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/"" '3 * fw ' Yf * *** • **r .:*vr * ̂ *• % J1!*' ;cmu VAN 8LYKE, EDITO»AXI> PUBUSHK* 2HKNRY, ILliINO|Sk THE PAST WEEK >•.. uOMESTIC ifSWH. -- " *, r A* . *v* 1' " . • : W - ' - * • ' - . * W : * "** t* F"^n 1" v r^-. I ^ . * k r f i , « L * i . , i L . < < » . . . . J l *• A _. K *» * a. * ' * J5-&- "Tii tenement house and beet saloon <tf John Odendorfer burnetii, the other night, •t Boston. Mrs. Odendorfer and son, 10 years of age, perished in the flames... .Peter Hauck's extensive brewery at Newark, N. J., burned, Hie other day, with its malt-house, ice-houses, t Mid other buildings. Loss estimated at $100,- • J 000; partially insured Commodore John Mi • Quest, commandant of the Portsmouth (N. H.) > advy yard, died reoently. MADAIIE ANDERSON, the English walk- •T, has complete her tremendous undertaking )s" to podeatrifHiiam--that of walking 2,700 quar- ter-miles in 2,700 consecutive quarter-hours. The walk took place in New York. THE recent execution of Sharpe and >. ;• McDonnell, convicted of the murder of George ^ K. Smith, coal-operator at Audenreid, on the of Nov. 5,1863, proved to be most excit- tog. A reprieve from Goy. Hartranft arrived " ' one-half minute after the drop fell--just thirty aeconda too late to save the lives of the men ad- JljkJged guilty of the murder. . ? A FIBK broke out, the other night, in " • #**«*> building on the north side of Grand tlreet, New York, extending from Broadway to Crosby, occupied on the lower floors by Howard, Sanger & Co., notions, and on the upper floor by Naumburger, Krause, Lauer & Co., cloth­ ing. The entire building burned, causing a Joss estimated at $2,000,000. THE New York Sun has a report that >fee body of A. T. Stewart has been recovered, upon payment of $50,000. MARTIN BERG IN -was hanged, last week, at Pottsville, Pa. He is the nineteenth Mollie Mag™ir« who has suffered the death pen­ alty in that State. Only two more of the Mol­ lis remain to be dealt with. NEW YORK has just had another dis- astrona conflagration. The fire occurred in Worth street, among the dry-goods and import­ ing houses, and the loss of valuable stocks and <n buildings is placed at *4,000,000. The West, AN inquiry, in the nature of a Grand Jttrv trial, into the charge against Maj. Reno in connection with the Custer massacre, is going OB in Chicago....Sitting Bull is willing to be orgiven, and wants to return on thai condition. THREE Americans and one Chinaman were killed by an explosion at the Giant Powder Works, near San Francisco, CaL, lately. One Chinaman was badly injured, and a number of whites and Chinese more or less hurt The damage to the property is about $50,000. S. D. RICHARDS was arraigned and tried recently, at Mindon, Kearney county, Neb, on a charge of murdering Peter Ander­ son, a Swede, on the 9th of December last The jury brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. Richards was sentenced to be hanged April 36... .A fire, the work of tramns, destroyed the round-house and machine shops of the Atchison and Nebraska railroad, in Atchison, fee other night Four engines and all the repair machinery of the company were destroyed. IXWH about 9100,000. * THE Indians who were reported cor- raled after getting away from Fort Robinson have sncoeeded in escaping entirely. The SotitJi. AN earthquake shook them np in Dorida the other night, but little damage was done. BOTH houses of the Louisiana Legis­ lature have pas Bed the joint resolution calling for delegates to a constitutional convention on the 18th of next March, the convention to as­ semble on the 21st of ApriL Political. THE Potter Committee held a short session on the 11th, at which they considered the question whether the affidavit of St Mar- fins, the former Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms of file committee, confessing that he had sworn falsely before the sub-committee, and casting imputations upon Representative Stenger in that connection, should be placed upon the reoord. After a long debate the reselution offered by Mr, Blackburn was adopted by a party vote, that file Chairman return to the counsel of Secretary Sherman the affidavit, and further inform Mr. Iberman that St Martins will be examined touching the matters embraced in the affidavit, Should Mr. Sherman or any member of the oommittee so desire. Gov. Kellogg's messenger, Thomas 8. Kelley, who claimed to be familiar with the Presidential-election certificates, in an­ swer to the question: "It has been said you forged these signatures; what have you to say to that?" said: "I can't answer that question." Mr. Cox--" Did you sigp either of the names of Jeffrian or LevisseeV Witness--" The general suspicion is I signed the paper. If I should now eay I signed it people would say I was a fool for telling that; and, if I should say I did not, they would say it was no'more than they would expect" He finally