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SUNDAY MOUNLNCJ, DEC 81. 1883. SIXTEEN PAGES. A SHI 8 AXS SOSES. To use the Homeric phrase, the things that are before us in the year 1888 "lie in the knees of the The things of ihe part twelve months we know some of them to our sorrow and some of them to our joy.

The snags we have run "into; the sand bars which have held us; hi storms we have encountered are all known to tho reflecting, who, on this final day of the year, indulge in a retrospect not over-pleasing to themselves. In mentally reviewing one's little life for a twelvemonth it is ostonisniog io uuu how many of the ugly mistakes which have been committed are but repetitions of what has been done before, and the rctro-spri tator is apt to marve that he has been so stupid as to repeat his own history so often They ouly become wise in this world who. liko tho sailing master, will Like the trouble to mark upon their sailing cbnrts the rocks and sanda and maelstroms which have jeopardized their barks. It is usually necessary for us to suffer many severe shipwrecks, or partiul shipwrecks, of our hopes, our plans, our ambitions, 1 fore we aru qualified, to look wise and mimier counsel to others less experience d. The reflecting gniybeards today mny count many a poiut gained in wisdom during tiie year; may find a score or more of aui points marked on their churls, ami they are nlmost ady to follow the jubilant procession i.f hours from the midnight death -bed of the Old Year to greet, with laudatory shout, the brizht, young 2cw Year, who coractk wi.h tho dawn.

To the old aud midille-agcd the final day isreminiscentiul in its character. Tho merry liv'ht of the Christmas festivity is fad-in away like Qic glow from expiring embers on the hearth or in the gmte. The rwy light yet-plays upon the picture on the wall and weuvjrs weird shiuiows there and ghostly hapes, which may seem to the retrospeciuior the vanishing shadows of old of friends departed, of the hopes and- ambitions of the July noon of lifo. In such reveries there is the -paradox of "melancjholy pleasure." ceiling aa.l walls are fresco and tho painting is past-tearching memory's work, and the muaur watches dreamily the failing away of metope and trigiypii fr 'in the frieze which memory has wrought, liul the lust shatktvv Tan -lu-s (would tiiat all shadows could' so vauisll from our live.) and the dead, Ry asucs in tin' nud tue uir grows chi i.id tho ioin a loinhr and you iy imagine you Ucur th- wail of the dying tli' seamen otf I'ulodc heard the si iipij and the sobbing ami tliu wailing a i I the out of which came slitid- de over sua to litem: "L'aS Ut dead! is dead liul then tiie midnight bells ring in the No Year ere a sepulchral pillar can be rui i to the old. The good people have said ieir prayers in the churches and the you 14 and guy havo drained glittering to lite health of the young 2i Year.

Siie comes, like Akktiiuba, cold "from her couch of snows in tho Cerocerannian mountains," and the dau liters of men prepare to meet her and callurs. To- norrow will be Lady' Day. The 1 isaailcr of to-night must perk and prink for the grand tour. Each house will a queenly court, and courtiers mast be there with softest and sunniest com iiments snd quantities of pretty, phrasing And tho ladies will all be j'l what nature and dress may make them brilliant, eircean, captivating. I Paci.i.na herself could not make her-elf more enchanting.

VaJ without the bewildering brilliancy of pari Mrs and beyond the charmed circle ideiillzed human beauty and fussy Buu ixrxs, will be found a throng of people johavi; speut to-day-thinking only of to-morrow, for it will be a holiday, and they will nay, with Pirp.s.: -1'uy, luy holiday, if Ulou lll-usest (ii)iu only 1ipia old year's morrow, I ant ni.lUt. will co.nu aain to-morrow; Whereas, if I will borrow 8 ilTiieui mietifc-iii of thee for New Year morrow. II nu au women that this rorlh I e.migs t.i, who all days aiiKfl possess, M.i'k- -i urral cure particular dearth; lit-t m.re Jo oneway, if another, less; TVu art my single day. Uod lends to leaves were all earth less, with a feel of heaven: Soil- li; Dial uul nie through the year, thy We publish this morning' a card from Mr. C.

T. in regard tyo his refpii-stvd resignation as Secretary of the Gas Company. Mr. V. is one of those cx-ecllc'it gentlemen who, like Pat at Donny-hrooW l- is always looking for some per-s willing to step on the tail of bis coat.

He i nccr huppy except when he is in Uot wi.U and lie is happy most of his time. It i Imt jii-iire to buy that the public will receive with liberal grains of allowance his criticisms, of Mr. 'i'lioa. who dl stands iu one of purest and eiti.ens, ami is recov'nixol as one of ojr most honor abl-j and elhcieut businessmen. rnK killing of State Cashier NuTT.

of Pcini.ylvi.iiiu, by L. X. DiKta, a promi nent mmt meiiiU -i lc of the Penn sylvania l.e,il;ituie from Kay cite county, is anotlar pf Xortbcrn laaless- uiht uud vii Imicc aniong parties of high position. liiat the claim of our that only the lowest in the rih commit mur-d is witltoul any found a ion. Kevolver- carrvlog is in Pennsylvania as it is in K.nti." aV It may lie appropi lately remarked, however, that a few more mur derers are banged in Pennsylvania than Kentucky.

The LouUvilli: Hoard of Trade yester day passed n. lutions urgiug Congress to tnke favotalile umb the pending Dill exlcmliug the bonded whbky period. Mita. L-vsoTisur in-law and broth er-iu law have arrived and luken the Lily in charge. A mother-lu law wouldu'l be bad addition to the body-guard.

Mihster Moktu.x bought the French Msssioufor T108.0ua Othces sro regularly ouut and sold this country. The receipts of toe Patent OlUce for the year cloning yesterday at noon are wore taVin $1,000,000. Tus reduction of the public debt lor the muBiaol Dcccnber la 113,000, 000. is THE EXPOSITION. THE COURIER-JOURNAL; LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY, DECEMDER 3 1 1 882.

SIXTEEN PAGES. Ossr "few rmiitf Vllmra A4le ts tKo Ut Ifrrtfy, 'Jlsjl A Kail. -De St JtrpmrU A HUXBEB OF QOOD EUBSCSimOIS. Yesterday over $5,000 were added to tb subscription lists of the Southern Exposition, doe principally to the activity and energy of one committee of two Directors. Had the others worked with the same seal, determination and success, the full amount required would have been secured now.

