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RECORD. W, S. D. WIKLE & 00,, Proprietors. CEDAllTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1S76. VOLUME II. NUMBER 23. TIMET,Y TOPICS. LATHS'! NEWS SUMMARY. I Of I merchants do ing business in New York have united to raise tidy thousand dollars to tie- fray the expenses of the r of tin eeption prince in that city, ml his subsequent escort to Philadelphia wit his visit to the centennial exhibition. YtcK-l’iiKHlDKiiT NVn^ox was taken suddenly ill in Washington last week and his life was despaired of. lie rallied however, and in an hour or two was con sidered out of danger. The latest ac counts represent his condition as quite low, but still with no alarming symp toms. LrrrD: children are sold ami exported from Italy now under a new dodge. In stead of taking them away singly, the speculators buy up a whole family at once, including father, mother, uncles and aunts, and start the lot for foreign parts. The law can’t gainsay the will of lather and mother, and so the little ones are smuggled out to tunnel with the The democratic majority in New York ite will not vary much from 18,000. Spanish agents are reported to to car ing on lively recruiting business in New York city, for the. Cuban service. The tobacco crop in Connecticut is curing finely. The crop will 1m very lnrgo id the finest lit quality since 18(14. One-fifth of the population of Now York is said to consist of (ioniums. Springfield, Vt., has a eo-opcrative fac- ■. The forty-five people live all together e-sixth, world. Hon. Jkffkkhon Davis has accepted the presidency of the American depart ment of the Mississippi Valley society, of London, tendered him l»v the parent organization. The object of this move ment is to direct attention to the devel opment of the commercial, agricultural ami mineral resources of the valley of the Mississippi. Mr. Davis will devote his entire energies to the work in this country and Europe, making his head quarters at New Orleans. A crmot'S freak of nature can to sect near Eureka. Cal. It is in the shape of a tree seventy-five feet high, one portion of which is pi mi and the other fir. Tin tody, from the ground to a distance of thirty feet, is pine, and then for a dis tance of twentv-fivc foot it is fir. The remaining twontv-fivo foot, like the lower l>ortion, is pine. The fir jiortion of the tree is in a flourishing condition, the foliage on that part toittg so dense that the leaves arc rather scarce. It i curiosity,' and attracts the attention of everybody who passes it. Tilt: Paris Universe states that tin Pojki's household consists of 537 per sons, the chief of whom arc Cardinal An tonelii, the iflitjor-dumo, the master ol chamber, tho grand almoner, the score tarv, the. steward, the governor, Gen, Kan/.lcr, and 5 chamberlains. There ar« 20 jjcmonH employed in the s<*eretary’i office, 16 in tho administration of the palace and 8 In the secret printing hou The 1’ojks has l groom of the chum! and fi Is sly servants. The Apostdllfc (linintor is coinjiosod of a president, ‘2d couriers, 3 servants and 3 orderlies dincl An tonelii and Gen. Kamdor a suite of 48 jK'rsons, while the Swiss Gnard and PoiUlficinl gond her 200. fourth tin »!• capital increasfs $5,000 a year. The sacred order of the United Trish- i-n lti-ilivivi have condemned to death a omher for exposing the seereta of the tier. Whether the sotiti'iico will he carried it is another matter. So says a New York paper. The aggregate amount of business me nt the New York sub treasury during the last fiscal year was $708,000,00(1. The amount of receipts from customs at the port New York was $111,000,000. The petition of the stockholders of the Missouri Pacific railroad, asking the present directors to resign, has the signatures of con trollers of 20,000 shares. WBKT. lie Ban Francisco insurance conipti- report losses by the Virginia City fire to the amount of $543,000. Tho liabilities the of national gold bank mid Trust company of San Francisco $800,000. The bank lias gone hi, and will not open again. i •••''•*- • « — — » 1 jist week the central pacific mi I read portieular Mmul keeping up company borrowed $10,000,IKK) in ‘ J '”’ * Hi*-lent .. mortgage of it* bonds, for the pur- 'Oiutriictiiig a railroad to Portland, Oregon. The stamps on the mortgage ropro d $8,740 Business failures arc still tho order Men ii •ptember estimate of small grains an grasses to be sown is too high, M that it The estimate Is now given as 20 pc over last year. amount of legal tenders deposited hy’lnsol- vent banks is $801,434, making a grand total of $20,(138,041, as above stated, In legal ten- ruiiKiox. The Czar of Uursla has just given a young Jew named Frehinaiin a eommissloii the Russian army. Frehinaiin is the first w who has ever attained the position of an officer. Thai insurgents in Turkey lmvc got far enough along to call nil assembly to proclaim a national government, in the meantime Turkey's Christian protectors In Europe are scowing over the Porte’s sly repudiation of $30,000,000 of interest on the national hands. The Peruvian government oilers to dis pose of 