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TEE OOSSTITUTIOI-THE 115105 AID TEE E5P0E0EJIE5T OF TEE LAVS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVI.
MIFFLINTOWiW JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA., WEDNESDAY. NOVE3IUEK 20. 1SS2.
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S(A1K.ISIDT.
a, melKxlr -JiuA the world all wring,
Anj never has word In its praise ;
i,a!U e wS:e JaJ lonS
U the world nJ 11 it. wars,
oocMdf . ' Qur 01,1 P'1.
" wMre .. uf the peorte as thpj- atiool.t,
H somrh.!.' think it full of grace,
wouldn't change the folks if he coutd.
soBrto-'J call crueI n J c!',
' p, ; ol on. nt sorrow, and pa n,
Vint life " but frt'n 'r lt0l1
Md ooi re kn-t id se;flsa faai.
fameiyvtf merri!j laiijhs and cries,
" -B arrari tt :ch a ilear old earth,
irtOi flwl! cr'wn the man who tnea
1 Ionian Sl nilirk uy h.-nest worth."
Mif 1k1j groans aud shakes his heaT,
till w Ioi a wreicne.1 one ;
snarl.!? wii-bes that he were dead,
Vint jwuoiwlJ eLe has all the fun.
pat stu, I fan.-j, you're tore to find,
Uo' P"-' or "t,!' or P'n OT fre
lW eeruin fact o niae up your mind,
jMIoaiw.ij alwajt (reu his thare.
a tK OF X BOMNKT.
i i reraised to buy my wile a uew
l.amrt." remarked tLe editor of tLe
i:(,r(lfT," as he crossed Canal stree t,
tna ii arm with Lis bosom friend, AL
Kuowlton, dodging a truck as lie ut
tered the words, and stubbing tlie toe
of tii'tit beot against the t ar lb in con
tinence. Well, now that you are in town, and
0E Broadway, you ought to keep your
vorii, a"11 buy her as Lice a bonnet as
ton can liuJ, ' ans-wered bis friend, as
lie steadied the newspaper niaa, re
Rerisg tun to his 4 quilibrium.
'Tes, I know I ought to, but you 6ee
we ce.tu.try editors ure not blessed,
usually, with many dollars as there
re qua.li in the case, 1 have come on
to Sew l'oik to buy material and to see
ltit cetiinu.-k'U nierchanLw' ads, and
In.nt Lot iuu imseif short. Then,
iain, it is a matter of two hundred
Bilks to Freetown, and I must go up
tLtnver on business b-fore I go hoaie ;
to ihit, ou the w hole, the t xense and
lie trouUe ot cairying the head-gear is
is too ilucIi. 1 guess Ai'.gie will have
to do witliout it."
"Do without it !" excliiinied Know 1
ta, Witt a wealth of reproach iu his
Vie. '"Do without it! You are a
jiictty fiilow to grumble about expense,
aud iiULce ! Your generosity is about
v poor as vcur grammar, l'ou say you
tte 'O'Eae on' to New York to buy
printing iLateriai ; now I say 'coiae on
l4 Lny a iiontiet for your wile ! You
an do ilit t pi'or.iie. but she will bless
tit exj.ei.se 11 it is a haLdsome bat, and
tie can let in r niihU rs know it came
iiithe ;y lrxni iew York."
'So, I iiu'-ss I von'i yet it this time,"
aaul Editor Bawshay. -
' Eut 1 gties you will, thonh," re
!ii Kiiowiton. "111 tive you no
peace ULtil you ptireliase a Vtiy love
u i box.iiit lii Uiat eharuiiiij; woman to
lUiu you luler so carelessly as 'my
lite.' Cvuie, now, we will bekin with
lie lilb &ture where tLeie is tue least
iiituihotd of iinoing one. Here, old
iciiow, is a place w here they bell aru
liCial tiowtrs ; let s g in and see if by
cLdiOe there is a bonnet for sale."
Somewhat against his will liawshay
tafcrnl hniiselt to be drawn into the
tfcp, anu ireteiity Kuowltxu w as aek
c to ' ee iAme bonnets.'
"Well," said the proprietor of the e
uliiiiuiHit, in reply, "well, we uou't
tetp bonnets ; our business is confined
to artificial tlowtrs ; but perhaps we
jure one or two w hieh have been UsetX
to Ji-jjiay anlples of our Roods, which
we can let you Lave at a low figure.
S.t'p th.s ay.
hi the rear of the large store five bou
nds were found and duly iiu-pected.
Ibetiret four were unanimously con
tinued, but the tilth was cuarming.
So UioUjjut the two male counoisseurs
Uiey jtzed at the delicate aflair Ueld
aiott iu iLe lignt hand of tUe merchaut,
wiioewavoj n giacefuliy in curvuiilear
iiiua giTUij it a sheer now to hu board
and cow to surlioai d.
"I," quoth Knonlton who was a
WLtior. and i l course au fait in all
HMen of this sort "it is jtibt the
tidtg jou want, Uawhay buy it,"
fcnjueuly the proprietor was blessed
itii a iiaj i y tlioUK'iit "llere, Jenny,"
fctcned, auurts-sihg a bloomirg youug
pfl, the centre of a giottp of live w omen
l"ie bais Lumber as the stock of bon
fctj Lo were engaged hi airaying
aLti kaves not ten feet away
"Here, J,.nuy, wiil you be so good as
,0 try tins on 't"
Jtnty t a lovely creature, who
Widesily cou'd mi ke ary bonnet seem
Wiier than it wits by 6imply wearing it,
Siiedul not aitar to hie the idea ol
utportiLg herself before two strange
"en in ot Jer to show oil" the btcoming
" if an citfciuil head coveting as an
eenient to them to purchase the
fe; it was a httie out of her line;
M "e came torward and trinu the bon
ot, Oithmg gloriously the while,
""Lfi a moot lascmating picture,
"kicu tue e-jiior and his triend regarded
"uii ojeu una undisguised admiration.
iue tat was lironounced nerfcctiou
Uatif.
'aLd tue charming gill returned
- w ine mercLant w itii a titucious air
u iXiiiioMmi and cmbarrasMueut.
Bawshay produceu a roll of bills,
tus apparently glvuig the lie to the lo
81 aouut country ohior's iucurable
tolCiiaioMty, au.i demanded :
"Llow uiueUV"
'iliy n.illiner in town would charge
J'-a at least twtnt -live dollars ior it;
m o don't sed hats, aud tiiis is
metiung unusual with us, you may
Lu Sr hve doUars."
