Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1880, Page 5

by Joba MecOnffroy, who is going to bls farm in jown to bo an honest Grangor. It mny bo added dhat John has betaved vory much botter tn tho Council than was oxpooted by tha taxpaying qiass of oltizens, and much bettor than ho did In theCounty Ronrd, Tho Hepubltcans aro talk- jog of running Capt, John Murphey against Pat Memey, and, with the afd of tho rospectabla aod taxpaying class of Demoorata, ba oan bo eloctod, as bo is ten times a better man for the place than tho buinmer who expects to gotit, + i —— * ‘SecneTANY SHERMAN still Insists on his unjusti(able order depriving: the public nf in- formation in rogard to Involces of forolgn ship- monta,an order whtoh applies to tha export of tho gront ataples, whore movements aro the vory tite of trade, and a knowledgo of which {a vitally nocossary to dofent tho plans of speculators. ‘Tnx Now York Trihunc is working wp for allit is worth a story that Senator Conkling and Mr. Washburnd hay beon onomics, and not ex- changed a word for twenty yents, Tho atory is started in the Dintno intoroat, and {s probably without foundation a Tire Loulsville Commercial is strongly op- id to tha Instructing of tho Kentucky lepub- Ican delegation for nuybody, and this isn virt~ ual confession that tha bopes of tho third-torm y in that State aro gridually vanishing into thio alr. We havenoticeda “ flash of silence” in the gi. Lonis @.-D, paper on third-termigm of Inte, ‘Tho boom In that offco appears to havo reached flood-tlde, and fs cbbifig. The concorn fs proba- -bly preparing to flop over to fts first love,— Blaine. New Yorn trades-untons have recelved anappenl from thofr Chicago brethren to ngl- fate ngainst tho Chinese, but the former have thelr hands full, and refuso to put anothor iron gn the fir. At reports concur that the Rhode Island dolegation {8 unanimousty for Blaine, In 186 aixof the clght delegutcs from this State woro opposed to Blaine from the first ballot to tho Inst. PENNSYLVANIA Ja dead in earnest in pro- testing ngainat.the nomination of the ox-Presi- dent. It would be highly approprinte for the Stato that began the third-torin folly to end it. :Tie Ways and Means Committes will hold dally scastons this week to conaldor Tariff bills, the whole subject having been reopened, Thore ehould bo no more 7 by 0 foollanness. A LEAPVILLE correspondent, whosemenns of knowledgo are of tho best, snys Little Pitts- burg {a rated now morely ns “'n good prospect.” Tim Cleveland Leader has adopted tho right way of spelling demagog, by dropping tho usoless us appendage. Tue third-termers aro beginning to lose tholr tompors,—c suro algn of n failing cause, PERSONALS. Parolo must go—n Ittle straighter, “Young Episcopalian”—Yes, St Jullien soup fs approprinto for fast days, Mere it {s nearly the Ist of April, and tho Widow Butler has not proposed to Sam Tilden. Itdoesn’t soom ko lonp-year nt all, “Poetic Turfman”—No, the Longfellow Stnkea were not instituted by Mr. Longfollow. Tho bara. is caroful of his monoy, and nover stakes anybody, An oxchango says that “Victor Hugo drinks coffec continually, and stands up while wrlting.” A mon in Chicago also drinkd coffea, and stands up tho man who furnishes {¢ con- tinuaily. a The Toronto Globe of a recent dnte in- quires at tho head of un editorial: “Who will hold tho surplus?” Although not used to Cana dian girls, soveral young mon in Chicago havo agreed to take ono apfeco until soma pormanont. measures for tholr rolicf can bo devised, ? Senator Bayard is tall ond slender; his hend is small, but well proportioned; his oycs are deoply shaded by overhoeging brows. His diction and his gestures aro ngrcenble, but 2 Jatgo‘and yellow soft corn on his ‘right ‘toot his made him f confirmed oynto and Ieonoctnst. Miss Kate Field, in her monolog enter- talnmont, “Lifo in London,” Introducea sevoral terlo-comie songs. It munt bo entrancing to sco the cultured Kato tacklo “Whore Was Tommy Whon the Light Wont Out?"; “Don't Gyo It “Away, Bosaio Denr'; and “You Can Kiss Mo, ‘but Don't Toll My Mothor.” ASt.Louls girl recently forwarded tho fol- lowing to her young man: Daxit WiLt—Doant kum to seo me ony moro for a. whiat Gay way. Enuthur hea got awruite akasred about ails up ovory nito til lato with Sdoublo-barralied. suot-pun watening the Daeksrae, Tle put moran a A af Lond. Inter Brown's howe: youn foundinnd dog. which In avor ti EC was cummin avor tho fons after bo 10 FoRG ta rod, the vialot blow, * T wouldn't kum now It I was you, ———— POLITICAL POINTS, ‘When the sngo of Gramercy saw tho notice, “Tho Salvation Army will attack the Kingdom of tho Devil,” ho squealod “Gramoroy for thy caution, fair evangolietal ‘and rolled barrels to the winilows of hls hose and shoved tho bi nincompoop bureau forninst the front door.— New York Graphic. Among the fron men ofthis country who fro constantly in neod of protection are the nall- makers, who, baving sucocerted in pushing tho Price of nalls up 250 per cent, havo combined to stop producing nails, 80 18 to keep the.prico up to the presont prepostorous figures. It is only MS ie a torlous Be uigrice, Bat ana rs are perm # tax on Importe Nails, that thoy may be ‘able. to Tako ‘nails at home, and then combine to provent naila from being made nt home evon under the tariff. Ono Buch oxhibition of delightful choek ought to open tho oyes nf Congress to the tricka which Bre playod on tho pa to undor the pretense of protecting. Oop teduate kes noo y. wh ch Our i aro st Lou que tam out of @: ncd.— St, The. Senator’s Governor of New York #cems to be playing {ta little fino on tho Btate Senato tn the mattor of Insurance-Suporintand- ent Smyth. Itwas stated upon what ovorybody Understood to be the authority of Gov, Cornell that after tha withdrawal of Smyth's renomina- ‘Jon no other namo would be sont in, and. that Smyth would servo during the present Admin- ta foal tng een nae the Beas bean ja WAS 60) ol in outer Ny of which it would becompollod to tnke copnt oogni- zanoe, y Eg Blace. then the Governor has allowed ft to und that he will m another nomi. Ration, and thors ts in consequence a susponsian of nctivity, If this sort of juggling oan be kopt BE onshgh ot tia en Rea te oc sate flee.—Phlladetphia ‘Timea, iets In the Cincinnati Convention of 1876 Mr. Conkling was one of Bfr. Bialno's most rosolute and persiatont opponents; butit was arranged that. if Blaino obtained the nomination, Gov, ‘codford should at onco take tho floor, and, ‘peaking as Mr, Conkling’s friend, should for- mally pledge the Eleotoril votes of Now York to the Bfatne statesman; and tho pledga would havo beon loyally kept, 60 far na the powor of tho Republican lenders of tho Btato extonded. ‘Mr. Conkling’s frionds would havo done their dost for Mr. Blaino In 1876, and thoy will dothelr best for him in 1880 if the occasion prosonuta It- folf, Thoso who assume that Mr. Conkling ould not hoarttly support Blaino asaumo at tho Aamo tine that ho would support Washburno, Ms would bo more embarrassing, Conk! ‘aahburno quarroled bictorly @ long whilo S70, They have not apoken togothor for twenty Zeare, Je tho oarrying of Now York is ta depend pon the Rersonal friendships or enmisiea of one peanaruls aed political leader, thon Sr, Wash- datens who is talked of as the compromise cai the ony cael all Hrairies anit aulmoaltica, is New York Tribune ears iw beware Bh The Now York Herald has made a canvass ied the Connecticut Logislaturo on tho Prosl- fentlal Question, with the following rosult: Five onrehy Were for Grant, 8 for Dlaino, 0 for : feahburne, 8 for Edmunds, 8 for Sherman, and Guo Gartleld, as frat chotoo; for second choice, fata for Dlalne, 6 for Shorinan, and 2 for Gar- ‘Tho Grant mon had no second choice. In the Itouse of Hepresontatives, 54 wore for Grant betas choco, 48 for Blaine, 19 for herman, Bo Zor Hawloy, 8 for Washbunie, 3 for Garfleld, 1 for Edmunds, and 8 for Hayes; as asocond forse 21 wero for Grant, 51 for Binine, and 93 eenan, | From these Ogures it (s apparent Fibt Connecticut cannot, be claimed as *solld” Hiker aha a aGias batt wor tae logon hint ase socoud chloe, ‘The Prose fe atae™ tte elected dalegates to tho’ National Goovention, and from prosont indiva impala ta rodiet bow ber’ yous wily be oase THE CRICAGO THIBUNI INDIA. The Railroad and Land Systems of British Hindustan. Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Brahmin- fem—Tho Holy River and Holy Oity. Temples and Gods—Juggernaut and the Sulteo Women Without Souts. Tho Agrienltural Produels—Prasing Machines—Up Aniong the Highest Sountains in the World, Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Davigeuina, Himalaya Mountains, Jan. 21, 1880.—Tho English have covored Indin with rall- Ways to such an extont that {t {a all opon to the visitor quite up to the base of the mountain- ranges, The mountains thomeclyes—which have no rivals inthe world In grandour—munt bo reached and traversed by dak-tonga, pony, andon fout, The railways wore mostly bullt by private companies on n gunrantes of 6 per cent not income on tho investmout by tho Govorn- mont of Indin,—tho latter reserving tho right to take thon at certain periods nt a valuation. ‘This right has fallon dua as to the principal ono, and It has been tukon, ano doubt will bo tho caso ns to all tho rest, 80 that before long tho Goyornmont will become tho owner of all the allways ot tho country. This guarnntce was constdored vonturcsomo at tho timo It wos mado, but tho rallwaysaro all Iikely to prove profitable, THE SOI OF INDIA 8 allrich from fts southora oxtromity to those mountains; has produced varied crops for con- turles, without dressing othor than its own veg- tation; and shows no signs of exhnustion. The only quostion is that of water to mofsten it; for, though tt may bo called ordinarily a damp soll, tho grent heat ‘makes a llboral supply of water at all times necessary. Great caro Js taken to preserve the water. All that comes from tho mountain-ranges during the wet seasons {s gathered into ynst resorvoirs (somo of them ten miles tn oxtont), and used ns the Iand needs tt. ‘Theso reseryoira are mude by the Government, which ects ita pay in the rent it charges for tho lan, Tho Governmont owns all tho Innd (ex- cept a very little sold years ago), and renta {t to’ tho cultivators, usually In pleecs of an nero or less to cach person. England, T helleve, has nover tronted tho natives of any country sho has taken as the ownors of the soll EXCEPT IN NEW ZEALAND, and shots In considerable trouble thoro with them Inconsequonce. Tho natives of New Zealand Are quitd n auporior race, and aro very anxious to continuo to oxlat. Many of the Chiefs In tho Antorlor of that country sought interviows with me, tonsk ino about tho English, but mainly, apparently, to propound the question whether thoy must dio and pass out of existence. I told all of thom that this would dopend upon whothor thoy conld aud would keep tha money that thoy recolved for tholrinnd. Most of thom were of thoopluton that thls was what they could not do. No such problem can exist here, asthe country. is too hot for the white man. ‘There nro 175,000,- 000 Hindus and 25,000,000 Mobammedans,—tho Auttor mostly in Northern India. Thoy do not Beem vory proficient as rccumulators of prop- orty. Tho upper classes seek Goyernmont om- ploy, which thoy aro obtaining according to promises made thom, conditioned upon thelr educating thomeclyos, In fact, except tho bead officers of the Govornment and the ralliays, o fow foreign merchants and bankers, and 2 fow white Eronpss nll tho business of Indin fs done by natives, ore Aro English owners of proporty in the Intorior, who aro becoming timid, and Coar ‘that the natives aro in this way to GET THB COUNTNY AGAIN, and thus rondor it unanty for thom, Thonntives Are intelligent, full of bercoptive fagultios, but grently lacking in honosty. Honesty has to. bo found Jn thoeo nations which teach rightcous- ness for rightcousneas' sake, and not elmply the sulfish (den of gotting ono's golf into Heaven by somo dogmntio form. Tho Hindus comes nearer the tden of idol- worshipers than any other peoplo fn the world, Confucius anid, “Since I know go little of this world, bowcan tt bo expected’ that I should know anything of the other?’—and is not wor- shined. Buddha. whose followers nro tho most numeroug religious eect in tho world, wag a Prince of Northern India, who resigned bis crown to become a teachor of mon. Ilo did nat claim other than man's powers, and taught human foréectibiitty, with Anal absorption Into tha Dolty, Ho is ‘reveronced by tho higher clnsses, and, to some extent, worshiped by tho lower in Ceylon, China, Japan, and Intertor Asia, Mohamm Jnimied tobe # prophet, and to be. able to Interpret tho will of God, but tho Mo- hamnicdan forms of worship aro alngniurly freo from ail idea of superstition. Brahma, on tho 1 other hand, A GOD OF REAL PowEn in the eyes of the Hindus, and the mannors and forms of his worship ara cndicas, The Ganges Js tholr holy river, whogo waters wash away sing; and many of those having the means go to Ilvo on its banks, thoy may onch day batho init, and be nlwnys prepnrod for the life of bliss. Bonnros ts tho holy elty of fee bunkes has 5,000 god is, Bix holy onttle and monkoys, 1 tomplo cofored with gold, and ghats: bordering the river, where can be secon dull washing away tholr sins; wrtyrs. poing to Heaven by tha painful road of various kinds of solf-Infiicted torture, which is ta endure ns lony fis lif doce: and doad bodies burning in sandal and common wood (according to: the incans of the deceased), tha remuing or ashes of which aro swept into tho Ganges ns tho soul starts for the better land. But Northern India ts conatdera- bly Mohammedun, white tho real Hindu power and grandeur ara In Southern India. Their style of living thero may bo somowhat seen from the fnot that a dethroned Princess at Tanjore hus thousands of sorvitora and ailicers, and tn onor- mous palace forgcously furulshod, reception- rooms in which, entirely open at ono side to ine ner courts, are iifty fect high and hundreds in longth, whilo tho outer court has six live olo- Phants standing at its three gates, at Madura, Tanjuro, aud Lrichinopaly, nro MUCH THH FINEST HINDU TEMVLES, and tho strangost and moat fantastic in tho world. The onc at Madura covers twonty acres of ground, bas of exterior and interior ‘walls a hundred, and muny towers soveral hundred foot high, surmounted by enormous oyea looking down, and the wholo covered ull over with avory grotesque imngo that tho wildest and most dls- ordered {innyination could concolye of. Instde lao there arp bndoes Inin Es rehed in all tte numerous roams and angles, into many of which nono but Rrahmins aro ullowed to enter, All this tompie is uguaily flied with peaplo, wor- shiping tha various dolties, ‘tho destroying Hy 10,000 peoplo is, und thovo Inillcting torturo of various Inds, are those most worshiped,—showlng foar nithor than Jove tobo the moving Influence. The imagos tinost worshiped aro kept covered with ofl, Anvnormous bull (mado of atone, us is tho tomple and overything {n it) fe kept wet! greased, inta which grease guthors dust and dirt; und thia mixture {a put into Fhobrozes by tho people, agonoof the meins of worship. Ivis- this toinple also in the night, lighted ‘UP IN GHASTLY ePLENDON, showing tho munifold gods, and their countlcas gay-clad and naked worahipors, in wild, un- carthly scones caloulated to strike awe and tor ror into the imagination. Outside of this