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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W, S, D. WIKLE & CO,. Pronriotors, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1S77. VOL ill. NO. 33. NEWS SUMMARY. I a municipal corporation, nml iin individual*, ' exceed any I have seen for the variety and | die debate i extent of their noble charities.” nibor ot the joint coininittce then opened hare not he inf tho oat crop in Georgia •n materiality lujurod byjtho cold outhei Methodizl house, at Nashville, is said to 1 distress. The lion crop of south heavier this veur than it I publishing • in financial Thor ( >rlen 'a a move in the Georgin lcgisln- ■duce the salaries of their supreme d'.rcs from i 1,000 to >3,0(10 p»r cur loads of cattle arc scut every a average, from Nashville to New shcrc they arc preferred to Texas Virginia has a uutional hank capital of $3,.'*00,01.3 and pay* an internal revenue of $7,313,7*11. The six New England state* have a national blinking capital of $100,517,* The factory at t'olumbii*, (In., last year roiiHUiued a daily average of l»,.30S pounds of cotton, and .3,*30 yards of sheet ing I total cotton, 715,002 pounds; sheet ii>ir. 1,315.3*-) yard*; shirting, 500,•!('7 yards, Tho cot tint factory at AugUHta, On., cleared within the lust six months, a little r $13, Tl.ii fat . take imrkc i the production of coll tilar hill introduced ■ pro i the Vir any person jpdltv ot carrying concealed deadly n* shall he fine*! in the discretion of a not exceeding $20—one half to go to former and shall likewise forfeit to tinner his weapon, ill default of which oinniitled to jail by the justice for one Ml til the i thai uhc paid or dellvo 0; loss in taxable internal improvc- • lividciitls nud IioiiiIh frt Mrs. Mary Connor, of Memphis, a well known, hard working, honest woinnn, while carrying aome things home on a wheel-bar* row, bt*t Friday night, wm I. ru tally iumium!- niited by nn unknown man. As she passed along Washington street, near Market, and within a few stepa of a dozen or more nu n the murderer Stepped up behind her, seized her hy the ludr, drew her head hack nml out her throat. He ran into a lumber house mid thence into a dark bayou, mid was gone. The affair is shrouded ('harlrston Ne\ys The house no t again at 7'_- o’clock, with Mr. Hooker (Miss.) in the chair as speaker pro tcm. The llrst speech was made by Caldwell, of Tennesve, who advocated the hill. He was followed hy Stevenson, of lilt* uoia, nud Caulfield, of Illinois, also in sup port of the hill. Tho house, at eleven o’elock adjourned till to-morrow at ten o'clock. Tho house on tho 2fltli, wan called to order at ten o'clock, when hut few members were presect. Discussion of tho electoral hill was at once resumed. At four o'clock the time for general debate having closed, production of tho United , Mr. Payne rose to move the previous quo*- 2,030,(KM) tons. : lion. Before making the motion, however, 2,20(1,581 tons, j he allowed to ho road the amendment which t'OHKHIN. President Diaz has banished the no torious bandit Cortina from Mexico. A cable apccinl -viys tho (lernutn gov ernment possesses ample proofs of the exist' face of a large monastic conspiracy in Franco to endeavor to gain power in that country for purposes hostile to Germany. niNCKI.I.AM'.Ot'N. Tilt, pig States for 1876 is estimated at In 187'* the production was When 1875 opened the stock ou hand was : Mr. Hopkins proposed to oiler, tho most im- estimated at 7lvi,iMK> ton*, and this had been 1 l'" r,l, ” , !><dtit being to refer to the commis- . , i shm nil the testimouv taken hv the commit* rr.lucr.UI Mu, olrrr ,.I the yrttr t„ about „UUI,or iHttittr.' Mr. I'ttyt'ttt rrnt.,',1 It, allow the amendment to he ottered,and moved | the previous question. Tho previous question ended, and the main question order- *t of New York city has in- Ml,000 since 1SGO, and is steadily It now amount* to iiliout one id fifty dollnrs for every man, l child living within the corpora* The r of : oil, Mr. Payne having the final hour the debate yielded a portion of his time to Mr. Walker, of Virginia, who declared that mild give the bill his cordial support. ' ' ‘ closed and the speaker *7,000,(XM).per annum. Pauline Eileen sued her first husband, w(i Baron Von Rhode, who is married to another 1 ciciten woman, nml obtained n decree of divorce j plated, front him, whereupon aim remarried. This | ls, I. The debate nouueed that the on the final pussnge of the hill The clerk proceeded to call the names of (intense interest and I. finally the eolllit was com- tlm result was announced ns yens Adjourned. divo ide.l to h* ■eguln i let the first husband com d. She claims slut paid he lie original suit Ihlrly-liv Icnjlhoi through tliei A.lvc The r mill In the senate on the 20lh, at the ex piration of the morning hour, on motion of senator Edmunds, tho hill reported hy the special committee in regard to the count of tin- electoral vote was taken up. Petiliona favoring woman Mill'rngo were presented hy half the senate. The M-uate then went into | executive session, and soon after adjourned ‘‘('nil the south Mn,i * Monday, als cheaper