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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1876.
VOL III. NO. 25.
CONDENSATIONS OF NEWS.
tii»: Norm.
Homo (Cia.) Courier: Wo regret to
learn of the dcntli, by burning, of three lit*
tie children of Mr. John Streets, of Harlow
county, which resulted from the accidental
burning of his house dnv before yesterday,
while Mrs. Street watt absent in the cotton
field. These sorely nflliotcd parents a few
month* ago lo*t two other children by drown*
ing—making five in one year that have been
taken from them.
Henceforth in Virginia there will bo
biennial instead of annual sessions of the
legislature,Cmd to vote one must first pny his
poll tax ; and if he steals ever so little and
is convicted, he is disfranchised. The treas
ury will he benefitted $150,000 per annum
which will he gratifying news to bondholders.
The school fund, which gets all the poll tax,
willjalso ho largely benefitted.
Official statist lea show tlmt from Sep
tember 1st to October 28th there were
eight hundred and se vi ntocn deaths in Savan
nah from yellow fever, in Memphis during
the epidemic In 1873 there were 1700 deaths
from yellow fever.
The building of Sequatchie Valley
and Tcnuom-c rail oad lias been contracted
to Mr. I) ('.dlnlu'ii, contractor on the Cincin
nati Southern.
A mail coach win stopped on Monday
night, ten miles north of I*oh Vegas, New
Mexico, by four masked men, who being well
armed compelled the driver and messenger
to aligiit. They took from the mail pouches
and cxpre.‘* boxes every thing of value ex
cept sonic silver bricks, which they said were
too heavy. They also cut the telegraph line.
No further due to the rubber has yet been
obtained.
Frank Johnson, a young white man, in
Charleston, Monday, shot and killed George
Shrewsbury, colored, chief of dectivcs, the
latter tiring three and the former one shot.
The difficulty originated about a colored
woman.
Two negroes, Implicated in the murder
of llo
mild >-
id Pn
Ghnrlt"
coder
VC been
several
i the ofli
The majority for Tildcu in Virginia
foots up 11,211, one eminty not included.
Tildeu’s majority In Mar)l:iml is 1H,7D1.
David Torrence, of New York, and
John King, jr., have been appointed receiv
er-of (lie Ohio and Missi-xipp^rnilway.
The striker* on the Georgia railroads
have been induced to go work on n com-
prom be.
Tennessee, the south and the whole
country can well a fiord to thank the Knglish
gentlemen who have cstuhlished an Iron and
coal company on tlw line of the Jnsper
branch railroad and on the banks of the
Tennessee river. We understand that it has
$2,000,000 capital, only one-fifth of which
lias been called in. The real estate pur
chased by the company, so far, comprises
2,500 acres at .South Pittsburg, nod 11-1,000 on
the French llrond river.- Cl,ulta,m«ja Timm.
Prof. Jus. II. Horner, ono of North
('nroiiiin's most distinguished educators,is in
sane. It is a singular tumble coincidence
that Prof. Horner once taught Eugene Gris
Mini, Mipcrintcndcurof the asylum to which
lie has just bci n euinmittrd, and Ihut his own
instructor, and aficrwUTd great rival teacher,
the eminent Win. Hicham, also became insane
and died in thossxic lunatic asylum.
Ono hundred negroes left Atlanta on
Thursday f*»^ Lonimna to work on n sugar
plantation about fifty miles r.hove New Or-
lenna- Three hundred more will follow for
(hr same destination.
A movement is on foot in {South Onro-
i intv for the ladies to niakr a contribution of
nc dollar caeh to purchase a bouse for the
lew governor.
One of Now Orleans’ nurses that went
t*. Itriiusw iek denies that they received$1,000,
and ‘ ‘V’ they were paid only three dolhm-
prr day.
Lexington *
Old man Luby i
fori
curing hii
>’ I tr i
enllh
s wife, who
him, an anxious and sympathising spectator
of the trial. It looks strange to see a man
on trial for injuring a person, and that per
son sitting by him and doing all a poor woman
can do to convince the jury that ►he wants
them to acquit him.
< : nly three members of the: last legisla
ture of Tennessee were re-elected.
Memphis lias received 151^000 hale* of
cotton Mince the 1st of September.
Owing to tho troubles along the Rio
Grande border sugar planting has made hut
little progress in that region, which is best
adapted to sugar of any portion of the Foiled
States. The Rnnchero states, however, that
sugar planting lias In-gun there in earnest,
and that Mr. lirtilcy has a fine sugar planta
tion eight miles below Itrownsville, where he
is grinding eighty n«-rc» of splendid cane,
from which he is milking a large yield and ex-
r Rent sugar. That is the only portion of
Texas calculated to rival Louisiana in emrar
culture.
