Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1882, Page 4

i - f B I'HE UMAHA UALLL v AL A U A The-airquga éée Published every morning, exoept Sunday, The only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL — One Ssar. .. ..£10.00 | Three Months, 83,00 Bix Months, One 1.00 (HE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- TERMS POST PAIL One Year, $2,00 | Three Months, Ry Menths,. 1,00 | One 50 20 All Communi« ions relating to News and Editorial mat- hould be addressed to the EpIToR o¥ LETTERS—AIl Business Detters and Remittances should be ad- frossed to Tur OmAnA PunuisHiNg Cou- eAKT, ( Drafts, Checks and Post- affice Orders to be made payable to the arder of th inany. OMAHAPUBLISHING CO., Prop'rs E. ROSEWATER. Editor. p— et Tyr Russian bear is at present the European bugbear. - . STRANGERS are again beginning to voice their prejudice against Omaha's mud. P Omama’s school population is in- creasing in a greater proportion than her school attendance. Cosorrree work at Washington is said to be overwhelming. It is grati- fying to know that a congressman can be overwhelmed with work. s Winter and spring wheat through- out the west give promise of an abun- dant crop and reports from the east indicate that the frmt yield will be enormous during the coming season. M. McVeaci is opposed to rail- road regulation, first because it will interfere with legitimate competition, and second because it will prevent pooling. Mr. McVeagh's third reason is because it might 2ut down the sal- ary of 810,000 a year which he re- ceives from the Pennsylvania railroad company. Tuz everlasting discussiomover the retirement of General Grani has been ended by the passage of Logan's bill placing him on the retired list with the rank of general and the pay ap- pertaining to that rank. We shall - now be relieved from the constant dinging about the ingratitute of re- publics. Towa is to have an additional judge in the Fifth judicial district, which ie c>mposed of the counties of Polk and and Warren. The Third judicial dis- trict of Nobraska, over which Judge Savage presides, might be profitably doalt with in the same way. Its business is the heaviest and most bur- densome of any in the state, Roscor CoNkLING has been nomina- ted by President Arthur to the va- cancy on the supreme bench left by the retirement’ of Justice Hunt, Tt will be remembered that a like posi- tion was offered Mr. Comkling by President Grant and declined. In making the nomination Mr. Arthur hag recognized past services and over- looked past faults, In point of ability Mr. Conkling is inferior to four of the justices of the supreme court. BLAINE AND SHIPHERD. The publication of the Shipherd cor- respondence relating to the Peruvian guano claims and the connection of prominent Americans with the com- pany organized to prosecute them, en- tirely clears the skirts of James G. Blaine from any complicity in the af- fair which would public official or prejudicial to the good name of our government, Shipherd in his circulars issued for the purpose of advertising his scheme, seems to have used without the slight- est sanction on their part, the names of hundreds of prominent men, in- cluding General Grant, Mr Evarts, Governor Morgan and General Log All of these deny most emphatically that they ever gave Shipherd any authority for connecting them with his project, or that they had enter- tained for a moment any thoughts of be improper for a 1. investing their, capital in a schome embarrassed by 80 mauy diplom and financial difficultic it o war of races i however, as 18 shown by the publics- | glouid break out that Russia ||'82% [he “"!!“"\‘;' e f'“‘l""'f ] tion of the state department corres- | would not hesitate which side to F’.‘:"‘(j‘,‘:‘l‘lll“l'!‘ "“I,;,“m”'v_’l‘]“ ;(',', 00 4ha L] dence, met his foot upon the|tukeis especially significans at the | viduals, Itis claimed that only one speculation from the atart. He|,rogent time. All the continenta- |person, a woman, was murdcred, but not only declined to permit his|journals denounce tho apsech as in- |® Breat number were wounded. Thirty- own name to be used by Shipherd but refused to permit the name or influence of the government to be brought into connection with the pro- ject. And when he learned that Shepherd had paid no attention to his remonstrances he wrote him in terms which left doubt of his meaning and which prevented any further operations in that direction. The opponents of Mr. Blaine who are forever attempting to furnish him material upon which to base a pres dential canvass have failed as signally to smirch his character in this Peru- vian claim matter as they have m a score of other instances, In the frag- rant words of The Chicago Times “‘His enemies probably expected to so pile dirt upon Blaine's presidential pasture as entirely to destroy its bloom and promise. They have suc- ceeded, as the case now stands, 1n en- riching it sufficiently with their Peru- vian guano to give it perennial fresh- ness. As the Peruvian claim