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W, S-. D. WIKlE & CO., Proprietors.
C El) ART OWN, GEORGIA,. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1870
VOLUME II. NUMBER 30.
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W’KUAI. fine log* of magnolia are to
’** diippcd from Florida to a New York
bouse for the pur|*o"o of engraving.
When thoroughly dried they are said to
in* very sligli^^ if nt all, inferior to
box-wood. FlMlu can furnish an in
exhaustible supply of the material.
The khedivo of Egypt is offering an
other lot gof Such canal shares to the
highest bidder. Ferdinand l>e Louse p*
is trying to buy the stock for a company
of French capitalists, hut as England
has got huv hand in that pie, she will
doubtless outbid the Frenchmen. Hho
is Uetcrmined to control the canal.
A M ai*n11* dispateli speuks of prepa
rations for the coast defense of C.'uba,
when the t'arlist insurreetion is sup-
pressed.” As it looks now, it will bo a
long timo boforo those heavy guns are
I'1 uecs 1 in |M«ition on the Cuhau shore.
Don Carlos, having just been left a large
fortune by the death of his uncle, will
l)e able to hold his provinces indefinitely.
Mu. Pi.imnu.i.hnssecured'immortality
nlrc.ndy, whether he ever bus a monu
ment or not. A short yellow band, (minted
amidships, nlsmt six inches lielow that
which has always been regarded as the
"hip's water-line, which is being put upon
British vessels by order of the Hoard of
Admiralty, is ealled by the sudors " lMiin-
w»ir» mark." It will nmke a considerable
differenco in the nmoiint of cargo which
it will lie lawful for the ship to carry.
out. “ It may Ik) lieforo we ore many
i weeks older." "The state of affairs," he
added, " is really «o sorioui that it is im
possible for a man in my jMwition to dwell
too strongly upon it."
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Is the Sanitarian for January wo find
some interesting statistics with reference
to the public health in cities. The sta
tistics of mortality per 1,000 inhabitants,
annually, from all causes and certain
special causes, are ns follows: The
(wirts for the month of November, 1875,
for Memphis, (icpulution 15,000, shows
the death rate to have been 21.83 per
l.uoo inhabitants. Nushville, with a
(•opulutiou rated nt 27,000, death rale,
80.81 ; Knoxville, (sipulatiou 11,000,
death rate 21.81; Cincinnati, (Hipulation
202,890, death rate 28.5'.); New York,
population 1,000,000, death rate 22.76;
Brooklyn, ]>opulutioh 500.000, death rate
25.01; Boston, population 842,000, death
rate 25.15; New Orleans, population
202,000, death rate 26.01; Washington,
population 100,000, death rate 22.38;
Newark, New Jefsey, population 120,-
000. death rate 25.01; Charleston, popu-
lation 50,540, death rate 21.84; Mobile,
population 40,000, death rate 21.00.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
Of the sevoral States of the Union in
res|H'ct to annual wealth, according to
nheud
mules and
cattle,
the census of 1870, Illino
horses and swine; Missouri i
asses; New York in milch
in working oxen and othc
Ohio in sheep. New York is far ahead
of any State in dairy products, furnishing ;
one-fifth of the butter of the country, 1
nearly half the cheese and more than !
half the milk sold. The value of all live !
stock in New York is greater in the ag- I
gregate than in any other State.
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They have got John Chinaman in
Australia and don’t know wlmt to do
with him. John is a standing *conuu-j
drum with the Francisco dignitaries, j
They have Iried cheating, mobbing, I
shooting, and various other innocent j
little exited ion ts, with nlsmt ns much
effect as pop-guns have upon an army of
locusts. Nolxnly has suggested an appli- ■
cation of kindness. It would Ik* a novel I
expedient, to lto sure, but it might pay
to try the effect of a powerful dose.
•General <’<n.gritt, of Georgia, in a
recent address, said, "To remove stumps
from a field, nil that is necessary is to
have one or more sheet-iron chimneys,
some four or five feet high. Hot fire to
the stump and place the chimney over
it, so os to give the requisite amount of
draft at the bottom. It will draw like a
stove. The stump will warn 1k> con
sumed. With several such chimneys of
diffcient sire*, the removal of stump*
may l*e accomplished at merely nominal
labor and expense.
The police of Ht. Louis have lieen
ordered to arrest everybody selling Missouri
state lottery* tickets.
Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, has ac
cepted an invitation to deliver the opening
address of tin* southern state agricultural
and industrial exposition, at New Orleans,
on the 2fill* of February.
The culture of tobacco in western
North Carolina is now n settled fact. Thou
sands of pounds of fancy wrapper* are now
produced where ten years ago the crop was
scarcely known.
