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23, 1SZ5. A LOTZ 4 a.XAXA.( it 7i au Ion id ceH, vnr to Cf. 'elit. 3 prevent cruelty" toit tni briii readers 'ta nr-ors wue is tLsv.ry.9 orrin '4 city, in ft 53. fZ'''''''''''' imim 41 81 4 4 I published im aftemnoo (Sundays eveent i edl.st Not corner el fifth and Chant.

nut tTeeU Ina0.ia eaiuom, i roe aim i iar o'eiock, eaefe eaiuon containing lue nun nans to U18 XW- DeHwwed CarHors, pr jun uuNb. per year ta vi. oavaBco i outage MKia4). Mngl cop- AUeoromanlca tions and other matter intoixW -ihlifc said aaohl fenQeuHB to servant, "ws are all creatures of fate." if ft wasnt for fate, how tho dlvtl we Walk; surer hnry in Detroit, -bearing that American Girl wss dead, remarked "Pve akl that this tight lacing would lay out some day." Reporters should slwsys be even tempered men, but when one rushes wildly tea squares to get" a rhrld account of a man breaking hie leg, saay be excused if be cftaVund ay- Words In tin dictionary to the secasiosi when he discovers it is i woodenlfegi- i ha beaten Yale in the foot-tall match; Ysie hid the liveliest legs an 1 longest kickers, but Harvard had the brains hi its boots. 8hlbyvflle (Ky.) ItepaWca that the worst esse of selfishness that has been petsaltted to present to the pul-lli aaaaaatrd from a youth who complaloed because his aaotber put a bigger mostsvd plaster en his younger brother tbsa she did him, siter they had been eating melons bard apples.

YoBkersGorAte wisely remarks: FUbucatioR should be addressed to tb Ji -S--'' fv it. ALLISON. Ttnt Dispatch contains a futt report of top Railroad convention, up to the bonr -of going to gee fourth page. Vi.ri;Y-.,, The aJMr lwms is Mt rj cheap Laoace. i Twsktt-kiks States and Territories -vjsre represented by aelegate iff the it is efcssjtfr Itwtntefowad atoto ss will baek.

Psrior furniture. to -tKe BuMie. a I. oil fh nSXrlT I WCB' nrave tbo Irolh of oar IT 1 it I CEKEaUTEO DonbleEiiiLc iVe Styl- utbi bixrW Ji.UU: 11. a.

1 S18 North Fsarlh Street, bet. Ker- fan aad rrackUa Ave. TMs- 4m hsa takeai Fcsst Xvooewt aaywhere it has been We will guarantee -She strength and aarabuity of taU Iuase. We defy ther sc dealers to do Ukewlsel tbe also i st, i Ave. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

$5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5.00 $5 t-Tc nniiara will nurchase a Fraction of aa Industrial Exhibition Bond, that is certain to draw one of the following Premiums, On December 6th, 1875. A Tenth which costs only $3 can draw any the following, and will be received bv the Company at any time in aix months as S3 ia purchase ot a au jsona. This is a chance for gain and no chance for loss. 10 Premiums of $5,100 eachl 10 10 see 300 100 60 20 10 5 8-10" Paid in Cash, and do deduction. 10 so 10 ico 290 444 89000 Tbe Lowest Premium S2.10.

Each Fraction must draw this sum. All Fractions will be good with $15 00 to purchase a whole $20 00 Bond. This is a chance for a fortune, and bo chance for loss. A $20 Bond participates In four drawings each year, until it has drawn one of the following premiums: gioo.ooo. 21, 850, 100, SJSOO.

SA3O0, SSOO, 1.000 3,000, 5.O0O, 35.000. The Bonds issned by the Industrial Exhibi tion are a copy of the European Govern mcnt Loans. The Bonds are a safe investment. rEOPLE OF SMALL MEANS Can find no safer or better investment. Ne chance of loss.

A fortune may be acquired On Bccember 6th. Oa January 8d. PCBCIIASE NOW. now to pinciiiSF; In person, or by Certified Check, or Express, or Postal Order, or Draft, or enclose Greenbacks in a registered letter to, and made payable to tlie Industrial Exhibition Co. The funds raised by sale of these Bonds will be applied to the erection of a CBYSTAL PALACE, Which Every American will prond af.

