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The New York herald., 1879-12-26

Two tramps. who gave their names as James Ken.
ney and William Walker. obtained lodging at tho
First precinct station house. in Washington street.
Brooklyn. on Wednesday night About fve o'clock
yesterday morning the sergeant and doorman heard
strange noises in the lodgers' room. and cries Of
murder. Upon entering the apartment they found
Kenney with pocket knife in his hand and Walker
bleeding from cut on his arm and leg. Kenney
said that he had had horrible dream, and injured
Walker before he had recovered consciousness. He
was locked up on a charge OF feonious assault.
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PANIC AT A FESTIVAL.

REPRESENTATIVE OF SANTA CLAUS SEVERELY
INJURED.
CINcINxATI. Dec 49, 1879.
special despatch to the Commerciat from Patas-
kaa. Licking county. Ohio. says that at Methodist
Sunday school festival there to-day tho cotton bat
ting representing snow in the costume Of Santa
Claus took nre and In few moments tho whole
snowy robe in flames, and the children. lately
pressing forward for presents, wore seized with
Q panic and rushed pellmell out OF the church,
but without meeting with serious lnishap. The fire
quickly extinguished, but not before the imper-
senator Of santa Claus severely burned. whether
fatally or not is yet unknown.
The impersonator of Santa Claus was named
George Lynn, and he is probably fntally burned.
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LACEY GETS HIS CHILD.

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERAID.1
BRADFORD. Pa, Dec. %. 1879.
The Lacey occupied the attention Of the Court
here all day yesterday and far into the night and
was not decided until this afternoon General Slay
ton who took a somewhat prominent part in the
Pttsburg riot. unpleasantly MIXED up with 1t.
This afternoon the Court awarded the custody Of the
child to Harry Lacey. the father who took an early
train for New York.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

General Rufus ingalls,. United States Army; Gov
ernor Charles G. Van Zandt. of Rhode Island. and
Congressman W. A. Field, of Boston. are at the
Fifth Avenue. Dion Boucicault is at the Hoffman.
Professors Theodore D. Woolsey, of New Haven;
Paul A. Chadbourne, of Williams College. and Ezra
Abbott. Of Cambridge Mass. are at the Everett.
Congressman William NJ. Lowe, of Alabama, is at
the st. James. Professor Mark Hopkins, of WILL
Jams College, is at the Brunswick. General s. G.
Armstrong. of Hampton. Va is at the Union Sqpare.
Judge 7. W. Bartley. Of Washington. is at the st.
Nicholas.
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THE SCHOOLGIRL MURDER.

CINCINNATI. Dec Is, 1879.
despatch from Richmond. Ind, to tho Enquirer.
says many contradictory reports have been
circulated regarding the killing of Miss Katis
in Wayne county, by two schoolmates. 1t
appears she only . girl Of six years
instead Of fifteen, and while there is no doubt
of her having received severe boating,
the doctor has given certificate that she
died Of brain fever and that while the hurts received
from her schoolmates might have been the cause OF
DEATH in his opinion they were not.
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MARY BEDFORD's AssAILANT.

The condition of Mary Bedford the aged servant
who was SO brutally beaten by a mulatto on Tues.
day morning last, remains unchanged; but DR..
Ewing who has attended her. is Of the opinion that
she will recover. Franks Robertson, her assafl-
ant, is said by another colored man to bo an old
offender, and to have just completed term Of inn
prisonment in Sing Sing for burglary. resident OF
Ninth street claims that the negro broke into his
house some time since.
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NEGRO ROBBERS SENTENCED.

Six members of the negro banditti arrested for
robbing farmers and other people at Long Branch
and Red Bank, N. j., went before Judge wailing
ON Tuesday confessed their guilt ana entered plea
OF guilty. On Wednesday tho culprits were ar
raigned for sentence. sSanuel Kearney John Harris
ana Jack Ricketts,. tho alleged ringleaders.
fenced to one year in the state Prison each
charge, making three years for each. John Wesley
Harris, who hrst confessed and gave evidence
against the gang let off with the light sentence
OF three months in the County Jail. George Cooley
and Aleck Brodio were remanded for sentence until
tomorrow
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MURDER AT A BALL.

WILMINGTON, N. Co. Dec. 25, 1872
At Bloomer ball in . sailors boarding house last
night. in locality known Paddys Hollow. in this
city. a negro woman named Maria Hall stabbed Will
yam Marie white sailor with knife inthe left lung
inficting mortal wound from the effects of which
the died in thirty minutes. The woman was
arrested by the police shortly after the occurrence
and locked up in the station house, where she will
remain until tho Mayor investigates the case on Fri
dav evening.
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BRAZIL COFFEE MARKETS.

