1 -V IHiL HUDDERSFIELD DAILY CHRONICLE, MONDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1877. FOOTBALL. LONDON v. SHEFFIELD.
For the second time this season the. Association CAPTAIN HURRICANE JONES. There was a good deal of pleasant gossip about old Captain Hurricane Jones, of the Pacific Ooeaa peace to his ashes Two or throe of present had known him; particularly well, for I had made far sea-voyages with ttiia. He wis a very remark tble man. He was born in a ship be picked up wh i little ednoa WHY WIT LOVE THE DAISY.
Dear little daisy, how beautiful it is, hiding its modest little head in the grass, and bowing gently before the tyrant breeze. We think of it as such a shrinking, unassuming, lovable little flover. It does not flaunt abroad like the marsh mallow, nor grow in W3edy patches like the dandelion but it just raises LATEST TELEGRAMS. H03IE NEWS. By Telegraph, per Press Association.
THE HOME RTTLERS. A meeting of the council of the Home Bule League was held in Dablin, on 8 iturday, at which Mr. Butt, M.P and Messrs. O'Connor Power, M. and Parnell, tabled the resolutions which they purpose sub mitting to the forthcoming National Conference.
Dr. O'Learv, M.P., presided. The Irish weeklv Nationalist papers are in favour of the Home Rule Conference, to be held on the 14th prox.T in Dablin, and urge Irish patriots to attend. The Nation writes, The session of Parliament about to open will be one in which the rulers of England will find themselves face to face with weighty cares. In these eiroomstanoes the national claims of Ireland can hardly be scorned and scouted as they were in England's less troublesome times, if they be rightly presented ana resolutory pressea ior settlement.
The Conference is to decide whether they Rhftll be so resented and pressed, or whether Ireland's rare and precious opportunity shall he misused or lost." The Irishman says If our representatives are not prepared to maintain manfully and vehemently the rights of Ireland, their day is done." The Flag of Ireland sneers at Mr. Butt, and presses the IriBh members to united and vigorous action. It will be for them," says the Flag, a very splendid opportunity for presenting demands with a force and authority which must oompel attention. In the very probable event of a ministerial crisis, the Irish vote will be a most potent factor, and it is possible jthat both parties may bid high for it." THE LIFEBOAT WORK IN 1877. During the year which has just closed, the lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution have rendered great services on different parts of the- coasts of the United Kingdom.
The unusually severe storms of the past two months tested to the utmost the qualities of the institution's large life-saving fleet 'but on every occasion the brave men and their boats were found fully equal to every emergency The long list tntol if OQQ lines raannaA hv tVo flrtTto'a Ufa. Ar. tv, ot hoQi.Ua 9X aBfll from destruction. In the same period t5e jMij1 or SPORTING INTELLIGENCE MANCHESTER BETTING, Saturo4T. CUr.
8gst Mr Biigg a nom 1 Mr Colmau's nom 9 Mr Hornby' nom Mr Bed 'ord's nom 3 Mr Patterson's nom 1 Mr Pilkington's nom 1 Mr Wilkina's nom 1 Mr Home-Purves's nom 100 to 20 to 200 to 100 to 100 to 40 to 50 50 to THE CAPTAIN'S GHOST STORY We had lost a man overboard, and of course evarv, body was thinking of him. AHoat two boar f'nlt. was a Portugee sailor at the hehsL "uu wi" nio waccning toe ships coora. Of a sadden this Portugee let out the mosis fearful that I ever heard in my life, broke away from thb afcini lew along sba (ieok, und uluned into the aht fch wheelmyseif baw.ed to the mate to briar "ouou mi iu KOQe a devil of a while. Whan he returned he said that the aaa wouldn't come.
Won't oouio?" aays I. "That's a pretty story ten on board ship. Why don't you make him come But I can'V says the mate. He held on to the taunchiona like a vice. He says he'll die before if come." So, thinking the Portugae had gone mad, I ordered qg another man.
Bat the second atei rsman had acaroety got to his post before he too let off a screech and bros for the foVsle. By Jove, I didn't know what to auk of it I began to think there was a disease aboard some sort of a catching frenzy. I took the helm again! But just as I was woodtring whtitbr I would havs steer the ship across the ocean myself, I chano to tarn my eye windward, and I saw something. You mast rptnember that it was du-k, and in faot pretty darkiab. Wall, through that darknes I saw a white object rise over the taffrail, wavo at me in hreteniog way, and drop again as if into the sja.
Now. I never did believe in ghosts, never, even in my childhood. But for one moment I wa-t thoroughly srarcfed; I thought the drowned sailor wis there. Thf nxt the object rose agair, and I diacovpred wlm it vrxn. It was not a ghost it was the cabin tabltcloth.
Thfj steward had hung it over the side to dry, and the wind now and then lifted a corner of it. THE OTHER CAPTAINS BRIGAND STORY. It's a lovely country, the Mnditerranean shore every rpot of it, ever mile of it. Ever bt-en there Isn't it country ir ever i got on oaty i mean ase a trip to cnose regions every wiuter oq toe- much i i i UDftUbllut VYVIJ Uiiltu VOU lina and plenty of fine fishing aud shooting. When I sailed there I used to go ashore at every port, ard stroll off hit the country with either my gun or my nbing-tacie.
la th oourse of one of those tramps, a few miles out af Messina. I had a curious adventure. On ooming back from a fishing boat I found myself tired, aod stopped at a little wayside tavern to take a bottle of win. Tbeie I fell into conversation with an Italian, a nice-lookiag fellow enough and very pleasant in his manners. Thst man spoke Boghsh as wetl as I did he had been tn America, he said learned his English there.
I liked him so well that I gave him a cir, and then another, and shared my wine with him. We were sitting under the porch in front of the tavern, and everything around us waa pretty, and I had au agreeable half hour. At last I looked at my watch, found it waa iottine iatp inJ I said I must go. "Let me see that watch," sys the Italian. I banded it to him it was a ulce watch there Is the very one now.
