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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1877.
WASHINGTON.
KELLOGG TO BE BEPOHTRP ON.
PnUcrton €Me»'ConHld«rifiK Wicker*
•ham—Wcxlc»n Aw«ir»l -HhorC 4'aht-
ne |...Won't Pardon Kpli Holland—
(’omnilttee Report Fstorably on llll-
Hard, and UafhroraMy on Naadford
—Attempted Removal of Northrop-.
Republican Can cm* on Adjournment
—Anal.vMU of Reunmptlon Repeal
Tote***Cleorvld nnd the Noutli ttener*
ally J*olld fbr It.
PATTERSON CASE.
Washington, Nov. 23.—The argu
ment in the Patterson habeas corpus
ease continues. Patterson is in at
tendance.
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
In the Republican Senatorial cau
cus which convened at noon, Conover
had not put in an appearance up to
half past 12.
WICKERSHAM.
The Postoffice Committee of the
Senate gave further consideration to
the case of Wiekersliam, nominee for
Mobile postoflioe, but reached no con
clusion. The indications are theeoin-
mittee will report in favor of confir
mation.
Mr. Evarts had an interview with
tlie sub-committee of the House on
foreign relations on the distribution
of the awards of the Mexican Mixed
Commission. It is thought the com
mittee will not report in full to the
Commission until next session.
The Committee on Privileges nnd
Elections voted six to three in favor
of seating Kellogg. They set the Eustis
case for Monday, and directed Butler
and Corbin, from South Carolina, to
prepare their cases forthwith.
Cincinnati, Nov. 23.—A Son An
tonio, Texas, dispatch says Gen. Ord
yesterday received an official copy of
the order of President Diaz to General
Daleon, on commanding the Mexican
forces on the border to repel invasion
by United States troops by force, and
General Trevino lias been ordered to
the Rio Grande with 2,600 troops to
carry out the orders. General Ord
has telegraphed to the President for
another regiment of cavalry. Mean
time the recognized Mexican Minis
ter is expected, and tlint ordinary
diplomacy will solve the question.
• CABINET.
Short cabinet and unimportant.
won’t pardon E1*1I.
The Attorney General refuses to
recommend the pardon of Eph Hol
land, of Cincinnati, convicted of elec
tion frauds.
HILLIARD FAVORABLE.
The Star says the nomination of
Hilliard, of Georgia, Minister to
Brazil, before the Foreign Relations
to-day the committee agreed to report
favorably on it. Stanley Matthews
voted with the Democrats, otherwise
an adverse report would have be-n
made.
ATTEMPTED REMOVAL OF NORTHROP.
Strong efforts are making to move
the Radical Republicans of South
Carolina to have the President with
draw the nomination of Northrop as
District Attorney for tlmt State.
(Which one?)
PATTERSON’S COURSE.
It is stuted on most eminent author
ity that the action of Senutor Patter
son in the Butler-Corbin contest is in
■ accordance with his views expressed
long before his present troubles came
upon him.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Tiie Committee on .Foreign Rela
tions of the Senate resolved to report
favorably on Hilllardandunfavorably
on Sanford for Brazil and Belgium.
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS
resolved not to adjourn while any
executive business is on its docket or
in the hands of the Senute Commit
tee.
PATTERSON CASE.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Washington, November 23.—The
hearing of the Patterson habeas corpus
case continues. Gen. Connor, Attor
ney General of South Carolina, will
conclude the argument to-morrow.
Great interest attaches to the ease,
involving on one side the District of
Columbia as a citadel of refugees ; on
the other the privileges of Senators
and Congressmen.
• SMELLS.
The Judiciary Committee of the
House commenced considering
abridgement privileges on Represen
tative Smalls, who is detained in the
South Carolina jail. The proceedings
to-day did not go beyond a documen
tary statement of the case.
CONSUL OF DENMARK.
De Huger Smith is recognized Vice
Consul of Denmark at Charleston.
ANALYSIS OF RESUMPTION REPEAL
VOTE.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Washington, November 23.—An
analysis of the vote on the Repeal
Resumption shows: 28 Republicans
voted aye, 30 Democrats nay, Missis-
sissippi was solid, Missouri, I) to 2;
North Carolina, solid; Ohio, 10 to 7;
South Corolina, 1 to 2; Tennessee, 7
to 2; Texas, 5 to 1: Virginia, 8 to 1;
West Virginia, solid; Alabama, solid;
Arkansas, solid; Colorado, solid nay;
Florida, ltol; Georgia, solid; Illinois,
13 to 7; Indiana, solid; Iowa, 2 to 0;
Kentucky, solid; Louisiana, 2 to 2;
Maine, solid: Maryland, 4 to 1; Min
nesota, Michigan, New York, Ne
braska, Oregon, Rhode Island, Ver
mont, Massachusetts, Nevada, New
Hampshire and New Jersey all solid
nay; Pennsylvania 13 to 22.
FORTY-FIFTH* CONGRESS.
and redeem nnd cancel the greenback
currency.”
