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London dispatches say that the fooling of
'•.xulto.tiou which greetod the news of General
Ste'mirt’s victories on his inarch to the Nile
and his success in reaching Gubat has
given place to a feeling of depression on
the receipt of the news that Khartoum is
in the hands of the Malidi, that General Gor
don is a prisoner to the rebels if he is not al
ready killed, and that the object of General
5 A>rd Wolseley’s expedition has been defeated.
1-ord Wolseley has telegraphed to the war
department that Khartoum has fallen, but
he says that ho does not consider that the
British position nt Gubat is in any immediate
danger. When it is considered that General
Stewart, in order to gain his positional Gu*
bat, had to fight two <T.> perata battles with
the Arabs—one at Abu-i\ loa wells and another
at a point about five mik • south of Metem-
neh—and that in each of these battles lie lost
a numlver of men, it will be realized that the
fidl of Khartoum is a matter of great im
portance to tho British force at Gubat. Tho
'march acr«>5s tho desert was a perilous one to
Gen. Stewart’s army The return march
will be stiil more perilous. Tho garrison
<of Khartoum was expected to take part in
•oliis march mid to make lip for the men lost
in General Stewart's army in its passage to
the Nile. >'o\V the general is left at Gubat
without nnr hopj of reinforcements from
•Gordon, mrl unless a relief expedition from
Great Britain can reach him in timo ho and
-his artny will be destroyed.
The war olfice received news of tho fall of
Khartoum, the disputch coming direct from
General Wolsiley. The general announces
that the town of Khartoum fell into the
1 lands of die Arabs on January ‘id. Colonel
Wilson after the victorious march across tho
desert which ended in tho encampment of
the English at Gubat on Jauuary IS,
started p tho Kilo for Khartoum to
••omnium ate with Gen. Gordon. llo went
m one < f the steamers which Gordon had
sent down tho Nile, with news that he still
iield Kh irtoum, and was able to hold it
for yeai^ to come. Col. AViison arrived at
Khartouia on Jan. 28, and found to his
surprise that the town wr.s in tho
hands of the rebels. A native reported
to tho colonel that tho Malidi
had (G.000 men in the vicinity of
Khartoum, and that a number of these
managed to maker their way into the city on
•■ho plea that they were friends of General
Gordon. These emissaries mingled freely
wuh the soldiers of General Gordon, and by
bribes, threats# and working on tlio religious
feelings* of the soldiers, induced them to sur
render the garrison. Seven thousand of tho
T^rrhv/n deserted to tho Arabs, leaving
UT 4 %ceral Gordon but 2,500 faithful
soldioi. With this small force he
attoiV'tod to hold the city against the Mah-
di’s g?at army, but after a severe battle in
whicl great numbers of tho rebels were kill
ed, h was obliged to surrender. This was
all tlit Colonel Wilson could learn of the
ovens attending the surrender of Khartoum.
Wlioher General Gordon was a prisoner in
tholmdsof the Malidi or whether ho had
boon ;ille<l in the battle ho did not learn.
W -3.i Colonel Wilson found that Khartoum
was is*lie 1 lands of tlio enemy he concluded
t hat if yould not be wise for him to attempt
to land’ and he started at'onco on his return
dow n the river toward Gubat.
Oh f.s way down ho was subjected
to continuous firo by the rebels, but
his Reamers passed through this fusil
lade aiinjured until they reached the Shub-
laka mtaract. A few miles below this cata
ract die steamers of tho Brit ish expedition-
wore disabled by the fire of the onemy. but
the io!diers managed to reach an is.and in
the Nile, wh^re they are now securely en-
tr; ached. From here n dispatch was m nt
to the British camp at Gubat giving
tfte news of Gordon’s surrender and
tie wreck of tho expedition,
aid a steamer has been sent to the island to
nscue the shipwrecked soldiers. General
Wolseley, in his dispatch to the war office,
saws that ho does not know whether General
iGordon is dead or alive. He has still some
hopes that Gordon may be holding the cita
del in the town, but these are based simply
«.n Gordon's well-known characteristics for
daring, and not on any information which
Golonel AViison was ablo to obtain.,
The first news of tho fall of Khartoum
received by General Wolseley was brought
by a messenger, who left the island where
Colonel Wilson was stranded and came on
foot to Gubat. Two messengers were dis
patched to Korti via Abu-Klea and Gai
dai. They reached their destination in
safety, owing to tho fact that the rows
of Khartoum’s fall had not reached the
desert. Intelligence of the disaster, how-
ever, has since spread far and wide. Homo
of tho tribes that have hitherto pretossed
friendship for England h ive declared Jor the
Malidi. The Arabs still hoid Metemmh. The
garrison there received the news of 4th*' fall
of Khartoum with repeated salves of ar
tillery. When Colonel Wilson’s
flotilla approached Khartum it
was compelled to run the gumtlet of
a heavy fire from both baukM, 'The rebels
had four Knipp gims oil tie river banks at
Hal fay to bombard tuo steamers. Wheji tho'
Brit ish force retched Omduroian, nu»:>ei*so
rebels continyod the fusillade. TilingsVhjU'mI
worse wlen it was discovered tin*; tho
enemy was in possession of tho island of
Tutt-% just outside the city. The English
- vvh'd pushed ahead, but were dismayed to
find timt the garrison commenced firing u*wui
them. No flags were Hying from the public
buildings, and tho town appeared to be.in
undisputed possession of tho enemy. The
palace seemed to have boon gutted. Finding
it. impossible to land in the lace of the oyer-
whelming numbers of the rebels, tho British
were obliged to retire.
The rumors concerning the fate of General
Gordon are many and varied, but all agree
chat the Malidi captured Khartoum by
treachery. Tho most trustworthy reports
point to cue Faraz Pasha ns the traitor,
it-is said that he, being left in charge of
the ramparts, openod the gates on January 20
and admitted tne enemy. Some rumors state
that General Gordon, together with a few
Levantines, is cooped up in a church. Others
say that General Gordon has been seen wear
ing th& Mahdi’s uniform. The majority
agree, however, that General Gordon lias
beoa killed.
Tho excitement in London and every
where throughout the British Isles where
the news had penetrated is at fever heat.
The clubs and public resorts of every de
scription are thronged with crowds of
people eager to catch the last syllable of
intelligence from tho Egyptian desert.
