The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1876, Page 4

& NEW YORK HERALD 8 ad BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR clasts | THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. | All business, flews letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Youe Herarp. Letters and packages shculd be properly } sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. | PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112S0UTH | SIXTH STREET, LONDON OFFICE OF 7 Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. | AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES, atSP.M, OLYMPIC BUMPTY DUMPTY, at 8 P. PARISIAN VARIETIES, THEATRE. atsP.M. BOWE: THEATRE. ACROSS THE CONTINENT, at 5 P.M. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE. VARIETY, at 8 P.M. f FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. PIQUE, at 8 P.M. Fannie Davenport, HOWE & iNG’S CIRCUS, W2P.M. ands P.M. ea GLOBE THEATRE. TARIETY, at 8 P. M. woo! THE PHENIX, at 8. 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It is a healthy sign for France that neither the radicals nor the Bonapartists are able to control public opin- ion. Tax Rowixa Srasox.—We present an in- teresting résume of the preparations for the | rowing season of 1876, from which it will be seen that the collegiate, amateur and pro- fessional oarsmen of this country are more than usually active, and that an excep- tionally brilliant season is promised. Hancem has fresh cause to complain of a nuisance which is productive of disease and death in that locality. It appears that the outlet of the sewer at 110th street is obstructed through the fault of the Dock Commissioners, a dumping board being erected in front of the outlet. This is | a surprising fact, and the Dock Commis- sioners ought to know that the health of a whole neighborhood is not to be imperilled by any such inconsiderate action on their part. Arnican Exproration has many attractions, but is beset with great difficulties, as is illustrated by the troubles which have over- taken the English traveller, Lucas. He has | a little army ready to accomplish Cameron’s | unaccomplished feat, but his soldiers were | arrested and imprisoned at Khartoum, and | when they were released his journey was practically forbidden. Nothing seems open to him but to fight for the right of way. “Motixy Macuree.”—Interest is still main- tained in the Molly Maguire murders in Pennsylvania, and it is heightened by an effort of the two convicted murderers, Doyle and Kelly, to escape. A writ of error has been allowed in these cases, and the Schuyl- | kill county cases are on the point of being | tried. The whole conspiracy is something unreasonable, but if there really is such a murderous organization as there is said to be we hope the new trials will expose it, Tre “Opus Anouicum” of modern English ladies is felicitously described in our Lon. | don letter, the work of these high born dames being nothing less than embroidery executed by ‘“‘the Royal School of Art of Needlework,” under the auspices of the Princess Christian and other distinguished ladies. This embroidery has been exhibited * in London, where its excellence created a profound impression, and it is now on its way to this country to be shown at the Cen- | tennial Exhibition. How Pxxasant is the harmony of the demo- oratic leaders compared with the throat-cut- ting among the republicans! How would it be if Blaine or Conkling were to be elected President? Neither could offer the other a seat in the Cabinet. The administration could not well get on with either of them as | the leader of an opposition. Would it not be well to have a Congressional committee of “harmony?” The rank and file of the party have the right to say that, before tho armies | go into action, there should be reconciliation ! ing the extradition of criminals under the | | United States for forgery and was tried in | | cently there has been no dispute ; and one of NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, MAY 1, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Extradition Mystery in London. There is something very singular and even mysterious about the sudden excite- | ment which has arisen in London concern- | Ashburton Treaty. For many years—ever | since 1842, in fact-—the extradition clause of that treaty has worked smoothly, and no | complaints have arisen of injustice done or | attempted under it either in Great Britain or here, It was well understood that neither | the British nor our own government would use the privilege of extradition to secure | possession of persons charged with political | offences ; and for the rest, as the demands on either side were made in good faith, and as the formalities observed obliged the gov- ernment demanding the surrender of a per- son charged with an extraditable crime to show such evidence of his guilt as would have caused him to be apprehended and held for trial under the laws of the country where he was found, if he had offended those, neither injustice nor oppression was to be feared. But suddenly all this is changed. Wins- low, a fugitive from this, country, charged with forgery, an extraditable crime, is found in London; his