Time passes, and delay now is costly. It a matter of increasing wonder and com ment that so many interests directly affected by the Exposition delay to pat their subscriptions to the Iks. Certainly there is no business man, no day-laborer In Louisville, who is not familiar with the purposes of the management. The value of the Exposition is undeniable, and its full and complete success can be obtained only by the co-operation of all classes. There are numbers of firms and corporations who have not yet subscribed, who are anxious to be called on.

wbo know tbey will subscribe, but wbo em barrass the Directors by their procrastina tion. Eighty thousand dollars must be raised in Louisville, New Albany and Jeffer-son villa, and it should be raised at once. EXPOSITION NOTES. Tiie delay of tho 31 and to make a subscription is not dne to any lack of interest or approval, as we are assured. This road is not accustomed to be the last to give its aid to puhlic enterprises, but of the railroads only the O.

and M. and the M. and I. have yet failed to respond. Mk.

Victor Xewcomb yesterday subscribed to the sjtock of the Exposition. Though Mr. Newcoinb is now a resident of New York, he bis not lost his interest in Louisville, and lie is willing to co-operate with our citizens in any movement to advance its prosperity. This subscription is very substantial evidence of bis good will. Tiik Telephone Company obtained every privilege for which it asked; its unsightly poles, wbii are also untaxed, obstruct aU our streets.

For this privilege, which is a very valuable one, it has paid nothing. It is au exceedingly prosperous corporation, managed for the purpose of making all the money possible, as witness the tax it has imposed by establishing; pay stations throacbout the city. Now the surprise is, that a corporation managed witn such aa idea for "the main chances" should fail to see that anything which increases the bnsinem of the city augments its n-'-enues. Keniemtwr-ing bow promptly all the privileges it asked were it is strauice this company should be so slow in offering its aid in a jrreet public enterprise like the Exposition. Thew remarks apply with equal force to the different telrraph companies and to the Electric Light Company.

They should all l-m the year a-right by making liberal subscriptions. The Owensboro Messenger has this to say of our Exposition: "Whatever else may result from the laudable effort to raise a subscription for a Cotton Exposition in Louis-vilhi, it is a fact that Kalis City is getting wMne of the best and cheapest advertising it has ever had. Louisville is an exceedingly slow tow n. as a general rule, but when a great ucca.iou like the present is suggested she can develop as much back bone and enterprise as any citv in the country. Being the metrop olis of the Commonwealth, it is the duly of her sister cifTies to aid her in this undertaking; in whatever way they can.

It baa been ctiKtomary in the past for every town in the State to begrudge the development and advancement of the others, but such a feeling is antiquated anJ conduce to the retardment of the State's progress, and, therefore, should be renounced. The time is at baud when Kentucky should cast off the ietnargy that lias iiHliuguuaei her fronrtoo mora eiiterprisiug States of the Union. In those sunlit days of progressive civilization the old Commonwealth can not sit with bur bauds folded in contentment if she desires to take reuk among the best and greatest of the States. Even farther South there are several States tnat are developing more rapidly than Kentucky because they are doing more to induce immigration to Ibeii counties ana are msplayiug tuore eu- terpnse in the establishment of manufacturing industries. The holding of a cotton exposition in Louisville can not fail to result beneficially to the whole tstate.

Capitalists wi.l attracted there from all parts of this Itroad land. 1 bey will not be there, either. through idle curkmty, but with a view to examining the resources of each Htale to sat isfy tbeiuelves her tiicy can best make an iuvestmeut. Kentucky, therefore, should excel herself in the display. To do this.

Louisville must have tho co-operation of all the towns in the State, and we hope that Owensboro will be ready aud willing to extend her all the aid in her power." The following is the list of subscriptions made since last report: Fausht- Deerlng Cotton fl la Drl verWorks Kmpluyes of Carter liros. la addi $20 tion to t'ju previously sutwenheu J. K. Chilton, (ieo. H.

Harris, K. T-rry. Steve Mix well, reported should be $100; amount to be added H. Vict.r B. W.

Wood Win. 1'altrrsoe, teamftter. increased from lo $'4i; to he added 1,000 M0 C. IfVidurer. saddle and harness John J.

Karvel, insurance K. M. Kellr. increased from 'Jo to $.: add Choi les Seinple, hardware John Kyaim. painter ..0 0o0 3.

50 'J. loo Scott Miltou, insurance W. H. slaughter insurance M. J.

kyaii. clerk Cnaiuicey Miller, clerk h. Duncan, wall paper Thcobold iuiir.ince C. W. Adams, clerk Alfred K.

Moore, lawyer harlesT. hooks and A brut of lawyers. K. J. MclM.Ti.iott.

lawyer lienry insurance. Increase fo.m to add Motrin Hnjlv. insurance J. J. Cramer, coal J.

II. t-ciiroeder Sons i L. R. Kesn. aitent V.

kl. lVrnn. iiisiu ance, increase from $oo $lnO; o-ld. W. S.

ilsrn. neiper Kennedy a lroin. st.k in W. j. IHxId.

lawyer James S. I'm le. lawyer Byrne JL Speed Hutrhe. TaKKort pork and pro- visions o. or is Jt pi-k and prot idons J.

I'. Curd, saddles snd harness L. T. Thtwtio. insurance Miss Le.iy McDowell I.

Noli. m-w-iier K. Kwn, piaiew K. KuiWaiup, whisky i tohttC-e presses. S.

iloa1i coat A luuutifajturcr JS 50 200 'Jo ftO 60 50 boo too M0 2.V) 100 UK) M) 10 Previously reported. Total to date 210, um Lodue Eleetioas. At a meeting of the Teutonia No. 1'8, KJ of the following officers were elected Tor the ensuing year; C. Edel-nuan.

Post bu-tator; J. H. Zickel, Dic tator; Charles J. Bane, Vic Dictator; John Tarstrick, Assistant Dictator: F. Fenstener.

Reporter; W. Schneider. Financial Re porter: A. Altiuan, Treasurer; Joseph Miller, Chaplain: John Frey. Guide; John Oruneisen, (iuardinp; John Eogel, Sentinel: J.

neiix, rvtee. John nicnent. lrustees: M. Kinuey, lledieal Examiner: F. Fenstener, Kepresenian va to the Urand Lodge.

