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Newspaper Page Text4 VOL. XXIV- NO. 288. WASHINGTON NEWS- FORTY-SHiVBNTH CONGRESS. An Intoreatlng Debits tn tho • House. WnorgWs Uevolnllosary Claim the Subject of the Diaciuslnn. G-jnoral News From thoOapttal. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] UOI1NE. Washington, Deo. 0 —Willis, of Kentucky, offered a resolution direct ing; tlie committee on civil service re- Irom to enquire whether at the recent congressional',election money was raised by assessment or otherwise from fed eral office-holders or employees for election purposes, and if so, by whom and what amount was so raised, and how the same was collected and ex pended, and whether such assessment was uotin violation of the law. Also, whether any federal office holder or employe has been dismissed or threatened with dismissal or depri vation of any right or privilege by rea son of his refusal to pay any assess ment upon him or was otheiwise inter ior red with. Kasson objected to present considera tion of the resolution and it was referred to committee on civil service reform. Caswell, cf Wisconsin, offered a reso lution anthorziug the committee on appropriations to embody in the post- office appropriation bill a clause reducing letter postage to two ceuis, Adopted Kelly, chairman of the committee op ways and means, oH'ored the usual resolution for the distribution of tho presiueni’s message, and the house proceeded in a committee of the whole to its consideration. Tho resolution was amended, so that the question of the Hawaiian treaty was referred to the committee on foreign allairs instead of that oil wavH aud means. The resolu tion was then reported back to tho house and adopted as amended. The house then, at 1:15, wont into a committee of the whole -Waito, of Connecticut, in the chair—on tho state ot the union The first bill to bo considered was one refunding lo the state of Georgia the sum of $35,000, expended hr that state for common defense in 1777. Hol man opposed the bill, and its passage was advocated by Mr. Turner and Mr. Blount, of Georgia, who contended t hat the claim was a just and equitable one. ivir. Hiscock, of New York, moved to strike out the enacting clause, stating he was opposed to auy bill one hundred years old, Speer, of Georgia, conceded that the claim was an old, but none the loss a just claim, and repeated a series of committees of the house and seuate had attested its justice. This groat government, ho said, could not afford to plead fc-tamte ol limitations. Singleton, of Illinois, inquired whether, as a If gal proposition, the federal treasury had not been dis charged from any obligation to the state of Georgia, by reason of that state going into rebellion. Speer replied that ho did not think so. Turner, of Georgia, gave a detailed history of the claim,which, he argued, was orsiich a character that it should have been paid upon presentatation. After a discussion on the point of or der the committee decided that tho mo tion to strike out tho enacting clause was debatable. Tfrrnor, ot Georgia, wn* surprised that within a few years from tho cele bration of the centennial anniversary ot the Declaration of Independence congress should be asked to rafuse to pay to any state a just claim for expen ditures made in securing that indepen dence. Singleton, of Illinois, said that he was opposed on general principles to bringing exhumed claims ot the centu ry before congress. It seemed to him there was something in the idea that though Georgia had aided in creating the union, sho had also attempted to destroy it, and that though sho had ex pended money in securing the union, she had relinquished all claim upon tho treasury by withdrawing from the union. Kay, of New York, raembei of the committee on claims which reported the measure, stated that the committee had been unanimous in favor of the claim. For one he would never vote to reject the claim of any state which he believed to be just and honest, not withstanding that tho statute rf limita tions ought to run against it. Hiscock, of Now York, read the act of congress providing that revolution ary claims of states must lie credited and settled prior to 1788. If congress proposed to take any action in this ease, it should open doors and allow all of the accounts between the states and the general government to be reopened. Blount, of Georgia, contended that there wete precedents for payment of revolutionary claims of states. He said that the reason for Georgia being tardy in asking for payment was that she was careful that no unjust claim should be presented. Hewitt, of New York, said that tho claim of Georgia would probably have been audited and allowed prior to 1788 bad she not been careful to see that no unjust claim was brought for ward. The question was wheth er Georgia should bo punished for exercising that care. He failed to find, after a good deal of research, tho precedents referred to by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Blount), but he had found that the government had settled the revolutionary claims ot individ uals. He contended that congress should do as much justice to a state to au individual. Hammond, of Georgia, thought that it did not comport with the dignity of the great United S'ates to plead a stat ute of limitation against a claim which was indisputably just and honest. Holman, of Indiana, argued that the debt of the people of Georgia to tho United States for direct taxation should lie made an offset against tho present claim of tho state. Blount regretted that the gentleman from Indiana (Holman) alone should see fit to revlvo this old tax question, when the people of the north nad pro vided that the tax should not be col looted. McLano, of Md., thought that when the gentleman from Indiana had been addressing himself to the equities of Lbe case it might have occurred to him that if the state ot Georgia were polled to pay any portion cf tho tax and the other sou'hern states were not, it would be very bad equity. The southern states bail not been called Lo pay war tax aud never would be. A uother objection t.o the bill was that presented by the gentleman from Illi noia (Singleton) and was to the effect that having gone out of the union, Georgia Lad forfeited hor claim to money paid to the union during the revolutionary war. If there was any one point well settled in law and Ameri can statesmanship, it was that no state overdid go out of the union. After fur ther discussion the committee refused fifty-one to seventy-six to strikeout the enacting clause. The bill was then reported to the