The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1876, Page 6

‘EW YORK K HE RALD BROADWAY Al AND ANN ANN STREET JAMES GORDON ~ BENNETT, PROPRIETOR —_——_-_—_ All business, news letters or telegraphic despatehes must be addressed New Youx HFuaLp, rae and packages should be properly t igner communications will not be re- turne PHILADELPHIA OFFICE— NO. 112SOUTH “IXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET § PARIS OFFICE—AVE) 1 DE Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS 10- ‘MOR ROW. 2 Ee PARISIAN VARIETIES, Mt8P.M, Matinee at 21". M. FIFTH AVENUE PIQUE, at 8 P. "9 Fanny Dave T ATRE. THE MIGHTY Douian, atsP . WJ. Floronce, GILMORE’S GARDEN. GRAND CONCEK!, at 8 P.M KELLY & LEON at SP. M. BATRE, t J MINSTRELS. OLYMPIC THEATRE, atSP.M. Matinee at2 P.M BOWERY THEATRE WOMAN'S REVENGE, at 8 P.M. Matinee ai CHATEAU MABILLE VARIKTUs 8 P.M. 2PM. wooD WOLLY bale TRES, at 8 P. NION SQUARI tHE VOKES'! PAM LY, atsP TOAY PASTOR at 8 P.M. Matin uM. Matinee at 2 P.M. THEATRE. Mars dl TRIPLE “3878, wEW TORK, SUNDAY. SOY . From. our ‘report $ this m morning hee pr obabilit s are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with areas of rain, During the summer months the HeERAxp will he sent fo subscribers in the country at the rate of twenty-five cents per weelc, free of postage. Noticr To ” CountRY NEWsDEALERS.- — For ompt and regular delivery of the Henaup y fast mail (rains orwers must be sent direct to this office. Fowtage yree. Warn Srexxr Yausrenpa The Stock E: change adjourned until eleven o'clock A. Wednesday, July 5. Stocks were firm, on a comparatively dull market. Gold was steady at 112 3-8. 8B percent. Government and railway bonds steady. Tux Four- aN-HAND Cin, —W e extract from a London paper the story of the meet of the Four-in-Hand Club in Hyde Park. It was a brilliant event and remarkable as having taken place in fine weather. Gambetta, who is chairman of the Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, is Money on call loaned at | FORK | race. oN | of freemen will participate in this glorious | ¢ NEW YORK HERALD, SURERT, JULY 2, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. wreparations for Celebrating the Cen- tennial Fourth. We surrender a great amount of our space to-day toa description of the preparations which have been made and are making in the various towns and cities of the United States for a grand expression of national joy on the hundredth anniversary of American | The festivities on this ocea- | independence. sion will surpass and eclipse every manifes- tation of public rejoicing which has taken place on this continent or in any part of the world during the long stretches of time which comprise the history of the human ‘The greater part of our forty millions celebration, and our means of giving expres- sion to national feeling exceed those | of any people in the world, because the average well being of our citizens coast ; is so great that they do not mind spending money freely on public occasions. Although we are suffering under a prolonged stagnation of business the standard of com- fort in this country is so high that millions will be expended in this anniversary week and our people will not feel perceptibly poorer by the indulgence of their demonstra- tive patriotism. The contrast between the celebration of | | this great anniversary and the original re- joicings of the people when the news of the Declaration reached them one hundred years | ago is of itself a signal illustration of the wonderful growth of this country in all the elements of material and social well being. In genuine fervor of feeling and deep sincerity of national joy we have no ground for boastful comparisons with our patriotic forefathers. When the Declara- tion was published to the world it was greeted, in every part of the country, with all the tokens of enthusiastic approbation and exultant thanksgiving which were within the means of a frugal but profoundly earnest population. We had not then spread over | the continent from ocean to ocean ; we oc- cupied but # narrow strip on the Atlantic our towns and cities were small and insignificant as compared with the teeming millions which now inhabit them; in wealth and art and luxury the contrast was still greater than in numbers and territorial expansion ; but then, as now, we were an en- thusiastic and demonstrative people, and the Declaration of Independence was met every- where with a great outpquring of popular ap- proval. Butin grand scenic effect there is lit- tle resemblance between the rejoicings of 1776 and those of 1876. The warm demonstra- tions of public feeling one hundred years ago consisted in the ringing of church bells, the discharge of a few pieces of brass artil- lery, bonfires in