Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 11, 1882, Page 4

| s | 4 I'HE OMAHA DALY BEE: The'—Omaha_ Bee Published every morning, except Sunday. The only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL —| $10.00 | Three Months, 83. . 5.00 THE PROBLEM OF THE HOUR- This community is confronted by a momentuous problem. Unless the conflict between workingmen and em- ployers is amicably settled Omaha will suffer almost irreparable disaster. Unless concessions are made on both sides in a spirit of mutual good will 00| we ehall imperil our prosperity and One v 1.00 | give Omaha a back-set from which she cannot recover for many years. The intimidation or use of force to HE WEEKLY BEE, publisked ev- | prevent men from laboring for any TERMS POST PAID:— $2.00 1.00 | One . CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. estions relating to News and Editorial mat- or« thould be addressed to the Eprror or Tus Ber. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business fotters and Remittances should be ad- treased to THE OMAHA Pupuisaine OoM- 219Y, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post- »™oe Orders to be made payable to the ordar of the Company. HAPUBLISHING C0., Prop'es £ ROSEWATER, Editor. person or corporation at wages that ; i i 1y in- ThreeMonths., 50| 8%¢ mutually satisfactory is utterly oo MOPEE: - 90| defensible. As'the friend of working: men Tre Bee appeals to them to re- frain from all violence and ail demon- strations that can be construed as at- tempts to intimidateotherlaboring men On the other hand those who clamor for the vindication of the majesty of law at the point of thé bagonet should remember that bayo- nets cannot settle the labor problem. as cut-throats and red-handed com- munists, when sober, common sense and reason might easily have its ef- fect in quieting disturbance. If Omaha is the scene of further trouble, her citizens oan lay a large share of the blame at the doors of the editor of The Herald, Itis he who has been inciting the laborers to violence by the scurrilous abuse against the la- boring men, which has filled the col- umns of his paper. Every man who lived in Omaha in 1876 knows that it was by these very methods that the monopoly organs narrowly escaped plunging the city into actual riot and bloodshed. What is needed at the present time is not threats and calls upon the authorities for arrests and the penitentiary, but cool counsels and sober sense, Tur Nebraska senators who called on the president Thuraday night to induce hitn to issue telegraphic orders England, France, Germany and Rua- sia have maintained standing armies for centuries, and yet they have not prevented periodic strikes among dis- contented or underpaid workingmen. ——===== | Thore have been numerous labor CorneLius A, LoAN, recently nom- inated minister to Peru, indignantly denies that he belongs to the tribe of John, Semm— e e— A k10K from O'Leary’s cow set all Uhicago on fire, and a kick from Jim Stephenson has set all Omaha into a biaze of passion and excitement. — Wira provisions from 20 to 60 per | cent. higher thana year ago, §1.26 falls a good deal short of being living wages for any laborer unless a China- man, . — Mavor Boyp thinks he can main- tain law and order with a wooden man for chief of police, but everybody else regards the present marshal as utterly inefficient for police duty. TuE city is quiet and peaceful and those papers who are howling about Omaha being in the hands of a mob are doing more damage to our reputa- tion abroad than a year of puffing and newspaper wind can remedy. NEBRASKA in the tabinet—with an appeal from her governor for regulars to suppress domestic violence which the state militia, that hasn’t yet put in an appearance, are utterly unable to suppress. ‘WaeN Vanderbilt, Gould and Hun- tington divide the whole railroad traf. fic and the country botweer them- selyes it will be too late to earry any practioal measures for railroad regula- tion. Delay is what the monopoly managers are aiming a You can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink., A well paid, well fed, contented and cheer- ful laborer will do more work in ten - hours than a subdued, sullen, half starved and discontented workman would do in three d SenpixNG for regulars to Sidney and calling for volunteers from Juniata looks very much as if passenger earn- ings were very light just now and the impoverished and down-trodden rail- roads wanted some patronage from Uncle 8am to help them pull through this hard winter, S— Tue Washington correspondent of the Omaha Republican assures his readers that the entire time of con- gressmen is devoted to laying plpe for a re-election, ~ As the correspondent drews six dollars a day pay as clerk to Val he ought to know something about the movements and motions of his employer. AMERICAN eontributions to the land league funds have already reached the [ year eunding December 31, enormous sum of $580,000. Of this |shows on the muster. roll forty com- amount $90,000 is in the' hands of bankers, and $1,000, as stated by Mr. Patrick