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The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-12-09

Tor the preservation Of our institutions.
They are worth preserving, because they
have selected the greatest good to the
greatest proportion Of the population
oi any form OF government yet devised.
All other forms of government approach
IL; first, in proportion to the general diff
fusion OF education and independence #
thought and action as the primary step.
therefore, to our advancement in all tiA
has marked our progress ia the past centn-
~, suggest for your earnest consideration,
and most earnestly recommend ii, as q
constitutional amendment, 10 be submitted
TO the Legislatures OF the several States for
ratification, making it the duty of each OF
the several States, TO establish and forever
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-12-09

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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03
The Classification of Sheep.

Delaine is the generic French word
forswool, though it has become used to
designate fabric composed of cotton
and worsted, which is known in market
by the formation of colored patterns
similar to calico on two or more frabics
composed of cotton worsted or silk.
The fabric originated mainly in the
effort of French to rival the English in
the production of combing wool from
the Spanish merino. The rambouletts
produced a wool which worked well
under the comb, and was too fine for
the ordinary hosiery and stuff goods for
which the English woods were so amira-
bly, suited. The French struck out a
new industry from their own wool which
the English could not initiate because
they did not have a supply of combiDg
wool OF merino blood. A good delaine
wool must contain merino blood, and
length and strength of staple. In New
Zealand the English manufacturers are
stimulating the wool growers to develop
a new industry and they are now pro-
ducing very desirable delaine wool by
crossing the Cotswold or Leicester ram
on the merino eve. The result is a
heavy carcass, heavier fleece, longer
staple, and altogether a more profitable
sheep. A good deal of that kind of
wool has been imported into New York
from New Zealand during the past year,
and has commanded prices superior to
their best Australian woods. I have
urged, and still urge, the farmers who
have merino ewes to cross them with
Cotswool ram, SIS thereby they will add
to the value of their focks in a marked
degree. Merino or grade merino which
have leng h and strength of staple is
delaine wool, while the English mutton
sheep is the sheep for combing wool.
That is the classification of breeds.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03
Japanese Fan Decoration.

A New York correspondent Of the
Boston Gazette says: What do You
suppose our people of taste are using "a
decorate their honses with ? / don,t
mind putting you on the track, for ]
shall have laid in my stock before this
letter gets in print. They are using
nothing more or less expensive than
Japanese fans-the kind you buy for
three cents a piece. fear, though, ms
soon as the dealers find out they are
worth more to us, that they will raise
the price. For a couple of dollars you
can get some beautiful specimens of
Japanese art, and unless you have tried
it you have no idea how beautiful 1t is
for decoration. Stick two or three fans
behind a picture, or up against the
chimney piece, or back in the shelves
where you keep your old china. heard
of a lady the other day who had a Dor
der of these fans running around her
parlor wall. A young artist 1 know
lives in a rented house which has q very
ugly plaster center piece on the parlaE
ceiling. He could not afford to get q
new one, so he has the offensive piece
stuck full of brilliant fans. Alma
Tadema had his beautiful drawing
room on the banks of the Thames deco
rated with these fans, and the effect
was striking and beautiful. Japanese
wall paper is expensive and hard TO get;
so that we who have not the wealth of
Mr.. Russell Sturges have to content
ourselves with the fans, for which we
are truly grateful.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03
Queen vic's Common Kindness.

In noticing the English Gypsy
songs" by Miss Tuckey, we omitted TO
mention that one of the poems in the
book, entitled "Told near Windsor" is
founded on an incident in the q leen's
life, but little known out OF tho
charmed Rommany circle. One bitter
wintery day, when the snow was lying
thick all over Windsor park, a gypsy
family were crossing it, when the tent
had TO be suddenly pitched, the pangs
of labor having overtaken the mother.
A few sticks were hurredly gathered,
but there was hardly any time to
scrape away the snow and get the fire
lit before the gypsy woman gave birth
to twins. The park-keepers, of course,
came up, and ordered the tent TO be
taken off the ground. But the birth Of
the twins in the snow under her windows
reached the ears of her majesty, who at
once sent food and drink and clothing 10
the wanderers. Amongst the presents
were some babies wooden stockings, knit
by her majesty's own hands, and pair
of blankets, which, but q short time be-
fore, had lain on state bed. Gypsies
repeat this with great pride, and "the
socks knitted by the Queen Of the
Gorgios are frequently referred 10 by
them when they speak of deeds Of
thoughtful and timely charity. The
AthenCe1Dl.
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The POetical BedOuin.