the streets and the illumina- tion of houses by tallow candles in the windows. There was nothing resembling | our grand civic processions, our hundred resolved that so far as cutting off pensions | can do it no roots of the late Empire shall | draw sap trom the Treasury of the French Republic. Between Docrors anp Derectrves Count Arnim has a pretty severe trial to bear in keeping alive. The doctors have sent him to Carlsbad, and the Prussian police keep rach track of his movements that Bismarck must be happy. Tae Mosaovra Panx I were very successful, but the Fourth of July yesterday | is the great Jersey horseflesh day, and we | have no doubt that the trip down the Bay and the run to the track will draw off a goodly share of New Yorkers from the whizz | and bang of the centennial crackers. millions of flags wavipg on public buildings and fluttering in the windows of private res- idences in the thousands and thousands of miles of city streets, the endless blaze of coruscating fireworks with emblematic and artistic designs, and, above all, the instant telegraphic communication and prompt pub- lication by the newspaper press in thon- sands of cities and towns where the country was «a wilderness tenanted by Indian tribes a hundred years ago, und which make every locality in our broad and magnificent domain acquainted on the in- stant with everything done in the interest of patriotism within the limits of our glorious Republic, and which combines over forty millions of people in one vast and sympathetic audience, furnishing a contrast between 1776 and 1876 which is fitted to impress the popu- | lar imagination with the marvellous progress Ovn Joransn Yacrrsar: had a grand re- | gatta with their tiny craft on the lake at | Prospect Park yesterday. The day was very favorable for the sport and the meing excellent, This amusement has become one of the regular attractions of Prospect Park and improves in character as the experience of the young yeeltimen increases. ‘bux Frexcn Workromen visiting our shores are bent on enjoying themselves thoroughly during their stay in New York. now the country has made in the first hundred years of its independence. If we were to select any one feature which marks the con- trast and illustrates the wonderful progress of the country we would fix attention on our civic societies. ‘The fact that our workmen | and artisans have grown to the dignity of When they have seen the wonders of onr | Centennial show and visited some of our big | cities they will be able to form an idea of what the Republic has accomplished tor us in a single century, and will return home more loyal to the idea of popniar govern- ment for their own ean sabes 4 ehurehyards to-night ; how the spooks will hover malignantly over the world ; how the ghoul, with his verdigris face and moulder- ing eyes and furry lips, will blow harsh music from the human bones he has been picking ; how the spectre, the bogy and the great organized bodies. that they appear in public processions and parades as 9 promi- nent part of the life of the Republic, isa noble testimony to the value of our institutions in promoting the self-respect of citizens who contribute to the prosperity of the country. It is the peculiar glory of American institu- tions that they allow free play to the senti- ments and wishes of every portion of the community, and that every section and every peculiar interest can assert its influ- | ence in the public life of the country, One rest of the uncanny things that belong to | the next world will stream about and flap cold, clammy hands against mortal faces! A judge has said that » certain Fay who calls spirits from under the table with a rap must take ont « license asa juggler. Only fancy the tyranny of the thing. The long- haired and the blue umbrellaed male and female beings who sit in the spirit circle and cry “Shame!” will have an awful revenge. hue, beware! when asceptic sneers, Judge Dono- Tae Weatuer in New York during the coming three days promises from present indications, to be cloudy, occasional rains. Southerly winds, diminished temperature, are likely to prevail to-day and part of to-morrow, and will be followed on Monday night by cool winds from northerly points, with increased cloudiness and pos- sibly local showers. The prospects, how- with with | bers and association. ever, are not unfavorable for the grand cen- | tennial parade and fireworks in this city, becanse the area of low barometer which is now central in the Mississippi Valley is wedged between two areas of high pressure, one extending over the Soathern States and the other north of the lakes and the St Lawrence. The former area of high pressure being representative of the greatest atmo- | spheric density, will probably