Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1882, Page 2

a) he eae For Tae Evexina Sran. & Notable Triumph Over Prejudice. After the close ot the war of the rebellion in 1866, 1567 and 1868, when the southern states ‘were temporarily under military government, 1 Was an army officer stationed at Gordonsville, ¥Va.,and charged with the reconstruction af- fairs ot Orange and Louisa counties. In estab- Ushing sehools forthe newly liberated blacke and attending to public business at the county Beats I became quite well acquainted with the People. One of their peculiarities was that once ® month in each county on “court day” a large Part of the population assembled at the court- house, some for business, tut many for a sort of holiday or social exchange, in which the influ- nce of intoxicating liquor was too frequently Manifest. On one of these occasions it was given out that John M. Langston, the colored Orator, now United States minister to Hayti, would «peak at Louisa Court-honse. The result Was an unusually 1a attendance of the colored people, so Langston was ‘born nisa county, and his father, an ¢ rginia gentle- man, provided in his will that he should be lib- erated and edueated, and given a share of his estate. Althouzh a long while free, and hon- orably distingul there had never been a time before when Langston could safely visit his native home. Now he was to come back a leading man of his race, to speak in public, ang to revisit the scenes and recall the memories of his childhood. It was, therefore, a great ocea- sion for him, and for the freedmen of Louisa county. The white peopie, however, took little Rote Of it or interest in it; although ! had tried @mong the lawyers and pf the merchants, and other principal ¢ the im- Pression that Langston should Fecognize and respect. I remember — par- tieularly trying to convince ral Gor- don, then county attorne: an excellent Man, that he might t <d it he came over to hear him talk. The feeling that the negro was in all eases necessarily Inferior and totally uninterest- however, too strong, and the general 1 impatience, if not t my commendatory obser- n. They woul not baye could talk law, polities, ything else, with a degree nce to merit their atten- not imagine that they n to attest in a remarkable eamity or contempt sof men. Of course ved at any hotel in it that any ‘nig: Feconstruction, 0 of ability and inte tion; and they themselves were manner the folly of set for an entire race or Langston would not be r the villaze, but I manazed to get over that GiMeculty by engaging a room for myself at the American, inviting him into it and quietly ordering a pri juncheon for two, of the best the house aff “i. With some difficulty a plea: een, where were some shade trees @nd a speaker's platform, was secured for Lang- ston’s address, and after luncheon, when a crowd « ored people had assembled, I walked with him and a few white republicans (objects Of intense detestation to the mass of the white people) to the platform. I noticed Gen. Gordon and a few of the prominent citizens around the skirts of the crowd, within hearing of the med to be really attending the meeting. Langston began by referring to ia and Louisa county as the place of and spoke in the happiest vein, and 1 the elegance and oratorical art that inguish him, of the genuine affection he felt for bis native state and town, and of the pleas- ure it gave him to come back again to the home yhood. Ina few minutes he had the ‘y of every man within reach of his voice. He pictured the greatness of the state in Its early days, referred to its distinguished men, and its history and Rational influence, spoke touchingly of its present temporary on and distress, and Most hopefully and glowingly of its future Promise and possibilities as a free state. Then with admirable taste and tact he fell naturally into a discussion of the living questions of the day. avoids ll irritating points and expres- sions. Ina little while [ looked about me and Sew the platform and all available space near ft g@nd around it packed with white people. The Blacks, accustomed to yielding precedence, had given up all the best places, and a white man ‘was wedzed into every one. More eager inter- est I never saw in the faces of any audience. re was Gen. Gordon crowding near Lang- ston with irrepressible confession of homage Springing from his eyes and pouring down his eheeks, while the beautiful periods, paying honor to old Virginia, fell from the orator’s lips. The address continuea about two hours with unflagging interest on the part of the audience, and closed With an admirable peroration. Then foll a scene of spontaneous enthusiasm that is seldom Witnessed. It was my purpose to introduce several white citizens to Langston at the close of his speech, but the excitement among them was too great. They crowded upon him, as many as could get nd fairly overwhelmed him with the warmth and energy of their uncon- strained greetings and compliments. He was borne by the pressure into the dining room of the hotel. and a grand dinner was forthwith or- dered in his honor, at which Gen. Gordon pre- sided, and many of the best citizens sat at the ard, He was at once a guest of the town, and no attention or henor seemed too great for its good people to bestow upon him. All Prejudice azainst color was totally extinguished. After dinner the white ladies sent a committee to wait on him and invite him to address them at the principal church inthe evening. He Secepted the invitation, and the auditorium ‘Was more than crowded with the best people of ed the place. Even the windows and doorways were packed. Gen. Gordon escorted him to the ipit, and introduced him to the audience, and delivered a pleasing address, which was well Feceived. The best room at the hotel was now Open to him. and the next morning carriages were provided, and, in company with a numer- ous escort of centlemen, he was taken out to visit the homestead and tomb of his father; and did not forget the humble grave of his darker hued mother, who Is said to have been a woman of ‘uncommon beauty and good qualities. A more perfect and elightful victory over prejudice than Langston gained was never won by an orator, and @spontaneons ovation, honorable alike to its recipient and to those who gave it, was never more freely bestowed as a tribute of manhood to talent. it demonstrated—especially when we Femember the period of its oceurrence—what the colored