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8 8 4 il 1 Meet mas. 7 6 banklna IDusea. 6 Marriages and Deatht 7 6 islniaa 8 6 Minina. 8 0 6 1 12n Hoard and U.rf.ius.ll 8 28 Iianctna 8 steamers. 6 ni-Hlcnt! Nolii-i-s.

8 Noticua. 7 8 Kstate. ti 0 DryOooda.ll 2 Ileliitloua Notlcea. 7 Kuroiw-an 2.safe Drpoatts.ll 8 Financial. 8 6 (1 situations ll 8 Kinta and 7 especial Notlcea.

7 8 Furniture.ll 2 steamboats and H. Il ll 12 and Hummer Keaorts. 0 Hell, tt anted.ll 81 8 40 Hiirw-s mul jitIukcs. lite Turf. 7 6 Vermin Exterminator 6 6 Icecream.ll Dnoincsfl Notices.

"Aldeknkv Brand" But AitTiKUiAT. Ona, Plat? ina Lim rt I'orcrluln (Mesh olor), per art; trneral price a lim. Mi and 604 aouthweat cornor ith-at. Bkware of Irritation the Celebrated Cough Drops afford medlate rellof. Keep a box of them lu your Francis 45 Mai den-Laue, Htutlont-rs, and Illisnk Book Mauufacttirera, your Specially reduced rates for permanent Winter boa rd i ra at "THEHAINT NICHOLAS." Tbe most heslttiful l.watlon, beat service, culetne and apart menti.

In Nett.York President Arthur is using Angostura Bit TKK8. They are the beat known preventive for all dlseaoea orlfdnaUng from the digestive Li slik's Brmu tin- appetite, moder? ately Increase tin- temperature of the lm.lv ami force of tbe Circulation, and give tone and strength to (ho system. They ari tin-Inst for cocktails. WILLIAM M. Lksuk, 87 TBIB-Um TERMS TO MAIL SUBSCRIBE RS.

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NEW-YORK. SUNDAY, OCT. 28. TWELVE PAGES. TUE NEWS THIS MORNING.

I Foreic.n.?Tho Bulcarinn CoOM 11 has decided to dismiss all Russian officers in the army. Lord Lorne and the Louise sailed fur England. luittalion the Ministerial Build? ings in Madrid has been disarmed. A numbat vt exiles to Siberia niaile an attempt to eva po. -Cholera has reappeared in Egypt.

John Bright denies the report that ho is coming to America. A draft of a convention for the pro? tection of cables has been signed bj tho Interna? tional Conference. DoMF.sri*'.?There tvas a sharp ndvance in wheat at Chicago yesterday. In Georgia Kn Klux trial eight persons were found The jury rendered a verdict for tho defendant in the Carroll divorce suit. the suit lutanist Warren K.

Blodgett, in Boston, the jury decided virtually in favor of the Armstrong estate. The Princeton football team defeated the Rntgeis College team. John A. Graham died in Chi? cago on Friday. Wandering; Htftl-and Ttm.

Bob Miles, Hilarity and Oath won tbe rm ut Pimlico yesterday. City and Si The I.otos Clnl) eave a re eeption lasl evening to Henry Irving; the actor, Mr. llepcw and General Porter wats anning tin reception was given to Matthew Arnold at tbe WindoOf Hotel. Loni Coleridge sailtd for England yaotttdoj. The Board of Apportionment conridemd the estimates of thc Departments of Public Works and nud Correction.

Tba Oalricha Cup wm won by the Lat roeaa (lui-. Trinket ilefeated Majolica in tliree btraight ht ats. The record for a mile walk was beaten at the Nett-lurk Athletic Club's games. Stevens Institute defeated Columbia at football. John Kluniim appointed Distrit t-Attorney for Queens County in place of Mr.

Downing. A Geiiesee County farmer was arrested for big? amy. Mayor Low spoke at (ir.en).oiut. Gold value of the legal-tender silver dollar grains), couta. Mocks opened ililli and declined; lat-er they advanced on a small business aud closed irregular.

Thk xi: local observations in? dicate partly cloudy and cloudy weather, with higher temperaturesaud chances of light rain latt? in the day. Temperature yesterday Highest, lowest, average, BO-V. The n-ajri'-tratioii in this city yesterday reached 44,402 that a good many more citizens than usual improved lust chance to bring themselves within voting conditions. The total is heavier than lorant fourth day in the last three yean. lu it was only The total number of names registered in New-York City this full is 182,14 1.

This is 14,000 less than iu 1883. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment cannot semi the of the Depart? ment of Public Works for 1884 too closely. Commissioner Thompson wanta half a million wore than be bad last year. Poaaibly it is needed possibly it is not. Mr.

ThompMiii's xs not neoeeoarily prove the justness of hil eatimatee; which Uwhj ire remark that the Hoard ihoold examine them carefully. Thc thuds und the man ageiiiciit ul tho nt of Public Works aro so bad Hint taxpayers du nut wan! tu st any inure Money than is absolutely neoeaaarj voted lo be and miaapent. The baleful influence of the shouting of the. murderer, by tlie son of Captain Nutt, victim, is now to bc felt. In Xew-Gileans yesterday a vonni: man named Coffey shot aud killed the eunvicted murderer of his lather, wbo was un his way tn unit to receive a life -sentence.

