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J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor.
A Legislator in a Blouse.
When nil American workingman is
'.•looted to a representative office of any
<ort lie usually puts on the best clothes
that be has upon going to occupy his
place, the idea being, undoubtedly, that
-ueh a proceeding is a proper manifestn
iion of respect for the constituency that
has honored him, and of appreciation for
die dignity conferred upon him. Across
the water a different course has been
pursued in at least one instance, and M.
Hiivrier, a workingman elected as such
to the present Chamber of Deputies in
France, wears all the time in public the
blouse which is the budge ol a laborer in
that country.
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M. Thivrier began work in the coal
mines at Commentoy, Franc \ when
twelve years old, and for twenty years
remained iu them, handling the pick.
Afterward lie became a vine grower and
dealer iu wines. He is a Socialist, but
uot a Communist, “for, having,” as a
French paper puts it, ‘ ‘acquired liis capi¬
tal by his own hard work, he cannot
easily understand how that capital should
belong to all the world.” Through all
his career he has stnek to his working¬
man’s blouse, and it was largely upon
the strength of that peculiarity that he
was elected a Deputy. He is said to be
a man of unusual intelligence and a good
speaker. When he came to Paris to take
his seat, liis blouse, which he wore not
only at the Chamber, but at receptions
and all other functions that he attended,
made him at once famous.
The garment, it will be seen, is similar
to the outside shirts worn by Chinamen
in this couufyy and would doubtless bring
the Hep.- ;• ndif ale rather tfumnonor o?
popularity if worn here .—Sew York Sun.
Murdered Y/ith a Turnip.
George Former, an small old rcsSuront
kc< p r at SI o bu n. a town on t e
idvausv.l e and Terr.* Unite KniT ad,
was IVir-d dead (li a rccent Sunday
mc.r ing ou the sidewa'k in front of liis
ic-. : A nc >. II s dca h was a mystery,
but suspicions of foul play iesult< d in
the most of four moa. John Bulk* It
was tried for the murder, end the ie ti
mony shoved that he h d thrown a tur¬
nip head, at the old m (li him and instant hit him on Bul¬ the
wh >li killed y.
lock could throw with gi'( at force, being
.! In so 1 all ploytr. The trial lasted sev¬
eral days, and the jury brought in a
verdict of manslaughter, but thought it
was v.ith no mmdorou' intent. Bullock
was aceoid ugly given a sentence ( f
eight months in the Sullivan county
jail.—(Indianapolis Jounah
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A Voice from the Lxecutive Maiuio*.
Mr. A. W. Hawkes— Dear Sir: The
pantiscopic glasses you furnished me
some time since, give excellent satisfac
lion. I have tested them by nse, and
must say they are unequaled in clearness
Rnd brilliancy by any that I have ever
worn.
Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Governor of State of Georgia.
A Business Mbu’s Clear Vision.
New Yobk City, April 4, 188S.
Mr. A. K. Hawkes— Dear Sir ; Your
patent eye glasses received some time
since, and am vory much gratified at thd
wonderful change that has come over
my eyesight since I have discarded my
old glasses and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Aoar.
Secretary Stationers Board of Trade of
New York City.
All eyes fitted by J. M. Levy, Coving¬
ton, Ga.
These glasses are not supplied to ped¬
dlers at any price.
A. W. HAWKES.
Whelesale Depots, Atlanta, Ga.
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Franklin B. Wright,
COVINGTON, GA.
Resident Physician & Surgeon.
‘“’Men, Bynecology, Obstetrics, diseases of women and
, and ali Chronie
'■ (-eases of a private nature, Special
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wi !l ; v. dl horse at my command,
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: tie ,
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practice.
FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT. U. U
The Covington Star.
It pony sausages. »
The Use of Horses’ Flesh for
Human Food,
French Experts Consider It of
Great Value.
Jean Guetlin i, a n Alsatian man u
facturcr in this city, and an ex-officer
of the French army, says the New York
Star. He has had much experience in
the use of “pony saus^es’’ while in
service in France. YVhilc dining in one
of those curious little Parisian restau¬
rants which are so common in the mid¬
dle quarter of New York, he gave the
following interesting experience about
horse meat ai a food:
“The use of hone meat, II lie said,
“in our country and elsewhere is much
older than is usually believed, It has
been a food among many tribes of Tar¬
tars, Cossacks and other eastern races
from time immemorial. Its use in
France is at least 30 years old. In
1850-60 both our government and that
of Prussia made a series of very
thorough and scientific cx pen men's
upon the subject of foods, with refer¬
ence to provisioning large bodies of
men. The conclusions reached by the
scientists employed were the same in
almost every experiment, With one re
suit Americans are already very familiar,
and that is the manufacture of artificial
butter (oleomargarine) directly from ani¬
mal fat. With the other two experi¬
ments you h ive some familiarity in this
country. They arc the manufacture of
liquors from raw spirits, or as we call
it ‘industrial alcohol,’ and the making
of cheap wines from raisin', dried cur
rants and elderberries.