Rio JANErRo, Dec "a. 1874
Exchange on London, 23tSd Conec-aood frsts, e.7oO
res $500 por 10 kilos Market quiet with down.
bags; weeks shipments TO tho Channel and North OF
Europe 1000 bags; 20 tho United states, 2,UOD bags
weeks sales for the Channel North Of Europe 1VuOO
bags for the United Statos 1000 bags for tbe Mcdter
300 bags stock 4Ol OOO bags Freights. per
sail to tho Channel, 4Os. - . 49,.
Cocc market very uuict; prices nearly nominal supc-
ror Santos 5000 rcis $500 res per 10 kilos average
daily receipts the week. 900 bags; weeks
AL countries, 9t bngs; to the Channe Europe and
the Mediterranean, o bags No sales reported. Stock,
2O0UUO bags
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ONE OF THE JAMES GANG.

KANSAS CITY. Dec. 25, 1879.
Davy Fox. at one time member of the notorious
Jesse James gang. arrested in Sumner county,
Kansas and is now in Jail in this city. He is under
indictment for assisting in the murder of J. W..
whichers one Of Pinkertons detectives. near Inde-
pendence. No.. the 10th of March, 1874. and also
for engaging in the robbery of bank ut Indepen-
dence during the latter part Of 1876. Fox with
Quantrell during the war. An old comrade who
states that Fox told the whole story OF his partcipa
ton in the murder and the bank robbery. viii be tho
chief witness against him.
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STABBED IN THE SIDE.

During an alteration in barroom attached to
the lodging house No. IL Oak street, last evening.
young man namsi Charles b. Hall. q butcher. resid-
ing at the above address, stabbed in the left side
by an Italian named Viii Gargano. residing at No.
10 Roosevelt street. Hall taken to the Chambers
Street Hospital In ambulance and attended TO by
the doctor in charge. His wound is serious. The
italian was arrested and lodged In the Fourth pro-
cinct station house.
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THE KING OF JOURNALISM.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN RETIREs FROM MILITANT
poIIrIcs, AND, FULL OF YEARS, ADD1CATEs
IN FAVOR OF YOUNGER WITS THE FATHER
OF CHEAP NEWSPAPERS.
icy CABLE TO THE HERALD1


IN FAVOR OF YOUNGER wIrs--rHH FATHER
OF CHEAP NEWSPAPERS.
iBY CABLE TO THE HERALD.1
PARIS, Dec. rs. 1870
The France contains letter from Emile do Girar-
din stating that ho wishes to quit the sphere of
militant politics. This is authoritative. When. in
1874 Emile do Girardin assumed direction of La
France he selected tho end OF the present year
as the torn of his authority. On tho LIST of
January, 1880. the septennate was to end. general
elections were to be held and appeal to tho nation
was to be made. All of these dreams have faded
away. The old publicist finds his occupation gone;
generation has arisin which knows him not. For
two or three years no has boon anxious to retire
from the political battlefield and. a. tho Nostor Of
French journalism. to give counsel ana exhortaton
to tho younger combatants. His work Ii DONE He
has created moro journals than there arc factions in
the statc There was lie Voieur. which. unlike many
Journals, told tho truth in its name for IL copied
from the other newspapers. Then came La mode. o
journal Of fashion and taste. which hourscd under
the smiles of the Duchess de Berry More than forty
years ago no printed his Journal DIES Conndis-
sancc Utae. newspaper OF useful infor.
nation, q monthly affair. sold for about
ak cents number. and which reached vast cir
cuiation Like his admirer. Greeley. GirsrdIn had
farming fancies and established model FARMS which
were moro profitable than Chappaqua. Then came
almanacs, an atlas with penny maps-a literary
Pantheon, which was to cmbody in . hundred VOL
umcs the best literature Of all countries. His genius
and industry were insatate. But his real career as
a journalist began when he founded the Press in
1886, daily paper at So year. This brought upon
him tho wrath Of his rival editors. who were as un
friendly then they are now. But Girardn
did not content himself with calling his an.
tagonists pigs. He conquered his peace with
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SHOT BY AN OFFICER.

CINCINNATI. Ohio, Dec. 25, 1870.
A despatch from Nashville. Tenn. to tho En-
qarer says. while Edward Hanlcy was drinking
with somo friends and making q good deal
OF disturbance Deputy Marshal Mullins tried to ar
rest him, when scufile ensued. Tho men were
separated but renewed the quarrel. when Mullins
drew o pistol and shot Hanley fatally.
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THE COLD WAVE.