50,(KM) tons guano, at the deposits, at a fixed price to buyers in the United States, thu monopoly of the contractors in this coun try having been suspended-for the purpose. The territory on the right bank of the Svr Daria, from the Russian frontier to the river Nareen, hitherto belonging to the Kliok- and, is annexed to Russia. Peru is so dcjHMident upon the sale of her guano for* prosperity, that business hei-n ut n stand-still for some time, owin the fact that the French mid other contracts have not been confirmed. The government has been obliged to force a loan from the un willing bankers. Russia bits tho awful prospect of a famine before her, consequent upon the fail ure of the crops over a large district. With famine, nihilism, tho Central Aslan war and the Turkish question, Russia seem* to hove her hands full. Spain has nine inm-elads and thirty gun-bout* ready for active service, manned i.-iii I,,,-| by experienced and hardy seamen and well liquida- ' officered. The Spanish government, while -gligent in other particulars, has boon very small but Tho Porto Rleo people, it. has liecn at uounned, are rapidly working up a rchellln against Spain. Their opportunity Is a good i. There are only few Spanish troops “• " f •."*art Tail, agency, complains about the “squaw ion" there, and want* them abolished. Iteso “squaw-men" are white adventures ho have married Indian wives and are much esteemed by the. Indians. Spotted ltutte speech said lie liked them very much. An attempt to drive them juld protmhly bo resisted by the Indi um! Spain being,entirely occupied with the 'arlists and Chilians can not possibly hoik: liy re-enforcements. A club lias been organ Bed in New York to further the conspiracy ml it is possible that Porto Rico will iichicvi her independence without the tribulations of ilghbor, Cu ASTRONOMICAL 1‘ltRDlCTlONS. ...■iiMiiienn to lie Olwncil In tlie liens cos Oiirlnu Hie Nest Twenlj-ll»*> V«*wra— ■ :<-II|>m-«. 4'ouietn. itml Ntnr Nliuwern from Non lo ilie Next Century. To tho amateur astronomer, writes Professor Kirkwinid, a brief onumoration of tho principal phenomena to occur in thanear future will not to without in terest. Tlu' following list, includes the eclipses of the sun and moon, the tran sits of Mercury ami Venus; oeeulatioim of fixed stars by the moon, the return of periodic comets, the prolwblo dates of meteoric showers, and the epochs of maxima and minima of solar sjHits, from the present time till the close of the h century: On the morning of Novomtor Jl, Spies Virginia, a well-known star of the first magnitude, will to (teeulted by the moon. The imniofcddn behind tho moon’s hriglil limb will occur nlxiut 1:50 •’clock, or a few minutes after the moon •hall have risen. The oeeultntlon will •ontinue alsiut one hour and twelve minutes. 187ti. Three oeeultatioiw of the Plei- adose will take place in the last three months of the year, viz., on October tl, Novemtor 30, and Decomtor ‘28. Tin phenomena may to well observed with a small telescope. 1877. D’Arrest’s oompt will return to IHjriholion in .limitary of this year. A total eclipse of the moon', invisible In this country, will take place on the 27th of February. Another will occur on the 23d of August, partly visible in the stern states. 1878. This will lie the next year ol ipot minima. On May fi, Mercury will pass over the sun’s disk, the transit -upying 7h. 47tn. This, with a single eeption, Is the largest duration of a . transit on record. On the 28th of .Inly >re will lw an eclipse of the sun, total Colorado and also in the island of No other op|Ksrtunity of witness- ig a total eclipse in our own country ill occur till after the close of the pros- mt century. F.neke’s comet and the •oi.d comet, of 18(17, will L»th return to •rihellon in August. 1870. Brerscn s comet of short iicrlnd ill pass its jierihelion about the hist of June MIN<5KM.ANF.OUM. io foundering of the steamshi| Puelfie, between Portland mid Hun F aiinoiinoed. All on hoard are Postal curds were Ihhi office department last, n Issue by at least 500,000 ml by tho jmihI outli, the largest ■ver made in the Tint present Pacific railroad, : M-eially the California end of it, which s commencing a southern line of its rotn that side, is opjiosing, though villi great ojienncss, the Texas Pr ail mud project. According to the Springfield Repuldiean, Gould, head ot Union Pacific, ami Huntington, mmi- iger on this side of the Central Pacific, ire sending secret emissaries over the south, cultivating dissensions in -outhern mind on this question, and itig to prevent the southern oongrewmoit Ling a unit In favor of the Scott Ixmiity hill, when they get to Washing ton this winter. Tin: New York Herald publislu egraphic synojisis of the letters ri in 1/ondon.from Stanley. He says that LivingsUme was wrong in reporting that the Victoria Nvanza consisted of fiv lakes. Spoke correctly states that Vic toria Nyanza is one lake, but iSjiekc’s two islands are peninsulas. The river Thi- uu-ey is the principal feeder of the lake, ami the extremest source of the Nile yet discovered. Stanley had several con flicts with slave dealers on the lake. < >n