than the I It MlO HOIIIlto oil tllO 22d, senator llngy introdiieed a hill to organize tho territory of (ikahaiua, and for tho bettor protection of the Indians therein. Referred. Senator Wright called up the house bill to amend Mi-lion one of the act o( May I "J, 1HH, for a I to tho state of town for the or a railroad in said state, which was amended an• 1 passed. Senator is ollen nud anxiously m of fact bearing ou tho question i lulling and holding. Here are twi undue to southern muuufnetiire •y is being put in the third cotton i'd and operated hy tin nil.I ! "1 11 of ('.limn. I Wiwi™ other two of tho company; i to milking checks nnd stripe 000spindles, eight hundred hundred and sixty carding i large ns ill he dr , will have the house of representatives ns heretofore, mid everything pretending to he a eorIifictile is opened hy the president of theseunteand handed to the tellers,of xvldoh there are four, two from each house, the certificates being opened In alphabetieal order of the states, beginning with tho letter A. Fourth—When a certificate hns been read the president of the senate calls for objec tions, which must he in writing nnd argiied hy at least one senator and one representa tive, whether there he only one or two re turns from the state,in tho ease of which oh* jeetiou is made. Fifth—If there is only one return, the sen ate withdraws nnd the objections are consid ered in the following manner: I. The presiding ottieeis state tho objec tions, and each senator itnd representative may sneak ten minutes amt not oftoucr than once, lint the main question shall ho pi ler two hours’ debate. II. A recess may ho taken until touo’olock next day, pending the oensldcration of any objection, and the houso may tnuisaot leg islative business while waiting the notion of the other on objections. III. When tho two house*hitvovoted thoy Immediately meet again, and the presiding officers announce their decisions. IV. If both concur in tho objection it is sustained, and if they disagree It In ruled. .Sixth — 1 f there are two returns the c..,„ lions are referred to a commission, whose composition and mode of notion nro thus stated ; I. Each of the houses elect five members by a viva voce vote on January 30, and the associate justices of the supreme court as signed to the following district*, first (jus- Hoc UlWord), third (justice Strong), eighth (justice Miller), nml ninth (justice Field), choose u fifth justice, who with themselves w ill form part of the commission. II. The oldest justice (Clifford) presides over the commission nud administers a spec ial oath to its members to impartially exam ine and to consider all questions. III. It is not in tho power of either lions to diHsoIvu the commission or withdraw any of its members, hilt they fill vnenueiescaused hy the death or inability to nctof any of tltei respective members, and the romaiiiing Jus tices in the same manner replace any of tho justices if a vacancy arises among them from the s IV. Tho commission is given the same powers, now possessed by tho two houacMiiut- lug separately or together, to decide upon the electoral votes, nud submits its decision hi writing to ilie two houses, xvhivli thcru upon meet again in joint session. V. The counting of the votes proceed in ........... conformity with llie decision of tillsooninils- krill introduced a hill granting a pension j «lon. unless, upon ohieetion mad* |o it in the ido i I’. Ilia the late tmijor-i . Referred. Senator (' luoed a hill to provide io pro oaths • f the Augusta i •nipany the the id to l.e cron ri»n.) the distribution of axvards made unde j convention between the United States nnd Mexico under the convention of July 1, IM7 I. Referred, Consideration was resumed ot tin- bill in regard to counting the electoral j vote,.senator Morion taking the lloor in op* ; position. Senator Frcliuchuysi-u followed | in nn aide speech in favor of the hill. A long discussion followed on the subject of pnrlieiimted in hy senators | two per cent, dividend xva* declared- ton in i 11 h are not many of them doing as well | '* as (lint. During Hint time the. factory made 1 ! 116,900 yards of goods, childly for southern • v consumption. Two swallow n do hot make ,i j |* s<imiiier, hut the signs of a change are worth j ; Slier Edmunds and otlie i in- taller gentleman iuniated that a vote should be taken to-morrow. Senator Cam- cron tlcuiMiucod Ho- bill as a democratic Tililon president, ^.hiring C( >N( M * KSSIONAL r of an rally veto m wage. AdjnurnelJ? In the senate on tho 23d, coiiHidr ; tiou was resumed of unfinished business, I hill in regard to counting the electoral vo nud Mr. Hhernmn spoke In opposition to | Mr. ('oakling followed Mr. Hhernmn and read in tho nlphnhollcnl order of states, when object ion is made to the vote of any state, no other cortillonto is opened until tho objections urn noted upon nnd finally dis posed of, Eighth —While in joint session no debate is permitted, nud no motion, except to with draw, allowed. Debate can only ho had in separate session, already specified, and ml- inurnment only us provided when the two houses are considering objection*. Ninth