busi- ness is unraveled, the perfect straight- forwaraness of Mr. ing it becomes apparent.” . CrL8sE upon the report of Congress- man Anderson's bill lately introduced in the house comes a dispatch an- nouncing that Senator Van Wyck has brought before the senate a bill to compel the langd grant railronds to take out patents on their unpatented lands and place them on a par so far as taxation is concerned with other owners of real estate in this state and the territories. Full details of the meas. ure have not as yet reached us. Its purport is probably much the same as that of Mr. Anderson, which was commented upon in our last issue. In drafting and introducing this measure Senator Van Wyck has shown a proper appreciation of the needs of this state and the wishes of his con- stituents, The evasion of taxes by railroads in Nebraska amounts to nearly $200,000 annually, a large por- tion of which ought to be borne by the unsold lands held by the Union Pacific for speculative purposes. Itis to be hoped that the bill will receive the attention of the senate and be- come a law, no Blaingé in treat- Tue North American Review . for March is filled with interesting mat- ter by the best contributors. Senator Edmunds, in reviewing the conduct TuE drop in grain and provisions has at once influenced the export trade, and cargoes are clearing from New Orleans for European ports composed entirely of grain which has been transported down the Missis- sippi. During January the decroase in our breadstuffs exports was §3,- 000,000 as compared with the same period last year. This was largely due to the Chicago combinations which locked up grain in the ware- houses and elevators, and prevented its movement to the coast. Tue nomination of ex-Senator Sargent to the Berlin mission will be in one sense a relief to the public. It effectually disposes of his claims to the interior department, and seems to assure the permancy of Governor Kirkwood's tenure of office. Mr. Sargent was too deeply interested in the desert land steal to make an im- partial and eflicient secretary of the interior. He probably will do no harm in Berlin, and may develop dip- lomatic abilities which up to the pres- ent time have only shown themselves in working elections at the Mare Island navy yard. Tue Republican questions the state- ment of Tur Bee that several vacau- cies exist in the legislature which ought to be filled before the extra session this spring. It calls attention to vacancies filled at the Novemher election and asks for a bill of partiou- lars regarding any fucther seats which have no occupants. If Tur Bee is not misinformed there are several such vacancies which have been created since the fall elections by death and the acoeptance of federal office. Gov- ernor Nance can probably furnish the Republican the deuired information ir otail. of the Guiteau trial, exoneratesJudge Cox, but makes some good suggestions about enforcing order upon the audi- ence in criminal trials. Ex-Minister Noyes sketches the progress of the French republic. Judge Thomas gives' new interest to the old subject of trial by jury; and Jokn Fiske traces the true lesson of Protestant- ism in the conclusion that ‘‘religious belief is something which in no way concerns society, but which concerns only the individual.” William Justin Harsha advocates a uniform and just law for the Indians, Professor Palmer and Neal Dow contribute papers of a nature to stir up the liveliest discus- sion; the former pointing out what he considers to be the fallacies of homawpathy, and the latter summing up from his standpoint the results of This is » prohibitory legislation, number of this standard periodical which no well-informed man can af- ford to be without, place, New York, Generar Rucker, who was ap- pointed quartermaster general a fow woeks ago in place of General Meigs, has been placed onthe retired list and General Rufus Ingalls nominated for the position* This sort of juggling is rondered necessary by the failure of congress to pass a law retiring army officers when they rcach a proper age for such action, ONLy five days remain before our parties who intend to continue their subscrip- tion ought to take advantage of our ofter, asthe premiums we give are premium offer oloses. All just as we represent them. will receive a premium worth at least one dollar, and every subscriber has a0 equal chance at our best premiums some of which are very valuable, v Mr. Blaine, | No. 30 Lafayotte OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, Russia is again monopolizing the attention of Europe. The speech of General Skobeleff to the students of Paris undoubtedly voiced the real sentiments of the home gov- ernment its intention to secure at some future time a Pan Slavic union in even at the expense of open warfare with the German element in Austria, and further oast. There are ugly ru- mors that Russia has been at the bot- tom of theinsurrection in Herzegovina and Bosnia and thato is quietly do ing all she can to aid the insurgents