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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
MONDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1881.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRr1Gy.-A large public meeting to express
sympathy with Ireland was held in London
yesterday demonstrations were made before
The Carlton and Reform club-houses. -
The German Ambassador to Turkey has had con-
ference with the Austrian Premier in regard to
Greece. - In Vienna, two Socialists have been
convicted and eleven acquitted of State Offences.
DoMEsTIC.-A great snow storm in the West has
blockaded the railroads and seriously impeded bust
ness. - Further damage by the floods was
reported Yesterday. - Two fires at Waterbury,
Conn. caused loss estimated at over 100000.
- The American Association for the Protection
of the Insane and the Prevention of Insanity met in
Boston Saturday night. - The Michigan Avenue
Baptist Church at Chicago was burned Saturday
night - A British steamer has been damaged III
a collision in the South Pass, La. 60 The Fail
River spinners and weavers have decided TO or
papize q strike. - Harmer Il Co.'s paper stock
warehouse in Baltimore was damaged by fire yester-
day 10 the amount of $4,000. - The County
Clerks Office i'll Marshall. Texas has been robbed OF
the votes cast in nineteen precincts.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Further interviews with
monument Republicans in regard to political mat
tiers were obtained yesterday. - General Uhl
accidentally shot and killed himself. - Mr.. Tai
mage gave his views in regard to the reading OF tc-
tion - Socalistic agitatOrs appealed for cOntri-
buttons for political purposes abroad. - Several
Land League meetings were held. - Some dan
gers of the theatre were pointed out by the Rev. W.
+. Hatfield.
The Manufacturers local observations In
dictate colder and partly cloudy or clear weather
Thermometer yesterday: Highest. 37'; lowest
25o; average, 293io.
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Miss Kate Field brings forward some fresh
testimony, in the letter we print to-day. to
support her statements concerning the period
at which the influence Of Mr.. Lewes made
itself felt in the literary life of George Eliot.
The New-Yorker who has just emerged from
season of slush and mud and fog. is in con-
dition to appreciate the pleasures of Montreal
winter, which correspondent describes else
where. The Canadians have a larger variety
of outdoor sports, at least in winter, than the
average of mankind, and the dweller on Man
haitian Island who has, practically, no outdoor
sports, naturally envies his Northern cousin.
The claim that one of the survivors of the
Charge at Balaklava is dying in hospital in
this city, gives an old soldier, about whose
participation in the world-renowned dash of
the Six Hundred there is no doubt, the chance
TO tell the story. as he does in our local
columns. His way of telling it hasn't quite
the rhythm of Tennyson, but it is the story
of one who lived through that wonderful
fight and does well enough IN prose.
The general aspect Of the British House of
Commons during the recent conflict between
the Irish members and the Government is
graphically described in the London letter
printed to-day. Mr.. Parnell's demeanOr and
one of his encounters with the Speaker are
well portrayed. The large demonstration in
London yesterday, in which some English
workingmens clubs participated, indicates that
the Irish in England are disposed to take an
active part in the agitation. AS they cannot
be affected by the cOercive measures designed
For Ireland alone, they are likely to form
troublesome element in the pending conflict
The unfortunate eDgraver whose narrative
of day and night in the streets and without
food is given in a talk with a TRIBUNE re-
porter, had the hard luck to seek aid, In al
most every case, of philanthropists who did
not deserve the name, or of charitable socie
ties whose restrictions prevented them from
helping him. These restrictions are sometimes
unreasonable, but the complaint that is made
of them is more often so. 1t may be, how
ever that the account OF this experience will
furnish q hint or two to some of the dis
pensers of charity who have too much system
in some parts of their work. and not enough
in others.
With the city's consumption of Croton
water greater each year by 1000, 600 gallons
for each day than IN the year before. and
with the daily consumption at tina season OF
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NATIONAL, ACADEMY OF DEsIGx-wa'er Color Exh,Dluon
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With Democratic House, the mere posi-
bility of an extra session Of Congress TINS
spring would be regarded as calamity by
the business men of the country. But with
Republican House, the danger to business IN
terests would be practically removed
and if it should prove that the
persistence of the present House In
mangling the Refunding bill had caused 1t
to fail, the business men themselves might be
the first to demand and approve an extra session.
There is already some expectation in Washing
ton that one may become necessary, and num-
Der of Republican leaders, among them Senator
Edmunds, are understood to favor 1t. They
believe that the Reapportionment bill, winch
it does not seem possible to act upon at this
session, should be passed, and that some action
should he taken toward investigating the
election frauds in the South and holding up
the hands of Republican contestants for seats
in Congress, to whom the new Florida policy
will be applied, unless Congress gives them
some moral help. Then if the Rebuilding bill
should fail, it would seem that clear
necessity had arisen for an extra session.
But such thing should be avoided. If it can
be done, and both parties should work heartily
tO that end,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

