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HUE : UnmVlllWENT . turd, ay Ho BY- KELLY & WELLS, Pol (m w ' i i 1 ii M U - 1 M Vkm " 1 M Thee are lha terms for thoae paying in once, la iininiDin oners no aeots to advertisers. Terms reasonable. E. R: MULLER, Watchmaker and Jeweler, OAKLAND, - OKEOOH Office in Dr. Page's Drugstore. Canyonville Hotel, D. A. LEVIS, - - PROPRIETOR HAVING RECENTLY PURCHASED THE Canyonville Hotel, 1 am now prepared to arniab Harden with the beat of accommodations. Feed and staMing for stock. D. A. LEVINS. JAB. THORNTON. W. H. ATKINSON. JACOB WAGNXB. X. X. ANDEBSON Ashland Woolen Manufacturing Company, Manufacturers and Dealers in White & Colored Blankets Plata, and Fancy Cashnaerea, Doeeklaa, Flannels, File. also, OVER AND UNDERWEAR CLOTHING Mads to Order. - W. II. ATKINSON Heoy ASHLAND. Jackson County, Oregon. H. C. STANTON, Dealer in Staple Dry Goods I Keapa constantly on hand ment of a general amort- EXTRA FINE GROCERIES, WOOD, WILLOW AID til.ASSWiKE ALSO Crockery and Cordage A full stock of SCHOOL Ii O O K H Suah aa required by the Public County School All kinds of STATIONERY. TOYS and FANCY ARTICLE To suit both Young and Did. "OUY8 AND SELLS LEGAL TESDERS - furnishes Checks on Portland, and procure vrawviiou rrancisco. r.lAHONEY'S SALOON. Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland. Ju. Mahoney, Prop'r. The finest of wiaee, liquors and cigars in Doup is eounty, mm to neat BIZXaIA.XtX TABLB ia the State kept in proper repair: faxtise to-areling on the railroad will find thil , place very handy to Tiait daring ths stop ping of the train at the Oak land, Depot. Give me aeall. J AS. MAHONEY. SAL.EM Foiindry and Uachine Shop B. F. DRAKE, Proprietor. SALEH, . OREGON. I Mtoaun JSnarln). 8avw BCUM. riot Mills. Beapera, Pumpa and aUl ltlndn anl Stylo ot Jkf aohlnery made to O rdev. Machinery repalredon 8nort rtotlo. ywttara making don ia all ita various forma. and ail kinds of braai and iron cestiogs fur niahad on abort ootioe. Also manufac turer of Enterprise PUiaer and Hatcher, and Buckara and ' : -- - Sharpers. PATTERSON'S Tipton Bros. Prop'.. ALL KINDS OF LUMBER, Including 0ng-ar Pine, . Oedar,Fir( JPino and Oak Lumber. Always en band, A xtd Order promptly filled on - time Hhorteat Hotloe AU kind of dressed lumber constantly en hand. Lumber furnished at any point in Bossburg without extra charge, and by application to me it will be found that My Lumber is not only the beet but the cheapest in the market. Try me and see. Address all letters to TIPTOK SROIh Patterson's Mllla, JOHN FRA8ER. Homo Mads Furniture, WILBUR, OREaOR. Upholstery, Spring Mattresses, Etc., Constantly on hand. FUR ITU EE. I Have the brat stock tnrullnra sooth of Portland And all of my own manufacture. No two Prices to Custome rs Resides ts of Douglas county are requested to give me a call before purchasing elsewhere. ALL WORK WARRANTED. 1ta DEPOT HOTEL- AKXAJTD, - OREGON. Richard Thomas, Prop'r, THIS HOTEL HAS BEEK ESTABLISHED for a anmbar oi years, and has become Tery pvpaiBjwHa im iraraiing punuc irsvciaaa LEEFINO ACCOMMODATIONS. ad the table supplied with the best the market aflbrda. Hotel at the depot of the Railroad. Oregon. auxA OaUlf ornlav QTAGrE IIIVE ! UIZZIW TO SAH FEA3SCESC3 POUR DATS. TS3 QUICKEST, SAFEST EASIEST ROUTE. AND STACKS LKAVK SOSKBURO 0aw at T3e P. H., Uaklai tnlca eoaaeetka at Reading with the eanaa'tbeaAO.&.B. Tor full particntars and passage apply to IJuLrj VOL. 4. Furniture Store! JOHN OILDEUWLEVE MAYING PURCHASED THE FCRNI " ture Establishment of John Lehnberr, it now prrpared to do any work in the UPHOLSTERING LINE. He is also prepared to furnish In all styles, of the best manufacture, and cheaper than the cheapest. His Table. lSurenuM, Bedstead, ETC., ETC., ETC. Are of superior make, and for low cost cannot be equalled in the State. The Finest of Spring Beds And the Most Coluplete ofas Always on band. Everything in .he line fur- n uned, ot the best quality, on tne sbortesi notice and at the lowest rates. COFFINS MADE AND TRIMMED. And orders filled cheaper and better than can any otner estaDiisnmeni. Desiring a share of public patronage, the un dersigned promises to offer extra inducements to all patrons. Give n.e a trial. SEEDS !"- e8EEDS! SEEDS ! ALL KIDS (IFBTQIALHY. ALL Oil IDE ItS Promptly attended to and Goods shipped witn care. Address, Hachency & Ben . Portland, ' eon NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO WHOM IT may concern that the undersigned lias been awarded the contract for keeiHiig the 1a.u;;!; County paupers for a period of two y;-ar. A 11 parsons in need of assistance from Mti'l county aoat first procure a certificate to that effect fruin any mam bar of the County Board and present it to on ot the following named persons, who are aathorised to and will care for those predentin; each certificates: Button A Perkins, ivoseburg; L. Ia. Kellogg, Oakland; Mrs. Brown, Looking Sum. Dr. Woodruff ia authorized to furnish sand iral aid to all persons in need of the same and who bar bean declared paupers of 1i1 Oauty. w. is. ci..ai:k Light in the Hon.se. Dr. Richardson, whose articles on health have been cited bo much, in a re cent EngliBh publication prouuees an article called "Health at Home," which is replete with wisdom. A most important fact, and one on which he dwells, is the fact that so many people are afraid of the light. "In a dark and gloomy nonse you never can see the dirt that pollutes it. Dirt accumulates on dirt, and the mind soon learns to apologize for this condition because the gloom conceals it" Accord ing!) , when a bouse is dart ana dingy, he air becomes impure, not oniy on ac count of the absence of light, but from the impurities which are accumulated. Now, as Dr. Richardson cleverly puts it, we place flowers in the windows that tbey may have the light. If this be the case, why should we deprive ourselves of the sunshine and expect to gain health and vigor? Light, and plenty of it, is not only a pun tier of things inanimate, but it absolutely stimulates our brains. It is in regard to sick rooms that this ex cellent authority is particularly im pressive. It used to be tne habit of phy sicians in olden times to sedulously darken the rooms, and this practice con tinues to some extent even to-day. In certain very acute cases of nervous dis eases where light the least ray of it disturbs in over-exciting the visual or gans, this darkening of the room may be permuted, dui orainaruy, to Keep iigui out of the room is to deprive the patient of one of the vital forces. Children or old people condemned to live in darkness are pale and wan, exactly like those oliints which, deprived of light, grow hite. Darkness in tne daytime un doubtedly makes the blood now less strongly and checks the beating of the heart, and these conditions are precisely Buch as brinsr constitutional suffering and diseases. The suppression of tne light or day actually increases tnose contagious maladies which feed on uncleanliness. Dr. Richardson said : "I once found by experiment that certain organic poisons, analagousto the poisons which propagate these diseases, are rendered inoculous by exposure to liebt," Once in England there was a tax placed on windows, but . i i . e , i : .. v. 1 : . .1 . . : ill IS wao uriveu uut ui iiiguoii icgiomwuu after while, never to be brought up asrain. because it was a tax on human health. This leadins authority on by giene has a great deal of fault to find with some of the architectural dimentia ot to day. A fashion introduced in .England, and which has some feeble imitations in this country, is to reproduce the style of the Queen Anne houses. In is peculiar method indulges in smalt panes or glass, overhanging windows, sharp, long rools, ltb tiny openings, it is a relic or ancient perversity picturesque, if you please but perfectly at variance with the dictates of common sense. If you have biz windows, which, Bay, admit too much lieht. the glare of which is nncomfort- able, a sbado or