one occasion he was attacked by one hun dred natives, armed with spears, in thir teen canoes, who were repulsed after a H-vere fight. Three natives were killed. He arrived at the ITteaina hunting camp at Mayum, April 13, when the king di rected extraordinary displays ami festivi ties. One feature was a naval review on the lake of eighty-four canoes, manned by 2,5000 men. On the second day in addi tion to the’naval maneuvers, there were races, in which eighty-four canoes, were engaged, each propelled by thirty oars men ; the king leading the fleet person- ally in the presence of a great crowd of lookers-on, including three hundred wives of the king. On the third day there was birdshooting and target prac tice, by three thousand troops, and on the fourth day they returned to Mto-a’s capital. This king has two million sub jects; is a Mussulman; has great intelli gence. and his dominion affords the tost augury for the possible civilization of NOI'TII. r 112,000 head of cattle have Urn dor driven from Texas this year. •rnl days ago the family • »t diaries Miuwcy, Sr., who lives at Fordvillc, Ky., were token suddenly ill. I'hysLlaiU profibUimed the effect of poison, and despite their effort*), the son, daughter and wife died* The physicians discovered the well used by the family to be filled with poison, either •Inline or arsenic. No person is min ed, but all think the poison was put In well by human hands. Others of Mr. Massey’s family, as well as he, are in a fair The United States supreme court has ordered the Arkansas H»t .Springs ••use >“ i The president has tipi minted John B ••■> aml l>y UK r . i’" |, '"l "[, 1(nyninil ,| i „ 1 »|„ 1j1 i.i.t ni Vi.kl.nnt, IIM> I* " 1)0 h ™ nl "" 1 "' „f It. 1’i‘iihii, mi ml,..I III, of Jnul.nrjr next. rlii'M. wiw <■ | „ „| cidud in favor of the. governuienl by the ; p n j tll of claims lust spring, and the claim- .f the title to the lauds involved ap pealed. A large array of counsel is engaged 1880. Winneeki’s comet (period fill ..ii.) will retun stout midsummer Hie moon will he totally eclipsed ol 111; invisible in the United SttttOH. __ _ 1881. A transit oil Mercury on May/, ive's comet may lie looked for In Jan- irv, and Eneke’s In November. 1882. The sun will to totally eclijMed Mav 17; the phenomenon toittg visible terl orTl.e will"' L -C l Z Molrtor W.K-rdc^Tho rial, imtrclmnl nieal event ol the \enr x\ui uo uiu . utl , 41tl i«.i« i„ , , r „rm- Tho supremo court of Maine has ccntly decided that if a person buys u rail road ticket for passage between two giv points, he has a right to rifle nil equal dis lance anywhere oil (lie load, and in direction. This decision is a just on the passenger is supposed lo pay for so many miles of transportation to nppen for tlie claimant*, prmitineiit among Matt II. Carpenter and Albert I’ikc. The Memphis cotton exchange aggre gates die report for thu month of October, as follows: Eighty five repp ft very favorable weather, forty-six more favorable than in 1874, thirty-two the same, ten not so favor able, six report exceptional heavy wind and min storms, eighty report killing fm*t from Uie ninth to the: twentieth. Average date of October fourteenth, average damage six per emit, forty report no damage, twelve report beneficial; eleven no killing frost see report* picked, North Mississippi thirty-five, pc Arkansas forty-two per rent; total average for this department forty ii Stales senator from Missis February 1874, to Inst March, tlie unexpired term of (b>v. Allies. He then appointed postmaster at Vicksburg, now inis been removed liiroiigli the inlliii of Ids colored successor, United States si tor Bruce, aided by a delegation from Mis sis-ippi. The following statistica a* to tho opera (ions of tlie fast mail trains in tlie west hnv been obtained from the poslofileo depart meat; Tlie until from !h<- east ami south east into Chicago weigh daily an average of 32,202 pounds. The mails from the north east, east mid soil til into St. ImiiiH weigh dully ' ^ an average of 10,203 pounds. Mails from irost - i ennes ^t |x»uis to Chicago weigh daily an averngi •nt of the cron , . .... . . . , .... of 1,218 pounds. I Ins includes only HI Louis proper and Arkansas mails. Mails Ten f rn,n Ubieago to Ht. I/Oiiis daily . ... I 2,V*3 pounds. This includes mail from north •slmmles that the picking season wil ; , lll(1 from Michigan. Mails going 1 i„,„ MI.HNiiurl for tin, ........lr>- Ok,i„„ 1 , 1 ,||„„ .tekMlnlly increased prof iielion o\» r < 11 n 8 1 ! ngc pO,7055 pounds. This includes mails j’.-r .'i ni, Nnrlli S ■’ I" r M J f roln a i| .liriifillonH, north, hoiiIIi m.fl , Arknn-ii- U 1" r * • ,l * ■ r,, k, i." r ' n , ]k, i.H- from Clcvi:l„ml fruin tl,.; mnilli pr''' 1 "' 1 '"" (,,r ll “; : i wnkl ilnily iiv,.rn«(i pmniilit tl.iH liea.1 Tcni.c»«rc rompluins tll.it 1 " ’ 1 . lilt, .Trip - i- mry line, .•miw.pii iilly linl.l.i to | Till! volunin of cnrri'licy III Itdlual sitIohh tlainriKi-'liy frn.l. In Uth Tinmi^wc-! imlntlnn limy 1„ imlhereil from llm f»ll..wliuc I \ rk . .irkn, , . Ini. «.rimn.!y rcUinlinl \ "tnllnli. i. olilnlnl'il from tl..