extradition is demanded | in regular form, and, to the general amazement, the British government re- fuses to give him up unless the United States will agree that he shall not be tried for any other offence than that for which his surrender is demanded. ‘To the general reader there is an appearance of jus- tice in such a demand, and it is necessary, therefore, to explain that, first, no such con- dition is contained in the Ashburton ‘Treaty, and second, the whole practice of both gov- ernments, from the conclusion of that treaty until a very recent date, has been the con- trary of the condition now arbitrarily set up by the British government. That is to say, that government now demands a change in the treaty conditions under which extradi- tion of criminals has been for many years granted by both sides, and demands this change in an irregular, summary and extraor- dinary manner, That the right of either the British or our | own authorities to try a regularly extradited | criminal for other offences than that for | which he was surrendered has not hitherto been questioned by either government is | shown by numerous cases. For instance, | one Heilbronn was extradited from the | England for larceny, which is not even an extraditable offence under the treaty, and no complaint was made by this government. Von Earman, surrendered by the United States on extradition to the Canadian author- ities for forgery, was held for obtaining money under false pretences ; again not an extraditable offence, and our government did not complain. Paxton, extradited to Canada for forgery and tried there for ‘‘uttering” forged paper, made the special plea that he could be tried only for the specific offence for which he was surrendered; but his plea was overruled and he was tried and convicted and the higher court affirmed the decision, If it is objected that in these cases it was the. part of the United States to make complaint and objection, and that by not doing so our government could not bind that of Great Britain, the reply is not only that such an excuse is not valid against a long course of precedents, but that our courts have them- selves followed the same practice of trying an offender for a crime different from that on which he was extradited without complaint from the British authorities. Thus Burley, extradited from Canada on a charge of rob- bery, was tried in this country for an assault with intent to kill, and the British govern- ment raised no objections. Caldwell, extra- dited for forgery, was tried here for bribing an oflicer—not eyen an extraditable offence— | and in spite of his plea that the offence for | which he was surrendered was not men- tioned in the indictment, the Court held him, and again no complaint from the British government. Such precedents would seem to settle the whole question, and, indeed, until quite re- the most eminent English authorities on the subject said, in relation to the case of Bur- ley, ‘‘We admit in this country that if a man is bond fide tried for an offence for-which he was given up, there is nothing to prevent his being subsequently tried for another offence, either antecedently committed or not.’” The refusal to surrender Wiislow is put | by the British authorities upon the two grounds—first, that an act of Parliament, passed in 1870, requires that extradition | shall be granted only upon an engage- ment that the person surrendered shall be tried only for the offence for which he is extradited; and _ second, that in the case of Lawrence, surren- dered to this country for forgery, it is intended to try him for some other offence, As to the first excuse, an act of Parliament cannot change a treaty, and no British court | has ever held that the act of 1870 could af- | | fect the treaty of 1842 or any other treaty | not consonant with the act. As to the Law- | rence case, is it not a little absurd to pretend | to base action in so important a matter upon | what they in London may believe the United States intend to do? In fact, as is well known here, Lawrence has not been ar- raigned for any other offence than that on which he was extradited. But it seems great | fear is felt in England that he may be tried | for some other offences. Why should they | be so anxious over there? Why should Law- | rence’s troubles excite infiuential people in England, even members of the House of Commons, as we learn from London is the case ? Lawrence is a very adroit, skilful smug- gler. It is believed that he and his accom- plices have managed to rob the federal gov- | ernment, by means of forged invoices and | other devices, of several millions of dollars, It is bqlieved that if Lawrence should make known the names of his accomplices there | would be found among them those of mer- chants, both English and American, to whom such an exposure would be extremely disagreeable. It is known that Lawrence has threatened such an exposure in case he is pushed to the» all, and it is even believed that he has writax out a confession, which is int the hands «ft his counsel, and it has been for some tit) 4 pretty openly intimated We do not pretend to assert that this scan- dal would affect also prominent British mer- chants. But we hear from