Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1881, Page 2

HISTORIC WASHINGTON. THE SCANDAIS OF JACKSON'S TIMES—JACKBON'S BAKLY © *—Tum MARSHALL'S PORTRAIT OF HIM—JACKBON AND MES. BOBARDS —HiGH JINKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE—TH® BATON AP- FAIR—MES. BATON CUT BY WASHINGTON 30- @ETY—SUB DISRUPTS A CABINBT AND UP- S878 THINGS GENERALLY. CHAPTER V. A memorable eptsode to Jackson's admints- tration, and one within the memory of persons still ving, was the scandal which then con vulsed Washington society. It might with pro- Priety be called the war of the roses from the fair actors who played in the piece, though Gen. Jackson himself, the champion of injured in- necence, may not be said,to have been very rosy. General Jackzon’s own life had not been with- out Diemishes. A wild streak ran through his earlier years, and the old inhabitants of Salis- bury, N.C., can still tell queer tales of hi3 do- ene ee ms jarsnall, of Kent A speech in Nashville in 1844, of Andrew Jack- son: “What a career was that of Andrew Jackson! A_ career of success by brutal self-will. No impediment stood in his way. If he saw and fancied a pretty woman, even though she was another man’s wife, he took lon of her. If he entered a horse ata race, he frightened or jockeyed his com- ‘or. If he was opposed by an independent map, be crushed him. He saw the country prosperous under the Bank of the United States and he shattered it from turret to foundation stone. His rule has been ruin t> thts people, his counsel full of calamity. And now when he is approaching his last hours, when good men are praying that he may be punished for bis many misdeeds, he turns Presbyterian and cheats the devil himself.” Marshall's portrait of Jackson was, however, colored 80 highly by ‘Usan bitterness that it —— truthfulness; though the subject wa3 no nt. JACKSON AND MAB. ROBARDS. When he went to Nashville, Tenn., he took board and rooms with the widow of John Donel- som. Mrs. Donelson’s daughter and her hus- band, Lewis Kobards. were also living at the same house. Robards had been separated from his wife before, but the patr had been reconciled to some ho, and were now living together at the mother’s when Andrew Jackson came there to reside with Mrs. Donelson. The attentions of young Jackson to Mrs. Robards excited the y of the husband toa violent degree. rrible scenes ensued between the unfortu- naiely-mated and between Robards and Jackson. At len: Robards abandoned her and returned to his former home tn Kentucky. Hearing, however, that her husband was about tw return and take her she made her escape to Natchez. accompanied, amongst = & 5 5 B 5 a i-7 $ i ze & & cause, ‘the part of accui the it infidelity and implicated Jackson im the crime. News was brought to Nashville that the divorce had been obtained, and Jack- | son hastened to Natchez, declared himseif to Mra. Robards as a lover, was accepted and the two were married at Natehez by a Catholic Priest. But, in fact, the divorce had not been obtained, nor was it completed until two years of this marriage. Upon ascertaining this the determined couple were married again by a estant clergyman at Nashville. A long and happy wedded life foliowed. Jackson’s Worst quarrels arose from this Cause, and to defend her reputation “he kept pistols in per- feet condition for thirty-seven years.” ‘The stately court tmesof Washington and Adams had passed away and been succeeded by the republican etiquette of Jefferson with itg fine intellectual culture and me hospital ity. This in turn had gone to be foliowei by the easy elegance of Mrs. Madison and the sbarp precisions of Mrs. John Quincy Adam3. THE JACKSON BRA. With Jackson a new era began. It was the era of a popular and military spirit. The bril- | Mant achievements of our iafant navy had | wiped out the disgrace ot Hull’s surren- der, and New Orieaus had more than atoned for the capture of Washington. The is3us of the war had resulted in the victory of the American arms, and Jackson was the reore- sentative of American glory, aud was the idol of the American people. His journey from bis home to his inauguration at the Capitol was a triumpnai procession. Down the Cum- berland and up the Ohio the whole population poured out to greet him. At Clacinnail it seemed as if al! Olio, and at Pittsburg it seemed ag if all Pennsylvania “had rushed forth to shout a welcome to the President-elect.” SCENES AT JACKSON'S INAUGURATION. Mr. Webster, writing from Washington, says: “I never saw such a crowd here before. Persons have come five hundred miles to see Gen.J ackson.” Judge Story writes: ‘-After the ceremony was over, the President went to the palace te receive com. pany, and there he was visited hy Immense crowds of all sorts of people, from the higaest and most polished down to the most vuigar and groes in the nation. I never saw suck a mixture. The reign of King MoD seemed tri- umpbant. 1 was glad to eacape from the scene ‘88 Scon as possibie.” No doubt Story was giad to escape; he was a bitter opponent of Jacksoa, audit was not to be expected that he coul enjoy thesetfestivittes. Hince illae lachrymae! “A profusion of reireshments,” writes a par- Ucipant, “had been provided. Orange punch was made by —o tall; foe as the walters opened the doors to bring’ {t out. a rush was made, the glasses broken, the pails of Uquor upset and the most palaful copfuston prevatisd. To such a painful degree was this carried, that wine and ice cream could not be brought out to the ladiee, and tubs of puncn were taken trom the lower story Into the garden to lead off the crowd from the rooms, Men with boots on heavy with mud stood on the damask-satin covered in their eagerness to get a look at the President.” THR BATON SCANDAL. The notorious Washington scandal broke out on the appointment of Mr. Eaton, Senator from ‘Temnessee, by the President, as a member of mis Cabinet. Parton, in his Life of Jackson, tells the story as follows: “A certain William @'Neal kept at Washing- ton for many years a large old-fashioned tavera, where members of Congress, in considerable numbers, boarded during the sessions of the Bational legislature. liam O’Neal had a daughter. sprightiy and beautiful, who aided aim and bis wife to entertaining his boardera. Peg O'Neal, a8 she was call was sO liveiy in her deportment, so free in conversatiog, that had she been born twenty years later she would have been called one of the “fast” girls of Washington. «A wilty, pretty, saucy. active (tavern- keeper's daughter, who makes free with the inmates of her father’s house and 1s made | free with by them, may escape contamiaation, Dut not calumny. It ts not good for a girl to — up In a large tavern. When Major Eaton rst came to Washington as a Senator from Tennessee. in i518, ne took board at Mr. O'Neal's tavern, and continued to reside there every winter for ten yeara. He became acquainted, of courae with the family, including the vivacious and attrac. tive Peg. When wen. Jackson came to the city as Senator jn 1828, he also went to live with tha O'Neal, he had known to Washingtoo. For Mrs. O'Neal, who was a remarkably efi- ent woman, he had a particular respect. Even during bis presidency, when he was sup- posed to visit no one, it wa3 one of his favcrite relexations, when worn out with business, to stroll with Major Lewis across the “old flelds,” near Washington. to the cottage where M| O'Neal lived in retirement and eajoy an hour's chat with the old lady. Mra Jackson, also, during her residence in Washington in 1325 became attached to the good Mrs. O'Neal aad to her Gaugnter. In the course of Ume Miss O'Neal Decame the wife of Purser Timberlake, of the U. S. navy, and the mother of two"! eblidren. In 1523 came the news that Mr. | ‘Timberlake, then on duty in the Mediterraneaa, had cut his throat ina ftof melancholy, in- duced, It