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RECORD. ?cr 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. 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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.