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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S, D. WIKXE & CO., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1875.
VOLUME II. NUMBER
TIMELY TOPICS.
Tun discussion as to tbo successor of
Benator Norwood, of Georgia, includes
tho names of Alexander H. Stephens,
the Hon Ben Hill, and Senator Norwood
himself.
The Japanese aro shipping bricks to
California, and cell them cheaper than
those made in that state, notwithstand
ing that thero is an nd valorem duty of
20 per cent on them.
Details of the asHadaiuation of presi
dent Morouo, of Ecuador, show that
the doadly machete and two revolvers
did tho work. Tho movement seems to
have been an antiiiltrumontauo ouo, as
there is a talk of a massacre of tho
priests.
Donaldson’s body wi 1 probably bo
found soon, and some one will discover
.the wreck of tho luokless air ship, and
then the curtain will fnll on tho last
chapter of a tragedy which was brought
about solely to gratify a pnblio curiosity
that should not have been gratilled at
all.
Tur. English liavo put a bridgo over
tho Ganges whero tho Indian mother
used lo drow hor unmanageable infant,
and there is now a direct railroad line
betweou Calcutta and Lucknow. Tho
bridgo is a little over balf a mile long,
with a superstrneturo almost eutiroly of
brick, and cost £150,000.
Hick is becoming a favorite crop iu
some sections of the south. It costs
$110.40 to cultivate and send to market
an acre of rico, yioUling 1,200 pounds
of clear grain, which sells for $81. Tho
profit is about 810.00 por acre, and tho
crop is not a difficult ono to grow.
Tiik managers of tho direct Unitod
States cable say that their line will be
ready for public traffic in a few works.
Tho steamer Faraday will shortly oon
elude tho splicing of the Irish end,
where a defect had to be cut out, and
tlion splioo tho Amorioan end, which
had been broken by tho ioe.
Captain Eads is in New York, where
ho will, iu a few days, hold a consulta
tion with government nud other engin
eers relative to the work on tho jetty
improv ment at tho mouth of tho Mis
sissippi river. Tho contractors aro nov
engaged placing tho willow fascines in
position, nud late measurements show
an increase iu the dopth of tho water,
Onu English cousins aro disenssing
it now, and tho London Review thus
Htates tho ca»wt belli:
" Jefferson Davis, tho American rebel,
has been invited to address tho Wiuno-
bogo nativoa. N. 13.—Tho Winnebago
area tribe of Indians, formerly of Wis
consin state, but now removed to
agency iu Nebraska state.”
Bhnou I\ C. Annuo, of Now Mexi
sold over 200,000 pounds of wool last
year. With his father and a business
pirtncr ho own nearly 2,000,000 head of
sheop, scattered over a range of o<
try more than 800 miles square,
has had two losses by Indian raids,
of 05,000 head aud tho other of 15,000,
“but,” ho says, “I hardly missed
them."
Twenty thousand boxes, containing
over a million clay pip js,nre imported into
this country annually, the grentc
ber being the celebrated " T. D.” brand
All these pijwfl are made in Glasgow,
Scotland, nnd chiefly by ono firm, W
White & Hons, honest old Qaakers, who
havo been piping away for nearly a
tury and a half, and aro now doing the
largest business in that lino in the
world. .
Fayette County, Tennessee, is said,
in tho report of tho department of
agriculture, to havo suffered a very
groat loss of mules and horses last
spring by tbo buffalo gnat. Tho best
roraedy against these pests is to put tho
stock at oneo in a dark stable, to be
kept filled with smoke. "Doath,” says
the report, "doubtless is partly caused
by tho loss of blood, but mainly by
poisoning the circulation.”
The bureau of statistics report tho
total exports of the country, exclusive
of specie, for the month of July at
417,280.391 against 8-17,102,470 the
same month in 1874 ; imports for seven
months this year, 8210,104,793 against
835,130,903 same time last year. Ex
ports for July this year, 841,495,477
against $40,967,184 July, 1874; for
soven months this year, 8322,824,387
against 1874 , 8870,94s, 306. These are
all currency values.
The annual death-rate of various
cities in the United Btatos, for four
weeks in April, as stated by the Bani-
tarian, shows a minimun (Toledo) of
11.01, .and a maximum (Paterson) of
30.63. The rale in New York was 28.70.
Philadelphia 24.42, St. Louis 12.65,
Chicago, 19.11, Boston 20.31, Baltimore
17.53, Cincinnati 15.15, New Orleans
21.09, San Francisco 17.71, Pittsburg
19.22, Charleston 27.82.
The "latest news from Keeley, tho
motor man, is to the effect that his
machine is now under perfect control,
and m engine for railroad purposes is
being constructed. The gauge to be
used on the apparatus registers 54,000
pounds prossure, aud a stationary on*
gino will bo ou exhibition iu a fow weeks
Philadelphia. Tho Philadelphia
Times says: "Tho oontrol of tho
pateut will not bo vested in a stock com
pany. Sharoa lmvo been sold by Mr.
