The free citizen.(Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-07-31. · 2011. 3. 15. · HE FREE lolBS á E. A. WEBSTER....
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HE FREE lol BS á E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and rroprietor. * A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politio«. VOLUME I. NUMBER 51. TIMELY TOPICS. TUE recent Ticean flood is swelling tho streams in a manner calculated to do much damn go through tho country. MOODY and Sankey. concluded not to go to Paris, and Will probably bo back in the United States by the middle of August. EMIGRATION to California foll off noorly thrue-fourths in tho month of June", which was lucky for tho stay-at- homes. THE Baltimore American says the grasshoppers have made their appear¬ ance in Frederick county, Md., whore clover and ryo crops aro particularly abundant. : * THE Chinese have, for the first time, whipped the Formosan savages. These aborigines number 20,000 only, aud yot Urey have kept in terror about two millions of Chinean settlers. THE revenue officials havo abandoned tho idea of placing a rovenuo stamp no every cigar, and smokers can still inhalo the dreamful vapor without tho dis- oom/ort of the bnrnt paper taste. JAY GOUT/D intends to remain king of Wall street. Ho proclaims his power by allowing the New York Tribuno to publish the facts that ho owns 100,000 shares of tho Union Pacifio stock. The present value of this amount of stock is $7,600,000 ; but no doubt much of it is bought with borrowed nionoy, and hold on a niargin. Gould ia of Jersey birth, and is now past sixty. Ho was brought up a leather dealer in what is called V The Swamp." ORDERS have been aont by Gen. Terrv to the commander at Fort Randall, to expedite the dopartnre of a cavalry force at that point, under orders to proceed direct to the Black Hills, and bring out all persons found there with¬ out authority. Meantime, so far as we can observe, tho gold excitement seems to have almost entirely died out, j THE monument for Edgar Allan Pce's hitherto nogleoted gravo will be com¬ pleted in October. A small stone hali a foot high and three inches square now marks the poet's resting place in thc Baltimore graveyard. Tho new mona ment will be surmounted by a bust ol Poe, which is said 'to bo an accurate likeness. IN addition to tho shortage in th« United States treasury caused by tin thoft of the $17,500 paokage, there is t $1,060 shortage in tho redemption di vision, whioh was discovered in January This was reported by treasurer Nov when he took charge. Otherwise tin funds are all straight, and Spinner ÍB t< bo congratulated. Ar-noros of the recent shipment o: Florida fruit direct to Chicago, thc Mobile Register says that, with some improvement in railroad facilities ant proper, oo-operation among the ship 'pera, prudent and industrious farmeri jCOTdd. realize more from vegetable gardens in Alabama in six woeks thai they could make in 'a twelve-niontl upon nu Iowa or Illinois farm. THE British government has fnlfillei . its pledge .to appoint a royal commissioi to inquire into tho subject; of vivisec tiona! experiments. Tho instruction - io the commission are to inquire int tho practice of subjecting livo animal to experiments for scientific purpose*: and to consider and report what mea* ures, if any, it may be desirable to tak in respect to any such praotice. Mn. JOHN BRIOHT writes thus sens bly to a Glasgow workingman: " book, and not a small one, might I mado np of the strange doings of tl trade unions. Monopoly is hard teaob, and I- fear tho workingmen wi only learn through Bullering, and tin may do mischief whioh caunot aile ward be repaired." The adviceappli ' cqnallywell in this country, and t! recent Pennsylvania coal tro íblca affo an apt illustration of its truth. KENO GEOROE^OÍ Greece, seems to in an unhappy predicament. His kin dom is threatened with a revolution ; is unpopular, aud nobody takes I hat off to him on the .streets; t queen has been insulted, and ho afraid to go io the Hellenic Lo Branch, at Dekeleia, because he thin it quite probable he will not be able . get back into his capital again. T Russian ships aro ready at tho Pire * to^eawy him* away in ease of a revo tion. THE trial of the noterions John Lee for complicity in the Mounti Meadow massacre of 1857 will not coi of! until tho 15th inst. Tho difficulty in this caso will bo that ef obtaining a proper jury, as |ho Mormon element is vory strong nnd^irojudieod in TJOO'S favor. Lee was indicted last Octobor, mid tho witnesses against him will bo porBons who witnessed tho massaoro when children, seveutcon years ngo, Lee and his fellow-murderers having spared that number. The Mormons ol aim that tho Indians did tho killing, but this, it is said, can be entirely refuted. ON Ascension Day thoro was a horri¬ ble row in Jerusalem between sumo Greek and Armenian priests who had boon allowed by the Latins to moke uso of a chapel built over what is bo- lieved to bo tho Savior's footprint. Tho quarrel aroso on a question of precedence, and ended in a fight. Tho priests went at it "tooth and nail," fighting up aud down tho saored edifico with such fury that they had to bo sep¬ arated by Turkish soldiers. Two Greek priests were wounded, and ono of tho soldiers, in trying to restore peace, lost his eye. Tho 'Mussulman population look upon thojo seotarian shindies nt Jorusnleni as peculiar illus¬ trations of tho brotherly ; love which ÍB tho distinguishing mark of their Ch nu tian fellow subjeots. TIIE cf at no of Lafayette, tho gift of tho French government to tho city of Now York, reached that port on Wed¬ nesday. It is tho work of Frederick Bartholdi, a- native of Alsace, and. is Boven feet high exclusivo of tho pedi¬ ment. The project of its presentation to New York originated with the Thiers government nnd..nearly $30,000, gold, was appropriated for its execution in bronze, The Tribuno says tho design of tho sculptor represents Gen. Lafay¬ ette in his twentioth year, at tho time whou ho joined the continental army. He stands upon a ship as if in the act of speaking. His right arm is extended, and the left is thrown across his chest, with tho hand grasping tho pommel of his sword and a mass of drapery which falls at his feet. The- body is .firmly poBcd upon tho right foot, while tho loft leg is extended. The head is slightly turned to tho right. Tho statue will be placed in Central Park, and the unvailing will probably take placo early in the fall, Mns. BEAVER is, or was, a materializ¬ ing: spiritualistic medium. She gave se¬ ances in Boston of the Eddy and Katy King kind, and was making dollars in grokt numbers. One night there was an unusually large audience, and the exhibition was uncommonly startling. In the dim light forms emerged from tho cabinet, and some of them were at once recognized by persons present as reanimations of dead relatives. At length tho form of a ohild appeared at the doorway of t ho cabinet, and a woman said that sho readily recognized it as her baby that had died a fow weeks be¬ fore. Then a young follow, full of earthly realism, sprang forward and grabbed tho infantilo form, and was promptly knocked down by tho man who conducted tho show. Tho investi¬ gator held fast to tho baby, however, which, upon examination, proved to hnvo eon materialized with rags and n mask. LOOK ont or moro earthquakes. An examination of tho history of theso sub¬ terranean disturbances shows that each great earthquake-say of the dimen¬ sions of tho recent ono at Ououta, in which ten thousand lives were lost,- has been followed for o certain period by innumerable leBBor ones. In tho Hummer of 1868, the coast of Chili and Peru were shaken