Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1882, Page 3

OF EHE THEASE ZY. The State of the National Finarces— Evidences of Great Prosperity—che Natienst Haaks and the Dangers to Resnlt from 2 Contraction of Circu= lation—the Prat! Freeing Preasury of Us Referring to th gums pall t ma t for tae nt redu and Fence w t about. Mr. S ¢ ESTIMATES For the pr: tual ans esti 18H, witli be for the sax: uthy continued bonds, e received fo 3 per cent sued ti that cat ‘The ex Which time the Be per cent cout amount of Ui fuer 1, ISS, of t charge by | erent tina tn te laterest charge to No- emption opers— standard sil- 1, 1881, and Novem- | nd otned during th supply in the a much more than sub-treasury on No- fractional silver") 00 tons of silver coin e vaults. If November amount 0! $68,600,000, ber 1, 1882, about legislation the Secretary 1 to issue gold ceriiliestes, It Is to be thet un Of the Sliver cortitieates Will be Wa xreitextent supplied by certitl- €ates, as tie latter are furnished fa cow @enominations; and it 1s Just to svpoose that a certificate pry: colt worth but 88 per cent oft will be displaced by one Worth tu Is the ite continue < quired ior cire insue of = tary asks, that the dol «tion of them, 01 h ceruleates, and Ui casts for the policy of t to increase ton of Congress 3 hutve been tesued; | at the nearest corresjoniding date that could be ascertained was $509,933,896, which amount fs not } the Lead of customs, a‘ter treating of the , the report again pre- ee OF a ew tribunal %, fad approves the ves Jurisdiction over ms as providing a method on of last year ts be authorizes to that there be authorized three additional geueral REDUCTION © ring to the unuse: TAXATION. sets In the Treas the trequality omparatively smu San evil effect w Occasionally the 11 it he ve erea ly its large 1s Of money have caused si ble and law- Ny iD CXISHNY excess of assets, payment of the public debt, and ‘S$ NOt perceive how a $ self to the country at In rement of law to be a nience or pressing nevd of unless there 15 a2 financlal dt m9 meas Uirn ast stom pay 1d in the T: of pro ot take he wh hand: y eatls upon It.” efor Une evil, the report say: the means to Is the peopl t with ¢con art of Une 2 and to PROVE | Secretary F ent of that uy expe ffect In soune degree ‘9 show that ff the surplus Whole public ¢ 3 early in the #1 91. Lae report sa: Mn publ 1 through The at respect, while 1t 111 S rest a quest Ticker, Swenlation in the Treasury of a large x imme vt for a reduction of th retention of a 1 fermented liquors, and, fon of tariff, recomiaends a sugar and molasses, it, iron and steel and nuiictures from them, manufacun - arly ali the artic! “i andl is feasible. to this, he re- erial upon abril © work without Ss, Which efford the 1 aASSes EMIT pro ‘Ss recommended to deen fplly aware Hon, as if ts now | pre and hi uissed the subject 1a giving statistics of commerce and naviga- sof U) Sof the revenue the Hght-house he nicht | THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The net expenditures on account of the D: | of Colurabia for the fiscal year 1882 were $3 | The revenues deposited in the Trei | same period were $1,715,176-41. | Since December 1, 1831, the bonded indebtedness ‘as reduced by operation of tue sinking nd the annual interest charze upon the | District debt was reduc $13,795.05. Since the office of the commissioners of the sinking fund of | the Dist tabla was abolished and thelr auite were transferred to the Treas ureror t of Concress of Jun been redttced d the annua tet 543.87. for the i, 1 to Noveaiber | at ort refunsing cert'fleates issued under h, 1879, re- Malned outstun! ve ot to $174,900, leaving still Unconverted. 9, and total posited at tie nints turing the oMars, fra amounted to # ‘The coinag year in gold, standard sfl- «minor coinss he history of stlver eotua: Which $3,138.£29.41 1 jollar and 3 from irculation of the coun ted from th tistics S of coln to have been 7.15, 0 THE NATIONAL BANES. ‘The number of national banks organize] during fhe year is 171, which fs the greatest number or- gaaize! during any yeor since 1872. The numoer @f Danks In operation is 2,269; more than at any previous date. The returns made by them stow ‘that on October 31 of the present year they had as as surplus, $131,977, GOs oa inaiviual deport $1,133,se4bsa; had rede Joans in amount, $1,255,256,524; abd heid tn specto, ‘The report calls attention to the fact that tf the devi Is to be paid as rapidiy as ithas been Tate it is lxely that all of the $220,000,000 of United States bends held by the national banks Will be paid during the next three years, and the ent to buy other bonds for the purposes ot. it are small. Tue report asks If there ts Treason for forethought whether, with this em- Barresment, the bank circulation ‘will not be so Jargely retired es to trouble the business commu- Ways are suggested of forestalling a trouble- gome contraction of the circulation—one, a redac- ‘ion or abolition of the tax on circulation; another, fm increase of therate of issue to 90 per cent of ‘he current market value of tie ; another, ‘that the 4 and 4y percent bonds be refunded into cents won terms satisfactory to the holders, Dringing into market a class of it a lower rate; and i te. KEPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAV Poor Vessels and Poor Guas—Dectine ef American Shipping — Remedies Saggested. The report begins with a statement of the avall- able cruist