Kcoley to parties who advanced him
mouoy to finish his work aud scouro tho
patent right, nnd tho Blinrcs ulmoat im
mediately afterward woro disposed of to
other parties at a great profit.”
One of tho odd industries, tho natnro
aud extent of which aro comparatively
littlo known, is tho manufacture of sand
paper, the amount of whioh nuuaully
produced in tho Unitod States is.csti-
matod at not lees than two hundrod
thousand roams, including tho various
grades nnd qualities. Formorly it was
made of ordinary brown paper, glue
and sand. At preedit, for tho most
part, tho paper is made of old rope, tho
best quality of gluo is usod, nnd, in
stead of sand, pulverised qnarlz or flint.
By this moaus a suporior fabric is pro-
duded, of a constantly uniform grade,
and at so low a price that tho uso of it
has bocomo greatly extended, large
luantitios being exportod, to Europe,
South America, tho Pacific Islands, aud
olsowhoro. For omory paper and oniony
cloth, a largo demand has boon created
by tho llniBhod iron work in steam on
eugino shops, tho sowing maohino faoto-
, nnd othor similar industries whioh
requiro thorn for polishing purposes.
Piumsoll'h statement in
nonso of Commons, relative to tho ship
ment of soanmu on unseaworthy
poorly-equipped vessels, was illustrated
Han Frnnoisoo, tho othor day, on tho
arrival of tho ship Bremon, from Liver
pool. This vessol left that port ou the
0th of February with thirty-soven no*
groes bofore tho mast. Thirtoon of thiB
crow died on tho passago out and tho
reraniudor woro nil seriously ill when
tho Broraon got to Ban Franoisco. Tho
can so of this mortality was tho lack of
v< getablcs. During a voyage Instiug
197 days, tho mon had nothing but poor
salt provisions most of tho timo.
Scurvy .broke cut, aud tho sufferings
of tho victimB are described by them
torriblo in tho extromo. Mr. Plim
hoI 1 appears to havo had tho right idon
when ho said that "tho government
playing into the hands of maritime
murderers, and ho laid ii|>on tho hend
of tho prime minister nnd his fellows
all tho blood of all tho mon who shall
perish from proventahlo caiisos. ”
How a "Corner” is Managed.
A B and C combine their moans and
orodit to make a corner in .1 uly. Thoy
theroforo quietly begin in May to buy
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
BAST.
The Atlantic mills which suspended
tho lOtli of July, will rosumo with full foroo
Monday next. Tho mills glvo employment to
1,350 operatives. Halos of stock havo boon
largo and tho prospocts aro encouraging for
all business.
WEST
Tho groat bank of California, in Ban
Faauoiboo, has oxporioncod a slight cramp,
aud stoppod paying cheeks.
John D. Loo, tho Mountain Meadow
murdoror, recently acquitted at Heaver,
through a disagreement of tho Jury, is to ho
tendered a publio reception and banquet by
his admiring friomls.
Bilver has boon discovered in north-
om Michigan in gratifying quantities. Tho
tests made from tho vein rock glvo a rosnlt of
$45.84 por ton, and pooplo are rushing in to
buy up tho land. This district Ih tn Ontona
gon county, Upper Ponlntmlar.
Tho Kansas Central and Black Hills
Narrow Oaugo Railroad Company, capital
$100,000, has been organized iu Omaha, and
will bo built at once from that city through
tho agricultural country south of tho Platte
river, and ptishod toward the Black Hills as
soon as tho development of that region war-
Clustavo Humber, of Jamestown.
(1 rootio county, Ohio, while intoxicated last
week, raado an attempt to kill his wifo. Hh
tlod across tho si root to tho house of a neigh
hor number followed and made an unsm
ooaaful effort to got iu tho house by broakin
tho window. lie then threatened to roturn t
his house and kill the child, whioh was ahoi:
eighteen months old, thinking tho thro*
would induce his wifo to come, but failing t
have tho desired offcot lie wont to his lions,
irod a table-knife, sharpened it on th
, took tho Infant from ttio arms of h
littlo girl, twelve years old, laid it upon tl
and dollboratoly out its throat from oi
r. Ho thou throw tbo child and knlfo c
the bod, and went back amt tokl his wifo what
ho had done. Ho was afterwards arrosted.
Ho still rogrots ho did not kill his wife.
to bo delivered
idually buy nil tho c
July. They
‘ i tho
if, of necessity, must buy all
that arrives, paving for t':o latter what
ever is demanded. When a pnrohaso
thus made, seller and buyer put- up
margin, oitlior in cash, or certificate, or
doposit. As soon as tho oornor beofttnos
known, there is an effort made to break
it. Tho settlement takes place at B p.
m. on the last day of the month. Those
who havo sold corn to tho oornor and
ha.eno corn to deliver, pay tho differ
ence between tho price at which they
sold, and tho ruling price at tho cloeo
of business on tho last day. Ah tho cor
ner lias thus purchased sometlmoH five
times os much corn as there is to bo
had, amounting to millions of hushols,
and the price lias advanced ten oents a
bushel, tho profit is enormous. Ah tho
prices advance, additional margins are
required. Those failing to put up tho
additional margins, lose what they have
already put up. The anti-corner fac
tions seek to so crowd sales on the cor
ner as to exhauHt its capital and credits,
and render it unable to buy at the ail-
vanco prices. Thus, tho corner in com
pelled to semi out in tho country aud
ony for cash all the corn iu sight, to
prevent having it rushed into Chicago
at the last moment. Those are exciting
times. Corn at such a moment may be
purchased of tbo comer for shipment,
from six to fifteen oents a bushel loss
than it is soiling for ou ’Change for de
livery during the month. Each timo
there is a corner, thero is a crash,
sometimes of tho corner men, and at
other tlmos of the anti-oomor men.
