TIE DAILY. GAZETTE ; PUBLIMED ET PENNDIAN, REED & CO., Owner Sixth Ate. and Smithfield St. P. B. PENNIHA. St, SOSLLH 1.1216, T. P. HOUSTON, N. P. KEEN, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. TRY 71 0 - 1 VII DAILY ill mall, per yea/ Delivered by cerrier.per THE DAILY GAZETTE. FOREIGN Zki.l . lllE SMPI has succeeded Nillaen In l'arin at the Grand Opera, and is almost as popular Tun ..kreltdueleaa Sapid° in building a church near Vienna, as a memorial of MaNiuditan. American has bought the old hospi tad ship Dreadnaught, at Greenwich, Eng, for n floating theatre, BetrupvEs festivals are to be held in, Ltipto.ig - and ViClll3ll. ' There will be some mustc at these festivals probably. THE lucky little on of the Duke of St. Albans had, for his godmothers Queen Victoria and .Ifias Burdett Coutte. • SERANDIN, a ' PaTildall wit, regretting the stay of Prince Pierre in France, • save that "tiw Prince's pistols aro the only part of him which go off!' AN English paper is about to be started in London which will pried selections Srotb American periodicals. - A sort of pritish Every Saturday or Living Age. "L'LcasTuttlam," in the first chapte&of Sir. Dickens' new story ' is no other than the venerable cathedral city of Rochester, near which the great am-011st resides. ltocatroNT Is not ill In prison. He romps daily with his children; and they made such a noise the other day that he warned them, "We will all be ruined out if Yeetreate such a row." A moNms-r to Ring Robert —lb° Brace" le to be erected ou the field of Bannockburn, Scotland. The committee are obtaining the design from the veteran artist, Mr. tieorge Crnikshank. FAtllb, the Parisian tenor, recently ten. dered payment to a shoe black, bui the gamin declined, alleging that between mfreree nothing is taken• for services rendered. 'lieu. monsieur," declared the boy, ' , play the kings of the opera, and I act the monsters." THE Great Indian Peuinallar Company, at the ensuing meeting, will onek authority to mine £.3,000,000 morn, ehare " capital, with, of memo, the concur- ranee of the Secretary of State for India Thu total Otani capitil of thu Company will thus Ito Lor_reaaed to 1:21.),000,000. fly the report of a police. Clintl_At Marl borough street, Loudon, it appetite that a husband, brutally ill-using his wife, en. deavored trr strangle her. While, how. ever, she lay thus, a favorite cat, named •• Topsy," auddenly sprang upon the man, and fattened her claws and teeth in bit face. He could not tear the cat away, and was obliged to implaro the woman helmd been 11l tieing to take the cat.away to save his life. - • i - MERL' is at last a prospect of the vast 1 - 1 mineral wealth of Chinn being tnrned to some account. Tring Finitae has received permission to open up . She coal fields at Nanking and Kinthaing, whore coal of a very superior quality. is obtainable.. He' i' intends to send to England for competent l i engineers and the . requisite machinery. Good specimens of coal have also been obe ' tallied at San-ti, some two hundred miles shoes Heaton% . . '.. ,Trit - reporters of the London morning papers"st ruck" a few nights ago, against .:, the arrangements Made for their cream 't modition at the banquet given ..hy the :-. Benehera of the Inner TempleTof the - Prince of Wales. They were not asked to dine, and were placed, they said, in a I.V ir tion T r o here u t l h i e ; :Lou t tl io ne t tl e i v er re lic; nor used to stay, and .the Timis alone has a report • of the proceedings. 3, Tue late Mr. Tluickemy had a nose of ; most peculiar shape, as may be seen by his portrait. The bridge wen eery lew, and the nostrils eittem _dr swell developed, ,-. On ode OCCabion, at aparty wbeie DOuglas .ii Jerrtild - wasc.preseit, it ass , -mentioned that Mr. Thaclietafs roligioui opinions were unsettled, awl that a lady of his as was doing her best to convert him to Romantem. To Romanismi" ex claimed Jerrold. 