Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1883, Page 2

tyne tenth annual commencement of 8t. Aloysius puiney, Grema Maloney, Dconnce ep, Cormac and Dehigriss aes key; Ave Marta, solo, Miss Annie Hol- ft. yao du Couronnement, Misses Mur- ey. HONORS AND PREMIUMS: ‘Were distributed of follows: Good conduct ‘Rhetoric and Senior classes—Misses $iGoney, King. Guiney O'Connor, Juntee clan. Misses Gorman, Brick, Keneally, Oavan, Green- ‘wood, ey, Stanton. Fullalove, Lynch, ©’Don- eand Lenthan. First Grammar MI wer, Ivey, Solan, Hill, Stanford, Lochte, W: OBrien, Murphy, Allen, Walsh, Bain, Ki Walsh, ‘Hefernan, Stanly, Kelly sind Butler, pd Grammar Class—Misses Foley, Deane. voyle, Falvey, Allen, Collins, Murphy, Elchorn, Butler, Doran, Gorman, Rover, Sullivan, MeMenamio, * Wall Hil, * Flyni Bara, Morkin, Collis, Kirby and jementary Class—Misses Heffernan, 8, Joyce, Murray, Killein, Grimin, Leary, Schermer- orn, Ready, Waish, Reese, Sullivan, Rainey, Mc- Menamin, Denigri, ‘Murphy, O'Neal, Flynn, Bry- t, Wolfe, Mack,'Suilivan,’ Elbert and Purcell. ary Cluss—Misses Builer, Coyle, Riordan, Shea, Roth, Brick, Healy, O'Doanetl, Onstey, Quine Jap, Gorman, Sullivan, Rowan, Daley. H ily, long, Foley, Grady, Lynen, Duffey an Honors for good conduct—Junior ci sse ‘ur Burns. —Misses ¥ Guiney. Juntor ming r_Mizabeth a Eie- ¢lass—Mary Gorman. First Second grammar— a August: Bor- Brewer. = Secon 1 mmar—FNa a Ella Hef- Staan. Third t3 Senior—Mary Hartigan. Junior—Cat Margaret O'Brien. —Sec- Magrath. Eiementary iy. Honor for Chris- class — Miss Miss Amy ret Junior c Pullalove, First” grammar Second grammar mentary class for Christian a ¥, Cavan, Bort Grady'and Der Mary Curry, Wade, Elizaneth Kelly, M Solan, Sec Triplett, . French, rien, nnor, Quill, tor Chiss— for polite— iney, Maloney, Murray, . Quill, Greenwood, ally, Lyneh, Lena- le, Waish, Heffer- + Rover, Kirby. , Walsh, St FI Juntor Class— Maguire and Lenth: Misses Brewer, Emiua Sotan, 0° e It alsh needlework — Misses Premiums for inst Certificates for the + Md rhetoric elasses—¥ 0 Monohi = ‘y, algebra; Miss MiSs O'Dea, ancient mental arithmet rine, Junior classes alove, natura com~ on; Miss Brick, Cay. geography; Miss Grady, se Temimar Class—Miss Butler, grammar; 2 Uzzerald, grammar and reailing; Miss ‘Solan, aritumetic and orthograph: Ge re Miss Bros bt 33 ‘cond grammar elass—Arith- 7. son and Magowan; Triplett and Gorman; reading, ; grammar, Miss Coyle: sacred hi Mizses” Kelly and Fitzpatrick manship, M ley; geography, Misses Butler, Hill and French. Elementary ciass—Reading, Misses Fur- Jong M. pelling, Misses Lyons and Bry- ant; arithmetic, Miss Schermerhorn; penman- ship, Misses Killsea and Wolfe. The Immaculate Conception School. ‘The closing excercises of the Immaculate Con- Ys 18S ception school took place at Lincoln Hall tnis morning. There was a large audience present who heartily applauded the participants. The work of the pupils in drawing was displayed on the walls Of the hall and it attracted much favorable com- Ment. Considering the short time the pupils have been engaged in drawing the performances were very creditable. A crayon portrait of Mrs. Frank Armstrong from a small phot ph, the work of Miss Acgie Armstrong, and two small paintings In oll by the same young lady, attracted much at- fention. Miss Emma Su had @ erayon por- trait of her mother a S of the Virgin and mental aie Katle R, Altee Fitz- 11 years of th, Ela” Harota, Namie Wynne, ‘anon and others he Walls, Near the ork of the girls In plain and op. arded during im: Entrance astrong, Lena Angelus, solo iB, Maggie Bellew, organ— Hail Us Ye Free, Hernant, chorus, senior vocal $s; Why Do Summet Fade? Barker, vocal solo, Clara Sullivan; Qui Vive alow, duet, Yanz, pianos—annie Cassin, Magyte olan, Alice Fitzpatrick and Rosa Brown; Some Folks, little girls’ chorus; Irish Diamonds, socio, Passe, planos—Agzie Armstrong and Lena Allen: Dumb Wife, vocal solo, Fannie May Shreve; Flower Song; O Sponse M1 duet, Clara Sullivan and Katie Harper: Black Key Mazourka, di ianos—Annie Wilitams, Estelle Willams, May loward and Jennie Cassin: The Kittens. uttie ‘irks’ chorus, accompanied by little Cora Shreve; ‘aves of the Ocean, duet, Blake, planos—Katlo Mamie Muilaly, Fannie May Shreve and May Maxwell; Harvest’Moon, White, chorus, sen- Jor vocal class: Prince Imperial Galop, juvenile, iz, planos—Katie Sheeby,Agyle Sheehy, Maggie Shugrue and Rickte Kant; Litile Rose of Lucerne, Yoral solo, Belle Jones, THE PREMIUMS. Honors and premiums were distributed to the following: Senior classes (English): Gold medals and crowns to Alice Fitzpatrick, Lizzie Daley, Emma Sullivan. Premiums in first and In Christian doctrine, writing, arithmetic, alge: grammar, Thetoric, sacred and tural philosophy, myth mommy, dotany, pl ature, are awarded In tue first class and the Orst,to Mary McDermott, Mary McCormick, » Rosa Brown, Maggie Bellew, Katie arper. Aggie Armstrong, Matle White. Adele Mier, Clara Sullivan. Mary Brown, Carrie Kelly, Maegie Nolan, Katie Dwyer, Mary Barry, Magic Ryan, Hosa McKenny, Lizzie’ Hauber,Moitie Dovie, Susle Lewis, Annie Cassin, Mamie Ki Stewart, Katle Murphy. 5 ©f second—Annie Bei and chorus, Clar, Aggie Armstr aah Ln ‘Mary Crown, El lorie MoGuite Rati Yn Mary Dopey, Matis Bury. Gore ys ams, May Howard, Belle Leeda. Prem in thy fourth lh Caristian doctt Sit mental and and civil Mamie Waters, Mamie — Mutlaly, Rosa gen, Ani Buhle Ore Annie Kerr, Ri {ifam: Hillyard, eit lands, Stay, katie O’Nell, Mary Si il, Annie Thomas, R to Zerega, Katie Swee! Mary Thomas, Nellie | ‘Williams, May McCormick, Rosie Zeregn katie JOY, Joaie Oparer. Christina famie Deneal, Maggie Lawlor, Josie McCarty, Marie Cassin, Ma- mie Schmidt, Johanna Leahy, Marty McMahon, Mary O’Bare, Genevieve Baffell, Marietta Vaughn, Katie Mullaly, ‘White, Josie McGeary, Annie White, ntal music—Gold medals to Aggie Arm- first class, and Annie Ca&sin, second class; silver medal to Katio Allen, third class, Premiums in music, French, inting, drawing, ornamental writing and book- ie rown, M. haffer, Shreve, May Maxwell, Annie Williams, Estelle Wilttams, May Howard, Cora, Sareve, Mamie Mul. laly, Jennie Cassin, Maggie Shugrue, Katie Sheehy, Aggie Sheehy, Alice Fitzpatrick. Rickie Kant, Ma- mie Killigan, Mary McDermott, Mamie Herold, Maggie Bellew, Adele Miller, Mary Brown, Katie Harper, Lizzie_Datey, Emma Sullivan, Clara Sulll- van, Carrie