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he had no fault to find,
rtrf to retract from what he Had
gjfcad h“*J}!ss il ur the principles of the party
did. . attain thanked the Club,
l seat whkli was the .signal for
nnSSret : of cheers. President
announced that tliree dis-
Jsls were expected to be
hut were unable to attend owing to
P esent ’ Tie 'referred to ex-Gov. Samuel J.
fe SS? Samuel J. Randall, and
were made in response to
jffitan early noun
harry genet.
HIS SENTENCE.
Mnttl Dispatch to TU nleaiio Tritranl.
March 12.— Henry W. Genet,
in the Court of Oyer and
Joiner to-day to imprisonment m the Pem
tor eight months and to pay a fine
‘“SS. W as convicted over seven years ago
nbecriminai act for which he is now to be
*“ • h«L He avoided sentence immediately
Kfus conviction by tieeing from
**“ vnrir He returned here about
years ago and gave £ii,ooo
Sun await the result of an appeal from the
iSment of conviction to the Supreme
STeneral term and the Court of Ap-
Although it has been asserted that
ET t benefited largely through the robbery
-fth. city, he was convicted only upon the
of procuring 84803 out of the City
‘TZ.n by false representations. He was
Sed and arrested in November, 187 S. In
Indian Genet was counsel to William
v. Tweed.
the ctrcumst.vnces.
John Mcßride Davidson desired to obtain
.L,tract to furnish the iron to be used in
Z construction of the Court-House,
Za applied to Genet and Tweed. He
25 Genet that if the contract was
.warded to him he would require
avment when he delivered the iron. Genet
imed to this, and proposed that Davidson
Tooid make out a bill as if he had already
laraished iron to the city. Davidson made
mt the bill and handed it to Gen
et who gave it to Tweed. A
Tenant for 54.503. the amount of the Dill,
gianed by the Controller and Mayor
VfH and Genet drew the money on it,
gone months later he offered the
money to Davidson, but the latter
irfnsed to receive it, and he then
rarei; to one Scalion. the superintendent of
Reconstruction of the Harlem Court-House,
who used it in paying laborers on the build
ing. It was for this act that Genet was to-day
sentenced.
DOGS.
THE WESTMINSTER CLUB.
gpedol Dispatch to "lht Chicago Tribune,
Sew Tore, March 12.—The Westminster
Kennel Club has selected the following
tamed gentleman to act as judges, among
others, at the forthcoming bench show under
to new single handed system: The Hon..
John S. Wise, of Virginia; Maj. J. M. Tay
lor, of Lexington, Ky.; S. T. Hammond, of
jprincfield. Mass.; Dr. J. S. Niven, of Lou
don, Ontario. No assignment has yet been
nude, however, except in the case of Dr.
Siren, who will have the judging of
to fox terriers, bulldogs, bull terriers, Skye
terriers, Dandie Denmont terriers, Irish
terriers, Yorkshire terriers, pugs, Italian
greyhounds, and toy spaniels. The Club has
determined to offer the following special
prizes for dogs that have run and been placed
in my uctu trials in America: To the best
pointer doe; to the best pointer bitch : to the
bet English setter dog; to the best English
setter bitch; to the best Irish setter dog; to
to best Irish setter bitch.
GORDON SETTERS
were not included, for the reason that but
one of that breed complies with the compe
tition. The prizes will be cither cups or gold
medals, to be decided hereafter. Entries are
to close April 11. A gentleman, who does
sot wish his name made public, has offered
to following additional specials: lor the
best English setter, native or imported, among
to“V. H. C.’s” (very highly commended),
of the show, 523; for the best pure Laverack
tetter dog, *25; for the best English setter
dog lor stud purposes, to be competed for
only by winners of not less than three first
prizes, records of previous yet to be taken
Mi consideration, 525; a similar prize under
smilar conditions for Irish setters. Among
to entries already made is Zig, an Irish set
ter dog recently imported from Lord Sligo s
keunel.
GETf. HANCOCK.
KIERTAINED BY THE MANHATTAN CLUB.
Special Dispatch to The Ckicaaa Tribune,
■ New York, March 12.—About 170 gentle
men sat at dinner this evening in the
main parlors of the Manhattan Club, the af
fair being a compliment offered by the mem
bers of the club to Maj.-Gen. Winfield S.
Hancock. A large number of the gentlemen
took particular care to inform the reporters
that the dinner was in no wise a Club matter,
tat solely a subscription arrangement. The
rooms were newly upholstered and f umished
for the occasion at a cost of 53,000, and the
mantels, the chandeliers, and the tables
We profusely decorated with flowers.
The menu was gotten up on three neatly
engraved cards, tied together with bows of
ticoiored ribbons. Mr. A. J. Vandiroool,
President of the Club, presided, with the
pest of the evening, Gen. Hancock, in even
ing dress, seated at his right hand.
EX-GOV. TILDEN
assigned the next seat of honor on th e
felt of the Chairman, but he was not pres
ent The Committee of Arrangements had
evidently intended to typify the fates in
Rating the guests, for, not content
with putting Gen.. Hancock and Mr. Tilden
on either hand of the Chairman, they actu
allyseated Gen. George B. McClellan at the
hoc table, directly facing them. This ar-
Safement, bad Mr. Tilden been there, would
have enabled the defeated Democratic
Presidential candidates of 1564, IST«,
ad 1860 to exchange glances and
■wnpare notes in a style never before at
hmpted by any other political aspirants.
To further carry out the idea, ex-Gov. John
T-Hoffman, who was to have been thePresl
fiemlul candidate in IST2, if the Tammany
Sing had not been shattered, sat next to
try. M’n.Kr.T.Av and speaker samueL'
J. RANDALL,
ißemncratic Presidential dark horse, had
not been prevented by illness from attend--
was to have been placed next to Gen.
Hancock. At the same table were
clustered Gen. Fitz-Jolm Porter,
Hilliam L. Scott, Abram S. liew
-I®> ex-Mayor Cooper, Clarkson N.