- trmwllry llcpnrl- I„ Arkiuniui particularly tlifrn i« mnnt: The nmoiint of imtim.nl I.imk ,1„l„l Hint Ini.nriTK Imvr ni.il.nl for , v ; '!"• “P „ ir ,i,prior. f" r rpinkinp. Thru, k» U Novi .nh. r, .ncln.lv,• nml ».,. «„W.n.l l„..o roo.i.li nihlc .ImnOKO by tho Imll worm inn, w Mth,033,11021 Ihn .mount of li'ipil in Mi-i—ippi. Thlrly-folir r.-p.irt ilnm.ni- tmiilcr.! a. ptr public ilrht Nhltcniiiiit of li.i Africfi 1st of Novehiher, was $373,235,244; the rency in the treasury consists of $0,730,071, of wiiir.il about half is legal tendrrand half national lmnk notes; the fractional renov, according to the debt statement, $40,081,029.89; adding this amount to legal tender* afloat, we have $-113,917,873.89, and deducting one-half the currency balance, we have $409,049,538.39 .th the amount of government or federal currency actually ... circulation. Deducting from the national ] hunk notes issued half the currency Irnla i we find tlie amount of national bank i - in actual circulation to $340,70*,400.50, ■ uitnl currency circulation of $749,815,00 | Tile anioimt of legal tenders in the treasury i fin the first of November, held for redomj 1 tion of tlie national hank note circulation, £20,238,042; l>ut thin is n port of the where —All olil .--liip with II hist r-ii-i-il from the Sacramento -lie huu lain for some fifty year.-. Tins » 111.- 'nark Glol», SP3 tons, that snilml on a wlmling cruise from Nantucket to the Pncifu- iii December, 1822. Her crew inn .i„i, ,1 and murdered Dipt. M orthi and i- oliiccr. in 1S24, then fled to the Mul- L-raYC Islands, but the vea-el "'a- recoi-- ere<l and the mutineers taken miek to Nantucket and hanged. damage, estimate damage four per rent. Forty-four report laborers working well: forty-five not working twentv-seven in Missiiwippi assign political excitement as the cause; twenty- j seven, sickness in part; eighteen, 'depressed by low prices, and abandoning their own I crops to work for wages. No fears however, seem to be entertained, hut thut with favor- able weather the crop will be saved. Twenty- four answers that the September estimate of small grains and-grasses to be *otv» is too large’*fifty-six answer that it is not- The timnte now given is -ixt«:< n per cent, in crease over Inst year. The < auses given for falling short is the .time consumed in elec- t ; onR . by sicV.in --. The aggregate for Nortl'i Alabama, 14 report favorable weather, 9 more favorable than last-year, 5 about the. , , Ml report a killing frost from the $173,OOO.OOOof legal tenders,and the troflsnry lfith to the 18th Of October; 11 report officers regard it a* being in actual cireula- i . r i,. •< ilamaec; estimated average tion. The amount of money held by the damage’ll percent. Crop reported, -10 per | secretary of the treasury being balances of nicked. It is estimated that the pick- j disbursing officers, nml held by him subject 1 ‘ _ bv Dec. 17. Five report in- j to their checks, iH not precisely known, hut ' !ri -i n ti 1 ii two about the same, 7 a j is roughly estimated at $3,(*00,000 or $4,000,* ^ 'V-timated decrease, 1 per. cent. , (KjO, but varies from time to time. The totfil r" l' r th's lo ad the crop is reported to have ! amount of legal tenders deposited udder the l mie * ' . , v( . n -,, n .,. fl and growing ! net of June 20, 1874, allowing hanks to re- V^.rZuii'Tii.vkillini! fro.| g . Thn- n- | .luce tli.-ir clrciltath.n, I. 327,932,132, The ■ o by rot 11 no damage. ; amount of national bank notes actually re* i’ i,r ! 1 ■ ru; :,: T wi<n. <<■ i urea« •. <«vin» «i* Estimated damage 2 'A ptreenu port laborers working well, 2 not, ness and' depressed T>y Jow prici HAT IN' IN NK.AItCII OF A NKCONO W1FF. rnurr MOTitnn*tN-i.Aw. ills Miijest.v, 8n|an,oiie mornliiR awoke, Amt toiinit tliht lib wile wait iW • lie unlit to lihiiM'lf, " This m really My lioiiKoliokt nspiln* ‘ ‘ Tlie dohiiicl. here IkiIow InniK'liulil ivquli cn a Inset | ituuot, tiere Uilow, wiw a umrvel of wi ms>k her'miewssor, above, on tho curt "ShouuiHt tw witty sild nimble ot tonttim, Hhruwd n« die stirewdmt nt men; • ,V Uxuity, of roiiroe-wllh me Hint menus y Somewherelietween twenty nml ten; mill Ik- loveil for iiifsolt nlotie, And not tor my'dark fi’itnnle thromi! •' lint for inon> Important than Immty or youth, Though ot course 1 want those as welt.i Am the virtues of Innocence, candor and truth j For though |hhi|<1o speek evil nt llell, I'liore lire ilulles attneliisl lo Its loading uwdllmi, And Bui wife of Its I’ll lice must defy Ml Riis- Ai tho Devil sot forth on hto ronjngel ipirnl ut u iiuceii tor the renluis In<1ow, Uni 1m lound that Im lost his nntuml rest, And Ids pmgnvo was terrltily Mow t For the woman ho wanted w»» hard l»i (null And the nine of his kingdom weighed dll tils mind, Tho lUllgiitorn of Kiiuland were lovely, hi) saw, A linthm ot fnlr-hulrod i|ius , n»; llul those nvsv lljtseould Iht down tho law, And I hoy lived tsiyoml Ids *••• qulutlr wandered '*"*•- I hero tli to Framv, no ne iiuioiir wnnuereo otsi hi rmira, And I hero the Parisians list him a dance He really ihouuhl lor a while lie had (imnd Tho actual thing that lie wanted, Hut bolero he luul gone hall the Fmitwiirg nroumt, The devil