i i In regard to lioisa meat, our ex¬
perts declared that, although it
tougher and coaner than beef, it was
more nutritious and wholesome, espe¬
cially when cut up into a pulp. The
report, at the time it was published,
aroused some interest and created any
amount of fun. Tho numerous papers
invented no end of such phrases as ‘a
cutlet of a colt ’ ‘a fricasseed fetlock,’
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and ilic like. A number of seekers
after novelty trie 1 various dishes pre¬
pared from -hors.' nieaf. and a h
eiting club ''was formed early in the
sixties. The siege of Paris and the
hitler civil war of the C mimuno made
what had before been a matter of curi¬
osity one of absolute mcjssity. In
those sad days I do not know how
many thousand horses were killed aud
eaten, and how many millions tasted
equine flesh. After the iirst surprise
was over we found it very good food.
Boasted, broiled or fried it was tough
and stringy, excepting where a young
animal was k died. Boiled, stowed or
steamed, it wa3 tender, juicy and very
easily digested.
“It was during those times that it
was first cut up, seasoned and made in
the form of sauiages. These became
popular, and arc used to-day in all
parts of France in vast quantities, and
in smaller quantities in Belgium, Hoi
laud, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and
Spain. A horse sausage in color is
brighter than a beef one, such as an
every-day Frankfort, and looks voiv
much like those made from po Be
ing cut very fine, it loses all its tough¬
ness, Jist as a Hamburg steak does
which has been male from the shank
of a beef. While our authorities may
lie mistaken, they are of the opinion
that a hor3e saunge digests in one-half
the time require l by pork in the same
operation.
“A still more cogent fact lies in the
economy of the article, Horses arc
very healthy animals, and much more
robust than most of those animals uied
for food. They seldom break down
from disease, but almost always from
accident of some kind. Our present
practice is to kill the animal if he is
severely injured, aud to render the fat
out of her carcass. Every day horses
weighing from seven hundred to twelve
hundred pounds are sold from $5 up
wards, or less Ilian ons cent a pound.
Beef, ou the other hand, brings almost
five times aa much. It would be a great
saving, therefore, to utilize horses for
food purposes when they can no longer
be utili»d for draught purposes and
are healthy. It would afford the poor
an incxhaus ible supply of cheap and
wholesome nourishment, and by reduc
ing the demand for beif would tend to
cheapen that article.’’
Mongolian Coffins.
The heaviest wooden ci ffi is ural in
Ihe world are those of the Chinese, and
coffin-making is one of the leading in
dustries in every Chinese city- O tins
cost all the way from $5 to $55,000,
and your rich Mandarin will have his
burial casket lacquered inside nn i out,
and his funeral will cost a small fortune,
If he is over sixty ho will keep his
c Hi; on haud, so as to have it ready
in case of his death; and if he has a
dutiful son this p ffi i may posniUy be
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1890.
a birthday gift from the boy. Many an
old Ohinaman keeps his coffii in his
parlor. The wood of the Chinese coffin
is from four to six inches thick, and a
ccffin weighs hundreds of pounds. It
is usually carried on a sort of frame
work of poles to the grave, and it is ac¬
companied by a hand of music and pro¬
fessional mourners. The man is laid
at fu l length within it and a lot of
stuff is buried with it. Each of his
nearest relatives is supposed to bring a
silk coverlet to put over the body, and
a dozen silk quilts are sometimes packed
in above the corpse. The thing that
the corpse liked most in life is buried
with him, and many Chinamen save
the parings of their nails and the comb¬
ings of their hair in order that they
may be put at their feet when they l:e
in their coffins. In the mouth of the
body a piece of gold, or silver, or cop¬
per is placed. It is dressed in silk and
is often decked with jewels.
Grave robbing is so severely punished
in China that there is little danger of
the coffins being disturbed. In case
the family is too poor to own a burial
mound or to stand the expenses of Ihe
funeral, the coffin is kept in the house
until they can raise money enough to
put it under the ground in good style.
A tutor employed at the American
legation in Peking has had the coffin
containing his father's body in liis
house for at least two years, and he has
not yet been able to raise enough money
to bury it. Before he picks out a
burial spot he will, like all Chinamen,
get a fortune-teller to choose a lucky
place for h m, and he will go periodi¬
cally to the grave and burn some paper
money over it and seme suits of paper
clothes to keep the spirit of his father
warm, and will place some food before
it that his father may have a ghostly
feast during the night. Japanese cof¬
fins are often made of burnt clay in the
shape of large jars, The body is all
doubled up when it is squeezed into
tho coffin, and it is buried in a sitting
posture. The coffins of Japanese babies
arc little pine boxes, and in the case
of the poorer classes it is not uncommon
to pack them full of lime in order that
Ihe bodies may decay more quickly.