Kelly, Katie Dwyer, Maggie Ryan, Lizzie Hauber, Mamie Kelly, Rosa’ McKenny, Mat- We Fitzpatrick, Mamie Ryan, Maggte Williams, May Beile Whitesell, Katie Allen, Annte Bellew. St. Peter’s Parochial School. The closing exercises of St. Peter's Parochial school, Capitol Hill, were held this afternoon. The following is the program: Entrance march, Smith, Misses L. Fry and M. Flynn; Welcome chorus, Doys. ‘The House on the Avenue, a drama in five Scenes. Prologue, Miss L. Bright. The cast in- eluted the following young ladies: Misses J. Ken- drick, L. Bright, S. Waltemeyer, G. Pad Sullivan, C. Dougherty, M. O'Brien, A. Clark, A. Waltemeyer, M. Curtin, M. Greenwell, W. O’Con- nor, A. Maryman, M. Dicgs, K. Wall) Over the Summer Sea, chorus, giris;’ plano solo, Bollman, Miss M. O'Connor; Why do Summer Roses Fade, chorus, girls; Little Girls’ chorus. The Pbotogra pher, a comedy in one act. The characters were Fsonated by the following young gentlemen: Masters J. Gannon, E. McCormick, jeneger, H. man, W. Dwyer, M. Curtin . Dwyer, M. Curtin, ‘T. Chapinan, R. Thorne, H. Padgett, W. McKenna, J. Barnes, J. Leonard, J. Maloney and J. McLaughitn, Away, Away, the Morning Freshly horus, girls; distribution of premiums; Retiring March, Auber, Misses pson, THE PREMIUM LIST. Boys’ Department.—The following drew for gold eros v i for attenda: ‘irst rs Timothy Casey, William McKenna, Frank Holland, Jeremtah O’Con- ‘a all Second Cliss--Charies mn McLaughlin, George Fletshill, Ig— , Joseph Waller, John Repett, Alfred Richards and Frank McMenamin. Premiums were awarded In the First class of Christian doc- trine, orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, United Stal tory and geography to Casey, Elmo Clarke, Frank Rich- pman, Harry Padgett, Raymond ard Mitchell, Willlam McKenna, Jas, ward McCormick, Michael Curtin, John Mahone nd John Barnes. Second Divislon—Ar- thur Richards, Frank Holland, John Leonard, Harry Co! an, Raymond O'Leary, Elward Wall Jere. O'Connor, Sam’l Marceron and John Burke Second elass of catechism, spelling, reading, g n ¥, arithmetic and writing, to Masters John. McLaughlin, Alfred Richards, Edward Castell, nk Menamin, Joseph Weller, Harry Under- wood, Ignatius Byrne, Willle Torrens and George Gav Second Division—Charley Berkeley, Wil- yer, Frank Hedy, George Holland, Thomas Joseph Heneger, William fol ‘Tuohy, Edward Ric aghran. Third division of catechism, reading and spelling, ‘0 Aloysius Langley, James Mulball, Alfred Shaw, Thomas Smith, Frank Pope, Richard McCormick, Thomas Dwyer,Mastal Byrne, Emmanuel Torrens, James McMenamin, Frank Bright, Gilbert Gan- Jenkins, Willle Scott, Frank Barr, George Fleishell and George Thorpe. —Pretaiums in spelling and al Department.—In the first class a gold medal for attendance and deportment was drawn for by Misses Grace Padgett, Alice Conway, Mal- vin Johnson and Annie Maryman. In the second class a gold cross for attendance and deportment: Was drawn for by Misses Agnes O’Bold, Nellle Pad- gett, Ela Healy, Margaret Dorsen, ida Mulhall and ‘Agnes Clarke. In the third class a gold cross for attendance and deportment was drawn for by Misses Nellie McCormick, Lessie Knott, Blanche Reilly and Mary Mulvanill Premiums wero awarded in the first class of cbristian doctrine, astronomy, philosophy, algebra, mental and. prac- tical arithmetic, grammar, geography, ing, writing, orthography, modern and United States history to Misses Satah Waltemeyer, Grace Pad- gett, Lena Bright, Mary Greenwell, Lizzie Healy, Mattie Diges, Mary Curtin. Second division of catechism, bible history, geography, grammar, mental and practical arithmetic, reading) writing, United States history and spelling to Misses Mal- Vina Johnson, Margaret Morgan, Ella Sweeny, Alice Conway, Catherine Wali, Annie Chapman, Mary Hughes, Nelite Hartnett, Mary Touhey,Mary Suilivan, Juila Kendrick, Annie Maryman and Emily Dougherty. Second class of catechism, grammar. geography, reading, writing, ortho- graphy, United ‘States history dnd artihtnetic to isses’ Agnes O'Bold, Ella Healy, Nellie Padgett, “Maggio Dorsen, Emma ‘Meehan, Annie Shea, Cecilla Dougherty, Maggte O’Brien, Winnte O’Coanor and Lizzie Hughes. Second di vision, Maggie McMahon, Alice Waltemeye: Katte Hughes, Ida Mulhall, Sulla Bresnahan,Adela La Dane, Annie Clarke, Maggte Barr, Mary Bolger, Katie Dorsen, Lizzie’ Standford, Katie Nagle: ‘Third class of catechism, spelling, arithmetic, gography, reading and writing to 3 Nora fogan, Aches Flefshell, Nelite McCormick, Lessie Knott, Nellie Conway, Mary Gillooly, Mary John- son, Nellie Sullivan. Premiums 1a the second dl- {ston of catechtam. reading, spelling ant writing to Misses Mary Mulvahill, ‘Agnes Clarke, Mary Gartland, Blanche Reilly, Annie Bowling, Mary Lawlor, Nellie Lawlor, Alice Gorman, Mary Woods, Mary Leonard, Rose Tuohy, Lilie Hutton, Mary Morgan, Maggie Shea, Sadie’ Walsh, Mary L: Lizzie Ta Dane, Mary Mulcahy, s Maggie Frazter, Clara Meehan, Frances Bowlin; 3 Ella Marcy, Carrie Johnso: Mary McMonald, Katle Standtord, Hattie Burr Annie Hartnett, Maud Padzett, Frances Clifurd, Ella Boswell, Josephine Mulcaby, Teresa Hutton! St. Aloysius Parochial School for Boys. The exhibition of thts institution took place last evening at 8 o'clock In Gonzaga hall, and was wi nessed by a large and appreciative audience. The speaking of the young lads was extremely credit- able, as well to themselves as to their instructors, and their singing gave evidence of careful train- ing. ‘The following awards were conierred upon the successful scholars by the reverend director of the school, Father Brennan, 8. J.: First Class.—Scholarships in Gonzaga college were awarded to John Ahein, John Downt medal to Richard Hartigan; premium to Barthol~ omew Ready. Regular attendance and good con- duct—Premium to Thos. Sweeny. Writing—Pre- mium to Edw’d Leston; deserving mention, Mich’! Sullivan, David Fitzgerald, John Renahan. Second Class —Medal to Charles Knighton; pre- mium to Denis Lane; premtum for general excel- fence, Joseph Hill; good conduct, William Horst- ‘amp; deserving mention, Jos, Dillon, Wm. Law- less, Edward Stanton. ‘Third Class.