That all that portion of the act ap
proved January 14th, 1876, entitled
an act to provide for the resumption
of specie payment, which reads as
follows, to-wlt: And whenever, and
so often as circulating notes shall be
issues! to any such bunking associa
tion, so increasing its cupital or circu
lating notes, or so newly organized as
aforesaid, it shall lie tlie duty of the
Secretary of tlie Treasury to redeem
tlie legal tenders of tlie United States
in excess only of three hundred mil
lions of dollars to tlie amount of 80
per centum of the sum of national
bank notes so issued to any such
banking association as aforesaid, and
to continue such redemption us such
circulating note are issued, until there
shall be outstanding the sum of three
lmndred million dollars of such
legal tender U. 8. notes and no more;
and on and after the first day of Jan
uary, anno Domini, 1879, the Secre
tary^' tlie Treasury shall redeem in
colli tlieU. 8. legal tender notes, then
outstanding, on their presentation for
redemption at the office of tlie Assist
ant Treasurer of the United States in
tlie city of New York, in sums of not
less than fifty dollars, nnd to enable
tlie Secretary of the Treasury to pre
pare and provide for tlie redemption
in this act authorized or required,
he is authorized to use any sur
plus revenues, from time to time, in
the Treasury not otherwise appropri
ated, and to issue, sell and dispose of
at noteless than par, iii coin, either
of tlie descriptions of bonds of the
United States described in the net of
Congress approved July 14th, 1870,
entitled an act to authorize the re
funding of tlie national del it, with
like qualities, privileges and exemp
tions to the extent necessary to carry
tliis act into full effect, and to use the
proceeds thereof for tlie purpose afore
said, be and the same is hereby re
pealed. /
Vote, 130 to 120. Tlie vote is more
sectional than political.
The House adjourned to Tuesday.
Dr. G. D. Stand I ford's View* on th«
Tex mi Pacific.
Louisville, November 21.—In an
swer to u communication addressed
to him by the lending and substantial
business men of Louisville, relative
to ills views on tlie Texas Pacific rail
road, E. D. Standiford, ex-member of
Congress and President of tlie Louis
ville, Nashville nnd Great Southern
railway, publishes a letter in to-mor
row’s Courier-Journal, which will at
tract much attention. He regards the
early completion of the road a neces
sity in which every citizen is inter
ested, and thinks the good it will do
Texas, New Mexico, California nnd
Arizona greater than that which
would he afforded Russia should she
conquer and annex Turkey.
TIKKO-RINSIAN WAR.
FEAR THAT ENGLAND MAY HE DRAG
GED INTO THE MELEE.
Manchester. Nov. 23.—The Guar
dian publishes tlie following from its
London correspondent: The recent
success of the Russians in Asia and tlie
probability they will soon achieve as
decisive victory at Plevna, have
brought hack the Government to Hint
state of anxiety into which they were
thrown by tlie Hint raid across the
Balkans. The feeling these events
provoke in the minds of the Minis
ters is to be gathered from the tone of
tlie papers that support the Premier’s
foreign policy. These journals are
daily vehemently demanding the ac
tive intervention of England. For two
or throe days the air lias been full of
tlie most sinister rumors.
Itis stated tlie Premier lias informed
tlie Russian Minister that if Adriano-
ple be taken and Constantinople
jeopardized, there may be such an
outcry in England as to make'war on
tlie part of this country inevitable.
Information of tills declaration lias
been sent to the Russian headquarters,
and has made a strong impression
there. In these circumstances there
is some reason for feeling the euontry
may he dragged into tlie present con
flict. T'he further ground for such
apprehension is affected by the fact
that within the last few hours orders
have been issued for the immediate
preparation of an army corps. A
warlike policy will meet much oppo
sition, and it is hard to forecast wliat
will be tlie popular verdict. In these
circumstances it would not be sur
prising if the Government took tlie
form of stating the grounds of their
conduct, and inviting tlie arbitrament
of the public opinion of them. ,
[Note.—Excepting the statement
of tlie Conservative organs, whieli
clamor for intervention, whieli is cor
rect, the foregoing must be accepted
witli great reserve.]
QUESTION OF MEDIATION.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Constantinople, November*23.
Tlie Turkish ambassador at Vienna
lias sounded Count Andrassy on the
subject of mediation. The Count said
mediation was inopportune and would
be disadvantageous for Turkey.
FRANCE.
A Defaulting Secretary at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, O., November 23.—A
dispatch says J. F. Call ng, Secretary
of the Western Insurance Company,
is behind $14,000 in liis accounts. Tlie
company was made secure by mortga
ges on his property, nnd removed him.
INDICTMENT FOUNT) AGAINST A TRAIN
WRECKER.
A dispatch from Harrisonburg, Va.,
says an indictment was found yester
day against DeWitte Ettinger alias
Glover, charged with wrecking the
railroad train ofthe Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, on Saturday night. The
chief witness is Isaac -Powell, who
was present and saw Ettinger do tlie
work. No indictment was found
against either Powell or Ludhnltz.
