The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1876, Page 8

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Tue Depry University Crew is now fully organized and is working hard, being re- tolved to win a prominent place among the contesting crews at the Centennial regatta. | How Went tax Lawyers Stanp ay Eacn Oruen.—This is shown in the decision of the Special Committee of the Bar Association in the case of Mr. O’Conor. If the venerable jurist had been a preacher or an editor he wouid Lave had different treatment, Spmirvarism is at last to be tested by the unimaginative and matter-of-fact represen- tatives of the law. The question has arisen, «Is Spiritualism as practised in public halls for the benefit of those who pay a fifty-eent admission fee an exhibition of jugglery or a religious serv Tue Cuampsr or Commence held its last meeting of the season yesterday, and an im- portant statement regarding ‘international coinage” occupied the attention of the mem- bers during the session. pressed that, owing to the absorbing inter- est in the Presidential canvass, Congress would take no action on this important question until after election. ‘Tar Nimity with which Iowa supports the claims of Mr. Blaine for the Presidency may be explained by the fact that the re- publican party in that State is controlled by William B. Allison, the present Senator, and James F, Wilson, formerly a member of the Honse. Allison and Wilson bered as two the railway and subsidy statesmen in Congress. It is natural they should support Blaine. If are remem- ot most they sueceed in nominating Blaine for Presi- | dent they should put Mr. Colfax on the ticket with him. This would be a railroad ticket. ArwIne anv 4 BETTING he commission of suicide is a novelty on the face of a criminal | indictment ; but a man and woman in Eng- land have been found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment on that charge. The in- dictment also charged conspiracy to murder, but the cable despatch not state | whether the jury made any distinction be- tween the chai in their verdict. Intend- ing suicides nowadays so seldom have any disposition to take others into their cotfi- | dence that we must look to classic times, | when defeated heroes got their slaves or freedmen to hold their swords while they | rushed upon them, for a parailel. does Tue Remors of THE ASSASSINATION OF ex. ecution, whichever it might have been called, of Abdul-Aziz, the deposed Sultan, although not well founded, were so much in harmony | with the probabiliti general credence. The announcement that is premature to-day may become truth to- morrow. The Turks make short work gene- rally with their deposed officials. The surest way to stop complainings and to prevent eounter-revolution and retaliation is to make a final disposition of a disgraced or discarded public officer. The policy is opento some objection in civilized countries, but it has its advantages, nevertheless. How we might purify our civil service and calm our political waters, for instance, if we could turn the Potomac into an American Bosphorus and tréat offending officials to a bowstring and a sack | Fears were ex- | prominent | f the case as to receive | The Canyass for the Presidency—The Republican Movements. Thurlow Weed’s remembrances of men and things which he now and then vouch- safes to the press are always interesting and at times delightful. It is not often given to a man to live a life of so much activity as | that of Mr. Weed, one of strifes and enmi- ties, and to have a serene, respected old age. These happy men outlive all envies and mis- fortunes, They sit in the gates with the elders while the young men go out to the fray. When they speak we are glad to listen, for their words are words of experience and often of wisdom. One of Thackeray's best creations is Colonel Newcome. We question if most of our readers would not surrender | all of Scott and Bulwer rather than the dear old boy. No part of Neweome's character is more touching than when Thackeray draws | him as trying to adapt himself to the ways of the young men who had come into manhood while he was growing old in India, How * | the royal old gentleman labored to find | pleasure in the new songs, the new pictures, | the new customs! But the end of it was that he strolled off to find congenial society with Indian comrades and left the boys to them- | selves, ‘Time had changed the fashions and he could not adapt himself to the new ways. | We are reminded of Colonel Newcome as | we read some of the interviews between Mr. Weed and the newspaper gentlemen. The old man is fresh and amiable and full of story and comments, but somehow he does not fall into our customs. He does not fancy the Brooklyn Bridge; he thinks we have no better issue for a canvass than Jefferson Davis; he finds new gospels in | Moody and Sankey. As to the canvass for the Presidency, he does not want Conkling. When we study his reasons closely they vanish, Somehow it never used to be the fashion to select men like Conkling-—he is not Mr. Weed’s fashion