Nothing in the net is garilcd ns impairing or nffcoting any right under tho constitution or laws to aticKtlmt the right or title of whoever shnlf be de clared president hy proceeding in Ihu t: Another Egyptian Treasure. Homo twenty years ago a Mr. Harris went with his daughter A. O. Miss eigh Courier: Tin d* harbor on Saturday Inst were y-fivc in number, of which t’urei 'hips, eight ships, fifty-one harks ; propriation (•ill the com committee i twelve brig were under the flag of the United thirty-ono of Great Britain, fifteen o way, eight of Spain, five of German; of Russia ami one of Hweden. Twent loading for Liverpool, seven for the neat, four for Havre, four for Bare two for the United Kingdom,one for A dnm. ami the balance for domestic po plication of tho vnlunMo trade j '-Ibkihle person spoke in favor of the hill. Messrs. Boutwell. rhristinney and Wallace were appointed members of thu conference committee on Hie revision of tin- statutes. After executive session the senate adjourned. * , 1 n tho M-rmto III] tlie ‘iHli, M r. Wrijjlit. and Mr. Willis spoke at length, from llio committee on claims reported fa- f'r- W"M.'.pp.'i h the Huhlm 1 V .,n. lllv .i.nute I o oilenil hr two run,' as postponed to nIUw the house to go into I , . . . . . imitiilh'i. ot the whole mi Hi,. Indian I "m ni'l tim.UhHiih n miiitliern nliduu noin- Without disposing of the j mi**lon. I’lnceil on calendar. Gonsldenu id the house nil- j tiou was then resumed of unfinished liusi- In the liotiHo on tin- 20th, eonsldorn- oii was resumed of the resolutions reported run the eoinmittee. on privileges relative to j of the house in counting (lie i In the house on the 22d, hills were in- nluceu: By Mr. Frye, to establish a court - the trim of eonti sted elections for ofiices president and vice-president. It provide* may bo contested hy any ness—the bill in regard to counting the elec toral vote. Mr. Conkliug who was entitled > the lloor, not having arrived, recess xva* l ! Helium Harris, on it lour to Egypt, found under tlio lloor of an old tomh Thebes a largo roll of papyrim cover with inxcrlptioiiH. It wax olio hundred and thirty-nine feet hy Hixtccn and a half inches broad, and looked something like a stair eiirpet. Mr. JlnrriH hoilght it at a comparatively small price. .Miss Holima Harris felt convinced that it waa a treas- me, and to make stiro against accidents she set herself to the immense work of tracing sign and letter on it upon paper of equal extent. She Hucccodcd in mak ing nfac rimilr. of it. Her fattier died and the lady took a house at Koiimel Dyk, A few years ago an oxplo- > Ims es for that » blent, and that the court for such i ..-..-it elections shall consist of the chief- p.irl of her merchant* to utilize the ndv.m- justice of the supreme court, nnd six judge- loves of direct railroad communication with | >f the circuit court*, to he selected by the Chicago, wc may mention that that citv re- 1 « hief-iustiec. By Mr. Caulfield, to regulate ceived the past yea corn—nil increase of taken for ten minutes, when f»n senate re- | Alexandria „ assemhlcil, Mr. Conkliug not having yet nr- 1 sion occurred in the house, which rived. Mr. Hargent then t"ok the lloor and ,|„ r( ,,| fragments. Of its contents the ll,|. lloor. Till. (Il l,III I, (toil! liy I limrmr-il, till- |iiipyriln nml Minn Hollmn Mn ! lull and Mcsi trie previnu* year. I commands the hog*, I 118 -barrel* of pork reliable * ninny voted nnv who were > the bill. At four o'clock a. m as still speaking and thu prospee Whyte ork. It i' . . .! the ilf*po*ltiou of troop* in the District of bushel* of copunbirt. R v m,. Hayler, to leform the K*) bushels over civil service. Adjourned. tin- corn, she j The house on the 23d, considered the lie shipped 51.», ; resolution* reported on hy the committee on year and - •-,<*!♦'» j privileges, and was addressed hy Mr. Heelye. r. her produce p| )C house judiciary committee unanimously o/sK)— $2,tKNi ( fKK» I resolved that artiefes of impenchment ought She has hand- not be preferred against George M. Robeson, , . secretary of Hie nax’y. Mr. Cox, ehnirman ■ 1 ' * >ous. i n f jj ic committee on election frauds in New (’apt. I'nw- York, submitted a report ill regard to the hill: Yeas-Messrs. Alcorn, Allison, Bar- the represent*- i “Ib-ued tampering with Mr. Hewitt’s mail in ! num, Bayard, Bogy, Bnoth, Boutwell, Burn- nv org'ni.ed ' i the New York postofliee. It completely e\- side, Chaffee, Cliristianey, Cockrell, Conk- “• > ir.