men of the south may rely upon To the Editor of Tar Evenree Stan: = Nearly ahundred yearsago property in Tenley Town, now occupied by Mrs. Wm. Britt nee | L, ts accused of having three wives. Lightfoot, was deeded by a Col. Beatty to Miss Sarah Tenley: Miss T. had a brother named John and sister named Elizabeth, who with her- self occupied the ground, and were the first permanent residents of the place—hence its name. On the death of John the sisters adopted The- ophilus Roby, who, on attaining manhood, mar- ried, and in compliment to the sisters named his first born daughter Sarah Elizabeth Tenley Roby. This daughter, the mother of Mrs. Britt, was regarded by Mise Sarah T. with much favor, and on the death of her sister Elizabeth was taken Into the family, and at Miss T.’s decease made heir to the property now occupied by her daughter, Mrs. Britt. All three of the T.'s are buried on this ground. In confirmation of the above facts I refer you to the original deed—dated 1795, I think—in which the name is spelled as I have rendered it, —Rev. Dr. Charles Adams, of the M.E.chureh, 1s spending his vacation in New Hampshire. —Rev. Father McCarthy, of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, is improving in health. — At the Valley Institute, Washington clr- | attracted cuit, Holsten conference, there have been 60 conversions. —The Rey. W. H. Scott, president of Ohio University, Methodist Episco, Athens, iwinat state, for he ie is on trial at dered to San Antonia, Texas. — Rev. G. H. Howard, (Episcopal), of Fond du Lac, Wis., has accepted the call to the assist- ant rectorship of St. Luke’s, Baltimore. —Mr. D. Lathrop, the well known Sunday as also in all the other legal documents bearing | School publisher, and his wife, “Margret Sid- upon the case, and which are in the possession | ney”), spent last Sunday at the Metropolitan M. of Mr. J. J. Lightfoot, Center Market, or his | £. 1 attorney. It is also so spelled by Mrs. Mary A. Harry and Mrs,Erench, the oldest residents of the town, bot dm Were personally and in- junday school. —The Metropolitan M. E. congregation, of this city, is full again, the pastor and many of timately Scqpaintmbaxidieshe ‘Tenley family and | the absentees during the warm weather having remember, 5508 Tm DANG 509% ot Ink and Pens in the Public Schools. To the Editor of Tux Evexrxo Stan. Some time ago you Called attention to the fact that the pupils in the public schools were to jeif OW pens and ink, in aceord- ance with a new rule of the board. I wish you would again call attention to this matter. Al- though this has not yet been enforced in all the schoo's, it has in the third grade in the Thomp- son building, where the girls have been obliged to furnish their own ink and pens from home, carrying them in various ill-stoppered bottles with constant danger of ruining their clothing. si y, there can be no saving in the end. The eral appearance of the books will be spoiled on account of the various kinds of ink used. And the upsetting of ink on the furniture and , caused by the diversity of inkstands, which cannot be fastened to the desk, will more than balance any pecuniary saying that the school board desire to make. X.Y. Z. Soa ee Concerning Women. The examinations for musical degrees at Cam- bridge University are now open to women upon the same conditions as to men. Miss H. B. Mann writes thus to the Boston Advertiser: “In Europe young men and edu- cated ladies are studying electrical engineering, a profession not overcrowded, and great for- tunes have been made In Its pursuit. ‘The enor- mous extension of the telegraph telephone cables into every part of the world will create a great demand for skilled electric engineers. We have too many lawyers, doctors, ministers, and teachers. - Electrical engineering Is a profession that educated women are eminently fitted for.” The Pall Mall Gazette says: “Mile. Louise Michel is engaged just now in forming what she calls an ‘International League of Women against their Tyrants.’ A meeting presided over by her has been held in support of the project, and a subscription has been started with the same object. Mlle. Michel proposes, in effect, that the men shall be ‘Boycotted’ by the women until such time as they shall have accorded cer- tain political rights to the latter. Meanwhile the executive committee of the league is en- deavoring to set on foot strike among the sempstresses of Paris.” Of overwork among women the American Ag- riculturist says: “One way in which women are overworked by their own fault—a sin of ignor- ance frequently—is in the use of foolish cloth- ing. We are all more or less in bondage here, tor women’s drese is radically wrong. It isa weight and a hindrance everywhere. Clothing devised to suit the needs of the human body would be much more easily madeand taken care of, and it would give a woman free movement, greater ease and comfort about her work and play, and would bean aid to good health, rather than, as now, a drain upon her strength. Cor- sets and heavy skirts are the real offenders.” The Christian Unionremarks: “The Utah com- missioners report that, under the Edmunds act, the names of about 10,000 Mormon voters will be erased from the polls, leaving 13,000 voters in the territory; of these 8,000 will be Mormons. The laws of the territory allow women to vote, a privilege or Which only the Mormon women have hitherto availed themselvés. It.is possible, however, that the Gentile women may be per- suaded to exercise their rights of suffrage, in which case it is not improbable that a close elec- tion might be determined by woman’s yote. A territory in which women hold the balance of power would be a novelty in politics.” The Art Interchange says: “This question of a husband’s right to a comfortable home and the society of his wife during the summer threatens to develop into a grievance. Whether it will attain the dignity of a convention and resolu- tions is at present doubtful. A little reflection will, however, convince most women that utter desertion for several consecutive weeks is a cheerless experience for any right-minded hus- band, and by the exercise of a little self-denial and ingenuity a way may be discerned by which, without a sacrifice of health or comfort on the part of the wife, the husband’s enforced stay in the city maybe made more endurable by his paring at short intervals the companionship of is wife.” In a notice of Leopold Kompert’s ‘Scenes from the Ghetto,’ the St. James’ Gazette says: “The Jews, until they arrive in Western Europe, do not seem to havea very high opinion of women. ‘What is wanting In our religion,’ says one of Herr Kompert’s personages, who, having been educated among Christians, has grown up without any very fanatical prejudices in favor of his own religion, ‘is the teminine element. Looking rigorously at the matter, it seems that women have no place therein. he Jewish religion is only tor men.’ Not that in Kompert’s stories the women are treated un- kindly or inconsiderately by the men; not, above all, that they show themselves unworthy of admiration and esteem. But they are looked upon as essentially inferior to the men; and the only duties expected from them are of a passive and domestic kind. The Jews say with convic- tion that a Jewish woman who knows how to the with encouragement, that American contempt for the negro will pass away as fast as he him- self in freedom fairly achieves a clear title to intelligent respect in the honorable battle of life. Mancvs S. Horxins. —-e- —__. ‘Taxes on Church Property. ‘To the Editor of Tux Evestxe Star. Sim: I notice that the Church of the Ascen- sion has applied to the Commissioners to be Felieved of the special improvement tax on cer- tain lots, which I suppose are occupled by the church, though not so stated. I would like to inquire, first, whether the Commissioners have the power to remit such taxes on church prop- erty, and, second, whether all other churches have been released from this tax? As one cit- izen, I protest against any such action on prin- ciple, and because it is unjust to the tax-payers the Distriet. Every dollar thus taken off the churches is so much added to the bur- Gens of tax-payers, or. what is the same thing, lessens just so much the amount of the public Fevenues. Every one can see good reasons wh, schools and all charitable institutions which belong to and are supported by the public should not be tax: because, as they belong to and are supported by the public as a whole, to tax them would simply be taking money out of One pocket and putting it in the other, of that Same pubiic. [ut not so ofthe churches. The: do not belong to and are not supported by the Public as a whole. On the contrary. they are Simply private associations—established by and for the use of special sects. Ifa special body or Rumber of people choose to associate for the purpose of erecting a church for their indi- Vidual or sectarian use, I cannot see why they should not pay the taxes on it, the same agpri- Yate citizens, or any other corporation or asso- ciation, and especially the tax for improving the Streets, sidewalks, sewers, &c., in front of the ehureh property, which Is as much for their Special benefit as are the improvements in front of my house, for which I am com If every tax payer was a member of some chure there would be more reason in it, because then each would be benefitted, but so long as they are Rot, It is in effect carrying oat the principle of gn established church, which non-church mem- are taxed to support in part against their will, and by operation of law, or executive au- Tam aware that public sentiment has virta- ally sanctioned the practice of not taxing chureh . but that does not make it right. So, ublic sentiment or pubiic indifference has sanction many other wrongs. but they are wrongs nevertheless. It sanctioned human lavery, but did that make it right? the more inteliigent and progressive church men themselves admit it is not right, but that ‘the churches ought to pay their taxes the same asall others. —_—_—__-e-___— led to Loe A Tax Payer. New York police haying taken to clut- shooting one another, there may be for quiet citizens. attend to her domestic duties and to say her prayers has learned enough. The Jewish wo- men of the Ghetto insist, all the same, on studying even as Christian women study. Not only do Jews im general—eastern Jews, that is to say—object to this sort of thing, but even Herr Kompert himself seems in some measure to disapprove of it.” The Philadelphia Ledger prints a letter In saya: “‘I would refer him to Miss Abbie Pulsifer, of Auburn. porter for some ten years, and who writes me of the good time she is haying off on her sum- mering. Also to Miss Alice C. Nute, of Chicago, and to the wonderful feat of Mrs. S. J. Barrows, of Harn daeat reported a fifteen-minute hb of Carl Schurz, delivered in German, translating into English as ehe reported. This feat has been famous in shorthand cireles all over the country. Mrs. B., [believe, enjoys gooa health, and, what is almost as necessary, a good in- come; and from the bright face of Miss Nute one would not suppose her relatives had in- vited estimates from the undertakers. The point is that women who have the faculty to be- come geod stenographers (and poor workers are not samples in any trade) can have many years of enjoyment of their incomes and satis- ction in thelr business.” The Bays: ‘The only addition we can make to this letter is to say, what the writer's own reserve torbids, that her own name is recognized among th hepeipe of (sheets Ia orn in. the United States as a distinguished member of its ranks.” Vacation Summed Up. H. W. Grady, in Atlanta Constitation. During the past six weeks of sunburn I nave blistered and peeled four times, and come on deck this morning in my fifth set of new skin. During that time I have covered the Atlantic coast pretty thoroughly, and have made fre- covers the whole visual range; days of fever, and, exhausts no place ttke home and no Your work ts to pourasion, eRe wee oaitcattenaa lex! between El Paso on the Rio ancient city of Cuihuahus. They evidences of the speedy establishinent of railway communication beg te city ana the United aid the hecmniog anew era of prosperity country. — utus, every- | nas, and other thing, from the song of a mosquito to the roar | sorbi of an ocean storm; closed my vacation with ten | ture of life; over thia unsolved and droopy, have | and be fmecaspinst come to seek rest 1n my work. After all there’s | that sits in silence answers word. Men are nowadays not still on the knees of a mil Ike “children Ing topic ot modern free-t tly thei of spelling their | returned. asd enone c¥ a °° —Last Sunday Rey. John Foley, at the-House of the Geod Shepherd In Baltimore, received four novices Into the Sisterhood of Charity on | making their vows. —The corner stone of the new Catholic church ofthe Holy