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How a Fortune of Nearly Two Million is Bequeathed. The will of. the late Mr. J. (j. Woris has been filed in the surrogate court oflice. The ahedules Show the total value of the person- alty 30 be $1,784,000. Lindonwold house and contents are bcquoatheci to his son J. G. Worm for life, who shail leave it so his heir. Should Mr. J. G. Worts die without issue the property goes :0 Frederick T. Worts, a son of the docsasrd, for life, wiih remainder over to his oldest son ; and should both die with- out issue. the, property goes with the rest of the estate. The [allowing bequests are made: To Lestator’s sisters, Mildred Leary, Sarah Sylvester, and Louise McKellar, each $2,000; to the widow and children of deceased’s late brother (ii-ergo, $2,000; to Mary Sbegmann, sister of docuased’s late wife, $1,200 per an num; to each of his children upon marrying or attaining the ago of 21 years, 05,000 a year for ten years. The remainder of ishe income from the estate is to be accumulated for ten years and then divided as below: One sovemh less oneuhali of each seventh shareto each of his sons. the income from the $50,000 to be paid to them also, and the principle to their sons. Each of the testator’s five daughtersâ€"Mrs. Beaty, Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Myles, Mrs. Smart, and Mrs. Cosby-4:0 receive “1:; income arising from one seventh of the property, the principal to be divided as dimmed l‘y the beneficiaries. In case any married coild dies, the warning husband or Wife shall receive $4,000 a. year for liie. The 'l'oromo Hunt; 0111)) are to have the use of docsascd’s share of. the kennels, and is to receive a sum not exceeding 5350, to cease if the club islls into diarrpute. The pew in Trinity c:_urch is to be retained as long as any of tho family reside in Lindenwold. A codieil. of which there arm four, devises a house and 10*. in Gauningion to his sister, Mildread Leary, for life, than to her husband if he survi 2 her, and lastly to her children ; Twelve additional bodias have been recov erect from the wreck of the Scioto. Search for the other bm-ies is being, vigorously prose- cuted. When the boat; is raised it is believpd that many of the bodies will be found. The party on the Sciotu was about equally divided between gentlemen and ladies, but; the bodies of only three women have bison recovered. Forty persona are known to be missing and fourteen bodies Have been recovered. The inquest begins to-morrow. a houaa and lot on Selby street to his sister, Sarah Sylveé-‘ter. in like manner. Several other small b: quests m9 made. The execu~ tore namzd are .1. G. Warts, W. H. Beaty, A. M. Cosby Duvixl Smart, E. S. Cox. F. '1‘. Worm, and 1E, Myles. Tney are authorized to continue the deceased’s business for a year. â€"IIou)oh«)Id hintsâ€"Pokers and broom sticks. â€"-We have & eonp-erstitious awe of “mock mule" and its possible contents. â€"â€"â€"'I‘ )is weniher may be called Imiian Sum met because it is red. hat. â€"'l'oo many of the would be funny ecrlbes are guilty of many triciousness. gun"... r m, 0., dug 0.-u.uuulcu.u u: people are amassed to the scene ofjhe wreck of tho Said) Some in search (if missing loved ones. oth-Is imm’; curiosity. One bod) was recovered on the Ohio side of the river, and the bodies of two boys were reported near Wellebuxg. Two boys were picked up on the Virginia side, who swam n mile and a half below the place of the accident. They say the! fifty persona were in the lower deck with them when the hem sunk, and many of these are probably drownecl. Capt. Thomas, of the Sciom, is nearly crazed with grief at, the loss f his son and benumbed wish cold from searching in the watery cabin for the body The deaths will probably exceed fifny. There are more than thia number missing. m u â€"-Grushed sh'awbérry color is the popular shade for Summer dresses. â€"~An oLitmry notice in Utah closes touch- inglyâ€"â€"“ be Eta-(Ives thirteen widows and fifty- four children.” I was on watch at the time of the accident, and when the boats whistled for passing I noticed there was something wrong, but thought nothing of it and stepped out on deck for a second when I saw the Lomas right on us. I rushed back to my engine and obeyed the bell to go back, which was immediately followed by the hell to stop, and then seeing that the boat was fast sinking, the engineer and I threw the skiff into the river and I then ran after my coat. When I got back the shit! was so full of panic stricken people that] knew it would sink. I jumped into the river and struck out for the West Virginia shore. In looking around me as I swam I saw a. sight {hit fairly took the life out of me. The water was black WiLh strugglinghumanity and the expression on their faces V\ as the mostten‘i- hie you can imagine. l‘.’ien,Wcmen and children WU‘O curing pitwously for help, and some of the wreaths EU unnerved me that I could son‘rcvly swim, but tin current was strong, and as I struck out with all my might I soon got out of sight of the crowd in the water, there being, but two boys hear me who man» aged to reach the shore safely with a. little help from me. We swam about a mile al~ together, and when we r ‘3‘:th the shore it was almost impossible for any of us to stand up. As to how many were lost I can form no itiea, nor «in I know what caused the ecci- dent or who is to blame. on uweral. When we collided with the Lemma, as near as I can judge from what I heard than-301310 saying, we had on board four hundred at least, probably five hundred. MINGO JUNCTION, Ohio, July 5.â€"It is imv possible to ascertain the number of lives lost. by tho steamboat disaster last night. Capt. Thomas" Eon Dam is missing. A dock hand whosrs nmne is unknown, was also drowned hour the Scioto. The rest of the crew are safe. The first man taken out of the water wen & erclimnn, Charles McCoy. The Lomus struck the Scioto on tho port side, fifteen feet, from the bow, and maria a large hole, through which to hull filled rapidly and sank at once. lire beat is now lying on the bottom of the river, the water being two feet deep in the cabin. Charles Pace, assistant engineer of the Scioto, said: We started from E95! Liverpool at 6.30 yesterday morm ing, With a large excursion party 013' for a. Fourth of July relic. We wont as far down the river as Moundsville,‘ arriving ubout 1430 p. 111. After lying there two hours we started for home, stopping at Wheeling & Martin‘s ferry. People hailed us Inllalong the river, but the captain said we had enough on board and refused to take any more except at Steuhezwille, where he took A survivor says the Siroto was coming up he river under a. full head of s‘eeam and vhen 3.2mm half. 8. mile from Mingo junction he John Lumas was sighted coming down. Bhe Six'oio whistlcd for the channel, but owing to some misunfiersmnding. both boats took thu same aide, the Lamas striking the Siwto and sinking; her in three minutes. The scenes on the Siroto were murtrem’ling and the ahuggle for life frightful. Tina Lamas was only slightly disabled. and went to work Raving 1.1102201: ihe Siroto. This task was rendered easier by the bright. mounlight, and no doubt many lives were saved for this reason. 