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FOREIGN.

A man named Hartmann, with several
aliases, has been arrested in Paris, charged
with having been connected with the plot to
kill the Car at Moscow. He is believed
to be the same man who rented and occupied
the house from which the explosion of the
mine under the railway was operated.
Difhtheria is raging in Central Russia.
1t has carried off since last November oyer
1000 persons in the provinces of Charkoff
and Poltava alone, and in the neighborhood
of Walk whole villages have almost died
out.
A large tenant-right meeting held near
Portadown, County Armagh, ireland, on
the 18th, was attacked by three thousand
Orangemen armed with bludgeons, who
stormed the platform and dispersed the
meeting. Twenty tenant-righters were Sc
riously injured. The Orange party eonsid-
cred the meeting to be Of a seditious charac-
ter.
The Gar has appointed commission of
Supreme Control" with Gen. Melikoff as
Chief. The imperial ukase, defining the
powers of the Commission, declares that
'the head of the Commission shall have di-
rect control over all political trials held
throughout the empire. All local authori-
ties are placed under the jurisdiction of the
head of the Commission, and all the
employees in the various departments
are bound to afford him their entire
corporation. The head of the Commission
is at liberty to adopt any means which may
appear to him desirable for the protection of
order in the Empire, and the orders he may
issue are to be Internationally obeyed.'
Melikoff has issued proclamation, in which,
after referring to the Indignation felt in Rus
STA and throughout Europe at the at
tempts on the life of the Emperor, he
declares the Government is compelled to
adopt effectual measures for the suppression
of the evils threatening social order.
gent measures for the punishment Of Grim
inals, while endeayoring on the other hand
to tranquilize and protect the well-inten-
toned part of society. He hopes for the CO.
operation Of all honest men, and begs the
population to await the future with calm
ness, and to disregard malicious and frive-
lous rumors.
Vera Sassulitch, the famous feminine Nj
hiist agent, who on the 9TH of February,
1878, attempted the assassination of Gen.
Trepoff, Prefect of st. Petersburg, has been
arrested at the residence of her friends in
st. Petersburg.
According to the latest news received by
cable, the alliance between Peru and Bolivia
has been broken off.
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The Proposed New Public Land System.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. %.
President Hayes to-day transmitted to both
Houses of Congress the report and draft of
the bill submitted by the Public Land Com
mission appointed under the act of March 3,
1879. The President, in transmitting these
documents, says: 1.-THE subject of the report,
aud accompanying bill, is of such importance
that respectfully commend it to the prompt
and earnest consideration of Congress-" The
public lands are to be divided into four
classes, viz, irTigable, pasturage, timber and
mineral, and each lass is to be disposed of
under laws especially applicable thereto. The
bull provides, in regard to homestead en-
tries, that the term of residence required
shall be reduced from five to three years,
abolishes the Communication system, and ex-
tends the homestead system to settlements
upon surveyed lands of all classes except
mineral and timber lands. Provision is made
for colony homesteads," whereby twenty
or more persons may dwell together in vii
lage and acquire title to a corresponding
number of homestead claims by cultivating
them without being required to reside upon
them separately The Commission recon-
mends a sweeping repeal of existing mineral
laws, with a reservation in favor of all vested
rights. and an allowance of Il sufficient period
to be fixed by Congress within which possess
DRY rights must be perfected or be thereafter
barred.
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GENERAL.

