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nisnosifion of Jews in Europe.

In the course of an article upon lne
condition of the Jews in eastern Europe,
the ReDaL6ique FfdRcdiSe quotes some
interesting statistics as to their numoels
both there and in other countries. From
these statistics it appears that Jerusalem
does not contain more than elght OF
nine thousand, and that the Jews are
more numerous in north Africa IMAM
they are in Judss. There are scarcely
any Jews in Italy or Spain, and in Great
Britain they do not form mora than one
i'm a thousand of the inhabitants. In
France they are in the proportion OF
four to thousand of the whole popula-
ton, but this comparatively high pro-
portion is due to the fact that the jews
are very numeOus in the depart neDts on
the German frontier. In the annexed
provinces of Alsace-Lorraine the jews
number 40, 92S out Of total population
of enc million and halt, while IN
Switzerland there are only 1857 jews 70
a total population OF more t1an Two
million and half. Germany, Including
the Polish provinces and Assce- Lor-
raine, contains no more than Oh, lou
Jews: while in Austria they number
376 600. or {. s. per oentum of the whole
poDuIation. Nearly third OF the AUS
trisn Jews inhabit the province Of
Galicia, where they form nearly an
eighth of the whole population, and
where, at the rate of increase observed
during the last twenty years, rhey will
eventually be in an absolute majority.
Fhe 63,O0O,O00 inhabitants Of Russian
Europe comprise 1928, 100 Jews, who,
until the recent decree authorizing them
to reside in any part of the empire, were
confined to certain districts in southern
Russia, to CourIand and the ancient
provinces OF Poland. More than mill
| lion and half of the Russian Jews re,
side in the Polish provinces, and as the
inhabitants Of thOss provinces number
but I2,l13,985, they form more that
eleven per cent. OF the whols popula-
ton, outnumbering the Poles, properly
so called, by nearly hall million. The
| Jews are still more numerous proper
tionally in the kingdom OF Poland itself,
there being 7S3 600, or thirteen per cent,
in q total population Of 500. 900. La
1867 Hamburg contained 1857 Jews,
out of a total population Of 3O6,5O Ber'
lin q, 565, out OF 99,98l; and st. Peters
| burg only 26l2, out OF $50. lbs: while IL
| Warsaw there were 72,776 Jews IN to-
tai population Of 222, 800. Their num-
beers have increased since, and they now
represent 35. 9per cent. Of the whole pop
| ulatiOn
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HEAVY DECLINE IN WHEAT.

The Chicago Tribune says that, owing
to the heavy decline in wheat the last
month, the losses to holders are enor-
NOUS. In its issue OF Thursday we find
the following:
The wheat problem is that which now
engages the attention Of the majority of
operators iR produce, aud it is an enigma
tn all of them. The situation in New
York is parslyzing the wheat trade Of
the country, and with little hope Of ma
terial improvement SO long Is the not
weather continues. The heat is so in
tense on the sesbosrd, and there is SO
much moisture in the wheat, as the re-
suit of q wet harvest, that they are
obliged to spread out the wheat in New
York to keep it from utterly spelling,
and cannot store so much as they would
under ordinary circumstances in the
same room. Hence, the grain dealers OF
New York are unable to take care Of all
the wheat on hand, and shipments to
that point are practically stopped, espe-
cislly as British buyers are afraid to
touch the wheat, because OF the
reports OF condition. Our own
wheat is all right, but there is
scarcely any market for 1t, and so prices
continue to recede nearer and nearer to
the zero point, and will probably con-
tinue to do so till the heated term is
over, or till the quotations here have
sunk so far as to discourage country
holders from forwarding their wheat.
There is a decided disposition here to
force prices down to what some people
call shipping value, which, under pres
ent conditions, means not far from fifty
cents, as with every decline here New
York would go lowef. The only thing
to do is to hold the wheat here for the
present.
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Baltimore Gazette.I
ATTHE SEASHOKE.