Eagan, is in Ireland for cur- rent expenses, A portion of what iy called ‘‘the reserve fund,” amounting $287,000, is invested in American se- ocurities, Nearly a quarter of a mil- lion remzins, for which Mr. Eagan re- fuses to account, claiming that any information would cortainly disclose its uses to the enemy and linder the pregress of fl;.muvalllunt, Tux sevate judiciary committee have reported a bankruptey bill which is receiving serious criticism in eastern The bill fixes the amount of indebtedness necessary to mercantile circles, filing a petition by the debtorat §500, It does away with registors and as signees and provides for the appoiut- | mander's hind quarters to cover his ment of a receiver to take charge of the bankrupt’s property and to wind The entire subject is left very much at the dlseretion of States ocourts, who are | authoiized w fix all fees and gencrally to take on its hands the responsibility up his affuirs, the Unid for the discharge of the debtor. Ob jections are made to the establishwent _ of the fee system which was so grossly abused under the old, and the fact that the bill fails to reach property exempt under state laws is scriously object that there can be no uniformity under ils criticised. Morchants workings and express a preference fo the present absence of system rathe than for a law which will fail to afford avy adequate means for the rapid and atisfactory settloment of & bankrupt's | 0ne know that the last way to deal debta, strikbs in various sections of this country this winter, and many of chem very formidable, but in every instance, as far as we can learn, peace was re- stored without bayonet interference and by mutual concession. The demand for $1.75 per day for labor in Omaha is noi unreasonable. The price of food and clothing is from 30 to 50 per cent. highier to-day than it was three years ago. Rents in Omaha are extravagantly high, es- pecially tenement houses. With the exception of Denver, the cost of living 18 higher in Omaha than in any town or city west of Chicago. If the railway managers whore sal- aries range from $10,0C0 to $20,000 were asked to support themselves on 81.76 a day in Omaha, they would moderate their indignation over the demand of the laboring men. To concede the demand will not de- prive them of the privilege of pickin: their men and employing the most vigorous and industrious laborers. Our businesy men cannot fail to com- prehend that their traffic is much bet- ter when labor is well paid than when it subsists on starvation wages. - Barring the wrong of forcible inter- ference the advance asked for from the B. & M. would add a mere triflo to the cost of grading the depot grounds. If 100 men were employed there 30 days it would only add $760 to the expense, They have already thrown away more money in the fight to resist the demand. There is no doubt that law and or- der can be vindicated by the use of troops, but sullen, discontented and subdued workingmen will be more costly to employers than well-puid and contented men who feel they have been generously treated. In this crisis we believe the second sober thought dictates moderation and concession on both sides, and no time ou'd be lost to restore a better feel- ing between employers and working- men, Tur building boom all over the country has created an unusual de-! mand for skilled and unskilled labor. In the city of New York many mil- lions will be expended this year for new buildings. The New York Even- ing Post, of March 7th, says: ‘At no time within the memory of the oldest architect in the profession has s0 much building been going on in this city as at preseat, not only in business strnctures but in luxurious dwellings, Tre report of Colonel Jolby, com- mandant of the Firat regiment and Blue Sprigs Light Artillery company, of Nebraska Nutional Guards, for the 1881, missioned officers, 112 non-commis- sioned officers, 326 privates and thir. teen musicians. —Wyamorean, Why cau't Governor Nance issue commissions to the 320 high privates of the First regiment National Nebraska Guards, and put all these warriors on an equul footing. At the ovtbreak of the war, when Artemus Ward was or- gunizing his rogiment, every recruit wos commissioned as brigadier general, Avrer reading the Omaha Herald, wo aro satisfied that Mayor Boyd should call De. Miller to the com mand of the volunteers,—Sioux Oity Journal, We cordially endorse this recom- mondation, with the further sugges- tion that Mayor Boyd should station a jackass battery in front of tho com- rotreat, ——e Sukxirr Mivues did not lift his lit- tle finger to suppress disorder, but he joired Mayor Boyd in a dispateh to Governor Nance, which assured Lis excellency that he was unable to maintain law and order in Omaha. Witey will men of judgment and sobriety learn the lesson that wen who organize mobs, and men who give moral support to mobs, are never able to control them!