Ohio IiMurniM’e Comiuinte*.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.J
Columbus, O., November 23.—At
the meeting of the representatives of
tlie Ohio Mutual Fire Underwriters
here, thirteen companies were repre
sented. A resolution was adopted
declaring that tlie rates of stock com
panies now doing business in Ohio
are entirely inadequate, and agree
that the mutual companies there rep
resented shall do less business, if nec
essary, rather than accept such low
rates’.
Jury Disagreed.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Chicago, November 23.—Tlie jury
In consideration of tlie whiskey
cases disagreed, Nine voted in favor
of the Government, three for tlie de
fendants. The question in dispute
was whether tlie evidence showed
that complete immunity had been
promised.
Cincinnati and Coffee Broker*.
Cincinnati, November 23. —A
number'of coffee dealers at tlie meet
ing resolved to resist tlie efforts of
New York brokers to control the
shipment of coffee from that city and
a determination to tie expressed to
look to points furthe’r South for their
supply of that article, unless Nov
York brokers recede from tlie rule
adopted in regard to recovering and
adopted In
shipping.
H«U0 Repeal* Ibe Hesompl ion Aet by
133 vole* lo 130.
HOUSE.
Washington, November 23.—'i’lie
g reat interest in the House to-day was
He bill to repeal tlie resumption act
There were fourteen amendments
pending when the House begun to
vote, and all of them were negatived
except one offered by Fort, of Illinois,
as a substitute, and which hud actu
ally been accepted by tlie Committee
on Banking and Currency. The hill
was finally passed’by n vote of 133 to
120.
The following is the text of the hill
unend tlie title so us to read, “A
bill to repeal nil tlint part of tlie aet
approved January 14th, 1875, known
as the resumption aet, whieli author
ised the Secretary of tlie Treasury to
dispose of the United States bonds
What I* lie Up To r
Providence, R. L, November 23.
Capt. Carson, of tlie United States
cutter Samuel Dexter, now lying in
Bristol Harbor, this morning stuted
he felt unauthorized to make any
statement regarding his special orders
and duties. ‘ He said: “There is a
suspected craft, and here is a Govern
ment steamer; draw your own infer
ences.”
• — —■
BA .VA S.
Tenth K«llunnl Hunk to Wind Up.
New York, Nov. 23.—The stock
holders of tlie Tenth National Bank
have resolved to wind up. Reasons
are tlie dullness of trade, difficulty of
procuring “remuniative” of discount
in safe loans.
CHICAGO BANK GOES INTO LIQUIDA
TION.
Chicago, Nov. 23.—The Central
National Bunk closed doors, and will
go into liquidation.
• Colored Man llang.
Baltimore, November 23.—James
Rosebuury Hawkins, colored, aged 20
years was hanged at Towsentown,
Baltimore county, this morning at 9:30
for an atrocious assault ui>on Ida
Schaefer, a school girl, Jaged 13
years, in April Inst. In a letter to
his father and mother he made n full
confession of his guilt.
Sentenced to he llmiir.
Washington, Nov. 23.—Nelson
Arden, colored, convicted ofthe mur
der of a storekeeper in Borlic county,
North Carolina, was sentenced to
death. The jury consisted of seven
colored and live white.
Doe* (he Marshal Lack Resolution.
Paris, November 23.—The Moni-
leur closes an article with “We fear
the Marshal lackH resolution."
THE CABINET SETTLED.
Paris. Novemhei 1 23.—Tlie now
ministry as definitely constituted is as
follows:
President of Council and Minister
of War, Gen. Grimuudet de Koch-
bout.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, tlie
Marquis de Bauovill,
Minister of tlie Interior, M. De
Welclie.
Minister of Justice, M. Lepelctier.
Minister of Finance, M. DutiUeuL
Minister of Commerce, M. Oseune.
Minister of Public Works, M. Greff.
Minister of Public Instruction, M.
Faye.
Minister of Murine, not yet recom
mended.
physician dead.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Paris, November 23. — Sanveur
Henry Victor Bonvier, a French
physician, is dead.
MIMSB TUB EIBBEEB.
An Army Ofllcer'11 Npree In Nt. Louis.
