No. 4023-MAY 20, 1876,]
China
NINGPO,
TEIR CHINA MAIL
After evidence was taken, the prisoners | but trouble game at last. The Governor something of his early life: he thought he fercises, have only theraselves to blama if they struggling with this misgiving, Mr. Doyce the bill passed in the House of Representa- were found guilty on the first four counts, Genatal is in carncat, but when it is had been stolen; but had long given up all come to graf. But walking about in the returned thither, leaving his business un- tives was, altogether, $462,000. The res- accusing of crime and threatening to accuse remembered what a very large number of hopes of finding out his friends Old Chao, streets is not altogether a matter of taste; for completed. On his way his doproction torations insisted upon by the Senate amount of crime, with intent to extort. The first officials use the drug, it would seem as if he now quite convinced, went a messenger for most people it is a necessity, and the perils increased. Upon reaching the door of his to $428,000. We had no details concerning and second were sentenced to five years' had attempted an impossibility.
the foster-mother or wot-nurse, who had which are thus encountered are not courted, ponal servitude or each count, the punish-
Two instancos of death from the bits of a reared the boy, and asked for her opinion. nt are of the kind which cannot be avoided. that it was with a serious effort he threw amendments, but it some probable that rem his mental excitement culminated so the particular posts affsted by the Senate ment to be contemporaneous. The third cat abourred recently. The first man was The old woman no sooyer sot eyes upon The misanthropical van-driver and the blood-op the door of his room, pisoner was sentenced to three years' peual playing with the animal when he received a him this she confirmed the Ad man in his thirsty butcher-boy are familiar dantera of burning! In his hurry he had departed, material diminution. It is still in the power The gas was those of the East will, after all, undergo no servitude on each count, the penishment severe wound, which bled profusely. His belief; and great was the merrymaking at the streets; but there are also other perils of leaving the chandelier barned on atdall head of the House of Representatives to refuse to alan to be contemporaneous,
wife urged him not to kill the cat, as her the joyous event. All the neighbours were orious kind to which people are constantly It had been blazing away for three weeks, concur in the amendments, and upon de The sessions were then adjourned till brother would gladly accept it as a gift. invited and for some days the reunited exposed, bit of which they have no suspi- day and night! With a loud shriek Mr. important point of retrenchment, namely Tuesday next.
While the brother was feeding it, he was family did nothing but drink congratulacion till some shocking accident brings them Doyce rushed forward, turned off the gas, the salary of the Presidentit has, indeed, also bitten. Both died within a few hours tion-wing and comfort themelvoa ex-under notice. An instance of the kind oe and fainted! The rest of the and story is already refused. But there is auch general in great agony. The Chinose are puzzled to ceedingly, But among the quests there gurred the lier day, when a man had his too soon told. There was a failure of a ontory against the changes originally pro- socount for the madness of a oat. The onse was a lad named Wang, who had gone to throut ent by some telegraph wires which hitherto rich and prosperous brokers' firm on posed in the Diplomatie and Consular Ser- of a dog is easily explained. Poisonous the village school with the lad who had had been blown down. The wires had been California Street the other day. It was Mrvice, by which so small a sum was to be snakes burrow in the ground and their breath been stolen, and he entertained serious stretched across a street, and, having been Dorca's. Last month he was worth two gained and such great interests endangered, May 11. impregnates the soil with venom. Dogs doubts of the new-comer's identity. Fis blown down by the gale, formed a loop over hundred thousand dollars, happy and re-that this part of the economic scheme will The body of the man who drowned that ran along with their noses on the ground therefore began to pump him about the gateway through which the deceased had speeted by all. To-day he is a miserable doubtless be abandoned. himself last week has been discovered in may inhale poisonous