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roe fortkraciv FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1878. HEWS OFJHE WEEK. ' FOREIGN NEWS. . , There has been serious rioting among the cotton operatives la Blackburn, England. Thirty-two battalions of Russian rein forcement bare arrived at San Stefano. Constantinople advices indicate that, despite Gen. Todleben'e effortfl, the Torte will not evacuate Varna and Batoom. Okubo, Japanese Minister of the In terior, has been assaaunated. The murderer was arreted. An earthquake at Cua, Venezuela killed COO persons. Heavy bhocka were felt at Caracas. An ammunition factory in the Rue Berrenger, Taris, exploded the other day, kill ng tweuty pooplo. A telegram from Batoum states that the concentration of 7,000 armed MunBulni&n inhabitants at Lazistan, in the Ardonutch dis trict, has compelled tho Kusaians to retreat, and that the rapid gathering of armed bands renders untenable the ItusHian positions at Iivania and on the Choruk river. A Belgrade dispatch says the Servian corps of observation, hitherto oousinting of 15,000 men, has been increased to 85,000 This was caused by fear of a Turkish attack The Turks have boen concentrating unucr Ilafiz Taaha on the Servian line of demarca inn A Vienna dispatch says the passes taken by tho MusHulmen insurgents are Der bend, Balkan, and Trajan's Gate. AU attempts to dinlodge them have be unsuccesnful. The Turkish CommiBHioners have thus far failed to accomplish their mission. The differences between the cotton masters and operatives in England, growing out of the strike, are productive of much disorder. Several lanre mills have been burned, presumably by incendiary strikers. There is considerable excitement and some alarm in East Lancashire and other cotton centers. The presence of military and large bodies of police alone hold the population in check in several large towns. Daring a performance in the theater at Ahmednugger, in India, the building caught fire, and forty persons burned to death. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, re ferring to Count Schouvaloff's departure, says "there can scarcely be a doubt that he goes back to Loudon empowered to make conces sions in accordance with the British point of view nay, more, as is believed in St. rotors burp, to offer great concessions. " United States Minister Seward writes of the famine in China that the actual famine is pressing upon 15,000,000 people, while 60,000,000 are suffering more or less distress. The crop?, he says, have been good immediately around the stricken districts, Vut, as the food can be transported only on wagons or pack animals, it cannot bo taken thither in sufficient quantities to save the lives of the people. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Ira B. Wright, ten years Town Trcas nrer of South Hadley, Mass., has appropriated $25,000 of the town funds. A manufactory of arms in Providence, R. L, has received orders for 100,000 rifles for tho Turkish Government being part of a lot bargained for under a contract suspended some time ago on account of the close of the war. Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the Connecticut prisoner, died in the State prison at ITaitford last week. All the steamers leaving New York for European ports are crowded to their fullest capacity. The New York Syndicate, which re cently contracted wi;h the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of $50,000,000 of the new 4-per-cent. Government bonds by the 1st of next January, has now taken the entire amount of the bonds. Mrs. Leon Lewis, the novelist, died in Rochester, N. Y., a few days ago. Tite Rev. Samuel S. Isaacs, editor of the Ji-wish. Mestenger, and the oldest Jewish minister in the country, died in New York last week, aged 74. . AVCMt. William M. Fisher, a wholesale jewel er of Providence, stopped at the Planters' House, St. Louis, engaged a room, stepped out for a few minutes, and, upon returning, discov ered that the door of the room had been forced open and $7,000 worth of jewelry carriod off. They have a sensation in Indianapolis It is alleged that the Judge in tho celebrated case of Mrs. Clem, charged with the murder of Young, received $1,000 for dismissing the ease. There are thirteen men in the Chicago jail awaiting trial for murder, and two more binder sentence of death. There was a Communist parade in St Louis last Sunday. Nearly 5,000 men wore in the procesHion. POLITICAL POINTS. The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania met at Ilarrisburg on the 15th hint., and nominated Ilenry M. Hoyt, of Lu cerne county, for Governor. A platform was adopted, in substance as follows : 1. Ad herence to the protective policy and hostility to free trade in all its aspects, and especially to the Wood Tariff bill. 2. That, labor being the source of all wealth, '.it is the duty of the na tion to protect and encourage it, so as to se cure profitable employment to both labor and capital. 