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
St. Louis, Nov. 19.—In May last,
Lieutenant Frank 8. Hinkle, of the
United States army, at that time con
nected with the quartermaster’s de
partment of Fort Leavenworth, came
to St. Louis, nnd during his stay be
came enamored with tlie charms of
Nellie Suvidge, tlie keeper of a maison
de joie at Eleventh uml St. Charles
streets, where it seems he made his
temporary headquurters. Having
thus squandered in debauchery what
ready casli lie had with him, lie ran
the remainder of the spree on tick,
which continued until his hill
had assumed sueli formidable
proportions that tlie fair inamo
rata broached tlie subject of
a settlement. The young officer
drew a draft for the amount claimed,
five hundred and twenty dollars, first
having affixed the indorsement of
Capt. Hoyt to tlie paper, which was
drawn upon the United States suli-
treasury. This draft, tlie next day,
was presented to tlie sub-treasury for
payment, when it was repudiated as
worthless. Subsequently, upon com
plaint of tlie government officials of
the Treasury, Lieutenant Hinkle was
arrested, and lias been conflnedjn jail
ever since, a period of nearly six
months. This morning he was ar
raigned in the United States Court
for sentence. He was represented by
an attorney who addressed tlie court
in his favor, and asked that
Ills honor would exercise some
leniency in tlie ease; in the
first place, because of the uniform
good character the prisoner had hith
erto home; and, secondly, in view of
tlie fact that he had already served a
term fully commensurate with his
offense, whieli was committed, not
with tlie intent to defraud the Gov
ernment, hut was a sort of semi-in
sane freak, arising from a desire to
pacify the siren to whom he had be
come indebted through the influence
of strong drink. The attorney pre
sented tothecourt several letters fron
the commandingoffloerof Lieutenant
Hinkle, giving him an irreproachable
character for honesty, gallantry and
good-heartedness. Judge Treat perus
ed tlie letters, and said that in view
of what the prisoner hud Already suf
fered, and of tlie excellent reputation
given him by those who knew him
best, lie would give him the lightest
sentence possible. He then proceeded
to sentence him to three months im
prisonment in the county jail nnd a
lineof one dollar.
THE I.IBEBIAX K.TOIUH.
A General Mtateiuent from the Direc
tor* About the Nqiiey which They hay
la on Hand, and Abont the Mhlp which
la Certainly hot on Hand.
B. F. Porter, Jr., President of tlie
Liberian Exodus Association, in a
letter to tlie Charleston News and
Courier, endeavors to explain why
the ship, which should have been at
the port of Charleston on Thursday
for tlie conveying of persons to Libe
ria, did not make her uppenrance. He
says: “It was owing to tlie misap
prehension of the Board of Directors.
In this there are at least sixty thou
sand persons who had signified their
intention to tuke shares, indicating
an amount equal to six hundred thou
sand dollars, fifty per cent, of which
expected to have had paid to us
immediately; and from the repre
sentations of local agents, we made
our honest und sanguine calculations,
and, had the number necessary paid
up tlie shares at the specified time,
we would have had tlie ship ready
for them to-day; hut these parties
having failed to do so, as a natural
result we are unuhle to start altera
tions us soon us anticipated.
“All tlie funds that lmve come into
our hands are still held in trust, both
in bank and in four per cent, gold
bearing bonds. \Ve were ready to
make a purchase of the sailing vessel
‘Mercury,’ nnd visited our friend, Mr.
\V. B. Smith, to make final arrange
ments, and learned from him that
she had been charted to another party
until January.
"At a special meeting held on tlie
14tli instant, tlie President of the L.
E. A. was instructed to negotiate
with tlie lirmof Smith & Co. tor the
ship Owego, should siie he a suitable
vessel for our purpose, and the price
within our present rage. Should we
fail in this, we will probably be con
tent to await.the return of tlie‘Mer
cury’ in January, unless in the mean
time an eligible offer he made to us.
“Every wise observer knows,
Every watchful gazer sees,
Nothing grand or beautiful grows,
Have by gradual, slow degrees.
Ye who toll with n purpose high,
And fondly the grand results await,
Murmur not, as the hours go by,
That the season Is long, the harvest late."
Commenting upon the above the
editor of the News nnd Courier very
sententiously remarks : "Tills is very
good as far as it goes. But ‘fine words
butter no parsnips,’ and we dare spy
tt good many of tlie poor colored
stockholders would have preferred to
wait for President Porter’s poetry
until after the arrival of the promised
ship in tlie Promised I,und,ami mean
time to have a plain statement in
figures of how much money lias been
received, and where tlie bonds and
casli are now deposited."
by the map itself. Assuming, us we
are disposed to do, that these maps
were constructed immediately before
or in the time of Ptolemy, they are
very interesting as the earliest speci
mens extant of cartography. They
at all events embody the state of
geographical knowledge nt the early
period of Ptolemy, and present at
once to the eye what it would require
a close and laborious examination to
make out by u perusal of tlie work it
self, which bus never been translated
into English. P. B. Chaii.hi.
BVI.I.ETM IX A !•! I.I.MIX CAR.
The Noom or Horn.
The following calculations concern
ing the moons of Mars in Scribner
for December have been made by
Lieut, Sturdy, of the Naval Observa
tory, with the approval of Prof. Hall,
the discoverer:
\Ve might nt first conclude that tlie
inhabitants of Mars, if such there be.
would witness tlie extraordinary sight
of two brilliant moons passing each
other in the heavens above them, but
a little further reflection will show
that to all intents and purposes Mara
has but one practical moon, nnd that
as far ns light reflecting is concerned
tlie outer is a most useless attendant.
Tlie inner moon being fifteen miles
in diameter and 3,500 miles away
would from the surface of Mara sub
tend an are of 23’, which would give
it an apparent size of about throo-
limrtcrs of our moon.
