EUGENE CITY GUARD
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
IIT TELKOHATH TO DATE.
Ex-Senator J. F. Starbuck of New York
died on lufit gaturday.
Dash A Co of New York roffeo dealer!
Iiave failed with liabilities or fl,4fX,000.
Capt. lacy, a ooted Fenian leailer, died
t Lawrence, Mas., on the 10th iust.
The itreet car companies of Chirac0
have been taxed $-V) on each car and the
courts say they shall pay It.
The county assessor and eight other of
ficial of Peeauter county Indiana have
been indicted for talcing illegal fees.
By a fire in Philadelphia on the night
of the 11th Ann Ilipduaaged 73 and John
Lyons aged 'i wore burned to death.
The family of IJarry Williams at Bryan,
Texas, was poisoned a week at0 by eat
ing canned beef, two have died and four
otiiers are sick.
Ford (republican greenlacker) received
a certificate of election to congress from
Missouri. The final canvass gave Ford
two majority in over 43,fXK) votes.
Charles Marshall, a desperado, was
banged by a mob at liellville Nevada on
lust Friday. He bad brutally murdered
an inoffensive old man a few days before.
Wade Hampton writes that he will not
be in Washington until after the holidays.
On account of the absence of 15 unpaired
democrats the party cannot elect their
home oflicers at present
Delegate Cannon of Utah pronounces
the position taken by the president in bis
message on Utah affairs as false, and
maintains that the laws are enforced in
that territory as faithfully as in other
parts of the country.
There is an active movemont to make
the coming Yorktown celebration a sue
cess, and commissioners have been ap
pointed in each state of the union, includ
ing Hon. Irving V. Stauton of Colorado,
and Hon. Jan. W. Farley of California.
A letter dated at Bloornington, Putnam
county .Tennessee, to the American, says:
In a nght 12 miles east of Crooksville, be
tween the Welshcg and Capf. James Davis,
U. 8. deputy marshal, and U. 8. commis
sioner G. W . Campbell, Davis was killed
and Campbell beaten nearly to death.
A number of changes will soon occur
in the supreme court of tho United States.
Judge Woods of Alabama will succeed
Justice Strong. Justices Sway ne and Clif
ford will also retire soon, the former im
mediately afterthe holidays: Atty. Gent.
Devens will probably be his successor.
Mrs. rinkbain, of I.awrenee Ma-s., was
shot and instantly killed ou the 11th by
her paramour, Mr. Wardman, a married
man with a family and until recently
overseer of the Washington mi!R Ward
roan subsequently shot hiir.st-lf, and is
not likely to reiover. Jealousy was the
cause.
The quarantine convention in session
at New York last week unanimously re
solved that it is thu duty oftiie general
government to defray all quarantine ad
ministration which extends beyond the
boundaries of a single Hate, and they ack
for an appropriation from congress. Ad
journed to meet at Savannah next Decem
ber. The commissioner of internal revenue
lias received advices from Hnntsville,
Alabama, that illicit distillers who were
interfered with by a U.S. deputy marshal,
shot and instantly killed deputy John 1!.
Hardie, U. S. Marsha! Loss is organizing
a good force to arrest the parties, of
whom there are four, named Cnlbraith
(who fired the fatal shot), Lemons
and two Coisico brothers. Commissioner
lUum U If ltd i. lied instructions that the
most vigorous measures bo taken to bring
to punishment these purlieu. Every
distillery Biiut he teized and illicit distil
lore arretted. The attorney general sent
similar instructions to the l is. marshals.
The president had a Ion: talk with Gen.
Howard, -in in course of which he admit
ted that be hid called him to Washington
to make him commander at West Point,
but had been dissuaded from doing it by
General Sherman and fecrelary Evans,
not on account of ersonul onr.ositlon to
him, but because they held tliut the
change would he too violent in view of
Howard's well known varience, in what
be regards as the correct policy, as con
trasted with Scbolicld'a admistiation. He
promised Howard, however, that he
should have somo good place in the cast
as soon as ho couid settle his affairs in
Oregon and take it. He told him, also,
it is understood, that he should mal
General 'Jerry commandant ut Wett
Toint.
In tho National House of representa
tives on the loth Representative Shelley,
from tho committee ou postolliceand post
roads, reported to the honso to-day his
bill providing for the establishment of a
mall steamer between ports of the United
States and South America, Central Amer
ica, Mexican and transpacific ports. Hub
bell, from the appropriation committee,
reported a pension bill; printed and re
committed. It appropriates $48,400,001)
for the army $1,110,000 for the navy, $'2M,
000 for Burgeons and $.'3,000 for salaries.