He looked at it, gave it back to ms, smiled, and said, If yoa hadn't been so po'lte to me, I would have taken that watc.i tWay from you." Well, yoa see what my bfltfjd I can stand a pass'" good tussle. I sfnilcd at him, aad "id I don't be lleve that yr.u could take that watch. "Ah," says he, UJ wouldn't have taken it; bat I'M show you who With thit he gavo a w'riietle, and upon my seal iti honoar, if fivo or six armed men di iu't start up ll around us two of them, if you'll believe it. from bealoa a wall just the road. Afte ho had let me luok at them he gave another whistle, and trey all went cover.
"Good evening, sir," said he, 'I wish you journey. 'GckI evening, sir," said and started for Hessine, Atlantic Monthly. THEORISING AND COWHIDE BOOTS. There waa a man who did a god deal of iapuosing. Stepping up to a Sixth street market worn-; yesterday afternoon, be said What's but-rer worth to-dtiy "Thirty rive cent customer.
Nice, sweet, and hb. How much would yoa lise, sir?" replied the dame, eagerly. "That's an awful ptlso the labouring man wira large and hungry family to plank 'jown." be aaiu nmuDA as he tasted the golden iobricam fee end of toe paddle. Bat let as s'positoow Ebnl the grass crop had been a dead fizzle this season and mil disease, rlnderpeat, and holler-horn had he deck, could yoa buy batter like that to lay snort of dollar pound? No, I guess cot; td lr steail oi keeumg jour stomach cheerful every day on Bin- Glass porter-boose at fifteen cents a pound, you'd r. breaking year teeth on male meat Once a eat about ste bits.
Aad then s'posin' again, on the o'htr hand, that there hadn't been an atom of snow anywhere last winter, aud s'posin' that ninfy-nine grains out of every bund r- planted had froae out, and the flies and we evil bad got away with the other ono, where would breadsraff a' been to-day Away "-usiui Irie enough. butter, have ympt, toiaeu ana gone up ma balloon with it? It woul 4uij mere you re wrong. Wnat's thu ood of batter if yoa don't have ar.y br ad to pat Does a Oaint got any horse to draw i uoVnat ta pouter crop bad been just tremendous what thu price of butler then? What's political economy got to aay about that, eh His auditor saw a boarding house landlady hing ip with two baskets and said, S'posin' you move on nd give us a reafc." Qpto an PPle-vendor, aakii: Wbais the fruit fetching -day A dollar and a quarter a bushel, sir. Good and keep all winter. How many?" Yo'a got the market by ihe horns." he aaid, bo posin now tnat every orchard Illinois and Michijaa had poured its entire produce down h.e, what could yoa UBn 3 Vla 'hat re hadn't intro rruic to our attention What 'WOllid Vf.ll lu ilnin.r fur livin' now Or S'uosin' aoin h.h n-MiniMh-r 1 ii .1 clear dead-gone craay cider, and na.y solitary apple had been left unsqueezed in all these t'mtad States, where you're nice little profit then? Or oosm I i Jmea oyer Sib stall and interrupted hie oy uustlinv h.m 'O fa, A walk, supposing at the tim f.h, i WUIUO IJDUV BrTaltTMr POSTAGE OF NEWSPAPERS.
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remeJy fr thsr and diarrb wteshr hr'm tuetbhil oawses. 2tt ojaing -rup medjeinv' Mor a-ryWt lA Mnafao In Mp uva, -i at Players of the metropolis and those of the great nor- them football centre met to try conclusions. On. the first occasion this year the Bramhall-lane Cricket 1 Ground, Sheffield, was the seene of aetion, and then the representatives of the cutlery village," were defeated by six goals to none, the home team being very inadequately represented. This, the return match, was played at Eennington Oval on Saturday, and as is usually the case when this match takes place in London, the weather was unfavourable that is to say, it was doll and cheerless, riot withstanding, there was a large attendance of visitors, the match being looked upon as one of the most attractive of the period devoted to the winter game.
Cards, with the players' names thereon, had been issued, and a marquee was erected at the lower side pf the ground, near the skating rink, for the convenience of ladies, who, however, were conspicuous by their absence. The time announced for the game to commence was half-past two o'clock, bnt it was a quarter of an hoar- later before the ball was kicked off by J. 0. Clegg, the captain of the Sheffield team, who had lost the toss for choice of ends, the Londoners occupying the western half of the ground. The play throughout was exceedingly good, and very fast, the Northerners distinguishing themselves, as usual, by their excellent passing.
After playing one hour and a half victory lay with London, who won by two goals to one, a result for which they are much indebted to the capital goal-keeping of Warner, who saved the fortress" on several occasions from the combined attacks of the Sheffield team. From the list of names below it will be found that five only of the Londoners who played on the former occasion took part in the present contest, and of the Sheffielders six were engaged. Sides Los don. 0. H.
Wollaston (Wanderers) (captain), Hubert Heron (Wanderers), J. G. Wy lie (Wanderers), F. Barry (Old Foresters), P. Furolongh (Old Foresters), and W.
Darling (Barnes), forward E. B. Haygarth (Wanderers), F. W. Hottaam (Herts Bangers), back; N.
O. Bailey (Glapham Rovers) and B. O. Jarrett (Old Harrovians), half-back; F. Warner (Upton Park), goal keeper; O.
J. Morioe (Barnes), umpire. Sheffield. J. C.
Clegg (captain), O. P. Marples, A. Woodco*ck, P. Patterson, W.
Mosforth, and W. Wilkinson (forward), I. Houseley and Buttery (back), J. Hunter and W. E.
Clegg (halt back), W. H. Carr (goalkeeper). J. Wilkinson, umpire.
C. W. Aloock (Wanderers), htm. sea. of the Football Association, referee.
SIR GARNET WOLSELEY ON THE STRENGTH OF FRANCS. In view of the possible complications which may arise out of the final settlement of the Eastern. Question, the article upon the French army, contributed by Sir Garnet Woiseley to the Nineteenth Century, possesses a peculiar interest. If France is cot in a position to rnaka Wat, ana is, at least, is Sir Garnet's opinion, strong enough to -resist attack. Nothing in her history has been more remarkable than the determined energy and unity which have marked, during the past seven years, Iter efforts for the reorganisation of her army.