'gat us hope she'll be gin witlrhis nose." - - • M.;.lft7tnEnv, the Swiss Minister at Jechlo, says that :Japanese mothers have greater authority over their children than the fathers, and the rignte of women are so far reconized in the country that a wt.. man has wielded the sceptre of the Mika dos. Instruction is never forced upon either.parents or children. It is supposed - to recommend itself naturally, by. its own intrinsic merits, and every man and wo. man throughout the Empire is able to read, write and cypher. No one was recently more natoniahed than an enterprising Englishman in Rome, . who was about to open a large hotel In the Eternal City.; Hie intention was' to call it the Hotel Byron; but the Papal au thorities objected to that name on the ground that Lord Byron had been an infi del. At the same time they were kind enough to inform him that lie might call his hotel the Shakspeare House or the Newton House. He finally resolved to tall it the Westminster House. • A Pants corretit; writing' Nat previous to the vote on the *barite, soya A wine shop advertises "anti-plebiscitory wine;" those who will vote' "no" will be allowed credit, but the "yes" electors must pay on delivery. ' A dressmaker an nounces "au? and "non" toilettes; arid the violent Marscillaise journal augurs bad for the Emperor, because his name fur nishes the "no"—"Nap-O-leo-N." But the newspaper overlooks the fact that his Chriatien name supplies the better coin cidenee of a "yes"—"L-oTre." TeseDresden Gallery has been. enriched by the purchase of a valuable picture by Hans Holbein the younger, representing the death of Virginia. 'rho tribune Ap pian Claudineeits on a throne, and the tragic scene takes place in the midst of a crowd of people before him. The eleva tion of style and power Cot - expression ` shown In this picture are said to plater it in the front rank of German historical painting of the sixteenth anstury. • It has veryrecently been discovered in Bawl dont, bat no accortatuf tire circuMatances has satchel us. TEE English "Historical Manuscripts ' Commission," appointed to make enroll among the archives of • old English fami lies for archaeological purposes, have dia -1 covered, among other things, the original MMS. of the English Book of Gammon Prayer. We may also note as of general Interest the original letter of Charles I. iaddressed tote Henze of Lords in'ltay, 1641, recommending that Strafford be im prisoned rather than executed, and con tahfing,the postscript: - If he must die it were a charity to reprieve him until Sat- - i nrdayr and tire original pennon from i Laud, while imprisoned in the Tower.:: I_ ON the 18th ult., a - great fire, which lasted about- a week, broke out in the ' woods back of Fort William, on the Cana dian shore of Lake. Superior.' It spread liiver• an extent of couittry'empposed toffe I nearly fifty miles wide anti an naknowit distamsa northward. The "Dawson road." just finished for the presage of the Carta dian expedition to Bed Hirer, w bnrned its entire length, forty utiles. and every Ibridge destroyed. A force of 1100 laborers is repairing the damaged roadway. The f delay of the Canadian troops at the I Sault probably saved the entire force i from - total destruction in Aire burning wilderness. Mn. EDGAR DELIILMOND, writing 1.0 the Thset,saya the statement is net _correct that the captives taken by the Gieek bri. goads thew lots to decide Who 'should go to Athens for the money necessary for the ranee= The conversation of the ceptivei : on this subject related solely to the means at the disposal of each for paying er .rals - 00 large a sum as eao,ooo. Lord Ma n! caster said he...mid -guarantee half the entire stun, and Mr. :17 i gir said he would • guarantee the ream' half: and that the detalla should be sett led when all were at liberty. It thus resolved itself into a question between LordMunaiater and Mr. ryner who 'should go to Athens, and Mr. 