push the iow barometer toward the northern part of this | State and northeastward through the Valley | | How rue Gnosts Wirt, Groax through the | hundred years ago we had nothing of this multiform social and industrial organiza- tion. litical freedom, Every body of citizens which has, or fancies that it has, peculiar rights to assert or peculiar interests to pro- | mote is free to meet and consult, free to or- ganize and act, and enjoys full opportunity for impressing its views and its claims on public attention. Itis the glory of our in- stitutions that not only every individual citizen is free to proclaim his senti- ments, but that every class = en- joys perfect liberty to associate and | to impress its views on public attention with the advantage which results from num- The appearance of multitudinous civibd associations in the parades of this great centennial celebration not only «ttests = great advance in the or- ganization and power of our various indus- tries, but it is a noble tribute to the spirit of freedom generated by our institutions, which give the largest liberty, not only to the individual citizen, but to the principle of association, which enables those who think alike to combine for the promotion of their common interests, The two cities in which the centennial celebration of our national independence will bs most splendid and imposing are New | York and Philadelphia, our two most im- portant cities in population and wealth. | Philadelphia has peculiar reasons for making | | | of the St. Lawrence. We anticipate high | winds in the West, arisi m the prevail- ing conditions of temp: e, Another area | jing itself on the hus by the end ot low barometer i the celebration magnificent, and we only | need to refer to her programme as set forth in our news columns to show how fully she appreciates the duties which devolve on her as occupying the post of honor on this memorable occasion, Her just local pride asthe birthplace of the immortal Declara- tion and the honor which has been accorded her as the scene of the grand Centennial Ex- position have incited her patriotic citi- zens to make a creditable display on this remarkable occasion, and her cel- ebration will pass into history. But It is one of the noblest fraits of po- | New York, which has overshadowed ner 1n commercial importance, and is far in ad- vance of her in the arts, culture and trophies of civilization which give pre-eminence as a great national and metropolitan city, will | celebrate the centennial of our indepen- dence with as much patriotio pride and seat scenic magnificence. It may not be out of place to remark that to-day, this 2d of July, 1876, is the real, though not the ceremonial, anniversary of | our national independence. It was on the 2d of July that the resolution was passed by the Continental Congress which asserted the separation of the colonies from the crown of Great Britain, The adoption of the Deciaration, two days later, was a public | formality in pursuance of the decisive step which had been taken on the 2d of the month. To-day is the real, though not the the United States. It was on the 2d of July, 1776, that twelve colonies resolved, without one dissenting voice, ‘‘That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection be- tween them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.” Glori- ous old John Adams immediately after be the memorable epocha in the history of generations as the great anniversary festi- val, commemorated as the day of deliv- erance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward for ever- more.” As this anniversary happens to fall votion to Almighty God,” which are so suit- able to the occasion, will be duly performed in our churches on this anniversary day of worship. The Patriotic Pulpit. Very little else will be taiked about to-day in our local pulpits but the great anniver- sary. Mr. Hepworth will make o partial ex- ception by treating of national and personal faith in Jesus, in which, however, he will show the relation of the Republic’s pros- perity to this faith. But when Drs. Robin- son, Elder, Armitage and others get together with him in the evening they will give full vent to their patriotic emotions. Mr. Johns, too, will be a partial exception to this gen- eral theme while he talks about fidelity, but demonstrating the while that this virtue has had much to do with the nation’s progress. Mr. while he tells how Sisera, the Philistine general, was routed by a woman—he was not the first nor is he the only man who has been overthrown by a woman—and Mr. Leavell, while discussing the worship and the exultant victor. Messrs. Marling, Harris, Kennard and Searles will | preach centennial sermons, and Mr. Phelps will unite with his patriotic