Tax folio iug is a complete list of ofll cersof Louiiville Lodge, No. 2, K. of H. for 1883: Fi st Dictator, E. S.

Pate; Dicta tor, II. M. Nlsbet; Vice Dictator, R. C. Kin- kead; Assistant Dictator, Lee A.

Wise; Re porter, J1. BL Kim noon; Financial Reporter, a. u. uatenian: treasurer, uieuard James; Chaplin. Join T.

Moore: Uuide. Charles H. Smith; (ruafdian, Robert Morgan: Sentinel, 7. r.t. I l.l...l Fearee, Ea4era district, 3.

M. Cabemens, Western disarict; Trustees. J. 1). BonduranL Julius Simsl J.

M. Lawaon; RepreaentaUve to the uranl Lou ltobert Jtorzan: Alter nate, A. Li ton; Auditing Committee, J. at. Lawson, J.

u. xtonuuraut, J. A. Uoyd. At a regular meeting 6f Boone Lodge, Knights of Fythias, the follow Cog named officers were elected for the next ensnlng term: J.

X. Watties, P. Wade Bbelt-rnan, C. C. Danvers, Vice C.

H. Risley, Prelate; C. U. Billings, K. R.

George O. B. Keightley, M. P. All the members are expected to be on hand al the next meeting, for the transaction of Important business.

fAlLVBKS I If 188S. Reported Vr. Jnlkn S. Dovr, 8upritm1-nt of LouitrUl OJJUx Bradstrrrt't Jfsr. eantiit Agmcjf.

Failures in the city of Louisville during the year 1883 nnmbered fifty-six, of which fifty-two were regular business houses and foor personal or individual. This does not include several obscure rases, in which the ag gregate amount is insignificant and useVoss for statistical purposes. The branches of trade represented la the list of embarrassments are summarised under the following general headings: Jobbers Manufacturers II ltetallrr 'JO bpeculatire breaches Total 1 .62 The total nominal assets In the assignment schedules for the city foot up 1 the total actual assets. the total liabilities, of which there were secured and preferred claims of ,247,000. The average dividend paid in each Instance was thirty-eight per cent, of the indebtedness to the general or unsecured creditor.

As in several of the assignment cases which nwwbi some oi oeTiw vuvuiim included in the abore summary the liabilities were settled in full, it is in order to exhibit, in a separate table, the purely insolvent figures, comprising estates in which only a fractional part of the indebtedness was paid: assets. fKSl.OOO Actual assets. lJahilities Jf which preferred sad secured lul.500 The average pro rnta in each of these insolvency cases distributed to the general creditors was thirty-one per FAILUBES IX TBK CITT OF LOUISVILLE. No. of Years.

ism 10 IBS-' failures. Ae. liabilities. 7U -'8 au 37:5, WO 47.V.OOJ Wi.707 rtOtt.150 Total past 5 jTS.2Ja S7.iJ0.tsa3 UOX. WILLIAM P.

TUUMAHSOS. Ills Heath at Lacrence KrMay at the Age al El(hly-aiv, Hon. William P. Thomasson, who had been sick for some time at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Laura Goldsmith, at La grange, died there on Friday evening last at the advanced age of eighty-five.

Mr. Thomasson, as is wed-known, was prominently associated in the political his tory of both Kentucky and Indiana. Born in Oct. 8. 17U7.

in Henry county, he spent his early boyhood in his native Klate but in 1818 be left the State and went to live in Harrison county. Indiana. The town of Cory don was then the capital of the State, and making it his borne he was elected to represent his county in the Leg is tuns before be was twenty-one years old. After living in Indiana for several years he again returned to Kentucky, and made Louisvdle his home. Here he was first made City Attorney and then served as County Attorney, filling both positions with great credit to himself.

After representing bis district in the State (Senate in 184? he was sent to Cong reus and served one term, lioing to Chicago in 1857, he lived there until the breaking out of the war, when be returned to Kentucky. An uncompromising Whig, be was a great admirer and stroug fr.end of Henry Clay, and in 1840 he was a candidate on the Lmaucipation. ticket for nieiiilientbip in the convention which met at rauKfort to frame the constitution of Kentucky. Married to Miss Charlotte Leonard, of Flovd county, 1823. ilr.

Thomasson leaves four children. These are Capt. Nelson Thoniaskon, of Chicago, Mr. John J. Thomasson, of New York.

lrs. Sarah Itan-kin, of Keokuk. Iowa, aud Mrs. Laura Uoidsuuth, of Lagrange, Ky. TUJS UA1LHOADS.

CincrLAits have been issued from the Louisville and Nashville offloe announcing the appointinent of Mr. Milton H. Smith Mineral Mauager, and of F. W. aughau Cousulliiig Kngiueer Mil F.

D. Cahley, recently elected third Vice President of the Louisville and Nashville, has also been made a member of the Lotus Club of New York, the club of journalists and literary men, of which Mr. U'hitelaw Reid is President. The announcement is made officially of the resignation of Robert Meek, Superintendent of the d. aud S.

W. railroad, and until further notice all communications and reports designed for the Ueueral Super intendent will be addressed to uen. John Echols. The interest and curiosity concerning the location of the Short-route increases. Tho C.

and O. is preparing to lay its second track from Fourteenth street to the freight deiiot, on Twelfth and Uowan, but nothing has yet been definitely settled concerning its line east of. Twelfth. The river interests are espociaiiy opposed to the plan to have the tshoix-route cross first, second and Third streets on the levee, and the proposition to so amend the ordinance as to permit this will excite the must bitter and determined opposition. JiSERA L1TIES.

Victor Hcoo ill not keep a plant or bird as ptisouer in his house. A son of Mr. Burne Jones refuses to adopt the costutnoof the aesthetes. Rosa Bon heck has settled down at Nice to work ou a huge picture, "Trans planta tion Mmme. NiLsaos's first concert in San FrancUco drew $0,900, and the second Mk Watts, the English artist, is smalt man ith a picturesque and clever face, and he wears a sealskin coat.

Ue is sixty-two years old. Walter Cma.nk has made some de lightful illustrations for "Panpipes," a mu sic-book of the quaintest of old English dit ties, arranged by T. Marzlais. Tiie ouly mcmlicrs of the Cabinet who will open their houses on New Tear's Day are Secretaries Frelinbuysen and Chandler aud Atroruey General Brewster. The next regular destruction of the world is set down for the year in which Good Friday shall fall on St.

