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VOLUME IX.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1874.
NUMBER 18.
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EPITOME OF 'THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telegrams of Accompanying Datei
Honda y, Feb. 16. Taylor's pantechni
ton ana extensive furniture establishment
in London, covering an acre of ground, M as
recently destroyed by fire. The total loss, in
cluding the contents of the burned structure,
tongues oi pictures, mirrors, 500 carriages,
ana a. vast amount or other goods of various
kinds, is estimated at $15,000,000. Five
houses and several large stables ad
jaeem were partially destroyed. There
were a number of accidents and two
firemen were killed. The building alone was
insured for 1,000,000 A Madrid dispatch
says the National troops have defeated a band of
2,000 Carlists before Tolusa, and rcvictualed the
city The Firet Reformed Episcopal Church
of New- York has been organized by Bishop
Cummins. The Bishop announces that
two churches in Philadelphia and one in
Brooklyn are soon to be added to his charge.
1 lie latest news from the Western front
ler indicates au extensive Indian war. Further
outrages are reported. A Cheyenne (W. T.)
dispatch says: "A war i3 inevitable between
here and the Sioux Indian reservation. The
country is rolling at.d fine grazing, and there
are not less than 50,000 head of cattle there,
but we would rather have war than peace
when we are robbed and murdered with im
punity." The .Mississippi Senate has de
feated the House resolution requesting Sena
tor Alcorn to resign.
I uesdat, February 17. A dispatch
from Key West, Fla., states that news is re
ceived there that 7,000 volunteers have taken
possession of Havana, Cuba, and the Captain-
Oeneial nas been compelled to take refuge on
Hoard tuo Iron-clad Arapiles At a recent
dinner given to his royal visitors by the Czar
of Kussia Le said in a speech that
"The Emperor of Germany, the Queen
of EDgland, the Emperor of Austria
and myself will preserve the peace of the
world.". . ..The Gladstone .Ministry resolved on
the 10th to resign in a body, and Mr. Glad
stone started immediately for Windsor to con
vey the information to the Queen.... A Madrid
telegram says the Sparish Government has
oOieially notified all foreign pewers that it has
blockaded all the northern ports of Spain....
President Grant has ordered that the Court
of Inquiry in the case of Geu. O. O. Howard
be composed of Gens. Sherman, McDowell,
l'ope, Meigs and Cole, with Maj. A. B. Gard
ner as Judge Advocate. The court will meet
in Washington on the 3d of March By the
falling of the ice building in Philadelphia
twelve men were killed, six seriously and
eighteen slightly injured A bill has
been passed by the Illinois Legis
lature, and signed by the Governor, giving up
the dead bodies of unclaimed paupers and
criminals in Chicago for dissection In the
town of Lake, near- Chicago, a few mornings
ago, a family consisting of Mrs. David
Thompson, her four children and a nurse
woman were found in a pitiable condition
by a neighbor, two cf the children being
dead, and the mother, the two remaining chil
dren and the nurse in a semi-conscious state.
It was thought the family had either been
poisoned or were suffering from the effects of
noxious gases from a coal stove in the room.
One of the remaining children has since died.
Mr. Thompson was absent from home at the
time of the tragic occurrence.
"Wednesday, February 19. A late ar
rival from Honolulu brings intelligence of the
death on the 3d of the Hawaiian King,
Lunalilo. The Legislature had been called to
gether to consider t?iate affairs and to name a
successor. ... A London dispatch says that Dr.
Beke, tlie English traveler, reports that he has
discovered the true Mount Sinai. It is situ
ated one day's journey northwest of the vil
lage of Ahata, iu Arabia, at an altitude of
5,000 feet above the level of the sea. Dr.
Beke says that he found the remains of animals
that had been sacrificed. He also discovered
Sinuitie inscriptions which he copied. .. .The
autopsy in the case of the Siamese twins has
been concluded at Philadelphia, and shows
that Chang and Eng were so vitally united
that death would have followed any attempt
to separate thern during life. The membrane
which lines the abdomen was one in
both, extending through the mysterious
ligament that bound them together. Thia
ligament was also connected with the liver
and the heart of each The Philadelphia
municipal election occurred on the 17th. The
returns received up to midnight indicated that
Stokely (Hep.) had been re-elected by about
10,000 majority. In Pittsburgh the Republi
cans elected their ticket by from 1,000 to 1,800
majority. In Allegheny City the Inde
pendent Republican ticket was elected. In
Altoona, Wilkesbarre, Williamsport and
Allentown the Democrats carried the day, and
in Eastou the Republicans were successful.
The Democrats of Syracuse, N. Y., elected
their Mayor.... The State Grange of Ohio met
at Xenia on the 17th. There were present 555
delegates, all Masters of Granges. Worthy
MasterS. II. Ellis presided. One hundred and
fifty visiting members were present. The
Secretary reported that 555 of the COO Granges
in the State had been organized since last
April. A motion to make the meet
ings open was voted down.... The Chi
cago Jntcr-Orcan of a recent date
6ays the firm of George B. Hodge A Co., pro
prietors of what has been advertised as the
Union Furnishing Store, were bankrupt, and
their stock was in the hands of the officers of
the law ; that they had been missing for a
week, and that the express companies and
l'ostoffice authorities were retaining all pack
ages and letters addressed to the Union Fur
nishing Company, for ultimate return to the
eenders.
Thursday, February 19. The London
Time of the ISth says the final result of the
election may be exactly stated as follows:
Conservatives returned, 351; Liberals and
Ilotne-rulers, 303. Of these 406 were elected
af'er a contest. The total number of votes
polled in the United Kingdom and Ireland
was 2,500,000 Disraeli has been ten
dered and has formally accepted the
Premiership of Great Britain The
Rev. Robert Moffat, the celebrated En
glish missionary to South Africa, is still in
doubt as to the correctness of the report of
Dr. Livingstone's death.... At a recent mass
meeting in Chicago the saloon-keepers of the
city unanimously declared they would not
pay the recent advance in the price of beer
(the brewers having advanced the rates to
twelve dollars per barrel), but that they
would import from other cities.... The
first annual session of the State Grange
of Missouri met at Booneville on the ISth.
Nearly every county in the State was repre
sented. The State Grange organized last
May, with 300 subordinate Granges, since
when their numlier has increased to over 1,
700. Master T. R. Allen delivered a long ad
dress, in which he gave the history of the
Order in Missouri, aid made many suggestions
looking to the perfection of the organization
in the State, and touching the growth and
future prosperity of the Order The Ohio
State Grange on the ISth unanimously passed
a resolution tendering the sympathy and aid
of the Order in Ohio to the women of the
State in putting down the evil of intemper
ance. Columbus was chosen as the place of
holding the next meeting of the State Grange.
All the amendments proposed by the National
Grange, except items first and second of
number three, concerning life members, wee
adopted.
