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VOLUME XXV.
(foment of Russia is building
hail * < ro,s Siberia to the Pacific
Here w ill be 4000 miles of track
t river transportation.
atk> mile* of
rr
to recent telegram from
L Canada, it is stated that 125,
Lack Lo Canadians crossed the bor
the United States during the
1S-9.
Lai punishment docs not seem to
ascii of :i preventive against the rise
| u ,i,mists in Central America,
faring up and are shot down with
■Aablr regularity
Xorio-'iias are said to be the
,
apt- live I people iu the world. Offi
Utto show that the average dura
fa of lift’ in Norway is 48.33 for the
[ -tad 51.30 for the women, and 40.77
[both **es.
Iflie ecu' flags which are now used by
fa present Government of Brazil were
Lrei ia Paris last summer, and many
I the plans for the declaration of the
Lblic are said to have been discussed
L during the exhibition.
{Cigarettes are dangerous even to full
A Philadelphian thirty-five
bald was recently sent to the insane
inn. Tic physicians investigated his
fa and agreed that his insanity was
Lj by smoking cigarettes.
fcOhicago man is being denounced in
■type as “a hog” because he won't
it!)tiie city of Sacramento, Cal., the
id t!;c blockhouse built by Captain
■A. Sutter seven years' before the
■every of gold there. The Sacra
■to folk - want it lor a memorial park.
■maiitii: story comes from Kaloska,
togary. A young pupil entered a
parr to prepare for the priesthood
■ lived exactly the same life as the
igmen on the premises. The Cardi
I suspic i“’.is were aroused, and it
fowl dial the pupil was a lady,
■ Mid that she desired to become a
|uw feta'd. substitute for tobacco is being
It is a mixture of British
if-tlie particular plants are kept se
B-ttid smokers who have tried the
■bid declare it to he deliciously
feat, slightly exhilarating, and withal
pn; to the nerves. Combined with
fey tobacco it is said to make a blend
■factory as that of chicory with cof
Iwt Mu li a blend is illegal and
■Sable by very heavy tine.-'. At pres
ps prepared in Scotland, under the
P of “herb tobacco," and it has
Pi grown in favor.
■ small hoy at Marshall, 111., has
F n diriment which would be a
■thing for genera! adoption He
piety liis tough urchin, and together
little brother got so bad that
p*BS]ii.vple decided to send him to a
pscnool, so he was arrested on an
P®k' e theft and advised 1 o plead
■- The little fellow stoutly main
.
P his innocence of this particular
■ mid. while acknowledging that he
pt'i -ii tothe reform school, declined
guilty to something he had not
I lie won the sympathy of both
fektors and the court, and was
I iii- hinged.
tcharia is beginning to be felt by
tt *ug«r manufacturer as a danger
my. It is stated that in Ger
P' of 1 much saccharin has
as to render 5000 tons of beet
R ar su'H-rti'iuii--. It is principally em
ilR'l in tii preparation of fruits and
P production of sweet liquors, It is
ft a food stuff. Indeed, declares a eon
PHxirary, it. ims been condemned by
pteat riwliai medical authorities as directly
fearers to health, The sugar mami
!m of tlic opinion that sac
P«,n shone! only be sold by chemists.
[ rating Iia| y and Portugal are already
imposing a tax upon it.
number of the bulletin of
Horticultural Department of the
pWnlturnl experiment Station of the
fell i ge ot Agriculture of Cornell Uni
f tomato is put through a sort of
r -'rvi".• examination. The scale of
;l perfect tomato, says the
t wi ”l ,ro *»bly run about thus:
hriiu Plant........ 5
-
fruit... >• .. 10
<4 fruit. 5
"fWruit. .. 20
fruit..... .. 20
i navoi- .. 10
Ptefiveaess,..... S** ’Polities..... 6 0
20
100
Th
of the gold aud
Tte row held by the United States
‘“Wry tor ms the subject of inquiry by
5 cortes
of^/^-tof * W ! he finds a 'hot mathematical turn
'he s-. u the weight oi
the silve't!!! t0US t0DS ° f 2000 I P° unds » and
fciighw - acting it along
it- ‘if Bn’., ' cor 'l "’ood is packed,
J *°uld make barricade
8 ‘>! four a four
45 feet thick for » di ata o
f <*t. and to„ ,
’ r S1 it’ , similarly
sixths TFfYtoij 1 ex * e,1( * 4248 feet,
nf ‘-tmile. or five
It packed in carte nn.
.‘^thirty-three , the procession ttldbe
mil ,0ng , of wluch
tbe k’uu-beanng onto , carts >
vrt,, ' haU would
* »*« the silver
-Ron ovenh i .
7 a quarter nulea.
CUBE EXT M,\Vs
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
Things that happen FROM DAY TO DAt
throughout the Will D, CULt.EE
prom VARIOUS sources.
Irani e, acting in accordance with Eng.
Pre"idem a of°l , Iayt , i. re '' 0gniZe “
Another nihilist j*lot against the czat
has been discovered in 8 t. Petersburg.
Several arrests have been made.
The iron finu of Curtin & Co., neat
Bellefonte, Pa., made an assignment
1 nureday. Liabilities about $200,000.
The French government intemts to en¬
force the legal penalty against 30(1 priests
convicted of meddling with elections.
Tile international maritime conference,
which has been in session in Washington
for some time, adjourned sine die Tues¬
day.
About fifty men attacked the temple ol
the faith healers, in Tuscola, Ill., Thurs¬
day, and smashed its windows with
stones.
of During the past ten months the imports
woolen goods amounted iu value to
the $47,107,423, against $44,010,890 during
same months of 1889,
The conductors’ and switchmen’s strike
oti the Evansville and Terre Haute, and
Evansville and Indianapolis roads, of the
Mackey system, still continue.
grrested Twenty-two Russian officers have been
society, charged with being memliers of
a secret the object of which is to
establish a constitutional monarchy.