Infancy at South Bethleham, Pa., was laid last Sunday in the presence of about 5,000 persons. —Rev. W. Gibson, Wesleyen missionary at Paris, during August engaged in evangelistic work along the French coast holding meetings On @ sloop chartered for the purpose. —The discussion of the question as to the best manner ot promoting and conducting revivals was resumed in the M. E. preacher’s meeting at the Foundry church on Monday last. — The 25th annual meeting of the National}divorce. In Delaware a lultery itself does not Local Preachers’ Association of the M. E.church, will be held at Parkersburg, West Virginia, on es October 2ist, continuing till the —A bitter war against church rates is going on in some parts of England. At Coventry there is a regular conflict going on between thd people and the vicar. —The Rev. Dr. Rhodes of St. Louis has re- cently preached a sermon on the prevalence df suicides, in which he says that asthe cause is infidelity and pessimism, so the remedy is faith in this life and the life beyond. —Rey. Page Milburn, a native of this city, who nas been absent from his appointment, Mt. Savage (Md.) M. E. church, some months on ac- count of Iliness, has recovered suficiently to re~ sume his duties. i{—Revivals in city churches during the sum- merare not common, but the First Baptist church in New Haven has been enjoying one. Twenty converts have been baptised, and more are awaiting baptism. —On Sunday last the new Southern Metho- dist church near Patuxent, on the B. & P.R. R., was dedicated. It is quite a neat, little frame chapel, situated about 250 yards south of the station. <A, London correspondent of the Chicago Times says a brewer confessed to him that the salvation army has diminished his receipts $15,000 in one the lower classes. — The dearth of revival news, indeed to some extent the entire absence of such news in many of the religious papers, is commented on by some of them as unlooked for camp meetings had been held during thesea- son. —The American Hebrew says: “It has been asked why we Hebrews have no camp meetings, We do not need them, for the September holy- days, as appointed by our religious calendar, are sufficient to bring ali sons and daughters of Is- rael together for worship.” —The second Sunday in each month is the communion Sunday of the Catholics at Soldiers’ Home, and the services are in charge of Rev. Father Edelin, of St. Dominica. These ser- vices are well attended, and the music by vol- unteers is often of a high order. —St. Paul’s M. E. church, Cincinnati, Rey. Dr. I. W. Joyce, pastor, last year raised 268,800— $22,800 for the Wesleyan college in that city, $30,- 000 tor the indebtedness of the church, and $16,000 for pastors salary, repairing and re- furnishing the church. —The Wesleyan Christian Advocate, noting the addition of 1,200 members to the two Geor- gla conferences, M. E. church, south, this year, says: ‘This 1s a marvelous year in Georgia—the Inost abundant crops and a most gracious revi- val of religion. two together. — Rev. Father Tewes, who was appointed to assist at St. Mary’s Catholic church in this city Just before the death of Rey. Mathias Alig, some months ago, and succeeded Father Allg th pastorate, Ir that section of the city, tions the congregation’has kept up we Sunday schaol and parochial schools are pros- perous. — The Baltimore Afethodist of this week in noticing “ Whispers of Peace,” a paper published at Southampton, N. Y., by Rev. 8. H. Platt, “to encourage expectation of physical healing in answer to the prayer of faith,” @ Methodist minister who some years ago an- nounced himself as cured of inflammatory rheu- matism by the “prayer of faith,” but the cure failed. —Rey. Dr. France, the pastor of the 4th-street M.E. church, who has served during his min- istry quite a number of churches, remarked a few days ago that the Sunday school of the 4th- street church raised money more systematically and with more ease than at any of the charies he had ever held, and in view of the fact that there were but few wealthy members of the con gregation it was somewhat astonishing. —The Rev. George ©. Capron, of Boston, was recently ejected by the Congregational council for erroneous views about probation after death. Last Sunday he preached a sermon in the Congregational church at Wayland, MM: in which he strongly . me year through their work among after so many We have never before seen the has made quite a reputation In and under his ministra- and the Says Mr. Platt is asserted his belief in a reply to Mr. Elllott’s statements in the North |, Probation after death, and supported his post- ‘Americon Hevieo a5 to the inability of women Hon ¥ arguments from the ible and cliurch to practice stens y, in which thé writer ry. , —The £zaminer says that the prayer meet- Maine, who has been a court re- | ing has its Oscar Wilde as well as the drawing- room. It pictures this genius of the prayer meeting as the crank who goes from one prayer meeting to another and offers his not very tical or edifying remarks, generally advancing ie Cae more novel than important, and riding of those who have to see him show off its paces. —The Methodist Episcopal church in Freder- ick, of which Rev. B. Peyton Brown 1s the pas- tor, was reopened on sunday last, Rey. Richard Hinkle, prac- lar hobby to the great ennoyance former ‘or, preaching morning and The interior of the church has been and now presents a handsome a) pearance, and the 800 required to pay the bal- nce due was raised in F. A. Wilson, of the Foundry choir, assisted in the chotr. = — Heresy is said to be rife in Lane’ Seminary, where the Presbyterian used to be beyond reproach. Two of the pro- fener ceume, at the Pentateuch was not work of Moses, that the Jewish Hitusl gree by eee oe solnnon, and chat the Pentateuch as many men at rem finally compiled into @ body of sted ag ro is similar trouble at the Ohio sity, President Scott belt ing the Trinity, the div! resurrection of the body. — Free-thinkers would, indeed, be astonished to find the modern theortes Maudsley, Tyndall, Huxley, and others antici and fully discussed musty cid black-1 eter ins 2 inthe Duna Se: fifteen minutes. Mr. Theological orthodoxy of teaching the students the Tecords. There fretene ed Univer- ity of and the of Mill, Darwin, Carpenter, Lewes iter tomes of such writers as Albert the St.Thomas Aqui mocmtic sateen: The all-ab- is the na- they puzzle ld he — The Rev. Wn. H. Brooks, of Hampatend, 