plution, Rus- and stimulate the are constantly re- 5 sian officers of rank coiving indefinite lea of absence and departing southward and their every General Skabeleff is the most popular and represent of St ement that errand is patent to observer. Russian commander the national element Peters. His ot his sym- s are strongly with the Slavs that burg. and discrete and likely to disturb the ex- isting peaceful relations. Germany has gone so far as to make an official protest against its tenor, and to de- mand a reprimand from the Czar against its author. It is a serious question whether Russia is prepared for war. Although boasting of its vast territorial empire and its hundred mililions of population the Czar's empire can in reality count on only about half of its people and but a small fraction of its territory for anything like a loyal and devosed support. Finland is as foreign to Russia as when it was forcibly anuexed chereto, Tt has its own senate, its own money, postal and customs stamps, and offioial docu- ments, Poaud isa perpecual scare- crow for the czar's govern- ment, “White Russia” is’ Russia only in name, 1ts people being of a different race, and having their own religion and language. ‘“‘Little Rus- sia” is inhabited largely by Cossacks of the Dnieper, who maintain their separate identity, though now strictly forbidden by the government to use their own language in schools, in public offices, or in literature. The three Baltic provinces are German in name and fact, and scorn anything Russian. The lands of the Don Cossacks, the Ural Cossacks, and the Kuban Cossacks are in fact self- governed, and every attempt to put them on the sume footing with the rest of the empire has been met with bloody opposition. The Caucasus is only a conguered country, and a large army is maintained there at great ex- pense to keep it quiet; and Turkestan and other Asiatic provinces recently acquired are looked upon as temporary possessions, which can only be kept under subjection to ths czar by a great and continual loss of men and money. Siberia is full of men who hold the Russian government in thorough abhorrence, and would be ready to revolt against it if they believed &uccess possible. This leaves only ‘‘Great Russia,” the central part of the empire, loyal to the government and the czar. Parliament has been occupied dur- voting upon the Bradlaugh case, in arguing the coercion question, and in alternately opposing and_ postponing the settloment of Mr. “cloture.” having been permitted to take the oath, Bradlaugh was expelled from of election issued for the borough of Northampton. At the new election Bradlaugh will again be a can- didate. The effurts to embarrass cureits passage. In case it does not, Mr. Gladstone announces his inten- ing for a new election. said to have proved effective in hold- ing together the majority, as elections are expensive luxuries in England, and many of the members do not care to risk a return in the present uneasy state of political feeling. ing the past week in discussing and Gladstone's By a close vote, after the house of commons and a new writ the ministry in the disposition of the case failed, and ia the final vote party lines did not figure largely. Indica- tions are that the moasure for ‘‘clo- ture,” or closing debate, will receive a strong enough party support to se- t'on of dissolving parliament and call- This threat is been applied, and 970 cases have heen decided—the average reduction of ronts being about 25 per cent. Emigration to Cape Colony from Great Britain 13 fast increasing. For 1879 the returns show only 1,332 emi grants; for 1880 the number was 2,607; for 1881 it was 4,163, These 4,163 consisted of 324 men for the vernment railways, 2,613 artisans and domestic servants, 708 agricul- turists, and 408 recruits for the Cape Mounted Riflamen. The agricultur- ists took out with them in money alone an agereaate of $77 or a little over £100 for each man, woman, or child. The recent anti-Jewish riots in Warsaw were very disastrous in their results, During tho disturbances 202 Jowish taverns were destroyed, 603 stores, restaurants, modical establish- ments and places of worship, and 493 lodgings. The riots extended beyond | the limits of the city, and there were outbreaks in seyeral neighboring vil one hundred rioters were arrested, all of whom were confined in the citadel and held for trial. Eaypr's new departure in govern- ment placates the powers by an as- tonishing concession. Slavery is abol- ished through the length and breadth of the knedivate. This reform, with all the power of England, backed by the moral support and overt exertions of France, has not been able tosecure, is an event which will command the attention of “the world. But few strokes of policy in the history of the world can be brought in parallel with it—the manumission of thesouth, the freedom of the serf, and the edict of Nantes. Beginning with such a statesman-like demonstration as this, the home rulers will be apt to win the support