RECOLLECT, The Industrial exhibition is a legitimate ea- terprise, chartered by the state of New York its Directors are tne beat citizens of New York. It has had seven drawings since July 1971, and paid oat in principal and interest, $780,000. Any one obtaining a premium, the company pledges itRelf ndVto make public. This enterprise is simply a hew form of bond in no sense is it to be recognized as a lottery. There are no blanks.

Be sure and purchase at once. 5 will buy a Fraction for December 6th, 1875. i 5 Quarter Bond for Jan. 3rd, 1878. $10 Half Bond 20 Whole Bond AU bonds are exchangablo into city lots, ia the suburbs of New York City.

Each Bond-holder is regarded as an honor- ary member of the Industrial Exhibition and is welcome at the Parlors of the No. 12 East 17th street. Agents wanted. All communications and remittances to bo made to the Industrial Exhibition 12 East 17th street, bet. 5ih avc.

aud Broadway, New York Fc.r the purpose of riving the Bond-boMeri of the Industrial Exhibition Co. full and complete information as to the progress ot the cciui Any, and a complete list of the drawiuga, Ian ilustrnted Journal will be published, viz: Tbe Industrial Exhibition Subscription One Dollar per Year. Any one sending a club of 15 subscribers, with $15, will be given a Premium of one Frac-. tion or Bond, club of 27 subscribers, a Bond: club of SO subscribers a whole Boq'i. Address.

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vivat a vo TI. I 'Tied by tL.ca -zzzl rotcrt cf the of lir'i' appeared in the of the "In view of the continued and increased doDreasioa of bHaioaaa, resulting ia Um fkU- and bankrupter of sli productive enter-' pnse, tne enioreea wuenesa oi or honest, industrious working people, the eon-1 tinned shrinkage of tsmes and the relative- increase or taxation, toe vast ouruen or Sublic and private debt relatively increased the denreasion of alt other value, all produced, as we believe; y-a mistakes) poh of financial legislation refirerj -wwe, toe unaeretgnea, citizens saa vosers the city of Indianapolis and vicinity, do unite in following demands upon the Congress of the United States: "first. The immediate aau anoonuiUonal reveal el tlie llesutnption Act of January 14, 1875, commonly known as the Sherman hill. "Second: The perianentretiremeof all Mttenat bank votes cad the stibasiaition of agonal 4Pal -tender paper belasue4 direMyJhut ije tress-' ortne unueu Htates. "Third Tba reftmdbur of at least a nor-.

ef the present national bonded debt in bonus bearing a tower rate or interest, L65 net et per. anaum. interoonvertW with nationariegal4eBder paper money, the pleasure of the holders. "And ws further uaite uaealKotasaaas-meetlrg to be be hi at Indianapolis, Dee. 1, ltrjo, ta raruierani wens aeaaocu." Will Ex-Got.

Hendricks, a prominent candidate fox the Presidency, and a resi dent of Indianapolis, endorse the bill? be does, be rains his prospects with bard-money Democrats; It he does berffl betoucttatecrfc hriocal jlcmccracy of Ms own etfy ld 6ui. i Kkw Yoke City has tried ail kinds of patent pavements, and also pavements that are not and now ooraes the herald' declaring saacadam Is" tiie best of aXt, advlaea that Jlftk aven ue, the fashionable sweet ox New Yorx, macadamised. There ta macadamized avenue In Burnet Woods Park that a fine specimen ot.thls kind of improvement, and there is a macadamized street in Cincinnati Seventh, east of Vine that has lasted better, and post than any street In the City A' Here in St. Louis the advantages of the macadamized avenues are not dis cernible, but rather to the contrary for its disadvantages stand as open to condemnation as cellar doors. Transportation is often interrupted by huge plies of broken limestone on the streets which during the winter accumulate a dirt about the consistency of paste and the color of a light complcctioned Pittsburg cow.