Herbert of Alabama, from tho judiciary
committee, reported bnck a bill allowing
inarslialls and deputies to take bonds in
certain cases. The speaker laid before
the house a communication Iron) Gum
betta, president of tho French chamber
of deputies, in regard to the exchange of
documents between that body ami the U.
R house of representatives; A letter Iroin
the secretary of state, traiiHiniltiiivt two
additional volumes of speeches of Thiers,
presented bv Madame Thiers; laid ou tho
table.
A circular has been issued by the sec
retary of the treasury, containing regula
tions governing ttio admission of candi
dates to the itrade of cadet in the revenue
marine service. The circular says: A
standard of proficiency will be fixed: if
candidates fall below such standard, they
will be rejected. They may, however, e
ceived a second txaiiilnatiun at tho next
annual convening of the board of exami
ners. Failure on the second examination
will result in tbe final rejection of the
candidate. While applicants, as a rule,
will be accordnd not more than two ex
aminations, exception may be made
granting a third examination in particu
larly mentioned cases where the candi
dates have passed successfully two exam
inations. Cadet will be appointed for
the probationary period of two years,
during which thev will be required to
peruse a prescribed course of study and
perform audi duties ou board ship or else
where In the service as nny be demanded
of them. In two years they will, if their
probationary service be satisfactory, be
examined for promotion to the grade of
third lieutenant in the revenue marine
service.
Tolman Wtbto, a saloon keeper, killed
Wm. Stewart. farmer, at California, Ka
tucky.on thalOth init
Secretary Thompson of the navy will
soon retire to accept the presidency of the
Panama Canal Co. It is rumored that
chief clerk Hogg will succeed him
On the 10th Mayor Cooper of New York
sent to the Loard of Aldermen for con
firmation tbe name of Allen Campbell as
city comptroller, to succeed John Jveiiy
the acahem of the Tammany Hall demo
cracy. Campbell s nomination was con
firmed by a vote of 13 to 9,faniid much
excitement.
A large number of people from Kansas
have assembled on the borders of I ndian
Territory and express a determination to
push ouead into Hie innian territory.
Many have already crofscd the line. A
regiment of U. 8. trooos are near them to
prevent their iroinir any iurther and a col
lision seems imminent.
Members of the senate foremen affairs
committee say that there Till he no
nterferanre wtaat ever on me pan
of congress in the construction or
the Panama canal, in the manner
now nrouoaed. and that no inter
fere nee was ever contemplated except in
the event of a foreign power attempting
building or to control the canal.
Congressional representatives of the
mining states and territories last session
being strongly opposed to numerous land
bills framed Ly tne puone lanu commis
sion agreed upon a short measure as a
substitute for them. The substitute will
not be Dressed during this session except
as a means of killing off the laud com
mission bills. As representatives of the
mining states are opposed to any legisla
tion at present and as no bill can wuil be
passed withont their cooperation it is
thought to bo doubtful if any further ac
tion upon tho subject is taken this ses
sion.
No local political event in the country
for several vears bus created so much ex
citemeut as the deposition of John Kelly
from the comptrol erslnp or Jew xorK
city. Itepubih'iiim and And lammany
democrats rejoice over it w bile Tammany
Is very indignant. The Tammany com
mittee held a meeting and enthusiasti
cally endorsed Kelly and denounced Til
den and bis party as democratic traitors
who sold out Hancock. Kelly spoke say
ing tlttt Tammany's record at the last
election was clear and bright, and charged
Cooper and Irving Hall wiih betraying
the democracy. "Would to God." he
said, "These men had been faithful to
Gen. Hancock. Would to God they had
buried animosities in oulivion.then there
would be a different story to tell und Gen.
Hancock would be president elect of the
United States." Theolhce was of no con
sequence to him (Kelly) nor was he am
bitious to be looked upon as a leader, but
as they made him ko, and expressed con
fidence in him, they could command nis
servicos at any time and he would not no
coerced by the press. He said that pub
lic men truckling to the press could re
ceive their support; but ho never truckled
to the press unless it was right.