curtain will keep out the sun: but nave small windows, barely ad muting tne invigorating air ana iignt, do what you please, yon cannot increase either air or light. Such cramped win dows interfere with the great work God gave to the sun. Architectural elegance ought always to be subsidiary to the ne cessities of health. In the United States, thouim witn a climate dinerine 'ma terially from that of England, the laws of health are tne same, uur August glare beats our houses, but still it should be admitted at times. A house darkened and kept darkened from the middle of June to the first of September is an uu wholesome bouse, its coolness may ap parently be refreshing,, but the air of the rooms, which stagnates,' contains on doubtedly germs ot disease, wiiinn are not the less dangerous because they are unappreciable. As it is, then, only the windows of the house, with panes of glass which admits the light, the precautions to keep them clean and bright are not so much measures oi tidiness as absolutely hygenic necessities. As regards windows and ttieir construction. American inven tiou has in this respect not advanced anv thine like in proportion to other thines. The usual window with its counterpoise weight presents unusual dfficulties as to clean sine it. ion can get inside oi but the outside presents great difficulties. Save in the lower stories, it may be pretty generally asserted that the upper windows of a house, the most important of all, which give light to the sleeping rooms, the glass is rarely bright and clean. There seems to be a decided re luctance on the part of builders to pnt in bouses either the French window, which simr.lv works like a door, or those win dows which, hung in the middle, revolve on the center. For ventilation alone, such windows have great advantages over tne old styles, and tbey can be cleaned with perfect ease. A philosopher being asked to define quarrel, Baid : "It is usually the termina- lion oi a misunderstanding. DOl IDETEPn A HIT TP EASTERN. The Pwbll Lands. New York, February, '24. The forth coming report of the public lands com mission wiH recommend swamp lands and pasturage lands hereafter to be sur veyed and patented by townships; that better provisions be made for making boundaries of survey tracts; that a sys tem of letting public surveys, and bound aries between states and territories be hereafter made nnder the direction of the coast and geodetic survey; also probably recommend that the office of receiver at each local land office be abolished. There are about 95 of these officers. They will recommend the appeal of the pre-emption law on the ground that its chief use now is to increase large individual hold ings. The commission will probably sup plement it by another report making arable public lands disposable under the homestead laws. The commission will probably recommend that no limits be placed upon the amounts of arable lands which any one person may buy; that the lands be sold at 25 cents per acre, one fifth to be paid down and the balance at the end of three years, and that no pat ent to such lands be issued until it is shown that a specified sum per acre, say $2, has I I 1 1 . T 11... ueeii expeuueu on lis recwiuaiiuii. xiin lands classed as pasturage will comprise untimbered and new mineral Unas not arable or capable of irrigation. The com mission will probably recommend tnat the quantity one person may buy be not limited, and the price graduated as fol lows; All lands sold prior to January, itssa, to be attbe rate ot l 'o per acre; ait lands sold fiotn the latter date to January, 1800. to be at the rate of SI an acre. Alter that date all lands will be sold at 75 cents an acre, with a reduction or iz$ cents per acre every three years, till the minimum price or 121 cents is reached, rasturage lauds shall be open to homestead settle- ment; no one entry to comprise more than 100 acres. Tbey will probably re commend that colonies of twenty or more families may enter homesteads, either on arable, irrigable or pasturage lands, and lay out a village near the center of the tract Radical changes will be recommended in the mineral land laws, among them the following: That the time during which a prospector or discoverer shall be able to hold bis claim by possessory title shall be fixed and limited by law; and all local organizations and regulations re specting mineral titles-shall be abolished and the sole jurisdiction of all questions relating thereto be reserved by the United States; that the "lode location," which permits a discoverer to follow a lode any distance in any directiou, whether within the boundaries of his surface location or not, be repealed; that hereafter every mining claim shall com prise a certain number of feet breadth and length on the surface, and that sub- terranea Dropertv rights shall not ex' tend beyond the surface boundaries thus fixed. It is quite probable that the com mission rcav refrain for the present from making any recommendation as to the area which each location may comprise; that a system of official survey and min eral inspection be adopted to prevent blackmail and robbery and to obviate the necessity, of legal contests before claims are patented. The Vermont Republican Convention. Montpkukr. Febrnarv, 25. TheKepub- can convention was called to order by George W. Granby, chairman of the state committee, at Trinity Hall, at 10 A. M. The roll call showed a very full attend ance. Resolutions were adopted that the republicans of Vermont present to the republicans of the country George W Itidmunds as a suitable person to be made the candidate of the republican party for next president. A Severe Article en Kearney. Naw York. February. 25. The Herald has a vigorous article on the threatened trouble in San Francisco, wherein K a! loch and the sand lot constitution are handled without gloves. The writer takes the ground that the president has the right mterlere immediately even witnout the consent of California to enforce na tional treaty odligations. The article closes thus: "Violation of treaty by Cali fornia is an act of rebellion against fed eral authority, and should be vigorously put down like any other rebellion. II local powers refuse or neglect to afford protection, it is the duty ot the president to supply it, and all reasonable citizens will reioice to see the sand lot dema gogues taught a needed lesson." Jeaee James at St. Lonls. St. Louis, February, 25. It is stated positively that Jesse James spent last night here, the guest of an old guerrilla friend. He wrote a brief letter to one of the newspapers, railing at the authorities. The Union Pacifle Projects. Omaha. February. 25. Superintendent Clark announces that the Union Pacific Railroad wilt immediately commence a broad gauge road from Cheyenne to Yel lowstone National rarK. witn a ueau wood branch. Another road will be built from Echo to Park City, in Parley's Park, Utah. It will be completed by August Finite ot Jealousy. Hareisburg. Febrnarv. 25. John Wall- ege a negro barber at Mount Joy. yester day fatally shot his wiie and slightly wounded bis son, aged lo years, cause, jealousy. Slavery lis China. Washington. February. 25. In the house Davis offered a resolution calling on the president for copies or such dis patches as have recently been received from the consul general at Shanghai, on the subject of slavery in China, and that portion of the penal code which forbids expatriation; aaoptea. The Postal Service. The Star service bill introduced in the house yesterday appropriates out of the treasury as much as may be required to meet the expenses of inland mail trans portation, or "Star" route during the pres ent fiscal year, at or within existing con tract prices, providing that on any route where there lias been an increase oi tne original contract prices during the last current fiscal year, exceeding nve tnou sand dollars, the compensation shall be reduced to the terms of the original con tract on and after March 1st, provided that nothing therein contained shall be construed to prohibit the payment of one month's pay tnat is nsuai in sucn case oi reduction or termination or contracts, it further appropriates $100,000 to enable the postmaster general to place needed service as authorized by law, and $100, 000 to increase service on existing routes. provided that no increase shall exceed the rate of $5000 a year on any one route- Dr. Brauadreth's Estate. New York. Febrnarv. 