thirty-seven of these, of 909 to 4,840 tons displace- ment. Only four have tron hulls, Tacy are suffi- cient for giving practice to officers and men, and for displaying the flag abroad; but they have no speed, no modern engines, and none of the eaps. Dilities of modern war vessels, Thi laced by modern tron or steel vessels ruisers. i ould be limited to small » and the vessels gradually put out of. mission. ‘The available armored vessels are en single-turreted monitors, built in 1862 and with no speedeand little power. Most of have been lafd up for several ‘a al Thin URNS BOSH RIS UEC oa ee [and MORE enmld to the door. ane on ox trial has recently been made of three, with indit- ferent results, The guns of the Navy ingude a large number of smooth-tore muzzle-loaders, some 40-pound and 80-pound Parrott rifles, and elghty-seven converted rifles of fair power. There 1s not one modern high-powered gun among them, and only the eighty-seven coaverted guns are worth retaining. NAVAL DUTIES SHOULD BE EXTENDED. The navy inciudes 1,817 officers on the active list, 391 on the retired lst, 7,074 seamen, 950 ap- Prentices, 77 officers of the Marine Corps (active Uist), 13 oa the retired Ist, 500 non-commissioned | Officers,and 1,500 privates, receiving a total annual | pay of $7,440,282 In view cf the large number of oMicers, Congress made considerable reductions at | the last session. This action is commended. The | Rational safety depends upon maintaining, disc!- | plining and practicing a naval foree, and further reductions may be obviated by extending its du- | Ges. ‘The officers and seamen of the navy should | perform all the work required for the purposes of the national government upon or in direct connec- | Mon with the ocean. This principie should be adopted and enforced. It would strengthen the Navy, while 1t would result in economy to the government. Promotion by selection to the grade of rear ad- miral ts recommended, and the Facer of secur- ord through outside 1: condemned, ice NAVY YARDS EXPENSES MUST BE REDUCED. ‘The area of the navy yards ts 2,498 acres, with large docks, workshops, dwellings and other bulld- ings. The total cost of permanent improvements and repairs, including sites, at the eight principal to June 30, 1882, was $54,227,772.67. The | ing these cruisers. The report urge condition of | ind | ‘y should be | | R. denied the assault. | $5 and dismissed the sergeant. 19.87 per diem, ly Seven War ships. large navy yards are uot required by any present or prospéctive wants of the country. In accordance With the last nav! appropriation act, a commission ha3 been appolutei to consider the policy of discontinuing some of the yards, end It now making investigations. In any case, the expense of carrying on the yard, must be reduced, unnecessary Work must stopped and employes not needed ve dism’ foi» reductions wave been made already, and mof are to follow. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. ‘The boaras provided for by the act of August 5, 1882, to Inspect old vessels and material of the navy, With a view to their sale {f unfit for use, are now engaged in their duties. It is recommended that Congress authorize tie sale of sll vessels con- demned by the board and the a It has not been found necessary to close any the m: sla mare 2 and 0: tion of squ> vessels ven ¢ ns an Bureau 13 made to attempts of th a upon Wark ne ifr fnee of the rel pal Serv: tue pr F ‘1 : “ mnoe be provided by i ment shoutd procure STEEL CRUISERS AND MONITORS. Under the Bureaus of Steam Engineering and Construction and Repair the esttm ites for the two steel cruisers authorized by tie act of August 5, as well as for completing the four monitors, are Teduced so as to call for only the amounts needed for the present fiscal year. Tie Naval Advisory Board ts now tn sesston upon the plans for bulld- that Con- Sress should also authorize the construction of two second-rate, steel, single-decked, crufsers, recommended by the Lite Naval A Board, to have a speed of not less than thi knots,'but with the displacement Imtted, Ing tothe r memMendslous of the pres : 500 tons tb aeost Ti eding $1,000.00) each; al<o of one of tie fiv commended by tie Lite Boaid; ar A dispatch owt or eMpper, Of 1,500 ton: placement, with aspeed of not less than ficte k to be armed with one six-'neit breceli-tod= kiss gun rrence tO uapleting to the full legal number nded by the appolntimer : 3 tak vends the appropriation of the u ry {or the construction of the new Naval Observitory on the site recently purchased. The available appropriations for the last fiscal Year were $15,492,120.37. The expenditures were $13,036,201.96. ‘Tue appropriations for thé present fiseal year were $ 8 pended to 2 veniber 1, 1882, i" for the next fiscal your were in Fecttces the sare to $20, 2 by reducing the p: ment et navy-yards from atid fk for maintenance of yards, Iron if lor ty he two new ecru 0; for completing th 100 to ly ior all the LIGHT HOUSE AND Co. e are employed at ti ud seamen of the Navy ou lighthouse and Coast Survey duty, ‘The two services are maritime in character and have no connection with the 1 aviment, under which they are pla Whe mo-t im- portant off Ieht-ho avy; and no one bu tical navigator can be a judge of the w mariners in the car tribution of light: ‘The duties of the t Survey consist in the prep: V of charts iting direction: rly work for All the hydrographic duties of the ey are now performed by iy