"Five dollars !" said Know'ton, under
hreatn. "Five dollars ! About
"jwt as io value, but dirt cheap aa hat
Pfices go."
Aa nght," said Bawshav, "all right:
Put it up."
J110" Wed that the flower juui
; j"4 Prolong the process, for he was
tTtU4:d witu tne lair girl who had
jailed the article of dies iu such a
"tm!k'I'1e tnanner. ad he could
hU y ka l1 hls ei ts 11 her," aa the
fgoes.
.uav
niiuri-,tl nimi though he
luitiv,
tiy reuruiiv the young
Mik. i - "
t J: ,Aifc bt:i vocation, btiil as red hm
1 Klid o , 1.
ILe l jU tLu editor, as
tit r1; ttaclied the sidewalk, with
'oaTtil cou,aLULug the treasure be-
tSap1 yfc8' 1 am no ndstake !"
wTT toltou. That's the gill I
lookmg for I wonder how I
l?ccome sequaiuted with tier ?"
"TooTi enough." said Bawshay.
&ot l5i4,lcy "toret hou't you?
- "WiKn artuieial flower rtepart
buy your stock at this estab
lishment ; ask the proprietor to let this
.'J u juu; improve tne ao-
4uajiiance, and trust to luck."
vapiiau said ivnowlton, "IU Jo
u i Ana ne did.
The bonnet reached Freetown in due
course, ana many blessings were in
oaeu upon liacueier Knowlton s head
by the delighted editor's wife, who had
been informed of the incidents of pur
chase, and who wore the hnsbaud's ap
preciated gift so daintly aud with an
air oi sucu supreme elegance as to win
ai oice tlie applause aud envy of the
wnoie village. Uawshay biniselt had
more soiid comfort for his five dollars
man any tiitj dollars he ever spent
And while this "love ot a bonnet"
was creatunt such a sensation iu Free
town, it was exertiDg a powerful influ
ence still iu New York. Following his
literary iriend's advice. Kuowlton be
came a customer at the store where the
now famous example of the milliner's
skill had "been purchased. According
to programmo and arrangement with
the owuit, the blooming young girl who
had fascinated his sense at hrt eight
waiieu upon mm
She was not as dif&dent aa he pi
pe c ted. She served him with exqui
site grace, answered his questions, lis
ten. -i to his diffusive and eflusiva m.
marks with an enchanting air, seemed
to like the young fellow immenselv
and alter a lew weeks the proprietor
thought he had not done a very good
thing in allowing Jenny to wait on his
new customer, as he took u. too much
of her time over very small purchases,
ana seemed to be waiting on her, rather
uian siie on lum.
At last . he. remonstrated. The next
time that he dropped iu to buy be found
the charming young lady more cordial
and merry than ever before, and his in
toxicated sense reeled with delight ; so
that he did not know as his erand-
tuother used to sy whether he was
standing on his head or his heels."
ah ai once, tne tair girl s sweet voice
startled him beyond measure. In silver
tones ot dulcet soltnet-s, with a world of
insinuation, in them, she asked, as she
leaned over the counter, beaming upon
him with a melting suule :
"l'ou are becoming very loud of me
aren't vou ?"
Like Ciark Bussell's "Orosvenor" iu
a cross sea, bis mind was taken "all
aback," and, dke the vessel, he was in
danger of sinking wrong end first.
"Because,' continued the lovely girl,
1 don't want to create a lalse impress
ion. 1 am married, iuy husband is an
invalid at present, but wi'i not always
be so, and 1 exuect to leave this situa
tion soon. I took it to keep the wolf
trom tlie door, but I haven't found it
necessary to grow pale and thin over it;
and as I alaays believe in looking at
the bright side, I am, my friends tell
me, younger looking than I am."
Knowlton was dazed, but he heaid
every word as she went on :
"-"ow 1 like you very much I liked
you the first time 1 saw you. It seemed
so good ot you to urge your friend so
earnestly to buy a bonnet tor his wife.
You continued a conversation about it,
you reiueinoer, that had evidently be
gun iu the street. Air. Kuow lton, my
married life has been Very happy, and
although my husband is sick, lie is iu a
condition to get well again, and the fu
ture is bright with hope. I have
tuougut all along that you only wanted
a gcod wile to complete you, and 1 have
picked out one for you, who, it you take
to and are fortunate enougn to win, will
make your Jde happy, I have a sister
who is just like me iu everything a
counterpart, iu fact. Sue is employed
in a store some-thing like this, tartlier
up the street. I will give you a letter
oi introduction, it you like. I sell flow
ers, she sells feathers. You can make
her acquaintance buy leathers, etc,
and, in time, you may be ultimate
euough to ask if you may call ut.ou her.
1 shall say nothing to her meanwhile,
unless you desire it ; but if you make
slow progress, I will arrange so toatyou
can uioct her at my home. I am sure
she wul like yon, and, if you . like me,
you ought to like her. How does the
proposition strike you ?
At last the ntetry htlle woman ended
her epeech, aud waited until her would
be auuiirer had recovered siiihcient'y to
make answer. The novelty of the
whole affair, from the buying of the
bonnet to the proposed introeluctioii to
a second fair one. caused the 'domb-loundedly-perpJeed'
bachelor to ex-
claiai :
"Well, this is the oddest experience!
have ever had. 1 have always said
that my state should be one of single
blesseduese, and here I am iu the mat
rimonial net, caught fast. Yes, I'll see
vour sister." said Kuowlton, decidedly,
jumpu g to his feet and giving the stool
a whin "I'll see your bister. And if
she is half as johy and good as yourself,
I'd do my best to wed her,
Feutl ers proved as excellent a pre
text as flowers. Kuowlton made tx
Uuoriliuary progress in afew brief wets,
and "Bister iiattie," who was, if any
thing, more lovely than Jenny, was cap
tured completely. Then first meeting
was an example of timultaneous, strong
mutual hkiug. and as the days sped ou
it deepened.
Kuowlton prospered in his business
and prospered iu his love, Jenny s
huslxdid got well, aud there being noth
ing in the war, the generous bachelor
became a Benedict, married name,
built a small double cottage ou Bergen
Heights, so that the bisters are the next-
door neighbors; and, though be may
have occasion to grumoie as mucu as
Bawshay hereafter, he has registered a
vow to draw the hue at bonnets, foi,
however reasonable it may be for other
men to complain of prices and frequent
changes in millinery styles, he will
never say a word bo long as his wife
makes good selections and hu sister-in-law
wears a "Love of a Bonnet."
