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LOUISE M1CHEJ:.**
The Early Life of the. CONS,
Nho Has Recently Retnrssd
Paris frota Nesr Caledcnsa h

anu JoatAa1sn, ana even from Franz =
live in Italy. He has had enough s4se'a - :.
says so himself: The outlook is beeiass.. !. Y
trouble him, what with Rochefort sq'ss ss% =
Cadollc, and, above all, with Ionfsa
This is a: serious thing for linn AID =.
: Of them-the return Of Louf;e - :. - .a
lNictei Is her other name) is that i.r.a .
Communarle who was something Of . 1a..oa n.1
and all of heroine, who fought on A.
rjcades. nursed tic %cc::ntigtl she b,5 = ~ ;
down, had woman's pity after ths ~
and III battle the heart and dress Of y =
Louise. gave herself.up to the truon. ~ w.
than compromise the safety Of her ~
She was in hiding, and she might h.r. 1,Sz :.
away, but they seized her parent nnd y, ~
her as kind Of hostage; and to sar. +.
the daughter surrendered. Louise w, =
prisoner who wrote from New Caledon;. : :
the llaughttest style to the Presideat of - :
Republic to tell him under what coad;ts'
she would graciously let him set her IN.
Louise returned to us the other d., ~
$4,000 people waited at St Lazare h n NV r.
her, It 1tas the Commune coming bart-s.
true Commune. Rochefogt's Commune ~
that OF all the other dandies OF liten,,.
! seems mere sham by its side. ThI,i.
think, what has most frightened Dacs
ardln: Louise is evidently 50 very mntA;.
earnest. lie could manage the othea u
cause they argue and waste the1nsaIys !,
the unending warfare of the pen. Lap,,
has left off argning-she acts. Sheisah
rib]y convinced person: she really mean ri
thinks aud feels the Commune: sha b,
visions about it. Nothing could hare :hss
more startllngly grotesQue than the retura,
the crew Of literary bouleyardIe1s vho ~,
this movement. of this semi-prophe,ic w.
sonage. They had expected one .iIke H..
selves, and for this one and thenlsekes m
the bargain they had prepared "a All
banquet at q RESTAURANT in the: PaiaIs K0rI
which was to be eaten in honor OF -the d,
letariate, while the proletarlate stood y.
side The apparition that met their eyn II
the arrival Of the st. sLazare uain VI
OF quite another description: 4 'u1i.
headed woman Of fifty, with hikh thna
bones and not at all handsome, thrt,
other way were it not for the eyes.-iannI
out brushed Rochefort and the Others ats
after hasty cuddie of fEaternaf grttfn
and asked In: the most matter-ot-fass.bt
when the next train would start for she hss
country PLACE, where her mother lfsed., u
but you will stop for. the bannuet2n "Nhi
banquet? OF course not. Giye me as1s
Wlch and the timetable, If you please q:
Louise had always been like this, -Rotts
fort could have told them of her hard Vatr
voyage to New Caledonia, when she EaeA
walk the deck with bare feet to give hershd
and stockings to some woman who setmtd#
want them more She was moody rese17a4
silent, consumed in f1er own Thoughts slekd
, 1881-01-16
RAILROADS..
The War on western Rates
.:>~.> Not Ended Yet, Secs.
Division. of st. Louis East-Bound
Trahic-The Weeks Business.
The Railroad Commissioners -'7hat tht Wabash
Has Mae During The lsar.


