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The New York herald., 1879-12-11
AN IRISH DEMAGOGUE.
From the San Francisco Post, Dec. 81

From the San Francisco Post. Dec. 81
John Rae. Belfast attorney. who figures as coun-
sci in the Irish sedition at Sligo is o man OF
very remarkable powers and ecccntricity. His ego
tism and ambition are unbounded. and mis- com mand
OF words is something amazing. He is born dema-
gogue, and began his early. He figured In
the Young Ireland agitation in Ulster, and was once
senced at a mass meeting In Belfast by u stream
of water from fire engine being sent straight into
his mouth, which is uncommonly large one. The
meeting was speedily dispersed cold water being
thrown over It, Raes next appearance relator
in suit against the Belfast Corporation, who were
made personally responsible for very large sums
of money spent on public improvements without
legal appropriation. Ho might have got into Par
lament ut that time II he had consented to u
promise, but the Belfast Corporation being In
tensely tory he sought to break up that party by
running its leaders. The town clerk, John Bates,
committed suicide or died suddenly in conseq uence
OF Rae's attacks. This broke up the conspiracy,
which gave the conservatives majority in the bor-
ough council and enabled them to return two tory
members to Parliament. Tho sitting members then
Richard Davson an attorney. and II. NJ Cairns,
now Lord Chancellor of England. Rae confined him.
self to local agitation for many years and In the
Town Council. He never lost an opportunity of ha-
ranguinu u crowd, and his invective and denuncia-
tions would often put the sand lot in the shade He
has defended the Derry Prentice Boys whom prose.
cuted for Illegal processions and struggled tor Ar.
magh Ribbonmen with equal zeal He Is good law
yer, but il apt to sacrifice his clients to
little cIaptrap popularity for himself He Is, withal
not overburdcned with principle, nor 10 he ever
The New York herald., 1879-12-11

fringes one of its bays what the surroundings Of
this art palace are. Thousands daily ascend the
towers to feast their eyes upon the panorama by
which they are surrounded. In this particular
feature Paris. London, aud even Philadelphia. have
been eclipsed at the antipodes Several members of
the Legislature have given vent to their feelings
garding the money wasted the whole affair. and
when the bills presented to Parliament there is
certain To he lively debate. The victorians
that unless they some additional
attractions to those shown here their show
next year must result i'll humiliating failure.
They have endeavored to avert this by
sending special commissioner to Europe in
order to obtain fresh exhibits. IL New South
Wales, with ITS comparatively free trade tariff under
which almost every exhibit came III free or duty has
not made success. what may be anticipated from
the Melbourne experiment. where nearly all the
articles shown by foreign countries must go i'll
under bond subject to heavy duties. Many of the
English exhibitors say that they viii sell of here
when the Garden Palace closes. as it is no use show
ing in colony having almost prohibiive tariff on
of their goods. That portion OF the machinery
ut work is very attractive to country visitors.
and venture to predict largely increased sale
hereafter for American made implements. especially
those requisite for farming purposes. In this sec
ton the Canadians the only rivals to be feared
They pushing trade strongly and have energetic
agents.
The New York herald., 1879-12-11
ONE THOUSAND. MILES FROM LAND.

WRECK OF THE BARK EDITHA-HER CREW IN
TWO BOATS, PICKED UP By DIFFERENT
VESSELS.
The little bark Editha sailed from Philadelphia
the 9th OF November last for Queenstown with .
crew of thirteen men-the unlucky numbcr-and Q
cargo OF 3O.2O4 bushels of Indian corn. The bark
of 4S5 tons register. and was owned by Messrs.
Adamson L. Short. North Shields. England. For .
week more old Neptune smiled upon them. but
after that came terrific gale which threw the bark
upon her beam ends and shifted her cargo of corn.
Still the Ecitha dragged on her course. until
she met by another storm on the 10th.
There was terrific sea and the vessel
sprung aleak. Pumping seemed useless. but
Captain Trainer and his twelve men stood by
their task until midnight of the 21st. There
then nine feet Of in the hold and it was deter
mined tolabandon her and save their lives The long,
boat intended to hold the entire crew in just such
emergency had been ruined in the gale. Captain
Trainer put the mate the married men and the boys
numbering eight in all, into the gig. and used the
small pinnace for himself and four of the crew.
The two boats were held by rope and the gig was
fastened to the bark In just two hours the Editha
to the bottom. As she sank the mate cut the
rope which he had attached to her and the two small
boats were adrift thousand miles from land.
ONLY HOPE.
This was in latitude As deg. longitude 43 deg.
of company out Of sight Both were supplied with
hardtack and water In the captains boat was only
gallon of the latter. and the hardtack was soaked
with salt water. There safety in the oars,
for land beyond their reach. and all they could
do was to watch for the angel wings of
o ship that should them For four days.
in the bitter cold and the tossing sea.
they drove away their thirst with the least possible
use of water On the morning Of the 25th, sail
seen and bore toward them. The wrecked
pulled to their saviour which to be the British
ship Calliope from London to New York. once safe
on board, they scanned the ocean for their eight
companions In misfortune. but they were nowhere
to be seen steamer passed them. however. and
they had somo hopes that she might have picked
them up.
Yesterday the Caliope came into New York har-
Dor and Captain Smith informed o reporter OF the
HERALD that the boat Of eight men probably
lost Captain Trainer had better than that.
The steamer Atlas had picked up the missing eight
and landed them in Boston. where in turn. the cap
tain and his four believed to have been lost.
1t something of coincidence that bot
picked up tho same day, November %.
The Editha was valued at about S., 500, exclusive
of her cargo.
The New York herald., 1879-12-11
AMERICAN DIPLOMACY ABROAD.

