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EUGEHE CITY GUARD LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. BT TELEOKAPH TO DATK. St. Louis business men have organized a raining And stock exchange. Over 100 hornet died of pneumonia In Pan Francisco during the iasl week in November. Reports received from Many states hhow that electors cast their votes on Wednes day iu accordance with elections hereto fore announced. Judge E. B. Taylor (Rep.) was on Tues day elected as successor to Gen. Uarlield, ns congressman from the nineteenth Ohio district -The manager of BoothXtheater has de cided that he will not run counter uni versal public sentiment by producing the, Passion Play and therefore gives it up. .The editor of the New York Times who started the proposition to raise a fund of $250,000 the income from which Is to be given to ex-l'residoul Grant, is confident w tbat the whole sum will sopn be subscribe ed. The internal revenue collections for the 1st district of Ohio were tor Octobor, $1, lfj5,000. In the Peoria, (Illinois) district tbey wore $1,158,000. In both cases the amount was heavier than ever before recorded in the United Suites. The New york Postof Nov 30th says: Private advices are that the large move ments of gold to this country lire at last attracting serious attention in London. It id not unlikelv that the bank of En gland will use its large power to prevent ) Several Chicago papers publish what purports to be a synopsis of the presi dent's message, but there is not a word of truth in them. The message is so vigilantly guarded this year that there is no danger of its beln? stolen, or its con tents guessed accurately. The S. P. railroad Is now twenty-two miles beyond Rio Mimbres. There exists quite a rivalry between the 8. P. and A. . T. 8. F. roads as to which will reach Et Paso first. The former is now about sixty miles from that point and the latter about tone hundred and twenty. . John T. Crawford, of Cincinnati an ec- centric old man with -from $.'50,000 to $100,000, who has just died, left all his property for building a home for need colored men on a tract or 18 acres at College Hill. One of the witness is dead and the other John K. French, is ., absent in the army soraowhere in the ' west, so the will cannot bo probated yet. Advices from Honolulu, by steamer . City of Sydney, describo the eruption of Mauna Loa, now in progre'S, as one of the grandest ever witnessed. It broke out November 5th about six miles from the summit, the crater throwing out two ?reat streams of lava, one of which' is hirty miles long, 100 to 200 yards wide and about 20 feet deep, Terrible explo sions accompany its How. Some fears ere entertained for the safety of IJilo, al- fhnnoli tlio flnur annum tllrninir in Biint.luir " direction. Last Saturday prollminay steps were takon for the formation In Chicago of a cenirai iunu leacue. me mimosa Denis io awlbt in the defence or I'arnell and his ' confreres in Ireland aud to encourage the lHnd agitation of that country. A com initteo of ninolnshmon and Americans organization. The plan Is to have clubs formed in euch ward of the city, all being tributary to one central body, and through these branches to raise money to bo for wardod ut onco to Ireland. Considerable teal was manifested and substantial aid will doubtless result. The Chicago 2W Washington special of hist Saturday says: (iarlield had two free interviews' with Sherman, telling him that he would be pleased to have him . remain at the bond of the treuurv. Sher man replied that having entered the sen atorial run tent, he should remain to the end. Uurfleld gave assurances thnt his own poxitlun would be neutral. On the fut ol Ben Harrison and Chas. Foster, senatorial aspirants, donend two cabinet positions. It is believed that the Camer on will lurmsli a representative for Penn sylvania, Bluine for New England and Conkling will be given a portfolio for Levi P. Morton. Capt Warthen, of life-saving station No. 8, on the Massachusetts coast, reports that he picked up this morning the body of Captain Atkins, of station No 7, and the body of one of his crew. It is thought that Atkins and his crew in attempting to bourd some stranded vessel during the night were capsized and all drownod, as others are seen in the surf. Later. Only the cantain and two sea men were drowned, tho latter named fcllsha N. Taylor and l'nnk Mayo. The crew had rescued