—[Herald. And who are the men who ave giv- ing support to mobs and inciting vio- lence to-day in Omanal Are they not r | men like the editor of The Herald, r | Who, by violent and hot-headed abuse of the laborers, are pouring fuvl on the flames of trouble, Doesn't every to General Crook to aid in suppress- ing the riot in progress at Omaha, were evidently misinformed about the existing state of facts. The so called riot in Omaha has been grossly exag- gorated, and we boldly assert that the mayor of Omaha and the sheriff of Douglas county could have quelled overy disturbance had they exerted their full power for the maintenance of order, There was no more need of calling on the president in the night or in the dayto suppress labor riots in Omaha than there is for calling on him to suppress the labor riots at Chicago, St. Louis, and half a dozen other cities where working men’s strikes have taken place within the past two weeks. — OTHER LANDS THAN OURS The political situation in Europe is daily growing more unpromising, A general impression seems to pervade all the foreign journals that diplomat- ic relations are on the verge of a seri- ous strain with a result which none olaim to be able to predict. General Skobeleff, that fiery but brave Russian officer, whose speech to the Servian students has caused so much commo- tion, has been warmly received on his jouraey to St. Petersburgh, welcomed with enthusiasm in Polaud, and is soon to be accorded a gracious inter- view with the OCsar. Austria is strengthening her southwestern fron- tier and hurrying troops into Herze- govinia nominally to suppress insur- rection, but really to be prepared for any contingencies of Russian aggros- sion. Bismarck preserves his own counsels. The embassy to the sultan has, however, a direct significance which is shown by the desire of the sublime porte for an alliance, offens- ive and defensive, with Germany and Austris. All the materials are present for a general European war, At the outbreak of hostilities Bussia would find herself hemnied in by Austria and Germany on the east, with Turkey on the south and menacing her frontier in Asia Minor. France and Germany would again find themselves opposed on the Rhine, while Austria and Italy would be likely to croes swords above the Adriatic. In such a confiict, it is difficult to see how Denmark, the Notherlands and even England would be able to preserve even an armed neutrality. On this account it may be regarded as certain that every re- source of continental diplomacy will be brought into requisition tosmother the smouldering emboers of a general war which now shows dangerous symptoms of breaking into a flame, Notwithstanding the report from Vienna that, in order not to give any offense to Russia, the Austrian gov- ernment has entirely abandoned its plan for the partial ocoupation of Montenegro, advices from Ragusa state that between sixty-hve and seventy thousand Austrian troops will be ready to take the field in a short time. While ostensibly this* heavy armament is directed against the Her- zegovenian and Bosnian insurgents, it is plain eneugh to see that it is really aimed at Montenegro. It is becoming evident that the complica- tions arising out of the revolt in the Herzegovina threaten to be wide- spread and prolonged, for although the insurgents by themselves would be powerless to contend with a first- class military power like Austria, it is altogether likely that the Russian government will lend a listening ear to the popular agitation which the uprising is already evoking among the Muscovite Slavs. The dispateh by Austria of Sclavonic regimenta to combat their Herzegovinian brethren has indeed already provoked a very genuine ebullition of indignation throughout Russia, and there are po- L tousrcusons w antlucace the e.biner of St. Petersburg to take advantage of the popular passion, Mr. Forster has been making a tour of Ireland, and on Monday made an important speech to the peasants at Tullamore. After referring to his own personal observations of out- rages, which he stated were committed by broken-down men and violently reckless boys,” Mr. Forster went on to say, ‘‘There may be bad landlords, but that does not excuse the burning of houses, the with excited meu is to denounce them torturing of animals, the killing of ymen. I call on you to do what you V oan to stop these things,” he con- tinued. ‘‘Let me say one word abont the English paople. There is no ill feeling in England toward Ireland. ‘We know that you have been a miser- able and badly governed country, that the English government of past days has done many cruel and very unjust things to Ireland and has allowed many to be done. We wish to undo that, make you prosperous, rich and powerful as ourselves! But we view these terrible outrages and hardly know how to doso. I will conclude with the words I have often read, ‘God save Ireland!