London that the case of Lawrence, a common smuggler, not in any way a person of distinction or prominence, excites great interest there. Persons of more or less political influence are anxious about his fate, and have sud- | denly discovered that it would be very | wrong indeed, and in violation of an act of Parliament even, to try Lawrence here for | any except the single act with which he was charged in the warrant on which he was surrendered in England. Well, we have got Lawrence; and we trust our government will hold him, and try him on all the indictments which have been found against him. If any exposure is to come, so much the better. It has been for some time understood that our government means to stand upon its rights and upon the treaty. Ifthe British government chooses to violate the treaty that is its business; we can get on without extradition as well as Great Britain; right is clearly on our side; and as for Lawrence, public opinion here will not allow our government to make any | agreement by which it should bind itself to try him only on the single indictment. We want this mystery solved. There are already rumors in circulation here that there was a careful act of bad faith in the manner of his surrender in England by which it was hoped by his English friends to save him from trouble. We trust the government will look into that matter, too, and if the rumor shall prove to be true, as we have reason to be- lieve it is, it will do well to publish all the facts, Mr. Strakosch and the Italian Opera. “The interruption of the Italian opera season” is Mr. Max Strakosch’s euphemistic phrace for what we, in our simplicity, sup- posed to be the failure of operatic concert. The letter of this eminent and enterprising manager to the Hrraxp the other day is-a very interesting and candid statement of the causes of the interruption of Mile. Belocca’s performances. The operatic season was no failure, we learn, but would have been a brilliant success if it had only succeeded. Nearly every seat was taken for ‘“Mignon,” in which Mlle. Belocca was to have achieved a triumph equal to that she won in “The Barber of Seville.” But we are informed that both tenors were sick. “Had such a thing happened in Paris,” Mr. Strakosch says, ‘‘another tenor could be procured by telegraph in twenty-four hours from London or Milan. But here what is left toa manager but to close his doors ?” Nothing, of course. Yet it seems to us that the argument of Mr. Stra- kosch is hardly supported by his facts. In a scratch company sick tenors are a necessity. Experience should have taught Mr. Strakosch when he brought | Mlle. Belocca from Europe that so great an artiste ought not to be left to the chances and misfortunes of a company to be picked up in America. Here we have no Milan or London, as he, justly observes, where the supply of tenors ‘exceeds the de- mand. Knowing this, and asserting it as Mr. Strakosch does, we seriously think that he should have provided for the emergency, and have made it absolutely sure that Mlle. Belocca would not be forced to retire in the very height of her triumph, because one tenor has his head in a towel and another is perpetually eating chlorate of potash loz- enges for a cold. r We are glad to learn that the season is to be resumed in a few weeks, when ‘‘Mignon” will be produced with Mlle. Belucca in a réle which will still farther display her merits as a vocalist and actress. ‘‘Mignon” is a popular opera, and we are rejoiced that it promises to be a success. Yet let not Mr, Strakosch fall into the error of supposing | that the general performance of his scratch company, including the convalescent tenors, constitutes the attraction. Mlle. Belocca is the magnet that will draw the musical people of New York; the company is the negative pole and is more likely to re- pel it. - It is because we do not think that a musical star of the first magnitude, shining amid a number of the sixth magnitude, like Aldebaran in the constellation of Taurus, constitutes true Italian opera, that we called these pleasing but imperfect performances operatic concert. It is because we know that New York is not satisfied with operatic concert, but asks grand opera, with tenors who. are not sick, that we have urged Mr. Strakosch to supply the want. No one can give us finer opera than Max and Maurice Strakosch, for they | have proved their enterprise and abilities in a series of brilliant seasons in America and Europe. We can assure them that they will not meet with abuse, but with earnest and hearty support, if they will give us first class Italian opera this year in a style worthy of the metropolis of Amer- ica and of their own reputations. Let them unite their forces and make a grand attack. Nothing would please us all better than to be conquered by sweet sounds, and compelled to admit that operatic concert was only a mistake of the past—only an exception to the rule of grand opera itself. Tar Heratp Preprictions of Friday respect- ing a change of weather have been verified as usual, and a considerable rainfall has oc- curred over New York and the New England States. The depression which manifested itself on the Pacific coast on Saturday morn- ing has moved