26. Dr. Bran- deth. who latelv died at his home in Sing Sing, bequeathed his homestead and fur niture to hie wife and leaves the Bran dreth House, in Rroadwaj, valued at $400,000 to his seven daughters. His stocks, trade marks and the remainder of the estate to his six sons, on condition that they pay his widow one thousand dollars per month for her life. - Death of Dr. Robert White. Assistant Surgeon Robert White, of the V. b. marine hospital service, died to-day He waa largely interested in sanitary science and was a prominent member of tne American Health association. Fire In Hew York. The picture frame and moulding fac tory of Mass & Vahlan, Pearl street, burned to-night Loss, $50,000: insured. - Jay SJenld te VlaH Texas. Jay Gould will leave for Texas the present week, to be absent for three weeks. He will make a tour of inspection of his recent acquisitions in the railroad line and will look about for others. InaMeted Ar Forgery. J. Lloyd Haigh. wire manufacturers whose operations mainly caused the fail GLAS Independent ROSEBURG. OREGON, SATiJRD AY, ure of the Grocers' Bank, has been in dicted for forgery. Hlae In Coal at Philadelphia. Phu ai.ri phi a Eebruarv. 26. Com mittees of the Lehigh and Schuylkill coal companies to day agreea w s geuemi advance oi zo cents per ion m wi m lump, steamboat and broken sizes for line, city and harbor trades for March, ihe Increase applies particularly io iuiihm;d trade. Mmrdrr. Marion. Ohio. February, 20. An un provoked murder occurred last evening. Enoch Young had a fight with two boys in a saloon and was badly punished. He left, threatening vengeance, and soon re turned with a knife and stabbe l twice Israel Bensley, who was not concerned in the fight, instantly killing him. Convicted or Murder. Auburn, February, 26. Herman Galli- gher, who murdered a school teacher named Wilson, near renryn. some inonms ago, was round guilty ot muiaer in tne first degree, the jury affixing the penalty of imprisonment for life. The Virginia Dent. Richmond, February, 26. A bill was introduced in the house to-day recogni zing the principal of the state debt at $327,000,000; that 3 per cent interest be paid and new bonds be issued. This pro duced quite a sensation. Prominent re. publicans are said to have negotiated the terms of the bill. The movement is re garded as a defection of republicans in the assembly from the ranks of the read justers. Panaell and Dillon at St. Panl. St. Paul. February, 26. Parnell and Dillon had an enthusiastic reception all along the line on their way thither. A largo meeting is now progressing, and it is estimated that the receipts will be $1500 besides subscriptions, lie will speak in Minneapolis to-night also. The Telegraph War. Chicago. February 26. Notwithstand ing the injunctions granted by the courts at Kansas City and Denver to restrain the American Telegraph Company from interfering with the wires of the Western Union Telegraph Company on the Lnion raciuc, tne former company dui cut tne wires this morning and have possession of the same, under Gould's order. The wires on the Union Pacific road known as the Atlantic & Pacific wires were also cut this morning, and are in the pos session of the American Union Company. An injunction would have been applied for yesterday as to the U nion 1'aeinc com pany but for assurances from the other side that there would be no interfer ence. Such Bteps are being takau by the Western Union Company as will vindi cate their rights. Failure of a Fool-hardy Venture. New York, February 27. Herbert Bur- rell and Andrew B. Coombs, who left Bos ton on the 'Jth of July in a small decked boat for Melbourne, proceeded no further on their voyage than a fishin-' village north of Bahia, when they were com pelled to land in distress. They reached here to-day in the steamer City of Para. Death or the Mi re of Judge Prince. News has been received of the death yesterday in Santa Fe of the wife of Chief Justice Prince of New Mexico. The lady was married but three month; disease pneumonia. Suit for Danaagca. Ex-County Clerk Gumbleton has be gun a suit for damages for $50,000 aeainst Ex-Governor Robinson, alleging illegal removal from office. The suit is based upon a decision in the case of Police Commissioner Nichols. A Refugee President. Valparaiso dates to the 24th of Jan uary, state that when the revolution broke out against Daza, he sought refuse aboard the steamer Alaska, winch was refused. It is believed that he is hiding at Are- quipa or Africa. Railroad meeting at New York- During the present week a number of representative railroad men have been in the city, and the fact has given rise to various rumors and many conjectures as to the object of their visit To-day W. A. 11. Lioveland, of the Colorade Central: Mr. Gollup, of the Boston and Albany railroad; Judge T. Sears of the Kansas Pacific and General Howard of the Bos ton and! Providence railroads, arrived here late in the evening. It was re ported that a meeting of the railroad magnates had taken place the night be fore, and Colonel Thomas Scott, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who was called upon in regard to the matter tins even ing, said it was true thev held a meetincr at Windsor Hotel last night: that iu ob ject was to harmonize as far as possible all the conflicting interests of the trunk lines. Messrs uarrett, Jewett, V ander bilt, Roberts, and himself were present. He said tiiere was a meeting to-day of representatives of western lines in Chi cago and that the meeting here last even ing was to determine upon the best ad vice to send to them on the subject of east bound freights. We decided, said Mr. Scott, to counsel them to abandon their fighting and to agree upon some sys tern oi equitable rates. There were no other special matters to be acted upon by tne conierence, beyond that we want to make a little money out of this boom in the country. Reduced Rates. Chicago. February 27. Representatives of all leading eastern and western roads here to-day have decided to reduce the rate on grain and flour, east bound, five cents per hundred pounds, beginning jnarcn jsi ana to mace similar reduction on other articles beginning March 8th, a twelve ciassincauon was adopted in piace oi tne present lour classes. A com mittee consisting of representatives of eastern trunk lines and their western con nections, was appointed to examine charges of cutting, and report to-morrow various charges of minor importance were maae. The Wash burn c-Donnelly Contest. Washington, February. 