Sometimes tubs of pine hooped with
bamboo are used for ^th gofflxs, and the
c ’i&uts or $ broker, tiie specie of
the undertaker as he puts them in tho
earth. Tho Burmese coffin is a 11 msy
affair made of the lightest wood nailed
roughly together. In the case of the
richer dead it is covered with gilt
paper, and it is carried to the grave
with fantastic dances and doleful music.
Tho funeral ceremonies arc much th«
same as those of the Chinese, and for
seven days after the burial the family
sit on the ground aud sleep upon mits.
All over the East this same mortification
of the flesh is practised by the relations
of the dead, and grief for departed
friends is iully as latter in Asia as in
the United S ates. — Chicago Times.
A Wonderful Locomotive.
Ou the Big Four road, bctwcci C.n
cinnati and Indianapolis, is an engine
which advances the maximum spccl
limit enormously. It ii one of five en¬
gines built according to the patent of
an inventor named Strong, and is beiug
tested by the Big Four people. T.io
engine is buiit for both strength and
speed, and tiic tesls of it have shown
wonderful results. It is claimed for it
that it is capable of hauling a heavy
passenger train at the rale of from sev
enty-five to ninety miles an hour, and
the tests m idc, while not severe, have
tended to sustain the claim. Superin¬
tendent Bender timed it on an eight
mile run east of the city. Tno eight
miles were covered iu six minutes with
perfect ease, not the slightest evidence
of straining being pirceptible.
The engine itself contains many novel
features in construction. It has cylin
j n w hj c h the steam escapes aftci
j t j 18S ^ ecn used. It. is so arranged as tc
va -{ improvement over the common
arraa g 0 ment. The boiler is very long
an( j t i )ere are two fireboxis. An ingen
j j 0Ui coa | r ivance consumes tho gases and
] gm0 | te g0 that economy in tho use of
f uc [ j 3 onc 0 f the advantages claimed,
fi rem an has a cab to himself at the
rcar of the boiler, while tho engineer
; 0CCU pics a separato cab perched on the
t0 p 0 f the boiler, a little to the reir of
I th c centre. The engine weighs sixty
g ve t ou s and rests upon eighteen wheels,
j s drivers are sixly-cigbt inches in
diameter,
P.cbably the fastest ruu on record
was ui ade recently on theCauada South
em road by a special train bearing the
: y am ] er bHt parly. The track was straight
an q g ne an d the train ran 107 miles in
97 n imutes.
Mould B<*u Auotliei.
Augusta—I don t wish to discourage
you in your attentions, Mr. I u-sy \\d
j low, but papa is not incline 1 to look
favorably on your suit
' Algernon—That s ail right, 1 jtl'.t
got measured for a new one, to-day.—
The Ldg-r.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
General Lester B. Faulkner, the well
known Democratic politician, died at Cana
seraga, N. Y.
George Ritchie, of Moose Hill, Me., aged
16, was shot and killed by his cousin,
Bernard Ritchie, who mistook him for a
deer, while hunting in the woods.
John Hafft, of Centralia, Penn., went
homo drunk and threatened to heat his wife.
She gave him some laudanum to make him
sleep, and it killed him. No one will prose¬
cute.
James Knapp, at Danbury, Conn., kicked
his wife to death because she hid his supply
of whisky.
The Congregational Church at Danverc
Centre, Boston, has bean burned. The church
is a historic one. It was the successor of tin
ancient Salem village parish church in which
the witchcraft troubles began.
John Votozil. a Bohemiaivoigarniaker, ol
New York eity, in a fit of insanity flung hi:
boy through a windoiv and killed him.
W. H. McHenry and Alexander Carina
were blown up by nitro-glyeerine near Brad¬
ford, Penn., while preparing to torpedo a
well.
Hamilton Hall, at Salem, Mass., buill
in the Revolutionary times under the r,am<
of Assembly Hall, and named Hamilton Hal!
in 1805, in honor cS Alexander Hamilton, ha:
been gutted by IV if.
William Messtenheffeu, foreman of the
stone quarries near Lancaster. Penn., was
killed by an explosion of dynamite.
The first annual meeting and banquet of
the United States Navy Veteran Association
has been held at Boston. Admiral Porter
was elected Commander.
The Sixth National Bank in New York
city has been closed by the United States
Bank Examiner and thrown out of the Clear¬
ing House; the Equitable Bank is in the
hands of a State Bank Examiner, and its
checks have gone to protest; and the Lenox
Hill Bank has suspended. All these institu¬
tions lately came under the control of a
clique, of which one P. J. Claassen was the
head. Warrants were out for the arrest of
Claassen, who was illegally elected President
of the Sixth National, ana George H. Pell, a
broker. ably, Depositors will k>se no About money *700,000 prob¬
but stockholders will.
wore misappropriated.
South and West.
Thirteex houses have been burned in
Bunker Hill, Ind. Fireyaen from Logans
port saved the town fronl destruction.
Charles Sage, railroad brakeman and a
nephew York,fell of Millionaire Russell Lee's Sage, Summit, of New
between two cars at
Mo , and was instantly killed.