This bloc mud is dried in the spring and blown by the tour winds of summer into the houses and open eyes of pedestrians. Macadam may be good for a quiet country road not much traveled upon, but in a city where travel Is heavy it is very nasty, to put it in a mild form. The great Railroad Convention of 1875 assembled this morning at the Temple. The "number of delegates In attendance Is near fifteen hundred, representing the states of the Mississippi Valley from Minnesota to Louisiana, and from Colorado and Kansas to Ohio and West Virginia. A large number of delegates are present, also from the At- I lnutic states.

The delegates are as fine a body of men as ever assembled in the country, and comprise the best ability of the states represented. St. Louis has great reason to be gratified at the at tendance, and every effort is being made to make our guests feel at home during their stay with us. The grand banquet is to be given this evening at Masonic Hall, on which occasion hilarity and good feeling will prevail. ECHOES OF THE DAY.

The times are so hard that people arc gcttiug down to flannel weddings. The story is that Paul Morphy, the once world renowned chess-player, has become a hopeless maniac. M. D. Conway says, "There never was a fat devil." Like Smike in "Nicholas Nickelby," he kept thin, even on sulphur.

A shark has to turn over on his back when he bites, because his mouth is where his necktie ought to be. When Paul Boyton was attacked by a twenty foot shark he lay down on his back on the bottom of the sea and laughed at the fish which could not get at him. "Unser Fritz" isn't coming. We arc sorry. He would have had a "jolly welcome" here.

There is an Immense liking for him among the Fritz looks like an Englishman, and doesn't act a bit like one save in one respect. Through the influence of his wife he has been induced to adopt the mutton-chop style of whiskers, and at Berlin, in 18S7, a rather forward Yankee had the impudence to tell him they wure so long that they looked as if his wife did nothing but pull 'cm. Senator Logan says he had a deposit of $40,000 In the Chicago banks when he was chosen Senator, but that to-day his bank account "is a cypher." He has spent it all iu serving his country. Aud ncilLer he nor the country has anything to show for it either. It has been a dreadful waste.

A drrnkard who was to have a finger amputated in the presence of Albany Medical College students, by Dr. Arms-by, died under the influence of chloro form; and the surgeon says that In nearly every instance of death from an anesthetic the atient was addicted to intox-icaticn. The telegraphic reports from Athsui state that, on disembarking, "the Prince of Wales entered a carriage with King George aud sat on his right." As Serapis has just knocked away the bowsprit of His Majesty's yacht, the Prince's conduct was doubly tyrannical and presumptuous. A Prince should b2 the last person in the world to sit upon the right of a King. A very simple walking-cane, with a candle inclosed, which might be convenient for use in dark passages, or even for reading in railroad cars, has been introduced by a German firm.

The top portion consists of a hollow cylinder screwed on, and containing a spring to press upward, as fast as consumed, a candle placed in it. It is closed by a screw-cap, which forms a convenient top. Sam Smith, who drives, the stage from Sonora to Milton and back made a beautiful speech the other day when stopped by three highwaymen. said Sam, "I have been driver, boy and man, going on twenty years. I've met gentlemen of your kind before, and I defy any of 'em to come forward and say that I treated them with contempt.

Believe me, gentlemen, when I say that I have nothing for you this morning. I am very sorry, gentlemen, but the" truth of the matter "is that Wells, Fargo Co's boxes arc young poor-houses, on this road just now, and yon couldn't squeeze a picayune out of one of them to save your necks from the gallows, ow," his "WeM, csuld alius 'em suit the aaost cays it on and that and ter" cert the no a tum and it a all up st befa organized in several ouf metropolitan cities. Tb this iml u' la YorkClty, Bergh rend jred Ms name tamortaVand done much to humanise the brutality of our lataresi What la wanting areimilar soc ieties to. prevent cruelties to children. children- iri certain Ispheres1 of life ire abused, or what Is equally criminal, neglected A correspondent ol York paper makes' remark, vdeh is equally true in St.

touW You --seldom hppy faces among street tMldren, "They grow rapidly old in cr me and general misery, and the express on soon upon I Xive0! ifeedfhti r0i idt! lac XV auUHI Thete is upbero elill Jrt under training in order to become juvenile prodigies, and their education it one of great Buffering. The exposure of the tsuelty tofllcted os the boy. Lii lllusti ation, but it is only one ease out a multitude. The society which has brought this lad -before the ce arts caa plenty to do this winter. The hiring Italian chlldreu to ykollo to attract attention," 'been regular bnaln sss for years.

