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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
CLEARING a TOWN or RUFFLlNS.

SAN FRANCISCO, July pa dispatch from
Portland, Orr says: An unsuccessful attempt was
made on Friday GIT TO burn tue town OF Seattle, W. T.
The attemp, was evidently made by brother of Payne
who was ynced spring by The citizens Of the place
and his gang OF desporldoes. At the tap Of bell the
Vigilance Committee assembled and hastily prepared
list o. the twenty prominent rOughs,' whom
they ordered 10 leave place before daylight abide
the Consequences The order Obeyed and the town
WAS cleared. Payne, the ringeader, is IN custody"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
ANXIOUS TO FIGHr" TUGn WILS0M

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 23.-John n. Don
aldson has Issued the following challenge: thereby
challenge any In America excepting John l.. Sulli-
yau), Tag Wilson preferred, to fight me, with or
without gloves, Tor $1,000 side the hght to take
place within 800 miles Of Milwaukee and within six
we rs from the ddJe the articles are signed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
DEDICITING 4 CHURcH At NEWBURG.

NEwBURG, N Y, July 23.-St. Thomas's
been completed, dedicated this morning. Arch
bishop Corrigan, assisted by number Of priests con-
Quoted the ceremony In the afternoon confirmation
was administered to large class Of children The sev-
cra services wcr0 very Impressive and were largely n
tended church Is capable OF seating between 400
and 800 persons, and cOs,, with the pastors house
about $4,000 IL begun about ten years ago, when
tne exterior and the basemeut completed but the
work WAS then suspended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
TIE PORTE BETWEEN CROSS FIRES.

LONDON, July PA dispatch to The DGi'y Ncrs
from ConstantnOple says:
There is reason TO believe that Arab Pacha has
sent species of ultmatum to the Sultan declaring
that hc is acting Islam from the nde's. and
giving the sultan notice that If the Porte
sends troops to cooperate with the unbelievers he
viii light thepl and proclaim the Sherecf of Mecca
as Caph II is believed here that Arab has threat
ened to depo.e the house of Osnar. ana proclaim
Josad ruler III its place.
A dispatch to HE Ddiiy Ners from Rome says it
is stated III diplomatic circles there thar the Porte
has sent circular letters the Powers asking them
t. dissuade England from pushing on hOstilltes
pending negotiations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
4 YOUNG GIENS DELCSI0N.

FoRr WAYNE, Ind, July 23.-Nliss Flora
Tnman, age sixteen, living with her sister. Mrs D. IT..
shaE, Of this city attempted suicide last evening by
eating her throat from ear 10 ear with razor When
asked Why she committed the act she said
hs, her father, who de- four years ago. had appeared
TO her ana called her to u hlu She cannot re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT

BroovINGrov, ILL.,, July 23.-On the
Clcag, and Alion Road this morning, north-bouhd
fr,n tram struck he soutA-Dount as II was going III
OIL side track. The locomotive o. tue hof'hDo"' "'-
ii ,,,-,od with two cars of wheat, one Ol
,r,ol our Of llo.g and one OF cam i,a bitachin
f,ii Toscr OF P4aiuylcw, MacOupa county, H., was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
GENERAL W4SHINGTON NEWS.
INNPETTUN TUN EK WINI NU.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.i

WASHINGTON, July est is stated that unless
the resignation Of Mr. Tower, Supervising Inspector
Of Steamboats, in the NewIor< District, is received
at once by Secretary Folger. the nomination of a
successor will be made without waiting further
Secretary Folger has written Mr.. Tower that he
cannot remain in his place. Hssuccessor will be
George ii. StarDuck, of Troy. n well-kuOTn steam
boat builder who is said to be very highly recon-
mendcd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
THE CITY or PEHMG ~ QUARANTINE

SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.-A cursory exam
in atom sho vs. tnat there disease on the steamer
civ Peknr which arrived yesterday from Yoko
hama and Hong Kong, but she held IN quarantine
prnding "A noro rtdd inquiry ehe brought over 1000
Chinese
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
PROSPECTORS MURDERED.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July 23.-The bodies
~ tn ee American prOspcctors have been iouhd near
san Antonio in sonora Valley The natives say that the
rnco ,.r, ,lurlreI by Apac es but IL believed that
the decd wa committed by MeXctns az MeKlcahs Neo
fOnnl MOIALnE the Lr0ipeotOrs cLlllns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
Suicide or 4 SCHOOL TEACHER.

