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Driven to Theft.
New York Herald

81 never stole penny's worth before.
The speaker was Samuel Owens, 8
journeyman painter, who by the press
ure of hard times had been driven tc
steal bag of -four for the relief of his
suffering family. Though in the prime
of life, and willing to do any manner OF
work, the poor fellow had sought in vain
for employment, and, despairing of i'm,
mediate help, committed crime on Sat.
urday night for which he was locked up
on Sunday, and brought up for exam.
ination in the Harlem Police Court yes.
terday morning. The facts of the theft
were simply these. After a day of
hunger and dependency Owens and his
wife had crouched down 10y the fire and
sought to warm their hearts by the ruddy
blaze; but while the Pickering light
brought comfort to their eyes, their ears
were assailed by the piteous means of
three little children, not yet so well in
ured to suffering as their parents. This
was too much for the unhappy father.
Kissing his wife, whose efforts TO hush
the childish clamors proved altogether
vain, he patted the little ones tenderly
on the head, and saying that they should
not go another day without food, rushed
from the room without knowing where
TO look for aid. In few moments, how
ever Owens found himself in front of
grocery store at No. 1858 Third-ave-
nue., where, within easy reach, hung
several bags of -four. Though not long
after eight o'clock the we'll lighted side
walk was almost deserted. and sudden
impulse prompted the man to seize one
of the bags and carry it to the wretched
home he had just left. Yielding to the
temptation he grabbed the prize and
started at full speed down the street,
But the watchful eye of an officer had
witnessed the theft, and Owens was
quickly oyertaken. When arrested he
burst into tears, and seemed utterly
broken down. The patrolman escorted
his prisoner to the station house in East
Eighty-eighth street, whence, after
days confinement, he was taken to the
Harlem Police Court yesterday morning.
At the bar of justice Owens recounted
his misfortunes in detail, and assured
Judge Duffy that nothing but the terri
BILE strait to which he himself and those
dear to him had been reduced would
have driven him to take penny's worth
of anything not his own. The magis-
trate believed the prisoners story, and
said that justice would not, in his
opinion, be compromised by the dis
missal of the charge. Furthermore, he
directed Mr.. O'Donnell, the grocer, who
appeared against Owens, TO give the man
a bag of flour and send the bill to him.
O'Donnell said that be had no wish to
carry the matter any further, and told
the Judge that he would make the man
a present of the -four. Owens accord
ingly accompanied his late accuser to
the store, where twenty-four pounds of
-four were given him to carry away.
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width, and has a dome of two hun
dred and fifty feet in circumference.

NAPoLEoN's china, plate, and table
linen, bearing the initials n. E." are
10 be sold at auction in Paris. The
possessions of Plus TX are being dis
posed of in three chambers at the
Vatican, under the direction of Mgr
Pericoli, Nearly all the purchasers are
women, most of them foreigners, and a
large proportion of them are heretics.
Among the articles offered are embroid-
cred slippers, an Indian carved casket, a
jar of rice, muslin antimacassars,
a diamond cross with gold chain, colored
binding for furniture, a set of silver
gilt salt spoons, blankets, lace, a crimson
velvet scapulary magnificently en-
broidered in gold, PASTORAL ring con-
tanning great emerald, surplices, and
fragments of marble from the Gaia
combs. Each article is numbered,
Mgr. Pericoli has catalogue of prices,
and the sale is conducted strictly on the
one price system. A correspondent
says: "To behold reverend prelate
of the Holy Church with his purple
silk mantle on his shoulders politely
telling you the price of twenty yards of
binding or pair Of old shoes, and
receiving your money for the same with
courtly bow, is a spectacle not to be
seen every day"
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aphino, the bandit. Honesty is Cor
sican virtue; so are hospitality and gen
erosity. Sexual morality does not ap-
pear to be their strong point, though
any insult to an unmarried girl incurs
the implacable vengeance of her rela-
tives. | was told, however, on excellent
authority, that the father of distin-
guished Corsiean having been muir
dered, the son, who was too enlightened
to revenge himself after the approved
fashion of his countrymen, handed the
culprit over to French justice, which
sentenced the man To only few years
imprisonment, the result being that this
miscreant, now at large, threatens to
exterminate, not this son only, but all
his family 1t is difficult, one must
own, to feel much liking for such race
Of rascals. Yet am disposed to think
that really good Corsican, when you
do get hold of him, is very noble per-
son indeed. Such was Paoli and such
was, we believe, the coachman who
drove us in all our subsequent expedi-
lions from Ajaccio.
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Grand Dixie Nicholas.