of France. The average number of persons who inhabit a house in the various cities of Europe give an excellent notion of the distribution of wealth. Among the larger cities of Western Europe, where the system of family houses is dominant, the average is of course small, Thus, the average for Bremen is 63, for London 8, for Amsterdam 9, for Rome 12, for Cologne 13, and for Frankfort-on- Mamn 16, In other well-known cities the averages are these: Paris 35, Trieste 32, Buda- Pesth 33, Konigsberg 25, Breslau 27, Leipsic Berlin 58, and Vienna 57. The industrial commission of thir- ty-three has been sitting for some time in Paris, and examined a few weeks ago the condition of the in- dustries employing wood. The manu- facturers who gave evidence to the commissioners were unanimous in re- marking the alarming progress of foreign products. The cabinet-mak- ing induatry, formerly so flourishing in France, now goes to Eagland for models. Coach-building, too, has greatly declined. Formerly the ex- port business amount to $1,600,000, At present it has sunk to $200,000. The remedy is pronounced to be in the establisment of professional schools, where workmen ¢an be ada- quately educated in' their trade. — Amongst the educational reforms about to be carried out in France dur- ing the present year may. be men- tioned the establishment of .five tech- nical schools for cabinét making, building industries, scientific instru- ments, domestic economy for girls and industrial chemistry. The latter school is ot particular importance, for hitherto the French manufacturers of chemical products have been obliged to employ foreigners to direct the scientific department of their enter- prises. A change in the Danish customs the Landsthing, is of a decidedly free- trading character. It removes entire- ly the duty on various raw materials, including coals, salts, rice, raw silks, half-finished iron goods, minerals and chemical preparations. It lowers the duty on petroleum, pig iron, steel (in bars) and coftee. The du? on wine and tobacco is raised, The loss of revenue resulting is estimated at $684,240, while an increase of revenue amounting to $5600,640 is estimated from changes in the excise on brandy and beer, giving a net minus of §73,- 700. CONNUBIALITIES. When & couple make up their minds to ket married it may be called a tie vote. Senator Davis is again tobe married, ac- cording to Washington gossip, this time to a rich widow in Maryland, A Minnesota man, aged fifty-seven, re- cently married the seventeen-year-old .1..u,,1‘.'m of his second| wife, tariff, proposed by the government to young women, He said not long ago hat thoss happy matdens emigrating to that country ‘‘would get an offer of marriage about every day.” The Utter Young Man. The youth bore a cane in his nimble right hand, As down the broad rtreet he did strut, In style superbly and awfully ¢rand, That made folks ejaculate wildly, “My land! That fellow's to utterly utt!" A]vpru\chit;x the bar he remacked there alond, “Some whisky and clarst —tut, tut!” Then smiling polite, left and right to the crowd, He laughed ont an opera and giggled and bowed For he was too utterly utt! As thin as the paint tha! envarsished his cane, Was the portentous rize of his cay cre. ature’s brain, That whispered unto him again and again, “Well, you are too utterly utt Oh, banish this reesthetic demon owright ) some Rus<dan or African hut-—- Where the people are not so awfully quite, And they kill off a hundred young gallants each n gh, For being so utte ly utt HONEY SOR THE LADIHES Scotch ginghams come in ha, dsome solid colors Many new spring basques are cut double-b easted. Women are not cruel by nature. We nev.r heard of one thoughtless enough to step on a mouse, A girl at St. Joe who went crazy when he: lover died was off to a dance on the fourth night after. Printed momie cloths are becoming quite yopular for portieres, T e pattecns are in ndians and Persinn designs. w8 ‘I'here is such a demand for machine lace for use onmu-lin evening dresses thut the manufacturers can scarcely supply it. The late t wsthetic slang when ladies re- prove their admiring gentiemen fricuds is: “You flatter too awfully perfectly much » It isn't because a woman is exuctly afraid of a cow that she 1uns awa, and screame, It is because gored dies.es are not fashionable. Wide-striped satins in pale colors, alter- nating with those of gold or silver moire, are lavorite materials for evening diesses for young ladies. “My daughter,” exclaimed a_fashion- able mother, “Yis mmnocence it elf. You can’t say anything in her presence that will make her blush,” Among the novelties struggling for favor in the fashionable world are the jers-y bodices made of kid and elaborately em- broidered with gold and silyer beads. The oval mirror is the reigning favorite in the way of tilet glasses. Mirrors with hammered brass frames are very use- ful and artistic articles for bureau gdecora- tion. erchiefs of gray or cream-colored ¢ilk, embroid -red all over in tiny silk polka dots, and finished wich « five- inch rafle of or.ental lace, aud novel and dainty. Some beautiful plush goods, elaborate embroidery a/most covering the plush, ure in the v arket for sofa cushions. Some- times tables are ¢ v.red with the s2me ele- gant goods, Short velvet skirts, wifh bodice and panuiers of some soft seif-colored Engli-h woolen textile, with pelerine and deep cuffs of veivet, will be u fashionable sprivg walking costume, A Milwaukee girl wants $5,00) d.mages bec use she wasn’t quite ready to be kissed when a man kissed her. He ought t0 have blown a horn or runga bell and given her thirty seconds’ warnivg. A Rolwe, Ga,, manis preparing a unique directory. 