—words that some- times and letters telling me I must have a bullet in my head or go to a place warmer than we are in now. I say ‘God save Ireland,’ too, but from the man that makes that threat. God save Ireland from cruel men, grasping landlords, rack-renting land- lords, dishonest tenants and midnight marauders. (od save Ireland from postilence which walketh at noon and terror which stealeth at night. And 1 believe God will save Ireland, for with all her faults the amount of vir- tue among the Irish people, the love of county and of family, which are abiding virtues that do much to save a country, will enable God’s laws to be respected.” For the third time Mr. Bradlaugh has been selected to parliament, and for the third time refused admission by a vote of 257 to 242, This action is an outrage, which sooner or later must be resented. The electors of the boroughs of Northampton could not submit to disfranchisement. They have a right to eléct whom they choose to represent them in the par- lisment; the general ground that other members don’t like his religious opinions —a ground not recognized by the laws—the people are arbitrarily disfranchished. But, as the Nation well says, “If the Northamplon electors stick to him, the house will unquestionably have to back down in the end, and the more atheistical and obscene he is the more humiliating will the back down be.” The Nation also says that, ‘‘as the affair now stands, it is undoubtedly the most extraordinary in parliamentary an- nals—much more extraordinary than the Wilkes affair, because when that ocourred the powers of the house had not been settled, as they have since been.” It seems, therefore, that parliament has made progress back- ward during the last one hundred and twenty years. ¥ The queen has erected a monument to the late Earl Beaconsfield in Hughenden church. It bears the fol- lowing inscription: “This memoral is placed here by a grateful and affeo- tionate sovereign and friend, Victoria R.I Kings love him that speaketh right, The remains of the youthful Earl of Lonsdale were deposited in the family vault of Lowther castle two weeks ago. It 18 & ourious illustration of the acci- dents and possibilities of the British peerage that Hon. Hugh Lowther, the brother of the deceased earl, and the present holder of the title, the heir of the estates, and patron of forty-four ohurch livings, with a vicarage and rectory income of 860,000, was lately struggling on a pittance. The late young earl's income, in fact, when he succeeded to the title, was $75,000 a year. I'he man who now succeeds to the estate had to make both endsmeet on $20 a week. Senor Castelar, the doughty cham- pion of republicanism in Spain, pro- fessed alarm at General Skobeloft’s warlike bavardage, and to dread anin- vasion of Europe by the Slays. Per- haps he feels more assured now that the czar has called his peripatetic cap- tain home and disclaims him as the mouthpiece of Russia’s policy. The Muscovite, anxious as he may be for a fight, will think twico before plung- ing into & conflict with the powerful odds that would combine against him. Castelar’s demand for a federation of Latin races is just as likely to breed commotion as Skobelef’s bombastio war talk, The reported indiguities visited upoi American tourists at Feignies, on the French border, on the night of the 1st inst., are of such a character as to demand immediate investigation, The conduct of the custom house offi- cials, accerding to these reports, was of the most brutal character and wholly unjustifible, aud our govern- ment, in the interest of citizens sbroad should demand that the guil'y parties be called to account. The geand council of the Swiss con- federacy, in passtng a resolution for the establishaient of an emhassy in Washington, has been unauimously supported by the newspapers of Swit- zorland. The number of Swiss in this country is estimated to be about 70,000, and complaints from them to their native government have been numeroue for some time past. It is believed the emigration will be con- siderably increased by the creation of this embassy. Madras has & breakwater built by British engineers at a cost of §3,000,- 000 ; but they neglected to band the great blocks of concrete properly, and the first storm has knocked the whole thing to flinters. SBWERET EVENINGS COME AND GO. Sweet evenings come and go, love, They came and went of yore; This evening of our life, love, Shall go and come no more, When we have passed away, love, All things will keep their name, But_yet no life on earth, love, With ours will be the same, The daisi & will be there, love, The stars in heaven will shine; 1 shll not feel thy wish, love, *" Nor thou my hand in thine, A better time will come, loye, Aud better sou's be born; T would not be the best, love, To leave thee now forlorn Gronrak ELiot. HONEY #OR THE LADIES Gros-grain silks are again in their glory. Rep effects are very noticeable among new spring silks, | Gants de Suede and Bernhardt gloves continue us popula: us ever, Looking-glass beads, toned by soft, milky opal scent tints, are used in large quantities for both dress and millinery gar- nitures, Girls should be careful how they are vaccinated with virus taken from a lover's am. OneatSt Paul bas taken to swear- ing, sitting cross-legged, and smoking a briar root pipe. Old-fashioned trinkets are mow much sought after, and cld gold or silver brooches, buckles, clasps or chatelains, having any