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The Clinton New Era, 1880-06-10, Page 7'Y ; Menge In 31ise Niattis ere is God, nay Hat3r,wo givetb, wogs in bour of midnight 1:u .1 swept past, The eitYPell tolled he rnoon pad mink be1 4the clouds. No rustling inttni trc 1,1111 was silent fte Atalmemories er the t • •ILai ad banished sweet e1s. r far away, All'epoke of tears aild sn suddenly upon Rang out a sweet binct t wog, feeille, weak, tineertan, note, No plaint of grief or v, re ug, o 4Mieerore Domino No A Dies Iron %sad, ut 'Gloria in moons raug, In accents wild and ow could he sing, a biltii ug cagod, And the dark mous, rid then metheught that he had seen, Some vision from God's ihrone. ho 1lt10 birciling's eyeN wore bright, while mine wore chttqtl and dim, ad some bright watchpr glided by And spoke of joy to bird? Then 1 remembered wits t Christ mild, The God of Love's dear on. • No one of titesesman fnrds fOrgot Beneath the glorious film,' Whey have no load of grief to liear, Of sin, no deep dark, str in, • •tAnd yet in patience take thoir,share Of storm, and frostand rain. Oh, can it be unknown to us, Without ene human w,ra, The Universal Father seethes The des.t.hbed of each bird, "The whole Oreation groz,neth,' yet These pure things of the sky, Are they not 'nearer Vu''t0 gates' Than mortals such as ? 'Yet while I musod, it seemed some forte, Ere yet 1 was aWare, • .13ent e'er ray pillow, Oka myteexs, • And turned to song my prayer. .Some subtle presence unrovemod, Seemed to repeat the v. erds, 'Fear not, for you area& arer far Than many little bird.e.' do not ask what seemr,I. to speak, Whether the angel bhp t, Who bath been my appi.i.tted guard, In oaimer wlld unreht, Or whether seine sweet yule° Ilove,..- But hushed on me InVhile, ,Oome down on gentle minion sent , To ohange for tears, a smile. :Di:natters not, God know:, faith's wiliCa Droop sometimes in tle duet, Whilebands growmpud, and lose their hold On Hope's firm anchor trust, .And so while sending dew and rain,. And.glowing sunheadt I bright, , .God giveth unto those who hear • Songs iu the aarkest •-dDaulawar § .9441T1I-1P1 'Charles Reade, the novelist, is .about to lbeconge a Congregationai'miniater. Bishop Tozer has announced his inten- tion of resigning the.bishoprie pf Jamaica, principally on account of 111 health. , , The Bishop of Torento has licensed the •Bev. Edward Rainsford to be assistant agurate of the parish of St. Matthew and, St. „Baztholomew, Toronto, - ABan expression 4of thankfulness for •1111,pon Ryles appointment to the bishopric of -Liverpool, Mr. W. jones, of Warrington, has contributed the noble sum of 25,000 to the new bishopric. fund. • Mrs. Fraser, the venerable mother of the •Bishop Of illanchester; to whom he has • recorded himself as owing most of what he is, intellectually and morally, has just died ▪ of paralysie, at the itged nearly 90 years. • Rev. Nr. Alexander; ef NorVal, wits re- oently presented with a handsome time- piece by this Georgetown and Limehouse ••mngregetions, and Mrs. Alexander with a valuable -cake basket, .butter.- c.ocrler, -and • ,sugar hew'. ' • Ilev:Dr.'iltt, of ' the' 'P.retestant 'Epis- • copal Church, made a savage attack at a • nrissionairy meeting in SanFrancisco upon the pablio schools there. He denounced • ' them as Godless instithtionst. who the %oldest infidelity...was taught. •• . . The ancient University of St. Andrewe Scotland, is dependent. ehiefly• upon rotate ..flerived from, farms, and that sort of property has become go debreciatecl that it • • has been. theitglit neeesaary to reduce the .stipends, of the professoriate. • The next Protestant' EPiscopal General Contention will be asked to establish anew .missionary.diocese on. the Pacific coast, to he called the diocese 'of. Boise and 'Walks . and to include . parts of Gragan, 'Washington and Idaho Territories, • There are at present in connection With •the Canadian Presbyterian Church mission • in Formosa 2 hospitals, 20 chapels—erected .ohiefly by the people theinselves—with • natiVe , helpers in •each, p scheols,2,000 regtil,r attendants, 800 tomnannicant,s, 11 , ▪ elders, 5 deacons, and 2 Bible women. 31,1r. Spurgeon,•in an. adclresi on tracts the other evening, said that he knew a brother who had often taken a sermon of his and timed it into Gaelie. • Then he • turned it again into English and preaehed it as his ...h.vrna • It had passed through two • series, • And his brother: had, no doubt, a copyright .after having taken so mueh trouble withit. . . • Ritualism. is not only, a standing menace -tethe safety el Chureh of Englankllut .it is likewise an expensive laicury. The Churoh AssoCiation has within a few years • spent 9217,365' in trying to put -it down; 660;000 of Which has been (swallowed hp by: ,prosecuting Mr, lltaelconochie, and they have not done with him yet. • It was only in July, 1801, that an ,act was passed rendering • clergymen • in- eligible for seats in the British House of. Commons. In the preceding February tile Rev. JOhn Horne Tooke had, taken his Mat _for Old 'Sarum, which provoked the Clan. :ciil Dieability Bill. Now.adays divines an • declericalize themselves, and a quondam parson sitsin the ,present 'House of Com - The death is announced' of the Itira.,Wna.' Bowstead Ritherds jacobson, after a linger- ing illness. The deceased, who was a son of tho Bishop of Chester, graduated with • honors at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1664,, and from that time tilI 1877 labored Inces- santly aniong the poor in the East' End, - having been the founder of the Golden Lane Mission, England. It was hoped that a • long voyage would re-establish hie • health, but. he onlvrreturned to England t' die Mrs. Hamilton, widow of tho late Doan of Salisbury, hag just announced her inten- tion threaten the nerth perch of Salisbury •Pothedral, the complete restoration of which, ,itt an entire cost of £60,000 or 270,000, will thus soon bo accomplished: The Work in question 111101°3dg been centera. 