gases that arise from old schooldays, and soon found out he bad to drive an omnibus. His neak was caught bankrupt, and has just made an assignment the river, some miles from the place where the soil; and they, thereby become mad. not the slightest recollection of any single in this noose, and the tissues of the throat to the Gas Company at fourteen cents on the he committed the rash act. Last evening The most plausible theory in reference to iucidont which then occurred; indeed, the sovored, so that he died instantaneously, dollar. Verily, truth is stranger than fletion. the procession which went from the city this cat is that it had been eating anake's soi-disant Mao-kou appeared to grow uneasy. Such danger as that of a iron instrumentan rancisco News Letter. over the bridge to the Kanng-tung side fosh.-Shanghai Courier Correspondent. Wang then got up, and donounced him asoming down in this way, as from the skies, was attended with fatal consequences to
a rank imposter; the other lad showed and cutting the throat of a person in the street, four people. The throng was very great,
fight, but was agon 'Aoored' beyond redress is one against which it is impossible for the and a boy aged thirteen got pushed into
A horrible and significant tragedy has just by his antagonist, who provod that it was threatened victim to guard; and it is obvious the river and was drowned. Three men not being able to keep up with the rest been enacted a few hundred from this, the the wrong man after all. The youth was that all who happen to pass that way at the were trodden under foot by those pressing result of the want of rain in this Province. then taken before s magistrate and there oritical moment are equally jeopardized. forward from behind, and before they could A long-headed Chinman foresceing the compelled to confer that the whole thing Any one who in going through London be got out life was extinct. It is estimated probable consequence of the long-continued was a conspiracy; he had heard of the chooses to lift his eyes on see for himself that upwards of 50,000 people took part in and much-to-be-deplered drought, bought old man's lous, and be know of the old the risks to which he is thus exposed. Sur Canon, W. Stowart, H.M.S. Vigilant,
man's wealth; so he thought he would reap John Hawkshaw, the eminent engines, has what advantage he would from the circum-pointed out with emphatic conciseness what stance, Elis ing nuity was thereupon ro
in likely to happen from the present method arded with imprisonment until his fate of carrying telegraph wire across the streets. could be decided, but the old vet-nurse Galvanized vire, he says, in a smoky atmos- who had been bus scoonsplice in the plot, phere, does not last more than a dozen years,
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May 6th:
up all the grain in the district, and stored it Slow by degrees and beautifully less did the poor country people in his granaries. watch their resources disappear, until the contemplation convinced them that an in- choats famine would speedily reduce them to
Dead 'Latters.
A Ping, Kee Shing, Bookbinder, Kobe,. Anderson, John, 162, Jessie Street, San Bristol, Dr., Manufacturer of Sarsaparilla,
Francisco,........
New York,
Hongkong, Carey, Annie, Newcastle, New South
"Wales, Daves, G., Post Office, Hongkong, Elliott, Mrs., oare of Revd. James Doyen,
1,008, Powell St., San Francisco,..... 1
Quotations. Horakoro, May 20, 1876. OPIUM-New Patna, cash... 595 credit, 597 Old Paton, cash.... 610 credit, 618 New Benares, caah, 680
"
the procession.
The Fi-po arrived this morning bringing three piratos from Chin-chin Fu, botween Foochow and Amoy. They are said to be
Mandarin more than three years ago. all the cruelties of starvation. One by one had already made good her escape. This and the, first indication of decay will pro- E. P. H., British Post Office, Shanghai,.. 1 CAMPHOR threo of those who pirated the loreka This afternoon, they were landed under a large escort and taken through the they carried their small stock of cash to the last disappointment, however, was too much bably be the falling of the virea upon the pas Galles, F. W., care of Agent Messageries
Bettlerents into the aty. They were in pages, the tops of which formed a species of cangue, for while the pirates' bodies were chained round posts in cages, their heads were outside. As they were dressed in red It is probable that their guilt has been brought home to them, and that they have been sent here for putishment.-Shanghai Courier Correspondent.