—Medai to Jas. McNally; premiums to, Wiliam Sullivan, Bernard Schaffer, William el Fourth Class—First division—First_ premium, Edward Sweeny; socond premtum, Clarence H: vey. Second diviston—Premium to John Donohue; for good conduct to Wm. Staub. St, John’s Academy, Alexandria, Va. ‘The Nftieth annual commencement of St. John’s Academy was held at Armory hall, Alexandria, yesterday. The hall was very handsomely deco- rated, and the large audience was well pleased with the exercises. The salutatory was delivered by James F. Smi:h, of New York, and the valedic- tory by James W. Green, jr., of Virginia. The other gentlemen of the graduating class, Messrs, RE Lee Martin, Md.; James P.Quinn, Va. ; Frank E Catlett, Va; Ashton G. Clapham, Va; Frank B Jonas, La; Thompson P. Desea, ML, and W. ‘W. McCaffrey, Va., also took part in the perform- ances. The certificates conferred by the Untver- (Wasning: In class B medals were awarded to Amos P. Febrey, R. E. Acton, Eustace C. arded to Herman B. F, Heath a tee E Lee John J. Walsh tol : 4 ij F| il ngeie oe Florence Frederick Schuler, W. W. William #. F. Beckham an® John W. Green. a THE TREE-BUX NUISANCE. Whitewashed or Otherwise. To the Editor of Tax Evesine Stan: Many of our citizens are having the ugly and dilapidated wooden tree-boxes in front of their premises whitewashed. No amount of white- wash will render these boxes otherwise than an eyesore. A far better plan would be to remove the boxes entirely where the tree has a diameter ot five or more inches, and then it thought to be an improvement whitewash the trunk of the tree Itself. The District park commission in vari- ous reports during the past five years have con- demned these boxes as injurious to the growth of the trees, at the same tfme marring their beauty. If any one desires to contrast the nce of unboxed trees with those clumsily xed, braced, strapped and whitewashed, or otherwise, let him start from the northwest cor- ner of 9th street and Massachusetts avenue, fol- lowing that avenue on the north side to the Du- pont circle, at 19th street northwest, viewing he trees on the right-hand side, extending in an almost unbroken line for the distance indl- cated, casting an eye occasionally to the left side of tne walk, where the dirty and dingy boxes prevail, and he will be fully satisfied of the beauty and elegance of the former, com- pared with the latter. Trees are not exposed to danger as of old in this District, as there are now no straggling ani- mals roaming at large to bark and disfigure them. The injury from runaway vehicles is about as great as that from lightning, and when such in- Juries occur, affecting, as they possibly might, on an average Fo annum, one tree in ten thousand, it is far better to replace that one than to have the entire city, in every direction, as far as the eye can reach from any given point, disfigured, as it is, by miles of ugly wooden boxes, whitewashed’ or otherwise, but mostly otherwise, and very much 80, too. The matter is one of real practical importance, and, as such, addresses itself to our energetic and capable District Engineer Commisioner, Major G. D. Lydecker, U. 8. army, who, by a simple order, directing the remoyal of the wood- en boxes from all trees under his jurisdiction having a diameter of more than five inches, will thereby add fifty per cent to the beauty and ele- gance of the cit; Pustic Taste. = Not Captain Winship. Gerorcetown, D. C., June 25th, 1883. To the Editor of the Eventna STAR: My attention has been called to an article published in Tue Eventna Srar of Satur- day, June 23d, headed “Appomattox,” In which the following occurs: ‘The commissioned of- ficers were then directed to arrange themselves in line, and at the word of the provost marshal (a Captain Winship If I mistake not) a sergeant stepped forward with a pair of scissors and be- gan snipping off the brass buttons from our uniforms, as well as the bars and stars on tne collar indicative of ourrank.” * * * As the writer has seen fit to connect my name with his experiences, permit me to say that no such order as the above was given by Captain Winship, nor did he. superintend the execution of such an order. W. W. Winsuir. I remain respectfully, A Loud Call for Relief. To the Editor of Tue Evenis@ Stan: The Commissioners, the district attorney, the health officer, or any one else having authority, are invited to call any evening at the mouth of the alley on A street, between 4th and 5th northeast. They should bring their noses with them, and I will warrant them as rich a treat as they have enjoyed for years. This alley is in- habited by six or seven cows; of what breed or on what fed I know not, but oh, how they stink! We have borne with this nulsance for years. Probably one hundred people, more or less, have uttered execrations, both loud and deep, but to no purpose. Help, oh hepa men 0. of authority! 28. “—______+e-______ ‘The Holocaust in Italy. HOW FORTY-SEVEN PERSONS, MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, WERE BURNED TO DEATH. Further intelligence of the frightful calamity at a place of amusement in the town of Dervio, on the shore of Lake Como, ts to the effect that the show was held in alarge hall over a tavern. There were ninety persons in the hall A Bengal light Was used to represent fire, and sparks from this set fire to a quantity of straw and fire-wood stored in an adjacent room. On perceiving the flames the showman shouted “Fire!” but the spectators ae the cry was merely a realistic detail of 1 show, and remained seated. Cries of fire were soon raised outside the hall. The audience, think- ing an affray had arisen in the street, barred with a heavy table the door leading from the hall. They id not discover thetr mistake until the flames Durst into the room. After the fire was extin- guished forty-seven charred corpses were found hear the table, including the bodies of the show- man and his wife. Twelve persons were injured. Alarge portion of the dead bodies are those of women and children. The wounded were hurt by leaping through the windows. A child was flung out of a window by its mother and fell upon a pile of straw. This ts the only one of the spectators in ‘the hall that was not hurt, Major Nickerson’ From the Pailadelphia Times, to-day. Charles Walter Nickerson, a cousin of Major Azor H. Nickerson, whose recent matrimonial difficulties have excited so much comment, ar- rived in this city from Chicago yesterday and had along conference with his kinsman’s legal ad- visers. Mr. Nickerson declined to make public the nature of his business. During the afternoon he vislied the house on Cherry street which the