Hotter, John McKeon, William llenry Hurl
ed, CoL John W. Doniphan of Missouri,
William C. Whitney, Peter B. Gluey, Judges
"lady and Larrimore, and other more or less
successful military and political Democrats,
Seuor Romero, the Mexican Minister,
"hen Gen. Hancock’s health was drank, he
said:
GEN. HANCOCK’S SPEECH.
iJn k, President, and gentlemen who have as
<S»k. ere to-night to do me honor, lam no
wuotcalled upon mainly in consequence of the
hbiuod 1 held in the recent candidacy
the Presidency. I regard my
**®hection with that subject as
.Sp*teally closed. I, however, maintain the
]£*Wfples which 1 held when I accepted the
■venation of the Cincinnati Convention, and,
•jjuering as I do that the enforcement
hr* principles would promote the wel
‘tStL 14,6 whole country. I hope to see
s*®®hrevaii ats»me future lime. [Applause.]
fur 1 * success must rest with the JeQcrsonian
JJ®oerauc party [applause], which is so fully
•Zjwlr represented here to-night- To you I
the. preservation of that republican
?? on which our fathers founded the in
-3£Ouqos which have made us great amon?
rLpWons of the earth. I can only say
to the political canvass of ISSO that
no fault lo find with the failure of our
. *®pas,aad nothin* to regret or modify con-
own acta or words. [Applause.] .1
ErJ* Poutlcmen, most hcartiij' fur tho
Pleasure you have conferred upon
. 5 entertuinmenu [Cheers undlong
w**unuod applause.]
j AUGUSTUS SCHELL,
> coarse of Uls address, said:
h«?v. faHur c of the party in the last election
*. oeen charged on the City of Kew Yqrk.
W the fault and here vas
the difficulty. We all know that
on the nomination of the Mayor,
who, 1 regret, is absent to-night, a great excite
ment was caused, and the Democratic party was
assailed. We determined to vindicate Its prin
ciples, and not allow the questions than raised
to interfere. Wu stood by the nomination,
and wo successfully carried it through. It
was said that the Domination affected
tne chances of “our President. Perhaps it
d.d. 1 four that it did. Hut alter the Domina
tion was made it became Democrats everywhere
and on all occasions to vindicate the principles
represented by that nomination, and they did
it ellcctuaily and decidedly. Hut there
were other causes. Wo never cun have
a Democratic party in the City
of New York If there is any portion of it that
will ally itself with the Republican party to
carry out' personal ends [laughter and voices
**Oh! Oh!”j, and I call upon Democrots hero
and elsewhere, to stand by their principles and
candidates, and avoid alliances which will result
in the destruction of their party.
Ex-Gov. Hoffmau made a short speech, and
was followed by
GEN. GEORGE B. M’CLELEAX,
who said in the course of his remarks:
I hope and trust that Gen. Hancock is for
man}' years to come the last of the defeated
Democratic candidates for the Presidency. [Ap
plause.] What wu want is principles for which
to fight. In future let us forego all personal
differences, and fall back on those principles
which alone can give us victory with the
people.
GOULD’S TRIP WEST.
WHAT UE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT.
Special Ditoatch to The Ctiicaao 'lYibune,
New Yoke, March Id.— Regarding his
recent trip West Mr. Gould says: “The work
on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the
Texas & Pacific Roads is being pushed as
rapidly as possible, and it is thoroughly good
work. There is no reason to doubt that the
gap from Denison, on the Missouri!
Kansas & Texas Road, to Laredo.
Mexico, will be completed this summer, and
the connection between the Texas & Pa- ,
cific and the Mexican! Central at El Paso
will be made by Janurary next Work is
also vigorously under way on the extension
from Shreveport to New Orleans, which,
will open to the latter city the trade of a
ricli country - . The Missouri Pacific system
will work in accord with the Mexican sys
tem. I share
QEN. GRANT'S FAITH
in the success of the American and Mexican
railway connections, and feel sure that there
will be a very rapid development of the
wealth of Mexico by the fresh Northern
blood, muscle, and capital that will attend
and follow the improvements now underway.
There may be some drawbacks at the
start, but these will be overcome.”
Mr. Gould said it was true, as reported,
that he had subscribed SKD.CO) toward the
establishment of a daily line of steamers
between Galveston and Vera Cruz, to be em
ployed in connection with his railroad sys
tem. “If the citizens of Galveston accept
mv proposition,” he said, “ and add another
Sloo,ooo, the line will be established, and it
will
GREATLY ENLARGE THE TRADE
of both Galveston and Vera Cruz.” As to
the SL Louis. New Orleans & Foreign Dis
patch Company, or barge line, in which he
has also become interested, he said: “The
prospects of the Company doing an
immense carrying business are very
encouraging. It has now a large
number of barges, and many more
have been ordered. Six barges com
pose a fleet, to be propelled by a large tow
boat, capable of transporting 700 car-loads of
grain. The line is already of great ad
vantage to St Louis, and it proposes
in lime to make that city not
only the grain mart of the Mississippi
Valley, but a rival of the Baltimore & New
York. By, means of barge transportation
there is a verv important saving in shipments
to Liverpool.” Mr. Gould also confirmed the
report that he had purchased an interest in
the Vulcan Steel & Iron Works of Caron
delet, and said they had an important
future before them in supplying the steel
rails for the roads of the Southwestern sys
tem.
ITEMS,
PLUCKY SAILORS.
Bridal Dispatch to Thr Chicapo Tritnme.
New York, March 12.—When the .City of
Montreal left the Inman Line dock Thurs
day afternoon two of her seamen were on
the pier. They jumped into the North River
on discovering their situation, and struckbut
with enough pluck and determination to
last them to Liverpool. A boatman picked
them up when they were a ship's length from
the doelu and put them on board the steamer,
which hftd been stopped by the commander.
The men aboard, the City of Montreal con
tinued her voyage.
A HEAVY ISEAI-ESTATE PURCHASE. .
The announcement was made yesterday
that the properly at the corner of Broadway
and Thirty-second street had been purchased
by Messrs. Robert and Ogden Goeiet for
§403,000. Mr. R. J. Roberts, the business
agent of Messrs. Goeiet, said yesterday that
Ins principal did not propose to make any
change in the property during the next two
years at least. They might by that time con
clude to erect a hotel or an apartment-house
on it.
GEN. CARRINGTON.
Gen. Carrington, formerly in command of
the Rocky Mountain Department, wiil ad
dress the newsboys on Sunday evening in
the lodging-house, at No. 14 New Chambers
street.
THE WEATHER.
The weather here to-day is cold and cloudy.
Thermometer at B a. m., 2(1; 9. .a. m., 3S;
noon, 32.
PERSONAL.
Among the prominent men here for the
past twenty-four hours arc the following:
Ex-Senator Corbett Oregon, Gilbert House;
Congressman Lord, Michigan, Astor House;
ex-Gov. Ingersoll, Cincinnati, Albemarle
Hotel; ex-Congressman Morey, Louisiana,
Hoffman House; State - Senator Fowler
Kiranton, Metropolitan Hotel; Insurance-
Superintendent Fairman, Albany, Victoria
Hotel; ex-Speaker Randall, Pennsylvania,
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Virginia, and Gen.
Clmgman, North Carolina, New York Hotel;
ex-Senator Baldwin. Michigan, Congress-,
man-elect Robinson, Ohio. W. D. Washburn,
Minnesota, and State Senator Mills. Little
Falls, New Y'ork, Fifth Avenue Hotel.
l WHAT FILTH IS DOING.
