Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1881, Page 3

stsof thecountry. In re- orthe Dest IRICEC e had mo fault to fin @ 100 hing to etract from what he ha ‘mhmmmsndimzflxe principlesof the party aid resented, he gain thanked the Club, e k his seaty hich was the.sienal for wd 1005 0 tburst - of cheers. President ‘”"mgwel announced that three dis- Yande hed gueslts were expected e mlsl‘ But were unable to attend o\vhxfi to P fle referred to ‘ex-Gov. Samuel J. ilden, Speaker Samuel J. Randall, and i Gnct: hes were made in response to ’ °‘”§in§"5.§ distinguished company sepa- ;"fl'mn early hour. ————— HARRY GENET. BI5 SENTENCE. pecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Few Yors, March 12—Henry W. Genet, + gho W8S sentenced in the Court of Oyer and inerto-day to imprisonment in the Peni- ::r;” Jor elght months and to pay 2 fine 604, was convicted OVer seven yearsizo mhecriminxl et for which he is now to be pished- He avoided sentence immediately 3 his conviction by flecing from He returned here about ago and gave $25,000 £ifl to await the result of an appeal from the jgggmunl of . conviction to the Supreme general term and the Court of Ap- Although it has been asserted that et beefited largely through the robbery of thecitys he was convicted only upon 1:110 chare of procuring $4802 out of the City sgsury by false representations. He was dicted and arrested in November, 185, In 5 and 1871 Genet was counsel to William 3 Treed- hred THE CIRCUMSTANCES. MeBride Davidson desired to obtain ot to furaish the iron to be used in of tha €ourt-House, Jobn 0ontra T g construction od applied to Genet and Tweed. He ld Genet if .the contract was gwarded to bim .~ he would require Genet Jayment when he delivered the iron. to this, and proposed that Davidson should make out a bill asif he had already farniched iron to the city. Davidson made it the bill and handed it to Gen- who gave it to Tweed A yarrant for 84,802 the amount of the bill, was signed by the Controller and Mayor Hall, and Genet drew the money on it. hme months later he offered the poey to Davidson, but the Ilatter rfused to recelve it, and he then gare1; to one Scallon, the superintendent of the construction of the Harlem Court-House, whoused itin paying laborers on the build- ing. It was for this act that Genet was to-day sentenced. DOGS. THE WESTMINSTER CLUB. Special Duspatea €0 ‘the Chicago Tribunc, yew Yorg, March 12.—The Westminster Eennel Club has selected the following . pumed gentleman to act as judges, amoug gthers, at the forthcoming bench show under the new single handed system: The Hon., Joba S. Wise, of Virginia; Maj. J. AL Tay- Ior, of Lexington, Ky.; S. T. Hawmmond, of Syrinefield, Mass.; Dr. J. 8. Niven, of Lon- don, Ontario. No asslgument has yet been made, however, except in the case of Dr. XNiren, who will have the judging of e fox terriers, bulldogs, bull terriers, Skye {erriers, Dandie Denmont terriers, Irish terriers, Yorkshire terriers, pugs, Italian grevhounds, and toy spaniels. The Club has determined to offer the following special }fiz& for dogs that have run and been placed « inauy ueld trials in America: To the best inter dowz; to the best pointer bitch: to the &tfiuxlish setter dog; to the best English = setter bitchs to the best Irish setter dog; w0 the best Irish setter bitch. - GORDON SETTERS were not included, for the reason that but ane of that breed complies with the compe- fition, The prizes will be either cups or gold medals, to be decuded hereafter. Entries are 10.close -April 11. A gentleman, who does - ot yish his name made_publie, his offered the following additional specials: For the best English setter, native or imported, among the * V. H. C’s” (very highly commended), 5 for the best pure Laverac! of the sho, setter dog, $23: for the best English setter doz tor stud purposes, to be competed for ooy’ by winners of not less than three first mv.es. Tecords of previous vet to be taken nto consideration, $25; a similar prize under similar condicions for L etters. _Awmong 8 the entries already made is Zig, un Irish set~ - ;ru duf recently itported from Lord Sligo’s 3 ne! GEN. HANCOCK. i ESTERTAINED BY THE MANHATTAN CLUB. g ‘Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunes + NEw Yomg, March 12—About 170 gentle- men sat at dinmer this eveninz in the 4 min parlors of the Manhattan Club, the af- i 1ir being a compliment offeri:d by the mem- M ters of the club to Aaj.-Gen. Winfield 8. A Hancock. A large pumber of the gentlemen fook particular care to iuform the reporters & that the dinner was in no wise a Club matter, 4 but colely a subscription arrangement. The £4 roms were newly uphelstered and furnished mantels, the chandeliers, and the tables were profusely decorated with flowers. 8 The menu was gotten up on three neatly i) ewraved cards, tied together with bows of t4 ticolored ribbons. Mr. A. J. Vand:roool, President of the Club, presided, with the guest of the evening, Gen. Hancock, in even- §) oz dress, seated at his right hand. EX-GOV. TILDEN . was assigned the next seat of honor on the = kftof the Chairman, but he wuis not pres- g ot The Comuittee of Arrangements had widently intended to typify the fates in lating the guests, for, mnot content ¥ith putting Gen.,Hancock and Mr. Tilden oo either hand of the Chairman, they actu- Rngement, had Mr. Tilden been there, would ke enabled the defeated Democratic Prsidential candidates of 1864, 187, d 1850 to exchange glances and 93 ompare notes in a style never before at- fupted by any other political aspirants. To further carry out the idea, ex-Gov. Jobn Hoffnan, who was to have been the Presi- dentiul candidate in 1872, if the Tammany Bing had not been shattered, sat next to EES. M'CLELLAN AND SPEAKER SAMUEL ? J. BANDALL, Demncratic Presidential dark horse, had ¢ not been prevented by illness frow attend- wasto have been placed mnext to Gen. same table were Fitz-John Porter, Abram 8. Hew- B Cooper, Clarkson N. otter, John McKeon, William Henry Hurl- wfl. Col. John W. Doniphan of Missouri, illiam C. Whitney, Peter B. Olney, Judges rfld!' and Larrimore, and other more or less -‘Bmsf_ul nilitary and political Democrats, ‘l"ffln Sefior Rumero, the Mexican Minister. nme.fl Gen. Hancock’s health was drank, he * GEXN. HANCOCK'S SPEECH. st President, an¢ gentlemen who bave as- % dnnmm here to-night o do me houor, I am no L] feubt called upou mainly in consequence of the o beld m the recent cundiducy e Do Presidency. regard my g ‘ffln‘n with that subject as : ,\’flflm cally closed. I, bowever, maintaln the 4 ciples which 1 beld when'l accepted the ; h%mh" ation of the Cincinnaut Conventon, and, of thm"' 2s 1 do that the enforcemcnt H fniuse principles would promoto the wel- H “ther, Of_the wrole country, I bope to sec Semprevai] at e future Ume. [Appluuse.] 