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Markets.

NEW YORK. Nov. 3s. 1879.
Weak at lODa.
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Important Discoveries of 1877.

Before the American Geographical So
ciety of New York City, the other night,
Judge DAILY read an interesting paper
upon "The Geographical Work of the
World in 1917 Judge DAILY said the
opinion was gaining ground that tie
forms of the arctic zone show that a lux
uriant vegetation prevailed there in the
past. Mr.. r. A. Wallace, who has been
studying the antiquity of the continents,
believes the temperate regions of the
Old World to be the most ancient
North and South America, he thinks,
were once divided by a strait. The
speaker referred to Gen. Di Cesnola's
and DR.. Schliemann's treasures and the
books descriptive thereof, to the trans
fer of CleOpatra's needle to London, land
the discovery of Columbus's remains in
SantO Domingo. As to the obelisk, he
fears that it will decay in the air of Lon
don. He sees no reason why the Santo
Domingo remains should not be accept
ed as genuine. The work for the wear
of the United States engineer
corps was reviewed at some length.
Arctic exploration was of a limited
lOf SdpI. hl2GIllS
steamed through the Kara Sea and as
cended the Yenisei River. A Russian
society has fitted out All expedition to
explore the Gulf of Obi, and Nj. Sibirea-
koo is, at his own expense, to explore
the Augara River. Judge DAILY paid
attention to the discovery
by Thos. F. Barry, that the Netchelli
Esquimaux had relics of Franklin.
Judge DAILY thinks there is sufficient in
to justify a search for the
spot where the Netchelli say this party
Of white men died, and where they say
their graves still remain, and the cairn
they erected, which could be easily done
at comparatively small expense
There is the expectation that where the
last of them persisted some record viii
be found which will be of some scientific
value if it should contain the obServa-
ions made over this part of the Arctic
n the expedition. The Judge described
otanley's journey at some length, and
defended him against the recent criti-
,isms of some English geographers.
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FOREIGN.

Major Lewis Cass, son of the late General
Cass, died recently in Paris. He had resided
abroad for many years.
Adyices from China, per steamer Oceanic,
state that terrible disaster occurred at the
Tienstin Rouge-HOuse, in which the famine
stricken refugees from the Northern prov
inces had assembled. The building took
fire, and Of nearly 5000 people in the build
ing only about 100 escaped. The extremely
cold weather had fatal effect on the refu-
gees, many Of whom were frozen to
death, while thousands are suffer-
ing from insufficient accommodation
and lack of food, which can
not be supplied in quantities to meet the
demand. Charles Budd, of the China In
land Mission, at Wachung, who has recent
ly visited the famine-stri Province of
Shensb writes a heart-rending account of
the suffering he has witnessed. The Gov
ernment's effort TO supply food and as
sistance is TO a great extent nullified by the
dishonesty Of officials. Children are sold by
hundreds by their starving parents.
In the large cities of Houcheng and Puching
risings have occurred among the people,
rendered desperate by seeing their wives
and children starving before their faces, and
many other outbreaks are reported. In
Houeheng the people beheaded a Mandarin
for specializing on their necessities. Cold
has been unusually severe throughout the
country for several weeks.
Cardinal McCloskey arrived at Rome on
the 18th. Upon presenting his homage TO
the Pope, he said he had no reason to de-
plore the lateness Of his arrival, as the Con-
clave had made so excellent a choice.
1t was reported from Rome on the 1st that
the Italian Government had warned the
Vatican authorities, through the Inspector
Of Police, that they could take no measures
to prevent possible disturbances at the
Pope's coronation, as the Pope did not rec (
Dgnize the King of Italy. The Vatican was (
and decided that the coronation /
should be strictly private. An understand 1
ne between the Papacy and Italy is appar-
sntly as far off as ever.
1t was officially announced in the Spanish
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School and Church