expressed a wish to consult counsel before answering the question. THE great miner, John P. Jones, has .secured the nomination of the Nevada Republi­ can Legislative caucus, and will probably be re­ turned to the United States Senate. THE Potter Committee, on the 14th inet, examined J. Henri Birch, Presidential JSlector-at-Large of Louisiana. His testimony Was to the effect that he signed a second set of certificates, he having been advised that there •was an informality in the first set Mr. Kelly •was recalled, and, after much pressure, stated positively that the name of Jeffrain was forged by D. P. Blanchard, a clerk in the Governor's office. None but witness and Blanchard were present at the time. THE Democratic caucus of the North Carolina legislature has nominated Gov. Vance for the United States Senate by acclamation. GEN. JAMES SHIELDS has been nomi­ nated by the Missouri Democratic caucus as United States Senator for the short term. GEORGE V. VEST will be the choice of the Democratic Legislature in Missouri as the successor of Gen. Shields in the United States Senate for the full term of six years commenc­ ing March 4, 1879. JOHN A. LOGAN was nominated on Jan. 17 by the Republican Legislative caucus for ' «• - '»?. United States Senator from Illinois, to take the '"J*, / .place of Richard J. Oglesby, in March. 1H79. 4 ^HE Republicans of the Indiana Leg- - " .Mature met in joint caucus on the Kith inst 5 s - ; * , j - - - - - - ' Ipjjaad nominated Godlove a Orth for the short term as United States Senator, and Gen. Ben Harrison for the long term... ,G. H. Piatt is the nominee of the Connecticut Republicans for the Senstorahip. So MUCH adverse critittism has been passed upon the new Army bill that its defeat in its present form is certain, and another bill is in course of preparation in which many of the most objectionable features of the Burn- Side-Banning bill will not appear A sub- Committee of the House Judiciary Oommittee, consisting of Messrs. Knott, Lynde and Frye, lias been sent to Chicago to investigate the charges against United States District Judge Blodgett THE report of the Department of Agriculture for December says the corn crop of 1878 is 30,000,000 bushels in excess of 1877. Oats a somewhat larger crop than the heavy yield of 1877, constituting it the largest ever, raised in thi« country. No material change in barley. Rye ope-sixth larger than in 1877. Po­ tatoes fall off 46,000,000 bushels. PROCTOR KNOTT, of Kentucky; David B. Culberson, of Texas, and E. G. Lapham, of New York, are the members of the House Ju­ diciary Committee who have been appointed as a sub-committee to proceed to Chicago and take testimony in the Blodgett case The ob­ ject of Chief Joseph in his conference with the Government authorities is to secure a proper resting-place with a sufficient area of land in the Indian Territory. A purchase of land will be made from the Cherokees in the Indian Terri­ tory, so that Chief Joseph and his people may have good exchange for the acres they former y possessed in Idaho. THE President has nominated Alex­ ander B. Hagner, of Maryland, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for the District of Colombia, vice Olin, retired. JftewttatMMti. A CABLEGRAM reports the total loss of the bark Gunhilda, of New Glasgow, with all hands, on the Bordeaux bar. She was on a voyage from Baltimore for Bordeaux, grain laden....In the contributions to the Memphis Howard Association, Illinois stands second in the list of States. New York contributed $50,804 and Illinois $52,907. EXPORTS from seaboard ports last week include 6,962 barrels pork, 5j||jl,458 pound of lard, 9,994,129 pounds of bacon, <1,174 barrels of flour, 858,681 bushels of wheat, 864,603 bushels of corn, 254,000 bushels of oats, 5,090 bushels of rye, and 30 bushels of barley. ... .Thomas Dowd was hanged at St Andrews, N. B., not long since, for the murder of Thomas Edward Ward, at New River, on the 8th of Sep­ tember last THE United States District Attorney for Utah is in Washington arranging for a vig­ orous enforcement of the law prohibiting polygamous marriages. He says Beventy-six polygamous marriages occurred in the Endow­ ment House at Salt Lake City on the day the Supreme Court decision was announced. He sayB further enactments are absolutely neces­ sary to make the enforcement of the law easy. . 