Friday, Feb. 20. A Madrid dispatch
announces the capitulation of Bilboa to the
Carlists The United States isteamer Dis
patch has started from Key West for Havana.
in consequence of reports that Consul-General
Hall has been obliged to fly from a Spanish mob
and take refuge on board of a British iron-clad.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture has
decided to locate the 8tate fair at Columbus
for the next five years The Kansas State
Grange commenced its annual session at
Topeka on the ISth. One thousand Granges
were represented. The reports of the officers
show the affairs of the Order to be in
au excellent condition, although but a
small amount remains in the treas
ury. The financial interests pre shown
to have been economically managed, and the
State Business Agency is on a satisfactory
basis. On the 19th resolutions were adopted
requesting the State Legislature to pass a pro
hibitory liquor la w,and declaring that no person
who retails liquor shall be admitted to the
Order; also declaring that the greatest good
and the highest happiness of au enlightened,
virtuous and prosperous people are the legiti
mate results of thorough and practical educa
tion diffused among the masses. Hon. M. E.
Hudson was elected Master of the State
Grange.... The State Grange of Tennessee
assembled at Gallatin on the 18th in its first
annual session. Nearly 500 subordinate
Granges were represented, there being between
500 and 000 delegates present, many of them
ladies.
Saturday, February 21. A London tel
egram gives the following official announce
ment of the new British Cabinet: First Lord
of the Treasury, Disraeli; Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northcote; First Lord
of the Admiralty, George Ward Hunt; Secre
tary of State for the Home Department,
Richard Assheton Cross; Secretary of
State for the .foreign Department, Earl
Derby; Secretary of State for the Colonial
Department, Earl Carnarvon; Secretary of
State for War, Gathorne Hardy; Secretary
of State for India, Marquis Salisbury; Lord
High Chancellor, Lord Cairns; Lord of the
Privy Seal, Earl Malmsbury; Lord Presi
dent of the Council, Duke of Richmond ; Lord
John Manners, Postmaster-General.... The
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
has decided that, under the Constitution, a
woman can be a member of a School Commit
tee The Ohio Constitutional Convention
has given the Governor veto power, subject to
reversal by a two-thirds vote of the Gen
eral Assembly.... The Executive Commit
tee of the Illinois State Grange have
issued a call for a delegate meeting
of the Granges in the State to be
held at Bloomington on the 14th day of April
next, to ratify some amendments to the by
laws in reference to organizing county
Granges.... The Ohio and Missouri State
Granges have adopted declarations of princi
ples, each Grange fully indorsing the princi
ples set forth by the late National Grange at
St. Louis.
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Monday, February 16. Senate. Me
morials and petitious were presented from the
officer of the National Banks of Massachusetts
and Rhode Inland, protesting against the parage
of a bill for the withdrawal of currency from New
England ; from colored citizens, asking mat tne
Government detail a vessel to carry them to Libe
ria and brine back produce, and also asking the aid
of the Government for the construction of a railroad
into the interior of Liberia; from the Illinois Leg
islature, citizens of Chicago and others, asking
for an increase in the volume of the currency.
The joint resolution of the Iowa Legislature, ask
ing for an appropriation for the improvement of
r ox and lsconsm lovers, was presented ana re
ferred A bill was introduced and referred to re
vive and continue in force certain land grants in
the State of Minnesota to aid In the con
struction of the St. Paul fc Pacific Railway.
The bill to equalize the currency was taken
mi and a substitute was offered for the
committee's bill repealing all the acts of Congress
which limit or restrict the amount or notes lor
circulation, providing that all associations organ
ized to carry on banking shall be free to establish
Naiional Banks with circulation, subject to all the
imitations now provided by law, except the limit
of capital, which is hereby repealed ; after con
siderable debate on this proposition, a motion
was made and discussed to recommit the bill to
the Finance Committee.... Adjourned.
House. Among the bills introduced
were to abolish the navy yards at Kitlery, Charles-
town. New London and Washington ; to increase
taxation on whisky ; to abolish the revenue marine
service; to abolLh certain custom houses, and to
discharge useless officers; to revive the grants of
and for the several lines or the St. Fail! & facinc
Railway; to abolish Pension Agents and providefor
:aying pensions ny rostmasters anu collectors oi
nternai Revenue, inns enecting an annual saving
of Sl'iOO.000; to amend and coil if y the laws iu
regard to the payment of pensions so as to secure
efficiency and economy.. ..A joint resolution of
the Mit-ri Legislature was presented, asking
Congress for such legislation as will secure to tne
people there equal advantages a to rates, time,
and transportation on the Union Pacific Railway,
and the several branches thereof, which are re
served and guaranteed as a chief part of the con
sideration to be given bv the company for grants
of laDds and bonds made by Congress A bill
was passed, forbidding the Secretary of the Treas
ury to refund any duties upon the reversal of his
own rulings.
Tuesday, Febqtary 17. Senate A.
petition was presented from the bankers and busi
ness men of St. Louis, deprecating any Increase
Iu the volume of the currency, and favoring a
sneedy return to specie payments. ... A substitute
for the bill to increase the pay department of the
army was reported from the Committee on Mili
tary Affairs Bills were mtrodnced directing the
Secretary of the Interior to place on the pension
roll the names of all persons heretofore dropped
therefrom because of participation in the recent
rebellion; to further protect the polls in the elec
tion of President and Vice-President and members
of Congress, by securing the use of the safety
ballot-box. at a cost not to exceed fifteen dollars
per box; to authorize the issue of a supply of arms
to the authorities of the State of Nebraska The
bill to equalize the distribution of the currency
came up, and the question of recommittal was de
feated .... Adjourned.
House. A bill was passed transferring
the military prison from Rock Island to Fort
Leavenworth, Kan.... The contested election case
from the Third Congressional District of Arkansas
was taken up, the majority report being that W.
W. Wilshire is entitled, prima fad, to a seat, and
that of the minority being to recommit the matter,
with instructions to the Committee of Elec
tions to make a report on its merits.
After three hours' debate the resolution
of the minority to recommit, was rejected yeas
116. nays 117. The resolution declaring Wilshire
entitled, prima facie, to the seat was then
adopted yeas 113, nays 96. A motion to recon
sider and lav on the table having been made, in
order to make the lat vote final, dilatory motions
were made in order to have the question go over.
Motions to adjourn were made and voted upon, and
finally the yeas and nays were taken and adjourn
ment was carried 87 to 81.
Wednesday, Feb. 18. Senate. The
resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, charging
mL-conduct on the part of the Union Pacific Rail
way Company by reason of alleged discriminations
against the Kansas Pacific Railway, were presented
and ordered printed.. ..Bills were introduced
amendatory of the Soldiers and Sailors' Home
stead law; to extend the time for the completion-
of the Wisconsin Central Railway
A lively debate occurred on the bill to
equalize the distribution of the currency, after
which an amendment providing for the redemp
tion of the whole volume of the national bank
currency in specie or interest-bearing bonds of the
United States was defeated yeas 23, nays 30;
other amendments were offered and rejected....
Adjourned.