At a meeting of the Territorial Democratic
Committee unanimously at Cheyenne, adopted Wyoming, a reso¬
lution was favoring
Statehood and looking urging Congress to take im¬
mediate action to this end.
The State Supreme Court decided that the
Republican legal body. Legislature of Montane: is the
-
The Ohio and have the been De lost; Soto, the Mississippi first
River steamers being
sunk and the second burn I.
Intelligence railroad received at Denver, Col.,
from the Stanton surveying expedi¬
tion shows that one-fourth of the entire
party perished in Marble Canon,
The Sharp Rifles, of Lexington, Ky.,
received orders to be ready to march to
Harlan County. The occasion was the ap
prehnmdcn of TTVj'uble-lhr, vi.-rii the (In.-rr. t
Court opened.
Kinney Graham, a farmer of London,
Ohio, while intoxicated, shot and seriously
wounded William Woodhouse and his wife.
An old grudge had existed between the
parties.
Three Chinamen were killed by a snow
slide at Green Valley. Cal.
The colonial assembly which took place
in the theater at Richmond, Va., was the
most brilliant and original assembly social event ever
witnessed there. The was gotten
op by the ladies composing the Association
for the Preservation of Rare Antiquities of the
State.
Lucia Zaretta. the Mexican midget,
said to be the smallest human being iu the
world, died at Truckee, Nev.
Louis Pierce, aged sixteen, and Bert
Clark, aged nineteen, of East Dubuque, fell Iowa,
while skating on the river into an air
hole and were drowned.
Joe Wright. Morgan boiler Hoover explosion and Bud iu
Mullins were killed by a a
sawmill near Charleston, W. Va.
George T abler, a colored man, has been
hange l at Forth Smith, Ark. His crime
was the killing of another colored man,
Irwin Richardson, at a dance on Anril 39,
1889.
Burglars entered President Harrison's
house, in, Henry Indianapolis. Frazer Although and family, it is much occu¬
pied by S.
of the President's property was still in the
house. The loss all told amounts to nearly
* 1000 .
The peoule of Pierre, South Dakota, in¬
dignantly deny the reports that they ar,
suffering from poverty. Both branches of
the Legislature officially denounced the re
ports.
Washington.
Important deplomatic nominations by tht
President: Augustine Heard, of Mas
saehusetts, Minister Resident and Consul
General to Corea; Richard Gueut’ner. of Wis¬
consin, Consul-General at the City of Mexico:
Louis Gottschalk, of California. Consul a'
Stuttgart; John F. Winter, of Illinois,Consu
at Mannheim; Thomas McDermott, of Ten¬
nessee. Consul at Saint Thomas, West Indies;
George M. Pepper, of Ohio, Consul at Milan.
The House Ways and Means Committee is
busily at work preparing the draft of a
tariff bill.
Robert P. Porter, the Superintendent of
the Census has appointed Special Miss Agent Phoebe of Coz- the
zins, of St. Louis, a
Eleventh Census.
The President and Mrs. Harrison, assisted
by Mrs. Morton and the ladies of the Cabinet,
gave a reception to the members White House of Congress
and the Judiciary at the from
9 to 11 o’clock.
The bill for the relief of the survivors of
the wreck of the United States vessels at
Samoa was considered by the House Naval
Committee, and an amendment bringing
those who have since died of injuries receivea
in the disaster under the pro visions of the
bill was added.
The new Brazilian Government was for¬
mally recognized by President Harrison.
J. J. Noah, a newspaper correspondent,
has been appointed a special agent of the
Xlth Census, to assist iu the collection of
statistics relative to newspapers and the
periodical press. has been
Blanche K. Bruce (colored) Recorder
nominated bv the President to be
of Deeds in the District, of Columbia. Mr.
Bruce was once a U nited States Senator.
The Department of Agriculture of has choice re¬
ceived from Europe a consignment distributed
silk-worm eggs, which will be
gratuitiously to all persons who desire tc
raise silk-worms in this country.
Foreign.
The schooner G. C. Kelly, of Boston, went
tshore at Tusket, Nova Scotia. Three of her
irew were drowned.
The British ship, Lceh Moidart. went
ashore at Callantsoog. Holland, Thirty of
her crew were washed overboard alter she
struck and all perished
General de Fonseca, head of tire Pro¬
visional Government of brazil, is satd to b? —
lying in a hotel iu a suburb of Rio Jai
The United States brigantine Geo O.
Whitford was seized at Colon by the Colon
bian authorities and Captain searched Foster was cast
into jail. The vessel was for arc*
and held in spite of the ••lesrance pan
sued by Consul Calderon
Queen Christina, of Spain, and the whole
court attended at the Royal Chapel in Mad¬
rid a thanksgiving service for the recovery
of the baby King
The Indians of the San Bias coast, Colom¬
bia, have raised the American flag and defied
Colombian law.