Tho -whole proceeding? are of such
questionable honesty, that the legisln
BOUTH.
The attorney general has issued
order dismissing Assistant Altornoy Jamos
Jhiz/.olora, of Arkansas.
Tho pooplo of llookport, Texas, nnd
vicinity aro gathering their own salt h
largo quantities off tho Hats on tho bay oobhI
near. Tho hot, dry winds havo producod h<
much evaporation that tons of suporior sal
aio lying around loose, waiting to ho taken
np.
Mr. John C. Halo, tho owner of tho
Hot Hpringa property in Arkansas, dlod at tho
Halo Houso, Hot Springs, last Tuesday. His
whole life was a tonaclous fight to hold pos
session of tho proporty, and tho sultH in con
noction thorowith worn carriod into alraos
every department of Jimtloo In tho Unite
Htatos.
A tiro in Memphis on tho night of the
oflth destroyed tho MomphlH wood works o
Georgia street, togothor wilti a largo amoun
of lumber and valuable machinery. A stahlo
belonging to tho company, in whioh woi
number of wagons andHoveral mnlou, was also
huniod. Tho total lows Is about $37,000,
which thero is $17,600 insurance.
Tho Courier Journal publishes osti
it.'M from all sootions of Kentucky, ai
i.acco cantors of adjoining Htatos, showing
o average and condition of tobacco
rod with 1878. The largest tobacoc
er known was planted, but subsequent mis-
rtnno reduced it to a prospootlwly moderate
yield porhaps a light averago, If future con
h are favorable. The returns covor
territory whioh produces about throo-fourth
of tho crop of the Unitod Htatos.
In 1805 tho taxable proporty in Ooor-
a was $120,085,870; now It ih *273,002,000,
oro than doubling since tbo war. There are
railways in I ho Htato, with an aggregate
longth of 2.3000 mllon. Tho Btate debt in $8,105,
KK) aud this in partially offset by proporty
iwned by the gtate worth $0,000,000 leaving
ho not indebtedness $2,000,000. It has $3,-
102,000 invested in cotton and woolen mills,
$735,1(K) in iron foundries, and $000,000 in
awaiting shlpmont from Charleston to tho
North.
Tho Atucrlcau board of directors of
tho Mississippi Valloy Trading Company held
toting iu Ht. Louis lost week, ai which Mr.
Worrall, managing diroot or, was Instructed to
visit Louisville with a view of establishing a
central office of tho company at that point.
h furtlior instructed to visit all seaports
from Norfolk to Galveston, Texas, and ro*
llielr adaptability aa porta of entry
for ships of ttio oompany. Ho was also ro-
luostcd to visit all railroads in tho MIshIb-
slppi valley nnd Gulf Htatos and report upon
tho facilities nffordod by each for tho trnns-
po.rtatton of morehnndtBO and products, aud
it doalrablo contora for operations
of tho company, and upon agricultural, miu-
i\ othor roaonrooa pf.the country through
which the railroads pass*, eo Ks to onnblo the
company lo decide which aro tho host fields
or immigration. Tho directors on this side
f tho water aro E. B.'Hhanklnml, of Dubuque,
own, Judge John 1*. Jones, of Barton, Ark.,
lev. J. T. Barges, of Now York, Dndloy W.
rdains, of Iowa, Col. D. Aiken, of South Car
olina, H. T. Smith, of Georgia, and thero aro
voral othors yot to ho jjppolntod.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Donaldson’s children still remain in
istltuto elrouraBtanoos in Boohostor, N. Y
Tho proposition that a benefit bo given foi
them doos not moot with much favor, and »i
appeal is being mado to tho charitable hi their
behalf.
Jefferson Davis lias reooivod invita-
iuh from Besmolnos, Iowa, Chariot
id other points In tho Wost to dellvor Urn
mual addroBH at mootings of various ngrl*
Hunt societies to be held thiH fall 111 tho
Wost.
The ITobrows in Now York aro agitat
ing the subject of establishing a Huproi
al sanhedrim in tho Unitod Htates, Himllar
its functions to ttio’ l’roshytorlan
iHomblioH and tho Epjscopal gonoral
lion.