CONTINUED COLD WEATHER IN CALIFORNIA.
SAN FRANCISCO CAL. Dec. 25. 1879.
Dispatches received here from all along the coast
state that the cold spell continues.
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FATAL AFFRAY.

CINCINNATI. Ohio. Dec. 25. 1879.
despatch to the Batavia. Ohio Gazette. says
quarrel occurred last night at bali there. be-
tween Albert Fi.zwater aud Jake Geiger; the former
challenged the latter to fight, whereupon Geiger
seized q stonemasonss hammer and beat Fitzwater
the head and shoulders with 1t that he died
this afternoon.
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STRUCK BY AN IRON GIRDER.

BosroH. Mass, Dec. 25. 1879.
Peter Foley was struck on the head by heavy
iron girder which he assisting to hoist in q
building being erected near Post Office square, this
morning, and was instantly killed.
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A FATAL FROLIC.

NEW MARKET. N. H.. Dec. IS, 1879.
Tho dead body of Patrick Behen. fifty years Of age.
was found at the house of Michael Carrigan. this
morning, with indications that Behen had died from
violence. The two men had been q drunken
frolic. Suspicious OF foul play are entertained.
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STAMPED TO DEATH.

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 25, 1870.
Last night during row in Crawshams saloon. in
South Camden. Joseph Hanson. of that place. was
stamped to death by George Pickering. who
Was arrested on an oyster boat at Spruce street
wharf this morning by the police. He will bo held
TO await reQuisiton from the Jersey authorities.
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STABLE AND HORSES BURNED.

BRANrFoRD. Ont. Dec. 49, 1879.
Fire this morning destroyed one Of the large
stables on Bow Park Farm, near this place. together
with its contents. including fourteen horscs. Tho
loss IL 81, 600; insurance unknown.
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FORTY DEGREES BELOW ZERO AT ST. PAUL.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 25. 1879.
The cold wave reached here this morning and the
thermometer fell to forty degrees below zero.
Railroad trains suffer much delay from the intense
cold, but all roads reported clear tonight.
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THE THERMOMETER FAILING At CINCINNATI
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec IS. 1879.
The weather changed last night from fair to
colder and cloudy. with light snow. The thermom-
cter fell steadily all day. Business entirely
pended. The usual services in tho churches took
place. and dinners at charitable and penal institu
tions were given.
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EXTREME COLD IN ST. LOUIS.

ST.. LOUIS Dec. 25. 1879.
The weather turned very cold yesterday after
noon, and the mercury sank to two
degrees below zero during tho night.
To-day It has ranged from to degrees above, and
is now at latter point with indications Of mder
temperature, tho wind having veered from north
xxae to ao1i thwestJ
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THE wEAruEn yrsrEnpAr.

The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty -four hours in
parison with the corresponding date of last year,
indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts phsr-
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coIpEsr on rnE SEASON 1N CHICAGO.

CHICAGO. ILL.,, Dec. Is. 1870.
To-day is the coldest Of the season. the thermom-
eter standing about all day. and tonight from
four to six below The sky is clear and tho festiv-
tiles were in keeping with the growing prosperity
of business. trade and industry.
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M. SAYS YACHT AT BALTIMORE.

BALTIMORE. Nd, Dec. IS. 1879.
M. Henri Says steam yacht Henrietta. with her
tender Toilette. arrived at this port to-day She will
receive new shaft and continue her voyage round
the world.
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Average temperature yesterdny 5s1
A;vsss. yssss...."~....."............".....1 year = 80 ~,
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SUSPICIOUS MOVEMENT OF MoHAMMEDANs ON
THE INDIAN MISUNDERSTANDING CRU
sADE-aoueH ENTERS cABuL-nour1No THE
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KENNEY's DREADFUL DREAM.

Managers Ladies' Lecture Bureau. No. As West Fo
teenth street.
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CONSUMPTION SUFFERERS. INSTEAD OF GO.
ing from die. take HAIRs HONEY OF HoREHouSD
TAR. IL is your best chance for life.
PIKE's ToorHAcnE DRoPs in minute.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-07
Clear Havana Filled Cigars for SC.
j. I. SHARP, 80 Main. 26t
Personal.

