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1 DAY MOKNING, 5 1880 BOSTON POST POST PUBLISHING Publishers aiILK, NEAR AVASIllSOTOV OTUEET. RATES: Oi.p Six Throo 1.50 Month WI.r.KLY ilssueil Kri.lay») Oni 1.00 rntf-rfd at ffcnnd rltus matter. AU moni'y iPut at the rtsU. All draffs ami inoni'V oraern should be made payable to the VrDLlSIlISO COMP AS V. AsntNC.TON Offii St reft.

Corcoran Building, FiftiPnih The Editor will not undertaKp to retnrn rejected mannscrii'ts. No attention wt)l pani Ui anonyniou4 conununlrations. llie full and address of the writer accompli''' ''very wtninunicatlon, not for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. The Finnnrinl Department will nn the page, thi Commercial Department on the Sixth and Seventh pages and the Ship on the Thinl page. aro 1y After this the siininiiiig up of political results of six mouths ot Mr.

llAHHisoN as satisfactory to Ki'Ciit body of voters who seek must ho received in sober earnest, althoujili the first which it makes upon the reailer is that of a joke. tlie elections this fall be determined by the public regaKlin" the administra- thus concludes the Tribune, result would rloubtless bo highly is much virtue in an as that journal has often had occasion to discover; and so its summiuLj up of its of special is an eminently discreet one, since it leaves open a pretty wide loophole of escape. from the delu.M<»n that fish ouf-ht to be taxed. Clierishinii that delusion, they are to recommend or ratify any hiw or treaty that will accomplish liai has been of them so earnestly by citizens of Massachusetts. When tlu5 Senators pet ready to jmt on the free list something can be then, THE COMING FUKNCH ELKCTIOXS.

FRIDAY MtHlXIXG, SEPT. l.S, 188'.) A signal illustration of the danger of carrying cotton cargoes in passenger steamships is aiTorded by the report of a perious fire in the hold of the steamship liritannic on her last trip from Xew York to liiverjiool. On the second day out flames were discovered in the cotton jtowed under oneol the port hatches, and only the promptness and energy of the officers and crew averted a serious calamity. This is by no means an isolated case of danger from a similar fcource. Indeed, as wo have repeatedly pointed out, tires in cotton cargoes have almost become an ordinary circumstance, and still no efficient means of i)revent- ing them have been discovered.

This is a subject which deserves close attention; and until it is satisfactorily settled vessels which carry largo numbers of sengers ought U) beware of cotton. We understand that a movement has been begun by several members of the Chamber of Commerce who are patriotically interested in the commercial welfare of the city, to demand a rehearing Df the case presented before tho Inter- vtate Commerce Commission which was decided adversely to Boston interests in February, 18SS. Tiiecase brought by the Xew York Produce Exchange more recently was decided in favor of the petitioners, and as this case is regarded as exactly parallel the Boston case it is believed that if the latter is properly presented more the commissioners may be induced to reverse their former ruling. The matter is at present in charge of the transportation committee the of Commerce. The eflort is in the light direction and is the direct result of the articles recently published in the Post.

There has never been a question of more important practical interest to all tho merchants of Boston and England. Further news concerning Mr. Stani.kv has been received, this time from Brussels. Tho statement is made by the Mouvement of that city that the explorer is marching towards the east coast of Africa after fighting his way throuudi and Uganda and it is added that min asha improbably not with him. As that journal would not print unreliable news on African affairs, this account of his movements may fairly be accepted as accurate.

At all events it goes to the rumors of two months ago regarding his expedition, which were, indeed, as we out at the time, rather inconsistent on their face. When Mr. Sr.vxEEV finally readies tho coast he will have a most interesting story to tell. He is the third explorer, we believe, who has twice crossed the Dark Continent from sea fo sea. FREE FISH AND FUEEKTK.ADE.

Who can say that the world does not move when, all in one week, the Boston Advertiser lectures the New York Tribune for being too much tievoted to pro- Assistant Postmaster-General lakk f-ox is or has been out in Chicago telling the Westerners what great things the department would do in increasing Western mail facilities if Congress were not so niggardly. According to Mr. earksox Congress does not appropriate enough money for clerk hire. In this connection the Washington Post has had a statement prepared of the appropriations and expenditures for this purpose during the last decade, which shows singularly enough that in only one year since 18bO has the full amount appropriated been used. The exception was the fiscal year June 30, lbS7, when the expenditures balanced the appropriation.

In years the unexpended balance was large, amounting in 1886 to $172,836 53, and on June 30 last, the end of the last quarter of the last fiscal year, the department of which Mr. lauksox is so conspicuous a feature had at its disposal for clerk hire an unexpended balance ot $72,118 00. With earnest appeals for help coming in from the large offices of the country, there is no good reason why this money should not have contributed to the relief of overcrowded offices, and certainly Congress is not to blame for its non-expenditure. And if Mr. larksox during his first four mouths in office, had labored as diligently to increase and improve the clerical forces of the most needy offices as he did to weed out the Democrats in oilice to make for the the postal service would have been the gainer, the unex pended balance for clerk hire would have been profitably and Congress would have less reason to curtail the de estimate for the next year however large it might be.