It is no secret that the Prussian system has been closely followed, with the result that France is now at least three times as strong as she when Napoleon declared "war in 1870. The regular army of France which migfej be available at the present moment for defensive purposes may, according to the reviewer, be taken at 1,200,000 men, the strength of the active army being 719,000, with a reserve" amounting to. half a million regularly trained In some ten years time Sir Garnet, estimates that France will have an army of 2,471,000 men, bat already she has a force which cannot be easily broken up. THE VISIT OF THE SHAH OF PERSIA The Whitehall Review says The Shah has grown sick and tired of the dull monotony of his Persian capital, and intends taking an extended ran to Europe, which he would have done again before this but for the troubles he found had arisen during his last absence. His Majesty this time will travel incognito.
The preliminary arrangements for the journey had been completed when our informant despatched his letter, and His Majesty's private secretary, Mirza Ali Khan Elmin-ul-Moulk, left Teheran on October 19th to act the part of agent in advance," and prepare the necessary quarters, at the places it is his master's intention to honour. The trip will commence in the spring, and Teheran will lose sight of its august Sovereign for six or eight months. The Shah gives out that hie resolve has been prompted by a desire still further to promote the welfare of his kingdom by the introduction into it of more Europaan customs but there is a feeling that other considerations have orrried weight, and the opinion is expressed that his Majesty is not the man to inconvenience himself for the benefit of his kingdom if he did not wish to do so. Upon his Eastern mind the reception the Shah reoeived some years back made a lasting impression, and he was lately heard to say that of all the Royal and Imperial personages whose acquaintance he made during the tour, no one more surprised him than the Prince of Wales, because, as he put it, he seemed like one of the people, and dreBsed the same." Forty-seven members of the Council-General of the Seine have signed a petition to the Government demand- inK an amnesty for political offenoes. M.
Petitjean has been appointed President of the Court of Accounts, and is succeeded In his functions of Procureur General by M. Le Boyer, Advocate-General and Senator. In the House of Lords, the Address In reply to the Speech from the Throne will be moved by Lord Wham-cliff and seconded by the Earl of Loudon. The latter is In his 23rd year. The presence at Paris Is announced of the Turkish Minister to Brussels, Osratheodory Effendi, who was one of the secretaries who drew up the protocols pf the Conference at Constantinople.
hat is called a conference of citizens of London who are anxious to prevent our country from being dragged Into the Eastern war, has been called to meet in Caxten-butldings, on Tuesday next. The Corporation of Dublin, at a general meeting held on Saturday, refused Sir Edward Lee's application, that the Elcho Shield should be entrusted to him for public display In the Exhibition Palace It is stated that a motion will be made during the ooming session to obtain a resolution of the House of Commons in favour of the of a national theatre, on the principle of the Theatre Francaise and the Odeon In Paris, and the State Theatre In Berlin. There are still eleven brigade depots to be filled but the difficulty, the Army and Navy Gazette believes, is in finding officers to accept them. One is to be given to Colonel ChippindalL C.B., 19th Regiment, and a second to Colonel Hardy, half Day. late 84th Regiment one in offered to Colonel Armstrong, who is retiring upon half PaT 'rom command of the 2nd Battalion 22nd Regiment a second will be offered to Colonel Buchanan, of the 9th I lir a i v.
i wu uutuuvi a.Brr, Assistant in Cannda, is named for a third. This would dispose of five. A strange occurrence is reported from Mitohelstown. I A man has been found dead on the Gal tee Mountains i with his jaw blown off and an empty pistol by his side, The deceased has been identified as a farmer from Kilkenny, named Windgap. He left his home on Tuesday last, stating that he was going to Mount Mellary, a i retreat for inebriates, and it is supposed that he purposed i visiting Mr.
Bridge, the agent over the Mitchelstown property, with an evil intent. At the inquest, the jury I Could not agree as to whether the man was murdered or met his death by accident. I The Berlin National Zittunn has an emnharle artieln against Mr. Layard's reported attempt to prevent the surrender of Italian ships, against English maritime policy generally In the Mediterranean, and against Lord Beaoowfield's Eastern policy. It rejects absolutely any community of Interests with England, and distinctly warns her that Germany prefers a Russian alliance.
The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News adds: "Since this journal will be the chief organ of Government in case the National Liberal combination be carried out, tais may almost do taken as foreign policy by the new Cabinet. Similar la.ntraa.oa held. bT eTerT journal in Berlin except the extreme Radicals and TJltramontanes." Spelling Rei-obm Memorial. It is expected that the Memorial of the School Boards asking for a Royal Commission of Enquiry in regard to spelling reform will be presented to the Education Department about the end of January, and that it will bo supported by another deputation composed principally of the leading philologists. When the memorial of the London Board was first proposed, 101 provincial boards gave in their adhesion including many of the largest towns in the kingdom.
This number has now increasad tn 1 3fl Amnn the recent additions are Brighton, Hull, Swansea, Cardiff. Southampton, Worcester, and Wakefield. Some of them, however, though desirous of enquiry, do not fully endorse all the points of the London Memorial while Birmingham has adopted a memorial'of its own with the same practical object. The authorities at the Government clothing establishment at Pimlico are actively employed in issuing the first instalments of the new helmet to the army. It is a nanusome ciotn neimet, with chin strap and brass spike, and with a distinctive device of either grenade or bugle for fusilier and light infantry regiments.
Tea, free from artificial colour. Cassell's widely celebrated teas are imported pure and free from any mineral facing powder, or other injurious matter, which it is weu Known ine uninese use in preparing a large propor ui aon or cne tea nrougnt to tnis country. Cassell's Pnr tt i 11 i Ewe agencies can still be obtain Smith and 80, Fenchurch-streetT London, who sen terms tree by post. JUABA.V1L1.A UOCOA. Thfl duwi Various Importers and manufacturers have attempted 5o ftttain reputation for tholr prepared aoco3, but doubt whether thorough success had been achieved until Messrs.