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"May 6th,
Minister Seward is in excellent health. A good record follows him, as he enters upon the duties of his now position. The experiences of the past will doubtless como "frequently to his aid in solving the pro- blems of the future. The preliminaries of etiquette aru, I believe, satisfactorily pass; ed, so far at least as the Tenng-li Yamien ie concerned, and the way prepared for business.
machine.
spot.
the height from which they will fall, will be generally sufficient to ki and maim those upon whom they fall. Sir John added that he did not happen to know who might be Lord John Manners has since admitted the made responsible for such accidents; but
responsibility of the Post Ofee for postal wires, and that, as far as possible, they
Maritimes, Aden,.... Hill, Mra., 68, Kent Street, Sydney, N.S. Jamud, George, 4, Quincey Place, Dupont,
San Francisco,
baras, and one by one they got squeezed of wieentre who had scored all the food in his for the old man; and he died upon thesers-by; and the weight of the wires, and their savings, till their funds were complete- Dives to have pity on them, and two by two ly exhausted. Two by two they implored they implored in vain. Small bard by small band they returned time after time and en- found the same Usappointing resepti. gular bread panio. Hunger drives men, to for a few preliminary romarks, spoke as ought to be carried underground. Some five Low, R Chief Engineer 8.8. Calabar,
It was a second Paris small re-
MANILA,
The following is translated from the Diario of the 22nd ultimo :-
Kusel, Mane. F., Bunderstrasse, No. 2,
Hamburg, Lazison, M. W., 282, Front Street, New
York,
Hongkong, Luders, Mrs., oare of Hubert & Co., San
Francisco, Madeburg, Otto, care of German Consul,
New York,....
York,
credit, 5821
eld Benares, cash, 5824
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eredit, 585
New Malwa, caah, 580 credit, 585 Allowance Taels, *24 a 40 Old Malwa, cash, 685 oredit, 690 Allowance Taels,
QUICKSILVER,
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130
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Kxchange,
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heredith, S. R., Sale Dook Co., New York, 1 Migueis, A. J., vare of Wa Lung & Co.,
San Francisco,********
Muller, George, Harlem, New York,...... Oeitze, Ch., Berlin, Germany,..... Quin, G. H., Emerald Hill, Melbourne,.. Rishard, G., Newchwang Pilot, Ikong, Ritchie, J., Passenger per B.B. Crocus,
Hongkong,..... Sanderman, C., 154, Orchard Street, New
York,..... Saporjee, Byramjee, Bombay,..
Saunders, U., 74, Portland Street, Mas- Tapes Capt. Henry, care of American
Bank, 0 mouths' sight,.....3/104 Credit, 6 months' sight,... 8/11"
1On Caloutta, Benk demand, ... 225
Bombay, demand,
,, Shanghai demand,
...B 225
1
Shanghai, 30 days' sight, ... Bar. Silver, 17, dwts. B., Byose, 1Mexioane, Gold Leaf,
186 *+
121
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English Sovereigns, Australian Sovereigns, 1 Discount P
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5.14
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1 Hongkong Bank, par. 1 % pm.
1
Ohins Fire Ins. Co., $158
H.K. & W. Dook Co., 85 % dis.
China Traders' Ins. Co., $1660
Union Las, Boulety of Canton, $650
Chinese Insurance Co., $212
North China Ins. Co., Tis, 815, er div.
0. & J. Matine Ins. Co., Tla. 84 ex return.
1 Yangtaze Ins. Association, Tis, 650 Unton S. Navigation Os., Tls, == R.K. O. &M. B.-boat Co., 10 dia. Shanghai Steam N. Co., Tis 70 Hongkong Hotel Co., $45 dis, Chinese Imperial Loan, £103.
Consul, Calcutta, Talpey, Capt. Henry, sare of American
Consul, Liverpool,. Townsend, Old Dootor, New York, Wang Yuten, 355, Hanover Street, Boston, 1
The above letters have been returned from various planes at which the addressees cannot be found. If not claimed within ten days they will be opened and returned to the writers,
Miscellaneous,
ball if it could speak Gooseberry, fool!
WHAT champagne would say it public
AN orator who had wrought himself up to a pitch of eloquence," exclaimed, "And now I'll conclude in the beautiful and ex- pressive language of the immortal post-poet
and-and- I've forgot his name,, I've forgot what he said tov?
Temperature.