Ordors lmvo boon scut to tho offloors
ommaiidlng tho Amorloau vohhoIh
t Tripoli to donrnnd instant and complete
operation fur ttio IndlguitloH offered the
.morloan consul and tils wifo by Tripolitan
allors. If ttio tomporof tho Tripolitan pooplo,
s roooutly reported, Is porstbtod in, it Is not
nlikoly that our vessols of war may he o(
pollod to again bombard that eity.
About $225,000 awarded by tho ct
in twon! y-four crhoh, for oapturod and at)
donod proporty, will bo paid. An appeal tins
boon taken by tho government in other
roportod on by tho apodal commissioner, in
volving botwoon $800,000 nnd $1110.000.
Among ttio lattor Ih ttio caso of II, Mi Doug
las, son of tho Into Honhtor Douglas, In whoao
favor an award of $1(1.110 was made
oouut nf iispliirnd .'mV gbaudouod jjottOU on
the oslntn of his grandmother in Mississippi
A '.tolegrnm reooivod nt tho nnvy de
partment from Oapt. Edward HimpHon, <
mantling United Htates steamer Omaha.
nounooH that tho Htato of Panama has do-
clarod war against tho government of Colom
bia. Tho department immediately
dors to Boar Admiral Mnllanoy, commanding
the North Atlantic station, to hold Ills aval
bio forco In roadliioss to proceed without -
lay to tho Isthmus, if nocossary, for tho p
tootion of American Interests.
Tho Treasury offioinlfi lmvo oxporioncod
Homo difficulty recently, in performing
duties of Inspecting'VohsoIh arriving
Southern ports, to nncort&ln their sanitary
condition. It appears that Htato am
pal authorities object that the right
such inspection is in thorn, and not in tho
offioorH of tho Eodorat Govornmonl
Unitod Htatos slatuto Jsuch hitorforoiioo is
constituted an offenno punishable by n flue of
$400 in ORch Inslnnco. Tho Department has
dotormined to tako Htops to onforoo this pen
alty hi caso such Interference is repeated,
FOREIGN.
Official roporta hIiow that tho whont
ops in Austria nnd Hungary have fallen off
in quantity and quality, and wll not yield
loro than 555,000 quintain.
A special from Vienna says tho Hor-
3govlnians massacred ninety-five Turkish
A DREAM OF FAIR WEATHER.
NtrnnRO wild being, half goal, half man—
While post hi in tho plover amt dunlin llow,
lulling the rose with a
nd dropped by the river where lull reeds grow,
Ami wnere bright willows waved to and fro
OYr the uost of a teal Iu tlio llags below.
In ahoaia tho glittering suu-peroh leapt.
,n oriole, deep In Its braided unfit.
On the waves of tho south wtud rooked
Nth tho lithe cup fitted so close to It* breast
That It looked like some splendid molten goh
IMnred from a crucible into a mould.
n a hovering cloud of buttorfilos,
Lulled by a murmur of drowsy hr os,
Amt Hooded with sweets nud the tender dyes
Or a tied of bloom In the stream of tho brooi
A maiden alopt In tho dusk of the trees.:
humming-bird daintily touched her mouth,
Finding It sweet ns the lose-hud h
In a quiver of rapture the long grass lei
Ami swarms of beautiful gllde.l thing
I lung trained In the air on filmy wlnii
«.yl out of the forest ayouth thorocam
.nd away like a bolt tho humming-bird ppod,
While suddenly, utterly up ill tho trees,
Their singing the emulous choirs did ocaro.
Of't In'Vtfeen y* M ream! by it s <1 ro way talon.
retired for thirty minuted for vofrosh-
monfc. On resuming business it nitty bo
remarked that Slmw, who had been
vory unfortunate, ns many of his
birds in tho first 50 foil dead out of tiio
hounds, ontirolv through shooting with
number " nino ’’ shot, now oommonoed
with number "soven,” nnd by so doing
lie mado n mnoh bottor score. This
will ho understood when it is said that
ho killed splendidly 18 out of his first
20 birds after luuohoon. Tho captain,
howovor, continued thumping down his
birds also in grand stylo, nnd thero be
ing no olinnoe for Slum winning nt the
89tli round, ho being then twelve birds
bohiud, ho gnvo up, nnd Captain Bo-
gitr.dus was declared tho winner amid
groat oiieoring. Tho onptnin, in order
to decide a hot of killiug 80 out if 100
birds, shot at throo moro, whioh ho
killed, nnd thou retired, nftor hhviug
brought down 80 out of 91, nnd Shaw
scorod (15 out of 89. Tho match, whioh
cornmonoed nt 10:30 A. M., was not
oouoludod until 4:80 P. M. Captain
Bognrdns shot with hie famous 12 boro
broeoh-loadiug doublo gun, of course
using ono barrel only. IIo shot with
five drachms of powilor, and used No.
9 shot. Shaw usod a Biuglo gun.