ts-gno U» Im daunted. •‘These Indite am oulUi tswoiid me, thill Is plain, lie said to lilmsoU -olid lie left lor Hpalli. Hut them, tlinugh tlie women worn pretty and kind, Once more ho was disappointed. They had hearts to Ikj sure, hut ho wanted a mtnu; And their linlr was loo much anolnlcd. Ho attain lit* Majesty sullied forth And tills tlhio ho tiiongld lie would visit tho North 1 lint why should 1 tell of IiIh lengthening work And of all tho countries ho tiled V Till he suddenly thought ono flue day of New York And Instantly thitherward hint. who, whon ho wnv I Item ontor, crlctl out : “Alt, good morning Molstor Woonloni You tire widcoum.” “ l come to propoHO n ginxl aj>co,uliitlou to you.” “Ych! WlmtiHitV” “ I Jiavo nil order from thogovoriHnont for four hundred EBouwutd jtorrlug, to Ikj dellvorcd within n month. Gnu you fur nish um with that numlwr in, any throe wooku?" “ At what prloo ?” “ Ten florlttH it thousand.” “Ton florluttl Yes, I will furnish thorn.” " Very woll, nml now to dinner; I am half fnmlHhed. At table we will talk of another matter.” Woordon Introduced the subject of tho marriage, but Van Ellmrg could not lw iwreuauod to increase the dowry he had ofiorod to give his danghU>r Ui the amount of a single stiver. They never theless decided that the wedding should take place that day week. The following day Woordon and his son returned home. Hardly had they left BroOk when the young man asked: “ Then, father, you hare changed your mind?” “ How so?” “ Have you not oflbred to accept the dowrv offered by Meistor Van Ellmrg?” “ mo iniumge tho matter in mjr Hut. quick as no was, win wniueii wn.u •.■.■>•7. t’lu'lr iusuls were chstr anil tliclr honrts wert' stcwly. They took olio look, amt they lookot litm through, Amt limy «»w what tm wanl«t at om-e; Ho liinneeiice Isvunwl from tlmlr ortw ot tilao • ‘ iiutor was ipiecn lor tlui nonco: ahoulit hnva mv’ii how llislr syeltils fell as, tho women were mnly, Amt tlioy saw what tie wauled at i liiius'oin-e Uvuneit from llmlr oris. ... Ami nuidor was queen lor tho nonco: Ii! you should have seen how llielr eyi-nop • ;title they timidly asked tor the nows from I Doth was lhitterc<t and (tiirrlol and pleascsl, what mllnmuuiit, what seiiaot his noltoiis, halMitutist, were set ml, n,,..........ng ho Nitit gnvo oltlmaot llo thought ho had acou half tjuwo IksiuUos Uifore, W lull grace, what rolliieiuunt, what seimot ulckty his noltoiis, halMitutist, —- nothing ho until gnvo oltlmaot iio imnighl lio had acou half ttuwi Im.H.i.n Tho bettor he knew them ho liked them the i lint tlino was pr<swing, lie could not wall, Tlinugh lie scarcely knew how tnehnoso, Ho lie offered his crown ami Ms royal ntnto, lllinaoll nud Ills dead wllo'ssluaw ‘o a ihitnsel whose candor and virtues Intact Though ho scarcely know hoiv hi chooso, i ho offered his crown nml his royal i' lltinsell aud fils dead wllo’sshiaw To a ilamocl whoso nuidor and virtues mm.. Were all Hull tlin Dovll tilumull could exact. Sho Hceeptod lilsolTor, and did not ro|»ont the day of her wadding draw nigh. know Hint to I loll I haro'a an esav dcseonl her frtoiids would drop In hy sml by, While iho dovll deolarwt filmmdf more nml in Am tho Inilores 1 cmntura ho tondarly prosswl. Dot whon ntiij was married and safely Inslulhst As queen In the regt'ins of shmlo It Is said Unit tho Dovtl was soiimwlmll apisiliod At tho Imrualn ho found lie had ■unto. Amt minnrkist, "Twoukl lmvo been, on llm wli nulla us wall ,, 11ml I lurried nt homo nml married In Hell I A (IAMH OF SPKCHI,ATKIN. i'ran«it nf Vciiun (ill l(m Mil of Novom- Iht, which will Ik. vhllil# In tho Unlu.il IStiiteH. 1883. A maximum of huh Hj»ota ih Ui . ,i expected tliirt year. The comet of 1812, whose period wiih estimated at 70 yearn and R montliH may he exjMTted some time during the year. Tho comet of D’Arrest may also Iki looked for in Juno or duly. 1884. The second comet of 18(17 will puss its jH'rihelioti in April. A eonsider* uhlo display of the meteors of April 20 may he cxjtoetod with wnne prohahilily. Tho period of this ohiHtor is Hiip|H>wd to ' • aihiiit- twenty-seven years. A total ■lipse of the moon will ootfur on the 4th of < letolxsr. 1885. Tli nearest the neke and Tuttle in March. 188(1. Winnccko’H comet will return in ohrunry. Tho hiiii will Iki totally , ,'lipsed August 20. Viaiblo in Grenada and on the Atlantic. That part of the of November liieteors which j-“ .1 1,,,...,.... ..C I 7M7 nml 1 K*)(l ii •t of Brorsen will Ik 1 n January; those of duced tlie showers of 1787 and 1820 may lieexpoctcd to return liotween 1885 aud 1888. 1887. Total eclipse of tho sun, August 10, Visible. In Asm and muitorn Europe The comet of 1815, according to MchhoI’ •alculatioiiH, will he in perihelion in Eel rl * 1*888. The moon will he totally eclipsed January 28. Eneke’s and Fnyo’H comet* will return iiIkiuI inidHummcr. 1880. D’ArreHt'H comet will return In November, and the, second comet of 1807 ember. A minimum of HtlfWq>oU( cncctcd 1800. iirnount of legal tenders deposited by hanks 11 into liquidation i. $4,811,692. The Brorsen’s comet will lw nearest the mm in August. 