efforts a history of his church for sixty years past. Mr. Mo-, ment believes, and will so declare to-day, that the Pilgrim Fathers were the true founders of the American Republic, and Dr. Dowling thinks God hath not dealt so with any nation. His hand, as Mr. Herr and Dr. Armitage believe, is very manifest in our national history. The privileges, duties and dangers of the nation will be considered by Mr. Lloyd, her life by Mr. Pullman and her progress and destiny by Mr. Hatfield. The battles and victories of the Republic will be traversed by Dr. Ball; Washington and the Revolution, Lincoln and eman- cipation, will be reviewed by Mr. McCarthy, and the nature and means of attaining human freedom will be indicated by Mr. Giles. The religions aspects and social value of biology will be shown by Dr. Lam- bert, and Mr. Snow will paint in vivid pic- tures the last great earthquake and its mighty results. The Centennial Rifle Match. Ireland has at last chosen the champions who are to support her pretensions to the highest skill in the use of the rifle and endeavor to regain the prestige lost last year at Creedmoor. This time the best men have | been selected by a series of tests that left nothing to accident, and, though the scores as reported are not higher than have been made by our own marksmen, they are so high as to command respectful attention and muke it certain that to carry off the victory will be no child's play. Only three members of the Irish team which was defeated at Creedmoor have succeeded in winning places on the new team. They are Messrs. Johnson, Rigby aud Milner, and | some idea of the quality of the mem- bers of the new team may be formed when it ia known that so reliable a shot as Mr. Rigby only secured the twelfth place in the order of merit, while brilliant marks- men like Wilson were defeated after a most searching competition by new candi- “dates. As new men have in the American team also taken the lead, putting even the famous Fulton well down in the order of merit, we have no reason to fear the result, though Ireland has certainly picked her best men and Scotland will send a team that is | | thought to be still more formidable than their Irish rivals, We have no knowledge what is doing up in Canada, but a | formidable team may be looked for | from that stardy Dominion. It is to | be regretted that English sensitiveness has | prevented the sending of a team, because | the absence of representatives from “Old England” will be regarded by many as a confession of weakness still more than | ‘an exhibition of pique. But with the rep. | resentative teams already organized there is assured a magnificent struggle for the tifle championship of the world which will | | transcend in interest any competition that | | has yet taken place. It will be a truly | Olympian struggle and will crown the vic- tors with laurels that will last for @ hundred | | years. Our champions should work un- ceasingly to perfect themselves, knowing the formidable rivals that are coming from east and west to carry off the palm of vic- | Goveryxor Titpen will not go to Philadel- phia on the Fourth of July, He will remain in the Empire State on that great day, but | | hopes to go ont of it with a large majority | next November. Send your picture to the | Quaker City, Uncle Samual. | | tory. | | formal, anniversary of the independence of | | revolted Christians of Bosnia and Herzego- | \ewrote:—The 2d day of July, 1776, will | America; to be celebrated by succeeding | ona Sunday we trust that the ‘acts of de- | Dowling will form another exception | vanity of | ‘Servia Declares War. The proclamation of Prince Milan of Ser- via brings the unwelcome but not unfore- seen fact before the Powers of Europe that war has been declared. Tho invasion of | Bosnia may be expected to follow immedi- ately. For the past fortnight it has become evident that it was impossible to restrain | Servia, which, partly from patriotism and pertly from necessity, found it impossible to | of war and none of its advantages. Since the Powers have been convinced of the exigencies of the Servian situation the | greatest efforts have been made to localize | the impending war, and so far with some success. The three empires and England will hold their hands off, and Montenegro on the west and Roumanin on the cast are more or less pledged to neutrality. The conflict, therefore, opens with Servia and the | yina on one side and Turkey on the other. Servia will probably place sixty thousand to | seventy thousand troops in the field at the | start, with more to follow, while the forces | of the scattered rebel bands will probably | amount to thirty thousand more, of which, | perhaps, two-thirds are fairly armed. | Against these Turkey will immediately