A disastrous fire occurred on Tuesday
at the industrial school in Weatham, Lon¬
don. Twenty-four lives were lost, The
buildings were almost totally destroyed.
The Berlin Tagblatt says it has infor¬
mation that Dr. Peters and the members
of his party are certainly alive and that
the expedition is marching between Kenia
and Baringo.
A dispatch received from Oporto, Por¬
tugal, Saturday, says that the es-Em
press of Brazil, who has been visiting
Her that death city with Dom Pedro, died Saturday.
is supposed to have resulted
from heart disease.
The Academy' of Music, in the course
of erection at At. Eotiis, fell iu a heap at
10.30 o’clock Monday morning. Fifty
workmen were ia the building. A num¬
ber of them are missing, and firemen are
at work searching the ruins.
The Sioux chiefs, now iu Washington,
dian appeared before the commissioner of stated In¬
affairs on Wednesday, and
their dissatisfaction with the schools at
Hampton and Carlisle, and asked that
schools be established on the reservation.
It is stated that the steel trade of this
country is to be revolutionized by a
new hearth process steel cheap for making open than
Bessemer steel. as or cheaper
A test was made a few
days fairly ago at Pittsburg, Pa., which was
satisfactory to those interested.
It is estimated at the treasury depart¬
ment that there lias been a decrease of
nearly ing tiie $4,000,000 in the public debt dur¬
month of December. Reduction
for the calendar year, ending Tuesday,
is $81,481,253, against $91,530,148 for
the calendar year of 1888 .
At Rochester, N. V., on Tuesday, the
general term of the fifth department
handed down a decision in the ease of
Kcmmler, the murderer condemned to
death under the new law providing for
execution of criminals by electricity,
which tiie court holds to be constitutional.
from Intelligence Oboe, the has French been isceived lenient at Paris, Ta
se‘t on
jurah Bay, on the east coa 4 of Africa,
that two French missionaries who were
traveling from Zeiltth to Ilarrar. under es¬
cort natives of eight Greeks, were attacked murdered. by
and all the party were
Alderman W. II. Porter and Constables
Shephard. Parker and Carney, were con¬
victed at on of
conspiracy to defraud. This makes five
aldermen convicted of selling receiving money to
settle illegal liquor serving cases. in The
others are now terms the
workhouse.
The four-story brick house of James
Bergchian, National Sale and Exchange
stables, at Baltimore, caught fire Tuesday.
There were seventy-five horses in the
place when the tire was discovered. All
were rescued save ten on the third floor.
The property destroyed insured. was valued
at $30,000, and was fully
The Equitable Lite Assurance society ot
New York, reports for the year a new
business of one hundred aud seventy-five
million dollars, tiie largest business writ¬
ten by any company in 1889. The Out¬
standing assurances of the society now
exceeds $025,000,000, the assets are
$105,000,000, and its surplus $22,51*0,000.
A test was made Tuesday ol the elec¬
trical machine purchased by the state of
New York for putting murderers to death.
A horse was killed in less than half a min¬
ute, and without the animal struggling.
The doctors who witnessed the experi¬
ment arc entirely satisfied that the ma¬
chine will produce instantaneous death.
Employes of Carnegie's Homestead steel
works, at Pittsburg, Pa., have been noti¬
fied by tiie firm that the new scale of wa¬
ges will go into effect immediately. The
advance 111 wages will average about H
cents per ton. These figures A scale were has given not
bv one of the workmen. the
been arranged, but will be be ore
month expires.
Dr Barboza, tbe Brazilian minister, es¬
timates that the total expenditure for
1890 will be 08,000,000 milrels; that the
treasury balance will be 62 , 000 , 000 , and
that the balance from the interior loan
will cover the deficit and allow the com¬
pletion of interior contracts. The public
debt is 1,012,000,000 milrels. The par
value of a milrel is about 56 cents.
A Chicago dispatch, of Saturday, says;
States Attorney Longnecker makes public
the information that he has seemed con
siderable evidence against four or five
cther men who were suspected of com
pllcity in the Cronin murder and that he
might, before long, take steps to bar e
them indicted and broughKto trial. _ I
declines to mention their names.
The exports of specie from the port ol
New York last week amounted to $< . 0 ,^
968, of which $64,349 was in go 1 * n
$706,019 in silver. Of the total export
$'04,392 in silver went to Enrop . to
all the sold and * 3.227 in silver went
South America. The imports of ‘
for the week amounted to $1 V
which $123,850 was in gold and -,4
® «Uver.
Topeka, .. KtW- say*
A dispatch Alliance, from State Grat. y-ud
The Farmers' formed
Knights of Labor there have iiceonlure
< ffeasive and defensive alliance hum
to the recommendation of the recent
m ng onvent j on ftn d Knights oi Labor con-
“MY COUNTRY: MAY SUB EVER RE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY I” —Jkjttkmon.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. 1890.
'ntton. The object at the combination
> co-operation in Kansas business and
po lties. Hie combined alliauces numbci
m their ranks over 125,000 members.
A dispatch of Tuesday, from Loving
"U. UL. savs: Great excitement prevail?
here over 01 attempt of male members of
tUc . 1 nteeost
> band to decoy two highly
respected was almost girls from their homes. r There A-..
a riot at the depot when the
faith healers tried to take the girls with
them against the wishes of their friends,
amt knives and revolvers were shown,
me feeling against the faith healers runs
very high.
