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W. S, D. WIKLE & 00,, Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDA*, NOVEMBER 17, 1S78.
VOL 111. NO. 22.
CONDENSATIONS OF NEWS.
the MOI’TU.
Harbour Lewi*, formerly a member ot
'••URress from tin* Memphis district, hu*
been appointed register of the land otliee at
t^alt laikr, vice O. A. Patton.
The British bark Crown Jewel, of St.
John's, arrived nt Onlvcston, on the 30th,
bringing 'he crew of the Thomas Winans, of
I’ort (liohmoud, V Y., which wont down o0
Grand Cay mar island during the lute liurri-
«*ane. The ve-d and cargo were a total
diMK. No loss „f life.
A despatch from Betty town, twenty*
• tv,o milea norUieast of Woodyille Miss., re
port* thin n Mr. .Sturdivant, wife and th o
ohiljfyn were murdered iu their beds and
" l ® house burned to conceal the horrible
deed. Before bis arrival two negroes, who
planned and executed this crime, were cap
tured, one hung and the other shot iu nt
tempting to escape. Two are still at large
but can hardly escape arrest. Many colored
•'itixeua insisted iu the capture, and were
with great difficulty prevented from throw-
the prisoners into the burning embers.
In the federal court nt Little Bock, on
:ilst ult., Judge II. C. CaldwHlon the bench
Beniamin 1). Watkins was convicted*of
making counterfeit nlekles, and lentcured
to pay a fine of one thousand dollars mid
oue year in the penitentiary.
The number of postal curds isatted
during the month just passed was 23,116,000
being an increase of 2,077,500, or nearly
fifteen per rent, oxer the issues in October
last year. This is the largest issue of cards
occurring iu any one month since the intro
duction of cards, some three yean, ago.
John Strothers nnd Samuel Wilson,
both colored, got into u (junrrel nt a negro
ball at Ht. Louis Tuesday night, during which
Wilson drew a large pocket knife and
plunged it into Strothers nreiisl, killing him
instantly. Wilson is said to have killed a
Chict
» ttlmi
He
arrested.
A fire occurred in n wIioIcmiIc ••rug
house at £t. Louis on Thursday evening do
lug damage to the amount of f25,000.
W. I). Stewart, u desperado nnd citi-
en of the Indian Nation, who murdered a
man named Henry, was arrested near Cotton
I'lsnt, Ark., on Tuesday, by federal deputy
marshals. He attempted to escape and was
shot dead.
Marshal Lei per has arrived at Little
Book, from Texas, with two Pope county
murderers for whom there was *',i 000 re
ward.
Will Heilman, a promising’young man
living Bear Little Bock, Ark., receutly foil
■sixty feet front a .pecan tree and was Iu-
Mantly killed.
A party of negroes broke Into u resi
dence near Aiken, South « urolinn, on the
id, and murdered n Mr. llanslson nnd his
nephew named Postman. After robbing the
premises the murderer* fired the dwelling.
A sjtecial to the Globe-Democrat, from
Kaufman, Tex
" iu Payne, who murdered John I
Terrell, Texas, in May, 1X7.5, |ih
ms: »vi:vr.
False alarm of fire created a panic iu a
« hinecc theater on Jaekvon street,San Fran
cisco, ou Tuesday nigbf. The littiMItig was
crowded, and a rush was made for the single
entrance wav, and many were trampled
down in the confusion.' The police dragged
•mt about twenty dead persons and the same
numoer wounded. The Chinese refused to
render any assistance, and the performers
continued playing until stopped hv the po
lice.
One hundred Sioux Indians left Sid
ney, Ni l*., for the Indian Territory, on a
tour of inspection, on the last day of Goto-
Dispatches received on the .'list ult.,
report that Gen. Miles bad a light with Sit
ting Bull on th*< 21st lilt., on Cedar Greek,
and completely routed him, killing a num
ber of Indians ami wounding many, lie
chuHcd the Indians about sixty miles, when
they divided, one portion going toward the
agency, nnd Sitting Bull toward Fort Peck.
The Colorado legislature met the 1st
lust. Webster Anthony was elected speaker
of tlie house, and W. W. Webster president,
piv-tem, of the senate.
The Pacific mail steamer Alaska
sailed oil the 1st. from Kan Francisco, for
llong Kong, via Vakahoma, taking over
three hundred thousand liollnis iu silver
coin and bullion, a large proportion of which
was sent hy local bank - on account of east
ern and European correspondents, who pre
fer to settle thtdr Indebtedness in the Orien
tal markets through this channel, nnd have
recently purchased hills on Kan Francisco
to a large amoiiut for thut.pupose.
Two large buildings belonging to the
Miami, (O,) Powder mills, blew up on Wed
nesdav afternoon. One person was killed
instantly and several others badly injured.
Two inches of snow fell at Omaha on
the 1st.
Three horse thieves were hung in
Wyandotte t'o. Kansas, on Sunday morning.
The telegraphic report from ('amp
v* a village of fifty
attacked on Oeto
ix war party, osti ;
nt Painted
ales’* tight
A dispatch from Home to the London
Daily News sav» that Cardinal Automdli is
dying. His holiness, the pope, on Sunday
ordered a consultation of physician*, who
declared the cardinal’* ease hopeless. His
relatives were summoned to his bedside,
and found him unconscious.