Chief Thompson, of the Cherokee na
tion, demands that so much of the track of
the Little Itock arid Fort .Smith railroad as
Tho decision of the court that •
it principle gamblers of f/ouisville
. Her
unityl:
:ause of the
s.l to
e games. The prea-
case is* to be carried to the court of
eals, and there tested to far as imprison-
it i* concerned. Brethren from Chicago,
■ York and elsewhere are to raise $10,000
vilich to test the ease.
Kc-| ect‘n/t‘ie aitivity in Brooklyn
pan - ;• ard, it is said that orders have been is
sued to hasten the completion of the frigate
Trenton, so that she can bo ready for sea by
March. Five hundred men lire now employed
on her.
Tho permanent exhibition at Phila
delphia is now apparently insured. The only
chance for a failure now rests on tho contin
gency of the government claiming a return
of its appropriation of $1.5 0,000 out of the
surplus of tho exhibition. There have been
already about $500,000 in tho centennial ex
hibition stock, and $100,000 in cash sub
scribed, which makes tho $600,000 asked
by the finance board* for the main building.
A sailboat capsized in East river at
Now York Monday, drowning three men.
Tho steamship Russia, which arrived
■ot Now York from Liverpool yesterday,
brought 1280,000 in gold coin.
Tho Methodist Episcopal missionary
commission,in session in New York, Monday
appropriated $5,000 for the evangelisation of
the heat hens in Tennessee.
John Kelly, chief of the Tammany de
mocracy, was married in New York yester
day morning, tho bride being Miss Teresa
Mullen, niece of Cardinal MeCloskcy. Tho
affair was very quiet.
Moody and Hankey are still ovnngol-
ixing Chicago.
John E. l’rauty, an old and widely
known farmer of ('ass county, Illinois, has
failed. Liabilities over $1,000,000; assets
less than $50,000.
Emery Colfo's abort-horn hull, “Nine
teenth Duke of Argyle,” valued at $20,000,
died at Kankakee, Illinois, Monday night.
Win. McKee, of St. Louis,’ waa re
leased from jail Saturday afternoon, his par
don having been signed* Jt is telegraphed
from St. Ismis that “tills action of tho presi
dent meets w ith quite general approval, and
a large number of Mr. McKee’s friend* called
on him and congratulated him upon his re
storation to liberty.“
A dispatch from Chicago assort that at
a Into hour Saturday night United States de
tectives riirc.li and Washburn, with tho aid
of two local detectives, captured the two
men who attempted to steal the hones of
President Lincoln from the vault in Spring-
field, 111., on the night of Nov, 7.
A Sacramento dispatch says Inst night
during a performance at Moore’s opcruhousc,
the floor gave way killing seven mid wound
ing about one hundred spectators. The
excitement was intense, hundreds crawled
from the ruins unassisted and un
injured. On clearing the debris the
following were dead: ,V. W. Perry, Jan
itor of courthouse; Frank Meyer and W. J.
Foster, compositors in (lie Record^ union
office ; Ilenra vnen Ezra Woodson, formerly
comity treasurer, Michael Fcrnnii ami two
unknown performers escaped with some
bruises. Eddie Peak of the Swiss hell
ringers, and Mrs. Wilson, variety performer,
being the most injured, neither seriously.
Many of the wounded taken from the ruins
are in a crippled condition, and n number
will probably die.
What haa long been known an one I lo-
gan, mountain gang of railroad train thieves
who have operated very extensively along
the Kt. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
railroad, hns been ell*cctunl!y broken up and
nine of their number including three women
have just been sentenced by the Iron Moun
tain circuit court to from five to eleven years
in the penitentiary. There are also about
thirty indictments standing against others of
the gang.
()!iio’s total vote in theprethlenlinl elec
tion was »i.7.),771,oga!nst 03J,062 in Oetohe
an increase of 26,700. The presidential v
in Pennsylvania was 768,000— 80,000 more
than ever before.
Japan is making rapid strides. The
Streets of Tokio and Osaka are now lighted
with gas.
A great maritime canal, sixteen miles
long, connects the city of Amsterdam with
thu (ieriiuui ocean. It wiu opened on No
vember 1st with imposing ceremonies. The
king, the cabinet, and foreign representa
lives were present; u grand banquet win
given, the city was decorated nail illuminated
and a splcndyl exhibition of lire works wiu
given. At the sea end of the canal is a bar
ber covering two hundred nud fifty acres.
English cotton broker* make a calcu
lation, based on figures mid past experience,
that Europe will next year require 2,211.000,
000 pounds of cotton, or 5,002,500 bales.
it is reported that the c/nr, addressing
the generals find officers ill the eIo.*e of the
review at Tsarkosclc on Wednesday, said :
“Gentlemen, let us wish the best sm eesa to
the commanders of our armies.” Tho czar’s
words were received withcntliusinstieehcer-
It stated that an order Ims been re
ceived at Woolwich for 40,000,000 cartridges,
to be ready in eighteen weeks, arid 10,000
ammunition boxes, iu which to pack car
tridge* for transportation.
It is now -aid that one hundred an
twenty thousand per-uosperished during il c
cyclone which passed through eastern Bengal
on the '•1st of October. The government is
biking active steps for the relief of the dis
tress'd population oj the district.