Feathered Fasaeuire'a
m t .;,.!. l.-v noniiuehoed leaving
Canada for the South, and the vessels
have a great many of them lor pass
engers across the lake. Captain Saun
ders of the schooner Oliver Alowat re-
poits that, on his hist trip iroiu yu-
lotte. to Kingston, anu wmuo
acro.4 the Luu gret number of birds
of various colors and species fluttered
about the rigging and deck of the ves
sel, They preeenred a charming siht.
Many of them reuainea ou
night They were very tame, and if
HTe cabin windows had been open would
have likely flown into the warm room.
During the trip the Captain ght
6 , . Ai,t inn ha fcred
only raised the feathers. Captain Ihx
bis veel was ki "YTTV
n his last fcnp aarosa au. -
Ia a Baar. Mouth.
une or the severest and most desperate
icumura oeiWA?a man anl brute that
nes ever taken place ia Califorai. oc
curred recently in Mimmoln Park. Mam
moth Oulch. W illiam Purenteau, foreman
of tte Ounncll nuae, had stared out for a
Paboatu day's sriort and reached the psrk
rather early. Dunne the niirht a amrht
snow had fallen and the mountains were
covered with a light and delicate coatins
oi wnite, wnic& was lncecd all that the
hunter could desire, for it left the trail
oi mm or beast plainly visible. Mr. Pa-
renteau soon struck a bear trail, before
he bad gone fifty yard be heard a shunt
noise to bis left aud quickly turning around
he discovered a lar?e female bear and a
well-grown cub. She secmd to be hesi
tating for Ibfl moment whether to give
tight or not. Ibe mother and cub were
not over twenty jatds from the hunter
and his decision was made up as quick as
a flash. He would kill the old one and
take the chances of Hie younger running
away. His rifle was at his shoulder in an
instant, but as bis finger touched the triir-
zer the bear made a lunge at him and the
ball went wide of its' mark, missing the
now infuriated animal entirely, lie threw
his gun aide and jerked fr.au its sliea'.h a
long hunting knite Unfortunatelv for
him the bear caught the hand in which
the knife was clutched as it was descend
ing farenteau thought that it was over
with him, but the near seemed anxious to
get her victim around the neck end give
hiui a death hug, so she released the hand
and gDt her piwson both shoulders. Par-
enteau doing all that he could to keep out
of ber embrace, in tne meantime he was
applying the knife with all the d.f peratim
of a man who tuew that he was in the
very clutchr of a terrible death. 'Ihe
bear gave htra a fcariul slap in the face,
lacerating the fkfh and almost blinding
hiiu. S:ie was now fairly bowling with
pain, as the knife would fink up to the
hilt with every thrust. In the struggle
Pare mean felt hisl.lt ttm-li
heaving I'S Socket, aud he knew that li.e
struggle could not Inst much longer. The
pain aud loss of Mood were telling on him
raptdiy, but he determined to sell his hfe
as dearly as passible. Whenever an op
portunity offered he buried h: truMy knife
lu the body of the hear, who showed s ime
signs of weakening, liis left knee-cap
also reoetved a terrible injury and he was
almost crazed with pain. Finally he saw
an opportunity to drive his knife home be
hind the left shoulder of his enemy and
she loosened her hold at once. She stood
over him for a moment, with the blood
gushing from eighteen wound?, and then,
tailing over on her side, expired.
It was some moments before Parentcau
could gather up strength tnough to even
try to move, fie presented the appear
ance of having been through a slaughter
house. His wounds aud the blood trom
the beast, which had been spurting out
upon bun like water from a fountain, in
deed caused him to present a saDguiuary
appearance. lie was unable to pick up or
carry bis gun, bat Cading a suck close by
be hobbled and crawled along until the
flaw-null was reacliei, uia two miles
distant. A messenger was at once dis-
oatched to Central for Dr. Asiibaogb
and he soon responded. The wounds of the
injured man were dressed and be was made
as comfortable as pos-ible. Phil Paren-
leau, a brotner of the wounded man, has
arrived from AI amino', h Park. lie says
that his brother's injuries are much more
serious than at first reported. The bear
got his bead in ber mouth and actually
hewed on it tor a few momenta, the
bridge of the nose was literally emptied
aud shattered into small particles of bone.
A cavity was created through which the
wa.ls of the throat can be plainly seen.
There is a deep incision between the head
and the termination of the spinal column
and the scalp is laceiated aud shockingly
lorn in a number of placirs.
A Police court at Cairo.
The Prefect and his deputy were array
ed in black coats and trousers, white
waistcoats and patent boots. But they
sat, as their predecessors sat a thousand
years ago, cross-legged on the divan. Liti
gants came up wnhout formality, kissed
their knes or their bands, according to
rank or favor, bent, with hands folded in
their sleeves, to declare the grievance volu
bly, answeied a brief, harsh question and
took the verdict helpietsly. Cases lasted
on an average two minutes each as near
as I could time it- And ail the while
men came and went in the htlle room,
talking mostly in high, quarrelsome voices.
Coffee passed about. If any one present
was stiuck with an observation be onerea
it casually, and bis worship listenea.
After delivering judgment, always pre
ceded by a grunt of general dissatisfaction,
be clapped bis hands and a soldier rushed
in at full gallop, holding up his sword
Forthwitn the parties retired to discuss
matters warmly outside in full hearing ol
the court. A matrimonial difHculty te
ferred to the authorities lasted but four
minutes by my watch. A thin, peaking
man looked the husband, while the wife,
so far as one could juihje by eyes and
nose, was very pretty. 'Ihe gentleman
told his tale, the purport ot which I could
not gather. The lady turned red to the
'ip ot her little nose and her eyes flashed.
She took up her parable vehemently, and
sternly tue Prerect asked further expluna
Lions of the husband, who turned very
pale, lie found nothing effective tj re
ply ; his worship pronounced in a single
phrase, the galloping soldier appeared and
off went the pair. I asked of an offi
cial who spoke Enl-Eh if the man was go
ing to prison. "No," said he, "he go
home.'' It must be admitted there is
someihing to be urged for a system which
can deal with domestic trouDles in this su
perior way.
eeea out of Buauieas.
Among the Litest victims of foreign
competition are the bees of Russia.
Under the baleful influence of the free
importation of a spurious kind of wax
called ceresiua, manufactured in Austria
the native industry is dwindling at a
rate which threatens it with extinction.
