The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1876, Page 6

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All dealers who have been threatened by the news com- panies are requested to send in their orders direct to us, at No. 2 Ann street, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day wili be slightly colder and partly cioudy or cloudy. Wan Srrzzr Yesterpay.—With the ex- ception of an upward movement in Lake Shore and a downward movement in Illinois Central the stock market was without fea- ture. Gold opened at 108, fell to 107 5-8, and closed at 107 3-4. Money on call loaned at 5and4 percent, Government and rail- way bonds were generally steady. A Resorvution to decide upon the proper method of canvassing the electoral vote was adopted in the House yesterday. It should have been done at least fifty years ago. Captaris Gurxpiz, the story of whose in- humanity to some of his seamen horrified the country a few weeks ago, is denied a new trial. Brutality is already fashionable enough on shipboard and neds no encour- agement from the courts. ALDERMAN Cox objects to the payment of the attachés of the late Board of Canvassers on the ground that some of them discharged no duties whatever. ‘If this is the thing that is going to obtain” what inducement is there for any one to go into politics at all? Tue Exrorcep Decay of our merchant marine provoked sharp comment in a report to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday ; but the subject is one to which language is utterly inadequate. A great nation whose laws compel it to refrain both from building ships and buying them is in a condition of abject humiliation. Tae Bu. ‘introduced i in the he House yester- day to quiet land grant claims in California refers probably to the old Spanish grants. If Congress cannot quiet these the only hope of the present occupants is in an industri- ous, comprehensive earthquake or a tidal wave, for neither the law, the tongue nor the pistol have ever been able to decide in whom the titles to these lands are vested. Keer Coo1.—We have been for some weeks exhorting the democrats to keep cool and not allow the misfortunes that threatened their party to lead them into any acts of lawlessness and vio- jence. The appeal has not been without its effect. The conservative, peaceful de- meanor of the leaders in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida, under very trying cir- cumstances, and the wise counsel they have given to their people have been very com- mendable. We are now called upon to offer similar advice to the republicans. If the wheel of fortune seems to turn against them they must keep their tempers. They must trust to the strength of the law and the jus- tice of the American people to give them their full rights. Threats against Governor Grover and the Oregon State Canvassers and electors and appeals to passion are unwise and dangerous at this time. Let them take pattern by Wade Hampton. in Squth Caro- lina and General Nichols in Lowisiana in counselling patience and forbearance, and all will be well, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. The vregoan and a Surprise. The news from Oregon puts the republi- can party in position resembling that of the donkey, renowned in fable, who found himself between the two bundles of hay. That venerable descendant (or, perhaps, progenitor) of the animal who found his tongue when cudgelled by Balaam has served many uses in the controversies of the learned. The metaphysical philosophers have ridden him with great comfort and satisfaction in their disputes re- specting the freedom of the will. If the will has no self-determining power, they say, but is always governed | by the strongest motive, an ass midway be- tween two bundles of hay of equal size and quality would be unable to decide from which of the two he should satisfy his hun- ger and would helplessly flop his wise ears and starve with abundance of tempting food on either side. Descending from the barren heights of metaphysical speculation to the soft, enchanting vales of sentiment, our pa- tient and honest donkey has served as the emblem of lovers spellbound between equal beauties. If the donkey between the two haystacks had possessed the gift of speech and of song he might have brayed, in plaintive strains— How happy I could be with either Were ’totherdear charmer away! This would seem to be the affecting condi- tion of the republican party since learning the last news from Oregon, ‘‘Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two bur- dens”—namely, Oregon and Florida, the extreme Northwestern and the extreme Southeastern State. Ifthe mere certificates are to be regarded as conclusive the votes of Oregon must be admitted on that footing as wellas the votes of Florida. If Congress has no authority to go behind the certifi- cates authenticated by the State execu- tives the one democratic electoral vote from Oregon gives Mr. Tilden the requi- site one hundred and eighty-five, and he must be declared elected. If, on the other hand, Congress