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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Record, 1881-01-28, Page 34AISOELLA. NEOUSiNEWS;. American, The: Pennsylvania coal,eompanies are con- sidering the question of resuming work on full time, this week.. It is stated that all the companies, with one exception, have agreed to this proposal, hitt itl es been determined to take no goij z} for February until,the'latter. part of this month. •• Dr. Clare Beamer, .of New York, reports that while residing at. Pamrapo, N. J., a few months after the lost steamer City of, Boston was missing, his servant found a small bottle on the sea chore containing a scrap of paper,. on which was written with. pencil " steamship City of Boston binned June 29, 1.870. A, Herrick Iregne." Beamer said be did not allude i;o the matter at thetime, because so many rumors prevailed, He put the bottle away and when it came to light recently he. decided to make the matter public.. ''The New York Cotton Exchange on Satur- day diseuseed the resolutione fox the appoint- melt of a committee to confer with, other Exchanges throughout the country with a view to establishing a new telegraph company so constituted as to prevent its being con,. solidated with any other company. General Grant has ordered hiepottage at Long Branch to be put in complete order for 000upanoy during the coming Bummer. It is reported that several billsfor the establishmedt of postal telegraphs will be presented immediately in the House. The Rochester branch of the Irish ,Land League has rained a resolution protesting against the perseontion of the Jews in Ger- ma er- m Theargument in the mater c- g t of the.injun tion of the Western Union Telegraph .Com- pany against the Pennsylvania Railroad, re- straining the latter from interfering with the business of telegraph lines along its route, has been postponed for a week. The Lehigh and Sohuylkil peal exchanges announce to operators in .the anthracite regions that it has been agreed to work full time. A suspensionwill take place during the last three days of next week. Work will be resumed on'the 3lst, and continued until further notice. • • Newberry ,has introduced 'a bill in the House previdiug for a joint commission by United States and Great Britain, to investi- gate the alleged fraudulent statisticsbefore the Halifax fishery commission. The new commission is to confit of three persona, one appointed by the United States, one by Great Britain, and one by the two conjointly: The bill also provides for : a joint committee of the Senate and the House to investigate the subject The second annual meeting of the Hotel- men's Mutual Benefit association of the United States was helA yeaterday'at New York. Tho reoipts for the year were $3,900. and the expenditures $2,000. George S. Adams, of the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, was elected President. Canadian. A preliminary trial was given the flew Mid- land elevator at Port,Rope on .Saturday', Tt • was Pet in operation, unloading grain' from two ears at once, and worked satisfactorily... In response_ to a regUieitiatt S G` •Burgess; ..1teeye.of:Esst Tar treveuuty ofeljetard -ilks. called a public meeting of the ele'otora of the' township, at Strathallen, on Wednesdayeven- ing,next, 19th, to discuss the syndicate bar, • gain. The Bank of New Brunswick Stock sold at suction at St. John, realized 40 per cent., above par; an upward jump of 4 per dent. since the last sale. John Purtell, one of the Biddulph prison` ere, states that he had quarrelled ,with James Carroll, the alleged, ringleader of the vigilante, and they have net been on speaking .terms for a month. He says Carroll has been put- ting on." side" over the rest of the boys and wanted to boas the ward on all occasions. He (Purtell) resented this, and an angry dispute arose...They' • onee were going. to fight, 'but the trouble was prevented by 'Carroll bring removed to an upstairs ward. Purtell says. that Mies • Blake, who was killed in the late unfortunate railway accident, near Clandeboy, was the witness on whom he relied at the coming trial. It.. is