5 is now believed the first reports were exagger- ated,amfii the loss of life will not. exceed twenty. Mm ":0 JUNCTION,()., July LM'l‘ha steamer Sirolo, with abuul. 500 passengers, collided with the John Lmnus in the middle ml the ‘iver tonight, sinking tlle Sirotn in fifteen eat; of water, only the pilou louse bmng Yisible. The cxcuruiunists are arriving but; hey am so excited that no definite informa- lou 8.810 :henumber ioat can yet be ob- ained. - SHOCKING LOSS OF â€"â€"An only child is a single heir occurrence Mr’fi‘mwmvww A TERRIBLE. DISASTER. M R. \VORTS’ WILL LIFE m“ My son,” said a father, “whenever you start to do a thing never half do it.” " Must I always do both halves 2” asked the hopeful sou. “ Yes.” was the reply. And then the lad who had stealthin devoured half 9. pie sneaked back into the pantry and gobbled the other half. â€"-A journay around the world can now be accomplished in ninety days at a cost of $800. I: is not the fare that prevents newspaper men from taking the trip. It is the time consumed. When the journey can be made in fortyâ€"eight hours journalism will frequently induigq in $110 voyage. â€"“ Yes, judge,” said a. prisoner, ” I admit that the back of my trousers were tangled in the dog’s teeth, and that I dragged the api- mal away, but if you call that stealing a dog no mam on earth is safe from committing a crime.” -A nice judge, when asked why he had al- lowed a totally unnecessary female thnesa to take the stand and testify. said: “1 knew that it was not necessary, but I saw tkat she had a new bonnet and was striving to show it." â€"“ One word mnre,” said a speaker, “ and I am done.” And the reporter found, when the word was written down, that it contained fitbeeu hundred syllables. The famous word of Aristophanes was outdone. That same speaker is the fellow who often says “ a single remark,” and then talks for fifteen minutes. “Her-foot is a poem," the lover said; “ A melodious rhythm is her tread ” “Yes,” said his friend (n. sort of bent], “ Sponduic the measure, two long feet." 1)]:1 KlNG OB DE FRUIT. Some or pu’shel to de apple, oddahs clamor for de plumb ; Some flu’ ’joyment in de cherry, odduhs make do peaches: hum : Some git fus'ned. ter do onion, odduhs lub de altiâ€" choke: ' But mv taste tm’ wamhmellon er boun’ by a pleasant yoke ; Some 511’ pleusha in de orunge. odduhs choose (19 cantaloupe ; Some er fon’ ob de banana, some do huekleberrv scoop ; Dar er timber in (la punkin fo’ do riches’ kin’ ob â€"" Avoid contradicting your wife," said a. recent writer. A very good idea, and it would be well for wives to avoid contradicting their husbands, also. There is altogether too much of this sort of thing going on, and every married man knows it. mes ; But’dat speck'lod \vu’cuh mellonl Oh! how full hit; fills my eyes ! Yu’ mps’ climb ter git de apple, er (1e cherry, er do pouch, An‘ mus' lelus. w’en yo' eat dem, keep a doctah widin’ reach ; But de 111b1y wutahmellon makes his bed upon do grouu‘, Au’de dukey, not de (100mb, in de moonlight makes de roun’. â€"We undertook to say in these columns ‘he other day that Mrs. Garfield’s income was $21,000 a year; but the ocmpositor cut it down to $21. As the latter sum represents a, fortune to a. comp. we hadn’t the heart to chxde him. -â€"â€"It is nice to read of the “merry whistle of the plow~boy,” but, in the first place, boys don‘t piow, and in the next, the strapping young men who do are so mad about 11: that they can’t get the right packer for a whistle. --â€"When you see a man looking as if he didn‘t care how soon he was struck by light~ Hing you can sit him down as one who feels that be muai take a summer trip or lose his place in sociefiy. â€"-“ Yes," said Fogg, “ I used to believe everything; was the most credulous fellow alive. But,” he added, “since I have had this confounded sore throat, it is hard for me ha nmnuaw aqvflu'n" N â€"An amateur autograph collector, who an- nounced his intention of writing to Shake spears for hi5 signature, was greatly chagrined to learn that William had been dead 266 years. He is going to get Goethe’s now. â€"A dispatch from Alexandria. Egypt, says: “ The situalion is absolutely demoralizing. Carriages, the fare for which is usually one franc, now bring $25.” To Americans. Egypt must seem like Niagara Falls. â€"An Iowa woman refused a woman a dis vorce which she wanted because her husband kissed the pretty servant. He said she ought to be thankful that her husband had found a way to keep a. servant girl. m nmnllaw' mlythingy V â€"_St- 1409143 has two pretty femalfi £91390“ pathxc physlam,.&nm‘pifient was a man who and he lmd the neuralgia. from too much kissing, and wanted to be treated on homeopathic principles. -â€"When that relic of barbarism, paying a woman one-third of a man’s wages for domg a man’s work, is abolished, we may consider ourselves on a high road to civilization. â€"“ What have you been doing since I last saw you? ” “I’ve been. attending a course of free lectures." “ A course of free lec- tures ‘2” “Yes, I was married a. week after we parted.” “ Isn’t this Shirred bonnet jusk too sweet for anything? ” asked Mrs. Smith of her hus- band. “ I shirred think it was,” answered Mr. Smith, as be inspected the bill. â€"-â€"Britishers are rejoicing over the car‘ cusses of 5,000 sheep brought from New Zealand in refxiigeragqrs, as good as new. â€"-The poet who sweetly referred to the “ sighing of the winds" should go out west and experience a sighclone. -â€"â€"We should think it any tree would be worth planting along the western streams, on the lreeless pmiriea, the cottonwood. “ Mean 1” she cried, " my husband is the meanest