II there are any birds in this section which feel ill.,
cllned to follow feathered traditions and select their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

DIR. Mary Walker seems to have the courage OF
her opinions Perhaps the Democracy conldrt do
better than to put itself under her leadership.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

the wear already several million gallons
larger than the supply, the question OF
the future supply becomes practical
one. The work of obtaining additional
water, which is already under way
will not give more than temporary relief
because. although when completed two years
hence it will increase the daily receipt ol
water by 100000 gallons, at the end OF
ten years the natural growth OF the city Will
have brought lis again to the point where we
are to-day The plans of the Department OF
Public Works for permanent provision for
the future are stated in an article on another
page.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

Mr.. Talmage's views upon the corrupt mover
are more edifying than his views upon tne
good novel. Marion Harland and L. ). Arthur
are not habitually named in the same sentence
with Hawthorne in an enumeration oI tue
noted writer's Of fiction, and some OF the
names Mr.. TaImage cites might not be men
toned on such an occasion at all. WHAT Mr.
Talmage had to say of the unclean novel was
lust and useful. No man who is in the haOlt
of using his eyes can be ignorant that hood
of cheap and corruphng fiction has spread
over the country. These books are cheap
enough to be at the command of everybody
and they are decent enough to keep on the
right side OF the law. The works OF the apos-
tolc NJ. Zola take prominent place among
them, and may be said to give them Their
tone. The best antdOte to poison, the sale
of which the law cannot restrain, Is to make
healthful books as cheap as these, and even
cheaper Fortunately, this is just what some
of our principal publishers are steadily en-
gagged in doing, and i'll the battle OF the
printing presses decency always wins Ill the
lnno RIM.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

Miss Kate Field brings forward some fresh
testimony, in the letter we print to-day. to
support her statements concerning the period
at which the influence Of Mr.. Lewes made
itself felt in the literary life of George Eliot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

With the city's consumption of Croton
water greater each year by 2,O00,0 900 gallons
for each day than IN the year before, and
with the daily consumption at tina season OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

The Northern Democratic papers all applaud
Hamburg Buffers exhibition OF plantation man
ncrs in the Senate OF course this is To he expected
i}u' the next time they are accused Of toadying to
the southern civ Try they must not get red III the
face aud sputtcr out bad words.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-04
Turned Their Heads.

Two members of the British Parlia-
ment, having seer at the Springfield,
Mass, armory, Blanchard's lathe for
turning out gun stocks, advised Parlia-
ment to buy one of the machines, or the
Yankees would get ahead of them insthe
manufacture of arms. One member
arose and said the idea of turning a gun
stock was SO absurd that the members
had been imposed upon. A committee
was sent over who made a similar re-
port, but the member still doubted. He
said it was only soft wood that it would
cut. Finally, taking some pieces of
tough British timber he came himself to
this country, and on finding that his
specimens turned all the better for being
hard wood, he ordered eight or ten ma
chimes. Not having made much out of
his patent, Blanchard wanted a second
renewal of it. He resorted to ~stratagem
to secure it. He set up a lathe in WASH
ington for turning marble, and from
plaster casts of the heads of Webster,
Clay, Calhoun, and others, made their
busts in marble, which he exhibited in
the Rotunda. Everybody was aston
ished at its being done by q machine,
and Congress renewed the patent.
Choate, who had been employed to op-
pose extension, said blanchard has
turned the heads of Congress and
gained his point"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-04
Laughing Away a Duel.

