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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER 1 BY if UGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1883. NO. 26. VOLUME XXVIII. 'ji .......1 Winn M I | T -J?Pmmmm f 1 !! ? ? yMM??? A CONTENTED MIND. I pray oil for riches a)id achieve*! success. All that 1 touched turned into gold. Alas! My cares were greater and my j eace was less V.'hen that wish came to pass. I prayed for gl< rv. and I heard my namo Sung by sweet children ami by hoary men But, ah: the hurts?the hurts that come with fame.' I was not happy then. I prayed for love, and hail my soul's desire; Through quiverirg heart and body and through brain There swept the l'aire of its devouring fire; And thei e the soars remain. I prayed for a contented mind. At length Great lifjht npot my darkened spirit burst ; Great jxnce fell n me also, and great strength; Oh! hod that pi aver been first 1 MAKING OTHERS HAPPY. Soft ami satin-white the snow lay over the fields about the old court; like tiny. (Irons of blood, the scarlet hollv-berries gleamed through tin* woods, and the i avenue of black-green pines seemed to fold their druidical garments about them like a row of solemn old sentinels, scarce- j ly bending their head-, to the rush of the stormy west wiuds. Luiu Uipley sat in the great oriel win* dow that faced the west, her cheek leaning in her hand, and her great dark eyes fixed, with unseeing lustre, on the steel blue surface of the fm/en river, where the orange shine of the sunset mirrored itself like a pool of gold. And as she sat, there came a tap at the door. "Come in!" said Lulu, almost impatiently, as if it were an annoyance to her even to be disturbed. It was Kmma. the apple-cheeked maid. ; "Please, miss.'' said Emma, smoothing i down her white frilled apron, "Simon has just come from the woods with a wagon-load of mistletoes and holly and princess-pine, miss, and he says, where ?: 11 1... ..i i . ? i :? will \vn i?r jniii.%ru iia>t 11 |fub* "Nowhere," retorted Miss Ripley. "I want no meaningless decorations about my house." Emma started. ''But. m:ss. it'- only one week from to-day. and " " 1 shall keep no Christmas this year!" said Kipley. sharply. " Why should 1 It is only a name to mc I now!"' . And she dropped her head on her hand , once more, with a great lump rising in her throat. : !? remembered last Christ- j mas, when Will Graham was at her side, liis stronir, loving arms about her. his tender voice in her ears. "We'll keep next Christmas just in1 this merrv. old-fashioned wav. God will ing," he had said. And then he had gone away on that long voyage, and his vessel had been i wrecked in sight of land, oil the cruel reefs of . ^ The news had come when the first- , snow-storm folded its wings of pearl about the bleak landscape?and Lulu : Ripley had never held her head up since. "Please, miss," said little Emma, when she came in to light the cluster of candles that stood in a silver j-tem on the table, and heap fresh coal on the lire of scarlet-glowing anthracite, "could I go homo for Christmas day "NoT' .aid Lulu, shortly, "you cannot. Why should I be inconvenienced for your silly revels "If you please, miss, mother is to " "Xo! I tell you. no!" said Lulu. . "And let that be sufficient." Emma crept out. abashed and dejected, ' and Miss Ripley felt a sort or gloomy . satisfaction in having quelled the girl's ' fresh cnthu.-iasm. "Christina-!" >he repeated bitterly to herself. "I have nothing to keep Christmas for? Heaven has held back the , drop of sweetness from my cup, and not all the chiming of every church bell in the land can make me thankful!*' As the dusK deepened, and the shadows began to darken mysteriously over the great echoing ruins of the old court. Miss Ripley rose and began to pace up j and down the corridors, wringing her hands and moaning, like a restless ghost, until at last she paused in the very spot where Will Graham had stood, nearly a year ago, wuen ne ' ner iarewen?a spot where the reflection of the faint starlight through the stained-glass easements threw a quivering crimson cross on the waxed walnut floor. 'Oh. my love?my darling!" she wailed aloud, looking wildly up into the serene h heavens, -'can you hear me from the I k^world of dreams and shadows? Can you ; ^listen to the pulses of my breaking heart?-' And as she knelt there, all alone with ; her great sorrow, she could hear the servants talking in the room beyond?talk- , ing idly, as servants will talk." * "Put up plenty of berries over the door. Simon." said Emma's chirping, bird-like voice. "If Miss Lilly don't want 'em, we'll have it look like Merry Christmas down here, see if we don't 1" "And don't she want not a single tiling?" ! Simon demanded. "Why, we couldn't 1 fasten up enough greens for her years back! What's the reason of her changin' of her mind ?*' "I don't know," said little Emma, mak- j ing a great rustling among the heaps of ; ensp evergreens. "Fine ladies docs take such queer notions sometimes. Oh. ! Simon, I wish 1 was as rich as Miss Lulu!" " Wishes is cheap," said Simon, his voire DroeeediiiL' from the heiirht of a sten ladder, and sounding curiously muffled, a? if his mouth was full of nails. "Ever heard the old proverb: 'If wishes were i horses beggars would ride?' " " Never mind your proverbs," retorted ! Emma. "There, you've got that garland j all crooked! But I wish I was rich all the same." "What would you do with yourmoncv. questioned Simon. "ouch iois ui uiiu^>, liiuiiiii, "You beard about bank failing last . week, didn't your "I heard it," said Simon, between the clicks of his hammer. "Old Marrable, our neighbor, had five hundred dollars in il to pay off the niort jj^Bgage on his house," went on Kmma. lose it all now, and "Widow ' ^Bfl?ortagc had saved up forty dollars? ia dollar a week?to buy a sewing ina- i chine. She put it in bank for safe keeping, and now it isn't likely she'll ever have a sewing machine. Then there.) are the five little Chi ploys, who can't go j to the Christmas tree or church, because they have no shoes, poor lambs! And lame little Hilly Powers is so sure that , Santa Claus will bring him a wheeled | chair, becausc he lias prayed for it every ' night for a month. Mrs. Powers cried , .. iir.ii iVin frild ir>(! of it. for she savs its how it'll Ix* such a disappointment. ! Wheeled chairs cost twenty dollars, and poor Mrs. Powers hasn't twenty cents ahead in the world. And old Miles j Stimpson and his wife, as is goini; to the j poor-house next week, will have to keep I their last Christmas without so much as I a peck of coal or a bit of butcher's meat. | Oh, dear! what lots of trouble there is in ' this world!'' And Emma drew a longi *;?!> I ' I know thai,'' said Simon, gruffly." j "Stand me up some more of them cedar boughs. We can't help it?can we?" " No, of course not," said Emma, sorrowfully. " Hut if I was as rich as Miss Lulu, I could lind such lots of ways to spend money. That's what I mean, Simon.'' ' 'If riches were horses beggars would , ride,'" lanted Simon, in a high, monot- j ObQUS sing-song. "Ain't that about cncajgh greens for this room ?" Lulu Iliplev had listened to the con- j " . ! Iversation, mechanically at nrsr, out mm gathering interest as little Emma chattered on. A new light had flashed across the brooding darkness of her brain. '* 1 am wretched myself." she thought, "Wit that is no reason why I should not help to heal the sorrows of others. God helping me, this shall be a merry Christmas to some in this world!"' She went back to her room and rang the bell. " PJmraa!" said she, gently. "Miss!" said Emma, guiltily, feeling of h?r head, which was powdered over with loose sprigs of cedar and stray holly berries. " I have changed my mind. You may MWnpcar-gg?BBCP dmbb ?M i ?M? I i?rgyn ' go home to your mother for Christmas day, it' you wwh." [ "Thauk *ce. miss, kindly." said Emma, brightening up at onee. And she ran breathli*s>lv down stairs, to trumpet forth he delight to the assembled household of the kitchen. ( olden and glorious the sun of the blessed Christmas morning rose tip from behind the snow niisteninif hills. From n t Iwuu'itul thi? # ] ! 11 ?r nf if % x r... .... ^ ... joicing hells greeted it: from :i million of holly-garlanded homes the voices of litt children l>ade it welcome. The Widow Portage had been aroused un wonted ly early by the joyful cries of three blue-nosed little Portages, wlm were as well pleased with their penny wooden toys, home-make cakes and one apple a piece as if they had fallen heirs to a whole ship-load of automatic French marvels. , As she unbarred the door, to get a pail of water to set the kettle boiling. she started back. Good land o' Goshen!"' cried .Mrs. Portage, who was rather given to oldfashioned expletives; "'what's this?" It was a bit* pine packing-box, on the very threshold of her door?a huge, inexplicable mammoth ot a thing. labeled: 'One Sewing IIa^ hine, ' From tln? Faet ry of Mi-ssrs. D?and 1*?. j "For Mrs. .Valina I'"ria,re. Christmas. ISI's. "Jt ain't true," feebly cried Widow j Portage, holding on to the door-handle for support. I'm a-dreaining yet. A i sewing machine? For mef Some of you ! pinch me, children, to make sure I'm ] awake!"' Mrs. P. had not settled this problem j to her entire satisfaction, when old Mar- j ruble came hobbling across the road, j waving something over his head. Look a-here. Miss Portage!" howled j lie. iii tin' high treble ot old age. " It's | Santa Claus, as true as you live! We're j all children ag'in. an' the old chap with j the fur cap an' the team o' reindeers is around at his old tricks! A five bun- ' drcd-dollar bill, sealed up in a ycller | envelope, and poked under my door, in the dead o'night, an" ma piekin'it up for wastcpaper! It's the Lord's own mercy as I didn't burn it up, to set the kindlin's a-goiu', afore I seed what it was! Labeled'John Marrable, Esq., to payoff the mortgage. Christmas. 