wretch in the world. He won‘t give me the least excuse for complaining.” â€"â€"-As between the cheese press and printing press the former is the strongest the latter is the most rapid. â€"-A tailor mquires a number of yards to cover a. man, but a burglar will cover him with only a small revolver. â€"Jinks hasn’t been at home since his Wife asked him for a new bonnet. He calls him- self a Ruche-ian refugee. â€"â€"Long, pointed finger nails are fashionable among, women, but they W111 never be popular with married men. â€"A young married man, whose house rent is paid by his mothernln-law, alludes to her as his darling pay rent. â€"-“I am a broken man," said a poet ” Well," said his friend. “ I inferred that. from your pieces.” â€"â€"You never hear of a strike among the u’stronomets. Their busmess is always look- ing up. â€"-No one ever believed beef could get up so high. It; was quite poor when it commenced to go up. â€"The common council of Albany, Ga., has licensed the killing of English sparrows. â€"Beecher has come out for the strikers ; a striking fact that he usually strikes in on the winning side. â€"There are seven difi‘erent specils of birds which get up half an hour ahead of the lurk. â€"â€"“Is Mrs. Brown a literary woman?” ‘ Decidedly. She makes beautiful penwipers." â€"The extraordinary crop of suicides is what nobody knows how to account for. VOL. XXV. Hit er meller, hit or juicy, Hit er coolin’. hit er sweet! Hit or painless ter de stummickâ€" Yo’ kin eat, an’ eat, an’ ant ! the but There is quite a wonderful dog at the Rich- mond depot of the Union line of street cars in Philadelphia. The Richmond canine is a black and white coach dog. and is fond of making trips over the line with favorite oon~ doctors. He never gets into any other than a green car and frequently follows one of the cars over the whole route. Spot, however, is most at home in the stable, where he keeps watch over the horses and stalls with untir~ ing patience and unerring sagscity. There are nearly 500 horses in the stable. but Spot knows them all except the very new ones. and what is quite as singular, all the horses know Spot. If one of them breaks his halter and gets away from his stall Spot will follow him up, and, if the halter strap is long enough. he will lead the horse back to the stall by taking the end in his mouth. If there is no pendent halter the dog will bark at the horse, from side to side, until he has driven him to his regular stall. Recently a drunken man wandered into the stable and fell asleep in an empty stall. Spot knew that in a short time one of the horses attached to an incoming car would be driven to the stall where the man was sleeping. The dog at once ran to the watchman’s office and set up a furious barking, which attracted immediate attention. The watchman supposing that something was wrong, followed Spot to the stall just in time to rescue the drunken man from the feet of a recently arrived horse. This is but one of the hundred stories told of Spot‘s wonderful inâ€" telligence. So much has he become accus- tomed to horse life that he eats corn with as much relish as he devours the most savory morsel of fat beef at twenty-nine cents a pound. He will even beg in a mute way for corn supper when the horses are fed at night. â€"Philade]phia Record. brought about by hunger and frost, and they rubbed her with ice and snow to revive her. During her trance she sometimes spoke. and once said :â€"‘(), how delicious after such a long last !‘ She was happy in hor dreamsâ€" she was eating. When the day changed to night- on Wednesday, the three unu happy creatures gave up all hope, and they decided to about themselves with a re- volver one of the brothers had brought with him, in hopes of firing from the top of the mountain. They all three agreed that they perferring dying in this manner to being slowly starved to death. On Thursday morn- ing at 4 o'clock one of the young men opened the door of the hut to look out, and with a cry of delight he welcomed the clear sky and the stars that shone upon it. Their courage revived wonderfully when they saw the mountain before them. and after a breakfast of straw soup and tallow candles they set out. At 9 o‘clock they reached the shelter of a house, where a man and his servant kept a small inn. Here they refreshed themselves. after havingjspent four days and four nights in the ice and snow of the RsxAlp. Their hands and feet were so frost bitten that they walked only so far as they were compelled, and long before they got to Payerbnck great numbers Were following: in their rear, cheer- ing them and shaking hands with them. A telegram to Vienna not only summoned nu- merous friends, but also several newsynper reporters, who came back with them in the train, and took note of their wonderful adventures. â€"-A Detroit bridefigedks, died a few hours after the marriage. and they attempted a descent to look for him. But after an hour’s climbing over snow and ice they saw that they had reached the other side of the fissure by a long detour. The fog prevented them from seeing more than a square of three feet at a time, and the snow uniformly covered the ground at their feet Creeping along with hands and feet, they made slow progress upward, and late on Sun day evening they reached a shepherd’s hut, the door of which was locked. The men burst it open, and all three stretched them- selves upon the straw to rest from their in.- tiguing journey. They had only one piece of bread and a slice of ham, which they divided among the three-the last nourishment af- forded to them until Thursday morning. The whole of the next day they wandered about in all directions, when toward evening they found another but they; were glad to seek shelter in it without attempting to go further. That was Monday night. Hunger made them all weak and miserable, and fear- ing not to have the force to rise and walk on the morrow, they made up their mind to eat what they could. They boiled some of the straw, cut into small bits, in snow, and this was fill their dinner, on Monday. In the mid- dle of the night one of the brothers remem~ bered that he had some tsllow candles in his pocket. These were cut into small pieces and swallowed. Their wanderings on Tues. day were of as little avail as more of Sande? and inonday had been, only that all got tired ' so much sooner, and were forced to return to their port of safety before the night set in. On