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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE St 00,, Proprietor*,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1S76.
VOL. III. NO. 1.
TIMELY TOPICS.
I'm: recent assurance of General Bhor-
wan Hint tin* Indiana would not lx* id
^«rd “to kill or scalp” the white
ittidcra on their ntirifcrotia domains nt
Hhu k Hills kyms wnreely to l*e jus-
tilird by the sequel. A despatch brings
the news Hint the Nebraska and Dakota
fr'ioit-x are most of them on the war-path,
•>vi:u a billion cigars wav consumed
Austria during the year 1875, equal
• me hundred and two for each peroon
the male sox in the entire populntic
This enormous quantity was exceeded
DT I, when the figures footed tip sixty
millions more. Hard times hav
some jieoplo to forego smoking.
A singular murder case is (x'lidiug
at the t’udapah sessions, in India,
which the accused, lxdng assured by n
juggler that be could shoot at him with
a loaded musket without the slightest
tear of hurting him, took him at his won!
nnd finsl. The luill |>cnetrated the jug
glee’s brain, killing him instantly.
Major Thomas Butler and (ten.
William O. Butler, the only two living
membera of (Jen. Jackson’s staff Jwlio
were present at the battle of New Or
I'miis, live near Carrollton, Ky. Majoi
llntler is eighty-seven and (Jen. Hutler
eighty-six years of age. The latte
candidate for vice president on the dem
ocratic ticket in 1848
Thk death of Alxlul Aziz by hi:
hand is thv last act in the drama which
Is gan with his overthrow. Diiven from
I stiver through the agency of his own
nephew and'trusted friends; deprived
ol his treasure, and treated as a prisoner
in his own capital, it is not surprising
that llio disgraced ruler sought relief in
death. Humors were current that his
mind was deranged. These rc|x»rts re
ceive credence in the official account of
(he tragic deed which has l»eeii sent to
Washington. His death is,not likely to
efleet seriously the affairs of Turkey.
His overthrow was complete, and the
probability of his heading a rovolt was
very right.
A wording to an exchange, the Pope’s
rtdx’s are made either of white cloth m
°f red cloth. Pius IX uses five white
cassocks in the course of the year, as,
owing to his lx*ing an inveterate snuff
taker, he hooii discolors his outer gar
ments. Each cassock costs $50. The
red mantle which he renews once a year
costs $100. 'I’he silk stockings aro fur
nished by a Belgian house for $1(1 a pair,
but hisslipixTs, which are changed every
month, aro furnished by a Homan firm.
An ordinary pair, embroidered with the
cross, is worth $2.7, but some of the papal
slippers cost as much as $200, the cross
lieiug inlaid with diamonds. The old,
cast-ofl clothing of the Pope is highly
prized by the faithful, who eagerly buy
it at a great price.
'flip. Turkish revolution was a conspir
acy of the ministers to get rid of a sul
tan who had yielded more to foreign in
fluence than the pure and unadulterated
inuHsuImans could quietly allow. It is
the mad protest of the conservatism of
the Mohammedan Turks against Furo-
l*ean reforms nnd every sort nnd kind of
foreign intervention except that which
loans money on a promise of interest that
is never to l*c paid. The, now sultan is
anti-Hussian in his prejudices and ten
dencies, and while he can s|x*ak French
nnd has some knowledge of western Eu
ropean affairs in? is more likely to form a
Franco-Englisli alliance than one in
which Hussia has a leading voice. But
ihe situation of Turkey is critical, and
Murad Kffcndi will Ik? compelled to let
what he would wait on what he must
with the moral certainty of being shoved
a*ide as suddenly m and as remorselessly as
Abdul Aziz one of those fine mornings.
LATEST NEWS.
NOI'TII AND WKST,
'I lie democratic state convention of
Georgia is called for August second.
Seven conductors were recently dis
charged from the Hi. Louis and Southwest
ern railroad for "knocking down”—i. c,
stealing,
Nashville will this season ship $50,-
000 Worth of RiuiphcntiK to tho north. They
.SO per bar-
I 'in- in u.it i a
in I* ranciseo,
i lined $120 ami
quoted
re! on the 7tli.
In the city court of
few days ago, Patrick Bn
stones at a Chinaman, w
sent to prison for sixty days.
Minneapolis is now the largest city
Minnesota bv five thonnmd inhabitants
— a recent census showing actual popula
tion at thirty-eight thousand five hundred
lee-making by the use of aqua amino
ilia liaN been commenced at Nashville mid
Chattanooga, Tcnn. By the apparatus
tons n day can he made.
A valuable plumbago mine lias Itccn
located in Elbert eounty, Ga. A thorough
analysis of the ore from the mine hy New
York experts discovers that it is \i
$30 to $150 per ton.
Two men who call thcinselve
T. Griswold, have been arrested in St. Louis
ns bogus commission merchants. 'They
vertisrd all over the west for eonsigume
of hotter and eggs and swindled the own
t of the proceeds.
Aljo Gonzales, who has a rancho west
San Antonio, Texas, some distance, w
;ie men, followed a party of thirty Mcxle
thieves to within forty miles of Eagle l’a
d had a fight with them last week, t
lit lasting seven hour. Gonzales and four
of his men were killed, the other four escap
ing, and lire of the thieves hit the dust.
y section of Texas has been visited
by tine rains within the past two week
rnp prospects, which were good hufoi
astly improved. In Bastrop county the Ad
ertiser estimates the rain as adding
million of dollars to the finances of i
that from present prospei
will open at about thirty to thirly-fiv
KANT.