Laughter is an antidote to anger. Even
a duel has been prevented by some
amusing answer which turned wrath
into mirth. A man holding both his
sides can't hold a pistol.
A Georgia Judge named White, who
wore a cork leg, ono challenged a
brother of the bench, Dolly by name,
and a wag, to mortal combat. At the
appointed hour both appeared on the
field, but Dolly was alone. White
sent his friend to ask where his an
tagonist's second was. "Gone into
the woods" replied the humorous
Dooly, "to get a bit of a hollow tree
to put one of my legs in, that we may be
even"
The answer was too much for Judge
| White; he laughed and SO did his
second, ard the challenge was with
| drawn.
An Irish lawyer, who had never fired
q pistol, was challenged by a famous
duelist whom he had offended by severe
comments upon his testimony in court.
The duelist, having been crippled in
one of his duels, came limping upon
the ground. He had one favor to ask,
permission to lean against a milestone,
as he was unable to stand without sup
port.
The request was granted, and, just
as the word Fire !" wa about to be
given, the lawyer said he also had a
request to nike. He asked the priv
lege of leaning against the next mile
stone.
A hearty roar of laughter from seconds
and challenger dissipated all thoughts
of a duel.
The great orator of the Revolution,
Patrick Henry, once received the follow
ing note, preliminary to a challenge
from Gov. Giles, of Virginia:
"S1R:I understand you have called
me a 'bob-tail' politician. I wish to
know if it be true /; and, if true, your
meaning"
Mr.. Henry replied in this style:
"S1R: 1 do not recollect having called
yon a .bob-tail politician at any time,
but 1 think it probable I have. MOI
recollecting the time or occasion, I cant
say what I did mean, but, if you
will tell me what you think I meant,
I will say whether you r correct Oh
not"
Of course there was no Youth
COmpanion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-04
Austrian DOGS.

Ia Austria, while the large dogs are
made to work, and make themselves tise-
ful m various ways, the little fellows are
taken to the bosoms CT the ladies, and
treated as If they were veritable angels.
1t Ii not uncommon, when travelling, to
see almost every lady with a dog in her
arms, and occasionally a footman Of
maid, whose sole duty in travelling with
them mistress is to take care of the dog,
and see that he has water and food on
the route.
The doctors tell many amusing anec-
dotes OF having been called up at mid
night and finding that their services were
needed for a poodle that had been over
fed in the effort to kill them with kind
ness. They could make heavier charges,
with the assurance of prompt payment,
in such cases, than if the patient had
been a child or a husband. Glove me,
love my dog" seems to be the sentiment
of these ladies; and on one occasion the
writer saw a finely-dressed lady, who
had her dog in her arms, take off her
gloves while standing in q railway sta
ton, and diligently pursue and kill a
flea which she had discovered depredat-
ing among the fleece of her ~favorite. It
10 do4UC OA4Ll " . q
~ along with ribbons, and in some cases
to see a gold chain attached to a lady's
belt, and at the other end of the chain a
poodle dog travelling by her side or re-
posing in her arms.
Signs in the shop windows tell you
that "Dog soap is sold here" and that
various patent compounds That will in
duce canine health and longevity are on
sale. "A lady walking in any of the pub
lie grounds with a dog is sure to be ac-
costed by a number of seedy-looking in
dividuals, who will draw out of their
pockets pups, which they offer for sale.
The offering for sale of anything in the
public grounds being prohibited, they
thus keep them concealed in their pock-
cts. In the upper grades of life q moth
er trusts her children to servants and
governesses, but her poodle dog she
keeps under her own eye; and a scream
from the nursery might pass unheeded,
but a yelp from the drawing-room or the
boudoir would startle "her Ladyship"
from the soundest sleep. Of course
there are exceptional cases, but it in
cludes most of those who aspire to fash
ionable life. We see dogs caressed much
more than children are, and their comfort
studied with Jealous care.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-04
Was Booth Insane2