by terrible earth¬ quakes, in which many lives and a vast amount of property wore lost, and, just two months later, on October 21, San Francisco was shaken so violently that buildings cracked from top to founda¬ tion, and fissures throwing forth jots of water- opened--in tho streets» in- tho same year the Hawaiian volcanoes had violent oruptions, and the subjects of Kamehameha were mado sea-sick by the continued swaying of their islands. In the same year VeenviuB opened ont with a fresh emption. The groat earthquakes of Caracas, in Venezuela, and New Madrid, in the United States, occurred just six months apart. If we are to regard those precedents, an¬ other great upheaval may bo expected somewhero on the American continent between thisdimo and tho 1st of Janu¬ ary. Tice has booked us for cata¬ clysms, cyclones, and earthquakes,* and similar lively occurrences during the month of October, Taking it altogether, tho prospeot for the remaindor of 1875 is deoidely uncomfortable for everybody except Elder Thnrman hud his fol¬ lowers. THE ARCTIC EXrLUKER. From leafy England far away, lils mm i¡ aro laid ; Not wlicro tho lark ealnloR tho ilay, Nor where white lambs lu nieadow« i>loy, lu thu creon Bbacte. Ho UCB within a lcaflcse laud, In tho cold enow ; Whom no kind foot or kindlier hand Can visit bim, or weave a baud To Bolton woe. Tho white drift whirling all around On Bea sud shoro ; They took him from tho ship Icc-bannd, Ami InUl him gently In tho ground Foi overniore. And though no English larku shall thron», Above his grave, To pootho his clumber with tliolr Bong, Ho He« poctirn from n'ortal wrong - O sweet aud brovtíl Tho Merrel of tho Polar Sea I« yet concealed ; Bat to thy vision, pura and free,' Tho Beeret of eternity Has been revealed ! THE GREAT DBLUGE. Titree, lliousn UnuR.cu Howl*--Sixty nillllm>s ot Dollars tu l'ropcrly Known to Ilnve lt'-eo Lost. From tho London l'OBt (Editorial), Juno 29. The geographical position of Franco, although in many respects highly fa¬ vored, is finch as to entail npon large districts of the country a liability to bo suddenly ilolngod bv tho overflow of flooded rivera. At TOUIOUHO, such in¬ undations have occurred ovory twenty years-or, nt least, in 1815, Í835 and 1855-although never before to tho same extent as at present, or with tho calamitous consequences to lifo and property which wo are now called upon to record. In 1856 tho whole valley of tho Rhone was visited in a similar man¬ ner. The streets of Lyons woro for many days traversed by boats, and not only trees and oattlo, but bridges, cburohes, honsos, even whole villages, were swept away, and great numbers of people were either drowned or buried amid fallen ruins. But when compared with tho inundation which has new, we hope, snbsided, nil others sink ir to comparative insignificance. A week ago to-dav. our correspondent tolls ns the river Garonne, at Tonlose, was unusually bif»h, but no serious dancer was apprehended, and no pre¬ cautionary mcasuros were takeu. On Wednesday tho waters roso rapidly, and by ten o'olook in the morning they lind reached the level of the flood of 1855. At two o'clock two arches of a bridge and twenty houses were swept j away, and tho floating swimming baths and lavatories wore torn from their moorings and hurried down tho torrent^ At five the water overflowed tho -paray, pet whioh protects the populous quar-' ter of St. Cyprien ; at G it was ten feet deep in tho streets, and before night this qnnrter was cut off from the rest of the town, tho threo bridges of commu¬ nication being destroyed. All night the crash of falling houses and the cries and shrieks- of sufferers were heard. On Thursday the flood began to abate, and' the water had fallen six feet by tho evening. In the town of Toulouse alone, it is said, nine hundred persons have perished and 20,000 are left destitute. Nearly three thousand houses have fallen, and the destmotion of property is roughlv estimated at from X12.000.000, to .£15,000.000, ster- ling. The whole valley of the Garonne is said to resemble a vast lake, covered with fragments of the ruinB of tho town, ns well as with wreck brou gi it down from higher, districts, and dotted with corpses, some of them wearing tho costume of places twenty leaguos away. Although it is upon this particular district that tho calamity hus faiion with tho greatest force, yet the neigh¬ boring departments havo also been ter¬ rible Bufferers. In Aude the crops have been extensively destroyed. At Bng- nieres de Bigorro the Adour has car¬ ried away bridges and cottages. At Verdun (Ariege) more than fifty houses have fallen, and manv persons have been drowned. In Tarn-et-Garonne crops have perished ; and at Eerenonil- lot, a village six kilometres from Tou¬ louse, only three houses ont of four hundred aro loft standing. The railway between Bordeaux and Toulouse is cut in a dozen places, and the wi a ile coun¬ try is submerged. Tho power of tho surrounding districts to assist the greatest sufferers is crippled by their own lossfs, and tho communication with distant parts of the country is greatly impeded. It is doubtful wheth¬ er tho description of what has actually happened will include oven tho greater part of tho calamity. As tho waters recede a Burface saturated with mois¬ ture will bu exposed, and this itnrfaco will be strewn with the corpses of men and animals in every stage of decom¬ position. Exponed to the exhalations hence arising there will be a large pop¬ ulation reduced to absolute want-de¬ pendent upon charity for all tho neces¬ saries of life, destitnto alike of clothes, of food, of shelter and of employment. To communities tlriis situated disease comes with footsteps that aro neither tardy nor uncortaiu, and it is only by tho most prompt y and energetic aid from external sources that tho inhab¬ itants of Toulouse} oan be saved from even greater ills,' if such bo possible, than thoBO whioh have already befallen them. J THE CATT8B OF THE 0ALAMITY. In order to form an idea of the causes of tho inundation it is oniy necessary to glance at the physical geography of the departments in which it bas occurred. Tlioy lie on tho northern slopeB of tho Pyrenees, and oro intersected by nu¬ merous and rapid rivers, of which at leaßt four unite to form tho Goronne before it reaches Tonloueo. There has beon heavy and continuous rnfns over the whole of the mountain range, and a fall of snow at Luz, where it would di¬ rectly swell tho head waters of ihe Ga- roane. It is said that at least a con¬ tributory cause is furnished by the grout destruction of timber in tho dis¬ trict during tho last century. Troes not only absorb water largely from tho soil, but they also prevent tho surface from being bakad aud hardened by tho sun, and thoy oheok tho rapidity and abruptness with whioh rain would otherwise reach the ground. When it fulls unimpeded upon dry and barren hillsides, it will run from them almost as freely as from the sloping roofs of houses, and a few hours will carry tho water of tho mountain storm to swell the volume of the nearest river. It is oa'.y to be wise after the event ; but in a district BO situated there is great room for measures of prevention, and tho riparian authorities, whoever they may bo, should be mtrusted with powers commensurate to the magnitude of the roourring evils, whioh, by wise precau¬ tions, they might do much to mitigate or avert, Even the tiny floods which somotimos occur iu this country aro often greatly aggravated by local neg¬ lect, by somo silting up of tho channel of a stream, or by some ill-placed bridge, whioh forms an obstaele to the passage of an unusual body of water. In rivers in which are liable to be swollen by