The western passenger rate w ar is now
tairl.v . . begun.
Reduced rates from St.
u ,0 Chicago went into effect Tliurs
! j a N, *ml to make the light interest
tho more
ro.-id ba* Milwaukee «»*<} >4$. p*iu]
orOetcii » c.ut of *2.50 in thf
first-class rate from Kansas City to Chica¬
go. I lie evident object of the cut is tc
punish the Burlington and Quincy for the
action of tho Burlington and Northern.
Four hundred youth-, composing the
< lucago advance Press Feeders’ union, struck for
an of pay on Monday. They
were two receiving hour:-' from $7 to $!) a week, anil
gave notice of a demand fot
$10.50. Except in one instance, the de¬
mand was refused. The strike affect*
only local and job printing offices. The
(niployers decided to unitedly fight the
strikers’ demands.
A dispatch from Nebraska City, Neb.,
says: has been \\ Simpson, charged ex-county treasurer,
zling the funds arrested, with embez¬
of the county. Simpson
had completed a four years’ sentence on a
similar charge,his term expiring Tuesday,
when he was arrested on two othei
counts. The total amount of Simpson’s
embezzlement will never be known, but a
shortage of $ 88,000 was found.
Pay Clerk Jones, of the Government
marine corps, disappeared from Washing
ton Christmas night, and on examination
of his accounts shows them to have been
falsified and a default of $2,500 has been
discovered. The matter has been placed
in the hands of the police. The loss falls
• fine Major Goodloe, paymaster of the ma
corps, and his bondsmen, Joncs
tried to create the impression that lie had
committed suicide, hut that is now
doubted.
THE “LA GRIPPE.”
INFLUENZA RAPIDLY SPREAD
JNG or Ell THE COUNTRY.
MANY NORTHERN CITIES INVADED—ONE
TIHItD OF Tl F, POPULATION OF PARIS
DOWN WITH Tt:E PLAGUE.
Tlic Russian influenza, the genuine
ble "LaGrippe,” head Chicago, has shown itself and proba¬
in and already a large
number of cases have been reported. All
of these cases have shown unmistakable
signs of Russian influenza, and some of
them have developed into very serious
ones. The “Gripjie” is officially ignored
at the sanitary headquarters in New York
City. Unofficially, the reprt sentatives of
the health department say' that probably
50,000 people in New York are suffering influ¬
from more or less severe attacks of
enza, but they refuse to give it official
r cognition. The disease seems to have
found a goodly number of victims among
th ■ employes of the New York postofficc.
Saturday’s absentees in the general office
numbered sixty-five, and in many instan¬
ces persons on the sick list were lettei
assorters. Eighty-one members of the
Brooklyn police force grippe. are reported to be
suffering with the
The recent mortality influenza, in Paris, is from follows: the
ravages of the a*
Wednesday, The 318; Thursday, 398; Friday,
344. sudden drop Friday from the figures
of Thursday to those of is taken as
nn evidence that the dreaded epidemic is
on the wane.
A prominent “There physician fully of Philadelphia
says: being are 25,000 persons now
in this city treated for influenza in
some form or other. All classes of citi¬
zens are among
of the leading business men of the
city have been compelled to absent them¬
selves from their places of business on ac¬
count of the grippe.”
The disease has also made its appear¬
ance ic Detroit, Boston, Baltimore, City. New
Brunswick, N. J.. and Kansas At
Detroit over five thousand are down with
the disease. Fifty officers policemen, and their more assistants, thaf
half the city’s and there is hardly
jre laid up, a store or
factory woiking in force the city eoriously whose clerical crippled. and
is not
DIAGNOSIS OF THE INFLUENZA.
The Medical Nam, suddenly: of Philadelphia, says.,
Influenza comes ar.d goes as quick;
lenrt robust at nuy age women seem
to be its first victims. It is here n ques¬
tion of condition not of sex. The large
numbers simultaneously attacked attracts
general attention and thus those most im¬
pressionable arc seized, the emotion, onset bring like
facilitated by any depressing is rigor,
fear or illness. There no prop¬
erly to be thus designated, but rather a
series of chills and a feeling of heat there¬
with, sometimes malaise of a general itself, kind
is experienced, but, like tbe attack
is of short duration, lasting but nasal a and few
hours. With the first access of
facial irritation, come a chilliness, which
is followed by some feverishness with
more pronounced malaise, and and in a gen¬
eral headache, weakness soreness of
the members, and especially of the larger
joints. With the progress of the case in
some epidemic, there is considerable gen¬
eral weakness, even a marked depression
of the vital powers. The pulse becomes
small, and the mind gloomy and rest¬
lessness ensure. When a fatal termina¬
tion is to occur, ”« s “de, an extension
downward into the trachea and bronchi
takes pla ce. __
horse THIEVES at work.
BEGULARLY ORGANIZED BAND OPERAT¬
A TENNESSEE.
ING IN
What amountsto panic exists among
the farmer^ ^.{ Tennessee ho^se'thievre A snlen
counties didly in " '' ' >^ d ^ trtlL has
been °l without
” u ; estimated that
let h cf s
or ^ two weeks 200 horses
within to!en an( i Tlm j nto
„
‘»' e where it is next to
Kemuts^ , fustne? scs, them the thieves.
l ^ follotv or
v one of these animals has been recov
Ao_ n H. Jackson, of the famous
^ Colonel Jolm Overton
^f^WkeriUs Poiic Meade farm. preparing farm
are a
SSO eiation. which, with an abundance
3 back it, will employ an ade
m0ueV to force annihilate
& competent to
robbers.