It is no doubt a peculiarly diiRcult task for the York Tribiine to endeavor to demonstrate that the first half year of President administration has been successful in satisfying tho voter of the country; but even making every for this fact, the misrepresentations which it manages to crowd into single editorial article are says the Trib une, not labored to please poli Tills assumption implies lonvenient obliviousness of Mauoxe Platt and and even of its ow issertions tliat and work for tho Inive bet the determining recommendation to im portant federal appointments. Equally free from a slavish adherence to truth is tho remark that is almost every more fully employed than usual at wages better on tho whole than paid last year or the year before, and that some kinds of manufacture has been no impi'ovemeut, but cciion, anti prominent manufacturers oolly inform Senator oar that free ore and five coal are necessary for the ilvation of the New England iron industry? The cause of tarifX reform, in truth, has made jncater visible progress in Massachusetts during the past ihree months than in any otiier j)eriod of the amo lenuih since our manufacturers, before the war, were all calling for free raw materials. Stern necessity coupled with Yankee shrewdness is l)eginning to bear fruit. Tho iron manufacturers, imoiig them Governor A mes and eeeo areix demand free coal and ore; the extremists of the Tribune type will have their hands full to j)revent a declaration for free carpec wool at the conference in tliis next week; oxathax A. ane wants absolute free trade with ('anada; a vast amount of uncontradictcd evidence as to the benefits to be derived from fi'oe tlsh has been laid before Senator oar and his associates on the Canadian committee; and, in short, polices having been elegated to the background, common sense is asserting itself among our business men.

These facias, we repeat, are all highly significant and encouraging. Such a demonstration as was made before the Senate committee yesterday W'ould have been impossible a year even six months ago. Kepublicans and apparently vied with one another in urging abolition of the burdensome taxes which eat up the jirofits of trade between the people of New England and the Dominion. With special reference to the coal of Scotia, Mr. orace P.

obev j)resented the tion signed by Crovernor A mes and his neighbors, in which Congress is asked to put iron ore, coal and coke on the free list, as they were before the war, and to reduce the duty on iron and scrap iron once more to the moderate rate of 24 per cent. The value of this like that of a bank check, lay in tiie appended long list of New England iron manufacturers, most of them thorough-going Republicans. These gentlemen would not have signed the petition in 18SS, though until a few years ago nothing un-liepublican would have been found in their present attitude. Ex-Governor eafeix moreover, said the of New' England generally were in favor of close relations betw'eeii Canada the United States. That is true.

A few' people in Gloucester and Portland are about the only exceptions. But possibly Governor lae Eix would not have thought it while to appear before a Senate committee in September, 1888, to advocate freer trade with anybody. with Canada imply free tish. W'hether the intimacy w'hich Governor VEiax, JoxATiiAX A. axe and T.

efferson ooEiDGij pleaded for yester(hiy takes the form of annexation, commercial union or reciprocity, it can never be established without tho free admission of Canadian caught fish inlo the markets of the United States. The gentlemen named are perfectly well of that fact. But nobody l)ut trade suggested free fish a year ago. That Messrs. eafeix ooeidge and axe now have the courage of fjieir convictions is of course crediial)lo to them, but their position has a broader significance in that it indicates very'clearly the tendency of New England thought and ihe growth of economic principles which are gradually becoming irresisti ble.

Great good is therefore being done iiy the Senate committee in an educational way. Practical results in legislation, unfortunately, are less likely to follow at once. Senator oar and his political associates are w'oll aware that fish are the key to the problem. Absolutely nothing can bo done toward establishing the closer relations with which the merchants of Boston ask for with wonderful uuauiinity tho United States Senate is rendy, by treaty or otherwise, to exempt fish from duty. But unfortunately there is no reason to suppose that Senators oar and aee and their party friends at Washington have escai)ed The general elections in Franco aro so close at hand that tho presentation by an intelligent observer of affairs of tho conditions which are likely to control them cannot fail to be of the greatest interest.

'riicre is every reason, why Americans should study events in that country with care at tho present time. The feeling is widespread that by tht se elections the of republican government there will be either immensely advaiued or immensely retarded. It would bo too much to say, no doubt, that a decided overturn in tho form of government is in any sense imminent; but. if we believed that the servative-Boulangist alliance were still unimpaired and had a reasonable chance of success, wo sliould certainly be in- clineil to look forward to tho event with misgivings. There is a sufficient amount of disturbance in tho political air of France fo create something like anxiety; that may be admitted even by the most ojdimisf ic of her Yet so conipetenta witness as Ijady ii ke who has long lived in Paris and has fnmi that city the brilliant which appear weekly in the London Truth, declares in the September number the Fortnightly h'eview that, even in the event of Keactionist success, aro vanous reasons which may us to think that while a coalition certainly formed to upset the managers of the Uoj)ublic, even the present President, form of government itself would not in In other words.