3 <Mhm Success must rest with the Jefiersoniun ang gRUC party {upptuuse], which i3 ¢o full S Iy represented here 10-night. To yun{ ¥ ‘mend the. preservation of that republicun- Mg rEich our fathers founded tho fo- he. o s which bave made us xreat among ‘aendons of the earth. [ can only suy [have por L0 the political canvass of 1850 that nofault 1o tind with the failure of our migea0d notbing ta_regret of madify con thagy 5,0¥ O%n acts or worcs. [Applause.] . I x Jou. geuticmen, most heartily fur tho e by nis“é?ji‘:{fi, you hurt hz:ourcx—ml upon = inment. Chee: o ppiaene] [Cheers and long- 4 AUGUSTUS SCHELL, Iathe course of his address, said: - T fatlu hag'y follure of the party in the last clection Hkvbem charged on the City of New EX":m-xc. WAS the Jault and here WS | 'HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY.. MARCH 13, 1881—EIGHTEEN PAGES. fme table, directly facing <hew. “This ar- | st B Gen. Joseph . Johnston, Yirginia, and Gen. Clmgman, North Carolina, New Yorl Hotel; ex-Senator Baldwin, Dlichigan, Congress- the dificulty. ~We all know __that on the nominanon of the Mayor, who, 1 regret, is absent to-night, a great excite- ment was caused, and the Demucratic party was assailed. We determined to vindicato its prin- ciples. and not allow the questiuns than raised to interfere. We stond by the nomination, and wo successfully curricd it througn. It wns said thut the _nomination atfccted twe chances of ‘our President. Perbaps it d.d. 1feurthatit dil. But atter the pomina- tion was made it beesme Democrats eversywhere #nd on all occasions to vindicute the principles represented by that nomiuation, and they did it effectuaily and decidedly. Dut there were other causes. We mnever can have a _Democratic party in the City of New York if there is uny portion of it that will ally itself with the Hepublican party to fillrv‘)‘ out unnl ends [lnughter snd voices Oh' On!™]. and L cail upon Democrats bere and clscwhere. to stand by thelr principles and candidates, and avoid allinnces which will result in the destruction of their party. Ex-Gov. Hogx_nau made a short speech, and was tollowed by GEORGE B. MCLELLAY, who said in the course of his remarks: T bope and trust that Gen. Hancock is for many yearsto come the lusl of the defeated Democratie candidates for tbe Presidency. [Ap- plause.) What we want s principles for which to fight. 1n future let us furegu all personal differences. and fall back on those principles which alone can give us victory with the people. GOULD’S TRIP WEST. WIHAT HE UAS TO SAY ABOUT IT. Special Disvatch to The Chicago Tribune. New Youk, March work. gap from Denison, on Kansas & Texas Road, the connection between the Texas & Pa- cific and the Mexsicam Central at El Paso will be made by Janurary next. Work is also vigorously under way on the extension from Shreveport to New Orleans, which. willopen to the latier city the tradeofa The Missouri Pacific system will work in accord with the Mexican sys- rich country. tem. Ishare GEN. GRANT'S FATTIX in the suceess of the American and Mexican railway connections, and feel sure that there will be a very rapid development of the wealth of Jlesico by the fresh Northern blood, muscle, and capital that will attend and follow theimprovements now under way. There may be some drawbacks at the start, but these will be overcome.” Mr. Gould said it was true, as Teported, that he had subscribed £10),00) toward the establishment of a’daily line of steamers Dbetween Galveston and Vera Cruz, to be em- ployed in conunection with his railroad sys- fem. *If the citizens of Galveston accept my proposition,” he said, ** und add another $100,000, the line will ve established, and it will GREATLY EXLARGE THE TRADE of both Galveston and Vera Cruz.” As to 5 is. New Orleans & Foreign Dis- patch_ Company, or barge line, in which he has also become interested, he said: *““The prospeets of the Company doing an immense carrying business are very encouraging. It has now a large number of barges, and many wore have been ' ordered. Kuseafleev.. to be propelled by a large tow- vat, capable of transporzing 700 car-loads of graip. The line is already of great ad- vantage to St. Louis, and it proposes in time to make that ciiy only the grain mart of the Mississippi Valley, buta rival of the Baltimore & New York. By means of barge transportation there is a very inportant saving inshipments to Liverpool.” Jr. Gould also confirmed the report that he had purcitased an interest in the Vulcan Steel & Iron Works of Caron- delet, and said they had an important future before them in supplying the st {nils for the roadsof the Southwestern s; en. ITEMS, PLUCKY SAILOES. Spectal Disputch to The £nicago Tribune. NEW Yorrg, March 12—When the City of Montreal left the Inman Line dock Thurs- day afternoon two of her seamen were on the pier. They jumped into the North River on discovering their situation, and struck out with enough pluck and determination to last them to Liverpool. A boatman picked them up when they were aship’s length from the dock, and put them on board the steamer, which hhd been stopped by the commander. ‘The men abonrd, the City of Montréal con- tinued her voyage. A HEAVY REAL-ESTATE PURCHASE. The announcement was made yesterday that the property at the corner of Broadway and Thirty-second street had been purchased by Messrs. Robert and Ogden Goelet for $405,000. Mr. R. J. Roberts, the business agent of Messrs. Goelet, said vesterday that his principal did not propose to make any change in the property during the next two years at least. ‘They might by that time con- clude to erect a hotel or an apartment-house on it. GEN. CARRINGTON- Gen. Carrington, formerly in command of the Rocky Mountain Department, wiil ad- dress the newsboys on Sunday evening in the lodging-house, at No. 14 New Chambers street. i ¢ THE WEATHER- - The weather here to-day is cold and cloudy. ‘Thermometer at 6 a. m., 263 9. a. m., 25; noon, 32 PERSONAL. Among the prominent wen here for the past twenty-four hours are the following: Ex-Senator Corbett. Oregon, Gilbert House; Congressman Lord, Michizan, Astor House; Albemarle ex-Gov. Ingersoll, Cincinnati, Hotel; ex-Congressman Morey, Louisiana, Noffman House; Kimpton, Metropolitan Hotel; Insurance- Superintendent Fairman, Albany, Victoria Hotel; ex-Speaker Randall, Pennsylvania, man-elect Robinson, Ohio, W. D. Washburn, Minnesota, Falls, New York, Fifth Avenue Ifotel. JWHAT FILTH IS DOING. The number of deaths this week will be Dbetween 700 and 809, while in the correspond- r season o 600, For the pu ten weeks the deaths have been at the rate of 36,712: year. While diphtheria, scarlet-fever, small-pox, and pneumonia are more_prevalent than usual, they do not account for these fizures, Which are very extraordinary. fatal maladies have been engendered by the filthy streets and foul exhalations. It is snid the Streets were never sv dirty as the past several months. DDUCATING THE INDIANS. Ex-Secretary of the Interior Schurz has been invited to speak here on Tuesday even- ing next, on the subject of educating the Indians, with a view of arousinz public in- ferest in bebalf of this work. ‘Fhe invitation nas been accepted, Gen. Armstrong, Di- rector of the Humpion Institute of Virginia, and Gen. Mason Miles will also speak. THR OLDIERS DROWNED. A Fort Assiniboine special says that three soldiersof the Eizteenth Infantrs, Quinn, Kinney. and McDonald, while attempting to cross the Marine River on the evening of the 18th, were drowned by the upsetting of their boat. THE ASSIGNEE OF FOWLER, CRAMPTON & co. importers of chemicals and crushers of lin- seed oil, No. 142 Front street, have completed schedules, which show the lavilities of the firm to be_much greater than at_ first re- ported. ‘The total linbilities are S1,688,160; 1otal nominal assets, SL015,247; total actual assets, S990,0465 deducting pl jedwed mer- chandise and securities the net actual assets are §278,533. e —— That Awful Cow. A correspondent of the Paris Evenement, who is'with the Barnbardt troupe, thus writes: * We have just arrived at Chicagu. A dull place, Much ke London, A few years ugo the city wis burned. 