There is of course much liss excuse for Gotley than for joting Mutt. Dukes was not only acquitted win plainly guilty of beino.isciiinc.but ht conit.il vengeance by imjiud- idly parading the streets of the town when- the people he had injure.1 lived. Colley'? victim vt as about to be ponished for his crime. The South h.u* often, and sume tiuies unjustly, bei-u blametl fur the little value get on law aud order aa compared with the pleasure of personal vengeance. Hut if this mun Coffey, who took the law into lift own hands yesterday, is properly punished, the of Louisiana will ward off much unpleasant comment.

-m The Russian geneials in Kullana, who smiled whim tint saw Austrian inlliu HMM driven from Bulgaria by the I.ilicr.il they hud themselves forced Prince Alexander to call, hardly think the situation so amusing now. It appears that tiny must gu also. Prince Alexan? der, aiting undoubtedly under pressure from his Prime Minister Zankoff, has decided to dis tniM all Russian ofticers from the army. The geaignatiou of the SecieUuy of Wm- (also a Russian) has Wu demanded but refused, ami that luis Int ordered to leave This lion of the bulgarians xviii undoubtedly louse wrath at St. Petersburg but thc Russians cannot aflbrd to let themselves bo provoked into doing tiny thin rash.

They are only get? ting what they got lui Austria, and they cannot complain, lt must be admitted, lum ever, that considerations of consistency nut restrain them lung if they wen- ready fur war and wire not afraid of Austria with Bis? marck iM-liind her. Among the interesting art which are pub? lished on another page of The Tiuiunk this mui in regard to divoicc. ill be lound an extinct on the subject from the pastoral letter put forth at Philadelphia by thc Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Wt think even paitial Churchinen viii rcgretth.it the bishops did not speak more to the point. The policy of this Church heretofore hus been hostile to the remarriage ol divorced persona, and its ministers have been directed not to sanctiun violations of tli vine law in this respect by per? forming thc marriage servile for thoM who Inive broken that law.

This rule has been freely disregarded of late hy many Episcopal clergymen. It was only natural, therefore, to expect that the bishops would admonish such delinquents sharply, but indirectly, and call attention once more to the rules ol the Church. But they have thine nothing of the kind. A few generalities are uttered ooneerning the purity of family life and the necessity of correct early training. This is good ao far aa it but it not begin to go far enough.

-a, The showing which the French Miiiistr.t haye made of their diplomatic ability was bad enough even as set forth in their own Yellow Book but as our London correspondent points out in his cable letter, the publication of the Marquis Tseng's dispatches now makes the (ilse against them decidedly worse. Tbe Chi? nese Ambassador fully exposes the pretentious attitude of France toward China in regard to Tonquin and Anani, and shows that the Pekin Government speaks a good deal more til inly and pointedly than the French version of the tiatiuns Indicated. This noi only prows that war or the mediation of some other great Power is almost inevitable it must also add to the weakness of the present rn nient at Paris. The Ministers have thine their best to mislead thecunstitueneii's by suppressing many dangerous features of the situatiun. Now that the truth is becoming known, ami in so unpleasant a manner too.

the French people will probably be heard fruin MOB in a tiny that Ferry and his colleagues will must dislike, THE Ellis OP SElV-YtiEE HOTELS Bo many of our readers hate occasion at one lime ot another to avail themselves of tbs com? forts of the 1 inns which ari- conspicuous fea tores of om'principal st leets audax eu in-, that the discussion, in to-day's issue, of the prices which prevail in New-York hotels is certain to receive wide attention. Western visitors as aclass think the rates too high and praise the lintels of Chicago and other cities for their com? parative cheapness. And this opinion seems to bs spreading. At first blush lt certainly pears exorbitant to be exacting the same sums for rooms and meals that were charged in tin "tlu-h" days of the war, when gold was at the highest nnd provisions cost much more than they cost now. In other columns the landlords try to explain.

Itttill be seen at a glance thai there is nu small diversity of view among (hiin as to tin-pr. st it condition nf hotel business in New-York, ta to tim causes of that condition, and as to the prospects of their houses. Mut tint are ii unit concerning rents. They say willi one voice that the rents which they are forced to pay an- nut of all reason. other points there are almost as many opinions tln-re are speakers.

Whether apartment hoUSM hui tin-the hotels.anti how de? puted. Borne of the landlords doing all the business they want -or at hast ru) thej are, is are less more candid. One resolute manager would not reduce prices change would briug In a less satis? factory class nf pat inns. lt ls plain un the face of it that the hotels of New-York have been exceedingly for the hist three or four years. People have cullie tn the city the bon)' months without engaging quarters in advance have often found this out to their sorrow.

Other people who desired to take rooms for the win? ter have been profoundly Impressed by the tia. ores at which tin- managers bold the rooms and by their easy indifference as to the acceptance or rejection of their terms. There has in cn much profit in hotel-building snd hotel-keeping that number of lofty nnd far-stretching Mru. tines used for that purpose has multiplied tuan amasing extent. Having dwell for sev? eral seasons on the ighta of prosperity, to their own great satisfaction, if not always al? together to that of their guests, some of our Inn-keepers erenow forced to take a look Into the valleys of adversity.