! Contrary to general expectations, the Western
Passenger war did not co1ae to IN end yesterday
md things still remain in n very u1uddied and
unsatisfactory condition, With prospects thai
they will stay SO for some time to come. The
rates now charged are 81 to St Louis and a to
Kansas City, and the Wabash charges the same
as the other. roads. The fact that the Wabash
now charges the same RS the other roads and no
longer demands that 81 diGerential rate. This
ought to cuable the roads to maintain the rates
made Friday. namely: $4.50 to ST. Louis and 81
to Kansas City, but Jet they are not abaet do it,
and. had to 70 buck to Sc to st, Louis ahd s. to
Kansas City. It Is hard TO say upon which
road the blame rests for not maintaining tho
rates made Friday. Each road is plactug the
blame upon the other. The Burlington says it
could not meet the rates made Iy the other
= roads bacnuso the Alton had not defined its po-
sttton rs regards rates from Kansas City vim
Bloomington md thu Lake Erie l. Western The
to T. On the othef hamd Ssms tnat + did de-
can see no eood. reason why the Burlington
should Sd, take the position il did. The following
enGa az@aca sent sent e 70 ~ mr Wood General Pas
Churlton. General Passenger Agent OF the
Alton, certainly indicates that the Alton bad
Western to Correspond, with the rates via or to
'Tho first sentence in my telegram Of the 18th
inst: to st: Louis meeting. vt which you were
rates to Lake Erie s. Western points to the
same figures as BY other routes This seems to
be plain enough. and we still stand on this, and
SO notified the Wabnsh yesterday in reply to IN
inquiry from their Mr.. Dnnlels-"
II nppcnrs that the. trouble arises principally
from inability of the st. Louis linos to cosnc to
an understanding as regnrds rates between St.
Louis End Kansas City. It IS claimed by soule
that q rate of .s4.50 to St. Louis and 81 to Kan
sas City is still too high II figure. and that a
lower rate has to be made to keep The scaipers
and spcculutors out of the field, some OF whom
It Is satd have purchased unlimited tickets as
consequently a margin Of profit would be left
for them. :.
1t is evident that no permanent peace can bo
restored while these Unlimited tickets ret1atn in
tho bands OF outsiders. Before the war Gun be
brought to an end something will have to bo
done to get those tickets out OF the market but
no one has set been able to devise q plan by
yhich'this can be accomplished. It Is probable
hat ANOTHER meeting Of General Managers and
General Agents will be called In few days TO
take all these matters into confederation, and
see whether It will not be possible to bridge |
over the difficulty now In the way Of u restoru-
don of paying rites.
, 1881-01-16

Steau-users read advertisement o. Mt1a4tys
Safety Boiler Company In machinery 20 2.Ai
, 1881-01-16

When life Is a drug, and you have !oss q
then trust ii H1p'BlttezH. ~ :.
, 1881-01-16

The Boston i Albany Road has set an exam
pie that other roads In the country would do well
to copy. Instead Of cxacttng the full = pound
OF hesh," 10 per cent per year, which the laws Of
Massachusetts allow 1t to divide among its
stockholders, it paid them only per cent dlyi-
dends last year. And ut the same time it in-
creased tho pay. OF its employees 10 per cent
Last summer n reduction OF l. per cont in pns-
seuGnr rites was made nnd this was followed by
q reduction Ia, the local freight tariff Of one
sixth Of 1873 per cent, commencing with tn q new
year. 1t is pity that there are not more sltct1
roads Id the country. If there were there w0l1ld
be no need for State or National railroad iaws.
It Is learned from Mr.. ". H. stoelker, pub
Usher Of the. !" Travellers, Shippers. and Mail
Guide" that the week just passed ts the first Tor
many mouths that there have been no changes
In tho time tables OF any Of the roads centeTfnF
in this CITY, mud consequently the usual weekly
chnnges for that guide will not be published or
furnished to subscribers this week. There haa
recently been added to this excellent publica-
tion new and very complete shippers ana ex-
press guide for the States OF Wisconsin, Mtnuc-
sofa md Dnkota, which will be followed up in a
few weeks with new and revised editions for
Michigan and Kansas. This together with 4
~ number mp Of other Improvements recently made
IN this Guide make 1t one OF the most yaluQl1la
publications Of the kind in the country.
, 1881-01-16

DENVER, Colo, Jan. 15.-1n reply to an article
Ia this mornings Ne .cs, Gen. Palmer telegraphs
that Gould has nothing TO do with the Mexican
National Road or Construction company, and
has not dollars interest," in it.
, 1881-01-16
ATT1C4i, COVINGTON d SOUTHERN.
Special DtsPateh to Tho Chicago 1Ftouns.

ATTICA, CONVICTION & SOUTHERN.
= Special Dtspateh to Tho Chicago Tuauns.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. ia number Of prom.
where bss pt for ia.s si3
dcavorne 'to Secure substantial aid for. thte'
Attica, Covinrton & Southern Rai1road project
a road extendiuginto the coal fields of Fountain
County. Tho proposed road is about twenty
eight miles long and extends from Attica to
a 3co me u tS is ready W Eaaed fro
js about one-half the length of the proposed
road Troy Township, In Fountain County, has
township where the oal-mtues are located gives
$l5, QUO more. The managers Of the new enter
prise claim to have contract with the Wabash
Railroad Compnny, whereby 1t is agreed that
they e. ase t1 grado; bridge, and tie the rouq when
contract the Wahash folks, guarantee that tho
rates to all points on its llne from stations on
the new road shall not exceed the rate from
Dauvllle About S15, ,00o "a yet required to grade
Lhe road, etc >. "
, 1881-01-16
THE. WABASH.