of man and he should not be nominated, It is Colonel Newcome and the pictures, The more the old Colonel looked at the pictures and tried to enjoy them, for his boy's sake, the more .tiresome they became. The more the old politician tries to accustom himself to Conkling the j less pleasure he finds in his canvass, for the new leader is not a man of the old | style. ; Roseoe Conkling is not a man of Mr. Weed’s school, and that, we confess, is among the attractions of his candidacy. In acanvass of political intrigue and defama- tion it is pleasant to have one man who neither stoops nor fawns. The objections to Conkling are that he is not popular, that his manner is offensive, that he has no power of conciliation, that he is a Grant man. We can well see how an old time leader like Thurlow Weed, whose courtesies were always gracious and princely, whose welcome to young men coming for the first time to Al- bany warmed them like wine, should find no attractiveness in a candidate who would probably quarrel with the first delegation of politicians who called to see him in the White House. We can understand how a leader in the days when Van Buren was king, and who grew into his maturity under the shadow of that magician, should find no interest in a leader who lives among the | clouds and will have no part in the political | management of the world below. As a can- | didate Mr. Conkling stands or falls with his record, No one can mistake it. The reader will find it on every page of the Senate journals. There are no doubtful points. There are no questions upon which the Sen- ator has not taken ground. Wherever you find him it is in the advance, in the attack, On the finances, on the South, on party discipline, Mr. Conklking has told the country what he thinks. So far as the administration is concerned he has sup- ported Grant precisely as Morton, Blaine, Bristow, Morgan, Fish and any other repub- lican leader of any eminence has supported him. He has not written as many articles in favor of Grant as George William Curtis, because his calling is not in the press. He has as a Senator, owing his seat to the re- publican party and trusting the President as its chief, remained true to his allegiance. This may be a reason ahy independent citi- zens should vote against Conkling when he comes into the canvass, But it is no reason against his nomination by a republican con- vention as its candidate for the Presidency, and it is from that point of view that we now consider him. The time has not come for us to say whether Conkling is or is not the | proper candidate for the Presidency. That question We reserve until we see what the democrats do at St. Louis. As the canvass now stands Conkling leads, We have, it is true, many victories for Blaine ; but somehow, when we come to | analyze these victories, they lack substance. Blaine’s canvass is a succession of brisk | Summer showers, which his friends insist upon calling tornadoes. On the other hand, | both Morton and Conkling show steady | gains. In the first place, Conkling will have New York. So long as his name is men- tioned New York will vote for him. Penn- sylvania, which would like Hartranft, will be called upon to decide for another candi date after two or three ballots. Untess every augury fails this delegation will vote for Conkling. In the South- ern States where Conkling is not the first he is the second choice. To be sure these Southern men remember the speech of Blaine against Hill, But they also remember the speech of Conkling on the Lonisiana question, One was a_ practical defend the administration, the other was the address of a demagogue in opposition to amnesty which every one wanted, simply a bid for yotes. After Morton, whose health makes his canvass an unwholesome one, Conkling will have the South. Then in other States there is scarcely a delegation in which the New York Senator has not sincere | friends, The chiefs of the party are in favor of Conkling after themselves. Chandler, | Logan, Cameron, Carpenter and the rest would each and ail like to run for the Presi- | dency. But once their aspirations are im- possible they support Conkling, And were | it not that between Blaine and Conkling | there exists a feud we have no doubt that | the Maine statesman would willingly unite his voice with that of the feudal barons of the party. Behind all that is the growing sentiment of the State and of the country in favor of Conkling. As we have said, the speech intended to affect legislation, and | .at Cincinnati is to name the Great Unknown, more the party followers see of him the better they like him. Ina season of wild, indiscriminate defamation, this leader, who is said to have made himself so unpopular in his public life and to have lined his path with enemies who would glory in his fall, has not a word whispered against him. We admit it is not high praise to say of a candi- date for the Presidency that he is not a thief. But as times now go, with an epidemic of investigation prevailing in Washington, it is high praise, indeed. These are the reasons