2. | Our sa? The article eniftiea “Divorces Procured, recently pubiished@in the New York Herald, has public attention, and has been made the basis of action by the Bar Asso- lation of that city, which 1s doing all tn its power to ‘Up, Todt and branch, the present iniquitous of procuring divorees. But worce system lie far deeper fer than the influence of any or. S to.render divorces more marked legislation ot the United from the beginning. Adultery, the prime and preyiee all sufficient ground for a divorce, has been more and more leniently treated every half century or go. Allusion has been made at various times, ina eral way, to the diversit; of divorce laws in the different states and terri- torles of the United States. In Alabama, for example, not only does adultery committed after mi afford a ground for divorce, but adultery or immorality committed before mar- Tiage can, when discovered and preyed after marriage, vitiate and dissolve the marriage. In Georgia not only insanity, but mere mental inca- pacity, is a legal ground fordivorce. In Kentucky certain forms of disease afford a legal cause for aivorce. In point of fact Kentucky allows divorce for more “causes” than any other state in the Union or country in the world. A man and wife can obtain divorce from each other on sixteen different “causes” in Kentucky. DISCRETIONARY WITH THE JUDGES. In Maine the saying of the wag holds good, that ‘though it is hard to get a drink it is easy to getadivorce.” The law there reads: “Di- vorces may be decreed when the Judge deems it Teasonable and proper, conducive to domestic harmony and consistent with the welfare of so- clety.” In Illinois also une discretionary di- yorcing powers are gran! to the judges, in addition to the seven legal.causes allowed for has necessitate the granting of a divorce. It de- pends upon the party committing the crime. If the wife sins then the husband can legally de- mand an absolute divorce; but if the husband is the offender then the wife 1s onh legally entitled co a partial divorce or a separation. This may at iret glanceseem unfair. Yet it 1s based upon one sound argument and conceded fact. The sin of the husband and father cannot affect the status of the children of a family, but the sin of the wife and mother can and does. In Nevada a failure or neglect upon the part of the head of a family to provide the ‘“necessaries” of life for said family constitutes a legal ground tor divorce. “Lunacy at the time of marriage” is specified in the laws of Nevada as vitiating the union. If “oye is lunacy,” as some philosophers hold, how can any marriage be legal? Besides, the momentous question arises, under the laws of Nevada, are “new bonnets” counted under the head of ‘necessaries ?” North Carolina, theoretically at least, must be “‘a state of easy divorce.” “Any just cause, at the discretion of the judge,” is allowed to dis- solve the marriage tie. Rhode Island allows “gross misbehavior or wickedness” in either party to constitute a ground for divorce. In Connecticut the famous—or, as some hold, the Infamous—“omnibus clause” became a part of the code. This “omnibus clause” provides that any “such mischief or misbehavior as per- manently destroys happiness and defeats the purposes of marriage” shall constitute a legal ground for divorce. Such a provision as this would be conveniently sensible if It could only be settled beyond a peradventure what such mis- chief or misbehavior was in each particular case. In Tennessee an attempt against the life of one party to a marriage contract by the other part: was held a full and sufficient legal ground. But in a recent case in New York clty, where the wife attempted one night to strangle her husband in his sleep, the husband was ad- vised that he hadng legal ground for a divorce, adultery being moré “matrimonially available” than murder. In Virginia if a woman is discoy- ered after marriage to have borne a bad charac- ter deservedly before marriage, without her husband becoming ‘aware of that fact till atter marriage. thén the husband becomes legally en- titled to a divorce. In this case the man is held as having been maried by the woman under the false pretence of a good character. Andifeither husband or ,wife has committed a crime before marriage, and said commission of crime is not discovered by the other party till after marriage, then the innocent party is held tobe entitled to a divorce from the guilty party. WOE TO THE RAKES. In West Virginia there is a law which, if 1t. was enforced in New York, would most ma- terlally affect marriages. According to the code of West Virginia, if a woman after mar- riage discovers that the man whom she has married in good faith as an honest and reputa- bleand moral man hasbeen really a rakebefore she married him then she is at legal liberty to un- marry. Thestate ofSouth Carolina, which has been held up to public approval by certain relig- ionists because its code sanctions no divorce, is found on closer examination not to@eserve the approbation bestowed. A man can legally pro- vide for his mistress in this state, and Judge Watts, of South Carolina, has openly conceded the point that the marriage and divorce laws of his state work badly. z In some of the United States divorced parties can at any time, if reconelled, live together again as man and wife without any ceremony. In other states they are compelled to be for- mally remarried. In some states a woman di- voreed for adultery can be subsequently per- mitted to marry her paramour. In other states a divorced man and wife cannot remarry with- out. special provision. In some states one illicit act constitutes adultery. In other states adultery can only be properly (or Improperly) proved by a series of acts or living together of the guilty parties. In some states it is held that only a husband can be “cruel,” matrimoni- ally speaking. A wife may pull her husband’s hair, if he has any, or apply a broom handle to him or lock him up in a dark closet, still the marriage holds. But if the case be reversed the marriage is dissolved, which would seem to be more polite than just. There Is one point about marriage and divorce which seems to be held as assured under all cir- cumgtances, yet which is amenable to criti- cism and open to doubt. While it is no frand as regards marriage to assume a false character it is afraud to assume a false name—a state of more importance than character. NEW YORK DIVORCE Laws. A brief summary of