Lady ii ke like the majority of intelligent observers on the spot, is very far from taking up the cry of tho English journals, and of the American journals which echo them, that affairs in France are rapidly lioing to tho dogs. l.ady Dii.ke"^ conclusion is the more nof.ewoilhy in that she does not attempt in the least to underestimate the possitile strength of (reneral Boueanoer. to me very she says, tho populace will cut General adrift as lightly the educated portion of French soci- may chooso to Sho admits, however, that he has been most seriously injured by tho disclosures of the rccent Uial and that the Royalists aro more and more disposed to look askance at him. But if Boulangist allianco rapidly crumbling, reason to believe that the Conservatives will still be a strong body in the new Chamber of Deputies. Lady Dieke points out that the change from the si'ruiin dc to the scrnthi itient, which was adopted as a weapon against General oitlaxger may yet, in spite of their protests against it, be of advantage to the of the government.

Under siri'idin d'arrondhso- wcni local influences tell strongly; and in many places locaf influences are conservative. The obvious inference from this and other considerations is tiiat tho Reactionary leaders will still be powerful, even granting a sutTicient Republican majority in the coming elections. And it may be added that this inference is on its faco a reasonable one. So far, however, we see no good reason for anticipating anything like a defeat for the present government, and certainly not the forccd resignation of President arxot might follow a crushing defeat. This is ieke opinion, as it is that of other recent writers on the question who are in position to judge.

But suppose that the government is defeated, what then Lady ieke holds to the belief that even in tiiat case the might be in no serious danger. Indeed, she is inclined to predict from such a result tho consolidation of political parties in France to the decided advantage of the administration of public affairs. The various groups would bo broken up, and Conservatives and Radicals could then discuss their differences of j)olicy face to face, as it were. And however the elections may go, tiiis result. Lady ieke thinks, is inevitable.

then grow sho says, essential to a strong party govern- strong opposition; mid we see two rival sets of politicians, as the L'niteil one certaitdy, very bad for, amf ultimately gaining, predominance; but, whether the or tho bo in the Ro- will be equally It speaks well for the prt)gress of ideas in France that a like this can be maile by a careful observer, and that even the advent of the of Royalist traditions to may not mean the restoration of royally. the t'onservative- to be everythere is last if is impossible to pay but I am rash onduwh to predict that we have seen tlie worst ot it already. 'i his is the preliminary canter in which M. el osse indulges before he starts off on tho re.ll Bupjoet, as follows: Let us look at the matter soinowbat closely. Wliiit havf tlie Ainrricansdone to justify tlieir ext self-satisfaction? I'lieir Koveruiiient survived a jfroat slioek, ihat, namely, of the Civil War hut it is to n'lneiniiered.

tlKiuirli outside of the United States the fai is seldom mentionerl, that tlie piittinv; dov. of tho ret)elHoii was in some important respects a Kioat defeat for the nation a whole. It extiiiKuished the better halt American traditions; it overlhrew tho aristocratic principle (which, down fo the ('nil War, w.aM potent en in New England and, tiiiHlly. it welded the American neople into one KCreat, liomoiicueoii.H. monotonous mass of mediocrity.

Wiievv! The reader feels when he has cot fhnsfar that trood M. ee osse nnist have lost wither his temper or his wits, and possibly both. However, ho continues in this wise: Still, I w'lll admit that the Americans have done, as tliey say, a "hig in thus con- timiinif to exist as a nation, ilnt what flieii? Toexistisnot much in itself tho question is. wliat do yoii exist, how do you exist and what do you acc(unplisli by existing Now it is that tho author hoiiins to hue his subject, as it were, and lie continues as follows, omitting' a tew sentencies; It all comes down to this: The Americans have achieved a material success; they have niveiUed, huill, baivaineii and sold they have e.veciueri of i)ioneer work and of enuineeriini, they have liandied sums of money witli skill; they have inaile spent all on an immtMise In short, as men of of affairs, the have displayed, I am tree to admit, extraordinary enterprise, tuieiit and address. This is oncourapniL', and the patriotic citizen of the I uited States who had become ilis- Kusted with M.

Dki, osse heprins to think that lie may have some features alter all. lint mark the turn which this malipnant philosopher now gives to tho argument this 1 am free to admit, liiit what then what does it prove? Simiily this, that tho have succeeded oplv where they have abandoned the democratic principle iind liieir aflairs on the (iespoiic jirinci- pie purt) anil '1 here is no country on earth where Ihe caiuains of industry, as tiiey are called, possesssiich autncratic powers. Ask the lOnvjlish or in American raihvav securities what he ihinksof American railway He tell you that, in the United Stales, tho few men who constiiiite the ilirt.M't<"'s ol' a railway c.on- duct and dispose ot the properly with an unlimited and uiiquestioneil hich in F.iirope would not be tolerated for a day. It is the same in all other iu- diHtries. mine, an factory, an shop is an despotism, and its e.vtraontinary suc- ce-s.