Horezone, May 20, 1876. (Taken at Mesura. Falconer & Co.'s Premises, Queen's Road.) THERMOMITER-9 M.,
Do.
1 P., Do. Maximum, Do. Minim. over nighi, BAKOM,—§ L«N»,
Do.
1. P.M.
74 74h
74
: 69
30.100 30,080
Shipping Intelligence. HOME SHIPPING. The following is taken from the latest. London Papers (—
DEPARTURER.
MARK TWAIN ON SPELLING. match at the Asylum Hill Congregational A short time since there was spelling
Church, Hart ord, Conn., and Mr Samuel L. Clemens (lark twain), being called on extremities. The bands of enger-eyed wrt been bonoured with the office of lntroducing it ie said, been laid in this way during the follows-Ladies and Gentlemes, have hundred and fifty-four miles of wire have, ches increased in number daily, panting, these approaching orthographical solemni- last two years. In the meantime, however, clamouring, oursing. The selfish monopost ties with a few remarks. The temperance Sir J. Hawkshaw's suggestion that, if wires The days have been dragging along in of man's life-staff, not satisfied with his osut heat and dust, the latter almost unendu- per cent of ill-gotten profit, refused to listen crusade swept the land some time ago that are to cross the streets, they should do rable. Last evening, after very profeising to the calls of perishing humanity, but insistia, that vast portion of the land where it so at right angles in the shortest way, in Mannuel, S.,.65, Columbia Street, New Indications, a light sprinkle of rain fell.ed, with a Shylook-petinapity worthy of a
was needed-out it skipped Hartford. stead of,as at present, being extended The thermometer has been ranging well up better canse, on having, what he erroneots Now comes this new spelling epidemic, and obliquely to a distant point on the other in the seventica. At Peking, it is reportedly considered, his due, vig, a great deal of this time we are stricken. So I suppose side, commends itself to common sense, for se having reached 85 in the shade, on April ready money for a very little wheat. Had a need the affliction. I don't say we the existing system is, as he justly observes, 80. Many aud prouastod prayers and he been a shrewder man of the world, he needed it, for I don't see any use in apeiling Fingeniously contrived to do the greatest Moore, Maria, Mina Street, San Francisco, 1.K. Fire Ins. Co., $625 prostrations have been made bota there and would naturally have known that a orie don't see any use in having a uniform and it may perhaps be said that there has been a word right, and never d.d. I mean amount of mischief to the greatest number. here, by those in high places, but to little was impending when he saw the glare of arbitrary way of spelling words. We might only one isolated and exceptional case of
those bloodshot eyes; but conscious of sup- Speaking of Peking, I learn that the posed power, he sneered the sneer of the wall make all clothes alike and cook all danger to human life from this cause; but whole energy of the Government is now. Taiser, and felt very much like a Pharises. dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome variety it must be remembered that this plan of turned towards the one end of crushing the The wolf, ravenous with a long fast, is not
is plossing. I have a correspondent whose stretching wires noross the streets is of com Woosnag Railroad enterprise. It wants more fierce than the crowd suddenly became. letters are always a refreshment to me; paratively recent date, and that the time is neither railroads nor tolegraphs. And the Inspired by fury, the natural result of in- there is such a breezynfettered originality now arriving when the wires are becoming scheme for the purchase of this road is justies and hunger, the mass attacked the about his orthography. He spells Kow weak and brittle. No doubt there is some probably its death knell, if successful. doors and windows of the jooked up with a large K. Now that is just as good system of inspection; but the question is The rumours concerning opium raising, house, when without warning, shote ware to epoll it with a small one. It is better whether this inspection it sufficiently close transportation, and cotton mille, which I heard from an upper storey, and seven give the imagination a broader field, and careful. The wires which killed the comniunicated some time since, also prove sinners bit the dust. This was an unk-