4.. A singular series of tragical occurrences is reported by the telegraph at a town in Canada. A young lady suddenly died from natural causes; her mother dropped dead on beholding the corpse, and the young lady's betrothed, overcome by grief, committed Huicide by cut­ ting his throat The JBIeeHM JswiMgaWwt.'» ON the 11th inst, the Teller Commit­ tee examined several witnesses upon the Dem­ ocratic side. Judge L. Y. Reeves, of Tensas, Chairman of the Democratic Committee, testi­ fied regarding the fusion organization in that parish, which included such Republicans as Judge Cordell and Sheriff Register. He said: "After this we declined to appoint a committee to confer with Fairfax. Capt Peck visited Fairfax's house fer no political purpose. Peck was shot down, and in the fight that ensued several negroes were wounded, and one afterward died. This was the starting point of the troubles, and the question became no longer political, but a con­ test between the whiteB and blacks. George Norwood, of Caddo, the next witness, appeared with his head bandaged, and spoke with diffi­ culty, having beon shot in the face in the Cale­ donia affair. He testified that the first shot was fired by negroes at him. He did not fire a shot that day. He is a Republican, and always worked for the negroes, and thought it hard they should be the first to shoot him. William A. Lacy, of Caddo, a lawyer and editor of the Standard, testified that he con­ siders District Attorney Leonard responsible for the troubles in the late election. He stated in his interview with President Hayes that there were no whites on the streets of Shreve- port election-day. The reason was the negroes surrounded the polls, and the whites stayed away to give them a fair showing. Election was fair and peaceful, and the negroes voted without molestation. J. C. Moncure, of Caddo, Speaker of the House of Representatives, testi­ fied that the election in Shreveport was fair and peaceable. Randall McDowell and Claiborne Kennerd (colored), of Point Coupee, testified that they left their homes on aecount of politi­ cal persecutions. THE session of the investigating committee held on the 13th brought out evi­ dence as follows: G. R. M Newman (colored), Clerk of the District Court of St Mary's parish, testified concerning the destruction of ballot- boxes, and efforts made by the Democrats to get possession of the duplicate returns in his possession. W. B. McNeall, of Caddo, Deputy Sheriff, testified concerning the Caledonia affair. The published statement was to the effect that twenty negroes in all were killed, but cannot Ba7 where each negro was killed. Wise, of Tensas, testified that the election was peaceable and quiet Live within one-fonrth of a mile of Fairfax, but knew, nothing un­ til the affair was over. Fairfax was the leader of the negroes. It was understood he was keeping up the color line, making speeches, and advising the negroes to preserve a bold front I sold ammunition at my store to any one who wanted it The negroes did not buy ah unusual quantity at this time. H. Moss, Of Tensas, testified that he gave the negroes the assurance that the Waterproof people had nothing to do with the Fairfax affair. Saw negroes pass by hundreds through the town. There may have been thou­ sands of them. They were all armed. Tho negroes dispersed when the Sheriff of St Joseph arrived. They also heard that white men from Mississippi were coming. I don't think there were more than twenty white men in Water­ proof. We were very much frightened. The negroes threatened to kill the children and outrage the women. Think they would have burned the town if the Sheriff's posse had not arrived. THE Teller Committee, on the 14th, examined T. S. Shaeffer, of St Joseph parish, who testified to the killing of an Irish laborer by a negro constable, and the lynching and shooting of tine constable by a band of armed whites. Charles Decenig, of Caddo, Deputy Marshal, saw two dead negroes at Cal­ edonia the day after the election. Understood the negroes were killed on election day. On the 15th, Clement L. Walker, attorney, of New Orleans, testified eonoerning the election there; that he j believes the returns promulgated were Hot indicative of the true results, the votes polled for the Conservatives being oounted for the Demo­ crats. E. Kennell (colored), a Coroner of Con­ cordia, said there were seven men killed, all colored. Held an inquest over six. Five were hung and one shot Some were killed in No­ vember, the others in October. Those that were hung were hung at night Don't know the men who did the hanging. Commodore Smallwood was drowned in Lake St John. They tied weights around him, and threw him in at night George Washington (colored) is a resident of Concordia, town of Vermillion, Coroner of the parish. Saw a body of about sixty-five or seventy armed men. They capt­ ured six or seven men. A few hours after heard that a man was hung in the grave-yard. Went there and found that it was H. Smith. R. J. BRYANT, of Tensas (colored), testified, on the 16th, that no Republican ticket was nominated bocause of threats by the whites, who said they would consider such action a declaration of war. The night before the election a party of whites came to my house, took me out in my night- clothes, carried me a quarter of a mile, and threatened me, saying I had sold out. I denied this. They let me go, after promising to cotne to the polls the next day and vote the regular Democratic ticket I complied