T v '7 t HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor, and Publisher. NIL. DESPI3HANDTJM. Two Dollars per Annum. NO. 48. VOL. VI. MDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1877. fflili r i 1 Tapper's Tribute to America. Great and undemtanding nation ! Hear with one whose lmtnblo pen Sends this hearty commendation Flying through the months of men ; Not in vain prefnimntmm daring, lint with gratitude sincere, As your thousand bountios sharing This Cciitenuial lmnvy year. no need doulit my faithful fitness Tims to judge, and bo to sneak, As a (rue and Inmost witness, Mindful, tliouuh his words he weak. Hinco I may not tell out htronly '. All the host I feci mid ncc, Lost suspicion, sneering wrongly Find a flatterer in mo. Five and twenty years have vanished Binco I hailed yon once bofore, And my memory holds unbanished How you greeted me of yore; Even now pome few surround mo Though tliut quarter century's fled And their love lias newly crowned me With old blowings on my head. Thanks to you, dear old and new friends. Knch and all my praise recoiv, Everywhere I know you true friends, And your cotdial words believe; As a brother greets a brother Mill our generous feelings blond, And we look on one another Each with each as on his friend. Noble peoplo ! now returning Absent thus so many a year, With what ken, not undisoerning, Can I judge your great career 1 How docs liip Van Winkle find you Worso or better than of yore? Flinging all your faults behind you? Forcing all your best before? Yes ! as in that old Dutch story, Vou have grown both great and good; Truly, progress is your glory, Winning all that mortals could; Truly rising better, wiser, For adversities and woes, Gathering good from each adviser, Tar and peace, and friends and foes. Temperance, morals, courteous bearing. And tbe hand to help all round, Each another's burden sharing Generous traits like these abound; Energetic, self confiding, And religious, and sincere, l'alicut, duteous, law abiding Men like these are common here ! (lod's go,d will your country blessing Helps your words of human will, Wondrous cities, each possessing Every type of ni t mid skill; While Uio wilderness rejoices, Showing Edens on the earth, With the shout of freemen's voice:', Woman's song, and childhood's mirth. Since your pilgrim fathers landed (Some of mine sailed with them, too Giant hearted, giant handed, We still tight life's battles through, 'Till th universal empire Of our Anglo-Saxon race JSmTJ.t us dc epev, 1 roader, higher, Kings and r.. is in every place ! Martin F. Tutn-i: DAISY'S COURTSHIP. The old fashioned kitchen door stood wide opon, imd the strong, swept west wind poured through the sanded Honied room, swaying in slow, graceful waves tho blue muslin skirts of ia'.:y May's morning wrapper, ns she stood beside the table arranging a pile of stemless flowers in n shallow glass dish. " Indeed, I'll never marry ft farmer, auntie. I love the country well enough here nt home, where nothing but the poetry of it falls to me gathering flowers, drinking creamy milk, sketching shndy spots, driving whenever I want to, and uhvays sent luscious things to eat and in winter rides, and sleigliiug, and plenty of books and my music." " And John Maurice." Her aunt tacked tho name very tersely at the end of the l'jUsj list of attractions ; then watched to nee the effect on Daisy's face. The pretty lips pouted charmingly. " Maurice ! Oh, John's good enough, of course ; but " " It'u a good thing you have got over your foolish attachment to him, Daisy, for he's going to be married soon. En gaged to one of the prettiest girls you ever paw a Mis Winchester, visiting at Castledean's." Daisy's eyes grew a little darker, and then she elevated her eyebrows coldly. " He's engaged, is he ? Oh, well, that's -perfectly natural, I am sure. I suppose Miss Miss Winchester, did you say ? I suppose she is a decided blonde, and petite .'" Daisy didn't say that Maurice had ofteif sworn that there was no other style of beauty for him but Daisy's own. " Oh, bless you, no! Miss Winches ter is tall, almost as tall as John, aud very stately, and a lovely brunette. Everybody thinks John a lucky fellow. " Duisyrose and took down her garden lmt. " I dare say he is only I never could see what there was about those tall, dark women to captivate anybody. Auntie, I'm going over to Minnie Castledean's aw hile may I ?" Mary watched the petite, graceful fig ure in the navy blue foulard cambric, nud white tarletnu shale hat, tied over tho clustering, floating curls, aud nodded her head wisely and smiled serenely. . " You darling you perfect darling to come to us, Daisy, I've been just dying to see you and have you at home again. We're going to have the most jolly times this summer, you know. The h mse is full, aud there is Nellie Win chester especially I want you to know, and the handsomest young officer on leave Gus brought him up Colonel Cressingtou; and we've impressed John Maurice you remember John. He's the handsomest fellow beats the col onel, I tell you, and Nellie's just be witched after him. " And Daisy laughed aud