tem- pie, and in tho dark, the numerous natives pass nj tho ronds kept striking tron rings or is to frighten cobras off the roads, These snakes will ily from a noiso, but if touched. Will ito, whlch bite is auro death tn a.tow mo- About thts tomple,and in all the cities of Southern India, aro curs of Juggornaut,—onore mous, funtustio reptiles, covered’ — with {mugos, which are drawn In processions once & year, by crowds of mon, by meaus of ropos hin- dreds of fect long, and under the wheels of which thousands ot people have thrown them- selves to bo crushed, In ordor to gain salvation. ‘This oruahing of Lodios ts now forbidden by the Govorninecnt of Tndiu, as is the rite of sutteo,— that is, the burning of the Brahmin widow on the funerulpiloof hor husband. ‘These widows are now condemned to a life of servitude, The only interferonco, exoept by sxzamplo, of the Govornmentof Indian with the native religions, isan odict against thoso two forms of crucity, ‘Those thivgs are done oven now, but, when found out, all the perpetrators are put to death und the temples houvily. flicd, ‘This lattor ta what moat olfects tho object, us tho temples have enormous incomes, Tho Government has a tow white soldiors at boalthy stations inthe south- ern mountaing; and these tolling Brahmin widows inust look at thom with strange sonua. tions, as thoy turn out ouch morning at daylight for parade In whito suits and helmots with glit- tering Layoncts,and cannimthut speak the only salyation for thom, A Hindu womang HAS NO SOUL, and doesn't therefore go to FHoaven, or any> swhere olse, at death. Theso people know all about the world, its policies ant rellefonas and it would soem strange that they should wtill hold with tonacity to such horrible ideas wero it not that, whilo all else changes, the religion of child- hood rarely or never does thoroughly. All along the roads in Southern Indfu, at frequent intor- vals, are temples, with gods within, with usually Or fifty stone or earthorn horses standing: ido, that the gods may take oxerciso at their Jufsure. . The women want to look pretty, though thoy havo no souls, and woar rings of gold and silver on thelr ankle, and arms, whilo thelr noses and ears loaded with thom. Thelr noses are pleroed li directions and manners, and filled with rings; gud thelrvars are oftun so loaded MONDAY, MARCIT 22, 1880. 5. Ty “ting ad there being no Fallronda or othor come | over bis heat, Tho poor fellow that the flesh of the oar ts putted clear down to the Shoulter, Tho poople are all atealght, tr consequones of carrying burdens on thelr hente, which obliges them ta keep nn upright, ositinn, and never sitting In ebaira or leaning ngainst ansthing. ‘Tho cos- tume Ia uaually ono pleco of white eloth around the miidlo of “the heays and of the women, addition, a fald over tis shoulder, to theureticr Jy concen) tho hogom. The ehildren are clothed in arect amilen.” amt a ellver ring around the body below tho hips {f the pnrunts are rich, and n tow atring If bli Aro poor, Tho high-rusto women aro completely enveloped In a white, looge cloth, so a8 nover to be soon by any one but the husband; and they are NEVER TO TOK AT ANY OTTIRIt MAN. Ono of thera was one day taken into tho car where T wase ani placed forward of mo, All wont well ti! the husband left the ent for a mo- iment, nt a atiation, when the Hfted the: covering aml took naly look at ind. She must havo bed rant confidence in my retlennce, 19, tf her act nid became known, eho would not only have lost hor nusbane, but become an autenst, ‘The beatin tho sun fs very great. Punkas— that Is, huge fans mado of cloth, and suspended feo the colling—are pulied by ropes hekward and forward over one's hend during meal-tines, and often during the entire night over tho bed. ‘Tho uaual means of lovomotton on tho plains fre bullock-carts, drawn by onoor two siwall oxen, who trot along gryly. Tho crops are rico, wheat, cotton, tobacco, castor-bean (for oll, used ns medicine and to lubricate railwaya), mustard finruey far ofl, which is used in nativo food and for lights), ine algo, oplum (tha Government, however, ows No one but itrel€ to raise opluin), coffee, ten, and chinchona. ‘This latter is a tree transplanted ‘eru, from whenes comes “ Peruvian bark.” or quinine, tho gront modern remedy for foyers, Great profits are mado by the Gnvern- ment and othors in cultivating this tree. All tho things here tenttoned grow and flourish well. ‘Tho English think wheat enough can be ralsed In Indio. TO FERD ENGLAND} and that might possibly-bo. Before that isdono, howover, they will have to. get ata mn- chines, a8 now all the wheatiand all the bread, thereforo) fs mixed with sand by belng stamped out of the head on the ground by eattle. The wheat 1s now about headed out, and looks well, Two crops of rico annually are grown on tho same ground, Ten flourishes fincly on tha sles of the foot-hilis of all the mountains,—its nate ural home seeming to bo at about 3,000 to 6,000 feet clovation. It 1s mostly cultivated in large tracta, by Englishmen; and the Inbor {a all done: by natives. ‘The bush {s trimmed down ouco n year, 80 as to keep it about four feet high, and make {t produce n tnrgeand good crop of leaves. Tho leaves nre being picked all tho tlme from April to Novembor. I think the ten produced hero is better than that of Chinn and Japan. ‘Thirty-eight million pounds of itwas Inst yenr exported to England. The price paid for labor on those plantations fs equal to about seven centsadayforn man, five for a woman, and three for n child. Out of — this tho supply thomaclves.—tho chief — expenitl- ture being for rice, they requiring practical); noclothing, and building tholr: sun-honsos 0 long grass, Thosouthern ratiroada are fonced with a enctus hedge. ‘The banyan-treo. with its many trunks, abounds, Miles of hedxes of roses fre In blogsom In the southorn mountains; alsa rhodadendron trees, forty feot high, covered all ovor with brilliant red flowers. _ MOEN aronotscarce. They do not often molest peo- ple unices attacked, but take all the doga that ire left outof doors in tha night In the foot- hits of theso mountains. Jnckals how! loudly at night; and, 9 fow nighta alnco, two of thom had a contest in my bed-room for tha posscesion of some bread and ment. Tam writing of India, but the place whore I write ison ita extrome northern border, quite nenrto tho {independent countries of Bhotan and Shikim, and fn full viow of that of Nepaul. ‘Tho inhabitants of those countrics,as well aa those here, nro jargoly of Chinese blood: wear tho pig-tail,”” but. don't havo the head, and hve groat physical strength. Thoy aro Huitd- ists, and baye a wholoasle way of pray= ing. They stick —_ poles forty feet long, in the ground, from the — top to tho bottom of which are fastened wito strips of white cloth, on which are written grent. nume bors of prayers, a0 that thoy arc ail the timo of- foring numerous supplicntions without any In- bor. In their houscs of worship they havo also haort of hogshead, filled with written prayora, which {s turned round caally on a pivot,—cach turn of which rings a bell, and inakea A MILLION OF PRAYERS ‘ for as porson who turns it or procures ft to bo ried. ‘This town ja perched upon n sharp summit, quito in view of a large part of tho hi Re mount- aln-range, with deep gorges and declivitios all about, covered towarls the bottom with toa plantations, On the gouth. ono oau ball suc, rough the blue mist, the 260,000,000 of people of Indian, In their rice-flelds and amongst thelr tropical vegetation, with camels and olepbants moving about amidst them,—plantations of ten creeping oP the siles of the mountains, inter- Fpersed with grass huts,and roads that look ike yellow serponts colling to and fro. On tho north are