House. The motion to reconsider and
lay oh the table the vote declaring Wilshire, of
Arkansas, entitled, prima facie, to the seat was
laid on the table 133 to and he was sworn in,
taking the iron-clad oath Bills were passed
providing that any person who shall be convicted
of the crime of manslaughter in anv United
States court, in any State or Territory, or in the
District of Columbia, shall be imprisoned not ex
ceeding twenty years, and fined not exceeding
$1,000; making the punishment for extortion by
offlcers. or persons acting under authority of the
United States, a fine not exceeding $500. and im
prisonment not exceeding three years; providing
that where occupants of public laud having color
of title have made valuable improvements thereon,
and their title be found afterward not good, they
shall be entitled to all their rights and remedies as
is provided in such cases in their respect
ive States or Territories: providine that in
the trial of all indictments, informations, com
plaints and other proceedings in Tnited States
courts, and in trials by courts-martial and
conrts of inquiry, the person charged shall, at his
own request, but not otherwise, be a competent
witness, the law to apply to all prosecutions now
pending: to provide for holding terms of the West
ern District Court of Missouri, one conrt to beheld
t Jefferson Ci'y and the other at Springfield....
An adverse report was made from the Judiciary
Committee on the memorial for the acknowl
edgment of the Almighty God and Christian re
ligion in the Constitution of the United States....
A bill reported by the Postoffice Committee in re
gard to the distribution of public documents cam a
tip, and a discussion followed as to the effects of
the abolition of the franking privilege, it being con
tended by some members that nothing had been
saved by such repeal.... An evening session was
held for the consideration of the bill to revise the
statutes.
Thursda Y.Feb. 19. Senate. A bill was
passed amendatory of the act to revise, consoli
date and amend the statutes relating to patents
and copyrights. .. .The currency quesdon was
again taken up, and an amendment to the pending
Din, repealing all acts or congress ummng tne
amount of the circulating notes of National
Banks, was rejected yeas 26, nays 32; other
proposed amendments were discussed and
a substitute for one of them was agreed to, in
strncttng the CommiUee on Finance to report a
mil providing ior ice convertibility oi unueu
States Treasury notes Into gold coin or 5 per cent,
bonds of the United Stales, and also for free bank
ing under the provisions of the National Bank act.
The question then recurred on the motion to re
commit the bill, and a motion was made to recon
sider the vote bv which the foregoing substitute
was adopted, and after debate the Senate ad-
iourned.
House. Bills wers passed extending
to April 5 the time for completing the Green Bay,
Stnrgeon Bay fc Lake Michigan Ship Canal ; to pro
vide for the election of the two Representatives-at
Large for Alabama unless the Legislature shall
otherwise provide by law before the time fixed
for the election; requiring United States
Marshals and Clerks of the United Slates
Courts who have received fees and emolu
ments in excess of their legal compen
ration to deposit the same with the Treasurer of
the United States.. ..An animated discussion
occurred on the bill for the free distribution of
public documents printed by authority of Congress,
seeds furnished by the Agricultural Department,
for the free exchange of newspapers between pub
lishers, and for the free transmission of weekly
newspapers within the county where published,
after which a recess was- taken, the evening
session to be devoted to the bill revising the
statutes.
Friday, February 20. Senate. The mo
tion was agreed to 31 to 23 to reconsider the
vote by which the substitute was adopted instruct
ing the Committee on Finance to report
bill providing for the convertibility of
United States Treasnry notes into gold coin
or 5 per cent, bonds of the United States,
and also for free banking under the pro
visions of the Naiional Bank act, and the sub
stitute was then rejected, and an amendment was
agreed to 88 to 2 instructing the committee to
report as soon as practicable a bill providing for
an increase of the National Bank circulation so
that the whole volume thereof shall not exceed
$ 4O0,0'JO,0UO. An amendment was then rejected
instructing the committee to report so as to pro'
vide for free banking under the present National
Bank law Adjourned to tne uu.
House. Several committee reports of a
private character were made.... Chier-Justice
Walte was present aDd a recess was taken, during
which he was formally introduced by the Speaker
to each member.... Bills relating to anatrs or tne
District of Columbia were considered.... Ad'
journed.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
February 19, 1S74.
Cotton. Middling upland, 163160.
Livk Stock. Beef Cattle f80ai2.5e. Hogs-
Live, $5.25&5.50; Dressed, $6.5O7.00. Sheep
Live, $5.80&8 .25.
BBEADSTCrrs. Flour Good to choice, $6.75
6.90: white wheat extra. $6.90f7.60. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $1.4-1.52; Iowa spring, $1.4!l.f.2;
No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.54l.5. Rye West
ern and State, fl.07Gl.oa Barley $1.75 1.85.
Corn Mixed Western afloat, 76&7Sc. Oats New
Western. 6061c.
Provisions. Pork New Mess, $15.8016.00.
Lard 9?i9?tc.
Wool Common to extra, 40&70c.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves Choice, f 5.305.60; good,
4.80(&5.25: medium. $4.504.75; butchers'
stock, $3.25(31.25; stock cattle, f.004.10.
Hogs Live, fl.50O5.80;. Dressed, f 6.20;6.25.
Sheep Good to choice, $5.2r,&6.00.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 34.38c. Ej
Fresh, 1718c. Pork New Mess, $14.15
14.20. Lard 8 9c.
Bkeadstcffs. Flour White Winter extra.
$6.b0&9.25; spring extra, $5.75&6.00. Wheat
Spring.No. 2, f 1.17V41.19i4. Corn No. 2, 56!i
57&C. Oats No. 2, 42424e. Rye No. 2, 84
8414c. Barley No. 2, $1.801.85.
Wool. Tub-washed, 4S58c. ; fleece, washed.
3G48c.; fleece, unwashed, 2534c. ; pulled,
3540c
CINCINNATI.
Breadstcfts. Flour $7.C07.35.
$1.43. Corn 5S60c. Rye $1.07.
63c. Barley fl.b01.8
Provisions. -Pork $14.75(15.00.
9c
ST. LOOS.
Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $1.50
5.75. Hogs Live, $4.705.50.
Breadstctts. Flour, XX Fall, $6.507.00.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.551.56. Corn No. 2,
5961c. Oats No. 2, 4449c. Rye No. 2, 86
87c. twley $1.801.90.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $14.7515.C0. Lard
8!48?c.
MILWAUKEE.
Brbadstctfs. Flonr Spring XX, $6.O03.50.
Wheat Spring No. 1, $1.231.24 ; No. 2, $1.20
1.21. Corn No. 2, 5455c Oats No. 2, 3914
40c. Rye No. 1, 7980c. Barley No. 2, $1.60
1.85.
DETROIT.
Breads tctfs. Wheat Extra,
Corn 6061c. oats 4647c
TOLEDO.
Brbadstcffs. Wheat Amber Mich., $1.4C
1.464 ; No. 2 Red, $1.451.46. Corn Mixed, 63
64c Oats No. 1, 4647c
CLEVELAND.
Breadstcits. Wheat-No. 1 Red, $1.56
1.57; No. 8 Red, $1.441.45. Corn 6670c.
OatB 47Q48C.
BL r r ALU.
