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Mets, whlch at tbh eenous of 1871 had 51,332
hababitants, has now only 39 000.
Temperanoe socletles have lately been form
eoat Hanover and Gottingen with a view of
readuing the oonsumption of beer to moderate
proportions.
About fifteen thousand Russians will leave
the old country daring the next three months
--masny of them already being on the road-a
large peroentage of whom will settlelin eastern
Dakota and into the onuntry tributary to Sioux
City.
Mexico has laid the oorner stone of a mono
ment to the late Holy Father, in the City of
Pueble, in presence of the President of the RI
pwblio, the Governor of the State, and the
Bishop of the diocese. Great joy has been the
result.
A donkey may be made an actor if the right
incentive be given. Joe Emmet introdooes in
"Frita" one that brays every evening at exact
ly the proper point in the play. This t saccom
plished by showinog the donkey a bunch of
arrots, of which he is inordinately food.
As Blemarok is known to desire that Gam
best ashould obtain the highest power in
France, a French writer accounts for the ouri
onas wish by supposing the German Chanoellor
is anxious to hasten the grand crash he be
lioves to be ooming. Not an improbable sug
gestion.
The superintendent approached a youth of
color, who was present for the fitse time in
Sunday school and inquired his name, for the
purpose of placing it on the roll. The good
man tried in vain to preserve his gravity
when the answer was returned : "Well, masse,
ealls me Captain, but my nsidesm nae is
Moses."
A new plan of mobil'zation has been adopted
for the German Army. Ojly twenty-four
bours are to be left to the men of the reserves
and the landwebr for the settlement of their
private affairs when once they have received
the order to join their regiments. This order
is given irrespective of Sunday or holiday or of
day or night.
The vital statistics of New York present
strong evldence of the longevity of the men
and women of the Irish race. Of twelve oen
tenarians whose deaths are recorded in that
city daring the past year, eleven were natives
of Ireland ;'nd in a majority of cuases, the no
tiees of those still living who have passed the
bounds of a century of existence show that
theycome from the "Emerald Isle."
There were at ParIs during the Exposition I
season (May 1-November 1) 571,792 visitors. I
or 46,021 more than in 1867. Of these 218,622 i
were foreigners, divided be.ween England, t
64.044; Belgium, 31 419, Germany, 23.524; Italy,
16 417; the United States, 14 550 ; Switzerland,
32W4; Spain, 10.234; Austria, 9,072, eto. Among
them were thirty-nine sovereigns and princes.
This, of course, only includes those who pat
up at hotels and public lodging bouses.
A new material for coverning walls called
"Muralis," has been invented by Frederick
Walton of London. It is a mixture of oxidized
linseed oil and fibre, and on this ornamenta
tion in relief is very clearly stamped by mach- I
leery. It would be admirable for boarding
houses and schools, for so well does it resist
knocks that if struck with the sharp end of a
bammer a slight indentation will at first be
produoed, but in half an hour the elastic sub
stance fills up the gap.
There are only eight States in the Usion
where the postal service pays its way. and I
half of them are in New Ergland-New Hamp
shire. Masseahusetts, Rhode Island, Conneoti
eat, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Mihobigan-the net surplne of revenue from
these States being over $2 .30,000. If the re
maining States did as well, the Department t
would have a sorplus of over $10,000 000 'to
turn into the Treasury annually, instead of
lacking abunt $. 00,000 of being self-sustain
ing.
The compressed gas system in vogue on the
German railroads has b.en adopted by the
English Government fur lighted buoys. The
buoy is filled with gas the burner at the top is
lit, and a ligt t that no shock or drenching b.
water can extinguish is provided that will
born day and night for thirly- for days. It is
thought that with improvements one of these
buays can be made to s ,ow a light visible at a
d starce of four miles for three months, while
the application of an electtio apparatus retin
goibbing the lamp at utribe, ant relighting it
at snCset would give it a working !uratiou of
six months.
The mail bags of the E iropran, a Capse
Good hlope area'uer, wreckd I) -cetober, 1^77.
were uaed, b,.t very it. T:ey contained
quart .tle of d.i*avnLd. Tinee in packages
we:e, althongh the addjresses were almost ob
literat.d, oLliolately all delivered at their des
smaltion, b..t qlnant!iesof stores hbed got loose
from package, reduced to polo.- After iticite
trou, ', the London P,st, fiie fo,and out for
whom they were intended; they were then
va aed by a diamond broker, and the amount,
$3to (u, divided among tae several claimauts,
and, vie most remarkable thing in the whole
busineses, not a single murmur was made by
any of them.