A Londondinpatch dated Nov. 1st says:
A (,'nbinet council has been sumiuoitod for
• Saturday next, tin* fourth instant. A dis
patch from Belgrade announces that diplo
matic officials there state that the Porte lins
accepted an armistice of two mouths and or-
, dered its army commanders in suspend boa-
| The London Post publishes, in official
form, the following paragraph:
having accepted tiie armistice,
stand Russia has taken immediate steps to
press forward negotiation* Tor the arrange
ment of all pending question* oil a basis of
the English proposals.”
In the chamber of deputies at Paris,
on the 3d., the duke do (’axes, minister of
foreign affairs, made a statement in regard
to the policy of the French government iu
the east. He dwelt principally on the
country's need of peace, and concluded as
follows: “ If, contrary to the expectations
of the government, eompelinlions should
arise, we shall never,ask you to compromise
the honor and safety of France iu a struggle
which does not involve her essential inter-
esi. Thus having used our best endeavors
t<> nmiulaiii the pence of Europe, we shall
ai least he sure of being aide to maintain it
for ourselves.”
Stainbaiich, Wyoming,
lodges of Sho,hones w
her 15th by n large Sioux w
mated nt twelve hundred |od;
r the i
in July, 1*74, nud about ninety miles from
'auip SUiinlmugh. As far ns learned, only
>nc Shoshone, hy thr name of Humpy, «•*•
■aped, who was tin* Indian that saved the
life of (’apt. Henry in ('rook’s second light
tills slimmer.
The city clergy of Chicago have
joined w ith Moody and Hankcy in calling a
grand Christian convention at tho taber
nacle. to lie hold November 22d and 23d.
l r nlted States marshal of San
Frauciseu, lias mndu a number of urreit.s of
parties ehnrged with illegal registration,
cTflftrnUoii,
banged.
mortlyXrC ground of
residence and conviction of oriim
Warrants are out for many others. Th
(Uestion of law will he brought before tli
judges Of the Foiled States district nnd cil
it court.
The residence of Joseph Lick, in SI
ugene (^ntchingN and | p n „| ( Min., with n portion of the content*
was consumed hy fire on the 2d. Loss, Hire
thousand dollars. Two hours Inter the res
A railroad accident nrur Gnldboro, j
*’*•-, ou the 30th ult., was the cause of the
dentil of five persons, nnd serious injury of |
thirteen others.
Forty thou Hand people visited the cen
tennial on Sunday, Oct. 20th. Over 100.000
easii admissions were taken the following
Monday.
The jewelry store of Stern Bros., (W
Nassau street, was mitered by burglars Sat
urday evening and the safe broken open nnd
$20,000 worth of the most valuable portion
of the stock stolen.
Mr. Walter B. Palmer, for several
.'•••*rs president of tno Tenth national bank
of New York, died on the .'llat, aged forty
I denci-of N. P. Ijingford, juat completed and
j not occupied, was also burned, and (lie ad
joining residence, Hint of Chief Justice
HilMiinn, somewhat injured. Both fires are
believed to have been incendiary.
roKiaux.
three
Charles Williams, alias Charles Ster
ms, convicted some time ago on two indict-
menu, charging him with forging bonds on
ibe New York Central, and Buffalo, New
York nnd Eric railroad companies, has been
sentenced to th** state's prison for fifteen
A mi«i was made recently on a num
ber of lottery places throughout New York,
going under the name of the Kentucky loo
terv, and controlled, it is said, by Simmons,
Dickson A Co., and arrested the parties in
charge and carried their stock to the. stu-
tionhouscs.
Harry Hardaker, a noted English
thief, jumped from a train near Utica, N. Y.
while under arrest, on Wednesday las*, and
ua* killed.
The works of tho Buffalo Hardware
• o. have been destroyed by fire.
Another railroad accident occurred on
Hie Pennsylvania road near Center Valiev
on the 1st iost., iu which three sleepers w ere
cipsized, and two persons killed and several
injured.
In an official report of the recent ar.ci
dent on the Delaware, Luckawanna and
Western railway, -uperintendent Halstead
xaj s the- rear•hrakeman, whose duly it was
to be hack with a flag, lias not been seen
>iace the arcident occurred.
Another accident occurred
Pennsylvania railroad on Thursday. One
person wa« killed and several injured.
The entire front of the residence of
Augustus Juppies. of Rondont, New York,
was receotly blown out by a charge of
tier placed in the window by some malicious
person. The occupants of the house
uninjured.
Wm. Wheatly, once a favorite a
died in New York on the 3d inst.
Weeden, Goodwin and C'olvar,
fou.i I guilty t)f manslaughter by aiding
Dispatches from Europe received on
the 31st ult. were very conflicting in re
lation to tli«* European war, hut according to
an official telegram, tho terms of the armis
tice are bring finally agreed upon, and (heir
execution is hourly expected. The Diudon
Post, speaking upon the authority of its
own corespondent, think* the question of
armistice is settled, and that a conference of
the power* will shortly he held. The Lon
don Times correspondent at Belgrade tele
graphs there is no longer any delusion.
The Servians arc now at the feet of Russia
or the merey of Turkey.
