The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-21 00:00:00

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ANEW ExPLoutvz.—Experiments have lately
been made in Sweden with is new explosive compound,
which is stated to embody all the good and none of the
bad qualities of every previously known explosive,
than which it is also said to be more powerful. This
new destructive agent conies to us under the very ex•
pressive name of ** vigorite," but the nature of its com-
position is at present kept a profound seeret by its
Inventor, who is, we understand, a Swede.
A PRACTICAL PREACHER. —lf the following
anecdote is not true, it ought to be. It is too good
not to have some foundation in fact (says the Put ores)
ir,r(d): -"A Methodist parson, calleA to preach at
an out of-the way town in California, was informed
before entering the pulpit that he must be careful, as
many of the assembled congregation were 'roughs,'
and would not hesitate to disturb him if his remarks
, didn't suit. The holy man made no rattly, but having
reached the desk he took from his pockets two revol-
vers, and placing one on each side of the Bible gave a,
1 sharp glance around the room, and said, 'Let us pray.
, A more orderly service was never conducted."

BURIED ALM?. —A shocking case of prema-
ture interment has just taken place in the burial ground
of the Jewish community at Brody, in Galicia. The
Jews as is well-known, are prohibited keeping corpses
'their louse more than one day, and in accordance
with the prohibition, deceased Israelites are zenerally
buried about twenty-four hours after death. A Jewish
lady, the wife of a wealthy merchant residing at
Brody, had been a long sufferer, and was interred the
day following her demise. After the week of mourn-
ing prescribed by the Jewish law had passed over, the
bereaved husband use animated by the singular desire
of opening his wife's grave that he might pie upon her
' once more. The Jewish Rabbi granted his permission,
and the widower was horrified to find, when the coffin
was opened, the shroud in which the corpse was
attired completely covered with blood, There were all
theeigns of a premature interment and a fearful struggle
for life.
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TRUE LOVE.—Fond Wife. "John, dear, be
sure and don't Waste your Money on Railway Assur-
ance Tickets.--Hasband (a Commercial Man). "Why,
my Love —Fond Wife. " Because you are never
Lucky enough to be in a Collision !"—Puneh.

THE SWEET GALE—Everybody who grows
rhododendrums, or who has any kind of peaty swamp,
should have a plant or two of Myrica gale, the "sweet
gale" and " catulleberry myrtle ' of the Cornish bogs,
a plant widely distributed and held in the highest
esteem in swampy distrists in all parts of Europe,
from Ireland to Western Germany, and from Italy to
Lapland (says the Gardener's Magazine). In the Isle
of Ely it used to be made into faggots for heating
ovens, but it is comparatively scarce there now, as it
Is generally in all the east of England's fenlands. It
has no beauty, but it emits a delicious spicy odour,
and a scrap of it enclosed in a letter will convey by its
fragrance a satisfying message of love and good will.
It will grow in peat without any excessive supply of
water, but is most at home in a peat bog, and wherever
bog plants are grown in gardens the sweet gale should
certainly be one of them.

A NARROW ESCAPH,—A most singular acci-
dent ocmrred on the connecting line of railway be-
tween the two Hartlepool° on Friday evening. A Mr.
Eumfit, employed as a 'checker" at the Middleton
Ironworks, was standing upon the line near the junc-
tion of Messrs. Riehardson s siding, when a passenger
train, running from East to West Hartlepool, came
up at a speed of nearly fifteen miles an hour, and
although the driver whistled sharply, while the guard
and the fireman applied the brakes, the engine struck
him before he could get out of the way, as he appeared
to hesitate from fear when he saw his danger. Mr.
Rumfit was struck on the back and hurled forward for
several yards, but he fell clear of the rails. His head,
however, struck the side of a cabin, and he received a
scalp wound, from the effects of which he has since
been confined to his house, and it is miraculous how
he escaped fatal injury.
"THE COURT GUIDE."—The Lord Chamber-
ain.—Punch.

AUSTRALASIAN GOLD. The value of the
Australasian gold imported into the United Kingdom
in the nine months ending September 30 this year was
£4,758,979, as c mpared with £7,003,481, in the cor-
responding period of 1873, and £4,519,650 in the cor-
responding period of 1872. At Carajong, New South
Wales, the recent results obtained are stated to have
been tolerably remunerative to the miners employed.
Quartz crushing is being carried on with some vigour
at Hill-end, New South Wales; in one instance 88
tons of quartz yielded 2,1930 z. of gold. The North
Old Chum Company, Sandhurst, Victoria, has got a
solid lode yielding 2oz. to the ton at a depth of 670 ft.
POTATO DISEASE.—In response to an offer
from the Hoyal Agricultural Society of a prize of £lOO
for a ton of potatoes which, when planted, should prove
to he equal to resisting the disease, several farmers
have competed, but not one has been successful. One
of the conditions was that if the potatoes grown from
the sample ton showed symptom] of disease the sender
should fined £2O. Vnder the circumstances the
society is unable to award the prize, and it has de-
cided not to enforce the fine. In the pits which are
now being opened throughout the kingdom a consider-
able amount of disease has been discovered. The crop,
however, has been so abundant that scarcity is not
apprehended.

SATURDAY, NOV. 21, 1874,

The Army of France, it is calculated, will be raiaed
to • total of 000000 men by the new Army Bill
A large show of poultry and pigeons was opened at
the Crystal Palace on Monday. There were 4,400 *atria In
competition for prizes to the total value of £l,OOO.
The original charter of the East India Company
has had a narrow escape. This interesting document MY
discovered the other day at the India Office In a box of old
papers tad " tallies" that had been ordered to be burned.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges (asps
The Times the receipt of the trot halves of two £lO-notes
from " Itestituens " for unpaid Income-tax.
Query. Have they newsboys in the " Land of the
sunrise, and do they ern either of the following Japanese
newspapers : The N ,sehi lashi rt. fishi, the Tok hmiehiniehi
se/tied:4m, or the Chinbansetshi
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The Obeliek of Luxor, in the Place de la Concorde,
Paris, is reported to he 1,0 very had state The hieroglyphics
aarne.g.raduaaltiLln.eii,nygwettmseeemdemaigelThwe,,Tivifeaxay In
idout andn.
scripilons has proved that, if this state of things continues,
in tee yeirs' time the whole of the upper portion of the
obelisk Will be defaced.
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A Dail!, News telegram says that Madame Menrice,
wife of the editor of the Rappel, was buried at Wre la chaise
en Sunday, with only a civil ceremonial. Victor flogo acted
as chief mourner lie placed a beuquet of white camellias
on the coffin, and over the grave modes speech, saying that
the night of death was not the end, but the opening to new
light and life.
The Council of the Society of Arts will hold a
Conference in their Rooms in the Adelpiii, London. on
Thursday, the loth December, "On the steps to be taken to
ensure prompt and efficient measures for preventing the pol-
lution of Rivers." when Mr. Lyon Flayfair, II . will pre-
aide.
Fever having considerably abated at Lewes, and
there being every prospect that in a few days the town will
again show a fair bill of health, the " bonfire boys," at a
meeting held on Monday, have fixed December 2 for holding
the dtmonstration usually held on Guy Fawkes Day, and
postponed by them in consequence of the illness prevailing
In the town at that date.'
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The Bishop of WinctLester consecrated, on Monday
morning, the po*lon of the Richmond New Cemetery lying
within the wall dl separation, the erection of allich maw'
much dispute in the spring. The ceremony was performed
very quietly and at au early hour, onl) a few people being
present.
Every fashionable woman in Paris of a certain style
hangs to her belt an alms bag, a fan, • card-case, a pocket.
hook, an umbrella, a turnip-watch, a pincushion, some ivory
tablets, and a little mirror. - Court Journal.
Mr. Barber, United States third Assistant Poet-
master-General, estimates that the Government of that
country Is defrauded to the extent of a million dollars a year
by means of postage stamps washed and used a second time.
San Geronimo, a town in Cuba, has been captured
and burnt by the insurgents, and WO men forming the garri-
son have been killed.
The Tones has sustained a severe loss by the sudden
death of its principal Paris correspondent, Mr. Marilmann, a
gentleman of cosmopolitan experience and remarkable
ability in that line.
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Ajvices from Havanna!' state that violent storms
have recently prevailed iu the eastern part of tuba, whereby
several towns have been flooded, and many of the inhabitants
have perished.