The .position of Gen. Stewart is well un
derstood to bo one of imminent danger,
and unless something is done promptly for
his relief he will be sacrificed, with his lit
tle army, to the Arabs who surround him
Fleet street and the Strand are so crowded
that it is almost impossible to push one’s
way through them. Most people take a
gloomy view of tho position of tho British
troops in the Soudan, and tho gladnesswhich
has been felt in England ever since the news
of Generai Stewart's successful arrival in the
neighborhood of Motemneh has given way to
a universal sentiment of depression. Expres
sions of dismay and forebodings come from
all sides, and mingled with these are
expressipjv: of sympathy for Gordon and
of c-z^fimendation for the policy of General
Lord Wolseley, who insisted on taking the
Nile passage to his relief, thus wasting, it is
claimed, many valuable days. The war
office is besieged with army officers who
are tendering their services for active duty
in the Soudan, and numerous telegrams are
oeing received from officers throughout the
country asking for assignments on the rescue
expedition for General Stewart should
the government decide to send an expe
dition for this purpose. The capture of
Khartoum has created grave fears, es-
g jcially in army circles, for the safety of
eneral Stewart and his little army, and a
rfomber of army offi'-ers express the opinion
that unless reinforcements are hurried for
ward to Korti the fall of Khartoum may
lead to disasters to the forces under Wolse-
loy and General Earle. It is stated that Com
mander Cameron, the African traveler, has
offered to start at once for the Soudan to as
sist the British in their campaign against the
rebels. Orders have been sent to Portsmouth
Haven to begin immediately the fitting of
troop ships.
Tlie City of Khartoum.
Khartoum is the chief city as well as the
H is located on the peninsula foi
e junction of the Blue and White Nile.
The dock yards_ and
are on
in the _
above the level of the sea. There is an ex
tensive-quay on the banks of tho river,
where the principal commerce of a country
as large as all India naturally centres. The
provinces of the Soudan are not commercial
to any great extent, but these great rivers
bring to this jioint a great number of ships.
The principal productions are ivory, hides,
somia, gum Arabic, and beeswax. It will be
scon that all these productions are natural,
aii l not the result of industry or cultivation.
Tiio inhabitants of that vast country am
notoriously indolent, and somo oue has said
th it bees are the only industrial creatures in
that whole country.
A great part of the city lies low, so that at
high water it is Hooded, which renders it un-
h-filthy, but it is believod that some day a
re medy forihat evil will be provide l. Tho gar-
<1. ns around the cityfinre extensive,and contain
long rows of date palms,many of which are half
a century old,and have become very valuable.
The view of the city from the opposite side of
.the river is very fine. Tho city is 1,500 miles
from Cairo. Tiio climat : is severe. From
June till October the tiiermometor ranges
from 05 degrees to 100 degrees in the shade,
an 1 is about 8-0 dogreos in winter during the
daytime.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The following items of special interest we
find in Washington dispatches:
FEES OF PENSION AGENTS.
The bill to regulate the fees of pension
agents has passed the Senate. The provisions
of the bill are substantially those form
ing the legislative features of the regular
Pension Appropriation bill passed by
tho House. It provides that no fee
greater than $10 shall bo received by pension
claim agents, ex opt that under special cir
cumstances, subject to revision by the com
missioner of pensions, a contract in writing
may be made between applicants ana
claim agents for a fee not exceeding
$25. The bill contains a clause specially
forbidding tho collection by claim agents of
more than $10 on claims filed between June
20, 1878, and July 4, 1884. and prohibiting
tho government pons Ion agents from paying
claim agents more than the $10 on such
claims, even incases of new contracts.
THE OHIO ELECTION INVESTIGATION.
Chairman Springer, of the Houso commit
tee, announced that the testimony in the
Ohio election investigation was closed. Two
reports will bo made upon it—the majority
report by Messrs. Springer and Van Alstyne,
Democrats, and the minority by Mr. Stewart,
Republican. Mr. Stewart in his minority
report, will say that tho October election in
Oiiio was a fair one. Messrs. Springer and
Van Alstyne have not,vet agreed upon the
character of their report.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Mr. Horatio King, of New York, has re
ceived a letter from Mr. Robert C. Winthrop,
Jr., son of Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, which
states that the latter is very feeble and will
not be able to come to Washing
ton to deliver tho oration at . the
unveiling of tho Washington masntfbent.
The United States troops which will j^rtici-
paie in the Washington monument celebrar
tion are five batteries of artillery at Fortress
Monroe, three batteries from Fort McHenry
and the batteries in Washington.
DIARIES OF THE GREELY PABTY.
Iii view of the discussion which has arisen
with regard to tho nature of the facts set
forth in tho private diaries of the
members of Lieutenant Greely’s- party,
the secretary of war has author
ized General Hazen to make public or
to furnish for in section upon request such
of the diaries as are in the possession of the
signal, office.. These include tho whole of
Lieutenant Lock wood’s journal and a part of
Lieutenant Gc&ely’s. 'Sergeant Brainard has
his own diary, and Sergeant Connell refuses
to allow lus to be examined, saying that lie
had written it with the express understand
ing that it should be read by no one ex
cept the chief signal oliicer. The journals of
Lieutenants Greely and Lockwood add little
which is not already known to the history of
tlio expedition, Lut furnish more detailed
evidence of tho bad feeling, bickering and
occasional insubordination which were mani
fested during the last year of the party’s
Arctic experience.
GUITEAU’S LAWYER WANTS HIS FEE.
Charles H. Reed, counsel for Guiteau,
asked the House committee on appropriations
to provide for his compensation lor defend
ing the assassin, the amount to be determined
by ine commit tea Mr. Reed said that ho
Jpr n\. 'ix raon'.hs in defending Guiteau and
had obtained a cent.
V INDIAN EDUCATION.
The legilfative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill provides for tho appoint
ment by the Speaker of a commission of five
members of the'Forty-ninth Coi. yress to con
sider the system or Indian education and the
manner of expending the appropriations lor
that purpose, and a!**) to '‘.'insider the best
means of utilizing the Yellowstone park for
the benefit’of tho public. The commission is
reouired to report to the next Congress.
' .Eastern and middle States*
General John W. Phelps, of Guilford,
Vt,, was found dead in bed by a neighbor,
•>ifs family being absent on a visit. General
Phelps was bom in Guilford in 1813. served
through the Florida, Mexican and civil wars,
was the anti-Mason candidate for President
in 18S0, and was a frequent contributor to
leading magazines and newspapers.
Two fires in New York the other day did
great, damage. The first broke out in a largo
marble budding on Barclay street, and
‘caused aggregate losses of $350,000. A fireman
fell from a ladder an 1 broke his neck, and a
boy was seriously if not fatally burned. The
second fire broke out later in tlio evening in
a seven-story iron business building on
Wooster street, which was completely de
stroyed, entailing losses of about $500,030.
The Hotel Brunswick, one of tho leading
New York hotels, has made an assignment,
with liabilities placed at $250,000.