mountain torrents the chan¬ cels should bo made tho objects of unceasing soliciludo, aud the span and construction of bridges should be de¬ termined by other than purely local considerations. South America. Advices from Salvador Btate a dread¬ ful riot took placo at San Miguel, a town of forty thousand inhabitants, in the southern part of tho republic A great deal of discontent has been excited against tho government by its refusal to allow a pastoral of the bishop of Salvador, written in a tone hoBtilo to tho laws, to bo read in the ohurohes. There had also been considerable hos¬ tile feeling among the lower olasses, owing to Borne regulations requiring dealers to uso a new market place. While matters wore in this condition, a priest named Falacois, preached a violent sermon against the constituted authorities, on Sunday, the 29th ult. That ovoning the mob arose, attaoked the Oabilao, and liberated some two hundred prisoners. They then proceeded to assault the small garrison, and took the Cuartel, killed Generals Espinosa and Gastro, out the former to pieces and threw the pieces at each other, split tho skull of Gen. ^Castro, _ and threw him ovor a wall, where he was picKed up by his mother and died in three days. The garrison were nearly all assassinated, and many prominent citizens killed. After thin the fanatic mob set fire to some sixteen houses with keroBono. Before tho town was entirely destroyed, it fortunately happened that her Britannic majesty's ship Fantome was at La Union, when she landed her marines, which allowed the garrison there, united with some troops from Amapala, in Honduras, to march to tho relief of San Miguel and put down the mob. The Curate Palacios, at last accounts, was arrested, with others that had par¬ ticipated in tho ontbreak, and a good many of tho inferior rioters had been shot by un order of President Gonzales, who had arrived with troops. With the houses destroyed and pillaged, the damage is estimated at $1,000,000, and commercial failures aro looked for in consequence. Tho country has been declared in a state of siege, and Presi¬ dent Gonfalon is taking mensures to establish ordor and bring the perpetra¬ tors of this disgraceful outbreak to punishment. The Diario, tho oflioial organ of tho state, and all pnblio prints, abound in indignation against tho priests, who were the instigators of this savnge and sanguino affair. The Capitular Vicar of the distriot pub¬ lished his order appointing Jose Mannel Palaoios celebrant of tho ca¬ thedral of San Salvador. Tho munici¬ pality of this city asked to have said Palacios removed, but the Curia Ecclo- Biastica paid no attention to tho peti¬ tion. Ho was continually exciting hatred between lower and well-to-do classes, and the result has been de¬ scribed. One curions and incredible discovery was made after the murderons affair was over, and that was that on the persons of tho dead rebels were found pay np or ta which read, when translated, V Potor, open to the boorer the gates of heaven, who has died for religion." Signed, "George, Bishop of San Salvador," and sealed with tho seal of tho "Bishopric of San Salvador. A nitoon maro heavy in foal, owned on Long Island, broke her hind leg, and instead of destroying her, as is tho nlniost universal enstom, a votorinary surgeon peaced her in slings, set tho leg, and in six weeks the maro was turned ont all right and none tho worse for tho occident. Many valuable horses that are killed booauso they have the misfor¬ tune to break a limb might be saved bo following this humane nnd sensibly example. -It has been generally supposed that the wings of a grasshopper ure grown at a certain stage of its growth, bnt this theory is now shown to be errone¬ ous. Mr. Knight, mayor of St. Paul, Minn., has observed a great many grasshoppers' skins supposed to bu dead hoppers. He caught a tully de¬ veloped hopper with wings and watched it. In n little time it crawled ont of its skin, legs and all. Tho new hopper as "born had a full sot of wings, and wau quito lively, but not enough to fly. Mr. Knight is of the opinion that aftor this ohango takeB place one day is time o'Jongh to accustom it for its new exist¬ ence and fit it for emigration, BRIGANDS. A Dana ar Koaliert Bonni an Kxpress Train in Illinois-The Knglnerr »hot Dean, ana Kuglno ana Kxpress Car I)e- taclieii.-Ttio£xprcBBBIcB«oiigorOefenas ills Car Suoocssfulljr. One of the most high-hauded attempts at robbery that has over occurred in Illinois took place at liong Point, a station on the Vandalia railroad, on the night of the 8th inst. The dispatches to the Chicago papers give the follow¬ ing particulars of the affair : As train No. G, eastward bound, in ohargo of Conductor Fraley and En¬ gineer Milo Ames, oamo up to Long Point station for water, two men boarded the locomotivo, one from eaoh side, and Baid to tho engineer : Pall out !" The engineer was at first somewhat bewild¬ ered, when they said again, "Pall out !" At this he, seeming to comprehend the situation, said : "All right, I'll pull out." Tho men then said : "Wo will run the thing ourselves," and at that both of tho robbers fired. One of the shots killed tho engineer instantly, and tho other lodged in tho cab. Tho fire¬ man, who was on tho tank, taking in water, immediately jumped and ran to the rear of the train, to notify the train¬ men, he having heard the conversation and comprehending tho situation. During these proceedings at the eugine, a confederate had detached the Adams Express car, and they then, pull¬ ing tho engine wide opon, ran her about two miles enst and Btopped, blowing "off brakes" to deceive the express messenger. They then carno to tho door of tho ear and said : "Let me in Jaok." He replied to them: "You s-s of b-s, I'm ready for you ! If you evor como in boro, you aro dead mon ! " The rob¬ bers then commenced firing into the cur. Tho messenger, Burke, said it seemed to him that there were a dozen of them, as the shots seemed to come from all directions. Tue conductor of tho train-men, after the shots were fired, saw the situation of affairs, and at once set about to pur¬ sue the robbors. They could only fiud one revolver on the train, but found two soldiers on board a ear, who were armed with carbines. With these woapous tho train-men and the soldiers stnrted in pursuit of tho train and rob¬ bers, but when they came up to tho train all was quiet, the robbers having lied. They found the engineer in the bottom of his cab, cold and stiff. There ohanoed to bo a freight engin¬ eer, Jaok Vanoleve, on the train, and he, with tho firoman, immediately ran tho engine back to tho train and brought it in. The robbers'failed to get any entrance whatever into the express car, it Oeing one of the dose kind, and having no windows, and very strong every way. Had!they detached tho American ex¬ press oar also, whioh was immediately in the rear of tho AdamB, they would undoubtedly havo accomplished their object, as it was an open oar, hav¬ ing windows, and doors not very strong. Engineer Ames was one of the best engineers on tho road, about thirtv-five years old, and had been married but a short time. The robbors who boarded the locomo¬ tive wore long linen dusters. Conductor Fraloy, and all the train¬ men, in fact, did all they could under the circumstances. An Ohio Narrow Gauge Experiment. The Poinesville ond Youngstown narrow gauge railroad, in Ohio, is nearly oompleted to the latter place, and has already begun transporting coal to its northern terminus nt Fairport, on Lako Erie. It will soon bo in full op¬ eration and the test it will afford of the relative economy of the three-feet and ordinary gaugeB will bo watched with interest. The line is about sixty miles long, and runs nearly a little west of north from Youngstown to tho lake. It will have in the coal traffic the active competition of three roads of the usual gauge of five feet. According to the claims of its officers, the advantage of the nnrrow-gango is that on a car weigh¬ ing only four tons it eau carry eight tons of coal, while tho five-feet gauge roads transport only ten tons on a oar weighing ten. Thus the narrow gauge gets pay for four tons as freight on oaoh oar wliiob its competitors must haul for nothing in tho suupu of rolling stock. Tho cost of building the line was about $20,000, probably ono-fourth less than a wide gan go rood would havo cost. There is not much saving iu operating expenses, as it takes just as many hands to ruu a narrow train as a wide one. Considerable saving is effected ¿ however, in the equipment. As a passenger road the line answers all tho require¬ ments of the country it travereos. Its cars are comfortable, and as soon as the road-bed becomes firm the trains will run with ns much steadiness as on other roads. < BONE EsiiON.