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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W|S|D, WlKliE & 00,, Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1S77.
VOL III. NO. 29.
COHDENSMIONS of hews
rmr. norm.
Abottl £40,000 young sal turn have
distributed in tiie Virginia streams.
Twrntv-fivc thousand voting salmon
fcasy r»een put in the Colorado river nt Aim-
ill ii, Texas.
Ths adjutant general of Virginia now
gel* the uingnifieent Kalury 0 ( ,100 per
uuuum.
Tramps uro committing all sorts of
depredations on the rr.Uwny [train, in At-
A Dumber of colored jwoplo are emi
grating from Henry eountv, Tennessee, to
lllinoi*.
The machine-shops of the Mississippi
Central and Tenuessee railway will he erected
nt Jacktou At an early day.
An organized band of colored cotton
hievea haa been discover ed at Charlotte,
Narth Carolina.
Tl»e number of cott/jn gins burned in
Georgia this sea-mn is placed nt about sixty,
with but one conviction of an incendiary. '
The Florida stut/j fair, to be held in
February, offer* a premium of flvedollara fo*
ihe bigest alligntor exhibited.
The Rock City paper mills, at, Xash-
vllle, were sold ot chancery sale Tir* K( j,i V an ,|
were bought by the bondholder, for $2o'oon.
Hon. K. J. Warren, of Washington]
-If. C., a Judge of the supreme court, nnd sev-
.eral times presiding o^ 0 er of the senate, is
•dead.
Two csr-lop.drt of marble for building
purpose*- wU, be shipped from Knoxville to
L, .Man Francisco, «u» noon as it can bo quarried
‘ ito fid e q order from that city.
^.ashville linnner: It. »S. Corey and
• ). J. Htewart nrrlvetl in this city this inoru-
ing with thirty thousand young California
Hoimon, hntched at the government hutch.
Ing-house at Northville, Minnesota, and
which are to be deposited in the Alabama
river at Montgomery. This in bat one of
many shipments to be made Into the gulf
state this winter.
The steamers While, Cheek and Illi
nois, of the well-known Cheek line, have
been meed by it', United .States marshal to
natirfy claims ot libellants filed in the United
State* distort court. For sonic time the
b«ata h**, been running under the man
agement of Mr. N. M. Jones, who was acting
as inr^tee for the benefit ol the creditors of
% ’due.—MemphU Ledger.
Newport (Ark.) News, “On Tuesday
night last fifteen tramps, ©n the south-bound
tlirough freight, broke into the ice-ear,
opened beer-kegs, and helped themselves to
all the beer «ml other things on the train
that they wauled. At Walnut Ridge the con
ductor tried to put them oil', hut they drew
their pistola on him, and virtually kept
charge of the train to Alicia, where they got
oil'."
Jus. .1. Waring, in bin third |wp<*r con
tributed to the state board of health on the
■subject of the yellow fever in Savnnnnh say*:
lit is uselc* to di<*rtiHs th<r real causes of this
•epidemic so longas our people are willing to
lake for granted that the disease was, and
can any time he introduced by some acci
dental oase ol yellow fever on shipboard es-
•raidug the vigilance of quarantine. What-
-.■rer may he said of other epidemics, the yel
low fever epidemic of Savannah in 1M7«» was
not introduced by any vessel coming from
West India or Sooth American ports. The
yellow fever rone is the rone of filth and had
sewerage and had draiuage. In the last cen
tury New England towns were decimated
by the disease. Boston, New York and Phil
adelphia were constantly and terribly vi-
I ted. They are now said to he out of the zone.
Fpanish towns are the dirtiest m all the
world, hut were Cuba to fall into the bauds
of an English-speaking people it would
•riickiy be out of the yellow fever zone, like
Phi)ad«!phla.
THIS KANT.
The Vermont legislature has enacted a
law providing that every saloon, restaurant,
grocery, cellar, shop, billiard-room, bar
room, and every drinking place nr room
used as a place of public resort, where in
toxicating drink is unlawfully sold or kept
for sale, shall he declared a public nuisance.
THB WKNT.
The Bremaker-Moore paper manufac
turing company, the burning of whose prop
erty at Laurel, Indiana, is announced from
Cincinnati, is a Louisville firm, and esti
mates iU loss at one huudred and five thou
sand dollars, with an insurance of one-half
in twenty-nine different companies.
rOHKIUN.
British customhouse olIicialH have been
supplied with photographs of the American
jmtato-beetle, and they have been warned to
keep a sharp lookout on incoming vessels
in order to destroy the invader.
No more Sunday trains in Canada.
The Dominion government has issued orders
that no trains shall he run on the Sabbath-
day except in cases of great emergency, and
then only on direct orderof the government.
Spain has been threatened, if not by
this time made the theater of Another Afri
can invasion, a flight of locusts from Africa
passing that way over Gibraltar on the nine
teenth ultimo so numerous as to he two
ours passing over.