can go behind the cer- tificates and decide on their validity, Hayes may get the one disputed vote in Oregon, and lose the yotes of either Florida, Louis- iana or South Carolina. Whichever horn of the dilemma Issachar, couching down between his two burdens, may take, the result threatens to be equally fatal. If the mere certificates are held to be final Tilden’s election is put beyond question ; but, if the origin of the certificates can be investigated, and their genuineness and legality reviewed, there is no certainty that Hayes will retain the electoral votes which have been so long in dispute. The republicans have a great deal more at stake in this cont troversy as to the finality of the certificates than the democrats. They need all the votes of the three Southern States and all the votes of Oregon to give Hayes a majority, whereas the democrats are safe if they get either the one Oregon vote, or one vote from any of the States which have been so keenly contested. If the republicans re- fuse to go behind the certificates Tilden is elected; if they consent to go behind the certificates they may lose the Hayes votes in the South. The republican donkey stands between these two bundles of hay; they are in a dilemma between Oregon and the South, with an equal danger of being gored whether they accept one horn of it or the other. The republicans have a quick and clear appreciation of the magnitude of this sud- den peril. The unbridled rage of denuncia- tion which they have let loose upon Gov- ernor Grover attests the importance they at- tach to his action. The wounded bird flutters. There is no end of the opprobrious epithets which they heap upon the Governor of Oregon. He is a “‘traitor ;” he is a “‘Ben- edict Arnold ;” he has committed “the great crime of the century;” he is to be refused the seat in the Senate to which he was elected by the last Legislature of his State. Whether he deserves this great outpouring of wrath or not its authors make by this exhibition an implied confession that they are sadly upset and de- moralized by Governor Grover's action. Unless he has deranged their plans and they fear that he may have dashed the cup from their lips there would be no place for all this wild and stormy denunciation. Without assuming to express any opinion on the legal questions which lie at the root of this controversy we will state what has been done in Oregon, according to the in- formation which has yet come to hand. All our readers know that among the names on the republican electoral ticket in Oregon was that of Mr, Watts, who held the office of postmaster and was therefore in- eligible. By the law of the State persons receiving the highest number of votes are elected. As the votes cast for an ineligible candidate are void it was main- tained by the democrats that the electors really chosen were the two eligible republican candidates and Mr. Cronin, the democrat who received the largest number of votes, This involves a legal question which has been differently decided by the courts of different States, and which can be deter- mined only by the local law. The courts of New York, Pennsylvania and Louisiana have decided it in one way; the courts of Indiana, New Jersey and Louisiana in another; and each of these conflicting decisions may be good law in tho State where it was made. Nobody can dispute that it is competent for the Legislature of each State to regulate the choice of Presiden- tial electors according to its own discretion. ‘The federal constitution declares that each State shall appoint its Presidential electors «n such a manner as the Legislature there- of shall direct.” There is no need of uni- formity ; each State is at liberty to adopt its own method. Whether by the laws of Oregon the three eligible candidates receiv- ing the highest number of votes are entitled to certificates is a point of local law on which we express no opinion. But if it be sound local law, according to the statutes of Oregon, Mr. Tilden is certainly elected. Be the law as it may, the Board of Can- vassers in Oregon interpreted it to mean that the three eligible candidates having the highest number of votes were elected, and accordingly certified the election of the two eligible republicans and Mr. Cronin, the democrat, who stood highest. This list was sent, properly authenticated, to Gover- Electors—A Checkmate | nor Grover, who, in compliance with the tederal statute, made out the list of electors which are required to be attached to the certificates of the Electo al College. If the action of the Board of Canvassers has not been misstated Governor Grover was strictly in the line of his duty as prescribed by law. He put these certified lists of elec- tors into the hands of Mr. Cronin to be delivered to the Electoral College. At the place of meeting the two republican electors refused to act with Cronin, and they sep- arated. Mr. Cronin then proceeded to fill the vacancies in the Electoral College, which proceeded to cast the votes of the State, giving two for Hayes and Wheeler and