Three hundred eolored students
are attending Fisk University, at Nash
vile, Tenn.
DIR. Galusha Anderson has been
elected President of the Chicago Baptist
University,
During the past year the Baptist col
ored people of Virginia built and paid
for 30 churches.
-Girton College, Cambridge, Eng. (the
college for wOmen), in spite of the large
addition to its buildings begun in 1876
and finished last year, is again full TO
Overlooking and in need of new accom-
mediation.
The Protestant Episcopal Church
has established mission in Cuba, and
now wants help in sustaining it and ex-
tending its work, for it is the only Pro-
testant agency on the island, with about
5000 souls in its charg':. Rev. Edward
Kenney has been at work there for six
years.
The preparations are now complete
for the great International Sunday
school Convention, which is to be held
at Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th, 18th, and
18th of April. The Convention will be
a delegated one, and if all the delegates
from the various States attend in full
force it will be about twice as large as
Congress.
The great Prussian University at
Berlin is closely competing now with
the Leipsic University in point of at
tendance. According to the calendar
which has just appeared, the number of
matriculated students during the present
winter amounts to 1889, an increase of
600 on the summer semester.
The Southern MethOdists have rein
forced their Mexican mission with ma
tive missionary who has been under
training in Vanderbilt University. The
Board of Missions has passed resolu-
ton favoring an arrangement Of comfy
with the Northern Methodist Church, so
that the missions of the two churches in
this field should not be in antagonism.
More than 500 Chinese have been
received as members of the Protestant
churches of California, and, in addition,
there are 700 Cinnamon in Christian
for learning Christian doc
trines; $50 Chinese attend the mission
schools of San Francisco, and more than
900 go to the Sunday schools
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Free Electric Shocks.


The boys and young men who con-
gregate nightly at the corner of Ran
dolph and Congress Streets have dis
covered that the fire alarm station at
that place is a source of entertainment.
Projecting through the bottom of the
box is a wire, and the boys, by placing
key or knife-blade to this wire and
then joining hands to form circuit, re-
ceive gratuitOus shocks. Policemen
have repeatedly ordered them to stop
their experiments, but during their alb
sence Yesterday four or five youngsters
again tried the sport, when one of them
named Willie Carson was 50 heavily
shocked that he fell to the sidewalk
nearly insensible. He recovered soon,
not seriously injured, but it is safe to
say that the boys were so badly fright
ened by the result that they will here
after let the 80 hot iron,' as they call it,
alone. Detroit Free PI esS.
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WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

Aleus, Scherck & Autley, prominent cot
ton factors of New Orleans, have suspended.
Near Mount Vernon, Ind, on the oath, Com
modore ID. Curtis, a farmer, 80 years old,
was shot through the heart and killed by his
step-son, aged Is. Curtis was trying to muir
der his wife in a drunken spree, and the boy
got gun and shot him.
Shane, Harris & Co., Memphis cotton fac
tors and commission merchants, have made
an assignment. Liabilities 900.
The Ohio House Of Representatives has
passed bill making the owners OF Texas
cattle responsible for damages caused by
their animals in localities through which
they have been driven or shipped.
Mr.. William Mclaughlin died at Aims
worth, Iowa, on the Goth ult., after 10 hours
sickness, aged los. Up to the day Of his
death he was as robust as most men of three
score and ten; he had never had days
sickness, and never wore spectacles. His
father lived to the age Of log.
John j. Adams & Co., wholesale groeers
at New Orleans, have suspended. Liabilities
said TO be about =, 100000.
Both branches of the Legislature Of Ken
tucky have adopted resolutions instructing
Congressman Of that State to support and
aid, in every possible way, the Texas and
Pacific Railroad bill.
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Science and Industry.

