The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1876, Page 8

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Ovr Literary Notices in another colamn will be found to contain crisp summaries of the latest works from our publishers. Evacuation Dax was honored yesterday by the display of bunting on public build- ings and an assemblage of the veterans of the war of 1812. Ont of the twenty old soldiers fourteen were above fourscore years old. . Tae Two Govgernors—of New York and Indiana—have had a conference, and as they parted in good humor and more than ever determined to keep the peace we congratu- late the democracy upon possessing two such good citizens among its leaders, Crosstown Rattroaps are a great accom- modation to the public, bup we sincerely hope that the process of putting down rails, ripping them up and then replacing in the course of a dispute between the company and the Commissioner of Public Works will be avoided as muchas possible, Our streets are bad enough. Wim M. Tween asserts in blue pencil that he has no intention of making any revelations reflecting on Governor Tilden. This disposes of a great many shrewd sur- mises. We call the attention of newspaper writers to the emphatic nature of his denial. When the most incredulous journalist learns that the late Boss wrote the word in blue pencil he will admit that settles it, GexenaL Hompnners’ Axxvat Report on the Engineer Department's work is syn- opsized in anether column. It will be found to give in small compass a val- aable mass of figures concerning the sums needed to perfect our lake and seacoast system of fortifications, and the sums needed to continue our river and harbor improvements. Particular stress is laid upon the necessity of providing an adequate store of torpedoes for marine use. As we have the best kinds of marine torpe- does we should also have them in sufficient oumbers. Wensten's Statvz was unveiled yesterday in Central Park amid imposing ceremonies, in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering. . The generous donor of the statue, Mr. Burnham, was as brief in his remarks as modesty could make them. Myr. Evarts delivered an appreciative panegyric upon the great ‘‘Expounder of the Consti- tution,” and Mr. Winthrop gave an interest to the proceedings by recalling the presence sf Daniel Webcter at the home of the Win- throps and in his law office, whére the | speaker studied under his direction. Long may America have such citizens to honor and men equal to the task of honoring them Atly. ). 7 STRADA PACE. | From our reports this morning the probabile | ; 0 NEW YORK A Few Words to Merchants and Bankers. Whether Mr. Hayes or Mr. Tilden is elected isa question as yet undecideg@. For its determination the country is anxiously waiting. Whiehever way it shall be decided, the country will accept the result with gen- eral satisfaction and go on about its business, which, forthe time, has come to a stand- still. It will go on about its business, glad that this wretched excitement is over; but only on the condition that either Mr. Hayes or Mr. Tiden is faimly and honestly elected in a manner to satisfy all reasonable men that there has been an honest count. Unfortu- nately, as the days pass by we have less and less reason to hope for such absolute and conspicuous fair play as the public sense of justice demands, while the instances of sharp practice, of petty trickery, of a disposition to take improper and suspicious advantage of the powers in the republican hands do un- doubtedly increase. It is a lamentable fact that thoughtful people are less confident of satisfactory and creditable settlement to- day than they were aweekago. Isitnot time forthe republican bankers, merchants and manufacturerg of New York, Boston, Phila- delphia, Chicago, Cincinnati and other Northern cities to take some notice of these facts? Would they not do well to consider if their own inter- ests would not be so greatly imperilled by an uncertain and unsatisfactory result as to make their protest in favor of the most open and honorable course by ‘the republi- can managers in the South and against everything which bears the appearance of concealment or wrong important and nec- essary ? The anxiety of politicians and their per- sistence in putting forth their partisan views and beliefs have a constant tendency to drag the public mind away from the single and only issue. Here, for instance, comes Mr. Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, a good lawyer and honorable man, but a partisan republican ard intimate friend of Governor Hayes. He has been in New Orleans, and he tells the public on his return that he has no doubfMr. Hayes has received a majority of the vote of Louisiana. But, at the same time, here comes Judge Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, also a sound lawyer and honor- able man, an ex-Senator of the United States, one of the foremost men in the coun- try, acd declares his belief that the demo- crats have carried the State. Now, these gentlemen speak entirely beside the mark. What they say does not and cannot meet the question of the ‘hour. What the people want is not opinions; what they want, what we must have if we wish to escape great and interminable calamities, is a count of the votes so fair, so public, so honest that every republican in the land may rightfully ask his democratic neighbor to accept the result as above just suspicion. But the proceedings of the South Carolina and Louisiana returning boards are already of a nature as even re- publican journals recognize open to just suspicion. What our bankers, capitalists, merchants and manufacturers want is peace, general contentment—and these will result imme- diately from an honorable settlement of the present difficulty, no matter which of the two candidates may be- come President. What they have most to dread is chronic discontent—such a deep- seated dissatisfaction as would result from a belief in the minds of reasonable men that unworthy means had been used to count in a President. Such a state of doubt would lead to an intolerable and ruinous condition of business. It would operate as a fatal impediment to a return of prosperity. It would disturb and gradually sap private as well as public credit. It would force prudent men to re- ject new enterprises, to keep their capital locked up and their means in hand; it would make uncertain the value of all pub- lic secyrities, and this would slowly, but surely, appreciate the value of gold. It would largely increase the numberof the unemployed, add to the prevailing distress, and embarrass every operation of legitimate industry and commerce. We do not wish to exaggerate the evils-of an uncertain and unsatisfactory result, and we say freely that, no matter how unsatisfnc- tory and how deeply tainted it may be with the suspicion of fraud, we do not anticipate civil disorders. The American people are too sensible to make so fatal a blunder as this, and any one who should suggest a re- sort to violence would soon be made to feel that. But we say plainly to the capitalists, the bankers, the merchants and manufac- turers of the country, and especially to those of them who are republicans, that if by their silence they consent to and suffer what their protest can prevent—a count of the votes which shall lie under the just suspicion’ of ,having been “cooked”—they ought to set their houses in order, for they will court very grave calamities. When the count is de- elared, if the processes by which it has been arrived at shall not be so conspicu- ously fair and honest that every republican may justly expect his democratic neighbor to accep’ it, then we shall begin to live with the threat of a general panic hanging over us, Thereafter a very slight cause will create a run on the banks, and particularly on the savings banks. No prudent mer- chant will buy and no cautious manufac- turer will dare to produce more than his cash orders warrant. No importer or whole- sale dealer will dare to sell his wares on credit to a distant customer. No capitalist will veuture to invest in securities into the value of which will enter an unknown and incalculable factor of uncertainty. And the evils of which we speak will not merely en- dure;they-mnst increase month by month ; for the Presid@at, be he Hayes or Tilden, ‘Will hold his @Mice for four long years, and the doubt we have supposed will be present to the publie mind and conscience during his whole term. President Grant spoke the literal truth when he said, ‘The country cannot afford to have the result of the elee- tion tainted by the suspicion of illegal or false returns.” We repeat that we do not apprehend vio- lence or civil disorder. Not only ate the American people too sensible for that, but General Grant means to install his successor in the White House, and we, have not the least doubt he will do what he intends, What we desire to impress upon the repub- lican bankers, merchants, manufacturers and capitalists is, not that Mr. Hayes, if he is counted in, even under justly suspicious cireumstances, will have difficulty in getting into the White House, if he chooses to ac- cept the Presidency ; but that, to use once more General Grant’s wise phrase, they “cannot afford to have the result of the election tainted by suspicion.” It is our duty as journalists to make them aware of the risks they run. That there are risks is, we think, no longer doubtful. Mr. Hayes must get the votes of all three of the disputed States to be elected. Now, if Florida and Louisiana should be declared to the satisfaction of every voter