Si. -gums INt-gispaitj, mincsfaap, Swpst 1 ervbodv snvs Its caused bv old Griffin. A SEAS works at Grenelle. which are manured b' THE COAL TRADE. PAKIS WEDDINGS.
i id afraid sonwbcdv will ifive her nniiita: in al son. M. tiaaton Menler. Tliev were Dlacetl on' I or, worse than that, some chap will steal her Aeart away." BT ALFRED .1 ''Points what points? everybody knows she earns all the money Sec what a lovelj she! Sn ail and Dure as a 1 seems even more ineffectual than persecution legalized by the Deputy Marshals in Salt Lake Perhaps we have not sense enough to deal with such a question it seems likely that we have not, but the worst thing we can do is to bluster and threaten friendly nations by way of advertising our own and never gets a dollar of it for herself. You EUb.
1878; 1 Tllor Lying close to my foot known in previous history. The old, familiar resorts by the seashore, among the mountains and around the springs have had a most prosperous season, and new places have been built up with the rapidity of magic and have at once been filled with guests. As all these people pay their bills, the inference of general well-being and comfort is at least reasonable. rHE DISPATCH, 1S52; J. innLC.rnrt.no The Immense Consumption of a Great City.
beeineoia cuss nas a good thing, ana no doesn't mean to lose it. That's how the business is put up around here." Recent Marriages in the Noble Families of France. he stab, 15J8; united In une. is mat You bet It Is. And then there's that horan nly Evening Journal in St.
Louis. those Louisville fellows gave Miss Anderson. It's the nicest little thoroughbed mare you ever saw. Well, awhile ago Miss Anderson a footing of equality with the greatest people, and their offerings, a quntitv of the most delicately pink rosea, arranged in tha shape of a well-stuffed pillow, was given the place ot honor among the presents made to the bride and bridegroom. Among the notable guests who offered their congratulations at the nuptial reception there were M.
and Mine. Waddington, the Prefect ot Police and Mme. Andrieux, Gen. Noyes, ttie United States Minister, and Gen. Billot, and Pinto Serpo.the Portuguese rival of Stanievand of Cameron in the wide Hold cf African, exploration.
I was told that that most refined type of American womanhood, Mrs. Andrew White, was also at the Menier weddinz, with her daughter, the winsome Miss Clara, but I did not see her. Mrs. and Wlss White have made a very favorable impression in Europe. The former reminds me ot Mrs.
G. P. Marsh, to whom grace and lady-like benignity and delicate tact come naturally. PUBLISHED BY in St. Why Fuel HN A.
DILLON and JOSEPH PULITZER. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The Neptial Festivities, Brides, Bridesmaids and Toilets. is so Cheap Louis. Frail, but a work divine; Made so airily well.
With delicate spire and whorl How exquisitely minute A miracle ot design I The tiny cell is forlorn. Void of the lHtle living will That made it stir on the shore. Did he stand at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill? Did ne push, when he was uncurled. A golden foot or a fairy horn Through his dim water-world? Slight, to be crushed with a tap Of my linger nail on the sand Small, but a work divine: Frail, but of force to withstand, Y'ear upon year, the shock Of cataract seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine. Athwart the ledges of rock.
Here on the Breton strand. Entered at the Fost-Office at St; Louis, as second class mail matter M. Gambetta's Opinion of the Mat- rimonial Record, Sources from which Come the Supplies and How the Business is Conducted. KATKS OF SUBSCRIPTION. (The Post-Dispatch will be- delivered by carriers MR.
DAVIS AT NEW ORLEANS. was out riding one day, when the mare thiew her. She fell on tnat handsome nose of hers and almost broke it; and you couldn't get bar to ride horseback again if you were to give her $10,000. But old Griffin ain't so particular, livery day he hoists bis 300 -pound carcass to the back of that little mare and runs her ur to the beach and back. In three weeks she won't be fit to hitch up to an apple-cart, you hear me.
How it would please tnose Louisville chaps to know what had become of their present. Whew!" And now the gracious driver whistled In a soft and meditative key. "But how does Mary pass her time?" I ventured to inquire. she's got a swing hang np lathe front yard, and one of the Griffin kids comes out there anugives her a boost now and then. In the evenine she sits ont there and sings all the tenor solos in 'Pinafore' and fights mosquitoes.
She can sing tenor first rate, she can. I often hear her when I'm driving parties by. But the way that old cuss Griflin is playing it on the girl is meaner than dirt. I'd just like to bust his crust, 1 would." And. pointinz to any part ol the city, or sent by mail, postage pre- From the N.
Y. Trlbnne.j PARIS, July 24. It weddings in a provident country, such as France, are a symptom of prosperity. Franco under the Republic is in a thriving state. Gambetta the other day said to a friend of mine "The Protectionists talk of increasing distress but there are several ipald, to subscribers In any part of the liniOB, on Pthe following terms: Dally, per week'.
20cents Pally, per month Sft cents Daily, three months $'2 50 Dally, six months 4 50 Daily, per year 9 00 The carriers will collect the city subscriptions on their routes; all subscriptions by mail must be prepaid, and annual subscriptions will not be considered unless accompanied by the money. THE SATURDAY VOST-DIS PATCH. On Saturday the POST -DISPATCH Is published as a six-page paper, with fall reviews of all the eTents of the week and a choice selection of reading matter, making it the most popular and serviceable WEEKLY fAPEB published In St. Louis. Subscriptions to the SATUP.IUY POST-DIS A coreespondknt who evidently knows what he is talking about contributes to our public opinion column a very interesting article on the fruit question, to which we call especial attention.
It is partly true that St. Louis is a bad fruit market, because the people eat very little fruit, but it is also true that the people eat very little fruit because St. Louis is a bad fruit market. The experience of the dealers is that St. Louis does not buy any fruit until the price goes so low that there is no profit in it, but the experience of consumers is that fruit is never cheap until it is not worth buying.
There is not a wide difference of opinion about the two aspects of the situation. The main question is how to mend it. Of all articles used for food fruit is at once the cheapest and most wholesome and most delicious, and it is especially fitted for summer diet in a hot city. When it is as scarce as it is in St. Louis there is evidently something wrong, and the business of regulating the market for any kind of commodity is one that rests chiefly with the dealers in that commodity.
his exclamation with a vicious cut of the whi. He Declines a Statement Abont the Dorsey ill and the Mississippi Senatorship. fFrom the New Orleans Picayune, Aug. 7. Mr.
Jefferson Davis, accompanied by Mrs. Davis, was registered at the St. Charles Hotel on jesterday. During the forenoon he was engaged in attending to some business matters, and it was not uatil the afternoon that a representative of this paper was able to have an interview with him. Mr.
Davis was found in the rotunda in conversation with a friend. "Mr. Davis," remarked the reporter, "the Picayune desires an interview with vou." "An interview with me? That is something I never allow, and you ought to know it by this time," was the reply, "while a kindly smiw appeared on the speaker's face. "I have used the wrong word perhaps. What we wish is to direct your attention to certiin allegations in regard to the will of Mrs.Dorsjy.
made by the Northern and Western press, and to get a statement irom vou as to their truth or falsity," explained the reporter. "I must certainly decline to say anything whatever about mv Private affairs," was Mr, the driver drew up iront ot the ocean House. What he had told me I found to be common gossip all over tho place. But what foundation there is for it all I am unable to DE LESSKPS' CANAL. St.