The Czar of Russia has declined to arbi¬
trate in the differences between France and
Holland over boundaries in their South
American possessions.
By the capsizing of a ferryboat at Ctrim
linghausen, Germany, seven persons were
drowned.
Heavy floods prevail along the Rhine,
Germany. The bridge of boats at Dusseklorl
has been broken by the rushing water, and
sections of it have been carried away.
The steamship Lake Superior, from Hali¬
fax, arrived at Liverpool, having lost 33i
head of cattle, which were washed over¬
board.
Major Serpa Pinto, Lourenzo the Portuguese
army officer, arrived at Marquez,
on Delagoa Bay, Soutli Africa, He stated
that at the time of his leaving Mozambique
that province was tranquil.
The cholera lias made its appearance in
the Caucasus Mountains. The epidemic has
been steadily moving up the valley of the
Tigris and Euphrates, and has crossed the
Persian frontier.
Portugal has prepared an appeal to the
Powers on the dispute with England, based
on the Berlin Treaty.
Professor Westphal. of Berlin, a
physician celebrated as a specialist in mental
diseases, is dead.
In the French Chamber of Deputies the of
bills to tax foreigners and employers
foreign labor passed the first reading.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Dr. Talmage called upon Mr. Gladstone
at Ha warden.
Sir William Gull, the eminent English
physician, is dead.
Leo XIII. will he 89 years old on March 2,
should he live til! then.
Colonel North, the nitrate king, has a
private dog house that cost *5250.
Emperor William is devoting several
hours each day to the practice of fencing.
Emin Fasha has been made a doctor of
philosophy by the University of Koenigs
burg.
General Boulanger bumped his head
the other day against a chandelier, and is
laid up.
Speaker Reed is not a great smoker, but
in tho seclusion of his home puffs a pipe at
intervals.
A new member of the Japanese Parlia¬
ment is Kuiuas, who lias been a student at
Michigan University.
The only Territorial delegate in Congress
who was born in his Territory is Antonio
Joseph, of New Mexico.
it Senator Ingalls is a prolific writer, and
is said that he doubles his salary as Sena¬
tor by means of his pen.
Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg million¬
aire, help thinks that a college education does not
a man to make a fortune.
King Humbert, of Italy, has been ob¬
liged to have his teeth pulled, This rnisfor
tune is the outcome of chronic dyspep .. .
Colonel Kilgore, the Texas Coi., ess
ma - .is noted sold of a» jfo a horseman, fkats and of riding. many
to., wonderful
Millais has received the sum of *25,000
for bis latest portrait of Gladstone. It was
paid for by subscriptions of the women of
England.
of Senator Missouri. Hearst, He of California, isa native
in began liis career by working
other the gulch for gold like thousands of
miners.
Governor Boies, of Iowa, will appointas
his private secretary S. L. Bestow, wno was
the candidate for Lieutenant-Governor in the
last campaign.
Another monument will soon be erected
to the memory of Leon Gambetta,the French of the
statesman, this time in the grounds
villa near Versailles, where ho died.
Senator Hiscock, of New York, has an
immense head, which is encircled by a heavy
growth of hair, and this, with his thick
beard, gives him a “leonine” appearance.
Explorer Stanley writes to a friend in
London: “My hair is like snow from Ruweu
zori, but it is the crown of a busy period, and
I wear it without regret as the gift of Time.”
Rev. Albf.ht Gallatin Morton, ol
Amesbury, Mass., is still preaching filled in a 1825, pul¬
pit that he has regularly since
without, in a single instance, writing out a
sermon.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the New York
millionaire, has leased the residence of Lady
Herbertof Lea, f ir the ensuing London sea¬
son, and will take possession on his return
from Nice.
The Empress of Russia is said to be ex¬
tremely shy iu her manner, and blushes like
a girl on the slightest provocation. She has
the same blue eyes that her sister, the Princess
of Wales, has, but lacks the latter’s regular
features.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Yam University has established a De¬
partment of Music.
Neil Burgess, the actor, was at one time
the proprietor of an art store.
“Mr. Barnes of New York” will shortly
be seen at tho Grand Opera House, New
I 'fork.
The Berlin directory for 1890 contains the
names of 121 directors of music and 53 firms
of instrument makers.
Elsie Leslie, the child actress, has made
a hit, apparently, in “The Prince and the
Pauper” at the Broadway Theatre, New
York.
Buffalo Bill's Wild est show has ar
rived at Naples with all well, It was caugal
in a great storm on the Mediterranean, com
ing from Barcelona.
Henrt Pettitt, the English dramatist, i:
writing a comedy, of which the scenes are tc
be laid in America. He is coming here in a«
spring to study localities.
Sarah Bernhardt w ill unquestionably '"tots the b<
seen as Jeanne d’Arc when she
country in the fall, and also probably a.
Cleopatra in Shakespeare's “Antony anc
Cleopatra.'’