187S.'" ' Well, 1 never!" said the WidowPortage. "Jest look what I've got.'' John Marrable put on his spectacles ! and stared harder than ever. "Well, now,'' quoth he, "I am beat I 1 must go right home and see what the old woman has got to say to that." Little lame Billy Powers,waking up to the chill consciousness thai it was Christmas morning, and that he had but a ! scanty allowance of bed-clothes, sat up j and rubbed his eyes before he quite real- j i/ed tbu fact that his mother was calling j him. Hill.-1 Hilly! I say! Make haste down and see what Santa Clans has sent j you. God luess him! You're very rich, j my son?you're very rich. And flying headlong down stairs, in i his tattered night-gown, as fa>t as his poor crooked limbs would allow liim, : Hilly Powers beheld a cozy wheeled-1 chair ol black wainui, irimincu wim i crimson plush, with a side apparatus, whereby he might convey himself from t place to place at his own will. Xo more J aching hones?no more painful limping along the dusty road?no more lagging behind the other children. Billy laughed aloud in the plenitude i of his delight, while Mrs. Powers, seated on a broken splint-bottomed rocker, cried almost equally as loud. I don't know who there is in all this wide world." sobbed Mrs. Powers, "to think of me and you. Billy. But whoever it is. 1 hope the good Lord will return it onto their bosom, heaped up and running over.'' When Moses Chipley. the eldest of the family of four who were detached at home in a state of involuntary blockade tin account of the unsettled bill at the shoemaker's, opened the door to obtain a satisfactory sn jwball wherewith to anoint the faces of his four sleeping brothers and sisters, he bounded back again like a magnified Jaek-in-a-box. "Mother,*' gasped Moses, "there's suthin* there?a basket! And I'm mortal sure 1 seen a tin steam ingincanda doll's i legs a-.sticking out ov it!" " Oh. get out!" said the incredulous Mrs. Chipley. "Doll's legs and steam engines, indeed !*' rJut by this time, the namesake of the gieat ruler of Israel had made a second sortie, and, bringing in a gigantic basket, emptied it on the* kitchen floor. "Five pairs o' shoes!" bawled Mrs. ('., heedless of the herrings that were scorching over the tire. "A doll!" shrieked little Jemima. "Hooray! Skates!" yelled Moses. "Picter-books!" chimed in the twins. "A tin ingin and a train o' tin cars!" cried little Joe, the youngest, chubbiest, and dirtiest of all. "And flunnen and caliker enough for j tin creation: sam .urs. v ., in ueujfiuuu amazement. '"Lord save us! it's like the miraele the parson reads about. Wherever could they have come from?" Old Miles Stimpson lay late in his bed that morning:. Not thai it was his usual wont, but old Miles had been distanced in the race of life, and had somehow got discouraged of late. "Where's the use of gettin' up," said Miles, dolefully, "with never a spark of fire to warm me, and nothing in the way of good cheer to keep Christmas with?" But his old wife could not so readily overcome the habit of years. ' There's the last o' them chairs father gave me when we went to housekeeping " said she. "It's all broken and worn, and it'll serve ;is well as any thing else toinake a little blaze to warm our old bones; but if we're uoiif t<? end our days in the House,' it won't do us no nood there. And p'rhaps there'll be a knotty login the wood-shed to help it along." But presently -Mrs. Stimpson came trotting back with wide-open eyes and toothless mouth to correspond. "Get up. father?get up!'' cried she. "Something's happened!'' "It ain't the house afire, is it?"croaked | .Mile-, fromunderthebed-clothes; "'cause J that wouldn't be so uncomfortable on such a day as this!" "There's a ton o' coal in the woodhouse!" cried Mrs. S.; "and a load <?' kindlin'-wood, and a turkey hangin' up. and a basket o' potatoes, and a peck o" cranberries, and tea. and sugar, and?" j "Old woman, you're crazy!" said Miles. | sitting up in bed. "Come and look for yourself!" said Mrs. S. " Who sent Vin?"demanded breathless "The Lord knows!" | io isly responded his ancient helpmate. "Oh. husband, we can keep out of the poor-house for another month at least!" And Mrs. S. wiped the tears of gladness from her poor, rheumy old eyes? eyes that had been dark and brilliant once as Lulu Ripley's own. The ruddy firelight was penciling its shifting arabasijues upon the drawingroom walls, where Lulu's own tremulous hand had hung up a tiny cross of ivy and hemlock twined together, and upon the table lay the material of her illuminating work?a half-complete text: 'Though He slay me, yet will 1 trust in Him." Thus she sat musing, until the unexpected apparition of Emma?round-eyed. and rosy witn ncr ioiij; whir?iumiuwm her. "I'm sure, miss, I beg pardon forcomin' in without the 1x11 bein' rung forme!" fluttered she: '* l?ut there lias been such doin's down in the village! Please, miss, it can't be miracles, nor yet it can't be Santa Clans?but what is it?1' Lulu smiled quietly to herself. ' Tell me what it is, Kmma," she said, ' and then I shall be a better judge.*' And then Kmma told the story of the I glad hearts everywhere?of the good rifts that had come to the widow, and j the fatherless, and those that were ready to perish. "Emma," said Lulu, kindly, "listen to I uie. It was I that sent thosa things." "You, miss?" "Yes, I. I heard you, a week ago, telling Simon about all those poor people, and I made up my rnind that, out of my abundance, I could spare something to them." "God bless you. miss!" faltered Emma. "And I only wish you could see how glad and happy they all are!" , And Emma tripped away, to anewer a ! prni at the hall bell, while Lulu, who I lived as secluded a life as a nun. niul neither saw nor expected visitors, sat i looking dreamily into the tin*. I. "I.ulti!" She started up with a wild cry, half joy, half incredulity, and there, standing on the threshold of the door, she beheld Will Graham?Will Graham, alive and in the llesh. I lle<ame forward with glad, sparkling eyes and outstretched hands. "Perhaps 1 should not have been so abrupt, my darling." he said, "but I could not help it. I hungered and thirsted so to see you again. Oh, how 1 have prayed and longed that I might reach here by Christmas Day!" And he told her how he hail lain for dead upon the cruel rocks; how a kindly ? i i . .. i r ,'f wrecKer Jian ueiecieu huiiu: i.-um m life arul carried him Id shelter: how 1 months of hrain fever had enfeebled him, until tin' llame on life's altar had burned faint and dim. like a flickering spark; of ' his convalescence and homeward journey. "My own precious one," he murmured, I "(Jud has given us back to each oilier, even from the very gates of death! How i shall we ever thank Him for the great happiness of this Christmas Day?" And Lulu Ripley knew that (?od had indeed heard her prayers, and answered them through the sunset glory of the Christmas evening. And of all who rejoiced over their Christmas gifts that day she was the happiest. The Original Santa Clans. "Santa Claus,"says an exchange, is an interesting archaism?carrying the mincl agreeably backward to those old times which always have such a charm for the critical investigations or poetic reveries of men. This cheerful Christmas legend was ?piite a new thing to most of us a few years ago?to those, at least, who got their ideas of such things from the literature <>f our own language. Santa t'laus has come, as everybody is aware, from Germany to the new world; and the curiosity of this matter is that in thus coming over the sea he underwent a certain remarkable kind of transformation?a sort of sea change. lie was once honored in Deutchland or Germany (for both these names have exactly the same meaning in the Celtic), as a child, a fact which none of the German critics or philologers have condescended to notice, at least in any distinguishable way. Santa Clans was one of the oldest ideas of the Celtic West in Pagan times, as he was of the Pagan East before. In Christian times he was still regarded with religious reverence, sitting, as he had sat for ages in Kgypt ami elsewhere, in the arms of his mother. Santa Clans was, in fact, the child Jesus in the middle ages, and throughout that period the festive creed of Germany and all Celtic Kurope was that he visited all family dwellings of good Christians on the eve of his anniversary, and brought with him gifts and blessings for the children. This beautiful tradition is still to be found lingering in Germany, though Santa Claus <loes not seem to be specially connected with it by name. The truth of this original belief is plainly enough indicated by the word " claus,'' which, in the got hie or ancient German, means "child "and "son." Santa Claus formerly meant the Holy Child. It is not very difficult to see how the change of men's religious beliefs three or four hundred years ago changed thecharacier of the legend. .Many thought it too rude and simple a thing to make that holy child bring knick -knacks and sweetmeats to the children down the chimney, and so. by degrees, altered t!ie old idea, making it a genial, secular fancy in the person of a benevolent and jolly old man, such as the Germans and others have welcomed for many generations, and we in this country havegcnnrally recognized of late years. He h such a cheery and felicitous old fancy, that nobody would ever have thought of challenging him in any respect, but for the great mistake, so long ago committed, of sending him about the world with that tell-tale Claus pinned on his back, as it were, lie really should himself have remembered, with the rest of his recollections, that his name is interpreted in Schiller or Buxhorn (we forget which i, and should have chosen another. This statement, supported as it is by the old Christian traditions clinging round the present season of the year, will commend itself, perhaps, to the critics of the old customs and old language. Hut '"the rest of mankind " "don't see it," and, in reply to that Gothic lexicon, exclaim, in the words of Giles Seroggin's ghost, that's 110 rule!" Santa Claus will .still be the old man with the beard and the frosty face frosty, but kindly." And. indeed, very properly. The popular instinct?that is, in these more modern times?was right in setting that image of a child aside. It belonged to a lar profonndcr sentiment than that of i i .1.1 ? ?.? inert! nouseuoiu gume. jmmiiiu: huu icativitv. and was inevitably displaced by a generation in whom the simple old beliefs and reverence of departed ages lived no longer. After all. it was lucky that Santa Claus was turned so very opportunely into an old man. The other idea could ucver have come down to such a matterof fact age as this: and our Christmas would have wanted the happiet genius of its festivity?the Santa Claus of the German vaterland. Hantrimr in Chains. One of the last criminals, if not the very last, who. after execution, were gibbeted and "hung in chains" must have been Cook, the murderer <>f Mr. Pa as, at Leicester in 1N:{!