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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-02-03, Page 6THE' WEEK'S NEW& t7ANADIA . The Bell telephone patents have been sus- tained in Mezzo. An Indian arrested at Fort MacLeoda few days ago was thought to be Deerfoot, bub he turns out to be Bad Dried Meat, probably a near relation. Fishing at Saddle Lake, N. W. T., was a failurelast season owing to water insects eating the nets to pieces every night. There Were plenty of fish bat they could not be caught. Principal Grant, of Queen's University, believes that when all the canvassers report next week it will be found that the quarter of a million required for the jubilee endow. ment fund has been aubsoribed. Complaint has been made to the Dominion Government that a man who escaped from gaol on the American side of the "Soo" was pursued by American officers into Cana- dian territory and forcibly taken back. A biological examination of samples of Ottawa city water made in Toronto has demonstrated that the water is unduly in• eated with bacteria, though it is not settled definitely whether they are typhoid fever germs or not. The Toronto Board of Trade decided to apply to the Dominion Parliament for amendments to their Aot of Incorporation giving them power to compel the attendance of witnesses in cases of arbitration and to enforce awards. The Archbishop of Canterbury has de- clined to nominate a bishop for Nova Scotia, as the Provincial Synod will not guarantee the ratification of his nominee, and the Synod will therefore have to make another effort to elect its own bishop. The New York World says that what Manitoba wants worse than anything else is a new climate. New climate yourself ? Manitoba will be ploughing before Dakota, Montana or Minnesota find out where they left their fences last fall. It is proposed by leading members of the Bar of Montreal to call an indignation meet- ing at an early date to protest against the neglect of the Local and Dominion Govern- ment to remedy the present unsatisfactory condition of the administration of justice. The follewing-new post offices were estab- lished in Ontario on Jan. lat : Anson, North Hastings ; Blackwell Station, Lambton ; Esmonde, Renfrew ; Les Mesnnes, Musko- ka ; Perry Station, Monck ; Spanish River Station, Algoma ; Yonge Mills, South Leeds. It is reported that the Prince Edward Islanders are indignant over the failure of the Dominion Government to maintain regu- lar communication between the island and the mainland, which is declared to be this winter more incomplete and irregular than for many years. A scheme for establishing a penal colony in the North-West Territories adjoining the Athabasca River, with a view to the devel- opment and settlement of that region, is proposed by Warden Bedson, of Manitoba Penitentiary and endorsed by Mr. Moylan, inepeotor of Prisons, in his annual report. The first special flour train from Minnea- polis by way of the Sault Ste. Marie and Canadian Pacific railway reached Montreal, having: made the journey in five days despite the heavy snow and severe cold. The train left immediately for Boston, where it is ex- pected to land the flour on the seventh day after leaving Minneapolis. The ' Postmaster -General says that the convention for a parcel post sera ice between Canada and the United States had been signed by himself and Postmaster -General Vilas and only requires the signature of President Cleveland to make it legal. The terms agreed upon were satisfactory to both Governments and it had been arranged for the service to be inaugurated on March 1. When one of the politicians ' imprisoned for bribery in Prince Edward County had completed his term in gaol he was given an oyster supper by the gaoler, and was driven in state through the town, the sheriff and the police 'magistrate taking part in the proceedings. ouch is the statement of. the Conservative journal at P;cton. Ifr is to be hoped. the story is not true ; for if it is, it would appear that officers of the law aro doing their best to make bribery respect. able. The burglary in Montreal on Saturday was certainly one of the most extraordinary on record. Not content with carrying away three iron safes—one large one worth $1,800 —the enterprising burglars made away with books,' bookcases, desks, chairs, letter- presses, counters, and even the flooring, in- cluding the joists. When the proprietor of the ransacked premises came upon the aceno in the morning he no doubt felt grateful that the ceiling and walls were still left (to him. In such a case even the smallest mer- cies are greatly to be appreciated. At a tea meeting in a New Brunswick parish there were some unusual features provided. In one corner of the church an enclosure was prepared, within which two young ladies were sawing wood into stove lengths. In anothercorner were two young men making a patch -work quilt. All for a single admission. Tickets ten cents. It is a wonder that in order to make the leap year effect complete, the young pastor-- and astor—and he must have been a very young pastor —wan not shut up in another corner and a detachment of young ladies engaged to afflict him with proposals of marriage. The practices in many matters in the var- ious provinces are curiously divergent. In Nova Scotia and British Columbia