A battle wits fought on the 29th, in
which the Turks drove the Servian* from
Djtinis after a crushiug defeat. The Tchcrnny
efl’sarmy is cut in two and completely demor
alized. Aorvatovitch’s command has retired
on Krutei.evat/i. A great panic prevails nt
Belgrade.
The Pope having desired to diyido Ihe
Archbi hoprie of Lyons into two dioceses,
without the consent of the French govern
ment, the latter lias issued a decree forbid
ding such division.
Foreign advices from Havana describe
the effects of the last hurricane ns very dis
astrous. The sugar crop, which promised to
be exceptionally abundant, will lie much re
duced.
The Official Gazette of the .'list ult..
states that (Jen. fgnatieff, Russian embassa
dor at Constantinople, has been instmeted
to demand the Porte's acceptance within
forty-eight hours, of an armistice nnd sus
pension of hostilities, otherwise diplomatic
relations between Russia and Turkey will
he broken off, and Gen. Ignntieff, with the
whole personal of the embassy, will leave
r’onstanliuople. This ultimatum of Russia
to Turkey was disnatrhed from Ltiodia,
wheie tfrb Russian court is sojourning, to
Constantinople on the .'{0th. A London
Times correspondent at Vienna says there is
no reason to suppose the Porte will resist
the Russian ultimatum and refuse the
armistice. Its consent to the latter was ex
pected every moment before the ultimatum
arrived. It remaius to be seen how far
Russia’s couciliatory attitude in regard to
‘ l b e conference will be affected by the inci-
j dent of the ultimatum.
The next annual conference association
for the reform and codification of the laws
of nations, is announced to he held at Ant
werp on the twenty-first of August next,
j The burgomaster and authorities of Ant-
j werp will receive the association, assisted b”
* killing nf the prize fighter Walker, at | a reception committee from Brussel
>*'» m " eve Jersey, and have been sentenced • The groat marine canal connecting
'*» imprisoment each in the I‘r»-i»- Amsterdam with the German ocean, n:js
ivt» The {reioaibiug two prL . opened No*. 1st, wuh imposing ceremonies,
onuf6, Clark and Near?, wero serrtensed to at which members of the cabinet ani foreign
sn itnprlsoam*it of twe years, | representative* were present.
Tho Koccnl Grout Storm.
A letter from Key West, giving the
experience of tho United States strainer
Ossippoo in tho storm of the nineteenth
and twentieth of October, says: "The
men, iu getting about tlm decks to at
tend to their duties, were thrown vio
lently from their feet, and, blinded by
the salt spray, were obliged to go group
ing ol*out ns if'they werein total dark
ness. They could only stick to their sta
tions by the most desperate struggling
against the hatches, gratings, doors,
deck-buckets, and ninny other articles
that were being swept back and forth
across the decks by the rushing of tho
water as the fillip rolled and tossed.
Breathing was difficult, and the air taken
into the lungs was so hauled with sea
salt that it caused excAsivo irritation,
producing violent coughing anil vomit
ing. The sufferings of the men were
intense, e«|H*eially among the firemen
and coal-heavers, who were not only de
prived of ventillaliou, but obliged to in-
Imle the salt-water steam produced by
sca’a rushing into the fire room. It
then thought advisable to encourage
men by the ii e of stimulants, and,
surgeon ordered a sufficient quantity*
to~be given to nil hands aqd^Y'qnt it U*
tho cabin to he distrihut/'d. The effect of
the storm on the animals on board was
peculiar. The cuts disappeared the morn
ing bo loro the storm, and were not seen
for five days afterward. The dog Dan
iel, u splendid pointer owned by tho
giptuiii, exhibited the greatest dread at
being left alone, nnd was only np|>cuKcd
when sonic one was patting him. The
hens and turkeys, usually the most hun
gry and voracious and quarrelsome on
Ixmrd, forgot their hunger, and barely
opened their eyes when food was thrown
to them. Two birds— babos, a species
of pelican—came on board while we were
lying in the vertex. They must
have been drawn down while
tempting to fly over us. The parrot
the only tiling which at all seemed (o
enjoy the surroundings.”
The I’uhllc Held Statement.
The following statement of tho public
debt was made by the treasury depart
incut Nov. 1st:
Six per cunthoinls $ O84,9O9,05(.
Five per cent bonds 712,320,1 fit
Total coin bonds 1,01)7.32 ,in<
Lawful money dobt 14,000,000
Matured 2,-573.240
Legul tender notes 307,001,408
Certificates of deposit 4■),070,00(1
Fractional currency 28,573,478
Coin certificates 33,283,100
Total without interest 470,10(1,1)88
Total debt
Total interest
i ihIi in treasury,
Cash in treasury,
Sporjnl deposits held for i
Georgia's Hold M(ues,
From tlm Allniitu C
It is certain that few pooftlo lmvo any
idea of tho amount of gold that is dug
out of the north Georgia hills and ship
ped to Atlanta every montll. {Homo days
ago we published a news ijolo in which
we stated that Messrs. Janies It. Wylie,
A Co., of this city, rccelveiff’nbout three
thousand dollars a month In gold dust
from that region. Wo leiiritlmt Messrs.