Interest on ponueQ Qebtt TtnLair etc 10 j,l9t 10
Interest discounts, and pool balances: 1900
Use of foreign cars...-.- ....-..----.. 137 ,007
Leaving net income. ......... 1,007,Os3
The result Of tho years Operators regard as
quite satisfactory In view Of the difficulties We
have had 10 contend with:
F7rst-The destruction Of II part Of the St:
Charles bridge ln 1872. The repnirs and loss Of
traite incidsntal d m to this CAUSE estimate at not
Second-Thc omaha Division, owing to the diff
tlcnlties Of working new road In the excessive,
ly ruiny winter and spring of last year, afforded.
us little benefit for the first four months. The
new road to Chicago was completed in March.
getting into Chicago, TINT division has Afforded
us rs yet little benefit. Both of. these lines will
hereafter become the most productive sourccs
Thfrd-The. income Of the nrst four months OF
the pnst year was burdened with many contracts
atvery lo.s rates and many rebate @ charges grow
,fourth-Our expenditures in maintaining and
operating our road include large amounts that
from; Our main lines are now laid with steel.
with the exception OF few miles. From Toledo
md Chicago to St. Louis, Kansas City, aud
Omaha, we hate upward OF 1>5oo miles laid with
Fyfth-These irems, estimate, together exceed
seoo,ooo which; 10 the coming year, we can
Sirut-1 have further to add the difficulties and
delays incident to the Joining together Of so
many rOad5, and l can with I'LL confluence say
that we have, as yet, realized only small por-
uon Of the benefits anticipated from the con-
solfdatson Of the seven roads now comprised in
our company. Our operating expenses in tho
past year were about 81 per cent This, be-
liere. we can reduce materially. In view Of all
which recommend the commencement Of.
dividends on our preferred stock ut the
ratio Of per~ cent per annum, payable
quarterly. Our stockholders set apart $6,060,-
for permanent improvements and equipments,
on the understanding that the net earnings
should be divided, but whileI believe we shall
per cent on our preferred stock, US provided In
the consolidation agreement, I think it moro
prudent and more for the interest Of the stock
holders to limit DUR dividends to per cent until
VIC shall have accumulated a sufficient surplus
to warrant TN fucrens5 to per cent and GER
taiuty Of its continuance.
, 1881-01-16

The number Of looms for the manufacture OF
cotton In tho United States is ea1+a,3; the num-
Der OF sptndles, l0.s2 147: bales of cotton used,
l,5se Isl; persons employed, Including. agents,
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cling brilliancy of the light and mako it
toIerable to the eye.


Officials of the Pennsylvania railroad
have inspected Mr.. e. j. Boyton's auto
matte station indicator at West Chester
with view to having the new invention
in use on the Pennsylvania passenger
trains. The indicator consists of glass
frame about two and half feet long and
eighteen inches wide, which is to hang at
both ends of the Car, and reveals by an auto
matte apparatus, controlled by the engineer,
the name of each station as the train ap-
proaches it. The case contains diminu-
tive pair Of bellows and Al endless pan
Drama of names printed on woven cloth.
The roll is spun off by the action of air
through the rubber tubes connecting the
air brakes under the cars, and is exceed
ingly ingenious in its construction. The
Indicator was operated by Mr.. Boyton in
the presence Of Superintendent Lockard
during the progress of the train from Phila-
delphia to West Chester. The inventor
said that he would put the rubber tubes
inside the hose of the regulating air
brake, and so do away with any delay in
uncoupline cars, if the Westinghouse
people would allow hin to do SO.
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STATE ITEMS.