During his three days’ visit to New York
Mr. Cleveland received a large number of
Democratic Senators and Representatives in
Congress and other prominent Democrats in
his parlors at the Victoria hotel,and listened
to their suggestions of names for places in
his cabinet and of measures of party and na
tional policy to be followed out.
For declaring that he understood the com
mittees of the lower house of the Connecticut
legislature were made up by corporation in
fluence, a member was suspended until he
apologized.
The British consul at New York refers to
the shooting of O’Donovan Rossa by Mrs.
Dudley as “a silly crime.” He disclaims that
the consulate lakes any interest in her case.
SEWS WINDOWINGS
PO}3T-Cauds have bean Introduced in China.
Maine paid bounty on. 549 bears last year.
Fifty-one farmers are in tin. legislature o*
Michigan.
About 15,000 letters daily find lodgmontrin
the Dead Letter Olfice.
In 18S4 there wore upward of 250 hotels
burned in tiiis country.
A prune orchard of 13,030 trees is being
sot out near Gilroy, Ca^.
Boston is to have a crematory for the in
cineration of dead bodies.
Wisconsin is taking a prominent position
among the tobacco growing states.
Many passenger coaches on the Western
railway, in France, are two stories in height.
Boston men wear sealskin coats more
than those of any other section of the coun
try.
The largest potato starch factory in the
world is at Caribou, Me. Its capacity is from
200,000 to 200,000 bushels.
Large importations of limed eggs are be
ing received in New York from Antwerp,
Copenhagen and Hamburg.
The Mormon temple at Salt Lake will yet
require more than four years for its comple
tion, and will cost $o,000,U00.
Lynn and Haverhill, Mass., together made
nearly enough shoes in 1SS4 to shoe half the
population of the United States.
The Publisher'a Monthly states than during
1884 there were published 4,OSS books, an in
crease of 007 over the books of 18S3.
Frederick Douglass,of Washington,gets
$13,000 by the will of Miss Octilla Assiug, who
committed suicide iu a Parisian hotel last
summer.
The discovery of Chinese lepers is not of
very rere occurrence in San Francisco now.
One was discovered in a shoe factory a few
weeks ago.
The public debt of Canada now reaches
$243,000,000, or ovor $54 per head of popula
tion This is an increase of twenty per cent
on the debt of last year.
The territory embraced in tho “geographi
cal basis of the Cougo,” which the Interna
tional African association claims, comprises
9 000 000 square miles, an area forty-four
times larger than France.
The total number of persons who are de-
oendent upon the New' York city treasury
tor support is 10,832; thirty-three, mcluding
the judges, receive salaries of from to
$15,000,' and seventy draw from $5,000 to
$8,000. ’
A resolution was introduced in the Con
necticut Legislature authorizing tho return to
the St. Mary Oannoniers, of Franklin, La., the
battery flag captured at Irish Bend, La., ill
18C3, by the Thirteenth Connecticut Regiment.
—Investigations made at Key W*-at by the
Federal authorities show that no filibustering
expedition has been organized at that place.
& crazy ma n who had killed a hunter in
Wyoming Territory was attacked by a Sheriffs
posse. and after he had killed one of tho party
was roasted to death in his cabin.
—Tho Illinois Republican Senatorial caucus
renom uated Gen. Logan for United Siates
Senator by a rising vote and by acclamation.
In his remarks Mr. Logan said that the Legis
lature was evenly divided, but that if all the
Republicans stood by him he would bo elected,
or would prevent the election of a Demoorat.
South and West.
- JVIore than 830,000 cattle are said to have
perished iu Indian Territory owing to the
severity of the weather.
Three men—Cicero Jefferson, John A.
Smythe and Joel Wilson—were imprisoned
in la.il at Audobon, Iowa, for the murder of
Jefferson’s father, who was also Smythe’s
father-in-law, last April. A judge having
granted a- change of venue to another coun
ty, the citizens became so incensed that three
or four hundred of them broke into the jail
the other morning and hanged the three
men, together with another. jgAa. named
Ryan, also imprisoned for murder®/.-
A.N entire train of cars was Twawhu from
the track into a ditch near Georgetown,
Col., and of tho twenty perse ns on board
eighteen were more or less injured.
By an explosion of gas in a coal mine near
Savanna, Indian Territory, three miners
wero instantly killed, eighty-nine seriously
burned and forty-two slightly injured.
A young man living in Louisburg, N. C.,
on a wager drank a quart of whisky in less
than forty minutes. He died two hours af-.
terward.
The Biinois Republican legislative caucus,
renominated General Logan for the United
States Senate, and the Democratic caucus
put in nomination Congressman W. R. Mor
rison. Tho Illinois legislature is a tie on joint
ballot
An investigation of tho Kentucky records
is alleged to have shown that during tho past
fifteen years a system of robbery has been
carried on under cover of law which has re
sulted in a loss to the State of about $2,000,-
030. .•* .
Jerry Jackson, a- negro charged with
murder, was taken from the jail at Bland
Court-house, VA, ■ by a band of white men
anil riddled with bullets On tho same
night Ben Hawkins, a negro accused of the
murder of an old peddler, was hanged to a
tree by lynctos. aijfcafiklm, Texas.
Many horses in- Illinois are suffering from
glanders.
Washington.
The last public debt statement shows the
decron.se of the debt during Jauuary to bo
$9,420,040. Decrease of debt since Juno 30
1884, $40,931,910.
Cash in tho treasury $400,341,804
Gold certificates outstanding 134,279,530
Silver certificates outstanding.... 141,190,701
Certificates of deposit outstanding 30,130,000
Refunding certificates outstand
ing 253,000
Legal tenders outstanding 340,081,010
Fractional currency outstanding
(not including amount estimated
or destroyed) 6,909,003
During January the coinage executed at
the various United States mints was: 106,580
gold pieces, worth *.$2,128,309; 2,928,297 silver
pieces, including 23185,030 standard dollars,
worth $2,439,019.70; and 4,293,000 minor
coins, worth §74,190. Total coinage, 7,328,-
377, worth $4,042,187.70.
Mrs Laura de Force Gordon, of Cali
fornia, has been admitted to tho bar of the
United States supreme court She is tlio
second woman allowed to practise before that
court.
The secretary of war has reported to Con
gress that there are 6,080,500 men in the
United States who are available for military
duty, and that iu tho organized militia of tho
country there are 7,311 commissioned officers
and 83,979 non-commissioned officers
and privates. In Georgia, Mississippi,. Ar
kansas, Tennessee and Oregon there is no or
ganized^ militia.