understood that 90 subpoenas have been served by the Crown in those cages. The London bachelors give a grand ball there phortly. About 600 invitations have been issued to people in all sections, of "the Province. Seven Montreal men, .charged with cook - fighting, have been arrested at the instance of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.. • . Jas. Shoebottom, postmaster at Baiiymote, London Township, -.and an oldandwell,knowli resident, was frozen to death'on Monday night by the wayside. • • Wm. Whyte, Grand Trunk station agent at London, has been presented with a cheque for $407 by the merchants of that pity, to- gether with a complimentary address. A long Standing suit for 310,000, by ''Peter Rigging, of Montreal, against P. Bowes, was commenced there yesterday. The damages are claimed for inducing plaintiff's wife.. An action for libel is now proceeding against the Montreal Star, at the suit of • Adolph Le- clere. The paper some time since stated that the plaintiff was in the habit of blackmailing men who Dame to his establishment. The defense produced evidence that Leelere is a refugee•from justice in his native land•of Belgium: • • G. R. Pattullo has filed a bill conteatin. the election of Mr. Sutherland in :North Oxford, The Hanover cattle fair, held yeaterdily was poorly attended. Yokes of oxen were sold at from $70 to 380. Coroner 0, T. Scott, of Wingham, by special request,.held an inquest on the body of Allen Caldwell, farme”, found dead in his barn on Sunday. A verdict of suicide was returned. U Foreign. Several meetings have been held by the Lancashire miners,' at which theyresolvod to continue the strike mikes their wages are increased. • A committee of Home Rulers hag been formed for organizing a movement in Eng- land against coercion. The Southport & West. Lancashire Bank- ing Company, which suspended yesterday, has lost 6250,000 since 1877. Official news has boon received at Con- stantinople that the Turcomans have severely defeated Gen. Skobeleff, and not, as before stated, that he defeated them. Floods are doing immenoe damage in the provinces of Spain. "• Maynard's cotton mill at Preston, Eng., was brtrned. Damage, £24,000. Drift ice has caused the stoppage ot navi- gation on the Rhine. The 'World's Fair Commission start with a r?lilif(en assureds subscriptions. A''oorrespondent at Calcutta centring the reports of .the Katowice conspiracy, The Prince of Wales started the fashion of Nearing' maters... _ There is in farie lees asejudice against Wagner's musie. than formerly existed. The wife of the Grand Duke Nicholas ,has gone with her children to Italy, where she will page the winter, There is more then one Dolgorouki in the Russian Imperial family, it miens. ' MOTHER bSHIPTf,1 T'B PRPPHEQX'. An evening paper recently published an in- teresting and well written arkiglo, en emote and the several theories as to. the creation and destruction of stare, but -the , Maier park gave the history, so far as known, of the fam- ous'Newton comet, which, after an absence of thirtyseven years, is now astonishing and alarming the antipodes, and in a short time will be seen in our firmament, rushing on its course toward the sun at the velocity of 200 miles a Second, ., In his long esaay on this fiery eenent;ia monster, Newton says it is within the range of poeslbilties, that in strik- ing the sun terrible disorder and havoc may bo caused in our planetary system, and the author of said article sites old Mother Ship, ton The world to an end shall some In eighteen hundred and eighty.ono. Albeit a househol• d word in Great, Britain,. the 'name of Mother Shipton and her pro pheoies are not familiar to Americans gener- ally, and so prone ie human nature to super- stition and the marvelous there are many, who will cortinue to believe she was a seer and prophetess, even thoughthe fact has been overwhelmingly proved that she was not the'author of anyof thepredietiens accredited to her which have been fulfilled. In the British Museum can be seen Moth- er Shipton's original book,, published. 