house and it was passed yeas ninety-six, i»avs eighty. Steele, ot Indiana, offered a rosol u tiou directing the committee on civil service reform to inquire how much money was collected by the campaign managers of the democratic party from theCobden club and from tho Free Trade club for use in the election of “.Let it be adopted!” cried several democrats, but Kasson objected to its present consideration for the same rea son which prompted him to object to Willis’ resolution this morniug, that the committee had at present as much work before it as it could accomplish. Townsend, of Illinois, called atten tion to the fact that there was objection from the republican side,and then tho resolution was referred. Kasson presented the views of the minority of tho cominitteeon ways and means on the international revenue bills. They wore ordered printed. Tho minority report is signed by Kasson, Dunnell, McKinley, Haskoll, Morrison and Bussell. They are of the opinion that so long as it remains necessaav to col'ect any portion ot the revenue of the government. from internal taxation, two sources which cau best upport the imposition of tax are dis- ille-1 spirits aud tobacco. Dunnell and Haskell also file a sup plemental minority report, in which they favor the abolition ot all internal revenue taxes except those on malt, and spirituous liquors, tobacco, snuff ami cigars, Adjourned. MF.NATK. The president pro tein submitted a communication from the secretary of treasury transmitting the report oi* the tioual board of health. Referred to the cominitteeon epidemic diseases. Sherman presented twolve petitions of citizens of Ohio for the passage of a bill to inert a4u pensions to those who have lost an arm or a leg in service. Ingalls presented several similar pe titions from citizens of Kansas, A bill was introduced by Mr. Antho ny to prohibit the use of tho capitol far other than its legitimate pur osos. Re ferred to tho committee on public build ings and grounds. munds offered a resolution in structing the committee on judiciary to er quire aud report by bill, or other wise, whether any lurlher legislation is necessary to secure the title of the United States to the national soldiers’ emrtory at Arlington, lie explained hat this was made necessary by re nt decisions of the supreme court in ilation to the rights of Gen. Leo. The resolution whs unanimously agreed to. At the close of he morning hour PiuiLctilleu up his resolution offere:) yesterday asking commissioner of pensions to furnish certain informa- tian in reference to pension roll and the probable effect upon it of the passage ot tho pending bill to increase pensions f persons who have lost an arm or a log in service, or one suffering from equlvolent disabilities, Beck moved to amend by further in structing the commissioner without de’aying the information called for in he resolution, to transmit, also, as soon as practicable, a complete list of all persons borne on the pension roll and tho claimants for pensions, with heir address and amounts of their pensions, respectively. Adorned. The resolution as amended by B.sok was then adopted. At 1 o’clock the special order bill to oatablish a uniform s< stern of tmnk- lptcy throughout the United States, as taken up. Ingalls proceeded at great length to explain and advocate the bill. He ro- ewod, briefly, three general bank- iptcy laws heretofore enacted in this country, which, he said, were for tho most part slavish copies of the proceed ings of Eng.ish legislation, and coarse and unsatisfactory in their practice. The main point considered in framing tho bankrupt law was whether the court or ditors should control the de struction of the estate. At the con tusion of his icmarks, Lugalls sub mitted certain minor amendments agreed upon by tho sub-committee, hich wore ordered printed. Tho bill was debated by Edmunds, Hoar and Garland, and then went over s unfinished business, ami ihe senate then took up the calendar and passed se veral bills, held an executive session, which lasted only a lew minutes, aud hich uotKing was done except to refer to appropriate committees nomi nations received to-day, then, at -1 p. , the senate adjourned. EULOGIES UPON SENATOR HILL. The Georgia delegation have decided to have January 20ih set aside tor eulo gies upohSenator Hill. NOMINATIONS, president sent tho following nominations to the senate to-day: Brig adier-General John Pope, to be raajor- generai; Colonel Rauold S. MacKenzie, of the fourth cavalry, to be brigadier general, and a long list of other promo tions, affecting nil grades of the army, front second lieutenant to colonel. Tho president also nominated Edward M. heuey, of Florida, attorney of the United Stales lor the northern district f Florida, and Henry H. Morgan, oi Louisiana, ta be socretrrv of legation of the United States to Mexico. A MONITOR LAUNCHED. The mouitor Puritan was successful ly launched at Chester, Pa., to-day. The monitors Passaic, Moutunk and Nantucket have been ordered out of commission. DEAD. Rear Admiral Stanley (retired; died here last night. Kellogg Gel* lit* ('erilflrnie. Special to Enqulrer-Sun.l New Orleans, Doeembor 6 —A special to the Times-Democrat from Baton Rouge, says: The goverurr, after a patient and exhaustive exami nation of tho law and facts in the Kel logg case, has given a certificate to Kel logg, in accordance with the returns from tho third district. The Times-Democrat, of this room ing, publishes the fo.lowing : “Gov ernor McEnery’s action in relation to tho third district lias been grossly mis represented. He has been charged with refusing a certificate to Kellogg, hen, in fact, tho governor, upon the receipt of Ackleu’s protest raising the question of Kellogg’s eligibility, more- iy suspended action to allow Kellogg to present his statoinout of tho law and facts, which was done on Monday, and on Tuesday the certificate was issued to Kellogg. Tho question was raised one weok ago, and was decided on the day following the filing of Kollogg’H brief.” _ Tho Truuilt ol* Venn*. Special to Enqulrer-Huu.i Washingt *n, December 6 —Reports received show the transit of Venus to- invisible at Greenwich. At Utica only a glimpse was obtained through the clouds. At iho Harvard observa tory satisfactory observances were made. Successful observations were made here at the observatory. The transit oi Venus was successfully observed in all four contacts at the Naval onservatory. The sky was over cast nearly all day, but advantage was taken ot rifts in the clouds at oppor tune times. Only about sixts' photo graphs wera secured. Nut Guilty. Special to Enqairer-ttun.j