three men from a stranded schooner and was about to take IT the commander wnon the schooner's boom struck and capsized their boat. The crew got ashore In an exhausted condi tion, and the srhooner drifted away with the captalu and pilot. A New York dispatch of Deo. 1st. says: The stock market vorges on a panic, but at the critical moment is held within bounds even by thoso working for lower prices. During the first hour rates de clined to 5 for leading stocks, but a reac tion began, and is still progressing; good part of decline being recovered. Money commanded l)c premium, and it very hard to get. Lank facilities have beeu taxed to the utmost lately and they can not help the tightness. The demand for money from the south and went is very large and is felt more than usual just now. Banks depend for replenishment chiefly ou inipoits of spocie, which have so far been inadequate. The treasury to-day begins payment of $2,812,200 interest on 4 per cents. A a meeting in Cooper Instistuto last Tuesday night of filends of prison reform, Henry Bergh astonished the assemblage by declaring himself utterly opposed to the sentiment of the meeting. lie said: I believe tliut if a man cannot live with out murdering somebody, he must be got out of the way. I say kill him. A great deal has been said about improving crim inals. Let me tell you how: I should abolish all penitentiaries in the land aud save all expense of running. In their place I would have whipping posts every where, and to make sure that the lash was fairly laid on I would offer a reward for the inveution of a steam machine that could not be bribed with offers of politi cal place or money. No man has had a better opportunity to see what criminals are made of than I have had, and I tell you tbat hundreds of them commit crime to be sent to places which you provide for their comfort. Tbey are warm and clean there. They get good soup and po tatoes and everything which hard-working honest men and women can not get In your tenement houses. Official returns of Arkansas are as fol lows: Hancock, 00,481; Oarfield, 41,001; Weaver, 4101; Hancock's majority, 14,649. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad com pany met a committee of grain men In the most eonciUtory spirit, and agreed to operate with theni to keep the elevators in working condition. City of Mexico advices of the 22d: The appointment of Geo. Nevins as secretary or war is all that Is known or the forma tion of the new cabinet. Comes Placio. ex-minister to Washington, was instructed to take the ministry or foreign relations, but it is not known whether he bos ac cepted. , ' Investigation in relation to the killing of one Johnson, an American citizon, on tho Fiji Islands, reveals the fact that Great Britain claims no authority there, except to protect her own citizens. 8ec rciary Thompson bos doclded to commis sion tho first American man-of-war that has business in that viciuity to stop and redress tho outrage. Capt. Euds has arrived at the city of flloxico anu inuiiub miking iur ouumuj to build bis contemplated ship canal across the isthmus of 'lehuantepec. The government is loss Interested in canals than in railroads, nor do the people seem to realize the direct advantage of the pro- posed canal, and subsidies aro out of the question. A Star special from Silver City, New Mexico, says that a report telegraphed to the Star Nov.2Uh, from Shakespeare, of the killing of King and wounding of Bill Smith, alleged horse-thieves, of San Si mon, which was stated to nave occur reu at Uawnine's runche, Am mas mountains, proves to have been false. Twen"y-two head of stock were recovered by Turner, Martin Hiid party and an engagement oc cunvimr several iiours actually took place, b.it it was bloodless. Turner and Martin, when returning to Ban Simon frombhuke sueare on Friday evening last, were am bushed at Granite Gap by King and his gang. Murtlu was killed instantly, being shot in the head. Three head of stock were shot down and killed in the affray. Turner e-tcaped. A regular vendetta has been commenced in tSun Simon valley. Tho com bat ants are largely composed of men who left Lincoln county, Aew Mexi co, some 12 months ago under strong pres sure. A Philadelphia special furnishes addi tional facts concerning the Northern ra cilic syndicate. From the engineer's esti mate it is thought that $40,000,000 will prove more than enough to complete