'plated, but has leaged from want of funds. The porch is admired as a fine specimen of the early English stile of ehurch ritchitee- • tire. Mr. G. E. Street., R.A., is tb ba en- , trusted with the work. • ' • • About the poorest preparation for the • millennium that we havo recently noted is that of a New Hampshire clergyman who has devoted seven years of. time and 260 feet of ehart to Provo that tho blessed sea- rs Ron' will begin In September not year. Some people think the millennium ean be brought about - by mathematics. Lose figuring and more earnest living will hasten it. The duration of the world, Mya the Talmud, depends on three things—justice, •.truth and peace. • . At o meeting of the Baptist ministers of New York the other day, Rey. T. j. Conant, .of Brooklyn, read a paper ()tithe import - ranee of translating, and not transferring, Greek and Hebrew terms. In tho •sion Which followed the doetor created con- • siderable laughter by his answer to a 'question put concerning the preeisa mean. big of tho word baptism. Ile said the word lhad been tranaferred from the Greek, end. the religious donmaiationslusdinterpretedI' .it differently, Ile knew of no better way to show its eiract meaning than to give an' old Greek recipe for turnip salad: Peel the. turnips, out them in quarters Alia then baptize them in pickle, To baptise a Men, thoroteroi woaa won to Pot Mm la water . and letthe poor lellow drown, : The Rev. Francis jargitert, Pastor of the • Marshall Ores* Baptist chureli,Edinbingh, • died in that Mty oi the 7th inst., Ile. was in thelOth.year of his Me, and had been a olergyroan for 45 years. The deceased; gentleman avaa a native of Ediuburgh;and was educated in f he university of that city,. as well as at the Baptist College, now of Rie rat Charge. was Bowdon, Yorhshire,But at BorOughbrid.Torkshire. After re- ge, maining there several yeara he went to Cupar -Fife, where he isucceeded the late • Rev, Jonathan Watson, In 1846 Nr. John. •spent atop removed to Edinburghand organized the congreaation which now nets iu Marshall s4eet "oluttell; a tieiiiv eilffide iiiiielf was completed and opened about three years ago. •Vt., Somebody has taken the trouble to in- • veatigate and report that tho notorious Colonel 'Bob' Ingersoll is a plagiarist— that he has not mien. the poor credit of . . . originality in muoh of his blasphemous ribaldry. A Chicago journalist asserts that Ingersell'a ,;, Baying •that 'ba would go to hell with Lie reason, .rether than to heaven without it,' was etolee bodily ,from the writing of Baron Efolbaeh, a famous Rreneh freethinker of. the loot century, 'The system of nature ' appeared. to be a favbrite hunting ground ' for • the irtimessor of Moines Patna, and from that book he has cribbed 'two-thirds .of his • lecture on • "'Ghosts.' • In preparing his lecture on the 'Gods'—'which he -stated was the best one in the CoUrse-r- the Chicago man referred to avers that the blatant leoturer 'had searched -the alutne of •A •infidelwritings for Material,- His famoub aphorism, 'An lionest•Ged is the „noblest Work of man," was cribbed hem a work published in Loridonby -Charles Blount in 1663, and some of his most pungent and foul allusions to' Christianity and the clergy Were taken from a work so foul that its peblication. and ' circulation had- been •suppressed in its own Country—namely, ',The Lifeof the-Gedite-layEagene Baptiste Parney, a granchrnatt; - . .., ..•. 110= AND IFOREIGlirs • - , • M•Tiarearre is the originator of an im. • proved militarY projectile, a fire ball, for the pirposeitif throwing a strong light on the enemy's position in the night time, the principal object being to prevent the digging of trenches or the accomplishment of other militarY ePeratiette• Shortly after leaving the cannon the Lamarre.fire ball discharges' A light seth-eientlY bright, 4°4 lasting long enough', to Onahlt Onne JO be pointed at the works. The projectile •has also& grenade, which Miplodea after a certain time, thus keeping: the enemy away and preventing them hiterference with the light. A San Francisco letter sap.: " Leprosy is not uncommon here among Chinamen, it is not paraded, Some white men have it, reputed . to come from the Sand.- wiott Wm. -It is not centagious, The •Hawaiian .flovetninent • has for 16 years 1)00,000 a year in vain efforts to atainP it Mit. An island, is set apart for lepers', There! are 700 . at preeent insulatedancl guarded. About, 400 a year die, but neW, ones replace them. Many are hid "by • familiers and friends. Those in this city i estiape scrutiny. n emigrant ships from China. • They are . emploYed . in ' oigar. Making: • • An extraordinary robbery has taken place at Ballyfeard, eleven- mileit from Cork, On Thiuriclay night, week the police. left the police station on patrol, leaving only Sub-Constablo Fitzgerald in charge. After they left a Man Caine to Fitzgerald and said there was a murder committed on the road -near by, He ran out Of the bturtiock and iMmediately homes seized, bound and gagged by four then with blackened faces, Having - him secured,"-thily entered. the barracks:and took away 416, leaving the place on fire. • Dr. I. N. brown, of 'Laurel, Ohio, claims thittllie-distihet likeness of ti, • little girl's has been photographed by lightning. . . . . ..