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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. R RER REDER REORDER KEDRIJKDER REDRUMURDEIt REDRUMftMURDER ELDKUMURDER RLDRURDEIt REORDER REDER RER R 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.