6 will contain the name, style, whether bruunet or blonde, address, and approximate age of every young lady in Greorgin who has of her own, or as heir e.pectant, property to the amount of £5,100 or upward One of th: characteristic features of fashion this spriog will be the wearing of lavge sashes, which in a measure will take the place of the full draped tournures at the back; and anotuer will be the adop- tion of wide collars which will be sworn with deep cuffs (o.match, Short hair is again in fashion, and ladies who have saerificed their hair by the use of handoline, heated sl.te parcils and erimping pinsare very glad to cut it off and adopt. the short “curls, ‘ala Reca- mier.” To many faces short hair is ex- ceedingly becoming, t Tiffany, only the other day, made to order a pair of garter i uckles, the su'- stance of which was pure gold, and the at- tachments of fow‘carat diamonds. ‘Whom he made them for he declined to tell, but the order was from Murray Hill. She sat down at the piano, cleared her throat, and commen:ed to barmcnize. Her first selection was, *“I cannot sing the old songs;” and & gloom that was colder and bleaker than a Stgday dinner fell on the company, when astranger in the corner said, **And we trust. with the néw ones,"” Women do not possess logical minds, and being very imaginative, are therefore, not fitted for debate, xo Emerson says, but we say that when it comes to a debute as 0 whether it is necessary or proper for a man to go down town after supper, a w.man can vive the most logical man a half-mile xtart, and not only heat him w.th her imagination, but fixit so that he won't leave the house till after brea fact next morning.—[Texas Siftings. Tn fancy jowelry, black velvet dog col- lars are worn, dotted with pearls, dia- munds, aud fine flowers in colored stones. Young ladies a'so have these necklaces oraamente | with antique coins, Dead The British and French govern- ments are yet far from concluding a commercial treaty on the old basis, or anything like it, mist says that the government has The London Econo- A New York restaurant advertises a square meal for five cpnts, and now why can't & married couple live on $500 a year, Mlle, Charlotte Rothschild, the eldest daughter of Baron Gustave, will soon mar- ry i i&elullu of old family and great wealth, Every subscriber who prepays for six months received from France her final pro- posals, and that they are such as can- not be accepted. Thy fas that France has her ow .. i1 L istries tu pro- il them It is just here where the hiteh comes in between the two countries, —mere town lots, Of the remaining act by the size of their holdings; leaving 876,000 privileged to apply to the Land Court for a reduction of rvents, Of these, 62,331 have already tect, and cannot afford to have those of England put into competition with Ireland has 576,000 land holdings, of whiclr 50,000 are less than one acre 526,000, about 150,000 tenants are excluded from the benefits of the land A Vermout couple have married after a courtship of twelve yeais, during which the bride’s father has out f hinges on the trons gate, a difference how you do it. A Corning wan once told a belle he would warry her, und it cost him $2,000 because he did not. 1t is said that Sullivan has had three of- fers of marriage since he pounded Ryan, A woman always wants some one around who isn't afraid’ of cats, rats and book agents, S0 your daughter has married @ rich busband?’ “Well,” slowly replied the father, *‘I believe she has mariied a rich wan, but I understand he is & very poor husband.” Peoria, 1L, is agitated by a story that Prosident Arthur is paying marked atten- tion to Miss Ida Farrell, ouly daughter of a prominent citizen and a local b-llotho is visiting Bob Ingersoll's family in Wash- ington, The Marquis of Lorne fhas & high opin- icn ot Mnnlllubn .8 mlt':limunhl ‘&eld for seven sets of | It is all right to toll & bell, but it makes | gold ornaments are used on different parts of the toi er. Parures are thus ma e of detached flowers, mounted to form bou- quets and garlands, to be placed on the shoulders and different parts of the dress, PEPPERMENT DKOPs. The hornet always carrics his point. The ice dealers little venture; may 1alic about fine buildings, ice house that takes ths cake.” They have a brand of whhl(y tucky known as the *‘Horn of P cause it will corn you copiously, Bacon says, ‘‘Reading makes a full man,’ That must where the brewery is located.