„ upon A window pane tri, that town, and that' the picture has been recognized by a Score of persons as the 6 -year old danghter. of Themes Rogers, who occupied the house in which the window is,. ..a, year and a half ago. ago. There are,. he says, -three . other pic-. on the same but no one has yet, . • - - pane,1,50,00. recognized them; anti there are.pietures on three other 'panes in the same Window. Washing and tubbing the. glasa 'does not • remove the pictures. • - . • • _ . ... • .--Therfit-,teba,OonfiiikriffairireektlitileL:, lowing remarkable, case: 'Mr. -Frederick- .Tyler, of this city, Who is now. a little -over 85 years old and • is in fair health and the best of spirits; can terneroberibeing a man 1 .a..bo • 1699 It - h' w to wa rn in . . .was is own grandfather, Mr.'Tyler, wile -was born in.' that year and lived Until 1f300, covering the . whole of the eighteenth .cmittiry with Lis . life. 'Mr. Frederick • TYler was about 5 , years old at the. time. of his grandfather's death and remembers the old gentleman . V erfeatly. Fot ti, man of to -day, 1889, to nave apersonal recollection Of -a person of the seventeenth century it3 at least remark- able: • . • •. . ,,, . . , . .., . , • .• ,. . , . At one time Latin quotations, and even . G • k • ' . - ' the " h . ree ones,. 'wore common in e sperm es. of the great -orators Of . the • House of Com- Mons:. its Pitt, 'Foe, - PulteneY i -now. the lass•ca Are a Meat dangerous ground to e } . ..., . tread - on, ,and. are only. occasionally ern. ••men of ackhowled ad' eat PloYe.d _ by, , , . . . . .,,„. .,„ 0 gr . .elassical acquitereents, 1 o k WiLdsto-ue and- t iff ' t• - • 1 ' 1* '• I-a:two. 'Disraeli's firs . :o or in t us me,. .13.n.an.erium • et ' libertes4,cameed. at least a plop -atilt exeiteinent, as neither. he norany one else could tell.where it came from. In. . the. Same way ..classic quotations., once eo common in the editorials . of- the Times and Other leadiii,,a .joinnale, are now almost •• . - •body. h ll b ' • ft d '' • ' ' • ' •' -w 9 y ants .e , •.... . . , . , As the writ ot • eitor...in the...case of 4: Thonaas Ca'stro, otherwise Arthur. 'Orton, iotherWise Sir .Charles Donghty .Tiehborne, barb., egt. the QUeen,'.. set ''dciv.in to be argued in :the cdurt or •appeils„ it West- ' • • minateros stilt some diatandedoivii-in the list it ,will 'not corns on, untathe next' term • of court. :. Consequent upon "the change' of • Government, the leading briefs on. behalf �f the. Crown•havebeen returned laYSir John Holker, QC.,. and • Sir Hardinge ' Gifford, .Q.C., and will how • be transferred to $in Henry' Jamea, .Q. 0„ and M. Forret •Ileraohell, Q. J. the -recently appoinfed. Attorney -General .. and .Solici.to-c4-eral .... . . respeetively., • • . . • , , . • . , •• VomenhaVe 'been -called aSpeeresses to the English Parliatnent. In the time of Henry III. and Edward L the -Abbesses of :Shaftesbury,. Berkink, St. •Maity • of Win- cheater and 'Wilton were summoned', andin the reign of Edward. III. the COuntesaea of be •Norfelk; Ornionde, - Alittch,.• Pembroke, 0.s.. ford "Ana:Athol , were summoned- and sp., peared.• • by' proxies. ';,,Wotrien • lieve• often • • takeu. an active part in eleetsraleampaigns. •Evetybody remembers •lioW the . beautiful Duchess.of. Devonshire, canvassed for Fox when lie. rota against, Lord Hood and• Sir • . il Wroa at •Westminster 1 ' 1 4 and sCec . ,, t a 78 ,. Lady Mandeville.- and -Lady Rams , , Ramsey can_ • Tease very active y or their,. tne, au s at d ' ' ' 1 f -• 1 b" d 'the last electionin England. . , _ . . . There • is 0116 inatance. �i • recota—and. only one..--ef it tinter repenting during his last illness,. and, meiVed by the .ekhortations Of. hie priestly Confessor, premising to re, store the vast sums of .money Which he had -unjustly acquired.. His daughters, hew. 'ever, heartless 'as the charming • Jessica, . daughter of Shyleek, begged hire, to do no... thing 'of. the kind. In vain the pear Man pleaded that in ease of his' not making re- stibutioli eternal .0M:omits awaited him. !Never mind, pairs,' oaid the Yenhg ladieg; ' thefirst quarter of an helix will. bo pain. ful, no doubt ; but yen have plenty of char- 'aster, a' d after a li tle time will et Used' , A . t, . , g to it.' .. . ' . ' ' •• , • - - Professor Newconib,•writing to the Tri- •buno .concerning: Schaeberle's comet, ;die= Covered' at'Ann Arbor, Micli,'• April 6th,' 'soya that the comet is growing fainter,and Will be lot in the gun's rays about'...3711ne 10th... It will emerge again about the raid- dlo -of July and„ will then.; grow brighter until October, tliongh. it fa not likely to be- oorae visible to the naked eye: Front jrity toil September it will 'only be visible an the east and after. midnight: During Oc- teber. and. Noveinber It will 'rise about 10 o'clock; It will, therefore, 'be ..rernarkable foralong period' of Visibility. The tale. Monts seem" to show, says Prof. Newcomb, that it is not identical with any ether previous knerrn comet. ., • , .- • . • The New York state fish .emichnissfeuere are adMeating the 'culture . of. carp. , The. experitnetita. at the.,' goVemintent ponds in Washington have been very successful, fish. that wore put in there three years ago haV-, big grown much 'argot than ha Europe tinder the same cireumitariees, :They are an easy fish to raise.. Any kind of a pond, (le matter how restricted, can be URA r 'd• g tl ' t tl e ot ' not too old roVi In IA, I Vir Or IS , 0 f oar ti thrive, ho Matter hoW impure it is. No natural water has been, found too warm for them They thrive on plants growing ' 1 ' :t boiled - - ff i nt t le ',rtor, ongrain, Or twen o a , A pond Maybe dug inarable land and'used fdt,thrail or four years as a tarp pond, after width' the land may bo again enitiVated. They are excellent •table fish.' • . • Six bleak envoys have arriVed in London froM Mt 'st, Teenerh of a wide r"egion n t n3 ar con inen o w lic - an ey . rt. 1 a k t• t f "1 • h St 1 Af ' cantle has go ranch to say inhis book. They Mine With the