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NEWS aP THE WEEK.



The gale of last week resulted In q
loss Of thirfS-two lives along the eastern
coast Of New Brunswick, nineteen being fish
: :ernien-; Eodr barks and nine schooners were
strsededs and about thirty fishing boats
wrecked.
The Maine Universalist convention, by
adecisiyc majority, has recognized the eligibili-
ty OF woman to the Christian ministry, in an
amendment to the bylaws, which forbids the
committee on ordination to make any discrim-
lnation against candidates on account of
sex.
In the Women's Temperance conven-
tion at Pittsburg, Mrs. DIR. Hill said the wo>
men engaged in this movement are not gem
orally those who desire the ballot, but those
who thought the day would soon come when
men would solicit women to accept the ballot
1t was determined to issue an evening temper-
ance paper.
Fourteen dead bodies have been re.
covered from the ruins of the Central Baptist
church, Syracuse, n. Y, the floors OF which
fell last week during festival The number
of minor Casualties is nearly or quite one
hundred Among them are about dozen per-
SONS with broken limbs and ribs. The cause
ef the disaster was the defective construction
Of the building supporting the truss, which
was composed of planks spinted together.
The italian cooperative Iaborers of
New York city, in published card say: We
claim the right to put such price upon our
labor as may seem to us best We number
twenty-seven hundred artisans and Iaborers,
under seyenty-two foremen. Having heard
that large number of contracts have been
taken at panic prices by builders who cannot |
proceed with their work because of the exist |
;.rt ann-t tnzshzzne.7 etI5ke-.zss-hold s@ss4vsszL
lads-to SontrHct, ,-oz=xurnIzn 7
the necessary force at reasonable rates. All |
we ask is to be allowed to work in peace. The |
record will show that of ninety thousand lod- |
gers in station-houses in the first quarter of
1874 only twenty-seven were Italians
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SO UYH.

The army worm has made its appear
ance on plantations near Monroe La.
1t is reported that the genuine rubber
tree is found on the ST. Johns river, in
Florida.
The courthouse at LAGRANGE, Old
ham county. Kentucky, Was burned to the
ground Wednesday night. Accidental.
A dispatch from Salisbury, N. c.,
states that John Allen Ketchey was hanged
there on the 21st, for the crime of outrage.
Texas leads in making" a crop of
cotton this year, having made hers, and got it
to market. 1t is much heavier than that of
1873.
A little boy named Christopher, aged
five years was run over ard killed by train
the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
last week.
One Of the residents on the st. Johns
river has received an offer from Barnum of
one thousand dollars for live alligator twenty
feet long.
Gen. P. NJ. B. Yorng, member of
congress from the seventh Georgia district,
has declined to accept a prominent military
position rendered him by European power.
The sheriff of Clay county, Mo-, has
sued the st. Louis Republican and the Globe
for libel in their accounts of the killing of
Detective wichey. His damages are $50, 900
in each case.
The Duchess of Oneida, two year
old heifer, purchased by W. J.. Alexander at
New York (AInl's sale) last fall for 5000,
died on Alexander farm, Woodford county, KY,
of pneumonia.
Farmers in Louisiana, after all their
misfortunes. are generally hopeful of moder-
ately good crop, both of cotton and corn.
Along the rivers they follow the receding wa
ters with their planting.
Mart Simmons, a conductor on the
Baltimore and Ohio got his foot fastened in a
rail at Renwood W. Va, last week and before
he could extricate himself, an approaching
train ran over him, completely cutting him to
pieces
A shooting affray occurred at Helena,
Arkansas, last week, between W. R. Burke,
editor of the World and G. A. Otley, editor of
the Independent. in which some half dozen
shots were fred, but nobody hurt. The diff
Guilty grew ont OF personal articles in the
respective papers
A Courier Journal special reports a
heavy incendiary fire in Richmond Sunday
cto4IAn6 IL a AfeIy 5tdDlo ana burning
down carriage factory, hotel and sixteen
business houses Three horses were burned.
No fire department, and high wind. Loss,
ninety Thousand dollars.
At st. Louis, last week, VIM. Myers,
deck hand, had an alteration with Pat Dom
nelly and Joe Hawkins, cooks on his boat,
during which Hawkins knocked him down and
Donnelly stabbed him three times with butch
or knife, infiicting wounds from which he died
Hawkins was arrested, Donnelly is at large.
conversation Gov. Smith is repor-
ted to have said that the two roads of which
the state of Georgia has taken charge for
failure to meet the interest ON bonds-the
Macon and Brunswick and North and South
railroads--are making expenses He has
hopes he win be able to sell them both next
winter.
Gov. Moses. of South Carolina.
has pardoned three county commissioners
Of Banwell, lately convieed of curruption
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The Dismal Swamp.