CHICAGO, July 23.-Jeremiah Mahoney for
mani, - AIRS teacher IN the public SchooH "l .'7 Guy
and ,yri,er ON educational topics comn''ou su''u'
Yesterday by taking laudsnum. De'po1ue"'5 % '"P
nnscd TO have been the cause.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
THE KHEDIvE TO ARABI AND THE ARM

ALEXANDRIA, July 23.-Thc Khedve has issued
the following proclamation:
ArABI PACnA: In consequence OF your
departure TO Kafr-cl;Dw9r ac.c,Hmpa31Ie;d
without orders. stopping railway traffic
preventing us from receiving telegrams and com
munications through the posi- and impeding the re-
tuIn OF refugees to their homes in Alexandra, ana
OF your persistence III war preparations, and your
refusal to come TO us after receiving orders, dis
miss you from The Office of Minister of War.
The Khedlve issued the following circular to the
Army:
On perusing the order for the dismissal of Arab
Pacha from the Office of Minister of War You viii
know the great motives which made necessary his
dismissal Hcnceforward lie will have no
authority over you. Whosoever agrees
with his designs and movements will
have participated in his crimes. Whosoeyer
shows obedience and conforms to our rule Will de-
serve honor courtesy and good remuneration. You
must be aware that the country is surrounded with
dangers and peTils. for the Powers have agreed
on Turkish intervention for the reform OF
the country without damaging the privi-
leges of the irmans granted to Egypt. | am
convinced that you VIII conform yourselves TO niy
orders, which cannot have any object other than
the welfare OF the country. lie who obeys my or
deIS Will be reWaTded he who does not will have
to blame himself on being punished.
Alter the bombardment OF Alexandria
council of war was held under our
presidency DeVsch Pacha assisted and
Arab Pacha was present 1t WAS decided
not 10 surrender the forts until ordered by the sui
tan telegram was sent to CoDstantInODle 10 this
eject Arab Iachd then returned to AcXan-
dla ordered HIM to REINFORCE the
do so, and then started tOr Katr-e-DWar.
Unless was certain that the object Of France and
England WAS not to cake Possession Oi Egypt, but
merely to restore order should have tie first
To give nv life in defence of the country
In reply to the PROCLAMATION OF the khcIlYe,
Arab appointed Il Ministry OF his own at Caro-.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
FATALLY IAJUhED BIZ 4 FALL.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July 23.-James D.
,.o,a oce thirty fell twenty i've feet into the hoJ
Owe cana ON Saturday night receiving internal injuries
I, ON vech ne died to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
AFFAIRS RELATING TO TIE CONFERENCE

NUNH IINUILE, UIIIN ''II'' '''I 10
sym Pacha have both been appointed delegates TO
the Conference.
LONDON, July 23.-The place which will be pro
posed by Assym Pacha for the future siting4 OF the
Con ference Is Stamboul, not " on steamboat"
was stated in dispatch sent on Saturday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
TRAINS DELAYED Br / COLLISION

Bo,rov, July pa freight train on the
WI and N.S-En.l.nd Railroad ran nto an engine
81 putnam. Conn, to-day Both engines WI o.inased'
er,au yg,,, Injured aJoIt tie lcss, ana Trans were
I.I,veu for several hours.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24
RhSIGNATION or 4 FREIGHT AGENT

[BY TELEGRAPH 10 IHE TKIDUNE.l
MILWAUKEE, July 23.-lt became known
Tonight that George Olds, general freight agent OF the
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unless he is allowed to bring more troops from
Damietta.
The town continues to swarm with
refugees from Cairo and the interior,
who bring most terrible accounts OF mas
sacrcs at Tantah Damietta and elsewhere. Rear
Admiral Hoskins has written 10 the English Consul
at Cairo urging him to impress upon British subjects
the necessity of leaving Egypt at once.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-24