-Tho London Lancet -very high authority-gives tho follow¬ ing remedy for the oure of this very painful malady : "As soon as the pul¬ sation whioh indicates tho disease is felt, put direotly over tho ftpot a fly blister about the sizo of your thumb nail and let it remain for six hours ; at the expiration of which time, direotly under the surface of tho blister may be seen the felon, whioh can be easily takon out with the point of a noodle or loucet." -Sometimos people writo n postal card fall, and then turn over and finish what they havo to say upon the face. They ought to know that in such caBor. tho party to whom tho card is addressed has to pay six cents postage. Cheaper to uso a three-cent stamp in tho first place. FAOTS AND FANGIES. -" Gently tho dues are o'er me steal¬ ing," us the man said, when ho had thirteen bills presented to bim in ono day. -A darkey oalled at Owensboro, Ky., the other day, and wanted to know "Does dis pos tor ll s keep stamped ante¬ lopes?" -Perkins suggests that the racing erews of our boat clubs might balance their shells better if they parted their hair in the middle. -Precocious boy, munching the fruit of the dafo tree : " Mamma, if I eat datea enongh, shall I grow np to be au almanac ?" -" I go through my work," as the needle said to the idlo boy. But not until you are pushed ahead," as the idle boy said to the needle. -A market house philosopher says : "Tho race is not always to the strong," because if it was, the onion would be a-head instead of cabbage. -Tho Columbus Journal, describir» an Ohio politician, says : " He ir honest man by profession, and he qis bread by the sweat of his jtv -The people of Georgia' oitod a few days ago over th« discovery of a gold mino. T ward found that the dopos of gold foil stuck around tL mucilage, "* . -A test was recently made of ti buoyant power of a leaf of a water known as the Victoria Beria, in the botanic garden at Ghent. Bricks were heaped over its entire area, and before it was submerged in the water a weight of 761 pounds was floated. -" Fred Douglas, in a fourth of July address at Hillsdale, Pa., advised his race to cultivate independence." The cultivation of independence is well enough, but they should not make it a specialty. They should reserve a mero garden-spot for independence, and de¬ vote tho far greater amount of their acreage to the* cultivation of corn, cot¬ ton, and cabbage. -Feathers are shooting all over the toilets. The gossips say feather fans, feather parasols, and feather hats are all tho go. Feather trimmings are now arranged with so muoh lightness and beauty that they are considered as suit¬ able for summer as well as winter wear. They are mounted with fringe as well as bands, though as bands they are used for tho trimmings of bonnets and para¬ sols. -To bo read by moonlight only : " On the Erie railroad, between Port Jervis and Buffalo, there is a conductor known as tho ' Rosebud Conductor.' Many years ago he wau engaged to a beautiful girl, and their wedding day was Axed. She was taken ill and died a few davs before she was to become a bride. On her deathbed she said to her lover: 'H you will always carry a rosebud in y our button- hole, no accident will ever befall yon.' He bas carried a rosebud over since, and no ill has befallen him. He is still a single man." -Thomos Carlyle bas numerous ad¬ mirers on this side of the Atlantic, but probably California does not take much stock in his philosophy. He blurted out to a lady of that State, the other day : " You are doing no good service there ; you aro harming the world. Cover over your mines, leave your gold in the earth, and go to plant¬ ing potatoes. Every man who gives a Eat p. to to the world is tho benefactor of is race ; but yon, with your gold, are overturning society, snaking the ignoble prominent, increasing everywhere the expenses of living, and confusing all things." Our Riflemen in Old Ireland. The account of the dinner gjyen*by the faculty of Trinity College, Dublin, to the members of the American team will be found full of interest. Nothing could better illustrate the profound friendship all ol asses cf the Irish peo¬ ple feel towards Americans, than this banquet offered to our riflemen. Among all tue conservative institutions of Ire¬ land, old Trinity has. ever been the most rigid and exolnsive, and that fel¬ lows of that institution should throw open their banqueting halls to a num¬ ber of republican Amavioan riflemen showB that the kindly feeling entertained by the masses of the Irish people toward our institutions' begin to be shared even by tho most conservative element in Ireland. Tho banquet itself gave occa¬ sion for a display of after-dinner elo¬ quence at once graceful and cfleetivo, Toasts wore drunk to tho health of the president of the United States, an honor never before paid to any foreign ruler. The value of all this is in the lesson of unity and good fellowship it teaches. If these peaceful contests at Creed moor¬ ain! Dollymount should do no othor good they will have removed many in¬ grained prejudices from the minds of many persons. Irish gentlemen will learn from the testimony of men bf their own caste that the American people do not at all resemble the typical Yankee, and Americans who have been drawn to Ireland will find that the otago Irishman has no existence except in the fertile brains of .dramatists,- Their vi'-'ii-will also demonstrate to them the existence of a cultured and refined Irish society, as distinct from tho whisky-drinking, riot-loving oreaturos pictured by for- oign caricaturists a» could weir be imagined. With tho disappearance of theao and kindred, prejudices we may hope that tho bonds of sympathy be¬ tween the Irish and American people will continue to multiply. And if these frequent visits and interchanges of sen¬ timents do no more than this, they will have amply repaid tho time and atten¬ tion devoted to thom.
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HE FREE lolBS áE. A. WEBSTER. Editor and rroprietor. *A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politio«.
VOLUME I. NUMBER 51.
TIMELY TOPICS.TUE recent Ticean flood is swelling
tho streams in a manner calculated todo much damngo through tho country.MOODY and Sankey.concluded not to
go to Paris, and Will probably bo backin the United States by the middle ofAugust.EMIGRATION to California foll off
noorly thrue-fourths in tho month ofJune", which was lucky for tho stay-at-homes.THE Baltimore American says the
grasshoppers have made their appear¬ance in Frederick county, Md., whoreclover and ryo crops aro particularlyabundant.
