Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1879, Page 12

\ - was the end of 1ty and the stockholder was re- - A War Between the Commercial . of the stockholders was an nasct, but the qucs- . tion since then hud been repeatedly argued 1n “ be returned *No property found,” suits In + Junctlons to prevent other partics from Inter- rs THE CHICAGO perea s =y CAABUIN N e e e et e et e e WEDNESDAY. JANUARY PAGHE d=PWE VI THE COURTS. Juderes will meet in ccnference to-aay, bat mako no announcements a8 to opinlons, R. E. Jenkins was appointed Assignee of Al- bert H. Walker, Bradford I1ancock was appolnted Provistonal Ansignee of M. A, Bentleg, . Assignees will ba chosen for Henry Waller, Jr., and Charles . Meery at 10 o’clock this morniog. Dacision in Regard to the Bank of Chicago Suits. UNITED STATHS COURTS. Gardner B, Barber, ‘Trustee of the Clark Scam & Burton-Hole Stey Aesoctation, filed abifl vesteriday against Charles I, Fargo, John Ben- ham, C. E Fargo, and 8. M, Farge, to restrain them from ingringing hispatent fur an improve- ment In boots wnd shoes and guiters {ssucd to Peter E. Clark Aprll 4, 1571, SUPEIRIOK COURT IN BRIBF. ; Ibany City Natfousl Bauk began a sult rfl‘fi;fiy l(glnsl'(:nlvln E. Wright and Jeonatd ¥(Iu¢ 10 recover $1,600. Tobbins & Carroll and Alblon Cate flled a bill agninst 8. B, Walker, setting out that ""T are udgment creditors of the cstate of M. O, Walker, but have onlv received a dividend of 168 per cent_on thelr clalms, Among the prop- erty owned by the late M. O, Walker was the house aud lot - No. 105 West ‘Taylor street, which he held ne tenant {n commion with his brother, Bamnuel B, Walker. ‘Ihe latter, it is alleged, has never troubled himself to tell the administrator the estute of this -fact, but complainants @ave discuvered it, und they ask Agencies, Record of Jndgments, New Snits, Crim- inal Business, RBto. Judge Moore has been engaged at intervals for rome weeks hcaring arguments on a motion for Injunctlon by the Recelver of TNR BANK OF CHICAGO to prevent the ereditors of the bank from prose- cuting sults againet the stockholders, nand yes- terday morning he granted the injunction as nsked, e said when the motlon was frst made in the creditor's bill of Cunninghsw against the bank, he had some doubts whether the lability the Buperior and Clreuit Courtd, and | 4y phye interestof thelate Martin'in the piopor- 1o Suprewa Court fn the Lamar To- ty mag o ssceriained, and then sold to satlsfy suranco Company casc bad referred | their judgment lions. GIRCUIT COURT Joseph J. Miller filed a bill nealnst the Bap- tist Theologleal Unlon, Robert Harrs, A. B. Mecker, and 8, 8, Willard to foreclose n trust- deed for #2,600 on Blovk 4 In Phare’s Sulidivis- fon of l'lm L‘. 1¢ of the 8, W, X of See. 12, 33, 13, containing lise acres, Henry 8, Blodgett began a suit for $1,000 agalnst Frederick W. Boudreau to recover dame ages for an alleged ansault and battery. Emma Burkhard vommenced an “action In trespass azatnst M. A, MucLeano to recover 215,000 dumnges for alleged assault and bute tery. J(nn Conlin began a suit for $2.500 agoinst Daniel Conlin, "The Connecticut Mutnal Life-Insurance Com- to Sce. 25 of the chapter on Corporatlons, in the Revised Statutes. That provided, among otl:er things, that, If a company allowed a Judg- ment to go egainst itand an excecution to equity might bé bronght sgatnst the stockliold- cre, and cach stockholder might be required to pay bis pro rata share of such debts to the ex- tent of the unpaid portivn of his stock, after exlinuating the assets of the Company, The Bupreme Court had held that the sult was brought under that scetion of the law. ln the present instance all the suits to be enjolued woro sults at law, and there was no doubt but that such sults would le against the | pany filed a bill against C. L. Jenke, William stockholders under the provistons of the | and Vasht! Drury, the Charter Oak Life-Insur- chartor, But suts ln cquity coula also | wbee Company, and Emiic T, €. Johnston, te foreclose ainurignge for $40,000 on Bub-Lats 4 awd G in Frauklin, Semnmon’s Suluhviston of Lot 1, Block 1, In Fractional Sce. 15 Addition, sitnated on the sonth _efile of Madisun street, between Wabash und Michigun avenucs, snd fronting forty feet on Madson street, CRIMIXAL COURT. Ahranam Graham was tried for the larceny of furniture from a furnished house, found guilty, and given one vear in the Penitentiary. Daniel Cooley was tried for assaulting Jobn Stewart with o razor, found gullty und ree munded. be Drought, and both prosecuted to- g£2ther, untll flual declsion in ooe cascor the other, aml when the money was pald once that lensed. ‘The Judge did not think the numerous cases cited had nny application, for the present sult was sustafinable under Sec.25. The original auit was nbill against the bank and the stock- liolders, and the present was only s bilt for In- fering with the Recelver in Liis efforts o enforce the liablity of the stockholders. Tho assets ought to be divided nmongall the creditors. The stockholders had no right to ask for TROBATE COURT. Letters testamentary wera Inented in thie estato of the lnte Willlam Squire to John Adams, un- der bond of 820,000, an Injunction to prevent suits against THR CATI. them uvless they demsltcn" Il:xl (:'ro‘urt Junor NioneerT—181 to 208, inelusive. No the smount for which they were llable. ey on trial, ] liad complatned of the heavs costs nnd prolongzed [ W% ATftiaTe Covnoto aunouncement, Jittention,but they wers themaclves the eause of {t. Iledid not think there wasany truth {n the charwe of conspiracy by the Recetver with nny of the stockhioldere, bt he regretted that areps ad not been tuken carlier to recover the smounts duc from them. ‘The Judge asked what wayld be the effect of an lujul sults arainst the Now York stockholders, Mr. Shufeldt thought the injunction would linve no effect against them, Mr. Walker und the diffcrent attorneys for the stockholders here were of the oplnion that New Yaork courts, out of comity, would atop the proseention of such sults when thuy knew that oo injunction bad been {asued here, Mr. Westover sdmlitied for the purposes of the motion that the bank had been properly or- fanizead, so that fts stockholders were not lable as partners. A lang discusston then follawed, in which all 1 haud, as to the form of the fnjunction d 118, No. 107, Helnecke vs, Dob- and 11 of condemnation chnler, on trinl, Jroug ) 3, , 25, No case on trial, Jdupoe Rongna—Set case [, 157, Crumicy va, City, and calendar Now, 401 to 1111, Inclusive, ex- cept 404 and 400, No ease an trial, . Jupuk Hoori— 434, 400 to 405, Ioclusive, and set carg 400, No cawe ot trial, Jubus Fanwein—2,201, Bual ve, McDonald. Juper Loouis—Nos, 904, D07, 1,005, 1,015, 23, 1.025, 1,041, 1,040, 1,047, 1,046, 1,040, i, = Junar WiLLiaxa—Nos, 118, 852, 855, 850, 857, 839, 8L, G52, 818, 81 [THN Ju 2 Surgnion Counr—lvvck Ganr—Charles Malr ¥8. M. "‘Wl( and Uus O, 1, Sanr, 35,871.11, ‘The Lrewers' nnd Maltsters® Insurance Compan: ve. Annis 0. Hansen und llerman Uhrlunb, $404, —IL ¢, Cooper, Jr, vs, ‘Thomna Tilley, 8245, 10. — Dantel Garvoy vr, Dennls Fitzserald, $1, 004, K Cincrir Covnt—CLoN noNA—Heury Abraban vs, Adulph Bochmand Lonts Hartman, £5, 10 4. unox Rousms—Jjohn I1._Allen ot al, ve, Wills -fams snd Lloctsa R, Cox, $105.8: LEVEES AND OUTLETS. Supreme Folly of the Scheme to Jiold the Atlsslastppl Floods by Mud-Embonkments— Outlets the Only Sure Solution—Vnat Fa- peuso for Nothing—Scheming Contructors Seeking to Plunider tho Many, .St Lauls T¥mes-doupnal, Jun, 17, . Public intorest anil attention are more keenl dirceted to proposed Improvenients of the Mis- slssippt River at this time than at any perlod of thu country’s hiatary, ‘The continual und rapid growth of theé West, and the vost anunal acees- slone toltsagricultural and minlug products and {ts monufacturing Industrics, have brought home to Ui minda of our business men tho necesalty of greater and cheaper facllities for transporta- tion to the seabourd, and have tndleated as the greatest medium for this the Misslssippl River. onler, and whother the stockholders must first deposit thodr monoy in court. Finally Judgo Moore directed tho different attorneys to nrufmu two orders,—ono requiting 1hie payment of ihe: manev na a condition prece- dent to the lssuance of the injunctiog, ond the otherwithout that stipulntion, il subunit them Loth to bim this moraiue. If the partiea could agree, the order would be entered at once, ‘I'ne probabllity is that the partics will not agrve, wnd that the morning ‘will ba consumed in nnother argument of the same question. Ia the case of the Btate Bavinzs Bank, on n wimilar petlidfon of Judge Ous, the Recclver, Judge l-nmcll{;huuu to hiear the srgument, ou the ground that Judgo Williams wns more familfar with the matter. 