assented, and declared she lialf remembered John Maurice, and was dying to see Miss Winchester, and hi tended inaugurating a flirtation at once with the military gen tleman. Minnie rattled on, as seventeen-year-old-girls have a way of doing. " It's too bad I Null's gone down to the citv to-dnv to buy ribbon for tho pic nic oil, you'll surely be here next Tues day for our picnic nt Eagle's Ilea 1, Daisy? I suppose John Mnurice will take Nellie, nnd I am sure Colonel Cres singtou will be delighted to lie your es cort." " Colonel Cressington will bo happier than ever before in his life, if he may have that honor, Miss Minnie." When her morning mil was over, Col onel Cressington insisted on walking home with her, and Daisy permitted it not becnuse he was so handsome and so entertaining, or she so pleased with him, but because well, she felt a little pro voked at hearing so many praises of the lady to whom John Maurice was en gaged; and somehow it made her feel better to flirt ft little. And, as if the very fates themselves were propitious, who should she and her gallant cavalier meet, face to face for the first time in three years to Daisy, but John JUauriee John Maurice so perfectly splendid in his clear, dark, manly beauty, his styl ish clothes everything just as it should be. This John Maurice aud aud engaged to Nellie Winchester 1 Daisy's heart gave a bouud as he ox tended a hand which she saw had a plain gold ring on the little finger. And then she crushed nil the joy she had felt at seeing liim, aud gave him her hand with n cool, graceful little bow " Daisy May 1 is it possible ? Why, you are prettier than ever, and I de clare, Daisy, I nm awfully glad you're home again." He was so easily familiar, so frank ond engaged to her ! Daisy smiled. " Thank you, Mr. Maurice, fur your good will. I am glad to see you." It was very proper, very ladylike, but a shadow came over John's 'handsome face. " I hope I shall see you often, Daisy. You'll be nt the picnic on Tuesday ? Cressington, keep that sunshade over her head. Good-bye till I see you again." His horse was prancing restlessly, and ha wns oft' like a dart and out of sight when Daisy bowed good-bye to her uni formed gallant nt the gate. " What a handsome fellow John Maur ice has grown to be, hasn't he, uncle,?" Daisy was sipping her coffee slowlv that Tuesday morning a cloudless June lay, tlmt tne gods had arranged for the Castlcdenn party's picnic, nnd Daisy, her lovely golden hair brushed on her lore- hcad in loose burnished waves, nud caught at the back of the head with pale blue ribbons, wns impatiently trying to get through her toilet. Her undo buttered a slice ot home made bread with keen relish. " You might tiavel a seven days' jour ney and not come across ins equal. And hu4s Jnekv too. He sold his interest in that railroad for ten times what he gave, enough to buy him the prettiest farm in the e(y..trv --.Ige Wire, and its stock ed iir.t -duns, 1 "!u tell you. He's bound t make n fori-iiie and thev sav that Winchester rrirl'll bn'ii" him consider able." He'll never think of her monev. He's not that kind of a man at all." Aunt Murv stole a glane? nt the girl's face. "John's a splendid fellow, and his wifo'll bo the happiest woman going. I do say, Daisy, nothing would have pleased your uncle and I better if John had taken a notion to you." "You should have t-aid if I had taken notion to John. But vou see I haven't." She threw a kiss coqnettishlv ami van ished through the door to have a foolish cry up in her room before she dressed herself. And when Colonel Cressington drew up in his two horse phaeton, he thought he never had seen such a perfect picture of girlish beauty nnd happiness in all his life. Aud Maurice dashed by in his chaise with Nellie Winchester, radiant in white muslin and rose hued ribbons, in time to get a bow and a gleaming smile from Daisy, r.nd to think, with another of those slindows on his face that Daisy had seen before, that Colonel Cressing ton and Daisy were good very good friends. The long summer day had crept pleasantly along, and the lengthened shadows were warning the gay picnick ers it was time to be preparing for re turn. Colonel Cressington aud Nellie Win chester had strolled oft' urm in arm an lonr before, and Minnio Castledeau and a dozen others were lounging on the soft sward, gossiping, laughing aud enjoying a doleefar tiiente geuendlv. while Maurice was walking about unobserved, uure membered by the others, with head bent down, as if in close search for something lost his ring that until several minutes before he had not missed, and missing, had at once commenced to hunt for. Not that it was so valuable. But a pained, white look on his face thnt had been there nt intervals all day intensified as he thought how dear that simple band was to him and why. He went on aud on, seiiarating further and further from the party, until subs, low, indistinct, as if unsuccessfully sup pressed, but unmistakable sobs, attracted his attention, and a second's continuance in the direction ho was going brought him in full view of Daisy May, with her head bowed on her hands audi her frame convulsed with violent weeping, and glistening on her fair finger the circlet of gold for which he was searching. Seeing him she sprung to her feet, aud dashing the tears from her eyes, said : "I found your ring, Mr. 