—[New Or- leans Picayune, It ivseid that angle worm caunot diy more than one inch per hour, but he is always an inch beyond the sh vel when you want fish bait. Fortune never knocks at a man’s door at all. She simply offers him some shares in You but 1t's the in Ken- enty,” be- -a ‘salted” silver mine, a d if he makes a big thing out of 1. w il and good A OChicago woman, while touring in Oregon, f1ightene. off a bear simply by wuaking her skirts at him. The wotion probably brought her feet into view. Tt has t scwvired th t the XU Wi 15 Lo discover how Lo get one un the ro.f of a house and make it stay there, The first cat taken to Guunison City sold for 816, but the first man in that town who killed ‘& cat was presented with o purse of 850, There’s no show in this country for the cat to get ahead, A Galveston school teacher asked a new boy: “If a carpenter wants t» cover a roof fifteen feet wide by thirty feet broad with shingles five feet broad” by twelve feet long, how many shiogles will be neede ¥ The boy took up his hat and slid for the door, ~ *‘Where are you going?" asked to teacher. ““To find & carpenter, He ought to know that better than any of we feliers.” Austin Soziety Notes, —Colored Bill Snooks is looking smiling and happy. His mother-in-law left yesterday, © were Ehd to meet Mose Schwindelmeyer, the andsome drummer, The sheriff will also Or the crack on the poor when it shut, | [Detroit Chaff, | youare, not familiar |° the Reading in Penusylvania be glad to see him, as he has a capias against him for not paying his drummer tax. Bill MoSnifter, the talented horse thief, is in town en route to Huatsville, He has many f jends in Austin who are disappointed at his not being hung. Judge J C. Blowhard, of Bungtown, is once more in our city. His visit has no politi- cal significance, The grand jury is in session just now at Bungtown—that's what_brings hiu over. The cherming Miss Pussy Katt, ane of the society belles of Mud Creek, is spending o _few weeks with her uncle, Tom Katt, Miss Pasy Katt is an accomplished vocalist. The teautiful Miss Pegay Priggins left yester- n 240 train for her home iu Crosby sunty. The young men regret her de- parture, and "esp the dry good- clerk who let her | sev n dollars is be deducted Siftings, 'y ve credit to amount of unconsolable, as it_will from his salary, [Texas MU:ICAL AND DRAMATIC. Miss Henrietta T ably successful in conc in England Suan B, Anthony i4 sixty-one About time she was tackli g has been remrk- o 1y Mme. Gerster has al signed a con. pis in Gdveston for Kdwiy B ) o nizhts and a mati nee were Denman Thompson's new play for next season will be called The Lone Pine, or the Christmas Gift, Pauline Maurel, » member of the mma Abbott opera house company, died at her home in Boston, Mas., Wednesday, the 8th, aged twenty-five years. It is understood in London that Mr. e has been appointed manager of the new opera house in New York Tt willnot be opened till the spring of 1883, Mr, Br nson Howard is under contract to writea new play for the Madison Square theater, to be produced in rome inde inite time in the distan: future when ‘‘Esmer- alda” has 1 e n laid to rest. Mr. Heary K, Abbey has chartersd two palace cars for Mad, Patti and Mr Edwia Booth, For each of these he pays £30 er day, but his stars havetheir homes on them during their entire trips. An effort is being made t) have Mme. Gersty d Mme, Patti in the operatic conbination at the Mechanics hall, Bos- ton, in April, and there appears a good reason to expect a auccess in this attempt. The Emilie Me!lville company will dis- band in Philadelphia., Miss Melville and the prin ipals will consolidate with the Bij u Op ra House company, and soon open ew York in MeCaull's produc- tion, “Apjune.” Mr. John E. Owens has been engaged by the Madizon Square theatre mauage- ment for five years, to play the comedy business of that establishment. The sala y te be paid is 8350 a_week, and Mr. Owens will be ma fe a feature, not in the pro- grammes or advertisements, but newspaper work. RELIGIOUS. in the There are in Kansas 209 Preshyterian churches, with 12,044 members, The Baptist churches of Massachusetts raised for all purposes last year $624,594. Ithiea, N. Y, istohave a new Con- gregational Church, anl $20,000 toward the project has already been subscribed. Michigan _ha: 17 Presbyterian with 16, communicants; churches, wi h 0,812 communi- The jubilee fund of the English Con, gregationalists n w amounts to $50,000 all of which has been raised since October 1881, The Scottish United Presbyterian Church gathered in for foreign missi last year, $167,725, an advance of upward of 815,000 on the pravious year, +he permanent fund of the Society for the Advancement of (hristianity (Episco- pal)in South Carolina amounts to 230,- i and the current incowe for the past year was $2,118.44, The totl indebteduess reported by the Methodist churches