The next neighbors to the Dismal
Swamp want its name changed, so that
they can sell their real estate; Inc
SuffcSk Herald says that people write
that the country must be dreary and
gloomy, indeed, and they fear that they
could not always live under Iog-tney
must have some sunshine. How little
do they imagine that instead OF DIS
NAL, dreary, foggy wilderness, the
swamp in question is now clothed WIZ VIII,
a beautiful foliage. The graceful
cypress, the stately juniper, the yeiiow,
Jasmine and climbing woodbine, sweel
honeysuckle and fragrant laurel, are Oh
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GENERAL.

z letter of Lyman K. Bass, declining
the appointment of assistant secretary of the
treasury, has been received.
The customs receipts for the week
ending June 25: New York, 81 ,64s, III Phil
adelphia, s216, 1868; Boston, s2SO,SS
E twin Booth has retired from the
stage-for year. His nervous system is in
such state that he must have some rest, or
go to his final resting-place.
A dispatch from Peekskill states that
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Moorish Women.

The Moors, unlike the Othellos If our
childish fancy ARE simplylArabs who live
in towns and have intermarried with
other races. They have the same
straight features, oval faces, and clear
brown skins, only a good deal fairer
than the nomad Arab. But their dress
lis different. They wear a turban or
Fpiece of white muslin wound round
little red shdshea, or skull cap, jacket
of bright colored cloth, and two waist
coats, richly embroidered, full trousers,
bare legs, and large loose shoes. The
dress of their women out-of-doCr IS the
haik of their Arab sisters but indoors
they wear a gauze chemise, with short
sleeves, wide trousers, bare legs, and
yellow 6dbOuches, or slippers. Their
beautiful black hair is simply knotted
behind the head, while a little velvet
shaShea, richly embroidered, is placed
coquettishly on one side. A hind of
vest of the. same material is sometimes,
.SssstsI4 sssss a IsTs[ 4 80 3! ssss
or sapphires, wretchedly set, and often
pierced through the middle or strung
on pack thread but still genuine pre-
cious stones. No Arab will wear
false stone, and or that reason they
prefer that they should not match, as
they always suspect the regularity of
our English jewels. AS to their posi-
tion with regard to the other sex, 1t is
no better than that of the Arabs. They
are utterly uneducated, and the rich
and those of high rank never leave
their own houses. We went to see one
of them, the Princess--, who had
little girl of five who was fance to a
little boy-cousin of six, the most sulky
impersonation / ever saw of a small
Moor. This lady told us that formerly
she had been allowed by her husband
to go on the terrace of the house, but
that now it had been glazed over. She
had never en- any of her own rela-
tions since she was a little child, and
never went beyond those four walls. If |
the parents are poor, the advent of a |
girl is looked upon as a positive mis- |
fortune by both Arabs and Moors. !
When a boy comes into the world, the |
wife is presented with a beautiful cir
cular dsEooch to fasten her haik but |
blows ah curse are her only reward |
for producing one of the other sex.
Luce and the Sisters of Char
lty are striving to raise these poor little
things. from this miserable position,
and bA Ateaching them needlework and
smoroTfry, 10 enable them 10 2et slt.
better-class houses. One of
-hese children was servant in the prin-
cess's household which have Just men
toned, and a more faultlessly beautiful
ace / never saw, with soft, almond
shaped eyes and the most winning
smile. But, alas for her, poor child,
Ihould her master cast his eyes upon
Ter beauty Lady Her5erfS "At-
yeria,"
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soMETImE.

Well, either you-or l,
After whatever is to say is said,
Must see the other die,
or hear, through distA -se. o. the other dead,
And you or must hide
Poor empty az as and faces wan and wet
with Iife's great xrief, beside
Sometime.
And you and must loQk
X into the others grave, % far or near,
Aud read, as in book
Writ in the dust, worus we made bitter here,
Sometime.
Then. through what pattn Of dew,
what fush Of fiSwers,~iiat glory in the grass,
Only one OF us two,
Even as shadow walking, bl nd may pass,
Aud. if the nestling song
Break from the bosom Of the bird for love,
No more to listen long
One shall be deaf \belov--one deaf above,
Sometime.
For both must lose theNey
\ Wherein we walk toge,AFf very soon;
Hone in the dusk shalI sAgs
The other first shan re the,rising moon,
Sometime.
Oh fast, fast friend pffsnsi
!; m
Say may kiss through tears,
Forever falling and forsSer cold,
One ribbon from sweet years,
One dear dead lesS, one precious ring of gold,
Sometime.
Say you may thiHk with pain
OF some slight grace some timid wish to please
Some eager look half vain
Into your Leart, some broken sObs like these
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Whore is the antarctic Continent !

