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FYotn our reports this morning (he probabil
ities a re that the iceaher to-daii trill be nailer
atut cloudy, iritL raiu, followed In/ elearnw
weath'.r foirard night.
Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks were
generally lower, feverish and irregular.
Gold opened and closed at 10*.) 3-4, with
sales meanwhile at 109 7-8. Money on call
was supplied at 3 and 4 per cent Gov
ernment bonds were dull, but firm, and rail
way bonds a trifle weaker.
A RivKit Pirate received a wound on
Sunday .night while attempting to rob a
lighter in \he East River -w hich will prob
ably end fatally. A little marksmanship
like this seems to be the best means of de
terring these pests of our city's water fronts,
who have shown in their depredations of
late a boldness and desperation that needed
ft check.
Unimportant jf True.?Our Raleigh cor
respondent sends us a report of a movement
to throw out the whole electoral vote of
North Carolina, on the ground that the bal
lots were prirfted, when the North Carolina
statute says tho names shall be written.
They seem to have a fair share of small
attorney minds in North Carolina, as else
where. But that kind of mind is not going
to manage this election case.
A PrRsoNAL Sacrifice.?In a heated polit
ical discussion in Brooklyn the other day
one ardent statesman deprived another of
his nose. The situation is not yet grave
enough to require personal sacrifices like
this. If these local politicians will only
keep their tempers and hold themserves
patiently to await events they are likely to
find that all their causes of difl'orence have
Adjusted themselves.
The Kino of the Belgians takes so gener
ous and enlightened an interest in the exten
sion of geographical knowledge that injustice
is done when motives arc ascribed to him
which have not influenced his action.
When a number of eminent philanthropists
and scientists assembled at the royal palace
at Brussels by King Leopold's invitation
some of tho newspapor correspondents
apread a rumor that one reason of his great
interest in African discovery was a desire on
the part of his government to establish a
penal colony in Africa. We are able to con
tradict that rumor on tho most trustworthy
afithority. Such an idea may have been
suggested by members of the Belgian gov
ernment, but it certainly had nothing to do
irith the recent conference between the
King and the savans whom he invited to
meet him in his royal palace for an inter
change of view* respecting the best methods
of Airioan diaoovery.
The Presidential Complication?Count
ing the Electoral Votes.
Having demonstrated by arguments which
seem to us cogent how vain and futile wonld
be all attempts to instate Mr. Tilden if the
regular certificates from the Electoral Col
leges should fail to give him a majority, we
now proceed to consider a different branch
of the question. Since there can be no resort
to force nor to any sort of revolutionary
or quasi-revolutionary proceedings, even to
redress a manifest wrong, it remains to con
sider what the democratic party caii do to
prevent the consummation of frauds, if
frauds are meditated by the other side. The
only defensive weapon which they can use
with any effect is an appeal to the honest
public opinion of the coun'ry. They must
rely on the justice of their cause and their
ability to convince at least some candid
men outside of their own party that
their claim is really just. In order to
accomplish 4his they must make it apparent
to fair minds that they ask nothing beyond
strict equity, and that they will have re
course only to regular and constitutional
methods to enforce their rights. With every
one of the suspected returning boards in
republican hands, with u Senate under re
publican control, with a resolute and per
haps prejudiced republican President in
office in the interval between the final
count in the presence of Congress
aud the inauguration, every advantage
is on the side of their opponents unless they
can make it appear, not only to themselves,
but to others, that they are iutrenched in an
impregnable fortress of legal right. Unless
their claims and complaints are indorsed by
the public conscienco they have no ground
to stand upon in a contest with the mass of
official authority arrayed against them.
