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New-York tribune., 1879-01-30
MACMAHON'S ELECTION SIX YEARS AGO.


MACMAHONS ELECTION SIX YEARS AGO.
HOW NJ. THEIRS WAS FORCED TO RESIGN IN 1878
TEMPORARY TRIUMPH OF THE MoNARCHIsrs
BY THE ELECTION OF MACMAHON-HIs PROM
ISIS TO TIE ASSEMBLY.
The events which have resulted in the pres
ent crisis in France too well known to need
any detailed explanation now. The first President
OF this Republic the late NJ. Thiers, resigned
the 2ltn OF Nay, 1873 when the MOnarchists
secured temporary triumph IN 1s73 and
elected Marshal MacMahon. The elections carly
in Nay had dlsnaycd the Monarchists COR the
returns showed beyond doubt thar the majority
of tho voters in the country favored
publican form Of Government The Monarchial in
triguers against the Republic at once determined to
sweep NJ. Jules simon NJ. de Remusat and W. Leon Say
from the Cabinet, NJ Thiers resign unless he
delivered the executive power into the hands OF men OF
their own party. Failing completely i'll their
efforts to secure a Conservative Cabinet,
the MOnaIchists determined TO demand an ex-
pauaton Of the policy of the Government. This de-
niand categoricilly made May 10, 1873, upon an
Interpolation presented by the Right Centre, and the
discussion continued for several days. with much
acrimouy. The Left supported an order OF the day
which tended TO relieve the President OF his ehi-
barrassment, aud the Conservatives resolved
to pass vote of censure AZ all hazards On the 2ith OF
May NJ Thicrs entered the Assembly Chamber, and
urged the dcfuyc establishment OF the Republic. HIS
speech received with loud cheefs Dy tnc Lcft but
the Right remained silent. After a short re-
cess, NJ. Casslmer-P6Icr, Minister OF the In
terror made energetic speech, but the simple order
Of the day, cmanatIDg from the Left and supported by
the Government, was rejected by vote Of 3G2 to 34s.
Them by OF 800 TO 3d. the Assembly passed the
order proposed by the Right declaring that the form OF
Government not under discussion and rcgrcttins
that the reconstruction OF the Ministry did not afford
conservative guarantees. NJ. BaragnOD, n member OF
the Right said the Interests OF the
try required that the Government should not remam
silent. After the tumult which followed had ceased W.
Dufaure, the present Premier and then Minister
Of Justice. declared that France wOuld not remain
moment without a Government Notwithstanding the
vote which had been cast" There exists" he said
President and the Republic The Ministers Will answer
rr the maintenance OF order" The Right insisted
that the Government should communicate Its de.
oision IN the Assembly. After further debate, which
was conducted amid great excitement. a recess was
taken unlil evening.
Al the night sitting NJ. Dufanre announced that the
Ministers hai rendered tLer designations 10 NJ Thicrs
NhJ had accepted them. lie also handed tO NJ
Buffet President OF the Assembly, message from
President Tners announcing tlat he delivered back "
New-York tribune., 1879-01-30
AN ANSWER TO-DAY.
MESSAGE TO BOTH HOUSES EXPECTED-THE MIL
IrARY DEGREES ONLY A PRETEXT.

IrARY DEGREES ONLY PRETEXT.
LONDON. Thursday, Jan. 80. 40.
special dispatch to The >tdRddrd dated Paris
midnight, says: "President MacMahon has in
formed NJ Dufaure that he will communicate his
decision to him AZ Versailles at 1 O'clock Thurs
day afternoon. II is understood that there
Will be message to both houses. A
few persons fear the President may avail himself
of his constitutional right to form an extra
Parliamentary Ministry, and prorogue the Cham
bers to two months. but such course
ls very improbable. The correspondent
is convinced the difficulty concerning
the military commands is mere pretext
and that President MacMalOn is really de-
termincd to resign, because threatened with
the impeachment of the De Broglie Cabi-
nett Reuters dispatch from Paris, says :
It il possible the explanation to the Chambers to-
m0irow will take the form oi Presidential mes
sage. NJ. GrGyy's chances for the Presidency have
improved. Minister Dufaure having declined to be-
come a candidate
New-York tribune., 1879-01-30

AN UNSATISFACTORY INTERVIEW WITH NJ. DUFAURf
PROBABLE COURSE OF EyENTs-1HE CABINET
TO BE FORCED TO PRESS THE DEMANDS OF THP
MAJORITY.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03
A Curious Island.