look of antiquity about them, command very high prices. “Looking-glass” beads are seen up m some of Worth's latest creations, both in fringes and embroideries, especially on white toilets, l-nding that touch of colop or contrast rather that purely whitedresses are apt to Lick, A Vaesar college girl challenges any girl of any institution in the United States to chew gum with her. She offers to chew 100 quarters’ worth of gum im 100 con- secutive quarter days, Gum to be clear of hair, and not mixed with shoemakers’ wax. A very recent agony is for a_young lady to forward by distriot telegriph boy a tiny leigh-bell to a well-thought-of gentleman ciend. This siznifies, “You can put one hand in my muff this evening if you will only bring out the sl:igh.” How coolly utter, Novel oroaments for bonuets and hats are of gold, silver, or amber, and include birds, clasps, crescents, silver ferns, this- tles, and antique medllions, connested by slender chains, long pins and poniards with odd Roman or Grecian heads, and stars, moons, and fishes in filigree. Very large handkerchiefs for the shoul- cers, made of twilled silk, bor 'ered with lace and embroidered in smull compact bouquets in the carners, oc otherwise adoined by trails of flowers painfed «n the broad hems, are to be worn as the season aivance:. The excellent wearing and washing and also very effeotive Galaten atripes 8o popu- lar last year are to be worn again thiscea- son —not the old bed-ticking b ue-and-drab- striped patt ros, but those resembling the newer tickings which show scripes of mixed colors. “Mamm, is the old hen going tobe sent away for the summer?” ‘No, Charlie, but why do you ask?’ “Well, I heard papa tell the new governess that they would have a fine time when he sent the old hen away for the summer.” Mamma put little Charlie to bed. Chine silks are shown for young girls’ evening wear in . patterns of single blos- soms on a wuite grouud. The « verskirts to these are made in shepherdess style caught up with loops and euds of black velvet ribbon over a short underskirt of white silk. The corsage is made in th» Louis XIV. style, These new silks are exceedingly picturesque and pret A fo lish old woman, being one evening at a party, was greatly at a loss for some- thing to ¥ay. At length she ven'ured to inquire of a gentlemun who sat next to her whether his m.ther had wny children. The gentleman po itely poin'ed out the absurdity of herivquiry. ‘I beg pardon,” exclaimed the old lady, pe ceiving her mistake; ‘‘you don’t understand me, I wish to inquire whether your grandmother had any chi CONNUBIALITIES, A man eighty-five yeara old and a woman sixty-tive, who fives in the lower part of Dawson county, Ga.,, ran away Inst week and got married. A homely, but sensible Philadelphia girl, who never wore a big hat at the ‘theatre, has been married tiree times, and on each ocasion married rich,—[Philadel. phia News. + “Eila, 1s your father at home?’ said a bashful lover to his sweetheart; ‘‘I want to propose somethins to him,” *No, Clar- ence, papa is nut at home, bur I am. Couldn’t you propose to me jut as weli?” And he did, with perfect success. Some time ago Mrs, Brown, ot Allen county, gave birth to twins, Notwith- standing there is but four minutes differ- once in their ages, yet one was born in 1881 and the other in 1882, one in Decem- ber and the other in January, ene en Sun- day, the other on -Monday.—{Bowling Green (Ky.) Democr £, There was nothing peculiar about a re- cent Toronto wedding up to the point when the married couple quitted the church. Then the bride dropped her hus- band’s arm and ot into her father's car- ringe, and retuined home alone. She re- fi either to see him again or to make any explanation of her conduct, At the mayor's offi His honor to the bride-elect—Ara you willing t) take Mr. X., here present as your busband? Bride- clect—Thank you, sir! I am not! His Yonor (flabbergasted)—But, my child, you should have said so be ore coming here, Uride-elect O, sir, you are the first persen that hs consulted 1y wishes in the matter! ~[From the French, He had been courting her for thies years, and the_ other ovening when he wsbed ber to sing romethivg, she iono- eently wharbled *“Why Don’t the Men Propose, Mamma?' Mamuma said the conundrum was & very timely one, and perhaps Mr, Fitzslow could answer it. Fitz said he was never very good at guess- ing conundrums, u{:d besides he didn’t feel ver{ well, and 1. looked like rain, and some other time He dido't stay long after that, \3he marriage of Mr,Willism D Bishop, Jr. of Connecticut, to Miss Susan Ad le Washturne, the duughter of Mr, B, Wash! ur e, took piace F-bromy 21 M. Washburue's residence, No. Dearbon avenue. Chicw: 1e, Bishop s the sou of the Hon, Willism D. Bishop, formerly member of con necticus, & terward coumissioner ents, and more teceutiy president of tl New York & New Haven railroad com- pavy. A New York clergyman, in & sermon on conestup an il marnage, 3l he “elivver that “toere 1s & mate for every oneif they will but wait till the right one comes along.” The female portion of