eastward, and is now central in the Northwestern Territories, having fol- lowed the usual course of these conditions, Unless this area of low barometer meets with some atmospheric obstacle to its southeast- ward progress into the Lower Missouri Valley and the lake region we may expect its advent in the vicinity of New York by to- morrow night or Wednesday morning, which will bo marked by easterly and southerly winds, with rising temperature and in- creased cloudiness, with probable rains. The effect of these rapid alternations of fine and rainy weather will be t6 promote spring vegetation and clothe the country with ver- dure preparatory to the that will be ripened by the summer sun, Our centennial year is destined to rank as | one of remarkable abundance, because the mildness of winter has prepared the earth between the commanders, Let Brutus and | here in New Yo.’ that the publication of this | for the development of its full powers of Cassins come together. confession weuld cause a very creat scandal, production, j with which they were charged was Blunders im the Revised Statutes—The Kilbourn Case. So many blunders have been detected in the volumt known as ‘‘The Revised Statutes | of the United States” as to necessitate a | thorough overhauling of the careless work of the revisers and the reprinting of the volume ata héavy expense. The recent decision of Judge Cartter, in the case of Kilbourn, ex- poses one of the worst of these blunders which has yet been brought to light. Those members of the House who are so enraged | and scandalized by Judge Cartter’s decision are “barking up the wrong tree,” and had better direct their indignation against those | who really deserve it. Itis true enough that Judge Cartter’s decision flies in the face of previous judicial decisions on the same sub- ject; but this is no fault of the Judge, but of s surreptitious and heedless change of the law by the revisers, Of course we do not mean to say that the revisers had any power to enact laws; the task merely to compile and arrange the statutes in force, But Congress, presuming that their work had been faithfully done, enacted that it should have the force of law and supersede and repeal all previous laws any part of which was included in their compila- tion. It is safe to say that if they had made their revision in a workmanlike manner the writ of habeas corpus in Kilbourn’s case would not have been granted, or, if granted by inadvertence, the prisoner would have been remanded, after the hearing, to the cus- tody of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House. The clear intention of the law of 1857, as explained by the committee which drafted and reported it, was to extend the punish- ment of contumacious witnesses beyond what could be inflicted by either house in cases of contempt. A witness who refused to answer questions near the close of a session had nothing to fear beyond detention in custody until “the adjournment, when the power of the House over him would cease. Corrupt parties whom his testimony would damage could afford to compensate him for such a transient loss of liberty. Congress, therefore, passed a law intended to subject him to heavy penalties of fine and impris- onment after the power of the House over him was lost by the close of the session. In order to make this intention plain and re- | lieve the law from all ambiguity it was ex- | pressly enacted, ‘in addition to present pains and penalties,” witnesses refusing to answer pertinent questions should be further subject to be indicted and tried for a misde- meanor and imprisoned for not more than one year and pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars. But the slovenly and | blundering revisers dropped out of the s tat ute the words we have just quoted and thereby made the added penalties the only punishment of the offence. Hence an act which merely intended to surrender contumacious witnesges to the courts after the House had done with them is*made to exempt them from all con- | sequences, except those enacted “in addi- tion” to the then existing penalties. “The blame of depriving the House of its author- ity over Kilbourn does not rest with Judge Cartter, who is obliged to administer the law as he finds it, but with the botching revis- ers of the statutes, The law, as they found it, fully protected plentiful crops | all the rights of the House over persons in contempt. It left the two houses at full lib- erty to detain a stubborn witness in their control until the close of the session, and to avail themselves of his testimony if he { should get tired of confinement and signify his willingness to answer questions. But | the law, as it nowstands, through the blun- der of the revisers, takes the witness quite out of the hands of Congress and deprives the House of his testimony if he should change his mind and consent to give it. The history of the act and the debates which attended its passage prove that Congress in- tended that the House should retain their control over witnesses until their adjourn- ment or until they thought fit to surrender them to the courts. The blundering omis- | sion of so important a part of the law is dis- graceful to the revisers. The law