in the land to have gone for Hayes there would yet remain the just.sus- picion of wrong about the declaration of South Carolina's vote. But the action of the Louisiana Returning Board, when we consider the bad character of the men who compose it, is already so justly suspicious that, unless public opinion forces them to change their conduct, it is hardly possible for them to satisfy the country of the honesty of their work. Even in Florida the interminable delays of the Returning Board and the squabbles of the Governor are not reassuring. These are matters which our business men must look in the face. If they wish to they can compel the observance of good faith. When they raise their voices in protest they have great influence. Tho question they should ask themselves now is whether it is not time for them to interfere ; whether it is not better, by timely and united public protests, to avert from themselves and from the country, in whose prosperity they are vitally interested, a ruinous calamity. iy We are not playing the part of alarmists. The Heratp has been incessant in its efforts to allay public excitement, and in- stant in reproving all who suggested violent or illegal measures of resistance to the result of the count. We have been aided in this by the judicious words of such democratic journals as the Journal of Commerce, the Sun, and now the World, which said yesterday morning :—‘‘Neither in the South nor in the North is there danger of armed revolt, com- motion or revolution on account of what is going on in the South, or of what may go on in Washington. None whatever.” But the business. calamities from a suspected, and justly suspected, count are inevitable. The fatal and lasting prostration of industry and husiness, which just now began to revive, cannot be cured. It can be prevented if the merchants, bankers, manufacturers and capitalists of the North will speak out in time, A Water Supply from Poughkeep- sie—The Eastman Plan. As we stated recently, when commenting on the public excitement in this’ city re- garding the scarcity of Croton; nearly every- body imagines that he has devised the only reliable plan by which we can be saved from a water famine. Communications have been printed by the column in the Hxraup suggesting every conceiv- ablo means of increasing, regulating and economizing the city water supply. We have had an _ interesting . lec- ture on the subject from a distinguished professor and exhaustive reports from the Commissioner of Public Works, who has entered into the minutest details in order to sustain his arguments. New York has well nigh worn herself out in clamoring for a drink of pure water, and now ‘makes any sign only when some distracted houscowner up town makes piteous complaint about his bursted ‘‘waterback” or collapsed boiler. But from far off Ponghkeepsie, nestling in the Highlands of the Hudson, comesa cheering voice, bidding us not despair. Tho problem can be easily solved by making the great river at the fair city our chief source of supply, whence we can draw the pure waters that flow from the forest clad slopes of the Adirondacks. Mr. Eastman would have us establish a pumping station at Poughkeepse and raise the river water toa reservoir at Poughkeepsie, whence it would flow to the feeders of the present Croton reservoirs or by an independent con- duit to the cityof New York. Unfortunately Mr. Eastman’s plan is not as practicable as his letter to Mayor Wickham would lead us to believe it was. In order to obtain the fifty millions of gallons from the Hudson, which he proposes to commence with, it would be necessary to employ pumping engines of at least eight thousand horse power to raise two hundred and fifty thousand tons of water to a height of five hundred feet every twenty-four hours. The pressure on the delivery pipes near the pumps would equal two hundred and seventeen pounds to the square inch; consequently they should be enormously strong. They should also be protected from frost by being deeply embedded in the earth, or other- wise covered. In view of these and many othet important facts governing the feasibility of the plan we are satisfied that Mr. Eastman has underestimated its cost. He naturally tries to support’ his arguments by statements which are, however, too gen- eral in their character to warrant any decided steps toward the adoption of the plan until its merits are more fully investi- gated. It may not prove to be for the best interests of New York that several mill- ions of dollars should be expended at Poughkeepsie, however the latter city may desire it. There are other available sources of water supply much nearer to this city than the point proposed by Mr. Eastman, and until these are examined wo must rest satis- fied with our Croton. What we need now is a