A difficulty oocurred in Freetown,
opposite New Orleans, on the 25th, between
n few whites and blanks, which resulted in
one or two of the latter being roughly han
dled. After that quiet reigned until about
seven o’clock, when Harney M’Uiritc, John
Itoiissett and Jean (’. Itousselt, while stand
ing in front of a liar at Rower’s cnflee-housc
to hr served with drinks, w ere fired at by lie
groi n, nad the firsi two were instantly killed
and tin* latter probably mortally wounded.
Senator Johnston, who has just been
re-elected by the legislature of Virginia to
another term ill the United Htales senate is a
nephew of Gi n. Joseph K. Johnston. lie is
about 55years of age, and, before going to tho
senate, never held any public xcept
that of judge, to whieh he was appointed by
a military commander.
The city treasurer of Buffalo, Bork by
name, has proved n defaulter to the tune of
about a quarter million dollars, lie has gone
where the woodbine twiliulh.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
cites several instances showing the great
shrinkage of rents in that city. A store on
Grand street, near llrnudwny, which has
her
[*d for
Extremes meet, and in thin doctrine
is a whole library of explanation of sing
ular things. Physically extremes are
always meeting. " Westward tho course
of empire takes it* way;” our fathers
cante from tho east and our songs go to
the west, but if wc should wish lo see
our fathers we should only have to go
far enough to the westward, whilo if we
chose to travel long enough towards the
cast wc should oome across our non*
again. In the ring also extremes are
always meeting, and tho ring is one of
the symbols of eternity.
The discovery of a Ruling lake in the
Eland 'of Dominica has excited much
scientific interest, and investigations of
the phenomenon are to lx* made by geol
ogists. It ap|K*ars that a company ex
ploring the steep and forest-cove red
mountains lx-hind the town of Boascau
came upon this boiling lake, about 2,500
feet above the sea level, and two miles
in circumference. On the wind clearing
away for a moment the clouds of sul
phurous .'strum with which the lake won
covered, a mound of water was seen ten
feet higher than the general level of the
surface, caused by ebullition. 'The mar
gin of the lake consists of beds of sul
phur, and its overflowing found exit by
a waterfall of great height.
The opinion prevails, not only on the
continent but in England, that a general
European war is imminent. The Duke
of Cambridge, head of the British army,
in a speech he made a few days ago said
that not only was it a mistake to suppose
that the danger of a war with China was
over; not only were England’s relations
with Burmah still critical; not only was
England now involved in a difficulty in
the Malay settlement, but the condition
of affairs on the continent made it prob
able that a general war would break
been rented fur f 5,000 for the first year, be
ginning May I. |i;.0U0 per nnuutii for each of
the two years following , another store, in the
same neighborhood, which was formerly
leased at $15,000 per annum, hns been taken
for tin- coining year at $0,000; and $12,000 is
the best offer Unit can lie gotten far another
store which in more prosperous times rented
for • .'7,000. In rents for ordinary property
there are indications of n decline compared
with hist year, hot in no case so marked as in
the eases above named.
Tho city of New York contains 1,040,-
037 inhabitants, and Kings county, ineltidiii
Tho ■
. New York
New York
Itrookiyn .
Tlitin the
1,110
fifty thousand more
foreign voter* in New York than there are
native horn, among these latter must be
many who are the sons of foreigner*. In
the last ten years the number of naturalized
foreign voters has about doubled, while that
of native born ha* only increased from .01,-
rOHKICI*.
That the French are determined to
have every available man under urm* is
shown by Gen. Cisscy’s last order, requiring
the registration, for military purposes, of all
* lior
Jan.
id De<
31, 1871. Defaulter* will incurafinc varying
in amount from 10 to 200 francs, besides im
prisonment from 15 duys to 3 mouth*.
Great Britain has naw five iron clads
under construction; the Inflexible, to carry
four guns of the heaviest caliber; the Shan
non, a nine-gun screw ship; the Nelson and
Northampton, double screw ships of twelve
guns each, and the Temeraire, an eight-gun
"hip-
The khedive of Egypt, judging from
the dispatches, is finding his Abyssinian
campaign A more difficult piece of business
than he anticipated. A detachment of his
army lias been mu*sacred by the troop* of
King Johannes, including some American
officers. Notwithstanding a recent English
interference with his operations, Ismail will
now go into uu expensive war with Abys
sinia, which will result in the annexation of
that country with Egypt. There ore difficul
ties in the way, because, the Egyptian gov-
eminent is not very well supplied with funds,
and the khedive has not yet succeeded In
entirely subjugating Darfur. The Abyssinian
difficulty commenced by an incursion of
those people in -Egypt, which was readily
made a pretext of war by the khedive. KiJ-
lup Pasha was then sent south, and bus met
with success, but the present disaster must
lead to the concentration of the Egyptian
troops on the frontier. England, haring in u
measure taken the khedive under her pro
tection, may yet have to assist her new ward,
a* she did Turkey twenty years ago.
Tho now lino of fortifications around
Paris I* rapidly approaching completion. It
extends over one hundred miles, and in
cludes many detached forts a* Impregna
ble as modern military science can make
them. Hui after tho eats and the gorrillus
are nil eaten up, what then?