all the lines. The syndicate tako this amount in firm mortgage 0 percent, bonds, which are to be ibsued at the rato of $23,000 a mile. As the entire lino will be over 2000 miles in lenght, it will be noticed that the issue will be exhausted before this limit is reached; but of the total issue, an amount equal to tho bonds on the Pen d' Oreille division, which is bonded at the rate of $25,000 a milo, and the bonds of the Missouri division which is bonded at half that amount, will bo reserved to retire those bonds at maturity. The syndicate agree to take $10,000,000 of tho issue dur ing the coming year, and this is thought to 1)0 all that can be expended with ad vantage by the company. Tho Northern Pacific is to build the road Itself, dealing directly with the contractors who do the work and without the intervening of a construction company. As the company has now completed road enough upon which to issue the entire amount of the bonds that are to be sold during the first year, work on three divisions of the line will begin simultaneously. The advance guard is now gruobing the lino on the Montana division. The surveyors are locating the lineoii the Yellowstone divi sion of 420 miles, and work will eoin be gin on the Cascade division on the Pacific coast. The expectation now is that the company will be able to complote a mile a day at least, during tho coming year. In his annual report, tho secretary of the interior gives a review not only of tho operations of the past year, but of the four years of his administration. The larger part la devoted to Indian affaire. In hia opening chapter upon this subject the secretary gives an explanation ol an important change which Inn taken place with regard to the reservation system. He says that although at first accepting as he found it, the reservation policy which has so long been followed by the Indian olllce, more extensive observation and study of the matter gradually con vinced him that this was a mistaken policy, and that it would be better for the Indians and more in accordance with jus tice, as well as wise expediency to respect their home attachments, to leave them upon the lauds they occupied provided such lands were capable ol yeildiug a sus tenance by agricultural or pastoral pur suits and begin and follow up tho prac tice of introducing among them habits and occupations of civilized life on the ?rodnd they inhabited. In view of the act alio that the maintenance of a system of larga reserva' t ins against the pre-oiuro of white immigration and settlement would in the course of time become im practicable, a diUVrent polii-y has been followed, having for its object settlement of tho Indians upon lands in severalty, disposal fur their benefit of their lands not required for this purpose, and gradu ally to prepare tho way for their final in corporation into the body politic as inde pendent and selfrelying men invested with all the rights which other inhabi tants of the country possess. The results already accomplished in pursuance of this policy and promising outlook in some Other directions are described in general terms and illustrated by specific acts of progrest-mude by individual tribes. Xurxlng an Orang-Outang. The London correspondent of the Liv erpool Post says: "Tho missing link who parted his hair down the middle, and has been fur some time past on exhibition at the Westminster Aquarium namoly the orang-outang has not escaped falling a victim to the malady which has proved fatal to so many of his kind in our cli mate. The stranger caught cold, which quickly developed into a severe attack of bronchitis, and on Friday night last his medical attendant held out little or no hope sf the patient being able to snrvive the night. However, Mr. John E. Car rington, F. It. S., the naturalist of the aquarium, was determined if possible to save the creature's life. He sat np all night with him, and by morning the symptoms were so favorable that the ourang-outang was declared out of dan ger. Since then, by dint of careful nurs ing, the animal has been brought around, and is now happily convalescent. His patience ander his sufferings was. I believe, above all praise, and he took Mr. Carrington's hot baths with all the com placency of Major Pendennis." An English scientist speaks of "the luxurious tidt of song on transatlantio pianos." j DID SflE DO TTBOXUt Mr. Barker Bennington' scolded and looked aoross the