The author proceeds further in ihis view, not foriiottiuj; to point out that whidi tends to mitijiato in Ihe ia- world the tlespotic principle, much less successful in the United than it is in Enniand, anti far loss so it is in M. Fossi: then suiiis up his artruniont, coneluding with a nourish of trumpets as follows: It appears, then, that the only department ot human aciivity in tfie really succceded also hapi)ens to that particular one in which they i ve ahandoned the democratic principle and su'osiituted ihe desnotic nrinciple in its most f('rm. And yet enthusiasts point to Am('rica as an illustration ol the Kov- ernment. 1 for one shall never a muiueut admit the contention. In this manner yonnp; M.

Fossi: deliver iiimself. We shall not insult the intelligence ot the reader by fioublinir him witii a confutation of the theories thus advanced but we will pernnt our.selvus to hope that when the Fair is held, bo it in New Yorl; or in Chicago, this latest politic.il phi- lo.s )pher will bo found aruoi.g our guests. He may learn something hich will have the affect of modifying his views. HERE IN BOSTON, 3Iy remarks recently mado on tho writings of Herman Molville, author of other tales, have recalled to old friend some pleasant recollections of tho past, and especially of tho ifrandparents, of this apparently retired author. My friend reminds me that tliey lived for many years on (ireen street, on the spot where the old meering first otjcupied by the Church of tho turned into a box factory, still staruls.

It a Kood-sized, cornfortablo house, with at tlio back, and thoimdi not constructed in what has been called the style, had m.any advanfaites for tho convenience of ttie large family of sons And dauKhtcr; ho were brought up in it. My friend tells me that tho parlor on the right ot the entrance contained many glass ship fully rigijed, modelled after the f.ishion of some celebrated French vessel, which was tiio delight of his younc eyes; and, under a gLxss cover, M)ino very precious te.a— part of that veritable tea which was thrown overboard when tho American people "taxation without Major Melviihj was of the, sturdy band who, dres.sed Indians, assisted in throwing the tea into the water; and when he returned home tho specimen referred to was shaken out of bis high boots and preserved as a valuable relic, i'or his display of patriotism hewastiiven a lucrative otllce tfio custom hou.se which ho ret.iined for years. One of his six daughters became engaged to a young lawyer, who was long devoted and sincerely attached to her; but her early death prevt ntod her union with one who was revered and as Chief Shaw, whose daughter became united to Herman Melville, daughter. Wright, was notiid for her height and size. It is said that when she was born she was so very small that the nurse put her in an ohl-fnshioned silver quart tankard, and for an instant covered her it.

Madam Melville was a remarkably diktnified and old lady. My friend tells mo he receiving company sitting inastateb' high-backed armchair, attired rich black silk, open at the waist in front to reveal ilouhle kerchief's, one of muslin and tho other lace, disposed over each other and in ju-ecise plait.s, crossing in front and nicely tVteiied bc.ieath the belting. A clo.se cap of tine lace surmounted her smooih hair. She wore silk mits, and her iingers were adorned witii many rings ot antique design. She looked not only the stately matron, but tho happy motlier wife.

31v friend also t'dls me an anecdo'e of that period connected with what IS seldom witne.s.sed, a total of the sun. Major Melville had invited some of Ids neighlKU's to this rare phenomenon from a his garden. They did through ghusses duly smnficd for tho occasion, T'tter datkness overspread the day. and wdien li'Jiht came one ot the ladies w.as astonished to (li.scover that she had on her feet odd shoes, one yellow' and another green, having dressed in haste in tho dimness. It w.as the in those days for the ladies to wear colored adapted to the gowns they wore.

The major became a marked figure in the of Boston. lie loiiH wore tho old-fashioned attire oi small clothes, never relinquished tho covering, by which ho was know as the oi' the cocked A We spokft tho other day of a recent essay on the Doiiioeratic Principle by one M. B. Tlie author is of the reactionary Bciujol of the fate Sir enrv itmnkk aine and several of his arguments against popular gpvermneut aro rather shrewdly put, though his speculations lack breadth of view and solidity of basis. One of his remarks nnon tho working of republican government in iho United States is somewh.at oritrinal, and it bo confessed that it has a rather plausible souud, tfiough the fallacy which it is founded will he apparent to the reader.

It is as follows: One licars an immen.se deal about the success of popular government in tho ITniit'd States. Americans themselves appear to tlimk that tlu'y have all the knotty questions of politics that fiave vexed great minds and overthrown noble states since the dawn of history, 'fhis extravagant estimate is acccpti il al.so by many European wnier.s, not.ibly liy certain i'reuchmen; and in England the whole Liberal party seems to have given itself over toan effusive admiration oi American institutions. How loiu; this fashion Sir A knoi is in this country, and by tiie end of weok, according to our spttciul Washington despatches, he will be in Boston. As his wife, who died not long ago, w.as a Botitonian, this city wiil have a peculiar interest for him. Sir dwin will be sure of a here for many reasons.