'fhe case was orle- tnally brought before Judge Williams, but sent by bim to Judze Farwell to be heard, nud the latter thus sends 1t back again, TAYPAN, M'KILLOP & CO. A bill was tiled yesterday In the United States Circuft Court by Theodore E. Leeds, of New Tirighton. N. Y., agaiust Tappan, McKitlop & Co,, of this city, Rand, MeNally & Co., The Mew Kilton & Spragne Company of New York, and T, M. Riaubord (Receiver), und Georgo Y. Gifford, of Wisconstn, to _ restpain | Every interest fo the growing West 1he fssucof the **Comimgrcial Auency Register”” | depends upon the question of cheap by Tappan, McKillon & Co. Complaluaut states | transportation to the outer markets, and thiat the McRillop & Bprague Cumpany were untll iately the owners of the * Comini Arency Roglster,' a book which is published at irceufur Intervals, winl designed to eive the commercial standing of merchunts and traders throughout the country. The first unmber was Pu\.umu in July, 1876, and the last in Julv, 578, and in the interval thirteen mumbers haye Leen tasued, all of which were copyrighted in due torm pecording to law. In October Inat the McRillon & Sprague Company falled, oud ‘Thumas M. Riaohard wus spptnted Recelver, and ook I\onenlon of all the Company's usarts, dncluding the shove copyrights, In December lost he sold the’ latter to complalnant for the §760 cash, and the assign. ment wus reconded with the Librarlan of Cone Kress. These books, 1t 18 chiarged, were com- vlied with wreat care and at lurgs cxpeuso, il the compilation was made {n part by Tappan, MeKHloo & Co. and in part by wther firms, un- der contract with MeKillop, Buru‘\u & Co. and for thelr exclusive use, and_complainant thinks the copyriehts are worth $25,000 to hi ‘Ta von, Mclitilop & Co, have rucently been en- guzed In the tsaue of n book to be “printed by Randy, MeNolly & Co., and called the * Com- mercial Aweney Reglster,” or * Report," of there 1s hot an induatry or buainess or plece of roperty 1o city, town, or ecountry, throughout rh(nlwlu)ne rv:lm, that will uot be benetited by realizing the cheap rates of transportation Lo be accomplished through the improvements in some shape proposcd for the Mississippl River. To the Clty of 8t. Louis the matter i one of vast und vital importance. ‘Fhero aro Lwo theoriestn regard to these fu provements which i6 would be well for the busi- ness of the West to examine and declde upon pramptly, for it Is very certain thut nction one way or the other will Lie taken by Congress ot an ur{{dn Ono of these theories contemplatos the ing of the M afppl from Catro to the esy and the other propuses the shortein- ing of the river by turning its waters juto the Gt through the outlets, which the vlyer has already made for ftsell sbove the City of New Orleans, and by making another outlet nto Luke Borgnu below that cluy. ‘Both fdeas are fucorporated in bitls now pending befure Con- aress,—one, the il of Gen. Eustls, of Loufsls ana, connitting the Goverument to the suppurt of the levee system, and appropriuting 85,530, (00, to begin with, to the bulding of Jeved before the Benate; the other bitl has been refer: :f 3 11 el red to the House Commttee on Comncrce, on oAk hr."ufl:ml:.'x';.l.u;' “tL’E}ua"""r‘r‘.’,'LZ which 1t will doubtless soou make n_ report for the books of which complalnant | the netion of the House of Represeutatives, holds the copvrlsht, and whieh | Wehave read carefully the urguinent of Scu- ator Eustls 1t support of his Levee bill, nud, while sotue of bis reasons in fuver of Govern. ment asslstance seem specious, the proposed in- volvement of the Government In 8o vast n work 4 tou dangerous Lo be serfously considerad by the American people, 1€ the ‘work could Ly done gor the $5,500,000 proposed fu his bill, st there end, and the work could be mude { erma- nentund useful, it micht be consll ;but this sum Isu mere bagateite, an inslvoldeant frac- tlon, compared with the octual requirements of a general levee system, such gs his bl can- templutes, ‘The United Stutes Engineers tix the required amonnt ab £50,000,000, wmt Capt, 13 well known to the defendants, thus making thu new work o subatantial copy, and un (n- Trelnzement of complatnant’s books mnl copy- rlghits, Suine changes bave been made, but only ol lzures without chionge of sense, and mady witha v 1o Nde and conceal the pirsey und Infringgement, Complamant’s buoks have threa ticures to indieate the ratne o credit of 1he varfous werchants, whils the proposed hook of '"Tappan, McKillop & Co. 18 1o huyo univ two, but they are ko arrarired as to give the result of the thires in the old books. 1t 1s thought by complainant that Tuppan, MeKillop & Co. fu- tend to publish substantially a copy of the lust i Y % vhiv Eads, who has tizared on it, puts it at 46,000, :_:m,:,.'?.r,m M'c‘t\lll{;):‘,“ Bfl:m:‘x:'m?' Cluh:, “,:;IJ,]_' 000, '3 thero was uniy real wnd permanent 2ood vluluant, therefore, prays for an mjonction | tobs sccompiislied by the levee system thess to vreveat the threatencu publfeation, wnd for, a deeree compelling the delendants to surrender’ any coples that may have been printed, und the -lnrtumw-ulm.u 16 bu used in the fsaue of the work. TIE HEPUBLIO LIFE-INSURANCE CONPANY, alr. 8. D, Ward, Recclver of the Republic we%-Insurance Compauy, fAled o detafled report cenlas of his secelpts wud expenditures s suma waulit not be too lur;in. but in the hebt of pust history they are wholly nadequate, ntd, B0 tur from the systenn accomplizbing e 1t has valy brought fadure sad wrought destruc- ton. (thas been only a Nttlo over thirty years aince the States . of Loulntana, Misgissipjil, und rkansus comuenced clfurts at o weneral sva- tem ol levee prutection Jor thele alluviul Lady, ¥ s In wrder to wid them (s dotug 80, Cobixress do such Recelyer: nated each of them the swamp uid overilowed Bands within thelr borders to do ths work. Within it pertod of tine these States - have expended largely over $100,090,000, nud to-day wre, us wo see, calllog for o sum waleh, i ex- pended fu elilir oue, would have protected thew ‘rom overflow, ~ Muzowhile nlillons of acres of valuublo Lunts ziven by the Goverument haye beet suld and the proceeds drawn trom theim devoted to levee bullding, und millious more buve been drawn from thie pockets of the people to pay tuxes to keep up levees, 80, If-the Gov- ernment §s onee committed to the bushiess of levee building, esch vear uillions of dollare will haveto be appropristeds vl if any one will calculate tho slzs of the levers required to lold TS, ropart, July 1%, Furniture and Luans un morty; the Hoods of the Mississppl I such vears as 1674, 1504, 1838, 1860, or isH, it will be sven that four thnes the amounta calaututed by the englucers would not Lold the watcrs. 'The arguinent §s usedfthat the Governtuent is. 1he Miscellaneous expen Avcagut of dividend, Ollice expenaca, Batauco on Land, Blocy the date of the taat report uew clalms to the amount of §3,607 bave beeo proved up which vught to be pald pro rata with we other slaiws. 