with my promise. The party had a rope with them, and said if they were satisfied I had sold out, they would put me through. William A. Bell, a prominent merchant of New Orleans^ testified concerning the citizens' movement ia the late election. BEFORE the Teller Committee on the 17th Abram Thomas (colored), of Tensas parish, testified that during the late election he met a body of armed whites, who chased witness. That night the same men came and took Charley Bethel, a colored man, out of his house, shot him, and cut lids throat Ross Stewart, a prominent colored politician of Tensas,a member of the Legislature, testified that threats of violence prevented the Republicans from nominating a ticket. At the Democratic Convention OoL Reeves made a speech Baying he would make no threats, but the white men have determined to carry theij ticket The whites announced that Stewart and Fairfax had drawn a color line. On the contrary, we nominated a ticket com­ posed of white and colored people. Afterward it got so hot that we had to take the negro names off the ticket, and nominated a full white ticket; overheard Judge Cordell say that the white men had only to go around with shot­ guns on their shoulders and all ordinary ne­ groes would be sufficiently frightened. Such men as Stewart, however, would have to be killed. Got warnings. I went over into Mis­ sissippi. Witness gave the names Of fifteen negroes alleged to have been murdered.- - . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AN explosion occurred in the Dinas colliery, in Wales, a few days ago, an^j^out sixty jyers6nBTfre t^lidv^TTb' BtfVe^MefWIici: THE leniency of the republican Gov­ ernment of France toward the Communists transported jo New Caledonia is shown in the pardon of these prisoners. President MacMa- hon has signed the decree which restores them to liberty and citizenship. A RAILWAY train fell through a bridge over the River Arda, near Philippopolis, Tur­ key, not long since, by which 200 men--mostly Russian soldiers--were killed. THOMAS W. BOOKER & Co., of Gla­ morganshire, Wales, ironmasters, have failed. They owe the Bristol and West' of England Bank $3,000,000. CON GItESSIONAL. JAKUABY 11.--No business was transacted in either house of Congress on the 11th. The Senate was not in session, and the House, after the an­ nouncement of the death of Representative Schleicher, and the appointment of a committee to accompany the remains to San Antonio, Texas, ad journed out of respect to the memory of the de­ ceased member. JANUARY 13.--The Senate passed, without debate, the bill appropriating $950,000 for a fire-proof building for a national museum on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution. The Senate took a recess to attend the funeral exercises of Congressman Schleicher in the Hall of the House. Messrs. Coke, Bayard and Hamlin were appointed a oommittee to accompany the remains to Texas. In the Hoime a resolution was unanimously adopted recom­ mending the payment of the remainder of the salary of the late Representative Schleicher, as a member of the present Congress, to bis family, and reequesting the next Congress to make a similar ap­ propriation of his salary. JANUARY 14 --The proceedings in both branches of Congress were exceedingly prosy and unimportant. The Senate took up the resolution directing the Committee on Agriculture te ex­ amine and ascertain what can be done by the General Government to advance agri­ culture in the United States. This was taken up to afford Mr. Davis (W. Va.) an opportunity to deliver a long speech. He was followed by Mr. Matthews, who got off a IODR and dry speech on the Patent bill, after which the Senate adjourned. The House considered the Mexican Pension bill. JANUARY 15.--In the Senate a resolution, in­ troduced by Mr. Voorhees, was adopted ordering an inquiry into the circumstances which led to the re­ cent slaughter of the Cheyenne Indians at Fort Rob­ inson The Senate indulged in a protracted debate on, the bill giving to officers and soldiers of the Mexican war three months'extra pay The pro­ ceedings in executive se«Bion of the Senate are de­ scribed as having been of a very interesting charac­ ter. Shortly after the door closed a communication from th» President was read, assigning reasons for the removal of Collector Arthur and Surveyor Cornell from the New Vork Custom House. Senator Conkling arose and made a bitter attack upon the course of the administration in the premises. H« declared that the charges were frivolous and groundless, and contended that they were only a pretext to cover up, the real object of the adminintration, which wan of a po­ litical as well as personal nature. Mr. Conkling spoke with uuusual warmth and feeling debt. It authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury i n t h e p r o c e s s o f r e f u n d i n g t h e n a t i o n a l d e b t t o exchange directly at par bonds bearing 4 per cent, interest for bonds commonly known as 5 20s out­ standing and uncalled, and directs that whenever all such 5-S0 bonds shall have been redeemed the provision of this section and all existing provisions of law authorising refunding the national debt shall apply to any Ixmds of the United States bear­ ing B per cent, or a higher rate of Interest which may be redeemable, and that, in any such change, interest shall be allowed on the bonds redeemed for the period of three jitoojhs. January 16.