'grier at once requested Lord. Muncsster to go. At that time there was little or no apprehension for their safety, it , being considered merely as a m0ney...4..6 m . Mr. Drummond sada that Her Majesty's contra at Innen" end the manager of the „ lonian Bank, Mr. Mer li n, within a few .1". hours .of Lord Muneaster's arrival- at Athens placed the ELM of 1:20,000 In gold, 5 at the disposal of Lord Munesster and Mr. . Erskine: , , /1 I(1 l'; z ,‘, ' .it . „ ill t ._ - ' ' - I' ett 1* ... ' - " " 1‘ 1 , ,_ . , 4 , , •_- . , . iir . " ) 6 c-AIV ,NV\ / ' , _ _ 1 11 . 'l_l_l tit 1 1111 -- - ' - 1 it, -- 7 - , , ESTABLISHED IN 1786. iiii3 GENERALITIES MI:FAILLAID is in New Jersey. CuEYErit has a free Christian rending MERE are many men who would steal a gun or a pistol, but how many that would ride a cannon?—,V. Leadcr. Mu application of the oxy-hydrogen blow pipe to melting ktde lucks is the last triumph of silence on behalf of the 'burglars, IT is not called a gtssi joke in Philadel. pitia for newsboys ordered elf a crowded street car to sling mud over the conductor and pkwogers, Indianian who laid down by the mo •lasses barrel iua slam, and went to sleep with the fluid running over him, was fined for disorderly conduct. A Wistossit: boy tried to ride on a farm roller a few days ago, but instead the eel ler rode on Lim. fie was sprind out so they had to bury him in a sugar pan. ANOTHER NVesteim boy has scut a tat to Beecher. -- Ilow long before Henry. 1 Ward will be advertising the superior wares of the Peekskill Violin eating Com• puny.! MR. JC,TIS MCCAIMIY has returned to I,ngland, and the Tribtout Gaya it le uo• ted tat a theme for special wonder that he doesnot threaten - us with a book about America. . • A LADY . of Fort Fairfield, Me., saved her house front being burned up, the other day, by re,sorting to her milk and cream after she wAs Out of water, and finally emptying her meat barrels of the pickle, and uslngAmt. • A u. 12: in Indiana, last week, lost his wife and family physician on the same day. li.' hi now searching for their re mains with a double-barrelled shot gnu. with the intention of burying them Guth In s the same grave. 'Au Pox and Choy, Chinese burglars at•FriscO, were caught going through a Celestial lodgink hotter a few nights ago, The former Will captured, but the latter lied op stair= and )114i0C1 from a fourth story window to the ground unhurt, is: the size • of this place'" gravely asked It New Yorker of the con ductor, just after the brakesman had called out 0-pe.-11-kaut a Southern station, where not a house was visible among thr, pines except a ratubling shell called an '•eating saloon." -Ws about as big, as New York," .was the ready answer, "hut it .isn't built up yet." MEssito. Cit.tß. AAR WALTER LIPPIN core have been taken as partners into the great publishing house of J. B. Lipid', & Co., the senior member of which is their father. When a 111,W fire proof addition to lie used at a printing house and now building is completed, .this firm will hare the largest book manufactur ing tatiblishment iu the world. SOME boys at Chicago dropped an anvil weighing two hundred pounds out of fourth-story window on to the head of au African who wan passing, when he had them arrested. Ile said Le mu, willing to let the boys Lave "fun. but when they jammed a ”gommuna" hat down over his oyes and spoiled it in that war, the law ROM take its course.—N. J". Democrat. A MAI , : at Cincinnati bet he could walk on the railroad track and make the engin eer of a passenger train think he wooden( and dumb, and atop the train. lie lost tho bet from the fact that the engineer didn'i stop the train worth a cent. The remains of the unfortunate non were pithed lip in a basket, and identified by the filling in one of the teeth, that was dog out of the mad. Tim approach of the census-taker has prompted come !Arun:dal to bring out .ate'c funny sketch. tyllich rends: Got any children the Marshal ,old To the lady from over the /thin, • The tedy shook her Saxon curls. And ClcUy answered, Neln. littabenkot course? tbeStarshatcal4 . To thedy from over the Ilhtvw: la The lady shook her Saxon curl.. ' And