The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-05-21

judge Fosters decision ia the Zie-
bold brewery case is the Afne ~ that
rendered by Judge CFOzier in the
BelleT hdbeGs corpus case
It is said that Minister Foster, hav.
ing completed his mission 10 Spain,
viii resign in q few weeks and ex.
Governor Thomas @. Reynolds, Of
Missouri, will be appointed TO his
place.
During the year ending May there
were distributed in the United States
Is, ,245, ,6l2 pounds Of tea, 50 per cent
Of which went through the port Of
New York. Not one pound received
at New York came on a ship flying
the American flag.
Miss Charlott.. NJ. YonEe, whose
latest novel bears the title, 1.-THE Two
Sides of the Shield" is now In her
SD year, having been born In Otter.
born Hants, in 1873. She began %
write IN 1854, and has kept at Il so
indnstriOusly that her btOks Ofall
kinds now nu mber I'D titles.
The American Bible Society reports
that during the past year I,54S, LIS
bibles and Testaments had been is
sued, Of which 1905, ,7l9 were elrculat-
cd In foreign lands. The total issues
Of the society number IS. 40, ,2O8 vol
umes. The ctist Of translating, pub-
fishing. and distributing the Scrip
lures during the past year amounted
TO $l42, ,292-
The BartbOldi statue will be lighted
at night by electric lamps ct the base,
the rays being cast upward by means
I -
ed torch there will be thrown q verti-
cal beam oflight, reaching the lower
cloud stratnm, from which Is will be
reflected far out to sea. The idea of
rays streaming from the diadem has
been abandoned.
Mr.. Gladstone will ask the com-
mons 10 provide a dOwry for the
Princess Beatrice, who will shortly
marry Henry Of Battenberg. Bea-
trice expects $75, 900 as a present allow
ance, and $4,000 a year here after
from the government, and looks 70
her mother to make up the Sl5O, 900 to
enable them to begin housekeeking.
II is said that the transpOsition OF
one word was determination OF Dan
iei Clark's great fortune. He had
bought 800 square tOises Of land In
that part Of New Orleans that after
ward became its commercial center.
In the engrOssing Of the deed the 81,
920 square tOises" Twas carelessly made
to read 81 $40 tOises square" and in
creased the value Of$i0,OOO to to S20.-
OOO,O 900. Mr. Clark took advantage oil
the error, and the law Of New Orleans
was pOwerless 10 prevent him.-N. y.
Mail.
The mutabilaty Of human affairs is
illustrated in the changed conditions,
OF two notable Blue Grass Statesmen.
= Two weeks ago the Hon. Henry
J WattersOn sat In his darkened tent
grand, gloomy, and peculiar, breath.
ing out threatenings against the pres.
ent rulers In high places. About the
: same time the Hon. Joseph Black
! burn, like q young rooster In early
spring, mounted the top rail OF the
| highest fence, and cOeksdOOdled-
: dOOed the merriest crows ever heard
7 IN Kentucky. But what a changei-
/ Henry returns from Washington,
once blind, now seeing, and with
such strains Of music in praise Of the
administration issuing from his
!, throat that the blackbir on the
tallest sycamOres In the Ohio bottoms
, stop TO listen. Blackburn In the
mean time, connected by telegraph
with the White House, heard some
b. thing drop, and has been seized will
I his old mania shout "wading knee
deep In blood" but this time II Is moi
the blood Of the very saints who's
' charms Colonel WattersOn IL chant
5 ing. The situation Is very touching
aud deeply instructive.