Raleigh, N. C., December G,—The case iu the federal couit against Demp sey Bryan, Jonas Cohen and James AlthreU, charged with election frauds iu Halifax county, in 1880, was tried to-day before a jury composed of dam ocrats and republicans, all white. The jury, alter a short absence, found the defendants not guilty. NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE Appointment* MntlP nlLaOrMifl-Ncn Fre*l«llnir Elder*. Special to EDqulrer-Bun.i LaGrange, December fl —Late last night the woariod venerable Bishop Pearce read the appointments to an anxious crowd prefacing with the an nouncement that he had made Rome now districts. We note W. H. Parks, P. E., of Augusta district; W. A, Can dler, St. John's; C, Pope, (our late beloved pastor) to Ht. James W. F. Gulllian, Asbury; R. VV. Bigham, Milledgevllle. Athens District—G W Yarbrough, P. E ; Athens, .? D Hammond. Atlanta distiiot—J Boring, P. K; First Church, C A Evans; Trinity, T K Kendall; Evans Chapel, T F Pierce. Dahlonega district—W R Branham, jr, P E; Gainesville, A. J Jarrell; Edge- wood, J II Baxter; Conyers, It J Big- ham; Washington, L J Davies; Eiton- tou, A J Adams; Romo, Wm D Ander son; LaGrange, Dr Josiah Lewis. Gainesville distiiot—W A Parks,PE ; Cedar town, J W Roberts ; West Point, Mr Parris. The new presiding elders are our tal ented W FI LaPrade, LaGrange; Elbert district, W P Lovejoy ; Marietta dis trict, J R Mayson ; Rome, W F Glenn ; Oxford, J I) Gray; Dalton, Mr Dioksor; Griffin, G H Patillo; Newnan, D G Gardner. Mr Shackelford is to be the neighbor of your Harris county friends at Whitesville. We really congratulate the churches at Uedortown, Thomastou and Forsyth on getting Messrs. Roberts, W. II. Foote and J. S, Bryan. The energetic H. C. Christian goes to Baruesville. Our town was delighted with tho ‘‘fel lers” as they cali each other. They wore good company. Your “newsy” paper brought them tho latest items from abroad. We see a good account of your faith ful representative, G js Little. We like him. Scribbler. Ohio t'outenttMl Elect ion CJo*«*. •Special to Enquirer-Bun. | Columbus, Ohio, December fi —The state canvassing boa^d in the Wallace* MoKinley contest in the eighth con gressional dlst.rior, decided this morn ing that McKinlev, republican, was elected by eight majority and issued a certdioat of election accordingly. In the seventh district, Money, republic can, wus declared elected, and in tho twellth district, Hart, republican There were no other contests. OUR REPRESENTATIVES. A* they ( i l*u Other People. When the gentlemeu who are now repre senting Muscogee county in the house ol representatives were elected, we staled that no county iu the state would be more ably represented. The press throughout the state have made t hem the subjects of some very llatterlug comments, Iu a letter to the Augusta Chronicle we tlud thh: Of this legislature, it uiuy be truthfully sold It Is one of the most intelligent aud lu- dustilous bodies which Iiuh assembled iu Ailauta for Hume time. The dlstlugut bed young speaker has piloted the house faith- tuliy aud well. The best expectations ol his friends nave been more tban realized. What Mr. Garrard was upon the floor- clear, courteous, firm and cousolauuous— ..... ^ He not seem l</nave a higher ambition than to execute his trust consistently with the highest principles of duly. Aud we also find this In the same papei: It may afford some ofyour readers s<t Is rael ion inkuow that the tax upon circus companies, tho .gh doubled from last year, is uot yet proutbltoo. i'oe p.osige of Forepaugh’s calliope by the state house lust week,cauienear breaklug up a Joint ucseiou of tne general assumoly, so, upon the suggestion of Mr. Lillie, ot Muscogee, these amusements were hot forbidden the slate, where the young people aud the co - ored loins have tnem so much at heart.,. As bright Ben Russell, of Becalm, says there is no reason,‘Just because we have grown old and religk us.” iu putting the bun upon every species of fun. Bo the circus can m- of statement aud generul eloquence of manner than Hon. Mr. Little, of Muscogee. As chairman of the tluuuce committee his lias been a herculeau ta*k this week, and lie lias had ills patience and versatility heavily drawn upon. Ho lias most hand somely sustdiued himself, however. From the Rome Courier, of yesterday, we tlud the following : “Mr. Little, of Muscogee, chairman ol the uglue v that com- TOlttte with masterly skill. Very seldom Indeed has he been defeated on any Item ol the appropriation or tax bills, but the 1*11 la were passed veVy nearly ns they came from the committee, though strongly opposed iu a number of p irllculars. He has shown a thorough acquaintance with the UuuiicIhI condition aud business Interests of the stale, aud has already established a reputa tion us a web-informed and conservative legislator. There Is none ol tho “spread- eagle” oratory in him, but lie (hat* in hard lacts and stern logic, and applies them in such a way as to he convincing, lie win Hereafter he regarded as a rising man in the politics of G servu i the uld ill lll-JK COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY No mol til n g to Ilia Taste. Brooklyn Eagle.) “Who ia the advertising manager here?” asked a brink looking little party, walking quickly up to the cashier’s desk. “I attend to that department,” said j *° tho so-muoh a-lino worker. “Too late to-day; go in to-morrow. How ALABAMA LEGISLATURE ™" ‘“ Evr mm . nur Mneteenth Day’s Proceed lugs Special to Enquirer-Sun,] Berlin, December G—Tho loss by floods iu the Rhenish districts, will amount to millions of marks. The damage to the town of Duisburg alone amounts to a million marks. Sixty houses near Mayenco are swept away. Swollen River*. .Special lo Enquirer-Sun. | Cologne, December 0.—The Rhino inis risen thirty-one centimeters since 2 o’clock this morning. The Mosel is Hliii rising rapidly. The Nickar and the Moon ate also rising, but more gradually. F.NG LAN II. Special to Enquirer-Sun.i London, Dae. 0.—Anthony Trollope t]S dead. The Sting of the Bee.