Louis used 29.000.000 bushels of coal in 1876, and 33,000,000 in 1878, an increase of 1,000,000 bushels. It is rather surprising that there should be any Increase whatever considering the great depression that ha fallen upon the leading manufacturing industries. The great consumers of coal are the iron furnaces, foundries and rolling mills. The closing up of many of these since 1874 has lessened the demand for coal in St. Louis millions of bushels, and the increase in receipts since 1878 is owing to the growth of population.
With a renewal of the iron trade and the starting of other great industries that will come from the better times that seem to have set in, there will be in this and the coming year of 1880 a large increase in the demand for coal. It is one of the fortunes of St. Louis to be situated near the richest coal fields west of Pennsylvania, and the conseauence is that in no city in the great Mississippi Valley outside of Pittsburg is fuel so cheap as it is here. It has been stimated by competent geologists that the coal fields of Southern Illinois are practically Inexhaustible; that they economical facts which announce an increase of public well-being. The octroi duties returns are greater than they were in Pans, even during the exceptionally crowded year of the Exhibition when foreigners flowed in by the hundreds ot thousands; the revenue is greatly in excess of the outlay, although we began the year by easing the backs of the taxpayers of their fiscal burden, and there never was a summer in which marriages wer6 so numerous.
In France weddings are rare between the end of May and September. This year they are so frequent that I often feel as if I needed half a dozen stomachs to digest the contract dinners to which I am invited." I ani pot, apropos of Giugbetta's vfcll ftfeunded optimism, about to launch into a Americans Contribute Abont as Mueli to It as They Gave to the Dartholdi Statu. tFrom the New York World.) PATCH will received at the rate of 00 per wiilbnreci Fbila. Times (Ind.) As election time comes on in Mississippi the hip-pocket seems to be yielding the front place to the shot-gun. Boston Herald Columbia, S.
has produced one ear of corn seventeen inches long. Cut that is much shorter than the ear of the Democratic donkey which Is going to let Ben Butler ride him in Massachusetts the com-ins lall. N. Y. Tribune The Ohio Democrats are still making a poor mouth and trying to deceive the Republicans by talking about their lack of money to rcn the campaign.
The point of the joke is appreciated in Gramercy Square. Indianapolis Sentinel The Democracy of Indiana are not against Mr. Tilden, Mr. Bavard. Mr.
Thurman, or any of the distinguished gentlemen whose names have been mentioned in connection with the presidential canvas, but they are for Mr. Hendricks. Cincinnati Commercial We do not hear much from Daniel W. Voorhees, and conclude he must be summering somewhere on the Wabash, where it wimples in the wilderness as It wanders on its winding way. The bounteous harvests and booming business must render the great statesman reflective if not sad.
Louisville Courier-Journal Z. Chandler cavorted about Maine last week shrieking "This is a Nation," and declaring the existence, to his certain knowledge, of a "Democratic conspiracy" to destroy it. The old man tore all the buttons oif his big vest in his rage, and created no little amusem*nt as a circus clown. Blaine and Frye sponged him off at intervals. Cincinnati Enquirer President Haves is said to be getting ready with a polygamy policy one that will deal mercifully with those who have already been drawn into Mormonism, but which will deal severely with future violators of the moral law.
The President probably thinks it is about time to "tackle" the surviving "twin relic." Blaine, -Chandler Co. will examine the question, and, it it does not interfere with any Republican Presidential boom, Hayes will be permitted to proceed with bis policy. PUBLIC OPINION. Subscriptions from an American public to it, ine. tie tl ai the De Lesseps inter-oceanic caaal continued ents.
yesterday to amount to next POST-DISPATCH, to nothing, and a second inquiry yesterday at the Credit Lyonnais as to 111 North Fifth street. St. Louis. Davis' very doeideu answer. these reflections are of so grave a nature it was thought you might care to answer tne condition ot the books provoked much.
1SMCATI05S. By 'Western Associated Tress. Washington, D. August 13. For will supply all the possible needs of a city of a Tennessee and Ohio Valley, local rains 'and partly cloudy weather, southerly to westerly winds, slowly falling barometer and nearly million inhabitants for a million of years.
By the following statement it will be seen by what routes comes the COAL USED IN ST. LOUIS: PESC1LINGS. Rhode Island isn't solid for Conkling. Edwin Forrest is a great actor on the track. Roscoa always was opposed to the shot gun policy.
Great Heavens! Is this Yazoo City Itosooo Conkling. It's better than a sea-serpent for that watering-place. Sara Bernhardt's children are probably articles ol vertu. Emotional insanity is already pleaded for W. H.
H. Murray. I shall boom, though hell itself should gapo and bid me pause. fS. J.
T. The gun in the hands ol the lady's husband didu't go oil but Conklin jj did. Where will Canadian bank presidents escape to? Thev can't go to Canada. "She stoops to Conkling" will shortly bo produced bv Mrs. Sprague's pallor dramatic company.
fipregue didn't hit he knocked the resonance out of tho Senator's Presidential boom. Conkling will never again make such a run as he Cid at that Rhode Islaud pier. He's gut ot politics. Mr. Bonner has tho fastest horses or the fastest watches in the country.
It ia hard to tell which. Edison is at Long Branch, and ho ought to feel it around his legs for not giving us that electric light. Mr. Sprague didn't fire, but the report ij louder than the Conkling boom, aud will reverberate until 18S0. The Senator from New York retires from the Presidential canvass at tho poiut ot Mr.
Sprague's shot-gun. There's need of a United States man-ot-war at Narragansett Tier for tho protection of a valued United States citizen. Sprague suppressed his lordly rival by tho vigorous employment of what is known in politics as the Mississippi plan. Cetywayo will lecture on "What I Know-About Licking Certainly noona knows more about it than he does. "Am I a vassal or a pier at Narragansett?" asked Roscoe.
But tho muzzle of Sprague's ROUTE. 1878. 1877. Uushels. Bushels.
2.932. 0-J5 3,007,925 dissertation upon tho matrimonial returns ot the mayoralties of France to the Registrar-General. I shall only deal with him from a social point of view in speaking of the weddings which have taken place this summer, and soon to take place iu what I shall call the representative families of this great city. The names of happy pairs which occur to me are Mile, da Vogne, daughter ot the antiquarian aud Oriental traveler, Comto Melchior de Vogne, and the Marquis de Nicolai; M. Georges Coehery, only son of the able Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, and Mile.
Gabrieile de Hunebelle; Comte Roger de Montesquion Fezensac, a Bou-Bpartist, and grandson of the King of Rome's heed governor, and Mile, de Siberty; Captain de Soubeyran, of the lancers, son of the financier, and Mile, de Froidtond, a coii3in of the Moskowa Neys; Baron Reinach, the banker. stationary temperature. For Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys and Upper Ttegion, partly cloudy weather and areas of rain, winds mostly from southwest to northwest and stationary or slightly falling For Lower Lake Region, local rains, southerly to westerly winds, falling ba- O. M. II A.
liy ys.ooo 1876. Bushels. 3,511,825 12.500 316.750 88,600 5,818,450 8,305,125 612,950 4.317.900 5.242,375 2,167.850 rduring the day and no decided change I. St. L.