A writer says: The Bedouins pride
themselves on having much more intel
Hgence and refinement, romance and
poetry than the settled Arab races: they
have an especial contempt for the fella-
hin. One day Bedouin threw this in
the face of Christian fellah. They
had some high words about it, upon
which the Bedouin said, 'Well, thou
shalt come to our tents. will ask my
daughter but three questions we will
note her answers. [ will accompany
thee to thy villa ge, and thou shalt ask
thy daughter the same three questions,
and we will compare her language with
my daughters Both are uneducated.
My daughter knows naught but Natures
language. Thine may have seen some
thing of towns or villages and passers-
by, and have some advantage over
mine"
They went to the camp.
Bedouin father-"O my daughter !"
Girl" Here am, o my father -
Father" Take our horses and picket
them"
The ground was stony and she ham
mered st the peg.
Girl" My father, knocked the iron
against the stone, but the ground will
not open to receive her visitor"
"Change it, o my daughter ~
At dinner her father knew he had
rice on his beard, and that the girl was
ashamed.
"What is it, o my daughter ?"
''My father, the gazelles are feeding
in valley full of grass p
He understood, and wiped his beard.
"Wake us early, o my daughter |"
eyes, my father"
She called him ''My father, the light
is at hand"
"How dost thou know, o my daugh-
ter p
'sThe anklets are cold to my feet l
smell the flowers on the river bank, and
the sun bird is singing"
Thence they went to the fellah's vii
lage. It was now his turn.
FeIlah-"My daughter p
Girl" What do you want, father ?"
''Take our horses and picket them.
The ground being hard, she hammered
uselessIy, and losing her temper, threw
down the stone, crying
"I have knocked it so hard, and it
won't go in"
"Change it then, girl"
At dinner he purposelY dropped some
rice on his beard. She pointed at
him, began to laugh, and said, "Wipe
your chin, my father"
On going to bed he said, "Wake us
early, my daughter. %
"Yes, father" she replied.
"Father," she called at dawn, "get
up; it is daylight l''
&c How do you know, my daughter ?"
"My stomach is empty; I want to
eat"
The fellah was obliged to acknowledge
the superiority of Bedouin household
over his own.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03
RarihRldi in Rome.

A writer from Rome in the E 1ropean
Review says: The salvation of Rome
from inUndatiOn forms but small por-
ton of General Garibaldi's whole
scheme, which embraces nothing less
than the redemption of the entire
Roman Campana, the retaining of the
waste lands of the Agro Romano, the
amelioration CT the sanitary condition of
Rome and its neighborhood. This
theme is too vast to be even touched
upon in the present article, but it is
even more important than the one of
which we have treated, for it must be
borr in mind that even when Rome
shall be preserved from inundation il
does not by any means follow that it
will be preserved from malaria, which
malaria is derived, not from exhalations
of the Tiber, as some have enormously
supposed, but from the inert soil and
the noxious vapors and gases that arise
from the innumerable swamps, bogs,
fens, and marshes in which the Cam
pagna abounds. One thing is certain,
that in this, as in all other undertakings
of his life, Garibaldi, having once put
his hand to the plough, will not turn
back till his work is done. We have
been with him in many phases of his
eventful life; wandered with him along
the olive-clad mountains of his native
Nice, listening to his variations of past
battles fought for his country, to his
aspirations for the future; we have
stood by him in the hour of triumph.
when from the Volturno he teIegraphed
to Europe "Victory along all the line :"
we have watched by his bed of pain,
upon which the roval bulIet uinped
from the "Bitter Mount" had laid him;
we have gone through the French cam
paign with him, so fraught with difficul-
ties and dangers that were not merely
military and now our last memory of
him is as we left him yesterday in his
wooded seclusion of Frascati, studying,
in utter solitude, maps and charts of
the Roman Campagna, absorbed en-
tirely in studies for the achievement of
the material amelioration of the con-
dition of the people to whose moral
development his whole life has been
devoted.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03
Crown Studs la Russia.

There are seven crown studs in Rus
STA and one in Poland, containing
altogether 8, 602 brood mares and horses,
with twelve crown stables having $40
stations. The Carjanov stud, pur-
chased by the crown thirty years ago
from the heirs of Count 0rlof, is di-
vided into three sections, one devoted
to pure English horses, another to sad
die horses, and the third to trotting
horses. The Derkuli stud breeds Eng.
lish carriage horses, the New Alexar-
drov, kind of half blood saddle horse,
the Simarevsk thoroughbred Arabs,
and the Strjeletzl Oriental horses. In
the OTenburg stud horses are bred for
the light cavalry and the artillery
Russia further possesses 2, 444 private
studs, having 6, 496 stations and about
10000 brood mares, besides upward
of $4,000 stations ana $40. 900 brood
mares in the Capack and steppe "tabu-
nes." Horse breeding has increased
on private estates since the emancipa-
ton of the serfs, and many of the studs
have been broken up, and have passed
in part into the hands of the peasantry.
In Russia there are $50 horte fairs, at
which about 10000 animals are al
nually sold, out of about 263, 900 are
brought to market. The average price
OF horse is 60 roubles-about $50.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03
The Last London 5, nsatiOn.