The democratic party must, therefore,
make no mistakes. If it puts itself in the
wrong in any stage of the controversy
its keen-sighted adversaries will take prompt
advantage of its blunders and expose them
with latal effect. If it is foolish enough to
indulge in menaces and threaten force, that
alone will be fatal. If, hurried on by mere
paRsion and blind impulse, it charges fraud
whore no fraud can be proved, it will be un
able to get an impartial hearing on points
where it has a strong case supported by
good evidence. The democratic purty must
bo carelul throughout this controversy to
keep the law on its side; to make no state
ments broader than the facts and thus ex
pose itself to refutation ; and, above all, it
must not fritter away the real strength of its
case by a multitude of petty, captions
charges on minor points. Every time they
are confuted on a petty charge they lose a
portion of their power to command at
tention to substantial grievances. It
is only by the utmost fairness, by
a spirit of moderation, by insisting
on nothing which; is not clearly just,
by putting their strong arguments in the
foreground and abstaining from doubtful
cavils and questionable positions, that they
can get it fair hearing before that great
tribunal of pnblic opinion to which their
only appeal lies from tho injustice of adver
saries in secure possession of all the official
machinery by which the final result will be
determined. There was never an occasion
on which it so much behooves those who
may think thomselvei strong in right but
deficient in power, to "be as wise as ser
pents but harmless as dovos," and to avoid
exposing a weak side to the enemy.
The democrats are justified in regarding
the Southern returning boards with suspi
cion and in watching their proceedings with
vigilance; but they make a mistake in
bandying charges of fraud in advance
of the facts. Frauds in former elec
tions do not prove that frauds have
been committed now, and it is a
political blunder to tost about vague
charges without specific evidence to sup
port them. Wo have as yet no accurate and
complete information. When the official re
turns are all in and canvassed we shall know
which side they favor, and we cannot know
before. It is possible that they may give at
least one of the three States to Tilden,
and if this shall appear by the
record he has a primd fade ease.
A returning board cannot throw out
his votes without positive evidence of fraud
or intimidation, and this evidence will be
subject to the scrutiny of the "cloud of
witnesses" of both political parties who are
visiting the South to qualify themselves to
testify before committees of Congress.
Whatever is done in those boards will be
done in a full blaze of publicity, under the
immediate inspection of witnesses of the
highest character lor intelligence and
veracity. If the democrats have a
strong case in any of the doubt
ful States its strength, as presented to
the public, will depend on the testimony of
these distinguished witnesses, and the
democrats would do well to wait until they
see what their provable ease really is before
deciding on their conrse of action. They
weaken their influence by bandying indis
criminate and wholesale charges of fraud
before they know what precise evidence they
will have to go upon. The more they in
dulge in bluster the more fatally
they will turn against them tho fair-minded
citizens whose judgment will be likely to in
fluence the republican members of the
Senate ; and it depends entirely on the
Senate whether Mr. Tilden's claims to an
election will be admitted, in spite of a certi
fied majority against him, if they shall prove j
to be just. Unless the Senate concedes his 1
title to the office it is quite impossible
that he should exercise its functions.
If the Senate does not acknowledge him
as President it will not even consider,
much less confirm, his nominations, and the
Senate has so large a share in the Executive I
authority thatn pretender to the Presidency |
is powerless without its co-operation. What
can a President do without a Cabinet ? How
can a President have a Cabinet if the Sen
ate refuses to recognize him and to pay any
attention to his appointments ? The Presi
dent can commission no unconfirmed officer
when tho Senate is in session. He can make
temporary appointments in a recess of the
Senate ; but there will be no rpcess
after tho 4th of March if the Presidential
election is disputed. In accordance with a
long line of precedents President Grant will
call an extra session of the Senate for the
5th of March, to act on the nomination of his
successor, and the Senate thus called will
not adjourn except at its own pleasure.
The House will necessarily adjourn fine
die on the 4th of March by the expi
ration of its term of service, and us
successor will not meet until the
following December. The republican Sen
ate will not give a Presidential claimant
whose title it repudiates an opportunity to
appoint officers during a recess. It will re
main, if necessary, in continuous session
from the 5th of March until the first Mon
day in December, and meanwhile Mr. Tilden
will be utterly powerless if the Senate re
fuses to recognize him as President. The
only way to get his claim recognized
against the official certificates from
the three doubtful States is by mak
ing out so strong a case of fraud that the
Senate will not dare to face a righteous and
indignant public opinion. That kind of
public opinion cannot be created by vapor
ing menaces, but only by solid, unassailable
evidence. By the very nature of the case
such evidence is unattainable until
after the returning boards shall have
acted, and ' a grand flourish of un
proved charges in advance of the facts
evinces a self-defeating "zeal not according
to knowledge." It is not mere charges, but
charges supported by specific and detailed
proofs, that can have any influence on the
public judgment.
