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O r t O a / ■ L^J bd C/2 j r~r~ 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. --------- fur th» organ bajbeenawnMtod for TMmage's 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.