Botel Tobago is an island in the South
seas which has been visited by party
of United States naval officers. They
were surveying rock east OF the South
Cape of Formosa, and called at this is
Land. They found q curious race of
Malay stock. These aborigines did not
knew what money wss good for. Nor
had they ever used tobacco or rum.
They gave the officers goats and pigs for
tin pots and brsss buttons, and hung
round the vessel all day in their canoes
waiting for a chance to dive for some
thing which might be thrown overheard.
They wore clouts only, ate toro and
yams, and had axes, spears and knives,
made of common iron. Their canoes
were made without nails, and were Or
namented with geometricsl lines. They
wore the boards of goats and small shells
as ornaments. Such is the account of
these strange people given BY DIR. Siege
fried. in letter read az the last meeting
Of the Philadelphia Academy Of Natural
Sciences. la
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Women Voters in Kansas.

Indianapolis Herald Letter from saIina.
A Hoosier sees in Kansas many new
and unfamiliar sights, but none more
interesting than that of the ladies voting.
They have the privilege of voting in all
matters pertaining to schools. AS far IS
my observation goes, the ladies here have
minds Of their own. They neither vote
for the "handsomest man" nor the one
their husbands tell them to vote for.
unless the candidate is, in their own
opinion, the proper one. Their votes
can not be bought. They are univel-
sally On the side of morality snd tenn
persnce; hence the workers in the tenn,
perance cause are warm advocates of
equal suffrage. Election days pass
quietly. If there is any drinking or
fighting done, it is not at the polls.
Everything is orderly there, notwith>
standing contrary reports circulated by
snti-su ffragists in the eastern states.
Candidates keep carriages running for
the accommodation of the ladies, but
a great many walk up and deposit their
vote. As the result, SO far, has been
very satisfactory, even to the men (the
brutes), it will probably be but a short
time until equal suffrage is granted.
The gentlemen show their gsllsntry and
faith in the ability of the ladies by ap>
pointing them to Office. The enrolling
clerks of the legislature are ladies; also
a large portion of the county superin-
tendents, who, in every instance, dis
charge their duties in manner that
gives universal satisfaction. We have
in this city among the ladies a physician,
8 printer, and numerous clerks, agents
and women carl lying on business success
July in various ways. One of them is a
barber, who supports herself and chill
dren comfortably. Ladies are not 30
plenty here as in Indiana. Perhaps that
is the reason they are SO well respected
and protected. In proof of which we
often see advertisements for wives, by
some of the young men who took
Greeley advice some time ago, and now
have handsome farms and homes of their
own. l noticed in paper few days
since the offer of fine horse to the per-
son who would assist the advertiser in
securing good, industrious wife,"
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VESUVIUS.
Difference Between the Laws oSfhe Pres
emit Eruption and rhst of fS79.
London Academy

Difference Between the Laws ofIhe Pres
emit ErupiiOO and rhst of Is7s.
London Academy.
first assembled Vesuvius in January,
1875, at which time the crater was full
of sulphurous smoke, 80 that it was quite
impossible to descend into it. Later in
the year hydrochloric acid appeared,
which indicated an intensi6aatiOn of the
volcanic activity, and on December Is
deep chasm opened in the floor of the
crater, and a new cone was formed above
the chssm, from which small quantities
of lava issued from time to time. On
the night of Novembe 1878, the lava
was emitted in greater quantity, and it
rose to the level of the lowest lip of the
crater, and began to flow down the great
cone of the mountain in northwesterly
direction.
When l assembled Vesuvius on Deem
Der 20 last the lava was still very hot,
and in some places red. hot just beneath
the surface. Having reached the sums
NIT of the cone, by the usual route, we
bore to the west, and walked along the
rim of the great crater until we came to
the side toward Monte di Somma, where
the crater was broken down by the new
lava. We then descended by very
steep path into the bottom of the crater,
and Immediately saw the new cone on
our right, vomiting clouds of smoke and
steam, and ejecting red-hot scOri@ to a
height of several hundred feet. The
most notable feature of the new lava was
the quantity of red and yellow sublimstes
of sesquichlOride of iron, which appeared
in many cleits and cavities in the lava,
from which also issued hydrochloric acid
in abundant, sitting fumes.
We approached as near as we could to
the new cone, and stood upon a leap of
cinders which it had elected, nearly on a
level with its mouth. 1t is quite small
indeed not much larger than large iron
furnace-5ut its dynamic activity is
considerable. Jumps or scori@ were
continuously ejected, and sometimes the
ground shook under our feet, and loud
noises, like the surging OF furious sea,
were apparent. Sometimes g more
sudden and furious OutbuTst would |
occur, and would scatter the red-hot !
fragments ali around. a mass weighing
four ounces fell within six feet of where |
| was standing, and when this was fol- |
lowed by piece at least seven times as
large | beat hasty retreat. for a guide j
had been killed a fortnight before BY |
an elected stone falling on his head.
The lava of 1873 does not resemble that
Of 1872; it is much more leucitic in
character, and possesses fine black lus-
ter when cold. The sublimates in its
clefts are very interesting, both as to
form and composition. They consist
mostly of salt and chloride of iron, but
Pslmieri has also detected chloride of am
chloride of lithium, and bOracic
acid. The new cone is still in a slightly
active condition, and Palmieri anticia
paies that it will increase.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03
The Oldest Man in the World.