king'acomplithents to Queen Victoria, requostIng lair to express through her envoy hot Amin., itrt fer 4-.L.s• Arkin. nO - missionaries in his kingdom. They had also orders. to request a. SUpply of rum and rifles, and as an indneement to their re. quest being granted, to announce their master's wish to embrace the Christian re - _ ligioe• ProVided be: ill, •PoiVitte4 to retain. • the. worship of his, idols—the .great quikei the lord lion, and the strong elephant, Tim Queenwas ti)&4"audi°4°13 to the eixellveYe „wholitay at the Charing Cross Hotel, They have been visitors, at ' lihort's ' and other noted places, of refreshment at the Strand. A oolintri eorresPonaent asserts that 'it io a sin and a, shame to compel a tender youth to roll of he -along before day just because there is work to be done. There will be work for him to do when be has grown to manhood and .even on to old age If he is driven like a slave to an early teak hie life will be shortened and hie auni total of mefillness, • and happiness cut short, Farmere. are careful . not to begin to put their young horses to hard work until them belie is Well formed and their joints well knit by maturing age., They are afraid ff they work the colta Lard. they Will be stiff or strained, have puffed joints and be less useful animals. We bespeak 'the same tender consideration for Wyo. It is no evi- deuce that the boy is lazy because he is , hard to wake out sound eleep. It's rather evidencethat he 4 yielding to the demands of nature.' In the hall of th.e Reforin Club 011 any afternoon during the Heiden of Parlia,thent, says an Englishwritet,theremay generally be seen a figure which is certain. to attract attention even on the part of the stranger'. It is that of a man .of middle• height, bowed not 130 much with 'age as with workand trial, on whose thickset shoulders there is poised a massive . head, the pure white locks of - which are scantier now' than of yore: The-lineal:4114'4mm itseltare- sufficiently characteristic to deserve notice . . . even from the chance pariserhy;, but when the face With its marked features, Meat ,..,1mt tender eyes and clean chiseled,. mobile lips are seen no one, Can doubt that this sturdy. Englishman, who has passed the' prime of marihood, and upon whom the weight of years and of labors manifold has begun to tell's° heavily, is no ordinary per son. •Itt is John Bright. • ' A irtigig terininatiOn to• a'n amusing inci- dent. . • 't ' d . fewd . t was wi tiesse a aye . ago a '1)dithSegrbt-; Frartoez-'A--inairwitirit ..d.werg .beorarrivectinthe-evening, and-43egged-a. of a farmer for himself and his lodging . , .. . bharge. The beor was .aficordingly turned •intO tliepig.sty after the pig had been. re - • ' d t thshelter.I the middle move o ano er n , 1 of the night three' malefactor§ appeared on, th $ 'th the of te 1" g th e eene,wi . e intentiona a in . . e • farmer's pig. The' beat gave the Men a warm. reception, promptly flopriiig the two who ventnred into the Sty before they die- Covered the mibstittition • of the animals. -The, third 'robber was petrified With fright at the fate of Ins companions, but managed, .to shout for help„ and the farmer and bear- keeper were soon on the spet, They•found th ' fi t man quite dead ; the: second is e rs • still dangerously ill, and it is 'feared that the4igstealhig..adaenture-bee-destreyed. the reason of the .0.ther. 7 , • - • - : • : , . .. . . , , , .. •, .. ... , Figliting. the Afghans is not•very agree. . . able work, as t e•following inci ent shows: Lieut ThurloW and Limit id were riding . • XII • - - di:tin( to Jagdalak, three rritles..offone-after- b - t1 •th . li 't I' noon, when, a ou a mile rom e• , o a ,, they werefiredtintothy s., pattY. of Gliilzait •Thuttoviwitslai b n Y .tvlabuuillie.. =ill? tahel'aild lie neck an o_e_i , . d g t t • but- fell back dead., Bei spony0 ar e. off,t,. the, pulled Up and went back, getting . here juat as one of the-. Ghilzais Amite& at he t Th' flred t R 'd ' 1 tit t • is man rec a el • so c ose. a, .d ' ' heaof his sleeve Wete cut away an eic Mo , : .. his coat' and. jersey burnrot, 0 , ot . mg n hicrii N h''' b t• " pony shying at -the -bar 1 af._ the g.ineave hint. Ha turned round an New busIman s brains Tit with his revolver.' •:All.this time thitty or forty men were running down .. - . . . firing at•him, and, seeing at ur ow was ..• ' that Th . I • d d h 11 d off to J d .1 k d lute ea e ga ope o ag a a and g s�me .. .- gob some men, w o rou,g 1 e o y in. g_ h b' I t th' b d • ' • They The had nearly mai his bead off ;'other. .. wise e was. no much mu I a, e , . t y h • ' t'l t d. ' • • One of the most interesting of St. Peters- burg'holidaye is the breaking up 'of the ice inthe Neva. . It occurred this yearon Finn. day, April 181h, and was celebrated in the • usuo, ay. '1'w Genera/ Korseakoff. the cora- ' tho,nder of the Pefropavlovaky •Fert..that, atm& just Opposite the Winter Palace -On' the other side .of the NeVa,.Croatledtheriver iti 'a beantiful giltbotkaccomPanied by his staff in full uniform.: It.the middle ofthe • rivet drew a goblet of Water and carried it on a golden tray to the ezar, who; Bur, -heavy rounded witirthe highe.dt dignitaries of the. .fitate.,- received him in his. palace. Con-. gratulatingbitn en the return of spring, -the.comicander preemited to • the cza;r,Stlie' earthly miler of all •uasitin lailds and , . 131 t • - .. • ters• the goblet T1 e- czar drank the 70' • t . • • • . • • . •• • • Water amid the hearty' cheers. Of. the„ by- t d •fill d the emptiedgobbet th s an en, e e wi . geld .coins; and handed it back id the coin. mender: The latter then returned te. bis . ,fort, The granite•quay.:of the, Neviawits . thickly' covered With people eager to see the • ,ceremony.