv- fueston, and Frederie Stevens, who (s the youugeat willionare ou the list, d who ey fus ob the coruer of Fifty-scventh strect and Filth avenue the tnest privato residencs 1 the city, it Is uslogular fact that of ali the wentlemen we have usmad, who together represcut certaluly butween 3100,000,600 und $150,000,000 of read estate, not vne covcerud hiwsell persoually about mupicipul affams. ‘Luls refiecgion uddresses -iacil with pecuitur furce, uor ouly to willionwises, but to our wourrstely weil-t-dp clasacs, sod to all those who van property du this «ty. It u ehatp semedy s bot quickly applicd to the prescot uselessly aud crimfuaily extravspant imodes of Muswipsl Guverneot the profession of mflitonaire will soun become cxtiaet, sud the preservation of wecumulated weslth ut tuls Lenrs an bo clussid wwony tle lost aris. Mr, aud Mrs, E, G. Hewitt, Cincinnati, O.— Bep uut-pleks und cracker, s G M. Kiog, Chicago—8olid silver soup- ladle, Dean Richinond, Batavis, N. Y.—Solid sllver sonp-ladie, Fred Beswick—Silver pickle-fork, L. 4. CGovelund, Chicago—3Solia silver berry- spoon, Mrs, Stephen Bull—El:unt‘wflet-wc ol blue satin, Mr. Btephen Bull—8ilver yase and standard, Ar. und Mrs, 3. T, Fuller—3olid siver and old ulive-spoca. ks&r.' aud Mrs. W, Beswick—8ilver butter- ulfe, Mr, and Mra. D, A, Olin—8ix solid silver ta ble-spoous, I’ Bruce, Milwaukee—Tollet-set, Alr, aud Mrs, Handenbrook, New York—Solid cream und SULZET sLboon. Mr, sud Mra. Clayton, Freeport—Silver jewel- case. M nd Mrs. Horwel), Pittsburg, Pa.—Cow- et vf Slukepeare, elegantiy bound. Miss Sudle Caven—silver cand-receiver. Mr, qu Mra, J. A, Brows, Milwaukee—Pearl opera-giuss. J, M. Edgar—8iiver berry-spoon, -~ Blise Ada Clayton, Freepori~—3et totlet-mats. Cupt, F. K, Loyell—8ilver ple-knlto, Nba Flors Kuapp—Bilver jewel-vuse, Muss Gieorgia Hulburt—Msjulica sardloo-alsh. Aiss Josde Grinithis—Pulnt luce, Jaue Wheeler—Worsted basket, . Mr. Chariea Little, Feeeport, Tlg-Rogers® statua { *Cutniug 1o tho Parson." Miss Kittts May—Beyutitul basket of vatural jowers. “g‘lr. F. G. Raonvey, Milwaukee—Perfumery s Beys, Bprivzteld, O.—Cream-spoon, 1879~TWELVE PAGES. SENATORIAL. The Contestants in the Struggle Leaving for Springfietd. What the Friends of the Candl- dates Havo to Say. There were no new developmonts {n the Sen- atorlal contest yesterdsy. ‘The fight fu Chicago is practically over. Preliminaries have been concluded for the final charge, and ft will be made within a brief time. Gov. Oglesby left Inst evening for Decatnr, whero he remains over Bunday, Monday he will make his advent in Springticld and engage sctively in the cam- paign. Gen. Logan, with Long Jones and Dan Shepard as chicfs of an army of strikers, will leave for Springfleld Bunday night. Both gentlemen go there -cncoursged by the liope of victory they belleve to be dls- wernible. The friends of Logan proclaim thelr determipation to duplicate tho contest of elght years ago. At that ilme Logan and Oglesby occupled the same relative positions. Both wero caudidates for Senatorial honors. Their clalms to consideration and contidence wero conveded; that they desersed public com- mendation was not denfed. They wero the cen- tral figures of the Republican group i Hlinots. Politiclans great in thefr own esteem frotted s Lriet hour before the caucus, and w ere rotired to the shades of oblivion, Bome of them lhave avpeared at intervals since, os the lenders of Demoératic forlorn hopes, but the majority huve auletly rested in their places. ‘Thon, as now, the contest was bitter, and then, as it ls vredicted ft will be now, the fight was pro- longed. Muauy presumie to predict what tho outcome will be, but absoluto kunowledge s re- served to the future. THE FRIENDS OF 0OY. OGLESBY express themsclves as decldealy satislled with the sitnation. It was claimed yesterday by one of his supporters that lie vould cbtain votes from the Chicayo delegatlon. There wero mem- bers elected from this clity who had assured him of this fact. The revorter interviewed sume of them yesterday, but il were non-comn- mittal. Senator Riddfe eaid he was going to vote for Matt Carpeuter, and his reply may bo taken 08 pn Indication of the indisposition to talk. Nevertuelrss. the statement still stands that voters who are promised to