Even the best of them cannot expect so generous returns from the public during the coming winter as they en? joyed la-t year. The question whethei it is ad? visable to lower prices to IncreaM business is therefore a serious-one just now. If there is to be any reduction, it is not the landlords only who must come The nu nets of the buildings must concede some? thing. If they do not they are likely soon to hilve sollie nf their property on lin ii hand-. The guests mus! be prepared to Content them? selves with somewhat h-ss luxury, In the livaliy of our great taverns extravagant ol furnishing and decoration has been carried to the extreme, and the bills of fare have been i tended and ovei loaded In the most la, i-h way, If the natrons of the hotels are willing to con? tinue to pay roch rates as will support such a Male of expenditure, our landlords trill, of course, continue to gratif) them.

Bat there are many signs in the air that a Mon of compara? tive Simplicity is inevitable alter the era ol traragancc through whick wo have been pass? ing. TROLLOPE AND CIVIL SERTU I. BEFOBM lt is ot some interest thstjtut weare be? ginning our Civil Service Reform experiment read in the sutobiogrnphj of An? thon) Trollope, who wm lui mon-than thirty yean aa active and useful member of the Bi ii ish Post Office service, sharp criticism ot thc st stem of competitive examinations. We bor? rowed our system from the English, aud it may oauM suine little dismay to find practical Eng tish official cutting the ground from nnder tht ii feet in this wsy. In l.iet, nun that he says bi calculated, at first sight, give aid ami I eomfort to tlm.se of mir statesmen who have persistently ridiculed the idea ol appoint? ing to oJeikshiji.s only those nun wini passed tbs best examinations in ordinary M-hool studies, Mr.

Trollope thought it doubt? ed whether by ths competitive system 'more hann has not been done than unod," and the good. thought, "might have been thine with "out barm. The rule of ths present dat is, "that every plate shall be Open to puhlic OOM ix'tition, and that it shall be given to the the comers. I object to this, that nt pu ts "cut there exists uo known mode of learning is best, nini lli.it the method employed nu tendency lo elicit the best. Tliat ni'lhoil pretends only tu decide who among "certain number ol hols lust answer a "strin-; nf questions, tim answering of which they prepared by tutors, who hare "sprung up for the purpose tdatt this fashion of election has been adopted." He admitted Unit should not have to lean to and put the multiplication table Into practice utter they hail entered the public service, and he con? ceded that the politicians nre free fi um press? ure, but he doubted whetliei the offices are, on the whole, maim'-d." Mr.

Trollope did nol say probably did not pee his own MNMCM to fur? nish as strong an argument for competitive ex? aminations as could be desired. He WM ap? pointed in i. nnly two te.iis afier pass? age of the Reform bill, and before tho pressure of public opinion foi reform of the Ser? vice began to make itself felt. Lord Mel? bourne, tvlm became Prime Minister iii the year Trollope, ea Ignorant boy of nineteen, was miuir a clerk, Introduced examinations during his Ministry. These were In time fol? lowed by competitive examinations, Introduced bj some of the chiefs in theil departments a bunill to the appointment of Incompetent clerks, prior to the formal establishment of the system throughout the service In 1858.

Trol? lope obtained his phice by personal Influence, and without any examination, a trial in which by reason ol' BervousneM and ii bad pen he made blots and spelled badly. He was asked if he waa proficient in arithmetic. What could I say 1 I bad never learned ths "multiplication table, and hiid im inure idea nf "the rule of three than of conk He was tnld that on the mOTTOW he WOttld he exam? ined iii arithmetic and again in brought ith him a beautiful transcription of several pages of Gibbon, but noone looked si it, snd lu- wm given his desk without any further In another plaee he admits that he probably Slight to have been rejected, but mids complacently that lt he had the ser? vice would have lost valuable membt r. This is true, lt so happened that in taking in this hov who did nut know his multiplication table the service acquired amember who wm faith? ful, ambitious, energetic, and hard-headed. He made himself very useful in time.

Bul this wm uni- prise In a lotterj In the Govern? ment drew many blanks. The scandals which resulted from appointments like bis created the demand for the competitive system. His ap? pointment illustrated worst ituresof i system of personal appointments! hi- retention, utter In- began make himaelt useful, showed tin- advantage, to sci icc and mi ant alike, i system in which political rei.da were not countenanced. Mr. Trollope was no doab! prejudiced by the peculiar circumstances under which he into the service.

The competitive rame after be did, and he perhaps, a little old fogyish about it. Ile u.i- dogmatic and eccen? tric in some of his opinions. kial1 experience he said i "How I loved, whi I was I very often, and, no donbt, very do instantly I was bid, and then prove that whal I was doing -was fatuous, dishonest, expensive, and im "practicable! And then the li ml- de liciuii- lends!" As a Offi.tl.i i.i!, An? thony Trollope must hate lining ITS lMi TB Uti J. An on silk manufactures printed in ntbercolumn deals withs stumbling-Oik American industry which Tm Tkibumi hs fore taken oecaMion to discuss. The writer timls that the manufacturers ate obliged to from Europe skilled workmen al high because a large proportion Americans refuse to give two years learning trade at which they are sure of earning a comfort ihie livelihood for the real of their lit es.

lt is to the general d.fthe apprentici -hip -t that tn- have lo attribute much thal i- dangerous ami cxtruvnjmiit in social tend? encies and tnule management. in boys too seldom choose to take up a rcsjicetabli trude in ile- manner thal maker both the occupation and themselves honorable, Thev propose without consideration of ability to eiiti-i the professions or to become immediately rich nu ttl be, in shun, Many- Tint through the public schools, are apt to emerge half-taught, shallow and inefficient with no preparation foi the practical work of life. 1 ho have the sound -viisetosec how miiih better isa good trade than a for bread find too nilen thal the muons stand in tbe way, Meanwhile the Inn who bas thoroughly studied bis work steps into laetort iiml shop, takes the renumers live places, and thrives as industrj and knott I edge always thrive. The American presently, peihap-, yields ambitions and shambles through slum in a Im which In- has had im propel training, aud in which for him there ls little libilitj rising from work man to master. The most cheerful optimist cannot but perceive and lament the growing ipirit of contempt for g.I manual labor, and the Ignorant assumption, cheap smartness ami dishonesty thal ure the im vita bis outcome ol thal PHILISTINISM Th IMEBICt.