one-third of the total cost of Uh survey 1s borne by the the administration of of the Coast-Survey shoul Navy D-partunent. ICs veen already pointed out that the rm all the work reqnt h vverntnent upon or in direct connection The service of the erusing $13 work of this kind. FALLING OFF OF AMERICA In 1540, 82 per cent of the fore rrying trade by American nt, and in 198 it. AU LhIs rate, a stidden ch e, the American m oon be cut off from the forel<n trade altogether, and our seafaring people will scek employment under foreign flags, as they have already begun to do. Between 1860 and 1874, £98 natives of the United States received certificates as masters tn the British merebant marin Three forms of medy al the decay of our ines positions, (2) pro try, and @) reform in administration throu; establishtacnt of a bure wot mercantile AS 2 siinp] sure of econ desirable that 2 wulon sh : and marine hospital : STRONG EXPRESSIONS. The criticisms and recommendations in this re- port are made with a sincere and earnest desire to promote the success of the navy and the co: cial Interests of the country. If the na lishment 1s not to be made effective, it should be discontinued, and the fitteen millions annually ex- ould be reserved to procure, in natlo: rgencles, the assistance of foreign slips and guns, If governmental measures are not soon to promote the carryiag trade and to ar- pearance of Ainerican ships from the A,We shall soon cease to be aseafarins people I nor need to maintain a navy of our own. but they Is fled and required by the presént condition of our naval and maritime interests, uggested to arrest q) an ‘Y OS ¢ about noon last $ , between 6th and 7th street: Rosenberr, tempting to satis ing on the goods of Mr. Rosenberry. resulted in the swearing out war Mr. Rosenberry and Sergeant Brosna police. In the Police Cou morni cases were calied up was the charge ac fo ulting Zachay of the constable. Mary constable levied on the charge of them tili he went for a wagon to con- vey the goods he had levied on away. Mr, Ro- senberr into the house and assaulted wit- ness. Taliaferro stated that when he returned he was assaulted by Sergeant Brosnan, who was r. Sergeant Brosnan stated that be- ‘vy was made Horatio Maryman came to him and gave him a warrant to be served on Mr. Rosenberry. Witness supposed that Mary- manand Taliaferro and others wanted to use ss to effect an entrance to the house of Mr. Rosenberry. and witness refused to let them use him to get possession of the premises, and ordered them to leave him. He afterwards went to the house and put Mr. R. under arrest, ening Mr. Judge Snell finea Mr. R. 1 stated that after the pods he left witness in it to let her in he pushed Taliaferro a ——— Foreign Events of Interest. THE ARCHBISHOP OF -CANTERBURY DEAD—IRISH AP- PAIRS—ARABI PASHA SENTENCED. The Archbishop of Canterbury is dead....Earl Spencer prohibited the land leagus meeting which Mr. Davitt was to have addressed at Limerick yesterday. Mr. Quinn, of the land league, and Mr. Davitt have been summoned to enter into re- cognizances for good behavior. The Irish mem- bers of parliament gave a banquet to Mr. A. M. Sullivan Saturday evening, at which Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Parnell and others spoke, _ It 1s reported that the recent outrages in Dublin were arranged in London and New York....Arabi Pasha’s be- gan at Cairo yesterday and Arabi pleaded gullty tothe ch: of rebellion. He was sentenced to death, and sentence was commuted to exile for life....The Spanish chamber of deputies met yesterday. The Kellogg Case. ‘The counsel for W. P. Kellogg, who was elected to Congress at the last election from the 34 Loulsi- ana district, and to whom a certificate is dented by the governor, have prepared a brief on the law and facts in the case,in which it 1s maintained that Congress is the exclusive judge of the qualifi- cations of its members, and that the governor of & seate cannot inauire into nor pass upon the icHiouse ot Representativesrthat ie elestion laws allow the ‘the: ————— Se Dees Dersey, Apparently. ‘From the Memphis Appeal. CLOSE OF THE GARFIELD Fain.) Saturday Night Scencs—The Financial Ouilooik—Results of the Voting, Etc. The Garfield Monument Fair closed at 12 o'clock Saturday night, after being open for eight days. There was a large crowd in attendance, and the yoting, which had been rather slow on previous days, experi- enced quite aboom. The aw of articles was continued during the evening. While the great bulk or the articles in the fair was disposed of eitier by private sale or auc- tion, by the time the hour for cloging came still a number remained, comprising some of the of interior decorati nsent to Milne & Proctor. er articles, includ- en placed in the 2 auction them off. The work of cleaning out the Capitol building was bezun at the close of the fair, and b ght there will be but few -traces of the THE BALANCE SHEET of the receipts and expenditures has not yet been made up, and will not be for some days. It is expected that the chairman of the com- mittee, Mr. John W. Thompson, will make a report, and the report of the treasurer will be incorporated in it. A prominent member of the committee said to a Stak reporter, in response to a question, “There will be a few thousand dollars left aft all xpenses have been paid.” “What hurt us,” he coutinued, “was that bieyele failure. We ought never to have gone into that and spent money in erecting a stand and offering pr Then we had to spend a great deal of money in fitting up the Capitol, which would have been saved if there was only a building in this city suitable for such purposes.” It is estimated that the receipts from the state booths will reach $7,000, and that the amount realized from the sale of tickets and arti- cies donated will increase the total receipts to an amount more than the nditure. The treasurers of th ious State booths, with the exception of Kentucky and Tennessee, place eipts approximately at the folowing tian ivani: 210.28 rict of Columbia, £700; Towa, . 