vote for Logan and Farwell (in the mind's eye of ecach candidate) will deposit thelr ULailots for Oglesby, **The fact s, observed a gentleman yesterday, ** full 75 per cent of the voters of 1linols want Oglesby elected, and it don't seem possiblo to mie that Repruscntatives witl disrezard these wishes.” As stated, Gov, Oelesby left for lomalast night 1n 8 cbeerful framo of mind over the outlook. Ilo 1s represented to havo gained largely during the post few dave, and will show such strengiih bem‘;e the caucus that his election will bo as- sured. LOGAR'S PRIENDS are eyually contident, Thoy say his victory fs beyond provention. He maintaics on exterlor complaceucy I\)ecullnr to tho mao. He dou't en- thuse at all, Onu of his fricuds said this wos beeause of his satited convictionas to the result. ‘These triends fusise upon the certainty of hise bejug victorions, because in the first place he ta careful pot to show his hand. Ho never gives bimself away. His superior exccutlve abllity is alsu counted 08 @ prime factor 1n bis favor, and the aggreesive poitey be adovts Is, they say, ir- resistible, ‘o theséds to be added his faculty for obtaining votes. IHa courta the support of one by assuring him the refusal of a country Postmastership, 1f the petitioned docsn’t want it. tbea the offer Is made to ove of bis frionds. Taey say that no one can tell what a persuasive inlluence this systemn of apecial pleading exerts. Above all, ho ‘never becomes ¢ rattled.” He kuows exactly what he’s about, when to move, liow, and fn what directton, This one fact thoy mreue, witl almost enable to overcomo Impossibliities. Ho goes to Sprinefleld with the ‘‘gang® Sunday nlght, and for the next two weeks they will endeavor to ke things llvulf‘. ‘That success will attend thelr efforts 1s by all except his imwmediate sup- porters rezarded as a question of chance rather than probability. His friends deny that he will form any coslition with the Decmocrats. lle denfes It to them, Tlo will "°¥"’°v’ say, pro- cure his olectlon in that way. That’s what he says, and a cacdidate who doesn’t * run his cam- nuign 1o a nawspaper'! wili hardly have recourse to Uemocratic means for tho accomplisument of any purpose. ] * MR PARWELL {eaves for Springtield atso Bunday night accord- {ug to all uccounts. It is sald by his encmles thut, while bls revelations oy have (njured Logan, tbey have had o tendency to reflect on hlmeelf, They also say the country members regara him as an acute poiticlan, educated in tho school that flourishos in the city. s dispo- sition to ““trade™ mukes them npprohonsive that, while they vote i barmony with their con- vicilons, . he may * trade?® thelr votos off for the attainmont of persoual euds. _When the caucua whll be_couvened Is a quus- tion uot yet deterinioed. It ia belfeved that candidates will confor u.];wn this subject when thuy assemble at Bpringlield, aod arrange mat- ters satlatactorily to all concerncd. Locan's meu {alk now s if it would take place Thurs- day night. Oglesby’s me! that, whilo they may be governed by clreun nces, n declsion shall not be forced upon them untl they have conferred togother and canvaased the sltuation thorougnly. 1If it s forced upon any faction, the lmpression prevalls that a bolt will result, which 18 to Le ayolded If possible, Should a Lolt occur, it may redound to the advantage ot tho Democruts, which t 0ot bo permitied, 1n short, while tho cancus way meet at an varly day, it 1a contldently belleved that tinal action will b postpuned for & week or ten daya, AMONG TIIN CANDIDATES FOR $PRAKERSITID recently come to the surface s W. 1. ‘1 homp- so, of " Coole; Dr. 