1 am told that'it wasa cow which brought ubout th s disaster. This unlucky cow —l only repeat what I bave been told—saturated her tail in a can of petroleum-oll, and then ig- nited it uta gas-jet. Her next movement was to rush through ine strects whisking her burn- ing wil. aud thus setting firc to the ‘wooden houses on each side of the way. veritable genius of destrucdon, certuinly was & cow of very original character.” 12.—Regarding his recent trip West Mr. Gould says: **The worlk on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Texas & Pacific Roads is bemng pushed as rapidly as possible, and it is thoroughly good ‘There is no reason to doubt that the the Missouriy to Laredo. Mexico, will be completed this summer, and Six barges com- not State* Senator Fowler and State Senator Mills, Little f previons years it never was A large number of This cow, & FOREIGN. Prince Bismarck’s Son Thought to Be Involved in a Great Scandal. The Orange Free State Repre- gented as Convinced that 1t Should Fight. Two Commissioners Sent to Assist Gen. Wood in Negotiations with the Boers. Lenten Pastoral of the Archbishop of Dublin, Denonncing Ladies’ Land Leagues. Successful Alliance of the Irish with the Tories at the Coventry Election. . The King of Bavaria and His Court Now Keeping the Hours of a Night Printer. LOUIS OF BAVARIA Special. Cable. Paxnts, March 12—If to-day’s Rappel may be credited, his Executive Majesty Louls of Bavaria hds distinguished himself by a new freak, as strange as any yet recorded of liha. His palace 1s hermetically closed all day, and opened regularly every night from sunset until sunrise. Then the Court goes to sleep. When the stars peep out they go down to breakfast, and the King calls for his shaving water, . SCANDAL. To the Western Assoclated Press. Panis, March 12.—A very singular story is going the rounds in Berlin and Paris about Count Hfrbert, son of a certain Iron Prince, +who is sibposed to hold the destinies of an Empire in his hand, and a beautiful German Princess, wife of a high-court dignitary. The Count left Berlin suddenly the other day, as it was supposed on a diplomatic mis- sion. At the sawe time, however, the Prin- cess disappeared also, and her husband ob- tained permission to retire into private life. Detectives have just discovered the fugitives in Italy. Aithough the Iron Prince has given the Count Herbert positive orders to come home, the latter refuses to comply. THE BOERS. MORE ADOUT JOUBERT'S TERMS! Speclal Guble. Loxpox, March 12—The Daily News cor- respondent cables from the Transvaal a lengthy interview with the Buer commander. Franz Joubert, whom he saw on Thursday. Commander Joubert thinks a settlement with the British Government might be arrived at by the annexation to Great Britain of a por- tion of the so-called Transvaal on this side of the Vaal River, thus giving the Boer Re- public the other side of the river.—the Brit- jsh Government being recouped for war ex- penses by this additional -territory. The Times’ Durban corrcspondent cables that the Boers keep secret their fortitications at Laing’s Nek and Majala, and have refused Melton Prior permission to sketch. * THFE PROLONGATION. Loxpox, March 12,—Henry Richard, Mem- ber of Parliament, last night informed the Radical Committee on the Transvaal ques- tion that Mr. Gladstone had informed him the armistice had been prolonged, and Gen. Wood would be assisted by two Commissfon- ers in the negotiations. THE FREE STATE. DurpAYN, Marel 12.—According to reliable information, the Orange Free State farmers are in a very unsettled condition, and only awaiting a sufficient excuse to join the Boers. They regard the strong reinforcements com- ing from England with suspicion. as indi- cating an intention to annex the Free State. THE IRISH. POLITICAL MEETING BROKEN UP. LoNDON, Mareh 12.—An attempt was made to hold a political meeting at Coventry last night, under the auspices of Arthur 0’Con- nor and Finegan, Home-Rulers. As soon as 0O’Connor rose to speak he was met by a storm of yells. He made several attempts to read Parnells manifesto to the Irish electors in Coventry, urging them to support the Conservative candidate at the supple- mentary election in that place to-day. Final- Iy a rush was madeto the platform, and a free fight ensued. The police cleared the hall. The disturbanceis attributed to the extreme Radicals. THE NEW RULES. Loypoy, March 12—The Speaker’s new rules, submitted in the Commons last night, for the application of urgency to Sup- ply, provide that when certain votes in Com- mittee of Supply and Committeeof Ways and Means are declared urgent, and such Com- mittees have precedence of any standing or- der or any resolution agreed to upon motion made after notice by u Minister, put forth and decided by a majority of three to one, on the order being read for either of such Com- mittees, the Speaker shall forthwith leave the Chair without putting any ques.ion. The House shall then resolve itself into such Comumittee. If it shall appear to the Chairman during the debate, when certain votes are declared urgent, to be the general sense of the meeting that the ques- tion be now put, he may so inform the Com- mitee, and, on motion beng made that the question be now put, the Chairman shall forthwith put such question, and, if decided afirmatively by a majority of three to one, the questton previously under debate shall forthwith be put. THIE COVENTRY ALLIANCE. Loxposy, March 12.—At the supplementary election in Coventry to fill 2 vacancy in the Commous, Eaton, Conservative, was elected, receiving 4,011 votes, against 8,508 for Shut- tleworth, Liberal. The Irish voters sup- ported the Conservative candidate. THE ARCHBISUOP:OF DUDLIN PICES A QUARREL IVATIL TUE WOMEN. DusLiy, March' 12.—The Archbishop of Dublin, in his Lenten pastoral, says: * Un- sound and untheological opinivns on the mutual obligations which bind society are being industriously propagated by men who are untrustworthy guides of a Catholic na- tion. Even though rents are extortinute, the principles now laid down that une of the two contracting parties can of hisown private authority rescind his engagement, assail the very foundations of society.” The . pastoral severely condemns the Ludies” Land League. It is rumored the Ladles’ League intend publishing a manifesto replyjngto the pas- toral. THE EAST. . ANOTHER MITCIL CoxSTANTINOPLE, March 12.—The Ambas- sadors, finding the Ottoman delegates’ indi- cations of the proposed frontier line too vague, have asked for a more precise line. As the indicated line comprises Thessaly as far as the summit of Mount Olympus, Mr. Goschen, Prince Novikoff, and Count Corti declare this insufficient, and that they must ask their Governments, for further instrue- tions. with men and ammunition have been sent to Crete. P - BRITISH NEWS. & ' BRADLAUGIL Spectal Cable. Loxpoy, March 12.