A fixed return is demanded, and if not obtained the wretched call dren are beaten for their delinquency effort has- been mad to Jirealt up this system, but it still exists. Children 1 in ucnwuu anuiig pruiesK uieatu- cants, and if the former do not bripg bom their; stipend they art lmnlahed have seen a boy weeping In tJte teets the closo of the clay because a was short of his quota, and waa-sure of a beating. Most of this class become adroit thieves, and grow up to form the 'dead rabbits, the 'short and that lawless class which forms so large apart our population." The public schools, too, are a little "oat of jolit," and, for the protection of the chile-ren, need looking after. There has been noticed among New York school children a dc elded increase of St. Vitus' Cance, and the matter was discussed at the recent session of the Health Association in Bal timore.

Dr. Frank Hamilton ascribes the increase in this disease to the fore ing process in the schools, and the wretched system by which the memory. alone of all the faculties, is taxed. No doubt ill-ventilated and overheated rooms may be brought in for a share of the responsibility. Texas is cursed with bands of Mexican robbers whose depredations upon her citizens have been boldly carried on for years without redress, Capt.

McXally, of the United States army, has been over the river on Mexican soil to give the "greasers" a dressing, but the eow- rdly bands rather than resist, promised to return the cattle stolen from the American side. Yesterday they retorn- seventy-five head, probably to be flat tened for the next raid. The long dilly-dallying policy of the Government ith the Mexican authorities, has only mboldcncd the marauders to uore open deeds of lawlessuess. A couple of regiments of well mounted cavalry to follow raiders and punish thear, even if it be at the gates of Montezuma, would soon have a quieting effect upjsi that section of country. We had a call this morning from Senator CockreU, who is on his way.

to Washington to take his seat iu -the Senate of the United States at the open ing session on the first Moaday of De cember. He is in the cnjfjyment of his usual good health, and is ready to de vote his best energies to the interests of issoui i. The Senator and several of our Iteprescntatives will leave this eve ning for the scene of their winter labors in behalf of their constituents. This is the way the newspapers talk Louisiana: "II that convicted tiuel and robber, Jim. Walker, wants any fuss with us he can have steel or buck shot in unlimited quantities by poking Ids nose around our corner." That style of newspaper literature has been adopted to sou extent by the morn ing press of St.

Louis. There's no ac counting for tastes. Mr. Edwabd Yocxg, of the Board of Statistics, informs the country that the public debt of the United States was at the highest point in 1836, when it amounted to $2,788,425,879. On the first of the present month the debt amounted to $2,118,397,212.

It would appear, therefore, that the debt has been reduced in nine years, or at the average rate of nearly $74, 000,000 a year. Philadelphia proposes to receive Moody and Sankcy in magnificent style with two hundred ushers, three hundred singers, and no end to other co-laborers. And this zeal in the revival movement is all the more creditable from the fact that in it thus far not the faintest reference to the Cuteunial has been disclosed. "Too much soldiering" is like too much of any thing else, it becomes distasteful to the people, unpopular and cnprofltable. The Prussians are evidently growing tired of so much warlike preparation by their Government.

Last year there were 80,000 desertions from the army. The Chicago Inter-Ocean finds the causes of the panic in decrease of circu-hiticn in the South through loss of Confederate currency in growth and spread cf i c) 'illation, in the taking of currency lo the Pacific slope, in Government contraction, in ocean disastars and in a falling off of the tariff. Don Carlos, in his letter to King Alfonso, says that the attitude of President Grant is a prelude to war between Spain and the United States, if Alfonso does not recognize the independence of Cuba, and proposes a truce and united action iu the. defense of Spanish territory. There's no denying that the war flurry is Over, that the two days sensation has collapsed.