The number of deaths this week will be
between 7UO and SOO, while in the correspoud
iA; season of previous years it never was
over 600. For the past ten weeks the deaths
have been at the rate of 50,712 a year. While
diphtheria, scarlet-fever, small-pox, and
pneumonia are more prevalent than usual,
they do not account for these futures, winch
are very extraordinary. A large number of
fatal maladies have been engendered by the
filthy streets and foul exhalations. It is said
the streets were never so dirty as the past
several months.
DDUCATINO THE INDIANS.
Ex-Secretary of the Interior Schurz has
been invited to speak here on Tuesday even
ing next, on the subject of educating the
Indians, with a view of arousing public in
terest in behalf of this work. The invitation
has been accepted. Gen. Armstrong, Di
rector of the Hamilton Institute of Virginia,
and Gen. Mason Miles will also speak.
three soldiers drowned.
A Fort Asslniboiiie suecial says that three
soldiers of the Eigteeiith Infantry, Quinn,
Kiuuev. mid McDonald, while attempting to
cross the Marine River on the evening of the
18th, were drowned by the upsetting of their
boat.
THE ASSIGNEE OP FOWLER, CHAMPION *
CO.,
imuorters of chemicals and crushers of lin
seed oil. No. 142 Front street, have completed
schedules, which show the liabilities of the
firm to he much greater than at first .Sd
ported. The touil liabilities are Sl.bSS,lbO,
total nominal assets, .21,018,247: total actual
assets, 8990,040;. deducting pledged mer
chandise and securities the net actual assets
are 8218,533.
That Awful Cow.
A correspondent of the Paris who
is with the Bernhardt troupe, thus we
have just arrived at Chicago. A dullplace.
Much like Londou. A few years ago tho city
was burned. Xam told that »t was a cow w hich
brought about th s disaster. This unluckj
—I only repeat what I have been
her tall in a can of petroleum-oil, and
cited Jtut a gas-jet. Her uext movement was
to rush through the streets whisking her burn
ing tail, and tnus netting Are to thß wooden
houses on each side of the way. This cow, a
veritable genius of destruction, certainly was a
cow of very original character.”
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH 13, 1881— EIGHTEEN PAGES.
FOREIGN.
Prince Bismarck’s Son Thought
to 'Be Involved in a
Great Scandal.
The Orange Free State Repre
sented as Convinced that
It Should Fight.
Two Commissioners Sent to Assist
Gen. Wood in Negotiations
with the Boers.
Icntfii Pastoral of the Archbishop of
Dublin, Denouncing Ladies’ .land
Leagues.
Successful Alliance of the Irish with
the Tories at the Coventry
Election.
The King of Bavaria and His Court
Now Keeping the Hours of a
Night Printer.
GERMANY.
LOUIS OF BAVAIUi.
Soecral Cable.
Paris, March 12. —If to-day’s Rappel may
be credited, his Executive Majesty Louis of
Bavaria has distinguished himself by anew
freak, as strange as any yet recorded Of him.
IBs palace is hermetically closed all day, and
opened regularly every night from sunset
until sunrise. Then the Court goes to sleep.
When the stars peep out they go down to
breakfast, and the King calls for his shaving
water.
SCANDAL.
To the ITMttrn Associated Press.
Paris, March hi.—A very singular story is
going the rounds' in Berlin and Paris about
Count Herbert, son of a certain Iron Prince,
who is supposed to hold the destinies of an
Empire in his hand, and a beautiful German
Princess,'wife of a high-court dignitary.
The Count left Berlin suddenly the other
day, as it was supposed on a diplomatic mis
sion. At the same time, however, the Prin
cess disappeared also, and her husband ob
tained permission to retire into private life.
Detectives have just discovered the fugitives
in Italy. Although the Iron Prince has
given the Count Herbert positive orders to
come home, the latter refuses to comply.
THE BOERS.
MORE ABOUT JOBBERY'S TERMS. -
Special Vable.
London, March 12.—' The Daily Kcws cor
respondent cables from the Transvaal a
lengthy interview with the Boer commander,
Franz Joubert, whom he saw on Thursday.
Commander Joubert thinks a settlement with
theßritish Government might be arrived at
by the annexation to Great Britain of a por
tion of the so-called Transvaal on this side
of the Vaal River, thus giving the Boer Re
public the other side of the river—the Brit
ish Government being recouped for war ex
penses by this additional territory. The
Times’ Durban correspondent cables that
the Boers keep secret their fortifications at
Laing’s Nek and Majala, and have refused
Melton Prior permission to sketch.
TIIE PROLONGATION.
London, March 12.—Henry Richard, Mem
ber ot Parliament, last night informed the
Radical Committee on the Transvaal ques
tion that Mr. Gladstone had informed him
the armistice had been prolonged, and Gen.
Wood would be assisted by two Commission
ers in the negotiations.
THE FREE STATE.
Durban, March 12.—According to reliable
information, the Orange Free State farmers
are in a very unsettled condition, and only
awaiting a sufficient excuse to join the Boers.
They regard the strong reinforcements com
ing from England with suspicion, as indi
cating an intention to annex the Free State.
THE IRISH.
POLITICAL MEETING BROKEN UP.
Bonbon, March 13.—An attempt was made
to hold a political meeting at Coventry last
night, under the auspices of Arthur O’Con
nor and Finegan, Home-Rulers. As soon as
O’Connor rose to speak he was met by a
storm of yells. He made several attempts
to read Parnell’s manifesto to the Irish
electors in Coventry, urging them to support
the Conservative candidate at the supple
mentary election in that place to-day. Final
ly a rush was made to the platform, and a
free fight ensued. The police cleared the
hall. The disturbance is attributed to the
extreme Radicals.
THE NEW RULES.
London, March 12.—The Speaker’s new
rules, submitted in the Commons last night,
for the application of urgency to Sup
ply, provide that when certain votes in Com
mittee of Supply and Couimitteeof Ways and
Means are declared urgent, and such Com
mittees have precedence of any standing or
der or any resolution agreed to upon motion
made after notice by a Minister, put forth
and decided by a majority ot three to one, on
the order being read for either of such Com
mittees, the Speaker shall forthwith leave
the Chair without putting any qiies.ion. The
House shall then resolve itself into such
Committee. It it shall appear to the
Chairman during the debate, when
certain votes are declared urgent, to be the
general sense of the meeting that the ques
tion be now put, he may so inform the Com
mittee, and, on motion being made that the
question be now put, the Chairman shall
forthwith put such question, and, if decided
affirmatively by a majority ot three to one,
the question previously under debate shall
forthwith be put
THE COVENTRY ALLIANCE.
London, March 12.—At the supplementary
election in Coventry to fill a vacancy in the
Commons, Eaton, Conservative, was elected,
receiving 4,011 votes, against 3,5 GS for Shut
tleworth. Liberal. The Irish voters sup
ported the Conservative candidate.
the auchrisuop •, of Dublin picks a
QUARREL r.VXTII THE WOMEN.