Tobacco, according to an eloquent member
of the Janesvil;e, Wis.. debating society, min
aSee the anno3ances of daily life, exhilarates
in times of deprese!on and oalms in seasons of
edcitemeot, quadroples the normal ecstaies of
celibsacy and moditi.s the asperities of connu
bial inoompatibilities. And the President of
the Maine Senate, acting Governor during a
day's interregnum last week, spoke of the
United Seates as a Republio more pure and
perfect than any Ideal of Plato, whose law
givers have been wiser than Solon or Pericles,
and whose intellectual progrees will some day
rival, if it does not surpass, the art of Phidias,
the pen of Sophooles, the tongue of Demos
thenes.
Mears. Taplin & Knight, milline's, Albion
]Boilding, Aldersgate Road, London, marked a
aixpence and laid it on the oarpet of s room,
and then sent Florence Chapman, an errand
girl of eighteen, into the room to sweep it up.
Five minutes later Mr. Taplin mimed the six
pence and, as he said in ooort, "gave the girl
into custody. He put the sixpence there that
abe might take it." The prisoner saisd that she
picked up the sixpence, and before she had
time to give it to her muaster he brought s po
Boeman to the door and gave her into onstody.
The Alderman asked whether the prisoner had
any friends. The prisoner said she was living
with her father and mother. The Alderman
said he was glad to hear it, for they would pro
tesut her, there was no charge against her, and
ehe left the court without the slightest stain
upon her character."
One of thbe ourlous factut which ome out io
the English marriage returns for a period of
yea is the gradual deorease in the proportion
of marriages solemnized saoording to the rites
of the Established Churoh, while at the same
time the proportion of civil marriage s i steadi
Sinerealsog. In 11861 the number of the
frmer marriages formed almost 80 per cent of
thbe whole; in 1868 the proportion was 76.8 per
seat, and in 1876 737 per cent. On the other
baud, the number of oivil marriages at the
choe of superintendent .registrars in 1Itl was
7.16 per cont, crf the total number in 18t$ Juest
Spmr scent, whble in 1876 the proportion had in
erasod to '0 7 per oeon. The total number of
marriagee not solemnised by the Established
Church also shops anso inerease-the proportion
to the total in 1861, 1868, and 1876 being 20 1,
22 1, and 26.2 per cent respectively.
Maine has a new sensation in a Democratio
Goversor. She huas not known what it wa to
havs nay but a Republioan Gtvernment since
the epa'blbUa paety ase iae em.sltes. At
the eletioen I S ember est Oeaer (ep.'
recslved G6 419 votes; Smith (Nat) 41.404. ad
Garselon (Dea ) 175, tbm being thirty-one
scattring votes. An abslute majorlty of at
bte votes ent being useessary there was as
ehoioe by the people, and It became the daut
of the State Home of Representatives to selsel
two persons from those having the four high.
eat numbers of votes on the lists and make
t return of their names to the Seaste, the mem
hers of which must elect one of the two. Ii
the Democrats and Nationals io the Honse held
together they were certain to ohoose Garoelon
and Smith, and the Republincrs, therefore,
were most anxious to break the allianoe and
have either Connor and Garoelon or Connor
and Smith sent up for the Republican Senate
to choose between. The union of the anti
Republican parties was, however, maintained,
and the Republican Senate has now selected a"
the least objectionable candidate Dr. Alonzo
Garcelon, of Lewiston, a Democrat. though
formerly a Republican. and the "hardest kind
of a hard-money man."
ITALIAN CATHOLICS AND POLITICAL
ELECTIONS -
With reference to the subject of the or
ganiation of the Catholics of Italy so as to
be prepared for a possible summons to take
their part in the political life of the coun
try, we may advert to a significant para
graph in the Osservatore Catlolica of-Milan,
and the not less significant comment upon
it which is to be found in the Voce della
Verila. The Milanese paper, after eiving
the test of the address of the Holy Father
to the Roman Society for the promotion of
Catholic Interests, says:
"The words of his Holiness do not need
any comment. They are clear, precise,
decisive and solemn. He commands Catho
lics to keep themselves so disposed in
mind, in organisation, and in means as to
be ready efficaciously to respond to any call
which may be made upon them. We re
ceive with sentiments of profound respect
and most lively gratitude the injunction
of the Supreme Pontiff. All Catholics will
hear-it with an equal spirit of obedience,
and will not fail to form themselves into
that combination which is necessary to
prevent the division of our forces. If to
bring about the victory of the ideas of
order and justice numbers are required, we
must multiply the defenders of faith and
of society; and in using the power of
numbers we do not recognise their capacity
to create the right, but we erect them into
a support of thelunchangeable principles
of right of which the Church is mistress
and defender. The call of which the Pope
speaks is not the Revolution, but the
peaceful defence of the truth, a defence
which we most complete even for the sal
vation of society whose base isdisplaced
by Liberalism. We do not know if the
Holy Father meant to allude to political
elections, but if he did allude to them, let
Catholics observe that to action in this
sense the call has not been made,"
To which the Voce della Verit subjoins
the following remark : "It is well. And
we congratulate the Catholic paper of
Milan on having written these words. But
let it observe how right we were when we
summed up the programme and the duty
of Catholics for the present moment in the
phrase-'taking careful measufes to be
prepaid.'