of 1857 was passed in conse- quence of the refusal of Mr. James W. Simonton, then a correspondent of the Times, to answer questions put to him by an in- vestigating committee, At the very next session a case arose calling for the -applica- tion of the law and fixing its interpretation. Precisely as in the case of Kilbourn an in- dictment was found against the recusant witness. The case was brought before the District Court, and the Judge decided that he had no power to take Wolcott out of the cugtody of the House. In a motion after- ward made in the House for his discharge the following recital was made in the pre- amble of the resolution:—‘‘And wHereas the court in which said presentment is pending have determined that said Wolcott cannot be tried on said presentment, so long as the House holds him in custody under its rights | and privilege,” &c. Judge Curtter would | have been certain to make precisely the same decision in Kilbourn’s case if the | slovenly revisers of the statutes bad not botched their work. The Barbados Trouble. The recent disturbances in the island of Barbados—several despatches concerning which have lately appeared in our news col- umns—are rather more serious than is gener- | ally supposed. The impression seemed to ob- | tain at first that the reports were purposely exaggerated for speculative designs. From the latest accounts at hand, however, we | learn that intense anxiety still prevails on | -he island, and it is feared in some quarters | that tranquillity may not be restored as soon as isdesirable. The trouble is traced to the action of Governor Hennessy in attempting to forcen scheme of confederation in the Windward Islands upon the Legislature of | Barbados. By the settlement of a confed- | eration of the Leeward Islands in 1873 the government was improved by its consolida- | tion and its expense materially re- duced. At that time it was the de-| sire of the Colonial Office to make the | confederation still stronger, as the act under | whien the union was effected permitted the | admission of other islands into the confed- eracy without additional imperial legisla- tion, The then Governor did not act upon a suggestion to this effect sent him by Lord | delight. So remarkable a change will at first . appear strange, but there now appears to be | theatres, public institutions, private offices | to active competition. Let us have no more Kimberly, but Governor Hennessy, his suc- cessor, did, bringing the subject before the Barbados Legislature toward the end of last year. The proposition made was to form a confederation of Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and one or two other smaller islands. Barbados being the richest, those concerned in her interests have naturally | protested against a union which they think would saddle her with the debts of the other islands. It appears, however, that there has been a general misunderstanding of the po- sition of the government regarding the pro- posed confederation. The Secretary of State says that s ‘‘community of financial arrange- ments would not be a feature of a confedera- tion, and that, subject to such contributions as it may be agreed to levy for the main- tenance of joint public institutions, the revenue and expenditure of each island would be administered separately, as at present.” Notwithstanding this assurance | the Legislative Assembly of Barbados saw fit to rejeot the advances made by Governor Hennessy, and the latter was unwise enough to believe he could carry the measure by an indirect ‘appeal to the people.” In an ad- dress to the Legislature the Governor enu- merates many grievances of the ‘‘people,” speaks of the increase of crime and vagrancy and condemns the imposition of certain taxes which the Legislature will not repeal. When it is considered that the mass of those to whom the Governor's appeal is addressed are negroes of little intelligence and cén- siderable self-conceit, his attitude is viewed by many with uneasiness. This feeling, even if only temporary, cannot but have the effect to damage trade with the West Indies, if it have no worse results. But beyond this is the possibility of serious peril to the lives and property of the planters and traders. The New vabs. The cheap cab movement having already become so popular it is not surprising to learn that the problem of how cheap cabs were to be obtained is soon to be solved in a practical way and on a sound business basis. The travelling public has so long suftered under the barefaced extortions of cab drivers and owners that the prospect of a speedy re- lief isa very pleasant one. Accustomed as we have been to being compelled to pay for the temporary use of a cab in New York a | sum equivalent to the fare to Philadelphia | or Baltimore, the advent of the cheap ve- | hicles will be hailed with enthusiasm and | no doubt of the fact, for the managers of the American District Telegraph Company, act- ing on the suggestions made by the Henaxp, have so far completed their arrangements with the New York Transfer Company and other owners that they willin a few days place at the disposal of the public some two hundred cabs at low rates, The arrangement by which so desirable a reform is