for our belief that as the canvass stands Roscoe Conkling is in the lead. If this feeling grows, as seems probable, it will result in his nomination. No prudent party will wish Blaine as a can- didate. We are sincerely sorry for this, for we would much rather Blaine were free from suspicion ; but candidates for the highest office in the country must be found else- where than in the rooms of an investigating committee. It will be hard for Blaine to ex- plain to the country his transactions in Pa- cifie bonds, especially when the country re- members that the value of these bonds was found in the legislation of a Congress of which he was a leading member. No wise party will make a canvass of apology and explanation. The only power Blaine can have and the real interest of the canvass is in- volved in this question :—‘‘What will Blaine do with his power?” Those who know tho inside of the republican household say that it will go to Washburne. With Washburne as President Blaine would be to the new ad- ministration as Seward was to that of Lin- coln. If he cannot be Sultan he can be Grand Vizier. If tho cagvass yields to this influence, if Blaine accepts the inevitable, and, failing the throne, strives fora seat on the highest step of the throne, then Wash- burne looms up as the most formidable can- didate in the field and the probable winner of the race. Washburne has qualities and claims that would make him a strong candi- date—stronger even, and especially from a negative point of view, than Conkling. His character and services have been kept fresh to the people by the tremendous events of the German war and the Commune, while at the same time his absence from the country has removed him from the temptations and responsibilities of the past eight years. It isin this that Washburne is the strongest man that could be named. If Conkling keeps his pace he will win. But between the favorite of Oneida and the Great Un- known the issue is close. If Blaine sees his chance and accepts the duty it imposes upon him, the colors of the winning horse will be Galena lead, and the name Washburne, of Illinois. The Situation in. Tarkey. For the moment English influence is su- preme in Constantinople in so far as any foreign or Christian or merely diplomatic influence is of consequence in the game in progress, and consequently the English press gives rose colored views of the change. In any case where England is triumphant of course the cause of virtue, justice and re- } form is advanced; this is naturally their | view, because they cannot be supposed to admit that the endeavors of England should be enlisted on any side that did not favor all that is good. But we may take the views of the British | press and the British brokers with allow- ance, and attend to what is said on the other side. The other side is Russia. The real parties to the conflict now on foot in Constantinople are England and Russia, and the latest evant—the change of Sultan—is only an incident in the diplomatic phase of their conflict. General Ignatieff, for Russia, and Sir Henry Elliott, for England, con- ducted this part of the struggle with vary- ing fortunes. Only afew days since Ignatieff was dominant. The Cabinet was such as satis- fied Russia and consequently it did not satisfy England. In the English interest it was overthrown by e demonstration in the streets prepared by the softas, who have been se- cured by England, doubtless by the use of money in some degree, though a great deal was not necessary, because as between foreign nations they can more readily sym- pathize with England than with any other Power, since from their point of view England is not a nation with a hostile religion, but a nation with no religion at all. It was again a demonstration of theirs that changed the Sultan and put the government into the hands of Midhat Pacha, Sir Henry Elliott’s choice. a The word softa means theological student, but theological students are the only stu- dents there are in Turkey. Consequently this party, made up from the strictly eccle- siastical element, and from that class of young men which in France or Germany would be called the student element, com- bines bigotry and enthusiasm. As these students study only the Moslem law their enthusiasm is for its propagation, as the fervor of students in France is for the prop- agation of democracy. Russia is the only enemy they know, for Russia ‘sustains in their country the enemies of their religion, Christians of the Oriental Church and Christians of Rome they understand, but a Christian that is in neither of these cate- gories they do not classify. As a Presby- terian and an Episcopalian might quarrel over their creeds and both hobnob with a Buddhist from China so these men can hate the Christians who are their neighbors and indulge a grand indifference to those moro remote. Hence, as the demands of Russia are vital to these men, and the interests of England touch only commerce, for which they have no regard, England controls them, and the game is temporarily hers. But the change of government does