RULES OF PROCESSES OF BEATIFICA
TION AIND CANONIZATION.
The last number of the Civita Cattelica
reproduces a document bearing on the
recent petitions for the speedy commence
ment of a process for the beatification of
Pins IX. In his reply to the Father Gen
eral of the Scolopii, after the reading of
tihe decree of the Congregation of Rttee on
t'ie virtues of the Venerable Pompilio
Pirottt, Leo XIll. mentioned that he had
many years ago began privately to invoke
tne interceseion and protection of that
servant of God. Aid from this example
the Cirila infers that there can be no poe
sible objection to those who have a high
c ,nceptioi t of the sublime virtues of the
la'e lament.ed Pozitiff invoking his aid in
their secirt devotions Bat these senti
minets have prompted, not only seine of
the faithful, bat cur.e iadorair, pubhlicy to
exprees l a eire t:,at the rules which res.u
1-%te the caounical procedare in cause, ,.f
hlestifiratiorn hould be derogsttedl friru,
withl a view to tet Immediate Intrcctiun
of the canue of Pius IX. The competent
authority has in consequence thought it
prudent to publish, in a small volume of
twelve pages, an explanation of the canon
ical pr.cedure to be observed in all causes
of beatification and canonization. This
the Cirita Cattolica reprints, and the sum
of it is that in a matter so important
nothing is to be changed in the usages
which have been wisely established, and
whiich ehould regulate the fervor of good
Catlo:ice. And accordingly the Sacred
Congregation of Rites, in its audience of
the 16;h November, examined and declin
ed to approve the forms of Novenas and
other prayers, even when supported by
ecclesiastical approbation, which have been
circulated in Rome and elsewhere. Tihe
faithful are perfectly at liberty to invoke
the prayers of Pius IX. in their private
devotions. but in the words of the Cirita
"it is not permitted to them, by Novenas
or any other public act, to anticipate in
any way the judgment which is within tie
competence of the Roman Pontift alone."
1 egenl k:d loves can be bought for asng
at lery lros, c-aner Megaeiee nud St. Andrew
rsterts is ear readers will see by refering to the ad
vertlsemeonton f lfbpge. 1. kids reduced to 5) centt,
and tree Lutton hids sold for 60 cents.
Ever a centre of attraution to the ladies of
-ew Orleans, Mr. E. H. Adams' geat d'y goodestore
at n94 MAgasine street is just cow very eepeclially
popular for two excellent reasons; first, his stock is
all fresh, flst-clasas, and sold at low price.; and,
secondly, his store is so admlrably located. reaLtllted
and warmed that ladles can do their shopping a per
feet comfort, and examine the godss at their leisure.
Thee are considerations which no sensible woman wi!l
Ignore, hence the crowds that throng the store at ali
hours of the day and the glow of pleasure and comfort
that tinges the ebeek and beautii es the face of every
woman as she lea-ve the building after having mad,
purchase that will bring cquan' comfoJrt and plasure
to the dear loved ones at home.
D. H. IoloY'.-Importlong their stock them
usive direct fr.m Europe and from Northero fautore
in very lirge ,luannitl;e. ely often by the chiptload,
"'is hous cean and does offer the most entraord.nary
inducements to purchasers of dry goods. This fact and
the very excellent and libe-sl prilmeples on which their
hebuieso is managed, accoust for the widel estended
reputation and popuai'ty of D. H. Holmes' dry gooes
emporium throughobut the entire B~oth. By refer-ina
to the card which we print elsewhere in our preent
islue, our readers will esee the several line, of goods to
which the house th nk the attention if the publle
sho:Id Ju:t now tesprcially called.
t o taa" DIGOZZY sRle WEEID.
N. T. Caihels Ierat4.
s Tbe tour of ex-President Grant in Eu
I rope has been quite a aurprise to those
who looked upon him as a plain, unas
Sanming citisen of the United States.
Wherever be has gone be has been
received with regal honors, and his well
known bigotry has been for him a passport
f to the favor of the enemies of the Catholic
1 Church. Gambetta, Bismarck, Castellar
a and the other high priests of irreligion
weloomed our ex President as a brother.