deep intervening 3, and then ono entirorange of mountains which never surrender & particle of their snowy whitences to the troy icalsun. The clouds arc, however, such con- stunt companions of those mountains that a full view of thom is seldom had. Lnet ovening a great storm cleared tho sky, and during tho night I started with a Dhatan ‘mountuincer, and by rapid traveling reached before sunrise mountain trom whence EVENYTMING WAS VISINLE, or, rather, evorything not, vetled by vapor; tho entth presented no obstritction, ‘There wero no clouds above me, nothing but tho bluo vault of the heavens, 19 Whole world bclow—tho platon, the gorges, tho ton-plantations, the huts, ho Hindu Buddhist tomples—wore all, at frat, covored with a thick, evan coat of white clouds, thnt roxombled a boil of ocoy cotton. Facing north, T could soe with amnzing distinctness tho whole range of snowy mountains, Extending to the north was a rane, some 22,000 to 24,000 feet high, terminating directly in front of mo in four summits of 27,000 to 28,000 and odd foot high,— one of them, Henhinjunga, heing the socond highest mountain in tho world. ‘Towards tho ‘west wasn slight gap in tho extroma clovation; thon a long line of snowy peaks, nt the com- Moncomentof which, sharp, conical, and white, Js tho oarth’s highost' mountain, Everest, 20,0 (oNicial) fect above tho level of tho sen. 1 saw the Hi 4 red sun throw fts rays ncroas_all this, Nghting it up with tropical splondor, J. Bf. It, THE FAMINE IN BRAZIL. Awfal Suffering and Mortality—A Prov ince Dosolated, and a Multitudo of People Dead or Dying. Unrrep Srates CoNsULATR, Psrvamuco, Jan, 9 187.—The Hon. WW. Hunter, Second dsaistant Secretary of State, Washington, D, O—Sm: As tho Provinca of Coarn ja within tho Imita of my Consulate, it ie propor that I should seni to the Dopartment of Btate an account of tha grent secon or drought of Northern Brazil, which oxtondod along tho Sortao (the torm Bartao simply moans tho tn- terior of n country ag opposed to tho const; :tho inhabitants of the Sortao ara called Scrtanejos), or tnterfor, from the beadwators of tho to Modeirio to tho Sierra Arnripo, watch separates tho Province of Coara from Pornambuco. Tho climate is hot and dry, oxcopt on the coast, whero It 1s modified by the sea breezes. Thero isnotaaiuglo navigable river in the province, but the Sertao fs watered by a hoatof Uttlo rivors, ull. towing directly into tho occun. It has boon valuaolo for pasturago, and Coara was noted for its cattle, particularly its Ano horses, Cpara is an agriguitural province, covering an firea of 4,681 squaro mitos, and {ta Inhnbitants are, for the mout part, fntolligent and indus- trious farmers, Cotton, coffec, and sugar-cane wore extonsively cultivated, its principal oxport boing cotton, ite greatest source of wealth tho cattle commerce. The rainy season begins in January and fasts tiff June, Tho remainder of the your boing without ratn, the rivers and atreans dry up, and in ordinary scasons the ya ee Sater. e pomorince 60 TONE ae tho inhabitants have been ol leayo tor moro reo sian dos Hed during th ‘a noted soocas provatied during the years 125 and 185, but T doubt whether thoré has ever been hore, or elsewhoro, in the history of the world a‘ famine so fatal in offeeta in ‘proportion to tho Bepulation ay this of Coara, ‘Thogo of India and China, ft must be conaldored, occurring in crowded countries, where the poo = ple are counted by millions, and not by thous bands, Ike tho Caurenses, ‘Two yours ana whult pi when the gocca commenced, the Province of Ceara numbered 000,000 inhabitants; out of thosa 600,000 have diod of discuno and starvation, Tho decca began in the aummor of eid and has continued to the close of the year 1878, ing for thirty months; no rata having fallondur- ing the whofo two yoars and a half, abd the once fertile and luxuridnt Sortao, whore the farms and villages prospered fn peace and plonty, now presents the appearance of a vast blackened lusert burnt over by ire. In November of 1576, after tho ‘Eastivéte" or suminer-sleep, when the “Chuvas de Cale or fruit raing, failed to appear, tho people did not worry, as their foucies, oF Donds, were not yet exhausted, and they looked confidently forwird fo the winior ralns tw set everything right. Lut thovo never caue, and, ue tho dry spring nd- Vaniced, sad accounta began to come coastward of poverty and suffering among the poor. Later on, a8 tho burning duiiner slowly passed, brings ing no Novomber showers, and anothor January wont by without raln, there camo appalling news of fanino, disease, dead cattle, and of dying and Pespatring people. Ting penftontlul procosstone woro formed and tho iniscrublo Sertanojoa bent, cut, and other wise punished themselves to appeasoan offended: Deity, But tho pititess seccn still continued, thratening everything and avorybody with In- evitablo destruction. The wretchad people were now reduved to the necessity of eath roota, cottou-pods, the Mucums beau, which pradices dropay, lizards, dos, cute, rats, roaches; any iving ‘or dent, thlug capable of affording sustenance; and in om {natances thoy wore even goaded to cuntl- balla by the pangs of sug {nereaso the unimaginable horrors of the situation, the small-pox broke out umong the irtanejos and becume epidemic; typhus and other fuyers were raging, and, in February and Maroh of 1878, the mortulity became frightful. ‘The cattle were now all dead, tho rivers dried munication by which provisjons could renen the Sertao, the | inhabstan dreading wholsania Altrvation, abandoned {¢ altogether, and the wholo tarront of life went renward, Cearn, Parabyba, Aracaty, Hatirité—all the towns olong the const.—were now nilve with suf fering hnmunlty,—ogo, youth, men, women, and children, all fiinine-atrigken, coming fn from tho country by thoueands upon thousands, The City of Ceura, with 25.0% inhabitants of ite own, reerived over 90,000 Sertnnejos, Impore sible to provide for such a host, the Cenrenses did their bests but f(t was a sorrowful spectacto to seo thousnnds of emnainted creatures sitting or ying in the open larges (squares) smitten with smati-pox and othor Jonthsome diseases, foie Inmenting thelr own fate, ar the tom of frinints; othors too wenk or fl to complain; some wishing to dio from despair, aud othors Insane from sufferings adangorous And most harrow- fog scene, one with fow paraltels in bietary Ty Coura, or Fortaleza, aa it ts indiscriin{nately cated. the highest mortality th normal tines: was Wo por year, Now about half tho pulns Hon aay te dead. Tn the beginning ol November, the poputation, including the intlux, Mumtiercd 10,000, The groatest mortality pro- ¥alled Inthe months of November and ‘em= ber of 184, Fromthe Ist of November to the 2ith of December thore died of smull-pox ainne, and were buried. in the Iagoa Funda (deep inkes) Cometory, for tho poor only, 24,400; estl- mated from Sith to Alst of December. 