Taylor Brothers discovered the extraordinary qur.Ht'"o. of Maravllia cocoa. Adapting their perfect system of preparation to fin-st of all species of ths T'setihroins, they have producer! sjj adfele which super. Pdp "very other cocor iii the taarkt. Entire 'lub'l'lty.
delicto a'-oma, cors-wrstfe-a of the -urest above r.il others. For hoitBistfefl 1 lavllia n-. uai recoramend a more sreeafcta r. iti sheets on, tolf iwnriofcr UO BLU 'UK he hid amog hi3 shipmates he began life in the fore- CMtle ftnd olimoetl by grade Co the captaincy, Monj thaQ 5Q yeitra Qi- 6- were tpent at He ,1 an oceans, seen all lands, and borrowed a tint from all climates When a man has been 50 years at sea he necessarily knows nothing of men, nothing of the world bat its surface, nothing of the world's thought, nothing of the world's learning Dot its A O. and that blurred and distorted by the unfocussed lenses of an untrained mind.
Saoh man is only a gray and bearded child. That is what old Hurricane Jones was simply an inno cent, lovable, old infant When his spirit was in repose he was as sweet ami srentle as girl when his wrath was up he was a harricme that made his nickname seem tamely descriptive. He was formidable in a fight, for be was pi powerful build and dauntless courage. He was a profound Biblical scholar that is, he thought he was. He believed everything in the bible, but he had his own methods of arriving at bis beliefs.
Ho was of the advanced school of thinkers, and applied natural laws to the interpretation of all miracles some- I what on the plan of tha people who make the six days of creation six geological epochs, and so forth. Without being aware of it, he was a rather severe satire on modern scientific religionists. Such a man as I have been describing is rabidly fond of disquisition and argument one I knows that without being told it. One day the captain had a clergyman on board, but did not know he was a clergyman, since the passenger list did not betray the fact. He took a great liking to this Rev.
Mr. Peters, and talked with him a great deal 1 told him yarns, gave him toothsome scraps of per- sonal history, and woe a glittering streak of profanity through his garrulous fabric that was refreshing to a 1 spirit weary of the dull neutralities of undecorated speech. One day the captain said, Peters, do you ever read the Bible?" I jadga it ain't often, by the way you say it. Now, you tackle It in dead earnest ones, and you'll find it'll pay. m's yoi gee dlsooaraged, ba hang right on.
First, you want to understand it but by and by things will begin to clear up, and then you wouldn't lay It to eat." heard that said. V-te-. There ain't a book that begins ju ovor Vm all, Peters. There's some hin2i In it there ain'r. sny getting arount you stick to them and think them oat, and once you got oa the Inside everythin nlain as aly- The miracles, too, captain Yes.
sir the miracles, too. Every one of them. Now, there's that business with the prophets of Baal like enough that stumped yoa Well, I don't know but Own up, now it stamped you. Well, I don't wonder. You hadn't had any experience in ravelling such things out, and naturally it was too many for yoa.
Would yoa like to have me explain that thing to yon. and show yoa how to get at the meat of these matters 7" Indeed I would, captain, if you don't mind." Then the captain proceeded as follows: I'll do it with pleasure. First, you see, I read and read, and thought and thought, till I got to understand what sort of people they were in the old Bible times, and then after that it was all clear and easy. Now, this was the way I put it up, concerning Isaao this is the captain's own mistake and the prophets of Baal. There were some mighty sharp men amongst the public characters of that old ancient day, and Isaac was one of them.
Isaac had his failings plenty of them, too it ain't for me to apologise for Isaac he played it on the prophets of Baal, and like enough he waa justifiable, considering the odds that was against him. No, all I say is, twaVt any miracle, and that I'll show you so 's yoa can see it yourself. Well, times had been setting rougher and rougher for prophets that is, prophets of Isaac's denomination. There were four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal in the community, and only one Presbyterian that is, if Isaac was a Presbyterian, which I reckon ho was, but it don't say. Naturally, tho prophets of Baal took all the trada.
Isaac was pretty low spirited, I reckon, but he was a good deal a maa, and no doubt he went a-prophe8ying around, letting on to be doing a land-office business, but 't wa'nt any use he couldn't run any opposition to amount to anything. By-and-by ihin ja got desperate with him he seta his head to work and thicks it all out, and then what does he do? Why, he begins to throw and oZf'tmTZt just out nints that the other Darties are this nH t.ht I ama oi unaermiLir.3 their reputation In a noiet This made talk, of course, and finally got to the king. The king asked Isaao what he meant by his talk. Says Isaac, Oh, nothing particular only, can they pray down fire from heaven on an altar It ain't much, maybe, your majesty, only can they do it That's the So king was a good deal dlssarbed. and he went to th uiu, ituLjr any, mat ae had an altar ready, they were ready; and they intimated he'd better get it insured, too.
i thJ fh ln ad tbeiJ i other peopie gathered themselves to So next morning all the children of Israel and their gather. Well, here was that great crowd of prophets of Baal packed together on one side, and Iaaan mftrina and down all alone on the other, putting up his job When time was called, Isaac let on to be comfortable and I indifferent told the other team to take the first inning So they went at it, the whole four hundred and fifty I fraying roaud the altar, very hopeful, and doing their Jf Tal b88fc- They prayed an hour two hours -three hours and so on, plumb till noon. It wa'nt any use tney nadn't took a tr ek. Cif Mn Gfa ashamed bef ore all those eeonle. and well thaw miakV Vn nr I wuiuuus ner ur course.
What did Isaac do1 He gravelled th nrnnhnti nf Rial i i of. Says he, 'You don't speak out loud esonXZ, god's asleep, like enough, or maybe he's taking a walk voa wfnt to holler, yoa know' or words to that effect 1 don'. recolleot the exact language. Mind, I don't apologise for Isaac he had his faults. Well, the prophets of Baal prayed along the best they knew how all the afternoon, and never raised a spark.
At last, about sundown, they were all tuokered out, and they owned up and quit. What does Isaac do now? He steps uo and says to tome of his friends there, Pour four barrels of water on the Everybody was astonished; for the other side h.d prayed it dry, you snow, and got whitewashed. Thev Doured it on. Ha. barrels." Twelve barrels, voa sea.
alfcoth, "'VT. rn allovr thalr aH aii J7.j T. v.v.t,u iiinnun, auu uued Up a trenoh around It that would hold a couple of hogsheads It says, I reckon It means about a hogshead' Some of the people were going to pat oa tbeir things and go, for they allowed he was crazy. Thay didn't know Iiaao. Isaac knelt down and hp oan tn along, and strung along, about th az.ZH lsnH.
