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list might be Indefinitely extended it we had TO
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stress on special class OF enomeha
which have bewldered these ingenious witnesses
of the supernatural. From Brighton, for example
comes a sngulary lucid narrative Of the mysterious
appearance of carnage and PAIR in frontot hote'
The startled bystander recognized ms grand
mothers coachman and footman on the box ana lhe
old lady herself inside, whom lac had left at Chei-
tenham a few DAYS before in perfect health. AS he
sprang forward to hail the coach it vanished
not down the seaside of the Espanade with
stirring racket but noiseIessly in the thnne Oh thin
air The next morning came a dispatch stating that
the old lady had been found dead in her bed about
the hour of the aerial carriage drive. The fate OF
the coachman and foOtman is left in suspense.
Nothing further is said about them, although IN
o her matters the correspondent pays panStaklug
attention to details and thus gives his narrative an
of unstudied commences. 1t is safe therefore,
to infer that the servants came to harm. bat that
the coach returned to Cheltenham as speedily as II
had gone TO Brighton. A similar story is vouched
for by a family Camden Road. They were
sitting around the dinng-roOm tiIe, when
suddenly they saw coach drive up to
the door and somebody aght open the
gate and walk up the garden path. The host
went 20 inc uOOT anu ItCoRulItu iiiOht III A'''
standing on the stoop with paper in his hand, but
before a word could be spoken the appariton faded
away. The sequel was that it turned out that the
friend of the family had died in India that very
hour with that very paper in his right hand. In
this case, Also the coachman and footman are lost
sight Of the inference being before that they re-
turned to the stable at leisure.
1t would be unreasonable to suppose that the Occu-
pant Of either carriage while preierring to make the
first stage of the mysterious journey by private con-
vcyaHce, alighted at Brighton or in Camden Road
aad made the rest of the distance on foot or by
wing One of the spectral travellers never got out at
all, and the other must have hailed the coachman
around the corner and resumed his seat inside. 1t
seems plain that while uneasy ghosts are still knock
ing about the world as upcOmlcrtably over, hug
ging their chains and holding their bleeding heads
at arms length there are other and more sensible
spirits that hire cabs, travelling with a reasonable
degree of comfort and taking advantage Of the most
in rovod methods of spiritual transit II must be
an easer-going and happier world, whose ghosts
no longer have the instinct, of vulgar tramps but
drive about at their ease in their own carriages.
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Lord Granvile's reference to his chief at
the Guildhall banquet is regarded by our
regular London correspondent as a conclusive
proof that the rum0ls respecting Mr.. Glad
stones retirement from public life are utterly
groundless. The idea that he would volunta-
rily exile himself from the councils of his party
at a moment when his leadership is absolutely
essential to success was simply preposterous.
The browning measure of the recent session
became a law because he advocated it, and
not because the Commons or the Liberal party
understood it, What the country wanted was
his solution of this harassing agrarian contro-
versy, and it holds him responsible for the
success or failure OF the measure. He is not
the man to shirk responsibility by retiring
betmes to private life, and leaving his assoc
ciates to justify his public acts. We hope,
however, that there may have been an excuse
for the renewal of the recent rImors in the
fact that he is seriously thinking of giving up
the Chancellorship of the Exchequer There
are able fnanciers in his party still i'll the
prime of life, and Mr.. Gladstone is greatly
overwOrked
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-13

II was a happy thoughtofMr Patrick Egan, treas
urer Of the Land League at that moment residing in
Paris IN personal custody Of the treasures of that
association and keeping them safely from the
clutches OF the British Lion. TO cable Mr. Wendell
Phillips az chat moment residing in Boston in GUS
tody lhe moral sentiments Of the world in gem
crii asking him TO 90 TO Ireland once and make
there few of his fine speeches in favor Of" Nc Rent
At thc time of answering MIR. Egaus dispatch Mr.
Phillips hal arrived at the Of srycnty-onc years
less eighteen days. besides being in III health. For
these reasons and for these reasons only, 4lr Wen
dell Phillips albeit extremely anxious 10 make
speeches about and against mo Rent felt compelled
to decline the invitation Of Mr.. Patrick E-an, who
doubtless expected that Mr.. Phillips would 90 over
IN the very next steamer. The reply Of that emil
men. gentleman, dated November ?. 1851, is pub
Iishcd already, from which we infer that Mr.
Pmllips must have bestowed it upon US
through Patrick Ford. of Tile irish Hor'd,"
and very Kind il was Of the eloquent
gentleman of Boston not to keep mankind in gem
rral and ireland in particular. in long suspense.