Probably the only history which gives
color to the theory that Booth was insane
is that by J. s. Blackburn, principal of
an academy at Alexandria, Va, and w.
N. Mcdonald, principal Of a male high
school at Louisville, KY. In their his
tory, which is being extensively used in
Southern schools, they say: "Booth
committed the act under the fanatieal
idea that the war would terminate and
the South gain her freedom if Lincoln
were killed" This same history ad-
vances, among the causes of the failure
of the rebels, the following: "The
primary u of the failure of the Con-
federacy was that the people of the South
were not Unanimous in their efforts to
gain their liberty. In the history of the
world a united people, struggling for
liberty, have never been subjugated. :"
The italics are the work of Messrs.
Blackburn and Mcdonald. Booth was
shot in a barn at CARROTS farm, near
Bowling Green, and died soon after.
That vas April 26, 1865.-Chicago In
ter Ocean.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-04
Elephants and Theft Ways.


Twice around an elephants fore;foUt
gives his height to within an inch or
two. As regards age, looking to their
peculiar dentition and other circum-
stances, MIR Sanderson thinks it by no
means improbable that elephants live to
100 or 200 years. No one has ever, ap-
parently, seen the remains of a dead
elephant, n this circumstance Is SO
marked as to have given rise to the be-
lief among some wild tribes that wild
elephants never die while others be-
heve that there is a place unseen by hui
man eyes to which they retire to end
their DAYS. In Mr., Sanderson's wander.
ings for years through elephant ~jtingles
he has not only never seen the remains
of an elephant that had died a natural
death, but he has never met any one
among the Jungle tribes or profess
sional hunters who had. The Cingalese
have q superstition tnat ON feeling the
approach of dissolution the elephant re-
tires to q solitary valley and there re-
signs himself to death. There is q SINH
lar belief in India, but Mr.. Sanderson
shows that it is untenable.
One would not expect to hear that ele.
phants are expert swimmers, though
they can no more jump a trench eight
feet wide than they can dance a horn
pipe. Such, however, seems TO be the
case, from the fact that large numbers
of them are annually sent across the
tideway of the Ganges between Dacca
and Barrackpore, and are sometimes six
consecutive hours without touching the
bottom. Mr.. Sanderson has seen an ele-
plant swim a river 800 yards wide with
his hind legs tied together. They are
sometimes drowned, apparently by be-
ing attacked with cramps or with O fit.
The belief that wild elephants have
decreased in India is shown by Mr.. San
derson to be incorrect. The records of
the past fifty years attest that there is
no diminution in the numbers now OBJ
tainable in Bengal, while in Southern
India elephants have become SO numer-
GUS Of late years that they are annually
appearing in places where they have
never been heard of before. In fact,
Mr.. Sanderson thinks that unless some
thing be done the rifle will have to be
used to protect the ryots or tracts Dor
dering upon elephant iungles. To give
an idea of the number of wild elephants
in some parts of India the lecturer stated
that during the past three years 500 'ele-
plants have been captured by the Decca
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-04
Advertising That Paid.


Johnny Manning, the Sheriff of Dead
wood, Dakota Territory, was in st.
Louis on business, and he remembered
that the year before q st. Louis man
had been up to Deadwood and left ow-
ing a man several hundred dollars,
which was to be paid a. o as he got
home. Manning. met the man In st.
Louis, and he said he would hand him
the money the next day, but the days
passed and the money did not come,
though the man was amply able to pay.
So one morning Manning inserted a per-
sonal in a newspaper to the effect that II
the man who left Deadwood between two
days did not pay the money he forgot
to pay, night before, the whole circum-
stances would be published the next
day. The notice was signed John
Manning, Sheriff of Deadwood." Be-
fore 9 o'clock, a young man called at
Manning's hotel, and said he had seen
the notice and had come to pay 1920 be
had borrowed to get out of Deadwood.
Manning found out who the money was
borrowed of, and took it to carry to the
Deadwood citizen, r~emarking that he
was. not the man the Sheriff referred to,
but it was q mighty mean Sheriff that
would not carry money to a friend. The
next man to call was the one he wanted,
and he paid the money, and ~apolegized,
and begged the Sheriff to say nothing
about it. During the day seven citizens
of st. Louis called on Manning and raid
him money for citizens of Deadwood,
believing the Sheriff had reference to
them in his notice, and, after he had
gone away, another citizen called and
asked the clerk for Manning, but the
clerk said the other fellows had all beer
there and paid up, and this man better
keep his money. The Sheriff said hi
always thought advertising paid, but he
had never had it demonstrated to hi;
satisfaction before.-Peck's Milvauket
Sam
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-04
Marvellous Fish Story.