his congre- gation who have passed two score years 8aid they never heard such nonsense, aud that the man didn't know what he was talking about. If the right one doesn't come along before & woman reaches f the chances are nine in ten that he snowed under, or dead, or, worse still, has married the wrong womau, A young farmer of Clintondale, Ulster county, became deeply enamored of a ouny ludy, » stranger in the neighbor Knud. who was temporarily stoyping in the village, and, after coarting her assid- uously for some days, he all-i portant question, received anawer, and insisted an the mairiag wony being p rtormed the following even- Accordingly, & large nunber of ng it‘eud- were invited, and the couple were fmade one by & justice of the peace of the neigh borko d. SATURDAY MARCH 11 1882, whereupon she made her escape joining room, and the bride.ro.m has nc ween able to recognize her. and enjoyed the fun. RBLIGIOUS, o ey The Berkely divinity school (Episcopa from the Sheffleld estate, New Haven, resen Greenville, 8. C., in May text. attendance is expected. . There are seven Baptist association with 100 churches, in Canada. for each church, number of baptisms reported since 1853, cades, to stute lines, That of Pennsylva i tions; that of New 812, of the American Sunda) taining 7,190 teachers and In the N tarn i teachers and 17,429 scholars, The Presbyterian paid out about $73,000 last year. year they eox| on freedmen’s schools and church Virginia, North Carolioa, South Carolin Georgiv, Tenneasee, theee are in North Carolina. churches and 140 ministers. There are seven churches in the Germa members. The Mormon divided into twelve conferences. Necherlauds th-re is a total of 73. among thes seven ¢ nferences. 1,149. branches. The emigration in 188 to 2,460. Bishop Lynch directed in his will, “‘I wis| according to the rubrics of the Poutifical but neither there vor abroad do I wish funeral sermon. I wi-h rect my mavitold errors. L deprecate al costliness of display, but I do ent eat n cleryy often and often to offer up the e sacrifice for the repose of my soul.” T} directions were followed with scrupu. good man to his last resting place. wregationalists, 15; Dunkers, 3§ ¥j ical Association, 12; Moravians, 7; raelites, 16; Lutherans, 82 ; Mennon:te: versalists, denominational, 17. 6Swedish, 5 Norwegian and 4 Danish. IMPIETIHS, Isaue. | The victims of the flood on the lows favor shown to Mr, Noah, one of the pron .nent characters of e rly history. An Indiana evangeli-t ask: Democrat get to hecven?” We say that he can—if he has the handliog the returns, Future” there will be no God, no immo; edv of the soul, no prayer. i preesed in Paris,—{Norristown Herald. of ridewal u) Die.” Post, ,"I see that a Chicogo minister, M ‘eake, has got into some difficulty with the Deacon. I hayen't Kelly. the old school, was once awakenel in h ment that the vessel was giing “Well,” replied the captain, fri sleep sgain, of Obio thus holds tort sarve dese new laws agaiost adulteratio mandment ob de Lord, den hang him up Ly de neck 'tell he stops it- dat'sall.” divine service, Ve wish t discourage traveiin: ou th Sawbath as much s possih ¢, sir.” 1 supp 88 I mi htas well destroy thi taking up & bill due hiw from’ oue of th deuc Tuuwedistely upou the | arias. er since, or at least has not been The truth of the matter is that the bride was a pretty boy, and that when he left the rom he changed his garments and mingled with the crowd at Middletown, Conn , receives $100,000 The Southern Baptist_convention, rep- ik b or more states, will meet in A large ¥ ! Only 181 baptisus are reporied, being less than two i is_the smalles In the first decads of the Methodist Episcopal chure there was 1 min ster to every 190 members; in the fifth decade the proportion was 1 minister t> 147 members, against 142 in the ninth aud tenth de- The Presbyterian synods now conform heads the list with 131,054 communicas York has 130,374; Ohio has 68,826; New Jersey, 45,957; 1 li. nois, 42,286; Indiwna, 27,678; Iowa, 20,- In nine months of 1881 the missionaries School Union organized 1,597 new Sun: b/ schools, con- d 56,970 scholars, srthwestera depariment alone 199 new schools were organized with 2,103 Freodman's. Board "his pect to expend fully $100, /90 | duoe to a different result, wie e:ceptional- B entucky, and Florids, the{{h“a 159 chu ches und 83 of The Congregationalists have in Towa °32 The largest church is at Grinnell, with 580 members, and the mext at Des Moines with 318, association with & membership of 286, There are fouc more churches than last year, but five less ministers and 147 less missionaries in Great Britain number 5,180 officers and wembers, In the In the Scandinavian c untries the to al of officers and members amounts to 5,308, dis'ributed 3 . InSwitzr- land and Germany the saints number |other papers’ paragraphs. ‘The grand total in all these mis. sion fields is 11,715, distributed over 208 amounted to 2,233, the number of baptisms *Should T die in Charleston,” the late a single shlemn high mass to be celebrated I distinctly prohibiv it. to sink