But the League has got what it wanted-a letter
from Mr.. Wendell Phillips of which we can only
say that it is pity that there is not little more in
il. That be would not visit Ireland TO make
speeches goes without saying; but since he was to
viiir a letter prcdestined 20 publication he should
have put llttic something fresh into II. We have
heard all this about humanity civil
liberty constitutional government "ciyili-
zation," discomfort" poverty" famine"
death before Mr. Phillips Processes to have read
history to better purpose than most men, and he ha,
improved more than ono occasion to let the world
know his opinion OF himself in this respect; but he
ought by this time to have learned that the world is
not governed by phrases, and that even his own
mastery rhetoric might not induce Mr.. Gladstone to
abandon his policy. But Mr. Phillips has trJsted in
rhetoric all his life, and has always cherished an
opinion that it is more potent than regiments
He thinks that he docs something tending
10 change the Irish situation when he
sends q letter beautifully written 20 Mr. Patrick
Egau. When hc calls upon Ireland 10 persgyore IN
her sublime patience and with unhrobcn front
TO assault drspoti,n' and from his house Essex
,t Boston. cxhorls freshmen to pay no more rent,
hc really says nothing applicable to the situation,
and actually docs not in the slightest alter the sit
nation in Ireland. That unhappy country has al
ready moro rhetoric than she needs. If she could
iave been rrgencratod by speeches, has she no,
Tor, enough O! her own men magnificent IN eXor-
diums and perfect in tropcs and metaphors and pcro
rations. What need indeed. of importing llr.
Wendell PmllipS'
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BITS OF CRITICISM.

join MoRLEY'S CoBDEN.n-In the first
volume which contains the great story OF the Freerade
movement We have such living picture OF the simplest
of successful agators AMI the most artess Of powerful
politicians few living writers except Mr. John Nor.
were oppressyey rch and the danger Of too great
ptudc extreme But lie has understood, as few writer's
In his place would have understood, the duty of high
concentration and yet has conpressedSo judeionsY as
to leave on the readers nd tne i sens Oh tne
well as Of the extraordlnay resources ps1 created
aints 100 with most graphic pen the curious ucdity
and Intensity OF the mind OF the leader its conbative
and fs vividness without redundancy; Few political
of equal moment have been told with half the
yiyacity ana terseness of this.-lIhe Spectator.
HEINE's CONTRADICTORY QUALITIEs.-Cer-
tanly In him there brought into combination qua
ties that are commonly regarded incompatible, and
indeed absolutely exclusive OF each other. Lyrical
depth OF sentiment captivating grace and
piercing sublIety of expression. passionate yearning
after lofty ideals together with deliberate coarseness
and the most profound scorn and rony-an irony that
literally seemed to run riot in throwing rdienle over the
into being. II he had not been called the Julian Of
Poetry he might IRON one point OF view, nay We Dees
he had woven by day. and In the interest also, he
garded it, OF distant good some ethereal and
Of hearts he did secret worship Quarterly Re-
view.
ALpHoNsE DAUpET's New NovEL.-M. Dau.
diets new novel might text to any Wishing
to denounce doctrine of the eternal supremacy d
sainsbury In his Introduction to reprint OF smoietts
translation OF GIL Bias" Nothing In its way could DO
more excellent than the style Of whole tracts OF Numn
Roumestan." II and falls with the subject IL h
never lacking in variety, and at times 1t has marvellous
flow and rush. such very few writers of the present
day can rival But for all that the book Is Ill done Tha
characters unnteresting the story Is badly
struoted, there Is hardly situation worth moments
sympathy on the part OF the readerthe whole, indeed
Is ugly and sterile.-lPall Nah Gazette.
Miss JEAN INGELow's TALRNTs.-Miss Inge-
low is capital sory-teer, but she viii make .
novelist Her details are good and her characters
the nrstan nd tnf
in the second but her plots are Touchstone said
OF the pancakes naught.-l The Athenaum.
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No better illustration Of the readiness with which
disagIrcabc and unpleasant facts accepted.
when they are seen 10 be necessary and inevitable,
has been furnished OF late than the sudden ceSsa-
ton of complaints about the noise caused by the
elevated roads which were so loud and bitter few
years ago The roaring and mmbhng of passing
trains were for time considered in olorable Pee
pie nockcd to the newspapers with denunciatIons.
Doctors predicted dire nervous diseases the
result of the new and unaccustomed noises The
railroad companies became alarmed. and sought
means of diminishing the sound. In few months
the long-suilering people became accustomed TO the
noises and no one dreams now of making tins the
ground of complaint 1t does not appear that the
elevated trains make less noise now than four years
ago; i'll fact, they make more, there more
trains and Oh both sides of the city they all
night. The people have simply accepted the ele-
yaled roads as necessary facts, although disagree
able ones in more than one respect Doubtless
many persons living along the lines have come to
regard the passing trains companions whom they
would not like TO part with they would miss them
if taken away, aud would long to have them back
once more.
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English marksnren in the ranks viii tend 10
promote the efficiency of our militiamen, and
on this account we hope that the proposal OF
the National Rife Association viii be carried
ont
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-13

The friends of the University of the City Of
New-York viii regret to learn that the Rev.