The Evenine Express (TAtumanyl thus
speaks of the Tammany aider me u who
voted with the republicans and anti-Tammany
aldermen and made sure a revolu
tion: To Bernard Goodwill, Kobert Fos
ter, Frederick Helbig and Henry Hoffan,
Sim You were elected aldermen by the
votes of honest democrats who believed
jur professions and trusted in your
mor. You were elected as menibeis of
tbe Tammany democracy of this city in
the belief that you would carry out your
pledges before your nominations in good
faith. You have betrayed your trust.
repudiated your professions, turned trai
tor to the eoplo who elected you slid
branded yourselves as utterly without
nrivate honor or manliness. You have
sold yourselves cheap, very cheap, fur the
disgrace and infamy of your conduct will
6tick to your names while you live, and
will attach to your children after the
grave is lu for you and you lay down in
it. There is no resurrection for men who
have damned themselves. Tho parties
whoso abject tools you willingly became
will not trust you and have no further
ne for you. Judas went out and hung
himself after he got his thirty pieces of
silver. Yon need not hang yourself; you
arc already worse than gibbeted, f he
brand set on Cain is harder to carry than
death. Live und enjoy the price of your
treason if vou can, but if you live to tho
aj;e of Metliusaleh you will never outlive
the crime of which you yesterday con
vicied yourself. Go! Tho Star. Kelly's
organ says: "With the events of yester
day, the profound conviction must impress
itself on the minds of democrats every
wl i " that New York is no longer a dum
ociaiic city. It has been traded oil',
handed over to republicans body and soul.
It will no longer roll up those magnificent
majorities which redeemed the state and
placed it in tho van ot tho democratic
phalanx." The Star brands the four
Tammany nldeimen wlio voted lor tamp
bell with Cain like ineffaceable marks as
'"objects with downcast eyes and burning
cheeks, writhing under t'ho contempt of
their indignant associates whoso recorded
action yesterday will haunt them during
their lives as a hissing reproach."
A Charleston S. C.dlspateh of Dec. 12th
suvs: Joe. isarnes, mice isranui uuu
Julia Brandt, uged respectively 10, 18 and
13 vears. und all colored, entered Into a
conspiiacy to rob the house of Mr. Ken
nedy in fcaiein, uurenuon county, in
the absence ot iter husband, Mrs. Ken
nedy, n young white woman tried to
balk them, but finding her efforts una
vailing ran out of a back door and at
tempted to escape to a neighbor's, when
Vance overtook ncr ana wtin a suck oi
wood knocked her down, and although
she begged for mercy und promised to
give him all the money In the house ho
dealt her two more crushing blows, and
his sister coming up just then, severed
the head from the body with a hoe.
When Mr. Kennedy returned some three
hours afterwards ho found his wife lying
outside the front Rate, mutilated, cold
and stiff, her head almost severed in
twain. The entire cranium was cut on
fiom ear to ear, leavinir the brains scat
tered around ou tho ground. Several col
ored persons were arrested Monday, but
no clue lollieir guild veins oounnei uiey
were promptly released. On Tuesday .a
colored boy named Joe Parnes was ar
rested. He showed so much confusion on
being questioned as to his whereabouts
Sunday that only a few questions served
to bring out his lull confession from which
the above account is taken. Yam and
Julia denied having anything to do with
it, but the cloths which they wore Sunday
wera blood v. with small particles of brain
upon them. The money and pistol of
Kennedy found in their possession were
Dloody and on being questioned about the
blood upon their clotnes the woman said
they had killed a chicken, and the man
will he had killed some partrid Un
examination, bloody finger prints on the
hoe handle corresponded precisely with
WW . r j i
those on a shawl wora by the woman on I
the day of the murder, which circum
stance bad as great weight to convict ber
aa the testimony or tne boys. I he Hor
rible character of the murder awakened
intense indignation in the neighborhood
and a crowd of loo white men ana ou col
ored men assembled to punish the mur
derers. A further examination estab
llnhml the truth of the confession of
Barnes. Negroes begged the whites to
permit them to take the prisoners and
burn tbem alive, This was refused, but
a vote was taken whether they should be
lailed and await the court or be lynched
Only 24 voted to wait on the law, and it
was determined to baug them to trees
nearest the scene of the crime. Halters
were obtained and fastened to a limb of a
tree. A cart was placed under the limb
and the prisoners oidered to mount. Just
then, Joe Barnes begged to bo allowed to
pray, and commenced by saying that he
Had never piayea oeiore ani never e
pected to again. Nothing was said by
either of the others except groans and
"Lord have mercy," from Vance. Hand
kerchiefs being tied over their faces, the
cart was nushed awav and the trio were
soon dangling in the uir.