A proposition haa been made by
wealthy capitalists of Europe to the Italian
government to cover the entire excavated
towq of Pompeii with a roof of iron and glass.
The buildings are now crumbling, oud the
frescoes are becoming ruined by exposure to
the weathej.
The news from Beaarabia ib that the
Russian army is 6o littie fit for a long
ptigu that the Grand Duke Nicholas has
telegraphed that unless lie receives a
siderable reinforcement of picked troops he
cannot commence serions operations beyond
crossing the Pruth and taking up quartern in
Kou mania.
An official dispatch sent by the Turkish
• > minister for foreign affairs to|the representa
tives of the port* abroad state* that nine
hundred and fifty house* have.been rebuilt
in the burnt villages of Bulgaria, and that
fight hundred and ten move are in course
of construction. The necessary measures
have also been taken, it is added, for giving
assistance of every kind to the necessitous.
The convent of the Slater* of provi
dence at St. Elizabeth, near Joliet, in the
province or ()uet*fc, was burned to the
ground on the night of the 2Sth. All that
could he done for persons inside was to hurry
them out. The nuns, a* well as the children,
had 'only time to save themselves with
out clothes. There werA forty-eight
boarders in the convent. Thirteen persons
perished in the flame*.
A dispatch from Constantinople to the
Pall Mall Gazette states that Midlist Pasha,
the newly appointed grand vfeier, in a con
versation with the marquis of .Salisbury,
said the Turks have decided to accept no
terms giving exclusive administration to
Bulgaria, Bosnia or Herzegovina. We in-
teud, he said, giving largo reform* to our
subjects, even to the Turks, tfho, with you,
dou’t count. Europe asks us to out otlr
throats. We must trouble Europe to do
it for us if they are to he cut. We come
here a small number. If we go away we go
a> wo come, lei ving England to cover the
graves of those left behind.
The l’nll Mali Gazette, in n lending
article, say* the telegrams on the eastern
question arc eminently misleading, and
warns its readers not to beHoVo the dis
patches about the British ambassador—sir
Henry Elliot— returning, the marquis of
NaHsbury’H ultimatum, mid the departure of
the English fleet from Turkish waters. Sir
Henry Elliott will leave Constantinople,
when tho conference is ended, for a period
of rest. Hirika hay Is no place for largo
and heavy ships at tins season. The tnar-
qulsof Salisbury's business with the sultan
yesterday was not to present proposals of
conference n* an ultimatum. It is likely
enough that his lordship told the sultan that
the rejection of the [conference proposals
would put an end to all discussion, and
should war ensue he must uot cxnect a word
or not of support from the British govern
ment, hut between n declaration of that
kind and the presentation of a threatening
ultinintmu there is a wide diflerenoe. The
talk of an arrangement between Russia and
England goes a groat deal too far if it is held
to signily that England will impose the Rus
sian demands on the Porte. For tho sake of
peace we may wish to see the proposals ac
cepted. If they uro refused we shall not
quarrel with the Porte,hut will watch the out
come of its refusal with a steady view to the
protection of our own position in the world.
The postoflicc department rails atten
tion to the provisions of the general postal
union treaty made at Berne, which positively
prohibit* the transmission in (lie mails of
gold or silver money, jewels or precious ar
ticles, „r any other article wlintcvcr liable to
customs duties.
A distressing case of destitution was
discovered the other day in Baltimore. A
man and Ids wife, (lie latter with a ha f-faui-
ished hahy at her breast, were found pros
trated with sickness, and in the same room
the corpora of three young children, starved
to death.
The number of “paying” granges
Patrons of Industry in the United Htntcs is
placed at thirteen thousand six hundred
and ninety three, with a membership of five
hundred and thirty-two thousand four Inin
dred and sixty. The late session of the
national body at Chicago was largely preoc
cupied with arrangements for buying and
selling so ns to dispense with middlemen.
When the war closed the government
had an immense amount of rolling stock
and other milrnnil material upon its hands.
Instead of removing it, it wna sold to the
southern railroads on credit, and their in
debtedness to the government finally reached
more than seven millions of dollars. There
were fifty roads so indebted and all hut five
have finally liquidated their Indebtedness.
The total amount now due, principal and in-
rest, Irom these five is $1,708,638. This is
rtninly a good showing.
THE VOTE OF THE COUNTRY.