lavish table, nervously. He was a tall, portly, elderly gentleman, with pale eyes and scant hair, and a tuft of bay-colored chin whiskers. Hs wore a pair of thousand dollar diamond studs, and drank a five dollar bottle of Veuve Albambrina every noon with his lunch eon.' To-day it was stuffed egg-plant and deviled kidneys, with a marvelous Unman ion n.l Mr. Ilanninirtnn cer- """ -, o tainly had no occasion apparently for turning ana scowling as ne uiu, so tur his chef de cuitinet efforts were con cerned. "I don't see why you couldn't have stayed wkere you were," he said at last. And then you knew who it was Mr. Bennington was provoked with the good-looking, manly voting follow who bad not scrupled to help himself liber ally to tho delicious deiicacios on the table. "The trouble was I had no place at which to stay," ho answered with a laugh. "I'm sorry and all that sort of thing, to have to come to yon at last. But 1 can't holp being your sister's son, and very friendless at that." Jack Willard' voice just suited him, and its very sweotness and boldness an noyed Mr. Bennington. "ami T Jura aiv vou expect me to do something for you provido for yon in iaet, 'nt ntftlK air." Jack said, cheerfully. as he sliced of! a generous squaro of do- ... ut I a Uciousness. "I oniy expect yuu win give me some work to do, and pay mo for doing it." Mr. Bennington looked at him as if he were a natural curiosity. "Humph! what can you do?'' "A little of everything. Try mo." "T annnnui than von BOO no room for improvement in this place? Or perhaps you don't include architecture among your accomplishments." Jack looked solemnly around at the a 1 11 magniflcont room, lurnisnou anu aecc- rated as a royal paiaco migut ubto ut-un, "A bay window just there, sir, opon nor ut nnn end into a vinerv. and" ' Tou'll do. You may stay and su perintend semo changes I intend mak ing. I'll board you and give jou ten .iniini-o a wonlc to look after tninas for awhilo. Tho fact is, I intend to be married in a couple of months, and everything is to be of tho handsomest and most reviiercite ior me imuro iur. Bennington." "Exactly. I think-" Mi- linnninirtin looked severolv across the crimson cover at the bright debonair face, with its wido-awake blno eyes and curling ulomio nair. 'I'll nnl trouble VOU to B8V what you think. I am not in the habit of being answered dock, unucr uny cir cumstances." , And he looked his most pompous, while Jack smiled a curious sort of smile, that Mr. Bennington failed to translate. "Oh, all right!" he answered. Maud Anglesey's Bweet little faco was swelled and red with crying, as she lifted her black eyes to hor mother's face. "I don't want to marry him, mammal" she sobbed, piteously. "I can't bear the sight of him. Oh, mamma, I don't wont to marry Mr. Bennington I "Xou forgot how rich you will be, my darling," Mrs. St. Cloment Anglosejr said, coaxingly, yet with a hard, meroi loss little glitter in her eyes. "There won't bo a girl far or near Juut will envy you your diamonds and your carriage norsos, and your toilets. There's not a villa on the Hudson that can compare with Mr. Bonnington's country seat, or a mansion on Fifth Avenue that equals it. Why, child, you will bo a queen; your life will be a fairy tale." "Butldespiso him so! He is'flfty sovon, and I am not nineteen yet. Mam mo, mamma! it is cruel " Mrs. Anglesey's maid tapped on the boudoir door, with a splendid basket of orchids for Mrs. Anglesey, and a tiny casket and a note for Maud, with Mr. Bennington s compliments. "Oh what a darling! so thoughtful!" Mrs. Anglesey said, gushingly; whilo Mnud glanocd at the note. Tho barouoho was at the door, waiting Miss Anglesey's ordor. Would she drive up to the town-house, aud make a choice of several stylos of drapery, orranged for her selection ? and would Mrs. Anglesey accompany her? Ho would meet both ladies there. "Of course we will go. Toll James to have Mr. Bennington's coachman wait, Abby." Thon. as the maid went with her mes sage, Mrs. Anglesey poepod at the casket Maud had just opened a great, blazing locket of dead gold, sot with diamonds and rubies, to form Maud s monogram. And her soft black eyes involuntarily elowed with all a woman's instinctive admiration for beautiful things. "It is lovely, she said. "And bo good of him," seconded Mrs. Anglesey, rapturously. "My dear ohild, you ought to regard yourself the hap p'est girl in the world. Oo get