one for Tilden and Hendricks. These votes are to be forwarded to the President of the Senate with the certificate of the Governor and all the required formali- ties of authentication. The two repub- lican electors also organized as an elec- toral college, appointed Watts, who had ab- sented himself, to fill the vacancy, and cast three votes for Hayes and Wheeler. These votes will be sent to Washington without the certificates of the Governor, which are re- quired by law. They are certainly irregular in form even if they are valid in substance, and will necessarily raise a question which must be decided on the final count. In this state of facts the democrats may safely take the ground intended to be occupied by the republicans that one house alone cannot go behind the certificates or revise the elec- toral votes of a State. By this astute mancuvre the supporters of Mr, Tilden have captured the stronghold of the enemy and can turn his own batteries against him. If one house alone cannot revise the certifi- cates which bear the signature of the Gov- ernor and the seal of the State the demo- crats are strongly intrenched on the ground selected by their adversaries. The rage of the republicans at being thus “hoist by their own petard” is as amusing as it is natural. The Revolution in Mexico. In the conflict in Mexico we may see the results of a disputed succession to the Presi- dency, and the spectacle is not a pleasant one, even though we recognize how remote is the possibility that the Americdn people can ever become demoralized to the Mexican standard. Buta few days since we had the intelligence that Iglesias, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, had proclaimed him- self President. This action was taken ostensibly in pursuance of the constitution, which provides that, upon the failure to choose a President in the ordinary method, the Chief Justice becomes President. Igle- sias’ action, therefore, started from the view that Lerdo de Tejada, who claims to have been elected President, was not legally en- titled to the office, Lerdo, however, had an army; but Iglesias seems to have made things even in this respect by appointing Diaz Commander-in-Chief. This was equiva- lent to the adoption of the army that has supported the revolt of Diaz againsi the authority of Lerdo during several months past. This army seems now to have completely defeated Lerdo’s forces and has captured the capital. It does not follow, however, that Iglesias will be put in peaceful possession of the office he claims, Diaz may have recognized the authority of Iglesias when it was convenient to do so, It is not probable he will push his subordi- nate to any inconvenient extreme. It is far more likely that the Chief Justice will now need another army to subdue his Com- mander-in-Chief. The Extradition of Criminals, Our despatch from Washington fully ex- plains the steps recently taken in England in regard to the extradition of fugitive criminals, and states accurately the respec- tive attitudes of the two governments with regard to this important subject. It will be seen that the facts sustain the opinion we expressed when it was first cabled, on the authority of an English paper, that the re- cent orders of arrest were issued undera new treaty, hastily agreed upon by cable, That statement waserroneous in every par- ticular. There is no new treaty ; but the vitality of the old treaty is revived in the fullest degree by the volition and act of the British government, whose highest legal officer explicitly declares that the ground taken by England in its refusal to surrender Winslow was untenable. This is a hand- some triumph for our diplomacy, the more handsome as it appears that Mr. Fish’s de- spatch is accepted in England as having demolished the objections urged to our claims under the treaty. But if thisisa triumph justly agreeable to our pride it must be recognized that there is in the facts quite as much for England to rejoice over as for us. It is a moral victory of the highest order when the authorities of a great nation, convinced that they have erred, have the boldness, the confidence in the rectitude of their intentions, to declare the truth and re- trace their steps rather than to persist ina wrong through an obstinate self-will or an apprehension of narrow prejudices. It will please the American people to know that our government has now withdrawn its objec- tions to the amendment of the treaty, and that measures are already on foot to adapt it to the views urged by the English author- ities. al Tae Wearner.