thoroughly honest and scientific exami- nation of all the sources of water supply within say one hundred miles of New York city. Among these is the Hudson River, at Poughkeepsie, which, if it proves better than ail others, will undoubtedly be se- lected. Incznpranism on Lona Istanp seems to need the attention it is receiving from the authorities of Queens county. Six fires within a comparatively small area in a short space of time represent more loss to the farmers of that neighborhood than is likely to result from the average carelessness of the Long Island farmer, | mally The Political Situation. If it had not been for the presence of mind of Mr. E. W. Stoughton, of New York, the proceedings of the Louisiana Returning Board yesterday might have degenerated into a melancholy farce. work by opening the sealed fackage con- taining the returns of De Soto parish. The ‘visiting statesmen” were for- asked to notice the condition of the package. It appeared to have been sent in the registered letter mail, was post- marked November 14 and marked as re- ceived in the New Orleans Post Office November 18. When it was opened it was found to contain an affidavit of intimi- | dation sworn to in New Orleans Novem- ber 25. The Heratp correspondent re- lates that at this untoward discovery a deep shade of annoyance covered the face of Mr. Wells, the President of the Board; Mr. Tom Anderson became suddenly and intensely interested in a long document, and the few profane who had incautiously been admitted began to laugh; but at this moment Mr. Stonghton, to his immortal glory, firmly faced the crisis. He gravely remarked that ‘there was here ap- parently a clerical error,” and under cover of this ingenious diversion the Board passed on toa scrutiny of other papers. It may be added that President Grant wrote, only a few days ago, ‘‘No man worthy the office of President should be willing to hold it if ‘counted in’ or placed there by any frand.” Later in the day it became the turn of Colonel Zacharie to step into the gap, but in a different manner. He called the attention of the Board to the fact that the returns of Franklin, a democratic parish, had been sent down by express and had been lying in the express office for several days uncalled for, the State officer to whom they were directed refusing to take them out on the ground that the express charges, amounting to seventy-five cents, were not paid, and the last Legislature had made no appropriation for this purpose. Mr. Wells replied that the Board could not afford to pay such charges out of their own pockets, either, and that he would not take them ont; whereupon Colonel Zacharie pulled three- quarters of a dollar out of his pocket and offered them to the clerk, who was thereupon directed to reclaim the vote of Franklin parish. We may add that what the country is anxiously waiting for is a fair, honest count of the yotes in the disputed States, which shall be untainted by the suspicion of trickery or fraud. It is now asserted by the democrats that in several cases where parish returns were accompanied with affidavits of intimidation the clerks of courts who by law make up these returns are ready to make oath that no such affidavits were with them when sent. Meantime Mr. Sydney Clarke, who appears to be a republican ‘‘visiting statesman” from Kansas, told our corre- spondent that he had so far seen no violation of the State law on the part of the Board. He was very well pleased with the proceed- ings, and gave the information that the final session of the Board, when it will add up the vote and make out the returns, will be entirely secret, not even the ten Northern gentlemen being allowed to see this important operation. President Grant wrote, the other day:—‘'The country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the sus- picion of illegal or false returns.” In South Carolina the Returning Board is in jail for contempt. Their contempt con- sists in exercising judicial functions, con- trary to the temporary injunction of the Court, the offensive act being the throwing out, on ‘merely ex parte testimony,” as one of the members said in his written protest, two democratic counties. Yesterday after- noon the democratic counsel asked the Court to do itself what the Returning Board had refused to do on the Court's order—give certificates of election to the eight demo- cratic members flung out by the Board. The Court refused with great and proper dignity, saying that this would degrade it into political machine, The Chief Justice, however, permitted coun- sel to get certified copies of the Court’s or- der to the Board, which will be presented by the democratic members when the Legisla- ture meets on the 28th. It is now clear that the sudden action of the Returning Board had for its object to enable