was sald. by previous Intoxication. On hearing this inteiligepce Major Eaton then a widower, felt an inclination to marry Mrs. ‘Tunberlake, for whom ne had entertained an aliacbment quite as tender aa a man could iaw- fully indulge for the wife of a friend and a Droth+r Mason. He took the precaution to @onsult Generat Jackson on the subject. ay yes. Major,” said the general, “if you love tus Woman, and she will have you, marry ber by | all means.” Major Eaton mentioned what the general well knew, that Mrs. Timberlake's rep- Utation In Washington had not escaped re- proach, abd that Major Eaton himself was sup- to have been too fotimate witn her. “Well,” said the general, “your murrylog her Will @isprove these charges and restore Peg’s goed bame.” And so perhaps it migat if Major Eaton had not een taken into tne Cabloeh. Eaton and Mrs. Timberlake were married tn few weeks before General Jack- new Cabtoet, it occurred with great force to the minds of certain ladies, who supposed them- selves to be at the head of society at the capi- tal, that in that case, PEO O'NEAL WOULD BE THE WIFE OF A CABINET MINISTER, and. a8 such, entitled to admission into the‘r own sacred circle. Horrible to contemplate! Porb'4 tt morality! Forbid it decency! For- ‘bid it General Jackson ! Among those who were scandalized at the in‘ ment of Major Eaton was the Rev J. N. @am;! 0, ef the Preal church tn Washiroton, which the general sea ira. Jack: i Dot attended, whic! was su] — President Jackson would attend. Not caring 10 with the general himself on we subject. Mr. Campbell communicated the = eee ee Rev. , of Philadelphia, kno’ Qezerol Ji in his mercantile days, and hsd come to Wi to the inau- guration of bis old nd. Dr. desired to | Eaton were not support | but ; the ladies who led the society ot Wash- } soon after her mnneriege | Buren. | The morning cometh from the balmy East Patuacsipnia, very foug ever ia eek BS in wi Getalled all the nares he had heard against Mrs. Eaton. He informed the Presideat that she had borne a-bad reputation in Washington from her ; that the ladies of Wasning- atthe tabie ot Garsoy's hotel was Baltes eae > tabi was ve leclared that he idl boa miscarriage 3 @ year; that the friends of Major Katon had per- | stiaded him to board here. for the sake of | ego him away from Mra. Timberlake; that | irs. Jackson herself had entertain opinion of Mrs. Timberlake; that and Mrs Timberlake had’ travelled together | apd recorded their names as man and wife on | hotel registers in New Yor ‘For your own sake,’ sald the reverend doctor; | ‘for your dead wife's sake; for the sake of your administration; for the credit of the govern- ment and the country, you should not counte- | nance & woman like this.” r was dated March 18th, 1829. Gen. Jackson replied to it in a manner peculiarly | cbaracteristic. eee the nae doctor many of the charges he knew them to be false, and be believed them all tobe. Dr. Ely replied. He was glad to lesro, he said, that the President was so sure of Mrs. Eston’s innocence, and expressed a hope that it Sbe had done wrong in past times, she would now be restored by repentance to the esteem of the virtuous. Dr. Ely was evidently not quite convinced of Mrs. Eaton’s immaculate purity. ‘The President hastened to renew his efforts in her defence. He wrote again and again to his reverend fricnd, and these letters, long and ve- hement as they are, convey bat’ a faint idea of the interest felt by General Jackson in the vindication of the lady. He seat a geutleman to New York to investigate the hotel register Story. He wrote so many letter and state- ments in relation to this business that Major Lewis, who lived in the White House, was worn out with the nightly toll of copying. ‘The entire Mass of the secret and confidential writings relating to Mra. Eaton, ail dated in the summer and autumn of 1529, and most of them origin- ally in General Jackson’s hand, would fill about eighty-five book pages. And besides these, there was a large number of papers and docu- ments not deemed important enough for pre- servation. General Jackson, ind made the cause his own, and brought to the defence of Mrs. Eaton all the fire and resolution witb ' which, forty years before, he had silenced every whisper against Mrs, Jackson. He considered the cases of the two ladies parallel. His zeal in behalf of Mrs. Eaton was a manifestation of consequence of his wrath against the calum- niators of his wife. General Jackson succeeded in showing that the chat against Mrs. by testimony, Succeed in convincing he did not ington that Mrs. Eaton was a proper per- son to be admitted to their circle. They would not receive her. Mrs. Calhoun would Bot, although she had called upon the lady in company with the Vice President, her husband. Mrs. Berrien Would not, although Mr. Berrien, ignorant as he afterwards sald, of the lady’s standing at the capital, had been one of the guests at her Wedding. Mrs. Branch would not, althouga Mr. Branch had been taken into the cabinet ou Mr. Eaton’s suggestion. Mrs. Ingham would hot, although the false gossip of the hour bad not wholly spared her own falr fame. ‘The wives of the foreign ministers would not. Mrs. Donelson the mistress of the White House, though compelled to receive her would not visit her. ‘Anything else, uncle, I would do for you, but I cannot cali upon Mrs. Eaton.’ ‘The general's reply was, in effect, ‘then go back to Tennessee.’ And she went to Tennessee.” CURIOUS ATTEMPT TO FORCE MRS. BATON UPON SOCIETY. A Washington correspondent of the day refer- ring to Mrs. Eaton by her nick name “Bellona” states the following: A ball and a supper were tup by his excellency, the British minister, Mr. Vaughan, @ particular friend of Mr. Van After various strategems to keep Bel- lona during the evening in which almost every cotillion in which she made her appearance was instantly resolved into its original ele- ments, she was at length conducted by the British minister to the head of his table, where, in pursuance of that instinctive power of in- attention to whatever it seems Improper to no | Uce, the ladies seemed not to know that she was at the tab'e. This ball and supper were followed by another given by the Russian min- ister (another old bachelor). To guard agatast the repetition of the mortification in the spoa- laneous dissolution of the cotiilons, and the Leglect of the ladies at supper (where, you must observe, that none but ladies sat down,) Mr. Van Buren made a direct and earnest appeal to the lady of the minister of Holland, Mrs. Hay- gens, whom he entreated in her own language to consent to be Introduced to the ‘accomplishes and lovely Mrs. Eaton.’ The ball scene arrived, and Mr3, Huygens. with uncommon dignity, maintained her ground, avoiding the advances of Bellona and het associates, until supper wa3* announced, when Mrs. Huygens was informed by saroa Kru- cener that Mr. Eaton would conduct her to the table. She declined and remonstrated, but in the meantime Mr. Eaton advanced to offer hi~ arm. She at first objected, but to relieve him trom his embarrassment, walked with him. to the table, where she found Mra. Eaton seated at the head, beside an empty chair for herself. Mrs. Huygens had no alternative but to becom an instrument of the fotrigue or decilas taking supper: she chose the latter, and taking hold o: ker husband's arm, withdrew ftom the room ‘This was the offense for which General Jacksor. afterwards threatened to send her husband ome. © THE NEXT SCENE IN THE D2AMA was @ grand dinner, given ih the east room 0; the palace, where it was arranged that Mr Vaughan was to conduct Mrs. Raton to the tabie. and place her at the sideof the rresideat, who took care, by his marked attentions, to admon ish all present (abdcut eighty, including the prin cipal Officers of the government and their ladies,) that Mrs. Eaton was one of his favor- pac donee that he expected her to be treated as such in all placee. Dinner being over the com pany retired to the coffee room, to indulge iv the exhilarating conversations which wine and good company usually excite. But all would eee nothing could move the toflexibiv ‘The consequent rupture in the Cabinet on ac count of Mrs. Katon, its dissolution and the litical quarrels which ensued and resulted to the election of Mr. Van Buren as next President of the United States are matters which morc Pp Tly belong to general history. @ heroine of these troubdlous times, Mrs. Peg O'Neal Eaton, seems to have been of pretty tough fibre. She outlived all the other actor: in that exciting political and society drama, and only a few years ago made herself the centrai figure in another great scandal in Washiagton by mai i & young Itallan music teacher, who eloped with her f Saige ecg and her money, leaving her to die in poverty. The Tribute the @rpha: Benefactor. On the elegantly illuminated card sent by the children of St. Vincent’s Asylum to Mr. Corcoran on bis birthday, were the following verses, accompanying @ basket of flowers, on which the number S2 was wrought In red bios- i s@ms: TO W. W. CORCORAN, ON HIS EIGHTY-SZcOND | RTH DAY, FROM THE CHILDREN OF ST. ViN- CENT'S ASYLUM. Axother vear to place within the circlet: A jewelled link unto the lengthening chais ; Another shadow on life's checquered di Another dweller in Walhalla's fane For mid the frosts of white December's gleam, oe onreeaiae, carolé souud the wide world | rouh, ‘We hail another year with silvery beam, ‘To ylit-er in a crown of eighty-two. While standing on the threshold of the paat, Perchance pale memory, to her misslon true— Cnfolds the worn tissue of those years, ‘Whose lichta and shadows numbor eighty two: Apd "neath the misty curtain backward cast, ‘air faces le, then slowly fade from view; And voices fuil of love too sweet to Laat, Make music on the ear of eighty-two. o their So fair and youny, so bright its onward way, but richer, rarer fat, the crimson West ‘That holds the garnered fruitage of the day ; And gently, as the stream that nears the sea, And bears a nations wealth upon its blue, May flow thy years unto eternity + hose priceless years that number eighty-two. ‘The softeniex gleaminy of life's san-set gold Iumes thy path with light of rain-bow true; A fairt foreshadowiag of the great beyond That waits for him, whose years count elgaty wo And we St. Vincent's children greeting send With grateful hearts ‘and loving words, though May Beatven’s choicest bl crown our friend Whose record on Time’ it is eighty-two. A Human Invention. i.ea W. Munhall is a friend to the dumb ant- mais. abd when he sees one suffering from not slow to remonstrate, Lea ped out on the platform and requested the de’ ~Well, I tell you, .” Was the the mute Is the d—dest_ meanest mace.” ~“fhat’s where you are he boy in Georgia, who wrote to Santa A little ch . wise h to add: dee § Se. cea Ree hee ’fircinratt has a Sunday school class of thirty-three all of whom are appar- e iy siuoore converts Curtstiamity. | Hes of some of them are necessl | down, and shoot or hang the thieves and , | ile, and, sgain, severe winters, disease, or bad LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE, ‘Next after securing the appro- Priation requisite to abate the pestilence breed- ers of our river-front, the restriction to lawfal ald reasonabie limi's of the various monopolies that have been encouraged or suffered to grow Up here seems among the most imperative duties of Washingtonians. Though the spectal- tes to our pre. of development and their prohibition force & damaging readjustment to un- = oe suere 1s el one oe, Teason they should be accorded special privileges or be Permitted to exalt themselves above the reach of the law to whose provisions the bal- ange of us are made to conform; but there are many unanswerabie ones, too patent to require enumeration, why, if any discrimination ts made, tt shouid be prectseiy in an er. di- rection. The citation of ove case of thelr en- croackments and abuse of our forbearance will ilustrate how this greedy, vandal sptrit, has been given free rein in every direction wher- ever monopoly interests could be best subserved by ignoring the spirit of the unwritten, and both letter and spirit of the written law and riding rough-shod over all our preferences and our vested rights as well. In my netghdorhood, ten years ago, grew a noble specimen of the sycamore; quite forty feet high, symmetrical, affording: | Bic Shade for handreds, and con- tributing its share to the city’s health, tt beau- tifled its vicinity and had more tnan a sen- timental value. But relying, apparentiy, on the indifference or supineness of the auchori- Ues, and meeting the protests of all others with words of con'emptuous defiance, the empioyés of a telegraph monopoly, to a half hour, had so marred and mutilated this product ofa full halt century’s growth, that twenty years would not have sufficed for its restoration. Twice since, the assault has been repeated because the growing branches threatened to interfere with the wires or were in the way of others to be put up; and the tree stands to-day virtually branchless on one side, a shapeless, ugly wreck and &@ monument to the on daring of the monopoly and to the pitiable helplessness of our citizens, What happened to the -yca- More has happened to every other tree in the city similarity Reseda 9 and it ts what will continue to happen till our monopoly boases Shall have been taught that others have rizhts that they cannot safely ignore. It was neigh- borhcod talk that the amputated limbs and wreckage were left where they fell on the last. occasion, to obstruct the streets till removed by Men and teams employed by the District au- thorities, The mutilation of the trees 1s only one of an almost infinite number of District, municipal and individual interests that have been sacrificed that, these arrogant concerns might obtain additional facilities to conduct their business at a minimum cost to themselves; but even were it otherwise the mutilation.taken 1o connection with the fact that we are an- nually taxed for planting, growing and presery- Ing trees in our streets, {3 nothing less than an outrage; and every new Indulgence perinitied | sent would tried in this line of precedents 1s another entrench- ment that we shall have ultimately to storm and capture before we can force a surrender. | It seems to have come to this: We may p ant our streets with trees aud we may enjoy them. if not in the way of telegraph poles or wires, or if they are not 1n some other respect an in- convenience to the telegraph compantes; tf so, they must give way regardiess of every consid: eration of health, comfort, sentiment, or of guaranteed rights, and our tame submission to the usurpations and intolerable tmpositions of our insolent masters have come to be regarded as tacit admissions on our part that we have no rights that they are bound to Teer ITIZEN, A Double Fraud. Editor Star:—rast Sunday evening l was handed a program purporting to be an exhivl- ton of spiritual manifestations by a con- sclentious bona fide medium, in which, among other things of miraculous degree, a piano was to be waltzed around the theater, in the air, while the delicate touches of tho fingers of the departed were to strike the chords, ‘This and much more for the sole purpose of convincing skeptics cf the truth and genuine- hess of spiritualism, with a low prico of ad. | mission, merely to pay expenses. I went and Saw, and lo! what? That the low prices were 25and 50 centsforenexhibition of legerde- main and juggiery. with here andthere an imitation of spiritual manifestations with tvo- thirds of the program left out,and the whole | thing in spirit and