The historic old Houth Church build-
i j, in Boston, whs sold at auction la*
for $1,300.
In Connecticut last year, there
four hundred nnd sixty-six divorce*
thousand three hundred and eighty li
average of about (lire
dred and sixty divorces a year for (lie last
teen years, the prevailing cause being
cunrnl misconduct.’
It is a long while
s ease of murder by
lias been recorded it
rimes of Allen (*. Ear
inston, I’eiin., now fill the void with horrors
>1 mil to anything in the iiininls of the lie
Tho list of unfinished work in the two I reached the point of the hilt providing for
houses is formidable, aside from tho prolm- J die transfer of the Indian bureau from the in-
bility of their disagreement. As vet only tr rl«r to die war department, Mr. McCrary
r III.. Iiv.lvi. am.raiirliiUoii Mil, Imvo *>">««; ■» l«*l*il .it nnli-r, Hull II iiliiiiijiml II,o
1,1 * existing laws, and did not on its face retrench
expenditures. After discussion Ilia commit-
ice rose with tho understanding that the
point of order would he decided whe
ico any remarka-
entioiial poisoning
this country,
a school teacher of
gms.
Hh
, and his
Mary Clkmmiih has gone to Washing
ton to live, and from the capital she
writes as follows about the decay of con-
H-ieneo that afflicts the whole ixxly jxd-
itic ju»t now:
What a comment it is upon the dis
t ime we have marked downward ns a
jx*op!e when to “ steal from the govern
ment is spoken of as a piece of prowess,
to Ik: laughed at and lioasted over ; as if
stealing from the treasury of your coun
try were a very different matter frorn-
stealing from the coffer of your neighbor?
No doubt somebody willl assert this is a
dreadful thing for me to say. But f am
perfectly aw.ire of what f am saying. I
•on not rcjx'ating anybody's “croaking."
Instead, if I should report in these col
umns the small pilfering* and the names
of the pilferers with which I have iw-
comc personally cognizant in the last ten
years, you would think I had been “put
ting it very mildly, and you yourselves
would be very much astonished. I knew
a senator’s wife, now gone out of office,
who took all the Christmas and New
Years presents she made her friends(and
of course they were many) out of the
government. Outside of her own per
quisites the government paid for them
a'l. This may seem a little thing. It was
:<>r the United .States treasury to pay for
<-ne woman’s presents. But it involved,
the underlying principles of honesty as
much as taking a hundred thousand in
the same way.
rOHKMJN.
(Icorgo Band died on tho 7th at l’a
c was cniiHciouH to the. last, hut unable
speak for Home time before death.
t is officially announced that a report
been drawn up and signed hv nlnetei
physicians of the diflerent initionalitlc
which certifies that the death of Abdul Aziz
ultcd from the opening of the veins and
crict of his arms.
It is stated that tho Servian army
onsistof one hundred and twenty-five thou-
nd men, besides about ten thousand mill-
i, and that Hervia is convinced that war is
moral necessity. Correspondents write
stating that "a Servian war against the Turks
v more certain than anything el
the world.”
To take a portrait of tho mikado of
Japan is punishable by compulsory
knri. That's what's the matter with a party
of Yankee photographers in Jeddo. They
procured ail interview with the inikky, and
while some interviewed him the other
"took” him. They quickly found themselves
inside a Japanned "jug,” and it is taking all
the American minister's spare time to ex
plain the nflitir and save the sons of photo
from unloading their viscera according to
law.
M. GambcUa, as president of the
French bndget commission, is trying to se
cure a reduction of the army estimates, but
he is met by a large majority of the cham
ber of deputies who possess th« ancient en
thusiasm of Frenchmen for an immense
army. It may he that France will he.drawn
into tho culminating European complica
tions, but if the government possesses wis
dom it will prcler that France’s honor shall
consist in keeping the peace rather than in
"seeking the bubble reputation at the can
non's mouth” in defending the decayed
Turk or in following the old hjmu Jut urn of
Egypt. It la not likely that France will he
very quick to help England, if that power
chooses to enter into a contest with Russia,
as England deserted France in the German
onslaught of 1870. The French army is in u
fair condition, if thcountry is forced into a
war. It consist of: Infantry, 282,044 men ;
cavalry, 00,011 men; artillery, 51,038 men;
engineers, 0,000 men; men of train, 8,000;
altogether about 410,000 effective troops, be
sides 30,000 gendarmes nnd 14,000 on the
general staff, sanitary corps, etc.
Ml WKLLA N KO I’N.
? The bust train from New York to San
Franaisco in eighty-four hours went through
twenty-six minutes within time. The fastest
time made was seventy-two miles an hour
on short run*.
Government receipts for the fiscal
year ending with June, arc estimated ns
follows: Freni customs, $116,027,500; inter
nal revenue, $115,008,507; miscellaneous,
$231,085.31; total, $280,247,387. Expendi
tures were $263,138,852. Surplus, .June30th,
$21,108,534. Receipts show a decrease from
the estimates—in customs, $10,280,070; in
internal revenue, $1,151,210, and show an
Increase of $3,148,549 in the miscellaneous.