'Ly ¥. Mitchell, of Bloomini- toni E, C. Lovell, of Elgin: and Washington - Cocker, of Peorfn, The two former are Lugau men, W, B. Taylor, ot Wenons, 1§ mentioned in connection with the Speakershin of the Houso, nnd a sald to be popular enough to give the uther caudidates some trouble. Hut, as stated, the proeramme fs belioved to have been Mnfped out, aud will be rendered at the Cavital within a short periud, till whean patience Is & virtue that must be ¢ndured, Y4 covent mymyy." To the Editor of The Tribuns. €micaco, Dec, 81, 1878,—1t {8 perhaps fortu- nate that but few Republicans cvor see the pub- lleatlon called tho Juter-Ocean, as they would be *all torn up I thelr ninds" alter reading an article fn the edition for this morning, It fson the page where editorial matter is supposed to be printed, but which, in the case of this publt- catlon, is usually filed with slus * A Covert Enemy the startiing title Lo f a column ol words, which are Juténded to show that any one (newaoaper of Individual) claliniog to be of the l(«pnhllmn {nnx. but qupuied to the elec- tion of John A, Logau to the United States Heuate, 18 4 u covert uuemf‘." and all and slogu- lar_the flepulicans of filinois are solemuly warned to bowars of all such. Now with all the dreadtul borribloness of the thiuy, thero 18 in 8t a little vein of bumor which v 18 not Mkely thay Mr. Logan discovered when ho dictated tho ueticle,~ths idea of warning the Rupublicans of the State simnost en massv to bewaro of themscives, Tum ‘IuiBUNE wust tremble i fte boots when such arvilery fs pointed st it, and the writer ot the articio re- terred to no doubd thuught there would bea wiguty quaklog when Mr. Medill came to know of tng terrible warnmng that had gone fortl to the Htepublicavs ot Nlfools, ‘Fux Vuiouns bas used but yery littlo ot the ammunition at hood It 1ts opposition to Logay, and caunot do a bet- ter work n Lo pour tho shet ju a littlo fuster; o4 ft gets warwed up to the work it will have the eatistuction of hearing howls of rage celliug ot its suceess {n bitting toe mark, “l‘rfld on the corn vl 8 whisky-thief, a satary-grabber, or & Cook County Nuttoual Bunk Presideut, and Jubuuy's sos will sche in sywpathy. < RurubLicaw, To the Editor o/ The Tribune, Cuicaao, Jan, 3—For some time back a few obscure napers of this city seem to be fn an al- 105t state of Srenzy in the greas fear that the Hou. Julin A. Logan would' fall {n securing the Republican caucus o tho Assembly, They cry out with great terzor when ‘Tus Tuisuxs or somo other leading paper shows bis chanzes to be on the decline, What, might 1 aak, has the llou,Jobn A. Logsn dous in oy way fu tho Huuse of the vatlon for Cbivago “or Illinols! For two torws be Las bud a falr chance to do symetbiug benetlclal, but apart from fooling arutind sheg Capitsl sud {ntroduclog sume few biils in tne luteseat of the soldier clewent, nune of which be ever bad iho luck to puss in tbe Beosts, bis tine was spent tu no good rosuit wlatever. Now, 1t Logan sugnt 10 have it to helv s outot » bad Boaucial cou- divion, theu I thivk ¥ would be better for s sdunirers to belp him, That would b better than riskive bim swuin In the Seuate. Btate wunts s & 0od, able man, who wou: Joukiug arouud i toe lutercats of friends as paywcot lor funds advauced for his sanvass in 1ue Senate, rud to this end let vur Represcuta- tives at Enilnglcld chovse & yood, buuorsble sl WHO Les uot been bicdged 1 by way, vut | munuscripts of Geneals in Accadian, our spir- will look after the great growth of our {ndus- trics, and the advancement of our fine 8tate in the Halls of the natfon. . ARBLER, REVISED SCRIPTURES. Completion of the New Translation of the New Testament—DifMcultles of the Work —Anecdotes and Traditions of Scripture Transiation—The Various English Versions of the Dible. ZLondon News, Dee. 14, The revisers of the authorized t tlon of tho New Testament are to be congratulated on havinz completed their second and final revision of tho work. The labor of conscientious trans- 1atfdn s never elight, and the toll is not alto- gether lessened by befng shared. It Is ensfer for ono transiator or reviser to make up his mind thao for twenty-four persons to mako up twenty-four minds. Let it be sup- posed that all the twenty-fonr are agreed that s certain received rendering wiil not stand,—and to supposs this is to sup- pose a great deal. Theo come the different views about the necussary emendation, Uno will not do because the styls in which it s couched, thongh tucid enough, is not the style of the old version which Is being amended. Another rendering may be disputed on those delicato points of scholarahip In which Greek of every epach is so uncommonly rich. A third version, perhaps, 18 accurate but clumsy. How are al} the many minds of many men to be ree- oncileal Tho dififcuity becomes greater when we remember that many American scholars collaborate with English Ilellentsts and