ABOUT THE TREATY MADE DY UNITED STATES
MINISTER GEORGE +. SEWARD WITH THE
TsUNG-LI-YAMEN IN pEKIN.
To EDITOR THE HEnALD:-
The treaty which Mr.. G. +. Seward. United States
Minister, is said to have made in the month of July
of this year s19) with the Tsungli Yamen lForeign
Office in Pekin. to prevent Chinese emigration to
the United States. does not begin to meet the
and it it should be approved by President Hayes and
his Cabinet it will certainly not be approved by
Congress nor by the country ut large. This treaty
provides that criminals, sick and prostitutes, &C..
shall not DO allowed to emigrate to the United
States but only able bodied Tho latter is just
the element the white laborer objects to: he does
not fear the sick or the women. and to criminals
the Chinese authorities easily show that none
allowed to leave the country. The sick cannot
CO. and the others are oil needed for home consump
ton. Hence they not allowed to co. Under this
Seward-fev. MISUNDERSTANDING Taylor Treaty
able-b bodied men enough leave China for the
United States to dIspace every man, woman and
for they boast OF 100 people, while the United
States can only muster ut most about 450O0.0UO
The more this question, so important to the people
OF the United States and especially OF the Pacific
coast is tnkered with the harder will it be finally
settle it, The shrewd and sagacious statesmen OF
the Tsung Yainen Jumped the Sc H lcombe
Taylor proposal (blunder). and the Lending Chi
nese laughing in their sleeves at the ease with
which the two American and one haf-caste Burmese
dlplomatsts have been taken in.
Since United States Minister F. +. Lows famous
Corean hasco. from which he got the nickname Of
Corea Low all over Asia in 1872, the appointment OF
errant preacher, the Rev. Lester Holcombe. as
United States Charge Afaires and lately Of con-
verted Burmese tutor and diplomatic adviser.
who is dc tacto the deus n.achna OF the United
States Legation in Pekin. the Chinese government.
mandarins and people have come to the conclusion
that the land which has produced the ever lamented
Anson Burlingame las lost the seeds OF able
serious and honest diplomats for the tar East This
converted and very acute Burmese, named Christ
mas Sebastopol Taylor il eX-restaurant waiter in
the French settlement in Shanghai. and from the
2Oth of March to the 3lst of May, 1879 sevenrytwo
long days in the absence of Mr.. Seward and Of the
Rev. Lester Holcombe. this acute Burmese paraded
himself among the Chinese and foreigners in Pekin
the United States Charge dAtfaires VERY humil-
iating for America and under instructions he psr-
forms in the United States Legation in Pekin the
same honorable duties Mr.. Bradford used to per-
form in the United States Consulate General in
Shanghai.
The above is for the American people to read
think and judge. The State Department at Washing
ton has assumed very heavy responsibility toward
the American people and history.
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
PEKIN August, 1879.
The New York herald., 1879-12-11
SYDNEY'S EXHIBITION.