Ucliil Figure* Iron. All llie NC.Ie. -TII-
The following table gives official vote
of the country lor president, with return
ing board figures in Louisiana, Houth
Carolina and Florida. One county is
lacking in the returns of Mississippi, and
from one county in Alabama only tho
majority declared for Tildcn lias been
reported. In the case of Colorado, where
the people did not vote directly for pres
ident, tne vote cast for governor at the
election in October ig given in tho taWff
No returns are made of the vote for
Peter Cooper, the greenback candidate,
and Green Clay .Smith, Prohibitionist, in
a large nu nber of states. The figures
show a majority of 165,397 for Tildcn
over all, ami a plurality over Hayes of
2-17,461, even with the three southern
states of Louisiana, South Carolina, and
Florida deprived of their lawful votes
for him :
[CONGRESSIONAL.
llOltftE.
Iii the house, on the 22d., bills to re-
move tho political disabilities of George B.'
Hawkins, of Florida, and A. C. Meyers, of
Maryland, were passed. The speaker an
nounced the following committee to nsqor-
tain and report what are the privileges,
powers and duties of the house of repre
sentatives in counting the votes of president
and vice-president; Messrs, Knott, Sparks,
Tucker, Marsh, Burehurd. [111.], Scelye and
Mouroojou counting tho electoral’ votes,
Messrs. Payne, llunton, Hewitt, .Springer,
M'Crnry, Hoar and Willard.
In the house, on the ‘23d., Mr. Springer
offered a resolution for the compilation and
printing of the proceedings and debate* re
lating to the counting of the electoral vote
since the establishment et the government.
Adopted. A resolution was adopted calling
for copies of orders as to the expenditure of
the appropriation of last sossion for internal
improvements. Mr. Began, front the com
mittee on commerce, ollered a resolution,
which was adopted, requesting the president
to furnish the house with copies of all or
ders tuado by him, or under Ills direction,
and of the orders and correspondence of
the war department, relating to the limita
tions made by the president of appropria
tions for the Improvement of rivers mid
harbors, and specify how tho two million
dollars out of the live million dollars appro
priated hy the Inst congress, have been ex
pended, and ulsojdntc under what law such
limitation was made. Adjourned until the
27th.
On the 2"tli, tho speaker laid boforo
the house a message from the president in
regard to obtaining certain concussions from
the Sioux Indians. Referred to committee
‘ idlnn nfl'airs. Also a message from the
pnsidentin regard to the extradition treaty
with Great Britain in the cases of Winslow
and Brent, and announcing that since Great
Britain had voluntarily ban led over Brent
• thi
i d Uni
dill in
■ould •
liopcd a new tree
into. Referred
nfl’airs. Adjourned.
In the holloa, on the 2Stli, tho follow
ing hills were Introduced and referred: By
Mr. Hooker, for tho improvement of I’enrl
and Pascagoula rivers, in Mississippi; by
Mr. Douglass, authorizing the vommlssionurH
of the Frecdmcn’s Saving and Trust com
pany to buy curtain real estate; by Mr.
Finn, authorizing the purchase id gold dust
and bullion at the assay oflloo at Heine City.
The house then adjourned.
Tho house, on the 2l)th, was in soKsion
only thirty minutes. After the passage of a
number ol private hills adjourned.
NKNATH.
In the somite, on tho 22(1., booh after
being railed to order this morning eonsid-
of the
olutio:
senator Mitchell authorizing an investiga
tion as to tlie appointment of K. A. Cronin
as presidential elector in Oregon, and, after
discussion, it was agreed to without division.
The resolution as agree! to rends as fol
lows; Resolved, That the committee on
privileges and elections ho instructed to in
quire into Hie eligiltllitv of said .1. W.
Watts, and to Investigate the facts att ling
the appointment of said electors and prr-
ideil electors, and to report the same to
n senate, and for this purpose may employ
itcnogropher, send for papers and persons,
administer oaths and examine witnesses.
After the transaction of some uuimporuint
l.tlui.w.ub i I... u.n.I In,........I ....111 Tl.nu.l..<>
od until Tuesday
The senate, on the 2tJUi, met at noon,
fifteen senators being present. Before reading
f the journal, Mr. Morton, chairman of tho
ommlttee on privileges mid elections, said
hnv
aiiothe
added to that great body of tin
who had gone south to make the investiga
tions ordered, and ns there won not a quorum
of the sub committee assigned to duty in
Washington now in the city, therefore lie
moved that another member he added to that
committee. Agreed to, and the chair ap
pointed Mr. Mitchell, or Oregon, as the
honorable member. Adjourned until Friday.
In the senate, on the 29th, Mr. Gor
don presented the petition of Wade Hamp
ton, Win. B. Simpson, Win. II. Wnllaco and
sixtv-eight senators and representatives in
the general assembly of South Carolina, ad
dressed to congress, reciting at length the
events which have recently transpired in
that slate, interference of the military, etc.,
and asking congress to take such action as
will cause a cessation of military interfer
ence in the atTairs of the state and enable
the governor and legislature to exercise the
duties of the offices to which they were
elected. The [memorial having been read
Mi. Gordon moved that it he referred to the
judiciary committee. No quorum, so the
senate adjourned until Tuesday night in ac
cordance with an order previously adopted.