An editora! statement by tho Finan
cier is .*» legr.iplied from London, beginning
as follows: “We can state, not officially,
hut very confidently, the course the British
cabinet ha- resolved upon. If Ru-iiia in
vades Turkey, In such case a British army
corps will immediately occupy Constantino
ple ami defend it ngainst all attacks, ft is
calculated that not more than 25,000 troops
are needed”
It hi alleged that Russia ia raising fresh
difficulties with regard to the line of demar
cation, demanding that it he pushed further
hack on the Drina. .
According to ti*r* Paris correspondent
of the Cologne Gazelle, the Rothschilds are
said to have been prompted to advance Run"
sin money. The loan will not he mode
public.
The American consul at San Juan re
ports that in the r^c^nt hurricane whirl •
iteil Porto Rico forty-five vessels were lc st or
damaged, nud that the crows of some were
drownod.
Tho Belgian steamer Deliojro Matthieu
lias been wrecked near the island Unthlnud,
in the Bailie. Eleven persons wore drowned.
At tho opening of the Italian parlia
ment Mnndny, the king said that the exteu
sivo liberties grunted to churches ought not
to impure the public liberties,nud the govern
ment therefore would propose hills for mak
ing efficient the reservation iu tho laws re
specting tho papal sec.
The Spanish minister of war has pre
sented in the oortes a hill making military
service obligatory, and providing that tho
standing army shall never he less than ono
hundred thousand men. The period of ser
vice is fixed at eight years, four in Ulo stand
ing army nud four in the reserve.
A dispatch from Madrid reports that
two protestant miuistc.'s, one of them a citi
zens of tho United States, were recently for
bidden to hold religion* services by the
niniro of the village of Llnuocs, near tho
French frontier, in tho province of Santan
der. They were subsequently di tallied, al
though tiie prayer meeting thev held -was
conducted according to law. Only eighteen
persons w ere present.
Russia has given official notice that
the harbors of Odessa and Sebastopol, the
mouth of the river Dnieper nud the Straits
of Kartell are obstructed and vessels are
forbidden to approach in the night time and
must communicate with the guardsliip before
entering in daylight. Entering without the
assistance of the guardsliip is positively pro
liihitcd.
niNirxLAKtiei'N.
It estimated that tho total vote for
president will reach 7,610,000. Tho New
York Graphic estimates Gov. Tildeu’s ma
jority on the popular vole lit 207,000. Over
1.000,000 more votes were c ist In this elec-
lion than in 1872.
Tho lust hoard from the Franklin, on
which Boss Tweed was being brought hack
to this country, she was at the island of St.
Thomas.
Tho advance sheets of tlm postmaster
general’s report for the last fiscal year show
that the receipts from all sources during tlint
period were increased nearly $2,000,000, as
compared with thu previous year, while the
decrease iu expenditures for operating the
department was nearly $348,000. The total
expenditures exceeded tho receipts $1,010,•
200, u decrease from tho ‘previous year ol
over $1,500,000.
A docreo
OUR MILITARY.
A on mil llciioi't ill' Ucm*l*Al ol the
The following statements nreembraced
in Gen. Sherman’s report:
The nggrogrnted force of the army
now consist of *25,8.11 men, all ol whom
are actively employed, as though war ex
isted. By the subdivision of territory,
every foot of the country is under the
su|»ervision of a general officer, near at
hand, with a part of the army propor
tioned to the siip|Hised necessity to
maintain order and peace whereby the
settlement of tho country may progress
and the civil offieeru he enabled to en
force the laws of the United States. On
the military division of the Atlantic
there nre no hostile Indians, hut troops
have been ’H’Cflvcly employed aiding
Fulled States marshals iu enforcing the
revenue laws and in protecting the
weak against the prejudices of tho
strong in the frequent eusosol civil elec
tions. These duties call for the highest
qualities of firmness and prudence, and
1 am sure the behavior of tho troops in
every instance has commanded the
respect of all men. The care
and preservation of the public
property and sea coast forts is
tin 1 chief duty of troops. The chief
military events of tho year have trail
spired m the military division of Mis
souri, where a state of actual war Inis
existed formally yearsandstill continues.