Of tho* Suer, canal share*, there were
400,000 issued. England having purchased
177,000 *lmres from the khedive, then* re
main 223,(HH) to he accounted for. It has
been assorted that 207,111 of these lire held
in France ; hut on the other hand, it is *aid
that they were mainly purchased by French
intents for foreign account.
Last summer Minister Foster stated to
the Mexican government that it was within
the power of the United State* government
to provide u remedy, with the approval of
Mexico for tliu depredations committed by
the Mexicans on tho Ainerieiui atdo of the
Rio Grande. The remedy was for regular
troop* to follow the raiders across the
border, or to temporarily occupy certain
point* in Mexico where raider* ero*s the
river. The reply of the Mexican secretary
of foreign affairs was that the executive had
no authority to grant such permission with
out the consent of congress,and it would not
lie prudent to n*k for such consent, as the
sentiment of the country would not approve
it. Mr. Foster remarked to the secretary
that if (lie depredations continued, and no
serious efforts he made liy the Mexican au
thorities to punish the millers, a repetition
of General M'Ketizie's course might lie an
ticipated, a* protection to the citizens of
Texas must be afforded, and if not given hv
the Mexican government it would come by
the United States. In addition to the do-
nml by Mr. Mnreseal, Mexican minister lit
Washington, of pending negotiations for the
acquisition of Mexican territory, it may he
stats l that Minister Foster Informed the
Mexican government he was authorised to
say that our government hud no dcNlro to
acquire territory on their frontier, hut the
press in the United States, in reporting the
frequent depredation, was creating strong
public Hciitimciit in favor of an aggressive
policy, and tho acknowledgment by Mexico
of it* innhi.ity to restrain the IiiwleNsn$s*
would afford the strongest possible argument
to ndvoeatCH of the acquisition of territory*
Thorn woro 19,289 deaths in Ireland
during the first three-quarters of 1K75, in u
population of 5,300,000, tin* greatest mortal
ity prevailing in Ulster. Emigration has
tly decreased, 5,000 emigrant* less hav
ing been reported than in the corresponding
period of last. year. A considerable decrease
in pauperism uud crime is also recorded.
Spain is mure nr lew agitated over the
prospective early return of cx-Quacn Isabella
ait country. It i* said that her return
would prove disastrous to the Alfon*ol*t
cause, uu it would produce nothing loss than
n revolt in tho army. Her son, the reigning
monarch, insist* on her again entering Spain
while the mitii*try are decidedly opposed.
Venezuela i* in an unpleasant (waition.
A Dutch licet i* concentrating lit ft.
TIiouiiin, preparatory to mi effort to compel
tin* Venezuelan government to reopen tin*
ports of Maracaibo and Coro, which were
closed to Holland not long ago, and a great
revolution ha* broken out in Maturin,
headed by Gen. Cnlltin, who proposes to
overthrow the government of ('resident
Hliinco and place himself at the head of the
republic. He twee n two niicIi fire* Hlaneo
will douhtleou gel the worst of it.
A Madrid special states that (.'omit
Pgunurostro i» in Paris officially arranging
for tho return of ex-Queen Isabella to Spain.
King Alfonso opposes the ministry oil thi*
important matter, lie declare* tin- minis
ter* may resign, Imt that his mother must
have nil asylum in Mpnin. Her residence is
to he in Valladolid. Madrid is not conshl-
i red a safe place for her. It I* believed this
serioii* issue ha* been forced oil AIIoiiho by
Isabella, and that t o* result will he most
disastrous. The Hpani*h army will he di
vided atomic if tlie queen take* any part in
(lie direction or counsel of *tatc affair*.
I-abolla'* return will even causo the loss of
Honor Hagnstn to Lite Royalist*.
Chinn's relations with England arc by
no means satisfactory. Tho people are very
jealous of any negotiations by the govern
ment in favor of foreigners, and threatening
placard* have been posted in,Hong Kong
relative to the recent arrangements of Min
ister Wade with the government The
English, however, are determined to have
hatisfaetion for the minder of Lieutenant
Mnrgnry, but thus far the Chinese have
sought to screen the murderers.
Intelligence has just Ik*«-ii received from
the Philippine islands giving the details of a
dreadful hurricane there, on the 30th of Inst
month. The storm wits particularly severe
in the provinces of Alhau and ('amarines,
island of Luzon. 250lives were lo*t and 3,800
dwellings were destroyed. Many entile
perished, and crop* in all directions were
ruined.
nilttri.UNBOIN.
A special from Vienna snyn the sccrc-
retary of state, of the United Hlates, hn* trans
mitted to every European government a cir
cular, asking an expression of views regarding
American intervention in Cuba, in order to
obtain the data to he used in the preparation
of President Grant’s supplementary message
to congress. Ail of the government* have
replied satisfactorily. England I* ready to
endorse intervention at the present moment,
and the other government* express a willing-
lies* to support intervention, hut hesitate to
Like the initiative.
