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Origin of the Coroner's IaUuest,

A gentlewoman in England, after buryine
six husbands, found a gentleman hardy
enough to make her wife once more. For
several months their happiness was mutual, a
circumstance which seemed to pay no great
compliment to the former partners of her
bed, who, as she said, had disguised her by
their sottishness and infdelity. In the view
OF knowing the real character of his amorous
mate, the gentleman began frequently to
absent himself. to return at late hours, and
when he did return, to appear as if intoxi-
Gated. At first reproaches, but afterward
menaces were the consequences of this con-
duct.
The gentleman persisted, and seemed every
day to become addicted to his bottle. One even
ing, when she imagined him dead drunk, she
unsewed leaden weight from one of the
sleeves of her gown, and, having melted it,
she approached her husband, who pretended
still to be sound asleep, in order to put it into
his ear through pipe. Convinced of her
wickedness, the gentleman started up and
seized her, when, having procured assistance,
he secured her till morning and conducted
b before a magistrate, who sent her to
prison. The bodies of her six husbau d. were
dug up, and, as marks of violence were dis
cernible upon each of them, the proof of her
guilt appeared so strong upon her trial that
she was condemned to be executed. To this
We are indebted for that useful
regulation by which no corpse can be inferred
without legal inspection.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON. Aug. THE following was re
ceived from Gen. Brannan:
FoRT BARANcAs, Aug. Z, 1875.
No new CAGES and no deaths since yesterday
report DIR. Sternberg 10 this morning sittlng Vi
little in bed All the others are doing well. i
WAS Col Rindalrs con, an infant, who died, and
not his daughter.
The Treasury books for the fiscal year about tc
he closed. will show the National income larger
than any estimates that have been made.
Commodore Cooper telegraphs all well at Pen
saoola Navy Yard.
Customs receipts this day $6S9, 67l 81; Tor the
month to date 50 805,069.
Internal revenue receipts to-day $317 ,29S; foI
the month to date 81, 1863 375.
National bank notes outstanding S348, 9f7 1888,
of which 1853, 900 are in national gold bank
notes. Bonds held by the Treasurer as security
for natiooal bank nots circulation 1914 ,927, 1862
and for public deposits $1S, 792, 100. SHIPMENTS
of United States notes for the week 81, 1852, 956.
The distillery of Vessel & Co., at Covington,
KY, has been seized.
Detective Miller, OF the city detectives, brought
Theo. W. Brown, known as "Peg-Leg Brown, . .
here from Saratoga, charged with completely in
the SAT- OOo theft from the Treasury. Benjamin
b. Hall ok clerk IN the Treasury cashroom
nov on leave of absence, was arrested in New
York by Detectives NcDevtt and McElfresh, on
the same charge. VIM. II. Ottman, restaurant
keeper of this city, was arrested also.
The theory is that Halleck took the money,
some OF it was left with Gilman, and that Brown
went to Saratoga to work some off In the
meanwhile Halleek was making arrangements to
buy jewelry, clothes, harness, and other para
phernalia OF fast life in New York.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Col. Jack Brown, COM
mi.sioned collector for the Fourth Georgia Dis
trict, leaves on Monday night.
WASHINGTON. Aug. Lieut.. W. w. Wood,
stationed for long time at New Orleans, is dead.
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Mark TWain'S Last Lament.

Mark Twain, in the August atlantic, mourns
over the diminished length Of the Mis- sissippi
| in this strain:
Therefore, the Mississippi between Cairo
and New Orleans was 1916 miles long 176
years ago. 1t was 1850 after the cut off oil
1922. 1t was 1040 after the American bend
cutoff (some 16 or II years ago.. 1t has lost
67 miles since. Consequently it's length is
only 973 miles at present.
New, if I wanted to be one of those pom
derous scientific people, and ''let on" to prove
what had occurred in the remote past by
what had occurred in a gived time in the
recent past or what will occur in the far
future by what has occurred in late years,
what an opportunity is here! Geology never
had such chance, nor such exact data to
argue from! Nor development of species, y
either! Glacial epochs are great things, sbut
they are vague-vague. Please observe
In the space of 40 years the Lower Missis-
sippi has shortened itself 242 miles. That is
an average Of a trife over one mile and
third per year. Therefore, any calm person,
who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in
the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, Just million
years ago next November, the Lower Missis-
sippi river was upwards of ], 300, DOC miles
long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico
like a fshing-rod. And by the same token
any person can see that 742 years from no
the Lower Mississippi will be only mile and
three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Or
leans will have joined their streets together,
and be plodding comfortably along under
single mayor and mutual board of aldermen.
There is something fascinating abeut science.
One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture
out of such triAing investment of fact.
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Queer Names Of Newspapers.