Boston Esciuslvcness.
One of our loading divines preached
yesterday afternoon on a subject which
gave him occasion to refer to that form
of self-love which evidonces itself so
cially in "exclvsiveness." No defect in
Boston's character could ba selected
concerning which reproof is nioro sorely
needed. It is a prevalent vico running
through nearly all the, relations of men
and womn in our society, and the at
tached penalty for every vice has its
penalty is thai Boston is coming to bear
more stroncly than necessary the marks
of provincialism among her sister cities.
It is only a small and comparatively in
significant confer that can be dominated
by a single circlo or set, and be made
homogeneous and submissive to a few
established authorities as to politics, re
ligion, respectability, fashion and tasto
in art. Where such a regiment can be
established it is proof positive that the
place has seen us beet days, and mat us
age of growth and progress is over.
Otherwise the oraclos of the past would
be continually overthrown bv tho now
forces continually generated in any
great center of human action. No city
that is really alivo with the best lifo of
tho times can be ruled solely by the tra
ditions and names of us past, no matter
how glorious and venerable tlioso tradi
tions and names may nave ueen. iev
wine cannot bo contained in old bottles.
The blight of provincialism may settle
the destiny of Boston in tho future, but
there is no reason why we should court
and hasten on tho period when sho must
bo a larger Salem, a more artistic Nan
tncket, a curiosity for the tourist, with
tho favored old families presiding over
its slumbers in roomy and luxurious
mansions, basking in tbe light of other
days and warmed with the embers of
the great fortunes rnado by men of
their names who wcro not too
fire for ns in their day and gener
ation. Tho eloquent preacher referred
to those who wear their "cnlture, "Iiko
a plume," and declared that the chatter
of a llock of chickens in tho grass, con
versing without cessation aa they make
their way through their little world, was
"society" compared with the chill
isolation and stupid silenca to which
people condemn themselves in the fear
of miugling with persons unworthy of
their own social standing. Tho penalty
of exclusiveness is visited quito as se
verely upon individuals as ou the com
munity. Timidity and feebleness finally
make a man who neglects tho exercise
and exhilcration of mingling with his
ellows asocial dyspeptic, and valetudi
narian , a pitiable object to the world in
general, a burden to himself and
a bore to the narrow circlo
on whom he consents to bestow
himself. Exclusiveness that suspicious
and hostile scrutiny of new people simp
ly because they are new, that nl eject fear
to judgo and approve or condomn each
individual on his merits, independently
of his grandfather, that timorous refuge
in the folds of Mrs. Grundy's apron
when a now coiner is introduced is the
dry rot w hich is helping Boston on rap
idly into a decline where its provincial
ism, w ith its repression, will be the only
observable thing about the old city tho
more noticeable that its past was so
greatly otherwise.
Old reoplc.
A gentleman who was showing mo a
literary paper which ho had written in a
very clear, bold hand, remarkod: "I
always writo very distinctly that I may
have no difficulty in reading my manu
scripts when old ago conies upon mo."
Ho was then bordering on 70. Another
very vigorous old gentleman, ngod 77,
who w as at the head of a largo publish
ing establishment, was explaining to a
friend tho enormous amount of work he
went thaough from day to day. His
friend remarkod that it must tell upon
him seriously at his age. ,
"O no," he replied, "I don't fool it
now, but I expect I shall do in after
lifo!"
I cannot vouch for the truth of the
following anecdotes, but thoy may servo
to "point a moral and adorn a tale:" In
the old coaching days, when a coach
stopped on one occasion to change
h or sos, one of tho passengers strolled
along a green lano, and was
surprised to see an old man
sittiug under the hedgo crying.
In answer to a question as to the cause
of his grief, he replied that his father
had been beating him. Tho passenger,
who thought the father of an did man
like that must be a enriosity worth see
ing, askod him to take him to his father.
The old man led him to a cottage where
a very old man was standing at the gate,
looking very angry.
"Is this your son?" ho asked.
"Yes," replied the old man gruffly.
"He tolls me you have been beating
him," said the passenger.
"Yes; and ho deserves beating, the
young rascal, for he has been throwing
stones at his grandfather."