—The area of low pressure is now central at the mouth of the St. Law- rence, with a slowly rising barometer and falling temperature westward. At Fort Garry, Pembina and Breckenridge the ther- mometer registered last evening below zero, and snow has fallen at Saugeen, Toledo, Erie, Buffalo and Port Huron, and rain at Saginaw, Alpena and in Dakota. The high- est pressure is now in the South Atlantic States, with southwesterly winds on the coast as far north as Portland, Me. Clondy weather prevails in the Southwest, West and in the lake region. The weather in New York to-day will be partly cloudy or cloudy and slightly colder. Tre Rerort of the prominent republicans that the President requested to go to Lou- isiana, was, of course, unofficial and out of place in the Senate yesterday, and the re- fusa! of the democrats to add their own tes- timony to that of their opponents was ex- tremely impolitic; so cach side had ample excuse for complaint without being able to | undo its own blunders, Latest Aspects of the Fire- “The horrors of the Brooklyn tragedy in- crease rather than abate. Twenty-one ad- ditional bodies were found yesterday, and the agonies of the bereaved were even more than matched by those of hundreds of persons who feared that missing friends had been in the fateful building. The Cor- oner is pressing his inquiries as to whether the terrible loss of life was due to insufli- cient means of egress or to the natural re- sults of a panic, but nothing that he can elicit will hide the fatal first cause, which consisted simply of unprotected lights. That at least one unavoidable acci- dent greatly increased the loss of life is proved by the testimony of the gallant policeman Wessman, who found that a lady who had fallen, and over whom others stumbled and fell, caused an obstruction which dttained many at a time during which even seconds were precious, The testimony of the architect, a man of large experience in theatre building, shows that the modes of egress were numerous, but many of them were utterly unknown to any one but the attachés of the theatre, and some were behind the burning and im- passable stage. Of fire escapes proper the theatre was entirely destitute. This fact should be kept before the people until every theatre is compelled to keep ample contri- vances of this sort ready for immediate use in case of alarm. It is quite certain that, had every one in the audience possessed the speed of the swiftest horse, and had each person a predetermined course to be taken upon exit, not all the people could have escaped suffocation. ‘To the question as to how much asphyxia or suffocation had to do with the loss of life the only possible answer is that its influence was enormous. Officer Wessman says that though he was in the smoke but a minute he was nearly strangled, and the result could not possibly have been otherwise. The combustion of many great ‘‘flies,” heavy with oil, and con- taintng some mineral pigments which are as poisonous when volatilized by heat as when in their organic condition, gave the smoke a deadly volume and a peculiarly fatal influence. From this very fact, how- ever, those who lost friends by the fire may derive a certain amount of consolation. The supposition that the doomed men and women suffered at all from the flames is entirely groundless ; it is absolutely cer- tain that they were suffocated long before the fire reached them, and the effect of this form of suffocation is to reduce the victim to unconsciousness long before life is extinct, although the duration of life itself under such circumstances never exceeds five min- utes. There has already been a terrible amount of needless suffering on account of ignorance of these facts, and the truth, as we have stated it, cannot be too widely circu- lated among those who, either through the loss of dear ones or from sympathy with the bereaved, have been in unnecessary mental torture over the thought of the last moments of the lost. The Park Commission Investigation. The investigation of the charges against Park Commissioners Martin and O’Donohue was concluded yesterday, and the Mayor, in court parlance, ‘took the papers and re- served his decision.” He might as well have dismissed the case at once as frivolous. One of the charges was that six clerks were re- moved ‘without cause,” in violation of the intent of the charter, and Colonel Steb- bins, one of the Park Commissioners not in accord with his associates, disposed of this by testifying that the employés in question were dismissed because there were no funds on hand to pay them—a very good and sufli- cient reason, we should say. Another charge, that the labor tickets were given to Alder- men, was met by Colonel Stebbins’ state- ment that they were given to deserving laborers, properly recommended by Alder- men or any other reputable citizens, and were not transferrable. The Commissioners were further charged with squandering the public money, inasmuch as they have con- tinued to pay laborers two dollars a day while other public departments were paying one dollar and forty cents. This was dis- posed of by the evidence of the landscape architect and others, which showed that a better class of laborers than the ordinary day laborer was required on the Park works, and that the men honestly earned all they received. Mr. Martin in summing up his de- fence suggested that the charges were prompted by personal motives, and instigated by Comptroller Green. Mr. O’Donohue has resigned from the commission, but his re- tirement had no