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secured the canine pet of a Mr. George Hart.. Further, that he had endeavoured by false pre- tences to secure the sum of two pounds from Lucy Hart, besides having assaulted a couple of police constables. Evidence was given to show that Gray is known as the " king of dog stealers." Gentlenien and ladies in the great metropolis who have dogs and value. thein will be glad to know that the "king" is safe for eighteen months to come.

them. All was, however, of no avail. The or fell into decay from causes connected DR. Joseph Parker, the well known London THE following telegram, which would appear to wealth-giving streant which had flowed so with political vicissitudes, the changes of preacher, says, à propos of Judas's intimate ac indicate that the troubles in the Korea have been freely grew smaller and smaller, until at the course of commerce, or the fact that quaintance with the value of the ointment brought amicably arranged, was received from Japan

by Mary Magdalen, that any man who knows yesterday':-" A satisfactory settlement of last it completely dried up, or, what the circumstances which originally gave the pence value of aught in connection with the Korean uffair has been reached. A treaty was amounted to the same thing, the oil flowed them life no longer existed. But James- Church is a bad man. We do not see how the concluded on the 30th August by which all the in such a tiny trickle that it was not worth town in Virginia, though neither so great. Pope of the Viaduct could very well find fault if demands for ample reparation, for the satisinc -catching, Now uter ruin has befallen as Tyre nor so wicked as Sidon, shared the deacons of the City Temple refused to apsion of the national honour [of, Japan), and the Oil City. The wells are abandoned; their fate so completely that at this period praise the pence value of the Doctor's own guaranteeing the future protection of the Japanese the derricks are dismantled; the hotels are the curious student of Captain JoHN SMITH services.

Legation and residents, has been secured. empty; the two newspapers are prophesy or BARTHOLOMEW GOSNOLD has some diffi- THE late Pope's heirs are anxious to get the FROM recent home advices we read that a -CARDOLIC-DISINFECTANTS.ing pleasant things of some other mush-culty in recognising in the solitary church arrears of the annual subsidy granted to Pio monarch has just been sent to prison, a fact room city; the actors have gone elsewhere, tower choked in among the weeds on the Nono by the Italian Government, but always re-which will further tend to prove the inaccuracy and the singing women are melodious in river-bank the sole remains of a place which fused by his Holiness. The Italian Government, of the old time creed that kings can do no wrong. towns better capable of paying for their was once the capital of Virginia and the on the other hand, is not willing to hand it over,The potentate in this case was George Gray, an music.

scene of many of the most stirring events in and a law-suit has been commenced. As there elderly sinner, who has supported himself through ....The history of Pithole is the history of its history. Among the tangled trunks of is some £600,000 at stake, the Italian bar is life.by the precarious, though fascinating pastinic score of other American towns,. An In- ancient trees may be discovered moulder. jubilant. The legal sharks are sure to get the of dog-stealing. The precise nature of the charge

brought to a settlement. dian trading post suddenly awakens into ing tombstones with inscriptions scarcely largest share of the plunder before the affair is against Gray was that he had enticed away and life; the scattered wigwams are replaced legible, though they record the names of by cabins; the cabins assume the lines the gallants and rakes who first crossed ACCORDING to Figaro the case of the captains of streets, and, before the Old World the sea to found here a greater Britain of Royal Artillery appointed as such on and after is well aware of what is going on, than that from which they had been driven. October 1, 1877, is a very hard one. We find Winnipeg or Duluth, Chicago or San But if Jamestown, Henrico, Fredericia-by-examination of the Regimental List that Francisco are busy cities, with most of the Merry Mount, and St. Mary's have vanish-scores of these captains will have to retire at the appliances of civilisation and all of its vices.ed, Sacramento, burnt down and flooded age of forty in 1883, about twenty in 1884, and If they are required, they continue to grow out again and again, San Francisco, three seventeen in 1885, provided they are not pre viously promoted. Now, the Regimental List for CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS and prosper. They are fed by the agricul- times committed to the flames, and Chi April shows the senior captain promoted on and