1.1. I i i r. uo sr ouurones, ana aoout the State uu ae country at large, and about those that's in autho- iY 3.u ne uu programme. oae ZZl-i' sudden, wh wun.a mata nl rake. i uu me unatr siae ol his icz and Tiff' nn vj ui ana pir I up te whole 4 Ult a fiouse abro Twelve of water barrels what it Petroleum, sir, petroleum that's wan "Petroleum, captain?" Yes sir the oountry was full of It.
Isaao knew all about that. Yoa read the Bible. Don't yoa worry about the tough places They ain't tough when ycu come to think them out and throw light on them. There ain't a thing In the Bible but what is trn all nn go a Vi wan tf -Tf Pr AteB that khe Greelc arm7 numbers 2oM6, including 776 offioers and 110 under officer, n8 ara0iP 532 nD.tT. 2.738 light infantry 1 793 The Canal Boats Act will in a few days come into It affect, the whole of the river and cans! eramo in the country, extending over 4,800 mile, of Tloml loT aim8 at Wt oondltion therein meD' Wmen' aad ohlldrea Wffd HEALTH WITHOUT MTmrrrrw i.
PenB''' restored by Du Barrv's dliinn. Vo(- which repairs the mucotii! mnmhr, 4 I 1MMJWC11 wraiL snn ranAW th A ji effectually chronic indigestion (dfspepX) bJS con.tlpation, diarrho3a, EmSASX natulenoy nervouwess, bUiousness, all kiada of feieS sore throate, catarrh, coldc, inflae.sa, noise, in he U'J PVerty and Parities of the blood eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, leePle8s? heartburn, headache a r.IM nausea, and mZ anm 'P', oven in pregnancy at sea, sinking fits, conuh. 7 Sinking fits, cough, aaihma, exhaustion, eDileosv. dinhat sumptio waatinc nan an.l i ijfBia, i and bitter taat uauseu ny woacco or drink. drink.
Thirty years' and delicate ohildren. hopeless. It iuYriaoio success with adults 90 ftOO rare. nf -3 wusimjrsa nopeiesa. It contain.
loui kuun aa mucn nonrtshment as meat. It is likwi --j. to rear delicate infant, auccosa- fully, and to overcome all infantine difficulties in teething IwfS stleneas, diarrhoea, Fed on this food infants thrive better than on nurse." milk, and the most restless even sleep soundly all right through. It save. oO time, its cost in drags.
Important years well-deserved and world-wTde ESSnS hM l6d 8ome -Peculator. Ohevasse, J.K.C.S.. Author of "Advice to a mother" analysed 16 of these, and declared Da Barry's Food to h. thft h.fll; j. nu rujuta.
onvsician to tha Samaritan Hospital for Women and Children, declare Among the vegetable substances Du Barry's Revalnta Arabica is the beat," and that "under its influence man, women and children affected with atrophy and marked debility have completely recovered." Dr. William Wallace Jjanelie. of 7. Seaneld, Brighton, writes to the Lancet Da i Barry Food is worth its weight in Cure No. 89.915: Incredible miser e.
from chronic dyspasia, nervouanesa, aleepleM- "cuuiiy, ana sw3mngsaU over to doabl aims miseries i endured. and for which I tnea sne best adwiee In vain. cunioiy ob utx isarry's KenalenU Arabica Food. I I luwukua 1 UIITU v'r wc" 111 my lira as 1 do now, all tha swelling having left me; I h.ve lest all nervous- i neas, I sleep well and feel bappy. CHAHtas Ttwon 1 Monmouth, 30th of August.
1876." Du BanV. Revalenta Arabica Food tsuitably packed for climates) sells In tins of 2a. 11 b. Is 6d ih ff': i21b- S2s. i oOs.
Du'Bar'rylnd Co. (Limited), No, 77. Begent-dtrbet, London, W. i and tbiough all -locera and chemtBta in tho wxt 0a in tb.istoarubyJ.it. Doro: Bjadfur.l.
.,) n--- lBeU; Dewsbnry, Brooke 'Hallfas, -s- Jt Leedi, Kemhardt and Son. Goociail and Backaouse. I i i I I WRECK AND LOSS OF SEVEN LIVES. Information has been received at Lloyd's of a serious casualty on the coast of Denmark, involving loss of life. The brig; Brierley Hill, belonging to North Shields, Cap- tain Duncan, from Kotka to London, laden with staves, had been wrecked at Thisted, only one man being saved.
She cleared from Kotka for London on the 20th October last. The crew probably numbered eight men, and their names are supposed to have been as follows James Duncan, master, a native of Montrose K. J. Benton, mate John Gray, cook and steward Hendrick Norman, John Micholson, and Adolph Hahijtin, able seamen George Tojetstrom and Joseph Powell, ordinary seamen. The vessel was classed A 1 in Lloyd's book, and owned by W.
C. D. Balls, of North Shields. She registered about 250 toss, and was about 30 years old, having been built at Sunderland in 13 7- FUNERAL OF ARCHDEACON CLARKE. The funeral of the late Archdeacon Clarke took place on Saturday, when a large number of the senior members of the Oxford University, citizens, and residents In the diocese, attended to pay the last tribute of respect to the deceased gentleman.
The pall-bearers were the Bev. B. Fawcett, Professor Barrows, the the Bight Hon. J. B.
Mowbray, P. Archdeaoon Oust, the Bev. T. V. Bayne, Dr.
Acland, A. Browne, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, and Archdeacon Pott. The service was performed by the Dean of Christ Church and the Bishop of Oxford. SALE OF IRON WORKS AT WOLVER HAMPTON. The Press Assoslatlon Wolverhampton Correspondent telegraphs: It is authoritatively announced that the ale of Messrs.
Thorneyoroft's ironworks in Wolver hampton, employing upwards of 1,000 hands has been completed. The name of the purchaser, however, has not transpired. It was resolved at a public meeting held In Wolverhampton, on Saturday evening, to open public subscriptions for the relief of the distress arising from depressed trade, EMBARKATION OF TROOPS. Portsmouth, December 29th. Her Majesty's Indian relief troopship Euphrates, Captain Cuming, embarked her troops to-day, comprising 18 officers and 470 men of the 6th Dragoon Guards, 3 officers and 156 men of the' Boyal Horse Artillery, 6 officers and 158 men of the Royal Artillery, 9 officers and 316 men, drafts to join different regiments 15 officers' and 114 soldiers' wives and 161 children.