Edward Grieg, the Norwegian composer, musicale
is the rage at fashionable London
at present. His wife sings his Norse song?
while he accompanies, and is greatly praised
for pathos and simplicity.
M. Gounod, the famous musical composer, As he
is a mau of intense religious feeling.
has grown older he has become more ascetic
and exclusive iu his habits, until to-day nc
lives almost the life of a hermit.
FbancheTtl, the composer of “Asrael,” is
commissioned bv the city of Genoa to write
an opera with the title “Christopher Colum¬
bus,” for the celebration of the discovery of
America, to be performed iu 1892,
The present season has been a disastrous
one on traveling theatrical companies. Chi¬
cago is swarming with actors, and the man
agers declare that such stagnation in Cat
amusement business was never before known.
One of the principal features of the Drurv
Laue pantomime, which is to be presented Shakes- al
Niblo's.New York,in the.spring isa
pearau procession” in which all the chief
characters of Shakespeare's plays are repie
Rented,
An officer of one of the accidt pt luiut
anoe companies asseits that the leooru
show that every freightbrakamau m t.io
l nited States stands oae chance iu
three of being killed within a ye r.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Brazilian news shows that everythin" is
quiet in the big Republic.
Work is being pushed on the Nicara"ue
Canal under favorable circumstances. “
The gold output of the Transvaal, Souti
Africa, for December was 40,400 ounces.
In the past five years 1532 Lutberai
churches have been dedicated in this country.
Over 889,000,000 pieces of mail mat ter
were handled at the New York Postoflice in
1889.
Promoters of American wildcat scheme!
and projects are very numerous in London
financial circles
Two hotels are to lie built at Milford
Haven, Wales, in view of the landing of At¬
lantic steamers there.
Mrs. Boggs, of Waverly, Ohio, while i*
turning home by through a field was fatally
mangled a vicious hog.
During the year 1880 the District ol
Chemn itz, Saxony, exported *10,000,000 worth
of goods to the U nited States alone.
The loss by fire in the United States dur¬
ing the year 1889 reached the enormous sum
of nearly *125,000,000, against *110,000,000
in 1888.
Shad are coming up the Chesapeake Bay
two months ahead of time, and early vegeta¬
bles are being marketed from Maryland and
Virginia.
The petroleum production of Southern
California last year reached 18,000,000 gallons,
valued at $1,209,000. It is largely utilized
there as fuel.
The Mexican Government has lately or¬
dered 1,000,(KM) grape cuttings from Califor
nia, and will distribute them free to all whc
wish to plant them in Mexico.
The salary of $10,000 a year, which Gov¬
ernor Abbett of New Jersey is to draw for
the next three years, is paid to only twc
other Governors, those of New York and
Pennsylvania.
Advances from Mozambique acquiring state thai
the Portuguese are as much terri¬
tory boundaries as possible, pandiug their a districts delimitation ol
the of on the
Zambesi River.
From Lisbon conies the news that a party
of students have covered with a veil til!
statues of the old Portuguese the navigators as a
mark of mourningover Africa. vanquished glory
of Portugal in
A party of French Zanzibar, priests who have ar
rived at Malandi, in declared thai
they recently met Dr. Peters, the explorer, Hi
who lias been reported dead, at Koki,
was then in good health.
Influenza in a severe form has prevailed
among the officers and crews of the Ameri¬
can Squadron of Evolution, now in the
Mediterranean. There were 180 cases of the
disease on board the Chicago alone.
AN official report issued by the Ministry
of Agriculture shows that the condition of
the sown area of France is exu -llent in
thirty-six departments, good medium in twenty-eight, in and
fairly' good in thirteen, nine
bad in one.
The Czar has given great offence to the
French Government by gran till" a commis¬
sion in the Russian Army to Prince Louis
Napoleon. Every effort was made by the
French Government to induce the Czar tc
refuse the commission.
Messrs. Vohsbn and Paul, on behalf oi
the German African Company, West are founding
commercial factories on the Coast sys¬
tem. If this enterprise is successful it wil
destroy the monopoly of the British Indian
mendiants held for caituries.
THE LABOR WORLD.
The labor organizations of ball. Washington
are collecting money to build a
The next meeting of the General Execu¬
tive Board of the Knights of Labor will be
held in Cincinnati March 17.
An English syndicate is now Newark negotiating
for the purchase of all the (N. J.)
patent leather manufactories.
The Knights of Labor and the Progressive
Union met iu joint session at Columbus,
Ohio, to discuss a plan for uniting.
The largest manufacturers of mining ma¬ by
chinery in Chicago have been *3,000,000. bought out
an English syndicate for
A local organization, similar to the
Knights of Labor, will lie formed at Glo
versville, N. Y., but it will be independent of
the Knights.
I.v the North Dakota House bills of prohibit¬ children
ing trusts and the employment in mines fac¬
under twelve years of age or
tories were passed.
The Builders’ Convention met at St. Paul,
Minn, A resolution was passed urging all
KX ■al organizations to establish tae system of
■payment by the hour.”