Of ceresiua, which bears the same rela
tion to genuine wax that oleomargarine
does to dairy butter, no less thah J ,000,
pounds are annually imported, chief J
for use in the manufacture of tapers,
which figure so prominently in all Rus
sian churches. Tne price of wax has
fallen, nnd stress of competition with
ceresiua, torn 30 to 47 roubles per
pound. At this price bees are regarded
as hardly worth their keep, and in one
district the honey crop has fallen from
15,000 to 6000 pounds "per annum. By
the new tariff an import duty of rouble
pound has been imposed on oeresina;
but according to the Moscow Gatttt;
it will have to be raised to 10 roubles to
give the poor Was a ehance.
A Ureal ChM riaj.r.
A little man, with a lull red beard,
moustache and whiskers, a plentiful crop
of light brown hair, aad a twinkling eiue
ere, sat in the rxm of the Philadelphia
chess club, at the Irving Ilouse.on Walnut
above Ninth street. Half a score of mem
bers sat around the Jolly little man, who,
from wearing a constant smile, gives out
the idea that be couldn't biok augry if he
tried, not a little proid of their cap'-ain
for there in the flush sat the greatest of
living chess players, Wilheltn Steinitz.
to the enteroise of the club chess player
in this country are Indebted for an oppor
tunity of seeing this great master ot the
game exhibit bis prowess with queen and
knight, rook and bishop.
in engagement, extending over forty
days, has been made with Mr. SteiniU,
ami the first ot the series of matches be
w'll piay in this city it is expected will
begin on Saturday next. Uis first oppo
nent will b-i D. Martinez, a strong playerJ
who, it is boped, will make a good tight
with the distinguished visitor. Messrs.
Iteirhelm, Eison, Neill, Michacli. Roberts
and Da'iser will later on engage in friendly
rivalry with the great player. The match
with Mr. Martinez is for 5U0. The play
will begin eaeh day at 3 P. 51. A recess
of an hour will be taken for dinner and
the game continued during the evening.
1 ransterraa'e tickets admitting every
cvenius throughout the match will be o.
entitling the holder to a six months' mem
bership of the club.
5Ir. Sleinitz arrived yesterday by the
Indiana. We left Liverp-ol oi October
toth" he said last night, "end had very
rounh weather for the first five days. We
had head wim!s and treoiendous seas, but
the vessel behaved excellently, aud but
for a little trouble with some ef the pack
ing of the piston, which caused ut to lay
to for half an hour, the machinery sIomI
the strain all right. One ''ay, in the
height ot tlie storm, down tumbled a
whole lot of crockery, aud the steerage
passengers were scared almost out of
their minds. We bad one deafh during
the trip, a poor little baby, and two Hun
Marians in the steerage engaged ia a
puiumeling match, but beyond a cut in
forehead that one fellow got no great dam
age was done. 1 am vety pleased that at
length an opportunity baa presented itself
enabling me to visit America, 1 look for
waid with much curiosity to my games
with Mr. Martinez. Capt. McKenzie, who
has played with him, told me before I left
London that he plays a very strong game.
1 am glad he dots ; 1 like to he put on my
mettle. The winner of the tirst seven
giuies will be declared the winner of the
match. " In reply to a query as to whether
he would play any games bliudf..ldea, Mr.
Sieiniiz said : " Yes ; 1 believe th;.t is
part of the progra-nme, and I am also pre
pared to meet a number of players simul
taneously, und.T like coudltioua."
Mr.Sttinilz was born i- rrague, Bavaria,
in lij'Ki. He has been prominently twfore
the public as a chess player for more than
twenty years. He has repeatedly beaten
Biackbura, bis great rival, in the most de
' i-ive manner, iu li2 beating him six
itames to one; in 1670 winning five
straight gsuiea, and in lt7 defeating him : were enipted ot their contents. Ihen in a
seven gabies in succession. In 172 he sn'u ,llwr "'''h we,e m,x Mme tuul
met the great player Lukertort, wmnbig T w"h sugar aud given to all the
seven games to his opponent's one. r or
nine years Mr. Sleinitz conducted the
chess column or the London field, lie
has recently resigned his position ou that
journ U aud purpose starling a paper ex
clusively devoted to the giuie of chess
on his return to EnHnd.
The ext German Empress.
It is not every friend ol monarchy who
approves those traditions which, as in the
house of HoeuZ'jl em, exclude the beir
apparent and bis consort from participation
in nearly all the important affairs of the
nation and render it extremely difficult for
them to develop and to manifest such spe
cial gifts as they possess for acqturing the
affections of their future subjects. The
falling health of the Empress and the Em
peror s great age are, however, at pre-ent
giving an opportunity to the Crown Pri-ce
and Princess for showing in bow high a
a degiee they arc endowed with all those
qualities and masters in all those arts that
insure popularity to princes, la welcom
ing the Crown Prince of Austria aud his
young srouse on their first visit to the
German Court, P.tnce Frederick William
and our Princess R yal are discharging a
duty for which they are eminently fitted,
and which the cordial relations subsisting
between the Imperial families of Austria
and Germany render a genuine pleasure
for all concerned. During the days pre
ceding the Imperial visit the Crown Prin
cess ot Germany has been receiving depu
tations and visiting several hospital? and
schools, Cathohc and Jewish as well as
Prctestanl, and charitable establishments,
giving proofs everywhere of a thorouph
and uncommon knowledge of the art of
nursing, the necessity of ventilation and
all those branches of hygiene culture in
which England excels the rest of the
world. In the " oiskucbe" of a ladies'
association she tasted the cheep and good
soup made for the poor, received a report
trom medical men on the excel eut results
obtained by sending pale and sickly town
children into rural retreats, or, as German
designate them, holiday olouL-8, and
complintt-nted the citizens of Breslau on
the liberality with which their charities
bad been endowed or bad been kept up.
On another occasion she attired herelf in
the "attila" of her regiment, the Black
Hussars, and denied with her men to front
of ihe Emperor, first in slo w and then in
quxk time. On Thursday last, when the
Crown Prince, with. Count Molt ke and the
latter 't designated successor. Count Wai
dersee, at bis side, was witnessing the ma
neuvers from the supposed enemy's camp,
Princess Victoria led ber regiment at full
canter to an attack upon his position, elic
iting from ber husband the reniaik that
this was the first time in his lite that she
bad figured among his adversaries."
A Uuiqae Marriage Ceremony.