gal- lant major claimed as his place of residence, he having slept there half a dozen times in tourteen months. Charl Wives. WW. Nickerson, in speaking of his rela- tive, the major, in the Continental’ hotel, ester. day, sald: “Mr. Carter, the father of the young lady whom the major wedded after his Philadet- phia divorce, was a sutler on the frontier and died three yéars ago, leaving a widow and two daughters between whom to divide his $200,000. Major Nickerson and his wife had known the whole family for long years and, after the wife's departure for Germany, he got the relicts of the defunct Carter to move from Baltimore to Wash- ington and took up his abode in the same house. ‘The major lived somewhat above his {ncome and was usually low in funds, which were ae fur- ther depleted by Be eed remittances to Et wo his wife. I think it more than likely that the $50,000 mansion in Dupont Circle in Washington will be captured by the major’s as I have Teason to believe that Miss Carter will not make any legal resistance. This will possibly satisty the first wife, who may agree not to put any ob- Stacie in the major’s way of marrying Miss Carter rare not think Azor will be court-mar- tal Itis not generally known that Miss Carter is the third woman the major has married. After ora quaker fanik y the battle ind. Whi of a Quaker near the 1e-groul en he recovered he married the daughter of the family. After the war she went with him to the frontier, where she died a few months later. He met the woman from whom he was divorced in ee, in California and married her ere, A special from Mansleld: ban cays that ti Tee sn Says © pre- min: examination of the Jenkins protuers, chi with (eel ae of ~ log 8 Lane Bor- den, “was conc! yesterday. Judge Logan brieny reviewed the case and held B. oO. and CE Jenkins to answer a eharge of murder, They will not be allowed to give ‘They were sent to the ‘Caddo parish fall at Shreveport. A CoLonep WoMAx Strasse To THE HEearT.— A serious difficulty occurred near Hurts- boro’, Ala., between Joseph a white man, lored woman named Rena ite. Broom United States the very same argument is used. Protection party th the United States say to people,“ What will become of you tf you the manutacturgs produced by the pauper of England to cote into the United States? Wi — become of icp em what will become of your And exactly what our Country gentiemen said yeare S50, only talking of pauper labor instead of untaxt labor. Our pauper art vanished, an of the pauper labor of chaps home am speak- assembly of my own country- to address a word to the 10 emy of rs.) 1 have fought her battle in thts country [cheers] when for a time Was not gure that the contest would not go against her. (Hear, hear.) I have 48 much sympathy with tho United States now ag 7 had then, and as muoh, J thi almost as I had been born upon her soil. [Cheers] ‘Well, I will say this to the workingmen and arti- sans of the United States, that centuries of tegis- lation in this country have not done so much, have ynferred r of ey, and all ta I belleve that the question in the United States as between a high protective tariff and a merely revenue tariff is nearing its solution, [Hear, hear.) Opinion 1s growing; facts—economic iacts—which are irre- Bistible, are coming to the front and are offering themselves to the consideration of statesmen there, and of every intelligent man in that great Fepublic. here 13 an extraerdinary condition of thin; which no other country in any age of the world has ever experienced, or even dreamed of. There 4s an actual surplus of reyenue of £30,000,000. Why, Our, chancellor of the exchequer potters about ‘with £1,000,000 or £2,000,000. He puts a penny on the income tax one day, and another day takes It off again; one day gives a quarter of a millon to the country gentlemen to help them repair their roads, and then discovers that he cannot find the money, and does not doit, Laughter.) The chan- cellor of the exchequer of the United States, mon- arch apparently of all he surveys, deals with a lump sum, the magnitude of which we cannot measure and cannot ‘concetve, but a lump sum of £30,000,000. Now this £30,000,000 js fatal to the high protection party. The government does not Know what to do with it; it must elther throw it away or spend it in something foolish and unnecessary, or else 1t must refuse to Tecetve it by reducing the duties, ‘There are other matters which I need not go into, connected with their system of bonds, ahd with’ their banks, which I Will not attempt to explain, but I think this 1s very certain, that, although this year they have made a little alteration in their tariff, next year the difficulty will be greater, and in’two years there will be an election of President of the great republic. When the contest comes there must be some question to divide parties; they could hardly fight if there was no question.’ [Laughter.] And now the great question of slavery has been settled for ever, It has been written in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of men that slavery shall never again exist upon ‘that'continent. (Cheers. ‘The negroes in the south, who, it was said, woul. not work, and who, it: was said, would die off if they were free, are more numerous than ever. ({Laughter.] Being the only people in the south who did work before the war, they work now bet- ter than ever, because they receive the reward of their labor. (Hear, hear.) Now, when that ques- tion comes to be discussed In the great forum of a nation of 50,000,000 of peopie, what must be the result? A very invelligent member of parliament told me two or three years ago—I am not sure I ever quoted his opinion before, but it is worth hearing—I think, as he sald, that his lberal opinions had been greatly strengthened by what he had observed in the United States. (Hear, hear.] He said, “f you note what they do, a great many of them talk wildly and foolisiily, but,” he said, “they always act very wisely.” [Laughter and cheers] Well, two years hence, I believe, there will be a good deal of talk, and perhaps a good deal of 1t Wild and foolish, but when that Great people are brought to the issue whether, having struck off the chains from the negro, they are to leave the fetters of protection upon the In- dustry of all their countrymen, I believe they Will do before long what, we have’ done, {cheers} and wifl declare