The great sensation of the week has
been the arrest, on a charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses, of the
Messrs. Collie, the great merchants who
failed last June. This is something
like arrssting Lord & Taylor, or Arnold
& Constable, or A. T. Stewart, for
swindling. The Messrs. Collie had for
many years carried on a very extensive
trade with India. When they failed
their liabilities were said to be about
three million pounds or nearly fifteen
million dollars and about half of this
amount was represented by bills or &C.
acceptances which the London banks
had discounted. It is now charged that
the formerly great trade of the Collies
had dwindled down to a very small
point, and that for some time past they
had been only pretending to do bust
ness. They had houses in different
places, and the charge is that these
houses drew bills on each other, pre-
tending that they were goods actually
sold or bought, and marking them with
figures and letters pretending to repre-
sent certain bales or cargoes. These
fictitious bills, as is charged, were then
taken TO the banks end discounted as
1CSu1d1 EIdOO DlllSy "HOn LII ldNb bhCJ
were not only accommodation paper, "
but actually frauds. The Messrs. Col
lie were arrested few days since. One
of them lives in a splendid mansion IN
Kensington, which was furnished at a
cost of forty thousand pounds; the
other resides at Manchester. They were
brought before the magistrate at Guild
hall, and after the charge against them
had been stated they were remanded for
a week. The magistrate said he must
hold them to bail in large sum, and
four thousand pounds each was named
as the figure. It was then late in the
day, and the friends of Collie were not
prepared for what had happened. The
prosecution, moreover, insisted on forty
eight hours to examine into the respon-
sibility of the bail that might be offered =;
and so there was no remedy for the fur
ther disgrace that awaited the accused.
They were conveyed to Newgate and
there locked up, like any common Grim
inals would be. The next day there
were plenty of their friends ready to
bail them, but the prosecution took its
time, and it was two days before the
necessary formalities were gone through
with and the prisoners liberated. Their
trial will be regarded with great interest
here. The practice of negotiating ac-
commodation bills as " trade bills" is
a very common one. There are even
houses which accept such bills for a
commission. If the Messrs. Collie are
convicted severe blow will be struck
at this practice. But it will be very
difficult to convict them. I am told
that it will be shown that the banks
which discounted their paper knew per-
fectly we'll the nature of the bills, and
took their risks with their eyes open.
London Cor. NeaO York Graphic.
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ROehefOrt and CassagBac's COmplI-
ments TO Each Other.

In his letter challenging M. Paul dt
Cassagnac to fight a duel with him, M
Rochefort said: "The abuse for which
l ask satisfaction from you contains a.
the same time an engagement on YOU
part, from which it is impossible fol
you to withdraw. Be good enough 10
start Immediately for Geneva with your
seconds. Mine await you. You will
not invoke legal interference, as You
did with regard to M. Clemenceau. j
am not pardoned, pardon being only
granted to those who ask it ; but 1 am
free. 1 demand the satisfaction which
you declare yourself prepared to grant
beforehand, and beg You, moreover,
to prevent your honorable father from
warning the project of police. My two
friends, Puissant and Bowler, who
will hand this letter to you, will under
take to transmit your answer" In his
reply to this Mr.. de Cassagnac wrote !:
''Since you have had the condescension
to write to me permit me not to be.
midland to give you counsels. in
the first place do not put any armor
about you. It is good thing once in a
way; it would not be fair a second
time. Since 1 do not care about per
petuating meetings of this kind, /
should very mucn wish that this not
over-convenient way of wearing n shirt
of mail should not save your life as was
once the case with me. Next, do not
forget your bottle of English smelling
salts. Your faintipg fits have remained
famous, and l should be very sorry to
go so far as to unlace your stays and
administer perfumes to you"
The seconds of both individuals met,
but as already announced, they could
not agree to terms.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03
COnVicts in Georgia.

Colonel John T. Brown, keeper of the
penitentiary of Georgia, has supplied
the Atlanta Herald with the following
information The whole number of
convicts is about 800; one-tenth of
these only are white. The ratio is one
of decrease in the number of white con-
victs, and an increase of colored. OF
the 800 there are thirty women, one of
whom is a white woman convicted of
murder. The rates of mortality for this
year is about the same as last. Last
year there were forty deaths out of 700
reported for the whole year. For the
seven months of the present year there
have been thirty deaths out of 800.
The health of the various gangs through
the state has improved considerably of
late. Those at work on farms are the
healthiest, but the percentage of es-
capes is greater. The number of es-
capes so far is twenty FIVE; one third
less than last year. Greater efficiency
in capturing those who make their
escape is apparent, A heavy increase is
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03
Atmospheric Phenomena in Italy.