Live Stock. Beeves $4.806.00. Hogs-
Live, $5.12145.90. Sheep Live, $5.256.50.
nbier.Hon. Then thev visited John KramC, and
sang and prayed. He said he could stand their
visits a few days longer, when he expected to go
to Columbus. He refused to sign. George Ai Kin
son, who has charge of a drug store owned by his
mother, who was absent, agreed not to sell any
more liquors until his mother returned.
At Xenia, on the 14th, thirty five saloons
were visited and prayer and singing were al
lowed in nine. The women were resolved and
encouraged. In some of the towns a few of
the rumsellers were backsliding, tut when
they did backslide the ladies attacked them
with songs and prayers with renewed vigor.
The following was the prayer of a Quaker
ess in one of the 6aloons at Ripley, taken ver
batim by a newspaper correspondent!
Our Father In heaven, who knowest the Inmost
thoughts of au hearts, who cannot he deceived
and will not be mocked, we come again in a sense
of our weakness, needing great help from Thee to
do what little is in our power for the relief and
salvation of Thv creatures and to Thy honor. We
come again, in the name of Jesus, asking Thee to
put words in our mouths and wisdom in our hearts
when we trv to talk to this our dear brother. We
implore Thee to bless this dear family; we ask
again, as we have often asked before, that Ihoa
wonldst send Thy word with power into the heart
of this dear brother, that he may give up this ter
rible sin that has so long kept him away from God.
Thou who hast moved so many hearts. In mercy
condescend to move upon the heart of this roan
that he may no longer endanger his immortal souL
Oh. help him to say. "Let others doas they may;
as for me, I will get nd of this traffic, which is the
cause of so much sin and suffering. O Lord,
have we not seen and suffered enough of this
great evil, which fills our land with ruin until
our dear country is trembling on the verge of de
struction? Often we know this dear brother has
trembled at Thy word like Felix of old, but still
stands where he did, saying, " Go thy way for this
time! when I have a more convenient season I
will send for thee." O Lord, bless this man that
sits writing here. Give him wisdom that he may
know the truth In all Its beauty and importance;
and grant him power to convey that truth unto
others to the good of theiraouls. Impress upon bis
heart that many yea, very many are dependent
npon him ; that if his own soul were all that he im
periled it were enough, but that thousands
look to him for exact truth. He cannot say, "Am
I mv brother's keener?" for the souls of many may
be dragged down to perdition by error and false
hood. Help him to realize the importance of bis
words. And may Thy blessing rest upon all here
assembled, and finally meet us again at Thy right
nana, we ask for Jesus' sake. Amen.
At South Bend, Ind., on the ISth, and in va
rious parts of the State, the foundation for a
vigorous crusade was laid. The saloon-keep
ers of Indianapolis received a postal card an
nounclng that the ladies would visit them on
the 23d. At Richmond, Ind., about twenty
five women and two or three praying men had
taken the movement in hand, and were moving
along the line after the late approved fash
ion. The temperance fever began to manifest
itself at Peoria, 111., on the ISth. At Manches
ter, Iowa, the women were advancing on the
saloons, and with singing, praying and fervent
exhortations were imploring the keepers to
close their places. The movement was
spreading in other portions of the State
At Lincoln. Neb., a large number of ladies
visited the saloon of Bailey & Andrews,
where a large crowd assembled, com
pletely filling the large hall. While the
exercises were at their height the floor gave
way. but fortunately stopped when it had
settled about one foot. There was great con
fusion, and in getting out of the room several
persons were iniured. The ladies then went
to other saloons but were not admitted. The
Mayor had sworn in extra policemen, and had
declared his intention to put a stop to what he
calls their riotous proceedings. There was
great excitement in that place on the ISth
The movement continued unabated in various
parts of Ohio on the ISth, and had commenced
in Jersey City, N. J. In the latter city twenty
fiye ladies proceeded to a billiard saloon, knelt
in prayer, and spent half an hour in exhort
ing. They were greeted with the jeers of the
men, and left without seeming to have made
the impression they desired.
Wheat
Oats 46
Lard
$1.61141.62.
ASPHYXIATED.
A Horrible Discovery In the Town of
Lake, Conk County, III. An Entire
Family Poisoned ty tlie Inhalation
of Coal Gas Three Children Dead,
and 'the Mother Made Insane A Ter
rlhle Case of Asphyxiation.
A horrible discovery was made in the town
of Lake, Cook Co., 111., on the afternoon of
Feb. 14. In a small cottage on Forty-third
street, near the Union Stock Yards, resided a
Mr.- Thompson, his wife and four children.
one an infant about ten days old, and a Ger
man woman who had been hired to act in the
capacity of nurse. For several days before
Mr. Thompson had been absent, and it was the
custom of some of the neighboring women to
call iu every day to 6ee that the fam
ily lacked for none of the little attentions
necessary to mother and babe. Those calls
were usually made in the morning, but for
some reason, on this day, the visit was de
ferred until the afternoon. When the woman
tapped at the door there was no response at
first, and it was only after repeated knockings
that the nurse was aroused sufficiently to
6tagger to the entrance and let in the wonder-
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Long division A divorce.
Unwelcome berenaders Mosquitoes
Typographical errors Printers
strikes.
When is a match frivolous ? When it
makes light of things.
Why is a retired carpenter like a lec
turer ? Because he is an ex-planer.
A Paris correspondent says that
scarcely any color but black is worn for
street toilets.
A milkman at Elmira, N. Yn has intro
duced the plan of delivering milk in
glass bottles.
A Sabbath day's journey is 1,155
yards, which is a trifle less than two-
thirds of a mile.
Boston has more corns than any other
city. Her popular corn doctor has gath
ered f 800,000 worth.
The Mayor of St. Louis has vetoed an
ordinance providing free baked beans for
the indigent classes.
The Persians say of noisy, unreasona
ble talk: "1 hear the sound ot the mm
stone, but I see no meal."
A malicious person says that cotton
sheets and newspaper sheets are alike in
the respect that a great many people lie
in them.
The newest veil is Brussels net, dotted
with let beads. The veil is leftunhemmed.
merely covers the face, and is not trimmed
with lace.
It is stated that raw oysters contain
sufficient pepsin to digest themselves,
fepsin is the active element in the gas
tric juice.
People who figure very closely make
their checks payable one day after date,
and thus cheat Uncle Sam out of a two-
cent stamp.
A JN ew 1 ore paper has an article on
" What to eat." A good many people in
that vicinity would preter to be shown
how to get something to eat.
The apiarians throughout Kentucky
will suffer heavy losses by the coming
spring, as nearly all the bee colonies on
nana nave starved to death, and many
more will do so.
The Jewish Messenger says no Jewess,
so lar as is known, longs to join the
Woman's Rights Reform, and thinks this
may be an evidence either of their degen
eracy or ot their common sense.
From the opening of the New LTamp
shire btate prison, about sixty years
ago, there has not been among the in
mates one clergyman, lawyer, physician,
or editor, nor deacon, steward, church
warden, class-leader, nor son of a clergy
man.
A female lecturer in California, speak
ing in behalf of her sex, says: "Man's pleas
ures would never suit us, and his profits
we have. We allow him enough to dress
respectably, and to take him to lectures
and other intellectual circuses; but the
bulk of his income we appropriate."