The court martial assembled at Washing
ton concluded the proceedings in the Swaim
case, forwarding their records and findings
to the secretary of war, and began tho trial
of Colonel Morrow. New charges, alleging
fraucWand conduct unbecoming an officer and
gentleman, have been preferred against Gem
eral Swaim.
President Arthur has transmitted to
Congress a message concerning “the generous
offer made by Mrs. Grant to give to the gov
ernment in perpetual trust tno swords ana
military and civil testimonials lately be
longing to General Grant. The President
says that these gifts and mementoes are of
national interest, and he asks Congress
“ to take suitable action to accept the trust
mid to provide for its secure custody, at the
same time recording the appreciative
gratitude of tlio people of the United
{States to tho donors.” He also urges the
passage of a bill “looking to a national rec
ognition of General Grant’s eminent services
by providing the means for his restoration to
the army on the retired list.”
The President has asked Congress to au
thorize him to accept the Japanese govern
ment’s offer to give tho United States a plot
of land in Tokio for the use of its legation.
The President has nominated to the Senate
James A. McKnight for United States consul
at St Helena and Edward H. Thompson, of
Massachusetts, at Merida. The Senate has
confirmed Joshua A. Smith, of Mississippi,
as consul at Asuncion, Paraguay
Foreign-
Congo river, Africa, and the contested coast
line.
A London dispatch says that Mrs. Dudley,
who shot O’Donovan Rossa, iu New York,
was once imprisoned in England for attempt
ing suicide, aud for a year was an inmate of
an English madhouse.
A great battle has been fought iu the
Gallabad country, Egypt, with a large force
of Baggara rebels detached from Seminar.
After a severe struggle the Baggaras were
utterly routed, losing six thousand men ana
four emirs, one of whom was a nephew ol
the MahdL
The interiors of public buildings in Lon
don are now protected by a special detective
force.
A dispatch from Gibraltar says that the*
vicar-general of that diocese has been mur
dered. A butcher, supposed to be insane, at
tacked the priest in tho sacristy ef the cathe
dral and stabbed him to death
The following dispatch from Audobon
Iowa; gives particulars of the summary pun
ishment dealt to four men in jail at that
place charged with murder:
Hiram Jefferson, an old and Inoffensive
cripple, was taken from his bed on the night
of April 28, 1884, and was hanged to a tree.
His son Cicero and son-in-law John A. .
Smytho and Joe J. Wilson were arrested.
Cicero made a confession, admitting his guilt
and implicating the other two. They wero in
dicted by the grand jury, but secured a con
tinuance. On Wednesday Judge Loofborro
convene! the court here and the case was
called for trial, when the defendants filed a
mocio.i for the change of venue on the grouuds
of the prejudice of the people. Without rub
ing on tho motion the judge adjourned court
until Monday. On that day Judge Anderson
took his place and announced as Loofborro’s
ruling that tho venue would be changed to
Cass County. Tho announcement created
great indignation r and it is alleged Judge
Loofborro was in consequence compelled te
leave town.
Last night over two hundred citizens held
a secret meeting, when it was determined to
lynch the prisoners. Guards were stationed
on every street leading from the jail at dusk
and mounted men patrolled the town in order
to frustrate the intention of the sheriff to le-
move the prisoners by ’special train to Atlan
tic. At 4 o’clock this morning the men wero
taken from tho jail by a mob of about four
or five hundred men and hanged to a
tree. Jefferson was the first dragged
out, and was hanged pn the grand stand in
the public square. Smythe and Wilson re
sisted and were shot in their cells and the*
dragged out and hanged to a rail fence. The
mob was composed of many of the best citi
zens. Tho sheriff was on the scene but was
powerless. Another man named Ryan, con
fined in the iail for a different murder, wa>
also lynched.
The. mob surrounded the jail and every
movement was most excellently made, show
ing no haste or confusion, but steady, deter
mined work, by a lot of men who had grown
weary of the law’s delay.
They guarded every corner of the cit\
against the approach of citizens, and after
being refused tno keys by the Sheriff locked
him and his family iu one part of tho build
ing and effected an entrance to the coll room
by tearing down the brick walls. The locks
to the iron cages in 'which tho prisoners
wero confined were deftly cut and then
all the rest was easy. The Coroner
viewed tho bodies of the four men.
and returned, as usual, a verdict in accord
auce with the above facts. Tho excitement*
hail died down by noon. There were four
other prisoners for minor offences in the jail
at tlio timo, but they were not disturtx&gil-
though terribly excited. The four^ain
lynched were all young men and had resiuett,
here a long time.
Hiram Jefferson, the murdered man, was
the father of seven children, two sons and
five daughters. Smythe had married one of
the girls, but they lived unhappily. He hail
accused his wife’s father of an unnatural
crime with the daughter and had angered th j
others. They hung the old man to a tree,
after dragging him from his bed chamber to
a thicket fully 200 yards away. Suspicion
pointed to the son and ho was arrested.
In t he young man’s early confession ho told
flow tho murderers dragged liis father over
die frozen ground, how ho struggled and how
iho fopo was drawn over a limb and all hands
Dulled him up.
LUNATICS - ROASTED.
The Burning of a Philadelphia Insane
Asylum.
A fire broke out in the insano department of
the county alms house, in West Philadelphia.
The flames spread rapidly and before tho 300
inmates could be released, nineteen of them
were burned to death. Th* others were left to
roam about the grounds at will, and many of
them were picked up by the police throughout
the city.
The London police arrested another man
believed to be an accomplice of Cunning-
barn, charged with causing the recent dyna
mite explosions.
TnE French have captured the coal mines
of Kelung from the Chinese, sustaining a loss
of sixty Wiled and wounded. The Chines*
LATER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Senate*
The Senate passed a resolution accepting
General U. S. Grant’s swords, medals and
other testimonials tendered by Mrs. Grant
and William H. Vanderbilt....A bill wa
passed authorizing a retired list for non
commissioned officers aud privates who have
served twenty continuous years in tho army
....The pension of the widow of General
Georgo H. Thomas was increased to $2,000
a year, and a pension was voted to the widow
of Colonel Charles G. Halpino
Mr. Van Wyck’s amendment to a
private pension bill providing that
all soldiers’ widows or minor children
who aro or may become entitled by law to $8
month shall hereafter receive $12, was
reed to. Mr. Blairo’s amendment to pen
sion every soldier who served three months
in tho last war and was now disabled through
no fault of his own was lost....Mr Miller re
ported a bill to make the commissioner of
agriculture a cabinet officer.... Mr. Pendleton
reported his bill to pay to China
tho sum due from the Chinese indemnity
fund.
House.
The first scene in the House after tho raorn-
g haul’s, was one’ of reconciliation. Mr.