I am not yet in |H)ssession ol Gen. Sheri
dan's report, hut in anticipation of its
receipt will endeavor to give a concise
account ol some of the cliiel events us
gathered from reports and letters received
during their progress. In the
DBPAHTMENT OF Till* OIJbF
the troops under Gen. Augur have been
shitted Irom place to place iu aid of the
civil authorities, under the same state
acts ns in tho depart night of the south,
with similar results, and have always
used their power with consul mute discre*
tion and good judgment. On tho Texas
frontier, especially the Mexican border,
there has long existed an unsatisfactory
condition of affiiirs. Civil war has ex
isted on the border of the Mexican states,
and each faction lias at linns sought an
asylum on this side of the Kio Grande,
hut from tho letters and reports of Gen
eral Ord there seems to lai an organized
system of robbing hv small bunds of
Mexicans and Italians, who cross to the
Texas sldo and commit murders, steal
horses, cuttle, etc., and escape hack
with their stolen property to the other
aide, where they nre comporetlvely sale
j from punishment and the pursuit of our
Issued in the district troops who rarely hear of the raid until it
court nt WiiNhington, D. ('., (Saturday, in tho
ciwe of Admiral Porter and other*, of tin:
North Athiiilie squadron, against the rimiN
Texas nud Beaufort and ten other cqufud-
riato vessel*,in w liieli $1,550,000 Waselniiiiod,
declaring that, for want of proof, the ofip-
tors lire entitled to lull oiie-hnlf tho proceeds
of the prizes, nml tlmt tho value of the
Texas was $55,520, and (hilt of the Beaufort
$12,000.
The annual report of the solicitor of
the treasury shows tho following m the re
sult of government litigation during the
fiscal your ending the 80th of Juno last:
Suits nonuiioiK'nd 2,35!); suits decided in fa
vor of the United Stales, 1,000; suits de
cided against the Fnited Htltes, 70; suits
otherwise disposed of, 000; amount of judg
ments obtained, exclusive of decrees In re
mission, $1,760,821.03; amount of collections,
$808,108.41.
A gentleman who saw Tweed, iu an
swer to inquiry said : “He is crushed and
broken. Ilo has lost his > old buoyancy and
defiant spirit; hi fart, he is suffering from
pleurisy now and is actually ill. He seemed
wearied, nud only anxious to know about his
old iicqiinliitnimes. Hr seemed disconsolate
wad desirous of companionship more than
anything else. He is a mere wreck cf his
former self. Why, his vest is a third too large
for him, and Ills features are shrunken ami
pinched. He has aull'ered intensely. He is
'lltirely in the dark us to what to do, nnd
He needs mwl-
Animal and Vegetable Life at the 1’ole.
Captain Narco, in his report of the re
cent. English expedition to tho North
Bole, rays: “.Six musk oxen were shot
at the Alert’s winter quarters, and three
half way between her |*osition and that
of the Discovery, while fifty-four were
shot near Discovery hay. The ermine
wan seen and owls were found on the
Greenland shore opposite the Discov
ery's quarters, the young ones on their
appearances tiring mostly devoured l>y
wolves The remaining items iu tho
Alert's game list at her northern station
shows seven liar* * mid ninety birds, of
different kinds, the latter shot only in
July. The birds certainly do not mi-
grate beyond < a|»e Joseph Henrv, lati
tude K.r 50 min. N. Very few 'besides
those accounted for by the sportsmen
passed the Alert. Very few seal-* were
found north of cape Union, and no hears,
dovekiso, or loons, it is stated, ever reach
the I’ohir sou. Water animals wire no
tably absent, and it is surmised that
those that do \ i-it the Arctic sea come
from the south."
Railroad Law.
A recent Canadian ease was for $1,000
darpages for a Mrs. McIntosh for being
turned out of a Great Western railway
car. The Toronto Globe reports it:
The action wiib an important one and
is fully explained in Mrs. McIntosh’s
evidence. She deposed that at the time
her pass waa refused she wan engaged in
the stock business, having got a loan ol
$2,000 Irom a number of gentlemen to
carry it on; that she had frequently got
drover’s passes from the station master nt
Aylmer; that she was going to Toronto
with cattle, and hy b-ing put off the train
the contemplated sale was lost. Her pass
was refused hy the conductor, who de
clared “ No woman ran rifle on a drover’s
pass.” His lordship (Judge Burton)
gave judgment for plaintiff, reserving, for
consideration the amount of damages.
The decision is so manifestly just that
it is not one ol importance.
Mr. Knapp, the German iron nnd steel
manufacturer, has given to the Washing
ton museum a large part of the articles
■ ’> made up hu display at the con-
UmiiUcM.nJtlon,
is too late to intercept It. 1 belie
one supposes the authorities of the na
tional government of Mexico cun ho
privy tf» thia nefurioiiH„buHUicKs I and it
is probably carried on io spite 1 of thc-bel-
ter people on both sides of the border.
There are now in Texas two regiments of
cavalry—the eighth find tenth- which
will ho filled upas rapidly an possible to
the maximum standards also four regi
ments of infant ry, tenth, second, fourth
and fifth, which lire necessarily very
small under the e?i*ling\hiws. Still, 1
liojR*, with increased -ffiivity, these
troops will suffice to yrot.. t the border
from inclusion*!, whiofit0i«<oiirnge settle
ment and are Othui wK ■ very irritating
and demoralizing, firtlie
DEPARTMENT OF MISSOURI
the Indians of New Mexico Imvobfcii re
markably good, and the Kiowas, Coiii-
atichcit, Cheyennes nnd Arapalioes, lo
cated on the reservation at and near
Fort Hill, have been cxceptionnhlv quiet
this summer, though requiring for rea
sonable security to the Kansas frontier
pretty strong garrisons at Fort Sill, El
liott, Dodge and Supply, and small gar
risons along the Arkansas river and
Kansas Pacific railroad. The chief
events to which Gen. Blicriniin refers
are those relating to war with the
Sioux, and alter giving a detailed
history concerning tho late expeditions
against them, and the death of (’os
ier with his command lie also
takes up the campaign ol (’rook mid
Terry,and shows the work done hy them,
and how Sitting Bull -lipped out with
thirty lodge* of his own special follow-
(rs, during the retreat down Bad Route
creek, and lo have resumed his course
for Fort Peek, on British possessions.