{ or ls:!4. Some of the elder of your readers may recall the horrible details of the murder. If I remember rightly. Cook, being in pecuniary difficulties, knocked his victim on the head with a crowbar for the purpose of robbery during a business call, and endeavored to make away with the body by burning it piecemeal in the tire-place I of his warehouse or office. So much horror was called forth by the atrocity of [ the crime that it was (strangely enough) thought advisable to hang the body of the murderer in chains, somewhere in the neighborhood of Leicester, in "terrorum homacidarum." Hut the gibbeted corpse proved so powerful a magnet to the lovers of the horrible that people came from all parts to see tin; ghastly spectacle, until, as 1 remember its being described to me by the jailer, "it was like a fair under the gibbet." The scenes gf riot and debauchery which ! ciwiiril led vitv ".iirrililv to ail order i for tin; removal of the body. As :i boy I I visited Leicester jail in 1n:M. and saw j there the so-called '"chains'" in which the | murderer's corpse had been suspended, j They consisted of a set of iron straps, ! framed together so as to encase the whole | body, head, arms and legs, with a hid| eous resemblance to the human form. At "the time 1 speak of, hard upon half a ; century ago. these irons were kept in a kind of museum in Leicester jail, together with casts of murderers' heads and other curiosities of the same kind.? AWt.x am/ *. u,........ Mr. Thackeray in one of his novels thanks heaven that gave him a heard. This was only a figurative way of saying that he preferred not being a lady. Hut a man named KatelifT, who has just died in an odd way at. Sheffield, had better or more literal reasons to be thankful fot his beard. He lived on this common decoration of his sex, a decoralion which so many races have rejected and shaved away. Kadelill's plan was simple; he pretended to be a woman, and of course j a bearded woman it always rattier an at iraction to the curious, iiurinah seems to lie the land where ladies of certain families (as de-picked in a volume by Colonel Yule) really are as hirsute as sky terriers. In Burmnh, we presume, bearded ladiesdo not collect a crowd of jKiying admirers, and even in Sheffield Uadeliif found so I little money in his beard that he added the trade of herbalist to his profession as a harmless monstrosity. His death has been as curious as his life; he was found some days ago with his skull almost cut in two.?London Doily New*. Fifty millions of peoph in this country use on an average five matches per day. This makes $75,000 a day for matches, or ?27,375.000 a year. Tea was brought to Europe from China inlGOl. i THE WAGS OF THE I'RESS- SI ! COMICAL STORIES TOLD BY THE HUMORISTS. ' ap; : A >ovt'l King-Two Fn? -wo ml nclccls ltiilcs of flic l.iiiM-kilii Illi <1 lib?Show t'<ITll<-m IRowloSliwot. am 1110 A NOVEI, KN(SAHKMKNT IUN(i. an Hi' didn't bring tin* engagement ring |yj] j to her the night In- had promised, be- jui cause lie was out walking with another a i ' girl, and the engaged girl had heard of it. So the first tiling she did when he 0f( j railed on her llu* next evening was to I na: ! t:ike him by the left ear and shake him ?oi | about at a painful rate. bo | "What's that.'" he yelled. ^ 4That, sir. is the engagement ring? tht I and it will ring just the very same way clu ! every time I hear of you walking out ulo i with another girl."?Kentucky Stutd jj^J J Journal. w), int TWO FATAL DKKECTS. "C( Mrs. Jenkins: "Dear me, Matilda Jane 6ea j it's no use trying to be aristocratic any stn j longer. I've done everything mortal Pr( i woman could since your par did so well ^ J in lumber, but the obstacles is too great, trn { I give it up." bri j Matilda Jane: "Why, ma, i tiiiiik i I we're getting along splendid, I'm sure. I }{?J i W e doirt cat with our knives any more, j)0S I and we got so we dare speak to the but- I j ler at dinner. The way you say, '.James, you may ?0,' sounds like a queen talking. "Jjj ; What is the trouble now?" ,lrt, i Mrs. Jenkins: "Well, I was reading tioi | only a little while ayo that the gout and tut I a family feud were necessary adjuncts to f'rt aristocracy, and I don't see any prospect ^ta of securing either,?I'hiladclphio Cull. rip Mir SHOWED THEM HOW TO SHOOT. I OC! A Texas military company were out on ' the range recently practising at riflcI shooting. The lieutenant in command 1 j suddenly became exasperated at the poor JTr i shooting, and, seizing a gun from oik; of me! j ihe privates, angrily exclaimed: Me j "I'll show you fellows how to shoot 1" rit< I Taking a long aim. and a strong aim, ?'"' | and an aim altogether, he fired and j missed. Coolly turning to the private (,f, j who owned the gun, he said: of I ' tal luai > tut' ? u > jtuu ^nwi. lie again loaded the weapon and missed. Turning to the second man in juw the ranks, he remarked: Sti "That's the way you shoot.'' (1fc' In this mnnncr he contrived to miss *'ie ! about tiftv or sixty times, illustrating to c^j each soldier his personal incapacity, and nal i finally he accidentally hit the target. out "And that," lie ejaculated, handing P.06 j the gun back to the private, '"is the way i I shoot.''?Sifting*. vici ? be | KULES FOK TUE LIME-KILN CLUB. el?< I a b | Judge Chcwso, of the Lime-Kiln club, ret) arose to ask for information. He wanted eoi ' to know how strong the fraternal tics of din I such a club could be considered. How I far was he obligated? j Ho "Brother C'hewso." replied the presi- du< I fl?nt "T will rcnfl (]c follerin' for vour I tlii j benefit: 0^ "1. All meet In-all on terms of equal- L'n . itv, but (lc member who blacks stoves an' dpa j saws wood am not 'sported to be so J>re I familiar as to ask de barber airnin' ?17 j per week to lend him his toof-pick. qt ; "2. If you lind a brudder in distress!, n)1d ' aid him. Dar am no pcrtiekler objeek- | i? t j shun to taking a morttraire on his stove PnJ j in case he wants to borry fo' dollars in w'a< cash, but <jive him a leetle show befo' u fo'closin'. snv I Excuse a imidder's faults as fur dep as yon kin, but alter lie lias spit on your lmtes about tjirce times you can conclude gt. that he aches to be licked. I of s "4. Speak well of each odder; avoid or ' wrangles an' slander; be ready to give J** ) good advice; encourage Bobriety an' in- 0f~t dustrv, doan' let a man kick yer dog of 1 simply because lie sits on de stool nex' for : vou in Paradise hall."?Free Press. n,l11 I sels< I on i THE SII.KXT MA.IOHITY. ami Jones, who was a peaceable man. ' married a very strong-minded woman, | and sometime after, a friend, who had l?ti | la-en abroad, was asking Brown about *Tri ! him. . wft j "Alas, poor Jones/' said Brown, he jUr has joined tlic silent majority."' n a; "Good heavens, lie ain't dead, is lie.' Jaw i When did it happen? I never heard of J)11" ; it before." jjc ( "Oh, no, lie is not dead." j ''Well, if he ain't dead, how could he I have joined the silent majority?" I "Poor man, he's married."?MerchantI Trurelcr. Jj L WHAT SUB WAS. elej The other dav a rather green-looking U1L'J r M Ii 1. i :,i?4.1.. i; i , K | VOUUg Il'tlOW?tiiDii^lL nci-uuL-iun iiim | frj(] I in the city?wont into u dry goods store i ju|,j j and walked uj) to one of the lady clerks I jj and the following conversation occurred; 1 and "I want to get four yards of wide rib- Yoi i bon for a girl." era! "All right, sir. What color do vou E I vvunt-'' * bin! I "I don't know. I just want four yards ya * of ribbon, that's all." y "Yes, but we ought to give her some I Dai | color that will auit her. Is she a blonde stai or brunette?" un(' j ".She ain't neither; she's a hired girl." ^ i ?EranstiUe A rytts. j?K, i'en EM P Ell KINS' LIVE DRUMMER. L'ol I SlieriiT Wiggins, of Dallas, Texas, , ^ j made it a prominent part of his business | i t<> ferret uul and punish commercial j thu travelers who traveled in Texas without "tli a license; Imt one morning he met his j (J match?11 genuine Yankee drummer. I s0!' " What have yon got to sell Any- | ^ tiling V asked the sheriff, as he met the wii< Connecticut man on the streets. tot "Oh, yes; I'm selling medicine? S patent medicine. It's the best tiling in Ste the world. You ought to try a bottle. j.'"' It will cure your ager, cure rheumatism j | P1. ?cure everything." silk " And you will sell me a case?'' ! ?ua ! ''Sartenly, sir: glad to.M j Pr" Then tlie sheriff bought a case. j . "Anything more?" asked the drum- j ! mer. _ ; aln " Yes, sir: 1 want to see your license I eer I for selling goods in Texas. That is my i {av i duty as tiiehiiih sheriff of Dallas county."' J The drummer showed him a document, i thi* I Ii.\e<l up good and strong, in black and <n j white. The sheriff looked at it. and ' 1,111 . pronounced it "all right." Then turn ( *J i ing to the commercial traveler, he said: w I drin't Umhiw now tlint I've bouirlit ?,,, j this stiilT, tliut I shall ever want it. I j tin*' ' reckon tliat I may as well soil it to you j lia> I ayain. AVhilt will you ?