divin It 18 necdless to suy" that trhile ail the troub! would pernlex revisera if they were merely amending such a tranaiation as the ** Plato " of the Master of Balilol, they beset revisors of n sacred text with vigor many times {ncreased. Doctrlno as well as scuolarship is at stake, and we know huw biiterly the two aro often at va- riance, In the fine old tines, just before the Ref- ormat'on, the Greckof the Greck Testament was declared to be u heretical languawe, The Greeic text did not always tally with tie Latin; there- fore tne Ureck was wrong, Erasmus never did anythiog more daring than when he ventured to edit the Greek Testament, ‘Therc was nothing violent {us his scifolarly task; he did not throw any documnents into the flre’ beforo the cves of tha publie, nor hurl his ink-pot at our ghostly foe, and his detiance at Romo. He simply mado an effort tosce aencred work Inthe clegrest light, and to enable other people to do so, snd he contld have done Lo mory frritating or revo-- lutionary tbing. The monks foamed at the wouth, 1n the choice controveratal language of the veriod, and let us be just to them and nllow thot thelr conduct was uatural. 'K'he{.lml the peopio of their alde had for long been the authorizedexponents of the Vulgate. ‘They hind known ail about it, thoy had all their references pit, they were ready with Latin texts that demonstrated all their propositions. Sud- denly the und was cut from under thelr feet. 'They werc proved to be little better than the liznorant, The charter of their authority turned out to be written in a tongue of which they knew nothine. ‘They were like those worthy fathers who derived, says Corne- Hus Agrippa. the name of Adan from theinitial letters of four Hebrew .words with which we bave no concern. **Now,' saya Cornellus Agriopa, *‘there are only threo letters in the Hebrew word of Adam, so that little picce of philological ingenuity does not hold water. “No blame to tho fathers,” ndds the cynical magiclan, “for many extremely pious persons and wxmhy commentators are absolutely igno- rant of febrew.” ‘fho clergy of the period wero ke tho Germans iu Porson’s poem, “'Ine Germans {u Greek are sadly to seek.” How could they Itke the discovery of Erasmusi Nay, even in our tolerant time, it M. Oppert or Prol. Sayce were tu discover the uvlgest of all ftual masters and pastors would not like it. “Here,” they would cry, “{a our familiar Scripture In a tongue which only about three people know, and they know it differontly.”? ‘I'he discoverers would find ¢ difiicnlt to get the Accadian version recogulzed, i Round the various tronslations and cditfons | of the Bible hos crystallized o romance or & mythology. Every une is tamillar with the use- ful superstition of” medicval copyists who be- leved that to make a hlunder in e writing out of the Apocalypse was Lo comumis an unpardon- able sin. The Alexandrian copvist, who worked At writing in a splrit of commercial enterprise, did not look so close. 1 the early fragments o Homer on papyrus are any test of tho accursey of common copyists, they were more reckiess than the most rocklesaly ingenious of printers. ‘Words ars juventad by the mpfilul; out ol.pure indolent stupidity, and the task of keeping the text pure hos been one to turm gray the halr of many gencrations of comimncentators: The myth about the miraculous agrecmentof the so-called suventy translators of the Beptuarint was prab- ably of Jewish origin, Each member of the scventy produced a separate version, and all the versions were equally correct.? Tho story of the Sinaltlc manuscript and its discovery 1s not less {uteresting than the fortunes of Villoison's Marcian A." Tho fata (ibe{orum, the rontan- tie fortunes of sll the books in the world taken togetlicr, would not make so mnvln§ o tale as tho adventures of the books of the Bible alone, The record is not yet clmudi and no one cay be absolutolv certaln that older and botter mantecripts than wny yet knowu may not be muoldering 1n & cellar in Mount Athos, or nog- levied fu sume cornur of the Vatican, or hidden pway in a mooastery of the Armenfan or the Coptle rite. A distiuguished scholar is report- ¢ to have been vexed by thosuccesaful “linda of scekers after Biblical mauuscripts, **If it had only been something lmportant, now,” ha snid, wien ho heard of a now discevery of this sort; **1f 1t had been a fragment of Bupptio or thnonides!