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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