not change the demands of the three Powers. There they stand—a two months armistice; restoration of the houses and churches of the Christians; food enough to feed them one year and exemp- tion from taxation for three years; with- drawal of troops from the provinces in re- volt. These demands will be insisted upon, England supports the Turkish refusal to ac- cept them, How far will England go in that support? This is the problem. Rus- sia, Prussia and Austria must invade the country to secure these terms, if that seems necessary, and it seems very doubtful whether England will commit herself to a position involving resistance to their armies, Mr. Bayard’s Strength in New York. The press is full of expressions of individ- ual opinions, from which we gather that the delegates to St. Louis, who are now being appointed, seem often undecided whether the nomination which they are to make is one which must arise from what is really a purely fanciful idea of expediency, or whether they will hold to the preference which they openly avow. In. other words, whether their candidate is to be one whom they will uphold with the enthusiasm which alone insures success, or whether they will assign themselves the task of supporting a leader with the Iukewarmness which must result in defeat. The large number of people who are of neither party, or who have lost their faith in republican administrations, will, when the issues of the campaign present themselves, demand atrue exponent of the opposition, and one supported by the democratic party | because he is a trne exponent of their prin- ciples. The Wortd says that it “believes the great need of the country at this mo- ment to be the ejection of the republi- can party from power in November next, and the establishment in its place, not merely of a democratic administration, but of a democratic administration backed by a democratic House of Representatives, cor- dially supported by the democratic party throughout the Union, and able, therefore, to devise and carry out the great measures of retrenchment and reform which are abso- lutely demanded.” Speaking of the Ad- visory Council it says, “In proclaiming that the election ofa single able and honest man to the Presidency is sufficient to save the country in the present crisis the reform- ers betray the same misapprehension of our political system.” This would apply as well to a democratic as toa republican reformer. Indeed, the people of the whole country, North and South, East and West, wish to know exactly what to expect from the demo- cratic party, and they will have no fear of a President such as Mr, Bayard. But they undoubtedly would distrust a candidate re- ceiving but alukewarm support from a party at his back which confessedly used him for temporary expediency, since it would then be impossible to measure the consequences of a democratic success. ‘The conspicuous position in relation to the nomination which the Governor of New York has succeeded in attaining has made it incumbent upon the leaders of the demo- gratic party of this State to enforce the prin- ciple that the aspirations of localities must yield before a candidate who meets all the requirements of a national and united party and whose nomination avoids all disagree- ment between the East and the West. It is probably for this reason that it becomes every day more evident that there is a large, perhaps a major portion of the democratic party of this State which has shown foresight enough to distinguish between temporary | and lasting strength, and has, moreover, be- come alive to the fact that in a political campaign in which the parties are to be so distinctly arrayed against each other that he is the stronger candidate who best fulfils the conditions of his own party. It seems use- less to endeavor to belittle this current of opinion, and the arguments that an.opposi- tion to the nomination of Mr. Tilden is an opposition to reform or a condemnation of his administration as Governor are very frivolous and proceed from those who are unable to disengage themselves from per- sonal politics. Finally, to those politicians with whom such an argument would have weight, and who, it is to be hoped, form but a small class, we would suggest that to regulate one’s preferences by what appears to be the relative strength of a candidate at a par- ticular time is, to say the least, a very un- profitable method of reasoning. The changes which always take place within a party and within a State should have been a warning tothem. It may, however, be re- peated that, whatever may be the fluctua- tions of opinion in particular States, he who best fulfils the conditions of his party and the requirements of the country in a national crisis will always in the end prove the stronger candidate for nomination and for election. The Latest B eo Story. Certainly Mr. Blaine manages to furnish more subjects for public attention, outside of the canvass proper, than any Presidential candidate in our history. He is shifty, tricky and bellicose turns, and sucha man, in this era of