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L. Ky. F'm Ohio F'm Grain! Tmvrr F'm St. Louis Co. 305.275 13,075 6,559.700 7.67H.475 1.400,300 4.8H7.125 6.412.425 1.444.875 548.625 1.000,000 6.4H0.725 7,827,575 2.220.300 4,012.375 5.293.550 67H.S75 2,149.625 73.000 1.000,000 Emperature.
Ohio River will fail slowly. 671.250 102,550 875,000 tuem. Have you read the stories uliulei to?" "I have read some, but it would take up my entire time to reaa them nil." And Mr. Davis laughed as if amused at the idea. "Then am I to understand you positively decline to make anv statement?" "You are.
Now, put yourself in ray place and see if vou would, under the sum? circ*mstances, do what you ask me to." "There's one topic about which you will probably feel no delicacy in speaking, and that is your autobiography. It is generally believed that it is noviu the hands ot the Appletons and will be soon published." "That statement," said Mr. Davis, "has been made by the Herald, but Major Walthall wrote them a denial oi it which they didn't have the courtesy to publish." "Then the work is not completed?" "I only wish it was, as so many people write to me for agencies it is annoying. It is impossible to tell when it will be finished. The loss of my papers and my ill-health have seriously retarded its progress." "You spoke of the loss ol your papers; to what oo vou reter?" "I mean the destruction of documents nad private papers during and at the close of the war.
In t'ne preparation of his work Mr. Davis was understood to state that he had no secretary but rather an assistant, in the person of Major Walthall, who iies about a milu and a half from Beauvoir. Mr. Davis writes out the manuscript, to which notes and references are ao-pended, which Major Walthall looks up aud collates. In the language ot Mr.
Davis, "Major Walthall having been a newspaper man is well qualified to discharge that important task." The reporter referred to the fact that one of the Mississippi Senatorships would soon be vacant, and asked the point-blank question: "Mr. Davis, are you a candidate ior the position?" The question seemed to annoy the gentleman interrogated who very courteously denian dtt "By what light do you undertake to catechise NOTICE. We advertise free situations wanted; and help, miscellaneous, for rent, for Total 33.087,300 35.856.850 32,073,125 sale, lost and found, if the advertisem*nts do Although tncie are large coal helds in many parts of Missouri, it will be seen that none of tl.em, except those in St. Louis county, send any to St. Louis.
There are very rich mines in it exceed five lines, and are not of a busi es character. the central portion ot the state, but not a The Fruit Trade. Te the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: In an editorial in last evening's issue of your journal you refer to St. Louis as the most favorably situated city for the reception and distribution of fresh fruits, and add that our great advantages are wholly overlooked. Fur bushel ot their product is brought to this mar persons who cannot obtain tlie Post-Dis- aa News Agencies, on Railway Trains, mbfats and other places where usually ket by the Missouri Pacific or tho Kansas City Northern.
These two roads both pass through extensive coal regions, but take nothing from them except that used by their own locomotives n'lid engine-houses. Neither more shoulder-shrugging than it provoked news. "The books have been closed," and with very much of a bang, too. The rooms of the receiving bankers were as gorgeous as any in the Equitable Building, but the receipts were not up to the surroundings. Of all the agents of Paris banking firms in this city the Credit Lyonnais had made the biggest preparations for a big rush of subscriptions.
Advertisem*nts were liberally resorted to, and the date of opening the books was made known far and wido through the medium of the Associated Press, sothatall Americans of means might have a free and independent chance of getting into tha head ot the expected line that was to reach from the Equitable to the inequitable City Hall. But the books lay open at one page, and instead of long columns of many ciphered amounts, blank pages only remain. New lork pocketbooks have opened about as widelv to this scheme as they did to the Barthbldl statue. "How many subscriptions have you secured for the canal project?" was bluntly asked. "Ah! that I cannot say," was the answer, with an eloquent shrag.
"Many or any?" "It is" impossible to state. We are not yet ready to say." "Did the subscription come up to your expectations?" "Ah we have seen only the personal triends of the projector ot the canal his admirers." "Do they subscribe to any extent?" "That I cannot say. Is it not a private enterprise? 1 only represent, as a private banker, the firm with which I do business in Paris. 'But you advertise publicly for subscriptions and seek a recognition from the public. Have you secured it?" "It is impossible to say now." "Have you heard of the success ot the Paris subscription?" 'No.
I look for that every day now. "Is there anv success at getting subscriptions at ot her points in America?" "This is the only place where they can be made and at Brown Bios'. There may be other bankine houses from Paris represented here, but I don't know." "Do you know why the stock has not been subscribed tor here?" "No, I cannot say certainly. I suppose it is because of the adverse talk and of a misunderstanding of the project by inventors and capitalists." "Do they not know as much as they wish to of your plans and "Perhaps. It would seem all a mistake, and in the end there will be regrets that more stoeK was net taken here." "More than what has already been taken? Then some has been taken?" "1 did not say that in that way; but the regrets ill come all the same.
"Then you cannot say that any subscriptions have been taken, or many." "Just so, I cannot now." "Nor how many, if any?" 'No." "But you will take no more?" "The books have been closed. Really, they were closed after the first day. The clerk at Brown Brothers' declared that they had not got any subscriptions, and no other solicitor of subscribers to the shares fid, iciVl confer a favor by reporting tlie facts us, gifting dates and particulars. THE MAX FOR THE PLACE. The New York Sun takes an exceedingly superficial and platitudinous view of the great "boom" question in an editorial article which says that "Grant is not likely to be the nominee." It formulates its opinion in one sentence, "The enthusiastic advocates of a third term who hope to secure Grant's nomination by a coup de main should remember that conventions are stormed by new men, but never by old stagers." And it sums up the Grant prospect in another sentence "Unless John Sherman, James G.
Blaine and a score more of Republican leaders pass from earth ere the day of nominating a President arrives, every shrewd politician knows that Grant could not be forced through the convention without a struggle so bitter that success there would foreshadow defeat at the polls." As far as the question of precedent goes, one precedent is good only until a new oue is established, and Grant, who has already established more bad precedents in politics than all his predecessors, might easily establish another one in storming a convention in spite of his being an old stager. There is no precedent for the case of a President who, after serving two terms and nearly ruining his party by the odium of his Administration, reappears a year before the convention as the strongest of all aspirants. And when oue considers what Republicanism means and what the Republican party wants, Grant's strength in a Republican convention seems irresistible. His little finger is bigger than the whole body of John Sherman or James G. Blaine.
lie represents Force, with a capital the one- dois the St. Louis and San Francisco bring any coal here, although I'ersorls leaving the city for the summer can the Yost-Dispatch mailed to them, nosf- it, like the Missouri l'acinc and Kansas City Northern, passes through a rich mining country. The same may be said of the Iron onjleaving their subscriptions for the lour counting-room. ne aaaress oj Mountain and Southern Ilailroad. It brought may be changed at any time.