have | about forty thousand regular troops, and, if | she raises the green flag fora holy war, an im- | mense horde of irregulars or Bashi-Bazouks. The invasion of Bosnia, on the west, is an- | nounced as the first step in Servia's offensive | warfare ; but her danger will come on the | northeast from the line of the Danube, which the Turks hold below Widin, and on which they have a number of gunboats. A strong force must be left to defend this line while the main body makes head against the ‘Turks in Bosnia, Taking into consideration the disorganization of the Turkish army and the present emptiness of the treasury at Con- | stantinople it looks as though the Servians would have the best of the fight at the start. While, under the pressure of actual war, tho Porte mey in time be able to add some effi- ciency to the fanaticism of its soldiers, the first few weeks of the campaign will be terribly dangerous to the Ottoman Em- pire. The present neutrality of Montenegro would not be likely to outlive the first con- siderable Servian success, and a new foe will confront Turkey. If these two States should wage the war so successfully as to make the contest a hopeless one for Turkey north of the Balkan Mountains we should not be surprised if Roumania should cross the Danube and claim Bulgaria as her share. If things come to this pass the war will take on those gigantic proportions which even meddling Russia cannot contemplate with- out fear. The combustibles are scattered all over the East which may be touched with | the war flame at any moment despite the most sedulous care. Egypt, Crete and even Greece may take fire atany moment. Never before has Turkey, in the long list of her escapes from overwhelining disaster, faced a crisis more threatening than the present. Isolated, impoverished, disorganized, weak on the frontier and weak at the capital, with foes on every side, her escape from annihi- lation as a European Power in the present hour of fate should make every child of the Koran hail the deliverance ns the special act of Allah through the intercession of the | Prophet. We mean to convey that her es- cape from dismemberment would be a miracle. | Religious Press (atriotism. Our religious contemporaries were so busy this week preparing for the centennial na- | tional. anniversary, and waiting withal per- haps for the news from St. Louis, they could not get out their issues on time. At least they could not get them to this office until the third day after publication, when the Henaup of corresponding date had almost crossed the continent. We do not see much in them editorially that was worth waiting so long for. The Christian Union thinks there is not much profit in requesting Young Amer- ica to drop his fuse for the moment and dwell upon the lessons which the day is cal- culated to inculcate, forthe young gentleman sion of his combustibles. The primal and chief lesson of the day is that of rights— rights—rights!! The cry of the past century, says the Union, has been all for rights. Sup- pose now, it adds, we inaugurate a cen- tary of which the good record will be that the people attended to theircorrespond- ing political duties. The Christian Leader takes a retrospect of one hundred years and eulogizes the heroes of 1776, whose descend- ants we a strange people should be did not the land resound with rejoicings next Tues- day as our first century of national life is rounded. And of propitious omen it is that as the day draws nigh the pulses of forty mill- ions of people beat at fever heat. The Bap- tist Weekly thinks the retrospect and the prospecty whether viewed in relation to our political or religious progress and possibili- ties, are beyond description inspiring; and, feeling this, there will be no bounds to the enthusiasm characterizing the celebration | and no limit to the pious and patriotic dem- onstrations of our joy. The occasion will justify the most jubilant delight, and nothing short of a rapturous commemoration of the | day will be adapted to its designs. The Church Journal thinks vast changes have taken place in the conditions of Amer- ican life during the last century or half cen- tury, but the deep meaning for the indi- vidual and the nation—socially, intel- lectually and spiritually—of many of these changes they do not see. Indeed, the tem- per in which the centennial celebration | itself has been gotten up and carried on is this | same shallow and boastful temper, and noth- | | | | the drumming and trumpeting, the bluster, | boast and blare with which it is entering on a second century. | editors will not fire away much powder on | Tuesday. The Jewish Messenger overtiows with patriotism. It places the starry flag at would be very likely to redouble the explo- | | ing