*n.z• in onera f C „ poktinaster James anil Ills sul/ordi- ’ ling, • ooper. < rugin, Davis, Dawes, Dennis. °P Inc Rsrrata-; j„ the matter ind declares that no : Edmunds, Frclinghuyscn, Oolcltliwaite.Gor- sen, marks the lieginnlng of such tampering has been done. I’rintcd and 1 don, Howe, .rohnstou, Jones (Fla.), Jones important cnicrnri-e A recommitted. Adjourne I. i Nev.), Kelly, Kernan, SleCrecrv,McDonald, „ s „ t „ml ,1„. '-arj. j In (be Iioiim on the 21th, conhldernlirm sStJCurr’ able th*! company to do the j wg* resumed of the resolutions reported by I Hharon, .St«veus*ui,'Teller, Thtiriuon, Will- tlie govern- the committee on privileges, and xva* n,|. j lace, Whyte, Wimlom, Withern, Wright •I* , .. I NnVM—Bfh lied for several hours. In the HonaU) on the 25th, tho debate in the senate on the bill reported by the se lect committee in regard to counting the electoral vote was continued all night, Mr. Morten continuing his argument, The fol lowing i« the vote in detail on the electoral ovenicnt* at the mouth i enterprise that stands id can oiicced without val enterprise run the government. If this enterprise j im ts with nny opposition we propose to ilreused hy Mr. McDill (Iowa) in fovor of the resolutions submitted by the minority of the on its own merits eoinmittee. Mr. Payne, from the committee , ... ‘ | on banking and currency, reported a bill to •reaking up »")' amend existing laws in regard to national iving any subsidy j gold hank*. He explained the object of the on (Wh Hainilto , Bruce. - Hamlin, Ingalls, Mitchell, Mo themselves against xvhat we most important improvement valley—the opening of the Mi* bill to be to allow these hank** notes to the amount of ninety pi illation, no array ,j n j re those hank* ider the | with the assistant per cent. iHsippi r * and Cou ricr: A pri- , Patterson, -Sargent, .Sliernmn, West—17. Adjourned. In the Honnte on the 2(5th, it xva* ! gold i agreed, as reported Gy the judiciary com mittee last si-Hsion, to create, a sinking fund for the settlement of the indebtedness of the asnrer at Man Francisco | Pacific railroad companies, should he taken up at the expiration of the session to-day, il thus becoming the unfinished busincaa at the leting. Morning having expired, Charleston X vatc letter from J has moved to Sax'annah since the epidemic, to hi* friend* in Golnmbu*, Gh., gives tne following interesting account of xvhat our afflicted sifter city has done to relieve her destitute poor. It i* a record of which the citisens may beproud: “The late epidem- detnjilion fund. The bill was passed. Mr. Lamar from the Pacific railroad committee reported hack favorably senate bill extend- fH?v! eight years the time foi lion of the nortbe.’ii Pacific railroad.' Holimm iiih'Ic a point of order, that u Mr. the rules the bill r sideration In committee of the whole, bias- it involved the disposition of an i laid ■ailed up the petition of the democratic presidential electors of Florida, recently presented by him, asking that their votes he counted as the true return, and ad- dressed the senate at length in regard to the recent election in that state. He argued that the Tildcn electors were legally elected, I had been deprived of their rights by the U„l. -he house . meJ.ce from The pre»Ment ' ,u ( e , T >r ' 1 ' " llk ' h , '"' 1 "" i 1 !' 1 '; in reward to the n-e ot troop, it the late '7'* 1 '"'thorilv enrl no power to po beliinrl rc rn.de Urn pr'ovi.ion. foror|.han children j t! ec V.? n ' V " r, * in * ,, ) r P™"” 1 "' ln ’‘ Mo,play, j "" ,h ‘ colll,IJr Atl- , , . , ' , Mr. Wood then onered bis resolution that i ' and tor w,dorr, necei-ary, and nobly has , he nre Si , B e he referred to . .elect commit- 1 "-~ J Savannah met the emergency. She has ** tee of eleveu to inquire whether there had THE ELECTORAL BILL. tabliihed one asylum for orphan boys and been any exercise of authority not warrant- two f„, orphan girU, end two widow.' home. wh°'=h rte^.rMldinT'lr" jSltWe! ! T "' » r **■• B ‘' 1 - » »•-—* the Ee»--t-. for the needy and deserving poor; also '* | *pom*ible, with jiower to send for persons ! After an all night session devoted to home for the liomelesf, where all who need j and papers. The resolution was then I debate, the senate on the twenty-fifth food may go and get a meal, nnd where ! adopted—yeas 134, nays 75. House ad- rmased the joint committee’s electoral ytturig women out of employment may finil | j‘- arncd * ^ j will by the overwhelming vote of 47 to a temporary home until a situation can he! liouse on the 25th Mr. Payre , ]<—more than two-thirds, secured. This last named institute is kept j moved to go to husineHson the speaker’* ta- j On the 20th the house passed the bill up by public and private charities, nnd the i hie, Hie order Ic ing to refer the bill to a joint! by a vote of 191 to 80. * a committee, xvhich had come from the senate, First—It i* a temporary measure designed 1 to the committee on counting the electoral f, . ,r ,h,: "J. , l UC8ti 1 on " ,,l 1 iss,, ‘ : . the present coinplicatiou onlv, and not in- , vole. This was agree*! toby unanimous aH u ril j e to govern fiiturc electoral i cin-ent. The bill was referred to the coin- j count*. : mittec on electoral vote, ami was imruedi- ; •••c-inil—The time for beginning the elec- | ately reported back by Mr. Payne, chairman | toral count h changed from February 1-4 to five hundred dolla: for distribution among the needy. A vs after Mr. Corley had entered on his he mayor of Havannah sent him n alieck ; hundred dollars, to be used amongst xr of his church. He saps in his let- rhe people here, a* churches, and > houses meet in the hall of If. Tho great Egyptian nrohtoolo gist, M. lirugscli Boy. examined tho papy rus nml tulil the Kliedivo of ita great value, and tho Fgyptlnn govoriiment offered the Hum of £2,000 for