IIL LNGLISII AND FRENCH IT PORI SAID
LONDON, July ga dispatch to The Daily Acrs
from Port > aid says:
5 de Lesseps arrived heic on Saturday, accom-
panied by an aldc-de-camp of tho khedive
There are seventeen war vessels OF different
nationalities in the harbor; five English, under
Re4r-Admiral Ho>kns, and five French,
under Admiral Conrad. The latter has
consented TO assist the English in keeping order III
the tow and protecting the lives and property of
Europeans. In theeyent OF anontbrcak, the French
say that they are prepared TO land 600 men the
English can land 400.
bear-Adnlra HOskins has sent message through
the Governor TO the commander of the
troops, saying that lie will hold him
responsible for any disturbance and that if he can
~ ~. Keep order the Admiral will The commander
y s@u " have declined W take the responsibility
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-14
Chinese Printing.

The blocks are sll of the same size,
about eight by twelve inches, and about
half an inch thick. Each block repre-
sents two leaves, or four pages of the
book, being engraved on both sides. The
blocks for complete work can thus be
slowed away in a very small compass.
The cost of engraving a page of these
wooden blocks is said to be but little
more thai the expense of setting up a
page of Chinese type and preparing it
for the press. An edition of one copy
can be printed if no more are required,
and thus the expense OF keeping a large
stock of printed books on hand is en-
tirely avoided. Any errors Or misprints
that may be discovered can, as rule, be
corrected on the blocks with but very
little trouble. A skillful printer can
print by hand 5000 leaves of two pages
each day, using no press or machinery
whatever He supplies his own tools,
and receives as wages about one shilling
day. The paper ordinarily used is
white, and of the best quality, although
yellowish kind is also made use of at q
reduction of twenty per cent. on the SELL
ing price. The books are bound in the
usual Chinese style, and fastened with
white silk thread. They present an ap-
pearance which satisfies the taste of the
most fastidious native. The leaves are
printed only on one side.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-14
Fire and Shipwreck.

New ORLEANS, May 12-The dam
age to the custom house by last
nights fire is now estimated az $50,
000 The iron cornice is practically
destroyed, and the window frames
burned out for nearly half the length
of the custom-house. The street
front granite columns at the en-
trance and pilasterS have their out
lines damaged to such an extent as
to make substitute necessary. The
heat was very great, and the water
thrown on the hot granite caused it
to crack and flake off.
The Havana Spanish steamer
Minal, 1900 tons, running from
Spain to Porto Rico, Havana and
Vera Cruz, has been totally wrecked
off the harbor of st. John, Porto
Rico. No lives were lost.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-14
HUMORS OF THE DAY.

A HALF loaf is better than whole
loafer.
NEVER too late to mend-A torn ten
dollar note.
A REAL, estate transfer-moving a cart
load of dirt.
A LOVER has all the qualities hus-
band has not
A FOOL and an ACCORDION are both
easily drawn out.
WHAT is sauce for the turkey is cram
berry for the dinner guests.
MAN wants but little here below, and
that's just about what he gets.
BANK cashiers are generally smart fel-
lows, but they are frequently flighty.
OFALLshares, plow shares are the most
reliable. They always turn out some
thing.
THERE are people who will buy any
thing on sight if they can be allowed to
pay for it on time.-NeU Orleans Plea
yu1ae.
'ITs scold day when 1 get left" Fan
tippe remarked when Socrates went Oh
to the circus without her.-Burlingto'a
HatDkeye.
A DERBY doctor killed a fox, and the
Derby Transcript sardonically remarks
''The doctor means business when ne
gets after EN-
"MY daughter, exclaimed fashion
able mother, sis innocence itself. You
can't say anything in her presence that
will make her blush"
SOLOMON is said to have had some nine
hundred wives of all sorts. What il
must have cost him for fries in boxes
when he stayed out late.
HENS scratch up flower beds only when
they are bar, footed. That's why women
run out and 'sshoo" the hens to keep
them from doing damage.
! HAIL to the thief who in triumph advances.
The more he steals the more renown,
The bigger his pile the more he prances,
And cash keeps him up, while Others go down
Hampton
IF some religious people we know
| would prey on their neighbors less and
their knees more, the world would be
better of.-Bastimo Every Saturday.
"MAMIE," said he, and his voice was
| singularly low, twill you be my wife
Viii you cling to me as the tender vine
clings to the" "Yes, I catch on,
uaid che,
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-14
Browns Mistake.