Young rose to “aquestion of privilege,” and
Informed the House that in his criticisms of
the River and Harbor committee on the
previous day, ho had said some things which
ho did not intend to say; that he appreciated
highly tho energy and ability exhib
ited by Mr. Willis, and desired to
withdraw his remarks reflecting upon
that gentleman personally. Nobody ob
jected, whereupon Mi*. Willis also con
fessed that ‘ ’in the heat of debate” ho had
used language in regard to General Young
which he now desired to withdraw. As be
fore nobody objected, and thus harmony
was restored....The river and harbor ap
propriation bill was considered further with
out action.
F00TLIGHT HASHES.
There are ten theatres in Ireland.
Miss Blanche Howard has dramatized
lior novel, “Gueun.”
Mme. Patti manages to carry her clothing
and traps in twenty-six huge trunks.
Henry Irving has announced that he will
make another professional visit to America.
His season ends on April 4
The Prince of Wales attended Mme. Bern
hardt’s performance of 4 ‘Theodora” in Paris,
and personally congratulated the actress. '
Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr. W. S.
Gilbert have just finished their new coniio
opera, which is about to be read at the Savoy
theatre.
The .directors of tho Metropolitan Opera
house, New York, have increased the salary
of Dr. Damrosch, the manager of German
opera, from $10,000 to $12,030 a year.
At a recent performance at the Standard
thoatre, Sail Francisco, an appreciative man
became so enthusiastic over the introductory
portion of the performance that lie began
throwing money on the stage.
The sultan, a great amateur musician, has
recently becomo converted to VVngnerism and
spends not a little of of his time hammering
the great composer’s music on the piano. His
favorite spouse, daughter of the late Sultan
Abdul Aziz, is devoted to music.
The total number of theatres, including
places licensod for theatrical performances,
in Great Britain at tho end of the year was
445, compared with 358 at the end of 1883.
Of existing theatrical places of amusement,
London takes the lead with forty-six, Liver
pool coming next with ten.
Paris is after all the home of the stage. On
tho first of “Theodora” at the Porte Saint
Martin the crush was tremendous- Ticket
speculators reaped a rich harvest. In many
cases as much as $40 was paid for a scat. The
piece was not over until 1:30, and it took
half an hour more to clear the theatre.
John Carboy, tho oldest critic on the New
York press, savs: “By common consent Air.
Booth and Mr. Barrett are the foremost
tragedians in this country, and it may be
doubted whether they have their equals in
Europe, when it is remembered how many
great characters they have made, especially
their own.
Miss Minnie Palmer’s manager has
signed a contract for a two years’ tour of
Europe for Miss Palmer. In April she will
play her farewell engagement in New York,
after which she will go directly to Europe,
where she is to appear in London, Paris and
Viena. “My Sweetheart” will, therefore, be
performed in English, French and Germav
The Hotel Brunswick, one of tho loading
Now York hotels, has made an assignment,
with liabilities placed at $250,000.
During liis three days’ visit to New York
Mr. Cleveland received a large number of
Democratic Senators and Representatives in
Congress and other prominent Democrats in
his parlors at the Victoria hotel,and listano-1
to their suggestions of names for places in
his cabinet and of measures of party and na
tional policy to bo followed out.
For declaring that ho understood the com.
mlttoes of the lower house of the Connecticut
legislature were made up by corporation in
fluence, a member was suspended until h 0
apologized..
A young man living in Louisburg, N. C.,
on a wager drank a quart of whisky in loss
ths, i forty minutes. Ho died two hours af
terward.
The Illinois Republican legislative caucus,
renominated General Logan for the United
States Senate, and tho Democratic caucus
put in nomination Congressman W. R. Mor
rison. Tho Illinois legislature is a tie on joint
ballot.
The President has asked Congress to au
thorize him to accept the Japaneso govern
ment’s offer to give the United States a plot
of land in Tokio for the uso of its legation.
A great battlo has been fought in the
Gallabad country, Egypt, with a largo force
of Baggara rebels detachod from Seunaar.
After a severe struggle the Baggaras were
utterly routed, losing six thousand men and
four emirs, one of whom was a nephew of
the MahdL
Nine convicts wero whipped at Newcastle,
Del., eight-for larceny and one for burglary.
The latte a received twenty^ashes and stood
for one hour in tho pillory. Tho others re
ceived ton lashes each. , ^
During his three days’ visit to New York
Pivsulept-clect Cleveland spent Sunday .with
Saiin^l J. Tilden at Greyslono ’on the Hud
son. ?
•rob train standing on a railroad bridge
;New Brunswick, N. J., was telescoped by
ight train running into its rear. Sev-
of tho ears toppled over upon the build-
below, the oil tanks took firo and the
^Scattering oil ignited the factory buildings
In the vicinity. Two men and a lot of valua
ble horses were killed and property aggregat
ing upward of half a million dollars was de
stroyed by fire.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage preached on
“tho blasphemy” of Ingersoll’s lecture in
Brooklyn, and advocated tlie suppression of .
such teachings by the police.
Director-General.Burke has submitted
the following statement respecting the Now
Orleans Exhibition for tho information of
tho President and Congress: Receipts from
stock«Tid donations, $5S4,10S; United States
government loan, $1,003,000; installation
receipts, $93,948.39; gate receipts, $73,292.70
Total, $1,751,408.99; expenditures, $2,070,1
831.94; deficit, $319,422.95.
Winter wheat in .Illinois and Indiana is
safe and promises an immense yield.
Seven persons wore killed and sixteen
wounded by a train’s dashing through a
bridge at Creston, Iowa.
Fifteen persons who tarred and feathered
W. H. Bailey while acting as attorney in a
liquor case in Scott township, Iowa, have
settled tho matter by each paying him $5C0.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vicb-t J rcsi-
dcut-elect, lias been on a trip to tho Now Or
leans exposition.
Secretary Chandler’s report to Con
gross shows that the oxpense of tho expoclL’
tion which saved Lieutenant Greely and liii
men was $759,265.
A fire at tho United States signal service
office destroyed or damaged a largo number
of valuable records and instruments.
—News lias been received from Pekin of the
execution of two Chinese governors for haring
permitted the French to capture Bacninh. A
third governor is on trial for cowardice in the
engage-meat which resulted in tho French ob
taining possession-of Foo Chow.
-•-There is evidently a feeling of grave ap
prehension among the police of Russia on ac
count of its becoming known that the Nihilists
have of late been secretly inciting all classes
of workmen to an uprising. Extraordinary
measures are being taken to prevent the suc
cess of any widespread insurrection.
—A man supposed to be a dynamiter, was
arrested in England, on board a railway train
at Derby. A large quantity of an explosive
compound was found in his possession.