it. But Miss Harris would not part with it. Sho brought it to England, xvlion tho British museum purchased it for n larger sum. and from that time to this Dr. Birch ami his corps of Egyptologists have Ik*cii de ciphering it, while serines have been en gaged in copying'it. It has now lxien printed—in a suflicient numlxcr to supply the musciiniH of Europe, and of America, if they want it—with accompanying translations of the text and learned notes thereon. It proves to Ik* a complete record of the life and works of Barneses III., and a statement of the condition of things at Thebes 3,000 years ago. We learn from it what the Thehans saw and heard at church nnd what they had for dinner, such as fish, water-fowl, pigeons, -oil, bread and wine. We are introduced to the beauties of Rameses’s harem. Much of the record i- remarkably realistic, but it is somewhat confusing to find that among these realistic portions is an ac count ol how Kameses III. went to hell and there played at draughts with Isis for the golden kerchief, which ho won. Moreover tho last five sections of the scroll consist of an address—a sort of valedictory—uttered from |the same re gion (Hades) by the monarch, in which he recites the great victories he has achieved, the hundreds of thousands of cattle he has bestowed on the temples, the slaves he has presented them, and implores them to be loyv.l to his succes sor, Barneses IV. Kuch a mixture of jMjssihle fart, and certain fable may puzzle any one who tries to bring actual history out of thu papyrus; but one thincstands out dear—tne character of Barneses himself. The half million head of cattle he claims to have bestowed on the gods may be as mythical as bis game of draughts with Isis, the Egyptian Proser pine, but whether in hell or earth the sultanic self satisfaction of Ramoses III. is unquestionable. There is a statue of George III. in the Guildhall, with an inscription placed there during his lifetime by aldermanic courtiers, in which the characteristics of tho angel Gabriel are attributed to him, with a few of the selectest attrib utes of the seven sages. The poor king was mad at the time and England was ground under the heel of the prince regent; nevertheless the true portrait of the king and his times may be derived therefrom by one who can read between the lines.—M. J). Conway*h fatter to Cin cinnati Commercial. SOUTHERN HOMES. IitlrllltreiM-r, nmrxnlcniH* and Iniliinti-.v of Nouiliri-n Wottinii—■Iokiimi In iin* Nontli l'M|)i-«*t«*ntlonn hut Pinttj. In reply Io a very hard criticism upon southern homos ana womon, a correspond ent writes in the New York Times: Onoof the dwellers in a southern homo would like to say a few words to her northern neighbors in reply to the strict ures ol your correspondent on "South ern Homes.” Sho must begin bystatiiig that circumstances and opportunity have enabled her to sco a good deni of tho world—of social life at home, north and south, nml abroad, of aooinl life in its highest conditions, ns well as in its healthier, happier, middlo state. With Northern homos she is Intimately ac quainted, nnd has for many years enjoyed' tho greater prlvllogo of Intimacy In En- glish .ionics; in Franco, Switzerland nml Holland sho had like privileges, to a less extent, to study the habits of the people, particularly of tho women, l’erhaps those opportunities may justify u dweller in .a southern homo of expressing her opinion of these homos and tho women who make them, the class with which tho Times' correspondent seems ho well acquainted. Planters in nnto-bollum times, (It i.s useless to speak of plantation homes since tho war, beenuso thoy linvo virtually ceased to exist), had almost always two homes, a necessity as well as a luxury,on account of tho general unhenlthiness in summer of that part of tho country best adapted for the growth of rice ami cot ton. The plantation houses, as a rule, in Georgia, were large and rambling, xvithout modern improvements,and with no pro tension to arch 1 tee. turn! beauty, ami without line furniture; there was, however, good, often elegant, table ap pointments, nml a great deal of old-fash ioned plate. A large portion was seen in the north soon after the war; tho remain der saved has boon sold niece hy piece us necessity compelled. Thera was also plenty of stable room, ami ovory facility tor a largo-hoar tod hospitality; for in those (lavs people visited their Blonds, with children, servants, and horses; this was the custom of tin country. Tho summer homes were always more or less pretty, without protonHion, and never without flowers, which all sou thorn women love woll enough to cultivate with their own hands, nnd who understand it thoroughly, many sending annually to various florists in the north for additions to their greonliouses instead of sanding to Franco for fine drosses ami bonnets. Tho summer homes were rarely carpeted, and the floors, "dry rubbed” daily, were so polished as to require caro and habit to avoid slipping; the extensive galleries scrupulously scoured; tho bcd-lincn washed In pure spring water, of which there is so great an abundance, smelling sweet of old-fashioned