8400; Kan- ecticut, $1,000; New York, NSE OF THE FAIR. the managers of the Garfield fair was large. After the fair opened the man agers calculated that their outlay would be about £12,000, while there were some things, the cost of which they could only estimate ap- mately, and which might increase the sum total of expe Some have estimated that the cost of the fair would reach 215,000, but by those best informed it is thought that this esti- mate is too large. The largest item about which there is uncertainty is the insurance upon the paintings and the freight charges both not at somewhere nd dollars. ‘The forms in the ro- center, the booths fact all the wood eluding the paint- ul of the structures at the air amou: 000. The Dill ce amounts to and that for the cost of erect But it is place between four and five thous contract for erecting the pl tunda, the structure in the in the hall of statuary, and i work insi close of the for po: print ing the stand for the spe parade in the White Lot Ther there is the music, the band stand on the ea front, the payment of the larg tendants, and other expenses Which will swell the suin’ of ¢ to not much less than £15,000. To off-set this expense there are the t$ for admission and tie proceeds of th sales of the various artictes. TH ‘T OF THE VOTING. The voting for the various articles closed at 11 o'clock Saturday evening, and the result was announced. The nanes of the winners and the votes received by them are as folloy Masonic emblem of the Blue Lodge was award- ed to J. W. Howell, who received 375 votes; chapter emblem, R. P. Barbour, 48; newspaper man’s desk, Frank Truesdell, 840; female school teacher's dolman, Miss Blundon, 334: cane for male teacher, Mr. Cram, of the High sehool, 174; baby’s crib, Dora Hall: cane for most popular candidate for District Commissioner, J. F. Olm- stead, set of Schiller's: works, E. C. T. Townsend, 619; gold watch for departmental chief cle Harrison Land office, 2,924; 's gold watch, Dr. Gleeson, 241 vd wateh, Ruff, Pennsylvania h. S; presidential candidate L. C. Houk, ef Tennessee, r ; Judge Wigwins, of New York, democrat ionist. 58115; gold-headed cane to ti most popular chairman of state board, G. W Hasted; the illuminated Bibie, Rey. F. D. Pow Miss Cowie the diamond earrinzs ‘at the low table: Capt. Thomason, of the Veteran corps, the sword for the most popular militia company nnmander; 'T. H. McKee, of st. John’s, No. 24, the Templar sword. THE RAFFLING. In the rattling, Miss Carrie W. Cate won the crimson plush extension chair; Byron Andrews, of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the © watch at the Illinois table; the G. fell to Garfield Post, No. 7%; wall Mrs. Whiteside; jewel box, Miss Herzog; epergne; Miss Minnie rifle, “General” Mareus Wright; decorated irs ss Mary L. Taylor; frosted tta Barnes; Mrs. Electra Sinith got the decorated mirror and lambrequin to the ost popular lady manager, Mrs. S. W. Dorsey coming within three votes of her. The votes received for the picture of Gartield, by Andrews, not reaching the urtist’s limit ($500), no award was mad ‘The board of direction adopted a resolution of thanks to Edward Clark, esq., the architect of the Capitol, for his indefatigable co-operation with the board. r pocket, Helen Cranford; —__s. Something for Children. iy for children are ly gaining quite a character of their own, and of a simple, quaint and practical kind, which, though it may run into some laughable absurdities, isa great Improvement on the stiff and stupidconyentionalism which a quarter ofa century since arrayed girl babies in hooped skirts under short dresses in the coldest weather, be- cause their mothers wore hooped skirts.” We agree with Demovest that the present styles are an improvement upon the old hoope skirt era, so far as health and comfort are con- cerned, but certainly nothing ever has been or ever can be more ridiculous than some of the present garments made for children. How can mothers, with any regard for their children, expose them to rude remark? If they could only hear the remarks that are made about them- ves and their little ones it might benefit thei Take, for instance, a chubby little girl ot five or six years of age, dress her up in a red bag, drawn in with a string or a number of strings at the neck, and two smaller bags Inserted at the top for sleeves; let the larger bag fall in straight folds to the knee, ora little above, perhaps, and you have the dress. For the cap. a plece of red cashmere made into something between a fez and a zouave cap, only more absurd; let one sharp point come well down the back, fasten a tassel on it, and you have the cap. Now a pair of’ bright red or blue stockings, and your little girl is fash- lonably dressed. | For a gypsy or a monkey such a costume weuld not be out of place; but for our own little girls it'is certainly not