Tbe drift of the answer to Mr. Il at thew Ar nold in thc Isst number of 7 Ac Oratory to lu- thal while be i- thcoretii alli right ting np a standard of culture atlaiimble univ by a luituiiiite few, he is practically wrong in wasting his rare powers in lu; criticism nf Philistines. After all it is the Phili-iim thal i- lin pi ii al mon," who mni do the work of the tt mill, and carry our civilization to what etei point ii mat he (riven Ul reach. Arnold mil feel foi tbe h.wei rhtsses as "they are, but he wants to make gentlemen And this, the writer in The Ventura thinks, is a great mistake, The men of intel? lects id culture ought to accept the Philistines, make the best of niue down ami "nice! ni on the baeis of theil common manhood.41 Lord Coleridge unconacioiudj replied to this in his speech at Vale College on Priitfy. Ile hail defending classical studies on prac? tical Km I du nut wish ii lu posed," he added, "that I il-lend them on "practical groundalone.

I sat that (iud "given us hearts, minds, and a- well ns bodies, and that ii as much our duty "to cultivate and do the beni weean with the mimi tliat He has given us as itisourduti to "'lo the can with the bodies II. has "given us. lt is onr we can, to miine with the greatest thoughts of the gn st i-si im ii in ami will be the beal iiiiiii at the end of his life who ha- made him "silt mo-t familiar with the of the "greatest men of Greece and Rome, who both ni thought and in language have bet a unpar "alloted in tho world." Mere we have, except for the special refetenoe to the classics, almost precisely the dehnitjon ol salton given bj Mr. Arnold. A knowledge of the best thal has I thought and said in tim The Philistine la not thc practical man, but the man inaccessi? ble to ideas, who him lt to immediate material objects, and dMM mind -against a knowledge of the host that has been thought and suid in the world.

Obviou-dy the measure of our civilization is not to be tilled by this class. Eveu for his material pursuits the prac? tical man needs to the best; and that society will be the most prosperous us well as the most civilized iu which the culture that con? sists in ample knowledge of tlie best baa been most widely extended, lind has done mott toward ''making gentlemen of tim lotter To do the best we eui with mind Qod luis gi, eli us i-, as mi sessary to inecessful life as to do the best wo can with our wheat fields ami railroad companies. If wo understand faythe Philistine the mau who shuts Ul Bind against ide.is, and especially against the idea nf the practical utilitt of har? monious nil-round culture, wo aro confident that Philistinism ls much lesa prevalent iii the United states than Ifr. Arnold and his critic seem to imagine. Culture no doubt ls very impel feet among us, but the desire for culture is strong.

Nobody can watch the currents of American life without seeing that along with much affectation of refinement which is a mere trivial and Insincere following of fashion, snd much that springs only from a vulgar hive ot display, then- is a marked tend? ency tuuan! higher ideals ami an increasing comprehension of what we maj call the business value of Intellect. The fondness fur criticism, which is sometimes cited as an Indication of in? tellect uni decay, is often sign of awakening Intellectual life, lt ls so with ai at the present time. What ls ths questioning and unaly tical spirit so noticeable In our recent lit? erature but a desire to discorer the last word of culture, the best thought of the best men It is the function of criticism tn do this ami the art of criticism in America has risen timing the past ten yean to an Importance which shows how highly its practical value is mtc.1. The char? acteristic tone of all om bi snd most success? ful periodicals ls distinctly critical; life, man? ners, philosophy, all sub? jected to profound ami ute examination; and evin the literature which owes must to the ive Impulse especially sud tilleilwithilieeritic.il spirit. lu the present nf uni cit (ligation, tt we have onlj laid the rial foundation nf national greatness, the habit is ot mon- mit lo ii-, than mtit itv in original production.

At iiuy tate the tendencj i- Inconsistent with Philistin? ism. It show-that whaterer the defects in our culture, tin i-, not Uisccemiibility to THE CHOLERA ti El ill. The discovery ol the so-called cholera germ mts recently announced In Thk Timih cable dispatches. Dr. Koch's report to the Ger? man Government (hows that hi- Investigations h.ive imt passed beyond the preliminsrj stage, The Scientific Commission reached Ah (andria unit a sheri time lu the disappearance ol the pestilence, and consequently had onlj a meagre opportunity fot microscopic work, lt succeeded, however, In Identifying a character Uth parasite inslsrge number of cases.