the re- publicans to secure by a trick the organiza- tion of the lower house. : The Court was also asked to order the Returning Board to com- pare the county manager’s returns with those of the precincts, which also are in itg hands. The democrats claim that such com- parison will establish frauds and miscounts to an extent which they hope would show some of the Tilden electors to be chosen. To un- derstand why there might be such frauds and miscounts, it should be remembered that of the seventy-six managers of elee- tions, sixty are republicans and forty are office-holders depending .on Gov- ernor Chamberlain for their places. ‘his will remind everybody that President Grant wrote, only a few days ago, ‘‘The country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion of illegal or false returns.” The Court, after hearingargument, held its decision over until Monday. In Washington it is thought that Judge Bond, of the United States Circuit Court, will on Monday release the members of the Board, having them brought before him on a writ of habeas corpus for that purpose, and it is suggested that he will do this on the ground that the Board counted the vote for electors, and that these are to be considered federal officers, Judge Bond has the reputation of being @ partisan, but he is alsoa good law- yer, and will probably take some other view. The contempt of the Board relates to its action regarding members of the Legislature, In Florida the’ Returning Board begins work on Monday, and the democrats believe that this will give them time to obtain a fair count. ; The Weather. Four distinct depressions were yesterday observable in the United States and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. The storm centre which was for the past day or two central in Nova Scotia is now moving off the coast in an easterly direction, accompanied by rain and snow, Another depression is central in the lake region, accompanied by an extensive area of rain and snow The Board: began” HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1876.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. and brisk winds on its westerly margin. Still another storm has made its appearance in Dakota, where foggy weather and snow have begun to prevail. As we predicted in yesterday's Hznatp, a Gulf storm has moved from the Southwest across to Florida, and is now moving off the South Atlantic coast with rain prevailing over the Eastern Gulf States. This disturbance evi- dently influenced the velocity of the wind on the Texas coast during the past two days, and is cyclonic in character. Yesterday snow fell at Marquette, Grand Haven, Detroit, Port Huron and Alpena in Michigan, at Bismarck in Da- kota, at Toledo and Cleveland in Ohio, at Buffalo, Rochester and Oswego in New York, at Erie and Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, at Chatham, Saugeen and To- ronto in Canada. Sleet fell at Pittsburg, Pa., and Grand Haven, Mich., and light rain in the Ohio Valley, the lake region and the Gulf. The weather continues cold in the Northwest, warm in the Platte Valley and in Southern Florida, and generally cool in other parts of the country, particularly in the lake region and New England, From present indications the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and cloudy, possibly with light rain or snow. Gone Mad. When the eye is cast over the story of the young clerk of Brooklyn who lost his senses when he ‘discovered that the young lady whom he was in two days to have wed was subject to violent fits a sense of pity will overcome even those who are in- clined to laugh at everything. That his name is prosaic George Ketchum; that there is a large reward to those who catch him ; that he was in the grocery line ; that he went mad because his Igdy love had fits, are the ready elements for that uncouth paragraphic humor which selects the shock- ing forits mirth. Man can and must laugh, and the embroidering of the grotesque upon the horrible has been one of the desperate resources open to the professional humorist, as it has been the only funny refuge for men to whom horrors are professional. Shakespeare’s picture of the joking grave- digger is an instance of the latter, and the “Danbury News man” and all the other “funny men” of our Américan press daily illustrate the former. They will take poor mad Ketchum as they take up scalded in- fants, burnt alive men and women and mutilated sportsmen, and hand him round from funny man to funny man until a humorous railroad accident or a comic wife murder gives fresh grist to their mills. He will be “boiled down” trom a funny “‘stick- ful” to a side-splitting line or two, and all because he was a runaway Ketchum, a gro- cer and a madman in one. Yet not a single man of the paragraphers but will pause wistfully