If few people think of him as the brilliant leader writer of iyondoa such is the penalty of jourtiHlistic work, however admirabhi many know him as the author of Light of and of otiier poems which have done much to increase popular intorebt in Indiaa thought. The War Club of Philadelphia, through Congressman ItiNMHAiM, one of its members, will ask Congif.ss to place all soldiers sailors on the same plane as disabled soldiers ill appointments to the civil service. The latter now have precedence in appointments, an tage that they presumably need and that the country is very willing to grant; but General noh vm sclieme is nothing less than a demand tfiat tlio entire civil service be turue(f over to that portion of the (i. A. R.

which finds tho leadersl.ip ot demagogues like Taxxer and 1'V)uaker the most to its taste. BUSINESS TROUBLES. and of Which lliive liecuine Ira W. runningham, in.solvent debtor, of ha.s tiled his schcdulo of debts and property in the insolvent at St. His private is mostly in notes to Lyndon and St.

and parties, with an account of against tho Russell Paper Company of Boston. His assets include considerable real estate in Lyndon, heavily mortgaged, and one-half interest in his e.state, 00 of which $7000 is collateral to his Tho debts of L. A. it (Jo. of Siierbrooke, P.O., of which firm Ira Cunningham constitutes the are with a note ot SrtOOO against tho Eastern Township Bank, one of 0,000 against tho Bank, one of icoOO against William White, and one, 85000 against William Farwell, all of Sherbrooke.

The a.ssets of the firm are mortgages on their real estate amounting to Tho debts of Ira Cunningham and P. Ch.o-se, under the hrm name of tho Caledonia Box Company of Lyndonville, aro mostly in notes and accounts to Lyndonville parties. Their assets aro put at Iho total liabilities as per this schedule are 142. The creditors of the and Nottingham Mills met yesterd.ay at Providence, and an extension of time for five years at (i per cent w.as recommended by those 'I his was not adopted, however, without much discussion. Ttie report of the committee showed the liabilities ot the Mills to be and the quick assets leaving a net debt of The Nottingham Mills including mortgage.

08 and the quick ts iS.W.'.t.Tl, le.aving a net debt of Edward P. total indebtedness is SI.071.- o90 and his assets leaving a deficit of liiirnham, dealer in dry goods and gro- cerie.s. North has failed. V. L.

Smith, dealer in dry goods, Haverhill, has gone into insolvency: nominal assets. liabilities not stated. W. A. We.st, fruit dealer, Springfield, has been attached.

Anna M. Cotton, hotel keeper, G(iO Tremont street, Boston, has gone into in.solvency. debts amount assets consi.st of wearing apparel and furniture, valued at about All exempt. Aurora Match Company. Aurora, 111., has assigned.

H. Wyman, clerk, of Bsookline, has filed a voluntary petition in insolvency in the Insolvency ('ourt. Peter McLangan, t.ailor, ILartford. has assigned. R.

P. baker. Hartford, has a.ssigned. I'L Sulzer, dealer in boots, shoes, notions, Wapakoneta, has assigned. A.

Delnmon, clothing dealer, Biloxi, has assigiKid. (iiffoid it clothing dealers. New Bedford, have been attached. Ttiey owo and have nominal as.seis of CU RliEN COM EN T. A KAL.YXrE OF IX.irRIES, The worst thing that ha.s happened to the Virginia Democrats been tho faking of the stump by liiddleberger in behalf of their ticket.

There was a time when the ex-Senator was a useful political ally, but his recent career has been so odious that his championing of any is sure to work it injury in the minds of citizens. vindictive cour.se, however, may be taken as a good set-ofT against cowardly sellout. One will about balance the Telegram PERSONAL. to tlie of in Wash- rdiss Maude Banks (icnies the statement that she inieuds to retire from the stage. Mis.

William f). Howells and Mi.s.'-- Howells are at the Elms. Beach Bliiil, Mr. Thomas A. Edison, before his for flerlin, gave 10.000 francs for the benelit of the poor ot Paris.

Iris proposed to erect a monument distinguished forrnuhitor ot the storms, Matthew Fontaine Maury, uigton in 1.S02. (loorge Elliot, tiie famous brewer, is going fo (ierber.sdorf, Silesiii, stay. Ho will be accompanied his entire family, except hiseldost son. Professor iNbirshall L. Perrin of Boston University has returned from his studies at (Gottingen I luversity, w'here he received the degree of doctor of plulo.sophy.

has been placed by a friend in po.v>ession of the manuscript of an early poem v.ritten by hiniseli wnii il seems, he had uUerly forgotten. I'rofessor liichard T. Ely of Johns Hopkins University has ju.st written a book on political for the special u.seof the Uhautauqua literary and sciontitic circle. Archbishop Konrick of St. Louis is the oldest (Catholic prelate in the United Si.ates.