"A competitive trial of milking-ma-
chimes is to take place at Bristol, Eng
land, next July.
Notwithstanding the immense grain
trade of Odessa, Revel, and St. Peters
burg, there is not an elevator at either
of those centers. But an American
firm has just made a contract to build
one at St. Petersburg as soon as peace is
declared.
There are about 60 glass manufac-
tories in Pittsburg and its immediate
neighborhood, in which 5000 men are
employed, and a capital of S10,000,000
invested, producing fabrics to the
amount of S7,000,000.
An Englishman, who is proprietor
of hotel in Glasgow, Scotland, found
when visiting Grand Rapids, Mich, that
furniture was so much cheaper there
than at home, that he purchased enough
to furnish 100 rooms.
Appleton is getting to be one of the
leading cities of Wisconsin in manufac-
turing enterprises. Sites have been
purchased there for the immediate cree
ton of large papcr-mill; a large new
Touring mill, making six in all, and an
immense window-blind, frame, and
shutter mandatory.
Prussia derives no small income
from her rich amber mines. Not less
than 1876 tons of amber were dug last
year. The industry gives employment
to about 1,400 men. The principal
markets are Austria, France, Russia,
America, China and Japan.
There are 10000 miles of telegraph
wire in the United States and $3.50 Off
ces, or one mile of line to every &c
square miles of area. England has 49,
600 miles of line and $500 offices, or
one mile of line to every one and a half
miles of area. Russia has 81, 800
miles of line and 900 offices, or one mile
of line to every $50 square miles of area.
-Oleomargarine, or artificial butter,
is retailed in New York City at from 20
to % cents pound, and is, it is claim
ed, always pure and fresh. Over 1000
pounds have been sold in one night over
the counter of retail store in Eighth
Avenue. There are now over 20 of
these stores in the metropolis, and new
ones are daily being opened. The pro-
fits of the wholesale butter dealers and
commission merchants are being greatly
curtailed.
"A German inventor has patented an
apparatus designed to lessen the strain
upon the horse, particularly at starting,
of a loaded vehicle. The traces are
fastened to an iron rod running through
the center of cylinder containing sew
eral rings of gutta percha. When the
horse exerts himself the strain first
comes upon and congresses these rings,
saving his shoulders. The German War
Department, having made experiments
and found that the saving of force, not
alone at starting but during traction,
was at least third, has resolved to en-
ploy the attachment in its artillery and
military trains.
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THE WAR TROUBLES.

A Pera dispatch Of the Goth saysi The
terms Of peace are not yet signed. General
| Gourko, with 10000 men, is marching to San
Stefano. Russian officers and soldiers are
forbidden, under penalty of death, to enter
! COnstantinOple without special permission
/ from Russian headquarters. Barracks just
outside of Constantinople are being prepar
ed for Russian sick who can find no other
/ cover.
! London reports of the 9th had a more
warlike aspect. Lord Napier of Magdaa,
! Governor of Gibraltar, arrived and had a
! long conference with the Duke of Cam
! bridge, Commander in Chief Of the forces.
/ The afternoon papers announced promi-
nently that it had been decided to employ
Lord Napier as COmmander-in-C Chief Of
any eXpeditionary force that may be
sent out in case of war, with
Maj6r- General Wolseley as Chief of Staff.
The Standard, in its leading article, says:
"All that is really implied by the selection
of Lord Napier Of Magdala as Commander
in-Chief, and Sir Garnet Wolseley as his
Chief Of staff, is that the terms Of peace, if
unmOdified, can not be sanctioned by Eng
land. We have been brought face to face
with war by the arrogant and aggressive
conduct of Russia."<
A Berlin dispatch reports Germany is
preparing to send eight iron-clads to the
Mediterranean in the event of war. A
Vienna dispatch says that the Government
has asked for a credit of 10000, 900 florins.
There was considerable opposition to the
proposal.
4 tod ont 1Eft hat la onto
was fully prepared to sign the treaty of
peace, with the exception of the clause pro-
viding for the surrender to Russia of the
iron-clads. Hence the delay. A telegram
from the Turkish Minister of War orders
the Governor of the Dardaneles to prevent
any more men-of-war, whether British,
French or Austrian, from entering the Sea
of Marmora.
The gratifying intelligence of the signing
Of the treaty of peace was promulgated on
the Sd. The Grand Duke Nicholas an
nounced the fact to his soldiers at a review
at San Stefano, when the TIE Deum was
sung amid great rejoicing. The news was
received at st. Petersburg with intense en-
thusiasm. Crowds gathered before the pal
ace, shouting and singing "God save the
Gar"
Although the precise terms of the treaty
Of peace will not be maze public until after
the treaty has been submitted to and ratified
by the Emperor, the following provisions are
reported as reliable: The cash indemnity is
reduced to $50, OO0, 600, and Russia abandons
her claims to the Egyptian and Bulgarian
tributes. The cession of the Turkish
fleet is also relinquished. Kars
and BatOum are both ceded TO
Russia, together with Arabian and the
entire district of Bayazid. The question Of
the straits is reserved for further considera-
ton. The question of navigation remains
in statu quo. A zone will be left between
Montenegro and Servia, so as to enable the
Porte to maintain communication with Bos-
MIA and Herzegovina. 1t is confirmed that
Bulgaria will include Bourgas, Varna and
Kustendge, but not SalOnica or Adrianople.
Russia is to have power to cede the Dobrud-
sha to ROumania in exchange for RoUmanian
BeSSarabia.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