That Captain Bogardus has now
provod himsolf an extraordinary marks
man no man cun dony, for tho sooro
alone was never bofore equaled iu Eng
land ; in faot, the losing man’s (Shaw)
sooro is tho largost ovor proviously
mado. When wo take into considera
tion tlio swiftness of tho birds, thoy
being tlio host blue rooks that could bo
obtained for the timo of yoar, nnd tho
fact of tho captain hoing made to load
every cartridge himself with shot singly
before ho plaood it in his gun, and also
trapping tho whole of his birds, that iH
to say, tlioso for Shaw to shoot nt, tho
performance must ho doomed a surpris-
ing ono. Ho Bhoots exceedingly fair,
witli tho gun uloan bo'tow tho olbow,
and kills iris birds in a most astonish
ing manner. Each appears to roooivo
tho stipulated quantity of shot in its
body, lioing instantaneously doubled
up. Hhaw shot woll enough to boat
99 sportsman out 100 aud ho novor was
in tho hunt on this occasion.—Hell*
Life.
Balt Lako.
THE GREAT SHOOTING MATOH.
in 11 ago.
James
tnro of Illinois has deol&red the opora
tion of a corner to bo a felony. It i»
nevertheless Btill practiced. Corners
are attempted in wheat, oats, barley,
pork, and lard, and sorao of them havo
been qnite successful! in a pecuniary
way. It requires nerve, audacity, and
money, or credit. Recently a bank
here went into a corner, issuing its cer
tificates of deposit for margins ; tho
oorner failed, and ho did tho bank, and
tho certificates have never been paid.—
Scribner for September.
A Hint to Dyspeptics.—We have
seen dyspeptics who saffered nntold tor
ment* with almost every kind of food.
No liquid coaid bo taken without suffer
ing ; bread became a burning acid ;
ment and milk were splid and liqnid
fires. Wo hove seen these same suffer
ers trying to avoid food and drink, and
even going to the syringo for susten
ance. And have soon their torments
pass awav nud their hnn relieved by
living npon the white of eggs which had
been boiled in bubbling water for thirty
minutes. At tho end of tho week we
have given the hard yelk of the egg,
. MoNoal, a well-known
eighteen mllos bolow Memphis
on ttio Arkansas sido, was assassinated last
Friday. He had Just left the field whoro his
hands were al work and rode out into tho
road, when they heard a shot and saw his
horse riderless, running up tho road, follow
ing a man on horseback. When thoy
the rood they found MoNoal lying
wbolo charge of buckshot having entered his
groast. No cluo to tho
Reports of tho rosnlt of tlio census of
Louisiana recently taken in compliance with
the roquirdmonts’ of tho Htato Constitute
show tlio city of Now Orleans to contain
whites 145,721; colored, 67,047; total, 252,70S,
an incroaso of 11,IKK] Upon tho census of 1870.
Population of tho whole Htato: whites, 404,-
351 ; colored, 460,029, an oxcoss of colored
over whites of 40,008, and a total incroaso of
128,115 ovor tho census of 1870. Those figures
may ho subject to
the returns of ono
boing quite comp)'
There is quite a collection of southern
lotablcs at Greenbriar,WhiteBulphur Hpringa,
Virginia. AmoDg thorn aro Gonoral Joseph E.
Johnston, Gonoral Robert Toombs, of Goor-
gia: tho Hon. A. B II. Htuart; ox-Unltod
Htates Houator Kennedy, of Maryland -, Unitod
HtatosBenator Caperton, of Wost Virginia;
General G. F. Gilmer, of Goorgia, arid Guslis
Lee, Lilloy and Echols of Virginia ; Col. Wal
ter H. Taylor, Hpoaker Hanger, II. II. Mat
thew, Attorney General of West Virginia;
Judges Manning, of Now Orleans. Jackson,
of West Virginia, McLaughlin, of Lexington,
id Col. Wade Hampton, Jr., of South Caro
lina.
with the whith the white, and upon
this diet alone, without fluid of any
kind, we have seen them begin to gain
flesh and strength, and refreshing sleep.
After weeks of this treatment thoy
have been able, with care, to begin upon
foqd.—Aledical Journal.
—They killed a i>ook agent at Cres-
ton two weeks ago, but they had to run
ever him with nine freight cars to do it.
People who can’t afford to keep a fast
freight train in the house
the book agents’ mercy.
South Carolina raising wheat and
grinding it into flour for consumption in
Massachusetts is something new under the
sun but tho Baltimore Hun, of tho 2Ah, says:
Among the cargo brought by tho steamship
Calvert from Charleston yesterday, woro three
hundred pounds of flour, the wheat of which
was raised in Bouth Carolina tho present year,
the flour being made at Charleston, at tho
Campson Mills. Tho flour is of fine quality,
and iH equal to our Maryland product. This
shipment, which is the inaugora tion of a new
still at j enterprise, goes to Boston. Five hundred
barrels of the same kind of flour are now
prisoners, captured at Marsnct. Bam
surg&nls aro assembling in the moun
Jroto.
Oapt. Wclib has succeeded in Iris
tocoml attempt in swimming from Dover to
Calais without float or life-saving apparatus.
The passage from Dover occupied 21 hours,
minutes.
Bismarck is in rotirernont at Varzin,
inactivo apparently, but according to Fi
spies, working like a beaver, and in reality
restless than ovor. Thoy also a*
Krupp, tho great cannon foundryr
has tripled tho number of his workmen.