This bu illus is described as bearing ft close resem? blance to the thread-like bacteria found in eon Int timi ith claudell ill these minute organisms could be di tected in the Mood, liter, lungs, spleen mid a patient, bul In tbe Intestines colonies ut them weie inviiiiiiblt found in full activity. the ot the disease being in propor? tion lo of the germs. The Com? mission has i io greatly Impressed with the ol this that it bas obtained --inn fruin Berlin it- in Rations iu India, tt lure genuine eases of Asiatic hull ra an alwaj to be found. The ol 'Ins holeiaic germ liss en itnrelj M. Pasteur and otbei Investigators are st work iu the same Held and Dr.

Koch could aol take ri-k of being in his scientific qui -i. Indeed, it is bi nu certain that an actual discovery been made, origin of cholera has been suspected forman) tears. Members of the Brit uh Medical Service have succeeded in analysing certain organisms swarming in choleraic barges, sud it i- possible tbat Dr. Koch's thread-like bacillus maj prove to ls i previous revelation of the micioacopc, The mi irina I itt of his investigation soon be toted in India. 1'eitainlt his bacillus bas not ht 'i cultivated, il il has eui bel ll li.

ft ami it ls in branch id science thal Dr. Koi has won his great reputation in Europe. His uiliiial report staten that he and his associates were unsuccessful in their attempts to obtain the bacillus in a pun- state sud to communii atc the disease by mentis ol the cultivated germ to rabbits, guinea-pigs, cats and other ani? mals. In this respect Dr. Koch's experiments were remarkable than those conducted with the tubercular parasite.

Indeed, then- no (dence that the choleraic Imcillus i- a iiu- agent, li may prove be the effect rather the canst of the contagion, lu otderto demonstrate the fatal activity of the un it ttill lu for Dr. Kmh to sepa? rate it from Its nutm.il conditions and bj intro il eitig it into the bodies of animals to produce the disease, When that is done it aili be lime to inquire whether it is possible bj causing a in ihi harmless lunn of cholera lo vaccinate, il we m.iv usc the word, thc "iii nial world and prevent thc ravages ol this dreadful pestilence. THE ll I i KS i ns I A TIONS. I week was tilled srlth religion conven? tions, and Ihe slr waa burdened with discus ions mine lit ely thiin was to be expected from Ihe grave bodies in connell. The I'liii ersuli ts met in Washington and the outset fell npon a -nhjeet of contention in the matter of woman preachers.

Whethei j'otith who were tn-'id bj the Board ol Trustees to turn si tent ion to the mini-tit meant worthy Miling women as well as uieuwusthe question which tta- debated with httal aud acrimony, and lin.illy In ailnpliiig lin words worthy unaltered and hilting lt to time and fnture conventions to settle the ipi. st ion of sex involved In them. A declara? tion nf tin- fundamental doctrine ol the sect a is more easily agreed upon. Evangelical Church, whose lueudM-rsbip lies pi ip.ill.t aaiong tlie Germans, held a National Conference lu Allentown, while the Disciples Christ, popularlj known ns Canipbi Uiie are in coujrress lu Cincin? nati. This i- religious Imdj whose meat and thinl.

laargunient. Bcyoudbelici iuChrisI aud in Immersion, every maa i- iii libertj to formulate hi-nw creed, ami as the brethren are usually clear-headed, shrewd stu lents of the Bible, ami each of them charitably tealous in urging his own creed on his neighbor, theil conferences are er drowsy, 1'hi- labors of the Protestant Episcopal Gen? eral Council are just ended. Nut thal the tt.uk laid nut fm them has been linne, half linne. Borne of the mool important questions, sm a- the permanent alteration af the Prayer? book, Mexican affairs, Bitnslistle Innovations, being left unfinished until tbe next Convention. This habit ul et ading crucial points of differ? ence, of sliding them off oa to the shoulden of tut ure councils aud synods, becoming a marked characteristic of religious in this country.

It is partly due to tho fact that clergymen, of any denomination, are not often imii of business, and partly to the deepening respect amoug thoughtful American Protestants fur the rights of individual judgment. Even the historic Church, which claims authority, and has been in session in Philadelphia, shrinks fruin forcible ex-cathedra utterances to her children, and glows moro deliberate and con? servative with iy 'ear. No notice has been taken of Ritinilistic extravagances on one side and eviingelit-al complaints on the other. The Church determined to move on quietly preach "ing the gospel and sending out missionaries, iii the faith that these minor evils would pres cully quietly drop oft'." There is a good deal of this calm staying power exhibited lately in all our active religious bodies. Our forefathers parleyed but an hour or two before they a Quaker to tho whipping-post or a Baptist to the cart-wheel, but their descendants listeu with patience and almost without contradiction to Ingersoll or Itenan, because while minor outside dogmas of their faith appear to them ss Important, their belief in its foundation is more secure and absolute.

The establishment of truth, they have found, does not depend on wordy arguments any more than on cart-wheels and whipping-poota. Apart bom all tual work done, these con? ventions are useful moro useful, indeed, to Clergymen than to any other class. The hard worked, under-paid drudge in a country parish coming np to them gains a rest, mental strength and refreshment, an upliftIiik and widening of his horizon, that is of incalculable good to bini in Ids errand of helping divers kinds of men and the well-paid, scholarly city minister learns a wholesome lesson by closer contact tt ii hhis half-starved, shabby brother, who ii sacrificing his life to the cause of Christ. Miss Prescott, lt seems, has no favorable opinion of the critics of N'etv-York. This in gush hildy reciprocal.