"Nihilist' writes in North America
Review: The fact is now generally
known that the Grand Duke Nicholas,
the brother of the Gar, the Gen eral-
issimo of the army, not only brought
this army to the verge of ruin by his
utter imbecility as a Commander, but
actually robbed the miserable, hungry,
dying soldiers of 100000 roubles, Of
which he gave handsome share to his
mistress, former opera dancer! Unjust
earnestly request the reader to bear in
mind that this is not idle gossip; the
fact has been officially proved and
reported to the Gar by General Creigh,
the present Chief of the Russian Finance
Department, who was sent by the Gar
to Bulgaria to investigate the terrific
cases Of corruption which occurred dur
ing the war. Creigh went earnestly to
work, and the very first result he
obtained from his investigation was that
the Cars brother was the chief Grim
inal. Horror-stricken, he started at once
for St. Petersburg and reported to the
Car the truth. The investigation was
Immediately closed, and General Creigh
received the Finance Department as the
price for his silence.
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A COrkscrew Wanted.

There is Away some one on the train
to make people feel happy. For in
stance, there was gentleman who had
a bottle of homemade wine, and he
couldn't get the cork out. We have
never seen man in distress but there
were noble souls that would sacrifice
themselves to assist him. One man
offered knife, and after the blade had
been broken ana left in the cork, he
subsidized. The conductor was appealed
to, but he only asked what they took
him for, and looked offended. 1t was
noticed that there was bad crowd in
the rear car, and SO boy, who desired
to be messenger, was given a little
practice. He was told to go into the
back car and find Sepator Hide, and
borrow his cork-screw. Senator Hide
is Methodist deacon, and he was
seated by the side of a good Baptist
lady, and they were talking of pros
pective revival in the good work to
which they had both enlisted for life.
When very much interested in each
others remarks, the boy pulled the
elbow of Senator Hide and said: A
gentleman in the other car wants to
borrow your cork-screw." If an earth
quake had quaked right there. if Re-
publican majority had exploded, if the
adjoining field through which the train
was running, had opened and swallowed
up every man on the train that had
pass, Elder Hide could not have ap-
peared more thunderstruck. The smile
that is stereotyped on his face, and
which SO nearly resembles that of Col
fax, broke out in new spot,
and looked as though it was sick,
and though he attempted to ex.
plain to the truly good lady that il
was joke, she looked panied, as though
she had lost all confidence in men
Elder Hide got up aud called the boy
out on the platform, and what he did il
not known, though it is rumored thai
the section hands found bob-tailed
boys coat ON the track, and a number
of trinkets usually carried by boys
And there was one boy less applying
for position this year.
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ApropOs of the King-Killers.

1t was Louis Phllippe's custom to
physic himself on the last day of every
month. On those solemn occasions he
always had a bowl of beef-soup pre-
pared for him in the evening, into
which he poured vial of castor-oil,
leaving the compound standing over
night for his early breakfast.
One morning about two o'clock, an
attache of the palace burst into the post
at the Tuileries occupied by detach-
ment of the National guard.
Is there a doctor hereT
eyes" responded DIR. Bonami, who
happened to be the captain in COM
mand, 81 am doctor"
doctor, they have tried to poison
the kingl A servant, who has de-
voured dish which was destined for
the king, is now expiring in the most
horrible conyulsionsp'
"Take me to the sick man and wake
up the kingp
The doctor was led to the dying
mans bedside. "Mercyl mercyl q
priest!" the unfortunate valet was
screaming.
The king presently appeared. The
affair was explained to him.
ooh, forgive me, sireF' cried the
dying man, !" it was / who drank thu
fatal poison, but have saved the lif'
of the king. Sire, do not forget m.
wife and my orphans"
" Gourmand," answered the king
with smile, you will get out of thi
cheaply enough. 1t was excellent cas-
tor-oil, and you are giving me an ex
cellent report of IL"
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The Vendetta.
lFraser's Magazine. |