lavohdor, the fa vorite porfuine of tho linen press. Now these "lazy, dirty women, had, with i'(.;nro ami management of their $wo homes, a great deal to do, besides; they Ixmght, cut and arranged all tho cloth ing for the plantation "hands,” taught their seamstress, trained their cooks—no easy chance of a good cook hy oflbrina high wages. These cureless mothers had to teach tliolr daughters before thoy were wives. Tho writer being without these domestic accomplishments when first called to niuuugo her own home, having been educated at tho north, was stimu lated to competition by tempting deli cacies sent, her in a time of sickness, made by tho hands of her kind neighbors nml friends. These "lazy, selfish” southern women are singularly active and devoted to tho Hick and Hufloring. Boil thorn It vines, like English, are per manent, descending from father to son; they aro loved and livod in, or rather were before the war and poverty wrench ed them away. The love of flowers is universal; the writer has a friend now threc-scoro and ten, who, at no hour of the day, 1h over seen without her dainty little hoquetof holiotrope, scarlet gera nium, nml tho like, in the bosom of her ureas, glowing amid its dorp black, like the hope of heaven from out her deep sorrow ; this lady is exceptional, not in her tastes, hut tho means left her to in dulge thorn. In short, the dweller in a southern homo for tho greater part of her life can testify by knowledge, hy comparison, to the intelligence, active benevolence, and industry of southern women. Reduced hy a sudden over whelming blow from aflliience to jMjver- ty, they perform the menial offices ne cessary to the cornJort of their families with a cheerful fortitude which should command the respect and admiration of all generous minds. This is the testi ly of one wit hout pro udicenml with- favor, who feels capable of judging, and who also fools impelled to lift up her voice against tho ignorance whieli stigmatizes southern women as "igno rant,” "lazy,” and "selfish,” living in homes of "squalor, untidiness ami pover ty.” To the last charge, in many, very many instances, they plead guilty. The Cotton Mupply. Tho next in importance to tho A merl in crop as regards quantity is the sup ply from the East Indies. Europe used to receive thence on an average 1,500,000 bales a year; last season tlie imports were only 1,200,000 bales. The cause is to he found in the extension of local mills (during the last twelve months they consumed 230,000 hales Bombay cotton), in the almost entire cessation of shipments from Calcutta and in the largely increased culture and export of wheat. The same causes still prevail,and are further aggravated this year by the partial failure of the crops in the south ern provinces, which have their outlet at Bombay, and also of the Madras crops. Another falling off is predicted of 150,- 000 to 200,000 oales in the receipt* from the East Indies, although, as is reported, the exports from Bombay for tne first half year ending the thirtieth of June may provo littlo short of those during tho same period in 1870, because with the full yield in the three principal dis tricts the lailure in tne southern provinces will not tell on the shipments from Bombay until after the monsoon. The Bombay hales weigh about threo hundred pounds, the Madras and Bengal al>out three hundred pounds. The Egyptian crop, like our own, hns been marketed unusually early. From first of October to twenty-fifth of No vember, receipts in Alexandria were 1,- 20-1040 cantars against 857,000 and 8-43,- 000 cantars the two preceding years, showing an excess of 370,000 cantars (05,000 bales) over those in 1875. On tho twentieth of December tho excess had been reduced to 140,000 cantars,and it was expected that it would disappear with tho first week in January, when a continued falling off would leave the crop 50,000 to 00,000 bines short of that of last year, namely 410,000 to 420,000 bales of six hundred pounds each,against 408,000 and 437,000 bales in 1885-70 nml 1874-5. From the other Mediterranean ports tho imports have remained singu larly stationary, amounting to about 100,000 halos of throe hundred nnd eigh ty pounds each, and this will probably lie the supply of tho season. The Brazils, which supplied Europe ill tho years 1871 to 1874 Inclusive on an average with 7(50,000 bales a year, sent 550,000 hales in 1875, ami last year only 405,000 hales. As the low prices rilling must havo prevented an extended growth nn increase can hardly bo ex pected. The bales weigh, however, only one hundred and sixty pounds, nml 25,- 000 to 50,000 bales more or less aro of little consequence. The constant doclino on tho value has had the same effect on the import from the West Indies, Peru, ole.; 210,000 hales wore received in 1871, 113,000 bales In I885,aml last season only 08,000 bales; thoy woigh about two hundred pounds. ^ From tho nbovo it will appear that Europo, according to trustworthy ad vices, will probably receive about 150,- 000 to 200,00 bales East India ami 50,- 000 to 00,000 Egyptian cotton less than hist season, equal In weight to 180,000 to 250,000 bales American cotton.