The Euphrates will leave to-morrow for Bombay, calling at Malta. ANOTHER STORM WARNING. The following telegram from New York has been reoeived at the London office of the New York Herald "Depressions, attended by rains and fresh to strong gales, will probably arrive on the British and French coasts between the 1st and (3rd of January. The barometrical indications of their approach will possibly not be observable at British stations until very shortly before their arrival. THE MASONS' STRIKE.
A Cardiff correspondent telsgraphed on Saturday morning: The agent of the Masters' Association in London has juat arrived in Cardiff, where he proposes to engage about 100 masons to proceed to the Metropolis at once. It is supposed that he has been induced to visit this quarter in consequence of the news of bad trade existing in the locality. THE IRISH NATIONAL SCHOOL TEACHERS. A conference of National School Teachers of Ireland, held in Dablin, on Saturday, under the presidency of Mr. Meldon, passed resolutions claiming certain modifications of the National School Teachers Act, in order to remove their grievances.
FOREIGN. Revtcr't Telegrams, per Press Association. THE FOREIGN BOURSES. Vienna, December 29 th. General recovery In prices marked in the Stock Market to-day.
Berlin, December 29th. The opening of the Bourse was animated, but final quotations of international stock were only a shade better than yesterday. Pabis, December 29th. Three per Cent Rentes for account closed at 72-30. Five per Cents, 108-30.
Calcutta, December 28th. Exchange 19 3-16 ths. I Hong Kong, December 27th. Exchange 4. Shanghai, December 27th.
Exchange 56 FRANCE. Parts, December 28th. M. Fournier, formerly French Minister at Rome, has been appointed Ambassador at Constantinople. GERMANY.
ExRiiN, December 29th. M. Tizi, Hungarian Premier, leaves Berlin on Monday. ITALY. THE ITALIAN CABINET.
Rome, December 29 th. Slgnor Depretla to-day announced the formation of a new Cabinet as already telegraphed. A Ministry of the Treasury is appointed, with Sieoor jrdour as Us head. The Senate aoorovad of the Sicilian and Calatrlan Railway Conven- tione aad adjourned. EGYPT.
EGYPTIAN FINANCE. Alexandria, December 29th. It is certain that a special edition of the Bgyptian Monitewr trill be published on Monday, announcing officially the payment of the coupon of the Egyptian Unified Debt. The Greek community at Alexandria has subscribed 2,000 in aid of the Hellenic Red Cross Association. Cairo, December 30 th.
The remainder of the sum requisite for the payment of the Inter-Calary coupon of the Unified Debt was incashed this afternoon by the Treasury of the Public Debt. INDIA. THE INDIAN FAMINE SUSPECTED FRAUDS. The Standard of Saturday evening published the following The Bombay Gazette, of the 0h instant, states that from the end of August LIS lacs of rupees were spent In famine operations in the Bellary district alone, up to date, but only 25 lacs have been actually accounted for. The Accountant-General for Madras recommends the appointment of a special commission to enquire into the auditing of the expenditure- His Excellency the Governor has sanctioned the proposal, and asked him to recommend officers.
Extensive frauds are coming to light daily. Two famine officers have been suspended." UNITED STATES. New york, December 29th. The Mexican authorities have posted notices on the Rio Grande frontier, warning Mexican sub- jicts not to participate in any future disturbances that might be attempted at El Paso. Suggestion qk the Bobials Questioh.
Sir W. Wolby Gregory, M.P., anxious to contribute to the endeavours to arrive at a settlement of the burials ques-tion. makes the following suggestions I. Lt th bnril service of th iT. i ii th i -I ou i-iiuKt-u uKt tfte whole of it mav be rd in th xhrnk 9 r.o .11 I denomination alike being left to perform its rites in its now 33K ft tarv contribnrinrroi' D0W' miaained by volun- dt! a flrntEOT Ed legs, wounds, ulcers, and all description, of sores are cured by the proper and dilli Rent use of these Inestimable preparations.
To attempt to cure bad legs by plastering the edes of the wound together Is folly, for, should the skin unite, a boegv dis eased condition remains underneath, to break ouYwith tenfold fury in a few days. The only rational and ner maeent treatment, as indicated by nature, i. to reduce the inflammation In and ab-ut the wonnd, to soothe the -noiphbouaognriTes to cool the heated blood aait curses along its vessels, and to render ia watery, ichorous di, eeBSWteut and health- tkm. ai purity oue DI003 noKioTig matter from the system. Msd expel the a ltspretrv simple neaa za uuun oi savoi close cropped grass.
Mr. Herbert Spencer Has pointed oat how nearly the tender feeling towards our children I our little ones as we love to call them is allied with the tender regard for littleness generally. Sweet little thing," the women say of any tiny work of art or bird or plant. Aad all women being by nature mothers, it is no wonder that their hearts go forth towards whatever seems weak and helpless and shrinking, even as their own babies are. Dear little flower," says every man imtinotively, as he stoopB to pick the first daisy of the seasoo.
The tininess of the daisy is evidently ona source of its attractiveness. Dear little English daisy, growing at home on every oommon and pasture and roadside throughout the length and breadth of the land. Emphatically to us an English flower, towards which, as a symbol of home, we turn with loving regret and longing of heart in distant lands across the sea. In Mr. Charles Beade'3 Never too Late to Mend," there is a touching scene in which a party of rough miners and ex-conviots go together on a Sunday morning through the Australian bush to see and hear an English lark.
Many a wayfarer in the heats of a tropical summer or the depths of a Canadian winter has been gladdened and refreshed for a moment by the fragrance of an English violet, crushed and mangled in a letter, bnt still redolant of Eagland and of home. And so, too, oar little English daisy is to all of ns a rallying point for many memories of home, in whatsoever quarter of the globe oar lot for the moment may be east. Dear little familiar daisy, 'picked when we were children in the fields around U3, or on the half-holidays when we turned out from town for a blow in the country and a feast of green grass and bright blsssoms. we Tp sai c3 wa.ra8a lM iu oy x. thousand times over.