--In the Senate, Mr. WIndom in­ troduced a resolution providing for the appoint­ ment of a committee to inquire into the expediency of promoting the migration of colored people from those districts in which they are not allowed to ex­ ercise their rights as American citizens^ Laid on the table for the present The bill for the pay­ ment of arrears of pensions was passed. The House devoted the day to the discussion of the Mis­ sissippi Levee bill... .Memorial services in honor of the late Prof. Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, were held in the House, in the presence of a large audience, in the evening. JANUARY 17.--In the Senate, Mr. Baulsbury introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for full informa­ tion touching the oost of refunding the public debt. The resolution was laid over.... Messrs. Bayard and Wallace, at their own request, were excused from further service on the Teller Committee, and Messrs. McDonald and Ran­ dolph were appointed to fill the vacancies....The remainder of the day was devoted to the discussion of the bill to amend the patent laws. The House spent the day on private bills, and made scarcely any progress. A few unimportant bills were passed, when one proposing to give compensation to the owner of a house iu Alexandria which was used by the army during the war was reached. This gave rise to an extended sectional discussion, which developed several earnest, some eloquent, and many bitter passages. THE WINE-CUT. BY COL. FORNEY. In the HOUNC, a communication was received from the Secretary of the Treamiry containing a state­ ment of the balanceH of the loan account in coin standing to the credit of the Treasurer of tho United Statos in the national-bank deponitori«* on the. 1st of January lant. The aggregate amount of balances was .. .The House passed two iirtlKirtant financial rueanures. The first was the Ways and Means Committee's bill authorizing the issue of certificates of (icponit in aid of refund-, ing the public debt. The bill authorizes the Secre­ tary of the Treasury to issue in exchange for lawful money United States certificates of deposit of the denomination of $10, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent., andjconvertible at any time, with accrued inter­ est, into 4-per-cent. bonds, authorized to be is­ sued. aud directx that the money so received shall be applied only to the payment of 5-20 bonds. The other financial measure passed by the House was a bill, prepared also by the Ways and Means Committee, to facilitate the funding of the national President and Mrs. Hayes continue to exclude wine from their table in the White House. Mr. Evarts, the Secre­ tary of State, has secured an exception to this rule at the diplomatic dinners, although Mr. and Mrs. Hayes will pre­ side without glasses before them. The French statesmen use wine mod­ erately, and spirits almost never. They prefer their own light wines, leading champagne to the last; and nearly ilU their public dinners *are finished with­ out speeches. The cultivated English are for more temperate than in former days. At state dinners, which are costly and lux­ urious, the Ministry are proverbially frugal, though Lord Derby, the late chief of the Foreign Office, was inor­ dinately fond of sherry. Nobody smokes in a private house, unless it is in the billiard room. But the English club­ men are generally hearty drinkers. There are over seventy clubs in London alone. Gambling is not as common as it was in the days of Charles James Fox, who often lQst £1,000 a night while in the zenith of his Parliament­ ary fame, and thought nothing of it. The Raleigh in the Pall Mall is still believed to indulge in cards for money, but modern John Bull prefers whist, brandy and soda, and Scotch or Iyish whisky. Ex­ cessive dissipation is cbnfined to the London gin palaces, which abound in frightful proportion, where men and women drink fire-water and bad beer till they are sodden; and it is no infre­ quent sight to see a child made stupid by the milk of a drunken mother. But the Russians bear the palm. They purchase most of the costly French champagnes, and they prefer " a mixed drink" of their own--a fearful com­ pound--after dinner, which is some­ thing like the English claret cup, that Charles Dickens loved to "compose," with fiery liquids added. President and Mrs. Hayes are not al­ together alone. They are doubtless more rigid