Wednesday morning the young girl de- clared that she felt unable to walk, and the brothers decided that they must set out alone in search of help and nourishment for their companion. But the fog had grown worse and the snow storm was so violent that after half an hour they turned back. They -â€"-“ Dear me! ” said Mrs. Partingt-on, the other day. “ young girls nowadays are not what their mothers used to be. Half of them are sufl'erers from nervous presperation ! " Fearful Experience of a. Young Bride and Her Friends. A Vienna correspondent gives an interest- ing account of the adventures of four persons who endeavored to climb the Requlp in a snow storm recently. and were believed to be lost during four days. They were two brothers Friendrich, the bride of the younger brother, ands friend named Novelr. The correspondent says : “ After four hours’ tedious march in the snow they reached a small mountain inn, Where they intended stopping until the weather should clear up. But very soon some tourists came in and i told of a large party who were climbing up- ‘ward and were now on their way to i ' Gaisloch,’ a deep fissure on the mountian the side, in which more than one careless Ven~ neese has found an untimely death, it being the fashion to climb this mountain without a guide. The four young people hoped to find their way by following in the steps of those who had gone before. After several hours’ diflicult walking they reached the neighborhood of the fissure, and found that it would be utterly impossible to advance without the help of a guide. It was 5 o‘clock in the afternoon by this time, and the party hoped to get as far as the Karl Ludwig house of shelter, where they could have spent the night. Novak, who was the nimblest, jumped across the gap, and called to them that they should not attempt to fol- low him at that place, the gap being too ‘ wide for the girl to pass. He continued to , speak, telling them to find some track to ad- vance upon, but a dense fog settled upon the mountain at this moment, and after a very few minutes they could neither see no hear each other. The three imagined Novas must have slipped and fallen AN ALPINE ADVENTURE. FOUND THE GXRL IN A TRANCE A Very Talented Dog. INTO THE ABYSS, RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, JULY 13 1882‘ “ When I went into the jail,” said the ex- officer, as soon as he had sufficiently mus.- tercd his dmgust to speak without endanger- ing his soul, “ there were twenty-three red- handea murderers in the institution, and there was hart;in a man of them that ought not to have dangled from the gallows. That was more than a year ago, and not one of the gang has yet stretched hemp. “ Before I became a jailer,” said a retired official to a San Framcisco reporter. “ I often read 311th some doubt the statement that seemmgly respectable women were ucausbom ed to codu‘le condemned murderers and cove: them with caresses and bouquets.” “ I should say so-more than convinced. I was disgusted, air. Why. it any man had sworn to me on a stack of Bibles as high as Telegraph Hill that decent looking married women were accustomed to fawn on convicted cut-throats as I have seen them, I wouldn’t have believed it.” “I saw this woman, Mary Willis, the first time that she came to the jail, and I noticed her particularly because I knew her parents. She came around with the praying banal, and after service used sometimes to tqu to the prisoners in murderers’ row through the wickets. She appeared to me to be a girl that was very anxious to get 8 been, and this fel- low Gottung and she got acquainted very soon. Through her influence Gottung was allowed the liberty of the ward two hours a day, and was told just how far he should walk. I began to suspect that she was tak- ing a lively interest in him. One day when they took Gottung down to be tried, I met the girl on the street and stopped to talk with her, and she said 2 ' George is being tried to- day,’ and with that she turned away and cried. I felt sorry for her folks as well, on general principles, for I’m a family man my- self; and it wasn’t a pleasant sight. I assure you. for any (ether to see a girl like that weep- ing over a red handed assassm, who had de- coyed his miserable wife into a beer saloon to butcher her.” “ You became convinced ‘of'ifie shamefu} truth. I supgose,” said the (spotter. The news received here by the Jews from their compatriots who have emigrated to the United States is not particularly encouraging. There are no ready forms. the emigrants say. and no money is given. The American work- iugmen are skilful, their trades are shrewd, and no light and profitable businesses are to be got. There are Jews here who have alâ€" ready returned from the United States. To the question why they came back, they reply, “ We are accustomed to light work, and America is a country of very hard work.” WOMEN WHO ADMIBE CRI M INALS. “ What other murderer was in the habit of receiving the attention of women 2'” asked the reporter. Which of these two views will be endorsed, and to what extent by the commission for a general review of the laws concerning Jews, remains to be seen. " Oh, several of them. It aeemed to me to be only necessary for a. man to have com- mitted a particularly heinous crime to become the hero and idol of a. lot of addlepmt- ed or thoroughly corrupt and vicious females. I used to watch them closely, and I came to the conclusion that it wag not piety that attracted some of these women. One wo- man, whose name I cannot. give you, for she has had four husbands inside of ten years, The Judophobes, on the contrary, inaiat upon even further restriction of the rights of the Jews. Particularly, they demand that all the Jews who do net work personally on farms shall be strictly forbidden to live among i1â€" lagers. The village whiskey shops kept by the Jews are the greatest evil, for it is in these shops that the Jews manage to buy both sou and bady from the peasaute. It is there that the peasant sells hia property, his crops, and his labor. It is there that money 13 lent on illegal interest and that stolen goods are re ceived. It is much to be preferred that stringent laws should drive bud. Jews from Russia rather than leave that work in the hand of the mob. There are two opposite plans advanced here for the purpose of finally settling the JBWlbh troubles in Russia. The Judophilos demand that all the lawsresfirictmg the