The oldest man in the wsrld is claimed
to be one Miguel Soils, living at Bogota,
in the republic OF San Salvador. DR..
Hernandez writes to the New Pesther
Journal the following pa, ticulArS: His
name figures in the list of subscribers to
the Franciscan convent of San Sebastian
in l712. de can still work his akin is
like parchment, his hair plentiful, but
snow-white, and rolled about his head
in turban fashion. His eyes are full of
fire. he answered every question in the
clearest manner, and accounted for his
astonishing longevity in these words:
have never TO my recollection eaten
more than once a day. The first and
fifteenth of each month fast vigorously
from all food, but drink great quantity
of water. always eat my food cold. /
have never committed the least excess in
drinking"
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swEExnEARr. TO TaHE-


See, lorei the rosy raoiases gissms
AthvRrt the sunset sky; - a.
Lkst, lowell and hear he BIRDS sweet notes
In lingering cadence die.
Clasp, love, thy clinging bsnds N nina,
And hslding tsst by me,
Trust, Lowell 1 will he trus. my dove
So true, sweetheart, 70 shee-
Sweetheart, 10 thes.
Come, love I waiting, pine - long,
And weary. watch for tAes;
Dear lovei amidst the dsTksned night
Thy stsr-Iike free Sc
Hearts Lowell ali, cOme thou close TO me;
I'll shelter thee from harms
Prom every foe or secret woe,
Gloss clasped within ny arms;
Lie safe from all alarms,
Sweetheart, with me-
Dear love thy face shove me cleaning,
sunset radiance gives;
An, lovel thy tones sweet cadence dying,
sims in nay heart and liyes.
uazped, love, dose 20 my beart, thy birdlin
Foldeth her wings in peaoe-
Trusts SOvei feeling no cold nor shsdS~,
Finding AZ last her esse, GAG ~.
From fear sale release,
Hearts love. with thee.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03
Rowel's Snort Stride.

New York Herald Communication.
Rowelps compact form is admirably
suited to his task. His legs are superbly
built for endurance, snd his chest is deep,
with abundance of play for his lungs.
His digestion-the first requisite in an
undertaking such as this one-is simply
perfect, and ne acquires strength and
replaces sleep with hearty meals, which
he partakes of frequently. His style
hss been criticised freely and severely,
and we would say just here to his critics,
who complain of his short stride, that it
is well suited to the mans height and
best adapted alike to his speed and en-.
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morning, and he had awoke young, rich.
a happy child, and not deaf or wounded.
Then as he recalled his imaginary mis-
cry, he thought of Julis-he remembered
her suicide and fastened to her house.
Tne young girl had sviolent fever,
and had passed night of intense suffer
ing. But the sight of ElieEar-his re.
pentsnt air and his protestations of re-
pentsnce and of affection-soon restored
her. The cure was more speedy than
could have been Effected by all the
physicians in Paris.
Eliezar soon married Julia, and re-
turning to America, they now pass 8
happy existence with their parents, en-
joying all they desire, and often calling
to mind the carnival of 1847.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03
A Brave but Fruitless Effort