1641, but an earlier .manuscript of the samebore the date 1448. " They contain nothing important, mere old women's obatter, a.jumble of vague forecasts of local interests, which, like tons of such trashwould deservedly. have remain. ed in oblivion but for the enterprise oil one Charles Hindley, of Brighton, England, who in 1862 published,whatpurported to bo an eaaot reprint .of the' book. Interspersed with the senseless, as unfilled predictions, he had inserted ten or twelve lines. An ex- ample: , • Carriages without horses shall go, And iron shall swim on the.wator.. Through mountains men shall ride England shall at last aa,1t a Jew, et -a poor mystic effort to fortell the past' history of engineering, and politics in Eng- land. • The superstitious and lovers of themarvel- ous, ignorant of Hindley's fraud introduced to make his book sell seized upon. these, proofs of Mother Shipton's gift of prophecy. The pre, - denten efthe end of the 'world in 1881 he stole from Piazza Smith's and Philo- Israel's interpretation of the hieroglyphioe'in the great gallery of the Pyramid. • The:imposture was Boon; detected and ex- posed, 'and x-posed,'and Hindley, publicly confessed to the fabricated interpolatians,whiob did not'lemen 4he sale off hie -books_ MUSIC IN CHURCH. The Cooke's Church Organ CASs -.Deal- •• ' • sion of the, Presbytery. .. • • TORONTO,' Jan 12. -=The Preebyterysame to a decision to --day after a lengthy disenssion upon • the -appeal---from the -finding -of the session: of Ceo'ke'e 'church against,; the, six' recalcitrants in the organ case. • Yesterday the statement of the appellant! was; heard asking tobe restored' `to , the , privileges of church membership. Today the .Rev..• Mr. Kirkpatrick, the minister ot the church, de: fended the action of the session, holding that it•was justifiable and necessary in view of the oondiction of the appellants "in the -Police Court; for' ddisorderly conduct., s. Mr. McNallan, on behalf of the appellants then replied, charging . Mr. Kirkpatrick with having forced the session to take action and with having been the cause of .the appellants being dragged into, the Polioe;Court. heir, Bain, :another . iii thee dpppellan:e, also read a statement in defense of his Action, to the effect that the appellants eiensidered that the use ,Of music' in" the worship 0104 dis- honors him; it was morally wrong, •and. was on a par with the Ilse of relics and idols; it was one of the heresies of the present day,' and had no place in the early Church; it was One of the eenerial and worldly tastes of men ; it was: a mistake to •suppose that music: w•,s aecoptable in the .worship of God ; •it•is an infringement of the moral law •which pro- hibits the worship of God by inuagee; it was one . of the, teathetic heresies of the prei- ent day, and exhibits no . charitable sentiments, `but issues itsoedict that at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, saolibut, paltry, dulcimer and 'all'kinds of musiot all should fall down and worship.the•god of music.( The reading of the statement caueed;inuch amusement. After :a full disoussion.;the : Presbytery finally found : let. That the appeal be die - missed. . 2nd.. That the minima of )Ceeke's church be censured for permitting the matter to get into the Polios Court.. 8rd. That the matter be remitted back to the session, and that ;certain members, -of .the Presbytery be appointed to actwith the session with a view. to a settlement of the matter and restoration of .the appellants. —A woman at West Cornwall, Cdnn:; fail- ing to induce her husband to move out of a' house which she did not like, deliberately de, stroyed it by. fire: • • -end St. Georgeead.tr; is the beat eredi.