SOME people, observes a humourous contem tural country in their rear, or by the ship-cago, at least once reduced to ashes, are after the first-mentioned date who will have to

tothe newspapers complaining that he has reduced ping in their front, and are supported by living and likely to live. For they have retire next year to be about 115 from the top. Porary, are never satisfied. A shopkeeper writes the ever-circulating current of settlers justified their existence. They are not. and the junior one about 155 from the top of the his prices to a level below those of the co-opera- which passes through them, or by the like Pithole and the ephemeral mining list of captains. What chance, therefore; have

and he cannot sell otherwise than for cash. As lavish miners who come thither to spend towns dependent on some precarious these officers of being promoted to the regimental tive people who will not pay him ready money, a sample of the way his customers treat him he' their superfluous gold dust. Bat it may means of livelihood. Hence, every fresh tank of major before they arrive at the fatal age. of forty years? Very little, as matters at present,

quotes the following letter "Miss A, writes to": happen, as it often has happened on the fire and flood only more completely

stand..

Inform Messrs. B. that they need not send the It is requested that all communications rela-Pacific slope, that over-vivid expectations demonstrates their necessity, and enables

articles about which Miss A, wrote the other day, ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad- have been entertained regarding the their citizens to correct the mistakes of the SAYS Figaro:-1 regret to learn that the rela- and not to the Editor.” „

which the brand new "city" was playing ing their houses better, and more stately the Army Hospital Corps are still somewhat received." Of course we all feel very sorry for as it is not improbable that we are on the eve of lies in his own hands. He should not drop bis the part of capital. The silver lead "pet: than they did before. Like the Alexan-trained. This is much to be deplored, especially this unfortunate tradesman, but really the remedy tered;" the placers got washed over drians and the Londoners they were tried a protracted war. The doctors have made a prices below those of the stairs, but should do mistake in assuming the military command of as the merry London butcher does-charge one the men of the A.H.C.. The command, has hit . hundred per cent. on cost price. Then he could Sooner than was expected; the "pay dirt" and found sufficient. did not pan out" equal to the hopes of

herto been vested in the officers of the troops, who afford to let Miss A.have her articles before pay the sanguine prospectors; there were no

TELEGRAM S.al-rise-from-the-ranks,-and-consequently-are-ing for them, and be "good friends.. all round... thoroughly-versed in their work. I suppose the-A-FRENCH paper gives some curious particulars- officers of the A.M.D. imagine that by emulating about M. Eugene Soufflau, formerly a writer on the example of the Commissariat Department by the Sidele, Opinion Nationali, and La Clocha,. having a lower grade of quartermasters, who are

who recently died at Dr. Tosta's asylum, at not eligible for further promotion and who risc Ville-Evrard. During the Franco-German war from the ranks, and reducing the captains and

he fought as a franc-fireur, and during the lieutenants of orderlies to, quartermasters, they

Commune was arrested for having participated THE BEDOUINS REPULSED AT

will attain their object, viz. the command of the

in the movement. Whilst being taken to the Rers and men officers nen of the Army Hospital Corps. If

court-martial at Père LaChaise he managed to The Bedouins attacked a convoy at Ramses a pity that these surgeons and surgeons-major escape, and took refuge in a house in the Rue de but were repulsed.

cannot see the ridicule which their pretensions la Folie-Reynault Whilst there, a man, whom excite. I have had the opportunity of learning he asked to direct him to some place of safety, the opinion of many of the more sensible medical pointed out a large basket and told him to get officers, who emphatically deprecate any inter-

into it, which Soufflau did. On looking round ference with the old system.

him, however, be noticed two tall black posts, a big vehiclen plank on pivots, &c., and ultimately recognised the terrible apparatus of the exc tioner, the very basket in which he was hidden being that in which the body of the criminal is put after execution. The sight had such an effect upon poor Soufflau that he rushed out of the place and returned home. The next day he be

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Suddenly, at Kowloon, yesterday afternoon, the 7th inst., MARY SINCLAIR LIDDELL, aged 36, the beloved wife of James Gilmour Liddell, Su- perintendent of the Kowloon Docks..

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1882.

FROM Egypt to Pennsylvania, says the Standantis a long cry, and Pithole City is not a commercial centre of quite the same which will deal with almost every branch of importance as Alexandria. Yet to their

sport including RACING, CRICKET, ATHLETICS, AQUATICS, &c. &c. &c.