Last week Grant reached Ireland, and the
corporation of Dublin gave him the free
dom of the city, in return for which he
made a speech composed of platitudes and
clap-trap.
_ It was reserved for the manly and truly
Catholic corporation of Cork to administer
a fitting rebuke to the brutal and bigoted
soldier, who, in October 1875, took advan
tage of his exalted position as President of
the United States to revive the beastly cry
of "No Popery." We have been informed
by cable that at a meeting of the Town
Council of Cork, on Friday, Jan. 3, after
several bitter speeches by Catholic mem
bers, a motion that the letter of the United
States Consul at Queenstown announcing
General Grant's coming be simply marked
'read" was carried without a dissentient
vote. A previous motion to give General
Grant a proper reception was ignored.
In order that our readers may appreciate
the justice of the contempt with which the
people of Cork have treated Grant, it will I
be necessary to say a few words of the i
character of the man and his well-known I
anti-Catholic proclivities.
Gen. Ulyssees Gr.t is a man notoriously t
unencumbered by any religious belief at t
all. -iHe is, besides this, a very reticent a
man, one as little given to speaking right
out, as a rule, as the Emperor Napoleon C
III. For once, however, this usually Silent I
Ruler spoke out, very plainly indeed, on a
Friday, October 1, 1d75. The occasion was c
his delivery ,f an address at DesMeoines, in t
Iowa, to the Reunion of the Society of the t
Army of Tennessee. After alluding to the i
late civil war in America-a war he himself
was chiefly instrumental in bringing to a
close, by the simple device of pounding the s
South into submission by pouring in over- 3
whelming forces upon troops that were t
outnumbered rather than outmnitauvred-- e
General Grant startled his hearers by the I
utterance of words, reading, ominously b
enough, like the declaration of another '7
war-a war far more momentous in its t
character. i
The reason for this Silent Ruler thanus t
speaking out was obvious at a glance, and t,
perfectly comprehensible to all who knew r
his relations with the bitter anti-Catholic h
mob who, years ago, burned churches and a
sacked convents. n
Grant being essentially a man of this age b
-this age of blood and iron, of Liberalism ti
and unbelief-took a leaf out of the book c
of Prince Otto Von Biesmarck, and, in the I
name of the loftiest principle of patriotism,
he proclaimed war-as plainly as words
could have put it-against the Holy Catho
lic Church in the United States.
"If," said Grant in his notable speech d
at Des Moines, three years ago, "if we
have another contest in the near future, I
predict that the dividing line will not be
Mason and Dixon's line, but one between B
patriotism and intelligence on one side,
and superstition, ambition and ignorance
on the other." He went on : "The cen
tennial year work of strengthening the
foundation of the structure commenced by Ii
our forefathers at Lexington should begin. f,
Let us labor for security of free thought, n
free speech, free preCn, pure morale, un
fettered religious sent:ments" (much he
cared about them) "and equal rights and
the privileges of all men, irrespective of a
nationality, color or religion; encourage I
free schools; resolve that not one dollar
appropriated to them shall go to the sup
port of any sectarian echool ; resolve that
neither S:ate nor nation shall support any
intats!tioes save these where every child
may get common school education unmixed
with any ari:teitic, pag.-in or sectarian
te3tc-iug ; leave tie matter of religious
t,-:clilig to the family altar, and keep
Chuicii and State forever separate. Wit:
those a iftLguardis, I beliave the battles
which created the army of Tennessee will
not have been fought in vain."
Toe voice was the voice of Grant, but
the words, the thoughts, the designs and
intentions are distinctly those of Biemarck.
The Catholics of Cork do not forget that,
when Grant aspired for a third term to the
Presidency of the United States, he tried I
to strengthen his position as the Republi
can candidate by importing in the most
invidious manner the religious and anti
Catholic element into the political agita
tion. He appealed to the religious pat
sions of the native American element in our
population, and that appeal has now risen
in judgment before him in Ireland.
If, as is openly stated by the friends of
the American Bismarck, Grant should be
the Republican candidate for the Presi
dency in 1880, the Catholic voters of the
United States must show their detestation
of his bigotry not only .by voting against
him, but by working hard to secure his
defeat. Cork has set "Ireland in America"
a good example, and we confidently trust
that our countrymen will profit by it.
A man may wear the same style of hat,
coat or pantaloons every year and meet
with little or no remark, but let a woman
wear anything that pertains to a bygone
faehion, and every good sister will soon
know all about it. It is undoubted that
many men of means pay little attention in
their dress to prevailing modes, but when
you find a woman habitually regardless of
the vagaries of feashion you may safely
conclude that she Ihas arrived at san age
that can be no longer concealed, or that
she has found oat the vanity of all things
human and is preparing for a happy death.