Allentown, Pa., has thirty cigar fac
tories, which turn a monthly product of
300,000 cigars. Next to Detroit—omitting
New York—she is the largest manufacturer
of cigars in the United State*—that i«, stands
third ou the li*t.
On and after January 1, 1870, the
Anglo-American telegraph tariff for political
and general news dispatcht-*, other than
commercial dispatohes to the press, uiiabre-
viated and not in cypher, will be one shilling
(twenty-five cent* gold)per word.
Postmaster Tilley, of Ht. Louis, ban
addressed Postmaster-General Jewell, sug
gesting u change in the prc*cnt postal law
relating to publishers’ matter, to the effect
that newspapers and periodicals be made
uniform in classification, uud the rate In
placed lit the second eltiw«. lie say* pro*
pectuscs, poster*, sample copies, etc.
nmv rated n* third idlts* at one cent pci
ounce or fraction thereof, yield hut little
revenue* in that classification, and give great
annoyance and dissatisfaction to the post
master* and publishers, and ask* why ii ills
crimination should ha made between news
papers nnd periodicals, hills and receipts for
subscription to regular subscriber*
newsdealer*, which lire now carried lit
nnd three cent* per pound, nnd the same
kind of matter, to-wit: prospectuses, posters
•maples, copies Iiml all matter relating to so
licitution ami renewal of subscriptions
should not all lie classified ami rated ns sre
ond class mutter. The judgment "f postil* cj
pert*, he says, i* the mult of thi* rhnngi
from incrctiHcd subscribers and quantity of
matter yield revenue equal to the present
classification, ami the satisfaction to postum*-
tors, publisher* nnd the public would lie equal
to the present workings of the redaction
second class matter and the prepayment of
the same by publishers, it would also re
move nil occasions for capolnngo, delay and
dissatisfaction, arising from the present
clusMiticathui, ami Nimplify tlm work of
both publisher* and post-offices.
fldi. Lane, viw-pronjdontiiil candidate
on the Hrockcnridge ticket ill 1860,1* farming
in Oregon, and his son is a member of eon-
WAMIIIMJTON.
Tho secretary of tho treasury and
tin* attorney-general unite in saying that the
statement that such of the indicted Chicago
distiller* a* have turned state’s evidence
have hern promised immunity from |iuiii*h
incut is incorrect. A great many offers to
tell wlmt they know have been received from
thcHc parties, on condition that they may ex
pect only such mercy a* tlm judge before
whom they are tried may lie pleased to show
them.
A Washington dispatch says of tho
prcHcnt prospect of a peaceable settlement
of our difficulties with Spain, nnd of her re
newed energy and wisdom in tlm pnclfica-
lion of Cuba, that, unless u now tinfonmoon
mid unexpected change should occur, there
is no prolmliility of hoHlilities, nr of imees-
slty of such intervention as was foreshad
owed in the president's message. The Span-
ish property owners, have hut recently been
mnde lo bear ft largo part of the burden of
war, and their suffering* have disposed them
to urge peace and good government a* menus
to peace. An expert finniltiler I* now ill
Culm with the power to arrange the finances
and to make important reforms of nil kinds,
in which labors lie will have tho assistance
of Jovcllnr, the new captain-general. It i*
prohublo that the MihMunco of tlmt part of
the president’* message relating to Cuban
affairs, was sent in advance to the American
minister* at the principal European nations,
and that thii was communicated to the gov-
rntnents to which they wore accredited a*
matter of information and to draw mil
om them some expression of opinion.
The secretary of the treasury declines
i receive cheek* and draft* in payment of
debts due tho government. Till* will pre-
lilt tho national bunk* from paying their
nii-nnmini duties in anything hut lawful
The committee np|xdtried to consider
tho Witowski nnd Hugg Fort claims, find in
their report that both claims lire fictitious
1 fraudulent, nnd that they have passed
through tho offices of third auditor nml
mil comptroller without such ox am In it-
i a* tlm law requires.
riio secretary "f the treasury has sent
■(ingress a letter from a Boston firm re
commending tlmt n stamp duty he imposed
manufactured gold uud silver. The ob
ject i* to determine tho quality of tlm metal
used in order that it may have a uniform
value in all part* of the world as is tlm
ease with English nnd French goods.
Tho ixwtolfice department lias received
n coble dispatch from the Hritish postinftster-
general, saying that the money ordi. : advised
on the lists from the United States largely
exceeds tlm usual amount, and asking for
the remittance of thirty thousand pounds
Mterling on account. This imusiutlly Inr r.
balance i* accounted for ns the result of
money orders sent for holiday presents.