^iv?; for it ?" : j "Oh. I don't know that the stulT is of ! j any use t<> me; hut seoiujj its you. slier- j vec i ilT. I'll uive you a dollar for the lot cf ! it i i you raly don't want it." I l*r The sherilT delivered hack the modi- i i cine at four dollars discount from his own i I | Jill I'llitMl*, illiu 1U( HMU !?. . v . ' "Now," slid the drummer. 'Tvej;otsi j ! (|uesti?u or tew to ask you. I lev you W'l j <(ol a drummer's license about your 1 j trousers, anywhere?" I 1 "No: I haven't any use for the article | rici myself," replied the sheriff. | tril "Hain't, ehWal, I iruess we'll see : i?i< I about that pretty soon. Kf I understand I (?ni | the law, it's a clean case that you've been I Ctr tradin' with me, and hawkin'and peddlin' j 'I patent medicine on the highway, and I i'n shall inform on you?blamed ef 1 don't!"' ! When the Yankee reached the court- j , house lie made his complaint, and the 'j sheriir was lined eiyht dollars for selling "f floods without a license. ^ The sherilT was heard afterward to say that "you mi^ht as well try to hold a om greased eel as a live Yankee."? Wit ami wh Ilttmor <>f' the Aye. ''' ?'? ii - am A Valuable Box of (.loves. V!l Ul < "A pretty little story is told," says ! the Newport correspondent, of the Boston y?! Journal, "of the Karl ami Countess of Rosebery, who were here a short time since. A day or two before their wedding took place Miss Rothschild asked jlt I the. young earl what he would like for a j wedding present from her. Oh, lie replied, suppose you give me a box of F|* gloves. The box of gloves was sent en- ltii closed in an elegant inlaid easp. On j opening the box the earl discovered an rc envelope addressed to him in a wellknown hand. He expected it contained ('^" i dainty little note. It did, but not the Kn sort of note he imagined. The contents of the envelope was a check written out sk and signed bv Miss Rothschild, and in i favor of the earl, and was for the modest | little 9um of ?'200,000." j >ti : ' ???^I JMiMARl OF CONGRESS. " Senate* rho various commit!ees of tlie Senate wero |Kiinted. A resolution of Mr. Voorheas is agreed to authorizing the committee on b litary nffairsto inquire into the exj>eiliency o I feasibility of purchasing the encamp- " lit grounds occupied by the Revolutionary n ny at Valley Forge, t > be nmrie a national si k. Mr. Vonrhees also offered a resolution, c' ich he asked to have printed, that i i the tl lenient of the Senate a public debt is not public blessing, and that any measure of t< :*?i w.i,*/*,. trt !? ? vnrnftt:rnf.i<m nf V, tlliriiii iuuiviiim, tv? i,r |.v>|'v..M. ? s present in pit.-t bearing national <1< bt J( this government for the puntose ofr y ional banking or on any other acunt niei t.s with t lie disapprobation of this ^ dy ar.d should bo viewed with alarm by j( ) taxpayers of the United States Bills a re introduced to provide for coinage at p ?Denver mint: to increase the salaries of lr aplains in the United States army; toregite eh ctions for Representatives in Con3-8 and to i imish violations thereof; to ' ine the rights of United States citizens ?: ien residing in foreign countries; Authorise ^ : the construction of a bnilding for the :omiuodation of the library of Congress. " Jr. Anthony was sworn in and lo >k his r' t... . /{ills were presented to establish a .? ?kI tin.ii in ilm niutWct.nf (Vilninliift: to il >vide for f ho enc mragement of closer com- m rcial relationship I Hit ween the United si itcs ami the republics of Mexico an.l Cen- w 1 ami South America and tho empire of iv.il; to establish a uniform system of bank- f> itcy The Senate received a long list of n ninations from the President, an! con- jj, ned the nomination of Oeneral Oreshain as tmaster-general. , Ir. Beck's resolution calling on the secre- V1 yof tho treasury for information ros]>ecttho management of national finances was ended and adopted....Mr. Wilson ari- d< sse 1 the Senate in support of his resolu- ft i proj>osmg an amendment to tho consti- J ion, which reads as follows : "Con- tl ss shall have power, by appropriate b islation. to protect citizens of thel nited M ites in the exercise and enjoyment of their tl hts. privileges and immunities, and to nse to them the equal protection of the ct s." "When Mr. Wilson had concluded the tc late went into executive session. sc House. jn fills were introduced declaring forfeited A tain land crants to railroads: appropria- In if $ii,lii (i,i (),) for Mississippi river improveuts: granting pensions to survivors of the hi xican war: for the organization of the Ter- gc >ry of Alaska: to establish a bureau of er nuerce and navigation; to incorporate the cl ritime canal company, of Nicaraugua; to j t ulate railroad traHIc: to establish a court i|>poals: t<> establi>h a uniform system *l bankruptcv; to create the pos- . ' telegraph " of the United States; taring that the constitution of an inter- 1. an it- canal by means of foreign capital is tile to the established policy of the United ites, and is in violation ol the spirit and f' larations of the Monroe il< ctrine, and that nt i Unite<t State.-; will assert and maintain h control and su]H>rviskn over any such CI lal as may be necessary to protect its tr tonal interests: to abolish postage on sec- w I class mailable matter and to reduce hi tage 0111 ransient newspapers; providing hi t in tho case of the removal, death, resig- h( ion or inability of both the President and sa 8-pre-iid-nt the secretary of state shall acting President until a special ?f :tlon can be had: to establish y ureau of commerce and navigation; or by q ealing the provision of the act for the nage of the standard silver dollar; provig for a uniform system of bankruptcy: to ]v it the flisjwisn] of public lands adapted to jj iculture to actual settlers under the f mestead laws Mr. Hewitt intro el the Iollowing r. solution: That i House bring to the no- n* s of the President the case of Patrick P' >onn?ll, claiming to be a citizen of tlio 1,1 ite 1 States, ami now under sentence of -c th in Great Britain, in the hope that tho. }"* isident may secure such reasonable delay he execution of the sentence as will enable President to ascertain whether the said onnell is a citizen of the United .States. 1 if s>. whether he was tried and convicted J,f iccordance with the provisions of municilaws of Great Britain and the ie<|uire- er its of international law. The resolution > adopted. te iills were introduced to establish a postal wi ings deposit as a branch of the post olllce flc artment; to abolish tho duty on salt: to sion the survivors of the Mexican, Florida ,ij i Black Hawk wars; to establish a mint at M Louis; to adtu't free of duty all grades ^r ucrar; to reorganise the Iegis ative jx>wer ^ Utah; to repeal the tax on national ik circulation; to repeal the tax oa icies and successions; for the abrogation , he Clayton-liulwer treaty; for the relief vl ?itz John Porter: a general amnesty bill; ai the retirement <>f the trade dol.'ar; to ?nd the emigration act : to establish bl >ols in Alaska: to restore the rates nf duty h< imi orted wool; proposing a constitutional at snument for the suppression of polygamy; at viding for a tri aty with the G< rinan tire; for the admission of Arizona. Mr. Robinson (X. Y.) presented a res<>on of inquiry calling for information con- | ^ ling the purcba-e of public lands by for- V,' i noblemen, so called, ami titled aliens, li their names and the amount of acres chased, and also for such information as of V enable the House to formulate such tli s as shall prevent the establishment of i? 1 monopolies and landlord systems in our ntrv. and provide against ha ving the pub- sfc lomain fall under the power of aliens. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. fc ARLY.?General Jubal Early's face is all th sted out of shape with the rheumatism. 0i IXCOLN.?Secretary Lincoln has a more a ;autly ap|>ointed ollice than any other j re nher of the cabinet. [ossuth.?Kossuth, the Hungarian pa- bi t, though eighty years of age, is still 6j idsome and robust. d, [e.ndhicks.?Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks I wife, of Indiana, have sailed from New ' th k for Europe, intending to be absent sev- th 1 months. ili uke of Norfolk.?Tho Duke of Norfolk ^ lie richest of English nobles, 'I hey rate L!,' i at >45,0.0,<KH>. Next to him conies the ; rquis of Bute. fARn.?Michigan's richest man is Dr. ^ rid Ward. He owns -,2(10,000,000 feet of iding pine in Michigan and Wisconsin, co , is worth ?3."),000,000. [ill.?United States Senator Hill, of Colo hr o, started out in life as a professor of gt mistry in Brown university, at Provice, R. I., and a few years ago wont to 0], orado to assay ores. E0 .DICE.?Mr. Adee, chief of the diplomatic a eau, Washington, is acc used of a literary ki k. The Chicago hili-r-Orriin charges t Mr. Adec's Iriend. William Y. Butts, j). e cow-boy poet," is Mr. Ado- himself. |w n'EEN Victoria.?On her return to \\ 111(1from the north the queen's health was I to lie excellent and her s; irits were <)iiite jji xiral. She still uses a stick, however, 0f ii she walks, hut-she is said nevertheless xj not in the least lame. TEWART.?It is ?aid that Mrs. A. T. wart was the inspinr of her husband in j(1 ny parts of his business, studying matiu- 0f tures and the tariff, and that it is to is due the lite h tank held by American j] s. cashmeres, and carpets, she having per- n) ded Mr. Stewart to take advantage of the jt iteetive system, ami establish silk mills. w 'omits.?General Hob" Tombs, of Geor- nr . lives in a bij; two-story frame lions.1, into ^i, hall of which a wag< n-load of hay could lost be driven. He is? rich, having re. ei 1 for years a handsome income from his proctice. When he was young he bought ge tracts of land in Texas, and it is said .t he has c'care.l on portions w " * * i ? i ? :n rcol that lie lias sc?i.i, wnnp m< miii u?u? i ugh to turn him two or three times as m eh more. ui lnXEs.? Senator John 1*. Jones, of Nevada, w o is said to lnve l.M s\.'5,lHH .!