reference to these charges, which are simply frivolous and will ofcourse be dismissed. Methods of Exit from Theatres. With a desire to clearly inform the public of the actual condition of the theatres the Henatp addressed toall the managers in this city a series of ten questions, bearing prin- cipally upon the precautions taken in case of panic or of fire. We are glad to say that the answers which we publish this morn- ing aro frank and full, and that the managers are disposed to give the public the truth. But we are also com- pelled to say that the truth is not entirely satisfactory. The people may study tho facts themselves, for we prefer to postpone analysis and comparison, but we think it will be found that while all the theatres make ample arrangements for putting out tire some of them do not provide suflicient means of egress. In the case of a panic large galleries in some of our popular theatres can only be emptied by means of narrow and wooden staircases. On ordinary occasions these means of exit are safe, though delays are continual; yet, in the event of panic, they would not bear the weight of a struggling throng, and in the case of fire would be easily destroyed, To get out of o theatre is harder than to get in one. The audience comes in groups, but it goes ovt in a crowd. We believe that all our responsible managers desire to execute the measures of protection which our questions indicate, but there is much to be done yet before doors and staircases and lobbies will enable a thousand people to leave a theatre in five minutes. It must be considered that penic is an impediment to speed. A theatre which can be emptied in Lave minutes in ordinary circumstances, - could not be cleared at all in the case of fire. Additional information will be afforded the reader by the diagrams of some of the principal theatres which we print to-day, showing the relative position of the stage and auditorium and the means of exit. Imauguration of Governor Chamber- Jain. Governor Chamberlain was counted in and sworn in yesterday, but the regularity of the proceedings is subject to review by the Supreme Court of the State. If the Court decides that he has no valid title to the office, and that the small squad of re- publicans who claim to be the House of Representatives is not a quorum, the inauguration will prove to be an idle ceremony. To be sure, the federal troops may be ordered to defend and sustain him, but the federal troops cannot collect taxes to pay the expenses of his gov- ernment. Tne acts for levying taxes passed by this bogus Legislature will be declared void by the courts, and citizens will refuse topay. If collectors seize their property the owners will bring suits for trespass and recover damages, being certain that the courts of justice will protect them in a refusal to pay illegal taxes, In such a state of things Mr. Chamberlain will be Governor only in name, and the vain title will be of no advantage to him when he has no means of carrying on the govern- ment. If the federal army stands aloof he will be dispossessed by judicial proceed- ings ; if the army interferes it cannot usurp the functions of a constitutional Legisla- ture and raise taxes, and without a revenue this sham government will be as helpless in fact as it is nullin law. If both houses of Congress were republican they might pass a law for putting South Carolina again under a military government ; but with one branch of Congress under democratic con- trol this method of upholding Chamberlain and his bogus Legislature cannot be resorted to. His government will soon be starved out if he persists in his pretensions. A Fatile Movement. Mr. Howe introduced a bill in the Senate yesterday declaring it a felony punishable on conviction with a minimum fine and im- prisonment of ten thousand dollars and ten years for any person who shall do any act pertaining to the office of an elector for President and Vice President of the United States without having been duly appointed to act as such elector in accordance with the laws of his State, or for any person to carry to Washington or deliver to the President of the Senate a return of votes for President and Vice President certified by persons not duly appointed to act as electors, We are glad to see Mr. Howe moving in the direc- tion of insuring an honest electoral vote. The country has seen enough recently to admit the necessity of some provisions dif- ferent from those that now prevail in re- gard to scrutinies, revisions and counts in a Presidential election. Still, we doubt the sufficiency or expediency of the bill prepared by Mr. Howe. It seems to have been drawn in haste—possibly in the excitement of anger—and scarcely reaches far enough to cure existing evils, If in- tended to affect the present situation it would prove valueless and be embarrassing to both political parties. There have been serious complications in regard to the elec- toral votes in several States, Mr. Howe and his party have held firmly to the doctrine that the returning or canvassing boards are