One of the counties of the State of
Couneticut boasts of a judge who,
though pooily furnished with those lit
tie refinements usually met with iu poli
shed society, is au energetic, shrewd
man and a promising lawyer. A neigh
bor of his, Borne weeks ago, was about
to give his daughter away ia marriage,
aud having a deep-rooted dislike to the
clerical profe-ssion, aud bomg determin
ed, aa he said, "to have no infernal par
son in the house," he scut for his friend,
the judge, to perform the ceremony.
The judge came, and the candidates for
the connubial yoke taking their places
before him, he thus addressed the
bnde:
"You swear you will marry this man?"
"Yes, sir," was the reply.
"And yon (to the bridegroom) swear
yon will marry this women?"
"We 1, 1 do," said the groom.
"Then." in the fadgw, 1 swwuf
you're majcied."
Wor.nlpolna' Aeeoout-Boowa.
A correspondent writes : "Dewalea, the
feast ot lanterns, has often been described
in your co'umns. I proceed to describe
the interesting ceremouy ef Tahee Pools.
which I was invited to witness at the office
of a distinguished native Inn. Among the
natives of India, whether they be Parsees,
Mohammedans, or Hindoos, lor practical
purpose the new year com me do 'w with
that of the Hindoos. The ceremony of
Vahee Poo a, at its name denotes, is the
worshipping or the account-book for the
new year, it takes place a day before the
Dewalee, and is performed not only by
every merchant and trailer, but even by
private persons. In short, the new year
among natives of India, whether for busi
ness or household affairs, commences with
the new year of the Hindoos. This ne
cessitates the closing of oid accounts and
opening of new ones, and for the latter
purpose new books are used, but before
they can be so utilized they must be wor
shiped, ana each according to bis means
does this. The wealthier native firms
avail themselves of the opportunity to in
vite their friends and constituents to be
present to wish them a happy aud pros
perous year. The firm who had invited
me is one of the oldest firms in Bombay. 1
of course expected the pooji, or ceremony
Of worshipping, would be performed b
the nobeds or dustoors, a sort of jattin
ce remony but 1 was surprised on eutenng
the office to see the place of honor assigned
to a half-starved anu very dirty-looking
Brahmin. On the floor of one of the rooms
was spread a clean floor-cloth, with huge
cushions near the walls, in the center of
which were piaeed s.lver travs containing
yan-ttiparec, cocoanuti, battMa. dried
dates, sugar-cice, coriander seeds, and
silver and copper coins. In an adjoining
room was placed a sdvur vase containing
Hie, and rund It stood oue oi tue high
priests, or dualoars, of the Parseea, at
tended by Severn niobeds.
Wben all the preparations were com
pleted we took our seats by the well-adjusted
cusuious,and all who knew Gur.Ta'j
were given a new aceount book and a near
pen, and each wrote on the second leaf ot
the book what seemed to be a supplication
to the deity invoking h s blessings (in as
many names as he is known by in the Zj
toastrian calendar) for the new year, which
is writ lea ia full with its corresponding
English aud I'.trsee dates. When some
thirty books bad been written up, the B:ah
mm who sat in the center amid trays
containing the at tides above enumerated
had them submerged in gutat and the red
stuff used by natives on ail auspicious oc
casions; and thus the dustoor aud his mo
beds on the one baud, and the Brahmin on
the other, invoked the deity's blessings.
Tue duties of the Brahmin were not, bow-
ever, cou lined to simply supplicating his
gods to bless the undertakings for the
coming year of the Parse firm; thy
sett wed to be of a mulnfarous nature, tor
',e at peared to have bad to bless (by.mut-
j 'e-S someluiug in Sanscrit) each article
i 3 he took it from the tray, and after
. besmearing it with the red stuff, to place
1 u u ouo of ,n8 many ne UQl fck
, Cfcar Bim- Tuia eut on uuUl the trays
guests to eat; aud Uen, as it were by way
of a final dramatic effect, the Brahnun
took a small silver vessel, and in it placed
some of the red stuff with two or three
pieces of iguited can.pticr.aud bad it taken
about the room while be stood up shouting
at the top of his voice, "Brahma! Brah
ma!" Then were distributing money,
nosegays, an.", pan suparee to all those
present, and the proceedings terminated.
1 w as intoruied that the books and articles
would be lett undisturbed on the floor as
placed by the Brahmin until the new
year's day.
A lilt Well.
The largest wed in California is now
rapidly nearmg completion ic Wilmington,
Los Angeios County. It is the enterprise
of General Pnincas Banning, one of the
most energetic citizens of this county, who
hoe made this well bis hobby and pride for
sevcrd months past. It is 25 feet in dia
meter, aad has reached a level some forty
feet below the surface of the earth, In
the interi.H- of this circular hole a huge
wooden tank, hooped together with iron
bands, and each stave 12 Inches square, ban
been built. The inside of this tank, which
is bottomless, is hooped with bands of
railroad iron, and formed so that the bot
tom fl ires outward, aud is wider than the
top. As the earth is removed from the
bottom of the well, this mammoth bottom
less tub, one foot thick, sinks downward
thus forming a water tight walL On top
ot this wooden structure a brick wall is
being built as the hole becomes deeper
The water enters the well at the bottom in
large volumes, but is kept almost dry by
the operation of a large steam pump, hicb
runs night and dap. There is room for 25
or 30 men to work upon the bottom of this
well. W hen it is completed the water will
be pumped into a gigantic tank, which, be
ing elevated above the ground upon scaf
folding, wiil give suMcient gravity to send
water in any direction for miles. VTitb
the completion of this well Wilmington
and San Pedro have an assured supply of
water for all time. Pipes are laid to the
wharf at San Pedro, so that vessels can
take water with greater ease and without
trouble. The cost ot this monster will not
be lest than 3.00Q or ilO.OUO.
T.-.m itot LtiUBra ul a Tear.
The annua! report ot Colonel Parker,
Chief of Post Othoe Inspectors, ezbibits a
gratifying state of efficiency in the Depart
ment, as relates to the comparative safety
of the mailt. There were carried throhgh
the mails during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1S82, 9,627,922 registered letters
and packets. Compiamts were made of
losses, which, upon investigation, resulted
in establishing that, or a given number of
complaints 4,076 bad sustained no loss
and in 49S actual loss had occurred. There
were still Under investigation 2,511 cases,
aud if the prcportionate loss in these cases
prevod the same ss in those already exam
ined.there would remain to be added to the
year's losses 233, which would make the
sum toial 726.
There were 21,527 ordinary letters re
ported Iost,l5.1o0 with valuable enclosures
and 6, 17 without contents of value. Of
these, 2, 175 were found to have been de
livered, leaving 19,o52 unaccounted for.