26. The com mittee on elections to-day again discussed, but did not dispose of the Washburne- Donnelly case. The Postal Service Discussed. Discussion in the house over the star route deficiency was chiefly notable for the vigorous speech by General Hawley. ureat interest is manifested in the dis cussion, and although there is no doubt tnat tne oenciency bill reported will be passed, there is an evident disposition to have a settlement with Brady afterward, even if it is necessary to go to the ex treme oi impeachment, hints or which are thrown' out There was a great deal more leeiing developed in this matter than was expected, and Brady was censured in very severe language. The idea of the majority of the members of both parties seems to be that the appropriation of nearly $6,000,0('0, which was all the de partment asked for, was sufficient for the fiscal year, aud that Brady's management oi mis orancn nas been very reckless and extravagant, to say tho least of it The Income of the U. 8. Government. It is thought at the treasury depart ment tnat tne total receipts irom customs tnis montn win be nearly $19,000,000, and from internal revenue about S9,000,000. Taking this as a basis, it is estimated that the total custom receipts of the govern ment for the fiscal year ending June 30th next, will be about $353,000,000. and from internal revenue $117,000,000, tbns making a total income to the government in cluding receipts from miscellaneous sources, of about $300,000,000. It is cal culated at the department that the total expenditures, inclnding the sinking fund act and interest on the public debt will foot up between $275,000,000 and $278,000, 000. This would leave a profit to the government of about $25,000,000. Murders by Indiana. Sa Antonio, February, 26. A body of tv inaians are raiding tne country be tween Laredo and Piedras Negras, and Mexican and American troops are co-operating in pursuit The savages have killed eight men and several women, Outrage by Indians. Corpus Christi, Texas, February, 26. I uteen Indians attacked a Mexican wagon In all Things ; Neutral train of six wagons heavily leaded from Chihuahua for Laredo, ant) captured three drivers and the live stock.! The teamsters escaped and brought news to Eneeras. Twelve men have gone in pursuit The Indians were well mounted and armed, and went toward the Rio Grande river. M . A Fatal Row. Qcero, Texas, February 29. A brutal and bloody fight occurred between three men, Martin, Holland and Coward over a game of pitch, in the course of which Hol land was killed. His mother was fatally shot and Martin was fatally injured. Verdict est aside. - Boston, February 28. The supreme court has set aside the verdict of man-. slaughter in the case of Charles II. Hart well, conductor of the freight train which caused it was alleged the VVollaston dis aster on the Old Colony road in October, 1878.. i , !. v .. ; j -i Emigrants and Chinese Eastward Bound. Omaha. February 29. This afternoon a special train arrived here from San Fran cisco having on board 250 emigrants bound east, they having taken advantage of the $35 rates to New York. Among them were about 50 Chinese, occupying one car; 250 Chinese emigrants will pass through to-morrow. . j v j . Deadly Flgh-.. ' Bates' school house, about four and one half miles northeast of Seward, was list night the scene of a vindiciti ve and bloody quarrel, in which one man lost his life and several others were seriously injured. There had been preaching in the school house, and at the conclusion of the meet ing two of the participants engaged in a scuffle which soon developed into a grand fight. Some fifteen or twenty pistol shots were fired, the first of which mortally wounded William Bates in the head, who has since died. Four others were seriously injured by pistol bullets. The only cause for this fatal and lamentable occurrence is a neighborhood feud growing out of the district school directorship. Disgraceful and Deadly Encounter. Philadelphia, February 28. A prize fight took place this morning in a room on Vine street, between Edward Douglass, of Philadelphia, and Frank Harris, of Jersey City. Both men were ierrihly pun ished, Harris having his skull fractured in the last round, lie has been insensible all day, and it is thought that he cannot recover. City O facers Indicted. Elizabeth, New 'Jersey, February 28. Thirty-four indictments, in aggregate, have been found against the comptroller, the city treasurer, aud eity clerk for con spiracy to defraud "the city. The indict ments chiefly charge the officers with having bought bonds at the market price with their own money, aud turned them into the city at par and interest, dividing profits. Other accounts are for paying un authorized claims to councilmen, to the National Bank Note Company, and others. Death of a Pedestrian. Whitehall, New York, February 26. David Hoag of Mineville, died at Fort Henry to-day, from the effects of mor phine and other stimulants given him while walking a 27 hours race at Glenn rails, last Fr: day, of which he was the winner. Fire at Chicago. Chicago. February 29. Goodwiller Brothers' box factory, and Hanson's pic ture frame manufactory, at the corner of Kingsbury and Indiana streets, were en tirely destroyed by fire at four o'clock this morning. Loss, $40,000 to $50,000; little or no insurance. Trouble. ' New York. February 29. The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, which has had a working understanding and ar rangement as to the relative amount of dividends witlthe Western Union Tele graph uompany, bad prior to sucn ar rangement, a compact, enabling them, the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. to control the wires along the Hue or the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. To-day, however, the telegraph war has assumed a still more complicated shape. The Bal timore and Ohio Railroad Company served a notice of its intention to take control of and operate the telegraph lines of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, and the Baltimore ond Uliio K. It. Uoinpany. between tv usnington, u. C and Marietta and Cincinnati, Ohio, Washington, Columbus, unio, Newark, Ohio and Chicago. Illinois, heretofore operated by the Atlahtic and Pacific Com nanv. under temporary license. After notice had been served, and tne lines ati taken by the railroad company, and in junction was served on Presideut Garrett, or the Baltimore and Uhio K. k. wm- nanv. at the Windsor Hotel, in this city, to restrain bis company from taking pos session of the lines which were put there bv the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, in 1876-7 under an arrangement made by Ueneral Kckert, then rresiuent, D. II. Gates, then the general superinten dent of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. This arrangement, it is alleged, proviaeu tuai uio rsuiruau uuiuunui uu were at that time afraid oi consolidation between the Western Union and the At lantic and Pacific companies should at any time have the option of taking lines at cost. On Saturday last a contract was concluded between the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. Company, and the American Union Telegraph company, naving ten years to run, whereby all telegraphic work and business or that railroad snau ue managed in connection with the Amen can Union Company, instead of the West ern Union and Atlantic and Pacific Tele graph compahies. A Samaritan of the Seas. The steamer Alexandria arrived to-day from Mediterranean ports, bringing in telligence that the Wilson line steamer Hindoo, bound from jew lorK lor nun. was abandoned on February 22d in lat 51 50, Ion. 41 09, on her beam ends, with her funnel ttone and decks swept. The hrst and second omcersana quartermaster had been washed overboard, and the remainder of the crew and passengers, 53 in number, were taken on board the Alex andria and brought to this port. The Alexandria also on February 16th fell in with the brig Julia from Port Cabello, for Swansea, in a sinking condition, and took on her crew, 8 in number. The Death Penalty. Savannah. Eebruarv 27. John Henry Johnsen, a negro, was hung this afternoon for the murderer Daniel AicDerniou on March 7th. a seaman. Johnson made an address expressing the belief that he would go to neaven. PACIFIC COAST. Kearney Um. San Francisco. February, 25. This forenoon W T. Coleman had a long con ference with Mayor Kalloch. What passed between them is vet unknown, bnbse quently Kalloch and the ward presidents oi tne woraingmen neio a meeting, sm was also private. This anernoon tne waru presidents, Kalloch and a number of rep reaentative men of the W. P. C. held a meetinor at the headauarters of the party on Market street. Kearney presiding. Res olutions prepared by the party leaders were presented. . The preamble recited the action of the board of health In declaring Chinatown a nmaance. The resolutions pledged every exertion to preserve quiet aud good order and to render any assistance in their