Tho critics have expressed no favorahle opinion of her. Mr. Gladstone is winning nnotlier species of laurel for the crown of his old ngo as a Latin poet. A year ur two uko for Ills own pleasure ho translated the hymn beginning "Art thou weary, art thou languid into Latin verse successfully. Sinro then he luis translated severs! others, the last of which, Cowpers hymn, has attracted much attention from Latin especially la Italy.

Signor bongin, a noted critic, declares that Latin verse has the directness force of the hymns of Bt. Francis d'Assisi. Given the technical facility to write a Latin poem, there really is much in the character of the Englishmsn to remind us of that must cuiiiiiioii, sensible, patient ami just sf who taught us that "our tt hole duty Heft, uot in wt ri vin tr to If ot ln-r ilia we arc. hut to he well what vt- are." The ehain-gaag is likely, it seems, to esme into Georgia courts. A negro wss sentenced to pay fine of 910 or serve sis months upon tbs public Murks.

As theta's permita, he hind himself out to a mau who poid tbe run-, lin- inan. however, tiled nf his bargain, sud sold his contract the lessees of 1 ttiivii-ts. These persons put stripes upon the his otboee betag only a misdo sr. He brings snit for damages, Braking tins one of grounds of complaint, bul as the prtaol pal ones a denial i-f ths right ta transfer aad a chargeof false Imprisonment. Probably ths de? struction of the bain-gang sj stein eaa only bs had through sb aroused public wntiassnt acting upon the Legislature, bot sn esposora of sosse of Its in? iquitous sad outrageous tantana in court would I h-lp toward its downhill, ami it is io be hoped this will not Iw bushed up befoCS trish it nain Brooklyn snit goes for the plaintiff, a 1 people will mid thal the) Ott foun? dation im prosecution br higsmy when they wen babies.

It has alt-, ats a favorite pastime with the older folks to hate toy marriages, ao to speak smongthe huts amt -Usually the hatbands ami wit es un-far below married for that oeedsiou only, but hereafter boys sad giris who an above the narrtageeble sgewill probably avoid socs dsngeroos pranks, a boj eighteen was nailed la this humorous way at aa evening psrty to a girl of seventeen, and the whole matter, sceording to his state-meat, was regarded as a hugs Joke. Hs claims thal he hss never ta sny wsj recognized her ba btu wita except i.y writing ln-r a jot ular note in tt hich he tailed ber My ar wife." To astonishment, however, shs has brought snit him to compel recognition of ber ns a wife, If his statement true, this li liliu kiuail, snd worse. 1 be Marquis pm mus to his departure Installed Grand Chief of ths Hurons at Lorette, snd the London papers indulge ta a. good desi ol romantic disquisition thereupon, lugging in reminiscences of mighty Tecumseh snd the il the Iroquois," and ensuring their readers thst an important snd historical dis? tinction, must ilgnificaat In Its bearing, has been conferred on tbs Msrquis. If the title of (.1 iiial Chief of sosse of tbs Western bands of Indians lu Camilla bad beenconferredon the departing Gov? i-i them ininht luive been some signifi? cance in it; hut Lorette, as most of our leaden lune seen, ls ii miserable little village, peopled erith few families of who earn their living hy tormenting tourists from the States tata baying their moccssins sad bssd pomes, Losd Lome has shott an amiable disposition to make the most of the few pleasurable ooonrreneee of his sojourn in Canada, hut it would need more (han bis poetic illillinna! imi to 1 outfit his election its chief nf them half-breeds Into sa event either picturesque or A druggist in Paris, hsving been convicted of sdul tent lug sulphate iif quinine, bss been sen? tenced to imprisonment at hard tabor.

In addition, he ls to pay Hue thousand (ranee, his miine ami 1 rime are to he published iu twelve political and twelve profisaiiiiisl papers, and should In- ever reopen his store, tn the door thereof ls to be sfllzed a sign: "Sentenced tot adulterating sulphate of quinine." This is set punishment far more severe, probably, than would be regarded .1 just In this country. But the crime tt as mi Infamous one. lt iras stealing from ths sick men his only hope of r.very, and tbe Incident is tt loch druggists, lan nuken, snd ths public hero would do well tn take to heart. Complaints aro not infrequently heard in thiscltj of various drags being pom In quality, sro forced to direct that their prost riptiona bs Ailed si osrtaia stores, that may he sure of the strength of tim Ingredients. Borne druggists seem to be runnings race to see wbo can sell quinine pills st the lowest pries per dosen, and thej advertise each compettag reduction erith groat Sourish of trumpets.

But while the prise goss down, doss the quality remain at proof 1 Or would universal aad rigid examina? tion of drugs nt kinds show that mani dealers deserve to share the Frenchman's fata I AL. Judge Aldis, of Vermont, a few years aim built 11 house in Washington at a cost of 912.000. ll" now sold it to Oeneral iid.ui tor If ez-Oovernor Boutwell, of Massachusetts speaks in next year's Presidential contest, as nil hsve spoken in twelve such Ile ti rsi spoken 1840, sad has been upon the even lourth year stace. Wilhelm I.t ihl, the Herman peasant-painter, is maaof herculean strength, but of mdned, exceedingly reserved, demeanor. Il? has bsd onlj two pupils uaksesy, aud John Tu ul he lin mr, ol lin.lull.