The Legislature of Georgia has been
memorialized by persons who represent
that the songster of the South, the mock
ing bird, is in danger of extirpation on
account of the number captured and sold.
They ask that the capture and sale of
young mocking birds be prohibited for a
season to give the birds an opportunity to
increase.
The Bishop of Montreal had prohibited
dancing. Two officers, wishing to obtain
permission to dance the polka at a mili
tary ball, danced it together to show the
liishop how it was done. Alter the ex-
hibition the Bishop gave his permission
In these terms: " lou can dance the
polka as long as you please with each
other!"
Dcrino the winter the amount of china
and glassware broken on the transatlantic
steamships is very great. It is almost im
possible to prevent some breakage, and
during an unusually rough voyage the
loss of table ware often amounts to several
thousand dollars. And yet, say the own
ers, it we use common stone china and
pressed glass, our patrons would grumble
and say we were altogether too econom
ical. .
Rhode Island is waking up to the folly
of setting a man adriit on the world, when
he has completed a term in State prison,
without a cent in his pocket, and expect
ing him to lead a virtuous life. A bill
has been introduced into the Legislature
providing that one-tenth of the earnings
of every convict shall be given him at the
expiration of his term, unless the amount
has been given to his family previously,
in case of sickness.
court and the illustrated papers is not for
him. There is a stony and barbaric air
of oppression about this state of thinss
that takes us back to the dark ages, and
causes the disinterested philosopher to
shudder at the wretched, crushed and help
less condition of man."
The Republican Parly and the People.
The strength of the Republican party
has always consisted in its amenability to
just popular government. It came into
being as the organic expression of the
profound convictions of the people against
the iniquity of slavery. It continued in
power through the war as the embodi
ment of their devotion to the integrity of
the Union. It has retained the control
of the Government as the representative
of their determination that the fruits of
the war shall not be sacrificed. On all
these commanding and overtowcring
questions it has stood for the popular
will.
But not on these alone. Within and
under these decisive questions a hun
dred others of one kind and another have
pressed for action. The practical admin
istration of government produces constant
issues and divisions in its progress, lo
meet and respond to these in ac
cordance with the popular expectations
is more difficult than to act upon the
great controversies of the political arena,
for public sentiment is less sharply de
fined. It may also be more suddenly de
veloped and more capricious in its expres
sion. To-day it may blaze ana to-mor
row blow over. Besides, from the very
nature of the case the expression may not
come until the action Is taken. A ques
tion is often precipitated upon the Ad
ministration or upon Congress and neces
sarily carried to decision before it has
been fairly presented to the public mind
A party in power is required to act in
emergencies as they arise, and it cannot
always wait for the indication of public
opinion. It must proceed upon its own
best iudement and sense of right, and if
it makes a mistake must be ready to cor
rect it
Upon this whole class of questions, as
well as upon those great cardinal princi-
TEN THOUSAND A TEAR.
We present this bit of wrapped-ap philosophy to
our feverish wealth-hunters who sacrifice every
aooil of life iu their mad desire for sudden for
tune. It is from a Loudon comic paper:
If I had ten thousand a year
I think 1 could manage to spend It;
Could squander the hair, very near.
And as for the rest I could loud 1L
Could squander the half, I should say.
On folly, on vice, and on soirow.
On dreary debauches ti-dy
Repentance and headache to-morrow.
Could purchase with half of my wealth.
Or less, if I cared to dimii i-h.
Bad mornls. bad conscieuce. bail health.
And a bud-ish lookout at the finish.
And the rest of my gold I could lend
The friend who iu want had stood by me.
And lose both my money and friend
For thenceforward forever he'd shy mc.
If I had ten thousand a year.
The sentiment nuiy seem clap-trappy,
I'm blest if I (hink it's so cle ir,
I should not be sick and unhappy.
At present I've friends very dear
Health and comfort, as long as I'm thrifty
So I don't want ten thousand a year,
I'm content with my hundred and fifty.
Concerning Air.
In order to appreciate fully the impor
tance of pure air.it is necessary to under
stand its physiological relations to the
animal economy.
Air accomplishes two things it is the
vehicle by means of which a large portion
of the waste, dead, poisonous matter
which is constantly generated in the sys
tern, and thrown off by the lungs and
skin, is carried away from it, and it
briugs to the system oxygen, a substance
without which no life can exist for a mo
ment.
In regard to the first point, it is only
necessary to state that the ability of the
. . y .it J., ii .
air to carry away irom me uouy ns poi
sonous emanations is in exact proportion
to the puritu of the air. Iu order that the
air be pure it must be continually changed ;
otherwise a person is enveloped in a con
stantly thickening cloud of "his dead
self," and breathes himself over and over
again ; under which circumstances it may
truly be said that "man's worst enemy is
pies and commanding issues which de- his own breath
fine the divisions between the parties, the I In order the more fully to understand
Republican organization has shown itself what is accomplished by oxygen within
THE W0ME.VS WAR.
Still Pro-
One
and Indiana Dr.
Praying Oat the Evil
pressing in Ohio
DIo Ltwll Makes a Diagnosis of the
Movement -A Day's Work In Athena,
Ohio Some of the Rumsellers Back
sliding A Specimen Prayer.
Up to the ICth inst. the temperance war was
waging most fiercely in Southern Ohio, and
there were indications that it would break out
in the northern portion of the State. Dio Lewis,
of Boston, who considers himself the leader
of the movement, had left the region round
about Cincinnati, where for some time he had
been operating, and from a more northern
point made a diagnosis which he telegraphs to
the press, as follows:
I fear that the friends of temperance will move
Erematurely in those neighborhoods where a few
ave read the newspaper reports, but where there
is noi general interest, under such circumstances
a few iood women start out. but their numbers
bring it into contempt, and then the mass of the
better class or ladies will hold back. There are
four distinct stages: First, the conversational.
which must be complete before the second step
the large public meeting at which the best ladies
In Ihe town must be appointed in large numbers
is taken. The third stage will require no manage
ment. It is the stage of saloon-visiting, and the
women will take care of it. The fourth stage is
that of tying up the loose strings, clenching the
nail with reading-rooms, etc. The work must be
done in this order. Dio Lewis.
The crusade had affected so many of the
interior towns of Ohio whose liquor supplies
were drawn from Cincinnati that a percepti
ble diminution of trade had been occasioned.
Liquor men in that city were in anxious con
sultation about the ultimate result, and were
devising ways and means to meet the enemy to
the consumption of liquor. The conclusion
had been reached, it is stated, to furnish
liquors free to those who are subject to attacks
from the ladies. In Cincinnati there had
been quiet private visits to one or two saloons
In the evening, by praying ladies, who asked
the pnvuege of holding prayer-meetings. In
two instances the request had been granted.
and, after prayer, the inmates were invited to
attend revival meetings in some of the
churches.
At Athens, which is a town of 1,800 inhab
itants, meetings were held nightly, and every
body attended. The whole place was aroused.