secured is simply a combinatien between the telegraph company and several large owners of cabs. These vehicles are all | ready for use, and the combination made ap- | pears to be one that can do all that is prom- ised. The District Telegraph Company will furnish at any time, day or night, and in any part of the city, a cab for from thirty-seven to fifty cents per mile. These cabs can be called for on the signal machines in hotels, and dwellings. A signal on the machine brings a messenger of the company, who fixes the rate of compensation, and the driver will not be allowed to collect anything, consequently there can be no extortion. | Under this arrangement acab can be secured at the City Hall, for instance, and the pas- senger go to Union square for less than a dollar, with corresponding prices for other localities. Fs So far, so good. The promises made by the telegraph company, if carried out faith- fully and to the letter, will not only rendor the company more useful and popular, but the cab business will be at the | same time profitable to the owners and pleasant to the public. But the new com- bination must understand that unless their cabs are really run on a reasonable tariff of prices they will fail to supply the necessary | want, and fall into disuse as have the | i i | present class of such vehicles. Cheap- ness and regularity should be the car- dinal principles of the new system. Any | departure from these rules will be fatal to | the enterprise and we shall be as bad off as | ever. The reputation of the telegraph com- pany, however, is such that any promise it | may make will, no doubt, be fulfilled ; there- | fore we shall look for these new cabs with | much interest, for it is one step at least in | the right direction. | After these cheap cabs are at work tho | Board of Aldermen should revise the exist- | ing ordinances, and so amend them that thé | business of cab driving may be thrown open | “privileged” owners, and plage all cabs, whether they belong to the telegraph com- pany or to anybody else, under strict super- | vision, Then the whdle question will be settled satisfactorily, and not only will the travelling. public be benefited, but the cab | owners themselves will find that they have hitherto been injuring their business by the | system of extortion so long practised by | them and their employés. | Tue Senawoxs Yesterpay were full of the | gladness and trust appropriate to Taster- | tide, and the Rev. Dr. Dix, the rector of | Trinity, described the motive whick was up- | permost in most of the discourses when he | said that at this beautiful season, when the | earth renews its verdure and the vegetable | and animal world seems to rejoice man, too, | is ready to receive the promise of the resur- rection, A peculiarly devotional spirit per- | vades the addresses which we reproduce-this | morning, as will be seen by a glance at their substance. Mr. Hepworth discoursed on the gifts of the Holy Ghost. Mr. Beecher chose | for his subject the quality ot God's love. Mr. | Alger delivered an eloquent sermon on the seven capital sins—pride, anger, envy, covet- . ousness, licentiousness, gluttony and sloth— and the four cardinal virtues—justice, pru- dence, temperance and fortitude. French church, in West ‘Twenty-third street, Father Arguepez made a strong appeal for charity, and showed that those who help the poor are laying up @ rich reward for them- selves, In many other pulpits like truths At the | ee were taught, and there were sarge congregas tions im most of the churches. Flowers at Funerais. + Attention has recently been given to thé tendency to desecrate a beautifnl custom by making it an ostentatious display. It is Proper that funerals should be conducted with some degree of ceremony, for ceremony Serves a8 a protection to the bereaved from strangers, It is but natural that flowers should be strewn upon the forms of the dead. The custom is as ancient almost as death itself, and as expressions of affection these floral tributes are commendable. It is not so when funerals become pompous parades, and when flowers are used lest to adorn the peaceful dead than te minister to the vanity of the living, Wildernesses of flowers are now seen at fash: enable funerals and thousands of dollar: are spent at the florist’s shop for a singh interment. This extravagance is unhealthy and in some respects unpleasant. It create a spirit of rivalry among those persons whe imagine that the number of ats burial indicates the respectability of the de ceased, and sometimes leads to vulgar dix play. We have read of a coffin which way recently taken through the streets covered with artificial flowers—paper mockeries im vented by pretended grief. The beauty of a floral gift is its simplicity, Browning makes the lover of Evelyn Gray puta single geranium leaf in the hand of the dead woman, which was surely more in harmony with regret than a flaunting bou- quet on wires, Tere is a limit to the prope display of wreaths and crosses of flowers at funerals, and it begins where love and sym- pathy are forgotten in vanity and pride, ‘The true place for floral honors to the dead ir | im the graveyard. Nature dictates and reason approves the display of roses