your new hat the one with, the lomon plume -and let Abby put your locket on a velvet ribbon at onoe." At the avenue palace, Maud roamed hither and thither, with shining eves, and a face such as a delighted child wears when it has a beautiful new toy. She was a vortible child in some things this blessed capaoity, for in stance, of putting her misery away from her for the present; and Mr. Bennington and Mrs. Anglesey were rejoiced equally over thoir bargain. "It is a palace a perfect palace!" Mrs. Anglesey said, with condescending approbation. "Maud, my darling, these olive aud pink draperies just suit your style, and why, I thongnt Maud was with yon, Mr. Bennington. Where has the child gone? Oh, yonder she corneal" Just as Maud appeared, her velvet eyes shining, her cheeks flushed, very much to her elderly purchaser s admira tion. "I droDned mv naraaol. mamma, and suoh a time as I had to nd it. An ele gant yonng gentleman, out there in the conservatory, helped me. Who is he Air. lisnnington? An awful leok darkened all over Mr. Bennington's florid face. "I was not aware of the presenoa of any suoh fellow The said, so stiffly tbat Maud ooald not help seeing the look lira. Anglesey Ulegraphed to her. 'If yom ed to oversea the aiteraiions-- n.t .ri. K- Uiml sniil TiO more to JJUIHWI ...... k any one about it, although it was rather remarkable the daily increasing interest she took in the ropaira and alterations, and bow very many visits sha fotl called unon to pay, to manifest her choice abont various details. XT. Ttnnninirtan. TirOHd and nulla A.!. " - ? m . ..n!unon tuiatiu hi nnrchasi ed bride-elect was so charmingly interested, - . . I .1 vntl- and Mrs. Angiosey, pieasuu uu fled, said, "I told you so!" one bright, early autnmn day, at that vory minute, handsome Jack Willard and pretty black-eyed Maud wero in close com munion in the library at tha avenue mansion. "Yoo will not regret what you have Ami Moud gave him a swift, rapturous ook that was even more uawiwniuKi lAiia.nl lmn liar ft7flr aUBWOr. "Jack! as if any woman could regret having loved you. ion ooui anow mo yet!" Three weeks after that, and the No vember day all one blaza of goldon glory, with a gentle southwest wind fan,1 AnL'lesov's weddinc day: and Mrs. Anglesey rustling about in black satin and velvet ami uiamomm, putting the last touches to tho exquisite snowy looo of her child's wedding dress. And Maud.rodiont and brignt as a humming bird among rarest flowers. I Irnaw ftliA wnillil bo ill lit 80." MrS. Anglesey said, triumphantly, in her own heart, as two minutes later sue oou sailed into the woll-fllled parlors, on Dr. Tnrnli1pnn' reverend arm. she sat down to await the entrance of the bridal party, who came in and went up to Dr. Tnmlilotnn standing, open book in hand, before the canopy of roses and tube roses. Thon sho started to her foot with a lit tle shriek of horror. it Sine wrong mum nuu ciuiaiuicu, wildly, and thon there was a goneral Imilr rtt rnnutorn&tion. ' A second dramatio silence, and Maud's sweot, resolute voice answered; 'It is the ri'iht mon, Doctor Tumble ton? We are of ago. Go on with the cer emony." And there was no gainsaying the des perate earnestness in hor face, the wom anly, positive look in her eyes, or the de termined, manly bearing of the hand nma Tnnnir follow at her side. "Miss Anglesey is correct, sir.. My name is John Willard. Go on at onco with the marriage." And it went on, and, just as the final benediction was pronounced, Mr. Bon nington's carriage dashed tip to tho door in hot hasto, and Mr. Bennington nlnnrrflil nut rod. breathloss. florid, ner vous, straight into the parlors almost into Mrs. Anglesey s arms. "Was ever anything so stupid ? Sorry n liavA honn so detained " And, as Mrs. Angiosey went oflf, for the third time, into hystcrial weeping, Maud stepped np, her black eyes like surs, tier cneeKs giowmg. "Tt. ilnnnn'l m fitter in tho least. Unci T.l ...'.I r.;n1 T -nrnnl.ln't liove marriod yon, anyhow. As it is, I have just been married to your nepnew, John Willard. Won't you congratulate ns?" Jack bowed, and Mr. Bennington gasped, and grew purple and red, and finally understood it all. "You you how dared you ?" Mfiinl ftn.wnrnd. nromrjtlv: "Because we loved each other; and I think you and mamma would suit each othor better than you and I." Wnll Mra. Amrlesov actually did marry Mr. Barker Bennington; and, as tuey drove out in their lanuau, mey turned their neous ll tney unppeneu w meet Jack Willard and his wife on the street. But Maud doesn't mind it much. Sho nnlv Alinira mora flloRP.1v to hoi' hus band's arm, and begs him to toll her over again that he loves uer Douer man all th wnrlil "For if you never will regret it, I ... . 