Gossip Of The Day

A New York paper aunomicrs that Th sodóïe Tillou wiH resume his usual lecíure engagcments in tlio fall, onder fh i mannemant of tlie American Literary Bureau. James Gordon Bennett, of tlie New Yoi'k Herald, is fitting out an Arctic expoditicm ín England. He ia backed, in sympathy, at least, by the ageá widow óf SÈr Jolm Franklin. A NOTHEB attempt is to be made to Kül) Ututo silver eoin for fractional curronoy, and this time there is perhap3 a better chance qf success The attempt will be made witji a reserve of ten millions, for tho accumulation of which the milita aro now Wórking. A man naincd Patriek O'Shea was j ec;ii:'il nt Bi Louis, last week, for the ïnurder of his wifo. The son of O'Shea, ' a Lid 12 years old, -was the principal witness against his father, was most persistent in having him convicted, and walked sixteen miles to witness the ' ecutiou. A cruel AprÜ-fooJ hoiix was 1 trated on nearly all the Hartford (Ct.) elergymen, by scnding invitations to them to como to the United States Hotel to unite a couple ia marriagc. About twenty-four of them came around, to Üw great deliglit of the erowd who ha 1 assèïtibled to see their disoomfifrure. A Rome correspondent of a Paris ournal is authority for the statement that tlio Pope will take up his residence in the United States if it shoiüd become impossible to renwin in Rome. It is nsserted thnt it wan with a view to such a ' possibfe emorgcncy that Archbishop McClosky was elevated to the Cardinalate. Two human fiends, Egner and Rufer, were recently sentenced to death at Cinciiinati for oue of the most atrocious I crimes ever perpetrated in tliis or any OÜier country. They knockcd their ; tim down and threw him into a blazing furnaoe, thus literally cremating him. Jlangiug is a light punishment for such a horrid crime. Immigration is on the increase. During tho iirst three monthg of the current , yeetj 17,128 passaugers landed at the port of New York, an increase of 1,085 over the corresponding period of 1874. From the registered entries of the i tination of passongers who -landed at Castle Garden, it seems that 5,000 of lliese immigrante were going no further than New York ; 4,274 to the West, and 367 to the South. Cbowned heads have a hard time of it these wicked days. Queen Isabella wants to insinúate herself into Spain, but has boen pretty bhintly informed that ! she Í3 not wanted there, and cannot come in. It is not exactly nice to be snubbed ly oüe!B own little boy in that way. I What ia the usa of bcing a Queen and a Bourbon if one cannot be allowed to j enter her own palace and see her bairn ? - A Washington correspondent states that the Treasmy Department proposes to publish, as a contribution to the ' tennial, a statement of tho financial ! transactions of tlw United States for 100 yeai-3. It will embrace the present ! (rnmej)t nnd the Continental Congress. ! Tliis work will show the sourco of every ' dollar received and how it was expended; also loans made, the reasons for borrowing the money, and a sketch of the j bates in Congress. This statement will clear up many obscure pointe in American armáis, and will form a financial ; tory of the republic for the first century of its existehce. Some simple f olka in West Boylston, Mass., have juat been "done" in a very oontémptible way. Two well-dressed Bcainpa found out the deaf people in town and then proposod to cure thom for icon #69 to sJOO each, aceording to their mity, asking, of course, an advanoe ]).!,vment. Some paid from $10 to $20 down, and were ornamented with a wire '■ontrivanco which came over the top of the head and down behind the ears, and which they wero to wear four hours a ciiv for eight weeks, as it would keep up a current .of eleciricity tlmt would ' aiati ! restore the functions of hearing entü-ely. A HEMARKAELE snake story comes from Niishville. The State Medical ' ciety of Tennossee mot ia' that city the j other day, and listened to the reading of accounts of cases treated by the disciples of Elsculapius. One. of them, it 19, VwiH miliry too tough even for the oredulity of men aocustomed to rceiting and listening to yams that would cause Munchausen nunsèlï to trêmble for his laurele aa the ehamjiion liar. The story wiw to the effect that the author had moved from tho stomach of a young lady patiënt a snake two feet long and three-quarters of an inch in diameter. The society declined to receive the paper, fltnough the doctor offered to back it by a sworrï affidavit. Information has been received of the escape of thé notorious counterfeiter, Pete McCartney, from the Secret Service j offleers in Texafl, who had ]iim in charge. McCartney is an exceedingiy fortúnate i", w, 11 as dangi rous counterfeiter. He )ias been arrested and indicted in four i cities in the country, quite recently. In ! Cineinnati, Louisville and Springfield, he gave a large amount of bail, andforfeited it. H..: was árrested thrdiigí the agency ' ' TÍ! Serviel at S!. Louis on the llth of D.-combcr, 1874. He escaped f'.-om the jiiil in 8. Louis, wlicre he was held for trial, by the criminal carelessn íss of his k(;eper. He was rc-arrested in WftCö, Texas, and ]kiS again glided from the hands of the offleers of the law. It may interest our Germán citizens to kuow that a residence of two years in the molher country invalídate their ! American bftizcinsMp linaer the present treaty. The treaty -whiííh was made in L86á batweea the United States and the old Noith (ierman unión provides that each country will recoguize thï naturalization conferred by the othor npon residents of iive years. A naturalized citizen returning to his native countiy is Ie for any punishablo act committed I before ho emigra ted; if he returns tohis : nativo country, without intonrting to resumo reaidence ia lus adopted, he is held to havo renounced his nuturulization. " The intont not to return may be ; held to exist when thé person naturalizad in the one country resides more than two years in the other country." Vicb-Phbsident WiiiSON, says a Washington correspondmt, has given ap bis idea of going to Europo. He ha.s earofnlly considered the matter, and .irrived at the conclusión that a VicePi-esidi'iit has no more right to go out of the country tliau has the Preside] ít. Ho linda that, in the history of this ; country, no President or Vice-Presidont , lias ever loft it during liis term of oflice. In Washingtou's time ther was (pne talk of sending "Mi: 4dains to Englaud, to negotiate a treaty; but, upon the advice of Jefferson, he did not go. Jefferson held that the office of Vice-President being a contingent, that ho conld not '■ safoly leave the country, on the ground thnt the death of the President, in his absence, would leave tho governmont in a very bad way until his return. In tho ! place of his European trip, he now posos to go to California and swing j around the circle until noxt fall.