™ Unluckily, tho very period when Bsiblleal manuscripts were treasured as miracu- lous amulets was also the timo when S8appho and Slmonides, vqually misuuderstood, were re- gnded os sccurscd worshipers of demons. 'Lhietr writings perishied, while even one book of the Gospels, authentie or. apocrypbal, was bound {n sliver act with precious stones, or kept in & casket like that which Alexauder won from the l'crsian, and converted into the home of the Aristotelian recenslon of tho Iilad, Buch are the furtuiea of books, whict are now adored, now neglected, and agnin Lardly escapo the flre at the bands of persceutors, when wimt wus sacrod bas becomo sacrilegious fn the changes of the world, ond stl later are chalned to desks in pubile places that all may use and nono ap- proprate their message. ‘The history of the Eoglist translations of the Biblo is uot only interesting, but extremety dif- tlcult to write.© Whoever adventurcs hiinsclt here inuat steor between the bibllograpliors and the devotees of early printing, 1t'1s not sale to say much about Aldhielm aud Caedmon; It s ticklish work talking sbout Wycliffe, tho very spelling of whass name nav provokoe o literary uarrel. When we comu to Coverdale und ‘Cyudal we arc in tho centre of o faction fight. 1'{\0 Uenevsn Bible nnd the Blshop'’s Bibls are us perilous toples as the brayer-books of Edward 1. and Elizabetb. In the confused theotogical turmoll of the sixteenth conturs, when Prutest- ants and Cathiolivs suceveded Henry Vil who fought chiedy for his own hand, ihany parics anut people had turn at translating the ible. It saya s goid deal for thelr honeaty that our authorized verslon was evolved, after much con- teat of upiuton snd selection, out of the Bishop's Bible, which was a zevision ot * Coverdale's Bibte,” to which 1 ‘¢ Matthew's Bivle 1 and tho* (reat Bible,” and * Crunner's Hible” were not unindebted; while Wyehtfe's unl ‘'yodal's Bibles inust have been consitited now aiud then, as & scnolor mizht consult Boveacelu's Latin flomer, ss fur as it goss, The uumnlelg result of all the revisious up to James' late! time {s the moust splendid monument of pure Eunglish in exutence. 1t has tho vizorol tos greas age, tho Elzabethian age, with uone of s ecesutricities aod coocelts. Tho sacred uature of Lhuir task repressed the cxuberaucs of the translutore, if they, ltke tho other riters of thelr age, were exuberaut. No doubt it hus bed a chastening effect, if achasteuing effeet was nceded, ov the rovisers of to-dav, to whose hands a volumo so doubly and trebly sacred has been intrusted. On this Committec, fortunate- )y, members of varlous Protestant sects in Eo- Eland sre reprusented, The dittlculty 1s avolded which caused so mueh tischiel when Nl.on revised Lthy Russian Scriptures, und Ruskobnis wens to the block rather thun spell tho sacred uame ju the new and currect way., —————— Dissectiug an Elephaot, New Yok Sum. Professors and students ot the Columbla Vet- eniuury College, iy Thirty-fourth street, near ‘Third “aveaue, oo ‘Thursday morning dragwed the carcess of this bam{ eleplicot that died the day before Iu Ceutral Park luto their court- yard. ‘Theu they vreparcd to holst it to thelr dhiguetlug-room.” The great welght of tne aul- wal slaruied them for the safety of thele pulleys aud bolsting ropes. Redection overcame this ditlleulty. At vightfall thoy bsd titted up an {uchine plane, ced tho wolinal upon i, wud adjourned for the worrow’s 3 Pbere watbered yesterdsy about the body Prol. Edward C. Bpftzka, Dr. Finlay, aud o seure ot siudents, Botors fixiug the rones and tackilug, they stripped tho monster of bis skin, thercby suving the Lolsting of 100 pounds. Bilogioe the body upurrthie table, the students prepured for the IuIUDI{: Two senfors, Georze . Berus, aud Charles 2 yer, with 8 juslor, weut with starpencd kuives ut'ti abdoieo, while Prufs. Bpitzka aod Fiulay cut and carved sbuut the bead. When tue cxemiuation was finished Frof. Bpltzha gave oD eXplunation vf the autopsy: $'Cuts anluial was about twe years 014, sng bad not, of eourse, attained its full growth. Ite welght was about pounds. That spongy, honey-comhed lonking "bone .contdins