But still they' reworking like beavers at the navy yards, aud public conjectures, utiike the monitors, are all at sea. The power behind the throne that the members of the St. Louis whiskey riag relied upon did not prove as powerful as the throne. la fact, It turned Out to be very weak when put to tho test. It Is to be hoped, however, that tie Washington city fas nre tcy of ury tion to ssv ble, at If the not be is andtho influential character its ticie gates, is one of the largest and most Important bodies that could bare been assembled.

The Southwest has sent Its best citizens to represent eyerjvsec tfonTairfuliy" Imbued -the" import Usee of the great railroad project of a southern line, to the wuiopen up one of tue most fertile regions of the try. "It is the object of the Convention to urge upon Congress the nseeSsslty of a southern -outlet for that vas and growing sectton-'Its advantage re numerous and pregnant to every one familiar trRh twkxyj Mwt We publish several extracts jlram able article in- the Railway JWorsi upoa tlie advantages to be derlve4 this projectr. fr fc' i fa theDrtaeat ixwition cf tf-Jii aJjlr Texaa and Paeinc fiailwav ronjer claima to aid than auy extenaiv aerteme of internal improvement that ever soag-ht or obtained governmental assistance. Its 9q. atruction wilt help not nwely -one, bat all aubrtontial intercjits, and give ach sa im- rna to vanea inaaautai aeveMwtfats taat may, without be pro nounced the mostpressittx wf national neco sitka.

f'f'MU i i "A statement made bv tha fieeretarr of iTeaaury to uie ence in jaimaryi anowa taat wnue tu national Bovm-iitReat expended, from 1T89 to 1873, tbe nuruof 70 to aw in uie coostr ition of railroadg.eaaaia and wagon ami ta aorta- and eat era mates total expenditure for ah jecta in the sixteen fSonthe1- a iTrd Mates, oma mut smoameu to -i-r mi WJ. And now aiuce Uaouthf iirjmrh State Lealalatares, her ooamc ai bxl- senators ana iMngreatanen, taat wis injustieesJiall be at least partly redresseU by for her favorite National biarhway; ai aid thrt will give her access to contiguous" W'ewt-era Territories and the Pacino and place her cities and her citizens on a footing similar to that gained by the Sforthera and Northwestern State eontiiraous to the liaj and braw-heaof the Union taeifie and ainue She can justly tine that he baa the sliar.est sua best route, taat me great oeu ot central States will be accommodated and baaeiixJ it, that it was the Drat route to cominanJ the approval of practical men, a ad the one that wou'd, in all lwntan probability, have been adopted for the first railway across ths Continent if the war had nUoceurre It ia estimated that the construction of the Texas ar.d Pacific railway would give employment to 140,000 skilled ami unskilled workmen, in wood. iron, excavations, etc. for avcarofthrcc hundred working Uiy, and allowing to each man a family of frjia five to six persons, 800,000 persona would be maintained for a year by the labors involved. The immediate effect on the ir industries alone would be of great importance.

Idleness of labor and capital have prevailed long enough now to make million' of men eager for a start that will set everything in motion, as the long proceasion of street wagons moves on alter a temporary obstruction is cleared away. The passage of the Texas and Pacific bill will make that start Independent of the advantages that might reasonably be anticipated by the extension ot commerce on the Pacific from Sa Diezo, and the additional impetus to trade with Japan, China ami Australia, that would be given by two ports instead of oue, thj construction of the Texas and Pacific would oiler up a prospect of opening a lucrative trade with Mexico that is worthy of the most careful cultivation. The aiexican States adjacent to the line of the road already potsesii considerable populations, and connecting railways are projected sad in a fair way of being constructed, soju alter the completion of the Texas aau Pacific, which would stretch narthwarj through New Mexico and penetrate south ward at various points into populous an I productive portious of Mexico. One of proposed lines through that country would extend to the capital and traverse a rei.jn capable of yielding immme quantities of coffee and sugar of superior quality, wtitle nearlv all Northern Mexico is Known to jbound in rich silver mines and in facilities for raising cattle, home and Jn; opportunities for opening a profitable tra le. based on tne malum capacity oi tne unuau states and Northern and Jeiitr.tf Jicxtce to hiipply each other's wants, would be eagerly by many thousand! of euterprii-ii merchants and manufacturers, while millions of the citizens of both nations would be benefited by sucii intercourse.