perhaps can be worse for the country than | Manifestly the Journal | maintain a peace which had all the cestliness | | the head of its editorial columns, and feels | | the throb of that mighty impulse which | directs the mass of American citizens in | their universal deference to the centennial | idea. whatever partisans may propose they (the people) will resone themselves from the | into which self- speculators, nn- slough of despond is politicians, grasping It would have the people resolve that | j; and our opinion cruel rings and avaricious schemes, from misgovernment and disloyalty in whatever guise. The people will determine to restore the simplicity, fidelity and devotion of a hundred years ago, while enjoying the ines- timable advantages a century wonderful in discoveries and inventions has wrought for all mankind. The desire of the age, the Churchman thinks, is for teaching. risk much on palpable uncertainties. So much the more need of a teaching church, and one that can teach to some purpose. Then the questions in politics and morals, now so languidly considered, will find solu- tion and confident and hearty action. The Observer thinks the people of the country at large are thoroughly disgusted with the noisy demenstrations with which the Fourth is usually ushered in. There are more ra- tional ways of celebrating the day, and the Observer hopes they may have prefer- ence the present year, A quiet ob- servance of the day, in the man- ner for which abundant provision has | been made, will be far more appro- priate and impressive than making the day hideous with incessant noise. And this will serve as an example for all future re- turns of the day. The return of Indepen- dence Day carries the editorial mind of the National Ba} tist back to the century ago, and reminds it of the feeblencss and poverty of those early days, and of the faith and bravery and self-devotion whose fruit we are now reaping. ‘The retrospect leads it to ask :— ‘* How shall we look on wealth, office, power, a century hence? And how shall we look on holiness, purity, love, likeness to God? Let us therefore,” it adds, ‘correct the thoughts, ambitions, wishes of to-day by the light that shines from the next Centen- nial.” The Methodists, Presbyterians and other religious denominations, at the suggestion of their highest church authorities, as well as in accordance with the proclamation of the President, will hold special Centennial services to-day in their churches. Many of them will observe the Fourth also religi- ously. The Israelites of New York will very generally so observe the Centennial anniver- sary. Yaryan. The case of Yaryan would be one of no special significance it it did not involve in its solution the whole story of the relations of the President aud Mr. Bristow growing out of the Whiskey Ring trials at St. Louis. It is not to be assumed that Yaryan had a prescriptive right to the office he held in the Treasury Department or that the President was right or wrong in compelling his dis- missal Under any administration and un- der almost any circumstances a revenue de- tective could be employed or dismissed without provoking a word of comment, and the mere fact that Yaryan finds such vehe- ment defenders at’ the same time that the Presidential wrath falls so fiercely upon him is proof that his case is out of the ordinary. On the one hand we find that he was com- pletely in the confidence of Secretary Bris- tow and Solicitor Bluford Wilson, while Commissioner of Internal Revenue Pratt in- dorses him for ‘‘intelligence, judgment, zeal and strict integrity.” On the other hand are grave charges of levying blackmail upon the St. Louis distillers and rectifiers and direct intimations of a conspiracy to injure the President and his household. It will thus be seen that the gravity of the case is not all dependent upon any question relating merely to Yaryan as a Treasury official, but that it gets its importance trom the indorsements of Bristow, Pratt and Wilson and the alleged basis of the President's action. Tho only question is whether the allegations testified to by Moore are true. If they are true it reflects no credit upon the Treasury officials who so warmly indorsed Yarynn; for if they did not know Yaryan’s real character they should have known it before giving him so strong a ‘‘character.” If they are not true the President has acted precipitately and without due regard either to his own dignity or to the dignity of his high office. In either case the whole truth must be clearly and judicially established. We have had enough ot piecemeal investigation and unsatisfactory trials. ‘The culprits in this case may or may not be Yaryan and Brasher, but the issue is between the President's official household on