there are divorce courts, but there are none here., In Nova Scotia street cars may be run on Sun- day, as driving, according to the courts is not servile labour;; in Quebec they may be run to carry people to church ; in Ontario they must not be run under any circum. stances. In British Columbia Sunday news• papers are published, and the closing of saloons on Sunday is a matter for municipal and not provincial regulation. Here Sunday fe observed unanimously, except, as the law provides, by Indians, Here the Legislature regulates the municipal franohise. In New Brunswick the city council fixes the voting qualification. FOREIGN. It is reported in Berlin that Italy is pre• paring to send 150,000 troops .ttr Galicia in the event of war. The crofter agitation in Scotland and the antf.tithe movement in Wales are rapidly glowing more'Jerious, !'The sails Eritannfa, from the Mediterran• eau, with 850 people aboard, is now Nix days over -dire at New York. The doctors have decided that if the Crown Prince of Germany dies, his disease is of a fatal oharacter,butif he recovers it is not incurable . Many of Mr. Parnelre followers, includ- ing the two Bialys and Mr. Dillon, object to their leader's proposed policy of abstain. ing from ebstruetion. The Paris Unfvera has areport from Rome that the English Cabinet accepts Papal mediation in regard tp Ireland on tie basis of Mgr. Persioo's report. A gigantic, Christmas tree, was sent from Potsdam to the German Crown Prince at San Remo, so large that it. had to be cut in two for transportation, eaoh half filling a freight Out of 53 palatial residences in Paris in- spected by a Government sanitary engineer, 47 were found to have such defective plumb- ing that the health of the occupants was constantly threatened. The Pope has advised the -Irish bishops and priests visiting Rometo use their in. fluence to restore respect for the law in Ire- land, as the Irish people could not obtain what they asked by violence. If the records of her baptism in Knock- mahcn, Ireland, are correct, and if she lives until the 5th of April next, Mrs. Bridget Doody, of Mineral Point, Wis., will be 116 years old. She has outlived all of her ten children, the youngest of whom was born when she was 58 years old. She is in pretty fair health, and seems likely to live for several years. At a dinner at the Mansion house, Lon- don, three foreign consuls were present whom the Lord Mayor wished to honor by drinking their healths. He accordingly directed the toast master to announce the healths of " the three present consuls." He, however, mistaking the words, gave out the following :—" The Lord Mayor drinks the health of the 3 per cent, consols. The experiment of giving halfpenny din- ners at the Birmingham schools has been so successful that farthing dinners have been tried and nearly succeeded. Two hundred and twelve thousand farthing dinners were given last year at a cost of less thau 39 100tha of a penny. The attendance at the schools has been greatly increased, and the good of. feet upon the temper of the children has been astonishing. The strength of the Russian troops assem- bled ready for action in the western provin- ces toward the end of December is reported by a German military paper as follows:— In the first line, close to the frontier, there are stationedeight army corps, one each at Riga, Koona, Plotak , Lomsha, Petrohof Warsaw, Ivangorod Lublin, Rovno Shito- mir, Kief Meakibooahye and Kishenef. The `second line is made up of three corps, one each atlBialystok Minsk, Tcheringoo Orel and Karkof Poltava. The, third line con- sists of five corps, one each at Revel Nov- gorod, Petersburg, Moscow, Jouslay and Kazen Soratof. Each of these sixteen corps counts 44,500 men, or, altogether, 712,000 men. There are further nine divisions of cavalry on a complete war footing and re- ceiving already war pay, close upon the frontiers towards Germany and Austria— namely, one each a Kovno, Wilna, Lomsha, Alexandrov and Tchenstock of looking to- ward Germany, and at Lublin, Samostye, Dubno and Kief looking toward Austria. The four divisions stationed at Romny, Tchovgovyef, Jelisavetgrad and Kishenef can be transported to the fron tier in a few days. These thirteen divisions count 3,600 horses each, or, altogether, 46,800. Each division is supplied with two batteries. The whole force ooneists, therefore, of 757,( 00 men, of which eight corps and nine divisions of horse, or 356,000 foot and 35,400 horse form the first line. Railroads with double tracks connect the second and third lines with the first—that is, they can be moved forward so rapidly that they can be in the encampment of the first line simultanously almost with the forward movement of the latter. Treacherous. A reporter for the Pall Mall Gazette re- cently conversed with Mr. Baralett, superin- tendent of the•London Zoological Gardens, about his experience with the hippopotamus. According to Mr. Barelett's account, this curious animal • makes an interesting .pet, although—as ii' the case with some human animals—its temper is rather uncertain. It would be straining a point to call it thin- skinned, since its skin is two inches or more thick, but there are times, to say the least, when it seems to be uncomfortably touchy. Obach, the first hippopotamus that came to the gardens, was