| What sort of an object, for instance, did an
edit r in Jefferson, Texas, have in his brain when
he chris ened his newspaper the .7implecute
ODD sounding titles, however, seem to be fash.
lonable in Texas, for there we find the Bush Bee.
the Mocing Bal, the Developer, the Dallas Item,
lzer. the Cotton Gin Free Stone Herald, and the
Golden Mean.
Louisiana furnishes very classic title in the
town OF HOMER, whittier journalistic lunatic
with an idea OF the fitness Of things went from
long distance to establish paper and call it the
Ihdd Of Homer. In Mississippi the CO,intt Sub
Soaer suggests thorough cultivation of the news
paper field, and the Copaahan suggests nothing
in particular.
Among the luminous titles we find lie Pbaye
des Laos shedding its light over the water from
Buffalo; the Housatonic Ray glimmers in Con-
nfcticut; the Headlight is an Iowa iluminator
and the Winterset Sun, also of Iowa, is too sug-
gestiye of decline to be well named; the Hing
dom OF Hea0en is Spirituallstic publication;
the Palestine Neecs does not contain as its name
would indicate, the freshest mail and telegraphic
advices from the New Jerusalem. but is plain
Illinois weekly; the Family Caska is not
eIiodical Issued in the interest of the under
takers; nor is the Silent World printed for e. ave-
yard circulation, but simply for the benefit Of
the deaf mutes. 1t is to be hoped that the
CldrksciUe Tobacco Lehf does not exercise mar
cote effect on its readers.
For short, crisp names that trip lightly over
the tongue commend us to the P,snrSatd,cne,y
4Ndhontng Argus, of Pennsylvania, and the Wal
hald heo,ces Courier, of South Carolina, as we'll
as to The good old stand bys, the Philadelphia
North american and United Sdtes Gazette. and
! he BdlaUiore american and Commercial AdUer-
tiser. The Spirit Of jefferson is now publish d in
West Virginia, but the name is not copyrighted,
and may, of course, be used by the Jeffersonian
organ in hicago. The Opposition, published in
Kansas, is undoubtedly one Of the general kell-
raising newspal ers, which are deseryedly so
popular and successful. The Reformed Mission
df,y does business in Iowa, but what the mis-
mary did that naus hty the prospectus does
not state. Perhaps he went to the Sandwich
Islands, where little birds sing habituaily in the
native ladies' arts.
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RIVERS AND STEAMBOATS,.

PIrTsBURG, Aug River feet z inches ant
rising slowly. Cloudy weather.
CAIRO, Aug. ARRIVED: Grand Lake No. 2
from New Orleans, II A. NJ; Vicksburg, from
Vicksburg, 5. Departed: Vicksburg, for st
Louis, G. River IS feet and stationary. Heavy
drift passing all day. Clear and mild weather.
EVANSVILLE, Aug. 7.-Weather clear and mild
River rising slowly.
CINCINNATI, Aug. River 54 feet inches
and falling. Departed: Cherokee for New Or
leans. Weather clear and pleasant.
LOUISVILLE, Aug River still rising slowly
with 70 feet 6 inches in the canal. Arrived
Morgan from New Orle Ms. Departed: Charles
Morgan for Cincinnati. Weather clear and
pleasant
ST.. LOUIS, Aug. 7.-Departed st. Genevieve
for vicksburg. The river has fallen 20 inches
and all the upper streams declining rapidly.
Weather clear and warm.
-vIcKsBURG, Aug. Passed up: James How
ard last night. Up to-day: Katie at p. NJ
Down: City OF Alton, at A. NJ. The river rose
inches. Weather clear and warm.
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SPORTING.