The vendetta, like the duel, does not
make men less ready to take offense, as
one might have fancied it would, but
more ready. To be touchy, a bully, a
wash-buckler, and to prove your met
tie, becomes point of honor, whereas,
if you do not carry a weapon, and pub
lie opinion does not sanction personal
violence, it becomes obviously better
breeding not to offend and provoke, nor
to be too easily provoked yourself, as
also more convenient in every way. A
Corsican stabs man on the smallest
provocation, and thinks it no dishonor to
shoot at him from behind stone wall.
Having killed his victim, he escapes
into the naaguis, the wild, open country,
covered with impenetrable, odorous
brushwood, and there lives supported
by his sympathizing fellow-countrymen,
practically safe from pursuit, for the
gendarmerie do not care much to ven
ture into the wilds on such an errand.
So Corsican gendarme in the French
service, bound with others on service
of pacification in disturbed district,
and who climbed up behind our mule
cart, without leave asked, chatting
affably, informed us. Moreover. the
people of the neighborhood always give
these " banditti," as they are termed,
timely warning of the approach of the
police. Some of these gentry have killed
quite large number of men; and if
only the murders have not been COM
mitted for purposes of robbery, the
banditti are most popular, especially
among women. But robbery and theft
are counted dishonorable, and the Cor
sican banditti, therefore, justifably
object to be COMPOUNDED with the
banditti of Greece, Italy or Sardinia.
A traveller is perfectly safe, though the
district through which he travels be in
tested with them; and when acts of
pillage have been committed in their
name, they have always executed sum-
mary vengeance Cd the offender who has
thus dared to take their dreaded name
in vain. A poor man was robbed on
the mountains of all his belongings by
one who said that he was Seraphina, a
celebrated bandit; the poor man went
on his way weeping; as he went, re-
spectably-dressed and kindly-mannered
person came up to him and asked what
was the matter. Upon being told, he
took the direction in which the robber
had just gone, and soon after the poor
wayfarer heard shot fired. This was
followed by the return of his friend,
who brought him back his goods and
chattels, informing him that the thief
was dead, and that he himself was Ser
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15
TEXAS AND HONDURAS CATTLE

The New York Commercial AdUertiser
says that new field of enterprise has
been opened to American Agriculturists
and breeders by the decree of the Cap
tain General of Cuba, authorizing the
free transportation of cattle in the
Spanish island, and the question was to
know which State would be the first to
take advantage of that decree. 1t is
known that formerly at least a million
of stock cattle were required in Cuba,
and that the importations from the
United States, Mexico, and Honduras
were not much more than sufficient to
supply the demand for fresh beef, the
supply being: Texas, thirty-fve thou
sand; Florida, fifteen thousand; Mex
leo, seven thousand Honduras, eight
thousand, making sixty-fve thousand
head in round numbers per annum. To
these may be added slight importation
from Columbia, half dozen cargoes
having been sent during the past few
months. Thus it is seen that the United
States still supplies the largest quantity
to Cuba, in the way of cattle, as well as
other products; but very strong move
ment is just now going on in Mexico
and Honduras in order to compete wit
us in the Cuban markets. Within two
months there will be launched at Phila-
delphia steamer built especially for
the cattle trade in an American ship
yard by Cuban capitalist, who intends
to run that steamer for the transporta
ton of cattle from Mexico to Cuba. On
the other hand, importations by Cuba
of Honduras cattle have largely in
creased during the past few months !;
and memorial recently presented to
the Government estimates that it should
supply about forty thousand head of
cattle the first year. Nicaragua also
can supply from ten to twelve thousand
head annually; but the Nicaraguan cat
tie can not be shipped at Greytown, and
have to be embarked in a Honduras
port. American breeders have therefore
to be on the lookout if they do not
want to be supplanted by their Central
American competitors in the Cuban cat
tie trade, inasmuch as Honduras is only
forty hours run from Cuba, and pos
sesses some other advantages in the
quality of her cattle.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15