George's day and Easter on St. Mark's. These coincidences, it is said, will occur in lWsti .11 ns. jIahy uali-ock oote, tne story writer, author of the "Led-borm Chnms, now being published in the Century, hi the wife of Mr. Arthur Foote, a mining engi neer.

Mr. Foote is a brother of Senator Uawley's wife. The Rev. Mangansar M. Mnngasrin, by birth a Turk, has accepted a call to the put pit of the Spring Garden Street Presbyterian church.

Philadelphia. Ue has been hi this country several years, and is considered an exceptionally eloquent preacher, Mk. James Path, the novelist, once corresponded with the editor of a maganne and told some gentlemanly "club stories. Oue day be reaeived a letter from the pro prietor of the magazine delicately hinting that he was corresponding with a lady. So successful were the Dukes of Marl borough and Hamilton in disposing of their libraries at high prices that several other English book-owners are about to hand their collections to the auctioneer.

The Marquis of Townsbend has Just determined to dispose of bis library. Tiik marriage of Commodore Franklin and Mrs. Dutton, daughter of Rear Admiral Sands, an event to which much quiet interest attaches hi naval circles in Washington, oa account of the, high standing and personal popularity of the contracting parties, is Axed for the second week of Jaacwry. The original door-knocker, brought over in the Mayflower, which for several generations was npoa the front door of aa old WInalow-etreet boose at Marsh field, still standing oo the Webster farm, has lately come Into the possession of the Rsv. W.

C. Window, of Boston, who win probably give it to the Webster Historical Society. Com. Lcce. a IL Loring and Charles O.

Talcott, of the Naval Board of Examiners, hare arrived in California and are at present sojourning at the Mare-island Navy-yard. These officers have been sent on a tour of in spection of the different navy-yards of the United States, to report upon the advisability of selling the Government lands held for snch purposes, and after Mare-island, they will visit the Petssaoolaand Key West yards, returning la time to make a report to Congress in February. A Baptist minister, of Fougbkeepsie, has been summarily ejected from his pulpit on account of charges brought against bins by various members of his congregation. The charges are, first, that he wore a flannel shirt next his vest at a watering place; second, that be pot food into his month with his knife instead of his fork; third, that he sat on a sofa with his wife while' both ate from the same It is not stated whether he will join another church or found another sect wjth the alleged heresies for a cornerstone. It used to be said that no one could be a Bibhop of the English Church unless be had, some time daring bis bfe, edited a Greek play.

Now, the road to Episcopal benches generally, and LambeUt Palace in particular, may be said to 'lie through head-masterships of public, schools. Archbishop Longley was taken from Harrow, ArchbUhop Tait from Rugby and Archbishop-elect Benson is from Wellington College. It is remarkatde that Eton headmasters are not chosen for high Episcopal places; nor indeed, for Episcopal places at all. AxTuosr TROLLors is said to have left more than one complete story of which not a page has yet seen the light. He used to say of himself that he had produced more volumes than any other English writer of this or any other day.

His intimate knowledge of the feminine mind and nature, shown especially in the scenes between women alone, was ouos illustrated by the question addressed to him by one who was sitting next to him at dinner: "Mr. Trollops, how do you know what we women say to each other whea we get alone in our rooms!" Trollops made more than $500,000 by his pen during the last five and-thirty years. EDUCATtOX tS. POLTKY. At a recent reunion of some literary clubs of this city, the question of Popular Edu cation in Kentucky" was very learnedly aad instructively discussed.

It has leaked out that one of the vUitors, whuoe skill In versification is almost equal to his well- known military ability, jotted down in pencil, as the talk went on, a copy of verses. which, however, be did not venture to read. A CouMCH-JocKSaL reporter has secured them and tbey are published for the benefit of our realers in general and of the School Board in particular: I. It behooves this mighty Nstioa In the cause of education To co slow until it surelr knows the war; For a deal of tribulation Mar be caused this feneration. If it stoke a path waicit leads the youth astray.

II. Of course it Is duty. And a toliur ot joy aad beauty lo instruct tue young idea bow to shoot: Na'tbeiess it enemetb clear. In to this idea. That the Mtnsoua more Important than the fruit.

III. Why teach so many thing. Whea the method only bnors A coalustoB ana bewilderment la eachr Why conUDue to expend Ob the eteaiw, and doc the emi. dl the muluXorious iessous that we teach? IT. What's the nroAt or the rlory.

If some conservatory 1 Hide witu drowsy, doc ana vaporoas perrtune. By some patent foruiaic power la produced a frehls dower Whlc hich is sickly from its bud unto Its bloom? v. So then, a fortiori. Is it noi a sadder story. it uns one nted plant unnt to meet the sua Be some child whose mind immortal Has heea drucired at every ports! ilh uncoinpreheoded lessocs never done? VI.

When the School Trustees ('all jealous Lest tneir tavorite nook sellers May not find their various volumes In demand). Crowd with overmuch of learning Till tiie little mind Is yearning I or one oooc or uung mat it can understand: VII. Now one method, now au other. nystines the utue nrotner, Now he's very sure lie's eat it now it's s-ooe: As the changes the rramaiar Ajntravoi his infant stammer lie, in uspuig wonder, asks why he was bora I VIII. With this clamor and this jonron.

men we aeem so snarp a oargain. Is the tender, childish intellect distressed; And the soul tiiat once so trusted Turns away, at last, disgusted. I mm inn 1 i i nn rr mil nnr nm I ODD StOHIES. HotncA. has a thirteen-year-old girl with a light brown beard two inches long.

Spchoeon hue been jailed in Nelson county, for stealing feathers from his neighbors' A vert large snow-white heron was killed recently at Meacox Bay, L. by in. Squires, ot unugebampton. A ticket twenty vears old was tendered and accepted recently on the Consolidated road for a ride between Hartford and Uos-ton. A max employed in the comb-works at apMMKe rwH, vmuvoakv uu writes in seven languages.

Be is in reduced circumstances. A loaded eun fell from the ceiling where it buns in a house at Kngeisvuie, fa and a child playing in the room was instantly killed by its accidental discharge. Is Cass county. 111., there is not a per son of color, aud there never was a ballot cast in that county by a negro, nor a seat occupied in a school room by a colored child. A rox pursued by bounds was seen corn- Ling directly for the house of Mrs.