—Since Justice Mat-: thews’ decision, Mr. Bradlaugh has not en- tered the House. But, should the House de- termine to await the result of the appeal, he would practically be empowered to sit through the whole duration of this Parlia-" ment, the proverbinl delay of the law en- abling him to spin out time for appeals. Mr. Bradlaugl’s friends advise him to accept the judgment, get reclected, and have done with it TROUBLE ANEAD FOR GLADSTONE. To the Western Associated Press. Loxpox, Mareh 19.~—The" Conservative members of Parlinment met at the Carlton Club to-day and resolved to oppose Mr. Glad- stone’s proposal to vore the application ot urgeney for the Committee 0f Supply onMon- day. % GOLD FOR AMERICA, Loxpoy, March 12—The steamer Wyo- ming, for New York, took out £100,000 of specie. THE * CUCKOO.” Loxnoy, March 12.—Yates’ novelty in evening journalism, the Cuckoo, does not come up to expectation. Among the news in the paper is n breach of promise of marriage which s threatened Bartlett, the husband of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, if not averted. —_— AFRICA. STARVED IN THE DESERT. Loxpox, March 12.—AnAlexaidria news- paver states that the explorer. Romolo Gessi, whowas second in command to Gordon Pusha a: the time of the latter’s campaign against the slave-traders, and who has since been en- gaged in similar operations in Darfur, arrived at Khartoum on the 2d inst.(and reported that half ot his party had died of hunger. — ANDORRA. PARTIAL DLOCEADE OF THE LITTLE RE- 3 PUBLIC. . Paus, March 12.—The Government has decided to establisha blockadeon the French side of Andorra, in consequence of the in- habitants disregarding the good advice of France and Spail < FRANCE. SUSPENDED. J Loxpox, March 12.—It I3 reported that the oldest established private bankers at Mar- seilles have suspended. "The firm of private bankers at Marseilles whose * suspension is announced, is Em- manuele & Olivier. Liabilities, £485,000; as- sets, £24,000. v AFGHANISTAN. CONFIRMED. CALCUTTA, March 12.—Mahommed Jan, the noted Afghan leader, has been muraered. A LAUGHING FAMILY. The Strange Malady Wlich Aflcts a Famlly Aleng the Delaware—Fruit~ lexs Efforts to Stay Perfodlc Laughter. Frenchtown (N.J.) Correspondence Philadelphiu Times, Straight across the Delaware from here and back among the hills which run parallel with the river for many miles lives a family concerning whom the strangest stories are told. The father and sons are farmers, and all live in a large, substantial house, a few yards from the road to Doylestown. They are all chronic Jaughers, ‘having an afflic- tion of the muscles of the mouth and throat which compels them to give vent to ap- parent merriment at stated intervals. The wmalady first appeared in the father about ten years ago. Ie was usnally a very quiet man, enjoying fun, but manifesting his en- joyment without much noise. e was seated at the dinner table one day in the spring of the year; eating steadily aild 1ot engaged In any of the conversation whicli tire other mem- bersof the family were carrying on. Sud- denly, without any cause, he burstintoa loud fit of laughter so extremely different from his accustomed laugh that all were at- tracted by It at once. Whenasked ‘hat was the reason for his sudden outburst he made no reply, but continued his merriment. Some of theboys thought he had hysterics and pounded him on the back, but it (id no good. After a few moments he made motions for pencil and paper, aud wrote that he was un- able to control lus risibles, and asked them to send for a doctor. _The rural physician _came, but could give 1o remedy that stopped the langhter. Peal after peal-of what sounded like the heartiest kind of fun came from him, and nothing would avail to prevent it. The doctor finally cawme to the conclusion that he was the tim of a nervous attack, and, leaving a ner- vine, dqyt\rteu. The facher continued langh- ing until ubout sundown, when he suddenly stopped and_fell on the tloor, completely prostrated. Hesoon grew better, however, ate a hearty supper, and spent the evening much as usual. No signs of the odd trouble appearing, he went to Ded, and was soon fast asleep. Along about 2 o'clock -in the morning, however, his wife was awak- ened Dy his laughter, and the same symptoms manifested theémselves as on the afiernoon previous. He kept it up until © oclock, laughing loud and strong. AL T o'clock the noise suddenly ceased, and did not return again until dinner time. Thus it continued, recurring each day shortly after noon and in the night_about 2 o’clock, and has ever since. AS the weeks passed he grew so accustomed to the disease that he was ~oused very little inconveuience by it. He did not get tired out, as at first, and soon was 0 auont his work.—sowing seed and planting digging vegetahles and Wities g e catfic, —while laughing immod- erately. 1le could not talk while under one of the spells, but carried a slate and_pencil. around with him, after the fashion of a deaf and dumb person. : The trouble was very regular in its com- ing and poing and occasionally broke forth a. unlooked-for seasons. Once the old man was taken in church, just when the minister was exhorting his Dearérs in the most sol- emn strains, and spoiled the etfect of the dis--| course, besides disturbing the equilibrium of the clergyman. Another time he was found by one of his neighbors along the road, lying beneath a bag of tlour, laugliing at u terrible rate. e has been taken while driving home trom the mill, and the suddenness of the sounds [tizhrened the horse, causing it to run away and dump the man and part of his load out'in the road. For eighteen months the father was the only one of the household affiicted with the malady. —Several of them had complained from time to time of an inelination to join the futher in the laugh, but none of them -did so until nearly two years after he was taken. when Susit, the youugest child, suddenly burst into a similar 1it during one of her futher’s attacks. From that time on she has laughed at about the same hours her father does. One by one the g wembers fell victims to thestrange complaint, until three yeurs ago there was but one left free, and that was Charles, the oldestson. 1lis long exemption led him to betieve he would escape the contagion. But hie was mistaken, and it is said he had his first attack while petitioning for the hand of a Harrisburg damsel. So frightened was the lady by the queer behavior of her suitor that sheran from the room, and it was weeks be- fore the proper explanations could induce her io see him again. She is now one of the famity here, and, escaping the wmalady, never 1ninds the hideous chorus of faughter whick twice 2 day resounds through the house or grounds. It is regarded as rather strange that none of the neighbours should have caught the infection, but such is the case, although many of them mingle constantly with the family. s _Everything possible has been done to alle- viate or remove the malady, but without per- ceptible effect. Several eminent ‘imysici:ms from the leading cities have visited the home and grown exceedingly interested in the case. ~ They all confess themselves baffled b, the malady and want one 0T two of the fami- ly to go to the city, where they can receive constant treatment. This they steadily re- fuse to do. Their peculiar trouble, so notice- able and odd, has made, them very sensitive, and they will not travel where they will be suvjected to. public serutiny and remark: They go to church or the-store in the village close by, and attend social gatherings occa- stonally in the neizhborbood in the even- " tho distribution of the muils being done entirely ings, but only among life-long friends. Peo- ple within a radius of 2 few ‘miles are 8o ac- customed to the thing that they never mind it or mention it. Consequently very few CRETE. | CoNsTANTINOPLE, March :22.