*:( I within tho 111 it ten years, is trying to get another for- I' le. lie lias leased the Honan/a mines from st 1i levelui.wur.l. The Bonanza, which tc > i unit cl out over >10.1 o n).oho of gold and er. was found at a depth of 1,530 feet and w les expects to find valuable ore deposits pi jvetliat level. His lea>e extends three irs, and he wili explore the ground for all A s worth. He is to account for seventy per <c it. of the assay va nes of the ores found: hi over that. i> t? he his. Tl AGRICULTURAL. ."I si' lint Cnillinissioisc * l.orinij Shj* in ill I2i* altiltinl HejMtrt. I'' 'lie animal re|>ort of Commissioner of Ag- ^ ,4- 1 ?: tit-it thorn worn (lis* uiillr*1 iinIIJ.* jilted din ing t p,:;tyear nearly ?J,r?(M>,C)0(J n skates df M-.-iU. of which iii>>iv than el packages \v. if furnished to meinliers of nfircss. n 'hi! experiment-; made by rlie department ]( ?xtrnotiiifc the juice from sorghum cane liv t lusioti insti-ft i of milling, have been very y ccssl'u1, airl l ave iv.-ulted in an increase of ^ in twenty live lo thirty percent, in yield, 'ie commissioner, in urgingthe impoitanco o forest caltnre, says that the total value 'i the forest products of the I'nited j(, ite-i for Llit* < ensus ymr is est imatrd at p )i).()iiO.(iO:i, and that they exceed in value (.J r crops of ha.\ rye. oats, barley, buck- j icat, potatoes and tobacco taken together. p ey amount to ten times ill;-value of gold t( il salver, and to more than three times the lue of the precious mim-ia's and the coal 1 other minerals combined. 1'ho expenses of the department lor the '' ir amounted to s-IVU;;:*. " I1 FURS AWD SKINS. u ilcst Priccw Paid for TIsdii in flic i ? i It "V?'\v York .Tljirfutr-., .f H'.virf nnrl n \'n. 1 Quality. Surth unit h'a t. Soutli-icrxt. > her <7 iHlo.tii (0 fc MH<0 OH J ick Hear (mi?? ].-> Oil 6 0ilf?T2 Oil l>B and yearling*.... 4 00, >0 *; no 3 oofa; .1 00 S er, each 7 I'Ofn, 9 OG 5 00@ 7 CO o liver, f) Iti 2 10.rf. 3 2,1 1 COci, 2 25 o 11k 7o@ !M 40(<ii 60 n (I Fox 1 40.n; 1 CO 1 &N?; 1 SO .. ay Fox K0;rf; ] <K> 70/?j 90 ccoon, each 75^i 90 B!i(nj 63 11 1111k, black 1 OOff. 1 05 80fo 95 " unk, half-striped... C0(?' 65 B5<^ CO " link, striped 40<?i 4.1 35(? 45 o unk, white 2.1 15(A OFPiim, (trTi')ii out).... 19? 20 I0(o? 14 1skr.1t, winter 16@ 17 13@ Id J] iskrat,fall 12^ 13 100 19 1 t ? " ? | j _ NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. The captain and six men belonging to the ark Lie not'actoress were landed in New York y the steamer State of Pennsylvania. The nlk of the Benefactrecs was discovered in lid-ocean, and the men were taken off in a tarving condition. Fifteen others of the rew had taken to the long boat, and were bullght to have been lost. The New York Trihvne charges that ex?nsive frauds in the letting of city contracts ave been unearthed whereby the city has >st nearly ?0,000,000 within* the past few ears. Fires on the same day destroyed the inisquani cotton mill, at R< ckport, Mass., a irjje granite building employing U<r>0 hands, nd the Mount Hickory rolling mills, at Erie, enn., the loss in each instance being cstilatfd at *200,( 00. After being in office less than a fortnight, Vheeler H. Pcckham, appointed by Govrnor Cleveland t?? succeed the late John TcKcon as the New York district attorney, jsitrned on account of ill health, and Peter !. Olnoy, a nu mlx-r of tne County Dernocacy, was appointed his successor. Five Germans s'arterl from Buffalo, N. Y.? 1 a small boat to go duck hunting on Ni[rara river, and when m the center of the ;reain their frail craft capsized and they ere all drowned. It is feared that four more of the overdue lou'-ester (Mass.) fishing vessels are lost, laking nine in all, with at least 120 men on oard. General Martin (Citizen's ticket) was ected mayor of Boston by about 1,500 mairity. The New Jersey court of pardiis, by a unanimous vote, relse 1 to commute the death sentence of allies B. Graves, of Newark, who killed lite Eddie Saden, and who was sentenced to a hanged on the same day on which Robert [artin, the wife murderer, will be hanged in , ie same city. T T> r>.. V?,? Vn?l, or.tfAn U. i. . IV V/W.? i'CM xuia vv?HV? mimission merchants and exporters, have tiled with liabilities reported at $000,000. A party of three of the fourteen delegates nt by an organization of Paris workmen to spect the various industrial enterprises of nieriea, were refuse;! admission tc several i rge /actories in New Haven. The graveyard insurance business, which is biien flourishing in Fall River, Mass.. for i line years, is being well shaken up. Seval arrests have taken place of parties i larged with defrauding insurance commies. Pennsylvania's State debt is shown by le treasurer's report to l>e *l!l,71S,7S8. Dtirg the year the aebt has been reduced ?.V)f>,0. The receipts have l>een $ 1,775,4^0, and le disbursements $ti,70^,<>90. I Six New York policemen were dismissed om the. force the other day for drunken?ss. Mrs. Christiancy, who married Senator hristiancy whilo she was eninloved in the easury department at Washington, and ho was afterward defendant in the eele ated divorce suit brought by her aged husmd, died the other day in Brooklyn. She id for a lung time shown symptoms of in- . nity. Miss Roe E. Keiser, a handsome and ac- ' mipli.-hed young lady belonging in Utica, N. < shot herself to death in presence of eorge W. Dunn and wife, who had been ' arried only ten days and were stopping at! ' e Windsor hotel, in New York. Previous- I \ to shooting herself Miss Keiser upb:adel j unn for having been false to his pledges of j j lection for her. j Two prominent mill owners were arrested | id fined at New Hartford, Conn., for 11011-1 hue:- with tho law regarding the employ- ; 1 <>nt i>f ehildivn who have not been to hool the required three months in the ar. _ ; South and West. While lioiling lirebricc c t/ 11 a huge j it at C'lm'tan:ioga. Tenn.. nines Gillespie j 1 11 into the seething liquid ui) t? his should- j ; s. and was literally boiled t > death. 1 Five mounted men raided the town of Bris- ' >e, Ariz-ma. kille 1 three citizens, wounded a I ' uman. roMjel a store of and then I 1 'd. j j Sixty-seven moon-liners, charged with 1 stilling illicit whisky, received light ntctices, their offense in most cases being ivial, iu the United Slates court at Covingn, Ky. Fovb men?Ihree negroes and a white man were frhot during a political row at Greenlle, Miss. < )ne negro was instantly killed id another fitally wounded. A kirk in Pine Bluff, Ark., destroved two ocks of buildings, including the Planters' iiise, four business houses, two barbershops id niiio saloons. The total !o-s is estimated J $lt'H),C00. j A fire started in the Consolidated Virgin- j mine in Virginia City. Nevada, time j ars ago. is still buinirg at a distance of j rer 1,'V.r?(t feet below the surface. There are | hi.<mhi.IKK> fietof timber in the mine. Okkicial statistics show that forty-nine i unities in Illinois iroduce coal, and that ere are (Kill coal mines in the State, which i ISM! have yielded It),"iON.T'.U tons. j Seven lives were lost by the sinking of the | earn barge Enterprise 011 l ake Huron. I William Ramsey shot and killed his broth* at East Saginaw, Mich., mistaking liini for j burglar. I r ? 1,o I JvUL IX uui ivu iiiiuvi m | | illen linvstack at I>a Cros.-e, Wis., ami lav ( ere undiscovered twenty-three days withit ford or water. When discovered he was j mere skeleton, but it was believed he would ; cover. ' | The oyster schoc nor Mary Ann went to the ! )ttoni in Clif.saj eakc bay (luring a heavy < nail, and the nine men on bi ard were all 1 owned. < A well-dressed crank has been annoying e Garfield family in Cleveland by calling at eir residence and declaring that he was a j; stant relative of George Washington, and i at he had cmuo a'l the way from St. Ixiuis i 1 marry Jliss Mollie Garfield, the murdered j ' ro<if!ont'? Hnu??htcr. Thk Grant County bank, in Silver City, | j1.. has suspended." I Nonius Deli, (colored) was hunted at Ma- I 11, Miss., for the murder of his wife. Two prominent St. I'aul business blocks ' ive bien wiped out by the ilames. Aggreite losses about ?2iU),000. Colonel J. R. Powei.l, sixtv-nine years d, a prominent planter, was shot ilea- Yno City, Mis-'., by Charles Robinson, during 1 trivial dispute. Robinson's brother was lied by Powell a year ago. t Vir;iLANTKs captured five hor.-e thieves in nkota, shot two of them to death and 1 inge t the other three. Frank* James, the note 1 Missouri out'nw, j < is released on $ bail at Kansas City, it was inline liateiy rearrested on a charge | i killing Cashier Sheets. atCiullutin. in 1NW. i J Charles McLaughlin, a San Franci co | .pitalist ranking among the city's million- i ] les, was shot and killed in his ollice by ! [ romo B. Cox. The tragedy was the result J ' seventeen years' litigation between the | /o men, in which Cox was worsti d. ' I le adverse decisions so we.'ghed u]Mm Cox's ind that he last spring attempted to shoot j < istice McKinsley, of the supreme court. He j ent to McLaughlin's ollice a few days ago 1 id t'enianded * ;<),:hmi. Heing refused, he ot. McLai g iliu three times. Washington. | , Seciiktarv Foi.ukk lias been sick in be>l j ' ith derangement of tlu* stomach. Foi'htkkx Congressmen and other promi nt citi/ens called upon President Arthur to 1 ge his interposition in behalf of O'Uonnell, j ntcnccd at London to be handed for the ' nrder of Carev, tlio Irish informer. The -v resMint. in reply, sai I the department of ate would at once te'egraph Minister I/>well < i make all possible inquiry regarding < t'Don- ' ill's c ti/enship, ami that he ithe i'risident) ' ould take whatever action he eoul 1 with 1 oprietv. Tiik President's recommendation that 1 la-ka be given a civil government lias re- 1 lived cpiiek response. Several bills have i en introduced in the Senate ami House, i lie scheme proposed is in all cast s simple 1 id inexpensive. The ollicers | rovid* d for re a governor, a district judge, a e'erk, a arsluil. an attorney, and b ur eominis- , nners who shall act as justices of the peace j i four different sections or tin* uisir.cr. i no \ , ws of Oregi 11 shnllap; Jy t) the Territory, j t ('X the first hil'ilny" of the House, s\M ) ills were introduced? in arly an average of veil hills for eaeh member?anil even then | se call of States was not concluded. .Va-sa- j in-etts only having been reached in alpha- ( tiea! order. < Ti:e President sent the fo'Iowing further > niniiiatioiis to the {Senate: Albert IH'y- I t lan, of Ntl)ra.