1t has long been a disputed question
whether the Arctic Ocean was an open
sea, and whether at the South Pole
there was land. The late Lieut.. Maury
had an ingenious theory that opposite
to land we would always find water,
and hence If there was an ocean about
the North Pole there must be n conti-
nent at the South Pole. This theory
has seemed to have been confirmed by
many discoveries of land in the south
streIcn Oh cOasb IIuo WHICH las fOuK
borne the name of the Wilkes Antarc-
tic Continent, which Wilkes claimed
to have seen in January, 1910. Its ex-
istence has often been called IN ques-
ton. The letter which we publish
from Lieut. Hynes, of the Challenger,
to DIR. Hayes, shows that no such land
exists that Wilkes saw, in fact, moth
ing but icefields and icebergs.
Thus we see one problem after an
other solved with the greater accuracy
and perfection of scientific appliances
but is not often that a whole continent
is so suddenly bowled down, rs 1t were
but one of set of ninepin', on the
general plan of progressive science.
Notwithstanding, however, that the
Challenger has in point of fact sailed
over the land of Wilkes, yet we must
believe that land does exist in the vicin-
1ty of tie South Pole; for otherwise,
while Whatever ice might be formed
upon He sea, icebergs could not be ere
ated, inasmuch as land is necessary, the
iceberg being fragment OF the glacier,
which is always of mountain origin,
and, according to the best accounts,
iceberg<1re more numerous and larger
in the antarctic than in the Arctic seas.
The truth is, we know too little about
either of these dreary regions of the
earth. In the interests of commerce
neither of the poles are likely to prove
of greater value thsa for the capture of
whales, sea elephants and seals but to
science they are of infinite Importance,
and in the new awakening of geographi-
cal exploration they cannot much longer
be simple "myth to the Ignorant and
wonder to the wise. ."-Nea0 York Her
IL
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every hand, and under a May-day sun
the appearance is more like the poets
dream of Arcadia than adismal swamp.
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British Cities.

The register-general makes the tol,
lowing estimate of the population OF
the great towns of Great Britain IN the
midlle of this year 1874 /: London, B.
400. M; Liverpool, 510,670; GLASGOW,
sos, ,iB; Manchester, 335, S39 Stafford
133.O6 Birmingham, $50. .sS2 Dublin,
314, ,666; Leeds, 279. 793 Sheiield'
261 .O19; Edinburgh, 211 ,69l Bristol
100 $50 bradford, 173, ,O56 Newcastle
nnon.Tyne, 1876. 43S; Hull, 1SO, 996
portsmouth,, 40, 4S6; Brighton with
suburbs), 109, ,319; Leicester, 1O6,2O2
Sunderland, 104,97S.
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THOMAS Hoop died composing and
that, too, humorous poem. lie is
ing ont of charity to the undertaken,
who wished to urn lively Hood.
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in Office, and sentenced respeetivBE to
three, nine and ten years in the peniten-
tiary. The convicted officials, on their way to
prison, boasted that Gov. Moses would not
dare allow them to remain in the penitentiary
one month,
Several of the most prominent citi-
zens have formed themselves into a bridge
monument association for the purpose of
erecting colossal bronze statue of Jas. B.
Eads chief engineer of the bridge at st.
Lotus, with an appropriate inscription thereon
of all his associates in the work of planning
and erecting the great structure. The project
is to be carried out by voluntary subscriptions.
A dispatch from New Orleans says,
about hundred longshoremen attacked fifty
laborers in Bayles' coal yard in Algiers with
clubs and bricks, I'm a most violent manner,
driving them from their work, severely wound
ing two. The assailants took possession Of
the yard, but were finally driven out by the
police Ihe men working in the yard were
receiving less than the union rates, and did
not belong to the Algiers union. Threats of
further violence are made.
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THE manufacturers of baby wagons
look with alarm upon the proposed sup
preston of the Mormons.
The New York herald., 1874-07-17
THEODORE THOMAS, CLASSICAL CONCERT.