the one hand and Mr. Bristow and his offi- cial following on the other. It is an issue too clearly defined to be mistaken, and in Yaryan’s trial it can be conclusively settled, at least to the understanding if not the satis- faction of the country. If Yaryan only was involved he would soon drop out of sight ; but the higher question must not be left to be bandied about in the Presidential can- vass, and so the charges against him must be brought toaspeedy and, if possible, a satisfactory trial. Tar Recent Tucpoar Exprosion at pier 38 on the North River, by which three lives were lost and a large amount of property destroyed, was caused by that frequent source of destruction to steam boilers—low water. In commenting on this terrible affair the morning alter the explosion we pointed out clearly the cause of the disaster, has been the examination of the wreck made by the local pectors steam boilers. The exposure of the crown sheet by the escape of the water through the fusible plughoie made the destruction of the boiler a matter of only a few minutes, especiaily when the blower was in operation forcing the draft, and, con- sequently, increasing the production of steam. _ The lesson taught by the Workman explosion is so old that we fear it will have little effect in teaching caution to engineers and the necessity of watchfulness to firemen, out by Tur Frmst Deatn rrom Fireworks has already occurred in this city. teen, looking, on Frijay night, ata small pyrotechnic disp! ad her dress set on fire by a flying spark. sie sustained such in- juries that she died yesterday, The sale of fireworks and bunting this year has been unprecedented, and it hehooves parents and guardians © second the eflorts of the authorities in guarding against risks from fire and explosions, The Police and Fire departments have made excellent arrange- patriotic and unwise legislators have plunged | ments and given excellent advice,/but unless | them. The people will save themselves from | they are seconded by the pradefce and in- a er It does not care to | fully borne | of | A girl of six. | telligence of our grown-up citizens the most lamentable regults may follow. Small can- non have been sold by the hundred, with the | bore of an ordinary musket, and capable of holding large charges of powder. Any ot these dangerous playthings found in the hands of children should be confiscated until after the Fourth. Tue Hovse Murpgr.—A divorce lawyer | named House, who has been instrumental in causing great misery among the married, was shot and killed by his own wife yester- day. He had accumulated a large sum of money by his sinister profession, which was to procure a divorce upon the slightest cause by a jugglery with the Jaws of different States. He was arrested for some practice of the kind in Connecticut about five years ago, and the wife who put a ballet in his brain yesterday was his constant attendant in his trouble. Released on bail, he never risked himself in that direction again. The woman who committed the | deed was once the wife of another, and, it is stated, became Mrs. House through an application of that divorce lawyer's professional skill. His invention returned to plague him. He was hoist by his own petard. The crime of Mrs. House, whatever its circumstances, bears one comment— namely, that those who make themselves the channels of misery to so many should never be surprised when the contempt for decency and reetitude, which has been their rule of life, should lead to terrible conse- quences to themselves, Tue Tvusrie's Farenp.—Mr. Bergh has been unsuccessful in his benevolent attempt to punish a fishman for turning a turtle on its back and tying its flippers with a string passed through them. The evidence was conflicting. One of Mr. Bergh’s men found a supine turtle at the fishman’s store, He felt its pulse, and on gazing in its eyes found they had an agonized look. The other side declared that a turtle on its lower shell when out of the water was really a pitiable object, that the look of agony which Bergh’s man described was in reality a smile of the most exquisite kind. Two turtles were produced in court, but as they were not in the form of soup or steak His Honor would do nothing to help them inte their natural position; so the case concluded with tears for the turtles by Mr. Bergh and a general smacking of lips by the spectators, Stand by the old horse, Mr. Bergh. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Salvini bas cancer. Luke Poland is a disappointed man. ' Belknap will not deliver a Fourth of July address, Senator Thurman attracts no attention irom the gab lerics. Professors Dana and Trowbridge, of Yale, are in Chicago. Mr. Flood, the big bonanza winer, ts at Virginia City, Nev. Senator Frelinghuysen has a molassessy voice, but hg ts not strong. Brodhead’s only notortety 1s because he once hades letter from Frank Blair. George Ehot:—‘‘Where marriage is inconvenient 6 girl’s sentiments are safe.”’ A Connecticut man scalded forty-six quarts of potate bugs on less than three acres. Congressman Jim Garfield wears s black coat battoned around a thick and awkward waist, ‘As the girl said of her lover, soa democrat may say of Tilden, ‘‘He isn’t pretty, but he’s good.’” When Senator Jack Logan is in Chicago he stts in the ordiuary seats of a hotel and puts on no airs. HL A Chittenden, Jr., of Milwaukeo, a nephew of the Hon, 8. B, Chittenden, carried Wisconsin for Tilden. Half a font ot pica type, four glasses of lager and am occasional word about Beecher will ran s Milwaekes newspaper. Dan Voorhees, the tall syeamore of the Wabash, swooped his oratorical arm aloft and ripped the gussets out of the stars, “Light-horse Harry” Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, camo out of the St Louis Convention with the laurels on his brow. Genera! E. G. McCook, formerly of Colorado, is a very handsome man, with a beautiful mustache, and he used to have agents to buy cattle at Denver, Tho honest farmer is swinging his scythe in the ras- set ficld, occasionally going up to the tree by the fence and taking a long swig out of a molasses jug. Lieutenant Governor Dorshermer, who has hereto fore been considered a little namby-pamby, steps for- ward with the firm, elastic tread of @ man of genius, A Wisconsin child was walking on a track, was picked up by a locomotive, and was carried several hundred yards on the cowcatcher without being hurt, In the recent London fire 1,500,000 pounds of tes were destroyed, but the amount was only that of thre¢ days’ consumption, and the market was not affected. This is the Sunday when every irreligious parent should send Lis child for the first time to that Sanday School whreb Is going to have a treat on the Fourth o July. Watterson when a mere baby tn parliamentary lag used to play the queen for the jack, and when taken te task for it said the Susan was always as good as the Jonn. Courier-Journal :— day, which is hangm universal sentiment among the people, Hayes!’"” McCormick, of Chieago, who wants to be Governor and who 18 a demecrat, knows a reaper whose namo is Death; and the aforesaid reaper is the only colleague he will ever have in office, The Chairman of the Music Committee at the Cen. tennial Exposition says of an organ:—‘'Tho foundation registers arc far reaching tn tone,” and of a chime o bells, ‘they have harmonics ® sixth delow.”” When are the police? Lightning rod swindlers are still operating in the northern counties of New York State. They agree te put up the rods fora small sum, get @ signature tos swindling document, and receive throe times as mach as they agree to take The amateur editors mect io Philadelphia July 4 | A girl, Giteen years oid, belonging to Carbondale, Pa, writes and prints asemi-montbly paper without aid from anybody. We can speak well of this production, | Because we haven't scen it. It is a fact that the sermons of F. W. Robertson, o Brighton, who died almost in obloquy, should bave constapily new editions. It is also worthy of remark | that iro of the writers most studied for style are Robertson and Father Newman, Elmira, which, during the war, was a city practically engaged in duties referring to the army, now liberally subscribes $15,000 and fifty acres of land toward locate | ing “the Soldiers’ Home."’ That city has surpassed advantages for routes of travei and for health. Last year a girl named Mattie Strickland agreed with one Leo Miller to live with him according to the “ad. vanced” theory so long as they mutually wished, They have been arrested in Minnesota, and the witty Chicago Times says that the course of tree love never | did run smootn. Senator Gordon, of Georgia, and Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, aay the democracy is sure of every South- rn State except, possibly, South Carolina, and Loutsi- ana if troops are given to Packard and Kellogg. Da- vis, of North Carolina, however, says tne contest will be rery close in bis State, Oae of the chief amusements at present for Paris tan high life is the mail coach picnic. Several owners of four-im-hands start for a xed point inside ihe suburbs, Ti 4 passable ina can be ‘ound the parcies enjoy their ease there at déjenmer; if not the materi als for a lunel: are extracted from the boous, a tent rar up and a dance improvised if poss bie on che grasa, The Baroness Rotuschild drives her own muil coaen, | and | a capital whip, and races with these vebiolos are on the cards. “Hayes was nominated on Fri- 's day, and hence the almost ‘Ob, bang | |