-l a. to be treasurer of the I Hi ed States: Edward 0. Gravis, of New ! j ork, to he assist ant-treasurer (>f the United j t tate-?: Walter hvans, of Ken ucky, to lie j mniissioner of internal revenue: Benjamin ' < utterworth, of Ohio, to he commissioner | r l atanls: John S. '1? oki r. of Michigan, to \ ] . secretary of the Territory of Montana jt dwin II. Nevin. Jr., t>be naval oM'ccr ol I istom-', d'strict of 1'hiiadelphin: (Jeorge K. i i eland, to bo surveyor of customs, district of i j hilail Iphia: Andrew Mason, of New York j i 1h? Miiierintendeiit Unite 1 States as ay of | Ax < fti -in! crop rep >rt from the depart ( sent of ii^-rii ultme ays tin.' "Season was ' ivi.rablo lor cotton | icking. The con. |j r< duct. falls I e'ow t ho average. Tiik Kc|mMican National coininit'ee met ; i i Washington, ami ekt te I S?. nator Saliin. of I | [inne-ofa, its | erinaiient i Imirni 111, by i j el in sti-iii. The eoiiiinitte,- do i<le<l to 1 ulil Jlu? national eonventi 11 of IS-i-j ! j i Chi a^o. 01 June CliKa^o j | as ilt e ared the ehoi e on tho fourth l.ftliot ' i y '.'li vot s to 1* for Cincinnati. 4 for Sara- j . jga, and I for l'hila ielphin. Resolutions of j ' flint>r Five, proposing a ciiatige in wiepriu i < f representation, l>y reapuoistiag delegates n the basis of the Republican vote, were i fTere.l and ]rovoked d.scussion and str -ng Pposition. Th\v were fiiia'lr referred to 111- rational convent on. Reso'utions were dopt"?l paving a warm trbut-' to the leniory of Marshall Jewell, chairman of the ommittee in the Uarileld ca iij aign. The Senate in executive session conflrir.el lie following nomination-: So.li Ledyarl lielp to be envoy extraordinary an I minis-1 er plenipotentiary to Peru: William \V. Thomas, Jr., to Ixj minister resident t Sweden and Norway. Foreign, The Egyptian forces have sustained nnoth er bad defc at, a dotaebment of nkj men, com la. prising the flower of the army, boiuej sur fa rounded by a body of several thousand Bedou ins, followers of the False Prophet, and cut tc pieces. Tuv fhinpsA were routed bv tbo French in I'r a night attack on Haiphong, Tonquin, al- of though the Celestial forces advanced close to the town and burned a village. An attempt, to murder M. do Lesseps, pro- ' jecU r of the Panama canal, with an infernal t'1 machine, was unsuccesful. A J Belgian en- th gineer was arrested at Nice, Italy, upon sus- w picion. ' Queen Victoria has made Alfred Tennyson, the j)oet laureate of England, a baron. n Nine person-i pleaded guilty at Sligo, Ireland, of conspiracy to murder a landlord. wl An immense throng of poor people gath- ha ered before the house of a deceased merchant ()l] in Moscow to receive the money that is . . usually distribute I at t he demise of a wealthy 11,1 person. The pressur'3 was so great that envorni twrsnns wore crushed to death and 7fe four severely injured. y A grand liftmiuet was given in Dublin to Mr. Parnell, the Irish home rule leader. Lord (" Mayor Dawson presided, and many members ot of parliiunent were present. A check for x 138,000 was presented to Mr. Farnell as a fa national tribute. Heavy gales have caused a great loss of in life and property throughout Great Britain. Eighteen persons, comprising four prit **-. (" four merchants, a suuoolmaster and nine ^ peasants have bi*en executed in 8ervia for a taking a prominent part in the recent revolt j), China is continuing its active preparations w for war with France. Canton has been placed in a defensible condition, a large fleet having collected to protect the city, and its ap- j:c proachos having been barred by sinking 1 ?-1-1 ~.:h. tlia fhtnaco JlJDKS JlHitlU 1 Willi *?iu- vuiiivtv viceroy declared that all foreigners would Do ' protected. It is reported that the king of Anam has vc been poisoned by the anti-French party, and wi that the revolutionists have declared war on w> France. A heavy storm caused great damage to 1 shipping along the coast of New Foundland. ,K Thk wife of John Howie, of Homerville, ^ New Brunswick, gave birth to four b ?ys the wi other morning. One died two hours after ot birth, but the others were doing nicely at last accounts. " j on DISASTROUS GALES. 2 te ni Great Loss cf Life and Property tii in Great Britain. * di Many Towns Devastated and Immense a Damage to Shipping. Violent gales throughout Great Britain and y. Ireland have caused much damage in London ind the provinces. The gale was especially severe in Ireland, Scotland and North Wales. In the midland counties of England huge ^ t: 62-i were torn up and carried away, and i lliero was great destruction of property and nr [). rsonal injury. There was also some loss of ^ life in that section. ^ Nearly all the chimney-sta?ks in Hu'l ivere overthrown. Two persons were killed -hpre and saveral were in iured. At Birming- t> liain two persons were kil.ed and a number ^ af others were injureJ. Three persons were ^ kiile l at Manchester by the falling of a tioii&e. At Dewsbury three personi were billed. At Chester a mail was blown down in in the street and killed. Two jjersons were |u i!so killed al Liversedge, Yorkshire. At . I'irke: head, oil the Mersey, great damage n< ivaa done. The chief officer of a steamer which ha 1 just arrived from (ilas^ow was jlown upon the quay and killed. In Liver[K)ol cabs were overturned in the street and many buildings wore damaged. A postal telegraph insp ctor was kille.1 at Leeis. At Lincoln the i;arai>et of the tower of the 3 atliedrnl w.is blown down. At Derby the (jor a ;d chancel of the church of St. Chad were demolished. The Congregational church it thnt placa was also damaged. At Rothorlam the pariah chui c'a was much injured. A. 4/ xirtion of the roof of St. Mary's church, at Berwick, was destroyed. At Bradford the Monuments i:i the UiulerclifT cemetery an 1 a aortion of the depot of the Midland railway ivero blown down. j The lowlands in west j.ancasnire ana in ja ;he Garstang district, on the Wyre river,' j)( .vere llcoded. The low-lying districts of Birmingham were submerged A jmriion of w ;li9town of Portsmouth wii? flooded. Xavi- -A nation by the ferry st.-annrs at Liverpool fr ivasgieatly interfered with. At Leicester jj, ;ho carriage works were destroyed. Several louses in ths suburbs of Nottingham were ^ )!own down. Many huse chimney shaits were fo lcniolished at Man.hester. Leeds Bury, Pudscy, Stamford an 1 Leicester. A large ; tl; ja -holder near Bradford w?.s caj sixed. and su :wo large ch-'ini'-nl works at idues were &-p Ian aged. At Wolverhampton the Exhi- de dtioa building, which was only jaitially ^ completed, was destroyed. At Newry, Ire- a and, the gale was very severe, destroying g, ntich property and bending the lamp-posts in ja lie streets. At Glasgow the damage to proj>- j? ?rtv was very great. dc A ship was Mink at tho entrance to the Al>ert deck in the Thames river. The British cf hip Liverpool, Captain Davidson, from Que- jn ec, for (ircenork, was a total wreck near tr traurear. S-otland. Nineteen of her crew {{, ivere drowned. Only one n.a i and a hoy vj ivere saved. A boat was wrecked whi.e yj mtering Galway harbor and four j>erons were drowned. A ship was blown _ Tom its mo rings in Belfast (Ireland) harbor, to r\t South Shields, near the mouth of the ryne, vessels broke adrift in the harbor and di 11ree wherries were sunk. The British bark ar ,'arrie Delap, Captain Lewis, at Glasgow c]; "ro'ii Bathurst, N. B., was severelv damaged gV :> ' a collision, neverai vcsmm* u m mo \lei>e>" were damage*]. Two vessels were ]e| vrecked at Dunurc, near Ayr, Scotland, and a ;wo men were drowned. ni MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. ? L| co Edwin Booth was fifty years old last th nonth. Jd Barti.ky Camimsell's profits on "Siberia' sii iverage nearly ?*2,0 W a week. re Minnie 1'ai.mkh i> still the reigning sensa ac 'ion of the Lomlon dramatic season. In the leading Italian prime donna in this jountry eight nationalities are represented. Q Under the management of Frank Dobson fVlic.' Dates will revive ' The Field of the .'lota of Hold" in the South. l,s "Kstkeu.a," n new comic o|:orefra. by fei Park" aiul S<arelle, lias been,produced at t lie .Standard theatre, New York. wl It is said that Lawrence Barrett will shortly fu trainee the new play adapted by Bayard j Taylor from Schiller's "Don t'arloj." ,?j M11. Frederick "Weber's comic opera, j br 'Uncle Sam,'' will be produced at the Chest- : ba mt Street theatre, in Philadelphia. soon. j Saka Bkkniiakdt has learned to speak i Jo English in about seven months. She has j er' "de lankvitch down to zer ver' ilno point." I nic At the first ac idemic concert in Jena the ' . onductor and s'loist was Franz J.io/t. This i W ivas the firsrt time 111 yeaiM that he had con- he >en:ed to play in public. an Siisxor Fi ehaiu, a tenor who is rapidly isinjr into prominence abroad, was a lawyer Ne n Alexandria, Egypt, until ruined by the j on Knglish bombardment, when he took to the hu lane. , Bret Harte lias furnished the libretto to i tht in opera entitled " The Massacre of Glencoe." I'he inusic is hv .John B. JolFrey, of Chicago. sai I'lie w< rk will be offered to the London pub- th ie next May. wi A.nna de la Grange, the Countessde Stan- fel jowiteh, once a famous prima donna, is now mu iving in Paris in easy retirement, teaching ! eh nusic as a diversion. She does not look to be | los imro than half her real age, which is now i wt ifty-five years. " Sarah Bernhardt," savs Oscar Wilde, I tw ' is all moonlight and sunlight combined, ex- | l''f eedingly terrible, magnificently glorious. ! ''el Mary Anderson is pure and fearless as a i cu nountain dnisy: full of change as a river: ! )v' fri'sli. si arkliiiL'. brilliant. suix;rb, j in ilai'itl." | 9' Oxe Chinese theatre in Portland, Oregon, | 111 his l>een close I, after a 1c s-;of $1,1110 h;i<i lk-en j ncurred by the managers. There is another j ' Jhineso theatre in the < ity. ami the company I ontrolling it has leased*the closed one, ami | vill follow the queer plan of playing in the : \v<> theatres on alternate weeks. ... The New York engagement of Henry Irv- | ng was the largest financial success ever J , >!ayed in the metropolis, except that of Sat ah | I'ernhardt, who ha i the ail vantage of a more I 'Jl apacious theatre iHooth's) ami an auction ri<J a'e of stats f> ra start. On the last night of >. c,)l lrvin:'s New York performances, s: ats were ! 