Col. Miles reports hu purpose to replen
ish his supplies, to turn north and follow
this last desperate hand to the death.
Gen. Crook reorganized a new column
at Fort FeLlcrnmn with which he loll
on tho 27th of October for another early
winter campaign against that fraction of
the hostile Sioux under Grazy Horse.
I Jen. Sheridan, in his lust dipatch on this
subject uses this language, which I cor
dially indorse: If snece-sful, of which
I do not doubt, the Sioux war and all
other Indian wars in the country of any
magnitlidc will Iu over forever. Ar
rangenicntu made lor hemming iu and
capturing the remainder of the hostile
Sioux during the winter iiitisl result ii:
comparative or complete success. Mean
time no change can he attempted this
year at the agencies, hut I trust that
next year all the Sioux nation will he
compelled to remove to the Missouri
river, near Fort Randall,where they Cflll he
guarded and ted at one-half the, present
cost, and where, if there he any chance
to civilize them, the opportunity will he
far better than in their present scattered
agencies.
That Railroad in Jay Cooke's Banana
/one.
The Northern Pacific railroad has now
built five hundred and fifty-live miles ot
the proposed 2,000 miles. Under the
government grant the period for com
pleting the railroad ex pin,- iu about
two years, hut anellbrUis to he made at*
the approaching ws-ion of emigres
have the time extended eight years,
vice, president of the Company, who has
just returned from ail extrusive visit to
"the r.*p ion "traversed by the road,says that
while the Minnesota division, two hun
dred nnd fifty miles, from Duluth
Fargo, has been operated both wii
and summer, the Dakota division,
hundred in ilea, from Fargo, on the
Bismarck, on the
r bee
the ■
The
traffic did not justify it, and the
was a serious obstacle to overcome.
During the past summer tho revenu *
from the Dakota divh ion of the road has
been an average of about $18,000 per
month. Tho increased business and the
desire of tho war department tlmt the
road he kept open have led the company
to build between forty and fifty miles of
snow fence in Dakota, and to arrange a
winter time table between Fargo and
Bismarck which will give tri-wceklv
trips, a train going one way each week
day. The principal points west of Fargo
arc Maptuton ana Oosselton, tho center
of extensive Dakota farming operations
iqpl Jamestown, a government post, half
way to Bismarck. There ate four other
jaunts which lmvo been named and ton
sidings which are not at present tho
sites of human habitations. The Pacific
section,, already completed from Jncotmt.
on Puget s sound, is being extended
Unity miles to the Puyallup coal fields.
The company Is about to establish a
stage line and teams to run between
Bismarck and Dead wood City, in tho
Black Hills.—I'ilitburq Oovwurrinl.
TIlO Object of the Attoilipl jo Despoil
Lincoln's Grave.
“ What was the object of these men?’’
“ Well, these fellows had boon without
any counterfeit capital for some time,
and it was necessary, iu order to procure
4 stuff,’ to get some of the coney men out
of the penitentiary. The mini they Imd
been dealing with was Ben Boyd. ’They
knew tlmt money could not get him out.
11 had all been talked up, ami money could
have been gotten, hut it was impossible.
They are connected with a gang of coun
terfeiters in St. Louis. Being men of
talent— all of them are, iu fact—some one
proposed this sele.me to rob Lincoln’s
grave. Whether lie got the idea from
history, or it was original with himself,
I don’t know."
44 Who was the author of it?”
“That I don’t know. Hughes says ho
was, hut I don’t think he is smart enough.
I belivc il was the contractor or Mullins;
either of them could do it. Homo one
anyhow conceived that if they could get
Lincoln’s body, a largo reward would he
paid for its return, and Boyd would he
set free. They all knew that the monu
ment cost over $2110,000, and they asked
the question, ‘What’s the use of
THE MONUMENT WITHOUT THE CoUPSE?’
Tho penalty was looked up, mid it wqs
discovered to lie a mere fine and one
year iu the county jail. The chances of
detection were very small. Everything
was gono over earcmlly, and the conclu
sion reached that there were no chances
for detection at all. There were no
guards at the monument, and all there
was to do was to go there, shoulder tho
casket, and (tarry it off. It was to lie
taken to some place where nobody could
find it, mid they thought, in due courso
of time, tho association, or the govern
ment, or somebody would oiler a big re
ward to got it hack, mid then it would lie
turned up for the money and a pmdnu
for Boyd ; and the settlement of tlie case
against Hughes was also to he one of the
conditions.--Uhhujn Tribune.