The recent inundstion in Hungary
though on a large scale, bears q close
resemblance to the terrible calamity that
devastated the Swiss valley of Msrtigny
half a century ago, which is still re-
membered as one of the most formidable
foods ever witnessed in that part o.
Europe. In the spring Of 1918, the
Dranse, which flows through the valley,
lessened by degrees till its channel was
left perfectly dry. A party sent to
reconuoiter found the river completely
blocked by the falling of huge mass OF
ice, behind which the rising waters were
drowning the upland villages one by
che, while the lower ground was left
waterless and parehing. 1t was instantly
resolved to avert the threatened Outburst
by cutting a tunnel through the Ice,
and running the water of by degrees
The execution of this srduous task was
one of the most heroic exploits on record.
For FIVE whole weeks the indOmitable
men, viii death staring them in the
face, toiied night and day In alternate
gangs, the water rising around them
from below, the half melted ice thunder
ing down upon them from above, and
the danger OF sudden overflow increas-
ing with every hour. By some miscal-
cuiation, the two sections of the tunnel,
commenced from opposite sides, had a
twenty-ioot difference OF levee which
cost several days additional labor to
rectify. At length the water began to
flow, and ali danger seemed over, when
suddenly the base of the ice-bsrrier,
already weakened by the growing heat
of summer, gave way with a terrific
crash, and the whole body of water burst
forth at once, sweeping down the valley
with the speed OF an express train. Its
force and volume may be estimated by
the fact that sOlid bridge, ninety feet
above the ordinary level of the river,
was torn away like a thread. OF the
whole town of MaItig1y, nothing escaped
but the ruined csstle on its highest
ridge, the destruction of life and property
being 50 great that IOr the time being
the beautiful valley was turned into I'D
absolute desert.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03

dursnce. We have seen Corkey and
Blower" Brown in their long distance
matches in London, and both the one
and the other acquired their great records
by much such step. COrkey's stride is
somewhat longer than RowelPs, but the
mans legs are longer in proportion to his
height. In seeing ROwen running around
at his dog trot in Gilmere's you have
seen Blower" Browns style faithfully
reproduced, and as these men have done
grand things under this method, RowelPs
little tIot may be accepted Gag good
form"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03

Hartford Coursnt.

harhoTa Iourants
Visitors at New London, Block Island
or other of our fishing ports have no
doubt noticed that at the end of the
bowsprit of the larger sized fishing boats
there is often au iron cage or frame, so
made IS to be safe for man to stand in
it. This is the place from which the
fisherman throws the hsrpoon to capture
the sword-fsh, and the sword fish is just
now the subject of considerable discus
sion. Its ways have at least as much
mystery as the chad, salmon, herring
or any other unsecountablss that we
have.
Professor G.. r. Goode Is studying up
the natter, preparatory to 3 report to
the government Some OF the interest,"
ing features of the FISH are these: 1t is
found here and there from spring TO fall
in the ocean on our coast, lying "ssleep,"
the sailors call it, on the very sur see Of
the water. Nobody on the American
coast, az far az reported, ever saw little
sword-f.h. The smallest recorded by a
correspondent OF the Forest and Stream
weighed forty six pounds. They run up
to 600 pounds. Their only known breed
ing ground is in the Mediterranean.
There the same 5sh are found weighing
half pound from that they go up.t
very heavy measurement. 1t Is nat
urally inferred from this that all our
sSord-fsh are Mediterranean products.
What mysterious ocean current guides
them over hereH Or is it an instinct
that teaches them that here they will
find the mackerel and menhaden that
they feed ont One can almost imagine
that the game flight and pursuit kept up
by these two species starts at Gibraltar,
and is run to Block Island every day.
The sword-hsh darts upon a school of
prey, and by skillful use of its sword
wounds that it sfterwsrd captures and
eats. Until this season nobody ever
thought of catching it except by hsr-
poems. This year, however, it has taken
the habits of the trawls-bottom lines
of the Cape Ann codfshermen, and
many sword fish have been caught in
this novel way. What they come up
and sleep for is one of the puzzles of
their natures. They come and go as the
mackerel and menhaden, and from thst
it is naturally concluded that they spend
their time chasing these small fish.
What with shsrks, sword-fsh, porpoises,
bluefish, sea-gulls, eagles and seines, and
all the rest after them, the fish of the
herring tribes have led such lives of
flight and terror that it is no longer
wonder that the movements of any
school of them seem always guided by
an inherent idiocy. 1t is less strange of
them that they are all the while victims
than that, being caught by millions
yearly, they should steadily increase.
There were never more menhaden on
our coast than this year.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03
Some BeacOnsfield Epigrams.