It is reported that tho ICohokan
Biugonts have surrendered Kobjondon, a large
city fifty miles from Kohokan. Communica
tion between Kohjenden and Taschikeud is
interrupted. The authorities of Taschlkom
aro arming theltusian inhabitants of the city
Dispatohos from Europo state tlyit
Mr. Wade, tho British minister at Rokin, Iirh
asked the government to reinforce tho Brit
ish troops in China, as in his iiiterconrso wit
officials at Fokin he has beon treated with
studied insolence. Tho demands which ho has
mado for compensation for the murder of
Maragary has boon thwarted and treated with
contempt.
A dispa’ch states that tho popular
fooling In Horvia is very strongly in favor of
aiding the Herzegovinian rebels. There Is no
doubt of this. A strong party in Horvia is in
favor of seizing this opportunity, not so much
to aid their neighbors of Iferzigovinia, as to
throw off Turkish influence and establish
their own indepondnneo. It is hardly possible
to restrain thorn, as thoy aro a fiorco and war
like people, who bate tho Turks with a degree
of venom inconceivable.
A speoial from Berlin says tho Euro
pean powers havo beon unable to induce tho
sultan to suspend hostilities ponding their me
diation. This rofueal, however, is a matter of
indifforoncc, as Turkish reinforcements havo
been unable to penetrate tho mountain defiles.
Telograms to tho effect that tho Turks had so
succeeded were promaturo. Tho dispatch
statos that if tho Herzegovinian insurgents
reject tho proposed modfatlon, Austria, who
has [assembled an army corps in Dalmatia,
will be in a condition to offer the sultan her
good offices.
Tho great match botwoen Captain II.
W. Bognrdns (tlio American champion)
and B. Hhaw of Oldham, near Manches
ter, for two hundrod pounds a side,
took place ou Monday last. Tho con
ditions woro to shoot at ono hundrod
pigeons oaoh, with ono ounce of shot,
twonty-ono yards riso, from ono trap,
tho uso of ono barroi, nnd tho gun be
low tlio olbow until tho bird was on tho
wing. Tlio match, whioh had boon
mado only a short timo previously, ox-
oitod mnoh intorost, owing to tho fact
of its boing understood that Contain
Bognrdns was to compote witli Hhaw,
tlio best professional shot in England,
under tho said conditions of from 1
trap, 1 oz. of shot, 21 yards riso. Not
withstanding tlio captain was mado tho
favorite iu tho hotting nt 100 to 80,
speculation wns not vory spirited, in
consequence of the Manchester divis
ion not supporting their man with thoir
usual freedom, knowing they hud
" Wonder ” to vanquish. Captain Bu-
gardus is a lino, muscular man, stand
ing fully six foot, woight about 15 stone,
and is about forty yours of ago. Ho it
a wonderful shot at both game und
pigeons, a great athloto, nnd providing
11? .... ..» n. Gm font
A writor in tlio Galaxy says
drovo for an hour along tho southern
hank of Halt Lake, fanned by tho breath
of its sea air, and looking ovor its waste
of waters dotted with mountain islands.
It roquirod but littlo imagination to
transport onrsolvos lo tlio shores of tho
Atlantic, for extending us it does ninety
miles to tho north, no laud could bo
soon boyond tho lino of tlio oloarly do-
lined horizon. Homo years ago a steam
boat of throo hundrod tons was built
for freight and linsstuigor trnfilo,
nooLinn with the Union and Central
Pacific roads; but hor fair proBpoots
woro ruined by tlio construction of tlio
Utali Central, and sho now lios at tlio
wharf, hor only value boing hor aid
making our imnginury ocean Boom me
real. How this groat basin of salt
water oamo to lie deposited in tho inte
rior of tho continent has boon a study
for googrnpliors nnd naturalists. Tho
wntor is so donsoly saline that it is im
possible for a body to find tho bottom,
it is a capital placo to aoquiro tlio art
of swimming witli perfect safety. In
former times three barrols of wator loft
to evaporate would produce ono barrel
of salt; lint tho freshening within tho
last twenty yours has so woakouod it
that now four barrels of it aro roquirod
to obtain tljat quantity. It has become
fresh, thoroforo, iu a proportion of
somowhat moro than ono por oont,
yearly. Honoo it follows that in loss
than ono hundred years tho namo of
Groat Halt Lako should bo chaugod ; for
by this timo it will, like Mormonisi
FACTS AND FANCIES."
In Bouth Amorion there is a prolific
honey boo Hint has not boon furnished
with a sting.
A mr.n said Iris son Imd n well-
stored mind, but tho neighbors nover
could find whoro ho stored it.
It is boliovod thatorooodilos livo lo
bo huudrods of years old. Tho Egyp-
' nns embalmed thorn.
His "Uuolo Consider ” was quite
right, in tolling Eli Pnrkins : "If you
got tho host of whisky, Eli, whisky will
got tho host of you."