1801. A return of Wninoekc's comet it) September, anil of Eneke’s in OeUdtcr. transit of Mercury, May 0. 1802. A display'of meteors derived .. on Biclu’s comet may lw expected about November 24. 1804. A fell ii-Knot maximum. A tran sit of Mercury, November 10. 1805. Eneke’s cofuet, will become visi ble in January; the second of 1807, in August; and Faye's in December. The moon will be totally eclipsed on the night of March 25. 1800. Perihelion passage of Brorson s eomot in February, and of D’Arrest’s in A total eclipse of the sun will occur on tlie morning of August 10. Visible in Lapland and high northern latitudes. 1807. Winncckc’s comet will be due in April. 1808. Eneke’s comet will return in Mav, and Tuttle’s in October. The moon will be totally eclipsed on the night of December 27. 1800. Tho maximum display of Lcon- dis, or November meteors, may Ik; cx- Iiceto.d this year on the morning of the I'fitli of the ifionth. Omsiderable show ers, however, will probably lx: witnessed each year from 1807 to BIOL Temple’s comet, which is connected with these meteors, and which preceded them in 1800, will probably pass its jierihelion in March. 1000. A total (fcllpsc of the sun will lw visible in Virginia May 27th. The first comet of 18(58, whose jxjriod is thirty- three years and seven months, will return in the summer of 1900. The 8olur-Hj>ot minimum will occur in the last year of the century. Tlie foregoing list makes no claim to completeness. None but total eclipses have been pointed out, and even some of these may perhaps have been overlooked. 'Die most important celestial phenomena, however, ami especially such as may l>c omerveu in our own country, have wen briefly designated. of Amsterdam,sat quiotly in his big ....... chair liesldo the fire. On tho table there was a little brass lamp, a mug of beer, mid a big clay pipe. On tho other side of the fire sat an old maid servant, whose rotundity botrnyed her Flemish origin. Hho was occupied In shoving hack thu coals that had fallen on tho hearth, when there canto a loud knock at the street door. “Who can that lie? Go nu« see, sahl the old merchant to the maid, who had riHon to her feet. A few moments later a stalwart young man entered the room. Ho threw off his mantle and nppt'pncUed tho fire. “ Good evening, father,” said In*. “ How? Is it you, William?” I did not expect you hack so soon.” “ I left Brook this morning, blit tho roads are so bad that we have been the whole day on the way.” » Well, did you see Van Ellmrg 7 “ Yes,” said the young man, seating hiinsolf Ik*fore tho fire ; Meistor Van El lmrg consents to the marriage, hut he adheres to his determination to give Ins daughter a dowry of only four thousand ducats.” “Well, then, ho may keep Ins daugh ter nml dowry,” replied Woordon, with a frown. “ But, father-—” “ Not a word, my son. At your age we lmvo mi more sense than to sacrifice everything for love, and to despise riches.” . ... “ But Herr Van Ellmrg is the richest merchant in Holland, and wlmt ho does not give now will Ih; ours at his death.” “Nonsense!” replied Moistcr Woer- dcn. “Ain I, too, not sick? Listen, my son. You will noon follow me In my business. Never forget these two rules: never give more than you receive; nml never further another man’s interest to tho detriment of your own. Guided by these principles, one will licttcr his dition in marriage ns well as in trade. “ But, father—” “ Not another word my son—not other word 1” William knew his father too well to say anything more, but ho could not avoid evincing his displeasure by his manner. To tli is, however, the old man paid no attention; ho calmly filled his pipe, lighted it, and l>egan to smoke. • Again there was a loud raj) nt the street door, while at the same time the dog Ixigan to bark “Aha!” said ... a ay, my son, and vsk no questions. When the wedding came, Woordon and his son returned to Brook. Van El lmrg recolvcd thorn kindly, but ho was so flurried and nervous that William feared he had some had nows for thorn. His father, hoWOVOr, had no such mis givings; tho old fox knew too well tho cause of his colleague’s disturbed man- What is the matter, Moistcr Van El lmrg?” ho asked, with it sardonic smile. “ You soontod to l>o worried about some thing?” “ Ah, my friend I tun greatly embar rassed. I must speak with you. “Wlmt Is it? Have you changed your mind with regard to tho marriage? Bpoak frankly ; It Is not too late.” “ No, no; it is another matter cn- roly.” “ Well, then, let us first proceed with the wedding ceremony. Afterward I shall he quite at your service.” Tho company, therefore, repaired to i» ..jighboring church, and in a low minutes the young )>coplo were husband and wife. Whon they returned to the house, Van Ellmrg asked Woordon to go with him into Ids private room. “ My Irlcnd,” bourn Van Ellmrg, when he had carefully closed the door, “in accordance with our agreement 1 should within two weeks from now de liver to you four hundred thousand ItorrinjrH. Thus far, howovor, I have not i)oon aide to procure a single one. Thoro are none in the market; they have been all bought up.” “ Certainly they have; I bought them up myself,” replied \V«*erden, smiling. “ Biit—but—how about nty contract? stammorod Van Elbtirg. “ You will fulfill It. Listen, friend Van Ellmrg; you will some day leave your daughter a handsome fortuno; I shall leave my hou at least as much ; it is, therefore, necessary to discuss their future. This, however, Is not true of the present. 