The English Navy of the Future. >-
The recent experiments at Bpezzia
have shown that steel plates manage to
keep out the terrible missiles from the
one hundred ton gun, although the
metal gets fractured in the operation,
and, if we contemplate still increasing
the 'plating of our vessels,’ steel will
probably replace iron in future*. Against
torpedoes steel lias always proved to be
a greater protection than iron, and o
Ibis account the change would also h
advisable. But the recent preparations
of the admiralty seem to point rather to
a belief in unurmofed vessels, for of the
forty Hliips that were under construction
in the summer no fewer than thirty-six
were to be unprotected with armor plat
ing. Two of the finest of these vessels,
the Irisand tbcJMercury,which are scarce
ly four thousand tons measurement, but
are, nevertheless, to be provided with
engines of no less than seven thousand
horse-power, will serve as fleet dispatch
vessels though the metal in not thick
enough to afford protection from very
heavy guns. The same may be said of
the six steel corvet tes, which were com
menced in the summer, and which
also considered unarmored vessels, their
strong point being not so much their
armament as their speed. At present,
however, we are at a standstill in regard
to ocean-going men of-war, and we may
in a tew years be seriously behind other
nations if we do uot speedily come to
some resolution on the subject, and pro
ceed with the construction of one kind
of vessel or another.--London Daily
News.
One night we were sitting out of doors
in the moonlight, unusually silent, al
most sad. Suddenly some one—a hectic-
looking man, with a gentle lovely face—
said in a low tone: “Hid you ever
think of the beautiful lesson the stars
teach me ?” We gave a vague, app
ativc murmur, but some soulless clod
said: “No; what is it?” “How to
voice.
FISH FINISHES 1IIS FIGHT.
In Wlilcli Up Rnlhpi- «rli Hip HpUpi
Hpp lltijpiiiy'a lll|t|oiunU-TliP
(Toning I,pltpr.
The following is the concluding letter
;ln tho correspondence transmitted to
the house, on the subject of extradi
tion between tho United Htntcs and
Great Britain:
SECRETA HY
FISH TO P
THORNTON.
Wxsiiimrix)N, b.c. iioo.
Sir—Referring to your note of 27th of
October ultimo, and to my reply of the
30th of the month, and to your note of
November 29th, in which you did me
tho honor to inforirt mo of tho issuing of
an order in Londoi&frfr the arrest ol
three criminals who had been previously
discharged by her majesty’s government,
and who had been the subject of the
late correspondence on tho question ol
extradition, I havo tho honor to In
form you *thr.% further information
has been received of tho arjtst ol
Brent, and of his surrender hy her
majesty's government to tho ponton au
thorized to receive and convoy him to
tho United States.
it is understood that Winslow and
Gray, tho two other fugitives for whom
warrants woto also Issued, ltavo escaped
from or are concealed in Great Britain
and cannot Ik* found. The representa
tive of the United States in London has
nlormcd me of tho sincere dOBirc of hor
majesty's government to cause their ar
rest, which, however, it has not been
possible to effect. Under these circum
stances, 1, and in accordance with
statements contained in my note of the
30th of October last to tho. president,
11 now l>e ready to respond to any
quiritions which may be made on tho
part ol hor majesty's government under
the 10th article ol tho treaty of 1842,
and will hereitfter inilko similar requisi
tions upon hor majesty's government,
as heretofore, under tho treaty, and will
again regard the treaty In full lore©, sub
ject to tho right reserved to either party
to terminate the same pursuant to tho
the 11 th article thereof.
1 have great satisfaction in conveying
you this information, and in being
able to state that no obstacles now oxist
n delivering to justice fugitives and
riminals under the treaty of 1842 until
uch time as tho two governments may
bo enabled to perfect and form more
omnrehensivo arrangements.
I fhivo the honor to be, with tho high
est consideration, sir, your qbodient
ervant, Hamilton Fish.
Centennial Heeelpts of the Poiiiisylvn-
nla Uoatl.
Wo understand that/tho Pennsylvania
railroad company, in met cash receipts
for the year 1876 (estimating tlie month
of Decoinbqr), is at least onq and n quar
ter million of dollars in excess of the not
•ash receipt in 1876. Wo sec it utntcd
that tho officers of tho company havo
been engaged since tho close of the cen
tennial exhibition in endeavoring to as
certain their business on the great six
months’ transportation campaign. It 1h
estimated that tho entire number of pas
sengers carried during tl eso six months
exceeds 3,600,000 and to accommodate
this multitude 22,642 trains, composed
of 144,264 airs, were dispatched. Dur
ing May tho passengers are placed at
600,000, and during the follow.Hg threo
summer months at l,000,00w The
greatest day’s receipts came in bn the
24th of October, when [48,700 persons
were transjK>rted over the road and fllty-
iight thousand dollars were received lor
tickets. Too company had to employ
3,000 attendants, and was compelled
to borrow ears from other lines, many ol
which Im vo been but just returned. Dur
ing the six months of the centennial
season, closing November 10th, 1876.
nearly 3,000,000 passengers were carried
hy the Erie railway without a single ac
cident or Injury, or the loss of a piece of
baggage.—Philaddphia Lcdytr.