wider mope. It suggests to the mind a omnibus-driver the other day had, it mems, to be, if I am rightly informed, Govern-peotel check, and a pause ensued, the calm grand, vague, Impressive, new kind of cow. been up for six years, and had not long mental projects, some of which are already before the storm. The mob, now excited to Superb effects can be produced by varie since been passed as sound for a further being carried into operation; concerning madress, collected all the combustible ma-gated spelling. Now, there is blind Tom, term. Nothing is said in the report any all of which arrangements are making for terials they could lay hold of, and piled the mailcal prodigy. He always spells a evidence hating boon give as to their actual their accomplishruent,
word according to the sound that is carried condition. them against the doomed buildings. I a moment the wood and thatch began to
to his ear. And he is an enthusiast in Probably few people would have suspected crackle-and in as hucredibly short time, orthography. When you give hire a word that, if the telegraph wires happened for nothing but ashes marked the spot where he shouls it out-puts all his soul into it. any reason to come down, the accident would the harder resided He, his family, and I once heard him called upon to spell orang produce such fatal effect; and it may be his servants-47 souls in all-perished in outang before an audience. fle said, admitted that in the present instance there the flames. t course a few of the porpa-
**O r-a-u-g, orang, 5-e-r, ger, t-so-g, tang-was probably something exceptional in the trators of the deed, will be punished, beheid- orangger tang!" Now, a body can respect way in which the loop was formed in which ed in ui probability, still one cannot help an orang-outang that spells his name in a the unfortunate man's head was caught. feeling for the poor suffering, wretches, rigorous way like that. But the feeble Even, however, if the falling wires did not drive to such an extremity by the cold- dictionary makes mere kitten of him. kill, they would be likely to inflict severe At various points along the river between blooded cruelty of their fellow-townsman. Ia the old times people spelt just as they wounds; and the commotion which such an thie and Tung Chow, the channel is being Above all, this incident proves that the pleased. That was the right idea. You incident weld produce amidst the traffic of deepened for the first junks carrying tribute drought has now become very serious, and had two chances at a stranger then. You a crowded thoroughfare, especially if it hap- grain to the latter place. It is done by a much more dreadful consequences may yet knew a strong man from a weak one by his pened in the day-time, would in itself oor- simple wooden scraper held in position by aceros. The thermometer has indicated iron-clad spelling, and his bandwriting stitute a serioas danger. Moreover, the two man in the water, and drawn by about 86 several times, and the words of the old helped you to verify your verdict. Some gravity of the question is increased by the twenty men on the bank of the stream.soug are exemplified "we never miss the people bave an idea that o reet spelling can large extension of this system of erecting This instrument, rude and cumbersome, water, till the well runs dry,Shanghai mistake. The speling faculty is born in a taken ple ein recent years, and is continu in a poem about a mimoon that swept Jan. 13, Antipodes, from Cardiff to Hong- be taught, and taught to anybody. That is a telegraph-wires along the roofs which has A SOMEWHAT illiterate woman having read Jan. 10, Esho, from London to Hongkong. carries away nothing. It aimply loosens Courier Correspondent. up the sand, and the current bears it away,
Iman like poetry, music, and art. It is a ally going on. Not only the Post Office, but the plains," is urging her husband to get
kong. talent. People who have this gift in a high various Companies and private persons, maks to be deposited at some other paint. Here
ons of them new-fangled things for her to Jan. 17, Alex MoNeil, from Cardiff to is useful employment for the now dredg.
degree only need to see a word once in use of wires in this way, and, if the practice use in the kitchen.