The folly of fashion is one of the firat the
little girl embraces and one of the last the
woman relinquishes.
A splendid opportunity is ofiered to house
keepers to get the best of mattings at great bargains,
Mr. J. A. Brsaelman, corner Magazine and St. Andrew
streets, haring just received a large stck from late
New York auction sales. This stock onsists of white,
red and white check, fancy cheek and striped mattings
of excellent quality, and Is cfferedl at very Iw prnics.
In dry goodse, Mr. Brase'man to also offrtl g I-eat tn
duc+erenia to purohasers particularly in b:ack als
pacs and mnhalr,, as wil be seen by the list of
ptioca hs gives in Lie advertisement in another
column of irdh') BTAS.
Immense reduoctions in clocks at Leovy Bros'.,
5-5 and 5r7 Megazine street. $5 cloakes reduced to t ;
67 cloaks to6, and 63 cloaks to .C50..
Dautia was. es. st.
The Bristol election resulted in a strik
ing victory for the Home Role cause. Mr.
Fry, the Liberal candidate, who pledged
himself to vote for what is know as Mr.
Butt's motion, was returned by a sweeping
majority, and it is confessed on all hands
that that majority was supplied by the
Irish voters. He had some fifteen hundred
votes more than his opponent, Sir Ivor
Guest, who refused the demand of the Home
Rnlers, and it is remarkable that that is
about the number of Irish electors on the
register. Since the victory in Manchester
no such triumph has been won by the Con
federation, sad all who had a share in
achieving it deserve the gratitude of the
Irish nation. Foremost amongst those are
the true-hearted Irishmen of Bristol them
selves, and then the representatives of the
executive of the Confederation who per
sonally took part in the contest-Mr.
O'Connor Power and Mr. O!iver. Both
these gentlemen, we may add, attended a
great meeting in Colston Hall the night be
fore the poll, and were accorded a most eo
thusiastic reception.
New Ross has disappointed the general
expectation. Colonel Tottenham, the Tory
candidate, has been returned by a majority
of five over the National candidate, Mr.
Delany. The exact numbers were-for
the Tory, 95 votes; for the Home Ruler,
90. A comparison of these numbers with
those of the election in 1874 shows that the
anti-Irish poll is greater now by ten votes,
and the Irish and Catholic less by about
thirty. Ofcourse, this is a blot, not upon
the people of New Rose, who number close
on 7,000, but upon the electorate, which
numbers little more than 200; and it will,
we are confident, be wiped out on the first 1
opportunity. The manifestations of pop
lar indignation which followed the declar- 1
ation of the poll, whatever may be thought i
of them on the score of propriety, show
unmistakably on which side in the late con- i
test lay the feeling of the overwhelming
majority of the inhabitants.
The threatened eviction at Dowth, of I
which our readers heard a good deal a few I
years since, is, we regret to see, once more I
claiming public attention. A decree for I
ejectment has at last been obtained against i
hr. Elcock, and it is announced that it will I
be pnot into exception on the 4th January.
rhe matter has excited a painful interest
hbroughout Meath and Loath, and a meet
ing of the Tenant Defence Association of I
he former county was held a few days ago
to take steps to prevent things being car- I
vied to extremeties. There is but a small
lope that the efforts of the association t
will be successful, but even if there were
one it would still be the duty of each a t
ody to make public the facts of a case 1
han which we cannot recollect any better I
talculated to show the insufficiency of the I
.and Act of 1670.
THE CAREDIAL CULLENI MEMORIAL.
The movement for erecting a memorial
o the late Cardinal Cullen, being totally
levoid of political significance, is one to
which every Catholic who knows what
reat services the deceased prelate render
id to the Church in this country can con
iistently give aid. No one dreams of
giving to thoproject any political aspect.
[t was quite impossible that so eminent an
3cclesiastic, one so highly honored and
trusted by the Holy See, and so rich in
earning and in virtue, could pass away
Prom our midst without leaving in many
hinds a desire that something should be
Jone to perletuate his memory. The move
,'ent which has been started with that
abject is therefore only what might natur
lly have been expected to follow his
lamented demise. The propaeal to erect
in his honor some memorial of a lasting
and useful kind-something in keeping
with the whole tenor of his life-some
church, hospital, orphanage, or school
wicb should bear his name-has met with
a large amount of public favor. The sub
,cription-list which we publish in another
column is evid-nce of that fact; but if the
form to be taken by the memorial were
OcOe "ti finitely decided on and announced,
we think it probabhe t:,at a great impetus
wounid be given to t'he collection. Mean
wh;le there can b- no doubt that the chief
feature of the wtnmtrial, no matter when its
exact nature may be fixed, will, in tl:e
words of one of the resolutions #lready
-dopted, "consist of some lasting work of
piety or charity; " and to all intending
subscribers this should be a sufficient in
ducement to make their contributions as
same a truly liberal and generous charao
ter.