'Maurice." She drew it off her finger nnd handed it to him, calling ell the powers of on unhappy, foolish little heart to her aid to make her strong and indifferent who had been sitting there kissing and crying over John's engagement ring. John took the ring, and, holding it be tween his fingers and thumb, looked iu her face, with his own pale and eager. " Daisy, tell ine you were crying be cause you love me. Is it so ? Daisy, my only, my own darling. I almost dread t have your answer, for I fear it will be no. But do yon love me, my darling?" A sudden glory flashedover her face, her very soul looking out of her eyes. Then, her lips quivering piteously i "Oh I John, how can you talk to me so ? Nellie Winchester " He pressed her suddenly closely to him and pushed her hond down on his shoulder. "Look up, little one. Nellie Win chester is nothing to me, although ru mor has said so. You are all the world to me, darling. Am I so to you ? Will you take the ring I bought when I heard yon were coming home, and determined to secure yon for my own as soon ns I saw you ? Daisy, I have been engaged to vou since I can remember. Will you ratify it ?" And with nil her soul in the kiss she gave him, Daisy knew her heart was nt rest in John Maurice's love. That night it wns announced in the (Jastledean parlor privately, ot course, that the rjicnic had been a creat succosb. Colonel Cressington had proposed to Miss Winchester, nnd had been accepted, aud Minnie confidentially whispered to Daisy : "Wasn't it cunning? for Nell carried on with John Maurice just to try to make the colonel piqued, so that he woidd propose. That's the way I mean to do; don t you 7 Aud Daisy smiled and blushed, and stole a glance at Jolin's happy face, and thought how good everything was. Vniuleibilt's Second Marriage. Commodore Vaudcrbilt's first wife died in 1807. During tho summer of 1S08 he married Miss Frank Crawford, who was about thirty years of nge, the commodore then being m his seventy' hllh venr. jiiss urawford s father was a well-to-do planter and merchant, who came of a lrguua family. He moved to Mobile, Alabama, where Miss Craw ford was born. The war made serious inroads into the Crawford estate, and shortly ntter its close Mr. Crawford died. Early in 1800 the widow and her daugh ter Frank moved to New York. Thev became members of the Church of the Strangers, in Mercer street, of which the Rev. Dr. Charles 1 . Deems is pas tor. A distant relationship was found to exist between Mrs. Crawford and the commodore. Her mother was a Miss Hand. The mothers were first or sec ond cousins. The relationship gave rise to visiting and intercourse between the two families, and the commodore be came enamored of the daughter. During the summer of 1808 the com modore paid his usual visit to Saratoga, Miss Frank Crawford was also, in Sara toga. From what the commodore has said to acquaintances, it would appear that lie made up his mind to tho new ! alliance suddenly and brought it about wli lithe, suddenness nnd determination which characterized some of his railroad exploits. The commodore has said that when ho "popped the question," Miss Frank said she would have him if Dr. Deems could be found to perform the ceremony. Tho commodore immediate ly telegraphed to New York for Dr. Deems, but the clergyman happened to bo out ot' town, and the commodore hating ns usual to let anybody know what he was about until his plans were consummated, decided not to make a telegraphic search for Dr. Deems. He aud his young bride, without exciting any curiosity at Saratoga, made a rapid trip over the New York Central railroad to Canada nnd were married by a young Wesleyan minister in the city of Loudon. The commodore in speaking of his wed ding journey, afterward said : " I didn't want to raise n noise iu the United States, so I slipped over to Canada and had it done in a jifty, anil I guess the knot was well tied." Mrs. Frank Craw ford Yanderbilt has one brother, who is in charge of a freight department of the New York Central. Mrs. Crawford has formed a part of the commodore's family since the marriage of her daughter. ' It is told of Dr. Deems, that one day dining with the family he and the commodore fell to talking with some levity about the recent marriage. Said Dr. Deems, nodding to Mrs. Crawford : " Commodore, this is the lady you ought to have married." Oh, no," said the commodore, re garding his mother-in-law with a look of satisfaction, " if I liad married her, Frauk would have gone off and married somebody else. Now I have both." Proverbs for Subscribers. "A wise son maketh a glad father," and n prompt paying subscriber causeth an editor to laugh. " Follv is a joy thnt is destitute of wisdom,' but a delinquent subscriber causeth suffering iu tho house of a news paper maker. "All the ways of a man are clear in his own eyes," except the way the delin quent subscriber hath in not