George Kingsbury, o( inapun. conn, nue openea thtt doors, front and rear, and sbo it as it bounded through. Ox the back of Miss Delia Moncricff. of Hoc ton. is burned in by lightning a rep resentation of the large elm tree which stamis within a few feet of the piazza where she was sitting when toe house was struck by a thunder-liolt.

She suilered no injury batever. 1 1 i The L(llral Warns a Mill la Ueaes. lAew York Sua. At the Globe Dime Museum. 29S Bowary.

there were prises offered several weeks ago for the homeliest woman, the handsomest man, the woman with the biggest foot, and the best dressed woman. John Lhinsmore. a brunette from Boston, took the $75 prize as the handsomest man. The prize of S0 for the biggest foot was given to Miss Nellie Reeves, of Norfolk, and she also took the $8o prise for the best dressed woman. The prise for the nguest woman is not award ed yet.

A assail Rare War. Macox.Ga. Dec. 30. A race riot occurred mt DmnM tA-dav.

in which Asa Lawson killed Mwrh' Webster, and Lon Williams was mortally wounded. Ail are white men. Three colored brothers. Handy, Jefferson and Squire Washington, were dangerously wounded. Several others of both races ware injured.

The Heedlasas' Reveage. Chicago, Dec. 80. The house occupied by James Griffin, wbo was discharged yes-tardav bv the Coroner for killing John Maa- rin. as set on fire this morning and burned to we grouno.

i ueoevea uuu Mangia a hoodlum meads au toe aeea. ENGLISH HOUSE OF COMMONS. TrtmU Tsrt Ahm Prims XUU. UrMr. eisMfsieae Mi MtmUmpmmmU.

OTEEs Fsojnrar tCM-reaorfae of thm CwrimJownL Losdox, Dee. 1. I visited the House of Commons last night. Having, by good fortune, a Speaker's order, I was able to avoid the cramped and obscure dea knowm as the strangers' gallery, from which hardly one-fourth ot the members are visible, while the effort to bear becomes one of the torments of life. Mr.

Gladstone waa on he floor, relaying to Mr. Yorko's comments upon the Prime Minister's refusal to assign a day for an inquiry into the so-called "Kllmainham Treaty." As is usual in discissions where petty personalities in trade themselves, the debate became absorbing solely through the exhibition of those acrimonious qualities which are by the public at large to be most generally deprecated. A Prime Minister needs not only iron-like endurance, but an an gelid temper, as, "tinder the English custom, it is the shining hook upon which to hang every troublesome question the ingenuity of the Opposition can devise. "Badgering," aa it is called, truly expresses the nature of the treatment to which the most eminent of statesmen, when in office, are at all times open, even from the most insignificant of their parliamentary adversaries. It was evident that the Opposition were now in a badgering humor.

Already Mr. Gladstone was on his metal, speaking deliberately, yet with catting incisivsnsss. now turning blandly, first to one side then the other, toward his Liberal colleagues; now glaring across at Sir Richard Cross (the Conservative leader of the House in he absence of Sir Stafford Northcote), or at Mr. Yorke, who sat a little farther back, while he at the same time grasped with both bands the gilded box resting on the table in front of him. There are two of these boxes Of such they really are, no vulgar understanding comprehendeth), and what they are intended for, except that Ministerial and Opposition leaders may comfortably lean while uncomfortably worrying each other, is not apparent.

As we look down upon M. QLADSTOKB now, well aroused by the subject in hand, we at first wonder he can endure the continued strain, which he never avoids. Then our admiration arises, as we see how wed he not only endures, but seems to encourage it amid only too -many signs of his great age. tie is now almost entirely bald. The few hairs that fringe his old -fashioned stand-up collar are as wuite as the linen of the last.

His head, though erect, seems to sink down between his high, spare shoulders la a way one often uoUces in the' very old who never become bent with years. His legs loos spindling in spite of easy-nlting trousers; us arms, as be gestures with nuteebled em phasis, seem a little too loog tor hts coat- sieevea, tarough very thinness. 1 be face, hich photographs and cartoons have rendered familiar to all America, is sadly wrinkled; the chin is sharp where it waa ouce full and square; tbe nuee is attenuated. Yes, the Prime Minister is very old, aad these fleshly uncontrollable signs force the fact rather saury upon us. ttut there Is Ore in his eve: his voice is clear, firm and most skilfully modulated, and in every movement there is sprightliness and ease.

One motion si one reminds you of an old man's motions. Lord Randolph Churchill tnuiublingly interrupts him witn a question. He does not at once catch his meaning, and be bends forward, holding oue nana to his ear. Just as we hsve oitan seen ola men do, who don't bear quite as well tney once oia. lie wtuspers to Jir.

DoOian. who sits beside him, then fumbles for papers uoaer uie great giiaea mace that lies on the table between him and btr Richard Cross. A book of reference is brought, and he turns tbe leaves quickly, nearly rubbing his nose against them. Then he quotes with evident relish some strong precedent m'support of his argument, and tiually be winds up with a gradual, and (if 1 may use the term) artistic increase of torce and earnestuess, until tbe well rounded periods with which he concludes, fall upon tbe House in a bunt of real eloquence. Then, amid beartv cheers from liotu sides, he site down, and gently rubs bis bald head as though it soothed tus leeiings.

MR. LOCTBER gets up, hems, haws, stutters, begins over again, with a like result, and finally pours out his words in a series ot colloquial jerks most exasperating to a foreign ear. His heavy under up and jaw, clean soaven, make bun look a utue like a pouting school-boy. After be has bad bis say, several members rise up, each looking expectantly at the Speaker, wbo announces Mr. Footer.

The late Chief Secretary for Ireland twiddles his fingers uneasily behind his back as be goes through tbe usual preliminary stammering. under which tbe whole House labors, as though under the dominion of some demon of in articulation. It seems to- be taken so much asa matter of course that no one notices it except the exasperated stranger. In' deed, 1 strongly suspect that tbe habit is I hi m. I man I.

r-i i lin finds hu placd there, as a peculiarly English. trail, distinguishing toe "greatest asesiuuiy ia tbe world from too in tuna te a com pari son with assemblies not so immortally endowed. "A wise hesitation" is considered quite the thing in the House when properly expressed, and there are people who can bora forgive Jix. uiaostone ior nis facility of speech. But I must rescue ilr.