truth but a noisy and | hilarious week-day exhibition. Now whatI | desire is the little information as to what better right a man has to open theater on a | Sabbath and give such an exhibition than have Saloons, ten-pin alleys and Theater Comique? Leo. JOHN HIFTTSON, CATLLE KING he Sudden Death of a Famous Frontier Stock Grower. A PREDICTION PARTLY VBRIFIED—THE MAN WHO WaS FRARED ABOVE ALL OTH&RS BY INDIANS AND OUTLAWS—HIS PRINCELY HOSPITALITY. That John Hittaon would dle with his boots on Was confidentiy predicted by everyboiy wno knew the great Colorado cattle king. But old cattle buyers In the city who knew him In early | ‘ays could hardly credit the dispatch that came yesterday, announcing that the heroic frontiersman had actually come to his end by teing thrown from that luxurious vehicle of civilization, @ carriage. There were bigger | <leck growers on the plains than Hittson. Col. iichard King, on his ranch on the Santa Ger- trades river, Texas, kept 65,000 cattle. Mifiin Kennedy built a board fence thirty-one miles ong gcress the neck of a peninsula projectiag ‘nto the Gulf of Mexico, and had 30,600 head of vattle and thousands of horses ana sheep tn tue 240,000 acre enclosure. Hittson in bts palmiest days never had over 40.1) head of cattle, but he was better known to all cattle men than any of the rest. John Hittson was born in the woods of Ten- nessee Nifty years ago, and his early years were spent in felling timber, pulling stumps, and breaking ground for cropsof corn and wheat. Before he was 2% he "S, 5. sought for some escape from a long life of struggle against poverty. The Mexican war had opened up Texas and the adjacent country for settiement, and ittson made up hts mind to go thither to seek to better his fortunes. He sold his ‘Tennessee farm, bought sixty Texas cows and nine brood mares, and struck out into the wilderness beyond the Brazos river. He em- ployed men as fearless as himself to help him, and established his ranch in a country filled with hostile Indians and predatory bands of Mexican outlaws. For the next fifteen years his life was a continual wartare, aad his repu- tation for bold and daring deeds became known far and wide. le was a man of commandin; ge 8 Splendid horse- man, and a dead shot. No Comanche wh? got within range of the long, muzzle-loading ritie that Hittson took with him from Tennessee ‘ver returned to his camp fire. When,fittson opened fire on them from a breech-loader, one of the first repeating rifles ever seen on the frontier, and gave them a dozen shots a min- ute, his enemies were more than ever convinced that they were dealing with a superhuman being. He carved outa grazing place in this “hostile country and maintained it against great edds in repeated attacks. As civilization ap- | roachbed he moved further on to the frontier end grazed his cattle up the Pecos vatley into New Mexico. His fortunes in this time had many changes. The bands of cattle thieves «nd Indians would sometimes attack and ktll Mis cow boys and drive away the herds, but. litttson would rally a mounted force, ran | gather up his cattle Tudtans would es At other times successfully drive away his cat- markets would nearly ruin him. But at the | end of eighteen years from the time he started | Gat Hittson had forty thousand head of cattle, Nifty thousand acres of land, and a long bank secount. For the past dozen years he expert- | «nced more bad than good fortune. Ten years #go he quit the Pecos country, in New Mexico, end bought 20,000 acres of land fifty miles east cf Renver, Col. His purchase lay along the | only streams in that section of country, and The 200,000 acres Of adjoining land, belonging vo the government, was valueless except as a | grezing ground for Hittgon’s cat He stocked ine ranch with 10,000 to 12,000 head of cattle 41d 400 Or 590 ponies, and employed about 200 ten. All this property, his house, and all its belengings, ont Ses value to $500,000 or lnore, was vested in hia wife. The assigntag of Lie property was made necessary by the series cf costly Itigations In which he had become tn- volved over cattle of disputed ownership that | he had bought. | Mr. Hittson wasin the prime of manhood at the time of hs death. He was six Ives one inch tall, straight, lithe and sinewy. He wasa Dionde {n complexion. and wore his light-cal- ored hair long. He hada finely cut fave, the striking feature of which was the firm, square- fet jaws, which stamped him as a man of re3- | olution. His eyes were a clear, steely blue, or- dinarily pleasant in expression, but fashtog | fire when he was aroused. Mr. Hittson was | usually & ial, companionable man. but when ext by liquor, as he not tofrequensiy was In bis later years, he was a dangerous mag | to cross. He always carried a pair of heavy pistols, and they were used in a twinkiti when his passion was up. His cowboys lik him, but feared him, and his long battles with the Mexicans on the Texas frontier made the herders of that race give him a wide birth. His Hfetime on the frontier had made him a sort of Jaw unto himself, and courts and juries were to him slow means of administering jus- tice. He believed in dealing with offenders on the spot, without any waste of time. As 8 host on his big ranch ‘Hittson was a royal has been his guest. been his friends in this c t7.—N. F. Sun, A bill struck @ circus ents of a Chicago horse, while the driver won Out of Sight, and has tr RELIGIOUS NMOres. —Mesere, Moody and Sankey have accepted an invitation to attend the next Christian coa- vention at Dublin. —At the oloseof the war there were only two al ohurches im the Sout. He ene ae —The six Methodist churches of Bsatrott have id off depts ting $35,000, End celebrated thetr ‘omanotpauion by jubil — The Rev. George B. Vosburgh, formerly of Jersey city, has written a novel, which ts be- ing published as a serial by one of the Chicazo | Teiigious weeklies. | —The Baptists of Atlantic city are making Pp to build a new house of worship, | ‘which they hope to have ready in Ume for tue Opening of next summer's rush to the seaside. —The Church of Christian Kadeavor tn Srooklyn is no longer independent of all de- nominational connection. but has taken its place in the Congregational ranks. Mr. Crafts 18 now ita pactor. — A Springfield clergyman preached a Sunday ortwo ago on the Puritan fathers, and sald that these worthy men were neither gloomy ascetics nor ragged beggars, as had beep sup- posed by many people. — It is egtimated that there are 7,000,000 Jews | in the world, and 500,000 of whom are in the United States. There are 70,000 in New York city, and they area thrifty, orderly and re- markably self-supporting people. —The First Baptist church of Brooklyn, of which the Rev. Dr. Thomas is pastor, some time ago abandoned the pew system for the voluntary “envelope plac” of contributtons. | The result was the lng of the income of the church froma $8,500 to $10,000. — Whittaker’s church Almanac for 1831 will | show that the Protestant Episcopal church | 43! has gained the past year 20,346 communtc ints | nd 177 clergymen, and increased its contri- | butions by $430,763. The number of clergy 1s 3,435, and of communtcayts 345,341. Tho total | Of contributions was $7, 62. —Tbe woman who went to church with one bennet thoughtlessly stuck on top of another had the honor of being envied by ail the other women in the sanctuary. They thought tt waz & Dew and charming style of bonnet, and spent their time in such earnest wonder as to how it was p.znned and where it was made, that they forgot to listen tothe sermon, or even to | the exercises of the choir. — Bishop Elder, coadjutor to Archbishop Pur- cell, in the diocese of the Catholic church, nag issued a strict order to the clergy, which causes some excitement. He enjoies platoness in | dress for chiidren at first communion, prohibits 