—If we press the abdomen of a bee or wasp, so as to cause the sting to protrude, we should naturally think that the sharp, dark-colored instrument was the sting itself. This, however, is not the case. The real sting is a very slender instrument, nearly transpa rent, keenly pointed, and armed on one edge with a row of barbs. Ho exactly does the sting resemble the many barbed arrow of certain savage tribes that, if the savagts had possessed microscopes, we should cer tainly have thought that they bor rowed the idea of the barb from the insect. What we see with the un aided eye is simply the sheath of tiie sting. Many savages poison their spears and arrows, ami here also they have been anticipated by the insect. But thesdng is infinitely superior to the arrow poison. No poison that Lias yet been made, uot even the ter rible wourali, or curare, as it is some times called, can retain its strength after long exposure to air. The upas poison of Borneo, for example, loses its potency in two or three hours But the venom of the sting is never exposed to the ajr at all. It Is secreted by two long, thread-like glands, not neurly so thick as a hu man iiair, and is then received into a little bag at the base of the sting. When the insect uses its weapon it contracts the abdomen, thereby fore mg the sting out and compreisiug th venom hag. By the force of the strok which drives the sting into the fo its base is pressed against the venom bag and a small amount of the poison driven into the wound. Asa mle, if tiie bee or wasp be allowed to remain quiet, it will withdraw its sting, but as the pain generally causes a sudden jerk, tiie barbed weapon cannot be withdrawn, and tiie whole apparatus of sting, poison bag, and glands is torn out of the insect, thereby caus iug its death.—Quod Words. Haid a miserable little Cincinnati boy, who had just received a scolding from his father, “Ma, I wish I’dflev- er been horn.” “Why, .Charley?” “Well, I think |I*d _a been a better boy.” Paper overcrowded. Should cornea week,In advance. Yes, our rates are “Here, move slow,” gasped the lit tle party. “I don’t like to have every thing slung at me atomic in that fashion. Now, you see I’m in tiie clothing business, and—” “To he sure. Understand your case exactly.” said the so-much-a line fit nd, flourishing his pen and spread ing out a paper. “You want a read ing ad. Something like this : “The balmy perfume of tiie bursting buds, aud the soft, enchanting zephyrs of summer have given way to the cruel blasts of coming winter, and it is high time that our thoughts turned to heavy uuderllannels and tho inimita ble winter suitings, worth thirty dol- lars and selling for iUteeu, at All wool & Co’s greatest clothing house on earth. The gentle breezes of summer no longer ripple over tiie velvety lawns, but the cold winds of tho north come sweeping around corners and remind us to purchase without delay a pair of Allwool A Co’s four dollar trousers, warranted not to shrink over a foot above the knees—” “You are all wrong,” shouted the little party, dancing about and pull ing his hair. “Don’t give me any winter. Don’t sling any cold winds at me, if you know when you are safe. I want tiie public to imagine that fall will last up to Christmas. T want an open and mild winter snap. You see I’ve got about live bundled spring overcoalson my hands, and—” “Exactly,” »aid the so-much-a-line fiend. “What you want is something of this style: “Ail the indications point to a phenomenal winter. We heat* from tiie weather prophets that au unusually iate fall and very mild winter may bo expected—so mild and balmy. indeed, that people will find heavy, curbstone over coats a burden, even up to the beginning of tiie late year, -’till, prudence and tiie laws of health will not allow of our going without a lop coat. Many a promising career Im** been brought to a sad aud untimely end through Imd judgment in the se- lection of a suitable outer garment. Trust to our excellent judgment and secure at once one o' our semi season, moisture-proof, middle-weight top coats, made expressly for tiie coming mild winter. We long ago establish- d telegraphic communication with Veutior and other hang up weather rophets, and know what we are talking about. Call upon us at once. as the number of these admirable gar** ments is limited. If you don’t fancy tin* garment alter von have given it a month or two’s trial we will take it back and return you your money with a magnificent oil painting of tiie father of his country as a slight compensation for tho trouble yui have beeu to in trying our goods ’ How does that strike you?” asked the so much a-line man. “Down to the ground,” said the little party. “Just slap her in every day for a week. If that, don’t fetch ’em Filagree to wear one of tiie cop founded coats myself all winter,” and lie left tiie office much hot tor pleased with tiie world than when lie arrived. TIIH LANT HORN PRINCKNN OF r*mu’* Ktrlli at inr Npunluti Court. From tho London .Standard.! It is na ancient custom of Spanish kings to present the new-born prince or princess to an assembly composed of about two hundred ami fifty per sons of high rank ; so that within an hour of thesummons being sent from tiie palace the ministers, high digni taries and ambassadors began to ar rive, their carriages forcing a way with difficulty through the ciowd. The royal guests are conducted to tiie hall, where they were sumptuously entertained, until the lord chamber lain appeared to lead them to tiie ante-chamber nearest to the royal bed chamber. The latter is a large room, hung with white and blue silk, tiie furni ture of ebony, and containing two massive beds, between which stands the queen’s Priedieu chair, over which hang a fine ivory crucifix which she brought from Austria and her marriage and first communion wreaths of artificial flowers. Whe was attended by her mother, the Archduchess Isabella, an Austrian countess, aud I)r. Riedel. Tiie king frequently passed to aud fro into the ante chamber to communicate with other members of the royal family. The Spanish physicians in attend ance waited in au antechamber, hut, as on the first occasion, Dr. Rie del alone assisted tire queen. As the booming of the guns an nounced to Madrid the hirth of a princess and tiie church bells pealed forth merrily, the Duke Sexto ap peared and asked the brilliant com puny to f< Row him. They pressed into* tiie ante chamber—a curious and interesting throng, full of contrasts, like all tiie ceremonies of tiie hour- ion court, that keeps up the stately tiquette of tin* seventeenth century Everybody looked t ied*chami) p r, near Duke Sexto and Soon BNATR. •r-Hun.J Montgomery, Ala., December G — Bills wore introduced as follows: Mr. McOlellar—To amend noctlon 82B0 of the code. Mr. Street—To require railroad com panies to give proper receipts to ship pers and consignees. Mr Softy— 1 To organize a commission to consider and report to the supremo court a code of pleading and procedure for the courts of common law jurisdic tion. Also, to amend portion 2811 of tho code. BILLS PASSED, To provide for tiie collection of state and county taxes in onunths having no qualified tax c )lloetnrs, and to regu late tho nuances of such counties, ■IOUHK. BILLS INTRODUCED, Mr. Porter—To amend subdivisi -n eight of section IPS of tire code. Mr. Mwldor—To amend sootion 4 '<59 of tiie code. Also, concerning charitable, benevo lent and bonefioiary associations, cor porations and societies. Also, to make Good Friday a legal holiday in this state. Mr. Hamilton—To amend section 4445 of the code. Also, to amend section 4207 of tho code Mr. Graham—To appropriate tho amount received t»v the stale for lieonpo to sell liquor iu ihe oltias of Montgom ery and Selma to tiie public, schools of said cities. Mr. Nevill—To protect the traveling public against accidents caused l>y color blindness and dofectivo vision, Mr. Browne, of Talladega—To pro- liibitthe soiling, or g vlug, or other wise disposing of intoxicated tiquois to intemperate persons or habitual drunkards after notice given. Mr. Wood—To regulate trials of mis demeanors and examinations ot pub- tio offenses before justices of tho peace and notaries public, who are ex-officio justices of tho peace in ibis state. Mr. Cowart, for tho relief of Z. B. Trammell, ol Pike county, in the mat ter of certain lands sold at tax sale. BILLS PARSED, To establish a new charter for Ope lika. To give landlords of storelu uses, a lien on goods contained in such store houses for rent. To provide for summary judgements against prohate judges and tax collee- tors. The bill to reties! the erop lien law was postponed until January 2G. J. H. P. MI'IIWAKT (!|1NKKKIANI) IT/./, 1,F.I> i fin Nlfttpr* ml I* Grciill > the door of tli hich stood tin* Marshal (’am it opened, and i king appeared, bearing on lovely cushioned basket a baby princess, in ' lie midst of lace and silk coverings. Behind tiie king came •Jenor Sagas!a and the menibt r* of the household. All pressed forward or rose: on tiptoe toeateh a glimpse of the royal child. The king seemed much pleased, and smiled as he en deavored to satisfy tiie curiosity of his nobles and of tiie foreign diplo matists. who warmly congratulated the young monarch. After the ceremony of presentation the king handed the child to the principal lady of tiie bedchamber, who gave the child to tiie Marquess Santa Cruz, who has been appointed chief oi the household of tiie royal in fant. Tiie minister of justice pre pared an official deed relating to the birth and presentation, and the regis ter was signed by the principal per sonages present, The young princess will have only four Christian names, whereas it is not unusual for Spanisli princesses Lo have a drzen names. She will be called Isabella. Thomas Charlton hooked his chin over the prisoner’s bar at tiie police court and regarded his honor with a bland smile, “Thomas you are charged witli being drunk,” ■said tiie court. “I can’t deny it,” said Thom as, grinning from ear to eur “Von don’t seem to lie very sorry.” “I’m happy, yer honor,” said ilie prisoner, giggling. “Wlmt excuse have you for getting drunk?” “I’ve got seven of ’em, judge. “Seven excuses?,’ “Yes, yer honor, seven. Now I don’t mind tellin’ ye ail about it. Ye see, I've got six boys in my family, and last night—it’s a girl, judge.” Thomas got oil'. In what particular relation mind- reading stands to spirit power was tin* psychologic question that came up for solution at a seance last night at tiie Everett House. The interests of the mind-readers were represented by Mr. Stewart Cumberland, and those of tiie spiritualists by Mrs. D. Kane, the widow of the Arctic ex** plorer. Mrs. Kane is one of the original Eox sisters of tiie celebrated R t«hester rapping-t fame. IMre mys terlous Tappings began around tiie sisters when they were children, and the case at the time was very thor oughly investigated by Horace Gree ley and many others. Mrs. Kane received a written communication from Horace last night, hut the baud writing was so wretch edly had that it will take Mr. Cumberland several days to make it out with a full application of his mind-reading power. Horace said lie was making rapid progress in other things. Tiie audience last night consisted chiefly of representa tives of the press. Mrs. Kane sat at u small table in such a position that every motion she made could be dis tinctly seen by ail in the room. It was a seance in the full glare of the gaslight. The rapping came distinct and loud in answer to various ques tions about relatives in the spirit world. The chief point of interest was for the mind-reader to explain how the raps were made and to imitate them. It had gone out to the public that he claimed he could do this, hut he sig nally failed last night. During the performance a reporter of tiie Star said to Mr Cumberland : “Have you any theory for account ing for the raps ?” “They are caused by tiie displace ment of tiie tendons in the knee or foot ” lie said, “Then you tnink that Mrs Kane is conscious of that action on her part which she attributes to tiie spirits?” “I think ho. loan make raps.” Mr. Cumberland lion; tried to what he culls displacing the tendons in liis own leg and foot, by which lie can produce a faint sound, that lias a very shadowy resemblance to a spirit rap, but there is no mistaking that it comes from the region of tiie foot and knee, while the raps of which Mrs. Kane is the medium appear to every body to issue unmistakably from tiie table. “When those raps occur,” said the reporter to Mrs. Kane, “have you any consciousness of the way they take place? fti other words, are they done witli your volition or not?” “I have really no will in the mat ter,” sin* said. “They come without y effort, and I don’t produce them A Mumbling ltlnck lo III* Abolition ol I mm mil T«tr»—Th« Wlita- Uy Men’* Fruit*. Tiie republicans in congress are not likely to lie united on tiie revenue question. If nothing else prevents, the whisky interest will. There will lie no concord unless they all go in for what whisky wants. That is too great an interest to lie treated lightly, nr subordinated to the requirements of the general welfare. It will demaud that it lie dealt with on tiie ground of what iH best for it self as a distinct and independent in terest. Kelly’s proposition to totally re move internal taxes, will lie resisted by the whisky men. They will he supported by other than persons friendly to the whisky interest, for reasons of their own, and generally on the ground that as money to sup. port the government must come from somewhere, it will be better to make whisky pay it than get it by taxing tobacco or other articles out of w hich the government now draws n large revenue. Taxing whisky heavily sounds well, and is likely to be