350, In daty bound to build the levees Lecause Kederal arniica destroyed them durlug tie W This {8 ooty truae tn two or three cuses, 11 federatos iu many instaoces destrovive the levees themselyes to vrevent Federa oceupa- ton. In most cases, however, thu levees caved ofl or wers wushed Off by the fuods durty, War, and sonie of these Tevess the at; not want restored. ‘lake unu fnstance fo the SBenutor's own State, The Asoton levee o Lou- Lawna, just beluw the Arkausus line s down Jor at Jeast twa wiles. ‘Tocluso thls Lreas und seatora und ralso the lavees In the sujaceut por- tious of Arkausas wied Loulbians, sl the 030 site portivus of Mississippl, would take more uioney than the bAL ot Beuator Eustis apore- priates, aud ft I3 saic to say that 1here i8 Dot o plauter in the three States within o huwlred nilles of the Ashton break who fs in favor of SLOppluE It Ko of the Grund Leyes break DIVOUCES. Alexauder 8. Eichuer fled a blll agafust his wife Julia yesterday, charging that she desert- «u il in "November, 1585, ouly about & week stter thair warrlage, Judye 3oore yestrrday granted s decree of divoree to Mg Schwarts from Willlaw Behwartz, on the grouud of drunkenness iad erucity, the cowpluinaut to bave the custody of e enlldren. ITEMS. e Judzen of the Appellate Court were In court yvsiciday afteruoon, and beard @ tuotion for suicrsedeas i the case of Dilley ve, The Peopley wich comes from Hoek latund, The in Point Coupee Parfab, below the mouth of Red River, which carcies off the foodt ot that river without harmiag the plantation now fu eultivation, ' n- truth fa, that o rerand to 1hie matter, the river, by fta’ own couriws. has furnishel e reliel which swas in vain songht by lesees, and the levee syetem s really now onigdesired by thuse who, as Levee Board Coinmissioners, officials, nni! contractors, have made fortunca out of the States by handling levee funde, and now want the {ieneral Govern- ment to maintaln them in the rame conrses, This lends us to con-{der brieflly the outlet thearr, We sald the river ftect( furnfshed reller by its uwn eeif-regimen, anld this s tene, ‘the river broke throurh the levee in Potut Couoce, and 8o with a portion of fts annual spring floods, makes fts way, to the guif by a line nearly a huvdred miles nearer than at ze, At Bonnet Carre, sonce thirty or forey miles ahove Now Orleans, it secks the gulf level ina dietrnee of eight miles, instead of golng 150 miles to the moutl, 'Ihe resull of tins §8 & depression of tlie floud lines (o ko great an extent that no ai- ditfons to the levees have been required be- tween the mouth of Red River and the levee Tt below New Oricans slnce the river made these openinas for fesclf, wnd no crevasses have oceurred it lnit. Endeed, the_efiect bas Deen realizedy ninl the strain removed ns hich as Vicksburg, and even Memplhie, Aud row the 1411 before Congress projiosce, ab mi expense of 250,000, to make the Lake Borene outlet a few miles helow New Orleans, where the river wonlld ind the gulf tevel with its floud tides tn five mites instend of nincty, Thus the necessity of further Jevsing wonld, for this small sum, be removed. and the river by the prom:t diseharge of its flood tides at there varions points be con- fined within its ehannel, which, by the fncreased rapldity of flow, would be deepenud, the whold lower basin would be effeetually drained, aud we could inore successtully contend with the fatal velliow fever, As between thezo two theories, wo beliove no man havinz at heart the true interests of the country could hesitate for & moment. Ona in- volves ten willlons of outiay at the outset, and mliltions expended every year, and no security ngninss the great floods, or exymple in 1858, wiien the levee syetem was at its best, und the destruction to property und crop the greatest on reeord. Il other thcoty means the reliefof the whole aliuvial basln by the prompt vithdrawal of the waters at the points named, an cutire - dependence of the rufnons wud exuensive leves systetn, the decpemng of the the channel, the reclamatton from overflow of all the alnvinl Tands, the promotion of health by destroving thie hreeding haunts of {Ellnw fever, undall at on ontlay of 8250,000. We do not think Cou- eress should hesltate a moment to pass the ull, nrticularly as it provides that the woney shall )¢ expended under the uirection of the Umted States £uggineers, and pald on thelr report of nccomolished results. ‘Thcre aro further fea. tures in this meastire, such os the diversion of the waters of the Upper Red River busin into the gult by the way of the Caleasien, md of the Lower Red Riverand Ouachita bastns by way of the Atchafulays, which v practical resuits ate not Jess viduuble thuu in those referred to, e —— THE THIRD TERM. Would Grant Prefer a Fisld-Marshial Pen- slon {5 the Presidency? Ctneinnatl casmercial, 44The cant charee that ltepublica are uneratefal ts unjust. so war as the United Siatea nee con- cerncG, The election of Uen. Grant, In the irst hntance. evineed the publie wilingtiess to eztol a successrul Geneeal without minutaly scsutinizing has merits. emirtocies purtsied [0 exite; Han- nibal, aster sustaining ntmself in Italy for sixteun years nualust the best leplons of Rome and a i vided kennte nt Carthare, was driven into ol rity, and hunted like a fugitive from justico; Curas wan atricien down at {hd feet of his rival's statue; Mariborough could not gel a cheer from his own soldicrs after ho hud beat the best army of France at Malpiagnut;ana Wellington, referrhigto tne stranuth und malicu of his encmios in Paria- wuent and out of t, wrote,with a rtern patlios from hiecupt *If I fail, my Ged have mercy on me, for nobody clse will.' Even unrown Wanhing- ton often complsined of tho onuutural blows dealt hisa by senfl.‘cnlun and elanderers, while he wae welzhed down with the caren of Btute. Suzh hoe been tho fate of great captalnn the world over, whether ihoy fougnt under Tteuuh- Tics or Monarchies, and the plea of ten, tirant that he ahionid zain be vlected 'President hecaus the cuuntry owes the ofilce to him, buetrays {ts fuberent weankness, aa woll as the vanity of him who makes M. —Loulsville Age. . ‘This matter is too Important to be treated from falsg premises and in a personal splrit, Let us begin by cunceding that Geu. Grant (s our most conspletious and most honered cltizon. Theseeond proper step is turecogniza the fact, as the whole world sees it, that hols our most pram- Inent man, and thut his services bave boen such that he {s falrly entiticd to ligh cousideration ht the hunds of hls countrymen. Wo may pass over, for the purposes of tho prescent, the whole history of his Presldensy, Wd would opposc him for a tuird term If he had given tho natlon the purest and happicst Adiinistration sloce Washington, We must put down tn this country, whenever and wherever it arises, the whole theory of perronnl governmnent. There aro thousants of men who would make pood Presidents. Noone of them is, and na thou- saud of them vau be, indispeusable, Any good citlzen, with sense coough to write his nume nnd eay 1o occaslonally, would make an aciept- able Chlef Mugistrate, so long as he did not ae- quire an intolerably sense of unl{-hlli)urmm:t. ‘there s too much fuss nhout the President ond his oflice. ‘Thie public disposition to nssume that the Presideney 18 an amuzing matter bas o stale flavor of the old munarebtfl superstition, Tha President does not rile thoe country or zaide itadestinles. ‘The whols notion that “the Vrestdent must bo a mighty ruler is o stupld mistake, and unworthy an Awerican citizen, Gen. Grant must not Prosldeat ugalu; but jet us do I justice. Ho does not make the plen that he should wgaln be clected. He docs not cven eay be would be glad to bhave ho ofllte for u thivd term, It is well knowneven thut he has a proference, and it s somo form of recognition ot Lis militury scrvices by aet of Cungress, which ahull casry with It a salary that wail muke him comlortavle, Lo has brenavery pour man, aid has sgreat dread of pov- exty. Hewasnot cconowteal wiien President, und Lls tnvestmonts were notulways judicious, His Long Brunch eatubiislunent wid “8t. Louls farm were cosily. We bulfeve the only money e ever gob back With a rensonable increase wus put intoa Nevada silver ‘mine, hume be will ot bea rich When he gets 1o lins bccml olfered @ position ut the heag”of o ralle road at o large salary, and was tempt- ed by it, Lut declined i8, because i appearcd that hls duttes were 1o be nomlnal, and he did not think that an Amcrlean ex-Presl dent should Le patd ss an advertistog flre- ! 