1 1 A li.tirvliinrrlv Will, DUO OUJ O, AUtj"fcJ And, although I am bound to confess fltav navAF dttl rafrrnfc if. and to admit they were happy and contented in their little suburban home, yet I am afraid Maud did not quito do what was right toward Air. Bennington The great mistake our farmers make that nre in good circumstances, is that they want their sons to study somo pro fusion. Thov become exceedingly anxious about what they shall make of .... .. 7 11 A. A their boys; tuey are not auowea w get, a good common school education (and while getting that to learn them the Habits ol industry and rudiments 01 a farmer's life), before they are sent to nillnrrn ami linnf. tVipl-fl ut CTftftt expense for years; before they learn they hove wasted a large amount of money and wasted much valuable time, and most of them never amount to anything, and out few of them have talents for any profes sion. Their education and habits at ool lege often destroy all idea of coming back to the routine fof farm life. But give these boys a good common-school education, and while doing this, teach them to plow, to reap, and to milk cows, and my word for it, the father will not be as often disappointed as in the other case, and the country will bo mueh bene fited. AMistakxn Elephant. An elephant is nsed in a spectacular play in Phila delphia. He is kept in a stable several blocks away, and taken to tho theater every evening at the proper point in tne play. One afternoon he took it into his head that the time had come to perform. Throwing his keeper aside he burst into the streets, overturned a wagoa and sev eral stieet stands en his way to the thea ter, smashed a door and took his usual place on the stage. The absence of lights and audienoe seemed to convince him that he had made a mistake, and he suffered himself to be led back to the stable. A darkey recently mada application for a divorce from his wife. When aaked on what ground he demanded a divorce he explained as follows: "De ground of dis occasion is sufficient enongh. When I rented ten acres of land and worked one mule I married a woman suitable for de occasion. Now I rent sixty acres of land an work five mules. My fust wifa is a mighty good ten-acra wife, but she don't suit it occasion ob sixty acres. I naeds a woman what can spread mora." mean tha young man I have employ Tha Haw Treaty with Cfclaa. Much interest is manifested to know just what are the provisions of the new treaty with China, bat as the text of all treaties is a sealed book to the general public until rat ified bv the two contradiotincr tfov- ernraents, it cannot be known for some time yet what sort or relations we bear as a nation to the celestial Empire A correspondent of tho Post, however, has been uble to rathor enoairb facts from tho Dm partmonts of the State at Washing ton to Know mat tne new treaty aoes not cbango tho status cf American citizens in China, nor docs it enter into the commercial features covered by the Heed Treaty of 1858. It is a modification of tho EurliDgume Treaty, and is in accordance with Secretary Evarts' policy ot restrain, ing furthor immigration of Chinese to this country, whilo not go'mg to the extreme of sending those back who are already hero. The Willis Fiftoen Passenger Bill, which was vetoed by President ilayes on the ground that it was in violation of the Burltngamo Treaty, it is be lioved, is substantially incorporated in the proposod troaty which, it is understood, provides that no master of any vessel, owned, in whole or in part, by any citizen of tho United States or of any loreign country, shall take on bourd from any port in the Chiuese Empire or other loreign ports any number of Chinese passen gers, nialo or female, in excess of the number of fifteen, to bring them within tho jurisdiction of the United States. Any mastor ol a vessol who violates this clause of the treaty shall bo doomed guilty of misde meanor and subject to penalties to be providod in tho way of fines and imprisonment. It is said further to nrovide that the master of any ves sel arriving in tho United States from any foreign place shall be