- ter in the country.. • In the last issue it g pub- lishes a report of a railway meetin an credits it to the St. George Leader. --There are movements in Oinuinnati and San Francisco against 'the ]harried :female teachers inShe public schools. In both Oases the city newspapers: impute improper motives to members of she Boards ot Education. The Cincinnati Cometerciiit °bargee directly that the object is to make places for trustees' fa- vorites.' —Not since the death,.in 1850, of Dr. Routh, of Magdalen College, who remembered having seen Samuel :Johnson' inounting the stairs to his rooms in Pembroke, and who had talked with these who bad seen Charles 11. playing with his dogs in Christchurch Welke, has any head of a . college in Oxford died at his post at eo advaneod an age :ale Dr. Marsham. The late Warden of Merton took his degree two years before Mr. Gladstone was born, and was already in the office he has just vacated by death when the present Premier was an Undergraduate at Christ• church. A RBIA4+,A•{t Ai:1f7ltl, • Or, Typographical Errors A few daya ago a tall, gaunt, dejeoted'but Wild -looking men burst violently rntl.our sanctum, and after glaring ,wildly' round for a few minutes, prefaced from.his breaa. pocket a tern and crumpledcopy of our paper,. whfoh lie• tore open and withone finger point- ing to the, poet's corner, inqui ed for the man who printed the 'poetry. We assured him. that this was the ditty of the poetry editor, who was then probably et home, but, asked him if we could serve him .i4 any .way;, " Well," he said, " I have sustained a griev ons outrage to my feelings through the col umng ofthis paper, and 1 have come to See about. it., There," he continued, • thrusting the paper under .our nege,, " what do you pall that?" pointieg to the title ot a poem: in else first column. That," we said, "why i The Lubbers Garment„ Yee, he replied, "'The Lubber's Garment.' My poem was entitled -' The Lover.'s Lament,' and this is the way your vile and obscure sheet•produoee it ; bot that is, not the worst. I have been unfortunate in a love affair, and I just threw my soul into this poem ; Instead of meeting •with the condolence of my friends,. who knew the state of my ease, 1 have been ,made the butt of their infernal and unfeeling jests. I am nigh crazy ;and don't care what ,happens. ,A few goblets ofthe blood of that poetry editor appears to be the only thing that would soothe my irritated feelings," We tried toconvince v e Dim that, the editor in question was a poor, thin, attenuated stare- ling in whose whole composition, in our be- lief, there was not eufftoient vital fluid to fill a liqueur glasq. ,'! Be • it so," snappped the poet,'' I'll have .what there is if it's onlya thimblefull.. Read.. the first line,. and look' e in the face." Oh l -tet ern are: the Strings of my e'er busting -'. if 31aRRYI is , . W.z iD MANIAC • A Chinese Broker Engaged tri a. Notations Traftio--Rosas the Mgngolian. AOQuire the Habits• and Customs of the Lowe Ottumwa -1i Woman' adarrled''•'to Four Men in, Sixaltonthe. u r About two years ago an old hag named Alt Leen lived in one of the oul-desacs leedin off Washington street, Her business, which was of -thee most disreputable nature, increased until she accumulated wealth sufficient to re tire:. Longing once more to see her natio land, she embarked during .November; leo year, on the steamship City of Peking to re turn to the !' City 01 Rains," The wind and water influence, ; " fang ahui," wag favorabl to the voyage, and Mrs. Ah Leen found her selfat home about the : end of Decembe Upon her arrival in China shewas in posses WOO of some $2,000. Desirous of turning he money to- account,, the invested a portion by loaning it to her putative Sister.. Oaating'h eyes around as to the ultimate disposal ofthe balance of her resources, she was one day ap preached by an fldividual whose business wa that of a trafficker he young girls, or " white ant," as he is called in China. After a num. bar of interviews; held at various tea sbops•in the city of Canton, Ah. Leen was induced to purchase a denial -Whose charms had .been extolled to the utmost by the "white ant.' The surn'agreed upon was $800, half of which was paid upon the signing of the contract and the balanceupon• delivery of the damsel on board the steamer in Hong•Jiong harbor. A length the time approached for departure. Ali Leen proceeded to Hong ,Hong the day pre vine to the sailing ,of the steamer, Pinnate ally to day and hour the damsel was delivered by the contractors and taken on board the Peking. Ah 'Leen addreesed the girl 'several he read aloud.. f' A beautiful sentiment, sir,: times while•. they were' being conveyed" on a beautiful sentiment,. ,-Have yon the. garment in question'with yon'?" '' " Great boar I" exclaimed the poet, 14 Shirt l , sir, shirt I What I wrote. was Oh h Taoorn are the strings of my e'er trusting A 1 and this is .the way your.. diabdlioal paper. prints it. By Gemini, sir, I could; brain that poetry editor With a paste pot if 1' had him here." (From the San Pranoise° Chronicle/ g' e. t e. r,• r er s i t • • "We tOld, him that ,110 •paste,. Could ever reach that man's .brains—nor any- thing else either. The woebegone looking bard after a panes, signed tens' to read the eommenoement of the third verse i• . . . " Away for some pills when the weather. we .continued. : Merciful heavens," "riled the man;'" listen to that 1 I wrote. " Away o'er the hills where the heather: is blow-' ing, Fancy, ! away 'for sorxie pills' --blast that editor ; just turn to the fifth.verse, and tell me if the :Scurrilous and:7ow-minded printer should be permitted to live." We read, ". The bright tinted bruise on the red• red •nose.' " There;!' he shrieked," what do-you•think Of that •? 'What I said: was ' T -he bright }Brach mmeof •the^x eeered pro .2t'$ enough -to make=s m&n ~scalp hie great grandmother's tom -cat, it ,,is by thunder 1" and he glared at ue in a manner .terrific to witness. " Itis a pretty hard case, certainly, but mistakes will occur,, even in our office," we suggested. " Mistaken," yelled the poet. " If I had foreeen this awful. MOSS I would WO signed the pledge beforel wrote. it. Why;• my friends think I- wrote that -in- delirium: tremens." ;„ It's too bad,".we, said. " Well, just read: the next verse but one,ir_ he cried;. gesticulating violently and cramming his hat over his unkempt hair. " I sigh for the togs which we spouted together,' we murmured. "That line goes home to u: Give us your hand, sir; .be aerated that a pawnbro " . • "Bythe long hone spoon,',• he broke'in, "do yon think I referred to' pawningmy;• clothing ? This hi or was a sentimental poetti sir, a sentimental one; and that line .should. have been "I sigh for the days when we sported together, sported; sir, not spouted. .Ohl I'd like to get hold of that poetry editor. But jest look at thelast verse ; there wales sentiment in that,. sir, that would have thrilled even to the Mee of an alderman, end ties what that •petrified• son of a scavenger's daughter makes of it:" . gayLtithario teoame so , enraptured- at '.the "Then will -you onto back on the soul et &I, mule." ere t of the new purchase that, in the gen. ero iffy of his , heart, he presented The soul of a mule may be. a good stroke,. Ah Leen • with $100'.as a present. The day for the; performance of the mar- riage <oeremoniesdrew nigh: Every detail, was arranged,. and the guests invited.. The marriage, rejoicings 'took plate; and the man board the 'easel', but received no reply to her queries. " The girl was fair' to look upon,ace, cording to. Chinese taste, and in every way calculated to attract • admirer°.; Her feet were small, her eyes of the narrowest almond shape; and her graoefulformwheh she walked swayed to andfroshke the waving of the lily, " Ah 1" said old Ah Leen, ".Itve got a geod bargain. I can get $8,000 for .her in,." Sin Cum San," and attributed her eilenoe to their short aoquaintanceship.:.,During.the voyage, sen ag in .attempted to resume convrse tional intercourse with Chin ' Qui, for inch was the name of the young lady, but all oho obtained in reply was monosyllables • and nods of the head. Ah. Leen 'swore by the manes of her ancestors, stormed and fumed preyed and besought Ohin Qui .to. tell ,tier 'what was *he `minter. 'but all she received in return . was an idietio stare and a vacant ]augh. "Graduaily.light broke upon the Mind of old Ah Leen. •She.hadbeen•duped z•+. r ►. :.a ._. .ter -+fir,. A.4.