it to be the inalienable right of every American, as it isthe inalienable right of every Englishman to spend his money in the cheapest market in the world. [Loud cheers.) I am very much tempted not to satisfy the eritics of whom I have spoken. {Laughter.] But to satisty my,mind in the train of argument into which I have been led I feel almost disposed fora moment to enter upon the region of proph- ecy. Laughter.) Perhaps Iam sanguine, perhaps more ignorant than I deem myself, There opens before me a grand visionof the future. England and hor colonies and her dependencies, save India, at this moment have a population of '60,000,000 oi persona. I will not go over the colonies where hey are dwelling, but you know that there are, I suppose, five or six and thirty millionsin this coun- try. The United States, by the last census, had als0 60,000,000. ‘They are supposed now to have '55,000,00, and good judges say that by the end of the century—by the time when & man of 50 in this audience reaches my age—the United States will possess a population of 100,000,000 of souls. India a free-trade country [hear] with only one ex- ception—its ports are open to all produce from all Parts of the world. Now what I want to suggest to you is this, that if it should come, as I believe it will come, that the United States will go down to a sensible revenue tariff, whatever that may be —I do not point the sum or'the amount, I mean a tariff which will permit large freedom of trade with all the nations of the world —and then, it ‘azland and America, gro’ rapidly 100,000,000, take this course, what will be the effect upon the other nations of the globe? What do protectionists in Europe say now? They say, It ia all very well to tell us that England 1s in favor of tree trade. Look at America. ‘There is a popular government, a republic, every man voting, [hear, hoar,] and ‘there they have a system of pro- tection most strenuous and most severe; and, therefore, they say, we, at any rate, may hot be set down’as fools and ignorant if we have protec- ton here, and follow the example of the free gov- ernment and the free people of North America, But if the United states should make the change, which I believe 1s impending, then the United States and England, with her hundred millions and more, will be an argument of a different kind and of a different force to the nations of Europe, ‘The free traders of every nation wilisay: Why, the people in England, living under an ancient monarehy, are prospering with free trade, and the people of the United States, Uving under ‘the fl of the republic, have followed the examy of Englani And they will say: We are t ing to follow these countries in political fre dom; why should we not follow them in the not less magnificent and beneficent path ot & perfect freedom of industry? [Loud cheers.] Now, one word to which tuis argument or picture leads me. May I ask you what at this moment are the two great curses of Europe? ‘The one is the system of high tariffs, the war of tariffs, and the other is the war of arms and armies. [Cheers.] The one is burdensome—in fact, both are burden- some at all times, and armies are at times more than burdensome’ when they are employed in destruction and slaughter. If you were to destroy the tariff of Europe you would destroy the pretense for the maintenance of the great armies of Europe. [Hear, hear.) As I dis- cuss it and consider it the vision seems to grow Upon me that nations would become one in inter- ttyaburg he was nursed in the house.| to est, their very jealousies would vanish as their ignorance of each other would vanish. If France and Germany in the year 1870 had had no tariffs, it their F peoples were, trading from day to day be- tween two countries as the French trade be- tween the ents of France, and as we trade ‘with Sco! lo you think 1t would have been possible to have brought these great nations into & sangulnary war upon the stupid and foolish Question what prince {2 Europe should be invited. occupy the throne of Spain—in which neither Prussia nor F 1n my opinion, have the small- est possible interest? The Hartford Remedy for Red Ants. From the Hartfotd (Conn.) Times, June 13. A gentleman of this city informs us that last summer his family were troubled with myriads oflittlered ants. He watched their movements, and finally found that aline of them camethrongh re cores ny eae and ae oes way 0 .. Retufning wi sugar or ner ous where they came in, and = in the tee a ip feet en wrod n ining he found a of raare filled with the anta, "Mep — fgll of boiling water, had about the nest stirred.up, and the water poured d this on the two following days, ful to cover with the boiling wi several feet of ground all around the nest. He had no more red ants in his house last summer, nor have they reap} this year. The Great Trial in Hungary. ‘THE MURDERED GIRL eae HAVE COMMITTED ‘The development of further scandals at the trial Thoughts of Hesigning His Position polar sare ‘4 Sound Mind in Seund iy From the New York Herald, Jane 24, “fam well. I don’t know that there is an organ allingin my body. In other words, so far as.I know my brain is sound, my heart is sound, my stomach and digestion are sound; I am not weakened with the old man’s trouble of bladder or kidneys; I am as regular as clock work and all right in every physical respect, except——"” “Then there ts an exception?” “Yes,” rejoined Henry Ward Beecher, and his eyes twinkled like blue twins in a starry firmament. ‘Yes, I weigh 220 pounds, where I used to welgh but 150, and anybody who rides 8 horse and knows what a difference ten pounds on that horse makes will appreciate that a man cannot carry around 220 pounds as easily as 150 pounds, as I did when I was only fifty years old.” “But it’s all you?” “Yes, it is all me and just as much more me than it was, as 220 are more than 150.” Henry Ward Beecher is ‘seventy years old” to-day, and at half-past ten o'cl D.Y., he will walk briskly into Plymouth church, pick his way through the crowds upon the form stairs, sling his Chinese birdnest hat under a chair and facea tremendous audience ot men and women who love and revere him. To- morrow evening the Brooklyn Academy will be packed _by thousands of his fellow-cltizens, as- sembled to do him honor and spread for him the table of felicitation in the presence of his ene- mies. No social event has happened in the