Foster, who, having stammered himself into a fair current of words, brings bis hands around, aud rubs them mildly together. tbousrh preparing a little oil for his verv thin. sandy bair. Hts voioe has a husky flavor. and a point or two hich he makes, that tickles his admirers immensely, I altogether tail to catch.

1 be uppusiuou them selves back in their sautes and ml tbe air with derisive "oh, oh, oh," and occasional srroans. When he resumes bis seat Lord Randolph Churchill jumps up ith great celerity aud talks lu a hib, shrill vo.ee, with bis bands mostly resting within tbe edge of his coat pockets. His line is the cuttingly sarcastic, with little dashes into the region of meta phor and mythology. His chief, aud as far as 1 could see, ouly object, is to politely bulldoze tbe Prime Minister. This be fails to accomplish, yet bis witty innuendoe, his play upon words, his subtle magnifying of trivialities nd belittling of important things, all btightrned by a weli-affected air of jocular superiority, as though the nation's welfare was a'kiud of Jack-tn-e-box affair of which tbe Opposition alone could touch the true spring, please the Conservatives so well that ttoev laugh and apidaud with a will, which a slight svmptom of annoyanceon the art of Mr.

Gladstone only intensities. DfRI.NO THE DEBATE OS PROCEDURE, which follows tbowithdrawal of Mr. Burke's motion, Mr. Panwll rises. Many Americana will remember his appearance? as -he stood before them three years ago pleading for Irish reform.

His mauuer in tbe House is more sedate, and hu speaking is of the quietly argumentative kind, lie lays his bnger upon tbe palm of bis left haw, and' saws it to and fro in a kind of rhythm with his words; then, as be concludes a statemeut, be will thrust his hands lightly into tus trousers pockets and throw his head hack, as much as to say, "This is the case: disprove it if you can. He is getting bald raiddly, though his reddish hair and Leard snow no other sign of time and work. How bald and gray most of these lawmakers of their country are! One would think that legislation harrowed tbe scalp as well as tbe brain, to look down from tbe galleries upon the rows ot partially bare and glistening pates, bobbing along the rows of benches with somewhat of an automatic effect. Perhaps the reason so many of the members keep their hats on while sitting may be rooted in a reluctance to acknowledge to the public their capillary deficiencies. Indeed, it may be said that the House presents the appearance of hardly knowing what to do with its fenerally a cumbrous tile of immaculate sdk.

is tbe proper thing for members when on their feet, walking or sun-hug, to be uncovered, but when taking a seat they look about them as though in search of something, dandle tbe bat in their laps for a moment, then clap it on their heads as a kind of gnrdian solving of an ever-recurring difliculty. When speaking tbe House puts ita hat on the seat behind it. and I have trembled to think of the cousequencea that might ensue npoa an excitable speaker a ouuviousiy seating: nun self without taking ap his hat. Oneexeep- TT.T Z7m rrwimg costoin la the rretnier. "Has Mr.

Gladstone hat once asked a wag in the London papers. Then, after stat ing tnat he had closely watched the "grand old rsaa" through three consecutive seatioos of Parliament, It as hie matured opinion that the Prime Minister's extraordinary talents were dne to the brain expanding inflnenoe of the open air anon a nana "lmmemonaUy bare." Another cornio authority denies this, on tbe ground that Mr. Gladstone ia still wearing a hat bought by him shortly after the passage of the first Reform out ioo-s, ma psrssMenoe thereto being stimulated through bygone rumors of Horao Greeley's pre-eminence in that line. Be these as tbey may, he is certainly not one of the asw Dursers ot tne noose. aim WE VERSOS HAROOCRT.

who sits beside him, wears his constantly when seated. In rising to speak he placed it on the table before him, then knocked it over while fumbling for document. He Uot a tall. poruy, oommaamng presence, witn rather a heavy voice, and has a Nanoleoaie trick of thrusting one hand in his bosom, while gsot-ly aiding his asseverations with the other. Sir' Ulrkl lawson, during the evening, put a question upon Egyptian affairs, intended to be a poser to Sir Charles Dilke, then sat stroking his very long beard with a sagacious air, wuiw awaiung aa answer.

The Under Secretary of State for For eign Affairs happened to be whispering to the Speaker at the tune. He returned to his seat, stping as carefully as though the figurative eggs upon which Sir Wilfrid sought to place mm were literal ones, ana, alter placing his hat where be could sit down upon it with the least effort, he announced that be "ready, under tbe circumstance, couldn't think of enteriug into explanations which mbtift at present embarrass, and he haw-really couhln't see why the honorable member should be so persistent, etc, and a haw it woujd be much better, if the opposition would leave the Government alone just now," or words to this effect, all of which might have been simmered down into a simple no, witn quite as unsai Olfactory an effect as the amplification of nothings in which Sir Charles chose to vail his impenetrability produced on the opposite benches. But puun noes are one thing and lis memory diplomacy quite another. It is seldom the most pronounced ministerialists, care to parade a naked negative bluntlv before the House. Such scarecrows must be ai ti ficialiy dressed and gilded, when tbe oooooi.

tion amble and cavort over their acceptance uae a very soiuisn nurse around his own shadow. Amid all this endless manipulation of words, tbe Speaker sits under his canopy with helplessly-folded, hands. He looos wearily at the backs and wups of the clerks before him, and impresses me with the idea. that, if be only had free control ot the big mace on the table, be would belabor some of tbe speakers wbo so persistently stammer at mm. in his leariuiiy-lasbioned black gown and long, bag wig, be looks superannuated, feminine and heart broken.

ine cients encourage the same imaginary forebodings ia a milder degree. But tbey at least have something to uo oesicies unmitigated listening, as wuat Carl. vie terms the air-chewing goes on and on, they write a little, read a little, rub their hands a little, whisper a little aud nod a httle, thus relieving the tedium ot duty witn a healthy system of rotation. Hut. as for the honors bfe Speaker, his cose, aa far as ear i my comiort goes, is evidently hopeiee, I hope be is orthodox, for I should think i discouraging view of a future hie would for nun De simply maddening.

a it P. ii. AO UALAUIA IU JtOSTOX. Dr. Ijtumford P.