—The authorities of Dublin, have renewed
their prohibition against the circulation in
Ireland of O’Donovon Rossa’s newspaper.
—The French aro busy destroying and sink
ing Chinese junks and making prisoners ol
tho crews. Tho latter aro transported to
Kolung and there placed in chains.
—The nervous tension of the London public
was illustrated by a startling natural phenome
non. A storm of rain and wind had raged all
day and at 7:30 p. m, it culminated in a terrific
peal of thunder. Ttjp report startled the
whole metropolis, and a rumor spread like
wildfire to the effect that the General Post
Office, in St. Martin’s lo Grand, had been de
molished by dynamite. Fearful excitement
fob owed.
—New York city and Chicago, one thousand
miles apart, conversed by telephone the othor
day.
—-Frank Bonham, the oldest son of Widow
Loving, on his return to his home near Radi
cal City. Kan., after three days’ absence, found
his mother, brother, and sister murdered, and,
to all appearance, they had been dead a day or
two,
—Nathan F. Dixon, of Westerly, R. I., was
elected to Congress for tho unexpired term of
Jonathan Chaco.
—At a meeting of the United States Commis
sioners’ Association, consisting of the Repre
sentatives of the United States and railroads
exhibiting at the Exposition in New Orleans, it
was decided to make an appeal to Congress for
a loan of $500,000 to help the Exposition out
of the present financial difficulties. A report
was presented showing that the Exposition
was now about $300,000 in debt.
—President Arthur sent to tho House cf
Representatives a communication laying be
fore Congress the generous offer made by Mrs,
Grant, to give to the Government in perpetual
trust tho swords and military and civil testi
monials lately belonging to General Grant,
with a copy of the deed of trust. He asked
that the Senate bill placing General Grant on
the retired list might pass.
—The public debt statement shows the re
duction of tho debt during January to have
been $9,420,046. The reduction since June
30, 1884, $40,921,910. The total cash in tho
Treasury is $460,341,803.
1 SAD RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Two Lives Lost, and Great Destruction of
Property by Firo.
A freight train standing on the railway
bridge across the Raritan river, at New
Brunswick, N. J., was run into by another
freight train. Borne oil cars were thrown to the
ground and set fire to two factories near the
track. A brakeman and a laborer were burned
nth, and losses aggregating nearly $700,-
000 wero caused by the fire. Following are
particulars:
Shortly before 3am. an extra freight train
from Philadelphia, owing to a broken truck*
stopped upon the bridge over the Rail*
river for repairs. While waiting,
through Southern freight, which
loft Philadelphia at I0:o9 P. m.,
arae dashing along through the city,
and not until ho was within 503 foet of the
caboose of tbe extra train did the engineer
see it. Brakes were applied, but to no purpose.
The engine of thaSoutliern freight struck tho
cabooso of the extra train, telescoped it, aud
then struck an oil-tank car, of which there
were four attached to tho extra.
An explosion immediately followed, and
tho wrecked and burning oil wero thrown
over and down from tho l.nigh bridge to the
streets below. Tho‘ignited oil ran through
tho streets into the Raritan canal. This be
ing covered with ice, tho oil ran over it and
down the canal to tho wail-paper manufac
turing establishment of Janeway & Co., set
ting lire to it. The flames were soon beyond
tho control of tho firemen, and the building
was totally destroyed, aud seven dwellings
opposite wero guttqd.
In the meantime a building used as a box
factory by tho Consolidated. Fruit Jar com
pany, situated directly under tho railroad
bridge, had been set on firo by tho burning
oil, and was entirely consumed. Tho flames
next spread to tho main factory of the Consol
idated Fruit Jar company. Hero the fire
men battled bravely, mid, although they
could not save the building, they prevent'd
the firo from spreading to the larger build
ings immediately adjoining. By 6 o’clock the
local firemen had the lire under control, and
were thankful to receive the relief that came
from Trenton in tho shape of two fire engines
and hose carts. All this time the woodwork
of the railroad bridge had been slowly burn-
.ing.
Engineer French and Fireman Harrison, of
the SoutbernTj'pight, jumped from their en
gine '.nen they, saw a.collision inevitable.and
escaped with a few bruises The brakeman on
the front end of tho train, Fraftk ^Dumas, of
Kensington, Pa., failed to jump, sad was
earned down in the wreckage to tho street,^
where be was roasted to death. His body"
.was recovered, a chaired mass of flesh, un
recognizable except by an amulet worn
around his neck. Patrick Dougherty, jr., a
young mec^anjg, entered the burning build
ing of Jjrtr^vTay & Co. in search of liis tools,
and lost liis life.
The total loss will be not less than $750,000.
Between 600 and 700 workmen are thrown out
of employment. Two of the cars that were
hurled into tho street contained nineteen
horses. These were roasted. to death and
added to the horrors of the scene.
A Socialistic Disturbance.
The National Executive Committee of the
Socialistic Labor Farty v .bf New York, called a
meeting to protest against llie recent dynamite
explosions in Loudon. The International
Workingmen's Association called a meeting at
tlie samo hall for the same time. A serious
trouble broke out in the crowded hall, and the
police broke up tho meeting amid a general
light. After the meeting broke up the io was
found on the floor a dynamite cartridge, and
it is a mystery to the polico how the cartridge
failed to explode after being tramped over as
it was. Justus Schwab was arrested as a leader
of tho disturbing party, aud held in the sum
of $3,000 Laii for trial. r'
DRIFTS OF SNOW
Awl tho Cutting: Blasts From the North.
The reports from Chicago, St. Paul, Omaha
and all the leading points of the north^and
northwest portray a frightful state of affairs
When the present snow storm began, it soon
became evident that it would be fc onc of the
heaviest on record. A solid bed o six inches
fell over the entire northwestern territory.
The increase of the cold and the consequent
driftings of snow soon blockaded every line of
railway leading into the different trade centcre.
Passenger and freight trains were blockaded in
unexpected places, to be run into by other
trains, which had no notice of the failure of
the one ahead to reach its destination: The
telegraph wires were broken, the railroad
’schedules were disarranged, trains blockaded
were filled with human beings without meanB
of sustenance, and thus tho horrors of starva
tion, collision and' disaster have piled upon
each other in a manner shocking to contem
plate. Fully five hundred trains are snow
round, upon which are 5,000 human souls.
Hoiv Small-pox IVas rinsed.
THE MYSTERY SCRROraUlKO ITS ATT EAR-
AKCE IN A RUltATi VILLAGE SOLVED.
Some months ago the small-pox raged
badly in the village of Hector, New
York, and its vicinity. Twenty persons
died of it. The locality is sever .l miles
from any railway, and isolated from all
largo towns. The diseaso was not known
to bo anywhere else in tho neighbor
hood, and how it happened to appear
suddenly in that place was a mystery.