Now tlie outer one being but eleven
miles in diameter and 12,000 miles
away would subtend but about 3' of
arc, and as the naked eye, that is, the
human eye of tills earth, can hut
barely see a celestial object which
subtends 1' of arc, it follows that to
the inhabitants of Mars their outer
satellite would appear to be a little
larger than Mars does to us. We
may therefore conclude that for the
people of Mars there is but one practi
cal moon, und that that one rises in
the west.
Again, supposing that this inner
la rise on a certain evening
The PO|»e*S 11 fill III.
Rome, November 23.—The Pope
has suspended audiences on account
of his sickness. *
Gale In Uniflnnd.
Liverpool, November 23.—A gale
was violent yesterday. The White . . , . .
Slur Line steamer Britanie, almost I the 1 resident ot tin
the only vessel tlmt would go out of graphical .‘society,
the Moray that left on Wednesday,
has returned for shelter.
Fire nt Italyil.
London, November 23.—
telegrams from Liverpool says infor
mation received here says a great fire
is raging at Baliui.
Ptolemy's Hay of The World.
Tlie following interesting letter
from Mr. P. Du Chailiu accompanies
a very curious map, which is publish
ed in Harper's Weekly of tlie 17th.
Mr. Du Chuillu points to tlie knowl
edge which the compiler of this map
had of the origin and course of the
Ni'e ; and it would he curious if tlie
later explorations ofthe Congo should
be verified by tlie old map maker
who lived some one hundred and
thirty-eight years after the birth of
Christ :
Ptolemy’s Map of the World.—
This map of tlie world is interesting
ns showing the conception whieli the
geographer Ptolemy had, in the
second century of our era, of tlie
globe, and wliat was then known of
the Continent of Africa. It is from a
very fine copy of tlie geography of
Ptolemy in tlie library of tlie Ameri
can Geographical Society of this city,
printed in Rome in 1608. There is
n this edition n series of maps which
were appended to manuscript copies
of Ptolemy, still preserved in Vienna
and nt Venice, to each of which
manuscripts there is a statement, also
in manuscript, that tlie
maps were delineated by
Agathodiemon, of Alexandria,
uccordliig to, the eight books of tlie
geography of Ptolemy. This is all
that is positively known respecting
the origin of these interesting maps.
Ptolemy flourished in the first half
of tlie second century of our era. It
is assumed from internal evidence in
his works that lie was in Alexandria
and made observations there A. I).
139; nnd Agathodiemon, the delinea
tor of the maps, is supposed by some
to have been a contemporary of his,
who was in Alexandria nt that time.
Agathodiemon, a mechanician, Is
known to have lived in Alexandria
in the fifth century of our era, nnd
lie is by some supposed to have been
the author of these maps. This,
however, is questioned by eminent
liicnl scholars, and the more
general belief is that they were either
copies, or a reproduction with addi
tions, of maps made by Marinus, of
Tyre, the immediate predecessor of
Ptolemy, nnd from whom he derived
a very lurge part of his geographical
information. Marinus shares with
Krastotlienese and Hipparchus
the distinction of being one of
the three founders of the
mathematical geography of the
ancients. He corrected the errors of
his predecessors, and fixed tlie deter
mination of many places left uncer
tain by previous geographers. It is
known from the statement of ancient
writers that he constructed maps
upon a new method, which entlrly
displaced those previously in use. He
studied with great cure the works of
the previous geographers, and the
journals then existing of voyages,
collcctinga large amount of materials,
which lie used with great discrimi
nation, and embodied in a work, un
fortunately lost, of which we know
littleexcept what is stated in Ptolemy.
Tlie strong probability that these
names were the production of a co-
tempomry of Ptolemy is heightened
by tlie fact that nothing comparable
to them could have been produced
during the Middle ages, when carto
graphy and geographical knowledge
wore in a very low state. The map
of Africa is especially interesting, as
thethreolakes represented thereusthe
source of the Nile have been confirmed
by the discoveries of Bruch, Speke mid
linker. These lakes were omitted on
all maps after tlie time of I). Anville
—about tlie middle of the last century
—as belonging to imaginary geogra-
pli; ami when Chief Justice Daly,
■ ‘ “ ■ • American Geo-
iiilled attention
some years ago to tlie fact the Lake
Ukerewe (Victoria N’yanza) of Speke
and the Mwutun Nizi (Albert N’yun-
zn) of Baker were simply rediscove
ries, having been known in the time
of Ptolemy, his statement was receiv
ed with general incredulity, especially
in England, until it was vindicated
moon should
at (i o'clock, it would set in the east at
1 Hi. 34m., and rise nguin In the west
at 5h. 9m. the following morning-
set again atl01i.43m.in the forenoon to
rise once more at 4h.l8m. in tlie after
noon, nnd so on. Tims to tlie men of
Mars the moon rises twice in the
same night.
Let us see how his monliglit nights
would compare with ours. Suppos
ing his moon and ours to rise at II
o’clock in the evening. At 0 o'clock
the next morning wo would have had
nearly twelve hours with our moon
above the horizon, while the Mar
tians would have had light from
theirs but 0h. 26m.—tlint is, counting
from (1 o'clock in the evening to (1
o'clock the next morning. But on
the other hand, the Martians have
their moon every night, which is a
boost we on ciwtli cannot make.