Duplin, March; 12.—The Archbishop of
Dublin, in his Lenten pastoral, says: “ Un
sound and untheological opinions on the
mutual obligations which bind society are
being industriously propagated by men who
are untrustworthy guides of a Catholic na
tion. Even though rents are extortinate, the
principles now laid down that one of the two
contracting parties can of his own private
authority rescind his engagement, assail the
very foundations of society.” The pastoral
severely condemns the Ladies’ Land League.
It is rumored the Ladies’ League intend
publishing a manifesto replying to the pas
toral.
THE EAST
ANOTHEH HITCH.
Constantinople. March 12.—The Ambas
sadors, finding the Ottoman delegates’ indi
cations of the proposed frontier line too
vague, have asked for a more precise line.
As the indicated line comprises Thessaly as
far as the summit of Mount Olympus, Mr.
Goschen, Prince Novikoff, and Count Corti
declare this insufficient, and that they must
ask their Governments for further instruc-
UOnS - CRETE.
Constantinople, March 43, Two ships
witli men and ammunitionhavo been sent to
Crete. ■ ■
BRITISH NTEWS.
’ IinADIiAUpU.
Special Cable*
London, March 12.—Since Justice Mat
thews’ decision, Mr. Bradlaugh has not en
tered the House. But, should the House de
termine to await the result of the appeal, lie
would practically be empowered to sit
through -the whole duration of this Parlia
ment, the proverbial delay of the law en
abling him to spiu out time for appeals. Mr.
Bradiauch’s friends advise him to accept the
judgment, get reelected, and have done with
it.
TROUBLE AHEAD FOR GLADSTONE.
To the Western dissociated Press.
London, March 13.—'The' Conservative
members of Parliament met at tlie Carlton
Club to-day ami resolved to oppose Mr. Glad
stone’s proposal to vote tbe application of
urgency for the Committee of Supply on Mon
day.
GOLD FOB AMERICA.
London, March 12.— The steamer Wyo
ming, for New York, took out £IOO,OOO of.
specie. , ' „
TUB “ CUCKOO.”
London. March 12,-Tates’ novelty in
evening journalism, the Cuckoo, does not
come up to expectation. Among the news in
the paper is a breach of promise of marriage
which is threatened Bartlett, the husband of
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, it not averted.
AFRICA.
STARVED IN’ THE DESERT,
London, March 13—An Alexandria news
paper states that the explorer Komolo Gessi,
who was second in command to Gordon Pasha
a: the time of the latter’s campaign against
the slave-traders, and who has since been en
gaged in similar operations in Darfur, arrived
at Khartoum on the 2d instjand reported that
half of his party had died of hunger.
ANDORRA.
PARTIAL BLOCKADE OF THE LITTLE RE-
PUBLIC.
Paris, March 13.—The Government has
de'cided to establish a blockade on the French
side of Andorra, in consequence of the in
habitants disregarding the good advice of
France and Spain.
FRANCE,
SUSPENDED.
Loxdok, March 12.— 1 t U reported that the
oldest established private bankers at Mar
seilles have suspended.
The firm of private bankers at Marseilles
whose' suspension is announced, is Era
uianuele & Olivier. Liabilities, £48,000; as
sets, £24,000.
AFGHANISTAN - .
COXFIUMED.
Calcutta, March 12.—Mahomraed Jan, the
noted Afghan leader, has been murdered.
A LAUGHING FAMILY.
Tlio Strange Malady tVlileli Afflict* a
Family Along the »elaware—Fruit
less Efforts to Slay Periodic Laughter.
FKnchtmvn UV.J.) Corraponatnu PhlladtlpMuTtm'S.
Straight across the Delaware from here
and back among the hills which run parallel
with the river for many miles lives a family
concerning whom the strangest stories are
told. The father and sons are farmers, and
all live in a large, substantial house, a few
yards from the road to Doylestown. They
are all chronic laughers, having an afflic
tion of the muscles of the mouth and throat
which compels them to give vent to ap
parent merriment at stated intervals. The
malady first appeared in the father about
ten years ago. He was usually a very quiet
man, enjoying fun, but manifesting his en
joyment without much noise. He was seated
at the dinner table one day in the spring of
the year, eating steadily-and not engaged in
any of the conversation which the othennem
bersof the family were carrying on. Sud
denly, without any cause, ho burst into a
loud fit of laughter so extremely different
from his accustomed laugh that all were at
tracted by It at once. When asked what was
the reason for his sudden outburst he made
no reply, but continued his merriment. Some
of the boys thought he had hysterics and
pounded Mm on the back, but it did no good.
After a few moments he made motions for
pencil and paper, and wrote that he was un
able to control his risibles, and asked them
to send for a doctor. , ~ ,
The rural physician came, but could give
no remedy that stopped the laughter. Peal
after peal of what sounded like the heartiest
kind of fun came from him, and nothing
Would avail to prevent it The doctor finally
came to the conclusion that he was the vic
tim of a nervous attack, and, leaving a ner
vine, departed. The faUiercoiitinued laugh
ing until about sundown, when he suddenly
stopped and fell on the floor, completely
prostrated. He soon grew better, however,
ate a hearty supper, and spent the evening
much as usual. No signs of the odd trouble
appearing, he went to bed. and was soon fast
asleep. Along about 2 o’clock -in the
morning, however, his wife was awak
ened by his laughter, and the same
symptoms manifested themselves as on the
afternoon previous. He kept it up until 7
o’clock, laughing loud and strong. At 7
o’clock the noise suddenly ceased, and did
not return again until dinner time. Thus it
continued, recurring each day shortly after
noon and in the night about 2 o’clock, and
has ever since. As the weeks passed he
grew so accustomed to the disease that he
was ••■'used very little inconvenience by it.
He did not get tired out, as at first, and soon
was * so aoont his work. —sowing seed
and planting digging vegetables and
watering uie cattic,-while laughing immod
erately. He could not talk while under one
of the spells, but carried a , slate and pencil,
around with him, after the fashion of a deaf
and dumb person.