13,000 bushels here in 1S77, but not a bushel inl87S. All the coal, practically speakin tsncing about the first of September used in St. Louis comes from east of tha Mis sissippi Klver. It will be seen that the Illinois Weekly FosT-DisrATCii will be an and St. Louis, Belleville and Southern, paper, larger and better in quantity Ohio and Mississippi, the Vandalia and the St.
Louis end Southeastern than any other loeckly published are the principal mediums of sup ther on you assert that our city should now be luxuriating in an abundance of cheap summer fruits, and that a little life infused into the business would benefit the trade and public. This is the first editorial of the kind I have seen in any St. Louis daily in a dozen of years, audit affords an opportunity to present the other side of the subject. In attempting a repiy, I will begin by statins that it. Louis, in proportion to her population, eats less fruit than any large city in the United States, and it is not for laelc of quantity or quality of fruits that she merits this reputation.
The city is credited with half a million people. One-half of this vast number do not touch a strawberry until the fruit gets down to five cents a quart a figure that hardiy compensates the grower. The best evidence of this is shown in the small quantity of fruit that luts the market. Every S3a-eon prices go down to five cents a quart a choice a 1 rifle higher. Other fruits go down to a similar figure except when the crop fails, as peaches have this season, but this is a rare occurrence.
Auy person at all interested will convince you it does not take much fruit of any hind to supply the demand in this city. In regard to the piv. Aioi-t oi the mines ere inside ol twenty miles ot the city, and the more extensive are at lieneviiie ana couinsville, only ten or 'iiisery Egypt has been spared twelve miles distant. So it will appear th at THE GREAT SOURCES OP SUPPLT the Sultan has never thought are practically in the suburbs of the city. ThU roops to elect a carpet-bagger reduces the cost of transportation to tho min rte?" The answer was that the question of the Senatorship had been very thoroughly discussed, and one in which the public felt the deepest interest, and any declaration by Mr.
Davis would be engei ij' received. He remarked that he didn't see what interest the public could have iu htm or his actions. "Jiy chief reason lor asking is to get something aefiuite, ns ic has been stated that you had authorizeu the statement you were not a candidate." "That is news tome. Where did you see it?" "In one ot the Mississippi papers, and I believe it was very generally copied throughout the State." "Indeed!" exclaimed Mr. Davis; "why, I hi ti never authorized any one to spoak tor n.e." "Then a false impression has gone abroad, and I should like to coj.tect it.
Are you a candidate tor the Senatorship?" "lam not. I have been elected to the United States Senate three times and appointed once, and 1 have never yet been a candidate tor the position." "You mean then that you are not a candidate, but at the same time you cannot control the Legislature if it chooses to el "I'd hardly go as far as that," interrupted Mr. Davis. "Moreover, when I wish to make a declaration of my position I shall do it myself and directly to the people interested, and you can rest assured that it will be put in such plain ltingUHge there will bo no misunderstanding Us meaning." the afflicted land. imum figure, and is the main factor in the cheapness of coal here.
Of course this applies and Mile, de Cessac, daughter of the Marquis de Cessac, a Protestant nobleman of the Bor.le-lais, and the Comte de Lilliers aud Mile. So-lange de Larocheloucauld. Dejmners this year are more frequent at weddings than they were before the English mode was introduced in fashionable Parisian society bv the Belgian Minister, Baron de Bey-ens. To render tnem possible the file past the bride and bridegroom and their parents no longer takes place in the sacristy of the church, but at the residence ot the father and mother of one of the young couple. They and their near senior relations stand at the door of an outer salon and are greeted by the friends catering whom they have invited.
A buffet, as at a ball. Is spread in the dining-room, ami there is a cold stand-up refection, which in this peiiod of vulgar-wealthy end "mixed" society, too frequently regenerates into a mere feed. For my part, I detest food unless I can chat aud laugh when absorbing it, which is not easv to 3o standing up with a crowd at one's hack pushing forward like animals. The weakest came to the wall. The proud who will not expose themselves to be hustled and shoved about go away tasting, and those who have the strongest dose ot anti social selfishness eat the fat and drink the sweet without handing portions to anybody.
Icesslip off the shell saucers on which they are passed over heads and shoulders by the more chivalrously minded of the feasters, to ladies in the background cups of iced chocolate get tossed over on the floor and on ladies' skirts, and if there is any tun it must be of a rough and unin-tellectual sort, conversation being out of the question. Baron de Eeyens had a dejeuner for 500 or 600, but it was spread in the garden of liis villa in the Rue I-ord Byron, and was characterized Dv the fresh gaiety of a picnic and bv the light, sparkling chit chat of a repast ordered at a restaurant ior a square party of clever persons, and partaken in a private room. To attain this degree of charming sociability the table of honor was made very narrow. Those who were at it could, therefore, talk across to opposite neighbors as well as those sitting near them. The other tables were made to accommodate eight guests, and plenty of room was allowed between them lor the attendants to circulate.
However, to possess a garden in Paris one must be a millionaire. 1 on the whole prefer to the fashion coming in the file past in the church sacristy, and a ball (when triends are numerous and space is limited at home) at a restaurant, with a sit-down supper. There can be a little exhilarating oratory, which is as good as champagne ior brightening up a large party, many ot whom are unacquainted with each other. The grand marriage of the week has been that ot M. Gaston Menier and Mile.
Julie Ito-dier. It was the Menier family which bore the expense ot the wedding, which they could better afford to bear than the bride's. M. Emiie Menier, the bridegroom's fftther, pays in octroi duties alone on tho raw materials which he works into the chocolate bearing his mark, $1,600,000 annually, on an average. On tho bridal day.
the Church of St. Augustine, in which the nuptial benediction was given, was redolent with flowers. Flowers were wreathed along the spandrils of the roof. The altar was embosomed in blooming plaats from the Noisiel gardens and greenhouses. What with the rich and elegant toilettes, the diamonds and the floral decorations, the sacred edifice bore a very mundane aspect.
The general aspect was similar to that which might be presented by a fashionable morning reception In a pseudo-Gothic hall. Mile, ltodier's toilet was original, aud, to her, becoming, lor she is exquisitely pretty, and looks well in anything. But, were to the ereat bulk of the coal that is used here. able editorial management of cannon is inexorable. He moseys, Sprague simply wished to avoid the cost and bother ot having a corpso on his hands.
Otherwise he would have fired tho powder. Sampson had his Delilah, Antony his Cleopatra and Roscoe Conkling his double-barrel shotgun. If this be treason, mako the most of it. When Sprague went gunning for mo lud of York, he loaded, of course, with buckshot. Nothing less than buckshot would bring Roscoo down.
Perhaps Sprague thought he was aiming at a Bengal tiger, but had he pulled the trigger he would have brought down only a turkey gobbler. It Senator Conkling wanted to vote tho straight Sprague ticket, what right had a Hlioda Island bulldozer to prevent him? CaU out the aimy. The United States can never permit Mr. ConKling to become master of the White House, for there's no telling who would be its mistress. "A careful correspondent" figures out that Foster will beat Ewing by votes; and Mr.
Ewing is mad because he won't throw off the odd figures. Lamar will be eorry to learn of this. T1J r.oblc. the courageous Conkling took the lie direct like a littlo man, and now he retires from the shot-gun when it's co*cked. Splendid fellow, Conkling; brave as a lion.