For the first time since the incorporation of the
borough, the Mayor and Corporation of Sheffield attended
divine service on Sunday morning in the parish church. A
special sermon was preached on the occasion by the Vicar of
Sheffield. Several Nonconformist members absented them-
selves, acting on the principle that the Corporation should
not show • predilection towards any particular denomina-
tion
On Monday a deputation of 'ladies, headed by the
lion. Mrs. Kinnaird, were received by the Duchess of din-
burgh, at Buckingham Palace, and presented her Royal
Highness with • Bible and an addreas of welcome. The gift
was made on Behalf of the maidens of England, and the
number of subscribers amounted to 7,572 The Ducheu, in
accepting the Bible, awned her hearers of the value which
she attached toll, and her appreciation of the kind words of
the address.
The Times says :—" An entirely unwarranted con-
struction having been, in some quarters, placed on the ex-
pressions used by the Prime Minister, at Guildhall, on the
subject of arbitrary arrests, we are authorised tie state that,
in making those observations, the case of Count Arnim was
not present to his mind, for the sufficient reason that the
arrest of Count Arnim was not arbitrary, hut in accordance
with the lows of his country."
An unusually pathetic incident transpired on Mon-
day morning at the Manor, near Sheffield, in connection
with the sudden death of a woman named Sarah Hardy, aged
thirty-eight, wife of a miner. Her husband went to work on
Sunday night, leaving his wife not very well. At seven
o'clock next morning she was found lying dead, on the bed
with her little infant, aged six months, still endeavouring to
abstract nourishment from the dead woman's brunt,

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' After the Mass at the Church of St. Augustin, in
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: Dons and hopes, and of an unalterable fidelity to your
Majesty and to his Highness the Prince Imperial:
• On a great display night at the Cryetal Palace it is
usual to use 9.000 rockets, flights of 100 shell.. 600 Roman
' citron., and 400 coloured lights. In such an occasion there In
abont smile and e. half of rocket stick used. These sticks
are very light, and seem to be of clean pine boards, sawn
one way, and cut with lancet points on the other. During
the last season on several occasions more than 21lia tiersona
have been engaged in firing displays at the Crystal Palace,
. inclading 100 boys holding coloured lights as a salute. At
each of the displays If ton of fireworks are burnt. The
cascade. of fire are sometimes as much EIJI 90f1. and 100 ft,
r above the level of the grand terrace.
I An inquiry has been held in Ldlidon, at the .Charing-
, cross Hospital respecting the death of .11r. William Bristowe,
or the Record Office. On Saturday afternoon the deceased,
in company with another gentleman, was. descending the
stairs at the Temple Station, when be staggered and fell to
the bottom of the stairs. The unfortunate geutlbman was
at once conveyed to the hospital, where he died shortly after
admission from a fracture of the skull. The jury returned a
verdict of accidental death.
An inquest was held in London, on Monday, at 67,
leinborough-road, West Brompton, on the body of Mrs. Hobe
Augusta Griffin, aged 48, widow of the Hon. J. Griffin. The
evidence given showed that on Saturday last the deceased
was standing at her toilet-table braiding her hair, when she
suddenly threw up her arms, and fell upon the floor In-
sensible. Miss Sheppard. who was in the room, at once sent for Dr. Daniels, who upon arrival pronounced the lady to be
dead. A pOBO-nwrtem examination revealed the fact that
the death of the deceased was duo to heart disease, and a
verdict was returned to that effect,
On Sunday morning Archbishop Manning preached the annual sermon on behalf of the Mission of the Church
of Si. James, Spanish-place, London, to a crowded congre•
gation. In the course of his sermon he said—The Catholic
Church In England is unspeakably poor, and I pray God to
keep It so We live on the alms of our people. It is good
That it should be so. It is good for the pastors, for it keeps
them humble; it is good for the people, because it binds
them to their pastors. The interchange of charity, mercy,
and loves, better than lands and gold ; poverty and charity
never generated pride and selfishness ; lands and gold,
revenues and endowments, always do and always Inevitably
will.
There is a temperance bar at Pennsylvania where
the most fastidious teetotaler can get something suited to his taste. Here is a list of the drinks r-- "Soda-water,
Congress water, Lehigh water, Bushkill water, Delaware
water, spring water, eye-water, rose.svater, salt-water,
cucumber-pump water, rain-water, court-house-roof wtton,
jaitroof water, and water."
Particulars of the recent elections in America show
that there were serious riots at several plate.. At ir,grenie, in Alabama, • conflict occurred between whited and negroes,
and a large number on both sides were killed arid wounded.
Fatal disturbances also took place at Winnsborough, Tux-
cambia, and Mobile.
An interesting report has been made by the
Astronomer Royal to the Royal Astronomical Society as to
the various expeditions for observing the Transit ,of Venus.
The members of the expeditions appear to have been sell re-
Iceived by those in authority at the stations assigned to them.
and the arrangements; were everywhere in a forward state ac-
cording to the latest tierces. The English stations oire nine
in number, two in Egypt, three in the !Sandwich Islands, one
at Rodrique Island, one in New Zealand, add Wolin Her-
guelen's Land.
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The Leeds Mercury, states that the finandal results
of the Leeds Diusieal Festival have fully realised tire hopes
of the committee, and that there will at least lie a surplus
of £l,OOO to divide amongst the four charities selected. The
gross receipts amounted to £7,392.145. Bd. All the hills have
not yet been sent in, but the committee Is in a positron to
announce as certain that there will he a surplus of at leaat
£l,OOO. The expeuxes were estimated at F.. 6,000, eauLitewould
appear that they have slightly exeeeded that amount.
The followin%• earnest appeal appears in a recent
number of the Fetal Mercury Help wanted. • Several
yonng men, natives of England, of Industrious andisober
habits, and gentlemanly deportnreut, who have no relatives
to help them, are dersirons of entering the blissful state of
matrimony, but owing to scarcity of ready means, are unable
to provide% home suitable for the reception of the objects
of their choice. Have all received a sound claasical educa-
tion, and are staunch members of the Church ef Englead.
Any one who will kirdly assist these young men, either by
donations of money or furniture will please address Secre-
tary, Young Men', Mutual Improvement Society, Poet office.
tower Umkomana."
A curious fre.taolnturo.nabe,e:::,:iiiniletyidHaitthei:snesLotbsewlletnerryhd.deleuhtcatri. i;priA!rtivt:E„,nrdeft.tabiormaloel.:insiberiogichin
In Paris is the collection of costumes, dating from the meet
remote times down to the present day, and beginning with
the extreme East to end with the various sections et the
South American Peninsula. This collection cost the State
£6,000. It contains, among other things, astonishist sped.
mess of robes and mantles rd various epochs from Jrwan,
China, India and Persia splendid Italian tissues of the
siateenth century, with samples of the royal, ecclesitatleal,
military civil, thettric"al, and popular habiliments of every
age and conntry, or, where these could not he procured.
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the
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gardening
provided
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during
N'l3:: itcphtl represent,,
soldiera
sr e nes. ad
hrhe!ultod:l,h.aaelt:resole:h.gBl:l,citi,ion on the horticultural results of the=
many
es so
for
e to
they were instituted, and that they riot only supply eery
considerable quantities of vegetables to the Comtnisalarias
for the men and their families. The largely increased num-
ber of men who now occupy themeelvee In gardening afforda
a eatisfactory evidence of the great Interest which hill been
taken in company gardens during the past year.