popular with tiie masses. Ht rail gel y enough whisky men warmly coincide in tills view. For every dollar they pay in taxes they add two, or whatever they feel disposed to add, to the article when it is sold in the market. This, too, has its taking side—its positive attrac tions. Tf men ami women will drink whisky, why should not they lie made to pay roundly for it? Who cares how much tiie whisky that is drunk costs the drinkers? Of course tliis view of tiie subject leaves out of sight the important fact that by far tiie smaller part of all the whisky that is manufactured is used as a beverage, and it also ignores tiie fact that the immensely larger part is consumed in mechanical and scienti fic uses. Little concern is given to the truth that it is here that the question of taxing whisky is importuut to the great mass of tiie people who do uot drink. It is here that tiie non-con- Sumer of whisky ns a beverage lias a direct interest iu the prtceof tiie arti cle, which is manifolded in conse quence of tiie tax. The advocates of tiie tax—notably the whisky men—do not wish to have the question presented in this light. Their principal reason for continuing the tax is that they can make a great deal more money with the tax on than with it off’. An interest so vast, and at the same time operated in so small a com pass as this is—tiie holders of all the whisky manufactured and to in* man ufactured forey ears to come being a paratively few individuals—will, of course have numerous and strong frienns iu and out of congress. There may lie a grain of sense in tiie de mand that nothing violent should lie done or attempted, and that it would lie violent and injurious to the mil lions of oftiiital locked up in whisky to do all Mr. Kelley proposes to do. But whisky, like anything else, must lake ils chances when legislation is projected for the general welfare. Tins proposition whisky does not agree to, for it goes on tiie plan that legislation must lie for its own sake. It is to be observed that although the whisky men do uot want tiie tux to he taken off, they do not propose to pay it—at. any rate, not at once. Their idea is to have the tax kept on, and tiie time for paying it extended to five orseven years, on the ground that the stock now is vastly greater than the requirements for consump tion. Let tliis extension tie granted now and there would lie little hezird in the prediction that whoever is on earth at the expiration of the five or seven years will witness a charge made all along tiie line for the remis sion of the tax altogether. The inconsistency ol laying a tax for tiie support of tiie government, and proposing at tiie same time t< postpone the payment of it for tin present, and perhaps ultimately remit altogether, is one of the peculiar fei tures of the present discussion. Ilnlr Krowlnc Afl«*r Rontb. K. II. Husk tn Notes aud q,u* rios. In the 'Times' account of the a| pearance presented by Lord Cr»v ford’s body at the second eximmutio is tiie following paragraph (Goto I a 14): “Oil removing part of the co\ eriug of tiie face and neck short Iiair witli a faint reddish tint was found on the front of tiie neck and checks and a tuft of similar iiair on the top of the head.” One of the chief patron saints of Hicna isHt. Galgauo, whose legend is one of the most ro- t mantle of the "ages of faith.” The Hienese painters loved to depict him as a beautiful youth witli a profusion of golden curls. He closed his poetical HEAVING THE LEAD Hard Woik, llrqiiirlng (jrcat Skill nml l.oiif- I’ractlcp. An Old Nnllor'* Urnpblr Dr*rrl|tfion of nn Arc In Which Few Are Kx|»erl*. An old sailor who has spent his life since boyhood in the United States navy at d merchant marine set vice was discussing the many dis asters which have happened of late to both steam und sailing vessels. “Mark ye, lad,” he said, as lie re filled his pipe and proceeded to blow a cloud, “they mostly happen be cause the hand lead or deep sea h ad and line ain’t hove properly. There ain’t one sailor in ten as can heave tiie lead properly or that knows the marks and deeps, andean sing tiie song as it is always sung l»y sailors who can heave the lead properly.” “What’s tlie song?” "Well, d’ye you’ve heard sail ors at tho capstan burs getting the anchor apeak or swaying up the yards. AVell, it ain't that kind of singing, hut a sort of peculiar musi cal drone. The pilots know it well. It is prolonged, and if they waited for tho end to come they would often go ashore before it was finished. But they know what’s coming, ami it’s ‘Stand by the stayjj, ready about, hard a lee,’ before the leadsman in the fore chains lias got to the warning. 'By the mark tliree.’ “Heaving the lead is hard work, and requires great skill and long practice. In the navy it is true that men cau lie found who are far better at # this important part of a seaman’s duty than in the merchant servic e The reason is that by an order of tiie navy department every man-of-war, when on short soundings, where the baud lead is necessary, is obliged to keep a man in the chains on both sides of the ship night and day, and no question of the. necessity of such service is entered into. In a mer chant vessel, on tiie contrary, the hand lead is seldom if ever hove, ex cept when, in foggy weather, the pilot requires it. Tliis applies to sten also.’ ny-elf’ “Now,” Mr. Cumberland V 1 a gentleman, “we entitle point at issue mind-readf r and tin* Do you hear those rappings, “I do ered tin celebrated they are ponam tin mind rear “Can you explain in produced?” “1 cannot, hut I should like to sec Miss Kane put in a swing and so iso lated that she would not be near any table, and see if there would he any raps, or I would like to hear the raps in my hat at a distance ” Mrs. Kane acknowledged that she could not do this at pleasure, nor was she certain at what time or place they “1 have no interest in trying to produce them by any means that I wish to conceal,” she said. “1 am willing to be put to any test that will not make me ridiculous, and T don’t care whether the iiianifestationscome or not. I have never tried to do any thing fraudulent in this matter. I believe that 1 am a medium of spir its. I cannot help it. 1 have a cer tain control over tiie influences, what ever they are; hut they generally control me. I made no attempt to deceive anybody, nor to do anythirm that does not come spontaneously.” Little Johnny has peculiar views aslooriginal sin. Out* day, lie was about to he punished for some misde meanor, when lie pleaded: “It wasn’t me, mamma, dear; it was the had man!” “Well, Johnny, I am going to whip tiie bad man