4 und 1t 1 fal suy thut this wus entirely decent and sell-respeciful on his vart, This fuct will, In some sense, cxplaln the cmbarmdsment of his Position. It fur his - countrymen to consider whather they wiould rather he should he at the tiead of @ street-rabiroud company to obtufn o nurrpuu for himsel! and tamily, or provide an offlce for Dim und retire hiui vin respectable pension, Hu was wo politclan, kuew nothing and cared itle atout eivil aflulrs when the \ar waws over, and felt Keenly thai he should stick to s place at the lead of 1l army, ‘That was alifeotflee, He inew the busibese. 1t aulted Dt utek Bo wus {0 2ol shiapes ‘e Preddeney was dungted before tim. e couldn’t sesiat the temptution “of tukine the Presidency. No Amerlean uver has done that, und we shouldn't be barsh with him, e felt that ho was suakine a sacrillce, uind sald 8o, uhd hie Lias nover coosed W mours for the old placo at the head of the ey, To bo sure, lie gave it up, bit he couldw'i belp it Or courveit wus absurd to feel that It wus a pucritice 10 Guke the Presi- deney,~but it was, It would bo u sacrifics on any one's part to take tt,—amd any oue would tako iL; aud 11 Is Grant’s pecullacity that B hus been intensely conscious of the suevdiiee. Now e hus hudd the Preshde id time, and he wonld he gia ixe his old place tor sl feellng tluw he bas afMlaire that he vuihit not, us he §s uporoaching G0 years of awe, to g0 1o work or exhilit Limvel? for the means of Hiving, The probanility {5, 4 ma- Jority of bis couvtrymets would arrce with him as Lo thal, thuugh In our esthwution his dje- ey would not be linpaived by poverty, It consents to run for (e Preafdency—uid there ury symptoms that he I8 tuke an Interest 1 the third-term movement—it will Le bevauae bie despaires of the Field Marshuiship, or some- thiug equivalent, with an appropriate pensiuu,— and feels that be must do sonietutng, and [y auxious 1o ublige Wis fricnds, He ls notimaking the piea that the country owes the oilico to lilin. s that o bls thine s Preatdent Hour- ishud {n bis shadow, want ths vdportunitles tuat would open through bis fudulzcncs sad the sbelter ot his name, ‘They mean 10 resume robbery, wul want a strong Government to hilp thewm, il no end of ferm, with all the modeen fachilties for plunderloe the peoplo. ‘Fliesy are the bottow favty of the busincss, i S A Fortune Wilthig, A fortune of $12,000,L0) 13uy turn upan o bit of yellow pareduneut teund in o rubbish heap. A ¥ that ik azent em- estate ta go to ten cocourughng reports. He ! k of g, Mydo Wik 1 sedt out by erly o Annapolie, bavin: the itmpenist Governtent, lle bad ons duugh- terborn i Nova Scotfs. The mouey In ques- tion wus lefs to icr after he disd, Ao futina- tlou was sent 10 this couptry waby years g "ustanced “weithin the precined aaking for the he're, Tle famlly of furhe United States took the n declded vt the real helrs were 1n Nova Santla, ‘The missing lok up to a recent perlod was roof 1hat the orimnal 1yde was the one .who held the Imperinl commission smd went to An- navolls. There was 10 commission of hia to be founl. A fow years aro an old trunk was sold at auction and hought by a woman for 23 centa, 8he subscquently broke It up tor kindiing-wood, and in the lintng funnd & parchment document, which she decmed so pretts with the reals at- tached thatlahe put It awny ns worthe of pres- crvation. Subscaiently s bappened to men- tlon the fneldent to n (rlend. It proved to be the mlssing ducument, 4 — —— RATSIN-GRAPES. A New Californin Tndnstry, Neto Forl: Thnrs, To the nlready noparently unlimited agricnlt- urat and nineral resonrces of Californln, a tew Industry scema likely to be added,—that of raleln-making, Aboat four sears ago Mr. J. P. \Whitney, a gentleman widely known fn that State in councctfon with wool-growing amd wrafn-ralsing on a Jarge scale, Leean planting vines uf the ©Museat of Alexandrin® varioty of white grapes, with s view to demonstrating that ralsins can be made In America of as gowd quallty ns those from abroad. Since that time about £00,000 vines have Leen planted, As the fiest. result of Mr. Whitney's oxperlment two ear-Joads of 20,000 pound= each of Culifornia- made ralsins were recently scut East, one vardoad coming to this _city and the otber golug to Boston. In voth citles they have been recelved with favor, aclling equs 1) with the best fmported Maloxa r'sins, with whicls they compare favorably sa to size, color, alkin, stones, and flaver,—the latier velng the most cesentiul quality. “The United States I8 the treateat ralslu-consuming country i the world, and uses annually more ralsing than the whole of Furope, ‘The market s main- l‘y supylled from Spale, the raialis known as WMaiugus " being conshlered the best. They come from A comparatively narrow strip of country in the south of Spain, which has hitherto Leen regarded ns surpasstng all other regions tor ralios of thut churacter. “The aunual fleld of Mataga grapes averages 2,230,000 hoxes of £0 punuds eaeh, It sometimes resches 2,500, 0K boxes, amd last seuson about 2,000,000 boxes wero tnarketed, this cuormous yitid the United Niates takes fully onc-half, o which it pays o duty—as on all other raising—of two and u half ceots per pound. An inferlor ralsin with which the market ts larzely supplied Is kuown as the Volencian, and cumes from a reggon further north iu Spuln. The American ralstns are made from a white erape,—the * Muscat of Alexandrls,”—the rals- g of which the soll and climate of a large por- tion of California fs well adapted, ‘Ulie vino beging to bear sutncwhint in the secoud y although the full ring eapacity 1s not d oped until It Is flve yeors old, and continue: bear for about half a century, sud sometlines for scventy-five years, ‘In ‘the cultivation of rnigin-zrapes Amcrlean grape-growers lave lit- tlo to learn frop Spaln, butin the curing and packing of e ralainea lack of experienco 18 stiil Telt. “Fhe ratsins are not cured by any artificial process, however, hut fu o comparatively simple wmanner, The grapes aro Inild on pravel-beds and aro exposed to the sun for ten or iwclve days in Aupust or September, whou they are ready for packing, huving turned from white to brown, und gradually changed to the famfllar dark color of the ralsine of commerce, The white sugur which {s gencrally found attached to the raisine suld in the murket fs entlrelya nvatural product of the grape, snd comes on with atte, first appeating, as a rule, when the Tulsing ara about two years old. The packing, however, I3 an operation which requires reat care. 'To properly pack a° single twenty pound Lox the cutirg time of uue mat s needed forn day and a balf, so careful s the munipulation ol "the raisin bunches, whilo at least as much time s requlred -to select and. pick over the bunches Uefors packjnz, Mr. Waoltney be- lleves, however, that _roisivs can bo cured in Callfornin fully equal to the Malaga orany other ralsin, 1, The chief Aicuity, with which the Callfornia ralxin-rafscr will have to contend o the effort: to compete with forcjgn raisins Is the cost of fabur, The Bpanish vineyardists can get all the Inborers they ueed at fro 13 to 25 wents per day, while tie Callioryiu producers must pay at least 81 por dav, | ‘The very wuch grent- er productiveness of fhe suil, huwever, wiil do much to offset thls dlsadvantage. * But one scourge with which the the Soaniah producers hava to vontend, and , which does not trauble the Califs.rgla reglonp, is the destructive phyl- loxery, o llttle parasiie which attucks the erape- vines with. peculing l('ro('ll-}'. wid gaps thekr roots with certaln fatality. It 1a safd, on the suthorlty of.Mr. Weat, & prominent horticult- uslat of Stockton, Cal thut the whole Malu- wa region 4 infestad with this pest, Seversl o~ dred thousamd vings have ulready been de- stroveduml Mr.West betfeves thut §iy o foiw years the Malucza industry Will bovery scrlously twjur- ed. ‘The phyHoxerabave appeared lu one ortwo fu Calitornia; but they aro not yet feured there, #3 they almost Invarinbly attick viues only fn very olil vinoyards, Mr. Whitnov, who is au cutbuslast on the ral aucstion, has lovated s vineyards ot Rocklin, Cal,, on the Toot-hiils of the Siorra Nevada rangro, twenty miles frum Bacrameylo. The 40,000 pounds of ralslus seut East thid scason wero the product of about 45,000 vines, jud be believes that when tho 200,000 vines nrd ali bearing ho will La_nbly 1o shilp from flteen 2o tweuty car-loads of '.’