THU HARD WEATBER.
Not for many years has weather so severe
as the present been known in Ireland. A
heavy fall of snow, followed by hard and 1
continuous frost, has given a decided check
to the ordinary course of business. There
is less than the usual traffic in the streets
and less employment in many out-door
occupations. To a great portion of the
community this is a matter of very little
consequence; some people rather like the
change from mild, sloppy weather to such
a freezing temperature as we have at
present, but tb-s3 are persons who have
the means of making their homes warm
and comfortable, and who, when theytmove
out of doors, are well covered up and pro
tented from the cold. The case is quite dif
ferent with those who have scarcely a spark
of fire on their cheerless hearths, who have
scarcely a covering of any sort on their
wretched beds, whose feet are iwell nigh
bare and whose raiment is scanty. For
them this time of anow and ice is ifar from
being the "fine bracing weather" that some
people regard it; it is cruel, perishing,
killing weather-weather that almost
freezes the blood in their veins and the
marrow in their bones, and racks many of
them with pains and tortures indescribable.
But they can be helped; they can be re
lieved. The fortnnate possessors of
abundance, can come to their aid and
lighten tle pressure of their misery. The
spirit of the time is suggestive of this good
work. We are nearing the great Christian
festival, and even if at other periods of the
year the hearts of many amonget us are
not quick to feel for the sufferings of the
poor, at thia particular time a beonign and
holy influence touches them, and they
soften and expand with generous emotions.
We hope the present will be an open-handed
time with all who can afford to give to
their poo'er brethren. If they know net
themsetlves how best to bestow their chari
ties, they can find safe administrators of
them in the clergy, the nons, and the St.
Vincent de Paul societies, They knowi
where the plush of poverty is most keealt
felt: they know where families abide eo
daring sharp ditress yet iaespable.of ask.
ing for alms or seeking the shelter of the
workhouse-families and individuals whom
a little timely help might tide over the-i
dimloulties and enable ere long to resume
their position as self-snpporting members
of the community. To those ministers of
Sharity let the means of affording the need
ed succor be given, and the donors will
have the happy consciousness of its being
well applied.
MIA44BA IN WINTERB.
A SOLID BRIDGE Or ICE FROM 8HOQRE TO
SHORE
BuaIlo Coarier.
A Courier reporter was sent to the falls
yesterday and learned that the ice-bridge
became an assured fact on Sunday last. It
is really a child of the great snow storm of
last week, which accounts for its uncom
monly early formation. For some days a
large amount of snow-covered ice from
Lake Erie has been passing over the falls,
and about the beginning of the present
week old inhabitants began to look expec
tantly for an lee bridge, though it was at
least a month earlier than the usual ap
pearance of this phenomenon. At 8 o'clock
Sunday morning the accunmlated mas of
ice came to a standstill beneath the new
suspension bridge and the watchers began
to hope that there would be a bridge with
a smooth surface-a thing unprecedented
so far as history or tradition bear record.
But the hope was soon dispelled, for the
huge dam of ice suddenly began to heave,
grind, and break up into fragments with a
loud noise which is described as being ex
ceedingly trying to the nerves. At 10 o'clock
there was a second standstill, and it seem
ed certain that the bridge had been formed,
but at 2 in the afternoon there was a third
and more severe disturbance as the pris
oned waters exerted their giant strength
in an effort to be free. The battle was a
grand one. Vast quantities of ice and
snoow were caught in the water's arms and
tossed hlther and thither like playthings.
Great hummocks weighing hundreds of
tons were pushed into the airand remained
there as monuments of the fearful battle.
Large boulders were torn from the shore
and swept into the stream, and the solitary
fir, which was wont to mark the landing
place of the ferry became a victim to the
warring elements, though ordinarily it
stands, three feet above high water. The
slow, awful strength of the infuriated
waters was so apparent that it seemed as
If they must rend the great gorge in twain
add escape from their thraldom by some
new road ; but there was only one gate
way for them, and as they coun'd not break
the mile-wide dam in two, they lifted it up
bodily and swept away beneath. The
bridge is, nearly a mile in length, extending
from a lane drawn perpendicularly to Point
Lookout in the American Park half way to
the railroad bridge, and filling the gorge
from shore to shore.