out of you.” “All, yes, but that'll hurt me more i than it will Hit* had man!” early date of thirty-three in 1181, and the head was de livered, as the Palladium of Siena, to the keeping of the convent of tiie maiden Polissena, who when sent to win hi in back to the world, had instead been won by him to give herself to a life of religion. A magnificent reliquary of gold enamel was subsequently made for it, of such exquisite workmanship that it was long supposed to he Byzan tine, but Count Peed has traced it satisiactorily to the hand of Giovanni da Bartolodi Maestro Ere li, a brother of the painter, an arafo (goldsmith), who was much in Rome, hut was working in his native Siena in 3137. It is still in a perfect stale of preservation, as is the head of St. Galgauo with in it. The metal cover winds up and down with a key by a clever mechan ism, which was kept in order for five hundred years, and exposes the head to view in an inner case ofglass. The face is little more than a skull, with the skin tightly dried, hut the head is all covered with hair, and curls hang over the temples and brow. 'Plus iiair is all said to grow (the curls more than tiie rest), ami is regularly cut about every three years, Tn one of the numerous confrater nity chapels this same Siena, delight ful for its mediieval remains, gaunt and expressive, though not pleasing, crucifix, of which the tale is likewise that the hair grows, some devoted person having hequeuthed liis scalp to it, according to one legened. Particles of the shorn hair were in each case readily given me; hut that, of course, proves nothing But the good faith of tiie simple people con cerned makes one loathe to ascribe it to a deception. The passage quoted above about the body of Lord Craw ford suggests that the Dalian proeess of embalming is favorable to the growth of iiair after death. How do you heftvo tiie lead, and how can you tell how much bottom you have under you?” The old sailor’s pipe had gone out, hut,after firing upand freshening tiie nip, lie continued: “There are certain designations on a hand lead line termed by seamen marks and deeps. The line is usually twenty fathoms, ami the lead weighs five to nine pounds. A deep sea lead weighs from twenty live to forty pounds. The first two fathoms are leepa, and are not usually marked, except when vessels habit ually come into shoal water. Tiie third fathom is marked generally l>y three leather tags. Tiie fourth fathom is a deep, and not marked. At the fifth fathom is a white flannel or linen rag. The sixth fathom is a deep, and the seventh has a red mark of hunting, flannel or calico. Tiie eighth and ninth fathoms are de p ps, and tiie tenth is marked by a piece of leather witli a round hole in it. Tiie eleven tli is marked with one tag of leather or knot, the twelftii with two tugs of leather, and the thirteenth with three tags of leather, hut tho fourteenth is a deep and always was. The fifteenth fath om is a mark witli a white rag of any material, a piece of your shirt, per haps. Tiie next four fathoms are all deeps. Tiie twentieth fathom is a mark witli a piece of lether witli two holes dug out, or a rope wove in with two knots. Beyond tliis nothing hut a deep sea lead, with a ship hove to, can give a captain or a pilot any cor rect idea of the water he has under him In olden times, before the days of steamers, vessels had to lie far bet ter posted as to their distance from shore than the modern steamer. She can get off shore under almost auy circumstances, hut the sailing vessel dared not venture often to come within less than twenty miles of alec shore. To know all those marks, tell by tiie lead, which lias a little tallow at its end to catch the sand or mud over which you may lie passing, what kind of bottom you have under you, and to heave tin* lead properly, above all things is indeed the task of a skilled seaman. Every one almost has heard of the skipper who plied between Boston ami Nantucket. No? Well, he had iu his cabin a flower pot filled with eartli from Nantucket. He boasted In* could tell where lie was always by tasting the bottom of the lead. Well, one night he bowsed up Ills jib pretty well, and a passenger put the bottom of ilie lead into the flower pot, and after pretending to heave it handed it to the captain. The captain tasted it as usual, and then ran wildly up tin* companion way on deck, exclaim ing. ‘Let go the anchor, Nautucket’ sunk, and here we are right over my old woman’s garden.’ As a matt of fact, steamers run along this coast commanded by men whose almost only guide is the lead. They heave it continuohsly day and night, as is done on men-of-wa whether there appears to he any n cessity for it or not. Take a steumc regularly plying between here and Savannah for Charleston, for stance. Her captain has to run that vessel, leaving New York at a eertai hour of a certain day and the Houtl ern port similarly, and he is expected to arrive at a certain liourof anothei day. If the weather he fine lie ha* no difficulty. The coast along wine! he runs closely, is well lit witli light houses, and he knows every one ol them. But if the weather he foggy, with no chanca to see a light or make an observation, then it becomes nec essary for that captain to know what bottom lie has beneath him and what it tells him, and he can’t tell that uu less lie heaves liis lead in line weath mate he yells ‘Heave!’ The chap on the forecastle chucks the lead over, and sings out. ‘Wat-c-b!’ Eaclt man, as the lead comes under him and the Hue taut repeals the cry, and finally It get’s plumb up and down under the mate.” “What does he do?” “Do!” cried the old sailor indig nantly, evidently exasperated by his recollections, aud taking a regular second mate’s nip to sooth himself; “why he goes into tiie pilot house and warms himself, aud tells us poor devils to haul iti the wet Hue, tug ging like an elephant, and bring the lead to him, ami then he tells us to go and heave it again, and not so much in tiie whole watch as a snif ter to keep us warm. Tt’s all very fine ashore, that song. To heave the lead the seamen sprung, ami to the pilot cheerily sung, by the deep sea nine,’ hut when I sing It T think of lark nights, wet, clothes, and half frozen Angers.” Ailvrnmre Willi n Mar Fi*li. California Times.I I was once a diver-—not a wrecker, hut a pearl-diver—aud hard business it was,” recently observed tiie captain of a Spanish brig to a reporter of tiie Times. “We worked off the Mexican and Panama coasts, principally on the Pacific side. We went to the grounds in small sailing vessel*; then we took to the small boats, ami cov ered