the afr- chambers. You notico that there nee two skulls. In theskult of the elephant that went mad in the Royal Collewe of Lundon, 400 bullets wern embedded, yet only one of that number cansed death, 'Tho only way to death, in iny opinton, when firing at the head, is throughthe eye. ** This is the brain. Its welght Is five pounds,'” the Professar aaid. Placior s human brain be- sida it, he continued: **The Intcllectual portivn {s well develuped. The convolutions are murs intricate thau thoss of the human brain, The sninal chord {s not as large as that of the horae, The trunk (s rich with nerves antd muncles, The ova is smaller thaa the horsc's. ‘Tho lieart, you will notice, has two points: in that it difters from all other anlmals. This snapo is seen (n the maring monater, whose shapa it somewhat like that of tho porpoite, The complex mass of muscle on the neck, which supporta the head, 1s most Intcresting, Tha direct cause of death was putmonary cougestion. The lungs were so congested that they sankin water.” ‘Tha hide was exiilbited. The covering of the feet looked like Inrge rubber shoes, The hido at this part fs more than three-quarters of an {och in thickness. ———— POLITICAL, Bpectal Dispateh to The Triduna. BosTow, Mass,, Jan, 2.—~Dolegates from the Greenback Clubsof the New Engloud States had a Conventfon here to-day, which was ad- dressed by Wendell Phillipa and other paer- money men. About 100 wern present, They voted to form a New England League, under the name of the Greenback Labor party. and to bold thelr first regular convention In Portiand the Jast Wednesday in August, A resolutlon was adopted, after a hot discussion, *‘Taoat the Daramount fssue of the movement 18 the imme- diate substitution of grcenbacks for Natlonal- bank currency, us the fssue of currency ls not legitimate banking, and only in the resumption of the natlonal soverelenty over the currency of ‘lhe'c.:nunu-y can we hope for nativnal prosper- ty. < LAKE NEWS. #pecial Dispateh ta The Tribune. Minwaurez, Jao, 2.—Advices from Luding. ton statethat the propeller Ovonto did not venture out of the harbor yesterday, as was supposed, and awalts the subsidence of the Rraje. ; Steamships Amazon and Minneapolls are blockaged In Urand Haven harbor by siush Ice. Heavey’ice Is now raptlly forming along the east shore. - . The steam fishing smack J. M. Brooks ar- rived here yesterday from Chambers Island, Green Bay, which place she left on Saturday last withgn full cargo of tish. GteamWarge Norman arrived at Maoitowoo esterday, and has gone Into dry-dock to be eugthoucd thicty fect. YANKTON. YANRTON, Dak,, Jan.23.—The press lssued & holiday number, glviog, among other items, £184,000 worth of bulldlog improvements and $253,000 of real estats salea during 1878, Nzw Yonx, Jan, 2.—During the past year 917 failures were reported in this city, with lla- bilittes of $03,058,4U3, and asscts at $18,003,531, ‘This exceeds the record of-any former year, but the Jarge number 18 maloly due to the repeal of the Bankrupt sct. e ——— Bhe Wouldn't Melt. Detroit Fyee Reess. A day or two ago when a setvant-girl opened the side-door of a house on Bibiey street, in re- spones Lo a tramp's knock, her face looked so kind aud benevolent that the hangry man had no_doubt that a voud dinner awaited bim, He hud, bowever, Iald out s certain prograwine, aod be therofore began. **My dear woman, I haven't had anything to eat for two days, and [ watted to ask if you would spare me one of these lcicles which has failen frow the enves.!? “Well, I dunno,” she alowly replied. as she looked out, **1 suppose we might spare you one, it you are reatly suflering, but of-courss you wan’t take the largest snu bestd " e atepped down and selected an {eiclo about lw? tleel. long, aud, 1o o besltatiog manner, io- quired: *Jf you would only sprinkle s little pepper on thia’l would be forover grateful.” - L “1t's ratner bold In you to ask it, but I sup- pose I can sprinkle on a little—a very little,” sho replled, and sho got the lila luncheon’ very sparingly, Ho started to move away, bat, sceming to recullect something, bo turned and said: *You scem s0 benevolent 1'M ask you to sprinkle on a littlesait as woll. 11lke ny fcicles seasoncd up preity bigh,” “You are s bold wan, sir, and it's plalo