Thursday night being the special occasion of the
week at the Central Park Garden for programme
OF unusual interest," 1t was not surprising to find
the charming metropolitan summer resort
crowded with an assemblage to which the term
fashionable may be fifty applied. glance at the
bill will show what a rare feast OF music was pre-
pared for the occasion March, "Vom Fels Zum
Meer" Liszt; Overture, "The Tempest manu-
scrpt), Sullivan; Romance In G, op. 40 Beethoven
''Julinacntn new, George Riemenschnclder (;
overture, Scherzo Finale, op. 52, Schumann; !;
Fine Faust overture, Wagner; Vorspie Lore
ley" Max Bruch Waltz, "Koenigslieder,n strauss (;
Ballet, "Robert lie Dtable,n Meyerbeer; March,
'Dueppler Sturm, F" Pietke.
Passing over the blatant production OF the crazy
aDbe, we have nothing but terms Of praise Tor
Arthur Sullivans beautiful work. q most scho-
arly and artistic piece Of workmanship. Mr.
Thomas should In view OF the success attending
fantastic creation give more extracts from the
works oil the eminent English composers. Sut
van, Bennett, Benedict and half dozen other
names might be cited as worthy sources from
which 10 draw materials for programme.
Riemenschneider, we understand, Is q very young
composer, and, Judging from his symphonic poem,
q very ambitious one, too. Yet he seems to be 20
thoroughly impregnated with the spirit of the
Iukunt school, without the inspiration or expe-
perence necessary to put his crude Ideas in palata
be shape, that, IN our opinion, less mistaken am
bition and more naturalness would be OF service
to Mr. Riemenschneider. A large number Of the
patrons OF the Central Park Garden concerts call
earnestly for Operatlc ensembles ike the quintet
from "Ernani" the sextet, "Luci," the quartet,
.'Rigoetto," &c, TO be placed on the bills more
frequently. sprinkling Of such mnslc would
serve to relieve the tatigued mind from an hour
wlth Wagner. MAX BruSn OK Liszt.
The New York herald., 1874-07-17
MAINE POLITICS.

A Republican Nominee ON the Sound
Measures of the Last Congress.
AUGUSTA, July l6, 1874.
Hon. Eugene Hale has accepted the Congress.
sonal non inatiOn rendered him by the republicans
OF the Fifth district. In his letter OF acceptance
he briefly reviews the principal work done at the
last session OF Congress and commends the sound
measures passed. for which the country Is in
debted to the republican party. He thinks that
no man should assail the republican majority in
Congress without a careful examinatio of its real
work. When that Is realized Mr.. Hale has no fear
that 1t Will not be appreciated. Referring to the
free trade plank In the platform Of the Maine
democracy, he says:-
''r 1t means anything, 1t means that system OF
taxation should be adopted that would treble the
burdens OF our taxpayers, admit 10 our cOasting
trade vessels built by our provincial neghbors and
shut up In silence and decay every snipyard on
our coast, when Is just beginning to resume some
OF its old prosperlty.o
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NGLAND.
The Public Worship Regulation Bill Unop-
posed-A Bad Example by Conservative
Reformers-Admiralty Award in
the Case of the Amerique

LONDON July 16, 1874.
In the House OF Commons tonight Mr.. Glad
stone Withdrew his resolution against the Public
Worship Regulation bill in consideration OF the
unanmity of the vote in its favor on its second
reading.
4 LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE CONTRADICTS THE PRN-
ClPLE.
Mr.. Albert Grant, liberal conservative member OF
the House OF Commons for kiddermnster has
beer unseated for corrupt practices in his cleo
t0ral canvass.
ADMIRALTY AWARD IN THE CASE OF THE AMER1QUE.
The Admiralty Court has awarded the owners OF
the steamer Spray $77.OOo the E. r. Barry $4,000
and the Auburn $500 salvage for towing into
port the abandoned French steamship Amerique.
NOTED COMEDIAN EMBARKED FOR NEW YORK.
John Lawrence TOoie, the comedian, sailed for
New York to-day In the White Star steamship Re-
public.
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w A S HIN CT Q NJ.

WASHINGTON, July 16, 1874.
General Spinner and the Treasury De-
pnrtmcnt.
Concerning the rumored complications between
General Spinner and the Treasury Department it
Can be stated that ne has written a letter TO the
President containing his views relative to the
management OF his bureau. 1t is known the Cen
eral has uniformly taken the ground that as he Is
pecuDiarily responsible for its transactions and
mas given heavy bond. the appointment OF his
suboroinates should he controlled by himself irre
spectlve OF the application OF the civil service rules
TO his bureau.
Coliectorship OF the District or Columb hi q. .
Lewis Ciephane, Collector OF Taxes 10. the Dis
trIct Of Co umba, having res gned, the Comniis-
soners to-day appointed to tnat position Jonu r.
COOK (colored) wno for several years past had
held the once OF Register and discharged It's
duties with credit and general acceptance. being
In no way involved In the troubles OF the late Dis
trict government.
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THE ENGLISH TURF.
Liverpool July Meeting-The Race for the
Cup-Blantyre the Winner.