—Fifteen thousand dollars is tlio con
tract. piioo for the new bronze statue
whioh tho city of Providonoo is about
ooting to Roger Williams.
—A Boston pap'or calls for two sopn
rato Henvons—ono for tho good and tho
othor for tho fair to medium. Oil, pshaw!
Less all go indogothor.
Prof, Tyndall now takes tlio ground
that Hum was an Indian instead of a
negro. Anybody can tako any ground
ho wants to those days.
—This isn’t a good season for
catches" nt tho watoring-plftoos, and
many nioo girls nro willing to take up
with frooklod- faoed, impoverished mon.
Can thoro ho any groator dotage in
tho world limn for ono to guido and di
rect his course by tlio sound of a boll,
nnd not by Iris own judgment and dis
cretion ?—Jlabolala,
—Tlio wish haH beon oxprcBBOil that,
tho portrait of Hon. n. Hamlin might
lio put upon n ouo oont. postngo stamp.
Then tho righteously indignant people
might punch his head every timo thoy
send off a newspaper by mail.
—To rondor tlio colors of ootton fnb-
..o pormanout, dissolvo throo gills of
salt in four (marts of water ; put tlio
calico in while hot, and loavo it till
oold ; it will not fado by subsequent
washing.
—An Iowa man obtained a divorce
from his wifo and then hired her for a
oook. Tho woman is delighted with
her change, because now sho can lmvo
dross occasionally aud a littlo pin
money in hor pookot-book.
—Mossrs. Moody ‘and Bankoy lmvo
received invitations to visit Now Zea
land, but it is moro than likely thoy
will consider tho whisky-tattooed aborig
ines of Chicago lmvo prior claims oil
thoir efforts.
—Ex-Empress Eugono is instituting
law suits in Franco to got hack somo of
tho property whioh Napoleon III.
couldn’t take with him out of tho coun
try when ho loftHodan. If not all, it is
likoly sho will manage to got somo.
—Danbury 1ms tlio ohampion patient
boy. no comes from a ohronionlly
borrowing family. Tho othor day ho
wout to ft neighbor’s for a onp of sour
milk. "I haven’t got anything but
swoot milk,” said tho woman, pettishly.
" I’ll wait till it sours," said tho oblig
ing youth, sinking into a oiiair.
—Although imprisonment for debt
lms beon abolished in Groat Rritaiu,
twenty thousand persons nearly woro
nrrostod for debt iu 1873, ono fourth of
whom wont to prison rather than pay.
Thoy woro committed, howovor, not for
inability, but for umvillinguoss to raeot
tlioir obligations.
—Thoro is u Maine man who lias
preserved a document emanating from
a justice of tho peace, to this offeot:
" Han oook, bh, Novr lltli 1809. Thou
personally appeared Ibrook Eddy or
Eddington, und acknowledged himsolf
guilty of having uttered two profane
oaths on this day, and has paid a fine
for tlio snmo as tho Law diroots to mo.
_ It Js tho London Telegraph whioh
puts forth this slander upon American
Imbios : "Tho transatlantic infant lms
a peonlinr mode of crying in a sonos of
lio cleared of all its impurities. I lmvo
proviously noticed tho regular wator
lines, called bouoiios, whioh aro so dis
tinctly defined ou all tho mountain
rangos surrounding those various vnl-
toys, and which afford such unmistuka
bio ovidonoo that in former days thoy
onolosod vast inland sons. Tho doop
alkaline soil of tho bottoms has led to
tho supposition that those sons woro of
salt water, aud that all of thorn, except
ing this, lmvo beon comidotoly evapor
rated, Hilt Lako beiug tlio solo survi
vor, and that hoing dostmod to dwindle
to a puddle and thou to dry up forever.
Rut tho last part of this theory is uoga-
tivod by tho evident intention of the
lake to assume somowlmt of its original
proportions; while it is becoming
frosuer it is growing larger. Within
tlio twenty soven yours that tho country
around it lms boon settled it has on-
oroaohod nil along its low banks nearly
a mile upon tho land und deepened five
feet. Bevoral fine furms aro now
nmncutly under water, and tho
Iris mupotilar strength is put to tlio tost,
ho is almost, or quite equal to tho lute
John Meonan. Tho captain’s opponont,
Hhaw, lms proved himsolf a wonderfully
fine shot for a considerable longth of
timo, by defeating a largo
north country sportsmen,
fresh colored, spare man, with a vast
amount of confidence, and wo should
say half a dozen ^oars youngor than
tho captain. No timo was lost in ar
ranging tho preliminaries, and ut 10:80
A. |M., tho match commenced, both
men trapping thoir own birds, tlio best
blue rocks obtainable. Hhaw led off
but failed to bring down iris first, u
very fftHt ouo, and tho oaptain quickly
camo forward and rattled down in fine
stylo a vory swift bird. Both through
trapping their own birds ngainst each
other woro somowlmt slow to timo, but
thoy shot in thoir turn. Out of the
first ton birds shot at by the American
ho brought down nino, tho second
oight, and tho third lot all foil to his
aim. At tho fourth ton nino camo to
griof, at tho fifth overy bird foil. Con
sequently it will bo gathered that ho
brough down forty-six out of tho first
fifty birds. Hhaw, it will bo seen, was
never on favorable terms with the oap
tain, for in his first ton ho missed throo
birds, and in his second tho sumo num
ber, and this mado him throo " rooks ”
to the bad. Out of tho third ten birds
tho Manchester man brought down
splendidly oight, but in the fourth four
escaped, and out of tho fifth 10 lie
only brought down six, thereby scoring
34 out of 50 birds—just 12 less than his
opponont scored. At this point oI tho
contest tho competitors and their friends
■harp, npnemoillo yelps, very cUOna*
from tlio BOBlcnuto howl of tho British
bantling, nud witli intonation an though
it woro prematurely striving to reoito
tho dootnrution of indopondenoo ifith il»
mouth fnll of peanuts and popcorn,
-A Parisian tliiof at tho Antonil
steeplo-olmsos was naught hy a dotoo-
tivo witli Ida hand in n Indy a pooltnt.