presented by the Viceroy of Egypt in 1851. He died in 1879. For some reason or other the brute got attached to me. I believe it was because I talked to him whenever I saw him, We were the greatest of friends, and he was so docile that I used to ride on his back. In 1852, I was engaged in mounting a speci- men hippo for the Crystal Palace, and went into Obach's den to make some measure- ments. Thinking no et il, I was busy with my tape, when it suddenly slipped, and the brute turned around on me with a furious snort, gnashing his jaws fiercely. I rushed for my life, and escaped through the • rails ; the keeper, who was with me, did the same. •It was a very near thing, indeed, for both,of us. At present we nava only one hippopotamus here, -the daughter of Obach,—who was born in 1872. Well, one day a stray dog strolled casually intothe gardens andstopped before the rails of the hippo's outside en- closure. The day was warm, the pool was tempt- ing, so the dog wriggled through the rails and sprang into the water to his doom. The hippo rose to the surface, and, roaring, took the dog into her great jaws and crushed him to bits. Another marrow escape was that of a keep. er who came home to the gardens very late one stifling August night. He was slightly tipsy and very hob, to he stripped off his clothes and plunged into the pool. Unfor• tunately, the hippo was also in the pool, dozing away in the dark solitudes. The keeper of course, thought that he was locked up in a cage. He did not discover his mistake till his hands came in contact with the back of the huge am hibian. The hippo swam after the man, bun was not quick enough. The keeper just escaped, and when he wanted a bath afterward, he took it else- where. Had the brute got at him, only his mangled remains Would have been found to tell the tale, When our baby hippo was born the mother Was terribly savage, I was afraid she would kill herself and her baby as well. We vitae compelled to feed .them through the ventila- tor, and never dared to go into the house. HRS. BEECHER'S TALKS. If one were to faithfully investigate, we think it would be found that more than half the children who) in early childhood prove. unmanageable, and in later youth, are brought to this state through the parents' lack of union in family government, The mother complains that she would have no trouble in controlling the children if their father did not interfere. But if the ohild asks for food that she knewa is not best for. it to have, And so she refuses, the father at once exolaimef "Oh, let the child have it, I am cure it will do no harm ;" or, if she re- fuges to let it go out to. play in stormy weather) the. fatherr instantly says, " Non- sense ! Don't make a baby of the child. This weather will de no harm," and so on until at any refusal on her part the father is at Onceap ealed to, and the child aeon learns to refuse to obey its mother. On the other hand, perhaps it is the father whose government is interfered with by a foolishly indulgent mother, and he says, " I have a family of ohildron who, when quite young, were easily managed. But as they grow older their wants and wills increase and grow stronger, and occasional- ly natural perversity and wilfulness requires some restraint. But the mother's heart would shield her children from such re- straints as the father feels are necessary for their education and, future happiness. Her TENDERNESS WARPS HER JUDGMENT. and too often in speech and aotion she stands opposed. How far—for the future .well- being of our children, if she cannot control her words before them and the servants— am I to push my authority, as the father and head of the house, and insist upon her tiyielon ? ding to my judgment without opposi- Such questions, are often put to us, and, no doubt, to many others. The answer, on the spur of the moment, and without delibe- ration, seems comparatively easy. But careful reflection will show that, looking at it in all the many aspects which are needed to forma correct judgment, it is a very in- tricate and important subject, and that no rule can be given to meet the wants of all. The happiness of the family as a whole, and the future welfare of the children, de- mand that family government should be thoroughly united. Unfortunately, how- ever, we seldom see this to any great extent. Too ofteh the great causes of dissension and division are the children, who were given to be a bond of union. The mother, who has watched over them from their birth, if the father is stern, arbitrary and over -strict, naturally shrinks from the effects which such a course must have on their young and ten- der minds, feeling, and very correctly, that gentleness and love in almost all cases will soften the heart and secure obedience, while coldness and SEVERITY WILL PROVOKE REBELLION. On the other hand, perhaps, the father is loving and tender, yet firm, fully aware that injudicious and foolish indulgence will in the end work out, not " the peaceable fruits of righteousness," but for the children years of sorrow and sin, and for the parents wretchedness, tribulation and anguish. If the mother co-operates with a father whose constant thought is how to compass the best interests of their children, even though some restraint and self-denial will be necessary to secure it, the training of