Twelve thousand pounds sterling had been
remitted before the receipt of tlm telegram,
and the balance will he liquidated in the or-
liiinry course of business. Uostmaslcr-Gcn-
•rnl Jewell has notified the British authori
ties that from and after the first of January
his department will demand tlm payment of
the lull cost of transporting Australian mail
.* tills continent, which is now trans
ported at an actual loss, under Great Brit
ain’s construction of the postal union re
quirement*. The matter ha* been the sub-
of official correspondence for many
i, and tho postmasti r-genernl now mokes
a demand in the hope of bringing it to it
prompt conclusion.
The secretary of the treasury 1ms given
direction for the retirement of $0-1-1,050 in
legal-tender notes, on account of tho national
hank circulation issued during December.
This will leave outstanding in legal-tenders,
until furtlo-r reduction $37,142,722. The work
of consolidating the internal revenue col
lection districts throughout the country has
been completed, and the number reduced
from 200 to 103. The annual saving to the
government by the consolidation will bo
about $250,000, nearly *200,000 of which is
in salaries alone, and the remainder for
office rent, stationery, etc. The force of
clerks has been extensively reduced, although
fully a* many deputy collector* w ill lie, re
quired as when the whole number of dis
trict* were in existence. The amount of
national bank notes issued since November
1st, Is $1,701,240, ami the total amount issued
since the passage of the act of June 11, 1871 (
i* $12,715,975. The amount of legal-tender
notes deposited by the national bank*,
for the purpoNc of retiring the circulation,
since November 1st, is $2,987,200.
Wlilln you lie ilri'iialiiK on ;
four In oilier* iiinrim-d In arum
<\||<I Infill In I III* mill lire ten
lii the fueeof the Mem to-dny.
Arise Iron llio tln-iuii of llto fiiltiri*,
Of Kilning ii liiinl-fuU|(ht field,
Of Momilng tho nlrjr for I row,
Of hldillnu Iho ulsnt yield;
Your future hint denis of Kh>ry,
ii r in w I if ii ....
Hut your urm will never Im stranger
t* past detain you,
The «nn*hlui* nnd storms forget;
—The act of imagination in ever fit-
tended by pure delight. It infuses u
certain volatility and intoxication into
all nature. It has a flute which sets the
atoms of our frame in a dance. Our in
determinate size is a dclivious secret,
which it reveals to us. #
i)( a ladder strlto to-dny.
Ail-*-! (nr lie* li»ur 1* pimdufn
I In- •• >11 ll-1 lh.lt \ . 111 n I > hr. II
Or ila> hour will Mil Ira n
And (rum dronm*of craning Imlllc
You will waken nnd find il pn*t.
THE LAND OF T1IK (’/AIL
»Ri
account of the remit Im «»f tho emanci
pation of the serfs in Russia, ho far tut
they have manifested themselves after
lourtceu years’ experience of tho now re
lations established between the peasantry
and tludr former masters. "If one
travels," he says, " through the govern-
ntk of Russia proper, from the Volga
districts to the extreme Houth, visiting
the villages and observing tho family life
of the |i(-asairis, one is driven to the sad
conclusion that the condition of the
Russian |K*nsairiry htiH not only not im
proved, hut has in several respects, both
moral and material, become umiuoation-
ably worse. * * * It is sufficient to
visit any village to become convinced
that the prospriety of llto peasants has
diminished to such a degree that a great
number of them have Ixien reduced to
absolute poverty. Their moral condition
on more lamentable, ami drunken-
has become far more prevalent than
is before the emancipation. The re
sults are listless indifference, unwilliug-
to work, and an increasing discon
tent which manifests itself in brutal acts
of deal ruction and incendiarism. In the
southwestern governments, ami especially
in those of l’ensa, Kurss. ami Yuroucj, a
lay rarely passes hut the sky is reddened
by tho (lames of a burned village. The
reason iff this state of tilings," proceed
the writer, "is not to bo lountf in an
peculiarities of tho Russian peasant’
character, though it frequently nromptH
him to misuse his liberty ; but eliiclly in
tho uninvorablo position in which he hw
boon |ilaeed by tlie now system of admin
istration, which makes l&i dependent on
the commune ami ou a number of olli-
iiils whom ho is obliged to pay out of
iis own |x>cket. The rural commune has
unlimited power over both the person
and the property of the peasant, hi that
In* has in reality only changed his inas-
and his present dependence on the
commune is not much bettor than his
former state of serfage. * * * lie is
bound to pay a fixed sum to bis former
master as redemption money for the
house in which he lives and the land on
which it stands. This, to a certain ex
tent, restricts his freedom of action, hut
It Is rendered quite illusory by tho cir
cumstance that the land which he culti
vates for himself and family, and for
which lie must pay, is not his own, hut
the property iff the commune, which may
dispose of it at pleasure. Thus Ivan,
after devoting all liis care to the eultiva-
i of a niece of land allotted to him,
v* find it in the following year trans-
cd by the eonunune to another peas
ant, while he himself gets in exchango a
field which is perhaps not so well situated
or negligently cultivated. Nor is this all.