Expenses are $5,308,090 inside the estimates.
passed, and on some of those now in p
the diflbroneea of opinion between the
houses seem almost irrconuchthlc. There
are many other hills of importance also cer
tain to cause long debate. The prospect of
an early adjournment is not bright; and is
likely to he attained, if ut all, hy forcing
bushiest through, nt last, in nn unscrupulous
hurry.
Tho total gold coinngo for tho month
of May, as appears from reports received hy
Dr. I.itulcrmniii the director of flic mini, was
$3,170,100; trade dollar coinage, $318,100;
subsidiary silver coinage, $2,190,105; minor
coinage, $12,475; total number of picccN
struck, 10,215,031; total value of the coinage,
$5,000,840. This is regarded as a very large
coinage. The mints will close forthc annual
settlement about the 15th lust., and remain
closed about two weeks. After the resump
tion of operations, subsidiary coinage, it is
probable, will he at the rate of three millions
per month. Of the amount during May, 5,-
757,518 pieces, representing $1,801,680, were
Coined at Philadelphia; 2,001,000 pieces, re
presenting $3,814,000, at Han Frnnoisno, and
1,797,110 pieces, representing $581,160, at
CONGRESSIONAL.
NKNATH.
Iii tho senate on tho fid, Mr. Allison
called up the senate hill, providing for an
agreement with tho.Sioux nation in regard to
a portion of their reservation and for other
purposes. Mr. Edmunds offered a substitute
authorizing the president, hy and with the
advice and consent of the senate, In appoint
u eoiiiiuisfloii, to consist of live persons, to
visit ns soon ns possible, the tribes of Hloux
Indians, with a view of negotiating with
them a treaty or agreement for the cession to
l<» the United Slates of tlto right of said tribe
lo tho country known ns the Black Mills,and
appropriating $50,000 to pay the expenses of
•he commission and collect the Indians in
one place for conference. After discussion,
Mr. Ingalls suggested to Mr. Edmunds to
amend his substitute so as to authorize the
< omniissiom-iN to treat with the Indians for
relinquishing the Black Mills, and other
for the preservation of peace. Mr. Edmunds
accepted the suggestion, and modified his
substitute accordingly. Mr. Ingalls sub
mitted an amendment, providing tlmt any re
port mndu hy tho commissioners shall he
transmitted to ihe president, together with
nt made with said Indians, who
** *' ‘ engross for up-
ndnient to rule seventy four, author-
jzing the committee on hanking <• nd current
ey to report at any time. Opposition to the
rule *- ' - **-
journed.
In tho house on tho fith, after numer
ous resolutions had been oflered, Mr. Blaine
addressed the house oil Ihe subject of Inves
tigation into Ihe Union I’aellloand Northern
Pacific transactions In which his ininio had
become involved, after which tho house ml-
shall transmit the same
p.oval. Agreed to. The hill
a third time, and passed; y
resumed consideration of i:n/in-
ished business, being n hill making appro-
executive and Jmlh
priations for legislativ
iul expenses of the government for the t
ndlng June IM1 r lS77. After lliu finishing
lanso in regard lo appropriations for war
ltd navy department, (lie senate wont into
xeeutive session, and when the doors were
re-opened, adjourned.
In tho Honato on tho 5th, the senate re
ined tlm consideration of unfinished htisi-
ss, being tho legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation hill. The iiiiicnduiontH
of Ihe cnmmittoco on appropriation*, restor
ing the compensation of clerks in the office
•if the secretary of the interior were agreed
Other amuiidmeiils restoring the sain-
* of the employes in the general land of.
*, pension and patent offices were agreed
All other amendments of tho committee
ring Ihe salaries of employes in tho hu
ll of education, potlolfico department anil
the departments of justice and agriculture,
agreed to. Also the ameiidmetitHmiik-
ing appropriations for surveyors general and
' eir clerks. Many other amendments, re-
irlng Hilaries, etc., were agreed to, and tho
natu adjourned.
In tho senate on tho fith, during tho
•ruing hour a number of hills on thu cut-
ilar of n private character were passed,
d nt one o'clock legislative InisinesN was
suspended and consideration of articles of
impeachment was resumed. Mr. Merrill
(Me.) said the question of fixing the time for
this trial was very important. Me moved
that Ihe galleries he cleared and the doors
il that Ihe senators might confer upon
that question. Agreed to, and the senate
litinil disabilities. Referred to the judieia-
'onunittcc. At ’71:2(1 the doors were re-
led, and Ihe clurir announced that an
order had been agreed upon, as follows: Or-
, licit on the ^ixtli of July, at one
k p. in., the senate, silting as a court ol
impeachment, will proceed to hear the evi
dence on the merits of a trial of this case.
On motion of Mr. Hhcrman, the senate, sib
iourt of impeachment, adjourned
until the I6lh
thu court wouli
answer of the
adopted. legislative hii.-Jne
the i
the i
I being understood (list
t that day to receive the
inondent under the order
in the senate on the 7th, a resolution
proposing a common unit of money and
s for thu United Stales and Great
Britain passed. The house hill extending
r one year the provisions of nn act of Du
mber 2H, 1874, so as not to deprive home-
end settlers driven from their liomesby the
cost plague, of their rights, passed. The
ennte resumed consideration of unfinished
ess being the legislative, judicial and
live appropriation hill which was rend
the third time and passed. Mr. Morrill (Me.)
ailed up the fortification apnropriation
till, reported hy the committee on uppropri-
itions, without amendment, which was read
the third time and passed. The senate then
k up the silver hill, with the understand-
that it should come up ns unfinished bind-
is to-morrow, after executive session. Ad
journed.