- . • On the:shine day hundreds of sinal). boats tnadetlieir iltat passage of the• yeltruca,rrying the .peoPle from 4431.16 side of the river to the etlierf--^-•, ' . ' • • • • •, inieinnTetieve, ptHlearetiPaoin:f097ritniCellseCiiiiierorpoirers beyond control it always ends in, absur• -ty , mid sometimesin the police court. Neu, for instance, have. been, known to Imager greedily after umbrelles-rnot merely fon one at a time, as in the case 91 the camp, an who laid the Anger of kleptomania eopidity upon a solitary ee.operative lindbrella—bub for buthela at atm°, whole sheaves of gingliaras. One Eddis,, dymg ii. few years age a paimer,wee . .foulid. Dos - Seased of a perfect wildernem of umbrella% hundreds of these being mere skeleton s. • from 'the raoth. and rust,' and hundreds more in every condition 9f mouldy, mush, roomy decay and 11XX small number in OX, • colleot Preservation! Row he eatne to own' so ManY no Orie knew, but there °Aube no. doubt that an exceptionally morhiAn form of umbrella hunger had seized upon him . and that the unhappy victim had spent his life and naetina in eironmventing the unwary . possessors of umbrellas , and annexing property. ' He had emission to: steal umbrellaa, andwith all thedoggedness. and clinninget a Ghaziho roarnedtheworld in quest of them -7-a, silent angel of death who:went about among men gathering in their gingliams and followed by impotent lamentation as by aalltidOW.!--14011den Telef.. graph. • „___ 1 . Francs /las sent over 0100,000 to relieve Om. suffering Irish, , . It jg eatiwated_thaa $20,00040 ere lest ---.,‘„, this country every year from paeume. o enteritis f the pig, or hog tholera. - - ge English railway contractorare having ' surveys made for ;a -railway from the coast of Morocco to the interior of Soncla.n, • , In aistilbiet d t h ni having ten is °co' =reword: and al, dished amordinglyr, 'The Black Crook,' as: performed in a Leadville theatre? lasts until 4 0"Olotar in morning- Bat ,drinks Are Bold between the mote, 'and thotai convivial interval:3 average an hour each, The will of Viscountees DungannOn• Widow of the third vitieennt, has been proved by Miss Letitia 'Arty Irvine, the D sister and sole executrix, the perronal estatanot reaching 470,000. • . :non Jelin. Thompson of Middlebury, returned -to his filthy hovel after a, pro- longed spree, his eight dogs, almoststarved, attacked him. It became necessary to kill all the doge before he could be rescued, and then he was torn from. head to feet. Of all the nation0 living under the. seep.- tre of the (3.0,e the jaws are the hest edu- irate& The proportion of Jews in Ruseia is. one Jew to everytwenty Russians; While. in the colleges the.proportion Of stlidente is One jeWish scholar to every six Russians. At a late meeting of. the, North .Thiblin Ti ''. .. nton, the clerk reaclan application from a man.narned Boppti-Dotnie for 'a pair of dancing tights and one danding cloth,' to enable him to earn. an honest • livelihood. The letter was Marked, 'read.' . . . , Mrs. Langtry ilallettrek,affEffie Dean in a London tableaux entertainnierit the other'• Sh - d 'b d lookingface evening. e is• esen. e as very lovely in her siiiiple blue aerge peat- mat andtaoket of flowered Print, her face. downeast, her fair hair flowing. ' • _ _ _ .. , _ .... _, The czar of icussza.is afroad,of Europe.a.t.a eiviliaation, and the Sultan of Turkey is afraid of that of Russia. Lately the Turk. • den ish GOvernthent has absolutely forbid . „ the importation into Turkey of any joyr- 'idled in Russia in the- Armenian nals pub , . language. . The following are the official statistics of German emigration:for' the filet three yeara-ii. In 1877. there -were-21,96A- emi. rants;gin 1878. the returns shit* 24,217 ; 1879 as -many as 33,327 Germans left ul - : t ''• d th' there ' • the calm ry, an . is'year ,ere promises to be an enormous increase.. •• - •• • • .. .• , Australians are beginning . to regard. the menacing increments of strength, Which the, Russian navy in the'Pacific is dailyreeeiv-• ing with some anxietyThe coloni, . M .sts at, if it .is Altogether .prudent to deter any -ri longer the attempt which. recently. wa made 0 solve- the problem 'of colonial de- fenee• • ; , . . • The engine of, the. train which went clown with the Tay bridge has been raised,. ' .en. and the reversing bat shows thatthe gineer had no time „to reverse his engine beforehatrent eVer, -Tito recent• evidence„ shows that'•the 'train and. bridge . fell to:, • g ether, •a,nd . before. the fernaer left" the Nara*: ' . • ..• . . . •: 'The British_ Otani at New Orlepte, Mr: peRetiblatinue,.:. reports,: with, special re- ferenCe to • togiish ' hardware and . the. American market, that 1-thebritish mann-, factuter errs in:running upthe cow �f -his productions by ' nrakingthena to list a; -life time, 'when • experience proves. that they, naay bo.supergeded in a, year or tWo." . Calmat '' e •-liti-htta for . Lieutenant- , 1. Stebl , w Many'Years beelia prominent memberef the Liverpool. ConserVative party, bee, an- notinced Ineintentien•ef resigning:his-seat in the. 'city .Couneil, haying el:lenge& his priliticialviews,land ,feeling con-vim:led. that '.if England is in. faun to Maintain 'her proud position' she 'must be 'governed .by men holding Liberal opinione.' • •• A typical. Beaton .girt is reported by a lately said: ' can friendly writer to have „ .I .. -go Without my spring bannet;ancl..weat my thick boats.. tap •into June; 1 can;ff•viven'Of must be, do . without a rim summer dreg§ ; but I•can't;_no I went jet . these ser4iliio concerts go' .by, . for they aro treasures iin boaren, and I ' grow an inch . in spirit every timej. go to one.'„ . . ' . - .. . ' The deethef C1olonel 11.,.A.•Gun• Cuiding-, • haine, D. L.