A curious incident of Mr. Hailstone's recent visll to tim Orkneys mis that while all ths shops nu OBS in Klrkwull WSW closed ta his honor, am! his party liberally patruniaed that the kooyoi of tt huh wss 11" stern, unbending Tory." On slate occasions the IsspstM Dom Pedro it car? il loageaps made entirely of tim bessel statham al a raru South Aiuoricau bird. Thoao feathers an bright omngs-cologed, wendagfaliy flnesudgloaam ana it takes tho breasts of one hundred blrdsTI make a cape. Professor Alexander Graham Bell has had an add di iou mado to his Washington house large room in which he will, for an hour each receive deaf mutes and teach them to speak, la this good work he will be assisted by his wita, whom iu the same way ho taught to speak yean ago. Postmaster-General Gresham's office is on ths third floor of the Post Office building.

Illa desk is so placed that the big pier-glass, between two win? dows, is directly behind his chair. Ile sits In a common cane-seated chair, and gives a visitor a scat at hts side in a leather-covered. Turkish cushioned chair, and all other furniture in the room in walnut, leather-covered. The floor is covered with plum matting. In his nattie, simply, all bis correitpondeuoe Detng dictated to a Gresham uses a platajsteel pen.

lt is pleasant to know," says The Loudon that Burns has itill representatives in tho flosh who cherish his memory. His third son, Lieutenant Colonel James Glencairn Burns, left a daughter by his first marriage, named Sarah, who married Dr, Berkeley Hutchison, of Cheltenham, and who has a son and three daughters. These are the great? grandchildren of the poet, and are his direct and lawful descendants. James Burns was wi co married, aud hy his second marriage he also left a t'liiiuliier. who is still Miss Burns, aud who resides at Cheltenham with her half -sister." Mr.

Howard Kretschmer has made, for the Union Veteran Club of Chicago, a clay model for a marble bust of Oeneral Sheridan, which is said to bo a cap? ital likeness. The club had hard work to indues the Genoral to sit for the sculptor, as ho said ho was tired of being caricatured, all previous at? tempts of sculptors and painters having boen un? satisfactory. It is, indeed, related that once Mrs. Sheridan became no thoroughly disgusted with a portrait of her husband, painted by an artist noS unknown to fame, that she drove to the General's headquarters one duy during his temporary absence, ebtered bis private office, uud with paint-brush completely obliterated the features. GENERAL NOTES.

Thouph the Narragansett Indians have until withlu the ltia-t lew retained their trilnil lt lu doubtful ll tlier.t isa sindhi Nurrairiiiiaett of blood among them, lt km been their practice to Inter? marry wltti the negroes. The Vicar of Walznll, England, the Rev. R. Itodgnon, M.A., after profound rewarchea, has reconciled -wit-uei'and religion by the remarkable discovery, which lie recently announced In a public lecture, that pro Ailnniltc ure nothing more nor lesa than tumdl ungi There is in the possession of William Ellery, of Prut Mi ncc, r. et ttsWflUssi Kilt ry who Hignett tin- lieclurattiiii of a silk Itcd upreii.l nader tt Mel nu ons but a PreoMeal at tho Dolled has ever slept, lt was Basis te esfmsasfeai si Via-liliintiiii tvhen he flatted Rhode mu! -im mono President flays over night in that Stats lt i- to perform a similar serrli A nnmhsf of rich mea ol' dtffnenl ne llnlllllitl.

tl hate been ill tin pluj. 't nf lllllid tag .) huge easlM at adapted Silks to thc retiulre manser sad -sister. Ita pn.muter* paaasssa rn iv oona IvsMe fora of smusemeat which monev procure and itu- law sllow; Including, fur sedate patrons, the USC of library of A number of gentlemen writing to Crienda in England from Port-of-Spain, Trinldail, n-pott that about hour before sunset, thnt III atti-ilt o'clock, ol) Isp teinber 2, the sun sssunied the appearance of a blue Mi. iH.i color and appearance as mod peculiar nml -lillirie tbat the pheaoaeaoe va generally ouppeeed to fun till bad WestkST. Three dais later the cy.l-.ina Although Mrs.

Agnes May Fleming; the writer nf a Urge mimbi of MTtsI stories of ilnlili'Stle life, SSS8S aasvnswnsfslB with inr name ns tho author BM ta upi" ir as If cniitliiueil to ti i ito. A Ml nd tha dasi lady declares that after Mrs. Fleming's death sonic surviving trendier of tin- family sold the nulli (ti tn BM her name to a witter In lin- tclii, und lie ctiiiiiinu still to um lt a trado lllillk. Mr. E.

E. Conklin, of tho Knickerbocker leo Company, has SKftSSSed to a of Thr AII-iihj eg) Jemmti shs sstsssa that and ass Ham BOODOO inns nf last winter's Ice harvest ri-uiamlu the ulong the Hodson. in Ihe old can Uml In eitel tatlou of au oi-en winier. maha tats prophecy boitiiy, for tin- that in tho 'until when eroeeed Ike Hael And isn't that sn infiilUblo mlsn tbat suntu tt tull ic ail during ths next sli months. MUSIC AND IEE DRAMA.

ITALIAN OPERA AT TWO HOUSES. At ths Academy of Ilario Mri at tin-Metro. polHas Opera House tin- performances of epoatag were repeated ru.iv afternoon. Mr. Mnple ftiit-es were um hanged uni I.a Honiuiutbula" with the same people and In the same brilliant manner at OB Issi Monday.