Few public measurere of as much immediate iia-portaLee ss oue which would enable Am T-Scunti to bliip manufactured good-, via El raso. into Mexico, lor uistriuuuon to lier seven millions of people, uw supplied mainly by English merchants from the sea eoasf, and open up, in exchange for these product, a new quarter irom wnencesugar ami conce.caitie, sheep, wool, and hides c.uld bs supplied. None of the other completed or projected Pacific railways possess a tithe ot tus natural basis for transportation service that exists along the line of he Texas and Pacific. On its immediate rout's it wou serve the in terests of Texasrnow attracting population and improvement more rapidly than auv other State. And the ict should constantly be borne in mind that the Texas and Pacific is probably the be-it prae-t'eal measure for exteudii'ur our foreign a mmerce, and increasing our exports of manufactures that can be.

devised. Anv trade trained in the manner Drjpo-tcd will be gained We cannot bs deprived of it by foreign rivals. It will be a secuie as the overland trade opened with New Mexico nearly half a century ago, and it is capable ot healthy expansion to larg proportions. The following extract from the rsport of the Committee on the l'acine liauroad.inatlu at the last session or Congress, is full of in struction relating to the matter under consideration "More than twenty-five years aco the United States paid for the territory ct Arizona $10,000,000, and since that time. to provide for the subsistence of Indian tribes, and to maintain troops lor the protection of settlers and the goverumeut mails through the territory, and through New Mexico and Western Texas, thsre has bean expended by the government more than $100,000,000, yet the expenditure of this vast si iu of money has afforded sucfe inadequate protection to the people who have gone there to settle and to develop its agricultural and well-known mineral resources that he greater portion of that vast regi.m is now almost without civilized inhabit ants." It is a demonstrated fact that the existing Pacihc roads, in addition to practically settling the Indian question along their lines lave rabidly increased the product of the precious metals in Colorado, Utah, and Ne rsda.

It" any reliance can be placed upon LuuiRii tesuu.oiiy, a similar result cm anticipated in Arizona with the utai-M c3 hdf-nce. Our renders are too familiar with th, nai cial plan proposed for the assistance of lie esas ana racihe to render a detailed description necessary here. In brief, the government is asked to endorse construc tion Lends, hearing live per cent, interest ar.d to secure ttself fully by a flrnt mortgage I In- road, the retention of a portiou ot' lie 1 nds, the reacqnisition of a large quantitv cf tibllc lsnd donated to the companies by existing laws, and application of all the earned by the railway for tlu. trana- tii imiun oi mans, (roops, annv supplies, to a sinking fund to be used in the relation of the liabilities for which the jii.vemnmit is responsible. This is the fail est and safest ivav to render national a-t-siMance that could be devised.

It the M'stem adopted bv in aiding railways in Iudia. and by France in developing the railwav system of that conn--try. and it leaves no loop-hole fjr gf or an infraction of the reserved rihi: oi the government. The maintenance ot the ticoM now stationed near the lin of he rend costs more than twice as much a the interest on all the bonds the government is to issue and few can examine in detail the financial bearings of the question' without being satisfied ill at in the mere natter cf current national expenditures, the loiisf ruction and operation of the railway will fleet a much greater annual saving than the whole amount of interest accruing ar on the bonds. For its own inill-tuiy iind other administrative intercourse wit'hthc Indians, the Mexicans, and tlie citizens adjacent to the line of the road, the nation could profitably grant the aid re-mtested.

These reasons joined to the fact that the people of many sections have at. stake the momentous interests already described, should give irresistible force to the appeal about to be made at St. Louis. AKT one who knows George Alfred Townsend, has the acquaintance of a brilliant young man. We always believ-eahttOrfint ffld't desire a third term but "Gath" has crystalizedthe fact that he doesj in a letter to the Philadelphia Timet.