power to the board of health ia carrying out the work; advised a cessation of street processions in view of the encouragement atlorded by the action oi tne ooara; re ferred to the report said to have been re ceived to the effect that the police and cer tain other parties were holding secret meetings to concert violent measures to resist the enforcement of the law against the Chinese, and expressed the fear that the same rash counsels mignt prevail which bafora reunited in the attempted assassination of the mayor: denounced the increase of the police force, and closed as follows: t . Rooked, That while W3 discountenance all lawless nas and warn our friends among the workingmen against it yet we wish it understood and give deliberate notice that on the perpetration of any outrage in Nothing." MARCH 0, 1880. upon any of our friends or leaders, or the employment of any police or other force to interfere with the peaceful operation of the laws in the abatement of the Chinese nuisance, or any accession to the infamous demands of the craven Chinese consul. Mr. Beej for foreign military interference, we are ready to assert and maintal n nnr rights, ayenge our friends and visit upon the low,! designing minions of power backed up though they may be by cow ardly capitalists and corporations pun ishment so swift and terrible that the reader of history will shudder at the record. We have kept the peace; we in tend to keep the peace; but we are not to be trifled with. The law must be obeyed the Chinese must go. We know our rights, and knowing, dare maintain them. Mayor Kalloch then spoke of the reso lutions presented to the meeting, saying in substance that they embodied his views. He stated that Colonel Bee. Llovd. Tevis and others met at the Palace Hotel last night, when Bee made a mote foolish speech than ever Kearney did. He con tinued: I said to one of those men to-day that if I had a thousand lives I would guarantee them, and the lives of ray children also, that the worklngmeu would not be the first to break the peace. What they want is work and their rights. They are willing to wait for a peaceful solution of the agitation. I know there is a good deal of excited feeling in this city. We are not excited, however. The alarm is among the capitalists and people who do not understand us. It behooves, however, every workingman to be caieful in his speech, his conduct and example. It is a bad thing to have trouble in a large city like this. ; There is none of us who would not rue the day when catastrophe was brought on San Francisco. I hope there will be no inflammatory speeches. A committee of the chamber of com merce having made some inquiries, have decided to raise funds sufficient to employ seveval hundred persons on the sea wall, park or some other public work at $1 a day. It is believed that from 500 to 1000 men will accept work at that rate of wages Concerning the present condition of affairs it may be said that there is some danger of a conflict on account cf fears of both parties. Worktngmen profess to believe that there is an organized effort about to be made to resist by force of arms the enforcement of the laws and or dinances recently passed, and claim to be the party of law and order. Among the business class there is a teneencv to ac cept violent and incendiary language of tne workingmeu a orators at its face value and to fear so ne overt act directed against Chinatown or the employers of Chinese. x here is also a strong feeling of impa tience, anger and disgust at the protracted and threatening character of this agita tion, which has almost paralyzed business inturiwtli rMlinn nnAn ita BHnnn.M an. I the sentiment is frequently expressed that 1 rather than suffer a continuance of the evil it would be preferable to have it out once for all, and the sooner the better. The workingmen's leaders evidently have no desire to precipitate a conflict, and their action to-day indicates that their policy is rather to keep the agitation at just such a point as falls short of violence, yet is sufficiently threatening to induce acquiesence in their desires. Providing Work in San Francisco. San Francisco, February 28. The park commissioners have authorized David Bush to put as many men on the park as he can find means to pay for their labor. Bush is making a canvass for subscriptions with decided success, lie succeeded in raising $500 this morning. Each subscri ber has the privilege of nameing some needy man, who has to be given employ ment, preference being given to men having families to support. Open Murder. A Stockton dispatch savs that John Petty, a prominent citizen, was deli ben ately shot and fatally wounded in the court house yard by Henry Parker. The canse of the affair was because the sheriff had levied an execution on the property of Parker to satisfy an old judgement in lavor oi retty. The Situation at San Francisco. The city has to all appearances re sumed its wonted quiet and no further disturbance is likely at present The impression among those best .informed seems to be, that if the order to condemn Chinamen is carried out legally and in good faith, at the end of the thirty days' notice given, that there will be no fur. ther trouble, but if anything occurs to interfere with the furtherance of that project, there will be no guarantee for peace. The arrest of Gannon yesterday. appears to cause no excitement among workingnien. The Imprisoned Legislator. Assemblyman Braunhart has obtained a writ of habeas corpus returnable before Ubiet Justice Morrison on Monday morn' ing. The Indian Troubles In Southern Call for. nla. San Diego. California. February 29. No further details from camp. In the fight on Friday, near the lower Califori ma line, one white man, William McCalr. aud nve Indians were billed. The Fashionable Kaffir. The Kaffir women wear a niece of blue calico, tied by the corners round the neck so as to hang like a cloak over the shoul ders and down the back, but their princi pal garment is made of hirlo. fnlrlod rannrl f i Y . . . . ' . tne loins, ana reaching the knee, for or dinary wear? a second petticoat consider ably longer being always keBt in reserve for dancing. Young wives assume an ad ditional garment, consisting of the skin of an antelope, with a strip of hair peeled on uown tne center, ornamented with a triple row of buttons and brass knobs in i of four, sewed as a finish at th lower end. It is tied over the breast and under the arms, and hangs down straight in front. A belt encircles the waist, and they all wear bracelets, anklets and arm lets. In early times, when tbey had nothing better worth their wearing, thev used to cut circlets out of ostrich eggs, of wnicn tuey wore a number together like bangles. They now deck themselves with linger rings of copper or brass, and other ornaments of glass or metal beads. Their hair appears as little esteemed by t-iicrui lur iis uei-urattve urtaracier as H is by ourselves, for the married women shave their heads, leaving only one small tuft at the cro.wn, which they dye red. This practice of cutting off the hair on marriage is also in vogue among the 1 or is ti Jews, who wear in its stead wigs aa undeceptive as any - pinned on a wax doll's bead. The friend who escorted ns over the store-house in question pointed out the winte, undyed lug-end or thin blue muslin before named of about an inch in depth on every piece. This unfinished termina tion, he observed, was an essential char acteristic of the material, on which its purchase by the over-suspicious natives was entirely dependent. Were the mus lin dyed to the extreme edge of the piece, the negro trader would conclude that some portion had been cut off, and tbat he bad been defrauded or the rail quantity originally manufactured. - Ho each piece is opened, and the white end looked for before any bartering is made. Xht yucn. i We may cut a scholar able to adorn university out of Mr. Gladstone, and then carve rrom mm a nne student and rever- encer or art; next mark