In opening the certificates the President
of the Senate muBt necessarily be guided by
the evidence of official action in the States.
Just as he opens the official returns from
New York or Massachusetts because they
come to him certified in the regular way so
must he also open the returns from South
Carolina, Louisiana and Florida, on the
some color of regular State authority. If ob
jections are made they must be made by
members of one or the other branch of Con
gress present at the counting of the votes ;
but objections so made will amount to noth
ing unless supported by a strong array of
incontrovertible facts, which facts must
have been previously gathered and spread
before the country to make any impression
at the time of the count With everything
against them except the intrinsic strength
of their case the democrats will act like
simpletons if they weaken it by bluster, by
threats or by any irregular or extra-legal
proceedings that tend to excite alarms for
the public tranquillity.
The Constantinople Conference.
Everybody concerned seems to assume
that a conference at Constantinople is to be
held, doubtless because they must all pro
ceed, formally and perfunctorily, until a
positive obstacle is encountered ; for it is
still far from certain that the conference will
ever sit. Our special despatch by cable re
curs to Russia's objection to Turkey's
presence at the conference, which appears
to have been reduced somewhat, as it is now
only a positive opposition to her presence
at "the preliminary conference." The pre
liminary conference is doubtless to bo for a
mere exchange of views as to the basis and
limits of negotiation in the conference
proper. As the Ottoman government was in
unqualified opposition to the whole project
of the conference at the time when Russia
proposed the condition that Turkey should
nnt. ho renresented in it that L'overnmant
did not express any opinion on this condi
tion, because, perhaps, it did not deem it
proper to enter into the detail of that which
it rejected in its entirety. Bnt now that
Turkey has assented to the conference it
mnst also, if there is to be a conference,
assent to this condition, and that it will do
so is in the highest degree improbable.
Either Turkey or Russia must yield on
this point, which is not susceptible
of compromise, or the conference will
fail at the last minute. So much
of the result of the British Cabinet
council of Saturday last as it has been
deemed proper to make public gives an out
line of the course to be taken under in
structions by the Marquis of Salisbury, one
of the very capable younger statesmen of
the tory party, who in the conference at
Constantinople is to be associated as a Brit
ish plenipotentiary with Sir Henry Elliot,
the Ambassador. The points of the in
struction as given are somewhat in the
nature of glittering generalities. If they
are to be strictly followed it is of little oon
sequence whether the confercnce ever sits;
for if it sits it must inevitably fail. It seems
like odd diplomacy for a government to in
struct its representative in a grave diplo-.
matic deliberation that if he cannot secure
assent to its position he must withdraw with
a threat. Naturally a suspicion arises here
that there is some inaccuracy of statement in
tho report. Englund's purpose now aii
nounoed?to secure tho best conditions for
the Christian subjects of the Sultan without
encroaching on the territorial integrity of
his Empire?is the same as it has been from
the first, but it is not reconcilable with what
Bussia will persistently demand, and the
way for the preservation of peace is there
fore not clearly perceptible.
? The Chinese Problem.?We print else
where a letter from Sun Francisco
which gives some important and re
markable testimony, taken before a com
mittee of the California Senate, concern
ing the habits and practices of the
Chinese now settled in that State.
A committee of Congress has made a similar
investigation and is to present its report to
Congress. The evidence concerning secret
tribunals among the Chinese, which under
take to punish and even to assas
sinate Chinamen who have broken
their rules, is very curious. These societies,
ns they are called, seem to assume all the
powers of courts of justice, and are for
midable bodies, managed, it would appear,
by unscrupulous men. We shall recur to
this subject at" another time.
Loed Salisbcbt'b projected visit to Ber
lin and Vienna on his way- to Constanti
nople suggests that his line of argument
will be similar to the Californian hunter's
prayer to the Almighty:?4*0 Lord, if you
don't help me, don't help that bear !"