: * THE Chinese have, for the first time,whipped the Formosan savages. Theseaborigines number 20,000 only, aud yotUrey have kept in terror about twomillions of Chinean settlers.THE revenue officials havo abandoned
tho idea of placing a rovenuo stamp noevery cigar, and smokers can still inhalothe dreamful vapor without tho dis-oom/ort of the bnrnt paper taste.
JAY GOUT/D intends to remain king ofWall street. Ho proclaims his powerby allowing the New York Tribuno topublish the facts that ho owns 100,000shares of tho Union Pacifio stock. Thepresent value of this amount of stock is$7,600,000 ; but no doubt much of it isbought with borrowed nionoy, and holdon a niargin. Gould ia of Jersey birth,and is now past sixty. Ho was broughtup a leather dealer in what is calledV The Swamp."ORDERS have been aont by Gen. Terrv
to the commander at Fort Randall, toexpedite the dopartnre of a cavalryforce at that point, under orders toproceed direct to the Black Hills, andbring out all persons found there with¬out authority. Meantime, so far as wecan observe, tho gold excitement seemsto have almost entirely died out, jTHE monument for Edgar Allan Pce's
hitherto nogleoted gravo will be com¬pleted in October. A small stone halia foot high and three inches square nowmarks the poet's resting place in thcBaltimore graveyard. Tho new monament will be surmounted by a bust olPoe, which is said 'to bo an accuratelikeness.
IN addition to tho shortage in th«United States treasury caused by tinthoft of the $17,500 paokage, there is t$1,060 shortage in tho redemption division, whioh was discovered in JanuaryThis was reported by treasurer Novwhen he took charge. Otherwise tinfunds are all straight, and Spinner ÍB t<bo congratulated.
Ar-noros of the recent shipment o:Florida fruit direct to Chicago, thcMobile Register says that, with someimprovement in railroad facilities antproper, oo-operation among the ship'pera, prudent and industrious farmerijCOTdd. realize more from vegetablegardens in Alabama in six woeks thaithey could make in 'a twelve-niontlupon nu Iowa or Illinois farm.
THE British government has fnlfillei. its pledge .to appoint a royal commissioito inquire into tho subject; of vivisectiona! experiments. Tho instruction
- io the commission are to inquire inttho practice of subjecting livo animalto experiments for scientific purpose*:and to consider and report what mea*ures, if any, it may be desirable to takin respect to any such praotice.Mn. JOHN BRIOHT writes thus sens
bly to a Glasgow workingman: "book, and not a small one, might Imado np of the strange doings of tltrade unions. Monopoly is hardteaob, and I- fear tho workingmen wionly learn through Bullering, and tinmay do mischief whioh caunot aileward be repaired." The adviceappli' cqnallywell in this country, and t!recent Pennsylvania coal tro íblca affoan apt illustration of its truth.KENO GEOROE^OÍ Greece, seems to
in an unhappy predicament. His kindom is threatened with a revolution ;is unpopular, aud nobody takes Ihat off to him on the .streets; tqueen has been insulted, and hoafraid to go io the Hellenic LoBranch, at Dekeleia, because he thinit quite probable he will not be able
. get back into his capital again. TRussian ships aro ready at tho Pire
* to^eawy him* away in ease of a revotion.THE trial of the noterions John
Lee for complicity in the MountiMeadow massacre of 1857 will not coi
of! until tho 15th inst. Tho difficultyin this caso will bo that ef obtaining aproper jury, as |ho Mormon element isvory strong nnd^irojudieod in TJOO'Sfavor. Lee was indicted last Octobor,mid tho witnesses against him will boporBons who witnessed tho massaorowhen children, seveutcon years ngo, Leeand his fellow-murderers having sparedthat number. The Mormons olaim thattho Indians did tho killing, but this, itis said, can be entirely refuted.
ON Ascension Day thoro was a horri¬ble row in Jerusalem between sumoGreek and Armenian priests who hadboon allowed by the Latins to mokeuso of a chapel built over what is bo-lieved to bo tho Savior's footprint.Tho quarrel aroso on a question ofprecedence, and ended in a fight. Thopriests went at it "tooth and nail,"fighting up aud down tho saored edificowith such fury that they had to bo sep¬arated by Turkish soldiers. TwoGreek priests were wounded, and onoof tho soldiers, in trying to restorepeace, lost his eye. Tho 'Mussulmanpopulation look upon thojo seotarianshindies nt Jorusnleni as peculiar illus¬trations of tho brotherly ; love which ÍBtho distinguishing mark of their Ch nutian fellow subjeots.
TIIE cf at no of Lafayette, tho gift oftho French government to tho city ofNow York, reached that port on Wed¬nesday. It is tho work of FrederickBartholdi, a- native of Alsace, and. isBoven feet high exclusivo of tho pedi¬ment. The project of its presentationto New York originated with the Thiersgovernment nnd..nearly $30,000, gold,was appropriated for its execution inbronze, The Tribuno says tho designof tho sculptor represents Gen. Lafay¬ette in his twentioth year, at tho timewhou ho joined the continental army.He stands upon a ship as if in the act ofspeaking. His right arm is extended,and the left is thrown across his chest,with tho hand grasping tho pommel ofhis sword and a mass of drapery whichfalls at his feet. The- body is .firmlypoBcd upon tho right foot, while tholoft leg is extended. The head isslightly turned to tho right. Tho statuewill be placed in Central Park, and theunvailing will probably take placo earlyin the fall,
Mns. BEAVER is, or was, a materializ¬ing: spiritualistic medium. She gave se¬ances in Boston of the Eddy and KatyKing kind, and was making dollars ingrokt numbers. One night there wasan unusually large audience, and theexhibition was uncommonly startling.In the dim light forms emerged fromtho cabinet, and some of them were atonce recognized by persons present asreanimations of dead relatives. Atlength tho form of a ohild appeared atthe doorway of t ho cabinet, and a womansaid that sho readily recognized it asher baby that had died a fow weeks be¬fore. Then a young follow, full ofearthly realism, sprang forward andgrabbed tho infantilo form, and waspromptly knocked down by tho manwho conducted tho show. Tho investi¬gator held fast to tho baby, however,which, upon examination, proved tohnvo eon materialized with rags and nmask.