Dr. John Hall has declined the CHARACTERISTIC.
Under his direction the venerable institution
would have received an impulse that might
have rescued it from what Theodore Winthrop
comically described as its accepted destiny as Il
perpetual high-low school. The preacher finds
work enough to do in his church, and the Univer-
sity is left to hunt up another Chancellor, who
NAV reiuvigorate the academic department
that WAS SO recently menaced with dissO-
luton.
TIE Cabinet-makers in the Paris newspaper
Offices are not very efficient jOuncynen. The
list of prospective Ministers furnished in the
cable dispatches is suspiciously premature.
There are too many moderate men and too
few Advanced Liberals. Jambetta undOubtcd-
Nv wishes TO put together Cabinet that will,
at least. survive a single session. He knows
that the centre of political power has moved
from the Pure Left long way toward the
Advanced Left, and he viii be likely to act
upon that knowledge.
The structures of that thoroughly disgrunted
journal. The 81. JameS's Gazette, upon Ameri-
can UssliIuttOHS eCdIttly utHCiNC tIc StilOuS
attention of any of its London contemporaries.
1t is a newspaper proverbial for seeing men
rs trees walking. Its single passion is an
goyernable hatred of Mr.. Gladstone, and, as
the American people at one time encouraged
him in his efforts to settle an international
dispute by peaceful arbitration, they have
fallen under its lasting displeasure.
Testimony TO the thoroughness Of the Land
commissions work. 1t is stated that every
tenant who has set up plausible claim has
eucceeded in obtaining large reduction of
rent, and that applications are now pouring in
at the rate of four thousand day. These
two facts effectually dispose of the clamOrs of
the bafled Land League. The Land Act is
righting the wrongs of the tenants, and is vir-
tually accepted by the Irish people as salts
factory relief measure.
The suggestion that representative team
fof National Guardsmen shall be made up by
competitions in the States and sent to Wimble-
hon next summer is an admirable one. Rife
practice is one of the branches of field sports
lin which Americans have won an enviable
reputation and it will be well TO popularize it by
deepening the interest which is already felt in
the annual regimental contests at Creedmor.
The trip to England and the challenge to
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The autumn rains which usually fall in late Sep
TENDER and early October held off until November
this season. but now coming copiously enough
to make up for lost time. if indeed it were possible
for them to compensate at this late day for the
losses occasioned by the drouth All fears Of n
water famine long since vanished. The
Croton reservoirs are fun, and water
enough runs to waste to supply the daily consump-
ton of the city. Taking year with another the
annual rainfall does not vary much Ii there is dry
summer there almost always follows wet fall and
if by an unusual arrangement of meteorological con-
ditons both summer and early fall are dry the fross
hold off until the November and December rains
supply the Garth with the deficient quota of mos-
ture. Nature sometimes falls behind in her pro-
cesses, but give her twelvemonth of time and she
rarely fails TO bring them ont even In connection
with this topic we may note that the prospects for
the coming winter are for much open weather and
more rain than snow. That 1t will be mild
any farmer will predict without consulting Yennor
or any of the other apochrypal weather prophets.
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The death of John McHale, Archbishop of Tuam,
in Ireland removes from the distracted field of Irish
agitation of the last of the prominent coadjutors
of Daniel 0'Connell. lie was doughty champion
of his Church, but it was of his Church as estab-
lished in Ireland. He would not be silenced or
quoted even when Rome thought silence, or much
modified speech. the best policy. QConnen used to
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sitions in the county; the first two to receive
a slight addition to their present compensa-
ton, and the last two by fees. This would
entail only the cost Of clerk hire and compen-
sation for labor performed by the treasurer,
to which should be added the extra expense
of another constable, as the additional ex-
pense over what is now involved in the
county administration. The offices men
toned would, without question, be filed by
the present county incumbents, for nomi-
nal advance over their present rates. and, we
believe, they have expressed themselves to
that effect.
There are many Improvements that are
urgently needed here that we cannot have
unless power separate from the county be
obtained. The levee needs protection and
improvement; the town needs draining, and
sidewalks placed on our principal streets; a
fire department. is required, besides continual
oversight in the little contingencies that con-
stantly arise. These things are urgently de-
manded, and we believe that the costs of
their execution will be easily and willingly
borne by the property y-holders Of the town.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-06-29

THE Utah & Northern railroad will push
forward another extension of their line, and
the company expects to get as far north as
Fish creek, on the Jefferson river, by the
close of the season. The work of grading
is being actively pushed in the Jefferson can
yon, and a surveying party is at work on the
Missouri river, west of Gallatin City, and
pushing rapidly towards Helena. By the
close of another year the road will certainly
be completed to the capital. Whether the
road will be extended to Benton, we do not
know, but the presumption is fair that it will
be, for expressions of this probability have
been frequently made by the railroad author
tiles If it should not, an independent line
will connect US with the capital, and the busi-
ness necessity of both Helena and Benton
will urge its early completion. More certain
and rapid means for carrying freight into
the interior must be had, Or the river trade
will be destroyed. But tbs our interest and
the interest of all interior points to keep the
river trade in an active and healthy condi-
ton. and this will insure road to this point,
whether the Union Pacific builds it or not.