a j , im no thief,” tlm pickpocket indig
nantly protested, “I am fn love with
tlds lady, nud was only slipping a nnto
into her pookot,” nnd ho produced uh
proof a lovo letter hidden in the palm
of ids hand. As, however, tlio Indy was
old and ugly, nnd forty-one parses wore
found on tlio ingenious Frenchman, ho
was token off to dnranoo vile.
—Thero is a megatherium iu tho De
troit museum. Its stomaoh must liavo
boon about the site of a boor vat, and a
correspondent of tho Graphic doosn t
understand how it oould possibly havo
satisttedits appetite with ants. Unnoi-
entiflo minds are always oritiolvdeg ev
erything tliat they do not comprehend,
whioh wo travelled has boon moved fur Undoubtedly tho megatherium used to
inward to acoomodato its aggressive- HIJoU it „ ftU ts with a "n," and found it
nosH. At tho same timo that this change
is going on 'atmospheric caused for a
part of it aro appurent. Tho climate is
becoming moro mild, although it is still
exoossivoly dry. But oaoh succeeding
season brings a groator rain-full. This
has doubled within twelve years.”
Diary of an M. D.
A pookot diary, picked np in tho street
of a neighboring city, would seem to
indicate, from the following choice ex
tracts, that tho owner - a “
m " Kase 230, Mary An Perkins, Bianco,
wash woman. Hioknoss iu hor hod Fisik
some blue pils a soaperifik; ago 52.
Fed mo ono dollar, 1 kuarter bogus.
Mind got good kuarter and mak hor
tak mo fisik.
" Rose 231, Tummos Frink, business,
Nirishmon. Livo with Pady Molony
who keeps a dray—Hiknvss digg in ribs
and tow blak eyes. Fisik to drink my
mixtor twiot a day of susiporily boro
and jollop, and fish ilo, with usifodity
to make it taste firiky. Rubod his faoo
with kart groso liniment, aged 89 years
ago. Drinked the mixter aunwuddit
pay mo bukaso it tastod nasty, but tho
mixter’ll woik iris inards, I reckon.
" Kase 282, Old Missts Boggs. Aiut
got no bisnesH, but plenty of money.
Hiknos awl a humbug. Gav hor sum of
ray celebrated 1 Dipseflurikon,’ which
sho sod drunk like oold teo—which it
waH too. Most put snmthink into it to
make hor feel sik and bad. The Old
, Women has got the roks.”—Sanitarian,
spoil its outs v
vory easy to livo on thorn.
A man nf kindly natnro is apt to
provide for tho comfortable old ago
a homo that lias low? earned him, an 1
would ho grieved to sell such an ani
mal to a poor master for moan work and
miFerablo treatment. Vovorty may furao
consent; bat n certain gratitude is felt
for old and laitliful Hoivioo, still moro
whoro there is personal affection, as m
n dog. Bat when thoro is no personal
relation it would seem that our rights
, ovor nnimol life are increased b.y a cer-
.tai-tJomnsticity. If by defending sheep
larfinnuun thoir numhors to inercft-u'. our
'wocauso thoir numhors t.. — _ ,
right to tako tho lives which would not
have existed without our cares appears
greater than in tho case of wild animals
wholly independent of us.
Instrument to Imitate the Human
Voice.—Aourious iuvontion is roportod
from Cologne, whoro, at tlio last of tlio
admirable popular lectures, winch havo
formed so marked a feature ,m this
spring’s progrummo for tho instruction
nf Jho masses In tho Rlionish capital,
“an'inaSSt wa. skews by the ieo.
turor, 1-rof. Amborg, which m a do to
imitato tbo human voico. liy this in
genious invention, to which tha am
bitions namo vox fiumana has been
irivon, all the vowel sounds and tbo
labials can bo rondored with perfect
oloarnoBH and accuracy ; it aleo gives
somo of tho gutturals, but os yot tho
instrument has not succeeded in ron
doring the hiHsiug or tho dooper
luryogoal sounds.