rights of the Jewish population be abolished. Then, they say. the 3,000,000 Russian Jews will be diffused among 100,000,000 Russians, mad, being dispersed over the vast area of the Russian empire, they will lose all their ob- noxious traibs; for it i3 impossible to admit that three Jews will not be influenced and, so to speak. absorbed by 100 Russians, Then the Russian peasants couliY ‘eacefnlly banish any Jew who might be c r‘f-ua to @hem, iustkaggghexgg ugfiyfim a u. mm mm}: hem, anld so there would be no amenity for mob ru 6. Count Toletoy Wishes, and is believed to be able. to prevent any further anti-Jewish riots. This task is a great deal easier now than be- fore. In the first place, the exodus of the Rusalan Jews is fully begun ; ten? of thous- sands of them are gone, and hundreds of thousands are ready to go. Then the Gov- ernment has issued a. number of orders which, if duly enforced, wilt save the Jews from a dangerous conflict with the peaéantry. But, above all, the riots have taught the Jews :1 salutary lesson, namely, that in their dealings with the peasants,“ is better for themselves to pursue the policy of muderm tion. The smart Jews know well that they could on legal grounds exact the last kopeek from the peasants, and even turn them into serfs. Now they have learned another thingmthat there is a, limit to the patience and endurance even of a Russian peasant. and that it is dangerous to overetep that limit. The Instructions the Czar is Reported to have given to his New Minister. ST. PETEnsBURo, June 18.â€"The retirement of Gen. Ignetiefl from the post of Minister of the Interior and the appointment of Comm Tolstoy in his steed are welcomed here by the Judophiles as the end of Jewish persecu. tion in Russia. It is reporled here that the Cur said to the new Minister : “ I wish, air, that you would stop at once the ami- Jewish riots; it is bad policy to create new difficulties before the old ones are overcome.” Thus it appears that the whole reeponsibillty for the Jewish troubles is ascribed to Gen. Ignotiel‘f, and the Judophie journals have already expressed themselves in that sense. The late Minister, however, can be rightly accused only for not. enforcing the law as ro~ gards the riots. He ought to have promptly used the police, the gendarmes, and the army to disperse or arrest, or even, if neces- sary, to shoot down the rioiers. Gen. Igna- tieff did not fulfil that duty. and, of course, he is to be blamed. But there are many Rusâ€" sians who earnestly believe that Gen. Ignatiefl, by what is called .his ” wise treatment ” of the anti Jewish riots, saved Russia. from a peasant revolution. The Russian peasantry are believed to have been in a state of great ‘ exasperation. They needed some vent for ‘ their wrath. and the Jews, who had been in- strumental in their oppression, suffered from it. Had the Government decidedly sided with the Jews, then, according to this view, there would have been a bloody conflict; be tween the peasantry and the Czsr‘s ‘z‘overu- ment, and the Nihilists woeld have taken full advantage of the situation. By this lenity towards the rioters, Gen. Ignetiefi evened that danger. END OF RUSSO-JEWLSH PERSECU- TION. In its practical aspect the game giVos no possible excuse to Mr. Weed. The deal, which was made by Dr. Hedgea reflected great credit upon his skill and judgment. Some men en- deavoriug to earn an lioneet living by poker would have dealt much more suspicions hands. Dr. Hedges dealt Mr. Scott a simight flush, with king high. This was an act of great self restraint. Most men in Dr. Hedges‘ place would have given Mr. Scott a straight flush, with an ace high, and given Mr. Weed a isfitaight flush. headed. with a king, with the excepcion that the lattor would be: his very last dollar on his hand. But Dr. Hedges knew better. With the instinct of a thorough ariiat he would not overdo the matter in hand. He dealt Mr. Booth a hand which he knew would be good enough without the gaudy ornamentation of an ace, and he gave Mr. Weed a poorer, bu: yet an eminently seductive, hand. These facts Mr. Weed ought to have known. for to sit down to a. game without knowing them would have been an incredible act of folly. Now, when he began to bet heavrly on his four aces, and found that. no matter how much he might bet, Mr. Scott was alwuy ready to raise him, he ought to have com- prehended that the letter gentleman held a “ straight flush." The argument; was a sim- ple one. Evidently Mr. Scott had full confi dence in his hand, for no man continues to bluff when $10,000 or $20,000 is at stake, and his adversary is ready to bet to any amount. The only hand Whieh could give him his full confidence was straight flush, for Mr. Weed had four aces, and as the game did not take place on the Mississippi River, there was no reason to believe that Mr. Scott was relying upon a hand of five more aces. The chances that Mr. Scott held a straight flush were greatly strengthened by the'iach that; he had drawn only one card. In these circumstances, even a. Way- faring player, though he might be a. pro~ tectionisfi, would have known the character oi Mr. Scott’s hand Jnst as well aeif his ends had been transparent. And yet Mr. Weed, with n futility rarely equaled in the annals of Democratic conventions, went on betting on his miserably inadequate aces until he 10le $150,000. What Mr. Weed ought to have done, on aiscovoring that he hm lost the put, was to claim that. he was no: playing straightaâ€" that straights should not be counsed exuept by special ngroemenfi, but that. with a. View to harmony. he would accepl $10 000 from Mr. Scott amd call it square. The wretched man, of course, did not think of this. He was as ignorant of the way of Hedges and Scott as he was of the cardinal principles of poker. He actually paid $85,000 to les an- tazonists before auspicious about the game. and that Dr. Hedges was too bold and original :1 dealer for any discreet man to play with. Mr. Weed ought to study mumble te peg. It is a benutifui game, and just suited to his abilities. I?) is is aiso an economical game, and, even. if he were to play it with Mr. Scott and Dr. Hedges. he coukd not lose anything except one or two front teeth. â€"-A New York doctor says there is an un~ usual amount of ozone in the atmosphere this year, but that’s no excuse for a man to steal a fellow‘s umbrella. It i3 not many years since the “ etmight flush ” was introduced