1,000; tho st. Jono Baptiate Cemetery, 121; in tho City Cemetery, 1,000; estimated buried outaide Jn flelda, ete.. 2,000; ndd to this the mortality from other dixcases, 10 per cant, 2,870; total in- tennents for two months, 31,571. Lhave given tho statistica, n3 Myures tell thoir own incontrovertible tale. Bi ats thousand Cenrenses have been In the Lagoa Funda, Cemetery, which was only commenced in the middie of lust yenr. Tho soll is anny, tn which trenches nro duy six feot decp, an long enough to contain” twelve uneoffined corpses, ‘Three or four more are sometimes put Inwhen the bodies come too fast for the corps Of grave-dixgers, numbering twenty-five, Thess diggers sometimes drop dead In the trenches, from the efluvin cmnnating from the bodies, which permeates tho whole soft of the ccmotery, and impregnates tha surrounding atmosphere for nenely amit At Parahyha, out of 15,000 Sorvanejos who eumte to that tert, 12,000 died, othors have wan- dered off, and the pinco ts Henri depopulated. Of Sobral, Pacntuba, and othor towns, dis- tressing fecounts, that qummente! the sum of human suffering, could be given. But enough 18 Leen nirroted to convey some idea of the Magnitude of tho terrible sreen of Cearn. It is estimated that 140,000 died from hunger alon AS Tiny More from {ts effects, and the remain- ing 200,000 from disense. Meanwhile tho Brazil- ian Government, fully olive to the facts, is do- tig tts utmost to alleviate the calamity. thas appropriated and nearly used os a rollet fund for the miserable sufferers $10,000,000. Every vessel that could be hnd was frelghted to its nimost capacity with supplies, and sent to Cenra. Ship-toads of Sertnnejos. amply pro~ vided with seeds, tools, and provisions, wore suntup and distributed among the different towns nlong tho Valley of the Amazon. A now Tallroal, employing 6,000 Inborors, sustaining 17,000 people, was started, and is now inconstruc- Yon between Ceara and Crato.. Subscriptions havobeen taken up, and other means of belp de- Vised, but, best. af all, tha blessed rains, so vainly Jonyed for hy the now dreamless slumberers, aro coming. Twohnve fallen In Ceara at last ac- counts, so let ua hopo the fenrful scourge fa over, that tho usual rainy seasons will return, and that the barren and’ desolate Sertao will Once more. blossom a8 the rose, and teem with life, Inbor, and abundance. Tam, sir. your obo- dient servunt, NDItRWw: CONE, United States Consul, pee LOCAL ORIME. BURGLARY. A messenger boy named Healoy, in the em- ploy of tho Westorn Unton Telegraph Company, yesterday forenoon at 10: o'clock found open 4 door tending to Hirsch's suspender factory, No, M2 Monroe street. He notified tho police, and Detective Keating, who wont to tho placo, found that the door hind been pried open with a Jimmy, From tho looks of things nothing had been dis~ turbed. ‘Tho proprietor could not he found, as he recontly moved bora from Milwaukee and bis Address was unknown. ‘The door wasrefastencd, Jursinrs made a rich haul up on Archer av nue during the onrly hours of yesterday morn: ing, and In conse: Rreat flutter of excltoment all day. Ti dry goods store of Cave Brothers, located at Nos, ‘and %6 Archer avenue, nenr tho corner of Wentworth avenue, and only a stone's throw from the Twenty-eccond Street Police Station, syns tho pinco selected by the thieves. ‘Tho robs bory was not notiecd until 9 o'clock yesterday, Morning, when a servant, who had occusion to go down stairs to a coal bin, found tho rear msement door open. Bho at once notified Mr, George E. Cave, who lives over n portion nf the store and the investigations at once mado by him, roverted that tha store had been burg- Inrized, and that silks, ating, and fine Jowolry tothe valuo of upwards of $1,000 bid boon taken. Word was at onco sent to the polico- Btation. Mr, Cavo stated to a reportor who called upon. him Pestorday. that the store was closad nt about 48 o'cloek Saturday night. Ho was out untll 12:00, a4 upon comiug bono, aneedin atthe store, but finding the usuni Ighta burning, passed on mp eats and went ta bed. Ho , is au everything in the stora waa in proper order at that time, but novertheless there is avery indication that his arrivel surprised the burginrs at thoir work, aud caused them to do- camp with what plunder they hod alroudy secured, In no other way ts it possible to cx~ Pain why the thieves took no little plunder, When so much was at their disposal. Mr. Cave Says that untll within a fow weeks ago tho rear basement door, which furnished recess to tho burglars, was extra well-fastencd with a good fintent dlock. This lock was in somo way ost, and aince then 2 common padlock has beon in use. Tho burglars mode short work of prsing this open with & timmy, and throw{ng open the door thoy found themselves inanawly excavated basoment. A shore tight of stops, and # little judicious handling of © dimmny upon a ono and threo-qarter incl na door at tha head of tho flight furnished them ‘onay access to tho store, Appearances Indicated that two monentered tho atoro, and that thoy Rroped along behind the counters running soutl ndistance of seventy-five foot, selcoting sllka and salting 18 thoy went. Thon thoy turned west forty fect, presing lot of broché and other valuable shawls, ‘Tho office wns next ransackud, but nothing was takon, Tho fowelry case occupled the rest of ‘tholr timo, and tripped ft of one-half its contents. Phy: Tight, dave carried off soveral wagon-loads of moods had thoy been so inclined, A singular fact Is that the private watchman, James Hannan, did hot discover anything wrong ubout tho stora furing his nightly travels, Four yours ago burglars visited tho dry-gooda house of William MM. Cave, fathor of the brothors, at Nos, 155 and Archer avemte, and wore surprised whilo at ‘ork, One “ Batdy” Schafforth was caught in the et, und was tried and convie! ‘This time tho thloves got clear awuy with tholr booty, and left not a single clow. For ditferent.rensons, however, the police aro firmly of tho opinion that the burglars woro threo In number, and that thoy wero identical with atrio whoncarly murdered a veteran po- Iceman, Oficer Oliver Decclle, shortly ‘after noon yesterday, The officor was patroling. his beat, when he was notified that ho was wanted at No, 678 State atroct, a saloon and bagnio known as tho Gold Dust. Upon arriving. there, tho proprictress, a worn nitnod Graco Moore, recently from Cinoinnat!, told him thataman was cructly beating one of ber gira in an upper room. Tho ollicur reachod tho room just aa Jennio Moore rushod from ft, shouting for help Qnd protection ngiinst a low-sized muscular oung rutiian, who bid boaten hor brutally with hig Hats. Tho follow was a little ugly under are Tost, and wantod to be allowed to complete bis Job. His two companions who were ‘busying thomselyes about tho place advised him to go along peaceably with tho officer, but this talk was ouly wv ruso to throw the ofleor off, for just as he omorgod with bis prisoner from tho saloon tothe aldowalk, tho two men sprang unon bin from both sides at once, and knocked him sonsus cas with some {nstrument, olthor a sandbag, billy, or tho butt cond of a revolver, All threo thon made theln escape, Tho wounded and foml-unconscious ofticer was borne toa drug. store nt the corner of Fourteenth and State strocts, whero somo aly, Rashes on the top of his head werd dressed. ‘Though painful, and to & cortaln extent serious, it is not pected = ta. pers Gangerous, Tho of- 0 Neer = will conflued bis bod for gome days to come at his home, No, 635 Carroll ayonue, ‘Tho murderous assault waa witnessed by a number of people tn the Vicinity, some of whom pursued tha trio unt} thoy ontored a saloonon Indiana avenuo, whonos thoy shortly afterwards dispersed through what iy known a4 ‘Tho Pateh.” One witnoss saw ong of them wipe the blood off bls revolver on the ning of his cont, ‘Tho names of wil three were tuken at tho station, and, should any of tho rif. fluns be captured, their identification will be gure, Ofticer Decelle did not know them, bu from the deseription and tho name "Jack" spoken by one of tho mon, the police know ory 8 well who thoy are. What specific reason palice have for connecting these two cuses is hot known, Decelle thought tt singular that the woman would not permit him to go through the front hall-way, alleging that sho bad lost the koy. It 1s quite possiio that tho thieves and thugs had a portion of thelr booty upon them, and that thts is why thoy wero so doteriained to avoid arrest, —— A LOVING COUPLE, ‘Willlam F, Kssox, soap peddlor, and Mrs, Lizsio Essex, his wife, proprictress