PoUaHEEEPslE, August THE summer meet
ing of the Hudson River Racing Associsi ion
closed to-day.
In the first race, 2:34 class, in which $3.50 went
TO the first and s625 to the second horse, mile
heats, three in five, in harness, st. Julian took
the first money and Tom Moore the second
Time: 2:261 < :30-2:2S- 2:2694.
In the second race, 2:27 class, purse $4,000;
$4,000 to the rst $1,000 to the second, 5000 to the
third, 500 to four til mile heats three in five to
harness Bonner took the first money, Frank
Ferguson second, M y Bird third, and Ed White
fourth. Time: 2:27-2:26-2:241& 2:29.
The third race, free tor all, $500 to the first,
$50 to the second. $3.50 to the third. Mile
heats-three in five in harness. Goldsmi h
Maid 2, |, /, /; American Girl /, Q, O. q; Him
press 3, 3, 5, s. Judge Fullerton was drawn,
Hopeful do. Lady Maud do. Time 2:l7ss4-2:18-
2.lalL-2.2n
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The following is the generally received ex
PLANTATION of the tricolor of France: In the
French revolution the insurgents chose TO,
their symbol the three colors of the CITY OF
Paris. These were first devised by Mary
Stuart The white represented the royal
house of France; the blue, Scotland. and the
red, Switzerland, in compliment to the Swiss
Guards, whose livery it was. The heralds
afterward tinctured the shield of Paris with
the three colors, expressed in heraldlc Ian
guage; which translated is, "a ship wi b
white sails on red ground, with a blue
chef" The usual story is that the insurgents
in 1889 had adopted for their fag the two
colors-red and blue-and that Lafay cite
persuaded them to add the Bourbon white. to
show that they bore no hostility to the King.
To say nothing of the palpable improbability
of this story, it may be summarily rejected.
inasmuch as the first flag of the Republicans
was green, and the tricolor was not adopted
till the 18th of July, when the people became
disguised with the King for dismissing
Neckar.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

DUBLIN, Aug AT the midnight grand ban.
quet at Exhibition Pal ce the Mayor presided
No incldeat occurred until in the regular pro-
gramme the toast, 'rhe legislative independence
Of Ireland" was reached.
The Mayor called on Chas. Garvin Duffy to re-
spond. Duffy's rising create tremendous up
roar, which lasted twenty minutes, when the
Mayor withdrew. Dr. Butt rose to speak hen
the gas was put out, and the company dispersed
in great confusion.
ROME, Aug. I'm the Grafton on O'Connell, by
Prof Arairte, in the Church OF st. Agatha, yes.
terday, O'Connell was claimed as the pioneer OF
the revival Of Catholicism in England, and the
discourse was utramontane throughout.
LONDON, Aug. THE American squadron
will shortly sail from southampton for Gibraltar.
American gentlemen in Paris say that too little
interest is manifested in Europe in the Centen-
NAL. The reason is that English and French
manufacturers have not been sufficiently in
formed of the details. A movement is afOot in
Paris to organize a bureau of information. Home
people need stimulation to work in Europe while
there is time.
The secretary Of the Universal Alliance, in
letter to the Times, says Damascus dates, of July
%, state the cholera is raging. Four cases are
reported daily, but the real number is concealed
The Christian quarters have been deserted. The
Mission schools are closed and the children dis
persed.
The crew of the ship Clydesdale, from Green
och, August 4, for Quebec, have fused to pro-
coed to sea on account of the alleged unseawor-
thness OF the vessel.
The Pal Mat Gazette says Parliament adj
journs Tuesday to Friday, when it will be pro-
rogued
DUBLIN, Aug. There were excursions, field
sports and an amnesty demonstration to-day in
Glamcoin Cemetery, where O'Connell is buried.
Four thousand persons were present. kesolu-
tons we've adopted in favor Of home rule and
amnesty for the imprisoned Fenians.
STUTTGART, August 7.-Mr. Choesseze, of
Vicksburg, Miss, won silver cup in tho rifle
shooting match here to day.
PARIS, Aug. 7-Continuous rains have pre-.
vailed in different parts of France especially in
the basin OF the Rhine. A flood is apprehended
ut Lyons.
PARIS, Aug. THE American Rifle Team are
here. They were received last night by Victor
Hugo, who said he was proud of America and
grateful for the recognition given him and his
books.
MADRID, Aug. THE report that the govern
ment intends contracting loan of seven mil
lions to indemnity the owners Of Porto Rico for
slaves il officially denied.
New York, Aug. IA Dublin dispatch says a
procla natioo has been issued by the Lord Mayor
prohibiting the proposed pyrotechnic display at
Phoenix Park to night. The cause assigned for
this is that information was received that dis
turbance was intended.
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GENERAL NEWS.