-, &kik. place , at his theidericei, Newtownmounthennedy, Ireland, on Wed- nesdaY Week, after a abort illner3e,froth a, stroke :of paralysis.. The • deceased gen- tleman was 'Many „Yeara...,• milonel of the :Wicklow Artillery Militia,. and utrauccese fully.contested the county at.the laet.eleo- tion in the conservative interest: : . : Zela„the novella; liVeaslike a Bone:lie; , ei . .., . , tin locked into hie study, Mid never, an.. 'axing in .public:•-• His mode Of ivorkts a •very strttnge :,e,ge , It ''coneists. in taking . miasma§ of notes .on tho- class of Society he wished to paint; then, when -his notes . are. • put together,lie composes his novel, page. by page„ neVer •Casting, his eye over t . lie. backpages, end' thus.. writing. about .five a 'day with the ',utmost pare. • : • • ... . . Two sparrows have built a nest :and are raising a family inside the gong which ant E.Ounces , the denartnro'. of trams at Wil . haresport, Penn.. The gong is about 18s inelies in diamietet, and when struck by its hanimet hits a• deafening. ,seund, hut:not- withstanding its racket and the roar and rattle of engines and cats, the birds are un. moved, the Male, indeed, being frequently observed sitting upontheironlutoekerlteelf, Whiheit is Striking. • • • • . A Ohocking .fnurder and suicide .be,ve occurred -it' Thurtaston near Leicester. A , Davis• , ., . ,„ . - .. shepherd netted, Dlfeliowed his wife down stair and cut, her 1140046,ft erWards •inflicting a frightful gash oti his own, ,The Wounds were -so .very severe thatboth mea before :medical assistance- could he obtained'. • • : joalousy.is supposed to be the muse ef. the *rime. The parties were. only .therriod 'about Motor last. 'They, are bothahout.30 ,Yeal's of age. ',.• ,' , ' ' • . • John Gallogly, a carpenter, melding OP the Vey road, was • brutally and, it is be.' liOved, fatally a.ssaulted.at abaut half.pasb. 9 . on Tuesday ' evening Week, by bent g stabbed and beaten Whilst rettniting frern Dungannon, Ireland. Thoinjhrectman has reedived fourteen dangeroits Mid putletured • ^ w.,unds,any one Of •Arbicla Dr. Brown con- Riders sufficient to cauet death, and lies in it very precarious state. The police have sheeeedect in artesting three•yonng men. •• A Seotoli peer, Who has not the 'good. for. tune ta be one b'f the representative. peers 'BMA to tit° rfoUSO of • Lords, is in it very strange position. HO does not sit in the House of Lords. Ho is forbidden by la,w to 'SA in the House:of Commons. He cannot even veto for it.meiriber of parliament.. He is, in fad, politically fiitifratiehised b 0 . , ecau e he is a peer, In fact, idiots, "%ripen, felons and .8cotch peers aro proeisely in tlie• seine 'category as far as politics are concerned. ' • The feature of the Royal Aencleiny.Ex, hibition of 1880,311 Lon'clon, is Jolin Bright's portrait, by. Millais, hung -en the sMTIO . southern wall where the- memorable: pre- smitment ot W. F. Gladstone last year-ap. neared: Last year there was a &tura Pt Bright also in the t' f t to tl ehibititi,bttt it wasnob so. is :a° ory le o y o gen onion W 0 tl - h ordered. it.. The performance, though.full tif able handling, was liep,vy and spiritless. Mr; Millais' portrait ig alive,' but the life is !ono of. quiet. dignity, • ' ' • Musical nue Taraninste, • . Companini• Will [sail fpr ngland next Thursday. Fred. G. Berger will 'be interested in • , . thr cl• t* t ee is inc amusement enterprises next season. . " 0,10 Bull and M• T1 • b t. E . . Miss tura y. go o urope very soon. • •The lady has engagements • in . Englond and en the continent.• -• • • . •-• •mr- . t:•*:-.17...,If.--f13--F-i-- •-- l'i .• ai---- - . 7. • oo, , o , s On, W OSO „ 04! matzo reputation begin with the" Mighty • Doll r 'is .a. to b I' ' 1 f Mi ' 16,temi• las.al own Inge, p ay or , ss • '''. - ' Kate Claxton, after a' season of hard -work, has made 635,000, Ferepaugh's eh - cud Showed acweek in Pittsburg and vicin- ity and took awat&between ' tto,00g Ana . . •. . . Mr. and 14 -Us. N.- 0, - Goodwin, .. (Eliza. , , _ Weatherdby) and Miss Jenny, Weathereby , will sail. fot Europe jilne 22nd. - re.- oo win temains-wt RI G d •• ,. ' '' - *th-• .h r -f 'I •' • ' • - ' '• - • . '. - • -• -• • - avec emit A.et, ' • Mrora, the•Ohristian Guardian.). • The temperance: men of Canada should markthe members of -the House of- COM- Mons Who voted for Mr, Boultheesii amend- ment to the Scott Aet. As the act mew .stands, only a majority of the votes cast at the olling irequired to moure the aclop- pg don of the law, which cannot be aubmitted . before the signatures of, one-feurth of all the electors ira the in-unktipality have been- obtained. AIL laws of the same character as' this, as regarda the power to repeal, come . into force upon • a. majority vote.. The amendmentintroduaed by Mr.Boultbeeand passed by the Hou of of Cemmons, provided that a majority of ,all thavoters on the tells, .shOuld bitnecesSaryto the adoption of the. iicf. This Was a directblow at the °Moloney Of the act. 'It was intended' tit render ths. eat .unatrailable, as it rnectir•aesuredly wonld. have% done .. -If Weara.:.th 'judge from ;the VA.: itwould be.: almost ...impeogible .te: secure Such a majcuitY.A4 the Globe pointa out the 'intact of. voters., who- refrained from casting their votesetthe last 'general' election,. 