He was consecrated in 18'lf. and at the ago ot eighty presides over diocese without an iissistant. iSlajor W. R. Livermore of the United Stato.3 Engineer (7orps, and Lieutenant Samuel Rodman, U.S.N.,are lecturing before the naval war college at K.

1., on strategy and coast delence. llusivin refers to John iStrange Winter, of as author to whom we ow'e tho most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British t'arl (ierhardt of Hartford has modelled a staluo ot Seth Boyden eight and a half feet high. In leather auron and with sleeves rolled up, Boyden stands by ati anvil; his lett hand contains tho model ot a locomotive, which he siudio.s. The statue is for a public suuare of Hartford. friend in telhns the above reverted to his recollections of two very aiu'ient ladies of ne.irly the same who lived, as one of their visiting cards in plain writing stated, on street.

This is now. it believed, ('oininon street, the name having been frequently changed, as this card seems to have intim.ited. '1 tiese dames the daughters of tlie renowned wit and clergyman. Dr. Mather Byles.

and the Mi.sses Mary and Catharine Byles long lived in old-fashioned. rather shaky mansion, containing many relics of the oldtsu time. Miss Mary was sharp and humorous as her celebrated father. Mi.ss Catharine, the more amiable of the si.s- ters, attempted poetry, and wasotlen successful in verse. her muse adopteil a religious strain, and again a g.iyer and often a moral tone.

My friend, 1 is a relative of these ladies. me that he has several bits in his possession partaking severally of these characteristic.s. W'hena stranger made them a visit. Mary, who had stroog British proclivities, would place for him an elegantly carved, iiigh-back chair surmounted by the Kngiish rrovn supported by the lion and unicorn. When tho visitor rose to depart, sho W(Mild remark: cannot say now that you have not sat under the This old house contained rare pieces of furniture which would bring fabulous sums at the i.resent day at the death of the old ladies the.se w'eut to relatives in Halifax.

'My friend tells mo that on a visit to Nova not very long ago. he aske.l a'oout was ttild that, being oM-iashioned and of little v.due, ihey were phiced where children played, and in time were deuiolisheil. antique bellows is di ftly carved with cherubs, which hung on one side of a lireplace, the iron jnmbs of which repre- lions at play. Ot that ludlows it nay be said that though "eherubim and seraphim did not from hem according to the ritual of the church to which attached, they kindleil the llnme, wliirh is more than the holies of his house ever aceoniplished. There were lioii-l'ooted tables ami quaint mirrors in the mansion which our modern manufacturers of what are called reconst met micut be glad to have as last of all, they siic-wed a unique toy, keidi in a carveil ivory made of deliciUely prepared rings, forming white snake more than a yard long, with which Ihey usod to surprise and often frighten children.

tt A lady of the olden time, but of a somewlKit different type from the abovti- mentioned, is remembered as occupying an house on street, on the right hand vToing un from Wasiiington street. This was Donnison, who received her visit-u-s with much cordiality, though in a more simple manner. She w.as a notable housewife, and, dressed in plain aitire with mob cap and ilie conventional mits, would usually ho found eneaged in knitting. Mrs. Donni.son liad two daughters, one celebrated for her keen sagacity and intellectual endowments, who never married and another who became ttie wife of the lato liev.

Dr. Hodges of Cambridge and mother of the well-known and physician of Marlnoro street. The old house and groumls liecame of great value, and were soon found to yield a handsome income, converted inlo stores as they are at tho present day. Tho remembrance of tne eminent women of iho olden time, my friend says, induces to draw rather a sorry contrast between the mothers of those days and of our own time, w'hich he remarks does not redound, in his experience, to the praise of the latter, ho appear to deem it unlitting to exercise the elegant economy and imostenlatious methods of their great-grandmothers, and who allow the pursuit of fashionable frivolity and luxurious living to usurp the good old- ways of domestic education and ho.s- pitable housekeeping. averxek preparixg for a defeat Let no one forget that young and ambitions politicians aUvays ready to demonstrate their in tho caucuses, and a victory there often looks bigger to them than a national triumph their party.

But the real battle of tho governorship is to be fought at the polls this ye.ar. and wise men have kept that fact stendily in view. If those wlio for- g-et it succeed in carrying the Slate convention, they may be uniileasantly reminded of their mistake on. It is not impossible in a given event that the political scenes of 1882 may be tho Republican party of the old Bay State thereby experience in its person a sort of seven-year Republican (Ind.) PARTISAX TNCOXSISTEXCV. The more tho project of giving the federal authorities absolute control over the election of Congre.ssmen is examined, the more objectionable does if appear.

The pronounced opposition of such strong Republican newspapers as the Worcester Spy and Boston Journal only represents the attitude sure to be occupied by tho Republican press of the North generally when ihe idea is once mastered that federal laws apply to ihe Northern as well as to the Souihern States. It is rather to observe the sudden- ne.ss with which a Northern Rtpublican organ, after haidly calling for a law which will give the federal authorities control over elections, bec.tmes silent oji being asked hether it would willing to have such a system as it demands for South Carolinaaud Jdississipiii applied in X'ermont and Iowa. is most fortunate feature of ourjfovevnmental system thai. when partisanship threatens to trench upon just bonnds of home rule in oue part the countrv, the prejudice in another part of the cou comes into piav saves the nation fro-i a V. Evening Post Und.) THE DAM WAS U.