LOOK ont or moro earthquakes. Anexamination of tho history of theso sub¬terranean disturbances shows that eachgreat earthquake-say of the dimen¬sions of tho recent ono at Ououta, inwhich ten thousand lives were lost,-has been followed for o certain periodby innumerable leBBor ones. In thoHummer of 1868, the coast of Chili andPeru were shaken by terrible earth¬quakes, in which many lives and a vastamount of property wore lost, and, justtwo months later, on October 21, SanFrancisco was shaken so violently thatbuildings cracked from top to founda¬tion, and fissures throwing forth jots ofwater- opened--in tho streets» in- thosame year the Hawaiian volcanoes hadviolent oruptions, and the subjects ofKamehameha were mado sea-sick by thecontinued swaying of their islands. Inthe same year VeenviuB opened ontwith a fresh emption. The groatearthquakes of Caracas, in Venezuela,and New Madrid, in the United States,occurred just six months apart. Ifwe are to regard those precedents, an¬other great upheaval may bo expectedsomewhero on the American continentbetween thisdimo and tho 1st of Janu¬ary. Tice has booked us for cata¬clysms, cyclones, and earthquakes,* andsimilar lively occurrences during themonth of October, Taking it altogether,tho prospeot for the remaindor of 1875is deoidely uncomfortable for everybodyexcept Elder Thnrman hud his fol¬lowers.
THE ARCTIC EXrLUKER.From leafy England far away,
lils mm i¡ aro laid ;Not wlicro tho lark ealnloR tho ilay,Nor where white lambs lu nieadow« i>loy,lu thu creon Bbacte.
Ho UCB within a lcaflcse laud,In tho cold enow ;
Whom no kind foot or kindlier handCan visit bim, or weave a baudTo Bolton woe.
Tho white drift whirling all aroundOn Bea sud shoro ;
They took him from tho ship Icc-bannd,Ami InUl him gently In tho groundFoi overniore.
And though no English larku shall thron»,Above his grave,To pootho his clumber with tliolr Bong,Ho He« poctirn from n'ortal wrong-O sweet aud brovtílTho Merrel of tho Polar Sea
I« yet concealed ;Bat to thy vision, pura and free,'Tho Beeret of eternityHas been revealed !
THE GREAT DBLUGE.Titree, lliousn UnuR.cu Howl*--Sixtynillllm>s ot Dollars tu l'ropcrly Knownto Ilnve lt'-eo Lost.
From tho London l'OBt (Editorial), Juno 29.The geographical position of Franco,although in many respects highly fa¬vored, is finch as to entail npon largedistricts of the country a liability to bo
suddenly ilolngod bv tho overflow offlooded rivera. At TOUIOUHO, such in¬undations have occurred ovory twentyyears-or, nt least, in 1815, Í835 and1855-although never before to thosame extent as at present, or with thocalamitous consequences to lifo andproperty which wo are now called uponto record. In 1856 tho whole valley oftho Rhone was visited in a similar man¬ner. The streets of Lyons woro formany days traversed by boats, and notonly trees and oattlo, but bridges,cburohes, honsos, even whole villages,were swept away, and great numbers ofpeople were either drowned or buriedamid fallen ruins. But whencompared with tho inundation whichhas new, we hope, snbsided, nil otherssink ir to comparative insignificance.A week ago to-dav. our correspondenttolls ns the river Garonne, at Tonlose,was unusually bif»h, but no seriousdancer was apprehended, and no pre¬cautionary mcasuros were takeu. OnWednesday tho waters roso rapidly,and by ten o'olook in the morning theylind reached the level of the flood of1855. At two o'clock two arches of abridge and twenty houses were swept jaway, and tho floating swimming bathsand lavatories wore torn from theirmoorings and hurried down tho torrent^At five the water overflowed tho-paray,pet whioh protects the populous quar-'ter of St. Cyprien ; at G it was ten feetdeep in tho streets, and before nightthis qnnrter was cut off from the rest ofthe town, tho threo bridges of commu¬nication being destroyed. All nightthe crash of falling houses and thecries and shrieks- of sufferers wereheard. On Thursday the flood beganto abate, and' the water had fallen sixfeet by tho evening. In the town ofToulouse alone, it is said, nine hundredpersons have perished and 20,000 areleft destitute. Nearly three thousandhouses have fallen, and the destmotionof property is roughlv estimated atfrom X12.000.000, to .£15,000.000, ster-ling. The whole valley of the Garonneis said to resemble a vast lake, coveredwith fragments of the ruinB of thotown, ns well as with wreck brou gi itdown from higher, districts, and dottedwith corpses, some of them wearing thocostume of places twenty leaguos away.Although it is upon this particulardistrict that tho calamity hus faiionwith tho greatest force, yet the neigh¬boring departments havo also been ter¬rible Bufferers. In Aude the crops havebeen extensively destroyed. At Bng-nieres de Bigorro the Adour has car¬ried away bridges and cottages. AtVerdun (Ariege) more than fifty houseshave fallen, and manv persons havebeen drowned. In Tarn-et-Garonnecrops have perished ; and at Eerenonil-lot, a village six kilometres from Tou¬louse, only three houses ont of fourhundred aro loft standing. The railwaybetween Bordeaux and Toulouse is cutin a dozen places, and the wi a ile coun¬try is submerged. Tho power of thosurrounding districts to assist thegreatest sufferers is crippled by theirown lossfs, and tho communicationwith distant parts of the country isgreatly impeded. It is doubtful wheth¬er tho description of what has actuallyhappened will include oven tho greaterpart of tho calamity. As tho watersrecede a Burface saturated with mois¬ture will bu exposed, and this itnrfacowill be strewn with the corpses of menand animals in every stage of decom¬position. Exponed to the exhalationshence arising there will be a large pop¬ulation reduced to absolute want-de¬pendent upon charity for all tho neces¬saries of life, destitnto alike of clothes,of food, of shelter and of employment.To communities tlriis situated diseasecomes with footsteps that aro neithertardy nor uncortaiu, and it is only bytho most prompt y and energetic aidfrom external sources that tho inhab¬itants of Toulouse} oan be saved fromeven greater ills,' if such bo possible,than thoBO whioh have already befallenthem. J
THE CATT8B OF THE 0ALAMITY.In order to form an idea of the causes
of tho inundation it is oniy necessary toglance at the physical geography of thedepartments in which it bas occurred.Tlioy lie on tho northern slopeB of thoPyrenees, and oro intersected by nu¬merous and rapid rivers, of which atleaßt four unite to form tho Goronnebefore it reaches Tonloueo. There hasbeon heavy and continuous rnfns overthe whole of the mountain range, and afall of snow at Luz, where it would di¬rectly swell tho head waters of ihe Ga-
roane. It is said that at least a con¬tributory cause is furnished by thegrout destruction of timber in tho dis¬trict during tho last century. Troesnot only absorb water largely from thosoil, but they also prevent tho surfacefrom being bakad aud hardened by thosun, and thoy oheok tho rapidity andabruptness with whioh rain wouldotherwise reach the ground. When itfulls unimpeded upon dry and barrenhillsides, it will run from them almostas freely as from the sloping roofs ofhouses, and a few hours will carry thowater of tho mountain storm to swellthe volume of the nearest river. It isoa'.y to be wise after the event ; but ina district BO situated there is great roomfor measures of prevention, and thoriparian authorities, whoever they maybo, should be mtrusted with powerscommensurate to the magnitude of theroourring evils, whioh, by wise precau¬tions, they might do much to mitigateor avert, Even the tiny floods whichsomotimos occur iu this country arooften greatly aggravated by local neg¬lect, by somo silting up of tho channelof a stream, or by some ill-placedbridge, whioh forms an obstaele to thepassage of an unusual body of water.In rivers in which are liable to beswollen by mountain torrents the chan¬cels should bo made tho objects ofunceasing soliciludo, aud the span andconstruction of bridges should be de¬termined by other than purely localconsiderations.