Dwight Brown, living near Erie, Pa. i,
is a poor but very devout man. Mr..
Brown, being in destitute circumstances,
knelt down with his wife, and the two
prayed for help from on high. On the
following day, as Mr.. Brown was walk
ing along the highway, he found q
"wallet" containing 5000 in greenbacks.
just ahead of him was John Crowell,
whom the prisoner must have known
had dropped it, but Brown, believing
this to be an answer to the earnest sup
plications of himself and wife. took the
money home, and there was great re-
joicing in the family, followed by full
meals for his wife and children. The
next day clothing for the half-naked
family was purchased, and Mr.. and Mrs
Brown earnestly believed they had found
the royal road to wealth. But little
later an officer came with O warrant and
arrested the head of the household on a
charge of larceny. At the trial frank
statement of the whole case was made
by the lawyer who kindly offered to de-
fend Brown. He recited the ignorance
of the prisoner, which was accompanied
with devout belief that God had an
swered his prayers in the manner de-
scribed. Some of the money had been
spent as described. but the rest had been
turned over to Crowell, and besides this,
all the household effects of the poor
man had been put into the hands of the
officers to be sold to make up the def
eiency The Judge, in passing sentence,
said he understood the prisoner to be a
hard working man, and that the tempta-
ton had come to him in a peculiar man.
ner. He would err, if at all, on the side
of justice, and SO he sentenced Brown
to pay fine of one dollar and to be con-
fined in Jail one day. The case is q
peculiar one, and excited good deal OF
interest.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-14
The Spartan Law-Giver, Lycurgus.

The history and legislation of Lycur-
gus are involved in considerable obscux-
ity: indeed, to such an extent that many
of the leading scholars of modern times
have viewed them with no little sus-
picion. The generally accepted account
of the celebrated Spar tan law-giver is to
the effect that Lyeargus lived about $50
years before our era, or, according to
others, about the year 100 B. c., and
was descended from the Doric family of
the Proeidae. Polydectes, his brother,
King of Sparta, died, and to his widow
was born posthumous son. The widow
and mother proposed to Lycurgus to
destroy the unborn babe if he mar
ried her. Lyeurgus was shocked,
but pretended partially to consent
by saying it was as easy to make
way with an infant after as before it
came into the world. When the child
was born Lycurgus at once proclaimed
him King, and his uncle became his
guardian. Then it is recorded that Ly-
curgus travelled III many lands in Asia
Minor, Crete, Egypt, and even India, but
as to the latter it is decidedly uncertain
and unlikely. He studied the constitu-
tions of the nations he travelled among,
aid finally, after many long journeyings,
he returned to Sparta. During his alb
sence affairs had become disordered in
Sparta, and on his arrival almost the en-
tire community requested him to draw
up constitution for them, to which he
consented. Then he induced them to
solemnly swear that they would make no
change in the laws till he came back,
and he left Sparta, and it was never
known exactly whittier he went or where
he died. By his departure and failure to
return he had hoped TO make the Spartan
Constitution eternal; and the people
saw he was a god, and worshipped him.
Probably such person as Lycurgus ex-
listed, who, at some remote time and
critical juncture in Spartan affairs, may
have been selected, perhaps, on account
OF his wisdom and reputation, to prepare
a code of laws for the better govern
ment of the State. 1t can not be i'm
agined that the entire legislation of
Sparta was first invented by Lycurgus
and imposed upon the people all at
once it is reasonable to suppose, how
ever, that he collected, modified, and en-
larged the previously existing institu-
L
tarch that Lycurgus commanded that
all gold and silver coin should be called
in, and chat only sort of money made
OF iron should be current, great weight
and quantity cf which was of but very
little worth 50 tat to lay up twenty or
thirty pounds there was required a
pretty large closet, and, to remove it,
nothing less than yoke of oxen. With
the diffusion of this money, at once a
number Of vices were banished from
Lacediamon for who would rob another
of such a coin? Who would unjusily
detain or take by force, or accept as a
bribe, thing which is not easy to hide
nor credit to have. nor, indeed, of any
use to cut in pieces? For when it was
just red hot, they quenchedit it in vinegar,
and by that means spoiled it, and made
it almost incapable of being WORKED
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-14
A Social Fraud.