in Philadelphia at the conference of 1881 was $542,967. It has since heen redn ed to perhaps 8500, 000. There are but ten churches free from debt. Bishop Levi Scott, the senior_bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church has been failing during the last two years, and now he is 50 feeble that he is not expected to live long. His age is eigaty-two years. Heis cared for by his daughter at her home near Odessa, Delaware, The Pops is ub ut to present the French Catholic Church in Boston with a fac- rimile reproduction of the famous statue of St. Peter that stands azainst a_pier, near the dome, in St. Peter’s. Church at Jome. M. Froe Robert, of Pari-, is the artist. jen.” Booth, of the S vation Army, says it has now J65 stations and 385 paid officers. Its income awmounts to §285 000 er annum. Nine million copies of its iter. ture were distributed last year, and 55,000 raised for the purchase of Congress Hall, in London. Bishop A. C. Coxe of Western New York, in a lstter to the presiding Bishop, sug.ests the caliin of a special se-sim of the Episcopal House of Bishops for next October, to consider the subjecp of theolo- gical education in the Church «nd the canons whicn lear upon candidates fir orders, . The 1atest raports of the Stat: church of Prussia inlicate a stexdy increase in the number of theological student: 1876 the number «f students was 5! 1881 it rose to 996, the whole empire i 1 st year, 2,384, Halle and Berlin received the largest number of these ministerial candidates, The de- ficiency in candidates is therefore rapidly growing less, In 1880 some 38 churches were erected and many restored. The receipts fr.m official ~ collections were £166,272, and bequests amounted to $364 5:52, There are about 6,600 clerical pos tiens, "IMPIETIES, The question of the day is not only, “Are y ur windows open toward Jerusa- lem?” but, are they provided with fire escapes? An castern revivalist says ‘“‘that young ladies who dance will, sooner or “later, dance in hell,” We have heard that b fore; but what place will the revival nui- sance fill in that sulphurous clime! Ata young 1 dies' seminary recently, an examination in hist .ry, on’ of the pu- pils was interrozated thus: “‘Mary, «id Luther die a No,” ws the reply; “*he was , excommu- nicated by a bull,” has been hunt ne Martin natural death?” the pedig ee [ The forey-third ve chapter nine, Acts of .-\Y.»uu., reads: *“‘And it came to pass that he turnied many days with oae Simon A. Tanuver.” It needs quite as much enterprise to run achurch as to run a circus. An eastern prescher could not get people to put money inthe contribution boxes. He hits upon & plan, Every Sunday he places the pret- tiest gicls in the vestibule to watch who puts money in. Now the boxes are doing well, An old man in New York bas been re- quired to furnish 500 bonds o lkeep the resee or go to the island for three months or praying in the streets that God will punish & p liceman who killed his son. By some strange accident he escaped a metro- po'itan clubbing, “Godless schools and most church fairs a0 0Rly 6t 0 give Ua.» 7ace of acctens That's the talk that Father Scully husls at tract to sing in opera in this country next | © season ke 1t ix pos tive that Barlow, Wil-on, Nose- iy wnd West diss dve partnership after his Cambridge, Mass., parishioners in his annual report. Church fairs, he says, de- moralize our girls more than do our lowest theaters; for girls, armed with their church fair book, go forth under relizions and pa- rentil sanction where they ploase and when they please entering even bar-rooms to solicit chances and votes. The children think of nothing but_the fair. Home, church and school are tanished. The Brooklyn Eagle perpetrates this outrage: “This man i3 o temperan e lec: turer. He seems sleepy, It i 10'clck in ths morning. Why doesn't he take off his clothes and go to bed? Perhaps he s Imnl])?ml Two friends bave just left him. ~ One of them is sitting on the front stoop and the other is cling ng to a tree box. They belong tothe Teetotal B other- hood of Ebenezer. Will the hand that fed Elij:h be stretched forth to protect them from the night air? Very likely; a police- man is coming round the corner, and the | station-house is not far off.” EDUCATIONAL NOTHS There are 246 public schools teachers in Indian: , 227 of whom are women Rochester university has now 16 dents, 49 of the number being freshu: General E. W. Leavenworth, of Syra- has just given $10,000 to Hamilton or the foundation of a scholarship. In Connecticut last year 1,634 public schaols weie in oper: ti ler the charge of 2,802 teachers i sumwer. The numiber of pupils receiving ing'ruction was 119,4¢ Tv 1 proposed | new high <chool stu- ford to build a one story in height. | & larg s central hall 'or assembly room to be lighted chi fly from above and to be sur- rounded by & corrid r aud class rooms, Safety in ca-c of fireand the health secured by the absence ot rtairs ave urged as the advantages of this plan, The new methods of