In th? senate on the 8th, nt the expi
ration of the morning hour, a hill to amend
laws relating to legal tenders of silver
i, known as the silver hill, was taken up,
and Mr. Morrill (VL) spoke against the hill
reported hy the committee on finance,
r. Gordon from the committee on military
parted favorably on the senate hill to nn-
urize an increase in the number of officers
of the army detailed to tench military tactics
throughout the country, with an amendment
increasing the number of such officers Iron)
twenty to thirty. The amendment was
agreed to and the hill passed. The senate
then adjourned.
IIOI7NK.
In the house on the 3d, the house went
to committee of the whole, Mr. Hpringcr
the chair, on the -Indian appropriation
I. 'I he day was consumed in the discus-
in of a variety of amendments, most of
them oflered hy Mr. $eeiye and most of them
rejected on vote. Among them was one to
forbid furnishing rations to white men living
with Indian women. The committee having
jo
in tho houRo on tho Oth, after its ilia-
UHsion, (Im proposition to change the rules
o ns to allow tljo committee on hanking and
currency to report at any tiino was agreed
o—yens, 115, nays 97. The object of the
linage is to allow that cammitlcu to report
the hill lor the repeal of the resumii
thin net. The house then went Into emu
mlltee on the Indian appropriation hill.
Mr. Miiahtuis oflered nu amendment provid
ing that any person desiring to trade with
the Indians, shall receive a
rtifieate of it district judge, or a judge of
tin- supreme court of any territory that Tie is
of good character. Agreed to." The emu
mil toe rose and reported the hill to the house
ami It pnsaodt Adjourned.
In tho Iiouho on tho 7th, Mr. CrouilHo
introduced a hill authorizing a railroad pun
loon hridgo over the Missouri river u Sr
hraska City, Bussed, Thu house proceeded
omdder the hill reported from the com
mittee it it puhlie lands, repealing the section
of the revised statues making restrictions in
the disposal of IiiiiiIh in the states of Ala-
baton, Mississippi, Isniisiana, Arkansas nod
Florida. Passed. Mr. Cannon from the
committee on postqllieu and poslroads, re
ported a hill providing a penalty (or mail
ing obscene hooks and prohibiting lotterv
circulars passing through the mails. Bnssoil.
Mr. Wooil, of New York, from the commit
tee on ways and menus, submitted a unani
mous report ill regard to the Alaska Com
mercial Co., to the rfleet that the lease to
the company for the right lo take seals wiin
made in accordance with the net of July 1st,
1870, and lias been compiled with, nnd that
there is no just ground tor complaint against
tho company. The House then proceeded to
the consideration of the hill for the distribu
tion of unappropriated moneys id the Gene
va award. Bending discussion the house
took n recess till the evening session, to he
for the coiitiiiuniico of dchnto on tho (le
va award hill.
Iii tho house on tho 8th, thojxiMt route
hill, and the hill to prevent straw bids were
passed. The hill relating to thooxvetillou of
ustomlioiiso bonds was concurred in ; also
ho senate amendment to the hill for the re
lief of Hcttlurs on certain public lauds. The
house then rumiliiDi|Hlb»>n.Mi.Ur-tUii|l rtrtllO"
a award hill, mid was addressed hy
Mr. McCreary. At the close of Mr. McCrea
ry's speech tno house Agreed to a committee
of conference on the consular and diplomat
ic appropriation loll, mid Messrs. Hingleton,
Rainfall and Waldran wo e appointed. The
senate's amendment to the hill establishing
Sheboygan, Michigan, a port of delivery,
concurred in. The house then took a
is, thu evening session to he devoted to
debate on the Geneva award hill. Tho
ning session proved an entire failure, hut
two members being present.
In llio Iiouho on fith, tho hill allowing
the widow of ex-Brusidcnt Bulk $1,500 for
pplics furnished the army ill Tennessee
is passed. Mr. IIunion moved lo lay oil
the (aide Mr. Rlaiiie's motion to reconsider
ate for printing the testimony taken be
fore the judiciary committee. Mr. Jiiiekner
raised the question of consideration,claiming
that private business being before the house,
under the rule,it was not in order to interpose
other imsiiiCHH. A parliamentary squafdde
this and other points of order ensued.
Mr. Glover and other democratic, members
to question of order; hut Mr. Illulnc, in
tiie midst of great uproar and confusion, as
serted that all tho members on the democrat-
io side of the Iiouho were out of order. Af-
ral stormy nnd exclthig scenes, at
which the occupants of the gallery cheered,
hissed and applauded, without the slightest
regard for the cd'orts of the chair lo pre
serve order, the house sut itself down to vol*
ing hy yeas and nays. The republican at
lirHt resorted to the plan of withholding
their votes, so as to defeat any notion, hut
persist in this policy, ami conse
quently Mr. Iliinton's motion to lav oil tie
table was carried—120 to 91. Mr. \VikoHbf-
ed a resolution instructing the committee
on Indian nflslis to inquire into tiie issue of
bonds hy a railroad in Kansas, predicated
on conditional grants of Indian lands in tho
Indian territory, in whose hands they are
held, and whatever public faith had been
pledged for their payment or redemption.