There was no further rise in the price of house coal
in tendon on Monday, but the previous rates were fully
supported.
The npecial for the officers and men who served in
the late Xshantee campaign will, it Is stated, he issued before
the end of the yet!.
At a meeting of the National Association for the
Promotion of Social Science, Mr. Thomas liareread a paper
upon the' Construction of,a Municipality for the Metropolis."
The general purport of his remarks was favourable to the
views expressed by the promoters of the Metropolitan Muni-
cipal Bill In the discussion which ensued the majority of
the speakers inclined to the opinion that, instead of
one, there should be several municipalities having a common
centre, and that the local boards should be preserved. The
debate was adjourned.
The impending engagement is announced of Prince
Wilhelm of Wurtemberg, the heir-apparent of the Wurtem-
burg Crown, to Princess Mary of Prussia, eldest daughter of
l'rince Friedrich Carl. Prince Wilhelm I. a Major in the
Prussian Hussars, and has been living for several years at
Potsdam.—Berlin Correspondent of The 2'emee.
With respect to the epidemic of scarlet fever in
Loudon, the Registrar-General states that the deaths from
this disease, which in the two previous weeks had been 120
and 107, further declined last week to 97, of which 12 occurred
in the east, TJ in the south, and 19 in the north groups of
dbtricts.
During last week 5,478 births and 3,739 deaths were
registered in London and twenty other large towns of the
Tnited Kingdom. The natural increase of population was
1.739. The mortality from all causes was at the average
rate of 26 de‘the annually in every 1,000 persons living. In
London 2,400 births and 1.517 deaths were registered Al-
lowing for increase of population, the births were 65, and
the deaths 81, below,. the average numbers M the correspond-
ing week of the last ten years. The annual death-rate from
all causes, which In the three previous weeks had been
equal to 20, 21, and 22 per 1,000, further rose last week
to 23.
From the further particulars of the railway accident
in Italy, it seems that a goods train from Ancona to Bologna,
going slowly on account of the snow, was reit into by a
passenger train proceeding in the same direction. Owing to
the darkness of the night and the snowstorm. the signals
could not be seen. One person was killed and thirty-four
others wounded.