We always interpret "Gath's" prophetic assertions like dreams by contraries. 1 New see Vl of find "of a has A arc I at cf aAteCMtsvytaOMsavd. ts I is Finest Gradcb of Card XZTtB3 It Tears, we w.xatXsmtl and Fourth FURS. Furs Furs! AIBEBT FIMIEll. 319 N.

Fonrtii Street, Up-Stairs. To dispose of my stock of Furs as -soon as possible, will sell for Manufacturers' prices. Come and examine and be convinced. ja-Fors madeUorder aad repairrd on short notice. AMUSEMENTS.

EBAB'S OPEBA HOUSE. MONDAY. Not. M. IBiS.

ewrament for six nights and one matinee only, of the eminent tragedian, BARRY Supported by the talented actor, J. F. CATHCABT, and the Grand Opera House Company, who will appear in a round of legitimate ana stand ardplava. Monday, Nov. 29, the McKee Itankin Combination.

LVMPIC THEATER. Mnndav. Nov. 22. and ThankBCivine: also Grand Extra Matinee, Thursday, Nov.

25. Every Evening during the Week, the Frank Frayne Combination. In the Wonderful Drama, SI LOCUM. SI SLOCTM MATINEE Satnrday. Mondav, Nov.

2D Mrs. D. P. Bowers and J. C.

McCoflom. rjiUKATKE COMIQTJE. irst appearance oi suss yxun ixsnram, vo- caliBt Empire Children, mosiral prodigies; La Petite Uofs, song and dance artiste: re-en-gagement of the Peak Family, Swiss bell-rii-gers; Delelianty and Cummings, Barton Stanley, Miss Minnie lAder, Burt. Clarke, in addition to tbe beautiful ballet and the whole great variety troupe in a new sketch. entitled I he CBEAT ItrfXK-SHOOTTNG MATCH, in which Parker, Burbank and the company wili si near.

Monaay ana mined free. Friday ladies ad- -pSHKB'S VARIETIES, 114 AOKTU I LI i ll 51. Female Minstrel. erformanre from 7 to IS o'clock. pBOr.

NOTTS CLASSES SPECIALLY FOR GEXT LEME2T. Gentlemen who wish to become proficient in tbe fashionable waltzes of the day would do. well to patronize Prof. Nott. Gentlemen desiring to learn to dance should Join classes especially for them, where TEACHING and PRACTICE is made a matter of BUSINESS.

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i 1 F.T. lVocia said the Bine" are cnopollzir Out attention of papers at this time. The New York Commercial Advtrtite says "St. cula -don't go ruuch on straight whisky; On -the trial there yesterday, the Court called for Rainwater, among the wit- f- Fcr seven days past the trial of John 1 McDonald, ex-S. errlsor of Internal JBeYeuue of the Southwest, for compll- city In the whiskey frauds, his occupied the undivided attention of the public.

2Tot' alone here, but throughout th; country, great interest has been taken in the finale ot the trial, the accused ing a very prominent man, and up to June havius held one of the moat import wf offices in the gift of the' Ad ministration. After the trial, convic- tlon aud sentence of Joyce to the Penitentiary, it was the almost unlveral opinion that he some extent, made a scape goat for other members of the whiskey ring, and that his prompt punishment would go far to appease the prosecution of other implicated Net so, however, as the sequel show McDonald was promptly placed on trial before the United States District Conrt, and tried upon the various counts in the indictment found by the Grand Jury. Yesterday morning the final argument before the jury closed, and after an in termission of two at 4 o'clock Judge Treat charged the jury in a brief but clear and comprehensive manner, setting forth plainly the duty of the jurors in scanning closely the testimony of various witnesses, bearing upon the different counts of he indictment upon Which the accused had been tried, and that in all instances the law required of tliem clear and convincing proof of the guilt of the accused. At the close of Judge Treat's address to the jury, they Immediately retired, and the throng that had filled the court-room a'l day re-, mained in expectation of a speedy return ot a verdict. At half-past 6 o'clock it was announced that the jury had agreed upon a verdict, and a quarter of an hour later court had reassembled and the jury filed into the room.