Female Voting In Ufuli.
How the women of Utah conducted
themselves at the last election in that
territory iu described as follows by a cor
respondent of the Han Francisco Chroni
cle:
“The wife of ex-secretary Black, Mrs.
Maxwell, Mrs. Ashman, Mrs. Loyd, Miss
Gertevive Hartwell, and several other
(•tynttfc ladies, took an active part in
their -'tespectivc precincts and elcc-
tionered with the polygamous wives of
the saints. They would argue the point
in this way: ‘Why, Mis. , Pm
astonished! How eat) you for a mo
ment think of voting for Cannon ? Ho
has four wives, and, being a woman, you
know he cannot love them all as he
ought. He is a brute! Take this ticket
and vote for Baskin, a manwho does not
believe in degrading woman.’ ” The
Gentile ladies turned out in full force,
voted like men and did all their talking
afterwards. The votes of several Mor
mon women were, challenged by Gentile
men, who did so with extreme courtesy
and timidity. The women are perfectly
shocked, and seemed afraid of swearing
to their voting qualifications. Two of
the wives ol Bishop Wooley were olial-
langed, but they swore stoutly enough
to get their votes in.”
England’s Leading Editor on America,
Mr. Walter,of the Ixmdon Times, hrn
had the interviewer after him to get his
impressions of the United Staten. This is
what the London correspondent of the
Liverpool Mercury says:
“Mr. Walter, of the Times, has re
turned to England with very pleasant
impressions ol the United States. He
told one ot the people who interviewed
him that the. centennial was the best
exhibition which had been held. He
was amazed at the generosity of the rail
way companies in carrying him every
where gratuitously, and at the infatua
tion of the couhtry, which, after having
by its exhibition called all the world to
compete with it, still maintained protec
tive duties. He had admirable oppor
tunities of witnessing the contest for the
presidency, and came to the conclusion
that it cost more to make a president
than to keep a prince. Some one was
bold enough to ask him if lie had seen
any rivals of the Times, to which lie re-
jdied with a smile and a shake of the
During tho last session tho house com
mittee on Indian nllhirs ro|K)rtcd by a
majority of ono a bill to transfer the cure
of Indians from the department of the
interior to tho war department. Recent
developments of tho methods employed
by army officers ltavo led to a change iu
tho committee, and it now favors a dif
ferent course. A sub committee, con
sisting of Messrs. Wilsblre, Hooker,
Pngo, Sparks and Seelyo is considering
the subject, with two propositions boforo
it—ono drawn by professor Seelyo look
ing to a wholly now system under which
a body corjiorato consisting of a soil-
porpcturttlng board named in the bill
would havo conduct of all Indian affairs,
rcgulatibg tho support of tribes, tlie res
ervation and Halo of thoir lands, and
their civilization. Another plan pro
poses to raise tho rank ol tho Indian
commissioner, and place that officer at
the head of a department like the depart
ment of itgriculture. While tho course
of all legislation is extremely doubtful
this winter, it is not Improbable that
somo definite notion may be taken by tho
house, Tho summary execut ion of t Jen.
Shorklnn’s order of 1869, requiring
troops to attack all Indians found oil
their reservation, where execution iu
the past 1ms, Col. Moneyponny claims,
cost fifty million dollars, is causing con
siderable criticism, nml, according to
tho Indian commissioner, is likely to
precipitate uq Indian war in the south
west.
The Uemoemtie Majority in tho Next
House*
Mr. S. M. Shaw, of the Cooporatown
mrnnl, writes to tho World as follows:
“Will you bo so kind as to publish a
brief articlo on tho nfTxt congress, giving
tho numbor of democratic and republi
can congressmen bolding certificates of
election thereto 7 There is anxiety to
know whether with the ‘counted-in’ re
publican tho democrats can retain control
of tho house.”
Tho following tublennswors Mr. Shaw’s
question:
TOXI1H !
wiiiite
reselltntives in tho Hpring of J877.
tho election of congressmen of 1876 tho
democrats carriod UlC first apd third dis
tricts, hut last month nil three gavp re
publican majorities, 816, 1,330 ami 818
respectively. Allowing nil thrcoofthem
lo tho republicans, the democrats will
have a majority of threo, which isciiough
to secure ihe organization of the liouso.
In the two Florida districts, and the
fourth and Hixtli Louisiana, llio demo
cratic candidates received majorities, but
■minted out by the returning lmardH.