Mr.. Edison denies emphatically all dis
couraging reports regarding the progress OF
his electric light. He says: "My expert
ments have been crowned with perfect sue
cess. and the commercial value of the cleo
trio light for Illuminating either streets
or dwellings is established beyond
question:" The difficulty at first
experienced in the breaking Of the
lamps, caused by the expansion of the wires,
has nearly, if not entirely, been overcome,
and within one year he promises to have the
light in successful operation in New York
City and elsewhere. As to the cost. Mr..
Edison believes he can furnish 1t at a rate
equal to fifty cents per thousand feet Of gas.
He is now constructing at Menlo Park an
entire "station," the appurtenances ofwhich,
after being practically tested there, will be
removed to New York.
An order from the Treasury Department
directs that hereafter all persons applying
for either renewal of license or an original
license as pilots on steam vessels shall be
required to undergo an examination. in or
der that it may be determined whether such
person can properly distinguish colored
lights used as signals. Surgeons of the Ma
rine Hospital Service are directed to make
such examinations free of expense to the
persons applying therefor.
WashiHgton's birthday this year falling
upon Sunday, Monday, the 23d, was OBJ
served in many places by the suspension Of
public business and with appropriate cere-
monies.
A new and dangerous counterfeit has re-
Gently been put in circulation in Chicago,
and probably elsewhere. 1t is a $40 legal
tender note dated 1875, check letter G, signed
John Allison, Register, and Jno. c. New,
Treasurer; is rather dark in appearance, and
printed on heavy paper. The fibre which
appears in genuine bills is initiated by en-
graved lines, and the counterfeit may readi-
ly be detected by scratching these lines with
pin, when the fibre will not appear.
The United States ship Constellation, now
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, will be surveyed
and put into commission at once for the
transportation Of supplies to ireland, in ae-
cordance with the recent act Of Congress.
Mr.. VIM. II. Vanderbilt few days ago
sent to the Treasury Department for registry
$500, 600 in four per cent. bonds, making
a total of S31 SOC, 600 that now stands in his
name on the Treasury books.
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Foreign Notes.

The Duchess of Galliera has con-
verted her fine palace at Genoa into a
hospital for ailing infants.
Cannes, the famous wintering-place
of southern France, was never so full of
grandees and celebrities as now. The
Ill winds of France and England have
blown her good.
Capt. r. F. Burton is now in Egypt,
and is about to proceed, with survey
ing party, to the gold mines which he
discovered near the shores of the Gulf
OF Akaba. His visit is stated to be con-
nected with a scheme for working the
mines.
Queen Victoria, it is reported, is
cut to the heart by the radical talk in
Canada, and has in conversation more
than once recalled the pathetic declara-
ton of Queen Mary when she heard that
Calais was cut off from her kingdom.
1T is freely stated in court circles in
England that the betrothal will shortly
be announced of the Duke of Genoa,
nephew of King Humbert, to the Prin-
cess Beatrice, the Queens unmarried
daughter The health of King Humbert
is said to be in a very unsatisfactory
condition.
The Inauguration of the new ere
matorium at Milan took place on Dec.
&c, 1879, under the presidency of DR..
de Christoforis, who is President of the
society. The members of the society
now number more than 200. During
the three years it has existed 48 crema-
tons have taken place.
Senior CASTELAR, receives his friends
every week at his modest house in Ma
drid; but according to Spanish custom
no supper is offered. The guests simply
sit around the room of the great orator,
smoke their paper cigarettes, and listen
to his sparkling wit and brilliant CONVEX
sation.
The Russian police attach immense
Importance to the discovery of the secret
printing press in St. Petersburg. The
detectives who made the descent each
received a grant of 1900 roubles, and
the Captain OF the Police, who was pres
ent in person on the occasion, has been
promoted to the grade of Lieutenant
General
queen FlcGOrla, In opening far-
lament in late years, takes on the APP
pearance of robes of State but not the
robes themselves. She wears her or
binary widows dress and the royal robes
are outspread upon the throne. After
she seats herself, it is the Office of the
Princess Beatrice to pull the corners of
the robes over the skirt of her mothers
gown.
Two thousands police in plain
clothes, most of whom were brought
from the large provincial towns, in adj
dition to the regular force, guarded the
Queens procession from Buckingham
Palace to the House of Lords, in conse-
quence of limitations received of meet
ings having been held of three foreign
revolutionary societies who have their
headquarters in London.
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School and Church,