There is still another Interesting
phase of Mura’s moon. Speeding
through its orbit in 7h. 40m., each
quarter will consist of but lh. 65m.;
thus, as in tlie former ease, supposing
it to rise at 0 o’clock in tlie evening
and at that instant of time to be full
moon, nt 71i. 55m. it will hove reached
its last quarter, at 91i. 60m. it will lie
new moon, and ut llh. 46m. eleven
minutes after setting, it would reach
the second quarter. Thus in one
night tlie Martians will see their
moon passing through all tlie pliuses,
which with us and our moon require
more than 27 days.
From the Srw Orleans Times, Sorembcr 111.]
The Pullman sleeping ear which
reached the city on Tuesday night,
attached to the train ducat HI o’clock,
was uhout four hours before that the
theatre of astlrring Incident, uml that
It dill not tcrininateinatragcdyseeniH
miraculous. When tlie train stopped
ut Uhnttuwu, il took aboard a Air.
Charles Lee, IiIh wife, child und ser
vant, who bestowed themselves in
the sleeper.
Directly after leaving the station
Lee’s wife requested the sleeping ear
conductor to give her a glass of water
—u modest request to lie sure—hut
Lee seemed to think otherwise,
for, abruptly rising in his sent,
with nil angry look, lie suddenly
delivered a powerful blow upon
his wife’s face, exclaiming at the
sometime, “Ah, I heard you. nnd I’ll
teach you better than to flirt with
other men.” Before the few other
passengers fairly understood wliat
the row was about, Lee hud*whipped
out a six-shooter, and, pointing it al
Ids wife, threatened her with instant
death in ease she offended again. Al
this juncture Mrs. Hall—a little, but
a brave woman—who sat near by, at
tempted lo pacify Lee, and so lar suc
ceeded that he consented lo sit down,
hut almost directly jumping up ami
carrying his pistol in hand, he swore
he'd hunt up and kill the sleeping
car conductor who hud gone into
the forward car—and away lie rushed
wildly in pursuit.
He had no more than readied the
platform of the conch and shut the
door than lie quickly turned, anil
pressing the muzzle'of his pistol
against the car door window, deliv
ered three shots in rapid succession,
the bullets flying viciously down tlie
ear aisle, but as luck would have it,
hitting no one—the only approach to
injury being a bullet hole in Mrs.
Hull’s dress, that Italy being the only
one of tlie passengers who stood her
ground, the rest having tied for shel
ter to u state room, at the first note of
deadly danger.
Having fired his three bullets, Leo
continued his pursuit of the sleeping
car conductor.
Meanwhile Mr. Mike Norton—the
only gentleman passenger in the
sleeper—arming himself, set out after
Lee, determined to save (lie sleeping
ear conductor, if possible. Mrs. Hull,
with quick woman's wit, pulled the
hell rope sharply, und tlie train con
ductor hurrying therefore to tlie rear
of the train, soon met Lee In full sail
after the sleeping ear conductor, and
at tills moment, too, Mr. Norton com
ing up, Lee was captured, disarmed
and guarded, while a telegram was
forwarded to tlie city requesting tlie
attendance of an officer upon the arri
val of the train. Lee gave no further
trouble, and upon ills arrival at the
city depot was handed over to a po
liceman.
He is said to lie a man of violent
m.jji
fectly delicious !" said Bah, lifting the
napkin to hang over the banket,
fondly regarding the little round loaf
that lay inside.
"Leave some smell for mo!" com
manded Betty, rushing back to get
her fair share of tlie spicy fragrance.
The pug noses sniffed it up luxuri
ously, and tlie bright eyes feasted
upon tlie loveliness of the cake, so
brown and shiny, with a tipsy-look-
ing B in piecrust staggering down
one side, instead of sitting properly
atop.
"Ma let me put it on tlie very last
minute, and it baked so hard I
couldn't pick it off. Wo can give
Belinda tlint piece, so it is just as
well,” observed Betty taking the
lead, os her child was' queen ofthe
revel.
“Let's set them round, so they can
see too,” proposed Bid), going with a
hop, skip nnd jump, to collect her
young family.
Betty agreed, and for several min
utes both were absorbed in seating
their dollH about the table, for some
of the dear things were so limp they
wouldn’t sit up. nnd others so stiff
they wouldn't sit down, and nil sorts
of seats hud to lie contrived to suit the
peculiarity of their spl tics. This ardu
ous task accomplished, the fond mam
mas stepped back to enjoy the specta
cle, which, l assure you, was an im
pressive one. Belinda sut with great
dignity ut the bend, her hands gen
teelly holding a pink cambric pocket-
handkerchief in her lap. Josephus,
her cousin, took the foot, elegantly
arrayed in a new suit of purple nnd
green gingham, with his speaking
countenance much obscured by a
straw lint several sizes too large for
him; while on either Hide sat guests
of every size, complexion unu cos
tume, producing n very gay and va
ried effect, as ait were dressed with a
noble disregard of fashion,— h'rom
“Under the Lilacs,” by Louisa M.