A rich proprietor at the interior had
made to establish a pond artificial, where
found themselves agglomerated 5000
trouts.
This proprietor is the father of a girl
ing of from 5 to 6.
She had taken the habitude to go each
morning to give to eat to the trouts, at
the aid of crumbs of bread.
These fishes were become so entamed
that they skipped out of the water to
attrap the crumbs which the infant child
held in the crevice of her hand.
1t arrived one day that she lost the
equilibrium, and she fell, the head the
first, in the pond, of which the water was
enough to profound.
At the cries emitted by the girling the
father was run himself.
But what horror! He saw his infant
extended without movement at the sur
face, where she fioated as a cork.
What was not the surprise of the faith
er in seeing that she had been supported
by a mass compact of trouts.
The fishes had arranged themselves
under her body as to sustain and prevent
her from drown.
If this history is truthful, the fishes
are not so much deprived of the intelli-
gence as one pleased himself to believe.
Translation from the French.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-04

feet thick, and the INSIDE surfaces fully
cemented. The stones we're all dug odt
of the hole made for the si1o, as the
rock was reached only a few feet below
the surface. Some idea of the material
required to construct the silo may be
formed from the amount of cement used.
There is a pile of empty cement barrels
as large as a. good sized house. The
weather was unfayorable for q good deal
of the time for speedy work, a the
operations could not be conducted In the
rain. This prevented finishing the work
in time to ensila9e the present grass
crop, as was the intention. Sixteen ACRES
of corn have been planted for ensilage,
though it is quite probable that this will
not much, il any, more than half FILL
the pits. A cattle stable forty feet
square will be built adjoining the silo
for convenience in feeding. There is to
be a ten-horse power engine set up to do
the cutting of the ensilage, and other
Everything stobe constructed with aview
to completes convenience and thorough
ness, under the eye and direction Of a
practical machinist. The matter of the
silo will be thoroughly tested under the
mOob IHYOraDle COnQlLIODbs anu ItS Vhlu6y
as the case may be, will be clearly
shown. The gentleman engaged in this
enterprise is a level headed, practical
man, perfectly competent to fully and
fairly test the innovation. He Is well
convinced in his own mind that it will be
a success. He has visited most of the
silos in this country, and many of those
in France, Belgium and Germany, and
is going at the work now with all the
knowledge a man could have short of
that gained from actual experience. He
has invented a new machine for cutting
fodder, which looks like a good one. He
claims that it will cut ten tons of green
corr per hour into ( inch lengths. The
American Plow Company, of New York,
is manufacturing the machine. It will
be of different sizes, and sell at different,
prices, to suit the work and purses of
farmers who do not want the large ma;
chine. The price of the full sized cutter;
is about 500, and the smaller ones will
sell for perhaps half that sum-"
Thus far, we know of. no attempt at
the West to build a silo on a scale worthy
of remark.-Cfncinnati Gazette.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-04
Marrying in Health.

A prominent Eastern physician has
related that he was consulted by two
consumptives as to The propriety of mar
rying. They we're both weakly in con-
stitution, but intellectually brilliant, and
their tastes were harmonious. They
loved each other ardently, and could not
be happy apart. He counseled them to
marry, and they I'D So. They'ived to-
gether most pie: sanity for about a
dozen years, and died at about the same
time. According 10 the physical school
of thinkers, they should have remained
single, each dragging out the twelve
years in solitary discomfort. Of course
there can be no general rule for cases in
which disease exists; each instance must
be Judged on its own merits. -Cincin-
natl Gazette.