There is of colleges in the United
States ratio of one to every 10000
inhabitants, and there has been an in
crease of sixty-eight in seven years. 1t
is maintained that there should be fewer
of such institutions and better ones.
There are twenty-seven young
ladies from Mount Holyoke Seminary
now engaged in teaching in various
parts of South Africa. They are under
the auspices of the reformed Dutch
Church. They use American text books
in their schools, and adopt the American
system of teaching.
The friends of Fisk University, at
Nashville, Tenn, report that the present
is its most prosperous year. There are
331 students, of whom ninety-two are
from outside of Tennessee, and repre-
sent thirteen States. Several hundred
former students are employed in teach
ing, and lis of the pupils now in at
tendance spend part of each year
teaching in the public schools.
The First Congregational Church of
Grand Rapids, Michigan, executes the
Lords business on business principles.
They have retained their present pastor,
Rev. j. Morgan Smith, sixteen years
During this time, the pastor has never
had occasion to inquire about salary.
On the fifteenth of every month the
amount is placed to his credit in the
bank. The Church has steadily in
creased. in numbers, and has, during
these years, also built and assisted in
building several smaller houses of pub
lie worship.
No man, says the Golden Rule, ex-
poets to go to good concert or good
lecture, or to see good ex-
hibition of art, without paying for
it. But when you come to religious
services great many people attending
the same feel no responsibility in paying
the expenses. The singing must be
artistic, the preaching pleasing and in
structive, the temperature of the house
of worship delightful, or those who are
responsible will be made to feel their
neglect of duty. But when the baskets
come round for the offering, the ma
jority of the hearers look insulted, or
insult the service by dropping in a three
cent piece We believe in the gospel to
the poor, but we do not believe IN re-
ligious service for several hundred peo-
pie paid for by few.
The National Educational Associa-
ton recently convened in Washington,
representatives being present from
nearly every State in the Union. A
resolution was adopted that committee
of ten be appointed to take into con-
sideration the formation of National
Council of Education, to report a plan
of organization to the Board of Direct
ors OF the National Teachers Associa-
ton at their meeting at Chautauqua,
July next. The Chair appointed as said
committee Messrs. Bicknell, Massachu-
sets; Wilson, District of Columbia;
Wickersham, Pennsylvania; Harris,
Missouri; Hager, Massachusetts; Far
bell, Indiana; Carleton, Connecticut;
Smart, Indiana; Shepherd; and Orr,
Georgia.
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Science and Industry.

Large quantities of tobacco are
raised in Russia from seed obtained in
this country.
The fertilizer business is growing
every year in Georgia 1t is estimated
that 40, 900 tons will be sold this year.
"A lot of turkeys sent from Canada
to England realized good profit to the
shipper, who bought at S1.25 and sold
there for So. go and 81 each.
-California's exports for 1879 in
cluded 9 100000 gallons of wine, $780,
0OO. 900 worth of wheat, and $26, 200,-
coo of gold and silver. 1t was the most
prosperous year the State has ever had.
An effort is being made to build a
rolling-mill in Des Moincs, Iowa. The
Reqister learns that company has al
ready been formed and considerable
stock subscribed.
Early amber sugar-cane viii be
largely planted in Fayette County, Tex
as, this year. A sugar factory is being
established at Lagrange, with capacity
of GO tons of cane per day.
Less than 80 years ago one man
could not make over IA pins a minute I;
now he can make ,450. Then one girl
could stick on papers about 10000 pins
a day; now a fair days work is from
800, 900 to 100000.
"A company has been organized at
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The sherman Diamonds.