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new ra Dr’ *lrn
«*«10one. Its ,«
i have.Wis an4U
will be the tergert ever mint.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
which are happening Relow ma¬
son's and imxos's line.
The Times-Democrat pronounces the
gravel ind roads of New Orleans roads a success, which
far first preferable tried, to the shell
were
There were 1,140 negro exodusters on ;
special train that left Wilmington, N.
Thursday night, alt save fifty going tc
Goldsboro Mississippi. Thousands more will leave
at once.
vviiPe ronr boys, between the ages oi
six and eight years, were playing undei
She edge of a sand bank in Jackson,
Tenn.i on Tuesday, the bank caved in,
burying them under about ten feet ol
sand. They were dead when extricated.
At Richmond, Ya.,ou Monday, Post
office inspector G. W. Wilde arrested
Janies P. Wright, n letter carrier in the
Richmond postoffire, charged with rob
iiing mails. A portion of a Wright rifled letter
was found on bis person. was
formerly a Methodist minister,
returning A team of fine wedding horses drawing a party
from a in Chattanooga,
Teun., Tuesday night, ran into a broker
telephone wire that had been crossed witk
fin electric light wire. Both horses wen
killed and the driver was knocked sense¬
less by the shock. The incident created
great excitement.
The store of W. T. Massey & Co., at
Lincolnton, The stock, N. C\, was burned Saturday.
valued at #15,000 to $20,000,
was a total loss. Seventy bales of cotton
stored in the basement were burned, but
that loss is covered by insurance, The
brick building valued at $ 8,000 was a
total wreck. No insurance.
Sales of new leaf tobacco in the Dan¬
ville, Va., market for the past three
months was 8,437.443 pounds, an increase
over of 4.357,532 the same pounds. period of the previous manufac¬ year
tured tobacco for the Output 1880
year was
7,532,854 pounds, an increase over the
previous year of 2,251,771 pounds.
Louisville, The Kentucky legislature organized at
Monday. Governor Buckner’s
message shows the defalcation of Treas¬
urer Tate to be $174,094. After all
credits by sale of his property are deduct¬
ed, and accounts vet unsettled will fur¬
ther reduce this to about $150,000, and
this amount is to be collected from his
bondsmen.
R. W. Austin, of Decatur, Ala., was
Appointed receiver of the First National
bank of Sheffield. Ala., by the United
States court on Tuesday, and filed his
bond in the sum of $100,000. Austin
was formerly assistant doorkeeper of the
house of representatives, was at one time
proprietor of the Knoxville Chronicle.
A terrific explosion of gas occurred in
a two-story brick building, corner Elisian
Felds and Victory streets. New Orleans,
Monday, demolishing two buildings and
burying six persons beneath the debris,
but by the heroic efforts of the firemen
and police they were rescued without se¬
rious injuries. Many window glasses in
adjacent buildings were shattered by the
force of the explosion.
Fannie Bryant, the negro woman con¬
victed as the accomplice of Dick Hawes
in the murder of his w ife and children at
Birmingham, Ala., was on Monday sent
to the penitentiary to serve out a life sen¬
tence. Her ease was appealed in the bill to the of su¬
preme court, but errors ex¬
ceptions threw it out of court. The wo¬
man refused to make any statement before
leaving the jail;
Mrs. Maria Louise Longs! reef, consort
of Gen. James Longstreet, died at Gaines¬
ville, Go., on Monday. Mrs. Longstreet several
had been confined to her room
months find bore her suffering resignation. patiently Her
and with Christian
maiden name was Garland, a daughter United of
General John Garland, of the
and a citizen
of Virginia. She was born on the 16tb
day of March, 1827, at Fort Suelling,
"Minn., and was married to General Long¬
street in Lvnchburg, Va., on March 8 th,
1848.
A special from Birmingham, Ala., says
A frightful accident, resulting in tin
death of two men ami the injury morning of twen¬
ty the others, occurred Thursday Birmingham on
Bricrficld. Blockton and
railroad, folly miles south of that city.
An unfinished trestle, about two hundred
feet long; and from twenty-five to fifty
feet Irish, fell, carrying down with it
twenty-three carpenters who were at work
on the structure. Carl Clark aud David
J. Webb, two of the carpenters at work
on the trestle, were killed, and twenty
others injured. There were numerous
broken legs, libs ami amis, and several
of the injured may die.
A HOLOCAUST.
A LONDON SCHOOI.nOUSK RUUNEP-TWENTT
SIX BOYS PERISH IN THE FLAMES.
A London dispatch says. Tiie boys’
section of Papers' school, in the district of
Forest Gate, in connection with White
Chapel Wednesday and night, Popular while Unions, the inmates took fire
were
asleep, ilni'l was burned, with terrible re¬
sults, twenty-six of the boys, who were in
the upper stories, being suffocated before
they could be rescued. Fifty-eight burning other
boys Were safely taken from the
building, amid terrible excitement. Two
of the matrons of the institution escaped
in safety by sliding down the waterpipes.
Several of the boys escaped iu the school same
way. The superintendent flames repeatedly of the and
rushed through number the of inmates. There
brought out a iu the institution. The
were 600 persons
fire was started by the overheated stove.
The female department, in which were
250 girls, was not touched. The boys re¬
tired in the highest sjiirits, having been
promised presents at the New Year’s fete
on the morrow. The scenes in the main
hall, where the bodies of the dead boys
lav. were harrowing.
TAXING RAILROADS.
THE IS ORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATIVE COM¬
MITTEE INVESTIGATING TLE MATTER.