Odd Occupations In New York.
Wo are fust running “specialties" into
the ground iu this city, says a corres
pondent of the Chicago Tribune, when
an exclusive “baked beans company"
is formed and pul into successful opera
tion. This is a veritable fact, nnd the
wagons of the New York and Boston
baked bemiA company now traverse the
streets supplying the famous Sunday-
morning meal to the restaurants mid
hotels with as much regularity as tho
milk carts. They do a thriving business.
Another specialty here is the manufac
ture of whipped cream for Charlotte
rus-e. < )no concern manufactures nearly
all of this delicacy sold iu the city. They
use machinery, mid hy dealing in large
qiiautilirM of materials, and using labor-
saving machines, they can supply the
leslmiranls and confectioner* cheaper
than they can make it- themselves. But
the oddest thing, which, though small in
itself, is a big thing in its way, is the
operation of u stock company lot mmui-
fncliiriug the article of “ paste” for hook-
binders, paper-hangers, newspaper offices,
etc. Tim cost of this tiling is ho slight
that it would seem there was no “big
money” in it upon couedivuhlo terms;
Imt iu fact this business employs one
hundred hands, occupies a five-story
building, nnd keeps three or tour wagons
and twice as many horses iu constant
use. They Htimdy paste to the suburban
eiticH and villages, and on terms which
prevent competition from private con
sumer . Another odd occupation is that
of a half dozen luitchor-boys in Fulton
and Washington markets, who make a
business of supplying eat and dog meat
to wholesale grocers and others who keep
cats or dogs to protect their property
against rats and mice. Il is carried round
to the stores, nicely cut up, ready to
use, and tradition says that fortune
have been made in this line of supply jug
cats meat hy two retired hulciic
Here’s a hint lor some of your G’hieii
meat merchants.
A Temper
Puzzle.
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The secret in to discover how n
different ways you can read the .Warning
words Red Rum nnd Murder. After
von think you have the solution cor
ly, look it over again carefully and i
you are not at least a thousand out of
the way.
Enormous Honey Productions in Cal
ifonila.
California is becoming the honey-pro
ducing state of the union. Two hun
dred thousand,’pounds reached New York
city from there one day last week. The
honey product of Han Diego county will
he fully six hundred tons. Ono rniliio
two hundred thousand pounds of horn
is prodigtiotis for an industry only uhot
four years old. Los Angelos county is
making unprecedented advances in uoney
< ultiife. and in a few years the two coun
ties will surprise the World. The honey
of southern California is without a rival
in qMfility fllid flavor,—Chicago Journal,
The Latest Engineering Triumph.
The greatest feat in engineering sinee
tho construction of tho ntioz canal was
brought to a successful termination a
lays since in tho completion of tho
North sea canal. As early as LSI*.), when
the fury of wind and river was filling
with saml-hnnks tho channel connecting
the Zuydo Zoo with tho North sou, the
merchants of Amsterdam foresaw tlmt,
vo their city from the desolation
tlmt lias befallen tho now dead cities of
tho Zuydcr, they must open an outlet to
the sea. A cut-oil' hut Alteon miles due
eastward would lmvo connected them
with tide water. Isis true there would
lmvo been dilllculty in establishing a
secure harbor at the scii-onlrnnco there,
hut, as compared with the magnitude of
tho whole undertaking, that dilllculty
was inconsiderable. But, with that
astonishing stupidity tlmt ennbe horn
only of provincial selfishness, the canal,
which William L, when tho plans were
submitted to him, declared should he
ut on the route of tlmt just opened,
vas run from Amsterdam to the Ilulder
-the main cnlrunco of tho Zuydor Zee
— filly miles. For a timo the north
•anal served Its purpose—it took Amster
dam to the sea. But it takes two days
for vessels hy that route to reach the
city from the Ileltlor; tlio harbor there
is much of the lime exceedingly difficult
to make, and the ennui itsell is too shal
low for navigation by the ships ol this
It was these considerations (tlmt led to
the projection of the present canal in
18(15, to again avert tho peril there was
of Amsterdam’s being cut oil' from the
Since then the work Iiiih been
steadily pushed through, considering the
outlay at- wlmt in this country would ho
considered a very slow gait, sinee the en
tire cost of the canal has been hut £2,-
000,000, or about $10,000,000 in our
money. The first dilllculty encountered
in the work was tlmt the level of the
country, except for a short distance, was
from twelve lo twenty-seven feet below
sea level, and, instead of digging a chan
nel to admit the water from the sea,
hunks Imd to he piled up to prevent the
overflow ol the country through which
it passed. This region—-tlmt is, wlmt
of it was not covered by water—Imd bcon
laimed by dykes, and ono of the
Objects to he attained through the North
sea 'canal was to drain entirely this
inland lake, thus reclaiming more laud.