TSMdeif in LcmxtvitU Uedicai The Sanitary Engineer, editorially criti rising our doctrine of malaria as a source of at uto disease makes. the astounding state ment that there is no maiana in and that therefore it can have nothing to do with dermal or other diseases there. Boston certainly is a much-blessed place. Intellect' ual culture is there- brought to the highest point of perfection. Tbe scholarship shown in its journals, medical and lay, and the learning ot its medical men and other scien tists is nswbere in the world surpassed.

Its rich men are tbe most liberal in America. Iu women are brainy, and often beautiful. Its politicians and statesmen are aa wise and as ho neat as they are elsewhere. Tbe whole State of MassachuseUa, indeed, has much to be proud of and glad of it. Its people are law-abiding, its Judges and juries are singularly just, and outaids ot England nowhere else is the law so impartially administered.

We love the graud old Couimon-weeith of Massachusetts. Its history ia honorable its present is brilliant, and its future is bkely to be all that its fondest friends may picture. Tithe was wben we were not thus cordial in our admiration ot this worthy member of the. illustrious Thirteen. In our tiery, youthlul days, we did not like her abolitionism.

But new we know abe was right. In our dyspeptic days we abhorred her favorite brain food, baked beans; but now, rather than starve, we would even eat them. Her present Governor we once felt some coolness toward, to put it mildly, when we were out rebelling, because ot the somewhat ungentle, uulambiike, unlovable ways that were reputed to him in tbe Confederate journals and by common report. Even "beast llutier, as he was onca alUteratively denominated, we have now no prejudice against. We isU him well; indeed, we should not decline him as a subscriber to the ews nay we would welcome bun as a constant reader.

But, dear Mr. Sanitary Engineer, we can not accept your wild assertion that there is no malar ut in Boston. Boston may not have as much ot it or as intense a form of it as afllicts Bsltimore, Phikvaaiphis, New York, and otbr places, but that you do have malaria in Boston no competent observer can deny. Boston has tbe summer's heat and moisture necessary to its production, and in its hospitals aud dispensaries, if not among the more fortunate classes of her citizens, the marks ot malarial poisoning may be easily seen. And even to the better parts ot the metropolis the water supply and sewer pipes in tbe summer tune doubtless sometimes convey tbe mala aria that produces ague or some of tbe multiform manifestations of this mysterious and little understood hydra.

To use orthodox theological language, it Is not likely that malaria is totally aiweut from any place which you may ever barring the Kingdom of Heaven, where ho dmea.se can come, and bell, here tbe in 'ease beat and alaindant sulphurous gases may destroy the malarial germ. aaEETisa. Dr. L. P.

TandeUinLouuvUU Medical A merry Christmas to you all, dear brethren ot tbe health guild, and mayahis natal day of the Great Physician's Son be tbe brightest ytu have known in all your years, however happy these have been. May peace aud plenty fill your homes, and may joy and gladness radiantly glow in tbe sweet faces and make merry mnsic in Uie loving hearts ot all your kith and kin. lav the exqmsite exhilaration ot perfect health, a beatitude beyond all compare, ever dwell with you and yours. May this be the beginning of a long line of golden days which shall end only with vour lives, tbe glorious sunset ot the last one casting its brilliant rays fsr across tbe dark valley, lighting your pathway to a land of eternal rest. Youna-er brothers, feflow soldiers in the army of Hygeia, God speed you onward to a sublime success in au wings wnicn you worthily work for.

Comrades of the noon day of hfe, may a divine courage and a holy' ambition ever urge you forward to noble deeds wrought for the welfare of your fellow men, making you models lor tbe young anl the admiration of tbe old. Fathers in medtciue, beloved and vene- mia) srtrmns. miv the autumn of Tour lives be softiy anl cheerily illuminated by tbe mellow ren-x of the anient summer sun of your youthful days, and may you know no sorrow any more forever. And now, fathers, comrades and young brothers, fUl your glasses all. full to the brim, with nature nectar, aud let us drink, in this nealthfulest of drinks, sparkling water.

to the memory of tbwe ho have gone from us, to the welters ot those who remain with ns, and to tbe strength and wisdom- and jey of those who shall come alter us. And may tbe God bless, us I Del roll Fires, Detroit, Dec. ao. A fire this morning badly damaged the Prauty Ulass wood' work manufactory, this city; also Theo. Sigler's picture-frame factory.

Sigler loss. 3.O00: no insurance. Praiity St Glass lose slO.000; uuurance, Total loss by fires in thai city during tbe past year, more uian nau loss being by two fires. A aether IHebseesI Blaa Leraro, Deo. 80.

Ex-County Coram is-siooers Walker, Ehnoan and Wilnvwer have beea arrested for nisi fee sauce ia orace. SWEET CHARITY. XTr1t Frews Ik TmrUM OrmmmUmMmmm Thle Ar Mmkimt iae WerM a Mmmm. JfMe see Fwerfuwtse. "OOD BLESS TUB I0BLX WOXXir Wesaews tYerh fee Wessew.

Tbe Women's Christian Association of thfc city, following the lead ot the W. C. A-'s in other cities, wilL on Tuesday next, open aa agency where servant women may go to nnd homes, and housekeepers can procure reliable help. Snch an agency waa la the bands of the Y. M.

C. A. for many mentbs, had waa found to most a real want; bat it was not ia harmony with the spirit of their work, which is a ork for men and bovs, hot for women, and it was given up. The Christian Association has seonred tbe W. C.

T. U. rooms for two hours eeea morning, from 10 to 13 o'clock, snd will be ready for work Tuesday, January SL Tbe ffoois are in tbsyUchurmaa block, just over Hopkins' hosiery store. The ChHstsMu Lriler Mlsssee, The many charitable ladies of LooJevflle interested in the '-Christmas Letter Mission" will be glad to know the result of their labors and tbe way in which the foods of the society have been expended. Total receipts 3a hen by checko James Pott Co.