-Adel;na Patti is now receiving So.
600 for each appearance in opera.
HIGHLANDER, 80 the Dickens of Ger
many" received from single publisher
during the twenty-six years ensuing
1851 the large sum of 100000.
Young Charles Dickens is said to
be very close and clever business man.
He manages huge printing office, be-
sides editing All The Year Round.
"A London correspondent says that
Tennyson and Longfellow are the only
poets for whose works there is real
demand in England.
-Bayard Taylor, our new Minister to
Germany, was married. 20 years
ago to charming lady, a native of that
country. Their only daughter is just
about entering womanhood.
"A London agency has been started
which undertakes authorship in a
wholesale way. 1t will furnish come
dies, tragedies, sermons, histories and
Christmas stories on the shortest no.
tice.
-MademoiselleR oze is matrimonially
styled Mrs. Perkins, but with feminine
shrewdness she retains her maiden name
for professional use, for, who would pay
two dollars to hear a Mrs. Perkins
sing?
The Boston Globe makes the I'M
happy poet laureate of England sing:
Victoria Elizabeth Augaste Charlotte
Married Bernhard Frederick Bill,
Sachsen Meinengen Hildburghausen
Albert George are his other names, and she
call him by 'em if she wants to. OF mar
riage poems I've had my ill.
The Rev. Dr. E. Wentworth, one of
the most learned and venerable of Meth
odist clergymeR has turned playwright.
A drama translated by him from the
Chinese, and entitled 1.-THE Clever Mar
rage" was performed in Clifton, Ohio,
by amateurs. The Chinese costumes
and manners were retained as nearly as
possible, and the orchestra played Chi
nese music.
TO LONGFELLOW.
Our own great poet! whose melodious song
So sweet in every measure, quick, or slow,
Moves ever onward with such easy flow,
That all enraptured we are borne along
As on some placid current, deep and strong
While down the enchanted stream entranced
we go,
The airs of Paradise about us blow,
And all its lovely visions round us thrOng.
What other hand like thine upon the Tyre,
With never faintest iangling of the chords!
What voice can put such music into words,
Or kindle verse with such ethereal fire?
Save lxingly Tennyson beyond the sea,
No English speaking poet ranks with thee.
Francis L. Gardner, in Springfield Republican
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Foreign Notes.