investigations, is sure to have enough work on_ his hands. The Mulligan episode yester- day is in point. This Mulligan held some letters of Mr. Blaine’s that passed betweon him and Mr. Fisher covering a period of years, and Mr. Mulligan avowed himself prepared to produce them in case any of Blaine’s friends assailed Mulligan’s evidence. Whether the letters were of the terribly destructive nature that Mulligan ascribed to them or not, Mr. Blaine cuts a poor figure in his successful endeavor to secure them. Mulligan says that Blaine implored him to hand them over; intimated that suicide might otherwise result ; begged him to think of his family that would share the ruin of the ex-Speaker ; that finally he handed the letters to Blaine under the latter's promise to return them as soon as glanced over ; but that Blaine pocketed them and bounced forth like the villain in the last act but one of a melodrama. This story Mr. Blaine describes as a ‘fancy sketch ;” that he did not implore or threaten suicide; that he had the letters, which he claimed were of a private charac- ter; that only the writer or recipient had any right to possess them; and that he would keep them private unless his counsel considered they were fit subjects for the committee. It is perhaps difficult for a Presidential candidate to define what private letters are. Mr. Blaine perhaps thinks they are those which can be kept from the public. Whichever way the matter turns we think it will bring little credit to the Maine statesman, while it gives the last touch to his want of true personal dignity. To seek a private interview with a hostile wit- ness is in itself so unbecoming that we must only wonder at the whole proceeding. It has been charged against Mr. Blaine that in the excess of his smartness he has been fishing out floating scandals and putting them in piles for the purpose of de- molishing them after his own fashion with ® bang anda flourish; but this Chinese juggler business is poor work in a man who aspires to the Chief Magistracy of the Union. Also it has brought about its natural consequences. These recall the case of a Belgian farceur, who exhibited himself before the public in a calico suit that he claimed to be bullet proof, and hired an assistant to fire balls made of cork, covered with tinfoil, at him. The first exhibition was a great success, but the second time half a dozen citizens, armed with rifles and bullets of lead, came on the ground and proposed a volley, which, in the feeling language of the West, ‘burst the show.” It looks as though the tantastic candidate, having sown the wind, is reaping a hurricane that must blow him over. Re SHES SEE NE The Democratic Canvass. The action‘of the St. Louis Convention will depend so much on the nomination made at Cincinnati that it is not safe to speculate very confidently on the chances of the sev- eral democratic candidates. The Democratic National Convention will have the great ad- vantage of knowing the enemy's plan of campaign, and it would be idiotic for the democratic party to forego this advantage by settling on a candidate beforchand—ns idiotic as it would be forthe commander of an army to settle his movements before the arrival of his scouts and spies when he was certain they would bring a full disclosure of the military councils of the other side. In the two weeks which will intervene between the Cincinnati and the St. Louis Convention it will be seen how the republican nomination is received by the country. The democrats can then form an _ intelligent judg- ment as to the most expedient candi- date to be put into the field by themselves. If Conkling should be the republican candi- date it might be deemed politic to nominate a Western candidate to run against him, and so utilize to the utmost the local pride and distinctive views of the West. If, on the other hand, Washburne should receive the Cincinnati nomitation, he would he so strong on the reform issue that the most conspicuous democratic representative of reform would have to be pitted against him, and the chances, even then, would be against the success of the democratic party. The nomination of either Bristow or Washburne at Cincinnati would force the St. Louis Convention to take Tilden. But the nomi- nation of Bristow is a political impossi- bility; and against any other republican can- didate, with the single exception of Wash- burne, the democratic party would feel that it was as safe without Tilden as a standard bearer as with him. The supporters of Governor Tilden have equally strong reasons for desiring and for dreading the nomination of Mr. Washburne. They may desire it as creating a necessity for pitting the strongest reform democrat against him; but they should also dread it because it is probable that Washburne would carry even New York against Tilden on the reform issue. Washburne established his reputation as the unflinching foe of jobs and corruption at a time when it was impossible to suspect him of any by-ends, and this will count for a great deal against any candidate who did not signalize