the family will be a labor of, love and mutual happiness. When both see eye to eye, seeking God's blessing on every step, they can rest assured that their children, thus led in the way they should go, will in mature age rise up and call them biesaed. But howseldom do we see this blessed union in family govern- ment? With so many examples, on the one hand which warn parents against over -indulgence, and on the otter encourage them in using all needed discipline, it is strange that they do not see and learn to avoid all disputes and discussions with reference to family gov- ernment in the presence of their children. They not only lose the respect of those who should naturally look to them for help and guidance; but, still worse, they do incal- culable injury to those whom they should love and protect, when, forgetting their children's best interests, and their solemn duty, they dispute and reoriminate when- ever a case of discipline is unavoidable, and dare to do so where their children and ser- vants can hear and see the whole shameful wrangle. It will nut take many specimens of divided counsels to complete the mischief begun by the first specimen. CHILDREN ARE QUICK OBSERVERS, and arrive at singularly correct conclusions. They soot learn which parent is the most ready to conceal their faults and overlook their shortcomings, and soon learn to turn to that ono for help to esoape punishment, or to secure the. gratification of a whim which the other has forbidden. And it is very sad to see how quickly they learn to care little, for . either parent, and that. love which is only given when their own demands are satisfied is purely- selfish, and of little value. .Aside from the loss of all true filial respect and affection, the moral character soon de- teriorates, and the child becomes stubborn and passionate. When the father com- mands, and the mother openly or privately bancols the injunction, or the mother prom- ises an indulgence, and . the father iorbida or revokes it, who can wonder if the spirit of revolt and bitterness is aroused ?-fortun- ate if it does not become hatred. No surer means can parents employ to destroy their children, oven if they were seeking to effect their ruin. But bad, cruel, as this is, it is not the worst feature in parental disagreement. The mischief does not end here. The par- ents themselves at length become ALIENATED AND SIMB1TBERED by such dissensions, leading sometimes to disputes and quarrels on all subjeota, and what can more effectually cultivate a child's selfishness, jealousy and mercenary nature than such exhibitions in those whom God ordained to be the ohildren's gaides and Meehan. Better far are early deaths than life and health for children that mast other- wise grow up under the malign influences of divided counsels ,between their parents. It is a very easy thing, and can be done without losing respect or love, for parents whose views on family government differ somewhat, to agree between themselves en some Compromise, but inthepredenee of their children or others, these differences should never be mentioned. .Sven if one parent unmistakeably misjudges, bettor by far to let the Mistake pass unnotioed than to dis- pute, or one parent interfere in the presence of the servants or the children. Usually, there is blame or some mistake on both sides. But, right or wrong, it is better that no die, puts should; arise, and that one should silent. ly yyieldthe point and let the other's de. ofelon prevail for the time being than to attempt to right the wrong in the presence of anyone—,particularly In that of their children. Ah, parents, if you truly love each other, it is not hard to do this ! It should be very sweet and easy when alone, kindly and unselfishly, to discuss the subject under consideration, it during such discussion the husband DISMISSES ALL IDSA or AnTII03ITY, That is an ugly word between husband and wife at all trines, and when endeavoring to settle a disputed point keep it as far out of sight as possible, Not once in a hundred, unless. where morality •r corrupt principles are involved, will the wife persist in having her own view of the question recognised, if her husband goes to this conference in the same spirit that influenced him whilewooing her, and speaks with the same gentleness. Words thus spoken will be like oil on the troubled waters, and bring both into closer and more harmonious union than commands can ever do. But when settling any disputed point with regard to the management of the children, the father should not forget that of ne- cessity during their early years the mother must have more to do with them, and can scarcely fail to better understand their separate peculiarities than he possibly can do. Ifabusiness, literary, orprofessionalman he cannot spend much time with them, often only at their meals, while the mother's life is largely theirs. She watches over them hourly. She p. °vides for their perpetually recurring wants. She naturally must have the care of their health and early habits ; the watching and weariness in times of sick - nese falls en her, and the toil of nursing them through the troublesomer fretful period of convalescence back to health and vigor. In the few hours his business permits the father to spend with hie family he may be able more clearly to see the weak