The trouble was very regular in its com
ing .mil going and occasionally broke forth
a."uulooked-for seasons. Once the old man
was taken in church, just when the minister
was exhorting his hearflra in the most sol
emn strains, and spoiled the effect of the dis
course, besides disturbing the equilibrium of
the clergyman. Another time lie was found
by one of his neighbors along the road, lying
beneath a bag of flour, laughing at a terrible
rale. He has been taken while driving home
from the mill, and the suddenness of the
sounds frightened the horse, causing it to
run away mid dump the man and part of his
load out in the road. For eighteen months
the father was the only one of the household
afflicted with the malady. Several of
them had complained from time to time of
an Inclination to join the father in the laugh,
but none of them did so until nearly two
years after he was taken, when Susie, the
youngest child, suddenly burst into a similar
lit during one of her father’s attacks. From
that time on she has laughed at about the
same hours her father does. One by one the
remaining members fell victims to thestrange
complaint, until three years ago there was
but one left free, and that was Charles, the
oldcstson. His long exemption led him to
believe he would escape the contagion. But
he was mistaken, and it is said he had his
first attack while petitioning for the hand of
a Harrisburg damsel. So frightened was the
lady by the queer behavior of her suitor that
she ran from the room, mid it was weeks be
fore the proper explanations could induce
her to see him again. She is now one of the
family here, and, escaping the malady, never
minds the hideous chorus of laughter which
twice a day resounds through the house or
grounds. It is regarded as rather strange
that none of the neighbors should have
caught the infection, but such is the case,
although many of them mingle constantly
with the family.
Everything possible has been done to alle
viate or remove the malady, but without per
ceptible effect Several eminent physicians
from the leading cities have visited the home
and grown exceedingly interested in the
case. They all confess themselves baffled by
the malady and want one of two of the fami
ly to go to the city, where they can receive
constant treatment. This they steadily re
fuse to do. Their peculiar trouble, so notice
able and odd, has made, them very sensitive,
mid they will not travel where they will be
suujected to public scrutiny mid remark.
They go to church or the store in the village
close by, and attend social gatherings occa
sionally in the neighborhood in the even
ings, but only among lifedoug friends. Peo
ple within a radius of a few miles are Bo ac
customed to the thing that they never mind
it or mention it. Consequently; very few
, people outside of the immediate vicinity, and
the physicians who have attended them, are
cognizant of the circumstances. People
passing the house, especially in the summer
time, have been filled with curiosity by what
thev saw and heard, and have carried ac
counts to distant places. These reports are
very vague, for the reason that they have no
definlt idea of tire matter. They only knew
that it looked remarkably strange to see a
father and bis sons out in a field, plowing
and sowing many rods apart, yet each one
laughing as though he had heard the best
joke in the world. Curious stories are told
of the travelers who went that way. Several
years ago two young men came from
Doylestown to attenn a party at Envinna,
a summer resort on the Pennsylvania side,
a few miles below here. It was a warm
night and they did not start back
until late. They drove past the house of the
laughing family soon after the regular at
tack had begun. The windows were all open,
and every sound could be clearly heard. 'As
the young men approached they heard the
most unearthly noise their cars had ever re
ceived. It seemed like a perfect pandemo
nium, and they felt sure they must have
struck the entrance to the lower regions.
The horse took fright, and nearly ran away
with them. Coming to the conclusion that,
at the least, the place was haunted, they hur
ried home, and the next morning spread the
news. Parties were found to investigate
the matter, but none of them solved the sub
ject until informed by a man In the village
near at hand as to the nature of the case.
They were urged to remain reticent about
the matter, and have done so.
The years of incessant laughter have told
somewhat un the faces of the family, but not
so as to be very noticeable. There are scores
of lines under the eyes and above the cheeks,
caused by the drawing up of tne skin. Then
their mouths have become wider, and they
keep them closed with difficulty. The most
marked result of the disease, however, is in
the voice. The entire family talk in the same
tone, resembling as nearly as anything the
voice of an alto singer. -Males and females
have the same Inileccion and intonation.
Most of them have more or less trouble with
their eyes, several having become very near
sighted. The pupils have contracted, and
the enure eyeball is diminished in size.
Tiiis is accounted for by the contraction of
the eyes while laughing and the effort re
quired in working or reading while undergo
ing an attack. Very little physical ■ annoy
ance is caused the laughers. They read and
write, sleep and work, without any trouble.
The only tiling they seem unable to do while
attacked is to eat, and that can be readily un
derstood. Several grandchildren have been
bom, and in all but one instance they were
taken, soon after birth, witli stated attacks
at the same lioursastheirparents. Of course
they do not laugh ns the older ones do, but
they crow and express all tne signs of baby
glee twice a day and never cry while in that
state.
SPURGEON.
The Great Baptist Preacher Seriously
A cable dispatch reports the serious ill
ness of the Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
and as he has long suffered from gout and a
complication of other troubles, saying noth
ing of his excessive corpulency, it is to be
feared that he may not recover. He Is in his
47th year, having been born Keivedon. Essex,
June 19, 1834. ilis relatives were Independ
ents or Congregatlonalists, but he adopted
Baptist views, and soon became known as the
Boy Preacher, and when only 10 or 17 accept
ed the pastorate of a small Baptist chapel at
Waterbeach. Ilis eloquence drew crowds to
hear him, and his fame soon reached Lon
don. At 19 he became pastor of the New
Park-Street Chanel, but it was not large
enough for tne throngs which . gath
ered to hear him. The congre
gation removed to the Surrey Music-
Hall, and in ISOO-’CI built for him the taber
nacle, in which he has since officiated. Uis
average congregations have exceeded 0,000,
and his popularity has remained undimln
ished. A strong Calvinist, he has yet urged
right action on his hearers as earnestly as if
he were au advanced Arminian. A sincere
Baptist, ho has not made immersion a pre
requisit to occasional communion. He has
been a prodigious worker. Many volumes of
his sermons have been published; he has ed
ited a magazine, and presided over a theo
logical seuduarv, mission and orphan schools,
etc. His church has been emphatically a
working one, and the pastor has set ids .flock
an example of indefatigable industry. A
correspondent who attended one of ids serv
ices in 1872, thus describes the tabernacle and
itsndnister: , .
“The tabernacle Is designed to economize
space for the greatest good of the greatest
number. It has two galleries which run all
around the house. There are seats on the
platform from which the preacher speaks,
and seats in the aisles at the end of each pew.
Mr. Spurgeon’s appearance is not prepos
sessing. He is an ordinary-looking English
man, in both the literal and figurative appli
cation of the adjective.—fat, fair, and nearly
40. He cannot be said to be graceful, but he
is perfectly at his case, using few gestures,
and never declaiming, much less ranting, but
still impressive in his simplicity. His open
ing prayers were remarkable. Obviously ex
temporized, they were neither reports to the
lleitv of what was going on in all parts of
His dominions, nor hackneyed paraphrases
of Scriptural language. They were suppli
cations, expressed in clear English, embroid
ered, it the term is admissiule, with Just
enough biblical metaphor to relieve their ex
cessive plainness, and in a new and graphic
pattern. They were imaginative, rather from
the novel, yet by no means grotesque, man
ner in which they presented old truths, than
for any real strangeness of thought. In
reading the first chapter of Isaiah,
and commenting as he .read, he
would have rendered it difficult for
his hearers to determine what was
Isaiah’s and what was Spurgeon’s were it
not the practice of his congregation to open
their Bibles as soon as he began to read. His
sermon was based on the third verse of the
chapter previously read, and was intended to
set forth the folly of want of consideration m
religious affairs. It was apparently extem
poraneous; at all events, it was delivered
witli only a small piece of note-paper, lying
on the desk by which the preacher stood. It
was very car'efuly divided into heads; not
differing in this respect, or in most of its
language, from a discourse which might be
delivered by any respectable Baptist or Pres
byterian minister on the same subject There
was nothing declamatory; there were no per
sonal appeals peculiarly pungent or well
taken in themselves; and there was an occa
sional outcropping of such high Cahamstlc
views of the sinner’s inability as were calcu
lated to discourage rather than further any
efforts on His part toward amendment The
real sources of Mr. bpurgeou’s_ pulpit power
may be set down, first, that he is thoroughly
in earnest; second, he has a voice of won
derful clearness, impressiveness, and nat
uralness; third, his sermon was admirably
constructed. Dissected, it had
it notoriety; as a whole, it was a wonderful
mosaic of which the beauty is dependent
upon its entirety.”