I le totid number of letters and pieces of
all kinds is not given, but the aggregate
must hive been something enormoas,as in
tae 112 cities iu which tlie carrier system
was ia vogue the number of pieces collec
ted and delivered amounted to 1,143, 18,
ts7. A loss of about 20,000 pieces even
trom tb s amount along would be an ex
tremely small percentage.
These lorses, it wdl be observed, "were
from all causes fire, burglary, highway
robbery, casualties, such as raihoad acci
dents, and ordinary thefts. During the
)ear oil offices were broken open and rob
bed. 116 were burned and 99 mails were
robbed by highwaymen. That from all
these C4u-t there should hi.ve been real
loss of only about 20,090 letters during the
year seem almost incredible and says eve
rything for the extreme perfection which
ear postal system has attains.
ftoman t rnelty.'
The games 'of the Roman Colosseum,
which, according to Jn venal, had be
come as much necessaries of life to the
people as their daily bread, supplies of
itself a most remarkable illustration of
the particular phase of human nature.
That in an advanced period of material
oivilizat on spectacle whereof the oue
grand interest consisted ia theelaborate
and wholesale torture a i l carnage ot
men and animals should not only have
been tolerated with scarcely a protest
tor centuries, but should buvu formed
the chief and indispensable amusement
of both sexes and all classes of the
population, including the highest this
appears at hrst sight to modern think
ers a moral fact almost incredible in its
atrocity. Aud so firm, moreover, was
their hold on popular sympathy that
they lasted long alter the conversion of
the empire to Christianity. Cone tan-
tine, to be sure, issued an edict suppres
sing the gladiatorial shows, but it was
suffered to remain a deal letter, aud it
was not until nearly a century later.
when the Asiatio monk Teleinacnns
leaped into the armia and separated the
combatants at the cost of his own Life
he was stoned to death by the indignant
spectators that thus games were finally
uolished. something may be due to
the religous origin of the custom, which
is commonly alleged to have npruuc out
of a rite of humau sacrifice off red at the
tombs of great men. thonzh some scho
law, like Mommseu, deny the existence
of huuiau sacrihoe. later on motives
of policy conspired to sustain the prac
tice, both as means of keeping up the
military spirit of the people and aa of
fering the Sole opportunity under a iIch-
potio Emperor for the thousands of citi
zens theu assembled in presence of their
sovereign and his Ministers to present
petitions and make known their griev
ances. Still thee explanations do not
carry us very far, Theatrical entertain
ments such as the Ureeks delighted iu
would have answered the latter purpose
at least quite as well, but for appreciat
ing such refined amusements these
ghastly orgies of blood quite unfitted
the Roman populace. And it is a curi
ous fact noticed by a distinguished
modern writer that, as different kinds
of vice which might appear to have no
mutual connection do yet act and react
on oue another, to here the intense crav
ing alter excitement engendered aud
gratified by gladiatorial combats
served to stimulate the taste for such
orgies of sensuality as are described by
historians like Tacitus and Suetonius.
And hence not only was Hercules burn
ed on the stage, not iu efligy but in the
person of a condemned criminal, but
the deeds of the gods ami heroes were
represented, aa Juvenal says, to tho
life. Nor can it be questioned and
it is chiefly iu order to illustrate that
terrible lesson that we have referred to
the subject here that the gladiatorial
shows betrayed no merely indifference
to human Buffering, but that capacity
for a real aud keeu pleasure in the con
templation of suffering, as such, wluch
many are loth for the credit of human
nature to admit. Suetonius, tor in
stance, tells us that it was the Bpecnd
delight of Claudius to watch the faces
of the expiring gladiators, as he had
come to take a kind of artistic pleasure
iu observing the variations of their
agony. lieiiogabalus aud Oalenua
used to regide themselves while at the
table with the spectacle of animals de
voured by the wild beasts, aud Lao
tantius says of Uaienus that "ho never
supped without human blood." Aud,
what is more horriable still, "beautiful
eyes, tremblii.g with passion, looked
down upon the fight, pud the noblest
ladies in Rome, even the Empress her
self, had been knowu to crave the vic
tor's love." A'ste.ry told by St. Au
gustine exhibits the ghastly fascination
of the spectacle, A C.iristiau fiienil of
his hod Boineh .w loen drawn into the
the ampliitheaiie, which Christian
were strictly forbidden to enter, and
resolved to guardagainst thetemptatiou
to siulul injoymeut by keeping his eyes
closed; a suddcu cry lod him to look up,
aud he was uuabla to withdraw his gaze
again-
A Cave ot lee.
A correspondent from Texas siys : I
have just bad the pleasure given me of a
visit to what is termed by those who have
seen it the "Ice Cave." It is tne place of
interest above all others in this section of
the American desert. From Fort Thorn
burg it is distant eighteen and from the
Utah Indian agency thirty-eight miles. At
the bottom of the tiresoma climb I found
myself standing on the rocky bed of a
ravine. The pine covered mountains on
either side seemed to reach to the clouds,
their incline being almost straight up and
down. To the east the rocks presented a
breastplate picture for a height of two
hundred feet, an occasionsl small pine or
scrub brush of some kind only relieving
the sameness of the upward picture. Be
low, the broad, dark mouth to the cavern
opened out for a width of fifty yards, aad
the height of the extreme arch was fully
forty leeL Our candles and torch lighted,
we entered the dark passageway, and with
much difficulty reached the foot of the
first ice monument, which stood at least
sixteen feet h'gli, with a broad circular
base. This natural pyramid was uearly
two feet In thickness. At a distance of five
hundred feet we came upou a slide of ice,
which extended from the flix to the ceil
ing of the cave at an inclination of forty
five degrees. The narrow door at its base
was covered with ice an inch in thickness,
whd3 the rocks that lay about, as if at one
time greatly disturbed, were covered with
a coating of ice.