Adopted. Adjourned till to-niorrnw.
CENTENNIAL CORKESBONBENCE.
The t'oinlOelN itl* IIm> <Yntcnnlitl 4’lly- The
4'nf uloum- Deimi-I in.-ill -MUccllnit.x .
From Oar Bptclnl Correspondent.
ClIIl.ADKl.l'lllA, June 10:—Many people
speak of the Intense heat of Philadelphia, as
is supposed to he the ease in all large cities;
hence, feel deterred from visiting the exhi
bition during the heated term. The follow
ing is the average for the last ten yi
May sixty-three, July seventy-eight, October
fifty-six degrees Fahrenheit, There are a
few warm days in all cities in our country In
July nnd August. The area of the city is
Immense, one hundred and twenty-nine
square miles. This added to u magnificent
water power that showers nnd cools the air
of niaut squirt-cs, and is used freely in lakes,
pools and fountains oil the exhibition
grounds and in the buildings. This power
tills the reservoiis, which hold 1-15,072,078
gallons, machinery of turbines and two
breast wheels. Then we have the largest
•ark in the world. Hyde park,389 acres;
Regent, 450 acres; Windsor Great park,
1,800 acres, London; Bins de Boulogne,
Baris, 2,158; l’rater, Vienna, 2,500 acres;
Biehumud Hill, England, 2,158 acres;
Blimnlx park, Dublin, 1,752acres; HI. Louis,
275 acres; Hhuw's Garden. HI. Louis, 270;
Falrinoiint park, Bhiiadelpliia, 2,710 acres,
to which add thu beauties of the exhibition,
and it will pay a man from the most remote
spot on earth to pick up his "kit” and come.
Tlllt CATAI.OC!
The natal ague Is n
ougli supervision, nod when
OKI'ARTMKNT.
ilorgolng a thor-
mqdctcd, will
he a splendid work of reference. Tills im
portant branch of the service is in charge id
the competent assistant secretary of tiie com
mission. Brofessor Dorsey Gardner, whose
reputation as a scholar Iiiin eminently lilted
him for the position ho holds, His two
valuable aids, Messrs. Lombard and Long,
with an ellicient corns of assistants, will soon
accomplish the difficult uml aidiious task
of placing each article on exhibition in its
appropriate place, arranged in seven depart
ments, which are divided into seven hundred
and thirty-four classes, occupying five build
ings, main, art, machinery, agricultural and
horticultural. The dllfieolty those gentle
men have to surmount may he conceived
when one considers the technicalities in the
diflerent languages, mid tho various changes
each fabric has In foreign make up. I am
Indebted to these gentlemen for a thorough
examination of their work, and iirunouiicu
them the right men in thu right place I
MIHCKI.I.AKY.
The most superior blanket In tho exhibi
tion, nsloiiisning as II may seem, is the Ktoilo
du Nord,"tiiauufauturod in Minnesota. This
speaks well for the west, Massachusetts ex
hibits Ihiuucl of superior finish. The art de
part incut is classified as follows: Sculpture,
painting, engraving, nnd lithography, photo
graphy, Industrial aud architectural designs,
medals aud decorations, mid vitreous mute-
rial, Mosaic aud inlaid work. There are
‘ifteen hundred and eleven works of art on
xhihition from tho following countries:
Mexico, sixty-six; Brazil, nineteen; United
Stales, two hundred mid fifty-two; Canada,
THE TURKISH COUP IPETAT.
■low II wiis lli-miRlil iiImmi! An I’littnll.-
lua Ai-i-onnl or lli«' Non Nulls
riillmlcliditnCor. N. Y. Ilcrnld.
Desiring to obtain some light
fuggy subject of Turkish jMiIltles, I culled
yes ton lav upon Hon. (Icorgo II. linker,
late United Btntos Minister to Russia,
who 1ms recently returned to Ills home
in this city, ns one of the low persons on
this side of the Atlantic nt nil enpnblo of
yielding such light.
Mr. Bokor bus hud spoelnl opportuui
ties for becoming acquainted with tho
truo inwardness of tho eastern question,
as well f rom his rosidoneo at Bt, Peters
burg— where, as we nil know, tho a flit I rs
of the “sick man" are regarded with a
peculiar tender Interest—as though his
sojourn at the metrojHiIisof the Ottoman
empire as our minister to Hint nation
previous to his appointment to tho Utts
siau mission.
I met Mr. linker at his favorite resort,
tho aristocratic Philadelphia club, of
which ho was long time president, his
natural affability not. at all disturbed hy
indulgence in one of tho famed dinners
of tho club. Beating himsolf beside
tho poet and diplomat began an interest
ing and pleasant conversation concerning
hisaliservations in tlm land of tho eroscont
and the recent rovol lit Ion which cost Abdul
Aziz his throne. Ho was not surprised nt
tlm transfer of tlm reins of power from the
hands of the latter to those ofMu rad Eflbli
di. A year before he left UoiistnutinoJUo
aluml a year since, tho probability of m.
♦itrlguo to bring about such a chango
was freely talked of and regarded with
general favor. A lulu I Aziz Imd long
boon extremely unpopular, and was exe
crated by the people with very little
fear of the consequences of thoir blas
phemy of their prophet's successor. “A
year and a half ago,” wild Mr. Boker,
“ I made a trio through tho interior, ami
found this feeling oven more intensified
and more openly expressed than in Con-
stnnlinopln. The condition of tlm coun
try was fearful, industries of all kinds
prostrated, tlm people ground to tlm very
dust hy the heavy taxes, everything at
a standstill, aud everywhere Abdul Aziz
was bitterly cursed as the author of all
their ills."