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to the addition, of course, of any others suggested plete rest, or, in other words, to give up eating the
AN EXPEDITIOUS MARRIAGE. hereafter :-(1 ) The limita of responsibility for the bivalves altogether. The amount of cake, in short, is THE GRAIN TRADE. meeting of members to decide upon the subject of the out on Monday mornixig to fetch same milk, and as she supplied with good water should be fully exposed to
requisition, and that no interference by the Registrar did not return information was taken to the police- the assaults of hosts ef fever germs in their highest
.....--.- safety of goods received as shared by the company limited; and we cannot both eat our cake and have it.
' hich first takes charge of them and the others to Mei!' but spare comfort, and yet it is hard to see what should be offered unless the secretary and managing station. Just before it had been received the anthori. state of morbid activity, they would !suffer no injury.
A Cannelton (Ind.) justice of the peace has lately w
which they are awed on (9 1 The institution of a other consolation the position allows shell the rout the grain ainTiM"triaeo
_Monday, published the following letter on committe refuse to call such meeting or refuse to obey ties had been informed that a girl had thrown herself LioNet. S. BULL
performed a matrimonial feat which entitles him to competent - .. B. • -- ,
_. tribunal for the determination of all doubt- of the difficulty confewedly lies in the fact that Sir -Forty-.five shillings appears to be sufficient the decision come to by the majority of such members, from the Suspension-bridge. The toll-keepers era. landau, Nev. 14.
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the kind regard and business consideration of every Sir Stafford Northcote, in the course of the discus- ployea
eodn. the...* bridge, Edney andtoAthesrton, were also
ful ases. (3.) The fixing of certain necessary forms mole oysters are wanted for the table than our - '
pair of closely-primed and hotly-preesed lovers in the eau, said, with regard to many of the Societies carry- The former de his endeavouring
to be universally observed, which shall
rcreatela' Nifty; shore! afford. Economy,
teovfidently, is our only re- this year to attract a quarter of wheat to the United SELECTED ANECDOTES.
world (says a St. Louis paper). Cannelton is one of for packages Kingdom, as since harvest our imports of wheat tag on business a great many miles away, it was a to hold the girl she was "edsumpended from the bridge,
country
gews
hiterhazitelmi. tted f through or
it sourer, and we f must learn. but faded todo Elam, and the latter testified to his order.
Kentucky's convenient Gretna Greens - much thewith due gsignation and flour have been at the rate of over 12 mil- great difficulty for persons so situate to obtain correct
AN ODD DEFUCITION.-The proprietor of a 1r
better and safer for being in another State, with the o I thout t
have
so,f,,,am.ge,neral, they
brat %dr:al:tit:the sender) shall puesiln without its mostrlieeratse adjunct, beefsteak
lion qrs. the estimated wants of the nation being information respecting the soundness of societies, and 1 deceased off the bridge earlier in the morning, .
her movements led him to that she contenilaa! house in Scotland, hayial on 114 min"b"rd,
sweet-flowing Ohio between. A pretty little Ken-eight, possibly up to niae million qrs. At that of the other information pertaining to the
complete remedy against tlseernieiliy was once an ingenious Anteriasn' who discovered that ted The nialli
aeverdict of Pelo de se name, the letters, " lat.v.F.R.S., a phyr
tacky girl was loved by two brothers. She was not societies' welfare were deposited in some,local centre, The suicide.
e jury
returned
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which undertakes the final delivery of los goodr, if a round piece of fat bacon rolled in flour and sugar, this rate of weekly arrivals by the end of
January five monthswill have brought us the largest e coroner said the behaviour of the two officials hweaspresa t'allmtfeto i
youon
inn-keeper,
ft t::
have
ea,t.
pe:.r,t,, Royal
:letters
wI 8
have° chitteot Y.,,i.8 s a :d. k '
elile to decide between them, and left the question responsibility for their lose or damage cannot Li' and sprinkled with gum arable made the best p A ' tO which access would be obtained, it would facilitate
with themselves to settle. They met one day on the
liaise asked
im
' ° ' half of our requirements, leaving seven months to
dtitt..inctly charged to any of those that had the pre- Bible oyster in the universe, and far surpassing any very much the ascertaining the character of the weie
.connectede_ with the bridge was deserving of commends-impudent fellow?" replied the hang
way to the house of the lady, and commenced
clam ever grown. We have not yet, it is true, come supply the three to four million !ire. remaining. With ton. Mr. B. Coles, secretary of the Bridge Corn- ties. That was the object the Government had in view.
custody of them.
s me. " I mean, sir," said the me
the argument of which was the best man in the old winter to face we have the comfortable assurance of
Kentucky style of "off with your coat and at -
__ to artificial oysters; but sinless some lucky change There were a considerable number of persons resident
suggestions
or
sepntettselnutilngg tch.eloirnteq.uifriyornto
treheceitv-telisay
in many parts of the kingdom anxious to know what they
receiving abundant supplies already bought and well
it," While they were diseussing their relative merits, THE CAPTURE OF NANA SAHIB. soon occurs for the better, we shall evidently have to
on their way to our coasts. had tts do in the way of joining a friendly. seciety. They but none of a practical nature were offered.
elect, and that before very long, between "patent was Drum Major of the Royal 8
and both getting very tired of the debate, anothergot advertisemente from the menagerie of these societies,
young fellow who bad no fraternal rival slipped into American oysters' or no oysters at all. California may justly boast of hating at present
but were unable to form any judgment of their sound- OBEYING ORDBEB.-A surge.-
the house, told of the disgraceful scene in progress The overland summary-of the Times of India, dated afloat nearly 600.000 are. of wheat destined for the
eas and utility. People sometimes consult a clergyman, THE FETE EUGENIE. scribe a couple of pills to s
between the brothers, and asked the young lady to Oct. 26, contains reports from several correapondents United Kingdom. This imak from a single agricultural nmagistrate, or doctor on these subjects. They go and (Prom the Daley News of Monday 1 sent home in a small box, le
split the difference and get rid of the ruffians by taking relative to the capture of Nana Sahib, though it THE GREAT SALT LAKE. State exceeds and doubles the total quantity on pas- 111.7 i
fe ahy.lt was expected that the fete day of the ex-Empress whole to be taken imue
patient afterwards, the a
him. The picture be painted her was so bright that appears from these that from the outset opinion sage from any one country, as the liberal shipments of
Russian sari Danubian ports are rather under 300,000 "Whath aetheradneanyennofthasincekrtaaibnninntg tahtiathaenncieirt; Eugenie would be celebrated in some formal manner
Citle4phiarperst.., iv on leat ning that the d'
she took him at his word, and both hastened to get differed as to his identity. The Nana was captured
~ tawn, or seme convenient place, what the Ch9.lll,?alte:4
the AitefewliCazedrsi,.haftings, raenadi
in-
given him the malls
1 Salt Lake Cit correepondeut of the Chicago Inter- qrs., while from other countries together the quentity duced, and asked Pa'
out of the State. They hied them to the river, and on in Gwalissr on the 21st of October by Maharajah 0„,,,,,, writes :_ Y . . the society is, whether it has been properly
- ' the way engaged a holy man of Hawsville to come Scindiah, to whom he wrote, claiming protection.is but 210,000 ors. The preeminence theretere of
and whether it was one conducted fairly and on sound tended deputations from France, to do honour to the replied; "but ma'
over am quick as he could and bring his wedding He was lodged in the Cameroniau Guard. "The water in the great Salt Lake rises gradually, California, promising to continue her shipments on the rinciples, he is able to say, "This is a good society, occasion, made a pilgrimage to the place, and spent a
Telegraphing on the 2.tril of October, a Morar corm. and some estimates have put it at ten inches each same gigantic scale, gives importance to the price- off yet !" The
ceremonial outfit for their s•verlasting benefit. He you to join i .
agreed to skiff over the river in a ellen, time, and told eye;ndent says : "lie subsequently confessed to the year; but no means have been taken to meaeure it 455. 6d. per 5001 b., at which an indefinite eupply is .t • •
V advise ••'t " If vim send him to London, portion of their Sunday in the rain.drenchal village swallow, not or
• them teego and be as happy as they could until he Political
Agent the h took the but hAg part eto in e mutiny,eabout t •months •'offer. Such a rice must to a great eetent
until
so since, when a granite menu- now on - g i Is very expensive. The whole thing was difficult of
settlement and was open to discussion. where Napoleon 111. he buried. It was fortunate
that there WM no fete, for a more miserable day
came. They crossed over to Cannelton and hastened denied any participation in the massacres. He •of value in e British markets trent was erected at Black Rock, a short distance remain the future bains the , Mr. Dale replied that their society afforded great could not have been. The ex-Empress and the when the ,
to procure the necessary welding document by the acknowledaed hinuelf to dve the Nana Sahib. His
Highness Seindiab wished the prisoner's life spared,
• from the shore The lake as a thing of beauty, if, as being the level at which our largest supply has been
. d Th ' • • c' I. d bepurchased, • •al ill t•
almost
uneurpaese . e water at times is of the an may while its erne w COU time help to its members who were scattered about. He arrAilllntl:lll..
Prince Louis Napoleon, accompanied by the Due to tb
laws of Indiana made and provided for wellthought these societies should have some exceptional de Bassano, at. Ilion, Dr. Collusive end others of ail°
kind of legislation. There WAS evidence that three the Camden heusehied attended the usual eleven es,, animal'
but eventually yielded bins unconditionally to the deepest green at others of the purest blue varying constant, if irregular, up to another harvest.
erY o'clock mass at St. Mary'
venture'. They got it, and were walking hand in from the !shadow to the sleep water, froni the lightest English wheat, reduced in many markets to a pound societies, hielhitherto managed themselves with av • hand just outside the gates of Eden. There was British authorities. The prisoner now states that his
confession Was false, and that he made it under the te„the darkest shades, the seagull and the pelican a sack and now selling at an average of 44s 5(1 ,is s Catholic Church. 'l'he ,
Qom
just enough fear of pursuit to make it like?,
influence of bhang. He looks 40 years of age, not great deal of emcees.
ming gracetuuy the waves upon its smoot an rolling generally supp e in excess of demand at that rate, Sir Stafford Northcote said in future the Govern-
h d • ' li d • .•
• congregation, which WW4 nit large, although a few th,
for their young hearts, and c,ause them to trerub e surface. There seems to be a general impression among and Russian wheat competes with other Botha and is visitors were added to the usual attendance, rose, ac. t'
a little on the brink of blessedness. They came to more*" cording to custom when the ex-Empress and her son
The Delhi Ga-efie of
Castleberry Bridge, over a rippling stream which was - the name day gives the fol- strangers that the city of Salt Lake is located on the shipped freely at from 38e. to 445. During the ment intended to do away with Mr. Tidd Pratt's
margin of the. great Salt Lake, and the tourist on his present week, however, the first sharp frosts of winter usual certificate,--" I hereby certify that the fore- entered the building, and remained standing until
lowing account of the capture -" Great excitement
too wide to jump and too deep to wade. The bridge arrival here is surprieed andelaappointed tofindthatit he have given an upward direction in value to the extent going alterations of the rules of the Hearts of Oak they had reached their places near the altar The Rey
was undergoing repairs, and a large portion of the floor prevails in the city of Gwalior. At one time there
came not. The popular visiting place on the lake is what is of Is. to 2s. per iir..
_which might mislead opinions if of the Bill there would be merely a registration. Great
y eplareberhaetealyoffiemciabter.di:
her Majesty's confessor and favour;
was torn up. They stopped and looked into the gulf was great anxiety, as all the horrors of 1857 Society are in conformity with law." From the passing ,e, Goddard,
ack Rock, lying directly west twenty milesdis- the abovementioned facts were not sufficient to stamp difficulties &nee and false impressions were created b
called B 1
below through the bare beams. They gazea over to t° mennal'•• At nine pen. on the '2lst, shortly after
the Kentucky shore and saw a boat full of men rowingt t f••Id land mail ad ••• I
) e an from the city, on the o over ma road going the year with plenty AILO cheapness, There are also his return from the I usserah review, the Mahar jah tthat certificate in many cases, lerwedeanwnigthmeaglotnhineeof
ntgosl.,efet;in,
were a recent gift to the reverend gentlemar
aerose with steady stroke. Pursued ! That woe the -
Seindiall was informed by a Goosain that Nana Sahib ewards California. It ie a most interesting epot to several secondary facts to arid aasurance to the priers Mr. Dale remarked that he believed a great many of the ex-Empress, and it was told from mouth te
tint thought. What was to be done? They would and Bala Sahib, the notorious rebels, with a large travel isit, and it is very strange that out of the ninny who ones. The stocks of old wheat in America larger
v avel ac the Contineiet, desirous of seeing every- than were expected, and thebulk isi :drteleavl- the werking classes would never have joined the as the congregation broke up, that her Mr
perish together rather than be torn asunder. Hand aemlber of followers, had entered the city. Nana andsocieties at alr without Mr. Tidd Pratt's certificate herself done the chief portions of the r
in hen!' they advanced one step nearer the gulf, before Isma were disguised as bairciees. There were various ..