Here is a detailed report of one day's work:
The ladies met In the mornine for prayer. As
they were on their way to visit the saloons they
were met by a member of the firm of Door fc Co.,
druggists, asking for both the phyticianB' and
druggists' pledgee, which they desired to sign.
Copies were sent, and they signed. W. H. Potter
who for twenty years has kept a grocery where
liquors were retailed, was next visited. He not
only signed the dealers' pledge, but also the life
abstaining pledge. He stated that he wonld not
destroy bis stock, but would ship it as soon as he
could. This was agreed to by the ladies. Next J.
Grim was visited, and ha signed without a single
ing visitor. The woman acted as if dazed
and seemed to be wonderfully stupid, but
this only excited momentary remark on
the part of the good lady, and she pushed
on into the inner apartment. On opening the
door a scene of horror presented itself. Two
little children were lying dead in different
positions upon the floor, and a third was
almost in the same condition. Mrs. Thomp
son was raving and raging in her bed, evi
dently a maniac, and the baby too was
apparently suffering from some deadly nar
cotic. She quickly ran to the -windows, let in
a little fresh air, and shouted for assistance.
This was quickly forthcoming, and physicians
were summoned to aid those who still were
living. That same night the third child died.
An investigation was made into the circum
stances of the case, and it was discovered that
some time during the preceding night the nurse
had lifted the top from the coal 6tove and set
in a tin pan filled with water to heat for the
use of the mother and her babe. The damper
in the pipe was closed, and the conclusion was
reached by the Coroner's jury that the gas.
escaping iato the room, had worked all this
mischief. Such was also the opinion of the
physicians who made the post mortem exami
nation.
At last accounts-the nurse had recovered, as
also had the babe. Mis. Thompson still re
mained insane, and did not know of the terri
ble bereavement which had befallen her.
There is a most ingenious Marshal in
Flushing, L. I., a gentleman who is re
markable lr the success ot his little
games on people. Just before New Year's
a little girl gave him two dollars to get her
a pair ot gloves in rsew lork, for a pres
ent. The Flushing Marshal got the
gloves for a dollar and a quarter, told the
little girl they cost one dollar and three-
quarters, gave her a quarter change, put
tne halt dollar in his pocket, ana nearly
chuckled himself into a case of apoplexy
over the success of his operation. JNew
Year's morning his wife presented him
a pair of gloves, and explained how she
had secretly arranged for their purchase
with a little girl. The Flushing Marshal
put the gloves in his uocket, smiled
liehtly, and narrowly escaped tainting
dead away. JJanbury Aeics.
The Titusville Herald savs there are
upward of 1,000,000 barrels of crude oil in
tanks at present in the oil regioB, to say
nothing of the numberless small wooden
tanks at the wells, which have absolutely
no protection whatever against nre.
Drop Ginger Cake. One cud of mo
lasses, half a cup of butter, half a cup of
water, three cups of Hour, two teaspoon-
fuls of ginger, one of soda. Drop with a
spoon on a buttered tin.
Brax. shorts, oarticnlarlv those from
rye, with good tame hay and roots, form
a varied and excellent food for milch
cows.
JonN Morley says, in a recent essajt:
It is the turn which a man takes about
the age of five-and-forty that parts him off
amoDg the sheep on the right hand or the
poor goats on the left. This is the time
of the grand moral climacteric; when
genial, unvarnished selfishness, or coarse
and ungenial cynicism, or querulous de
spondency, finally chokes out the gener
ous resolve of a fancied strength which
had not yet been tried in the furnace of
ciroumstances."
A four-year-old lad in Boston is of an
inquiring turn of mind. A few days ago
he was possessed by a desire to know
whether his younger sister's head would
go into the family bean-pot. It did go in
beautifully, but it would not come out
again, and a surgical operation was per
formed upon the pot, from which it will
never recover, the instrument used being
a hammer, 'ihe marvelous infant now
wishes to try another experiment with a
larger bean-pot, but a strict guard is kept
over that utensil.
Cleveland was startled recently by a
singular discovery made by some work
men. They were repairing a building
known ?.s the Woolsey House, situated in
the lower part of the town, and in taking
down the chimney a skeleton was dis
covered wedged in the flue. It was pro
nounced by the physicians who examined
it to be the skeleton of a woman, appar
ently about eighteen years of age, and it
had probably been in the place where it
was discovered about a year.
A distinguished President of a college
said, in a recent lecture : " I was obliged
once to sit two whole hours at a dinner
beside a lady with a blazing crimson
gown loaded all over with jewelry. The
laoy had an awtul incapacity lor conver
sation, ana l never see mat gauay coior
without thinking of the lady and yawning
as I recall the terrible two long hours I
had with her, starting topic alter topic
without a response." It is now in order
to hear what the crimson lady thought of
the college Jresident.
The New York Tribune of a recent date
says: "It is not often that man, ground
down by years of tyranny, ventures to lift
his voice in complaint against his op
pressors. But once in a while he breaks
his dumb submission, and a subdued, sad
shriek goes meandering along the aisles
of Time. Such a one is echoed from the
Boston Globe, wherein a gloomy editor
mourns over the inequality of man and
woman as shown in cases of breach of
promise of marriage. lie takes note of
the frantic alacrity with which the aver
age juryman soothes the sorrows of an un
appreciated lady with a verdict of glitter
ing damages. And then he points out a
fiendish and unjust distinction in law.
Does a mere man, whose timid heart has
been persuaded to throw itself at the feet
of a coquette only to be cast aside, ever
get a thousand dollars or a hundred dol
lars, or one dollar even, with which to
mend the rents and tatters in the same?
Never! The balm of gold is denied him;
even the poor consolation of making a
graceful and an impressive appearance in
amenable to the public judgment. A
striking illustration is furnished in its re
peal of the salary increase. The passage
of that measure was the work of no party.
The representatives of both shared in it,
but not as party agents. It was not a
oartv ouestion. As a matter of fact, the
majority of the Democrats voted for it and
the majority of the Republicans against it,
but all upon their own individual re
sponsibility. The action was hasty,
and before" its consummation there was
little public discussion one way or the
other. But when the measure became a
law, the peculiar sentiment found ex
pression, and in obedience to the plain
will of the people the Republican party
in Congress has wiped out the odious
statute. So far as the party was involved
in its enactment, it has corrected the
mistake. The President acted in the
same spirit in the matter of the Chief-Jus
ticeship. When he found that public sen
timent did not approve his choice, and
that he had committed an error, he w.th
drew his nomination and made another,
until a satisfactory result was reached.
If we cannot have a party which will
make no mistakes an ideal that is im
possible of realization in this world the
next best thing is to have one which is
disposed to correct mistakes when it
makes them. And this is just what the
Republican party is. The trouble with
the Democratic organization is that it is
not only wrong upon almost every im
portant question, but remains wrong. Its
tendency is vicious. It has gone on year
after year repeating its old blunders and
crimes. It cannot learn anything from
the expression of the popular judgment.
The Republican party, on the other hand,
has shown, in the cases we have named
and many others, that it listens to the
will of the people. If it falls 6hort of
public expectation at any time, it only
needs a clear expression to bring it bacK
to its true position. Far from periect as
it may be, it thus shows that the country
is safer in its hands, and that it is more
worthy of trust than a party which learns
nothing and forgets nothing. Albany
Evening Journal.