Abbott, in St. Nicholas, for December.
4 ^ q
In plain English, tlie papers that
speak of the magnificent opportuni
ties this State (Texas) presents to tlie
newcomer lie, anil lie in u very gratu
itous, criminal way indeed. The un
varnished truth is, llial our labor
market is already stocked lo overflow
ing, and every i'resh arriving train
hut adds to the miserable multitude
in our midst that suffers, starves anil
finally lights its way hack East again.
Before the door of nearly every house
in lids dtv there daily begs a swarm
that would sudden the heart of a
Hatyr.—Dallas ( Texas) Herald.
Olftet lo llto Gnu'vn Awnrd.
Halifax, Nov. 23.—The Fishery
Commission gave their decision to
day according Great Britain $5,500.-
iHHi. It was a majority award. Presi
dent Deforacand Sir A. T. (hilt, agree
ing, and Judge Kellogg, U. S. Com
missioner, dissenting.
Went her.
Caoutchouc Making on the Amnion.
[Scribner for December; **From the Atlantic
to the Andes.”]
Narrow paths lend from tin* hut
through tlie thick underbrush (o tlie
solitary trunks of the India rubber
trees; and as soon us the dry season al
lows, the woodman goes into the
seringal with a hatchet in order to
cut small holes in the bark, or rather
in the wood of the caoutchouc tree,
from which a milky white sup begins
to flow through an earthenware spout
fastened to the wound. Below is a
piece of bamboo which is cut into tlie
spape of a bucket. In this way lie
goes from tree to tree until, upon IiIh
return, in order to carry tlie material
more conveniently, he begins to
empty the bamboo I buckets into
a large calabash. Tlie contents
of this are poured into one of
those great turtle shells which
on the Amazons are used for every-
kind of purpose. He at once sets lo
work on the smoking process, since,
if left to stand long, the gummy par
ticles separate, and tile quality of Hi
India rubber is hurt. This consists
subjecting the sap, when spread out
thin, to the smoke from nuts of the
Urucury or Uauassu palm, whieli,
strung, to say, is the only thing that
will turn it solid at once. An earth
enware "howl without bottom,"
whose neck lias been drawn together
like thut of a bottle, forms a kind of
chimney when placed over a heap of
dry red-hot imls*so tlmt tlie while
smoke escapes from the top in thick
clouds. The workman pours a small
quantity of the white rich milk-like
liquor over u kind of light wooden
shovel which he turns with quick
ness, in order to separate tlie sap as
much us possible. Then lie
passes it quickly through the
dense smoke above the little
chimney, turns il about several times
and at once perceives the milk take
on a grayish yellow color and turn
solid. In this wuy he lays on skin
after skin until tlie India rubber on
each side is two or three centimeters
thick and he considers the ptaneha
done. It is then cut upon one side,
peeled off'the shovel nnd hung up to
dry, since mueli water Ims gone in
between the layers, which should dry
out if ]K>Hsil)le. The color of tlie
pluuclm, which is ut first a bright
silver gray, becomes more and more
yellow and at last turns into the
brown of caoutchouc as it is known
in commerce. A good workman can
finish in tliis way live or six pounds
nu hour. The thicker, the more even,
und the freer from bubbles the whole
mass is, so much tin* better is its
quality mid higher tin' price.
I!i].«■ Ilr(I Irtini tlie Trmek.
New York, November 23. -Tlie
American Jockey t'lull’s investiga
tion of the charge of fraud made In
relation to the match race between
the colts, Higgins and Piper Hcid-
iHsposition, ami tills disposition was
on Tuesday aggravated by drink to a
more than ordinary high tempern-
Tiiere was another interesting feat
ure of the scene which would have
puzzled any lint those well acquainted
with (lie manners and customs of
dolls. A fourteenth rag baby, with a
china head, hung by her neck from
the rusty knocker in the middle of
the door. A sprig of white and one
of purple lilac, nodded over her, a
dress of yellow calico, richly trimmed
with red flannel scallops, shrouded
her slender form, a garland of small
flowers crowned her glossy curls, and
a pair of blue hoots touched (oes in
the friendliest, if not the most grace
ful, manner. An emotion of grief,
ns well as surprise, might well have
thrilled unv youthful breast ut such a
spectacle, for why, oil! why, was this
resplendent doily hung up there to lie
stared ut by thirteen of her kindred?
Was she a criminal, tin- sight of
whose execution threw them fiat
upon their bucks in speechless horror.
Or was she un idol, to lie adored in
that humlde posture? Neither, my
friends. She was blonde Belinda,
set, or rather hung, aloft in tlie place
of honor, for (his was her seventh
birthday, and a superb hall was about
to celebrate the great event.