.'J,- 00 pounds cacl cvery seasou. Mr. Whitnoy's success hos atteacted the attentlon of several gentlemen fu Califoruls, and a number of raisin vinoyards lLave already Leen planted. Should these succeed, oa theyundoubtedly will, a stio- 1us will be given to tive uew fudustry whirh will hove o marked eltect ou the raisin market throughout the world. B PP S, Tho College of Armis, ‘The English College of Arms was founded by Richard TIL in 1484, who assizucid it *“a Jocal habitation and a neme " In o erowded distriet of London. In 1551 Pulllp and Mary rejucorporat- ed the body, sud eadowed it with s inonsion on Deanett's 1111, n stecnascent from the Thamus, of Doctors Communs, Here It hus remained, ond Queen Victorln streot—n great thorongenfare which, duriig the last few Jears, hus busn cut upwards from the Thames Lmbunkinent—has brought It ot ereat promi- nenees ‘The offlecra of the College are thy Mnrshal (the Duke of Norfolk), In whom the offive I8 Liercditary, the Kiug-at-Aems, the er- alds,und the Pursuivants, ‘Thepatronageis vested mtho Earl Marshal, ‘Cho Kings-ut-Arims aro styled Gurler, Notrlo, und Clarencleux, turter is tliv chiol, und 18 always koighted. Norrol s nord-rof, thut heratd being supuosed to be es. poviatly Fepresentatiue of ‘the sovervign in the North of Englund, aud there la_ sald to have boen o ¥ Burrol ™ untll Edward 115 appolnted Liis sun, the Duke of Clarunce, o Herall ns Clarencieux Kulght-ot-Arins, aubstituting him fur Burrol, Clarencleux's proviuces is sonth of ‘Irent, and he attends to the business of that atyision. Formerly the Heralde made perlod- feal circults, or *Syisitations,” as they wero called, throurh Lhe country, when they fuveati- guted vlaims of pedigree, und setiled “disputes 88 o voats-ufurme. Their regiatercd recondy are aevepted a3 good Jerat evidence o courts of law, and, n- fact, throw ndirectly value able Jzht on many polots, and have Dhelped to clenr up doubts a8 to : L8 uf property, titles 1 s Bomerset, Yord heater, Riclimond, Windsor und Lancaster. “Thy Pursuivants are Rouge Crofx, Blué Mantle, Rouze Dracou, usd Porteallis. ‘Vlie dutiesof the Hearld's ofllce are very leht nowadiys as compared with the past. In Ireland the functionary who answers to Garter in England I8 called Ulster Ki Armg, awd In Seot) R Arms, The ofth celve thelr remuneration walnly Irow fues carn- ed i ussistinz persons desirions nf fovestiguting laims of pedierrco oF to urmoriud bewrings, The Earl Marshal can and does empower persons who huve hithierto not borne armartal bearlngs to udupt them, on their produciing proct that they oru In nkmnmuu (o mufatain the slatus of genttemen, Heavy fees are also pabd (o the Collerze by new Kolghts of the Garte e e —— Alowly Bleading to Death, Special Dispatch O Cinclunsty Engeuls er, BELLEFONTAINE, Usy Juhs ThA curionts case Dbas just cume to the kunowlalee of vour corre- spondent,—~that of & mw slowly hut surely blecdine to death. George Smith, Hviug un the contlucs of this county, has beea bleeding contihucusly 1rom the nose for four weeks watlhi- out_uwny pertanuunt relief, uwil reedics used having but ltle effect. A miau shinilurly aifvet- ol hiere some Lhng slice saved bls Nfe by gruyp- ing Lis proboscis und holding pu ke grim deutls for twenty-four houve, - ———— A Bright Jowa Girl, Inctatno s Q) Herald, ho rleht kind of a * Greelan Balier, dsugheer of Prot O, ntly Leen appoimted u tutor aze i subpaon Callezy, ad 8" Clava, 2i but 16 Years ol sho teads and wrltes Greos Huently, When but 8 years old sov had read thiee Louolis of Howmer, besldes the orher stindies in precede, i ite colles cuursy, that oucient poet, A4 1§ sho . vomniete lexlean ol * Oedipus Bex,’? trogedy ol Boanovles, Her studles n Groes have conaueled cutlrely vuder the ustrne-lun of her fatber, except Just term in our colfcre here she read & Thueydldes” to Prof, Burie. Ier etudies, bowgyer, bave ot been contined to the The Jeralds are Lord 1y *trrcut boas Invertientor ever bunk with s nzoind Gree She readssend writs Latin with equ ite, et Bas done romething In French, Gestman, aed nia' tomatis, | g — * MRS, JENKS. A Copy of 1ler Letler to Etkids & Co. Ank- ing the NRetarn of Those Documents of Natlonal Impartance. Indtanvorlts Journat, Mra. Jenks forwards us a copy of a letter ad- dreeacd by ber to Elkios & Co., which fully ex- plaing itselt: New OuLuAxs, Jan, 7, 1ST0.—Venrs, E'kine & Co.—URyTLEMEN: I would respectfully re- fiitest you to urge wpon your employes the pro- pricty ol returning to” me those lost *doen- tnents of national tmportance.” Pray advire Messrs. Raymond, Lioyd, Moloney & Co. thnt 1 will, with pleasure, perinit them to retain the Photographic coples they (with a high sense of oot ana mereantile integrity) tecmed to liaye taken, Iean well imagiuo the * ware nadl tare’ on thefr mammoth bratus must have been lnimense white custodinns of those “ o nmal documents,” juleing from thelr evidencs before the auzust iribunal, “The young men ehould oc tendered a vote of thauks for their indcratigable exertious, O sluggards’ hrows the Laurel never srown, Renown 14 not (he child Of {ndolent repose. 1 have heard New Orleans called the “ City of Processlons,” but L Imagime the most extroordi- nary procession that ever praved Canul street was that led by the grave discinloof Blackstone, lie Hon. Associate dustice It 1L Marr, as ho marched with such fittingretinue to Lifenthai's fn order to photorraph my documents, nul there, fn soletun conclave, doubtiess dfscussed the national inportancs thereof, Great Olym- pua! Would I hnd been present to hnmorm‘l:n the acene on canvas. My roul will ever regret the golden oppuortunitslost for making an his- torlcul sketen, liad the ventlemen advised me of their Intention, I would with plussure have acted os Urund Marshal and mustered s éohort of the White Leaguo as a gaard of honor, with o bl befusgine up the rear playing the Con- splrutors’ Chorus. ‘Lhe event would have In- sbired the most tmid with contidence.—even the Potter Committee, untll their * alr-blown bubble burst.” Plense remiud Mersrs, Raymond & Co. of a slicht inaccuracy n their statement, 1 did not offer them any money for my own documents but only remarked to thems ** Any amount of monuy you wish, geoticaien,~—fust mention 1. As thetr minds were #illed with bonanzale vis- fous, their vivid Imaginatlons took fright; so they misunderstood “the point. Should they desire still ** more thno to consult and con- slder the matter,”” I will grant it, though I would sugzest that t)m{ take care of my sharc of stuck of the Franklin Fire-Insurance Com- pany. ‘True, It was a *“ wildcat concern,” niml 13 now non cst; but, really, the stock isalinost g8 valuable as the State or city bonda, ‘Trustiug you have not been fnconvenlenced hy thedovotion of your employes to the'afairs of ulher peuple, I nim very truly vours, - UNES 1), JEYK3, In connceton with the nbove tlic following 'cdltorx:l frum the Now Orleaus Times lias some nierest: POTTER'S FIND, Gentle Jonks hos sorung her little catapult at ast, uid the Intest news tromn the explosion s thatovur gotgeous fricnd Pocter wus seen leav- fng town with the genuing Aweriean skip, Tho speetacle of whe great umd ouly Potter, with eve disheveled and whlskers b llne trenzy rolling, und with the F.cnnrul appearatica and action of o wiid gazelle, {8 #ald to have been worlh threo times the price of admission. In gome pro- plictia throe, thie vther duy, we satd that soan the multleolor of Potter’s sweetest nocktlo would vanish from our ravished gaze, but oh ! bow littlo at that juspired motnent did we scent Jenks upon the nir,—how littladld we forecast the meluncholy Potter fragmcnts of this hour! Alog, it secms but yeaterday—in point of fact it was [our doys ago—when Fotter with ouc tinger on his nosus and o wink of unutterable meanbiye tip-toed Eingerly futo the finpressive gloom ot bis inves tigation, where gat awafting him the carpot- gtore clerk with the pocket-book whose preg- naut hinges they did theto untuel with a de- lighted ** yum! yum ! and much futerclinnge of (‘;nuulnuon. Ha! thought Potter to bimsulf, here is a hou on thia timo sure enough, and I, with this fine grappling-licole of mine, wilt viuteh the ez und husten fondly with it to my dlstant nest, where L will sit und coo uml twit- ter i1l T hatelr, O, but wiethiula I have John Stierman _on the bip at Iast, und in my mind's clear eye [ sco him proue with brlsket quiveriuyg whore the boomerung strikes home, Tt seems out ‘ycntunluy thut Polter, his manly form ali hulerd and lutmpy here and thers with Jenka' docun @ats, received the informatton that hils stufl wus i:ozu3, thit Jeoks had only plalted Iis ambrpalul huir—in short, had played it on him one more time—und suddenly fie shrunk andl slriveled into. the very slmplest of Potters, und, calling wildly for his alscer, fled. Proofs of conspiracy aid Shermun’ lotters’ dropped from him ut every boand until he shed the last sad serap of Nieraturo that wicked Jenks had vouked, und floated into a slesplng-car a rurred but o thorotehly unlunded statusman, 1t we ever sce Potter fn these pats? WIL ¢l ! We cannot do without bim. In this couspiruvy- Iaden atinosohers we must bave an uceasloi Porter lest we perish, Come back to us, wn- Jestic beinwr, and we swear that no ungodi Jenks sball load her lixht, fantastie catapuft with you aealn wend ahoot you like a slde-whis- kered shrapnel bomb into'the dizzy stara, e et— " STRANGE SOUNDS. A Dlinlator's Unwilllugness to Tluy the Character of Enuch Arden, Diaputch ta Cincinnan Knquirer, Lenanow, O, Jan. 18.—"Uhere s o firét-claze caso of Enochh Arden at Genatown, un almost uuheard-of vitlage two or three miles north of this place. 'The particulars ot the case aro about a8 followsz Aboul ono vear ago a lady came to the little place, accompanied by a boy 11 or 12 yeurs uld and o young luly apparcutly about 18 years of nge. Bhe gave her namo as Mollle Grimes, und stated thit she had been divorced tromn her hus. bund ot Lafayette, Ind., and had resumed her mukden nume, Soon after taklng up ber home in the villugo of one courch, o store, and o Llucksmith-stiop, sho recewved the attentions of une William Thompsun, o staiwart suu of toll, wus woocd by blu, won, and married. Evervthing went smuoothty enouzn until last Wednosday nignt, it hud been wnnounced that ono Rev, O. I’ Suunds, o “iar-famed ovaneel- lut," would bealn the work of suviie suuls 1 the Genntown church on that evenlng, A great erowd greeled the incoming to thelr midse ot the grood man, and be was ubout to open the meeting wuou the younr lad spoken of above suddenly spread a” panle throughout the throug by opeuly recogmzing the minister as his tather; und, stranze to eav, Mra. William ‘Ihompson, nes Miaa Moklio Urlmes, ussistod in the work ot ldentitication with all hier mizht, But the good Hlr. Sounds would not huve it He vald he knew notilug of the woman or bor claims upon his person, ‘The miceting was continued, and Onally camo toncluse, Avuin the sclf-alleged wile of two men laid clalmg to hor Bounds, In whick shie Was agalu nbly asyisted by the scfon of the bouse. The young ludy, the daughter ot Mollle Urbues, was away on u visit to Franklis, bat sho Lias been sont for, und perhiuos on her arrtval van thraw soto Hizht un the watter, Mrs. Willkun 'Thompsnn, nce Miss Molile Griwes, Mra. (), P, Bounds, cte, alleves that she was murrled to the Rev, O, P Sounds at Lafayette, Jud., und llyed with hit uotil about one year uzo, when sie left b, She does not, however, explalu uway her Jittlo fnconaistencies n statiug that she was divoreed, bul persists thut shu never was divorced, Ouos clild bas been born to Mr. cind M. ‘Thampsonsince tueir murriage, mxl peoble wander that the woman now wishies Lo go bauk to 4 wan who does not want bier, miud whom, shie says, sho let fu dis- ust. ————— Two Royat Chatenus, l{|mil,ulhrh!'l Royal chateay, which he hagset about buliding vuthe Islind of Herreu-Chiciy- see, in’ Havand, ufter the model of the paluce at Vervallles, will find bim, when completed, only 48 years ofdy wind e Las set upart. Witecn yours Tor tho bullding ot 11 The 530 workwen’ now engoged dn the work aie lodeed o barracks winoorurlly coustructed for them, und,by spectal order frony the King, great care is tuken to provhle for thel comtort wud to salbdy thede needs at w oderate expense, 'The Zee- yraph (London) observes that such consideration wug uutalown when Lonke XIV. was buthliog his Versatiles, A writer bas recorded that S,000 uen and BU0 wagons were en- puged overy day oon thut work, and Mue. du Sevizue - Dus suld that o eertai number ol the wagons conveyed back to Porls ab duad of nizbit the corpses ‘of those who bud 2 1o the wewolrs of C 3 siuted that Jurgo bodies 23l troops were detatled to aid the lu- diggiug the Juundations, but that tho authic totd of vxcuvaing murshy earth ol soudiurs to the hwruul. [ Versaliles wers of the huw- aly XIHL, bane wiuch addicted i b tho furedts of St Leeer, grew bl vt supolng [y disty caburets s o Ding i dilapidated wisdmitls, . agld con: it b resolved to waweforn o little pa. vilion which he possesscd at Verssilles into “a houss of cards” It was 518 W putled down the cematent de eertes,” and bade his architoct, Mansary, build in tead 0 paleee aurpasaing i extent and mazailicence all {he Sstetely pletstre-domes? that all the Kublal-Khans coudd ever decree. The precent Ludwie, while wanting in tho artlatic resonrees of his grand- father, the patron'ef Corine'ts, Kaulba-l, and Userbeck, evinces no dimbnution In the passion for bullding, Tn the mountalns he hes castics wyon eastless he fus lded and bulided, and thia new Vorsnilles, whilu ft may not lessen taxes or diminlsh the price of sausnzes and beer, will fmenish emploviient for Jalor, whatever politleal cenmomy may think of such methods of removing the burdens of a peuple. A SWALLOWER. Bignor Foratlle's Wonderful Dinner of Thres Coursest Clum Chowder, Dayonots, and 1tot Jumnien, Spiced, In 8 West Bide Dar. room, New York Sun, Jan. 19. Signor Forstlle swallowed six marbles, a billiard cuo, and a faw other things, in a Liudson atreet burroom last evening. 1fe had been duly sdvertised. His advertiscment was headed “Rafle for a Horse® und “The Iluman Stomach,' and it declared: * Among other in- crediblo feats, he (3ignor Forstlle) will at one time swallow four (4) crooked swords, and dem- nostrate the hereulean strength of his muscle by bending soltd Uars of Iron across his naked nim, throwing completely in the shade the Grecian and Roman lieroes of necromancy nnd strength, Wil wind up by eatlng sfones, Raflle for 8 lorse will conchide the evenlog's sport. pM 0:30 o'clock 8tznor Forstlle came fn. SBave his shrewd, smooth-shaven face und n pair of Welllngzton boots, he was utterly hidden by & someswhat shabby great coat, which was glrdeu by a leathern strap, to whicli was hung a huze svabbard full of bavonets and swords, **Good ovening, gentlemen," he sald, unbelting himsell and taking a seat ot the tablay and nelther his speech nor his appearance comported at all rea- sonably with his nane. Nelther did his procliv- itles, for he called for a plate of chowdar und drownced it nith an Elghth-Ward relish thut was not to be mistaken. But presently the Blenor pushed his empt: soup plate nside, nud stood up ta make himselt ready for the reception of his solid food, He threw ol his greal cont, displaving n muscular and shapely tigure clad in tights, slapped his bare atius onco of twice to stiow tho teusity of thelr muscles, nud, unscabbarding his stock of swords nud bayonets, threw them elanging IIKQH the carrometts table, The sudience bunchod l;rem:r opposito hiny, us tho sword swallower called for a gluss of water and rolled six good- sized marbles on the table with his othier fuod. # (icntlemnen, he said, 1 will tirst swatlow & bayouet, und, selecting