1cund-daucing and church entertainments, and | dancing of any Kind after dark; enjotus the Strict enforcement of the church laws on all matters; prohibita the clergy. from recsiving money on deposit; advises {ull Christian names for children, instead of abbreviations or pet Dames; enjolosthe use of plain music, and such as Is not heard in places of amusement, or In- tended to show off the voice of the singer or the gentus of the composer. —At a meeting of the church and stage Guild of London recently Mrs. D'Annetta read @ paper on “Operatic Church Mustc.” best music, sacred and secular, she said, ought to be performed tn church, even if it drew tts iuspiration from the opera. In the discussion which Yollowed, one lady, among others, pro- tested against the use of operatic music in cLurches. It had been her misfortune fo hear oreratic singers in churches, and she thought they carried with them ao influence witch Was not religious. ‘They were employed to sing, were paid for their services, and read their novels or cracked thelr nuts between the pleces just as they pleased. — Rev. Dr. Dexter, of the Congregationalrst,U93 arrived at Liverpool on his European tour and Writes in this wise of the tedlousnes3 of Coa- gregational church services there: I confess to Ube renewalot anold doubt whether our dis- senting Dreturen here are wise, orotherwise, in imttating the stupendous length of the mora. ing services of the establishment. I rather like | 80 Mahy singings, but two “long” prayers fall to edify, and when the communion exercises are to be appended as the concluding portion, one may perhaps be pardoned for questioning whether the occupation of (say) three full hours thus be the wisest proportioning of all the sacred privileges of a day which should be watchfully guarded against all danger of being jade @ weariness to the good. “Sunday in Franca,” says the Pall Mall Gozlte, “Instead of being universally given up to mere sensuous gratification or Idieness, is | devoted by vast numbers to some of the most laborious and Leper St objects. Since the inauguration of the republic, a real apostolate of instruction may be sald to have origtnated throughout the country; and le conference pop- ulaire, or Sunday afternoon lecture, nas be- ccme a regular thing ta most of the large towns, thovgh it has the strongest poli in Paris. This method of promotiag intelligence was apart of the plan of popular education guggested by Condorcet, who realized that the me was at hand whea Danton’s famous for- mula would be thus chauged on the lips of the tuue republican: ‘De Yinstruction, eacore de Tiastraction, toujours de Vinstrucuon!’ ” —Treating upon the fact that there is an Unhealthy surplus of ministers tn all the de- nominations the Golden Rule saya: Every tew Weeks a representative meeting of some one of the denominations, will bring this matter up for consideration. And, whatever decision Uhey may reach, the fact Is apparent; when a vacant pulpit offering but ltue inducement has, witain @ month, ag many as a hundred applicants; when a acore or more of preachers are walting around the headquarters of the different denominations each Saturday for a chance to preach on Sunday, when very good preachers can be had for five dollars,a Sabbath’s supply. These facts have been known and com- mented upon by the churches for yeara. Now, have these facts anytuing to do with the gen- eral uneasiness on the part of the churene and the tendency to unsettle ministers? Does it not tend to weaken the pastoral relation, when the churches know that ministers are 80 plenty, and can be had at any price? And more than all, does it not degrade the sacred calling of the ministryy Then we submit whether this abnormal condition cannot in part be remedied by a little more sifting, in the examination of students who seek entrance to our seminaries, a little more wisdom in granting ald by the educational society. Some Remuniscences of Thackcray When I saw Mr. Thackeray pass our carriage door 1 knew him, and therefore captured him. Deairous of making way for him, I remarked to my fellow-travelers, a Frenchman and his wife, “7 would like to make a place for Mr. Thack- eray." The fact that I named Mr. Thackeray made no ampression, apparently, upon my French friends, 1 anrotated my remark by say- ig, “Mr. Thackeray, the celebrated English au- thor.” Sume indifference. Having halied Mr. ‘Thackeray and got him installed, as a prelim- inary remark I referred to my effort to explain bis status to my neighbors, and to the tmpres- ston I had made. He en and sald, “Oh, it takes fifty years for an Engitsh reputation to travel to France.” (Indeed, something strongiy c. ntirming that view happened only last year. To acon; of literary men Called to meet In Paris, invitations were sent out to foreign au- tnons of distinction to be present, and among them to Thackeray and Dickens!) He dis- cussed the reasons for the American Revolu- Uon,—clatming that the resistance of our | ancestors to the Stamp Act was unjustifiable. Tem atrald the case for the defeuse wa3 we for at that ume, being a college graduate, think I had studied aimost everything a m ought'to know for bis Hterary salvation exvept Awerican history. ‘The Interest of the conver- Salion centred on bis treatment of women in his works. It = represented that he took a low view cf female character, his repiy lit- erally was, “wou'd you have me descride tham | other than they sre?” Toat of course provoxed @ Ciscussion as tothe facts. He became com- mubicative about himself; he spoke of nts can- didacy for Parliament, what it cost bim,—a large amount of money, which he named. He stcod for the University of Oxford, and was beaten by Sir Robert Walter Cardweil, who Was alterwards, I belleve, unseated for bribary. | Losked him how they took hig treatmeat of the Georges in England, in those killing lec- tures. He said the aristocracy had cut hin. He spoke particularly of Lord Wensleydate, tne | Baron Paikeof tho lawyers. He and Weasiey- | daie bad long been friends, ‘bat after che iev- tures,” said Thackeray, -‘ae cut me completely.” 1 remarked to Mr. Thackeray that he had Ye.tured no criticisms upon our people atter bis return home; and thatI should b3 glad to know what aispleased him most in our ways He replied promptly. “I'he abuse heaped by the newspapers OnoOne another; and it wasn’t cleverly done, with the exception of a Pail- ade Iphia editor, and I told them to kee; on him.” If Mr. per laps, of the deepest interest related to ae styles of authors. One sentence can never be lorgotten: “If I were to wrie xs I would ilke, I would tthe style of Fieldiug and Smo!- lett; but ty would not tolerate, It. ‘The discussion now going on between real ism or naturalism and sentimentatisn or 1d +al- ism ts here forshadowed. Of course we have to ding and Smo'lett wrote, and what Zola writ-s, becanse thoy speak too plainiy. Lion Aig you like; but it remains esnen!tally true th: style, ai a style, is now fighting for recognition with some chance for success. - ‘Thackeray has. to sé mind, not only besa influenced in his s'yl: by bis models Fielding and Smoliett, but by the style ta which fiction oor densed, Wolsive, epigrammatio, and nat. cor ve, ep! an urai style of Thackeray 13 clear! Of the modern Freac. school of nary Adantic, | on her arm or carried ; nUCH aS a Conventence for holding various pur- , chates, but because they will be handed hi { ZoUsee tt roiled tn a teat tro | & dite of it, and I should lose so mach; there- | splinters. shops, a stranger | wh between econ So fine, indeed, is th's itis ly strange that the former should frequently run into the latter. . first — or cosy that —- one = use of wral paper. Kvery gos housewife goes to Tari wita a large basket | by a servant, not so without a morsel of covering. Vegetables. fruit, eggs, fish, bread, rolls, etc. are