quietly in the grave, hoping an able Lishop will take my placeund c.r. care in tho funeril services of the lui: Bishop at, Cnarleston, S C., and about twenty priests followed the remains of the The numbers of ths religions jour:als rub“vhed by the different denominations n this country are as follows : Adventists have 14; Bajtusts, 73; Christians, 2; Con- 5’ Gampbellten, 123 piscopalinn: ; Evangel- 12 Mora EP | The lientenant was badly bitten, about 7 Methodists, 755 Mormons, 6; Presby: ¥ ians, 303 Quakars, 03 Reformed, 10 ; | the Rio Grande, where he was stationed. Ruman Catholios, 67: Spiritualists, 6} Swodenhorgiany ; Unltarinon, 55 Ui ; Wnited Brethren, 7; Non- Of the Lutheran Journals there are 30 German, 27 Eoglish, An eminent hi-torian_traces base ball back t) the time when Rebecca went down to the well with a pitcher and caught Mississippi can now_fully appreciate the In Rey. Mr. Miln's “‘Church of the , Phat is what the Jardin” Mabille, ‘recently sup- Some Princeton College boys offered to saw wood for a poor widow, but she re. plied that}if they would relay the four rods torn up by their crowd she would ask Heaven to see to the wood-pile, A Western newspaper has an article pon ‘‘Where Editors Go When They We reckon Baitimore is the place. They seem to have some pretty dead edi- tors there on two or three papers.—[Bo ton Deacon in his church, If there is anybet. ting on the result, please buy me a pool on been to camp- meeting several timps for nothing.”—[John Captain Percival, a Cape Cod mariner of bunk Ly » shipmate with the announce- i cternity, vo got ten ds over there to one in this world; let her go,” and ho turmed over und - went to A cvlored preacher of the western part bl *I delight to ub- | PV Dece's mos’ too iuch oh dis yer thing goin on. KEfaman can’v kue\)lhu sebeuth com- 1 say let man A Canadin Judze has decided that the Lease of & pew in courch gives the lessee right to sleep wnd snore therein during | 41, So it would seem that the only way to prevent the lessee exercising said the tailor, diseonsulately, to his wite, us of the church to which they be- — conclusion of the ceremony the bride was | MUSTOAL AND DRAMATIOC. murrounded by her gentlemen frien s, all of whom insisted on kissing hor, crestly to the displeasure of the je lous groom, to an ad Maplesont has engaged Miss Dora Hen- | ninges. st| @ilbart & Sullivan's new opera is to be named *Independence.” Trving, the English tragedian, asserts he has mads no posi.ive engagement to come to America Mr. James (’Neill will probably suc- oeed to the lead of the Union Square Com- sany, if Me Thorne coucludes to retire rom ib. Mrs. Langtry has agreed to re'urn to 1) | ghe London Haymark 't next season. when she will probal 1y play in a revivalof ““The Overlaud Route.” The music-loving public lost a jewel when Annie Louise Cary retired from the operatic stage. She had frost-proof lungs, i’ didn’t take ¢)ld and disappoint au- * | dience. Henry E. Abbry has offered M x Stra- kosch $12,000 for « week of his company at the Boston musical festival he isyeittng np. Mr, Strakosch wants $15,000. At this festival Gerster will weet Putii on equal terms, Manager Henry Abbey is making profits with Edwin Booth, who is playing under his management. Booth receives $500 por performance, and a percentage aiter the rec: ipts go over $1,00). The famous Western comedian, Mr, Jotin Dillon, hus been engaged for a_term of two years by the Macisou Square Thea- tre, aud will appear as_Pittacus Gre:n in the Madison = Square Theatre Company, whi ‘h will soon uppear in ‘' Hazel Kirke” in Omahs, Madame Marine Durand, who has been singing with great succ ss at the Giaud Opera House in St. Peters urg, 18 an American, She was the wilow of . ajor of Hitcheovk, of Vermont, and is now married to an Italian gentiema . It is a singular fact that actors, whose habits of life might bs supposed to con- ly long-lived. Macklin died at 107, Dow- ton at 88, Roger Kemble at 83, Macready at 80, Young at 79, Paul Bedford at 75, Buckstone st 77, Karsden at 74, Miss O'Neill at 81, Mrs, Siddons. at 76, Mrs. Bracegirdle ..t 85, Mrs, Abington at 78. Of those still living, Webstor is 84, Mrs, Keeley 76, and our own sohn Gilbert is blithe and gay at 72. PHPPERMHENT DROPS. “Inonion there is strength.” The Hangman's Journal—Daily Noose. Misses don’t count—except iu the treas- ury d. partment. A dull raiser—The farmer who does_ not read the newspapers. Clip-tomania—The appropriation of They were twing, The parents chisten- ed one Kate and the other Dupli-Kate. 1f one dog can be placed on a scent, how many can be placed ou a trade dollar? —[New O:leans Picayune, h| Fashionable ladies with short sleeves wear t eir bracelets above the elbow. 1t | Policemen continue to pus theirs on their ;| wrists. Tombstone, Arizona, is growing o rap- idly that they roun expect to be big enough to chunge its name to Sarcophagus,—|Bos- 11 | ton Post. o It is said, “Foriune knocks once at ev- ery man’s duor.” In most cases it must have knocked when the mun was out.