than other rulers; ' but Queen Victoria is a model in her own house, like the good Prince Albert, and I hap­ pen to know that Gambetta, Laboulaye, Leon Say, Louis Blanc, Victor Hugo, the Orleans Princes and the Bourbon pretenders are moderate and careful men; and it is but just to say the same of tiie Emperor of Germany, the Russian Czar, the young King of Italy and the widower monarch of Spain. Gerrit Smith, who died at a great age (78 I think), sat in Congress two ye£rS", from 1853 to 1855, and was one of the most genial, generous and hospitable of men. He gave many splendid enter­ tainments, and never had a drop of wine on his table. The jolly men were much amazed at his course, but he never apologized for it. My other good friend, Horace Gree­ ley, when he became a candidate for President in 1872, was an extreme tem­ perance leader, as pure as cool water, even in his blunders, but as much out of place as a Presidential nominee as Bishop Simpson in the Vatican. After he agreed to stand for that high office, Southern politicians called on him at Chappaqua, his country seat on the Harlem road, and he benevolently asked them to drink from his famous spring. They were surprised, but submissive, until he offered them a second draught, at which Gov.' , of ̂ Louisiana, somewhat testily declined, with the re­ mark, "That that was a beverage he never internally applied." The legend runs thajt when the party left the white- haired editor the Governor sadly ob­ served that he had to drink several cock tails to keep the nomination down. A SENSITIVE youth of Exeter, En­ gland, recently hanged himself because one young lady of his acquaintance ex­ pressed her disapproval of his purpose to marry another young lady. The dis tressing alternative presented uvset his poor brain. FRESH TOPICS. FAMINK and small-pox oontinue the c&apter of miseries in one of the provinces oflBr^ziL The drought of the interior and the failure of crops drove to the seaboard towns the popula­ tion, and the scourge of small-pox and starvation threatens destruction to the entire people unless outside aid reaches them. ' ̂ OUTSIDE of Maine it does not ?*ften happen that the man who receives the smallest number of votes is elected to office. In September last Conner, Re­ publican, received 56,419 voters for Gov­ ernor ; Smith, Greenbacks, received 41,404 votes; and Garcelon, Democrat, 27,872. There was no election by the people, and the Senate, limited to a choice between Smith and Garcelon, chose the latter, who received not half as many ̂ votes as Conner, and 14,000 less than Smith. Mr. Garcelon is a physician of Lewiston, and was Surgeon General of the State during the Rebellion. ASTRAKHAN, where the plague is re­ ported raging, is a province of European Russia, on the weistern coast of the Caspian sea. In extent it is one-third larger than the State of Illinois, and is divided by the river Volga into about equal parts. The province has a popu­ lation of about 500,000, and is one of the saline districts of.Southern Russia. The city of Astrakhan, an island in the Volga, about forty miles from its mouth, is the center of the Caspian fish trade. The province is in the line of march of the Cossacks Returning from the cam­ paign in Asia, and it is stated that they brought the plague with them. A more plausible theory is that it originated in the dirty streets of the city. MUCH has been written of the life and character of Caleb Gushing, but neither the kindliest nor the most dis­ criminating sketches of his long and eventful career give warranted space to the proudest, the most humane, achieve? ment of Mr. Cushing's life. He it was that had the legal knowledge and the moral courage to sit down upon a dog yellow as to color and endless as to bark. The dog annoyed him,. annoyed everybody. It b?y®">. *ie moon when there was a moon to bay, and when there wasn't it continued to bay. Sleep was banished from the neighborhood. The chunk of meat garnished with strych­ nine failed of its mission. Shot-guns were in vain. The dog, secure in the affectionate admiration of his owner, bayed on. Mr. Cushing waited upon the owner with a polite remonstrance. It was received with contumely. There­ upon He commenced suit for damages and won. The dog disappeared, and a great principle was vindicated. THE Vicksbttrg Herald prints a ghast­ ly list of the names of all the persons who died of yellow fever during the past summer in that city and a dozen others in Mississippi, including Jackson, Holly Springs, Meridian, Port Gibson, Grena­ da, Water Valley and Greenville. The compilation was made with much care and labor, and will be of value hereafter. Speaking of the death-roll, the Herald adds: "In this beautiful country, where the climate is unsurpassed on the globe, the plague made a recofd that will not be forgotten by this generation. From our busy thoroughfares the numbers are hardly missed, but a perusal of