points than the mother can do, who is always with them. He may see how at times she weak- ly yields to their caprices ; often too weary to be firm or resist importunity, she BECOMES THE SLAVE TO THEIR WILLS. This is the time when the husband's love and sympathy for his wife, the mother of his children, should be most truly manifest- ed, when by this very sympathy and kindli- ness he may prove whioh is the strongest, which the better able to be the true head of the house. But such weaknesses, from whatever cause they spring, no true, noble man will allude to before the little despots, but when alone, gently recognising that her cares are heavy and her patience great, will show his wife how such indulgence, so easily yielding to their importunities often because too tired to withstand them, will lay the foundation for a great deal of present trouble, and, perhaps for a wicked and ignoble future. If she has a common stock of good sense, and he, with unselfish desire for the good of all, does not seek by arrogant dictation to plane himself far above her, we cannot imagine a wife or mother who will not be strengthened, com- forted aed rested by her husband's sugges- tions, see the wisdom that prompted them and earnestly endeavor to make the necessity for such appeals or suggestions very in- frequent. If the mother, upon whom of necessity most of the care of the early life of their children must fall, be frivolous and self. indulgent, too weak and indolent to take up the cross of refusing childish and unreason- able importunities for the glory that shall crown her, when by her firmness her child- ren have become noble men and women then God help her who can thus lay the axe to the very root of all domestic happiness. For the husband and father to push his authority during the few hours he can be at home, when the children, always at home, are constantly exposed to such influences will do no good. It only increases the difficulty. There see•.ns but one way left to save the children. Remove them from home, as soon as old enough, and a weak mother's cruel indulgence, and place them in some school where health and morals may be carefully watched, but sufficiently strict to save them from the ruin of too great indulgence. 7 his is a hard task, and the proper school hard to find. But it can be done by careful research. Such a course has saved many children, whose parents, one or both, were too foolishly tender, or too cruelly indolent to control them in their early youth. MRs. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Brooklyn, Jan. 18. Some Advice to Boys. My son, you may not be missed a great deal by a very wide circle of people when you eiie. It won't be necessary for you to. leave much money for a tombstone. The few people who love you, who tenderly and dearly and truly love you, will know which mound covers your sleeping figure, and they can find it just by the ferns and grass- es that wave above it, and a monument ninety feet high won't make strangers love you, or make them remember you. You may not be missed a great deal by very many people when you die, my boy, but that ,isn't what you want to think about. You want to make yourself felt and noticed while you are here. That's what you want to do. And that is more than moat men do. Just run your eye over this paragraph again, if you have time, and think over it a little, while you are waiting for morning service to begin. Now and then you will meet a man who actually rejoices in a mean, .envious sort of way to think that in a few years his more popular, prosperous, succes- ful neighbor will be dead and forgotten. It may bo $true. The big, wide world is so busy with the living, that she does seem to forget her children when they fall asleep. But you will notice that that the neat who rejoices in this is usually a man whom she has forgotten while he yet lives; who is not noticed; who is not felt or heard in the world at all. Now, do you go ahead, my boy, and don't stop to wonder whether the world will remember you and miss you one hundred years from now --little you'll care for this Old World in a hundred years ; Heaven send it may be under your feet then—you just go ahead and make yourself felt now. When you aro gone the world will 'got along without you, my boy ; but while you aro here do you make it undet- stand that you are running part of this show yourself, if it nothing more than standing at the tent door and directing the people to pass to the right and move along in front of the wee. FARM. NQTES. Protect tender roses and planta:. Plenty of good fuel, remember. Fatten or sell the surplus stook. Extra feed for pigs and poultry. Protect fruit trees from the"nibblers.'r Guard grain against the rata and, ,sloe. Don't use the torturing cheek -rein. A clean, well.ventilated cellar. Milk for young pigs and ,calves should be fed warm. Farming land in Connecticut, except in the vicinity of cities, has not increased in value in the last thirty years. Where hens are not changed from one lo- cality to another, they will lay a great many more eggs in the course of a year. Even the active leghorns form an ,attachment to a certain place. If a farmer has plenty of patience, and is willing to give, close attention to details in the care of stock, he can make more money for food consumed from