Hongkong. print, and it is for ever photographed upon continues, it may soon be expected that over ing machine, which is still successfully
He was taken sick in the night, and in Jan. 17, Daward, from Liverpool to Hong- their memory. They cannot forget it. great part of London there will be a close- hes youthful ignorance she made employed in breaking up the old sunken
two kong. People who haven't it must be content to ly-woven meshwork of wires stretching mustard plasters and put one in front and Jan. 19, Sophie, from Cardiff to Hongkong. Just above Ho-bai-vu a large number of All the information obtained by the spell more or less like like thunder-and across the thief thoroughfares. It may be one behind, and then with horrid sarcasm Jan. 20, Forward Ho, from London to men are employed, and a large quantity of expeditionary forces agroes to the effect their orthographical lightning happens to tion of the present system, such as laying well-bred man, and marely said that he Jan. 31, Lord Macaulay, from Newport to
expect to splinter the dictionary wherever doubted, therefore, whether any modulieu-she asked him how he felt. But he was a Yokohama, dra. lime is being used, in repairing the entrance that the island of Sooloo is remarkable for strike. There are 114,000 words in the down a rule that wires must be married realised with a tenderness he had never to an old service-way for leading off to the is natural riches and for the smiling aspect unabridged diotionary. I knows lady who across the read only at right angles, will be known before, the true position of a sand- Feb. 1, Nearshus (str), from Cardiff to
Hongkong, sen the excess of water in the river during of the country, of which a large portion is can spell only 180 of them right. She steers sufficient to meet the dificulty; and whe- with in the community.-Norwich Bulletin. the rainy season. This may be well, but a broken, but the remainder is covered with
Blongkong, deep channel would be better and could the most productive forests in all Malagan more. So her letters always consist of tops of henses will not have to be abso-vention for nursery use, eslied a "Baby- Feb. 4, Undine, from London to Shanghel. clear of all the rest. She can't learn any ther these dangerous constructions on the A "BASY-WASHER."- most useful in Feb. 2, Evelyn, from London to Hongkong. readily be made with the new machine.-Asia. But it is also affirmed that on all those constantly resurring 180 words Now intely prohibited. It is stated that during washer," is reported. It is described by Feb. 6, Paul Marie, from London to N. C. D. News Correspondent.
the cultivated patches there, only eatable and then she finds herself obliged to write the recent gales a great many poles were roots, maise, some sugar cane, and potherbe upon a subject which necessitates the use thrown down, and the wires twisted and
the inventor as follows:-'You simply insert Shanghai are grown, all of them on a small scale and of some other words, she-well, she don't blown about in all sorts of fantastic ways. wretched looking thus showing that the write on that subject. I have a relative in Here we have a source of danger both to There is one circumstance which unfail-natives do not trade in the produce of the New York who is almost sublimely gifted. roofs and chimneys as well as to people in ingly strikes a great many people when soll, but only in domestic animals Theabin-She can't spell any word right. There is a the streets below. It is easy to conceive the reflecting upon the warlike preparations dance of Chapecas, the Chinese coin circulat
game called Verbarium. A dozen people wires getting entangled with a stack of going on in our midst and around us, withing there, gives an idea of this general pover are each provided with a sheet of paper sudden haul and in such a case there would tafant can draw actual notrishment of the March 2, P. J. Carleton, from New York
chimneys, and pulling them down with a their probable effect on the Foreign comy, ant shows that what little trade there munity, in case of an actual outbreak of
across the top of which is written a long hostilities; and that is, the calm philosophie mother of pearl shell, sea sluga, pearts, that, and the game is to see who can make going through the rouf into the houss purest and most invigorating character, March 14, Moonlight, from Lewes Del to
waa, had been chiefly in ses products such as word like kaleidoscopical, or something lite be a great risk of the wreck of the chimneys way in which the Foreigners themselves and similar articles, a trade in which the up the most words out of that in three beneath, or into the street. It appears that contemplate the energetic endeavours of the only intermediate dealers were Chinese minutes, always beginning with the initial a large part of the telegraphio intercourse of antives to perfect their forces in the art of owing to their unprogressiveness holding letter of the word. Upon one ocasion the London is already carried on by underground Tar. Given the chances in favour of a sway there. The commercial Sooloo of the word chosen was cofferdam When time wires; and this system has many recommen rupture, how are we going to defend our.preint day in to them still the Soolos of was called everybody had built from five to dations. The wirse are not exposed to on selves A gunboat or gunboats would be the last century. They do not progress, 20 words, except the young lady. She had weather as those are which are elevated on knooked into everlasting smash by the Forts, nor do they venter in any way, to de only one word-alf. We all studied a the tops of houses; and they can be more on left, right, and in front of them. The part from their nomistomed ourse, that moment and then said, "Why, there is no vadily gotat end mended when out of ra defences surrounding the British Consulate, of offering a few chapecas and a pee of I in coferdam Then we examined her pair. along the lines of railway and in though substantial and stout, could not the worst description of cotton printe ma resist a long-continued