thing of interest, there so few who will take the able for continuous shipments. Thesejnannd the f3till alsup- being prMuced te) them. It showed the rules were in The chasuble was entirely of do'
taking the fatal plunge through the gaping Isellg,e rumours of their intentions. Some said they had come time and trouble to see this most wonderful aid plies from the late harvest, must enable America to for- comformity with law. with the exception of the white
beams. A moment more and they would have been to assassinate the Maharajah, others that to c beautifulsheet fwater. The • f the lake •about d Ibulktothathe last •
rem... o e size o e eis war an eeiva nt t year, a grow quantity
safe from pursuit locked in each other's arms at the disturbauce was their object These tales spread far eighty miles from east to west, and about one hun- in a•heat and flour of over ten million qrs. exported, Sir Stafford Northcote reminded Mr. Dale that it tomb of the ex. Emperor on the no
pebbly bottom of the stream. They heard a voice d• I e " a dred miles from north to south. It is the great but from. which France and other customers took aanwe e. The true story in, however, that did not prove it. The advantage of having the certifi- altar is always conspicuous by
cate was considerably modified if it were the case floral offerings heaped before it,
letter was addressed to Scinffiah by the Nana, craving reservoir for all the waters that empty into the sur- share that reduced the British supply to seven million
cry : "Hold ! rash impetuous children." They looked I thswers were of unusual numbs
up and saw the smiling face of Squire Patterson his protection (shame). The communication said -- rounding valleys, without any known outlet, except qrs. This season, however, the other customers that other societies got it which were not in the same
Imperied violet was there in r
'S.f I h be miserable. 'Since the events o 1857 have been a
what the gentle rays of the summer sun draw up to scarcely compete, and the weight of America's ship- position and which have rules that were not legal.
like a rising sun on the other side of the 'cloudy a the choicest roses, and apr
wanderer. My strength is now exhausted. I come to strata of the heavens, The water is exceed- ments must fall on England ; and merchant's already -Another Speaker suggested that the Bill if prase
bridge. They knew him in their calmer, happier days, • .lilac. A conspicuously le
u a supplicant for protection. You can kill me or ingly salty, more so than any body of water in the estimate that their year's export to the United King- should not come into operation until' 1876, to give the
The young lady was on the most intimate footing with de !sited by Prince Loui,
Yea"te me ' Scindiah dh• h dat once mounted a owe an world, and its buoyancy is fully one hundred per cent. dons must be over six million qrs. A further very Societies of England time to consider the effect of the I-'' -
the squire, and she very naturally took the position ef , •. . . nephew Prince Joachim
rode over to to call out his Dewan and gave him the
' more than that of the ocean. In the crudest manner important consideration is that Russia is resuming legislation.
spokesman. She hallooed across, "Squire, marry us
quick 1" at the same time pointing to the boat advanc- information and the necessary Instructions there-
He the himself at .
'• • the Mormons make a pail of salt from three pails of this Autumn the leading part occupied in 1872 and Sir Stafford Northcote said he au posed that would
t himself at the heed of a reel- water, and the buoyancy is very perceptible in bathing, 1873, in which pi
years her exports were very much be done. He remembered the evidence of some wit- sent direct from Few
big with now audibly splashing oars. The squire took upon. f ri put
- f when the ordinary swimmer finds he can float as mealy larger than in 1874. r been aan on having be b d
in the situation in a twinkling, and shouted, "Alld b mee o cavalry, one of infantry, an a battery o newts called on the Royal Commission went to show rare flowers hag e
awl secure] • as he can
y walk on the 'sure and firm-set
right ; send on your papers." The young man picked , cY• , Id
artillery, and went to the lace where the descendants .Again, in respect to Russia, Marseilles, the half that great objection existed to allowing a gentleman other southern dI
H • • earth.' Sinking is impossible."
up a handy stone, and, tying the licence to i
'twith him i
o the old masters of Ms ancestors were, e paid his way house of her shuts to the United Kingdom, will from the Government to inspect the books of those with a pleasant e
respects to them, and then placed them in palkees. not want to stop the one vessel out of the three that last societies, handkerchief, flung it across, while the young woman to the depress'
was crying at the top of her voice, "Here they come! Th i e precoiacerted signal of success, three guns in year was bought from us in competition,said ad
while the Mr. Dale, speaking for the deputation, they In addition
t They are ready to land. Do it quick, squire !" The rapid succession, was given, and immediately the THE BRITISH ARMY. good Hungarian harvest should supply those districts would only be too glad if the Government officer wevuld yesterday v
squire did it quick, and shouted the marriage , _
captives fellowersdisperead. The captives were brought of Svsitzerland and Germany which commonly receive insist on going into the office and seeing their books, reason tb
ceremony across the water, and bridged the yawn- a° the Maharajah's Palace. In the meanwhile, the
_!‘ A Captain of the Royal Horse Artillery," writes to The wheat from the Mediterranean ports. These circurn- it would in all cases act as a protection to societies, exceptior
lug chasm with safety for those two willing hearts Dewan and Ebean AU, Vakeel, waited on the resident, Tomes:- stances make it very unlikely that Russia and the especially where they might happen to have engaged from tb
I lives the brink.He ended,
am young so very near e Colenel Osborne, and about eleven uni. brought him Sir, -Will you let me warn your readers not to be- Danube will not export a full average bulk, and the unknowingly a dishonest man. Oil PI
" I pronounce you man and wife. Go and tell 'em to the palace and confronted him with the Nana. The lieve half they read about the deplorable state and other countries which can export this year, but could Sir Stafford Northcote reminded the deputation sere
what God have joined together let no man burst excitement in the city continued all night, but ample prospects of the Army? Things are not nearly ee bad not do no last year-Germany, France, and Austria- - that if they were going to acquire and accumulate its lik
satipder. Young man, tie a dollar to another dornick measures to prevent a tumult and to reassure the as sine of your correspondents would make out. ehould be able to furnish a total of two or three income it might be at the expense of its customers. If f
and heave it over." That little matter was all settled People had been taken. The main wads and chief There is certainly a good deal of desertion, both of nine, ?la gra a society works upon a very large scale upon in-
nicely, and the young couple breathed again. They streets were occupied by the military, and large bodies good and bad men ; but the former would stay if they Doltish supplies since harvest make up the curious sufficient data, ultimately the customers of the society
were married and proclaimed man and wife so quick of all arms stood to attention all night. The
that it made their heads swim. They could now dare Maharajah himself visited the poets frequeTaly during sew the sergeants and corporals well paid, and the suns of being the same during the peat three years, wo@d be lasers. The question was, how to proter
latter would not go half so often if the police were paid the outcome from farmers' barns being no more this those people. A society like theirs, which was go'
life and brave all the world, especially the eager per- the night. On the morning of thes2and the prisoners a reasonable reward for the apprehension of deserters. plentiful season than in last year's very deficient one on continually adding to its numbers!, might be •
suers who had landed from the beat. They turned were Carnally made over to the Morar authorities, and '
towards the skiff passengers with proud defiance, were immediately placed in irons under a strong Recruiting has been slack this summer, but will im- -in fact that infers that future supplies must come in an unsound basis, and that uneoundume nag'
and suddenly came to their sober senses. The boat European Retard." prove with the cold weather, and such as do come in freely, and will cause millers to act with extreme re• reveal itself for a long time, for as they •
are as good as they have been in our service for the last serve should any temporary winter scarcity occur, in bringing in new members, their contributi
brought over the holy man of Hawsville, whom they The next day the Morar correspondent supplied the eighteen years. When they are enlisted, there would the weekly huports. While the above remarks indicate the society clear, and if there was no w
had engaged to marry them, and his party and the following additional particulars :- ' Nana Sahib states be less discontent among them if the country supplied that present prices are sufficient, and that supplies the society's resets and liabilities, the'
young couple felt a slight colour of shame in their that he hid within ten miles of Cawnpore for three a really free kit, and did not make a man pay 14s, lir exist in large excess of our wants, any serious decline on for years without its being discover
- faces.-Picterial World. months after he was defeated by Havelock on the his first pair of Wellington boota, from the 48e, to the 38e. range of value would be likely was anything wrong in the syste
16th of July, 1857. Thence he went to the Bhoo- There are many other regulations which impoverish to check sudden foreign shipments, and make mately the mischief would be ver
- tan jungles, where he remained in hiding for seven and annoy the men. On the march our gunners lose farmers as a body withhold their corn from market, Government wanted to know how
AMERICAN IDIOMS. years. He lived in General Jenkins's compound at 3id. daily by the new Pay Warrant. On furlou al,
~. for this year is an exceptionally strong one for absorb- against this. He felt the diffic
Ceowhatty, in Assam, for one year, in disguise. Then he too, they only have 2d. allowed them in place or a ing and storing supplies, the number of growers, means an easy task, and the
rent to Bareilly, and lived there for one year, still in ration worth fish., and the Autumn Manceuvres wear merchants and millers who could hold and store wheat fore wanted the assistance of
The New lurk Times publishes the following communica- the same disguise. He left Bareilly for Gwalicr a out a suit of clothes!, for which they get no compeusa- being at its maximum throughout Europe, as the ne with it. The general idea of '
lieu" short time since, and arrived at Sciudiah's capital on tion, but stoppages of pay are made to replace it, cessities of recent deficient years have exhausted was that there should be so'
"No person of observation can travel far, nor tarry Tuesday last. The doctors who have examined him Then this constant shifting about the country keeps
granaries seldom before empty on the Continent. They were not by any
long, in different quarters of our land, peopled as it is differ as to his probable age. Some think it cannot the married men desperately poor ; the ration of meat ' w prices already have withdrawn considerable (plan- societies, if they should d
by the descendants of so many nationalities, without exceed forty, and others are of opinion that his body is-not enough for a growing ad;l and the Education titiee of inferior English wheat from the corn market the Government was th
being impressed by their diversities of speech, which shows signs of age. No orders hate yet been received Department insists on all men attending school, to the uses of farm stock ; but the baker's basket of or regular forms for e
are perhaps more remarkable than the differences in here regarding the trial, or where the prisoner is to be whether they like it or not, until they get a certificate, loaves must always Ise full before any drop out of it into with those tables. r
their manners and customs. I visited New Hemp- conveyed Dr. Tressidder is coming here tomorrow Officers who are really working soldiers, net on the the stoekkeeper's animal trough, and the farmer having given in such a for
shire while a lad, and was impressed with the oddity to examine the prisoner. He was civil surgeon of Staff, or in the Militia, or in Parliament, do not cry secondary wheat ready to hand will often find it on that the Government
of several idioms which were then, and I presume Cawnpore at the time of the mutiny." out for heroic schemes of reconstruction but would be account cheaper as cattle food than the imported corn, given, the asset
are now, a part of the daily speech of the people. Dr. Tressidder examined the prisoner on the morn- quits satisfied if the clerks at the War Office would oats, maim, or barley, which he has to cart from a to so much. 9'
They were certainly unlike anything that I had ever leg of the 25th, and could not identify him. The re- let our new master initiate a few trifling improve- distance, and pay for in cash, Thus the animal takes why the Go
-
heard in New York. Thus, a farmer, desiring to port of this examination states :-" In his opinion the meats in such small grievances as I have panted out, only from man's plenty, never from his scarcity. It but they '
know whether his neighbour's oxen are well broke and I prisoner is too short for Nana. He thinks him too may be remarked this searion that the supply of flour would el
draw e
aw well in the yoke invariably puts the question, young and spare to lie the rig. He also lacks
g ht man The Tunes of wednesday published the flowing :- keeps always in excess of demand, notwithstanding the counts
-great restriction of water power in the East of England there
' Are they handy ? ' In New York the adjective ; „ream surgical marks by which he could be identified.
might well be applied to a useful boy, or a smart ser- . The scar from a carbuncle and a peculiarity of nail "With reference to comments which have recently and in France; and when the winter rains reniove wasvent girl, but never to an animal. In the Granite ; rowing into flesh absent. Voice not the same, appeared on the alleged unsatisfactory state of Re- this obstacle to the manufacture of flour on a full scale, rat