City ot Churches in many a year so well calculated to warm the inner cockle of the Brooklyn heart. It has been intimated that Mr. Beecher would give up preaching when he reached his seven- tieth year, as his dread of mental failure unper- celyed by himself alone amounts almost to fanaticism, and in view of that intimation his partial confirmation of the rumor, with the ac- companying conversation, will be read with uni- versal interest. BEECHER AT HOME. After Mr. Beecher was sixty years old he con- celved the idea of building a magnificent home- stead for himself and his family. He paid the architect, superintended the erection of the finest residence of its type on the North river, furnished it richly with every known convenl- ence and all attainable luxuries and paid for every bit of it with money made since that time by lecturing from Maine to California. The house stands on the crest of a lofty hill in Peek- skill, and is reached by along and winding drive through magnificent trees which line iton either hand. From the broad plazzas can be seen the range of distant mountains and the sil- ver thread of the Hudson not far off. Peace reigns in all the region round about, and in that deliciously restful atmosphere the writer yesterday found the venerable pastor, pen in hand, preparing data for his lecture duty near at hand. He was the picture of health as with characteristic coardiality he rose and welcomed his guests to heart and home. His workshop and library are the beau ideal of comfort and temptation to duty. Tables, books, electric lights, deep Turkish rage, ample chairs, and all the paraphernalia of workmanship abound. After a few moments’ rest Mr. Beecher bakes tai “You are seventy years old, are you not?” “Tam,” “How are you?” “Tam well—perfectly so.” “Then if you are all right you don’t intend to stop preaching and working?” “Ido not intend to stop working, but I have a mortal dread of holding on after ail my friends know, but are afraid to teli me, ‘You had better stop.’ I have thought very seriously of Just re- signing my position as pastor when I am seventy years, preaching out the rest of the year, of course, in all honor; but I can go through the same work that I used to with less fatigue than I used to feel. If I knew that the Lord was going to strike any church around and burn it up I would suggest Plymouth church, and then we would go up near the Park somewhere, and I would build a church, not quite so large, in a good locality, and leave that to my successor in a position that he could unquestionably maintain and prolong. As It is, itis going to be pretty hard for any one to go down there and fill the church and carry it on. One of two things I should like. Let us havea suttee, as they do in India, where, when the husband dies, they burn the widow with him; or I would have the church expire and go out as a thing in history that had a short and useful duration, rather than to have it linger on as a poor, beggarly church, subsisting on its past recollection and not make any progress. It sprang up from the necessity of public affairs at the time of its origin. It has gone through all these great transitions that have been as won- derful as any that ever befell a nation in fifty Years, and has been inthe ascendancy in the front, leading on all those elements that are now recognized as constituting our safety and prosperity, and now I do not feel as though I wanted such a church to go into its dotage and drool and drizzle lite = Health Cranks. From the Indianapolis News. The Pall Mall Gazette thinks that the way health Journals and sanitary publicists taboo agreeable luxuries that have been found innoc- uous if not beneficial for many generations, is “adding new terrors to life if it takes none from death.” It 1s certainly a noticeable fea- ture of the doctrinaires of the hygienic school —the Halls and Dio Lewises, and their kind— that they condemn modes of life, kinds of food, fashions of clothing, habits of resting or exer- cising that have prevailed for years with no visible harm. Day after day they take away something that some of us haye been in the habit of eating or doing, or put in something we have been in the habit of not doing or eating, till we feel like Sancho Panza at his banquet at Barratarid? “Fruit is too moist,” said the doctor of the table, the Dio Lewis of Barrataria; “the roast meat increases thirst: partridges are dangerous; stewed coneys area sharp-haired food; olla-podrida is too coarse. Therefore, eat a hundred rolled up wafers and some thin slices of marmalade.” No wonder if we cry out with the hungry Sancho, “to deny me any victuals, though it is against the grain of Signor Doctor, and thongh he should say as much more against it, I say 1s rather the way to shorten my life than to lengthen it.” The sensi- me ne of the none will say — to the hon- fanchegan. ‘‘Never eat a supper Just before going to bed,” say the Barateroen of health journals. But we know our fathers and ndfathers on their farms would eat a horse's meal of mush and milk, or johnny cake and beans and cold cabbage, be in bed and asleep in a half hour and up at daylight as hearty at 60asa Barratarian health broker or breaker at 40. Lord Cockburn tells us that Rey. Sir Harry Moncreiff had his supper of roast chicken and claret at 11 o'clock at night all his life and died at 90. Ever since Cornaro from a bauched to an ascetic and measured out his bread and meat by the ounce and his drink the teaspoonfal, and lived to be over a huni 5 there have been fools who believed that one man’s meat was all men’s health, and one man’ doctrine was all men’s duty. Dio Lewis lays down the law and ten thousand men break it every and hve long and well. Others obey and die sickly. This wise law of food is that of the ‘blood-thinnit qualities of food or “4 -thini jes the right rule is te eal wat you liket with and let the Barratarians go a few weeks since some Sancho Some Interesting Facts About English A correspondent of the Hartford Times, who 1s more devoted to telling what hé sees than to making out a case, gives in a recent letter some facts in regard to renta, wages, eto. Most of the land, he says, in England is farmed by rent- ers, who pay from $5 to @10 per acre. When land commanding this rent changes hands, which is very seldom, it brings from @150 to $295 an acre. Horses used in farm work are usually