The Home Insttiuncb Companies are
threatened with the secession of the English
companies from the National Board. The
cause of the trouble ia explained in an article
elsewhere.
The Political situation.
In New Orleans yesterday the Returning
I Board met, together with the five members ;
I ot each party. Mr. Wells, president of the .
Board, took the remarkable position that
the Board need not fill the va
vancy in its body unless it wishes
to, and that the democrats have no
claim to a member. He also announced
that no Louisiana democrats would be per
mitted to be present at the meetings of the
Board, and no strangers except the "visiting
statesmen," as they begin to be called.
The publio here does not forget that
Mr. Wells is drawing pay as Sur
veyor of the Port of New Orleans,
a federal office, while acting as president of
the Returning Board. People here in the
j North are wondering, too, how far this Re
i turning Board will go in excluding the pub
lio from its deliberations nnd in making a
partisan board to scrutinize a vote of na
tional importance.
In Florida the democrats have asked a
judge of the Supreme Court for an injunc
tion to prohibit Governor Stearns from
making of himself alone a board of can
vassers, and a mandamus to compel the Re
turning Board to begin a scrutiny of the j
votes. The presence of General Barlow ;
and Mr. Marble appears to give great satis
faction to the democrats. The republicans !
are silent. Mr. Marble expressed himself to !
our correspondent convinced that the State j
hud gone for Tilden.
In South Carolina the Court has not yet i
decided upon the proper functions of the
Returning Board, but our correspondent
remarks that the fact that four of the
five members of the Board are can
didates for election begihs even there
to. prejudice the republican side.
We have a report that secret conferences of
the republicans are held at the State House,
and that Judge H. L. Bond, of Balti
more, and ex-Attorney General Akerman,
of Georgin, have arrived at Co
lumbia. Both are republicans. Our
correspondent sends us the official
returns from Congressional districts. If
these are confirmed by the Returning Board
they Bhow important gains by the demo
crats ; the election of two democratic Con
gressmen, the Governor and a majority of
the Legislature, with a majority in the State
of four hundred and twenty-six votes. It
remains to be seen, however, whether these
figures get final confirnation.
Washington is excited over the arrival of
troops. Those now there number four hun
dred men, and General Sherman very justly
says that their presenoe is advisable to pre
vent rioters and thieves taking advantage
of the political excitement to oommit
a burglary upon the Treasury. They
are needed generally to protect the public
property at the capital. To a European ob
server the alarm and indignation at the
quartering of four hundred troops at the
capital will seem laughable and absurd.
To reasonable Americans who have not lost
their heads it will appear a very proper
precaution.
On the whole, the delay of the republican
returning boards in all the disputed States
about counting the votes impresses impar
tial Northern observers with the belief that
they are not sure of the result. All the
Southern States remain orderly, and the
peaceable appeal of the South Carolina and
Florida democrats to the courts for protec
tion has gained them sympathy in the
North, while the suspicious dilatoriness of
the republicans in counting the votes begins
to create indignation here among repub
licans.
Lincoln's Tomb.
Full details of the attempt to steal the re
mains of Abraham Lincoln from the tomb at
Springfield, 111., reveal a revolting story of
crime in whatever light it is viewed, whether
as a genuine plot or one "pat up" by a sus
picious employe of the secret service to
innre to Jiis advantage. The bad character
of the two men, Hughes and Mullen, makeft
it at present difficult to disbelieve the shape
given to the conspiracy by the agent Swigle,
but his character in turn makes it difficult
to trust his story except where it is strong
ly corroborated. The act was certain
ly attempted by the two men arrested,
and that should be sufficient to se
cure their punishment to the full
extent of the law. Whether, however,
Swigle's part in it was such as he describes
is another affiiir. If it should turn out that
he had been the originator of the plot w?
should not be astounded, for the manufac
ture of crime has been traced in the world's
history to officers of the law before now,
but more frequently to the class of go-be
tween or spy. A suspicious point is that he
should have egged the desperadoes on by
showing the lightness of the probable
punishment. The development of these
points must not be overlooked by the
detectives who have charge of the
case. They must be very careful, indeed,
before such a man is made a hero. That the
hideous crime should be seized by the
ghouls who manage to squeeze themselves
into all parties is not surprising. Fortu
nately the circumstances made it impossible
for the pretended confession, which we
print elsewhere, from obtaining a moment's
credence. Had the sordid crime been suc
cessful the case might have been very dif
ferent so far as the nation's peace is con
cerned.