'when the tOtal vote. cast was ••tin... usually -large,. exeeeded the' difference ..be-.. ,tween the majority..and,.. minority vote, in every. electeral ;division of. Ontario. In• ,sorcie ridings the.refraihers outniainliered •thetotal.vote cast of' the unsuccessful tan- .didate, in Others the total vote Of the ..sue-;. cessful candidate; and in' one the tOtal.vOte • for b.oth.:. There • is no reason why the' aotii,e . Majority. should:not •detaide thie . , . matter as ivelkas any -Other, except it be the - strong : desire of .. . the' i• 'liver men • to. make .. its ... passage ina.. • posinble: Those who Maintain silence on .anyquestion are .alwaYs. counted as. giving liseent to the action' of 'the majority who • spook, and there is nothing in a locaroption law to make any other course necessary. ,The.proviaion. Which reqnires thesignatuth of so largo a proportion of the voters to the requisition is a stifficienfeafeguard against au unWattatitable.subniission of the • atit. :We are eiNpriaed :that a • majority of the •.House could give their`votein favorer this batefaeed attempt to destroy the .velue of .an Mit ee fullyandothed by thepublie Senti,.., moat; -Let the friends of .teinperence r& member this vote.' Thanks .:te the effoits of .our friends in the. Senate, the amend- :ment waethrown out by that body. ..Mr. Ross „movedthethree menthe' hoist in the Commons, but it was, -voted down... ,^ I • . , , . e anal . , • y— ..1ki-Lendon...ene .year, . on . account, of her, heelth. • , . VanityPair• 'It • ' atrange f t ' says .. is a a range. a° 'that an Amenean actress should sticeeed- where Simla Bernhardt haw ,jtist 'failed,' 'and speaks strongly of the prize, the Eng. lish stage posseases . in Miss Genevieve Ward, who played here sometime ago, -. In the. prOduction of 'Pinafore ' in, ., -•% Petersburg the parrafiliitterdup is takeilir by Milo: Barbara; Parnunovna Kossiackvaii, kaji. Just think, if she should forget her - self mild sing, '' I'm; sweet little Barbara . Parnunovna Bossiackva,skajie We wouldn't • blame the Nihilists it .. they blew up the tin:lateen the spot.. . • • . .. • ' ..) • . -:---4,----,-.--.--:-..•-•:•ii-i-,------•—• ' • Adv. • *Mug. • .. ' '. '. . . .' The lactkof advertieing ii.one'of the chief •• . . ••. . causes. of •• busniesa failures. :Theta are:. , . • business men -whothe . - • •• don'tunderstand th •volueof advertising, They'd°, not -see the. .!, . • . • . : . ..• . - .• . . .. • direot eonnection :between advertieing,,and ; the entranceof a 'customer,. petite. dernand .: . • • fferalypitttienitir article. They, 'alSO with • .. 'a self-impOrtanceWhich'is • amusing; fancy : . • their, businesses are known to. the whole • community,' changing -OS thetoemmunity is •WI an extent:which theY have no conception , — - .... , . 1 1 ' • ' II' h" business''" o . . Tile princip e upon .w ic , ,. . • : . • .. men should. act is, advertise, and aclverti§e. ' thetruth. If' yen nave o goad thing let the : • . nebple know it. .Furtherraore, never let an -.--- _,..,,..4,„,__;eit, r get stale.-11donetary, Times. e4.1.ve'ro.eem . .. ...,......:,_;.....7. .... ,. ‘ ... .. , _ • .. -• ADA.— o i • • • Cei. . .• Th' -liotiei ' ki•OnSE-BREEPL G ni . • . trade 'generally 'is one in Whiala ..Canida, • ' with ordinary preseience ought to have a. . . . . , .: . largo share. -She has proved her capability . . . to nredtice first Clans anithals of the lighter • .. • --kinds • and there. IS lie 'good reason *by •:she sliould not a/so prelim:to the, heavy and . . t; powerful class of horse required for the". tremendous -traffic of Lrierpool, - Mart--• • . cheater, London', and other litr,go • centres., • . Ibis ho eless however to expeafteprodUce .:- V ' • • ' • - . - • • • the very best. class—and none but the best . . - , . • h h . • .E .1 d seem to nave much •c once in ng an — withont.a. thorotighly,gOod stock to. breed",_ . . '" m I am, thereforeVery pleased tenote '.. • .y .. that Canedians have reeentlbeen pur- . . . • , chasing :first . rate Clydesdale and othet .• , - Sires. very • freely. Noticeable amongst them • is the - prize -Winning ..!' Sir • - •William Wallaem1 Which has iatelybecorne • the: property of Messra.A:l it; 11,• .Wells,of . Aurora, Out: Abent a. dozen other flist : .'• class' Clydesdale Stallions: have ale3 been • . sentout. • ..; ' - '• . • • . • .. .., - • .. .. . •, , On Wednesday. four new bishops were • • elected et the .General Conference of the Methodist•Einscopel. Church, now in Sea - sion in Cincinnati,. ' These are the Rev. H, .. - . . W.Werren; D. D., pastor Of achurchin• Philadelphia; the Rev. Dr. 'Hurst, presi- dent of Drew .Theoltigical 'Seminary," New . 5:mm337.i:the Rev. Dr. Foss, president , of ,Wesleyan Univetsity, Middlebury; Cenn., and Rev. . 0.11a,ven, D. D., chancellor.of • 'Syracuse Univeraity,. '•,, - ' • ,, ••., Less than fifty.years ago a newspaper in .e45 . • ' • nngland Mast a year. The . paperon which itwas printed was taxed, so werithe • • r.; advertisements and so wathe newspaper •ithelf when completed. Cheapapots vier§ • p impossible and-all•nowspapers were eXcluf. ' • 'sively the' luxuty:•pf the rich -who' alone could affOrd 0 pay far them. ' . • , . '. .,. ' • Master'Freddy (from Ettin)-L-AWhatleta . • . • . d • 1.' 'Grandpa • or energy you've got, gran • pa . (With dumbbells.)—' Pretty, well; my 'boy,. for roy• time of ;life: • Master Freddy . (languidly)--•' Oh hilt energy's Mich awfly • bad fotin, you know!' • . :• .. . ... 1. .. ;.A. a- Covory of Rotten pavemonta has just . 8 d t Brachia • - tl i I f Dosu Ma a a .g, in. le Isbe oWight, • several tessolated floors hevingbeenbrought - • „a, lig it wee ; among ie, au je s aro , 1:this' . 'k - tl - " b' -et • to Biscohie - scene • a combat, and. gem - .1, • d . . •'' - . . ••. oat od omens. .°."- --1°'• - .. "'.. . • • • , A newripaper poeb sings, ' In the "-noon- . tide let me doe.' Alia Ive don't StippoSe Ono . . Omen. in fivehundred thousand will inter-; : Pogo' all.ohjection; .Provided lie ,setects. the next noontide that coined along. lliiriliigan has ...one Of Bonaparte's old • Soldiers, a Saxon, who is very old now ,and is tailed a Irtore baby, But When • he„ in rollSOd' frOnl 14, nap ho 01.'01910a% 'vivo l'Emporeurt ' and pos. to Eiloop again. . . An.Minois paper in 'describing the late tornado, says : 'A white dog, while.at- totnpting to weather the. gale, was 'caught . big mouth open and turned completely . • inside out.' . • • TheLendon Timea of April 80th Chtorti. cies the first introduction in London of the ' street fire alarm sys ern, which for years t ' " ' has boon so .ceromon among US. A Itactomo Tliat.:-.4oretny ,(who has just _ , p a e on — o o o a e been o ar t a ) . 