McDonald who had remained an impassive spectator, wholly unmoved during the entire trial, maintained out wardly an air af stoical indifference, in that he appeared to be the least inter ested of all the spectators present. After rolling the jury, each ami every member proclaimed the defendant guilty upon all eight counts of the indictment. With the Penitentiary starinz John McDonald iu the face, he maintained the same sto ical indifterence that had so marked hi bearing throughout the trial. The effort of Judse Krum, the counsel for the accused to obtain the liberty of his client without further bail, was not grant ed by the court, who remanded McDonald to the custody of the marshal, provided a bond of $50,000 was not filed for his se- curity. Judge Krum stated it wasimpos- sible to give bond in sq large a sum, and the prisoner was marched off to the Four Courts and locked up in a cell of the prison.

Upon entering tha prison the condemned man was ths least affected of all who accompanied. him. He showed no signs of weakening, or that the day just closed had been to him other than cvery-day events. The news of the conviction oi McDonald spread rapidly through the city, and was the theme for universal comment the gene ral opinion being that the verdict a just one, iu view of the evidence brought out. Although McDonald was sanguine yesterday that the verdict would be favorable to him, the result was not un expected to the public who have fol lowed the testimony throughout the trial.

From the beginning to tha close of the it was noticeable the de fense had to rest solely upon their abil ity to impeach the testimony of the witnesses, which it appears they were nimble to do. There is no doubt that the verdict of the jury was honestly and -conscientiously rendered in accord ance with the information before them Judge Trent refused to sentence McDoiv aid at the instance of Col. Dyer, United States District Attorney, lat night, glv ing as his reason that he preferred to aJhere to his original intention of sentencing the convicted after all who had been indicted had been tried, which would enable him more accurately to apportion their punishment. So ends the McDonald trial, in view of the overwhelming evidence his guilt. cannot but give him a term in the Peni-tenthuy of several years duration.

Amoxi'; the crooked acts of ilieso frooked times, John If. Blair, of Lincoln, Nebraska, has fallrti a victim to misplaced confidence. John was arrested atLincoln on a charge of perjury, committed In Chicago, and a requisition from Governor Beverldge upon Nebraska's Kxccutive placed John in charge of Chicago detectives; who, instead of taking him to Chicago, brought him to this vity, and from here to New York, where they took steamer for England. John, seme time ago, it la alleged, einbezzled some 4,000 iu London, and the officers only made the Chicago case a ruse to ob tain possession of his person. There excitement all along the line over this kidnapping case, as It i a violation of the extradition treaty.

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I wlah you wssrid tell that my atepDotiter ia dying we'd like to bare him can ia If he gets time." is a village in New Hampshire which has produced twenty-six editors, and was in allusion to this circumstance that pious old deacon there remarke 1 "Yes there were twenty-six as they've left town, I reckon the Lord won't Uy it agin us." "AH the world is full of Sobbing, sighing, everywhere; Looking oat with eyea of terror, Beating at the empty air. Do they see the strife before them. That they sob and tremble so' Oh, the helpless, frightened babiea btUl they cone, aud still they go." wild goose flew into Oregon, and it crop being opened revealed a new kind of gram. From the seed fbrty bushels have been raised, and the Oregon farmers are sitting on the fences with their elbows on their knees wondering what they shall call the new kind of whiskey they will make from it. other evening a traveler endeavored to walk into the Washington hotel, temporarily closed for repairs, but was unable to effect an entrance.

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chased the young in -a, and Kohler was shot iu the leg before the deception was explained. says M. Quad, when a red- faced man, waiting at one of the depots tor a train, blew his nose ten or fifteen times with a great echo, a newsboy ran out on the street and yelled: "Come yee, Jim here's Gineral Grant Jim took a long look at the man, and replied "He's ne Gineral Grant." "He ain't, chl" shouted the first; "well you just wait an i hear him blow his nose again, and see if he isn't some big gun or other A Corn-Shelling Match. Correspondent of Vicksburg Herald. The tar-heel conventionist knows a thing or two besides making constitutions.

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