The first view of the falls brings the
heart up into the mouth with a shock that
is almost painful in its soddenness and
force. The story of Samson and Delilah
comes into mind, as one sees how the ice
has shorn the waters of their strength. As
the spectator stands upon this point, the
wind blowe the spray into his face and soon
covers him all over with ice jewels; but
what cares be for the spray in the enthu
siasm of the glorious view! In the park
the ice has been as destructive as it is
beautiful, and though it has robed the
trees and buildings in snowy beauty, it has
torn down hunge limbs by its overpowering
weight. Looking over to the Canadian
shore the observer can see huge icicles of
many tons' weight hanging like the ropy
locks on the foreheads of giants in the
story books. But these eights are as noth
ing when compared to the broad sheet of
wrinkled snow-ice which lies at his feet.
There at is-the conqueror of Niagara
sparkling in the sunlight as calmly and
peacefully as a patch of snow. There is
something majestic, sublime, in its quiet
indifference to the it finences of the water
power. All traces of the battles of Sunday
havi departed, save in the rough surface
which from the height of the point is not
noticeable to uny great degree. At its
upper end the swift current may be seen
sweeping fiercely against it, then creeping
beneath with a defeated air and coming up
ag tin at the lower end quite meekly. Our
reporter stood and watched this wondrous
spectacle until his eyes were well-nigh
blinded by the glare and his note-book
leaves were quite stiff with frozen spray,
and then descended in the inclined plane
to get a nearer acquaintance of the Frost
King's handiwork. Verily )King Jack has
turned his time to good account on this
occasion, and proved that he is as good an
artist on a grand scale as on a minute one.
Beside the rotunda which stands at the
base of the American fall a mountain of
snowy spray ice towers up eighty feet high,
and is each day climbing higher and higher
toward the summit. The dome of the ro
tunda bears an ice-crown of exceeding
beauty and along the roof of the dressing
shed are curious ice formations which
nothing less than the photographic camera
can adequately picture. Gianticicles hang
from the cliffs and every once in a while a
hage fragment comes tumblinog down. The
ice is perfectly white and seemingly quite
porous, but excessively hard-frozen. As it
warms in the mouth it aesnucs a gum-like
consistency which tempts one to chew it,
though he finds it a little too brittle for
thst purpose. Its appearance is exactly
that of spun glass, and could it be made
indestructible and retain its present con
sistency it would make very superior bil
liard-balls. It is said that the spray which
formed this ice wsa perfectly pure, and
that if a ton of it were melted it would pro
duce no appreciable quantity of sediment.
The ice mountain is still in its comparative
infancy, but if the wind and the mercury
are favorable it will soon be in a condition
to form a coasting hill for the people as it
did during the winter of 1875.
The great ice bridge itself is a counter
part in miniature of an Alpine glacier and
fully as interesting as if ten days of sea
sickness were a necessary preliminary to
seeing it. Figures aregpoor makesehifts for
assisting the imagination to work, but they
will perhaps assist a little in giving an idea
of the magnitude of this structure. In
thickness it is probably about sixty feet,
while the surface of the ice is st least half
that distance from the surface of the water.
There are crevasses twenty-five or thirty
feet in depth and yet they show no aegoe of
water. As we have said before, the surface
of the ice-bridge or ice-fleld, for it is really
that, is exceedingly rough and the work of
crossing is very fatiguing. Before long,
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however, a read will be eareate.
the Amerlesn to the Osaadisa there
will be quite an easy matter teerees.
Of coarse the Cousier reporte,
body else must eross the bridge.
rsrambleA down and began to ereep
Slike a Polar bear towards the
shore. His feet slipped around upon
rough ice and his eyes glanced fear
the gaping cracks which he was obli
cross. However, by carefully picking
way he succeeded in reaching the ml
of the stream, at whiclt point he paused
examine the prospect. The view lookis
down the gorge was very fine. Op
either side rose sheer into the 'air high.
walls of atone, icicle-fringed and trimmed
with trees that were heavily laden with
glistening ice. Down the gorge lay a vast
ice field, tightly packed in between the
walls of the canon, an - uncouth mass of 1
rugged splendor, and far away against a
sky exquisitely clear in its tenoder emerald j
hnes, was outlined the old suspension
bridge and a tiny train of cars slowly
approaching the American shore.
The first man who crossed the bridge was
Mr. Tom Conroy, the well-known guide
who saved a man from the rapids a year or
two ago. On Sunday night Mr. Conrey
vowed by his right hand and by the moon
that he would never cross the bridge, and
on Monday morning he kept his vow by
crossing to his work just the way he said
he would not come. As Mr. Cooroy
weighs about 200 pounds he demonstrated
to the satisfaction of the good folks of Niag
are the entire safety of the bridge for par
poses of locomotion. Those who doubt its
safety are at liberty to attempt the break.
ing of its sixty feet of solid ice.