Charles Lewis. Late resid ,nce, Cham.
bersburg. Jumped on a moving freight
train. Usual verdict.
Hon. William l.. Scott has just pre-
sented 5000 to St. Paul's Episcopal
church of Erie, for the purchase of an
organ to supply the place of one destroyed
by fire last summer.
The firm of Washington Butchers
Sons, Philadelphia, which failed some
time ago, has been revived, and will con-
tinue in their old line of business. They
have effected a settlement with their
creditors on basis of forty cents on the
dollar.
Burglars entered the grain house Of Mr..
j. II. Swope, at Jamestown, and operated
on the safe BY drilling three holes into the
door and filing them with powder, but
they were not exploded, and the contents
of the safe remained undisturbed. 1t is
supposed the robbers used truck car to
ride from Lebanon. to Jamestown or at
least part of the way, for Tuesday morn
ing an abandoned car was found on the
railroad, partly on the track, near
Heilmandale, and almost caused an acci-
dent.
The electric lighting of Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, may be pronounced fair
success as a beginning. The only diff
Guilty about the voltaic arc system of light
ing is, that the light Is too much concen-
trated, and that the number of lamps
erected for given space is generally too
small to give brilliant illumination, if they
are shaded by globes to reduce the daz.
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NEIGHKORHOOD NEWS.
Near and Across the County Line.

Near and Across the County Line.
The big pole Rapid telegraph company
is now running its lines through York.
Thieves went through the till OF 3
Eshleman's store III Harrisburg and took
all the cash on the premises.
A single order recently given by the
Pennsylvania railroad is for ), 100 freight
ears.
Harrisburg had brilliant wedding yes
terday-Harry l.. Gross and Miss Laura
German.
Milton Eshenauer, son of Christian w.
Eshenauer, of Londonderry township,
Dauphin county, was killed on a railroad
at Sedalia, Mo-, and his remains will be
brought home.
A charter has been issued to the Weimer
machine works company, of Lebanon, for
the manufacture of iron and steel, with a
capital of $12G,O The incorporators
are P. L. Weimer, l.. E. Weimer, Asaph
A. Weimer and T. E. ireland, of Lebanon,
and John Berkenbine, Of Philadelphia. A
branch office of the company will be To-
Gated in Philadelphia.
Died November 12. 1881, Elizabeth
Yodcr, of Spruce Hill township, Juniata
county, aged Sc years, 10 months and 12
days. The sick among friends and neigh
bors ever found in her faithful helper, a
sympathiziug friend. The familiar name,
Betsy" was a household word, and the
love of the little ones was always given
unreservedly to her wherever her kind
face was found.
There are great many muskrats in the
embankment along the Schuylkill canal,
in Berks county. They do a great deal of
damage, and frequently cause leaks in the
canal. The canal company give IL cents
for each muskrat tail as a premium for
catching the animals, and the hides are
worth from II to 20 cents each. At Mo-
nocacy number of persons are engaged
in catching the animals with steel traps,
and some 400 have already been secured
this season. At Laurel Hill the lock ten
der caught IS muskrats in one night. The
tails are given to the canal bosses, and the
hides are sold to dealers in furs.
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THE Mormon candidate for delegate
to Congress from Utah got nine -tenths
of the votes, but the governor issued the
certificate to the man who got one-tenth
because he considered the Mormon not
=" a citizen q the United l0tatek." He
went behind 0ts returns and the clerk of
the House went behind his certificate
and put, on the rolf tho name
of the member who was elected I;
and now, 1t Is threatened, the House
will 90 behind the roll which went be-
hind the certificate which went behina
the returns and put on the roll the man
who was not elected, but who h . citizen.
There seems to have been something
radically wrong in oil thess departures,
beginning with the governors irregu.
larity in giving certificate to . man
whom his very certificate showed had
not received a tenth Of the votes. Mani
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PERSO ONAL.

HEHSONAL.
In drawing desks in the House Hon. A.
HERR SMITH had to take back seat.
DR.. SAMUEL H. GREEN has accepted the
Republican nomination for mayor of Bos-
ton.
JEFFERSON DAVIS arrived in New York
yesterday from Europe, and left in tho
evening for Louisville.
GEORGE H. BOXER is mentioned as the
probable successor Of the late General
Fitzpatrick, minister to Chill.
Miss GENEvrEvE WARD intends to play
in French in St. Louis and in New Orleans,
in both of which cities is large resident
French population.
YosH1DA KIYoNARI, the japanese minis
ter at Washington, has been recalled to
Toxic, to take Office in the home admin
istration. It is believed he will be as
signed high position in the department
of finance.
"Mrs. Langtry's OSCAR WILDE" be-
ing present at the debut Of the Jersey
Lily on the amateur stage, wore ga ker-
chief of sunflower hue thrust with cum
ming carelesshess into his white waist.
coat.
AARON X. DUNKE1 has formally an
nounced his desire and intention to sue.
ceed himself a secretary of internal
affairs. 1t looks as if he would have a
good deal of opposition, Lucius Rodgers,
being also entered for the race.
Major WILLIAM ARTHUR, the only
brother of tho president, arrived in Chi
cago yesterday morning from Montana on
his way to New York, he having received
an appointment on General Hancock's
staff.
Walt Whitman praises EMERSON as the
"truest most moral, sweetest literary
man on reoord-unsoiled by pecuniary or
any other wrap-ever teaching the law
within-evcr loyalty out cropping his own
self only-his own poetic and devout SOUL"
JOHN Brooks, . veteran ship and steam
boat captain, and . lifelong personal
friend Of the late Commodore Vanderbilt,
died yesterday in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
aged IS years. He possessed considerable,
wealth, and was . liberal contributor to
religious and charitable institutions.
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ANOTHER SUDDEN DEATH.
Verdict by the Coroner's Juries.