I have heard of another old man and
bis wife, both of whom had reached the
venerable age of 100. They had three
daughters, the youngest of whom died
unmarried at the age of 72. The old
woman was quite inconsolable on accont
of their irreparable loss. The youngest
daughter had evidently been her pet, for
after their return from the funeral she
said to her husband, amid her sobs and
tears:
"I always telt thee, John, that we
should never rear that child." Cham-
ber s Journal.
mtebcrart la Isdla,
In conversation with an intelligent
Talnkdar, Abd ul Kurim by name, when
I was a migistrate in Oudth, I learned
that SaUuio or demoniac! possession
was commonly believed in, not only by
tie peasantry of Hin.UwUn power, but
also by the higher classes, the nobility
and landed proprietors.
"Among my own cultivators," said he,
'is an Ahir whose wife was thus afflicted
few years ago. Bat the dovil was
driven outoi uer, ana mo i
She was barren More. She has children
now." .
I was natnrally anxious to see this
case, and took an early opportunity of
visiting the village in which the woman
and her children lived. Uungananan
Naigy, the hnslsind. bad little to distin
guish him from hundreds of other culti
vators who lived around him. He was
evidently pleased to le tho object of at
tention on the part of the Sahib.
"Yes," said he, "protector of the poor!
it is quite true. My wife was possessed
by a devil for a long time. It was about
tho lime that her father and mother died,
six years ago, that I firt observed it.
She was Switched by an old fiend that
lived in that cottage over there, a wicked
oldhagaho died when tho devil was
driven onfof my wife."
I sat the wife, a well-formed, active,
intelligent woman, with large lustrous
black eyes. When her father
and ber mother died she sank
into melancholy. She had no
children. Then it was that she be
came possessod. Nor sho nor her hus
band had any doubt of the fact. Mie be
came morbid, sullen, taciturn. At length
her disease culminated in dumbness.
(Sho would not Sak, nar, she avers that
she could not. and all believed this to bu
a fact. Gunganarain Naigy was wretched.
The village sages held meetings about
his case, and gave their advice, but all to
no purpose.
"I was near going mad myself.' said
he, describing that time to me. "I wai
poor. 1 could not anord anotner wiie,
and I had no children. What was I to
do? At length I heard of the Doorgah
ior shrine of the saint) at Ghouspore.
'he Talukdur, my master, good Abd-nl
Kurim, knew my wifo and pitied ns. He
let me go, and gavo me a fco for the
priest. I took my wife with me, sullen,
stolid, taking no interest in anything,
devil-possessed. I brought her back
sound in health, cured of the disease, in
her right mind, talking intelligently.
I was naturally anxious to know how
this had been accomplished. All agreed
for I conversed with several of tho vil
lagers on the subjoct that when Gunga-
nanan Naigy took, ins wite JMeluta to
Ghouspore sho was a well formed, strong
attractive young woman, but sullen and
dumb, taking no interest in anything.
Possession by an evil spirit was plain to
all of them; and tho old hag, her
enemy, who lived just opposite,
was accused as beiug the cause. Ar
rived at Ghouspio and admitted to tho
court yard of the Doorjah, Gunganarain
told mo an oath, or exorcist,, began to
operate in Melata, but on the first day
all in vain. Gunganarain Naigy
was present and saw it all Sho
was exorcised and beaten, 'ouos-
tioned, addressod with words of enchant
ment, heathen aain, but all in vaiu.
Next day severer measurers wero taken.
Exorcism at first in vain.
"By the ojah's command," said Gun
ganarain. 1 tied her minus ueinnd tier.
I tied her feet. Cotton wicks, steepod
in oil, wero prepared. They were light
ed, and stuffed up her nostrils and into
he ears.
"What fearful cruelty 1" said I.
"Yes. but it cured her. It drove out
tho devil. She shrieked and spoke. She
was convulsed and becamo insensible.
She is well now, said the ojah; the
devil has left her, and it was truo. Jn
three days sho returned w ith mo, and
the old hag diod, ami she has beon well
ever since, aud is now the mother of
children. The darkness of hell was in
our house before; now we have the light
of heaven." And all the villagers con
firmed this none more readily than
Melata herself. About four hundred
years ugo an ancestor oi one oi mo
priests attendant at the stinno oi iinous
pore in tho district of Jounporo, Say ud
Cniur by name, had a groat reputation
for sanctity. Ho had beon to Mecca, had
visited the usual holy places in tho grand
pilgrimage of Moslemism. In the course
of his pilgrimnge his own peculiar saint,
Ghousul Ariin, had appeared to him, or
dering him to tako a stone from the
saints' tomb at Bagdad, and over it to
erect a shrine in his own country, which
should bo endowed with miraculous vir
tues. It was at Ghouspore that Sayud
Uuinr erected the Bhrine. A merchant
who owes his fortune, as ho believed, to
the favor of Ghousul Arini, subsequently
enriched it with elaborate work, and
erected substantial walls around it.