In (,'olormbi the republican candidate
llfinw that the election for both terms in
fa toiler was valid. In tho fourth Oali-
fornia'Onc footing gives 1‘achoo (Rep.)
one majority; another elects Wfgglnton
(l)om.) by one. There will be a cIohc
contest over the third Massed in setts.
think the only districts whore
changes will ho made, as in oilier cuses,
as those of Metcalf (Ron.) in the third
Missouri, and Hertzel! (l)em.) in the
ighteonlh Illinois, tlm onus on tho con
testants is heavy. Tho next house is
therefore safely democratic bv “from
twolve to twenty majority,” as Ihe World
'iriginnlly predicted.— New York World.
MEXICAN NEB’S.
The Igleseas government is established
at Quoretaro. The states of Guanajuato,
Querotaro, AgiuiH, (Jiilientes, Zacatecas,
Durango, San Luis l’otosi, Jalisco, Cul-
inia, Sonora, Sinaloa and Tabasco recog
nize Igleseas. Tho states of Mexico,
Hidalgo, Pueblu, Vera Cruz and Oaxaca
arc occupied by Diaz troops, fglesnns
has about 12,000 goad troops, while Diaz
has about 18,000 of every grade, but ho
is well provided with artillery, in which
Igleseas is deficient. On tlie 6tli instant
6000 troops with 20 field howitzers and
10 rifled cannon left Mexico for Qiiere-
taro.
Igleseas lias about 7000 troops inQuerc-
taro, with 6 pieces of artillery. This
force is sufficient to'garrison the place,
which iH [strong and [easily held. Both
parties are anxious to be recognized by
the United Slntes government. Gen.
Diaz was to leave on the 1.0th for the
army, and confer Iim authority of acting
president upon tlie celebrated Indian
chief, Mendez. Gen. Mejia has been
banished from the country by Diaz.
Everybody is anxiously awaiting a tu
in affairs.
SeuBCafelilng.
The prosecution of the seal fishery of
the coast of Newfoundland involves more
danger nnd hardships than is generally
known. About three weeks after leav
ing port, the seals are “struck,” and are
' *’7 found!
.je ice fo —
seal hunters leave their vessels either in
punts or by directly jumping on the ice,
according to the ship’s position. Their
dress usually consistsof a heavy “Guern
sey frock,” flat-peak caps, sou’westers,
heavy pilot-cloth trousers, and oilcloth
overals stuffed into long eeaboots. Their
arms are a scalping knife and a long pole
with|agaffat the end called a “bat.”
The seal is easily dispatched by a single
blow of this rude weapon on the skull.
With the scalping knife the glistening,
oil-laden pelt is removed from tho car
cass, which 1h left on the ice. Tho cry
of the soal when approached by its hu
man enemy is most piteous, and bluff
and hardy hunters have been known to
hesitate before wielding tho fatal blow,
especially il the pleading seal is guarding
its young. In that fickle arctic atmos
phere, and when tho body of the seal is
a long distance from tho vessel, tho hunt
ers are often benighted when storms
nrho and open a channel in tho ico which
separates them from their craft. Some
times tho vessel has to bear away for
safety, nnd many of tho crew perish from
cold and hunger unless luckily picked up
by Homo other vessel. At other times,
whon tho ico grows weak, they remain
for hours together immersed to tho
knees, or perhaps to tho middle of the
body, on frail cakes of Ice. If they should
survivo this dreadful torture and bo
cued tho evil of frost-burn
ami at tho closo of tho homoward voyage,
thoir limbs aro at the mercy of tho
goon’H knife.—*SY. Aoufa Jlepublican,
A Scranton (Pa.) letter Hays: Tho
miners nnd laborers of the coal regions
aro now passing through tho severest
winter .they havo over exjieriojiced.
Thousands «f them aro without money,
food or substantial clothing, with no
work and no credit—nothing but starva
tion staring them in tho face. Many of
the mines have been closed foi tho win
ter, and those af tho Delaware and Hud
son company are working only half time,
affording tho workmen scarcely enough
to keep them in the necessaries of lire.
Tho trackmen nnd othor laborers of the
siuno company have been reduced to
eighty-five cents jwr day, and also put
on half time,'which yields them less than
two dollars and fifty cents per week, on
which many of them have to support
largo families. And when there are
thousands of others who aro anxious to
work for thfa pittance, their sufferings
can’easily bo Imagined. The force of
inochanics at the I lolawnro, Lackawanu
and Western company’s shops in this
city was again reduced last Saturday,
thus swelling tho already large army of
the nil cm ployed. Trounlo is feared in
this city ifsemolhing is not done to give
them employment, as the men wltose
families are feeling tho pangs of hunger
aro getting desperate.
A Remarkable Meteor.