A New Movement A mo.su the Jkwh.
—There is a movement on foot among
the ultra-reform Jews of New York to
hold religious services on Sunday morn
ings for the convenience, and profit of
those who do not attend services on Sat
urday. A numlierof tho prominol incm-
lu-rs of tlm Temple Emmanuel and Tem
ple Bethel are organizing a society for
this purpose, and propose to hire ('nick
ering hall f«r a place of meeting and to
engage Dr. Felix Adler, of Cornell uni
versity, a son of Rev. Dr. Adler, late ol
the Tomnlo Emmanuel, as lecturer. It
is intended to have the services consist
of a lecture and music by an organ and
choir. The orthodox Jews arc extreme
ly opposed to the project, regarding it as
a |K)Ssihle first step towards the substitu
tion of Sunday for the Jewish Sabbath,
and the engagement of Dr. Felix Adler,
who is known to Is* aj leader of the ex
treme reform party, is taken as earnest
of an intention in that direction. The
orthodox party have started a weekly
newspaper of a general religious charac
ter to counteract the teachings of tho
ultra-reformers, and to prevent, if possi
ble, tho organization of Jewish religious
services on Sunday.—N. Y. World.
When men receivo information that
they may possibly lie among the heirs of
some deceased rich man, they immedi
ately become interested and go to work
searching all the family records to de
cide the matter. When God tolls men
that thev may become “joint-heirs with
our Lord Jesus Christ,” “to an inheri
tance incorruptible, undefiled and un
fading." they listen to it as idle talcs, or
complain of the tediousness and style of
him whom God sends to toll them about
it.— Church lIn ion.
Netherlands, one hundred and seventeen;
Denmark, fifteen; Hwedon, iiinuly-five
Norway, forty-sovou ; Italy, eighty; Arecn
line Ituptildin, forty-four; loan eolloutlnn
seventy. If the west exhibits Ihe best
blanket, so she does the ninst beautiful bed
stead, being one from Grand llaidihi, Michi
gan. A very neat patent on exhibition is an
iililoiiinlie window shade. Also nn uttrae-
xhibit is a working model of Pennsyl
vania oil works. A model railroad tiekeU
ofilee is shown. Hlunle Island makes an ex
tensive exhibit of silver-plated goods. Phil
adelphia makes the finest pharmaceutical
display in the world. A valuable article is
no extension liiddor. Egypt presents among
other valuables an iintiiiiie ease, $3,000 gold.
from Egypt looks like the niihhiii from
a western staik. On the corn question, the
old world Is behind. When I say corn f
Americanize this. Cereal as corn in the old
world, corresponds to our small grain, and
raolis have scut us a large variety of seeds,
hcans, lentils, gum nralde, etc. The Rus
sians, who have been delayed, aro opening,
and make a grand display. Their collection
is divided into seven iiumirud nod forty-
nine exhibits, ombruolng articles in thu va
rious fields of art and industry. They show
rare goods in malachite lapis, Jasper, Rhod
onite Nephrite and Labrador, with bronze
fittings. One malachite eenler-talde, $0,000;
a Mexican onyx mantel, spoken of previous
ly, worth $2,000. Iii speaking of the art
exhibition I have only given those in the art
buildings. There are in the main building
works from New Houth Wales, Victoria,
Houth Australia, New Zealand, Cape of
Good Hope, Egypt, China, Japan, Hawaii.
Switzerland. The llritish department is not
officially catalogued, Russia exhibits n tel-
emeutre, an instrument for measuring dis
tance without chain or rod.
The shipping interests are varied and very
attractive to those who arc fond of niiulicitl
manners, from the tiny boat of one's boy
hood, to Hie leviathans of trniis-atlaiitlo
lines. And models can he seen in all shapes
embracing boats and sailing vessels, yachts
and pleasure-boats, row and life-boats,fishing
smacks, .Sardinian Zehees. and Genoese fel-
I liens, with Uhinese junks in appearance,
Dim; noses, clippers, galliots, gondolas, fiats,
pirogues, Imtteaux, and thu eelehrafvd ice
yacht, the wliill', that makes sixty miles per
liour. In connection Is seen submarine ar
mor, diving-bells, dredging machines, sal
vage apparatus, el'!. A meeting of the ’70
club, mi organization of women journalists,
had a reunion, and addresses hy Miss Husnu
R. Anthony. Mrs. Heron Foster, of Bills-
Imrg, and Miss Maxwell, of Colorado. This
lady, who is in charge of Colorado zoological
department, claims that she has killed two
hundred hears. More than titty car-loads of
arrivals of exhibits tliiN week. The Austrian
legation warn the public against fin individ
ual who claims to he a commissioner of the
Hungarians. They say “he is an escaped
convict.” Three trains of thirty ears, con
taining fourteen hundred New York hank
clerks, made an excursion to the ecntenilial.
This was succeeded hv an excursion of pres
idents, managers and directors. ()n Wednes
day the hankers opened their building with
dedicatory services—orator, Hon. Elhridgc
Gerry Spaulding, of HuMido, N. Y, There is
u pig of iron exhibited made in 1770. A glass
of pure milk ciln he had on thu centennial
grounds 'or five cents, ides ten cents; on.cn
grits, with a howl of milk,fifteen cents; good
sandwiches,ten cents; a good rnaslditincr for
fifty cents; yet people growl at extortion.