his zeal for reform until personal and political capital was to be made out of it. . Governor Tilden seems to be making steady gains outside of New York; but most of the delegates reckoned as favorable to him are unpledged, and are therefore at full liberty to support any other candidate if a survey of the situation after the Cincinnati Convention should render his nomination inexpedient. In estimating his chances it must be constantly borne in mind that it requires two-thirds of all the votes to nominate him, and it is already cer- tain that he will not go into the Convention with anything like that proportion of the delegates. Delaware, Maryland, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, West Virginia, Arkansas and Kentucky will prefer other candidates, and two-thirds of the Missouri delegates are opposed tohim. A strong minority of the New York delegation is bent on his defeat, and a knowledge of this fact, which will be made very public at St. Louis, will prevent a concentration of the necessary two-thirds upon Mr. Tilden unless the nomination of Mr. Washburne at Cincirnati shall reduce the Democratic Convention to ‘Hobson's choice.” It is certain that the two-thirds rule will not be rescinded ; certain that more than one-third of the delegates yet chosen are anti-Tilden ; certain that the most vigorous and dexterous politicians of New York have a deadly hostility to Mr. Tilden ; and yet, if Mr. Washburre, with his incomparable record as the antagonist of corrupt jobs, is put into the field by the re- publicans, the St. Louis Convention may feel compelled to nominate Governor Tilden as a desperate last resource. * In any other con- tingency the two-thirds rule is pretty cer- tain to defeat him. ‘Grandfather Cooper. The bloated bondholders of the East must not make fun of Grandtather Peter Cooper, who is now in’ the field as the early spring candidate for the Presidency. They say that Peter is too old, that a President at eighty-five would be an anomaly in this country, that he would break down, and so on. We do not think so. Old men have saved the State on many oc- casions. There is no instance so pertinent as that of Enrico Dandolo, who was Doge of Venice centuries ago. He was chosen Doge in his eighty-fourth year, about the age of our venerable and distinguished fellow citi- zen. He was a great ruler. At ninety-three he took command of the armies and navies of the Venetian Republic, capturing Con- stantinople in the ninety-sixth year of his age. Mr. Cooper is ten years younger than Dandolo when he achieved these immortal triumphs, so that if clected he would ‘be eligible for a second term. He would bea reformer of the old school and would have no part or lot in any movement to degrade the public service. With a record like that of Enrico Dandolo before therh the “friends of Grandfather Peter should take heart in their canvass, and his enemieg should not be too sure of laughing him off the course. Sixce THE Uxnarry Dirrenzxce between Boss Kelly and Governor Tilden on the ‘> Th eee We ey Soren hori teint Presidential question !some critical demo- crats.are anxious to know how Statesman Colonel Thomas Dunlap feels on the ques tion, The Fast Train to the Pacific. Nine hundred and seven miles in twenty hours and fifty-seven minutes, or an average of over forty-three miles an hour, is the record of Jarrett ‘and Palmer's excursion train to Chicago on its way to the Pacific coast, It arrived at the Phoenix City at ten o'clock last evening twenty-six minutes ahead of schedule tine, and was forth on its way again five minutes later. A vivid idea of its progress enn be gathered from the Henatp correspondent’s graphic notes, which seem to jump from the end of his pencil on to the telegraph wires and come flashing gayly back to New York as if they felt the thrill and pleasure of what they were describing. The speed of the train was at times very great, but the average is only high by comparing it with what has been done before over the same course. There it outstrips everything. This is progress in every sense of the word. In Shakespeare’s time we see the melancholy ° Jaques telling of the fool he met in the forest, saying very wisely, “It is ten o'clock: Thus may we see,” quoth ho, ‘how the world wags: °Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more twill be eleven.” But now we get a glimpse of the ‘lean and hungry Cassius,” sitting in his palace car, saying:— Two, forty-three at Overbrook, by Jove! ‘Bhus may we sce how Tooker basely bragged; We’re still a mimute lacking schedule score, At Eagle, ha! Now Ides of March 1 swear We’re ninety seconds, boys, ubead of time, As Mr. Barrett always talks blank verse we assume such to be the form in which he kept tally with the Hzrap correspondent This is but one feature of the trip which har faithfully kept its time so far, and as the train speeds westward the public interest will follow it anxiously. The Mustang Racing. The second failure of Parker to accomplish the distance of three hundred and five miles in fifteen hours settles the