an Implement of that name, about two feet fu lenglhy, from his stock, he threw back his hend nnd ran the disagreeable thing into bimself up to the shanks, ** Noth- Ing vaster,” he resumed, as ho drew the bayunct out, und yet nothing mure astonishing, If the geople of New York onty knew about me I am contident I should bo n much moro succeasful wonder than Lnow am. 1 will now swallow a billiard-cue.” ‘Ihis feat, naturally, was similar {n fts man. ner und forn to the one that preceded It still it was n siuteular thing to sce the Siguor maklog bis how Lo the socetators with a purple fazo wid holf & billlard-cio stickinz out of him, e swallowed abont Lo feet and a half of the fmn- plement, bezinning at the tip. The swallowing af four crooked sworde all together, nlso, was siuntlur to what Sigunor Foratelle hind done before, but thecating of Lall adozen tuarbles was novel, ‘The Stenor handed the marbles to ditferent persons i the audience with directions that they shoulid fued him with them. ** This doos no herm to me nor to those who look at me, gentlemen,”” he sald, ns he went round with vpen mouth, i one marble after vuother wus tuzsod . He swalluwed euch a3 ho unt it, and - then, selzinig an tron rod, he {userted one end of it fu his throot snd ramned the whole chargo. down, ‘The sound of the fron striking on.the marbles was distinct, and you followed the progress of the half dozen until, with a sort of suditen diminution of frictlon such n wad ex- perlences when it gets l:z; the amplo part of ngan, thev slipped into ‘section where thoy Tound no tnrther reststanco, “*Now, i the Commlttee will put thefr fingers fn my moutt, they will futl to discover auy marbles there,” Bignor Forstlle sald, nnd two of the Committeo having replied to the fnvita- tion without result, the 8lgnor bent, as ho had promised, the bar of {ron acruss his naked arim, audl, bowlng, passed around Lis bhat, und ordered o Jutnales hot, with splee.; QUEEN VICTORIA. llor Treatment of Rrime Minlstors—Tho Boakn Bho Reads—tier Dally Ocoupatione. Yevsunal Likes and Disiikes, .. Landon Tyath, Most Premicrs have been extromely deferen- tlal toward the Queen, and the only one who wus ot eo—Lord Joln Ruasell—had no renson to conggratulald hineelf upon his crabbedness, for he gat fnto very 111 odor at Court, nnd found no wupport thery T teyfng thnes, He twas ons of the vers few atatesmen who ever recelyed a downrlght sharp avswor frum the Queen, This, was {n 1850, after the Ttallan rovolution, when the differcnt Grand Dukes were being dispos- scssed, The Duchess of Parma, fu greas dlstress, wrote to the Queen, besceching her to (utercedo with Victor Emmanul, so thiat her vrivate oroperty might not be confis- cateds and the Queen, compassionately williug todo whut was usked, "shiuwod the fotter 1o Earl Ruseell. “Tho Carnstitushion demands that I shoutd answer thut,” romarked bis Lord- ship, in his piplne, uneenlnl voice, *Well, then, auswer it sald the Queen curtly, aud turted awsy much offemled. It lins often been sald that'the Queen Hiced Lord Palnerston, hut thists an crror. Her favorite Ministers have been Lords Melvourne and Abcrdeen.” Bir Pubert Peel she at lirst dietiked intenaely, bun her aversion wore off when the cumy o know him betters and «xnr‘ll‘y the eamue ' thing oo eurred In the case of Me.Tisracll. Lonl Beavons- field {3 perhape not awaro thut untll he acveded to tho Premiership fu 1508 the (fm'en hud unl?' read onu of his uovels—*Henrletta ‘Temple,”t Shy read all the others in tho course of thres months after Mr, Disraoll had become her et wdvlser; and n dug thne enjoyed * Lothair,” though the ores- ent Premier hias uever ranked siong her favo: fte authiors. For this Iis Lordship iay console btmuself, sceing that ‘Thackeray and thelate Lord Lytton oru under the sanie ban /s himself, The Queen likes Dickeny' novels, one or two of Gearzo Elot's, but cblelly Wilklo Colling’ and Mr. Black's—the latter’s deccriptious of Scoteh scepery Luinie very dear to lier, ‘The Queen atso reads ‘und roreads Walter Scott’s novelu— which Is more thau most of her_ subjerts do now, more's the pity. On the whole, though, sha lucdines rather taward the serious reading of history and theolusy, and the lbruries at all hier palaces are richly” stocked with books of chronfcies and ncmoirs, though it hos ceh notleed that she mever ecalls for o French boox, having o deep objection French lterature i all ffs braelics. Livery one who Las conversed withthe Queen on theaivgdeal or Llstorical subjects has remarked how tharoushty Protealaut ia_her religlousnesy ad how eite veL lieeps "Y quite o seutfmuntal feeling ot sympathy with the Stuarts, Golbg one day iuto tue 1idrary at Wiudsor Custle, sho discovered the libranan cogaged lu reading some strongly Jucobite memoirs, 1 O, you tieed not ut thenh away,' shie said with a pleasant sulle, * You know §om Jucobito myseif.” “This does not _quite tally with the story which Macaulay used to tell of the Queen's opinlon ubont Junes 1L ‘The bistorian belug ou a vislt to Windsor, lier Majeaty abserved: " I have been read your llstory, Mr. Macaulsy, oud sin afralid 1 caunot &ay much for wy suseator, James 1LY * Your Majesty's predecessor, uot aijcestor,? upswered the nistortan, who apparently lhuuglfl. that the Queen bad wou been well-infurnied abaut herown lincagze, 'Fhe Queen leads & very quiet, und yet a busy 1ife, awif few great Jadlés Qnd thne to compre, 0 many oveupatiuns i1to & daytimu as ahe d Mle breakfusts at b, luuches at 2, und dinee From 8 to 5 sbie geovrally drives or walks vty bug the remainder of her hours Is devoted to Siate businese, study, or corvespondence with members of her wideapread fawmily, Al the Queen's private lettens are written fu_ Euglish, not fn an, as wany thiuk; and, fn_ fact, German 50 littlo spoken smong the Royal juwily that even when the Crown Yrioce of Uermuny comes uver ho speaks Engllsh ut Court Ko bis wile’a relatives. The Queen reads ali th daily newspapers, und the Pmprl sors ol the Luwly Tergrap b with the veln of toadylsm thut diatinerutshes b prlut several copies of their juurual for 1bie Roval palaces on spoclal pa- pers evotlon to Stute aflaire Is well known, und ier fntezvoution tn thew, parghe ularly when rotlxlous yuestious are luvolved, s ot atull balf-bearted. Shealsoexercises herown diserction very treely In e appuluncnt of Biswops wiid Pesrs, "Dr. Talt was apuointed b bur to the Sew of Cunterbury beforo Me. Digraclt bud recammundod aoy ones wnd about w yoar Toualy hier Majusty had Uatly refused ta be- ¥ 8 witre v Dr, Wordaworts, uwloe 10 the Y,mn:ns ¥bifch this divioe hud cwlited when n Stanley way made Dean of Westaluster, A Tikle futer she conseated to ap; olot Dr. Wordswortts to the Se« of Lincoln, but rather a8 4 compliment to bis scbolarly attalnments thau out of wuy feeilug tor bls views us & bls ! churchwun, As to Puers, the Quoou, suxious to prozerve the prestiee of the oty made ft her ritlo never to ennohle men of 0 . Tortune unless they were persons of Tairl; o vanced nge, having no sons, On 'rlnmy L £lon, when ndvised to rats to th b lomatiat mora ambittous than e, replied pretty shrewdly: of reodering him & poor the diplomatlst bad to e with the ribvon of 0, C. B, iy Just alluded to Denn Stanioy. ' Ho iy, af o151 Vines in the Churels of England, the e o 0- the Quecn likes best as & preacher, and gL ing I8 backed by a strong personal rezar) Durlug the Jifetime of Lady Auvusia Bnn; Ther Malesty was & frequent vVisitor at the ! ery, wud theto on_eaveeal oceaslons mes o Carlgle. Mr, Carlyle (who, by the by, raf: the Grand_ Cross of the Bath at the same g0 when Mr, Tennsen declined a Baroncioy) (2t conrtier, and his unsophisticated nianners m 2 tuan once amused the Queen, One iy lmn" verhaps, ‘*hard of hearmg,” and ne, Lear lie Majeaty's temarks distinetly, jo 1 0 & dy altiie, gy hai] serglce 4 by closo her, draguing 8 chalr afeer hinr, 4 3 ing ninde himecl{ cozy by hor side, prutx(i:fl’uh"' qucstion ber ns to historical likes und 4. inatead of valting il he was himeelf tioned, It should be mentioned o cupp, with tliese visits to the Deanery