required to furnish to the Collector ot the district in which ho arrives a sepa rate list of all Chincso passengers on board his vessel. This list shall be sworn to. and anv evasion or misrepresentation under this stipula tion shall also be considered a misdemeanor. The fines imposed upon tho masters aro to be consid. ored liens opon their vessels, xne provisions ot the present statutes fobiddinor importation of coolies and women for immoral purposes are not affected by tho treaty, xno uonsui or consular agent ot tho United States can grant a certificate to any . . - t n . I . vessel leaving onina ior inis country if she has on board more than fiftoen Chinese passengers. Of course it is explicitly stated that tho limitations dn not anplv to noi'sons officially connected with the Chinese Govern ment, or to persons rescued lrora shipwreck. The treaty will be submitted to' the Sonato, and will proouoly be ratinea at an early day, and will be satisfactory to all but the most extreme anti-Chinese eloment on tho Pacifio coast. The result of the la hora of tho Commission justifies the wisdom of President Hayes' veto of the bill in wmcu congress sougnt to do a proper thing in an improper way. The Wrong Ox Is Gored. We may expect that tho English people will take some offense at tho intrusion of Mr. JRedpath, an Amcr. icon, into tho domains of troubled Ireland, and his participation in the agitation now distracting that un happy country. But England may rather be grateful that Americans havo meddled so little in this dis turbance. Let us supposo a large number of prominent men in this country had formed a Land Ileform Club in New York or Washington and had used its funds to doluge Connaught with Parnell's pamphlets, setting forth the misery and oppres. sion inflictod on the "Western farmer" in Ireland by England's land policy. In that case there would indeed have beon just cause for complaint. But this is precisely the Bort of interference which the Cob den Club of England exercised in the late Presidential election. There is but one difference between the real and supposed case. While such an evidence of American sympathy would electrify the Irish pooplo and make tho Irish problem a much more difficult one to solve, the Cobden Club's invasion, as that club, was forewarned by sensible free-traders in this country, only helped on the foelingin favor of protection by emphasizing- the fact that Great Britain, and not the United States, would be the great gainer by the adoption of free trade on this sido of tho Atlantic. Thi fact of the electoral vote of a State boing divided, as in the case of California this year, has been of very rare occurrence. In fact, we remember of only one prior instaace, which was in 1860, when four of the electoral votos of New Jersey were cast for Lincoln and three for Douglas. Vaarlv iTtrr naner in the COUmtrV hOS published, or is about publishing, aa ior Flint, of Edinburgh, recently told his divinity class that he did ot see v. nmiMiiii of rhnroh nnion were in America, a land that had no estab lished ehnrch. Neither do we; nor do wt s of what posaihle importance Professor Flint's absence of views on the subject can be. A Bnffalo Stops a Locomotive. Hitrh courasa and fnrlnm v. " wuijnsr afa generally admitted to bo leading chara! toristics of that formidable character th buffalo; but, notwithstanding his remi tation for boldness and ferocity should soarcely bars doomed him cans! ble of so desperate an enterprise as that involved in challenrina- rii,. at full speed, had not a detailed account v .u.wc.iui cuuuuuier with the evening express, loavinir lwh f. vi enna on the yth inst., appeared in tht AUBwiuu umuiiu journal, n seems that the train, travoling at the rate of thirty miles an hour, had to be nnii,i J. short whon approaching Eakos Station t .tniil t-iinniMn. .In... . t kv .i uuuiug uuwu uu enormous buffalo, who had taken np a menacing attitudo between tha mils n,i i.. stood snorting out defiance to its advano. ing ioo. auis intrepid animal had a few hours previously brought a goods train to a standstill on the same spot, which he evidently regarded as the frontier of bit own especial domain, not to bo violated with imnunitv bv anv iron monti.f iv.i ever hurtled along on whools. A larw yurijr oi me oiauisuann s servants was assembled, with considerable trouble and loss of time, the express and the buffalo remaining stationary