the list of the dead will cause one to shudder at the extent of our losses. The yellow fever was no respecter of persons. It mowed down the rich and the poor, the good and the bad, alike. Whole fam­ ilies were swept away, and dear, familiar friends were taken in almost countless numbers. The names of useful, re­ spected citizens, the loss of whom wrung the hearts of communities, are recorded with a few letters, and this is all that remains to us of them." IT is found that suicides are more fre­ quent in San Francisco thail in any other city in the Union. On an average of the last ten years it is shown that 1 person in 4,000 in San Francisco died by his own hand, against an average of 1 in 8,000 of the population of New York city during the past two years, 1 in 10,000 in Brooklyn during the year 1876, and 1 in 14,000 in Philadelphia during the year 1877. The Chronicle attempts to assign two causes of this undesirable supremacy: "One, the iso­ lation in which many men find them­ selves in San Francisco; the other, the demoralization and distress arising from speculation in mining stocks. It is shown that in more than one-half of the suicides recorded the victims had no relatives in this State and no one upon whom they could call for aid when suffering from sickness or misfortune, and under these circumstances, bereft of all means or opportunity of assist­ ance, they gave up hope and took their own lives. It is shown, too, that in pro­ portion as mining-stock speculation has increased so has the number of sui­ cides." AT one of the coldred churches in Bowling Green, Ky., the other evening, the minister asked all who wanted to go to heaven to rise up, and all arose except one solitary darkey. Then the preacher put the negative, as it w6re, demanding that all who wanted to go to hell should arise, whereupon the same colored individual got on his feet. BTBAJmX DXSAPPICARAtrCe. * ' Some seven or eight years ago a young Frenchman, M. Pavy, arrived in San Francisco with the object of starting an expedition to discover the North pole. He was in the prime of life, and was undoubtedly a man of great intellectual ability. His articles on the North pole,, which were published in the famous. Revue dea Deux Mcmdes of Paris,, showed that he had given the subject a- profound itudy. When M. Parvy ar­ rived he received a ^earty welcome from the press of this city, and column after column appeared about him and his scheme. The Academy of Sciences, gave him a dinner, at Martin's, we be*- lieve. All went swimmingly with the explorer for a while. He partially char­ tered a vessel, and Capt. Jacobson, now of the William H. Stevens, was selected as the man to command, his long ex­ perience in the Arctic peculiarly fit­ ting him for the position. & portion of the crew was engaged, as was a sur­ geon, who is now a practicing physician of this city. At about the time that prospects seemed fair for a successful launch of the enterprise M. Pavy dis­ appeared mysteriously in the night­ time, and has not been heard from from that day to this, so far as is known. Many rumors as to the cause of his sud­ den departure were flying about at the time. Some believed that women and wine had ruined him, as they have ruined thousands of brilliant intellects, but, as Pavytswas by no means addicted to the use of liquor, there can be no- truth in this supposition. Others think that he exhausted all his money in some­ way, and that, finding he could not car­ ry out his pet project, in which he had the most unbounded confidence, he sought relief in suicide. He was a man as proud as he was cultured, so that this theory found many believers. Capt.. Jacobson says that M. Pavy was one of the most perfect gentlemen he ever met, and in his conversation about Arctic affairs he talked as if he had been over every foot of the regions explored there up to that time.--San Francisco- Chronicle. A XBW MAILROAD BWINJOLX. A new smndle called the "fig racket" is practiced on some railroad trains. The news agent marks out some unsophisti­ cated passenger, aild goes to him with several boxes of figs. Into one of the boxes he puts a $2 bill, neatly folded- He then puts the boxes behind him changes them about several timetCond offers his victim a choice of boxes for $1. As the victim examines the boxes he sees the corner of the bill sticking out from uqder the cover of one of them, and he can hardly get his dollar out quick enough, and when he buys the box he finds himself with a box Of figs worth 15 cents, and the little corner of a 10-cent shinplaster. The piece Of shinplaster is called the "flash," and title trick is worked with books as Well as figs.--Bangor (Me.) Whig. A YOUNG bride, momentarily expect­ ing the return of her husband, was handed a telegraphic dispatch, which so excited her that, without having strength to break the envelope, she fainted away. 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