3. That it is the duty of Congress to aid in developing Amer ican commerce, and to promote the prosperity of the manufacturing and agri cultural, mining and industrial intern ts of the country. 4. That public lands Lclong to the people, and should be reserved to actual set tlers, so that the landless may be encouraged and aided in occupying ttem. 5. That Con gress should extend it constitutional power to regulate internal commerce so as to prevent discrimination in freight rates. 6. Denouncing tho rayrritiut of Southern rebel claims, and holding tfce Democracy responHible for the Dretentation of such claims, amounting to $3J0,000,0O0. 7. Indorsing Oov. llartraaft's administration. The Democrats of Ohio have deter mined to Jiold their State Cucvontion t Co- lumbuson June 26, ' ' ) The committee appointed by Speaker Randall to conduct the investigation of the Louisiana and Florida elections, provided for by the Totter resolution, is constituted aa fol lows t Clarkson N. Totter, of New York 5 Will iam It. Morrison, of Illinois Eppa Ilunton, of Virginia ; John A. McAlanon, or unio j, u 0, Blackburn, of Kentucky; W. 8. Stenger, of Pennsylvania ; Thomas R. Cobb, of Indiana Democrats. B. F. Butler, of Massachusetts ; Frank Hiscock, of New York 1 J. D. Cox, of Ohio, and Thomas B. Reed, of Maine Repub licans. WASHINGTON NOTES. The report of Gens. Barnard and Wiight, United States Engineers, to whom tho petition of Capt. Eads for the modification of the Jetty act was referred by the Secretary of War, states that the works are permanent, and their sucoess is so decided as to make it im portant to prosecute them with vigor. The President has removed Gen. Weitzel from the Collectorship at Cincinnati, and appointed Amos Smith, Jr., as his suc cessor, rue iTesiaent nas also nominated Gustavus St. Gem, Surveyor of Customs at St. Louis; John IL Smyth, of North Carolina, Minister Resident and Consul General at Li beria, Africa; and Charles Tuttle, of New York, a member of the Board of Indian Commis sioners. The President lias appointed ex-Con gressman Rapier Collector of Internal Reve nue in Alabama. The President sent to the Senate last week a message inclosing a communication from the Secretary of State on the subject of the result of the deliberations of the Fishory Commission appointed under the treaty of Washington. The President, in his message, recommends the appropriation of the neces sary sum, with such discretion to the Executive Department in regard to its payment as, in the wisdom of Congress, public interest may seem to require. Vice President Wheeler and Mrs. R. B. Ilaycs left the capital last week for Malone, N. Y., the home of the former, where they will rusticate for several days. The House Committee on Expendi tares in the State Department has agreed to report articles of impeachment against Consul General Bradford at Shanghai. The Rcpubli can members have doubts that the office is im peachable under tho constitution. A Washington dispatch says "the sale of the 4-per-cent. bonds has already reached such an amount as will shortly justify the issue of a call for five million G per cents, which will be replaced by i per cents. Sher man denies that the Syndicate has made an offer for six hundred millions of 4 per cents, at par, provided it was given a monopoly of the sale. lie says that under no circumstances will he give any bankers a monopoly of the fours. They are, he considers, the people', bonds, and ho intends they shall remain so. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Syndicate have anticipated their options for August and September, and taken another $10,000,000 of the 4f per cent, bonds. The total amount thus far taken is $35,000,000. Informatior has reached this city that the adherents of Lerdo in Mexico have aban doned their efforts to incite revolution. A telegram from Ottawa, Canada, says the Dominion Government is in receipt by cable of a statement from the Imperial Government to the effect that war between Great Britain and Russia is inevitable. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Tuesday, May 14. Si.nate. Mr. riuinb, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported favorably the Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of War to have head-atones erected over the graves of soldiers who served in the regular or voluuteer army of the United States, during the war for the Union, and who have been buried in private reme tories....Mr. Chnstiancy, from the name commit, tee, reported favorably ou the Henate bill to amend the Revised Statu ten In regard to embezzlement by Internal-revenue officers.... Consideration waa resumed of the Postofnco Appro priation bill, the pending question being ou tho point of order raised by Mr. Edmunds tlat the amendment submitted by Mr. Maxey in regard to a semi-monthly Brazilian mail steamship service, and to pay (JO a mile therefor, could not be reoeived, as it proposed new legislation, and was cot germane to the subject. After a brief discussion the question was submitted, "Is the amend ment proposed by the Senator from Texas in order nnder the twenty-ninth rule?" The question was decided in the negative yeas, 23; nays, 32. The bill was then panned.... Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported, with amendments, the Senate bill providin g the times and plaocof holding United States Circuit Courts in Iowa, and the appointment of an additional Judge. .. .Mr. Voorheea gave no tice that hen the bill to repeal the Siecfe-Ro-sumption act should be taken up again he would Insist on its consideration from day to day until a vote is reached. IIovpf. The Republicans refusing to vote on the Investigation resolution introduced by Mr. Potter, no quorum appeared to be present, and the House adjourned without transacting any business. Democratic Caccls. Immediately after the ad Jotirnment the Democratic member met In caucus. The question of adjournment was discussed, and during the debate It was claimed that toe present state of public business would not penult a day to be fixed for adjournment. The Potter resolution to investigate the alleged frauds In FJor Ida and Louisiana was taken up. Representative Wilson offered a resolution allowing tlie llepubll cans to offer an amendment to tho resolution, but this, after debate, waa rejected. The caucus re solved, by a large majority, to atand by the Potter resolution, and instructed him not to yieM to any amendment from the Republican side. It was unanimously agreed that the resolution should be finally acted npon before any other business was done. On motion of Representative Wood, it was resolved that all Dcmocratio members out of the city be notified to return to Washington, ami, after due notice, au existing pairs win te declared at an end. Wedwesdat, May 15. Sexate. Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Postofflces and Post-Roads, reported a bill regulating the compensation for the transportation of lualls on railroads, providing lor the classification of mall matter, and for other purposes.... Mr. Eustis Introduced a bill to pro vide for the establishment of mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil.... Mr. Voorheea presented a petition of business men of Boston favoring the immediate and uncondi tional repeal of the 8pecie-Resumptlon act. Laid on the table, the bill being before tho Henate.... Mr. Kirk wood submitted a resolution to print 20,000 extra copies of the massage of tr President and accompanying papers relating to the diseases of twine and other domestic animals. Referred.... Mr. Morgan called up his resolution touching the relatione between the United States and Mexico, and spoke at length in favor thereof. The resolu tion waa then referred to the Committee on Foreign Rclatioua....The Henate in executive session rati fied the treaty between France and the United States, providing for s convention at Paris the present summer with a view to the adoption of the metrical system of weights and measures.... Objection was made by Mr. Saulabury to the con firmation of ex-Oov. Packard aa Consul at Liver pool, and by Mr. Thurman to O-orge A. Fheridan as Recorder of Deeda for the District of Columbia. These Dominations consequently went over... William H. Hunt, of New Orleans, wa confirmed aa Jude of the Court of Claims. Hocer. A mot'on so potn further consider- atlon of the resolution providing for an adjourn- ment of C"35reas on the 10th of June w-AU4f; 23th lr -J.-w ti agreed to by a vote of 130 to 100. . I he qujatlou then recurred on Mr. Potter's rolV tto lur au Investigative? into) the late Louisiana J. Florida4 eWtlona, and the vote revealed the ot that the entire Dcmocratio atretigtu waa only 1, or tweutj-iiiue less thau a quorum. The Re publicans persevered in their flliimste.ring tactics, ana, after a two-ana-a-uair notire- aunggie,, me Democrats cave up the fight for the day and yield ed to a motion to adjourn. ; RcrCBLlCAK Cavccs. After the adjournment of the House the Republican members met in caucus to. discual the situation and determine tWr future course of action. It was unanimously resolved that the Potter resolution waa calculated to ' reopcu the question of the President s 1 title ' wbtcu had Ixeu settled by the action of the Forty-fourth Congress, which alone had jurisdic tion to settle that question ; that the resolution waa th-refore revolutionary and calculated to seriously affect the general business of tbe country, and should be resitted by all means which are author ized by the rules of the House. Thursday, May 16. Senate. Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, submitted a concurrent resolution providing for a commission to whom shall be re ferred the subject of tbe reform and reorganiza tion of the army. ...Mr. Thurman offered a resolu tlon calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for Information aa to what discrepancy, ir any, exlsU to the prejudice of Thome Worthlngton's claim, mentioned in tbe reports of the Third Auditor, and the reason for such discrepancy. Agreed to.... The House joint resolution to print Soo.ooo copies of the report of tne Commissioner of Agriculture for 1877. and 5.0(H) copies of tbe Colonial charters and constitutions, p issed after conhiderable discus sion.... The senate resumed consideration or tue bill to repeal the Hpecle-Reeuuiptlon act. and Mr Mattoews read an argument upon the geueral finan cial policy of tho Government, and gave notice that he would hereafter submit to the Senate a proposi tion of his own aa an amendment to tne enuing bill. . . . Adjourned to Monday. House. The dead-lock in the House continued, the Republicans steadily refusing to vote ou the Potter resolution for the investigation of the elec tions in Florida and Louisiana. An attempt waa made bv Mr. Ktenhene. of Georgia, to offer a com promise, in the shape ot a proposition to admit the amendments extending the investigation to Missis sippi, Alabama and Oregon, but he waa unable to obtain a hearing. Mr. Banka proposed a post ponement of the question until Saturday. The Democrats offered to accept this on condition that the Republicans would agree not to resume their filibustering, but the condition was rejected. At length an adjournment was moved, and, this being made a tot question, 142 Democrats voted, being within five or a quorum. Friday, May 17. Senate. Not in session. House. After a stormy session and repeated calls of the House the Democrats succeeded In getting a quorum, and sustained the previous question on the Potter investiga tion resolution. Mr. Goode, of Virginia, who was paired with a sick member, had given notice that he would no longer be bound by the puir. When he cast his vote, Mr. Conger, of Michigan, questioned the honor of the proceeding, and the Virginia gentleman asserted his intention of hold ing the gentleman from Mlchigun personally re sponsible for any assault upon his honor. A scene of excitement and confusion ensued, hot words were exchanged, and the language of tbe irate members was "taken down." Speaker Randall ruled that it was all unparliamentary, if not used in a Pickwickian sense." On tbe final vote ordering the previous question the Republicans ad hered to their policy of silence, and Mr. Harrisou (Democrat), of Illinois, cast tbe only vote in the negative. When the roll was called on the adop tlou of the resolutions, Mr. Harrison voted in the affirmative. Messrs. Mills, of Texas, and Morse voted in the negative. The Republicans did not vote, and the resolutions were adopted without them, yeas 141, nays 2. Saturday, May 18. Senate. Not in ses sion. House. Mr. Ellis, from the Committee on Elec tions, reported a resolution declaring that there had been no fair, free ad peaceable election in the First Congressional District of South Carolina, and that neither Rainey (the sitting member) nor Rich ardson (contestant) was entitled to the seat.... The House devoted nearly the entire day to the consid eration of tbe Army Appropriation bill. Monday, May 20. Senate. Mr. Thurman, from the Judiciary Committee, to which was re committed tbe House bill to provide for the admis sion to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States of any woman who has been a member of the bar of the highest court of auy State or Territory for the period of three years, reported it back with the amendment of Mr. Sargent, provid ing that no person shall be refused admission to the bar of the United States court on account of sex. There was so law prohibiting a court from admitting women to the bar, and, therefore, there was no necessity for this legUla t ion.... Mr. Chrltlancy introduced, by request, a bill to reorganize the Court of Claims.... The Senate indulged in a long and animated debate uion the House bill to place the name tf G-n. Shields on tbe retired hat of the army, with the rank of Brigadier General. Mr. Sargent moved to amend