State, also, I have often heard the singular question : growing
different. Colonel Mowbray Thompson will cruiting, we have authority for statingthat Recruiting the market will be exposed to a pressure that has not e•
asked in regard to a particular individual, 'ls he fore- also be here in a day or two to see and, if Possible, for the Army generally is, and has hes 1 for some time yet been felt, the competition of French wheat and
handed?' A stranger hearing such a query for the first identify the prisoner. thColonel Thompson (at the time Past, in a satisfactory condition. Tke establishment of flour not having been possible hitherto. At present
.
time would certainly need to be told that it's almost of the siege of Cawnpore by the Nana, lieutenalet) to- the Army has been complete during the year, and the the number of cargoes arrived and on offer at our port"
the equivalent of the very common 'ls he well off ?' of ;
1 gether with Delaf arse, who belonged to the 53rd, and Recruits though young, are of a good stamp, and more of call is very reduced, and gives sellers an ash-ante.
the Middle States. One of the strangest errore as to two privates, were the onlY Europeans who escaped than meet the requirements of the Recruitersas regards which has enabled them to advance pnces 2s. per
the derivation of an idiomatic word that could well be ' after the capitulation." standard. During the whole of the present year the since Wednesday; but reflection shows that
made was that of a person who insisted that this word On the other hand the Maharajah Scindiah was number of Recruits raised each month has been much scarcity must be only momentary, steamers la
was properly spelled four-handed, and that the pith of positive as to the identity of the captive. The Gwalior in excess of that in the corresponding months of former 100,000 qrs. of wheat, and 210 ships on par
its meaning lay in the fact that a person with two sets correspondent gives the following information :-"On years, and this without any unusual exertions." shipping being due, some at once and a lay
of hands, if such a monstrosity could exist, would be the 21st October the Nana Sahib of Cawnpore was Con within a month. •
able to rake in money very feat. Still another captured by Maharajah Scindiah in person. His These particulars) and the growth of r
peculiarity in New Hampshire speech is the question, brother was with him. They were both disguised as ENTRY OF THE TROOPS INTO IRUN. crop at home, in k ranee, and Germap.
' How do you like?' I never heard the pronoun added; gamins. They were taken in the Chottee Sheila of heavily weight the corn trade this year
whether the interrogation related to a book, a town, a Gunge Does, situated under the walls of the Phool- The following is from the Correspondent of the Globe, like a counterpoise to balance and
new song, or a human being, it invariably ended in this e e
!swig.. They were brought to Kumpoo Kotee, and writing from liendaye, the 12th inst. :-- price of wheat is the high range
abrupt fashion, as though the objective pronoun were were put in irons by the order of the Maharajah. Last evening Generale Laserna and Loma entered now dearer than wheat, 4401 b.
scarce and costly. The use of the word ' level ' for Afterwards they were made over to the Resident by limn. The enthusiasm was not so great as had been 50011). of wheat. Oats, too, a-
• levy' by a sheriff or a constable is very frequent the Dewan. Everybody believes he is Nana. He eupposed, for the pressure of the bombardment had and likely to remain so, fr
among our common people. This, of course, is stated that he lived in Bhootan for seven years after been relieved during the four previous deys, and the plies equal tes consumption
merely a misconception of the cerrect word to be used' the mutiny, but that he never went to Nepaul as place had been almost abandoned by the caroste greater scarcity, and 7s. to'
but, in time, language becomes commted by just such everybody thought. He also said that he afterwards when they withdrew their forces to form the lines of Opposed to these quotas'
raeans. So of the outlandish ' baffoot ' for • barefooL'and went to Assam. Maharajah Scindiah states that he is Gainchuzqueta and San Marcos. This morning a its value, and as there
' baguet' for 'bayonet.' The use of the Americanism quite convinced that the man is Nana Sahib." few companies were sent to possess San Marcial cattle corn becoming
' tote,' to signify ' carry 'or 'bear,' is popularly sup- A Calcutta correspondent adds the statement that in which a few Carliete still remained, and to dis- expect the price of v
posed to be confined to the West and South-'Vest. I the Government had been on the look out for the lodge any they might find in La Penchi's, a ferry do no in most OWNS,
heard it used during the war by a white woman of Vir- Nana for twelve months past. post about two kilometres higher up the river than influences of larr
ginia with ridiculous effect, and with a personal appli- Irun. The line of burning houses along the east market, Engler
cation which, I believe, is not given to it in the West. f
She was standing in the doorway of her house, near The following is from The Tim skirt of San Marcia' and up the bank of the Bidassoa season or seer'es of Tuesday :--
I
Berryville, watching the army pass, when one of our Some time during the evening of the 21st ult. soon showed there was no more refuge left for the irresistible, a-
a i
officers rode up and politely asked if he could buy a loaf letter was brought to Maharajah Scindiah, written by Carliste in that direction. Guipuscoa is now almost low level is-
i
of bread and &canteen of milk of her. She instantly put a moonshi in the service of the Nana elf Bithor. This entirely in the hands d the troops. The Carlists of in Spring
her arms akimbo and delivered herself thus :-• Ne, you letter stated that the Nana wrote to beindiah as one the right and the centre of the line which was broken favoured
can't. We heini got no bread. We hain't got no milk, brother to another; that, having wandered many years yesterday at Gainchuzqueta have passed by the path Exc.
We're clean done gone up a spout; so you can clean in the jungles, he now returned to Hindostan to die; which winds from Lewes over the precipitous Sierra whey
o
tote yourself away from h•yare It is unnecessary to say that he threw himself on Scindiah's protection f Arjachulega into Navarre, and will beyond till 92
that the officer felt constrained to ' tote." Gobble' (literally laid his head in Scindiah's lap), and would doubt oppose the passage of the troops by that way of
'-
OUId It be attempted. Those who were
and ' skedaddle ' were peculiar to the army in war do whatever he was bidden. to Vera, 8h
time, and have not outlived that period, I believe, to On receiving this letter the Maharajah at once driven back from San Marcos have retired on Tolosa,
and if any further operations are to be made by the
any extent They were very expressive words, and gave ordered out 200 of his trove, and proceeded with troops they will probably be in that direction. '
a significant meaning to what wouldotherwise have been them to the outskirts of the Lushkar, where the Nana may seem strange that such a hypothesis is possib'
called ' plunder 'or 'capture,' and' flight.' They were was living. Scindiah seized the Nana with his own but the army returns thmorrow to San Sebastir
used both as verbs and nouns. ' Bummer '-that per hand, and took him to his palace a prisoner. It ale orders from Madrid, which, it is said, further
lectly descriptive word for a military vagabond and pears that the two men had been brcught up together the generals to return to the line of the Ebro,
plunderer-is still heard occasionally in the Press or as boys, though the Nana is some 10 or 11 years older not speculate upon the latter part of this ne-
in common speech, and may possibly survive the war than time Maharajah. Scindiah recognised his former may be untrue, or, at least, may be revoke
long enough to become engrafted upon the language companion instantly, and was still further assured of monetrances of the army or the press,'
with other queer additions of the last two decades. I his identity by the mention of little incidents which opinion ;in any case we return to Sa,
believe the,use of the expression ' outen 'for • out of' had occurred when they were boys, and which could morrow, abandoning the idea of forcing
' is not confined to any locality. I have heard it in not have been known to this man where he not the the Arjachulega range into Navarre.
widely-separated places. , ' Tome,' which appears as person he represented himself to be. On arrival at esthete were surprised at the ease
a dictionary word, signifying a pulling, hauling, or the palace Scindiah at once surrounded it with 3,000 their positions at San Marcos ;
disturbance, has become obsolete almost everywhere in men, and sent off for the Political Agent, who went six battalions, commended by C
this country, though I have heard it used in New immediately (11 p.m.) to the Lushkar, and took down sidered the key of the pesitie
England as the expressions! 'training' and 'cam-eying- the prisoners deposition. the battle the inhabitants of
on are elsewhere used to designate the capers and It IWSB to the effect that he was the son of Bajee general as a traitor, but chr
pranks of exuberant young people. I find that the Rao, the Penthwa, and was known as the "Nana mained there (not at Le.
Great Unabridged contains ' forehanded," tote.' and Sahib" of Bithoer ; that he commanded the rebel letter). The King does
'skedaddle,' The latter is stated to be an importation Sepoye at Crampon because he was compelledsby them the treason SA readily
from Sweden and Denmark, and to have been in use to do no ; that he had nothing whatever to do with the some words of .ympg
among immigrants te our North-Western country for massacre at the ghats, nor with the murder of the by a foreigner, he sr
feeveralyears. The word was certainly never known to women and children afterwards ; that he remained for "(Sue voulez von
the nation at large till the war popularised it, and fur- three months within ten miles of Cawnpore after its vaniquer."
sashed illustrations of its meaning. These slang and re-capture by Havelock's force, and then made his The left of td
cerrupted worth only crowd themeelves into the lexicons way to the jungles of 'Nepal and Bhootan, where he b Valdespir
when their use becomes so prevalent that they can no hid for !seven years; that he afterwards lived, disguised tlie smaller '
longer be ignored; yet it may truthfully be said of SA a fakir, in the compound of General Jenkins at
, of Loma el
nearly each one of them, as the poet sang of Plymouth Assam, for a year-that thence he went to Bareilly, two bat'
Rock-' It lives, it lives, and it ne'er will die." Should and so down to Gwalior, where he had arrived only the n• ,
any person doubt the absolute truth of this assertion, day before. rtlr
let him remember that the word "bully," that slangest
The moonshi who was captured with him, states fro,
of all slang words, which we find in much wider use
that he met the 'Nana at Bareilly ten months ago, and ar
to.day than it Mould be, had an existence in Shake- .eve .
m' , nothing to do, enterer his service, that he i
speare'a time, and was even used by Shakespeare him-
having
the letter to Scindiah at the Nana dictation,
self, am in the 'Merry Wives if Windsor,'
o H w
° 'is 'heat,'lnY but that until then he had no idea who the fakir really
bully rook'' And that 'lam,' in the sense of a" a,__.
or ' punish,' as used by our rowdy element i's-day, was Scindiah, it seems, was unwilling to give up
in uee centuries age with precisely the same signifies-
certain death the man who had thrown himself'
'Mon, sad is to be found in some of the old dramatists.
d his protection, and who is a /vlebratta like hi•
although Welater ignores it. So 'bummer' an
H '• h 1 th f to thee'
He we; es , ere ore, receive a guarantee t
dictionary•makers
'gobble,' though elbowed out by the . . ,
may very possibly go down to a remote posterity, with Nana's life should be spared. Ultimately h
, ,
rs d delivered his prisoner'
feel value." British
aumerous other kindred expressions-a legacy of doubt- t". .1)
persuasion, and
authorities unconditionally.
The Nana was escorted on the 22nd '
200 of Scindiah's cavalry to Morar Ce
THE FRENCH AND GERMAN LOSSES after being received in due form by t'
IN THE LATE WAR. commanffing the district, and ironed
cells of the 26th (('ameronian) T
M. Chenu, Medical Inspector-General of the French officer's guard, his moonshi being
Army, reports the losses sustained by the French in cell. The supposed Nana now
the ever with Germany to have been as follows :- simple fakir, and that he elk
Killed, disappeared, or died of wounds and diseases, He says that the letter he
' 138M71 ; wounded by the enemy's fire, 143,0(0; men . Scindiah is false throughie
disabled by marching, 11,4-1 , 11, 9 • 914 miming are made to the Political Ag
treated es dead. These figures include 2,881 oftisers one was dictated and ti
killed or Who died of wounds and disease and 96 influence of " bhang."
teasing, with 17,240 prisoners who died in Germany, The prisoner is a'
1,701 in Switzerland, and 124 in Belgium. While He wears a long bl
17,249 death', then, occurred in captivity, only 1,220 which is there r
soldiers were killed at Gravelotte, the bloodiest battle that his hair a
of the war. The German losses were :-Killed or ilied been proved.
of wound's or diseases, 40,741; miming and treated as mare figure
Awful, 4.000: wounded, 127,867. To these have to be . cording to
. added 1,795 killed, 6,690 wounded, and 1,0311 miming ' years old
in skinniehes, patrols, and Plight engagement& The •40 in td
Germans had 44,000 deaths, the French 138,871; the . Hee,
Germans 127,000 wounded, the French 143,000. The ever
French had 11,421 men disabled by plaiss de marche hi,
that is, through defective socks, boots, and gaiters',
while the Germans suffered but little from this aurae,
M. Chenu shows that in the Crimea and Italy, as well
as in the last war, disease was more fatal than ti
sword, this being partly attributable is commissar;
outfit, and hospital shortcomings.
A SUGGESTION FROM SWITZET
Switzerland ha.s taken courage from '
the late international peetal negotiatio-
her soil ti open a new question ,if I'
her own account (remarks the P
Within the last few days the '
London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna
have received a circular note fr
merit at Berne, inviting the pr'
to comider the desirability e
mission to improve the iv
as regards goods traffic, r
. fares. It is propose!'
' that, on such a Cu,
by the consent .
shall be invited
commendations ,
,
P