1 shall soon give my ontlro business to my son, while you give your daughter only four thousand ducats. I could not ojijkiso tho wishes of the young pooplo; but when I cdiisented to their union, I determined to comix'l you to do your duty toward them. With this oh- .[i5ct in view I contracted with you for four hundred thousand herrings, at ten fibrins a thousand, although 1 then had all the herrings in the market. Now, lit order to comply with the terms of your FACTS AND FANCIES. —Another‘'brilliant wedding.” TIih young man with a flower on his coat io to marry the young woman with the habit of saying "The tdc-yah.” A lVnnsylvanian named Wingort cut Ids too off Iwcauso of an aching corn, ami then hung himself because of tho aching of thu amputated toe. —A new mode of disjiersittg a mob him lwon discovered—said to supersede the necessity of a military force—it is to pnsH around a contribution l»ox. —Patti lias so many diamonds that it takes one man constantly to watch them, either at home or abroad, and double care is taken while traveling. —Miss Nancy Valentine,of Cumber land, Maryland, was one hundred years old in August last; and where Is tho man who wants Miss Nancy for his Val entine? , , ... —A Dutch assessor says it is positively amusing how cheap projiorty Imcomes iih ho passes up or down a street. It falls seventy per cent, whenever ho enters a house. —If your ltorHCs have the epizisit, dis solve a tensiMKUiful of crystal chlorate of potash In a Bucket of water, this amount making a morning dose for four horses. —A purchaser of a riverside property asked the real estate agent If the river did not overflow Uh hanks. “ Well, said he, "It isn’t ono of thoso sickly streams that are always conflnod to their beds.” . , , —Various Amorlcan artists who have boon living and working abroad during the pnst ton years lmvo returned home, convinced that Amorlcan cities afloril Ijcttor market for tholr work than sil Euroj>o. Tint eruulest joke Hint Imppened (Ids year Was that of tlui cheeky piisHCiiKOor Who imsscd a countorfcU sliinplnstoar On mi Innocent horsc-cnr eonutictoor, Ami then slliqieil out of the car nt the rear Anil round the corner wnltzod off on his ear. —Tho Rev. Henry Morton’s sermon on “ Seventeen Reasons Why Men Don’t Go Ui Church ” i» likened hy wine (Hjqplo to that famoiiH Hong with 40(1 vomoi. Iho find rciiHon why men don't go to church is Ixicnuso they don’t want to, and tho seventeenth reason In tho Hiuno. —For fifty cents a Detroit astrologist predicts one huslmnd and a moderately iiappy life; for u dollar she predicts a second huslmnd worth a million dollars and u houso full of love and felicity. And thut woman is a fool who doesn't pay one dollar and take the Hecoml husband first. —Tho St. Louis Times revives dear old memories by remarking: “There are young men who cannot hold a skein ol Yarn for their mothers without wincing, but will hold ono hundred and twenty- five pounds of a neighboring tainily for tho befet part of tho night with a patience and docility that are ccrUilnly pho- —Tho Into eccentric Miirttuisof Water ford offered a railroad company £5,000 if they would allow him to witness tho exciting spectacle of two engines dashing Into one another at full ffimed from op- I mm ite dlrectfonHon the witno Hue; hut the company could not see the matter in a sporting light, and tho offer was res- imctfully docYlncd. -Always l>e courteous. The maxim mis ffpjiorinoHt in tho mind of tho lady, who, wishing to say .a lively thing, ex claimed : ” What a lovely lx»y! .! list the image of his father!” kneeling in simu lated onthushumi bcHldd the cradle where she supposed tho bnbo was sleeping, when, hi her confusion, tho cat sprang from the cot and cut short her culogluin. —Edwin Booth ban discovered thing new during his confinement from j his broken arm which he will^ Introdireo airrcement. Von must buy from me, and into his next impersonation of Hamlet. iy price is^fifty florins a thousand; you It is that in Hamlet s time, no such tjdng lmvo, therefore, only to pay ...- the. sum of sixteen thousand florins and wo shall Ijc square. . . While Moistcr Woordon was arriving at tli Ih mercantile deduction, Vim Ll- liurg regained his wonted equanimity. “J hoc, I see,” said ho, "you are a ever tradesman. I am fairly caught, id must hide the consequence.” Their conference ended, the two old merchants rejoined the wedding com pany, as though nothing unusual had occurred between them. A week later, Van Ellmrg went to Amsterdam ostensibly to see his daugh ter. Now the tables are turned. “Ah, moistcr,” cried Woordon, on w.