paying for his newspaper. " Better is a little with righteousness," than a thousand subscribers who faileth to pny what they owe. "A just weight and balance are the Lord's," but that which is due upon your newspaper is the publisher's thereof. " Better is a dry morsel aud quietness thereof " thau a long list of subscribers who cheateth the printer. " Better is tho poor mnn that walketh in integrity " and payeth his subscription than the rich mun who continually telleth thy " devil " to call again. " Judgments are prepared for scorn ers, stripes for tho bucks of fools," nnd everlasting damnation for him who payeth not for his newspaper. ' ' Hope deferred maketh the heart sick," is a proverb sadly realized by the publisher who sendeth out bills, "A righteous man hateth lying," hence an editor waxes wroth ngaiust the subscriber who promises to call and set tle on the morrow, yet calleth not to settle. It biteth like a serpent and 6tingeth like an adder" when the adder gets through adding up the amounts due from his subs. Whitehall Times. By-and-Bye. Wm. B. Martin, a ship ping clerk, went to his boarding house in Chicago, and after eating his supper and chatting with his roommate, struck up " Sweet by-and-bye." His roommate joined in the hymn, aud finally the chorus was reached. At the words " by-and-bye " there was a sharp report of a pistoL Martin had suddenly drawn a revolver and shot himself. There was love affair back of the revolver. THE OLI WORLD. ItllHi-ulllt-a or n Rnmo-Tiirktsb Wiir nnd Hcvcre (nimmlHO. A Long By a recent cable dispntch, Gen. Von Moltke is reported as predicting a long and severe campaign in case the differ ences between Russia and Turkey were not adjusted by the conference and ended in war. Von Moltke, besides being the highest strategical authority in Europe served himself, before Ids first promo tion, as Prussian Colonel in one of the Russo-Turkish wnrs, and has written a book upon it Whether he hns publicly expressed this opinion or not, says the New York Times, all pnst experience of wars on the Danube will confirm its cor rectness. In the war of 1828-9, which ended in the pence of Adrianople, the Russian Army was nearly eight months in advancing from the Pruth to the Bal kan, which mountains, indeed, they did not fairly reach iii that year. The Turks were ill miserable pliglit for defense, and possessed then none of the modern arma ment, and had not then adopted the mod ern European organization. Their forti fied places were poorly strengthened nnd defended, nnd they hnd no important de pots of provisions. Yet; by their remnrk able tenacity of defense 'in the fortified posts, they delayed each step of the Rus sian advance, and had their genius for attack been equal to thnt for defense, they could have utterly cut to pieces the Muscovite army on the right bank of the Danube. As it was, the Russians met with terrific losses both by battle and disease1, in the first year of the campaign, nud only reached tho district a little be yond the Danube. They had then, also, vessels of war to support the flank of their march over the Balkans and along the sea to Adrianople and Constantinople. As to those mountains, the Turks, at that period, did not seem to fully appreciate their importance, and the passes were not well fortified. The great defenses relied upon were the fortified posts at the front of them, Shumla, in the interior, and Varna, on the sea. It should, however, be said for the Russians in that campaign thnt, owing to a drend of alarming Europe, they en tered the contest with a very inadequate nrmy, nnd fearing for the safety of Po land, left large forces in that disturbed country, and broke up their invading army by uselessly occupying the1 princi palities. Manv stnpid blunders, too, were made in tlieir conduct of the cam paign, yet in that respect they were not unlike tlieir opponents. Among other deficiencies, they were entirely lacking in nn efficient light cnvnlry. Though the Turks were finally beaten, and made ft pence very disastrous to themselves, yet it is believed by good authorities that had the sultan held out a little longer, the necessities of Russia would have compelled her to make a pence very dif ferent in its results to both countries. Without considering other wars, ninny of our renders will remember the obstinate defense by the Turks under English offi cers, of Silistria nnd other fortified places on the Danube nnd in Asia, in the war of 1854-0. In that struggle the te nacity of the Ottomans fairly compelled the Russians to retreat, with heavy losses, mid to leave the Turkish side of the Danube uninvaded nnd secure. In weighing the possibilities of the coming war if war there should be be tween Russia nud I'lirkey, we are to re member that the bTdtan has now a very large nrmy and thoroughly equipped. When the armistice was declared, the whole Turkish force under arms amounted in actual numbers to some 300,000 men, with 6(!G Krupp guns, nnd 18,000 cavalry. The full number which can be called out, when the enrollment is complete, is 700,000 men, with 872 guns, and, in addition, some 70,000 "Zap tick," or