South America.Advices from Salvador Btate a dread¬
ful riot took placo at San Miguel, a townof forty thousand inhabitants, in thesouthern part of tho republic A greatdeal of discontent has been excitedagainst tho government by its refusalto allow a pastoral of the bishop ofSalvador, written in a tone hoBtilo totho laws, to bo read in the ohurohes.There had also been considerable hos¬tile feeling among the lower olasses,owing to Borne regulations requiringdealers to uso a new market place.While matters wore in this condition, apriest named Falacois, preached aviolent sermon against the constitutedauthorities, on Sunday, the 29thult. That ovoning the mob arose,attaoked the Oabilao, and liberatedsome two hundred prisoners. Theythen proceeded to assault the smallgarrison, and took the Cuartel, killedGenerals Espinosa and Gastro, out theformer to pieces and threw the piecesat each other, split tho skull of Gen.^Castro, _ and threw him ovor a wall,where he was picKed up by his motherand died in three days. The garrisonwere nearly all assassinated, and manyprominent citizens killed. After thinthe fanatic mob set fire to some sixteenhouses with keroBono. Before tho townwas entirely destroyed, it fortunatelyhappened that her Britannic majesty'sship Fantome was at La Union, whenshe landed her marines, which allowedthe garrison there, united with sometroops from Amapala, in Honduras, tomarch to tho relief of San Miguel andput down the mob.The Curate Palacios, at last accounts,
was arrested, with others that had par¬ticipated in tho ontbreak, and a goodmany of tho inferior rioters had beenshot by un order of President Gonzales,who had arrived with troops. With thehouses destroyed and pillaged, thedamage is estimated at $1,000,000, andcommercial failures aro looked for inconsequence. Tho country has beendeclared in a state of siege, and Presi¬dent Gonfalon is taking mensures toestablish ordor and bring the perpetra¬tors of this disgraceful outbreak topunishment. The Diario, tho oflioialorgan of tho state, and all pnblio prints,abound in indignation against thopriests, who were the instigators ofthis savnge and sanguino affair. TheCapitular Vicar of the distriot pub¬lished his order appointing JoseMannel Palaoios celebrant of tho ca¬thedral of San Salvador. Tho munici¬pality of this city asked to have saidPalacios removed, but the Curia Ecclo-Biastica paid no attention to tho peti¬tion. Ho was continually excitinghatred between lower and well-to-doclasses, and the result has been de¬scribed. One curions and incrediblediscovery was made after the murderonsaffair was over, and that was that onthe persons of tho dead rebels werefound paynp orta which read, whentranslated, V Potor, open to the boorerthe gates of heaven, who has died forreligion." Signed, "George, Bishopof San Salvador," and sealed with thoseal of tho "Bishopric of San Salvador.A nitoon maro heavy in foal, owned
on Long Island, broke her hind leg, andinstead of destroying her, as is thonlniost universal enstom, a votorinarysurgeon peaced her in slings, set tho leg,and in six weeks the maro was turnedont all right and none tho worse for thooccident. Many valuable horses thatare killed booauso they have the misfor¬tune to break a limb might be saved bofollowing this humane nnd sensiblyexample.-It has been generally supposed thatthe wings of a grasshopper ure grownat a certain stage of its growth, bntthis theory is now shown to be errone¬
ous. Mr. Knight, mayor of St. Paul,Minn., has observed a great manygrasshoppers' skins supposed to budead hoppers. He caught a tully de¬veloped hopper with wings and watchedit. In n little time it crawled ont of itsskin, legs and all. Tho new hopper as"born had a full sot of wings, andwau quito lively, but not enough to fly.Mr. Knight is of the opinion that aftorthis ohango takeB place one day is timeo'Jongh to accustom it for its new exist¬ence and fit it for emigration,
BRIGANDS.A Dana ar Koaliert Bonni an KxpressTrain in Illinois-The Knglnerr »hotDean, ana Kuglno ana Kxpress Car I)e-taclieii.-Ttio£xprcBBBIcB«oiigorOefenasills Car Suoocssfulljr.One of the most high-hauded attempts
at robbery that has over occurred inIllinois took place at liong Point, astation on the Vandalia railroad, on thenight of the 8th inst. The dispatchesto the Chicago papers give the follow¬ing particulars of the affair :As train No. G, eastward bound, in
ohargo of Conductor Fraley and En¬gineer Milo Ames, oamo up to LongPoint station for water, two men boardedthe locomotivo, one from eaoh side, andBaid to tho engineer : Pall out !" Theengineer was at first somewhat bewild¬ered, when they said again, "Pall out !"At this he, seeming to comprehend thesituation, said : "All right, I'll pullout." Tho men then said : "Wo willrun the thing ourselves," and at thatboth of tho robbers fired. One of theshots killed tho engineer instantly, andtho other lodged in tho cab. Tho fire¬man, who was on tho tank, taking inwater, immediately jumped and ran tothe rear of the train, to notify the train¬men, he having heard the conversationand comprehending tho situation.During these proceedings at the
eugine, a confederate had detached theAdams Express car, and they then, pull¬ing tho engine wide opon, ran her abouttwo miles enst and Btopped, blowing"off brakes" to deceive the expressmessenger.They then carno to tho door of tho
ear and said : "Let me in Jaok." Hereplied to them: "You s-s of b-s,I'm ready for you ! If you evor comoin boro, you aro dead mon ! " The rob¬bers then commenced firing into thecur. Tho messenger, Burke, said itseemed to him that there were a dozenof them, as the shots seemed to comefrom all directions.Tue conductor of tho train-men, after
the shots were fired, saw the situationof affairs, and at once set about to pur¬sue the robbors. They could onlyfiud one revolver on the train, but foundtwo soldiers on board a ear, who werearmed with carbines. With thesewoapous tho train-men and the soldiersstnrted in pursuit of tho train and rob¬bers, but when they came up to thotrain all was quiet, the robbers havinglied. They found the engineer in thebottom of his cab, cold and stiff.There ohanoed to bo a freight engin¬
eer, Jaok Vanoleve, on the train, andhe, with tho firoman, immediately rantho engine back to tho train and broughtit in.The robbers'failed to get any entrance
whatever into the express car, it Oeingone of the dose kind, and having nowindows, and very strong every way.Had!they detached tho American ex¬press oar also, whioh was immediatelyin the rear of tho AdamB, theywould undoubtedly havo accomplishedtheir object, as it was an open oar, hav¬ing windows, and doors not very strong.Engineer Ames was one of the bestengineers on tho road, about thirtv-fiveyears old, and had been married but ashort time.The robbors who boarded the locomo¬
tive wore long linen dusters.Conductor Fraloy, and all the train¬
men, in fact, did all they could underthe circumstances.