The Hon. Hugh Brinkley arrived
home last evening,
Mr.. George De Vol, of Charlotts-
vile, Va, is stopping in the city.
Misses Pattie and Annie Ashe left
the city a few days since for Nazareth
school, Bardstown, Ky.
Esquire f. w. Caldwell died Of
dropsy, at Bartlett, on Saturday even
ing, and was buried at Elmwood yes
terday.
Geo. r. Davidson, Liverpool Chas.
johnson, New York J. j. Corritt,
DR.. W. H. Tucker, 7. II. Collier and
j. j. Altscheil were visitors at the
cotton exchange to-day.
Mr.. ThOs. S. Bingham, we learn, is
rapidly recovering his health, and will
soon return from his old home in
Middle Tennessee, where he has been
%sojOurning during his illness.
DR.. G. W. Overall was married a
few days since at Murfreesboro, Tenn,
to Miss Roc Eakin. The rising and
modest young doctor and his bride
arrived in the city on Friday last, and
are domiciled at the Peabody.
Judge Archibald Wright has been
rendered, by Governor Marks, the
position Of arbitration commissioner
in the place of H.. Il. jackson, de-
clined. 1t is thought that Judge
Wright will not be able to accept the
position.
Mr.. B. X. Pullen, the grand score.
tary of the grand lodge Knights Of
Honor, has gone to Nashville to attend
the annual meeting Of the grand lodge
Mr.. PIllen is not only a clever gentle
man, but also a good business man.
and as secretary of either local OF
grand lodge he stands second to none.
We have no doubt he will be unani.
mously reelected as he eminently
deserves.
Three of the children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Mathes, at 30l Cynthia
street, have the scarlet fever. How
they took it is unaccountabe, as the
disease has not been heard Of here
this winter or spring until
now. DR.. Heber Jones has
charge Of the little patients, and while
the cases are all strongly developed
the symptoms are not unfayorable, and
strong hopes are entertained Of theil
recovery.
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Shooting for

Late last night as Captain w. c..
Davis was on his way up Main street
the flash Of a pistol, followed by its
explosive sound, was seen and heard,
and Fastening to the locality he saw
two men cutting it like sixty up the
street and then suddenly turning down
an alley. He gave chase and captured
Mr.. Thomas Il. Wilson, who admitted
that he fired the shot. He had thrown
his pistol away, but returning with
the officer the weapon was found
where it had been cast. Mr.. Wilson
explained hat a man whom he did
not know followed after him and in
sisted OIL his letting him have money.
He did not like his actions and SO fred
upon him. The would-be borrower
was arrested also, and he turned ont
to be a sewing machine agent or dealer
who was out on a lark. This morning
the man Of needles was at the station
house smelling strong of sourmash,
and he didn't want his name in the
papers, Nobody seemed to know it
precisely, and so it isn't in. Mr.. VIII.
son went home upon his own %recogni-
zance and to-day he gave bond to
appear when wanted.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-07
Unappreciated Rhetoric.

He was saying; GAS the pearly col
unns Of smoke in q winters atmosphere
r.ses unbroken heayenward, so my heart
rises to thee. As the sun1owcr follows
the cruel sun which gives it life, so my
heart follows thee. Az The blue brook
runs its u%nhindered course TO the sea, 81
my soul, in slavery, goes to thee" Said
she; Icy, nov that we are engaged, will
your nail-blade cut corns2 and you must
promise not to smoke any other cigar.
than those sold by Sol Coleman at 3lC
Main street. Ny sensitive nerves won't
stand anything else in the shape Of cigars.
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COurt-IEOuse Notes.

Tony Cassaretti was granted a new
trial to-day by the Criminal Court.
John b. Persons was ac quilted by a
jury at Bartlett last Saturday even.
ing.
The Circuit Court was engaged with
the case of Harbert VS.. Harbert, to-
day, involving the settlement of an
estate.
No news came from Judge Baxter
up to l o'clock to-day. 1t is under
stood he has as yet made no decision
in the receivers injunction case.
The Chancery Court held a perfume
tory session this forenoon. So said a
prominent attorney. The a S up was
W. I. Donaldson against John Oak
ley, involving a claim of some $1,000.
A new trial for James Logan. who
shot a colored waiter at the Peabody
Hotel, was being argued before Judge
Ray at noon to-day. The Sam Brizzell
murder case comes up at two o'clock
this afternoon.
The Supreme. Court of the State
conyenes at jackson, Tenn, to-day.
Among the important cases from this
city is that of the rapist Bernstein,
now under sentence of death, and the
case Of Woods for having murdered
Mrs. w. G. G. Foster.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-07
Police Items.