Dawes Speech.
A few days since Mr. Dawes, Chairman
of the Committee of Ways and Means,
made a vigorous speech in favor of re-
. . 4 ?
trenenment anu in censure oi certain ex
penditures which seemed to him nn war
rantable. Certain Washington cor
respondents are trying to make it appear
that this speech is received in a very hos
tile manner by the Kepublican party and
that an effort will be made to refute its
statements, contradict its figures, and in
general "show it up." The object of
these correspondents is, manifestly, to
make the people believe that the Repub
lican party is committed to extravagance
and thoroughly opposed to any sweeping
system of reform. While this may be
true of certain men, who, if called as they
would choose to be, may be termed party
leaders, it is utterly lalse when urged
against the party as such, or against the
large majority of its prominent men. The
bulk of the Republican party is the Peo
ple, who have during more than a decade
supported it by their influence and by
their votes, in close sympathy with them
are the purest and best men who have
come to notice as party leaders. It is
true that, in the Republican party, as in
any other, there are men who are nothing
it not politicians men corrupt and
wholly on the make. 1 hey will oppose
any plan which looks toward economy
or purity in administration, nut they have
no more right to speak for the party
than " Tweed " would have to represent
whatever honesty there may be in the
opposing party. The Republican press,
with no important exception, is outspoken
in behalf of retrenchment and reform. So
is President Grant; so are his most trusted
advisers. So tire majority in Congress
will prove to be. What more can be ex
pected? lhat there should be some
scoundrels in a party so large and so long
in power as the Republican party is not
at all remarkable. Chicago Post and Mail.
Ihe London Medical Record says
that during the past year there were 433,-
295 cases of cholera in Hungary, aad that
of this number 247,718 persons recovered,
182,549 are dead, and 2,978 remain under
treatment. Croatia and Slavonia, the
ancient military boundaries, are not in
cluded in these lists, nor are. the victims
whom cholera carried off when it broke
out at the end of 1872 in Buda and Upper
Hungary. The population of the coun
tries of the crown of St. btephen amount
to 16,000,000, and since it is estimated
that altogether they have lost this year
200.000 souls by cholera, it loiiows thatl
in 30 of the inhabitants has fallen beneath
this terrible scourge.
The total rail shipments of ore and
pig iron from the Lake Superior district
last year amounted lo 1,163,827 -tons of
ore, and 31,246 tons ot pig iron, ine
figures given for pig iron do not, how
ever, represent the total shipments of the
district, some half a dozen important fur
naces situated at .ake ports within the
district having loaded dircctlv on boats,
without the aid of railroads. The product
of these furnaces swells the aggregate
shipments of pig iron by several thou
sand tons.
the system, let us call to mind what oc
curs "outside the body when oxygon forms
combinations with any of that class of
substances called organic.
The term organic matter is used to dis
tinguish that which has at some time un
dergone the process of growth ; it includes
all animal and vegetable matter which
has not lost its character as such by the
process of .deca', or by some form ol com
bustion; it di tiers irom all other matter
(which is called inorganic) in the very
important circumstance that it contains
stored up within it, in a latent form, what
is called ere.
During the process of growth, all ani
mal and vegetable existences appropriate
and imprison the rays ot light and heat
which they receive from the sun, the veg
etable directly and the animal for the
most j art indirectly, through the medium
of food.
Now it is the great office of oxytren to
liberate this latent force. In the familiar
example of ordinary combustion it is lib
erated as light and "heat, but the particu
lar form of its manifestation varies with
the varying circumstances attending its
liberation.
If a kernel of wheat, for instance, be
exposed to an elevated temperature in the
presence of oxygen, a chemical union
takes place between the oxygen and the
elements of the wheat, light and heat are
given out. and that which was organic,
live matter becomes inorganic and dead.
The oxygen has, as it were, entered in and
driven out the lorcefrom its hiding-place.
A process similar to this occurs in the
living body; here as in the kernel of
wheat is force in a latent form, which
must be set free by the same agent,
oxygen.
In the body, however, matter exists in
a great variety of forms, and the circum
stances and conditions attending the .lib
eration of its force are many and dissimi
lar. Hence wo might expect what we
actually observe, a great variety of dynamic
manifestations within the body.
Oxygen is carried by the blood to every
microscopic point of the system ; it stands
ready wherever there is organic matter,
which is everywhere, to form combina
tions with it and set at liberty the impris
oned force. When thi3 force is set free
in muscular tissue it manifests itself as
muscular contraction ; in nerve tissue it
takes the form of nerve force; in one or
gan it shows itself as an excretive, in an
other as a secretive force; while in the
brain, that most wonderful of all mechan
isms, it manifests itself under all the vary
ing forms of thought, evolution and con
sciousness. Ihis union ot oxygen with
organic matter precedes and is the effi
cient cause of all activity within the body.
But the matter which by this union has
yielded up its force has become dead; its
office in the system has been accomplish
ed. No sooner, however, does it assume
this lifeless form than there is developed
in the surrounding atoms a force of re
pulsion which separates it from the liv
ing tissue and throws it off into the blood,
by which it is carried to the different
secretory orcrans, and by them alienated
from the system. The lungs and skin do
a large share of this eliminating, and it is
with this effete matter that a person con
taminates the air. But the blood which
carries the oxygen carries also the mate
rial for repair; and no sooner is the dead
atom expelled than a live atom rushes in
and takes its place, whare it remains un
til called upon in turn to yield up its life,
and thus fulfill its mission in the great
economy of nature.
Ihese considerations enable us to real
ize the important part which oxygen
plays in the phenomena of life. There
can be no perfect development and no
healthy efficient action without a liberal
supply. This supply, in the exact form
w hich the system demands, is furnished
by pure atmospheric air. In this way
oxygen come3 to the lungs mingled in
due proportion with nitrogen, a portion
of it being in that modified form called
ozone,
All pure air contains ozone, and owes
its life and health giving power in no
small degree to its presence
Air is deprived ot its ozone and loaded
with poisonous matter by being breathed,
bv passing through the hot-air chamber
of an over heated furnace, and by passing
over decaying animal and vegetable mat
ter, such, for instance, as exists in open
sewers and cesspools.
Foul water-closets and damp, unclean
cellars accomplish the same result; so in
an eminent degree do those ingenious
contrivances called Bsltimore heaters;
also stoves and ranges with heater attach
ments. In all of them air that has been
breathed, perhaps several times over, is
called upon to do duty a second time, af
ter having been jmrified, as the writer
has been gravely informed, by passing
through a heated chamber, where
it is deprived of its ozone, and freighted
with coal-gas. These things subserve an
excellent purpose where scarcity of air
renders economy in its use an object, and
where a surplus of population makes it
desirable to increase the bills of mortal
ity; but where air is plenty and cheap
they can be dispensed with without detriment
By such causes a vast amount of dis
ease is produced. I lie necessity oi
keeping Ihe lungs abundantly supplied
with pure air ought to be fully appre
ciated by everyone, and especially by
those who have the care of households.