This 1ms been done, and hy pumping out
ol the ancient lakes into the cunul ul
ready 12,150 acres ot land lmvo been
reclaimed, some of which 1ms been sold
as high ns CI‘20 or $1100—per aero.
Three miles from the west const the
route of the canal lay through the sand-
(lures, desert-barrens covered with shift
ing sands, like those along the Huez
canal. The difficulty to he ovorcoino
here, as in the Hue* enterprise, was to
prevent the filling of tho canal with
sand-drifts, nud also to guard against tho
wushiug-in of the hanks hy the waves
ciUHcd by the passage ol vessels. To
accomplish this, as was done on the
Suez canal, the margin of the canal was
sown with various plants, tlio matted
roots of which hold the soil together, and
besides tho hanks were walked or lined
with artificial stone, gravel, broken
brick and clay.
As completed, the canal is fourteen
and three-quarter miles long, bus a
breadth of eighty-eight fed at the lsit-
tom and one hundred and seventeen ut
the surface, and will puss vessels of
twenty-three loot draught. While con
siderably shorter and a trifle shallower
than the Suez, the North sea canal Iiiih
been far more difficult of construction,
and relatively bids fair to he of greater
importance, for it will maintain the com
mercial supremacy of Amsterdam even
aider tlie Zuydcr Zee shall have been
dyked in and wholly drained, as is now
projKiecd to do.
Trifles for tlio Ladles.
Plaid stockings are coming into
fashion.
Hardinnl red silk hoots will he worn
with hull drosses this winter.
Basques buttoned Behind continue iu
fashion I or very young ladies.
“ Paris fashions," like olive wood arti
cles from Jerusalem, are of Nqw York
mauiifiiclure.
An attempt is being made to intro
duce tlio Parisian fashion of metallic soles
on ladies’ shoes.
A three-cornered neckerchief is now
worn outside of fall wraps, instead ol the
long scarf of luce.
Lopping the overskirt at onesldo to
display the cardinal red bu I moral is
latest deviee of the fashionable.
Hitting down in drosses composed
tirely ol flowers will he an Impossibility.
Ribbons form the only trimmings on
such toih-tes, neither jewelry nor orna
ment being admissible.
Il iH roughly estimated hy the New
York World that five thousand western
girls have taken husbands this year for
the only reason that they were tlicrcbv en
abled to visit the centennial at somebody
else’s expense.
Ah u stern-wheel steamboat was pass
ing up the Ohio river the other day, a
little girl who was standing on the hotel
stoop ran into the house to her mother,
calling out: “ Mother, mother, come
nnd sec this steamboat— it’s got u hustle
Milaudy who has been abroad
adopts the foreign plan, and hasher loot-
maustand iu the lobby of the t hunter when
thr- perlorniance is over, willi his arm*
filled with wraps and his eyes with dig
nity. Furious how many wrinkles we
get in Europe.
A Paris correspondent of the Now Cen
tury for women writes : In the new sys
tem of female education the hoarding
school does not occupy the position to
which' it has risen in America. They
allow too much liberty, too many oppor
tunities to escape surveillance, to please
a people among whom it 1h populatly
said that ifu younggirl isonco seen to cross
the street alum no man will marry her.
Hence in tho higher and the upper mid
dle classes girls me either seut to convents
or taught hy governcMCH ut Jimiio.
A oentlkman in Virginia City, Nev.,
whoso Ohineue cook left him. was unable
to retain any of numerous “ Johns" for
over a day, until lie induced one of them
to explain that some apparently mean
ingless strips ol red paper on the kitchen
wall contiiv$igd the Chinese inscription:
“ Boa* wo'fpqi, hug time tongue. Muchee
jaw, jaw.M
FACTS AM) FANCIES.
nature that lie will not allow I
to lie forced to his own advantage, yet
Millers constraints of ail kinds "which
tend to ids harm.—Gothc.
An old lady from tho rural districts
astonished a clerk in one of tho stores a
•w days ago hy inquiring if he had any
yallcr developments, sicli as they did
up letters in."
Hpiuoo’b wife woke him up at threo
o'clock in the morning to say that she
had decided, on tho whole, to lmvo a
dark green suit nnd a green velvet bon
net this winter.
'' Have you poached eggs?” inquired
mstomer of a colored rest an rant keeper
iu Mississippi. “ Yob, snh ; all our eggs
is poached—1 oast ways do chickens dat
id uni is," was the reply.
A HOUSEKEEPER sent Bridget out ono
wiling to buy some heads of lettuce.
She returned with postage stamps.
When asked lmw she made the mistaue,
she pertly answered, “ An’ sure, wasn’t
1 told to get heads of letters ? ”
A CENTENNIAL critic being asked hy a
Graphic correspondent which he liked
best, the at a loos or the picters, replied:
“ I donnn hardly. Zcb, hut on tlio hull
praps 1 like the stnloos heat, c m you kin
go all round tho stntoos, hut you can’t
see only ono sido o’ tlio picters.