postal Service in Germany*
Boston Berate.
Saasjsfe sauaa
very large. Tho tube completely encircles the
eitv with brunches at various points, so that a
letter mailed in any part will be delivered in any
other part within an hour. There are frequent
stations, and there is a special messenger serv
icc connected with the system. Special C-‘tter
boaes for the pneumatic service are located all
over the city, and collections are made every
few minutes. There is an extra rate for maU
matter thus sent. Special postal-cards arc pro
viHed for it. costing twenty-live pfennigs, or -lx
'altd a quarter cent!, while letters sent «tst
thirty pfennigs, or seven and a half cents.
The oneumatio post Is of great utility In the
forward mg of telegrams and in catching
S-tiTs Sr out of town, which otherwise coili d
not be reached In time. There are In Berlin
about twenty-live stations of the pneumatic
nosh or llohrpost, as it Is called. These are all
connected with each other and also with the
central telegraph olßce. For the working of the
tube there are six engine stations, eachwitu
two steam engines, for *bf working the a|^
mimos. The little cars In the tubes nave a
Suable impelling power, being exhauned
in front and compressed behind. The
soecd is I.UOO metres in a minute. It is proposed
to introduce tho pneumatielubesystcm in other
la Ttare t are < rented in th ?P™ t '°SS’d
the distribution of the mails being done entirely
bv carters, except where letters are to be called
for ift the office. The carrier system is highly
efficient, and is extended to the most thinly pop
ulated country districts. In the cities the deliv
eries are very frequent through the day; The
rates of domestic postage arc low, being a
sum amounting to two and a half cents tor
letter rates, three-quarters of a cent for ordinary
newspapers, and one and a quarter cents tor
SKmls and local letters. A feature that
would be highly appreciated here's a pnlvdsuin
for tho sale of postagro-stamps at- wmc pmeo
near each letter-box, which is in A
dicatcd by an official sijrn iu the wincio
similar arrangement would bevery convenient
for the people in our cities, who aro rontmuaiiy
in want of Stamps, hubhave either to umke a
long trip to the Post-Office for toem or feel mat
they are bothering some neighboring store
keeper or apothecary. The entire postal system
ig profitable to the Government. In 18TS the net Kerbcla has a collection of festerinjr filth in Its
earnings were $3,000,000. The express depart- vicinity which is appalling. If the Turkish ail
ment, or package post, does an enormous busl- thorltles were vigorous in enforcing sanitary
ness. The tariff is according to weight onddls- regulations in their towns, villages, and places v
lance, and It costs but a few cents to send a of pilgrimage, tbe world would never, probably,
good-sized bundle from one end of the country be periodically alarmed by plague scares; but
to tho other, lutbo principal cities, packages so long as Turkish officials are what .they are,
are collected at houses or offices by tho post- and no comprehensive plans are adopted to
wagons, in answer to an order left at the Post- carrvoffand utilize all the surplus waters of
Office or dropped in a letter-box, just as orders the Tigris and Euphrates, so long will fevers and
are left at an express office in this country. It plagues bo found in Mesopotamia,
is a common thing tor travelers to have their ma
baggage sent after themby mall. AMERICAN PIGS. '
ANDORRA.
Ronlette and Revolt.
Xew I'ork Herald.
Park, March 10.—At the election in the
P.enubilc of Andorra ail the revolutionary
Councilors were reelected. This is the party
which wishes to license gambling, widen the
French Government refuses to permit.
Until very recently, it may be remembered,
Andorra flourished as a model little State,
and the patriarchal simplicity of its inhab
itants had long since passed into a proverb,
when last September a contemner of ancient
things suddenly appeared in tlie person of a
speculator from Toulouse, who offered to
put Andorra in communication with the
rest of the world by means of a
tunnel and a line of railway. In re
turn he was to have the privilege of
building a grand casino at Andorra, and to
establish public gambing-tables therein. This
proposal pleased the young men of Andorra
well, for they saw gold in it; but it disgusted
the Council of Fathers, who did not desire to
see their comfortable little country converted
into a “hell.” The“ Reform Party,” how
ever (for that is the designation theyadopted),
emboldened by the Bishop of Seo d’Urgel’s
approval, took up arms to intimidate the
Council, and ns this failed they expelled M.
Molds, the Chief Syndic, from the country.
The Andorra Is divided into six parishes,—
Andorra la Veille, Ordiuo. La Massanne,
Sainte Julia, Camillo, and Encamps, Andor
ra being the capital. It is there that the Gov
ernment palace, the archives, and tlie treas
ury (if there be any) are to be found. The
palace contains a famous iron cupboard with
six locks, in wbicli all the money and docu
ments of the State are kept. The cupboard
cannot be opened save in the presence of all
the Consuls. Seiior Juan Paz, who was
elected Syndic by the malcontents, in the
place of Seuor Moles, took possession of the
palace, but lie was unable to constitute a
government, owing to the refusals of the
Consuls to deliver up their keys. The
insurrectionists hereupon surrounded the
houses of these local authorities, and sum
moned them to deliver up tlie precious ob
jects. Three of the Consuls gave way to
force and fled across the frontier. In the
midst of all this hubbub the Freueli viguier’s
office, having become vacant, was filled up by
tbe appointment of M. Ladev&e, a Protes
tant, Nothing could have been more clumsy
than such an appointment, for the Andor
rans arc Catholic to a man; and so the re
form party, under the Bishop’s protection,
were enabled to urge a legitimate grievance
against the French Government. When M.