veterans, nnd 20.000 Circassian cavalry, the best light armed marauding cavalry in the world. I he heavy Russian cavalry, it should be bomo iu mind, are utmost useless in the muddy plains of the Danube and the wild passes of the Balkans. The Turk ish infantry are, to a large degree, armed with improved guns. Then, nil tho fortified places, whose importance has so often been tested iu previous wnrs. are put iu better condition. The Dan ube itseli makes a formidable line of de fense; then behiud it come places like Silistria, Shumla, Varna, and others. Shumla is a vast fortified camp. Varna must be taken before any army would venture to cross the -Balkans and march on Adrianople. It would continually threaten the flank and rear of the invad ing forces. But uTna is on the sea. and nny power holding the sen could make it impregnable. The passes of the Bal kans, though not more than from 4,000 to 0,000 feet high, are yet easily capable of obstinate defense, and would be ex ceedingly difficult to occupy, unless the invading nrmy had a fleet to defend its flank nud furnish supplies. The Turks would no doubt contest these mountains with the utmost tenacity, and they would form a second and powerful line of de fense. It is nt least five hundred miles from the Danube to Constantinople, and tne ivussians nave probably no fleet in the Black sea to support their invadincr columns. It will be seen that the taking of Constantinople, even were Turkey without allies, would be a difficult task, and with Euglaud for supporter, would be impossible. Then, all recent history shows that the Russiau management of campaigns is exceedingly blundering, so that the war would probably be protract ed by the mistakes of the more powerful combatant. A Russo-Turkish war will certai ul v not be a short one. What lie Would Do. Says James Parton : For my part, if I were twenty years of age, I should strike for the soil. As soon as I could raise two years' supply of clothes and money enough to transport me, I should go to a region where nature had provided for the farmer favorable conditions ; say Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Iowa ; and there, about the first of April, I would search for a good farmer, who, for the space of two years, would give me food, lodging and instruction, in re turn for my hearty and loyal labor. By the end of my two years, I should be ready, perhaps, for a step forward. The iigm man is always wanted, always wel come ; by the time I knew enough, a food farm would come seeking me, and would go upon it, and earn it, and live and die upon it. A Brave Girl. The Pittsburgh Gazette tells this story : Mr. Close and family had gone out in the afternoon, leaving no one nt the house but ft girl, who is a servant in the family and whose name, unfortu nately, the reporter did not learn. She also 'went out for a few minutes, and when she came back found a burly look ing man standing on the porch. She asked him what he wanted, nnd he answered that it was none of her busi ness. She then ordered him away, nnd Jie retorted that he wouldn't go until he got rendy. The girl beenme frightened, nnd slipping in the hnll door closed it in the man's face, locked it nnd put the key in her pocket. She hnd been in the house but a minute or two when she heard a noise up stairs, which she thought was coal falling from a grnte. She went up to attend to it, but on reaching the room door (which was standing open) from whence the noise proceeded wns astonished and frightened to see a thief rummaging among the bureau drawers. She retained enough presence of mind not to cry out, ns ninety-nine women in a hundred would have done, but stepped away cautiously. Remembering that iu another rixira was a revolver belonging to Mr. Close, she went in and got it, nnd theu walked down into the hall to wait the coming of the thief. The Intter, perhaps having heard her, came down also in a minute or two with his hands nnd pockets full of jewelry, and wns nstonished to find him self confronted by the brave girl with the cocked revolver in her hands. She asked him wlint he hnd been doing, nnd ordered him to disgorge instantly. He refused, but the girl, trembling nnd cry ing with excitement, yet evidently de termined, told him she would toll him three times, nnd if then he didn't obey her she would certainly shoot him. The man ngniu hesitated for a few moments, but before waiting to ho told the third time, concluding thnt he was iu a posi tion from which escape from the threat ening revolver nnd daring girl was im possible, capitulated, and laid down his plunder, consisting of a lady's gold watch and chain, gold bracelets, etc., to the value of $200. The girl then threw him the door key nnd ordered him to de part, which he did without loss of time. The Dying nnd the New Year. The Independent, in n retrospective nnd prophetic mood, snys : There has been no grent quarrel between Christians, no grent division of believers, no such remarkable difference or wonderful re union as marks the external nnd ecclesi astical history of the Church. It has been n year of quiet, of peace, of grow