The commune is responsible for the
payments due from the peasants, nnd if
any of these lull into (incur through the
intmflieieiicy of tho means of tho poorer
members, those who are better oft have
to make up the deficiency, failing which
tho eonunune seizes their horns and
cows. Another restriction on tho per
sonal lilierty of the peasant in Russia is
the right of’ tho eonunune to refuse him
a pass when ho wishes to seek service
away from his village. The grant of
these passes often depends on the arbi
trary will of a clerk, who refuses it from
motives of personal hostility or requires
a bribe beforo he will give it. It very
frequently happens that, peasants who
have obtained passes for St. Petersburg
or Moscow are ealled back for some
trifling reason, and if they refuse to re
turn they are taken hack by the police
like common criminals, without oven l>o-
ing given tho opportunity of winding up
their business in the town. Such are the
circumstances—without the slightest se
curity for the produce of one’s falsir, and
in constant fear of what the next day
will bring forth—in which not hundreds
of thousands but millions of people livo
in Russia.”
Opium In Uliina.
Tho London Times has the following:
It ap|K*ars from the consular reports
that the habit of opium smoking is on
the increase in China. It is estimated
that the consumers constitute about a
third of the population. The drug i*
eaten as well ns smoked. The British
consul at Ncchwang says that he has
lK.*en in the company of a Manchusports
man who took nothing during the day
hut a pill or two of his own home-made
opium. Mr. Medlnirst, consul at Bluing-
hui, states that along the const as fii
north us the Yungtse, Bengal opium i
exclusively made use of, and the genera
taste is foj Patna, but in some parts lie
mires is the favorite. West nml north of
this line is a belt in which Midway
siinied, and west and north of this l**It
native opium is mainly used, the foreig:
drug being esteemed a luxury, and on!
purchuscd by the opulent or by eonnois-
seurs. The Chinese consider that Bengal
opium, which is prepared with greater
care, has strong narcotic properties, hut
is free from many objections attaching to
other sorts, and no native opium is at
present grown in districts consuming tlm
Bengal drug, the inferiority of the native
being too great to admit of its cultiva
tion. Mahva opium iH of stronger flavor,
is more pungent, stimulating and fiery,
and is said to Ikj irritating to the nerv
ous system, and to have a tendency to
induce an unhealthy condition of the
*kin As wo approach the outer limits
of the Malwa consuming district we
find the cultivation of the native drug
increasing from year to year. But it is
said to be coarser and more tleiy than
the Indian ; tho flavor m inferior, and it
produces troublesome eruptions of tho
skin, and is constantly adulterated with
seaweed, oil, etc. Bengal opium is
mainly in flavor in tho more relaxing
diHtricts of the south; in [the colder
north, inhabited by a ruder and more
rebuilt race, tho more repugnant Mahva
is the favorite. Much of the Indian
opium, which finds its way into the
north of China is made use of to
slrenglrion nnd correct tho flavor of
tin* native drug, nnd enable it to com-
poto successfully with the former in a
state of purity. The supply of native
opium has not up to this time kept pace
with the dematiu, and the extension ot
tho cultivation of the drug 1ms been
stimulated by tlie high price oflercd.
Mr. Medlnirst considers that if the import
of Indian opium is to continuo, there
must bo a reduction in its cost, to enable
it to compete on more equal terms with
its Ohincsc rival. Any serious decrease
in tho supply of Bengal opium would
probably linvo the effect of introducing
tho cultivation of Chinese opium into
the const provinces, whore hitherto the
growth of tho poppy has been confined
within the narrowest limits. There is
among influential Chinese a strong party
who, acknowledging that the opium ih
deleterious admit that experience has
proved it necessary, and urge tho gov
ernment to make ii source of revenue out
of wlmt it !h unable entirely to restrain;
nml there is nnothor party op|K»scd to all
imports, and who would raise the Ickiu
taxes and throw such obstacles in the
way of internal carriage of tho foreign
drug that tho import of it may become
unprofitable, the growth of the native
product Is* encouraged, and the wealth
retained at homo which now goes to
enrich the foreigner. Tho Chinese
not likely for some years to come to ap
preciate the falsity of this reasoning; to
persons ignorant of the first principles
of political economy it seems irrefrag
able."
M»IIF.nF.I>.
Wnwr insrrnr wf ’Im T Jnkei
WuMcr inarrar *1’ you - wiy i
Tls'n xonn'lo- "
tvotii ill'll'* c’lumlilal
(tniio to *li*c|i ny ifiick—Rn*li I
Lyin' imintl ill till* Hero »
in ny guck—„
.j, my Imlx*. II* ■(Ill'll sliunmer-
Go’ up I I'omimi gsnw wunk—wash '■
I'W nuli-iqi 'll Im* ryr* open,
Dooh'ii lulu* nnlKxly In.
Whs' yon flarin' at. old toiler?
Como now, Juki*, ll'*
Juki, I •lltl'ii uo In hurl von,
Din I ?- I first vo you tlmiiKh;
Hut I don’t allow im fuller
Dill uu* liar—that you know.
