Gossip Of The Day

PoSTMASTER-GENHItAIjjEWEIiL OXpl 11 t liat tho inercase iu tho rate oharged for registered letters, which wtnit into operation on the Int of July, has been rendered necessary by tho fact that this braneh of the service lia not boen paying expensof. Thebe ís no longer any doubt that tho rouiiBylviuiia i-otd -minors' strike is oompletely over. Most of the minors in the anthraeito regions hravo resumed work at the ratea offered six months sinco, nnd the sutïeriiig which has prevailod in the vorkingmon's families is thereforo being slowly mitigatod. Eepobts from the States of Tonnesseo, Arkanaas, and Northern Alabama roproSenï the eottim emp as giving signs of f tilly au average yield. In but few localities lias any damage been done to the plant from any cause. The army worm has not made it appearanco at all, while only a few eomplaiuts of lice are made. These reporte aro supposed to be an indox oí the condition of the erop throughout tho South, and those who were fortunate onough to jilant cotton liberally will find thiMnselveH relioved of all presBing ünancial troubles. Everywhei' the negroes are reported to De vorling well - mucli botter thau ever before - sinco he WW. The first result of annexing tho Fiji Islaml to (reat Britain is tlie death of a third of tho population. A Britisk ship landod cortain omigrants on the island who were illwitit the measles. Thodisoaso spread with great rapidity, and the nativos, knowing nothing of its nature, insisted upon rushing iuto tho sea to alleviate tho heat of tho fever. The bathiug pixdueed dyaentery, and the latter carried off 50,000. Of oourse this is a terrible afl'air, vitiwod merely from a humanitarian stand-point, but tho result will be really a gain in the world, since tho dead nativos will be speodily fllled by English emigrante, who will make a now Australia oilt of the Fiji Islands. Mosbs Gborqe, of Dansville, N. Y., a voteran of the war of 1812, and 80 yenrs of age, oxtracted from his groiu 011 tho 28th of May a bullot whioh was buried there by tlie rifle of an Indian at the battlo of Ckippewa in July, 1815. It is somewhat blackenod, but beneath a thin coating the lead is as puro and bright as it was orer a half century ago. Tho linib hos shortened six inches. The bullet did not come out by its original ontrauce, but about four inches abovo, and was taken out by veteran George himself , without tho aid of instrumenta. After sixty years of anxiety on tho subject, he is now rolieved of solicitude as to the possible effect of lead in the system. A cüRious legal caso has just boen tried ia Ulster connty, N. Y. Jamos O. Schoonmaker agreed tliat if Stephon J. Cas 3 abonld get married within three nionths after the dato of tho conret, lio would pay half of the clergyman's feo, board tho wife sil months without charge, and furnish team and carriage for tho wedded pair Clise, in case he should not marry within the speciíied time, agreed to pay for tlio use of the carriago for one day, besides damages. He failed to get married within three months, and then Schoonmaker sued hiöi for two hundrod dollar, and reveivod a verdict in lus favor. On nppeaï tlie iirst decisión was reversed, and Schoonmaker has a heavy bilí of costs to pay. ■Mu. 1). L. Moody, tho Chicago rovivalist, lina won the respect of tho patricians as well as that of the masses of Eugland. Lord Shnftebury speaks very higlily of Mm. At a recent meeting of "tho GÏmrch Society of London he said that lie Ni thaukful to God that Mr. Moody had not boon educated at Oxford. Ho (Mr. Moody) had a wondorful power of getHng at Wie hearta of men, and whilo tho commou peoplo heard him gladly, niany persons of high station had leeii gi'eatly struck with the marvelouH simplicity of Iiíb preachffigl The Lord Chancellor of Englnnd had said to him : " The Bimplicity of that man's preaching, tUo clear niauiuT in wliich he sets forth salvation by Christ, is to me the most striking and dolightful thing I ever know in my life. " His lordship expressod the opinión that Mr. Moody is no fanatic or more entlmsKst. The Indiauapolis papers puMish the teil of an interesting decisión on the : subject of the marriage contract, ilelivered by Jvul,'e Cliapman, of the Criminal Oourt in that city. An iudictment had beun found by the grand jury against a man and woman whó had,iu the presejioe of witne,srK, but without tlie aid of clergyman or magistrate, solemnly taken each other for husband and wife, wilh n proviso or conditional agreemout that the union was to lust only so long os the " lov!-naturo " of the porties, held out. A criminal nction was instituted with a view to the ubatement of what was regarded as an odious public scandal. The court held that it was no scandal ; that the partjes are completely and lawfully married ; and that they must remain so nntil regularly divoreed, their agreemout as to duration of " lovo-nature " being in liw void and in moráis vioious. Harper's Bazar pertinontly suggeste that thei-e eould not bo a botter time than th present for young folks to fii in tlniir minds tlio important datos aud details of our country's history. Schools miglit woll throw asido for a while the regular hislories of tho United Staten, and arrange a popular series of lessons bascd on the eenteunials that will occur all along duritif; the coming eight or ten years. 'Hu. natund interest awakened in the young mind to obtain a olear and connëctcd idea of an event whose hundrcdtli mnivernary is about boing celebrated nhould be inaprovecl by teachers. lt would be rcorth mora tlmn all the (íidatic precepto ever nttered to pupila about the importance of studyiug Iiírtory. ïlie oceurrence of these centenuials givi1 a reality to jiast events which the mem record of them does not, and thus tbo facta are impreseed upon the young. ArrOBNEY-GEKEliAT.. PlEUHEPONT the other day rendered a decisión in an interestiag question of uaturaliaation. In ISIS, a Prnsfrian by the ñamo of Steinkoanler immigrated to thia country and was natural i zed in 1851. Subsequently ho retnrned to Oermany, taking with him a son, then aged four years, and a nativo of the United States. The son is now twtíiity yoars oíd, nnd the qupstion at issue was as to his owing military serTÍce to Germany. TJio Attorney-Geiicral comes to the conclusión that thc boy has two nntidiinlitiea, one naturaJ and the other aoquired. Tlie fnther returning to Gormauy, resiiming his alleciance, the son partakes of the status o f the father. Being a minor, and having enjoyed tho prottiction of the Germán govornmont, he, íor tho timo being, or uutil oí age, owos military duty, tho ibligatious being reciprocnl, but when lie boy beoomes of age, ho can retum to he United Stutos as an American citien with all the rights and prhdleges of uch, and would even be cligiblo to the 'residency of the United otates.