Moore, Marsh A Co. receiyo double as
much, and that others receive fully that
much. In fact, it pours'in a yellow
stream from the rich mountains into our
favored city. There are single mills at
Dahlonega that gel out six thousand dol-
Turk v i wor, h °* K°l‘t per mphth. We do
not believe that less than thirty thou-
unuer sam j dollars worth of gold per month
reaches Atlanta from north Georgia, pos
sibly fifty thousand d(4Mrs. Around
Dahlnncgn there is a pertect host of mills,
The Hand gold mining company are run
ning at present twenty stami* mills, the
Henning mine ten stump mills, the l.aw-
reneo mine live stamp mills, the Findley
mine tv.onty-nino stamp mills, the Huff
mine five stamp mills. Then we have
sixty-four stamp mills working within
Iom than two miles of Dnhhpiegu. Mr.
Lombard lias an eight stamp mill, and
the Ogle mill with a five stamp mill, are
within two or throe miles of the others.
Besides these, there are sevlral mines iu
White county being worker!successfully,
There are others iu Hall Vounty'dolng
quite as well. Apart from the mills
there is a perfect Hwnritt of Vein workers
or operators, who work deposits or veins,
instead ot tho ore. They simply wash
the sand nnd dirt in lingo shaking
troughs, and gather the gold specks with
quicksilver, which gathers every parti*
do of tho metal into an ninidgnm. These
operations need no mills, but bring a
very largo amount of dust into market.
Among others of the rir.li mines uV
notably the Ballutleld, the Glade, tho old
Findley, the Veasey and the Jones,
There are scores of tlieso veins or donnsjL
mines. The little boys in and about Dan-*
lonega spend their leisure hours iu sift
ing the loose soil iu a panful of water,
and make thirty to seven!y r fivo cents a
day. Wo were shown on yesterday a
solid nugget ol gold ns largo as the first
joint of your little linger tliiit was picked
up by the street-workers in Dahlouega
as they wore grading (lie public road.
Atlanta is the market for all those com
panies. They ship a quniitity of their
dust here, and buy their gohda here.
!,1H3,1143,32(1
34,473,404
75.1) 67,027
12.1) 01,328
Total
Debt less cash in treasury
Decrease of debt during Oct...
Decrease since June 21*, 1875...
Bonds issued to I’acifio It. R.
Go , interest payable in law
ful money, principal out
standing
Interest accrued and not vet
of interest paid
209,208,675
'
10,580,908
• Neatness at Koine.
Mo t young girls, nowadays, desire to
mu ry rich husbands, and in view of that
pic: ean, destiny, neglect to fit them-
hcIvi « fir the humbler walks of life. In
the country, we admit that girl.- are
sometime brought up with an idea of
work, and with a suspicion that each may
chance to wed a sober, steady, good-
looking, industrious young man, who will
Ik* compelled to earn hy severe la her the
subsistence of himself and family. But
city girls rarely cherish such lowly ideas.
From the highest to the lowest class in
life, th3 prevailing idea with all is, that
marriage is to lift them, at once, above
ull necessity for exertion ; and even the
servant girl dresses and reasons as if she
entertained a romantic confidence in her
Cinderillu like destiny of marrying, if
not a prince, a wealthy man, at least, it
is because girls cherish these false ideas
that young men are afraid to marry. The
young women they meet with are all .-o
imbued with notions of marriage «o ut
terly incompatible with the ordinary rc-
lationsof life in their station ; they arc
so wholly inexperienced in the economy
of the household ; they have been taught,
*r have taught themselves, such a "noble
disdain” for ail kinds of family industry ;
they have acquired such expectations of
ladylike ease and elegance in the matri
monial conn action, tiiut to wed anv one
of them ii to secure a life long ]«
] domestic unpleffsantnesa, nnd purchase missions to t£o missions ut Madura,
I wretchednens, poverty and despair. India.
\ Granger nt the Ceiitefinhtl.
N.-« Turk ril|>|«r.
Many blraugcrs at tho (.’ontenninl are
not yet aware that they can't get out
even for a moment, and get bnck*on tho
same entrance-fee. I saw an old man, ev
idently a granger, try it the other day.
lie says to tho galeman: X
‘•"I want to go out lj li^rtite/. -Voti'lf
know me when I come baifl.j wow't you
(late man—Yes, I’ll know you by a fif
ty-rent stamp.
(I ranger—Whnt I Ain't my money I
paid good for all day.
(ialotmm—Yes, it's good for all day if
you stay in nil day.
Granger But fwantn bite feat, it'll
cost mo fifty cents in here.
(Internal)—That's the tule, old man,
and you'll lmvo to stand it.' But I’ll tell
you what von can do. You can go down
by then, pailines, and there's some hoys
outside will give you a sandwich for
twenty cents.
I followed the old gentIcmuii down by
the pullings to witness'lijs investment.
•Sure enough he found an niihitrn haired
boy with sandwiches, t und taking one
through the slats, passed fifty cents.
Then ho held his baud through For
change.
” This Is 1870," says the hrlek-top
Arab.
Granger--Well, 1 guess I k no wed that
before. <liiu my change.
Arab—This Ih centennial year.
Granger—(slapping his hands ner
vously throng the ( ruck). Here Ikjv, I
don’t want any foolin’. Glm my money
right away.