Ladeveze arrived at Andorra he was told
that if lie did not immediately decamp lie
would be shot, and as this threat was con
veyed by excited and. wliat is more, armed
men, the French viguier deemed it prudent
to retire across the frontier. Tlieaffront put
upon him was, however, so grave that the
French Government felt bound to demand
full satisfaction for it. Accordingly a new
viguier, M. Hubert de Goubeyre, was ap
pointed, with orders to proceed to Andorra,de
mand the dispersal of the revolutionary J unta,
and insist on the restoration of the ejected
Syndics, failingjwliicli hOO soldiers were to
be dispatched from Toulouse to reduce the
Andorrans to order. Meanwhile the revolu
tionists had formed a sturdy battalion of 500
men, all armed with Remington rifles. Where
did they get these rifles ? Hardly from the
gentleman who wants to set up the gaming
fables. But this energetic person has a
standi supporter in the Chief of the Andor
ran army, a man called Paz, who caused ins
father, an old gentleman of S 2, to be elected
nominal Syndic of the revolutionary Junta.
Paz is described as a man of great determina
tion. He wants the roulette table; and lie
seems to have collected a number of Carlists
out of work from Urgel to aid him in forcing
tills reform upon unwilling conservatives of
his country. Moreover, Paz and ills party
assert that the French have no right to inter
fere in this affair, seeing that the Bishop of
Seb d’Urgel is with them. Whether a French
brigade, with field pieces, will be sent to
bring them to reason remains to be seen. Paz
has already obtained five keys of the Treas
ury; lie had also won the suffrages of his
countrymen at the elections p and it is gener
ally believed that he would readily dispense
with this popular recognition of his services
if he only got the sixth key.
AN UNNATURAL MOTHER.
Star til Off Spectacle In Charlotte, Va.—
A Nude and Bleeding Woman Flying
Through the Street* to Escape the
'liash.
Mil Teltsravh to Sew York Herald.
Richmond. Va., March 10.— Intelligence
received here from Charlotte, X. C., gives
the details of the brutal flogging of a mulatto
girl by her mother with a cowhide. The ac
count states tlrnt the piteous screams of a
woman in the California section of that city
startled the neighborhood about 11 o’clock in
the morning. As people ran to their doors a
naked woman, bleeding from her hair to her
stockings, the only stitch which was on her
body, rushed shrieking from the door of the
house. She ran wildly up the railroad to the
crossing, dashing across this frantically. Still
screaming with pain and terror she run down
an alley near by, and broke madly into a
house a hundred yards from the street. Sev
eral persons were passing at the time, some
ladies among the number. One or two met
herns she came up the railroad, and all
stepped aside as if a locomotive had been
"’Ta'idiout half an houratter this spectacle
a woman applied to Justice inch for a
warrant for her mother, who, she said, had
torn her clothing from her and beaten her
with a cowhide. She removed enough of
her clothing to prove her assertion that not
inch of her body was tree from a bloody » elf.
She was, she said, a day servant at a board
ing-house on Tyron street. Sheiwent. home
to her mother every night, but failed hKt
nif-nt on accountof the weather. Her mother
hall met her on Mint street on her way home
that morning. When they met the mother
held a heavy rawhide an her hand, and or
dered the girl home. ‘ 111 teach you, she
said “how to' spend another night in Buz
zard’s Boost.” The latter is a place of bad
repute in Charlotte. The girl, thoroughly
afraid of her mother, went. Hie rest has
been told. She could not endure the pain of
thft rawhide upon the naked skin and es
caped from the house, pursued by her tipess,
of a mother for a short distance with the,
reekinff hide uplifted.
The girl’s name is Kena Young:, and that of
her mother is Lizzie Young. The daughter
is handsome and light; the mother is ufflj,
black, and brutal., The latter was sent to
iail for thirty days. When a Constable went
to arrest her a crowd had gathered around,
and the excitement in the vicinity was great.
Tbe Plairue.
The scare about the plague has again appeared
In Europe* where it will doubtless cause much
concern, particularly in those countries which
have many dealings with irmenla and Meso
potamia. Undoubtedly the plague ought not to
be treated with unconcern or derision, as it baa
freoucntly show'n its ability to travel over the
CTMtcr part of the Old World, from Us pesti
lential hot-beds in the valleys of the Tigris and
Fii nhrates. It is as well, however, to remember
tot certain parts of Mesopotamia are never en
tirely free from the plague. In the cold weather
it eilsts languidly and htfully 1 :ho hot
veimou sets In it rages more or less in every
tm»n, from Mosul and Bagdad down to the Per
sian (liilf The cause of the scourge is not tol
erably well The Tigris and the Eu
nhrates at the period when the snows at their
Rowcc teirln to melt, cannot have their watera
iho^vh^eo/to^revMously^bmcr^d'raun
.j.y becomes a swamp of miasmatic, pijsliicnlial
vmnor^ 0 The eartn seems to crack and breathe
forthmlasma. Then follow fevers and tho plague
inhabitants. Villages are annually
depopulated, but the surrounding inhabitants
have" become so accustomed to the visitation
that they only move further inland or toward
the seaboard for a time, and then return in tho
Sid season to their pastoral. .ecupaUons around
their former homes. . The ravages of the plague
aro augmented by the indescribably Illthy con
dltlon of the villages and towns in which it ap
nears. Bagdad, for uistauee, contains within
Fts embankments the remains of jißh whrch
hdve been allowed to accumulate bv gigantic
populations for century after century, Kerbola,
which is In tho vicinity of the remains of Baby
lon. Is annuaUy visited by millions ot Moham
medans. who go to payv their devotions to the
tombs of Hooseln and Hassan, the melancholy
heroes of the Mohurrum festival, which yearly
causes great bloodshed In Asia between the
rival Mohammedan sects of Shiahs and Sconces,
A Clianco for Secretary Blaine to Dla*
play a Vlgorou- Foreign Policy.
Xeio York Timet,
Among the effete monarchies of Europe :
there appears to exist a deep-rooted fear and
hatred of tbe free pig of the United States.
It is true that for the moment the rights of
the American pig have been recognized by
England, not so much because of any regard
for porcine liberties as because of the cer
tainty that if the American pig is forbidden
to land in England, he will simply cross the
Atlantic to Holland, and then, disguised as a
Dutch pig, take passage to England from
Amsterdam or Rotterdam. France, how
ever, is not disposed to allow any considera
tion of this sort to influence her conduct,
and is determined that any pig proved to be
of American birth, no matter whether he
may have certificates of Dutch or German
citizenship, shall not enter France. Spain,
Portugal, Italy, and Greece either bavetaken
or are about to take similar action against
American pigs, and it is only too evident
that if the effete monarchies can have their
way our pigs will be shut out from Conti
nental Europe.
We have here precisely the state of affairs,
which Mr. Elaine needs in order to display
the vigorous foreign policy which his ad
mirers expect of him. The American pig,
like his congener, the pig-iron of Pennsyt- •
vania, must, of necessity, be dear to every
sagacious politician. The pig element of
tlie population of Ohio and of other Western
States is of great importance. Without Its
basis of pork Cincinnati would crumble into
ruin, and without Us nigs Chicago would
lose half its importance. When we class
together the pig-raisers, the pork-packers,
and the pork-traders of the West, and find
what a large proportion of the Western
population is thus immediately connected
with pigs, we can gain some idea of the
size and importance of the pig vote. It:
needs to be conciliated at least as much as
does the iron interest of Pennsylvania.