the laws regarding divorce in the state of New York will be of in- terest in this place. There are six causes which annul a marriage contracted in this city or state: When the parties are under age; when there has been a prior marriage and the other party to this prior marriage is still allye; when either contract! party .is an faiot or of unsound mind; when~the consent, of either party has been obtained by force or fraud; when either 'y is physically Incompetent; and when the female is under fourteen years or age and marries without the consent of her mS guardian. in Cases where & Int contracted In good faith ls afterwards compelled to be annulled the issue of such marriage is by law legitimatized, in cases of Immacy the offspring of the union are likewise regarded as legitimate. Even after a Tunatio est Se he {a ‘legally free from any union uri lunacy, vided he has not ‘consummated sald aces after recoveringyhis reason. In cases where a marriage is set aside from having been con- tracted through force or fraud the children are legally held to be legitimate,are to be supported. at the expense of the gullty party and are to be intrusted to the cust of the injured and in- nocent A marriage volded by lunacy is void after death of the lunatic and during the lifetime 6f the party upon the ap- plication of any party. or How the Czar is Crowned. affairs that certainly assumes name to be of | P! garlan The miracul the Virgin of Wladimir that orthodox tributes to St. Luke wears a diamond valued at 200,000 roubles. Emeralds as nuts are set in the massive golden crown of Vi to the Iconostasus a cano) and in this sourity that slee) the old cathed: The ceremonies of the coronation take place in this church witha pomp aud splendor that are puted Oriental. Before the Czar arrives the high priests with the cross, assisted by two deacons carrying holy water in a basin of gold, sprinkle the paseage that the Emperor is about totake. Then, arranging themselves upon the steps that surround the imperial platform surmounted by a canopy of crimson velvet with tassels and fringes of gold, come the grand dukes and grand duchesses, all the members of the imperial family, the diplomatic corps, the high dign itarles of the empire, sena- torsin red uniforms, ministers bedizened with badges and cordons, marshals in brilliant uni- forms, ladies of the court, and young ladies of honor in the national costume, including the ik (& golden diadem embroidered in gold or pearls), representatives of tbe mer- chants of all the cities of the empire, most of them in blue or black gowns fringed ‘in gold, Seputetlons trom Asiatic peoples allied to or subjects of the emperor, Chinese, Mongolians, Tartars, Baskirs, Kalmuks, Khirgees, Boukna- ras, Circassians, Georgians, Mi jlians, Lap- landers, Esquimaux, Persians, ns—a strange and wild mixture of dtiferent races, half clad and armed, some with bows or lances, others with yatagans with ellver handles, or swords with wooden hilts rudely carved. This dazzling and picturesque procession ad- vances, preceded by a platoon of guards of honor, with cuirasses of red cloth starred with silver, and by twp mounted heralds with gold embroidered brocades, red velvet caps and maces. The Imperial arms, borne by high func- tionarles, are placed at the left of the throne ‘upon a table with a cover of gold. Grouped in front of the church under the portal draped with velvet, the clergy with crosses and mitres are resplendent in their chasubles and dalmatics sparkling with gems. The Metropolitans, led by the Metropolitan of Kiew, holding censers await the arrival of the Emperor. At last the Czar appears. He descends the Red Staircase upon which a Persian carpet, flowered with roses, 1s placed. He wears the uniform of a general of division, with red trousers. and he walks under a large canopy that puts over his head a flock of golden eagles ina blue sky. The Metropolitan of Moscow presents him the cross to kiss, while the Metropolitan of Novgo- rod sprinkles him with holy water. The princes of the church conduct the Czar to the throne. Then the Metropolitan-of Moscow approaches his imperlal Majesty and presents him with the orthodox profession of faith, which the Czar reads aloud, standing with his hand upon the guard of his sword. After reading he receives the two Metropolitans of Kiew, who ascend the steps ofthe throne and bring him the corona- tion mantle. The Czar takes it from their hands and places it upon his shoulders. Then he bows before the Metropolitan of Moscow, who places his hands over him and recites a prayer. Finally, the Czar arises majestic and superb, dressed in his mantle of brocade lined with ermine, and, taking the imperial crown, spark- Ung with diamonds, he places it with his own hands upon his head. At this moment the Empress advances and kneels betore her august spouse, who, taking off his crown, holds it an instant over the forehead of the Czarina in token of her share in his omnipotence. In the courtyard of the Kremlin the cannons thunder. The three hundred churches of Mos- cow ring their joy bells, and the vaults of the old cathedral are filled with songs of gladness and of triumph, The mass begins. The silver doors of the {conostasus are opened. The Archbishops of Novgorod and of Kiew approach the Emperor and inform him that all is ready for the anoint- ment. The Czardescends from his throne. The Empress accompanies him to the door of the sanctuary, the threshold of which no womancan cross. The Metropolitan of Moscow then dips in the vase that contains the holy oll the golden branch that %e holds in his hand, and anoints the temples, the eyelids, the nostrils, the lips, the breast and the hands of the Czar while uttering the words, *‘Behold the seal of the Holy Ghost.” And after each holy unction the Metropolitan of Novgorod wipes away the traces. The ancient Czars for seven days used not to wash the parts of their bodies that had thus been anointed. 