that i, the Westminster boya hened of ‘them the, to troup out and pray (hat & balf-hilda Lo commanded for them, & petition wiy always complied with. e —— HALLUCINATIONS, Three Bomewhnt Remarknble Cascs Deatruction, § AL Louts P'ost, There are several cascs on record of hallnelps, tlons baving caused death. Thrce of them arg Interesting. One victim was an old Bentlemay named Dare, who lived i Dover. He wag gy afflicted by a loud, deep volce, which lo heary continunlly, whether fn the auletule of by room or the nolsy hnstling of the street, Ha would be awskened suddenly in the pigyy by the volco which seemed to know histhonzhyy almost before hie had concelved them, It rghte ly interpreted subjects of great fmportage, but aupplqurnteu the answer to llu.'quu!kl' which Daro "lmd been trying to solve by anngp. Ine remarks which were often thresteniny and mbusive, and sometimes offenare ) distressinz. Ho mpent thousands of (ol {ar phvsiclans, but they did him no gond, i friends reasonicd with Wi, bub it was fnper sible to persupdo him that the voice hylyy real existence, fut was dite to the disondere) conditition of his nervous system. At last, 1y obtain sleep, be wos driven’to the expedient of buylng a muslcal-box, which he placed ony tablg neer his bed and wound up before rotirns for the night. ‘The nolse of the snusle drownd the nolse uf the voice, but s 8001 as the tagn ceased to be licard he would awake and woylf have to wind up the machineryagain. Ung day, the 20th of Mureh, 1817, he wrote a letter oy wife, explaining thut fo was no longer besr. able beesuss of his afilictlon, and, gomng to 1h cellar, hung bimeself. One uf the strangest casca ever chronfcled wag hat of a Miss Chrlaty, of Alton, Il She wagy young lady of more than ordinary beants, aul wway cifted with Intellectual abilities of uo pexg rauk. In the early part of March, 1573, she be. came afllicted with a romarkable hollu luation, 8te lnazined that thero wus o throbbing, gy ing scnsation in her head. It was as {f myrialy of winged fnacets wero ni r@ulnz el enelrelins her with a coustant buzz. ‘The inaginary sond was an _unspeakable agony. ‘The tortures s suffered must bave been Inconcelvable, Fron morn to night, trom day to day, from week 12 week, fromn the dnception “of her nery- ousness to the tramlc end of her Jify the incxorable nolse was with lLer, Steeplng . or waking it was e same; the lncessant bitzz forged Jnk ofter link of tie fuvisible chain whish soon bound her fust-weak enlng brain, Physicinns conld not cure her, On tne 10th of May, abuut t1vo mouths after the beginning of ber {maginative complaint, sl suddenly turncd while sitting 1 o chalr, md, clusping her hands on her head, ran from the Louse Lo the gurden well, futo which sbo deliy erately jumped. Belore ussistauce arnved lify was extinet. ‘Then thero Is tho case of Adolph Verenheln, ar, aresident of Tallnhassce, Fin. Il wesmud distressed bocauna of on_offensive smell whis ho fmagined provecded from oil parts of body. “Ha was scrupnlously clean, oxtremely courteous, thorougnly ratlonal fn couveri tion, nmd a ahrewd basiness-man. Neverhe ess, hia 1ifo’ wus made miserable by bis halls cination.” He belioved that every ona hemet was irritatud nnd offonded by the supposed emanations. Ho sald “bo often heard thea moving about, und eonghiag, und putting ther hamdkercalels to thelr noses, For some tim ho huwge his clothes out of the window Iofe plzhit. He would have continted o do o i hs housckecper lad not told bim that the exnitk tion of them would excito tlie notice nid com- weut of his uelghbors. The way he speat tho right was siugular. From 0 to 11 o'cluk be slept on the ground floor, then mounted Digher, und at 1 o'clock gat stifl higher up, fo order, us he saly, to pruvest the bad odors fron becoming coucentrated In one room. frionds tried to reason with him. but it was v Iess. No oue had ever mentioned anything ahout smelling to im until some time 1w D cember, 1573, when an scquaintanee, thivkiog he would b teased, sald to lum, O how yoi smell " Next morning the police found i by tue roadside dead. The weapou of destrue tfon, a tiuy platol, was nenr him, In his bt Lund was Ligl m(v clasped o note, which Lore tiis simpléstory: “Ismell too badly to live.” ——————— Supphires. Twollttle boys in Coylun have found a fap- phire welghlog, savs tho report, two whole vounds; {ts valuy 13 estimated at 350,600, and 1t 15, 1 the report be true, the targest sapplilts yet found. Coylon was a fumous vlace for sy rhlml in old thies, so that thoae who know ity ilstory aru not surprised that this stone skould have ‘been picked up there. A wrter fuite Ze eyraph (Loudow) recalls that the slaud Ly for agea been a vast treasure store of gumd, sl tint cven the ravacity of the old Ruinanal veuturers fulled to exhiust ity riches. Of ol brilllunt geins extracted {rom the soll ot 15 rebly-endowed fsland, hardly anv was nun highly estceined by the anclents than the st diy likey, uer ecting caer § Q) mielt b way of Belr. phire. Iis exquisite tint recalled to te exlled Rowan the elear, cloudinss azur of the heavena over the Imperhal Cith It was kuown to them as hyaciotbus, causoe its color was Hke that of the blug towet. ‘then as now the byaciutil were got by gen: lunters out of the bods of tue Cingaleit sireams, among pobbles mingted with gravcl ‘Flio engraving of sapphircs wis hardly kuows beforo the duys of the Roman Emplre, and probably the most celebrated of all engraved aupphires {8 the areat slgnet of the Emperet Constautine, which welghs nity-three carats W Lhe world was young supphires were sup Lo pos extraordinary moral und spir tual futluences, ‘They were thonght not ol to be beyoud tnjury from fire, nt to have (he power of putting It out, There were those who claitned that when brought tuto contuct with siuen, Hucn was rendered incombustivle, They were supposed to cool the futerual fires of the vasdions, and from this notlon came the custord of settinz & sapphilre in the eplscopul ring of ol flea and the haoit of persons vowed to perpetual chastity selecting it us thebe favorito jewel. ———— Grapes Kopt Frosh, What {8 herulded by the local Journal as "4 Vuluable Discovery,'’ Is amethod of Leeping grapes perfectly fresh for any perlud. The C. J. Renz, pastor of the Gierman Lutne Chureh, 10 {Tudsox, N, Y., hus devised 1he por vess, aftur an cisborate scries of ex| 15 1t is sald teat the rilks remalu comolet und uven the bloow on the grapes dergo auy chauge, but retains fle naturaliess i areally surprialug wanuer. Tho lavor of e vulv Is as perfe:t fo Junuary ay whon picked 18 tho fall. By this uew prucess the surplus hare vest of grapes in the fadl can be well ypared fof nwrket i the winter, and rold ot a riv: tive price. Urapes, moreover, thut have stored fnadrey and siry room until the winier season, und bave becuno shrauken and liks ralsins, can b restored tu Lbelr o beauty und naturalucss of tasto withont e applicativn of any chiemicals, 0 Mr, Reuz bd succecded so well with grapes, can e pot &3 tend his experlments so us tu apply the princisé to old matds und octozenarianst * If no can 1& store bloom Lo the caceks und davor Lo the Iz of Lho uld girls—Lo say vothing of greenness 0 the pibs—~and Inpart beauly and naturalces 12 the shruoken uud dried-up figares of e e, withoub the lyrliuuluu ol chigmleals, U8 will be, iudeed, a public benfuct The Hothschilis. Rothschilds are in wourning, The s> ood daughter of Si Autbiovy Ruthsenidd bhis Just losther husband, Mr. Ellot Yorse. Hi warrlago with Miss Avnle Rothaclild was U;fi (rat ol e mixed marriazes fu the Rothschil famlly. sMr. Yorke was formerly ag equerry ¢ the Duke of Ediuburz, und sccompanlied s ou his trip srouud the warld ou the Gulates. He wus at the Duke's side when an atiomps Wb 1ady t0 ussdsninate the fatter at o picoic ot Sk ucy. Herctiro frum active servico aiter bi marriaice, but was s bouorary equerry up W Lis deatb. The e ——— Legisiative Prayer. The Chaplatu of the Mainc Hfouse of Reore scutatives ustontshed hia bearers tho other JJF by praviug that the Lord would c¢o-ourayre thed %0 atop speaking when they got througu,"