—Two ships { people outside of the immedinte vicjnity, and the physicians who have attended them, are cognizant of the circumsta; People ‘mssmg the hnuse\ especially in the summer tine, hiave been filled with curiosity by what they saw and heard, and have carried ac- counts to distant places. These reports are very vague, for the reason that they have no definit idea of the matter. 'Chey only knew that it looked remarkably strange to see a father and his sons out in afield, plowlng and sowing many rods apart, yet each one laughing as though he had heard the best joke in the world. ~ Curious stories are told of the travelers wiho went that way, Several years ago two young men came from oylestown to attend a_party at Erwinna, a summer resort on the Pennsylvania side, a few miles below here. It was a warm night and_ they did not start back until late. They drove past the house of the langhing family soon after the regular at- tack had begun. The windows wereall open, and every sound could be clearly heard. “As the youngz men approached :.hef heard the mwost unearthly noise their ears had ever re- ceived. 1tseemed like a perfect pandemo- nium, and they felt sure they must have ’struci: the entrance to the lower regions. The horse took fright and nearly ran away with them. Coming to the conclusion that, au the least, the place was haunted, they hur- ried home, and the next morning spread the news. Parties were found to investigate the matter, but none of 'them solved the sub- ject until informed by a man in the village hear at hand as to the nature of the case, They were urged to remain reticent about the matter, and have done so. The years of incessant lauzhter have told somewhat on the faces of the family, but not s0 as to be very noticeable. There are scores of lines under the eyes and above the cheeks, caused by the drawing up of the skin. Then their mouths have become wider, and they keep them closed with difficuity. -The most marked result of the disease, however, Is in the voice. The entire family talk in the same tone, resembling as nearly as anything the voice of an alto singer. Males and females have the same inflection and intonation. Most of them have more or less trouble with their eyes, several having become very near- sighted. "The pupils - have contracted, and the enure eyeball is diminished in size. This is accounted for by the contraction of the eyes while laughing and the effort re- quired in working or reading while undergo- ing an attack. Very little physical- annoy- ance is caused the laughers. They read and ,\vntu, sleep and work, without any trouble. The only thing they seem unable to do while attacked is to eat, and that can be readilyun- derstood. Several grandehildren Lave been born, and in all but one instance they were taken, soon after birth, wich stated attacks at the same hoursastheir parents. Of course they do not laugh as the older ones do, but they crow and express all tne signs of Laby z:!lgg twice & day and never cry while in that state. SPURGEON. The Great Baptist Preacher Seriously i ispateh reports the serious ill- ness of the Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and as he has long suffered from goutand a cowmplication of other troubles, saying noth- ing of his excessive corpulency, it is tobe feared that he may not recover. He is in his 47th year, having been born Kelvedon, Essex, June19, 1834, 1lis relatives were Indepead- ents or Congregationalists, but he adopted Baptist views,and soon becamne known asthe Boy Preacher, and when only 16 or 17 accept- ed the pastorate of a small Baptist chapel at Waterbeach. His eloquence drew crowds to hear him, and his fame soon reached Lon- don. At 19 he became pastor of the New Park-Street Chapel, but it was not large enough for tne throngs which . gath- ered to hear him. The congre- | gation removed. to the Surrey Music- Hall, and in 1860’61 builg for him the taber- nacle, in which he has since ofticlated. His average congregations have exceeded 6,000, aud his popularity has remained undimin- ished. A strong Calvinist, he hds yet urged right action on his hearers as earnestly as if he were an advanced Arminian. A sincere Baptist, he has not made iumnersion a pre- requisit to occasional communion. He has been a prodigious worker. Mauy voluues of his sermons have been published; he has ed- ited n mngazine, and presided over a theo- logical sethivary, mission and orphan schools, ete. Mis church has been emphatically & working one, and the pastor has set his flock an example of indefatizgable industry. A correspondent who attended one of his serv- ices in 1872, thus describes the tabernacle and its minister: ? “I'he tabernacle is designed to economize space for the greatest good of the greatest number. It has two galleries which run all around the house. There are seats on the platform from which the preacher speaks, and seats in the aisies at the end of each pew. Alr,_Spurgeon’s appearauce is not_prepos- sessing. He is an ordinary-looking. English- man, in both the literal and figurative appli- cation of the adjective.—fat, fair, and nearly 40, e cannot be said to be graceful, but he is perfectly at his ease, using few gestures, and never declaiming, much less ranting, but still impressive in his simplicity. His open- ing prayers were remarkable. Obviously ex- temporized, they were neither reports to the Deity of what was going on in all parts of His dominions, nor nhackneyed paraphrases of Scriptural language. ‘They were suppli- cations, expressed in clear English, embrold- ered, if the term is adnissible, with just enough biblical metaphor to relieve their ex- cessive plainness, and in a new and graphie pattern. 'They were imaginative, rather from the novel, yet by no means grotesque, man- nerin which they presented oid truths, than for any real sirangeness of thought. In reading the first chapter of Isaiab, and commenting a3 he read, he would have rendered it difficuls for his hearers to- determine what was Isainh’s and what was Spurgeon’s were it not the practice of his congregation to open their Bibles as soon as he began to read. Iiis sermon was based on the third verse of the chapter previously read, and was intended to set forth the folly of want of consideration in religious atfairs, It was apparently extem- poraneous; at ail events, it was delivered with only a small piece. of note-paper, lving on the desk by whic the preacher stood. 