2 Conducted to the altar, the Czar partakes of the communion, while the Empress, still kneel- ing at the door ot the iconostasus, receives also the communion with the Metropolitan of Kiew. With the crown upon his head, the new Czar departs through the north portal, passes be- tween a double row of Cossacks armed with lances, and of Grenadiers with gilded helmets, and amid the applause ot the populace enters the cathedral of the Archangel St. Michael, where he kisses the holy images, after which he re-en- ters the ancient palace by the Red Staircase. The repast of the coronation is given in the Terem. The Emperor and the Empress, served by the marshals of the court, eat alone. The su- perior officers, headed by the chief marshal and escorted by officers ot the with drawn swords, bring in the dishes that the Metropoll- tan blesses one after the other. When the Czar wants to drink, the diplomatic cor retires, walking backward, and singers in gala costume, with swords by their sides, advance and execute during the rest of the repast, different pieces of the old Russian repertoire. under the sombre vaults of What are the Tides? Sir W. Thompson in a recent address found some difficulty in explaining the tides, which he defined as the motions of water onthe earth due to the attraction of sun and moon. There were laces where lunar tides vanished altogether, only a rise and fall once in the solar day, or twice in the solar day. There were pl where the water rose and fell ac- cording to the sun, and not according to the moon; but such fluctuations were modified by local causes, In the theory of tides proper, there was also a solar annual tide, and again, a soley som sanuet pave The first rough view of the theory of the tide-generating force was the moon attracted the waters of the earth to- ward herself, and heaped them on this side ofthe earth. That was not so; it would be so ceaners meat mitra ons two ends of a strong space, but there was no such bar. Why did not the moon fall toward the According to Newton's theory, the moon is ways doing so. Newton compared the fall the moon with the fall of a stone at the earth’ surface, Why did it not come down? Could be always ing and never come down? That seemed impossible. It was always falling, but it had a motion pat to the direction in which it was falling, and the result of con- tinual falling was simply a change of direction ofits motion. That was siriply the dynamical theory of centri: force. a stone were thrown horizontally it descended in a oe the stone falling away from the line in which ‘was thrown; so it was with the moon. It was and where there i i i tance, or From the Jc de.) The Kremifa, wiih tts high walls of white | cart ed with deny- | stone, with kattlemmnts cut out in the form of Tartar arrowheads, its elghteen green towers, and its five rose-colored gates, is quite a town in itself, containing three cathedrals, seven churches, @ monastery, a nunnery, and three im- perlal palaces. : Let us speak first of the three most yenerab] sanotanrig, the cathedrals of the Assumption, ann uped in a work. | West Gulf block: Americans abroad wear white cravats in the morning, so that they may be regarded as clergymen. In Venice it was a great satisfaction to find out the exact tint of genuine Titian red hair- Tt is @ sort of illyminated molasses candy color. At Ostend, with health, and ability to spend five dollars a day, a man may live as lux- uriously as any prince in Europe, and much more happily, These American travelers are always smok- ing. and it is wonderful how patiently the ies bear it; some of the ladies them- selves to it by smoking themselves. A correspondent in observed the streets lacarded with Lecoq’s opera, “Le Jour et In juit,” and he wonders why should day ve mas- culine and night feminine Prisoners led over the bridge could see the light on the water, then they would think that they would never be free again, and they nat- orally sighed. Then they called it the Bridge of Sighs. The American tourist in the Old World misses the delicacies of his native land—terrapin, can- vas-backs, soft-shell crabs, or even dainty hard shells; and if he find turtle it Is too expensive, while oysters are both poor and expensive. pocisn! awed AMERICAN DISCOVERY. ‘The Question of the Landing Place of 2 the Northmen. T. W. Higginson, in Harper's Magazine. There are scarcely two interpreters who pre- cisely agree as to the places visited by the Northmen, and those who are surest in their opinions are usually those who live farthest from the points described. Professor Rafa found Vinland along the coast of New England; Professor Rask, his contemporary, found it in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, or Labrador. The latter urged, with much reason, that it was far easier to discover wild grapes in Nova Scotia than Eskimo in what is now Rhode Island, and that the whole story of the terror of the Skraelings before the bull indicates an island ple like those of Newfoundiand or Prince Edward Island, and certainly not the New England Indians, who were familiar with the noose, and might have seen the buffalo. He might also have added, what was first pointed out by Mr. J. Elliott Cabot, that the repeated voyages from Greenland to Vinland, and the perfect facility with which successive explorers found the newly discovered region, indicate some spot much nearer Greenland than Mount Hope Bay, which would have required 600 miles of intricate and dangerous coast navi- gation, without chart or compass, in order to Teach it. Again Rafn finds it easy to place the site of Leif's booths at Bristol, Rhode Island; and M. Gravier, a Frenchman, writing so lately as 1874, has not a doubt upon the sub- ject. Buta sail from Fall River to Newport, ‘or indeed a mere study of the map, will show any di: lomate man that the description given by the sagas has hardly anything in com- mon with the Rhode Island locality. he sagas describe an inland lake communicating with the sea bya shallow river only accessible at high tide, whereas Mount Hope bay isa broad ex- panse of salt water opening into the still wider gulf of Narragansett bay, and communicating with the sea by a passage wide and deep enough for the navies of the world to enter. Even sup- posing the Northmen to have found their way in through what is called the Seaconnet passage, the description does not apply much better to that; and if it did. these hardy sailors must have recognized, the moment they reached the bay itself, that they had come in a back door, not at the front; and the main access to the ocean must have instantly revealed itself. It suffices to say that the whole interpretation, which seemed so easy to transatlantic writers, is utterly re- ae by Professor Diman, who was born and red in Bristol. and lived all his life within easy reach of it. Having lived myself for fourteen years in that region, 1 may venture modestly to endorse his conclusions; and they “have the weightier