1 M an t b - a ntid 1 - -I grow up ' Aunt Annie—AW14 w low, . , , dear?' Tignaniy—' To haVo revenge:. - . To describing a, now organ a rnrol. editor' • says, I Te swell dig away in a delitgieui suffocation, like one singing a• ilWeet sOng 1 , inticlor the • b0aet ot les., s-1,• flonie people put stobaings on thdit honk • to 'keep them from watching, but a better , -r— - ,.- . ...t...,•., i Li.-:-. . • . ' ' • . , • • ' A, Lady -Whirty , litonirs in um Water. • • - 'wren). theLondobstandatd,) • • ' ' • Miss Beckwith on Saturcloy. night, at 10 o'clock, in the „presence of a numerous -coin- • panY Of spectators, successfully tetnithated her 30 .hOurs' c,butinuOus swim in the whale 'tank -cif the R . oyal Aquarium • at 'We'st... Minister. BY so doing she- has edipsed all her p,revious achietementain the -Water and. proved herself to posseselpowers of eziaurance which, despite what. has - been :sworn- :•plialied•:by. Captain Webb, 'would' still be. . considered remarkable in a Man, andreost .thniarkabie, • indeed, . in .the case. ef - a slight, graceful • girl, -tib yet out -Of het • teens. According to tha Conditions of her self-imposed task, Miss •.Beckwith Was :allowed to leave: the .water fin! :halt au • hour in the thirty tents if • she no re- • • qthred, but froth the tinie she dived into the tank - at 4 o'cloCk on Friday afternoon; ' 'up to the. time elle left her place df ingnier- ' , moll, at 10 o'clock on Saturday night,, she never elbirned that indulgence. Unlike Capt. Webb, who diving the progress,of. his 60 hors' With at the Aqua,nuria, adopt. ed generally it MOW stroke, and frequently iloatod .15. ,a recumbent. position, miss Beckwith:used a, onicker ' malted.' of , pro . (cession, and varied the monotony Of her proceedings • by .iieveral - displays of clever . evolutions. It • iyaa • • as re- freahing as it Was4.; interesting : . to witnesa this. grateful young ' blaktd? 'clad in her Mistime du boat , of .131o,ek silk, trintmed with crimson, disporting herself . . in her aqueons abode; 'when ewiroming, otrikingswiftly round.the tatilt; at. iiCat1a- Ones waltzing on the waton'aucl at others g. h propelling. foot &St, on ite' Sur- faco! During 'the Whole tithe elle stayed there .she enjoyed eXaonent health and spirits. The artificial 'sea.wator VMS kept generally • at • • a tenipera- turo of, 806 ita dePth being six feet. nor diet was of the lighte t kind,: s- :consisting principally Of nth:teed steak, ill- leted 'soles, Jelliea, beef -tea, egge anci oeffee, When she 'left the water, at 10 'eselook, having beertimmersed for ,80. consecutive hours she was enthusiastically cheeted, belly/ 'then as fresh and .woll ' as When she t:' . entored.it the 'day before. , • : . ! ' ' The firemen ., in New York'. are now equipped with burglars' tools, except such tools as are' requited for safe-breakin The objectls to enable:the firementeMilko the most rapidentty possible throtigh doete -and windows of houses, When -they. are - eallekto use their ;apparatus for the ex-' tination of fire • • • • • • • •• • • . ; . . . • . • . . . , • STANDII4G-140 Nonssass,--'Arty-' now ,' ' (the weather was WHO) 0,114: they.luidwaiked. Over from 'Anurieramith) 'bring us a bottle o' .ollampagne, waiter.'. Waitet-,' Tessir; dry, sir?,' 'Arty, Caughtily; .to pitt it'stoP„ to this familiarity at.•onci3)." Never yen mincl, Whether • We're . dry. or Whether .we ...a.in.'1,1 Bring.the wine l' .. : .. • • •• ' there.,'• said Jones, trinmphattly. hold-.. ing up nio egg at, the breakfast' table, ' I Waif always told I wanted chic,', a,nd• now I've ,got it:' A- sinile perarribulated the. table, as a Matter of course, and.: the young man ntlio•in studyihg netball laughed im- moderately after -the • .joke . had been thordughly explained to him. , . ,. '• Ong Crun.—Metoboi(bureting into card. •rboth, it a. ni.).`..`‘ Oh, waiter, have you -4 fancy. last niknt 1 rilusb have dropped a fl' - ' Waiter---' Hero itisoir, 'sizif- pound. 'lar thing, sir...-I•see • it •thider the tab o 'directly I come into the room! ' 'Lucky 1 get here .ftist befori3 tiny o' the members, -gt. p. • • . • tike . h ' the muds upon the seas ore, . Flyer shifting withAlie waves, •'with . SO some men are, ever changing, . Prom their cradles to their grams. Othera, like tho,reclis of moan, Stand unnioVed by wind and, titOtIII, Clinging to ti.iiingle purposa, . . •• • .n Formed the daythoirinindo were bet . A /Lamm —TScerie a country inn.) _..., ... ..e an 1 The 'es Tourist-'-'Uonfotind t litypnic _ ,_ t 'chick in this age 14 ndlady—rWell, sir, A , Otto! rt a ow wee cs 1 1 - 1 • f 1 I .Yon Om a ac c3' con:U.111We had half it crown for that fowl, ' and • 'bre. you. get it for -ttiepenceP EAnd `otill ho was not gotisfiedll-aourny Folks. ,n ti ns•asiti'' says Minim& Tates 'is n 1 1 I . . s . a, 'good thing; but if the air is charged too heavily ot exeinsively with it it beeolnea oppressive. It is like electricity and must Inr.r.sitnn in •inAininnnin Innilninin Ann.& Y - . Dania' Conroy, of nme, crazed bythe•18, 16, 14' puzzle,. Alia tolearied from asytuth restored, went crazy at the - Erie cathedral on Sunday iti the midst of aolemn high mass,throwitig his hat high and ehouting th at ha was Daniel in the lion's den . .- Tit 1878 alte,rlights were lit in 41 tondon Anglican churehes.; in 1879 only in 13. Incense is noW burned in only 13. :