in good taste. There is still another very objec- tionable thing about the present dress of chil- dren, to wit., the extreme shortness of their di It certainly is not conducive to health for a cMild to go about with her legs'exposed to her kness. An adult could not endure such utter disregard of the laws of health. Yet the poor little children must suffer because some crotchety person, that likely has no children ot her own, and does not wish to see any one else have any, has introduced a summer costume for winter wear. There is still another thing tor mothers to-consider. Is it teaching your little | girls the charming virtue of m« them so? It is a common thing to see girls 12 and even 13 years of with their dresses to their knees. It would number of at- | The | Vermont Morgan Mystery. From the Springfield (Mass. ) Republican. Speak toa gray-haired Vermonter about the “Masonic times” and” you tonch the greatest political excitement of his life. Some of the whig campaigns saw more noise, while in the anti-slavery struggle there was the great depth of purpose, but in heat and bitterness nothing since political parties existed has equaled the contests following the Morgan abduction. A belief that the great secret society was acting in public affairs, to manage government, protect criminals and what not, caused the forming of a distinct anti-Masonic party, to which members of the order and outsiders who held a contrary opinion—these last derisively called “jack- masons”—were opposed, and the fzht became | so hot that all other po ns were | quite lost sight of, and it could almost besaid that every man hated personally each individaal on | the other side. e was a | local **m: only less remarkable in Its de- | velopment than the one in which Thurlow Weed | was so much interested, and a curious fr | in political history it makes. The story has never been fully told since the occurre! is now worth recalliag. Joseph Burnham, a middle-aged far town of Woodstock, was convicted of rape two or three years before Morzan’s disappearance. and sentenced to a term in the state prison Windsor. The woman who made the f hada bad character, many believed the u innocent, and a strong effort was made to him pardoned, headed by his lived in New York cits $ was in progress, October 15, 1826, 2 died in prison. His body was delivered to the | son, George, two days later, and by him taken to Woodstock and buried. There is no doubt that these are the facts. But son after the death there came a rumor that a man named Lyman Mower, who once lived in Woodstock | and knew Burnham there, had seen him in New | Xork city, alive’ and. well, going by | the name of Patrick Dolon. The mat- ter attracted very little attention until the ing of the excitement following Morgan's pearance two or three years later, when the old | story came up in a most unaccountable way as Masonic cutrage. Buraham was a Mason, the dent of the prison, the physician me other officers.as well asGeorge, | the son, were Ma and the belief ground that the prisoner had f been allowed to by the pr while the body ofsome other person y his friends as ablind. And inthe popular ment of the time this matter assumed a Gear of importance which now seems incredible view of the slender evidence upon which the case rested —the reported — statement of Mower, who was known to be an unreliable man. The story, however, grew and grew until in the sumim was taken up by the newspape istic war ensued, the lik seen in Vermont before ¢ of this Mower published an that he saw Burnham in New York in the 1826, and that in 188 he had met and talked with him often. A man named Cutter o made affidavit that he saw Burnham in | ew York in July of the current year, and these statements, with whlspers of some impend developments about the prison, popular fut In October th lectmen ordered the d ham’s remains for identitic: was exhumed, but could with certainty, and a fe operation was Tepeated in the pre: large crowd, but with no better r the same time the matter wastaken to the lature, as the conduct of state oMcers w volved, and tien the trath was e: legislative committee went to. offered Mower £500 if he would produce Bi ham in Vermont, and guaranteed a pardon for | the latter. Thereupon the whole thing fell through. Patrick Dolon was found. and it seemed that Mower had known him pe well for several y have been mistaken, as iy The most probable explanation, of tl le matter is that sor which Dolan bore to Burnham | h was never In the midst identified ater the ence of a ult. But lin going to rmont, that asthe excitement rose he lied delibemtely from love of mischief and notorict: and that Cutter did the san: cked fellow: a pus politeal drama was followed wan equally strange farce. In the course of Masonic exulting, sneering allusions to the ‘Jo | ‘d upon eve paper pubilis prospectus of a book on the subject. The ai houncement was intended merely as a sarcastic s . and orders for k began to come to the newspaper offic the editor, an eccentric genius named il, undertook to produce something to demand, and the result was a little vol- ume called “The Doleful Trazedy of the Raising of Jo Burnham,” in which a burlesque upon blank verse was kept in countenance by wood-cuts such as the world never saw before. The char- aswellas the story, were taken from life, and the thing was given point by hat several of (hem—iniddle-aged, sober cl and one, 5. C. Loveland, of Reading, a