1t iwas very carefuly divided iuto beads; not differing in this respect, or in most of its language, from a discourse which might be delivered by any respectable Baptist or Pres- bytenan minister on the same subject. There was nothing declamatory; there were no per- sonal appeals peculiarly pungent or well taken in themselves; and there was an ocea~ sional outcropping of such high Calvanistic views of the sinner’s inability as were calcu- lated to discourage rather than further any efforts on his part toward amendment. The real sources of Mr. Spurgeon’s, pulpit power may be set down, first, that heis thoroughly in earncst; secoud, he has a voice of won- derful clenrness, impressiveness, and na uralness; third, his seruion was adiirably constructed. Dissected, it had little to make it notoriety; as & whole, it was a wonderful mosaic of which the beauty is dependent upon its entirety.” Postal Service in Germany. Boston HeralG., ‘Another great improvewment in the postal serv- {ce is the pncumutic postal-tube for the local muil of Berhn. Itbemnga cily of over 1,000,040 Iohabitants, its territorial extent is naturally very lnge. The tube completely encircles the city, wita branches at various points, so that a letter mailed in any part will be delivercd fn any other part within in hour. There are frequent Shitions, and there is 1 Special messenger Serv- fcc connected with the system. Speclal tetters boxes for the pneumatic service are located all over the city, and collections are made every fow minutes. There is an extra rate for mail matter tbus sent. Special postal-cards are pro- vided for it, costing twenty-five pfennigs, or six hnd a quarter conts, while' letters thus scnt cast thirty pfennigs, or soven and a balf cents. The pneumatic post 13 of greatutlity in the forwarding of tclegrams and In cutching muils for out of town, which otherwise could not be reacbed in time. There are -in Berlin about tweaty-five stations of the pocuwatic post, or Itohrpost, as ft s calted. These are all connected with each other rud also with the Sentral telegraph otlice, - For the working of fubo thero are six engiue stations, each with two steam engines, for the working of the air- umps. The httle cars in the tubes havea double impelling power, the air being exhausted in front and compressed behind. The uveraye specd is 1.000 metres in a minute, It i3 proposed %o introduce the pneumatic tubesystem in other large cities of Germany. here are no boxes rented In the post-offices, by carriors, except where letters are to be called for at the office. The carrier system is hignly eilicient, and is cxtended to the most thinly pop- Lated country districts. In the citics the deliv- eries ure vers frequent tbrough the day. The Tates of domestic postage are low, being a sum amountiog to two and o half cents tor Tetter rates, three-quartersofa cent for ordinary newspapers, and one and & quarter conts tor postal-cards and local letters. A feature that BoSula be highly nppreciated hero Is a pruvision for the salg of postage-stamps at some place near each letter-box, which I conspicuously in- dicated by an otficiul sixn n the Wiml?w. A similar arrangement would be very cony enlent for the people in our cities, who are continually in want of '“‘"‘g." but have either to e 8 long trip to the Post-Office for them or feel that they are bothering somo ‘nejghbor store= keeper or gpothecary. The entire postal aystem i profitable to the Government. In 1678 earnings were §3,000,000. The express meont, or package post, does an enormous busi- ness. The taritf is uccording to welght and dis- tance, and it costs but afew cents to send a good-sized bundle from one end of the country to the nther. Inthe principnl cities, pnckagzes are collected at_houses or otiices by’ the post- wagons. in answer to an_order leftut the Post- Otfice or droppedl in a letter-box, just as orders areleftatan expressoflice in this country. It is a common thing tor travelersto have their ‘buggnge sent after them by mail. ————— ANDORRA. Rouletté and Revolt. New York Herald. PaARis, March 10.—At the election in the Republic of Andorra all the revolutionary Councilors were reclected. This is the party which wishes to license gambling, which the French Government refuses to permit. TUntil very recently, it may be remembered, Andorrs flourished as a model little State, dnd the patriarchal simplicity of its inhab- itants had long since passed into a proverb, when last Septembera contemner of ancient things suddenly appeared in the person of a speculator from Toulouse, who offered to put Andorra: in communication with the rest of the world by mcans of a tunnel and a line of railway. In re- turn he was to have the privilege of building a grand casino at Andorra, and to establish public gambing-tables therein.. This proposul pleased the young men of Andorra well, for they saw gold init; but it disgusted the Council of Fathers, who did not desire to seetheir comfortable little country converted into a “hell.” The'* Reform Party,” how- ever (for thatis thedesiznation theyadopted), emboldened by the Bishop of Seo d’Urgel’s approval, took up arms to intimidate the Council, and_as this failed they expelled M. Molds, the Chief Syndic, from the country. The Andorra Is divided into six parishes,— Andorra la Veille, Ordino, La Massanne, Sainte Juhn, Camillo, ‘and Encamps, Andor- ra being the capital. It is there that the Go ernment palace, the archives, and the treas- ury (if there_be any) are to be fonnd. The palace contains a famaous iron cupboard with six locks, in which all the money and docu- ments of the State are kept. The cupboard cannot be opened save in megresence of all the Consuls. Sefior Juan Paz, who was elected Syndic by the malcontents, in the place of Sefior Molés, took possession of the palace, but he was unable to constitute a 5ovemment, owing to the refusals of the onsuls to deliver up their keys. The insurrectionists hereupon surrounded the houses of these local authorities, and sum- moned them to deliver up the precious ob- jects. Threeof the Consuls gave way to forceand fled across the frontier. In the midst of all this hubbub the Frencli viguier's office. having become vacant. was filled up by the appointment of M. Ladevéze, a Protes- tant. Nothing could have been more clumsy than such an_appointment, for the Andor- rans are Catholic to 2 man: and so the re- form party, under the Bishop’s protection, were enabled to urge a legitimate grievance against the Freneh Government. When M. Ladeveze arrived at Andorra he was told thatif he did not immediately decamp he would be shot, and ag this threat was con- veyed by excited and, what is more, armed men, the French viguier deemed it _prudent to retire across the frontier. Theaffront put upon him was, however, so erave that the French Government feit bound to demand full satisfaction forit. Accordingly a new viguier, M. Imbert de Goubeyre, was ap- pointed, withorders to proceed to Andorra.de- mand the dispersal of the revolutivnary Junta, and insist on the restoration of the “ejected Syndies, failinzgwhich 500 soldiers were to be dispatched from Toulunse to reduce the Andorrans to order. Meanwhile the revolu- tionists had formed a sturdy battalion of 500 men, all armed with Remington rifles. Where did they get these ritles? 1lardly from the gentleman who wants to set up the gaming fables. But this energetic person has a stanch supporter in the Chief of the Andor- Tan army, a man called Paz, who cansed his father, an old_gentleman of S2, to be elected nominal Syndic of the revolutionary Junta. Paz Is described as a manof great determina- tion. He wants the roulette table; and he seems to have collected a number of Carlists out of work from Urgel to aid him in forcug this reform upon unwilling conservatives of his country. Moreover, Paz and his party assert that the French have no right to inter- fere in this affair, seeing that the Bishop of Seo ¢’Urgel is with them. Vhether a French brizade, with field pieces, will be sent_to bring them to reason remains to be seen. Paz has aiready obtained tive keys of the Treas- ury; he had also won the suffrages of his countrymen at the electionsj:and it is gener- ally belleved that he would readily dispense with this popular recognition of his services if he only got the sixth key. AN UNNATURAL MOTHER. Startling Spectacle in Charlotte, Va.