of a saloon and barber-shop combination at No, 88 Halsted streot, had ono of thelr usual family rows last night, and by littlo loss than a miracle the affair did not terminate fatally for Mrs. Essex, For yoars past this couplo bave lived tho ves of cats and dogs, Somotimes the woman would have tho uppor band in tha Aight; indocd, it was nearly always sho who was the aggressor, She had tho capability of inuking things 60 vely for Willlam, ut be hud never an Opportunity to do guything but defend bimself, when sho began the fight Several times bo attempted sulolde In order to escapo her wrath, but sho wus toa shrewd to allow blm to sucocod. At other timos she would do her fevol best to lay hin out a poreee, aad It soomed purely pastinie for hor to tickle bis ribs with a butcher Snife, crack open bis boad with a hatchet, or brouk crockery and glusswuro lant . resembles a battie-scarret heroin consequence of these encounters. Tutthe amount of aym- pathy to which he fs entitled ts very limited, fe dissipates considerably, and would bava the upper hand in those domestio brotis if he wore abies to copo with the fury of his wife. It was hig turn Inst night. Thoy quarreled in the aatoon about a eervant afel mained Mary Jano McDonald, formerly empinyed in tho bourse, Mra. Exeox thought Mary Jane was too familiar with her Willlam, and benee discharged her, Burt tho girl, elther because her attachment for Wiitiam waa real, or Decaury ehe wanted to amgrnvate Mrs. Esscx's Jealousy, kept banging about the hours, ‘This caused the row. Essex did not feel like - taking one of his wife's old-time druhbings, and ao got in the first blow with a beer-ginas, Thon he ninched and booted her until she Iny insonsible, “he Roc f the aeeurrence ts directly opposit the Acnidumy of Murte, und a large crowd gathe ered about the place. Word was carried to tho West Madison Street Police-Station that a woman bad-been murdered. Capt. McGarigio and a squadof pollen ran atonee to the plive, and when thoy eaw Mrs, Easex lying on the floor covered with blood, senseless and motionless, thoy thought that ‘it was indeed a murder: Some time lator the woman was restored to consclousness, and Dr, Shenick, who attended hor, thought sho was not seriously injured. Ho tireesed a severe seal round over the right temple, and some minor cuts and bruises which wer: not at all serious. Tho police gathered up tho fragmenta of tho glass to Ue used as ovl> dence, but this was almost unnecessary, o8 tho Ersexes were never known to prosecute ench After « scarch Hasex was found sccroted in tho barn, his favorit refuso when there fs trouble tn tho family. Ho wns induced to como out quietly and giro himsolf up, and was taken to tho West Madison Stroot Station. CUTTING AFFRAY. Joseph Cizek, Ilving at tho southwest corner of Wood and Fighteenth streota, had a dispute Inst ovening with ono of his boarders, named Frank Dercthka, about a board-bill of $9. Cizek waited on the sidowalk In front of No. 74 West Eight- eenth street until at 8:15 Dercthka caine out of tho house, and then stepping up to him be plunged a pocketknifo into the shoulder. ao binde of the knifo struck tho shouldcr-blude, and, though the wound ts quite @ vicious one. it is not atalldangerous. Tho wounded man was attended by Dr, sullen, who thinks ho will get along nicely, Cizek was locked up at tho Hininan Street Station, charged with An assault with intent to kit. —— ARRESTS. Daniel Coughlin 1s at tho Chicago Avonuo Sta- tion charged with Inrceny and assault, upon complaint of Charies Hoppe. The mon aro rival milk peddlers, and when they met yesterday morning at the Chicago & Pacifle depot, Hoppe accused Coughlin of stealing a can of milk from him. A fight followed. John Peckler, a Desptatncs strect saloon- keover, {satthe West Madison Streot Station, charged with robbing tf. A, Cullen, ‘Wert Madinon street, of a silver watch loon on Lake street some weeks ago. ‘The fact that the watch stolen from Cullen waa found in Peckier'a possoasion ja about the only proof agulnet him. Mary Jane Kerwin, a dlue-syed, red-bairod eyprian, who [sa terror when she goca on tho War-path, made things very lively at 11 o'clock Inat night at Curley & Nensingor’a American Theatre, on State street. Sho wax accompanied by Jessie Smith, whois alan somewhatof a fighter. They wanted drinks at tho bar and wero refuned, and in revenge they threw bricks through tho windows. and fought like wild-cnts with whoever oforeit thet resiatanes, In breaking the win- dows Mary Jane was pretty badly cut about tho bead and bands. ‘William Schmidt, a dirty young seamp, who ought to get n long term at Jollet, Isa prisoner atthe West Chicago Avenno Station, charged with attempted Tape. % 4:00 yesterday after- noon Frederika Fleschor, s German Inas of 15 years, whose parents lvo at No. 72 Samuel treet, whiloon her way bomo from x strotl in Hiynholdt Park, in company with Miss Amelia Tukkey, wero metat the corner of Division street and Western avonue by Schmidt, who insulted tho girls grossly, mado indecent proposals to Miss Floscher, and Mnally niude an outrageous aasault upon ber, She snd her compnnion soronmed so loudly na to attract the attention of three men who wore approaching on Western Ryenue. When Schmidt saw them coming ho took to his hoels across tha prairie towards tho artesian well. Tho nasautt created great indig- nation in the nolxhvorhood, and the young Ecoundrel was pursued by n numbor of men, a of whom was on horseback. He was finally enptured under onc of T. B. itend's ice-houses at tho wells, where hocrept tohlde himsclf, Atl sortaof threats wero mado by hls infuriated capturera, but wiser counsels provailed, and he was not harmed, but was turned over to Ofttcer John Hanrahan, who locked bim up at the West Chicago AvenucStation, Miss Flescher waselightly brulsed, and sovercly shockod by tho encounter, ROCKFORD. Winnebago-County Happenings, Spectal Correrpmutence of The Chicago Tribune. Rocxronn, Iil., March 20.—Ono of the most sorious affairs that have taken piace Jn this city for some timo was a bloody tragedy that no- curred at the residonce of John Ragan, 1013 South streot, which nearly resulted fatally. The history of tho affair, ns far os cnn bo learned, is <8 follows: It‘scems that Mr.and Mra, Ragan bavo spent a very unhappy Ifo for a number of years; and this night, just before retiring to bed, thoy had engaged in a family row, and harsh and unkind words bnd passed between thom, Having rotired and dropped aatcep, Ragan was awakened by asinsh across bis nose and faco with a sharp razor, Ha soon realized his danger, and was Atartlod to sco that tho instru. ment was in the hands of his wife. and sho was attempting to put an end to thelr unhappy rela- tlons by taking his lifo, and that, too, in cold blood. As soon as tha blow was strick, Mra, Ttagan left the room, and has not since scen tho man she tried to kill, Ragan atonco nrose and went to tho nearest nolghbors, with blood streaming down bis taco, and Informed thom of the sad affair, A doctor was immediately sum- moned, and upon oxamination it was found that the blade had firet struck tho man’s nose just below the bridge, and, passing downward, had severed tt from his face, so that it hung onty by the cartilago on tho under side, which, Sronping forward, ono to ack into although clotted ° = fustabove tho Ip, and cuntinued ff ‘neross tha face to the neck, cutting a deep, ugly gasb, nud severing a bmnch the carol artorics. The man’s cscapa is marvelous, for, had theso artorica been severed, instant death would have followed, After cutting his faco she wentto her sister's, and there remained until arrosted by tho olficers. It ia thought by some that the woman isout of ber mind, but this, doubtlogs, will