Univer- salist ininister—had traveled about the state rousing the rt by giving dramati representations ot Masonic ceremonies. M over, a strolling theatrical company happening along soon after the publication appeared, Burnham” was put on the boards; some of leading characters were studied in their daily y the play-actors and reproduced, and the most ridiculous of all stage performances | finally produced had a run never equalled in Veruiont. The Court’s Mistake. From Peck’s Sun. Judge Davis used to teil some admirable stories of an old Hlinois jud one of which we chance particularly toremember. One of the judges was rather remarkable for conveying to Jurors in his charges to them his own opinions with regard to the merits of the case he had done so with great plainness, but to | his amazement the jury hung out forhour out coming to an agreement. The ju quired of the bailiff what was the matter, and learned from him that one juror was hangii out against the other eleven. He sent forthe jury at once, and, stating to the jurors that he had plainly intimated how the case ought to be | decided, said he understood one juror was stand- ing out against the othereleyen. He proceeded to rebuke the juror sharply. The obstinate juror was a neryous little man, and as soon the judge was done he rose and said: ‘Judge, may I say a word?” “Yes, sir,” said the i nant judge: “what have you to say?” what I wanted to say is, 1am tie only feller that’s on your side.” ————— ‘The Liability of Venders of Toy Pistols. The supreme court of Indiana has recently rendered a decision which will probably have a tendency to check the sale of the death-dealing toy pistol. The title of the case is Binford vs. Johnson, and the facts are as follow Allen and Todd Johnson, aged ten and tweive years respectively, bought of Binford, a dealer in such articles, pistol cartridges. loaded with powder and ball. The boys purchased the cart- ridges for use ina toy pistol, and were instructed by Binford how to make use of them in this pis- tol. Shortly after the sale the toy pistol, loaded with one of the cartridges, was left by Allen and Todd lying on the floor. The pistol was picked up by their brother Bertie, who was six years of age, and discharged, the ball striking Todd, and inflicting a wound of which he died. The action was brought by the father tor dam- ages, and the court held the seller of the cart- ridges liable, and a judzment was rendered against him: The court, in delivering the opinion, said: ‘A man who places in the hands of a child an article of a dangerous character, and one likely to cause injury to the child itself. or to others, is guilty of an actionable wrong.” It is to be hoped that the knowledge of this aosion may be widely’ Reubege pea ae ae fear of pecuniary loss may deter jere in toy pis- tuls and cartridges from the exercise of this id gerous traffic. BETROTHED, ESTRANGED, RECONCILED, —At Pulasi XY .. Blanche de Maine prett; village music-teacher. yas betrothed i Alexander McDonald, a worthy joung man of Pictou, in the province ot Ontario. became and the | the fleld, But © | and a half hon | prisoner was on his ‘The Relation of Heat te the Develop- ment of Plants. The relation of heat tothe sexes of flowers was discussed before the Academy of } ral Sciences, of this city, last year, and the import- ant principle developed that it takes less heat to bring torth a male flower or the male parts of a flower, than it doesin the case of the female. This explanation is being found the key to much that ‘was supposed to be among the “ unknowables before. In Europe, or at least the northern portion of it, where the winter temperature is low till the spring actually arrives, the male flowers, or organs of plants, remain inactive till the weather is warm enough to bring forward the females also, when they receive the neces- sary pollination regu’ other countries, where thes warm days or warm periods, the monecious or diwcious pinats ward to maturity, while the fe: still warmer temperatu result sor whieh pre countries, become barren in others. In curown country it was shown, in the items which hay already beea given, that the hazelnut or often fails in this country for this reason. now appears that the same law operates production of walnuts in California. Mr. Gillett, of Nevada City, has recently written an essay on this subject, showing that the climate ot that huts and walnut | State advances the male flowers, wiiile the fe- males remain quiescent. The male catskins an all overblown and have tallen long before the female flowers have been bronght forward: and, hence, they are usually barren, In orde cure ‘successful walnut culture in Califo they have introduced a variety called the jac preeparturiens before the flowers push. In other words, th variety blooms later. success. = - Great Rattles. We suppose most people think when they | read of a yreat battle that all the men on either side were eng in fighting, or at any rate were at me tine or anot unde should one side have be ted if it had not put forth all its strength? But. says the an- the great battles of the Franco- German war the numbers were so great that seldom more than two-thirds of those present were ever under fire at At Sadowa 1886, the en into ire. In Austrians brouziit tno less than When we a 1870 and de 120,00 the same battle the def were never in ec adons fighting the number of battles. it is surprising to learn that only 7,069 men were killed, and less than men wounded in the German army dar war by 5 and ble that only 700 men were kil! 40 wonnded ptte and moothbore < is plain that in ) these incurred in the Boredino and Waterloo, of destruction. lest 1.40 per cent nded.” At Borodine the Fi per cent ed and 30 pe the French, who were the vieto higher propert ssians lost I tin wounde . having a still oo and ad dink rnnans at Worth, tha that, from the intreach- it, will take longer than ever to fad out white .