A joint committee was appointed by
ihc last legislature of North Caro
lina to examine into the matter of taxing
railways, it which claim exemption from the
iax is an important matter, as
two largest railways, among others, claim
exemption. The committee will confer
with the attorney-general. There is a
large and powerful element :n the slate
which is clamorous for a railway commi
sion, and also for the payment of taxes by
all rail* ays. The .Fanners' Alliance wall
. *peak these subjects. It will be
on an is
*ue in the next legislature.
BUSINESS REVIEW
HIE WEATHER MAKES SEVERAL BRANCHES
OF TRADE VERY DULL.
H. <r. Dunn A Company's weekly re¬
view of trade, says: A pause in business
is usual at the end of the year, but this
year the unseasonable weather and much
pressure for money at the East, make*
dullness border on the depression. While
the prospects for the future are generally
regarded w ith great confidence, the pres¬
ent state of the trade is not <p"'e satisfac¬
tory, mid in some notions oi
the oomitry delay of collections cause*
fear of commerced embarrassments.
The holiday business lias been large at
nearly "very point reporting. The move¬
ment of, ^ainat Chicago date, continue* equal
to that i' last year to with an in
, reuse ol fifty per cent, in beef products,
receipts , -ef butter nearly doubled, and «
slight iurease j n lard, but some decline
in cheese, wool and hides. The grocery
trade reports a proapK-rous year, but very
light tapes at present. 1 he papey trade is
also light and collections there slow. At
Boston, all the wholesale trade lias been
quiet, but some retailers report holiday
lint steady, and*hidrs,^leather amUbSS
and shore The moving fairly at unchanged
prices. weak points of the Mtmti*
are those trades which are un^t affected
anthracite by two successive mittl is* %iiBers. The
coal trade stagnajf in
the absence of demand, AmRflu; sipatidn thin
is almost without precedent. Afore
half the Reading coal mines -baveariosed,
throwing and eight it is thousand that miners out of
work, stated twenty thous¬
and time. miners The are bituminous working on three-quarters 1*
coal trade more
active but lacking cam. No definate re¬
lief in the woolen goods business can lie
expected caused Until prolonged cold weather
has a well--sustaiiie<Met 8 altd. and
tho clothing necessarily business in depend,to all pails of the
country must a grout
extent, less extent, upon the mony-Hfftner waHUJkr. kinds To a of greater bus!
or
ness aps'disturbed find Sometimes put to
strain by the absence of demand
incident to the seasjBrtoaud in. all quar¬
ters the delay of eoirPefkm is tint. On
the other hand, the iron business
continues to prosper. Prices are very firm
at Philadelphia, and $19.50 is qTioted fot
number one. Sales of 35,000 tons steel
rails are reported, $30.35 w ith the Chicago. price steady at
$35 cast, and at Bar
iron is firm at 2 cents, and confidence in
the future is in all branches of- the iron
and steel business unditninished. In the
speculative markets there has been little
change, except in corn, which has dropped
2 J cents, with stiles of 11 , 000,000 bushels.
Coffee a quarter higher, and with "miles steady. of
only 100,000 batffff according- cotton
November export*, to official
reports just completed, exceed imports
by the unprecedented York, in stmt Dsbcmber, of $34,403,710,
and at New exports
show a decrease of 5.1 per cent., whilo
importsincrease this the 22 per of cent. Rut for even the
at rate, would excess exports
whole country be over $ 10 , 000 , 000 .
The treasury is so conducted as to sustain
the money market as easy as practicable,
and $3,200,000 has been paid out in ex¬
cess of receipts this week. But the move¬
ment of $70,000,000 cash from smith the treas¬
ury and banks to the west and since
August 1st, makes the present stringency
by no means surprising. during Business failures
throughout the country last week
number, for the United States 249, Cana¬
da 39. Total 288 failures, against 343
last week.
SOUTHERN HISTORY.
PAPERS BEAD BEFORE THE AMERICAN
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Tlic American Historical association,
which lias been holding devoted its annual Tuesday, meet¬ the
ings at Washington, hearing
last of its session, to papers on
southern history. Among these, was one
entitled, “Materials for tlic Study of the
Government of the Southern Confeder¬
John Osborne of
Harvard university. He stated that much
of this material of value had been de¬
stroyed during the dosing scenes of the
war. Documents were also preserved
which are not yet accessible. There were
many executive messages and de¬
partmental reports obtainable mid
journals of tlic confederate congress
are said to be in existence. After some
refetenee to the histories written by Jef¬
ferson l)avis and Alexander It. Stephens
as well as to other recent w orks, the paper
dosed with a plea for information as to
the existence and whereabouts of docu¬
ments bearing upon confederate history
that are as yet unprinted. delivered The by final Professor paper
of the session was
William E. Trent of the University of the
South, Pcwanee, Tcnn., comprising historical a
icrire of notes on the outlook for
itudies in history. He gave an account of
i great collection of materials for a south
mi history now being made in various New York,
iketehed the condition of state
historical societies in the south, deploying
the lack of public enthusiasm in the work,
but receive citing reasons attention why historic duties will
expressing more the in the future, aird
Hope t 4 *»rfc wn t Ucn of r"irtmA/rj- all
nay be studied by the people sec¬
tions. _
FEEDING THE HUNGRY
WICHITA, KANSAS, REMEMBERING SUF¬
FERING FAUMEllS.
A train of eighteen cars left Wichita,
Kansas, Thursday night for the suffering
districts in Stevens, Morton, and Hodg
mar counties. The ears were loaded with
clothing and food. Reports recently re¬
ceived were to the effect that several
hundred persons arc suffering at present.
People at .the end of the railroad at Lib¬
eral aud vicinity were ready with wagons
to make au attempt to transport relief
from forty to seventy miles to where it is
needed. It is believed the weather may
get extremely cold and thus increase the
suffering.