4)11 l?y I he sidewalk sp -culators for ?10. rel Jce .Iekkersox conn? of a thentriea "ixinily. and. of course, naturally drifted on _ o the stage; but, says a writer in theCincin- V? iati C'oimnrri idl (ln:ctli\ ho would inu -h ! refer to bo a great painter than a great ^ . ic.or. He devotes all his sj arc time to tue "!' asel. As a matter of fact, adds the New 5*. -- - - - . ( !l Vork M'urltl, Mr. J etlersou s iorte is cmuvai- i cattle. j ;i Ik one of the grout masters of music would i ju revisit the earth to-day. remarks the Hour, (?? low ho would rejoice at the progress made by j (ji. lis favorite art in popular estimation?so far, j n; that is, as the appreciation of a tiling is f j|, hown by the price that people are willing to J |ny for it. What would Mot-art. for ex- j r0 uimle. sav to Rubenstein's hesitating over an | Wll fforof #125,(100 for one hundred concerts.' w Mos-nrt, whoso choicest compositions could scarcely command the pricc if a Rubinstein (_y t cket. whrsc! short life was one long, bitter jjj htruegle with penury and want, who d wl at m, thirty-six, almost literally of starvation, in a jn parrot. and was buried in a pauper's grave. ex ? Ci A single, sudden, tremendous peal ot su thunder on a recent Sunday night bo afTe?ted Ni two la lies of Newburyport, that on the fol- fr lowing Tuesday they were unable to romein- tii ber anything which had occurred on the previous day, a'thr-ngh they otherwise gave no indication of mental disturbance. k LATER NEWS, >\n hour before the time for the opening of jj 3 performon< e of the comic opera "'Estrol- ^ " at the Standard theatre, in New York. pref ines were 'ii>covered behind the scene-, and j a short time the b.iil'ling was completely j t strove I. The loss on building and stage ' g oi>erties will aggregateabont*lU0,0J0. Two j c-tj} the spectators of the lire were j yfl ito seriously injured. >n mo :ame ! (ert jlit. after the close of the performance of [ jnju e comic opera, "The Beggar Student," nt j an;j e New York Casino, a wooden box filled I th shavings soaked in petroleum and con- j jraA ining a lighted < atdle was discovered in j jaw room littl? used. Investigation showed j jaw at the stage carpenter, Edward Rou,'le> I rjso i-> had been discharged by the manager, ; the d intended to burn the handsome structure | tjje it of spite. He was arrested and confessed I , sguiit. last 1'iOTixif between gangs of colored and | t^e ilijin railroad laborers no lr Newburg, N. j 0jji( resulted in the fatal wounding of one j jjav lored man and j-piIous injuries to three , the . . ?nn Nink firemen were severely inured by a gja( lling wall at the burning of the Harris mill pen f/Aveil, Mass ^Tni Twki.vf. salcon keepers in Cambridge, fQr liio. were sentenced to tines aggregating ^on ,4U>, aim to imprisonment m mo uuiuiby i jjqi il fur a total of -WHI days, for violation of ; ie Scott liijtu r law. Seventy more cases ere yet to be tried. i A A tra<;ic affray, prowing: out of hitter j iliti al feeling, occurred at a polling place the Seventh ward of New Orleaps, where { imary elections fur the delegates to the i iinccratic Stato nominating con- ! tntion were being held. Pistols Set ere displayed, many shots were fired, and lien the smoke had cleared oil' it w::s found at three men-Captain Fortler, a promi- 1 lit politician, Augustus Renaud. a superin- ! ndent of streets, and deputy coustnhle Ed- | ?uj ml Mass-on?had been killed, and eleven | 7v her men more or ltss dangerously wounded. j ..ii- 1 out Bi rt I llis (colored) was hanged m presii e of an immense crowd at Shelby, N. C\. r the murder of -Mrs. William Logan, j yer i old white la lv, and the at- ) en^ mpted murder of her husband, the are otive for' the crime heing robbery. On wh n' same day Pleasant Hall (also colored) 1 as hanged at Rolling Fork, Miss., for the as urder of another colored man during a we< spute about thirty cents: Juan Duran, ica; Mexican, was executed at Galveston. Texas, nig r a Chinaman's murder, and Levi James, a me: io: taw Indian, expiated the crime of mur- foo r. by being legally shot to dentil, at Scully- dre lie court house, Indian Territory. aft' Di'binu November the number of emi- 18^ ants landed in the United States was J ' The number landed in November, lSS'J, 5U( in, o- Pas as 40.12 >. .. , liffi Thk Senate committee on Territories has ? nended the bill to e-lablish a civil governcut in Alaska so as to provide for schools to i open to the children of both white men foUI id Indians. nci 'j'HR steamer Auk, from Liverpool for an(; otterdam. was wrecked during a null1, and ccsi >r crew of twe:ity-one men were alj Aft owned. to 1 A Rome dispatch says that the American tab xtlonal council of Catholic bishops will be Id ar Baltimore after the presidential elec- scci ? _____ 82 ANOTHER MASSACRE. |g i feli edouins Annihilate a Detachment of the Egyptian Army. m < the *abs Fhcking to the Standard of the False Prophet. abc gro A Cairo (Egypt) dispatch gives particu- 7^ rs of nxiother fer.rful massacre that has jS II ?f Ho IV-ntiiin srmv I . ' C1UJJCJ1 U uoimuilivuw VI wuw liile 011 the march from Suakini to Berber, j . t the halting i laco in a wady, thirty nu'.es , om Suakim, a force of SCO neproes and J j. ashi Bazouks were utterly annihilated by J ^ abbabish Bedouins who have declarid | ( r the FaLse Prophet. x The troops were marching with most of ' wa, eir Remingtons ] acked on tainels, when, [ . idilenly, over fi,IMK> Bedouins, armed with j ciei ears and old muzzle loaders, attacked the j pre tachment. The camels all stamj.e:leii. j pro bout six hundred troops manage 1 to form i pUj square?the blacks on three faces, the | *; ishi Bazouks on the fourth. The fish: i ~0E sted only about twenty minutes, the Bedou- j ure s crying, "Join us and kill the Christian : ind >gs from Cairo !" ( All the Bashi Bazouks were killei. Many I the blacks threw up their hands, snout- Jr g, "Aleikum salaam!"' "Piac.* be ti you, ! On uo Mussulmans," and then went over to ! ties ie Arabs. The moral eilVct of this now , ^ etory of El Malidis lonowers is spn aning j _:e] ce wildfire, his emissaries and dervishe.; ap- i , . aring already in Upper Egypt and Assouan j &UI the usual halting place lor Cook's Nile ( tea urists?and preaching holy war. 1 in 1 The whole country is in "a blaze, says the j ^ spatch. The rank an 1 file of the Egyptian . my at a favorable moment is likely tc de- ; ire for the False Prophet, who is now re- i lati irdedbythe entire population a< the true ! wh essiah "of Ls'am. Now only 1,(H)0 men are j Tt to form the garrison at" Suakim. The i j* ralis are firing shots into the town everv | , ght. I the Already the effect of Tel-el-Kebir is more Th an neutralized and the gravest eons v;iie:i- ! /sj; s may ensue in the delta. n< well as in j pper Egypt. The Egyptian government is , nsidering the question ot' laying a cab'e in ' ' Red sea lietween Suakim and Suez. King i wo hn of Abysswnia is collectirg all the Abys- : g &] lians ami Gal'as tribes of the South and s I ndv to mako a dash upon Massojvah ami ; , quiire the long coveted seaports. tor ? | oft( [JT OF THE COMMON ECU. i {?' ( mi? In Dublin, (la., all the children born in I were males, and this ye :r all have Ik en exc ina'e<. ' I all r C! f.,11 nre nc.Mtvrvnnisr.lv. <>i ik'iumkui lile in a fit of passion. caused bv tin- re- ! rrot sal of his e!even-year-old sou to obey him. j ? At a Hannibal, Mo., woldiicr, t he I Tidal 1)e0 ii'i'li was played on a hurr.ioni a and the ; ' T iile wore a c.ilicv dress in the Mo.her Hubrd style. nial J'iik eighteen months-old child of Mrs. i low hn Tucker, ot Sal-nt, fla., was at its moth- the s breast nursing when lightning killed both jn i >therand child. i +1- ' , . * ( i tim \ THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl of Amherst. I is., has only blue spots on her face where , . r eyes should Ik'. 1 ler other senses are acute 111 d she is intelligent. J Th( fiiE machinery of an ore mine at Carson, bea tvndn, suddenly stopjxd. and anion; i tie Tilt ; was found the pulverized remains of wjj nrtreds of trout which had been swept j ' lough a br>ken screen in the mill-race into : 6eE 9 supply pipe. j A. CL'Hiot's lawsuit i.