instruction in he Boston primary schools have in the past three ra worked wonders, the only drawback being the want of t me to en- able the t ers to acquir. the needful kn wledge and ekill. These methods are in effcot those of Quincy methods which teach children to think rath:r than to gerely remember. Oral lessons in language have leen in- troduced in all classes of the gramma_and intermediate grades of the puplic schools of Burlington, Verm.nt, NGV foh 11ib same kint has also been done in the pri- mary schools, wherein children’s mazazines have been provided for supplememiary reading, It is evc uraging to see that the old-fashioned u ann-r of studying gram is everywhere 1 jelding to a method as telligent and effective us the former one was bad, stupid and useless, The public schuols o the state of New York were last year attended ' y 1,021,282 children—a smaller number by 10,000 than was recorded in 1880. Of the 30,826 tench- ers employed, 23, The average annual salary of each teacher was 8375.06—the whole mt - expended in salaiios boing 87,175,505.2%, Tho state has 11,248 school * districts, and 11,894 school “houses, The total wmount ex- pended upon the schools last year was $10,8 8,802.40. It may well be questioned whether the educati n provided was worth this enormous expenditure, It certiinly wa' no: if it ran in the ruts of the.old methods GOT THE WRONG DINNER. The Little Mis®ke that the Honorable Senator from New Hampshire Made. Washington Correspondence of Times, the C icag A fairly good joke on Senatox Blair has started the rounds here and promises to have a first-rate run. He was invited a_few evenings since to dine with Vice-President Davis at Welcker’s, but did not put in anap- pearance, a fact that occasioned some surprise among those who saw his chair remain vacant through the en- tire evening The Vice-President of this Administration is not the nnim- « | portant factor, politically or socially, that Vice-Presidents have been in some other Administrations, and Judge Davis wears his honors with a dignity and dispenses hospitality with a generosity that commands respect and compels admiration. To be bid- den to his table is to be especially favored, and one would about as soon think of declining an invitation to a state dinner as of neglecting the Judge's hospitality if honored with the offer of 1t. ] On the evening in questien the | President was among the guests, and two or three members and ex-memb- ors of the Cabinet, a couple of Jus- tices of the Supreme Court, a number of Senators, and one or two ciyilians made up the party. Senator Blair was not present although he thought he was, and did not discover his mis- take until he had eaten another din- ner and left himself with such excuse to offer as no man ever offered for a similar blunder before. The Senator lives on Capitol Hill, while Welcker’s. is_on Fifteenth street, more than a mile and a half away. The distance and the time seem to have both been miscalculated, for hearrived late, and in his haste to make up lost time ran straight into the wrong dinner, or, perhaps more properly, ran thewrong dinner straight into him. The Vice- President’s tables were spread in the grand hall on the main floor of the es- tablishment, but the Senator had dined there before in the upper rooms, and presumably supposed that all great men did the same. So with- out asking he rushgd on up stairs. Here it 80 happened that Capt. Eads was dining a party of friends, among whom were some ladics, and as the Senator knew most of those present he supposed he was all right. Seeing that a mistake had been made some- where, and not knowing the precise nature of it, the Captain thought to smooth it over and make things pleas- ant as possible all round by playing 1t through. Accordingly, while t{elcn- ator removed his coat and hat in an adjoining room the host and head waiter made a place for him at table, and provided it with full equipment, including the customary card with the Senator’s name thereon. ruled he was all right before, when he saw the vacant seat and this card on the plate before it, he knew he was all right now, and fell to with a will. Course after course disappeared. The feast of reason and the flow of soul went on, while the grand party down staira wondered why the Sena- New Hampshire was vot | wibL Lbeuy, ald Lhe gay cowapany up stairs was equally puzzled to know why he was. But the Senator him- self was delightfully unconscious that. anything was wrong, He even failed to observe that the host he expected to greet was not at the head of the table, and when the feast was finally finished the wise and industrious chairman of the Senate committee on education and labor had not learned that he was in the wrong box, or that his toil had not been rewarded by the harvest prepared for it. When he did finally make the discovery, and how he explained matters to the host who had expected but had not received, and the one whohad not expected but had received, him, I am not in- formed. Having sup-