-eing his colleague from Brock, “ 1 am in a terrible dilemma. The time is ap proaching when I must deliver four hun dred thousand herrings, and not a cask can I find to put them in.” “That dtM'H not Hiirjirist; m swered Van Ellmrg, smiling; "you tought up all my herrings, and I bought iiji all your casks.” Alia!” said Meistor Woerden, .. must he a stranger, or tho dogs wottldn t bark so. Go aud see who it is, Wil The young man went to the window. “ A horseman! What can he want ? At this moment the maid-servant en tered, and handed Woerden a letter. Ho carefully examined the seal. “ From the government,” said he. H is hand trembled as ho hastily otusnod the letter and read it, hut suddenly the old tradesman’s face liilited up witl joyous expression iih lie cried: “ Good—good! 1 accept.” The letter contained an order for four hundred thousand herring for tho army, Ut Ik; delivered within a month. “William,” cried the.old man, have a capital thought. You would marry Van Elburg’s daughter, and have a handsome dowry with her.” “ Yes, father, I would ; hut—” “ Well, leave the matter with ... , interrupted the old man. " But sec that there are two horses readyTor.'us to-mor row morning early.” The next morning, at sunrise, father and son were on the high road from Am sterdam to Brock, which they reached atout midday. They repaired imme diately to the residence of Van Elburg -There are some peculiar facts con- ..*rning the distribution of the nightin gale In Europe. It is found ns far north ns Sweden and as far west as bjMitn and Portugal, and yet it never visits Kcot- land, Ireland or Wales. From the bound aries limiting its habitat in England, it apjicars that the bird is restricted to those portions of the country which are covered with secondary or tertiary geological formations. Hence it may to inferred that the insects on which it lives do not obtain means of subsistence where the primary soil prevails. —An apparatus for washing smoko, and thus depriving it of its character of a nuisance, is in operation at a factory at Mcnilmontant, Paris. A fine shower of water, traveling In the direction of the smoke, and at five times Its velocity, iH projected into the chimney, where it mixes with tho smoke, taking up the Holuablo gases and precipitating tlie im purities carried up with the smoke hy he draught. The foul water is dis charged Into a cistern, where it is col lected,and a fine black paint is got from it —A young gentleman lately attended the circus for the first time, and on the Sunday following was taken hy his grand mother to church. Ho gazed around in Homo wonderment for a few moments. When tho organist began to play he turned to his grandmother and said: “Grandma, wilbthere to a circus, so J can, see a lion?” “‘Why, no, Eddie, this is church.” “ Well,” replied the little follow, " it’s circus music, anyway.” -There never wan hut ono woman who didn’t tolieve that her husband would take a second wife if site died, and that woman got killed on the cars. Ullll III Iimmuvn civet was known, and Hamlet s dross Booth hereafter will be stripped of V °—A* voting fellow entered a church and took his seat, keeping his hat on. An elder noticing it requested him to toko It off. His request not being complied with to HiKiko to the young man a second time, ami seeing ho still hesitated, the elder gently lilted the hat ofl, when, to his chagrin, out rolled a quart of hickory nuts, making more noise than was con sistent with decorum. "Man, quietly said the youth, "see what you have done.” _ TltlClIINOSIH. Tim Mltl« Worms l,n » ,h,, v IriHih ant for I hem. microscopic examination of txirk killed in hou them! torn Indliinn, wo lmvo from throe to Hi |*r cunt, of tho 1mm oirootcil with trichinoHlH, the number of lrogH cllHonucd vuryinR greatly in clillorciit localities. , * a. That over 5,(8)0,000 hogs are slaught ered and packed in the western states, not including th<mo which are put up fur family use hy the farmers: that it four tx>r cent, of this pork Is diseased, which we believe to to a low estimate, wo have 211,484 diseased hogs put annually upon the market; or, at an average of 200 pounds to the hog, 44,290,800 toitnds of diseased meat, every ounce of which, under fiivumblocircunwlnnccH, mcnpnhlc of producing diHniHo. .... That from tho ciuhw of trichinorla that came under our observation, and the mist mortem examinations, and the effects upon tho diseased meat, we have come to the conclusion that 90 per cent, of dis ease produced hy eating trichinoiiH pork appears either as gnsto-onteritis, or ns a diarrhea or dysentery, and not more than 10 por cent. a» the fully, developed form ot trichinosis, in which the mus cular system becomes affcoreu. That as diarrhea, dysentery and cn- i„g 31,143 deaths i/l870, as shown hy tlie last census rephrts; seen that a largo/Tunount of trichUijns iK>rk, capable qf projlucing these is among the principal .articles qf in our country; \yc think it mo , prolmble thut tnchnuu * !! IS. h teen reeognigqd ra’iSSttenl^^nr^gnl^ luH highiy prohnhlc thut, when th ofrlc t heoo nira mo’ro fcrnly known hnt so large n imr ccnUigc of pork « Hwanning with trlclmm, m|ahlo of pro- Uuclng uiaouHC. it may lmvo nn oiR.ct JL ‘tteuKcof thin meat, and conae- riiientiy affect tlie wile, to mine extent, of one of tho principal articles of com- merec tn the west.—Dr. Cleorgt SutlOli.