the bill by adding the name of Gen. Grant. This was agreed to yeas HO, all Republicans with the exception of one (I-auiar) : nays 28, all Democrats except Oglesby....Mr. Mor rill addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill to repeal the ltesumption act. House. The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Harris, repealing the law Imposing a tax of 1 per cent, on State banks ; by Mr. Sholley, of Alabama, giving the guurantee of the Government to the payment of 5 per cent, in terest on the bonds to be lvsued by the following- named companies to tne following amounts: The James River and Kanawha Canal Company, 6U,- 000,000; Atlantic and Great Western Canal Com pany, Mo.ooo.Ot 0; tbe Florida Coast Canal Com pany, f 12.000.000; the Fort St. Philip Canal Com pany, (10,000,000; the Rock Island and Hennepin Canal Company, $13.0OO,C0O; the Oswego Canal Company, 125,000,000; the Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Company. $5,000,000; the Ni agara Ship Canal Company, 114,000,000; by Mr. Garlield, for taking the tenth and subse quent censuses; by Mr. Atkins, requiring all ap pointments in the civil service to be distributed equally among the Congressional Districts; by Mr. Crittenden, providing that the claims of militia kien or non-enlisted persons on account of disabili ties received in battle with rebels or Indians shall be valid if filed previous to July, 1882. ...The Army Appropriation bill waa discussed. The Ureat West. When good Bishop Berkeley wrote the famous line, Westward the star of empire takes its way, he hardly would have realized how liter ally tho poetic prophecy would be ful filled within a few generations of his own time. He was thinking only of the narrow strip of territory along the Atlan tic coaBt of America, behind which lay thousands of leagues of primeval forest, where the red man was sole master of the soil, and where the great lakes and rivers, now teeming with commerce, and bordered by populous cities and thriving village?, laved shores which the foot of white man had never trod, nis imagi nation would have been appalled had a vision of the present day flashed upon his cyo ; had he seen the vast wilderness filled with a mighty people, enterprising, intelligent, intellectual, with great cities, universities, colleges, schools, churches, newspapers, steamboats, railroads ; a country compared to which his own little island is but an insignificant patch on the map of the world ; a country which gath ers to itself the literary and artistic treas ures of the Old World with a prodigality of expenditure unsurpassed by any nation of Europe. Less than fifty years ago tne great vest was a " howling wil derness," but to-day it rivals the East in culture and intelligence, and nowhere in the world is there a more fiaerer demand for books of the highest order of literary excellence. Harper's Bazar. Alaska Thieves. Alaska is a wonderful place for thieves. A correspondent of the Ban Francisco ChronicJe says one merchant in Sitka hires Indians to steal fo him, and re cently shipped away a ton of copper that they had taken from the flooring and walls of a Government building for storing furs. The candlesticks and oth er silver articles were long ago stolen from the church, and even metal crosses have been taken from graves in the cem etery. There is not a constable nor a Justice in the Territory, and there is no attempt to enforco any law. ... AWFUL II0LUC1UST. Fourteen Hundred l'eonle Iturned m TIentan, China Terrible 8r9aff Agony and Death. , ' r i v A letter from -Tienian. China, gives th following particulars of tho flro in that city, by which 1,100 people lost their lives : " . ! The number of refugees who have been collecting at this point has been augmenting by dairr additions until the aggregate was variously estimated at anywhere from 60,000 to 150,000. A few weeks eiuce, an additional soup dis pensary was opened on a piece of vacant ground known as the Flower Garden of the K'ang familv. When this relief de pot was established,- the whole premises were surrounded with a strong fence of reeds and millet stalks, plastered with mud. As the place was to be occupied only by women and children, the great est care was taken that all communica tion between the inside and outside be prevented. The alley on the west side was fenced up at its north end, and the only gate of the soup-yard was at the south end of tho 6nme alley a gate about six feet wide. About 10 o'clock on a bitter-cold morning an alarm was given that a lire had broken out in this relief yard, roofed with inflammable mats, and crowded with human beings. Crowds of people began to gather on all sides of the yard and tear down tho strong fence. The