A Rome letter to the London Echo,
dated July 10, runs as follows Padre
Secchi publishes an account of the sin
oular phenomenon which occurred at
Velletri during the violent thunder
storm of June %, and which is TO be
ranked among the hitherto unexplained
caprices of nature. Just as the tempest
was at its height, and the rain torrental,
six persons taking shelter in a stable,
which was also occupied by three horses
harnessed to as many wine-carts, wit
messed the following extraordinary APP
pearance: A luminous mass rose from
the threshold of the door, entered the
stable, slided from one cart to another,
attracted, probably, by those fringes of
bells characteristic of the Roman wine
carts. and then passed through an IRON
grating into the street. The bells rang,
the horses plunged, a woman and man
felt a certain giddiness, but no accident
happened. Outside the stable car
penter, at his shop-door, saw the lumin-
Gus mass (Which some of the witnesses
compared to fiery club as thick as a
mans ARM issue from the grating,
strike the pavement, and disappear in a
dazzliEg flash. However, the meteor
visited several portions of the large
house with which the stable was con-
nected, few through large chambers,
blackening fragments of plaster in an
other. Strangest of all, this extraordi-
nary visitor, after completely destroying
the new ceiling of room leading into
a vast kitchen, danced round woman
who was standing at a table. She
described the meteor rs fiery serpent,
which she first saw standing upright on
the floor, within two metres distance OF
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project at Cherbourg, but refused, upon
the ground that his presence was needed
In Paris. He time and again averred
his conviction that he was a doomed
man, and showed himself both vacil-
lating and irresolute in his condHct,
and extremely nervous. He was told
that he was perfectly safe since De
Lasa and all his household were under
constant surveillance to which he re-
piled You do not know the man. F"
An inspector was detailed to accompany
Delessert, never lose sight of him night
and day, and guard over him carefully /;
and proper precautions were taken In
regard to his food and drink, while the
guards watching De Lasa were doubled.
On the morning of the third day De-
lessert, who had been staying chiefly
indoors, avowed his determination to
go at once and telegraph to M. le Pre-
feet to return Immediately. With this
intention he and his brother officer
started out. just as they got to the
corner of the Rue de Lancry and the
Boulevard, Delessert stopped suddenly
and put his hand to his forehead.
My God p he cried, "the crystal
the picture p and fell prone upon his
face, insensible. He was taken at once
to a hospital, but only fingered few
hours, never regaining his conscious
ness. Under express instruction from
the authorities, most careful, minute,
and thorough autopsy was made of De-
lessert's body by several distinguished
surgeons, whose unanimous opinion was
that the cause of his death was apo
plexy, due to fatigue and nervous ex-
element
AS soon as Delessert was sent TO the
hospital his brother inspector hurried
to the central office, and De Lasa, to-
gether wit his wife and every one con-
nected with the establishment, were at
once arrested. De Lasa smiled con-
temptuously as they took him away. 81
knew you were coming I prepared
for it. You will be glad to release me
again"
1t was quite true that De Lasa had
prepared for them. When the house
was searched it was found that every
paper had been burned, the crystal
globe was destroyed, and in the room of
the seances was a great heap of delicate
machinery broken into indistinguish-
able bits. "That cost me 200, 900
francs" said De Lasa, pointing to the
pile, I" but it has been good invest
ment. The walls and floors were
ripped out in several places, and the
damage to the property was consider
able. In prison neither De Lasa nor
his associates made any revelations.
The notion that they had something to
do with Delessert's death was quickly
dispelled, in a legal point of view, and
all the marty hUE De ASA WAS released
He was still detained in prison, upon
one pretext or another, when one morn
ing he was found hanging by silk sash
to the cornice of the room where he was
confned-dead. The night before, it
was afterwards discovered, MADAME 3"
De Lasa had eloped with the tall foot
man, taking the Nubian Sidi with them.
De Lasa's secret died with him.
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her. Then it flew toward her, whirling
several times round her knees with
great velocity. She felt sudden blow
on the head and fell to the ground but
the husband, who saw the whole APP
partition, on rushing to what he sup
posed was the corpse of his light ning-
destroyed wife, found that she was only
stunned a little. On recovering she
complained of pain in the scalp, and
her hair had become and remains dry
and rigid. After this last caprice the
meteor disappeared; and from the
quantity of SCOT which fell from the
chimney, it is supposed to have found
vent in that direction. It was accom-
panied by a loud defamation, but
whether on its first appearance, or when
it vanished, no one can say. These
details are gathered from letter writ
ten to Padre Secchi, from the Meteoro-
logical Observatory at Velletri, and
published in the Voce della VeritG, of
July g. After this one may believe that
Tranquil really did see '1ambent
flame" play around the head of Servius
Tullus in his cradle nor can the tale
of the stars, playing on the river
Moldeau, on the Prague, over the body
of st. Jean Nepomus, be so certainly
set down as pious fancy of the Middle
Ages, unsupported by natural phe-
nomena.