--New York Emnintj Poet, School Statistics. We havo received a pamphlet contain ing an abstract of tho annual roport of the United StntoH commissioner of edu cation, from which wo derive much in formation. Tho total numbor of teachors reported in the. public schools is 202,202. But, large as this number is, it is 100,000 short of the number required to the en tire school population reported, allowing forty scholars on an average to the teacher. In the southern slates more men are employed than women ; in tho northern and central states, more womon than inon ; tho excess of womon touchers is much the greatest in Now England, especially in Massachusetts, whore some me already beginning to think that the Interests of education have suffered hy tho too exclusive surrender of tIn- work of primary instruction to one sex. In MassacliuscttH there arc 1,1 (51) men and 8,047 womon teachers. In Alabama, Delaware, Kentucky, Nevada and Texas the same salaries arc paid for the same work to men and women teachers. The nvurngo monthly compensation of teach ers in Illinois, male, $48.21, and femalo, ♦48.||2; in Michigan it is, male, $51.45, female, $15.50 ; in Iowa, male, $215.08, female, $28,33; In Wisconsin, male, $43.50, female, $27.15; in Indiana, mule, $05, female, 40. Illinois returns an in crease of 10,135 in school population, of 13,001 in school enrollment, of four hun; dred and eighty-nine in tho number of touchers, nnd ot seventeen in Ihonumbor of school-houses. But tho receipts for schools woro less by $33,038, and too ex nonditiiros hy $47(5.483 than in 1871. Two kindergarten roport one hundred and nine children. Tho state normal university and fivo other normal schools had 1,141 normal pupils and graduated one hundred and five. In the one hun dred and sixteen public high schools there were about A,480 students, who with 2,(535 in business colleges, 2.785 in private academies, and 3,193 under hoc ondary training elsewhere, make 12,080 academic students. Bix institutions for superior instruction of women report three hundred and forty-eight coleglatc students, with two hundred unclassified; twenty-four colleges and universities, 1,(190 collegiates; two schools of science, four hundred and thirteen. Thirteen seminaries report four hundred and eighty-six students of theology; four law schools, one hundred and oiglity-threo legal ones; six schools of medicine, fivo hundred and seventy-six; and ton special schools, 1,919. Icebergs or Hie Antarctic. Hir (’. Wyville Thompson recently gave a lecture in Glasgow upon tho pecu liarities in the physical conditions of the Antarctic regions. In the months of .fununry and February, 1874, the Chal lenger was cruising in Antarctic waters, 1 tho observations made at that time furnished the shaker with the material for his address. Tho peculiar conforma tion of the icebergs filling the sea south of latitude sixty degrees was the subject of particular discussion. The bergs en countered hv the Challenger were uni versally table-topped nnd perfectly flat, with a covering or dazzling white snow. Home of the larger ones were one or two miles in length, and had evidently pre served their original position. The aver age height of these bergs was about two hundred feet. Their sides were blue, the pale tint of tho upper part deepening gradual I v to the lierg was seen to bo traversed with a delicate ruling of faint blue lines, separated more widely as they neared the top. Hir Wyville deems the evidence nearly conclusive that these icebergs have their origin on land which is conpsrativcly low and flat, and bordered for a consider able distance hy shallow water. "I con ceive,” he says, "that the upper part of one of these iceberjgs, including hy far the greater part of its base, and culmi nating in the portion exposed above the surface of the sea, was formed by the piling up of successive layers of snow during tne period, amounting, perhaps, to centuries, during which the ice-cap was slowly forcing itself over the low land nnd out to sen, over tho long extent of g -Title slope, until it reached a depth considerably beyond two hundred fath oms. The lower specific weight of the ice then caused an upward strain, which at length overcome tho [cohesion of the mass, and portions were rent off and floated away. If this be the true history of tho formation of these icebergs, tho absence of all land dohris in the portion exposed above the surface of tho sea is readily understood. If any such exist, it must ho confined to the lower part of the berg—to that part which has moved upon the floor of the ice' ** “* FACTS AND FANCIES. Tills 1h jKisltively the latest: I would I woro a school inarm and among tho school inarms bund, with a small boy stretched across my knee and a ruler in my baud. That Hioux Indian talked sarcastical ly enough to tho government official: “ Why don’t white man put Injun ou wheels, like bravo at tobacco storo, so ho can ho wheeled around qnsy?” Lazinicks is not always ovonly dis tributed over a fellow. You may have known a great many lazy people, but did you ever know anybody who didn’t use IiIh mouth enough? It 1h the