moment that com munication was established between the inside and the outside, a considerable number of outsiders leaped into that part of the inclosure forming the alley to attempt to rescue those that were still struggling to escape. The scene within was awful. The long sheds had already melted into smoke and ashes, and only tho poles were still burning yet not the poles alone, for beneath stretched long lines of something only indistinctly seen, and which, between the gusts of llame and smoke, could bo recognized as the heads, arms and bodies of human beings, all huddled within the limits of the former compart ments, and just as they were caught by the fiery sirocco. Not one in twenty had time to move a yard before they were met by flames and suflfocated where they chancod to be. In frnt of the locked gate a largo number of poor wretches were caught and imprisoned by tho flames. Their wadded or skin garments caught fire and could neither bo taken off nor extinguished. Scores of poor women were reduced to a con dition too horrible to be described ab solutely roasted on one side, and utterly helpless to escape. The greater part of those who were burned must have perished instantly. Within five minutes of the time the fire broke out, it is probable that those who failed to escape were suffocated by the flames. Long after every scrap of mat and wood had been consumed, the bedies of the victims continued to burn and smolder. The corpses were most of them reduced literally to cinders, ut terly beyond recognition. Many of the survivors, on the day of the fire and the three following days, while the bodies were being taken out, wandered about, uttering the most piteous lamentations, striving to discover their children ; hus bands came to institute a hopeless quest for their wives. Nothing was left upon the ground but hundreds of horribly mutilated corpses, fragments of half- burned clothes and broken pottery. It is definitely ascertained that the num ber who perished is somewhat more than 1,400. " Little Classics." It was along about the kalends of May when Coriolanus went into the hall closet at the head of the stairs and brought forth a pair of his last-summer trousers. The mailed hand, that, "like an eagle in a dove-cote, fluttered tho Voices in Conoli, dropped with a gest ure of despair when he beheld a yawn ing postern gate in the raiment, where breach or fissure, there should have been none. To him, his true and honorable wife, the fair Virgilia, said : "Now the gods crown thee, Coriola nus, what fippears to be the trouble with you?" " Now the gods mend these trousers, oh my gracious silence," replied Corio lanus. "See what a rent the envious tooth of time has made." Virgilia dropped her tender, beaming eyes and drew a heavy si?h as she turned and dived mournfully into the rag-bag to hunt for a patch. "My lord and husband," she said, wearily dragging up bits of red flannel, tufts of raw cotton, scraps of calico, tags of carpet-rags, and finding nothing that would match the lavender trousers any nearer than a slab of seal-brown empress cloth, "I've patched those trousers till my eyes and fingers ache at the sight of them. I would the immor tal gods would send on Rome and to our house the one unending blessing of eternal piece." Coriolanus looked at her steadily for a moment, but couldn't tell from her ur rippled face whether she meant it or not. "And I, too. thou noble sister of Pub licolrt, he said, "I, too, thou moon of Rome, for my great soul, to fear invul nerable, is weary of the restless god of wore. Virgilia dropped the rag bag and looked up at him quickly, but he never smiled. "Keno," she said. " Put it there," he said, and then they both promised they would never bebave so like mouthing paragraphers again. Burlington Hawk-Eye. Coal Fields in China. The coal production of China is reck oned at 3,000,000 tons annually. The anthracite beds of Shansi represent 1,000,000 tons ; the bituminous coal of that province, 700,000. A 11 tho eighteen provinces contain coal; and, although the extent of the coal fields and the age and quality of the coal vary, yet China may now to regarded as one of the first ccal countries of the world. The area of her coal fields exceeds even that of North America, and with the greatest of them that of Shansi no other region can be compared in the union of the most fortunate conditions as regards po sition, quality and quantity. Along with the coal, brown iron ore is also foand in great quantity. With a yearly production of 300,000,000 tons, it is es ti mated that this entensfto bea of an thracite alone could cover tho whole present demand of the worl for 2,400 years. But the working of bit Chinese cqnl flwa i yet so much