Sept. The verdict oil the death of the three persons killed tho bursting of the Spring Lake reservoir dam at Fiskvillo, Cranston, Aug. 28, declares that the dam was defective construction, and without directly placing blame that it owned and controlled by tiio Pawtuxet Valley Water TAXM5R BET TANXKRIS.M KEMAIXS. What Mr. Harrison muFt get rid of if he hopes to gain and regain ihe of the people is not Tanner.

Init Tannerism. AVhether he will do or can do it we do not pretend nowtos.ay. Time will tell. But it is very plain that lie will tiave a hard time of it. annerism is only a particularly conspicuous and somew'hat olftusivc form of Republicanism it exists in a vi'ry large part (d tho and among many of the leaders.

It is by no me.ans the worst thing in the party, but it is b.id enough. The commissioner of pensions has indiscreetly and with his mouth too wide and too often open carFied out the spirit of tlie instructions to him, but lie has done it lailhfully. and he is not alone to blamo tor thi' conscqucnces. extravagant as he has been, dangerous as Mr. llarri- evidently tiiinks him to be, he has not gone nearly far as the Republican platform warranted him in going and practically directed him and every other oUicnil to go.

He has tvvcd his best, and tias done much, to achieve tiie one grand aim avowed by the Republican narty, to empty the I'retisory. He is undouhtedly self-seeking, demagogic, nn- scrupulous, ami ho is also very noisy and very vulgar. But ihere are a good many men in high places in the administration wiio diiler iroiu him only in noisine-s in the obviousness of their Y. Times (lud.) XOT AN ERROi: OF IGXOn.VNCK. general and spocial for an ('ttice of any responsibility Avas notorious.

If President Harrison tlid not know them when he tirst considered the appointment, he was expressly warned them while the matter was pending by citizens of Brooklyn who.se tesiiinony Mas conclusive. Franklin Woodruff is one of the most proiniuent men in Brooklyn, aiul one of thi leading Republic.ms. informed of dismissal last evening. Mr. Woodrutf said that ho jx rsonally told the President last spring that he appiinted Tanner he would disgr.ace the admiiusiration inside of six Harri.son thus appointed Tanner witii his eyes wide open liow did the President come to run the risk of involving his administration in this scandal? In his letter oi ace plance ho said: ap- poiiitmcnls to every grade and departmeni, tit ness, not party service, should be the essential and discrimina'dng test, and lidelitv and etlicioncy the only sure leuurti of 011100 W'hen naine was presented for commissioner of pensitjns, he had only to recall this pledge and point oiu, wnai everybodv admilied, that Tanner couhl not stand essent.ial and di.scriminaling of Mr, WoodriilT any number of other Ilepuhfican business men in Brooklyn bore witne.ss to this.

But Tanner had a tremendous amount of political on the ground of his "party and his with the (irand Army machine, and therefore he was ao))ointed. Harrison made Tanner ('ommissioner of pensions because his backing for tho place was half a dozen times as strong anyoody el.se’s”—such was the recent statement of a ashington defender of the President in a organ, and overvltody knows tlyit it is the simple lN. Y. Eveuing Post ALL SORTS. Tho position of salesman in a clothing is a fitting placo for any worthy yonnjr man.

The man who h.as Iwon afflicted with thfl ague always when a friend Three now halls are shortly to bo opened in the Paris Louvre. Theycootain and sculptunis. Fr.inci., Train is writing poems in nid ot tho New'York exposition. He alw.ays was fond of booming impracticable schemes. New York seems to take it lor that Boston Avill be delighted to send John L.

livan to Congress. Sho scat a pugilist there herself once. Queen A'ictoria, a Eondon gossiper hears, weighs now' pounds. Besides being a colonel, tho Queen maybe properly considered a heavy' dragoon. Peter Jackson, the black pngili.st, is well treated in England.

He was dined recently by Lord do and Sir John He certainly would give color to any gathering. If (jovernor Ames will put his e.ar to the ground he may hear something from Ohio. Why, out that way he is looked upon a rank freo trader, a pestiferous disciplo of CoDdcn (Jlub theories. Bathing in public is no longer good form at the ultra fashionablo watering places, says an exchange. This is convincing evidence that the ultra fashionables of tho past season were not of good form.

She the dog bite you, he Sho (rea.ssuringly) it was dog. darling, and wo know he but I my check, too, will you? I anything in my pocket but a thirty- dollar bill. kind of a bill i a bill for this suit of clothes I have The New York Grant Monument Fund is languisfiing under tho efforts of Edward Pay- soii Weston, the eccentric pedestrian. The returns indicate that Edward even as gooil a walker as ho used to bo, and he generally managed to be tho last man in a race. you are np enormous deltis around town.