THEY WILL REJOICE.
EUE ADVENT OF THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLH
TO BE CELEBRATED APRIL 7TII.
Letters and papers from Brazil, undei
(late of December 12th, say that the gov¬
ernment has urged all political kind parties of tc
constitute immediately different some states ic s
representation from the
view of the rapidly increasing disorgani the
zatiou and prevailing discontent with
military dictatorship. will be celebrated The advent April of^the .th.
republic Some citizens of Bio Janeiro are forming
t society to assure Dom Pedro an annuity
equivalent tothe interest on 15,000 centos.
It is Bill ,jwt Postmaster-General
Wannmaker means to recommend free
| in all places having 8 ,“00
uj^bitanta or $8,000 annual reports for
uostags,
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
The Pancake Season—A Disgusted
Tramp—Compensation—A Partial
Victory—Followed Instruc¬
tion, Etc., Etc.
Bridgent, Iwat the buckwheat batter.
Put the soapstone griddle on.
And trot out your biggest platter. drawn.
While the golden drips are
Put away the raid roast slices.
Give the garden truck the shake,
Fire the summer grub and ices.
And bring on the hot pancake.
By the frosts of atmosphere. early moraiqg,
We By the chilly warning
behold the walpome
That the pancake season’s here.
—Prank B. Welch, ia Time.
-
' erf inconsistent.
“Mamma, why do they bunt tigers
and lions”’
'QtfSfr , “B«a*. they ki|l the .poor .little
asks Tommy, after a 'moments!'
reflection, “why wellfwad**. don't they hunt the
as
1 *
A disgusted tramf.
Station Master—“Come, come, my
good man! You rausn't walk on the
track.”
Tramp (disgustedly)—“The conductor
says I can’t ride, and you say I can’t
walk. What's your blamed old road
here for, any wav ?”—Lowell Citizen.
COMPENSATION.
Little Boy—“Our cook has gone away,
and I'm awful glad. Now mamma will
have to make the cake,and mamma's cake
fc always heavy.” j
Guest—"Well, I declare! Do you
prefer heavy cake!”
• Little Boy—“Yes'ra. You get more
chewin’ iu one piece .”—Troy Times.
A PARTIAL VICTORY.
First Boy—“Oh, I got away with |
mother to-day. 8 he tried to make me
come in the house so she could whip me,
and I wouldn’t do it.”
Second Boy—“Bully for you! What
did she do.'” ' ,_I
“Oh, , ,, she whipped , . . but she had to
. —«<- • •>" me, >»"»i
FOLLOWED INSTRUCTION.
A young man, arraigned for stealing a
watch, pleaded guilty and said that, hav¬
ing been ill, the doctor told him to take I
something, which he did. The Judge
asked him why he took a watch.
time "Why, it would I thought work if a' cure,” only nature the had J
replied Leetger. rogue •
.—New York
ONLY HALF OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT.
“Doctor, will you let me knowhow
much I owe you?”
“Oh, my good woman, I know you
are npt in easy circumstances, I will not
charge you anything for my trouble?”
“Yes, that’s all very well; but who is
to pay the apothecary ?”—Fliegende Bluet
ter.
AFTER THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Clifton (Columbia, ’92)—"Sty arm is
broken, head cut and I’m generally
knocked to pieces, but I wouldn’t mind
it so much if I hadn’t promised my father
not to go to the races. ”
Rounds (Delmonico’s, ’71)—“That'll
be all right. Tell him you've been play¬
ing football.”— Puck.
ANOTHER QUESTION ANSWERED.
Distinguished Foreigner—“Do the
American humorous papers caricature
Public Man (savagely)—“Huh! Wei
haven't any humorous papers iu Amcr
j ca ”
Distinguished Foreigner (quietly)—
“Ah, they do, I see.”— Puck.
THF. KIND OF VAPKR HE STARTED.
Jones—“Hello, Smith; back from the
West again, eh! What did you do out
there?” .
Smith—“Started a paper.”
Jones—“Aha! What was the name of
it?”
Smith-—“A subscription paper to get
me back East again .”—Burlington Free j
Press. j
A CONSIDERATE youth. j j
Indignant Father of the Young Lady j
—“What! you, who have, never made ;
your own living, apply for the hand I
of my daughter!”
Would-be Bou-in-Law— 1 “Well, you;
see my own father i getting tired of sup- j
porting me, so I thought I’d look aronud ;
and give some other family a chance-”— ,
5rv *™- j
SHE FLAYED ;
OFTEN. ;
Mr, Hcnpeck—“De Poore, you're a
rueky dog. My wife says that when
your wife loses her temper she never says
a word, but goes to the piano and plays
a hymn time until she cools down, i
wish my wife would do that.” |
De Poore—“You’d change your mind
after you had paid out so much money ;
as I have getting the piano repaired.”—
Moon.
THE NOVEL AS SHE IS READ.
Minnie—“How do you like that book
I lent you, Julia?” j
Julia—“Well, I’ve only just begun it. I
but I’ve read the last two chapters and
had a peep into the middle, and it seems!
most Minnie—“It's interesting.”
You’ll a delightful book, cr'v, I
assure you. have a good I
know, before you get as faras the first
chapter—at least I did.”_ Pick-Me-Up
A NATl’RAL CHANGE.
“Maria, will yon p** the sugar?” said
Dc Boot to his wife at the breakfast table
just subsequent to along h connubial lee
ture.”
“Here it is. Before T, , we were married . ,
-■Him,oi. you.
h, lerve, . I°us Cry liftle
Now. you will e
pepper and vinega:. Washington
ital.
a limited xroNARcttv.