Adrian VI, of Utrecht, made Pop
in 1922, was the last foreign, or no
Italian, Pope.
The Queen is said to take so warn
an interest in the Parliamentary debate
with respect to the war, that she has alb
stractS of all the speeches telegraphed t.
her as the debates go on.
Notwithstanding the nationa
mourning for Victor Emanuel, the eX-
pediency of keeping the usual carniva
festivities is discussed in Italian cities
The Roman municipality is disposed tC
still countenance the racing by riderles:
! horses in the CorSo.
France proposes to verify the dis
coverieS of Mr.. Stanley. The Comte dc
Semelle, an Algerian officer, has been
authorized by the Minister of War, al
the instance of the Geological Society,
to explore equatorial Africa from east
to west.
Victor Emanuel's moustaches were
so long that he was never able to eat
without fastening them up on each side
of his face Consequently he never ate
in public, even at state dinners, though
he sat through them all with great pa
thence.
This mysterious announcement APP
pears in the London World: 81 under
stand that the extremely youthful, not
to say precocious, Lord Rocksavage has
wooed and won the ever SO much more
extremely youthful daughter Of Colonel
and Lady Emily KingscOte; but that
the marriage has been postponed for a
few years until the lady and gentleman
have grown up"
The Queen of Wurtemburg, who
is the sister of the Emperor of Russia,
and the Colonel of the Elizabethgrad
Hussars, was speaking not many days
ago of the Russo-Turkish war and its
probable end A bystander suggested
that England might, perhaps, at the
eleventh hour, be reused to action by
its jealousy of the Holy Mission; where
upon the Queen said, cOntemptuoUsly
- England England is a province of
the Russian Empire; we shall settle the
Eastern question for ourselves and by
ourselves"
Among the ceremonies performed
on the occasion of the double royal
marriage at Berlin on the 18th of last
month, the % FackeltanZ," or 4" torch
Dance" held prominent place. In the
first place, the newly married couples,
attended by all the Ministers, carrying
large wax candles, made the tour of the
White Room in the Royal Palace. The
two brides, accompanied by the Emper
or, next went round the room, similarly
attended by the Ministers. Then tours
we're made in succession by the two
bridegrooms and the Empress, by the
two brides and the King Of the Belgians,
by the two bridegrooms and the Queen
of the Belgians, by the brides and the
Prince Of Wales, by the bridegroOms
with the Grand Duchess Of Oldenburg,
by the brides with the Grand Duke of
OIdenburg, by the bridegrooms with the
Crown Princess, by the brides with the
Duke Of Sake-MeiDingen; and so on
through the lists Of princely guests. the.
carrying candles, accompany
ing each procession.
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Cortes, on the LIST, that the Cuban Central
Committee, the Executive and chiefs of in
surgents had surrendered. A vote Of thanks
to the Generals and the army in Cuba was
Immediately adopted, and the Cortes went
m a body to congratulate the King and
Queen.
Willis, Perciyal d Co., Of Lombard Street
London, banking firm of 108 years. stand
ing, have failed on account Of the suspen-
sion of Greek firm at Finsbury, who owed
them f2jO,000.
Richard Bright, Conservative member Of
Parliament from Somersetshire, is dead.
Paul de Cassagnac, the famous Paris jour-
naist and duelist, on the I'd had hostile
meeting with NJ. Thomson, brother mem-
Der OF the Chamber Of Deputies. Sword:
were the weapons used, and Cassagnac in
iicted probably fatal wound upon his adj
verssry.
Pope Leo XIII. was crowned in the SistinC
Chapel ON the Sd. The ceremony occupied
four hours. Cardinals, Prelates and diplo-
matists accredited to the Vatican, and a few
other persons were present The Pope wa:
afterwards carried to his apartments, bless
ing spectators on the way.
Information has been received at Wash
ington that the authorities at Panama had
ordered the release of Scrafford, the Kansas
bond forger. who was being brought home
from Peru via Panama, by Mr.. Clayton, the
United States Consul. The United States
has no representative at Panama, and no Of
fetal notification has reached the State De-
partment, but so far as the facts are report
ed, the act is considered a direct affront to
our Government. ...
1t is said that the Pope will dismiss the
Papal guard and take up his residence al
Castel Gaudolfo, a village IA miles southeast
of Rome, in order to be away from the
Italian Government. Cardinal Simeoni ha:
resigned the oflice-of .Pontifcal Secretary Of
State, and Cardinal Franchi has been ap.
pointed in his place.
EX-President Grant arrived at Constan.
tinOple on the Sd.
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The Sea of MarmOra.

The Sea of Marmora, the ancient Pro-
points, which has a peculiar interest at
this moment, is little smaller than
Lake Ontario. Like its parent body,
the Mediterranean, it has no tides. A
strong and swift current sweeps through
the sea from the northeast to the south
west, carrying the waters of the Euxine
to those of the Egean. 1t is remarka-
bic for its bold and pic
turesque shores, and above all
for its depth, which in some places
is nearly two thousand feet. The Island
of Marmora-the PrOponnessus of the
Greeks-which gives its name to the
sea, is situated about forty miles from
the entrance of the Dardanelles, and in
ancient times was widely noted for the
beauty and durability of its marble. Even
at this day large portion of CONSTANT
nople is constructed of material taken
from the ancient quarries. Mondania
bay, in which the vanguard of the Brit
ish fleet is anchored, is on the Asiatic
shore, within three hours run of Con-
Stantinople.