A subscriber writes to know if it would
be proper for him to speak to lady
that he has never been introduced to.
He says he has met her on the street, IN
places of business, and at parties for
two years, that he knows all her family
and she frHws his, and that she looks
aim ...ac adj, Oh she wished he would
spea b>tea ne has never been introduced
to he Sand dares not speak. No, you
must 2sIet speak to her. You may go
along meeting her every day till Gabriel
blows his trump, and she may look as
familiar as your sister, and yet till some
mutual acquaintance says :" MIR. So-and-
so, this is Miss So-and- so, you can not
speak to her without society will say you
are an impudent thing. She may wish
she knew you, and yet if you speak to
her she would feel it her duty to society
to say Sir" and look greatly offended,
and then you would be all broke up. If
she should drop her pocketbook, and you
should pick it up and hand it to her, she
would thank you with smile, but you
would have no right to speak to her next
time you met. Ii she should meet you
some day and say '' How do you do,
Mr. So-and-so? / have known you ever
since you lived in this town, though we
were never introduced formally, and it
has got so embarrassing to pass you half
dozen times a day without speaking,
while Ispeak to those that may be with
you, that have concluded not to wait
for an introduction some nine spot
with a number six hat on wonld say :
"Oh, my, what fiirt that lady is. She
actually spoke to man without being
introduced" Ii you frankly offer her
your hand and say, "Thankyou, madam,
for suspending the rule of etiquette in
speaking. l have seen you so many
times that your pleasant face is as vel
come sight as that of my sister, and [
have wanted to know you, but had given
up all idea that I ever would, some
simpering female idiot would say: "Only
to think, that bold, awful man has ac-
tually fiirted with Miss So-and-so until
he has got acquainted without formal
introduction. No, young man, go right
along about your business, and don't
try to hurry the cattle. Society must be
consulted, though in some respects So
ciety may be a confounded fool.-Pecks
San.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-14
How the Chinese DO at Home.

The chief characteristic OF tine China.
man is industry. The Emperor and his
corps arise at midnight and the couri
audiences are held at a. m. The
schools are begun at sunrise. and with
orief intermission continued until p. m.
There are no Sundays and of holidays
there are less than dozen in year.
The Chinese labor from sunrise unit
sunset; and in the evenings the streets
are deserted; but the Chinaman works
moderately and never frets; he lives
frugally, eating little meat and drinking
no ALCOHOLIC liquors, and hence he has
great enduring and recuperating power,
and lives to green old age, unless per.
adventure he falls victim to the na
tional vice-Opium smoking. He reverses
the past, and such is his innate con.
servatlsm that he is tilling the soil Will
the implements that were used 1,00C
years ago. He rejects innovations, yet
Europeans have successfully introduced
glass to take the place of paper, and
owing to its cheapness some kinds oi
kerosene have been accepted as part OF
the domestic economy. The wages OF
labor are low, but in some parts of China
family of six persons may live month
on 81. The Chinaman is elaborately
polite, but he is not truth teller. He
is not aggressive; indeed, he is peace
maker and has profound respect fo1
constituted authority, but wants his
government to govern him as little
as possible. The condition of women in
China may be inferred from the fact
that Confucius viewed her as a necessary
evil. Like the American woman, she is
the martyr of fashion, but Chinese
philosophers hold that squeezing her
feet until they are no more than three
inches in length is not SO injurious as
tight lacing. Women in the fowery
kingdom are practically nonentities, and
yet for twenty years preceding last year,
when the Queen Dowager died, two
women were regents, and now the re-
gency is held by woman.