None but the brave, by the wav. deserve tho fair. The anthracite and gas coal that conies from iDonovan, trustee, the Times- rittsourg is no cheaper here than it is at anv o-hercity ccjualiy distant from the. source of supply. The coal used by the gas companies shows signs of improve- here comes irom l'lttsuurg by way ot the Ohio ipparent at once that a firm and Mississippi rivers on barges, whiie the an thracite conies by rail.
The product of all the Illinois mines that sutsnlv St. Louis is hand holds the helm, and could be found. Of course at such a point the canal catechism had to stop. man power as opposed to the po wpr.Af nanship can avail, the weath- Ihepeople, a centr anzea aes will be steered ribution of fruits beyond the city limits outlook is still mtire discouraging. Tne MOKJilSG NEWS COXDEXSED.
lallows into, FOREIGN. territory tributary to this market. South. East and West, is mainly fruit-producing, and as a The Board of no cholera at Health report locracv, Constantinople. THE HUNTSMAN'S HORN.
gov- advan- it does not of the system are Ex-Empress Eugenie has purchased Wasssr-burg Castle in Upper Styria. A water-spout creates considerable havoc in the district of Brussio, Switzerland. England will guarantee a loan for the construction of the Canaua Pacific Railway. Bands of Turkish soldiers in the Shuinla and Easgrad districts have become brigands. Kuldja will be ceded to the Chinese on Cuina paying an indemnity of five million roubles to Kussia.
Ismail Pasha, ex-Khedive of Eypt. will not return to that country owing to the protest of England and France. The ruler of Cape Juby Territory, on the west pay for liberty, but at every it appeals to a stronger central inonTni It is greatly to be regretted that Turkey A Terrible Snnke Story. From the New Y'ork Graphic 'Tshaw That isn't much of a snake story," he said, throwing down tho Cincinnati Commercial. Why, when I was a boy oh, a little fellow, say about so high I was out in the woodshed one day.
It was hot and I was barefooted, and had short sleeves that left my arms bare. Lying in the sun was what I thought to be a beautiful switch stick, lithe and limber. about three feet long. Stooping down hastily, I picked it up." 'Gracious! Gracious! and your arms all naked. too?" "I threw it down quick as a flash" "Did it bite?" "Bite? What do vou think it was?" "A rattlesnake or anaconda, or something of that sort." "It was lithe and limber, as I knew to mv agony.
It was the stick that my father bad licked seventeen kinds of sin out ot me with that morning." does not possess a financier of John A. Logan's calibre; one who can tackle the Uvhole financial question and throw it in ten sue plainer, it wouiu not nave oorne the criticism it seemed to court. The new daughter- ys. The paper money of Turkey is down lery near to the ground, and keeps getting bwer in spite of all the additional amounts I paper that can be printed. The green- party is running the treasury, but jgs do not seem to work jnst right.
market open for only a very short season. The great Northwest, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota," are the best murkets, but Chicago holds the keys to this vast section by reason of her great railroad facilities. Take Iowa for instance. There is one road running through the State, the Iowa Central, that eventually drifts to St. Louis.
There are five roads crossing tha State, all going to Chicago, and low rates overall. The outlet for fruit at Chicago is immense. During the past strawberry season Michigan shipped across the Like to Chicago on numerous mornings 20,000 cases of strawberries. Five thousand of these cases would glut the St. Louis markets so badly that the choicest berries would go begging at Jive cents a quart, and half of them would sell for about the express charges.
I have seen ten cars of strawberries in one train going over the Illinois Central to the city on the lake. Tvo of those cars would crowd this market to death. The same remarks will apply to peaches, grapes, pears and other fruits. To further illustrate what a fruit point this is, Chicago has about one hundred and seventy-five fruit commission houses. I have seen one station in Southern Illinois shipping to eighty-five of them.
St. Louis has about twelve houses who make a specialty of fruits, and since the city was large enough to justify opening one of them no man has got rich at the business. I have seen Chicago men come here, open up in this business and finally abandon it as too unprofitable. Chicago's local or city trade is proportionately large, at least double that of ours. She has a large American element there that patronize fruits regularly.
Cincinnati's city trade is also much larger than ours; still she would be justified in saying with us that if only a small fraction of the money squandered on lager beer was sent to the fruit market the business would be booming in this city. The great want of the fruit market is customers who can appreciate fruits sufficiently to invest a small amount in them. Choice grapes can be had to-day in Union Market at 4 cents per pound, and yet the purchasers are so scarce that a few dozen farmers and a few shippers are filling the market to overflowing. r. M.
Kiely. St. Louis, August 13. he Republican and the Globe-Democrat power as the one remedy. It wants Grant not because he is the ideal Chief Magistrate of a free republic, but because he is the ideal dictator of a bloody anarchy, and no other man so truly embodies its ideas and its aspirations.
His nomination, however, is not a question of sentiment so much as a question of counting noses, and in the convention the noses will be Grant noses. Every carpet-bagging nose from the satrapies that he reconstructed and ruled and ruined will count for him, though they will have never a vote to cast for him. They will remember with gratitude his efforts in behalf of a "strong" government how he set aside law and and common sense, to make them rulers of a plundered country, and they will give him a vote if only for old times' sake, and then'it will be only a question whether two or three Northern States can be found mean enough to vote for him. A judicious trade of offices ought to secure this, and declare him the nominee in spite of the New York Sun. The only gleam of truth in the Sun's prediction is where it says: "However ambitious and selfish Grant may be, it will be unsatisfactory to be a candidate under circ*mstances that must ensure his defeat at the ballot-boxes." interesting papers, the least in- Itins ig part of them beinj the space coast of Africa, otters to open commercial relations with England.
If a compromise is effected between Germany and the Vatican, a permanent Papal Nuncio will be appointed at Berlin. The English commission on depression of agricultural interests will 3end commissioners to this country to inquire into food supplies. Colonel Gordon, Governor-General of Southern Egypt, is suppressing the slave trade by hanging the chiefs who engage in that nefarious business. Fresh troubles are apprehended in political circles of Cuba by the Separatists, aBd the Captain-General has been ordered to hold himself in readiness tor any outbreak. WASHINGTON.
The President has put 8,259,000 acres of public lands, adjoining Grand Hiver Agency, on the market. Consul Sprague at Gibraltar reports to the Department of State that he has received a third anonymous letter from the party trying to extort money from him. CRIME AND CASUALTY. Libbie Collins, suffocated during a fire at South Bend, Ind. Charles Fox, a young student, drowned in Lake Chautauqua.
A Miss Grant thrown from a wagon and instantly killed at Ada, O. James Stevens murders his wife in a fit of jealousy at Fincastle, Va. John Dunn, a tramp from Columbus, killed by the cars at Xenia, O. An attempt made by unknown parties to assassinate Minister Beverly near Bussell, Va. The Mormons in Clay and Cherokee counties, N- have been given thirty days to leave the State under pain of death by the irate citizens.
MISCELLANEOUS. The yellow fever has spread to Corinth, Miss. Tlie Congressional Labor Committee have reached San Francisco. Crop reports from Kansas show a flattering outlook lor a rich harvest of all kinds of grain. The probabilities are that the will of Mrs.