to the addition, of course, of any others suggested
hereafter :—(1 ) The limits of responsibility for the
safety of goods received as shared by the company
which first takes charge of them and the others to
which they are passed on. (2.) The institution of a
competent tribunal for the determination of all doubt-
ful eases. (3.) The fixing of certain necessary forms,
to be universally observed, which shall create liability
for packages transmitted through or beyond the
country in which they are first despatched. (4.) The
making (4 a general rule by which the sender shall
have his own complete remedy against tle company
which undertakes the final delivery of 111( gooti,, if
responsibility for their loss or damage cannot to
distinctly charged to any of those that had the pre-
vious euetotly of them.

plete rest, or, in other words, to give tip eating the
bivalves altogether. The amount of cake, in short, is
limited; and we cannot both eat our cake and have it.
This is but spare comfort, and yet it is hard to see what
other consolation the position allows, when the rout
of the difficulty confessedly lies in the fact that
more oysters are wanted for the table than our
shores afford. Economy, evidently, is our only re-
source, and we must learn to face with due resignation
theiprospect of cod withoutoyster sauce and beefsteak
pudding without its most delicate adjunct. There
was once an ingenious American who discovered that
a round piece of fat bacon rolled in flour and sugar,
and sprinkled with gum arable, made the best pos-
sible oyster in the universe, and far surpassing any
clam ever grown. We have not yet, it is true, come
to artificial oysters; but unless some lucky change
soon occurs for the better, we shall evidently have to
elect, and that before very long, between "patent
American oysters" or no oysters at all.