the whilo, facing one another like two doughty but pro dent adversaries. After many fruitless attempts to drive the huge beast off the line, the railway officials contrived to lasso him, and, tying his legs tightly together, to haul him bodily into an ad joining fiold. The Staatsbahn authori ties have offered a reward for the dis covery of his owner, whom they intend to prosocnte for allowing so savage a brute to be at large. Meanwhile the horned hero is in durance vile, receiving, doubtless, all the consideration due to a brave pnsonor oi war. Liondon Tel graph. The Electoral Vote. Tbo electoral votes of tho several Stales were doubtless cast on Wed nesday in accordance with tho re sults ef the November election, and now nothing remains to bo done but the formal count by the President of the Senate in tho prosenco of the two Houses of Congress on tho sec ond Wednesday in February. The vote stands Garfield 214, llancock 155; Garfield's majority 59. This compares very favorably with the electoral majorities received by suc cessful candidates in thepaBt. James Madison's majority for bis second term was exactly the same. WasE- ington s first majority over John Ad ams was 25: his second was 55. Adams was elected by a majority of threo ovor Jefferson, who in the next canvass recoived no majority, and was elected by tho House against Aaron Burr. JoTersons sec ond election was almost unanimous, his vote being 162 against 14 for Charles C. Pinckney. Jamee Madison's first majority was 69, and his second 59. Monroe's first majority was H9, while ut hissocond eleetion he was opposod by only one vote. John Quincy Adams was elected by the House.' The follow ing are the later majorities: Jackson over Adams, 95; Jackson over Clay, Floyd and Wirt, 159; Van Buren over Harrison. White, Webster and Mangum, 36; ' Harrison over Van Buren, 174: Polk over Uay. oj; lay- lor over Cass, 36; Pierce over Scott, 212; Buchanan over Fremont and Fillmore, 64; Lincoln over Mc Clcllan, 192; Grant over Seymour, 134; Grant over Hendricks, Greeley, Brown, etc., 220; ilayes over la den,. A TTlse Enjoyment of Life. A wise enjoyment of this world can in no way unfit us for the next, and the soul is impoverished by just so much as wo needlessly deprive ourselves of here. Whatever tends to make us better or happier here; whatever gives ns broader, sounder views, or leads to greater love and sympathy for our kind; whatever trim and tender, brave and just in every-day life; whatever gives us sun nier, cheerier thoughts, or tends to keep the heart from growing old, or the face "such as a ohild would climb to kiss, enters into the riches which "neither moth nor rust doth corrupt," and which "fadeth not away." Why aro we placed here, why have this life at all if we are to gain nothing from it? To-day a htj tie baby lay asleep upon my arm. As I looked down into his little face, so full of innocence and baby grace, I won dered what oould be fairer or more lovs able. But when he is a man, when M has met temptation, and comes from it all strong and untarnished; when, bearing tke imprint of a noble nature, he goes out into the battle of life with armor firmly girded, ready to do and dare any thing for the right, will not his beauty be of a higher type? Though he be not as inncoent as now for innocencs knows nothing of any wrong or evil he will w virtuous and rioher by all his knowledge of good and evil, for, knowing the evil, he will know how to resist it. We love the baby, but not as we love the man. We rejoice in innocence, but not wiw the abounding joy and trust w-e feel virtue. Innocenoe has yet to be testeo, virtue has stood the test and been crowned triumphant. Arthurs Ho Magazine. According to a statement in the a orA western Lumberman, 1000 lathi cover seventy yards of surface, eleven pounds of nails put them on. Eight bushels of good lime, nit" bushels sand, and ne bushel hair ma" enough good mortar to plaster iw sq.are yards. A cord of M, busheU lime and a cabio yard of saw will lay 100 cubic feet of wall. un thousand shingles, laid four inches w the weathsr, will cover 100 square feet surface, and five pounds of nails fasMj tbem on. One-fifth mors siding ana flooring is needed than, the square feet of snrface, because of the W 2 the siding a.d th matching of tw floor. Five courses of brick will lay o foot in height on 'ftj bricks in a course will make a flue inches wide and twelve long.