Every year since, on the anniversary of
the completion of the shrine, a fair or
niela is hold, in which evil spirits are
plentifully cast out. No one can tell
whether Ghousul Arim himself, or his
devont adorer, Sayud Umur, was a cas
ter out of devils, but certain it is that
from all tho country round, during the
mouth of Soptomber, all those possessod
in this way, whoso friends can afford it
and feel interest enongh in them to do it,
are collected at this great mela, and mar
velous is the result.
There are, ot course, connected with
the shrine professional exorcisists, called
ojahs, who make it their business to at
tend to those cases in which their rela
tives or friends are willing to pay libei
ally for their services. They Lave their
own method of procedure, but violence
and the infliction of pain to cast out the
devils are the most common. When the
cure is not effected almost immediately
the devil is said to be vicious and obsti
nate. Then severe beating is resorted
to, and in some instances cotton wicks
soaked in oil and lighted are stuffed np
the nostrils, eto. The Doorgah, or
shrine, at which the fair is held, ii out
side the village. The demoniacs are col
lected in the courtyard attached to it, and
in front of this courtyard is i a raised
platform, on which stands the officiating
priest. He receives a present, in the
first instance, from the friends of the
demoniacs admitted into the courtyard
women for the most part. None are ad
mitted without some fee, although the
amount varies with the ability of the
friends-frem a piece to a gold
mohur; that is, from a farthing to
lairty-two shillings. This constitutes
the larger portion of the revenue of the
Doorgah, and is quite distinct from the
professional foes paid to the ojah or ex
orcist. A miraoulous influence is sup
posed to pervade the courtyard at tho
period of the mela, and hence the
anxiety of the friends to have their
afflicted relatives admitted to the holy
precincts. Each particular ojah must
be feed before he will undertake bis in
cantation, and his foes are determined,
as to their amount, by the ability of the
friends of the sufferer. It is a pitiable
sight to see that mass of afflicted human
ity collected in tho courtyard; old men
and old women, young men and young
women; youths and maidens; evon little
children, too, are thoro. But the woman
are vastly more nuniorous than the men,
usually three times as many. Some of
them are fixod and immovablo in gozo.
taking no interest in anything around
them, their eyes set in a glazed stare,
without intelligence or change. They
will gazo at a portion of tho building, or
at some distant object, as if entrancod.
Others aro violent and noisy, howling,
screaming, hooting or hissing, or impre
cating terribly by all thoir gods; some,
in tho madness of maniacal aber
ration, tearing thoir hair, beat
ing their treo-sts, crying, kneeling
ou tho ground, bowing their heads with
monotonous iteration, sometimes with
extraordinary swiftness. Some aro tied
with roitos; they will not allow any
clothing to remain on thoin if not re
strained, while others ire dangerous in
their fronzy. Idiots, maniacs and hys
terical patients are all mixod togother in
this terrible courtyard, and it is a fearful
sceno. A ceuseless beating of gongs is
kept np, bells are frantically rung. The
ojahs or exorcists, seem to delight in
making it as temble as possible. The
whole place resounds with tho shrieks of
the supposed demoniacs, and tho prayers
and objurations of thoir friends and at
tendants. In such a scene it is no won
der if the simple spectators become pos
sessed. Tho nerves are abnormally
acted upon. Women lose their modesty.
Men become furies. "During tho mola
that has recently taken place at Ghous
pore," writes an intelligont correspond
ent of tho Pioneer, " a very ' pretty and
interesting-looking young woman was
kneeling by the side of hor husbaud. He
was duly instructed by an ojah er exor
cist. He grasped hor firmly with ono
hand by the hair; in tho other hand he
held a stout stick. Undor tho in
structions he received ho forced her
head down, in repeated bowing, almost
to the earth. After every third or fourth
obeisance, he asked a question at tho
suggestion of the ojah. If the answer
was satisfactory ho said 'Good, good.' If
otherwise, he beat her unmercifully with
the sticK. It was supposed to be an si
stmate dovil, and could bo removed only
by boating. But somo of the poor
wretches operated upon were simply idi
ots. A woman named Sidooo had two
brothers-in-law, Kublass and Jugroo.