Three minor law-breakers, out OF
thirteen all told, were discharged by
Recorder Porter this morning.
Billy Emerson, the minstrel, charged
with doing business without license,
has his name on the police docket fOr
future examination.
Lou Brown, charged with stealing a
lot of Irvine from a meat house on
Shelby street, was arrested and locked
up this forenoon. The culprit is a
youthful darby of 20 summers.
The collectors have been after the
police in the liveliest possible manner
since they were paid off last Saturday.
An immense budget Of small accounts
have been settled by this financial dis
tribution on the part of the city.
d. Fl. Meyers was before the recor-
der to-day, charged with violating
Sunday orders. d. Fl. keeps a beer
store and %retails the beverage by the
glass. He was doubtless caught in
the nefarious act on the Sabbath.
Mike Stanton, for a plain, drunk
paid s. into Recorder Porter's Golfers
this forenoon. Jim Sanoni, for abus-
ing 10 an Italian, is in the boose, and
held to answer for it. Alf Ross paid
his fine for a disorderly fit of cutting
up.
A Creole lady from Louisiana was
caught in the storm last night, as she
was about to depart by rail. Being
left by the train she sought shelter at
the station-hous and was entertained
with the best in the house, until this
morning.
Out Of $50 worth of fines in the
Police Court this morning SIS was
paid. The only unfortunate without
cash was Betty Wilson, one of old
Mother Daltons tribe, aud Betty is
likely to have to work ten days for the
hullabaloo she raised in Center alley.
Bridget Joice, who aided Betty in the
rumpus, paid her V and got off, after
a nights stay in the station-house.
Nearly ten thousand dollars in cash
was paid to the police and fire force
on Saturday. 1t was two months
salary they received, The pay is
small, butitif comes rcgularly; the sys.
tenn is better and in every way more
satisfactory than when no pay wa,
given out for months and months
Those interested are still wondering
who will settle for the month of Jan
uary, when we had no civil authori.
| ties.
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Spring Attire.

For three days past an admirable open
ing display Of new spring fashions in the
millinery line has been the leading feature
at ?. Z. Hopkins, No. 269 Main street.
Since the large and beautiful stock has
been arranged for exhibition the store has
been crowded with ladies, all anxious 70
see and admire the Partisan bonnets, hats
and other classes Of millinery. The ine
display Of ostrich plumes, Of which there
is a largo assortment, the exquisite and
varied list Of artificial flowers, the many
styles, shapes, and the extensive assort-
ment OF beautiful bats and bonncts, aud
the elegant taste OF their arrangement fol
exhibition, has oil tended 10 make The
lady visitors enthusiastic over tho pictur'
csqus manner in which tho useful aud
beautiful are blended at the spring open.
lug Of Hopkins, Us well as The care aud
taste exhibited 10 the selection Of the ex'
cellent stock offered.
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Palm Nundnr.

The exercises Of Holy Week began
yesterday with Palm Sunday, a day
appointed in honor Of tho triumphant
entry Of our Lord into the city Of
Jerusalem, FIVE days before his death,
when the Jews cut branches of olive
from the trees, and went out of the
city to meet him, strewing them in his
way, and saying aloud "Glory to the
Son of David blessed is he that COM
eth in the name of the Lord In
the Catholic churches the affairs were
decked in purple in commemoration of
the most solemn season of the entire
year, The palms were blessed with
appropriate ceremonies before mass,
and distributed by the priests to the
people, during the progress of the SER
vice, while anthems were sung by the
choirs.
In the bcnediction arc mentioned
the palm, the olive and other trees.
In all northern countries where these
trees do not grow, the defect is sup
piled with cedar or any sort of green
trees which arc called palms. The
branches arc distributed to the people,
and arc by them religiously preserved
about their persons or their houses,
and arc believed to be oAicacious in
calling down the blessing of God upon
the possessOr or posscssors. On the
evening of Wednesday will begin the
very solemn and impressive service of
the Tenebre, when tho churches are
darkened in commemoration of the
darkness which covered he world
previous to the death of Christ. The
occasion is observed by the singing of
mOurnful dirges by the priests who call
down the blessings of God upon the
church and people.
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The Garden Season.

The market gardeners and fruit
growers hereabouts are exceedingly
busy at present nursing their early
spring products and aiding nature to
hasten their maturity. In the vicinity
of all large cities industrious tillers Of
tho soil of scientific training and skill.
full practice make this business a
profitable one. In the vicinity Of
Paris, in France, gardeners occupy
land renting at over 800 per acre,
and by a close system of rotation they
work with so much skill and liberal
expenditure of labor that they some
times gather eight different crops ina
single year. Wages there are ten to
fifteen dollars a month, with board and
lodging, and five or six men are re.
quired to work an average garden Of
two and a half acres,