l love thy deep and glorious roar, o sea;
As DER my ravishei ear thy music rolls,
For the is strangest mtnst1e 50 u me IL
Within tiny depths un knows 10 coSrser sous
VINO hear naught but the sensual tones oil
earth.
Is frenzeI with the melody and breath
OF thy wild lay, whose birth
Was in the dim and misty Ed W mere tuTOhB
The spirit form OF ages rock In desth'
Up,n thy restless waste gaze afar,
For DO love to make thy breast my rome
tn wander where thy sIeepless waters are,
And where thy blue and curling Dllo"s
roam. 800,
And have joyed to hear the night wind sigh,
That eather'd bowling round Thy chalnless
For they have WHISPERED to me songs I'M
BEFORE by earth or sky
While Ger the ocean broke the wrecking
And onward swept with fear the wild sea
bird.
Perhaps the very wave that on the shore
Is breaking now, IN other days was cur -
When on It's breast the storm-rOck'd vessel
The Genoese who sought a western world;
Perhaps its silvery spray his footsteps IaVd
As on the virgin sands he proudly trOd, -
And high amidst the DOundle>s shAdes al
His gIittering banner wav'd,
And girt with majesty he seemd god
A Titan god unto the forest child.
Or cen that snowy crest rose up, perchance,
Amid the breeze, when from the shores OF
Spain
The huge Armada bore the warriors lance
To northern seas, across the angry MAN,
And as the sea King from his coral cave
Saw its grim form so gayly sailing on,
And caught it down into his cavern dreari
While wave hugg'1 brother wave,
The very one that sWelld when ali mad
Perchance is that which now is breaking
herei
Then break, thou proud and melancholy
wave.
And bresk thy bosom on the rock-bound
shore!
Thy empire rose when God its fashion gave
To slumbering earth as chaos brooded Ger
! With never-ceasiDg toll thou rollest on, -
And springest up sll crowned with ltfe-like
Like Some bright airy thing from fairy
| land,
Orlike some startled fawn,
| Pursu'd by raging hounds from glen and
And S:ornfuI of the hot pursuing band
| And whilst thou break'st upon the shifting
! And roliest on in wild and sportiye glee,
| Call back 20 mortal eyes the outstretchio
| hand,
| Teach them to turn with earnest faith TO Hin
| Who walk'd IN safety on the pillows crest
| and changd to peace their elemental
so when the world grows dim,
The anchOr'd spirit, freed from care, may
Upon RESURRECTION and the Life?'
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IN connection with the Belknsp i'm
peschment, the New York Herald says
a curious question has arisen, whether
the senators who voted against jurisdic-
ton, and who have RETAINED from
taking any part in the trial, will be al
lowed to present themselves formally on
the final vote, and thus swell the num-
Der, two thirds of which are necessary
to convict. There may be some delay
in deciding this question, for which, it
is believed, there is no precedent in this
country. In the British house Of lords,
members have been compelled TO vote,
but in our congress no effort to compel
members to vote has ever been success
fuAy attempted, nor is it certain what
view the senate will now take ON this
subject,
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New York SUM-
DRIFTING INFO LOVE.