as he thinks of that awful process, the violent unseating of reason. Why, it is one of the most powerful elements of tragedy. Look at King Lear as his heart bleeds in distilling mingled pathos and madness when he cries above the body of Cordelia, ‘So my poor fool is hanged.” Ophelia, who goes mad with her wrongs and her father’s murder, has been bur- lesqued, but the tragedy of the scene re- mains immortal and the clown’s, jokes aro forgotten. Ketchum, trying to jump off a North River ferryboat, offering a deck hand twenty-five dollars to let him commit sui- cide, does not appeal to our sympathy until we know that poignant pity for the suffer- ings of one he loved sent him forth aimlessly wandering, crazed and tired of life. Read of him inthe lines of Coleridge not as Ketchum, but “the knight that wore upon his shield a burning brand :”— That somotimes from the savage den . . And sometimes from the darksome shade And sometimes starting uP at once f°, In green and sunny glade, ‘There c and looked him tn the face ‘An angel beautiful and bright And th knew it was a fiend This miserable knight. May we not picture the Brooklyn clerk wandering around the wilderness of the great cities with the angel face and the fiend face before him? Shonld we not then think of him alone with pity ? Qualified Breach of Promise. The end of the Martinez-Del Valle breach of promise case has been reached in a verdict for the plaintiff with only fifty dollars dam- ages out of the fifty thousand claimed. This result, unsatisfactory in many ways, we may reasonably surmise to be one of those com- promises of the jury room wherein out of strongly conflicting opinions an attempt is made to reach the equities within the confines of the law. Hence, doubtless, arises the seeming contradiction of a wealthy man de- clared guilty of breach of promise of mar- riage while the sum awarded in compensa- tion thereof is, on the usual scale in such cases, no compensation at all. It is a vindication of the plaintiff, Miss Martinez, qualified by the disparity between her claim and the award, which stands as one thousand t@one. It is a condemnation of the defend- ant, Mr. Del Valle, mitigated by the propor- tion between the actual and the possible inroad on his purse. The case has attracted so much attention that its moral will be sought on all sides in the verdict, Unfor- tunately the case.will be judged more as an appraisement than a lesson. If, however, it teaches anything it is that a man who picks up o young lady and an acquaintance at the same time from the sidewalk, and aftera num- ber of intimate meetings places her in a re- sponsible position in his home, must not expect a cynical world to believe that his sole desires were to learn English and get a housekeeper. n the other hand, it teaches that a young woman who expects o wealthy man to marry her must not let the shadow of impropriety rest upon the first or indeed any of the steps inthe progress of their ac- quaintance, It is for each of the litigants in this case to say whether the verdict is sat- isfactory. To our mind it reproves with a severe lash the faultiness on both sides, It says that the plea of dispassionate disinter- estedness in such an acquaintance so car- ried on is hypocrisy, if no worse. It em- phatically discourages young women who take such a road to a wealthy marriage. The verdict saves Miss Martinez from being branded as an adventuress, but it is a close shave. To the more pronounced females who meditate such a “bold stroke for a hus- band” it would show that the game, unless played according to the good old rules that have been honored since connubial bliss began, is not worth the candle, To middle aged Spaniards who want a housekeeper the experience of Don Juan Del Valle will sug- gest one way of seeking her that is likely to bring upon them the incredulity of the wise and the unquenchable ridicule of the pro- fane. In truth, the plight of Miss Martinez is pitiable, however just, while the position of Don Juan is—what is very hard for a Spaniard to bear—ridiculoys. Close of the Coaching Season. On the Ist of December the Pelham coach will discontinue its trips for the winter. For a period of nearly seven months Colonel, Kane has performed his self-imposed duty with a punetuality and steadfastness not generally conceded to American masculinity, so frequently held up to unfavorable cone trast with British pluck and robustness, The very oldest stager could not have done his daily task with more perfect regularity and a more sublime indifference to the as- saults of the weather. There is a complex psychological problem lying behind all this, The fascination of the “ribbons” is an inexe plicable phenomenon, running back to the days .of the lordly Apolio and his gorgeous four-in-hand. We have no space, however, for other considerations of the art than briefly to commend it asa means of manly, healthful and genial exercise. We hope the impetus of Colonel Kane's example will bear fruit next seasoh in the appearance of other coaches, equally well and _perseveringly driven, and that various roads will be mada lively with their rumble and the music of their horns. There should be “six Rich- monds in the field,” and we look forward with great anticipations to the opening of the next season, In another column we print some interesting extracts about the results of this year’s coaching. Rariw Traxstr.