Arab—Don’t you know this is centen
nial year.
Granger You eu.-ied, infernal, red
headed brat of Satan, if you don’t glm
me thirty cents, I'll come out there and
get a policeman hold of von.
Arab—Now, mister, tfiat wouldn't ho
business. You wouldn’t come out here
and pay fifty cents to get back, just for
thirty cents, ami if you were to do it
for spite, where'll J bo when vou got
out? You sec this Is celitcnnfal year.
Have to make our jack this year. Now
you go along nice and quiet and it’ll be
all t he same next centennial.
Finnic—Arab performs a short war
dance nnd yells: “Bun here, Jimmy,
I’ve done it to another of.’em .' ”
(i ranger walks off rubbing his bothered
brow, arid muttering:
“ Well, I’ll be eternally dig-blasted
in tew gourd seed if this ain't the skip-
pi nist place I ever saw ! ”
IfcniH for the Ladles.
A girl in L'harlesion has dark blue
hair.
The shop girls of Boston number nearly
one-tenth of the entire populated of the
city.
Out of the fifteen applicants for admis
sion to Michigan university, none were
i ejected.
A young inan on the West side, Chica
go, has been jilted by Ids girl for singing
“Meet me by moonlight.” Her father
is a stockholder in a gas company.
Miss Alice Kingsbury is chiselling her
way renown as a sculpture in San
Francisco, after making her mark ns an
actress.
Miss Lucy C. Brigdcn, a graduate of
the Med for* 1 (Mass.) high School, has be
come hopelessly insane. This high pres
sure system of education i- more (lisas-
trous to health than tight lacing and tis-
e-paper shoes.
Ladies who have plants to protect are
informed by theHt. Louis Democrat that
a $?•* overcoat will not cover more
plants than two 2-ecnt newspapers.
(frnco (Irconwood rode on a cowcatcher
for forty miles, and when she was
helped (town it took lie/ Imlf a day to
The groat question is at last settled
A Pennsylvania woman says hIio cm
walk twenty miles a day in men’s clotliei
and only twelve in female apparel.
Mrs. Livermore wccpB because sho h
a woman.
Mrs. Miller, of California, lias a lino of
stages.
A woman came slowly along tbe main
building. Sin* was in great perplexity,
but being a wise woman, sho stopped to
ask for Information, and this is wlmt she
asked : “Can you tell me,sir, is this the
other ended the building?” “I tliink
it is.” “Well, sir,” sho cried, “can you
tell me where I shall go next?”
The grandmother of- thelutoGen. Mc
Pherson, whose monument was unveiled
ul Washington by tho society of the
army of tho Tennessee on Wednesday,
was invited to bo present at the ceremo
nies, but diod tho day before the invita
tion reached its destination. She was
ninety-nine years old.
William Aster's Tomb.
Trinity cemetery, which lies on the
river bank between one hundred nnd
fifty-third nnd one hundred urnl fifty-
fifth streets, is now receiving the all-
(lition of a new vault by Griffith Thomas,
tho architect, for William Astor. It
will soon ho completed. Though the
cost Is $25,000, it is not intended to make
it remarkable for anything except sub
stontiality and gnodtuHtc. Tho material
is Quincy granite. 11« interior diiticn
sions arc seventeen lect four inches in
length and twolvo feet ten inches in
width, the thickness of the walls being
two feet four inches. A marked pecu
liarity of tin* vault is the use of plate
glass to light the interior. Tho tomb is
situated on n side bill, the side that
fronts the drive being only about five
foot above the greiiml, while the rear
walls are thirteen feet. It is in the rear
that the glass is placed. Two large
panes, each t wo feet, wide mid six feet
high, are placed side by side, separated
inly by a space about one foot wide,
riicse panes admit tho light, but tho
glass is unpolished and consequently not
transparent. The ontrmice Ih fioni the
front, through a double trap door, down
a descent of ten granite steps. The floor
is of granite slabs, six inches thick, laid
on masonry several l'«ct thick. There
are three stone shelves, ranged around
three sides of the interior, each six inches
thick and two feet.six inches wide. The
front 1b marked by the presence of four
granite posts with polished panels. Be
tween tho two niidulo posts rises a podi-
meiit over the stone doors, surmounted
by a cross. In the center of the pedi
ment iu raised letters is the mime “ Wil-
Items of Interest.
The most violent hiccough Is cured hy
a Chicagoan, who stops tho ears amt nos
trils and tofajMpi'Jcrs a glass of water.
SpurgeoTT Wears a bluo overcoat, mid
“a cigar burns merrily in his mouth.”
Genius ran not disgui.e itself, even
among clergymen.
On New S'ear’s duy the people of In
dia are to have thoir happiness com
pleted by the formal announcement of
their English empress.
Waiters of the Lick house, Wan
Francisco, injured by the explosion of
the steam table in September, 1875, have
broughtjlumave suits against the Lick
trustees mid ftsk for $70,000.
The University o! Virginia has re
ceived a donation of $5,000 for the ben
efit of its library, from Mr. Win. W.
(-orcoran.
Two-thirds of tho willow for tin*
nmmifuctiiro of willow-wnro in this
country iH imported from Kuropo at a
cost of $5,000,000.