ing harmony; a year of the progress of that spiritual history which most bless es the Church, but which does not find its record in its chronicles. The best type nud illustration of this stronger, deeper and better movement of Christian history is to be found iu the revival meetings which have been carried on in several of our large cities, nnd which have brought together into one body of workers believers of every ecclesinstienl name. And nothing more important or notable has occurred during the year. It is iu the continuation of this work in other cities nnd in the towns nnd villages of our country that we look for the re ligious progress of the new year. In our own country the threatening words which immediately followed the disputed election have been withdrawn or modified, nnd no one believes that we nre to have a Mexicanized republic. The situation is grave; but our people nre patriotic, nud they love their country more than party. We shall have peace. When this political riddle is solved we may also expect the much needed revi val of business interests and the restora tion of prosperity. We close the year thankful for its mercies and trustful that the new year has in store for us the love and pence of God. Mr. Cute nnd his Horse. Mr. Alphonse Cate returned to Wil liamsburgh lately, aftr nn absence of five years. His return recalled tho story of his departure. Ti en he was the owner of a large sorrel horse, and the work it had to do told on the poor animal. After months of ill treatment, the horse be came unfit for work, nnd Mr. Cnto was forced to give it to the offal contractor to be killed. To the oft'al wharf he led it, belaboring it on the way with a long stick. The horse was tied, and one of the contractor's men raised the axe. As the blow fell on the horse's forehead the animtd tore the rope from its fastening, tottered for a moment, and then dashed through the crowd of idlers direct for Cate. Terrified, Gate ran up the wharf, the horse pursuing him to a pile of lum ber in the ship yard on the opposite side. The horse was almost on him with out stretched neck nud open jaws, nnd fire flashing from his eyes. Cate doubled about the pile and climbed on its top as the horse tried to spring after him. The effort, however, had exhausted the horse, and it died with its fore feet resting on the pile. Cate was so overcome that he had to be carried down from the lumber. A few days thereafter he sold out and dis appeared. When question on his return Cate shook with terror nnd begged not to be reminded of it. "I went away," he said, " to escape talk ; don't begin it A State's Debt. The message of the Governor of Ohio shows that the hx-al indebtedness of the State is now $36,059, 987.5(1, the reimbursable debt SMI, 481, 503.30, and the irreducible debt 4,207, 716.90. The taxes levied iu 1876 aud collectable in 1877 aggregate 29,965,185. The taxable valuations in Ohio, as shown by the grand duplicate of 1876, is $1,597, 469,966, which is a decrease from the grand duplicate of last year of $1,105,896. The State debt has been reduced during the past year nearly $500,000, aud the indebtedness of the counties, townships aud school districts has been reduced over $1100,000 ; but cities of the first aud second class have increased their indebt edness more than $10,00,000. An Army of Them. The total num ber of, arrests made by the police of New York during the year 1876, as computed f lma tlieir returns from January 1 until th4e morning of December 80, was 91,401. THE CYCLONE IS INDIA. Wbil i i Enffllnh (Jrntlrman Telia l' al'llie Had Afliiir. A minute by Sir R. Temple, dated the twenty-first of" November, has been pub lished respecting the effects of the lnte cyclone and storm-wave in Eastern Ben gal. The minute snys : " Proceeding to Noakally ou my or dinary tour, I heard that a disaster hnd happened in the highly cultivated nnd thickly inhabited islands at the mouth of the Megnn, viz. : Sundoep, Hattin, Shah buzpore, aud on both coasts of the gwat river. I cut short my visit to Noakally, and hastened to the points where it was probable the worst distress must have been. I visited the islands named nnd the western const of the river district of Baekerguiige. In all the localities visit ed I took the number in each of the vil lages and had the precise mortality in each house ascertained in my presence on the spot, to prevent the possibility of deception. From authentic data thus obtained I was nble to check the locnl estimntes nnd measure the nctual mis chief done. "The estimate of the probable num ber of lives lost, nearly nil by drowning, has been prepared by Mr. Beverley and myself on our own data, compared with local reports, oral nnd written, nnd based on returns of the last census. We ap prehend that in an area of 3,000 square miles 1,162,000 persons had been sud denly thrown more or less in danger, of whom 215,000 must have perished; this is is only nn estimate; the exact number is not known yet, nnd perhaps never will be. The storm wave rose to a height of teu or twenty feet. The Noakally peo ple think it came from the sea up the Megna with salt