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or the lumber of Redwood Bend ended more rapidly than the jubilant millmen had calculated. Then the "city" became deserted, the miners or the choppers left as suddenly as they came, and the coyote or the Chinamen are the only inhabitants uf-a-spot-where-a-year-before-resounded.

the din of thousands, or the chink of coin in a score of gambling dens. California is dotted with these ghostly towns. They are found in many an Oregon and Idaho flat," The wandering hunter camps in the deserted billiard-rooms of " cities" where once ona time an ounce a day was considered an approach to poverty and time dull unless-

LONDON, 7th September. TURKISH TROOPS TO LAND AT PORT SAID.

A Convention has been signed under which Turkish troops will be landed at Port Said.

RAMSES.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE steamship Moray docked at Aberdeen to day.

WE read that there are no less than 73 retired Colonial Bishops living in England. This is remarkable—if true.

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THE Rev, Isaac Rodney, missionary in Duke of York Island, off New Guinea, thus describes the get-up of a Duke of Yorker when he stalks the boulevard:-"A necklace, an armlet, and a streak of whitewash, and daintily twirling a light spear, while his women follow behind with loads heavy Chough for camels."--

particularly ill-built or bad looking the treasurer would swear all places filled. If otherwise, Sandy would stroke his auburn beard and enter into pleasant converse concerning the applicant's ex- perience and aspirations. The symposium in- variably terminated as follows, Sandy would say: Eh, lassic, I think ye'll do; but, before I can make an actual engagement, ye must just show me your ankles they're a vera important point. They're everything in our show." The shapely young lady would incontinently obey, and Sandy would proceed; "Eh, vera guid, Miss So-and-so, vera guid-if it continues. But ye've now got to retire, and re-appear in stage costume so that I may have a guid look at ye. It's vera important. I really must obey instructions." And so on, sic. The Adelaide representative of the Bulletin is responsible for this yarn,

came incurably insane.

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To "Sandy" Gordon, treasurer at the Adelaide they had a dead man to breakfast every

Theatre Royal and secretary of a Jockey Club was entrusted the delicate task of choosing morning.". The doors have fallen oftheir

"shapely young ladies" for the revival of Tam rust-caten hinges, the garish paint has

bour-Majer." Gordon enjoyed himselfthoroughly. flaked off the clap-board shanties, the crane

The neophyte would enter and say "Please, sir, from which the Vigilantes hung EUCEREA REGULAR Lodge of United Service, No. 1341, I've come in answer to the advt. for shapely Jack is rotting by the Fire Company's En. will be held at Freemasons' Hall, Zetland. Surce. young ladies." If she were a hag, or scraggy, or

this evening, at 7.30 for 8 o'clock sharp. Įgine-house, and the calico signboard of the

"El Dorado Saloon hangs flapping in the CHAN LEUNG, a coolic, for sterling an ear pick wind, which sighs across the stamp-dotted and finger ring from the person of a widow, in suburbs or howls-down the glen where the the Queen's Road yesterday, was this morning washed heaps of boulders tell of the race treated to three months' hard labor, by Mr. for wealth that was once run there. In the Wodehouse. novel of the Golden Butterfly" the vicis situdes of these cities are vividly pour- respective citizens. they were equally trayed, and there are to be found many sacred, and for the moment they are both deserted lumbering villages like Alberni bewailing a similar fate. But while the on the 'western shore of Vancouver Island, famous town founded by the Macedonian with churches and wharves, and mess- conqueror two thousand years ago is in-rooms-and-never-a-soul-save-a-Red-Indian ruins by reason of the fortunes of war, the to enjoy them all. Hope ran high in the mushroom Anjérican city has disappeared capitalist's bosom, he built for posterity, owing to the operations of a law of political and saw a fortune in the tall pines which economy even more certain in its opera-stretched for wave after wave of virgin tions than Admiral Sernova's guns. Pit- forest over his claim." But, somehow or hole has ceased to be required, and has other, the speculation did not pay. The therefore ceased to exist. Qil gave it life, markets were too far off the tariffs were "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND but the oil wells from which it pumped unfriendly, or the expenses too great, and HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" for 1883 wealth are exhausted. The rise, decline, so Alberni bucame only a name in Colonial will be Printed on a superior quality of Paper and fall of Pithole.is, Indeed, as pathetle a history, and its spirited founders sadder/ this charge had been brought against him-in-|-game. he played with Grant in 1866. Grant was fashion the body is guaranteed to keep good in

tale as any in the history of industry, and, though tame compared with the lurid story of the destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii, the fall of Babylon and Nineveh,

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and wiser men by the chapter which they had contributed to its pages.