Tho double hanging in Now Jersey
last week was a horrible affair. One of
the wretches slowly strangled to death,
and iu his struggles Ills hands got loose.
The Jersey hangman has evidently been
reading Deacon Smith.
Commodore Vanderbilt says the
obitunrie* are much better than he ex
pected, blit be Is mortally afraid the
newspapers will go back on him next
time, riiero is such a thing ns a man’s
dying once too often. If tho Commo
dore keeps on he may write tho obituu-
ricH of Homo of the nnwspupe
they would mnko lively reading.
Tho steamship Acapulco of the Pa
cific mail line, which arrived Insi week,
was struck hy lightning on the 9th of
October, whllo ontering the harbor of
Aspimvall, and tho topmast was shivered
down to the lower mast, n distance of
about forty feet. Fortunately
was near it at. tho time, and no perM«n
was injured. It Isa curious fact that
the fore--topmast of tho Acapulca was
also struck hy lightning in tho same port
on the previous voyage.
The Anglo-American Times argues
that the United States have fully r
covered from the panic ol 1878. “Arne
icnn fnetoiics,” it suys, “for the first
time iu sixteen yenrs, threaten a formida
ble competition with manufacturers ii
foreign markets. They can now proiltteo
on a par with Kiiroponn manufacturing
countries, because thoir work is as eco
nomically done, or would he, wero it not
lor tho faulty system which remains,
American labor is cheaper, its means of
living cheaper, and the whole scale is re
lucou, by which the cost (if muuufiic
luring the article is lessened.”
limn Amor” A rnJJiiur of «r,ll.l I,.*»•*« , ’*'be papers transferring the Old South
tho four Willh, o? the vault nnd KmnteSh "fu/, p "T'i
*'«■ »
owners. The sum of $175,000 was ad
vanced, $100,000 without seoyrity by
friends interested in the purchase ot the
building ; the rest of $400,000 is secured
by first nnd second mortgages. Thaeom
ditlon annexed to tho sale hy the stand
ing committee of tho church, namely,
“ that the building shall not he used for
any purpose whatever on Sunday lor
thirty years, except so far ns m.iy he
necessary for its preservation,” was rati
fied by the society.
It has become notorious that a legally
made will stands for nothing if chore is
enough of money to make it an object
to fight for it. Any grasping relative
or any pen-on whose interest it is to dis
cover a plain case puts it within reach
of the lawyers, and there it is all up with
the estate so far.as the heirs arc concern
'd; tho city and the lawyers gobble it
ip.—Jennie. June,
Mr. David I'olsifcl, of the secro
tary of state’s office, has in his posses
sion a well-preserved but very ancient
Hebrew roll, known to be at least more
than 1,090 years old. It contains the
four hooks of Moc.es, written upon a soft
brown silk about ninety feet long and
two wide. Tho pages of tho roll are
seven hy twenty-four inches, and contain
forty-lines. The characters are large and
jot black, age having had no apparent
wearing effect upon them—JlonUm Ad
vertiser.
Maggie Stewart, n llttlo girl from
Brooklyn, visited Independence hall last
night, accompanied hy mme of her fami
ly, and while admiring the old hell and
the many relies exhibited there, asked
the janitor whether she might he allowed
to recite “The Independence Bell,” sav
ing that it was her highest ambition to
speak the piece in Independence hall.
Permission was granted, and the little girl
astonished the many visitors hy reciting
the piece in fine style. Another poem
was called for, and tho child again de
lighted her auditors. -- Philadelphia
—■».
Be-Esliihllshment of the Fast Mall
Train.
ronUBT-SIK-NOT.
I inn Hip flower Unit (ivory iu*u bavNiuiK.
My nniiir linn ti-pinMcd un llu* unwilling IoiikAu ;
'MM suit (iirowoiln show iiniuriifiilly Inn* rung
rorgi't
I ImnRo 1m*hI IIip Iipavoii's
lliiuiuli ti-niiMciit Horn'
It nliliii'lli still, fnilli’N
tonml lil'i,.!
IiMo It front (hi
cliuiigiiig Imp,
I'IiourIi linnsli'iil riomtH initv iildo It fr>
**"- “ Ull, fsl ‘‘
Tin* res I loan brook, tliu river's iloepnr flow,
lleslilo my quiet home Mill come ami ro ;
1 kiss tho wutcra, murumiliiR Milt mid low,
quiet home Mill
Mers, hum nun I
Forgot iuo not
The hints above me hovel logon Ihe wing,
LIM tlm biihb d whif|H>n«, nnd Ihe Woodland ring
With tho light choral as (hoy unsworliig hIiir,
The hmRhlng eddies liRsIcning to
• k I hu
i I|'|iIIiir I'cbns i
i llieeymiihony,
thoir pinions fu.
The rmlu winds to.
And human voices cntflll Ihnswoot refrtt'n,
In loving accents fraiiRht with bumm |mln,
l(f|M'utiiiR Mill tlm never-dying slrnln,
FACTS AND FANCIES. •
When an old hotel cook died in Detroit
tiie other day tho roiKirters stood around
with uncovered heads and solemnly said :
“lVaco bo to Ids hashes.”