New YORK is not the only State
whose Legislature has this year entered
on the occupation OF a new capitol.
On January l the Michigan Legislature
went into a new home at Lansing. Their
first capitol was begun at Detroit, in
1928, for the use of the United States
District Court and Legislative Council
of Michigan Territory. Its cornerstone
was laid September %, 1928. and re-
manned undisturbed until 1870, when it
was removed, and, three years later, the
contents deposited in the cornerstone
of the edifice just inaugurated. The
State Constitution of 1885 fixed the
capital sat Detroit, or any other place
prescribed by law, until 1S47," when it
was to be permanently located by the
Legislature. The removal to Lansing,
due largely to personal pique at the be-
havior of the Detroiters toward certain
influential members of the Legislature
took place in. 184S, when a building,
which has stood for thirty years, was
erected for $4,000, including a fire.
proof edifice for State offices. The new
building has cost under 81 800, 900. 1t
is three hundred and thirty-six feet by
one hundred and eighty feet at greatest
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15
A Little Beggar's Charity.

A touching begging story with a
good moral is told by the Pttsburg
Telegraph. A young man who had been
on three days debauch wondered into
the dining room of hotel, where he
was well known, sat down, and stared
modify into the street. Presently a
little girl of about ten years came in
and looked timidly about the room.
She was dressed in rags, but she had a
sweet, intelligent face that could scarcely
fail to excite sympathy. There were
five persons in the room, and she went
to each begging. One gentleman gave
her a five cent piece, and she then went
to the gentleman spoken Of and asked
him for penny, adding, 81 haven't had
anything to eat for whole day." The
gentleman was out of humor, and he
said Grossly: "Don't bother me: go
awayl haven't had anything to eat
for three days" The child opened her
eyes in shy wonder and stared at him a
moment, and then walked slowly
toward the door. She turned the knob,
and then after hesitating few seconds,
walked up to him, and gently laying
the five cents she had received on his
knee, said with tone of true girlish
pity in her voice, off you haven't
had anything to eat for three days, you
take this and 90 and buy some bread.
Perhaps l can get some more some
where" The young fellow blushed to
the roots of his hair, and lifting the
Sister of Charity In his arms, kissed
her two or three times in delight
Then he took her to the persons in the
room, and to those in the corridors and
in the Office, and told the story and
asked contributions, giving himself all
the money. he had with him. He sue.
ceeded in raising over forty dollars and
sent the little one on her way rejoicing.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15

IT used to be that men of gebius were
i'll repaid for their labors, and this is
still the case with many, but society
attempts to make up for it by greatly
over-paying few of its favorites The
story comes from Paris that Meiss-
onier has received 300, 900 francs (about
$60,O00) for "The Cuirassiers," which
was exhibited in the Exposition of last
year. Competition between wealthy
worshipers of the great artist probably
fixed the price at this high price. But
it is thought he would have been we'll
repaid, not only for his labor but for the
time and money expended in his art
education, if he had received one-tenth
of that amount The income of an
artist who has become the fashion" Che
neel not necessarily be great, as
Meissonier isl is wholly out of proper
ton to the figure, but the artist would
doubtless have rewards given to men of
equal genius in other professions, or to
those of his more humble brethren.
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KERY UNFAKORABLE.

A New York paper prints compre-
hensive article to show the condition of
the foreign trade of Brazil. From this
it appears that the exports from the
United States to that country in 1874
were valued $7,705,S20; from Great
Britain, $40, 230, $50, and from France,
$13, ,2l5. The cotton goods exported
in that year were as follows: From the
United States, 1929, 704; France, $685.
1872, and England, 1888, 1926. Since
that year a wonderful revolution has
taken place in the American cotton
trade, and it is fair to presume that un-
der more encouraging circumstances,
American cottons would find better
market in that State. In the East they
are outstripping English goods even in
that country's colonies. Why should
they not in Brazil, which is so anxious to
trade with the United States that the
Government promises 500, 900 toward a
steamship subsidy. Yet, notwithstand-
ing these favorable circumstances, the
exports of the United States in 1878
merchandise and specie) only amounted
to $500, SAC, and this, too, in the face of
the fact that this country consumes
more of BraziPs staple coffee-than
any other,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15