into the game of poker and given power to beat the four aces. The muggy oi/the‘ developmenu of the “ straight flush” since the date of its introduction affords a curious instance of he way in which nature supplies every deigind that is m ‘e upon her. In 1856 a “ straigut flush” occuii- ed once in every 167,000 hands, “four acee” occurring at the same data once in every 9,027 hands, With the demand for “straight flushes ” the frequency of their appearance increased, until at the time of the famous transit ct Venus, when scientific parties were not eent out by our government to the end of the earth, the " straight flush,” according to the excellent authority of Prof. Harkness: of the Naval Observatory. could be expected to appear in every 32,000 handsâ€"4n rouna numbers. In the very able paper on poker, read at the meeting of the American Scientific aeeociation last August, it was asserted that the “ straight flush ” had so greatly increased in frequency that it was commonly met once in every 1,147 hands, thus being very nearly as common as four aces. These are two aepecte in which Mr. Weed’s now celebrated game of poker with Dr. Hodges and Mr. Scott; may be regarded. The fimt‘. of bhese in what may be (Liked the acientiflc View. Mr. Weed had a hand of four acea, Mr. Scott held 2. “ atmight flush,” and Dr. Hedges had a. “full” which he had dealt himself. Mr. Ween}, full of faith in the effi- cacy of his acas, proceaded to bet as long as Mr. Scott would ” raise ” him, and thus the game went on until a call was mada and Mr. Scott secured the nice pot of 3450,000â€" of which $150,000 represented the loss of Mr. Weed. Confidence of the Christian Behind Four Aces Scientifically Considered. If there is any game that Mr. Wed can play better than he can play poker, he would do well to confine himself to web game and to abstain from poker forever. Nothing can be clearer than that be was never meant for 8. poker player. The purpose of his creation is undnubtvdly a mystery, and is universally recognized as such by all his acquaintances; but though he may not be able to imagine what he was made for, be Inth by this tima know that he was not made to play poker. “ You may think I’m exaggerating, but, sir, it‘s a. fact that this cold-blooded, unnatu~ ral ruflian, who has outraged every principle of decency, has receive-1 so many boquets in a day that; he could make arr-present of one to every cell in Murderers’ Row. The more the papers described the revoltng details of his horrible crime, the greater interest those morbid-minded women took in him. The other ruffians, who had died their hands only in some drunken wife’s blood or killed some person in a brawl, were entirely overlooked in the anxiety to minister to the comfort of the strangler. The charm of illicit love seemed to have imbued his brutal crime with a romantic interest that noneof these prurient- minded women could resist. There were three sistersâ€"at least they said they were sisters ~who did everything in their power to make things pleasant for Wheeler. One of them used to keep a lodging house near Portsmouth square, and the other two live in Oakland and are married. I have been told, on good authority. that these three women subscribed $10,000 to help Wheeler make his defence. and you mm say with truth that but for them he would be today-well, I would not like to say where he would be. The Scriptures say, you know. ‘Judge not,’ etc. The gallows, however. would have found one of the finest subjects that was over otfsred to it.” was a constant visitor, and took a great fancy 10 Wheeler, the strangler. She was speedily cut out, however, by a goodlooking married woman, whose husband lives on Powell (street. A big policeman. who is not unknown to Kearney 81190.6, brougth this married WO- man up one day to see the jail. and after that she spent the moot of her time on the oui- Side of the atmngeler’s wicket. She brought him bouquets and books, and, between 1101' and the other woman that wanted to win a smile from him. the villain’s cell became like a conservatory. THE STRAIGHT FLU SH. The doctrine of sinleea perfection was diam cussed in the Generai Agreemny of the Cum- berland Presbyterian church, later held at Huntsville. Aia. Some congregations of this denomination have) gone as far as the Free Mathodists in professions of perfect living. A revision committee adviaed that liberty of conscience be allowed on that subject, but by a large vote the toilowing was adopted : “The docnrino of sinlesa perfection is not authorized by the Scriptures, and is a dogma of danger- ous tendenuy." It is an important point to see that our churches and other public buildings are proâ€" perly ventilated. In England 03 degrees Fahrenheit, is found to be me moat favorable tempergture in the public offices. It might well be that in our country, with its different anfi variable climate,some other degree would b3 better suitad. Whiz: that degree is could be ascertained by experiment, and our public buildings might be regulased accordingly. An ill ven-fiilated church may have as much to do with the falling off of the congregation as an ill. fligesfied sermon. Every year the Queen deputes a high comâ€" missioner, always a Scotch nobleman, to pre- side at the general assembly of the church of Scotland. This year the commissioner was the yeung Earlof Aberdeen, grandson of the Prime Minister Earl, and brother of the young earl who was drowned, While under the name of Osborne. acting as mafia of an American merchantman. The high commits sioncr takes up his quarters at Holyrood house. and this year his hospitality has been on an unusually splendid and profuse scale. The following clause was found in the will of a Yorkshire motor: “ Seeing that; my daughter Anne has n03 availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare up to the elbows: my will is that, should she continue after my death in this Violation of the modes- ty of her sex, all the goods, chattels. money, lands, and all other things that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the eldest son of my sister Cor- oline. Should any one take exception to this as; being too severe, I answer that license in the dress of a woman is a mark of a depraved mind.” The Bishop of Peterborough, England, met at dinnar the other day a. rich, benevolent, but somewhat brainless millionaire. who boasted that he gave away £2,000 to the poor regularly every year. He