A few feet further on the brii'al veil, a
mass of tee several feet in thickness and
not less than twenty feet in length, bung
down from above. Its surface was made
up of icicles falling upon one another in
succession, and when the light was placed
belund it all it presented a picture at once
real and grand. From the ceding water
tnc-kled through upon tbese ice pyramids,
anC, freezing, added to the magnitude and
picturesqueness of each. A thousand feet
in, alter passing numerous large forma
tions of K-e, we found our passageway
clogged by a huge mass cf drutwood. i
attempted to set fire to it that its destruc
tion might be brought about f r the benefit
of the curious inclined who might at some
future time wish to penetrate the mysteri
ous cave further on. aN'car the eutrance
to the cavra the ceiling waa covered with
crystallization, forming unique and inter
esting views, sparkling and presenting
different well-defined hues in the glare ol
our torchlight. This cave was discovered
in lSet by au explorer named Huffacre.
who called it the Ice Cave. It is said that
its floor forms the bottom of a stream
called "Brush Cteek," where the waters
from the mountains come down iu the
spring, and that alter finding a channel
through this cavern nuder the high m un
taina for a distance ot eight mile the
stream emerge from cave, a it enter
and flows iate the Aahiav nver.
End ot a Wicked Life.
The jad at Nashville, Nash county,
North Carolina, in which Jerry Cox.
notable as one of the most desperate
criminals ever known in the State, was
confined under sentence of death, was
fired by him recently and entirelv de
stroyed. About midnight people were
awakened by the roar of the flames,
aud many hastened to the jail, but on
their arrival they found tlie walls and
bars glowhig red with heat, whde the
murderer within was screaminar in his
leath agonv. Iu less than' an hour the
jail was a mass of ruins. Early the next
morning the body of Cox was found.
and a great crowd stood appalled at the
territue fate which had overtaken the
brutal murderer.
Cox waa oue cf the leaders in the
famous Worley murder, near Golds boro.
in the early spring of 1878. Oue night
he aud others of a gang of desperate
swamp nek roes murdered Air. Worley
by beating out his brains, after enticing
him into the yar J of his house. They
then caaght his wife as she ran out on
hearing tue dying groans of her hus
band, criminally assaulted her repeat
edly, and then beat out her brains with
clubs. The whole State rang with the
story of the crime, and after a hot
pursuit the murderers were captured.
Four negroes were snbseqtiented execu
ted on the gallows at Ooldsboro, having
been couvicted principally upon the
testimony of Jarry Cox, who, by turning
Slate's evidence, escaped the gallows,
but narrowly missed lyuching, aud had
to be removed secretly by the authori
tivs. For four years the whereaUmts of
Cox was a mystery, but he finally made
his appearance hear Battlcboro, where,
ou November 19 lust, he committed
another horrible murder. For a year
be fore that time, Cox -who was a coal
black negro of most repulsive form aud
features, had lived with a degraded
white woman named Mary Hawkins.
Maddened by drink and Jealousy he ou
several occasions nearly killed her, and
he at times performed most menial
ofiices fou him. He, having pretended
to doubt her faituf utile's, met her one
day at the house of a negro womau.
Iney quarrelled, he struck her, aud
theu went aw ay. She followed him to
where he slept under a water tank
when he took her to a secluded place
near tue railroad track and cruelly
murdered her. For hours he watched
by the side of the bodv, aud before
daybght, placed it ou the track of the
Wiliiuugton aud Weldon Railroad,
where the wheels of a ligtituing express
train mangUnl it horribly. The station
agent saw the body, aud, not far away,
discovered Jenv Cx aud the negro
woniia watching. Cox, liug interro
gated, said fiat tho Hiwkius woman
had walked e. i tiie track while dtuuk
and thus met her death. He became
greatly excited and was at once ar
retted. At the trial the evidence of Cox's
guilt was overwhelming, aud iu a few
ininntes after being charged the jury
renuered a verdict ot Vuiliy to murder.
Cox was accordingly sentenced to be
hanged at Nashvdie, September 20, but
took au appeal to tue Supreme Court.
W hue iu jail, Cox made a desper ite
attempt to kill the jailor with a piece ot
chain aud pauiock. He w;is beateu
into submission, but several times after
wards he broke chains aud was other
wise violent.
fcuect of Forcata.
A paper has been prepared by Dr.
Schomburgk, the Director of the Botanical
Gardens at Adelaide, on the influence of
forests on climate. The object of the au
thor is to prove that the destruction oi
forests usually bas the effect of reducing
the rainfall, while, on the contrary, the
planting of trees broadcast over a country
is one of the best methods which cm be
adi.p'.ed for ameliorating its climate and
increasing the annual fall of rain. It can
not, indeed, be proved tnat the climate of
South Australia is altering for the worse
in this respect. In fact, a corpp irisou of
the meteorological records wul show that
the annual average rainfall for the colony
during the past ten years has been 21 1
inches, as compared with 20 1 incie for
the previous ten years. Tue fact is, that
in the agricultural districts of the colony,
and especially in those which were not
originally timbered, the bringing of the
land into cultivation has had tl'e effect of
sUghtly favoring the fall of rain. Plowed
land attracts moisture to a much greater
degree than Die unbroken sol!. In consid
ering the effect which tue removal of for
ests ptr $e has in altering the climate in
South Australia, the only direct test c ml 1
be taken from the rcords issued by the
Government Astronomer Is the experience
of tue neighborhood of Adelaide, If ill';
time is divided whicS hss elapsed since
1SG9. the year in which observations were
coninittnced, into two periods, then is
found for the first an average raiufall ot
22 ( inches, and for the second one ot 217
Laches. It will thus be seen that, on the
whole, the rainfall at Adelaide is dnmn
ishing, though very slightly, and perhaps
the diminution in the amount of timber
may have something to do with the change.
Dr. Schomburgk, in searching for illustra
tions of tee c3ecl of trees on climate, goes
further artel1 1, and bang forward some
striklag instances in which it is evident
that loss of forests means loss of rainfall,
and vice vertn. He recalls how the Ru3
siaus.by burning down some of the Tiaus
caucasian forjsls at the time of the strug
gle with the Circassians, converted the
country from a fertile laud into a desert,
simply through the cutting off of the sup
ply of rain. Similar instances of rain hav
ing deserted a country denuded ot forests
have occurred in the Msiuitus, in Jamaica
the Azores, and, it may also be added, to
a still more remarks ole extent in several
of the smaller W est India Idands. No
sooner had the forests ot these places been
destroyed than the springs and nvuleU
ceased to flow, the laiufall became irregu
lar, and even the depos'tion of dear was
almost entirely checked, On the ethei
hand, it ii generally accepted as a f icl lual
Mehemet All increased the fertility t
iypt enormously by p anting trees. He
alone planted some 2t), jO,000 on the Dal
ta; hi successors fo'iowed up the work,and
it Is a noteworthy circumstance that the
ranfatl lose from 6 inches to 3i) incajs.
Planting ha also, it would seem, produced
remarkable effects in France and Algiers.