in its infancy thai ' x Auction at present, in spite of th most favorable circumstiict s. is oniy equal to auoui one-nueeniji oi uiu coal prod addon of Germany or tho United States. . ' ? An Undmtaiiding Arrived AU About 10 o'clock this morning a tramp went into a C street saloon and devoted ten minutes in a very zealous manner to the lunch table. - By the time ' he had masticated about a pound of corned beef the barkeeper stepped up and re marked : " This table is for drinkers." , " Then why don't you bring on your drinks? I've been here ten minutes, and haven't seen a drop of anything. If it's a drinkiu table, where's the fluid t" "I mean it's for the patrons of tho bar," said the barkeeper. V Then why ain't they here f I s'pose you mean that a man must spend money at the bar before he eats ?" "Exactly." " That takes me in. I took a drink here lastsummer and didn't eat a mouth ful, and if I ain't entitled to a lunch on that drink then this system must be a failure all round." "But the place has changed hf.nds sinoe then," said the barkeeper, picking up a buug starter. "Ah. indeed?" replied the urbane bummer; that fact, as your gesture would unply, raises a new and embarrassing complication in our diplomatic relations. I will, therefore, recede, as it were, from my original position and await the as sembling of the Peace Congress He had been gradually backing towu-d the door as he spoke, and he dodged out just in time to evade the projectile hurled at him by the indignant saloonatic. Virginii (New) Chronicle. A Suit for Seventeen Millions. When tho end of the gigantic expos ure of the frauds known as the Credit Mobilier, 1871, had been reached, and Oakes Ames, then a Congressman from Massachusetts, returned to his homo broken in spirit and ruined in prospects, tho country at large, the pulpit and the press generally dropped the subject, un til it ceased altogether to provoke any comment. Onco or twice a ghost has arisen, in a legal shape, from the ashes of the buried fraud, but these have oc cupied but little of the time or attention of the public. Yesterday, however, a ghost of immense proportions loomed up in the Circuit Court of tho United States in this city, in the shapo of a suit for $17,000,000 damages brought by Judge John Leiscnring, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., against tho representatives of the original Union Pacific Railway Com pany. The ground for tho action is stated by Judge Leiseuring to be the re voking of a contract between himself and the Union Pacifio Company, under which ho was to build the road, and that, being thus defrauded out of his legal right to construct said road, he suffered to the extent of the amount claimed. New York Star. To Kid a Dog or Fleas. Tho American Agriculturist says : "If a dog infested with fleas is made to lie for a few days upon a bed of fresh litter from a horse stable the fleas will leave him. lie must then be washed with soap and water, and supplied with a clean bed. A common cocoa-tiber door mat makes a good clean bed for a dog, and is repulsive to lice, especially if the bottom of it is occasionally smeared with common pine tar. Soft toap and water used frequently is the best pre ventive of fleas." From a Western jour nal we clip the two following : " A weak tincture made with Persian inpect pow der and alcohol is safe and effect ua when applied once a week with a sponge." " Mix one-sixth of its weight of spirits of turpentine with soft soap ; rub the mixture well into the dog's skin, and, after remaining an hour, wash all out. The fleas will be all killed, but the process must bo repeated in a week or two." The French Exposition. The International Exposition at Paris intends to be more universal in one re spect than any of its predecessors, and it will, accordingly, have an interna tional show of live stock. From June 5 to July 18, cattle, sheep, swiue, barn yard birds and some other animals will be exhibited. Sheds have boen erected for the accomodation of at least 1,500 oxen, and qrite as many for other stock that will be on exhibition at the same time. In September there will be a show of horses and asses. These two features of the Exposition will have to be, necessarily for the most part," a Euro pean display, but they will not only add to the value and attraction of the exhi bition, but help swell tho general ben efit to be in many ways derived from bringing together specimen productions of the eartn. ... Maine Liquor Law. Neal Dow says that in spite of all that has been said against tho Maine law it has been successful. "Liquor has abso lutely vanished from three-fourths of Maine, in the country districts. It lingers a little in the dark places of the city among