'sBy the way, do you know what has
become of the famous diamond
necklace which was presented to Cen
eral Sherman's eldest daughter by the
Khedive of Egypt on the occasion of
her marriage to Lieutenant Fitch?p
said the Enquirer man to Mr.. Patton,
the diamond merchant, yesterday.
81 do" was the reply. "a sister of
General Sherman called at my office
one day this week, and asked her the
same question. She repeated to me the
history of the famous necklace, from
the time of its reception at the New
York Custom-hOuse until its final dis
position. 1t is generally known that the
duties which the CustOm-house officers
demanded of Lieutenant Fitch, before
they. could deliver the magnificent
present would be something over 800
900, the lowest estimate placed on its
value by experts being $500, 900. Lieu
tenant Fitch, not being man of means.
was unable to pay this sum. An en-
abling act was then passed by Congress-
authorizing the Custom-house officers
to deliver the diamonds to Mrs. Fitch
free of duty. After this tie necklace
was sent to Washington, and with
General Sherman's sword, deposited
in the United States Treasury for safe
keeping. Upon further inquiry, Lieu
tenant Fitch ascertained thai the yearly
taxes on the diamonds in st. Louis
County, where he then. resided, would
be much more than his salary, and he
once more found them an elephant on
his hands. His father-in-law, General
Sherman, took pity on the boy and re-
turned the necklace, with thanks, to the
donor in Egypt. Upon receiving them
the Khedive wrote TO the General, say
ing that it was not his desire that the
diamonds should be given to any one.
member of Ills family, eaud, having
learned that be had four daughters, it
was his wish then that the diamonds
should be mounted in sets and divided
equally among them. These daughters
are Mrs. Fitch, nee Minnie sherman,
Ella Sherman, Lizzie Sherman and FL
la Sherman. The necklace was then
returned to the Sherman family and
mounted in four magnificent pendants,
four pair of splennid solitaire earrings
and eight rings The four ladies are
now the happy possessors OF four COM
plete suits OF diamonds, the value of
each suit being at least S75, 900. This
makes each of them rich in her own
right, through the generosity OF Egypt's
Enquirer.
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EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

Benjamin Brandreth, the veteran pill
maker, is dead. He was y years old and
leaves a wife and thirteen children (six sons
and seven daughters) and fortune Of be-
tween two and three millions. In twenty
years he spent over two millions of dollars
for advertising, TO which be always gave
credit for his success in life.
DeLesseps arrived in New York from
Panama on the oath.
The New York Republican State Conven-
ton was held at Utica on the 25th. Resou-
tions were reported declaring the renomi-
nation of Gen. Grant for President to be of
urgent importance, and instructing the DEL
egates from that State to use their most
earnest and united efforts to secure his NOM
instion. A motion to strike cut the name OF
Gen. Grant and insert that of James
G. Blaine, which was subsequently
amended so as to leave the
delegation unpledged, was opposed by Sena-
to, Conkliug in speech of some length and
was rejected-yeas, $50; nays, 217. A final
mttion was then made that in case Grant is
ncl nominated at Chicago, the delegation be
instructed to vote as a unit for James G.
Bhine. Senator Conkling moved TO lay this
ms ton on the table, and it was so ordered.
She Vermont Republican State Conven-
ti9n, held on the 25th, presented the name
O., Hon. George F. Edmunds, United States
Senator, as a suitable candidate for Presi-
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Windfalls.

I Almost any one who has ever lived in
an English countryside, or has become
well acquainted with the less intelligent
classes of country town, finds one
mental popularity very common. Al
most every family is penetrated with
some idea of the =. Tommy Trounsom y
kind Us described in "Felix Holt pa
notion that some ancestor or connection,
however remote, once had history
and fortune, and that eff Justice was
done" and "every body had their
rights" and the world were, in fact, a
little nearer the general aspiration for a
world where all wrongs shall be RENE
died, and my wrongs first, thev would
be "entitsed to a nice little property of
their own" The speakers great uncle
had it, and though it was sold, it was
unstable by law; or though it was
willed away, it was entailed; or though
it descended as usual, there were were
circumstances about that marriage
and, in short, the property in question,
defined vaguely as - that estate"
should have come to the speaker; and
moreover, in addition, If the narTatoris1
woman beyond middle age and very
confidential, sit may come yet.'s The
listener, probably, if given to skepti-
cism, treats the whole story as be treats
one about family pictures, or plate,
or the wretched jewelry our grand
mothers delighted in, rs more or less >
fiction, invented at first in q
spirit of boastfulness, and half believed,
either from incessant repetition or from
the disappearance OF one generation of
the story tellers. The explanation is
plausible, as such families, especially if
very respectable, will invent, and ulti-
mately believe, any amount of legends
adding in any way to the family digni-
ty, quite as freely and as tenaciously as
IrIshmen will repeat stories about an
cient Kings, or Welchmen-who, unfor-
tunately, haze not Kings enough for
family consumption-will prove that
they are descended from Llewelln.
There is pleasure, no doubt, in retailing
such stories, and pleasure arising from
vanity; but the speakers really believe
them, and think they have reason for
the belief. The extent to which the pc
culiarities of the old English laws about
Inheritance, and entail, and will-makino
got into peoples brains, and touched
their imaginations, would be incredible,
did we not see every day the difficulty
men have in expelling old notions, or in
doubling that claim which would have
been valid under the old laws, and with
sufficient evidence at its back, "must
have something in it."-LORao,s Spec
tutor
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and LITERARY.