Mr. Bluff (host, at a little dinner of
1 male friends)->“Ves, gwMeam, I hold
m
every man should be master of his j
house. There is no other way.
as you are all through, the library gentlemen, for j j
we adjourn to a
Waggish Guest—“Why not smoke 1
in this grand old dining-hall 1 ’
Mr. Bluff—“Um-er-Mrs. Bluff won’t j ,
us .”—New York Weekly.
AS IN A LOOKING GLASS.
“Do you know," said Algernon, “your
face reminds me of a mirror, for I can sec
nothing m it but the truth.”
“Oh,” said Gertrude, “I thought you
were going to say that when you looked
in ray face you expected to see your
own.”
“Eh!” said Algernon, and then a great
light rime into his eyes, and lie cried.
“If yo* would ♦><; mv own!”
r*-*I wifi, " said Gertiu— PmL.
WHERE THE FUN WAS.
“There is one thing that always
strikes me as funny about your produc
tions,” said the editor tp the amateur
humorist sMd
the humorist, with
^
•‘Why, that you should think that
they are funny yoursetf,” said the editor;
and the pleased expression vanished like
turkey at a newsboy's dinner .—Somerville
Journal.
CARING FOR HER EVES.
“I don’t think we’ll go to Niagara on
our wedding trip, George, dear,” re¬
marked a Pittsburg girl to her intended
husband.
“Why, love 19*
“I fear it will injure our sight.”
“What do you mean?”
“Why, I believe that people who gaze
at the Falls get a cataract in their eye.”
George is considering whether or not
to break off the engagement. — Chronicle •
Telegraph.
TO ESCAPE TH* HGU8K.
Mrs. Kawler— r j 4 Why, Ijlow exquisitely
parlor is furnished dear! I think
those plush chairs are too sweet for any
f«" 1H 8 - c r ’ » that f J,! 1 great, " F'*{•?■ homely,
Mrs. w t^ayathomo-“Wby , . dear, that
« . my mouse chair. Dear Artnur com
plained that every chairs time seeing I jumped on one I
of the nice at & a mouse
rs,? , .. 1 " . . , , . . “oStaS ...
creatures now! Jump up here with me,
dear. ’ ’—Lawrence American.
HE DID NOT BORROW.
<<WiHjou do me a favor?” says young
Brook! to his wealthy friend,Simon Han
sorti.
1 ‘What is it*. George I” said Hansom.
l ‘I wish you to lend me a thousand
dollars, sir.”
“Call at my counting-house,” rejoined
Hansom.
George was not long iu paying his re
speets.
“What security can you give, young
gentleman.
“My personal security, here,” sir.
“Very well; get in says Han
soul, lifting up the lid of a large iron
chest.
“Get iu here!” exclaimed George, in
astonishment, “what for?"
“Why this is where I always keep my
personal securities.”
Ifc did not borrow the money.— St.
Louis Magazine.
The Ship of the Desert.
A burden camel can curry more than
half a ton of load, though of course not
at great speed. correspondent I have frequently of the Daily seen
them, says a
Saratoginn, loaded with 1500 or 1B00
pounds and moving off at a fair gait. An
load, under favorable circum-
is about 600 pounds, and this a
will carry easily, without pushing,
or thirty miles a day. in
Napier's campaign against Sinde
had an efficient corps of 1000 men
on 500 dromedaries, two men to
dromedary, both armed with rifles
sabres. In battle the animals were
to kneel in a square, under the
of 500 of the men, forming a base
of operations, from which the other 500
operated as infantry. extremity the thousand
In case of men
could find shelter behind the animals,
which were prevented from rising by a
on the fore leg. This corps fre
marched seventy miles in twelve
I have heard some remarkable
of the speed of dromedaries. An
. 4 rail told me he had traveled 000 mile
a wte k on the back of his delool, but
this was simply an example of the Oriental
habit of amplification. It is true, liow
eyer, that while a hersu can outrun a
dromedary in a short race, the latter will
take a load of 400 or 500 pounds and
ma kehis fifty miles a day for a month.
A.n odd thing in camel driving is that
they must not be pushed. They will set
their own gait, moving slowly where the
road is unfavorable and making up lost
time of their own volition on the good
stretches. The camel has one great ad
vantage over a horse. He can live off
anything like a goat. He browses 011
every shrub and plant that grows, even
the thistle and the prickly pear. He can
also travel, in emergency, three, four,
even six or seven days, without water or
food. It is his ugly lookiug hump that
enables him to do this. Composed ol
gelatinous fat, the animal lives off it by
reabeorption. Iu the East the condition
of a camel after a long journey is judged
b J' the size of his hump,
R > 3 not uncommon to see camels come
i[ G after lon d atul painful journeys, with
backs almost straight, their bumps hav
ing nearly disappeared. I was much sur
P r * se, l to learn that the liump does not
seem to be intimately connected with the
animal's vitality. Lmant Bey told me
he had often opened the bumps when
they became so large from high feeding
;ls to P rcv “ nt ** s “ dd lc fitti “-”
and t ak2 “ OUt h "T P ie . « s " f T lth .°“ t
injuring . the animal or affecting his health, i
It is generally supposed, too, that the
1 camel thrives better in hot than in cold
; but thi , is not true j Bee ao
.
and be verv useful in the climate of Texas
0H alfof OUr southwestern P laiM '
——' - rt-.i
j The 3000 new blocks erected in p* well
i aE d the eighty-two miles of sph ft'.tite ten
! streets, have so change*jfflinnnont P''.-Jher » n
Italy that it is scarce!' «<omnon
{ those who visited f ;
ol . „ „ u 0
NUMBER 13. -
_
~T
“BOYS WILL BE BOYS.*
„ Boys will be boys.” We resent the obi say*
ins, Current with
men :
bet it be heard, in excuse for our straying,
Never again!