sheep than from any other stook. It ought to be settled beyond dispute that it pays to provide good shelter for all the stook on the farm. The surest plan, as far as possible, is to provide for this ahead of time when it may be wanted. The Wisconsin Dairymen's Association met at Ripon, January 25 to 27, inclusive. These meetings always attraot attention, not only in the state, but are attended by dairy- men from surrounding states. At the Ontario Agricultural College, an experiment in feeding eighteen head of store cattle with twelve pounds of hay, thirty-five pounds of turnips and nine pounds of. wheat bran per head daily, and also the same amount of hay .and roots but with different kinds of grain, resulted in the lowest post of production on the bran ration. The Maryland Farmer says that while thousands of dollars have been made in growing oranberries, large fortunes have been lost in similar ventures. Only the wealthier owners, who have expended vast sums of money•in improving and equipping their property, can calculate with any de- gree of certainty on a paying crop of fruit every year. There are no secrets in sheep raising. It has to be done by feeding. The sheep have to eat something, and that something has to be sweet feed, grass, grain, vegetables, fruit, or anything that is wholesome and nutritious, but must be abundant and un- failing. Weeds, brush and briars will keep sheep alive, but don't ask sheep to grow mutton on such pastures, no, nor wool. The Dairy Associations of the Scottish shires of Damfries•and -Wigton have decid- ed to make a joint endeavor to secure for next season the servioes of a first-class Can- adian instructor in cheese -making. This is a compliment to Canada ; but it will be a more particular compliment to Ontario, for it is to this province that the associations will look for their expert. It is not a little remarkable that the Dominion should be invited to instruct the Mother Land in cheese -making. The average cow, well oared for, says an agricultural writer, should make 200 pounds of butter a year—one of less capacity should not be tolerated—a good cow will make 300 - pounds a year. Wo will call three acres sufficient to keep one cow a year, which is a large estimate. Two acres should suffice;: in fact, Hiram Smith, the celebrated Wis- consin dairyman, comes pretty near keeping a cow on one acre. But two or even three - acres to one such cow as noted above will prove cow keeping to be a better business than can be done on any wheat land in the country, particularly when it is considered that in the cow business the farm is getting better and better every year, instead of poorer and poorer as in the wheat business. Between the North and South Forks of the Red River and the 100th degree of lon- gitude is an extensive range of fertile coun- try about 34 miles wide by 167 miles long, containing 3,687,360 acres. It is claimed by Texas under the name of Greer County, and by the United States as a part of the 'Indian Territory, and is also known as- " No Man's Land." Belonging definitely to no rerganized community, it is governed by no laws, and has long been the resort of - desperadoes of. all kinds. The land has never been sold by any proper authority,. and the thousands of settlers there—stock- men and ranchers—hold their possessions by squatter sovereignty. The President has just issued a proclamation warning all. persons whatever against selling or other- wise " disposing of any of said land or ex- ercising or attempting to exercise any au- thority over" it ; and also warning "all persons against purchasing any part of the territor=y from any person or persons whom- soever.' An enormous amount of fan d swindling has already been perpetrated by locating Texas land 'grants in 't Greer County," and selling the certificates to greenhorns, and this proclamation should, have been issued over two years ago. More than three years ago the Eye. Opener warn- ed rural readers against this fraud. Prince Ferdinand. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria looks upon his duties in a different way from his prede- cessor. Prince Alexander considered itreason. enough for abdicating that Russia insisted upon it, and he held that in so doing he was best serving Bulgaria. Prince Ferdinand would " rather leave his bones on the battle- field than abdicate," because this latter would be abandoning and ruining Bulgaria.. The present ruler possibly overestimates his personal importance to the principality, yet he has doubtless been of real value in fur- nishing to it a head,and thereby giving a head, and thereby giving a greater semb. lance of publio order and security, The re. port that the powers coutemplate a OM - bine(' boycotting or "blockade lof Bulgaria in case Ferdinand should not resign, al• though exceedingly doubtful, yet recalls the process made ready for refractory Greece when that little kingdom persisted, at great expense, in preparing to fight, There would probably be no difficulty in dieposing quiet- ly of Prince Ferdinand could the surround. ing powers only agree why they want a vacancy and for whom they want it. In the laok of such agreement, and of any com- mon notion what to do next, Prince Ferdin- and seems taju. stifled in holding his place, even if only as the man in posaesafoii,.... 11r.Y,7'im