A thoughtful old Indy up town is
strongly opposed to tho extermination
of tho Indians. Sho says tho savages do-
servo such a fate, but sho doesn’t see how
wo could get along without their summer.
ten inches t^ick, Brass is used for ’ the
rtdliug because tlmH racial does not Htai.n
stone. Its own Uis.dloration will- only
pud to ibruMuty and apjiroprmfejicss.
Great Banking Institutions.
Han KrmielHOo J'ml.
The paid up capital of the Nevada
hank, $10,00(1,000 in gold coin, stamls,
with the exception ol the Bank ol Com
merce ot New York, iineqiialed by that
of any hank iu tho Fidlcd States. The
Bank of Commerce lias also a capital of
$10,000,000, but it is in currency. Tho
largest bank in Canada is the Bank of
Montreal, with a caidtal of $12,000,000.
Tho Merchants bank, in the same city,
has a capital of S9,000,000. The follow
ing is the list of Ilia only hunks iu Lite
F ulled BtatCH with a capital of $5,000,
000 and upward: Bank of Commerce,
New York, $10,000,000; Nevada bunk,
Hnn Francisco, $10,000,000; C. ILK. and
banking-company, Savannah. $7,000,-
000; Bank of California. Hnn Francisco,
$5,000,000; Merchants Kxclmugo blink,
Han Francisco, $5,000,000; American Kx-
eliaiigo, New York, $5,000,000; Fourth
National.New York, $5,000,000. It will
lie seen that Han Francisco now stands
on a par with New York as a great hank
ing center, and the indications are that
in time the bullion trade of tho world
will bo controlled by our city, instead of
London, as heretofore.
get the wrinkles out of her noW,
Mis* Ogden, of Pittsbfyg'i, ffjrxarJunto
f the Philadelphia mcdicH/tfollegc, lias
received an anpointmentfrom the Amer
ican board of comniiexfoncM for forei;
A Practical Joke.
A Ghnrlcinoiil innrkctinuu, when de
livering goods one morning, discovered on
leaving the house of a customer a custard
pie setting in a window whore the lady
of the Iiouho had placed it to cool for
dinner, lie at once appropriated it, and
driving directly to the store of the lady’s
hu slain 1, called hjm out and told him lie
had “hooked” a nice custard pie, and if
lie would get some cheese they would
have a nice time eating it. Ol course
the cheese was forthcoming, ami after
satisfactorily disposing of the pie the
question arose what to do with the plate.
Tho merchant said that he would tako
care of that, and, suiting his actions to
his words, dashed it against the wall.
When the merchant went home to dinner
that day his wife apologized for not hav
ing any desert, saying she made a custard
pie for dinner and left it in the window
to cool, nnd she supposed some boys
must have stolen it. Her husband wasn’t
pie hungry, and seemed quite plem-d
about something, but kept “mum.”
Next morning the merchant, meeting the
markeiinnn, sang out “pie{” In reply
the other said : “ ('heese! A lid whose
plate was that you smashed?”
Crop Report.
The digest of the crop returns for * )e-
tober, as prepared at the department of
agriculture, indicates a reduction in the
yield of the wheat crop of nearly one-
sixth, while tile quantity is somewhat su
perior. Every section of tho union in
dicates a reduction of product except
the middle states. Tbe figures point to
a yield of about two hundred nnd forty-
five million bushels Rye is reported
four per cent, less than 1875, but the
quality is better. Barley is six percent,
less than last year. Buckwheat is a full
average. Oats show a falling off of
twenty-three per cent. Every section of
the union is deficient. The corn crop is
deficient but tlie figures are not yet ob
it is the impression of prominent post-
office officials that tho commission pro
vided for by congress to investigate the
subject of railway mail transportation
will tako strong grounds in their forth-
lining report in favor of the re establish-
meat of fast mail trains, and will support
their recommendation by the best evi-
o of their necessity. The business
of the country, especially tliora of
the south and west, urge their re-
cstablisliinent, and it is quite |iossiblo
that congress will ronew the service.
This cannot be done unless the claim for
increased compensation is conceded, when
every facility is promised by the railroad
companies.
(,'ONTJtAliv to the biblical law
there are now in the west a
man, Marion Tend but Baker, and
a woman, Helen M. Hpaudling, who
have been joined together and put asun
der and Joined together three separate
limes. Tlu-y were married at Knoxville,
111., in 1805,divorced in the follow
ing year, married in 1807, divorced
in 1878, married in 187-1, and are now
again divorced nt Galesberg, Ill. Tim
law is too lax in such matters; the ca-
terdnry curve between wedded happiness
I single blessed ness Is too great; it is
better for two lovers to take conic sections
"I HUPi'osKour minister preaches well,”
replied a Michigan lady, “but I'm so
busy nt the fashions that I ronlly never
hearjmy thliig ho Hays.”
A gleam of delight passes oYcrtbonnxl-
oils brow of tlm housekeeper,likeu wintry
sunbeam falling across a stock-yard iis
site sees tho flies that have made life n
burden to her, flat toned hopelessly
against the ceiling with ehlinfiftlns.
“Ai.A8,”said'John Henry, in a moment
of extreme melancholy, “one more
cliunce gone. Since the rise in kerosene
sho doesn’t use any more to light tho
firo with.”