Ours is a hope that is higher and clearer,
Ours is a purpose far brighter and dearer.
Ours is a name that should silence the jeerer;
We will be men !
“Boys will be boys’' is an unworthy slander;
Boys will be men! -
The spirit of Philip in young Alexander,
Kindled again! •*
As the years of our youth fly swiftly a**',
As brightens about us tho light of life’s day,
4s the glory of manhood dawns on us, we
say: w*vw|
We will be men!
Boys will be boys!” Yes, if boys maybe
pure ■ - mU
Models for men;
If theii thoughts may be modest, their troth
fuh-ess sure,
Say it again!
ft boys will b>- boys such as boyt ought to
•lie— ■
Boys full of * vert-minded, light-hearted
glee— -
i .-■! boy* be boys, brave, loving and free,
Till they are men!
—Christian Union.
PITH AND POINT.
Eternal vigilance is the price of an um¬
brella. -** ;
The man who lives by his w:** is not
necessarily witty. ■J
The rose that is sweetest anil fairest
Is the bud that is killed by thb frost! rardof
A nd the love that is dearest and
Is the true love we just have lost.
The King of Siam is said’ to "wear
$1,000,000 worth of i jew’cl(B VzbBt a
hotel clerk ho would raaked— UuJ^n.jjvl
ietin. ^ ^
The mau who is most received’ jeady to great give ad
vice is the one who s deal
that he failed to use .—Binghamton
Leader. ■ j
“Come oft the perch,” said, the fisher¬
man , as he removed the scales from a
specimen of the finny tribe.— H&frnty
(Neb.) Enterprise. *#
It is human nature to justify indnlftincc
in high priced pleasures by the psflgiso
that a fraction of the cost goes to charity.
—Philadelphia Inquirer. *
In this world it will never pay *
To give way to sorrow; to-3ay
The dog that’s underneath
May be on top to-morrow. Judge. -
—
There is a sting to the most honeyed
remark, its for instauce, when your hus¬
band petulantly remarks. “My dear, I
wish you'd bee still !”—Richmond Re¬
corder.
old Gentleman—“I don't know what
to make of the coming generation.” One
the Coming Generation—■ VV t'd, you
can make me your son-in-law if you want
to.”— Epoch.
on Beetj » heads a column of
upiaristic ^ information in an exchange. A
equipped bee needs no points r
the one nature endowed it with.— Dans
Breae _
No, Cedric, the small hoy who has
been doing wrong could hardly be called
x locksmith because at his father’s ap¬
proach he makes a bolt for the door.—
Yale Record.
Landlady Faircurl (who has just had
her dining room walls repapered)—“By
the way, Mr. Longstay, how do you like
our new border?” Consternation of Mr.
Longstay, who is under the impression
that Mrs. Faircurl is alluding to Mr.
Meektoan opposite, who has just arrived.
—Argosy.
Ail Indian Sirake Bite Cure.
Hereafter when camping-out parties
are formed the demijohn full of snake¬
cure to a
of weeds, for T. K. Fisher, an
citizen of Santa Barbara, who is fa¬
with the habits of the California
Indians, claims to have found out their
remedy for rattlesnake bites, which is a
species of the plant Euphorbia. Dr. S.
Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, recently
stated in an article, which lias been
copied by tiie California press, that no
specific was known for the virus of
the rattlesnake. Mr. Fisher saw this
statement and contradicted it, saying
that the plant referred to was a sure cure,
and he even goes so far as to state that*
the snakes themselves, when bitten, will
make use of the remedy. This receives
corroboration from Frank Smith, who
lives at Whitewater, on the edge of the
desert. He speaks most of the Indiau
dialects. Tne weed, he says, is a Eu¬
phorbia and is common through Cali¬
fornia and Arizona. It is a vine-like
plant, radiating from a centre, growing
close to the earth; the leaf resembles the
clover, but is less than half as large.
When a stem is broken a milky exudation
follows, similar to that of the “milk¬
weed” of the East. Mr. Smith gives this
as the method of application; The
green weed should be macerated in water,
the skiu about the bite scarified and the
pulpy mass of the plant placed on it and
rubbed well into it; this should be re¬
peated at intervals for fifteen or twenty
minutes, and then a poultice of the same
plant should be bound on and left. Mr.
Smith holds that within forty-eight ho urs
all symptoms of poison will disappear.
So confident is he that in the Banning
(Cal.) Herald, he offers to settle the dis
eussion with Dr. Mitchell in Western
.tyle by offering to bet #500 or $1000
that with the Euphorbia and he can he will cure allow any
case of rattlesnake bite,
Dr. Weir to pick out his own snake. The
Mexicans know tho weed and call it
Golondrino .—Note York Tribune.
One Baa of Coffee Worth Five Barrels
of Flour.
A barrel of American flour would once
buy at Rio a bag of coffee weighing
U ’-.t-y pounds more than tho presentoues,
w,» /as it now takes five barrels to make
the barter. Nineteen staples of trad
have gone down in price, while coffee
has more than doubted. Peoplejjgjr wr-. •
to make in five years wh.»t
have been eqpj itofiftl fc.cPrc ertificates
years -re . c , ark >Ia
_
^ .refed by the democrat-. The
*egisiauve deadlock republicans continuis iu decided full
force, and the have
to break it so far as the senate H con
eerned by unseating Mr. McNamara,
democrat, who is official, ineligible This because Mill of hi.
the being republicans a federal full free fro! g.to of
anu con
the senate.