The jewelry of the French department is
valued nt $200,000. fine Italian exhibitor
lias a collection of gems, onyx, Happhirc,
carved and antique, valued nt $250,000. A
chandelier, made of amber and meerschaum
in the German department, is valued nt
$0,000. The National Agricultural congress
which meets September 12th, 13th and 14th,
will he addressed by Lewis Fallen, of Buffa
lo, N. Y. on live itoek. and Joseph Harris
A Tex a 8 revivalist who saw a lady
writhing at a camp meeting thought his
words had made an impression, Imt saw
his mistake when a lizard wax token out
of her bustle,—Exchange,
Tamer, my love, perhaps—what do
think?—|>erlinpH, maybe you know,
—it just occurred to me that it
might Iks cheaper lo get a couple more
silk drosses this summer—becaUHO, you
see, the mullmrrv has blighted the silk
in the south of Fiance arm tho crop will
be short and drcM goods awlul high next
yeur.”
TUB NEW SULTAN.
Mr. Boker did not holiovoj howovor,
that the situation would he at all im
proved under tho new sultan. Tho fault
Is in the system of the government and
not in the man. Murad hud been adopted
by the now Turkish uni ty as a sort of
figurehead or standard, around which to
rally ns a defiant point, and personified
sentiment to catch the national feeling,
lie Imd never impressed him as a man of
special ability or strength of charactor.
THE NEW TURKIHli BAUTY.
A leading mind In tho recent revolu
tion was Midlint Pnshn, really the chief
of the now Turkish party of which Mu
rad JCffi'iidi was ihcostoiiBihlo representa
tive. Midhill 1'tuiha was formerly grand
vizier, hut Attempted some reforms in
the sultan’s private a flairs which soon
brought him into disgrace.
The fact is, there is no chance for tho
Hill tan to effect reforms in tho govern
ment ns at present constituted, even if
ho (iohhoshch the will and ability to at
tempt them. There is no oosibility of
an improved condition until there is a
radical change in the system, of govern
ment and until the Hiiltan takes an ac
tual pari in it, as ho does not now. He
Ih really tho head of the Mohammedan
faith, the descendant of the prophol, a
sort of grand llama, who !h almost deified
nnd iH altogether too sacred a being to
descend to tho consideration of tho tem
poral nlfiiirs of the nation ho is supposed
to govern. The grand vizier is the ac
tual ruler, nnd governs as the servant of
the sultan. The latter has nothing to
do with the details of government, uml
does not even preside at the meetings
of thu ministers, lie is thus in utter
ignorance of what is going on in his
dominions, mid it is to sco what nhuses
aro possible, in fact inevitable, untlor such
a system.
AH TO THK HOI'TAH,
who have played so prominent a part in
the revolution, they aro simply a reli
gious caste—theological student*, they
might ho called, embracing all classes
and Hiijqwirtcd from the immense reve
nues or the mosques. They are in prep
aration to outer the Mohammedan priest*
IihoiI, and their reputed sanctity gives
them a large influence with the fanati
cal populace. Acting with them were
numbers, of Hie lower order of
pricslH, whose influence is in projKirtion
to their ignorance and fanaticism. Their
leader, nhoik-iil-Islam, signifying tho
head or chief of Mohammedanism, Is tho
spiritual head of the nation under the
Hiiltun, as the grand vizier is tho tom-
jmral head, hut like the latter is subject
to removal by the sullmi. Backed by
the Kof'las, and boltliul them by the min
isters, however, Bheik-ul-Islain was able
to first compel the sultan to radical con
cessions anil finally to demand his abdica
tion.
THE TURNING POINT
reached when tho sultan refused to
assist tho country in its desperate flnan-
iai strait out of his immense private re-
ources, wrung as this money had been
rom impoverished labor. The means by
which lie accumulated this immense sum
of $100,000,000, in the condition of tho
country, was characteristically oriental.
When ho desired a cot tain sum of money
lie would order the grand vizier to fur
nish it forthwith. No excuse was ac
cepted for failure, and if not speedily
forthcoming the grand vizier was at
oneg disposed. Consequently his grand
viziers wore accustomed to keep lum in
a good humor by constant gifts of money
which they wore bound to obtain, no
mutter how, from an overburdened and
bankrupt people. There is no system in
process, no books or vouchers, and
budget is a mere sham, in which no
ono has any confidence.
little six-year-old boy went into
the country on a visit. About the first
thing be had was a bowl of bread and
milk. He tasted it, ami then hesitated
a moment, when his mother Asked him
if he didn’t like it, to which he replied,
smacking his lips: “Yes. mamma; I.
was only wishing our milkman would
keep a cow.”
Tiik recent gunpowder explosion, nt
Balt Luke City, it i« alleged, caused over
hundred premature births.
t nnmTiiRR.
I >t tier lie Hioho In innkc lit* wife;
llal, llieu* nil one woiilil ilia In want
It rumora pan tho hrrnit ol Ufa.
While otiiriM mil v shook llio hrml,
Or nraptnulcd IhoyNi surely flRht- -
" Amman.” they'd my, " her linlr I* ml."