had sworn - be 8 bachelor, she had sworn
to be maid,
For we both agreed in dOuDJlnS whether mat
rimony paid; ,
Besides, / had my higher alms-ior science
filled my heart, -
And she said her young affections were All
wound up in arr
So we laughed at those wise men who say that
friendship cannot live
'rWiNt man and woman, unless each mas
something else to give.
WeWouId be friends as true as e'er were man
I'd be a second David and she Miss Jonathan.
We liked each other, that was all, and quite
enough to say; ,,
So we just shook hands upon IL IL q business
sort of way.
We shared our sorrows and our joys; together
hoped and feared;
with common purpose sought the goal which
Young ambition reared.
We dreamed together of the days, the dream
bright days to come,
We were strictly confidential, and called each
other "chum.'
And many day we wandered together DER
seeking bugs and butterflies, and she the
ruined mills
tuTemakers prize,
aDd sunny skies.
And many quiet evening, in hours of full
release,
We foated down the river, or loafed beneath
the trees,
And talked in long graduation from the poets
to the weather, ,,-,
While the summer SKIES ana my cigar purheu
slowly out together
But through Il all no whispered word, or tell
Told s1 aug i of Warmer sentiment than friendly
| We talked OF love as coldly as we talked OF
nebulP, 49,, -
And thought no more of being one than we
did OF being three.
| sEWelI, goodbye, old fellow"-I took her hand
] for the time had come to go
I NV going meant our parting, when 10 mee'
we did not know; 80
| had fingered long, and said farewell Win
| very heavy heart,
| For, though we were but friends, you know
| tits hard for friends to part.
nWelI. good bye; old fellow; don't forget you
| friends across the sea,
| And some day, when you've lots OF time, JUS
| drop a line to me-"
| The words came lightly, gayly, but great sol
| lust behind
| Rose upward with story of quite dlHeren
kind.
| And then she raised her eyes to mine, grea
| liquid eyes of blue,
| Full to The brim and running DER, like VIC
| let cup with dew
One long, long look, and then 1 did what
| never did before;
| Perhans the tear meant friendship, but
| think the kiss meant more.
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Pan Mall Gszsttel
The we'll known German military
writer, Herr Jules Won Wickede, puo-
fishes some remarks IN the Cologne Ca
zgtte. on the respects Of the war De-
tween Turkey aud SeTvia. : Ich war;
no ssys. suppCsng it 10 be limited TO
Ssryls- Montenegro. and the BOsDisn
and HarzecOvinsn insuTgeni on ODE
side, and tn key on the other, VIII
probably he hopeless one Tor bOlhi IL
will last mary years. snd net r!uuce
any decisive result. The military forces
at the disposal OF Turkey Tor TINS s'Iug
gie-Gmounting TO from one hu1dfto
aud forty thousand 10 one huhdIeu aGu
6Ftv thoysInd rnen-are about equal in
Numbers and efficiency to those OF Ser
via and her allies. By far the greater
mart Of the Turkish army CONSISTS oil II
regular aud undIsciplined trocp3, anu
this is even more the csse with Is au-
yersaries. In both camps there Is
great want OF weil-educated anu eApeu-
epced native officers. SeTVian orlgsueF,
as WAS TO be expected, are now isu Oy
Russians, and In the Turkish service
| there are a good many Engiishmen,
Poles sld Hungafians. As TO the phys
| idue OF the two aTmieS, the SerVlsnsI
| BosDisus and MOuteuegriLs are mostly
| big, strong men, with e&tISOIuihaIS
| mowers Of endurance and recEltss cur
age; but the same military qualities are
| posse ssed by the Albanians, the MohaIn
| medan Bosnisns, the Ciroassians, snu
| MANY other Asiatic populations when
are Tanrpsented in the Turkish army
| The men recruited In European TURKEY
are sometimes small, bat they are
stronger and more enduring thSn tney
| lock. AS TO the cIUelJeS WHICH
| have been charged against the IOrAs,
| Herr Won Wickede asserts, from ger
| sOnal experience, that the only inner
| ence between them and the Sh'lans
and the Montenegrirs in THE respect II,
that the former have a fAnstical hatreU
Cor all who DO rot bslieve In the Prophet
while the latter have the ssfas ieeliDS
toward those who do not belong 20 INC
Greek church. He says that the stories
which have been published IN SlaVouiC
papers about the atrocities committed by
Bashi- Bazouks may be true, though
doubtless a good deal exaggerated, but
that exactly the same savage cruelty
| has been shown by the Servisns ana
Montenegr;ns. When in Montenegro
he saw In the house Of a MOntenegrin
fourteen smoked Turks heads, snd MS
host related with great pride how he haa
| killed all these Turks himself, ana AFTER
ward decapitated them; and only re-
Gently, the Christians in Bosnia buried
alive four Turkish gene armes upto their
waists, and then used them as targets
for their rifles. 'If," he adds, "there
are any Germans who are disposed to
symp tthize with the Servians and their
al les because they are fighting for Tree
dom, humanity and civilization, I'M IS
grievous error. The war mas arisen sen
simply from the warllke spirit Oh tue
Turkish SIsvs from the incessaut agita-
tiops of a certain party in Rassis. and
from tine ambitious plans Of the Pan,
sIavists, who wish TO establish q great
South Slovenian State on the BaiKa
peninsu!s and the lower Danube"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-23