of a massive build so common in this country, and range in price trom $200 to $400. A good milch cow, with calf, is worth $150. Farm laborers earn from ently have from a month to six weeks, the farmer contracts with his hands to work for him during the whole time, potting fn about 18 hours of hard labor a day for #25, with 65 extra tor beer. At this the weekly wage is, of course, suspended. The marvel is that these farm laborers are able, on their small in- come, to keep up such a good appearance. The man has a suit of black in which to go to church on Sundays, and his wife sits by his side, attired with equal neatness and comfort, and they both, with their children also, present a tidy and well cared-for look as you see them on the streets during the week. Their dwellings, viewed trom the outside, are ve of anything but poverty or distress. They are of humble dimensions, to be sure, but the win- dows, shaded with imitation lace-curtains, as many of them are, and lit up by flowering plants, present a really beautiful appearance, and whet the appetite for an inside view. With- in you find almost invariably cleanliness and good cheer, and, what is still better, an all-per- vading home feeling. The house looks all over as though it were occupled by those who felt it a privilege to live there and were bent on mak- ing the place something beyond a mere shelter. That this class make their smali earnings serve: them so well is owing to several reasons. Rents are very low. these tastetul dwellings costing them, with a small garden attached, from $15 to €20a year. Clothing, too, costs less than one- half what it does in America, and is more durable. The schooling of the children amountsto scarcely anything. For the first child 4 cents a week must be paid; for the second, 2 cents; for the third, 2 cents; and all the other little ones, even if there should be a score in the family, go to school free. In return tor this sum the children fe @ fair education and have all the necessary oks found for them. The farm laborers suffer the most in the matter of eating. They get enough, such as it is, but it is ofa kind at which the poorest in our land would deem it a virtue to turn up their noses in contempt. For break- fast and tea the bill of fare is bread and drip- ping, the latter a cheap substitute for butter. ‘or dinner a vegetable pudding ts usually the order, and I am credibly informed that if these people get a little fat bacon two or three times a week, they consider they are living on the fat of the land. ————— HER GALLANT “JAMES.” and out of laste A Woman Lives Two Years in. Vil- lage as n Boy. For the past. two years the quiet village of Summitville has been the abiding place of aman and boy who have been looked upon with sus- Picton, says the Potosi (Mo.) Independent; but, being quict and peaceable folks, their stay there has been uneventful, and probably would have remained so had not a startling discovery been made last Saturday night at Mineral Point, which confirmed the suspicion of many that the boy in the case was not a boy, but a girl in boy's clothes. There is a mystery surrounding the case, and very little is known regarding the condition of the man and girl prior to their debut at Summitville about two years since. The man is known as Lawson, and has been em- ployed by the St. Joe & Desloge railway hauling wood. The girl was known as James Lawson, and was supposed to be the son of Lawson. She is supposed to be about 17 years old, though, when wanting a glass of beer, declared her age to be 22. She ts about five feet tall, with light hair and blue eyes, fair complexion, and quite Lett deere | in appearance. No one knows why her sex has been kept a secret, nor in what relation she has lived with Lawson. The latest report regarding the mysterious couple is that Summitville knows them no longer, they hay- ing shaken the dust of that place from their feet and gone to pastures new, where “James” may still be a boy ifshe wishes. Many amusing incidents are now related regarding “James,” one of which we will relate to show how com- plete was her disguise in the eyes of one at least. Shortly after her arrival at Summitville, she made the acquaintance of a Miss Blackwell. That lady became enamored of the soft voiced “James,” and he gallantly returned her love, and the couple were frequently seen in the sweet pastime of love making. Those who did not know surmised that it would all end in matrimony, but fate decreed otherwise, and the deceived young lady’s family moved to another part of the world at a time when her love had grown so strong that separation seemed worse than pulling an eyetooth. She shed bitter tears at having to leave her gallant ‘James” behind. a The Christian Era From the English Mechanic. The much debated question as to the correct- ness of the hitherto accepted reckoning of the years which have elapsed since thebirth of Jesus has again been mooted by Prof. Sattler, of Munich, in the columns of a German contempo- rary. Prof. Sattler (according to the Jewish Chronicle) claims the distinction of having solved the problem, and of haying demonstrated the fact that the current year is probably 1838 instead of 1883. He bases his proofs mainly on three coins which were struck in the reign of Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, and which date, consequently, from the first half of the first century of the current era. Madden admits the genuineness of these coins,and other numismatic writers do the same. The evidence they offer coincides with the narrative of the Gospels and with astronomical calculations. The following arethe results at which Prof. Satt~ ler has arrived: Jesus was born on the 25th of December, 749 yearsafter the founding of Rome, and comm his public career on the 17th of November, 780 years after the foundii of Rome. He was then 30 years, 10 months an 22 days old. The date on which he commenced his career fell in the 15th year of the Emperor Tiberius, and in the 46th year after the buildin; of Hi 's Temple. This isin accordance wit St. Luke iil. land St.John i. 20. According to Josephus (“‘Antiquities,” xv., 11, 1), the con- struction of Herod’s Temple was commenced in the 18th year Something About the Mackian: the Moet Pepalar of All Hat From the St, Louis Post-Dispateh. Stepping to one of the tables and taking up. white, lustrous straw hat, with @ broad