(In' up, Jnkny ; I've fti'niiv yon—
Anliiios'ty—wlin' y' nillT—sleeps 1
I don't hold noicrudltoIiIr!—Rtn you;
Hnv don’t Vm a ilum-fool, .Iakov I
L'miim rH you out tlio lumfl
Well, 'f von iron' I** Miff about It
Worn nil llu* tliul'a wel you—blood ?
Jukiiy, don' you lu*nr mil? Wako up!
(iui-wi wo War' )** ki-uIm' tioina.
Mnr'n likely little Tommy's
U'ulrliln' out to m*o you mine.
Don' giro up I III* v
’Mi'iiilier, Jitko ]
.lid'll Im* tired wnll ,
Wlioio'd 1 k°I Dll* bloody knife?
II 11 I ID >iid I Wood !
lie went down-who
ftenily, let me think n
Wlmt'* the ineniilnu of it all?
Slimy eve*, wlmt make* you stare so?
(ihWly faro with crimson slain I
Thi* I* destli I My God I Jt'smunlorl
Curse* on till* rnuy brain I
Diphtheria tu the Thinnlm.
Among the various freaks of tlmt ter
rible disease, diphtheria, which lias made
such ravages among the children in this
city within the past few montliH, i* one
lately developed in tho case of a little
daughter of Mr. James Scull, of West
Side avenue. Tlie child is about five
years of ago, and was taken Hick with
diphtheria about five weeks ago. A day
or two previous to the attack she had
broken the skin on the buck of IhiIIi her
thumbs, Dr. W. Pyle, the attending
physician, found tin* child lmd all the
symptoms of diphtheria, with tho ex
ception of (he formation of a ineinhrau
in (lie throat. Hut this membrane wa
formed on the hack of each thumb, ovo
the places where the skin had Imcn
abraued. Tho doctor, becoming inter
ested in this strange freak of the disease,
removed tho diseased membranes from
the tJmmbs, when others immediately
succeeded in the same places, lie then
xamiiicd the membrane ns it appeared
ii tlie child's thumbs, under the micro-
anil found it to bo in ovorv par
ticular like tlmt which, in this disease
usually forms in the throat
passages.
Ho tofrk a membrane
from the throat of another little daughter
rf Mr. Hcull, who was then sick and has
since died with diphtheria, and, com
paring it with that taken from her sis
ter’s tli limb, found them precisely alike.
The little girl who hud been the subject
of this singular development, as tho dis
ease advanced from one stage to another,
still continued to show symptoms of
diphtheria, having paralysis or the soft
mlato and lower extremities, being unu-
>le to either move or speak for several
days. Hhc at length began to grow con*
aicsccnt. however, and is now nearly ro-
overod, being again able to walk about
and talk the same as before her sickness,
while the sores on the hack of her thumbs
entirely healed up. Dr. Pyle is of
tlm opinion tlmt the course taken by the
disease in this ease is a strong argilmont
favor of the. opinion which many
slical men hold that diphtheria is not
wholly, if it is indeed chiefly, a disease
of the throat and organsof respiration.—
Jersey Oily (A r . ./.) Journal.
A Bedouin Story by Immnrllno.
In the trilffs of Neggeden there was a
horse whoso fame was spread far and near,
and a Bedouin'of another tribe, by name
I labor, desired extremely to possess it.
I laving offered In vain for it his camels
and his whole wealth, he hit at length
njmmi the following device, by which ho
hoped to gain the object of his desire.
11« resolved to stain liiH face with tho
juice of an herb, to clothe himself in rags,
to tie his leg* and neck together, so ns to
appear as a lamo beggar. Thus equip-
jx*d, he went to wait for Nahcr, the
owner of the horse, whom ho knew was
to pass that way. When he saw Nahcr
approaching on his beautiful steed, he
cried out in a weak voice: " I am a
poor stranger; for three days I have l>con
unable to move from this snot to speak
for food. 1 am dying; help me and
heaven will reward you." The Bedouin
kindly offered to take him upon his
horse and carry him home, nut the
rogue replied: " I cannot rise; I have
no strength left.” Naimr, touched with
pity, dismounted, led his horse to the
spot, and with great difficulty, set the
seeming beggur on its back. But no
sooner did Daber feel himself in tlie
saddle than lie set spurs to tho horse and
gallots'd off, calling out as lie did m>:
" It is I, Duller. ! Imve got the hone
and am off with him.” Nahcr called
after him to stop and listen. Certain of
not being pursued, lie turned and halted
at a short distance from Nahcr, who
armed with a spear. “ Bino#lieavci
willed it, I wish you joy of it ; hut I do
conjure you to new r tell any one how
you obtained it." "And why not?"
said Daber. " Because.” said the noble
Arab, " another might lie really ill, and
men would fear to help him. You would
Ik* the causo of many refusing to per
form an net of charity for fear of being
duped as I have been. Btruck with
shame at these words, then springing
from the horse, he returned it to its
owner, embracing him. Naber made
him accompany him to bis tent, where
they spent a few days together and be
came fast friends for life.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—Life would Ihi too smooth if it had
) rubs in it.