--The Elevated Railway Company will do well to place street lamps on its iron columns along the railroad tracks on Ninth avenue at every street crossing. The posts are scarcely discernible at night, and persons driving across the avenue at the crossings of side streets are very likely ta runintothem. The remedy isa simple one, and might save loss of life and property as well as prevent suits against the company, which might follow such accidents. Rapid transit is so necessary and so great a public advantage that no person except for selfish motives would throw an obstacle in its way. At the same time the company, which is at present the only one to give us the boon, would do wisely to make its road as unob- jectionable to the public as possible in its structure? ie Eastern Comprications.—Nothing tran« spired yesterday to interfere with the diplo- matic programme for patching up the ‘Turko-Russian difficulty. The-cure cannot be applied, like a poor man’s plaster, in two minutes, and hence all who hope for peacé aust be patient. That a day has passed without a fresh obstacle being reported i cause for congratulation. Fox Hoxrixa m New Jzxszx did not be« gin yesterday, but several gentlemen at Hackensack enjoyed a rattling ride of seven miles after the hounds, The hunt was a “drag.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ruskin remains in Venice. Australians are very intemperate. Bismarck continues to be sleepless. The Nevada linnet sings like @ canary, A Georgia girl of fifteen has five children. English women awkwardly eat raw oystors, ‘There is snow and cold weather in Scotland. Ole Ball is in Boston, playing with great violins, Count d’Oultremont, of Beluium, isat the Albemarle Hotel. Baron George H. Levi, of Italy, is at the Hoffman House. if Whiskey drinkers drink more water than temperaned people do. « An ostrich feather grows eight months. People of Constantinople sail much on the beautifal waters at sunset, “Dr.Slade has been doing a large spiritual busty ness since t! val, In Transylvania killing a man is punished by a fing or short imprisonment. Thomas Beede, of Oakland, Pa., voted for Thomag Jefferson for President. At a Welsh fair the huge Iad walks with his arm round the waist of his girl. Mr. A. G, Gill, United States Consul at Rheims, sailed on the Baltic yesterday. A Caltiornia witness says that the opium habit is no worse than the whiskey habit. Jefferson Davis arrived from Europe in the White Star steamer Adriatic yesterday. Rural districts in the Isle of Wight are to have free reading libraries on a small scale, Mr, George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, yes terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Heavy taxation in Paris, to pay the national indebt: edness, has nearly ruined tho breweries. ‘Tne London News says that English ideas of Ameri cans are too much colored with tobacco juice, | In San Francisco a Chinaman bas married a white woman, and her name henceforth is Mrs. Ah Wab. It is proposed to arm the Missouri sheriffs with. Gatling guns to protect them from the James robbers. Crocker, of tne Central Pacific Ratlroad, thinks that California should have one Chinaman for ten white men. John Morley aavises English artisans, to unlock the secret of French life by learning the French lane guage, A Manchester boy quietly walking the streets was killea by a descending bullet fired into tho aira halg mile away, “Centennial year” Is a tautological phrase, but i¢ has got into the English language and it ts not likely that it will be driven out, nd In South Carolina the fashionable bilMard player holds his shotgun tn his teeth while he gnakes a fancy plunge for his opponent’s ivory. Mr. C. H. H. Clark, a prominent California lawyer, hat on the witness stand a Chinaman is mach more trustworthy thana Pole. Pshaw! It took a man- ar, 519 men and 300 tons of coal to bring Tweed and his two picces ot baggage home from a foreign shore, Scotch Tweed is an expensive Juxury. The Roumanians are beginning to regard Prince Charles as a carpet-bagger irom Vienna, upheld by Austra, and they are waiting for the Russian tidel wave to carry him away. 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