WASTING A PRINCELY CHARITY.
THE INCOME OF A MILLION-DOLLAR FUND
LOST TO ITS BENEFICIARIES.
St. Louis, Dec3l.-In 1851 Judge Bryan
Mullanphy bequeathed to the city of St.
Louiasomething over $900,000, as a fund to
aid "poor emigrants and travellers coming:
to St. Louis, on their way, bona fide, to
settle in the West." There was consider
able litigation over the property, and it
did not come into the actual possession of
the city till 1860. Then it was discovered
that the title of one-third of it was defec
tive. But this left over $600.000, and
$500,000 of this was in the shape of pro
ductive real estate.
All this vast property was made free
fro_.taxation and pua nder the manage
ment of a Board of thirteen Commissioners,
with the Mayor of St. Louis a member ex
officio. The property has fully doubled in
value in the past eighteen years. and is
now estimated at fully $5,000,000. The
Evensing Post of this city (now the Post
and Dispatch), has been investigating the
administration of this gigantic trust, and
finds that it is a total failure, so far as
beneft to emigrants is concerned. Its fig
ures show, in fact, that its income has
been swallowed up, all but a minute frac
tion, by its expenses. The total annual
receipts of the fund from the year 1861 to
the year 1873 are as follows .
1861...-.......... $11,314 S6 1i68..............3,649 45
i - - - .............. 5,136 I86.............. 94 80496
ic-G.............. 31.79 27 1 1870 ............. 9,60 9
164 .............. 1 581 80 187 -.............. 2.340 0
ie-...-........... 7.750.34 187.....--....-.. 50.30 13
1860............: 32 9-12i 1873.............. 35.,0s4
1.67...._...._.... 26754 - -
TotaL.............................. ..--...345,49 E3
The total expenditures for the same
time amounted to $345,642. Of this only
$51,760 was applied to hhe relief of emi
grants, but there was spent $179,630 for
improvements, new buildiage and real
estate, and $85,000 for salaries. It will be
observed that the receipts for 1872 amount
ed to $50,930, and that the following year
they fell to $35 208. Since 1873 the annual
ree.ipts have gradually fallen off, and for
1878" will probably not be over $19000.
The expenditures have kept up about in
the same ratio as from 1861 to 1873, the
bulk of the revenue having been applied
to improvements and purchases of real
estate. About the smallest expended is
that given out in charity. There are not
8) people a year, all told, who get a ceat
of aid from the fund. One year there
were but $5 applied to charitable purposes
another year $74 ; another year $6S0. The
highest amount ever paid out to poor emi
t.rants in a single year was $11 000. In
1873 sme $7,000 was paid out. This year
the amount will not be muco over half
that, probably four or five thousand dol
lars from a fund of a million dollars.
The Post makes no charges of embezzle
ment, and attributes the failure of the
great enterprise to carelessness on the
part of its managers, who include same of
the most reputable citizens of St. Lsnis.
The Board of Commissioners is composed
of the following gent!emen : Alexander
Cameron, John S. Costello, D. J. Collins,
Edmund F. Sebhreiner, August Frank,
Paul A. Fust, R. M. Scruggs, E H. Sheble,
James Shaw, David Murphy, Thomas
Metcalfe, Charles H. Turner, Frederick
Hill and Mayor Overstols. The investiga
tion is going on, and interesting develop
ments are looked for.
How TO SPoIL A CmLD.-Begin young
by giving him whatever he cries for.
2. Talk freely before him about his great
smartness.
3. Tell him he is too much for you, that
you can do nothing with him.
4 Let him learn to regard his father 55
a creature of unlimited power, cspricious
and tyrannical-or as a mere whipping
machine.
5. Let him learn (from his father's ex
ample) to despise his mother.
6. Do not care who or what his co0mpse
ions may be.
7. Let him read stories about pirates,
Indian fighters, and so on.
8. Let him roam the streets in the eveS
ing and go to bed late.
9. Devote yourself to makling money, re
membering always that wealth is a better
legacy for your child than principles in the
heart and habits in the life; and let bil
have plenty of money to spend.
The children of one home, brothers 5sa
a esters, may love each other with an I
tense affection when younng;- but that low0
will not stand the wear and tear of tif *
unless it be baptized in the grace and,
the image of the Eternal Trinity, the Gth
of Love. Blessed are they whose bro..
erhood is not only of blood but of sPit'
and recorded, not in an earthly regist
merely, but in the Book of Life.
Braselman's notlee of reduction in prise~ sd
great bargains, which will be fomund e fifth pr''
ahead' be readby all the sladls of New Cries-.
Read Levy Bros' twolsdvertslemenst ts on fltb
peSe.