Kublass had a child ill with spleen. He
sent for a wiso man, or soothsayer,
namod Jnrbudhun, to prescribe for the
child. Jerbudhun pronounced tho child
to be possessed of a devil, with which
Sidooe, the nunt, who woa also a widow,
had bewitched it. Sidooe was asked to
withdraw the demon. She protestod her
innocence and ignorance, but as Kublass
was importunate with hor, she naturally
felt indignant, and took out
of his hands tho management
of her property and r.n j it to his
brother, Jugroo. Tho cliiM of Kublass
became worse. Jorbundiium, tho mischief-maker,
was again called in. What
the nature of his secret conference with
Kublass was may be inferred from the
fact that Sidooe and Jugroo both died
soon after. Tho police heard of the sus
picious circumstances attending their
death and a trial ensued. But there was
no proof against either of the prisoners
and they were acquitted. Yet there can
be littlo doubt that they compassod the
deaths both of the widow and the broth
er, probably by poison. So baneful is
this superstition about evil spirits 1 Nor
did the deaths of Sidooo and Jugroo
save the child of Kublass, for it diod too.
Tho educated Bengali is more than a
match for the protended exocvist and the
ignorant priest of the Ghouspore Door
gah. The educated Bengali is the Au
thonian of India. Although often defi
cient in physical stamina, ho' is almost
invariably intellectually acute. Ghous
pore is northeast of Benares, and an in
telligent member of tho household
of the Maharajah of Benares, Sannt
Kumara by name, wholiad been edu
cated at the college, happening to be in
the neighborhood, got into conversation
with one of the Ojahs, Attached to the
Doorgah! Sanut Kumara did not be
lieve the profession of the ojah, or his
wonderful tales of demon exorcism, but,
professing credulity, he told him one of
his servants was mysteriously afflicted,
and promised to bring him to the Door
gah. When the servant was brought the
ojah, after a hasty examination, declared
that he was afflicted with tho dovil. and
offered to cure him. A day was fixed for
the encounter with the demon, and in
the mean time a certain diet aud regimou
were prescribed for the sufferer, a poor
and meager diet. On tho appointed day
tho servant appeared befre exorcist,
dumb aid stupid as before, apparently
senseless. Evidently a very obstinate
devil had got hold of him. The ojah
demands his fee of twelve rubes
bofore operating. The amount was
paid. Then the ojah commenced
his incantations, which are apparently
useless. Failing by words, the ojah be
gan to have recourse to blows. These
the unruly patient resented. The ojah
called on Sannt Kumara to help him in
binding the unhappy possessed, bo that
he might operate on him without hinder
ance. Sanut Kumara demurred at first,
but at length consented in order that the
ojah might treat him completely at his
ease. Sannt Kumara pretended to com
ply, but so insufficiently was the ath
letic young man bound that after a ques
tion or two had been demanded of him,
to which there was no reply, and a blow
or two struck, he shook off his bonds,
and seizing the stick from the ojah he
belabored him soundly, Sanut Kumara
in vain acting as mediator.
"You want to know wTio was my father?"
said the youth: " take that, son of a vile
mother! and let honest men alone for the
future," and so saying he brought down
the stick upon the ojah's back. Sanut
Kumara lifted his hands imploringly,
beseeching his servant to have mercy.
" He want to know how long the devil
has been in me," said the servant again,
" let him discover his own devil first and
cast him out, a lying devil, a cheating
devil, a robor" and with every epithet
down eame a blow. " Oh pray nr..
desist," said Kumara, now raising
elf m earnest, for he saw that the cr '
of the ojah were attracting the attention
of the priests and servants of tha
Doorgah. With some difficulty peace wu
restored, and that ojah escaped from tha
hands of Sanut Knmara and his servant
a wiser, but a sorer man. He subs!
quently donounced both master and
servant to the authorities of the Door
gah, but nothing came of it. Both Hin.
doos and Mohammedans resort to the
Doorgah at Ghouspore, bringing with
them thoir afflicted relativos to be exer
cisedidiots, lunatics, hysterical pa
tients, all are brought, for the ignorant
villagers class them all in tho same cate
gory ; they are all equally possessed with
dovils, and Ghouspore is the place to
have the demons cast out. Cures must
of course, bo sometimes effected or the
superstition could not survive; cures
doubtless the rosult of tho action of pain
or nnwontod excitement on diseased
nerves. Faith in Ghouspore, and its effi
cacy in the cure of thoso possessod with
dovils, is spread all over tho adjoining
country. New York Evening Mail.