And wh spring morning now, it comes oar childhood, and we feel a tl even to-day towards that yellow bloom. In all these emotional ways does to oar affection 3. Besides its beau, symmetry of form, besides its intellet a composite and its sentimental claims hm title to our love in its character of a it little familiar English daisy. This is the seoietdt its reqasht appearance in poetry and its eff activfjuesa rhetorical illustration. And, finally, the figure which it takes in literature reacts upon the feelings with which we regard it in the actuality.
We think at once of a daisy, a rose, or a violet as poetical, while we only think of a dahlia or a hollyhock as handsome. With the reading olass, memories of Wordsworth and Barns and Tennyson cling about every individual daisy. Bat here again we mast beware of that literally pree-posterous theory which would refer the beaaty of an athetio object to its external associations. The daisy is admitted as a component of poetry because it is a flower, pink and white and yellow, pretty, symmetrical, graceful, familiar, and domestic. Poetry is all made up of such pretty objects, strong into a beantifal framework of metre, and connected by a thread of narrative or abstract lyrioal thought.
And then, in consequence, we love, the objects themselves ail the better, because of the good company in which we have so often found them. Bnt they mast always have been either pretty or lovab'e in themselves to begin with, or else they would never have found tbeir way into poetry at all. From Dissecting a Daisy," in the Cornhill Magazine for January. PRESERVING CUT FLOWERS. At this time of year, when flowers are scarce and dear, every one is naturally anxious to preserve them in a nic3 fresh condition as long as possible, and not only this, bat also to make the best display that can be done with a small quantity.
Of all ways of showing them off, the most natural as well as the most economical is that of using any low shallow vessel either of glass or china of about the size and depth of a soap-plate. If this is filled with nice fresh wood form, the flowers and foliage oan be arranged to great advantage and made to look almost as natural as if growing in the positions in which they are placed, instead of having that excessively formal appearance M1, U8u.ij wuuwi ui muuuu-aiHj tney generally nave when closely packed in a vase Not onlv do thev look infinitnlv hitr in thia but they last fresh considerably longer, owing to the much larger surface exposed immediately under am, and from whence a stream of vapour is continuallv arising from the moss surrounding tbeir stems. Be- flida the niM frph anno. EL ifS sides the nice fresh appearance this has, it is of great use both for the above-named purpose and for keeping me uowers in any position tney may be placed in. so that they may he quickly and easily arranged.
One rea-on why so many flowers are so short-lived when cut is that to get them in quickly they are sometimes subjected to more heat and confinement than is good for them, and when to this there is loss of light, as occurs at this season, the petals mdst inevitably come thin and flimsy, in which state a dry air at once affects them unfavoarably. This being the case, any plants that are being grown for the purpose of supplying out blooms should be stood as near the glass as can be done without touching, and in such poeition3 that they may nave inn oenent ol all me sunshine available So favoured there will be little difficulty in keeping them fresh for a considerable length of time, provided me situation tney occupy in tne room when oat is far removed from ths fire, and not where they are sub- jected to draughts, as they would be if nlaoed bat waan the door and the grate, as there is always air passing from the one to the other, caused by the combustion of the fuel. Gardeners' Chronicle. A FEMALE EXOCH ARDEN. There has been trouble in the Arden family up in Nebraska.
It wasn't Enoch who went away this time but his wife, Mrs. Arden. She that was Anna Lee. Enoch was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man, who didn't provide for the family worth a cent. Anna got tired of seeing everything going to the dogs, so she determined to start out for herself, and see if she couldn't provide a little something to educate the children on.
After looking the field carefully over and examining all the avenues open to females, she determined to embark in the arouous career or a remale booir canvasser. Giving Eaoch a snv-glasa and bidding him wn that hould convey her to hTcars. h7 7 railroad ticket office. r.nt.l.,i a'ZCO the 'bus went bv and didn't suu year3 went bv and no news from Mr wpnf -Ahi uj (jujuoko mam pa wito ner, so of coarse she couldn't write. Was she writ I wen, sne mientnave been.
bnt Knonh wasn't She lugged her books over a great part of 16 States! till. nn xnla fm 1 wrecked a grasping landlord seised her stock-in-trade for board, although it wasn't the stockin' trade she was following. -u u.i VJ. 1 l.b leuVLU anA a But where was Enoch But where was Enoch Broke. He had pawned I xie saia ne ai 3 it on account of th nhiidron ht children were all in the poorhouse they, of course were'nt consulted about it.
His second wife was a girl he was sweet on before he married Anna. One night a travel-worn female might have been seen prowling around the Arden mansion. It was Mrs. Enoch. She had got back.
She hadn't got back the money she originally invested in the book trade, but she was there herself, what there was left of her. She peered in through the window and what did she behold Enoch drunk and his new wife whaling him with the clothes wringer. Did Mrs. Enoch teai use a wounded life awav. reanhHmr tell him, never to let him knnw' i didn't.
She iast walked into th.hnn. i.o I ootn out and said she would run that shebang herself after that And she did. Enooh enlisted aa a tramp and started at once for Mexico his seoond spouse got a patent divorce from Chicago, while the original Mrs Arden stayed where she was, opened an advertising agency and is doing well. Danbury News. -'vuvu uom 1.
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Full particulars will be sent by post to any person free of charge, gggq Mr- Williams, 10, Oxford-terrace, Hyde Park, Whilst Enlabging thb Size of the bottle, the proprietors of Lambert Balsam, by a new process of manufacture have succeeded in making the medicine more palatable' clearer, and miscible In water, at the same thne retaining all its well known efficacy. The value of this medicine is truly great it relieve, even asthma, the most incurable of al coughs, thus showing that it possesses qualities peculiarly it. own. In all affections of the lung or air passages tightness of the chest, it i. invaluable, it ananervous coaghs.often effecting permanent cures.