not be sottied until her hus- band fs noble, if ever, to appoar against ber in court, Attho last mooting of the Clty Council, T. J. Butler, 0. A. Poonoyor, Hurris Barnum, and P, ‘A, Coonradt were conthnued as Commissionons of the East Sido Park, Three lquor-suits wera tried yosterday, on complaint of Norman Parker. August Kau. mann was fined 825, John Hollund $75, and Charles Mayer $25, Ail three of tho parties have taken an appeal to theClroult Court. What moro will bo done in this ling is not known, but ft Is undoratood that Parker pro to complain of vach dealer, having evidence ouough to establlah his charges. ‘Tho citizens of Pecatonton are taking stops towards organizing Itepublticnn Club. Ata mooting beld Thursday ovening a temporary organization was effeoted by elceting P. C. Stire President and L. A. Paddock Secretary. Bn- and the meoting ‘was harmon roug! t is intended by the Republican purty of the ool y 38 form ono f those clubs In cach town, aa that, when tho cleation comes, they will uuderstand tholr full strongth, ‘Thu Tax-Callectors of the county are begin- ning to mako tholr returns, and the following will show the proportion oullected: Harlom— Amount as: $5,105.70; amount returned, $U74205, New Milford—Amount. 1, 8h motint Wussased, $3,175.00; eoted, 13.80. “Guilford—Aimount assassod, $6,722.18; ainount collected, $6,287,06, telegram received by the Hon, Scely Porry Btatod it his son, L. 8, Perry, had suifored a sovore Injury, near Georgetown, Colo., by buing run over by # stage-conch, Throe ril wer 0 fs of Chi- broken, and his body otherwiso injured, in tha employ of Field, Benedict & Co., cago, “fhomns plorrissey, 14 or 15 years of age, was run over last night on South Slain street while attempting to crosa in front of John ‘Thayer’ horse and buguy., Ho was trampled upon and brulacd quite budly, and knocked Insenalble, It Js feared that be cannot live, as he must have Mored internal injuries. Next Thursday aftornoon there will baa Wom- an’s Foreign Mlsalonary Convontion ut Rockton, this county, to embrace the suciotioe of Helult, Clinton, Nowark, and other places, ‘A telegram recolved yeutorday afternoon by the ituv. Joseph Potter ‘stated that bis brothor had died quite suddonly, at Galesburg, Ut. Invitations have bovn reovlved by the regi- mental officers and [tities or this clty to particl- pate in the reouption of fompany. Firut Ktogi- ment, at thelr armory in Chicago, on Monday evonlng, March 2. ‘A now furniture company bas just-been or- anizedin this city, with capital stock of Fs. The stock Will bo divided into uty shares. Ground hus been purchased and new ps witl be bullt on the water-power, Itis announced that Prosident Gregory, of ke Furost, and Dr, G, 0. Noyos, of Evatiaton, will spenk here Friday ovening, the 23th, “ Highor Christian Education.” A Lodi ‘of Uood 'Tomplare bas boen organized at Cherry Valley, with w obarter-memberslp of forty, and the following perenne bara, boon ine stalfed officers:18. Jonoa, P. W. 0.3 Eobacll, PaO ae ater Ra jou 8.5 Mrs, G. init, W. F. 8.5 HRAnK Lowele, Writs 4. Dewoy, Wabi GW, Faucher, W. Gd. It is thought by farmers in this scotfon that THE TRIBUNE WEATHER-MAP. From Observations Mado by the Signal-Service, U. & A., at 11 P.M. ; ‘Washington Mean Time, March 21, 1880. 4 Be Ml Lewtinde Wert D2 trem Urevawich jst ui Teh ra By 4 FeUarry tri aren = = i Lie Srer | EL all Rar 20.49 “Lipigon a ANATION, is ay STATE. OP WEATHER, CHANACTRR OF WIND. SORCE. Pombinn © A C Bar 29, Oe F227 Fair. Cloudy, Zain, Bnow, QQ2E® iM. Hainfali, past 8 hours, me “Arrows point ta the direction thowind blowing, Feathers poss arrows lndicate force. g tas = peony : ia jar 29.93 Che Tipton: » . Ta Remeee, LP re on@) Esennanta OE offiopte Bar 20,00 oe , Ortar : Ta FAipenn f cis “A i 2000 ba Sp “Kox\w Be aes | iy TBD) coh Ta None owe J Toronto, é in A E ron 140 Q)fgyigeGrand Haven Pa, Bat On Aiba A Bar_ zo ASE nar OTR MME ounalo * rus 21) maha \_T 40 CA) GHICADa RE TH Ohaae fiand TH Har a92q Ravenptre BAt 30.06 Toledo HELP ne soll ts 148 Pas Ber 06) ary a Keokukefn 9% Josamport « Taz pittabureh, 8 Bar sate sg Peon argos phretenuy ra @ ay pungriotd TH scataxtbas ay Ar 20,19 ir AA Qs 220 tid Tag fawahaopotia C)e"y, Wastingto 4 P IAA DS a : outevitle 5; ays ns Tay ¢9) Bar 3021 Ate afefonmond, i . Bar 1o00'fo Tas \ fe) Vg OMe, $0.26 ER )) tPA agen tft gicd Norfolk’ Ts ve apes RFt.Cibson 3 aehvitlo Lag eile, 5S Dar 20.24 Know snaeiae® Jemphi. ver A Bar 20.25 » nottancoga =~ 21 : P83 To 3 ‘Ty i CO OT cet once Oe {crleot Rirminghan/e Ole 3026 T 3s prt //* Vicksburg va) New Orie egtonliass to Bar 222.97) TSs Raw 5 iy Yoniganery “ee 2 Rraniiria Ze Observations taken at all stations at tho same momant of time. LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. . Atlontas T 69, 12/0 _Leneinds Wen heen Alo Waikingion, CMICAGO, March 7. Thar Ther ilu] Wind Vey itn.) Weather |) Thnes_| Har Ther | Hw] Wind.| Vel} Jen.) Weather, sm | ors. Diol os [a ls.w a9 Be rent] 47 | aU 1S wi] 18 hs. 45 [| OF [SW It », ¥ e Churlostonse Baron fe 3 Savannaha FY NGRAVEP EXPRESSLY FOR THE Siaximum, $3; minum, 8% INDICATIONS. Orrice oF tHe Cire StaxaL Orricen, Wasntnarox, D, C.. March 22—1 a. m.—For Ten- ‘Tennessee and tho Ohlo Vulloy, incrensing cloudiness, followed by rain arens, variable winds mostly souhwesterly, rising temperature, and falling barometer, For tho Lower Lake region, warmer, partly cloudy weathor, occasional rains, winds mostly south- westerly, and lower barometer. For tho Upper Lnke region, Uppor Mississippi, and the Lower Missouri Valloya, warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather, northwest winds, backing to southwesterly, stationary or falling barometer, ‘The Lowor Mlastesippl will remain nearly stationary. Cautionary signals continue at Toledo, Sandusky. Cleveland, Section Five, and Erie. the winter-wheat crop will bo nearly a total fail- ure, as the wet wenther has donc great harm. Mrs. Marshall, the oldest Indy in the town of Tlarrisou, died recently at tho residence of her son-in-lnw, J. Gilmore. She was $5 yenrs of agc, and could soe to read without the use of glasses, ¢_rellef-fund entertainnent given by the T.F. BP. Clubof this city was u completo suc- can sie $000 was raised for the suffcrors of incland Thero ara now thirty inmates of tho County Poor-House, ‘Twenty are males and ten fe- males. Twelve of these inniutes are jngane, ono of whom hina been there for twenty-seven years, Charles F. Goodhue, the Stephenson County defnulter, who has been residlug in Rockfor for a year past, has hud several new indictments brought aguinst him at Freeport, and bo gone there to answer to the charges. Many scom bas ta think that two long and expensive trials aro enough for this ease, and elncerely hope that a chunge of venue will not bo taken to this county aguin, WJ. DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS. Tho Nemarkable Case of Minx Lizzie Collins, of Bourbon County, tacky, Spectal Correspondence of The Chteago Tribune, MILLERSBUNG, Bourbon Co., Ky., March 18,— ‘Tho strungo case of Lizzlo Collins, a 15-year-old dauchter of Mr, Wiliam Collins, a well-to-do Bourbon-County farmer, who Hyves avout four nmilles from here on tho Roddell’s Mills road, is Puzzling the medical men, and js a remarkable example of what {s known in mental philosophy asa double consciousness. This young Indy has been delicate since her birth, and on tho Ist of Jost January was confined to her bed by a spinal discaso, superinduced by an ayer-sensitivencss of the delicate nervous syatem. Bo ncutoly son- sitive, indoed, aro tho norves of hor back and toga that the weight of ono's hand [afd upon tho affected parts causcs her to soream with pain. Dr. D. D. Eads, who hns*boon bor medical at- tondant since sho was born, says that Miss Col- Uns‘ normal health is good. The principal organs of tho body—heart, lungs, ote.