and lilies upo the mounds of earth beneath which beloved forms are mouldering. ‘The custom of decor ating the graves of our soldiers has its origin in natural impulses, and the quiet and love- liness of our cemeteries have a good moral effect upon the living. There every grave may be a mass of bloom and beauty and no sense of delicacy be offended, for nature leads the way. The poets of all ages have recognized this truth. Thus at the burial ot Ophelia Laertes trusts that ‘from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring.” Tennyson expresses the same idea in “In Memoriam” when, in allusion to the bringing of the body of Arthur Hallam for interment in England, he takes some pleasure in the fancy that ‘‘of his ashes may be made the violets of his native land.” It is weil, then, to make our graveyards places of beauty, like that at ; Rome of which Shelley said it would almost make one in love with death; but it is not proper to over-decorate a funeral and make grief seem discordant and death itself like a skull wearing a wreath of roses, Nicstc 1s Bevicrvautep at last, but the | victory only brings a determination to greater efforts in the Christian provinces. The Servian militia has been ordered to be in readiness to march at a day's notice, and we may hear of fresh complications very soon, Turkey will not be able long to contend against this spirit if it is maintained in th future as it was in thé past, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, We are having silver for a change. Nevada cocktail artists are called mixologists. The Newburyport, Mass., gold mine isa quiet sue cess, Investigating bees will continue in Congress thi week. From all indications, it appears that the Black Hilt are a fraud, The Utien Observer thinks that ‘the West’? mean’ more than Ohio and Indiana. The Alta California says the only place where you can’t get an Irish stew is Ireland, Russian trade stagnates because “there is not enoug) protection to home manufactures.” Tuesday is Arbor Day in Minnesota. The child is stil unborn who may swing from one of thoso trees, Charleston, S. C., will in a very few days ship im mense quantities of strawberries to New York. ‘A prophet has arisen in Arabia. He predicts that within ten years the Crescent will rule over Europe, When Dom Pedro visits Vassar College he will know why Poughkeepsie supports seven chewing gum farto- ries, Wendell Phillips once said, “The Fourth of July isa day on which every American has a national right te be proud.”” The Pittsburg Dispatch thinks thatBristow is just as well known now as Lincoln was the spring before he was elected, The Washington Chronicle believes that a man whe commits suicide has played with his life for the stakoa and has lost. Fifteen feet of water roll through Eads’ (New Orleans) jettios, Five feet nore and the government will pay its first instalment, Ina Derbyshire, England, cave has been found a skin dressing tool, similar to that used by the Shoshone Indians for dressing hides. The dress coat has been called the swallowtail, the stecl pen, the clawhammer, the spikotail and the nib, and now it is called the tackraiser. Buffalo £xpress:—“Richard Grant White will now bow toa man who says ‘don’t’ for ‘doesn’t,’ and the vulgar man s2ys he don’t care a—tall, Asign of the timcs—No bit of newspaper literature has these ten years been more widely quoted than the Herato’s interview with ex-Governor Seymour. Norristown Herald:—A Berks county farmer has | mowed with the samo scythe for thirty-five years, ‘tis said, and be expects to uso it until be is no mower. At the famous Boofsteak Club, of London, each guest takes the half of asmall raw onion on his fork and rubs it well over his empty plate before being helped u steak. Ty is asad thing for the editor of the Savannah New that all the fresh water lakes in Georgia are rapidly dis appearing in the ground to furnish some great under ground river, A Philadelphia correspondent writes to an Indiana paper that Keely has succeeded so well with his motor that he is able to make one drop of water go farther than he anticipated. ry The Boston Advertiser wants to touch “some respon. tive chord.’ Aud, yet, just before its editor toucher that responsive chord he will be the first to ask th: Governor for a reprieve. Mr, Morgan R. Wills, of Pennsylvania, having beer accused bya newspaper of having stolen one of it jokes, says there isa mistake about his having stolos | it, and be has the “papers” to prove it. Until the reign of the Empress Josephine, a hand kerehief was thought tn France so shocking an objeo that a lady would never daro to use it before any one ‘The word was ever carefully avoided in refined com versation, Miss Austinwrote :—~‘‘Sentimentality that won't mak youcry, sympathy that will never become painful, | quick @bservation that will never ask really awkward questions—these are suficient weapons wherowith conquer this hard workd,”” | A negro woman of Virginia the other day stole some | clothing, and was pumshed with lashes on the bare back. Before the tenth lash she was fully convinced ‘that the fathers of the constitution were correct im their ideas of government, and that Virginia isthe mother of Presidents, |