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Pre- Sw'? h'' Prompt relief thouaands of cases been afforded where hair has been coming out in It cleans he hair Sold all 01 nusts i I I I Destitution granted rewards for saving 2 lies by fishing and other boata, making a grand of 1,029 lives saved last year, mainly through UsT mentality. Altogether, since its formation thasociety had contributed to the saving of ahipsfreoked persons, for which serviqes it has granted 978 gold and silver medals, besides pecuniary rewards to the amount of 54,000. The storms' of last November will long be remembered for their frequency, their violence, and the noble services ol the Institution's lifeboats, which saved nearly 300 lives in that month Sjlone. After performing these services some ol the lifeboats' crews returned home absolutely exhausted in some oases many of the men's lives were actually despaired of for several days afterwards. It should be mentioned that the operations of the National Lifeboat Institution- now cover the whole coasts of the British Isles, and that, with the exception of a score or so of lifeboats which belong to harbour trustees and other local bodies, the whole of the lifeboats of the United Kingdom belong to the National Institution.
Thus we feel assured that an instition so truly national and benevolent in its oharaoter will maintain its firm hold on British sympathy and support and that while it continues to pursue its course of usefulness with unabated vigour, the support and appreciation of the public will be proportionately liberal. We will only add that contributions in aid of the great and important work of the National Lifeboat Institution are received by all the Bankers throughout the United Kingdom, and by the Secretary, at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. J. A. Harrison, is the local hon.
secretary. THE LATE CONFERENCE OF HEAD MASTERS. The Athenawn says The annual Conference of Head Masters, held at Marlborough College, on the 20th and 21st instant, proved, contrary to expectation, the most disappointing yet assembled. Numerically it was smaller than any previous gathering, the head masters of Eton, Westminster, Clifton, Rogby, St. Paul's, Charterhouse, Merchant Taylors', Cheltenham, and many others of the less important schools, being absent.
Of the six subjects for disoassion without resolutions' only five were discussed at all. Of the eight resolutions, only two were disposed of one of these being in effect, to rescind a vote of the Conference passed last year on the subjeot of Latin verse. When the assembled head masters were recommended or at least iaintly admonished to' teach history by the help of a 'series of small one of which at least it was hinted that Dr. Abbott, of the City of London School, might be in a position to supply, when they were further advised to lose no time in procuring one historical novel, which had lately appeared, which dealt with th4 times of Barneses it was felt that Dr. Butler, ofTHarrow, did not rue before he was wanted to brina back the Conference to the region of practical good sense once more.
The Conference has sustained a simply irreparable los3 by the election of Mr. Hamper to the prinoipal- 9uiji ui jsiua uiiege, uxiora. mere is no one on the committee at the present time who oan pretend to even the semblance of Mr. Harper's taot and power of work. Over the committee he was supreme the one commanding officer whose robust and genial leadership each waa glad to acknowledge.
When he laid before the Conference the extremely valuable conspeotus of answers to the questions which during the past year have been addressed to the leading schools of I he country on the subject of the teaching of natural science, it was felt that there was no one who would be prepared to face such a correspondence as this pamphlet represented now that the Chairman of Committee has bef deposed. When we come to ask what was actually done this year, the sum total is small indeed. 1. A vote agreed upon by last year's conference has been rescinded 2. the committee have been empowered to revise the list of schools whose head masters are to be summoned to future conferences 3.
ths conference, in the person of its late Chairman of Committee, has expressed its dissatisfaction with the examinations under the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board as hitherto carried on lastly, it has left as a legacy to the conference of 1878 seven questions and resolutions which still remain for discussion." THE DEAD YEAR. Sink, quiet sunsets of the autumn time Fall, golden leaflets, to your dewy bed Lament the glory of the summer prime, Te mournful breezes, for the year is dead The poplars, sisters seven, by the brook Cast leaner shadows in the westering gleam. And stoop with saddened murmur as they look Upon their faded beauty in the stream. The throstle, lost within the silent deep Of thick brown woods, hath hid himself away The lavrock lolls himself into a sleep, A-dreaming of his blue skies in the May. The quiet silence of the voiceless lanes, The acorn dropping to its earthy bed.
The redder sunset on the cottage panes. All sadly tell us that the year is dead. The fields are tenantless I hear no more The gay green cricket ohirping in the grass, But just the wet winds sighing evermore A requiem to the dead year as they pass. Yet there Is something beautiful withal, When wearied Nature yields her last sweet breath. And in the rioh decay of autumn fall breathes fragrance even in the dew of death.
Consumers of starch and blue are reminded that the favourite makes in use by the Laundresses 4 the Prince of Wales are Reckitfs Soluble Starch and Reskitt Blue t.vm ii Tuiai. waxen a woman at a game of wuibs, ana you get a pretty correct xfea of how all women play whist La me, Henry, is ny play Let me see second hand low that's the first time round of that suite, ain't it? Well I'll hardly think wVvn(iw yf 8top lookin my handv-did you see anything? of course I am going to play, but I must have time to think what's trumps spader-I thought i well, I'll no yes well, thertl" Then she wiJl slap an ace on her partner's king, and insist upon keeping the trick for fear she will be oheated out of it in the final oount. St. Louis Journal. Thb Royal EwauriMts.
In future drivers are to be specially enlisted, In addition to collar makers, wheel- wrights. aad shoelng-amiths, who are to be attached to each company. All these men will receive additional pay besides their regimental pay. THB NEW CHRISTMAS GIFT Bltfeant and Useful. They are a treasure." Standard.
THE GOLD WAVEBLEY PEN, 10s. (G. THE GOLD MUSIC PEN 10s. d. FrM Po8t We can honestly declare that oar use of Macniven and Cam ren's Pens has made long spells of writing auite pleasure." Leeds Daily News, Nov.
12th. 6d. and la. per box, at all Stationers. Specimen boxes, containing all the kinds, by post for 13 stamps.
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Sole consignees, Ansar' Harford, and 77, Strand, London. 6 Thboat AwrsoTroars ahd MOAaaawEss. Allsuffenm? from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be agree-bly surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by the use of Brown's Broachial Troohes." These famous lozenges" are now sold by most respectable chemists in this country at Is. lid. per box.
People troubled with a "hacking cough," a "slight oold," or bronchial affections, cannot try them too soon, as similar troubles tf allowdtito progress, result in serious pulmonary a-id wthrwatij atfeciion. See that the words, "Brown's Bronchial Troshea'' ire on the Government Stamn wound box. Manufactured by John I. Browr md Kosroc, United Sfeatetg Dopot, 493, Oxf or HusiMcaariKLo: Kit Vntoj-iv Ovtice. i.i i.
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