Extensive regions have been planted with
gums aud other trees, which, tor the most
part, grew to be about 30 or 4') teet in
height, and it is noticed that the quantities
of raia and dew which now fall on the
adjscent land are double what they for
merly were.
The official returns regarding the
army show that the educauou of tlie
German recruits baa been yearly on the
increase ainoe lo7. In that year 2.37
jyer ent. of the rceruua could neither
read nor write. In 1W1 it was l.L
NEWS L BRIEF-
The schools of Burmah are aim
entirely monastic.
Silk culture has become a thriving
industry in Louisiana.
San Francisco has a population o:
275,000, of whom 45.000 are Chinese.
Pizarro completed the cononest of
Peru at thirty- five, aud died at forty.
-Philadelphia manufactured $10,-
000,000 worth of nmbrell is last year.
Pennsylvania produces nearly one-
half the buckwheat crop of the country.
The coflee plants sent to Manatee
county; Fla., from Cuba, are growing
finely.
A orakeman who lost a Land while
coupling cars got $5,000 from a Chicago
jury last week.
At three vegetarian restaurants in
the city of London the diuuers daily
served average 1,550.
Tbe population of Athens, Ala , is
8,000, aad its valuation 88,000,000 a
thousand to each inhabitant.
Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas,
says that Texas will this year raise more
than a million bales of cotton.
-There has been terrible snow
storm in the Sierras and flocks and
herds are buried three feet deep.
Cortez effected tie conquest of
Mexico and completed Lis military ca
reer before the age of thirty-six.
Ninety death sentences have been
passed in France since lf-7'J, tut only
ten of them have been earned cut.
During 1881 the British Talent Of
fice received 5,751 applications, the lar
gest number recorded for any year.
Luminous paint ia now being uti
lized for door plate, house numbers
and signs. The advantages are obvious.
The potato crop in Switzerland is
said to be a total failure. The demand
for American potatoes is expected to be
brisk.
It is estimated that there are about
25,000,000,000 teet of lumber in the
nine States comjri ing the Southern
pine belt.
The first conference of Weslevan
Methodists, waa held iu 174 1 to con
sider "How to teach, what to teach and
what to do."
It is estimated that there are three
thousand industrial estabiUhmeuts ia
the Republio of Mexico where steam
power u uaed.
His Rov.d Highness the Prince of
Wales has presented tlie Metropolitan
and City Police Orphanago with a
valuable American oigan.
MeisoBier ia to receive 50,000
francs for his "Lcs Demiers Moments
de It Vie de Salute Genevieve," which
is iu hiud for the Pantheon.
It ia asserted that iu the three veuis
ended 1480, there were lo fewer than
252 theatres destroyed by fire, or partly
resuiliug iu 4,i 70 deaths, .iiu .joj.
3,4')) iujunes.
Tlie population of Manitoba, by re
cent census, ia li5,'J54, divided among
nationalities as follows : le.titJi! Scotch,
11,503 Euglish, 10.173 Irish, 9,040
French, and 8,tii2 Ucruiuus.
The pension ag eut iu Topeka, Kan
sas, teceutiy cashed the largest pension
ever paid out to oue person in that dis
trict. It was arrears to date, and the
amount was upward of $7,000.
Iu the high school of Dcdhain,
Mass., the experiment la being made of
using daily newspapers instead of text
books in the reading class. The prin
cipal thinks that the plan ia successful,
James Collins, of Lawrence, Mass.,
claims to be 110 years old. He ia a na
tive of Ireland. His father died be
fore James waa born, aud his met her
died wheu he waa but six mouths old,
Dou Carlos, the Spanish Preteuder,
has taken Dp hi abode for the winter in
the Loredau palace, oue of the oldoet
aud most splendid ducal houses iu Ven
ice. He will visit Loudon iu the
spring..
Of sixty-nine province of Itatv,
only six are exempt from malaria, io
abolish it 100,1X10 plants of the eucalyp
tus have been lately set out by rad-
roud companies aud private uidiridaaL
all over Italy,
The hay crop iu Iceland ha been
uearly destroved, reuioriug tho whole
sale slaughter of cattle unavoidable.
Some flour is wautiug iu many districts.
lud population are nuprepared to uuet
the w inter.
The revised census gives tin popu
lation of Scotland at 3, 745,573, au in
crease of 11 per cent, siued 1371, a rate
of progress uot exceeded since tue tuird
decade of the present century, inlaid
the population was 1,000,9:00.
Ot the 123,000 so laro uidcs which
Norway contains, only 3,500 are pastn -
rage aud ouly 940 are uuder the plough.
lue couseqiieuce la that Uot ouly corn,
but also butter and meat, have to be
imported iu large" quantities.
It is estimated that tiie not rove me
ol the uiouey order division of the Post
Odice Dopaiimout will ex;ee 1 i0,0 J
tor tue past fiscal year. The total cost
of the free delivery servioe for the ti:.il
year eueled Juao M, lS-)2, was $2,023,-
Z-jJ, au iuore-a.se ovjr last year ol 121,
311.
The latest oIlioLd statistics of the
Japanese Stitistical Bureau show that
the total numlier of porcelaiu aud pot
tery factories iu Japuu ia 322, and luat
tuey give employment to 1,004 persons,
of whom 310 are women. The single
province of Owari contains uo lower
than 2bT of thooe factories, leaviuj,
ouly 01 to be divided among tho other
twenty-three oroviuces in which suc.i
work is carried on.
A movement has been started ii
Eurflaud for tho erection of a chapel or
some suitable memorial of Joiiu Wesley,
at Lpwoitu, hu birthplace.
Iu the Madras PresWteuey, lalu lia.
during lWl, 2025 ($10,125 was pud
as rewards lor destroying 1 i i tigers, 750
panthers aud leopards, aud old octier
auimais. 1,302 persous and S,'JiS aui-
luala were lulled by wd I animals aud
snakes, tigers killing 135 people aud
3,328 cattle. The cattle kiliei by wild
auitnal m the Presidency during tie
year are valued ut .17,876 (-tO,ij.
The fortunes of four lea. ling West
ern railroad men were estimated eigh
teen years ago aa follows : Stanford,
10,000 ; Crocker, 425,000 ; Huntington ,
$100,000; Hopkins, 100,000; tetal,
S265.000. Tuey are now ratuer sUul
ingly recorded aa follows: Stanford,
SJ,000,0oO; Crocker, $10,000,000;
Huntington, $50,000,000 ; Hopkins es
tate, $0,000,000; twl $200,0 jO.000.
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