The Washington correspondent Of the
New York World says Grant has de-
cided that not only are the troops now
at the south to be retained, but reinforce.
ments are to be sent whenever any pre-.
text is made for them. Chamberlain,
Of South Carolina, hes been assured by
the President that he shall have troops
whenever he requires them, and the
troops in Louisiana are not only to be
continued there, but are to be redistrib-
uted over the State. The Republican
campaign in South Carolina and Louisi-
ana is to be one Of the most approved
Radical pattern heretofore so well known
in those quarters.
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First Funeral by Fire,

Charleston News and Courier, l9th.l
MARION, s. c., July ia strange
and solemn event has recently occurred
in this county, which carries the mind
back to those ancient days when the re.
mains of the dead were disposed of by
cineratioD, and when the tablet and
tombstone had not superseded the me-
mortal urn. The subject of this remark
able funeral ceremony was Mr.. Henry
Berry, an aged and highly respectable
citizen Of this county, whose rare tact,
industry and economy, honestly exer.
cised, enabled him to amass very large
property. His habits of thought were
bold and independent, and his individ.
uality of taste and temperament was
marked to such degree that 1t is scarce
ly to be wondered at that he should
have prescribed for himself an eXequisl
form not in cOnsOnance with the usual
custom. Many years ago, Ia attempting
to remove the remains OF beloved rel
alive from the spot where they had lain
for some time, he encountered sight
which created in his mind an uucon-
querable aversion to being buried, and
to such an extent did this preju-
dice possess him in after life, that
he eDjoined 1t upon his heirs, on pain
of disinheriting them, so see that his
body was burned after death. He wss
careful to designate the spot where the
ceremony should take place and the
IightWoOd trees that should be used as
fuel on the occasion. The old getleman,
after lingering for many months, died
on Sunday, the ninth instant, and on
the following Tuesday his strange desire
respecting the disposition OF his remains
was carried out to the letter. The funeral
service of the church OF which ne had
been q member was read, and an appro'
pirate discourse delivered by the pastor,
on the Monday evening previous. The
next morning his remains, epcased in
nothing but aEquare box, which, by his
directions, had been handsomely lined
inside and encased outside with black
velvet, and Ornamented with TRIM
mings, were borne to the spot which he
himself had selected for the purpose.
Here three large HghtWood logs, each
nearly two feel in diameter, cut from the
very same trees he had indicated, were
placed alongside on the ground, and up
on these logs the box WAS deposited.
LightwOod pieces of sufficient length
and thickness were then piled upon the
logs and around the coffin until the
latter Was hiden from view. The
lightwood was then piled in cross
layers until the pyre reached height OF
seven or eight feet. A torch was then
applied at different corners Of the pile,
and in few minutes the raging fire re-
rembled the burning of large building,
the flames leaping many feet in the air,
and sending hundreds Of feet higher a
vast column of pitch-blaek smoke, that
was seen for msDy miles around. 1t is
said that the fire died out without en-
tirely consuming the remains, and had
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III-AssOrted Unions Among the
English Royalty.