question so faz as he is concerned. We are willing to pay a deserved tribute to pluck and endurance wherever it is exhibited in a worthy cause, but in the circumstances under which the rider was kept in the saddle during the last hour of his attempt yesterday we can see nothing to praise and much to condemn. It has been pretty clearly demonstrated that, so far as the mustangs were concerned, there was no difficulty about their share of the work being performed. The contest has all along been that of the man agaittst physical exhaustion, and Parker was beaten yesterday more than an hour before he was taken from the track. This will lead a good many to ask why a man was kept in torture when he was already hopelessly beaten. The ane swer, we are sorry to say, is to be found ita weakness of human nature for what, in this instance, took the form of gate money. Alas! that heroism should have such sad things to struggle with behind the scenes, Samson blind, making sport for the Philix tines, was scarcely a more pitiable sight than this Centaur carried around by the wild mus- tangs mile after mile, unable to see ahead, and all that the proprietor might make a few extra shekels. We had a dim idea that “hippodroming” was almost exclusively an Eastern virtue, but now we are almost fain to admit that Bret Harte’s ballad of the “Heathen Chinee” did not describe a race of white men on the Pacific slope altogether extinct. . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘There is a good deal of bustle in a girls’ school. Maine ice merchants have a largo surplus stock. Paris bills of fare call frogs ‘‘fresh water chicken.’? Michelet has the satisfaction of knowing that he is buried next to Balzac. Judge David Davis is uopopular in North Carolina, and Tilden 1s the democratic favorite. Tho stndonts at Yale College are so good that a $120,000 chapel is being built for them, Dr. Hillery Wildor, of Raleigh, N. C., killed twenty. three robins with twenty: four-pistol shots. Ouida says:—“With an Italian love is too perfect a science for him to be uncertain of its results.” California newspapers are fighting over the object of O'Donovan Rossa’s mission to the Pacific The lawyers of the United States cost six times as much as the ministers; and the dogs twelve times as much as the ministers. Ex-Governor Noyes says, ‘Haul Ohio out of the list ofdoubtful States;’’ and the democrats and republi- cans are bauling her out, No one knows what a pretty editorial a Hrratp per sonal makes until ong sees it in the elegant long prime: type of the Philadelphia Day. It is getting to be believed throughout the country that if women are elected as school trustees there wik be fewer scandals affecting schools. Mr. Hensley, of Tennessee, 1s seventeen years old. Mrs. Hensicy issixteen, The baby born the other day weighed twenty and ons-half pounds, The Saturday Review says it is impossible for a white man to seitle in one of the ‘nland towns of Morocca We aro sorry of this for Private Dalzell’s sake, The sacramento Union says that Califoraia does no think she can furmsh a Vice-President, and that if sh« did ex-Governor Woods, of Oregon, would not be the man. In the Arctic regions if a boat strikes the odge of a fold of ice the seals will raise their heads for miles round, So will sitters, if a thirsty man strikes a bar- room. Anybody might have known that dear old Ole Bull, who hugs nis fiddle with his chin and mingles bis hair with the E-string, was too good a bow tora bad hus band. Among tho many privileges of England and thr Queen, suys an English critic, is that of being able wu welcome with easy impartiality guests of all natiow parties and opinions. Honorable Isracl Washburne, of Maine, is in Scot land, and will sail for home June 22 in the same shiy with Charles Dudlcy Warner and wife and G, W, Smatley and wife. Newspapers are complaining that ico cream solda church festivals 18 @ slushy fraud, and the Chicag Times man coulin’t got through his without a pair a india rubber boots. Paterson (N. J.) Pres “Chicago Times:—-‘A Siony brave is named Take Things—Take Things is Indian for Grant.’ Yes; we recall it now; he took Donaldson, Petersburg, Richmond and other things.” “Snowshoe Thompson,” the man who, for the pas twenty years, has carried the mails over the Sierrat every winter at times woen the roads wore blockaded with snow, died on ths evening of the 15th ait. A Fulton (ili.) gitl was told that she could not shear thirteen sheep in two hours, She pitehed in and shingled them; but did not have time to ask thom whether they would buy any of the latest hair tonic, A Fijian chhef embraced Coristianity and wished to be baptized, but was retused because ho had several wives, He shortly returned and told the missionary that he had got over the wife difficulty, He said, “J Dave eaten them." The St. Louis Globe Democrat says:—' argument in favor of an extension of that we ought ‘to provide that the fature additions to the city shail conform to the acknowledged require. ments of urban symmetry, and not to the caprice of private owners,”