Hcknk in a New York police court—
.judge— 4 ' prisoner, I find you guilty of
Intoxication in tho public streets. Tho
punishment is ten dollars nr ton days.
Which will you tnko?” Prisoner--■“ 1
will take ten dollars, your honor.”
“ IIanphomVs is that Immbomo docs,”
quoted a Chicago man to his wifo tho
othei day. “ Yes,” replied sho, iu a
winning tone, ns sho held out her hand ;
“ lor instance, a husband who Ih always
ready to handsome money to ids wife.”
A liAVKUif has so tno doubts ns to tho
genuineness of the signature of a promis
sory note that has come into his posses
sion, and sends his clerk to tho maker.
“Wo lmvo a noto for 10.000 francs on
which is what purports to be your signa
ture. fs it yours?” V Is tho noto pro
tested ?F “No, air.” “Then it is not
mine.”
^“.Takh,” said tho blushing damsel to
a lover that her father had for hidden, tha
house, “ J'don'fc euro if your foci are big,
1 love you just iih much.” “ Well, Hally,
I don’t*mind so muph. alwut. tho size of
my own feet, TuiT Iwi fib your dad's were
a tittle smaller; J siiould feel more con-'
fluent, you know, about staying,
Madame, navo you an old pair of
pants for a'poor man?” asked a thread
bare tramp us lie stopped at a cottage ft*
toll his threadbare story. “No, hit; I
lmvo not,” said tho lady, “and I believe
my husband lias on t lm only pair of pants
lie owns.” “Ay, yes,” saiil the tramp;
well, then, I will call again at night,
when your husband iH nt homo.” Tlint
night tho husband locked his pants up iu
an aruioir, took down" a shot-gun, and
said, “ let him call, Mary.”
A I'Icktty widow, whoso husband 1ms
been dead for several years, received a
beautiful bouquet the other duy. Thu
man who sent it had boon flying around"
her with an earnestness worthy of a dry
goods clerk, and it was with extra dolighc
ho saw her pa s Ids store that evening
with the bouquet of flowers in hand.
“ A m so plcnsed to see you with thorn*”
said ho,and a thousand littlecupidsdim
pled in his smile.
“ Yes,” she replied, “ it was very kind
in you ; I always knew you liked him ; t
n taking them to his grave.”
A young Ohio man hud a sweetheart
whose parents did not look with favora
ble eyes upon his suit. But tho mnl.j
parent laid tlm peculiarity of drink, and
this young man knew it. Ho one evenin '
not long ago lie provided himfcelf with a
bottlo of the beverage jenown under many
names, hut which is commonly called
whisky, and rqpalred to tho family dwell
ing. Ho sat down socially and produced
tho bottle and he and tho father engage 1
in drinks and talk, which resulted in the
sulo of tiie daughter to the young man
for the sum of five cents. Then, lest tiie
parent siiould sober off nnd relent, a
clergyman was called immediately in and
tho twain wero united. Probably tho
wife will find, ns time slips hy, that her
husband values her nt just about tho pur
chase money paid and will treat her n>
irdingly.
An Illinois farmer says: “My entile
follow mo until I leave tiie lot, and on
the way up to the barnyard in the eve i-
ing, stop and call for a lock ol hay.”
Brown says there is nothing at all i>
markable about that. He went Into a
barn-yard in the country one day lint
week, where he had not tho slightest a :-
qimintnnce with the cnttlle, and an old
hull not only followed him until lie left
the lot, but took tho gate off’ the hing* s.
and raced with him to the house in Fie
most familiar way possible. Brown says
ho has no doubt that tho old leih vy
would lmvo called for something it lie
had waited a little while, blit he, didn't
want tiie folks waiting for dinner, ho i<o
hung one tail of his coat and a piece if
his pants on the bull's horns nnd went
into the house.
Scene, barroom; time midnight.
Wife: “I wish thntinuu would go hon e,
if lie’s got one to go to.” Lnndlmd:
“ Silence, he’ll call forsomothingdin et! y:
he’s taking the shingles offhis own him
nnd putting them on ours.” By this
time James begun to come to his riplit
senses, stretching himself ns if he had
awoke, and said : “I believe I’ll g' 1 .”
“ Don’t be in a hurry, James,” said ihe
landlord. “Oh, yes, I must go,” said
James, ns lie started. After an absefco
mined. The cotton crop will be iar^o | ‘j in ^ ! ,o l ' k Jj nI> 0 vr t r\np f lt nt ‘qq ‘ ll nT l ' r ° H, l ‘ or>HteS*him*with” “ Hello, Jim.wlVniYt
and likely to approach the heavy yield ; ! or * 'T a,K .l nmjermeot. Ihe Baker case j ; hct , n ( j own to sec us?” “ Why, I
ol 1875. Bwoct potatoes arc a full aver ; H 00 ‘ nn ^ i j ;a «l taken so many shingles off my o to
ago crop. Storgbum—full production. «*•* house that it begun to leak, so I thought
Tobacco - report shows abeutffcn average “Man shoots his mother-in-law/' eh ? it time to stop fcJto leak ; and so X huVQ
production. ] Well, it always Wot and always will he- 1 dene it,” flnid JtWlH.