Carefauy | weighed and placed directly ta your basket, ang Mf, pushed by @ seuse of bis: ¥, you ask for a serap of paper, the usucly cheery face of the | Stall-Keeper ciouds Over as she hands you a Scanty piece of old newspaper, or, peroian: @ bit of common brown wrapping paper. wie, it ts evident in givixg, she regards a3 a clear deduction on her prouts. Then when tt_comes to but cheese or lard, an old accouat- bok or ledger which has one uvwri:ten side. The vendors on tbe street sell their wares in little bags of newspapers, whicu they paste themselves in spare moments; and. apropos of this Class, may be MenUioned Vhe frst lesson your correspondent received in French econo ay, | Passing a stout old woman with red cheeks: and a white cap, who was wheeling a little | i ‘Wagor of pears along, | asked her tf they wi good. “Very good, Monsieur. very good. 1 will Show you.” And with a Knife she cit one open aud began toeatit. As the frult disappeared down her capacions throat I asked: ““f ny did You not perml. me vo tase ti she replied, coolly, “If Monsteur did the fruit be would noi wish to pay for fore, I taste for him, and no‘hing ia lost. It is 80 much of = ies . Ay stent Speaking logs being gold by w which isthe rule hére from a bandt1 of wood to a baBkei of cygs, 1t ts amusing to note the | exactness of the tradesman. More than once I have seen a frutter spoll the looks of a tine bunch of grapes by breakiog off three or four { Decause that trifle overweightod; and as to | butter, they will cut it with a cord almost into | ‘The tradesman has, however, tils match in the frugal French housekeeper, who consi ta duty to weigh her purchases on reaching home, and should she have bougnt anything lke honey or pickles, requiring a dish, sue Knows the exact weight of the same, and if the shop keeper has not amply allowed for it, woe ba to him. This household economy exiends to the vertest trifles—even to the paring of vegetabies, which 18 so carefully done tuat Mr. Pig proiits | little by the process, | As to fuel, it ts collected and cut and weighed and sold like gold. Driving through the beau- | tural wood of the Bots de Boulogne, tne great | pleasure resort of Paris, one notes the workmen cuttibg down a dead tree here and there. After it falls it 1s measured and cut into logs and sticks, forming Duudies of different swes, and even the twigs a fluger tn length and as jange round as straws are sold by the charhvunier tor five cents a bundle. ‘here could be no More meaningless adjura- tion to fighting Frenchmen than to teil them, * Strike for your altars and your tires!” for just at present they seem very much at variauce as to what thelr altars are, and fires, an American would say, they don’t know the meaning of, and for this reason the cost of fuel is much more a matter of indifference to them than It could be otherwise. There are numberless fait- es here who, except in their klichen, never have a fire from one year’s end to the other in thelr houses, and it must be remembered that F. ance is by no meaus a !and of perpetual sun- shine and balmy breezes, but that the winters, while without the sharp severity of our own, are chilly, rainy and forlorn, Looking a little deeper, however, one can Understand that thls fireless condition is due, a em measure, to the fact that the French i] | | | away with breakfast; at dejeuner or lunch head of a family goes to a cafe down town, and to dine out ts the rule. After dinner comes the theater; frequently the husband going to one and the wife to another, and there are no children to demand a family reunion. ‘The Kitchens here are cold and comfortless, the lopg rangeof blue and white tiles having three or four small eon ae its for the cooking. A generous handfal of charcoal will fill one, and in the lighting of these ltttie fires | one sees another stroke of economy. At the charbonniter’s can be bought for one cent a box of pine splinters that Lave been dipped tn some inilammable liquid and of which there are ebough to light half a dozen fires, One would consider this kindling sufficiently economical to be within reach of every one, yet I have seen women in comfortable circumstances, and with a snug little sum laid by, spend fifteen or twenty minutes igniting charcoal with bits of Paper—a most laborious process. | The French people work to save. and not to spend; the consequence of which is you find your butler, and your barber, and your mili man living, perhaps, In two rooms and wearing the plainest of garments, yet having a comfort- able account at the bank or owning a falr num- ber of shares in railroad stock. | That there is notning wasied in France is certain. Every night the streets of Paris are Swept, Dut not uutil they have first yielded a harvest to the army of collectors—whom noth- ing eascapes—be it leaves from the trees for compost, stray pins to be stuck on gold to the poor, cigar stubs to be cl for smoking tobacco, crusts to and ground for cooking pury to be assorted at the hair-dressers, Tags, old tin and tron, paper and cinders, yield to hook and bag. And these wretchei Pickers-up of unconsidered tritles, generally oad | and bent and grizzied, to derive sucao es from their labor that not unfrequently 1 bie, Cagle daughter receives a dot that makes her husband's eyes twinkle. ENGLISH KISSES, i Testimonials to the Sweetness of © Anglican Osculation. j The women of Kogland (says HolydoreVirgit). + in the Parisian, not only salute their relations | with a kiss, but all persons promiscuousiy; and this ceremony they repeat, gently touching them with the lips, not oniy with but ‘Without the least immodesty. Sucn, however, 88 are of the blood-royal do not kiss their tnfe- Tiors, but offer the back of the hand, as men do by way of saluting each other. Erasmus writes in raptures to one of his friends on this sudject. “Did you but know, my Faustus," BeyS he, “the pleasures which Kugiend affords, you would fly here on winged feet, and, if your gout would not allow you, you would wish yourself a Dedaius. To Mention to you onc among many U.ings, here are pymphs of the loveilest guod- humored. easy of access, and whom you would Prefer even to your favorite muses. Here also Prevails @ Custom never enough to be com. Mended, that wherever you come everyone re Ceives you With a kiss, and when you take your leave everyone gives you a kiss; when you return kisses ain meet you. If anyone leaves you they leave you with a kiss; if you meet abyone the first salutation ts a kiss; in pened wherever you go kisses everywhere about; which, my Faustus did you Once taste how very sweet and how very fragrant they are, you would not, Uke Soton, wish ten years" for ealle iu Epgiana, but would desire there to Spend the whole of ycur Iife.” Antonio Perez, secretary to the embassy from Pniiip IL of Spain, writes thus to the Earlof Esgex: “Ihave luis day, eccording to the custom of your coun- Uy, Kissed, at an entertainment, seven females, aii ot them accomplished in mind and beautifal ib ” Dr. Pierlus Winsemtus, historio- rapher to their Mightinesses the States ot ‘ileziand, In bis Chroniick van Friesland, Printed In 1662, Informs us that the pleasant custom Was utterly wnpri and unkno#vn in England (just as tt is this day ia New Z2a- land, where sweethearts only know how to tcuch Loses when they wish to de kind) until the fair Princess Rouix, the daughter of Kiag Hengist of Frieziaud, “pressed the beaker with her lipking” (little ips) aud saluted the amo- rous Vortigern with a husjeb (little kiss). Sedentary Habits. ‘The alarming increase of late years ia the Proportion of sudden deaths ts beginning to a@liract Uhe attention of statisticians, It is largely due, no doubt, to more general men- tal activity without a proportionate increase in bodily exercise. The busy Hfe of the age demands a constant