supreme, even over the State courts, in de- claring what electors have been duly ap- pointed; that the electors bearing the cer- tificate of the Governors of States, based on the judgment of the said boards, alone are qualified to cast the Presidential vote; that the duty of the President of the Senate is ministerial only; that the returns to be opened by him in the presence of the two houses of Congress and ‘counted can be only the returns signed by the electors bearing the certificate and seal of the Governor of their State, and that no power exists of going behind those duly certified returns. Others entertain a differ- ent opinion and in some instances, beliey- ing, no doubt, in the justice and legality of their action, have made preparations to try the issue by sending on to Washington con- testing returns. This is notably the case in Louisiana, where the democratic electors have met and voted for Tilden on the certifi- cate of McEnery, who they pretend to re- gard as Governor, and in Oregon, where the republican electors have met with- out any certificate either of Returning Board or Governor, and cast their votes for Hayes. In both these cases the inregular electors, no doubt, believe hon- estly that they are right, and it would scarcely be just to hold them to be felons when they intend no criminal act. But then it is scarcely worth while to argue the case, as itis certain that Mr. Howe's bill will not pass the democratic House of Representatives, and cannot, theretore, become law. Let Us Have Pxrace.—The calm and conservative temper that prevailed in the caucus of the democratic Congress- men at Washington yesterday is much to be commended. Extreme measures are never desirable while a peaceful solu- tion of difficulties is possible, The propo- sition of Mr. Scott Lord to suspend action on all matters relating to the Southern elec- tions until the special committees shall have reported and the House shall be in possession of all the facts was exceedingly wise. Equally discreet was the position taken by the Southern Representatives, who expressed themselves strongly favorable to calmness and modera- tion, while declaring their intention not to take an active part in the discussions at this time. The country needs rest from excite- ment and it will be well pleased if the time intervening before the final action of Con- gress on the electoral vote be spent ina careful study of the constitutional provi- sions, the laws and practice relating thereto, with an earnest desire on all sides to arrive at a just and harmonious decision, Uncie Sam’s Pownrn.—By reason of an oversight, or, perhaps, because of demo- cratic malice, Congress made no appropria- tion at the last session for the celebration of a republican victory in the Electoral College, Land it, therefore, becomes a question of in- terest how the ammunition consumed by the one hundred and eighty-five guns which Secretary Chandler ordered fired in honor of Hayes’ election will be officially accounted for. It might go into a deficiency bill under the head of “Sedative powder for Uncle Sam.” Settled at Last. The performance of the little drama of the Comptrollership nomination was concluded yesterday. When the scene was set for the Board of Aldermen and those respectable gentlemen were all in their places a mes- senger appeared before the presiding offi- cer’s desk and presented several communi- cations from the Mayor. These proved to be the withdrawal of Mr. Thayer's name, the nomination of Mr. John Kelly for Comptroller and the nomination of Mr. Whit- ney for Corporation Counsel. Both nomina- tions received prompt confirmation and the curtain came down amid enthusiastic ap- plause. This is all satisfactory enough. Mr. Kelly will make a very good Comp- troller. He> has firmness, honesty and business capacity, all of which are desirable in the head of the Finance Department. He is the right man in the right place and a great improvement on Mr. Green. He will guard the treasury just as jealously as the present Comptroller, without being impracticable, litigious and obstructive. The people of New York will be satisfied with Mr. Kelly, and hence there was the less necessity for him to play hide and go seek in relation to the office. In co quetting with the appointment he was not justified in making use of Mr. Thayer, who is » gentleman universally respected, and whose services to the democratic party have been great. Aside from this petty political finessing we approve of Mr. Kelly’s ap- pointment, and only regret that’ his action was not more frank and aboveboard. Conrzsston will become extremely popu. lar among wrong doers if the case of Police Sergeant Miller is accepted as a precedent, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Frye introduced Flye. It is some large man who always leads in a panic. David A. Wells will doliver twelve lectures in Boston, Dom Pedro is in Palestine looking for ‘Daniel Deronda.” Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, is the dilettante scholar of the Senate. Mr. C. W. Knapp, of the St. Louis Republican, is in Washington, Colonel Jonn W. Forney, of Philadelphia, ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. To the traveller Omaha appears like a big brewery with suburban pig pens, Fifty-two tons of silk worm oggs are coming from China and Japan to San Francisco, Congressman Flye, Mr. Blaine’s successor, 1s a little bit of a fellow, and 1s gray baired. Tho Abbotts have a country place in Maine, Lyman Abbott continues to preach in Cornwall. The Rocky Mountain News, published at Denver, is offered for sale on account of Mr. Byer’s ill health, An Austrian count reused to marry his aMlancée bee cause ab some game he saw her kissed by anothes man. Hon. Power Henry Le Poer French, Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Jersey City is musically gotting up parlor operas om “Potiphar,” but has had to send all the way to Patere son for a Joseph. Senator Burnside whose bald head is sensitive to cold, wears a gray chinchilla skull cap while in the 8c Chamber. @cv al James A. Garfield was once a college prow fessor, and yet the independents do not make as muck fuss over him as they do over Seelye. It is gaid that the personal paragrapher of the Chr cago Times was raised on hoveycomb, which presup- poses that other kind of combs were scarce, At Nina, a Polynesian island, there is a land crab which cracks with its claws the cocoanuts on which it feeds, and the crab itsel{ is a great dainty. Washington’s initials which were cut in tho rock at Passaic Falls have entirely disappeared. Washington might have known that they would have been bull, dozed. Danbury News:—‘It is poor policy fora young man 10 engage himecif to a lady lato in the fall. It somo- times happens that the money which goes for a ring is really needed for underclothes.’” Leon Abbett, a Philadeiphia man who talks a good deal, would like to be United States Senator from New Jersey. So would Mr. Green, But McPherson, of Jersey City, not a lawyer, will beat them in caucus. “Felix Holt” :—*If there were a property qualification for voters, an ignorant man who had accumulated, say $500, could vote, while one who had, say only $450 and who wasequally interested in his country’s wol- fare, could not vote.’? Norwich Bullet “When a man has sat up till midnight writing poetry and gocs home with nis soul aflame with inspiration, nothing pleases him so much ‘as to get into bed and find that the baby has been eat- ing a cracker there.’ Romualdo Pacheco, says the Sacramento Bee, is the luckiest politician in California, He has been Assem- blyman, State Senator, State Treasuror, Lieutenant Governor, Governor, and now he has been elected te Congress by » majority of oue vote in a district which is largely domocratic, “CG, L. E.”—It was Colonel Clarke, a prominent lawyer in California, wno testified before the Congres- sional committee that a Chinaman in court would swear to the truth as soon as any other man and many times sooner than a Pole, who, he said, was the most un- trustworthy of mortals on the witness stand. Ho was a tall fellow, with red wij false teeth, who, riding on the Erie Railway toward Rutherfurd, raised his window and said, “God com- mands us to respire fresh air, and it is essential to inbale the divine atmosphere provided for ua.’’ Mean- while the old Iady behind him was catching cold. The Kings of Sweden and Saxony, the Archduke Charles Louis, of Austria, the Grand Dukes of Baden and Constantine of Russia, and the heir apparent of Denmark bave become honorary members of the Inter- Datioual Association for the Exploration and Civiliza- tion of Africa. Tho Prince of Wales has accepted the presidency ot the English National Committee, Mgr. Dupanjoup, who is considered abstemious, sat down with two othor persons one November Friday to the following dinner:—Potage bisque, saumon a la génévoise, filet do boouf sauté aux trufics, chapon au gros sel, bécasses rotis, quartier do chevreuil, petit. pois au beurre, asperges fraiches en branches, beignets de fraises, fruits assortiz, Wine:—Chablis, Bordeaux, Chypre, Grenache, Sauterne, Chateau Neut du Papo, Porto, Xérea, In the Eastern Police Court of Glasgow some amuso- ment was caused By a Highiandman named Donald Mackenzie, about eighty years of age, who, on being charged botore Bailie Torrens with drunkenness, suid, “Ou ay, she'll shust tuik a tram last night, but she’l hae twa goats anda hen at hame, and if she'll no get ot 0’ this place the puir beasties ‘ill be starved.” On bis giving ® promise that he would cechew dram drinking in the future the prisoner was allowed to leave the dock. Evening Telegram bill of fare for colored troops:— MOLOLELETELETOOOLEIEOE LE ETE TE LE TE LENE tobe tb ttbe=—tt ® SOUP, 3 Mulligatawoy, Fist. 4lackf'sh trom the River Niger, : ENTRERS, Ham, Roast, Lamb with the wool on. VEGETABLES, “Hot corn!"’—Curley cabbage, eae possumiblo, DRINKS, Cotton gin, WINDeUr, co senencccocsecece sece-ctesss tenia ne Café noir, served by King Koffea 3 3 3 Gaur, 3 3 : + ] G-vvecorverseeveceriveosesebecrnerereeereeceese rend ee