The Gdldru for August has an article
on the above subject, of which the fol-
lowing is an extract: "Fhere is nothing
with which the outer world has SO little
to GO as a mans marriage, and yet
there is nothing about which l. concerns
itself 50 very much. Every one thinks
himself or herself entitled to sit In Judg-
ment upon the suitableness Of q matrl.
monisl match, especially in aristocrRtic
circles. where birth and fortune are IN
question. Thus it was disappointment
to the blood royal that the Duke OF
Cambridge did not marry German
princess; and it is sore suffice! with
the Queen's Sons that their sister Louise
should have married marquis. Lord
I,orpe is terribly snuObed by the lot.
The Prince OF Teck, who married the
Princess Mary Of Cambridge, likewise is
a source OF trouble; for, being a hand
some fellow, he is liable to sllurements
which disturb copjugal felicity. Prince
Christian, who has married another OF
the Queens daughters, is regarded ss
questionable character. because he
had previously contracted NOR
FANATIC marriage; and the Duke
OF Eiinburg is "bothered intirely"
on account of the rank Of his wife, who,
as the daughter of an emperor, is stick
Ter for precedence at court. The Prince
of.WaIts is very happily married, but he
had some narrow escapes from being led
into immoral and illegal connections.
When in America he was so much
taken with the beauty Of the fair Column
bans with whom he danced at Boston
and New Y0Ik that it was expected he
would have proposed matrimonial al
lance with one OF the fsirest. 1t was
argued that, on the grounds Of equality,
there ,uld be no obstacle, inasmuch as
the Presidency of the republic Wss the
heritage Of every native-born American;
and when the Duke of New Castle or
General Bruce, under whose tutelage the
prince came to the United States, laugh
ingly limited at the possibility Of his
royal highDess connecting the crown OF
England with family at the White
House, the prince answered: 81 should
have no objection politically to such an
alliance, IL the young lady's father were
to continue President during his life
time; but there is no guarantee that q
'felIah' who is the ruler Of millions TO-
dsy may not drop down to the soap
boilers line tomorrow"
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lers,J

One sunny day Lave chose 20 stray
WheTs Niscbisf ieep / ambush lay,
And watched his snarS meath flowers hid
den; 4,-,
Love tumbling in. began to Hout ,,.,,,r
For Mischisfs aid, lest he sho @A' siu"-Hoi'
,GYou little demon, let me out,
or III report you 10 my moIher;
Said Mischief I'm not set YOU iret'
Unless you share your power Win me-
And give of every heart you saln -
One-haIf to Joy and half 10 pain.
Love struggled, but IN vain, alas!
HeWas not horn to prove martyr
And, sad TO tell it came 10 p sss
He gave in to the little Tartar
Love lew to Venus in a pet,
Aud cried, when he had told his story
'OQueen OF Beauty, never let
That little imp wear half my glory!
The goddess, with look sedate,
Replied, ~ canuO; alter fate;
But you snail conquer STILL my boy,
IN make loves pain more sweet than Joy
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The Peasants of Herzegovina,

COrnhtll Magaz1ne.I
AS we got higher, the number OF peo-
pie coming down the mountain ln-
creased. The women were ali dressed
in the lang white E1lmatIsn jacket;
while the man wore the round scarlet
Montenegrin hat. with the Initials OF
the prince, n. L (Nicheias II, m0rold-
cred in gold on tue croWd, and olsck
silly band round the edge, put on So
mourning for the occupation OF SerVla
nv the TURKS. In their belts cleaned
daggers and siiver-mounted pistols,
while all had on the 'Opanche," or san
dsIs made Of OK hide, which we, 10 our
stiff soIed civilized boots, could not help
epvyirg when we saw the ease with
which they enable their weaTers to
climb. The agility displayed By them
was astonishing. They quite dlsdalned
the winding path we followed ana
went straight down the do or the
mountain, those At the sum nit holding
long conversation with Tne;r friends
Tor below Gazing ct the
silver buckles ard necklaces these Her
zegoyinian women wore, we wanted 10
purchs7e some Of them; but 1t - curious
how 10th they ara 90 part with their
fiuery, Tuey will 90 SJCut IN rtgf, ana
vet keaD their caps covered win silver
chains and Going. Our old hostess see
ing I had a fancy for these gewgsws,
b ckoned me to follow her. and tfklDg
me I'D ladder into a garnet, the dlrL
and JiispidatiOn Of which 1t would be
hazardous to describe, she unlocked n
wooden box, in which was stored hnery
that might have made duchess enVi-
ous she had one belt, for which she
said she gave twenty pounds. IL was OF
msasive silver with ever so nc any mans
and ornaments hanging to IL. Besides
this. She had " least forty or fifty shirts,
en- roidered in colorad silks, for fiesta
and Offer, / her a handsome price, but
She would not sell. mo-" she said, u
am keeoing than sT for my iau ShterI
when she marTies," pointing 70 tne
pretty little girl who held lamp f0I US
TO examine the family spiendoIsi she
can read" she added, $50 soc oognt ="
make q good match"