— [New Orleans Picayune. No circus is complete without » beauti- ful woman, and Fogg, who is pusted, says wherever a beautiful womau 1s you may look out for a circus.—[ Buston Transcript. An msthetic “incident: *‘Look at —,” said Joughnes to Smith, pointiog to aman striding up a1 d down a piazza at & water- ing-place, with corrugated Lrow; “‘the d— £ — thinks he thinking.” 1 a s, | three inches from the end of hi: vertebrsm, and twenty-five miles from the mouth of —[Tuxas Sittings, An exchange prints an ar'icle entitled, “How to Distivguish Small Pox.” But no one wants to distinguirh smull pox. What the public want to know is how to extinguish it. An anti-beer-drinking society has Leen forwed in Denver. Over the eatrance to their hall i inscribed, “Who enters here leaves hops benind.” A Chinaman would rather fly a kite than go un a drunk, tear down doors and thump a bartendéer. And yetsome peo- ple regard the Chinese as the intellectual er | equal of the white man, *“Were you hurt near any one of the - | vertebrae?” asked a lawyer of a witness who wanted damages. ~*‘No,” was the snswer: *‘I was hurt right on the race. course, close to the judges’ stand, An average man gives off 4,08 per cent. carbonio gas of the air he respires; respires 10,666 cubic feet of carbonic scid gas in r. | twenty-four hours, and consumes 10,669 cubic feet of oxygen, tour drinks und an ayerage of three tive-cent cigars a day, of A lady who had been trwelin%in Ttaly wan asked by a friend how she liked Venice. “‘Oh! very much indeed!” was the reply, ‘I was unfortunate enough, however. arrive there just at the time of & heavy iiood, and we had to go about the streets in boats,” In a trial before a justice at Dodge City, Kan., » witness, who way being bully- ragged by a oro.s-examining lawyer, called on ‘the ¢ urt tor protection, The justice handed hin a pi:tol. “I have no r, | further questions,” said the lawyer, | Barnum vave the kacper of his elephant $1,000 when he learned that “‘mother and child were doing well.,” As the keeper is not obliged to get cut of bed at midnight to dose the baby with paregoric, to keep it quiet. his pesition will be favored by of | those whose income is less than five huu- 14 | dred dollars a year, Kate Field says some very uncompli- mentary, and, we think, untrue things about the Americin shop-girl in the first number of Oar Continent, She refers to the bad manners of a particular sales- woman to whom the gave a three-dollar It is quite probable that the girl was #0 overcome by the rare sight of & *‘three- dollar bill” that what Kate took for bad manners was simply paralyzing amaze- ment,—[Norristown Herald, ‘There isa for- Up jumped a a the northeast cor- to remark: “Well, I guess yon's right there, muwter, There's Bill ,li‘le butcher, Three years ago he an't wuth a dollar. He's got s fortin The lecturer began tune lying in wait bullet-headed fellow & | ner bis right Is to vave less lumber in the pul- | now—wat it as you sy, by lying in bt thew thoro will bs less. slumber in the | weigher e bullstsheaded man sl we. . woze, Lk the lecturer was ill st ense dur- The followinz story is tld of ing the entire evening. uished Edmburg Professor: Desir A gentleman whois at p in at- &0 t0 church ouv wei Suuday, he kL tendauce at the stock ecouven ion fistso cab, Un reac hing + hurch door, h bow-legged from riding on horsela k that dered a shilline—the legal face his lower limbs attract attention when ho and w8 = mewbat surprised walks on the strect, Yesterday a perfect . cab 1 o sy, “Twa chliin, strange - stoppe him ustin avenue, feon.), Xins bis €y¢ 1y u X rtiover §1"PH frid, you ougle to ber demandea why Le changed two shillings, to the army.” *I ‘don’t think so,” upon which the cabmai dryly answered: | rasponded the other party good-humore ly; © | I couldu’t run very fast with them legs.” “You wouldn't need never to run from " | ariillery. The carnon balls would sll go between your legs. There is no other o | place for them to go.—[Texus Bifting T “4Not a bit of it." returned his| *Conductor,” said & 1ather ponderous wife, “Giive it tome.” The next Sunday | speciwen of the feu ale sex, who was clad Morning when the plate was passed around | from head to beel in valvct, aud whose for subscriptions to puy £ the foating | unkloved red band glittered with riugs debt, she dropped the bill in it, and before ductor, stop the car oppoate my the tmiddle of the week it was paid, **Mar. | busband’s establishmens.” — Say, old viage is a lottery,” rewarked the happy | fellow,” called & passener of the oppo tailor as he packeted the money, 'Y | gender, whose @ goiup Wi 1ather advise every wau to take the chances,” | rusty -“ay, eonductor, pull up when you [ ) get toold s rum and cigar shop. Some wen never L their presence of | want to get out there The car was wmind. 1u New' York & wman threw his | stopped ne directed when old J.’ shop was wother-in-law out of a window in the|Fa hed, and it was noticed that both the fifth story of & burning building, and | above- wmed passengers descended and carried & feather-bed down-stairs in Lis l-lwln.}l sbine pulot, [Boston Come= ul Bulletin 2