Tins uuiUeuec wan a pecu one, and several times ni the afternoon Madame Ostetse ISSSei tt to a Ugh pitch of rciteiueut. Tho house was crotvib-tl ns lt has Leen all the week. Mr. Ablx-y was less fortunate as to HgMf ('nu. painui Injured il lest en Wednesday ead WSS uiiable to appose ss Buuel.

He replaced bf M. Cepoul, win) metat tte part with paoetoaaie I. i tau- and SSIIg sollie of ll very ai it Taat uni to nil the ninnie 1-a fact thal h.t.s lang iiiin noegateed. ie ees Madame Mllaeoo and I together lo tte gmttam, bott et er, nt Ived pleaaont seeato of their grel op i a leaess here, end tte eeal sbortcoml-ogs wen esstly psrdsned tor tte eeks et the memory. Th.

performance stoved awn eeasothly ttsa i.u night, iiml Mail inn- Nil--un did her part vtitll -pieiuiiii power, 'lin- inti in tu thal tin Uni night The rein ittiiit-, for tte houaei tin- weal followa: Metrupolltan Opera I l'untani." ulth Madame Pembrlch, Btagno. Kaechmann nnd Mirabella la the oaal, edneadaj Mignon," Ith Mm itauies Nilssmi. Vitll'-iia and In. M. Capoul sod signor liol Puen te; Friday, Lucia." with Madame lees 11 11.

Slgnon I lil lil uinl un. tr nb my nf Mumu?" Lucia," with Madaau Qerster, ami Stguom lui. and Lombardelll; Wedin Il Tiov.itoie." with tli -ilaiiirs pappfitliciui and t.iiiiin i Tlozco. and Vlelul, tl alamil and Lombardi III; Krt willi MUe. 1'attlui, mu.

Joaephln and Aignon Perugtny Cherubtnl and sn oil. LAWRENCE BARHETT8 FAREWELL. Mr. Barrett's engagement st the Fltsr Thnatte cudedjast sight, sad large snd brilliant sodlaaee gst lum boswell sting snob es emsbend, ami sin li as mat well have gladdened Un- acini's heart. At tito cloie I titi ul tin ti Win tl-n i- Mi alls, mal nt tin la-t Ml.

Ilai lt lt ann- lui tv aiil.il,in ead witt evident d.i eui.iliim linnie. Mi, of hts him. ch could ind be tal.en- it tun spoKcn with tuch terror and lu tilts mi lu liken Milli liii-pn --Ible lt i- seldom that a inlill i- bSS COOM thu- ut tbe heart or beea uttered nh inch etneeritj snd grace. KT, lliillftt's tn Ml-- Mart Au.lt 1-ni; kill llllu' nd and Mr. Irving ant Mi-'l'tiit ii Aim rh tv.it? made and received las happy and neucroaa aidrll.

and nu le st reference to hla own cartier, and to hla an.tu wltb Kdwlu whom he referred aa the greal seton ol sn i.thn-i. -i. The ance of thin enaof a Uuerlcau mit hm -hip wm the main notnl of Mr. Barn n's itu Uinl ii.l.li a suet eaa, we il'ink. more lai-geb dna to tbe actor than to the bul not tte 1 i tniitc prsetleal appreclauou tbe tmerlean puhlte.

Mr. ni- ii elita-' snd iiitd ihe ihi tm iiiaiici- pi i (ted to a brilliant i IWEENCE BASSETTS WELLSPEEt ll. Lawrence Barrett last night closed bison liteiit nt lite Mai Th. alli-, he has been j.lat linc for the last nine tvisks. Ile was Balled ont minindi Bl tte end of the third act.

In reply to the dem.n d-Im i made thc MlOWtSg Ul. li tl SS cbeend: Il ever I ben wse sa exesse br as urtiit, lu Meppiug finui his sseiimed character.to speab In perara, lt might Im affonled by an inca inn ol mi engagomenl wall li baa teated, bj um ance, patience ead rapport, tot nine weelo -au ewr.N-Cf Ittelil devoted lo ail Ana iii an hich li I- al caner unexampled, believe, ta the hh el our lt has bein veini.n, I feel Unit on thi- OffSehm then la much tbal I ought to say tn the way ol tbanas, bal when the heart le full much ama! inevitably reiinilu Hatti which tn calinei momenta I -should au. Thle a tore han cittin-ly my own. I traeted cnili. lt the rapport Ot tts pnlilic tot.int ll fm tl, and Hu reaull bus boon grutltytna rn the deirrvu.

Mr. borter Wallal 1,. Itkss t-rae artist, haa none morn tlmnha tiroiul.sed, ami tte respectable press sss foom Buawssa In the moHt loyal i-piiit to si-la 11 this to mit ance the eau.x- of AuieticaU diiiuiatle llteraliim. TS th CSS end lo all I du- hearty the of un artist who labored iinsuct but -sincerely, to foi-want the literature of coc.ntiy, and who ls onad ead honored to labor In that nen ito. This ot-fuslon has SOMStttSg inure than an tirdinarv to me.

i may tell you that linne I hall have of condiiK yon attain, I SPfSSS before 11 foreign uiidlitice. What the DUI Im no ene tell bul I feel fell of I trust that In linn with you w'll pardon tue If I refer to my friend Mr. Henry Bsgiaad'a dletlsgnlebed urtlut, who tt III fnllow me on Ile by eminent aillaunornU10 Lorcouui Ihculru Ouuipuuy, whoic nol.