— The Spec ses Myths, From the Cornhill Magazine. A Danish tradition makes the moon a cheese, formed of the milk that has ran together out of | the milky way! In the Pyrenees a hailstocm may be averted by frightening a black cloud with the sight of its own face in a mirror held up to it! And a Cypriot myth, seemingly of later date than Christ: shows how little such crude thoughts change: The moon being in Cypras calledVenus barbata because she once, to avoid a lover's ardor, prayed for help to the virgin, and received, to protect her, a beard like | aman! The beliefin the power of the sua or moon as persons totake upto them human beings trom earth may next be shown to have had, more periiaps than any other primary belief of humanity, an influence over mythology which may be traced to this day in some of the most popular of our superstitions and some of our most widely spread legends. Two stories are worth quoting to show that in primitive belief the sun, equally with the moon, possesses the power of | abducting human kind. The Greeks of mod- ern Epirus have atale of a childless woman, who, having prayed to the sun for a girl. gained her request, subject only to the girl's restora- tion at the age of 12. that age and was one day picking vegetables in | the garden, whom should she meet but the sun. | That luminary bade Ler go and remind her mother of her promise, The mother tn terror and consternation shut the doors and windows to keep her child safe; but, unfortunately, she forgot the keyhole, by which entrance the sun peaetrated and succeeded in carrying off his prey. The other story is from Germany. A object of pity to all whom he passed; but one woman, who was hanging up her linen to dry on the r: of the sun, maintained that he weil ae d his fate. Hardly had she said so when her linen fell down, nor was she ever able to hang it again upon ‘her former drying place. And when she died she came to the sun, where she must remain as long as the world endures. —_—_—__-e. __ Sir John McBonald and the Cabman. From the Toronto (Canada) 32: Mr. Davin, in his most. delightful lecture on “Down the Guif and by the Sea,” lately deliv- ered at Winnepeg and Regina, tells the foliow- ing very charaeteristie story of thé yeterati statesman at the head of the Canadian goyern- ment: “In due course thé party arrived at Que- bec. The visit to the Anglican Cathedral brought on some new and of church decoration from Mr. Roby, the visit to the Citadel, the St. Louis hotel aud Mount He mon cemetery also contributing to the general amusement and Interest. And the first chapter of what is really a novel in three chapters con- cludes with this scene, which we believe is his- torical, and took place this summer. On reach- ing the St. Louis hotel they saw Sir John Me- Donald, with his thoughtful face and dark curls, which still fight hard against the blanch- ing touch of time. He was surrounded by a lot of cabmen ail crying: ‘Ill take you, sir T've a fine horse, Sir John.’ Then our friends had the opportunity of witnessing one of those acts which more than even his great ability has endeared Sir John McDonald to a large portion of theCanadian people. Sir Johnasked whether Jim McCullogh was there. Jim was not there. but a little boy said Jim was on the stand, and he would fetch him. Many years ago, when oer met in Quebec, Jim always drove Sir fohn. Jim now caine, old and ragged, driving the worst cab in Quebec. _SirJohn shook hands with him, inquired how Biddy and the children were, and then, amid cheers, in which even the disappointed cabmen joined, drove off to visit the governor general and the Princess Louise.” Solved the Probiem. From the Jacksonville (Fia.) Times. A man from North Billerica, Mass., bought a Piece of wild land near Lake Hickpochee be- cause of a wonderful natural curiosity which the land agent pointed out tohim. It was a into the branches from the ground. g ° k i H ite i i rf i Bie. of nuts In some | which requires, both for the, male and feraale flowers, a higher temperature | With this they have great | in | is the win- | When Tetiko had reached | yto execution, and an | inal ideas on the subject | Cuts AND CURA. HOW TO CLEANSE THE SKIN AND SCALP OF TORTURING UUMORS, HOW TO CLEAR TEE COMPLEXION OF HUMILI ATING DISFIGURATIONS, HOW TO PURIFY THE BLOOD OF INUERITED HUMORS. | HOW TO BE HAPPILY RID OF CUTANEOUS DISEARES, | to se- | now that every word we now write will “ope in the breast of meny a lifelong sufferer. im a tiead end Chri . without 7p rvation, asy to thoze eftiicted, Duticura romedies, which may be had of any chem- acm, i «we am. We Fay We Can. ~ of chronic salt rhema, of ®. HEMP his, paorianis, lenmosy, . dindraf or itching oF the new blood Tually, and Caticura and Cuticura Soap, Mi ads of cure ‘tive of u ch we pnb the most pow ore the British Consul at Boston: , Henderson, N. ¥., ae- tonisho} everybody familiar with such suffering. We give his exact words: » exiled by rome M. D.'s proriasia, leprosy ain, and im with the help of +H elowly but surely ext ed, until a year ago ot it covered nay cmon inform of dry For the last three years I have becn unable to labor, and us intensely all the time. y morning there couid be nearly a dustpanfal of senles tken from the sheet on my bed, some of them half ax larce as the envelope containing this letter. Im clatier part of winter my ekin commenced erucking open. Liried everything aluost that could be thonght any relief. 