water, and then that the cyclone turned it round and rolled the fresh water of the river down; the reflu euce caused the piling up of fresh and salt water which rushed over the sur rounding districts; drowned bodies were earned great distances; corpses begun to putrefy before the waters retired. "The Mohammedan population have no cremation, and the masses of corrup tion of human and nnimnl bodies were frequent, presenting a sickening specta cle. Many corpses were seen at sea; the bodies of living nnd dead were borne across tho ami-of the sen from Snndeep to Chittagong, the former clinging to the roofs of their own houses. The force of the inundation nppenrs to luive lasted from midnight to two o'clock in the morning. By daybreak there was much subsidence of the flood, aud by rmon the survivors came down from the trees und regained terra Jinna, and must have been foodless and shelterless all that day mid the next. They then got out tho stores of buriod grain nnd dried it; co coanuts also afforded thorn a sustenance. There was much trouble about drinking water at first, but the tanks must have speedily recovered from brackishness, ns tho water was generally good when we tasted it, though in many cases rendered bad by having putrid' corpses in the tanks. " No estimate can be formed of the number of cattle lost; the loss is bad for tho people, but fortunately there is no immediate demand for plowing their fields. At the time of my visit there was no severe epidemic save round Noakally; I have since heard that cholera has broken out on the Chittagong coast nud on the east side of the Megna. The first day or two nfter the disaster there were some attempts at plundering and lawless ness, but they were promptly suppress ed. Most of the local native officials were drowned. When the storm burst the abundance of the rice crop ripening was the well known Deltaic rice crop, which is far beyond the demands of tho local consumption and which affords quantities in thousands of tons for ex portation; of this a great part is lost, but if even one-third be saved it will afford sufficient for local consumption. " The boots, great and small, which constitute the only means of carriage were all lost. The Noakally authorities were thus bereft of resources for moving across the floods, and this was a very hard case on the Hattia island, where the people were three days succoiiess. In the Backerguuge district the boats were saved, but much wealth was lost almost entirely, in the form of agricultural crops or cattle. With the exception of Do w lutkhan, a trading town, which was clean destroyed, eight thousand inhabitants, a quarter of the number, perished. On approaching it we steamed for two miles through the creek; the banks were strewn with human bodies." London Daily Telegraph. Before Marriage. Lovers' quarrels arise from different causes ; sometimes from mere intensity of affection making undue exactions, and nt others from causes which, properly understood and appreciated, would warn the parties of the impossibility of their ever living happily together. For instance, a young mau who is en gaged finds his affianced very jealous. Whenever they meet other ladies iu so ciety, she treats him with great coolness. This chills his ardor, and makes him dis contented, so much so that he is in doubt about marrying her at all. He has, iu fact, come to the conclusion that if he be lieved she would treat him after marriage in the same way she does now he would never many her. As a geueral proposition, it mny be hud down thnt persons will not change essen thdly after marriage. A belief thnt they would has 'been the cause of countless unhappy uinrringes. They will be just about the same after ns before, nnd, if anything, a little more likely to give way to strong natural proclivities, or peculiar ities of temper. If you would not marry a young woman, provided you believe she would continue to be as she is now, without any very marked change in her disposition, then you do a very perilous tiling to marry her at all. The same rule, on the other hand, ap plies to the young men. Many and many a girl has made shipwreck of her happiness for life by mnrrying a young man iu the confidence that after mar riage she would wield such an influence over him as to reform his wild habits. She finds her influence diminished rather than increased, after they are married, aud disappointments, disagreements and misery necessarily follow. Marry no one with whom, without any changa of character, you are not satisfied. Items of Interest. Gold is the goal too many are striving for. Counterfeit dimes are in circulation, well executed in composition metal, but lacking the ring of silver. The man who vs " moved to tears " complains of dampness of the premises, and wishes to be moved back again. The times are so hard that an Irishman snys lie has parted with all of his elegant wardrobe, except the armholes of nn old waistcoat. Capt. McNelly's rnngers Imve, in tho last few mouths, captured or killed about seventy-five of the worst desperadoes in western Texas. Every man stamps his value on him self, the price