Parnelt
Foremost among tho men leading
tho ngltatiou in Ireland is the
American. Irishman Parncll. In uo
previous strugglo have tho Irish peo
plo shown such unity of action or
determination of purposo, and ' to
Famuli is this union and dutcrmina- '
lion largely due. He struck tho ,
right chord, by his appeal not to the
religion, not to Hibernian or Catho
lic sentiment, but mado his appeal to
tho Irishman's patriotism, his love of
his littlo home. He awakened his '
Bonso of wrong done, in connection
with bis material interests. A
writer of somo celebrity says "rtvo-.
lutions liko armies move on thoir
bellies," and something hardly less
tlmn u revolution is now under way
in Ireland. Tbe peoplo of that land
aro apparently all taking sides and
only tho slowness with which the
English Government moves, has pre
vented serious collisions so lar. That
Government is convinced that tho
troublo is ono which cannot bo ended
by tho show of military und police
force. While tho British die solrs aro
guarding n few laborers gathering
Boycott's crops, or watching Mr.
Joues' cattle in transit to a market
where they can bo sold, Furncll is
firing tho Irish heart in tho interests
of tho laud leaguers and giving new
strength daily to tho movement,
though hunted and indicted he still
hurls defianco at the Government
ODd calmly but most detenninodly
demands the reforms which ho first
set himself to secure. What will bo
tho outcomo of all this remains to bo
seen. Parneli calls for a peasant
proprietorship, and nothing short of
this will bo accepted, lie docs not
ask that the lands of tho aristocracy
be taken without compensation and
ho is not thorcforo a communist. Ho
only asks that tho (Jovcrnmout take
steps to intcrfcro with what has
heretofore been regarded as a prop
erty right iu tho lands of tho Island.
He says a precedent for this is found
in tho action which tho Government
took in regard to the Irish church
lands. Any tenant on thoso former
church lands can obtain title to them
by paying one-fourth of their as
sessed valuo. The Government ad
vances tho other three fourths and
takes its payment in an annual rent
which clears" off tho debt lrom the
tenant in thirty five years. Not en
tirely liko this plan is that demanddo
by tho agitators, but still tho princi
ple that the Government can inter-
fero to deprivo a subject of his title
to land is claimed to have been
established by tho Irish church bill
and tho carrying out of this principle
in regard to other lands than thoso
of tho church. Nor will this agita
tion ceaso until somo remedy for
present evils is rnvntod. TarnoU
may not bo ns great a statesman as
Gladstone but ho is a great leader,
nvoro of an enthusiast, and vastly
moro admired by-the Irish than is
the premier by tho English. Glad
stone may, as ho suid iu his spoceh,
"rncocnize tho priority of tho duty,
before any other ol enforcing tho
but
laws lor the purposes oi oiuci,
l.n lines not 8UDDOH0 that the
Irish
peoplo can bo dragooned into quiet
by any of tho arguments of trained
statesmanship ordiplotnatic art. Bad
us tho precedent may bo iu tho eyes
of tho English Government of accced
in" to the demands of thoso denomi
nated by it as "rebels," it will be
found that so well has Farncll
worked up bis lollowers, so
thoroughly has ho united them, and
convinced them that their causo is a
righteous ono and a just, that, the
Irish land law will have to be seri
ously altered boforo the agitation
will cease.
Sweet apples are fattening, simply he
cause the sweets, oils and starch are so,
but the sour ones (acids produce lean
ness) nourish moro than they fatten,
both are wholesome as food. -tea.
water, etc., do not fatten but may bloat.
Strong green tea may so far injure tne
health as to produce leanness ana
neuralgia.
Spanish girls, says the London Truth,
are the most sprightly flirts in the worlJ
Thero is not much in them besides mna
tion. The tongue of the Creole of fapB
ish origin is easier to fatigue, and does
not run on so rapidly. It
that the eternal play of the fan which
the Madreline keeps up would soon i irri
tate to madness nerves that are at ali ex
citable. Boy (to a lady visitor) : "TeachM;
there's a gal over there a-winkm at me.
Teacher: "Well, then, don it look at
her." Boy: "But if I don t look at her
he'll wink at somebody else."