FINANCIAL DEFICIT ALREADY roREsEEN-THE
vIcroRIANs TAKING LEssoNs-AMER1cAN AND
CANADIAN EXHIBITS.
SYDNEY, N. s. W.. Oct. q, 1879.
The semi-chaotc appearance which the building
and its surroundings presented few weeks ago has
vanishcd but there is still great deal TO be done
before "the Garden Palace 1t is officially styled.
be called complete. Tho fine arts department is
not yet ready for its share of the exhibits. The Ma
chnery Hall is anything but finished and there
tons Of goods intended for the main building yet un-
opened. Among these are the German exhibits.
which arrived by the steamer Nautilus on the
Sd inst Thus far the exhibition has proved grand
financial mistake. the receipts not covering working
expenses. The United States exhibitors have reason
TO be satisfied with the position assigned to them.
the space allotted and the arrangements made
their behalf by DR.. Williams. Dr. Cox, secretary OF
the commission, IL now the representative here.
II would be impossible to convey to the eye of
unfamiliar with the natural beauty OF Port Jackson
aud the picturosquansss of the botanical Garden that
The New York herald., 1879-12-11

SELLING LIQUOR TO A BOY.

Joseph Lawlor. twelve years old, found insen-
sbie from drink. lying in hallway in Essex street
on Thanksgiving morning. Policeman King carried
him to the Tenth precinct station house. The boys
eyes were classy and he toamcd at the mouth.
search was mado by the police for tho who sold
him the liquor They arrested Abraham Beistif,
liquor dealer, OF No. IS Essex street. In the Court
OF Special Sessions yesterday, the Society for tho
Prevention of Cruelty to Children was present to
prosecute Bleistif for selling liquor to minor. The
testimony conflicting, but Bleistf was hnsd S2A
The New York herald., 1879-12-11
IDENTIFIED HIS ASSAILANT.

Thomas Vail. superintendent of the Second Avenue
Railroad depot. Ninety sixth street. arrested
yesterday by Detective Sawyer and taken to the
Nincty-ninth Street Hospital, where David Conroy.
of No. LAG First avenue. identified him as the man
who. on last Saturday night; had kicked him and
thro wn him to- tho ground thereby breaking his Leg
Conroy stopped at the depot to make complaint
against n conductor, when, he alleges, he was as
saultcd by Vail. The latter says he only gave Con-
roy u slight push. and he being intoxicated lost his
baance and broke his limb Justice Wandell heiu
Nj. Van TO await the result Of conroy's injury.
The New York herald., 1879-12-11
IMMIGRATION INCREASING.

Two hundred and thirty Ave immigrants landed at
Castle Garden yesterday. Fourteen thousand six
hundred immigrants landed at Castle Garden during
the month of November. showing an increase OF
1855 the corresponding month of 1878. The
total immigrant arrivals from January 1, 1879. to
December were 125.gO0 an increase OF AZ, 1865
over the same timc last year.
The New York herald., 1879-12-11

exceeds the expenditure for tho previous year.
The list comprises forty.hve unions aud ia eleven
ult amounted to 3s in the pound and upward. yiz =
Four unions Genties Cahrcivesn Dingie and Castle
but under IS. sd Three unions tCastletown MIL
Street aud Oughersr i'm which the expenditure has been
3s Sd pound and upward but under Is. Newport
union from which the return has not been received may
Citizen am BelmullcD which the expenditure been
over As Tho expenditure highest in Belnulle union.
where amounted TO 4s 51,d in the pound, valuation
of f1O,9J2.
POOR LAW RELIEr STATISTICS.
The increased expenditure above referred to
doubt by the additional receiving relief
the numbers relieved IN the October 1873
ana 1870 respectively. being AS tolows:-
Week ending In Workho'He. Ontdoor. IoitL
October 5, 1873 s............ ~ 77s 32.o5l 1874
October 4, 1873. 4S,6S2 3l,o1I Si2.SJ
Excess of 1879 1873. -. 4,9O9 26O6 1915
Thus showing of 1918 persons nearly
psr the whole number relieved: The following
gives tho proportions in which the Increase
numbers receiving workhouso relief has taken place in
province the percentage OF increase being greaest In
Ulster and least in Lenster:--
Reteced ia WorklOuse
The Osceola times., 1879-02-01
Language Of Finger. Rings.