right of every domestic ani mal to have good food, good air,and good shelter from tho wonthor, nnd it pays their ownors, in every way, to furnish them. Contentment is not a brawler, nor disturber of tho ponce, but should tho shorin'want him fora purpose, ho would sooner look for him in the pqor man’s cottage, t han ill tho rich man’s palace. Miss Coleman is tho richost lady in Washington, and ono of the wealthiest in the country. The greatest part of her princely income Is derived from coal, and nor mines in Pennsylvania arc said to ho inexhaustible. The Moors, after occupying Spain ovorsovon hundred years, and milking it during the middle ages the homo of agri culture, as other arts and scionces, were expelled in 1492. tho same year Colum bus discovered tlio now world. When some one asked Choate how ho was going to avoid tho force of some very ugly facts, and how ho expected to shu-t tho eyes of tho jury to it, he replied, "Why, sir, i shall jump them right over The ieo crop is enormous this season, and suggests tho probability that the. consumption of water in a liquid stale iioxlmimmcr will bo proportionately less. "If wo can havo cheap ice,” said a man with a blossom on his nose, "wo don’t really need any water.” "Tiui , i,ETH,”said thedoctorscntentioiiH- ly. Tho husband of u year rushed out on the hack porch, thought upon his slender income, glared upon the snow- clad yard and exclaimed with a wild, mocking laugh : "Bon-struck in Janu ary.” Leaning over tho gate last week, says "llohokuH,” I saw approaching a pretty girl that I had not seen ho fore in threo years. I exclaimed: "Well, Mollie, I’m so glad to sco you that I’ve half mind to embrace you.” Drawing herself up to full height, the ready answer whh : “Hir, do you take me for an opportunity?” Pineapple shirts nnd coats will soon appear in the market. Tho pineapple is cultivated extensively in the East Indies, where tho leaves arc converted into a kind of wadding used for upholstering purposes instead of hair, and Into a sort of fiunuol, of which substantial coats and shirts arc made. A Rome miss of seven summers 1ms concluded to maray a big man for lior first husband and a little one for tho sec ond, so that she can cut;tho clothes of the flrHl down and make them over for his HticccHsqr. Thus tho hard tiiuos force home lessons of rigid economy and practical sense upon tender child hood. One of the most noteworthy provis ions made hy cardinal Anlonclli in his will 1h in regard to his servants. It is arranged that those who had served him twenty-five years shall havo their wages continued to them for tho rest of their lives; those who Imd been with him fif teen years shall have two-thirds of their wages; and other servants one-third. When King Theodore, of Abyssinia, committed suicide, the English officers found and brought away a little hoy, the son and heir of the dead king. Tho lad haslheon educated in England, in fact tho queen hits in a manner adopted him. Tho prince of Abyssinia is now at Rugby, visits tho royal household during his holidays, and is studious hut not Hinart. The Commodore and Ham Harger. One of Commodore Vanderbilt’s asso ciates in his various railway enterprises is Ham Barger, a wag as well as a director, At one of tlie meetings tho commodore said he didn’t see how it was that Jay Gould gotutall thofactsand figuresaliout New York Central. "I’ll toll you how you can prevent his knowing any thing about your roads,” said Ham. "How?” asked tho commodore. "Elect him a director, was tho reply. The autocratic fashion in which the old man managed the road is well known. A speculator wished Ham to induce the commodore to go into an operation in the street. "If tlio commodore will take a hand ! can make, a million, without the pos sibility of losing a dollar,” said the hope ful operator. "No danger of loss?” said Ham. "None at all, and sure to mako all tho money we want,” was the reply. "Well, f don’t know about tho old man,” [said Ham, "hut, if you feel so sure about the tiling, I have no doubt I might get his son Cornelius to join you.” Ham got word one evening while at dinner that the commodore would like to sec him. Hastily partaking of a littlo food he repaired to the. old gentleman'll residence, forgetting in his hurry to put a cigar in his pocket. After the busi ness was finished Ham said : "Commo dore, you brought me away from my dinner in such a hurry that I didn’t get my smoke I l believe I would like to try a cigar.” (Tho commodore was smoking a delightfully fragrant Hava na). "All right, Sam,” he replied, "you will find a match on the mantel piece.” Sam smoked when ho got home. The bearish Twenty-third street party weroheavlly short of Central. The com modore waa buying all any one wanted to sell at constantly advancing figures. Ham happened in at the beer garden, and of course the talk waa of the commodore’s im roll uses. "I tell you,” said one of tho I,mins, more savage than tlie rest, “tho old niiiii ought to Ikj taken caro of; hu has lost liis head.” “I don’t see any ono that 1 suspect of having found it,” was Ham’s quiet re mark, and nothing more was said on that, subject,