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COMPETITION in freight rates has been SO
sharp that wheat is being carried from st.
Louis to New York for Is cents per bushel,
and flour for 80 cents per barrel. This is too
close for healthy condition of railroad bus
mess, and movement is on foot in railroad
circles to come to an agreement. The ne
cessity Of combination among railroads to
protect themselves from ruinous competition
becomes more and more apparent each sea
son, and this necessity will rather continue
than lessen its force, as the rapid extension
and building of new lines still further divides
the business. Our railroad system has grown
arbitrarily, and portions Of the country have
more facilities than they can support, while
others have little or none. It is good for the
the producer to have cheap freights, and to
the farmers Of the West they are necessary
to his existence, but when the competition
becomes SO sharp as to bankrupt roads, and
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No.. 36

few Of them are believed to be solid, but
none have been shown to be Of sufficient
density 10 affect the planetary movements,
and some are SO light as to weigh but few
pounds. One of the largest that has ever
been visible passed through the system OF
Jupiter without affecting it in any way what
ever, which it would have done had it pos
sessed only small portion Of the weight and
density OF planetary body. The appendage
which usually accompanies these bodies. and
called the ''tail,' is something so very atten-
uated as have no more effect than shadow.
Starlight, which the thinnest summer cloud
would render invisible, will pass through
millions Of miles Of this substance without
being dimmed. This comet Gf it really is
the one of 1911 was believed to have exerted
salutary influence on the crops by the
French, whose vintage was exceptionally
large and well favored by its former visit.
The present visitor IS going northward and
coming nearer. He has been watched for
some time through the telescope before he
became visible to unassisted vision. About
the middle of August he will be at his best,
though what his cratic course may be is not
yet determined Comets are not affected by
the same laws that govern the balance Of the
community OF the solar system, for while
the planets reVolye in the same direction
about the sun and about their axes, and in
nearly the plane of the suns equator,
these fellows come from any direction, and at
any angle, as though they came by accident,
and were not fully under the government Of
the sun. A curious fact in relation to the
motion Of these visitors is that they come to-
ward the sun, with their appendage turned
from him, and as they revolve around him
the tai is always turned away and opposite
from the sun, and they back out as if in the
habit Of paying royal respects to his central
majesty. The inconceiyable rapidity Of
their motion when near the sun renders this
fact very curious, for, If the tail is com
posed OF anything at all that possessed
weight, and if space is filled with anything
whatever that could oppose resistance, they
could not but be influenced to almost degree
OF disorganization, and it lends great plaus-
bllty to the theory lvanced that it is purely
magnetic phenomena. The advent of these
visitors has been hailed both as harbingers Of
disaster and g ,od; but owing to probability
fact that they have no effect at all, one may
give them any Interpretation he chooses
The earth passed through the tail of the
comet Of 1893, but nobody knew it until af-
terWard. and then it was only through math-
ematical analysis.
The comet is 25 degrees 49 min north of
the equatorial plane, and passes the meridian
at fifteen minutes past ten, and is going north
at the rate Of about degree and 8 half daily.
[Cloudy and hazy weather prevented accu-
rate observation, and the above figures are
only approximate.
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THE tunnel under the straits Of Dover
is being pushed, and the experimental shafts
On either shore have demonstrated that the
strata above the galleries is impermeable to
water, and consists of the same chalk form
alton that has gone into history as the chalk
cliffs. Side galleries 900 yards long have
been finished, aud the rate of progress shown
to be sixty-seyen yards per week, or two
miles yearly, which would require five years
for its completion, if work is pushed from
both Shores
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-06-29

The Nihilists are laughing at Ignatief's 8
attempt to stamp them out Of existence.
Since the popular hope=off y nore liberal geg-
ernment has been destroyed by the reaction
ary policy of the Gear, the contagion is
spreading through the ranks of the army,
and among the lowest peasantry. The fealty
Of the army has been questioned ever since
the Turkish war, although the surmise was
never certified. But it is becoming very ap-
parent that all sections of Russian society
are agitated with political unrest, and that
the mysterious terror of Nihilism, if it has
not the active support of the masses of the
Russian people, is the expression of its dis
content, which, if not appeased will grow
into active participation. With this power
so rapidly extending its influence, and the
autocracy reduced to perfect inability to con-
troll it, the end of anarchy is reached, and
revolution not far off.