In the Case OF a gentleman wishing to
marry, literally A" in the market" with
his heart, he wears pain or chased gold
ring upon the first finger of the lett or
heart hand When success attends his
suit, and be is actually engaged, the ring
pas,es TO the third finger. If, however,
the gentleman desires to tell the fair
ones that be not only is not sin the
market" but that he does not design to
marry at all, he wears the signet upon
his little finger, and all the ladies may
understand that he is out Of their reach.
With the lair sex the laws of the ring
are: "A plain or gold ring on the little
finger OF the right hand implies not
engaged; : or in palmer words, ready for
proposals, sealed or otherwise. When
engaged, the ring passes 10 the third fin
ger OF the right hand. When married,
the third finger of the right hand
receives it. II the lair one proposes to
defy all seige to her heart, she places the
riggs on her first and fourth fingers one
on esch--like two charms TO keep away
the temper. 1t is somewhat singular that
this latter disposition of rings is rare.
The Osceola times., 1879-02-01
French Petty Employees
Fta.s. Magazine

There ia a peculiar French class, the
army of fsmsll government employees, who
di,charge their infinitely Insignificant
but infinitely diversified functions
throughout the land, on salaries which
stretch between f32 and the vast, snvied
and rare immensity of fl60. OF the
5000 civil servants required by the
complicated and inquisitorial admins.
tration of France. onshalf, at least, ere
obliged by their occupations to inhabit
the villages. The gardes champetres, the
forest keepers, the various ioremen of
the national department ana Communal
roads, the multitorm agents of the tax.
collectors, the overlookers Of navigation
on the rivers and canals, the inspt ctors,
surveyors and overseers of every possible
process, thing or deed that can any how
be inspected, surveyed or overseen, and
crowds of other diminutive officials with
line of gold or silver braid on their
kepS, are all, by the essentially local
nature of their calling, dwellers in the
country. How they manage to lodge,
nourish, clothe and educate their families
on an average pay of about ESQ year
is mystery worthy to be classed among
the great enigmss of lie; but they do
it, and, Furthermore, they constitute a
society. In certain villages, indeed,
their group composes recognized sris.
tocracy they are the great world of the
place; they possess the advantages of
rank the Sunday bonnets of their wives
and daughters arouse emotion among
csp.wearing spectators. And all this is
paid tor by about twenty-five shillipgs a
week Very wonderful. But the
people of this curious category are ren.
dered more remarkable still by pecu.
liarity which is proper to themselves,
which saturates and permeates them by
an unimaginable servility to their
superiors, and by an equally unimagin-
able arrogance to everybody else. They
cringe and they bully with q skill which
is the most productive and the most
evident of their professional endowm.nt',
aud which sets the beholder wondering
what hidden grace there can be in the
service of the French government 10
develop 30 wonderful capacity OF alter.
nate obsequiousness and insolenoe in its
lower relalners. 1t is all over France /;
it sprouts in every wearer OF gold.
lace Cap but it is more striking in the
country than in the towns, for the
double reason that there is more space
for it in the former than in the latter,
AMI that the people have more time 10
con template it.
The Osceola times., 1879-02-01
The Need Ofthe Stage.
Christian Union,

The reform of the stage, ifreform there
is to be, must come from within, not
from without. To ask the Christian
community to attend the modern drama
as it is, in the expectation that good
audience will make good play, is like
asking a congregation to crowd an empty
church in order to make the periunctory
exhibitor OF theological anatomy an
eloquent teacher OF living truth; or re.
questlng the inhabitants of Rome TO
move out into the CaElpagns in order to
eradicate The malaria by living in the
midst OF it. The drama of the future, if
it is any better than the drama OF the
past, will be made 10, not by attending
IL as ii is to-day, nor yet by indiscrim.
na.ing denunclatiOn OF it and all its
representatives as hopelessly and intrin-
sicslly bad, and certainly not by indis>
eliminating defense OF 1T, on tine false
assertion that all professions are shops
for gain, but by its elevation through
the labors of the Mscreadys, Miss Cusn.
mans and Edwin Booths oil the stage,
and by spublic and hearty appreciation
OF their difficult position and thankless
task The drama occupies to-day the
position that the novel occupied toward
the close OF the last century. When
Fielding and Smollett were the classic
noveiists when Jack Sheppard " and
+" Dick Iurpin" were the great modern
roma ces, the novel was rightly placed
under the ban of all Christian house.
nolds Since Walter Scott, and Charles
Dickens, and William NJ. Thackeray, and
Georgel Eliot have proven that the
novel can be made a medium OF moral
instruction, and Miss Mulock and Ed
ward Roe have demonstrated that it can
even be made a means of religious
inspiration, the bull of accommodation
has been taken off, and the reform novel
Is everywhere welcomed. The drama
needs Walter Scott At present there
is one Edwin Booth, one Mccullough,
one Jefferson; there are over bundled
travelling" combinations which carry
the modern drama of vulgar jokes and
indecent exhibitions into every town
large enough 10 furnish hail, from
Maine to New Orleans, and from the
Hudson river towns to the csnons of
Colorado. So long as these "hucksters
of immoral gimcracks are the sole
representatives of the modern theatre 10
the country district, so long it willjustly
lie under The reprobstion oi all thoughts
tut people.
The Osceola times., 1879-02-01
The National Complaint.