huiry and excitement, aba taxes the physical powers to the uunost to beep up io the race for Ore of the disadvantages of cil:iles Of transportation ts the temptation to Ut short time and distance by the havit- Ual Use cf steam cars and horse ours even in the dally transit from the dwelling to the Office. A sedentary occupation begets an al most unconquerable aversion tw reguiar ex: reise, and the result of yielding to the in- Gi: position is that the mental powers, kept ata ste dy tension for years, wili some day. aly Telux and leave their abuser either lifeless or a helplees paralytic. To literary and profes sional men 1s and regul cially needful, and the example of iw ‘cts in a hale old Selves to every one. The exercise uecded 10 nee mind in tone and the physical force ‘unabsted. up to the four score years and ten, ts DO: @ datly spin but the lng owinging } mit her Forenzbie she sways (0 and fro on her dainyy | ation kid heels like some gracefui wind-Diowa ower. “ Mamma.” she Hsped pretitiy, “please intro @uce me to your assisiani.” Whereupon mamma says, “tridget, this ts your youty lady, Miss Oteely, wuo Wanss to leaiD the name gnd use oleveryiuing in the ki-chen, and now to make coooaut rusks and sngels’ food, before she goes Ww oowwkerping for berself, Bridget gives a sport of disfavor, but, as she lo ks at the your g lady, reienta and says, “li Unroy.” “And now, Britgei dear, when they are atom see T don't cept Gid av Scbool, xnd isn't Uhis old kitchen What makes twe oelling such a Dewuiltu eclor, Bridget? “Sbmoke,” answered eitget shortly, Me Old eFes Bre Pal Oat with Tht same.” Somoke ft must remember nat; ata i, What are Ubose shluy things Oa the ea” “ Kiverst—oh, yes, I must jook for the de | i | | ' | i pe reamed ao Rue Lama roVers . Who is at this date tae bead of the family; Baron Solomon, who did & long Ume ago; Baron Gusiave, Euroa K4- mord and the Baroness Nathaniel Kocbschlid. The venerable dowager ts a veritable fountali ot ob - She gives away hundreds o' (Lousends Of francs every year. To summer she lives in a splendid country house at Row Jogne where apariment® for each of her soy and daughters are kept constantly in on: aiOu abd Baroness Alphonse Kocbsoutld live de old wwanston in Che iue Salut Fioreutine, te Taileyrand once resided vare gay extremely fond Of soctety, and are seom here tn the monde; the Baroness 14 one Most acccmpltshed equeairiena s wae frequent the Rois de Bowlogut. fer busdand ty wn ent patron of the Unrt. Mo hes nuit and Chautilly aod lacisa ons on thera. Solomon Roilschiid was a te mii ded man, fond of ConversAuion, Veo! resand society.” His widow has adaugae Who Wil, [Uissaid. bo the richest helres ia Lue Pavia family. Ba‘ou Gustave tx the oaly one Who bas married outside the famtly. Oac of the sons of the late Nathaatel Roths*s i ke eu mite hea: th tue famiy ¥a | 1a@s just purchased ie Spies n Won Of Ghat word.’ dridget, what are those | -jon of Contr Tomer tn the Ateoee ay aoe rownd things in that basker?’ andl, ald another, named Arthar, spa: ~ Pratiest’ (Hor the Lord's sake, where hey ye | be in eatieetin books. IC ts sald tne qf iver to hear of pratiest) Why, thes're | eige in Krauce except the Duke d'Autaale p = rincipel mate of Ireland where { kiwi | sesses such iMesUMaAdie treasures of ‘are at. t tions and luxurious bindlug ae thts you “ob, Dut we bave corrupted the name tnto | Ro:Lschild. One of the lates. x Po ntoeR; Such a Shame not to Keep tne td:om of A language. Bridget—do you miud tf 1 cali you Biddte?—tt is more euphonious, and mod- eruizes the old olassic appellaulon. Wuat is tht- uiquid fa the pan here?” “Och, murther! Where wuz ye raised? Taat's fresh from the cow.” “MLL-1ick, that ts the vernacular, I suppose, Of milk, and that thick, yellow coating?” “is crame, (Lord! such ignorance.) Tame! now Biddie, dear, 1 must get to work. I'm going to make a cake ali out of my own head for Henry—he's my lover, Biddie—vo eat when he comes to-night.” Bridget, aside—“It's dead he 15 sure, then, If be ates 10!” “Ive got tt all down bere, Biddie, tablet: A’ pound of butter, ¥ eggs, 2" pc sugar, salt Co your taste. No, thats a mistai: reitis. Now, Biddle, the eges nrsi. it Says to Deal them well; DUC Won't nat break » shells?” “well, I'd break thim thts time, if I yw: Miss Cicely; they might aot sec well « rn Benry’s stummnch ef ye dian't,” said Bridget, pleasantly. * Ob, | suppose the shelis are used separately. The Cve broken al! the eggs ini the dour. 2 thein fo some poor peopie. Ob, I'm so tired! Isn't housework dreadral hard? Lut I'm glad I've learned to make cake. Now what shall I do next, Biddle?” “Excuse me, Miss Cicely, but ye motght give 110 the pigs." IUs meself ‘can’t see any other ust for it,” sald bridget crustlly. 3 Ob, Biddte! you don’t mean to say ‘ou have some dear, cunning Lule white Pixs? Ob do bring the little daritogs in and let me feed them. I'm just dying to uaveone for apet. Isaw some canton flannel ones oace al a fair and they were too awfully sweet for anything.” Just uben ihe bell rang, and Bridget returnet to xpnounce Mr. Hepry, and Clcely told Bridget she would tuke another lesson next day, aad then she went up staira in her chintz 4jrou ard mob cap, Witu a little dabof flouron her lip lifted nose, abd told Henry she was learning to 00k; and he told Ler she must not get over- heated or worrted out, for he @idut care Whether she could cook or not; he should never Want to eat when he could talk to her, aud it was only sordid souls that cared for cooking. And meanwhile poor Bridget was just siam- Ming things in the kitchen and talking to her- self in her own sweet idiom about idgits turn- ig things upside down for ber tnconvanen- g.” Now what nex! Lines to a Forward Y: ester, Why, I kaow “Tis not very long ago You were only four or 60! And a little while before You were only three or more And # little earlier you tered a8 one or two! Yes, in brief, the time's bu Since you didn't count at Seven! It is a week of years; One for every day appear Sunday—ab, you roxne!—you kept Like a deacon, for you slept! Ronday, teeth began tocome Prickiny through your litle gam isy, You set out to walk: oh, how you did talk! ‘Ibursday, you left baby suite, Donning Pantaloons and boots Friday, you with ardor ran After s hand-orcan moan, why, that's to-day, . Aud you're seven yours old, you say ‘Seven hisses you must take; L, sic? i You preter? Weil, I never! In my tune Boys saved up to get n dime Ina minute, like a capt! Well, consid Me vould let you have your way Yet, considering the times, femust keap you down to dimos. * Dollars of the Fathers” don't Cireulate as they were wont, _ ugh some ray get their shares, a father finds them scaroe. Or, Bese’ Seven years old! and soon, no doubt, a ers will be coming out! (Don't you feel a slight moustache Ia the way of soup or hash?) Presently you abie To employ the livery stable ; Ina buy; you will ride With a lady "by your sid, While the folks say to their wives, ** Goodness. ious! hew he drives'” ¥ou are Clnaltinae ant the lady? What! you've picked her out already? ‘To a person #0 mature I need not suggest, I'm sure, That all quarreling with sisters, Crying over bumps and blisters, Disobeyiox mother’s rule, Telling tibs at home or school, Pelfishners or mauners ro Must be counted childish For of course you'll leave ‘To the boys who are but si They wil not be taowzht of even, ae teman of seven! faymond, in the Piymouth Triangle. Men as Things. {London Giobe.! Every body knows the tram. How few, how- ever, are aware tbat the street railroads are 80 Demed from the inventor Outram. Ocginaily they were called the Outram way. Thon the Hist syllable of the name was omitted and the SS form adupted. In France, Belgium, lolland and Germany the term “tram” has been imported with the thing, although the Germans sometimes name It