The probably correct theory as to how
tho disease originated there is now given
by Dr. Purdy, of Elmira.
Last winter a passenger on an Erie
Railway train broke out with tho small
pox after the train had left Salamanca.
When the nature of the disease beoame
known to the other passengers they hur
riedly deserted the car for another one.
The car containing the man with tho
small-pox was placed on a siding when
the train reached Hornellsville and quar
antined. An old lady who had been in
tho car where the sick man was alighted
from the train at Elmira. She {carried
a small shoulder shawl, which bad laid
across the back of her seat, not far from
the seat of the small-pox patient. This
she packed away in a hand satchel on
leaving the train at Elmira, and took the
next train for Ythitkins, being on her
way to Hector to visit her son.
She remained there two mouths, when
tho son drove with her to a relative’s
some miles distant. The old lady had
not taken her shawl from her satchel
since she packed it away at Eimira.
The day she was riding with her son
was very cold, and she took the shawl
out and wrapped it about her head. Ho
returned home, and a few days later
was taken down with smail-pox, and
died soon afterward. Before it was
known what ailed him he was visited by
various neighbors, and in a short time
tlie disease was epidemic in the neigh
borhood, and was not driven out until
summer, by which time nearly every
family in tho vicinity had lost at least
one member by the disease.
“It is believed by many -that the
danger from small-pox germs is de
stroyed by freezing,” says Dr. Purdy,
“but this case at Hector is evidence of
tho incorrectness of such a theory.”
Life in Germany.
Golden weddings are events of rare
occurrence, but diamond weddings^ as
they are called in Germany, which are
celebrated after sixty years of married
life, excite a national interest oven in a
country where an Emperor at 87 is able
to sit for three hours in the saddle, and
where a Minister in his 70th year de
lights in keeping the whole diplomatic
world on tenter hooks from one end of
the year to the other. The Germau
papers give an account of the diamond
wedding of Gen. Stookmar (no relatien
of Baron Stookmar), which recently
took place at Dessau. Stookmar is in
his 91st year, and both he and his wife
are said to be in the enjoyment of per-
feot health. He is one of the oldest
friends of the German Emperor. They
met for the first time as mere boys at
the battle of Jena, in 1806. At one of
their more recent meetings, when the
General expressed a hope that his
Majesty might- bring' his shares up to
par, tho Emperor replied, in his own
hnmorous way, “Qh, Stockmar, you are
not a courtier; if j»u were:, a true cour
tier you would have' said, ‘Oh, your
Majesty, at leaat,“ to twenty per cent,
abovepar.’”
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A RUBBER TREE GBOYE;
How tbls Unions l'lanlf Grow* aid
Treated in its Native Land.
It may not be generally known that
florists have recently engaged to some
extent in the cultivation of rubber plants,
to supply an increasing demand for their
fresh wax-like leaves, with which the
ladies have learned to ornament their
rooms.
Nor indeed is it probable that all
readers know that the rubber trees of
Brazil, from which is drawn the greater
part cf the material for all our manu
factured rubber articles, are taller than
our oaks, and have their branches most*
ly at their summits.
In the year 1855 I was at a small set
tlement in the northern part of Brazil,
where I met a Frenchman, M. LaMotte,
the proprietor of a large tract of land on
which thore were many rubber trees,
says a writer in the Youth's Companion.
M. LaMotte-was at the time engaged in
collecting the rubber gum for shipment
to France. He invited me to go'^ith
him lo his grove, and I gladly accepted
the invitation.
It was a journey of twelve miles to the
grove, which we made on horse-back,
galloping over the country at a brisk
rate. We first crossed a hilly country,
then a tract of open prairie, when we
came to a ridge of higher land, beyond
which lay an extensive valley of wet
lands covered with dense forests, These
were the rubber trees.
On this higher land was a settlement
of mud huts, occupied by the rubber-
gatherers. Scattered in front of the
huts where the pack-mules, grazing with
the cattle from which this little commu
nity got its supply of beef.
Iu the largest of these huts we passed
tho night, and proceeded with the rub
ber-gatherers to their work with the first
light of the morning.
Thesp workmen are called seripgarioa;
seringa meaning juices of the tree, hence
seringaria, or drawer of juices, or tap-
j?er.
Using a hatchet with a small blade,
shaped for the purpose, a seringario
.made an incision in the bark of a tree
aftout three feet from the ground. He
then made another abovj and to the left
of the first, and a third on the right.
The second and third he connected with
the first incision by grooves cut into the
bark.
Immediately a milky fluid began to
flow from these wounds down the little
channels into a clay cup that was fasten
ed to the tree just below the lower inci
sion. The operation was repeated until
upon this tree, a large one, the sap was
flowing into six cups.
As the sap will only flow in the cool of
the morning, the work is done by the
tappers as rapidly as possible. By ten
o'clock tho sap had ceased to flow, the
sun having heated the trees, and the
wounds in the bark were beginning to
heal.
Tho fluid in the cups was now emptied
into pails and carried to a hut. There a
fire was made in which were burned the
shells of a nut.
A tapper now took two broad, flat
pieces of wood with handles, and dipped
the blades into the milky fluid. These he
then held, with the fluid still adhering
to them, in the smoke of the burning
nuts, turning the blades ^rapidly so as to
expose the sap to the action of the smoke
without burning it.
A minute sufficed to blacken and dry
the sap so that each blade had a thin
coat of rubber on it; and by repeating
this operation ten, fifteen or even twenty
times, he obtained as many successive
layers oE dried caoutchouc in a compact
mass around each blade.
When he had thus gathered about fivo
pounds of the gum on a blade, the tap
per cut the edges of the mass, and with
drawing tho blade, hung the caoutchouc
upon cords or branches of trees to dry.
Alter two or three days of drying it was
ready for shipment.
To prevent waste from excessive
bleeding of the tree, the date of tapping
was chalked upon each tree, and it was
a rule that no tree should be tapped
oftener than once in three days.
The leaves of the hevea, or rubber
tree, are about four inches long. They
fall one by one, and are continually be
ing replaced by now ones. This tree
does not have the rest which the trees of
our climate enjoy, when, during winter,
Nature puts them to bed and tucks
them up in a blanket of snow.
This fact, taken in connection with
its constant bleeding by the tappers,
shortens its life. It wastes like a candle
burning at both cnd3. Yet* the trees
increase eo rapidly, Nature being so
fruitful in the tropics that the supply
seems inexhaustible.
The value of a grove depends largely
upon three things ; Its distance from a
place of shipment, the number of paths
that have been made and tho faculty
with which others can be coriatruAt^d.