, ..
Stormy Weather.
From Canada to Tennessee the influence
of yesterday's great storm of wind and rain'
extended with varying effects. The heaviest
rainfall occurred along the Atlantic coast,
and shows a precipitation at Baltimore up
to five o'clock last evening of 1.23 inches ;
at Philadelphia, 4.56 inches ; at New York,
l.Ofi inches, and at New London, Conn., .43
of an inch. Lust night's rain will prob
ably add .4ft of an inch to the New York
measurement of rainfall, making a total
of about 1.50 inches. The westerly rim of
the area of greatest depression passed
northeastward along the eastern side of
the Alleghany range, after the storm
centre had crossed the mountains from
Kentucky to North Carolina, while
following an unusual course for such
disturbances. The peculiar arrangement
of the areas of high pressure with relation
I to the storm centre has caused this change
| of direction from the regular track of storms
coming from the northwest. It will be re
membered that we experienced very cool
weather, with westerly winds, during Thurs
day last, which indicated the approach to
and passage over New York of an area of
high pressure. On Friday the wind became
northeasterly, showing that the volume
of dense atmosphere had drifted in
that direction and was delivering its cur
rents of air toward a depression then central
to the southwestward or in the Lower Ohio
Valley. The tendency of the latter area was
to seek an outlet to the ocean through the
St. Lawrence watershed, but it was
forced southward by the high press
ure in the northwest until it reached
the Tennessee River. Then, while continu
ing its eastward movement, it began to be
influenced by a high barometric pressure
from the southwest, which forced it over the
mountains into North Carolina, along a line
which was the resultant of the two forces.
There the shelter of the Alleghanies broke
the force of the pressure from the southwest,
while that from the northeast began to
recede in that direction ; consequently the
storm centre again assumed a northeasterly
course along the mountains, as before stated,
and became almost entirely a coast disturb
ance.
The movement of this storm illustrates
perfectly the influence of the counter condi
tions on the atmospheric depressions called
storm areas. That one now passing has
obeyed the various pressures to which it has
been subjected with the sensitiveness of a
billiafd ball acted on by the propelling blow
and the deflecting obstacles represented by
the areas of high pressure and the moun
tain walls. The high winds that accom
panied the storm, and which at a quarter to
three o'clock P. M. yesterday attained a
velocity of fifty miles per hour at New York,
$re due to the difference of atmospheric
pressure between the storm area and that of
the immense volume of dense air whence
they flow. The barometrio gradient at
present existing between the areas of high
and low pressure descends toward us at
the rate of one-tenth of an inch to the hun
dred miles, which insures a great velocity
for the air currents, just as a steep incline
affects the velocity of flowing water. To
day the weather will moderate considerably,
with a probable cessation of the rain and a
fall of temperature accompanying the
westerly winds that immediately follow the
storm centre. The prevailing cloudiness
will possibly be dissipated toward night.
Another Btorm centre is now moving
though the Lower Missouri Valley, with
snow in Dakota, and will probably ascend
the Ohio Valley toward the lakes in its
movement eastward, bringing with it cloud
iness and rain and higher temperataue.
The Manly Sports.
{since the close ol the war the American
people have given a large degree of attention
to all athletic games. When the ranks
were broken after the last victory our sol
diers brought back to their homes a certain
pride of muscle and a love of physical ex
ercise which could not fail to produce an ef
fect on public opinion. Before the first
alarum was sounded, which made us as by
magic a nation of soldiers, we had so far de
generated that we excited the criticism of
the whole medical profession. We were
told that Americans were fast becoming a
bundle of nerves, and that the ordinary
diseases to which flesh is heir were taking
on new phases on account of our dilapidated
condition.