-> now (tending in Lui- : line. Adog chased a cat. which fled di.wa the e air shaft leading from the street into a 0Ve ne vault. The d >g folic wed. and the tw | :i 1 against the tapof a large cask of Yvorne. ! d tin' wine bfgan to flow. The wine mer- ,10' ant claimed lie had a cause of action for the ' gre s of his wine, and as th ? owner of the cat i <tce isnot known, he sue I the owner or the dog, V son of (Se >rge Glace, while out hunting cos o miles below Selinsgrove, 1'eim.. a a .... ice known as the "Narrows," tivd as juir- , I. and in enlarging the hole in order to se- call re the game cnn:e upon a hard sub?tanee. fiUc deli proved to be a silver watch. Cuttiug i onc deeper, he succeeded in taking out eleven them. Nmie five years a go a jewelry store j . Suid'Ury was I'olibed of a lot of watches, Sior d it is supjOM-d that this is part of the sex j her SENATE COMMITTEES. \ I tim lairnmiisliips of I lie Various Com- ; 0f initlmof flic I pper House. . I'lic following are the chairman?hi|>s of the riled States Senate c>mmittees as an- : . uiH'ed (also the majority of the Finance mmittee): Privileges and elections, Mr. I >ar: appro)>riations, Mr. Allison: foreign a n at ions, Mr. Miller (of California): finance, froi ;.^rs. Morrill. Sherman, Jones tof Nevadai. .);IV lison, Aldrieh and Miller lof New York); '' muierce. Mr. McMillan: manufactures, , c'"l< m.. \i:ii..... ti.^f \ Kiuueuerger: agrifiiuuie, .nr. .muci. , ' New York); public lands, Mr. Plumb; j ]ms litaty affairs. Mr. Logan: private land wjj jiins. Mr. Kit wan Is: imv.il affairs, Mr. j , . iineron tot' Pennsylvania:; Indian affairs, j ?*'*' r. Dawes; judiciary, Mr. Edmunds: j>en- , <[ur >ns, Mr. Mitchell: pnstoflice, Mr. Hilkrevo- \ and Ilonary claims. Mr. Anthony; claims, j t0 . iinernii, (ol Wiscunsini: District <?f Colum,i. Mr. Ingnlls; education and labor, Mr. i 100 air: patents. Mr. l'latt; civil service, Mr. I the iwlcv: Territories. Mr. Harrison; contin- j har nt ex|>cnsis, Mr. Jones, (of Nevada): rail- ' ai]( ads, Mr. Sawyer: engrossed bills. Mr. Alii- j ! << 11: rules, Mr. l'rye; mines and mining, Mr. : ilsmi; improvement of Mississippi river. ! n"'1 r. Van W yek; revision of the laws. Mr. i tab ttiger: printing, Mr. Anthony: routes t<> eseabotd, Mr. Aldrich; library, Mr. Slier- ! jY \ in: enrolled bills, Mr. Newell: jxibiic build- j gs and grounds, Mr. Mahonej committee to I (''ramine branches of the civil service. Mr. j sc;c ullotn; river front, Mr. Conger: tenth mi- is, Mr. Hale: epidemic diseases, Mr. Sewell; s(Ii l icauraguan claims, Mr. Ilill: woman sufage, Mr. Laohmn; ndditional aceommodaons for tho libraiy, Mr. Voorhees. oth ? ? nes; Woolen clotK was first ^ made in Eng- on id in I3il. mei ATEIt CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. House. r. Horr asked leave to offer a resolution ; the House bring to the notico of the ?ldent the case of ih) reccnt killing of Tal | erson; alleged to h ive been citizens he United States, and the serious injury everal other jwrsons, also alleged t > be tens of tho United States, at Danville, , in the hope that the President may asain whether tho persons so murdered or red were citJujns of the United States, , if so, whether the killing and injuries of m'fifAMO if flicilr.li V-crfl in PAfl. ention of the principles of the municipal of the State of Virginia or of any of the United State.% Mr. Morn, who cou'd not see why President should know any more about matter than Congress did or anybody , objected, anl Mr. Cabell, of Virginia,' he representative of the people assailed by resolution, expressed his regret that any ction had been made. He was willing to . e the fullest and fairest investigation of mat'er The cjminittee on rules wa? ounced, as follows: The Speaker, Messrs. :kbum, of Kentucky; Randall, of nsylvanla, Keifer, of Ohio, and Reid, of ne Mr. Cox asked leave to introduce immediate consideration a joint resolu? for the rej^al of the fcvt oath, but Mr. ,'$& t objected. CHRISTMAS IN MEXICO. STOMS or THE 8EAS0W TS OX7B ITEIOHBOBarO REPUBLIC. itivitics that LantTwo W'etkf?BsU AH cry IUUU?apcvuM v "r&. Privileges Allowed tho Ladle*. ^hc Philadelphia Time* says that the xicans surpass all other people in the ttifigXj uber and duration of their festivals. \ ^BgH ;ween their religious and political hoi- '-3H ys there are scarclely left three days jjWfli ; of the seven for business. Any pre- .|<2M t is seized upon to secure a hoUaav. Hra&j -will afford a practical man much cu* sion to take a-Mexican almanac or cal- VSjjK lar, wherein all the feast and fast days : ''ffflfij marked with a circular red globe, on cjjag ich the day of the month is printed. _ I ["he Christmas festival of Naciamento, it is termed, lasts usually for two 2ks. Christmas eve is what the Mex- rjSjH a calls Noche Bueno. The day of this - ^Hj?| ht you will see a large procession of a and women, on horseback and on t, marching through the streets, sscd in the costumes of shepherds, sr the ancient Scriptural styles. This vhat is known as the Pastores. They 1 continue to march about until Nocho ;no. When darkness approaches the . itores, and in fact people generally, it hundreds of liro9 on the lulls ana montories in all directions. Any- r'&jSM ere in the republic of Mexico on ristmas eve night you \yill see fires ning on all the elevated points in the ^ -yM ghborhood. It is a beautiful custom I has an impressive effect. The jiro- ?ion of Pastores is also attractive. ;er night those in the-procession retire the theatre, and there is rendered the leau of the birth of Christ?Naciaato, wiih all of its accompanfng nes. In this tableau, which u ten up with gorgeous effect,?/ le girls and boys take part, the formar sonating angels and the latter devils.11 cium lights are burnea. ah mat u sible is done to render the occasion ;|k. citous. This performance is kept up il after midnight, presenting all the iptural incidents of the occasion. liic this is going on in the theatre people outaide are firing rocketa? surh^.rge ones as we nave in thil wgK|3j atry, but a small one. ivith a stick ut a foot long, which is stuck m the und and a match applied to the taper, | en away it goes up in the blue vault, king much like a meteor in its fight. 'Wag, i fires on the hills and hundreds of , ffl se meteor rockets in every direction e a weird look to the night, and if ^$5 i are fortunate enough to get into the atre to Naciamento, you will be still W||j ther impressed with the oriental aspect 1*8 the festival. formerly on Christmas day the host 3 carried through the street by the 'ij rgy, in full robes, but now, under the sent laws of the Republic, no religious cession is permitted to parade in the )lic street. A priest is not allowed to ne into the street wearing his clerical ss or any portion of attire which would icate his calling. )n Christmas day in every town ii? xico a grand bull-fight takes place, the occasion of the Christmas festivii the sons of the wealthy citizens often j :e the place of the trained and expeaced matadors (those who fight the .1), as well as that of the picadors, who <<-$ se and worry the animal into a frenzy the Plaza de Toro?an immense amtheater made to set from two to eight lusand persons, according to the popuion of the place. On the occasion en these rich men volunteer to do the iting the proceeds from the exhibition given to charity. The usual price for i best seats is quarter real (fifty cents). is price is graded down to a media c and a quarter cents), this latter giving > nding room for children only. Everyj, high and low, rich and poor, men, mon nnd children, attend the bull it. Notwithstanding thg low admis- J - "n q, large sums are realized in this way charity. The men of wealth at this time alst en throw open their palatial residences v a grand masquerade ball. An adision price is charged, music and a per provided. No one is admitted :ept in masque. It is a public affair; go. No one unmasks and the proceeds . donated to the city. These balls are ten up on a scale of magnificence icli would astonish our less obtrusive fnocf n( Vjioisimpnto the fe e portion of the community are alcd many liberties which ordinarily y'are deprived of. Women, as a rule, Mexico nave a dull and uneventful .1 e. They are never allowed to * their gentlemen friends except the presence of the family. jy never go anywhere with their ux unlessaccompanied by a chapcrone. jy have no tete-a-tctes, no association ntever with gentlemen, except in a icralway. On the occasion of this t these unreasonable rules are someit relaxed. At this time if a lady in *3^5 presence of others should strike you r the head with an egg blown full of er or gold powder (such an act dees a special preference and is the atest compliment a lady can show a itleman), it would not be considered ocorous, while at other times it would t her her reputation. These eggs, >d with gold* or silver powder, are * .id / nsporiinps. Thev arc sometimes (1 with Hour, and when a fellow gets of these latter he is made the butt of evening. The senorita takes occa1 to get even with one of the sterner who may at some time have slighted by striking him, unobserved, with a "oitiiia iif flour mother famous amusement at this e is cock-lighting. Passing down any the juinc-ipal streets you will see rows men and boys standing in the streets h chicken cocks under their arms front of the cock pit. If you wish larticipate in the sport you purchase ti-ster. for which you will have to pay 11 tifty cents to one dollar and a half, your admission to the pit, and on L-riiig announce your desire for a eon Some fellow, who, like yourself / become possessed of a game chicken, 1 wager you his rooster is the better cken. The master of the pit will tare if you desire "slashers"?gaffs? 1 if they are accepted he will proceed ittaeh them to the natural spurs of the ster and charge you a small tax for ?1 *l ?- !?? Vim mn now ir use aim iin- wi'in. idle. vour own bird in the contcst or >\v the attaches of the pit to do so. admission to ail public cntertainnts on Christmas arc donated to chari!c purposes, one continual round of civ is kept up for two weeks. The utre is kepi open, operas performed, . Kau.st " being the favorite for this on. Kvcrv device known for pleasure brought into requisition. Nothing i?- io he thought of except how to ea good time yourself and make ers do the same. If you want to wit- v s a saturnalia of pleasure be in Mexico the occasion of the festival of Nacia