(Dub- to 84 00 B1no "iTlo This balance has been turned over to Miss Helen Cox. Ueueral Secretary for tbe United States. The Secretary received cards. These were distributed as follows; City Hosoital Alms-bouse Mrs. Soud's Mission Flower Mission.

lily JaU. 1 Marin Hospital Kentucky Infirmary Home of the Kriendlees. Private Individuals 2-W 300 140 I VI 74' 37 14 ll Total 1,020 It is to be hoped that ia another year a much more extensive work will be accomplished, and that weary hearts will be cheered by these sweet Christmas letters. see PstiIsbs riesjrr Mlsstea. To fas Editor of tht Cntirtrr-JournnlA Another pleasest meeting was held Thursday, December 2.

Douations this week were one hundred pounds of corn meal, a jug of fresh milk and eome fresh bread. Numerous Christmas donations were eent in Saturday, but too lata for last week's report. Tbey were the following: Mr. Steideo, sausage; Mrs. Cassen brook, a Horteose Horten, toys aud oranges; a friend, fruit and toys: laes, canned peaches, jellies, fruits, nuts, candies, books and tire-crackers from tbe members.

A large-print testament Is needed for a nek man; also reading matter of a religious character, instructive fer tbe old ani amusing for tbe young. Lixxix B. Rcssell, Secretary. Resssrt of lee s44 Mlaslea, Te (At EdUar of (At Coarter-JoensaL Our hearts were made glad by the generosity of many contributors to our Christmas festival on the 28th. Every child was made happy.

Dr. Pratt talked a few minutes of "a in a sure place." Everyone listened. and, I think, resolved. After the service of giving by the teachers was over the children were dismissed with beaming faces. The names ot donors, as far as known, are: li.

Wood, Thomas L. Barret, Mrs. R. L. Whitney, J.

P. Jedersun, SainT L. Avery, Mrs. J. P.

C-heens, Bennett II. Young, J. C. Russell, E. W.

C. Humphrev, J. G. Barret C. U.

Gibson, J. V. Welier, J. E. Hardy, James Todd, Sam Castleman, Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew Cowan and Master Gilbert Cowan, Mr. Hamilton Pope, Mrs. Menefee, Mrs. Duval, Mrs, Moody and Stranger.

Mrs. Armstrong. Mrs. belknsp. Miss Giugley, Mrs.

lr. PeaU, Hail ii Hay ward, Kentucky Klour Company, Miss K. Anderson. Miss Lithgow, Miss Smith bv C. O.

Smith, J. V. Reed Horace W. Rolph and Reginald A. Rolph; for all these gifts to the Mission, aud for all personal favors my heart overflows with gratitude.

1 have no words to express my obligation to tbe otSoers aud teachers oif our schools. Tbey not only give, but give themselves to tbe work, in cold and beat, in storm and sunshine. I would tbey could read the un written runnings ot ray heart. Surely all can read Luke vi. 33 Mrs.

I. M. Saoo. TheXjewer Mission's Thaaks. To fk Editor oftlu Courirr-Journai.

The ladies of tbe Flower Mission wish So express through your columns tbetr most sincere banks to ad ho in any way contributed to tbe success ot their concert om tbe 21st inst. Tbey gratefully acknowledge their indebtedness to the Kellogg-Brignoli lAMicert Company, who so kiudty proposed to give the coucert, and donate more than Half of the pixxveds to tbe Miasiou. Tbey thank each member ot that excellent com pany, whose nue voices and artistic ability rendered tbe entertainment thoroughly en-joyalde, and also Max Bicbert, Manager, aud Mr. DeCelli. Agent, tor their kindness) and courtesy in all the business; arrange- ments.

TCev aim acknowledge their gratitude to Messrs. John P. Mortou Co. for tbe con tribution of 6CM envelotes, to brewer fi Co. for circulars, to Messrs.

HeVerin Bros, for posting and distributing advertising matter, to Mr. Johnson, ot Baldwin for favors, to the uourier-joitrxal aad other Iapers for ofiening their columns freely to tbe advertising and complimentary noticing of toe concert. And to the business meu and all outers ot the general public ss hose influ ence and nionev were bestowed generously and cheerfully in furtberauce of this work of humanity, the ladies, lor themselves and in bebalt ot those wuo win on lamented oy this bouuty, would say a hearty "Thank you." Injwu for tbe Week. Tbe following Is a report ot transactions la imported goods at' tbe Custom-house during the past week: ESTRIU RKCEIVEtt. One case manufactured cotton, case paintings, Florence, OOOIXi liKUVERLD.

J. Polfinger two cases spoons, Bremen. Nans fc Nenner, two eases fancy leather goods, Vienna. Adolph Raosinier two casks wine, Cadis; three casks wine, Jeres de la Ftoo-tera. And seven pocktT-s essential oil.

Grasse: one case fancy leather goo. Is, Vieuua; UNI salted hides, Paris; two casks wines. Move nee; one cask gin. Schiedam; oue case cutlery, Sheffield; four hogsheads wine, Ganal-gesbeim; one case glass are, Paris; one cask. Lrandv, Cognac; one cask prune juce, Bremen; one cask rum, London, to sundry consignees.

Ire Mills Ceoe OpereUeae. Cleveland, Bee. 30. A sensation waa created by a notice ioted on the large shops of the Cleveland Rolling-mill xmiauy, announcing the closing ol the BeseSuier Stonl-works until fartuer notice. Tuis includes the rail-nulls, two rod-iudls, tbe Booth mill, two bar-mills, puddliug-mill.

Gnede mill and several small ones, ltlhrosrsout of employment at least l.OuOmen. President Chisbolni states that the mills shut down aunpiy to take an account ot tiie stock, as is tue case every year. Ue expects to resame work the second week ot January or as soon as the inventory completed. 3o reduction ot wages is contemplated. fferthweetere Haass Cempetlec fer Cricaoo, Dec.

30. J. F. Tucker, General Manager of the Illinois Central, yeetei. day assured Commissioner Midgeley the Central would continue to compete for the Omaha business as long as other lines continue to demoralise rates from Sioux City and other oinU on the Iowa division of tbe lliinuU Central.

The latter has a contract with the St. Paul and Umaba line far doing business to and from Omaha, via Sioux Utv. It can make a west bound rate, while the'Omaha road makes tbe east-bound. Tbe contract is terminable at six months' notice, This ia tbe only fight on band ia the Sortfe-west now. Deal he la at.

Leeds for list St. Lot is, Dec 80. Total number eg deaths in this city for thayear, 7.S17. This makes the annual death rate 19.3 per on en estimated popolaUon of 400,000. bur of births during tbe year, 8.11L.