brim ‘and rather shallow crown, a dealer handed it to & Post-Dispatch scribe and said: “This hat is all the rage this season. We sell more of them than of any otter style. It is @ Mackinaw braid, the crown is three inches and a half deep, and the brim is two and a balf wide. Thé crown, you will notice, is rounded at the top, while the style of last year was square. These hats are standard and never go out of fashion. The form may change a little from year to year, but the change is very slight, The tendency this year is toa broader brim anda shallower We sell these hats from Paul to Galveston, and from ocean to ocean.” “Where are they made?” said the reporter. “They are ke wo way known only to am unable to say what, but in curing and paring the straw no attention is paid to grain, which ts entirely lost. The rich h that this straw produces is due to the of curing as much as to the nature of the straw itself. The people of Canada and the n lake regions who cultivate this particular strat Sresieg & braid tt themselves and bring it to market in the form of balis of braid. this way they sell it. Toit is the largest market for it. Eastern hat manufacturers buy in that market and make it into hats. Thus you see, although it isan American manufact: yet it passes through many bands before reaches the retailer.” —————_—.99—__ ‘The Ni iste and the Coronation. The following communication, which the Lon don Times says is trom a trustworthy source, is interesting as embodying the nihilist explana- tion of the tranquility characterizing the Mos- cow ceremonies: “The surprise expressed in many quarters at The peaceful nature of the coronation of the Czar is In nowlse shared by the nihiliste them- selves. To them It was well known that no at- tempt would be made on that occasion, although, to divert the-attention of the police from thelr Teal movements, they circulated ru greatly alarmed, not merely the Ru but many of Its distinguished g matter of fact the Nihilist party came to the con- clusion that an attempt agalnst the person of the Czar during the coronation would damage their interests in anycase. They have many goodangu- ments to justify their unexpected neutrality. They urge that the revolutionary movement In Russia embraces persons of moderate views, whose opin- jons must be taken into consideration, for al- though rarely producing men ot action, they otten supply large sums of money for the pur- pose of agitation. These moderate p: looked torward to the coronation as a cecasion for the granting of a constitution, while the extreme faction hoped ure of mercy toward th in prison. To have Lind an untimely blow wo: whatever rea be in fa’ It was also calcula! to the coronation w: frame of mind or be approve of a : nihilists, who are secking to win the people over to cause, would not have Increased their po} ity by disturbing a popular fee. The multitude, intoxicated by the free distribution of beer and spirits, might, on the contrary, have been led to Massacre every one of known or suspected lib- eral tendencies; and although the power of the autocracy would have lost much of its prestige, the revolutionary party would have been blamed by many of its best triends. On the other hand the coronation offered an excellent opportunity for the nihilist party to develop its strength. The whole force of the governmeut and its most intelligent spies were concentrated at Moscow, and the nihilists profited by this auspicio casion to spread their doctrines and enrol porters at St. Petersburg and other la cen- tera. In this work they were amply suc- cessful. The strength of the party at St. Petersburg especially grently tereased @ur- ing the preparations for the coronation. The nihilist agents, free from the presence of the spies who knew them best, propagated their doctrines unchecked, and the late riots at St. Petersburg may in part be attributed to their recent action. Nor are matters likely to rest here. Further efforts may be anticipated, and although the most sanguine nihilists recog- nize that Russia isnot yet ripe for a general rising, it is thought that partial and local dis- turbances will teach the people how to act in ae cies, and pag some confi- lence elr strength, while engendering a feeling of animosity and rev against tl exiles the thea oo fact that no ugh: the nihilists think that their abstention during the coronation will be taken a8 a proof of their weakness. Their past is there to speak for them, and the most recent as well ‘a8 previous arrests show how they count partl- sans in every class of society, among those who are the nearest as well as among those who are the farthest removed trom the of the czar. There were at the coronation officials and others, secretly at the orders of the nihilists party, near enough to the emperor to have struck a fatal blow if the dreaded word of command had been given. Indeed, it was to be feared that some over-zealous partisan would, on his own responsibility, and in deflance of orders to the contrary, throw a small dynamite hand grenade, or otherwise seek to take the life of the czar. Fortunately, however, the discipline of the party was not broken, although to some persons the temptation must have been keen. Apart from these hidde1 friends of nihilism, a few well-known conspir tors contrived to be present at the coronation, in spite of all the efforts of the police to discover and capture them. There was no special reason toindace them to beat Moscow at sucha time; bub the Rn iy and never seems 80 happy as when defying fate and the police. Hence the nthilists at least are convinced that If the Czar 1s still alive, It is not because his police succeeded in baffling their efforts, but simply because their leaders determined to hold back forthe moment. object is not to kill one man, but to revolu- tionize a whole state, and it is therefore neces- sary to be politic as well as violent. ———_-2-____. School Teachers in Disgrace. Shelbyville, Il, is astounded at the develop- ment of a scandal. The principals inthe affalr are Prof. Gowdy, principal of the Shelbyville school, and Mies Stuckey,a teacher in the same institation, Hitherto both have stood high in the estimation of the people of this community, being able instructors and the former a most faithful and com Having, as ‘they aver, on wean enn gt i Pong later) wt oe eag ob geod aed ve fe Us tbe tt teed ie af i