Sometimes a City," like the first capital of British Columbia, fails because it is placed

or even the decay of Old Sarum, Enkhui- in the wrong position; or-like Nootka, zen, Husum, and Stavoren, it is even more where in early days the Spaniards had an instructive to the student of civic life. Pit-important post, of which not a fragment hole was not founded with any pomp or can now be traced-simply because the circumstance, but it was situated in the circumstances which gave rise to it have very centre of the Pennsylvania oil region, ceased to operate. Smeerenberg-that and grew so rapidly that it can scarcely strange Arctic village which, two centuries be said to have had an infancy. In three ago, the Dutch built on Spitzbergen months from the date of the roofing in of the vanished when whales ceased to spout in There is not space, in the compass of an Ordinary Advertisement to detail all the informa-first "frame" cabin, it was "quite a its.bay, and blubber-boiling houses ashore tion introduced into the work, but it may be fairly city." Two newspapers chronicled from became unnecessary. The "dead cities" asserted that no such-Directory has ever been two points of view the daily history which stand, grass grown and unvisited of published, either in Hongkong, or any other part of the world and the "boundless re-traders, by the shores of the Zuyder Zee, of the East at the Price

sources of Pithole; an Opera-house sank into Insignificance mainly because lightened the labour of pumping oil, and the waters in their vicinity and the har. "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND seventy-five hotels and saloons" suppled bours onge crowded with shipping had HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST Ofers-meat, drink, and billiards to the capitalist become too shallow for Vessels larger than Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium bent on investing, or to the citizen who fishing boats. The pleasant Isle of Aves" It will have an extensive circulation in all Ports between Singapore and Newchwang, and the had already been fortunate enough to in- ceased to be the haunt of seamen with the scale of charges has been fixed at an exceptionally vest, in the real estate of Pithole City. In dispersal of the buccaneers, and many a "low rate, Terms can be learned on application, a few weeks twenty-five thousand people riotous settlement on the shores of Mada

resided within its bounds, and such was gascar shared the same fate after Captain Suggestions for the improvement of this work the overflowing wealth with which the KYDD and gentlemen of his profession are respectfully solicited.

never-failing oll lubricated the community found the high seas too hot for their pecu- that one hundred thousand dollars were tar branch of commerce But-there-are lavished on the fittings of angle hotel for other towns which vanished off the earth the accomodation of the townspeople. But from causes which it is more difficult to there came an evil day when oll ceased to Tathom, Herculaneum and romperrin

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"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH” OFFICE, HONGKONG, Hongkong, 7th September, 1882.

Ir is exceedingly pleasant to learn that when one has shuffled off this mortal coil he can be turted into a beautiful and imperishable munimy, instead of becoming what Mr. Mantilini called a "demned moist unpleasant body." Italian.cm- baliners seem to be perfect adepts at their trade, and although they generally try to keep their art a secret, the process by which they pickle their subjects has leaked out. The operation seems to be carried out in five stages. First, cold water is injected through the whole circu látory system until it issues quite clear. Alcohol is then injected, for the purpose of abstracting all the water from the body. This is followed up by the injection of ether, to dissolve out the fatty matter. This Injection is carried on for several hours in thin subjects for two, in very fat ones for even as long as ten hours. After this a strong solution of tannin is slowly injected, and full time is allowed for its soaking into all the issues. Lastly, the body is exposed for from two to five hours to a current of warm air, which is previously dried by passing it over heated chionde of calcium. After being treated in this

any climate for any longth of time, and to be as hard as shoe-leather. People desirous of keeping their ancestors as long as possible could not do better than tan them in this fashion.