— ‘A Nude and Blecdinz Woman Flying Through the Strects to Escape the “Lash, 1Y Telegrah to New York Herald RICHMOND, Va., March 10.—Intelligence received here from Charlotte, N. C., gives the details of the brutal flogging of a mulatto girl by her mother with a cowhide. The ac- count states that the piteous screamsof a woman in the California section of that city startled the neighborhood about 11 o’clock in the morning. As people ran to their doors a naked woman, bleeding from her hair to her stockings, the only stitch which was on her body, rushed shrieking from the door of the house. She ran wildly up the railroad to the erossing, dashing across this frantically. Still screaming with pain and terror she ran down an alley near by, and broke madly into a Thouse a hundred yards from the street. Sev- eral persons were passing at_the time, some Iadies among the number. One or two met herns she came up the railroad, andall stepped aside asif a locomotive had been coming. In ubout half an hourafter this spectacle 2 woman applied to Justice McNineh for a warrant for her mother, who, she said, had torn her clothing from her and beaten her with n cowhide. She removed enoush of Ter clothing to prove her assertion that not inch of her body was free from a bloody welt. She was, she said, a day servantat a board- ing-house on ‘Tyron street. She went home to her mother every h but_failed last nignt on accountof the weather. Her mother had met, her on Mint street on her way howe that morning. When they met the mother held a heavy rawhide.in her hand, and or- dered the girl home, *“T'll teach you,” she said. “how to' spend another nignt in Buz- 7ard’s Roost.” ‘The latter is a place of bad repute in Charlotte. The girl, thoroughly afraid of her mother, went. The rest has been told. She could not endure the pain of the rawhide upon the naked skin and es- caped from the bouse, pursued by lier tigress, of a molmler ft}x"radsnnn distance with the. reeking hide uplifted. "The irl’s name is Rena Young, and that of her mother is Lizzie Young. The daughter is handsome and light; the mother is ugly, black, and brutal., The latter was sent to jail for thirty days. When a Constable went To arrest her a crowd had gathered around, and the excitement in the vieinity was great. e ———— The Plazue. Thescare about the plague hasagain appeared in Europe, where it will doubtless cause much concern, particularly in those countries which Have many dealngs with Armenfa and Meso- potamix. UndouLtedis the plague vught uot to be treated with unconcern or derision, as it bns frequently shown ts ability to travel over tho greator part of the Old Waorld, from irs pesti- fential hot-beds in the valleys of the Tigris and Fupbrates. Itis s well, however, ta remembor that certuin parts of dfesopotamin are never en- tirely freo from the plugue. In the cold weather it exists [anguidly and fitfally, but when the hot seuson sets in it rages more or less in every towa, from Mosul und Bagdad down to the Per- pian Gulf. The cause of the scourge s not tol~ ombly well kuown. The Tixrie und the Eu- phrates, at_the period when the Snows at their Pourco begin to welt, canuot have thelr waters Sarriod off fnto tho Persiun Gulf by the Shat-el- Arab, ana .nccnrdulnfll’fl:hes uuo;l g}x‘eyluwéley‘lgg 'or tunees of une Vi countrics uround f Whew he. not weather sets In theovertiow i3 speedily dried up, ‘butihe wholeof the previously submerg try Lecomes & SWAmD of miasmatic, pestilential vapors. The eurtn seems to crack and breathe Yortb missma. Thenfollow feversand tho plague among tho inhubitunts. Villages are wnnually depopulated, but the surrounding inhabitants have: become so accusiomed to the visitation that they only. move further fnland or toward the seaboard for a time, and then return in tho cold season to their pastorul cecupations uround fheir fornier homes. . The raviges of the plague aro augmented by the indescribubly filthy con- Gition of the -villges und towns in Whicli it #p- ears. Bagdad, for iustunce, contains witbin ts cmbankments the remains of iith which hive been allowed to accumulate by gigantic pulztions for century after century. Kerbela, which is in the vicinity of the remains of Baby- lon. is ‘annually visited by millions ot Moham-~ medans, who g0 to paytheir devotions to the tombs of Hooseln ‘and Hassan, the meluncholy heroes of the dohurrum festival, which yearly causes t bloodshed in Asia between the rival Xommednn sects of Shishs and Soonces. erbela has x collection of festes flth vicinity which is appull It !‘l;l:'zrnrklsh e thorities were vigorous in enforcing sanitary regulations in tneir tuwns, villages, and plices of pilgrimage. the world would never, probably, be periodically alarmed by plague scares; but 80 long as Turkish officials are what they ars, and no comprehensive pltans are adoptsd to carry off and utilize all the surplus waters of the Tigris and Euphrates, 5o long will fovers and ‘plagues bo found in Mesopotami 2 AMERICAN PIGS. A Chance for Secretary Blaine to Dis= play a Vigorou= Forelgn Pollcy. New York Times. Among the effete monarchies of Europe there appears to exist a deep-rooted fear and hsgred of the free pig of the United States. Itis true that for the moment the rights of the American pig have been recognized by England, not so much because of any regard for porcine liberties as because of the cer- tainty that if the American pig is forbidden to land in England, he will simply cross the Atlantic to Holland, and then, disguised as & Dutch pig, take passage to England from Amstgrdam or Rotterdam. France, how- ever, is not disposed to allow any considera~ tion of this sort to influence her conduct, and is determined that any pig proved to be of Amerlcan birth, no matter whether he may have certificates of Dutch or German citizenship, shall uot enter France. Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece either havetaken orare about to ‘take similar action against American pigs, and 1t is only too evident that if the effete monarchies can have their way our pigs will be shut out from Conti- nental Europe. We have here precisely the state of affairs which Mr. Blaine needs in order to display the vigorous ioreign policy which his ad- murers_expect of him. The American pig, like his congener, the pig-iron of Pennsyl- : vania, must, of necessity, be dear to every sagacious politician. The pig element of the poputation of Ohio and of other Western States is of great importance. Without its basis of pork Ciucinnati would crumble into ruin, and without its vigs Chicago would lose half its importance. When we class together the pig-raisers, the gork—p;u:k and the pork-traders of the West, mdm what a large proportion of the Western population s thus immediately connected with pigs, we can gain some idea of the size and importance ot the pig vote. It needs to be conciliated at least as much as does the iron interest of Pennsylvania. Hitherto the pig has needed no protection, but if once the pig interest o f the West de- mands protection apainst its brutal and cowardly European enemies, the American politician_who does not permit his blood to promptly boil, and who does not denounce with all”his resources of language the Toes of porcine liberty, may make up his mind to retire at once and forever to private life. In_their efforts to deny to the American pig the right to land on European shores, the foreign despots—among whom, for the sake of convenience, M. Grévy miybe in-laded— profess to be intluenced by the loftiest me- Tive ‘They dislike, forsooth, the manners and custorns of the American pi f They say that he is addicted to the degrading habit of trichinosis, and that if heis admitted amon,| the pure and innocent pigs of Europe he w‘fi corrupt their morals, and hig evil influence will affect the health and spirits ot the European pork-eaters. Of course, this ac- cusation is a mere pretext. ‘The American pig will compare favorably in pointof trichi- nosis with any other living pig. It isthe fact that he i3 born in a free country that makes him dreaded by the eneinies of free institutions. ‘fhe influence of American freedom upon our pigs is very marked. The Western pig can jump fences which the un- enterprising European_pig would ~never dream of attempting to jump, and he mani- fests a love of adventure in connection with flower and vegetable gardens which proves that _he has caught much of the bold, free spirit which leads the Western man to in- vade Indian reservations and to dery the treaty pig-yokes which are designed to re- strain his en{erqgse. lo( .cmlgse this type of pig is grossly offensive in European'eyes, and hence the effort to pigs from visiting Europe. If Mr. Blaine really wantsto adopt a vigor ous foreign policy, his opportunity is before him. He'should come at once to the defense of the American pig. If the Europeau des- pots can keep out American pigs on the pre- tense that they are addicted to trichinosls, they ean go a step furtherand prevent Amer- ican citizens from landing in Europe on the pretense that they are addicted to chewing tobaccor orto other reprehensible habits. If the rights and _liberties of American citi- zens are to be defended, a stand must be made now, and in behalf of the American iz. As the frieud of the rights of pigs, Mr. laine can command theenthusiastic admira- tionof_the West. Sympathy with the op- pressed pig will be of far miore service to Dim than sympathy with Ireland. He may claim that every Irishman whom the British Government has arrested, or at any time’ hereafter may arrest, is ipse “facto an. American citizen, but this method of dis- playing sympathy with Ireland has been practiced so frequently that it has to a grea extent lost its eflicacy in attractine votes If, however, he takes the broad ground that an American pig has all the rights that be- long to an American citizen while traveling abroad, and that he can no more be shut out of »_European port than can an American tourist, he will arouse a whirlwind of enthu- siaswm in the West. Let him announce to the European Powers that to metaphorically tread on the American pig1s to tread on the American flag; let him send with every cargo of pigs or pork that leavesthese shores an American man-of-war, with a_chartered English steamer to tow her across tne At~ Tantic and to reseue her officers and crew in caso of bad weather, and let him_compel the effete monarehics to permit the pigs to land under penalty of having their forts bom- barded, and he will earn a reputation for vigor and patriotism such as no previous Secretary of State has ever won. e ———— A Batile with Flour. San Francisco Puat, Feb. 2%, Spanishtown was in all its glory yesterday afternoon, the Mexican population turning out en massc to enjoy u carnival of flour and to, wage a tlerce battie for the honor of nominat- Ing the queen of the testivities which annually precede the nusteritics of Lent. To-day our Spanish citizensare singing * Gaudeawmus izitur, Juvenes dum sumus*'; on Wednesday they will be knceling with ash-besmirched foreherds. crying, Misere mel Dominc sccundum magnim. miserecordiam tuam.” According to:custom, the opposing factions yesterday,® under the foe atabip of their gonernl, met at their re- spective beadquurters. The onc compaay was known us the Cuartel Colorado, the other as the Pueblo Nuevo. The hendquarters of the former were near St. Francis’ Church, while the lauer were intrenched behind n fort of dry-goods boxes a block higher up. The Queen of the Red Flag wns Seoritu Guadalupe Carbanoia young Mexican lndy, dressed in :;:cd Mexican colors and wearing & cap com of e on ber hoads The Queen of ife Green faction was Sciiorita Maouela Hermiern. & handsome brunet, also dreseed fn the gational colors, with u green and gold cap, The Cuartel Colorado Battalion cxecuted an extremely clever flank movement on the Pueblo Nueve wartiors, . charging them in the rear of their fort and al- Imoscsuccecaing I capturing their g, which Would bave made the maiden <of thelr cholce Geen of the Carnival ball. ‘But the Puebio Revo Hegiment were stronger in_numbers and uppricd with twenty Bfty-pound sicks of tlour. After u desperate contest the enewy, balf blind- 1 and looking very palc, was driven -down the, L, leaving the air thick with Hour and the per- spiring contestants covered with a sudorific st of cheap dough. ‘Theattack was renewed feain and nguin, until exbausted nature cried hold. enougn! and the ope fuction having cap- turcd the liag of the other the motley proces- e ormed Into line to_prepare for the ball, Which followed at Scollaz’s Hall, and which was celebraced by the participants ail in good humor, Dat so coversd with flour that their features were ultuxllydunr(;lcognézn:lefi "fihem( 2; hr:g‘l; ing prevailed, although the battle e?:sl;g.'sted that neven{‘l barrels of flour were used in the contest. 5 L —————— An Ingenuous Chinesc Gemeral. 1n one of hispoems, referring to the customs in war several centuries ago, Sir Walter Scoté wrote: g “ His buckler scarce g breadth in span, No larze fence had hey He never counted bim a man, prevent American L Would striko below the knee."” A Some such simple notlons of the < f war gcem to have 'I,llled the mind of the commander of the Chinese troops LAt are stationed in Turkestan neur the borders of Kuldje. - Uncer~ tain of the outcome of tha peace negotiations at St. Petersburg, he recently sent a lecter to Geu. Kauffman, the Russian commander, {n which he pluinly told the latter that the Chinese army was notin a condition to begin actlve operal ‘at if things went on smoothly he trusted that it would be ready for effective service in ‘the spring. He therefore suggested that it might be Well to postpone the opening of bostilities until the 1t of Mu{..m:rhnt en, Kauffmaa responded fnvorably to Prupos: i {rom Sfll'l)l'e of the past=xploits in Central of that officer it would be quite 1n keeping .to suppose that he gave his Chinese ri the verbal assurances that he desired. this was {he case, it is perhaps fortunate fof the Chiness commander ¢hat the dispute about Kuldiais te have u peaceful settlement, otherwise it is pain= ful to think what a blow.bis faith in the | esies of war mixht Bave received, al we ure oot told; bat i i V i i !