| MEMPHIS, Aug. River reports from Cairo
| last night announcing thvt the river had come TO
. stand, causes rejoicing here, though it wilt
doubtless be several days before any change will
| sultry.
A private dispatch from Knoxville states that
Judge Trigg, of the United District Court. has
granted Waddy Thompson writ OF habeas corpus.
the Board Of Aldermen, last night, adopted
eulogistic resolu ions in regard to ex-President
johnson.
LOUISVILLE, August 7.-McCreery's majority
reached Al. OO0 The Convention is most prota-
bly, lost.
CINCINNATI, August IA special says a negro
attempted to rob Mrs. johnson Howard, of
Athens, McMinn county, Tenn, on the high
way.
The negro was captured, taken from jail and
killed. The citizens are arming, fearing that the
negroes will attack the town.
Later reports state that quiet is restored. ).
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7.-An explosion occurred
this morning at the Arsenal by which about
twenty persons. were injured, some fatally. All
were boys; one boy was killed.
New YORK, Aug. IA Dublin special states
that twenty-four Home Rule Members Of Parlia-
ment have promised to attend the demonstra-
to day. which is to consider the proceedings OF
the Lord Mayor yesterday.
OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Me-, Aug. T. There
were $4,000 persons at the National Methodist
camp meeting. Scarf, of New Haven; Wood, OF
Baltimore, and Graves, Hughes and Gray, OF
Philadelphia, oficiated in the devotions.
OTTAWA, Aug. 7.-McGraw's sawmill in Rich
mond Roads, burned to-day. Loss, over one
hundred thousand dollars.
NEW YORK, Aug Cardinal McCloskey, with
his secretary, sailed for Europe to-day. large
number of the Catholic clergy and laymen as
sembled on the wharf. Members OF the Catholic
Union presented him with an address expressive
Of loyalty and devotion to the Church and Holy
Father.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. IA large mass Of
soft rock fell in Hoosac Tunnel. Smaller pArti
cles are falling, which prevent the approach Of
workmen to ascertain the damage.
OMAHA, Aug Tt lie estimated that over 100,-
600 Texas cattle were driven into this State this
year, of this number 40, 900 have been sold.
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MOTIONS SPEECH.

URBANA, O., Aug. Gov. Morton, of Indi
ana, after speaking in support of the specia
resumption bill Of the last Congress, said: So
had slmething to do with the preparation Of
this bull, voted for it in good faith and intend to
stand by 1t until experience has demonstrated
that it is impracticable, OF needs amendments
Its feature fixing day for resumption and pro-
viding for it. had proposed to the Senate six
years before, and whether the time fixed is a
proper one or not, should have preferred it a
year or two later. 1t is the method by which
believe specie payment can and will be reached
1t establishes the policy of free banking the slow,
gradual, but certain return to specie payments,
till then.
He then addressed his remsrks to the Demo-
cratic platform of Ohio and combatted the
greenback theory, and declared that the Demo-
Grats pad always been enemies Of greenbacks
he said: This whole scheme of further issue of
sreenbacks in lieu of national bank notes. I
arralgn here to-day ~ bypocritical and treache-
rous; designed, in the first place. to effect the
destruction OF national banks. and then by their
volume ana by the decision OF the courts to de-
stroy the greenbacks themselves, and pave the
way for the restoration Of the old State bank
system.
The State Sovereignty party will never stop
short OF State banks. A nation i currency wheth.
er of greenbacks or bank notes. is hateful to the
party, which abhors The national idea. ami de-
elarer that there is not one nation, but thirty
seven independent and seven sovereign powers
The party which clam rs instantly about Gen.
tralizaton and Federal assumption can never be
the friend of the Rreenback, which represents
the highest form or national sovereignty.
Every year the proposition has been brought
forward in Congress to repeal the law taxing the
notes of State banks, which drove thoee bar ks
eut OF existence, and the repeal Of which would
again open the aoodgates for public and private
robbery, by the establishment Of innuni cradle
hlng" and orthless banks in all the States. |
Only last year MIR. Thurman and every Demo
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IN THE STATION YARD.