off a reviewer and general lUeratewr, whom professed authors will respectfully make room for in tneir ranks; and not only is there still left, solid and linn, the great Parliament ary Minister, but of the scattered frag ments a couple of bishops might easily be made, with, if nothing at all is to be wasted, several preachers for the denom. l nations. A correspondent wants to know what will keep ants out of a house. We don't know: bat nothing will keen a mother-in- law out unless you put the house in a safe and rorget tne combination. Some people outlive tbeir manhood as well as their usefulness. It would be bet ter for them and their friends to die earlier, AM. JJJ Law Tersns Lore. Mr. Popkms was a bachelor. X men tion this fact with all dne reverence for the name and sympathy for the condi tion. He was well-to-do in the world, if j Avrnitlr an win A amm aa-1 VastklVirV WaI a TITITT n 1 owning a fine farm and being plaintiff in a law suit is any criterion. Aside from Mr. Popkins' misfortune m being a bach elor, he bad one fault a general aver sien to female "society, a particular aver sion to Miss Sallie Hopkina, the defend ant in the above named law suit. Now, be it known that, though Miss Sallie's name was put down on the list of O. M's, (old maids) , she was the round est, cosiest, most dimple-cheeked spin ster that ever lived in Lincoln. She had the softest brown eyes, with a trick of looking down and peeping under the lashes, perfectly bewildering, and her hair waved and shone in such a manner that a susceptible lady like yon and me would have felt an irresistible desire to have sole ownership of the "nut brown locks." - - But, however fascinating Miss Sallie was to the sex in general, as I have said, between ber and Mr. Popkins there was a deadly fend, and the cause of all the trouble was a meadow, spreading far and wide and un conscious, between Miss Sal lie's and Mr. Popkins' farms. Now the truth of the matter was this: The meadow justly belonged to Mr. Popkins, but instead of going to Miss Sallie and frankly stating the case, he must serve a process of law. Miss Sallie flew all to pieces, and declared that she would maintain her rights at any cost.- From the manner in which it ended, one could see that had Mr. Pepkins gone to her himself, she would have relinquished it gracefully, but a woman has a mortal terror of being forced to do anything. Tie a string around her neck, feed her with an gar plums, and yon can lead her to the jumping-off place, but to go to drive her, and for obstinacy she will beat Mark Twain's mule all to pieces. When Miss Sallie met Mr. Popkins on the street her nose was decidedly "re trousse," and Mr. Popkins looked like an automaton Cardiff. . The neighbors were forced to take part in this case, for when invitations were issned for the reg ular tea parties, those who invited Mr. Popkins were obliged to omit Miss Sal lie, and vice versa. In the meantime the law snit dragged its slow length along from session to session, from term to term, until it was as familiar as A. B. C. But fate had taken in hand the destiny of these two obstinate individuals, and soon brought matters to a most satisfac tory conclusion, though the unconscious mediator was rather a burlesque on the high tragedy daily enacted. There lived close to these belligerents a good natnred old man, nearly as deaf as a post, who bad the greatest faculty for blundering on unfortunate facts of any individual known either in ancient or modern history. He never heard any thing correctly, and it was an utter im possibility to try to explain, and if yon attempt it yon wonld hnd yourself tionn dering in a perfect slough of despair. Miss Sallie and Mr. Popkins had re ceived notice that their case wonld come up for final hearing, in Harrow, on Tues day or the next week. Miss rallie con eluded to take the stage: Undo Ben Dropper, our deaf friend, had business a little distance on the road, and he would take the stage too, and Mr. Popkins' saddle horse fell sick just aa he was needed, and there being no time for other arrangements, be must take the same conveyance. miss Dome came noaung uown va we gate with white ribbons and bows, and . . i 1 1 T n . l' , . i T . dainty dress, sufficient to bewilder a man with as stony a heart as the sphinx. and saw approaching from the opposite side her foe. in immaculate broad-cloth and shirt front. For a moment the color rushed to her cheeks, and she half re solved to go back, bnt to be out-done by a man, and he a Popkins, was not to be thought of, so she stepped into the coach with an air of sixteen Queen Vic torias, elevating her head until it made an acute angle with her nose, and be came sublimely unconscious of any one's presence. Mr. Popkins seated himself as though he had swallowed a whole foundry, and had his pockets full of eggs for dessert. . Just then came Uncle Ben, puffing and blowing, utterly nn- - 1 1 . i . . i . . , conscious oi uie oatua oi uie impatient Jehu "Good morning. Miss Sally," said he. carefully seating himself beside her. "Good morning, Mr. Popkins. Where might you be going, and what for? To narrow, said Air. Jropkms, in his most polite manner, answering the first question and ignoring the last. i)o tell I and the round face fairly beamed with placid surprise. "Going to marry ? Well, I told Hester last night that was the best way to settle the suit. after all. There ain t no more capable girl anywhere than Sallie, and I'm glad you found it out. And Mr. Popkins is wonderful clever," turning to Sallie. "and instead of there being two farms and a lawsuit, there need be only one. Law bless me!" rubbing his hands with increase satisfaction, "if it ain t a tip top arrangement! . Mr. Jf opkins clutched at ms turoat as if he were choking to death, and made spasmodic efforts to ntter a word of ex planation, bnt his tongue was utterly aalsied. and laueu mm in tne emer gency. Miss Sallie, with her face the deepest rose color, placed her hand to her mouth, and shouted so as to startle the horses "I am going to see Mr. Stiles on bus iness! Oh. day of blunders) Mr. Stiles was her lawyer, but the unfortunate girl was unaware that a Presbyterian minister had the same delightful cognomen. Mr. stiles, said onr fnand. "well, l have heard him well spoken of; but I never expected you, Sallie, a Baptist, to be married by any one but a minister of your own church. Bnt I suppose you gave way to lur. .ropains, ana it, suows a downright good disposition." Miss Sallie gave up in despair, and looked fixedly ont of the window, while Mr. Popkins lips moved occasionally, as though he were asking for water. But the unconscious cause ef the turmoil sat serene and happy, indulging man oc caaional chuckle and knowing glance at Mr. Popkins; but at this moment he saw he had arrived at bis destination, and. wishing his victims much happiness, be left them to their thoughts. The human heart is a strange affair. to say the least ot it. Had any one ad vised Mr. Popkins to marry Sallie, he wonld have rejected the idea immedi ately, and she herself wonld have taken it as an insult; nut tne totally unex pected manner in which the matter had been brought up, made altogether a dif ferent anaxr or it. lie stole a glance at Miss Sallie. Her face was turned awav gave a tremendous bound. What a fool he had been all this time! He must try as any rate, ana risx repulse. Ho. with out any more hesitation, for onr hero was brave, he took Uncle Ben's seat and said quietly: 'Miss Baliie. The face turned the eighteenth part an inch toward him. Not much encour- agement, certainly, but little. 