There has, however, been a healthy re
action within the last few yearn. Recogniz
ing the fact that if we are to continue in
possession of the mens sana we must lay the
foundation in carport sano we have done
what we could to lift physical development
from the contempt in whioh it had fallen to
its proper place in the economy of educa
tion. No one can have failed to mark the
change which has taken place in this re
spect. We are a healthier and a more en
during people than we were before the war.
We have learned that brains and mnscles
are not only in close conjunction but that a
man's intellectual prowess depends greatly
on his digestive organs and the tone of his
Krvrl11 v nnnditinn
Every nation that has made itself felt in
the world's affairs has encouraged all games
and exercises which give endurance and
daring to its young men. In most monarchies
all classes have been compelled to spend
years in the drillroom, and they have thus
acquired a courage and a manly bearing
which has proved serviceable in an emer
gency. In the student life of Enrope great
importance is attached to the gymnasium
and to those out-of-door exercises which
render bne proud of his broad shoulders and
create an appetite for work which makes it
pleasure rather than drudgery. Until within
a decade no German student felt himself
entitled to the respect of his fellowB unless
he bore the scar of a sword thrust and could
boast of a score of duels. And even the
gray-haired professor was not unwilling to
show the ugly marks with which he had
been disfigured in his younger days. These
were considered conclusive evidence of pro
ficiency in the college curriculum as well as
in the manly arts of self-defence.
The faculties of British universities have
also offered every inducement to their stu
dents to improve their physique. The
youth of England have for generations,becn
famous for their cricket and rowing contests.
The high and the low have crowded the
cricket ground and the banks of the Thames,
and by their loqd plaudits shown that these
sports hare a national interest and impor
tance. This spirit of adventure and prowess
is by degrees taking possession of the Ameri
can people, and it safe to prophesy that
the next generation will reap beneficial re
sults. The English students have as yet
more back muscle than we, and as a class
they are more athletic; but no one doubts
that we can hold our own with the best
when we onoe got down to steady work.
The Americans are contestants worthy of the
best endeavor of any who throw the gaunt
let at our feet. Give us a little more time
and we can catch a hall on the fly or make a
spurt which will often enough throw the
victory on our side.
The Princeton and Columbia College clubs
played a match on the cricket ground at
Hoboken on Saturday last whtyh did eredit
to both sides. Ths univswity clubs
Harvard and Yale also played ft game at
Hamilton Park, New Haven, on the same
day, which elicited great applause from the
crowds that looked on. Other colleges
are forming oricket and base ball clubs, and
their example is being followed by clerks
and business men in various parts of the
country. We are on the edge of a new era,
in which sick headaches, neuralgia, paral
ysis and premature debility will fold up
their tents and silently Bteal away.
Polo is also a game which might with evi
dent advantage be introduced into the
cavalry service. To be sure, one risks a
blow or a fall now and then, and it may not
be particularly pleasant to constitute one's
self a mattress for a horse to lie down on;
but these are only incidents in a game which
gives a man steadiness of nerve, prudence,
courage and a perfect control of his horse,
which may be brought into very desirable
requisition some day. Anything which
makes one more vigorous and more quick
sighted to use an opportunity and gives him
a larger command over himself has its value.
We give honor to every attempt to lighten
the hard work of life by making men broad
shouldered and large chested enough tf?
bear their burdens with a laugh.
By Judos Van Brunt's Decision yester
day Mrs. Davis, who prayed to be relieved of
her husband and his name, found herself
suddenly turned into Mrs. Taylor. It ap
pears that the lady onoe went out to pick
plums in Texas, but instead of doing so sh?
went on the Chickasaw reservation and was
married by an Indian medicine man to a Mr.
Taylor. At the time of this event she was
Mrs. Vance, whether a widow or not we are
afraid to state. Mr. Taylor, immediately
after this ceremony, went his way, leaving
his better half to go hers in meditation fancy
free. In this condition she met and wedded,
as she believed, Mr. Davis. Latterly she has
been endeavoring to have this marriage dis
solved. The Judge's decision is that sha
never has been Mrs. Davis, but is Mrs. Tay
lor since the day she went out to pick pluma
Thjc Tboops in Washington.?We hope
nobody tyill lie awake of nights over the
gathering of troops in Washington. Four
hundred soldiers, chiefly artillerymen, are
there. They are under the immediate
command of General Hancock, who reports
to General Sherman, whose superior is the
President If anybody imagines four hun
dred artillerymen, commanded by men like
Hancock and Sherman, under the orders of
General Grant, are dangerous to American
liberty, we advise him to move over into
Mexico for a quiet life. There are people
absurd enough to believe anything in these
days, but it is not easy to understand why
an American,citizen should be afraid of harm
to the constitution from such a force so com?
manded.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Wade Hamptoa t* flity-flve.