The Austrian newspapers remark
upon the extraordinary diminution
which has taken place in the number of
marriages concluded in Vienna. The
disinclination on the part of the men to
marry has risen to such a pitch that in
the district of Weiden marriage portions
provided by charitable foundations are
now actually going a-begging. There
are plenty of female applicants to claim
them, but they can find no mates. In
1877 there were fewer marriages con-
tracted in Vienna by three thousand
five hundred and thirty-seven than in
1870, namely, only five thousand and
forty-nine. The proportion Of mar
riages concluded in the year TO ono
thousand of the population now stands
at only 7 IS in Vienna, whereas in Paris
it is 9.07, in Munich 900, and IN Berlin
1908. The unsatisfactory result ct "
emma is believed to be attributable to the
expensive way of living which has BE-
come customary there.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15

The pulpit took free hand in the
late Massachusetts election, the clergy
manifesting their preferences and dis
likes as distinctly as they could without
calling names. Father Taylor, the
well-remembered seaman's preacher of
Boston, was, in his day, more outspoken.
1t was on the occasion of an exciting
contest, in which temperance was the
absorbing question. Thus he wrestled
with the Lord in prayer: go Lord
give us good men to rule over us-pure
men who fear Thee, religious men, tenn
perate men, men whom we can trust, men
who Pshaw! Q, Lord, what's the use of
veering and hauling and boxing round
the compass9 Give us George N. Biggs
for Governor. Amen" And the prayer
was snswered.-Ha,per's Drascer.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15

A YOUNG gentleman of eighteen at
Springfield, Mass, with an annual
income of one hundred and fiftysix dol
lars, welded secretly young school
lady of seventeen. He called at her res
idence and his unconscious mother-in-
law said her daughter was not at home.
The husband forced his way in to see
for himself; the old lady called for a
neighbor to put him out, and the bride
darling forth, threw herself into the arms
of her husband, who brandished aloft a
copy of the Boys otNeo York, and shouted:
=" Behold me lawful welded wifep' But
they fired him out, and his lawful
welded wife was SPONTANEOUSLY chas-
tised and sent supperless to bed.
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Mrs. MADISON is probably the onl

Mrs. MADISON is probably the only
lady who, after leaving the White
House as its mistress, received up TO the
time of her death the same attention as
when its queen. Many now in Wash
ington remember how the crowd, includ-
ing all the diplomats, always went from
the White House to call on Mrs. Madi-
SOL, who, when she was past seventy
years old, used to receive in a low-neck
dress, and always wore turban. Such
crowds called on her that the visitors
were obliged to pass out the back door
while others entered by the front.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15

ONLY thirty miles distant from the
City of Mexico are two of the best
wheat producing valleys in the world,
and yet wheat costs at wholesale there
from one dollar and sixty cents to two
dollars and forty cents a bushel and -four
retails for one dollar and seventy five
cents per twenty five pounds. The Mex
lean tariff on foreign wheat is about one
dollar and fifteen cents bushel, and on
-four eight dollars barrel A barrel of
-four, costing in New York six dollars,
shipped to the City of Mexico, is worth
twenty-nine dollars by the time it arrives,
on account of duty, freight and other
charges.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15

The French artists are hesitating
about contributing to the international
Exhibition to be held in Munich next
July. In answer to German painter,
Herr Bran II, who had been commits
stoned to sound NM. Detaille and
Melville on the subject, these artists
replied evasively that "on so delicate a
question they must first consult their
comrades
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15

WERE is curious creek in West
Texas, which enters rocky gorge and
runs under ground for forty miles. In
some places natural wells two hundred
and forty feet deep are found, through
which the roaring of this subterranean
creek can be heard plainly.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15

AT Lewiston, in Neal BOWS State, a
collector sent to dun resident found
the lady of the house intoxicated, her
husband singing, their three daughters
simmering, and several visitors warm
ing up, and the only satisfaction he got
was an invitation to take something.