All were evidently awaiting a sum
mons lo the festive board, but such
was tliepcrl'cct breedingof these dolls
that not a single eye out of the whole
27 (Dutch I Ians had lost, one of
the black heads from his worsted
countcnuncciturned fora moment to
ward the table, or so much us winked,
us they lay in decorous rows, gazing
in mute admiration ut Belinda. She,
unable to repress the joy and pride
which swelled her sawdust bosom till
the seams gaped, gave uil occasional
bounce as the wind waved her yellow
skirts or made tile blue hoots dance u
sort of jig upon the door. Hanging
was evidently not a painful operation,
for she smiled contentedly I lo,di
ed us if the red ribbon around her
neck was not uneonilbrlably tight;
-therefore, if slow sollbeation suited
her, who else had any right to com
plain? Son pleasing silence reigned,
not even broken by a snore from
Dina, tlie top of whose turban alone
was visible above the coverlet, or il
cry from the baby Jane, though her
Imre feet stuck out in a way
would have produced shr
less well-trained infant.
Presently voices were
preaching, and through
whieli led to a side path came two
little girls, one carrying a small pitch
er, the other proudly hearing a basket
covered with a napkin. They looked
like twins, but were Mot -for Mali
was a year older than Hetty, though
only an inch taller. Both had oil
brown calico frocks, much the worse
for a week.'s wear, hut clean pink
pinafores, in honor of the occasion,
made ii|i for that, as well as tlie gray
stockings und thick hoots. Both hud
round rosy faces rather sunburnt, pug
noses somewhat freckled, merry blue
eyes, and braided tails of hair hang
ing down their hacks like those of
tlie dear little Kenwigses.
“Don't they look sweet?" cried
Bali, gazing with maternal pride upon
the left-hand row of dolls, who might
ropriutely have sung in chorus,
Washington, November 23.—In
dications: For tlie South Atlantic
and EastGulf Strtes, rising or station
ary barometer, southwest to north
west winds, nearly stationary tem
perature, mid partly cloudy weather
succeeding the ruin iii the ('urolinas.
APOLLINARIS
NATURAL'
Mineral Water.
HIGHLY EFP 1*1 HVFHENT !
DU. HUNTER MdlUIKF. Rblmioml (.Surgeon to
late Stonewall .luelcsoti)—” Healthful and
lellglitfnl to drink. Valuable in Dyspep-
iiillHl (
lellglitfnl bev-
AM A. II AM MON It—“Far superior to
grateful and
olutely pure
aif ‘tin
mi. wii
Vichy
mi. alfkeojl. loo.mis
fresh I iiif,
•oto
I ilie
I’ltOF. IYANKLYN, London. Eng.—‘‘Impreg-
iinted only with Hs own gas.”
Dll. K. It. CI'AHI.EE .“t'sei'al ami very agree-
able.”
Oil. AUSTIN FLINT. IHt. F. N. OTIS-“Health-
ful, and well suited for Dyspepsia, and
lite dls
ifSIo
III (Joilt.”
Oil. .1. MARION SIMS.—‘‘Not
most
- Bladder and
To be bud of i
Druggists ami
throughout tin
e Merchants
end Water
•<l States, an
* FRED’K DEBARY & CO.,
II ami WAKICK'S STIIKKT,
no'2H eotiliin NK» YORK.
THE WORLD’S STANDARD
tlmt
eks from a
heard u|e
t he arch
FAIRBANKS
SCALES
RECEIVED HIGHEST MEDALS AT
World
World
World'
World
World
World
World
rair, London
Fair, New York
Fair, Paris
: Fair, Vienna
i Fair, Santiago, Cliili..
i Fair, Philadelphia...
.1851
.1853
.1807
.1873
.1.875
.1870
Fair, Sidney, Australia... 1.877
ALSO SOLE AGENTS FOIl
MILES* ALARM MONEY DRAWERS.
HANCOCK'S INSPIRATORS.
ter known for stall Ma
rine
al I .
lie
OSt'II.I.ATIMi l"l Ml’ (OIII'lM's Pl’MI’S,
FAIRBANKS 6t CO.,
ill I IliiMiihv.y, New York.
aal I (I'JtuMMwIni
It.v IllliSni A 1IHCHT.
Valuable Heal Estate at Auction.
i Til o'clock on Hie llrsi Tuesday In l)e-
,\ ccinlicr next, will la- sold to Hu- liishesl
approp
\\ c u
LOT
nick, run on the last day of the fall
meeting ul Jerome Park, resulted in
the expulsion from Jerome Park
course of LotigsUitt' und Drennon,
owners of the colts, and of the well
known jockey, Barbee. The cose of I abandon.
Spillman ami other jockeys, are held “Tlie cake can lie <
in abeyance. I lix the children. 11
“Very nice; hut my Belinda beat-
them all. I do think “lie i- thesplen-
dldest child that ever was!" And
Betty set down the liu-kct o> run and
embrace tile suspended darling, just
then kicking tip her heels with joyful
ot, und 117 fe,
•eel. <>n lit’- I..
1C with live rot
ells of water in
high.
. row... the desirable
Wiled by Mrs. Mary
* t 10 inches on
noli hr; while we
does smell j>er-
Tliis lot is
•hurdles uml *■
neighborhood.
Nov. 1st h—”1,1