dyspepsia is the national complaint. AL.
most every other man or woman you meet hai
it, and the result is that the number OF pseu-
do remedies fori is as numerous IS Pha.
raoh's host. They are Tor the most part worth'
less. There 10, however, q searching Grad cant
of this distressing and obdurate msady, one
whose genuine merits long since raised it to
fortm plsce among the staple medicines
Of America. Hostetter's Stomach Bitteis eI-
tirI ates dyspepsia with greater certainty aud
pronptitude Tn n any known remedy, aud ia
"A most genial inyiesrsat, appetizer and aid
tosecretion. These are not empty as ertious,
as thousands Of our countrymen and women
who have experienced its effects are aware,
but are backed up by irrefragable proofs re,
peatedly laid before the public. The Bit:ers
also promote a regular habit of body and give
a healtbfu stimulus to the urinary organs.
The Osceola times., 1879-02-01
FlOnnders' Eyes.
From Nature.


la the late summer of 1875 little
shoal of some fifteen quite transparent
founders were captured by Agsssiz on a
quiet and brilliant morning, on the sur
face OF the water at the mouth of the bar.
bor OF Newport. They were swimming
vertically, and violently rushing after
the minute entomostrsoa which swarmei
on the surface. They were at oncs trans.
ferred to shallow glsss jars, in which thew
would remain at the bottom on their right
sides, for hours immovable. When dis
tprbed they were rapid in their move
ments, frequently jumping out ol the
water. When swimming vertically they
usually moved obliquely, the tail being
carried lower thsn the head. When one
OF these was looked at in profile, its right
eye could be seen through the head,
slightly in advance and little above the
LETT eye; owing to the great transpar-
ency Of the body, the right eve was then
nearly as useful as II placed on the left
SIDE. Gradually it rose, until about six
days II was well above the LETT eve
shortly after, wonderful 10 relate, II was
seen to sink into the tissues at the base
OF the dorsal fin, between this and the
frontsl slowly 1t sank, until the huge
orbit became reduced TO mere circular
opening. Little by little this became
smaller and smaller, the eye pushed its
way deeper into the tissues, until an sd-
ditionsl opening was formed on the LEFT
side. At this stage there were three orr
bital openings, though OF course but two
eyes. The original, or right orbitsl,
oFeuing soon became closed, and the
Gel ,red side had its two
The Osceola times., 1879-02-01
Death Rate In Cities.

According to table prepared by the
New York health department, in relation
TO the death'rste in proportion to popu-
lstion ot the principal cities OF the world,
the two American cities that show the
heaviest death-rates are Baltimore and
Washington, the former being 254l and
the latter 1854 per 1000. The deaths
rate in the principal foreign cities is
considerably higher than in the principal
American cities. We append a list OF
the cities, home and foreign:
The Osceola times., 1879-02-01
Are MOles "a Pest !


There is a great difference of opinion
as 10 this question. Our own is that
the mole is harmless IS rule sometime
it damages lawns and gardens in pursuit
OF its food, which usually is the earth
worm. II it should go through a hill of
corn and injure it by oosening the root.
let's it ia still in pursuit of the earth
worm which is in dry times found about
the roots of corn and other vegetables,
grass, &c, more sbundsntly than else.
where. So far rs our observation extend
we have never known the mole to eat
vegetable matter. 1t would seem to be
strictly a csrnivorous animal. And on
this head here Is something to the point
Mr.. Weber, one of the ssvants OF Zurich,
Switzerland, recently examined the
stomach of number of moles caught in
different local. ties, but failed 10 discover
therein the slig.hte't vestige of plants or
roots; whereas tLey were filed with the
remains of earth,vorms He shut up
several o, these anin. ais 10 box contain,
ing earth and sod With growing grass
and small case of grub or earthworms.
in nine DAYS Two noles devoured Sll
The Osceola times., 1879-02-01

wiite worms, 1893 esrthworms, 25 cater
pil ars and dead mouse. Fed with a
mixed diet of raw meat ard vegetables
the moles ate the meat and left the plants;
and when the vegetables exclusively
were dealt out to tbem in twenty-four
hours both died OF starvation.
The Osceola times., 1879-02-01

Sore throat. cough, cold and similar
troubles, If suffered to progress, result in
serious pulmonary affections, oftentines in.
durable. Browns Bronchial Troches" reach
directly the seat Of the diseate, and give al.
most instant relief. 25 cents a box