LONDON, July 16 1874.
The Liverpool July meeting commenced yester-
day.
The race for the Liverpool Cup was won by Mr..
PAnsOn's bay colt Blantyre, by Adventurer dam
BOnny Bell There were thirteen starters The
betting just before the race was to 2 against
Blantyre, IL To L against Selser Bill and II to l
against Restless.
SUMMARY.
Mr.. FAnsOn's b. c. Blantyre, years old, by Ad-
venturer dam BOnny Bell. Be....................
Mr.. +. Dukes b. C. Selser Bill. years old, by
ExChequer, dam Southern Cross. ............. 2
Mr.. I. GOlby's br m. Restless. years ola, by
Crest, dam Lady Middleton. .................. 3
[Bantyre ran but once as two-year-Old, this
being for the Rutland Stakes OF f3OO, two fur
longs, making dead heat with BeacOnsfeld, by
King Tom Periwig was bad third. Reacons-
field afterward walked over and the money was
dtvtded.-ED HERALD.1
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HURRICANE AT LOWELL, MASS.

Churches and Other Buildings Demsl-
fshed-R4ilrOa Property DestrOyed-
McLnughlin's Opera House Struck by
Lightning.
LOWELL, July 16, 1874.
thunderstorm and hurricane passed over this
city between twelve and one O'Clock z. NJ, demo-
ishing chlmneys and flooding the streets and Gel
lars. The damage to buildings was immense. The
steepe OF the FIRST Congregational church. in Mr.
rimack street, Was blown completely OIL, fell on an
adjoining block and badly shattered the roofs OF
houses Part OF the root OF the Shattuck street
Unlversallst church was blown into the street. A
large tree in ST. Anne's churchyard was blown
down, de nOiishlng fence IN irOnt or the church.
The Brancn street church, a wooden structure,
was lett IN ruins. The dome of the locomotive
house OF tine Boston, Lowell and Nashua Railroad
Was carried awav. The nigh orick chlmney vi tue
Davis Meendey sawmlll was blown down.
lightning struck the stable oil MIR. Ii. +. Morse, in
Merrimack street, SCATTERING the roof II also
struck McLauehlIns Orera House IN Market street.
Hundreds Oi trees were either partially or totally
demolished Chmneys were torn TO pieces aud
O her damage done to an extent which 1t IS impos-
sibie to ascertain ut the present tlme The storm
Is the worst hat Lowell has experienced for up
ward TWENTY-FIVE years.
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CUBA.
Spanish Reports Of the Progress Of tho Cam
paign-A Severe Battle-sickness at Havana

HAVANA, July 10, 1874.
The following are extracts from tie semi
monthly otiiclal report OF the campaign
''ln the Eastern Department small column Of
Spanish troops operating in the hills near ManZa-
Milo discovered camp of the enemy and attacked
them, killing SIX insurgents"
"A band OF insurgen 8, numbering 600, was dis
covered near Banes, and column OF inIantry
artillery and flying guerilas went from Holguln IN
pursuit."
''n the Central Department o small force OF
Spanish guerlas encountered the insurgents near
San Miguel, IN Nuevitas. A battalion was sent out
to help the guerillas, but failed to encounter the
enemy"
SPANISH LOSSES IN A SEVERE BATTLE.
convoy from Puerto Principe, bound i0r San
Antonio CamugerO, was attacked by the insur-
gents in force. Tue convoy lost four officers and
seventy-seven men killed and wounded. The less
OF the insurgents was also considerable.
SICKNESS AT HAVANA.
Many fatal cases OF vOmitO have occurred In the
shipping and some In the city. Smallpox Is also
prevalent.
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SPAIN
The Carlists Repulsed at Puigcerda-Cue in
Danger Royali't Reso We at Bilbao.

MADRID, July 49, 1874.
TIE Carlfsts abandoned the siege of Puigcerda
after suffering the repulse OF a second assault.
THE AMBIENT CITY IN DANGER.
The Carlists beslegng Cuenca have occupied
houses in the suburbs OF the city. RenfOrcements
for the besieged republicans have arrived from
Madrid, and the city is being energeticay de-
tended.
Marshal SerranO has deferred his trip to La
granja until the Carllsts have been driven from
CuenCa.
CARLIST RESOLVE AT BILBAO.
The Carlsts have ordered one republican prisoner
to be shot Tor every shell fired by the government
Meet or Bilbao.