Tho most remarkable meteor observed
ill recent yearn passed over Kansas, Mis-
)uri, Illinois and Indiana on Friday
night at 8:80, going northeastward. At
Bloomington the aerolite presented a
disk threo times tho apparent sizo of tho
full moon. At all places reported from,
tho roar caused by 'tlm piwsngo of this
great mass of matter through tho dense
atmosphere of the earth was alarmingly
audible, and the tremendous friction to
which ■ the surfaco parts iSvero subject
caused continuous superficial disin
tegration, with accompanying explos
ions, filling tho nir with multifarious
points of light tinged with every hue,
and presenting a very beautiful phe
nomenon. At Mendota and Garrett, in
Illinois, the InhflfcifrantH were mystified
by n sudden lliuimimtlon of tho atmos
phere, accompanied, in tho latter place,
by a detonation louder nnd sharper than
an ordinary cannon. In neither of these
places was tho meteor visible*, which
would show (as their zenith was tlie
most highly illuininntciD that the
sty-anger's nltituclo was still aboyv^ the
jlrevailing clouds, and its momentum
sufficient to carry Uncross th*continent,
although, suffering a constant deteriora
tion in size, it attracted far leas attention
from the denizens of tho eastern states.
The instance to*tlio Nun.
.right, which travels with amazing
volocity, required eight minutes to
reach the earth. Sound would require
fourteen years to travel from tho sun to
the earth, so that if wo mw an explosion
at its surface it would lie fourteen years
before wo could hear it. But il wo
could plnco a rod of iron from
the earth to tho sun and then strike It
tji haininor on ono end tho sound would
reach tho opjioHite end in about eleven
months. But perhaps tho most singular
illustration or tho sun’s distanco was
drawn from the human economy. Sen
sation took a certain timo to travel to
tho nerve centres, nnd if we could imag
ine a human infant with an arm long
enough to reach tho sun it would take
one hundred and fifty years for the
nation to rench him after burning his
fingers; in othei words, bo would be
dead several years before tho sensation
of burning could reach him. The sun’s
distanco was so inconceivable that it was
only by mAking such comparisons that
we could form any idea of it at all.—
ProfcMor Youny's Lecture.
A MERICA N J UHTICB.—The I
Figaro says: In the United States
recently a case of highway robbery was
on trial Ire fore a judge. Tho robber and
his victi;n were confronted, when the
following sceno took place: Judge to
the victim—“How much money did you
lose?” Victim—“Two thousand dol
lars.” Judge—“How came you to have
so much money on your person?” Vic
tim—“I was going to buy cotton.”
Judge (shrugging his shoulders)—“To
buy cotton with tho market as it is?
You must havo been mad.” To the rob
ber—“What did you do with tho $2,000
you stole from this man ?” Robber—“I
bought pork.” Judge (with a benignant
smile)—“Your head was level; pork is
bound to go up.” To tho victim—
“should you not blush to see how much
more worthy oftho favors of fortune that
man is than yourself?”
Army Reorganization.
The work of the commission charged
with devising a plan for the reorganiza
tion of the army has apparently come to
a dead lock, the last meeting having been
held some three weeks ago. Tho differ
ence ol the commission turns upon the
adoption of the Geripaji priqdple of a
large company of two hundred and fifty
men as the unit, which brought up to a
war footing, enables the war department
to double or treble the size of tho army
without inorearing the number of regi
ments or impairing its efficiency, and a
combination of tho present system under
which the number of men is very small
in proportion to the number of officers,
ami tlie cost of the army on a peace foot
ing made very great. Most of the dem
ocrats favor the former plan, and most of
the republicans the latter.
The urns* Im grpen on Hunker Hill,
Tho water **m«t In Urnmlynlno;
Tho worm lloo|« tu I ho scablxud ntjll,
Tho fanner kooim hla Hook* ami vine;
Thou, wim would mar thoramc to-day,
With vaunt ol batlleflold or fray ?.
Tlm brave com IUImIii rcKliiioulN
Ten thoiirand nabmi In Iho nun ;
Tho rlokH roidnco the battle tonU,
Tho luiiinnrtsl Uinh'Ih ton*and run,
Tho nolKhliiu Blood, Bin hiiRlo'n blast,
Them) Im) but utorlc* ol Iho |smt.
Thooailh him healed her wounded broaat.
.Tho millions plow Iho Sold no inoro ;
'flu) lipww imI I OhlFttheniM,
Iii poaoo ah.ns tho poncolul ihnroi
Thoy fouiiht for peace, lor peacetlior loll;
Tlioy sleep In jieaec, uipl all l* well.
Tho fleldH forgot tho Imftloa fought.
Tho tronohoa wave In golden grain;
Khali wo neglect tho lesson taught
And tear tho wounds ngnim again ?