we challenge for our selves is given us. Man is made grent or little by hiH own will. If you nre desirous of keeping your mind ' occupied while on the street, just contemplate the different styles of over coats that nre to be everywhere observed. If you want to see and appreciate the vary acme of innocent surprise, turn re porter and call on a railroad ngent to get the particulars of a smash-up ou his line. A beverage made from the leaf of tho coffee shrub, instead of from the berry, has lntely been introduced into Australia, and is said to be superior to ordinary coffee. Praise belongs to the Minneapolis school teachers, who marshaled 1,000 children down the winding stairs of a burning school building, and saved every one. What the Sioux Indian said to the government officer : " Why don't white man put Injun on wheels, like brave at tobacco store, so he can be wheeled around ensy V" Sweet thing in compliments. Totty (archly) "And so you've never been iu love before ? Astonishing 1" Horace " Oh, no. It would have been astonish ing if I had, since I have never seen you before !" The Baltimore Gazette wisely remarks : Many men would prefer to go ou nn un certain mission in the vain hope of dis covering a gold mine aud speedy fortune, than coining right down to hard work in a large city, with a certainty of obtaining a fair living remuneration. Mr. Schuyler's complete report ou Bulgaria states that seventy-nine villnges were burned, many more pillaged, at least 9,000 houses burned, 72,000 per sons deprived of nil shelter, 15,000 killed, ond that many more died from disense, exposure and imprisonment. A sad story of the ruin wrought in ft family by an erring son conies from Washington, where a young man named Tyler, the son of an old and respected physician, has been convicted of forgery. The disgrace killed his mother, and the cost of the trial ruined his father finan cially. A circuit judge in Florida was arrested for beastly drunkenness irpou the public highway nnd locked'irp in jnil. As soon ns he became sober, he had a writ of habeuK corpu issued returnable before himself for the production of his own body. It is needless to say thnt th jftdge discharged him. His majesty the king of Dahomey bit terly complains of the stoppage of the slave trade. "Here am I," said he to a traveler, ' surrounded by hundreds of slaves whom I cannot employ and do not like to kill, nnd you Englishmen have stopped tho slave trade by which I used to get rid of the surplus." The Paris Exhibition. Lucy Hopper, in a letter from Paris, says: A good deal of anxiety, not loudly expressed but very evident nevertheless, is manifested respecting the success of the Exhibition of 1878. Not only has Germany testified her refusal to take officially any part therein, but Italy has not yet sigualized any intention of par ticipating. As to the United States, I presume that Congress will indulge more in speech making respecting it than in appropriations. As to the French them selves, they grumble heartily over the near approach of auother Exhibition, when, as they say, they have made no particular progress in any form of art or industry since the last one, and will have nothing new to show. Trade is very bail iu Paris just now, the exports having fallen off greatly, and the usual influx of winter visitors having failed to arrive; House agents, trades people and hotel keepers all complain that there are neither Russians nor Americans here this season, and the prevalence of the yellow placards that announce "Furnished apartments to let " tell a conclusive tale of the lack of inhabitants in the quarters generally favored by foreigners. The hard times in the United States and the war cloud that broods over Russia have kept the citizens of those great monej'-spending nations at home, and their loss is severely felt. Worth Knowing. If bmallpox can be cured by cream of tartar, it is time everybody knew tho fact. A correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury says that it is not only a never failing remedy in the worst cases, but is also a preventive. The directions are to dissolve one ounce of cream of tartar in a pint of boiling water, and to drink, when cold, at short intervals. Not a very exact prescription, to be sure; but the remedy is so simule thnt it mo, i, well worth trying. It is said that thou sands have thus been cured, and that no murks of the disease remain. English. Rector (just returned from a tour through Palestine)" Now, for in stance, take the valley of the Jordan : it is really most interesting in fact I " Churchwarden Clodrush (who bos already stood about half an hour's soien tiilo description of the tour) Ah ! it mun be all vara wonderful ; end pray how might tounups be a-lookia' i' them parts, sir?" Tope Pius IX. The Roman Catholic church throughout the world will, on the twenty-first of next May, celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the elevation of Pope Pius IX. to the dignity of the Epis copate. Mrs. Gen. Sherman has charge of the subscriptions for the event in th United States,
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