cannealing. In nufutured in Europe for a certain quan- uninspired, unconscious, sublimely in source less inconvenient and dangerous; but fact flight only would save us, if we could tity of the above-mentioned coveted pro dependent aoul be i said, she had spelled even there they are apt to be the use of get on board the vessels before they were duce. That beautifal inland is a new that word "caff If anybody here can mischief by being blown down up the sunk. But there is one point, worthy of a market, a fresh field for the employment spell colf any more sensibly than that lat rails, where they may forma serie ob small amount of attention, viz., why don't of the intelligent activity of another rese, him step to the front and take his milk, struction of traffic, as indeed happered on plays softly the ravishing melody of Pas March 21, Hoogley, from Boston to Batar the able-bodied men form themselves into less self in erested than that which has The insurrection will now beglo a volunteer corps ? A company of thirty or hitberto exclusively turned, these richer to
Sunday last when the Empress of Austria was returning from Windsor to London. In forty might be organized and drilled into a
account." very effestive and useful contingent. A fire-
the large towns, however, there can be no doubt that over-house telegraphs are very brigade during peace-a defender of women end babies, (there is a pathos about that which
much out of place, and those who erect them ought to inspire the hearts of all men, with
must not be surprised to find a strong protest It is said that, by the progress of medicine raised against their continuance. longing desire to do something), in time of is sid to have occurred not long ago in the and the better appreciation of sanitary laws, war always drilling, and with the motto-province of Checking An old fruiterer the average duration of life gradually ***Toujours prêt." The British Government
has foreseen some such effort on the part of named Chao had a little son of whom he being extended; but, on the other hand, i THE GAS QUESTION, OR WHAT WE rangements for the public reception of the
was dotingly fond ; and tüls child was is impossible to shut our eyes to the fact its subjects in Chpfoo, and has supplied the stolen by the rebels when he was only seven that the advance of civilization also tends to Consul with rifles, ammunition, and sword-
Br. John B. Doyce, of Leavenworth Street, bayonets, which in the meantime are care father's mind that he went partially wad, use, for instance, of dynamite for homicidal there a singular presentiment came over him banquet at Guildhall, to be followed by 3 March 31, Sophie O.; from Manellies to The event affected the the introduction of many new perils. The went to Virginia City last month. While grous with their work has been resolve March 31, Ajax (str.), from Liverpool ta years of age, fully locked up, in case they burst and hurt and maundered on from morning till night purposes is probably only in its infancy of some impending misfortune or trouble all to whith the invitations will be nu
ed to invite bis Royal Highness to a grand Shanghai. Homebody. Now, why not utilize them about his poor lost boy fanoying he roog. Some grade experiments have been made There are many persons who do not believe Call a meeting, elsat officers (especially & ised him in almost every lad he saw. At but in the course of years the nature of the in presentiments, and acordingly never act as he also resolved to ask the Prince to zergesat), enroll members, distribute arme, last, after a lapse of no less than ten years, apparatus required will, no doubt, be better upon them. They dread to be considered enter the Olty by way of the Holborn merous and the company distinguished. 1t and thers you are. True, I forgot, we might when nothing had been discovered, understood, and widely extended. Bailway superstitions. Mr. Doyes was one of these Viaduct, the Lord Mayor expressing his take to shooting each other; but there would pleasant-looking. youth walked into the accidents are another illustration of thị always be a remaining efficient few to cover shop to make some purchased. The n'd deadly effects of improved mechanics; and and endeavored to combat his depression and desire with Watch the committee have retreat. I hope this suggestion will not ma stared at him, and, to tering up, in another sphere eren such a small laven in vain! Something seemed to warn him to be to the utmost extent of a publidoharacter. to enjoy himself with his wonted spirits all quite concurred that the reception should fail to produce some result
Our Governor-General manifests as that now, at last, his son had been recovered, largely to the number of broken bones and turn to this city at ones, and the impulse Itis expected that the illuminations in the
looked wistfully in his face and declared tion as roller skating has apparently added much opposition to the use of opium as his the then called him by the pet name-Mao injured spines which were formerly confined over left him for an instant awake or evening will be upon s very grand scale. Lin of Canton tame, I was permitted to the youth started visibly, and anked him azeement in the hunting field. It may be partisularly solicitous, so that this unaccount in the payment of the U. S. Diplomato and inther-in-law, the celebrated Commissioner komby which the child had been known; to the comparatively small class who took asleep. He was a bachelor, and had no
relatives in this city about whom he seed be fr appears that the wholesale reductions witness one raid by a yamen-runner and a how on earth he knew his name? In reply thought, however, that people who go out of able neness seamed more and more ab. Consular Corps have not been sanctioned by aquad of soldiers. The opium dat was in a to further enquiries the ladanid he had their way to meddle with dangerous cesurd, Worn out Hnally after thyes weeks the Senate. The awing contemplated by gaus street, and had long raped detention, come from Klanget) that he remembered, micals, or to seek sport in dangerous ex. |
CAMPOO.