An Ohio Narrow Gauge Experiment.The Poinesville ond Youngstown
narrow gauge railroad, in Ohio, is nearlyoompleted to the latter place, and hasalready begun transporting coal to itsnorthern terminus nt Fairport, onLako Erie. It will soon bo in full op¬eration and the test it will afford of therelative economy of the three-feet andordinary gaugeB will bo watched withinterest. The line is about sixty mileslong, and runs nearly a little west ofnorth from Youngstown to tho lake. Itwill have in the coal traffic the activecompetition of three roads of the usualgauge of five feet. According to theclaims of its officers, the advantage ofthe nnrrow-gango is that on a car weigh¬ing only four tons it eau carry eighttons of coal, while tho five-feet gaugeroads transport only ten tons on a oarweighing ten. Thus the narrow gaugegets pay for four tons as freight on oaohoar wliiob its competitors must haul fornothing in tho suupu of rolling stock.Tho cost of building the line was about$20,000, probably ono-fourth less than awide gango rood would havo cost.There is not much saving iu operatingexpenses, as it takes just as many handsto ruu a narrow train as a wide one.Considerable saving is effected ¿ however,in the equipment. As a passengerroad the line answers all tho require¬ments of the country it travereos. Itscars are comfortable, and as soon as theroad-bed becomes firm the trains willrun with ns much steadiness as onother roads. <
BONE EsiiON.-Tho London Lancet-very high authority-gives tho follow¬ing remedy for the oure of this verypainful malady : "As soon as the pul¬sation whioh indicates tho disease isfelt, put direotly over tho ftpot a flyblister about the sizo of your thumbnail and let it remain for six hours ; atthe expiration of which time, direotlyunder the surface of tho blister may beseen the felon, whioh can be easilytakon out with the point of a noodle orloucet."-Sometimos people writo n postalcard fall, and then turn over and finish
what they havo to say upon the face.They ought to know that in such caBor.tho party to whom tho card is addressedhas to pay six cents postage. Cheaperto uso a three-cent stamp in tho firstplace.
FAOTS AND FANGIES.-" Gently tho dues are o'er me steal¬
ing," us the man said, when ho hadthirteen bills presented to bim in onoday.-A darkey oalled at Owensboro, Ky.,
the other day, and wanted to know"Does dis pos tor ll s keep stamped ante¬lopes?"-Perkins suggests that the racing
erews of our boat clubs might balancetheir shells better if they parted theirhair in the middle.-Precocious boy, munching the fruit
of the dafo tree : " Mamma, if I eatdatea enongh, shall I grow np to be aualmanac ?"-" I go through my work," as theneedle said to the idlo boy. But not
until you are pushed ahead," as the idleboy said to the needle.-A market house philosopher says :
"Tho race is not always to the strong,"because if it was, the onion would bea-head instead of cabbage.-Tho Columbus Journal, describir»
an Ohio politician, says : " He irhonest man by profession, and heqis bread by the sweat of his jtv-The people of Georgia'
oitod a few days ago over th«discovery of a gold mino. Tward found that the doposof gold foil stuck around tLmucilage, "* .-A test was recently made of ti
buoyant power of a leaf of a waterknown as the Victoria Beria, in thebotanic garden at Ghent. Bricks wereheaped over its entire area, and beforeit was submerged in the water a weightof 761 pounds was floated.-" Fred Douglas, in a fourth of Julyaddress at Hillsdale, Pa., advised his
race to cultivate independence." Thecultivation of independence is wellenough, but they should not make it aspecialty. They should reserve a merogarden-spot for independence, and de¬vote tho far greater amount of theiracreage to the* cultivation of corn, cot¬ton, and cabbage.-Feathers are shooting all over the
toilets. The gossips say feather fans,feather parasols, and feather hats are alltho go. Feather trimmings are nowarranged with so muoh lightness andbeauty that they are considered as suit¬able for summer as well as winter wear.They are mounted with fringe as well asbands, though as bands they are usedfor tho trimmings of bonnets and para¬sols.-To bo read by moonlight only :
" On the Erie railroad, between PortJervis and Buffalo, there is a conductorknown as tho ' Rosebud Conductor.'Many years ago he wau engaged to abeautiful girl, and their wedding daywas Axed. She was taken ill and dieda few davs before she was to become abride. On her deathbed she said to herlover: 'H you will always carry a rosebudin your button-hole, no accident will everbefall yon.' He bas carried a rosebudover since, and no ill has befallen him.He is still a single man."-Thomos Carlyle bas numerous ad¬
mirers on this side of the Atlantic,but probably California does not takemuch stock in his philosophy. Heblurted out to a lady of that State, theother day : " You are doing no goodservice there ; you aro harming theworld. Cover over your mines, leaveyour gold in the earth, and go to plant¬ing potatoes. Every man who gives aEat p.to to the world is tho benefactor ofis race ; but yon, with your gold, areoverturning society, snaking the ignobleprominent, increasing everywhere theexpenses of living, and confusing allthings."
Our Riflemen in Old Ireland.The account of the dinner gjyen*bythe faculty of Trinity College, Dublin,
to the members of the American teamwill be found full of interest. Nothingcould better illustrate the profoundfriendship all ol asses cf the Irish peo¬ple feel towards Americans, than thisbanquet offered to our riflemen. Amongall tue conservative institutions of Ire¬land, old Trinity has. ever been themost rigid and exolnsive, and that fel¬lows of that institution should throwopen their banqueting halls to a num¬ber of republican Amavioan riflemenshowB that the kindly feeling entertainedby the masses of the Irish people towardour institutions' begin to be shared evenby tho most conservative element inIreland. Tho banquet itself gave occa¬sion for a display of after-dinner elo¬quence at once graceful and cfleetivo,Toasts wore drunk to tho health of thepresident of the United States, an honornever before paid to any foreign ruler.The value of all this is in the lesson ofunity and good fellowship it teaches.If these peaceful contests at Creed moor¬ain! Dollymount should do no othorgood they will have removed many in¬grained prejudices from the minds ofmany persons. Irish gentlemen willlearn from the testimony of men bf theirown caste that the American people donot at all resemble the typical Yankee,and Americans who have been drawn toIreland will find that the otago Irishmanhas no existence except in the fertilebrains of .dramatists,- Their vi'-'ii-willalso demonstrate to them the existenceof a cultured and refined Irish society,as distinct from tho whisky-drinking,riot-loving oreaturos pictured by for-oign caricaturists a» could weir beimagined. With tho disappearance oftheao and kindred, prejudices we mayhope that tho bonds of sympathy be¬tween the Irish and American peoplewill continue to multiply. And if thesefrequent visits and interchanges of sen¬timents do no more than this, they willhave amply repaid tho time and atten¬tion devoted to thom.