'Miss Sallie," he repeated.' "I have oeen a iooi ana a brute." Oh, wise Mr. Popkins! he had started on the direct road to a woman's heart Either from contrariness or a sense of justice, they always take the opposite siae. Aiiss oaiue maae up her mind from this moment that be waa a gentle man and a second Solomon, and she turned her face completely 'round for mm to auniiru. She was pretty, Mr. Popkins couldn't SSJ ueuy mat. 4 uat u ii ana nis neart I NO. 47. Do you think." he eontinnful "that we can settle this lawsnit in the sensible manner suggested bv UnclA Rn T An love yon, Miss Sallie, and by George, I never knew it until to-day Vf Corr UnlU'i. t I wucre a. iuvwi VOU ail tn timn ana Miss Sallie Was completely vannniahn,! but the answer, althou&h whisnAi-Ad waa heard above the noise of the whwl nrwl the crack of the driver's whip. Thesnitof Popkins vs. Hopkins was dismissed that day. The Baptist minia- ter got a fee, and the people are firmly vunvwrcu ma. m.r. ana Jars. T'opkmsare the best hands in the world to keep a secret.., Winters in the Swiss Mountains. Recently a number of cattle-drovers from Kandergrand and Frutigen, who had been buying cows and oxen in Can ton Yaud, and had got as far as Lenker- bad, on their way back, resolved to at tempt on the following day the passage of the GemmL It was a bold, if not a fool-hardy undertaking; for, though the weatner was one at the tune, it was bitterly cold, and there was no telling what it might be on the mountain. But the beasts were eating their heads off ,and the drivers wereanxiona to get home, so, hiring three men from the Valais (each of whom was furnished with a spade) to help them, and, in case of need, to cut through the snow-drifts they might en counter, they set out from t'.ie baths of Leuk, where they bad passed the previous night, at 9 o'clock next morn- . n-l. t .i. f - i i . iug. xuaj iuuuu uie vremiui almost impassible, so that it was 4 o clock in the afternoon when tbey reached the Tanben lake, Meanwhile, one of the Valasian "road-breakers," less robust or less warmly clad than the others, had suc cumbed to the cold and exposure. His body waa left in the sheepfold, near the summit of the pass. Beyond and all around the Tanben' lake stretched a dreary waste of snowdrifts, the snow fell so thickly that the cattle could move neither forward nor backward, and all were in imminent danger of perishing. Some of the drovers suggested that in these circumstances tbey should leave the beasts to their fate and try to save their own lives, for they were overcome with fatigne, and their last crust of bread had long since been eaten, their last drop of schnaps drank. In the end it was de termined to send the two Valasian s to the Schwarrenbach Hospice for food, where the drovers remained with the cattle and tried to tnnnel a way through the snow, for shoveling it aside was ont of the question. On the way thither the two men lost sight of each other, and only one reached the hospice. The other who has not since been seen or heard of, was doubtless overwhelmed by the snow and frozen to death. After an absence of four hours the sumvor re turned to his companions with the food of whichthey stood in sneh sore need. They bad gone on working at their tunnel all the time which seemed to them an eternity as the only means of keeping their blood from freezing in their veins; but the delay of another hour would probably have been fatal to every one of them After eating they resumed their task with fresh energy and by 8 o'clock in the morning they had succeeded in reaching Schwarren bach. It was still a hard pull to Kander steg; bnt by this time the weather had improved, anil they arrived at their home without further mischance. wneva Corr, London Times. , The Lord of AU the Devils." An altogether jovial fellow was the Chevalier tie Forges, a rich French noble, Louis XlV's favorite valet, who had con ferred upon himself the titles of "Mar quis of the Earthly Puradise,",Viscount of the Infernal Regions" and. "Lord of all the Devils, and wanted to have the taw of a priest who would not allow him to sign these titles at length on a parish register as a witness to a baptism. When the city of Parts laid ont the clans for new market he refused to sell one of his bouses, the site of which was needed. went to law with the city, beat it and compelled a modification of the plans. celebrating his victory by having painted on the wall of the contested building a life-sized picture of a sheep shaving a woit. tie used to do tils own marketing in bis "thousand-crowned coat" so died because he had saved 1.000 crowns' worth ot other coats by wearing it. Commis sioned by a bashful friend to go and ask the band or a young lady in marriage. finding her pretty and pleasant, be married her himself. Having married her. he naturally fell in love with and abducted a beautiful girl, a young Jewess. tier parents went in pursuit of her, and prosecuted the search with such keenness that it was necessary to take heroic meas ures. Accordingly M. de Forges went to the Archbishop of Paris and represented that a certain ecclesiastic had been labor ing with a young Hebrew woman, and well nigh persuaded her to turn from the errors or Judaism and embrace tne Chris tian faith unhappily her parents were endeavoring to persecute ber into stead fastness in the tenets ot her religion, ana so it would be proper and laadable to rurnisn ner witn an asylum. The unsus pecting Archbishop thereon found her a refuge in a convent, and thus the pursu ers were completely baffled. Only for a time, however, because they found out the Chevalier and worried him so excess ively with the assistance ot his wife, tbat he agreed to abandon the girl to tnem. The girl, furious with him and as furious witn ner parents, refused to give him back a large sum of money he had en trusted to her keeping, adjured the Hebrew faith and took the veil. Only one thing was now possible to complete this com plicated drama the Chevalier had given his ecclesiastical . friend, the pretended conveiter of the girl, a benefice for his assistance . in bamboozling the Arch bishop. Now the honest abbe came upon the scene and eloped with the new-made nun. ' The Limited Ownership of London. It is curiously significant of the limited ownership of London that there are not more than four, if indeed so many, of the British dukes inhabiting houses in the metropolis. The Duke of Portland, the eccentric millionaire who died last month, possessed a vast metropolitan es tate; : yet Harcoort House, the vast gloomy mansion in which he lived and tiled, belonged to Mr. riarcourt, M. P. for Oxfordshire, whose grandfather inherited it rrom his maternal uncle, 1-jirl Har coort Even the far-famed Stafford House, the palace of the Duke of Suther land, stands on land paying ground rent to the crown, as does Montague House, the vast mansion of the Duke of Buck cleucb. The. Dnke of Bedford, whose London rentals are about $500,000 a year, had a stately abode, the same to which the patriot Lord William Uuseel fondly turneu wuen on uio way io execution in . : litis, much to the regret of uose, waa puueu down at the beginning or the century, bnt now he pays rent to bis brother, the Duke of Westminister, as does the Duke ot Rich mond, whose grandfather's house occu pied uie site oi wnav is now known as Kicbmond Terrace, near the House of Parliament That Crabbas of the West Knd. the Dtiltanf WiMtminlaia. Am of I copy a house of his awn. as did th rnk I of Northumberland until Nortbnmber - -1 land House, Charing Cross, was polled aown; dui ne, too, now pays rent to bis brother Westminister, who, like the Rrnwna. of PmiiH.nM Kn ..,t ..... 