$ peered at this 'unotnre, One of thew offered . $500, the seooild .'700 and peld 120 al bargaifr . money, but a higher bidder came along ani scoured Chin qui for 8800, Tile man wlio, had' paid the bargain ]cone yy felt aggrieved at being jilted; and would lif ten to no atteni at a compromise ; .a wife he bad bought and a wife he• would have, and this partioular beauty was just to his taste, "Watt g,. little while and yon °ball have her back,'' said the old crone, as her eyes twinkled with glee. Events justified the assertion. Before four days elapsed thediegnsted mine owner, for finch the victim was, sent for Ah Leen and. beeoagght her by all the gods of Chinese here- after to rid hire 0f his bad bargain. The man who had paid the bargain money was a wealthy storekeeper at Virginia. Ile already rejoiced in the possession of a number. one -wife, but she was childless. During the time Ohio Qui was living with the mine - owner he paid a visit to San Francisco to pre- sent his devotion to the God of Fortune in. or- der to obtain suocesk in his matrimonial schemes, The rejection of our heroine 'oe- carred during his abeence. The news carpe to the ears of wife No. 1, who, fearful that he might bring bank a rival from this city sought out Ah Leen, clinched the bargain for 8860, and brought Chin Qui home, But he might as ,well have purchased awildcat., The mani. seal developments . became stonier in Chin Qui. She new at the wife, tore her hair and the holm@ beeame sported bear garden, The husband returned and found out the state .of affairs, His rage knew nobounds at the manner in which imbed been duped.. What could be do ? Here were two women in his house, one mad and the other on the verge ot madness. Packing,' Chin Qui'e clothes, he brought her to San French= in November,. and delivered her to Ah. Dean, who thus re- gained' possession of her profitable purchase. 'By this timethe novaef the•madwoman and her adventures became known all over China •: town, and Ah Leen saw that -her little game was played out:- Shelled. received $8,600,, thus making a profit of noiess than $2,8.00 in eix'monthe. Last week when the Belgia left. for China, a carriage drove on the wharf,froln which Ah Leen and her..Victim emerged. The plank was dravbii and ''the poor wretch left. these shores, to probably find herself, on'ar- rival in China, reaped as an inmate of some Chinese bagnio,, .,-,n:..JAMIE'B,GOOD-NIGHT. Ata late hour the other night a poor old man, weak with hunger, and stiff with cold, entered the Central Station to ask for lodg- - ings. While he Sat by the stove to get'warzn they heard him groan like one is distress, and the captain asked • Are yon pick, or have you been hurt ?" • It is here," answered the old man 'ache Minted his breast. " It all come back to me' an hour ago as I'passed a window and naw' a ' • bit of a boy in his : night gown. I; would .tca God that I were dead 1" .• " What is it 2 asked the captain as he sat. - down beside the man. " tt id the,heart:ache—if is' remorse," the old' man: answered. " I leave had them gnaw ing away attn ,life fo .ears. -.I. have wanja_ed..-r-:- to se—I hav'o:`: r&..ray. .. a th-- .. • _. .p.._y...d " a fist" hfe :.;. ,,.. atiliblingiito this poor old frame. I: am old •and friendless and worn out, and were some wheel t0 eraeh me itw•ould he an act of mercy." : • He,wiped'his eyes on his ragged Sleeve, made a great effort to 'control his feelings, -• .and went on:. The voyage was drawing rapidly 'to a.elose. Measures' Must be adopted and schemes con• *rived whereby shewould not be 'a loser on the transaction.. Befgre heaving China: Ale Leen had laid in a stook of handsome ' gar- ment's, for the Delilah tbgt etas. ,to captivate the dhinese:Sameons of San'Frahoisco. The Pekin arrived at this city and ahin•Qui upon diii etliewsdmira fen noi4 only of ^s= namer0ue•crow$ of gaping Oeleetieri but sfao of the foreign devils who :were aseexnbled on the wham. Chin Qui and. Ah Leen entered a coupe and were driven off to' Chinatown. Safely: installed in her house, Ah Leen gave a supper to a few chosen female. friends. The 1?r ettatnef:.Chin-Qui.added_grace te.;the., ode" vande,'but although the guests:_one.. add :.all were lavish in their' praise and extolled her beauty, they could not imagine why. she : was so silent. Each one was buildinga castle in her mindas to the amount of the commiseion likely to be obtained should 'their.. endeavors