meeting of members to decide upon the subject of the
requisition, and that no interference by the Registrar
should be offered unless the secretary and managing
committe refuse to call such meeting or refuse to obey
the decision come to by the majority of such members.

Sir Stafford Northcote, in the course of the discus-
sion, said, with regard to many of the Societies carry-
ing on business a great many miles away, it was a
great difficulty for persons so situate to obtain correct
information respecting the soundness of societies, and
that of the other information pertaining to the
societies' welfare were deposited in some.local centre,
to which access would be obtained, it would facilitate
very much the ascertaining the character of the facie
ties. That was the object the Government had in view.
There were a considerable number of persons resident
in many parts of the kingdom anxious to know what they
had to do in the way of joining a friendly society. They
got advertisements from the managers of these societies,
but were unable to form any judgment of their sound-
ness and utility. People sometimes consult a clergyman,
magistrate, or doctor on these subjects. They go and
they say "What do you think about this society?"
and if he has the means of ascertaining at the county
town, or some convenient place, what the character of
the society is, whether it has been properly valued,
and whether it was one conducted fairly and on sound
principles, he is able to say, "This is a good society,
I advise you to join it." If von send him to London.
it is very expensive. The whole thing was difficult of
settlement and was open to discussion.
Mr. Dale replied that their society afforded great
help to its members who were scattered about. He
thought these societies should have some exceptional
kind of legislation. There was evidence that these
societies hatihitherto managed themselves with a very
great deal of success.
Sir Stafford Northcote said in future the Govern-
ment intended to do away with Mr. Tidd Pratt's
usual certificate,--" I hereby certify that the fore-
going alterations of the rules of the Hearts of Oak
Society are in conformity with law." From the pestling
of the Bill there would be merely a registration. Great
difficulties aroek' and false impressions were created by
that certificate in many cases.
Mr. Dale remarked that he believed a great many of
the working o.ea.ses would never have joined the
societies at alrwithout Mr. Tidd Pratt's certificate
being produced ti them. It showed the rules were in
comformity with law.

Sir Stafford Northcote reminded Mr. Dale that it
did not prove it. The advantage of having the certifi-
cate was considerably modified if it were the case
that other societies got it which were not in the same
position and which have rules that were not legal.

-Another Speaker suggested that the Bill if pszsed
should not come into operation until • 1876, to give the
Societies of England time to consider the effect of the
legislation.

out on Monday morning to fetch same milk, and as abs
did not return information was taken to the polio*.
station. Just before it had been received the aathori•
ties had been informed that a girl had thrown herself
from the Suspension-bridge. The toll-keepers em.
ployed on the bridge, Edney and Atherton, were also
examined. The former deposed to his endeavouring
to hold the girl as she WAS suspended from the bridge,
but faded to do so, and the latter testified to his order.
ing deceased off the bridge earlier in the morning, as
her movements led him to suppose that she contempla•
ted suicide. The jury returned A serdiet of Peto de' se.
The coroner said the behaviour of the two officials
connected with the bridge was deserving of commenda-
tion. Mr. B. Coles, secretary of the Bridge Com-
mittee,
.was present during the inquiry to receive any
suggestions l'er preventing suicifes from the l‘ridge,
but none of a practical nature were offered.

Sir Stafford Northcote said he supposed that would
be done. He remembered the evidence of some wit-
nesses called on the Royal Commission went to show
that great objection existed to allowing a gentleman
from the Government to inspect the books of those
societies.

Mr. Dale, speaking for the deputation, said they
would only' be too glad if the Government officer would
insist on going into the office and seeing their books,
it would in all cases act as a protection to societies,
especially where they might happen to have engaged
unknowingly a dishonest man.

Sir Stafford Northcote reminded the deputation
that if they were going to acquire and accumulate its
income it might be at the expense of its customers. If
a society works upon a very large scale upon in-
sufficient data, ultimately the customers of the society
wo@d be lasers. The question was, how to protect
those people. A society like theirs, which was going
on continually adding to its numbers, might be upon
an unsound basis, and that uneounduise might not
reveal itself for a long time, for as they went on
bringing in new members, their contributions kept
the society clear, and if there was no valuation of
the society's assets and liabilities, they might go
on for years without its being discovered that there
was anything wrong in the system, and ulti-
mately the mischief would be very serious. The
Government wanted to know how they would guard
against this. He felt the difficulty ; it was by no
means an easy task, and the Government there
fore wanted the assistance of the societies in dealing
with it. The general idea of the Government scheme
was that there should be some sort of standard tables.
They were not by any means to be forced on all
societies, if they should be adopted. Then the idea of
the Government was that there should be some system
or regular forms for valuation, probably in accordance
with those tables. and that the valuations should be
given in such a form as would show that, according to
the Government table, and according to the results
given, the assets came to so much and the liabilities
to so much. There might be reasons in particular case,
why the Government tables should not be applicable,
but they would be all in a reasonable form, and
would show that according to the Hearts re Oak ac-
counts there were assets of £'20,000 or £30,000, or
there was a deficieacy. What the Government wanted
was a uniform system. One actuary values at one
rate, another at onother, each one arriving at differ-
ent calculations. They therefore wanted, if possible,
to establish some system so as to arrive at a compari-
son. There was a clause providing that on the
requisition of 100 members a society's affairsohould be
investigated. Societies were goingto substitute for this
virtually only an appeal to a general meeting. General
meetings were not fair representations of the interest
of the society. In the case of a small body of members
who were all tolerably near one another, a general
meeting would, no doubt, represent them; but in the
case of a society with members all over the country,
meetings are held at some place like Glasgow or
Liverpool, or some town to which people cannot go
from Norfolk, Cornwall, and such places, the general
meeting may be one at which justice is not really done
to the great number. Therefore it was desirable that
there should be some means of getting an independent
inquiry where there were any special grounds for it.
The suggestion to give proxies to members to vote at
meetings would, he could quite understand, meet
with opposition, but they must remember the very great
difficulty of bringing the members of a large and scat-
tered society together. All certificated rules might be
violated, in the interest of those near head-quarters.
Of course there were instances of packed meetings of
a very rough character and very odd things occurred.
It was difficult to provide a system upon which inde-
pendent inquiry could be made upon any application.
He thought the society might hit upon smile sliding
scale to meet the case. He was much obliged to the
deputation for calling his attention to the points and
for the consideration they had given to them. The
Government was anxious to get AS much as possible
the opinions of those interested in the subject, and
those managing important and excellent societies like
the Hearts of Oak. Nobody could deny that that was
a society of high character, and the Government would
give the most careful consideration to the points they
had brought to his notice.

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