Lord Beac3nsfeid said 20 a member of
the Manchester chamber of commerce,
who came to tell him that the chamber
intended to vote resolutions condemna.
tory OF the ministerial policy on the
eastern question al have heard a
great deal about Manchester 'clayed
cotton which is disgracing the English
name in China. Please tell the chamber
that if they attend to my business
will try and attend to theirs"
Equally smart was a structure of his
upon Birmingham, pronounced in the
hearing of the heir of the throne, whom
tickied: "A curious city, Birming-
hsm; its prosperity is founded on the
manufacture of instruments OF war aud
sham jewelry; yet it has the disinter-
estedness to elect three members Bright
Dixon and Muntz) who don know gun
barrel from pea-shooter, and who never
had a watch chain between them"
Of Mr.. Carlyle he said: He had
his reasons for writing ciyilly of Crom.
we'll - Cromwell would have hanged
him"
OF DIR. browning: al like Mr.. Brown.
ing's verses, and wish somebody would
translate them into English"
A lady was telling the premier that
she had been to Mr.. Spurgeon's taber-
nacle and had heard him preach 8 scath.
ing political sermon in which he Nord
b. was much abused. az wish l had
been there" wss the dry rejoinder. az
have heard he can be very amusing."
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Recent POstOffice Rulings.
Western Postal Review.

Western Postal Review.
Pocket knives are unmailsble.
1t issthe duty of a mail carrier to re-
eeive mail matter properly prepaid and
inclosed in United States stamped en-
yelopes, when one mile OK more from a
postofhce.
A paper printed in one county and
published in another can not be sent to
subscribers residing in both counties
A mark calling attention to some par
ticulsr paragraph in q newspaper does
not subject it to any additional postage.
Crayon drawings are subject to letter
rates of postage, the same as any other
matter ploduced by pen or pencil.
The postal laws prohibit the exchange
of postage stamps of one denomination
for those of other denominations.
Some part of q publication must be
printed in the county wherein the
claimed Office of publication is located,
to enable the same to be sent free to
subscribers residing in said county.
(See ruling No. 81
There is no law excluding postal cards
from the mails because of notices of in.
debtedness being printed or written
thereon, but no indecent language, terms
or epithets will be allowed in such
notices.
Ali letters having one full-rate pre-
paid must be forwarded. Second and
third class matter must be fully prepaid.
The postal law forbids the renting OF
boxes in postofices to tive families or
firms.
A printed business card may be mailed
at third>class rates, provided it has no
writing upon it other than the address.
Regular newspapers cannot be admit
ted to the mails at pound rates when
handful or circular is inclosed.
a publication not entitled to be sent
in the mails at pound rates cannot be
sent as an exchange" at the pound
rates.
Postmasters at other than letter-car-
rier Offices are obliged to distribute lOca
County, newspapers, intended for regu-
lar subscribers, from the boxes or gen
eral delivery OF their offices free OF charge;
provided the same are properly dried,
folded and addressed.
A post master cannot use the post
Office boxes as a medium to advertise his
business without fully prepsying all
postage, the same as any one else would
be required to do.
The postofice department rules that
no postoffice shall be kept in a bar
room or room directly connected there
with, nor must sny mail be opened or de-
ivered in any such loom.
Letters passing through the mails can
not lawfully be opened by any officers of
he law for the purpose of detecting !
criminals.
1t is no part of postmaster's BUSH
less to inquire of a person receiving
prepaid at pound rates,
whether they are subscribers or not, nor
s there any restriction in the number a
person may receive, except in the case
If Tree country newspapers.
When newspaper has been refused
~ the party addressed it is simply the
iuty of the postmaster to notify the
publisher that such is the case, after
which, if the paper continues to arrive
n the mails, he should place it with
'thsr waste paper, to be sold at the end
# the quarter.
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Fat cook with conscious bushes,
to the lady who wsntsito engage her):
+" As to there bein' no followers allowed,
mum, you might reccollect, as you've
been single yourself; and 8 girl as is
rayther snowy in fgger can't well help
'em comm about"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03

1t takes seven months to teach
person to strop razor, and then we ex-
pect BARRIERS to shave US and not talk !
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03
WAITS AND wHIMs.

TIE Road To sLUMBER-LkND.
What Is tae road 70 sidnbsr-lsnd9 and when doss
the baby gof
Inc road lies Strsish; through nsthsr's ann. w.
the sun Is Einling low.