— He who serves the public 1ms but u
scurvy master.
Tlm Impressions on the imagination
nmke tho great (lavs of lifo; the book,
the luntlscnpo, or the personality which
*' 1 not stay on tho surface of the eye or
, but jKmetratcd to the inward sense,
agitates us nnd 'ih not forgotten.
Outside of the nursery tho begin
ning of literatures is tho prayers of tho
people, and they are always hymns,
(M)ctic -the mind allowing itself range,
and therewith is ever a corresponding
freedom in tho style, which becomes
lyrical.
—Events of things nro only tho fulfill
ment of the prediction of the faculties.
Better men saw heavens and earths ; saw
noble instruments of noble souls. We
sco railroad, mills, and hanks, and wo
jnty the poverty of these dreaming Bud-
—Wc must learn the homely laws of
fire, and water, we must feed, wash,
plant, build. These are the ends of
necessity, and first in the order of nature.
Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are
tho beadles and guardsmen that hold
us to common sense.
GllRIlN Git ASH UNimil THE KNOW.—
The work of tho sun Is slow,
Hutu* sure ns Heaven wo know,
So wo’ll not forget,
When tho skies nro wot,
There’s green grass under the snow.
i April showers,'
And bud* and flowers,
And green grass under tho snow.
We find that it's ever so
Hi this life’s uneven llow ;
We’re only to wait,
In the fnoo of fate,
For green gra*s under the snow.
—"Znchurinh," said Mrs. Chandler,
what smell is that ?" "Cloves." "But
tlmt other smell?" "Allspice." "But
m’t there another?" "Yea—apples.
And just one more ?" "Cider, my
dour." "Well, Zuehuriuh," said she, I
you’d drink a little brandy now you d
make a good minco pic.
Diikam Witiiin a Diikam.—
t stnint amid llio roar
Of n surf-toruioiitaa snore,
I stand amid I lie roar
Of a surMonnontsa she .
And I hold within my h«u<l
Orains of llio golden sand ;
lluw tow, yet now they creep
Through iny finger* to the dw
While l woe|»—while I weep!
Oh (loti! can I not grasp
Them with a Ughler clasp?
A. /V
—A rhymer in h’crilmer’s thus relate 1 !
the story of a butcher who had a largo
brain uud loved little children :
It wii* a griwsoiiio hutclior,
With eouiiteiiancosiiliirnh)" ;.
lln stood ut the door of Ills UtUo shop,
It was llm hour of nine.
The children going by lo school
Looked In si pen door;
They loved to sen the sausage-machine
Ami limi IlsBWlul >-*»ur.
The butcher ho looked out and In,
quoth he: "j^o's a awful horol
"Now Imre's oil these dear lllllo children,
Homo of 'em might live I" l«i sixty ;
Why shouldn't I save 'em the troiildoto wnnsl
An’ chop 'em upsllpporiy Ih ksty ?
"Ho Im winked lo Iho children and beckoned Iheut
"O don't yo's wont some candy?
Ilui yo aeo yo'll have to come Into tho shop,
For out hero ll Isn't handy!"
lie '(iced them Into the llttlo shop,
The inachlno wont round and round ;
And when those poor )>■!*** came out sgnln
They fetched ten cents a |>oiind.
—Shadows nlenso us as still fim-r
rhymes. Architecture gives tho like
pleasure by the repetition of equal part*
in a colonnade, in a row of windows, • c
in wing*; gardens by the symmetric eon*
trusts of the beds nnd walks. In society,
you have this figure in a bridal jeompany,
where a choir of white-rol>ed maidens
gives tho charm of living statues; in a
funeral procession, where all wear black;
in a regiment of soldiers in uniform.
OtritK for Freckles.—If tho exaufc
cause of freckles wiu? known, a remedy
for them might Iks found. A chemist m
Moravia, observing the bleaching effect of
mercurial preparations, inferred that llto
growth of a local parasital fungus wm
the cause of the discoloration of the skin,
which extended and ripened its spores in
the warmer season. Knowing that sill-
nlKMarboIntc of zinc h « >l™<lly enemy
to all parasitic vegetation friwlt not Do
ing otherwise injurious,) lie applied tills
salt for the purpose of removing tho
freckles. Tlm compound consists of two
part* of Hiilpho-nirnolnte of zinc, twenty-
five parts of distilled glycerine, twenty-
five parts of rose water, and five parts of
seenled alcohol, and is to hr applied
twiee daily for from half an hour to uu
hour, then washed off with cold water.
Proteotiou against the sun by veiling
and other means Is recommended, and,
in addition, for persons of pale complex
ion, some mild preparation of iron.