tho foreign population. Maine, before the law, consumed annu ally 813,000,000 worth of liquor. It now expends less than $1,000,000 a year for liquor. The sixty-eight distilleries no longer exist. The effects can be seen in better homes, better farms, and better living. Maine has not felt tht panic as you have. Its real-estate valu ation has risen, against a depression in other States. Maine calls on the other States to follow hr example, and they will find safety and protection from tho liquor traffic." r Fashion 3 ens. Fans bearing Biblical quotations are a novelty. Ladies' kid gloves have a heavy stitch ing on the outside. "Mother Hubbard" is the name of one of the latest bonnets. Velvet pocket-bags have a monogram in silver upon the outside. A new design for a pin is a bundle of wood with a hatchet across it. The cottage-shape bonnet seems to bo the favorite for straw and chip. j Gold thread is a novelty used for stitch ing some of the new short dresses. Wide belts fastened with buckles are seen on the latest imposed costumes. " iModesty. rare, delicate and laatinc " is the name and the claim of a new perfume. I V y rT-CLOSUKE. At) Important Supreme Court Decision. In the case of Brine t al. vs. The Ilartfovd Fire Insurance Company, ap pealed from the Northern District of Illinois, the national Supreme Court has just rendered a decision of great general importance. The Illinois statute provides tliat, in casesof sales under foreclosures of mort gages, the - debtor- shall have twelve months, and his creditors fifteen monuis, in which to redeem from the sale, by paying tho sum for which the property was sold, with interest at 10 percent.,, and costs. The State courts have en tered decrees for sales directing the mas ter to issue a certificate to the purchaser, and. if redemption be not made within the time, to give a deed upon surrender of the certificate. But the United Statea Circuit Court has been in tbe habit of desreeiug that, if the money found due be not paid within 'l00 days, then the master shall sell and givo an absolute deed. In effect, this practice ignored and cut off the statutory right of redemp tion, and the coc sequence was that the national court was chiefly resorted to in foreclosure proceedings. The mortga gee, obtaining an absolute decree of sale, was enabled to bid in the property at almost any sum he might choone to name, and in many instances get a de cree over against his debtor for a re mainder of the debt which the sale of the property mortgaged did not satisfy; whereas, in the State courts, the statu tory right of redemption practically com pelled the mortgagee to bid at least the full amount of the indebtedness. Tho Supreme Court has now reversed one ot these decrees by tne national Circuit Court, so far as the mode of sale was concerned. The ground of the re versal must have been that the right of redemption nnder tho State law should be treated as not cut off by the sale, and that in this respect the practice in the State courts should be followed. The statutory redemption right lias been held to bo a part of the mortgage contract, agreed to by both parties when the mort gage was given, and therefore as binding as any other covenant in the instrument. This, undoubtedly, is the view which the national Supreme Court has embodied in the present decision. Tho importance of the decision, both to mortgage debt ors and mortgage creditors, is therefore manifest. Obituary of a Bonanza King. By tho death of William Shoney O'Brien, California is minus one rich man, and that is all. The riches are still here, and so the rich man will not be regretted by the community at large. On the contrary, it is possible that some of tho wealth that he had accumulated may be distributed, and then his death will be a source of good. It is sad that a man with such opportunities as Mr. O'Brien eh uld have" died and lelt be hind him no record; that his memory should depend for perpetuity pimply upon tho amount of money he was able to grasp between his two hands. The height of his ambition was simply to be rich; tho most refined of his enjoyments was a game of seven-up in the back room of a saloon. . lie might have been a philanthropist; he was only a sensualist. He might have left a name that would havo been remembered with honor and gratitude for ages, whereas his only epi taph can be, "He was very rich." But if he did very little good to other people with his money, he took very little en joyment out of it himself, and California may be thankful that fortune placed wealth in the hands of a man who was not capable of using it for worse pur poses than the gratification of mere sen sual desires. 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