endorsement of Professor Henry Mitchell, of the coast survey, in a manuscript report which les before me. And the same vagueness ond indefiniteness mark ali the de- scriptions of the Northmen. Nothing is more diMcult than to depict in words with any ac- curacy in an unscientific age the features of ta low and monotonous seashore; and this, with the changes undergone by the coast of southern New England during 900 years, I think renders the identification of any spot visited by the Northmen practically impossible. ae) ‘The Death of Surgeon Gibbs. From the New Orleans Picayune. Acablegram has been received by the Navy department announcing the death, in the hospi- tal at Trieste, Italy, of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Gibbs, U.S. N., fleet surgeon of the European squadron. Dr. Gibbs was born in New Jersey, and was appointed as an assistant surgeon in the navy in 1858. He was assigned to the Brazil squadron and Paraguay expedition and the East India m. Init he was ordered to join the ing squadron, and was for some time in charge of the Naval hospital at Pensacola, and afterwards he was stationed witir the fleet at New Orleans. About this time Dr, Gibbs married the daughter of Dr. George Kel- logg, of this city, and at the close of the war was attached to the schoolship Sabine. From 1867 to 1869 he served with the Pacific fleet, and from 1869 to 1873 was surgeon with the ironclad fleet at New Orleans. In 1874 Dr. Gibbs became fleet surgeon of the South Pacific station, when, after serving there two or three —. he was appointed one of the members of the medical examining and retiring boards at Washington, which high position he held from 1878 to 1881, when he joined the Lan- caster as fleet surgeon o1 the European equad- Ton. Dr. Gibbs was an amiable and accomplished gentleman, and while in this city made hosts of friends. He was a man of fine physique and al- ways enjoyed the best of health, being naturally of a robust constitution. He died in the prime of life, most probably of malarial fever. When Dr. Gibbs joined the European — he took his wife, son and daughter to Switzer- land, where they still remain. Worthy Son of a Worthy Sire. From the Providence Journal. The common southern phrase was never more appropriately applied than is that of “high- toned” to the letter of Benjamin H. Hill, son of pression n the corenes. Not so astothe son. Ins . der as it is nranly, he requests the governor to refrain from the intended appointment, and he does so in a spirit of ven ion for the mem- ory of his father, and under a sense of what ts due even to a fraction of public opinion, proves him to be wi of the profound honor, and what is more, worthy of the title of gentle- man in its hig! Ason of a family named Watkinson, residing A Strange Josiah Gilbert in London Spectator, Am Interesting but Dangerous Expert From Nature. k A carious and little known experiment, show. ing the resistance of the air in guns, is de scribed by Professor Daniel Colladon, of Ge- neva. He was long in the habit of showing it to his classes. It resembles a feat that was M. fully compressed air the hollew iron breech of an air gun, serving as reservoir. a screwed upthe in he introduced a round ball, Keeiy but filling the bore; then, the gun vertically, he seized the upper end pressed his thum! vigorously on the mouth. The un was then “fired” by an assistant; the thumb remained in position, and the ball was heard to fall back in the eo bina peed 4 - charging the breech, wi same . shot the latter at a pine board about four- ingen lneanier yeaa gil oes of glass, and it easily through. experiment, M. Colladon says, is without , if the opera- tor is sure of the strength of his thumb, tf the gun ts more than thirty-two inches long, and if the ball is spherical-and nearly fills the gun (tn which ft must act lke a piston). The least un- certainty in the very vigorous pressure of the thumb and hermetic closure of the gun may en- tall serious injury to the thumb. While M. Colladon has repeated the experiment twenty or thirty times without the least tnconventence either from shock or heat, a trial of It is per- harps hardly to be recommended. ——_—__—.. ood Old Political Times, » From the New York Graphic. In the good old political times of forty year ago the orator got upon the stump and told the people how they were wronged or how they would be if the other party came into power. Or he hoisted the stars and stripes and tought and died under them for his country. and closed with a few parting shots at the “effete mon- archies of Europe.” No stich thing does the orator now. He doesn't speak In public at all. He talks in a low tone in a committee room or on the veranda of some watering place hotel at late hour of the night. His voice cannot be heard ten feet distant. He doesn’t want It heard atar off, and he watches carefully against unseen hearersand evesdroppers. He says: “If we can count on you for our man, there’s money in it, and the health office and the post office and an inspectorship. There's the Job for whitewashing the Washington monument— Well, there's two snug fortunes 4m that.” And 80 on and so on. There is no applause, but everybody smokes and thinks. Is it an tim- provement on the old way? a The Highest Jumps on Record, From the London World. A high jump of six feet two inches Is not such an every-day performance that one should pass it by unnoticed when it is made. At the Irish Athletic championship meeting P. Davin cleared this wonderful height, which is within three- quarters of an inch of the record of his own making. Mr. J. Brooks, the old Oxonian, it may be remembered, cleared six feet two aud a haif inches; but no other athlete has ever got within half even of six feet in a fair leap. To most of us, although we may not be so bad as Leech’s stout gentleman, who found himself unequal to jumping over a walking stick laid upon the ground, such leaping almost ap- proaches the superhuman, Five feet will eben & be more than the average acrobat can accomplish, with all his life-long training. *, IST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THR WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1882. f#-To obtain any of these Letters the applicant mt = call for *‘ApvenTisep Lerrens,” and give the dete: this list. £27 If not called for within onemonth they will be seme to the Dead Letter office. wd ~ LADIES’ LIST. 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