You must remember your uncle is not dead His but ho has discharged his doctors and is now utidergoing treatment by a Christian A new' business directory of John.stown surrounding burroughs contains tho names of over 500 business and profession.al men. It al.so shows that there are now thirty-six grocery stores and saloons open in tho place. It is hardly probable that tlio scheme, headed by Sir Edward Watkiii, of building a tower 2000 feet high will bo carried through. Oue of the architects who aided in the erection of the Eillel structure has told him that a tower of that height cannot bo put up so as to be secure, Kansas City saloon-keeper has sued a customer for the amount of a bill which includes among its items gallons of whiskey, 485 single drinks of ditto, besides a lot of beer in glas.ses, pitchers and kegs. The fact that Kansas City is the depot of supply for prohibition Kansas is the ono thing that makes that bill credible.

horse at Kingston, N. it is asserted, has a record of having gone ninety miles over a country road in one day. Then it Decame frightened at a train of cars, ran away, sma.shed the wagon to kindling and came out of it all in a comparatively fresh and healthy condition. This is what might be called with truth spirited A sudden demand for bronze-colored hair perplexes the worthy coifi'eurs of Paris just now'. But, as tho demand must produce or create the supply, an merchant in capillary wares sent lO China while the crazo as still and tho result is that bales ot copper-colored hair, long and short, straight ana curled, have arrived in Marseilles.

As a passenger train thundered along near Alleyton, Newaygo the other day, a baldheaded eagle aro.se from beside tiie track and tried to tfy across the rails ahead of the train, but it was struck by tho engine and was lodged against a cylinder head. Ihe engineer then went forward and captured it. The bird measured six feet from tip to tip across its wings. Mrs. Mona Caird.

the author of that temido conundrum. Marriage a has been somewhat out of health, and is now in the Austrian Tyrol, undergoing the This treatment is a mixture of the grape cure and ot sunlight. It is app.are,ntly successful in cases of nervous exhaustion. The patients lie on the sand, bathing in the noontide sunshine. The head is protected by a turban.

Grapes form an im- l)ortant feature the vegetarian diet, to which they must submit during the coui-se. The studio at Rome of the sculptor, Mr. Ezekiel of Cincinnati, is an interesting spot. He has devoted to his u.se a lofty apartment in tho Baths of A paved stairway loads to a small vine-clad Works of art, va.scs, fragments of old armor, antique heads ami ornaments gleam thromic the dark foliage. Artists have ornamented tho interior of tho high hall, pillars rit ii with carvings uplmld tiie arches, lamps and statuettes occ upy the mantels, and tai)estries and paintings adorn the walks.

The studio become famous in Rome, and was visited recently by members oi King Humbert court. MODERN SAN DIEGO, Diecio Letter to our correspondendent spent a winter at this place seven years ago, ljut the city of today and then are wonderfully in contrast. We call Sail Diego an annex of Los but it is making rapid slridcs towards a rival a winter resort at least. Then there was oniy conueclion witii tho outside world by steamer twice a eek. Electric liglitii.

horse cars, paved streets, pure water, educational these were spoken of to come ir the sweet by and by. Nowuhere is life in land, hope 111 the people, an abiding faith ii the future greatness of their city. The build ing is extemling out in all directions, vine and fruit planting in tho outlying districts has largely with general i'arming. At Natiomal City, terminus ot the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe road, aro the wharves Avhere fruit from anchored ve.s.sels is being continually discharged, and tlie car shops, employing hundreds of men. Old or new San Diego, was once the tre of civilization and h.as a historical interesf at ihis latter dav, with its broad streets, wide and old adobe houses.

Here the mission aries, or prit sts, erected a church that has mostly crumlded away. 'Iho friars' garden hears no vestige of its olden glory. (Cactus liedges, some old date palms and some still bearing olives are all that reruain to tell tho tale of past ur. Among the literary lights who are making tlieir home in San 1 are the historian: Ch.irit-s Markham, who writes tor the Century and has a charming villa in a canon retreat: Miss Estelle a story-teller for tho Companion; and Lee. Hardy, the 'I'evas author and novelist, has recenily come to live in this bay climate ihal ha-, healing properties.

Joaquin iMiller ov. ns several lots at Paciiic Beacii, ami anticipaies making a summer home fpr liim.self ttien in the near future. Scattered along the beiicl: are fanciful many more are conteniiilated. over the once bar ren and seeing the beauiifui homer of we.ilth and laste scattered alumt the bay where only an occasional steamer or saiUm.it w'as seen, now dotted with crafts of all noting the haie.lsome turnouts ot private indi viduals, and learning the si-hools, and convent filled with pupils from far and realizes that much that w'as anticipated h.as come to pass, and that the scemuig impossible things may become reaJities in iho close lyture. As a plea.sant, all-the-year-round resort, San Diego has a crowd of advantages, and is draw'iug to its suoies a cultivated pcoiilo..