Prerdeeisenbaha, (@-horse-on-an-iron-road.) Then, again, there ts Macadam, who has given his mame to a special kind of road- to be “macadamized, “a bit of macadam.” are pamed alter men. Nobody can walk a@bupdred yards to the crowded thoroughfares of Lonéon without beariug *Hansom :” nailed. Hansom does not answer. He bas long aimee crossed the Styx m the ferry boat; but his tent safety cab endures as a memento of id WhO Was our first London gondoller. Originally we find that people talked of riding in a “patent safety.” It was quite improper at that time for a lady-to null, or, at least to ride in “3 U safety.” Aiterwards the vehicle ied a “Hansom’s safety,” and finally the man became the thing. A “Hanson” is now as Touch an institution of London as a gondola ts of Venice. A “Brougham” and a *-Vicworia” are Vehicles in everyday use, the one named after the versatile Chancellor, the otber after our Sovere . In *Pbeton” we have a more Austr tous bame than tha‘ of a Lord Chancellor or even a Queen; for was Lot Phwton son of Pho@bus-Appollo and Ciymene. one of the Ovceanidest? Again, so prosaic aud moderfi a mode Of conveyance @s @ railway train ordl- Dertiy has a “Pullman” attached to it. In articles of spparel the same seivabie. If ttralusone puts on a *Mackin- tosb;” and, perbeps, wears one’s “Wellingtons” of one's “Biuchers.” It one goes to a vail or Psrty, or tO an Opera or a theater. one wears a “Gibus.” When the “Gibus” was Oret invented 18 was called the crush opera hat; Dut in process of Ume, the name of the maker 81 Carriages of all soris come (or are to Dut with ap inieewtd the man’s trade-mark is the man. In the same “Bass,” ang “Al'- sop,” and “Guinness,” are always spoken of out description ‘The Christmas Stocking. oy whet shail I putin Maud's stocking’ ieee eae : as i 'cheap und © pretty way.” arly that b-eutifal mornic, Aaa rose Mead the fair, id And ed through her Christmas Fitts n conductors om @ Boston street rall- 100d have just been for what tne Adve iiser calls wlaasing their bell-puackes | | | must call for “ADVARIIeMD | carriage which ts or | pie; deleates to Pacts of thts phi family 18 Baron Adulphe Rothson " who ]as closed out his bustuess an, with the serenity of conscience: the knowiedge of the possession of 1s0.000.000 franes. ie may be seca nowgant ‘Uben in the Bols, jolling negiigently in the Bla> ft ihe peculiarities house.’ He ts a great collector, and wi hundreds of tho-sauds of francs upon any trite which he happens to oonaider that he mua have. There 1> bat one Cathoile in the famniiy, anc thattsthe young Dachess of G who. It will be remembered, was the daughier of Baron Kothschtid, of Fraaktort-on-the- Main, one of the ric embers of the group. ASpecamen Western tiem. (Butte (Cal) Miver ‘The proprietors of the International Morel tn lie nu afew Gays agO loaded some stove wood with cunpowder, with whitch they proposed annil g RON Wood thievea, hy accident, however, they used some of the sticks thea e stove WAS Smashed Into small the side-door, which was un piown toward’ Bob Wisk, who was 1t struck bim square om hinged aod standing at the war. the cheek, and without abrasing the skin r. bounded through # brick wall Uwo feet tbiek and burled Itself in the bill-side, » re) fin!=hed bis drink and received the wara. gratulations of (he landlord for having diverted the course of the missive from the fine mahoz- ®n) bar. which would undoubtedly have besa demolished. A WARNING TO CURSING [UsnaNDS.—In Ne York four years ago Margaret. Kennedy her husband, Wm. H. Kenordy, for im @vorce. Kennedy is a OWA polllich and undertaker. ground on whic divorce was asked was & peculiar Ove, tne que on arising as to whether abusive’ lanza without physical violence was sufictens, with. in the meaning of the statute, to entitle the Plaipuf to such decree. trial Judgment ‘Was rendered ‘n favor of Mra. Kennedy, which the general te:m of the superior court lias n affirmed. The judges held that the defendant's foul and Diasphemous ls guage to bis wife aod his threats of violence towards her being habitual, it was the duty of the court to Later fere when such threats raised reasonabie ap- prebension Of violence, and not watt uutli they were executed, Plaint.T has testified on trial that ber husband tad used abusive lae- cuage to her, and had thicatesed lo murder er. od ‘Tor Wat KY TRADE tn Gincinnatt has Deon very prosperous this year. The production in Hamiiton county and the district opposite for the fiscal year Was nearly 16,000 000 gatlous, the takes amounting 10 $12,300,000, an lucrease of $1,250,000 Over Lhe preceding year. A Git. Basy, aged about three months, waa found abandoned by her mother tn a berth om the Boston steamer Newport at New York yea- terday. The child was taken to police huad- | quarters, ‘Le Merchants on ‘change at St Louts wound up ‘Le old year yesterday al noon With a grand tre: L"5 OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE WASHINGTON CiTY POST OFFIOR, Saturday, Janusry 2, BSE S®To obtain any of these Letters the applion t eas,” wud wire the Laie of this tat. 6" If not called for within one month they will be went % the Dead Letter Office. * LADIES’ LIST 4 Abbott Alte V; Alexander OJ Mra B—Lrown WS Mrs: boardley Garoline; Brown Butler Lilsey S; Brown Bilen M: Brown En 28; Botiler Elizabeth wn Vannic; Back ; Burroughs Henrietta; Brown Henry are Bowly Fannie Bates Jo inte Bea? ae" iat Sk BS? bere a a ier : ra; Barn : Barber W Tere qiaibert Abbie; Collins Betuo: Garter Carrie, Davis Auua; Dewey BB Mrs, Dangoréela 1 \ aus Hattie V ; Eitis Rose, Rdwards Louisa. Br_Furgorsun Abuie; Frye Bottin. or Enms; Farvis Jennie: Foxy Isabella: Falck Louisa; Fletober Susie B; Frautlin Gi Gpmes Adesue: Garking Carrie; Gerson i 2 jo nie. Gre: = Howard Bolle; Hall Charlotte: tian Sob Jones. da: Joves Emma; Jackson Bites. —_ johueun Nenoy . ‘Aman a Ligeie. Jolinson Lottie: ‘Nancy. 3 KKinw Kania; Kane FE Miss; Kitung Katio: 1-—Lixhine Suste A: Lowrie Bueabeth ; Lowriers Lizzie; Lloyd Nellie: Larkes MB mre, ™M AS Moore Annie; Auciia: Meson Dede; Mersiey toe; seus Rmmak; MesonG a Mrs: Miler LO Mre, Mat there L, Mire. Bl torrie Willeans nore cia Victoria ae sles co, on Ruse B; Mangum Virgitie. Mckeme Keat —Nelson Caddie BD; Noraian Fanvie; Nelson Lucy NyoZ F Mra. iu U Bren Kae, Overacker L A Mrs; O'rien harsh M. ind © Mre: Smith Miizabeth; Sturte vant G W Mrs; Suicen Annie; Shile Goo D Mrs; Stevenson J D Mrs, Sotmidt Ju is; sturn Kate. Stephens DL Mre; Mrs; Steuedi Mary: Smith Mrs; Eliza Btearen Stover. 8m ‘Tucker Faa- Tavou> ie; Fauni Sone: Themloy Jenule: Witton: “sary Mary 8, Thayer N J EY — Valentine sees! W_ Wilton Auuie #; White ; Weet Aen’ Wool atkins Carolus Word mma; Winston Fannie; Wells Jane. Whits Wallurd Lene: W. belt. GENTLEMED'S List. AAndrewe Albert 8; Austou William Baker John F: Biuson John 8; Brow Joraph: eoet Jeqmes F- Bowden ; Buter BB Mrs: Rachel Sarah: Topliffe 8 L. Mrs; Teper F Mx. v Jeesie. AnD: Woite’ Alice; Lucy. Willams Marion ite Miss; Waliace Philows B Parks DF: Brown Kdward: Brown HP. prady Tnemas; Ruckle Gao ree. Carty Joba; Chew John cgamae * Dene! chard. n %, ‘ougherty Charles. Peete Boberi, Davidsoa BK—Emalie Genial: Eliot E; Ess Houry 6. 2 * FF: Davis 1 heodore F , Rawards JE Misty Artbor: French Alfre¢esbaolk © M Fanires C Mra; Fibert lesee; Fite s ohe ~Gree. C Mre, Gebenheusos a, Mr, Grant Wallace ®_Balferd 4 P. Benry Ghas: Haley w. a8 P; Bunter Geo W¢ Healy Jan W: Kopp gin Hoa ine Oscar: Hagan Phitiip, 3. He wit! | — Some Deon * Ge dudab LA Jobuson Kd Jobuson Ramey; 00 «beter. K—Kirk CC: Kn tur HL; Kuapp Jag Gol, Kel ; Bing 2 A Kev. Kennedy Wa vile AD! Lastence Berth Lows » Joa A ) dno M Lloyd Waa af. le Ch “Beanie Meyer Ooeatt " ‘Editor ‘appendsa aD sw pai o ING IN GI by ETS CCRTTA tai LADIES’ List. . Kuwbs avon Waker iattt O y Mire. CENILEMENS . iT. Oawiy 3G. ALNQUA, Pontauwaves