The Swiss Bunsiesrath has decided to con¬
voke an international conference in May
next for the purpose of establishing regula¬
tions relative to factory labor.
The shoe factory of Samuel Shaw & Co.,
at Elmwood, .Mass., has been closed on ac¬
count of trouble with union men, who would
not work with non-union men.
There are over 120 India rubber manufac¬
turers in the United States, employing 15,
000 hands, and producing annually 280,000
tons of goods valued at *260,000,000.
The Bureau of labor in New York State
will add to its report for 189(1 the average of
wa es lost to working people in various trades
by dullness in trade and inclement weather.
A bar of iron worth *5 is worth *10 after
it is made into horse-shoes; made into needles,
it is worth *350; made into penknife blades,
it is worth *3285; made into balance-springs
of watches, it is worth *‘150,000.
The Industrial Co-operative Society,
formed by Kensington (Penn.) workingmen
fifteen years ago, and which became the most
prosperous e terprise of the kind in this
country, is defunct. Liabilities $38,000.
The stevedores along New York harbor are
planning a general strike for April 1st, simi¬
lar to the recent one in London. They are in
correspondence with similar organizations in
Liverpool, Australia and California, with a
vief of securing their co-operation.
ThiRE are thirty-six car-building com¬
panies in the United States, and iu the year
1889 they turned out 70,546 cars, and at the
shops (>i railroad companies there were doubt¬
less enough cars built to swell the number
added to the freight equipment of the roads
of this country last year to 100,000 cars.
As a result of the crisis in the diamond
cutting, trade at Antwerp, Holland, is be¬
coming more acute every day, it is said that
a number of workmen intend to establish
themselves at Paris, and that the Amsterdam
workmen, who are suffering much from the
crisis^ look to London as then- future home.
Expensive Fruits.
Here are a few of the luxuries that
to lie found in New York markets
Christmas time. Most of them were
accessible except to those with
deep purses: $4
Strawberries, a cup. (A “cup”
equal to about oue-third of a quart.)
Hot-bouse grapes. §4 a pound.
Mandarins, 50 cents to SI.50 a dor.-n.
Grape-fruit, SI.50 a dozen.
Lady-apples, 50 cents to SI a dozen.
Hot-house pineapples, $1,50 to
each.
THE WRONG KIND.
“Do yon believe Jones is a mau of
character I”
(I les; but I’m afraid it’s a bad one.”
TOO EXPENSIVE.
Jack—Edith will you have me i
The Heiress—Thanks Jack—I can't
afford yon.
VOL. XVI. NO. 12.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
27th Day.— There was a long debate over
the Chandler resolution concerning the re¬
cent hanging in effigy of Secretary Proctot
at Aberdeen, Miss—The House bill to sim¬
plify the laws in relation to the col¬
lection of customs revenue was presented
to the Senate, and on motion of Mr.
Morrill was ordered to be printed and
referred to the Finance Committee
... Mr. Chandler presented a minority re¬
port upon the Hale bill, authorizing the con¬
struction of eight .Among battleships the and certain
other vessels... bills introduced
and Hale—To referred were the the Superintendent following: By Mr.
require of Cen¬
sus to asaertain the number of people who
own their farms and homes, and the
amount of mortgage indebtedness thereon.
By Mr. Pasco—To reimburse the several
States for the interest paid by them on money
raised for war expenses in the late war. By
Mr. Cockrell—To repeal the silver require coinage
act of February 38, 1878, of and to month the
purchase and coinage dollars.... *5,000. (100 a
in standard silver On motion of
Mr. Call the adverse report heretofore made
from the Committee on Foreign Relations in in
regard to the establishment of a republic
Cuba was placed on the calendar.
28tH Day. —The Direct Tax Bill was passed
.. ..On motion of Mr. Sherman. the Senate
bill to relieve the Treasurer of the United
States from the amount the now chaged to him,
and deposited the with calendar several and States, passed. was
taken from ..
Bills were introduced: By Mr, Paddock—Pro¬
viding that soldiers entitled to 160 acres of
land under section 3304, Revised Statutes,
may take an extral69acres without improve¬
ment or residence, and by Mr. Cameron
—Providing for the organization and rate of
S ay of a veterinary corps in the United
tates Army. Mitchell the
29th Day. —Mr. spoke oa
silver question... .Mr. Ingalls introduced a
bill to provide a monument to Lincoln at
Gettysburg... .The report of the Naval
Policy Board was received.
30th Day. —The “Silk Ribbons" bill, and
the bill to provide for the enumeration of
farm mortgages in the census, were passed
____Messrs. Vance and Hamilton spoke on
Mr. Butler’s Deportation bill----Among the
nominations made by the President were
these: Robert Adams, Jr., be Minisie'- Minister to the the.
Empire of Brazil, to William to H.
United States of Brazil, and
Taft, of Ohio, to be Solicitor-General.
in the House.