to preeure;a husband; or really a purchaser, for the unfortunate girl be successful. Some days elapsed, during which time the charms of Otin Qui were diamond 'at thefashion- able Hein H'wa Sow restaurant and " other resorts of the long. tail heathens. " One day last June a wealthy merchant residing •on. Sacramento street;: whose .heart had become inflamed at the description: of Chir! Qu."s beauty, came to visit Ah Leen. Negotiations and p,eliminaries were entered into and con= sumud nearly ten days and the elfin ot" 31,- 600 was, agreed`upon,as the price' to be. paid. The contract was'signed; acid Ohin `Qui was brohght from an adjoining chamber. The bat it strikes us that mules—" " Mules, sir, mules! this 'aa what I said : • " y Then will ou come book to a coni that is mutiela Where does that brute of a printer live? I'll took his brand new No.'2 wife home- But to go straight midget him," bellowed the . min- 'quote from the Chinese classics, "Favor is de- strei, opening the door of theelevator' by mis- take for the way out, and vanishing. We heard. his head strike violently at the bottom of the elevator fine, and looking down we saw him extended peacefully -on . the .floor, four strike below,hie hat jammed over his head down to' his shonlders; but still clutching the murdered poem. "Ali," we said, as we went back to our desk, "another poet has slushed aorosie, the shining river; another minstrel soul goes wbbbling up the golden stele." ATTACKED $Y INDIANS. ' •. ceitful•nnd beauty is vain." A vacant stare was ell the -reply vouchsafed to him by the girl. She broke into a senselees laugh, and the man saw she was mad. ' Not wishing ` to be exposed to the ridicule .of, his friends, as there rs nothing Chinesedislike so'mute as to " loge :faoe,". he resolved to keep Ohin Qui at his house for a few days. After two weeks had elapted her vagaries become do startling as to .cause •alarm.. She would rise in the middle of the night, and wander 'around the kale°, ,inspiringg dread amongst all the in- mates, Strange, and incoherent mutterings were to be heard proceeding from her lips. SAN. Faexcrsco,' Cal., Jan..16.—Tucson. Wearied by`thissinenbns, the merchant sent and Deming dispatches report that the, stage for Ah. Leen and told her to'keep the dollars, wale attacked by Indians on Friday' fourteen but take the girl 'SW, • Nothing lobi, the old miles from. Fort Cumming, , The bodies of marriage broker took ,Ohio 'Quihome. Not the the driver, and three men and .One woman least scrap of news as to the true orate of Chin Qui'.s mind had leaked out_In:::China- town, One 'morning, bright and early, Ah Leen and her victim hied themselves to the Oakland ferry and took the oars for Sacra- ng passenger were found mutilated and burnt. The troops are in pursuit of the Indiana, who are supposed to number forty. • George Eliot was. proficient in Hebrew:, Greek, Lata: French, .German, Italian and Spanish. • -Two rid soldiers, ono of whom fought. under Napoleon at Waterloo, while the other taught under. Wellington at the same battle, partake of the sacrament at the Communion • table in the Maxey avenue Baptist : Church in' Th Brooklet once a month, side by side. , me mi —Within the. past' three months not less' aft than 2,500 German immigrants have sailed c from Europe for Texas direct, landing at tha Galveston, In thio way they make the voyage of somewhat more cheaply than if they went by mento. Arrivi there, they reside( at the hduee of a' friend of An Leon's, and once more suitor's began to arrive. Within. three days the highest bidder became the possessor 0f Chin Qni's charms for $600: Chin Qui went. to ser new.home, the occupant of whieh,oar- lb bn the busineseof anopiuni dealer. Here again the antics of Chin Qui had fall play. e opium pipes wore hid away the imple- nts used for cleansing the pipes and trim-- ng the lamps were not . to 'be . found *until r considerable Bearish. The husband was onfeennded. "What Sort of a woman is this t 1 bought ? She must bave a devil inside her l" said he. :lending for some- priests, e ceremony of exorcising the devil was gone ouh over Chin g Qui, but with no 'avail, milar events.'