said. “I think it’s right, you know ; a sort. of duty in my pouiâ€" tion. I can’t; say who! becomes of it, but it’s given away in charity. that‘s all I know, and that’s all I care about £2,000 every year 1” “ Wham” said the bishop, “do you really mean to say that you pay away £2,000 to the poor every year a religious duty ‘2" “I assure you, my , that. is so.” replied the wealthy man, with careless complacency. “Well,” said the witty bishop, “that’s the largest imsurance against fire I ever heard of l” The clergy of Iowa. have taken the field on the temperance question, and are making a cembined effort. of the moat determined scharacter to get; a popular majority in favor of a. prohxbition amendment. to the State Constitution. The Rev. Edwin Laws was accused of burn~ ing his parsonage at Deerfiald, Mich. His Methodist congrpgation believed him inno‘ cam, and contributed the money to pay the expenses of his trial, which resultod in ac- quittal. Although Mr. Dawe has come through me tribulation unhurt in reputation. he says that he has had enough of a countryin winch accusations can be made against a clergyman, and will return at once to his 01d home in England. A curious petition has Just been presented to the General Assembly of the Established Church in Scotland. It Seems that the Rev. John Campbell, Minisaor at Iona, uses his church for strange and unusual purposes. AI; one time pigs were kept in it, at another cat- tle were housed in the sacred precincts ; while every winter, for some time pask, it has been converted into a stack yum. On one occuaion the church was so full of corn and straw that service had to be held cuiside. During the past six months the church has begn (floured alaogexher. Awarding to the reports presented to the Old Catholic Synod of Switzarland the Ohurc‘nia supported by the State in nine canLons, and. has an oflicial existence in 42 patinhes. It has 57 ecclesiastics. Last year there were 1,428 confirmations and 805 bap- aisms. Taknage says that nine out of ten business men do not acruplc to lie for a aixpence. The lying Sixpence irs batter than the slowrahilling. Miss Jesse Green, of New Orleans, La., daughter of Protestant Episcopal parente, embraced. the Jewish faith, and was married to Mr. Isaac Feitel, a Hebrew, in that city on the 14th inst. Shortly before her public decimation of her change of faith they were married by a. civil magistrate ; aft-er it shay were united by the Jewish rabbi. The Rev, Philip Herben preached hetero- dux sermons in the Lutherian church at Columbus, Ohio, and the trustees obtained a. temporary injunction forbidding him to emulate as pastor until the question involved “411m. of the right of a. church to receive from its minister the kind of docsrinem which its creed authorizes â€"shali be settled in court. A Philadeiphia clergyman finds no good in the circus. Yet the lemonade is on the regu- iaPSunday school picnic style. and the show isn 1; up to the programme. It must be the introduction of animzfls that he objecla to.â€" N ow York Advertiser. Amissionary in Jamaica. was once ques~ tioning some little black children on the fifth chapter of Sn Matthew’s gospel, and he asked “ Who are the meek ?" A li‘tle fellow an- swered, " Those who give soft answers to rough questions." Kola-rgyman at St. Joe, Mo., tells his poo» ple that he would as soon see them playing poker as base bull. He says that Satan keeps the score. Henry Ward Beecher, who not so long ago declared that brand and water was good enough for working men, has changed his tune and now asssrts from thsa pulpit that the freight strikers should be granted their deâ€" mand. Beecher is all things to all men. It seems an agent of the Bible Society in Brazil gives a guaranty that Its Bibles and Tesmments contam all the books that. were recognized as canonical by Christ and His apostles. He would be a valuable witness il his knowledge was at all in proportion to his zeal. Princeton, N. J., is fortunate in a Roman Catholic priest, Mr. Moran, whose unblem ished, strong sense, tact. and urbanity, have secured him the highest esteem of men of all crecds, even in that hotbet of extreme Pram bytm‘innism. Eighty six out of 102 converts made dur- ing a religious excitement m Leavenworth lust Marah are listed as having gone back to the bad. The doors of Dr. Hall’s church, New York, are locked as soon as he begins preaching, and the only way a. heathen can get in and sava his soul is to smash a window. When an English visitor to Rome asked Garibaldi What zeligion he professed, the General replied: “ The religion of Humani- ty--the religion Christ taught by precept. and example.” Prof. Swing is geing to Europe to recap“ Grate. ABOUT PREACHERS, CHURCHES AND RELlGION. WHOLE NO. 1,254 -â€"â€"NO, 6 u Teefy Mattie Ogle was an orphan, but] why Mary Jones should cousentto the scheme cannot be ‘ accounted for. Ells Mills was seventeen years ‘ of ago, Mary Jones twelve. and Mattie Ogle fourteen. They borrowed twantydive cents of Mrs. Brown on Wednesday night, bought some arsenic, divided it into three doses, and swal» lowed it. About nine o’clock Mary Jones was taken with violent purging and vomiting, but no one outside of the trio suspected its cause. The sick girl was supplied with stim- ulants. During the night Mrs. Brown found Ella Mills lying upon the porch in great pain and vomiting at short intervals 3 mucous slimy substance mixed with blood. She was carried into the house and placed upon 9. bed and all possible relief afforded her. A little later Tb'iitttio Ogle was found out doors endur- ing the same pains: and vomiting in the some manners. Drs. Clark and Baylsey were called but two of the girls were beyond all relief. Emma Mills was already dying. Her pulse was already still, her eyes were dilated and the air from her lungs was cold. She was dead at 4 o’clock. Mattie Ogle died about twenty minutes (titer. Just below she died Ella Mills was entreutcd to tell what she had taken, smd she with great diihcully managed to any that she had taken nothing only some candy. Mattie Ogle never rallied from the stato of collapse in which she was found by doctors Clark and Halsey, but died without uttering a single word. Mary Jone: was vciy reticent about the whole matter and almost refused to speak at all. She mid that be- tween seven and eight o’clock they all took a. tablespoonhil of a white powder which Ella itiills had procured somewhere in