-Carlyle's health is said to be fully
restored. And he expects to complete
his autobiography this year.
The heirs of the late w. NJ. Hunt
value his g Large Niagara" painting at
$4,000, and contemplate its exhibition
abroad.
Bret Harte has been in London on
flying visit and has been invited by
Sir Frederick Leighton to respond to a
toast for Literature" at the Royal
Academy banquet, which will be held
on the LIST of May.
Anthony Trollope has a high,
round head, bald on the forehead and
bordered by curly, fluffy hair. He has
a large mustache and an immense full
beard. He is now 65 years old and is
somewhat overbearing in his manner.
And now Homer is myth in fact,
he has been so for some time, In the
Judgment of some advanced German
scholars. Prof. Bonitz has written an
essay to prove it, and the same has
been republished in this country.
The New York Witness, a daily re-
ligious paper, announces that it will be
obliged to suspend, after struggle of
eight years to establish itself. 1t has
sunk large amount of money in the
effort, and is forced to the conclusion
that daily religious newspaper is not
what the public calls for.
Mr.. Ruskin is quoted as saying,
+" You fancy you are sorry for the pains
of others. Now, 1 tell you just this:
That if the usual course of war, in
stead of unroOfing peasants houses and
ravaging peasants fields, merely broke
the china upon your drawing-room
tables, no war in civilized countries
would last a week"
Mile Sarah Bernhardt is described
as suddenly taking into her head the
resolution to besOme sculptor. She
began at 1 o'clock in the morning, just
after returning from the theater, and
for model she took her old aunt, Nine.
Bruck, who was reused, grumbling,
from sound sleep to sit still until 6
O'Clock, having her ancient features put
into clay.
=" The Antagonisms of Scientific
and Theological Thought =" is the sub
ject of two lectures just delivered at
New Haven by Prof. Asa Gray, of
Harvard College. Prof. Gray, in the
preface to his "Darwinians,'' published
a few years ago, describes himself as
" Scientifically, and in his own fashion,
a Darwinian; philosophically, a con-
WINGED theist, and religiously, an &C
ceptor or the 'creed commonly called
the Nicene,' as the exponent of the
Christian faith
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NEVER sit down despairingly and say,
{" 1t is impossible for me to rise in the
world. am only o poor boy. There
is no chance for me.' Why, it is just
such as you VINO have risen highest and
become men whose names are known
throughout the world, who thoroughly
understood at the outset that their for
tunes were in their own hands, and that
hope and energy and effort were better
than all the family influence in the
world. Inherited wealth seems to be
actually enervating. Talents too often
lie disused in the hands cf rich mems
sons. What need of striving. they
think; competence is theirs; and often
such men squander the fortunes they
have not earned, and lives than began in
luxury end in beggary. Despair be-
cause you are poor? Why, that is the
very reason that should bid you hcpel
The biographies of most great men, of
most successful men, will tell you that if
you viii but read them.
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court-martial in the case of Gen. Boynton
against Gen. Sherman, on the ground that
the civil courts afford an ample remedy for
the acts complained Of.
Assistant Surgeon Robert White, United
States Marine Hospital Service, died on the
18th. He was largely interested in sanitary
science, and was prominent member of the
American Health Association.
The President has approved the joint res
olution authorizing the Secretary Of the
Navy TO transport contributions for the re-
lief of the suffering poor in Ireland.
The President has nominated Percy b. S.
Pinchback for Naval officer at New Or
leans.
The Senate Committee on Territories, after
having heard arguments from represent
atives Of the Cherokee Nation in opposition
10 the bill providing for the establishment of
a United States Court in the Indian Terri
tory, decided to adhere to their previous ac-
tion, directing the measure to be reported
with recommendation for passage.