Dorsey, bequeathing her property to Jefferson Davis, will not be contested. each devotes to discussing its own Royal Sport Among Worthy Iteasts An Iowa Diana, Who Leads the Chase and Slays the b.lK. Hot Springs (Wy. Cor. of Chariton (Iowa) Leader.
I Gne of your lady residents is, at this writing, ranked as a heroine by the natives ot this wild, both whites and Indians. Miss Maggie Foreman, who came to the mountains a few days since to visit relatives, has accomplished a feat of which few hunters can boast. Miss Foreman came to the Springs, which are situated twenty-eight miles above Fort Steele on the headwaters of the North Platte, with her sister, to spend a few days in the very heart of tho wild country. Mr. Jim Adams, a noted hunter and scout, accompanied the party as guide and general protector.
Mr. Adams, who is Miss Foreman's brother-in-law, was raised in Mount Pleasant, in your State, and came West in the early days of the Union Pacific Railroad. Being of an adventurous disposition, he drifted about among military posts and Indian villages, and he is to-day one ot the most daring and bravest scouts that ever followed a trail in the Indian country. On Tuesday last Adams started on a broncho to ride with a scout to a surveying party on Medicine Bow Mountains, leaving his handsome trained horse with us. Adams had been gone but a little while when Miss F.
expressed a desire to ride her brother's horse around. She galloped around the camp lor a while, aud was about to dismount, when a shot was heard about 500 yards up the river, and a moment later an enormous black elk came dashing out of a ravine, with Jim Adams a short distance behind in full chase. The elk was wounded, but yet able to run at great speed. The writer, in sport only, never learning she would undertake it, handed Miss F. a large army Colt's revolver, and told her to go aud help catch the enormous animal.
Miss Foreman took tho weapon and started toward the elk, which was but a short distance away at that moment. And now began an exciting chase. The horse was thoroughly trained for such work by Mr. Adams, and us soon as started upon the trail dashed forward with frightful speed. Adams urged his horse forward in a vain endeavor to overtake her, but the little broncho which he bestrode was no match tor his own favorite steed.
The elk started tor the mouth ot a canon about a mile distant, through which it could reach the higher mountains. Wo telt greatly alarmed for Miss Foreman's safety, believing th.at, in the excitement of the chase, her horse hud became unmanageable, until she was seen to fire the revolver at the elk, aud then we knew that she was alter meat. Two. three, four shots were fired, and yet the speed ot the elk was not lessened; but, at the filth shot, it was observed to waver, stagger, and, in a moment, fall heavily to the ground. Then Miss F.
was seen to halt and fire another shot into the animal as it lay struggling near the horse's feet. We hitched up a wagon Hnd drove to the scene, where we found Adams sitting upon the body of the falttsn monarch ot the mountains, white Miss flushed and triumphant, stood near. We had no facilities ior weighing the animal, but Jim says it will crowd 90 or 1,000 pounds very Close. Miss F. had the tuit cut off as a trophy, and will soon exhibit it to her triends in your city.
A number ot Yuma Jack's band of ute Indians, ho were camped near, and who witnessed the chase, crowded around and gazed upon the heroine with stares of amazement, one of them remarking: White squaw heap brave ride all same like wind in storm." Four Shots at His Wife. Foreign Notes. Tho latest French conjugal drama was enacted lately at Brussels. Count Ilussen do Sarpig-ny, ex-lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of Dragoons, and a member of the Legion of Honor, fired four shots at bis wife ns she was on the threshold of her lover's house. Two bullets struck the lady in the head.
The Countess, whose maiden name was Pontavice Do Heussv, is the mother of four children. She had letu Rennes, where she had been living with lier hut-band, to take up her abode nt Brussels in the Convent of the Sisters ot Charity. Tho Count did not attempt to escape, but immediately surrendered himself. The third party turned out to be the Count's former coachman. bituminous coal, and, while there nre different varieties of it, the same price rules with all ot it except the "Big Muddv." hich commands a premium of several cents on the bushel.
The price of ordinary bituminous coal, which enters so largely into the city supply, varies according to the season and circ*mstances. At the present, it sells from cents to 6 cents a bushel by the car load delivered at East St. Louis, and brings from 9 to 10 cents a bushel on this side delivered at residences. These prices have ruled most of the time for the last twelve months. The "Big Muddy" coal is now worth 10 cents a bushel in Last St.
Louis and 1 cents delivered on this side. Anthracite, from Pennsylvania, brings $5 50 a ton or about 21 cents a bushel. Such low prices, however, cannot be loner maintained, owing to slight advances in the Last. The coal of St. Louis is handled by a vei small number of DEALERS, considering the vast quantity used.
The following are the firms that supply most of the bituminous coal used in the city: Donk Bros. Co. Gartside Coal and Mininer Company. Abbey Coal and Mining Company. Collinsville Coal and Mining Company, Confidence Coal and Mining Company.
Hazzard. Wilson Co. Joseph Zock Bros. lleiniich Coal Company. Dutch Coal and Mining Company.
Daniel Knecht. Conrad Kienicke. Mount Olive Coal and Mining Company. Shureman Bros. The Lewis Coal Company.
All the above concerns have their own mines and do what may be called a wholesale business. The principal RETAIL DEALERS ARE James J. Sylvester, agent for Pennsylvania anthracite. Big Muddy, Blossburg, Lebanon, and Pittsburg coals. Lewis P.
Harvey agents tor Big Muddy, Basin Block and Illinois coals. Donk Bros. who are beginning an extensive trade in anthracite and the bituminous coals from their own mines. Formerly it was the custom of retail dealers to make all their purchases in tne yards at East St. Louis, but latterly the mining companies above named have begun to establish depots on this side of tho river.
The distributing points are now at East St. Louis, Seventeenth and Clark avenue. Mound street, Harrison street, the toot of Chouteau avenue and a place on Lesnerance street. At these city depots the "hucksters' or small teamsters, who sell 25 or 30 bushels at a time, get their coal now lor 7J cents a bu-jhel. They sell it for 10 cents and make a profit of 1 cents.
A vast number ot people engage in this small business during the winter months, and how they are enabled to make a living is really surprising. At the above rates of profit they can make only 25 cents on 10 bushels, 50 cents on 20 bushels, and 75 cents on 30 bushels, hich last quantity is a good load. Many of them do sell more than a load or two a day, and they have no chance to cheat since they must weigh on the city scales and give the certificate to the purchaser. The establishment of a great number of depots of supply on this side ot the river whor* a retail trade can be done will be ot grreat service to the poor people, as it will have the effect of driving out a numerous class of small dealers, many ot whom are unconscionable Swindlers. The supplying ot fuel to a great city like St.
Louis is a great business and involves VAST SUMS OF MONEY, even at the low prices that prevail here, and eives employment to a very large number of people. St. Louis uses 100,000 bushels of coal a day, taking it on an average for the year. One man can mine about 65 bushels a day, so that it takes over 1,500 men constantly employed in the mines. To get the coal to the consumer tafees as many more, so that the business would require 3,000 men working every day In the year.