—nro sound, and shohns agoodappetite. Onone or two occasions stuco her first illness thore has been a relaxation of thaintonse nervo-paln,and her baok and limbs havo 60 far resumed thair normal condi- ton that sho baa beon allowed to leave her ;, bed and hobbie about the house on crutches, About six weoks ago, Dr, Eads noticed o strange phenomena in connection with the dis- nse, and called jn tho nssistnnce of othor med- teal gentlemen, At infrequent Intorvals,—some- times in the morning, but oftenerin the carly ovening,- lings appears to fall into o somnatnbulistia condition, marked by a complete Physicat and mentat metamorphosis, 080 changes from one condition to anothor aro vory sudden, Tho girl turnson hor right side, doubios her rightarin under her hend, and closes her eyos, Her breathing becomes labored and spna- motio; a low monning isheards tho muscles about her eyes twitch convulsively, and the cor- nersof hermouthare drawnup, In this ab- normal state tho sonaitlve nerves apprar to be- came nnesthetized. A brisk rubbing of the parte affected causes hor no pain, and she hag soveral umes loaped fram her bed and walked about tho honse, seemingly without effort, nod without ox- ponencing puln. Normally sho ‘is unublo to put wr feot on the tloor, ‘Tho strangest phnse of the disardor, however, fa the completo mental change. which takes placo, Normally sho 14 8 very modest, morbidly shy, and retiring ye tady, inosine boyoud bor years, oholov in her language, of a deop, ree Heotive mind, and fond of reading tho higher class of prose and poetry, While ina somnum- bullatio state bor niind and manner both undere on radial change. Sho neta ikea child 4 ar Beara ofage, tilke with an fafantite dsp, ta errmile, readé nursery-rhymes with apparent delight, and is altogethor onothor person, Sho calls De. Eads aud wife her paand ma whilo in this state, and her real parenta yrundpa and grandmn. Another condition of mind ocenalonally do- velops Itself, She will sometimes call for hor book and siato, und proceed ta study hor les sons, do dificult sums in arithimotio, write lot. tors to relatives, otc.,—all with hor eyos closes entirely, Sho recontly wroto a totter of four pages to a relative, and, on reading It over, com reoted several falespollog words, Sha is o- ficlont in the art of lace-making, and maniges hor cv Sorte fu tho “somnambulistio male: he he tlon. waking: ia whon In her normal conitl- Whon sroused from her sleop she is Alwaya laughing: and she has no momory of her actions in the somnambulistic ‘Norumlly sho writes with ber right hand; but, when in a somnambuiletia con writes with hor loft band nitogothor; and, in ol- ther state, pong a fine but very different bund. writing. Me@ea) mon haye piude a careful exe juluation of her while in tha state of somnnm ullsm, aid Ary convinced that her oyes ure reully closed. Thoy any it is a norvous disease, and that there is no anulogpus case Inid down fn the medic! books. A reprosentutive of to Mise Collings to-duy, Numerous made to discover whether there wns any decop- tlon about her apparent somnanmbulluin, A book Ken- if TRIUONE paid a visit vats wero, was bold in auch sition that it would ves Ucon hinposslbie for hor tawea It ind bor eyes bbeon wide-open, ‘A page wus eclosted at rian- dom: without hesitation she road it correctly, anc described a wood-cut Illustrating tho atory. A. nowspapor-article was read in tha samo ‘man: her. Soveral urticles wore scattered about an the bed within hor reach, but su situated that she could not ses them, Whun asked to de. soribe those articles, sho did so tustantly, an pleked up extras when requested to do 40, nover husitat! Une OF ts ing &inixtake. Bho auc cossfully aalved ono of the combinations of the “L-H=15" puzate, moving the numbere blocks to thelr correct positions, although she could not oven age tho box, . She wrote a lottor daw snang ay friend, holding the pon in ber 1 hand. Every lottor was porfeutly formed, i noworda followed the ruled Ines. Mies Collis boaré an excellent reputation for truth, init Vory protty, Intolligant, and lady-Uke little kirl, and uppedra to bo at deception, fandcout of any attempt = Barracks at Bloscow, A ranwe of barracks, which are the lari butldi of tho kind ttt Russia, und porhups in thy world, bas been lately completed at Moscow, hi aril officer rd he at pre ith i A bay id a a ri my wm a ac Doant TAC reat Tho facade Is 8.500 foct tong, and the blocks are. all three stories bigh. Separate blooks—con- nected by corridors—nare provided forthe ace commotation of the men, for instructional and sll puEreees, for sick quarters, and for the — WINTER WHEAT. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Prixcerrox, Jn., March 20.—Wintor wheat in. Scott County is all dend, and there was avery exceptionnl arca sown Inst fall, Iam unable to lenrn of a tile picco that has survived the rigor of tho winter. BUSINESS NOTICES, Victor Baby Food comes nearer to mothor’s milk than any othor preparation known. ‘Try it Prico, 25 cents, All drugglats. GLENN'S SULPHUR SOAP. IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD, The Roman States Excited Over the Discovery of PURE NATIVE SULPHUR. Of Great Medical Value in Curing Blood and ... Skin Diseases. This Must Be to the Thousands in This Country Suffering from Impure Blood and Rough, Dry, Scaly, and Pimply Skin Diseases, when They Learn that Glenn’s Sulphur Soap Contains this Precious Medicinal Sulphur. All SKIN DISEASES are more or lesa conatitutional ar dependent upan some apocitic poison In the Blood, which must bo eradicated before It ls possible to re~ mova the appearance of It from the surface, and there _ is but ona way known to the prafesston to aocumpllan thle ond, and that into neutratize the polsan by the use of PURE BULPILUR In sume form or other, and exporionce lias proved that ina vory tase proportion of casua it can bo dono mure efuctually end more rap> idly by the use of auiphur in snap, end the best come bination of this kind, and the one now gerorally used, fa GLENN'S BULVHUN BOAP,. It is propared exe prossly to curo. Soa that "C, N, CHITTENTON, Pro= pristor," ts printed on each packet, without which none ts genuine, Bold by all drugglats.at S50; Cakes, OOc. Bent by mall on receipt of price and Se extra foreach Cako, C. N, CRITEENTON, 7 Sixthe ay., Now York, 8T. JACOBS OIL, StJacobsOil. Tho Great German Remedy. Capt. HENHY ‘M. HOLZWOKTH, Chief of the Cleveland Detective Force, wos approach od in bla oftico in the City-Ilall, and when subjected ton roquest fur hls opinion of St. Jacubs Oll roadity answered: “It has dono we awarld of good, I wad afflicted with w sort of combination of plourtsy and theupiatinw tn tho spine, whlch grow ea bad that 1 be- atalarmed. Inover had such a savers Cwas (nally lold up with it I bardiy expected to leave my bed for months, Dostore fallod to Lenoft miu, and, acting on the suggestion of a friond, I procured 9 bottte af Bt. Jacobs Oil, aud re- tyrlaing rellef on the first application, 1 nly foal the effects of the preparation from (hestart. Ithestod the flesh and seeined to find fle way to the seat of the disonap at once. ‘10 be brief, ts cumnpletely conquered all paln, snd in g day or two I was entiroly free from the complaint, aod bave since remained 6y.—Cloveland Pialn Dealer, Dea HM, \ ‘Among others in Clqveland who bavetested the Bt jacobs O1!, und who heartily recommend tos the best remedy of ita kind, ares HELLIS TRAGER, Esq.) Member JACRUON GAEETEE Member of City Counchy 0} 7. anit Cis} jerk, WVHON POPE: foroerly Dopuiy Sher, Druggsteacll it PRICE, 50 CENTS, A. VOGELER & CO., Haltimors, B+. E. A. ci! ° nN DIVAS GOOD NEWS INDEED!