CuING A PO, a youth of 23, hailing from the Sun On district, with a very lengthy record of crime, for one so young, standing against him, he having been treated to three months' hard. labour in 1876, for larceny from a ship, was THE American papers publish, the following again before the Magistrate this moming, charg- capital "poker" story about two ex-Presidents of ed with stealing a sheet of copper, value 50 cents, the United States-Andrew Johnson and General the property of the Dock Company. Defendant Grant-Johnson was a fine poker player-one said he had had a quarrel with the watchman, and of the best in Tennesee. He used to tell of a consequence.. He admitted the five previous then at Washington and visited the President one convictions for larceny, and also returning to the night. After a short talk Johnson proposed a Colony after receiving a conditional pardon to game of poker. Grant, who was an inveterate keep him away from the temptations of copper player then, jumped at the chance. Cards were snatching and such like weaknesses, but said he brought and they began to play. Grant lost was innocent this time. Mr. Wodehouse rather steadily and heavily. The game was 81, call SAYS London Figaro -Rumors reach me of the inclined to the yam told by Mr. Mahomed Alli, $3 and no limit. At last Grant said: " Johnson, strange doings of one of her Majesty's Ambassa which was to the effect that Ching A. Po had put I will play you one more deal around and we will, dors, accredited to a European Court which Is the copper plate under his jacket and did a bolt quit; I am tired of this foolishness," Johnson situated nearer to the equator than the North with it, so sent the youthful copper snatcher to dealt and wouldn't come in. They made it a fack Pole. His Excellency in question is as unpopu- Mr. Hayward's establishment for a period of pot. The jack pot went on increasing in size; nellar as his wife. For the past three years these half-a-year, with the usual exercise to keep his ther could open it. At last there was 364 in the unworthy sapresentatives of the majesty of Enge pot. Grant was dealing. Johnson picked up his land have been treading on the corns of all who muscles from getting stiff and useless.

cards; he had a pair of pees up. Grant looked came in contact with them, and giving most AYAN, and Wong Achcong, coolles, were at his cards and quietly laid them down. John- gratuitous offence to everybody, their own coun

son said: "I will open for $20. Grant, without trymen included. Last year they insulted the charged with being in unlawful possession of a quantity of iron, valued at $2, the property of the moving a muscle of his cast-iron countenance, Sovereign of the country to which they are ac Dock company, P.C, 290, Li Achoang saw the first leaned back in his chair and sald slowly, looking credited, at a ball given by them at the British defendant offering the iron for sale to a marine at his cards all the time: "I will have to raise Embassy. For this exploit Lord Granville ad- ministered a severe wigging, and it is well known hawker, and judging that all was not as it should you $50, Andy; I can't help it." Johnson was a be collared him, whereon the hawkermizzled. De little surprised, but stood the raise. Grant that it was only owing to the intervention of the fondant number one then told the man-of-law asked him how many cards he wanted. "I just offended Royal personage himself that the British that another fellow had stolen the iron and gaye want one; how many do you want?" "Eh?" said ambassador was not at once dismissed her. it to him to sell, and accordingly pointed out the Grant carelessly: "I don't want any this time." Majesty's service. I now hear that a most un second defendant, who was run in, although he Johnson picked up his card. It was an ace. Ho warrantable slight to use no stronger expression denied all knowledge of the iron. The first debet $1oo. "I will see your $100, Andy, and raise has again been given to the Sovereign, to his fendant persisted in his story that his quondam her $2,000, Johnson said afterwards the bet Ministers and to two of the other foreign diplo chum had stolen the iron, which version of the came near taking his breath away from him, but matiste at his Court; and that his Ma affair was repudiated by number two. There something told him Grant was bluffing. He felt last been obliged to request Lord, being no evidence against Wong Acheong, a presentiment that he was," Grant, I will see recall this most insufferable ambay excepting the statement of the man who was your $2,000, and raise her $500." Grant clinched sidering the enormous power for weal or woo found in possession of the iron, he was dis his teeth and his lips came together like a steel still remains in the hands of charged, while the measly first defendant, who trap “I will see your $500 and raise you considering also that for many and publicly was caught red handed with the stuff in his pos: $5,000 better." "I got a little scared," says been offic session, was let off with the very mild fine of a Johnson, and I thought maybe he had fours of three weeks hard labour on me. So I said: I'll just call you; what have Ho Ayan, went into retirement, and had he been you got? *). “Jack high," said "Grant, and

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fun. For a time they hoped against hope, Catania, were destroyed by convulsionsent for as many months as he has been sent and sought far and near ford geologist of nature; the great cities of Me who could afford some scientific comfort to and the busy ports of Syr

weeks, justice, under the circumstances, would not at all have been straine

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