But tne business fluctuates with "different seasons, and so does the number of men employed. There are times in the winter season when there are tully 10,000 men employed in the coal trade ot St. Louis. The amount of money invested in the business is not less than and the trade amounts to about per annum. is compared with the merits of the (The Globe-Democrat insists that it ps more news than the Republican, true, and the Republican insists the Globe publishes more nastiness, which is also true but it is not true that the public is interested to any great extent in the question.
A Joke on a llridnl Couple. A heartless scamp in Virginia City, Nevada, has been making two fond lovers ridiculous. The pair were in a railway car; the lady waa young and modest; the swain wore large cuffs and one arm was thrown carelessly along tho back of the seat. The scamp sat behind them and surreptitiously and with malice afterthought rubbed souie phosphorus matches upon the cuff. Thotre were tunnels on the road at short intervals, and the movement of that cuff in the darkness, were witnessed by all the occupants ot the car.
Yet in every instance when the train emerged from darkness into the light the bride looked demure and unconscious aud tho bridegroom indifferent and somnolent. Bt the time the gets through showing the extent and variety of the industries of St. Louis, Chicago will look like the wrong end of an opera-glass. Chicago beats us in hogs, lumber, cheek, mortgages, bad smells, bristles and divorce but we lead her in flour, cotton, tobacco, iron, health, godliness, pretty girls and big families. The competition between the two towns used to be interesting, but now Chicago has fallen so far behind that not even a Democratic Mayor can pull her FOREIGN OPIXIOX.
in-law oi M. Emue Menier is mignonne, a French term equivalent to our "pocket Venus." She is of the Princess ox Wales type, but more healthy, spirited, and happily organized. Her skin is ot alabaster smoothness, her brows are pencilled, and the eyelids, nostrils, lips and chin exqnisitely finished. The eyes are brown and well opened, and they express a soft, womanly nature, frankness and intelligence. Madame Gaston Menier is not a grands dame, nor ever will be one, but she is better.
Dickens or Hawthorne would have found in her the realization of some of his most winsome feminine characters. The naturel of her manners Is almost Irish. the bridal robe which I have so long delayed to describe, and which the ladies who read this letter will be impatient to hear about. The skirt was short and plain, and covered with short flounces of old point a 1 'aiguille. It was detached from the train, which might have been furnished by a London drss-maker to a young lady going to be presented to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
The effect, owing to the shortness ot her skirt, vvas not, when the train was allowed to fail, graceful and in profile, it would have looked bad were it not for tire perfection of the bride's feet and ankles. They were so 'thoroughbred' that one almost thanked the dressmaker for the imperfection of her work. The corsage, in white damask and demi-montant, was garnished with pointed d'Alencon, and formed at the hips paniors; and I may note the buttons were of splendid Oriental peails. A demi-long sleeve displayed an arm of ivory smoothness. Of the veil I cannot speak because there was none.
A cloud of tulle soltens the sharp lights of the satin dress, and gives to it tho freshness of a dewy morning. Concerning the coiffure it was formed of a lace kerchief, or fanchon, falling on the right side ot the head, and held up on the other with a bunch ot orange blossoms, in which there was, I thought, too much green toliage. However, in lookingatthe blooming, smiling, and thorongMy happy little brunette who was thus array ad, one overlooked what was open to criticism in the toilette. The bridesmaids, of whom there wore two, were in pearl-gray and blue. Madame Menier, the amiable and accomplished mother ot the bridegroom, was in moss-green faille and satin, looped up in the skirt with pearl ornaments and trimmed with rich old lace.
Her bonnet a First Empire one was trimmed with a wreath of yellowish-green leaves, ending in a bow of antique point lace, the ends of which were long enough to be tied unuer the chin. The knot they formed was held in place, on the chest, with a large brooch formed of a single diamond. Happy was the newly married queen of the festival to get beneath the wing of a mother-in-law so kind, right-nearted and maternal! Madame Kodier, the bride's mother, was in an ample pelisse robe and pettiicoat of otter brown satin. The pelisse formed a long train behind. The front breadths were lined with pink satin, and turned back on the hips in graceful folds.
Madame Rodier's bonnet, in brown satin spanEled with bronze d'art beads, was in the form worn by yueen ictoria iu the early years of her reign, aud trimmed with three flowing, pink ostrich feathers. Madam Kodier is a fine-looking woman, and lier coifiure and robe, which were rich stately and distingue, suited her exactly. The corbeille de mariage was displayed in one of the ground-floor drawing-rooms of M. Mauler's palatial residence. It contained, amongst other things, a set of diamond ornaments of regal splendor laces scarcelv less valuable, Bitistic tans and parasols with handles carved by Chinese fingers, and others inlaid by Japanese; a pile of whole skins of silver tox ditto of New Shetland seal, and another heap of Siberian sable; toilet knick-knacks.
designed and executed by Froment Maurice and Tiffany's most skilled silversmiths, and Irish lawn enough to dress a whole bench of Anglican bishops. I should have liked to have seen more pearls. There was a poor show of those gems, which are the most becoming of all to the fresh young beauty. The diamond is the jewel for a dusky Indian girl. Its brilliancy is too strong not to be out of harmony with the delicate skin and suave loveliness of the handsome woman ot Caucasian race.
Sott lies the pearl on the feminine neck. The diamond casts a firece light upon it and depoetizes the wearer whom it was meant to adorn. M. Menier asked to the wedding the adult and juvenile members of his gutta-percha through. "No Time to Make Money." (From the Rutland (VI.) lh-raM.
Somebody onco wrote the lamented Professor Agassiz, ottering him a largo sum ior his services as a mining geologist, lie replied: have no time to make mouey." That is, ha felt, with his exceptional powers as an investigator and teacher, he could not for the sako of his highest calling here afford to stop and make money. We suspect that Channiiig, or the Rev. Dr. Storrs, or the llev. Dr.
Hall, or Phillips Brootts, or Bishop Huntington would have no time to stop and breed fast horses and oscillating buckboards, even If thoy were sun that there was money iu both these ventures. this country can replace states- elley type with statesmen of the will be better governed. A TREE WITH A HISTORY. us a whole volume of To" sentence when he urged country should trust to its im- atural resources. The Kelley plan 'tract our natural resources by tax- industries that flourish to protect MOKJIOSISM.
Secretary Evarts has blundered most conspicuously in his attempt to intimidate the European Governments into suppressing Monnonism. A few days ago he addressed a circular to the authorities of the countries which send us Utah recruits asking them to prevent the Mormons from sailing to this country, asserting that they sailed with the intention of violating the laws the United States, and intimating that, if the powers did not attend to this matter, he (Evarts) would do unutterable things. Arrogant assumptions do not look well in company with confessions of impotence, and, under any circ*mstances, the Governments of Great Britain, Sweden and Denmark are not likely to be intimidated by any menaces of Mr. Evarts. But in the present case Mr.