1 . w-., .... .3, UU. 1IC - I sella. His own house stands in an excel lent situation, but is architecurally nn- worthy of bis estate. The handsomest thing about it externally is a stone screen dividing it irom the street, which was brought from Carlton House when that paiace now as completely eflaeed as thorigh the Prince Kegeut had never ex is tea was dismantled, the CsTDr.:; HA3 TU3 nr.zcr jos crr;:r; IN DOUGLAS C0UN1Y. CAKDS. BILL-HEADS. AMD LECAL BLANKS, And other printing, including Largo Heavy Posters and Showy . XIaaS-Blll. Keatly and expeditiously Executed AT POnTLAfJD pnicc. leap Tear Lore. ; Acute attorneys and precise bankers may like to be reminded of a rule prevail ing ia some places that the 23th and 29th days of February are to be counted as one flay. - The 29th an Dears like the nthm The sun rises and sets; men go to their - work, or, this year, to church, as on other days. But the law says that for certain purposes it shall not be counted. It is a ; stranger case of "counting out" than even Maine exhibits. - I Family dissensions over the proper time to arise are proverbially difficult and ' persistent: none have been more so than the famous one between Sol and Terra. In early history, in the days when men spoke of the time by Idea, Nones and Kalends, these heads of the family had already gotten the calendar into what seemed hopeless confusion. Sol had for .' ages made it a point to get up precisely at sun rise, strike a light build a fire, and set the day's work generally a-going. Sun rise, he said, was early enough. Mme. Terra, a smart, industrious, busy old lady of the true New England type, was willing to get the meal and have the honu nn according to Sol's plan; but washing-dsv " and Spring cleaning she declared were her own affair, and she would begin when she pleased,- Sue began a trifle, earlier every time, which led to confusion. When the time for a first annual Spring cleaning came around, she began work before dawn, and. by the time four years had passed, her Monday's work was done on Sunday, this was a scandal. The r.mperor j units Uesar interfered, tie perceived that there was incompatibility of temper which was constitutional. But this ts not a ground or divorce among ce lestial bodies; and, if it were, these parties were too strongly attached to separate. They did not wish even a limited separa- - tion, but only to nave eacn tneir own way about rising in the morning. . The Emperor decreed tbat tbey should do as they pleased for four years. and that then Mother Terra s tiou id lie in oea one wnole day, thus giving old Sol twenty-four hours in which to overtake ner. llils was a stroke of genius, and wonld have composed the difficulty admiralty, if Mother Terra would have been accommo dating enongh to take the Quadrennial nap three-quarters or an Dour snort. . Rot she. The Emperor had said she should sleep a day. and sleep a day she would. ' Thus, in abbot 1,600 years the calendar was deranged again- Pope Gregory XI 11 put that right by giving the old lady ten days' vacation, and ordering ber to skip her holiday three times in every four centuries, in 1700, 1300 and 1900; in 2100, 2200 and Z30U, ami so on. Meantime, in the thirteenth century, English courts had become puzzled how to count this day, which was not a day, and inquired of Parliament. Answer was given by the edict playfully designated in the books of light reading of which lawyers are so fond, aa Statute 21, Hen. Ill, thus: The day increasing in the leap year and the day next going before shall be ac counted for one day," ..; - Out of this statute has grown a notion which is now beginning to go the rounds -anew that the 2Sth and 29th are, for strict legal purposes, to be counted as one day. In Indiana, for example, the judges have argued that, as t lie statute was passed long before tne Kevointion, it oecame a part of the common law of the colonies, . and of the States afterward. There was in one instance a judgment rendered early in leap year. The defendant had thirty days for appealing, yet took his appeal on the thirty-first day by ordinary count ing. The judges said that the appeal waa in season tne ZSIU and OiBNrvrTi one dav. The same thing has been aH- . judged quite lately. An attorney had , sixty days V nung a exceptions?- ne nied ms ustvers mxty-nrst of ordiA nary days; the opponent objected, and the Court said the bill was in time. There have been two instances where a note has had. say, thirty days from some day in February to run. The banker counted ordinary days, and made presentment of the note according to such counting, and , served notice of protest. Courts decided- that the demand and notice were " prema ture by one day; conunerially February never has but twenty-eight days." In one of these decisions'the . judge naively says: "We do not find in the Law Li brary the statute referred to. and hence do not know its exact language." If he had read the preamble, he would very probably have agreed with the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. They said that. so far as the antiquated English statute was concerned, they would, in computing a term of days, count the last two days as two; tbat "the statute was passe J in a barbarous age to produce uniformity of time, to make all years count 305 days. anu nas no reinuou va ruQiiuinuun shciu a rule or statute fixes a certain number of days." . v. In Aew York State we have a statute that the two days shall be reckoned to gether. It is obscurely drafted, and well adapted to give an impression that, in de termining when a note falls due, the two are to be counted as one. rroDauiy it only means that, in reckoning years or fractions of a year, the 29th may be disre garded, and has nothing to do with the counting thirty or sixty "days." It does not throw any just doubt over the general practice of counting the days as two. Tbe true rule, by common sense as well as by law, is, and ought to be uniformly reoognized, that, in speaking of a "year," a -half-year's schooling," a "quarter's rent" or the like, no account is to be taken of February 29; but, in telling off so many "days." it should be conn tea hk any other. In States where the question may be important it is anected mis year by the circumstance that the 29th falls ou Snnfnv atiil llias-AfViM irrsiit VI At. Vkrt counted in reckoning days of grace, eVen if it were not leap year. Some Italian Costumes. The costumes of Scan no are very 'beautiful; also the embroideries and carpets, especially the old ones. The people spin, weave and dye ail their clolhing. - It is mostly of wool of the richest colors, which are con trasted in those fine, abrupt, skillful har monies or the Orientals. me neaa. dress of the women is a strangely shaped wool can with a white linen one under it. and the ear-tabs of the linen turned np over the rit-h-hued wooL Jacket, petti coats, aprons and stockings are oi diuer ent colors, deep but vivid blues, greens. reds, all falling togetner in eoeti. mum. harmoniously. When ttsScanno women go on the monutain paths they gather tip their gay petticoats ender i- j!'" skip like chamois up and tin tne rocks, snowing their legs above tnt-4nrra like ballet dancers. But the legs cased In long, bright-colored woolen leg gings, the feet of which have niule-skin soles. The feata dress ot tne-men aui women is very gay. Ihe woman s cap w especially pretty. The top is of blue or purple satin. This is oouna arotiuu inn forehead like a turban with an ecru color scarf of gauzy linen, the ends of which have gold bands and bang aown i iu back of the head. This gold striped scarf ia also woven bv the' Seanno women. Correspondence Boston Advertiser. rHABTTARLK J SWISSES' SOCIETIES. TllCM are at least ten prominent ladies' socie.tie-i among the Kew xort jewa anwi'i various charities, and interesting probably 4,000 of the sex ia the- condition and wants of the poor. Fifteen years ag only two such sorities. claimed Mippor', and these, attached to rival eyhagoniwh , were rivals of each other, and did but Iii ta mwwt tn f lt community at large. It m a mod sign of the times that eur laditH t f.l an atronff an interest in the work sf I charity-, they are the best alaoners. In 1 beet visitors to the poor. Much is sai l j against their religions spirit, that, as the remove into me iasiuu' . city.they forget the lessons or ceremor,! a that they learned from ttn.- M-litrion that they iearneo mothers sod used to pracu i humbler dwellings; that too mai.y of are Sabbath-breakers and spiasiopj aakers; but it cannot be said of t; they are indifferent to the fu; ; their unfortunate- sisters asJ ! r New York Jewesses, .were r nrniliml and earOCiSt 10 til' than to-Jay. Jewell Me.