Such subjects have a close relation with
the development of the highest Christian
character. Paul says, "Know ye not that
your body is tlie temple of the Holy
Ghost?" Certainly Ibtn the templo
should be taken good care of. Cheerful
ness, purity of mind, clearness of spirit
by which to discern Divine truth in a
word, spiritual health is fostered by bod
ily health. To poison the body by foul
air is to poison the aoul as well. M. I.,
in Christian Union.
VTomen Amon? tlio Arabs.
Polygamy is rare among the Bedouins;
but few have two wives. The marriago
ceremony is very simple among tho
Aenezes. When a man desires to marry
a girl he sends a friend of the family to
her father and the girl's wishes are as
certained; for she U not compelled to
marry against her inclination. If slio
agrees, the friend, then holding t ho
father's hand, says aloud that he under
stands that he is willing to give his
daughter in marriage to her suitor, when
the father answers in the affirmative. Tho
wedding day is fixed, and the bridegroom
brings a lamb to the tent of tho
girl's father and cuts its thront before
witnesses; as soon a tho blood falls upon
tlie ground, the imrringc ceremony is re-gank-d
as complete and the bride is by-and-by
conducted to her new home. The
knot, being so easily tied, unfortunately
is loosened without much scruple, for
divorces are of frequent occurrence. If
an Arab becomes dissatisfied with Ii is
wife, be separates himself by simply say
ing, "Thou art divorced," and, giving her
a she-camel, sends her back to her lamily.
lie is not obliged to state any reasons, nor
does th.s reflect particularly on the dis
carded wife's honor ; the husband in ex
cused by his friends' saying he did not
likelier. There have been instances of
Arabu, not more than forty-five years of
aire, who were known to have above fifty
different wives; in fact, whoever will bo
at the expense of a camel may divorce as
many wives ns he pleases. The wile also
can use die privilege of divorce in a some
what modified form. If she is unhappy,
she can fly for refuge to her kindred, and,
if the husband uses force to induce her to
return, her family would resent this vio
lence. He may revenge himself by with
holding the words of divorce, so that tho
woman cannot marry again. Of this claws
there are a large number, but old maids
are unknown among the Bedouins. If Iho
husband dies, I113 brother generally oilers
to marry his widow, but neither is forced
by custom to enter into matrimony, a
man has the exclusive right to the nana
of his cousin, though he is not obliged to
marry her; still, without his consent, sho
cannot accept a husband.
Women are regarded among the Uert-
ouins as interior to men, and, tliotigu
not neglected, they are Always taught to.
consider that their chief business iscook-
ng and working. An unmarried girl en
ovs much more consideration than a
married woman; once married she le-
comes a mere drudge, occupied all (lay
while her husband is lolling at ease, and
smoking his pipe. The women have to
fetch tlie waler, a laborious operation oft
en, and the unmarrird girls, among me
Arabs of Sinai, drive the herds to pasture.
They watch tlie sheep all day, tunl, if a
man of the tribe passes, they offer him a
drink of milk or water. On most, occa
sions, however, if a stranger passrH, tho
women turn their backs upon him, nor
will they receive anything from hi
hands unless some friends be present.
The old women are, however, treated
with great reverence and respect by Iheir
children, but the relations between fath
ers and their grown-up sons are often
very bad. In many tribes slaves perform
the more menial ollices ot tlie tanuiy, ana
most weal 1 1 v sheiks possess some of
them. After a lapse of time the slaves are
emancipated and married to persons of J
heir own color.
Hospitality is certainly one of the Bed
ouin virtues, though it oltcn proceeds
from vanity and a desire of dicliriguish-
ug themselves among their equals in the
tribe. A helpless traveler may go the
whole way between Mecca and Damascus,
and he can safely enough trust to Ihe hos
pitality ol the wild tribes ne may en
counter. A hungry Bedouin will al
wavs divide his" scanty meal with a
stransrer. though he may have no means
of procuring a fresh supply
stranger enters an Arab encam
alights at the find tent on his rigl
or if he passes that tent its owner would
consider himself to be slighted. Among
he Arabs of Sinai the custom is that the
stranger is tho gtiet of the first person
who descries him from afar. Sometimes
serious quarrels arise as to who has the
right to entertain a visitor; in flic ab
sence of the husband his wife invariably
receives and entertains strangers, assisted
v a male relation, who does the honors.
Some tribes of tlie Arabs permit tho!
women to drink coffee with strangers on t
their arrival, provided the owner ol the
tent be procnt. Among those tribes whof
are continually exposed to the passage off
stranger.-, it must oe confessed that hos-5
pitality can only be purchased by money,!
and on the ILij route little mercy ls.J
hown to oilzrims in distress. The influx
of foreign manners has done a pood deal!
toward impairing the ancient virtues ot
the Arabs who live on the borders oi,
Syria. 'The A!p of Arabia.
avc no means I
ply. When a ; I
ricampment he I
his right hand,
An Eagle Tries lo Carry Off a (Jirl.
Ox Saturday a girl named Elizabeth
Moore, daughter of Albert Moore, living
in the northeast corner of Cleburne'
County, was returning home from yi
neighbor's house, whither she had been,
sent on an errand, when she felt gome-1
thing heavy strike upon her shoulder and J
the next instant she was borne to tlie
ground. She says that her first impres j
sion was that she had been seized by a;
panther or some other wild beast, but,
soon felt the talons of what proved to bt I
an eagle clutching her sides and arms
lacerating me uesu in it icuiiui unium ,
and. with its beak pecking on her head f.
ehe was dragged some distance on tht
ground. Pretty soon, the eagle having
secured his prize, with claws ana rn
firmly fixed, raised her from the grounq
and sailed along at Irom three to lour lee
above the earth for some distance. Oc
casionallv she was dropped on the ground
but the eagle would as often raise lies
again, making new and serious wound
with his talons in her body and his beak,
in her head, fill at last he reached th
height of ten feet, and attemp'ed t
alight on the limb of a red oak tree oi:
the roadside, when bis hold gave wa
and the cirl fell to the earth serioush
stunned and hurt. She was unconscious
for a time, then clambered over the fence
near by into her father's orchard and be
gan making the best ol her way to
house, near which she was met by
mother, who had been attracted br
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screams anu was iiJisyicimii; i uvi nu-v
The most remarkable part of the mattef
is that the girl did not see the eagle a ,
all. A shawl which had been secureh
fastened about her head, so as to project
over her face, hid her rude antagonisj
from her view. The track along whicl;
she was drairired. however, was plainlj
visible in the road. The girl ElizalK-th i
fourteen years of age, and weighs 1-t-twee
piirhtv and ninetv pounds. Her father i
a very reliable and worthy man. He is
son-in-law of Mr. Ha: field, in the samj
section of country, and lives about livj
miles from Tecumsch Iron Works. TU
girl was not seriously hurt and 13 doin
well. The cazie lias neen twice c .
Kincn bv tne burners, who are ummu
every effort to kill or capture him. Jach
tonville Ala ) liepullican. ,
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