Evarts begins by declaring that the duty which he demands of Europe to execute is something which he is utterly unable to accomplish himself. He cannot prevent Mormonism nor put it down after it declares itself to be polygamy, in open violation of the law, and he calls on Europe to prevent it and to suppress it when it exists merely as a form of religious belief. We have tried persecution of Mormonism for these many years, and it has thriven in spite of persecution. Even in Georgia, where the holy indignation of the Chris-tiausltakes the form of murdering Mormon Wifssioaarics, persecution with tlie shotgun MAKY ANDERSON. From the London Times: "The object of a holiday is the reasonable refreshment of body as well as of mind." From tho London Saturday lieview: "Free, thinking ladies like a more pronounced freethinker than themselves, just as their High Church sisters like a Ritualist of the whitest heat." From the Londoa Telegraph: "An impresario wiio, having made certain promises in order to obtain money beforehand, is careful to lullfil them, simply acts with common decency." From the London Spectator: "No man's thoughts should be judged from his life.
The practice of many a saint would be nobler than it is if it conformed to the Ideal of many a worldling." From the London News: "The great civil war oi the American Union has passed into the domain of history and we may hope that the heartburnings and bitternesses attending the painful process of reunion and reconstruction are slowly but surely fading into oblivion. From the London Lancet: "The causes of lite and of death are, to some extent, identical. Influences which kill the weak strengthen the strong, and In the mutual reaction of a perfect constitution and a mode of life tree from those lethal influences which no strength of constitution can resist may be found the secret of extreme longevity." From the Paris "Journal des Debats:" "Mountainous countries are particularly barren of artists. When they do win prizes at the Salon it is for sculpture, sometimes for architecture, very seldom for drawings or paintings. This is a lively proof of the historic priority of sculpturomd architecture to the other arts of design, yainters paint more sUies that do not flourish.
Noth- Jerseyyille Jottings. 8necial Correspondence of Post-Dispatch. Jersey ville, August 13. Probate Court convenes next Monday, with his Honor Judga Kins on the bench. Mr.
Morris R. Locke, managing editor of tha Jerseyyille Examiner, left last Wednesday for a trip through the Western States. Mr. Charles Corey left last Tuesday morning for the seat of war. Mr.
Corey was admitted as a recruit on the Wnchusett. The Jersey ville Cadets, of whicn he was a member, esoorced him to the depot. May you have a prosperous and safe journey is the wish of all your schooi-mates and comrades. On last Monday a large-sized man, hailing from the rural districts ot Fieldon, stepped into the office of tho Jersey County Democrat an demanded to see the lighting editor. On being introduced to the said aentleman ha scanned him from head to foot and demanded in a graveyard tone ot voice to know who was the author of the tax schedule published last week.
On being informed who the party was, lie then proceeded to read the riot act to the editor, and politely informed him if he ever used his name in hW paper (except when he wanted to be candidate for Sheriff) again, he would proceed to put a large-sized ball clear through him. But for the tact that the lighting editor carries his right hand in a sling, caused from a very bal cut some two weeks ago, the ex-Sheriff mlglitt have had to order ins coflin before leaving town. Capt. A. II.Bogardus, who is hilled here tor the 2th cf this month, received an invitation to shoot at Carrollton, 111.
He ia-plied that the population of Greene county was not sufficient to guarantee him a success, and that he had been informed that as the county seat of Greene county was onlv a small flag station on the U. and A. R.U., it would be impossible for him to shoot there, but requests all lovers of sport to visit Jersey -villa. 111., where he will give tliem the best perfortnnnce for as little money as he can. The White HhII Register seems to think the Great London CHrcns would not condescend to stop at so small a place as Jerseyyille.
The fact of the matter is that Seils Bros, traded with the London Clrcns the small town of Carrollton for Jersevvllle, and thaCity ot Alton for the village of White Hall tuns you see why Griffin" Fellows healthy and vigorous constitution Her Home at Long Branch "Old and "flie Horse the Louisville Uaie" Mary. from ruin as the result of pro. tit we are not yet safe One of the The Willow Wand that a ItrUIegroom Cut to Serve on his Wedding: Journey. From the New Y'ork Sun. On the principal avenue in a thriving village of New Jersey stands a very large willow tree.
A running stream just at its base has renowed the tree's vigor for nearly half a century. Now, however, it is dying; many of its limbs are bare, and its leaves are sere and yellow. There is an interesting story about this tree. Nearly fifty years ago a happy young couple just wedded started in a wagon over the hilly roads ot New Jersey to their new home. It was a day's journey and to complete it before the setting ot the sun the horse had to be urged to unwonted speed, so the bridegroom stopped by the roadside and cut a long, wiry, willow stick.
Using this for a whip, the journey was completed with the day, and as the bridegroom alighted trout the wagon heihrust the willow wand Into the ground by the side of the stream, where it now grows. It soon began to spromj. and as the vears flew by it became a handsome tree. Its drooping branches have furnished shade lor the couple whom it served on their wedding journey, and for tuelr children, aud now, as the shadows of are creeping over the bride and groom of ualf a century ago, the willow is beginning to droop and decay, as it iu sympathy with them. ers front a Republican Congress He restoration of a Kelley tariff The Laziest Mmi iu the United Stolen.
IFrom the Augusta Stumiard. The laziest man in the United States Is a ship-carpenter in Belfast, who has deteiinlned to spend the rest of his days in a comfortablo chair. When wages wero reduced, he declined to work any longer, and seated himself in a rocking chair near his sitting room window. There he remains all day long, only rising to go to his meals or to bed. Ills chair rockers have worn grooves in the floor, and on tho window-sill, where lie drumsldly as he rocks to and fro, and the iuiprintsof his lingers.
Ha has a wife, are the couple are Mupposed tu have frouie savings on which they live. The Graveyard ol Spain. 1 From the Bmttua Hrraht. An intelligent resident of Havana says that Cuba is the graveyard ot Spain, and a more befitting name than "Pearl of the Antilles." Ia one acmeterv near the capital 69.33ti inter, ments have been made within ten years, and In a VH'Ighborliig burial ground over 10,000. Out of the Spanih garrison ol 7,000 mim twenty die ever) day.
or a whole battalion, every mouth! J. C.Johnston shoots his brother-in-law, J. B. Lucas, through tho head iu au aU'jrcalUM at HuatouyUle, hy. incidental protection and occasional lition.
Long Branch Letter iu Chicago Tribune. Half a mile or so further along the road you come to a slate-colored cottage standing back among the trees in modest seclusion. This Is the home of Mary Anderson, and the property of Maggie Mitchell. It was not until we had driven in and learned that the whole family had gone sailing in the Dolphin on Pleasure Lay that mv driver got fairly unbent. Then he lot himself loose upon the most astounding flow of talk 1 had heird for a week, "So you know Miss Anderson," lie began.
"Well, you're lucky. Nobody around here knows her, thanks to tha; stepfather of hers. He's a queer old cuss, that Griflin. When they fiist came to the Branch, all the professional people set out to welcome MisS Anderson as a sister actress. Mrs.
Chantrau, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Paddock, and all the rest came vp and called upon her the first thing. And you can bet your sweet life it was a set-back who doubt whether this country to rise from the depths of hard Id to greet the morning rays of prosperity need look for no better bn than the record of summer travel lasurc-seeking. It is no exaggera- say that every summer resort, with- A cosmetic as harmless as water, and the uxe ot which can not be detected, ts touad iu IIaoan's Macnolia Balm, easily in cities than elsewhere, and most easily tor them when she returned a solitary vne of their viaits.
1 I all over the Branch. ot all in Paris." cption, is crowded to a degree the papers ia adjoining counties kick so..