4th March, 1876.
A ÜHINESE TICHBORNE,
A Chinese edition of the Tichborns ease-
hai.
the begrimed and molasses-coated infant in Feb. 6, Scotia, from London to Hongkong. six by turning for 10 minutes a cog-wheel with electric attachments. The child glides Feb. 26, Susanne, from Hamburg to Shang- an orifice, which can be made any required Feb. 8, Kalsów, from London to Hong-
kong. gently down a highly polished inclined plane. His lips are met at its terminante March 2, Mary L. Stone, from Cardiff to
Hongkong. by an indiarabber tube, from which the
to Shanghai. sesared for the special purpose, at great kine raised on the estate of Her Majesty March 16, Min, from London to Hongkong. expense, from a choice breed of Aldərnəy Shanghai, Queen Victoria in the isle of Wight. While March 17, Ada, from london to Yokoham in chia compartment, which is lined with Merch 18, Benefactor, from New York to plate glass mirrors, the perturbed spirits of March 19, Hans, from Ramburg to Chang,
Hongkong, to demolish its own image reflected in the the infant are soothed by its frantio efforte
hal. glas with a nickel-plated combined tooth March 20, Gustar and Marie, from Ham- which is thrust into the baby's hand by March 21, Moss Glen, from London to its destructive efforts, the infant falls March 31, Marianne, from Havre to Saigon. an automaton monkey, Fatigued by
Hongkong, to sleep, while the organ attachment March 21, Julio, from Havre to Saigon. me in my little bed. Then it slips in the
via and Bongkong, third compartment. Here the baby is March 23, Oilarnam, from Cardiff to Hong-
kong. washed, Another small tobe administers
paper. To the eternal honour of that country districts the poles and wires are of outter nail-knife, rattle, and task-hammer, burg to Hongkong.
THE FERILS OF CIVILIZATION. (Saturday Review.)
1
ARE COMING TOI
Hongkong.
1
a dose of soothing syrup, and the infant March 23, J. C. Munto, from London to slides from the machine, its nails pared and its hair combed, if it has aug, ready for the habiliments rendered necessary by the fall of our first parents."
March 25, Chetoo (str.), from Greenock to March 26, Lorne (str.), from London to
Hongkong, China and Japan.
Tas committee charged with making ar Match 39, Oregon, from Cardiff to Hong-
kong. Prince of Wales in the City, on his attiren March 8i, Kare (str.), from Antwerp to from India, have zesde doudiderable pro.
Olina
Baigor
LOADING FO3- CHINA AND JAQAN PORNH, At London-Sicamniti Ha Buss Canah Glenfallch
Cashmere. Gordon Castle.
Tartar,
Bailing Vessels.
Lothair F. S. Thotapson. Halloween. Lucia, Desgalion (str)
Pesre#* Wylo Bndymion
* Malbrek “At Lierpool,