Now the democratic farmer cries. "Co, boss."
The Russians are taking steppes toward Turkey.
Grant's motto:?"Where the smoke Is thickest"
"New bonnets are made of kUL"?Boston Pott
Bahf
Michigan has plenty of game, and even Detroit hag
u 'i rabbits.
x uo Norristown Herald does not believe In tbs frsei
dom of the ballet
Susan B. Anthony thinks ibe wonld rather be man
rled than be President.
A St. Louts girl about to go to Boston pasksd op
her slipper by mistake.
A lady writes about the "watery, sober moon'.' whes
really the moon was full.
Ad Indiana woman tried to drown herself In a vine*
gar barrel. She was soury.
Oakland (Cal.) girl-thieves at night pull false hall
from ladies' heads and ran.
Ex-Colonel Valentine Baker has not accepted mili
tary service under the Saltan.
Senator-elect Teller, or Colorado, Is a great railroad
lawyer and a warm M?tbodlst
Or. Jotd da Saldanha, Centennial Commissioner fof
Brazil, Is at the BuckingbamHotel.
Colonel Brooks, ol the Waahlngton Republican, has
a Bible pocket made in his pantaloons
Heart disease is Increasing In England, and ranks
fifth in the list of diseases that rosnlt fatally.
Louisiana has for its emblem tba poachy pelican,
which can drink more and aay lest than any other
bird.
A paper says that Sergeant Bates has written his
name immortally. Yea, he is a sort of Indelible m
cabns.
"A Bible, which formerly belonged to George Wash
ington and presented to him by the asthor," Is adver
tised by a Western book stora
Matthew Arnold believes that tha purest and most
far-seeing micds can never "lack a bocd of profound
sympathy with popular religion."
Since that Philadelphia man bled to death from oat
ting a corn Chittenden, of the Xilwaakes Timet, has
bad bay windows built on his boots.
The London Timet says that Cardinal Antonelll b?,
longed to a race almost extinct- the great eccleslaatlctf
having boen also great statesmen.
A Barcelona girl was possessed of 400 devils, which
wsre exorcised, and If she was an ordinary siied girt
there waa more than one little devil to every cnbU
foot.
It Is said that the occupation of Prance by Buaala*
troops after the defeat of Napoleon sowed the (era ot
tnonght to which the simple Rnaalan mind had beet
previously Inaccessible.
The Pittsburg man defended himself by saylag thai
his attempt to kiss a young lady waa oanaed by hta in?
ebriety, and was only a slip. There la aaay a slip be
twixt the cap and the lip.
The Queen while reooatly driving at Balmoral atop*
ped to see village women and glrla drying some wet
grain, aud she signified to the former that tboagh It
wa? Snnday she deemed the work one of necjsalty.
A Florida negro was running down the swamp with
the election return* when be was shot at He awal
lowed the rotnrns and then aa alligator, ander the or*
chids, swallowed the negro. It will be some days h*
lore we arrive at tho result of this election.
l he Commercial Advertuer makes a mistake In say
ing that the Hkkald baa complained of the President
for sending troops to tbe Southern States since the
election. On tho contrary the Herald haa repeatedly
said that the President has tbe constitutional right to
quarter troops anywhere la the L'nion.
It was General John M. Palmer, then Governor of
Illinois, who, at the time ol the Chicago Ore, when th?
city was being plundered and the people were unnro
tec ted, abused the federal government because Gea
oral Sheridan, at the request of citizens, used soldiers
in a merely volunteer way, to aid in presorvlng ordei
and property. General Palmer now tries to make*
row in Louisiana.
Keening Telegram menu for ministers:?
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