that you nave Lo appetite of n glutton, but 1'l} yrive - you abit of salt and then you must be gouo,” she repiied, . When the Icicle had beon duly salted, the man expressed hls thacks, but didu't tnove away. His goame wasp't workiog to suit him: Bome 1olks wouldo't have stood thers and seea bin blie off the end of & big fcicle, but this girl did. And, furthor, when he hesitated to ko, she Indignanuly called out: 1 kuow what you waat. You now want me to warm the icicle 1u'the oven for you aud thn n‘x.:t"on sowe mustard, but I'll never} never o ! balie Thé man moved slowly out of the gate, and, 28 hie threw his icicle at & oassing dog, he cava utteranve to his disguac In language puuctusted catirely with sluug-anots, . A Virginia ty. The Christian Register o1 Boiton reports, *on informatiun which scoma both genuino and au- thoutic, a decd of shocking cruclty recently doue under cover of to laws of Virgiula, and not hitherto brought to public attentlon.” It says: ** For the petty larccuy of sowne articles of clothing snd bedding, two negro women, & mother sud doughter, wero sontunced by the magistrate of the county Lo receive thirty-pina lashies each, on the bare back, every otuer day fur icn daya,—s totad of 193 lnshos: fur eacit woau, Two men volunteered. tha mon- strous sorvice of carrylug out thld ' seu- tence; ono of them is the sun of & large Iamded propriotor snd coonocted with wnat are culled: the beat Virginia fawliles, The elder woinun gave birth to a chlld fu the jotl_the day aiter her firse flogging. Alters week the tlogeing was resumed, altupugh she had not yeu gulned streogth to itz hor infant. “The.breast of the younger svoman, a eirl ot 17, was punfully lacersted, Durlug each fSogging the cowhide scourge bocame 80 clotted with blood that it could bot be used again . il washed, The sureams of the poor wretehes sent a sickoning sensation through the néiga- borhood, Our fuformunt warrants the (urtlier statcmcnt that, although these facts are well known in the community,—which bears the Lighest seputation Jur Intelizence and refine- ment und §s the seat of & 1atmous fustitution,— the *gentlemen ! who deeined 1t 8 noble aport to lush theso fuolish, pilfering women buve bud Do cutino to feel thut they have olfunded public oplujon, uud still buld thewr plices 1 sucety unchullenged.? ———— Tlow to Flay “Uo to Albany.” ‘The players oit lu a row, and tho first says: w1 am golug ona journey Lo Albany,™ or uuy place begloning with an” A, ‘The one seated Hext to her says: * What shall you do there” The verbs and nouns in the suswer must begia with the same lelter, sud 80 on jbrough thy slohabets the one who usks thequestion What will you do therel " contiuuluyg the gawe, But as_an example {8 better thino wuy directions, we will relate to you how u party of chtluren playod ~1 am golog on » journey ta Albany, What snall you du tacre? for spples and apricots, 'o her peat neighbor) 1 am golng U —1What will you do thera? . L ~lluy bounels lm‘lllmlu- ” Tauk,—1 81 guing 1o culluge. Susan. —What wiil you du thesel purs. i Susun.—1 sm guing to Dover,* Barah. —What will you do thure! -Deeqs dolle. £ am uunnfiln Erle, & l’:\th will you do there? Barah. ~Eat exgs, Jtusacl.—ism going to Falrbaven, TRussel —Feod fawns with froge. Urace.— 1 am golux to Greenbush, Howard.—\Whiat will you du tlero Grace,--Glve gold Lo grle. 3 Howard, —[ st going to ianover, Barsh. —What will you do therv? loward,~Hlunt wita boubds aud borkes, ‘The party goes throuch the alpabet [o the abovenuuser, Whoever tanuotauswer rtadih, after due tune is aliowed, must sutler soww peualty, e ——— e Military Titles, -+ - 4s Qlode- Pemocral & Lo 1, 1 An {ljustration of the sbsurdity of the custom of usiug military titles for meu wou sre not I the inilitary servica occurred la Washingion s Jew years ugo. 'Ihe occasion was o soclety Fe- ceplion, aud thu Ume was late st vight, “Twe 1adies, soxious to find thelr busbands, met each other, Ouve was Mra. U, 8. Graut, ** Hayo you seen Mr. Grout 2 sald the latter, - **Nuj Bavdy you seeu the Gencral # was the answer, And “rthe General fu this cae—so denominated by 14 own_ loviug woouse—was a nivety-day Brit- ud:er with a record wihich showed bun tu be 48 | suverss uf a hero, pper and dusted * m.m—wm& will you gu thure? o