37th Day. —The House, iu Committee of
the Whole, disposed of five sections of the
Administrative Tariff bill, leaving ten sec¬
tions to be passed. Most of the day was de
voted to debate on Sections 15 aiKl 19 and
amendments thereto.
28th Day. —The Customs Administrative
bill was reported from Committee of the
Whole and passed, by a vote of 138 to 121.
The bill, as it finally passed, is left suostanti
ally anil as it came from the Committee on Ways
Means. Its object is to simplify the ex
isting laws for the collection of revenue
duties.
29th Day.— rc bill was massed, placing a
duty of fifty pe rceut, on silk ribbons ---- Mr.
McCreary offered a resolution, which was re¬
ferred, congratulating the people of Brazil in
their just and peaceful assumption of the
powers, duties and responsibilities of self
government as shown by their assumption of
self-government; declaring that the United
Ktates of Brazil is recognized by the United
States of America as a free, sover¬
eign and independent President Republic, shall give and pro¬
viding that the proper
notice of this recognition to the Presi
dent o£ the United States ol Brazil
.... Among the bills introduted and referred
were the following: By Mr.. Covert—To in¬
crease the efficiency of the militarBy
Mr. Barnes—Making the United States ar¬
senal at Augusta, Ga., an arsenal of manu¬
facture, construction and repair; also to re¬
fund the cotton tax. By Mr. Mason—Appro¬
priating #3,000,000 for apostofflee at Chicago
By Mr. Struble—For the appoiutuieut of a
Commissioner of Immigration; also, intoxicating probite
iting the transportation of
liquors from one State or Territory to an
other State or Territory iu violation of the
laws thereof. By Mr. Kelley—To killed pensioi: for
the widows and orphans of close people of the late
political purposes since the
war. By Mr. Burrows—For the erection o(
a monument to Isabella of Spain... .In Com
mittee consider of the the b’ll Whole, the riating House *1,500,000 proceeded for tc
approp: States prisons
the erection of three U nited
and for the imprisonment of Unite 1 States
prisoners. 30th Day.— Mr. Dorsey called his
National Bank Circulation bill, and up it
wa:
debated at some length, but finally went
over____A bill was passed providing that in
oases of pension claims of dependent parents
it shall be necessary only to show the Pension
Office that the parents are without other
means of support than manual labor.
31st Day. —A long and heated debate was
had over the motion to (mil up the contested
election case of ‘Smith against Jackson. The
wildest scenes were enacted when, after Mr
Breckenridge had raised the point of no
quorum, the Speaker directed the Clerk to
record the names of members present but not
voting. Mr. Breckenridge denounced the
action of the Speaker as revolutionary.
33d Day. —The exciting debate over the
rules, arising from the calling up of the con¬
tested election case of Smith against Jack
son. was continued. The scenes of the pre¬
vious day were resumed, ami the House was
again in an uproar over the same decision of
the Speaker counting the Democratic a quorum, and nearly oil
sverv member on side was
his feet shouting and shaking his hand at the
Speaker. The sceno resembled a riot.
A BANK CASHIER ROBBED.
He is Thrown Into the Street and
Fatally Hurt.
J. B Armstrong. Cashier of the Sumner
County Bank, at Conway Springs, Kan
was attacked the other afternoon by a
mob of 100 men and received fatal in
juries, He was connected with a sugar
mill at the place, farmers and certain the company prices
had promised and the employes in the
for cane The claim
factory certain wajjes. due farmers
that *28.000 is still them, while the em
ployes claim *9000. Armstrong, in addition
to being a member of the company failing to
fulfill contracts, was the leading guarantor
iud used his influence to establish a credit
or the company. been expected
Trouble has t<r somr
and at two o’clock the. crowd
-ailed in front of the bank and un» of the
number invited Armstrong out. de complied
with the request aud a few minutes were
spent in talking the matter over The
farmers and employes finally picked became thrown so en
raged that Armstrong was up,
cut into the middle of the st reet, where t here
was a scrimmage to rer.eh him to give a kick
It was suggested to hang him to a tree neai
bv and he was carried there in aa unconscious
state, but cooler judgment finally damaged prevailed
The bank property was not bevoud
the breaking of a f«w window-. Some other
persons in with Armturorg marie haste tc
»ave (own.
HIS OWN MASTER.
Mr. Bluff'll s', aa a little dlnn r of
male fri n 's)-les, g n'l men, I ho d
that ove v man slu udle m s■< r of his
own knc. I her - is no oh r van.
Well, as you are nil through, gentle¬
men, s ppose we adjourn to the library
[or a t moke.
.
Waggi :rtnd tell Gu dd 'st—Why Firing liali not s coke here
in this g f
Mr. Bluff—Lm—e-—A r.i. Bluff'won’t
,et us.—[New York Weekly.
A large number of Russians, traveling
through Rouruania ostensibly as jieddlers,
have been arrested for inciting the Rou
roania peasantry against the Government.