as much ground as possible. Each man had a basket, a weight and a knife. For sharks? Yes; hut it is a poor defense, for it is almost impos sible to swing the arm with any force under water. The best weapon is short spear. When you reach the ground you strip, put your feet in a big sinker, take tiie basket that, lias a rope for hoisting, drop over, aud soon find yourself at the bottom. Then your business is to knock off as muny oysters as you can and pile them into’the basket before you loose your wind. If the ground is well stocked you can get twenty or more shells, but it is all luck. When -he basket is full it is hauled up, aud after you come up for your wind down you go again, the sinker beiug haul ed up witli a small cord for that pur- 3, It was on one of these trips that L ran afoul of animal that gave me a lasting fright. You will smile when I say it was only a star fish, hut that it really was. 1 went down sixty feet witli a rush, and, landing on tiie edge of a big branch of coral, swung off into a sort of basin. Tho basket went ahead of me, and as I swung off to reacli tiie bottom some thing seemed to spring up all around me, and 1 was in the arms of some kind ofa monster that coiled about my body, arms, and legs. 1. tried to scream,’forgetting that. I was in the water, and lost tny wind. It was just as if a plant had sprouted under me, and then threw its vines and tendrils about me. There were thousands of them, coiling aud writhing, and Iliad landed in a nest oi sea snakes, [gave tho signal as soon as 1 could ami made a break upward, part of tiie creature clinging to me, while the I could see was dropping to pieces. They hauled me into the boat when I reached the surface, and pulled the main part of tiie animal from me. It was oval, about three feet across, and the five arms seemed to divide into thousands of others. I probably landed on top of that one, which ut that time was the largest I had ever seen. I afterwards saw the body of one that washed ashore on tiie isthmus that must iiave had a spread of thirty-five feet.” Typhoid Fever in New Eng land,—It has long been a popular idea, and shared to a considerable ex tent by physicians, that typhoid fever is antagonistic to malarial fevers, and that a population or a lo cality that is affected to much ex tent by one of these diseases will lie comparatively free from tiie other. There seemed to he some confirma tion of tliis idea in this city in the full of 18.81, when there was much less typhoid fever than usual for the season, and a great amount of mala rial fevers. The present season there has been much more typhoid fever than usual in the city, and at tiie same time there lias been considerable malarial disease. This lias led, perhaps, to the mixed or “mongrel” character of many cases reported as typhoid fever. There lias beeu, apparently, a tendency of malarial diseases to take on a typhoid character, giving rise to cases of “typlio-malarial” fever so- called. There is, however, a portion of the city and of the adjoining town to Johnson in which, we are informed by physicians, there Iiave been tliis summer and fall 200 or more cases of true malarial fever, and in those families not a case of typhoid fever. But tiie great increase ot typhoid fever this fall has been very general in tliis state, and in Connecticut aud Massachusetts, ami especially in those portions of these states where true malarial fevers have most prevailed in past years. This change from ma larial to typhoid fever has been uo> ticed at other times and in other places, and is supposed to indicate that the malarial fevers that have been so prevalent for some years past are disappearing This has been specially noted in the state of Con necticut, where the wave of malaria began some years before it appeared in this state.— Troridcnce (/'. /. Jaurnat. Tin erb v’hieh *r, to of le After chewing ; and lighting his pipe again, th i peel ■ old **'ti !■ res •d : ■ailed \n old chap who heaved the lead-every two hours, and tough work it was in cold weather. He knew every inch of the coast. It is a peculiar const, shoaling gradually, witli a very marked bot tom and not a pebble from Montauk Point to Hunly Hook. If you are in side the mud holes on the Jersey- coast you get pebbles. Then it, un certain of your position in tiie fog, you tack to tiie east ward, you go sud denly into twenty-live to forty fath oms. If in doubt, you still keep to tiie eastward, and you shoal your water again, and you know where you are, and go hack to tiie mud holes, and steer N. N. \\\, and come into Port Jauuuck. But the hardest and most difficult work is having a lead on a steamer going ten knots an hour on a cold night ill March in the British chan nel. One chap stands ou tin* fore castle with tiie lead. Then every fif teen or twenty feet apart men are stationed along the Hide of the steam er to the mate, who stands way aft. These chaps hold bights of tiie line, ho as to be reaily to clear it in case of its fouling. When all’s ready tiie Ally the says What can lie done at any time i ever done,” and applies > a class who have become slaves to procrastination, and that the habitual postponing of everything that is not compelled by necessity to be done immediately. Now, delays are not dangerous to the preset delays are not dangerous to the it prospects, but tlnV are de ultii; Tin truetivi slightest pretext is sufficient I*»r him to disappoint you. If an employe, the sooner he is discharged the great er the advantage to the employer. There are those who may properly be called “afternoon men.” They arc always busy getting ready to go to work. In tiie morning they walk around, carefully iuspeet their duties, and say: “Plenty to do to-day. I must go to work this afternoon!’’ About o’clock they survey what they havn’t done, and exclaim : “One tiling and another h: vented me from making any in today; I’ll quit, aud begin and early in the morning.” one day with them Is simply tiie rctlec** tiou of another. There is nothing ac complished in a whole life and their western sun overtakes them and finds no preparations for the wants ami inflrmaties of age. There is nothing to look hack upon hut squan dered time. One hour’s exercise iu the morning loosens the muscles of tiie limbs, sets the blood dancing iu the veins and tits a man physically ami mentally for the day’s activity; while one hour’s sloth after breakfast produces a torpor from which HI is almost imposr-ible to rally. is pre- ftt'lwuy

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Columbus daily enquirer-sun. (Columbus, Ga.) 1877-1886, December 07, 1882, Image 1