' I hem fort'lohl thny'il likely nrrlshj
Ami IIiiis would md minIiii1i<«< llfo;
illit sltll they live nnd live lorhfrlsh.
The ilny Hint uindo them mini nml wile.
J rue, she lives nn| mi thn rnrensrn
And honeyed ll.itlerles of Ihe world ;
And It she loves loeurl her tresses,
Il li In plense her Imd Ihey're curled,
And I rue she likes lo keep her Irmihles
Enr from n world wllli Ko**lp rite,
RounrdliiR sueli ns Irirnsleul Imlddes,
I'redf-.iiued oil the stream ol lltn
And limn they still lopelher Journnjr
The <|nli-l wny lliey choose lo wnlk,
Tnklnu Ihelr nil in Lnlior's tourney,
Henlluu ti em li the " iluht In l.tfk."
FACTS A NR FANCIES.
A Brooklyn boy him started for Phil-
dolphin on a velocipede.
KnwiN Booth’n residence in Green
wich, Ut., sold recently, brought $50,000.
Japan Iiiih adopted the first day of
i week, tho Christian Sunday, as a dny
of rest.
The Presbyterian church in Atlanta.
Ga., has four li uml red members, ana
pays tho pastor $3(100.
Judge Louis Wykttk, of Alabama,
st week paddled thirty miles to open
IiIh court on time nt Haustvillo.
CHINA lias just completed fortifica
tions on the Pellio river upon which ton
thousand soldiers have been employed
throe years.
Newhpapkr men aro now anxiously
waiting to bonr from Stanley. Any
thing is welcome that will cause a rilllo
in the general stagnation of existing
national topics.
A raw egg, mixed with a little sugar
taken ovory morning lieforo breakfast, is
declared to bo an inlaliUilo cure for dys
pepsia. Tho Lancaster Examiner says
i, nnd it has reason lo know.
During the eight months ending with
April last there were fifty-fivo grain
laden vessels cleared from Oregon for
foreign twirls, carrying an aggregate of
$3,000,000 worth of grain.
According to tho report of tho Cana
dian minister of the Interior, thcro aro
in tho dominion about ninety-two In
dians, wIidho ismscKsintm in the aggregate
are worth from ulovon to twolvo million
dollars.
There arc in Virginia one thousand
io hundred nnd sixty-four Baptist
seventy-threo thousand nine hundred •
and forty-three in embers.
little liniise to dwull In,
A shelter ami a nest;
Bill UiiiiirIi the hmls are swulliiig,
Ami the spring! from earth are welling,
I can not find a place fur my rest.
—Jtiuc Terra Cooke.
The truo spirit of religion cheers ns
well as com poses the soul; it banishes,
indeed, all tho levity of behavior, all
vicious and dissolute mirth, hut in ex
change fills the mind with a ncrpetiinl
serenity, uninterrupted cheerfulness, and
habitual i
well li
inclination to iileaso others
lo bo pleased in ituelf.
Railroad building Ih experiencing a
revival. Thus far the present year thcro
havo been lmilt, according to rc|iort,
five hundred and thirty-two miles as
against two hundred and twenty miles
for tho same period in 1875. three hun
dred and soventy-five miles In 1871, and
six hundred and fifty-four in 1873.
Taxation in flic Various Stales.
MninplilH Appeal.
Wo give bolow tables which show tho
rate of taxation in the various slates of
tho Union. The first table shows thu
average of the whole taxation, including
the states, county and municipal taxes.
In Tunncsseo tho cutlro taxation is six
dollars aud seventy-nine cents upon the
(one thousand dollars) of property (truo
value). Iti tho commercial cities of
Memphis and Nashvillo tho rate is more,
hut wo give the average rate over tlm
wliolo state, and this Is done in all tho
si ales.
TAXATION—STATE AND LOCAL—UPON
EACH $1,000 (TRUK VALUE) OF
PROPERTY.
Mnrylninl...
MnanNcliiiiett*...
Mlnnuaot
Oms'in...
VjrttlnlH,
rt'ii i'i"
M l**m
Ohio...
givo the ralo of state taxa
tion in cmcli of tlm slates as prepared and
published hy M. T. Williamson in a
pamphlet Issued in 1874 :
Alnlminii Mi Ml*»l«ssl|>pl... R".
ArUiin.ii* I 2.'|Missouri....
('nlilririiln MiiNwtirn'kn...
i.iiuUUlin...
Mnlur
Mlin.nsotii...
Thcro may have been some, changes
since that timo. In Mississippi it is now
sixty-five cents, and in Alaimmn it is
seventy-fivo cents. In Mississippi tho
counties, wo learn, pay tho expenses of
criminal prosecutions, nnd In Tennessee
the state pays them. If the state lind to
pay for criminal prosecutions the rate in
Mississippi would bo much nlwve sixty-
five cents. Tho agricultural products of
Tennessee amounted in 1870, to $88,472,-
807 ; while it is not proposed by any ono
to collect over $2,000,000 of taxes, or
only ono forty-third of the annual value
of farm products, and when we remem
ber that a large portion of this $2,000,000
is to Im? collected on city property and on
privilege*, tho tax on farms will only
amount to ono eighty-sixth of tho value
of farm products. Kentucky, a neigh
boring state, very similar to Tennessee,
and which lias no state debt, colectcd in
J873, $2,010,474, and had only $87,477,-
374 of farm products in 1870.