7 12th of Ju I started west, ia hopes i could ronch the Hot Springs. Tseached Det and was 8» low I though! I should have to gto the hospital, but finslly gotas far as Lan where I bad a sister livin One Dr. bout iwoweeke, but did bad but a short time to tive. Tearnest Cracked through the skia ail over my ros, hands, limbs, f Vadly sw ser nails deed and hard as b ¥ and lifeless as old straw. 0, my God! how I did Due H. Davis, hada email part of @ urain the house. She wouldn't sve up il try Cationsn.’ mi. Eureka! ther: stopped the tecrible burning sensation a the word go. They im- » Cuticura and Soap, be the case | Wrter about blood heat: use. uticara Soap freddy; ane | plied Cut.curs morming and ev niuc. Result, retur to niy Lome in Just #ix weeks from tline Left, and my skin as smooth 2s this sheet of paper. CARPENTER, iS Lud lay of January, 1890, A.M. Lerrisewsna, | Justice of the Peace. The first creat home case was that of Hon. William | Teylor, ex-stct» seuntor. office 8 Pemberton Sqaare, | Boston. Cured of scrof * sores on the head, face | dnd body of overtwelve years’ duration, which had re- | sisted every physician and iethod of treatment up to | time of using Coticura remedios. Then followed Chas, 28 State street, Boston, who | Houghton, esq., lawyer, | was cared of salt rheum, which for ten years hed | covered the entire person aad was treated iu vain by | the most noted skin doctors in that city, Ex-Alderman Tucker, of Boston, came n with eczema of many years’ standing. The majority of the noted physicians Of the city experimented, doved and drugged him with= out avail. And then a host of minor ailments and dis- cases were successfully treated in New England. Another wonderful case ix reported by F. H. Brown, esq.. Barnwell, S.C., and indorsed by Dr. H. Baer, | Chatieston, 8. C. He writes: “Iwill now state that I1uade a miraculons cureof one of the worst cases of ekin disoases kuown. The | Paticut isa man forty years old; has suffered fifteen | years. Hiseyes, scalp and nearly his whole body pre- sented africhtful appearance. Had had the attention of twelve di veiciaus, who prescribed the best Temodies known to the professi m, such as fodide potas- sium, arsenic, corrosive sublinate, sarcaparilla, ete, | Had paid $500 for medical treatment with but Mitle ree Nef. I prevailed upon him to use the Cuticura Resol- | vent internativ, and the Cuticura and Cuticura Soap | externally. He did so.and was compietely cured. The skin on his head, face and many other parte of his body, which presented a most loathesome appearanes, is now assoftand smooth as.an infan‘'s, with no sear or trace of the disease left behind, He has now becn cured twelve months." Mrs. Asa I, Brown, wife of a prominent citizen of Malden, Mass., say Lhave had Salt Rheum on my body and on my lee in 4 very a-eravated form for cicht years, No kind of treatineut or medicine or doctors, during this time, did me any permanent good. My friends in Masten and elsewhere know that I have bocn a creat «ufferor, and that my condition at times has been such as tom. ske me despair of ever being able to find a cure, or even are Mef. In fect, when I bean the use of Cuticura my limd was +o ray and tevder that I could not pear my rout the shin cracking and Dieoding, togoabouton crutches, Teommenced nedies in april, and at once real~ total effect. It cradually drow the in- femmation end nor to the sarface, and as tast as it appeared healod lange quantiti ® would come to the uri s burning heat, infismama- tion, swellin and itching, wich, under the constant use of Culicars, would rapidiy subside and heal. Each time these outbreaks @row levs and less severe, an@ " . leaving me perfectly cured. Tused the Caticura and Soap five months, and took the Resol- vent most ol the time, which were the only remediss I wed. F. 1, Dreke, esq., agent for Harper and Brothers, | wives an astonishing account of his case (eczema rox dent), which had beeu treated by a consultation of | Physicians without benefit, aud which speedily yicded to the Cuticurs remedies. Will McDonald, 2542 Dear- enteen years; not able to walk exc hnees for one year; not eble to bh years; tried hundreds of remed hiseaa> hope'ese e Cuticura remedics, George W. Brown, 48 Marshall, street, Providence, R.1., cured cf aringworm humor ect et the barber's, which spread all over the ears, and face, and for six yeare resisted ali kinds of treat- ment: cured by Cuticura remodies, Mra. 8. E. Whip. ple, Decatur, Mich., writes that her face, head an@ some parts of her body were almost raw; head covered with seabs and sores; suffered fearfully, and tried everything; permanently cured by Curicura remedies, ‘The following complete and permanent cures ere com~ denced f.om the originals for wantof space, but the full statements ean be bad by return mail: HLA. Ray- mond, esq., Jackson, Mich., scsld- head of nine yeard duration; Frank A. Bean, Steam Fire Engine 6, Boston, cured of alopecia; or fulliag of the hair; Frank Annley,