• were.. of daily occurrence. rn out, he came to San Francisco and de• ended a return of his money from Ah Leen' ioh was refused, After Several stormy de. es, he, finally tired out, agreed to Meant 00 and send the girlbaokto Ah Leen. Back dame, the old hag ohucklingover the gain had made out of Ohin Qui. Another trip B made into the country, this time 60 Vie- ia, Neve No lona than thee° suitors ]tit• • way of New, York ; but they experience the *lir disadvantaBe of findingne provision made for Si their reception, and hundreds of men, women Wo and children have had to pass cold nights on' re the wharvas " Without shelter of snit kind, wh They also fail into the hands of so•called bat emigration agents, for Whose restraint there $10 ie no law in Teaas, and against whom there she is no protection, as in New York. For these she teasons German papers raise a note of aVarn wa ing to intending imniigrante.. gin h'orty,years ago Iliad plenty. A: wife sang in my home, and a young boy. rode On my knee and filled the house with•his Shouts and • laughter. I sought •to.be a good man anda kind' father, and people called me:suoh. One night I came home vexed. I found my' boy ailing and that vexed me still. more. I don't know what ailed me to sot ° so that eight, but; it seemed as if everything: went wrong. The child had a bed. beside;us, .and overt' night since he had been able to speak, he had called, . tome before elosinghia eyes 'in sleep,•' good': night, my. pa!, . Oh, sir, and I hear these, words sounding in my ears. every day and: every hour, and they wring my old heart'uutii' 1 am faint ". For a moment.he Bobbed like a ohild, then he found voice to continue i "God forgive me, but 'I Was'' cross to the boy that night. When he called to good • night,'I would not reply, •' Good night, my 'pa?' he kept calling, and fiend that Lwas, 1 would make no answer,- .He must have thought me asleep, for he finally cuddled down with a sob in histhroat, 1 wanted to get up and kiss him, but I kept waiting; and waiting; and finally I fell asleep • " Well:?" queried the.oaptain,as the silence grew long. '' When I awoke.. it was day. . It was'a shriek in my ears which broke my slumbers, and as I started ap my poor wife called : 'Oh Richard 1 Rrohaed 1 our Jamie is dead . in his bed 1' It was so. He ,was dead and cold There were tears on his pale face—'*lie tears he had shed when he had called ;:'Good night, my pa l',and'I had refused to answer ! I was .dumb. Then remorse cense and I:was fran- tic. ,.I did not know when they buried him, for I was ander restraint as a. lunatic.. For five icing years life was a dark midnight to me. . When reason returned and I went forth into the world my. wife sleptbeside Jamie, my . • home wag gone, my friends had forgotten me. and I had no mission in life but to suffer 're worse. I cannot forget, It was almost elite time ago, but through the .mist: of years, • 'across the valley of the past, from the little grave thonsands of miles away. I :tear the plaintive•call as I heard it that night : 'Good night, my pa 1' Send me to prison, to the. poor -home, anywhere that I: may halt long.. enough to die f I am an old wreck, and I; care not how soon death drags me down." He was tendered food, but heoould not eat. He reeked his body to and fro and wept and sobbed, and by and by, When sleep same to him, they heard him whisper: " Good night, my boy, good night, -my Jamie 1" -Detroit F,'ee Press. The abolition of gambling has not dope, Weissbaden the harm expected ; indeed, the contrary has been the ease. Its season be-, gins earlier and lasts later than that of any other of the Taunus baths, —Sir R. 'Naliaeo, who has dohe so much for the poor of -Paris, wishes to get up a col - Impel ball in their aid, at which every nation 10 to be represented by its most p otnresque costumes.. . A memorial presented to the 'Home Seo - rotary by various London parish vestries pro- . teste against further operations under , the Artisans' Divellibgs act, and states that the Metropolitan Board of Works has lost 32,810,000 `by its purchase of property ander that tet. . '