Lot pram ou earth. Lo! (lock and [old
!.<> I rich iihnndanee, fat lnereuM),
An t vnlloyn rind In sheen of geld,
, Oh, rlso nuil Hliig*JtRjiguf pram I
For ThoMcim roams tho land no more,
Aud Janu* rrat« wish ruslnt door.
FACTS AMD FANCIFM.
Multiply 987664321 * by 45,-and see
what a curious resuit of figures H gives.
Love is often as much of an utRsident
il potato plant growing between the
bricks of a hack garden walk.
Sidney Smith once said to his pros
perous brother, “ You have risen by your
gravity nnd I havo sunk byjuy levity.”
The ponies taken from the Indians
sell for only six or seven dollars each,
but u six dollar horse with an Indian on
him is quite a different thing.
Some physicians now claim that tho
general prevalence of diptheria 1h duo in
a great aegreo to the gas which is thrown
off from coal stoves in illy ventilated
rooniH.
TllF.RU is nothing dispels the dreams
of youth and shatters the uinbitious
hopes of the noble boy like having a
voung lady remark In his hearing that
lie would make with study, u good hat
rack.
They were married about six weeks
afterward, and now she hasn’t been
kissed for so long that she couldn’t tell
a kiss from a Into, and she carries her
head high all tho time so as to watch
him iiutl tho hired girl.—llawkcye.
Why in the world don't you go to
work?” inquired a citizen of a lazy fol
low who was trying to borrow some v
money. —“Go to work?” echoed tho*^?
man, “how can I do anything till I
know for certain who is going to Im tho
next pre.sidcntf”
An anxious youth, driving an exceed
ingly dilapidated horse through our
streets tho othor day, using tho whip re
gardless of expense, was asked. “Why
do you flog the poor beast so ?” “ Got
to,” he said, with the utmost soberness;
' ho's dying.”
“ Why quarrel over such a small thing
hh politics?” was tho wny two men of op
posite belief's opened conversation in Chi
cago one day recently. Ami yet in less
than twenty minutes two policemen
wore holding these men apart and lead
ing them off to the station-house.
The Utica Herald says that a young
woman in that city, who had inordinately
skillful surgeon. Tho operation i
. ocossful, and now her ears are small,
symmetrical, und not badly scarred.
Mr. Bothern, in New Orleans, has
been roused at six o’clock in the morn
ing, carried four miles in a freezing wind,
and his feelings exercised to a degree
somewhat astonishing for “Dundreary,”
all to see two men shoot blank cartridges
at ono another, tho sumo being a mock
duel arranged oxpreksoly to hoax tho
tor, and entirely succeeding in its pur
pose.
Two female apostles of temperance
recently preached in the pulpit of tho
Second Presbyterian church of Newark,
und now tho pastor, Itev. Mr. iSco, is on
trial for permitting women to breuk
silence in tlie liouso of tho J/ord. Itev.
Dr. Craven, one of tho speakers, “con
tends that the law of God and of nature
is that women is subordinate to mun,
and that it is not right or lawful for her
to preach.”
“The most sensible lady's hat ever
Invented for the theuter is known ns tho
‘buggy crown jewel.’ The high top
which holds the Hovers, feathers, buds
and birds used for trimming, is con
trived llko a buggy top frame, which can
bo turned over and lowered ou the top
of the heud when the wearer is seated in
the theater. The arrangement is very
satisfactory. When the curtain rises
all bonnet-tops uro expected to be turned
down,leaving an unobstructed view of the
stage to persons sitting in the rear of the
front row.
Madame Buhanne Lecher, a good ac
tress, but extremely stout, was one even
ing enacting a part in a melodrama with
Tall lade, tne original Pierre of “The
Two Orphans ” who had at one portion
to carry her minting off the stage. He
tried with all his might to lift the fat
heroine, hut although slio helped hor lit
tle comrade by standing on tiptoe, in the
usual manner, lie was unable to move her
an inch. At this juncture a boy in the
gallery called out, “Take what you can
and come back for the rest.”
Tho Affable Mon.
A mother and babe were among the
passengers at the Central depot yester
day. She bad the child carefully wrap
ped up, and this fact, perhaps, attracted
tho attention of a big fellow with a three
story overcoat and a rusty satchel iu his
hand. Sitting down beside ber he
remarked: , , ,
“ Cold weathor for such little people,
isn’t it?”
She faintly nodded.
*• Does lie seeni to feel it much, con
tinued the man.
She shook her head.
“Is it a healthy child!” ho asked,
seeming greatly interested.
(•Tin u>on iii) to a ft w mi
she h
p’to a few momenes ago,”
.ppedout, “hut I’m afraid lie’s
smelled ho much whiskey that he’ll havo
tlm delirium tremens before night!”
The man got right up and walked out
of the room, and was afterwards seen
buying cloves and cinnamon.—Detroit