Timber town. It has developed since that it was procured its the drug store of Oskwood dz Bennett. They diluted the powder with water and it had the taste of a copper piece held in the mouth. Dr. Clark thinks that Miss Jones will recover. He attributes her escape to the fact that the poison tool; effect on her sooner than upon the others and before it had been so thoroughly disseminated throughout her system. â€"â€"As Mr. Browning’s house at Warwick Crsscent, in London,is soon to be pulltd down by a railway company for a new line, and as he has written in it almost all of his works, the Browning society has ordered photographs to be taken of the house and the view over the canal basin from is, the poet’s study and drawing room. The house at (Jam,l bemeil where Mr. Browning was born, and Where he Wrote Paraceisua, is aieo to be photographed for the Browning society. The Unlnteliiglble Act of Three Young Girls ofan Illinois Town. A brief telegram from Danville, Ill.. the other day, announced the suicide of two young girls .md the narrow escape from death from poisoning of one of their compan- ions. They had all taken arsenic and Huf- fered terrible agony. Mrs. Brown keeps a boarding house at the corner of Jackson and Van Buren streets. Danvllle. She employed several girls in the house as domestics, and three of them employed in that. capacity were Ella. Mills, daughter of a Danville wagon maker ; Mary Ogle who has a. sister, Mrs. James Brier, living in the. city, and Mary Joneli. the daughter of irespeotuble pru- ents. These girls born thereputabion of being lively, cheeriul and well behaved, and at- tended to their dutiesin a. manner which gave rise to no suspicion that: they would tulle their own livcsl It Seems, however, that may were discouraged. Peihnpa their work was ico hard, and they talked the matter over and concluded like: it would be hetler for them to (lie. Ella Mills sat down on Wed‘ neaday and announced her inbemion of comâ€" mitling suicide in the following later to her sieler : “ DEAR LITTLE SISTER: I have resolved to put myself out of €119 world: I have to Work out all the time, and if I didn’t I Wouid have to go home. Then people Would talk. be- cause my father hves with a fancy womanâ€"- so people Say." Every reader of the Presbyterian has heard the proverb about “ all work and no play.” That kind of treatment makes dull ministers and dull sermons as well as dull boys. Con- gregations that give their ministers no holi- day are in their own light. A minister or *any other brain worker can do more and better \voik in eleven months than twelve if he recreates on the twelfth. Besides minis~ tel-s are forced to work seven days per week, while meet other men work only six. No constitution can long ssend seven days’ work. each week. Mind or body, or both. will break down. It is easy to say that the mini- ster may take his Sabbath rest on mweek day. Does he? Can he? Each day brings its duties. Rest is an impossibility while a man is looking at undone work. )hange is needed as well as rest. Change of scene takes a. minister out of a. rut, freshens him up, brightens him, and gives him ii new start. A fresh start is a good thing. A cheque for a. nice sum, when the minister is lesvmg for his vacation, is also a. good thing. It helps a minister mightily to enjoy his holidays if he knows his expenses are not coming on? of his ordinary incomeâ€"Canada Presbyterian. As this Judgo Hargis arose, and taking the sable penitent by the hand sat down in a chair next’to him. Brother Barnes in the meantime looking on approvineg and with a. quiet smile of happy sasisfactiou, exclaiming. “ "he recording angel will note this in the Book of Life; praise the Lord.” Yesterday afternoon and last; night theconfessions num- bered iox‘ty‘five for the soul. fortyntwo for the body, making a mm of 918 for the soul and 286 for the body. The meetings of to-morrow will be the last held in this city, for on Mon- day Brother Barnes says he must go to Day- ton, 0., whither the Lord has coiled him. “ My dear friends, you see that this 001- ored brother has come forward to confess Chris‘s, and you are staying away simply be- cause you don’t wont to sit beside him. Here he sits alone on this front row, and all that have come forward have been careful not to seat themselves near him. Any man coming forward despite the prejudice against color and taking a. seat beside this colored brother, will be a brave. noble man. I know in the eyes of sociesy there is s. diflerence between you and him; but, dear friends, before God this difference does not exist. 'He was born this way ; he can’t, help his color. still he has a soul f0 save. If you stay away now it will prove the success of the devil‘s device. The dovil knows Frankfort people and has taken this advantage of their prejudices. Oh. my frienda, tho some devil is a sharp, Old follow, but I’m going to get ahead of him. He does not think any one will have courage to sin next: i0 this colored man. Friends, will you lot the devil triumph ? A brave man remember is he who takes a seat alongside my colored friond who comes forward to con- iess Christ and save his soul from the peril of olemal damnation.” AN INTERESTING mornrnr. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 24,â€"A special to the Owner Journal from Frankfort says: At Brother Bernes’ meeting last night there was an episode in which a. colored brother and the highest judicial ofiicer of the State gave a. public exhibition of fraternal relations exist- ing between the white and colored races. in Kentucky. While the evangelist stood with outstretched hands asking: “Who will trust the Lord ‘2” Judge Thomas F. Howie, of the court of appeals, was moved to confession, and took his seat in the front row of chairs. Shortly after there passed down the aisle a penitent blacker than the midnigut eyes of the sable goddess. Then came others Who Brother Barnes observed were careful to choose 502th as far away as possible from the dusky brother. Stopping right in the midst of the singing Brother Barnes said : The Rev. Wm. Bryers is the new Metho- dist miniater at Acton. If there is anything: in aname hin association among the flock ought to have an enlivening eflecu.â€"~Halton News. The vacancy in the Congregational church pulpit. Georgetown, has been filled by the va. G. B. Robinson, M. A., who entered upon his pastoral duties two weeks ago. TAKING POISON TOGETHER