Ous Bull can’t understand why tho
papers should interest themselves so per
sistently with his family nlfiilrs. Ho has
not loft Ihh wife, and has gone to Europe,
and is quietly giving concerts in Boston,
They do say, however, that his is a fear
ful ease of mother-in-law.
While the hlack-hird shooting was
going on at the .San Antonio (Texas)
lair tlio other day a lady deprecated very
much the cruelty «f shooting tlio birds
on tho wing. She said : “ Why don’t
they shoot little birds on tho ground, so
they won't Full and hurt themselves."
An old negro man from Henrico conn-
ty was approached yesterday on the street
here hy one of his race with tho question
how he had voted at the recent presiden
ts! election. “ Well, I tell you what
’tis; 1 ain’t voted yet, and I ain’t gwino
to vote till 1 see who 1h ’jfctea!—Itlrk-
mond W/iii/.
(Jen. B. F. Butler made an ofliptal
visit to the “soldiers' homo” at Tagus
Springs, and received a welcome at Ban
gor on his way to the “home," and
among the decorations in that city was
one stretched across the street with this
mottos “Welcome to Gen. Butler, tho
4 hero of five forks,’and God knows how
many spoons."
A younu lady reader writes us that
she is going to a hall, and asks: “ Wlmt
shall 1 wear?" Our fashion editor is
out of town, nun in (.«• .iWtuin •rtf Mi ail
answer tills quest inn hy advising our fair
questioner to wear clothes to the hall.
She might also wear a sweet Hinllo for
her partners and a flower in her hair. I*.
8.—Have some of the top of your frock
cut off and added to the bottom.—Nor-
r in town Herald.
An English visitor to the centennial
wandered into a cheap restaurant outside
of tlie grounds, and ordered a steak.
Alter desperate ofiorts to overcome its
toughness, lie next called for a napkin.
The landlord came out from tlio kitchen
in IiIh shirt sleeves, and addressed tho
astonished guest in indignant terms:
“Sa-ny, young feller, this ain't no con
tinental. The next thing you’ll he
wauling, I suppose, is a grand planner.’’
Cremation of the dead is now fairly
established in Haxe-Gotlm. In a recent
sitting of the town council, it was de
cided to erect the necessary apparatus in
the new cemetery. Cremation is to take
place only iu accordance with the clearly
expressed wish of the deceased, and un-
der permit from the proper medical offi
cer. 'Iho ashes are to he gathered in
urns, to be preserved hy the family of
the deceased, or set up in a lmll in thu
cemetery.
Left-I I ANDl'.l) Wo.mBN.—11 is n singu
lar fact that many of the ladies appear
to he lelt handud. A correspondent says
Ihut in his travels aboift cities for years,
in horse cars, stage clinches and omni
buses, it has been observed that the fe
male passengers generally have their
right hand gloved, while the left is hare,
and they invariably use the latter iu
taking change from their porlemonrmiei
to imy their fare, shaking hands, or in
maKing gesture. A horrid old bachelor,
who was asked to explain this singular
phenomenon, asserted that it was all
right; that it was only a left-handed
way ol showing jewelry.
The minister was performing tho last
sad riles alter the dentil of a faded spin
ster. He had said the usual mournful
and harrowing words, that she had gone
bevond the veil, ami all that Mirl of
thing, and really Imd made his words of
coinloleiicu a point too flowery ; and now,
in winding no, it needed Honmtliing to
round oll’.liis lust sentence, and he pro
ceeded, “and now my tearful friends the
best words wo can say to our departed
sister is—is’’—and hire it occurred to
the eloquent divine tlmt he had not lully
arranged this last sentence ; he hemmed
anil stammered, and repeated, with alight
flourish of the Imnd toward the mournful
spot, as though the sister had just gone
into the next room, “the bc«t words we
can say to our departed sister is au
Geo roe Eliot, ns everybody knows,
was jtho wnn de plume of Miss Evans,
who commenced her career as an author
in Blackwood’s Magazine. During her *
curly life she made the acquaintance of a
heavy, critical philoropher, Mr. Lewis, a
writer in The (Saturday Fortnightly Re
view, and other highclnss periodicals.
They discovered a plnronic affect ion for
each other, nmi a*tor n time were mar
ried. Ever since this partnership, Mr.
Lewis has guided more or less, the pen
which wrote “ Adam Redo, and Ins
thoughts were easily discernible in ‘ Mid-
dlcniarch.” On the woof the publica
tion of that notable work he reviewed it
iu The .Saturday Night and l-ortnightly
(anonymously, of course), and pro
nounced it to no u splendid effort ot
genius. In literary society he now pro
claims himself the joint author of “ Dan
iel Deronda.” Mo wrote every line of
tlio clmpt r which describes the discus
sion at tho club to which Mordecai in-
troduci d Daniel,—New York Times Lon
don Letter.