Verdict Dy the COrOner'S Jur1oS.
Ellen Nash, a colored girl aged about 18
years and residing in John street, died
suddenly yesterday morning about two
o'clock. She had been suffering from
heart disease for some time and had been
attended by DR.. Westhaeffer, but not
lately. She went to bed apparently as
we'll as usual, but died suddenly at the
hour above stated. Coroner Mishler's
jury returned verdict of death from heart
disease.
The coroner, with jury, yesterday AZ
ternoon visited the residence of Henry
Snyder, West Clay street, whose wife was
found dead in bed as related in the INTEL
LIGENCER yesterday. After viewing the
remains and taking testimony, the jury
rendered verdict of death from heart dis
ease. DR.. Compton was tho physician
attending the coroner in both the above
cases.
DR.. II. E. Muhlenberg, who attended
Mrs. Snyder for two months, and who was
not summoned before the coroner's jury,
says the woman did not die of heart dis
ease, but was subject TO convulsions,
caused by organic female trouble. The
doctor saw her the day before she died.
The report that her husband had disap-
peaPu is incorrect. He is in town, and is
collecting money to bury her.
Deputy Coroner VIM. Rhoen, at the
request Of the coroner, yesterday empan-
eled a jury and visited the late residence
Of Aunt Polly Williams, colored whose
death was announced yesterday. After
viewing the body and hearing the testi-
mony Of Horace Reynolds. a grandson Of
the deceased, and DR.. L. A. Warren. the
cftonAinn "a
two weeks ago and had careful attend
ance, tho deputy coroner dismissed his
jury, saying there was no occasion to
make the inquest.
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The Buchanan Biography.

When the unfinished, IT not the never
begun, work of writing the biography of
the late President Buchanan was CON-
mitted to George Ticknor Curtis there
were misgivings that his lack of &C
quaintance with his subject, if not his
lack of sympathy with the political
opinions and purposes Of Mr.. Buchanan,
would render his satisfactory execution
of the work impossible and the book dis
appointing to those interested in it. Mr..
Curtis had performed his duty as the biog-
rapher of Webster in a commendable
manner, and it could not be dis
covered that his treatment of that
subject cOnficted with a proper
appreciation of Mr.. Buchanan's private
character and public services. But Mr..
Curtis was naturally closer to the New
England school of statesmen than to
that to which Mr.. Buchanan belonged,
and it was feared his associations and
the tendency of his mind would either
incline him to too narrow view of Mr..
Buchanan's political purposes or force
him to treat his biography as a lease"
undertaken by an advocate for the vim
dication of his client, rather than q
work of simple justice to be performed
in a broad, judicial manner. As the tine
draws near for the publication of Curtis
biography of buchanan there are mani
fest signs that it will be eminently sat
isfactOry to the friends of the distin-
guished dead and of far greater interest
to the public than had been anticipated.
Mr.. Curtis found at his hand u vast and
valuable collection of interesting docu-
mentary information, with which he has
amply fortified every statement made or
position assumed with reference to Mr..
Buchanan's attitude toward the seces-
sion movement, and he is confident
that he will be able to en-
tirely reverse popular opinion upon
that subject, summoning the most highly
approved Republican witnesses to the
support of his claims. 1t is not un-
likely that the Buchanan biography will
appear at favorable time for candid
judgment of its merits, and that the re-
lnarkable and often provoking delays
which have attended its preparation
may, after all, turn out to have been
most favorable to its unbiased considera-
tion and wider reading.