ODDS AND ENDS!
Keep tlio Boys at Homo.
DAIRYMAN SMITH’S ADVICE TO A FABMEB
FRIEND IN MEQDON.
“I met an intelligent farmer, of Me-
quon, in the cars, reoently,” writes J. A.
Smith, of tho Cedarbnrg Neiua, “who
has advised his bojjf to go where they
can get good land' cheap, saying -that
farms in the connty ranging from $50 to
$80 an acre are bekond their reaob. If
the number of boys in the family were
large, I would not call in question the
wisdom of the advice; at least for part
of them. But what I contend for is,
that there is ample room for all the
boys of Ozaukee without leaving the
connty. The thousands of half-tilled
acres, and the unproductive condition of
other thousands of acres that are tilled
to death, attests the truth of what I say.
The products of the connty may be
profitably doubled within five years by
the judicious use of labor and brains.
If this proposition is conceded to be
true, then it follows that, as it will take
labor and brains to do it, there is em
ployment for most of the boys, without
going West in quest of it The aid that
many a farmer would give his son in
Dakota would help him to better develop
tho old farm, so that it could be divided,
or add some acres to it from those bound
to sell. Tho truth is, there are good
farms under those that now occupy the
surface. There is scarce a farmer who
conld not profitably employ double the
labor he does now, if he really worked
harder with his head, and less with his
over-taxed hands.”
Anna Dickinson is again lecturing.
China has taken up with postal cards-
Caft. Howgate is said to be in New
Mexico.
It takes five men a year to make a
locom otive.
Ths Standard Oil Company employs
93,000 men.
The latest novelty is cliioken hatch
ing by electricity.
The Jeannette Monument fund now
amounts to $2,652.
Ms. David Dudley Field will be
eighty in February.
The cdlorcd population of California
is estimated at 7,500. .
The peppermint farmers of Pennsyl
vania are getting rich.
The American nettle can be used to
make seersucker cloth.
Thebe are 3,580 postoffices in the
State of Pennsylvania.
John Bbioht was seventy-three years
of age on November 16.
Venison is not dear in Idaho, where
it soIIb for 2 cents a pound.
The dividends payable in Boston in j
January aggregate $9,710,478.
Mme. Ristobi receives 40 per cent, ol
the gross receipts of her tour.
The conductors on street cars in
Mexico always carry revolvers.
Observing travelers say the Japanese
are more polite than the French.
Thebe are at present sixteen locomo
tive works in the United States.
The figures grow. Washington now
expects 200,000 visitors March 4.
Mbs. William H. Vanderbilt alwaf
dresses in black for church-going.
The Redistribution bill giv^-ul® nexf
House 'J. x-oiHEioaF 670~memfkra.
Tn£r.E is now $13,986,134 deposited in
the postoffice savings bank of Canada.
Liverpool has a larger fleet of mer
chant ships than any port in the world.
The increasing number of -Jewish un
dergraduates is much remarked at Ox
ford.
Nearly all the winter resort hotels in
Florida are conducted by Northern
men-.
-ENTY-FivE newspapers have started
and died hi New York city in thirty
years.
The New Orleans Exhibition will not
be in full running order before Feb
ruary.
The total number of cigars produced
in the United States is 3,000,000,000 an
nually.
Tboy ice harvesters expect to take
from the Hudson this winter about 135,-
000 tons.
In Ohio the standard weight of a bush
el of ear com is 68 instead of 70poimds as
formerly.
The Maryland Representatives in
Congress reside at home, going in and
out daily. p
The Maine rivers have Bozen up in
unusually good shape, very smooth and
very clean.
Seven churches were destroyed in the
city of Antiquera, Spain, by the recsnl
earthquake.
It is estimated that about fifteen thou
sand persons are oat of employment in
St. Louis alone.
On a trip around the globe the cost
liest link is that from San Francisco to
Yokohama, $250.
The Spanish treaty will be greatly
modified and chiefly in behalf of our
tobacco interests.
Twenty years ago tho Danes im
ported nearly all their sugar. Now they
raise it from beets.
Thebe aro twenty-two retired rear-
admirals liviDg in Washington and only
two commodores.
A monument made of cement, has just
been bniit on the spot iu Hawaii where
Captain Cook fell.
A society for tho eradication of pro
fanity is tho latest moral reform move
ment in New York.
It is said that no town having a pcry.
nlation of 5,000 or more is now without
a rollerskating rink.
Habfer’s Magazine is sold for eight
een cents and the Centura at twenty-
five cents in London.
About 2,000 Scotch people aro making
arrangements to form a colony in - Los
Angeles oounty, Cal.
Spinner’s Signature Good.
A southern man discovers a flacs
WHERE REBBTi NOTES ABE CASHED.
Assistant United Siates Treasurer H.
O. Graves tells a funny story in connec
tion with the recent ri quest of a .gentle
man who addressed a letter to tho da
partment inolosing a one-huudred-dollar
Confederate bill, which ho desired to ex
change for currency: “Away back iu
Mr. Spinner’s time,” eays Mr. Graves,
“a letter was received from a man in
Virginia inclosing a fifty-dollar confed
erate note, and saying that as the United
States had captured ail the assets of the
8outh it ought to be responsible for its
indebtedness. I showed tho letter to
Mr. Spinner, and asked him what reply
I should make. The old gentleman, who
was in a grouty mood, testily replied:
'Oh, tell him to go to tophet. ’ I con
cluded that would be a little too harsh,
so I replied with a great show of .polite
ness that as the power which had issued
the note had returned to tho place of its
inception, viz., the infernal regions, he
had better present it there for payment.
We thought this- rather a smart thing
and congratulated ourselves that the
fellow had been pretty effectually sat.,
down npon for his impudence. Sev?ral
weeks passed and the matter was almost
forgotten, when one day a second letter
came from tho same individual. Ho
apologized for his delay in writing, anti
said he had just returned from a trip to
the infernal regions. He was fortunate
enough to find his satanio majesty seated
at his desk at work. His majesty read
the letter and immediately exclaimed:
‘Old Spinner’s indorsement is good here
for any amount,’ and straightway cashed
the noto.”
■loo Early.
The late Lady Lytton happening to call /
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Desert no Longer. —The Fort Wor th
Taxes, Gazette says of the Staked Plain,
,a plateau in northwestern Texas aod
r eastern part of New Mexico, covering
f 10,000 square miles, that its steppes
“arc no longer the barren deserts of the
geography. Wells of splendid water
I are being dug, and ths welcome fluid
springs np any time after ^ twenty feet
at the honse of an artist friend the
before thefnneralof theDakeof Welling
ton, the conversation' nat
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