There are few places where one il less inclined
to linger than about the yard Of police station
There is an air of foulness floating about that ID
positively communicating, and all the daily doses
OF carbolic acid it receives fails entirely to
remedy it. Last night a reporter Of the BULLE,
TIN had occasion to pay e hurried visit to the
Third Precinct Station, on business, and during
our waiting moments we strolled out in the yard
The vigilant Tom Selles was on duty at the
time and he followed us out. 1t was like some
sketch from Gustave Dore. A drunken courte-
san was pulling at the bars of her cell and
shrieking for some unseen fiend, whilst sneak
thief below looked out and laughed at what he
thought was sport.
The solitary gaslight Of the yard fiickered in
the unsteady wind, casting strange shadows
peculiar about the place, and Seles seemed to ap-
preciate the fact as well as ourself.
"Mr. - eaid he, ''do you know don't like
to come out here at night. l don't know why it
is but its So I've seen 80 many murdered men
lying about that I can almost see them now.
Right here under this lamp I remember the
police officer who was murdered near the Red
stores, was laid out one wlntry night; just over
there was the body of drowned man, and here"
pointing to the spot where we stood, Bourbon.
nay was first laid. This whole yard is full of
these "reminiscences for there's not spot in it
where some corpse has not rested, waiting for
friends to come. Their, cir, when You leave the
yard and look up at that cell you know whse'that
means. Almost every women who is put i'll there
commits suicide, and one can almost see their
pale faces looking out
There was yell from the front of the station,
shutting tread of many feet, and two officers
came in leading an unfortunate Magdalen in a
semi-stupor Of liquor. The fresh and grateful
evening breeze foated in from over the river
freighted with the scent of field and orchard, and
as the turnkey gave final turn to the lock, the
musical notes from the Cathedral bell sounded
midnie ht
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The Expansion Of Credits.

| Some features of our financial system re-
vealed in the Sherman and Duncan failure
are well explained in the following remarks Of
the New York Tribune:
During the last one hundred years business
among Euglish-speaking nations has been
conducted with an amount of assistance from
credit which it is scarcely possible to con-
ceive, and which has no parallel in any other
age or race. Since the beginning of 1873. it
has been computed that in the United States
interest has ceased to be paid on railroad
mortgages alone to the par value of 5000, OOO,.
600. Yet this is but single one of the vari-
GUS channels in which credit flows. Besides
this there is the public debt. the debts of
States, counties, towns and cities, the sums
owed to and by the banks and savings banks.
the life and fire insurance companies, and
finally, the entire fabric of commercial and
private credit. 1t is obviously impossible for
any man or set Of men, to have any knowl.
edge OF more than very small part of this
great mass of credit.
The individuals are not numerous who
really know, until it is too late for their
knowledge to be of any use, whether other
peoples business is sound or unsound.
Hence the examples in which the history of
trade abouDds of firms maintaining their
credit for dozen or score Of years after their
capital has been lost. Hence, too, the un-
reasoning confidence which prevails at some
times throughout the commercial world. and
the equally irrational distrust which is cpl
demic at others. Without going into abstract
questions on the one side, or endeavoripg to
pry into the details of private affairs on The
other, we can safely say that if credit can be
protected from the incendiary efforts of the
infationist demagogues, time will restore our
credit, trade and industry to healthy state.
Time is great physician, but does not pre-
tend, like the quacks, to cure any disease
whatever in thirty days.
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FROM THE PASSES.

SOUTHWEST Pass, Aug. 7, Noon Barometer
$3.50. Wind west, fresh Weather thick and
rainy.
No arrivals.
Sailed: Steamship Juniana.
PAss-A-LOUTRE, Aug. z, Noon.-Wind west,
fresh.
Arrived: Schooner A. Heaton, Rogers master,
35 days from Rio de Janeiro.
No departures.
SOUTHWEST PASS, Aug. z, 6 P. M-Barometer
1880. Wind west, light.
No arrivals or departures.
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"Are any friends of the deceased pres
ent?' yelled policeman as they dragged a
body from the waters of the Chicago River
Yessir, I'm Q friend Of the deceased q
shrieked qusck doctor in the crowd.
"Yere's yer pain-removin' Eminent, only
twenty-five cents bottle; step right up, gen.
tlemen r.
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We were yesterday shown some excellent
specimens of the engraver's art in the Office Of
Mr.. Fred Holyland, the popular engrsver at No.
Is st. Charles street. Visitors at the Gsrrick
Club performance have noticed how elegant the
invitations were, and it is but just to say that
they are the work OF Mr.. Holyland.
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MARINE.

NEW YORK, Aug. ARRIVED: Germanic. Ar.
ri yed out st. Vincent. Favorite, Monstrade. All.
CONAN, Excelsior, Belle Hooper. Homeward
board: Passawiang and Lady Dufferin.
GALVESTON, Aug. 7. Cleared and sailed
Steamship State of Texas for New York.
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Kate Field is said to have made happy
retort upon distinguished professor express
ing his astonishment at the absence of the
American nasal intonation from her speech.
Miss Field said the omission was not so un-
usual among the people of the United States
as he supposed, and that she failed to see why
Englishmen should especially remark its
presence, since it was. after all, the old
"Cromwellian whine" imported by the Ply
mouth and other colonies from Sussex, in
which county it might still be found.