Hitherto the pig has needed no protection,
but if once the pig interest o f the West de
mands protection against its brutal and.
cowardly European enemies, tho American
politician who does not permit his blood to
promptly boil, ana who does not denounce
with all his resources of language the foes .
of porcine liberty, may make up his mind to
retire at once and forever to private life.
In their efforts to deny to the American
pig tlie right to land on European shores, the
foreign despots—among whom, for the sake
of convenience, M. Grtvy may be in inded —
profess to be influenced by the loftiest mo
tives. They dislike, forsooth, the manners
and customs of the American pig. They say
that he is addicted to Che degrading habit of
trichinosis, and that if he is admitted among
the pure and innocent pigs of Europe lie will
corrupt their morals, and His evil influence
will affect the health and spirits of tbe
European pork-eaters. Of course, this ac
cusation is a mere pretext. The American
pig will compare favorably in point of trichi
nosis with any other living pig. It is the
fact that he is born in a free country that
makes him dreaded by tbe enemies of free
institutions. The influence of American
freedom upon our pigs is very marked. , The
Western pig can jump fences which the un
enterprising European pig would never
dream of attempting to jump, and he mani
fests a love of adventure in connection with
flower and vegetable gardens which proves
that he has caught ranch of the bold, free
spirit which leads the Western man to in
vade Indian reservations and to defy the
treaty pig-yokes which are designed to re
strain his enterprise. Of course this type of
pig is grossly offensive in European'eves,
and hence the effort to prevent American
pigs from visiting Europe. ,
If Mr. Blaine really wants to adopt a vigor
ous foreign policy, his opportunity is before
him. He should come at once to the defense
of the American pig. It the European des
pots can keep out American pigs on the pre
tense that they are addicted to trichinosis,
they can go a step further and prevent Amer
ican citizens from landing in Europe on the
pretense that they are addicted to chewing
toba'-cor or to other reprehensible habits.
If the rights and liberties of American ciU
zens are to be defended, a stand must be
made now, and in behalf of tbe American
pig. As the friend of the rights of pigs, Mr-
Blaine can command theentlmsiastic admirer
tionof the West. Sympathy with the op
pressed pig will be of far more sendee to
him than sympathy with Ireland. He may
claim that e.verv Irishman whom the British
Government lias arrested, or at any time
hereafter may arrest, is ipse facto an-
American citizen, but this method of dis
playing sympathy with Ireland has been
practiced so frequently that it has to a grea
extent lost its eflicacy in attracting votes
If, however, he takes the broad ground that
an American pig has all the rights that be
long to an American citizen while traveling
abroad, and that lie can no more be shut out
of a European port than can an American
tourist, lie will arouse a whirlwind of enthu
siasm in the West. Let him announce to the
European Powers that to metaphpricallj
tread on the American pig is to tread on the
American flag; let him send with every
cargo of pigs or pork that leaves these shores
an American man-of-war, with a chartered
English steamer to tow her across tne At
lantic and to rescue her officers and crew in
case of bad weather, and let him compel the
effete monarchies to permit tlie pigs to land
under penalty of having their forts bom
barded, and lie will earn a reputation for
vio-or and patriotism such as no previous
Secretary of State has ever won.
A Battle with Flour.
San Francisco PosU Feb. 2S.
Snanishtown was in all its glory yesterday
afternoon, the Mexican population turning out
en masse to enjoy a carnival of flour ana to .
wage a fleree battle for tbe honor of nominat
ing tha queen of the festivities which annually
precede 4 the austerities of Lent. To-day our
Spanish citlzensare singing “Gaudeamus Igltur,
juvones dum smnus ; on Wednesday they will
be kneeling with ash-besralrched forehead*,
crying, "Misero met Domino secundum magnum,
miserecordiam tuam.” According to cos tom,
the opposing factions yesterday, under the
leadership of their general, met at their re
spective headquarters. The one company waa
known as the Cuartel Colorado, tbe other as the
Pueblo Nuevo. The headquarters of the former
were near St. Francis Church, while the latter
were intrenched behind n fort of dry-gt»ds
boxes a block higher up. The Queen oftheßcd
Flag was Snuorita Guadalupe Carbano. a young
Mexican lady, dressed In the Moxicaneolora
and wearing a cap composed of gold ana
red on her head. The Queen of mo Green
faction was Seuorlta Manuela Hermiern, »
handsome brunet, also dressed In national
colors, with a green and gold cap. l£e Cuartel
Colorado Battalion executed an
flank movement on the Pu uhl? Nueto_ warriors,
charging them in the rear of their fort and al
most*succeeding In capturing
would have made the maiden •of their choice
Queen of the Carnival ball. But the Fuehlo
Nuevo Kegiracnt were stronger In numbers and
supplied with twenty flfty-pound sacks of tjpur.
After a desperate contest the enemy, half blind
ed and looking very pale, was driven 'down the.
nil! leaving the air thick with flour and the per
?D ring contStauts covered with a sudoriflo
?£at of cheap dough. Tho attack was renewed
again and again, until exhausted nature cried
hold enough! and the one faction having cap
tured thellag of tho other tbe motley proces
sion formed into line to preparo for tho ball,
wMoh followed at Scoilaz 8 Hall* ana whlca wti
celebrated by the participants aUlngwxlbunior,
bat so covered with flour that
were utterly unrecognizable. The best of feel-
Insr prevailed, although the battle was so hotly
contested that several barrels of flour were used
in the contest.
An Ingenuous Chinese General,
In one of his poems, referring to the.
in war several centuries ago. Sir waiter Scott
wrote .f jjj 9 buckler scarce p breadth in span, _
No large fence had he;
He never counted him a man.
Would strike below the knee.
Some such simple notions of u y s ,£f l J^ r J* TSJ
seem to have tilled tho mind of the commander
of the Chinese troops that
Turkestan near the borders of KnkUiu Uncer
tain of the outcome ot the peace nesmttaUonaat
St. Petersburg, he recently sent a lettef
Kauffman, the Kussian commander. In which he
nlalnly told the latter that the Chinese army was
not In a condition to beidu aetlre
hot if things went on smoothly he t rusted tnavi t
would bo ready for effective service In the
spring. He therefore suggested ftatltmlghtms
well ro postpone the opening of hostilities untu
the Ist Of May. That&n. Kauffman reiponded
favorably to this proposal
fromsomeof the P"tsS lo, l?iSiSk2Shito
of that officer it would quite In krep^r^
esies oC vrar miidiC
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